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21st International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI 2009)
Newark (New York Metropolitan Area), New Jersey, USA
November 2-4, 2009
http://ictai2009.njit.edu
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AIM & SCOPE
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The annual IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence
(ICTAI) provides a major international forum where the creation and exchange of
ideas related to artificial intelligence are fostered among academia, industry,
and government agencies. The conference facilitates the cross-fertilization of
these ideas and promotes their transfer into practical tools, for developing
intelligent systems and pursuing artificial intelligence applications.
The ICTAI encompasses all technical aspects of specifying, developing and
evaluating the theoretical underpinnings and applied mechanisms of the AI based
components of computer tools (i.e. algorithms, architectures and languages).

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TOPICS (not limited to)
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- AI Algorithms
- AI in Bioinformatics
- AI in Computer Security
- AI in Databases and Data Mining
- AI in E-commerce
- AI in Games
- AI in Information Assurance
- AI in Logistics
- AI in Medicine
- AI in Multimedia Systems
- AI in Real-time & Embedded Applications
- AI in Robotics
- AI in Software Engineering
- Case-Based Reasoning
- Cognitive Modelling
- Constraint Programming
- Collaborative Software Agents
- Reasoning Under Fuzziness or Uncertainty
- Evolutionary Computing
- Hybrid Intelligent Systems
- Information Retrieval
- Intelligent Tutoring/Training Systems
- Intelligent Internet Agents
- Intelligent Interface Agents
- Knowledge-based Systems
- Knowledge Extraction
- Knowledge Management and Sharing
- Knowledge Representation and Reasoning
- Machine Learning
- Natural Language Processing and Understanding
- Neural Networks
- Ontologies
- Planning and Scheduling
- Qualitative Reasoning
- Search and Heuristics
- Semantic Web-Techniques & Technologies
- Speech Processing and Understanding
- Vision/Image Processing & Understanding

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PAPER SUBMISSION
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The submissions should contain original, high quality, not submitted or
published elsewhere work. Papers should be submitted electronically
(through the ICTAI 2009 web site) in pdf format and should conform to IEEE
specifications (single-spaced, double-column, 10-point font size, up to 8 pages).

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PAPER PRESENTATION
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Each accepted paper should be presented by one of the authors and accompanied
by at least one full-registration fee payment, to guarantee publication in the
proceedings. All accepted papers will be included in the proceedings (probably in
DVD form) of ICTAI 2009 that will be published by the IEEE Computer Society.

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IJAIT SPECIAL ISSUE
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Extended versions of the best papers of the conference will be invited for
publication in a special issue of the International Journal on Artificial
Intelligence Tools (IJAIT) (SCI Indexed).

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IMPORTANT DATES
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Paper submission: June 28, 2009
Paper notification:August 5, 2009
Camera ready paper: August 31, 2009

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CONFERENCE ORGANIZERS
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General Co-Chair
Soon Chung, Wright State Univ, USA

Program Committee Chair
Sotirios G. Ziavras, NJIT, USA

CTAI Steering Committee
Nikolaos Bourbakis, Wright State U,USA, Chair
C. V. Ramamoorthy, UC at Berkeley, USA
Farokh Bastani, Univ of Texas at Dallas, USA,
Jeffrey Tsai, Univ of Illinois at Chicago, USA
Benjamin Wah, Univ of Illinois Urbana, USA
I. Hatziligeroudis, Univ of Patras, Greece

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FURTHER INFORMATION
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Sotirios G. Ziavras (PC Chair)
Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering
New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT)
Newark, New Jersey 07102-1982

Email: ziavras@njit.edu

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http://ictai2009.njit.edu