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STAIRS 2016<br />
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We invite students and young post-doctoral AI fellows to submit their work to the Eighth European Starting AI Researcher Symposium (STAIRS).<br />
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STAIRS is an international meeting intended to support AI researchers, from all countries, at the beginning of their career: PhD students or people holding a PhD for less than one year. STAIRS 2016 will be co-located with ECAI 2016, the European Conference on AI, in The Hague, Holland, 26 Aug - 2 Sept 2016.<br />
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STAIRS offers doctoral students and young post-doctoral AI researchers:<br />
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* a first experience of submitting and presenting a paper in an international forum with a broad scope and a peer review process<br />
* an opportunity to discuss and explore their research interests and European career objectives and opportunities.<br />
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(+) Topics of Interest<br />
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Papers are welcome on all aspects of contemporary AI, including, but not restricted to:<br />
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* Applications of AI<br />
* Autonomous Agents & Multi-agent Systems<br />
* Case-Based Reasoning<br />
* Cognitive Modelling & Cognitive Architectures<br />
* Computational Creativity<br />
* Constraints, Satisfiability, and Search<br />
* Information Retrieval & Natural Language Processing<br />
* Knowledge Representation, Reasoning, and Logic<br />
* Machine Learning & Data Mining<br />
* Model-Based Reasoning<br />
* Natural Language Processing<br />
* Planning and Scheduling,<br />
* Robotics, Perception, Vision and Sensing<br />
* Social Intelligence and Socio-Cognitive Systems<br />
* Uncertainty in AI<br />
* Web and Knowledge-based Information Systems<br />
* Multidisciplinary Topics<br />
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(+) Important Dates<br />
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- Paper submission deadline: 16.5<br />
- Notification of acceptance/rejection: 10.6<br />
- Camera-Ready Copy Due: 17.6<br />
- Conference: 29th-30th August, 2016<br />
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The proceedings of STAIRS will be published and distributed by IOS Press' "Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications" (FAIA) series.<br />
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More info can be found at http://www.ecai2016.org/calls/stairs-call-for-papers/<br />
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STAIRS Co-Chairs:<br />
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H. Sofia Pinto, sofia@inesc-id.pt (IST, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal)<br />
David Pearce, david.pearce@upm.es (Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain)<br />
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Suzan Verberne, postdoctoral researcher<br />
Information Foraging Lab, Institute for Computing and Information Sciences<br />
Radboud University Nijmegen<br />
Tel: 0031 24 36 53431/15775<br />
Email: s.verberne@cs.ru.nl<br />
http://sverberne.ruhosting.nl<br />
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