Preliminary Call for Papers and Participation …

Preliminary Call for Papers and Participation




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                                                  Twenty-Third AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence
                                                                                                         Chicago, Illinois, USA
                                                                                                              13 ­ 17 July 2008




AAAI-08 is the Twenty-Third AAAl Con-              software will assign a password, which will en-   Review Process
ference on Artificial Intelligence (AI). Spon-     able the author to log on to submit an ab-        Program committee members will identify
sored by the Association for the Advan-            stract and paper. In order to avoid a rush at     papers they are qualified to review based on
cement of Artificial Intelligence, the purpose     the last minute, authors are encouraged to        the information submitted electronically (the
of this conference is to promote research in       register as soon as the software is available,    paper's title, keywords, and abstract).Their re-
AI and scientific exchange among AI re-            scheduled for 1 December 2007.                    viewing will be done blind to the identities of
searchers, practitioners, scientists, and engi-                                                      the authors and their institutions.
neers in related disciplines. AAAI-08 will have    Paper Submission                                      Authors will have a limited opportunity to
multiple technical tracks, student abstracts,      Electronic paper submission is required. In-      respond to initial reviews. This author's feed-
poster sessions, invited speakers, and exhibit     structions about how to submit papers elec-       back may then be taken into account in the
programs, all selected according to the high-      tronically will be available at the AAAI web      final reviews and recommendations. The pro-
est reviewing standards.                           site (www.aaai.org) in the fall of 2007. Papers   gram committee's reviews will make recom-
   AAAI-08 welcomes submissions on main-           may be no longer than 6 pages (regular pa-        mendations to the senior program commit-
stream AI topics as well as novel cross-cutting    pers) or 2 pages (short papers) including ref-    tee, which in turn will make recommenda-
work in related areas. Topics include but are      erences, and formatted in AAAI two-column,        tions to the program cochairs. Although the
not limited to the following:                      camera-ready style. Authors will be allowed       program cochairs will formally make all final
   Agents                                          to accompany their submission with addition-      decisions, in practice almost all will be made
   Cognitive modeling and human interaction        al material such as movies or appendices. We      earlier in the process.
   Commonsense reasoning                           cannot accept submissions by e-mail or fax.
   Constraint satisfaction
   Evolutionary computation
                                                   Reviewing for AAAI-08 will be blind to the        Publication
   Game playing and interactive entertainment      identities of the authors. Details on format-     Accepted regular papers will be allocated six
   Information integration and extraction          ting and preparing the paper for blind review     (6) pages in the conference proceedings; up
   Knowledge acquisition and ontologies            can be found at the AAAI-08 web site.             to two (2) additional pages may be used for
   Knowledge representation and reasoning              Authors should submit abstracts and pa-       regular papers at a cost to the authors of
   Machine learning and data mining                pers through the technical paper submission
   Model-based systems                                                                               $275 per page. Accepted short papers will be
                                                   software on or (preferably) before the dates      allocated two (2) pages in the conference
   Natural language processing                     shown in the timetable above. The software
   Planning and scheduling                                                                           proceedings; up to one (1) additional page
                                                   will assign paper ID number at the time of the    may be used for short papers at a cost to the
   Probabilistic reasoning
   Robotics
                                                   submission.                                       authors of $275 per page. Final papers ex-
   Search                                              Authors will receive confirmation of re-      ceeding page limits and those violating the in-
   Semantic web                                    ceipt of their papers shortly after submission.   structions to authors will not be included in
   Vision and perception                           AAAI will contact authors again only if prob-     the proceedings. Authors will be required to
                                                   lems are encountered with papers. Inquiries       transfer copyright of their paper to AAAI.
Special Tracks                                     regarding lost papers must be made no later
                                                   than February 6, 2008.
AAAI will include several special tracks, in-                                                        Questions and Suggestions
cluding the Nectar and Senior Member                                                                 Concerning author instructions and confer-
tracks. Other special tracks are currently un-     Submissions to
                                                                                                     ence registration, write to: aaai08@aaai.org.
der consideration and will be announced in         Other Conferences or Journals
                                                                                                     Concerning suggestions for the conference
later calls for participation.                     Papers submitted to this conference must          and other inquiries, write to the Program Co-
    The AAAI Nectar Papers track encour-           not have been accepted for publication else-      chairs:
ages cross-fertilization of ideas between spe-     where or be under review for another AI               Dieter Fox, University of Washington
cific areas of AI and the general AI communi-      conference. The guidelines of the AAAI poli-          fox@cs.washington.edu
ty. This track will consist of papers that are     cy on multiple submissions will be fully de-       Carla Gomes, Cornell University
based on results that have previously been         tailed at the AAAI-08 web site and must be            gomes@cs.cornell.edu
presented at a sister conference. The Senior       carefully followed.                               (A listing of the senior program committee members
Member Presentation Track provides the op-                                                           will be available in the fall at the AAAI-08 web site.)
portunity for established researchers to give
a broad talk on a well-developed body of re-       Timetable for Authors for Regular Papers and Short Papers (Posters)
search, an important new research area, or a          December 1, 2007 ­ January 25, 2008: Authors register on the AAAI web site
thoughtful critique of trends in the field.           January 25, 2008: Electronic abstracts due
                                                      January 30, 2008: Electronic papers due
Author Registration                                   March 18-20, 2008: Author feedback about initial reviews
Authors must register at the AAAI-08 web-             March 31, 2008: Notification of acceptance or rejection
based technical paper submission site. The            April 15, 2008: Camera-ready copy due at AAAI office