BISFAI -05
Biennial Israeli Symposium on the Foundations of AI
<http://www.cri.haifa.ac.il/events/2005/bisfai05/bisfai05.htm>
June 27-29, 2005
Call for Papers
The Eighth Biennial Israeli Symposium on the Foundations of Artificial
Intelligence will be held in June 27-29, 2005 in Haifa, Israel.
We solicit papers on substantial research in all areas of Artificial
Intelligence, including, but not limited to the following:
- foundations
- natural language processing
- searching
- knowledge representation
- automated reasoning
- computational linguistics
- planning
- information retrieval
- machine learning
- temporal reasoning
- robotics
- knowledge-based systems
- data mining
- AI algorithms
- intelligent agents
- probabilistic reasoning
Invited Speakers:
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BISFAI 2005 will host several invited plenary speakers.
The following have been confirmed to date:
* John McCarthy (Stanford Univ.)
* Shlomo Zilberstein (Univ. of Massachusettes)
Submission Guidelines:
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Extended abstracts should be 6-12 pages in length, including references
and figures. Submissions should be made electronically, as attachments in
Postscript, PDF or Word format and sent by email to Uri Schild
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>.
Submission deadline is April 8, 2005. Notification date is May 9th, 2005.
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The official proceedings will be web-based and made available at the
BISFAI website.
System Demonstrations:
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We also solicit proposals for demonstrations of innovative applications of
artificial intelligence, of length 1-2 pages.
Submission deadline is April 8, 2005.
Proposals should be sent by email to Uri Schild <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>.
Multiple Submissions:
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Papers may be submitted to BISFAI even if submitted to other conferences
or journals, because the BISFAI website is not archival.
Previously presented or published papers are unacceptable.
Special Issue:
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Full versions of selected papers may be submitted after the symposium for
possible journal publication in the Annals of Mathematics and Artificial
Intelligence.
Of course, if a paper is accepted at an archival conference such as AAAI
or IJCAI and also presented at BISFAI, this paper must be substantially
revised and/or extended for consideration for journal publication.
The BISFAI-05 program and schedule will be available online. Abstracts of
invited and accepted papers will be made available on the abstracts page,
with pointers to online versions of the paper, when available here.
Student Grants:
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As in previous years, BISFAI hopes to be able to provide partial financial
support to advanced research students.
To apply, send your full CV to Dr. Claudia V. Goldman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
by April 8, 2005 along with the name of your thesis advisor or other
faculty members to be contacted for a recommendation.
Symposium Committee:
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Program Chair:
Uri J. Schild
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Symposium Chair:
Martin C. Golumbic
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Symposium Co-Chair:
Claudia Goldman
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Satelite Workshops:
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A small number of invited satelite workshops are being planned for the
days before or after BISFAI 2005. To propose a satelite workshop, please
contact Prof. Martin Golumbic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>.
The following have been confirmed to date:
* Recommender Systems, chair: Francesco Ricci <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* Affective Computing, chair: Moshe Zeidner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Further Information or Requests:
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Uri J. Schild
Department of Computer Science
Bar Ilan University
Ramat Gan, 52900
Israel
Tel.: [+972] 3-531-8075
Fax : [+972] 3-736-0498
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Martin C. Golumbic
Department of Computer Science
Caesarea Rothschild Institute
University of Haifa
Har haCarmel, Haifa 31905
Israel
Tel.: [+972] 4-828-8339
Fax.: [+972] 4-828-8181
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Claudia Goldman, Ph.D. ; Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
140 Governor's Drive ; ph. : (413) 545-1985
Dept. of Computer Science ; Fax : (413) 545-1249
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Amherst, MA 01003
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