Call for Participation
AAAI-07 Nectar Papers

July 22–26, 2007, Vancouver, British Columbia

Paper Submission Deadline: February 27
Author Notification Deadline: March 29

AAAI-07 will again include the Nectar track, whose goal is to make the most significant AI results presented at other conferences in the last two years available to a broad AI audience.

The Nectar (new scientific and technical advances in research) track will consist of papers that are based on important results that have already been published in the proceedings of at least one major conference in 2005 and 2006, as either a single paper or a series of papers. Examples of such conferences include AAMAS, AIIDE, ALIFE, ACL, CEC, CogSci, CP, FUZZ-IEEE, GECCO, ICAPS, ICCBR, ICML, ICRA, IEEE CEC, IJCNN, IROS, ISWC, IUI, KCAP, KR, NIPS, RSS, SAT, UAI and WCCI. Examples of conferences in related fields with relevance to AI are ALife, CIKM, COLT, KDD, PODS, ICDTSIGIR, SIGMOD, VLDB, and WWW. Papers that report on the application of AI techniques in other fields, for example bioinformatics, may also serve as the basis for Nectar papers. Authors of application papers, however, are advised that they may find the conference on innovative applications of AI (IAAI) a more appropriate venue for reaching the AI community since those papers can be longer and thus provide a clearer application setting in which to describe the work. Papers that have appeared in general AI conferences (such as AAAI or IJCAI or ECAI) or journals (such as JAIR or Artificial Intelligence Journal) cannot serve as the basis for Nectar papers since they have already been presented to the entire AI community.

One important goal of the track is to offer young researchers the opportunity to learn about areas with which they may not already be familiar. Another goal is to encourage the sort of cross-disciplinary AI work that has historically been supported by AAAI.

We solicit short submissions of up to four pages. Each submission should focus on a major result that has already been published in one or more venues as described above. A Nectar paper needs to clarify the relationship of the paper to any other AAAI-07 submissions by the authors and cannot overlap with them substantially. The Nectar paper should cite the previous publication(s) and will typically devote no more than one or two pages to summarizing the core results. The remainder of the paper should be devoted to putting the results, as well as the problem they solve, into a context that is meaningful to a wide AI audience.

AAAI Nectar track papers will be presented as short talks or posters at AAAI-07. The papers will also be published in the conference proceedings. Submitted papers will be reviewed according to: (1) significance of the result to the broad goals of AI, (2) potential for the result to influence work in other areas of AI, and (3) clarity of the presentation to a wide AI audience.

Although papers will describe previously published results, the paper itself must be original. Authors of accepted papers will be required to transfer copyright.

Author Registration

Authors must register at the AAAI-07 Nectar web-based technical paper submission site. The software will assign a password, which will enable the author to log on to submit an abstract and paper. Authors are encouraged to register as soon as possible.

Paper Submission

Electronic paper submission through the AAAI-07 Nectar paper submission site is required on or (preferably) before February 27. We cannot accept submissions by e-mail or fax.

Papers must be in trouble-free, high resolution PDF format, formatted for US Letter (8.5" x 11") paper, using Type 1 or TrueType fonts. Papers may be no longer than 4 pages including references, and formatted in AAAI two-column, camera-ready style (see the author instructions page on the AAAI website). Please note that these formatting instructions are for final, accepted papers; no additional pages can be purchased at the review stage. (In addition, the copyright slug may be omitted only in the initial submission phase.)

Authors will receive confirmation of receipt of their abstracts or papers, including an ID number, shortly after submission. AAAI will contact authors again only if problems are encountered with papers. Inquiries regarding lost papers must be made no later than March 6, 2007.

Submissions to Other Conferences or Journals

Papers submitted to this conference must not have been accepted for publication elsewhere or be under review for another AI conference. However, to encourage interdisciplinary contributions, we may consider unpublished work that has been submitted or presented in part to a forum outside of AI. The guidelines of the AAAI policy on multiple submissions are fully detailed elsewhere on the AAAI website and must be carefully followed.

Publication

Accepted Nectar papers will be allocated four (4) pages in the conference proceedings. Up to two (2) additional pages may be used at a cost to the authors of US$ 275 per page. Final papers exceeding six (6) pages and those violating the instructions to authors will not be included in the proceedings. Authors will be required to transfer copyright of their paper to AAAI.

Inquiries

Concerning author instructions and conference registration, write to aaai07@aaai.org. Concerning suggestions for the conference and other inquiries, write to the special track cochairs.

Elaine Rich (University of Texas at Austin), Cochair
Sven Koenig (University of Southern California), Cochair

The original AAAI-07 Nectar call for papers is available as a printable PDF document