ECAI2006

event in series::ECAI2006 is the title:=17th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, located in has location city::Riva del Garda, has location country::Italy.

For more information, see web site:=http://ecai2006.itc.it/cda/aree/index.php.

Important Dates
Camera-ready papers due: Camera ready due:=May 10, 2006

KR2006 Conference: August 28 - September 1, 2006

Papers
Papers should be submitted using the final camera-ready formatting style, except for author names which should be omitted and replaced by the tracking number for anonymous reviewing. Submissions must not exceed five pages in camera-ready format. Overlength submissions will be rejected without review.

Final versions of accepted papers will be required to conform strictly to the formatting requirements specified in the ECAI 2006 Style Guide. Each accepted paper will be allocated five pages in the proceedings.

Posters
ECAI 2006 also accepts posters. Each poster will have two pages allocated in the proceedings. Posters must follow the same sytle guidelines as full papers, but paper length is limited to two pages. The front page must indicate “POSTER” as the type of submission. Submitted full papers can be accepted as posters if the PC decides so. It will be possible for the author(s) to indicate whether they want their submission considered as poster in case of non-acceptance as full paper.

Reviewing
All submissions will be subject to academic peer review by the ECAI 2006 Programme Committee. Reviewing for ECAI 2006 will anonymous. To allow for anonymous reviewing replace the authors line in your submission by the unique tracking number assigned after the submission of the summary form. Please avoid identifying self-references. Replace phrases like "We have shown in [n]" by "In [n] it has been shown ...".

Review criteria include: Relevance to AI (is the submitted paper appropriate for ECAI?), Originality (does the work contain new ideas?), Significance (will the presented results have any impact on the field?), Technical Soundness (is the paper technically clean?), Presentation (is the paper readable and well-organized?), Scholarship (is relevant literature cited, is the scientific context discussed appropriately?).

Notification of acceptance or rejection of submitted papers will be mailed to the corresponding author by 10 April 2006.

Author feedback
The primary authors of ECAI-06 paper submissions will get a chance to see the reviews for their papers and give short comments before the final decision is made. The author feedback phase will last 2 days and will take place March 30 and 31, 2006.

Conference proceedings
The conference proceedings will be published and distributed by IOS Press on paper and as a CD-ROM. The authors will be responsible for producing camera-ready copies of papers, conforming to the ECAI 2006 formatting guidelines, for inclusion in the proceedings. The deadline for receipt of the camera-ready copy is 10 May 2006. Note that at least one author of each accepted paper/poster is required to attend the conference to present the paper.

Awards
The best paper of the conference, as selected by the ECAI 2006 Programme Committee, will receive a prize sponsored by Elsevier Science. The authors of the 10 best papers will be invited to submit a revised version of their paper to a special fast-review track of the Artificial Intelligence Journal.

Case-Based Reasoning
Case Representation Case-Retrieval CBR Applications Adaptation Explanation Analogical Reasoning

Cognitive Modelling
AI and Creativity Artificial Life Emotions and Motivation Human-Computer Interaction Human Experimentation Instruction and Teaching Memory Neural Network Architectures Neuroscience Perception and Performance Philosophical Foundations Skill Acquisition and Learning Symbolic Architectures

Constraints & Search
Constraint Logic Programming Constraint Optimization Constraint Programming Constraint Propagation Constraint Satisfaction Distributed Constraint Solving Global Constraints Modelling Search Soft Constraints User Interaction

Distributed AI
Agent Communication Languages Agents Argumentation Cooperation and Coordination Game Theoretic Foundations Information Agents Market-Oriented Programming Multi-Agent Systems Negotiation Protocols and Dialogues Trust Web Intelligence

Knowledge Representation and Reasoning
Abduction Automated Reasoning Belief Revision Causality Cognitive Robotics Common-Sense Reasoning Decision Making Description Logics Logic Programming Modal Logics Non-classical logics Nonmonotonic Reasoning Ontologies Preferences Probabilistic Reasoning Reasoning about Action Resource-Bounded Reasoning Satisfiability Semantic Web Spatial Reasoning Temporal Reasoning Theorem Proving Uncertainty Verification and Validation

Machine Learning
Adaptive Systems Bayesian Learning Data Mining Decision Tree and Rule Learning Dimension Reduction Ensemble Methods Evolutionary Computing Information Extraction Knowledge Discovery Machine Learning Applications Neural Networks Reinforcement Learning Text Mining Unsupervised Learning

Model-Based Reasoning
AI Architectures Computer-Aided Learning Design and Configuration Diagnosis Human Computer Interaction Intelligent User Interfaces Intelligent Databases Knowledge Engineering Qualitative Reasoning Real-Time Systems User Modelling

Natural Language Processing
Automatic Summarization Computational Linguistics Dialogue and Discourse Systems Machine Translation Natural Language Generation Natural Language Interfaces Parsing Speech Recognition

Perception/Vision
Active and Robot Vision Face and Gesture Image Processing Model-Based Vision Motion, Flow and Tracking Object Recognition Segmentation and Feature Extraction Statistical Models and Visual Learning Stereo, Calibration, and Geometry Texture, Shape and Colour

Planning and Scheduling
Applications of Planning and Scheduling Constraint-based Planning and Scheduling Classical Planning Hierarchical Planning and Scheduling Knowledge Engineering for Planning and Scheduling MDPs Mixed-Initiative Planning and Scheduling Planning with Incomplete Information Planning with Uncertainty POMDPs Temporal Planning and Scheduling

Robotics
Autonomous Systems Estimation and Learning for Robotic Systems Exploration Human-Robot Interaction Localization Motion Planning Multi-Robot Systems Robot Architectures Robot Navigation Robot Programming Environments and Languages Search and Rescue Robots Sensory Planning Service Robots Task Planning Viewpoints and Modality Selection