SCAI'01

Call for participation

SEVENTH SCANDINAVIAN CONFERENCE ON ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

http://www.mip.sdu.dk/scai01

Odense, Denmark, February 19-21, 2001

 

Programme   All lectures are at lecture room U42

Informations (transportation, hotel, activities, weather)

Registration

Tutorial Programme NEW

 

SCAI'01

This is the call for participation for the seventh Scandinavian AI conference, which will be held in Odense, Denmark 19-21 February.

INVITED SPEAKERS:

Henrik I. Christensen, Center for Autonomous Systems, KTH, Stockholm
Cristiano Castelfranchi, C.N.R., Rome
Takashi Gomi, Applied AI Systems, Canada
Luc Steels, Sony Lab, Paris
Jan Komorowski, NTNU, Trondheim

After going through a difficult period, there is a feeling that AI is headed towards better times again. Certainly the very challenging problems it addresses remain unsolved. Thus, it has been decided not to point out some key theme for the conference, but instead treat all branches of AI equally, including some of the exciting recent developments in

The conference will be held at the Maersk Mc-Kinney Moller Institute for Production Technology at the University of Southern Denmarks main campus at Odense University. The Institute’s modern building, shown below, houses an interdisciplinary research team who perform research on complex autonomous systems.

The Institute came into being in thanks to a gift of $10,000,000 from the A.P. Moller Foundation to the university. A fuller description of the Institute can be found at the URL: http://www.mip.sdu.dk.

The Institute is situated at the end of Campusvej, and its relation to the rest of the university can be seen on the map http://www.sdu.dk/kort/campusOdense/MIP.html. It is easily reached by train from Copenhagen Airport, where there is a half-hourly service which involves a single change, as well as some direct express trains. The link to the railway journey planner is: http://www.dsb.dk/journey_planner/. There is also a bus service from Billund airport.

IMPORTANT DATES

Publication

As previously, the proceedings of the conference will be published by IOS Press in their series "Frontiers in AI".

Submission of papers

Authors may submit papers written in English describing unpublished work in any area of Artificial Intelligence by the deadline 1 November 2000. Papers may not exceed 6000 words or 10 pages, and may be submitted either as hard copy (8 copies) or in electronic form (postscript or word). Formatting instructions are available from IOS Press at the URL: http://www.iospress.nl/html/wnew.html. Electronic submission of papers is encouraged. In any case, papers should be submitted to the co-chairs:

Henrik Hautop Lund or John Perram (scai01@mip.sdu.dk)

Submission of posters and demonstrations

Authors who want to submit a poster or demonstration should send a 1-2 page abstract by 10 December 2000, preferably electronically. For facilities for presenting posters and demonstrations, see the section below on available facilities and infrastructure.

Submission of tutorial proposals

Ideas for tutorials, to be held on Monday 19 February, are invited as soon as possible, and at the latest 1 November, 2000. There will be a locally organised tutorial "Hands-on robotics with LEGO Mindstorms". The pharmaceutical company Novo Nordisk will organise a tutorial on "AI in Bio-informatics". It is planned to provide both hard copies and a CD ROM of PowerPoint slides of tutorials presented at the meeting.

Notification of acceptance

Authors will be advised of the evaluation of their submission on 10 December 2000.

Deadline for camera-ready copy

Successful authors should provide electronic camera-ready copy by 20 December 2000.

INVITED SPEAKERS

Henrik I. Christensen, Center for Autonomous Systems, KTH, Stockholm

Cristiano Castelfranchi, C.N.R., Rome

Takashi Gomi, Applied AI Systems, Canada

Luc Steels, Sony Lab, Paris

Jan Komorowski, NTNU, Trondheim


PROGRAMME COMMITTEE

Papers will be reviewed by a committee consisting of:

Henrik Hautop Lund, Odense
John Perram, Odense
Bent Bruun Kristensen, Odense
Peter Thusgaard Ruhoff, Odense
Bo Nørregård Jørgensen, Odense
Brian Mayoh, Aarhus
Gregers Koch, Copenhagen
Erik Granum, Aalborg
Vladimir Gorodetski, St Petersburg
Jan Komorowski, Trondheim
Henrik I. Christensen, Stockholm
Harko Verhagen, Stockholm
Jørgen Fischer Nilsson, Lyngby
Jarmo Alander, Wasa
Gosta Grahne, Concordia (Canada)
Jalal Maleki, Linköping
Jens Arnspang, Copenhagen
Sylvia Coradeschi, Örebro
Barbara Dunin-Keplitz, Warsaw
Dolores Canamero, Paris
Yves Demazeau, Grenoble
John Campbell, UCL, London
Lars Asker, KTH, Stockholm
Robert Bywater, Novo Nordisk, Måløv


LOCAL ORGANISING COMMITTEE

Henrik Hautop Lund, programme co-chair
John Perram, programme co-chair, treasurer
Brian Mayoh, DAIMI, tutorials
Peder Thusgaard, Odense, infrastructure

FACILITIES AND INFRASTRUCTURE

The conference and tutorials will be held in classrooms, laboratories and auditoria at the Odense University main campus, close to the Maersk building. There are extensive network facilities, and although we do not encourage this, preferring you to participate in the conference, email and www access will be available. Lunch will be served at the University.

Accommodation close to the university can be booked at the Odense Congress Center (http://www.occ.dk/). Inexpensive rooms close to the university can be booked at Dalum Agricultural College. These rooms should be booked through conference secretariat, as they are primarily intended for participants on tight budgets. For those who want to be close to the center of the city, rooms may be reserved at a number of hotels which participate in a scheme which gives discounts to visitors to the university. There are regular bus connections between the city and the university.

Links to many of the hotels in Odense can be found at the URL: http://www.odenseturist.dk/, but here is a list of hotels close to the city with which we have had good experiences:

Grand Hotel, www.firsthotels.com

Odense Plaza Hotel, www.odenseplaza.dk

Hotel Knudsens Gaard, www.knudsensgaard.dk

Hotel Windsor, www.hotel-windsor.dk

When booking, mention that you are are visiting Odense University under statsaftalen.

 

RELATED EVENTS

On Monday 19 February, there will be a panel discussion on Industrial Applications of Artificial Intelligence.

Panelists:

WELCOME TO ODENSE

Odense, a city of about 180,000 is famous for:

Odense is an educational center, with many institutes of learning, including Odense University, part of the University of Southern Denmark, with 17,000 students.