Some grants (ECCAI grants or RoboCub Federation grants are not affected) so the dradline was pushed away (now 15th May) but it could be pushed away again. Look at the ACAI website: http://robotics.faculty.iu-bremen.de/ACAI/grants.htm

ECCAI Journals

Artificial Intelligence Communications: Volume 16, Number 1/2003 New !

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

- Artificial Intelligence Advances in China by Kewen Wang, Ruqian Lu - Extracting symbolic rules from trained neural network ensembles by Zhi-Hua Zhou, Yuan Jiang, Shi-Fu Chen - Multilevel data summarization from information systems: a "rule + exception" approach by Jue Wang, Min Zhao, Kai Zhao, et al. - Feature ranking in rough sets by Keyun Hu, Yuchang Lu, Chunyi Shi - On the expressive power of semi-normal defaults in some semantic variants of default logic by Zhang Mingyi, Zhang Ying

Electronic Transactions on Artificial Intelligence: http://www.etaij.org

ECCAI Conferences

- ACAI'03: http://www.iu-bremen.de/ACAI03

The registration deadline is May 31, 2003. The registration fee is 450,- €. IUB offers on site accomodation with full-board for 350,- € for the 10 days.
The late registration deadline is June 30, 2003. The late registration fee is 490,- € and the cost for accomodation with full-board increases to 375,- €.

- ECAI'04: http://www.dsic.upv.es/ecai2004

A new Date for the notification of paper acceptance: 2 May 2004

News from the ECCAI societies

from Bjornar Tessem (Bjornar.Tessem@ifi.uib.no)

The Eighth Scandinavian Conference on Artificial Intelligence, SCAI'03
Bergen Norway, November 2-4, 2003
June 15, 2003: Submissions for papers, tutorials and workshops
http://www.ifi.uib.no/conf/scai03/

Other News

from Tony Cohn by the way of Carol Hamilton (hamilton@aaai.org)

Dear ECCAI Members,

On behalf of the IJCAI-03 Conference Committee, I am happy to announce that the plans for the Eighteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence are well underway. Technical paper and poster selections are complete, tutorial and workshop programs are planned, and the invited speakers are lined up.

We hope that you will join us for the first IJCAI to be held in Latin America, August 9-15, 2003. To register or for more information, please visit the IJCAI-03 web site at http://www.ijcai-03.org. If you
would like a registration form faxed or mailed to you, please feel free to contact us at ijcai03@aaai.org.

We look forward to seeing you in Acapulco, Mexico!
Warmest regards,
Tony Cohn, University of Leeds, IJCAI-03 Conference Chair

from Dr. Moonis Ali (ma04@swt.edu)

The 17th International Conference on Industrial & Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence & Expert Systems, IEA/AIE-2004,
May 17-20, 2004 Ottawa, Canada
http://www.iea-aie2004.org/

Next ECCAI-Bulletin in October 2003