Call for Papers

 

Call for Papers: AGI−18

August 22-25, Prague

http://agi-conf.org/2018

The ELEVENTH annual conference on Artificial General Intelligence (AGI−18) will take place in Prague, Czech Republic, Aug 22-25, 2018

The AGI conference series is the premier international event aimed at advancing the state of knowledge regarding the original goal of the AI field — the creation of thinking machines with general intelligence at the human level and possibly beyond.

Information on the previous AGI conferences may be found here.

Keynote speakers:

Papers:
As in prior AGI conferences, we welcome contributed papers on all aspects of AGI R&D, with the key proviso that each paper should somehow contribute specifically to the development of Artificial General Intelligence. The EasyChair submission page is now open. The link is here. NEW THIS YEAR: To facilitate an anonymous review process, initial submissions should include ONLY an anonymized version of the PDF files.

The proceedings of AGI-18 will be published as a book in Springer’s Lecture Notes in AI series, and all the accepted papers will be available online. Papers must be written in either LaTeX (preferred) or Word. Author guidelines and templates can be downloaded here and additional information about Springer’s Lecture Notes in AI and CS series is here. Two types of papers will be accepted:

  • Regular papers, with a length limit of 10 pages, presenting new research results or rigorously describing new research ideas
  • Short technical communications, with a limit of 4 pages, summarizing results and ideas of interest to the AGI audience, including reports about recent publications, position papers, and preliminary results.

The submission deadline is May 1, 2018 (now extended to May 14, 2018.) The EasyChair submission page is here.

Appropriate topics for contributed papers include, but are not restricted to:

  • Agent Architectures
  • Autonomy
  • Benchmarks and Evaluation
  • Cognitive Modeling
  • Collaborative Intelligence
  • Creativity
  • Distributed AI
  • Formal Models of General Intelligence
  • Implications of AGI for Society, Economy and Ecology
  • Integration of Different Capabilities
  • Knowledge Representation for General Intelligence
  • Languages, Specification Approaches and Toolkits
  • Learning, and Learning Theory
  • Motivation, Emotion and Affect
  • Multi-Agent Interaction
  • Natural Language Understanding
  • Neural-Symbolic Processing
  • Perception and Perceptual Modeling
  • Philosophy of AGI
  • Reasoning, Inference and Planning
  • Reinforcement Learning
  • Robotic and Virtual Embodiment
  • Simulation and Emergent Behavior
  • Solomonoff Induction

Workshops, Tutorials and Demos:
AGI-18 will include a number of exciting workshops , tutorials and software/hardware demos.

The demo session is your chance to show off what you’ve built. Whether it’s a python script, an interactive mobile app or a sentient robot butler, we would love to see your work.  Commercial demos are welcome as long as you refrain from blatant sales activities and are willing to openly discuss the technical details of your demo.

Selection Criteria. Demos will be prioritized based on their relevance to AGI and their maturity. We’ll take as many as the space allows. You also have to be registered for at least one of the member conferences to participate. To submit your demo proposal, please email Ben Goertzel by May 15:
  • Presenter(s). Each presenter must be registered in at least one of the participating conferences.
  • Affiliation.
  • Demo title.
  • Demo description. What would you like to show? Keep this to a few sentences with as much detail as possible.
  • Demo images.1-3 photographs (if hardware) or screenshots (if software).
  • AGI relevance. How does your work related to the over arching goal of human level artificial intelligence? As a rule of thumb, the more relevant your work, the shorter this answer needs to be.
  • Resources. Anything you’ll need, other than a table and 120V AC power.

Important Dates:

  • March 15 workshop and tutorial proposals due
  • April 1 workshop and tutorial proposal acceptance notification
  • May 1 (extended to May 14) paper submission due
  • June 1 paper acceptance notification
    • June 4 update: Unfortunately we have not yet received reviews for all submissions from our reviewers. We are working hard to hasten the review process. We will notify authors as soon as we can.
  • June 14 camera-ready files due (extended to June 22) 
    • Link to the require copyright form is here
  • July 10 workshop papers and demonstration proposals due
  • July 25 workshop and demonstration acceptance notification
  • Aug 22-25 conference

Chairs and Committees:

  1. Conference Chair: Dr. Matthew Ikle, Adams State University & SingularityNET
  2. Program Committee Chairs: Dr. Rafal Rzepka, Hokkaido University; and Dr. Arthur Franz, Odessa Competence Center for Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
  3. Organizing Committee: Tarek Besold, City, University of London; Daria Hvizdalova, GoodAI; and Olga Afanasjeva, GoodAI
  4. Program Committee Members: see the Committees page
  5. Steering Committee: Ben Goertzel, OpenCog Foundation, Hanson Robotics, & SingularityNET, Hong Kong; Marcus Hutter, Australian National University, Australia