MICAI 2008 7th Mexican International Conference on ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE EXTENDED SUBMISSION DEADLINE http://www.MICAI.org/2008 October 27 to 31, Mexico City, Mexico Proceedings: Springer LNAI, IEEE, and special issues of journals *NEW* EXTENDED submission deadline: JUNE 9 (abstract), JUNE 16 (paper) CALL FOR PAPERS *NEW* KEYNOTE SPEAKERS - George Gottlob, Oxford University, UK; - Simon Haykin, McMaster University, Canada; - Stephanie Forrest, U. of New Mexico, USA; - Steven M LaValle, University of Illinois, USA; - Gerardo Jiménez-Sánchez, Johns Hopkins University, USA; - Francisco Cervantes Peréz, UNAM, Mexico. GENERAL INFORMATION Topics of interest include all areas of Artificial Intelligence. Poster session, workshops, tutorials, doctoral consortium, and cultural events are planned. The recent MICAI events (2005, 2006, 2007) received around 450 submissions from over 40 countries each. The acceptance rate (oral session) was around 26%. Among keynote speakers were John McCarthy, Tom Mitchell, Ronald Yager, and Pedro Domingos, to name just a few. There were over 500 attendees. PROCEEDINGS AND SUBMISSION Papers accepted for oral session will be published by Springer in LNAI: Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence. Poster session papers will be published separately. Special issues of journals are anticipated. Submissions are received via webpage; see guidelines there. By June 9, only abstract is to be registered; the full text is then due by June 16. IMPORTANT DATES June 9: Registration of abstracts. June 16: Uploading of full text of registered papers. CONTACT General inquiries: micai2008 at MICAI dot org; see http://www.MICAI.org/2008.