Thematic tracks

To promote discussions among participants, EPIA'2009 is structured as a set of thematic tracks proposed by the Portuguese and international AI research communities. Thematic tracks are intended to provide an informal environment that fosters the active cross-fertilization of ideas between researchers within specific sub-areas of AI, including theoretical/foundational, integrative, application-oriented and newly emerging areas. After evaluation of proposals received in response to the Call for Thematic Tracks, the following tracks were selected and included in the conference program:

• AITUM Artificial Intelligence in Transportation and Urban Mobility
• ALEA Artificial Life and Evolutionary Algorithms
• CMBSB Computational Methods in Bioinformatics and Systems Biology
• COLA Computational Logic with Applications
• EAC Emotional and Affective Computing
• GAI General Artificial Intelligence
• IROBOT Intelligent Robotics
• KDBI Knowledge Discovery and Business Intelligence
• MASTA Multi-Agent Systems: Theory and Applications
• SSM Social Simulation and Modelling
• TEMA Text Mining and Applications
• WNI Web and Network Intelligence