spa@fct.unl.pt (Salvador Pinto Abreu) (04/09/91)
Sorry about posting this so late: I posted this to
news.announce.conferences, but the message doesn't seem to have made
it yet.
Announcement: the deadline for tutorial and paper submission reception
has been postponed to a hard deadline of April 15th, 1991
The conference chair The program chair
Pedro Barahona Luis Moniz Pereira and Antonio Porto
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Call for Papers
EPIA - 91
Fifth Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence
Hotel Montechoro, Albufeira, Algarve
October 1-3, 1991
The Fifth Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence will be
held in Hotel Montechoro, Albufeira, Algarve, in October 1-3, 1991.
The Conference is sponsored by the Portuguese Association for Artifi-
cial Intelligence (APPIA) and by local companies.
Topics
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The Conference is devoted to all areas of Artificial Intelligence and
will cover both theory and foundations as well as applications. Papers
describing completed or on-going research are requested in the fol-
lowing topic areas:
- Knowledge Representation
- Automatic Deduction
- Natural Language Understanding
- Learning
- Architectures and Languages
- Planning
- Knowledge Engineering
- Non-standard Logics
- Logic Programming
- Cognitive Modelling
Paper Submission
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Authors should submit four copies of their papers in hard copy to the
conference chair. Papers should be no longer than 15 pages, printed in
European A4 format (29.6 x 21 cm), and should be of letter quality
print. Each paper should contain the following information:
- Title of paper
- Names and affiliation of authors
- Abstract
Accepted papers will be scheduled for presentation and will be printed
in the proceedings. An award will be given to the most outstanding
paper, which will be presented in a special session, and an acknowle-
dgement will be printed in the proceedings. As with the Fourth
Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Springer-Verlag has
agreed to publish this Conference proceedings in its Lecture Notes in
Artificial Intelligence series.
Tutorials
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In addition to papers, we will be accepting proposals for tutorial
presentations (both advanced and introductory) of one and a half hour
duration. Each tutorial proposition should include the following:
- Detailed topic list and descriptive abstract (approximately 5
pages)
- Tutorial Level: introductory, intermediate, or advanced
- Short tutorial and instructional vitae of presenter (previous
lecture experience)
Important Dates
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- April 15, 1991: Four copies of papers and tutorial proposals are due
- May 31, 1991: Author notifications mailed
- June 30, 1991: Camera-ready papers are due
Conference Chair
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Pedro Barahona
Departamento de Informatica
Universidade Nova de Lisboa
2825 Monte da Caparica, Portugal
phone: (351) - 1 - 295 44 64
fax: (351) - 1 - 295 56 41
email: pb@fct.unl.pt
Program Chair
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Luis Moniz Pereira, Antonio Porto
Departamento de Informatica
Universidade Nova de Lisboa
2825 Monte da Caparica, Portugal
phone: (351) - 1 - 295 44 64
fax: (351) - 1 - 295 56 41
email: