Note especially the travel grants for those that have papers accepted at
ECAI-02
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ECCAI-Bulletin #2, March 2002 - ECCAI-Bulletin #2, March 2002
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HTML Version : http://www.eccai.org/bulletins/02-bulletin2.html
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EDITORIAL
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Every two years, a measure of the health of the Artificial
Intelligence field in Europe is the number of submitted papers to
the ECAI conference.
It is very pleasing to note that this year the number of submitted
paper was 492, up from 443 in Berlin! The number of submitted papers
is also more than the 470 submitted to this years AAAI. I think this
is the first time ever that the submitted papers to ECAI exceed that
of AAAI.
These paper numbers reflect very well on the size and health of the
European Artificial Intelligence Community. At a time when AI is
fading from the general press, the community is solidly growing. Our
skills are now strong and we are able to make a real contribution to
many areas of industry and society.
Attending ECAI-02 in Lyon will be a great chance to meet other
members of the AI community and a chance to learn about not only the
newest frontiers, but the traditional progress and newest
applications. Start planning now to be at ECAI-02 and be an active
part of the largest AI community in the world!
Rob Milne, ECCAI President.
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NEWS from the ECCAI board and the ECCAI web site
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- CALL for ECAI-06 ORGANISATION
A unique candidate confirm its intent to bid : AI*IA Paolo Traverso
is in charge for the proposal : http://sra.itc.it/people/traverso/
- ECCAI FELLOWS PROGRAM for 2002 (http://www.eccai.org/fellows.html)
It is now time to nominate candidates for ECCAI Fellows for 2002. Rob
Milne is waiting the nominations by the end of April 2002.
Each ECCAI member societies nominate individuals whom they consider
to have achieved unusual distinction in the field. The nominations
must be accompanied with a CV of the candidate and three letters of
reference. All documents included in the nomination must be written
in English. These nominations are then considered by the ECCAI
=46ellows Selection Committee, comprising 6 ECCAI Fellows and the ECCAI
Chair.
- ECCAI TRAVEL AWARDS (http://www.eccai.org/travelaw.html)
This year the ECCAI Travel Award Scheme supports participation to
ECAI 2002. Applicants must be actively participating in ECAI 2002,
such as presenting a paper in either a ECAI technical session or a
STAIRS session or a workshop. Other active participation may be
eligible. Priority will be given to applicants that are presenting a
paper. Those wishing to simply attend the event will be considered as
a lowest priority on the basis of need The ECCAI Board has agreed to
make available 20 Grants of 400 Euros
Deadline: 7 May 2002. Notification of the decision: 23 May 2002.
Send applications by post or email to:
ECCAI Travel Grant Officer: Dr. Silvia Coradeschi Orebro University
Department of Technology SE-701 82 Orebro, Sweden email:
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More details at http://www.eccai.org/travelaw.html
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NEWS from the ECCAI Conferences
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- ECAI'02 hot news
492 submissions received for ECAI-02 and 22 for PAIS.
Among these 492 submission, 25 from Asia, 18 from North America, 15
from Australia and New Zealand, 8 from South America , 7 from Africa
and 109 form France, 55 from UK, 43 from Italy, 41 from Spain, 34
from Germany, 27 from Russia, ...
Registration form is online on the conference web site :
http://stairs2002.univ-lyon1.fr
- STAIRS'2002
64 submissions received from France (21),Spain, UK,Italy, Belgium,
Portugal, Germany, Irland, Sweden, Finland, The Netherlands, but also
6 submissions from Slovenia, Hungaria, Czech, Estonia and 3
submissions from North Africa
The main research domains are : Multi-Agent Systems, Machine
Learning, Information Retrieval, Natural Language Processing and Case
Base Reasonning.
The objective of the CP is to obtain 20-25 selected papers.
Additional information about STAIRS'2002 will be found on :
http://stairs2002.univ-lyon1.fr
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NEWS from the ECCAI societies
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- from SGES: The BCS Specialist Group on Knowledge-Based Systems and
Applied Artificial Intelligence
ES2002: Cambridge, England, December 10th-12th 2002 :
http://www.bcs-sges.org/es2002/
=46ull Paper Submission: 17th June 2002
- New AEPIA Board :
President: Federico Barber
Universidad Polit=E9cnica de Valencia Dpto. de Sistemas Inform=E1ticos y
Computaci=F3n Camino de Vera s/n. 46022 Valencia (Spain) phone:
(+34) 96-387-9357 fax: (+34) 96-387-73591 email:
[log in to unmask] url: http://www.dsic.upv.es/~fbarber
Vicepresident: Ana M=AA Garcia-Serrano
=46acultad de Inform=E1tica Universidad Polit=E9cnica de Madrid phone:
(+34) 91 336 7441 (7390) mail [log in to unmask] url:
http://www.dia.fi.upm.es/~agarcia
Secretary: Eva Onaind=EDa ([log in to unmask])
The NEW secretary of AEPIA (2001-2003) is now located at: AEPIA, url:
http://aepia.dsic.upv.es/
- from Russian Association for Artificial Intelligence (RAAI)
The 8th National Conference on Artificial Intelligence CAI-2002 (with
international participation) will be held on October 7-12, 2002, in
Kolomna city (Moscow region). It is the main conference of Russian
Association for Artificial Intelligence (RAAI) organized every other
year. Deadline for the papers sent by e-mail (A4, 8 pages, 12 pts)
is April 20, 2002. Submitted papers will be reviewed by the
conference Program Committee. Contact Vadim Stefanuk:
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Other News
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- Next ECCAI-Bulletin in May 2002
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