TAAI 2010 Call for Paper

Call for Papers

TAAI 2010

Conference on Technologies and Applications of

Artificial Intelligence

Hsinchu, Taiwan, November 18-20, 2010

http://taai2010.nctu.edu.tw/

Important Dates:

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* Paper submissions due: June 1, 2010.

* Notification of acceptance: July 22, 2010.

* Camera-ready final papers due: August 20, 2010

* Tournament registration due: September 1, 2010.

Introduction

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The 2010 Conference on Technologies and Applications of Artificial Intelligence

(TAAI 2010) is the 15th annual conference sponsored by the Taiwanese Association

for AI and one of the most important annual academic meetings on Artificial

Intelligence in Taiwan. The conference will be held in Hsinchu, Taiwan, on

November 18-20, 2010.

The purpose of this conference is to bring together scientists, engineers and

practitioners in different disciplines and researchers to present and exchange

ideas, results and experiences in the area of AI technologies and applications.

In particular, to showcase the intelligence of computers with AI, the

conference will host the events of computer game tournaments for games such as

Go, Chinese Chess, Connect6, etc. The 2010 World Computer Chinese Chess

Championship will be jointly held with the conference.

The conference also includes workshops, panels and technical sessions with

refereed papers from the AI research community. High quality research papers

are solicited on the topics of particular interest include, but are not

limited to:

* Agents

* AI Applications

* AI Architectures

* Computer Games

* Computer Vision

* Data Mining

* Genetic Algorithms

* Information Retrieval and Integration

* Intelligent Environment

* Intelligent e-learning

* Logics in AI

* Knowledge-Based Systems

* Machine Learning

* Mobile Intelligence

* Knowledge Representation

* Natural Language Processing

* Probabilistic and Uncertain Reasoning

* Planning

* Robotics

* Semantic Web

* Social Computing

* Speech Recognition and Synthesis

* Problem Solving and Search

* Web Intelligence

Keynote Speakers

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This conference invites some prestigious researchers as keynote speakers,

such as Professor Tom Mitchell as follows.

Tom M. Mitchell

His research interests include computer science, machine learning, artificial intelligence, and cognitive

neuroscience. He received many honors, such as University Professor at Carnegie-Mellon University in 2009,

Elected to National Academy of Engineering in 2010, Elected Fellow of American Association for the

Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2008, Elected Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial

Intelligence (AAAI) in 1990, and NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award in 1984.

Feng-Hsiung Hsu

Feng-hsiung Hsu was the architect and the principal designer of the IBM Deep Blue chess machine that beat

Kasparov, the World Human Chess Champion. He was the recipient of the 1990 Mephisto Award for his

doctoral dissertation and also the 1991 ACM Grace Murray Hopper Award for his contributions in architecture

and algorithms for chess machines. In 1988, he was part of the "Deep Thought" team that won the Fredkin

Intermediate Prize for Deep Thought's Grandmaster-level performance. Hsu now manages the platforms and

devices center of Microsoft Research Asia, in Beijing.

Other invited speakers include (1) Professor Olivier Teytaud at Universite Paris-Sud, France,

(2) Professor Irwin King at The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, and

(3) Professor Kay Chen Tan at National University of Singapore, Singapore.

Paper Submission

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Submit your paper(s) at the paper submission site http://taai2010.nctu.edu.tw/.

Each submission should be regarded as an undertaking that, if the paper is

accepted, at least one of the authors must attend the conference to present

the work. Submission format will be announced in the conference web site.

Submission format will be announced on the conference web site.

Paper Publications

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Accepted papers will be published in the proceeding. The proceeding will be published by IEEE Computer

Society Conference Publishing Services (IEEE CPS) and will be indexed by IEEE digital library. Accepted

papers will be selected for publication in a special issue of Journal of Information Science and Engineering

(SCI indexed) and Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing.

Panels

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The panels should address timely topics relevant to the themes of the

conference. Please submit proposals to the Conference Co-Chairs

([email protected] or [email protected]) by July 30, 2010.

Organizing Committee

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Honorary Chair

Chung-Yu Wu, President, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan.

Conference Chairs

Chun-Nan Hsu, Academia Sinica Taiwan.

I-Chen Wu, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan.

Advisory Committee

Ming-Syan Chen, National Taiwan Univ., Taiwan.

Jaap van den Herik, Tilburg Univ., Nederlands.

Hong-Yuan Liao, Academia Sinica, Taiwan.

Chin-Teng Lin, National Chiao Tung Univ., Taiwan.

Vincenzo Loia, Univ. of Salerno, Italy.

Nikhil R. Pal, Indian Statistical Institute, India.

Program Chairs

Irwin King, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.

Yuh-Jye Lee, National Taiwan Univ. of Sci. and Tech., Taiwan.

Publication Chairs

Ching-Hsien Hsu, Chung Hua Univ., Taiwan.

Jiun-Long Huang, National Chiao Tung Univ., Taiwan.

Local Chairs

Lung-Pin Chen, Tunghai Univ., Taiwan.

Wen-Chih Peng, National Chiao Tung Univ., Taiwan.

Chih-Wei Yi, National Chiao Tung Univ., Taiwan.

Publicity Chairs

Mong-Fong Horng, National Kaohsiung Univ., Taiwan.

Yuh-Jyh Hu, National Chiao Tung Univ., Taiwan.

Workshop Chairs

Ying-Ping Chen, National Chiao Tung Univ., Taiwan.

Shi-Jim Yen, National Dong Hwa Univ., Taiwan.

Registration and Financial Chair

Shou-De Lin, National Taiwan Univ., Taiwan.

Program Committee

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Jose Luis Ambite, Univ. of Southern California, USA.

Naveen Ashish, Univ. of California-Irvine, USA.

Bao Rong Chang, National Univ. of Kaohsiung, Taiwan.

Chia-Hui Chang, National Central Univ., Taiwan.

Kevin Chang, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA.

Kuo-Ming Chao, Coventry Univ., UK.

Phoebe Chen, Deakin Univ., Australia.

Rung-Ching Chen, Chaoyang Univ. of Tech., Taiwan.

Ying-Ping Chen, National Chiao Tung Univ., Taiwan.

Been-Chian Chien, National Univ. of Tainan, Taiwan.

R?mi Coulom, Universit? Charles de Gaulle, France

Cheng-Seen Ho, Tungnan Univ., Taiwan.

Tsung Pei Hong, National Univ. of Kaohsiung, Taiwan.

Mong-Fong Horng, National Kaohsiung Univ., Taiwan.

Ching-Hsien Hsu, Chung Hua Univ., Taiwan.

Shun-Chin Hsu, Chang Jung Christian Univ., Taiwan.

Tsan-Sheng Hsu, Academia Sinica, Taiwan.

Wen-Lian Hsu, Academia Sinica, Taiwan.

Yung-Jen Hsu, National Taiwan Univ., Taiwan.

Yuh-Jyh Hu, National Chiao Tung Univ., Taiwan.

I-Yuan Huang, Ixon Tech., Taiwan.

Jiun-Long Huang, National Chiao Tung Univ., Taiwan.

Tan Ah Hwee, Nanyang Tech. Univ., Singapore.

Hiroyuki Iida, Japan Advanced Institute of Sci. and Tech., Japan.

Yoshiyuki Kotani, Tokyo Univ. of Agriculture and Tech., Japan.

Chang-Shing Lee, National Univ. of Tainan, Taiwan.

Hahn-Ming Lee, National Taiwan Univ. of Sci. and Tech., Taiwan.

Yinsheng Li, Fudan Univ., China.

Ying Liu, The Hong Kong Polytechnic Univ., Hong Kong.

Bian-yi Liao, National Kaohsiung Univ. of Applied Sci., Taiwan.

Jyh-Ming Lien, George Mason Univ., USA.

Cheng-Jian Lin, National Chin-Yi Univ. of Tech., Taiwan.

Chao-Lin Liu, National Chengchi Univ., Taiwan.

Shou-De Lin, National Taiwan Univ., Taiwan.

Shun-Shii Lin, National Taiwan Normal Univ., Taiwan.

Wen-Yang Lin, National Univ. of Kaohsiung, Taiwan.

Richard J. Lorentz, California State Univ., USA.

Jose A. Lozano, Univ. of the Basque Country, Spain.

Masakazu Muramatsu, The University of Electro-Communications, Japan

Tomoharu Nakashima, Osaka Prefecture Univ., Japan.

Jeng-Shyang Pan, National Kaohsiung Univ. of Appl. Sci., Taiwan.

Wen-Chih Peng, National Chiao Tung Univ., Taiwan.

Zbigniew W. Ras, Univ. of North Carolina - Charlotte, USA.

Soeren Sonnenburg, Berlin Institute of Tech., Germany.

Von-Wun Soo, National Univ. of Kaohsiung, Taiwan.

Takenobu Takizawa, Waseda Univ., Japan.

Ke Tang, Univ. of Sci. and Tech. of China, China.

Olivier Teytaud, Inria, France.

Li-Shiang Tsay, North Carolina A&T State Univ., USA.

Maomi Ueno, The Univ. of Electro-Communications, Japan.

Lipo Wang, Nanyang Tech. Univ., Singapore.

Mark Winands, Maastricht Univ., Netherlands.

Kevin Wong, Murdoch University, Australia.

Yi-Leh Wu, National Taiwan Univ. of Sci. and Tech., Taiwan.

Xin-He Xu, Northeast Univ., China

Shi-Jim Yen, National Dong Hwa Univ., Taiwan.

Chih-Wei Yi, National Chiao Tung Univ., Taiwan.