[DMANET] CFP: IJCAI 2013 with special track on "AI and Computational Sustainability"

IJCAI 2013 Call for papers

The IJCAI 2013 Program Committee invites submissions of technical
papers for IJCAI 2013, to be held in Beijing, China, on August 3-9,
2013. Submissions are invited on significant, original, and
previously unpublished research on all aspects of artificial
intelligence.

The theme of IJCAI 2013 is "AI and computational sustainability". AI
can play a key role in addressing environmental, economic, and
societal challenges concerning sustainable development and a
sustainable future. AI techniques and methodologies can be exploited
to help address sustainability problems and questions, for example to
increase the efficiency and effectiveness of the way we manage and
allocate our natural and societal resources. The study of
sustainability questions will also enrich and transform AI, by
providing new challenges. The conference will include a special track
dedicated to papers concerned with all these aspects (see below the
call for paper for this track).

Important dates
Abstract submission: January 26, 2013 (11:59PM, UTC-12)
Paper submission: January 31, 2013 (11:59PM, UTC-12)
Author feedback: March 4-6, 2013 (11:59PM, UTC-12).
Notification of acceptance/rejection: April 2, 2013
Camera-ready copy due: Apr 23, 2013
Technical sessions: August 3-9, 2013

For full details, please visit:
http://ijcai13.org/calls/call_for_papers

*** IJCAI 2013 AI and Computational Sustainability (AICS) Track: Call
for Papers ***
Computational Sustainability aims to apply computational techniques to
the balancing of environmental, economic, and societal needs, in order
to support sustainable development and a sustainable future. Research
in computational sustainability is inherently interdisciplinary: It
brings together computational sciences and other fields such as
environmental sciences, biology, economics, and sociology. AI
techniques and methodologies can be instrumental in addressing
sustainability problems and questions, for example to increase the
efficiency and effectiveness of the way we manage and allocate our
natural and societal resources. This will also enrich and transform
AI, by providing new challenges.

Sustainability domains include the following:

Natural resources and the environment (such as water, atmosphere,
oceans, forest, land, etc.)
Economics and human behavior (such as well-being, poverty, diseases,
over-population, etc.)
Energy resources (for example, renewable energy, smart grid, and so on.)
Human-built systems and land use (such as transportation, cities,
buildings, agriculture, etc.)
Climate (such as climate prediction, impact of and on climate, etc.)
This special track is dedicated to papers concerned with innovative
notions, models, algorithms, techniques, methodologies, and systems,
in order to address problems in computational sustainability. Papers
can range from formal analysis to applied research. Papers describing
interesting sustainability problems and data sets, or papers proposing
general challenges and competitions for computational sustainability,
are also welcome.

The AICS track welcomes two types of articles:

technical AICS papers, showing how AI can be instrumental in
addressing sustainability questions;
data challenge papers,providing the description of a new
sustainability problem as well as the corresponding data set to be
made available to the AI community.
Technical AICS papers must follow the instructions given in the
general call for technical conference papers. Dataset papers should be
up to three pages in length, included figures and references. Please
indicate that your paper is a dataset paper by selecting this paper
type in the submission site.

There will be specific keywords for the AICS track. When registering a
paper, authors should select at least one keyword from the AICS list
and at least one keyword from the general IJCAI 2013 list.

Submitted papers in the AICS track will be reviewed by qualified
reviewers drawn from a special track committee as well as the general
program committee. AICS papers will be judged based on the usual
measures of quality, with consideration of the relevance to the theme
and the potential impact on sustainability problems. Submissions to
this special track that are deemed not to be relevant may be
considered for review in the general technical papers track at the
discretion of the chairs. Papers are submitted via the same submission
Web site as the main technical track, where the "Special Track on
Artificial Intelligence and Computational Sustainability" option
should be selected after logging in. For more submission details,
please consult http://ijcai13.org/calls/call_for_papers. For
questions, please email the AICS Track Chair, Carla Gomes, at
aicschair13@ijcai.org.

Computational Sustainability Awards
IJCAI 2013 is joining with the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) to
promote work at the intersection of computing and sustainability on
principles and applications that address environmental, economic, and
societal needs in support of a sustainable future. An IJCAI 2013
committee will select outstanding papers in this area to receive CCC
travel awards provided by CCC to the authors of the papers
http://www.cra.org/ccc/csus.php).
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