Bulletin #4, June 2003

NEWS from the ECCAI board

• ECCAI General Assembly

The 2003 ECCAI General Assembly should held at ACAI-03 in Bremen,Germany, Friday 1 August at 13:00.

• Travel grants for IJCAI-03:

In addition with the travel grants for ACAI-03, the ECCAI board decided recently to give some travel grants (600 €) for attending the next IJCAI. Please contact urgently the ECCAI Travel Grant Officer: Ulises Cortés (ia@lsi.upc.es)

The applicant rules are at the URL : http://www.eccai.org/travelaw.shtml

ECCAI Journals

Artificial Intelligence Communications: Volume 16, Number 2/2003 New !

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

- A heuristic for learning decision trees and pruning them into classification rules by José Ranilla, Oscar Luaces, Antonio Bahamonde
- Expressing default abduction problems as quantified Boolean formulas by Hans Tompits
- Complexity of argument-based default reasoning with specificity by Xishun Zhao
- Partial evaluation of lazy functional logic programs by Pascual Julián Iranzo
- Constraint solving over multi-valued logics - application to digital circuits by Francisco de Moura e Castro Ascensão de Azevedo

- ClusDM: a Multiple Criteria Decision Method for heterogeneous data sets by Aïda Valls

- Function variables for constraint programming by Brahim Hnich

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

ECCAI Conferences

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

July 27 - August 6, 2003
International University Bremen (IUB), Germany

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

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/

Next ECCAI-Bulletin in October 2003