FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS

The 16th International Conference on
Artificial Intelligence: Methodology, Systems, Applications
AIMSA 2014

Varna, Bulgaria, 11-13th September, 2014
http://www.aimsaconference.org

**** Submission deadline: April 25, 2014 ****
**** Proceedings published by Springer/LNAI ****

The AIMSA conference series has provided a biennial forum for the presentation of Artificial intelligence research and development since 1984. The conference, which is held in Bulgaria, covers the full range of topics in Artificial Intelligence and related disciplines and provides an ideal forum for international scientific exchange between Central/Eastern Europe and the rest of the world.

As its name indicates, the conference is dedicated to Artificial Intelligence in its entirety. However, for AIMSA 2014, we would like to put the emphasis on the application and leverage of Artificial Intelligence technologies in the context of knowledge creation, accessing, acquiring, and sharing to empower individuals and communities. A number of AI techniques play a key role in responding to these challenges. Artificial Intelligence is extensively used in the development of systems for effective management and flexible and personalized access to large knowledge bases, in the semantic web technologies that enable sharing and reuse of and reasoning over semantically annotated resources, in the emerging social semantic web applications that aid humans to collaboratively build semantics, in the construction of intelligent environments for supporting (human and agent) learning, etc. In building such intelligent applications, Artificial Intelligence techniques are typically combined with results from other disciplines such as the social sciences, distributed systems, databases, digital libraries, information retrieval, service oriented applications, etc.

TOPICS
The conference welcomes submissions of original, high quality papers in all areas of Artificial Intelligence, including but not limited to:

* AI in education
* Ambient intelligence
* Automated reasoning
* Computer vision
* Data mining and data analysis
* Data semantics
* Dialogue management and argumentation
* Distributed AI
* Human-computer interaction and AI
* Information integration
* Information retrieval
* Intelligent decision support
* Intelligent user interfaces
* Knowledge Discovery in Big Data
* Knowledge engineering
* Knowledge representation and reasoning
* Large scale knowledge management
* Logic and constraint programming
* Machine learning
* Multi-agent systems
* Multimedia systems
* Natural language processing
* Neural networks
* Ontologies (creating, linking, merging, reconciliation)
* Planning
* Robotics
* Semantic interoperability
* Semantic web for e-business and e-learning
* Semantic web services (description, invocation, composition)
* Social desktop and personalisation
* Social network analysis
* Tools and methodologies for multi-agent software systems
* Trust, privacy, and security on the web
* Visualization and modelling and AI
* Web-based technology and AI

All submissions will be subject to academic peer review by at least two members of the program committee. Selection criteria include accuracy and originality of ideas, clarity and significance of results, and quality of presentation.

For each accepted paper, at least one author is required to attend the conference to present the paper.

IMPORTANT DATES
Abstract submission deadline: April 18, 2014
Submission deadline: April 25, 2014
Notification of acceptance: May 29, 2014
Deadline for camera-ready: June 13, 2014
Conference: September 11-13, 2014

SUBMISSION DETAILS
Papers have to be submitted electronically (in PDF format) via the submission system to the address:

https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aimsa2014

Papers should be written in English and should be no more than 10 pages, font Times 11pt. Authors are requested to follow the LNCS Style (http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-12-73062-0). The first page should contain the title of the paper, names and addresses of all authors (including e-mail), an abstract (100-150 words) and a list of keywords.

Submissions should describe original research. Papers accepted for presentation at AIMSA 2014 cannot be presented or have been presented at another meeting with publicly available published proceedings. Papers that are being submitted to other conferences must indicate this on the title page, as must papers that contain significant overlap with previously published work.

Over lengthy or late submissions will be rejected without review. Notification of receipt and acceptance of papers will be sent to the first author.

PROCEEDINGS
The proceedings will be published by Springer in their Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence subline of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series.
LANGUAGE
The official language of the conference is English.

LOCATION
AIMSA 2014 will be held at the Golden Sands Tourist Complex, 18 km from the north-east of Varna and 24 km from Varna airport. More information is available in the brochure at the conference web site.

PROGRAMME COMMITTEE CHAIRS
Pascal Hitzler
Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio, USA
E-mail: pascal.hitzler@wright.edu

Sergei O. Kuznetsov
National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia
E-mail: skuznetsov@yandex.ru

PROCEEDINGS CHAIR
Adila Krisnadhi
Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio, USA and
Faculty of Computer Science, Universitas Indonesia
E-mail: krisnadhi.2@wright.edu

LOCAL ORGANIZING COMMITTEE CHAIR
Gennady Agre
Institute of Information and Communication Technologies
Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
Acad. G. Bonchev 2, 1113 Sofia, Bulgaria
E-mail: agre@iinf.bas.bg
Phone: +359 28700118
Fax: +359 28707273

PROGRAMME COMMITTEE

Gennady Agre - Institute of Information and Communication Technologies, Bulgaria
Galia Angelova - Institute of Information and Communication Technologies, Bulgaria
Grigoris Antoniou - FORTH-ICS, University of Crete, Greece
Sören Auer - University of Bonn and Fraunhofer IAIS, Germany
Sebastian Bader - University of Rostock, Germany
Roman Bartak - Charles University, Czech Republic
Christoph Beierle - University of Hagen, Germany
Meghyn Bienvenu - CNRS and Université Paris-Sud, France
Diego,Calvanese - Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
Virginio Cantoni – University of Pavia, Italy
Stefano Cerri - Montpellier Laboratory of Informatics, Robotics, and Micro-electronics, France
Michelle Cheatham - Wright State University, USA
Davide Ciucci - Università degli Studi di Milano Bicocca, Italy
Chris Cornelis - University of Granada, Spain
Madalina,Croitoru - LIRMM, University of Montpellier II, France
Isabel Cruz - University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
Claudia D'Amato - University of Bari, Italy
Artur D'Avila Garcez - City University London, UK
Darina Dicheva - Winston-Salem State University, USA
Ying Ding - Indiana University, USA
Danail Dochev - Institute of Information and Communication Technologies – BAS, Bulgaria
Stefan Edelkamp – Universty of Bremen, Germany
Esra Erdem - Sabanci University, Turkey
Floriana Esposito – University of Bari, Italy
William M. Fitzgerald - University College Cork, Ireland
Miguel A. Gutiérrez-Naranjo - University of Sevilla, Spain
Barbara Hammer - Institute of Computer Science, Clausthal University of Technology, Germany
Pascal Hitzler - Kno.e.sis Center, Wright State University, USA
Dmitry I. Ignatov - National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia
Grigory A. Kabatyansky - Institute for Information Transmission Problems, Moscow, Russia
Mehdy Kaytoue – INSA, Lyon, France
Gabriele Kern-Isberner - Technical University of Dortmund, Germany
Kristian Kersting - Technical University of Dortmund, Fraunhofer IAIS, Germany
Vladimir F. Khoroshevsky - Computer Center of Russian Academy of Science, Moscow, Russia
Matthias Knorr - CENTRIA, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
Petia Koprinkova-Hristova – Institute of Information and Communication Technologies, Bulgaria
Irena Koprinska - he University of Sydney. Australia
Petar Kormushev – Italian Institute of Technology, Genoa, Italy
Adila Krisnadhi - Kno.e.sis Center, Wright State University, USA and Universitas Indonesia
Kai-Uwe Kuehnberger - Institute of Cognitive Science, University of Osnabrck, Germany
Oliver Kutz - University of Bremen, Germany
Sergei O. Kuznetsov - National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia
Luis Lamb - Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil
Evelina Lamma - University of Ferrara, Italy
Joohyung Lee - Arizona State University, USA
Yue Ma – Technical University of Dresden, Germany
Frederick Maier - Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition, USA
Riichiro Mizoguchi - apan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Japan
Reinhard Muskens - Tilburg Center for Logic and Philosophy of Science, The Netherlands
Kazumi Nakamatsu - University of Hyogo, Japan
Amedeo Napoli - LORIA, Nancy, France
Sergei Obiedkov - National Research University Higher School of Economics. Moscow, Russia
Manuel Ojeda-Aciego - Dept. of Applied Mathematics, University of Malaga, Spain
Guilin Qi - Southeast University, China
Chedy Raïssi – LORIA, Nancy, France
Allan Ramsay - School of Computer Science, University of Manchester, UK
Ioannis Refanidis - University of Macedonia, Greece
Ute Schmid – University of Bamberg, Germany
Luciano Serafini - Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Trento, Italy
Dominik Slezak - University of Warsaw, Poland
Umberto Straccia - ISTI-CNR, Pisa, Tuscany, Italy
Hannes Strass - Leipzig University, Germany
Doina Tatar - "Babes-Bolyai" University of Cluj, Romania
AnnetteTen Teije - Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Dan Tufis - Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence "Mihai Drăgănescu", Romanian Academy,
Romania
Petko Valtchev – University of Montreal, Canada
Tulay Yildirim - Yildiz Technical University, Turkey

ORGANISERS
Bulgarian Artificial Intelligence Association
Institute of Information and Communication Technologies at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (IICT – BAS)