Information on the i3 Spring Days
1. About the i3 Spring Days
The purpose of the i3 Spring Days is twofold. Besides the already
established i3 Annual Conference (i3AC), the Spring Days form a further
activity to foster communication across i3 projects. This is of particular importance
since the i3 community has been significantly grown by the launch of ten new projects
together with three new working groups under the i3 initiative on Experimental School
Environments.
Secondly, the i3 Spring Days promote the idea of running a cluster of
i3 workshops at a common location. The workshops will help to bring
i3-members together based on common interests across projects. The
clustering will allow to have joint invited speakers, share technical
equipment, reduce travelling expenses, etc.. The clustering of
workshops will certainly generate a much better visibility of i3
as a whole in contrast to scattered stand-alone events.
More information on the i3 initiative an be found under:
2. Location and Date
- Date: March 7-10, 1999
- New Location:
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HOTEL Melia Gran Sitges
a first-class hotel at Port d“Aiguadolē, 08870 - Sitges, Spain
approx. 25 kilometres from Barcelona's international El Prat Airport.
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3. Programme
The following structure has been suggested for the i3 Spring Days.
(Note that this is only a tentative agenda which may change during the further
planning of the event.)
- Get together with the ESE Projects (Monday, March 8.)
- Workshops at the Spring Days (Sunday March 7, Tuesday March 9,
and Wednesday March 10)
This part of the i3 Spring Days is devoted
to parallel workshops and meetings of working groups. If you are
interested in attending workshops, please contact directly
the the corresponding workshop organizer(s).
The following workshops have been scheduled:
Workshop Program for Sunday March 7
Workshop Program for Tuesday March 9
Workshop Program for Wednesday March 10
The diagrams only indicate the allocated time slots for the
workshops. The programs for the Individual workshops will be set up by
the responsible workshop organisers. For details, please contact them directly.
- Side Events at the Spring Days
The workshops have been scheduled in a way that leaves space for
common information sessions and various entertainments, activities and
social events which will help to form more of a coherent community for
i3, as well as involving people who are not yet part of the i3
community. Information sessions will be held directly after lunch.
The yet incomplete schedule of common activities include:
- Sunday March 7
- Welcome Reception (19:00 at Melia Gran)
- Tuesday March 9
- Re-inventing i3-net (Niels Ole Bernsen)
- Future funding opportunities in the Fifth Framework
Programme (Jakub Wejchert, Loretta Anania, Guy Weets)
- Wednesday March 10
- Conclusions from the i3net Coordination Group
- Other Events and Activities
- Building Braitenberg's Vehicles
El Ball del Fanalet (interactive installation)
- On site production of the next i3mag issue
- Joint construction of the Spring Day's Conference Memory
- The Amusment Interactive Game Show
4. Registration
- Registration:
All attendees of the i3 Spring Days must register
for the events (ese-conference on Monday 8,
workshops on Sunday 7, Tuesday 9 and Wednesday 10)
in which they wish to participate.
With regard to the overall structure of
the Spring Days a per-day registration is
possible. That is, people can register for all four days, for three days, two days,
or for a single day only.
The conference site offers two Registration Packages:
- Package WITH lodgment at Melia Gran Sitges
This package includes reduced rates for accommodation but is only
available for the 4 conference days. Furthermore, booking should be
done before February 15th as the hotel can not guarantee availibility
of rooms after this date!
To book this registration pack use the
Fax Form1.html
- Package WITHOUT lodgment
This package includes only meals served during the conference
days.
Please note that for this package all payments must be made in advanve
or at latest when you arrive at the conference site.
To book this registration pack use the
Fax Form2.html
Besides your registration at Melia Gran Sitges, you are kindly asked
to notify the contact persons of the workshops in which you like to
participate. The contact persons are:
5. Organisation Committee & Address for further information
The members of the Spring Days Organisation Committee (SDOC) are:
Address for further information
If you have further questions or suggestions please contact Thomas Rist at following address:
Thomas Rist
German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence
Stuhlsatzenhausweg 3
D-66123 Saarbruecken
Germany
Tel.: (+49 681) 302-5266
Fax: (+49 681) 302-5341
e-mail: rist@dfki.uni-sb.de
6. Information package for workshop proposers
This page has been authored by Thomas Rist. Last modification due to
March 2. 1999
