IBERAMIA 2016
15th Ibero-American Conference on Artificial Intelligence
Universidad Nacional de Costa Rica
San José, Costa Rica, 22-25 November, 2016

http://www.iberamia.org/iberamia/iberamia2016/
Contact: iberamia2016@iberamia.org


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IBERAMIA 2016 is the 15th edition of the Ibero-American Conference on Artificial Intelligence, a leading symposium where the Ibero-American AI community comes together to share research results and experiences with researchers in Artificial Intelligence from all over the world. IBERAMIA 2016 will be held in San José, Costa Rica on November 22-25, 2016, and organized by the ‘Escuela de Informática’ of ‘Universidad Nacional de Costa Rica’, San José, Costa Rica. The conference is sponsored by the main Ibero-American Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science societies.

IBERAMIA 2016 welcomes submissions on mainstream AI topics, as well as novel cross cutting work in related areas. Topics may include but are not limited to the following:

- Knowledge Engineering, Knowledge Representation and Probabilistic Reasoning
- Agent technology and multi-agent systems
- Machine Learning
- Planning and Scheduling
- Robotics
- Natural Language Processing
- Computer vision and pattern recognition
- Computational Intelligence & Soft Computing
- AI in Education, Affective Computing, and Human-Computer Interaction
- Big Data, Knowledge discovery and Data Mining


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PAPER SUBMISSION

Papers must be written in English, and will be reviewed on the basis of their relevance, significance of the contribution, originality, technical soundness, quality and clarity. As in previous years, accepted papers will be published in the series "Advances in Artificial Intelligence" of Springer-Verlag LNAI.

Paper submission details:

Submitted papers must not exceed 12 pages, including all tables, figures, and references and are required to be formatted in the Springer LNCS format (see http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html). Submissions over twelve pages will be rejected without review. Papers must be submitted through the EasyChair Conference System at https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iberamia2016. The conference is organized in several areas, so the authors should choose to submit the paper to the most appropriate area for their work.

All submissions will go through a peer review process, by independent PC members reviewing each submission. Reviewing will be blind, so author names and affiliations must be omitted from the submission, using instead the unique tracking number assigned by the conference system at the time of submission. In addition, self-references in the text, like "in [Garcia 2004], we prove that" should be avoided, using instead references such as "in [Garcia 2004] has been proved that".


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IMPORTANT DATES

Paper submission deadline : May 16th, 2016
Notification : July 15th, 2016
Camera ready papers: August 1st, 2016


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IBERAMIA 2016 COMMITTEES

PROGRAM CHAIR:
Manuel Montes y Gómez, Laboratorio de Tecnologías del Lenguaje, Instituto Nacional de Astrofísica, Optica y Electrónica (INAOE), Mexico.

ORGANIZATION CHAIR:
Alberto Segura Gutiérrez, Escuela de Informática Universidad Nacional de Costa Rica, Costa Rica.

AREA CHAIRS
Knowledge Engineering, Knowledge Representation and Probabilistic Reasoning
Renata Wassermann; USP, Brazil.
Eduardo Fermé; Universidad de Madeira, Portugal.

Agent technology and multi-agent systems
Juan Antonio Rodriguez-Aguilar; IIIA-CSIC, Spain.
Juan Carlos Burguillo; Universidad de Vigo, Spain.

Machine Learning
Fabio González; Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Colombia.
Eduardo Morales, INAOE, Mexico.

Planning and Scheduling
Miguel Salido; Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain.

Robotics
Luis Chaimowicz; UFMG, Brazil

Natural Language Processing
Thamar Solorio; University of Houston, USA.
Laura Alonso Alemany; Universidad de Córdoba, Argantina.

Computer vision and pattern recognition
Juan Carlos Niebles; Universidad del Norte, Colombia; Stanford, USA.
Alvaro Soto, Universidad Católica de Chile, Chile.

Computational Intelligence & Soft Computing
Leticia Cagnina; Universidad de San Luis, Argentina.
Luis Correia; Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal.

AI in Education, Affective Computing, and Human-Computer Interaction
Rosa Vicari; Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.
Silvia Schiaffino, Univ Nacional del Centro de la Pcia de Buenos Aires, Argentina

Big Data, Knowledge discovery and Data Mining
João Gama, Universidade do Porto, Portugal
Angel Kuri, ITAM, Mexico

For more details about area committees please visit (http://www.iberamia.org/iberamia/iberamia2016 )


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CALL FOR WORKSHOPS' PROPOSALS

Proposals for workshops should be a maximum of five pages in length, and should contain the following information:

1. Title of the workshop.
2. A brief description of the workshop, specifying the workshop goals, the technical issues addressed and the relevance of the workshop to the Iberamia conference. Proposals of workshops with open discussions on specific topics are welcome.
3. Specific information regarding the organizers: names, affiliations, postal addresses, phone numbers, email addresses, and expertise in the topic of the workshop. The organization committee should include at least two members.
4. Description of the paper review process and acceptance standards, including a preliminary list of the workshop program committee with names, titles and affiliations.
5. Expected duration of the workshop.
All proposals should be submitted, by electronic mail, to the Workshop Chair (iberamia2016@iberamia.org). The list of accepted IBERAMIA 2016 workshops will be published along with the submission details on the conference’s Web site. Papers for the workshops can be written in Spanish, Portuguese, or English.