[agents] Call for Papers - 27th IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI 2015)

[AndreA Orlandini]

Apologies for multiple copies

UPDATES:
- Financial awards for top 5-best student papers
- 1 Fellowship for accomodation and travel to a young student provided 
by the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence (http://www.aixia.it)

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27th IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence 
(ICTAI 2015)

November 9-11, 2015 Vietri sul Mare, Italy

https://sites.google.com/site/ictai2015italy/
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Aim & Scope
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 technical aspects of specifying, developing and 
evaluating the theoretical underpinnings and applied mechanisms of the 
AI-based components of computer tools such as algorithms, architectures 
and languages.

Topic of interest include (but are not limited to):
- AI Foundations
Evolutionary computing, Bayesian and Neural Networks
Decision/Utility Theory and Decision Optimization
Search, SAT, and CSP
Description Logic and Ontologies
- AI in Domain Specific Applications
AI in Natural Language Processing and Understanding
AI in Computational Biology, Medicine and Biomedical Applications
AI in WWW, Communication, Social Networking, Recommender Systems, Games 
and E-Commerce
AI in Finance and Risk Management
- AI in Computer Systems
AI in Robotics, Computer Vision and Games
AI in Software Engineering, Real-Time and Embedded Applications, and 
Sensor Networks
AI in Cloud Computing, Data-Intensive Applications and Online/Streaming 
and Multimedia Systems
AI in Web search and Information Retrieval
AI in Computer Security, Data Privacy, and Information Assurance
- AI in Data Analytics and Big Data
Visualization Analytics for Big Data 

Computational Modeling for Big Data

Large-scale Recommendation and Social Media Systems
Cloud/Grid/Stream Data Mining for Big Velocity Data 

Semantic-based Big Data Mining
- Uncertainty in AI
Uncertainty and Fuzziness Representation and Reasoning
Approximate/Exact Probabilistic Inference
Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining for Uncertain Data
- Machine Learning and Data Mining
Data pre-processing, reduction and feature selection
Learning Graphical Models and Complex Networks
Active, Cost-Sensitive, Semi-Supervised, Multi-Instance, Multi-Label and 
Multi-Task Learning
Transfer/Adaptive, Rational and Structured Learning
Preference/Ranking, Ensemble, and Reinforcement Learning
- Knowledge Representation, Reasoning and Cognitive Modelling
Knowledge Representation, Reasoning
Knowledge Extraction, Management and Sharing
Case-Based Reasoning and Knowledge-based Systems
Cognitive Modelling and Semantic Web
- AI and Decision Systems
Decision Guidance and Support Systems
Optimization-based recommender systems
Group, distributed, and collaborative decisions
Crowd-sourcing and collective intelligence decision making
Strategic, tactical and operational level decisions
Decision making in social and mobile networks
- Multimodal Communicative Signals: Behavioural and Algorithmic Issues
Verbal and nonverbal  social communicative signals
Trustful human-human and  human-machine exchanges
Emotionally and socially believable robots and ICT interfaces
Recognition, synthesis and understanding of human interactions
Context and cultural effects on perception. Memory, cognition
Multimodal Signal Analysis and Processing
Affective systems and related applications
Learning algorithms in social robotics and ICT interfaces
Analysis and processing of human daily cognitive activities

Paper Submission
The submissions should contain original, high quality, not submitted or 
published elsewhere work. Papers should be submitted electronically 
(https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ictai2015) in pdf format and 
should conform to IEEE specifications (single-spaced, double-column, 
10-point font size, up to 8 pages).

Important Dates
Paper Submission: June 30,2015
Paper notification: July 30, 2015
Camera ready paper: August 30, 2015

Paper Presentation
Each accepted paper should be presented by one of the authors and 
accompanied by at least one full registration fee payment, to guarantee 
publication in the proceedings. All accepted papers will be included in 
proceedings of ICTAI 2015 that will be published by the IEEE Computer 
Society.

Best Student Papers Awards
Financial awards to the top-5 best student papers will be provided.

AI*IA Travel and accommodation fellowship
The Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence provides 1 
fellowship for travel and accommodation to young students.

Journal special issues
Authors of selected, relevant best papers (according to the topic) will 
be invited to submit extended versions to IJCTAI or Interaction Studies 
Journals

SAT and CSP track
See http://www.cril.univ-artois.fr/SAT-CSP-IEEE-ICTAI2015/ for details.

Further Information

Program Chair:
Anna Esposito (iiass.annaesp at tin.it)

Local Chairs:
Gennaro Cordasco (gennaro.cordasco at unina2.it)
Alda Troncone (alda.troncone at unina2.it)

Publicity Chair:
AndreA Orlandini (andrea.orlandini at istc.cnr.it)

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