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Saturday, June 2, 2012

Call for Post-Conference Proceedings Papers with Extended Deadline of June 2, 2012: The 2012 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ICAI'12) at WORLDCOMP'12, USA, July 16-19, 2012


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           CALL FOR PAPERS - Extended Deadline: June 2, 2012

      The 2012 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence
                               ICAI'12

                   July 16-19, 2012, Las Vegas, USA
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INVITATION:
You are invited to submit a full paper (max of 7 pages) for consideration.
All accepted papers will be published in printed conference books/proceedings
(ISBN) and will also be made available online. Abstract submissions (1 to 2
pages) will be considered for poster presentations. The conference proceedings
will be made available in printed book as well as online. The proceedings
will be indexed in science citation databases that track citation frequency/
data for each paper. The proceedings of the congress that ICAI is part of
enjoys a high number of citations; about 26,000 citations have been made (so
far) to papers published in the proceedings. The conference is co-sponsored
by various associations and groups as well as centers, large labs, and
institutes affiliated with University of Iowa, George Mason University,
Texas A&M University, Harvard University and MIT, University of Minnesota,
US national labs, and many others. Corporate sponsors include, Intel
Corporation, Super Micro Computer, Inc., and others.

IMPORTANT NOTE:
This announcement is ONLY for those who MISSED the opportunity to submit
their papers in response to earlier "Call For Papers". Therefore, authors
who have already submitted papers in response to earlier "Call For Papers"
should IGNORE this announcement. (Those who have been notified that their
papers have been accepted, MUST still follow the instructions that were
emailed to them; including meeting the deadlines mentioned in the
notifications that were sent to them).

IMPORTANT DATES/DEADLINES:
Please note that the conference web site refers to different deadlines; those
who receive this announcement should ignore the deadlines mentioned on the
web (we are not updating the deadlines on the conference web site because we
would like to control the number of submissions - we can only manage a limited
number of additional submissions at this late date). What appears below are
the current deadlines.

June 2, 2012:       Submission of papers for evaluation
                    Prospective authors are invited to submit their papers by
                    uploading them to the following general evaluation web site:
                    http://world-comp.org
June 14, 2012:      Notification of acceptance/not-acceptance
June 22, 2012:      Registration
July 16-19, 2012:   The 2012 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence
                    (ICAI'12)

July 30, 2012:      Camera-Ready Papers Due for publication
                    (papers submitted and accepted in response to this announcement
                    will be published in the Final Edition of the proceedings which
                    will go to press soon after the conference.)

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


SUBMISSION OF FULL PAPERS AND INDEXING INFORMATION:

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 June 2, 2012 and 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 that the paper is being submitted for consideration must
be stated on the first page of the paper (ie, ICAI) 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.
Authors whose papers are ACCEPTED will be instructed to upload their papers
to a particular web site for publication - the uploaded papers to the
publication web site will only be checked for correct typesetting.

The proceedings 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; the set of proceedings that ICAI is part
of has been 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 that ICAI
was part of were included in these databases. Therefore, we will also be
sending the proceedings for indexing procedures to EI Compendex/Elsevier.

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. 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.

Note that authors who submit papers in response to this announcement, will
have their papers evaluated for publication consideration in the Final
Edition of the conference proceedings which will go to press soon after the
conference (the conference would then make the necessary arrangements to ship
the printed proceedings/books to such authors). The Final Edition of the
conference proceedings will be identical to earlier edition except for a
number of sections/chapters appended to the proceedings/book. 4042

Submission of Poster Papers:

Poster papers can be 2 pages long. Authors are to follow the same instructions
that appear above. On the first page, the author should state that "This paper
is being submitted as a poster for ICAI". Poster papers (if accepted) will
be published if and only if the author of the accepted poster wishes to have
his/her poster published as a 2-page extended abstract.)

GENERAL INFORMATION:

ICAI conference is being held jointly (same location and dates) with a
number of other federated research conferences (World Congress in Computer
Science, Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing). This federated congress
is the largest annual gathering of researchers in computer science, computer
engineering and applied computing. The congress 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), Broad Institute of MIT
and 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

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."

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.
The list of co-sponsors of 2012 meeting is Currently being prepared;
for the 2011 list of sponsors, refer to:

MEASURABLE SCIENTIFIC IMPACT OF PROCEEDINGS:

The congress proceedings enjoy a high number of citations. In total, about
26,000 citations have been made (so far) to papers published in the proceedings
of the federated congress. The link below contains the url's to the citation
data for each track (each link is a live search and so it may take a few
seconds for the data to pull up):


USEFUL WEB LINKS AND OTHER MISC INFORMATION:
1. ICAI 2012 web site:
2. To see the caliber of the past offering of worldcomp, see the 2011 congress web site:
3. The 2011 delegates photos are available at:

CONTACT:

Any inquiries should be sent to: sc@world-comp.org

Wednesday, May 16, 2012

Call for Post-Conference Proceedings Papers with Extended Submission Deadline of May 25, 2012: The 2012 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ICAI'12) at WORLDCOMP'12, USA, July 16-19, 2012


Dear AI and Soft Computing community:
Please share the announcement below with individuals who may be interested.
We anticipate having about 2,000 attendees from 88 countries participating
at the federated event that this conference is part of.
Kind regards, Steering Committee

      **************************************************************

             CALL FOR PAPERS - Extended Deadline: May 25, 2012

       The 2012 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence
                                 ICAI'12
                     July 16-19, 2012, Las Vegas, USA

http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/worldcomp12/ws/conferences/icai12

      **************************************************************

INVITATION:
You are invited to submit a full paper for consideration. All accepted
papers will be published in printed conference books/proceedings (ISBN)
and will also be made available online. Abstract submissions (one/two-page)
will be considered for poster presentations and one/two-page publication
in the proceedings. The conference proceedings will be made available in
printed book as well as online. The proceedings will be indexed in science
citation databases that track citation frequency/data for each paper. The
proceedings of the congress that ICAI is part of enjoys a high number of
citations; about 26,000 citations have been made (so far) to papers
published in the proceedings. The conference is co-sponsored by various
associations and groups as well as centers and large labs affiliated with
University of Iowa, George Mason University, Texas A&M University, Harvard
University and MIT, and many others.

IMPORTANT NOTE:
This announcement is ONLY for those who MISSED the opportunity to submit
their papers in response to earlier "Call For Papers". Therefore, authors
who have already submitted papers in response to earlier "Call For Papers"
should IGNORE this announcement. (Those who have been notified that their
papers have been accepted, MUST still follow the instructions that were
emailed to them; including meeting the deadlines mentioned in the
notifications that were sent to them).

IMPORTANT DATES:

May 25, 2012:       Submission of papers for evaluation
June 6, 2012:       Notification of acceptance/not-acceptance
June 19, 2012:      Registration
July 16-19, 2012:   The 2012 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence
                    (ICAI'12)

July 30, 2012:      Camera-Ready Papers Due for publication
                    (papers submitted and accepted in response to this announcement
                    will be published in the Final Edition of the proceedings which
                    will go to press soon after the conference.)

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


SUBMISSION OF FULL PAPERS AND INDEXING INFORMATION:

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 May 25, 2012 and 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 that the paper is being submitted for consideration must
be stated on the first page of the paper (ie, ICAI) 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.

Authors whose papers are ACCEPTED will be instructed to upload their papers
to a particular web site for publication - the uploaded papers to the
publication web site will only be checked for correct typesetting.

The proceedings 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; the set of proceedings that ICAI is part
of has been 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 that ICAI
was part of were included in these databases. Therefore, we will also be
sending the proceedings for indexing procedures to EI Compendex/Elsevier.

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. 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.

Note that authors who submit papers in response to this announcement, will
have their papers evaluated for publication consideration in the Final
Edition of the conference proceedings which will go to press soon after the
conference (the conference would then make the necessary arrangements to ship
the printed proceedings/books to such authors). The Final Edition of the
conference proceedings will be identical to earlier edition except for a
number of sections/chapters appended to the proceedings/book. 4043

Submission of Poster Papers:

Poster papers can be 2 pages long. Authors are to follow the same instructions
that appear above. On the first page, the author should state that "This paper
is being submitted as a poster for ICAI". Poster papers (if accepted) will
be published if and only if the author of the accepted poster wishes to have
his/her poster published as a 2-page extended abstract.)

GENERAL INFORMATION:

ICAI conference is being held jointly (same location and dates) with a
number of other federated research conferences (World Congress in Computer
Science, Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing). This federated congress
is the largest annual gathering of researchers in computer science, computer
engineering and applied computing. The congress 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 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."

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.
The list of co-sponsors of 2012 meeting is Currently being prepared;
for the 2011 list of sponsors, refer to:
http://www.worldacademyofscience.org/worldcomp11/ws

MEASURABLE SCIENTIFIC IMPACT OF PROCEEDINGS:

The congress proceedings enjoy a high number of citations. In total, over
25,600 citations have been made (so far) to papers published in the proceedings
of the federated congress. The link below contains the url's to the citation
data for each track (each link is a live search and so it may take a few
seconds for the data to pull up):
http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/worldcomp12/ws/news


USEFUL WEB LINKS AND OTHER MISC INFORMATION:
1. ICAI 2012 web site:
   http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/worldcomp12/ws/conferences/icai12
2. To see the caliber of the past offering of worldcomp, see the 2011 congress web site:
   http://www.worldacademyofscience.org/worldcomp11/ws
3. The 2011 delegates photos are available at:
   http://worldcomp.phanfare.com/5408606

CONTACT:

Any inquiries should be sent to: sc@world-comp.org

Thursday, April 5, 2012

Call for Papers with Extended Deadline: The 2012 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ICAI'12) at WORLDCOMP'12, USA, July 16-19, 2012


**************************************************
CALL FOR PAPERS

EXTENDED Paper Submission Deadline:  April 12, 2012

ICAI'12
The 2012 International Conference on
Artificial Intelligence

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 conference books/proceedings (ISBN)
and will also be made available online. The proceedings will be indexed
in science citation databases that track citation frequency/data for
each paper. The proceedings of WORLDCOMP congress that ICAI is part
of, enjoys a high number of citations; over 25,000 citations so far.




IMPORTANT DATES:

April 12, 2012 Submission of full papers (about 7 pages) and/or posters (2 pages)
April 26, 2012: Notification of acceptance (+ possibly 7 days)
May 12, 2012: Final papers + Copyright/Consent + Registration
July 16-19, 2012: The 2012 International Conference on Image Processing,
Computer Vision, and Pattern Recognition (IPCV'12)

Those who have submitted papers during the months of January, February, and
March will receive decisions on their papers by the earlier announced dates.


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


SUBMISSION OF REGULAR 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 27, 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).

Authors whose papers are accepted will be instructed to upload their papers
to a particular web site for publication - the uploaded papers to the
publication web site will only be checked for correct typesetting. At this
point, authors will be required to attest to the originality of their work
(ie, declaring that no part of the work is plagiarized and the paper does not
suffer from any acts of plagiarism.)

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 in which ICAI was part of (PDPTA and WORLDCOMP) was 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 - 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.

SUBMISSION OF POSTER PAPERS:

Poster papers can be 2 pages long. Authors are to follow the same instructions
that appear above (see, SUBMISSION OF REGULAR PAPERS) except for the submission
is limited to 2 pages. On the first page, the author should state that "This
paper is being submitted as a poster". Poster papers (if accepted) will be
published if and only the author of the accepted paper wishes to do so.


GENERAL INFORMATION:

ICAI conference 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.
The congress 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 WORLDCOMP 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.


CO-SPONSORS:

Currently being prepared - The ACADEMIC co-sponsors of the last offering of
the congress (WORLDCOMP 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; 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.


MEASURABLE SCIENTIFIC IMPACT OF PROCEEDINGS:

The proceedings of the WORLDCOMP enjoys a high number of citations. As of
March 2012, papers published in each track of the proceedings have
received the following number of citations: 252 citations to BIOCOMP
papers; 116 to CDES papers; 65 to CGVR papers; 55 to CSC papers; 271 to
DMIN papers; 69 to EEE papers; 1,286 to ERSA papers; 504 to ESA papers;
176 to FCS papers; 9,408 to FECS papers; 157 to GCA papers; 75 to GEM
papers; 2,172 to ICAI papers; 1,529 to ICOMP papers; 1,247 to ICWN papers;
571 to IKE papers; 255 to IPCV papers; 137 to MSV papers; 5,239 to PDPTA
papers; 496 to SAM papers; 1,390 to SERP papers; and 177 to SWWS papers.
In total, over 25,600 citations have been made (so far) to papers
published in the proceedings of this federated joint conferences. Refer
to the URLs below to see the actual citation numbers (each is a link to
a live search and so it may take a few seconds for the data to pull up):

http://academic.research.microsoft.com/Conference/1816/biocomp-bioinformatics-&-computational-biology
http://academic.research.microsoft.com/Conference/1845/cdes-international-conference-on-computer-design/
http://academic.research.microsoft.com/Conference/1852/cgvr-international-conference-on-computer-graphics-and-virtual-reality/
http://academic.research.microsoft.com/Conference/1887/csc-international-conference-on-scientific-computing/
http://academic.research.microsoft.com/Conference/1920/dmin-int-conf-on-data-mining/
http://academic.research.microsoft.com/Conference/1891/csreaeee-international-conference-on-e-business-enterprise-information-systems-e-government/
http://academic.research.microsoft.com/Conference/679/ersa-engineering-of-reconfigurable-systems-and-algorithms/
http://academic.research.microsoft.com/Conference/681/esa-embedded-systems-and-applications/
http://academic.research.microsoft.com/Conference/1981/fcs-international-conference-on-foundations-of-computer-science/
http://academic.research.microsoft.com/Conference/1983/fecs-conference-on-frontiers-in-education/
http://academic.research.microsoft.com/Conference/1998/gca-international-conference-on-grid-computing-and-applications/
http://academic.research.microsoft.com/Conference/2467/gem-international-conference-on-genetic-and-evolutionary-methods/
http://academic.research.microsoft.com/Conference/7/ic-ai-international-conference-on-artificial-intelligence/
http://academic.research.microsoft.com/Conference/5/icomp-international-conference-on-internet-computing/
http://academic.research.microsoft.com/Conference/48/icwn-international-conference-on-wireless-networks/
http://academic.research.microsoft.com/Conference/65/ike-information-and-knowledge-engineering/
http://academic.research.microsoft.com/Conference/2114/ipcv-international-conference-on-image-processing-computer-vision-and-pattern-recognition/
http://academic.research.microsoft.com/Conference/2209/msv-int-conf-on-modeling-simulation-&-visualization-methods/
http://academic.research.microsoft.com/Conference/214/pdpta-parallel-and-distributed-processing-techniques-and-applications/
http://academic.research.microsoft.com/Conference/332/sam-security-and-management/
http://academic.research.microsoft.com/Conference/361/serp-software-engineering-research-and-practice/
http://academic.research.microsoft.com/Conference/2308/swws-conference-on-semantic-web-and-web-services/


USEFUL WEB LINKS AND OTHER MISC INFORMATION:
1. Web site of ICAI'12:
http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/worldcomp12/ws/conferences/icai12
2. The 2011 congress delegates photos are available at:
http://worldcomp.phanfare.com/5408606
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: sc@world-comp.org