IJCAI-95 Video Track : Call For Videos ------------------------------------------- As a medium, videotapes are better suited than written papers to illuminate the efficacy of AI research, especially in the emerging and exciting areas of AI in Education, Art, Music, Entertainment, Hypermedia, 3-D Animation, Artificial Life, Network-Based tools like Mosaic, etc. If a picture is worth thousand words, then a (3-D) movie will certainly enhance the illustration of behaviors of these systems that are based on AI principles, methods, and tools. Recognizing this potential of video presentations to demonstrate and augment AI research results, a Video Track has been designated since IJCAI-89 to be an integral part of the Technical Programs of IJCAI Conferences. The Video Track is designed to demonstrate the current levels of usefulness of AI tools, techniques, and methods for a variety of practical and theoretical problems arising in industrial, commercial, government, space, and educational areas. You are invited and strongly encouraged to submit to this video track and take advantage of the following opportunities and benefits that we intend to provide as a forum to showcase your best AI research results. + Special video sessions will be organised and timetabled as part of the conference, giving authors an opportunity to present and briefly discuss their videos. + Abstracts of accepted videos will appear in the conference proceedings. + The entire video program will be published by IJCAI Inc. and will be available for sale after the conference. + Apart from the scheduled video sessions where the authors will participate in the presentations, we also plan to make the video program widely viewable by the conference attendees by designating certain time periods during which the videos will run unattended. Additional details are provided below on: + Submission Requirements and Guidelines; + Review Criteria; + Publication; + Important Dates, and + Contact Information. We look forward to your submissions that will contribute to the success of the IJCAI-95 Video Track. Submission Requirements and Guidelines -------------------------------------- Authors are invited to submit THREE (3) copies of a videotape of 15 minutes maximum duration, accompanied by a submission letter that includes: + Title + Full names, postal addresses, phone numbers and email addresses of all authors + Subject matter area (e.g. knowledge acquisition, learning, vision,...) + Tape format: indicate one of PAL, SECAM, or NTSC(preferred); VHS is preferred but .75'' U-matic tapes will be accepted + Duration of tape in minutes + THREE (3) copies of an abstract of one to two pages in length, containing the title of the video, and full names and addresses of the authors + Author's permission to copy tape for review purposes. All tapes, along with their abstracts, must be submitted by January 6, 1995 to the Videotape Track Chair. Submissions received after that date will be returned unopened. Authors should note that ordinary mail can sometimes be considerably delayed and should take this into account when timing their submissions. + Notification of receipt will be mailed to the first or designated author soon after receipt. + All inquiries regarding lost submissions must be made by Feb. 7, 1995. + Tapes cannot be returned; authors should retain extra copies for making revisions. + Notification of acceptance or rejection will be mailed on or before March 5th 1995 to the first or designated author. + Authors will also have the opportunity to submit a revised version of their videotape about one month following notification of acceptance. Revised tapes must not be more than fifteen (15) minutes duration, must be in NTSC-VHS (U.S. Standard only) format, and must be submitted to the Video Track Chair. + Accepted tapes will be sent directly from the Video Track Chair to the conference publisher. Review Criteria --------------- Each tape will be rigorously reviewed by experts in the subject matter areas of the tape and only the best tapes will be selected for presentation at the conference. The following general criteria will guide the selection: + Significance and originality of system functionality presented; + The need for and the contribution of the AI component of the system; + Clarity of presentation of system's goals, methods, and results; + Quality of Presentation (including audio, video, and pace). + Level of interest to the conference audience; Preference will be given to systems that show a high level of maturity. Tapes that are deemed to be advertising commercial products, propaganda, purely expository materials, merely taped lectures, or material not of scientific or technical value will be rejected. Publication ----------- Abstracts of accepted videos will be allotted a maximum of two pages each in the conference proceedings. The style of these two-page papers should be the same as the full length papers in the Proceedings, with an initial abstract of approximately 50 words. The final version of the video's abstract, edited in the format specified in the acceptance letter, must be received by the publishers in the USA by April 24th, 1995. Authors will be required to transfer copyright of their abstract (but not the video) to IJCAI Inc. In addition, a 30-minute presentation slot will be made available as part of one of the video sessions. To ensure a consistent format to the sessions and an opportunity for questions, authors should keep as close as possible to the following format for their presentations: + 3 minutes introductory presentation + 10-13 minutes (average) video showing + 7-10 minutes technical details + 2 minutes conclusions + 5 minutes question period In addition to showing the accepted tapes at the conference, copies of them will be available at a nominal cost after the conference. The videotape presentations started at IJCAI-89. Previously presented videotapes are available from Morgan Kaufmann as ISBN 1-55860-097-3 (IJCAI-89), ISBN 1-55860-183-X (IJCAI-91) and ISBN 1-55860-047-3 (IJCAI-93). Contact Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, Inc., 2929 Campus Drive, Suite 260, San Mateo, CA 94403, USA; phone: (+1-415)578-9911; fax: (+1-415)578-0672; email: morgan@unix.sri.com. Important Dates --------------- + Tapes and Abstracts submissions to Video Track Chair on or before January 6, 1995. + Notification of acceptance or rejection will be mailed on or before March 5th 1995. + The final version of the video's abstract must be received by the publishers in the USA by April 24th, 1995. Contact Information ------------------- Please send conference registration inquiries to: IJCAI-95 American Association for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) 445 Burgess Drive Menlo Park, CA 94025-3496. Phone: (+1 415) 328-3123; Fax: (+1 415) 321-4457 Please send Video Track Call clarification and other related inquiries to: Video Track Chair: ------------------ Ramasamy Uthurusamy Computer Science Department, AP/50 General Motors Research, Bldg 1-6 30500 Mound Road, Box 9055 Warren, MI 48090-9055 U.S.A. Phone: (+1 810) 986-1989 Fax: (+1 810) 986-9356 Email: samy@gmr.com