[Om-announce] CFP: MICAI 2008: Artifiical Intelligence - Mexico - Springer LNAI, two weeks reminder

[Alexander Gelbukh (MICAI-2008)]

                    MICAI 2008
     7th Mexican International Conference on
             ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

           EXTENDED SUBMISSION DEADLINE

                www.MICAI.org/2008

      October 27 to 31, Mexico City, Mexico

      Proceedings: Springer LNAI, IEEE, and special issues of journals

*NEW* EXTENDED submission deadline: JUNE 9 (abstract), JUNE 16 (paper)


                CALL FOR PAPERS


*NEW* KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

- George Gottlob, Oxford University, UK;
- Simon Haykin, McMaster University, Canada;
- Stephanie Forrest, U. of New Mexico, USA;
- Steven M LaValle, University of Illinois, USA;
- Gerardo Jiménez-Sánchez, Johns Hopkins University, USA;
- Francisco Cervantes Peréz, UNAM, Mexico.


GENERAL INFORMATION 

Topics of interest include all areas of Artificial Intelligence. Poster
session, workshops, tutorials, doctoral consortium, and cultural events
are planned.

The recent MICAI events (2005, 2006, 2007) received around 450 submissions
from over 40 countries each. The acceptance rate (oral session) was around
26%. Among keynote speakers were John McCarthy, Tom Mitchell, Ronald Yager,
and Pedro Domingos, to name just a few. There were over 500 attendees.


PROCEEDINGS AND SUBMISSION

Papers accepted for oral session will be published by Springer in LNAI:
Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence. Poster session papers will
be published separately. Special issues of journals are anticipated.

Submissions are received via webpage; see guidelines there. By June 9,
only abstract is to be registered; the full text is then due by June 16.


IMPORTANT DATES

June  9: Registration of abstracts.
June 16: Uploading of full text of registered papers.


CONTACT

General inquiries: micai2008 at MICAI dot org; see www.MICAI.org/2008.


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