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From: xin@octarine.adfa.oz.au (Xin Yao)
Subject: AI'95 CALL FOR TUTORIAL PROPOSALS
Message-ID: <1995Jan2.234825.25473@sserve.cc.adfa.oz.au>
Summary: AI'95 CFPs
Keywords: AI
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Organization: Australian Defence Force Academy, Canberra, Australia
Date: Mon, 2 Jan 1995 23:48:25 GMT
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	C A L L   F O R   T U T O R I A L   P R O P O S A L S


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  *  The Eighth Australian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence	*
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  *			       A I ' 9 5				*
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  *			13 -- 17 November 1995				*
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				Hosted by 

		     Department of Computer Science
	  University College, The University of New South Wales
		    Australian Defence Force Academy
		     Canberra, ACT 2600, Australia


About AI'95
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AI'95 is the Eighth Australian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence. The
last two conferences were held in Melbourne, Victoria (AI'93), and Armidale, 
New South Wales (AI'94). This annual conference is the largest Australian AI 
conference which also attracts many overseas participants. Over 45% of 
submitted papers to AI'93 and AI'94 came from overseas. The proceedings of
previous conferences were published by World Scientific Publishing Co. Ltd.

The main theme of AI'95 is ``bridging the gaps,'' i.e., bridging the
gap between the classical symbolic approach and other subsymbolic approaches,
such as artificial neural networks, evolutionary computation and artificial
life, to AI, and bridging the gap between the AI theory and real world
applications. The first goal of the conference is to promote cross-fertilisation
among different approaches to AI. Perhaps more than at any previous AI
conferences, we also intend to provide a common forum for both
researchers and practitioners in the AI field to exchange new ideas and
share their experience. 


Tutorial Proposal Submission
----------------------------

Tutorials on various AI related topics will be organised on 13 and 14 November 
1995 in parallel with pre-conference workshops. The length of each tutorial is 
3 hours. Proposals dealing with any AI related topics are solicited. 
Application-oriented tutorials are particularly welcome, especially those 
relating to topics of interest to Canberra's large administrative sector. 
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

Artificial Life                      Automated Reasoning
Autonomous Intelligent Systems       AI in Administration
AI in Engineering		     AI in Management
AI in Government (e.g. Social Security, Taxation, Defence, Health, etc.)
Adaptive Behaviours                  Bayesian and Statistical Learning Methods
Computer Vision			     C3I Systems
Distributed Artificial Intelligence  Evolutionary Learning
Evolutionary Optimisation            Fuzzy Systems
Group Decision Support Systems       Hybrid Systems
Image Analysis and Understanding     Intelligent Decision Support Systems
Knowledge-Based Systems              Knowledge Acquisition
Knowledge Representation             Machine Learning
Natural Language Processing          Neural Networks
Planning and Scheduling              Pattern Recognition
Robotics 			     Speech Recognition

Three hard copies of the tutorial proposal must be received by the 
tutorial/workshop coordinator at the following address before or on 
*7 April 1995*.

Dr. J. R. Davis 
AI'95 Tutorial/Workshop Coordinator 
CSIRO Division of Water Resources 
P O Box 1666 
Canberra City 2601, Australia 
Email: richardd@cbr.dwr.csiro.au 
Phone: +61 6 246 5706 
Fax: +61 6 246 5800

Each proposal must include a title, a one to two (A4) pages outline, a paragraph
explaining why the tutorial is relevant to AI and is of interest to a large
audience, and a brief biography of the presenter (no more than half a page). 
Contact name and address, including email address and telephone and fax 
numbers, must be included in the proposal.


Important Dates
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7 April 1995 		Deadline for Tutorial Proposals 
5 May 1995		Notification of Proposal Acceptance 
9 October 1995		Camera Ready Copy of Tutorial Notes	
13--14 November 1995	Tutorials/Workshops	
15--17 November 1995	Conference Sessions


Further Information
-------------------

Further information about AI'95 can be obtained by emailing the following
address (preferred):
			ai95@adfa.edu.au
or by contacting the organising committee chair Dr. Bob McKay at the following
address:

Dr Bob McKay
AI'95 Organising Committee Chair
Department of Computer Science
University College, The University of New South Wales
Australian Defence Force Academy
Canberra, ACT 2600, Australia
Email: rim@csadfa.cs.adfa.oz.au
Phone: +61 6 268 8169
Fax:   +61 6 268 8581

