CALL FOR TUTORIALS:  IJCAI-95 


The IJCAI-95 Program Committee invites proposals for the Tutorial Program for
IJCAI-95, which is to be held in Montreal, Canada, August 20-25, 1995.

Topics of Interest
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Tutorials will be offered both on standard topics and on new and more advanced
topics.  A list of suggested topics that can be covered by tutorials is given
below, but this list is only a guide.  Other topics, both related to these and
quite different from them, will be considered:
  
  * Analogical and Inductive Inference
  * Logics for AI and Inference Techniques   Architectures for AI Systems
  * Machine Learning   AI in Education   Mobile Robot Navigation
  * AI in Engineering Design   Motion Planning in Robotics
  * Computer Vision   Natural Language Programming   Distributed AI
  * Neural Networks -- Principles and Applications   Epistemic Logic in AI
  * Object-Oriented Knowledge Representation   Hybrid Reasoning
  * Planning and Reasoning about Time   Innovative Applications of AI
  * Probabilistic Reasoning and Uncertainty
  * Knowledge Acquisition -- Theory and Practice
  * Programming and Reasoning with Constraints
  * Intelligent Environments to Support Human Learning
 

Requirements for Submission
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Anyone interested in presenting a tutorial should submit a proposal to the
IJCAI-95 Tutorial Chair, Gordon McCalla.  A tutorial proposal should contain
the following information:
  
  * A brief description of the tutorial, suitable for inclusion in the
conference registration brochure

  * A detailed outline of the tutorial

  * The necessary background and the potential target audience for the
tutorial

  * A description of why the tutorial topic is of interest to a
substantial part of the IJCAI audience

  * A brief resume of the presenter(s), which should include name,
postal address, phone and fax numbers, email address if available,
background in the tutorial area, any available example of work in the
area (ideally, a published tutorial-level article on the subject),
evidence of teaching experience (including references that address the
proposer's presentation ability), and evidence of scholarship in
AI/Computer Science (equivalent to a published IJCAI conference paper
or tutorial syllabus).
 

Those submitting a proposal should keep in mind that tutorials are
intended to provide an overview of the field; they should present
reasonably well agreed upon information in a balanced way.  Tutorials
should not be used to advocate a single avenue of research, nor should
they promote a product.  It is planned that the Tutorial Program will
consist of about sixteen four-hour tutorials given at the beginning of
the conference.

Important Dates
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Proposals must be received by November 1, 1994.  Decisions about
topics and speakers will be made by December 15, 1994.  Tutors will be
sent a set of guidelines for the preparation of course materials.
Completed course materials must be received for duplication by the
AAAI office by April 28, 1995 . Please note that IJCAI will normally
only duplicate up to 200 pages per participant.

Proposals should be sent to: 

  
	Gordon McCalla  
	Department of Computational Science  
	University of Saskatchewan  
	Saskatoon, Saskatchewan S7N 0W0  
	CANADA 

	email: mccalla@cs.usask.ca 
	phone: +1-306-966-4902
        fax: +1-306-966-4884