Connectionists: Call for Workshops/Tutorials: The 40th German Conference on Artificial Intelligence

[Johannes Fuernkranz]

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KI 2017: Call for Workshops & Tutorials - Deadline Jan 30, 2017
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40th German Conference on Artificial Intelligence
September 25-29, 2017
Dortmund, Germany

http://ki2017.tu-dortmund.de

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KI 2017 is the 40th edition of the German Conference on Artificial
Intelligence organized by the Fachbereich Künstliche Intelligenz der
Gesellschaft für Informatik. KI traditionally brings together academic
and industrial researchers from all areas of AI, providing an ideal
place for exchanging news and research results of intelligent system
technology. The technical program of KI 2017 will comprise paper and
poster presentations and a variety of workshops and tutorials.

KI 2017 will take place in Dortmund, Germany, September 25th-29th,
2017, and is a premier forum for exchanging news and research results
on theory and applications of intelligent system technology.

Together with the main conference, we plan to organize a small number
of high-quality workshops and tutorials. We especially encourage
events organized by AI Special Interest Groups (GI-Fachgruppen),
events that bring together researchers from different disciplines, and
events that highlight emerging topics of AI research. Tutorials should
target a wide audience, including graduate students as well as
experienced researchers, and practitioners. For workshops, we are
interested in submissions of full-day (6 hours) and half-day (3 hours)
workshops. For tutorials, we are soliciting proposals for full-day (6
hours) and half-day (3 hours) tutorials as well as mini-tutorials (1.5
hours).

======== How to Propose a Workshop ========
Proposals should be sent by email to the KI 2017 Workshop and Tutorial
Chair (christoph.beierle at fernuni-hagen.de). Each workshop proposal
should provide the following information:
- Title and acronym
- Short description of workshop topic and goal
- Names, affiliations, and contact details of all the workshop
organizer(s). Please include one paragraph about each organizer
(scientific profile, previous events you have organized) and indicate
the primary contact person to whom correspondence should be directed.
- For which areas of AI do you expect to draw participants for your
workshop and how many participants do you expect? How do you plan to
invite participants for the workshop?
- A brief description of the workshop format and duration, tentative
call for papers, tentative invited speakers and members of the program
committee

======== How to Propose a Tutorial ========
Tutorials should give a comprehensive, in-depth perspective on
innovative AI methods or technologies that have an obvious potential
for research and/or application and are not covered by typical AI
textbooks. Proposals for tutorials should be submitted by e-mail to
the Workshop and Tutorial Chair (christoph.beierle at fernuni-hagen.de).

Each tutorial proposal should provide the following information:
- Descriptions of the tutorial topic, goals, the intended audience, an
outline of the contents
- Brief CVs of the tutor(s), including their expertise and teaching
experience in the field and the intended length of the tutorial
(half-day, full-day, or mini-tutorial).

Proposers are encouraged to include excerpts of material from recent
teaching about the proposed topic as an annex of their submission, if
available.

======== Important Dates ========
Workshop/Tutorial proposals: Jan 30th, 2017
Workshop/Tutorial notification: Feb 6th, 2017
Full/Short Paper submission: May 5th, 2017
Acceptance notification: June 16th, 2017
Final version due: July 1st, 2017
KI Workshops and Conference: September 25th-29th, 2017

======== Main Organizers ========
General Chair
* Gabriele Kern-Isberner (TU Dortmund)

Program Chairs
* Johannes Fürnkranz (TU Darmstadt)
* Matthias Thimm (Universität Koblenz-Landau)

Workshop and Tutorial Chair
* Christoph Beierle (FernUniversität in Hagen)

Local Organizers
* Christian Eichhorn  (TU Dortmund)
* Steffen Schieweck  (TU Dortmund)
* Marco Wilhelm  (TU Dortmund)

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Johannes Fuernkranz
Knowledge Engineering Group, TU Darmstadt