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Call for Proposals
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Workshop Program
Chicago, Illinois, USA
1317 July 2008
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SPONSORED BY THE ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
The AAAI-08 Program Committee invites Workshops are an excellent forum for ex- AAAI will provide logistic support, and
proposals for the Workshop Program of the ploring emerging approaches and task areas, meeting places for the workshops, and will
Association for the Advancement of Artificial for bridging the gaps between AI and other determine the dates and times of the work-
Intelligence's Twenty-Third AAAI Conference fields or between subfields of AI, for elucidat- shops. AAAI reserves the right to drop any
on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-08). ing the results of exploratory research, or for workshop if the organizers miss the above
Workshops are tentatively scheduled to critiquing existing approaches. Because work- deadlines. Workshops are not to be used as a
be held at the beginning of the conference, shops are intended for focused exploration of vehicle for marketing products. A reduced
July 1314, 2008. Workshop participants will special topics, topics that are already the sub- workshop registration fee will be offered to
have the opportunity to meet and discuss is- ject of regular meetings are not appropriate. AAAI-08 technical program registrants.
sues with a selected focus -- providing an in-
formal setting for active exchange among re- Workshop Organization Proposal Submission
searchers, developers and users on topics of Workshop organizers will be responsible for Workshop proposals should be submitted to
current interest. Members of all segments of the following: the workshop cochairs at the addresses be-
the AI community are encouraged to submit Producing a call for participation. The call is low as soon as possible and must be received
proposals. To foster interaction and exchange due November 16, 2007. This call will be no later than October 5, 2007. PDF format is
of ideas, the workshops will be kept small, posted on the AAAI web site. Organizers are preferred. Organizers will be notified of the
with 2550 participants. Attendance is limited responsible for additional publicity such as committee's decision by October 29, 2007.
to active participants only. The format of distributing the call to relevant newsgroups Please address inquiries concerning work-
workshops will be determined by their or- and electronic mailing lists, and especially to shop submissions to the email address above.
ganizers, who are encouraged to leave ample potential audiences from outside the AAAI
time for general discussion. Workshops will
typically be one full day in length, although
community. Organizers are encouraged to Workshop Cochairs:
maintain their own web site with updated in- Simon Parsons
half-day and two-day proposals will be con- formation about the workshop.
sidered. Department of Computer
Selecting participants. Workshop atten- and Information Science
dance is by invitation of the organizers. Selec- Brooklyn College
Proposal Content tion of attendees will be made by the organ- City University of New York
Proposals for workshops should be about izers on the basis of submissions due April 7, parsons@sci.brooklyn.cuny.edu
two (2) pages in length, and should contain 2008. Workshop organizers will need to pro-
the following: vide AAAI with a preliminary list of the par- Meinolf Sellmann
A description of the workshop topic. Iden- ticipants by April 21, 2008. Department of Computer Science
tify the specific issues on which the work- Coordinating the production of the workshop Brown University
shop will focus. notes. AAAI coordinates the collection, pro- sello@cs.brown.edu.
duction, and distribution of the technical re-
A brief discussion of why the topic is of
ports or working notes for the workshops.
particular interest at this time.
Workshop papers and abstracts must be re-
A brief description of the proposed work- ceived by AAAI no later than May 5, 2008,
shop format, regarding the mix of events and volumes are limited to a total of 200
such as paper presentations, invited talks, pages.
panels, and general discussion. Workshop organizers who want to pub-
An indication as to whether the workshop lish the papers from their workshop (or sig-
should be considered for a half-day, one or nificant portions of it) will have the opportu-
two-day meeting. nity to do so through the AAAI Press. The
The names and full contact information (e- Press (which retains the right of first refusal
mail and postal addresses, fax and tele- to publish) will furnish details of its program
phone numbers) of the organizing com- to interested organizers and authors.
mittee-three or four people knowledge-
able in the field-and short descriptions of Important Dates for Proposal Submission
their relevant expertise. (Please specify
main contact.) Strong proposals include October 5, 2007: Proposal Submission Deadline
organizers who bring differing perspec- October 29 2007: Acceptance Notification
tives to the workshop topic and who are
actively connected to the communities of July 13-17, 2008: Workshops
potential participants.
A list of potential attendees.