IJCAI-ECAI-2018 Call for Tutorials

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IJCAI-ECAI-18 invites proposals for the Tutorial Track. Tutorials will be held on July 13-15, 2018, immediately prior to the technical conference. Tutorial attendance is complimentary for all IJCAI-ECAI-18 conference registrants.

Objectives:

Tutorials should serve one or more of the following objectives:

• Introduce novices to major topics within Artificial Intelligence.
• Introduce expert non-specialists to an AI subarea.
• Motivate and explain a topic of emerging importance for AI.
• Survey a mature area of AI research and/or practice.
• Provide instruction in established but specialized AI methodologies.
• Present a novel synthesis combining distinct lines of AI work.
• Introduce AI audiences to an external topic that can motivate or use AI research.
• Mentor AI researchers (particularly, junior researchers) on a broad AI-relevant non-technical topic (examples could be AI jobs, or ethical issues in AI).

Tutorials are intended to cover reasonably well-established information in a balanced way. Tutorials should not be used to advocate a single avenue of research, nor should they promote a product. We encourage tutorials with a hands-on component or other interactive element. We also welcome tutorials with explicit ties to IJCAIECAI-18’s theme of the Evolution of the Contours of AI.

Key dates:

• Proposal Submission Deadline: January 10, 2018 (tentative)
• Acceptance Notification: February 12, 2018
• Abstracts and Tutorial Websites Deadline: April 15, 2018
• IJCAI-18 Tutorials: July 13-15, 2018

Submission Instructions:

Tutorial proposals should be submitted here.
Proposals must be submitted as a single PDF file containing the following information:

• A two-sentence description of the tutorial, suitable for inclusion in the conference registration brochure.
• A two-paragraph description of the tutorial, suitable for a web page overview.
• Proposed length of the tutorial: 1/4 or 1/2 day (one or two 1:45h slots respectively)
• A detailed, point-form outline of the tutorial.
• A brief characterization of the potential target audience for the tutorial, including prerequisite knowledge.
• A brief description of why the tutorial topic would be of interest to a substantial part of the IJCAI audience, and which of the above objectives are best served by the tutorial.
• A brief resume of the presenter(s), which should include:

  • Name, postal address, phone number, e-mail address
  • Background in the tutorial area, including a list of publications/presentations
  • Citation to an available example of work in the area (ideally, a published tutorial-level article or presentation materials on the subject)
  • Evidence of teaching experience (courses taught or references)
  • Evidence of scholarship in AI or Computer Science

Any questions about the tutorial program should be directed to the tutorial chairs, Bo An and Meghyn Bienvenu.