From: spa@fct.unl.pt (Salvador Pinto Abreu)
Newsgroups: news.announce.conferences
Subject: CFP: EPIA'93
Date: 18 Nov 92 23:32:38 GMT
Expires: Fri, 19 Mar 1993 08:00:00 GMT
Organization: Universidade Nova de Lisboa -- Lisbon, Portugal


			        EPIA'93

	SIXTH PORTUGUESE CONFERENCE ON ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

	     CALL FOR PAPERS - CALL FOR TUTORIAL PROPOSALS

			      Porto, Portugal
			    October 6 - 8, 1993

  Sponsored by the Portuguese Artificial Intelligence Association (APPIA)

The Sixth Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence (EPIA'93)
will be held on October 6-8, 1993, in Porto. Despite its name, and
like previous issues, EPIA'93 will be run as an international
conference, English being the official language. The scientific
programme will include tutorials, invited talks and paper
presentations. Invited speakers and (provisional) titles for their
talks are:

	David H.D. Warren, University of Bristol
	"Andorra-I: and-parallelism plus or-parallelism in Prolog plus FGHC"

	Les Gasser, University of Southern California
	"Organizations as Complex Dynamic Design Problems"

	Yoav Shoham, University of Stanford
	"Software Agents: micro and macro considerations"

Submissions of papers are invited in all aspects of AI, including, but
not limited to:

	* Applications
	* Architectures and languages for AI
	* Automated reasoning
	* Connectionist and PDP models
	* Distributed AI
	* Knowledge representation
	* Learning and knowledge acquisition
	* Logic programming
	* Natural language processing

Papers must be written in good English and must not exceed 15 A4
pages. Papers should include an abstract and keywords to define a
topic. Submitted papers (or any portion thereof) should not have been
previously published and should not be under review for a journal or a
refereed conference or workshop. Each accepted paper must be presented
at the conference.

Four copies of each submitted paper should be received on or before 19
March 1993 by one of the Programme Chairmen.

No submissions of papers by e-mail or fax will be accepted.

Notification of acceptance/rejection will be made by 21 May, 1993.
Camera-ready copies of accepted papers are due on or before 18 June 1993.
Arrangements are being made for the proceedings to be published by
Springer-Verlag in its Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence
series, as in previous years.

Tutorial proposals are invited on all aspects of AI. They should
include the following information:

	* A summary of the tutorial (up to 1 A4 page)
	* Background needed for attending and expected audience
	* Brief curriculum vitae of proposer (2 A4 pages maximum)

Tutorial proposals must reach one of the Programme Chairmen on or
before 3 May, 1993. Email or fax submissions of tutorial proposals
(but NOT of papers) may be made.

Official Language: English.

Programme Committee:
	Antonio Porto, Universidade Nova de Lisboa
	Armando Matos, Universidade do Porto
	David Warren, University of Bristol
	Ernesto Costa, Universidade de Coimbra
	Eugenio Oliveira, Universidade do Porto
	Jean-Louis Lassez, T. J. Watson Research Center, IBM
	Luis Moniz Pereira, Universidade Nova de Lisboa

Programme Chairmen:
	Miguel Filgueiras, Luis Damas

	Centro de Informatica U.P.
	R. do Campo Alegre 823
	4100 Porto / Portugal

	email: mig@ncc.up.pt
	Fax: +315-2-6003654
	Tel: +351-2-6001672

Organising Committee:
	Miguel Filgueiras, Nelma Moreira, Rogerio Reis, Ana Paula Tomas
	(same address as above)
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