SARA 2011 - SARA 2011 Ninth Symposium on Abstraction, Reformulation, and Approximation

Website algo2011.mpi-inf.mpg.de | Edit Freely

Category SARA 2011

Deadline: April 15, 2011 | Date: July 17, 2011-July 18, 2011

Venue/Country: Barcelona, Spain

Updated: 2011-04-07 20:54:19 (GMT+9)

Call For Papers - CFP

Ninth Symposium on

Abstraction, Reformulation, and Approximation

July 17-18, 2011

Parador de Cardona, Spain

(near Barcelona, location of IJCAI 11, July 19-22)

Website: http://logic.stanford.edu/sara2011/

The ninth Symposium on Abstraction, Reformulation and Approximation will be held on July 17-18, 2011 at the Parador de Cardona in Catalonia, Spain, 60 miles Northwest of Barcelona. The symposium will be co-located with the Symposium on Combinatorial Search (SoCS), which will be held at the Parador de Cardona immediately before SARA. SARA 2011 will be followed by the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 11), which will be held in Barcelona.

The Symposium will consist primarily of paper presentations, discussion sessions, and invited presentations. This year, our keynote speaker will be Stuart Russell from the University of California at Berkeley. All papers presented at the Symposium will appear in a published proceedings.

Submission Topics

The aim of the Symposium is to provide a forum for interaction among researchers in all areas of Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science with an interest in Abstraction, Reformulation, or Approximation (ARA). Submissions are requested on the following topics (but are not restricted to these topics).

* Theory of Abstraction, Reformulation, and Approximation.

* Methods for selecting which of several applicable ARA techniques is best for a given problem.

* Techniques for automatically constructing and selecting appropriate abstractions, reformulations, and approximations.

* Empirical and theoretical studies of the costs and benefits of ARA.

* Applications of ARA to automated reasoning, automatic programming, cognitive modeling, constraint programming, constraint satisfaction, databases, design, diagnosis, general game playing, general problem solving, machine learning, planning, robotics, scheduling, search, simulation, theorem proving.

* Fielded applications demonstrating the benefits of ARA.

Submission Format

Researchers who wish to attend the symposium must submit in one of the following forms:

* Full paper: Full paper submissions must report on substantial, original and previously unpublished research.

* Extended abstract: Extended abstracts on research that will be submitted to, has been submitted to, or has already been published in archival conferences or journals. However, researchers are encouraged to submit full papers, if possible. Please indicate in your submission if it is an "extended abstract".

* Research summary: Researchers should submit a short report describing research questions that they are engaged in that is relevant to ARA.

Full papers should not exceed 8 pages in AAAI format; extended abstracts should not exceed 4 pages; and research summaries should not exceed 2 pages.

Submission website: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sara2011.

Important Dates

April 15 Submission deadline

May 6 Author notification

June 3 Camera-ready submission

July 17-18 SARA 2011

Organization

Conference Chairs Michael Genesereth, Stanford University, USA

Peter Revesz, University of Nebraska - Lincoln, USA

Publicity Chair Miroslav Velev, Aries Design Automation

Program Committee:

Scot Anderson Southern Adventist University, USA

Chris Beck University of Toronto, Canada

Rada Chirkova North Carolina State University, USA

Berthe Choueiry University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA

Marie desJardins University Maryland Baltimore County, USA

Ariel Felner Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel

Rafael Martinez Gasca University of Seville, Spain

Hector Geffner Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain

Michael Genesereth Stanford University, USA

Robert Holte University of Alberta, Canada

Bart Kuijpers Hasselt University, Belgium

Ian Miguel University of St Andrews, UK

Peter Revesz University of Nebraska - Lincoln, USA

Marie-Christine Rousset University of Grenoble, France

Wheeler Ruml University of New Hampshire, USA

Nathan Sturtevant University of Denver, USA

Miroslav Velev Aries Design Automation, USA

Toby Walsh University of New South Wales, Australia