AAAI-Members

SSS-12 Registration/John McCarthy Celebration

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 18:54:00 GMT

Dear AAAI Members,

Please join us for the AAAI Spring Symposium Series, to be held March 26-28 at Stanford University The Symposium Series will be preceded on March 25 by a celebration of John McCarthy's Accomplishments (see below).

The six Spring Symposia are:

AI, The Fundamental Social Aggregation Challenge, and
the Autonomy of Hybrid Agent Groups
Designing Intelligent Robots: Reintegrating AI
Game Theory for Security, Sustainability and Health
Intelligent Web Services Meet Social Computing
Self-Tracking and Collective Intelligence for Personal Wellness
Wisdom of the Crowd

Please note the following deadlines:

Registration information and forms for the Spring Symposium are available at http://www.aaai.org/Symposia/Spring/sss12.php. All accepted authors, symposium participants, and other invited attendees must register by February 10, 2012. After that period, registration will be opened up to the general membership of AAAI and other interested parties. All registrations must be postmarked by March 2, 2012.

Please note that AAAI has reserved a block of rooms at several Palo Alto hotels. The cut-off dates for reserving rooms at the discounted conference rate is February 24 (Stanford Terrace Inn), March 1 (Cardinal Hotel) and March 5 (Creekside Inn). Complete registration and hotel information is available at http://www.aaai.org/Symposia/Spring/sss12.php.

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**Special Event: A Celebration of John McCarthy's Accomplishments**
March 25, 2012, 4:00 - 7:00 PM

On March 25 at 4:00 PM, the AI and Computer Science Community will gather at Stanford University for a series of short talks celebrating John McCarthy's life, accomplishments, and contributions to the field of artificial intelligence and computer science. The seminar will be followed by a reception, which will include light hors d'ouevres. AAAI Members and Spring Symposium registrants who wish to attend should indicate their interest by checking the appropriate box on the SSS-12 registration form. (Note that organizers will be using your indication of interest in planning for the reception so please only check the box if you plan to attend.) Details about the location and parking will be made available closer to the event. All are welcome. This event is cosponsored by the Stanford University Computer Science Department and AAAI.

If you have any questions regarding the AAAI Symposium Series or the McCarthy Celebration, please feel free to contact us at sss11@aaai.org. We hope to see you at Stanford in March!

Regards,

Carol Hamilton
Executive Director, AAAI

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AAAI-12 EAAI Symposium: February 8

Wed, 01 Feb 2012 18:19:00 GMT

Dear AAAI Members,

Please note that the deadline for submissions to the Third AAAI Symposium on Educational Advances in Artificial Intelligence is next Wednesday, February 8 at 11:59 PM PST.

EAAI-12 will be held in conjunction with AAAI-12 on July 23-24 in Toronto, Canada. It provides a venue for researchers and educators to discuss pedagogical issues and share resources related to teaching AI and using AI in education across a variety of curricular levels (K-12 through postgraduate training), with an emphasis on undergraduate and graduate teaching and learning. The symposium seeks contributions showing how to more effectively teach AI, as well as how themes from AI may be used to enhance education more broadly (for example, in introductory computing courses or as a means for teaching computational thinking). We encourage the sharing of innovative educational approaches that convey or leverage AI and its many subfields: robotics, machine learning, natural language, computer vision, etc.

EAAI-12 provides several of paths for participation, including the following:

Full-length papers (6 pages) and presentations for the symposium
Extended abstract/poster contributions (2 pages) highlighting preliminary or ongoing work, or describing an educational innovation proposed to be presented in a demonstration session
Model AI Assignments highlighting innovative ready-to-adopt materials
A workshop for mentoring new faculty, instructors, and graduate students on teaching
An Educational Video Track within the AAAI-12 Video program
A Student/Educator Track within the AAAI-12 Robotics Exhibition and Workshop

For more information and the complete Call for Papers, please consult the AAAI symposium website (http://www.aaai.org/Symposia/EAAI/2012/eaai12call.php) or the EAAI-12 site (http://eaai.stanford.edu/).

We hope to see you in Toronto in July!

Best regards,

Carol Hamilton
Executive Director, AAAI

on behalf of the

EAAI-12 Organizing Committee
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Laura Brown, Michigan Tech University (lebrown@mtu.edu)
Marie desJardins, University of Maryland, Baltimore County(mariedj@cs.umbc.edu)
David Kauchak (chair), Middlebury College (dkauchak@middlebury.edu)
Tom Lauwers, BirdBrain Technologies LLC (tlauwers@birdbraintechnologies.com)
Todd Neller, Gettysburg College (tneller@gettysburg.edu)
Mehran Sahami, Stanford University (sahami@cs.stanford.edu)
Matthew Taylor, Lafayette College (taylorm@lafayette.edu)
Kiri Wagstaff, Jet Propulsion Laboratory (kiri.wagstaff@jpl.nasa.gov)

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AAAI-12 Doctoral Consortium: February 7

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 18:06:00 GMT

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February 7: 2012 Doctoral Consortium Applications Due
Submission Site: http://aaaidoc.confmaster.net
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Dear AAAI Members,

AAAI and ACM/SIGART invite students to apply for the Seventeenth AAAI/SIGART Doctoral Consortium, which will be held July 22-23, 2012 at AAAI-12 in Toronto, Canada.

The Doctoral Consortium (DC) provides an opportunity for a group of Ph.D. students to discuss and explore their research interests and career objectives with a panel of established researchers in artificial intelligence. The consortium has the following objectives: (1) to provide a setting for mutual feedback on participants' current research and guidance on future research directions; (2) to develop a supportive community of scholars and a spirit of collaborative research; (3) to support a new generation of researchers by offering advice about academic, research, industrial, and non-traditional career paths; and (4) to contribute to the overall conference goals through interaction with other researchers and participation in conference events.

Applications are due Tuesday, February 7, 2012 at 11:59 PM PST. Prospective participants are required to submit the following materials at the Doctoral Consortium submission site (see URL above): cover sheet, thesis summary, Curriculum Vita, personal statement, and advisor's information. For complete information about application requirements, please review the Call for Applications at http://www.aaai.org/Conferences/AAAI/2012/aaai12dccall.php.

If you have any questions, please write to aaai12@aaai.org.

We look forward to seeing you in Toronto!

Regards,

Carol Hamilton
Executive Director, AAAI

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FSS-12 Call for Proposals Due February 3

Sat, 28 Jan 2012 01:04:00 GMT

Dear AAAI Members,

Please note that the deadline for proposals for the 2012 Fall Symposium Series is Friday, February 3. The 2012 Fall Symposium will be held Friday - Sunday, November 2-4 at the Westin Arlington Gateway in Arlington, Virginia, adjacent to Washington, DC. Included below is the Call for Proposals (also available at http://www.aaai.org/Symposia/Fall/fss12.php).

Please feel free to contact us at fss12@aaai.org or the Symposium Chair, Matt Taylor, if you have any questions.

Regards,

Carol Hamilton
Executive Director, AAAI

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Call for Proposals
2012 Fall Symposium Series
Washington, DC November 2-4, 2012

Sponsored by the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence

AAAI invites proposals for the 2012 Fall Symposium Series, to be held Friday - Sunday, November 2-4 at the Westin Arlington Gateway in Arlington, Virginia adjacent to Washington, DC. The Fall Symposium Series provides the AI community with a unique venue in which researchers from different areas of AI can:

Present speculative work and work in progress
Hold focused discussions over several days
Build new communities for emerging disciplines
Build ties between existing disciplines

The series brings together a set of two and one-half day symposia at a common site, providing a unique and intimate forum for colleagues in a given discipline. The series also provides an important gathering point for the AI community as a whole. Efforts are made to keep registration and lodging costs low so that graduate students can afford to attend. The series is designed to minimize the administrative burden on the organizing committees of the individual symposia. AAAI manages registration and local arrangements, and provides organizational support, publicity within the AAAI community, and publication of working notes for distribution within the symposium and (optionally) the community at large.

The series runs twice yearly (spring and fall). Approximately eight symposium topics will be selected for the 2012 Fall Symposium Series. Accepted proposals will be distributed as widely as possible over the subfields of AI, and balanced between theoretical and applied topics. Symposia bridging theory and practice and those combining AI and related fields are particularly solicited.

Proposals for symposia should be between two and five pages in length, and should contain:

A title for the symposium.
A description of the symposium, identifying specific areas of interest, and, optionally, general symposium format. The symposia are intended to encourage presentation of speculative work and work in progress, as well as completed work. Therefore, ample time should be scheduled for discussion. Novel programming, including the use of target problems, open-format panels, working groups, or breakout sessions, is encouraged.
The names and (physical and electronic) addresses of the organizing committee, preferably three or more people at different sites, all of whom have agreed to serve on the committee.
A list of potential participants who have been contacted and who have expressed interest in participating. A common way of gathering potential participants is to send email messages to email lists related to the topic(s) of the symposium. Note that potential participants need not commit to participating, only state that they are interested.

Ideally, the entire organizing committee should collaborate in producing the proposal. If possible, a draft proposal should be sent out to a few of the potential participants and their comments solicited.

Proposals will be reviewed by the Symposium Series Standing Committee (Chair: Matthew Taylor, Lafayette College; Cochair: Gita Sukthankar, University of Central Florida; and Associate Chair: Alan Schultz, Naval Research Laboratory).

The criteria for acceptance of proposals include:

Perceived interest to the AAAI community. Although AAAI encourages symposia that cross disciplinary boundaries, a symposium must be of interest to some community within the AAAI membership. Symposia that are of interest to a broad range of AAAI members are, of course, also encouraged.

Expected size. Although the series supports a range of symposium sizes (roughly 25-75), the target size is around 40 participants.

Lack of established venues on the topic. The AAAI Symposium Series is intended to nurture emerging communities and topics, so topics that already have yearly conferences or workshops are inappropriate.

Qualifications of the organizing committee. The organizing committee should have (1) a good technical knowledge of the topic, (2) good organizational skills, and (3) connections to the various communities from which they intend to draw participants. Committees for cross-disciplinary symposia should adequately represent the disciplines to be covered by the symposium.

Symposium proposals should be submitted as soon as possible, but no later than February 3, 2012. Proposals that are submitted significantly before this deadline can be in draft form. Comments on how to improve and complete the proposal will be returned to the submitter in time for revisions to be made before the deadline. Notifications of acceptance or rejection will be sent to submitters around February 24, 2012.

The submitters of accepted proposals will become the chairs of the symposium, unless alternative arrangements are made. Symposium organizing committees are responsible for:

Writing short calls for participation and registration, which AAAI will distribute to its membership
Additional publicity of the symposium, especially to potential audiences from outside the AAAI community
Reviewing requests to participate in the symposium and determining symposium participants
Collecting submissions for the symposium technical reports from the selected participants
Scheduling the activities of the symposium
* Preparing a short review of the symposium, to be printed in AI Magazine.

Please submit (preferably by electronic mail) your symposium proposals, and inquiries concerning symposia, to:

Matthew Taylor
Lafayette College
Easton, Pennsylvania
taylorm@lafayette.edu

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AAAI-12 Student Abstracts Due February 2

Tue, 24 Jan 2012 19:15:00 GMT

Dear AAAI Members,

Please note that submissions for the AAAI-12 Student Abstract and Poster Program are due Thursday, February 2, 2012 at 11:59 PM PST. Prospective authors are required to register at the AAAI-12 Student Abstract submission site, available at http://aaai-studentabstracts.confmaster.net. The software will assign a password, which will enable authors to log on to submit an abstract. For further information about paper formatting and submission requirements, please review the Call for Abstracts at http://www.aaai.org/Conferences/AAAI/2012/aaai12studentcall.php.

The goal of the Student Abstract and Poster Program is to provide a forum in which students can present and discuss their work during its early stages, meet some of their peers who have related interests, and introduce themselves to more senior members of the field. The program is open to all pre-Ph.D students. Abstracts will be published in the AAAI-12 proceedings and will be presented during a conference-wide poster session.

For more information or inquiries, please feel free to contact us at aaai12@aaai.org.

Regards,

Carol Hamilton
Executive Director, AAAI

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AAAI Fellows Nominations: February 15

Wed, 18 Jan 2012 22:54:00 GMT

Dear AAAI Members,

Please note nomination and reference forms for the 2012 AAAI Fellows Program are due Wednesday, February 15.

Each year, the Fellows program honors a small group of individuals who have made significant, sustained contributions to the field of artificial intelligence. Contributions may occur within one or more settings, including industry, government, and academe. Both individual technical contributions and significant extended service to the field are considered in the selection process. Fellows contributions may include substantial efforts leading to the fielding of AI technology. Evidence of technical contributions are typically in the form of technical results and publications, but other forms of evidence include outstanding contributions to academic, government, and industrial group efforts, patent awards, and notable software.

Nominees for Fellow must be either life members of the Association or current members of AAAI with membership for the past three (3) consecutive years. Usually, only members who have contributed to the field for a decade or more after receiving their Ph.D. (or are at an equivalent career stage) will be selected. The nominator or one of the people providing a reference must be a AAAI Fellow who is a current member.

For more information, please see http://www.aaai.org/Awards/fellows.php, or contact us at fellows12@aaai.org.

Best regards,

Carol Hamilton
Executive Director, AAAI

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IAAI-12 Papers Due January 17

Thu, 12 Jan 2012 18:58:00 GMT

January 17: IAAI-12 Paper Submissions Due
Conference Site: http://www.aaai.org/Conferences/IAAI/iaai12.php
Paper Submission Site: http://iaai.confmaster.net

Dear AAAI Members,

The Twenty-Fourth Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence (IAAI-12), to be held July 24-26 in parallel with AAAI-12 in Toronto, Canada, will focus on successful applications of AI technology. The conference will use technical papers, invited talks, and panel discussions to explore issues, methods, and lessons learned in the development and deployment of AI applications; and to promote an interchange of ideas between basic and applied AI.

Paper submissions are due Tuesday, January 17, 2012. IAAI-12 will consider papers in two tracks: (1) deployed application case studies and (2) emerging applications or methodologies. Submissions should clearly identify which track they are intended for, as the two tracks are judged on different criteria. Case-study papers must describe deployed applications with measurable benefits that include some aspect of AI technology. The goal of the emerging application track is to "bridge the gap" between basic AI research and deployed AI applications, by discussing efforts to apply AI tools, techniques, or methods to real world problems.

Prospective authors are required to register at the IAAI-12 paper submission site at http://iaai.confmaster.net. The software will assign a password, which will enable authors to log on to submit an abstract and paper. For further information about paper formatting and submission requirements, please review the Call for Papers at http://www.aaai.org/Conferences/IAAI/2012/iaai12call.php.

For more information or inquiries, please feel free to contact us at iaai12@aaai.org.

Best regards,

Carol Hamilton
Executive Director, AAAI

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ICWSM-12 Tutorial CFP Extended: January 18

Wed, 11 Jan 2012 19:46:00 GMT

Dear AAAI Members,

On behalf of the ICWSM-12 Conference Committee, we are pleased to announce that the deadline for Tutorial Proposals for the Sixth International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM-12) has been extended to Wednesday, January 18 at 11:59 PM PST. The ICWSM-12 Tutorial Program will be held on the first day of the conference, June 4, at Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland.

The Tutorials Day provides an opportunity for junior and senior researchers to explore exciting advances in methods for capture, analysis and visualization of online data. The tutorials will provide an opportunity for cross-disciplinary engagement and a deeper understanding of new tools and techniques than can be gleaned from short presentations. Anyone interested in presenting a tutorial at ICWSM-12 should submit a proposal to the 2012 Tutorials Chair via EasyChair (http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icwsm2012t).

Please refer to the complete Tutorial Call for Proposals (http://www.icwsm.org/2012/submitting/tutorials/) for information about suggested topics and submission guidelines, or write to us at icwsm12@aaai.org.

We hope to see you in Dublin this summer!

Regards,

Carol Hamilton
Executive Director, AAAI

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AAAI-12 Call for Papers: January 20

Mon, 09 Jan 2012 17:31:00 GMT

**** AAAI-12 CALL FOR PAPERS ****

The Twenty-Sixth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence
July 22-26, 2012
Toronto, Canada

http://www.aaai.org/Conferences/AAAI/aaai12.php

Now - January 20: Authors register on the AAAI web site
January 20: Electronic abstracts due
January 24: Electronic papers due

*** OVERVIEW ***

AAAI-12 is the Twenty-Sixth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AI). The purpose of this conference is to promote research in AI and scientific exchange among AI researchers, practitioners, scientists, and engineers in related disciplines. AAAI-12 will have multiple technical tracks, a best paper track highlighting recent results presented at sister conferences, student abstracts, poster sessions, invited speakers, and exhibit programs, all selected according to the highest reviewing standards. A vibrant workshop, tutorial, and doctoral consortium program will immediately precede the main technical program. The Twenty-Fourth Annual Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence (IAAI-12), showcasing successful applications of AI technology, and the Third Symposium on Educational Advances in Artificial Intelligence (EAAI-12), which provides a venue for researchers and educators to discuss pedagogical issues and share resources related to teaching AI a
nd using AI in education, will run in parallel and are included in the the AAAI-12 registration.

AAAI-12 will comprise several technical tracks, including the main technical track and special tracks on AI and the Web, Cognitive Systems, Computational Sustainability, and Robotics. The program will also feature the keynote Presidential Address by Henry Kautz, as well as several invited talks (listed below) and special events celebrating the Alan M. Turing Centenary.

2012 Inaugural Turing Lecture
Christos Papadimitriou (University of California, Berkeley)

Joint AAAI/IAAI Invited Talk
Tom Gruber

AAAI-12 / IAAI-12 Invited Talks
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Regina Barzilay (CSAIL, Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Ross King (Aberystwyth University)
Josh Tenenbaum (Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, MIT)
Sebastian Thrun (Google / Stanford University)
Luis von Ahn (Carnegie Mellon University)

Toronto will provide a perfect venue for the conference, with its thriving film and theater culture, as well as a host of museums and sight-seeing opportunities. Plans are currently underway for an off-site event at one of the many Toronto landmarks. The Sheraton Centre Toronto Hotel, is located in the financial and entertainment districts, and connected to PATH, a 16-mile underground network of shops and services. For more information, please visit http://www.seetorontonow.com/.

**** SUBMISSIONS ****

AAAI-12 welcomes submissions on mainstream AI topics as well as novel crosscutting work in related areas. Topics include but are not limited to the following:

Agent-based and multiagent systems
Cognitive modeling and human interaction
Commonsense reasoning
Computer vision
Constraint satisfaction, search, and optimization
Evolutionary computation
Game playing and interactive entertainment
Information retrieval, integration, and extraction
Knowledge acquisition and ontologies
Knowledge representation and reasoning
Machine learning and data mining
Model-based systems
Multidisciplinary artificial intelligence
Natural language processing
Planning and scheduling
Probabilistic reasoning
Robotics
Web and information systems

Papers that extend the state of the art, and explore parts of the design space of AI that are not well explored are particularly encouraged. A full list of keywords is available at the AAAI-12 website.

In addition to the main technical track, each special track will have its own submission process and review criteria, and will have its own program committee of reviewers with appropriate backgrounds. However, the tracks will be an integral part of the conference program and will be subject to the same high standards and rigorous review that are traditional in AAAI. In the proceedings, the special track papers will not be distinguished from the main track technical papers. The Chairs may move submissions between tracks in case that allows for more appropriate reviewing.

For complete submission and formatting deadlines and guidelines for all AAAI and IAAI programs, please refer to the individual Call for Papers for each track at the URLs listed below.

The Twenty-Sixth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-12)
July 22-26, 2012 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
http://www.aaai.org/Conferences/AAAI/aaai12.php

Main Technical Track CFP:
http://www.aaai.org/Conferences/AAAI/2012/aaai12call.php
January 20: Electronic Abstract Due
January 24: Electronic Papers Due

Special Track on Artificial Intelligence and the Web:
http://www.aaai.org/Conferences/AAAI/2012/aaai12webcall.php
January 20: Electronic Abstract Due
January 24: Electronic Papers Due

NEW! Special Track on Cognitive Systems:
http://www.aaai.org/Conferences/AAAI/2012/aaai12cognitivecall.php
January 20: Electronic Abstract Due
January 24: Electronic Papers Due

Special Track on Computational Sustainability and AI:
http://www.aaai.org/Conferences/AAAI/2012/aaai12sustainabilitycall.php
January 20: Electronic Abstract Due
January 24: Electronic Papers Due

NEW! Special Track on Robotics:
http://www.aaai.org/Conferences/AAAI/2012/aaai12roboticscall.php
January 20: Electronic Abstract Due
January 24: Electronic Papers Due

The Twenty-Fourth Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence (IAAI-12)
July 24-26, 2012 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
January 17: Electronic Papers Due
http://www.aaai.org/Conferences/IAAI/2012/iaai12call.php
iaai12@aaai.org

AAAI-12 Student Abstract and Poster Program (SA-12)
http://www.aaai.org/Conferences/AAAI/2012/aaai12studentcall.php
February 2: Electronic Abstracts Due

AAAI-12 Doctoral Consortium (DC-12)
http://www.aaai.org/Conferences/AAAI/2012/aaai12dccall.php
February 7: Electronic Abstracts Due

The Third Symposium on Educational Advances in Artificial Intelligence (EAAI-12)
July 23-24, 2012 * Toronto, Ontario, Canada
http://www.aaai.org/Symposia/EAAI/2012/eaai12call.php
February 8: Electronic Papers Due
Supplemental Website: http://eaai.stanford.edu/

**** AAAI-12 IMPORTANT DATES ****

(Please note separate IAAI, EAAI and student program deadlines above.)

Authors register on the AAAI web site
Now - January 20

Abstract submission deadline
January 20

Paper submission deadline
January 24

Author feedback about initial reviews
March 13 -15

Notification of acceptance or rejection
March 28

Camera-ready copy due
April 17 (please check deadline for your program)

AAAI-12 / IAAI-12 / EAAI-12
July 22-26, 2012
Toronto, Ontario, Canada

***** AAAI-12 CONFERENCE COMMITTEE ****

AAAI-12/IAAI-12 Program Committee

AAAI-12 Program Cochairs
Joerg Hoffmann (INRIA, France)
Bart Selman (Cornell University, USA)

AAAI-12 Local Chair
Mark Fox (University of Toronto, Canada)

Turing Centenary Celebration Chair
Toby Walsh (NICTA and University of New South Wales, Australia)

IAAI-12 Program Chair and Cochair
Markus Fromherz (ACS, a Xerox Company, USA)
Hector Munoz-Avila (Lehigh University, USA)

EAAI-12 Program Chair
David Kauchak (Middlebury College, USA)

AAAI-12 Tutorial Cochairs
Patrick Pantel (Microsoft Research, USA)
Carmel Domshlak (Technion Israel Institute of Technology, Israel)

AAAI-12 Workshop Cochairs
Michael Beetz (Technische Universit�t M�nchen, Germany)
Holger H. Hoos (University of British Columbia, Canada)

Doctoral Consortium Cochairs
Elizabeth Sklar (Brooklyn College, City University of New York, USA)
Peter McBurney (King's College London, UK)

Student Abstract Cochairs
Rudolph Triebel (University of Oxford, UK)
Kristian Kersting (University of Bonn, Germany)

AAAI-12 Special Track Chairs

AI and the Web
Denny Vrandecic (Institute of Applied Informatics and Formal Description Methods, Germany)
Chris Welty (IBM Research, USA)

Cognitive Systems
Matthias Scheutz (Tufts University, USA)
James Allen (University of Rochester, USA)

Computational Sustainability and AI
Carla Gomes (Cornell University, USA)
Brian Williams (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA)

Robotics
Kurt Konolige (Willow Garage, USA)
Sidd Srinivasa (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)

AAAI-12 Area Chairs
Mark Boddy (Adventium Labs, USA)
Hal Daume III (University of Maryland, USA)
Giuseppe De Giacomo (Sapienza Universita' di Roma, Italy)
Pedro Domingos (University of Washington, USA)
Ariel Felner (Ben-Gurion University, Israel)
Alan Fern (Oregon State University, USA)
Hector Geffner (ICREA & Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain)
Milos Hauskrecht (University of Pittsburgh, USA)
Holger H. Hoos (University of British Columbia, Canada)
Ian Horrocks (University of Oxford, UK)
Eyke H�llermeier (Philipps-Universit�t Marburg, Germany)
Craig Knoblock (University of Southern California, USA)
Sven Koenig (University of Southern California, USA)
Fagzhen Lin (HKUST, Hong Kong)
Ines Lynce (Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal)
Shaul Markovitch (Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel)
Hwee Tou Ng (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
Barry O'Sullivan (University College Cork, Ireland)
Jeffrey S. Rosenschein (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)
Ashutosh Saxena (Cornell University, USA)
Milind Tambe (University of Southern California, USA)
Michael Wellman (University of Michigan, USA)
Michael Wooldridge (University of Liverpool, UK)
ChengXiang Zhai (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)

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ICWSM-12 Call for Tutorials, Papers, Demos

Fri, 06 Jan 2012 19:46:00 GMT

Dear AAAI Members,

Please note the following important upcoming deadlines for submission of tutorial proposals, paper abstracts, full papers, poster papers, and demo papers to the Sixth International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM-12):

January 9 (11:59 PM PST): Tutorial proposals due
January 13 (11:59 PM PST): Abstracts due for full, poster, and demo papers
January 18 (11:59 PM PST): Papers due for full, poster, and demo papers

The Tutorials Day provides an opportunity for junior and senior researchers to explore exciting advances in methods for capture, analysis and visualization of online data. The tutorials will provide an opportunity for cross-disciplinary engagement and a deeper understanding of new tools and techniques than can be gleaned from short presentations. Anyone interested in presenting a tutorial at ICWSM-12 should submit a proposal to the 2012 Tutorials Chair via EasyChair (http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icwsm2012t).

The Call for Papers for the technical program (full papers and posters) and the Call for Demos are available at the ICWSM-12 website (http://icwsm.org/2012/). Please refer to the following URLs for complete instructions about registering, preparing your paper for review, and submission.

Call for Papers (abstracts, full papers, poster papers)
http://icwsm.org/2012/submitting/call-for-papers/

Call for Demos
http://icwsm.org/2012/submitting/demos/

Author Registration at the ICWSM-12 Paper Submission Site
http://icwsm.org/2012/submitting/submission/

Formatting Instructions
http://icwsm.org/2012/submitting/guidelines/

ICWSM-12 Submission Site
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icwsm12

All submissions must be made through the ICWSM web-based paper submission site at URL above. Authors should register well in advance of the abstract deadline to avoid any delays on the deadline day. All papers must be in trouble-free, high resolution PDF format, formatted for US Letter (8.5" x 11") paper in AAAI two-column style. Reviewing for the ICWSM Conference is blind to the identities of the authors, so authors must prepare their papers for a blind review. Authors should adhere strictly to all the formatting and submission guidelines provided at the websites listed above.

ICWSM-12 will be held June 4-8, 2012 in Dublin, Ireland. For further information, please consult the ICWSM-12 website (http://www.icwsm.org/2012), or write to us at icwsm12@aaai.org.

We hope to see you in Dublin this summer!

Regards,

Carol Hamilton
Executive Director, AAAI

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Upcoming 2012 AAAI Deadlines

Thu, 22 Dec 2011 19:42:00 GMT

Dear AAAI Members,

As we are wrapping up activities for 2012, I wanted to remind you of important upcoming deadlines in 2012. Listed below are some important submission deadlines for ICWSM-12, IAAI-12, AAAI-12 (all programs), the Fall Symposium Series, EAAI-12, and our special honorary nomination processes.

Please also note that AAAI membership fees will rise by $5.00 in 2012, and will continue with no differentiation for members living in or outside of North America. The new fee structure, which will take effect after January 1, 2012, will be as follows:

$ 140 Regular Member
$ 70 Student Member
$1,960 Life Member

Members renewing their memberships prior to January 1, 2012 may do so at the current rates. Members can renew online at http://www.aaai.org/Membership/membership.php.

AAAI will be closed December 23 - January 2, and will reopen on January 3. We wish you a very Happy Holiday Season!

Thank you for your membership in AAAI!

Carol Hamilton
Executive Director, AAAI

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The Sixth International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM-12)
June 4-8, 2012 Dublin, Ireland
http://icwsm.org
January 9: Tutorial Proposal Submissions Due
January 13: Abstract Submissions Due
January 18 (Midnight PST): Full Paper, Poster and Demo Submissions Due

The Twenty-Fourth Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence (IAAI-12)
July 24-26, 2012 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
January 17: Electronic Papers Due
http://www.aaai.org/Conferences/IAAI/2012/iaai12call.php
iaai12@aaai.org

The Twenty-Sixth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-12)
Main Track and Special Tracks (AIW, CogSys, CompSustAI, Robotics)
July 22-26, 2012 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
http://www.aaai.org/Conferences/AAAI/aaai12.php
January 20: Electronic Abstract Due
January 24: Electronic Papers Due
(Please see individual CFPs for submission URLs)

AAAI-12 Student Abstract and Poster Program (SA-12)
http://www.aaai.org/Conferences/AAAI/2012/aaai12studentcall.php
February 2: Electronic Abstracts Due

AAAI 2012 Fall Symposium Series
November 2-4, 2012 Washington, DC
http://www.aaai.org/Symposia/Fall/fss12.php
February 3: Proposal Submissions Due

AAAI-12 Doctoral Consortium (DC-12)
http://www.aaai.org/Conferences/AAAI/2012/aaai12dccall.php
February 7: Electronic Abstracts Due

The Third Symposium on Educational Advances in Artificial Intelligence (EAAI-12)
July 23-24, 2012 * Toronto, Ontario, Canada
http://www.aaai.org/Symposia/EAAI/2012/eaai12call.php
February 8: Electronic Papers Due
Supplemental Website: http://eaai.stanford.edu/

AAAI Fellows
http://www.aaai.org/Awards/fellows.php
February 15: Nominations Due

AAAI Senior Members
http://www.aaai.org/Awards/senior.php
March 15: Nominations Due

AAAI Special Awards (Classic Paper and Distinguished Service)
http://www.aaai.org/Awards/awards.php
March 15: Nominations Due

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