Submissions describing original research should be sent electronically in PDF or RTF format at http://sws.deri.ie/AIMSA2004.html. Papers should be written in English and should be no more than 10 pages in LNCS/LNAI format, which is the final camera-ready format described in details on http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html. The first page should contain the title of the paper, names and addresses of all authors (including e-mail, if available), an abstract (100-150 words) and a list of keywords. The proceedings of AIMSA’2004 will be published by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence series and will be available at the conference.

A paper accepted for presentation at AIMSA 2004 cannot be presented or have been presented at another meeting with publicly available published proceedings. Papers that are being submitted to other conferences must indicate this on the title page, as must papers that contain significant overlap with previously published work.

Over lengthy or late submissions will be rejected without review. Notification of receipt and acceptance of papers will be sent to the first author.

All submissions will be subject to academic peer review by at least two members of the Programme Committee. Selection criteria include accuracy and originality of ideas, clarity and significance of results, and quality of presentation.

For each accepted paper, at least one author is required to attend the conference to present the paper.

The best paper of the conference, as selected by the AIMSA'2004 Programme Committee, will receive the Best Paper Award during the conference.

The official language of the conference is English.

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