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