General Artificial Intelligence

Traditionally in EPIA there is a thematic track under the title of General Artificial Intelligence (GAI) that intends to cover general methodologies and architectures for intelligent systems and research that does not clearly fall under other specific thematic tracks. Besides, in GAI we will encourage researchers to present work in interdisciplinary areas and in breaking domains of AI. All available paths integrating AI are welcome, including theoretical and experimental computer science, cognitive science, neuroscience, and innovative interdisciplinary methodologies. Relevant to this track are also papers on issues that arise in the design and construction of complex artificial intelligent agents, including but not limited to human-level intelligent agents, integrating varying
component technologies.

Topics of Interest

• Artificial Art and Music
• Brain Sciences
• Case-by-case Problem-Solving
• Cognitive Architectures
• Coherence of Integrative/Hybrid Systems
• Connecting Sensorimotor and Concept-level Cognition Context
• Evaluation and Comparison of AI Projects
• Foundations and Theory of AI
• Human-Computer Interaction
• Intelligent Database Systems
• Intelligent User Interfaces
• Lifelong and Multi-Strategy Learning
• Logic Based Knowledge Representation
• Logic Programming
• Management of Complex Goal Structures
• Multimodal Communication
• Natural Language Processing
• Ontologies
• Philosophical and Ethical Issues
• Planning and Scheduling
• Program Analysis, Validation, Verification and Debugging
• Real-Time AI Systems
• Reasoning with Incomplete and Uncertain Information
• Semantic Web
• The Role of Embodiment in AI
• Virtual characters

Paper Submission Instructions

All accepted papers will be published by Springer in a volume of Springer’s Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) corresponding to the proceedings of the 19th EPIA Conference on Artificial Intelligence, EPIA 2019.

Submissions must be original and not published elsewhere. Papers should not exceed twelve (12) pages in length and must adhere to the formatting instructions of the conference. Each submission will be peer reviewed by at least three members of the Program Committee. The reviewing process is double blind, so authors should remove names and affiliations from the submitted papers, and must take reasonable care to assure anonymity during the review process. References to own work may be included in the paper, as long as referred to in the third person. Acceptance will be based on the paper’s significance, technical quality, clarity, relevance and originality. All accepted papers must be presented orally the conference by one of the authors and at least one author of each accepted paper must register for the conference.

All papers should be submitted in PDF format through the EPIA 2019 EasyChair submission page. Prospective authors should select the thematic track to which their paper is to be submitted.

Important Dates

Paper submission deadline (Extended) : April 15, 2019 April 30, 2019
Notification of paper acceptance: May 31, 2019, June 7, 2019
Camera ready papers deadline: June 15, 2019, June 21, 2019
Conference dates: September 3-6, 2019

Organizing Committee

Luís Paulo Reis, LIACC, UPorto, Portugal 
Paulo Moura Oliveira, INESC-TEC, UTAD, Portugal
Paulo Novais, ALGORITMI, UMinho, Portugal

Program Committee 

Amparo Alonso-Betanzos, University of A Coruña, Spain
Ana Paiva, INESC-ID, University of Lisbon, Portugal
Ana Paula Rocha, LIACC, University of Porto, Portugal
Andrea Omicini, Alma Mater Studiorum–Università di Bologna
Arlindo Oliveira, INESC-ID  / IST, University of Lisbon, Portugal
Brígida Mónica Faria, Higher School of Health, Polytechnic of Porto, Portugal
Carlos Bento, University of Coimbra, Portugal
Carlos M. Fonseca, University of Coimbra, Portugal
Carlos Ramos, Polytechnic Institute of Porto, Portugal
Cesar Analide, University of Minho, Portugal
Davide Carneiro,          Polytechnic Institute of Porto, Portugal
Eric De La Clergerie, INRIA, France
Ernesto Costa, University of Coimbra, Portugal
Francisco Pereira, Polytechnic institute of Coimbra, Portugal
Gaël Dias, Normandie University, France
Goreti Marreiros, GECAD, Polytechnic Institute of Porto, Portugal
Henrique Lopes Cardoso, University of Porto, Portugal
João Balsa, BioISI/MAS, University of Lisbon, Portugal
João Gama, University of Porto, Portugal
João Leite, NOVA University of Lisbon, Portugal
John-Jules Meyer, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
José Cascalho, University of Azores, Portugal
José Júlio Alferes, NOVA University of Lisbon, Portugal
José Machado, University of Minho, Portugal
José Neves, University of Minho, Portugal
Juan Corchado, University of Salamanca, Spain
Juan Pavón, University Complutense de Madrid, Spain
Luís Antunes, University of Lisbon, Portugal
Luís Camarinha-Matos, NOVA University of Lisbon, Portugal
Luís Cavique, University Aberta, Portugal
Luís Correia, University of Lisbon, Portugal
Luís Macedo, University of Coimbra, Portugal
Luís Seabra Lopes, University of Aveiro, Portugal
Mário J. Silva, University of Lisbon, Portugal
Miguel Calejo, Declarativa, Portugal
Mikhail Lavrentiev, Novosibirsk State University
Nuno Lau, University of Aveiro, Portugal
Paulo Cortez, University of Minho, Portugal
Paulo Quaresma, University of Évora, Portugal
Paulo Urbano, University of Lisbon, Portugal
Pedro Barahona, NOVA University of Lisbon, Portugal
Pedro Rangel Henriques, University of Minho, Portugal
Penousal Machado, University of Coimbra, Portugal
Ricardo Santos, ESTG, Polytechnic Institute of Porto, Portugal
Rosaldo Rossetti, University of Porto, Portugal
Rui Prada, University of Lisbon, Portugal
Salvador Abreu, LISP & CRI / University of Évora, Portugal
Tatsu Naka, Waseda University, Japan
Vicente Julian, University of Politècnica de València, Spain
Victor Alves, University of Minho, Portugal