Nominations are invited for the 2004 Artificial Intelligence Dissertation Award sponsored by ECCAI, the European Coordinating Committee for Artificial Intelligence. Eligible doctoral dissertations are those defended after December 1, 2003 in the general area of Artificial Intelligence. The dissertation must have been defended at an European university and the author must be a personal member of an ECCAI member society. Multiple submissions of the same doctoral dissertation to other dissertation award activities of other societies are excluded. The Award will be presented during IJCAI 2005 in Edinburgh, Scotland (30 July - 30 August 2005).

For submission and request, contact :

Ulises Cortés

LSI - Departament de Llenguatges i Sistemes Informàtics
Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya UPC
c/Jordi Girona, 1 & 3, 216
Mòdul C5, 08034 BCN, Catalonia, Spain
email:
URL: http://www.lsi.upc.es/~ia/

ECCAI Journals

Electronic Transactions on Artificial Intelligence: http://www.etaij.org
Artificial Intelligence Communications: last issue Volume 17, Number 4 / 2004, Special issue : Spatial and Temporal Reasoning http://iospress.metapress.com/openurl.asp?genre=issue&issn=0921-7126&issue=current

ECCAI related/sponsored Conferences

- IJCAI-05 : The nineteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence will be held in Edinburgh, Scotland, 30 July-5 August 2005 . For full details and the most up-to-date information regarding IJCAI-05, please see http://www.ijcai-05.org/

- AIED 2005: 12th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education
see http://hcs.science.uva.nl/AIED2005/

- ECAI'06: in Trento, Italy, 28 August-1 September 2006 see http://ecai2006.itc.it/
The PC chair for ECAI-06, selected by the last ECCAI assembly, is Gerhard Brewka. The conference chair is Rob Milne.

Other Conferences

- Workshop on Multiagent Learning, AAAI-05, 9-13 July, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Contact : Eduardo Alonso :
Submission deadline: 20 April<>
Further information on this workshop can be found at : http://www.soi.city.ac.uk/~eduardo/MAL-AAAI05.html

- BISFAI -05, Biennial Israeli Symposium on the Foundations of AI, June 27-29, 2005 in Haifa, Israel.
Contact : Claudia V. Goldman-Shenhar
Submission deadline is April 8, 2005.
Further information can be found at : http://www.cri.haifa.ac.il/events/2005/bisfai05/bisfai05.htm

- Second ACL-SIGSEM Workshop on The Linguistic Dimensions of Prepositions and their Use in Computational Linguistics Formalisms and Applications, April 19th-21st,2005, University of Essex, UK<>
Contact : Aline Villavicencio, <>
Submission deadline: January 10th, 2005
Further information can be found at: http://privatewww.essex.ac.uk/~avill/Prep05.html

Next ECCAI-Bulletin in February 2005