CALL FOR PAPERS

                                                             AIMSA 2020

The 19th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence: Methodology, Systems, Applications

                                      Golden Sands resort, Varna, Bulgaria, 7-9th September, 2020

                                                             www.aimsaconference.org

Initiated in 1984, the biennial Artificial Intelligence: Methodology, Systems, Applications (AIMSA) conference is a premier single-track forum for exchanging information and research results on theory and principles of artificial intelligence (AI) along with real-world applications of intelligent system technology. The conference traditionally brings together researchers and practitioners in all areas of AI from both the academia and industry to meet and share their ideas and experiences and learn about the recent trends and developments in contemporary AI. 

The 19th edition of AIMSA will be held in the beautiful Golden Sands resort near Varna, Bulgaria. With its mild climate and excellent opportunities for outdoor activities, water sports and gastronomy, Golden Sands promise to be a wonderful venue for a memorable conference.

TOPICS

The conference welcomes submissions of original, high quality papers in all areas of Artificial Intelligence, including (but not limited to) traditional topics such as the algorithms, implementations and (or) real-world applications of knowledge discovery, data mining, machine learning, evolutionary computing, pattern recognition, search, reasoning, planning, natural language processing, intelligent agents, multiagent systems, robotics and sensing, etc.

PROCEEDINGS

The proceedings of AIMSA 2020 conference series will be published by Springer in their Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence subline of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series.

Extended versions of AIMSA 2020 selected papers will be published by MDPI, Switzerland, in a special issue of "Information" (ISSN 2078-2489) – an Open Access Journal of Information Science (SJR: 0.222).

 SUBMISSION DETAILS

Papers have to be submitted electronically (in PDF format) via the submission system: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aimsa2020.  Papers should be written in English, formatted according to the Springer LNCS format and should be specified either as full (12 – 15 pages) or short (6-8 pages). Accepted papers of both formats will be included in the conference program for oral presentation. A limited number of poster papers (4 pages) – to be presented in the poster session – will also be accepted and included in the conference proceedings.

All submissions will be subject to a single-blind academic peer review by at least three members of the program committee. Selection criteria include accuracy and originality of ideas, clarity and significance of results, and quality of presentation. For each accepted paper, at least one author is required to register and attend the conference to present the paper. The author(s) of the best paper (which will be selected based on the votes of the attendees) of the conference will receive the Best Paper Award during the conference.

KEYNOTES TALKS

Explainable-by-Design Highly Efficient Deep Learning. Plamen Angelov (School of Computing and Communications, Lancaster University, UK)

Towards Practical Robot Intelligence for Manipulation and Locomotion.  Peter Kormushev (Robot Intelligence Lab, Imperial College London, UK)

IMPORTANT DATES

Submission deadline:        May 17, 2020

Notification of acceptance:  June 14, 2020

Deadline for camera-ready:  July 26, 2020

Conference:                September 7-9 2020

 LANGUAGE

The official language of the conference is English.

LOCATION

Golden Sands is a modern resort with traditions, and history going back 50 years. A unique blend of lovely nature park, warm sea, and fine golden sand! Golden Sands is the winner of a "Blue Flag" – a prestigious international award for environmentally clean resorts. 

PROGRAMME COMMITTEE CHAIR

Ivan Tanev  – Department of Information Systems Design Faculty of Engineering, Doshisha University, Japan

E-mail: itanev@mail.doshisha.ac.jp Website: http://isd-si.doshisha.ac.jp/itanev/

 LOCAL ORGANIZING COMMITTEE CHAIR

Gennady Agre  – Institute of Information and Communication Technologies Bulgarian Academy of Sciences

Acad. G. Bonchev 2, 1113 Sofia, Bulgaria

E-mail: agre@iinf.bas.bg

Phone: +359 28700118

Fax: +359 28707273

ORGANISERS

Bulgarian Artificial Intelligence Association

Institute of Information and Communication Technologies at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (IICT – BAS)