[agents] AIMSA 2010: 2nd CFP

[Guido Boella]

SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS

The 14th International Conference on
Artificial Intelligence: Methodology, Systems, Applications
AIMSA 2010
- AI and Knowledge Societies: Learning, Sharing, Amplifying -

Varna, Bulgaria, 8-10th September, 2010
http://www.aimsaconference.org

**** Submission deadline: April 15th, 2010 ****

**** Proceedings published by Springer/LNCS ****

**** Keynote Speakers ****
John Domingue, Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University, UK
Wolfgang Wahlster, German Research Center for AI, DFKI, Germany

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SCOPE
The AIMSA conference series has provided a biennial forum for the 
presentation of Artificial intelligence research and development since 
1984. The conference, which is held in Bulgaria, covers the full range 
of topics in Artificial Intelligence and related disciplines and 
provides an ideal forum for international scientific exchange between 
Central/Eastern Europe and the rest of the world.

The AIMSA conference series has provided a biennial forum for the 
presentation of AI research and development since 1984. The conference, 
which is held in Bulgaria, covers the full range of topics in Artificial 
Intelligence and related disciplines and provides an ideal forum for 
international scientific exchange between Central/Eastern Europe and the 
rest of the world. AIMSA 2010 is supported by ECCAI, European 
Coordinating Committee for Artificial Intelligence.

As its name indicates, the conference is dedicated to Artificial 
Intelligence in its entirety. However, for AIMSA 2010, we would like to 
put the emphasis on the application and leverage of Artificial 
Intelligence technologies in the context of knowledge societies where 
knowledge creation, accessing, acquiring, and sharing empower 
individuals and communities. A number of AI techniques play a key role 
in responding to these challenges. Artificial Intelligence is 
extensively used in the development of systems for effective management 
and flexible and personalized access to large knowledge bases, in the 
semantic web technologies that enable sharing and reuse of and reasoning 
over semantically annotated resources, in the emerging social semantic 
web applications that aid humans to collaboratively build semantics, in 
the construction of intelligent environments for supporting (human and 
agent) learning, etc. In building such intelligent applications, 
Artificial Intelligence techniq
ues are typically combined with results from other disciplines such as 
the social sciences, distributed systems, databases, digital libraries, 
information retrieval, service oriented applications, etc.  AIMSA 2010 
aims to reflect this plethora of avenues with special attention to works 
that demonstrate the potential of AI for supporting learning, sharing, 
and amplifying of knowledge.

TOPICS
The conference welcomes submissions of original, high quality papers in 
all areas of Artificial Intelligence, including but not limited to:

    * AI in education
    * Ambient intelligence
    * Automated reasoning
    * Collaborative knowledge construction
    * Computer vision
    * Data mining and data analysis
    * Data semantics
    * Dialogue management and argumentation
    * Distributed AI
    * Information integration
    * Information retrieval
    * Intelligent decision support
    * Intelligent techniques for personalization and recommendation
    * Intelligent user interfaces
    * Knowledge engineering
    * Knowledge representation and reasoning
    * Large scale knowledge management
    * Logic and constraint programming
    * Machine learning
    * Multi-agent systems
    * Multimedia systems
    * Natural language processing
    * Neural networks
    * Ontologies (creating, learning, mapping, merging, alignment, 
evolution)    * Planning
    * Robotics
    * Semantic interoperability
    * Semantic peer-to-peer and grid systems
    * Semantic web content creation and annotation
    * Semantic web for desktops or personal information management
    * Semantic web for e-learning, e-business, e-culture, e-government, 
healthcare    * Semantic web inference schemes
    * Semantic web services (description, invocation, composition)    * 
Semantic web technologies for collaboration and cooperation    * Social 
network analysis, including community discovery and structure
    * Social networks and processes on the semantic web
    * Trust, privacy, and security on the web
    * Visualization and modelling and AI

All submissions will be subject to academic peer review by at least two 
members of the program committee. Selection criteria include accuracy 
and originality of ideas, clarity and significance of results, and 
quality of presentation. For each accepted paper, at least one author is 
required to attend the conference to present the paper.

The best paper of the conference, as selected by the AIMSA 2010 
programme committee, will receive the Best Paper Award during the 
conference.

IMPORTANT DATES
    Submission deadline: April 15, 2010     Notification of acceptance: 
June 05, 2010
    Deadline for camera-ready: June 25, 2010
    Conference: September 8-10, 2010

SUBMISSION DETAILS
Papers have to be submitted electronically (in PDF format) on the 
address: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aimsa2010.

Papers should be written in English and should be no more than 10 pages, 
font Times 11pt. Authors are requested to follow the LNCS Style. The 
first page should contain the title of the paper, names and addresses of 
all authors (including e-mail), an abstract (100-150 words) and a list 
of keywords.

Submissions should describe original research. Papers accepted for 
presentation at AIMSA 2010 cannot be presented or have been presented at 
another meeting with publicly available published proceedings. Papers 
that are being submitted to other conferences must indicate this on the 
title page, as must papers that contain significant overlap with 
previously published work.

Over lengthy or late submissions will be rejected without review. 
Notification of receipt and acceptance of papers will be sent to the 
first author.

PROCEEDINGS
The proceedings will be published by Springer-Verlag in their Lecture 
Notes in Artificial Intelligence subline of the Lecture Notes in 
Computer Science series.

LANGUAGE
The official language of the conference is English.

LOCATION
AIMSA will be held at the Golden Sands Tourist Complex, 18 km from the 
north-east of Varna and 24 km from Varna airport. More information is 
available in the brochure at the conference web site.

PROGRAMME COMMITTEE CHAIR
Darina Dicheva Winston-Salem State University
Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA
dichevad at wssu.edu
http://myweb.wssu.edu/dichevad/
LOCAL ORGANIZING COMMITTEE CHAIR
Danail Dochev Institute of Information Technologies
Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
Acad. G. Bonchev 29A, 1113 Sofia, Bulgaria
E-mail:  dochev at iinf.bas.bg

PROGRAMME COMMITTEE
Gennady Agre (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria)  Galia Angelova 
(Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria)   Grigoris Antoniou 
(ICS-FORTH, Heraklion, Greece)     Annalisa Appice (University of Bari, 
Italy)  Sören Auer (University of Leipzig, Germany) Franz Baader 
(Technical University Dresden, Germany)  Roman Barták (Charles 
University, Czech Republic)  Petr Berka (University of Economics, 
Prague)   Mária Bieliková (Slovak University of Technology, Slovakia) 
Guido Boella (University of Torino, Italy) Paulo Bouquet (University of 
Trento, Italy) Diego Calvanese (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy) 
Valerie Camps (IRIT, Paul Sabatier University, France)  Yves Demazeau 
(CNRS, LIG Laboratory, France) Christo Dichev (Winston-Salem State 
University, USA)
Ying Ding (Indiana University, USA) Danail Dochev (Bulgarian Academy of 
Sciences, Bulgaria) Peter Dolog (Aalborg University, Denmark)  Ben du 
Boulay (University of Sussex, UK) Stefan Edelkamp (TZI, Bremen 
University, Germany) Floriana Esposito (University of Bari, Italy) 
Jérôme Euzenat (INRIA Rhône-Alpes, France)  Dragan Gasevic (Athabasca 
University, Canada)  Chiara Ghidini (FBK, Center for Information 
Technology, Italy)  Enrico Giunchiglia (University of Genova, Italy) 
Vania Dimitrova (University of Leeds, UK)   Martin Dzbor (Open 
University, UK)  Michael Fisher (University of Liverpool, UK) Harry 
Halpin (University of Edinburgh, UK) Dominikus Heckmann (Saarland 
University, Germany) Pascal Hitzler (Wright State University, USA) 
Geert-Jan Houben (Delft University of Technology, Netherlands) Irena 
Koprinska (University of Sydney, Australia)  Atanas Kyriakov (Ontotext 
Lab, Sirma Group Corp., Bulgaria) H. Chad Lane (USC/Institute for 
Creative Technologies, USA)  Ruben Lara (Telefonica R&D, Spain) 
Dominique Longin (IRIT, Paul Sabatier University, France)  Pierre 
Marquis (University of Artois, France) Erica Melis (German Research 
Institute for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), Germany) Michela Milano 
(University of Bologna, Italy) Tanja Mitrovic (University of Canterbury 
, New Zealand)  Riichiro Mizoguchi (Osaka University, Japan) Radoslav 
Pavlov (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria)  Marco Pistore (FBK, 
Center for Information Technology, Italy)  Enric Plaza (Artificial 
Intelligence Research Institute – CSIC, Spain) Allan Ramsay (University 
of Manchester, UK)  Zbigniew Ras  (University of North Carolina, 
Charlotte, USA) Ioannis Refanidis (University of Macedonia, Greece) 
Francesca Rossi (University of Padova, Italy) Paolo Rosso (Polytechnic 
University of Valencia, Spain) Giovanni Semeraro (University of Bari, 
Italy)  Luciano Serafini (FBK, Center for Information Technology, Italy) 
       Pavel Shvaiko (TasLab, Informatica Trentina, Italy)  Giorgos 
Stamou (National Technical University of Athens, Greece) Umberto 
Straccia (Institute of Information Science and Technologies - CNR, 
Italy) York Sure (University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany) Valentina Tamma 
(University of Liverpool, UK)    Annette ten Teije (Free University 
Amsterdam, Netherlands)  Klaus Tochtermann (Know-Center Graz, Austria) 
Dan Tufis (Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Romanian 
Academy, Romania) Petko Valtchev (University of Montréal, Canada) 
Julita Vassileva (University of Saskatchewan, Canada) Johanna Voelker 
(University of Mannheim, Germany)

ORGANISERS
Bulgarian Artificial Intelligence Association
Institute of Information Technologies at the Bulgarian Academy of 
Sciences (IIT – BAS)