[UAI] SAIS 2006 - Deadline Extended 
                              SAIS 2006

                    10-12 May 2006, UmeÃ¥ (Sweden)
                     http://sais2006.cs.umu.se/


The 23rd annual workshop of the Swedish Artificial Intelligence
Society (SAIS) will take place in UmeÃ¥, Sweden on May 10-12,
2006. This meeting follows the 2005 meeting in VÃ¤sterÃ¥s in which the
Swedish Society for Learning Systems (SSLS) was officially merged into
SAIS. SAIS provides an ideal forum to foster contacts among AI
research groups in Sweden and neighboring countries, as well as to
establish links with related research disciplines and industry.

This year's program will feature the following invited speakers:

    * Klaus-Peter Adlassnig (Medical University of Vienna, Austria)
    * Gerhard Brewka (University of Leipzig, Germany)
    * Hector Geffner (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain)
    * JÃ©rÃ´me Lang (UniversitÃ© Paul Sabatier, France)


The SAIS program committee invites submissions of research and
application papers on all aspects of Artificial Intelligence. Example
areas include, but are not limited to:

    * Artificial Intelligence in Medicine
    * Automated Reasoning
    * Biologically Inspired Algorithms
    * Data Mining
    * Decision Support Systems
    * Knowledge Based Systems
    * Machine Learning
    * Machine Vision
    * Multi-Agent Systems
    * Natural Language Processing
    * Ontologies
    * Planning and Scheduling
    * Probabilistic Reasoning
    * Robotics
    * Search

We invite two types of contributions:

REGULAR PAPERS: These papers will be carefully reviewed; accepted
papers will be published in the workshop proceedings (copyright stays
with author). These papers are not to exceed 10 pages (A4, single
column, 12 point font) including references.

SHORT PAPERS: These papers will be reviewed; accepted papers will be
published in the workshop proceedings. The main purpose of such papers
is to communicate research activities of individuals and groups in
Sweden and neighboring countries. These papers are to be 1-4 pages
(A4, single column, 12 point font) including references.

All submissions must be in PDF and must be written in English. Please
send papers to wevj3126@cs.umu.se and include an abstract (in ASCII)
in the main message body of the initial submission.

Copyright stays with the authors. Authors of previously unpublished
papers accepted to SAIS 2006 are encouraged to submit these papers to
other workshops/conferences.

Papers may be accepted for oral presentation or as posters.


IMPORTANT DATES:

    * Paper submission: February 24, 2006
    * Notification of acceptance: April 3, 2006
    * Accepted paper submission: April 23, 2006
    * SAIS event: May 10-12, 2006


VENUE:

UmeÃ¥ is the largest city in the northern half of Sweden and is
unofficially known as the 'capital of Norrland.' With a population of
110,000, of which 25,000 are students, UmeÃ¥ is a young city, with many
cultural and recreational activities.

As it happens, the 9 day festival "MADE in UmeÃ¥" will start
immediately after SAIS 2006 on May 12th. MADE stands for music, art,
dance, etc and is a large international music festival, where artists
from all over the world and from different music genres get together
to celebrate cultural and musical diversity (see
http://www.botniamusik.se/ for further details).

For those interested in outdoor activities, UmeÃ¥ lies on the shores of
a rather large river (900 cubic meter / second) and is 15 km from the
Baltic Sea. This river is full of salmon, which may be seen jumping a
salmon stair by Norrfors dam, 15 km upstream. The record for salmon
passing in one year is 7089 fish. Fishing and rafting are possible
within one hour from downtown.

The SAIS workshop will be held on the campus of UmeÃ¥ University in the
MIT-Huset building.

PROGRAM COMMITTEE:

    * Christian Balkenius (Lund University)
    * Paul Davidsson (Blekinge University)
    * Patrick Doherty (LinkÃ¶ping University)
    * Peter Funk (MÃ¤lardalen University)
    * Fredrik Georgsson (UmeÃ¥ University)
    * Anders Holst (Swedish Institute of Computer Science)
    * Martin Lagerholm (The FOSS Group)
    * Jan Eric Larsson (Lund University)
    * Jacek Malec (Lund University)
    * Michael Minock (UmeÃ¥ University, chair)
    * Joakim Nivre (VÃ¤xjÃ¶ University)
    * Predrag Pucar (Saab Aerosystems)
    * Thorsteinn RÃ¶gnvaldsson (Halmstad University)
    * Alessandro Saffiotti (Ãrebro University)


