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Ray Perrault and Tony Cohn
Editors-in-Chief of the AI Journal

ECCAI conferences

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

We look forward meeting you at next ECAI, in Patras!
For all information, have a look here : http://www.ece.upatras.gr/ecai2008/

ECCAI sponsored conferences

25 - 28 Aug 2008	Almende-08	Almende Summer School on Self-Organizing Human-Agent Networks, Rotterdam (The Netherlands)
14 - 18 Sep 2008	ICAPS'08	International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling,, Sydney (Australia)
16 - 19 Sep 2008	KR 2008	11th International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning, Sydney (Australia)
19 - 22 Oct 2008	ICAI-08	International Conference on Advanced Intelligence, Bejing (China)
30 - 31 Oct 2008	RuleML-2008	International RuleML Symposium on Rule Interchange and Applications, Orlando, Florida (USA)

National conferences of ECCAI member societies

04 - 06 Sep 2008	AIMSA 2008	13th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence: Methodology, Systems, Applications, Varna (Bulgaria)
02 - 04 Oct 2008	SETN ´08	5th Hellenic Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Syros (Greece)
09 - 11 Dec 2008	AI-08	28th SGAI International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Cambridge (UK)

ECCAI journals

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

Last issue: May-June 2008 on Ambient Intelligence :

Research into, and deployment of, Semantic Web technology continues to be an important part of the intelligent systems scene. This special issue explores the range of tools and techniques in current Semantic Web efforts. Also in this issue: AI's 10 to Watch, Brain-Computer Interfaces, Essay Graders, Cognitive Brain Imaging, Collaborative Semantic Authoring, and more

The following articles are available without an electronic subscription:

A Letter from the Editor
A New Portrait of the Semantic Web in Action (pdf)
James Hendler
This special issue, rather than focusing on tools specifically for ontologies, looks at how they're being used and becoming part of the overall Web ecology.

The Future of AI
AI's 10 to Watch (pdf)
James Hendler, Philipp Cimiano, Dmitri Dolgov, Anat Levin, Peter Mika, Brian Milch, Louis-Philippe Morency, Boris Motik, Jennifer Neville, Erik B. Sudderth, and Luis von Ahn
The recipients of the 2008 IEEE Intelligent System's 10 to Watch award discuss their current research and their visions of AI for the future.

Semantic Web Update
Games with a Purpose for the Semantic Web (pdf)
Katharina Siorpaes and Martin Hepp
Weaving the Semantic Web requires that humans contribute their labor and judgment for extending and updating formal knowledge structures. Hiding such tasks behind online multiplayer games presents the tasks as fun and intellectually challenging entertainment.

Trends & Controversies
Brain-Computer Interfacing for Intelligent Systems (pdf)
Anton Nijholt, Desney Tan, Gert Pfurtscheller, Clemens Brunner, José del R. Millán, Brendan Allison, Bernhard Graimann, Florin Popescu, Benjamin Blankertz, and Klaus-R. Müller
Using cognitive neuroscience and brain-imaging technologies, researchers are building brain-computer interfaces-communication systems that don't depend on the brain's normal output pathways of peripheral nerves and muscles.

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

Last issue : Volume 21, Number 1 / 2008
http://iospress.metapress.com/content/h54x44u91772/?p=117b05b0e95b4e34ac341317423f701b&pi=0

To secure an anchor – a recovery planning approach to ambiguity in perceptual anchoring
by Lars Karlsson, Abdelbaki Bouguerra, Mathias Broxvall, Silvia Coradeschi and Alessandro Saffiotti

Ripple Down Rule learning for automated word lemmatisation
by Joël Plisson, Nada Lavrač, Dunja Mladenić and Tomaž Erjavec

Pattern-based automatic taxonomy learning from the Web
by David Sánchez and Antonio Moreno

An ASP-based approach to dealing with agent perception failure
by Francesco Buccafurri, Gianluca Caminiti and Domenico Rosaci

The CADE-21 automated theorem proving system competition
by Geoff Sutcliffe

Bulletin #1, June 2008

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