BISFAI-99 SYMPOSIUM

BAR-ILAN SYMPOSIUM
ON THE FOUNDATIONS OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

THEME: BRIDGING THEORY AND PRACTICE

Bar-Ilan University is pleased to announce its sixth biennial Symposium on the Foundations of Artificial Intelligence, to be held on June 23-25, 1999 in Ramat Gan, Israel. This year's theme is

BRIDGING THEORY AND PRACTICE:
THEORY-BASED PRACTICAL IMPLEMENTATIONS AND COMMERCIAL APPLICATIONS
In keeping with this theme, part of the symposium will focus on demonstrations of unique and innovative artificial intelligence applications.

BISFAI solicits substantial research papers in all areas of artificial intelligence, and proposals for demonstrations of innnovative applications of artificial intelligence. The detailed calls can be found below.

Program and Schedule

BISFAI will be held from Wednesday June 23 through Friday June 25 in the Beck Auditorium at Bar-Ilan University.
Lunches will be held on Wednesday and Thursday; the Festive Dinner will take place on Thursday evening in Old Jaffa.

The preliminary program and schedule are now available online.

For the ASCII version, click here.

Abstracts of presented papers are available in the abstracts page (at the Bar-Ilan site) , with pointers to the postscript version of the paper, when available. (Note: the connection to the Bar-Ilan page may be slow.)

Local arrangements

For information on hotel reservations and local arrangements, click here.

Registration

Registration is open to all scientists, researchers and students. Please register in advance, although registration on site is also possible. Full registration (400NIS) includes all events, lunches and the Festive Dinner. A one day registration (100NIS) is also available, and there is a highly subsidized student registration . Registration is by email or FAX; fees can be paid at the door.

Registration form.

For further questions, email: bisfai@cs.biu.ac.il .

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Symposium Committee
Martin Charles Golumbic, Bar-Ilan University, Symposium Chair

Leora Morgenstern, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Program Co-chair
Solomon Eyal Shimony, Ben-Gurion University, Program Co-Chair

Program Committee:

Luigia Carlucci Aiello (U. Rome-"La Sapienza", Italy)
Rachel Ben-Eliyahu (Ben-Gurion University, Israel)
Yaacov Choueka (Bar-Ilan University, Israel)
Ernest Davis (New York University, USA)
Rina Dechter (UC Irvine, USA)
Ronen Feldman (Bar-Ilan University, Israel)
Nir Friedman (Hebrew University, Israel)
Hector Geffner (Simon Bolivar University, Venezuela)
Dan Geiger (Technion, Israel)
Sarit Kraus (Bar-Ilan University, Israel)
Daniel Lehmann (Hebrew University, Israel)
Shaul Markovitch (Technion, Israel)
John McCarthy (Stanford University, USA)
Jack Minker (U. Maryland at College Park, USA)
Jeff Rosenschein (Hebrew University, Israel)
Erik Sandewall (Linkoping University, Sweden)
Eugene Santos (University of Connecticut, USA)
Uri Schild (Bar-Ilan University, Israel)
Moshe Tennenholtz (Technion, Israel)
Bonnie Webber (University of Edinburgh, Great Britain)

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