Corpora: Call for Participation -- IBERAMIA'98

Iberamia'98 (iberamia@di.fct.unl.pt)
Fri, 5 Jun 1998 22:29:08 +0100 (WET DST)

Call for Participation

APPLICATION FOR PREREGISTRATION (by 31 Jul)

IBERAMIA'98
6th Ibero-American Conference on Artificial Intelligence
at Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation
(under the High Sponsorship of the Presidencia da Republica Portuguesa)

Lisbon, Portugal
5-9 October 1998


The age of AI Atlantic discoveries
"The Portuguese dared to engage the great oceanic sea. They entered it
fearlessly. They discovered new islands, new lands, new seas, new peoples, and
what is more important, new heavens and new stars ... Now it is clear that
these discoveries ... were not achieved through guesswork: our seamen set off
well trained and provided with instruments and rules of astronomy and
geometry."
from Pedro Nunes, 1537



PRESENTATION
============

The Sixth Ibero-American Conference on Artificial Intelligence will be held in
Lisbon, Portugal, on October 5-9, 1998, under the auspices of the Portuguese
Association for Artificial Intelligence (APPIA), in a unique cultural
environment, precisely the headquarters of Fundacao Calouste Gulbenkian (two
museums, one for Modern Art and another for Classical Art, covering also the
private collection of the founder, a library, permanent exhibitions, and a
beautiful garden).

Established in 1988 (Barcelona) by three Ibero-American Associations of AI
(AEPIA, SMIA and APPIA), after a first meeting in Morelia (Mexico) in 1986 of
SMIA and AEPIA, the event was organized every two-years since then in Morelia
(1990), La Habana (1992), Caracas (1994) and Cholula (1996), taking Portuguese
and Spanish as official languages and with the aim to promote and diffuse the
research and development carried out in the countries associated with those two
Latin languages and connected by strong historical links from XVI century.
Along the years, the Executive Committee of IBERAMIA was enlarged with the
inclusion of AVINTA (Venezuela), SMC (Cuba) and SBC (Brazil).

IBERAMIA-98 will run for the first time in a decade with a paper track in
English (for submission and presentation) in order to close the links now with
other AI communities where AI is more developed and explored.



INVITED LECTURES
================

James Allen (USA),
Human-Computer Collaborative Planning
Ricardo Baeza-Yates (Chile),
Searching the Web: Challenges and Partial Solutions
Cristiano Castelfranchi (Italy),
Emergence and Cognition: Towards a Synthetic Paradigm in AI and
Cognitive Science
Hector Geffner (Venezuela),
Modelling Intelligent Behaviour: The Markov Decision Process
Aarom Sloman (UK),
The Semantics of Evolution: Trajectories and Trade-offs in Design Space
and Niche Space



TUTORIALS
=========

Jose' M. Ramirez (Venezuela),
Agent Programming
Tom Mitchell (USA),
Mining the World Wide Web
Ricardo Baeza-Yates (Chile),
Intelligent Information Retrieval
Fernando de Arriaga (Spain), Ana Lilia Laureano Cruices (Mexico),
Mohamed El Alami (Spain),
Arquitecturas Multiagentes y sus Aplicaciones


PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOPS
========================
Causal Networks: from inference to data mining, Lisbon, October, 3
Second IBEROAMERICAN DAI and Multiagent Systems Workshop, Toledo (Spain), October, 2-3



ACCOMMODATION
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IBERAMIA'98 has booked a limited number of rooms at reduced conference
fees in several Hotels covering a wide range of prices.


Application for accommodation
-----------------------------
Please fill in the attached application for accommodation and email,
mail or fax it with the corresponding fee to the IBERAMIA'98 official
travel agency. The booking is considered effective when the payment for
all the days of the stay has been made. Any other enquiries about accommodation
should be directed to the official travel agency.

A limited number of low rate rooms in Youth Hostels and Hotels is available.



SOCIAL EVENTS
=============
There will be a welcome party and a banquet, included in the
conference fee.

THE CITY
========
Lisboa, a riverside city painted in watercolour shades, stretches along the
river Tagus and much beyond these boundaries. A crowded and cosmopolitan city,
whose warm people always make strangers feel welcome, blends a century-old
tradition with the modernity of a European capital. The old streets mingle with
the wide and more recent avenues, with old and modern buildings existing
harmoniously together in the same space.

It holds precious architectonic and monumental jewels that bear witness of a
rich and glorious past.


CONFERENCE REGISTRATION FORM
============================
Please fill in the attached registration form, and email, mail or fax it
with the corresponding conference fee to the IBERAMIA'98 address.


PAYMENTS
========
Payments can be made by VISA credit card to the order of IBERAMIA'98.
All payments are in Portuguese Escudos (PTE). All refunds requests
must be made in writing and postmarked by September 10, 1998.
Until this date a 20% processing fee will be levied on all refunds granted.
No refunds will be made after this date. Those registering as
full-time students must include legible proof of their student status.
Payments by cheque should be made payable to Iberamia'98. Bank fees
are not included in the payment.


MAILING LIST
============
We have set up an automated mailing list facility to easily distribute
updated information to those who wish to attend the conference. You
may find instructions on how to subscribe to the mailing list at
the IBERAMIA'98 page http://www-ssdi.di.fct.unl.pt/~iberamia/subscribe.html



INSURANCE
=========
The IBERAMIA'98 Committee can accept no liability for personal injuries,
or for loss of or damage to property belonging to conference participants,
either during or as a result of the conference.



PROGRAMME COMMITTEE
===================
Alexis Drogoul (F) Jorge Villalobos (C)
Alfred Kobsa (G) Jose' Cuena (S)
Alvaro del Val (S) Jose' Felix Costa (P)
Angel Puerta (S) Jose' Moreno (V)
Antonio Sanchez (M) Jose' Ramirez (V)
Carlos Pinto Ferreira (P) Juan Carlos Santamaria (V)
Christian Lemaitre (M) Leopoldo Bertossi (Ch)
Cristiano Castelfranchi (I) Luciano Garcia (Cu)
Ernesto Costa (P) Olga Padron (Cu)
Felisa Verdejo (S) Pedro Barahona (P)
Francisco Cantu (M) Ramon Lopez de Mantaras (S)
Gabriel Pereira Lopes (P) Raul Carnota (A)
Guillermo Simari (A) Rosa Viccari (B)
Hector Geffner (V) Suresh Manandhar (UK)
Hermann Steffen (U) Tarcisio Pequeno (B)
Jaime Sichman (B) Veronica Dahl (C)
Javier Pinto (Ch) Werner Nutt (G)
John Self (UK) Werner DePauli-Schimanovich (A)
Wilmer Pereira (V)


CONFERENCE CHAIRMEN
===================
President and Local Chairman
Gabriel Pereira Lopes
Universidade Nova de Lisboa

Program and Scientific Chairman
Helder Coelho
Universidade de Lisboa


SPONSORS
========
Fundacao Calouste Gulbenkian
ESPRIT
IBM
Fundacao para a Ciencia e Tecnologia
Caixa Geral de Depositos
Agencia Abreu
CompulogNet
Esoterica
Eival
The British Council
Fundacao Luso-Americana para o Desenvolvimento
Radiodifusao Portuguesa
Camara Muncipal de Lisboa
Edicoes Colibri


CONFERENCE ADDRESS
==================
IBERAMIA'98 Phone: + 351 1 294-8536
Departamento de Informatica Fax: + 315 1 294 85 41
Universidade Nova de Lisboa E-mail: iberamia@di.fct.unl.pt
2825 Monte da Caparica http://www-ssdi.di.fct.unl.pt/~iberamia
Portugal


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APPLICATION FOR PREREGISTRATION (by 31 Jul)

IBERAMIA'98
6th Ibero-American Conference on Artificial Intelligence
at Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation
(under the High Sponsorship of the Presidencia da Republica Portuguesa)

Lisbon, Portugal
5-9 October 1998


PARTICIPANT INFORMATION
=======================
Please, print.

Name: _______________________________________________________________________
Last First Middle name(s)

Address: ____________________________________________________________________

____________________________________________________________________

Affiliation (for badge): ____________________________________________________

E-mail Address: _____________________________________________________________

Telephone: __________________________________________________________________

Fax number: _________________________________________________________________

WWW Address: ________________________________________________________________


REGISTRATION INFORMATION
========================
Registration fees in Portuguese Escudos (PTE) -- USD 1 = PTE 180.
Please, circle fee.

+------------+----------------+------------------+
| | STUDENTS | REGULAR |
| | REGISTRATION | REGISTRATION |
+------------+----------------+------------------+
| by 31 Jul | PTE 25 000 | PTE 50 000 |
+------------+----------------+------------------+
| by 10 Sep | PTE 30 000 | PTE 60 000 |
+------------+----------------+------------------+
| onsite | PTE 35 000 | PTE 70 000 |
+------------+----------------+------------------+

Special fee for undergraduate students only, just for attendance to
tutorial and conference programme: by 10 Set, PTE 2000; onsite: PTE 3000.

NOTE: Members of the supporting associations whose memberships are paid
for the 1998 calendar year are entitled to a 10% discount rate.

Normal registration (graduate students and regular) fees include attendance
to the conference, attendance to tutorials, proceedings of the conference,
proceedings of the open discussion track, welcome party, banquet, lunch
tickets and coffee break tickets.

Students are required to show current ID cards at the registration desk,
during the conference.


TUTORIAL INFORMATION
Please, select the tutorials you are interested:
Morning tutorials
[ ] Agent Programming, Jose M. Ramirez (Venezuela)
[ ] Mining the World Wide Web, Tom Mitchell (USA)
Afternoon tutorials -- select at most ONE:
[ ] Intelligent Information Retrieval, Ricardo Baeza-Yates (Chile)
[ ] Arquitecturas Multiagentes y sus Aplicaciones,
Fernando de Arriaga (Spain), Ana Lilia Laureano Cruices (Mexico),
Mohamed El Alami (Spain)


EXTRA PROCEEDINGS for REGISTRANTS

Main Track (PTE 5 000 each): $__________________
Open discussion Track (PTE 3 000 each): $__________________

PROCEEDINGS ONLY

Main Track (PTE 9 000 each): $__________________
Open discussion Track (PTE 4 000 each): $__________________


TOTAL PAYMENT --- MUST BE INCLUDED: $____________________________
(Registration and extra proceedings, bank fees ARE NOT INCLUDED IN this value)


METHOD OF PAYMENT:
[ ] Cheque made payable to IBERAMIA'98 (in Portuguese Escudos -- PTE)
[ ] VISA Card Number: _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
Expiration Date: _____ / ______
month / year

Name (as it appears on card) _________________________________________
Please charge my credit card to the total amount of PTE ______________.


Signature_____________________________________________________________


All payments are in Portuguese Escudos (PTE). All refunds requests
must be made in writing and postmarked by September 10, 1998.
Until this date a 20% processing fee will be levied on all refunds granted.
No refunds will be made after this date. Those registering as
full-time students must include legible proof of their student status.
Payments by cheque should be made payable to Iberamia'98. Bank fees
are not included in the payment.


SEND TO:

IBERAMIA'98 Phone: + 351 1 294-8536
Departamento de Informatica Fax: + 315 1 294 85 41
Universidade Nova de Lisboa E-mail: iberamia@di.fct.unl.pt
2825 Monte da Caparica http://www-ssdi.di.fct.unl.pt/~iberamia
Portugal



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APPLICATION FOR ACCOMMODATION

IBERAMIA'98
6th Ibero-American Conference on Artificial Intelligence
at Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation
(under the High Sponsorship of the Presidencia da Republica Portuguesa)

Lisbon, Portugal
5-9 October 1998

PLEASE COMPLETE AND RETURN NO LATER THAN 30 JULY 1998 TO
MRS. ELSA SOUSA
VIAGENS ABREU, S.A. / CONGRESS DEPARTMENT
AV. 25 DE ABRIL, 2 - 2785 LINDA A VELHA - PORTUGAL
TELEPHONE (351 1) 415 60 00 / FAX (351 1) 415 63 03
E-MAIL: esousa@abreu.pt

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Surname: _____________________________ Given Name(s):_______________________

Mailing Address: ______________________________________________________________

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ACCOMPANYING PERSON

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HOTEL ACCOMMODATION (In Portuguese Escudos)
Payment of Two Nights Hotel Deposit is Required To Guarantee the Reservation

+--------------+----------+-----------------------------------------+
| Hotel | Category | Prices Per Room/Per Night w/ Breakfast |
| | | Double Room | Single Room |
+--------------+----------+---------------------+-------------------+
| Alfa | ***** | 16.000$00 | 18.000$00 |
+--------------+----------+---------------------+-------------------+
| Metropolitan | **** | 13.000$00 | 15.000$00 |
+--------------+----------+---------------------+-------------------+
| Continental | **** | 16.500$00 | 17.500$00 |
+--------------+----------+---------------------+-------------------+
| Berna | *** | 8.500$00 | 9.500$00 |
+--------------+----------+---------------------+-------------------+
| Novotel | *** | 10.500$00 | 12.000$00 |
+--------------+----------+---------------------+-------------------+
| Roma | *** | 11.000$00 | 10.000$00 |
+--------------+----------+---------------------+-------------------+
| Zurique | *** | 11.000$00 | 12.000$00 |
+--------------+----------+---------------------+-------------------+
| Ibis | ** | 10.000$00 | 11.000$00 |
+--------------+----------+---------------------+-------------------+
| Youth Hostel (Multiple Room)-Price per person | 2.000$00 |
| (Subject to availability)
| |
+--------------+----------+---------------------+-------------------+

Please Reserve a: [ ] Single [ ] Double [ ] At Hotel ________________
Arrival Date: __/__/__ Departure Date: __/__/__ No Nights:______

Payment
Please note that without the required deposit of TWO NIGHTS we can not
guarantee the Hotel reservation. Kindly take note that after August 30th the
required deposit will not be refund in case of cancellation.

[ ] 1. Bank Transference in Favour of:
Viagens Abreu S.A.
Account no. 023/01442/000.6
Bank Espirito Santo
Av. Liberdade, 1250 Lisboa
Portugal

[ ] 2. Bank Draft to:
Viagens Abreu S.A.
Av 25 de Abril, 2 - Edificio Abreu
2795 Linda a Velha
Portugal

[ ] 3.Credit Card:
[ ] American Express Card [ ] Visa [ ] Master Card
[ ] Other ________________

Amount to be charged _____________________
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No. _______________________________________
Expiry ____________________________________

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