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ECAI 2000/PAIS 2000
14th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence
Prestigious Applications of Intelligent Systems
Berlin, Humboldt University
August 20-25, 2000
http://www.ecai2000.hu-berlin.de
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EARLY REGISTRATION DEADLINE 15th of June 2000
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Organized by
German Informatics Society (GI) and
European Coordinating Committee for Artificial Intelligence (ECCAI)
Hosted by
Humboldt University Berlin
In this special turn of the century we invite you to celebrate
ECAI 2000 in Berlin. Being the fourteenth in a very successful
series of European Conferences on Artificial Intelligence,
ECAI 2000 will offer a unique opportunity to bring industry and
academics together to explore the full spectrum of Artificial
Intelligence, from theory and methodology to its application in
commercial systems.
Respond to the call of the German Informatics Society (GI) and
the European Coordinating Committee for Artificial Intelligence,
the world's largest umbrella organization for AI, and meet well-
known AI experts at Humboldt University Berlin, a University that
can proudly look back on almost 200 years of tradition and 29
associated Nobel prize winners.
Since the year 2000 is a special year, we will make ECAI 2000 a
very special conference. ECAI 2000 gathered 443 submissions from
which, however, only 140 have been accepted for presentation.
Although the majority of papers comes from Europe, there is a
significant number of papers from Australia, Asia, and North
America, leading to a total of 42 contributing countries.
Furthermore, ECAI 2000 comprises six invited talks plus one
public talk given by distinguished scientists, master-class lec-
tures in 10 tutorials and serious discussions of hot new research
topics in 30 workshops.
The real success of Artificial intelligence will be measured by
the applications that use the technology rather than the techno-
logy itself. For the first time, ECAI comprises the Prestigious
Applications of Intelligent Systems sub-conference (PAIS 2000),
which is the first major European showcase of beneficial solu-
tions for industry and commerce based on AI technologies.
ECAI and PAIS are accompanied by an exhibition concept that re-
flects AI's history, its gaining grounds in the 20th century and
its progress paths envisioned into the 21st century. We also plan
to have a rather unusual sidetrack meant to attract layman such
that ECAI 2000 becomes an event in Berlin and not only one of
diverse scientific congresses hardly noticed by the public. In so
far, we aim at presenting AI on ECAI 2000 in a very broad scope
in order to show its relation to other classical and advanced
IT topics.
In the following we will present a short glance at the program
of ECAI 2000. We will also provide some information on registra-
tion deadlines and fees. More detailed information is available
on the conference home page at
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http://www.ecai2000.hu-berlin.de
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Do not miss this opportunity. Register now and be cordially
welcome at ECAI 2000 in Berlin!
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IMPORTANT DATES
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15 Jun 2000 Early Registration Deadline
1 Aug 2000 Late Registration Deadline
20-25 Aug 2000 ECAI/PAIS 2000
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INVITED TALKS
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Piero P. Bonissone
General Electric, USA
Corporate Research and Development
"Hybrid Soft Computing: Where are we going?"
Patrick Doherty
Linkoeping University, Sweden
Artificial Intelligence and
Integrated Computer Systems Division
"A Bird's-Eye View of the
WITAS Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Project"
Daniele Nardi
Universita di Roma "La Sapienza", Italy
Artificial Intelligence Research Group
"Artificial Intelligence in RoboCup"
Bernhard Nebel
Albert-Ludwigs-Universitaet Freiburg, Germany
Artificial Intelligence Research Group
"Knowledge Representation and Reasoning -
The Theoretical Side of AI"
Luc Steels
Sony Computer Science Laboratory Paris, France
and
Vrije Universiteit Brussels, Belgium
Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
"The Emergence of Grammar in
Communicating Autonomous Robotic Agents"
Mark Wallace
Imperial College, UK
ICL and IC-Parc
"Constraint Programming -
Applications, Algorithms, Languages"
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PUBLIC TALK
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H. Van Dyke Parunak
Environmental Research Institute of Michigan, USA
Center for Electronic Commerce
"Assembling Artificial Societies:
Missing Pieces and Left-Over Parts"
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TUTORIALS
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T1: Ant Algorithms and Swarm Intelligence: An Introduction
M. Dorigo
http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~mdorigo
T2: Stochastic Search Algorithms
H. H. Hoos, T. Stuetzle
http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~hoos/ecai2000-stoch
T3: AI Techniques for Knowledge Management
S. Decker, S. Staab
http://kmtutorial.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de
T4: Solving and Programming with Soft Constraints:
Theory and Implementation
F. Rossi, P. Codognet
http://www.math.unipd.it/~frossi/ecai2000-tut.html
T5: Empirical Methods for Computer Science
P. Cohen, I. Gent, T. Walsh
T6: Knowledge Markup Techniques
H. Boley, S. Decker, M. Sintek
http://www.SemanticWeb.org/knowmarktutorial
T7: Applying Automatic Text Generation
M. Stede, L. Wanner
http://www.cs.tu-berlin.de/~stede/ecaitutorial.html
T8: Rational Action in Autonomous Agents
S. Parsons, M. Wooldridge
T9: Seeking Information: Methods from Information Retrieval and
Artificial Intelligence
D. Fensel, M. Lalmas
http://www.dcs.qmw.ac.uk/~mounia/ECAI.html
T10: Neural Networks and Structured Knowledge
F. Kurfess
http://www.cs.concordia.ca/~faculty/franz
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WORKSHOPS
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W1: 14th Workshop on Planning and Configuration (PuK 2000)
http://www-is.informatik.uni-oldenburg.de/~sauer/puk2000/index.html
W2: Configuration
http://www.cs.hut.fi/u/pdmg/ECAI2000WS
W3: Agent-oriented Software Management (AOSM)
http://www.wirtschaft.tu-ilmenau.de/wi/wi2/ECAI2000-AOSE
W4: Cognitive Robotics
http://www-i5.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/LuFG/cogrob2000
W5: Current Issues in Spatio-Temporal Reasoning
http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~hans/spacetime
W6: Local Search for Planning & Scheduling
http://www.ai-center.com/events/ecai-2000-ws
W7: 2nd ECAI Workshop on Binding Environmental Sciences and
Artificial Intelligence (BESAI 2000)
http://www.lsi.upc.es/~webia/besai/besai2000.html
W8: Scientific Reasoning in AI and Philosophy of Science
http://www.compulog.org/workshops/ecai
W9: Application of Ontologies and Problem Solving Methods
http://delicias.dia.fi.upm.es/WORKSHOP/ECAI00/index.html
W10: Engineering Societies in the Agents' World (ESAW 00)
http://lia.deis.unibo.it/confs/ESAW00
W11: Knowledge Management and Organizational Memory
http://www-sop.inria.fr/acacia/WORKSHOPS/ECAI2000-OM/call.html
W13: Agent Technologies and Their Application Scenarios in Logistics
http://www.tzi.de/ecai00-mas
W15: Foundations of Connectionist-Symbolic Integration:
Representation, Paradigms, and Algorithms
http://www.dsi.unifi.it/~paolo/ECAI2000
W16: Machine Learning for Information Extraction
http://ecate.itc.it:1024/cirave/ecai-workshop.html
W18: Knowledge Representation Meets Databases (KRDB-2000)
http://www-lti.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/KRDB2000
W19: Applied Semiotics: Control Problems (ASC2000)
http://www.iitp.ru/asc2000
W20: Service Robotics - Applications and Safety Issues in an Emerging Market
http://www.uni-bremen.de/~sppraum/sr00.htm
W21: Workshop on Bayesian and Causal Networks: From Inference to Data Mining
http://www.lsi.upc.es/~sanguesa/CaNew2000.html
W22: Computational Dialectics:
Models of Argumentation, Negotiation and Decision Making
http://www.philos.rug.nl/~gerard/cd2000
W23: Intelligent Data Analysis in Medicine and Pharmacology (IDAMAP-2000)
http://www.ifs.tuwien.ac.at/~silvia/idamap-2000
W24: Ontology Learning
http://ol2000.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de
W25: Modelling and Solving Problems with Constraints
http://www.iiia.csic.es/ecai2000
W26: Analysis and Modelling of Collaborative Learning Interactions
http://collide.informatik.uni-duisburg.de/ecai-2000
W27: Machine Learning in Computer Vision (MLCV)
http://www.di.uniba.it/~malerba/ws-ecai2000
W28: Modelling Artificial Societies and Hybrid Organizations
http://www.cs.vu.nl/~jonker/masho-ecai2000
W29: Balancing Reactivity and Social Deliberation in Multi-Agent Systems
http://www.first.gmd.de/plan/ecai-2000-ws.html
W30: Flexible Strategies for Maintaining Knowledge Containers
http://www.ecai2000.hu-berlin.de/mkc-ws
W31: Knowledge-Based Systems for Model-Based Engineering
http://www.dbai.tuwien.ac.at/event/ecai2000-kbsmbe
W32: Artificial Intelligence in Mobile Systems (AIMS 2000)
http://www.eml.org/aims2000
W34: Empirical Methods in Artificial Intelligence
http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~hoos/ecai2000-empai
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REGISTRATION
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The details given here are for your information only. To re-
gister for ECAI 2000, its tutorials and workshops and to book a
hotel please use the forms provided on our home page.
Prices are given in Euro (EUR) and Deutsche Mark (DM). To re-
ceive the reduced fee as a member of an ECCAI member society or
being a member of GI, please provide evidence of membership (e.g.
membership card) and send it together with your registration
form. If you are a student, please provide proof on your status.
ECAI 2000 CONFERENCE (PAIS 2000 included)
Early Late On-Site
(until June 15th) (until August 1st) (after August 1st)
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Member EUR 350 / DM 684.54 EUR 410 / DM 801.89 EUR 480 / DM 938.08
Non-Member EUR 450 / DM 880.12 EUR 510 / DM 997.47 EUR 570 / DM 1114.82
Student/Member EUR 120 / DM 234.07 EUR 145 / DM 283.06 EUR 190 / DM 371.61
Student/Non-Member EUR 130 / DM 254.26 EUR 155 / DM 303.15 EUR 200 / DM 391.17
TUTORIALS (each)
Early Late On-Site
(until June 15th) (until August 1st) (after August 1st)
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Member EUR 200 / DM 391.17 EUR 220 / DM 430.28 EUR 260 / DM 508.52
Non-Member EUR 250 / DM 488.96 EUR 270 / DM 528.07 EUR 310 / DM 606.31
Student/Member EUR 80 / DM 156.47 EUR 110 / DM 215.14 EUR 140 / DM 273.82
Student/Non-Member EUR 90 / DM 176.02 EUR 120 / DM 234.70 EUR 150 / DM 293.37
WORKSHOPS (each)
There is a flat fee for each workshop: EUR 50 / DM 97.79
Workshop participants must register for the main ECAI conference.
No extra charge for late workshop registrations.
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