IJCAI-97 Video Track : Call For Videos
As a medium, videotapes are better suited than written papers to
illuminate
the efficacy of AI research, especially in the emerging and exciting
areas of AI in Education, Art, Music, Entertainment, Hypermedia, 3-D
Animation, Artificial Life, Network-Based tools like Mosaic, etc.
If a picture is worth thousand words, then a (3-D) movie will certainly
enhance the illustration of behaviors of these systems that are based on
AI principles, methods, and tools.
Recognizing this potential of video presentations to demonstrate and
augment AI research results, a Video Track has been designated since
IJCAI-89 to be an integral part of the Technical Programs of IJCAI
Conferences.
The Video Track is designed to demonstrate the current levels of
usefulness of AI tools, techniques, and methods for a variety of
practical and theoretical problems arising in industrial, commercial,
government, space, and educational areas.
You are invited and strongly encouraged to submit to this video track
and take advantage of the following opportunities and benefits that
we intend to provide as a forum to showcase your best AI research results.
- Special video sessions will be organised and timetabled as part
of the conference, giving authors an opportunity to present and
briefly discuss their videos.
- Abstracts of accepted videos will appear in the conference
proceedings.
- The entire video program will be published by IJCAI Inc. and
available for sale after the conference.
- Apart from the scheduled video sessions where the authors will
participate in the presentations, we also plan to make the video
program widely viewable by the conference attendees by
designating certain time periods during which the videos will run
unattended.
We look forward to your submissions that will contribute to the success
of the IJCAI-97 Video Track.
Submission Requirements and Guidelines
Authors are invited to submit 3 copies of a videotape
of 15 minutes maximum duration, accompanied by a
submission letter that includes:
- Title
- Full names, postal addresses, phone numbers and email addresses
of all authors
- Subject matter area (e.g. knowledge acquisition, learning, vision,....)
- Tape format: indicate either NTSC-VHS(preferred) or PAL-VHS
- Duration of tape in minutes
- 3 copies of an abstract of one to two pages in
length, containing the title of the video, and full names and
addresses of the authors
- Author's permission to copy tape for review purposes.
All tapes, along with their abstracts, must be received by the Videotape
Track Chair no later than January 6, 1997.
Submissions received after that date will be returned unopened.
Authors should note that ordinary mail can sometimes be considerably
delayed and should take this into account when timing their submissions.
- Notification of receipt will be mailed to the first or designated
author soon after receipt.
- All inquiries regarding lost submissions must be made by
February 10, 1997.
- Tapes cannot be returned; authors should retain
extra copies for making revisions.
- Notification of acceptance or rejection will be mailed on or
before March 10, 1997 to the first or designated
author.
- Authors will also have the opportunity to submit a revised version
of their videotape about one month following notification of
acceptance.
- The final version of videotapes must not be more than 15
minutes duration, must be in NTSC-VHS format
(U.S. Standard only) and must be submitted directly to the Video
Track Chair.
- Accepted tapes will be sent directly from the Video Track Chair
to the conference publisher.
Review Criteria
Each tape will be rigorously reviewed by experts in the
subject matter areas of the tape and only the best tapes will be
selected for presentation at the conference.
The following general criteria will guide the selection:
- Significance and originality of system functionality presented;
- The need for and the contribution of the AI component of the system;
- Clarity of presentation of system's goals, methods, and results;
- Quality of Presentation (including audio, video, and pace).
- Level of interest to the conference audience;
Preference will be given to systems that show a high level of maturity.
Tapes that are deemed to be advertising commercial products, propaganda,
purely expository materials, merely taped lectures, or material not of
scientific or technical value will be rejected.
Publication
Abstracts of accepted videos will be allotted a maximum of two pages
each in the conference proceedings.
The style of these two-page papers should be the same as the full length
papers in the Proceedings, with an initial abstract of
approximately 50 words.
The final version of the video's abstract, edited in the format
specified in the acceptance letter, must be received by the publishers
in the USA by April 28, 1997.
Authors will be required to transfer copyright of their abstract (but
not the video) to IJCAI Inc.
In addition, a 30-minute presentation slot will be made
available as part of one of the video sessions.
To ensure a consistent format to the sessions and an opportunity for
questions, authors should keep as close as possible to the following
format for their presentations:
- 3 minutes introductory presentation
- 10-13 minutes (average) video showing
- 7-10 minutes technical details
- 2 minutes conclusions
- 5 minutes question period
In addition to showing the accepted tapes at the conference, copies of
them will be available at a nominal cost after the conference.
The videotape presentations started at IJCAI-89.
reviously presented videotapes are available from
IJCAI-89: ISBN 1-55860-097-3
IJCAI-91: ISBN 1-55860-183-X
IJCAI-93: ISBN 1-55860-047-3
Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, Inc.
2929 Campus Drive,Suite 260, San Mateo, CA 94403, USA
TEL: +1-415-578-9911
FAX: +1-415-578-0672
E-mail: morgan@unix.sri.com
Important Dates
January 6, 1997: Tapes and Abstracts submissions to
Video Track Chair on or before
March 10, 1997: Notification of acceptance or rejection
will be mailed on or before
April 28, 1997: The final version of the video's
abstract must be received by the publishers in the USA
Contact Information
Please send Video Track Call clarification and other related inquiries
to:
Video Track Chair: Prof. Toyoaki Nishida
Graduate School of Information Science
Nara Institute of Science and Technology (NAIST)
8916-5 Takayama, Ikoma, Nara 630-01, Japan
TEL: +81-7437-2-5260
FAX: +81-7437-2-5269
E-mail: nishida@is.aist-nara.ac.jp
higuchi@etl.go.jp
Last modified: Sat Oct 26 11:52:29 JST 1996