[agents] AIxIA 2020 (reboot): announcement of the conference and CfP

[Matteo Baldoni]

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The 19th International Conference of the Italian Association
for Artificial Intelligence

"F o c u s i n g   o n   R e s e a r c h   C o m m u n i t i e s"

Anywhere, November 25th-27th, 2020

http://aixia2020.di.unito.it

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The 19th International Conference of the Italian Association for 
Artificial Intelligence(AIxIA 2020) is organized by AIxIA (Associazione 
Italiana per l’Intelligenza Artificiale), which is a non-profit 
scientific society founded in 1988 and devoted to the promotion of 
Artificial Intelligence. The society aims to increase the public 
awareness of AI, encourage the teaching of it and promote research in 
the field.
AIxIA 2020 will focus on the communities working on the various research 
areas of the field, it will host 10 workshops whose submission deadline 
is set in the late Summer. Keynotes speakers, open events, discussion 
panels will complete the event. AIxIA 2020 will be virtually held on 
November 25th-27th, 2020 “anywhere” in the world, rather than in a 
single physical place: the event will be open to all members of the 
organizing association and its program will be accessible through the 
internet.


*Call for Papers*

The conference covers broadly the many aspects of theoretical and 
applied Artificial Intelligence through a series of workshops dedicated 
to specific topics:

- 9th Italian Workshop on Machine Learning and Data Mining (MLDM.it 2020)
- Italian Workshop on Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI.it 2020)
- Workshop on Evolutionary and Population-based Optimization (WEPO 2020)
- Advances In Argumentation In Artificial Intelligence (AI^3 2020)
- 8th Italian Workshop on Planning and Scheduling (IPS 2020)
- The 7th Italian Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Robotics (AIRO 
2020)
- 4th Workshop on Natural Language for Artificial Intelligence (NL4AI-2020)
- RCRA/RiCeRcA 2020
- Italian Workshop on Artificial Intelligence for an Ageing Society 
(AIxAS 2020)
- AIxIA 2020 Discussion Papers workshop

We encourage all types of contributions, please, refer to the call for 
papers of the single workshop for the topics.

Besides workshop papers, and following the successful edition of AIxIA 
2019, we also welcome discussion papers containing descriptions of 
results that have been recently published or accepted for the 
presentation in international conferences. Discussion papers are 
expected to be more broadly accessible, they are an opportunity for the 
authors to present their recent results to the AI community, and a 
valuable addition for the attendees of AIxIA 2020. Please, refer to the 
call for papers of the AIxIA 2020 Discussion Papers workshop.


*Submission Instructions*

Each workshop has its own organization. Please, refer to the call for 
papers of the specific workshop for details.

As a general guideline, the papers should be written in English and 
formatted according to Springer’s LNCS style. Paper submission, unless 
differently specified in the workshop pages, is electronic via easychair 
at the address: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aixia2020


*Proceedings*

Generally, unless differently specified in the workshop pages, the 
proceedings of each workshop will be published in the AIxIA series of 
CEUR-WS by the workshop organizers.


*Post-proceedings of selected and revised papers*

Authors of selected papers, accepted to the workshops, will be invited 
to submit a revised and extended version of their work to appear in a 
volume, published by an important international publisher. A selection 
of the best papers, accepted for the presentation at the workshops, will 
be invited to submit an extended version for publication on 
“intelligenza Artificiale”, the International Journal of the Italian 
Association for Artificial Intelligence, edited by IOS Press and indexed 
by Thomson Reuters' "Emerging Sources Citation Index" and Scopus by 
Elsevier.


*Format of the video presentations*

Authors of accepted papers at the workshops will be requested to provide 
a video recorded presentation of their work. Presentations will be 
available to all members of the association. Videos must have a length 
between 5 and 8 minutes according to the rules given by the workshop 
organizers. The video should be in MP4 format (1280x720). More details 
will be published here.


*Important Dates*

The schedule is the same for all workshops.

Paper submission deadline: September 20th, 2020.
Notification to authors: October 16th, 2020.
Camera ready submission: October 30th, 2020.
Video and slides of the presentation: November 10th, 2020.


*Attending*

The conference will be fully virtual.

Workshop attendance

The workshops are asynchronous. The authors' presentations will have the 
form of short videos (5 - 8 minutes, according to the rules given by the 
workshop organizers) broadcasted through some cloud platform or video 
platform. Videos and slides of the presentations will be made available 
to the participants 4 - 5 days before the events.

Nevertheless, each workshop will have a time colocation and authors' 
presentations will have a schedule as usual. Each person interprets the 
schedule in their own time zone. The aim of the schedule is: (i) to get 
a commitment to spend time watching talks and engaging with comments; 
and (ii) to create synchronisation, allowing for some discussion and 
social interaction. Authors are expected to regularly monitor and 
respond to questions and comments on their presented paper.

Interaction among the authors and the participants and among the 
participants themselves will be achieved through a collaborative and 
communicative platform by means of dedicated channels/threads for each 
paper, chat rooms, or the like. The intention is to use the Slack 
platform but other platforms will be evaluated. The attendees are 
expected to watch the video for a talk and then feel free to post 
questions and comments using Slack.

More details about the organization of each workshop are provided by 
their respective organizers.

Conference events attendance

The conference's keynotes, open events, panel discussions, awards will 
be synchronous. Google Meet, Microsoft Team, Zoom, or Cisco WebEx will 
be exploited for broadcasting these events.


*Contacts*

aixia2020 at di.unito.it