21-25 Sep 2015
Dresden, Germany
==================================================== KI 2015 - The 38th German Conference on Artificial Intelligence Dresden, September 21--25, 2015 ==================================================== www.tu-dresden.de/inf/ki2015 KI 2015 is the 38th edition of the German Conference on Artificial Intelligence, which traditionally brings together academic and industrial researchers from all areas of AI, providing a premier forum for exchanging news and research results on theory and applications of intelligent system technology. The technical program of KI 2015 will comprise paper and poster presentations and a variety of workshops and tutorials. KI 2015 will be co-located with an international summer school organized by the International Center of Computational Logic. The conference invites original research papers from all areas of AI, its foundations, its algorithms, its history and its applications. KI 2015 also solicits technical communications and papers of senior researchers. You are invited to submit original research and application papers on all aspects of AI research, including but not limited to the following: - Agent-based and multiagent systems - AI applications and innovations - Cognitive modeling - Commonsense reasoning - Computer vision - Constraint satisfaction, search, and optimization - Evolutionary computation - Game playing and interactive entertainment - Information retrieval, integration, and extraction - Knowledge acquisition and ontologies - Knowledge representation and reasoning - Machine learning and data mining - Multidisciplinary AI - Natural language processing - Planning and scheduling - Robotics - Uncertainty in AI - Web and information systems We especially welcome application papers that provide novel insights on the interplay of AI and the real world, as well as papers that bring useful computational technologies from other areas of computer science into AI. ======== Important Dates ======== Full/Short Paper submission: May 1, 2015 Acceptance notification: June 22, 2015 Final version due: July 3, 2015 KI Workshops and Conference: September 21-25, 2015 ======== Keynote Speakers ======== * Molham Aref, LogicBlox * Ross D. King, University of Manchester * Francesca Rossi, University of Padova ======== Workshops, Tutorials, Doctoral Consortium ======== Together with the main conference, we organize a number of high-quality workshops (see www.tu-dresden.de/inf/ki2015 for more details): * AI challenges for soccer-playing humanoid robots * 8th Workshop on Emotion and Computing - current research and future impact * Formal and Cognitive Reasoning (5th Workshop on Dynamics of Knowledge and Belief (DKB-2015) and 4th Workshop KI & Kognition (KIK-2015)) * 1st Workshop on High-Level Declarative Stream Processing (Hidest '15) * Workshop on Neural-Cognitive Integration (NCI @ KI 2015) * 29. Workshop Planen/ Scheduling und Konfigurieren/ Entwerfen (PuK 2015) * Privacy and Inference (PrInf) * Qualitative Spatial and Temporal Reasoning: Computational Complexity and Algorithms * Role Semantics @ KI 2015: The concept of roles in reasoning and semantic technologies * 29th Workshop on (Constraint) Logic Programming (WLP 2015) The technical program of KI 2015 is also complemented by a doctoral consortium that invites participation by PhD students at any stage and from any subject area within AI. For details on submitting workshop proposals and for applying to the doctoral consortium, please see the KI 2015 web page. ======== Submission ======== We invite papers, which have to be in English and formatted according to the Springer LNCS style, in the following three categories: * Full technical papers (12 pages max., excluding references) are expected to report on new research that makes a substantial technical contribution to the field. Additional details may be included in an appendix, which, however, will be read at the discretion of the PC. * Technical communications (6 pages max., excluding references) can report on research in progress, research already published elsewhere, or other issues of interest to the AI community. Examples of work suitable for technical communication paper submissions include: novel ideas whose scope is not large enough for a full paper; important implementation techniques; novel interesting benchmark problems; short experimental studies; interesting applications that are not yet completely solved or analyzed; position or challenge papers; etc. Technical communication submissions are especially invited for software demonstrations or PhD work in progress. * Senior track papers (12 pages max., excluding references) should be written by a distinguished member of the AI community and cover a subject of general interest to the AI community. Examples of submissions eligible for this track include state-of-the-art reports about a subfield of AI, position papers on possible future developments in AI or its subfields, or papers on the interplay of AI research and society. Submission will be through the EasyChair conference management system : http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ki2015 All papers will be subject to blind peer review based on the standard criteria of relevance, significance of results, originality of ideas, soundness, and quality of the presentation. All accepted papers will be published in the main conference proceedings, and will be presented at the conference. At least one author of each accepted paper must register for the conference and present the contribution. The KI 2015 proceedings will be published by Springer as a volume of the LNAI (Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence) series. ======== Main Organizers ======== General Chair * Steffen Hölldobler (TU Dresden) Program Chairs * Markus Krötzsch (TU Dresden) * Sebastian Rudolph (TU Dresden) Workshop Chair * Anni-Yasmin Turhan (TU Dresden) Doctoral Consortium Chair * Rafael Peñaloza-Nyssen (TU Dresden) Sponsorship Chair * Saartje Brockmans (Volz Innovation GmbH) Publicity Chair * Simone Paolo Ponzetto (Uni Mannheim) For enquiries, please contact ki2015@easychair.org.