Csaba Pleh Cognitive Science Group Department of Psychology Attila Jozsef University, Szeged Petofi sgt 30-34, 6722 Hungary Phone: (36)(62) 454000, extension 3273 Home: Budakeszi Zichy P. u. 4 2092 Hungary, (36)(23) 453932 or 933 Editor, Hungarian Review of Psychology ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 1 Sep 1999 09:06:39 +0200 (MET DST) From: Mark G Lee <M.G.Lee(a)cs.bham.ac.uk> Subject: AISB`00 Call for Symposium Proposals Resent-Date: Wed, 1 Sep 99 10:46:06 +100 Resent-From: pleh(a)izabell.elte.hu Resent-To: pleh(a)sol.cc.u-szeged.hu Sorry for multiple cross postings... ***************************************** ** ** ** AISB'00 CONVENTION ** ** ** ** ``Time for AI and Society'' ** ** ** ** FIRST CALL FOR SYMPOSIUM PROPOSALS ** ** ** ***************************************** **** DEADLINE: 15th OCTOBER 1999 **** 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}(a)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) *********************************************************************** 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. *********************************************************************** 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. *********************************************************************** 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. *********************************************************************** 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. *********************************************************************** 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. *** *********************************************************************** TIMETABLE Symposium Proposal deadline 15th October 1999 Notification re Symposium acceptance 29th October 1999 Suggested deadline for Call for Extended Abstracts 5th November 1999 Suggested Extended Abstract submission deadline 10th December 1999 Suggested Extended Abstract notification deadline 28th January 2000 Required submission deadline for Full Papers 12th March 2000 Convention 17th April 2000 - 20th April 2000 ************************************************************************ ** PLEASE NOTE SYMPOSIUM PROPOSAL DEADLINE: 15th OCTOBER 1999!!! ** ************************************************************************ Dept of Computer Science | mgl(a)cs.bham.ac.uk University of Birmingham | http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~mgl