CFP: AI'09 Graduate Student Symposium
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22nd CANADIAN AI
http://ai2009.site.uottawa.ca
GRADUATE STUDENT SYMPOSIUM
http://www.site.uottawa.ca/~caropres/CAI09stsymp/cai09stsymp.html
CALL FOR PAPERS - Deadline January 30th, 2009
AI 2009, the twenty-second Canadian Conference on Artificial
Intelligence, invites graduate students to submit four-page extended
abstracts of their thesis for possible inclusion in the AI 2009
Graduate Student Symposium.
The Symposium provides an opportunity for Master's and PhD students to
discuss and explore their research interests and career objectives
with their peers and with a panel of established researchers in
Artificial Intelligence, helping to develop a supportive community of
scholars and a spirit of collaborative research.
The symposium will be a one-day pre-conference event, where students
of accepted abstracts will be invited to give a presentation on their
thesis work before a group of peers as well as a small team of expert
AI researchers who would offer a critique of each presentation and
provide support, advice, and mentoring. Each student may also be
invited to participate in the poster session during the main
conference. In addition, a small selection of the best student
submissions will be invited to give a short talk during the main
conference.
PhD and Master's students are invited to submit original work in all
areas of Artificial Intelligence. It is not expected that submissions
will consist of polished work with complete results; instead, more
weight will be placed on the significance of the work, the proposed
ideas or solutions, and the overall presentation. Submissions should
therefore have emphasis on work in progress, with directions for
future research clearly indicated wherever appropriate.
To apply for the symposium, please email an extended abstract in PDF,
Postscript or MS-Word RTF to Svetlana dot Kiritchenko at nrc-cnrc dot
gc dot ca, by January 30th, 2009. Each abstract has to be accompanied
with a cover letter stating your name, institution, supervisor's name
and email address, program start date, expected graduation date, and
2-5 keywords describing your work. Also include a list of your
refereed and non-refereed publications and presentations at national
and international forums. All submissions must be written in English.
Abstracts may be up to 4 pages in length and must be formatted
according to Springer's LNCS style. Please follow the instructions for
authors at Springer's site for authors. The use of the LaTeX2e style
file available at the web site is strongly encouraged. We anticipate
all accepted abstracts to be included in the proceedings of the
Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence 2009 published by
Springer.
Each abstract will be reviewed by a mixed team of both students and
program committee members. Presenting students will be selected based
on clarity of the submission, stage of research, and evidence of
promise such as published papers or technical reports. Partial
financial assistance for travel and accommodations may be available to
a limited number of students presenting at the Symposium.
All students are encouraged to attend and participate in the
Symposium, whether or not they apply to present their work. All the
selected student presenters are expected to actively participate in
the full Symposium, as we envision participants gaining as much by
interacting with their peers as by having their presentations
critiqued by the faculty panel. In addition, a senior AI researcher
and faculty member will be invited to give a talk on a topic of
interest to graduate students.
Important Dates
Full paper submission due: January 30th, 2009
Notification of acceptance: March 3rd, 2009
Final paper due: March 12th, 2009
Graduate Student Symposium: May 24th, 2009
Co-Chairs
Svetlana Kiritchenko, National Research Council Canada
Maria Fernanda Caropreso, University of Ottawa
Contact
Svetlana Kiritchenko, National Research Council Canada
Svetlana dot Kiritchenko at nrc-cnrc dot gc dot ca
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