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From:     melis+@CS.CMU.EDU (Erica Melis)
Subject:  CFP: 18th German Annual Conference on Artificial Intelligence
Date:     Tue, 11 Jan 1994 22:36:05 GMT


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18th German Annual Conference on Artificial Intelligence

	Saarbr"ucken, September, 18-23, 1994

General Chairs: J"org Siekmann, DFKI, Univ. Saarbr"ucken
		Hans-J"urgen B"urckert, DFKI Saarbr"ucken

The scientific, as well as the economic importance of
Artificial Intelligence research has steadily
grown, even though in some degree, partly slower than
had been hoped for. AI research in Germany had a
belated start, but steadily improved in recent years. Today
the field is well established and some areas even play an
outstanding role internationally. This positive
development is accounted for in the forthcoming German
Conference on AI, which is especially broadly based,
aiming at researchers, university students, users and
practitioners in industry alike.

The German Conference on Artificial Intelligence is
traditionally organised once a year by the AI-section of the
German Society for Computer Science (GI). This is one of
the four subdivisions of the GI and today the AI section has
more than four thousand members. In 1994, the conference will
be carried out at the University of Saarland in Saarbr"ucken
by the German Research Center of AI (DFKI), the Computer
Science Department (FBI), the Institute of Computer
Linguistics (CoLi) and the Max Planck Institute for
Computer Science (MPI). It comprises a Scientific
Conference, from the 18th to 22nd of September 1994,
and an Industrial Congress on the 22nd and 23rd of
September 1994. Tutorials will be offered on Sunday the
18th, scientific talks form Tuesday to Thursday in the
morning and workshops in the afternoon.

On Monday a symposium will be held, covering a selected
topic, the "International Symposium on Logics in Artificial
Intelligence", chaired by Dov Gabbay (Imperial College
London) and J"org Siekmann (DFKI, University of Saarland).
Invited speakers will give lectures on current issues
pertaining to this context. This is prompted by the
publication of the multivolume "Handbook of Logics in
Artificial Intelligence and Logic Programming".

The Industrial Congress offers a multifaceted programme
which demonstrates how AI is put into industrial practice:
talks on areas of applications of AI, consulting service
offers from the German AI-Institutes' association (AKI) and
an AI Exhibition.

Contributions to the Scientific Conference and the
Industrial Congress will be published in a set of Springer-
Verlag conference publications. KI-94 will be supported
by an advisory board consisting of the previous and future
chair persons, as well as representatives from Industry
and University.

Local Arrangement Committee
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Susanne Biundo, DFKI (chair)
Michael Kohlhase, FBI
Brigitte Krenn, CoLi
Christoph Weidenbach, MPI

Conference Office
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Coordinator: Reinhard Karger
DFKI Saarbr"ucken
Stuhlsatzenhausweg 3
D-66123 Saarbr"ucken
Phone +49 681 302-4444, Fax  +49 681 302-5341
e-mail: ki-94@dfki.uni-sb.de

Further information about the KI-94 can be obtained
from the conference office.

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===  KI-94 Scientific Conference  ===
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Chairs: Leonie Dreschler-Fischer, Universit"at Hamburg
	Bernhard Nebel, Universit"at Ulm

The scientific programme consists of invited talks, reviewed
paper presentations, tutorials, workshops, poster
sessions and system demonstrations. Conference
languages are German and English, (simultaneous
translation is not available.)

Submissions
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Contributions from all aspects of AI are welcome,
especially those (but not exclusively) which address the
subjects:

 -  knowledge representation
 -  knowledge acquisition
 -  deduction, inference systems, logic programming
 -  machine learning
 -  cognition
 -  architectures, methods, tools
 -  natural language processing
 -  robotics
 -  image processing and image understanding
 -  intelligent interfaces
 -  diagnosis
 -  planning
 -  configuration
 -  qualitative reasoning
 -  neural networks and connectionism
 -  social impacts

Papers are also welcome, which investigate the principles
and problems involved when AI is put into practice.
Contributions though, which describe commercial AI
applications should be submitted to the Industrial
Congress.

Submissions to the scientific program must be original,
neither, published or accepted for publication elsewhere,
nor currently going through a review process at another
conference (with exception of specialised workshops).
Accepted submissions will appear in the Springer
"Lecture Notes in AI" and therefore must be written in
English.

Posters and System Demos at the Scientific Conference
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Research groups and scientists will be given the
opportunity through posters and system demos to
present current AI-projects and AI-systems. These
contributions will be reviewed by the program committee
as well, and will appear along with the papers in the LNAI.

Submission Details for the Scientific Conference
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Papers and proposals for posters should be sent in six (6)
copies to one of the two program chairs (s.f.) till April
8th, 1994. Papers received after that date cannot be
considered. Fax or e-mail submissions are also
unacceptable.

The papers should be clearly legible and written in 12
point type. The length of a paper should not exceed 16
pages with roughly 38 lines/page and 75 characters per
line (corresponding to the standard LaTex article-style),
including bibliography and appendix. The title page is
separate.

Proposals for posters and system demos require the
submision of a one- to three-page summary of the
presentation (adding diagramms if necessary).

The title page should show the title of the contribution,
the catagory (paper, poster or system demo), the names
of all authors with postal and e-mail addresses. In addition,
the title page should contain an abstract, of not more than
200 words, supplemented by keywords which
characterise the contribution's content.

In order to facilitate the review process, the contents of
the title page should be sent till April 8th via e-mail to

	ki-94-abstract@dfki.uni-sb.de

using only plain ASCII text. The order of content in this
message should be

TITLE: