[agents] ECAI-2010: Call for Participation

[Wooldridge, Michael]

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## ECAI-2010 ##        Call for Participation          ## ECAI-2010 ##
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The Nineteenth European Conference on Artificial Intelligence

16-20 August 2010 ## Lisbon, Portugal
 
http://ecai2010.appia.pt/

EARLY REGISTRATION DEADLINE: **** FRIDAY 25 JUNE 2010 ****

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## INTRODUCTION                                                     ##
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The ECAI-2010 Programme Committee invites you to attend the nineteenth
biennial European Conference on Artificial Intelligence. ECAI-2010
combines an outstanding program of 135 technical papers and nearly 100
short papers/posters in the main conference, world-leading plenary and
tutorial speakers, a full range of workshops, the Prestigious
Applications of Intelligent Systems (PAIS) conference, and the
Starting AI Researchers (STAIRS) symposium. And of course, ECAI-2010
will be held in the beautiful and historic city of Lisbon,
Portugal. With excellent opportunities for sightseeing and gastronomy,
Lisbon promises to be a wonderful venue for a memorable conference.

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## INVITED PLENARY SPEAKERS                                         ##
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* Ian Horrocks (Oxford University, UK)
	OWL: a Reasonable Ontology Language?
	
* Manuela Veloso (CMU, USA)
  	Autonomous Mobile Robots Coexisting with Humans in 
	Indoor Environments
	
* Judea Pearl (UCLA, USA)
  	The Logic of Causes and Counterfactuals
	
* Christos Papadimitriou (UC Berkeley, USA)
  	Computing Nash equilibria: The plot thickens

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## INVITED TUTORIAL SPEAKERS                                        ##
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* Sarit Kraus (Bar Ilan University, Israel)
	Automated agents that interact proficiently with people: 
	cooperative and competitive settings

* Joao Marques-Silva (University College Dublin, Ireland)
	Boolean Satisfiability & Optimization Algorithms & Applications
	
* Paul E. Dunne (University of Liverpool, UK)
	Argumentation in AI
	
* Rina Dechter (University of California, USA)
	Advances in Search and Inference for Graphical Models

* Ulle Endriss (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
	Computational Social Choice
	
* Ilkka Niemelä (Aalto University, Finland)
	Answer set programming


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## ECAI/PAIS TECHNICAL PAPER SCHEDULE                                ##
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The full schedule of ECAI/PAIS technical papers is available online:

	http://tinyurl.com/27dvw7o


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## WORKSHOPS                                                        ##
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WS1 	 
	11th International Workshop on Computational Logic in 
	Multi-Agent Systems (CLIMA)
	Monday and Tuesday, 16 and 17 August 2010

WS2 	 
	13th Workshop on Configuration (ConfWS)
	Monday, 16 August 2010

WS3 
 	5th Multidisciplinary Workshop on Advances in 
	Preference Handling (M-PREF)
	Monday, 16 August 2010

WS4 	 
	6th International Workshop on Modelling and Reasoning 
	in Context (MRC)
	Tuesday, 17 August 2010

WS5 
 	2nd Workshop on Automated Reasoning about Context and 
	Ontology Evolution (ARCOE)
	Monday and Tuesday, 16 and 17 August 2010

WS6 	 
	5th International Workshop on Explanation-aware Computing (ExaCt)
	Monday, 16 August 2010

WS8
	10th International Workshop on Computational Models of 
	Natural Argument (CMNA)
	Monday, 16 August 2010

WS9 
 	3rd Planning to Learn Workshop (PlanLearn)
	Tuesday, 17 August 2010

WS10 	 
	3rd International Workshop on Evolutionary and Reinforcement 
	Learning for Autonomous Robot Systems (ERLARS)
	Monday, 16 August 2010

WS11 	 
	Benchmarking Intelligent (Multi-)Robot Systems (BIMRS)
	Tuesday, 17 August 2010

WS12 	 
	Intelligent Engineering Techniques for Knowledge Bases (I-KBET)
	Tuesday, 17 August 2010

WS13 	 
	Ubiquitous Data Mining (UDM)
	Monday, 16 August 2010

WS14 	 
	Workshop on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity and 
	Sentiment Analysis (WASSA)
	Tuesday, 17 August 2010

WS15 	 
	Artificial Intelligence for Simulation | Simulation for 
	Artificial Intelligence (AISSAI)
	Tuesday, 17 August 2010

WS16 	 
	Language Technology for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, 
	and Humanities (LaTeCH)
	Monday, 16 August 2010

WS17 	 
	Intelligent Agents and Technologies for e-Business (IAT4EB)
	Tuesday, 17 August 2010

WS19 	 
	2nd Workshop on Knowledge Representation for Health Care (KR4HC)
	Tuesday, 17 August 2010

WS20 	 
	Artificial Intelligence and Logistics (AILog)
	Tuesday, 17 August 2010

WS21 	 
	Spatio-Temporal Dynamics (STeDY)
	Monday, 16 August 2010


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## REGISTRATION	                                                    ##
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Registration is via the ECAI web site: 
	
	http://ecai2010.appia.pt/

Or go directly to:

  http://tinyurl.com/2f2jlw9


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