SLOVAK ACADEMY OF SCIENCES

                      SCIENTIFIC BOARD FOR ARTIFICIAL
                    INTELLIGENCE OF THE RUSSIAN ACADEMY
                               OF SCIENCES


                      Seventh International Conference


                        ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
                                  AND
                      INFORMATION-CONTROL SYSTEMS
                               OF ROBOTS


                             First Announcement
                                    and
                              Call for Papers


                           September 10-14, 1997
                             Congress Centre
                Smolenice Castle near Bratislava, Slovakia


Continuing in the traditions of previous AIICSR Conferences held in
1980-1994, the Slovak Academy of Sciences and the Scientific Board
for Artificial Intelligence of the Russian Academy of Sciences, in
cooperation with Slovak Society for Applied Cybernetics and Informatics
and Association of Slovak Scientific and Technical Societies are
organizing the Seventh International Conference ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
AND INFORMATION-CONTROL SYSTEMS OF ROBOTS to be held at Congress Centre,
Smolenice Castle near Bratislava.

The Conference is sponsored by a grant of the Commission of European
Communities, Brussels.


                          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 parallel, distributed and decentralized computer architectures
for AI and robotics. 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 * Environments
for AI and robotics * Learning * Knowledge-based and expert systems *
Man-machine interaction * Genetic algorithms * Robotics * Vision *
Image processing * Computational geometry * Signal processing *
Perception and intelligent sensor systems * AI for multimedia *
Parallel, distributed, and decentralized architectures for AI and
robotics * Intelligent multiagent systems * Neural networks * Speech
processing and natural language understanding *


                            DEMONSTRATIONS

Conference participants are invited to demonstrate AI software and
industrial applications, and/or to run workshops or tutorials.


                         SUBMISSION OF PAPERS

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


                          IMPORTANT DATES

Deadline for submission                  January 15, 1997

Notification of acceptance/rejection     March 31, 1997

Deadline for the final text              April 30, 1997

Final announcement and
Conference program                       July 15, 1997

Conference                               September 10-14, 1997


                        PROGRAM COMMITEE

Bekey, G. - Los Angeles
Bibel, W. - Darmstadt
Bratko, I. - Ljubiana
Demazeau, Y. - Grenoble
Ezhkova, I.V. - Brussels
Filip, F.G. - Bucharest
Frankovic, B. - Bratislava
Horn, W. - Vienna
Kacsuk, P. - Budapest
Kelemen, J. - Bratislava
Khoroshevsky, V.F. - Moscow
Laenens, E. - Antwerp
Lee, S.J. - Kaohsiung, Taiwan
Melikhov, A. - Taganrog, Russia
Miola, A. - Rome
Mirenkov, N. - Aizu, Japan
Nawarecki, E. - Krakov
Meersman, R.A. - Antwerpen
Plander, I. Bratislava (Chairman)
Platonov, A. - Moscow
Pospelov, D.A. - Moscow (Co-Chairman)
Richter, M.M. - Kaiserslautern
Prade, H. - Toulouse
Rossi, G.F. - Parma
Sgall, P. - Prague
Shapiro, D. - Moscow
Sloboda, F. - Bratislava
Sykora, O. - Bratislava
Takahashi, R. - Tokyo
Tyugu, E. - Kista, Sweden
Vajtersic, M. - Bratislava
Valencia, A. - Madrid
Vamos, T. - Budapest


                   ADDRESS FOR ALL CORRESPONDENCE

Professor Ivan Plander, DrSc.
Conference AIICSR-97
Slovak Academy of Sciences
Dubravska cesta 9
842 37 Bratislava
Slovakia

Phone: +42(7)371004, 374703, 3782204
Fax: +42(7)371004
e-mail: aiicsr@savba.sk, upsyplan@savba.sk