CFP

   Sixth Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence
                (PRICAI 2000 Co-located with RoboCup 2000)
                    August 28 - September 1, 2000

                     Melbourne Convention Centre
                   Cnr Flinders & Spencer Streets
                   Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

(http://www3.cm.deakin.edu.au/pricai/)
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AUDIENCE

This conference addresses a large and diverse constituency of Artificial Intelligence
practitioners, researchers, educators, and users.


The Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (PRICAI)
is the leading conference in the Pacific Rim region for presentation of
research in Artificial Intelligence, including its applications to problems
of social and economic importance. The objectives of PRICAI are:

  to provide a forum for the introduction and discussion of new research
  results, concepts, & technologies;

  to provide practising engineers exposure to and an evaluation of evolving
  research, tools, and practices;

  to provide the research community exposure to the problems of practical
  applications of AI; and

  to encourage the exchange of AI technologies and experience within Pacific
  Rim countries.

PRICAI 2000 attempts to meet the needs of a large and diverse constituency,
which includes researchers, practitioners, educators, and users. Topics of
PRICAI 2000 include:

Abduction                          Knowledge discovery & Data mining
Adaptive interface                 Knowledge management
Agents                             Knowledge representation
AI architectures                   Logic programming
Artificial life                    Machine learning
Bayesian networks                  Machine translation
Belief revision                    Mobile agents
Cognitive modelling                Model-based reasoning
CSCW and AI                        Multimedia and AI
Common sense reasoning             Multiagent systems
Computational complexity           Music and AI
Computational learning theory      Natural language processing
Complex systems                    Neural networks
Computer-aided education           Nonmonotonic reasoning
Constraint satisfaction            Ontological engineering
Decision theory                    Planning
Description logics                 Probabilistic reasoning
Distributed AI                     Qualitative reasoning
Emergent computing                 Real-time systems
Foundation of AI                   Reinforcement learning
Fuzzy Logics                       Robotics
Game playing                       Scientific discovery
Genetic algorithms                 Search
Image processing                   Software engineering and AI
Induction                          Spatial reasoning
Industrial applications of AI      Speech and spoken dialog understanding
Intelligent CAD                    Temporal reasoning
Intelligent information gathering  Text analysis
Intelligent learning environment   Theorem proving
Internet and AI                    User modelling
Knowledge acquisition,             Virtual reality
  modeling and validation          Vision
Knowledge-based systems            Aspects of AI not otherwise listed



Invited speakers
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(1) Professor Nick Jennings
  Dept. of Electronic Engineering
  Queen Mary & Westfield College
  University of London

title:Automated Haggling: Building Artificial Negotiators

(2) Prof. Shun-ichi Amari
  RIKEN Brain Science Institute
  Director of Brain-Style Information Systems Research Group
  Laboratory for Information Synthesis, Head
  Japan

title:Information Geometry of Neural Networks

(3) Randy Goebel
  Professor of Department of Computing Science
  University of Alberta

title:Knowledge representation, belief revision, and the challenge of optimality.

(4) Qiang Yang
  Professor of the School of Computing Science
  Simon Fraser University (SFU), British Columbia
  Canada

title:New-generation Search and Information Retrieval on the Web


Contact Information
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For PC matters, please contact:
Riichiro Mizoguchi
PC Co-Chair
Email: miz@ei.sanken.osaka-u.ac.jp
The Institute of Scientific and Industrial Research
Osaka University
8-1 Mihogaoka, Ibaraki, Osaka, 567-0047 Japan
Phone:  +81-6-6879-8415, 2125
Fax:    +81-6-6879-2126
URL: http://www.ei.sanken.osaka-u.ac.jp/

For general information, please contact:
Marg Scarlett
PRICAI 2000 Conference Secretariat
C/- The Conference Organisers Pty Ltd
PO Box 1127
Sandringham   Victoria 3191
AUSTRALIA

        Ph:     +61 3 9521 8881
        Fax:    +61 3 9521 8889
Email: conforg@ozemail.com.au

Latest information regarding PRICAI 2000 is available at
http://www3.cm.deakin.edu.au/pricai/.