2005

BISFAI -05

Biennial Israeli Symposium on the Foundations of AI

June 28-30, 2005

Call for Papers

The Eighth Biennial Israeli Symposium on the Foundations of Artificial Intelligence will be held in June 28-30, 2005 in Haifa, Israel.

We solicit papers on substantial research in all areas of Artificial Intelligence, including, but not limited to the following:

Invited Speakers:

BISFAI 2005 will host several invited plenary speakers.

Submission Guidelines:

Extended abstracts should be 6-12 pages in length, including references and figures. Submissions should be made electronically, as attachments in Postscript, PDF or Word format and sent by email to Uri Schild <schild@cs.biu.ac.il>. Submission deadline is April 15, 2005. Notification date is May 9^th, 2005.

The official proceedings will be web-based and made available at the BISFAI website.

System Demonstrations:

We also solicit proposals for demonstrations of innovative applications of artificial intelligence, of length 1-2 pages. Submission deadline is April 15, 2005. Proposals should be sent by email to Uri Schild <schild@cs.biu.ac.il>.

Multiple Submissions:

Papers may be submitted to BISFAI even if submitted to other conferences or journals, because the BISFAI website is not archival.

Previously presented or published papers are unacceptable.

Special Issue:

Full versions of selected papers may be submitted after the symposium for possible journal publication in the Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence.

Of course, if a paper is accepted at an archival conference such as AAAI or IJCAI and also presented at BISFAI, this paper must be substantially revised and/or extended for consideration for journal publication.

The BISFAI-05 program and schedule will be available online. Abstracts of invited and accepted papers will be made available on the abstracts page, with pointers to online versions of the paper, when available here.

Symposium Committee:

Program Committee

Graduate Students:

Housing subsidies will be available to advanced graduate students who are in the final stages of their thesis research. Applications should be sent to Claudia V. Goldman <clag@cs.umass.edu> with an accompanying letter from the student's thesis advisor.

Satellite Workshops:

A small number of invited satellite workshops are being planned for the days before or after BISFAI 2005. To propose a satellite workshop, please contact Prof. Martin Golumbic <golumbic@cs.haifa.ac.il>.

The following have been confirmed to date:

• Recommender Systems, chair: Francesco Ricci <ricci@itc.it>
• Affective Computing, chair: Moshe Zeidner <zeidner@research.haifa.ac.il>

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