FLAIRS

Call for Papers

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========================================================= The Silver Anniversary Conference of the Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society (FLAIRS-25)

http://www.FLAIRS-25.info

Paper submission deadline November 20, 2011

Conference dates May 23-25, 2012 Marco Island, Florida, USA Hilton Marco Island Beach Resort & Spa (www.hiltonmarcoisland.com)

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FLAIRS-25 continues a tradition of presenting and discussing state of the art artificial intelligence and related research in a convivial atmosphere within a beautiful setting. Events will include invited speakers, special tracks, discussion panels, workshops, and presentations of papers, posters, and awards. FLAIRS features some of the world’s leading researchers but submissions from students are also highly encouraged, with FLAIRS boasting a strong tradition of student papers.

Submission of full papers (6 pages), short papers to be presented as a poster (4 pages), and poster abstracts (250 words) for presentation at the conference is now invited.

A second submission round of poster abstracts (250 words) for presentation at the conference is now invited.

Topics of interest are in all areas of (or related to) artificial intelligence, including, but not limited to

Foundations: Cognitive modeling, Knowledge representation, Learning, Perception, Reasoning and programming,

Search Architectures: Agents and distributed AI, Information retrieval, Intelligent user interfaces, Natural language systems, Robotics

Applications: Aviation and aerospace, Education, Entertainment, Management and manufacturing, Medicine, World Wide Web

Implications: Evaluation of AI systems, Philosophical foundations, Social impact and ethics, Teaching AI

Special Areas: Affective Computing, AI and Cognitive Science, Applied Natural Language Processing, Artificial Intelligence Education, Case-Based Reasoning, Computational Linguistics and Logics, Data Mining, Games and Entertainment, Intelligent Tutoring Systems, Machine Learning, Robotics and Human-Robot Interaction, Semantic web for Intelligent Systems, Spatial Temporal Reasoning, Uncertain Reasoning

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Location

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The Silver Anniversary year of FLAIRS takes place at Marco Island on the exciting and tropical southwestern coast of Florida. A sunny paradise on the edge of the Gulf of Mexico, Marco Island features six miles of beach and over 100 miles of waterways within its 24 square miles. Marco Island is the largest barrier island within Southwest Florida’s Ten Thousand Islands and is surprisingly diverse, with topography that includes high sandhills, slash pine forests, sandy fields, as well as quartz sand beaches and mangrove swamps. It is also the only place in Southwest Florida to see the famous Florida burrowing owls. May temperature ranges from a low of 66 F (19 C) to a high of 88 F (31 C) with Gulf water temperature an average of 82 F (28 C).

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Important Dates

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November 21 2011 Paper submission deadline January 20, 2012 Paper acceptance notification February 20, 2012 Camera ready version due

Poster Track Deadlines February 13, 2012      Camera ready submission due February 17, 2012      Acceptance Notices

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Submissions

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This year, there are three kinds of submissions: full papers (up to 6 pages), short papers (up to 4 pages), and poster abstracts (up to 250 words). Acceptance as a full paper entails a 20 minute presentation during a regular session, while short papers and abstracts will be required to participate in the poster session. Rejected full papers may still be accepted as short papers or poster abstracts. All posters will be presented according to space and time availability. Authors may submit up to two full papers as first author, and a maximum of one poster as full author (whether short paper or poster abstract). Author names may be changed or re-ordered after reviewing; however, for budgeting reasons, registration fees will be based on the details at the time of submission and review. An author of each accepted paper is required to register, attend, and present the paper. It is a requirement of FLAIRS that there will be at least one early regular author registration per paper.

Submissions must be original, and not submitted concurrently to a journal or another conference. Papers must be in AAAI format, and submitted as PDF through the EasyChair conference system, which can be accessed through the main conference web site (www.FLAIRS-25.info). The proceedings of FLAIRS-25 will be published by the AAAI. Authors of accepted papers will be required to sign a form transferring copyright of their contribution to AAAI. An author of each accepted paper is required to register, attend, and present the paper at FLAIRS. All submissions and registrations must comply with FLAIRS requirements as posted on the conference website.

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ORGANIZATION

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Conference Chair: H. Chad Lane, University of Southern California Institute for Creative Technologies, USA

Program Co-Chairs: G. Michael Youngblood, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA Philip McCarthy, University of Memphis, USA

Special Tracks Coordinator: Chutima Boonthum-Denecke, Hampton University, USA

Contact Michael Youngblood: youngbld@uncc.edu