Call for Papers

FLAIRS-2009

Special Track on Data Mining

The 22nd International FLAIRS Conference

(FLAIRS-2009)

Sanibel Island, Florida
May 19-21, 2009

 http://www.flairs-22.info/

 

 

 

Important Dates

Paper submissions due November 23, 2008
Notification letters sent January , 2009
Camera ready copy due February , 2009

 

Papers are being solicited for a special track on Data Mining at the 22nd International FLAIRS Conference (FLAIRS-2009). The special track will be devoted to data mining with the aim of presenting new and important contributions in this area. The areas include, but are not limited to, the following: applications such as Intelligence analysis, medical and health applications, text, video, and multi-media mining, E-commerce and web data, financial data analysis, intrusion detection, remote sensing, earth sciences, and astronomy; modeling algorithms such as hidden Markov, decision trees, neural networks, statistical methods, or probabilistic methods; case studies in areas of application, or over different algorithms and approaches; feature extraction and selection; post-processing techniques such as visualization, summarization, or trending; preprocessing and data reduction; data engineering or warehousing;  or other data mining research which is related to artificial intelligence.

 

Submission Guidelines

Interested authors must submit completed manuscripts by November 23, 2008. Submissions should be no more than 6 pages (4000 words) in length, including figures. Fake author names and affiliations must be used on submitted papers, to provide double-blind reviewing. Papers must be submitted as PDF through the EasyChair conference system. (N.B. Do not use a fake name for your EasyChair login - your EasyChair account information is hidden from reviewers.) Papers should be formatted according to AAAI Guidelines. Submission instructions can be found at the FLAIRS-09 website given above. Notification of acceptance will be mailed around January, 2009. Authors of accepted papers will be expected to submit the final camera-ready copies of their full papers by February, 2009 for publication in the conference proceedings which will be published by AAAI Press. Authors may be invited to submit a revised copy of their paper to a special issue of the International Journal on Artificial Intelligence Tools (IJAIT).

Questions regarding the track should be addressed to: William Eberle at weberle@tntech.edu or David Bisant at bisant@umbc.edu.

 

 

FLAIRS 2009 Invited Speakers

Professor Freuder is the Director of the Cork Constraint Computation Centre in the Department of Computer Science at University College Cork in Ireland. He received his B.A., magna cum laude, in mathematics from Harvard and a Ph.D. in computer science from M.I.T. He has been elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, and the European Coordinating Committee for Artificial Intelligence, and is a Member of the Royal Irish Academy. He received the first Research Excellence Award of the Association for Constraint Programming, and served as Executive Chair of the Organizing Committee of the series of International Conferences on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming, and as the founding Editor-in-Chief of the Constraints journal. In the Citeseer database of most cited authors in computer science Professor Freuder is ranked in the top one-tenth of one per cent. He has played a key role in obtaining over 60 million dollars in funding from government and industry to support scientific research.

AutoTutor and the World of Pedagogical Agents: Intelligent Tutoring Systems with Natural Language Dialogue

AutoTutor is a computer tutor that helps students learn concepts in science and technology by holding a conversation in natural language. Students input their contributions through a keyboard or speech, whereas AutoTutor communicates through an animated conversational agent with speech, facial expressions, and some rudimentary gestures. A recent version tracks and responds to learner emotions. Another version is integrated with an interactive simulation environment. Assessments of AutoTutor on learning gains have been quite promising (nearly a letter grade) compared with reading a textbook. This presentation describes AutoTutor and some of its offspring with animated pedagogical agents.

Art Graesser is a professor in the Department of Psychology, an adjunct professor in Computer Science, and co-director of the Institute of Intelligent Systems at the University of Memphis. Dr. Graesser received his Ph.D. in psychology from the University of California at San Diego and was a visiting researcher at Yale University, Stanford University, and Carnegie Mellon University. His primary research interests are in cognitive science, discourse processing, and the learning sciences. More specific interests include knowledge representation, question asking and answering, tutoring, text comprehension, inference generation, conversation, reading, education, memory, artificial intelligence, and human-computer interaction. He served as editor of the journal Discourse Processes (1996-2005) and is the current editor of Journal of Educational Psychology. He is president of the Society for Text and Discourse and Artificial Intelligence in Education. In addition to publishing over 400 articles in journals, books, and conference proceedings, he has written two books and edited nine books (one being the Handbook of Discourse Processes). He has designed, developed, and tested intelligent software in learning, language, and discourse technologies, including AutoTutor, Coh-Metrix, HURA Advisor, SEEK Web Tutor, MetaTutor, ARIES, Question Understanding Aid (QUAID), QUEST, and Point&Query.

Jan Wiebe is Professor of Computer Science and Director of the Intelligent Systems Program at the University of Pittsburgh. Her research with students and colleagues has been in discourse processing, pragmatics, word-sense disambiguation, and probabilistic classification in NLP. Her most recent work investigates automatically recognizing and interpreting expressions of opinions and sentiments in text, to support NLP applications such as question answering, information extraction, text categorization, and summarization. Her current and past professional roles include ACL Program Co-Chair, NAACL Program Chair, NAACL Executive Board member, Computational Linguistics and Language Resources and Evaluation Editorial Board member, AAAI Workshop Co-Chair, ACM Special Interest Group on Artificial Intelligence (SIGART) Vice-Chair, and ACM-SIGART/AAAI Doctoral Consortium Chair.

 

Special Track Committee

 

• William Eberle (Co-Chair)  Tennessee Technological University, USA

• David Bisant (Co-Chair)  The Laboratory for Physical Sciences, USA

• Jesus Gonzalez                NIAOE, Mexico

• Nitesh Chawla                 University of Notre Dame, USA

• Diane Cook                     Washington State University, USA

• Olac Fuentes                    University of Texas, El Paso, USA

• Slawomir Zadrozny         Systems Research Institute, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland             

• Rafal Angryk Montana State University, USA

• Lawrence Holder Washington State University, USA

• Jorge Ramirez                  Apple Computer, USA

• SeungJin Lim                   Utah State University, USA

• Eduardo Morales             NIAOE, Mexico

• Hyoil Han                                    Drexel University, USA

• Douglas Talbert               Tennessee Technological University, USA

• Reza Tayebnejad             Verizon Business Solutions, USA

• Jacek Kukluk                  Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center, USA