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ECAI 2004 (European Conference on AI), Valencia (Spain), August 2004

ECAI 2004

                         16th European Conference on Artificial
                         Intelligence
                         Valencia (Spain), August 22-27th, 2004

General Information

The 16th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI 2004) will
be held in Valencia, Spain, on August 22 through 27, 2004. The conference
will be hosted by the "Departamento de Sistemas Inform?ticos y
Computaci?n" (DSIC) of the Universidad Polit?cnica de Valencia.

ECAI is the more and more becoming a key reference point for assessing a
worldwide State-of-the-Art in Artificial Intelligence. The conference
brings together researchers from academy, software developers and users
from industry and public organizations, offering them invaluable occasions
to meet and exchange ideas, thus contributing to making real the upcoming
"Information Society".

Along with refereed paper presentations and invited talks by prestigious
speakers, the conference will offer, on August 22 through 24, 2004,
workshops and tutorials on most advanced topics.

Following an established tradition, the Conference on Prestigious
Applications of Intelligent Systems (PAIS 2004) will run in parallel with
ECAI. Its aim is to give an overview of the most significant real-world
applications of Artificial Intelligence. The Programme Committee Chairman
of PAIS 2004 is Padraig Cunningham (ecai04pais@cs.tcd.ie)

For the second time, after the success at ECAI 2002, ECAI 2004 will also
co-locate the Second STarting AI Researchers Symposium (STAIRS 2004),
which aims to bring together doctoral students and young post-doctoral AI
researchers, giving them a real opportunity for cross-fertilization
between the experience of established leaders and the learning desire of
the next generation. The STAIRS 2004 Program Committee co-chairs are Eva
Onaindia (stairs04pc@dsic.upv.es) and Steffen Staab
(stairs04pc@aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de)

Location

The Conference will be located at the Computer Science School of the
Universidad Polit?cnica de Valencia. Further information about the
location can be found at the URL: http://www.dsic.upv.es/ecai2004.

Paper Submission

Submissions of substantial, original and previously unpublished work are
invited in all areas of Artificial Intelligence. Submission is a two-stage
process. Authors are asked to submit to the ECAI 2004 Program Chair (see
below) a brief summary of their paper by Friday, February 13, 2004,
followed by their full paper by Wednesday, February 18, 2004 (23:59
CET).The strongly preferred submission method for summaries is to use the
web-based summary submission form. Submitted summaries will be assigned a
unique tracking number that should be marked on the full paper submission.
Authors without access to the web should send a summary including the
title, authors, contact address and abstract of the paper (maximum 200
words), plus keywords to the ECAI 2004 Program Chair, Lorenza Saitta (by
e-mail or postal mail, see addresses below). The summary information and
the tracking number should also be included with the paper itself, on a
separate sheet of paper. Authors not able to use the web-based submission
form may omit the tracking number. The strongly preferred submission
method for full papers is electronically, by e-mail. Only PDF files will
be accepted. Submissions in hardcopy may also be made if electronic
submission is problematic for the authors. In that case, six copies of the
paper (each including the summary sheet) should be sent by postal mail or
courier service to the ECAI 2004 Program Chair, Lorenza Saitta. The
deadline for receipt of papers is 18 February 2004 (23:59 CET) for both
electronic and hardcopy submissions. Papers received after this date will
not be reviewed. Notification of receipt of full papers will be mailed to
the corresponding author soon after receipt.

The papers will undergo an anonymous reviewing process. Notification to
the authors is expected to start on May 2, 2004.

ECAI 2004 will not accept any paper which at the time of submission is
under review for, or has already been published or accepted for
publication in a journal or another conference. Authors are also expected
not to submit their papers elsewhere during the review period. These
restrictions only apply to journals and conferences and not to workshops
or similar specialised meetings with limited audiences. The title page
should include a statement that "this paper is not under review or
accepted for publication in another conference or journal".

It is highly recommended to submit papers using the final camera-ready
formatting style, except that author names should be omitted, and replaced
by the tracking number. Submissions must not exceed five pages in
camera-ready format. Submissions of unformatted papers are limited to 6000
words including footnotes, figure captions, tables, appendices, and
bibliography. Each half-page of figures will be counted as 600 words.
Overlengthy submissions will be rejected without review. Authors
submitting unformatted papers must include a word count on their paper.
Guidelines on the format of submissions will be available on the ECAI 2004
web page soon. Final versions of accepted papers will be required to
conform strictly to the formatting requirements specified in the ECAI 2004
Style Guide. Each accepted paper will be allocated five pages in the
proceedings. The proceedings will be published by IOS Press on paper and
as a CD-ROM. The deadline for receipt of the camera-ready copy is May 31,
2004. At least one author of each accepted paper is required to attend the
conference to present the paper.

As ECAI 2004 includes PAIS 2004 as a subconference, paper submission dates
and procedures for PAIS are the same as for ECAI; please, do not submit
papers directly to the Program Chair of PAIS. As papers submitted to PAIS
shall undergo a separate review process handled by the Program Committee
of PAIS, authors should clearly mark in the title page that it is a PAIS
submission.

Submission of Workshop and Tutorial propoals


Proposals submission for Workshops (deadline: November 1, 2003) and
Tutorials (deadline: December 1, 2003) should be sent electronically (PDF
files) to the respective Chair Persons.


All the details of the submission process will appear in the Conference
Web pages at URL:

                                  http://www.dsic.upv.es/ecai2004/


Conference Chair 
Ramon Lopez de Mantaras IIIA - Artificial Intelligence
Research Institute CSIC, Bellaterra, Spain ecai04cc@iiia.csic.es


Program Chair
Lorenza Saitta
Universit? del Piemonte Orientale, Italy
ecai04pc@unipmn.it



Local Chair
Vicente J. Botti Navarro
Universidad Polit?cnica de Valencia, Spain
ecai04occ@dsic.upv.es


Workshops Chair
Jos? Miguel Bened?
Universidad Polit?cnica de Valencia, Spain
ecai04wc@dsic.upv.es

Tutorials Chair
Marie-Christien Rousset
University of Paris-Sud
ecai04tc@lri.fr

Advisory Committee

Boi Falting (Switzerland)
Werner Horn (Austria)
Paolo Liberatore (Italy)
Rob Milne (UK)
Henri Prade (France)
Frank van Harmelen (The Netherlands)
Thierry Vidal (France)
Wolfgang Wahlster (Germany)


For further inquiries about ECAI or PAIS, please contact:
ecai04@dsic.upv.es

For further inquiries about STAIRS, please contact: stairs04@dsic.upv.es



Important Dates:

Paper abstract submission : 13 February 2004
Full paper submission : 18 February 2004
Notification of acceptance : 2 May 2004
Final paper due : 31 May 2004
Workshop proposals : 1st November 2003
Tutorial proposals : 1st December 2003