MICAI-2012 11th Mexican International Conference on ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE October 2012, San Luis Potosi, Mexico (detailes to be announced) www.micai.org/2012 Publication: Springer LNAI Deadlines: abstract: June 1; full paper June 15 GENERAL INFORMATION MICAI is organized by Mexican Society for Artificial Intelligence (Sociedad Mexicana de Inteligencia Artificial, SMIA). Recent MICAI events received over 300-400 submissions on average, from over 40 countries. The proceedings have been published as Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence series volumes. Submissions are invited on significant, original, and previously unpublished research on all aspects of artificial intelligence.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 should be submitted online using EasyChair system: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=micai2012. Papers must not exceed 12 pages, in LNAI format (www.springer.com/lncs). Papers must be submitted without authors' names, affiliations and self-references, in the form suitable 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 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-2012. Papers accepted for oral presentation will be published by Springer in a volume of the series Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence. Poster session papers will be published separately by IEEE CPS (to be confirmed). Special issues of journals are anticipated for best papers. At MICAI-2010, 60% of papers published in LNAI were invited to special issues of journals (including some ISI/JCR journals). Best papers awards will be granted to the 1st, 2nd and 3rd places of each category. IMPORTANT DATES June 1: (extended) Registration of abstracts June 15: (extended) Uploading of full text of registered papers July 20: (extended) Notification of acceptance August 15: (extended) Camera-ready and payment deadline October 27 to November 4, 2012: MICAI-2012 VENUE San Luis Potosi is a colonial city of Mexico and one of the main tourist destinations in Mexico. CULTURAL PROGRAM Tour to tourist attractions of San Luis Potosi are planned. In addition, while passing through Mexico City, you can visit ancient pyramids of Teotihuacan (one of the most important archaeological sites in America, 40 minutes by taxi). GENERAL INQUERIES AND CONTACT INFORMATION Conference chairs: Raśl Monroy (http://homepage.cem.itesm.mx/raulm/main-eng.html) Alexander Gelbukh (www.Gelbukh.com) Program chairs: Ildar Batyrshin, batyr(*)imp.mx Miguel Gonzalez Mendoza, mgonza(*)itesm mx Please distribute. We apologize if you receive multiple copies.