Call for Papers SBIA 2008


Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, October 26-30, 2008


http://www.sbia2008.ufba.br/


Sponsored (pending confirmation) by:
Brazilian Computing Society (SBC)


INTRODUCTION


As has occurred since 2002, the 19th Brazilian Symposium on Artificial Intelligence (SBIA) and the 10th Brazilian Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks (SBRN) will be collocated, this time also with the Brazilian Symposium on Intelligent Robotics (JRI), in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, October 26-30, 2008.


SBIA 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, international program committee and keynote speakers, and proceedings published by Springer-Verlag in the LNAI Series. Since 1996, SBIA is a biennial event.


Besides the rich scientific program, with several talks and tutorials given by distinguished invited speakers and technical papers, there are also the cultural highlights of Salvador: one of the most beautiful cities in Brazil, with very nice beaches and islands, rich culture and great food!  Therefore, we invite the AI, ANN and Robotics communities to join us and make this event a very exciting one. Hope to see you there!


IMPORTANT DATES


Deadline for paper registration 17 March 2008
Deadline for uploading papers 19 March 2008
Notification of acceptance 26 May 2008
Camera-ready papers 06 June 2008




INVITED SPEAKERS and TUTORIALS (Joint with SBRN 2008):


Luc de Raedt   Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
Fredric Ham   Florida Institute of Technology
Nikola Kasabov  Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand
Raymond Mooney  University of Texas Austin, USA
Stephen Muggleton  Imperial College, UK
Stuart Russell   University of California Berkeley, USA




TOPICS OF INTEREST INCLUDE:


1. Constraints and Search
2. Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
3. Distributed AI: Autonomous Agents, Multi-Agent Systems and Game Theory
4.Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (including Commonsense Reasoning, Logics, Probabilistic Reasoning, Ontologies, Semantic Web)
5. Machine Learning and Data Mining
6. Model-Based Reasoning
7. Natural Language Processing
8. Planning and Scheduling
9. Robotics


PROCEEDINGS
All accepted papers will be published by Springer-Verlag in the Lectures Notes in Artificial Intelligence Series. Papers should present substantial new results in theoretical, empirical and applied research related to the topics of the conference. Papers must be written in English and must not exceed 10 pages (Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes style file), including title, abstract, all tables, figures, and references. More detailed information can be found at: http://www.springer.com/sgw/cda/frontpage/0,11855,5-164-2-72376-0,00.html/.




SUBMISSION POLICY
By submitting papers to SBIA 2008, the authors agree that in case of acceptance at least one author registers to the conference and presents the paper. Simultaneous submission of papers to other conferences is allowed, provided that this fact is clearly indicated by the authors in the submission process. Double blind reviewing: reviewing for papers will be blind to the identities of the authors and their institutions. Submissions violating the guidelines will be *excluded* from the reviewing process.


GENERAL CHAIR


Augusto Loureiro da Costa  Federal University of Bahia, Brazil


GENERAL CO-CHAIR


Evandro de Barros Costa  Federal University of Alagoas, Brazil


PROGRAM CHAIR


Gerson Zaverucha  Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil