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The EPIA Conference on Artificial Intelligence is a well-established European conference in the field of AI. The 19th edition, EPIA 2019, will take place at UTAD University, Vila Real in September 3rd-6th, 2019. As in previous editions, this international conference is hosted with the patronage of the Portuguese Association for Artificial Intelligence (APPIA). The purpose of this conference is to promote research in all Artificial Intelligence (AI) areas, covering both theoretical/foundational issues and applications, as well as the scientific exchange among researchers, engineers and practitioners in related disciplines.
********************Thematic Tracks********************EPIA 2019 will feature the following thematic tracks covering a wide spectrum of AI topics:
AIEd - Artificial Intelligence in EducationAI4G - Artificial Intelligence for GamesAIoTA - Artificial Intelligence and IoT in AgricultureAIL - Artificial Intelligence and LawAIM - Artificial Intelligence in MedicineAICPDES - Artificial Intelligence in Cyber-Physical and Distributed Embedded SystemsAIPES - Artificial Intelligence in Power and Energy SystemsAITS - Artificial Intelligence in Transportation SystemsALEA - Artificial Life and Evolutionary AlgorithmsAmIA - Ambient Intelligence and Affective EnvironmentsBAAI - Business Applications of Artificial IntelligenceGAI- General AIIROBOT - Intelligent RoboticsKDBI - Knowledge Discovery and Business IntelligenceKRR - Knowledge Representation and ReasoningMASTA - Multi-Agent Systems: Theory and ApplicationsSDIA - Doctoral Symposium on Artificial IntelligenceSSM - Social Simulation and ModellingTeMA - Text Mining and Applications
***********************************Submission and Reviewing***********************************All papers should be submitted in PDF format through the EPIA 2019 EasyChair submission page. Prospective authors should select the thematic track to which their paper is to be submitted. The papers should be prepared according to the Springer LNCS format, with a maximum of 12 pages. Some thematic tracks (see each track specific page) may accept short papers (max 6 pages). Submitted papers will be subject to a double-blindreview process, and will be peer-reviewed by at least three members of the respective track Program Committee. It is the responsibility of the authors to remove names and affiliations from the submitted papers, and to take reasonable care to assure anonymity during the review process.
***************************************Proceedings and Presentations***************************************Accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings (a volume of Springer’s LNAI-Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence), provided that at least one author is registered in EPIA 2019 by the early registration deadline. EPIA 2019 proceedings are indexed in Thomson Reuters ISI Web of Science, Scopus, DBLP and Google Scholar.
Each accepted paper must be presented by one of the authors in a track session.
***********Awards************The conference will grant the following award:* Best Paper Award, for the best research paper presented at the conference sponsored by Springer
Only papers that have been submitted to a thematic track and presented at the conference will be eligible for this award.
********************Important Dates********************Paper submission deadline: April 15, 2019Paper acceptance notification: May 31, 2019Camera-ready deadline: June 15, 2019Conference: September 3-6, 2019
*****************************EPIA 2019 Committees*****************************
Event and Program Chairs:****************************Paulo Moura Oliveira, INESC-TEC, UTAD, PortugalPaulo Novais, ALGORITMI, UMinho, PortugalLuís Paulo Reis, LIACC, UPorto, Portugal
International Steering Committee:**************************************Amedeo Cesta, CNR-ISTC, Italy Ana Bazzan, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, BrazilAna Paiva, Instituto Superior Técnico, PortugalErnesto Costa, Universidade de Coimbra, PortugalEugénio Oliveira, Universidade do Porto, PortugalFrançois Pachet, Spotify, FranceHélder Coelho, Universidade de Lisboa, PortugalJosé Júlio Alferes, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal Juan Pavón, Universidad Complutense Madrid, Spain Luís Paulo Reis, Universidade do Porto, PortugalMarco Dorigo, Université Libre de Bruxelles, BelgiumPaulo Novais, Universidade do Minho, PortugalPavel Brazdil, Universidade do Porto, PortugalPeter McBurney, King’s College London, UK Ulrich Furbach, University of Koblenz, Germany
Organization Chairs:***********************Eduardo Solteiro Pires, INESC-TEC, UTAD, PortugalJosé Boaventura Cunha, INESC-TEC, UTAD, PortugalPaulo Jorge Matos, IPB, Portugal