Workshops at the Twenty-Ninth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence
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** Call for Proposals **
Workshops at the Twenty-Ninth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence
January 25-26, 2015
Austin, Texas USA
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** Important Dates for Workshop Organizers **
* June 1, 2014: Proposals for Workshops Due
* July 1, 2014: Decisions Sent to Organizers
* July 18, 2014: Workshop CFP Due at AAAI
* October 14, 2014: Workshop Submissions Due to Organizers
(Referral process will be available for unsuccessful AAAI-15 technical
papers)
* November 14, 2014: Notifications Sent to Authors
* November 17, 2014: List of Participants Due at AAAI
* November 25, 2014: Final Workshop Papers Due at AAAI
** Formats **
The AAAI-15 Program Committee invites proposals for the Workshop Program of the
Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence's Twenty-Ninth AAAI
Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-15).
Workshops are scheduled to be held at the beginning of the conference, January
25-26, 2015. Workshop participants will have the opportunity to meet and
discuss issues with a selected focus -- providing an informal setting for
active exchange among researchers, developers and users on topics of current
interest. Members of all segments of the AI community are encouraged to submit
proposals. To foster interaction and exchange of ideas, the workshops will be
kept small, with 25-65 participants. Attendance is sometimes limited to active
participants only, but most workshops also allow general registration by other
interested individuals. The format of workshops will be determined by their
organizers, who are encouraged to leave ample time for general discussion.
Workshops will typically be one full day in length, although half-day and
two-day proposals will be considered.
** Innovations for the AAAI-15 Workshop Program **
The AAAI-15 Workshop cochairs particularly encourage the submission of
proposals for interdisciplinary workshops, which may involve co-organizers that
D are from disciplines other than AI, or may attract participants from
disciplines other than AI.
** Proposal Content **
Proposals for workshops should be about two (2) pages in length, and should
contain the following:
* A description of the workshop topic. Identify the specific issues on which
the workshop will focus.
* A brief discussion of why the topic is of particular interest at this
time.
* A brief description of the proposed workshop format, regarding the mix of
events such as paper presentations, invited talks, panels, and general
discussion.
* An indication as to whether the workshop should be considered for a
half-day, one, or two-day meeting.
* The names and full contact information (email and postal addresses, fax
and telephone numbers) of the organizing committee - three or four people
knowledgeable in the field-and short descriptions of their relevant
expertise. (Please specify main contact.) Strong proposals include
organizers who bring differing perspectives to the workshop topic and who
are actively connected to the communities of potential participants.
* A list of potential attendees.
Workshops are an excellent forum for exploring emerging approaches and task
areas, for bridging the gaps between AI and other fields or between subfields
of AI, for elucidating the results of exploratory research, or for critiquing
existing approaches. Because workshops are intended for focused exploration of
special topics, topics that are already the subject of regular meetings are
not appropriate.
** Workshop Organization **
Workshop organizers will be responsible for the following: Producing a call for
participation. The call for participation is due July 18, 2014. It will be
posted on the AAAI web site. Organizers are responsible for additional
publicity such as distributing the Call to relevant newsgroups and electronic
mailing lists, and especially to potential audiences from outside the AAAI
community. Organizers are encouraged to maintain their own web site with
updated information about the workshop.
Selecting participants. Workshop attendance is by invitation of the organizers.
Selection of attendees will be made by the organizers on the basis of
submissions due October 14, 2014. Workshop organizers will need to provide AAAI
with a preliminary list of the participants by November 17, 2014.
Coordinating the production of the technical reports. AAAI coordinates the
collection, production, and distribution of the technical reports or working
notes for the workshops. Workshop papers and abstracts must be received by AAAI
no later than November 25, 2014. Workshop organizers who want to publish the
papers from their workshop (or significant portions of it) will have the
opportunity to do so through the AAAI Press. The Press (which retains the right
of first refusal to publish) will furnish details of its program to interested
organizers and authors.
AAAI will provide logistical support, and meeting places for the workshops, and
will determine the dates and times of the workshops. AAAI reserves the right to
drop any workshop if the organizers miss the above deadlines. Workshops are not
to be used as a vehicle for marketing products. A reduced workshop registration
fee will be offered to AAAI-15 technical program registrants.
** Proposal Submission **
Workshop proposals should be submitted to the workshop cochairs at
aaai2...@aaai.org as soon as possible and must be received no later than June
1, 2014. PDF format is preferred. Organizers will be notified of the
committee's decision by July 1, 2014. Please address inquiries concerning
workshop submissions to the email address above.
** AAAI Workshop Cochairs **
Weng-Keen Wong
Oregon State University
Daniel Lowd
University of Oregon