Call For Participation: AI+MATH 04

                     CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
                Eighth International Symposium on
             ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND MATHEMATICS

            January 4-6, 2004, Fort Lauderdale, Florida
                  http://rutcor.rutgers.edu/~amai

APPROACH OF THE SYMPOSIUM: The International Symposium on Artificial
Intelligence and Mathematics is the eighth of a biennial series. The
objective of the Symposium is to foster interactions between mathematics,
theoretical CS, and artificial intelligence. Traditionally, the Symposium
attracts around 100 participants from a variety of disciplines, thereby
providing a unique forum for active scientific exchange. The Symposium
includes invited speakers, special topic sessions, and presentations of
submitted papers.

INVITED SPEAKERS:

    Robert Bixby, ILOG Inc.
        "The New Generation of Mixed-Integer Programming Codes"
    Ronen Brafman, Ben-Gurion University, Israel
        "Preference-Based Constrained Optimization with CP-Nets"
    Henry Kautz, University of Washington, USA
        "Toward a Universal Inference Engine"

SPECIAL TOPIC SESSIONS:

    Preferences
        Organizer: Ronen Brafman, Ben-Gurion University, Israel

    Portfolio Design for Combinatorial Problems
        Organizers: Carla Gomes, Cornell, USA
                    Bart Selman, Cornell, USA

    AI and Game Theory
        Organizers: Kevin Leyton-Brown, Stanford, USA
                    Moshe Tennenholtz, Technion, Israel

    Intelligent Text Processing
        Organizer: Shlomo Argamon, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA

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INFORMATION: Further information including the conference program
and hotel information can be obtained from the conference web site:
http://rutcor.rutgers.edu/~amai
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