Last Call for Papers: The 2009 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ICAI'09), USA, July 13-16, 2009

[A. M. G. Solo]

C A L L F O R P A P E R S
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The 2009 International Conference on
Artificial Intelligence
ICAI'09

Date and Location: July 13-16, 2009, Las Vegas, USA

http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/worldcomp09/ws/conferences/icai09
http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/

You are invited to submit a paper; see below for submission
instructions. All accepted papers will be published in the
respective conference proceedings (in printed books, DVD, as
well as online/web).

SCOPE: Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the
following:

O Brain models / cognitive science
O Natural language processing
O Fuzzy logic and soft computing
O Software tools for AI
O Expert systems
O Decision support systems
O Automated problem solving
O Knowledge discovery
O Knowledge representation
O Knowledge acquisition
O Knowledge-intensive problem solving techniques
O Knowledge networks and management
O Intelligent information systems
O Intelligent data mining and farming
O Intelligent web-based business
O Intelligent agents
O Intelligent networks
O Intelligent databases
O Intelligent user interface
O AI and evolutionary algorithms
O Intelligent tutoring systems
O Reasoning strategies
O Distributed AI algorithms and techniques
O Distributed AI systems and architectures
O Neural networks and applications
O Heuristic searching methods
O Languages and programming techniques for AI
O Constraint-based reasoning and constraint programming
O Intelligent information fusion
O Learning and adaptive sensor fusion
O Search and meta-heuristics
O Multisensor data fusion using neural and fuzzy techniques
O Integration of AI with other technologies
O Evaluation of AI tools
O Social intelligence (markets and computational societies)
O Social impact of AI
O Emerging technologies
O Applications (including: computer vision, signal processing,
military, surveillance, robotics, medicine, pattern recognition,
face recognition, finger print recognition, finance and
marketing, stock market, education, emerging applications, ...)

O The 2009 International Workshop on Machine Learning; Models,
Technologies and Applications:

- General Machine Learning Theory
. Statistical learning theory
. Unsupervised and Supervised Learning
. Multivariate analysis
. Hierarchical learning models
. Relational learning models
. Bayesian methods
. Meta learning
. Stochastic optimization
. Simulated annealing
. Heuristic optimization techniques
. Neural networks
. Reinforcement learning
. Multi-criteria reinforcement learning
. General Learning models
. Multiple hypothesis testing
. Decision making
. Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) methods
. Non-parametric methods
. Graphical models
. Gaussian graphical models
. Bayesian networks
. Particle filter
. Cross-Entropy method
. Ant colony optimization
. Time series prediction
. Fuzzy logic and learning
. Inductive learning and applications
. Grammatical inference

- General Graph-based Machine Learning Techniques
. Graph kernel and graph distance methods
. Graph-based semi-supervised learning
. Graph clustering
. Graph learning based on graph transformations
. Graph learning based on graph grammars
. Graph learning based on graph matching
. General theoretical aspects of graph learning
. Statistical modeling of graphs
. Information-theoretical approaches to graphs
. Motif search
. Network inference
. General issues in graph and tree mining

- Machine Learning Applications
. Aspects of knowledge structures
. Computational Finance
. Computational Intelligence
. Knowledge acquisition and discovery techniques
. Induction of document grammars
. Supervised and unsupervised classification of web data
. General Structure-based approaches in information retrieval,
web authoring, information extraction, and web content mining
. Latent semantic analysis
. Aspects of natural language processing
. Intelligent linguistic
. Aspects of text technology
. Computational vision
. Bioinformatics and computational biology
. Biostatistics
. High-throughput data analysis
. Biological network analysis:
protein-protein networks, signaling networks, metabolic
networks,
transcriptional regulatory networks
. Graph-based models in biostatistics
. Computational Neuroscience
. Computational Chemistry
. Computational Statistics
. Systems Biology
. Algebraic Biology

Web links:
http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/worldcomp09/ws/conferences/icai09
http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/

SPONSORS (confirmed as of Feb. 10, 2009):

Academic Sponsors include:
United States Military Academy, Network Science Center, USA;
Biomedical Cybernetics Laboratory, HST of Harvard University and
MIT, USA; Argonne's Leadership Computing Facility of Argonne
National Laboratory, USA; Functional Genomics Laboratory,
University
of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA; Minnesota Supercomputing
Institute, University of Minnesota, USA; Intelligent Data
Exploration and Analysis Laboratory, University of Texas at Austin,
Texas, USA; Harvard Statistics Department Genomics & Bioinformatics
Laboratory, Harvard University, USA; Texas Advanced Computing
Center,
The University of Texas at Austin, Texas, USA; Center for the
Bioinformatics and Computational Genomics, Georgia Institute of
Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, USA; Bioinformatics & Computational
Biology Program, George Mason University, Virginia, USA; Institute
of Discrete Mathematics and Geometry, Vienna University of
Technology, Austria; BioMedical Informatics & Bio-Imaging
Laboratory, Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University,
Atlanta, Georgia, USA; Knowledge Management & Intelligent System
Center (KMIS) of University of Siegen, Germany; Hawkeye Radiology
Informatics, College of Medicine, University of Iowa, USA;
Institute
for Informatics Problems of the Russian Academy of Sciences,
Moscow,
Russia; Medical Image HPC & Informatics Lab (MiHi Lab), University
of Iowa, USA; SECLAB of University of Naples Federico II,
University
of Naples Parthenope, and the Second University of Naples, Italy;
The University of North Dakota, North Dakota, USA; Intelligent
Cyberspace Engineeing Lab., ICEL, Texas A&M University (Com./
Texas),
USA; International Society of Intelligent Biological Medicine;
World
Academy of Biomedical Sciences & Technologies; & European
Commission.
Other Sponsors include:
High Performance Computing for Nanotechnology (HPCNano);
HoIP - Health without Boundaries; The International Council on
Medical and Care Compunetics; The UK Department for Business,
Enterprise & Regulatory Reform; VMW Solutions Ltd.; Scientific
Technologies Corporation; and Bentham Science Publishers.

General Co-Chair and Coordinator:

H. R. Arabnia, PhD
Professor, Computer Science
Editor-in-Chief, The Journal of Supercomputing (Springer)
Advisory Board, IEEE Technical Committee on TCSC
Vice President, Int'l Society of Intelligent Biological Medicine
The University of Georgia
Department of Computer Science
415 Boyd Building
Athens, Georgia 30602-7404, USA

Tel: (706) 542-3480
Fax: (706) 542-2966
E-mail: h...@cs.uga.edu

SUBMISSION OF PAPERS:

Prospective authors are invited to submit their draft papers by
uploading them to http://worldcomp.cviog.uga.edu/ .
Submissions must be received by Feb. 25, 2009 and they must be in
either MS doc or pdf formats (about 5 to 7 pages - single space,
font size of 10 to 12). All reasonable typesetting formats are
acceptable (later, the authors of accepted papers will be asked to
follow a particular typesetting format to prepare their papers for
publication.)

The length of the Camera-Ready papers (if accepted) will be limited
to 7 (IEEE style) pages. Papers must not have been previously
published or currently submitted for publication elsewhere. The
first page of the draft paper should include: title of the paper,
name, affiliation, postal address, and email address for each
author.
The first page should also identify the name of the Contact Author
and a maximum of 5 topical keywords that would best represent the
content of the paper. Finally, the name of the conference (ICAI)
must be mentioned on the first page.

Papers will be evaluated for originality, significance, clarity,
impact, and soundness. Each paper will be refereed by two experts
in the field who are independent of the conference program
committee.
The referees' evaluations will then be reviewed by two members of
the program committee who will recommend a decision to the co-
chairs.
The co-chairs will make the final decision. Lastly, the Camera-
Ready
papers will be reviewed by one member of the program committee.

IMPORTANT DATES:

Feb. 25, 2009: Submission of papers (about 5 to 7 pages)
March 25, 2009: Notification of acceptance
April 25, 2009: Camera-Ready papers and Registration due
July 13-16, 2009: The 2009 International Conference on Artificial
Intelligence (ICAI'09)

MEMBERS OF PROGRAM AND ORGANIZING COMMITTEES:

The Program Committee includes members of chapters of World Academy
of Science (chapters: supercomputing; scientific computing; AI;
imaging science; databases; simulation; software engineering;
embedded systems; internet and web technologies; communications;
bioinformatics; computational biology; and computer security.)
The Program Committee for ICAI is currently being formed. Those
interested in joining the Program Committee should email Prof.
Arabnia
(h...@cs.uga.edu) the following information: Name, affiliation
and position, complete mailing address, email address, a short
biography together with research interests and the name of the
conference (ICAI) offering to help with.
Many who have already joined the committees of individual tracks
are renowned leaders, scholars, researchers, scientists and
practitioners of the highest ranks; many are directors of research
laboratories, fellows of various societies, heads/chairs of
departments, deans and provosts.

PURPOSE / HISTORY:

ICAI'09 is an annual research conference about Artificial
Intelligence.
It is being held jointly (same location and dates) with a number of
other conferences (WORLDCOMP'09). WORLDCOMP is the largest annual
gathering of researchers in computer science, computer engineering
and applied computing.

The motivation is to assemble a spectrum of affiliated research
topics
into a coordinated meeting held in a common place at a common time.
The main goal is to provide a forum for exchange of ideas in a
number
of research areas that interact. The model used facilitates
communication among researchers from all over the world in
different
fields of computer science, computer engineering and applied
computing. Both inward research (core areas of computer science
and
engineering) and outward research (multi-disciplinary, inter-
disciplinary,
and applications) will be covered during the event.

ICAI'09 and WORLDCOMP'09 will be composed of research
presentations,
keynote lectures, invited presentations, tutorials, panel
discussions,
and poster presentations. In recent past, keynote and/or tutorial
speakers included: Prof. David A. Patterson (U. of California,
Berkeley); Prof. Michael J. Flynn (Stanford U.); Prof. John H.
Holland
(U. of Michigan, Ann Arbor); Prof. Brian D. Athey (U. of Michigan,
Ann Arbor), Prof. H. J. Siegel (Colorado State U.); Prof. Barry
Vercoe
(MIT); Prof. Ruzena Bajcsy (U. of California, Berkeley);
Prof. Jun Liu (Harvard U.); Dr. Jim Gettys (OLPC + developer of X
Window); Dr. Chris Rowen (President and CEO, Tensilica, Inc.); and
many other distinguished speakers.

LOCATION OF CONFERENCES:

The conferences will be held in the Monte Carlo hotel, Las Vegas,
Nevada, USA (with any overflows at other near-by hotels). This is
a mega hotel with excellent conference facilities and over 3,000
rooms. It is minutes from the airport with 24-hour shuttle
service to and from the airport. This hotel has many recreational
attractions, including: waterfalls, spa, pools, sunning decks, Easy
River, wave pool, lighted tennis courts, health spa, nightly shows,
a number of restaurants, ... The negotiated room rate for
conference attendees is very reasonable. The hotel is within
walking distance from most other attractions (recreational
destinations, Golf courses, ...)