Call for Papers 17th International FLAIRS Conference Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Symposium In cooperation with The American Association for Artificial Intelligence May 17-19, 2004 The Palms South Beach Hotel Miami Beach, FL Conference web site: http://www.flairs.com/flairs2004/ Paper submission site: http://earth.cs.ccsu.edu/~flairs/submission.html Call for Papers The 17th international FLAIRS conference seeks high quality, original, unpublished submissions in all areas of AI, including, but not limited to, neural networks, autonomous agents, case-based reasoning, computer vision, data mining, expert systems, genetic algorithms, intelligent user interfaces, intelligent tutoring systems, knowledge representation and management, learning, automated reasoning, multi-agent systems, natural language processing, planning, uncertainty reasoning, robotics, semantic web, speech recognition, temporal reasoning, AI and the Web, AI applications, AI and education, and verification/validation. Submissions Interested authors should format their papers according to AAAI formatting guidelines (available at http://www.aaai.org/Publications/Author/authorinstructions.pdf). The papers should not exceed 6 pages and are due by October 24, 2003. Please note the change from 5 to 6 pages from the first CFP. The papers should not identify the author(s) in any manner. Authors should indicate the special track if one exists that closely matches the topic of their paper. All submissions will be done electronically via the FLAIRS web submission system available through the paper submission site at http://earth.cs.ccsu.edu/~flairs/submission.html. Questions regarding paper submissions should be addressed to the program co-chairs: - Valerie Barr at vbarr@hofstra.edu - Zdravko Markov at markovz@ccsu.edu For general information concerning the conference, contact the general chair: Ingrid Russell Department of Computer Science Dana 230, University of Hartford West Hartford, CT 06117 irussell@hartford.edu Conference Proceedings Papers will be refereed and all accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings which will be published by AAAI Press. Selected authors will be invited to submit extended versions of their papers to a special issue of the International Journal on Artificial Intelligence Tools (IJAIT) to be published in 2005. Invited Speakers - Justine Cassell, MIT - Edward Feigenbaum, Stanford University - Jim Hendler, University of Maryland - Tom Mitchell, Carnegie Mellon Important Deadlines - Paper submissions due: October 24, 2003 - Notification letters sent: January 7, 2004 - Camera ready copy due: February 6, 2004 Special Topic Tracks A number of special track sessions will be held in parallel with other FLAIRS-04 conference sessions. A list of all special tracks will be available at the conference web site. If you are interested in proposing a special track, contact the special tracks coordinator: Tim Huang at huang@middlebury.edu Panels and Workshops If you are interested in proposing a panel, contact program chair Valerie Barr. If you are interested in proposing a workshop, please contact program chair Zdravko Markov. Organizing Committee Conference General Chair Ingrid Russell, University of Hartford Program Co-Chairs - Valerie Barr, Hofstra University - Zdravko Markov, Central Connecticut State University Special Tracks Coordinator Timothy Huang, Middlebury College Members (Tentative) Will Briggs, Lynchburg College, USA Grazia Cicirelli, Istituto di Studi sui Sistemi Intelligenti per l'Automazione, Italy William Clancey, NASA Ames Research Center Diane Cook, University of Texas at Arlington Doug Dankel, University of Florida Karen Davis, University of Cincinnati John Deaton, Florida Institute of Technology John Debenham, University of Technology, Australia Georgios Demetriou, University of Southern Mississippi Steven Demurjian, University of Connecticut Barbara Di Eugenio, University of Illinois Michael Doran, University of South Alabama Eman El-Sheikh, University of West Florida Tom Eskridge, University of West Florida Jerome Euzenat, INRIA, France Maria Fasli, University of Essex, UK Christina Frederick-Recascino, Embry-Riddle Aeronuatical University Reva Freedman, Northern Illinois University James Geller, New Jersey Institute of Technology Roxana Girju, Baylor University Michael Glass, Valparaiso University Carole Goble, University of Manchester, UK Howard Hamilton, University of Regina, Canada Hyoil Han, Drexel University Siegfried Handschuh, University of Karlsruhe, Germany Charles Hannon, Texas Christian University Eric Hansen, Mississippi State University Ioannis Hatzilygeroudis, University of Patras, Greece Rattikorn Hewett, University of West Florida Henry Hexmoor, University of Arkansas Lawrence Holder, University of Texas at Arlington Ian Horrocks, Univeristy of Manchester, UK Manfred Huber, University of Texas at Arlington Istvan Jonyer, Univeristy of Texas at Arlington Driss Kettani, Alakhwayn University, Morocco Michel Klein, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Rainer Knauf, Technical University of Ilmenau, Germany Vincent Kovarik, Harris Corporation Christian Kray, University of Saarland, Germany Amruth Kumar, Ramapo College of New Jersey Andrew Kun, University of New Hampshire Nick Lacey, University of Arkansas David Leake, Indiana University Yugyung Lee, University of Missouri Ruddy Lelouche, Laval University, Canada Chun-wai Liew, Lafayette College Gerard Ligozat, LIMSI, University of Paris-Sud, France Christine Lisetti, University of Central Florida Bill Manaris, College of Charleston George Meghabghab, Roane State Rada Mihalcea, University of North Texas Fatma Mili, Oakland University Frank Moore, Miami University Enrico Motta, The Open University, UK George Nasr, Lebanese American University Natasha Noy, Stanford University (SMI) Nandan Paramesh, UNSW, Australia Simon Parsons, Brooklyn College, City University of New York Marius Pasca, Language Computer Corporation Dimitri Plexousakis, FORTH Jim Prentzas, University of Patras, Greece Silja Renooij, Utrecht University, The Netherlands Robert Reynolds, Wayne State University Carlos Ribeiro, Instituto Tecnologico de Aeronautica, Brazil Hana Rudova, Masaryk University, Czech Republic Vasile Rus, Indiana University South Bend Vladimir Ryabov, University of Jyvaskyla, Finland Roberto Santana, Institute of Cybernetics, Mathematics and Physics (ICIMAF), Cuba Eugene Santos, University of Connecticut Eunice Santos, Virginia Polytechnic Institute \& State University Stephan Schulz, Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany Gene Simmons, University of South Alabama Steffen Staab, University of Karlsruhe, Germany Heiner Stuckenschmidt, Vrije Univeristeit, Amsterdam Geoff Sutcliffe, University of Miami Wai Sum Tang, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Choh Man Teng, University of West Florida Takao Terano, Grad. Sch. Systems Management, Tsukuba University, Japan Krishnaprasad Thirunarayan, Wright State University Stanislav Vassilyev, Instit. of System Dynamics and Control Theory of SB, RAS, Russia Dennis Vincenzi, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Ubbo Visser, University of Bremen, Germany Rosina Weber, Drexel University Tony White, School of Computer Science, Carleton University, Canada John Wise, Honeywell International ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Conference web site: http://www.flairs.com/flairs2004/ Paper submission site: http://earth.cs.ccsu.edu/~flairs/submission.html