** Apologies for cross-postings **
24th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI 2020)
Santiago de Compostela, June 8-12 2020
www.ecai2020.eu
CALL FOR TUTORIAL PROPOSALS
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ECAI 2020 invites submissions for tutorial proposals.
Tutorials will be held on June 8-9, 2020, immediately prior to the
technical conference. Tutorial attendance is complimentary for all
ECAI 2020 conference registrants, whilst it is not possible to
attend only tutorials.
FORMAT
ECAI 2020 hosts two kinds of tutorials: a) “standard”
half-day tutorials; b) 90-minute “spotlight” tutorials. Spotlight
tutorials are meant to address emerging areas, techniques,
methodologies and perspectives in AI or specialized topics.
Standard tutorials are meant to cover rather established areas of
AI such as (but not exclusively) Machine Learning, Knowledge
Representation and Reasoning, Semantic Web, Natural Language
Processing, Multi-Agent Systems, Robotics, as well as topics in
the overlap of such research areas.
OBJECTIVES
Tutorials should serve one or more of the following
objectives:
- Introduce novices to major topics within Artificial
Intelligence.
- Introduce expert non-specialists to an AI subarea.
- Motivate and explain a topic of emerging importance
for AI.
- Survey a mature area of AI research and/or practice.
- Provide instruction in established but specialized AI
methodologies.
- Present a novel synthesis combining distinct lines of
AI work.
- Introduce AI audiences to an external topic that can
motivate or use AI research.
- Mentor AI researchers (particularly, junior
researchers) on a broad AI-relevant non-technical topic
(examples could be AI jobs, or ethical issues in AI).
Tutorials
are intended to cover reasonably well-established information in a
balanced way. Tutorials should not be used to advocate a single
avenue of research, nor should they promote a product. We
encourage tutorials with a hands-on component or other interactive
elements. ECAI 2020 grants one free registration per tutorial.
IMPORTANT DATES
- Proposal Submission Deadline: 20 February 2020
- Acceptance Notification: 20 March 2020
- Abstracts, Syllabus and Tutorial Websites: 7 April
2020
The deadlines are 23:59 UTC-12.
SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS
Proposals must be submitted as a single PDF file
containing the following information:
- A two-sentence description of the tutorial, suitable
for inclusion in the conference registration brochure.
- A two-paragraph description of the tutorial, suitable
for a web page overview.
- Proposed format of the tutorial: standard (half-day)
or spotlight (90-minute)
- A detailed, point-form outline of the tutorial.
- A brief characterization of the potential target
audience for the tutorial, including prerequisite knowledge.
- A brief description of why the tutorial topic would
be of interest to a substantial part of the ECAI audience, and
which of the above objectives are best served by the tutorial.
- A brief resume of the presenter(s), which should
include:
- Name, affiliation, e-mail address
- Background in the tutorial area, including a list
of publications/presentations
- Citation to an available example of work in the
area (ideally, a published tutorial-level article or
presentation materials on the subject)
- Evidence of teaching experience (courses taught or
references)
- Evidence of scholarship in AI or Computer Science
POLICY ON MULTIPLE SUBMISSIONS
We encourage proposals of brand-new tutorials, as well
as tutorials that have already been successfully offered before,
or that are also being proposed to other venues (e.g., other major
AI conferences). In that case, the application should include a
complete list of such venues.
CONTACT
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Prof. Claudia d'Amato, PhD
Associate Professor
Dipartimento di Informatica - LACAM-ML Lab
Università degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro (ITALY)
http://www.di.uniba.it/~cdamato/