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Giuseppe De Giacomo
"Since 1974, the biennial European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI), organized by the European Association for Artificial Intelligence (EurAI), has been the premier venue for presenting AI research in Europe. ECAI is the place for researchers and practitioners of AI to gather and to discuss the latest trends and challenges in all subfields of AI as well as to demonstrate innovative applications and uses of advanced AI technology.
ECAI 2020 had a record number of submissions with more than 1700 abstract submissions of which 1443 papers were reviewed; this represents a doubling of previous stand-alone ECAI conferences. Of these 1443 papers, 1363 were full papers and 80 2-page highlight papers. Finally, 362 full-papers and 36 highlight papers were accepted, yielding an acceptance rate of 25% for full-papers and 45% for highlight papers. The largest number of submissions where in the broad areas of Machine Learning (31%), Natural Language Processing (12%), Vision (9%), Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (9%), Multi-agent Systems (7%), and Explainable AI (4%). Most of the submissions came from Europe (41%, including Israel since it is part of EurAI, the European Artificial Intelligence Association), followed by Asia (33%), Americas (9%), Oceania (2%), and Africa (0.4%). Note that 14% of the papers had authors coming from different continents." Read more
