[agents] EPIA-2019, 1st Call for Papers

[Paulo Novais]

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*CALL FOR PAPERS*
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*EPIA 2019*
19th EPIA Conference on Artificial Intelligence
http://www.epia2019.utad.pt/index.php/call-for-papers
September 3-6, 2019
Vila Real – Portugal
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The EPIA Conference on Artificial Intelligence is a well-established 
European conference in the field of AI. The 19th edition, EPIA 2019, 
will take place at UTAD University, Vila Real in September 3rd-6th, 
2019. As in previous editions, this international conference is hosted 
with the patronage of the Portuguese Association for Artificial 
Intelligence (APPIA). The purpose of this conference is to promote 
research in all Artificial Intelligence (AI) areas, covering both 
theoretical/foundational issues and applications, as well as the 
scientific exchange among researchers, engineers and practitioners in 
related disciplines.

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*Thematic Tracks*
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EPIA 2019 will feature the following thematic tracks covering a wide 
spectrum of AI topics:

AIEd - Artificial Intelligence in Education 
<http://epia2019.utad.pt/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=95&catid=83&Itemid=435>
AI4G - Artificial Intelligence for Games 
<http://epia2019.utad.pt/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=96&catid=9&Itemid=435>
AIoTA - Artificial Intelligence and IoT in Agriculture 
<http://epia2019.utad.pt/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=97&catid=83&Itemid=435>
AIL - Artificial Intelligence and Law 
<http://epia2019.utad.pt/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=98&catid=83&Itemid=435>
AIM - Artificial Intelligence in Medicine 
<http://epia2019.utad.pt/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=99&catid=83&Itemid=435>
AICPDES - Artificial Intelligence in Cyber-Physical and Distributed 
Embedded Systems 
<http://epia2019.utad.pt/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=111&catid=83&Itemid=435>
AIPES - Artificial Intelligence in Power and Energy Systems 
<http://epia2019.utad.pt/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=100&catid=83&Itemid=435>
AITS - Artificial Intelligence in Transportation Systems 
<http://epia2019.utad.pt/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=101&catid=83&Itemid=435>
ALEA - Artificial Life and Evolutionary Algorithms 
<http://epia2019.utad.pt/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=102&catid=83&Itemid=435>
AmIA - Ambient Intelligence and Affective Environments 
<http://epia2019.utad.pt/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=103&catid=83&Itemid=435>
BAAI - Business Applications of Artificial Intelligence 
<http://epia2019.utad.pt/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=104&catid=83&Itemid=435>
GAI- General AI 
<https://epia2019.utad.pt/index.php/83-thematic-tracks/113-gai>
IROBOT - Intelligent Robotics 
<http://epia2019.utad.pt/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=105&catid=83&Itemid=435>
KDBI - Knowledge Discovery and Business Intelligence 
<http://epia2019.utad.pt/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=106&catid=83&Itemid=435>
KRR - Knowledge Representation and Reasoning 
<http://epia2019.utad.pt/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=107&catid=83&Itemid=435>
MASTA - Multi-Agent Systems: Theory and Applications 
<http://epia2019.utad.pt/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=110&catid=83&Itemid=435>
SDIA - Doctoral Symposium on Artificial Intelligence 
<https://epia2019.utad.pt/index.php/83-thematic-tracks/114-sdia>
SSM - Social Simulation and Modelling 
<http://epia2019.utad.pt/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=108&catid=83&Itemid=435>
TeMA - Text Mining and Applications 
<http://epia2019.utad.pt/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=109&catid=83&Itemid=435>

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*Submission and Reviewing*
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All papers should be submitted in PDF format through the EPIA 2019 
EasyChair submission page 
<https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=epia2019>. Prospective authors 
should select the thematic track to which their paper is to be 
submitted. The papers should be prepared according to the Springer LNCS 
format 
<http://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines>, 
with a maximum of *12 pages*. Some thematic tracks (see each track 
specific page) may accept short papers (max 6 pages). Submitted papers 
will be subject to a *double-blind *review process, and will be 
peer-reviewed by at least three members of the respective track Program 
Committee. It is the responsibility of the authors to remove names and 
affiliations from the submitted papers, and to take reasonable care to 
assure anonymity during the review process.

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*Proceedings and Presentations*
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Accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings (a volume 
of *Springer’s **LNAI-Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence* 
<https://www.springer.com/series/1244>), provided that at least one 
author is registered in EPIA 2019 by the early registration deadline. 
EPIA 2019 proceedings are indexed in Thomson Reuters ISI Web of Science, 
Scopus, DBLP and Google Scholar.

Each accepted paper must be presented by one of the authors in a *track 
session*.

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*Awards*
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The conference will grant the following award:
* *Best Paper Award*, for the best research paper presented at the 
conference sponsored by *Springer*

Only papers that have been submitted to a thematic track and presented 
at the conference will be eligible for this award.

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*Important Dates*
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Paper submission deadline: April 15, 2019
Paper acceptance notification: May 31, 2019
Camera-ready deadline: June 15, 2019
Conference: September 3-6, 2019

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*EPIA 2019 Committees*
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Event and Program Chairs:
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Paulo Moura Oliveira, INESC-TEC, UTAD, Portugal
Paulo Novais, ALGORITMI, UMinho, Portugal
Luís Paulo Reis, LIACC, UPorto, Portugal


Organization Chairs:
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Eduardo Solteiro Pires, INESC-TEC, UTAD, Portugal
José Boaventura Cunha, INESC-TEC, UTAD, Portugal
Paulo Jorge Matos, IPB, Portugal