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<font face='Verdana'>*** FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS ***<br><br>26th IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence<br>ICTAI 2014<br><br>November 10-12, 2014, Limassol, Cyprus <br><br><a href="http://ictai2014.cs.ucy.ac.cy">http://ictai2014.cs.ucy.ac.cy</a> <br><br>*** Extended Submission Deadline: 14th July 2014 ***<br><br><br><b>Aim & Scope<br></b>The annual IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial<br>Intelligence (ICTAI) provides a major international forum where<br>the creation and exchange of ideas related to artificial intelligence<br>are fostered among academia, industry, and government agencies.<br>The conference facilitates the cross-fertilization of these ideas and<br>promotes their transfer into practical tools, for developing intelligent<br>systems and pursuing artificial intelligence applications. The ICTAI<br>encompasses all technical aspects of specifying, developing and<br>evaluating the theoretical underpinnings and applied mechanisms<br>of the AI-based components of computer tools such as algorithms,<br>architectures and languages.<br><br><b>Topics (not limited to) <br></b><br><b>AI Foundations<br></b>- Evolutionary computing, Bayesian and Neural Networks<br>- Decision/Utility Theory and Decision Optimization<br>- Search, SAT, and CSP<br>- Description Logic and Ontologies<br><br><b>AI in Domain Specific Applications<br></b>- AI in Natural Language Processing and Understanding <br>- AI in Computational Biology, Medicine and Biomedical Applications<br>- AI in WWW, Communication, Social Networking, Recommender Systems,<br> Games and E-Commerce<br>- AI in Finance and Risk Management<br><br><b>AI in Computer Systems<br></b>- AI in Robotics, Computer Vision and Games<br>- AI in Software Engineering, Real-Time and Embedded Applications,<br> and Sensor Networks<br>- AI in Cloud Computing, Data-Intensive Applications and <br> Online/Streaming and Multimedia Systems<br>- AI in Web search and Information Retrieval<br>- AI in Computer Security, Data Privacy, and Information Assurance<br><br><b>AI in Data Analytics and Big Data<br></b>- Visualization Analytics for Big Data <br>- Computational Modeling for Big Data <br>- Large-scale Recommendation and Social Media Systems<br>- Cloud/Grid/Stream Data Mining for Big Velocity Data<br>- Semantic-based Big Data Mining <br><br><b>Machine Learning and Data Mining<br></b>- Data pre-processing, reduction and feature selection<br>- Learning Graphical Models and Complex Networks<br>- Active, Cost-Sensitive, Semi-Supervised, Multi-Instance,<br> Multi-Label and Multi-Task Learning<br>- Transfer/Adaptive, Rational and Structured Learning<br>- Preference/Ranking, Ensemble, and Reinforcement Learning<br><br><b>Knowledge Representation, Reasoning and Cognitive Modelling<br></b>- Knowledge Representation, Reasoning <br>- Knowledge Extraction, Management and Sharing<br>- Case-Based Reasoning and Knowledge-based Systems<br>- Cognitive Modelling and Semantic Web<br><br><b>AI and Decision Systems<br></b>- Decision Guidance and Support Systems<br>- Optimization-based recommender systems <br>- Group, distributed, and collaborative decisions<br>- Crowd-sourcing and collective intelligence decision making<br>- Strategic, tactical and operational level decisions <br>- Decision making in social and mobile networks<br><br><b>Uncertainty in AI<br></b>- Uncertainty and Fuzziness Representation and Reasoning <br>- Approximate/Exact Probabilistic Inference<br>- Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining for Uncertain Data<br><br><b>AI Tools for Manufacturing Innovation<br></b>- AI in manufacturing performance evaluation <br>- AI in manufacturing decision and data analysis <br>- AI in modeling, simulation and optimization of manufacturing systems <br>- AI in additive manufacturing <br>- AI in manufacturing control and planning<br><br><b>Paper Submission<br></b>The submissions should contain original, high quality, not submitted<br>or published elsewhere work. Papers should be submitted electronically<br>through the <u>EasyChair system</u> in pdf format and should conform to IEEE<br>specifications (single-spaced, double-column, 10-point font size, up to 8<br>pages).<br><br><b>Paper Presentation<br></b>Each accepted paper should be presented by one of the authors and<br>accompanied by at least one full registration fee payment, to guarantee<br>publication in the proceedings. All accepted papers will be included in<br>proceedings of ICTAI 2014 that will be published by the IEEE Computer<br>Society.<br><br><b>IJAIT special issue<br></b>Extended versions of the best papers of the conference will be invited<br>for publication in a special issue of the International Journal on Artificial<br>Intelligence Tools (IJAIT) (SCI Indexed).<br><br><b>Important Dates<br></b>Paper submission: July 14, 2014 (extended)<br>Paper notification: August 21, 2014<br>Camera-ready paper: August 30, 2014<br><br><b>Point of Contact<br></b>George A. Papadopoulos<br>Department of Computer Science<br>University of Cyprus<br>george-at-cs-dot-ucy-dot-ac-dot-cy<br></font>
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