Early Bird Registration: Before or on September 10, 2012

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KI 2012 is the 35th 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 2012 will comprise paper and poster/demo presentations and a variety 
of workshops and tutorials.

KI 2012 will take place in Saarbrücken, Germany, September 24-27, 2012, and is a premier forum 
for exchanging news and research results on theory and applications of all aspects on AI.  The 
conference invites significant, original, and previously unpublished research from all areas of 
AI, its fundamentals, its algorithms, its history, and its applications.

**Preliminary program at a glance:**

http://dfki.de/KI2012/downloads/KI-2012-tentative-agenda.pdf

**Invited Speakers:**

Ian Horrocks from the University of Oxford, UK, with the talk "Semantics ? Scalability |= ??";

Tanja Schultz from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology with the talk "Biosignals and Interfaces";
and
Elisabeth André from the University of Augsburg with the talk "Exploring the potential of social 
signal processing for human-machine interaction: Synergies and challenges".

**Organization**

General Chair: Antonio Krüger (Saarland University and DFKI) Program Chair: Birte Glimm (University
of Ulm) Local Chairs: Boris Brandherm (Saarland University) and Ralf Jung (Saarland
University)
Workshop Chair: Gabriele Kern-Isberner (TU Dortmund) Tutorial Chair: Wolfgang Maaß (Saarland 
University) Poster and Demo Chair: Stefan Wölfl (University of Freiburg) Doctorial Consortium 
Chair: Carsten Lutz (University of Bremen) Publicity Chair: Daniel Sonntag (DFKI)

We are looking forward to seeing you in Saarbrücken!