Bulletin #1, January 2002

EDITORIAL

From Africa (AP) (Reuters, January 2, 2002 11:49 PM)
"A Happy New Year to all members of the ECCAI societies!" said Rob Milne, directly from the summit of Mount Kilimanjaro, 5895m, the highest mountain in Africa.

Afrique (AFP) : Pour le 1er janvier 2002, Rob Milne le président de l'ECCAI, adresse ses voeux du Mont Kenya (5199m).

NEWS from the ECCAI board and the ECCAI web site

• CALL for ECAI-04 CONFERENCE CHAIR

Deadlines :

• 1 April 2002 : Initial proposal
• July 2002 : presentation of the bids and selection by the ECCAI General Assembly

Bid for the PC Chair and Guidelines at the second part of the document: http://www.eccai.org/admin/ecaiproc.shtml

For additional informations, please contact Marc.Ayel@univ-savoie.fr

• CALL for ECAI-06 ORGANISATION

The deadlines :

• 31 January 2002 : notification of the intention to bid
• 1 May 2002 : submission of draft detailed bids
• 30 June 2002 : end of the discussion between the candidates and the ECCAI board
• July 2002 : presentation of the bids and selection by the ECCAI General Assembly

Guidelines for organizing ECAI : http://www.eccai.org/admin/ecaiproc.shtml and see the last ECCAI bulletin

For additional informations, please contact Marc.Ayel@univ-savoie.fr

• ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE DISSERTATION AWARD 2001

Deadline of submissions : 31 January 2002

For details, please visit: http://www.eccai.org/diss-award/2002.shtml

CONTENTS of Artificial Intelligence Communications

http://iospress.metapress.com/openurl.asp?genre=issue&issn=0921-7126&issue=current

CONTENTS of Electronic Transactions on Artificial Intelligence

http://www.etaij.org

NEWS from the ECCAI Conferences

- ECAI'02 hot news

• The list of tutorials, their dates, contents, ...
• The list of workshops, their dates, their calls, ...

on the web site of the conference : http://ecai2002.univ-lyon1.fr/

- STAIRS'2002

The first European Starting AI Researcher Symposium, a meeting aimed at AI researchersat the beginning of their career: PhD students or people holding a PhD for less than one year. STAIRS'2002 will be held in Lyon, July 22-23, at the beginning of ECAI'2002.

• March 1, 2002 Title and abstract due to the PC co-chairs
• March 6, 2002 Paper submission deadline

Additional information about STAIRS'2002 will be found on the symposium web pages: http://stairs2002.univ-lyon1.fr

NEWS from the ECCAI societies

- AI*IA , Associazione Italiana per l'Intelligenza Artificiale, has recently elected a new executive board.
The new president is Marco Gori and vice-presidents are Amedeo Cesta and Leonardo Lesmo.

Other News

- Next ECCAI-Bulletin in March 2002