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From: okuno@nuesun.brl.ntt.jp (Hiroshi G Okuno)
Subject: IJCAI-97 Call For Papers
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       		        Call for Papers

           Fifteenth International Joint Conference on 
                    Artificial Intelligence
                         IJCAI-97

                     August 23-29, 1997


Important Dates:
    Jan.    21, 1997 : Electronic Title Page Submission Deadline
    Jan.    23, 1997 : Paper Submission Deadline
    Mar.    28, 1997 : Acceptance notification
    Apr.    28, 1997 : Deadline for receipt of Camera-ready Copy
    Aug. 26-29, 1997 : IJCAI-97 Paper Sessions

For further information:
       from the IJCAI-97 WWW page at the URL of
                    http://ijcai.org/ijcai-97/
       by sending a mail to
                    info@ijcai.org

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CALL FOR PAPERS: IJCAI-97

The IJCAI-97 Program Committee invites submissions of technical
papers for IJCAI-97, which is to be held in Nagoya, Japan, August
23-29, 1997. Submissions are invited on substantial, original, and
previously unpublished research on all aspects of AI. 

Timetable

Authors must first submit their paper's title page (preferably
electronically, as described below) to arrive by January 21, 1997. They
must then submit six complete printed copies of their paper to arrive by
January 23, 1997. Submissions received after that date will be
returned unopened. Authors should note that mail can sometimes be
considerably delayed, especially during the winter in North America, and
should take this into account when timing their submissions. 

Notification of receipt will be mailed to the first author (or designated
author) soon after receipt. Notification of acceptance or rejection of
submitted papers will be mailed to the first author (or designated author)
by March 28, 1997. 

Camera-ready copy of accepted papers must be received by the publisher
in the USA by April 28, 1997. Note that at least one author of each
accepted paper is required to attend the conference to present the work. 

Electronic Title Page

Because of the huge number of submissions anticipated and the tight
schedule we have to assign reviewers, we require that authors who desire
to submit a full paper declare their intention by submitting a title page by
January 21, 1997. The strongly preferred method is by using a
World-Wide-Web (WWW) browser such as Netscape to connect to: 

     http://www.ijcai.org/ijcai-97/titlepage.html

There they will find a title page submission form, which they can fill in,
and submit. Upon submission, they will be given a unique tracking number
which should be marked on the full paper submission. 

Authors who do not have access to a WWW browser with forms support
should mail a printed title page to the American Association for Artificial
Intelligence, whose address is at the end of this Call. This title page must
arrive by January 21, 1997, and should have the following format: 

     author: name of first author
     address: address of first author
      ...
     author: name of last author
     address: address of last author
     title:  title of the paper
     abstract: abstract
     content areas: first area,..., last area

The abstract should be less than 200 words. Authors who submit printed
title pages may omit a tracking number from the full paper. Also, authors
who are submitting a printed title page, and who wish to avoid a second
mailing, may mail their title pages and papers together, both to arrive by
January 21, 1997. 

We cannot accept title pages that are submitted by email or FAX. 

Content Areas

To facilitate the reviewing process, authors are requested to select one or
more appropriate content area keywords from the list below, to appear on
their title page and on the submitted paper. Please use the exact phrases
below; do not make up new keywords, since they will be ignored by the
paper classification software. 

     AI architectures, applications, art and music, artificial
     life, automated modeling, automated reasoning, control,
     belief revision, case-based reasoning, causality,
     cognitive modeling, common sense reasoning,
     computational complexity, computer-aided education,
     constraint satisfaction, decision theory, decision trees,
     design, description logics, diagnosis, discourse,
     discovery, distributed AI, enabling technologies, expert
     systems, game playing, genetic algorithms, geometric or
     spatial reasoning, information retrieval, knowledge
     acquisition, knowledge representation, lifelike characters,
     machine learning, machine translation, mathematical
     foundations, multiagent systems, multimedia, natural
     language processing, neural networks, nonmonotonic
     reasoning, ontologies, perception, philosophical
     foundations, planning, probabilistic reasoning, problem
     solving, qualitative reasoning, reactive control, real-time
     systems, reinforcement learning, robotics, scheduling,
     scientific discovery, search, simulation, software agents,
     speech understanding, syntax, temporal reasoning,
     theorem proving, user interfaces, virtual reality, vision 

Policy on Multiple Submissions

IJCAI will not accept any paper which, at the time of submission, is under
review for, or has already been published or accepted for publication in a
journal or another conference. Authors are also expected not to submit
their papers elsewhere during IJCAI's review period. These restrictions
apply only to journals and conferences, not to workshops and similar
specialized presentations with a limited audience. 

Paper Format

All six copies of a submitted paper must be clearly legible. Letter quality
print is required. Normally, dot-matrix printout will be unacceptable
unless truly of letter quality. Exceptions will be made for submissions
from countries where high quality printers are not widely available. We
cannot accept email or FAX submissions of full papers. Submissions
must be printed on 8 1/2 x 11 inch or A4 paper. \paragraph*{Title Page}
Each copy of the paper must have a title page, separate from the body of
the paper, including the title of the paper, the names and addresses of all
authors, a short abstract of less than 200 words, a list of content areas
(see above), tracking number from electronic submission of title page (if
any, see above), and acknowledgements (if any). In addition, it must
contain the following declaration: 

     This paper has not already been accepted by and is not
     currently under review for a journal or another conference,
     nor will it be submitted for such during IJCAI's review
     period. 

Please do not staple the title page to the body of the paper. 

Paper Body

The paper body begins on the second page, and should be formatted
identically with the format for camera-ready copy of accepted papers
(except for the omission of names and affiliations). 

Detailed instructions on the required format are available from IJCAI's
home page on the World-Wide-Web. In addition, macros for word
processing systems have been developed to faciliate the formatting of
paper submissions, and will be available from IJCAI's home page: 

     http://www.ijcai.org/ijcai-97 

You can also get formatting instructions and macros by sending email to
info@ijcai.org; the server will respond with instructions. 

Submissions must not exceed 6 pages in camera-ready format.
Overlength papers will be returned without review. Each accepted
paper will be allowed 6 pages in the proceedings; up to 2 additional pages
may be purchased at a price of $250 per page. 

Authors from countries in which access to word-processing systems is
limited may submit unformatted papers. The body of these submissions
must be at most 6200 words, including footnotes, figure captions, tables,
appendices, and bibliography. Each half-page of figures will be counted
as 500 words. Papers longer than 6200 words will be returned without
review. Authors submitting unformatted papers must include a word count
on the first page of their paper body. 

In order to make blind reviewing possible, authors should omit their
names and affiliations from the paper body. In place of their names and
affiliations, they should provide the list of content areas and their paper's
tracking number. (Authors without access to Web browsers, who therfore
did not submit electronic abstracts, may omit the tracking number.) 

Also, while the references should include all published literature relevant
to the paper, including previous works of the authors, it should not include
unpublished works. When referring to one's own work, use the third
person, rather than the first person. For example, say "Previously, Pollack
[7] has shown that...", rather than "In our previous work [7] we have
shown that...." Try to avoid including any information in the body of the
paper or references that would identify the authors or their institutions.
Such information can be added to the final camera-ready version for
publication. 

Review Process

Papers will be subject to blind peer review: reviewers will not be aware of
the identities of the authors. Selection criteria include accuracy and
originality of ideas, clarity and significance of results and the quality of
the presentation. 

The decision of the Program Committee, taking into consideration the
individual reviews, will be final and cannot be appealed. Papers selected
will be scheduled for presentation and will be printed in the proceedings.
Authors of accepted papers, or their representatives, are expected to
present their papers at the conference. 

Paper Submissions and Inquiries

The American Association for Artificial Intelligence will be providing
administrative support to the IJCAI-97 Program Committee. Paper
submissions should be sent to the address below. Note that it is essential
that the first line of the address be "IJCAI-97". 

     IJCAI-97
     American Association for Artificial Intelligence
     445 Burgess Drive
     Menlo Park, CA 94025-3496 USA 

Please send program suggestions and inquiries to: 

     Prof. Martha Pollack, Program Chair
     Dept. of Computer Science
     University of Pittsburgh
     Pittsburgh, PA 15260 USA
     E-mail: pollack@cs.pitt.edu
     FAX: +1-412-624-5249 

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Hiroshi "Gitchang" Okuno
IJCAI-97 Publicity Chair
NTT Basic Research Laboratories
3-1 Morinosato-Makamiya, Atsugi, Kanagawa 243-01 JAPAN
Fax: (0462)40-4708 (Office), (03)5454-7254 (Home)
E-mail: okuno@nue.org
URL:    http://www.nue.org/people/okuno/okuno-e.html

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Hiroshi "Gitchang" Okuno
IJCAI-97 Publicity Chair
Basic Research Laboratories
Nippon Telegraph and Telephone
3-1 Morinosato-Wakamiya, Atsugi, Kanagawa 243-01, JAPAN
E-mail: okuno@nue.org
URL:    http://www.nue.org/people/okuno/okuno.html
