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CCIA 2018 - 21st International Conference of the Catalan Association
of Artificial Intelligence

FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS
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October 8-10, 2018
Roses, Catalonia (Spain)

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Web Page: https://ccia2018.upc.edu/en/
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INTRODUCTION
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We invite you to participate in the 21st International Conference of
the Catalan Association for Artificial Intelligence (CCIA 2018) that
will take place on 8-10th October 2018 on the beautiful Bay of Roses,
at Alt Empordà, Catalonia (Spain).

The main goal of this international conference is to foster discussion
around the last advances in Artificial Intelligence. We encourage you
to contribute with finished works as well as preliminary works with
promising original and innovative ideas.

CCIA is the usual meeting point of the Catalan AI scientific
community, this is why the conference official languages are Catalan,
Spanish, French, Italian and English. However, English must be used to
be published in the conference proceedings.

This CCIA edition is also hosting the first commemorative activities
of the 25th anniversary of the foundation of the Catalan Association
for Artificial Intelligence (ACIA), which will start in an specific
act at the conference and will continue all along the 2018-2019
academic course.


TOPICS
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* Cognitive Modelling and Cognitive Systems
* Knowledge Representation and Ontologies
* Logic, Reasoning and Fuzzy Logic
* Agents and Multi-agent Systems
* Machine Learning and Case-based Reasoning
* Artificial Neural Networks and Evolutionary Systems
* Fusion/Aggregation of Information
* Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery from Databases / Data Science
* Planning, Optimization, Satisfiability and Constraints
* Artificial Vision and Image Processing / Perception
* Human-Machine Communication and Natural Language Processing
* Robotics
* Recommender Systems, Text Mining, and Semantic Web
* AI Applications
* AI Problem Solving
* Real Time AI


IMPORTANT DATES
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* Submissions deadline:                                     April 23, 2018
* Author notification:                                            June 4, 2018
* Early registration date:                                    June 15, 2018
* Camera-ready paper submission deadline:        July 1, 2018
* Conference dates:                                   October 8-10, 2018


PAPER SUBMISSION
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We invite you to submit papers reflecting both finished works as well
as works in progress, containing original and promising ideas. We
welcome the following types of submissions:

- Short papers (2-4 pages)
- Long papers (8-10 pages)

Long submitted papers will be peer-reviewed based on technical
quality, relation to the topics of the conference, originality,
relevance, significance, and clarity. Short papers will be evaluated
for their significance considering them as ongoing work description.
Note that all submissions must be original.
Short accepted papers will be presented as posters, mainly.

Paper submissions must meet the following guidelines:
- Papers must be written in English language to be published in the proceedings.
- Papers must be submitted in PDF format following the IOSPress
guidelines. Detailed instructions, templates and stylesheets for
manuscript preparation are available to download here:
LaTeX: http://www.iospress.nl/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/ECRC-Author-Instructions-and-tools-LaTeX.zip
MsWord: http://www.iospress.nl/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/ECRC-Author-Instructions-and-tools-Word.rar
- Papers should not include page numbers.
- All papers must have an Abstract and a list of keywords


Papers should be submitted through the EasyChair platform at
         https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ccia2018



PUBLICATION
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Accepted papers will be published at the conference proceedings book
in the collection “Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and
Applications” of IOS Press. Camera-ready versions of accepted papers
should follow in the same IOSPress format guidelines.

Extended versions of the conference best papers will be invited to be
submitted to special issues of indexed journals (to be determined at
the moment). Extended papers will follow a second review process. The
expected publication date of theses issues is mid 2019.


STUDENTS GRANTS
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After receiving the notification of acceptance, students who will
attend the conference can apply for grants funded by Associació
Catalana d'Intel·ligència Artificial (ACIA, http://www.acia.org/).
These grants consist of 250€ to cover transportation and accommodation
costs. More information can be found on the ACIA webpage.


ORGANIZATION
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General Chair:                         Enric Plaza (IIIA-CSIC)
Local Organization Chair:        Karina Gibert (UPC)
Scientific Programme Chair:    Zoe Falomir (U. Bremen)


PROGRAM COMMITTEE
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Núria Agell (ESADE-URL)
Isabel Aguiló (UIB)
Guillem Alenyà (IRI-CSIC-UPC)
René Alquézar (UPC)
Cecilio Angulo (UPC)
Javier Antich Tobaruela (UIB)
Josep Argelich  (UdL)
Eva Armengol (IIIA-CSIC)
Federico Barber (UPV)
Óscar Belmonte (UJI)
Ester Bernadó-Mansilla (URL)
Xavier Binefa (UPF)
Francisco Bonin Font (UIB)
Francisco Bonnin Pascual (UIB)
Vicent Botti (UPV)
Antoni Burguera (UIB)
Pompeu Casanovas (UAB)
A. Candelieri (U. Mi-Bicocca)
Gustavo Casañ (UJI)
Miguel Cazorla  (UA)
Dante Conti (ULA, Venezuela)
Hubie Chen (Birkbeck, University of London)
Ulises Cortés (UPC)
Pilar Dellunde (IIIA-CSIC)
José de Gea (DFKI-Bremen, Germany)
Sergio Escalera (UB)
Vlad Estivill-Castro (Griffith University, Australia)
Francesc J. Ferri (UV)
Emilio García Fidalgo (UIB)
Ana García-Fornés (UPV)
Ricard Gavalda (UPC)
Héctor Geffner (ICREA-UPF)
Lluís Godo (IIIA-CSIC)
Salvatore Grecco (U. Catania)
Stephan Grieu (U. Perpinyà)
Francisco Grimaldo (UV)
José Guerrero Sastre (UIB)
Anders Jonsson (UPF)
Vicente Julián (UPV)
Mikhail Kanevski (UNIL, Suissa)
Jordi Levy (IIIA-CSIC)
Ramon López De Mántaras (IIIA-CSIC)
Maite López Sánchez (UB)
Beatriz López (UdG)
Emilia López Iñesta (UV-UCV)
Miguel Lozano (UV)
Felip Manyà (IIIA-CSIC)
Pere Martí (U.VIC)
Sebastià Massanet (UIB)
Carles Mateu (UdL)
Joaquim Meléndez (UdG)
Pedro Meseguer (IIIA-CSIC)
Antonio Moreno (URV)
Antonio Morales (UJI)
Lledó Museros (UJI)
Angela Nebot (UPC)
Carles Noguera (Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic)
Eva Onaindia (UPV)
Jordi Planes (UdL)
Domenec Puig (URV)
Josep Puyol-Gruart (IIIA-CSIC)
Petia Radeva (UB & CVC)
Arnau Ramisa (IRI-UPC)
Gabriel Recatalà (UJI)
Andrea Rizzoli (IDSIA, Suïssa)
Horacio Rodríguez (UPC)
Ricardo Oscar Rodriguez (UBA)
Maria Salamo (UB)
Jordi Sabater Mir (IIIA-CSIC)
José Salvador Sánchez-Garreta (UJI)
Miquel Sànchez-Marrè (UPC)
Sandra Sandri (INPE,Brazil)
Ismael Sanz (UJI)
Marco Schorlemmer (IIIA-CSIC)
Carles Sierra (IIIA-CSIC)
Massimo Tistarelli (U.Sassari, Alghero, It)
Vicenç Torra (U. Skövde, Sweden)
Carme Torras (IRI-CSIC/UPC)
Ximo Torres (UJI)
V. Javier Traver (UJI)
Aida Valls (URV)
Xavier Varona (UIB)
Alfredo Vellido (UPC)
Mateu Villaret (UdG)
Jordi Vitrià (UB)
Leo Wanner (ICREA & UPF)
Franz Wotawa (U. Graz, Switzerland)
Francisco Mugica (UPC)