9 new ECCAI fellows have been nominated:
    - Ernst Dieter Dickmanns
    - Marco Dorigo
    - David Hogg
    - Teuvo Kohonen
    - Nada Lavrac
    - Carmen Torras
    - Linda van der Gaag
    - Frank van Harmelen
    - Mike Wooldridge
congratulations to each of them!
to get more information on the ECCAI fellows, have a look here : http://www.eccai.org/fellow.php

Dissertation award

The 2006 Artificial Intelligence Dissertation Award sponsored by ECCAI has been awarded to:Kristian Kersting, Institute for Computer Science, Albert-Ludwigs University of Freiburg, Germany, for his thesis: "An Inductive Logic Programming Approach to Statistical Relational Learning". Congraltulations to him! The new diss award is now online at: http://www.eccai.org/diss-award/current.shtml

ECCAI conferences

ACAI-07: August 20-28th 2007, Leuven, Belgium

Last reminder : The 2007 edition of ECCAI's Advanced Course on Artificial Intelligence will be held in Leuven, Belgium, August 20-28. The subject of the
school is "Logic for Artificial Intelligence". The target audience consists of PhD students in the area of Informatics or Computer Science with some background in computational logic, who want to broaden their knowledge of the domain.
For further information, see http://www.cs.kuleuven.be/~dtai/acai/ or contact acai2007@cs.kuleuven.be.
About travel grants for ACAI, see http://www.eccai.org/travelaw.shtml

ECAI -08 in Patras (Greece) / 21-25 July 2008

Malik Ghallab is the ECAI-08 program chair.
The important dates concerning paper submissions are the following:
- Paper submission deadline : Feb 25, 2008
- Notification : April 28
- Camera ready papers: May 26
- Conference : July 21st

The University of Patras Conference centre (http://www.confer.upatras.gr) is situated within the University campus.
For more details: http://www.ece.upatras.gr/ecai2008 website.

ECAI-10 in Lisbon (Portugal)

More details later.

ECCAI Sponsored Conferences

AIME 2007 7 - 11 Jul 2007 11th Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, Amsterdam (The Netherlands)

Almende 28-30 Jul 2007 Almende Summer School 2007 on Self-Organisation, Rotterdam (The Netherlands)

RuleML-2007 25-26 Oct 2007 International RuleML Symposium on Rule Interchange and Applications, Orlando, Florida (USA)

ICAI-08 25-28 Aug 2008 International Conference on Advanced Intelligence, Beijing, China

National Conferences of ECCAI Member Societies

EAIA'07 27 - 31 Aug 2007 Summer School on Collective Robotics, Lisbon (Portugal)

AICS07 29 - 31 Aug 2007 18th Irish Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science, Dublin (Ireland)

AIIA 2007 10 - 13 Sep 2007 10th Congress of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence, Roma (Italy)

KI-07 10 - 13 Sep 2007 30th Annual German Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Osnabrück (Germany)

CCIA 2007 25 - 26 Oct 2007 Desè Congrés Internacional de l'Associació Catalana d'Intelligència Artificial, Andorra (Andorra)

BNAIC 2007 5 - 6 Nov 2007 19th Belgian-Dutch Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Utrecht (The Netherlands)

CAEPIA 2007 12 - 16 Nov 2007 12th Conference of the Spanish Association for Artificial Intelligence, Salamanca (Spain)

EPIA'07 3 - 7 Dec 2007 13th Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Guimarães (Portugal)

AI-07 10 - 12 Dec 2007 27th SGAI International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Cambridge (England)

ECCAI Journals

- IEEE Intelligent systems http://www.computer.org/intelligent/

Recommender Systems

: Recommendation problems have a long history as a successful AI application area. The interest in such systems has dramatically increased owing to the demand for personalization technologies by large, successful e-commerce applications. This special issue reports on successful implementations and on future research directions in recommender technologies.

Also in this issue: Intelligent Agents, Neuroscience and AI, the Semantic Web, and more

- AI Communications http://aicom.star.dist.unige.it

http://iospress.metapress.com/link.asp?id=n1l883887655
Special issue on Model-Based Systems : Volume 20, Number 1 / 2007

Bulletin #2, June 2007

New ECCAI fellows