[rede.APPIA] EPIA2020 – 20th EPIA Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 1st Call for Papers

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CALL FOR PAPERS
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EPIA 2020
20th EPIA Conference on Artificial Intelligence
https://epia2020.inesc-id.pt
September 7-9, 2020
Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisboa – Portugal

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The EPIA Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a well-established European conference in the field of AI. The 20th edition, EPIA 2020, will take place at Lisbon in September 7th-9th, 2020. As in previous editions, this international conference is hosted with the patronage of the Portuguese Association for Artificial Intelligence (APPIA). The purpose of this conference is to promote research in all areas of AI, covering both theoretical/foundational issues and applications, and the scientific exchange among researchers, engineers and practitioners in related disciplines.

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Thematic Tracks
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EPIA 2020 will feature the following thematic tracks covering a wide spectrum of AI topics:

AIoTA – Artificial Intelligence and IoT in Agriculture
AIL – Artificial Intelligence and Law
AIM – Artificial Intelligence in Medicine
AIPES – Artificial Intelligence in Power and Energy Systems
AITS – Artificial Intelligence in Transportation Systems
ALEA – Artificial Life and Evolutionary Algorithms
AmIA – Ambient Intelligence and Affective Environments
GAI- General AI
GeoAI – GeoSpatial Artificial Intelligence
IROBOT – Intelligent Robotics
KDBI – Knowledge Discovery and Business Intelligence
KRR – Knowledge Representation and Reasoning
MASTA – Multi-Agent Systems: Theory and Applications
TeMA – Text Mining and Applications
 
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Submission and Reviewing
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All papers should be submitted in PDF format through the 
EPIA 2020 EasyChair submission page. Prospective authors should select the thematic track to which their paper is to be submitted. The papers should be prepared according to the Springer LNCS format, with a maximum of 12 pages. Some thematic tracks (see each track specific page) may accept short papers (max 6 pages). Submitted papers will be subject to a double-blind review process and will be peer-reviewed by at least three members of the respective track Program Committee. It is the responsibility of the authors to remove names and affiliations from the submitted papers, and to take reasonable care to assure anonymity during the review process.

Authors should consult Springer’s authors’ guidelines and use their proceedings templates, either for LaTeX or for Word, for the preparation of their papers. Springer encourages authors to include their ORCIDs in their papers. In addition, the corresponding author of each paper, acting on behalf of all of the authors of that paper, must complete and sign a Consent-to-Publish form. The corresponding author signing the copyright form should match the corresponding author marked on the paper. Once the files have been sent to Springer, changes relating to the authorship of the papers cannot be made.


 
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Proceedings and Presentations
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Accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings (a volume of Springer’s 
LNAI-Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence), provided that at least one author is registered in EPIA 2020 by the early registration deadline. EPIA 2020 proceedings are indexed in Thomson Reuters ISI Web of Science, Scopus, DBLP and Google Scholar.
Each accepted paper must be presented by one of the authors in a track session.
 
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Awards
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The conference will grant the following award:
Best Paper Award, for the best research paper presented at the conference sponsored by Springer
Only papers that have been submitted to a thematic track and presented at the conference will be eligible for this award.
 
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Important Dates

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Paper submission deadline: April 15, 2020
Paper acceptance notification: May 31, 2020
Camera-ready deadline: June 15, 2020
Conference: September 7-9, 2020
 
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EPIA 2020 Committees
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Event and Program Chairs:
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Ana Paiva, INESC-ID, IST, Portugal

Bernardete Ribeiro, CISUC, UC, Portugal

Goreti Marreiros, GECAD, ISEP-IPP, Portugal

 

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International Steering Committee:
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Ana Bazzan, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

Ann Nowe, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium

Catholijn Jonker, Delft University of Technology, NL

Ernesto Costa, Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal

Eugénio Oliveira, Universidade do Porto, Portugal

Helder Coelho, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal

João Pavão Martins, Portugal

José Júlio Alferes, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal

Juan Pavón, Universidad Complutense Madrid, Spain

Luís Paulo Reis, Universidade do Porto, Portugal

Paulo Novais, Universidade do Minho, Portugal

Pavel Brazdil, Universidade do Porto, Portugal

Virginia Dignum, Umeå University, SE

 

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Local Chairs
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Luisa Coheur, INESC-ID, IST, Portugal

Fernando Batista, INESC-ID, ISCTE-IUL, Portugal

Bruno Martins, INESC-ID, IST, Portugal
  








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