ESSAI
24-28 July 2023
Ljubljana, Slovenia

*CALL FOR COURSE PROPOSALS*

The 1st European Summer School in Artificial Intelligence - ESSAI 2023 24-28 
July, 2023 will take place at the University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Computer 
and Information Science, Ljubljana, Slovenia.

https://essai.ijs.si


IMPORTANT DATES:

   24 Jan 2023: Course Title submission deadline (mandatory)
   31 Jan 2023: Final submission
  28 Feb 2023: Notification

The European Summer School in Artificial Intelligence (ESSAI) is a new annual 
summer school held under the auspices of the European Association for 
Artificial Intelligence (EurAI).  The ambition of ESSAI is to become the 
central meeting place for students and young researchers in Artificial 
Intelligence to discuss current research and share knowledge.

ESSAI will provide an interdisciplinary setting in which courses are offered in 
all areas of Artificial Intelligence and also from wider scientific, 
historical, and philosophical perspectives. The format of ESSAI is analogous to 
the European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI) which 
has been running since 1989. Courses will consist of five 90 minute sessions, 
offered daily (Monday-Friday) in a single week, to allow students to develop 
in-depth knowledge of a topic.

The first ESSAI will be held in Ljubljana, Slovenia in between the 24th and 
28th of July 2023. ESSAI 2023 aims to attract around 400 participants from all 
parts of Europe, as well as from North and Latin America, and Asia.

TOPICS AND FORMAT

ESSAI aims to cover all subdisciplines of AI and the interactions between them.
Proposals for courses at ESSAI 2023 are invited in all areas of Artificial 
Intelligence, including but not limited to the following:


* Agent-based and Multi-agent Systems (MAS)

* Ethics, Legal Issues, Explainable and Trustworthy AI (XAI)

* Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KR)

* Natural Language Processing (NLP)

* Neuro-Symbolic Learning and Reasoning (NeSy)

* Planning & Strategic Reasoning (PLAN)

* Reinforcement Learning (RL)

* Robotics (ROB)

* Search & Optimization (SO)

* Supervised and Unsupervised Learning (ML)

* Vision (VIS)

Each course will consist of five 90 minute lectures, offered daily 
(Monday-Friday) in a single week.

While foundational courses will typically focus on one subarea of  AI, 
introductory and advanced courses are encouraged to present a broader 
perspective on AI, and should be of interest beyond one specific area.


CATEGORIES

Each proposal should fall under one of the following categories.


* FOUNDATIONAL COURSES *


Foundational courses present the basics of a research area to students with no 
prior knowledge in that area. They should be at an elementary level, without 
prerequisites in the course's topic, though possibly assuming a level of 
general scientific maturity in the relevant discipline. They should enable 
researchers from related disciplines to become comfortable  with the 
fundamental concepts and techniques of the course topic, thereby contributing 
to the interdisciplinary nature of our research community.


* INTRODUCTORY COURSES *


Introductory courses are central to ESSAI's mission. They are intended to 
introduce a research field to students, young researchers, and other 
non-specialists, and to foster a sound understanding of its basic methods and 
techniques. Introductory courses should enable researchers from related 
disciplines to become competent in the course topic. Introductory courses that 
are cross-disciplinary may presuppose general knowledge of the relevant 
disciplines.


* ADVANCED COURSES *


Advanced courses are targeted primarily at graduate students who wish to 
acquire an understanding of current research in a field of Artificial 
Intelligence.



PROPOSAL GUIDELINES


To be considered, course proposals should closely adhere to the following 
guidelines:

Course proposals can be submitted by no more than two lecturers, and courses 
must be  presented by lecturers who submitted the proposal. All lecturers must 
possess a PhD or equivalent degree by the submission deadline for course 
proposals.

Course proposals should explicitly state the intended course category. 
Proposals for introductory courses should indicate the intended level, for 
example, as it relates to standard textbooks and monographs in the area. 
Proposals for advanced courses should specify the prerequisites in detail.

Proposals must be submitted in PDF format via:

https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=essai2023

and include all of the following:

a. Personal information for each proposer: Name, affiliation, contact address, 
email, homepage (optional)

b. General proposal information: Title, category

c. Information about the course content:

         Abstract of up to 150 words

         Motivation and description (up to two pages)

         Tentative outline

         Expected level and prerequisites

         Appropriate references (e.g. textbooks, monographs, proceedings, 
surveys)

d. Information about the proposer(s) and course:

         Whether the course will appeal to students outside of the main 
discipline of the course

         Proposer(s)’s experience of delivering courses in an intensive 
one-week interdisciplinary setting

         Evidence that the proposer(s) is an excellent lecturer


To keep participation fees to a minimum, all the instructional and 
organizational work of ESSAI is performed on a completely voluntary basis. 
However, the registration fees of organizers and instructors will be waived, 
and travel and accommodation expenses will be reimbursed up to a level which 
will be communicated along with the proposal notification. ESSAI can only 
guarantee reimbursement for at most one course lecturer, and can not guarantee 
full reimbursement of travel costs for lecturers from outside of Europe. The 
organizers of ESSAI would appreciate any help in reducing the School's expenses 
by seeking partial or complete coverage of travel and accommodation expenses 
from other sources.



SUBMISSION INFORMATION

By Jan 24,  2023:
Proposers must submit on EasyChair at least the name(s) of the lecturers(s), 
the ESSAI area+course level and a short abstract.


By Jan 31, 2023:
Submission must be completed by uploading a PDF with the actual proposal as 
detailed above.


SUBMISSION PORTAL

Please submit your proposals to
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=essai2023



ORGANIZING COMMITTEE


Aleksander Sadikov (University of Ljubljana)
Vida Groznik (University of Primorska, University of Ljubljana)
Sašo Džeroski (Jožef Stefan Institute)
Jure Žabkar (University of Ljubljana)


PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Magdalena Ortiz (Umeå University), chair
Sašo Džeroski (Jožef Stefan Institute), local co-chair
Brian Logan (University of Aberdeen), associate chair

Area chairs will be announced on the course website


EurAI Board Representative
Giuseppe De Giacomo  (Sapienza University of Rome)

—
Magdalena Ortiz
(Maria Magdalena Ortiz de la Fuente)
Associate Professor for Knowledge Representation and Reasoning
Department of Computing Science
Umeå University
magdalena.or...@umu.se<mailto:magdalena.or...@umu.se>




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