MICAI-2013 12th Mexican International Conference on ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE November 24 to 30, 2013, Mexico City www.micai.org/2013 Publication: Springer LNAI (EI, ISI); selected papers in journals (ISI JCR) Deadlines: July 25 abstract / Aug 1 full text GENERAL INFORMATION MICAI is organized by Mexican Society for Artificial Intelligence (Sociedad Mexicana de Inteligencia Artificial, SMIA). Recent MICAI events received over 300-400 submissions on average, from over 40 countries. The proceedings have been published as Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence series volumes. Submissions are invited on significant, original, and previously unpublished research on all aspects of artificial intelligence. MICAI is open to all areas of Artificial Intelligence, either research or applications. Papers should be submitted online using EasyChair system: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=micai2013. Papers must not exceed 12 pages, in LNAI format (www.springer.com/lncs). Papers must be submitted without authors' names, affiliations and self-references, in the form suitable for double blind reviewing. Submission of the paper assumes that at least one author will register at the conference and present an accepted paper or poster. Full registration fee should be paid for each accepted paper. Workshops and Tutorials are planned as part of the conference. The SMIA is pleased to announce the availability of a limited number of travel grants for students, who are the principal authors of accepted papers, attending MICAI-2013. Papers accepted for full (long) oral presentation will be published by Springer in a volume of the series Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence. Poster session papers will be published separately by IEEE CPS (anticipated). Special issues of journals are anticipated for best papers: at previous MICAI events, more than half of papers published in LNAI were invited to special issues of journals (including ISI JCR-indexed journals). Best papers awards will be given for the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place best papers. IMPORTANT DATES July 25, 2013: Registration of abstracts. August 1, 2013: Uploading of full text of registered papers. September 8, 2013: Notification of acceptance. September 22, 2013: Camera-ready and payment deadline VENUE Mexico City. CULTURAL PROGRAM Pre-Hispanic city of Teotihuacan: 2000 years old pyramids, a UNESCO World Heritage site. Anthropology museum: world's largest anthropology museum. Valle de Bravo "magic village" (tentatively). Teotihuacan is one of the most important archaeological sites in the Americas. KEYNOTE TALKS: - Erik Cambria, NUS, Singapore: "SenticNet: Helping Machines to Learn, Leverage, Love" - Maria Vargas-Vera, Chile: "Multi-Agent Ontology Mapping Framework for the Semantic Web" - Newton Howard, MIT, USA: "Rethinking Artificial Intelligence" - Amir Hussain, U. of Stirling, UK: "Towards Multi-modal Cognitive Systems: A Case Study in Autonomous Vehicle Control and Some Future Research Directions" - Ildar Batyrshin, IMP, Mexico: "Time Series Shape Association Measures" CALL FOR WORKSHOPS and TUTORIALS You are invited to submit your workshop or tutorial proposal; see the respective calls on the webpage. No specific deadline: we will consider the submissions as they arrive; express your interest now. GENERAL INQUERIES AND CONTACT INFORMATION Conference chairs: Alexander Gelbukh (www.Gelbukh.com), Grigori Sidorov (www.cic.ipn.mx/~sidorov). Program chairs: Felix Castro, fcastroe (?) gmail com, Alexander Gelbukh, www.gelbukh.com, Miguel Gonzalez Mendoza, mgonza (?) itesm mx. Please distribute. We apologize if you receive multiple copies.