AAAI-06 (February 16, 2006 / July 16-20, 2006)

The Twenty-First National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-06) will be held in Boston.

AAAI is pleased to announce that the Twenty-first National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-06) and the collocated Eighteenth Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence (IAAI-06) will be held in Boston, Massachusetts at the Seaport Hotel and World Trade Center, from July 16–20.

AAAI-06 welcomes submissions on traditional AI topics as well as novel cross-cutting work in related areas.Topics include but are not limited to the following:

• Agents
• Cognitive architectures
• Cognitive modeling
• Commonsense reasoning
• Game playing and interactive entertainment
• Information integration
• Knowledge bases and expert systems
• Knowledge representation and reasoning
• Machine learning and data mining
• Natural language processing
• Neural networks
• Planning and problem solving
• Probabilistic reasoning
• Robotics
• Semantic web
• Vision and perception

AAAI-06 specifically encourages submissions that combine results from multiple research areas within and outside AI, such as the following:

• Autonomic computing
• Autonomous behavior and learning
• Grounded representations
• Knowledge bases through text extraction
• Large-scope and large-scale challenge problems
• Learning in problem solving situations
• Natural language interaction with intelligent systems
• Perception and sensor networks
• Robust and scalable architectures for distributed representation and reasoning
• security and privacy