CALL FOR PAPERS

Deadline: 30 June 2007

http://epia2007.appia.pt
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EPIA 2007, 13th Portuguese Conference on Artificial 
Intelligence

3 “ 7 December 2007, Guimarães, Portugal

Organised by:
University of Minho

Sponsored by: 
Portuguese Association for Artificial for Artificial Intelligence (APPIA)

Proceedings: Springer LNAI
Supported by: 
European Coordinating Committee for Artificial Intelligence (ECCAI)

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The EPIA 2007 Organizing Committee invites you to submit papers to 
the 13th Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence (EPIA 2007).
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EPIA 2007
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EPIA 2007 is the Thirteen Portuguese Conference on Artificial 
Intelligence (AI). 
The purpose of this conference is to promote the research in AI and 
scientific exchange among AI researchers, practitioners, scientists and 
engineers in related disciplines. 
As in the previous editions, the program will be prearranged in terms of 
workshops dedicated to specific themes of AI, invited lectures, 
tutorials, thematic panels and exhibit sessions all selected according to 
the highest reviewing principles. The program will include a doctoral 
consortium. The conference is devoted to all areas of Artificial 
Intelligence and will cover both theoretical and foundational issues and 
applications as well.
The official language is the English. 

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Conference Site
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Further and up-to-date information can be found in the official site of 
the conference at: http://epia2007.appia.pt

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Important Dates
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30-Jun-07 Paper Submission Deadline
28-Jul-07 Author Notification
1-Set-07 Deadline for Final Camera-Ready Copies
03/07-Dec-07 Conference

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Workshops
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GAI “ General AI Workshop
AIASTS “ Workshop on AI Applications for Sustainable Transportation System
AmITA- Workshop on Ambient Intelligence Technologies and Applications
BAOSW™07 - 2nd Workshop on Building and Applying Ontologies for the Semantic 
Web 
BI™07 “ Workshop on Business Intelligence
CMBSB - Workshop on Computational Methods in Bioinformatics and Systems 
Biology
IROBOT™07 - 2nd Workshop on Intelligent Robotics
MASTA™07 - 4th Workshop on Multi-Agent Systems: Theory and Applications
STCS - Workshop on Search Techniques for Constraint Satisfaction
TEMA™07 - 2nd Workshop on Text Mining and Applications
ALEA - Workshop on Artificial Life and Evolutionary Algorithms
PC “ Workshop on Practical Commonsense

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Paper Submission
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Submissions must follow the guidelines specified in the conference site. 
Authors must remove their names from the submitted papers, and 
should take reasonable care not to indirectly disclose their identity. The 
Springer LNCS format must be used (instructions in 
http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html/). 
Paper submissions will be made in PDF format, through the submission 
page available in EPIA 2007 website.

More detailed and up-to-date information, including types and 
maximum lengths of submissions, may be found in 
http://epia2007.appia.pt

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Proceedings
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Workshop papers of higher quality will be selected for publication in the 
main volume of the conference proceedings, to be published by 
Springer, in the LNAI series. The remaining accepted papers will be 
published in local workshop proceedings, in hard-copy, in CD-ROM and 
in the web.

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EPIA 2007 Co-chairs
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José Maia Neves
Department of Informatics
University of Minho
Braga, Portugal

Manuel Filipe Santos 
Information Systems Department
University of Minho
Guimarães, Portugal

José Manuel Machado
Department of Informatics
University of Minho
Braga, Portugal