The 19th IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE on TOOLS with ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
                               (ICTAI-2007)
                            October 29-31, 2007
                              Patras, Greece

               Conference site: http://ictai07.ceid.upatras.gr


                               1st CALL FOR PAPERS

The annual IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial
Intelligence (ICTAI) provides a major international forum where the creation
and exchange of ideas related to artificial intelligence are fostered among
academia, industry, and government agencies. The conference facilitates the
cross-fertilization of these ideas and promotes their transfer into
practical tools, for developing intelligent systems and pursuing artificial
intelligence applications. The ICTAI encompasses all the technical aspects
of specifying, developing and evaluating the theoretical underpinnings and
applied mechanisms of the AI based components of computer tools (i.e.
algorithms, methodologies, architectures or languages).  

TOPICS OF INTEREST include (but are not limited to) the following: 

  AI Algorithms
  AI in Software Engineering
  AI in Bioinformatics
  AI in Games
  AI in Multimedia Systems
  AI in Real-time and Embedded Applications
  AI in E-commerce
  AI in Databases and Data Mining
  AI in Medicine
  AI in Computer Security and Information Assurance
  AI in Robotics
  AI in Logistics and Supply Chain Management
  Case-Based Reasoning
  Cognitive Modelling
  Constraint Programming
  Collaborative Software Agents
  Reasoning Under Fuzziness or Uncertainty
  Evolutionary Computing
  Hybrid Intelligent Systems
  Information Retrieval
  Intelligent Tutoring/Training Systems
  Intelligent Internet Agents
  Intelligent Interface Agents
  Knowledge-based Systems
  Knowledge Discovery
  Knowledge Extraction
  Knowledge Management and Sharing
  Knowledge Representation and Reasoning
  Machine Learning
  Natural Language and Speech Processing and Understanding
  Neural Networks
  Planning and Scheduling
  Qualitative Reasoning
  Search and Heuristics
  Vision and Image Processing and Understanding.

The submissions should contain original, high quality, not submitted or
published elsewhere work. The accepted papers will be included in the
ICTAI-07 proceedings published by the IEEE Computer Society. A selection of
the best papers of the conference will be published in a special issue of
the International Journal on Artificial Intelligence Tools (IJAIT) (SCI
Indexed).


IMPORTANT DATES

Papers submission: 1 June 2007
Notification of acceptance: 15 July 2007
Camera ready paper: 5 August 2007


GENERAL CO-CHAIRS

Nikolaos Avouris, University of Patras, Greece
Nikolaos Bourbakis, Wright State University, USA


PC CHAIR

Ioannis Hatzilygeroudis, University of Patras, Greece


PC AREA CHAIRS

Grigoris Antoniou, University of Crete & FORTH, Greece
Rudiger Brause, J.W. Goethe-Universitat, Germany
Paola Campadelli, Universita degli Studi di Milano, Italy
Shyi-Ming Chen, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taiwan
Silvia Coradeschi, Orebro University, Sweden
Nikolaos Fakotakis, University of Patras, Greece
Eric Gregoire, University d'Artois, France
Susan Haller, State University of New York at Potsdam, USA
Melanie Hilario, University of Geneva, Switzerland
Lakhmi Jain, University of South Australia, Australia
Taghi M. Khoshgoftaar, Florida Atlantic University, USA
Manolis Koubarakis, University of Athens, Greece
Spiros Likothanasis, University of Patras, Greece
Luigi Portinale, University of Eastern Piedmont, Italy
Vasile Palade, Oxford University, UK
Witold Pedrycz, University of Alberta,Canada
Chen-Yu (Phillip) Sheu, University of California at Irvine, USA
Paolo Traverso, Trentino Cultural Institute, Italy
Ioannis Vlahavas, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Maria Virvou, University of Piraeus, Greece
Du Zhang, California State University, USA


LOCAL CO-CHAIRS

Constantinos Koutsojannis, University of Patras, Greece
Spiros Sirmakessis, RACTI, Patras, Greece


FURTHER INFORMATION

Ioannis Hatzilygeroudis (PC Chair)
Dept of Computer Engineering & Informatics
University of Patras
26500 Patras
HELLAS (GREECE)
Email: ihatz@ceid.upatras.gr 
URL: http://mmlab.ceid.upatras.gr/aigroup/ihatz/