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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">[Apologies for multiple copies of this CFP]<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">CALL FOR PAPERS<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">KI2018 - The 41st German Conference on Artificial Intelligence<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">September 24-28th, 2018, Berlin, Germany<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">http://ki2018.dai-labor.de<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">SCOPE<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">KI2018 is the 41st edition of the German Conference on Artificial Intelligence organized in cooperation with the AI chapter of the German Computer Science Society. KI traditionally brings together academic and industrial
researchers from all areas of AI, providing an ideal place for exchanging news and research results of intelligent system technology. The technical program of KI2018 comprises paper presentations as well as tutorials, workshops, and a doctoral consortium.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">IMPORTANT DATES<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Full/Short Paper Submission: May 7th, 2018
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Notification of Acceptance: June 15th, 2018
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Final Version Due: July 2nd, 2018 <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Workshop, Tutorials, and Doctoral Consortium: Will be announced in a separate call<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">TOPICS OF INTEREST<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">You are invited to submit original research and application papers on all aspects of AI research, including but not limited to the following:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">* Agent-based and multi-agent systems<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">* AI applications and innovations<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">* Belief change<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">* Cognitive modelling, AI and psychology<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">* Commonsense reasoning<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">* Computer vision<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">* Constraint satisfaction, search, and optimization<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">* Diagnosis and configuration<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">* Evolutionary computation<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">* Game playing and interactive entertainment<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">* Information retrieval, integration, and extraction<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">* Knowledge engineering and ontologies<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">* Knowledge representation and reasoning<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">* Knowledge discovery and data mining<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">* Machine learning<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">* Multidisciplinary AI<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">* Natural language processing<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">* Nonmonotonic reasoning and default logics<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">* Philosophical foundations of AI<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">* Planning and scheduling<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">* Recommender systems<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">* Robotics<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">* Uncertainty in AI<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">* Web and information systems<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">We especially welcome application papers that provide novel insights on the interplay of AI and the real world, as well as papers that bring useful computational technologies from other areas of computer science into
AI.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">SUBMISSION<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">We invite papers, which have to be in English and formatted according to the Springer LNCS style, in the following two categories<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Full technical papers (12 pages max., excluding references) are expected to report on new research that makes a substantial technical contribution to the field. Additional details may be included in an appendix, which,
however, will be read at the discretion of the PC.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Technical communications (6 pages max., excluding references) can report on research in progress or other issues of interest to the AI community. Examples of work suitable for technical communication paper submissions
include novel ideas whose scope is not large enough for a full paper; important implementation techniques; novel interesting benchmark problems; short experimental studies; interesting applications that are not yet completely solved or analysed; position or
challenge papers. Technical communication submissions are especially invited for software demonstration or PhD work in progress.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Submission will be through the EasyChair conference management system. All papers will be subject to blind peer review based on the standard criteria of relevance, the significance of results, originality of ideas, soundness,
and quality of the presentation. If you have used the EasyChair conference management system before, you can use the same username and password. If this is your first time using EasyChair, you will need to register for an account by clicking ‘I have no EasyChair
account’ button. Upon completion of registration, you will get a notification email from the system and you are ready for submitting your paper. You can upload and re-upload the paper to the system by the submission due date. Paper submission is electronic.
To submit, please prepare a PDF file of your paper, a short abstract in plain text, and a list of two to five keywords. Submission is possible via the following link:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ki2018<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">All accepted papers will be published in the main conference proceedings and will be presented at the conference. The KI 2018 proceedings will be published by Springer as a volume of the LNAI series (Lecture Notes in
Artificial Intelligence). At least one author of each accepted paper must register for the conference and present the contribution.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">The most outstanding submission will be recognized with a best paper award at the conference.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">ORGANIZATION<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">General Chair<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">* Sahin Albayrak, TU Berlin<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Programm Chairs<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">* Frank Trollmann, TU Berlin<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">* Anni-Yasmin Turhan, TU Dresden<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Workshop and Tutorial Chair:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">* Oezguer Oezcep, Universität zu Lübeck<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Doctoral Consortium Chair<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">* Johannes Fähndrich, GT-ARC Berlin<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">SUPPORTED BY<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">* Springer-Verlag GmbH<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">* Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;color:#00435C;mso-fareast-language:DE">Dr.-Ing. Frank Trollmann</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;color:#00435C;mso-fareast-language:DE"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:8.5pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:DE"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:8.5pt;mso-fareast-language:DE"><a href="mailto:frank.trollmann@dai-labor.de"><span style="color:blue">frank.trollmann@dai-labor.de</span></a><span style="color:#00435C"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:8.5pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:DE">+49 30/314 -74048<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;color:#00435C;mso-fareast-language:DE">Future in touch.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:#767676;mso-fareast-language:DE">DAI-Labor</span></b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:#767676;mso-fareast-language:DE"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:8.5pt;color:#767676;mso-fareast-language:DE">Technische Universität Berlin<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:8.5pt;color:#767676;mso-fareast-language:DE">Fakultät IV – Elektrotechnik & Informatik<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:8.5pt;color:#767676;mso-fareast-language:DE">Sekretariat TEL 14<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:8.5pt;color:#767676;mso-fareast-language:DE">Ernst-Reuter-Platz 7<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:8.5pt;color:#767676;mso-fareast-language:DE">10587 Berlin, Germany<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:DE"><a href="http://www.dai-labor.de/"><span style="font-size:8.5pt;color:#00435C">www.dai-labor.de</span></a></span><span style="font-size:8.5pt;color:#00435C;mso-fareast-language:DE"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:8.5pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:DE">DAI-Labor - Distributed Artificial Intelligence Laboratory<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:8.5pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:DE">Chief Executive Director: Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Sahin Albayrak<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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