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                      ECAI 2000/PAIS 2000

        14th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence
          Prestigious Applications of Intelligent Systems

                  Berlin, Humboldt University
                       August 20-25, 2000

               http://www.ecai2000.hu-berlin.de

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Organized by
German Informatics Society (GI) and
European Coordinating Committee for Artificial Intelligence (ECCAI)

Hosted by
Humboldt University Berlin


     In this special turn of the century we invite you to  celebrate
   ECAI 2000 in Berlin.  Being  the  fourteenth in a very successful
   series  of  European  Conferences  on   Artificial  Intelligence,
   ECAI 2000  will  offer a unique opportunity to bring industry and
   academics together to explore the  full  spectrum  of  Artificial
   Intelligence,  from theory and  methodology to its application in
   commercial systems.

     Respond to the call of the German Informatics Society (GI)  and
   the European Coordinating Committee for Artificial  Intelligence,
   the world's largest umbrella organization for AI,  and meet well-
   known AI experts at Humboldt University Berlin, a University that
   can proudly look back on almost 200 years  of  tradition  and  29
   associated Nobel prize winners.

     Since the year 2000 is a special year, we will make ECAI 2000 a
   very special conference.  ECAI 2000 gathered 443 submissions from
   which, however, only roughly a third can be accepted for  presen-
   tation. Although the majority of papers comes from Europe,  there
   is a significant number of papers from Australia, Asia, and North
   America,  leading  to  a  total  of  42  contributing  countries.
   Furthermore,  ECAI 2000  comprises  six  invited  talks  given by
   distinguished scientists, master-class lectures in  10  tutorials
   and serious discussions of hot new research topics  in  34  work-
   shops.

     The real success of Artificial intelligence will be measured by
   the applications that use the technology rather than the  techno-
   logy itself.  For the first time,  ECAI comprises the Prestigious
   Applications of Intelligent Systems  sub-conference  (PAIS 2000),
   which is the first major  European  showcase of beneficial  solu-
   tions for industry and commerce based on AI technologies.

     ECAI and PAIS are accompanied by an exhibition concept that re-
   flects AI's history, its gaining grounds in the 20th century  and
   its progress paths envisioned into the 21st century. We also plan
   to have a rather unusual sidetrack meant  to  attract layman such
   that ECAI 2000  becomes an event in Berlin and not  only  one  of
   diverse scientific congresses hardly noticed by the public. In so
   far,  we aim at presenting  AI on ECAI 2000 in a very broad scope
   in order to show its relation to  other  classical  and  advanced
   IT topics.

     In the following we will present a short glance at the  program
   of ECAI 2000. We will also provide some information on  registra-
   tion deadlines and fees.  More  detailed information is available
   on the conference home page at

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     Do not miss this opportunity.  Register  now  and  be cordially
   welcome at ECAI 2000 in Berlin!


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IMPORTANT DATES
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    15    Jun  2000       Early Registration Deadline
     1    Aug  2000       Late Registration Deadline
    20-25 Aug  2000       ECAI/PAIS 2000


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INVITED TALKS
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   Piero P. Bonissone
     General Electric, USA
     Corporate Research and Development

     "Hybrid Soft Computing: Where are we going?"


   Patrick Doherty
     Linkoeping University, Sweden
     Artificial Intelligence and
     Integrated Computer Systems Division

     "A Bird's-Eye View of the
      WITAS Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Project"


   Daniele Nardi
     Universita di Roma "La Sapienza", Italy
     Artificial Intelligence Research Group

     "Artificial Intelligence in RoboCup"


   Bernhard Nebel
     Albert-Ludwigs-Universitaet Freiburg, Germany
     Artificial Intelligence Research Group

     "Knowledge Representation and Reasoning -
      The Theoretical Side of AI"


   Luc Steels
     Sony Computer Science Laboratory Paris, France
     and
     Vrije Universiteit Brussels, Belgium
     Artificial Intelligence Laboratory

     "The Emergence of Grammar in
      Communicating Autonomous Robotic Agents"


   Mark Wallace
     Imperial College, UK
     ICL and IC-Parc

     "Constraint Programming -
      Applications, Algorithms, Languages"


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TUTORIALS
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   T1: Ant Algorithms and Swarm Intelligence: An Introduction
     M. Dorigo
     http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~mdorigo

   T2: Stochastic Search Algorithms
     H. H. Hoos, T. Stuetzle
     http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~hoos/ecai2000-stoch

   T3: AI Techniques for Knowledge Management
     S. Decker, S. Staab
     http://kmtutorial.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de

   T4: Solving and Programming with Soft Constraints:
     Theory and Implementation
     F. Rossi, P. Codognet
     http://www.math.unipd.it/~frossi/ecai2000-tut.html

   T5: Empirical Methods for Computer Science
     P. Cohen, I. Gent, T. Walsh

   T6: Knowledge Markup Techniques
     H. Boley, S. Decker, M. Sintek
     http://www.SemanticWeb.org/knowmarktutorial

   T7: Applying Automatic Text Generation
     M. Stede, L. Wanner
     http://www.cs.tu-berlin.de/~stede/ecaitutorial.html

   T8: Rational Action in Autonomous Agents
     S. Parsons, M. Wooldridge

   T9: Seeking Information: Methods from Information Retrieval and
     Artificial Intelligence
     D. Fensel, M. Lalmas
     http://www.dcs.qmw.ac.uk/~mounia/ECAI.html

   T10: Neural Networks and Structured Knowledge
     F. Kurfess
     http://www.cs.concordia.ca/~faculty/franz


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WORKSHOPS
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   W1: 14th Workshop on Planning and Configuration (PuK 2000)
     Submission date: March 28th, 2000
     http://www-is.informatik.uni-oldenburg.de/~sauer/puk2000/index.html

   W2: Configuration
     Submission date: April 16th, 2000
     http://www.cs.hut.fi/u/pdmg/ECAI2000WS

   W3: Agent-oriented Software Management (AOSM)
     Submission date: March 31st, 2000
     http://www.wirtschaft.tu-ilmenau.de/wi/wi2/ECAI2000-AOSE

   W4: Cognitive Robotics
     Submission date: April 7th, 2000
     http://www-i5.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/LuFG/cogrob2000

   W5: Current Issues in Spatio-Temporal Reasoning
     Submission date: March 31st, 2000
     http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~hans/spacetime

   W6: Local Search for Planning & Scheduling
     Submission date: May 1st, 2000
     http://www.ai-center.com/events/ecai-2000-ws

   W7: 2nd ECAI Workshop on Binding Environmental Sciences and
       Artificial Intelligence (BESAI 2000)
     Submission date: expired
     http://www.lsi.upc.es/~webia/besai/besai2000.html

   W8: Scientific Reasoning in AI and Philosophy of Science
     Submission date: April 7th, 2000
     http://www.compulog.org/workshops/ecai

   W9: Application of Ontologies and Problem Solving Methods
     Submission date: March 29th, 2000
     http://delicias.dia.fi.upm.es/WORKSHOP/ECAI00/index.html

   W10: Engineering Societies in the Agents' World (ESAW 00)
     Submission date: April 7th, 2000
     http://lia.deis.unibo.it/confs/ESAW00

   W11: Knowledge Management and Organizational Memory
     Submission date: expired
     http://www-sop.inria.fr/acacia/WORKSHOPS/ECAI2000-OM/call.html

   W12: Knowledge Representation and Ontologies in Education
     Submission date: expired
     http://virtcampus.cl-ki.uni-osnabrueck.de/ecai-2000

   W13: Agent Technologies and Their Application Scenarios in Logistics
     Submission date: May 31st, 2000
     http://www.tzi.de/ecai00-mas

   W14: Multi-Agent Systems and Geographical Information Systems
     Submission date: April 3rd, 2000
     http://www-leibniz.imag.fr/MAGMA/ECAI00/ecai-ws.html

   W15: Foundations of Connectionist-Symbolic Integration:
        Representation, Paradigms, and Algorithms
     Submission date: March 31st, 2000
     http://www.dsi.unifi.it/~paolo/ECAI2000

   W16: Machine Learning for Information Extraction
     Submission date: expired
     http://ecate.itc.it:1024/cirave/ecai-workshop.html

   W17: AI in Product Data Management: Modelling and Reasoning
        about Product Data in e-Commerce and e-Business (AiPDM)
     Submission date: May 5th, 2000
     http://www.zurich.ibm.com/pub/Other/AiPDM

   W18: Knowledge Representation Meets Databases (KRDB-2000)
     Submission date: March 20th, 2000
     http://www-lti.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/KRDB2000

   W19: Applied Semiotics: Control Problems (ASC2000)
     Submission date: expired
     http://www.iitp.ru/asc2000

   W20: Service Robotics - Applications and Safety Issues in an Emerging Market
     Submission date: March 31st, 2000
     http://www.uni-bremen.de/~sppraum/sr00.htm

   W21: Workshop on Bayesian and Causal Networks: From Inference to Data Mining
     Submission date: expired
     http://www.lsi.upc.es/~sanguesa/CaNew2000.html

   W22: Computational Dialectics:
        Models of Argumentation, Negotiation and Decision Making
     Submission date: April 8th, 2000
     http://www.philos.rug.nl/~gerard/cd2000

   W23: Intelligent Data Analysis in Medicine and Pharmacology (IDAMAP-2000)
     Submission date: April 20th, 2000
     http://www.ifs.tuwien.ac.at/~silvia/idamap-2000

   W24: Ontology Learning
     Submission date: April 1st, 2000
     http://ol2000.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de

   W25: Modelling and Solving Problems with Constraints
     Submission date: May 5th, 2000
     http://www.iiia.csic.es/ecai2000

   W26: Analysis and Modelling of Collaborative Learning Interactions
     Submission date: expired
     http://collide.informatik.uni-duisburg.de/ecai-2000

   W27: Machine Learning in Computer Vision (MLCV)
     Submission date: March 20th, 2000
     http://www.di.uniba.it/~malerba/ws-ecai2000

   W28: Modelling Artificial Societies and Hybrid Organizations
     Submission date: April 7th, 2000
     http://www.cs.vu.nl/~jonker/masho-ecai2000

   W29: Balancing Reactivity and Social Deliberation in Multi-Agent Systems
     Submission date: May 1st, 2000
     http://www.first.gmd.de/plan/ecai-2000-ws.html

   W30: Flexible Strategies for Maintaining Knowledge Containers
     Submission date: April 17th, 2000
     http://www.ecai2000.hu-berlin.de/mkc-ws

   W31: Knowledge-Based Systems for Model-Based Engineering
     Submission date: April 10th, 2000
     http://www.dbai.tuwien.ac.at/event/ecai2000-kbsmbe

   W32: Artificial Intelligence in Mobile Systems (AIMS 2000)
     Submission date: April 21st, 2000
     http://www.eml.org/aims2000

   W33: AI in Agriculture and Natural Resources
     Submission date: April 3rd, 2000
     http://www-bia.inra.fr/T/decision/WS-ECAI2000

   W34: Empirical Methods in Artificial Intelligence
     Submission date: May 5th, 2000
     http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~hoos/ecai2000-empai


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REGISTRATION
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     The details given here  are for your  information only. To  re-
   gister for ECAI 2000,  its tutorials  and workshops and to book a
   hotel please use the forms provided on our home page.

     Prices are given in Euro (EUR) and Deutsche Mark (DM).  To  re-
   ceive the reduced fee as a member of an ECCAI member  society  or
   being a member of GI, please provide evidence of membership (e.g.
   membership card) and send  it  together  with  your  registration
   form. If you are a student, please provide proof on your status.

   ECAI 2000 CONFERENCE (PAIS 2000 included)

                      Early                 Late                  On-Site
                      (until June 15th)     (until August 1st)    (after 
August 1st)
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   Member             EUR 350 / DM 684.54   EUR 410 / DM 801.89   EUR 480 / 
DM 938.08

   Non-Member         EUR 450 / DM 880.12   EUR 510 / DM 997.47   EUR 570 / 
DM 1114.82

   Student/Member     EUR 120 / DM 234.07   EUR 145 / DM 283.06   EUR 190 / 
DM 371.61

   Student/Non-Member EUR 130 / DM 254.26   EUR 155 / DM 303.15   EUR 200 / 
DM 391.17


   TUTORIALS (each)
                      Early                 Late                  On-Site
                      (until June 15th)     (until August 1st)    (after 
August 1st)
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   Member             EUR 200 / DM 391.17   EUR 220 / DM 430.28   EUR 260 / 
DM 508.52

   Non-Member         EUR 250 / DM 488.96   EUR 270 / DM 528.07   EUR 310 / 
DM 606.31

   Student/Member     EUR  80 / DM 156.47   EUR 110 / DM 215.14   EUR 140 / 
DM 273.82

   Student/Non-Member EUR  90 / DM 176.02   EUR 120 / DM 234.70   EUR 150 / 
DM 293.37


   WORKSHOPS (each)

   There is a flat fee for each workshop:  EUR 50 / DM 97.79

   Workshop participants must register for the main ECAI conference.
   No extra charge for late workshop registrations.


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