DM: ACAI99: Call for Student Papers

[Nikos Vassilas]

                        * CALL FOR STUDENT PAPERS *
                     MACHINE LEARNING AND APPLICATIONS
           Advanced Course on Artificial Intelligence 1999 (ACAI-99)
                         5-16 July 1999, Greece
               (http://www.iit.demokritos.gr/skel/eetn/acai99)

The ACAI-99 Programme Committee is pleased to announce a special 
programme of 
student presentations to be held in two or more student sessions. The 
call is 
open to students who are currently enrolled for a post-graduate 
degree.
The aim is to give the opportunity to post-graduate students to 
present their 
ongoing work to the invited lecturers, experienced researchers and 
other 
students, by submitting a short (2-page) paper. The short paper 
should report 
on current results of their ongoing research. In addition note that:
* All accepted papers will be included in a Student Sessions 
Proceedings. 
* A Best Paper Award will be offered by the ACAI-99 Programme 
Committee.

** IMPORTANT DATES **
February 28, 1999: Deadline for Submission of Camera-Ready Student 
Papers
April 1, 1998: Notification of Student Papers Acceptance

** The submission process **
Submissions are invited in all aspects of Machine Learning. 
Theoretical papers 
should clearly state the contributions to specific issues of Machine 
Learning 
and why they are important. Application oriented papers should state 
why 
Machine Learning methods are necessary and how they are applied to 
solve
particular problems. Comparison results are also welcome.
To facilitate the reviewing process and to make possible their 
inclusion of
accepted papers in the Proceedings, all submissions must be in a 
camera-ready 
form. The camera-ready short papers must be typed in single-column, 
Times 
10pt, left and right justified, using A4 paper size and 2.5 cm 
margins all 
around. The title should be typed at Times 12pt, the author name(s) 
at Times 
11pt and both should be in boldface and centered.
ACAI-99 encourages electronic submissions (Postscript or Word for 
Win95) in the
e-mail address: nvas@iit.demokritos.gr. If this is not possible, 
three hard
copies of the camera-ready paper should be sent by post to the 
ACAI-99 Student
Sessions Chair, at the address below. The deadline for receipt of the 
papers is
FEBRUARY 28, 1999. Submissions received after this date will not be 
reviewed.

** ADDRESS FOR SUBMISSION OF STUDENT PAPERS **
Nikolaos Vassilas, ACAI-99 Student Sessions Chair
N.C.S.R. "Demokritos", Institute of Informatics & Telecommunications
153 10 Agia Paraskevi, Attiki, GREECE
Email: nvas@iit.demokritos.gr , Tel:++30-1-650 3204  ,  
Fax:++30-1-653 2175

** The review process: The 2-page papers will be reviewed under the 
control of
ACAI-99 Programme Committee. The ACAI-99 Programme Chair has final 
authority
over the review process and all decisions relating to acceptance of 
papers.
Accepted papers will be allocated a maximum of 10 min for oral 
presentations.

** Grant offers: A limited number of grants will be available during 
ACAI-99.
Details will be available in the main call (due by mid-December, 
1998).