From: skalsky@aaai.org (Rick Skalsky)
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Subject: AAAI-93 Call for Papers
Date: 17 Aug 92 16:15:42 GMT

Call for Papers
AAAI-93

AAAI-93 is the eleventh national conference. The purpose 
of the conference is to promote research in artificial 
intelligence (AI) and scientific interchange among AI 
researchers and practitioners.
    Papers may represent significant contributions to all 
aspects of AI: 
a)   the principles underlying cognition, perception, and 
action in humans and machines; 
b)   the design, application, and evaluation of AI 
algorithms and intelligent systems; and 
c)   the analysis of tasks and domains in which 
intelligent systems perform.
    In recognition of the wide range of methodologies and 
research activities legitimately associated with AI, we 
invite authors to submit papers describing both 
experimental and theoretical results from all stages of 
AI research.  In particular, we encourage submission of 
papers that present promising research directions by 
describing innovative concepts, techniques, perspectives, 
or observations that are not yet supported by mature 
results.  To be accepted, such submissions must include 
substantial analysis of the ideas, the technology needed 
to realize them, and their potential impact.  In addition, 
because of the essential interdisciplinary nature of AI 
and the need to maintain effective communication across 
sub-specialties, we encourage authors to position and 
motivate their work in the larger context of the general 
AI community. While papers concerned with applications 
of AI are invited, those that describe working 
commercial systems should be submitted to the IAAI 
conference.


Requirements for Submission

Authors must submit six (6) complete printed copies of 
their papers to the AAAI office by January 13, 1993.  
Papers received after that date will be returned 
unopened.  Notification of receipt will be mailed to the 
first author (or designated author) soon after receipt.  
All inquiries regarding lost papers must be made by 
January 27, 1993.  Authors are also requested to send 
their paperUs title page in an electronic mail message to 
abstract@aaai.org by January 13, 1993. Notification of 
acceptance or rejection of submitted papers will be 
mailed to the first author (or designated author) by 
March 3, 1993.  Camera-ready copy of accepted papers 
will be due about one month later.
 
Paper Format for Review
All six (6) copies of a submitted paper must be clearly 
legible. Neither computer files nor fax submissions are 
acceptable.  Submissions must be printed on 8 1/2" x 11" 
or A4 paper using 12 point type (10 characters per inch 
for typewriters).  Each page must have a maximum of 38 
lines and an average of 75 characters per line 
(corresponding to the LaTeX article-style, 12 point).  
Double-sided printing is strongly encouraged. 
 
Length
The body of submitted papers must be at most 11 pages, 
including figures, tables, and diagrams, but excluding the 
title page and bibliography.  Papers exceeding the 
specified length and formatting requirements are subject 
to rejection without review.

Title page
Each copy of the paper must have a title page (separate 
from the body of the paper) containing the title of the 
paper, the names and addresses of all authors, a short 
(less than 200 word) abstract, and a descriptive content 
area or areas. The title page sent via electronic mail to 
the AAAI office must be in plain ASCII text with each 
section of the title page preceded by the name of that 
section as follows:
title: <title>
author: <name of first author>
address: <address of first author> author: <name of last 
author>
address: <address of last author>
abstract: <abstract>
content areas: <first area>, I, 
<last area>
    To facilitate the reviewing process, authors are 
requested to select appropriate content areas from the 
list below. Authors are invited to add additional content 
area descriptors to their title page as needed.
   Artificial Life, Automated Reasoning, Behavior-Based 
Control, Belief Revision, Case-Based Reasoning, 
Cognitive Modeling, Common Sense Reasoning, 
Communication and Cooperation, Constraint-Based 
Reasoning, Computer-Aided Education, Connectionist 
Models, Corpus-Based Language Analysis, Deduction, 
Diagnosis, Discourse Analysis, Distributed Problem 
Solving, Expert Systems, Geometrical Reasoning, 
Information Extraction, Knowledge Acquisition, 
Knowledge Representation, Knowledge Sharing 
Technology, Large Scale Knowledge Engineering, 
Learning/Adaptation, Machine Learning, Machine 
Translation, Mathematical Foundations, Multi-Agent 
Planning, Natural Language Processing, Neural Networks, 
Nonmonotonic Reasoning, Perception, Planning, 
Probabilistic Reasoning, Qualitative Reasoning, 
Reasoning about Action, Reasoning about Physical 
Systems, Reactivity, Robot Navigation, Robotics, Rule-
Based Reasoning, Scheduling, Search, Sensor 
Interpretation, Sensory Fusion/Fission, Simulation, 
Situated Cognition, Spatial Reasoning, Speech 
Recognition, System Architectures, Temporal Reasoning, 
Terminological Reasoning, Theorem Proving, Truth 
Maintenance, User Interfaces, Virtual Reality, Vision, 3-
D Model Acquisition.


Submissions to Multiple Conferences

Papers that are being submitted to other conferences, 
whether verbatim or in essence, must state this fact on 
the title page. If a paper appears at another conference 
(with the exception of specialized workshops), it must 
be withdrawn from AAAI-93. Papers that violate these 
requirements are subject to rejection without review.
 

Review Criteria

Each paper will be carefully reviewed by experts 
specializing in the content areas on the paperUs title 
page.  Questions that will appear on the review form have 
been reproduced below.  Authors are  advised to bear 
these questions in mind while writing their papers:
Significance
How important is the work reported?  Does it attack an 
important/difficult problem or a peripheral/simple one?  
Does the approach offered advance the state of the art?

Originality
Has this or similar work been previously reported?  Are 
the problems and approaches completely new?  Is this a 
novel combination of familiar techniques?  Does the 
paper point out differences from related research?  Is it 
re-inventing the wheel using new terminology?   

Quality
Is the paper technically sound?  Does it carefully 
evaluate the strengths and limitations of its 
contribution?  How are its claims backed up?

Clarity
Is the paper clearly written?  Does it motivate the 
research?  Does it describe the inputs, outputs and basic 
algorithms employed?  Does the paper describe previous 
work?  Are the results described and evaluated? Is the 
paper organized in a logical fashion?
 
Publication
Accepted papers will be allocated six (6) pages in the 
conference proceedings.  Up to two (2) additional pages 
may be used at a cost to the authors of $250 per page.  
Papers exceeding eight (8) pages and those violating the 
instructions to authors will not be included in the 
proceedings.
 
Copyright
Authors will be required to transfer copyright of their 
paper to AAAI.
 

Please send papers and conference registration inquiries 
to:
 
AAAI-93
American Association
for Artificial Intelligence
445 Burgess Drive
Menlo Park, CA 94025-3496
 
Registration and call clarification inquiries (ONLY) may 
be sent to the CSNET address: NCAI@aaai.org.  Please 
send program suggestions and inquiries to:
 
Richard Fikes
Knowledge Systems Laboratory
Stanford University
701 Welch Road, Building C
Palo Alto, CA 94304
fikes@ksl.stanford.edu
 
Wendy Lehnert
Department of Computer Science
University of Massachusetts
Amherst, MA 01003
lehnert@cs.umass.edu
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