[news.announce.conferences] Fifth Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence

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Fifth Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence

Call for Papers

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
Artificial 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 following 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
acknowledgement 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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- March 31, 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:  lmp@fct.unl.pt,
        ap@fct.unl.pt

Program Committee
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Pedro Barahona (UNL)
Pavel Brazdil (UP)
Helder Coelho (ISEG)
Gabriel Pereira Lopes (CIUNL)
J. Pavao Martins (IST)
Fernando Pereira (Bell Labs)
Luis Moniz Pereira (UNL)
Antonio Porto (UNL)