Call for Proposals …

Call for Proposals




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                                                                                                                Tutorial Forum
                                                                                                            Chicago, Illinois, USA
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                                   SPONSORED BY THE ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

The AAAI-08 Program Committee invites                Submission Requirements                             Submission Deadline
proposals for the Tutorial Forum of the Twen-        We need two kinds of information in the             Proposals must be received by October 26,
ty-Third AAAI Conference on Artificial Intel-        proposals: information that will be used for        2007. Decisions about the tutorial program
ligence (AAAI-08). The Tutorial Forum will be        selecting proposals and information that will       will be made by December 3, 2007. Speakers
held July 13-14, 2008 in Chicago. Anyone in-         appear in the tutorial description brochure.        should be prepared to submit their tutorial
terested in presenting a tutorial at AAAI-08         The proposal should provide sufficient infor-       descriptions and autobiographical statements
should submit a proposal to the 2008 Tutori-         mation to evaluate the quality of the techni-       by January 11, 2008, and to post completed
al Forum Cochairs listed below.                      cal content being taught, the quality of the        course materials on their websites by June
                                                     educational material being used, and the            11, 2008. Please e-mail proposal material to
What Is the Tutorial Forum?                          speakers' skill at presenting this material.        Andrea Danyluk and Peter Stone at the fol-
The Tutorial Forum provides an opportunity               Each proposal should include at least the       lowing addresses. Hard copy submissions will
for junior and senior researchers to spend           following:                                          also be accepted.
two days each year freely exploring exciting             Goal of the tutorial: Who is the target audi-
advances in disciplines outside their normal         ence? What will the audience walk away with?
focus. We believe this type of forum is essen-       What makes the topic innovative?                    Tutorial Cochairs
tial for the cross fertilization, cohesiveness,          Content: Detailed outline and list of addi-     Andrea Danyluk
and vitality of the AI field. We all have a lot to   tional materials, augmented with samples,           Department of Computer Science
learn from each other; the Tutorial Forum            such as past tutorial slides and survey articles,   47 Lab Campus Drive
promotes the continuing education of each            whenever possible. Be as complete as possi-         Williams College
member of the AAAI.                                  ble.                                                Williamstown, MA 01267
                                                         Tutorial description: A short paragraph sum-    413-597-2178
Topics                                               marizing the tutorial outline.                      413-597-4250 (fax)
AAAI is interested in proposals for advanced             Prerequisite knowledge: What knowledge is       andrea@cs.williams.edu
tutorials at the leading edge of AI. We are          assumed.
particularly interested in tutorials that offer          Please also submit the following informa-       Peter Stone
two types of knowledge. The first type pro-          tion about the team of presenters: name,            Department of Computer Sciences
vides in-depth background tools to help edu-         mailing address, phone number, e-mail ad-           The University of Texas at Austin
cate researchers and students for the pur-           dress; background in the tutorial area, includ-     1 University Station C0500
pose of conducting AI research; examples of          ing a list of publications or presentations; any    Austin, Texas 78712-0233
this type of tutorials from AAAI-07 include          available examples of work in the area (ideal-      (512) 471-9796
"General Game Playing," "Practical Statistical       ly, a published tutorial-level article or presen-   (512) 471-8885 (fax)
Relational AI," and "Constraint-based Local          tation materials on the subject); evidence of       pstone@cs.utexas.edu
Search in Comet." A second type of tutorial          teaching experience (courses taught or refer-
provides a broad overview for an AI area that        ences); and evidence of scholarship in AI or
potentially crosses boundaries with an inter-        computer science.
esting application area; examples of this type
of tutorial from AAAI-07 include "Managing
Uncertainty and Vagueness in Semantic Web
Languages" and "Autonomous Bidding
Agents."
   Our goal is to present a diverse program
that includes core areas of AI, new techniques
from allied disciplines that can inform research
within AI, and conversely emerging applica-
tions of AI techniques to new areas. Previous
years' tutorial programs provide an indication
of the scope and variety of possible topics.          Important Dates for Proposal Submission
The list is not exclusive; indeed, we are ex-
                                                         October 26, 2007: Proposal Submission Deadline
pressly interested in topics that we would not
have imagined to mention. Finally, note that             December 3 2007: Acceptance Notification
we very much welcome proposals for educa-
tional approaches that go beyond the tradi-              July 13-17, 2008: Tutorials
tional format of four-hour tutorials, exploiting
the flexibility that the one-fee program offers.