CFP: Last CFP (deadline extension): New Trends in Real-Time Artificial Intelligence Workshop (NTeRTAIn)

Dear colleagues,

Enclosed you can find the last call for papers for the "New Trends in
Real-Time Artificial Intelligence Workshop" (NTeRTAIn).

Please notice that the paper submission deadline has been extended to
May 3rd. This is due to some problems we had with the workshop's web
server.

We hope the new deadline will let you time enough to prepare and send
your submissions. If there is any problem, please send an email to:
ntertain@xxxxxxxxxxx

Yours faithfully,

NTeRTAIn Organizing Committee




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CALL FOR PAPERS
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1st International Workshop on
New Trends in Real-Time Artificial Intelligence

(NTeRTAIn)

(To be held in conjunction with ECAI 2006)
URL: http://ntertain.gti-ia.dsic.upv.es/

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CONCEPT:

The aim of this workshop is to establish a common ground where
researches
with interests in Real-Time Systems (RTS), Artificial Intelligence (AI)
or
Real-Time Artificial Intelligence (RTAI) may share their knowledge and
experiences regarding the development of architectures, systems, and
applications dealing with real-time environments.

The control of time-constrained environments can be achieved by
applying
several different methodologies, most of them within the RTS domain.
The
introduction of AI techniques is specially useful when environments are
complex, uncertain, and/or not completely specified---in general, when
certain degree of 'intelligence' is expected from the application.
However,
AI technologies are not trivial to use in this context, specially
because
intelligent algorithms tend to have unbounded costs.

On the other hand, when AI theories are applied to realistic problems
in the
real-world domain (logistics, transportation, utility management,
etc.),
real-time processing requirements usually show up. Such requirements
can be
fulfilled by applying well-known results from the RTS field, although
normally these results have to be first adapted to the AI domain.

Although RTAI should be a natural meeting point between AI and RTS, in
several occasions researchers from these two fields use basic
terminology
with different semantics. For example, from the Real-Time Systems
perspective, "real-world", "on-line" and "real-time" are different
topics,
but they can be used as synonyms in current AI literature. Another
example
is the concept of "real-time environment", which is normally associated
with
quick responses in AI, whilst it implies explicit time restrictions in
RTS.

In this context, we would like to establish a forum where any
researcher
with experience in applying some intelligent approach to a real-time
environment will be able to share his/her experience and results with
researchers with similar problems but different approaches and
backgrounds.

SCOPE:

The scope of this workshop includes, but it is not restricted to, the
following topics:

- real-time issues: predictability, scheduling, etc., applied onto
(or using) AI techniques.

- AI issues: in general, any application of AI technology to a
time-restricted problem: RTAI, Real-Time Agents, Real-Time
Multi-agent Systems, etc.

- infrastructures: architectures, middleware, operating systems,
developing tools, etc. related to RTAI.

- application of AI techniques on realistic systems: robotics,
industrial applications, etc.

SUBMISSION:

We are welcoming and encouraging the submission of original,
non-published
papers, regarding either new developments in the workshop topic or
position
papers summing up past and future research & development lines in the
field.

Papers should be written in English, must not exceed 12 pages, and
formatted
according to the ECAI 2006 style described in
http://ecai2006.itc.it/cda/images/ecai2006.pdf (LATEX users:
http://ecai2006.itc.it/cda/images/ecai2006.zip).

The proposed papers should be submitted by means of the "Paper
submission"
section of the workshop webpage (http://ntertain.gti-ia.dsic.upv.es/).


ATTENDANCE TO THE WORKSHOP:

The First New Trends in Real-Time Artificial Intelligence is a one day
workshop and it will be held in Riva del Garda on August 28th,
immediately
prior to the start of the 17th European Conference on Artificial
Intelligence. Attendance to the workshop will be limited.

At least one author of each paper is required to attend the workshop
and
present the work.

PROCEEDINGS:

Printed proceedings will be available at the workshop.

Afterward, a selection of workshop papers will be extended and newly
revised
in order to be published in a special issue of the "Engineering
Applications
of Artificial Intelligence" (EAAI) journal.

IMPORTANT DATES:

Paper submission deadline: May 3rd, 2006

Notification of acceptance/rejection: May 17th, 2006

Camera-ready paper submission: May 24th, 2006

Workshop date: August 28th, 2006


WORKSHOP CO-CHAIRS:

Botti, Vicente J. (Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain)
Carrascosa, Carlos (Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain)
Garcia-Fornes, Ana (Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain)
Terrasa, Andres (Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain)


PROGRAM COMMITTEE:

Botti, Vicente J. (Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain)
Burns, Alan (University of York, UK)
Carrascosa, Carlos (Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain)
Crespo, Alfons (Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain)
De la Puente, Juan A. (Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain)
Decker, Keith S. (University of Delaware, USA)
Doherty, Patrick (Linkoping University, Sweden)
Durfee, Edmund H. (University of Michigan, USA)
Garcia-Fornes, Ana (Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain)
Goddard, Steve (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA)
Gonzalez Harbour, Michael (Universidad de Cantabria, Spain)
Gutmann, Jens-Steffen (Sony Corporation, Japan)
Lesser, Victor (University of Massachusetts, USA)
Musliner, David J. (Honeywell Laboratories, USA)
Raja, Anita (University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA)
Terrasa, Andres (Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain)
Wagner, Thomas (DARPA, USA)


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