[agents] Call for Papers: AAAI 2020 Demonstrations Track

[Nicholas Mattei]

[Apologies for multiple postings]

AAAI-20 Demonstrations Program

The Thirty-Fourth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence

New York, New York, USA

February 7-12, 2020

Paper Submission Site:
https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=aaai20programs

Official AAAI 2020 Demos Website:
https://aaai.org/Conferences/AAAI-20/aaai20demoscall/

Link to PDF of the Call: https://rebrand.ly/AAAI2020Demos
Timetable for Authors

* July 1, 2019 - September 20, 2019: Authors register on AAAI-20 submission
site.

* September 20, 2019: Full submissions (short paper and video) due.

* October 25, 2019: Notifications sent to authors, accompanied by detailed
reviews

* November 21, 2019: Camera-ready copy due
Call for Demonstrations

The AAAI-20 Demonstrations Program is intended to foster discussion and
exchange of ideas among researchers and practitioners from academia and
industry by presenting software and hardware systems and research
prototypes of such systems, including their capabilities and workings.
Accepted demonstrations will be allocated one time slot of 1.5 or 2 hours
during one of the main conference evening poster programs, and will have a
short demo paper included in the proceedings.
Topics of Interest

The Demonstrations Program welcomes presentations of systems on all topics
of mainstream AI (see the topic descriptions of the main AAAI and IAAI
conference tracks). Promising topics include, but are not limited to, the
following.


* cognitive systems

* decision making systems

* educational software and hardware tools for AI

* environment-aware agent behaviors

* game playing programs

* human-robot interaction

* intelligent collaborative systems

* intelligent control systems

* intelligent graphical user interfaces

* intelligent tutoring systems

* intelligent devices and smart IoT

* natural language processing

* speech recognition

* robots

* interactive learning systems and UIs

* web services

The demonstrations must present new ideas, which are not already
established in mainstream products or services. However, the demonstration
need not be novel to the AAAI-20 demos program; it is all right if it has
been showcased elsewhere in the recent past. Captivating demonstrations
will be given an advantage in the review process.

Submissions from everyone, including authors of papers submitted to AAAI,
IAAI, and AAAI-20 workshops, are encouraged. Work submitted to other tracks
can also be submitted to the Demonstrations Program in the format
prescribed below, and it will be evaluated independently according to the
Demonstrations review process.
Author Registration

Authors must register at the AAAI-20 submission site (available July 1)
before submitting their expressions of interest. Authors should select
"Demo Track." The software will assign a password, which will enable the
author to log on and submit their work. Authors are strongly encouraged to
register as soon as possible, well in advance of the September 20 deadline.

* Registration will close at 11:59 PM PDT on September 20, 2019

* Final demo paper submission will close at 11:59 PM PDT on September 20,
2019
Submission and Review Process

Authors are required to submit two items: (1) a 2-page short paper
describing their system, formatted in AAAI two-column style, and (2) a
video (of duration up to 10 minutes) of the proposed demonstration. A video
consisting of slides is permitted in lieu of a demonstration that shows the
proposed submission in a deployed or running state, but greater weight will
be given to submissions accompanied by actual videos of the system or its
demonstration plan. The paper must present the technical details of the
demonstration, discuss related work, and describe the significance of the
demonstration. The paper must contain unpublished work. If accepted,
authors will be required to transfer copyright of their paper to AAAI. For
more information on the AAAI style, please download the AAAI Press author
kit.

Final decisions will be accompanied by detailed reviews. Submissions will
be judged for clarity, the significance of the proposed demonstration, and
its relevance to the AI community. The Demonstrations Program Chairs
reserve the right to reject submissions if the submissions are found to be
irrelevant to or otherwise unqualified for this track.

In accordance with past years at AAAI submissions may be either single
blind (i.e., reviewers are blind) or double blind (i.e., authors and
reviewers are blind).  Submissions in either format are appropriate for the
demos track.

Demonstration participants are welcome to exhibit and distribute additional
material, such as videos running on a dedicated console, scientific papers,
pamphlets, and noncommercial brochures. Such ancillary materials need not
be submitted for review.

At least one member of every demonstration must register for and attend
AAAI-20. The conference registrant will be responsible for building the
exhibit at the demonstration venue.
Award

To foster the presentation of exciting demonstrations, AAAI-20 will present
an award for the Best Demonstration. The award will be granted on the basis
of audience evaluation through a ballot given to all attendees. More
details on the Best Demo Award will be forthcoming after the review process.
Services

Researchers and practitioners showing a demonstration are required to bring
all necessary equipment and material for the successful operation of their
exhibit. AAAI will provide shipping instructions, if needed, for the
delivery of material to the conference site. Each demo program participant
will be provided with one 6-foot draped table, one monitor, and one poster
board, as well as electrical and internet access. Special electrical
connections must be arranged through the Demonstrations Program Chairs no
later than 60 days prior to the start of the conference.
Questions and Suggestions

* Concerning author instructions and conference registration, write to
aaai20 at aaai.org.

* Concerning suggestions for the program and other inquiries about the
Demos program specifically, write to the AAAI-20 Demonstrations Program
Chairs below.
Demonstrations Program Chairs

Nicholas Mattei (Tulane University, USA)

nsmattei at tulane.edu

Kartik Talamadupula (IBM Research, USA)

krtalamad at us.ibm.com


-- 
*Nicholas Mattei*
Assistant Professor, Tulane University
nsmattei at tulane.edu | www.nickmattei.net

Department of Computer Science
Tulane University
6823 St Charles Ave
New Orleans, LA 70118
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