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<p>CALL FOR PAPERS AIMSA 2018 <br>
<br>
The 18th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence:
Methodology, Systems, Applications <br>
<br>
- AI and Deep Learning - <br>
<br>
Golden Sands resort, Varna, Bulgaria, 12-14th September, 2018 <br>
<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated"
href="http://www.aimsaconference.org">www.aimsaconference.org</a>
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<br>
Initiated in 1984, the biennial Artificial Intelligence:
Methodology, Systems, Applications (AIMSA) conference is a premier
forum for exchanging information and research results on AI theory
and principles along with applications of intelligent system
technology. The conference traditionally brings together academic
and industrial researchers from all areas of AI to share their
ideas and experiences and learn about the research in contemporary
AI. As its name indicates, the conference is dedicated to
Artificial Intelligence in its entirety. However, for AIMSA 2018,
we would like to put an emphasis on Deep Learning (DL) as it has
been used successfully in many applications, and is considered one
of the most cutting-edge machine learning and AI techniques at the
moment. Of course, the focus on DL does not preclude submission of
papers on other interesting topics and approaches in AI. <br>
<br>
The 18th edition of AIMSA will be held in the beautiful Varna
area, Bulgaria. With excellent opportunities for outdoor
activities, water sports and gastronomy, Varna promises to be a
wonderful venue for a memorable conference. <br>
<br>
TOPICS <br>
<br>
The conference welcomes submissions of original, high quality
papers in all areas of Artificial Intelligence, including (but not
limited to) traditional topics such as search, machine learning,
planning, knowledge representation, reasoning, natural language
processing, robotics and perception, multiagent systems, etc. <br>
<br>
We especially welcome papers on end-to-end learning; multi-task
learning; cross- and multi-modal learning; combinations of DL and
knowledge-based approaches; transparency, explainability,
stability and provability of DL; DL meta-learning in AI etc., as
well as papers that bring useful computational technologies from
other areas of computer science into AI. <br>
<br>
All submissions will be subject to academic peer review by at
least two members of the program committee. Selection criteria
include accuracy and originality of ideas, clarity and
significance of results, and quality of presentation. <br>
<br>
For each accepted paper, at least one author is required to attend
the conference to present the paper. <br>
<br>
The best paper of the conference will receive the Best Paper Award
during the conference. <br>
<br>
IMPORTANT DATES <br>
<br>
Submission deadline: May 20, 2018 <br>
Notification of acceptance: June 17, 2018 <br>
Deadline for camera-ready: July 1, 2018 <br>
Conference: September 12-14, 2018
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PROCEEDINGS <br>
<br>
AIMSA 2018 Proceedings will be by Springer in their Lecture Notes
in Artificial Intelligence subline of the Lecture Notes in
Computer Science series. <br>
<br>
Extended versions of AIMSA 2018 selected papers will be published
by MDPI, Switzerland, in a special issue of “Information” (ISSN
2078-2489) – an Open Access Journal of Information Science (<a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.mdpi.com/journal/information/special_issues/AIMSA_2018">http://www.mdpi.com/journal/information/special_issues/AIMSA_2018</a>.).
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PROGRAMME COMMITTEE CHAIR <br>
<br>
Josef van Genabith The German Research Center for Artificial
Intelligence DFKI <br>
<br>
<br>
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS <br>
<br>
Feiyu Xu AI Lab, Lenovo Research, Lenovo Group,
China <br>
John D. Kelleher Dublin Institute of Technology, Ireland <br>
Milica Gasic University of Cambridge, UK <br>
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ASSOCIATED EVENTS <br>
<br>
Workshop on Artificial Intelligence in Bioinformatics – 11th of
September, 2018 <br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.aimsaconference.org/workshop.php">http://www.aimsaconference.org/workshop.php</a>
<br>
<br>
LANGUAGE <br>
<br>
The official language of the conference is English. <br>
<br>
LOCATION <br>
<br>
Golden Sands is a modern resort with traditions, and history going
back 50 years. A unique blend of lovely nature park, warm sea, and
fine golden sand! Golden Sands is the winner of a "Blue Flag" - a
prestigious international award for environmentally clean resorts
<br>
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REGISTRATION <br>
<br>
The AIMSA'2018 registration fee includes attendance to AIMSA'2018
technical sessions, a copy of the AIMSA'2018 proceedings, welcome
reception, working lunches, coffee-breaks and the conference
dinner. <br>
<br>
Registration fees (before August 1st) <br>
<br>
Regular fee AIMSA 400 Euro <br>
Student/PhD Student AIMSA 300 Euro
<br>
Regular fee WORKSHOP 150
Euro <br>
Regular fee AIMSA & WORKSHOP 500 Euro <br>
Student/PhD Student AIMSA & WORKSHOP 400 Euro <br>
<br>
GRANTS <br>
<br>
Bulgarian Artificial Intelligence Association will provide several
grants for PhD students and young researchers. The grant covers
the conference fee. <br>
<br>
<br>
LOCAL ORGANIZING COMMITTEE CHAIR <br>
<br>
Gennady Agre <br>
Institute of Information and Communication Technologies <br>
Bulgarian Academy of Sciences <br>
Acad. G. Bonchev 2, 1113 Sofia, Bulgaria <br>
E-mail: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated"
href="mailto:agre@iinf.bas.bg">agre@iinf.bas.bg</a> <br>
Phone: +359 28700118 <br>
Fax: +359 28707273 <br>
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ORGANIZERS <br>
<br>
Bulgarian Artificial Intelligence Association <br>
Institute of Information and Communication Technologies at the
Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (IICT – BAS) </p>
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Phone: +49 681 / 857 75-53 58
Fax: +49 681 / 857 75-53 38
email: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:declerck@dfki.de">declerck@dfki.de</a>
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