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Call for Papers AI-CIT-09

May 24, Kelowna, BC, Canada

Website - http://cs.acadiau.ca/~shussain/ai-cit-09


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The International Symposium on Teaching AI in Computing and Information Technology
(AI-CIT'09) is organized in conjunction with the 22nd Canadian Conference on Artificial
Intelligence (AI-09), which will be held in Kelowna, BC (May 25-27, 2009),
http://ai2009.site.uottawa.ca/.

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Description
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The Symposium provides an opportunity for faculty members, students, and practitioners to
submit four-page (maximum) extended abstracts of their experience in teaching, learning,
and using AI techniques in courses and projects relating to computing, software engineering,
and information technology. In these days, AI techniques are applied in various emerging
applications using pervasive, ubiquitous, and mobile computing such as smart homes,
intelligent environments, telehealth, surveillance, security and industry automation.

The topics include (not limited to):
- Using AI techniques in teaching computing, software engineering, and IT courses.
- What are the ?Guidelines & Precautions? in teaching AI techniques for computing courses?
- How AI techniques can be useful in projects relating to emerging applications?
- How to teach AI techniques that are scalable and realistic in current networking environment?
- Experience in simulating AI techniques for networking projects.
- Teaching AI techniques for agent-based architectures.
- Teaching and using AI-related technical standards
- Teaching AI-related software tools for computing and IT projects.


The symposium will be a pre-conference event, where the authors of accepted abstracts will
give presentations before a group of peers.

The symposium will also include ?Panel Discussion: Teaching, learning, and using AI
techniques in courses and projects relating to computing, software engineering, and
information technology,? where leading researchers in AI will share their experience.

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Important Dates
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Submission Date: March 20, 2009
Notification Date: March 27, 2009
Final manuscript: April 08, 2009
Symposium: May 24, 2009


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Paper Submission
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To apply for the symposium, please email an extended abstract in PDF format to
dr.sajid.hussain@gmail.com and danny.silver@acadiau.ca.

All submissions must be written in English. Abstracts may be up to 4 pages in length and
must be formatted according to Springer's LNCS style. Please follow the instructions for
authors at Springer's site for authors. The use of the LaTeX2e style file available at the
web site is strongly encouraged. All accepted abstracts will be available in online
proceedings, hosted at the website of Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence 2009.

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JOURNAL
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The extended version of selective papers could be submitted for potential inclusion
in a special issue of a Journal (TBA).

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Organization
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** Program Chairs **

Sajid Hussain, Acadia University, Canada
http://cs.acadiau.ca/~shussain

Daniel Silver, Acadia University, Canada
http://plato.acadiau.ca/courses/comp/dsilver/