The 22nd International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-11) will be held in Barcelona, Spain, on July 19-22, 2011. The theme of IJCAI-11 is “Integrated and Embedded Artificial Intelligence” (IEAI) with a focus on artificial intelligence that crosses discipline boundaries within AI, and between AI and other disciplines. Building systems often requires techniques from more than one area (e.g. both machine learning and natural language processing, or both planning and preference representation).

In addition, larger systems often have AI components embedded within that provide intelligent functionalities such as learning and reasoning. These systems often use more than one AI technique in a tight integration (e.g., robotic systems), or they offer important services with AI embedded as a key component within a larger software or hardware system (e.g., search engines or smart phones). In these systems, AI plays a key role in the systems’ ability to perceive, reason, learn, communicate and act intelligently in the real world. The conference will include a special track dedicated to such work.

Conference topics include:

• Agent-based and Multiagent Systems
• Constraints, Satisfiability, and Search
• Knowledge Representation, Reasoning and Logic
• Machine Learning
• Multidisciplinary Topics And Applications
• Natural-Language Processing
• Planning and Scheduling
• Robotics and Vision
• Uncertainty in AI
• Web and Knowledge-based Information Systems