CALL FOR PAPERS
( Extended Deadline )


The International Joint Conference IBERAMIA/SBIA 2000 seeks submission for two tracks:

Papers submitted to the Open Discussion Track may be written in Portuguese, Spanish or English. They should be high in interest and potential, but will typically contain only preliminary results and analyses.

This track is intended to showcase promising new directions and allow feedback on preliminary work. Challenge and position papers are also suitable. We especially encourage students from Ibero-American countries to submit their preliminary work. Papers accepted for this track will be presented at the conference and will be published in a local edition (ISBN).

Papers submitted to the Paper Track must be written in English and they should present substantial new results in theoretical, empirical and applied research in all areas of Artificial Intelligence. All accepted papers in this track will be published by Springer-Verlag in the Lectures Notes in Artificial Intelligence Series.

SBIA/IBERAMIA 2000 allows simultaneous submission of papers to other conferences, provided this fact is clearly indicated when submitting. Accepted Paper Track papers will appear in the Springer Verlag's LNCS/LNAI series conference proceedings only if they are withdrawn from other conferences.

All authors of accepted papers will be required to sign copyright release forms, and one author of each accepted paper will be required to attend the conference to present the paper. Furthermore, it is the conference policy that at least one of the authors of accepted papers has to register for SBIA/IBERAMIA'2000 by August 7th, 2000. Otherwise, the paper will not be included in the proceedings.

PAPERS FORMAT

Papers should be no longer than 10 pages, including all tables, figures, and references, but excluding the cover page. Over-length papers may be rejected without review. It is recommended that the authors use the style file of Springer-Verlag to minimise the possible conflict of paper length when preparing the camera ready.

Observe that the same style will be used for Open Discussion Track papers. In this later case, when writing in Portuguese or Spanish using Springer-Verlag's LaTeX style file, it is only necessary to include the command:

\usepackage[brasil]{babel} or \usepackage[portuges]{babel} for papers in Portuguese, or
\usepackage[spanish]{babel} for papers in Spanish.

The cover page should contain:

  1. Title of the paper.
  2. Authors' names with affiliation, postal address, phone number and e-mail addresses.
  3. Approximately 200 word summary.
  4. Up to 5 keywords.
  5. Information on which track the paper should be considered. Observe that for papers in English this information is essential.
  6. At least 1 and no more than 4 conference topics in order to facilitate the reviewing process.

Note that Paper Track papers that are being submitted to other conferences must reflect this fact on the cover page.

EVALUATION PROCESS

All papers received will be cross-reviewed by at least three referees in the topical area. The Camera-Ready papers will be reviewed by one person.

SUBMISSION PROCEDURE

Electronic submission is strongly encouraged. Electronic attachments must be either PostScript (.ps), or Rich Text Format (.rtf) formats. Note that the file must be compressed using WinZip (for Windows users) or GZip (for UNIX users). It is the author's responsibility to ensure that the file is printable. Electronic attachments should be sent to the following e-mail address:

    papersbt@icmc.sc.usp.br

Please, use one of the following subject heading to identify the paper track:

Paper Track Submission
or
Open Discussion Track Submission

If electronic submission is not possible, please submit 4 paper copies to the following address:

Profa. Maria Carolina Monard
Instituto de Ciências Matemáticas e de Computação
Av. Dr. Carlos Botelho, 1465
P.O. Box 668
São Carlos - São Paulo - Brazil
Zip Code 13560-970

These copies should not arrive later than the paper submission deadline. Fax submission will not be accepted.

IMPORTANT DATES

The submission deadlines are listed below. All submissions will be acknowledged shortly after receipt.

19 May 2000 Paper submission deadline
30 Jun - 20 Jul 2000 Notification of paper acceptance
7 Aug 2000 Deadline for camera-ready papers

Questions regarding papers of both tracks may be directed to the Scientific and Publication Chair Maria Carolina Monard.