-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: Call For Papers: 2012 Int'l Conf. on Artificial Intelligence (ICAI'12, USA), Submission Deadline: March 12, 2012 Datum: Tue, 07 Feb 2012 00:17:16 -0500 Von: Soft Computing wcom12@world-comp.org An: gustaf.neumann@wu-wien.ac.at

Dear AI community:

Please share the announcement below with those who may be interested. Thank you - Steering Committee. ---------------- CALL FOR PAPERS

ICAI'12 The 2012 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence

Date and Location: July 16-19, 2012, Las Vegas, USA

http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/

You are invited to submit a full paper for consideration. All accepted papers will be published in printed (ISBN) conference books/proceedings and will also be made available online. The proceedings will be indexed in science citation databases that track citation frequency/data for each paper. In addition, like prior years, extended versions of selected papers (about 40%) will appear in journals and edited research books (publishers include: Springer, Elsevier, ...).

SCOPE: Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

O Brain models / cognitive science O Natural language processing O Fuzzy logic and soft computing O Software tools for AI O Expert systems O Decision support systems O Automated problem solving O Knowledge discovery O Knowledge representation O Knowledge acquisition O Knowledge-intensive problem solving techniques O Knowledge networks and management O Intelligent information systems O Intelligent data mining and farming O Intelligent web-based business O Intelligent agents O Intelligent networks O Intelligent databases O Intelligent user interface O AI and evolutionary algorithms O Intelligent tutoring systems O Reasoning strategies O Distributed AI algorithms and techniques O Distributed AI systems and architectures O Neural networks and applications O Heuristic searching methods O Languages and programming techniques for AI O Constraint-based reasoning and constraint programming O Intelligent information fusion O Learning and adaptive sensor fusion O Search and meta-heuristics O Swarm Optimization O Multisensor data fusion using neural and fuzzy techniques O Integration of AI with other technologies O Evaluation of AI tools O Social intelligence (markets and computational societies) O Social impact of AI O Emerging technologies O Topics on satisfiability O Applications (including: computer vision, signal processing, military, surveillance, robotics, medicine, pattern recognition, face recognition, finger print recognition, finance and marketing, stock market, education, emerging applications, ...)

O Workshop on Machine Learning; Models, Technologies and Applications:

- General Machine Learning Theory . Statistical learning theory . Unsupervised and Supervised Learning . Multivariate analysis . Hierarchical learning models . Relational learning models . Bayesian methods . Meta learning . Stochastic optimization . Topics on satisfiability . Simulated annealing . Heuristic optimization techniques . Neural networks . Reinforcement learning . Multi-criteria reinforcement learning . General Learning models . Multiple hypothesis testing . Decision making . Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) methods . Non-parametric methods . Graphical models . Gaussian graphical models . Particle filter . Cross-Entropy method . Ant colony optimization . Time series prediction . Fuzzy logic and learning . Inductive learning and applications . Grammatical inference

- General Graph-based Machine Learning Techniques . Graph kernel and graph distance methods . Graph-based semi-supervised learning . Graph clustering . Graph learning based on graph transformations . Graph learning based on graph grammars . Graph learning based on graph matching . General theoretical aspects of graph learning . Statistical modeling of graphs . Information-theoretical approaches to graphs . Motif search . Network inference . General issues in graph and tree mining

- Machine Learning Applications . Aspects of knowledge structures . Computational Finance . Computational Intelligence . Knowledge acquisition and discovery techniques . Induction of document grammars . Supervised and unsupervised classification of web data . General Structure-based approaches in information retrieval, web authoring, information extraction, and web content mining . Latent semantic analysis . Aspects of natural language processing . Intelligent linguistic . Aspects of text technology . Computational vision . Bioinformatics and computational biology . Biostatistics . High-throughput data analysis . Biological network analysis: protein-protein networks, signaling networks, metabolic networks, transcriptional regulatory networks . Graph-based models in biostatistics . Computational Neuroscience . Computational Chemistry . Computational Statistics . Systems Biology . Algebraic Biology

IMPORTANT DATES:

March 12, 2012: Submission of full papers (about 7 pages) April 12, 2012: Notification of acceptance (+/- two days) April 26, 2012: Final papers + Copyright/Consent + Registration July 16-19, 2012: The 2012 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ICAI'12)

CO-SPONSORS:

Currently being prepared - The ACADEMIC sponsors of the last offering of ICAI (2011) included research labs and centers affiliated with (a partial list): University of California, Berkeley; Harvard University; Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT); University of Texas at Austin; University of Southern California; Minnesota Supercomputing Institute, University of Minnesota; Germany's University of Siegen; UMIT, Institute of Bioinformatics and Translational Research, Austria; Georgia Institute of Technology; University of Iowa; Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia; University of Naples Federico II, Italy; University of Naples Parthenope, Italy; Second University of Naples, Italy; ICEL, Texas A&M University Com.; University of North Dakota; and others. CORPORATE Co-Sponsors and Sponsors at-large included (a partial list): Intel Corporation; Microsoft Research; Altera Corporation; Pico Computing; SuperMicro Computer, Inc., USA; High Performance Computing for Nanotechnology (HPCNano); International Society of Intelligent Biological Medicine; World Academy of Biomedical Sciences and Technologies; Int'l Council on Medical and Care Compunetics; UK Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform; Scientific Technologies Corporation; and HoIP - Health without Boundaries; and others.

SUBMISSION OF PAPERS:

Prospective authors are invited to submit their papers by uploading them to the evaluation web site at: http://world-comp.org Submissions must be uploaded by March 12, 2012 and they must be in either MS doc or pdf formats (about 7 pages including all figures, tables, and references - single space, font size of 10 to 12). All reasonable typesetting formats are acceptable (later, the authors of accepted papers will be asked to follow a particular typesetting format to prepare their final papers for publication.) Papers must not have been previously published or currently submitted for publication elsewhere. The first page of the paper should include: title of the paper, name, affiliation, postal address, and email address for each author. The first page should also identify the name of the Contact Author and a maximum of 5 topical keywords that would best represent the content of the paper. The name of the conference (ie, ICAI) that the paper is being submitted for consideration must be stated on the first page of the paper as well as a 100 to 150-word abstract. The length of the final Camera-Ready papers (if accepted) will be limited to 7 (two-column IEEE style) pages.

Each paper will be peer-reviewed by two experts in the field for originality, significance, clarity, impact, and soundness. In cases of contradictory recommendations, a member of the conference program committee will be charged to make the final decision (accept/reject); often, this would involve seeking help from additional referees by using a double-blinded review process. In addition, all papers whose authors include a member of the conference program committee will be evaluated using the double-blinded review process. (Essay/philosophical papers will not be refereed but may be considered for discussion/panels). Proceedings of ICAI will be published in printed conference books (ISBN) and will also be made available online. The proceedings will be indexed in science citation databases that track citation frequency/data for each published paper (science citation databases such as: Inspec / IET / The Institute for Engineering& Technology; The French National Center for Scientific Research, CNRS, INIST databases, PASCAL (covers the core scientific literature in Science; about 90% of inclusions are journals; only about 9% are proceedings; worldcomp tracks are selected to be among the 9% - accessable from INIST, Datastar, Dialog, EBSCO, OVID, Questel.Orbit, Qwam, and STN International); and others. Though, there is no guarantee that the proceedings will also be included in EI Compendex/Elsevier indexings, in the past, the proceedings were included in these databases. Therefore, we will also be sending the proceedings for indexing procedures to EI Compendex/Elsevier. The printed proceedings/books will be available for distribution on site at the conference.

In addition to the publication of the proceedings, selected authors will be invited to submit extended versions of their papers for publication in a number of research books contracted with various publishers (such as, Springer, Elsevier, ...) - these books will be composed after the conference. Also, many chairs of tracks will be forming journal special issues to be published after the conference.

MEMBERS OF PROGRAM AND ORGANIZING COMMITTEES:

Currently being finalized: The members of the Steering Committee of The 2011 congress included: Dr. Selim Aissi (Chief Strategist, Intel Corp., USA); Prof. Hamid Arabnia (ISIBM elected Fellow& Professor, University of Georgia; Editor-in-Chief, The Journal of Supercomputing / Springer; Board member, Journal of Computational Science / Elsevier; Advisory Board, IEEE TC on Scalable Computing); Prof. Ruzena Bajcsy (Member, National Academy of Engineering, IEEE Fellow, ACM Fellow, Professor; University of California, Berkeley, USA); Prof. Hyunseung Choo (ITRC Director of Ministry of Information& Communication; Director, ITRC; Director, Korea Information Processing Society; Assoc. Editor, ACM Transactions on Internet Technology; Professor, Sungkyunkwan University, Korea); Prof. Winston Wai-Chi Fang (IEEE Fellow, TSMC Distinguished Chair Professor, National ChiaoTung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan; Director, System-on-Chip Research Center); Prof. Kun Chang Lee (Professor of MIS and WCU Professor of Creativity Science, Sungkyunkwan University, South Korea); Prof. Andy Marsh (Director of HoIP and Director of HoIP Telecom, UK; Secretary-General WABT; Vice-President Int'l Council for Engineering and Technology, University of Westminster, UK); Prof. Layne T. Watson (IEEE Fellow, NIA Fellow, ISIBM Fellow, Fellow of The National Institute of Aerospace, Professor, Virginia Polytechnic Institute& State University, USA); Prof. Lotfi A. Zadeh (Member, National Academy of Engineering; IEEE Fellow, ACM Fellow, AAAS Fellow, AAAI Fellow, IFSA Fellow; Director, BISC; Professor, University of California, Berkeley, USA). 2012 Publicity Chair: Ashu M. G. Solo (Fellow of British Computer Society; Principal/R&D Engineer and Mathematician, Maverick Technologies America Inc.; Director/Interdisciplinary Researcher, Solo Research Lab, Crocels, Swansea University; Principal/Intelligent Systems Instructor, Trailblazer Intelligent Systems, Inc.)

The 2012 Program Committee for ICAI is currently being compiled. Many who have already joined the committees are renowned leaders, scholars, researchers, scientists and practitioners of the highest ranks; many are directors of research labs., members of National Academy of Engineering, fellows of various societies, heads/chairs of departments, program directors of research funding agencies, as well as deans and provosts.

Program Committee members are expected to have established a strong and documented research track record. Those interested in joining the Program Committee should email editor@world-comp.org the following information for consideration/evaluation: Name, affiliation and position, complete mailing address, email address, a one-page biography that includes research expertise and the name of the conference(s) offering to help with. The list of Program Committee of ICAI 2011 appears at: http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/worldcomp11/ws/conferences/icai11/co...

GENERAL INFORMATION:

The ICAI 2012 conference is one of the premier research conferences in Artificial Intelligence. It is being held jointly (same location and dates) with a number of other research conferences (WORLDCOMP). WORLDCOMP is the largest annual gathering of researchers in computer science, computer engineering and applied computing. We anticipate to have 2,100 or more attendees from over 80 countries. WORLDCOMP 2012 will be composed of research presentations, keynote lectures, invited presentations, tutorials, panel discussions, and poster presentations. In recent past, keynote/ tutorial/panel speakers have included: Prof. David A. Patterson (pioneer, architecture, U. of California, Berkeley), Dr. K. Eric Drexler (known as Father of Nanotechnology), Prof. John H. Holland (known as Father of Genetic Algorithms; U. of Michigan), Prof. Ian Foster (known as Father of Grid Computing; U. of Chicago& ANL), Prof. Ruzena Bajcsy (pioneer, VR, U. of California, Berkeley), Prof. Barry Vercoe (Founding member of MIT Media Lab, MIT), Dr. Jim Gettys (known as X-man, developer of X Window System, xhost; OLPC), Prof. John Koza (known as Father of Genetic Programming, Stanford U.), Prof. Brian D. Athey (NIH Program Director, U. of Michigan), Prof. Viktor K. Prasanna (pioneer, U. of Southern California), Dr. Jose L. Munoz (NSF Program Director and Consultant), Prof. Jun Liu (pioneer, Broad Institute of MIT& Harvard U.), Prof. Lotfi A. Zadeh (Father of Fuzzy Logic), Dr. Firouz Naderi (Head, NASA Mars Exploration Program/2000-2005 and Associate Director, Project Formulation& Strategy, Jet Propulsion Lab, CalTech/NASA; Director, NASA's JPL Solar System Exploration), Prof. David Lorge Parnas (Fellow of IEEE, ACM, RSC, CAE, GI; Dr.h.c.: ETH Zurich, Prof. Emeritus, McMaster U. and U. of Limerick), Prof. Eugene H. Spafford (Executive Director, CERIAS and Professor, Purdue University), Dr. Sandeep Chatterjee (Vice President& Chief Technology Officer, SourceTrace Systems, Inc.), and many other distinguished speakers. To get a feeling about the conferences' atmosphere, see the 2011 delegates photos available at: http://worldcomp.phanfare.com/5408606

An important mission of WORLDCOMP is "Providing a unique platform for a diverse community of constituents composed of scholars, researchers, developers, educators, and practitioners. The Congress makes concerted effort to reach out to participants affiliated with diverse entities (such as: universities, institutions, corporations, government agencies, and research centers/labs) from all over the world. The congress also attempts to connect participants from institutions that have teaching as their main mission with those who are affiliated with institutions that have research as their main mission. The congress uses a quota system to achieve its institution and geography diversity objectives."

One main goal of the congress is to assemble a spectrum of affiliated research conferences, workshops, and symposiums into a coordinated research meeting held in a common place at a common time. This model facilitates communication among researchers in different fields of computer science, computer engineering, and applied computing. The Congress also encourages multi-disciplinary and inter-disciplinary research initiatives; ie, facilitating increased opportunities for cross-fertilization across sub-disciplines. 32229

MEASURABLE SCIENTIFIC IMPACT OF WORLDCOMP:

As of February 5, 2012, papers published in WORLDCOMP set of proceedings have received 20,405 citations. In recent months (November 23, 2011 to February 5, 2012; ie, in about 75 days), there had been 4,545 citations to WORLDCOMP papers (about 1,800 citations per month). The above record is significant (thanks to the authors). As the result of high impact (based on citations) of WORLDCOMP papers, "Microsoft Academic Search" has listed each individual track of the congress among its compiled list of "Top Conferences". The citation record of WORLDCOMP set of proceedings is in fact higher than the citation data of many reputable journals in computer science and computer engineering. Citation data was obtained obtained from http://academic.research.microsoft.com/ )

USEFUL WEB LINKS AND OTHER MISC INFORMATION: 1. Web site of ICAI'12: http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/ The proceedings' Table of Contents of last offering of ICAI (2011) appears at: http://world-comp.org/proc2011/icai/contents-vol-i.pdf 2. Detailed information about citations to worldcomp proceedings: http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/worldcomp12/ws/news 3. This announcement contains updated and current information (correct as of the date of this message). The information that appears in this announcement supersedes earlier ones.

CONTACT: Inquiries should be sent to: editor@world-comp.org

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