SLOVAK ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
					
                      SCIENTIFIC BOARD FOR ARTIFICIAL
                    INTELLIGENCE OF THE RUSSIAN ACADEMY 
                               OF SCIENCES
		  
			  
			  
			 
                      Sixth International Conference
			  
			 
                          ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
                                  AND
                        INFORMATION-CONTROL SYSTEMS
                               OF ROBOTS
		
						
                             First Announcement 
                                    and 
                              Call for Papers
			  
		  
                           September 12-16, 1994
                Smolenice Castle near Bratislava, Slovakia
			
			
Slovak Academy of Sciences and the Scientific Board for Artificial 
Intelligence of the Russian Academy of Sciences, in cooperation 
with European Coordinating Commitee foe Artificial Intelligence 
(ECCAI), International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP)
TC 12 - Artificial Intelligence, Slovak Society for Cybernetics and
Informatics and Association of Slovak and Technical Societies are
organizing the Sixth International Conference ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
AND INFORMATION-CONTROL SYSTEMS OF ROBOTS to be held at 
the Smolenice Castle near Bratislava.

The Conference is sponsored by a grant of the Commission of European
Communities within the Cooperation in Science and Technology with
Central and Eastern European Countries (COST).

         
                          AIM OF THE CONFERENCE

The aim of the Conference is to acquaint the participants with 
contemporary state-of-the-art and recent results in Artificial 
Intelligence (AI), intelligent information-control systems of robots
and computer architectures for AI. Conference program includes 
invited and submitted papers. Panel discussions and exhibition 
covering participants own works will also be organized. The papers 
will be published as the Conference Proceedings. 

OFFICIAL LANGUAGE: English


                               TOPICS
							
Conference topics include (but are not limited to):
Theoretical problems of AI * Knowledge representation * Cognitive 
modelling * Learning * Knowledge-based and expert systems * 
Programming languages and software for AI * Human-computer 
interaction * AI and expert systems applications * Robotics * 
Searching and planning * Vision, image processing, and computational
geometry * Perception and intelligent sensor systems * New 
generation computer architectures * Parallel, distributed, and 
decentralized architectures for AI and robotics * AI hardware *
Neural networks and AI.


                            DEMONSTRATIONS
						
AI software and industrial applications.


                         SUBMISSION OF PAPERS
					
Authors are invited to submit five copies of full draft paper (max.
12 pages).

				
                          IMPORTANT DATES
			
Deadline for submission                  January 15, 1994

Notification of acceptance/rejection     March 1, 1994

Deadline for the final text              April 30, 1994

Final announcement plus 
Conference program                       July 15, 1994

Conference                               September 12-16, 1994


                        PROGRAM COMMITEE
					
Bajcsy, R. - Philadelphia
Bekey, G. - Los Angeles
Bibel, W. - Darmstadt
Bjorner, D - Lyngby
Demetrovics, J. - Budapest
Frankovic, B. - Bratislava
Guida, G - Brescia
Hajek, P. - Prague
Hajicova, E. - Prague
Kelemen, J. - Bratislava
Khoroshevsky, V.F. - Moscow
Lin Zong Kai - Beijing
Meersman, R.A. - Antwerpen
Petrov, A.P. - Moscow
Plander, I. Bratislava (Chairman)
Platonov, A. - Moscow
Pospelov, D.A. - Moscow
Pospelov, G.S. - Moscow
Rossi, G.F. - Parma
Sgall, P. - Prague
Sgurev, V. - Sofia
Shapiro, D. - Moscow
Sloboda, F. - Bratislava
Vamos, T. - Budapest


                   ADDRESS FOR ALL CORRESPONDENCE
				
Professor Ivan Plander
Conference AIICSR-94
Slovak Academy of Sciences
Dubravska cesta 9
84237 Bratislava
Slovakia

Phone: +42(7)37 1004
Fax: +42(7)37 1004, 37 6045
e-mail: aiicsr@savba.sk