Bulletin #2, July 2015

Announcement ECCAI General Assembly 2015

OMBU Room, Sheraton Hotel & Convention Centre
Buenos Aires, Argentina

4-6pm Thursday July 30, 2015

PLEASE INDICATE YOUR PLAN TO ATTEND ON THE FOLLOWING DOODLE POLL:
http://doodle.com/szufu3fktq2nz4cv

ECCAI Dissertation Award 2015

The 2014 ECCAI Dissertation Award has been made to:

Dr. Benjamin Kaufmann
http://www.cs.uni-potsdam.de/~kaufmann/

of the University of Potsdam for his thesis

High Performance Answer Set Programming

under the supervision of Prof. Torsten Schaub

Many congratulations to Benjamin and Torsten, and thanks to Toby Walsh for chairing the award committee.

New ECCAI Fellows

The ECCAI board is happy to announce the names of new ECCAI fellows:
Leon van der Torre, Luxemburg
Diego Calvanese, Italy
Salem Benferhat, France
Catholijn Jonker, Netherlands
Hendrik Blockeel, Belgium
Manolis Koubarakis, Greece
Antal van den Bosch, Netherlands

ECCAI FELLOWS LUNCH @ IJCAI-15

ECCAI are pleased to announce the 2015 ECCAI Fellows Lunch will be held at:

12.30 on Thursday 30 July 2015
At IJCAI-15, Buenos Aires, Argentina

We are booking a restaurant close to the conference hotel; the final venue will be confirmed closer to the time. New ECCAI fellows will be presented with their fellowship certificates at the lunch.

Announcement of the ACAI Summer School 2015

Lille France
26-30 October 2015
http://www.cril.univ-artois.fr/acai15/

Other AI Related Schools

ACP Summer School 2015 
University of Toronto, Scarborough 
July 8, 2015 - July 11, 2015
http://acpss2015.uconn.edu/
NICTA 4th International Optimisation Summer School
Kiola, New South Wales, Australia
January 22nd to 27th 2016
http://tinyurl.com/optschool

AI-related conferences

9th ACM International Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys 2015)
September 16-20, 2015, Vienna, Austria
http://recsys.acm.org/recsys15/
George Boole Bicentenary Conference
August 28 -- August 30, 2015, Cork, Ireland
http://booleconferences.ucc.ie/gbbc2015

31st International Conference on Logic Programming (ICLP 2015)
http://booleconferences.ucc.ie/iclp2015
August 31 -- September 4, 2015, Cork, Ireland

21st International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming (CP 2015)
August 31 -- September 4, 2015, Cork, Ireland
http://booleconferences.ucc.ie/cp2015

24th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2015)
http://ijcai-15.org/
Buenos Aires, Argentina, July 25-31, 2015

11th International Conference on Machine Learning and Data Mining
http://www.mldm.de/
Hamburg, Germany, July 20-23, 2015

Conference on Artificial General Intelligence (AGI-15)
July 22-25, Berlin, Germany
agi-conference.org

9th International Web Rule Symposium (RuleML 2015)
August 2-5, 2015, Berlin, Germany
www.csw.inf.fu-berlin.de/ruleml2015

13th International Conference on Logic Programming and Non-Monotonic Reasoning (LPNMR 2015)
September 27-30, 2015, Lexington, Kentucky USA
lpnmr2015.mat.unical.it

27th IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI 2015)
November 9-11, 2015 Vietri sul Mare, Italy.
https://sites.google.com/site/ictai2015italy/

https://sites.google.com/site/ictai2015italy/
8th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence (ICAART 2016)
February 24-26, 2016, Rome, Italy
www.icaart.org

5th International Conference on Pattern Recognition Applications and Methods (ICPRAM 2016)
February 24-26, 2016, Rome, Italy
www.icpram.org

14th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS-2015)
Istanbul, Turkey
4-8 May 2015
http://www.aamas2015.com/en/

Magazines

AI Magazine Vol 36 n. 1
http://www.aaai.org/ojs/index.php/aimagazine/issue/view/209/showToc
AI Communications Vol 28 n. 4
http://iospress.metapress.com/content/n16u75n21824/?genre=issue&issn=092...

Contact Information

This bulletin is edited by Michela Milano, DISI Universita di Bologna, michela.milano@unibo.it. For advertising AI-related conferences, schools and journal issues, please contact the editor.