[agents] Call for Papers: STAIRS 2014 - The 7th Starting AI Researcher Symposium (part of ECAI 2014)

Joao Leite jleite at fct.unl.pt
Tue Apr 22 20:39:31 EDT 2014


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                     Call for Papers
                       STARIS 2014

         The 7th Starting AI Researcher Symposium

                  Prague, Czech Republic
                     18-19 August 2014
                    (part of ECAI-2014)

              http://www.ecai2014.org/stairs/

               Submission Deadline: May 15

            Proceedings published by IOS Press

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The 7th European Starting AI Researcher Symposium (STAIRS-2014)
will be held as a satellite event of the 21st European
Conference  on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI-2014) in Prague in
August 2014. STAIRS is aimed at young researchers in Europe and
beyond, particularly PhD students, but also advanced Master’s
students and postdoctoral researchers holding a PhD for less
than one year at the time of the paper submission deadline.
STAIRS offers opportunities to gain experience with submitting
to and presenting at international events with a broad
scientific scope.

Accepted papers will be presented either orally or in a poster
session. Both types of accepted papers will be collected in the
symposium proceedings, published by IOS Press.

STAIRS will feature invited talks by:
* Francesca Rossi (University of Padova, Italy)
* Michael Wooldridge (University of Oxford, UK)

TOPICS OF INTEREST

We welcome submissions in all areas of AI, ranging from
foundations to applications. Topics of interest include,
amongst others:

* autonomous agents and multiagent systems
* constraints, satisfiability, and search
* knowledge representation, reasoning, and logic
* machine learning and data mining
* natural language processing
* planning and scheduling
* robotics, sensing, and vision
* uncertainty in AI
* web and knowledge-based information systems
* multidisciplinary topics

KEY DATES

* Submission deadline: 15 May 2014
* Notification of acceptance/rejection: 10 June 2014
* Camera-ready copy due: 15 June 2014
* STAIRS-2014: 18-19 August 2014
* ECAI-2014 main conference: 20-22 August 2014

SUBMISSION

All submissions should be prepared using the IOS Paper Kit,
available from the STAIRS-2014 website and must not exceed
10 (ten) pages in length. To submit, upload your paper to
Easychair:

http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=stairs2014

The principal author of the paper must be a (PhD) student or
have obtained their PhD less than one year before the
submission deadline.

SYMPOSIUM CHAIRS

Ulle Endriss (ILLC, University of Amsterdam)
Joao Leite (Universidade NOVA de Lisboa)

PROGRAM COMMITTEE (to be completed)

Natasha Alechina  (University of Nottingham)
Jose Julio Alferes  (Universidade NOVA de Lisboa)
Pietro Baroni  (University of Brescia)
Ronen Brafman  (Ben-Gurion University)
Gerhard Brewka  (Leipzig University)
Hubie Chen  (Universidad del País Vasco and Ikerbasque)
Eric De La Clergerie  (INRIA)
Michael Fink  (Vienna University of Technology)
Jorg Hoffmann  (Saarland University)
Weiru Liu  (Queen's University Belfast)
Ines Lynce  (INESC-ID/IST, University of Lisbon)
Pierre Marquis  (CRIL-CNRS and Universit d'Artois)
Nicolas Maudet  (Université Paris 6)
Hector Palacios  (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)
David Schlangen  (Bielefeld University)
Elizabeth Sklar  (University of Liverpool)
Wiebe Van Der Hoek  (University of Liverpool)
Stefan Woltran  (Vienna University of Technology)
Pinar Yolum  (Bogazici University)
Marius Zoellner  (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)


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Joao Leite
FCT-UNL - Universidade Nova de Lisboa,
Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia,
Departamento de Informatica
e-mail: jleite at fct.unl.pt
web: http://centria.di.fct.unl.pt/~jleite
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