[PlanetKR] Call for Proposals: AAAI 2023 Inaugural Summer Symposium Series

[Ron Petrick]

*AAAI 2023 INAUGURAL SUMMER SYMPOSIUM SERIES*

July 17-19, 2023
Singapore EXPO
Singapore

https://aaai.org/conference/summer-symposia/summer-series-2023/

Sponsored by the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence

Proposals Due: February 24, 2023

AAAI invites proposals for the inaugural 2023 Summer Symposium Series, to
be held July 17-19, 2023, in Singapore. The Summer Symposium Series is the
newest in the annual set of meetings run in parallel at a common site. It
is designed to bring colleagues together in an intimate forum while at the
same time providing a significant gathering point for the AI community. The
two- and one-half-day format of the series allows participants to devote
considerably more time to feedback and discussion than typical one-day
workshops. It is an ideal venue for bringing together new communities in
emerging fields.

The symposia are intended to encourage presentation of speculative work and
work in progress, as well as completed work. Ample time should be scheduled
for discussion. Novel programming, including the use of target problems,
open-format panels, working groups, or breakout sessions, is encouraged.
Most participants of the symposia will be selected on the basis of
statements of interest or abstracts submitted to the symposia chairs; some
open registration will be allowed. All symposia are limited in size, and
participants will be expected to attend a single symposium.

Proposals for symposia should be between two and five pages in length, and
should contain the following information:

   - A title for the symposium.
   - A description of the symposium, identifying specific areas of
   interest, and general symposium format.
   - A preliminary proposed schedule for the symposium (with keynote
   speakers if confirmed).
   - The names and addresses (physical and electronic) of the organizing
   committee: preferably three or more people at different sites, all of whom
   have agreed to serve on the committee.
   - Include a URL for the symposium webpage, if available.
   - A list of potential participants that have been contacted and that
   have expressed interest in participating. A common way of gathering
   potential participants is to send email messages to email lists related to
   the topic(s) of the symposium. Note that potential participants need not
   commit to participating, only state that they are interested.

Ideally, the entire organizing committee should collaborate in producing
the proposal. Approximately eight symposia on a broad range of topics
within and around AI will be selected for the 2023 Summer Symposium Series.

The criteria for acceptance of proposals include the following:

   - Perceived interest to the AAAI community. Although AAAI encourages
   symposia that cross disciplinary boundaries, a symposium must be of
   interest to some subcommunity of the AAAI membership. Symposia that are of
   interest to a broad range of AAAI members are also preferred. Appropriate
   number of potential participants. Although the series supports a range of
   symposium sizes, the target size is around 40-75 participants.
   - Lack of a long-term ongoing series of activities on the topic. The
   Spring Symposium Series is intended to nurture emerging communities and
   topics, so topics that already have yearly conferences or workshops are
   inappropriate.
   - An appropriate organizing committee. The organizing committee should
   have (1) good technical knowledge of the topic, (2) good organizational
   skills, and (3) connections to the various communities from which they
   intend to draw participants. Committees for cross-disciplinary symposia
   must adequately represent all the disciplines to be covered by the
   symposium.

Accepted proposals will be distributed as widely as possible over the
subfields of AI and balanced between theoretical and applied topics.
Symposia bridging theory and practice and those combining AI and related
fields are particularly solicited.

Symposium proposals should be submitted as soon as possible, but no later
than *February 24, 2023*. (Short extensions may be granted to organizers
interested in submitting a proposal by contacting the Symposium Co-chairs
at the email address below.)

Notifications of acceptance or rejection will be sent to submitters around
March 17, 2023. The submitters of accepted proposals will become the chair
of the symposium unless alternative arrangements are made. The symposium
organizing committees will be responsible for the following tasks:

   - Writing short calls for participation and registration, which AAAI
   will distribute to its membership
   - Additional publicity of the symposium, especially to potential
   audiences from outside the AAAI community
   - Reviewing requests to participate in the symposium and determining
   symposium participants
   - Submitting invitee and accepted author lists to facilitate registration
   - Scheduling the activities of the symposium
   - Preparing a short review of the symposium, to be printed in AI Magazine

AAAI will provide logistical support and will take care of all local
arrangements.

Please submit your symposium proposals to the EasyChair submission site by
the deadline: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=summerseries23

*AAAI 2023 Summer Symposium Series Co-chairs*

General inquiries concerning symposium proposals may be directed to the
Symposium Co-chairs at: SummerSymposiumChairs at aaai.org. All proposals will
be reviewed by the AAAI Symposium Committee, including the Co-Chairs.

Harold Soh (National University of Singapore)
Christopher Geib (SIFT, USA)
Ron Petrick (Heriot-Watt University, UK)
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