From crabapple.srv.cs.cmu.edu!bb3.andrew.cmu.edu!news.sei.cmu.edu!cis.ohio-state.edu!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!openlink.openlink.com!public!skalsky Wed Aug 4 12:21:11 EDT 1993 Article: 18173 of comp.ai Xref: crabapple.srv.cs.cmu.edu comp.ai:18173 Path: crabapple.srv.cs.cmu.edu!bb3.andrew.cmu.edu!news.sei.cmu.edu!cis.ohio-state.edu!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!openlink.openlink.com!public!skalsky From: skalsky@public.btr.com (Rick Skalsky UUCPR ed aaai.org skalsky@btr.com) Newsgroups: comp.ai Subject: AAAI-94 Call for Papers Date: 3 Aug 1993 14:47:34 GMT Organization: OpenLink, Inc Lines: 243 Message-ID: <23ltq6$8lu@openlink.openlink.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: public.btr.com Keywords: aaai ai call conference papers Twelfth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-94) Seattle, Washington July, 31-August 4, 1994 Call for Papers AAAI-94 is the twelfth national conference on artificial intelligence (AI). The purpose of the conference is to promote research in AI and scientific interchange among AI researchers and practitioners. Papers may represent significant contributions to any aspects of AI: a) principles underlying cognition, perception, and action; b) design, application, and evaluation of AI algorithms and systems; c) architectures and frameworks for classes of AI systems; and d) analysis of tasks and domains in which intelligent systems perform. One of the most important functions served by the national conference is to provide a forum for information exchange and interaction among researchers working in different sub- disciplines, in different research paradigms, and in different stages of research. Based on discussions among program committee members during the past few years, we aim to expand active participation in this year's conference to include a larger cross-section of the AI community and a larger cross-section of the community's research activities. Accordingly, we encourage submission of papers that: describe theoretical, empirical, or experimental results; represent areas of AI that may have been under-represented in recent conferences; present promising new research concepts, techniques, or perspectives; or discuss issues that cross traditional sub-disciplinary boundaries. As outlined below, we have revised and expanded the paper review criteria to recognize this broader spectrum of research contributions. We intend to accept more of the papers that are submitted and to publish them in an expanded conference proceedings. Requirements for Submission Authors must submit six (6) complete printed copies of their papers to the AAAI office by January 24, 1994. Papers received after that date will be returned unopened. Notification of receipt will be mailed to the first author (or designated author) soon after receipt. All inquiries regarding lost papers must be made by February 7, 1994. Authors should also send their paper's title page in an electronic mail message to abstract@aaai.org by January 24, 1994. Notification of acceptance or rejection of submitted papers will be mailed to the first author (or designated author) by March 11, 1994. Camera-ready copy of accepted papers will be due about one month later. Paper Format for Review All six (6) copies of a submitted paper must be clearly legible. Neither computer files nor fax submissions are acceptable. Submissions must be printed on 8 1/2" x 11" or A4 paper using 12 point type (10 characters per inch for typewriters). Each page must have a maximum of 38 lines and an average of 75 characters per line (corresponding to the LaTeX article-style, 12 point). Double-sided printing is strongly encouraged. Length The body of submitted papers must be at most 12 pages, including title, abstract, figures, tables, and diagrams, but excluding the title page and bibliography. Papers exceeding the specified length and formatting requirements are subject to rejection without review. Blind Review Reviewing for AAAI-94 will be blind to the identities of the authors. This requires that authors exercise some care not to identify themselves in their papers. 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 list of content areas (see below) and any acknowledgements. The second page should include the exact same title, a short abstract of less than 200 words, and the exact same content areas, but not the names nor affiliations of the authors. The references should include all published literature relevant to the paper, including previous works of the authors, but should not include unpublished works of the authors. When referring to one's own work, use the third person, rather than the first person. For example, say "Previously, Korf [17] has shown that...", rather than "In our previous work [17] 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. Please do not staple the title page to the body of the paper. Electronic Title Page A title page should also be sent via electronic mail to abstract@aaai.org, in plain ASCII text, without any formatting commands for LaTeX, Scribe, etc. Each section of the electronic title page should be preceded by the name of that section as follows: title: author: <name of first author> address: <address of first author> author: <name of last author> address: <address of last author> abstract: <abstract> content areas: <first area>, ..., <last area> To facilitate the reviewing process, authors are requested to select 1-3 appropriate content areas from the list below. Authors are welcome to add additional content area descriptors as needed. AI architectures, artificial life, automated reasoning, control, belief revision, case-based reasoning, cognitive modeling, common sense reasoning, computational complexity, computer-aided education, constraint satisfaction, decision theory, design, diagnosis, distributed AI, expert systems, game playing, genetic algorithms, geometric reasoning, knowledge acquisition, knowledge representation, machine learning, machine translation, mathematical foundations, multimedia, natural language processing, neural networks, nonmonotonic reasoning, perception, philosophical foundations, planning, probabilistic reasoning, problem solving, qualitative reasoning, real-time systems, robotics, scheduling, scientific discovery, search, simulation, speech understanding, temporal reasoning, theorem proving, user interfaces, virtual reality, vision Submissions to Multiple Conferences Papers that are being submitted to other conferences, whether verbatim or in essence, must reflect this fact on the title page. If a paper appears at another conference (with the exception of specialized workshops), it must be withdrawn from AAAI-94. Papers that violate these requirements are subject to rejection without review. Review Process Program committee (PC) members will identify papers they are qualified to review based on each paper's title, content areas, and electronic abstract. This information, along with other considerations, will be used to assign each submitted paper to two PC members. Using the criteria given below, they will review the paper independently. If the two reviewers of a paper agree to accept or reject it, that recommendation will be followed. If they do not agree, a third reviewer will be assigned and the paper will be discussed by an appropriate sub-group of the PC during its meeting in March. Note that the entire review process will be blind to the identities of the authors and their institutions. In general, papers will be accepted if they receive at least two positive reviews or if they generate an interesting controversy among the reviewers. The final decisions on all papers will be made by the program chairs. Questions that will appear on the review form appear below. Authors are advised to bear these questions in mind while writing their papers. Reviewers will look for papers that meet at least some (though not necessarily all) of the criteria in each category. Significance How important is the problem studied? Does the approach offered advance the state of the art? Does the paper stimulate discussion of important issues or alternative points of view? Originality Are the problems and approaches new? Is this a novel combination of existing techniques? Does the paper point out differences from related research? Does it address a new problem or one that has not been studied in depth? Does it introduce an interesting research paradigm? Does the paper describe an innovative combination of AI techniques with techniques from other disciplines? Does it introduce an idea that appears promising or might stimulate others to develop promising alternatives? Quality Is the paper technically sound? Does it carefully evaluate the strengths and limitations of its contributions? Are its claims backed up? Does the paper offer a new form of evidence in support of or against a well-known technique? Does the paper back up a theoretical idea already in the literature with experimental evidence? Does it offer a theoretical analysis of prior experimental results? Clarity Is the paper clearly written? Does it motivate the research? Does it describe the inputs, outputs, and basic algorithms employed? Are the results described and evaluated? Is the paper organized in a logical fashion? Is the paper written in a manner that makes its content accessible to most AI researchers? Publication Accepted papers will be allocated six (6) pages in the conference proceedings. Up to two (2) additional pages may be used at a cost to the authors of $250 per page. Papers exceeding eight (8) pages and those violating the instructions to authors will not be included in the proceedings. Copyright Authors will be required to transfer copyright of their paper to AAAI. Paper Submissions & Inquiries Please send papers and conference registration inquiries to: AAAI-94 American Association for Artificial Intelligence 445 Burgess Drive Menlo Park, CA 94025-3496 Registration and call clarification inquiries (ONLY) may be sent to the Internet address: NCAI@aaai.org. Please send program suggestions and inquiries to: Barbara Hayes-Roth, Program Cochair Knowledge Systems Laboratory Stanford University 701 Welch Road, Building C Palo Alto, CA 94304 bhr@ksl.stanford.edu Richard Korf, Program Cochair Department of Computer Science University of California, Los Angeles Los Angeles, CA 90024 korf@cs.ucla.edu Howard Shrobe, Associate Program Chair Artificial Intelligence Laboratory Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA, 02139 hes@reagan.ai.mit.edu