[DL] Second Call for Papers - AIxIA 2024

[Artale Alessandro]

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******* SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS *******

23rd International Conference of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence, AIxIA 2024
November 25-28, 2024, Bolzano, Italy

Website: https://aixia2024.events.unibz.it/

*** IMPORTANT DATES ***

REGULAR PAPERS
Abstract Submission: June 7, 2024
Paper submission: June 14, 2024
Notification: August 1, 2024
Camera-ready: TBD

DISCUSSION PAPERS
Paper submission: September 2, 2024
Notification: September 16, 2024
Camera-ready: TBD

*** GENERAL INFORMATION ***

The AIxIA 2024 edition celebrates the 23rd year of an event born inside the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence, but rapidly grown up to an international dimension, attracting scholars from all over the world. This edition of AIxIA will take place in Bolzano and will be organized by the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano.

*** TOPICS OF INTEREST ***

The main conference covers the wide spectrum of topics that characterise current trends in Artificial Intelligence. A number of specific topics are also covered by dedicated thematic workshops co-located with the main conference. Workshops will be announced later on and we foresee a significant participation by the research communities, in the vein of the success of the previous AIxIA editions.
The main track of the AIxIA 2024 conference welcomes submissions covering all areas of AI, including (but not limited to):
* machine learning
* search and planning,
* knowledge representation, reasoning, and argumentation,
* constraint satisfaction and optimisation,
* natural language processing,
* robotics and perception,
* autonomous agents and multiagent systems,
* ethical and cultural issues in AI.

We encourage all types of high-quality contributions including theoretical, engineering, and applied papers. We also encourage contributions to AI techniques in the context of established and novel application domains, such as
* (cyber)security,
* sustainability,
* ageing and health care,
* education,
* cultural heritage,
* manufacturing,
* transportation,
* commerce and recommendation systems.

Papers describing AI approaches and applications targeting societal challenges, including, for example, solutions for the mitigation and management of public health crises, as well as hot topics within the community, such as the assessment and mitigation of different kinds of biases, and in general ethical issues in AI, are particularly welcome.

Besides regular papers presenting results not already published we also welcome short “discussion papers” containing:
* descriptions of results recently published or accepted for the presentation in première international conferences and journals related to AI field;
* position papers discussing potentially controversial topics in AI or personal points of views about specific topics in AI.

Discussion papers are introduced as an opportunity for the authors to present their recent results to the AI community and to stimulate debate among attendees of AIxIA 2024 and potential collaborations thereof.
At least one author of each accepted paper is required to register and attend the conference to present the work.

*** PROCEEDINGS OF REGULAR PAPERS ***

Accepted regular papers will be included in the proceedings of the conference and will be published by Springer Verlag in the Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) series.
Authors of selected regular papers accepted to the main track will be invited to submit an extended version for publication on “Intelligenza Artificiale”, the International Journal of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence, edited by IOS Press and indexed by Thomson Reuters’ “Emerging Sources Citation Index” and by Elsevier Scopus.

*** PROCEEDINGS OF DISCUSSION PAPERS ***

Discussion papers will not be included in the LNAI proceedings of the conference, and will be published as separated proceedings upon request. Discussion papers will be presented and discussed at the conference together with regular submissions.

*** BEST PAPERS AWARDS ***

The Program Committee will select the Best Student Paper and the Best Paper from the accepted regular papers. In order to be eligible for the Best Student Paper Award, at least one author must be a student.

*** SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS ***

Submitted papers should be written in English and formatted according to the Springer LNCS style. Regular papers must be original papers, which are not being submitted simultaneously for publication elsewhere. These papers should not exceed 12 pages, with any number of additional pages containing bibliographic references only.
Discussion papers report results already published or accepted for publication in international conferences, and should not exceed 4 pages with any number of additional pages containing bibliographic references only.
Paper submission is electronic through Easychair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aixia2024


*** ORGANIZATION COMMITTEE ***

* General Chair: Marco Montali (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano)
* Program Chairs: Alessandro Artale (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano), Gabriella Cortellessa (ISTC-CNR)
* Workshop chairs: Antonella Guzzo (University of Calabria), Oliver Kutz (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano)
* Doctoral Consortium chairs: Federico Chesani (University of Bologna), Chiara Ghidini (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano)
* Sponsorship chairs: Alessandro Mosca (Smart Data Factory, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano), Floriano Zini (Smart Data Factory, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano)
* Publicity chairs: Mattia Fumagalli (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano), Alessandro Gianola (INESC-ID/Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa)
* Social chairs: Tiziano Dalmonte (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano), Sarah Winkler (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano)
* Proceedings chair: Sergio Tessaris (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano)
* Web chairs: Nicola Gigante (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano), Alessandro Burigana (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano)