Submissions should describe original research and should be sent electronically at http://aimsa2006.inrialpes.fr in PDF format. Papers should be written in English and should be no more than 10 pages, font Times New Roman 11pt. 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. http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html

Papers accepted for presentation at AIMSA 2006 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.

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.

Over lengthy or late submissions will be rejected without review.

Notification of receipt and acceptance of papers will be sent to the first author.

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 2006 Programme Committee, will receive the Best Paper Award during the conference.

The Proceedings of AIMSA 2006 will be published in the Springer series "Lecture Notes in Computer Science/Artificial Intelligence".

The official language of the conference is English.

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