Call for Papers CAEPIA'13
XV Conference of the Spanish Association for Artificial Intelligence (CAEPIA)
September 17-20, 2013

MADRID, SPAIN
http://caepia13.aepia.org/

PRESENTATION
The Conference of the Spanish Association for Artificial Intelligence (CAEPIA) is a biennial forum open to worldwide researchers to present and discuss their last scientific and technological advances in Artificial Intelligence. The 15th edition, CAEPIA'13, will be held in Madrid, Spain, from the 17th to the 20th September, 2013, within the Spanish Congress on Informatics (CEDI 2013).
As in previous editions, the objectives are: to facilitate the dissemination of new ideas and experiences, to strengthen the links among the different research groups involved, to promote knowledge transfer between recent researchers and consolidated groups, and to help spread new developments to society.
To achieve the proposed objectives, authors are requested to send original unpublished works, which describe relevant research about topics related to Artificial Intelligence from all points of view: formal, methodological, technical or applied. Works can be submitted in Spanish or English in LNCS format (Springer).
CAEPIA'13 will use a double blind-review process. The authors will remove their names from the submitted papers and must take responsibility for the originality of the work and send it in the proper format.
CAEPIA will also be open to pre-doctoral work, and there will be a special call for this type of work through the Doctoral Consortium. This event is specially designed for the interaction between PhD students and senior researchers.
Besides original and pre-doctoral papers, this edition of CAEPIA will include, for the first time, a special session on outstanding papers (key works) already published in journals or forums of renowned reputation.
Finally, various independent conferences will take place under the scope of CAEPIA. Such conferences (ASMas, FINO, LFSCI, MAEB, SICO, TAMIDA) will keep their own program committee and will distribute their respective CFPs.


TYPES OF CONTRIBUTIONS
- CAEPIA papers (Main track): Submitted technical papers must be no longer than 10 pages and must be formatted according to LNCS guidelines. The submitted paper will represent original research, with solid, well-founded or demonstrable results on any of the conference topics. Accepted papers will be assigned a 15- or 20-minutes slot for oral presentation at the conference.
- Pre-doctoral papers: We encourage the submissions of preliminary works from PhD students. These works will be presented in special sessions at the conference. The objective is to foster a fruitful debate between the candidate and the audience. The length of these papers should not exceed 4 pages and will be orally presented during 15 minutes. The authors of accepted papers as pre-doctoral work will enjoy special benefits to attend the conference.
- Already published outstanding papers (Key works): Recent works published in journals or forums of renowned reputation, during the period 2011-2013. The aim is to spread them among a wide audience from the AI community, giving the members of the community a chance to be exposed to works with which they are not familiarized and to foster interdisciplinarity. Papers must be submitted in a one-page format, with a clear reference to the previous published paper. Accepted contributions will be assigned a 15-minutes slot in a joint session of all the conferences conforming this edition of CAEPIA.

IMPORTANT DATES

(a) CAEPIA Papers (Main track):
*Submission of papers: April 15, 2013
*Notification of acceptance/rejection: May 20, 2013
*Camera-ready copy due: June 15, 2013
*Technical sessions: September 17-20, 2013
CAEPIA'13 papers will be reviewed by at least three members of the Program Committee which will be supervised by an area chair.

(b) Pre-doctoral papers (Doctoral Consortium):
*Submission of papers: June 30, 2013
*Notification of acceptance/rejection: July 31, 2013
*Camera-ready copy due: September 1, 2013
(c) Already published outstanding papers (Key works):
*Submission of papers: May 1, 2013
*Notification of acceptance/rejection: May 31, 2013
*Camera-ready copy due: June 15, 2013

PLENARY TALKS
CAEPIA'13 will offer plenary talks given by outstanding researchers in different areas. They will be scheduled in a joint session with all the conferences participating in the CAEPIA multiconference.

SUBMISSION
Submission of papers to CAEPIA'13 requires a previous registration in:
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=caepia2013

PROCEEDINGS
Accepted papers will be published in the two volumes of CAEPIA proceedings that will be given to all CAEPIA attendees. The two volumes will be as follows:
- One volume published by Springer-Verlag in its Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence series (LNAI), which will contain a selection of the best papers accepted by the Program Committee. In order to be included in this volume papers should be submitted in English.
- One volume published by the Spanish Association for Artificial Intelligence that will contain all the accepted CAEPIA papers not included in the previous volume, abstracts of keynote works and Doctoral Consortium papers. This volume will be included in the CEDI 2013 proceedings and will be edited exclusively in USB pen drive format.
Authors of the papers accepted for the LNAI volume will be invited to prepare extended versions for submission to special issues of JCR ranked international journals.

PRIZES

AEPIA will acknowledge the dedication of the participants in CAEPIA'13 with three awards: best CAEPIA (main track) paper, best pre-doctoral work and best reviewer.
TOPICS

CAEPIA 2013 is organized around eleven content areas or main tracks, each one managed by an area chair. Topics are open and any work related to AI research and its applications is welcome. However, for guidance, the next topics per area are included below:

MACHINE LEARNING
Active Learning
Case-based Reasoning
Structured Learning
Multi-Task Learning
Unsupervised, Semi-Supervised and Partially Supervised Learning
Online Learning
Reinforcement Learning
Relational Learning
Cost-Sensitive Learning
Classification
Kernel Methods
Data Mining
Feature Selection/Construction
Data Streams

AI APPLICATIONS AND MULTIDISCIPLINARY TOPICS
AI Applications
Philosophical and Ethical Issues
AI Integration in other Scientific Fields
User Models
Security and Privacy
Validation and Verification

FUZZY SYSTEMS
Aggregation Functions
Fuzzy Logic
Fuzzy Systems
Evolutionary Fuzzy Systems
Fuzzy Technologies
Decision Making with Fuzzy Information

UNCERTAINTY IN AI
Approximate Reasoning
Bayesian Networks
Decision/Utility Theory
Exact and Approximate Probabilistic Inference
Modeling, Inference, Learning and Decision Making under Uncertainty
Preference Elicitation
Probabilistic Graphical Models

METAHEURISTICS
Bioinspired Algorithms
Dynamic Problems and with Uncertainty
Evolutionary Algorithms
Metaheuristics
Multiobjective Algorithms
Parallel Algorithms

NATURAL-LANGUAGE PROCESSING
Syntactic Analysis and Grammatical Inference
Text Classification and Subjects
Automatic Abstract Generation
Lexical Disambiguation of Words
Discourse, Dialogue and Pragmatics
Text Mining
Natural Language Modeling
Natural Language Processing
Multilingual Language Processing
Speech Recognition
Question Answering
Machine Translation

KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION, REASONING AND LOGIC
Action, Change and Causality
Computational Argumentation
Automated Reasoning
Knowledge Representation
Computational Logic
Description Logics and Ontologies
Preferences and Beliefs
Logic Programming
Case-Based Reasoning
Model-Based Reasoning
Qualitative Reasoning
Spatial and Temporal Reasoning
Diagnosis and Abductive Reasoning
Nonmonotonic Reasoning
Knowledge Representation

CONTRAINTS, SEARCH AND PLANNING
AI in Planning Games
Constraint Optimization
Constraint Satisfaction
Dynamic Programming
Heuristic Search
Hierarchical Task Networks
Markov Decision Processes
Partially Observable Markov Decision Processes (POMDPs)
Real Time Planning
Satisfiability
Scheduling
Theoretical Foundations of Planning

ROBOTICS AND VISION
Behavior and Control
Human-Robot Interaction
Localization, State Estimation
Sensor Networks
Robotics
Cognitive Robotics
Multi-Robot Systems
Vision and Perception

MULTIAGENT SYSTEMS
Adaptation and self-organization
Agent-Based Architectures and Programming
Agent-Based Simulation and Emergent Behavior
Agent Communication Languages
Agreement Technologies (coordination, negotiation, argumentation, rules, confidence)
Methodologies and Infrastructures (platforms, tools, environment)
Social, Organizing and Institutional Approximations

INTELLIGENT WEB AND INFORMATION RETRIEVAL
Digital Libraries
Information Extraction
Information Integration
Information Retrieval
Recommender Systems
Semantic web
Social Networks
Web mining
Web 2.0


ORGANIZATION COMMITTEE:
Chair: Amparo Alonso-Betanzos, U. A Coruña

SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM COMMITTEE:
Chair: Concha Bielza, U. Politécnica de Madrid
Co-chair: Antonio Salmerón, U. Almería

AREA CHAIRS:
Enrique Alba, U. Málaga (Metaheuristics)
Emilio Corchado, U. Salamanca (AI Applications and Multidisciplinary Topics -TTIA-)
Ismael García Varea, U. Castilla la Mancha (Natural-Language Processing)
Lluis Godó, IIIA-CSIC (Knowledge Representation, Reasoning and Logic)
Francisco Herrera, U. Granada (Fuzzy Systems)
Juan Huete, U. Granada (Intelligent Web and Information Retrieval)
Pedro Larrañaga, U. Politécnica de Madrid (Machine Learning)
Pedro Meseguer, IIIA-CSIC (Constraints, Search and Planning)
Serafín Moral, U. Granada (Uncertainty in AI)
Sascha Ossowski, U. Rey Juan Carlos (Multiagent Systems)
Filiberto Plá, U. Jaume I (Robotics and Vision)
José Riquelme, U Sevilla (Doctoral Consortium)