MICAI-2005

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		Erick Cantu-Paz Center for Applied Scientific Computing, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Topic: to be announced.

		John McCarthy Professor Emeritus of Computer Science at Stanford University, Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, and the National Academy of Sciences. One of the founders of artificial intelligence research, creator of LISP. A.M. Turing Award of the Association for Computing Machinery, 1971; Research Excellence Award of the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 1985; Kyoto Prize, 1988, the National Medal of Science, 1990. Topic: to be announced.

		Katsushi Ikeuchi Professor, Institute of Industrial Science, University of Tokyo. IEEE Fellow, Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Computer Vision and member of Editorial Board of various leading AI journals. Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Signal Processing society for the period of 2000-2001, and IEEE Computer society for the period of 2004-2006. David Marr prize in computational vision and IEEE R&A K-S Fu Memorial best transaction paper award. Developed the "smoothness constraint," pioneered the use of specular reflections to recover surface orientations. Currently develops vision techniques that enable a reduction in programming efforts. Topic: to be announced.

		Tom Mitchell Fredkin Professor of AI and Learning, Director, Center for Automated Learning and Discovery, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University. Chair-Elect, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Section on Information, Computing, and Communication. President of American Association for Artificial Intelligence, 2001-2003. Topic: A talk on his group's new work exploring Machine Learning for Human Brain Image Analysis.

		Jaime Simão Sichman Associate Professor, Laboratório de Técnicas Inteligentes, Universidade de São Paulo. Member of steering committee, Artificial Intelligence Special Interest Group of Brazilian Computer Society. Topic: to be announced.

MICAI is a high-level international conference covering all areas of Artificial Intelligence, traditionally held in Mexico. All previous editions of MICAI were published in Springer LNAI (N 1793, 2313, 2972). Acceptance rate of MICAI-2004 was 38% of submissions from 19 countries.

The conference is organized by the Mexican Society for Artificial Intelligence (SMIA) in cooperation with the Mexican Society for Computer Science (SMCC) and the American Association for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI).

The scientific program includes invited lectures, paper presentations, tutorials, panels, and workshops.

All accepted papers will be published by Springer-Verlag in their Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI).

Authors are invited to submit original previously unpublished research papers written in English, of up to 10 pages, strictly following the LNCS/LNAI format guidelines (see also here). Submissions not following the format guidelines will be rejected without review.

Submissions are received electronically through the SUBMISSION PAGE NEW: Paper registration is closed now; you can update your paper or upload the full version of your previously registered paper (until May 29).

All submissions will be subject to blind peer review. NEW: Consequently, the papers submitted for review should not contain the names of the authors or other indications of the authors' identity (such as auto-references). Submissions not following this rule may be rejected without review.

Topics of interest are all areas of Artificial Intelligence, including but not limited to:

Alberto Sanfeliú Cortés	Institut de organització y control de sistemes
Alexander Gelbukh	CIC-IPN, Mexico (Chair)
Alexander Smirnov	St. Petersburg Inst. for Informatics, Russian Academy of Sciences
Alfredo Weitzenfeld	ITAM
Andre Ponce de Leon F. de Carvalho	University of Sao Paulo
Andrés Pérez Uribe	Lab. des Systemes Autonomes, EPFL
Angel Kuri Morales	ITAM Mexico
Antonio Bahamonde	Universidad de Oviedo en Gijón, Spain
Antonio D'Angelo	Università degli studi di Udine, ITALY
Arturo Hernández Aguirre	CIMAT Mexico
Bedrich Benes	ITESM, CCM
Bob Fisher	University of Edinburgh, UK
Bruno Jammes	LAAS/CNRS
Carles Sierra	IIIA-CSIC, Spain
Carlos A. Brizuela	Depto. de Ciencias de la Computacion, CICESE
Carlos A. Coello Coello	CINVESTAV-IPN Mexico
Carlos Alberto Reyes García	INAOE
Carlos Cotta-Porras	Universidad de Málaga, SPAIN
Chilukuri K. Mohan	Dept. of Electrical Eng. and Computer Science, Syracuse U., USA
Christian Lemaître León	LANIA
Demetri Terzopoulos	NYU Media Research Lab
Dieter Hutter	DFKI, Saarbrücken, Germany
Edgar Chavez	Universidad Michoacana
Eduardo Gómez Ramírez	Universidad La Salle, Mexico
Enrique Sucar	ITESM Morelos, Mexico
Felisa Verdejo	Universidad Nacional de Estudios a Distancia, Spain
Fernando Ramos	ITESM, CCM
Francisco Cantú Ortíz	Centro de Inteligencia Artificial, Mexico
Franz Wotawa	Technische Universitaet Graz, Austria
Gabriela Ochoa Meier	Universidad Bolivar, Venezuela
Gustavo Arroyo Figueroa	IEE, México
Horacio Rodriguez	Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya (UPC) Dpt. LSI
Hugo Terashima	ITESM, campus Monterrey
Humberto Sossa	CIC-IPN, Mexico
Ildar Batyrshin	IMP, Mexico
Ingrid Kirschning	UDLAP, Mexico
Isaac Rudomín	ITESM, CEM
Jacek Malec	Department of Computer Science, Lund University, Sweden
Jim Little	UBC, Canada
Johan van Horebeek	CIMAT, Mexico
Jorge Ramírez Uresti	ITESM, CEM
Jose A. Gamez Martin	Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, SPAIN
José Francisco Martínez Trinidad	INAOE
José Luis Aguirre	ITESM, Mty
José Luis Gordillo	ITESM Campus Monterrey, Mexico
Juan A. Nolazco Flores	Campus Monterrey, ITESM
Juan Flores	Universidad Michoacana, Mexico
Juan Manuel Ahuactzin	IMAG-UJF / INRIA Rhône-Alpes, France
Juergen Dix	Clausthal University of Technology
Leo Joskowicz	The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Leonardo Garrido Luna	ITESM, Mty
Leonid Sheremetov	Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Mexico
Luis Alberto Pineda	IIMAS-UNAM Mexico
Maarten van Someren	University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Maria Carolina Monard	Instituto de Ciências Matemáticas e de Computaçào, Brazil
Maria Cristina Riff	Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María
Mario Köppen	Fraunhofer IPK Berlin, Germany
Mauricio Osorio Galindo	UDLAP
Neil Hernández Gress	ITESM CEM
Nicandro Cruz	Universidad Veracruzana
Olac Fuentes	INAOEP
Olivia Barrón Cano	ITESM, Mty
Oscar Castillo López	Instituto Tecnológico de Tijuana
Osvaldo Cairo	ITAM Mexico
Paul Brna	University of Leeds, UK
Pedro Larrañaga	University of the Basque Country, Spain
Rafael Morales	University of Glasgow, UK
Rafael Murrieta Cid	University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, USA
Ramón Brena	ITESM, Mty
Ramón Lopez de Mantaras	Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain
Raúl Monroy	ITESM-CEM Mexico (Chair)
René V. Mayorga	University of Regina, Canada
Ricardo Beausoleil Delgado	Centro de matemática y Física teórica, Cuba
Ricardo Swain Oropeza	ITESM Campus Edo. de México
Rogelio Soto	ITESM-CM Mexico
Roger Z. Rios	Universidad Autonoma de Nuevo Leon, Mexico
Ruth Aylett	Heriot-Watt University
Ryszard Klempous	Institute of Engineering Cybernetics, Poland
Santiago E. Conant Pablos	ITESM, Mty
Simon Colton	Department of Computing, Imperial College London, UK
Thomas Stuetzle	Universität Darmstadt, Germany
Toby Walsh	University of York, UK
Ulises Cortés	Universidad Politécnica de Cataluña, Spain
Victor Ayala Ramírez	Universidad de Guanajuato - FIMEE
Vladimír Mařík	Czech Technical University, Czech Rep.

Announcements
	27 May	Deadline for uploading full papers is extended until Monday May 30 10:00 am Mexico City time. No paper will be received after 09:59:59 am.
	24 May	New keynote speaker confirmed: Katsushi Ikeuchi. More to be announced later.
	18 May	We clarify that the submissions should not contain the names of the authors, since the review is blind. See here.
	27 Apr	Workshop on Natural Language Understanding and Intelligent Information Access is accepted; see its CFP later. Contact: Alexander Gelbukh.