The Conference of the Spanish Association for Artificial Intelligence (CAEPIA) is held every two years and is open to international AI researchers and companies. The CAEPIA'09 program will include workshops, tutorials, and oral and poster presentations of technical papers. During the conference a Doctoral Consortium will be held, that is specially designed to foster the interaction among PhD students and senior researchers. The TTIA'09 is the forum where the recent applications of AI technology are presented, and is held in parallel with CAEPIA'09.

Submissions are invited on significant, original, and previously unpublished research on all aspects of Artificial Intelligence. Technical papers can be written on Spanish or English in LNCS format, and will be accepted for oral or poster presentation. CAEPIA'09 will follow a double blind-review process. Authors should remove their names (and any other element which could identify the paper authorship) from the submission. They are fully responsible to follow the complete submission details in terms of format, anonymity, and originality.

Types of submissions

• CAEPIA Main track. A maximum length of 10 pages, which will be presented orally in 15 or 20 minutes. They must consist of original, relevant and previously unpublished sound research results related to any of the topics of the conference.
• TTIA Applications track. Papers should report on significant application and use of artificial intelligence technology in real-world operational settings. A maximum length of 10 pages, which will be presented orally in 15 or 20 minutes.
• Doctoral Consortium (DC). PhD students are invited to present the topic and progress of their research, in order to obtain feedback from a panel of experts. The length of these papers should be no longer than 4 pages. They will be presented orally in 15 minutes. PhD students with a paper accepted in the DC will have some special benefits to attend the conference.

All submissions should be in PDF format following the LNCS style.

Submissions can be written in either Spanish or English. Proceedings can contain papers in both languages. Authors of papers written in Spanish and selected for the post-proceedings volume edited by Springer, will be required to send an English translation of their work for this volume.

Important Dates

CAEPIA and TTIA

CAEPIA and TTIA submissions will be reviewed by, at least, three members of the Program Committee and supervised by two members of the Senior Program Committee. Authors will be allowed to access their reviews and provide feedback during the author feedback period. TTIA submissions will be reviewed by the TTIA Committee.

Doctoral Consortium

The Doctoral Consortium purpose is to foster the interaction among PhD students and senior researchers. Students accepted at the DC will have the following benefits:

• Opportunity to present the topic and progress of their research in a special DC track at the conference.
• Opportunity to attend invited talks at the DC track specially oriented to PhD students.
• Special low cost accommodation at a student residence.
  

Students willing to participate at the Doctoral Consortium have to:

1. Send an email message to the DC Chair (larrosa@lsi.upc.edu), requesting acceptance to the DC.
2. The PhD advisor has to send a message to the DC Chair (larrosa@lsi.upc.edu) supporting the student request.
3. If the PhD student is not an author (or co-author) of a paper accepted in the conference (either CAEPA or TTIA), he/she has to send a paper with a description of his/her research (topic, obtained results and future work). The paper should be in PDF format following the LNCS style, with a maximum of 4 pages. Each paper must include the name of the PhD student and the name(s) of the advisor(s). It can be written either in Spanish or English. Submissions should be done via the ConfMaster system (http://caepia09.confmaster.net/)

Doctoral Consortium submissions will be reviewed by the DC Committee.

Paper Submissions

In order to submit a paper you must register as an author at CAEPIA conference management system: CAEPIA-TTIA'09

Publication

Accepted CAEPIA and TTIA papers will be published in the conference proceedings edited by the organization (with ISBN). As in previous editions, a selection of the best papers presented at the Conference will be invited to submit extended versions for publication in a volume of the Springer Verlag series Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence. Accepted Doctoral Consortium papers will be published as notes edited by the organization.

Topics

Topics of the conference include but are not limited to:

• MULTIAGENT SYSTEMS
  - architectures and languages
  - environment models
  - interaction models (negociation, coordination, trust, auction etc.)
  - self-organization
  - social/organizational approaches
  
• KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION AND ENGINEERING
  - knowledge representation
  - computational logic
  - non-monotonic reasoning
  - model-based reasoning
  - qualitative reasoning
  - spatial and temporal reasoning
  - action and change
  - diagnosis
  - ontologies
  - semantic web
  - knowledge management
  
• UNCERTAINTY
  - approximate reasoning
  - fuzzy reasoning
  - probabilistic reasoning
  
• CONSTRAINTS / SAT / HEURISTIC SEARCH
  - constraint satisfaction
  - constraint optimization
  - satisfiability
  - heuristic search
  - AI in games
  
• PLANNING
  - planning
  - Markov processes
  - scheduling
  
• NATURAL LANGUAGE
  - generation
  - understanding
  - translation
  - text classification
  
• LEARNING
  - inductive learning
  - reinforcement learning
  - case-based learning
  - bayesian networks
  - data mining
  - neural networks
  
• EVOLUTIVE AND SOFT COMPUTATION
  - evolutive computation
  - bioinspired algorithms
  - soft optimization
  
• PERCEPTION AND ROBOTICS
  - robotics
  - vision and perception
  
• EDUCATION
  - tutoring systems
  - student modeling
  - collaborative learning
  - virtual learning communities
  
• OTHERS
  - human-machine interaction
  - ambient intelligence
  - decision-support systems
  - AI in configuration and design
  - virtual and augmented reality
  - recommender systems