CALL FOR
PAPERS
Paper Submission Deadline (EXTENDED):
April 11, 2016
11:59pm US Eastern Time zone
(EDT)
The 18th International Conference on
Artificial Intelligence
(ICAI'16)
July 25-28, 2016, Monte Carlo Resort,
Las Vegas, USA
Registration: http://worldcomp.org/registration
INVITATION:
We anticipate
having between 1,800 and 2,000 participants in the federated
event that this
conference is part of. You are invited to submit a paper
for
consideration. All accepted papers will be published in PRINTED
conference
BOOKS/proceedings (with unique international ISBN number) and
will also be
made available online. The proceedings will be indexed in
science citation
databases that track citation frequency/data. In addition,
like prior
years, extended versions of selected papers (about 40%) will
appear in
journals and edited research books; publishers include, Springer,
Elsevier, BMC,
and others). See the web link below for a small subset of
such
publications: (some of these books and journal special issues have
already received
the top 25% downloads in their respective fields and/or
identified as
"Highly Accessed" by publishers and/or science citation
index trackers.)
Last year, the
federated event that this conference is part of had attracted
speakers/authors/participants
affiliated with over 178 different
universities
(including many from the top 50 ranked institutions), major
IT corporations
(including, Microsoft, Google, Apple, SAP, Facebook, Oracle,
Amazon, Yahoo,
Samsung, IBM, Ebay, GE, Siemens, Philips, Ericsson, BAE
Systems,
Hitachi, NTT, ...), major corporations (including, Exxon Mobil,
Johnson &
Johnson, JPMorgan Chase, PetroChina, GlaxoSmithKline, HSBC,
Airbus, Boeing,
Hyundai, ...), government research agencies (NSF, NIH, DoE,
AirForce, NSA
National Security Agency, ...), US national laboratories
(including,
NASA, ANL, LLNL, Sandia, ORNL, Lawrence Berkeley National
Lab, Los Alamos
National Lab, National Cancer Institute, NIST,
...), and
a number of
Venture Capitalists as well as speakers discussing Intellectual
Property issues.
KEYNOTE LECTURES
AND TUTORIALS:
There will be
between 10 and 20 Keynote lectures and Invited Talks;
speakers include
world-renowned scientists and educators. Featured
Keynote Speakers
for year 2016 include:
Dr. Firouz Naderi
Former Director of Solar System Exploration
at NASA's Jet Propulsion
Laboratory (JPL) - Oversaw robotic
spacecraft dispatched to all
corners of the solar system. Prior
position: NASA's Program Manager
for Mars Exploration Recipient of NASA's
outstanding Leadership
Medal and NASA's Distinguished Service
Medal (NASA's highest award).
Prof. Alfred Inselberg
Tel Aviv University, Israel; Senior
Fellow, San Diego Supercomputing
Center; Inventor of the multidimensional
system of Parallel
Coordinates which has significant
utilities in Big Data (his work
has been praised by Stephen Hawking among
others.)
There will also
be between 10 and 12 half-day tutorials and panel
discussions.
Tutorial speakers are all distinguished scientists and
practitioners:
including senior scientists from IBM (USA), NIH, and
academia.
Topical panel discussions will include, security, ABET
Accreditation
issues, data mining, and others.
The conference
is composed of a number of tracks, tutorials, sessions,
workshops,
poster and panel discussions; all will be held simultaneously,
same location
and dates: July 25-28, 2016.
SCOPE: TOPICS OF
INTEREST INCLUDE, BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO, THE FOLLOWING:
PROLOGUE: Artificial Intelligence (AI) is
the science and engineering
of making intelligent machines and systems.
This is an important
multi-disciplinary field which is now an
essential part of technology
industry, providing the heavy lifting for
many of the most challenging
problems in computer science. Since Machine
Learning has strong ties
with AI, the conference also covers the
field of Machine Learning. The
list of topics below is by no means meant to
be exhaustive.
o Artificial Intelligence:
- Brain models, Brain mapping, Cognitive science
- Natural language processing
- Fuzzy logic and soft computing
- Software tools for AI
- Expert systems
- Decision support systems
- Automated problem solving
- Knowledge discovery
- Knowledge representation
- Knowledge acquisition
- Knowledge-intensive problem solving
techniques
- Knowledge networks and management
- Intelligent information systems
- Intelligent data mining and farming
- Intelligent web-based business
- Intelligent agents
- Intelligent networks
- Intelligent databases
- Intelligent user interface
- AI and evolutionary algorithms
- Intelligent tutoring systems
- Reasoning strategies
- Distributed AI algorithms and techniques
- Distributed AI systems and architectures
- Neural networks and applications
- Heuristic searching methods
- Languages and programming techniques for
AI
- Constraint-based reasoning and constraint
programming
- Intelligent information fusion
- Learning and adaptive sensor fusion
- Search and meta-heuristics
- Multisensor data fusion using neural and
fuzzy techniques
- Integration of AI with other technologies
- Evaluation of AI tools
- Social intelligence (markets and
computational societies)
- Social impact of AI
- Emerging technologies
- 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 Machine Learning; Models, Technologies and
Applications:
- Statistical learning theory
- Unsupervised and Supervised Learning
- Multivariate analysis
- Hierarchical learning models
- Relational learning models
- Bayesian methods
- Meta learning
- Stochastic optimization
- 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
- Bayesian networks
- Particle filter
- Cross-Entropy method
- Ant colony optimization
- Time series prediction
- Fuzzy logic and learning
- Inductive learning and applications
- Grammatical inference
- 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
- Information-theoretical approaches to
graphs
- Motif search
- Network inference
- Aspects of knowledge structures
- Computational Intelligence
- Knowledge acquisition and discovery
techniques
- Induction of document grammars
- 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
- Biostatistics
- High-throughput data analysis
- Computational Neuroscience
- Computational Statistics
IMPORTANT DATES:
April 11,
2016: Submission of full papers (max 7
pages)
(Authors who have already
submitted papers before March 22,
will receive decisions and
status reports by April 17.)
April 25,
2016: Notification of acceptance (+/-
two days)
May 10,
2016: Final papers + Copyright +
Registration
July 25-28,
2016: The 18th International Conference
on Artificial Intelligence
(ICAI'16: Las Vegas, USA). All affiliated
federated
conferences will be held
simultaneously; same location & dates.
SUBMISSION OF
PAPERS FOR EVALUATION:
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
the due date (see IMPORTANT DATES) and must be in either
MS doc or pdf
formats (7 pages for Regular Research Papers; 4 pages for
Short Research
Papers; 2 pages for Extended Abstract/Poster Papers - the
number of pages
include all figures, tables, and references). 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; these formatting instructions
appear at the
submission web site and they conform to the two-column IEEE
style format).
Papers must not have been previously published or currently
submitted for
publication elsewhere.
The first page
of the paper should include the followings:
- Title of the paper
- Name, affiliation, postal address, and
email address of each author
(identify the name of the Contact Author)
- Abstract (between 100 and 120 words)
- A maximum of 5 topical keywords that would
best represent the work
described in the paper
- Write the type of the submission as
"Regular Research Paper",
"Short Research Paper", or
"Extended Abstract/Poster Paper".
- The actual text of the paper can start
from the first page (space
permitting).
Submissions are to be uploaded to the
submission/evaluation web site
portal.
Type of
Submissions/Papers:
- Full/Regular Research Papers (maximum of 7
pages):
Regular Research Papers should provide
detail original research
contributions. They must report new
research results that represent
a contribution to the field; sufficient
details and support for
the results and conclusions should also be
provided. The work
presented in regular papers are expected to
be at a stage of maturity
that with some additional work can be
published as journal papers.
- Short Research Papers (maximum of 4 pages):
Short Research Papers report on ongoing
research projects. They should
provide overall research methodologies with
some results. The work
presented in short papers are expected to
be at a stage of maturity
that with some additional work can be
published as regular papers.
- Extended Abstract/Poster Papers (maximum of
2 pages):
Poster papers report on ongoing research
projects that are still in
their infancy (i.e., at very early stages).
Such papers tend to provide
research methodologies without yet concrete
results.
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 would be
charged to make
the final decision (accept/reject); often, this would involve
seeking help
from additional referees. 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).
The proceedings
will be published in printed conference books (ISBN) and will
also be made
available online. The printed proceedings/books will be
available for
distribution on site at the conference. The proceedings will be
indexed in
science citation databases that track citation frequency/data for
each published
paper. The proceedings/books of the congress have been
evaluated and
approved for inclusion into major science citation index
databases. In
addition, the proceedings are approved for inclusion into
EBSCO, one of
the largest subject index systems. ACM Digital Library is also
including the
titles into its database as well as ProQuest indexing database
and others.
In addition to
the above, we have arranged two new book series (multiple
books in each
series); one with Elsevier publishers (Emerging Trends in
Computer Science
and Applied Computing) and another with Springer publishers
(Transactions of
Computational Science and Computational Intelligence).
After the
conference (the process may take 12 to 18 months), a significant
number of
authors of accepted papers of our congress, will be given the
opportunity to
submit the extended version of their papers for publication
consideration in
these books. We anticipate having between 10 and 15 books
a year in each
of these book series projects. Each book in each series will
be subject to
Elsevier and Springer science indexing products (which
includes:
Scopus, SCI Compendex, Engineering Village, EMBASE, and others).
For a recent and
a very small subset of the books (and journal special
issues) that
have been published mostly based on the extended versions of
the federated
congress papers, see the link and titles below:
Some of these
books and journal special issues have already received the
top 25%
downloads in their respective fields and/or identified as "Highly
Accessed"
by publishers and/or science citation index trackers.
GENERAL
INFORMATION:
The federated
congress ( http://www.worldcomp.org/events/2016 ) that
this conference
is part of 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.), Prof. Haym Hirsh (Dean, Cornell University;
formerly at
Rutgers University, New Jersey, USA and former director of
Division of
Information and Intelligent Systems, National Science
Foundation,
USA), Prof. Victor Raskin (Distinguished Professor, Purdue
University,
USA); Prof. Alfred Inselberg (School of Mathematical
Sciences, Tel
Aviv U, Israel; Senior Fellow, San Diego Supercomputing
Center; Inventor
of the multidimensional system of Parallel Coordinates
and author of
textbook); Prof. H. J. Siegel (Abell Endowed Chair
Distinguished
Professor of ECE and Professor of CS; Director, CSU
Information
Science and Technology Center (ISTeC), Colorado State
University,
Colorado, USA); Prof. Amit Sheth (Fellow of IEEE and
LexisNexis
Eminent Scholar; Founder/Executive Director, Ohio Center of
Excellence in
Knowledge-enabled Computing (Kno.e.sis) and Professor of
Computer
Science, Wright State University, Ohio, USA); Dr. Leonid I.
Perlovsky
(Harvard University, USA and School of Engineering and
Applied Sciences
and Medical School Athinoula Martinos Brain Imaging
Center; and The
US Air Force Research Lab., USA; CEO, LP Information
Technology, USA
and Chair of IEEE Task Force on The Mind and Brain;
Recipient of
John McLucas Award, the highest US Air Force Award for
basic research);
Dr. James A. Crowder (Chief Engineer, Raytheon
Intelligence,
Information, and Services; Aurora, Colorado, USA); Prof.
Yaroslav D.
Sergeyev (Distinguished Professor, Head of Numerical
Calculus
Laboratory University of Calabria, Rende, Italy and part-time
Professor of
Lobachevsky State University, Russia); and many other
distinguished
speakers. The Congress is among the top five largest
annual gathering
of researchers in computer science, computer
engineering and
applied computing. We anticipate to have attendees
from about 85
countries. To get a feeling about the conferences'
atmosphere, see
some delegates photos available at:
2015 Congress: http://worldcomp.phanfare.com/6981287
2014 Congress: http://worldcomp.phanfare.com/6626396
Last 10 years: http://worldcomp.phanfare.com/
An important
mission of The Congress 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."
MEASURABLE
SCIENTIFIC IMPACT OF CONGRESS:
As of January 5,
2016, papers published in the conference proceedings
that have been
held as part of this federated congress, have received
28,380 citations
(includes 3,346 self-citations). Citation data is
obtained from
Microsoft Academic Search. The citation data does not
even include
more than 17,000 other citations to papers in conferences
whose first
offerings were initiated by this congress (such as: FUSION,
ICWS, ICMLA, and
others).
MISCELLANEOUS:
The information
that appears in this announcement is correct as of
March 31, 2016.
CONTACT:
Inquiries should
be sent to: sc@world-comp.org
