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:

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/

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/

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/

Asociación Española para la Inteligencia Artificial

The Spanish Association for Artificial Intelligence (AEPIA) was established in 1983 to encourage and promote the development of Artificial Intelligence in both the Spanish and the Latin American context. AEPIA is a non-profit organization formed by tenured and institutional partners. It is a member of ECCAI (European Coordinating Committee for Artificial Intelligence) , founding member of the Spanish Confederation of Scientific Unions (COSCE) and founding member of IBERAMIA ( Ibero-American Conference on Artificial Intelligence ). AEPIA biennially organizes CAEPIA, the international Conference of the Association, along with Technology Transfer Days in alternate years, and co-organizes IBERAMIA , the Ibero-American Conference on Artificial Intelligence in collaboration with other associations from different Latin American countries. AEPIA also sponsors the Spanish Conference on Informatics (CEDI) , since its first edition in 2005. In 2013, for the first time, AEPIA will organize EVIA, the Summer School in Artificial Intelligence. Among the purposes of AEPIA are the creation and coordination of working groups, the support of technology transfer, supporting institutions (Universities, R&D+i , enterprises , institutions, etc.) in order to facilitate innovation and application of the techniques and applications of artificial intelligence, to support and provide a discussion forum for researchers and students in their Artificial Intelligence related activities, from the aspects of scientific and technological research, development, application and teaching.

http://www.aepia.org/

European Society for Fuzzy Logic and Technology

EUSFLAT is a new non-profit European Society with the following aims:
- To promote and disseminate the methods, techniques and developments of Fuzzy Logic and technologies
- To encourage the scientific communication and collaboration among its members
- To assemble a group of specialists belonging to different academic fields and professional practices
- To advise associates and companies on subjects regarding Fuzzy Logic and Technologies and other related matters
- To represent the European researchers in Fuzzy Logic and their technologies at the IFSA council
- To establish relations with other national or international associations with similar aims
- To organize, promote and sponsor conferences, workshops and seminars

http://www.eusflat.org/

European Coordinating Committee for Artificial Intelligence

ECCAI, the European Coordinating Committee for Artificial Intelligence, was established in July 1982 as a representative body for the European Artificial Intelligence community. Its aim is to promote the study, research and application of Artificial Intelligence in Europe.

http://www.eccai.org/

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/

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/

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/