*** EXTENDED DEADLINE ***
*** March 15, 1999 ***
* CALL FOR STUDENT PAPERS *
MACHINE LEARNING AND APPLICATIONS
Advanced Course on Artificial Intelligence 1999 (ACAI-99)
5-16 July 1999, Greece
(http://www.iit.demokritos.gr/skel/eetn/acai99)
The ACAI-99 Programme Committee is pleased to announce a special
programme of
student presentations to be held in two or more student sessions. The
call is
open to students who are currently enrolled for a post-graduate degree.
The aim is to give the opportunity to post-graduate students to present
their
ongoing work to the invited lecturers, experienced researchers and other
students, by submitting a short (2-page) paper. The short paper should
report
on current results of their ongoing research. In addition note that:
* All accepted papers will be included in a Student Sessions
Proceedings.
* A Best Paper Award will be offered by the ACAI-99 Programme Committee.
** IMPORTANT DATES **
March 15, 1999: Deadline for Submission of Camera-Ready Student Papers
April 1, 1999: Notification of Student Papers Acceptance
** The submission process **
Submissions are invited in all aspects of Machine Learning. Theoretical
papers
should clearly state the contributions to specific issues of Machine
Learning
and why they are important. Application oriented papers should state why
Machine Learning methods are necessary and how they are applied to solve
particular problems. Comparison results are also welcome.
To facilitate the reviewing process and to make possible their inclusion
of
accepted papers in the Proceedings, all submissions must be in a
camera-ready
form. The camera-ready short papers must be typed in single-column,
Times
10pt, left and right justified, using A4 paper size and 2.5 cm margins
all
around. The title should be typed at Times 12pt, the author name(s) at
Times
11pt and both should be in boldface and centered.
ACAI-99 encourages electronic submissions (Postscript or Word for Win95)
in the
e-mail address: nvas@iit.demokritos.gr. If this is not possible, three
hard
copies of the camera-ready paper should be sent by post to the ACAI-99
Student
Sessions Chair, at the address below. The deadline for receipt of the
papers is
MARCH 15, 1999. Submissions received after this date will not be
reviewed.
** ADDRESS FOR SUBMISSION OF STUDENT PAPERS **
Nikolaos Vassilas, ACAI-99 Student Sessions Chair
N.C.S.R. "Demokritos", Institute of Informatics & Telecommunications
153 10 Agia Paraskevi, Attiki, GREECE
Email: nvas@iit.demokritos.gr , Tel:++30-1-650 3204 , Fax:++30-1-653
2175
** The review process: **
The 2-page papers will be reviewed under the control of
ACAI-99 Programme Committee. The ACAI-99 Programme Chair has final
authority
over the review process and all decisions relating to acceptance of
papers.
Accepted papers will be allocated a maximum of 10 min for oral
presentations.
** Grant offers:
ECCAI (http://www.eccai.org) will provide travel grants for members of
ECCAI member societies. The attendees supported by an ECCAI travel grant
will be charged a reduced registration fee of 300 Euros.
Rob Milne (rmilne@cix.compulink.co.uk), the ECCAI Travel Grant
Officer, will handle all requests for travel grants. Details will be
shortly announced in the ECCAI and ACAI Web pages.