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<div><i>Call for Proposals</i></div>
<div><b>AAAI-11 Tutorial Forum</b></div>
<div>Twenty-Fifth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence</div>
<div>August 7-11, 2011 * San Francisco, California, USA</div>
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href="http://www.aaai.org/Conferences/AAAI/2011/aaai11tutorialcall.pdf">http://www.aaai.org/Conferences/AAAI/2011/aaai11tutorialcall.pdf</a></div>
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<div><i>Sponsored by the Association for the Advancement of
Artificial
Intelligence</i></div>
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<div>The AAAI-11 Program Committee invites proposals for the
Tutorial
Forum of the Twenty-Fifth AAAI Conference on Artificial
Intelligence
(AAAI-11). The Tutorial Forum will be held August 7-8, 2011 in
San
Francisco. Anyone interested in presenting a tutorial at AAAI-11
should submit a proposal to the 2011 Tutorial Forum Cochairs
(listed
below) via EasyChair.</div>
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<div><b>What Is the Tutorial Forum?</b></div>
<div>The Tutorial Forum provides an opportunity for junior and
senior
researchers to spend two days each year freely exploring
exciting
advances in disciplines outside their normal focus. We believe
this
type of forum is essential for the cross fertilization,
cohesiveness,
and vitality of the AI field. We all have a lot to learn from
each
other; the Tutorial Forum promotes the continuing education of
each
member of the AAAI. To encourage full participation by technical
conference registrants, no separate fee will be charged for
admittance
to the Tutorial Forum in 2011.</div>
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<div><b>Topics</b></div>
<div>AAAI is interested in proposals for advanced tutorials at the
leading edge of AI. We are particularly interested in tutorials
that
offer two types of knowledge. The first type provides in-depth
background tools to help educate researchers and students for
the
purpose of conducting AI research; examples of this type of
tutorials
from AAAI-10 include "Sampling Techniques for Probabilistic and
Deterministic Graphical Models," "Voting Theory," and
"Reinforcement Learning Algorithms for MDPs." A second type
of tutorial provides a broad overview for an AI area that
potentially
crosses boundaries with an interesting application area;
examples of
this type of tutorial from AAAI-10 include "Exploiting
Statistical and Relational Information on the Web and in Social
Media:
Applications, Techniques, and New Frontiers," "Towards
Intelligent Web Search: Inferring Searcher Intent," and
"Machine Learning Meets Knowledge Representation in the Semantic
Web."</div>
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<div>Our goal is to present a diverse program that includes core
areas
of AI, new techniques from allied disciplines that can inform
research
within AI, and conversely emerging applications of AI techniques
to
new areas. Previous years' tutorial programs provide an
indication of
the scope and variety of possible topics. The list is not
exclusive;
indeed, we are expressly interested in topics that we would not
have
imagined to mention. Finally, note that we very much welcome
proposals
for educational approaches that go beyond the traditional format
of
four-hour tutorials, exploiting the flexibility that the open
format
program offers.</div>
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<div><b>Submission Requirements</b></div>
<div>We need two kinds of information in the proposals:
information
that will be used for selecting proposals and information that
will
appear in the tutorial description brochure. The proposal should
provide sufficient information to evaluate the quality of the
technical content being taught, the quality of the educational
material being used, and the speakers' skill at presenting this
material.</div>
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<div>Each proposal should include at least the following:</div>
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<div><i>Goal of the tutorial:</i> Who is the target audience?
What will the audience walk away with? What makes the topic
innovative?</div>
<div><i>History:</i> List of previous venues and approximate
audience
sizes, if the same or a similar tutorial has been given
elsewhere;
otherwise an estimate of the audience size.</div>
<div><i>Content:</i> Detailed outline and list of additional
materials, augmented with samples, such as past tutorial slides
and
survey articles, whenever possible. Be as complete as possible.</div>
<div><i>Tutorial description:</i> A short paragraph summarizing
the
tutorial outline, and the intended duration of the symposium
(default
is four hours).</div>
<div><i>Prerequisite knowledge:</i> What knowledge is assumed of
the
target audience.</div>
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<div>Please also submit the following information about the team
of
presenters: name, mailing address, phone number, email address;
background in the tutorial area, including a list of
publications
and/or presentations; any available examples 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); and evidence of scholarship in AI or computer
science.</div>
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<b>Submission Deadline</b></div>
<div>Proposals must be received by December 3, 2010. Decisions
about
the tutorial program will be made by January 14, 2011. Speakers
should
be prepared to submit their tutorial descriptions and bios by
January
28, 2011, and to post completed course materials on their
websites by
July 1, 2011. Submissions must be in pdf format and made via
EasyChair
at <a
href="http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aaai2011tutorialforum">http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aaai2011tutorialforum</a>.</div>
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<div><b>Tutorial Cochairs</b></div>
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<div>Thomas Lukasiewicz</div>
<div>Oxford University Computing Laboratory<br>
Wolfson Building, Parks Road</div>
<div>Oxford OX1 3QD, UK</div>
<div>0044-1865-522566</div>
<div>0044-1865-273839 (fax)</div>
<div><a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated"
href="mailto:Thomas.Lukasiewicz@comlab.ox.ac.uk">Thomas.Lukasiewicz@comlab.ox.ac.uk</a></div>
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<div>Patrick Pantel<br>
Microsoft Research<br>
One Microsoft Way<br>
Redmond, WA 98052</div>
<div><a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated"
href="mailto:ppantel@microsoft.com">ppantel@microsoft.com</a></div>
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