The EPIA Conference on Artificial Intelligence is a well-established European conference in the field of AI. The 19th edition, EPIA 2019, will take place at UTAD University, Vila Real in September 3rd-6th, 2019. 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 Artificial Intelligence (AI) areas, covering both theoretical/foundational issues and applications, as well as the scientific exchange among researchers, engineers and practitioners in related disciplines.


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Thematic Tracks
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EPIA 2019 will feature the following thematic tracks covering a wide spectrum of AI topics:

AIEd - Artificial Intelligence in Education
AI4G - Artificial Intelligence for Games
AIoTA - Artificial Intelligence and IoT in Agriculture
AIL - Artificial Intelligence and Law
AIM - Artificial Intelligence in Medicine
AICPDES - Artificial Intelligence in Cyber-Physical and Distributed Embedded Systems
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
BAAI - Business Applications of Artificial Intelligence
GAI- GeneralAI
IROBOT - Intelligent Robotics
KDBI - Knowledge Discovery and Business Intelligence
KRR - Knowledge Representation and Reasoning
MASTA - Multi-Agent Systems: Theory and Applications
SDIA - Doctoral Symposium on Artificial Intelligence
SSM - Social Simulation and Modelling
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 2019 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.


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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 2019 by the early registration deadline. EPIA 2019 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.