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From: xin@octarine.adfa.oz.au (Xin Yao)
Subject: AI'95 CALL FOR WORKSHOP PROPOSALS
Message-ID: <1995Jan2.234943.25615@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 23:49:43 GMT
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	C A L L   F O R   W O R K S H O P   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 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. 


Workshop Proposal Submission
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AI'95 continues the tradition of organising high standard pre-conference 
workshops. Some of previous workshops have resulted in either journal special 
issues or published proceedings. However, workshops which focus on informal 
talks and discussions are equally welcome. We invite potential workshop 
organisers to submit their proposals for pre-conference workshops to AI'95. 
The workshop organisers are only responsible for technical issues such as 
sending out their CFPs, reviewing submitted papers, inviting speakers, and 
preparing the programme. The conference organising committee will look after 
all the organisational issues such as venue booking, registration, 
accommodation, etc.

Workshop proposals dealing with any topics related to AI are welcome. Some 
examples are:

Artificial Life                      Automated Reasoning
Autonomous Intelligent Systems       Adaptive Behaviours
AI in Government (e.g. Social Security, Taxation, Defence, Health, etc.)
Bayesian and Statistical Learning Methods 	Cognitive Modelling
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

All workshops will be held on 13 and 14 November 1995 in parallel with 
tutorials. The length of a workshop should be at least half a day and at
most two days. Three copies of the 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 the information about the workshop; the title, 
duration, scope and estimated number of participants, and information about 
the workshop organisers; names, addresses and brief biographies. Contact name 
and address, including email address and telephone and fax numbers, must also
be included in the proposal.


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


Further Information
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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

