<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div><div class="gmail-im"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica;"><b>Doctoral Consortium Call for Papers <font color="#ff0000">(with Extended deadlines)</font><br></b><br>The AIxIA Doctoral Consortium (DC) is offered as part of the Conference of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence (AIxIA) that will take place </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica;">in Rome, Italy on November 6-9, 2023.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica;"> The DC provides an opportunity for PhD students to explore and develop their research interests in the Artificial Intelligence field, in the broader sense, under the guidance of a panel of distinguished researchers from both academia and industry. Attending students will have the opportunity to present their work in a dedicated session during the conference.<br><br><b><u>AIxIA Doctoral </u></b></span><b><u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica;">Consortium's </span></u></b><b><u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica;">main objectives are the following:<br></span></u></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica;">Provide a supportive setting for feedback on students’ current research and guidance on future research directions.<br>Offer each student comments and fresh perspectives on their work from faculty and students outside their institution, taking advantage of mentorship opportunities.<br>Promote the development of a supportive community of scholars and a spirit of collaborative research.<br>Contribute to the conference goals through interaction with other researchers and conference events.<br><br><b><u>We accept contributions from:</u><br></b></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica;">- students regularly enrolled in some PhD programs;<br>- students enrolled in the National PhD Programs in Artificial Intelligence (PhD-AI) and Robotics and Intelligent Machines (phDRIM).<br>- students/master’s holders not yet enrolled in a PhD program, but strongly motivated to enroll in the next future.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica;">We invite the submission of research papers, where special attention should be dedicated to contextualising the contribution within the research area it belongs to and how the contribution fits within the PhD program. We also encourage submissions of preliminary works that survey the state-of-the-art of a specific problem and propose a plan for ongoing investigation activities.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica;"><br></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica;"><br><b><u>Topics of interest</u></b><br>Applicants are expected to be conducting research in the field of Artificial Intelligence; topics of interest include (but are not limited to):<br>AI and digital entertainment<br>AI applications<br>AI architectures<br>AI in Learning Environments<br>Big Data<br>Cognitive modeling<br>Cognitive Robotics<br>Constraint Satisfaction<br>Experimentation of Combinatorial Algorithms<br>Human-Computer Interaction<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica;">Human-Robot Interaction</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica;"><br>Information Agents<br>Information Retrieval and Extraction<br>Knowledge Acquisition<br>Knowledge Engineering<br>Knowledge Representation<br>Learning in adaptive systems<br>Machine Consciousness<br>Machine learning<br>Mathematical Foundations<br>Metacognition in Artificial Agents<br>Multiagent Systems, Distributed AI<br>Natural Language Processing<br>Ontologies<br>Philosophical Foundations<br>Planning and Scheduling<br>Reasoning<br>Robotics<br>Search<br>Semantic Web<br>Smart Cities<br>Soft and Evolutionary Computing<br>Temporal Reasoning<br>Uncertainty<br>Vision<br>Web and Data Mining<br><br><b><u>Submission Instructions</u></b><u><br></u>All submissions must be written in English and must be formatted according to the Springer Publications format for Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), please refer to </span><a href="https://es.sonicurlprotection-fra.com/click?PV=2&MSGID=202309080821320170822&URLID=4&ESV=10.0.19.7431&IV=3AEC2A58824055717F4327F8EA16CC99&TT=1694161293783&ESN=ycdhdiAZKV56IlRnHxpioXq7Neh697wAQFXg9BRbENs%3D&KV=1536961729280&B64_ENCODED_URL=aHR0cDovL3d3dy5zcHJpbmdlci5jb20vY29tcHV0ZXIvbG5jcy9sbmNzK2F1dGhvcnM&HK=75273292E8344E99C08621D8E3E2297DF70B867510C9C6393E9B6CA86B2C878E" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114);"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica;">http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs/lncs+authors</span></a><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica;">.<br>The only accepted format for submitted papers is PDF. Paper submission will be handled electronically by mean</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica;">s of Easychair.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica;">The submission page is available at </span><a href="https://es.sonicurlprotection-fra.com/click?PV=2&MSGID=202309080821320170822&URLID=2&ESV=10.0.19.7431&IV=B26C33734D0B7DC08311D0BC4EB4CAB9&TT=1694161293783&ESN=asPx38GUlfmDeOG2mQVb%2BbZ6fpLxdv8bJeZ%2BMgT08Z8%3D&KV=1536961729280&B64_ENCODED_URL=aHR0cHM6Ly9lYXN5Y2hhaXIub3JnL2NvbmZlcmVuY2VzLz9jb25mPWFpeGlhMjAyMw&HK=6019B0E4760A419CD7CB2A69BFFB3FC7DEC5BC75ECE72B46621230367AEFCCE8" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114);"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica;">https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aixia2023</span></a><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica;"> selecting the DC track.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica;">Accepted Papers based on original work will be included in </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica;">the DC proceedings published on-line by CEUR after the conference.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica;"> Already published papers will appear as a link to the previous publication in the DC proceedings published by CEUR. <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica;"> </span></p></div></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"></p><div><div class="gmail-adm"><div id="gmail-q_201" class="gmail-ajR gmail-h4" aria-label="Mostra contenuti abbreviati" aria-expanded="false"><div class="gmail-ajT" style="background-image: url("https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system_gm/2x/more_horiz_black_20dp.png"); background-size: 20px;"></div></div></div></div><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 9pt;">Submission Deadline: <strike>September 8th, 2023</strike> <font color="#ff0000"> September 15th, 2023</font><span class="gmail-im"><br>Acceptance Notification: <strike>September 29th, 2023</strike> <font color="#ff0000">October 6th, 2023</font><u></u><u></u></span></span><p></p><span class="gmail-im"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica;">Doctoral Consortium Days: TBD</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica;"><br><br><b><u>Best Student Paper Award</u></b><br></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica;">The DC Paper awards will be conferred on the author of the Doctoral Consortium's best paper at the conference.<br></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica;"><br></span><b><u><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica;">Doctoral Consortium Co-Chairs<br></span></u></b>Valentina Poggioni (Università di Perugia, Perugia, Italy)<br>Silvia Rossi (Università di Napoli Federico II, Napoli, Italy)</span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div><span class="gmail-im"><br></span></div></body></html>