ECAI 2010 - 19th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence - ECAI 2010

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## ECAI-2010 ## Preliminary Call for Papers ## ECAI-2010 ##
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The Nineteenth European Conference on Artificial Intelligence

16-20 August 2010 ## Lisbon, Portugal

http://ecai2010.appia.pt/

Deadline for submission of abstracts: 15 February 2010
Deadline for submission of full papers: 22 February 2010

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## INTRODUCTION ##
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The ECAI-2010 Programme Committee invites the submission of papers and
posters for the technical programme of the nineteenth biennial
European Conference on Artificial Intelligence.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a central topic in contemporary
computer science and informatics. The fruits of fifty years of AI
research have benefited application domains as disparate as industrial
systems control and medicine. The milestone events in AI research are
increasingly regarded as milestones in human scientific and
technological development: from the first chess playing program to
defeat a reigning world champion under standard chess tournament
rules, to the first robot to autonomously traverse 150 miles of rough
terrain. Techniques, results, and concepts developed under the banner
of AI research have proved to be of fundamental importance in areas
such as economics, philosophy, linguistics, psychology, and logical
analysis. And of course, AI remains a topic of perennial fascination
in popular culture.

Initiated in 1974, the biennial European Conference on Artificial
Intelligence (ECAI) is Europe's premier archival venue for presenting
scientific results in AI. Organised by the European Coordinating
Committee for AI (ECCAI), the ECAI conference provides an opportunity
for researchers to present and hear about the very best research in
contemporary AI. As well as a full programme of technical papers,
ECAI-2010 will include the Prestigious Applications of Intelligent
Systems conference (PAIS), the Starting AI Researcher Symposium
(STAIRS), and an extensive programme of workshops, tutorials, and
invited speakers. (Separate calls are issued for PAIS, STAIRS, and
workshops.)

ECAI-2010 will be held in the beautiful and historic city of Lisbon,
Portugal. With excellent opportunities for sightseeing and gastronomy,
Lisbon promises to be a wonderful venue for a memorable conference.

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## TOPICS OF INTEREST ##
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High-quality original submissions are welcome from all areas of
contemporary AI; the following list of topics is indicative only.

* Agents & Multiagent Systems
* Case-Based Reasoning
* Cognitive Modeling & Interaction
* Constraints & Search
* Knowledge Representation & Reasoning
* Machine Learning
* Model-Based Reasoning
* Natural Language Processing
* Perception & Sensing
* Planning & Scheduling
* Robotics
* Uncertainty in AI
* Applications of AI

An extensive list of subtopics is soon going to be available at the
conference website.

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## IMPORTANT DATES ##
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Deadline for electronic abstracts:
Monday, 15 February 2010

Paper submission deadline:
Monday, 22 February 2010

Author response period:
15-16 April 2010

Notification of acceptance/rejection:
Friday, 30 April 2010

Conference:
16-20 August 2010

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## SUBMISSION INFORMATION ##
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Submissions must not exceed *SIX* (6) pages in camera-ready
format. Over-length submissions will be rejected without
review. Papers should be submitted using the ECAI formatting style, to
be available soon on the conference website (this will be very close
to previous ECAI styles). Each accepted paper will be allocated six
pages in the proceedings. ECAI-2010 also accepts posters. Each poster
will have *TWO* (2) pages allocated in the proceedings. Posters must
follow the same formatting guidelines as full papers. Authors may
indicate whether they want a submitted full paper to be considered as
well as a submitted poster in case of non-acceptance of the full
paper.

All submissions will be subject to peer review by the ECAI-2010
Programme Committee, and evaluated on the basis of: relevance;
significance of contribution; technical quality; scholarship; and
quality of presentation.

Reviewing for ECAI-2010 will be blind: reviewers will not be presented
with the identity of paper authors. To allow for blind review, author
names in a submitted paper or poster should be replaced by the unique
tracking number assigned by the conference website at the submission
of an electronic abstract. Authors should avoid writing anything that
makes their identity obvious in the text. Submissions should be
original, and in particular should not previously have been formally
published. (As a rule of thumb, any publication venue with an ISBN or
ISSN number counts as a formal publication.) Submissions should not be
submitted elsewhere during the ECAI-2010 review phase.

The primary authors of submitted papers will be offered the
opportunity to respond to the reviews for their papers before the
final decision on acceptance or otherwise is made. The author feedback
phase will last two days.

The proceedings of the ECAI conference, together with those of its
associated symposia, PAIS and STAIRS (calls to appear soon), will be
published and distributed by IOS Press as a book and as a CD-ROM. The
authors will be responsible for producing camera-ready copies of
papers, conforming to the ECAI-2010 formatting guidelines for
inclusion in the proceedings. At least one author of each accepted
paper or poster is required to attend the conference to present the
contribution.

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## ORGANISATION ##
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Conference chair:

Helder Coelho (University of Lisbon, Portugal)

Programme chair:

Michael Wooldridge (University of Liverpool, United Kingdom)

Workshop Chair:

Ulle Endriss (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands)

Local Organisation co-chairs:

Luis Antunes (University of Lisbon & APPIA, Portugal)
João Balsa (University of Lisbon, Portugal)

Finance co-chairs:

Luis Antunes (University of Lisbon & APPIA, Portugal)
João Balsa (University of Lisbon, Portugal)

Sponsorship co-chairs:

Pedro Henriques (University of Minho & APPIA, Portugal)
Paulo Novais (University of Minho & APPIA, Portugal)

Printing, Publicity & Webmaster chair:

Cesar Analide (University of Minho & APPIA, Portugal)

Infrastructure co-chairs:

Luis Correia (University of Lisbon, Portugal)
Luis Moniz (University of Lisbon, Portugal)

Volunteer & Student Scholarships chair:

Paulo Trigo (ISEL, Portugal)

Local Workshop & Tutorial chair:

Paulo Urbano (University of Lisbon, Portugal)

Local STAIRS & PAIS chair:

Graça Gaspar (University of Lisbon, Portugal)

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