This is a call for papers for the 29th Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence (conferences.lakeheadu.ca/ai2016), held from May 31st to June 3rd 2016 in Victoria, BC, on the west coast of Canada. The event is collocated with the Canadian Graphics Interface and the Computer and Robot Vision conferences. We welcome novel papers on all aspects of AI, either theoretical or applied. The proceedings will be published in Springer’s Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence series, and selected papers will be invited to a special issue of Computational Intelligence. All submissions will go through a double-blind review process. Submitted papers must be formatted using the Springer LNCS style and not exceed 12 pages for long papers or 6 pages for short papers.

Canada has a very active research community in many aspects of artificial intelligence, as well as a large number of companies where AI plays a central role. This conference is an opportunity for researchers from academia and industry, both from within Canada and from around the world, to come together to share ideas and foster relationships. The conference will be held in the historic and beautiful city of Victoria, also known as the Garden City. Come for the interesting papers and stimulating conversations set in some of Canada’s most beautiful gardens, parks, and historic buildings!

Topics of interests include, but are not limited to:
Affective Computing
Agent Systems
Applications of AI
Automated Reasoning
Cognitive Models
Constraint Satisfaction
Data Mining
Distributed AI Systems
Educational Systems
Evolutionary Computing
Games
Human-Machine Interactions
Information Retrieval
Knowledge Representation
Machine Learning
Multi-Media Mining
Natural Language Processing
Neural Networks
Robotics
Semantic Web
Social Impact and Ethics of AI
Social Media Mining
Soft Computing
Stochastic Optimization
Uncertainty
Intelligent Web Applications

Important dates:
Paper submission deadline: 22 January 2016
Author notification: 22 February 2016
Final papers due: 1 March 2016
Conference: 31 May – 3 June 2016

Program chairs:
Chris Drummond
National Research Council Canada
Richard Khoury
Lakehead University