STAIRS 2016

We invite students and young post-doctoral AI fellows to submit their
work to the Eighth European Starting AI Researcher Symposium (STAIRS).

STAIRS is an international meeting intended to support AI researchers,
from all countries, at the beginning of their career: PhD students or
people holding a PhD for less than one year. STAIRS 2016 will be
co-located with ECAI 2016, the European Conference on AI, in The
Hague, Holland, 26 Aug - 2 Sept 2016.

STAIRS offers doctoral students and young post-doctoral AI researchers:

* a first experience of submitting and presenting a paper in an
international forum with a broad scope and a peer review process

* an opportunity to discuss and explore their research interests and
European career objectives and opportunities.



(+) Topics of Interest

Papers are welcome on all aspects of contemporary AI, including, but
not restricted to:

* Applications of AI

* Autonomous Agents & Multi-agent Systems

* Case-Based Reasoning

* Cognitive Modelling & Cognitive Architectures

* Computational Creativity

* Constraints, Satisfiability, and Search

* Information Retrieval & Natural Language Processing

* Knowledge Representation, Reasoning, and Logic

* Machine Learning & Data Mining

* Model-Based Reasoning

* Natural Language Processing

* Planning and Scheduling,

* Robotics, Perception, Vision and Sensing

* Social Intelligence and Socio-Cognitive Systems

* Uncertainty in AI

* Web and Knowledge-based Information Systems

* Multidisciplinary Topics



(+) Important Dates

Paper submission deadline:

16.5

Notification of acceptance/rejection:

10.6

Camera-Ready Copy Due:

17.6

Conference:

29th-30th August, 2016



The proceedings of STAIRS will be published and distributed by IOS
Press' "Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications" (FAIA)
series.

More info can be found at http://www.ecai2016.org/calls/stairs-call-for-papers/



STAIRS Co-Chairs:

H. Sofia Pinto, sofia@inesc-id.pt

(IST, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal)



David Pearce, david.pearce@upm.es

(Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain)