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TWENTIETH AUSTRALIAN JOINT CONFERENCE ON ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

2nd-6th December 2007 Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia
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Paper Submissions now open: http://www.easychair.org/AI2007/
EXTENDED Deadline: 10am Monday 16th July (Australian Eastern Standard Time)
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The AI 2007 Program Committee invites submission of papers for the 20th Australian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AI). The purpose of the conference is to promote research in AI and scientific interchange among AI researchers and practitioners. The conference is hosted by the Griffith University School of Information Communication and Technology and the Institute for Integrated and Intelligent Systems and will be co-located with the Australasian Data Mining Conference (AusDM 2007) and the Third Australian Conference on Artificial Life (ACAL '07) at the Holiday Inn Hotel.
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Important Dates: EXTENDED Deadline: 10am Monday 16th July (Australian Eastern Standard Time)
Notification of acceptance: 31st August 2007
Deadline for camera ready copies: 14th September 2007
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Original and previously unpublished submissions are invited on all aspects of
AI, both theoretical and applied, including, but not limited to:

Invited Speakers

Robert Hecht-Nielsen - University of California, San Diego
Patrick Doherty - Linköping University
Norman Foo - UNSW
Richard Hartley - ANU

Conference Chairs

Abdul Sattar - Griffith University
Vladimir Estivill-Castro - Griffith University

Program Committee Chairs:
Mehmet Orgun - Macquarie University
John Thornton - Griffith University

Local Organising Chairs:
Michael Blumenstein - Griffith University
Guido Governatori - University of Queensland

Committee Secretaries:
Natalie Dunstan - Griffith University
Victoria Wheeler - Griffith University

Organising Committee Members:
Dr Udantha Abeyratne - University of Queensland,
Dr Marcus Randall - Bond University
Dr Frederic Maire - Queensland University of Technology

Senior Program Committee Members

Dan Corbett, DARPA, USA
Stephen Cranefield, University of Otago, New Zealand
Robert Dale, Macquarie University
Adnan Darwiche, UCLA, USA
James Delgrande, Simon Fraser University, Canada
David Dowe, Monash University
Vladmir Estvill-Castro, Griffith University
Michael Fisher, University of Liverpool, UK
Aditya Ghose, Wollongong
Randy Goebel, University of Alberta, Canada
Guido Governatori, University of Queensland
Fikret Gurgen, Bogazici University, Turkey
Byeong Ho Kang, University of Tasmania
Achim Hoffmann, UNSW
Kevin Korb, Monash University
Jerome Lang, IRIT, France
Jimmy Lee, CUHK, China
Fangzhen Lin, HKUST, China
John Lloyd, ANU
Dickson Lukose, DL Informatique, Malaysia
Michael Maher, NICTA
Abhaya Nayak, Macquarie University
Ken Satoh, National Institute of Informatics, Japan
Abdul Sattar, Griffith University
Leon Sterling, University of Melbourne
Markus Stumptner, University of South Australia
Toby Walsh, NICTA
Geoff West, Curtin University
Mary-Anne Williams, UTS
Wayne Wobcke, UNSW
Xingdong Wu, University of Vermont, USA
Roland Yap, National University of Singapore
Chengqi Zhang, UTS
Kang Zhang, University of Texas, Dallas
Yan Zhang, UWS

Submission Guidelines

Papers are to be submitted electronically online in PDF format via http://www.easychair.org/AI2007/and are limited to 10 pages in length including all figures, references, etc. Papers must be formatted following Springer's Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) style Springer. Overlong or incorrectly formatted papers are subject to rejection without review.

Review Process

All submissions will be subject to academic peer review by the AI 2007 program committee and will be evaluated in two rounds. In the first round a single referee will assess whether a paper is publishable on the basis relevance and standard of readability. Papers accepted in the first round will then be reviewed in more detail by two additional referees. Notification of acceptance or rejection will be via email and will occur no later than 31st August 2007. Papers will be accepted as either full written papers with an oral presentation or as short papers with a poster presentation. Authors of accepted papers are expected to register and present their work at the conference (note that failure to present a full-written paper may result in disqualification from submission to future Australian AI conferences).

Multiple Submission Policy

Papers submitted to this conference must not have been accepted for publication elsewhere or be under review for another conference (with the exception of specialised workshops). Papers found not to meet these requirements are subject to rejection without review.

Publication

Full and short papers accepted for presentation at AI-2007 will be published by Springer-Verlag in the Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) series. To cover publication costs at least one author per paper must register for the conference. Additional publication fees will be incurred for authors registering to present more than one paper.

For further details please contact:

AI-2007 Program Committee
School of Information and Communication Technology
Griffith University, PMB 50 Gold Coast Mail Centre Queensland 9726, Australia
Tel: +61 (0)7 5552 8100 Fax: +61 (0)7 5552 8066
Email: ai07(at)griffith.edu.au Conference Website: www.austai.org