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In cooperation with the American Association for Artificial Intelligence The 19th International FLAIRS Conference (FLAIRS 2006) will be held May 11-13 2006, in Melbourne Beach, Florida, USA. Melbourne Beach is on Florida's "Space Coast" (centered around NASA's Kennedy Space Center), and has easy access to Orlando and the Disney World attractions. Submission of papers for presentation at the conference is now invited. Topics of interest are in all areas of artificial intelligence, including: - Foundations: Knowledge representation, Cognitive modeling, Perception, Reasoning and programming, Search, Learning; - Architectures: Agents and distributed AI, Intelligent user interfaces, Natural language systems Information retrieval, Robotics; - Applications: Aviation and aerospace, Education, Entertainment, Medicine, Management and manufacturing, World wide Web; - Implications: Philosophical underpinnings, Social impact and ethics, Evaluation of AI systems, Teaching AI.

IPAM-UCLA Probabilistic Models of Cognition: The Mathematics of Mind. The ICCBR'05 Program Committee invites submissions of original theoretical research, applied research and deployed application papers on all aspects of Case-Based Reasoning. Mehmet H. Göker, PricewaterhouseCoopers Submission Procedure: Authors must submit a full paper plus a title page by 31 January 2005. For further details please visit the conference website. All accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings published by Springer Verlag in the Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence series.

Carnegie Mellon University Robotics Institute Twenty-fifth Anniversary Celebration: Grand Challenges of Robotics Symposium. Fifth International Conference on Knowledge Based Computer Systems. Contact: KBCS-2004 Secretariat C-DAC Mumbai (formerly NCST) Knowledge Based Computer Systems Division Raintree Marg, Near Bharati Vidyapeeth Navi Mumbai 400614 India Voice: 91-22-27560013 Fax: 91-22-27560004 Email: kbcs@ncst.ernet.in Paper submission deadline: Author notification: Camera-ready copies: The 18th International FLAIRS Conference seeks high quality, original, unpublished submissions in all areas of AI, including, but not limited to, neural networks, autonomous agents, case-based reasoning, computer vision, data mining, expert systems, genetic algorithms, intelligent user interfaces, intelligent tutoring systems, knowledge representation and management, learning, automated reasoning, multi-agent systems, natural language processing, planning, uncertainty reasoning, robotics, semantic web, speech recognition, temporal reasoning, AI and the Web, AI applications, AI and education, and verification/validation. The FLAIRS conference offers a set of special tracks, and authors are encouraged to submit papers to a relevant track.

The Seventeenth International FLAIRS Conference seeks high quality, original, unpublished submissions in all areas of AI, including, but not limited to, neural networks, autonomous agents, case-based reasoning, computer vision, data mining, expert systems, genetic algorithms, intelligent user interfaces, intelligent tutoring systems, knowledge representation and management, learning, automated reasoning, multi-agent systems, natural language processing, planning, uncertainty reasoning, robotics, semantic web, speech recognition, temporal reasoning, AI and the Web, AI applications, AI and education, and verification/validation. All accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings published by AAAI Press. Selected papers will receive best-paper awards. Selected authors will be invited to submit extended versions of their papers to a special issue of the International Journal on Artificial Intelligence Tools (IJAIT) to be published in 2005. The papers should not exceed 5 pages and is due by October 24, 2003.

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