AI\*IA 2013 is the thirteenth International Conference on Advances in Artificial Intelligence, held bi-annually by the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence (AI\*IA).

The conference covers broadly the many aspects of theoretical and applied Artificial Intelligence. Both regular papers and posters can be submitted to AI\*IA 2013. A series of workshops dedicated to specific topics will complement the main conference program.

This year the conference celebrates the 25th year anniversary of the association. On December, 4th, some of the founding members will animate a panel session aimed at discussing the past, present, and future of AI\*IA and AI in Italy.

The conference covers broadly the many aspects of theoretical and applied Artificial Intelligence. A series of workshops dedicated to specific topics will complement the main conference program. Contributions are invited on original, and unpublished research on all aspects of artificial intelligence, including, but not limited to:

• AI and digital entertainment
• AI applications
• AI architectures
• AI in Learning Environments
• Cognitive modeling
• Cognitive Robotics
• Constraint Satisfaction
• Experimentation of Combinatorial Algorithms
• Human Computer Interaction
• Information Agents
• Information Retrieval and Extraction
• Knowledge Acquisition
• Knowledge Engineering
• Knowledge Representation
• Learning in adaptive systems
• Machine Consciousness
• Machine learning
• Mathematical Foundations
• Metacognition in Artificial Agents
• Multiagent Systems, Distributed AI
• Natural Language Processing
• Ontologies
• Philosophical Foundations
• Planning and Scheduling
• Reasoning
• Search
• Semantic Web
• Soft and Evolutionary Computing
• Temporal Reasoning
• Uncertainty
• Vision
• Web and Data Mining