[agents] AIxIA 2020 (reboot): last call for participation

[Matteo Baldoni]

L A S T   C A L L   f o r   P A R T I C I P A T I O N

D e a d l i n e :   N O V E M B E R   1 5 th,   2 0 2 0

Register here: https://aixia2020.di.unito.it/venue/registration

(Free for all member of AIxIA!)

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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.

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


*Open Events*

- Nov. 25th, 2020, 16:00-17:00 CET:
   Questioni di Genere in Intelligenza Artificiale
   https://aixia2020.di.unito.it/program/questioni-genere-ia

- Nov. 26th, 2020, 16:00-18:00 CET:
   Etica dell’Intelligenza Artificiale o Etica Umana? Voce AI ragazzi
   https://aixia2020.di.unito.it/program/etica-ia-voce-ai-ragazzi


*Invited Speakers*

- Nov. 25th, 2020, 9:00-10:00 CET:
   prof. Carles Sierra, IIIA, CSIC
   President of EurAI

- Nov. 26th, 2020, 9:00-10:00 CET:
   prof. Nicola Guarino, ISTC-CNR

- Nov. 27th, 2020, 14:00-15:00 CET:
   prof. Francesca Rossi, IBM Watson Research Center
   AAAI President in 2022-2024


*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 synchronization, 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 the collaborative and 
communicative platform SLACK by means of dedicated channels/threads for 
each paper, chat rooms, or the like. 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. Cisco WebEx will be exploited for broadcasting these events.


*Contacts*

aixia2020 at di.unito.it