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<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">[Apologies for multiple copies of this CFP]</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">KI2018 - The 41st German Conference on Artificial Intelligence</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">September 24-28th, 2018, Berlin, Germany
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"> </span><a href="http://ki2018.dai-labor.de"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1155CC">http://ki2018.dai-labor.de</span></a><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">NEWS:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Invited Speakers:
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Prof. Dr. Catrin Misselhorn, Chair of the Philosophy of Science and Technology, University of Stuttgart (Joint Keynote with INFORMATIK 2018)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Prof. Dr. Sami Haddadin, Robotics and Artificial Life, TU München<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Prof. Dr. Dietmar Jannach, Department of Applied Informatics at AAU Klagenfurt, Austria<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Workshops:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"><a href="http://www.fernuni-hagen.de/wbs/dkbkik2018"><span style="color:#1155CC">Formal and Cognitive Reasoning</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"><a href="https://www.ifis.uni-luebeck.de/~groppe/wdpar/2018"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#1155CC">WDPAR</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">:
Web Data Processing and Reasoning Workshop<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"><a href="https://lat.inf.tu-dresden.de/~koopmann/HiDeSt18"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#1155CC">HiDeST’18</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">:
2nd Workshop on High-Level Declarative Stream Processing <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"><a href="http://www.puk-workshop.de/puk2018/index.html"><span style="color:#1155CC">PuK 2018</span></a>: 31. Workshop Planen/ Scheduling und Konfigurieren/
Entwerfen <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">8th Workshop:
</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"><a href="http://www.emotion-and-computing.de/"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#1155CC">Emotion and Computing</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">
– Current Research and Future Impact<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Tutorials:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Statistical Relational AI
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Real-time Recommendations with Streamed Data
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<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">SCOPE</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">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.</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">IMPORTANT DATES</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Abstract Submission: April 30th, 2018</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Full/Short Paper Submission: May 7th, 2018</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Notification of Acceptance: June 15th, 2018</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Final Version Due: July 2nd, 2018</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">TOPICS OF INTEREST</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">You are invited to submit original research and application papers on all aspects of AI research, including but not limited
to the following:</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"></span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">* Agent-based and multi-agent systems</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">* AI applications and innovations</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">* Belief change</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">* Cognitive modelling, AI and psychology</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">* Commonsense reasoning</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">* Computer vision</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">* Constraint satisfaction, search, and optimization</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">* Diagnosis and configuration</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">* Evolutionary computation</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">* Game playing and interactive entertainment</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">* Information retrieval, integration, and extraction</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">* Knowledge engineering and ontologies</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">* Knowledge representation and reasoning</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">* Knowledge discovery and data mining</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">* Machine learning</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">* Multidisciplinary AI</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">* Natural language processing</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">* Nonmonotonic reasoning and default logics</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">* Philosophical foundations of AI</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">* Planning and scheduling</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">* Recommender systems</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">* Robotics</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">* Uncertainty in AI</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">* Web and information systems</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"></span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">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.</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"></span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">SUBMISSION</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">We invite papers, which have to be in English and formatted according to the Springer LNCS style, in the following two categories</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"></span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">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.</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">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.</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">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:</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ki2018"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1155CC">https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ki2018</span></a><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"></span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">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.</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"></span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">The most outstanding submission will be recognized with a best paper award at the conference.</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">General Chair</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">* Sahin Albayrak, TU Berlin</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Programm Chairs</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">* Frank Trollmann, TU Berlin</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">* Anni-Yasmin Turhan, TU Dresden</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Workshop and Tutorial Chair:</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">* Oezguer Oezcep, Universität zu Lübeck</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"></span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Doctoral Consortium Chair</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">* Johannes Fähndrich, GT-ARC Berlin</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">* Springer-Verlag GmbH</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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