[agents] ECAI 2016; First call for papers

[Virginia Dignum - TBM]

FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS:
22nd European Conference on Artificial Intelligence - ECAI 2016 (www.ecai2016.org<http://www.ecai2016.org>)
29 August - 2 September 2016, The Hague, The Netherlands
The biennial European Conference  on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI) is Europe's premier venue for presenting  scientific results in AI.  Under the general theme of "AI for human values", the 22nd edition of ECAI will be held in the city of The Hague, in sight the Peace Palace, seat of the International Court of Justice, a location highly appropriate to the conference theme. The conference dates are 29 August - 2 September 2016, with the workshops taking place on 29-30 August.
We invite the submission of papers for the technical programme of the 2016 European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI 2016). High-quality original submissions are welcome from all areas of Artificial Intelligence. The following list of topics is indicative; other topics are welcome.
 * Autonomous Agents and Multi-agent Systems
 * Constraints, Satisfiability, and Search
 * Knowledge Representation, Reasoning, and Logic
 * Machine Learning and Data Mining
 * Natural Language Processing
 * Planning and Scheduling
 * Robotics, Perception and Vision
 * Uncertainty in AI
 * Web and Knowledge-based Information Systems
 * Cognitive Modeling and Cognitive Architectures
 * Agent-based and integrated systems
 * Multidisciplinary Topics

ECAI 2016 also welcomes contributions to a special topic: Artificial Intelligence for Human Values, addressing the ethical, legal, and societal impact of AI.
Important dates
 * Paper submission: 15th April 2016 (23:59:59 CET)
 * Author feedback: 29th-31st May 2016
 * Notification of acceptance/rejection: 7th June 2016
Formatting
Submitted papers must be formatted according to the camera-ready style for ECAI'16 available at http://www.ecai2016.org/content/uploads/2015/10/ecai.tar.gz, and submitted electronically in PDF format through ecai2016.confmaster.net<http://ecai2016.confmaster.net>. Authorship is not anonymous.
Papers are allowed eight (8) pages. An additional page containing the list of references is allowed---as long as this ninth page contains only references. Short papers, not exceeding two (2) pages, may be submitted for poster presentation and will be subjected to light review. Accepted short papers will not be published in the conference proceedings. Over-length submissions will be rejected without review.
Originality
Submissions must be original, and in particular should not previously have been formally published, accepted for publication, or be currently under review.
Also, submissions must not be submitted elsewhere during the ECAI 2016 reviewing phase.
These restrictions apply to journals and conferences, not to workshops and similar specialized presentations with a limited audience and without archival proceedings.
Submitting and reviewing
All submissions will be subject to peer review by the ECAI 2016 Program Committee, and evaluated on the basis of:
 * significance of contribution
 * originality of contribution
 * relevance to ECAI
 * technical quality
 * presentation quality
 * scholarship
Reviewing is single-blinded. Submission and review of papers for ECAI 2016 will be managed via the ConfMaster system: ecai<http://ecai2016.confmaster.net>2016.confmaster.net<http://ecai2016.confmaster.net> When a submission was previously rejected by IJCAI 2015, the program chairs intend to make use of the IJCAI reviews as part of the ECAI review process. The mechanism for this is currently under discussion.
Proceedings and presentation
The proceedings of the conference will be published by IOS Press. The chairs of ECAI 2016 are currently in negotiation with AI Communications, the European AI journal, published by IOS Press, over establishing a route to journal publication of ECAI accepted papers. The details of this arrangement will be confirmed shortly.
The proceedings of recent ECAI conferences are freely available on the IOS website.
The authors will be responsible for producing camera-ready copies of papers in PDF format, conforming to the ECAI'16 formatting guidelines for inclusion in the published proceedings of the conference.
At least one author of each accepted paper is required to attend the conference to present the contribution.
Workshops and events
Separate calls are issued for workshop and tutorial proposals, as well as for contributions to PAIS 2016, the Prestigious Applications of Intelligent Systems conference, and  STAIRS 2016, the Starting AI Researcher Symposium.
This year ECAI will host AIckathon, the first hackathon for development of AI apps. Details of this competition, and rules for participation, will be issued separately.