News and Updates

• Pictures from the second day of the conference are available here .
• Pictures from the first day of the conference are available here .
• A new Draft of the Technical Program has been posted (March 19, 2009)
• A Tentative Draft of the Technical Program has been posted (March 16, 2009)
• The invited speakers' talk abstracts and biographies have been posted (March 11, 2009)
• Dr.Jonathan Shaeffer, Dr. Alan Mackworth, and Dr. Evgeniy Gabrilovich will join us at AI'09 as invited speakers. The abstract of their talks will be posted soon. (Feb. 23rd, 2009)

• International Symposium on Teaching AI in Computing and Information Technology (May 24, 2009) website up (March 3, 2009)
• The Second Canadian Semantic Web Working Symposium 2009 (May 24, 2009) website up(Nov. 30, 2008)
• Graduate Symposium (May 24, 2009) web site up (Nov. 15, 2008)

Call for Papers [PDF]

AI'09, the twenty-second Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence, will be held in Kelowna, British Columbia (May 25-27, 2009). The organizers invite papers that present original work in all areas of Artificial Intelligence. Topics include, but are not limited to:

Knowledge Representation Constraint Satisfaction Automated Reasoning Games Search Planning Cognitive Models Case-based Reasoning

Machine Learning Uncertainty Robotics Agent Systems Natural Language User Modeling Neural Nets Evolutionary Computation

AI Applications Web Applications Data Mining Information Retrieval Bioinformatics and BioNLP Smart Graphics Multi-media Processing E-Commerce

Papers will be reviewed by the Program Committee members and judged according to their originality, technical merit and clarity of presentation. Accepted papers are allocated a maximum of 12 pages in the proceedings. In addition, a selected set of high quality papers will also be accepted as short papers and be allocated a maximum of 4 pages in the proceedings. The conference proceedings will be published as Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence by Springer and have to be formatted accordingly. Papers can only be included in the Proceedings upon registration of at least one author.

Papers submitted to AI'2009 must not have been accepted for publication elsewhere or be under review for another conference. Best paper and best student paper awards will be presented.