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Initiated in 1984, the biennial Artificial Intelligence: Methodology, Systems, Applications (AIMSA) conference is a premier forum for exchanging information and research results on AI theory and principles along with applications of intelligent system technology. The conference traditionally brings together academic and industrial researchers from all areas of AI to share their ideas and experiences and learn about the research in contemporary AI. As its name indicates, the conference is dedicated to Artificial Intelligence in its entirety. However, for AIMSA 2018, we would like to put an emphasis on Deep Learning (DL) as it has been used successfully in many applications, and is considered one of the most cutting-edge machine learning and AI techniques at the moment. Of course, the focus on DL does not preclude submission of papers on other interesting topics and approaches in AI.
The 18th edition of AIMSA will be held in the beautiful Varna area, Bulgaria. With excellent opportunities for outdoor activities, water sports and gastronomy, Varna promises to be a wonderful venue for a memorable conference.
TOPICSThe conference welcomes submissions of original, high quality papers in all areas of Artificial Intelligence, including (but not limited to) traditional topics such as search, machine learning, planning, knowledge representation, reasoning, natural language processing, robotics and perception, multiagent systems, etc.
We especially welcome papers on end-to-end learning; multi-task learning; cross- and multimodal learning; combinations of DL and knowledge-based approaches; transparency, explainability, stability and provability of DL; DL meta-learning in AI etc., as well as papers that bring useful computational technologies from other areas of computer science into AI.
All submissions will be subject to academic peer review by at least two members of the program 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 will receive the Best Paper Award during the conference.
IMPORTANT DATES
| Submission deadline (extended): |
May 31, 2018
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| Notification of acceptance: |
June 17, 2018
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| Deadline for camera-ready: |
July 1, 2018
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| Conference: |
September 12-14, 2018
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Papers have to be submitted electronically (in PDF format) via the submission system to the address: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aimsa2018
Papers should be written in English, font Times 10pt. Regular papers should be no more than 10 pages, posters no more than 4 pages. Authors are requested to follow the LNCS Style. The first page should contain the title of the paper, names and addresses of all authors (including e-mail), an abstract (100-150 words) and a list of keywords.
Submissions should describe original research. Papers accepted for presentation at AIMSA 2016 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.
PROCEEDINGS
The AIMSA 2018 Proceedings will be published by Springer in their Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence subline of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. (http://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs)
Extended versions of AIMSA 2018 selected papers will be published by MDPI, Switzerland, in a
special issue
of "Information" (ISSN 2078-2489) - an Open Access Journal of Information Science.
The official language of the conference is English.
PROGRAMME COMMITTEE CHAIR
Josef van Genabith
The German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence DFKI
Saarland University, Germany,
E-mail:
Website: http://www.dfki.de/web/research/mlt
| Gennady | Agre | Institute of Information and Communication Technologies - BAS |
| Galia | Angelova | Institute of Information and Communication Technologies - BAS |
| Roman | Bartak | Charles University in Prague |
| Christoph | Beierle | FernUniversität in Hagen |
| Tarek R. | Besold | City University of London |
| Loris | Bozzato | CIT-IRST, Fondazione Bruno Kessler |
| Ricardo | Calix | Purdue University Northwest |
| Diego | Calvanese | Free University of Bozen-Bolzano |
| Thierry | Declerck | German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) |
| Sarah Jane | Delany | Dublin Institute of Technology |
| Christo | Dichev | Winston-Salem State University |
| Darina | Dicheva | Winston-Salem State University |
| Danail | Dochev | Institute of Information and Communication Technologies - BAS |
| Benedict Du | Boulay | University of Sussex |
| Stefka | Fidanova | Institute of Information and Communication Technologies - BAS |
| Tomasz | Gambin | Polytechnika Warszawska |
| Geert-Jan | Houben | Delft University of Technology |
| Maciej | Kandula | Johannes Kepler University, Linz and BOKU University, Vienna |
| Kristian | Kersting | TU Darmstadt |
| Matthias | Knorr | Universidade NOVA de Lisboa |
| Petia | Koprinkova-Christova | Institute of Information and Communication Technologies - BAS |
| Pawel | Labaj | MCB Jagelonian University, Krakow |
| Amedeo | Napoli | CNRS, Nancy |
| Maria | Nisheva | Sofia University |
| Michal | Okoniewski | ETH Zurich |
| Dean | Palejev | Institute of Mathematics and Informatics - BAS |
| Horia | Pop | UBB Cluj |
| Allan | Ramsay | The University of Manchester |
| Ioannis | Refanidis | University of Macedonia |
| Ute | Schmid | University of Bamberg |
| Dominik | Slezak | University of Warsaw |
| Stefan | Trausan-Matu | University Politehnica of Bucharest |
| Dan Tufis | Research | Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Romanian Academy |
| Petko | Valtchev | Universite du Quebec a Montreal |
| Josef van | Genabith | The German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence DFKI |
| Dimitar | Vassilev | Sofia University |
| Tulay | Yildirim | Yildiz Technical University |
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
| Feiyu Xu | AI Lab, Lenovo Research, Lenovo Group, China |
| John D. Kelleher | Dublin Institute of Technology, Ireland |
| Milica Gasic | University of Cambridge, UK |
ASSOCIATED EVENTS
Workshop on Artificial Intelligence in Bioinformatics - 11th of September, 2018
http://www.aimsaconference.org/workshop.php
LOCATION
It is a modern resort with traditions, and history going back 50 years. A unique blend of lovely nature park, warm sea,
and fine golden sand! Golden Sands is the winner of a "Blue Flag" - a prestigious international award for environmentally clean resorts.
REGISTRATION
The AIMSA'2018 Registration fees includes attendance to AIMSA'2018 technical sessions, a copy of the AIMSA'2018 proceedings, Welcome reception, working lunches, coffee-breaks and the Conference dinner.
| Registration fees | Before August 1st | After August 1st |
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| Regular fee AIMSA | 400€ | 450€ |
| Student/PhD Student* AIMSA | 300€ | 350€ |
* Early registration fee should be paid not later than August 1st, 2018.
* Authors of accepted papers should pay the registration fee not later than July 6st, 2018.
** Students/PhD Students are required to enclose a copy of a certificate.
AIMSA 2018 GRANT SCHEMEBulgarian Artificial Intelligence Association provides the Grant scheme, which is aimed at AIMSA 2018 participants who are full time students/PhD students or young researchers and covers AIMSA 2018 Conference Fee.
Priority will be given for registered participants with submission accepted for publishing in AIMSA 2018 Conference Proceedings. In such cases the paid Conference fee will be reimbursed at the Conference.
LOCAL ORGANIZING COMMITTEE CHAIR
Gennady Agre
Institute of Information and Communication Technologies
Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
Acad. G. Bonchev 2, 1113 Sofia, Bulgaria
E-mail:
Phone: +359 28700118
Fax: +359 28707273
Bulgarian Artificial Intelligence Association
Institute of Information and Communication Technologies at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (IICT - BAS)
