IJCAI-PRICAI 2020 Call for Tutorials

IJCAI-PRICAI 2020 invites proposals for the Tutorial Track. Tutorials will be held on July 11-13, immediately prior to the technical conference. Tutorial attendance is complimentary for all IJCAI-PRICAI 2020 conference registrants.

Objectives

Tutorials should serve one or more of the following objectives:

• Introduce novices to major topics within Artificial Intelligence.
• Introduce expert non-specialists to an AI subarea.
• Motivate and explain a topic of emerging importance for AI.
• Survey a mature area of AI research and/or practice.
• Provide instruction in established but specialized AI methodologies.
• Present a novel synthesis combining distinct lines of AI work.
• Introduce AI audiences to an external topic that can motivate or use AI research.
• Mentor AI researchers (particularly, junior researchers) on a broad AI-relevant non-technical topic (examples could be AI jobs, or ethical issues in AI).

Tutorials are intended to cover reasonably well-established information in a balanced way. Tutorials should not be used to advocate a single avenue of research, nor should they promote a product. However, we strongly encourage tutorials with a hands-on component or other interactive elements. We also particularly welcome tutorials on socially and/or industrially relevant topics in relation with AI such as privacy, security, fairness or ethics.

Submission Instructions

Tutorial proposals should be submitted via email with the subject line “IJCAI Tutorial proposal” at tutorials@ijcai20.org.

Proposals must be submitted as a single PDF file containing the following information:

• A two-sentence description of the tutorial, suitable for inclusion in the conference registration brochure.
• A two-paragraph description of the tutorial, suitable for a web page overview.
• Proposed length of the tutorial: 1/4 or 1/2 day (one or two 1:45h slots respectively)
• A detailed, point-form outline of the tutorial.
• A brief characterization of the potential target audience for the tutorial, including prerequisite knowledge.
• A brief description of why the tutorial topic would be of interest to a substantial part of the IJCAI audience, and which of the above objectives are best served by the tutorial.
• A brief resume of the presenter(s), which should include:
  • Name, postal address, phone number, e-mail address
  • Background in the tutorial area, including a list of publications/presentation
  • Citation to an available example of work in the area (ideally, a published tutorial-level article or presentation materials on the subject)
  • Evidence of teaching experience (courses taught or references)
  • Evidence of scholarship in AI or Computer Science

Any questions about the tutorial program should be directed to the tutorial chairs, at the following address: tutorials@ijcai20.org.

Emmanuel Hebrard (hebrard@laas.fr) and Vincent Zheng (vincent.zheng@adsc-create.edu.sg)
Tutorial Chairs of IJCAI-PRICAI 2020