EXTENDED DEADLINE! EXTENDED DEADLINE! EXTENDED DEADLINE! EXTENDED DEADLINE! EXTENDED DEADLINE! EXTENDED DEADLINE! Paper submission deadline: Paper submission: 29 April 2012 AI*IA National Workshop and Prize on Popularize Artificial Intelligence (PAI 2012) celebrating 100th anniversary of Alan Turing's birth June 2012 Rome, Italy (held in conjunction with AI*IA 2012) URL: http://www.di.unito.it/~baldoni/PAI-2012/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR POSITION PAPERS, IDEAS, DEMOS ---------------------------------------------------------------------- In 1934 Alan M. Turing argued that machines could imitate thought and, in the essay "Computing Machinery and Intelligence", he proposed what is now known as the Turing Test. A computer and a human are compared by a panel of judges, who address the same questions to both and review their answers. If the judges cannot make distinctions between the two answers, the machine may be considered intelligent. The Turing test for decades has represented the best calling card for popularizing Artificial Intelligence worldwide. Nowadays, ideas, theories, techniques developed in the research area of Artificial Intelligence are widely applied for producing games, satellite navigators, human-computer interfaces, web applications, automated voice responders, etc. For celebrating the 100th anniversary of Alan Turing's birth, the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence organizes a workshop aimed at divulging the practical uses of Artificial Intelligence. To this aim, we call for demonstrators (e.g. videos), demos, proposals, systems exploiting AI theories and techniques, short papers which present ideas, and which are written in such a way to make them accessible to a broad public. Prizes will be awarded to different categories of submissions. The workshop will be organized as a poster session. Each contribution will have some space for a poster and demos and systems will be shown to the public. The best contributions will additionally be presented during a plenary session of AI*IA 2012. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS ---------------------------------------------------------------------- All kinds of experiences are welcome! Three categories of contribution are possible: (1) student experiences inside AI courses (e.g. laboratory demos), (2) research and academic experiences, (3) industrial experiences. Beside the poster session, selected contributions will be presented at the workshop. Presentations will be open to a broad public, and authors are invited to specify the kind of audience their contributions aim at involving. Each proposal (demos, demonstrators, videos, systems exploiting AI results, ideas) must be submitted in the form of a paper written either in English or in Italian, and formatted according to the Springer LNCS style. The paper must not exceed 5 pages. Ideally, it should contain a description of the contribution (in the case of demos, it should contain also some details about the demonstration itself). Morevoer, the five-page paper should contain a high-level description of the AI techniques exploited within the specific proposal, and a short list of bibliographic references: these parts should be organized and written to address a general audience, and should help readers without any AI background to understand the contribution and the relation with AI. Paper submission is electronic via the conference website. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- PRIZES ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The association plans to award economic prizes to the best contribution in category (1) and (2) (student experiences, academic experiences). Possibly, best contributions in categories (1) and (2) will be offered a free symposium registration fee, each. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- WORKSHOP PROCEEDINGS and JOURNAL SPECIAL ISSUE ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Selected papers will be published in the CEUR Workshop Proceedings series. The authors of the best among all selected papers will be invited to submit an extended version for publication in the international journal Intelligenza Artificiale, published by IOS Press. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Paper submission deadline: 29 April 2012 Notification of acceptance/rejection: 15 May 2012 Camera-ready copies due: 25 May 2012 Workshop Date: 14/15/16 June 2012 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- WORKSHOP ORGANISERS ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Matteo Baldoni (University of Torino, Italy) Federico Chesani (University of Bologna, Italy) Bernardo Magnini (Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy) Marco Montali (University of Bolzano, Italy)