11 Dec 2014
Pisa, Italy
CALL FOR IDEAS
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AI*IA 2014 DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM
Pisa, Italy, December 11th, 2014
http://aiia2014.di.unipi.it/dc/ideas
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The AI*IA Doctoral Consortium is a full-immersion occasion, for Ph.D.
students, to discuss their ongoing research work, establish research
connections with peer researchers, and receive first-class mentorship from
domain experts.
The Call for Ideas aims at collecting new and high-impact research ideas
coming from young researchers actively involved in the fields of
Artificial Intelligence. The primary aspect evaluated in this call is the
level of innovation and research impact of the proposals rather than their
maturity.
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Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):
A.I. for Society and Economy
Big Data
Cognitive Systems
Complex Networks
Computer Vision
Data Mining and Machine Learning
Formal Methods for AI
Information Extraction
Knowledge Representation and Reasoning
Multi-agent Systems
Natural Language Understanding
Ontologies
Philosophical Perspectives
Planning and Scheduling
Robotics
Search Methodologies
Uncertainty
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REVIEWING PROCESS
The call is organized in two different phases. During the first one, the
ideas are collected and evaluated according to the first deadline. Only
some ideas will be selected and associated to a senior researcher. Then,
groups of people will be formed to work with the senior researcher and the
proposal's authors. The senior researcher will finally help the group to
present a document for the workshop.
The aim of this reviewing process is to allow young researchers to meet
and work with people they do not know (and so building new relationships
and exchanging new ideas), under the supervision of a senior researcher.
This way, groups will work to bridge the gap between novel and promising
ideas and their actual success in terms of proposed methodology and
scientific impact. At workshop time, each group will have the opportunity
to further discuss the ideas.
The authors of the selected ideas will be asked to present a document
containing the results of the feedback given by the senior researcher. The
camera-ready submissions will be collected after the workshop, so that
authors will be able to include feedback received during the open
discussion on the workshop day.
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EVALUATION CRITERIA
The evaluation criteria used by the committee to measure the quality of
the research idea will be the following:
Ground?breaking nature of the idea and relevance of the problem
The extent to which the idea addresses important challenges in the AI
field and sets suitably ambitious objectives, which go substantially
beyond the current state of the art.
Methodology and proposed solution
The feasibility of the proposed scientific approach and the quality of the
proposed solution.
Potential impact
The extent to which the results and the new knowledge may have a
significant impact on the academic community and/or on non?academic
sectors.
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SUBMISSIONS
All submissions must be written in English and must be formatted according
to the information for LNCS Authors. The only accepted format for
submitted ideas is PDF. The maximum submission length is 2 pages for the
idea proposal and 10 pages for the final document. The submission process
will be handled electronically by means of the Easychair system. For
detailed submission instructions please refer to this page:
http://aiia2014.di.unipi.it/dc/instructions
Accepted ideas will be included in the workshop proceedings published
on-line by CEUR and will also be indexed by DBLP. The authors of the
accepted ideas must attend the workshop to present the idea and must be
registered to the AI*IA symposium.
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IMPORTANT DATES
* Idea submission open: May 15th, 2014
* Idea submission deadline: July 1st, 2014
* Author notification and Group formation (+ senior): Early July 2014
* Document submission deadline: September 20th, 2014
* Early registration: October 31st, 2014
* Workshop: December 11th, 2014
* Camera ready submission deadline: December 19th, 2014
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ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Luigi Di Caro (Università di Torino)
Carmine Dodaro (Università della Calabria, Rende)
Andrea Loreggia (Università di Padova)
Roberto Navigli (Sapienza Università di Roma)
Alan Perotti (Università di Torino)
Manuela Sanguinetti (Università di Torino)
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Contact: dc2014@di.unito.it