DM: AISB-00: Extended Deadline for SYMPOSIUM PROPOSALS, 29th of October

[Mark G Lee]

Hello


Apologies for any cross & repeated postings - please distribute 
freely. 


TO ALL AI RESEARCHERS, especially but NOT EXCLUSIVELY those interested
in :

  * representing and reasoning about time or change

  * effects of AI on society (in work or leisure)

  * societal aspects of cognition 

  * societies of agents 

  * learning (especially in multiagent systems)


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                **            AISB'00 CONVENTION       **
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                **       ``Time for AI and Society''   **
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                ** SECOND CALL FOR SYMPOSIUM PROPOSALS **
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                **          Extended Deadline          **
                **         29th October  1999          **
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The Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and Simulation of
Behaviour (AISB) is pleased to announce its forthcoming convention and
to invite proposals for the Symposia which will largely constitute the
event.

DATES:    from 17th April 2000 until 20th April 2000 inclusive

LOCATION: University of Birmingham, England

FORMAT:   up to ten serial/parallel Symposia on AI or Cognitive 
Science
          topics preferably related to the overall Convention theme of
                   Time for AI and Society

PROGRAMME OVERSEERS and LOCAL ARRANGERS:  
  John Barnden & Mark Lee
  School of Computer Science
  University of Birmingham
  Birmingham B15 2TT
  England

  {J.A.Barnden,M.G.Lee}@cs.bham.ac.uk 
  Tel: (+44)(0)121-414-{3816,4765}

SYMPOSIUM WEB PAGE:  http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~mgl/aisb/
    (currently doesn't contain much but will be added to later)

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THE AISB'00 SYMPOSIA

By default an AISB'00 Symposium will last for two days within the four
days of the Convention. However, we will also consider proposals for
one-day and three-day Symposia.

Each Symposium will have a Programme Chair, who will be responsible 
for administration of the programme, recruiting a programme committee,
arranging the refereeing of extended abstracts for presentation of
papers at the event, and collecting full papers for a
pre-proceedings. It is hoped that each Symposium programme chair will
try to arrange for post-Convention publication of revised papers from
the Symposia in the form of book, special journal issue, etc.

Given that the name of the Society includes the phrase ``Simulation of
Behaviour'' we welcome Symposia that have a Cognitive Science flavour 
as opposed to a more narrowly Artificial Intelligence flavour.

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OTHER ASPECTS OF THE CONVENTION

We plan for there to be four plenary keynote talks.

We plan for there to be opportunities to demonstrate software or
hardware.  A call for demonstrations will be put out in due course.
Also, Symposium proposals can include plans for demonstrations.

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CONVENTION THEME

The Convention theme ``Time for AI and Society'' alludes to the 
present
time of change in society at large, as symbolised by the new
millenium. The theme has various aspects:

-- It is timely for AI to contribute further _to_ society, including
   its work environments and leisure worlds. More generally, the
   possible impact of AI, as it develops, on society is an important
topic of study.

-- It is timely for AI to intensify its study _of_ society in a broad
   sense.

-- It is timely for AI to make further advances in dealing with 
handling time and change themselves.


The overall theme therefore allows a very broad range of Symposia with
rich interrelationships, and provides a place for many styles of
content: for example, 

APPLICATIONS-ORIENTED RESEARCH

STUDIES OF HUMAN-FACTORS ISSUES

BASIC TECHNICAL RESEARCH.  

The theme covers technical issues such as 

-- the problems of adequately representing and reasoning about time 
and change

-- problems of getting artificial agents to interact with each other 
in societies

-- issues raised by viewing an individual agent's cognition as partly 
a societal matter and not just a matter for processes within that
   agent.

However, it is to be emphasised that PROPOSALS IN ALL AREAS OF
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND COGNITIVE SCIENCE WILL BE CONSIDERED.


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INTERNATIONAL NATURE

Although the AISB may be thought of as a national AI society for the
United Kingdom, we enthusiastically welcome Symposium proposals from
anywhere in the world and participants from anywhere in the world in 
the Symposium programmes.

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MAKING A PROPOSAL

Proposals should be made by EMAILING IN PLAIN TEXT to John Barnden at
the above address, enclosing the following information.  (Prior 
informal
email or phone enquiries from possible proposers are welcomed.)




   TITLE of Symposium

   NAME & AFFILIATION of Symposium Chair - including both postal and
   email addresses and both fax and telephone numbers.

   ABSTRACT for Symposium - not more than 200 words, explaining the
   remit of the Symposium. This should be suitable for inclusion in a
   call for papers.

   CASE FOR SUPPORT - not more than 1000 words, arguing the case for
   including your Symposium at the AISB'00 event. You may put
   observations about your own background and suitability in the
   Additional Comments section below.

   SYMPOSIUM LENGTH JUSTIFIACTION -- if you are proposing a Symposium 
of
   a length other than two days, please briefly indicate the reasons.

   PROGRAMME COMMITTEE - names and affiliations of (at least) four
people
   who have agreed in principle to serve on your Symposium's programme
   committee. The programme committee should preferably represent (at
   least) four different institutions. It should as far as possible
cover
   the intended breadth of the Symposium, especially if it is
   multidisciplinary.

   ADDITIONAL COMMENTS -- no more than 500 words, on, for example, the
   relevance of your background to the proposed Symposium.

   BIBLIOGRAPHY -- any literature references cited above.

Wording beyond the word limits will be deleted before the proposal is
considered!!

Proposals will be selected with the aid of the Committee of the AISB.

Unless there are very special circumstances, please do not expect us 
to
consider web pages or other documents referenced by the proposal.


*** TO FACILIATE THE PROPOSAL CONSIDERATION PROCESS,
    PLEASE DO NOT SEND ANYTHING OTHER THAN PLAIN-TEXT EMAILS.
    SO, no Word attachments, postscript, HTML, etc.
***


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TIMETABLE (revised):

Notification of intention to submit                     15th October  
1999
Extended Symposium Proposal deadline                    29th October  
1999

Notification re Symposium acceptance                    5th November
1999

Suggested deadline for Call for Extended Abstracts      12th November 
1999

Suggested Extended Abstract submission deadline 
in :                                           first half of December 
1999

Suggested Extended Abstract notification deadline       28th January  
2000

Required submission deadline for Full Papers            12th March    
2000
Convention 2000                                 17th April 2000 - 
20th April



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** PLEASE NOTE SYMPOSIUM PROPOSAL EXTENDED DEADLINE:  29th OCTOBER
1999!!! **
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