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2024 Call for Competitions and Challenges</font></b></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><font face="Helvetica"><span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We
invite proposals for Competitions and Challenges of IJCAI 2024, the 33rd International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, planned to be held in Jeju Island, South Korea, from August 3rd to August 9th, 2024. The competitions and challenges can be
on any topic of interest to the artificial intelligence (AI) community: </span><a href="https://ijcai24.org/call-for-competitions-and-challenges/" style="caret-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">https://ijcai24.org/call-for-competitions-and-challenges/</a></font></span></p>
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Submission</font></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><font face="Helvetica"><span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Proposals
should be submitted at <a href="https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/IJCAI2024">https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/IJCAI2024</a></span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> by choosing the “Competitions” track from the drop-down menu.</span></font></span></p>
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must be submitted as PDF files (max two pages, excluding references) in the </span>
<a href="https://www.ijcai.org/authors_kit" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">IJCAI
format</span></a><span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. </span></font></span></p>
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proposal must include the following information:</font></span></p>
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<span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 12px;"><font face="Helvetica">The
organizers’ names and email addresses (and optionally, websites).</font></span></p>
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<span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 12px;"><font face="Helvetica">The
overall goal of the challenge or competition and its relevance to the AI community.</font></span></p>
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<span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 12px;"><font face="Helvetica">The
number of expected teams.</font></span></p>
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<span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 12px;"><font face="Helvetica">The
rules and guidelines for the competition/challenge.</font></span></p>
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<span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 12px;"><font face="Helvetica">The
expected duration of the competition/challenge and the resources needed (physical space, monitors, tables, chairs, electricity sockets and watts). The evaluation of the proposal will take into account the minimum requirements you provide. Once we accept the
proposals we will allocate the resources as fairly as we can over all accepted competitions/challenges.</font></span></p>
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<span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 12px;"><font face="Helvetica">Optional:
Links to the previous editions of competition/challenge.</font></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><font face="Helvetica"><span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">You
may refer to the competitions accepted at IJCAI 2023 (</span><a href="https://ijcai-23.org/competitions/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://ijcai-23.org/competitions/</span></a><span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">)
as examples. </span></font></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 12px;"><font face="Helvetica">One
of the main goals of the competitions/challenges is to enable other researchers, and the society in general, to benefit from the competition/challenge. In particular, we expect the participants to share the source code of their participating systems.</font></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 16pt;"><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 12px;"><font face="Helvetica">Important
Dates</font></span></p>
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<span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 12px;"><font face="Helvetica">Submission
deadline - April 5, 2024</font></span></p>
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<span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 12px;"><font face="Helvetica">Notification
- On a rolling basis (i.e., April 15, 2024 or sooner)</font></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 12px;"><font face="Helvetica">The
deadlines are at 23:59 Anywhere on Earth (AoE).</font></span></p>
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Paper at IJCAI 2025</font></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 12px;"><font face="Helvetica">Proposer(s)
of accepted competition/challenge proposals will be encouraged to submit a demo paper at IJCAI 2025 summarizing their experience at the 2024 conference. </font></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 12px;"><font face="Helvetica">The
IJCAI 2024 Competitions and Challenges Track chairs are:</font></span></p>
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<span style="color: rgb(32, 33, 36); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 12px;"><font face="Helvetica">Bei
Peng, University of Liverpool, UK</font></span></p>
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<span style="color: rgb(32, 33, 36); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 12px;"><font face="Helvetica">Roxana
Rădulescu, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, BE and Utrecht University, NL</font></span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 12px;"><font face="Helvetica"><span style="color: rgb(32, 33, 36); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Pradeep
Kumar Murukannaiah, </span><a href="https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_org&hl=en&org=814705155794667179" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Delft
University of Technology</span></a><span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">,
NL</span></font></span></p>
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