<div dir="ltr"><h3 style="margin-bottom:6pt"><span lang="EN-US">AI’16: The 29th Australasian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence</span></h3><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6pt;font-size:12.8px"><span lang="EN-US"><a href="https://ai2016.net/" target="_blank">https://ai2016.net/</a></span></p><h4 style="font-size:12.8px"><span lang="EN-US">Hobart, Tasmania, Australia, 5-9 December, 2016</span></h4><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6pt;font-size:12.8px"><span lang="EN-US">The AI 2016: 29th Australasian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence will be held on the 5th – 9th December 2016 in Hobart, Tasmania, and will be hosted by</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:rgb(104,104,104)"> </span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="http://www.utas.edu.au/" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(65,112,113)">University of Tasmania</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US">. The Australasian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence is an annual conference that aims to bring together researchers, practitioners, educators, and users working in the area of Artificial Intelligence and related communities for in-depth intellectual exchanges, research cooperation and professional development. The Program Committee invites technical papers on substantial, original, and unpublished research in all aspects of Artificial Intelligence.</span></p><h4 style="font-size:12.8px"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></h4><h4 style="font-size:12.8px"><span lang="EN-US">STUDENT SCHOLARSHIP</span></h4><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px"><span lang="EN-US">We are pleased to announce that there will be student scholarships for AI 2016 student participants.</span></p><h4 style="font-size:12.8px"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></h4><h4 style="font-size:12.8px"><span lang="EN-US">TOPICS OF INTEREST</span></h4><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6pt;font-size:12.8px"><span lang="EN-US">You are invited to submit original research and application papers on all aspects of AI research, including but not limited to the following:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:20pt;font-size:12.8px"><span lang="EN-US">- Agent-based and multiagent systems</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:20pt;font-size:12.8px"><span lang="EN-US">- AI applications and innovations</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:20pt;font-size:12.8px"><span lang="EN-US">- Big data capture, representation, and analytics</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:20pt;font-size:12.8px"><span lang="EN-US">- Cognitive modeling and computer human interaction</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:20pt;font-size:12.8px"><span lang="EN-US">- Commonsense reasoning</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:20pt;font-size:12.8px"><span lang="EN-US">- Computer vision</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:20pt;font-size:12.8px"><span lang="EN-US">- Constraint satisfaction, search, and optimisation</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:20pt;font-size:12.8px"><span lang="EN-US">- Data mining and knowledge discovery</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:20pt;font-size:12.8px"><span lang="EN-US">- Education and tutoring systems</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:20pt;font-size:12.8px"><span lang="EN-US">- Evolutionary computation</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:20pt;font-size:12.8px"><span lang="EN-US">- Game playing and interactive entertainment</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:20pt;font-size:12.8px"><span lang="EN-US">- Information retrieval, integration, and extraction</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:20pt;font-size:12.8px"><span lang="EN-US">- Knowledge acquisition and ontologies</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:20pt;font-size:12.8px"><span lang="EN-US">- Knowledge maintenance</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:20pt;font-size:12.8px"><span lang="EN-US">- Knowledge representation and reasoning</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:20pt;font-size:12.8px"><span lang="EN-US">- Linked open data</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:20pt;font-size:12.8px"><span lang="EN-US">- Machine learning</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:20pt;font-size:12.8px"><span lang="EN-US">- Model-based systems</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:20pt;font-size:12.8px"><span lang="EN-US">- Multidisciplinary AI</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:20pt;font-size:12.8px"><span lang="EN-US">- Natural language processing</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:20pt;font-size:12.8px"><span lang="EN-US">- Planning and scheduling</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:20pt;font-size:12.8px"><span lang="EN-US">- Uncertainty in AI</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:20pt;font-size:12.8px"><span lang="EN-US">- Robotics</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:20pt;font-size:12.8px"><span lang="EN-US">- Social Intelligence</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:20pt;font-size:12.8px"><span lang="EN-US">- Semantic Web</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:20pt;font-size:12.8px"><span lang="EN-US">- Text/Web/Internet Mining</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6pt;font-size:12.8px"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><h4 style="font-size:12.8px"><span lang="EN-US">IMPORTANT DATES</span></h4><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6pt;text-indent:15pt;font-size:12.8px"><span lang="EN-US">- Submission Due: Jul.10 2016</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6pt;text-indent:15pt;font-size:12.8px"><span lang="EN-US">- Notification: Sep.2 2016</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6pt;text-indent:15pt;font-size:12.8px"><span lang="EN-US">- Camera-Ready: Sep.16 2016</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6pt;text-indent:15pt;font-size:12.8px"><span lang="EN-US">- Early Registration: Oct.31 2016</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6pt;text-indent:15pt;font-size:12.8px"><span lang="EN-US">- Doctoral Consortium: Dec.5 2016</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6pt;text-indent:15pt;font-size:12.8px"><span lang="EN-US">- Workshops and tutorials: Dec.6 2016</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6pt;text-indent:15pt;font-size:12.8px"><span lang="EN-US">- Conference: Dec.7~9 2016</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6pt;font-size:12.8px"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><h4 style="font-size:12.8px"><span lang="EN-US">DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM</span></h4><div style="font-size:12.8px"><span lang="EN-US"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Doctoral candidates are invited to apply for the half-day doctoral consortium, which will run prior to the conference and include career development activities, micro-presentations and opportunities for networking with your fellow PhD candidates. Applicants must submit a two-page abstract on their recent work, and will be eligible for scholarships covering conference registration or accommodation.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font color="#000000"> </font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font color="#000000"> - </font>Doctoral consortium abstract submission (round 1): 10 July 2016</p><p class="MsoNormal"> - Doctoral consortium abstract submission (round 2): 10 October 2016<br><span style="font-size:12.8px"> - Doctoral consortium webpage:</span><span style="font-size:12.8px"> </span><a href="https://ai2016.net/doctoral-consortium/" target="_blank" style="font-size:12.8px">https://ai2016.net/doctoral-consortium/</a></p><p><br></p><h4 style="font-size:12.8px"><span lang="EN-US">WORKSHOP</span></h4><div><span lang="EN-US"><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:9.5pt">The conference organisers invite proposals for workshops to be held on 6 December 2016 at the same venue immediately prior to the main conference. The aim of the workshop program is to provide an opportunity for the discussion of new and emerging topics, applications, and on broader topics that is of interest to the broader AI community and industry. Note that the workshop participants need to pay a workshop registration fee to cover costs. Workshop attendees do not need to register for the main AI conference, but are encouraged to do so.</span><span lang="EN-US"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:9.5pt"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:9.5pt"> - </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:9.5pt">Event Date: 6 Dec 2016</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:9.5pt"> - Proposal deadline: 15 June 2016</span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:9.5pt"> - Workshop webpage: </span><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:9.5pt"><a href="https://ai2016.net/workshops-tutorials%20/" target="_blank">https://ai2016.net/workshops-tutorials /</a></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:9.5pt"></span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt"><span lang="EN-US"><br></span></p></span></div></span></div><h4 style="font-size:12.8px"><span lang="EN-US">PROGRAM CHAIRS</span></h4><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6pt;text-indent:15pt;font-size:12.8px"><span lang="EN-US">- A/Prof. Byeong Ho Kang, University of Tasmania, Australia</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6pt;text-indent:15pt;font-size:12.8px"><span lang="EN-US">- Dr. Quan Bai, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand</span></p></div>