CALL FOR TUTORIAL PROPOSALS
( Extended Deadline )


The Program Committee of the International Joint Conference SBIA'2000 (the Brazilian AI Symposium) and IBERAMIA'2000 (the Ibero-American AI Conference) invites proposals for advanced and introductory tutorials to be held in conjunction with the conference.

Introductory tutorials should target an audience consisting of advanced undergraduate and graduate students.

Advanced tutorials, on the other hand, must cover a broad state of the art (addressing the work of the leading research groups) besides motivating and exposing potential research issues.

Each tutorial will be presented in a 4-hour session. Tutorials may be presented in Portuguese, Spanish, or English. The focus of the tutorials should be related to the conference topics.

Depending on funding availability, SBIA/IBERAMIA 2000 will cover travel and lodging expenses for one author of each accepted tutorial. The presenting author will be required to register for the conference.

The Program Committee reserves the right to not select any of the submitted proposals.

PROPOSAL REQUIREMENTS

  1. Name of the tutorial.
  2. Type (advanced or introductory).
  3. Language (Portuguese, Spanish, or English).
  4. The name(s), background information (including a list of related publications) and contact address for the tutorial organizers.
  5. Technical abstract (no more than one page).
  6. Detailed course outline (containing section titles, their respective descriptions, and references - no more than 3 pages).
  7. Description of the targeted participants.
  8. What the participant should expect to learn from the tutorial.
  9. Prerequisites.

IMPORTANT DATES

Proposals Due: 19 May 2000
Selection Notification: 30 June 2000
Hand-outs Due: 20 October 2000

SUBMISSION PROCEDURE

Proposals (or any questions you have) should be submitted electronically, in plain text format, to the SBIA/IBERAMIA 2000 Tutorial Chair, Anna Helena Reali Costa, at the following address:

Anna Helena Reali Costa
SBIA/IBERAMIA 2000 Tutorial Chair
PCS/EPUSP Universidade de São Paulo. Brazil
Email: anna@pcs.usp.br
Tel: +(55) (11) 818 5397
Fax: +(55) (11) 818 5294