[robocup-worldwide] EPIA'2009 - 14th Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence - Call for Participation

[Nuno Lau]

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CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

EPIA'2009
14th Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence
http://epia2009.appia.pt

Hotel Meliá Ria, Aveiro, Portugal
October 12-15, 2009


The worldwide Artificial Intelligence (AI) community
is invited to participate in the 14th Portuguese
Conference on Artificial Intelligence. As in previous
years, this international conference is hosted with
the patronage of the Portuguese Association for Artificial
Intelligence (APPIA). The purpose of the conference is to
promote research in all areas of AI.

Thematic track program
=================

The coming conference is structured as a set of
thematic tracks. These are intended to provide an informal
environment that fosters the active cross-fertilization
of ideas between researchers within specific sub-areas
of AI, including theoretical/foundational, integrative,
application-oriented and newly emerging areas. The
program includes the following thematic tracks:

AITUM - Artificial Intelligence in Transportation and
Urban Mobility
ALEA - Artificial Life and Evolutionary Algorithms
CMBSB - Computational Methods in Bioinformatics and
Systems Biology
COLA - Computational Logic with Applications
EAC - Emotional and Affective Computing
GAI - General Artificial Intelligence
IROBOT - Intelligent Robotics
KDBI - Knowledge Discovery and Business Intelligence
MASTA - Multi-Agent Systems: Theory and Applications
SSM - Social Simulation and Modelling
TEMA - Text Mining and Applications
WNI - Web and Network Intelligence

All submissions were evaluated by at least three referees
and selected for presentation at the conference on the
basis of quality and relevance to the issues each track
is addressing. In total, 106 papers were selected. A
selection of high quality full papers will appear in a
book published by Springer, in the LNAI series. All
remaining papers presented at the conference will be
published in a conference proceedings book.

The conference program will include a set of plenary
sessions, called the "nectar track", for presentation of
a selection of top quality papers.

Additional and up-to-date information on the thematic
track program is available here:
http://epia2009.appia.pt/program.asp

The official language of the conference is English.

Invited Talks
================
"The Robotic Scientist: Mining experimental data for
dynamical invariants, from cognitive robotics to
computational biology"
by Hod Lipson, Cornell University, USA

"More than Just Words: Discovering the Semantics of Text
with a Minimum of Supervision"
by Marie-Francine Moens, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven,
Belgium

"Artificial Life Simulation of Humans and Lower Animals:
 From Biomechanics to Intelligence"
by Demetri Terzopoulos, University of California,
Los Angeles


Doctoral symposium
=============
The 2nd Doctoral Symposium on Artificial Intelligence
will be co-located with the conference.


Registration
============
Registration instructions can be found here:
http://epia2009.appia.pt/registration.asp

Important dates
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* Regular registration fees until: September 10, 2009
* Conference dates: October 12-15, 2009

Organization
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General Chairs
* Luís Seabra Lopes, UA, Portugal
* Nuno Lau, UA, Portugal
* Pedro Mariano, UA, Portugal
Program Chair
* Luís Rocha, Indiana University, USA

Advisory Committee
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Amílcar Cardoso (UC, Portugal)
Arlindo Oliveira (IST, Portugal)
Carlos Ramos (IPP, Portugal)
Ernesto Costa (UC, Portugal)
Eugénio Oliveira (UP, Portugal)
Gabriel Pereira Lopes (UNL, Portugal)
Gaël Dias (UBI, Portugal)
Hélder Coelho (UL, Portugal)
José Carlos Maia Neves (UM, Portugal)
José Carlos Príncipe (USF, USA)
José Manuel Machado (UM, Portugal)
Luís Camarinha-Matos (UNL, Portugal
Luís Correia (UL, Portugal)
Luís Moniz Pereira (UNL, Portugal)
Manuel Filipe Santos (UM, Portugal)
Manuela Veloso (CMU, USA)
Pavel Brazdil (UP, Portugal)
Pedro Barahona (UNL, Portugal)
Pedro Rangel Henriques (UM, Portugal)
Salvador Abreu (UE, Portugal)

Venue
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Aveiro is located in the north of Portugal and is part
of the Tourist Region of Rota da Luz. It is known by
its water channels, moliceiro boats, saltpans, Art Nouveau
architecture, gastronomy, etc. In this region we can
find the shoreline villages of Ovar, Murtosa, Ílhavo
and Vagos, the mountainous landscape of Vale de Cambra and
Águeda, shore of the Douro river in Castelo de Paiva, or
vineyards in Bairrada. It is a diversified region. Further
information on the venue will be available on the
conference website at:
http://epia2009.appia.pt/venue.asp
For travel information see here:
http://epia2009.appia.pt/travel.asp