Mahasarakham 2010 - The 4th Mahasarakham International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence.

The 4th Mahasarakham International Workshop on Artificial
Intelligence.

December 9-10, 2010, Mahasarakham University, Mahasarakham, Thailand.
(Tutorials December 8)

http://khamreang.msu.ac.th/miwai10/


***NEW - PAPER SUBMISSION DEADLINE EXTENDED TO OCTOBER 22!!!***



***NEW - STUDENT TRAVEL SCHOLARSHIPS***

Some travel scholarships are now available for students wishing to
attend MIWAI 2010:

. At least one scholarship for students enrolled at universities
outside
Thailand of up to a maximum of 20,000 Thai Baht (approx 630 USD).

. FOUR scholarships for students enrolled at Thai universities of
2,500 Baht each.

More scholarships may be made available soon. For details about
how to apply see
http://khamreang.msu.ac.th/miwai10/MIWAI_2010/Awar...


Important Dates

Papers due (NEW!!): October 22, 2010
Author notification: November 12, 2010
Camera-ready papers due: November 22, 2010
Registration deadline: December 2, 2010
Tutorials: December 8, 2010
Workshop dates: December 9-10, 2010


About MIWAI

Artificial Intelligence (AI) research has broad applications in real
world
problems. Examples include control, planning and scheduling, pattern
recognition, knowledge mining, software applications and strategy
games.
The ever-evolving needs in business both on a local and on a global
scale
demand better technologies for solving more and more complex problems.
Such
needs can be found in all industrial sectors and in any part of the
world.

This workshop aims to be a meeting place where excellence in AI
research
meets the needs for solving dynamic and complex problems in the real
world.
The academic researchers, developers, and industrial practitioners
will
have extensive opportunities to present their original work,
technological
advances and practical problems. Participants can learn from each
other and
exchange their experiences in order to fine tune their activities in
order
to help each other better.

The main purposes of the MIWAI series of workshops are as follows:

. to provide a meeting place for AI researchers and practitioners in
Thailand and beyond.

. to inform Thai students about cutting-edge AI research via the
presence
of outstanding international invited speakers.

. to raise the standards of practice of AI research in the whole of
Thailand by providing Thai researchers and students with feedback from
an
internationally-renowned program committee.


Invited Speakers + Tutorials

Invited Speakers:
1.Arun Agarwal (University of Hyderabad, India)
2.Anthony Cohn (University of Leeds, UK)

Tutorials (December 8):
1.Siba K. Udgata (University of Hyderabad, India)
"Swarm Intelligence - A Tool for Optimization in various Information
Technology Applications"

2.Richard Booth (University of Luxembourg and Mahasarakham)
"Reasoning using Argumentation: An Introduction"


Awards

There will be five awards given out at the workshop:

(i) Best original paper (4,000 Baht): Given to the best category A
submission (see below), from any origin.

(ii) Best original paper by a PhD student (2,000 Baht): Given to the
best
category A paper whose first author is a registered PhD student, from
any
origin.

(iii) Best original paper by a Masters student (2,000 Baht): Given to
the
best category A paper whose first author is a registered Masters
student,
from any origin.

(iv) Best demonstration (2,000 Baht): Given to the best demonstration
(see
category C submissions below - note this prize will only be awarded in
case
at least 3 demonstrations are presented at the workshop).

(v) Best reviewer (a gift): Given to the reviewer who has given the
most
helpful feedback on the papers they have been assigned to review.


Call for Papers

Submission of papers is due on October 22, 2010. The research areas in
AI
include but not limited to:

- Agent-based simulation
- Agent-oriented software engineering
- Agents and Web services
- Agent-based electronic commerce, auctions and markets
- AI in video games
- Computer vision
- Constraint satisfaction
- Data mining
- Decision theory
- Distributed AI
- E-Commerce and AI
- Game theory
- Internet/WWW intelligence
- Industrial applications of AI
- Intelligent tutoring
- Knowledge representation and reasoning
- Machine learning
- Multiagent planning and learning
- Multiagent systems and their applications
- Multiagent systems and evolving intelligence
- Natural language processing
- Neural networks
- Planning and scheduling
- Robotics
- Uncertainty in AI
- Web services

Submission requirements

Submissions of the following three categories are invited:

Category A: REGULAR PAPERS

Papers presenting new original work. Submitted papers should not
exceed a
length of 12 pages in the IEEE format style (templates here:
http://khamreang.msu.ac.th/miwai10/MIWAI_2010/text...,
http://khamreang.msu.ac.th/miwai10/MIWAI_2010/word...)
Regular
papers will be reviewed on overall quality and relevance. Reviewing
of
category A papers will be (at least) double-blind. In order to make
blind
reviewing possible, the authors should follow that:

. The authors' names and institutions should not appear in the paper.
. Unpublished work of the authors should not be cited.
. Using "we" or "us" in reviews of literature should be avoided,
e.g.,
"In [1] we have proposed..." should be changed to "In [1] the authors
have
proposed...".

The program committee will evaluate Category A papers as either
rejected?
or accepted as a long paper, or accepted as a short paper. All
accepted
category A papers (long and short) will be fully published in the
proceedings.

Category B: COMPRESSED CONTRIBUTIONS

Papers that have been accepted after June 1 2009 for AI-related
refereed
conferences or journals can be resubmitted and will be accepted as
"compressed contributions". Authors are invited to submit the
published
version (without page or format restriction) together with a 1 or 2-
page
abstract prepared in the IEEE format style (links to templates above).
Note
the above double-blind instructions apply only to category A papers,
not to
category B. The abstract of the paper will be published in the
proceedings.
Every author may submit at most one B-paper of which they are the
corresponding author, and only if they do not submit any A-paper as
corresponding author.

Category C: DEMONSTRATIONS AND APPLICATIONS

Proposals for demonstrations will be evaluated based on submitted
demonstration summaries stating the following: the purpose of the
system to
be demonstrated, its user groups, the organization or project for
which it
is developed, the developers, and the technology used. In addition,
the
system requirements and the duration of the demo (not exceeding 30
minutes)
should be mentioned. Especially master students are encouraged to
submit
papers presenting their applications and experiences. The maximum size
of
demonstration summaries is 2 pages (links to templates above).
Reviewing of
category C papers will be double-blind (see above under "category A"
papers
for details).

The workshop proceedings will be published with ISBN number.

At least one author of each accepted paper (in each submission
category) is
required to attend the workshop.

Language Requirements

As MIWAI is an international workshop, its official language is
English.
This means all submitting authors must submit an English language
version
of their paper, as well as present their paper in English if accepted
for
the workshop.


Committees


Advisory Committee

-Wanchai Rivepaiboon (Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand)
-Wirat Pongsiri (Mahasarakham University, Thailand)
-Sujin Butdeesuwan (Mahasarakham University, Thailand)
-Somnuk Puangpronpitag (Mahasarakham University, Thailand)

Program Co-Chairs

- Richard Booth (University of Luxembourg and Mahasarakham
University,

Thailand)
- Chattrakul Sombattheera (Mahasarakham University, Thailand)

Program Committee (provisional)

- Arun Agarwal (Hyderabad, India)
- Samir Aknine (Paris 6, France)
- Laor Boongasame (Bangkok University, Thailand)
- Roger Boyle (Leeds, UK)
- Kosin Chamnongthai (KMUTT, Bangkok, Thailand)
- Matthew Dailey (AIT, Bangkok, Thailand)
- Juergen Dix (Clausthal, Germany)
- Patrick Doherty (Linkoping, Sweden)
- Andreas Herzig (IRIT, Toulouse, France)
- Jerome Lang (CNRS, Universite Paris-Dauphine, France)
- Kittichai Lavangnananda (KMUTT, Bangkok, Thailand)
- Fangzhen Lin (HKUST, Hong Kong)
- Jerome Mengin (IRIT, Toulouse, France)
- Ekawit Nantajeewarawat (SIIT, Bangkok, Thailand)
- Eric Pacuit (Tilburg, Netherlands)
- Vineet Padmanabhan (Hyderabad, India)
- Patrice Perny (Paris 6, France)
- Supawan Phonphitakchai (Naresuan University, Thailand)
- Guilin Qi (Southeast University, Nanjing, China)
- Jun Shen (Wollongong, Australia)
- Alok Singh (Hyderabad, India)
- Virach Sornlertlamvanich (NECTEC, Thailand)
- Siriwan Suebnukarn (Thammasat University, Bangkok, Thailand)
- Boontawee Suntisrivaraporn (SIIT, Bangkok, Thailand)
- Leon van der Torre (Luxembourg)
- Thanaruk Theeramunkong (SIIT, Bangkok, Thailand)
- Siba Kumar Udgata (Hyderabad, India)
- Paul Weng (Paris 6, France)

Publicity Chairs

-Wijittra Noisanguan (Rajamangala University of Technology, Isan,
Surin

campus, Thailand)
-Mana Setwong (Mahasarakham University, Thailand)

Local Organisation Chairs

-Suwicha Nantawong (Mahasarakham University, Thailand)
-Phisanurak Pitathasang (Mahasarakham University, Thailand)


Contact

Please direct any comments or enquiries to Chattrakul Sombattheera
(chattrakul.s[AT]msu.ac.th) or Richard Booth (richard.booth[AT]uni.lu).