[EPIA 2023] 22nd EPIA Conference on AI (Azores, Portugal) | Deadline April 16

[Nuno Moniz]

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CALL FOR PAPERS
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EPIA 2023
22nd EPIA Conference on Artificial Intelligence
Faial Island, Azores, Portugal
September 5-8, 2023
https://epia2023.inesctec.pt/
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NEWS:

- New sponsor: Artificial Intelligence Journal! 
- Keynotes:
* Abeba Birhane, Mozilla Foundation/Trinity College Dublin
* Josep Domingo-Ferrer, Universitat Rovira i Virgili
* Isabel Trancoso, Instituto Superior Técnico / INESC-ID
* Martin Visbeck, GEOMAR / Kiel University

The EPIA Conference on Artificial Intelligence is a well-established European conference. The 22nd edition of the EPIA conference will take place at Faial Island, Azores in September 2023.
The purpose of the EPIA conference is to promote research in all areas of AI, covering both theoretical/foundational issues and applications, and the scientific exchange among researchers, engineers, and practitioners in related disciplines.
As in previous editions, this international conference is hosted with the patronage of the Portuguese Association for Artificial Intelligence (APPIA).

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Thematic Tracks
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EPIA 2023 will feature the following thematic tracks covering a wide spectrum of AI topics:

AIGC - AI, Generation and Creativity
AmIA - Ambient Intelligence and Affective Environments
AIoTA - Artificial Intelligence and IoT in Agriculture
AIL - Artificial Intelligence and Law
AI4IS - Artificial Intelligence for Industry and Societies
AIM - Artificial Intelligence in Medicine
AIPES - Artificial Intelligence in Power and Energy Systems
AISC - Artificial Intelligence in Smart Computing
AITS - Artificial Intelligence in Transportation Systems
ERAI - Ethics and Responsibility in AI
GAI - General Artificial Intelligence
IROBOT - Intelligent Robotics
KDBI - Knowledge Discovery and Business Intelligence
MASTA - MultiAgent Systems: Theory and Applications
TeMA - Natural Language Processing, Text Mining and Applications
PSDM - Planning, Scheduling and Decision-Making in AI
SSM - Social Simulation and Modelling

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Journal Track
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The EPIA 2023 will feature a journal track to be announced very soon. In addition, several individual thematic tracks have planned special issues. Details can be obtained in the conference website.

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Submission and Reviewing
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- All papers should be submitted in PDF format through the EPIA 2023 EasyChair submission page https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=epia2023
- Prospective authors should select the thematic track to which their paper is to be submitted.
The papers should be prepared according to the Springer LNAI format, with a maximum of 12 pages. However, you should consider any track-specific details in your submission.
- Submitted papers will be subject to a double-blind review process and will be peer-reviewed by at least three members of the respective track Program Committee. It is the responsibility of the authors to remove names and affiliations from the submitted papers, and to take reasonable care to assure anonymity during the review process.
- Authors should consult Springer’s authors’ guidelines and use their proceedings templates, either for LaTeX or for Word, for the preparation of their papers. Springer encourages authors to include their ORCIDs in their papers. In addition, the corresponding author of each paper, acting on behalf of all of the authors of that paper, must complete and sign a Consent-to-Publish form. The corresponding author signing the copyright form should match the corresponding author marked on the paper. Once the files have been sent to Springer, changes relating to the authorship of the papers cannot be made.

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Proceedings and Presentations
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- Accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings (a volume of Springer’s LNAI-Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence), provided that at least one author is registered in EPIA 2023 by the early registration deadline.
- EPIA 2023 proceedings are indexed in Thomson Reuters ISI Web of Science, Scopus, DBLP and Google Scholar.
- Each accepted paper must be presented by one of the authors in a track session.

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Awards
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The conference will grant the following awards:
* Best Paper Award, for the best research paper presented at the conference
* Best Student Paper Award, for the best research paper presented at the conference where the first author is a student (to confirm)

Important: only papers that have been submitted to a thematic track and presented at the conference will be eligible for this award.

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Important Dates
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Paper submission deadline April 16, 2023
Notification of paper acceptance May 9, 2023
Camera-ready papers deadline June 15, 2023
Conference dates September 5-8, 2023

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EPIA 2023 Committees
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General/Program Chairs:
- Nuno Moniz, Lucy Family Institute for Data & Society / INESC TEC
- Zita Vale, ISEP / GECAD
- José Cascalho, Universidade dos Açores / GRIA - LIACC
- Catarina Silva, Universidade de Coimbra / CISUC
- Raquel Sebastião, Universidade de Aveiro / IEETA

Organization Chairs:
- Gui Menezes, Universidade dos Açores / OKEANOS (Local Chair)
- Rita P. Ribeiro, Universidade do Porto / INESC TEC
- Armando B. Mendes, Universidade dos Açores / GRIA - LIACC
- João Vinagre, Joint Research Center / Universidade do Porto

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International Steering Committee:
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Ana Bazzan, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Bernardete Ribeiro, Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
Ernesto Costa, Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
Eugénio Oliveira, Universidade do Porto, Portugal
Helder Coelho, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
José Júlio Alferes, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
Juan Pavón, Universidad Complutense Madrid, Spain
Luís Paulo Reis, Universidade do Porto, Portugal
Paulo Novais, Universidade do Minho, Portugal
Pavel Brazdil, Universidade do Porto, Portugal
Virginia Dignum, Umeå University, Sweden