24-27 Sep 2012
Saarbruecken, Germany
======================================================================== KI 2012 German Conference on Artificial Intelligence 24-27 September 2012 Saarbrücken, Germany http://www.dfki.de/KI2012/ ======================================================================== Call for Participation Early Bird Registration: Before or on September 10, 2012 ======================================================================== KI 2012 is the 35th edition of the German Conference on Artificial Intelligence, which traditionally brings together academic and industrial researchers from all areas of AI. The technical programme of KI 2012 will comprise paper and poster/demo presentations and a variety of workshops and tutorials. KI 2012 will take place in Saarbrücken, Germany, September 24-27, 2012, and is a premier forum for exchanging news and research results on theory and applications of all aspects on AI. The conference invites significant, original, and previously unpublished research from all areas of AI, its fundamentals, its algorithms, its history, and its applications. **Preliminary program at a glance:** http://dfki.de/KI2012/downloads/KI-2012-tentative-agenda.pdf **Invited Speakers:** Ian Horrocks from the University of Oxford, UK, with the talk "Semantics ? Scalability |= ??"; Tanja Schultz from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology with the talk "Biosignals and Interfaces"; and Elisabeth André from the University of Augsburg with the talk "Exploring the potential of social signal processing for human-machine interaction: Synergies and challenges". **Organization** General Chair: Antonio Krüger (Saarland University and DFKI) Program Chair: Birte Glimm (University of Ulm) Local Chairs: Boris Brandherm (Saarland University) and Ralf Jung (Saarland University) Workshop Chair: Gabriele Kern-Isberner (TU Dortmund) Tutorial Chair: Wolfgang Maaß (Saarland University) Poster and Demo Chair: Stefan Wölfl (University of Freiburg) Doctorial Consortium Chair: Carsten Lutz (University of Bremen) Publicity Chair: Daniel Sonntag (DFKI) We are looking forward to seeing you in Saarbrücken!