SDIA 2011 - 3rd Doctoral Symposium on Artificial Intelligence - SDIA 2011

3rd Doctoral Symposium on Artificial Intelligence - SDIA 2011
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15th Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence - EPIA 2011

10th-13th October, 2011 :: Lisbon, Portugal

http://epia2011.appia.pt
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Submission deadline: 10th May, 2011
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The Doctoral Symposium on Artificial Intelligence (SDIA 2011), in its third edition, is a satellite event of EPIA 2011 - Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence, to be held in Lisbon between the 10th and the 13th of October, 2011.

SDIA 2011 aims at being a forum for discussion on post-graduated studies, thesis on Artificial Intelligence, increasing the integration and the cooperation between researchers from this scientific area and promoting a better visibility of their ongoing work to the academic and industrial communities.

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Objectives
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With the organisation of this event, the Portuguese Association for Artificial Intelligence - APPIA intends to stimulate the improvement of the quality of post-graduated studies, Ph.D. thesis in the scientific area of Artificial Intelligence.

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Addressees
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This event is addressed to all Ph.D. students, portuguese or developing their work in portuguese higher education institutions, whose developments are related to some relevant topics to the scientific field of Artificial Intelligence.

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Participants
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The participation of the whole scientific community of Artificial Intelligence is welcome and it is essential to give significance to this event.

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Organisation
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Paulo Novais, University of Minho, pjon-AT-di.uminho.pt
Cesar Analide, University of Minho, analide-AT-di.uminho.pt
Pedro Henriques, University of Minho, prh-AT-di.uminho.pt

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Topics of Interest
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The main topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

* Cognitive Sciences

* Knowledge Representation and Reasoning

* Logic Programming

* Constraint programming

* Fuzzy Logic

* Agents and Multiagent Systems

* Machine Learning

* Knowledge Discovery

* Data Mining, Text Mining and Web Mining

* Natural Language

* Neural Networks

* Bio-inspired Computing

* Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition

* Robotics

* e-Learning and Intelligent Tutoring

* Ambient Intelligence

* Bio-Informatics

* e-Commerce and e-Business

* Collaborative Networks

* Agents and Electronic Markets

* AI and The Law

* AI and Medicine

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Submission
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The participation in this event implies the submission, presentation and discussion of a scientific paper that should present substantial results in theoretical, empirical or applied research, in any Artificial Intelligence field.

The paper should be written in English and formatted according to the Springer rules for the LNCS editions (Lecture Notes in Computer Science - http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs/lncs+authors...), never exceeding 12 pages.

The document must include the following information: title, author and supervisor(s), abstract, keywords, beginning date and foreseen conclusion date.

All papers submitted will be reviewed by some well-known specialists and all submissions will receive a report of the revisions.

The paper submission web page will be available at http://epia2011.appia.pt/.

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Publication
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All papers submitted will be included in the symposium proceedings, an edition of APPIA, with ISBN.

The best papers of SDIA 2011 will be included in the proceedings of EPIA 2011 (Springer LNAI series).

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Important Dates
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Paper submission deadline: May 10, 2011
Author notification: June 10, 2011
Deadline for final camera-ready copies: July 1, 2011
Symposium day: October 10, 2011

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Program Committee
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* Amílcar Cardoso (UCoimbra)

* Ana Paula Rocha (UPorto)

* Arlindo Oliveira (IST)

* Carlos Ramos (IPPorto)

* Cesar Analide (UMinho)

* Eduardo Fermé (UMadeira)

* Gabriel Pereira Lopes (UNLisboa)

* Gaël Dias (UBI)

* Goreti Marreiros (IPPorto)

* João Gama (UPorto)

* João Leite (UNLisboa)

* Joaquim Filipe (IPSetubal)

* José Júlio Alferes (UNLisboa)

* José Machado (UMinho)

* Luís Antunes (ULisboa)

* Luís Correia (ULisboa)

* Luís Paulo Reis (UPorto)

* Luís Torgo (UPorto)

* Manuel Filipe Santos (UMinho)

* Paulo Cortez (UMinho)

* Paulo Gomes (UCoimbra)

* Paulo Moura Oliveira (UTAD)

* Paulo Novais (UMinho)

* Paulo Quaresma (UEvora)

* Paulo Urbano (ULisboa)

* Pedro Barahona (UNLisboa)

* Pedro Henriques (UMinho)

* Pedro Mariano (UAveiro)

* Salvador Abreu (UEvora)

* Sara Madeira (IST)

* Victor Alves (UMinho)

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Information
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More information will be available at the EPIA 2011 website, at epia2011.appia.pt or through the APPIA website at www.appia.pt.

Alternative ways to ask for more information are:

Postal mail:
Simpósio Doutoral em Inteligência Artificial - SDIA 2011
Associação Portuguesa Para a Inteligência Artificial - APPIA
Universidade do Minho
Departamento de Informática
Campus de Gualtar
4710 057 BRAGA
PORTUGAL

Electronic mail:
sdia2011-AT-appia.pt

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