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Subject: AAAI-93 Call for Papers
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Call for Papers
AAAI-93

AAAI-93 is the eleventh national conference. The purpose
of the conference is to promote research in artificial
intelligence (AI) and scientific interchange among AI
researchers and practitioners.
    Papers may represent significant contributions to all
aspects of AI:
a)   the principles underlying cognition, perception, and
action in humans and machines;
b)   the design, application, and evaluation of AI
algorithms and intelligent systems; and
c)   the analysis of tasks and domains in which
intelligent systems perform.
    In recognition of the wide range of methodologies and
research activities legitimately associated with AI, we
invite authors to submit papers describing both
experimental and theoretical results from all stages of
AI research.  In particular, we encourage submission of
papers that present promising research directions by
describing innovative concepts, techniques, perspectives,
or observations that are not yet supported by mature
results.  To be accepted, such submissions must include
substantial analysis of the ideas, the technology needed
to realize them, and their potential impact.  In addition,
because of the essential interdisciplinary nature of AI
and the need to maintain effective communication across
sub-specialties, we encourage authors to position and
motivate their work in the larger context of the general
AI community. While papers concerned with applications
of AI are invited, those that describe working
commercial systems should be submitted to the IAAI
conference.


Requirements for Submission

Authors must submit six (6) complete printed copies of
their papers to the AAAI office by January 13, 1993.
Papers received after that date will be returned
unopened.  Notification of receipt will be mailed to the
first author (or designated author) soon after receipt.
All inquiries regarding lost papers must be made by
January 27, 1993.  Authors are also requested to send
their paperUs title page in an electronic mail message to
[e-mail] by January 13, 1993. Notification of
acceptance or rejection of submitted papers will be
mailed to the first author (or designated author) by
March 3, 1993.  Camera-ready copy of accepted papers
will be due about one month later.

Paper Format for Review
All six (6) copies of a submitted paper must be clearly
legible. Neither computer files nor fax submissions are
acceptable.  Submissions must be printed on 8 1/2" x 11"
or A4 paper using 12 point type (10 characters per inch
for typewriters).  Each page must have a maximum of 38
lines and an average of 75 characters per line
(corresponding to the LaTeX article-style, 12 point).
Double-sided printing is strongly encouraged.

Length
The body of submitted papers must be at most 11 pages,
including figures, tables, and diagrams, but excluding the
title page and bibliography.  Papers exceeding the
specified length and formatting requirements are subject
to rejection without review.

Title page
Each copy of the paper must have a title page (separate
from the body of the paper) containing the title of the
paper, the names and addresses of all authors, a short
(less than 200 word) abstract, and a descriptive content
area or areas. The title page sent via electronic mail to
the AAAI office must be in plain ASCII text with each
section of the title page preceded by the name of that
section as follows:
title: <title>
author: <name of first author>
address: <address of first author> author: <name of last
author>
address: <address of last author>
abstract: <abstract>
content areas: <first area>, I,
<last area>
    To facilitate the reviewing process, authors are
requested to select appropriate content areas from the
list below. Authors are invited to add additional content
area descriptors to their title page as needed.
   Artificial Life, Automated Reasoning, Behavior-Based
Control, Belief Revision, Case-Based Reasoning,
Cognitive Modeling, Common Sense Reasoning,
Communication and Cooperation, Constraint-Based
Reasoning, Computer-Aided Education, Connectionist
Models, Corpus-Based Language Analysis, Deduction,
Diagnosis, Discourse Analysis, Distributed Problem
Solving, Expert Systems, Geometrical Reasoning,
Information Extraction, Knowledge Acquisition,
Knowledge Representation, Knowledge Sharing
Technology, Large Scale Knowledge Engineering,
Learning/Adaptation, Machine Learning, Machine
Translation, Mathematical Foundations, Multi-Agent
Planning, Natural Language Processing, Neural Networks,
Nonmonotonic Reasoning, Perception, Planning,
Probabilistic Reasoning, Qualitative Reasoning,
Reasoning about Action, Reasoning about Physical
Systems, Reactivity, Robot Navigation, Robotics, Rule-
Based Reasoning, Scheduling, Search, Sensor
Interpretation, Sensory Fusion/Fission, Simulation,
Situated Cognition, Spatial Reasoning, Speech
Recognition, System Architectures, Temporal Reasoning,
Terminological Reasoning, Theorem Proving, Truth
Maintenance, User Interfaces, Virtual Reality, Vision, 3-
D Model Acquisition.


Submissions to Multiple Conferences

Papers that are being submitted to other conferences,
whether verbatim or in essence, must state this fact on
the title page. If a paper appears at another conference
(with the exception of specialized workshops), it must
be withdrawn from AAAI-93. Papers that violate these
requirements are subject to rejection without review.


Review Criteria

Each paper will be carefully reviewed by experts
specializing in the content areas on the paperUs title
page.  Questions that will appear on the review form have
been reproduced below.  Authors are  advised to bear
these questions in mind while writing their papers:
Significance
How important is the work reported?  Does it attack an
important/difficult problem or a peripheral/simple one?
Does the approach offered advance the state of the art?

Originality
Has this or similar work been previously reported?  Are
the problems and approaches completely new?  Is this a
novel combination of familiar techniques?  Does the
paper point out differences from related research?  Is it
re-inventing the wheel using new terminology?

Quality
Is the paper technically sound?  Does it carefully
evaluate the strengths and limitations of its
contribution?  How are its claims backed up?

Clarity
Is the paper clearly written?  Does it motivate the
research?  Does it describe the inputs, outputs and basic
algorithms employed?  Does the paper describe previous
work?  Are the results described and evaluated? Is the
paper organized in a logical fashion?

Publication
Accepted papers will be allocated six (6) pages in the
conference proceedings.  Up to two (2) additional pages
may be used at a cost to the authors of $250 per page.
Papers exceeding eight (8) pages and those violating the
instructions to authors will not be included in the
proceedings.

Copyright
Authors will be required to transfer copyright of their
paper to AAAI.


Please send papers and conference registration inquiries
to:

AAAI-93
American Association
for Artificial Intelligence
445 Burgess Drive
Menlo Park, CA 94025-3496

Registration and call clarification inquiries (ONLY) may
be sent to the CSNET address: [e-mail].  Please
send program suggestions and inquiries to:

Richard Fikes
Knowledge Systems Laboratory
Stanford University
701 Welch Road, Building C
Palo Alto, CA 94304
[e-mail]

Wendy Lehnert
Department of Computer Science
University of Massachusetts
Amherst, MA 01003
[e-mail]