FLAIRS-24


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FLAIRS-24: May 18-20, 2011 Palm Beach, Florida, USA.

Important Dates Proposals for special tracks. June 21, 2010 Acceptance of special tracks  July 16, 2010 Submission of papers        November 22, 2010 Notification of acceptance  January 21, 2011 Camera-ready versions due  February 21, 2011

See http://www.flairs-24.info/

Hosted by the Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society in cooperation with AAAI

The 24th International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference (FLAIRS-24) will be held May 18-20, 2011 at The Colony Hotel in Palm Beach, Florida, USA.

FLAIRS-24 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, 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 papers for presentation at the conference is now invited.

The Atlantic coastal city of Palm Beach, lying one hour north of Miami, is one of Florida's most beautiful resorts. The Colony Hotel, the heart of the conference, is located only half a block from beautiful beaches and the internationally renowned Worth Avenue shopping! Palm Beach offers plenty of exquisite restaurants with delicious cuisine. Museums, gardens and cultural events are all at your fingertips. Just across the inter-coastal waterway, the City of West Palm Beach, with its sunny palm-lined streets, scenic waterfront views, quaint shopping districts, and historic neighborhoods, offers award winning Clematis by Night free fountainside concert series, where visitors and locals mingle among arts and crafts vendors while enjoying live entertainment. The Palm Beach area also offers family fun, with the Palm Beach Zoo at Dreher Park, the South Florida Science Museum, and nearby world-class beaches andfishing.

Call for Papers Submission of papers and posters 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

o  Knowledge representation o  Cognitive modeling o  Perception o  Reasoning and programming o  Search o  Learning

●  Architectures

o  Agents and distributed AI o   Intelligent user interfaces o   Natural language systems o  Information retrieval o  Robotics

●  Applications

o  Aviation and aerospace o  Education o  Entertainment o  Medicine o  Management and manufacturing o  World wide Web

●  Implications

o  Philosophical foundations o  Social impact and ethics o   Evaluation of AI systems o  Teaching AI

●   Special Areas o  AI Education o  Cognition and AI o   Applied NLP o   Case-Based Reasoning o  Intelligent Tutoring Systems o  Uncertain Reasoning o  Data Mining o  Games & Entertainment o  Computational Linguistics o  AI Planning & Scheduling o  Spatial Temporal Reasoning o  Machine Learning o  AI and Second Language Learning

Submission Instructions

Submitted papers must be original, and not submitted concurrently to a journal or another conference. Full papers may be up to 6 pages, and poster papers up to 2 pages. 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 (http://www.FLAIRS-24.info). The proceedings of FLAIRS-24 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. It is the requirement of FLAIRS that there will be at least one full author registration per paper.

ORGANIZATION Conference Chair: Hans Guesgen, Massey University, New Zealand

Program Co-Chairs: Philip McCarthy, University of Memphis, USA Chas Murray, Carnegie Learning, USA

Special Tracks Coordinator: Chutima Boonthum, Hampton University USA

Contact Phil McCarthy: pmmccrth@memphis.edu