aixia 2012 - 12th Symposium of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence (AI*IA 2012)

AI*IA 2012 is the International Conference on Advances in
Artificial Intelligence held bi-annually by the Italian Association
for Artificial Intelligence (AI*IA).

The conference covers broadly the many aspects of theoretical and
applied Artificial Intelligence. Both regular papers and posters can
be submitted to AI*IA 2012. A series of workshops dedicated to
specific topics will complement the main conference program.

This year the main focus will be on the theme "Artificial Intelligence
Around Man and Beyond". Nowadays, AI-enabled technologies support a
sort of "distributed intelligent environment”. Men in this environment
are so better capable to manipulate information and perform tasks
involving a huge cognitive effort more efficiently.

Moreover, such technologies shift the theoretical speculation towards
philosophical themes that are "beyond the humans" like design of
metacognitive artificial agents and machine consciousness. The debate
is no more about merely intelligent or cognitive machines but it
rather focuses on their ability of being conscious and/or thinking
about their cognition.

Papers are invited on original, and unpublished research on all
aspects of artificial intelligence, including, but not limited to:

AI and digital entertainment
AI applications
AI architectures
AI in Learning Environments
Cognitive modeling
Cognitive Robotics
Constraint Satisfaction
Experimentation of Combinatorial Algorithms
Human Computer Interaction
Information Agents
Information Retrieval and Extraction
Knowledge Acquisition
Knowledge Engineering
Knowledge Representation
Learning in adaptive systems
Machine Consciousness
Machine learning
Mathematical Foundations
Metacognition in Artificial Agents
Multiagent Systems, Distributed AI
Natural Language Processing
Ontologies
Philosophical Foundations
Planning and Scheduling
Reasoning
Search
Semantic Web
Soft and Evolutionary Computing
Temporal Reasoning
Uncertainty
Vision
Web and Data Mining

Organizing Committee

General Chairs: Roberto Pirrone, and Filippo Sorbello, University of
Palermo, Italy
Program Chair: Salvatore Gaglio, University of Palermo, Italy
Refereeing Chair: Edoardo Ardizzone, University of Palermo, Italy
Workshop Chair: Antonio Chella, University of Palermo, Italy
Sponsorships Chair: Antonio Gentile, University of Palermo, Italy
Local Events Chair: Rosario Sorbello, University of Palermo, Italy

Program Committee (to be updated)

Stephen Grossberg, Boston University, USA
Hiroshi Ishiguro, Osaka University, Japan
Igor Aleksander, Imperial College, London, UK
Benjamin Kuipers, University of Michigan, USA
Sergei Nirenburg, UMBC, USA
Gerhard Brewka, University of Leipzig, Germany
Manuela Veloso, CMU, USA
Gautam Biswas, Vanderbilt University, USA
Roger Azevedo, McGill University, Canada
Alexei Samsonovich, GMU, USA
Maurizio Lenzerini, University of Roma La Sapienza, Italy
Daniele Nardi, University of Roma La Sapienza, Italy
Roberto Serra, University of Modena e Reggio-Emilia, Italy
Paola Mello, University of Bologna, Italy
Evelina Lamma, University of Ferrara, Italy
Stefania Bandini, University of Milano Bicocca, Italy
Francesca Rossi, University of Padova, Italy
Andrea Omicini, University of Bologna, Italy
Ernesto Burattini, University of Napoli Federico II, Italy
Bernardo Magnini, FBK, Italy
Oliviero Stock, IRST, Italy
Floriana Esposito, University of Bari, Italy
Giovanni Semeraro, University of Bari, Italy
Fabrizio Riguzzi, University of Ferrara, Italy
Andrea Roli, University of Bologna, Italy
Marco Villani, University of Modena e Reggio-Emilia, Italy
Luigia Carlucci Aiello, University of Roma La Sapienza, Italy
Francesco Mele, CIB-CNR, Italy
Roberto Basili, University of Roma Tor Vergata, Italy
Sara Manzoni, University of Milano Bicocca, Italy
Pietro Torasso, University of Torino, Italy
Marco Schaerf, University of Roma La Sapienza, Italy
Marco Gori, University of Siena, Italy
Cristiano Castelfranchi, ISTC-CNR, Italy
Antonio Camurri, University of Genova, Italy
Amedeo Cappelli, ISTI-CNR, Italy
Lorenza Saitta, University of Torino, Italy
Giovanni Adorni, University of Genova, Italy
Giovanni Soda, University of Firenze, Italy
Leonardo Lesmo, University of Torino, Italy
Maria Teresa Pazienza, University of Roma Tor Vergata, Italy
Alfonso Gerevini, University of Brescia, Italy
Stefano Cagnoni, University of Parma, Italy
Giuseppe Lo Re, University of Palermo, Italy
Marco La Cascia, University of Palermo, Italy