IBERAMIA-98
SIXTH IBEROAMERICAN CONFERENCE
ON ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Lisbon, Portugal, October 5-9, 1998
(Under the auspices of the Portuguese Association for Artificial
Intelligence)
The age of AI atlantic discoveries
"The portuguese dared to engage the great oceanic sea. They entered it
fearlessly. They discovered new islands, new lands, new seas, new
peoples, and what is more important, new heavens and new stars ... Now
it is clear that these discoveries ... were not achieved through
guesswork: our seamen set off well trained and provided with instruments
and rules of astronomy and geometry."
from Pedro Nunes, 1537
The Sixth IberoAmerican Conference on Artificial Intelligence will be
held at Lisbon, Portugal, on October 5-9, 1998, under the auspices of
the Portuguese Association for Artificial Intelligence (APPIA), in a
unique cultural environment, precisely the headquarters of Fundacao
Calouste Gulbenkian (two museums, one for Modern Art and another for
Classical Art, covering also the private collection of the founder, a
library, permanent expositions, and a beautiful garden). At the same
time the World Exposition (Expo'98), around the main topic of Oceans and
commemorating the portuguese sea discovery of India (1498), will be open
in the oriental side of Lisbon, creating a historic context for
discussing the cooperation within the sciences of the artificial among
the countries of the Atlantic rein, and under the theme of AI atlantic
discoveries.
Established in 1988 (Barcelona) by three Iberoamerican Associations of
AI (AEPIA, SMIA and APPIA), after a first meeting in Morelia (Mexico) in
1986 of SMIA and AEPIA, the event was organized every two-years since
then in Morelia (1990), La Habana (1992), Caracas (1994) and Cholula
(1996), taking Portuguese and Spanish as official languages and with the
aim to promote and diffuse the research and development carried out in
the countries associated with those two latin languages and connected by
strong historical links from XVI century. Along the years, the Executive
Committee of IBERAMIA was enlarged with the inclusion of AVINTA
(Venezuela), SMC (Cuba) and SBC (Brazil).
IBERAMIA-98 will run for the first time in a decade with a paper track
in English (for submission and presentation) in order to close the
links now with other AI communities where AI is more developed and
explored.
Structure
The scientific program will be structured along two main modules, the
open discussion and the paper track. October 5, a bank holiday in
Portugal, may be dedicated to see the World Fair Expo'98. The first day
of the Conference (tuesday) is organized with tutorials directed to
informatics professionals, the formal opening, the IBERAMIA lecture
delivered by a distinguished iberoamerican researcher, and the
declaration of the prize Jose Negrete awarded by the Scientific
Committee to the best paper submitted. Also, and in parallel, working
groups will be organized in order to discuss general topics (eg.
scientific and industrial joint cooperation). The open discussion track
(wednesday) will be composed by working sessions devoted to the most
important areas of research in iberoamerican countries, the AI Education
Symposium dedicated to confront ideas about the best ways to teach AI, a
session to present the best M. Sc. or Ph. D. thesis of the whole
region, and a video conference panel to establish bridges between Europe
and America (involving those unable to attend this panel). The paper
track (thursday and friday) will be composed of invited talks and paper
presentations from all over the world on the full range of AI research
and covering both theoretical and foundational issues, and applications
as well.
Some Workshops will be organized the week before, namely one on
Distributed Artificial Intelligence (following the first one in Xalapa
(Mexico) in 1996, before IBERAMIA-96, and on any other topics to be
proposed by those interested in activating the current research.
During the Conference there will be an exposition of books written by
iberoamerican researchers and academics, access to the WWW pages of the
AI associations sponsering the event, and demonstrations of AI
industrial products designed in eberoamerican countries.
The portuguese association (APPIA) will organize the week before the
Sixth Advanced School on AI (EAIA-98) adopting English as the official
language.
Paper presentations
The first track will be held mainly in latin languages (Portuguese and
Spanish), but also in English (depending on the preference of the
authors). The papers may be written in English. The second track will
be conducted only in English.
Publication
The invited lecture and the papers of the open discussion track will be
published in the Proceedings of the Conference. The organizers intend to
arrange the publication of the contributions to the paper track by some
international publishing house.
Submission
Submissions are namely requested in the following topics:
Agent-oriented programming
Case-based reasoning
Computer vision
Constraint programming
Database mining tools and aplications
Explanation mechanisms
Foundations issues
Genetic algorithms
Hypothetical reasoning
Intelligent information retrieval
Intelligent tutoring and learning environments
Knowledge acquisition
Knowledge representation
Knowledge-based systems validation
Model-based reasoning
Multi-agent and distributed problem-solving
Natural language processing
Neural nets
Robotics
Temporal and spatial reasoning
Symbolic learning
Important Dates
Deadline for submission of papers (Open Discussion and Full
International tracks): February, 1, 1998
Deadline for submission of tutorials, working groups and workshops
proposals: April 2, 1998
Deadline for submission of proposals for the concurse of the best
thesis (M. Sc. or Ph. D.): April 2, 1998 (Chair: Dr. Jaime Sichman,
Escola Politecnica, Universidade de Sao Paulo, Av. Professor Luciano
Gualberto, no 158, travessa 3, CEPO 5508-900 Sao Paulo, SP, Brasil,
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Notification of acceptance of papers: May 15, 1998
Notification of acceptance of tutorials, working groups, and workshops:
June 1, 1998
Deadline for receipt of paper's final version: June 15, 1998
Conference site
The Conference takes place in Lisbon within the installations of Fundacao
Calouste Gulbenkian.
President and Local Chairman:
prof. Gabriel Pereira Lopes (P)
Departamento de Informatica
Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, Universidade Nova de
Lisboa Quinta da Torre
2825 Monte da Caparica, Portugal
Phone: (351 1) 294 85 36 Fax: (351 1) 294 85 41
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Program and Scientific Chairman:
prof. Helder Coelho (P)
Departamento de Informatica
Faculdade de Ciencias, Universidade de Lisboa
Bloco C5, Piso 1, Campo Grande
1700 Lisboa, Portugal
Phone: (351 1) 7500087 Fax: (351 1) 7500084
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2nd DAI IBERAMIA Workshop Chair
Dr. Francisco Garijo
Telefonica I+D
Emilio Vargas 6
28043 Madrid, Spain
Phone: +34 1 337 4518 Fax: +34 1 337 4602
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Scientific Committee:
Alexis Drogoul (F)
Alfred Kobsa (G)
Alvaro del Val (S)
Angel Puerta (S)
Antonio Sanchez (M)
Carlos Pinto Ferreira (P)
Christian Lemaitre (M)
Cristiano Castelfranchi (I)
Ernesto Costa (P)
Felisa Verdejo (S)
Francisco Cantu (M)
Gabriel Pereira Lopes (P)
Guillermo Simari (A)
Hector Geffner (V)
Hermann Steffen (U)
Jaime Sichman (B)
Javier Pinto (Ch)
John Self (UK)
Jorge Villalobos (C)
Jose Cuena (S)
Jose Felix Costa (P)
Jose Moreno (V)
Jose Ramirez (V)
Juan Carlos Santamaria (V)
Leopoldo Bertossi (Ch)
Luciano Garcia (Cu)
Olga Padron (Cu)
Pedro Barahona Fonseca (P)
Ramon Lopez de Mantaras (S)
Raul Carnota (A)
Rosa Viccari (B)
Suresh Manandhar (UK)
Tarcisio Pequeno (B)
Veronica Dahl (C)
Werner Nutt (G)
Werner DePauli-Schimanovich (A)
Wilmer Pereira (V)
Sponsored by:
APPIA (Associacao Portuguesa para a Inteligencia Artificial), AEPIA
(Asociacion Espanola para la Inteligencia Artificial), SMIA (Sociedad
Mexicana de Inteligencia Artificial), AVINTA (Asociacion Venezolana de
Inteligencia Artificial), SMCC (Sociedad de Matematica y Computacion de
Cuba) and SBC (Sociedade Brasileira de Computacao).
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Prof. Helder Coelho
Departamento de Informatica
Faculdade de Ciencias
Universidade de Lisboa
Bloco C5, Piso 1, Campo Grande
1700 Lisboa, Portugal
telephone: 351.1.7573141 ext.2562 Telefax:351.1.7500084
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