The Ninth Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence
7- 11th August 2006 Guilin, China

http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/pricai06

The Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (PRICAI) is a biennial international event which concentrates on AI theories, technologies and their applications in the areas of social and economic importance for countries in the Pacific Rim. Past conferences have been held in Nagoya (1990), Seoul (1992), Beijing (1994), Cairns (1996), Singapore (1998), Melbourne (2000), Tokyo (2002) and Auckland (2004).

Topics
Topics of interest are all areas of Artificial Intelligence, including but not limited to:
Agents and Distributed AI
Knowledge based Systems
Machine Learning and Data Mining
Natural Language Understanding and Information Retrieval
Reasoning (Logic, Constraints, Knowledge Representation, Search, Satisfiability)
Planning and Plan Recognition
Computer Vision and Robotics
AI Applications in Auctions, Entertainment, Bioinformatics, Web search and Browsing, Sensor Networks, and many others

Proceedings will be published as Lecture Notes in AI by Springer. For submission details, please visit http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/pricai06/PRICAI06/call_for_papers.htm.

Important Dates
22nd February 2006 - submission deadline for research papers
5th May 2006 - notification of acceptance for all
submissions
22nd May 2006 - camera-ready copy due

Submission
Papers should be no longer than 10 pages including all tables, figures and references. Fonts should not be smaller than 10pt. Paper submissions using Springer's LNAI style available at http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html are recommended. All papers should be submitted electronically (in PDF format) to a Web submission page to be accessible from the PRICAI-06 Web site http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/pricai06/PRICAI06/call_for_papers.htm.

Conference Venue
PRICAI 06 will be held at the 5 star Lijiang Waterfall Hotel in the centre of Guilin city. Guilin (http://www.china.com.cn/english/travel/42354.htm) is famous for its distinctive karst scenery and is a key tourist destination in China. The beautiful landscape is characterized by green mountains, clear waters, strange caves and statuesque monoliths.
(http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/pricai06/PRICAI06/general_information.htm)

Organising committee
Conference Co-Chairs
Ruqian Lu (Chinese Academy of Sciences) China
Hideyuki Nakashima (Future University - Hakodate) Japan
Program Committee Co-Chairs
Qiang Yang (University of Science and Technology) Hong Kong
Geoff Webb (Monash University) Australia
Organizing Chair
Prof. Shichao Zhang (Guangxi Normal University) China
Workshops Chair
Riichiro Mizoguchi (Osaka University) Japan
Rong Pan (University of Science and Technology) Hong Kong
Tutorials Chair
Charles Ling (University of Western Ontario) Canada
Industrial Chair
Wei-ying Ma (Microsoft Research) China
Sponsorship Co-Chairs
Shi Zhongzhi (Chinese Academy of Sciences) China
Chengqi Zhang (University of Technology, Sydney) Australia
Publicity Co-Chairs
Jian Pei (Simon Fraser University) Canada
Xudong Luo (University of Southampton) United Kingdom

Contact
Rong Pan
Dept. of Computer Science
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Clear Water Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong
pricai06@cs.ust.hk

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