X BRAZILIAN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE SYMPOSIUM Porto Alegre, Brazil, October 13-15 1993 SPONSORS: SBC - Brazilian Computer Society UFRGS - Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (BRAZIL) ------------------------- FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS ------------------------- The Brazilian Artificial Intelligence Symposium is intended to attract professionals, researchers and students who are engaged and/or interested both in theoretical and practical aspects of Artificial Intelligence. The goal is to provide an environment for an useful exchange of experiences and ideas. ACTIVITIES . Panel sessions . Technical sessions . Invited talks . Tutorials . Software/hardware products exposition TOPICS OF INTEREST (non-exclusive) . Knowledge representation and acquisition . Philosophy and Artificial Intelligence . Psychology and Artificial Intelligence . Distributed Artificial Intelligence . Intelligent Learning Environments . Machine Learning . Natural Language Processing . Neural Networks . Intelligent Interfaces . Expert Systems . Logic Programming Symposium Chair: Profa. Rosa Maria Viccari (UFRGS-BRAZIL) PROGRAM COMMITEE Profa. Ariadne de Lima (UNICAMP-Brazil) Prof. Christian Lemaitre (LANIA-Mexico) Prof. Claudio Resin Geyer (UFRGS-Brazil) Prof. Eduardo Kerr (CPqD/TELEBRAS-Brazil) Prof. Ernesto Costa (Univ. Coimbra-Portugal) Profa. Tereza Ludermir (UFPE-Brazil) Prof. Wagner Teixeira da Silva (UnB-Brazil) Prof. Yves Demazeau (LIFIA/IMAG- France) DEADLINES Submission of papers: April 15, 1993 Submission of systems for demonstration: April 15, 1993 Notification of acceptance: Jun 15, 1993 Final version due: Jul 15, 1993 SUBMISSION AND INFORMATION Authors are invited to submit 4 copies of their papers to: Profa. Rosa Maria Viccari Instituto de Informatica - UFRGS Av. Bento Goncalves 9500 - bloco 4 CEP 91501-970 Caixa postal 15064 Porto Alegre - RS BRAZIL e-mail: rosa@inf.ufrgs.br phone: +55-051-3368399 (R6801) fax: +55-051-3365576 Authors may send papers by e-mail also, preferably but not only in TeX or (Macintosh) Word format (BinHex). Papers should be written in Portuguese, Spanish or English, with at most 15 pages, preferably A4 format, single-space, margins 3.5 cm (top), 2 cm (bottom), 2.5 cm (left and right). As there will be a 70% reduction of page size due to the printing process , avoid small details in figures. NO PAGE NUMBERING. In technical papers, the first page must contain the title, the authors' names, institutions, adresses (including e-mail) and an abstract. Descriptions of systems for demonstration must have at most 2 pages, outlining the system's main features and the hardware needs (SUN, PC, Macintosh). The title and the authors' identification must follow the same instructions as above. For more information contact the symposium chair at the address above, preferably by e-mail.