Associations, Federations and Special Interest Groups

Aware of the importance of international cooperation for the advancement of science, INSTICC works closely together with several other national and international associations and is proud to welcome them as partners in its activities or to arrange initiatives in cooperation with them.

While several forms of partnership are welcome, INSTICC places special value in "Technical Co-Sponsorships", by means of which both associations support each other from a scientific perspective for their mutual benefit. Additionally, in this case, members of partner organizations benefit from the same registration conditions as INSTICC members.

Current Institutional Partners:

The Foundation for Intelligent Physical Agents

FIPA is an IEEE Computer Society standards organization that promotes agent-based technology and the interoperability of its standards with other technologies.

http://www.fipa.org/

Object Management Group

The Object Management Group (OMG®) is an international, open membership, not-for-profit computer industry standards consortium. Founded in 1989, OMG standards are driven by vendors, end-users, academic institutions and government agencies.

http://www.omg.org/

Workflow Management Coalition

Founded in 1993, the Workflow Management Coalition (WfMC) is a global organization of adopters, developers, consultants, analysts, as well as university and research groups engaged in workflow and BPM. The WfMC creates and contributes to process related standards, educates the market on related issues, and is the only standards organization that concentrates purely on process. The WfMC created Wf-XML and XPDL, the leading process definition language used today in over 80 known solutions to store and exchange process models. XPDL is a process design format for storing the visual diagram and all design time attributes.

http://www.wfmc.org/

German Society for Computer Science - Special Interest Group on Knowledge Management

The Special Interest Group on Knowledge Management is part of the German Society for Computer Science (GI). SIG KM addresses computer science methods for capturing, development, utilization, and maintenance of knowledge for organizations and networks of people. The focus is on scientific foundations and practical applications.

http://www.fgwm.de/

Associazione Italiana per l'Intelligenza Artificiale

The Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence (AI*IA - Associazione Italiana per l'Intelligenza Artificiale) is a non-profit scientific society founded in 1988 devoted to the promotion of Artificial Intelligence. The society aims to increase the public awareness of AI, encourage the teaching of it and promote research in the field.

http://www.aixia.it/

Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence

Founded in 1979, the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) (formerly the American Association for Artificial Intelligence) is a nonprofit scientific society devoted to advancing the scientific understanding of the mechanisms underlying thought and intelligent behavior and their embodiment in machines. AAAI aims to promote research in, and responsible use of, artificial intelligence.

http://www.aaai.org/

ACM SIGAI

ACM Special Interest Group on Artificial Intelligence

Who we are: academic and industrial researchers, practitioners, software developers, end users, and students.

What we do:
- Promote and support the growth and application of AI principles and techniques throughout computing;
- Sponsor or co-sponsor high-quality, AI-related conferences;
- Sponsor recognized AI awards;
- Support important journals in the field;
- Provide scholarships to student members to attend conferences;
- Promote AI education and publications through various forums and the ACM digital library;

http://sigai.acm.org/

ACM SIGMIS

SIGMIS is one of the oldest ACM Special Interest Groups and for decades has been instrumental in defining and developing the field of management and information systems.

http://www.sigmis.org/

Portuguese Association for Artificial Intelligence

APPIA (the Portuguese Association for Artificial Intelligence, www.appia.pt ) was founded in 1984, and is the portuguese arm of ECCAI. It has circa 200 members active in all areas of AI, in research, academia, and industry. In addition to other international events, every two years it organizes one of the oldest european AI conferences, "EPIA", the Portuguese AI Conference.

http://www.appia.pt/

The European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics

ERCIM - the European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics - aims to foster collaborative work within the European research community and to increase co-operation with European industry. Leading European research institutes are members of ERCIM.

http://www.ercim.eu/

Associação Portuguesa de Reconhecimento de Padrões

Non Profit Portuguese Association that promotes scientific advances in the areas of Pattern Recognition.

http://www.aprp.pt/