[PlanetKR] Session on Spatial and Temporal Reasoning, IICAI 2009

[Mehul Bhatt]

====== CALL FOR PARTICIPATION =====

We invite contributions for the special session on:

     "Spatial and Temporal Reasoning"

     at IICAI 2009 , Tumkur (near Bangalore) India.

URL: http://www.iiconference.org/iicai09/str.html


Brief Description
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A Special Session on Spatial and Temporal Reasoning will be held during the 
4th Indian International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IICAI-09). 
The session invites papers in all areas of spatial and temporal 
representation and reasoning.

The field of qualitative spatial representation and reasoning has evolved as 
a sub-division in its own right within the broader field of Artificial 
Intelligence -- recent years have witnessed remarkable advances in some of 
the long-standing problems of the field. For instance, new results about 
tractability for spatial calculi, explicit construction of models, 
characterization of important subclasses of relations, as well as in the 
development of new areas such as the emergence of integrated spatio-temporal 
calculi and the importing of non-monotonic techniques for dealing with 
various aspects intrinsic to dynamic spatial systems. Inextricably lined to 
space is time, i.e., spatial configurations change over time. Spatial change 
may also be perceived as being spatio-temporal and a lot of recent work is 
being devoted to providing useful and well-grounded models to be used as 
high level qualitative description of spatio-temporal change. Furthermore, 
reasoning about space also typically involves reasoning about changing 
spatial configurations, and in more realistic scenarios, integrated 
reasoning about space, actions and change. Recent work supporting this 
paradigm has also explicitly addressed the potential interactions between 
the spatial reasoning domain and the field of reasoning about actions and 
change.
Driven by cognitive approaches that characterize the processing of spatial 
information within qualitative spatial reasoning, there has been 
considerable influx of people from other areas within AI such as computer 
vision, robotics etc, working on qualitative representation and reasoning 
about spatial change, spatio-temporal interactions, and the formal modelling 
of dynamic spatial systems in general. Qualitative conceptualizations of 
space and tools/techniques for efficiently reasoning with them being 
well-established, there is now a clear felt need within the community to 
utilise the tools and formalisms that have been constructed in the recent 
years in novel application scenarios and, gauging by the content of upcoming 
events, even a focus on evaluation standards and benchmarking problems for 
qualitative formalisms.


For scope and other details, please refer to the website. We encourage 
interested authors to contact the organizers in case of doubts of the scope 
of the potential submissions.


Invited Talk
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Talk: TBA


Important Dates
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Full paper submission: May 20, 2009
Notification of acceptance: June 30, 2009
Camera-Ready copy due: July 15, 2009


Submissions, Format and Publication
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LNCS style. Max . 12 pages. PDF. Send to bhatt at informatik.uni-bremen.de
with subject line 'IICAI-09 S-T'. Further details, templates etc available 
online.

The session will be organised as a parallel track within the conference and 
is open to all members of
the AI community. Screening will be based on reviews and relevance to the 
session goals. Each paper
will be peer reviewed by at least two experts in the topical area. All 
accepted papers will be published in
the conference proceedings, under the title of the session.


Special Issue
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Select contributions will be invited for publication as a part of a Special 
Issue of the Journal of Spatial Cognition and Computation
that has been planned to build on the results of this and other thematically 
related events. The invited papers will be subject to extensions
and another round of reviews as per the journal rules and the issue will be 
released in 2010.
Details will be announced *selectively* in due time.




Session Chairs

Mehul Bhatt (primary contact)
SFB/TR 8 Spatial Cognition
Universität Bremen
P.O. Box 330 440, 28334 Bremen, GERMANY
bhatt at informatik.uni-bremen.de

Shyamanta M Hazarika
Department of Computer Sc & Engineering
School of Engineering, Tezpur University
Tezpur - 784028, Assam, INDIA
smh at tezu.ernet.in

Stefan Wölfl
Department of Computer Science
Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg
Georges-Köhler-Allee
Geb. 052, Room 00-043
79110 Freiburg, GERMANY
woelfl at informatik.uni-freiburg.de

Program Committee

Amitabha Mukerjee (IITK, India)
Anthony Cohn (University of Leeds, United Kingdom)
Björn Gottfried (University of Bremen, Germany)
Brandon Bennett (University of Leeds, United Kingdom)
Christian Freksa (University of Bremen, Germany)
Diedrich Wolter (University of Bremen, Germany)
Hans Guesgen (Massey University, New Zealand)
Nico Van de Weghe (Ghent University, Belgium)


We look forward to your contributions and participation.
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