Call for Papers and Submission

AI 2018, the 31st Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence, invites papers that present original work in all areas of Artificial Intelligence, either theoretical or applied. All accepted papers will be published by Springer in the Lecture Notes in AI series. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Agent Systems
• AI Applications
• Automated Reasoning
• Bioinformatics and BioNLP
• Case‐based Reasoning
• Cognitive Models
• Constraint Satisfaction
• Data Mining
• E‐Commerce
• Evolutionary Computation
• Games
• Information Retrieval and Search

• Information and Knowledge Management
• Knowledge Representation
• Machine Learning
• Multimedia Processing
• Natural Language Processing
• Neural Nets and Deep Learning
• Planning
• Privacy‐preserving
• Robotics
• Uncertainty
• User Modeling
• Web Mining and Applications

We also welcome the submission of position papers, which present evidence-based arguments for a particular point of view without necessarily presenting a new system. There will be an option during the submission process to indicate that a paper is a position paper.

Important dates

Submission deadline: Jan. 8, 2018 extended: Jan. 15, 2018
Author notification: Feb. 13, 2018
Final papers due: Feb. 26, 2018

Submission details

Submitted papers must be no longer than 12 pages, including references, and must be formatted using the Springer LNCS/LNAI style. We provide a sample of its use, but the use of the most up-to-date LaTeX2e style file available from Springer is strongly encouraged. Papers submitted to AI 2018 must not have already been published, or accepted for publication, or be under review for a journal or another conference. Submissions will go through a double-blind review process by Program Committee members for originality, significance, technical merit, and clarity of presentation. As such, submissions must be anonymized, and papers which fail to do so will be rejected without review. A "Best Paper Award" and a “Best Student Paper Award” will be given at the conference respectively to the authors of each best paper, as judged by the Best Paper Award Selection Committee.

Submissions are accepted via EasyChair using the following link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cai2018 .

Program co-chairs

• Ebrahim Bagheri, Ryerson University
• Jackie Chi Kit Cheung, McGill University