CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
The 11th Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence PRICAI 2010 Daegu, Korea, Aug. 30 - Sept. 2, 2010 http://www.pricai2010.org/
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The Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (PRICAI) is the leading conference in the Pacific Rim region for presentation of research in Artificial Intelligence, including its applications to problems of social and economic importance. The objectives of PRICAI are:
ㆍto provide a forum for the introduction and discussion of new research results, concepts, & technologies;
ㆍto provide practising engineers exposure to and an evaluation of evolving research, tools, and practices;
ㆍto provide the research community exposure to the problems of practical applications of AI; and
ㆍto encourage the exchange of AI technologies and experience within Pacific Rim countries.
PRICAI 2010 attempts to meet the needs of a large and diverse constituency, which includes researchers, practitioners, educators, and users. Topics of PRICAI 2010 include:
ㆍAI foundations ㆍApplications of AI ㆍAgents ㆍBayesian networks ㆍBioinformatics ㆍBio-inspired intelligence ㆍCognitive systems ㆍConstraint satisfaction ㆍData mining and knowledge discovery ㆍDecision theory ㆍEducation and tutoring systems ㆍEvolutionary computation ㆍGames and interactive entertainment ㆍHeuristics ㆍInformation retrieval and extraction ㆍKnowledge acquisition and ontology ㆍKnowledge representation ㆍMachine learning ㆍMarkov networks ㆍMultimedia and arts ㆍMultimodal interaction ㆍNatural language processing ㆍNeural networks ㆍPlanning and scheduling ㆍProbabilistic inference ㆍReasoning ㆍRobotics ㆍSearch ㆍText/Web/Internet mining ㆍSocial intelligence ㆍSpeech and dialogue systems ㆍUncertainty ㆍVision and perception ㆍOthers
The conference will be held at the Novotel Hotel in Daegu. Daegu is the fourth largest city in South Korea and has been the center of history, administration, education, and culture. The city has many cultural heritages and tourist attractions to well display Korean culture as well as complexes, department stores and large shopping malls.
Invited speakers -----------------------------------
(1) Prof. Heinrich Bülthoff Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Germany Title: Towards artificial systems: what can we learn from human perception
(2) Prof. Mitsuru Ishizuka Univ. of Tokyo, Japan Title: Exploiting Macro and Micro Relations toward Web Intelligence
(3) Prof. Toby Walsh NICTA, Australia Title: Symmetry
(4) Dr. Mike Schuster Google, USA Title: Speech and Research at Google
Details of plenary talks and invited speakers can be found at: http://pricai2010.org/program/sub_02_2.asp
Tutorials ----------------------------------- • T1: Understanding Videos – Human Activity Analysis Michael S. Ryoo (ETRI, Korea) and Kris M. Kitani (U of Electro- communications, Japan)
• T2: Game Theory in AI and MAS Dongmo Zhang (U of Western Sydney, Australia)
• T3: Extracting World and Linguistic Knowledge from Wikipedia Michael Strube (EML Research, Germany)
• T4: Automatic Facial Age Estimation Xin Geng (Monash U, Australia and Southeast U., China), Yun Fu (SUNY Buffalo, USA), and Kate Smith-Miles (Monash U, Australia)
• T5: Partially Observable Markov Decision Processes Pascal Poupart (U of Waterloo, Canada) and Kee-Eung Kim (KAIST, Korea)
Contact Information ----------------------------------- ㆍFor conference program pricai2010@bi.snu.ac.kr
ㆍFor registration, accommodation, venue, transportation and travel info secretariat@pricai2010.org
ㆍPRICAI 2010 Webpage http://www.pricai2010.org/
Program Committee Members ------------------------------------
ㆍGeneral Chairs Jin-Hyung Kim (KAIST, Korea) Abdul Sattar (Griffith Univ., Australia)
ㆍProgram Chairs Byoung-Tak Zhang (Seoul Nat’l Univ., Korea) Mehmet Orgun (Macquarie Univ., Australia)
ㆍOrganizing Chair Seong-Bae Park (Kyungpook Nat’l Univ., Korea)
ㆍSpecial Sessions Chairs Bob McKay (Seoul National Univ., Korea) Minho Lee (Kyungpook Nat’l Univ., Korea) Michael Strube (EML Research, Germany)
ㆍTutorials Chairs Zhi-Hua Zhou (Nanjing Univ., China) Kee-Eung Kim (KAIST, Korea)
ㆍWorkshops Chairs Aditya Ghose (Univ. of Wollonggong, Australia) Shusaku Tsumoto (Shimane Univ., Japan)
ㆍPosters Chairs Sanjay Chawla (Univ. of Sydney, Australia) Kyu-Baek Hwang (Soongsil Univ., Korea)
ㆍPublications Chair Byeong-Ho Kang (Univ. of Tasmania, Australia)
ㆍTreasury Chair Bo-Yeong Kang (Kyungpook Nat’l Univ., Korea)
ㆍPublicity Chair Jung-Jin Yang (Catholic Univ., Korea) |