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Jaime Simao SICHMAN University of Sao Paulo
Assistant Professor Computer Engineering Department
av. Prof. Luciano Gualberto, 158, tv. 3
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http://www.pcs.usp.br/~jaime voice: +55 11 8185397 fax: +55 11 8185294
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PRELIMINARY CALL FOR PAPERS
International Joint Conference
IBERAMIA'2000
SBIA'2000
November 19-22, 2000
Sao Paulo, Brazil
http://www.pcs.usp.br/~sbia2000
http://www.pcs.usp.br/~iberamia2000
Supported by:
SBC - Sociedade Brasileira de Computacao, Brazil
AAIA - Associacion Argentina de Inteligencia Artificial
AEPIA - Associacion Espanola para Inteligencia Artificial
APPIA - Associacao Portuguesa para Inteligencia Artificial
AVINTA - Associacion Venezolana de Inteligencia Artificial
SCCC - Sociedad Chilena de Ciencia de la Computacion
SMCC - Sociedad de Matematica y Computacion de Cuba
SMIA - Sociedad Mexicana de Inteligencia Artificial
INTRODUCTION
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Next year, Brazil celebrates its 500 years of discovery. To mark this
great event, the Brazilian AI Community has decided to organize a
Special International Joint Conference which will put toghether
SBIA'2000 (the Brazilian AI Symposium) and IBERAMIA'2000 (the Ibero-
American AI Conference).
SBIA'2000 is the 15th conference of the SBIA conference series, which
is the leading conference in Brazil for presentation of research
and applications in Artificial Intelligence. Since 1995, SBIA has become
an international conference, with papers written in English, an
international program committee, and proceedings published in the Lecture
Notes in Artificial Intelligence series of Springer-Verlag (SBIA'95:991,
SBIA'96:1159, SBIA'98:1515).
IBERAMIA'2000 is the 7th conference of the IBERAMIA conference
series, which has been one of the most suitable forum to ibero-american
AI researchers (from South and Central America countries, Mexico, Spain
and Portugal) present their results. Following the SBIA and EPIA
(Portuguese Conference on AI) experiences, from IBERAMIA'98 on, it has
also become an international conference (LNAI:1484).
TOPICS
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IBERAMIA/SBIA 2000 topics include, but are not limited to:
1. Knowledge Enginnering and Case Based Reasoning
2. Planning and Scheduling
3. Distributed AI and Multi-Agent Systems
4. AI in Education and Intelligent Tutoring Systems
5. Knowledge Representation and Reasoning
6. Machine Learning and Knowledge Acquisition
7. Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining
8. Natural Language Processing
9. Robotics
10. Computer Vision
11. Uncertainty and Fuzzy Systems
12. Genetic Algorithms and Neural Networks
13. Foundations (economics, philosophy, etc.)
EVENTS
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The conference will consist of:
. main conference
. associated workshops
. tutorials
. best MsC dissertation and Phd thesis contest
The main conference will be structured along two main modules:
. open discussion track
. paper track
The open discussion track is composed of working sessions devoted to
the most important areas of research in Ibero-American countries. Papers
submitted to this open discussion track may be written in Portuguese,
Spanish or English; they will be reviewed and published in a local
edition.
The paper track is composed of invited talks and paper presentations
from all over the world, covering all topics listed above.
Proceedings of this paper track will be published in Springer Verlag's
LNCS/LNAI series.
Concerning the workshops, a specific call for proposals will be available
by the end of January. However, two workshops are already confirmed, as
they have been periodically held in the last editions of SBIA and IBERAMIA:
. 3rd. Ibero-American Workshop in Distributed AI and
Multi-Agent Systems
chair: Luis Otavio Alvares (II/UFRGS)
. 4th. Workshop on Automatic Processing of Written and
Spoken Portuguese
chair: Maria das Gracas Volpe Nunes (ICMC/USP)
We are planning to have both advanced and introductory tutorials.
A specific call for proposals will be available soon.
We are also planning to have the first edition of the Latin America
Robocup, with demonstrations of both the simulation and small size
league. More details will be given soon. The chair of this
event is Guilherme Bittencourt (LCMI/UFSC).
Finally, we will organize the 2nd Best Msc dissertation/ Phd thesis
contest (CTDIA'2000). Its main goal is to award the best academic
work which was developped in Universities belonging to Ibero-American
countries. The chair of this event is Solange Oliveira Rezende
(LABIC/ICMC/USP).
ORGANIZING INSTITUTIONS
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The conference is organized by several AI research groups that
belong to the University of Sao Paulo (USP):
Laboratorio de Tecnicas Inteligentes (LTI)
Depto. Eng. Computacao e Sistemas Digitais (PCS)
Escola Politecnica (EP)
Laboratorio de Inteligencia Computacional (LABIC)
Depto. de Ciencias de Computacao e Estatistica (SCE)
Instituto de Ciencias Matematicas e de Computacao (ICMC)
Laboratorio de Logica, Inteligencia Artificial e Metodos Formais (LIAMF)
Depto. de Ciencia da Computacao (MAC)
Instituto de Matematica e Estatistica (IME)
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
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General Chair: Jaime Simao Sichman (LTI/PCS/EP)
Scientific Chair: Maria Carolina Monard (LABIC/SCE/ICMC)
Publicity Chair: Fabio Nauras Akhras (LTI/PCS/EP)
Publication Chair: Maria Carolina Monard (LABIC/SCE/ICMC)
Workshops Chair: Leliane Nunes de Barros (LIAMF/MAC/IME)
Tutorial Chair: Anna Helena Reali Costa (LTI/PCS/EPUSP)
Finance Chair: Edson Satoshi Gomi (LTI/PCS/EPUSP)
Local Arrangement Chair: Marco Tulio Carvalho de Andrade (LTI/PCS/EPUSP)
PROGRAM COMMITTEE (to be completed)
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Agnar Aamodt (NW)
Alex Alves de Freitas (BR)
Alexis Drogoul (FR)
Alvaro del Val (ES)
Analia Amandi (AR)
Andre Valente (USA)
Antonio Sanchez (MX)
Bert Bredeweg (NL)
Christian Lemaitre (MX)
Cristiano Castelfranchi (IT)
Díbio Leandro Borges (BR)
Donia Scott (UK)
Eugênio Oliveira (PT)
Gabriela Henning (AR)
Geber Ramalho (BR)
Hector Geffner (VE)
Helder Coelho (PT)
Jacques Wainer (BR)
Javier Pinto (CL)
Jose Ramirez (VE)
Isabelle Bloch (FR)
Leopoldo Bertossi (CL)
Liz Sonnenberg (AU)
Luciano Garcia (CU)
Luis Godo (CU)
Maria Carolina Monard (BR) (chair)
Michael Huhns (USA)
Nada Lavrac (SI)
Nitin Indurkhya (AU)
Olivier Boissier (FR)
Pavel Bradzil (PT)
Peter Flack (UK)
Ramon Lopes de Mantaras (ES)
Robert Fisher (UK)
Rosaria Conte (IT)
Stan Matwin (CA)
Vera Lucia Stube de Lima (BR)
Vicente Botti (ES)
IMPORTANT DATES
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For papers (both tracks)
25 Apr 2000 - Deadline for paper title pages & abstracts
28 Apr 2000 - Deadline for full papers
30 Jun 2000 - Notification of paper acceptance
28 Jul 2000 - Deadline for camera-ready papers
For workshops
31 Mar 2000 - Deadline for workshop proposals
20 Apr 2000 - Notification of workshop acceptance
For tutorials
12 May 2000 - Deadline for tutorial proposals
30 Jun 2000 - Notification of tutorial acceptance
20 Oct 2000 - Deadline for tutorial hand-outs
19 Nov 2000 - Conference tutorials
20-22 Nov 2000 - Conference workshops
20-22 Nov 2000 - Conference main technical programme
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