3rd International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence (ICAART)

The purpose of the 3rd International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence (ICAART) is to bring together researchers, engineers and practitioners interested in the theory and applications in these areas. Two simultaneous but strongly related tracks will be held, covering both applications and current research work within the area of Agents, Multi-Agent Systems and Software Platforms, Distributed Problem Solving and Distributed AI in general, including web applications, on one hand, and within the area of non-distributed AI, including the more traditional areas such as Knowledge Representation, Planning, Learning, Scheduling, Perception and also not so traditional areas such as Reactive AI Systems, Evolutionary Computing and other aspects of Computational Intelligence and many other areas related to intelligent systems, on the other hand.
A substantial amount of research work is ongoing in these knowledge areas, in an attempt to discover appropriate theories and paradigms to use in real-world applications. Much of this important work is therefore theoretical in nature. However there is nothing as practical as a good theory, as Boltzman said many years ago, and some theories have indeed made their way into practice. Informatics applications are pervasive in many areas of Artificial Intelligence and Distributed AI, including Agents and Multi-Agent Systems; This conference intends to emphasize this connection, therefore, authors are invited to highlight the benefits of Information Technology (IT) in these areas. Ideas on how to solve problems using agents and artificial intelligence, both in R&D and industrial applications, are welcome. Papers describing advanced prototypes, systems, tools and techniques and general survey papers indicating future directions are also encouraged. Papers describing original work are invited in any of the areas listed below. Accepted papers, presented at the conference by one of the authors, will be published in the Proceedings of ICAART with an ISBN. A book with the best papers of the conferene will be published by Springer-Verlag. Acceptance will be based on quality, relevance and originality. Both full research reports and work-in-progress reports are welcome. There will be both oral and poster sessions.
Special sessions, dedicated to case-studies and commercial presentations, as well as tutorials dedicated to technical/scientific topics are also envisaged: companies interested in presenting their products/methodologies or researchers interested in holding a tutorial are invited to contact the conference secretariat. Additional information can be found at http://www.icaart.org/

NEW

• Regular Paper Submission: July 26, 2010 (deadline extended)
• Authors Notification (regular papers): October 06, 2010
• Final Regular Paper Submission and Registration: October 26, 2010

 

A short list of presented papers will be selected so that revised and extended versions of these papers will be published by Springer-Verlag in a CCIS Series book A short list of papers presented at the conference will be selected for publication of extended and revised versions in a special issue of JOPHA - Journal of Physical Agents

http://www.icaart.org/

LEGO Mindstorms Sudoku Solver

Multimedia Grand Challenge!!!

http://www.multimediagrandchallenge.com/

ACM Multimedia 2010, October 25-29th 2010, Firenze, Italy

http://www.acmmm10.org

What problems do Google, Yahoo!, HP, Radvision, CeWe, Nokia and other companies see driving the future of multimedia? The Multimedia Grand Challenge is a set of problems and issues from these industry leaders, geared to engage the Multimedia research community towards solving relevant, interesting and challenging questions in the multimedia industry’s 2-5 year horizon. The Grand Challenge was first presented as part of ACM Multimedia 2009. and it will be presented again in slightly modified form at ACM Multimedia 2010. Researchers are encouraged to submit working systems in response to these challenges to win the grand Challenge competition!

We are happy to inform you that this year's Grand Challenge will award three prizes:

Gold medal 1500 USD

Silver medal 1000 USD

Bronze medal 500 USD

Challenges

3DLife Sport Camera Networks

CeWe Photo Set Theme Identification

Google Personal Diaries

Google Video Genre Classification

HP Visual Communication

Nokia Photo Location & Orientation

Radvision Content Adaptation

Radvision VideoConf Experience

Yahoo! Novel Image Understanding

Yahoo! Video Segmentation

We encourage you to consider the challenges and submit your contribution to the ACM Multimedia 2010 Grand Challenge track. The top submissions will be presented in a special event during the ACM Multimedia 2010 conference in Florence Italy.

Based on these oral presentations in Florence, winners will be selected for Grand Challenge awards worth 1500 USD.

Paper Submission

New in 2010: _any_ long, short or demo paper submitted to the regular ACM Multimedia conference can be considered for the Grand Challenge. Regular papers that want to be considered should submit a 1-page additional statement indicating why this work addresses a certain challenge best. In addition, papers, demonstrations and ideas that do not fit the normal scientific style may be submitted to the Grand Challenge by submitting a separate 4-page paper to the Grand Challenge only. (We are afraid that we will NOT consider papers in this path that have been rejected for the scientific program.)

A 1-page statement to accompany an _accepted_ paper or a new 4-page grand challenge paper should be prepared in double-column ACM proceedings style and submitted via http://edas.info/N8591

The submissions must:

- Significantly address one of the industry challenges posted on the Grand Challenge web site.

- Depict working, presentable systems or demos.

- Describe why the system presents a novel and interesting solution.

A number of solutions (perhaps 10-20) will be selected as finalists and invited to describe their work, demonstrate their solution and argue for the paper's success in the Grand Challenge Session in Florence. Each finalist will have several minutes to present their case. Final winners will be chosen by industry scientists, engineers and business luminaries.

Key Dates

August 1, 2010 Submission deadline

September 1, 2010 Acceptance notification October 25, 2010 Conference starts

3rd International Conference on SImilarity Search and APplications (SISAP 2010)

Paper submission: (NEW)
July 9th, 2010 July 2nd, 2010

The International Conference on Similarity Search and Applications (SISAP) is a conference devoted to similarity searching, with emphasis on metric space searching. It aims to fill in the gap left by the various scientific venues devoted to similarity searching in spaces with coordinates, by providing a common forum for theoreticians and practitioners around the problem of similarity searching in general spaces (metric and non-metric) or using distance-based (as opposed to coordinate-based) techniques in general.

SISAP aims to become an ideal forum to exchange real-world, challenging and exciting examples of applications, new indexing techniques, common testbeds and benchmarks, source code, and up-to-date literature through a web page serving the similarity searching community. Authors are expected to use the testbeds and code from the SISAP web site for comparing new applications, databases, indexes and algorithms.

After the very successful first events in Cancun, Mexico (2008) and Prague, Czech Republic (2009), this year SISAP conference will be held in Istanbul, Turkey, on September 18-19, 2010.

The four best papers will be invited to be published in a special issue of Journal of Discrete Algorithms (Elsevier). SISAP 2010 is organized in cooperation with ACM SIGSPATIAL and the papers will be indexed in the ACM Digital Library.

http://www.sisap.org/2010/?src=about

World Cup VS PhD

http://www.phdcomics.com/comics/archive.php?comicid=1329

MMRetrieval.NET (Alpha)

In this web application, we present an experimental multimodal search engine, which allows multimedia and multi-language queries, and makes use of the total available information in a multimodal collection. All modalities are indexed and searched separately, and results can be fused with different methods depending on

• the noise and completeness characteristics of the modalities in a collection
• whether the user is in a need of high initial precision or high recall

Beyond fusion, we also provide 2-stage retrieval by first thresholding the results obtained by secondary modalities targeting recall, and then re-ranking them based on the primary modality. The engine demonstrates the feasibility of the proposed architecture and methods on the ImageCLEF 2010 Wikipedia collection. Its primary modality is image, consisting of 237434 items, associated with noisy and incomplete user-supplied annotations and the Wikipedia articles containing the images. Associated modalities are written in any combination of English, German, French, or any other undetermined language.

www.mmretrieval.net