Call for Workshop Submissions/Participation

W7 - Binding Environmental Sciences and Artificial Intelligence

August 24, 1998

A workshop held in conjunction with the
13th biennial European Conference on Artificial Intelligence ECAI'98
August 23-28, 1998, Brighton, UK.
 

Kindly 
supported 
by: 

 BESAI   ACIA  

Workshop Information

What the Workshop is About

There is a growing environmental concern either in industries (e.g., the ISO 14001 creation) or in politics (e.g., Kyoto's or Rio do Janeiro's summits). Therefore, new tools for solving new problems are more and more needed. This workshop (ECAI98-BESAI) creates a discussion platform for AI researchers involved in the development of applications in the sensitive area of Environmental Sciences.

ECAI98-BESAI is an open forum for exposing and discussing the advances of international projects in the area of Artificial Intelligence and Environmental Sciences, and for bringing together a growing interdisciplinary community of researchers with common interests.

Both environmental studies and Artificial Intelligence can provide society with solutions for many real world problems, in order to protect the environment. The encounter of these fields is a new challenge for many researchers of both communities.

The technical issues to be presented in ECAI98-BESAI may come from all environmental fields, and should show how AI approaches, techniques and applications can be useful to environmental system management. New or improved techniques or methods, as well as innovative applications are welcome. Contributions emphasizing the integration of various technologies or paradigms are especially welcome.

Basic Environmental issues:

Artificial Intelligence approaches and techniques:

Instructions for Participants

All ECAI98-BESAI workshop participants must register both for the main ECAI'98 conference and the workshop itself.

Workshop attendance will be limited to registered participants.

Instructions for Submissions

Authors planning to submit a contribution must contact as soon as possible to the Workshop Organizing Committee by e-mail.

Interested contributing authors have to submit manuscripts addressing issues that are clearly relevant to the workshop theme, and an additional brief (max. 1 page) description of their ongoing research projects.

Authors have to send a copy of their original manuscript to Workshop Organizing Committee by April 1, 1998. The length of the manuscript, including figures, should be limited to 12 pages typed double-spaced using font size 12. Each manuscript have to start with an abstract of no more than 150 words and have to include a list of about five keywords.

In addition to the camera ready paper for the Workshop Notes, that will be distributed at the workshop, authors must prepare an electronic version of their paper and make it available prior to the workshop.

Submissions will be peer reviewed by at least two referees. Following the recommendations of the reviewers, authors of accepted papers will prepare a presentation.  Presentations will be grouped into sections to foster focused discussions. The workshop schedule will provide time for specific discussions directly after each presentation as well as for extended more general exchange of ideas between sessions. Some of the attendees will be asked to serve as session commentators who summarize and critically reflect on the presentations of a session.

It is planned to publish the Workshop Proceedings in book format or as a special issue of a specialized journal after the conference. Authors will have the opportunity to revise and extend their contribution.
 

Workshop Committees

Organizing Committee:

Ulises Cortés, Artificial Intelligence Section, Technical University of Catalonia (Catalonia, Spain).
René Bañares-Alcántara, Chemical Engineering Dept., University of Edinburgh (Scotland, U.K.).
Javier Lafuente, Chemical Engineering Dept., Autonomous University of Barcelona (Catalonia, Spain).
Manel Poch, Chemical and Environmental Engineering Laboratory, University of Girona (Catalonia, Spain).
Yoram Reich, Solids, Mechanic and Infrastructure Dept., Tel-Aviv University (Israel).
Miquel Sànchez-Marrè, Artificial Intelligence Section, Technical University of Catalonia (Catalonia, Spain).

Program Committee:

René Bañares-Alcántara, Chemical Engineering Dept., University of Edinburgh (Scotland, U.K.).
Javier Béjar, Artificial Intelligence Section, Technical University of Catalonia (Catalonia, Spain).
Ulises Cortés, Artificial Intelligence Section, Technical University of Catalonia (Catalonia, Spain).
Javier Lafuente, Chemical Engineering Dept., Autonomous University of Barcelona (Catalonia, Spain).
Ramon López de Mántaras, Artificial Intelligence Research Institute (IIIA), CSIC (Catalonia, Spain).
Gary A. Montague, Chemical & Process Engineering Dept., University of Newcastle (England, U.K.).
Manel Poch, Chemical and Environmental Engineering Laboratory, University of Girona (Catalonia, Spain).
Yoram Reich, Solid Mechanics, Materials and Structures Dept., Tel-Aviv University (Israel).
Antonio Sánchez-Aguilar, Computer Science Dept., University of Las Americas (Mexico).
Miquel Sànchez-Marrè, Artificial Intelligence Section, Technical University of Catalonia (Catalonia, Spain).
Ramon Sangüesa, Artificial Intelligence Section, Technical University of Catalonia (Catalonia, Spain).
Jean Philippe Steyer, Laboratory of Environmental Biotechnology (LBE), INRA (France).

Important Dates

Address for Submissions and Further Information

Proposals have to be submitted via surface mail or electronically (in UNIX compatible postscript, HTML, or RTF) to Ulises Cortés, at the following address:

Ulises Cortés
Dept. of Software
Technical University of Catalonia
Campus Nord - Edifici C5
C. Jordi Girona 1-3
08034 Barcelona
Catalonia, Spain
Tel.: + 34 93 401 70 16
Fax: + 34 93 401 70 14
e-mail: ia@lsi.upc.es

Further information on ECAI '98 is available at the ECAI'98 Home page: http://www.cogs.susx.ac.uk/ecai98/index.html
The URL of this Workshop Home page is: http://www.lsi.upc.es/~webia/besai/besai98.html
This call is also available in ASCII and Postscript.

Ulises Cortés

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