Bulletin #1, June 2012

ECCAI Travel Awards 2012

An ECCAI Travel Award Scheme has been established to support students, young researchers and faculty who are members of an ECCAI affiliated society participating in ACAI and ECAI. In 2012 the grants will only be awarded for attendance at ECAI 2012. The awards, valued at 400 Euros each, are for reimbursement of travel and part payment of registration fees.

Further information is available at http://www.eccai.org/travelaw.shtml

ECCAI Central & Eastern European Support Grants 2012

In order to encourage authors from Central and Eastern Europe, we are organising a special support program. There will be a number of travel grants available for full papers accepted for the ECAI 20102 technical program with all authors from Central and Eastern Europe.

Further information is available at http://www.eccai.org/travelaw.shtml

Call for ACAI 2013 Organisation

In odd-numbered years, ECCAI sponsors a specialized course in Artificial Intelligence, called Advanced Course on AI (ACAI).
Any member society of ECCAI may submit a bid to ECCAI for organizing ACAI 2013.
A notification of the intention to bid is required by the ECCAI Board.

The timetable should be :

30 June 2012 : notification of the intention to bid
31 July 2012 : submission of draft detailed bids
August 2012 : presentation of the bids and selection by the ECCAI General Assembly

More information can be obtained from the ECCAI Board Chair, Gerhard Brewka

Call for ECAI 2016 Organisation

The biennial European Conferences on AI is organized every even-numbered year, by ECCAI, jointly with one of the member associations of ECCAI.

The previous ECAI meetings was organized at Brighton (1974), Edinburgh (1976), Hamburg (1978), Amsterdam (1980), Orsay (1982), Pisa (1984), Brighton (1986), Munich (1988), Stockholm (1990), Vienna (1992), Amsterdam (1994), Budapest (1996), Brighton (1998), Berlin (2000), Lyon (2002), Valencia (2004), Riva del Garda (2006), Patras (2008) and Lisbon, and the next one will take place in Montpellier (2012).

Any member society of ECCAI may submit a bid to ECCAI for organizing ECAI 2016.

A notification of the intention to bid is required by the ECCAI Board.

The timetable is :

30 June 2012 : notification of the intention to bid
31 July 2012 : submission of draft detailed bids
August 2012 : presentation of the bids and selection by the ECCAI General Assembly

Guidelines for organizing ECAI : http://www.eccai.org/admin/ecaiproc.shtml

Call for nominations for New ECCAI board members

The ECCAI board is taking nominations for election to the ECCAI board at the General Assembly to be held at ECAI 2012 in Montpellier. ECCAI member societies have to forward any nominations to Gerhard Brewka by July 15.

Agreement with IEEE Intelligent Systems Extended

The IEEE Intelligent Systems Magazine and ECCAI have renewed their existing cosponsorship agreement. According to this agreement, ECCAI has a designated member in the magazine's editorial board (currently Michael Wooldridge) and ECCAI members can subscribe the magazine at a reduced fee. Relevant news and announcements will be published regularly in the magazine, respectively in the ECCAI bulletin.

New ECCAI Fellows

The ECCAI Board congratulates the ECCAI Fellows selected in the 2012 round:

Alferes, Jose
Friedrich, Gerhard
de Giacomo, Giuseppe
Guarino, Nicola
Larranaga, Pedro
Leone, Nicola
O'Sullivan, Barry
Schaub, Torsten
Skowron, Andrzej

2012 ECCAI General Assembly

The 2012 General Assembly will be held during ECAI 2012, on Wednesday, August 29, after the last session. Details about the precise location and time will be distributed in due course.

ECCAI Conferences

• 20th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI 2012)
  Montpellier, France, 27-31 August 2012

ECCAI Sponsored conferences

• International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling (ICIDS 2012)
  San Sebastian, Spain, 12-15 November 2012

National conferences

• AIMSA 2012: 15th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence: Methodology, Systems, Applications
  Varna, Bulgaria, 12-15 September 2012
• 35rd Annual German Conference on Artificial Intelligence (KI 2012)
  Saarbruecken, Germany, 24-27 Septembe 2012
• 15th International Congress of the Catalan Association of Artificial Intelligence (CCIA 2012)
  Alacant, Catalunya, Spain, 24-26 October 2012
• AI-2012: 32th SGAI International Conference on Artificial Intelligence
  Cambridge, UK, 11-13 December 2012