12th International Conference AIMSA 2006 - AI, people and the web -

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Danail Dochev, Assoc. Prof., PhD
Head, Artificial Intelligence Dept.
Scientific Secretary
Institute of Information Technologies -
      Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
Acad. Bonchev st., bl 29A, Sofia 1113 Bulgaria
Phone: +359 2 870 75 86   Fax: +359 2 72 04 97
Mobile: +359 889 71 36 22
E-mail:  dochev@iinf.bas.bg
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CALL FOR PAPERS

The 12th International Conference on
Artificial Intelligence: Methodology, Systems, Applications
AIMSA 2006
- AI, people and the web -
Varna, Bulgaria, 13-15th September, 2006

www.aimsaconference.org

SCOPE
The AIMSA conference series has provided a biennial forum for the 
presentation of AI research and development since 1984.
The conference, which is held in Bulgaria, covers the full range of topics 
in Artificial Intelligence and related
disciplines and provides an ideal forum for international scientific 
exchange between Central/Eastern Europe and the rest
of the world. AIMSA 2006 is supported by ECCAI, European Coordinating 
Committee for Artificial Intelligence.

As its name indicates the conference is dedicated to Artificial intelligence 
in its entirety. However, for AIMSA 2006,
we would like to put the emphasis on a specific phenomenon that affects all 
areas of AI: the application and leverage
of artificial intelligence technology in the context of human collaboration 
which today is mediated by the web.

Artificial intelligence is used for supporting human communication in a wide 
variety of ways. For example, reasoning
over the semantic web, analysing relationships between people, enhancing the 
user experience by learning from their behavior,
applying natural language to large multilingual corpora, planning a 
combination of web services, adapting and personalizing
educational material, etc. All Artificial intelligence techniques are 
amenable to facilitating communication on the web.

Moreover, these techniques are not deployed in isolation but are typically 
combined with results from other disciplines
such as the social sciences, discrete mathematics, network computing, or 
cryptography. AIMSA 2006 aims to reflect this
plethora of avenues whereby Artificial intelligence supports human 
collaboration based activities.

LOCATION
AIMSA 2006 will be held at the Sunny Day Tourist Complex, 10 km to the 
north-east of Varna and 16 km from Varna Airport.

LANGUAGE
The official language of the conference is English.

CONFERENCE CHAIRMAN
John Domingue
Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University, UK


PROGRAMME COMMITTEE CHAIRPERSON
Jerome Euzenat
INRIA Rhône-Alpes, Saint-Ismier, France


SUBMISSION DETAILS
Submissions should describe original research and should be sent 
electronically at http://aimsa2006.inrialpes.fr in PDF
format. Papers should be written in English and should be no more than 10 
pages, font Times New Roman 11pt. The first page
should contain the title of the paper, names and addresses of all authors 
(including e-mail, if available), an abstract
(100-150 words) and a list of keywords 
(http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html).

Papers accepted for presentation at AIMSA 2006 cannot be presented or have 
been presented at another meeting with publicly
available published proceedings. Papers that are being submitted to other 
conferences must indicate this on the title page,
as must papers that contain significant overlap with previously published 
work.

Over lengthy or late submissions will be rejected without review.

Notification of receipt and acceptance of papers will be sent to the first 
author.


TOPICS
The conference welcomes submissions of original, high quality papers in all 
areas of Artificial Intelligence,
including but not limited to:
- AI in education
- Ambient intelligence
- Automated reasoning
- Computer vision
- Data mining and data analysis
- Data semantics
- Dialogue management and argumentation
- Distributed AI
- AI and Human-computer interaction
- Information integration
- Information retrieval
- Intelligent user interfaces
- Knowledge engineering
- Knowledge representation and reasoning
- Large scale knowledge management
- Logic and constraint programming
- Machine learning
- Multi-agent systems
- Multimedia systems
- Natural language processing
- Neural networks
- Ontologies (creating, linking, merging, reconciliation)
- Planning
- Robotics
- Semantic peer-to-peer and grid systems
- Semantic interoperability
- Semantic web for e-business and e-learning
- Semantic web inference schemes
- Semantic web services (description, invocation, composition)
- Social desktop and personalisation
- Social network analysis
- Tools and methodologies for multi-agent software systems
- Trust, privacy, and security on the semantic web
- AI and visualization and modeling
- AI and web-based technology

All submissions will be subject to academic peer review by at least two 
members of the program committee. Selection criteria
include accuracy and originality of ideas, clarity and significance of 
results, and quality of presentation.

For each accepted paper, at least one author is required to attend the 
conference to present the paper.

The best paper of the conference, as selected by the AIMSA 2006 programme 
committee, will receive the Best Paper Award
during the conference.

IMPORTANT DATES

Submission deadline: April 15, 2006
Notification of acceptance: June 10, 2006
Deadline for final papers: June 30, 2006
Conference: September 13-15, 2006

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