FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS AND POSTERS

AI-2015: Cambridge, UK, December 15th-17th 2015

Organised by BCS SGAI: The British Computer Society Specialist Group
on Artificial Intelligence (an ECCAI Member Society) 

The leading series of UK-based international conferences on 
Artificial Intelligence and one of the longest running AI conference
series in Europe. 

CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS
http://www.bcs-sgai.org/ai2015/ 

AI-2015 is the thirty-fifth SGAI International Conference on 
Innovative Techniques and Applications of Artificial Intelligence. 

The scope of the conference comprises the whole range of AI 
technologies and application areas. AI-2015 reviews recent technical
advances in AI technologies and shows how these advances have been 
applied to solve business problems. Key features are: 

- Papers will be published in book form by Springer. 

- The Technical Stream presents the best of recent developments in 
AI, covering a wide range of technical areas. 

- The Application Stream is the largest annual showcase in Europe of
real applications using AI technology. 

- It is expected that the best papers will be reprinted in a special
issue of an international journal. 

- The Poster Session is a forum for disseminating new developments 
and latest work in progress, especially suited to MSc and PhD 
students. 

- Prizes for Best Paper in each stream and Best Poster. 

- The programme also includes tutorials and workshops to provide 
greater depth in selected topics. (These are free to delegates of
the
main conference, but separate registration is also available.) 

- UKCBR-15, the twentieth UK CBR Workshop, will be co-located with 
AI-2015. 

- FAIRS-2015, the ninth annual forum for AI research students will 
immediately precede the AI-2015 conference at Peterhouse College on 
Monday December 14th, 2015. The aim of FAIRS is to support student 
members of the AI community providing advice and feedback on their 
research plans and work. This event is free of charge for research 
students except for a contribution towards the cost of refreshments 
and lunch in the College and no conference registration is required.

- In addition to the formal sessions, the conference programme 
includes a welcome reception and a Gala Dinner. 

AI-2015 offers a valuable opportunity to keep up to date with 
developments in AI and to share experiences in the practical issues 
of developing AI systems. 

IMPORTANT DATES
- Paper/Poster Submission: Monday 1st June 2015

- Notification of Acceptance: Monday 13th July 2015

- Camera Ready Paper: Monday 24th August 2015

CONTRIBUTIONS
Contributions are invited in the form of papers of up to fourteen A4
pages presenting original work in AI. Contributions may be submitted
to either of two streams for oral presentation, or a parallel poster
session (six pages maximum). 

Technical Stream 

Areas of interest include (but are not restricted to): knowledge 
engineering; semantic web; constraint satisfaction; intelligent 
agents; machine learning; model based reasoning; verification and 
validation of AI systems; natural language understanding; 
speech-enabled systems; case based reasoning; neural networks; 
genetic algorithms; data mining and knowledge discovery in
databases;
knowledge representation, inference and reasoning; robotics and 
pervasive computing; qualitative and temporal reasoning; knowledge 
management; AI languages and environments; robotics and pervasive 
computing. 

Application Stream 

Case studies are welcomed describing the application of AI to 
real-world problems. Papers in recent years have covered all 
application domains, including commerce, manufacturing and 
government, and every major AI technique. In addition to case
studies
and specific applications of AI, we would welcome papers that
discuss
issues such as managing the transfer from research to production of 
AI-based products. Papers are selected to highlight critical areas
of
success (and failure) and to present the benefits and lessons of 
value to other developers. Submitted papers should make these points
clear.

Poster Session 

The Poster Session is intended for the presentation of work which 
meets the high standards of the conference, but which is more
topical
and preliminary than the work presented in the main two streams. It 
is an excellent forum for disseminating new developments and latest 
work in progress, especially suited to MSc and PhD students. Poster 
papers will be included as short papers (maximum 6 pages) in the 
proceedings volumes. Papers submitted to the Technical and 
Application streams will automatically be considered as posters if 
they fall short of the standard for oral presentation in full form. 

Publication of Papers 

Papers accepted for presentation at the conference will be published
in book form by Springer. 

- The books will be prepared from camera-ready copy supplied by the 
authors of accepted papers. 

- Formatting specifications for the proceedings have been provided
by
the publisher and are available from the conference website.

Submission of Papers 

Papers must be prepared in either Microsoft Word or Latex. Initial 
versions of papers should be submitted in PDF format only and 
uploaded to the conference website by the deadline given above at
the
latest. There are revised Word macro and Latex style files compared 
with some previous years. 

- At least one author of each accepted paper must register for and 
attend the conference to present it in person, for the paper to be 
published. 

- Presenting authors will be asked to register for the conference at
the discounted speakers' rate when they return the final
camera-ready
printed versions of their papers. 

Tutorials & workshops 

The Conference Committee invites proposals for tutorials and 
workshops to be presented on the first day of the conference. These 
should be directed in the first instance to the Tutorial/Workshop 
Organiser. 

Prizes 

There are cash prizes for the best paper submitted in each stream
and
a trophy plus a cash prize for the best poster, awarded on the basis
of delegate voting. There is also a prize for the best refereed
paper
written by a student. 

All further information including details of the conference 
committee, program committees, paper format and uploading 
instructions is given on the conference website. 

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