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CALL FOR PAPERS

9th Mexican International Conference on Artificial Intelligence MICAI-2010

November 8 - 13, Pachuca, Mexico

(Pachuca city is located 1 hour from Mexico City, regular buses are available from Mexico City Airport and Northern Bus Terminal)

    http://www.micai.org/2010

Submission deadline: May 18, 2010 (abstract), May 25, 2009 (full paper)

GENERAL INFORMATION

MICAI is organized by Mexican Society for Artificial Intelligence (Sociedad Mexicana de Inteligencia Artificial, SMIA). 

Each of the last recent MICAI events (2006, 2007, 2008, 2009) received over 400 submissions, in average, from over 40 countries. The acceptance rate has been around 26%.

The MICAI'10 Program Committee invites submissions of technical papers for MICAI'10, to be held in Pachuca, Mexico, November 8 - 13, 2010.

Submissions are invited on significant, original, and previously unpublished research on all aspects of artificial intelligence. MICAI is open to all areas of Artificial Intelligence, either research or applications.

Papers must be submitted online using EasyChair system: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=micai2010.

Papers must be submitted without authors' names, affiliations and self-references for double blind reviewing. 

Submission of the paper assumes that at least one author will register at the conference and present an accepted paper or poster. Full registration fee should be paid for each accepted paper.

Workshops and Tutorials are planned as part of the conference.

The SMIA Organization is pleased to announce the availability of a limited number of Travel Grants for students, who are the principal authors of accepted papers, attending MICAI'10.

PROCEEDINGS

Papers accepted for oral presentation will be published by Springer in a volume of the series Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence.

Papers must not exceed 12 pages, in LNAI format (www.springer.com/lncs). 

Poster session papers will be published separately by Conference Publishing Services (CPS) (www.computer.org/portal/web/cscps/home). 

Best papers awards will be granted to the 1st, 2nd and 3rd places of each category.

Special issues of journals are anticipated for best papers.

IMPORTANT DATES

May 18, 2010: Registration of abstracts.
May 25, 2010: Uploading of full text of registered papers. (12 pages in LNAI format, blind reviewing) 
July 25, 2010: Notification of acceptance.
August 7, 2010: Camera-ready and payment deadline.
November 8 to 12, 2010: MICAI-2010

CULTURAL PROGRAM
Excursion to ancient pyramids of Teotihuacan (one of the most important archaeological sites in America). 
More excursions to be confirmed.

GENERAL INQUERIES AND CONTACT INFORMATION 

Conference chairs:
        Carlos Alberto Reyes García (kargaxxi(*)ccc.inaoep.mx)
        Raúl Monroy (raulm(*)itesm.mx)

Program chairs:
        Grigori Sidorov (sidorov(*)cic.ipn.mx)
        Arturo Hernández Aguirre (artha(*)cimat.mx)

Local host: Autonomous University of Hidalgo State (Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Hidalgo), Pachuca

Local chair:
        Joel Suarez Cansino (jsuarez(*)uaeh.edu.mx)


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