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                     * Second Call for Papers *
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                  Joint German/Austrian Conference
                on Artificial Intelligence (KI-2001)
                 http://www.kr.tuwien.ac.at/KI2001/

          24th German Conference on Artificial Intelligence
         9th Austrian Conference on Artificial Intelligence

                       September 19-21, 2001
                          Vienna, Austria

  The conference seeks original research and application papers 
  in ALL areas of Artificial Intelligence. Possible topics include:

       Agent technology             Applications of AI techniques
       Automated reasoning          Case-based reasoning
       Configuration and diagnosis  Constraint solving
       Knowledge representation     Machine learning
       Natural language processing  Neural networks
       Planning and scheduling      Robotics
       Uncertainty in AI            Vision

  In addition to papers on foundations,
  we encourage the submission of application papers, which will be
  evaluated according to special criteria, which can be found on the
  conference web-page (see "Paper Submission").

  Conference submission is electronic in postscript format.
  Submitted papers must not exceed 15 pages and should conform
  to the Springer LNCS style (for details see "Paper Submission"  
  on the conference web-page).

  The conference proceedings will be published in the Springer series
  "Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence". Authors of outstanding
  papers will also be invited to submit an extended version of their
  paper to a special issue of the journal AICom.

  At least one author of each accepted paper must register for and
  present the work at the conference. Workshop participants must also
  register for the main conference.

  To get more information, consult the conference web-page at
  <URL:http://www.kr.tuwien.ac.at/KI2001/>
  or contact
  Thomas Eiter
  Institute of Information Systems
  Vienna University of Technology
  Favoritenstrasse 9-11,
  A-1040 Vienna, Austria
  Phone: +43-1-58801-18405
  Fax: +43-1-58801-18493
  Email: ki2001@kr.tuwien.ac.at

  IMPORTANT DATES:
    Submission of Conference Papers by:          Apr.  9, 2001 
    Notification for Conference Papers:          Jun.  4, 2001
    Camera-ready Copies of Conference Papers by: Jul.  2, 2001
    Beginning of Conference:                     Sep. 19, 2001
    End of Conference:                           Sep. 21, 2001

  INVITED SPEAKERS:
    Hans Kamp, University of Stuttgart
    Michael Kearns, AT&T Labs - Research
    Raymond Reiter, University of Toronto
    V.S. Subrahmanian, University of Maryland

  GENERAL CHAIRS:
    Gerhard Brewka, Leipzig
    Thomas Eiter, Vienna

  PROGRAM CHAIR:
    Franz Baader, Aachen

  PROGRAM COMMITTEE:
    Padraig Cunningham, Dublin
    Juergen Dix, Koblenz
    Juergen Dorn, Vienna
    Didier Dubois, Toulouse
    Michael Fisher, Liverpool
    Gerhard Friedrich, Klagenfurt
    Fausto Giunchiglia, Trento
    Horst-Michael Gross, Ilmenau
    Andreas Guenter, Hamburg
    Udo Hahn, Freiburg
    Tudor Jebelean, Linz
    Jana Koehler, Ebikon
    Michael Kohlhase, Saarbruecken
    Rudolf Kruse, Magdeburg
    Maurizio Lenzerini, Rome
    Silvia Miksch, Vienna
    Bernd Neumann, Hamburg
    Michael Richter, Kaiserslautern
    Raul Rojas, Berlin
    Francesca Rossi, Padova
    Ulrike Sattler, Aachen
    Joerg Siekmann, Saarbruecken
    Peter Struss, Muenchen
    Michael Thielscher, Dresden
    Sebastian Thrun, Pittsburgh
    Andrei Voronkov, Manchester
    Wolfgang Wahlster, Saarbruecken
    Gerhard Widmer, Vienna
    Stefan Wrobel, Magdeburg

  WORKSHOP CHAIR:
    Juergen Dorn, Vienna

  INDUSTRIAL CHAIRS:
    Gerhard Friedrich, Klagenfurt
    Kurt Sundermeyer, Berlin

  LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS:
    Uwe Egly, Vienna