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KI 2024

Workshops and Tutorials Call

The 47th edition of the German Conference on Artificial Intelligence (KI 2024) will be held in Würzburg, September 25–27, with workshops and tutorials taking place beforehand, on the 23rd and 24th September.

KI2024 is organized in cooperation with the Fachbereich Künstliche Intelligenz der Gesellschaft für Informatik (GI-SIG AI). KI is one of the major European AI conferences and traditionally brings together academic and industrial researchers from all areas of AI, providing an ideal place for exchanging news and research results on theory and applications. The technical program of KI2024 will incorporate paper presentations as well as workshops and tutorials.

Submission of Workshop and Tutorial Proposals

Proposals of workshops/tutorials should be PDF documents of up to three pages, written in English, and submitted by April 15th 2024. Submissions for Workshop or Tutorial proposals should be handed in directly as PDF at:

Submit Paper

With the track option “KI 2024 workshop and tutorial proposals“

Proposals should provide the following information:

  • Title (and possibly acronym) of the event 
  • Description of event topic and goal. This description should discuss the relevance of the suggested topic and its interest to the general AI community and the KI2024  audience. 
  • Names and affiliations (including e-mail and web address) of the organizer(s). Please indicate the primary contact person for KI2024. Include a description of the organizer’s background w.r.t. the event’s topic. In case of tutorial proposals, please also provide previous teaching/tutorial experience and/or own papers published in the field covered by the tutorial. 
  • Estimate of the expected length of the event (e.g. half-day or full-day, or amount of 60 to 90-min blocks) and a preliminary agenda. 
  • For tutorials only: Please also provide a description of the targeted audience and the expected prerequisite knowledge. 
  • For workshops only: Please also provide a brief description of the workshop format regarding the composition of events such as paper presentation, invited talks, panels, demonstrations, and/or general discussion. 
  • Furthermore, please give the expected number of participants, your plans for attracting enough participants for the workshop, and also a tentative list of PC members.

Workshop/Tutorial organizers will be responsible for:

  • Producing a call for abstracts/papers/demos/etc. (if applicable, depending on your workshop format). 
  • Organizers are responsible for additional publicity such as distributing the call to relevant newsgroups and mailing lists, and especially to potential audiences from outside the core KI conference community. 
  • Set-up and maintaining an event web page (to be online no later than June 1st, 2024) with updated information and possibly supplemental material about the tutorial/workshop. For tutorials, this includes information about reading material, a short bio of the lecturer(s), and, if possible, also links to the lecture slides. 
  • Provide a short description of the workshop program for the KI journal (to be sent by email June 15, 2024, to the Workshop and Tutorial Chairs of KI2024, see below). 
  • For workshops with planned proceedings: The workshop organizers coordinate the collection, production, and distribution of the selected papers.

The KI2024 conference organizers will provide rooms for the workshops and the tutorials as well as handle topics regarding the local organization. An EasyChair instance will be provided to handle the workshops submissions.

Important Dates

Submission Deadline: 15.04.2024 

Notification of Acceptance: 30.04.2024

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to the workshop and tutorials organizing team: 

Prof. Dr. Janna Hastings (janna.hastings[at]uzh.ch)

Prof. Dr. Ute Schmid (ute.schmid[at]uni-bamberg.de)