12th PACIFIC RIM INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

PRICAI 2012

CALL FOR PAPER

Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia,

September, 3 - 7, 1 2012

http://ktw.mimos.my/pricai2012

The Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (PRICAI) is a biennial international event which concentrates on AI theories, technologies and their applications in the areas of social and economic importance for countries in the Pacific Rim. The Program Committee invites technical papers on substantial, original, and unpublished research in all aspects of Artificial Intelligence. PRICAI 2012 aims to bring together a large and diverse community, which includes practitioners, researchers, educators, and users.


Topics

Important Dates

AI foundations

Applications of AI

Agents

Bayesian networks

Bioinformatics

Bio-inspired intelligence

Cognitive systems

Constraint satisfaction

Data mining and knowledge discovery

Decision theory

Education and tutoring systems

Evolutionary computation

Games and interactive entertainment

Heuristics

Information retrieval and extraction

Knowledge acquisition and ontology

Knowledge representation

Machine learning

Markov networks

Multimedia and arts

Multimodal interaction

Natural language processing

Neural networks

Planning and scheduling

Probabilistic inference

Reasoning

Robotics

Search

Text/Web/Internet mining

Social intelligence

Speech and dialogue systems

Uncertainty

Vision and perception

Other AI related topics

Important Dates:

Paper Submission Deadline.............................................March 1, 2012

Paper Acceptance Notification.........................................May 15, 2012

Camera Ready Paper & Copyright........................................May 21, 2012

Workshop, Tutorial & Special Sessions Proposals.......................December 15, 2011

Workshop, Tutorial & Special Sessions Acceptance Notification.........January 15, 2012

Workshops.............................................................September 3 - 4, 2012

Tutorials.............................................................September 3 - 4, 2012

Conference............................................................September 5 - 7, 2012


Paper Submission

Proceedings will be published by Springer as a volume of LNAI series. All papers should be submitted electronically using the conference management tool in PDF/DOC format and formatted using Springer’s manuscript submission guideline:

http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html

Submitted papers should not exceed 12 pages. Submitted papers must not be published or under consideration to be published elsewhere. Detailed instructions are available at the conference website. Papers to be submitted via EasyChair at:

https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=pricai2012

Call for Proposal for Workshops, Tutorials and Special Sessions

The PRICAI’12 organizers invite proposals for workshops, tutorial and special sessions in the area of Artificial Intelligence in various topics. See conference website for details.

Conference Location

The conference venue will be in Kuching which is the capital city of Sarawak, Malaysia. Sarawak is situated on the island of Borneo, and is one of the two states that make up East Malaysia. Sarawak is well known for its pristine underwater marine life and untouched coral reefs, and rich heritage. Sarawak offers a potpourri of experiences appreciated by travellers from all over the world.


Committee Members

General Chairs

o Dickson Lukose, Malaysia

o Mitsuru Ishizuka, Japan

Program Chairs

o Patricia Anthony, Malaysia

o Kai Ming Ting, Australia

Local Arrangements Chairs

o Edmund Ng Giap Weng, Malaysia

o Abdul Rahim Ahmad, Malaysia

Special Session Chairs

o Bernhard Pfahringer, New Zealand

o Shahrul Azman Mohd Noah, Malaysia

Tutorial Chairs

o Duc Ngia Pham, Australia

o Elok Robert Tee, Malaysia

Workshop Chairs

o Aditya Ghose, Australia

o Ali Selamat, Malaysia

Treasury Chair

o Lai Weng Kin, Malaysia

Publicity Chairs

o Zili Zhang, Australia

o Rayner Alfred, Malaysia

o Masayuki Numao, Japan



Contact Information

For further details, please contact us

at the following email address:

pricai2012@gmail.com