Connectionists: AI’13 Call for Tutorials

[Lubica Benuskova]

The 26th Australasian Conference on Artificial Intelligence AI'13,
3-6 December, 2013, Dunedin, New Zealand
http://ai2013.otago.ac.nz/

We invite proposals for the tutorial program to be held
on Tuesday 3 Dec 2013 immediately prior to the main technical
program of the AI’13 (4-6 December 2013).

Tutorial topics include, but are not restricted to, the following topics listed at:
http://ai2013.otago.ac.nz/call-for-papers/.

IMPORTANT DATES

Proposal submission deadline: 01 July 2013
Proposal acceptance notification: 19 Aug 2013
Deadline for posting the tutorial call for participation: 26 Aug 2013
Provisional attendees list: 07 Oct 2013
Final list of attendees: 04 Nov 2013

REQUIREMENTS for Tutorial Proposal (2 pages)

The 1st page should contain the following information:
- Title, abstract and tentative contents in syllabus-like form
- Proposed duration (i.e. half day = 3 hours or full day = 2 x 3 hours)
- Intended audience and prerequisite knowledge: what the attendees should already know

The 2nd page on background information on the presenter(s) should contain:
- Names, affiliations, homepages, contact details and short biographies of presenter(s)
- Information about previous tutorials (title, location, number of attendees, etc.) if any
- Tutorial materials such as handouts or slides should be included if already available,
but are not required for submission.

SELECTION of tutorials to be included in the final AI ’13 program will be based upon:
scientific/technical interest of the topics, quality of the proposal, balance of topics,
and the capacity of the conference tutorial program. Authors of proposals addressing
similar and/or overlapping content areas and/or audiences may be requested to merge
their proposals.

All tutorial proposals should be submitted by the deadline, via e-mail,
to the AI’13 tutorial chair: lubica at cs.otago.ac.nz

Lubica Benuskova, PhD
Tutorial Chair
phone: (+64 3) 479 8587
Department of Computer Science
University of Otago
Dunedin, New Zealand
http://www.cs.otago.ac.nz/homepages/lubica/