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AAAI-20 Demonstrations Program
The Thirty-Fourth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence
New York, New York, USA
February 7-12, 2020
Paper Submission Site: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=aaai20programs
Official AAAI 2020 Demos Website: https://aaai.org/Conferences/AAAI-20/aaai20demoscall/
Link to PDF of the Call: https://rebrand.ly/AAAI2020Demos
Timetable for Authors
* July 1, 2019 - September 20, 2019: Authors register on AAAI-20 submission site.
* September 20, 2019: Full submissions (short paper and video) due.
* October 25, 2019: Notifications sent to authors, accompanied by detailed reviews
* November 21, 2019: Camera-ready copy due
Call for Demonstrations
The AAAI-20 Demonstrations Program is intended to foster discussion and exchange of ideas
among researchers and practitioners from academia and industry by presenting software and
hardware systems and research prototypes of such systems, including their capabilities and
workings. Accepted demonstrations will be allocated one time slot of 1.5 or 2 hours during one
of the main conference evening poster programs, and will have a short demo paper included in
the proceedings.
Topics of Interest
The Demonstrations Program welcomes presentations of systems on all topics of mainstream AI
(see the topic descriptions of the main AAAI and IAAI conference tracks). Promising topics
include, but are not limited to, the following.
* cognitive systems
* decision making systems
* educational software and hardware tools for AI
* environment-aware agent behaviors
* game playing programs
* human-robot interaction
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* intelligent collaborative systems
* intelligent control systems
* intelligent graphical user interfaces
* intelligent tutoring systems
* intelligent devices and smart IoT
* natural language processing
* speech recognition
* robots
* interactive learning systems and UIs
* web services
The demonstrations must present new ideas, which are not already established in mainstream
products or services. However, the demonstration need not be novel to the AAAI-20 demos
program; it is all right if it has been showcased elsewhere in the recent past. Captivating
demonstrations will be given an advantage in the review process.
Submissions from everyone, including authors of papers submitted to AAAI, IAAI, and AAAI-20
workshops, are encouraged. Work submitted to other tracks can also be submitted to the
Demonstrations Program in the format prescribed below, and it will be evaluated independently
according to the Demonstrations review process.
Author Registration
Authors must register at the AAAI-20 submission site (available July 1) before submitting their
expressions of interest. Authors should select "Demo Track." The software will assign a
password, which will enable the author to log on and submit their work. Authors are strongly
encouraged to register as soon as possible, well in advance of the September 20 deadline.
* Registration will close at 11:59 PM PDT on September 20, 2019
* Final demo paper submission will close at 11:59 PM PDT on September 20, 2019
Submission and Review Process
Authors are required to submit two items: (1) a 2-page short paper describing their system,
formatted in AAAI two-column style, and (2) a video (of duration up to 10 minutes) of the
proposed demonstration. A video consisting of slides is permitted in lieu of a demonstration that
shows the proposed submission in a deployed or running state, but greater weight will be given
to submissions accompanied by actual videos of the system or its demonstration plan. The
paper must present the technical details of the demonstration, discuss related work, and
describe the significance of the demonstration. The paper must contain unpublished work. If
accepted, authors will be required to transfer copyright of their paper to AAAI. For more
information on the AAAI style, please download the AAAI Press author kit.
Final decisions will be accompanied by detailed reviews. Submissions will be judged for clarity,
the significance of the proposed demonstration, and its relevance to the AI community. The
Demonstrations Program Chairs reserve the right to reject submissions if the submissions are
found to be irrelevant to or otherwise unqualified for this track.
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In accordance with past years at AAAI submissions may be either single blind (i.e., reviewers
are blind) or double blind (i.e., authors and reviewers are blind). Submissions in either format
are appropriate for the demos track.
Demonstration participants are welcome to exhibit and distribute additional material, such as
videos running on a dedicated console, scientific papers, pamphlets, and noncommercial
brochures. Such ancillary materials need not be submitted for review.
At least one member of every demonstration must register for and attend AAAI-20. The
conference registrant will be responsible for building the exhibit at the demonstration venue.
Award
To foster the presentation of exciting demonstrations, AAAI-20 will present an award for the
Best Demonstration. The award will be granted on the basis of audience evaluation through a
ballot given to all attendees. More details on the Best Demo Award will be forthcoming after the
review process.
Services
Researchers and practitioners showing a demonstration are required to bring all necessary
equipment and material for the successful operation of their exhibit. AAAI will provide shipping
instructions, if needed, for the delivery of material to the conference site. Each demo program
participant will be provided with one 6-foot draped table, one monitor, and one poster board, as
well as electrical and internet access. Special electrical connections must be arranged through
the Demonstrations Program Chairs no later than 60 days prior to the start of the conference.
Questions and Suggestions
* Concerning author instructions and conference registration, write to aaai20@aaai.org.
* Concerning suggestions for the program and other inquiries about the Demos program
specifically, write to the AAAI-20 Demonstrations Program Chairs below.
Demonstrations Program Chairs
Nicholas Mattei (Tulane University, USA)
nsmattei@tulane.edu
Kartik Talamadupula (IBM Research, USA)
krtalamad@us.ibm.com