<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Verdana;">*** LAST MILE ***</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Verdana; min-height: 19px;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Verdana;">26th IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Verdana;">ICTAI 2014</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Verdana; min-height: 19px;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Verdana;">November 10-12, 2014, Limassol, Cyprus </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Verdana; min-height: 19px;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Verdana;"><a href="http://ictai2014.cs.ucy.ac.cy">http://ictai2014.cs.ucy.ac.cy</a> </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Verdana; min-height: 19px;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Verdana;">*** Submission Deadline: 14th July 2014 ***</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Verdana; min-height: 19px;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Verdana; min-height: 19px;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Verdana;"><b>Aim & Scope</b></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Verdana;">The annual IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Verdana;">Intelligence (ICTAI) provides a major international forum where</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Verdana;">the creation and exchange of ideas related to artificial intelligence</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Verdana;">are fostered among academia, industry, and government agencies.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Verdana;">The conference facilitates the cross-fertilization of these ideas and</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Verdana;">promotes their transfer into practical tools, for developing intelligent</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Verdana;">systems and pursuing artificial intelligence applications. The ICTAI</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Verdana;">encompasses all technical aspects of specifying, developing and</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Verdana;">evaluating the theoretical underpinnings and applied mechanisms</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Verdana;">of the AI-based components of computer tools such as algorithms,</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Verdana;">architectures and languages.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Verdana; min-height: 19px;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Verdana;"><b>Topics (not limited to) </b></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Verdana; min-height: 19px;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Verdana;"><b>AI Foundations</b></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Verdana;">- Evolutionary computing, Bayesian and Neural Networks</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Verdana;">- Decision/Utility Theory and Decision Optimization</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Verdana;">- Search, SAT, and CSP</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Verdana;">- Description Logic and Ontologies</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Verdana; min-height: 19px;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Verdana;"><b>AI in Domain Specific Applications</b></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Verdana;">- AI in Natural Language Processing and Understanding </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Verdana;">- AI in Computational Biology, Medicine and Biomedical Applications</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Verdana;">- AI in WWW, Communication, Social Networking, Recommender Systems,</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Verdana;"> Games and E-Commerce</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Verdana;">- AI in Finance and Risk Management</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Verdana; min-height: 19px;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Verdana;"><b>AI in Computer Systems</b></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Verdana;">- AI in Robotics, Computer Vision and Games</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Verdana;">- AI in Software Engineering, Real-Time and Embedded Applications,</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Verdana;"> and Sensor Networks</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Verdana;">- AI in Cloud Computing, Data-Intensive Applications and </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Verdana;"> Online/Streaming and Multimedia Systems</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Verdana;">- AI in Web search and Information Retrieval</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Verdana;">- AI in Computer Security, Data Privacy, and Information Assurance</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Verdana; min-height: 19px;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Verdana;"><b>AI in Data Analytics and Big Data</b></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Verdana;">- Visualization Analytics for Big Data </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Verdana;">- Computational Modeling for Big Data </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Verdana;">- Large-scale Recommendation and Social Media Systems</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Verdana;">- Cloud/Grid/Stream Data Mining for Big Velocity Data</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Verdana;">- Semantic-based Big Data Mining </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Verdana; min-height: 19px;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Verdana;"><b>Machine Learning and Data Mining</b></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Verdana;">- Data pre-processing, reduction and feature selection</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Verdana;">- Learning Graphical Models and Complex Networks</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Verdana;">- Active, Cost-Sensitive, Semi-Supervised, Multi-Instance,</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Verdana;"> Multi-Label and Multi-Task Learning</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Verdana;">- Transfer/Adaptive, Rational and Structured Learning</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Verdana;">- Preference/Ranking, Ensemble, and Reinforcement Learning</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Verdana; min-height: 19px;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Verdana;"><b>Knowledge Representation, Reasoning and Cognitive Modelling</b></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Verdana;">- Knowledge Representation, Reasoning </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Verdana;">- Knowledge Extraction, Management and Sharing</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Verdana;">- Case-Based Reasoning and Knowledge-based Systems</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Verdana;">- Cognitive Modelling and Semantic Web</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Verdana; min-height: 19px;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Verdana;"><b>AI and Decision Systems</b></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Verdana;">- Decision Guidance and Support Systems</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Verdana;">- Optimization-based recommender systems </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Verdana;">- Group, distributed, and collaborative decisions</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Verdana;">- Crowd-sourcing and collective intelligence decision making</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Verdana;">- Strategic, tactical and operational level decisions </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Verdana;">- Decision making in social and mobile networks</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Verdana; min-height: 19px;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Verdana;"><b>Uncertainty in AI</b></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Verdana;">- Uncertainty and Fuzziness Representation and Reasoning </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Verdana;">- Approximate/Exact Probabilistic Inference</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Verdana;">- Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining for Uncertain Data</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Verdana; min-height: 19px;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Verdana;"><b>AI Tools for Manufacturing Innovation</b></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Verdana;">- AI in manufacturing performance evaluation </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Verdana;">- AI in manufacturing decision and data analysis </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Verdana;">- AI in modeling, simulation and optimization of manufacturing systems </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Verdana;">- AI in additive manufacturing </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Verdana;">- AI in manufacturing control and planning</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Verdana; min-height: 19px;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Verdana;"><b>Paper Submission</b></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Verdana;">The submissions should contain original, high quality, not submitted</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Verdana;">or published elsewhere work. Papers should be submitted electronically</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Verdana;">through the <span style="text-decoration: underline">EasyChair system</span> in pdf format and should conform to IEEE</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Verdana;">specifications (single-spaced, double-column, 10-point font size, up to 8</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Verdana;">pages).</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Verdana; min-height: 19px;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Verdana;"><b>Paper Presentation</b></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Verdana;">Each accepted paper should be presented by one of the authors and</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Verdana;">accompanied by at least one full registration fee payment, to guarantee</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Verdana;">publication in the proceedings. All accepted papers will be included in</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Verdana;">proceedings of ICTAI 2014 that will be published by the IEEE Computer</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Verdana;">Society.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Verdana; min-height: 19px;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Verdana;"><b>IJAIT special issue</b></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Verdana;">Extended versions of the best papers of the conference will be invited</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Verdana;">for publication in a special issue of the International Journal on Artificial</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Verdana;">Intelligence Tools (IJAIT) (SCI Indexed).</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Verdana; min-height: 19px;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Verdana;"><b>Important Dates</b></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Verdana;">Paper submission: July 14, 2014 (firm deadline)</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Verdana;">Paper notification: August 21, 2014</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Verdana;">Camera-ready paper: August 30, 2014</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Verdana; min-height: 19px;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Verdana;"><b>Point of Contact</b></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Verdana;">George A. Papadopoulos</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Verdana;">Department of Computer Science</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Verdana;">University of Cyprus</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Verdana;">george-at-cs-dot-ucy-dot-ac-dot-cy</div><div><br></div></body></html>