BCS SGAI

12/10/2017

AI-2017, Cambridge, UK, December 12th-14th 2017: First Invitation to Register
http://www.bcs-sgai.org/ai2017/

Organised by BCS SGAI: The British Computer Society Specialist Group on Artificial Intelligence (a EurAi Member Society)

* An innovation for this year's conference is that an optional (free) walking tour of Cambridge, including the celebrated King's College, has been added on the second day.*

INVITATION TO REGISTER

AI-2017 is the thirty-seventh SGAI annual conference in this long-running series. It offers the perfect opportunity for you to update your knowledge of current AI developments and applications, and to meet with leading AI practitioners in a relaxed social environment. This year's conference brings technical papers on the latest developments in AI, presentations from industry practitioners with practical experience of applying AI in the real world, and a range of workshops - ideal for those seeking to expand and deepen their knowledge of a wide range of AI techniques. All this in the historic surroundings of Peterhouse, Cambridge's oldest college.

WORKSHOPS

The first day of the conference (Tuesday December 12th) is devoted to half-day workshops on ‘Autonomic Systems that Learn’, ‘AI Applications in Law’ and ‘Autonomous Mobile Robots’, together with the 22nd UK Case-Based Reasoning Workshop (full day).

If preferred, this day can be attended on its own at a special rate.

MAIN CONFERENCE

The second and third days of the conference (Wednesday December 13th and Thursday December 14th) include:

- Keynote lectures:
* Detlef Nauck (Chief Research Scientist for Data Science, BT Research and Innovation Division) on ‘The Future of AI in Analytics’
* Prof. Frans Coenen (University of Liverpool) on ‘The Discovery of Knowledge in Image Data: A Study in Automated Population Estimation Using the Google Static Maps Service’

- Technical stream refereed papers on Machine Learning and Neural Networks, and Machine Learning, Speech and Vision and Fuzzy Logic

- Application stream refereed papers on AI for Healthcare, Applications of Machine Learning, Applications of Neural Networks and Fuzzy Logic, Case-Based Reasoning, and AI Techniques

- Poster sessions on emerging research and applications in artificial intelligence

- Special session: short presentations by poster authors

- Panel session on ‘AI and Privacy’

- AI Open Mic session

- Welcome reception on evening of December 12th

- Gala Dinner on evening of December 13th

This year's conference will be held at Peterhouse College in Cambridge. In addition to the formal sessions, the conference programme includes a welcome reception and a Gala Dinner. Plenty of time has been inserted into the programme to allow discussions with other delegates and time to make new contacts and renew old acquaintances.

AI-2017 offers a valuable opportunity to keep up to date with developments in AI and to share experiences in the practical issues of developing AI based systems.

Discounts are available for students plus members of SGAI, AISB and other EurAi member societies.

CONFERENCE COMMITTEE

ALL CORRESPONDENCE SHOULD BE SENT BY EMAIL TO THE CONFERENCE
SECRETARIAT: [email protected]

- Conference Chair: Professor Max Bramer, University of Portsmouth

- Workshop Organiser: Prof. Adrian Hopgood, University of Portsmouth

- Treasurer: Rosemary Gilligan

- Technical Programme Chair: Professor Max Bramer, University of Portsmouth

- Application Programme Chair: Prof. Miltos Petridis, Middlesex University

- Deputy Application Programme Chair: Dr. Jixin Ma, University of Greenwich

- Poster Session Organiser: Prof Nirmalie Wiratunga, The Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen

- Research Student Liaison: Dr. Giovanna Martinez, University of Nottingham

- Publicity Organiser: Dr. Frederic Stahl, University of Reading

- AI Open Mic and Panel Session Organiser: Andrew Lea, Amplify Life

- UK CBR Organiser: Prof. Miltos Petridis, Middlesex University

- Paper Administrator: Bryony Bramer

- Conference Administrator: Mandy Bauer, BCS

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22/08/2017

SGAI, the British Computer Society Specialist Group on Artificial Intelligence presents
Real AI 2017: A one-day event showcasing Practical Applications of Artificial Intelligence

http://www.bcs-sgai.org/realai2017

This year's one-day event in our Real AI series will be held on Friday October 6th 2017 at the BCS London Office (near Covent Garden) from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. This event is designed to showcase practical applications of artificial intelligence, of particular interest to business and industry.

This year's talks are on:
- From descriptive analytics to prescriptive analytics: Dr. Hakan Duman (Volkswagen Data Lab)
- AI and Modelling: Dr. Christos Tsotskas (Transport Systems Catapult)
- AI and Security: Prof. Trevor Martin (BT/University of Bristol)
- AI and Decision-Support: Ralph Traphöner (Empolis)
- AI and Transport: Dr Stelios Kapetanakis (University of Brighton)

As an innovation, this year's BCS Machine Intelligence competition will be held as a number of short sessions between the talks at Real AI. This will feature live demonstrations of applications that show 'progress towards machine intelligence'. The presenter of the best application, chosen by delegate voting, will receive a cash prize plus a trophy. For more information see http://bcs-sgai.org/micomp/.

The delegate fee is £90 (plus VAT) for BCS and SGAI members and £100 (plus VAT) for others. This includes lunch and refreshments. A special fee of £50 + VAT is available for students.

Full details and an online registration form are available at http://www.bcs-sgai.org/realai2017

If you have any questions about Real Artificial Intelligence, you can contact the organisers by email [email protected]

22/08/2017

British Computer Society Machine Intelligence Competition 2017 - Entries close on September 1st
http://www.bcs-sgai.org/micomp/

British Computer Society Specialist Group on Artificial Intelligence (SGAI) invites entries for the 2017 BCS Machine Intelligence Competition which will be held as part of the Group's one-day event Real AI 2017 (http://bcs-sgai.org/realai2017).

The twelfth BCS Machine Intelligence competition for live demonstrations of applications that show 'progress towards machine intelligence' will be held on Friday October 6th 2017 in central London. The winner will receive a cash prize plus a trophy.

The prize will be awarded on the basis of a 10-15 minute live demonstration (not a paper, not a technical description). The demonstration can be of either software (e.g. a question-answering system or a speech recognition system) or hardware (e.g. a mobile robot).

Full details of the competition and an online entry form are available on the website. There is no entry fee but competitors will be asked to meet their own costs. The closing date is Friday September 1st 2017. Early entry is strongly advised.

Attendance at the competition is free of charge for those attending Real AI 2017. All those attending will be eligible to vote for the winning entry.

Organisers:
Ms. Nadia Abouayoub (BCS SGAI) email: [email protected]
Prof. Max Bramer (Chair, SGAI) email: [email protected]

The twelfth BCS Machine Intelligence competition for live demonstrations of applications that show 'progress towards machine intelligence' will be held on Friday October 6th 2017 at the BCS London Office, First Floor, The Davidson Building, 5 Southampton Street, London. The winner will receive a cas...

03/06/2017

A video of the UKKDD2017 talks is now available https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKfO5HaMGzs&list=PLUXyMB8ZDC1Vcn5BzyKd2avk1l31xY8bw

23/12/2016

SAVE THE DATES

UK KDD 2017 - Monday May 8th (BCS London Office)

Real AI 2017 /MI Competition 2017 - Friday October 6th

FAIRS 11 - Monday December 11th (Peterhouse College, Cambridge)

AI-2017 Tuesday December 12th to Thursday December 14th 2017 (Peterhouse College, Cambridge)

17/12/2016

Thank you for all the participants delegates for coming and Sharing their knowledge with the AI Community

AI-2017 will be back at Peterhouse College, Cambridge from December 12th-14th with a preliminary day for research students on December 11th

2017 will be full of great events on and many other. You can also follow us on Twitter to know more

17/12/2016

AI-2016 Thirty-sixth SGAI International Conference on Artificial Intelligence.

04/12/2016

is the twitter hashtag to use at the SGAI International Conference on Artificial Intelligence on the 13th to 15th December

13/11/2016

SGAI International Conference on Artificial Intelligence

Speaker Profiles

Dr. Rick Adderley

Rick is a retired West Midlands Police inspector having served for 32 years in an operational capacity. His legacy to the Service is an intelligence product which was developed for the West Midlands region and is now used by all UK Police Forces; he specialises in profiling criminal activity. Rick retired in 2003 and started his business intelligence company focusing within the UK Emergency Services arena. The company has been involved in European funded projects under FP6 and FP7 all within the security arena.

06/11/2016

AI-2016, Cambridge, UK, December 13th-15th 2016: Second Invitation to Register

http://www.bcs-sgai.org/ai2016/

Organised by BCS SGAI: The British Computer Society Specialist Group on Artificial Intelligence (an ECCAI Member Society)

INVITATION TO REGISTER

AI-2016 is the thirty-sixth SGAI annual conference in this long-running series. It offers the perfect opportunity for you to update your knowledge of current AI developments and applications, and to meet with leading AI practitioners in a relaxed social environment. This year's conference brings technical papers on the latest developments in AI, presentations from industry practitioners with practical experience of applying AI in the real world, and a range of workshops - ideal for those seeking to expand and deepen their knowledge of a wide range of AI techniques. All this in the historic surroundings of Peterhouse, Cambridge's oldest college.

WORKSHOPS

The first day of the conference (Tuesday December 13th) is devoted to half-day workshops on 'Data Stream Mining' and 'Deep Learning Meets the Semantic Web' together with the 21st UK Case-Based Reasoning Workshop (full day).

If preferred, this workshop day can be attended on its own at a special rate.

MAIN CONFERENCE

The second and third days of the conference (Wednesday December 14th and Thursday December 15th) include:

- Keynote lectures:

* Michael Gleaves (Hartree Centre, Science and Technology Facilities Council) on 'Factors Affecting the Adoption of Machine Learning Technologies in Industrial Collaborations'

* Dr Stefan Wess (CEO of Empolis Information Management GmbH, Germany) on 'Twenty Years of Industrial AI applications: From Case-Based Reasoning to Deep Learning'

- Technical stream refereed papers on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, Sentiment Analysis and Recommendation, Machine Learning, AI Techniques, and Natural Language Processing

- Application stream refereed papers on Legal Liability, Medicine and Finance, Telecoms and eLearning, and Genetic Algorithms in Action

- Poster sessions on emerging research and applications in intelligent systems

- Special session: short presentations by poster authors

- Panel session on a topical subject

- AI Open Mic session

- Welcome reception on evening of December 13th

- Gala Dinner on evening of December 14th

This year's conference will be held at Peterhouse College in Cambridge. In addition to the formal sessions, the conference programme includes a welcome reception and a Gala Dinner. Plenty of time has been inserted into the programme to allow discussions with other delegates and time to make new contacts and renew old acquaintances.

AI-2016 offers a valuable opportunity to keep up to date with developments in AI and to share experiences in the practical issues of developing AI based systems.

Discounts are available for members of SGAI, AISB and other ECCAI member societies, students and also for members of NCAF.

CONFERENCE COMMITTEE

ALL CORRESPONDENCE SHOULD BE SENT BY EMAIL TO THE CONFERENCE
SECRETARIAT: [email protected]

- Conference Chair: Professor Max Bramer, University of Portsmouth

- Workshop Organiser: Prof. Adrian Hopgood, University of Liege, Belgium

- Treasurer: Rosemary Gilligan

- Technical Programme Chair: Professor Max Bramer, University of Portsmouth

- Application Programme Chair: Prof. Miltos Petridis, University of Brighton

- Deputy Application Programme Chair: Dr. Jixin Ma, University of Greenwich

- Poster Session Organiser: Dr Nirmalie Wiratunga, The Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen

- Research Student Liaison: Giovanna Martinez, Nottingham Trent University
and Christo Fogelberg, Palantir Technologies

- Publicity and Data Stream Mining Workshop Organiser: Dr. Frederic Stahl
University of Reading

- AI Open Mic and Panel Session Organiser: Andrew Lea, Primary Key Associates Ltd

- UK CBR Organiser: Prof. Miltos Petridis, University of Brighton and Prof. Thomas Roth-Berghofer, University of West London

- Paper Administrator: Bryony Bramer

- Conference Administrator: Mandy Bauer, BCS

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24/09/2016

FAIRS'16 - Forum for AI Research Students 2016
Final Call for Participation

A full day of workshops and presentations on AI research, guidance on completion of your PhD and insights from top level UK AI researchers and academics. Includes complementary lunch and refreshments. Monday December 12th 2016, Cambridge, UK

Deadline for applications: December 5th 2016

http://www.bcs-sgai.org/fairs2016/
http://www.bcs-sgai.org/ai2016/

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AI-2016 is the latest in the leading series of UK-based international conferences on Artificial Intelligence run by the BCS Specialist Group on AI. In 2007 we launched the Forum for AI Research Students to support student members of the AI community, and have repeated the event each following year, this time at AI-2016. The event offers a full day of workshops and presentations and includes lunch and refreshments, requiring just a small contribution of £15 (+VAT) to cover the cost of these to reserve a place.

A one day event, to students, offering PhD and MRes/MPhil students in AI fields:

* Guidance on conducting research and writing a thesis

* Advice on undergoing the viva

* Advice and discussion on careers after a PhD

* The chance to meet other research students and develop networks

* An opportunity to discuss their work with senior researchers and practitioners

Deadline for applications: December 5th 2016

Overview

FAIRS'16 is intended to allow PhD and MRes/MPhil students working on AI related topics to discuss their research and issues around doing a PhD with senior scholars in the field and with other Forum attendees. The forum is aimed at those who have either completed a Master's degree in an AI field and who are interested in progressing to a PhD, or are current doctoral or research Masters students. Students will be expected to contribute to small workshop discussions on issues related to the conduct of the PhD. It will be a stand-alone programme which will take place on December 12th, the day before the main AI-2016 conference workshops and tutorials.

Programme

The Forum will include:

* Getting a PhD - Workshop on conducting research and developing and writing a thesis.

* Student discussion groups

* Parallel streams, for students at different stages of the PhD.

* Discussion of issues and problems experienced by PhD students. All encouraged to share and get involved!

* Panel sessions - Question and answer sessions with a panel comprising recent PhD graduates, AI academics, industrial representative and PhD employers. Focus on:

* doing a PhD

* careers and employment

* How To Survive your Viva! - A light-hearted presentation on how to (and how not to) prepare for and perform at a Viva.

Further Information

Full details of the Forum, including the application process, are at http://www.bcs-sgai.org/fairs2016/. As part of SGAI's aim to support student members of the AI community, this event will have a minimal cost to (partly) cover lunch and refreshments for student attendees, just £15 (+VAT). Please encourage research students to attend this event. There is no need for attendees to register for AI-2016. However, a special student rate has been arranged - full details at http://www.bcs-sgai.org/ai2016/.

31/07/2016

******* MACHINE INTELLIGENCE COMPETITION 2016 *******
British Computer Society Machine Intelligence Competition 2016
http://bcs-sgai.org/micomp/

After a three-year gap it is with great pleasure that the British Computer Society Specialist Group on Artificial Intelligence (SGAI) relaunches the BCS Machine Intelligence Competition, as part of the Group's one-day event Real AI 2016.

The eleventh BCS Machine Intelligence competition for live demonstrations of applications that show 'progress towards machine intelligence' will be held on Friday October 7th 2016 at the BCS London Office, First Floor, The Davidson Building, 5 Southampton Street, London. The winner will receive a cash prize plus a trophy.

The prize will be awarded on the basis of a 10-15 minute live demonstration (not a paper, not a technical description). The demonstration can be of either software (e.g. a question-answering system or a speech recognition system) or hardware (e.g. a mobile robot).

Full details of the competition and an online entry form are available on the website. There is no entry fee but competitors will be asked to meet their own costs. The closing date is Friday September 9th 2016. However early entry is strongly advised.

Attendance at the competition is free of charge for those attending Real AI 2016 (http://www.bcs-sgai.org/realai2016/). All those attending will be eligible to vote for the winning entry.

Organisers: Ms. Nadia Abouayoub (BCS SGAI) email: [email protected] and Prof. Max Bramer (Chair, SGAI) email: [email protected]