FLAIRS-25 continues a tradition of presenting and discussing state of the art artificial
intelligence and related research in a convivial atmosphere within a beautiful setting. Events will
include invited speakers, special tracks, discussion panels, and presentations of papers, posters,
and awards. FLAIRS features some of the world’s leading researchers but submissions from
students are also highly encouraged, with FLAIRS boasting a strong tradition of student papers.
Submission of papers and posters for presentation at the conference is now invited. Topics of
interest are in all areas of (or related to) artificial intelligence, including, but not limited to
Foundations
• Cognitive modeling
• Knowledge representation
• Learning
• Perception
• Reasoning and programming
• Search

Architectures
• Agents and distributed AI
• Information retrieval
• Intelligent user interfaces
• Natural language systems
• Robotics

Applications
• Aviation and aerospace
• Education
• Entertainment
• Management and manufacturing
• Medicine
• World Wide Web
Implications
• Evaluation of AI systems
• Philosophical foundations
• Social impact and ethics
• Teaching AI

Special Areas
• Affective Computing
• AI and Cognitive Science
• Applied Natural Language Processing
• Artificial Intelligence Education
• Case-Based Reasoning
• Computational Linguistics and Logics
• Data Mining
• Games and Entertainment
• Intelligent Tutoring Systems
• Machine Learning
• Robotics and Human-Robot Interaction
• Semantic web for Intelligent Systems
• Spatial Temporal Reasoning
• Uncertain Reasoning
Location
The Silver Anniversary year of FLAIRS takes place at Marco Island on the exciting and tropical
southwestern coast of Florida. A sunny paradise on the edge of the Gulf of Mexico, Marco Island
features six miles of beach and over 100 miles of waterways within its 24 square miles. Marco
Island is the largest barrier island within Southwest Florida’s Ten Thousand Islands and is
surprisingly diverse, with topography that includes high sandhills, slash pine forests, sandy
fields, as well as quartz sand beaches and mangrove swamps. It is also the only place in
Southwest Florida to see the famous Florida burrowing owls. May temperature ranges from a
low of 66º F (19º C) to a high of 88º F (31º C) with Gulf water temperature an average of 82º F
(28º C).
Important Dates
November 21 2011 Paper submission deadline
January 20, 2012 Paper acceptance notification
February 20, 2012 Camera ready version due
Submission Instructions
Submitted papers must be original, and not submitted concurrently to a journal or another
conference. Full papers may be up to 6 pages, and poster papers up to 2 pages. Papers must be in
AAAI format, and submitted as PDF through the EasyChair conference system, which can be
accessed through the main conference web site (www.FLAIRS-25.info). The proceedings of
FLAIRS-25 will be published by the AAAI. Authors of accepted papers will be required to sign
a form transferring copyright of their contribution to AAAI. An author of each accepted paper is
required to register, attend, and present the paper at FLAIRS. All submissions and registrations
must comply with FLAIRS requirements as posted on the conference website.

ORGANIZATION

Conference Chair:
H. Chad Lane, University of Southern California Institute for Creative Technologies, USA

Program Co-Chairs:
G. Michael Youngblood, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA
Philip McCarthy, University of Memphis, USA