-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- We want to encourage you to mark June 11-13 on your calendar and plan on attending. Mark your calendar now for the. 2010 Radio Wireless Week Mark Your Calendar and. Make Plans to Attend. Please mark your calendar and plan to attend -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS THIRD JOINT WORKSHOP ON COMPUTATIONAL CREATIVITY ECAI'06 WORKSHOP MT2 August 28-29, 2006, Riva del Garda, Italy The 2009 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Pattern Recognition (AIPR-09) (website: www.PromoteResearch.org ) will be held during July 13-16 2009 in Orlando, FL, USA. Call for special session All submissions will appear in informal proceedings, to be distributed at the conference. ... The post-conference proceedings will be published in Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series. The submitted material has to be substantially new research which has not been published previously. By submitting a paper, the authors agree that, if their paper is accepted, they will prepare a camera-ready version in accordance with the changes requested by the reviewers by the deadline for camera-ready papers. They also agree that at least one author will register for the conference no later than the early registration deadline if their paper is accepted and at least one author will attend the conference and present the paper. Papers should be no longer than six sides. All submissions will be reviewed in terms of quality, impact and relevance to the area of computational creativity. Papers should be sent to Simon Colton (sgc@doc.ic.ac.uk) by the deadline of April 15th. clearly identify their novel contributions that are compared with relevant related work We particularly encourage submissions by authors new to NIPS as well as application papers that combine concrete results on novel or previously unachievable applications with analysis of the underlying difficulty from a machine learning perspective. Note: Generic methods such as neural-networks, simulated annealing, swarm-optimization methods (ant-colony optimization, genetic algorithms), lie outside the scope of this workshop. The Conference web site will accept electronic submissions from May 26, 2006 until midnight, June 9, 2006, Pacific daylight time. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- please make your submission anonymous by removing all references to the authors. Since the review process is double-blind the paper must not contain any references that would identify the authors. A double-blind reviewing process will be employed, so authors are asked to remove references to themselves from their paper. All papers received will be reviewed by at least two referees in the topical area. WTI 2008 will follow a blind reviewing policy. Therefore, leave the authors line empty, and avoid obvious self-references. Since the review process is double-blind the paper must not contain any references that would identify the authors. A double blind review process will be adopted. Authors should avoid using identifying information in the text of the paper. A "blind" paper evaluation method will be used. Therefore authors are kindly requested to produce and provide the full paper, without any reference to the authors. The manuscript must contain, in its first page, the paper title, the author category (doctoral or not), an abstract and a list of keywords but no names or contact details are to be included in any part of the file. Notification of paper acceptance/rejection will be sent by email. Review Criteria: New as of 2006, NIPS submissions will be reviewed double-blind: the reviewers will not know the identities of the authors. All submissions will be subject to academic peer review by at least two members of the program committee. Selection criteria include All submissions are subject to a blind refereeing process. Authors' names and their affiliations must not be revealed or mentioned anywhere in the submission. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ... the likely deadline for the submission of papers will be mid/late March 2009. Papers will be 16 pages max. Workshop proposals should be submitted in PDF format via E-mail to workshops@iswc.net by February 1, 2009 To encourage interdisciplinary interactions, the main meeting is arranged in a single track. The BCS SGAI is pleased at announce that: - Registration prices are held below AI-2004 levels In addition to the formal sessions, the conference programme includes a welcome reception and a Gala Dinner. includes a welcome reception and a Gala Dinner. But North Dakota is a pretty well-kept secret." in this lovely conuntry With luck, you'll find something that no one else has discovered. Otherwise it would be somehow difficult enter ... Belarus is a land of fairly well-kept secret. In this lovely wonder land, with luck, you'll find something that could not be discovered elsewher no one else has discovered. Students from Eastern European countries or students in general who need support for their travel expenses can apply for reimbursement and a waiver for the registration fee We expect AGI-09 to be even better than AGI-08, and hope to see you there. Lets meet in Riva del Garda from Aug 28th to Sept 1st, 2006. ================================================================================================== Each paper must be submitted as a single PDF file in IEEE Computer Science Press 8.5x11 inch two-column format (not longer than eight pages in length). --- Accepted regular papers will be included in the printed conference main proceedings and presented in the paper sessions. Submissions to ISWC'09 must not be under review by any other conference or publication during the ISWC review cycle, and must not be previously published or accepted for publication elsewhere. --- Each presentation will be a half an hour. To present, please submit 8 page papers in PDF format, using the ACM style at http://www.sigevo.org/gecco-2009/papers.html, to steven [dot] gustafson [at] research [dot] ge [dot] com. Please use a subject line of "GECCO 2009 SRM Workshop" in the submission. Accepted papers will be published in the GECCO Workshop Proceedings. Authors of accepted papers who registered in the conference will have access to the reviews made to their submission so they can accordingly improve the final version of their papers. Non-registered authors may not have access to the reviews of their respective submissions. The workshop proceedings will be published in Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series (confirmation pending). SLS 2009 solicits contributions dealing with any aspect of engineering stochastic local search algorithms. Typical, but not exclusive, topics of interest are: We especially encourage papers which combine theory with results from real-world applications, e.g., papers in which theory is used to guide application to real-world problems, and/or results from real-world applications that confirm (or contradict) theory. In this vein, collaborations between "theorists" and "practitioners" are most welcome, since such collaborations are quite rare but they are likely to lead to new insights and novel results. -- The format of this workshop will be similar to that of the previous workshops (GPTP 2003-2008): a relatively small, invitation-only workshop on the campus of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, with plenty of time for discussion of a roughly equal mix of a total of 18 papers by theorists and practitioners. In order to facilitate a substantial exchange of ideas, workshop talks will be approximately 30 minutes long, with considerable time allocated for discussion. The papers will be reviewed by co-participants prior to the workshop, and collected for publication in a book to be published as soon as possible after the workshop. As we would like to have the papers available for distribution before the workshop, the likely deadline for the submission of papers will be mid/late March 2009. Papers will be 16 pages max. -- Note that we will be selecting only high-quality, high-content papers, i.e., we are looking for papers that have more depth and breadth than typical conference papers. which is listed at the website. (http://www.cybernics.tsukuba.ac.jp/members.html) Please forward this announcement to anyone you think might be interested. Dear causality enthusiasts, However, a limited set of work-in-progress abstracts will be invited for the submission of a complete paper after the conference, to undergo an additional review process as for the complete papers above. All submissions will appear in informal proceedings, to be distributed at the conference. ... The post-conference proceedings will be published in Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series. Each submission will be evaluated according to its relevance to the meeting, novelty, technical quality, and presentation. After a final decision is made, authors will receive a notification letter accompanied with the reports of the reviewers. I wish you a stimulating reading! All contributions submitted for presentation at the conference will be selected on the basis of a full paper. -- Referee reports available - Notification of acceptance or rejection -- ACADEMIC Registration (includes reception, conference proceedings, lunches, refreshments, banquet and excursion) early (until December 15, 2008) EUR 380,00 late (after December 15, 2008) EUR 500,00 STUDENT Registration (includes reception, conference proceedings, lunches, refreshments, banquet and excursion) early (until December 15, 2008) EUR 250,00 late (after December 15, 2008) EUR 350,00 By submitting a paper, the authors agree that, if their paper is accepted, they will prepare a camera-ready version in accordance with the changes requested by the reviewers by the deadline for camera-ready papers. The post-proceedings of BIS 2009 workshops will be published as separate volume of Springer's Lectures Notes in Business Information Processing (LNBIP). Papers will be presented orally (single track) The following is a non-exhaustive list of machine learning, computational intelligence and artificial neural networks topics covered during the ESANN conferences: You have been included in this list because, to the best of our knowledge, you have once shown interest in IWANN or computational intelligence conferences. If this is not the case, please, accept our apologies and unsubscribe via e-mail: To: InfoIwann-request@ctima.uma.es Subject: unsubscribe Authors of papers presented at the FOGA workshop will be asked to contribute final versions of their papers (based on discussion/feedback at the meeting) as part of the final volume. Paper submissions should be limited to a maximum of 10 pages in the IEEE 2-column format, the same as the camera-ready format (see the IEEE Computer Society Press Proceedings Author Guidelines at http://www.computer.org/portal/pages/cscps/cps/final/icdm06.xml ). A selected number of IEEE ICDM '08 accepted papers will be invited for possible inclusion, in expanded and revised form, in the Knowledge and Information Systems journal (http://www.cs.uvm.edu/~kais/) published by Springer-Verlag. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- AI-2006: Cambridge, UK, December 11th - 13th 2006 CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS Contributions are invited in the form of papers of up to fourteen A4 pages presenting original work in AI. Contributions are welcome to two streams, and a parallel poster session. Technical Stream: Areas of interest include (but are not restricted to): knowledge based systems; knowledge engineering; semantic web; constraint satisfaction; intelligent agents; machine learning; model based reasoning; verification and validation of AI systems; natural language understanding; speech-enabled systems; case based reasoning; neural networks; genetic algorithms; data mining and knowledge discovery in databases; robotics and pervasive computing. Application Stream: Case studies are welcomed describing the application of AI to real-world problems. Papers in recent years have covered all application domains, including commerce, manufacturing and government, and every major AI technique. In addition to case studies and specific applications of AI, we would welcome papers that discuss issues such as managing the transfer from research to production of AI- based products. Papers are selected to highlight critical areas of success (and failure) and to present the benefits and lessons of value to other developers. Submitted papers should make these points clear. Guidance notes for Application Stream authors are available from the website. Poster Session: The Poster Session is intended for the presentation of work which meets the high standards of AI-2006, but which is more topical and preliminary than the work presented in the main two streams. It is an excellent forum for disseminiating new developments and latest work in progress. Papers submitted to the Technical and Application streams will be automatically considered for poster presentation if they fall short of the standards for oral presentation. Publication of Papers: Papers accepted for oral presentation at the conference will be published in book form by Springer SBM. - The books will be prepared from camera-ready copy supplied by the authors of accepted papers. - Formatting specifications for the proceedings have been provided by the publisher and are available from the AI-2006 website. - Authors will retain copyright in all papers published in the two volumes of proceedings. - The best six refereed papers in each stream will be reprinted as a special issue of the international journal Knowledge Based Systems. Papers accepted for poster presentation at the conference will be published in the BCS-SGAI magazine Expert Update. Authors will retain their copyright. Note that papers must be submitted electronically. See the website for details. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This year's conference will be held at Peterhouse College in Cambridge. In addition to the formal sessions, the conference programme includes a welcome reception and a Gala Dinner. Plenty of time has been inserted into the programme to allow discussions with other delegates and time to make new contacts and renew old acquaintances. The BCS SGAI is pleased at announce that: - Registration prices are held below AI-2004 levels Submissions violating the formatting guidelines will be *excluded* from the reviewing process. Papers should be no longer than six sides. All submissions will be reviewed in terms of quality, impact and relevance to the area of computational creativity. Papers should be sent to Simon Colton (sgc@doc.ic.ac.uk) by the deadline of April 15th. All contributions will be peer reviewed by the workshop programme committee. Those with accepted topics will be invited to give a 10 minute presentation of their idea. For sessions focused around a debate, both participants will be invited to present their ideas in a 10 minute slot each, prior to discussion. An open brainstorming session will then follow for 50 minutes with a focus on initially evaluating the proposed idea or giving thoughts on unanswered questions. Notes and outcomes of these sessions will be recorded. Length should not exceed 10 pages, double spaced, and must be emailed in pdf -- If the submitted contributions are of sufficient quality, papers emerging from the workshop will be forwarded to undergo the review process of a scientific journal, for a special issue. -- You may find detailed information about the workshop in our webpage at www.informatics.sussex.ac.uk/morphodynamicsgroup/alifexwk or through the conference webpage at www.alifex.org All submitted papers will be judged based on their quality, relevance, originality, significance, and soundness. Papers must be submitted directly by email in PDF format to nesy@soi.city.ac.uk Selected papers will be presented during the workshop. The workshop will include extra time for audience discussion of the presentation allowing the group to have a better understanding of the issues, challenges, and ideas being presented. In addition to the multi-volume proceedings published by Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), the following journals will have special issues featuring selected papers from ICONIP2006: Submissions violating these requirements will not be considered. Dear Connectionsts, I hope this workshop may be of interest to those of you working in ICA or source separation. Best wishes, Mark Plumbley Paper submissions should be limited to a maximum of 12 pages for full length papers and 6 pages for short papers in the IEEE 2-column format (see http://www.ieee.org). All paper submissions will be handled electronically. Detailed instructions are provided on the conference web page at http://www.farcampus.com/rcis/author.php from NIPS-2006 Submissions will be refereed on the basis of technical quality, novelty, potential impact on the field, and clarity. There will be an opportunity after the meeting to revise accepted manuscripts. We particularly encourage submissions by authors new to NIPS, as well as application papers that combine concrete results on novel or previously unachievable applications with analysis of the underlying difficulty from a machine learning perspective. not-yet and skip to below CALL FOR PAPERS THIRD JOINT WORKSHOP ON COMPUTATIONAL CREATIVITY ECAI'06 WORKSHOP MT2 August 28-29, 2006, Riva del Garda, Italy AIMS AND OBJECTIVES The aim of the workshop is to facilitate the exchange of ideas on the topic of computational creativity. We aim to bring together people from AI, Cognitive Science and related areas such as Psychology, Philosophy and the Arts who research questions related to the notion of creativity with respect to computers. The workshop will address issues such as how we assess creativity in computers, how computers can be used to enhance human creativity, and how we can write creative software. We aim for papers on various frameworks for computational creativity to be presented at the workshop, and for the applications of computational creativity to the sciences, creative industries and arts to be showcased. In addition, we will organise a "show and tell" session, which will be devoted to demonstrations of systems exhibiting ehaviour which would be deemed creative in humans. Motivation Do you think of your AI work more in terms of generating artefacts of aesthetic and utilitarian value (such as poems, theorems, melodies, jokes, designs, harmonisations, ...) rather than thinking of your work in terms of problem solving? Do you worry more about the value of the artefacts your system produces rather than the speed at which it produces them? Has a program you have written ever surprised you with the quality and novelty of its output? If you answer 'yes' to any of the above questions, then you may be interested in the field of computational creativity. We study the question of what creativity means with respect to computers, by comparing and contrasting implemented systems which undertake tasks that require creativity in humans. This continues in a rich vein of research from philosophy, psychology, cognitive science and AI. We focus our research within the AI paradigm of artefact generation, where there are multiple (sometimes conflicting) cognitively plausible aesthetic and utilitarian considerations associated with the output of the programs, rather than within the paradigm of problem solving, where the considerations are usually efficiency and optimality of solutions. The domains in which computers are beginning to produce artefacts of real value include mathematics, art and design, physical sciences, literature and music. By studying the use of AI techniques such as case-based reasoning, evolutionary algorithms and machine learning within such artefact generation systems, we are making progress towards formalising frameworks for the generation of artefacts. In parallel, we are investigating frameworks for the assessment of the artefacts themselves and for assessing the creativity of the systems which produce them. SHOW AND TELL SESSION The fact that we now have implemented systems which exhibit creative behaviour and produce artefacts of value sets the computational creativity field apart from other domains which investigate notions of creativity. To emphasise this, we plan to hold an inaugural "show and tell" session, where implemented systems are demonstrated. There will be no set format, but we hope each presentation will cover topics such as: (a) implementation details, (b) how to run the system, (c) how to use and interpret the artefacts created by the system, (d) engineering innovations which have been required in order to implement the system. For each system, we will encourage the presenter to demonstrate the program at work and to supply a 'gallery' of the most appealing artefacts generated over the years by the system. All submissions will be subject to academic peer review by at least two members of the program committee. Selection criteria include accuracy and originality of ideas, clarity and significance of results, and quality of presentation. -- Over lengthy or late submissions will be rejected without review. Notification of receipt and acceptance of papers will be sent to the first author. -- GRANTS A limited number of grants for AIMSA participants (young researchers and PhD students) will be available, with preference to the Conference authors. Details of the Grant Scheme will soon be available on the conference web site: . We welcome presentations of completed work or work-in-progress, as well as papers discussing potential research directions and surveys of recent developments. Note: Generic methods such as neural-networks, simulated annealing, swarm-optimization methods (ant-colony optimization, genetic algorithms), lie outside the scope of this workshop. We welcome any feedback you might have. The main aim is to focus attention on a practically important problem where practitioners have long sought theoretically sound algorithms but which has not been sufficiently addressed in the literature. A secondary goal is to bring together ideas from semi-supervised learning, active learning, feature acquisition, inductive transfer learning and other areas, in order that there may be more exchange of ideas across these (extremely active) communities. We welcome both novel theory/algorithms and papers that highlight open problems and challenges in real-world applications which call for cost sensitive learning. Submissions on following topics are particularly encouraged: Algorithms/Theory: - active learning - semi-supervised learning - transfer learning - reinforcement learning - domain adaptation, - cascaded classifier learning - ...and related. Applications which call for cost-sensitive learning: - computer vision - computational linguistics - natural language processing - computer-aided diagnosis - differential medical diagnosis - ...and others. Your Workshop Organizers, Decision Notification: May 15, 2007 - $90 for employed non-members of INNS or MIND (other than invited speakers); - $50 for employed INNS or MIND members; - $30 for students who are not MIND or INNS members; - $15 for students who are MIND or INNS members We will attempt to set up on-line registration through a MIND web site under construction. But meanwhile registration can be paid at the conference, or by a check made out to "MIND" and sent to: --- Hotel: A block of rooms is available for the nights of Thursday, November 4, through Saturday, November 6, at the Arlington Hilton at 2401 East Lamar Boulevard (about 3 miles northeast of the UTA campus meeting site). The conference rate is $85 a night plus 15% tax and $.90 assessment fee. You can reserve a room at this rate through October 27 by calling the hotel at 817-640-3322 and identifying yourself as an attendee of the Neural Network Conference at UTA. --- The meeting will be dedicated to the memory of Prof. Daniel Amit, whose seminal, creative and vigorous activity in the field has inspired and provoked so many of us in the last 20 years. [cfp I don't like] The ESANN conference applies a strict policy about the presentation of accepted papers during the conference: authors of accepted papers who do not show up at the conference will be blacklisted for future ESANN conferences, and the lists will be communicated to other conference organizers. [betterway] Authors of accepted papers who registered in the conference can have access to the evaluations and possible feedback provided by the reviewers who recommended the acceptance of their papers/abstracts, so they can accordingly improve the final version of their papers. Non-registered authors may not have access to the reviews of their respective submissions. [also good] Each session to be included in the conference program will have corresponding electronic pre-conference and post-conference sessions for 15 days each. In the electronic pre-conference sessions authors will have access to the papers to be presented at their session and to an associated electronic forum, so they can be better prepared for their conference face-to-face session. Similarly, electronic post-conference sessions will complement and support a follow-up of the respective conference sessions, via an electronic forum and the possibility of evaluating papers presented at the associated session. These evaluations will also support the selection process for the papers to be published in JSCI journal. Failing to comply with the ACM formatting rules will result in exclusion from the proceedings. Authors are encouraged to submit high quality, original work that has neither appeared in, nor is under consideration by, other conferences/journals After the workshop, *authors of accepted abstracts will be invited to submit a full paper* (up to 20-pages) for post-proceedings publication in the Springer LNAI series, as has been done in 2002 and 2006. Kindly share the announcement below with those who may be interested: thank you in advance. KES International is organising a conference on Sustainability and Renewable Energy, to be held in Brighton, UK, in the Spring of 2009. We are recruiting a programme committee for this event and would like to hear from anyone who would like to be involved in this new area of activity. Papers accepted by two reviewers will be published in symposium proceedings available at the symposium The EBBS meeting is open to all scientists from around the world interested in how the brain produces behaviour, from integrative, cognitive, systems, computational neuroscience - and beyond. Based on previous meetings, we expect ca. 500 participants, many of whom will be new to EBBS meetings. Do contribute to the success of the meeting by taking a few easy steps: * Insert the website http://www.sissa.it/~ale/EBBS2007/ among your browser's favorites * Forbid your dear ones from getting married or falling ill on September 15-19, 2007 * Submit your top-quality proposals to our Call for Symposia by the deadline of June 15, 2006 * Produce over the next year-and-a-half the best science of your life, and present it in Trieste Apologies if you are not interested in this announcement of deadlines extension The lists of nominees (in the chronological order of nomination by the public) are provided below. If the deadlines are tight and you need more time, let us know about a suitable time for you and we will inform you if it is feasible for us. PUBLICATIONS All accepted papers will be included in Conference Proceedings published by IEEE Press. Moreover we plan publication of extended version of accepted papers in selected journals. The emphasis should be on discussion; the workshop format should not be simply a mini-conference but should aim for a dynamic sharing of ideas. We particularly encourage workshops that will bring together unusual groupings for the transfer of ideas and methods. Controversial issues, open problems, and comparisons of competing approaches are not only encouraged but preferred as workshop topics. Representation of alternative viewpoints and panel-style discussions are encouraged. Workshop topics should be developed with a view to make an interesting workshop for the participants; proponents should familiarize themselves with previous workshops and the topics covered in recent NIPS papers. The Conference will include invited talks as well as oral and poster presentations of refereed papers. Other Members of the Programme Committee There is no obligation for the participants to stay in this hotel. Hotels of all levels of comfort and price are available in Bruges The proceedings will include all communications presented to the conference (tutorials, oral and posters), and will be available on-site. Extended versions of selected papers will be published in the Neurocomputing journal (Elsevier). Prospective authors are invited to submit their contributions before November 23, 2007. The electronic submission procedure is described on the ESANN portal http://www.dice.ucl.ac.be/esann/. Authors must also commit themselves that they will register to the conference and present the paper in case of acceptation of their submission (one paper per registrant). Authors of accepted papers will have to register before February 28, 2008; they will benefit from the advance registration fee. The ESANN conference applies a strict policy about the presentation of accepted papers during the conference: authors of accepted papers who do not show up at the conference will be blacklisted for future ESANN conferences, and the lists will be communicated to other conference organizers. Research in CIP is widely interdisciplinary. The aim of this series of workshops is to bring together researchers from the Machine Learning, Pattern Recognition, Signal Processing and Communications communities, in an effort to encourage cross-fertilization of ideas and tools. Non-exhaustive list of possible topics: Submitted papers or extended abstracts will have three kinds of reviews: double-blind (by at least three reviewers), non-blind, and participative peer-to-peer reviews. All submitted papers will be blind reviewed and acceptance will be based on originality, significance, technical soundness and clarity. -- We are looking for applicants with a degree in physics or applied mathematics, preferably with prior experience in statistical physics or nonlinear dynamics and probabilistic data analysis, and for interdisciplinary research at the border of theoretical physics and neuroscience. Prior biological or neuroscience training is welcome but not required. -- See http://www.personnel.stir.ac.uk/recruitment/recruitment_pdfs/res_12836.pdf for further particulars. Email Professor Leslie Smith (lss@cs.stir.ac.uk) to discuss if you are interested. Each camera ready paper will be reviewed by assigned DC PC member who will serve as a discussant of the paper at the DC session. Authors are encouraged to submit high-quality, original work that has neither appeared in, nor is under consideration by, other journals. The best six refereed papers in each stream will be reprinted as a special issue of the international journal Knowledge Based Systems. ================================================================================================== Call For Special Session Proposals Each special session should focus on a particular area with a topic of interest within the scope of the conference. Proposal could include how the special session is to be conducted, such as in the form of invited papers or others. Upon approval, he or she will be appointed as the special session chair and to work closely with the committee. The special session proposals should include the information below and should be emailed to the TPC Co-chair (ycliang@i2r.a-star.edu.sg) or the organizing chair (chewyh@i2r.a-star.edu.sg). The proposal can be in text, Word, PDF, or postscript. The deadline for proposal submission is 6 June 2006 (extended), but early proposal submission is encouraged. Click here for more information on the technical scopes. Special session title: Duration: Special Session Organizer name: Position/Affiliation: Address: Phone: Fax: Email: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Special Session Proposals 6th International Symposium on Image and Signal Processing and Analysis (ISPA 2009) September 16-18, 2009, Salzburg, Austria -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Special Session Proposals is now open! The aim of a special session is to provide an overview of the state-of-the-art and current research directions in specific fields of image and signal processing and analysis. Special Session Program Special sessions consist of six papers as a target number (20 minutes each time slot), but a minimum of four and a maximum of eight papers are also acceptable. A special session paper can be a regular paper or an invited paper. Regular special session papers are unsolicited papers submitted by an author. The special session organizer may invite a distinguished researcher to submit an invited paper. Normally, there can be one or at most two such invited papers per special session, unless another agreement is made with the ISPA Special Session Chair. Paper Submission Process Authors submit papers for special sessions through ISPA online submission system by marking the check box on the submission page corresponding to the desired special session. Authors should follow the author instructions for regular ISPA papers. The deadline for online paper submission for special sessions is the same as the deadline for regular papers. Review Process Regular special session papers are subject to international peer-review process with three reviewers, in the same way as all other regular ISPA submissions. Invited paper(s) are reviewed by the special session organizer. Accepted special session papers will be published in the symposium proceedings in the same length and format as regular ISPA papers. Special Session Proposal Format Proposals for special sessions should contain: The special session title The name(s) of the organizer(s), with contact addresses and emails The aim and scope of the special session (100 words) Deadline Special session proposals should be sent by February 1, 2009 to ISPA Special Session Chair: Rade Kutil University of Salzburg, Austria E-mail: rkutil@cosy.sbg.ac.at -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- First Call for Special Session Proposals ACM CIVR 2009 ACM International Conference on Image and Video Retrieval July 8-10, 2009, Santorini Island, Greece http://www.civr2009.org Image and Video retrieval have now reached a state where successful techniques and applications start flourishing. The ACM International Conference on Image and Video Retrieval (ACM-CIVR) series of conferences is the ideal opportunity to present and encounter such developments. Originally set up to illuminate the state-of-the-art in image and video retrieval throughout the world, it is now a reference event in the field where researchers and practitioner exchange knowledge and ideas. CIVR2009 is seeking original high quality special sessions addressing innovative research in the broad field of image and video retrieval. We wish to highlight significant and emerging areas of the main problem of search and retrieval but also the equally important related issues of multimedia content management, user interaction and community-based management. Example topics of interest include but are not limited to: social network information mining, unsupervised methods for data exploration, large scale issues for algorithms and data set generation. Each special session will consist of 5 invited papers. The organizers' role is to attract the speakers and chair the session itself. Proposals will be evaluated based on the timeliness of the topic, relevance to CIVR, the degrees to which they will bring together key researchers in the area, introduce the area to the larger research community, further develop the area, and potentials to establish a larger community around the area. Please note that all papers in the proposed session will undergo the same review process as regular papers. If after the reviewing process less than the necessary number of papers solicited for a special session are selected, the Special Session will be cancelled, and the solicited papers that passed review process will be presented within regular sessions of the conference. The following information should be included in the proposal: Title of proposed session An introduction stating the importance of the topic and the rationale for the proposed session. Organizers (including brief bio and contact information) Short biography of the Special Session chair(s) List of potential submissions if available -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Submission Procedure for Special Sessions -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Those who are interested in organizing a special session should submit a proposal adhering to the above requirements by email to Dr. Eric Bruno at eric.bruno[at]unige.ch and Dr. Allan Hanbury at hanbury[at]prip.tuwien.ac.at. All the papers in the special sessions should follow the same style as the regular CIVR papers. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Important Dates -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 8 December 2008 : Technical Special Sessions proposals Due 22 December 2008 : Notification of proposals acceptance 1 February 2009 : Paper Submission 15 March 2009 : Notification of acceptance 15 April 2009 : Submission of camera-ready papers As for regular sessions, selected papers after resubmission and review will be published in a Special Issue of Springer, Multimedia Tools and Applications Journal. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- In order to submit a special session proposal, please email IEEE NLP-KE at submit@aia-i.com with the following information: a.. Title of special session b.. Brief (1 paragraph) description of your special session c.. Brief (1 paragraph) biography of special session organizer d.. Preferred email address for receiving paper submissions After accepted by the conference, the special session organizer may use the IEEE NLP-KE website to call for paper submissions. When a proposal is accepted, the special session organizer will be informed of the designated web-link. The organizer's name will appear in the conference program as "Special Session Organizer." Additionally, each Special Session Organizer will receive an honorarium. If you have further questions regarding special sessions, please contact us via e-mail at office-ijai@aia-i.com. Please indicate the title of IEEE NLP-KE 2009 in the subject line of your e-mail.