<div dir="ltr"><h3 style="margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;font-size:13.5pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;margin-bottom:4pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(67,67,67);font-weight:normal">Call for system demonstrations: ECAI 2016</span><span lang="EN-GB"><u></u><u></u></span></h3><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">22nd European Conference on Artificial Intelligence – ECAI 2016 (</span></b><a href="http://www.ecai2016.org/" target="_blank"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">www.ecai2016.org</span></b></a><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">)</span></b><span lang="EN-GB"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">29 August - 2 September 2016, The Hague, The Netherlands</span></b><span lang="EN-GB"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(64,64,64);background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">The biennial European Conference  on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI) is Europe’s premier venue for presenting  scientific results in AI.  </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">Under the general theme of “AI for human values”, the 22nd edition of ECAI will be held in the city of The Hague, in sight the Peace Palace, seat of the International Court of Justice, a location highly appropriate to the conference theme.</span><span lang="EN-GB"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">We invite the submission of system demonstrations in the form of life software demo’s or canned video’s, to be shown at the demo and poster market on all days of the main conference.</span><span lang="EN-GB"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">The System Demonstrations track provides AI researchers and practitioners with an opportunity to demonstrate impressive and innovative systems employing AI methods. We invite applications for demonstrations of a non-commercial nature from universities, research institutes and industry. Commercial demos may approach the ECAI 2016 sponsor chair for further information (</span><a href="mailto:sponsorship@ecai2016.org" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">sponsorship@ecai2016.org</span></a><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">). The aim of a demonstration should be to make the attendees aware and enthusiastic about the applications of AI methods. It also provides an opportunity to obtain feedback from the AI community.</span><span lang="EN-GB"><u></u><u></u></span></p><h3 style="margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;font-size:13.5pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;margin-bottom:4pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(67,67,67);font-weight:normal">Important dates</span><span lang="EN-GB"><u></u><u></u></span></h3><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">• System demo submission: 27</span>^{<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:6.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">th</span>}<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black"> June 2016 (23:59:59 CET)</span><span lang="EN-GB"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">• Notification of acceptance: 1</span>^{<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:6.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">st</span>}<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black"> July 2016<br>  (in time for the early conference registration deadline of 5th July)</span><span lang="EN-GB"><u></u><u></u></span></p><h3 style="margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;font-size:13.5pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;margin-bottom:4pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(67,67,67);font-weight:normal">Submission</span><span lang="EN-GB"><u></u><u></u></span></h3><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"></p><ul><li><span style="color:black;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt">A 150-word summary of the demonstration in plain text. Please include title, demonstrator names, and affiliations. This summary will be used to compile a programme for the demonstrations.</span><br></li><li><span style="color:black;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt">A 1-2-page system and demonstration description. This description should show that a working system exists and should convince the demo selection committee that the demo is exciting, innovative and relevant by showing how AI techniques are used in novel ways or in novel types of applications. The description may contain still images or pointers to a video, or even the URL of an online version of the demo.</span><br></li><li><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">A detailed description of hardware and software requirements, such as space, power supplies, network requirements, etc. Demonstrators are encouraged to be flexible in their requirements. Please state what you can bring yourself and what you absolutely must have provided at the venue. </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">We will do our best to accommodate your needs.</span></li></ul><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">The submission and review of system demonstrations for ECAI 2016 is done by sending an e-mail with both summary and description of system and requirements to: </span><a href="mailto:demo-chairs@ecai2016.org" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">demo-chairs@ecai2016.org</span></a><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">.  </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black"><br></span></p><br>-- <br>Suzan Verberne, researcher<br>Centre for Language and Speech Technology<br>Radboud University Nijmegen<br>Tel: 0031 24 36 53431/15775<br>Email: <a href="mailto:s.verberne@let.ru.nl">s.verberne@let.ru.nl</a><br><a href="http://sverberne.ruhosting.nl">http://sverberne.ruhosting.nl</a><br>--<br></div>