November 16-19, 1996
Toulouse, France
The annual ICTAI conference is an international forum for the exchange
of ideas relating to artificial intelligence (AI) among academe,
industry, and government agencies. It fosters the creation and transfer
of such ideas, and promotes their cross-fertilization over all AI
application domains and AI paradigms through a unifying theme: AI
Tools. ICTAI focuses on both theory and development methodologies and
encompasses all aspects of specifying, developing, implementing, and
evaluating theoretical and applied frameworks that may serve as tools
for developing intelligent systems and pursuing AI applications. The
following is a non-exhaustive list of paradigms and topics of interest:
AI PARADIGMS:
Knowledge-Based Systems
Artificial Neural Networks
Genetic Algorithms
Empirical Models
Hybrid Systems
FOCAL TOPICS:
Adaptive Systems and Process Control
AI Algorithms
AI in Software Engineering
Automated Reasoning
Case Based Reasoning
Cognitive Modeling
Constraint Satisfaction
Distributed AI and Intelligent Agents
Environmental Applications
Instructional Environments
Intelligent Internet Services
Intelligent User Interfaces and Multimodal HC Interaction
Knowledge Base Technology, Intelligent Databases
Knowledge Representation
Knowledge Acquisition and Machine Learning
Music, Audition and The Arts
Natural Language Processing and Speech Understanding
Non-Standard Logic(s) for AI
Planning and Temporal Reasoning
Robotics
Qualitative Reasoning and Diagnosis
Reasoning under Uncertainty
Vision and Image Processing
...
INFORMATION FOR AUTHORS
Authors are requested to submit five copies of a double-spaced
manuscript (in English, maximum of 20 pages), including an abstract and
a list of subject areas, to one of the program chairs by May 10, 1996.
Each submission must report on original work and be accompanied by a
cover letter that indicates the contact author's postal address, e-mail
address, telephone number, and fax number (if available), and the
paper's subject areas. The subject areas should consist of the most
relevant paradigm(s) and focal topics. Authors will be notified of
acceptance by July 15, 1996 and will be given instructions for
camera-ready versions of their papers at that time. Outstanding papers
will be eligible for publication in the International Journal on
Artificial Intelligence Tools and for receiving the C.V. Ramamoorthy
Best Paper award.
Panel organizers are requested to submit a panel proposal consisting of
a position statement and a list of panelists to one of the program
chairs by May 10, 1996. Panel organizers will be notified of acceptance
by July 15, 1996.
Submit papers and panel proposals by May 10, 1996, as follows:
Europe, Asia, and Africa:
Dr. Pierre Marquis
CRIN-CNRS and INRIA-Lorraine
Ba^timent LORIA - Campus Scientifique
B.P. 239
F-54506 Vandoeuvre-le`s-Nancy Cedex
France
Phone: (33) 83 59 20 54 Fax: (33) 83 41 30 79
Email: marquis@loria.fr
North America, South America, and Australia:
Dr. Bill Manaris
Computer Science Department
University of Southwestern Lousiana
2 Rex Street, P.O. Box 41771,
Lafayette, LA 70504-1771, USA
Phone: (318)482-6638 Fax: (318)482-5791
Email: manaris@usl.edu
Further information on the conference is available on WWW at
http://www.tai96.tulane.edu. This includes information on Toulouse,
France, and electronic versions of the CFP, advance program,
registration form, and hotel reservation form.
General Chair:
Rudiger W. Brause, J.W. Goethe-University, Germany
Program Chairs:
Bill Manaris, University of Southwestern Lousiana, USA
Pierre Marquis, CRIN-CNRS and INRIA-Lorraine, France
Registration Chair:
Mark G. Radle, University of Southwestern Lousiana, USA
Local Arrangements Chair:
Michel Cayrol, IRIT-CNRS and Universite' Paul Sabatier, France
Publicity Chair:
John F. Vassilopoulos, Tulane University, USA
Steering Committee:
Nikolaos G. Bourbakis, Binghampton University, USA, Chair
Cris Koutsougeras, Tulane University, USA
John Mylopoulos, University of Toronto, Canada
C. V. Ramamoorthy, University of California, Berkeley, USA
Jeffrey J.P. Tsai, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
Benjamin W. Wah, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA