From: ishida@cslab.kecl.ntt.jp (Toru ISHIDA)
Newsgroups: comp.robotics
Subject: Call for Video: IJCAI-93
Date: 7 Sep 92 02:46:18 GMT
Distribution: comp
Organization: NTT Communication Science Labs., Kyoto, Japan.


                   CALL FOR VIDEOTAPE PRESENTATION
     International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence
                             (IJCAI-93)

The biennial IJCAI conferences are the major forums for the
international scientific exchange and presentation of AI research. The
Conference Technical Program of the 13th IJCAI Conference will include
videotape presentations. 

A. Submission Requirements and Guidelines

This track is reserved for displaying interesting research on
applications to real-world problems arising in industrial, commercial,
government, space and educational arenas.  It is designed to
demonstrate the current levels of usefulness of AI tools, techniques
and methods. 

Authors should submit one copy of a videotape of 15 minutes maximum
duration, accompanied by a submission letter that includes: 

(1) Title.
(2) Full names, postal addresses, phone numbers and email addresses of
    all authors.
(3) Tape format (indicate one of NTSC, PAL or SECAM; and one of VHS or
    .75'' U-matic) 
(4) Duration of tape in minutes.
(5) Three copies of an abstract of one to two pages in length,
    containing the title of the video, and full names and addresses of
    the authors.
(6) Author's permission to copy tape for review purposes.

Tapes cannot be returned; authors should retain extra copies for
making revisions. Tapes will be reviewed by international referees and
selected for presentation during the conference. The following
criteria will guide the selection: 

. Level of interest to the conference audience
. Clarity of goals, methods and results
. Presentation quality (including audio, video and pace).

Preference will be given to applications that show a high level of
maturity. Tapes that are deemed to be advertising commercial products,
propaganda, purely expository materials, merely taped lectures or other
material not of scientific or technical value will be rejected.

B. Publication

Abstracts of accepted video will be allotted one page in the
conference proceedings.  

In addition to showing the accepted tapes at the conference, copies of
them will be made available at an extra charge to the attendees
during the conference. Copies will also be sold after the conference.  

The videotape presentations started at IJCAI-89. Previously presented 
videotapes are available from Morgan Kaufmann as ISBN 1-55860-097-3
(IJCAI-89) and ISBN 1-55860-183-X (IJCAI-91).  Contact Morgan
Kaufmann Publishers, Inc., 2929 Campus Drive, Suite 260, San Mateo,
CA 94403, USA; (+1-415)578-9911; (+1-415)578-0672 fax;
morgan@unix.sri.com. 

C. Timetable

(1) Submissions must be received by November 1, 1992. All tape
submissions must be made to the Video Track Chair. Submissions
received after that date will be returned unopened. Authors should
note that ordinary mail can sometimes be considerably delayed and
should take this into account when timing their submissions.
Notification of receipt will be mailed to the first author (or
designated author) soon after receipt. 

(2) Notification of acceptance or rejection will be mailed on or
before March 1, 1993. Notification will be sent to the first author
(or designated author). Accepted tapes will be sent directly from the 
Video Track Chair to the conference publisher. 

(3) The video's abstract, edited in the format specified in the
acceptance letter, must be received by April 1, 1993. Authors who wish
to update their video can send the revised tapes directly to the
conference publisher by April 1, 1993.

Video Track Chair
Toru Ishida 
NTT Communication Science Laboratories 
Sanpeidani, Inuidani, Seika-cho, Soraku-gun, 
Kyoto 619-02 JAPAN  
Tel : +81 7749 5 1821 
Fax : +81 7749 5 1839  
email : ishida@cslab.kecl.ntt.jp