PAI 2012

 From: Paola Mello <paola.mello@unibo.it>
To: disi@cs.unibo.it
Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2012 23:35:18 +0100
Subject: CfP: PAI 2012

Vi pregherei di pubblicizzarla anche fra i vostri studenti,
Grazie
Paola
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> 		  AI*IA National Workshop and Prize on
>                   Popularize Artificial Intelligence
>                             (PAI 2012)
>          celebrating 100th anniversary of Alan Turing's birth
> 
>                              June 2012
> 
>                             Rome, Italy
>                (held in conjunction with AI*IA 2012)
> 
>             URL: http://www.di.unito.it/~baldoni/PAI-2012/
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>                 CALL FOR POSITION PAPERS, IDEAS, DEMOS
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> In 1934 Alan M. Turing argued that machines could imitate thought and,
> in the essay "Computing Machinery and Intelligence", he proposed what is
> now known as the Turing Test. A computer and a human are compared by a
> panel of judges, who address the same questions to both and review their
> answers. If the judges cannot make distinctions between the two answers,
> the machine may be considered intelligent.
> 
> The Turing test for decades has represented the best calling card for
> popularizing Artificial Intelligence worldwide. Nowadays, ideas,
> theories, techniques developed in the research area of Artificial
> Intelligence are widely applied for producing games, satellite
> navigators, human-computer interfaces, web applications, automated voice
> responders, etc.
> 
> For celebrating the 100th anniversary of Alan Turing's birth, the
> Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence organizes a workshop
> aimed at divulging the practical uses of Artificial Intelligence. To
> this aim, we call for demonstrators (e.g. videos), demos, proposals,
> systems exploiting AI theories and techniques, short papers which
> present ideas, and which are written in such a way to make them
> accessible to a broad public. Prizes will be awarded to different
> categories of submissions.
> 
> The workshop will be organized as a poster session. Each contribution
> will have some space for a poster and demos and systems will be shown to
> the public. The best contributions will additionally be presented during
> a plenary session of AI*IA 2012.
> 
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>                       SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS
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> All kinds of experiences are welcome! Three categories of contribution
> are possible: (1) student experiences inside AI courses (e.g. laboratory
> demos), (2) research and academic experiences, (3) industrial
> experiences. Beside the poster session, selected contributions will be
> presented at the workshop. Presentations will be open to a broad public,
> and authors are invited to specify the kind of audience their
> contributions aim at involving.
> 
> Each proposal (demos, demonstrators, videos, systems exploiting AI
> results, ideas) must be submitted in the form of a paper written either
> in English or in Italian, and formatted according to the Springer LNCS
> style. The paper must not exceed 5 pages. Ideally, it should contain a
> description of the contribution (in the case of demos, it should contain
> also some details about the demonstration itself). Morevoer, the
> five-page paper should contain a high-level description of the AI
> techniques exploited within the specific proposal, and a short list of
> bibliographic references: these parts should be organized and written to
> address a general audience, and should help readers without any AI
> background to understand the contribution and the relation with AI.
> 
> Paper submission is electronic via the conference website.
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>                       PRIZES
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> The association plans to award economic prizes to the best contribution
> in category (1) and (2) (student experiences, academic experiences).
> Possibly, best contributions in categories (1) and (2) will be offered a
> free symposium registration fee, each.
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>           WORKSHOP PROCEEDINGS and JOURNAL SPECIAL ISSUE
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> 
> Selected papers will be published in the CEUR Workshop Proceedings
> series. The authors of the best among all selected papers will be
> invited to submit an extended version for publication in the
> international journal Intelligenza Artificiale, published by IOS Press.
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>                           IMPORTANT DATES
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> Paper submission deadline:                    15 April 2012
> Notification of acceptance/rejection:         1 May 2012
> Camera-ready copies due:                      15 May 2012
> Workshop Date:                                June 2012
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>                         WORKSHOP ORGANISERS
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> Matteo Baldoni (University of Torino, Italy)
> Federico Chesani (University of Bologna, Italy)
> Bernardo Magnini (Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy)
> Marco Montali (University of Bolzano, Italy)
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