Mexican International Conference on Artificial Intelligence

Mexican International Conference on Artificial Intelligence
Abbreviation	MICAI
Discipline	Artificial Intelligence
Publication details
Publisher	Springer LNAI
History	2000–
Frequency	annual

MICAI (short for Mexican International Conference on Artificial Intelligence) is the name of an annual conference covering all areas of Artificial Intelligence (AI), held in Mexico. The first MICAI conference was held in 2000. The conference is attended every year by about two hundred of AI researchers and PhD students and 500−1000 local graduate students.

Overview

MICAI is a high-level peer-reviewed international conference covering all areas of Artificial Intelligence. All editions of MICAI have been published in Springer Springer LNAI (N 1793, 2313, 2972, 3789, 4293, 4827, 5317, 5845, 6437-6438). Recent MICAI events (2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, and 2010) received over 300 submissions from over 40 countries each. The conference's scientific program includes keynote lectures, paper presentations, tutorials, panels, posters, and workshops. MICAI is organized by the Mexican Society for Artificial Intelligence (SMIA) in cooperation with various national institutions.

Their topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Applications of Artificial Intelligence, Automated Theorem Proving, Belief Revision, Bioinformatics and Medical Applications of Artificial Intelligence, Case-Based Reasoning, Common Sense Reasoning, Computer Vision and Image Processing, Constraint Programming, Data Mining, Expert Systems and Knowledge-Based Systems, Fuzzy Logic, Genetic Algorithms, Hybrid Intelligent Systems, Intelligent Interfaces: Multimedia, Virtual Reality, Intelligent Organizations, Intelligent Tutoring Systems, Knowledge Acquisition, Knowledge Representation and Knowledge Management, Logic Programming, Machine Learning, Model-Based Reasoning, Multiagent Systems and Distributed Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language Processing, Neural Networks, Non-monotonic Reasoning, Ontologies, Pattern Recognition, Philosophical and Methodological Issues of Artificial Intelligence, Planning and Scheduling, Qualitative Reasoning, Robotics, Spatial and Temporal Reasoning, Uncertainty Reasoning and Probabilistic Reasoning.

Specific MICAI Conferences

In the table below, the figures for the number of accepted papers and acceptance rate refer to the main proceedings volume and do not include supplemental proceedings volumes. The number of countries corresponds to submissions, not to accepted papers.

Year	City	Website	Proceedings	Submissions	Countries	Accepted	Acceptance rate
2000	Acapulco	[1]		163	17	60	37%
2002	Merida	[2]		85	17	56	66%
2004	Mexico	[3]		254	19	94	38.2%
2005	Monterrey	[4]		423	43	120	28%
2006	Apizaco	[5]		447	42	123	26%
2007	Aguascalientes	[6]		485	31	115	23.9%
2008	Atizapán de Zaragoza	[7]		363	43	94	25.9%
2009	Guanajuato	[8]		215	21	63	29.3%
2010	Pachuca	[9]		301	34	126	42%
2011	Puebla	[10]		348	40	96	27.7%
2012	San Luis Potosí	[11]

Year	Keynote speakers
2000	Wolfgang Wahlster (DFKI and Saarland University), Hector Levesque (University of Toronto), Jay Liebowitz (George Washington University), Adolfo Guzmán Arenas (CIC), Jose Luis Marroquín (PEMEX), George L. Lasken
2002	Pedro Larrañaga (University of the Basque Country), Stuart Rusell (University of California), Francisco Cantú (ITESM), Edgar Sánchez (CINVESTAV), Jean-Claude Latombe (Stanford University)
2004	Toby Walsh (University College Cork), Dispankar Dasgupta (University of Memphis), René Bañares (Oxford University), José Negrete Martínez (Universidad Veracruzana), Carlos Zozaya (Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México), Jorge X. Velasco (Instituto Mexicano del Petróleo)
2005	John McCarthy (Stanford University), Tom Mitchell (Carnegie Mellon University), Katsushi Ikeuchi (University of Tokyo), Erick Cantú-Paz (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory), Jaime Simão Sichman (University of Saõ Paulo), Piero P. Bonissone (General Electric Global Research)
2006	Enrique Sucar (INAOE), Seth Hutchinson (University of Illinois at Urbana Champaigne), Jaime Carbonell (Carnegie Mellon University), Carlos Artemio Coello Coello (CINVESTAV), Pedro Domingos (University of Washington)
2007	Fernando de Arriaga-Gómez (Polytechnic University of Madrid), Francisco Escolano (University of Alicante), Simon Haykin (McMaster University), Pablo Noriega (Institute for Artificial Intelligence Research of the Superior Council of Scientific Research), Paolo Petta (University of Vienna), Boris Stilman (University of Colorado)
2008	Gerardo Jiménez-Sánchez (Johns Hopkins University), Stephanie Forrest (University of New Mexico), Francisco Cervántes-Pérez (UNAM), Simon Haykin (McMaster University), Steven M. La Valle (University of Illinois), George Gottlob (Oxford University)
2009	Patricia Melin (Institute of Technology, Tijuana), Ramón López Mántaras (CSIC), Josef Kittler (University of Surrey), José Luis Marroquín (PEMEX), Dieter Hutter (DFKI)
2010	Hector García-Molina (Stanford University), Witold Pedrycz (University of Alberta), De-Shuang Huang (Academy of Sciences), Raúl Monroy Borja (ITESM), Boris Stilman (University of Colorado at Denver), Claudia Manfredi (University di Firenze)
2011	Weiru Liu (Queen's University Belfast), Rada Mihalcea (University of North Texas), Jesús Favela (CICESE Research Center), Raúl Rojas (Freie Universität Berlin), Janusz Kacprzyk (Polish Academy of Sciences)
2012

See also

• The list of computer science conferences contains other academic conferences in computer science.

External links

• MICAI series website
• Mexican Society for Artificial Intelligence (SMIA)