NEWS

- We have a very strong PC (see below)
- We have first entries to the German Open on General Game Playing
- We expect robot showcases of Berlin's universities
- We are happy to announce 7 exiting workshops

1. 5th Workshop ?Emotion and Computing - Current Research and Future Impact?
2. 6th Workshop on Behaviour Monitoring and Interpretation (BMI'11) 
3. 3rd Workshop on ?Dynamics of Knowledge and Belief? - "Evolving Knowledge in Theory and Applications"
4. 26th Workshop Planning & Scheduling, Configuration & Design (PuK 2011) 
5. First International Workshop on Algorithmic Intelligence 
6. Visibility in Information Spaces and in Geographic Environments 
7. Context-Aware Intelligent Assistance (CAIA'2011)


CO-LOCATED EVENTS:

INFORMATIK-2011: Anual Meeting Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V. (GI)
MATES-2011: Ninth German Conference on Multi-Agent System Technologies

CALL FOR PAPERS

KI 2011 is the 34th edition of the German Conference on Artificial Intelligence, which 
traditionally brings together academic and industrial researchers from all areas of AI. 
The technical programme of KI 2011 will comprise paper and poster presentations and a 
variety of workshops and tutorials.

KI 2011 will take place in Berlin, Germany, October 4-7, 2011, and is a premier forum for 
exchanging news and research results on theory and applications of intelligent system technology.

The applications of Artificial Intelligence are abundant and widespread.
In fact, Artificial Intelligence has become such a mainstay in today's world that it is taken 
for granted by the majority of people who benefit from its efficiency. Therefore, the focus of 
the conference is on technical developments

"Towards a Smart World - Evolving Technologies in AI"

The conference invites original research papers from all areas of AI, its fundamentals, its 
algorithms, its history and its applications.

Areas of interest include, but are not limited to

* Knowledge Acquisition, Representation, Reasoning and Ontologies,
* Combinatorial Search, Configuration, Design and Deduction,
* Natural Language Processing, Statistical NLP, Semantics,
* Planning and Scheduling; Spatial and Temporal Reasoning,
* Reasoning under Uncertainty, Probabilistic Inferences,
* Non-Monotonic Reasoning and Default Logics,
* Constraint Satisfaction, Processing and Programming,
* Embodied AI: Robotics, Vision and Perception,
* Intelligent Information Retrieval, Semantic Search, Semantic Web,
* Evolutionary and Neural Computation,
* Machine Learning, Computational Learning Theory and Data-Mining,
* Distributed Problem Solving and Multi-Agent Systems,
* Game Playing and Interactive Entertainment, AI for Graphics
* Game Theory and General Game Playing, Generalized Intelligence,
* AI for Human-Computer-Interaction and Adaptive Communication,
* Mobile Solutions with Textile, Semantic and Spatial Media,
* Augmented Reality, Smart Cities, Smart Traffic, Smart Hardware,
* Assistance Systems in Living and Working Environments,
* Software-Engineering, Model Checking and Security in AI,
* Distributed Computation and Swarm Intelligence,
* Cognitive Modelling, AI and Psychology,
* History and Philosophical Foundations of AI,
* Applications including Logistics, Production and Health Care.

We especially welcome application papers providing novel insights on the interplay of AI and the 
real world, as well as papers that bring into AI useful computational technologies from other areas
of computer science.

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Submission Guidelines

Submitted papers, which have to be in English, must not exceed 12 pages in Springer LNCS style for 
full technical contributions and 4 pages for short contributions.

Full technical papers are expected to report on new research that makes a substantial technical 
contribution to the field and is placed in the context of existing work.

Short papers can report on new research or other issues of interest to the AI community. Examples 
of work suitable for short papers include: novel ideas that are not yet fully developed or 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.

Conference submission is electronic, in pdf (preferred) or postscript format, available on

      www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ki11

All papers will be reviewed based on the standard criteria of clarity, relevance, significance, 
originality, and soundness.

All accepted papers will be published in the main conference proceedings, and will be presented at
the conference. At least one author per accepted paper must register for the conference and present
the contribution.

MATES 2011 and KI 2011 will include a joint doctoral mentoring program, aimed at PhD students at 
advanced stages of their research. This program will provide an opportunity for students to 
interact closely with established researchers in their fields, to receive feedback on their work 
and to get advice on managing their careers.

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Important Dates

Paper Submission Deadline: May 1, 2011
Notification: July 1, 2011
Camera Ready: July 15, 2011
Early Registration: July 31, 2011

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Program Committee

Althoff, Klaus-Dieter
Asfour, Tamim
Banerjee, Amit
Behnke, Sven
Bennewitz, Maren
Bergmann, Ralph
Cavazza, Marc
Cernea, Daniel
Clementini, Eliseo
Curio, Cristobal
Dautenhahn, Kerstin
Dylla, Frank
Endres, Dominik
Eyben, Florian
Frese, Udo
Fuernkranz, Johannes
Funke, Stefan
Geib, Christopher
Gottfried, Bjoern
Gross, Horst-Michael
Gutmann, Jens-Steffen
Günther, Martin
Hamker, Fred
Helmert, Malte
Henrich, Dominik
Hertzberg, Joachim
Herzog, Otthein
Hoffmann, Joerg
Kern-Isberner, Gabriele
Kissmann, Peter
Kleiner, Alexander
Klügl, Franziska
Kontchakov, Roman
Kramer, Oliver
Krestel, Ralf
Kroeger, Torsten
Kruse, Rudolf
Kuehnberger, Kai-Uwe
Kwolek, Bogdan
Lakemeyer, Gerhard
Lang, Tobias
Langer, Hagen
Lohweg, Volker
Lowe, Benedikt
Markert, Katja
Mattmüller, Robert
Mertsching, Bärbel
Messerschmidt, Hartmut
Moeller, Ralf
Niggemann, Oliver
Piater, Justus
Putze, Felix
Renz, Jochen
Rigoll, Gerhard
Saffiotti, Alessandro
Sauer, Juergen
Schattenberg, Bernd
Schilling, Malte
Schmid, Ute
Schroeder, Lutz
Schuermann, Carsten
Schumann, René
Smaus, Jan-Georg
Spinello, Luciano
Staab, Steffen
Stachniss, Cyrill
Stiefelhagen, Rainer
Timm, Ingo
Triebel, Rudolph
Walsh, Toby
Wiemann, Thomas
Woelfl, Stefan
Wollherr, Dirk
Wolter, Diedrich

Organizers

* General Chair: Stefan Edelkamp (Universität Bremen)
* Local Chair: Joscha Bach (txtr GmbH /' TU Berlin, Berlin)
* Workshop Chair: Bernd Schattenberg (Universität Ulm)
* Tutorial Chair: Sebastian Kupferschmid (Universität Freiburg)
* Doctorial Consortium Chair: René Schumann (NII, Tokio)
* Industry Liaisons: Roman Englert (T-LABs)
* Co-Location: Doris Fähndrich (TU Berlin)

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Contact

Details and updates will be available on the conference web site http://ki2011.de

For questions about the CfP or program, please contact:
edelkamp@tzi.de