From zeynep at cs.unibo.it Thu Oct 2 11:27:42 2008 From: zeynep at cs.unibo.it (Zeynep Kiziltan) Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2008 11:27:42 +0200 (CEST) Subject: Call for papers, KES-AMSTA 2009 In-Reply-To: <2629.130.136.2.75.1221812319.squirrel@ssl.cs.unibo.it> References: <1453.130.136.2.75.1221639296.squirrel@ssl.cs.unibo.it> <20080917215250.wz4vb6ac9wsggw0o@webmail5.uu.se> <2468.130.136.2.75.1221726927.squirrel@ssl.cs.unibo.it> <20080918205108.cb1hcjabggsskk4c@webmail5.uu.se> <2629.130.136.2.75.1221812319.squirrel@ssl.cs.unibo.it> Message-ID: <1362.130.136.2.75.1222939662.squirrel@ssl.cs.unibo.it> ****** Apologies for multiple postings ******* * please distribute to interested colleagues * *************************************************************************** CALL FOR PAPERS The 3rd KES International Symposium on AGENTS AND MULTI-AGENT SYSTEMS - TECHNOLOGIES AND APPLICATIONS (KES-AMSTA-09) Uppsala, Sweden June 3 - June 5, 2009 http://amsta-09.kesinternational.org/ INTRODUCTION KES-AMSTA-2009 is an international scientific symposium for research in the field of agent and multi-agent systems. The aim of the symposium is to provide an internationally respected forum for scientific research in the technologies and applications of agent and multi-agent systems. Agents and multi-agent systems are related to a modern software paradigm which has long been recognized as a promising technology for constructing autonomous, complex and intelligent systems. This symposium will provide and excellent opportunity for researchers to discuss modern approaches and techniques for agent and multi-agent systems and their applications. KES-AMSTA-2009 is organized by KES International and Uppsala University, Sweden, and will take place in Uppsala. IMPORTANT DATES Submission of papers: 10 Nov. 2008 Notification of acceptance: 10 Jan. 2009 Final papers to be received: 1 Feb. 2009 Authors / Early registration: 16 Feb. 2009 Symposium: 4 Jun - 5 Jun 2009 TOPICS OF INTEREST Agent Systems Formal models of agency. Agent architectures. BDI architecture. Learning, evolution, and adaptation. Perception and action. Communication: languages, semantics, pragmatics, protocols, and conversations. Knowledge representation Computational complexity. Autonomous or humanoid robots. Social robots and robot teams. Autonomy aspect. Cognitive models, including emotions and philosophies. Embodied and believable agents. Emergent behaviour. Ontologies. Multi-agent Systems Cooperative distributed problem solving. Task and resource allocation. Mechanism design, auctions, and game theory. Modelling other agents and self. Multi-agent planning. Negotiation protocols. Multi-agent learning. Conflict resolution. Trust and reputation management. Privacy, safety and security. Scalability, robustness and dependability. Social and organizational structures. Verification and validation. Novel computing paradigms (autonomic, grid, P2P, ubiquitous computing). Brokering and matchmaking. Agent-oriented software engineering, including implementation languages and frameworks. Mobile agents. Per-formance, scalability, robustness, and dependability. Verification and validation. E-business agents. Pervasive computing. Privacy, safety, and security. Tools and Applications Simulation systems. Web services and service-oriented computing. Artificial social systems. Autonomic computing. Case studies and reports on deployments. Computational infrastructures. Information retrieval. Web services and semantic web. E-learning sys-tems. E-institutions. E-commerce. INFORMATION FOR AUTHORS Papers are invited from prospective authors with interests on the indicated symposium topics and related areas of application. All contributions should be original and not published elsewhere or intended to be published during the review period. Contributions from more applied related fields in industry and commerce are very welcome. All accepted papers must be presented by one of the authors who must register for the conference and pay the fee. To ensure high quality, all papers will be thoroughly reviewed by the KES-AMSTA-09 International Programme Committee. The symposium proceedings are planned to be published by Springer-Verlag in LNCS/LNAI series (subject to confirmation). Submitted papers should be prepared in LNCS/LNAI style and should not exceed 10 pages. Extended versions of selected papers will be considered for publication in special issues to be included in several journals indexed by ISI, KES Journal and Int. Journal of Intelligent Information and Database Systems. Ph.D. students are invited to submit papers to Doctoral Track. Special sessions are also welcome. POST-CONFERENCE PUBLICATION A selected number of accepted and personally presented papers will be expanded and revised for possible inclusion in special issues for the following prestigious international journals and books: - Knowledge and Information Systems: An International Journal (Springer, ISI/SCI indexed) - International Journal of Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (Springer, ISI/SCI indexed) - Journal of Universal Computer Science (Graz University, ISI/SCI indexed) - Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems 17(3) (IOS Press, ISI/SCI indexed) - International Journal of Intelligent Information and Databse Systems (Inderscience, EI, Inspec, DBLP indexed) - Edited book (title will be announced later), to be published by Springer in series Studies in Computational Intelligence - Edited book (title will be announced later) to be published by IGI Global Publishers in series Computational Intelligence and its Applications Note that only papers personally presented at the symposium will be considered for invitation to the special issues and books. PAPER SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION The symposium proceedings are planned to be published by Springer-Verlag in LNCS/LNAI series (subject to confirmation). Submitted papers should be prepared in LNCS/LNAI style and should not exceed 10 pages. Extended versions of selected papers will be considered for publication in special issues to be included in several journals indexed by ISI, KES Journal and Int. Journal of Intelligent Information and Database Systems. Ph.D. students are invited to submit papers to Doctoral Track. Special sessions are also welcome. ORGANIZATION COMMITTEES Honorary Chair: L. Magnusson, Uppsala University, Sweden General Co-Chairs: A. Håkansson, Uppsala University, Sweden and N.T. Nguyen, Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland Executive Chair: R.J. Howlett, University of Brighton, UK Program Co-Chairs: R.L. Hartung, Franklin University, USA, and D. Sharma, Canberra University, Australia Local Organizing Chair: T. Palm, Uppsala University, Sweden Publicity Co-Chairs: Z. Kiziltan, University of Bologna, Italy and E. Moradian, Uppsala University, Sweden Invited Session Chair: L.C. Jain, University of South Australia, Australia Doctoral Track Chair: A. Pietrusiewicz, Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland KES-AMSTA-2009 is part of the AMSTA Series Chair: N.T. Nguyen, which is a sub-series of KES International Conference Series, Chairs L.C. Jain and R.J. Howlett CONTACT DETAILS Email: amsta-09 at kesinternational.org Postal Address:- KES International 2nd Floor, 145-157 St John Street London EC1V 4PY United Kingdom Best regards, KES-AMSTA-09 Organizing Committee From simon.miles at kcl.ac.uk Fri Oct 3 11:35:27 2008 From: simon.miles at kcl.ac.uk (Simon Miles) Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2008 10:35:27 +0100 Subject: AAMAS-09 Final Call for Papers Message-ID: (apologies if you receive multiple copies of this call) CALL FOR PAPERS The Eighth International Joint Conference on AUTONOMOUS AGENTS AND MULTI-AGENT SYSTEMS (AAMAS-09) Budapest, Hungary May 10--15, 2009 http://www.conferences.hu/AAMAS2009/ INTRODUCTION AAMAS is the leading scientific conference for research in autonomous agents and multiagent systems. The AAMAS conference series was initiated in 2002 by merging highly respected individual conferences: - the International Conference on Multi-Agent Systems (ICMAS); - the International Workshop on Agent Theories, Architectures, and Languages (ATAL); - the International Conference on Autonomous Agents (AA). The aim of the joint conference is to provide a single, high-profile, internationally respected archival forum for scientific research in the theory and practice of autonomous agents and multiagent systems. See http://www.ifaamas.org for more information. AAMAS-09 is the Eighth conference in the AAMAS series, following enormously successful previous conferences at Bologna, Italy (2002), Melbourne, Australia (2003), New York, USA (2004), Utrecht, The Netherlands (2005), Hakodate, Japan (2006), Honolulu, USA (2007) and Estoril, Portugal (2008). AAMAS-09 will be held at the Europa Congress Center, Budapest, Hungary. INFORMATION FOR AUTHORS AAMAS-09 encourages the submission of *original* papers covering theoretical, experimental, methodological, and application issues in autonomous agents and multiagent systems. Authors are discouraged to submit papers describing work that has already been published in previous AAMAS workshops with post-proceedings publications and/or published as short papers in previous AAMAS proceedings, unless that the authors *clearly* demonstrate significant new content with respect to the previous publication. The main theme of AAMAS-09, based on feedback from previous conferences, will be reinforcing the rich panorama of *interconnections* in the field. We encourage the community, and the authors in particular, to reflect about their work not as belonging to just a niche in a long list of topics, but rather as a point in an abstract topological space defined by three complementary axes: (i) the *focus* of the work, i.e., what is the AAMAS topic or contribution of the work (ii) the *description level*, i.e., whether this contribution is mostly in the theoretical, experimental, method/language, or application level (iii) the intellectual *inspiration source*, i.e., what scientific domain has given the main ideas for the contribution Every paper will be evaluated appropriately with respect to each of these three axes. Moreover, the use of this topological space will help this year and future AAMAS conference organizers to better stress some particular points in this space to be highlighted in the program, as it was the case of the special tracks presented in AAMAS-08 and will be the case of the special area tracks in AAMAS-09. DESCRIPTION LEVEL AXIS AAMAS-09 encourages the submission of papers in several descriptive styles: (i) theoretical, (ii) experimental/empirical (architectures/systems/simulations/data), (iii) methodologies/languages (design/software engineering/programming-oriented), and (iv) applications. Every paper should make clear its contribution to the AAMAS field, place itself in the context of relevant related work, and evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of its approach. Theoretical papers should make clear the significance and application-relevance of the results to the AAMAS community. Experimental papers should address issues clearly in the context of autonomous agents or multi-agent systems architectures, simulations, or performance. Methodological and language papers should propose advances in MAS analysis/design methodologies, process and process models for agent-oriented software development, frameworks for MAS specific properties (like cooperation, coordination etc...), agent verification and validation techniques/tools, and multi-agent programming languages, deployment platforms and development tools. Application papers should provide a motivation for why an agent- or multi-agent approach was used, a clear description of the design and implementation of the system, and a thorough evaluation of the system. INSPIRATION SOURCE AXIS AAMAS-09 welcomes papers from many intellectual approaches, including artificial intelligence, distributed systems, economics, social/management sciences, (multi-)robotics, and biologically-inspired approaches. FOCUS AXIS Broadly speaking, the AAMAS community-specific topics of interest are focused in individual agents, their environment, their interactions, and their social/organizational structure. Agent Focus: contributions are focussed on the elements for structuring/defining/analyzing individual processing entities: - agent architectures - agent reasoning/deliberation/decision mechanisms - agent perception and action - believable agents - agents models of emotion, motivation, personality, etc. Environment Focus: contributions are focused on the elements for structuring/defining/analyzing the the external world (including humans) and its information exchange with the processing entities: - environmmental entities - agent-human interaction - interface agents - architectures Interaction Focus: contributions are focused on the elements for structuring/defining/analyzing the information and control exchange between the processing entities - agent communication languages - interaction protocols - ontological / semantic interactions - conflict resolution and negotiation - argumentation theories - mechanism design - multi-agent learning - multi-agent planning - auctions and related structures - coordination mechanisms - reputation and trust - privacy and security Social/Organizational Structure Focus: costributions are focused on elements for structuring/defining/analyzing the identity and properties of multiple processing entities - groups and teams - norms and normative behavior - commitments - autonomy - organizations and institutions - organizational learning - organizational planning - organizational reputation and trust - coalition formation - open systems - collective decision making - emergent behavior Comprehensive/Cross-cutting Focus: contributions dealing with all or more than one of the previous focus - complete applications demonstrating several different significant foci - agent-oriented software engineering (multiple foci) - agent and multi-agent programming languages (multiple foci) - multi-agent based simulation (multiple foci) - evaluation techniques - ethical and legal issues - standardization efforts in industry and commerce - meta-papers (on the state of agent research, on the conference, etc.) SPECIAL AREA TRACKS Particularly this year, we are strongly encouraging papers that focus on some of the issues located in the topological space described above: Inspiration source axis: - (Multi-)Robotics - Social Sciences Description level axis: - Methodologies/languages - Applications Focus axis: - (Virtual) Agents - Social/Organizational Structure In addition to conventional conference papers, AAMAS-09 will also include a demonstration track for work focusing on implemented systems, software, or robot prototypes; and an industry track for descriptions of industrial applications of agents. The submission processes for the demonstration and industry tracks will be separate from the main paper submission process. SUBMISSION DETAILS This year the conference is soliciting regular papers (8 pages) and extended abstracts (2 pages). Extended abstracts are encouraged as a mechanism for the timely reporting of interesting but preliminary work, that may not as yet have the level of evaluation or detail that would be expected for a regular paper. The program chairs may, at their discretion, accept papers that were submitted as regular papers as extended abstracts, if the authors have explicitly agreed to this when registering their papers. Accepted regular papers will receive a slot for oral presentation in the conference. In addition, both regular and extended abstracts will be presented in poster sessions and appear in the conference proceedings. Reviews will be double blind, therefore authors are requested to avoid including anything that can be used to reveal their identity. Submissions will be peer reviewed rigorously and evaluated on the basis of adherence, originality, soundness, significance, presentation, understanding of the state of the art, and overall quality of their technical contribution. More details about the review process can be found in the conference page. Authors should refer to the conference page to download the adequate paper style files and access the detailed instructions to access the Confmaster system. http://www.conferences.hu/AAMAS2009/submission.html ORGANIZING COMMITTEE General Chairs: Carles Sierra, Artificial Intelligence Research Institute of the Spanish Research Council (Spain) Cristiano Castelfranchi, ISTC-CNR (Italy) Program Chairs: Jaime Simão Sichman, Politecnic School, University of São Paulo (Brazil) Keith S. Decker, Dept. of Computer and Information Sciences, University of Delaware (USA) A more complete list of other members of the AAMAS-09 Organizing Committee may be found in http://www.conferences.hu/AAMAS2009/. IMPORTANT DATES Oct 10, 2008 EDT (GMT-4): electronic abstract submission deadline Oct 14, 2008 EDT (GMT-4): electronic paper submission deadline Dec 19, 2008: paper notification Feb 06, 2009: camera-ready copy submission deadline -- Dr Simon Miles Agents and Intelligent Systems Group Department of Computer Science Kings College London, UK From german at fi.upm.es Fri Oct 3 12:52:16 2008 From: german at fi.upm.es (German Puebla) Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2008 12:52:16 +0200 Subject: PEPM'09 -- Final call for papers Message-ID: <18661.63840.438565.422185@pargo.ls.fi.upm.es> F I N A L C A L L F O R P A P E R S === P E P M 2009 === ACM SIGPLAN Workshop on Partial Evaluation and Program Manipulation http://www.clip.dia.fi.upm.es/Conferences/PEPM09 January 19-20, 2009 Savannah, Georgia, USA (Affiliated with POPL 2009) IMPORTANT DATES Abstract due: October 12, 2008 Submission: October 17, 2008 Author Notification: November 10, 2008 Camera-Ready Paper: November 17, 2008 SCOPE The PEPM Symposium/Workshop series aims at bringing together researchers and practitioners working in the areas of program manipulation, partial evaluation, and program generation. PEPM focuses on techniques, theory, tools, and applications of analysis and manipulation of programs. PEPM is classified as category A in the CORE ranking of ICT conferences. The 2009 PEPM workshop will be based on a broad interpretation of semantics-based program manipulation and continue last years' successful effort to expand the scope of PEPM significantly beyond the traditionally covered areas of partial evaluation and specialization and include practical applications of program transformations such as refactoring tools, and practical implementation techniques such as rule-based transformation systems. In addition, the scope of PEPM covers manipulation and transformations of program and system representations such as structural and semantic models that occur in the context of model-driven development. In order to reach out to practitioners, a separate category of tool demonstration papers will be solicited. Topics of interest for PEPM'09 include, but are not limited to: * Program and model manipulation techniques such as transformations driven by rules, patterns, or analyses, partial evaluation, specialization, program inversion, program composition, slicing, symbolic execution, refactoring, aspect weaving, decompilation, and obfuscation. * Program analysis techniques that are used to drive program/model manipulation such as abstract interpretation, static analysis, binding-time analysis, dynamic analysis, constraint solving, and type systems. * Analysis and transformation for programs/models with advanced features such as objects, generics, ownership types, aspects, reflection, XML type systems, component frameworks, and middleware. * Techniques that treat programs/models as data objects including meta-programming, generative programming, staged computation, and model-driven program generation and transformation. * Application of the above techniques including experimental studies, engineering needed for scalability, and benchmarking. Examples of application domains include legacy program understanding and transformation, domain-specific language implementations, scientific computing, middleware frameworks and infrastructure needed for distributed and web-based applications, resource-limited computation, and security. We especially encourage papers that break new ground including descriptions of how program/model manipulation tools can be integrated into realistic software development processes, descriptions of robust tools capable of effectively handling realistic applications, and new areas of application such as rapidly evolving systems, distributed and webbased programming including middleware manipulation, model-driven development, and on-the-fly program adaptation driven by run-time or statistical analysis. SUBMISSION GUIDELINES, CATEGORIES, AND PROCEEDINGS Two submission categories will be considered. Regular Research papers must not exceed 10 pages in ACM Proceedings style. Tool Demonstration papers must not exceed 4 pages in ACM Proceedings style and they should include an appendix of up to 6 additional pages giving an outline, screenshots, examples, etc. to indicate the content of the proposed live demo at the workshop. At least one author of each accepted contribution must attend the workshop and present the work. In the case of tool demonstration papers, a live demonstration of the described tool is expected. Suggested topics, evaluation criteria, and writing guidelines for both research tool demonstration papers is available on the PEPM'09 Web-site. Papers should be submitted electronically via the workshop web site. The workshop proceedings will be published in the ACM Digital Library and hardcopies will be distributed at the workshop. A journal special issue dedicated to PEPM'09 including selected papers is under consideration. PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS German Puebla, Technical University of Madrid, Spain German Vidal, Technical University of Valencia, Spain PEPM 2009 PROGRAM COMMITTEE David Binkley, Loyola College, USA Radhia Cousot, CNRS, France Silvia Crafa, University of Padova, Italy Stephen A. Edwards, Columbia University, USA Lidia Fuentes, University of Malaga, Spain John P. Gallagher, Roskilde University, Denmark Thomas Jensen,IRISA, France Yukiyoshi Kameyama, University of Tsukuba, Japan Siau Cheng Khoo, National University of Singapore Julia Lawall, University of Copenhagen (DIKU), Denmark Shin-Cheng Mu, Academia Sinica, Taiwan Naoki Nishida, Nagoya University, Japan Maurizio Proietti, CNR, Italy Armin Rigo, Switzerland Simon Thompson, Kent University, UK Tarmo Uustalu, Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia Wim Vanhoof, Namur University, Belgium Joost Visser, Software Improvement Group, The Netherlands Janis Voigtlander, TU Dresden, Germany -- =============================================================== | German Puebla | http://clip.dia.fi.upm.es/~german | | Facultad de Informatica | Universidad Politecnica de Madrid | =============================================================== From oliver.obst at csiro.au Sat Oct 4 15:21:01 2008 From: oliver.obst at csiro.au (Oliver Obst) Date: Sat, 4 Oct 2008 23:21:01 +1000 Subject: CfP: International Workshop on Guided Self-Organisation (GSO-2008), 24-27 Nov 08, Sydney Message-ID: <5096E720-994D-48FC-A8B5-0F50A2575108@csiro.au> Hi, The First International Workshop on Guided Self-Organisation (GSO-2008) will be held 24-27 November 2008, in Sydney, Australia: http://www.prokopenko.net/gso.html The balance between design and self-organisation is the main theme of GSO-2008. The following topics are of special interest: - information-driven self-organisation (IDSO), - systems biology, - complex systems and networks, - computational neuroscience and neuroinformatics; - applications of GSO to cooperative and modular robotics, - applications of GSO to sensor networks and energy grids. The workshop is open to researchers in self-organising systems, though for practical considerations the total number of participants will be limited to 50 at the maximum. If you are interested in attending and/ or presenting, please send an email to by 31 October 2008, with a title and an abstract (1 page) of your possible contribution. Following the Workshop, a formal call for papers will be issued for a special journal issue. Program Committee: Mikhail Prokopenko, CSIRO, Australia (Chair) Nihat Ay, MPI, Germany Gianluca Baldassarre, ISTC-CNR, Italy Fabio Boschetti, CSIRO, Australia Michael Bruenig, CSIRO, Australia Mikhail Burtsev, RAS, Russia Ralf Der, MPI, Germany Stefano Nolfi, ISTC-CNR, Italy Oliver Obst, CSIRO, Australia Daniel Polani, University of Hertfordshire, UK Ivan Tanev, Doshisha University, Japan Larry Yaeger, Indiana University, USA Albert Zomaya, University of Sydney -- Oliver Obst form follows function (Louis Sullivan). Fon: +61 2 9325 3278 http://oliver.obst.eu/ Autonomous Systems Lab CSIRO ICT Centre http://www.ict.csiro.au/asl/ -------------- nächster Teil -------------- Ein Dateianhang mit Binärdaten wurde abgetrennt... Dateiname : smime.p7s Dateityp : application/pkcs7-signature Dateigröße : 2423 bytes Beschreibung: nicht verfügbar URL : From calvanese at inf.unibz.it Sun Oct 5 05:45:29 2008 From: calvanese at inf.unibz.it (Diego Calvanese) Date: Sun, 5 Oct 2008 05:45:29 +0200 Subject: 3 PhD bursaries at KRDB Research Centre, Bolzano, Italy - Final Call - Deadline Oct. 20, 2008 Message-ID: ====================================================== FINAL CALL - DEADLINE October 20, 2008 3 PhD positions with studentship at the KRDB Research Centre Faculty of Computer Science Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy ====================================================== The Faculty of Computer Science of the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano (Italy) offers an opening for 14 positions for its PhD program, 7 of which with a three-year studentship. 3 of the 7 PhD positions with studentship are offered by the KRDB Research Centre for Knowledge and Data . The deadline for the formal application is Oct. 20, 2008. Information about how to apply for the PhD program and the studentship can be found in the university PhD web page and in the faculty PhD web page (follow link "Public Competition Announcement for PhD courses - 24th cycle") The studentship amounts roughly to 45,000 Euro over the three years of the PhD. Substantial extra funding is available for participation in international conferences, schools, and workshops. The faculty of Computer Science and its PhD program are entirely based on the English language. RESEARCH TOPICS The KRDB Research Centre for Knowledge and Data of the faculty of Computer Science also invites applicants to the PhD program to get in touch with the research group, in order to have a better understanding of the possible research activities in which prospective students may be involved. Relevant research topics in the centre are the following: * Computational Logic and Deductive Databases * Computational Logic and Constraint Programming * Data and Information Integration * Description Logics and Ontology Languages * Efficient Reasoning Algorithms for Description Logics * Intelligent Access to Web Resources * Logic Based Approaches to Natural Language Understanding * Logic-Based Modelling of Biological Knowledge * Natural Language Processing * Ontology Development and Evaluation * P2P Database Integration * Query Answering in Distributed Environments * Semistructured Data Management * Temporal Logics and Temporal Databases Other research topics are listed in the personal web pages of the members of the KRDB Centre, see . The research activities in the KRDB research centre require good knowledge of Logic and of Foundations of Databases, and some knowledge of Artificial Intelligence and of Knowledge Representation. Good knowledge of English is also preferred. CONTACTS To get in contact with the KRDB Research Centre, send an email to: Prof. Diego Calvanese Faculty of Computer Science Free University of Bozen-Bolzano via della Mostra, 4 I-39100 Bolzano, Italy Email: calvanese at inf.unibz.it Phone: +39-0471-016-160 Fax: +39-0471-016-009 To get in touch with the current PhD students, see . From frithjof.dau at sap.com Mon Oct 6 16:41:47 2008 From: frithjof.dau at sap.com (Dau, Frithjof) Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2008 16:41:47 +0200 Subject: ICCS'09: first cfp Message-ID: ICCS'09 Conceptual Structures: Leveraging Semantic Technologies 26 - 31 July 2009, State University Higher School of Economics (SU HSE), Moscow, Russia http://www.iccs.info The 17th International Conference on Conceptual Structures (ICCS 2009) is the latest in a series of annual conferences that have been held in Europe, Australia, and North America since 1993. The focus of the conference has been the representation and analysis of conceptual knowledge for research and practical application. ICCS brings together researchers and practioners in information and computer sciences as well as social science to explore novel ways that conceptual structures can be deployed. Arising from the research on knowledge representation and reasoning with Conceptual Graphs, over the years ICCS has broadened its scope to include innovations from a wider range of theories and related practices, among them other form of graph-based reasoning systems like RDF or Existential Graphs, Formal Concept Analysis, Semantic Web Technologies, Ontologies, Concept Mapping and more. Accordingly, ICCS represents a family of approaches related to conceptual structures that build on the successes with techniques derived from artificial intelligence, knowledge representation and reasoning, applied mathematics and lattice theory, computational linguistics, conceptual modeling and design, diagrammatic reasoning and logic, intelligent systems and knowledge management. The activity of the field is witnessed by two recently published books ("Conceptual Structures in Practice", ed. by Hitzler and Schärfe and "Graph-based Knowledge Representation: Computational Foundations of Conceptual Graphs" by Chein and Mugnier) as well as by an ISO standard ("Common Logic", ISO/IEC 24707) which orginated in this community. The 2009 ICCS's theme "leveraging semantic technologies" hints to the large overlap of the research fields of semantic technologies and conceptual structures, and emphasizes the goal of closer connecting these two areas in order to obtain a mutual benefit. Papers for ICCS 2009 are invited on, but not restricted to, the following topics: * conceptual structures - theory and applications * semantic technologies and conceptual structures[FD6] * the interplay of conceptual structures with language, semantics, semiotics and pragmatics * conceptual data processing, analysis and conceptual logic * modeling, representation and visualization of concepts * conceptual knowledge acquisition * knowledge representation and reasoning with conceptual structures * applied conceptual structures including data mining and knowledge discovery * theory and applications of formal ontologies * graph-based knowledge representation and reasoning Authors are invited to submit papers describing both theoretical and practical research outcomes. Papers accepted or under review by other conferences or journals are not acceptable as submissions to ICCS. The language of the conference will be English. == Submission Details == Papers are limited to 14 pages in Springer's LNCS format. We recommend the use of LaTeX2e for the final version. For more details see http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs. Position papers (up to 4 pages) are also welcome. Deadlines * Monday January 5, 2009: a one page abstract submitted via conference website (Abstracts should clearly state the purpose, results and conclusions of the work to be described in the final paper.) * Monday January 12, 2009: full paper (not more than 14 pages) in PDF format submitted via conference website Final acceptance will be based on the full-length paper, which if accepted, must be presented at the conference. Papers accepted for publication will appear in the Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence Series by Springer-Verlag (see http://www.springeronline.com/lncs). A precondition for publication is that the final version is in full compliance with Springer's format. == Conference Chairs == General Chair * Sergei Kuznetsov (State University Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia) skuznetsov at yandex.ru Program Chairs * Frithjof Dau (SAP Research CEC Dresden, Germany) frithjof.dau at sap.com * Sebastian Rudolph (Institute AIFB, University of Karlsruhe, Germany) rudolph at aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de ################################################################# Dr. Frithjof Dau Researcher SAP Research CEC Dresden SAP AG Chemnitzer Straße 48 D-01187 Dresden, Germany T +49 351 4811-6152 F +49 6227-78-51425 mailto:frithjof.dau at sap.com www.sap.com Sitz der Gesellschaft/Registered Office: Walldorf, Germany Vorstand/SAP Executive Board: Henning Kagermann (Sprecher/Co-CEO), Léo Apotheker (Sprecher/Co-CEO), Werner Brandt, Erwin Gunst, Claus Heinrich, Bill McDermott, Gerhard Oswald, John Schwarz, Jim Hagemann Snabe, Peter Zencke Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrats/Chairperson of the SAP Supervisory Board: Hasso Plattner Registergericht/Commercial Register Mannheim No HRB 350269 Diese E-Mail kann Betriebs- oder Geschäftsgeheimnisse oder sonstige vertrauliche Informationen enthalten. Sollten Sie diese E-Mail irrtümlich erhalten haben, ist Ihnen eine Kenntnisnahme des Inhalts, eine Vervielfältigung oder Weitergabe der E-Mail ausdrücklich untersagt. Bitte benachrichtigen Sie uns und vernichten Sie die empfangene E-Mail. Vielen Dank. From agata at logic.at Tue Oct 7 14:32:20 2008 From: agata at logic.at (Agata Ciabattoni) Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2008 14:32:20 +0200 (CEST) Subject: Postdoc position at the TU Wien Message-ID: =============================================================== We apologize for multiple copies of this email =============================================================== Dear colleague, A 2 year PostDoc position will be available from (earliest) November 2008 at the Vienna University of Technology. Requirements: The candidate should hold a PhD in computer science, artificial intelligence, or a related field, with some experience of mathematical logic and/or applications of fuzzy logic. Alternatively, the candidate should hold a PhD in mathematics or logic, preferably with some experience of knowledge-based expert systems. We require programming experience; knowledge in database management is desirable. Subject: The position will be part of the project ``Fuzzy logics: From Mathematics to Medical Applications''funded by the Vienna Science and Technology Fund (WWTF) and leaded by Dr. Agata Ciabattoni. The project is a cooperation between the Institutes of the Vienna University of Technology: Discrete Mathematics and Geometry, Computational Logic group (Leader: Prof. Matthias Baaz) and Information Systems, Knowledge Based Systems group (Leader: Prof. Thomas Eiter) and the Medical University of Vienna (Prof. Klaus-Peter Adlassnig). The aim of the project is to contribute to the development of a general framework for medical expert and knowledge-based systems using fuzzy logic. Application: The application, containing the candidate's cv, a description of his/her research interests and achievements and at least one recommendation letter, should be sent to postdoc2008 at logic.at and to the following address # Dr. Agata Ciabattoni Vienna University of Technology Institute 185.2 (Computersprachen) Favoritenstrasse 9-11, A-1040 Wien The application deadline is 20th of October, 2008. For more information see the attached file. Regards, Agata Ciabattoni -------------- nächster Teil -------------- Ein Dateianhang mit Binärdaten wurde abgetrennt... Dateiname : wwtfPostD_position.pdf Dateityp : application/pdf Dateigröße : 26945 bytes Beschreibung: URL : From nbassili at csd.auth.gr Tue Oct 7 20:00:19 2008 From: nbassili at csd.auth.gr (Nick Bassiliades) Date: Tue, 07 Oct 2008 21:00:19 +0300 Subject: Special Issue IEEE TKDE: Call for Contributions Message-ID: <48EBA3B3.90803@csd.auth.gr> [ our apologies should you receive this message more than one time ] =========================================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS Rule Representation, Interchange and Reasoning in Distributed, Heterogeneous Environments Special Issue of IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering Guest Editors: N. Bassiliades, G. Governatori, A. Paschke, J. Dix =========================================================================== In recent years rule based technologies have enjoyed remarkable adoption in two areas: (1) Business Rule Processing and (2) Web-Centered Reasoning. The first trend is caused by the software development life cycle, which needs to be accelerated at reduced cost. The second trend is related to the Semantic Web and Service-oriented technologies, which aim to turn the Web into a huge repository of cross-referenced, machine-understandable data and processes. For both trends, rules can be used to extract, derive, transform, and integrate information in a platform-independent manner. While early rule engines and environments were complex, expensive to maintain, and not very user friendly, the current generation of rule technology provides enhanced usability, scalability and performance, and is less costly. A general advantage of using rules is that they are usually represented in a platform independent manner, often using XML. This fits well into today’s distributed, heterogeneous Web-based system environments. Rules represented in standardized Web formats can be discovered, interchanged and invoked at runtime within and across Web systems, and can be interpreted and executed on any platform. This special issue solicits state-of-the-art approaches, solutions and applications in the area of Rule Representation, Reasoning and Interchange in the context of distributed, (partially) open, heterogeneous environments, such as the Semantic Web, Intelligent Multi-Agent Systems, Event-Driven Architectures and Service-Oriented Computing. We strongly advise that solicited contributions should clearly identify the target class of applications they enable. ======= Topics ======= Original contributions, not currently under review or accepted by another journal, are solicited in relevant areas including (but not limited to) the following: - Rule Representation and Languages * Rule languages for exchanging and processing information through the web * Representation and meta-annotation of rules and rule sets for publication and interchange * Event-driven/action rule languages and models * Rule-based event processing languages and rule-based complex event processing * Modeling of executable rule specifications and tool support * Natural-language processing of rules * Graphical processing, modeling and rendering of rules * Rules in web 2.0, web 3.0, semantic web technologies and web intelligence research - Reasoning and Rule Engines * Execution models, rule engines, and environments * Rule-based (multi-valued) reasoning with and representing uncertain and fuzzy information * Rule-based reasoning with non-monotonic negation, modalities, deontic, temporal, priority, scoped or other rule qualifications * Rule-based default reasoning with default logic, defeasible logic, and answer set programming * Compilation vs. interpretation approaches of rules * Hybrid rule systems - Rule Interchange and Integration * Interchange and refactoring of rule bases in heterogeneous execution environments * Rule-based agility and its role in middleware * Communication between rule based systems using interchange formats and processing / communication middleware * Information integration of external data and domain knowledge into rules * Homogeneous and heterogeneous integration of rules and ontologies * Extraction and reengineering of platform-independent, interchangeable rules and rule models from existing platform-specific resources * Rule interchange standards and related industry interchange formats * Incorporation of rule technology into distributed enterprise application architectures * Interoperation between different rule formats and ontological domain conceptualization * Translation of interchangeable and domain-independent rule formats and rule models into executable technical rule specifications - Rule Engineering and Repositories * Verification and validation of interchanged rule bases in heterogeneous execution environments * Practical solutions tackling the real-world software engineering requirements of rule-based systems in open, distributed environments * Collaborative authoring, modeling and engineering of rule specifications and rule repositories * Management and maintenance of distributed rule bases and rule repositories during their lifecycle - Web Rule Applications * Applications and integration of rules in web standards * Applications of rules in the semantic web and pragmatic web * Applications based on (semantic) web rule standardization or standards-proposing efforts * Applications of rules in e.g. legal reasoning, compliance rules, security, government, security, risk management, trust and proof reasoning, etc. * E-contracting and automated negotiations with rule-based declarative strategies * Specification, execution and management of rule-based policies and electronic contracts * Rule-based software agents and (web) services * Theoretical and/or empirical evaluation of rule-based system performance and scalability ======================= Submission Guidelines ======================= Prospective authors should prepare manuscripts according to the Information for Authors as published in recent issues of the journal or at http://www.computer.org/tkde/. Note that mandatory over-length page charges and color charges will apply. Manuscripts should be submitted through the online IEEE manuscript submission system at https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/cs-ieee. Updated information of this call can be found at http://lpis.csd.auth.gr/publications/tkde-si/. ======================= Schedule ======================= Deadline for paper submission: March 1, 2009 Completion of first review: June 19, 2009 Minor/Major revision due: August 21, 2009 Final decision notification: November 6, 2009 Publication materials due: December 4, 2009 Publication date (tentative): July 2010 ======================= Guest Editors ======================= Nick Bassiliades, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece nbassili AT csd.auth.gr Guido Governatori, NICTA, Australia guido.governatori AT nicta.com.au Adrian Paschke, Free University Berlin, Germany paschke AT inf.fu-berlin.de Jurgen Dix, Clausthal University of Technology, Germany dix AT tu-clausthal.de From dingl at cs.rpi.edu Wed Oct 8 14:00:16 2008 From: dingl at cs.rpi.edu (Li Ding) Date: Wed, 08 Oct 2008 08:00:16 -0400 Subject: Call for participation: Semantic Web Tutorials in ISWC'08, Oct 26-27, 2008, Karlsruhe, Germany Message-ID: <48ECA0D0.3060404@cs.rpi.edu> (apology for cross posting) --------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PARTICIPATION Semantic Web Tutorials in ISWC 2008 http://iswc2008.semanticweb.org/tutorials/ 26-27 October 2008, Karlsruhe, Germany Part of the 7th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2008) --------------------------------------------------------------------- ISWC 2008, the foremost gathering for the Semantic Web community, showcases the rapid progress taking place in this exciting technology area. The ISWC 2008 program includes a great deal of interest for practitioners, researchers, students, and business people, including both the experienced and those new to the concepts and technology. Along with the main conference, this year ISWC will host eleven tutorials, presented by leading Semantic Web researchers and practitioners. The tutorial program includes 2 full-day and 9 half-day tutorials, on October 26 and 27. REGISTRATION --------------------- Register online at http://iswc2008.semanticweb.org/registration/ If you've already registered but would like to add a tutorial, please email the tutorial chairs, David Martin (martin at ai.sri.com) and Lalana Kagal, for instructions. PROGRAM 26 Oct, 2008 (Sunday) --------------------------------- Intro to Semantic Web - Invited Tutorial (full-day) 9:00 - 17:30 The goal for this tutorial is to give attendees an overview of the main concepts and issues in the area of the Semantic Web and Ontological Engineering. This tutorial builds upon the 6-year experience of successfully running week long summer schools within the KnowledgeWeb project. Formal Concept Analysis for the Semantic Web 9:00 - 12:30 Formal concept analysis (FCA) is a mathematical discipline which formalizes human conceptual thinking in terms of lattice theory. In the tutorial, we will introduce this field’s basic notions and techniques to the Semantic Web audience. A Semantic Multimedia Web: Create, Annotate, Present and Share your Media 9:00 - 12:30 Based on established media workflow practices, we describe a small number of fundamental processes of media production. We explain how multimedia metadata can be represented, attached to the content it describes, and benefits from the web that contains more and more formalized knowledge. Working Modularly with OWL 14:00 - 17:30 As more and more large, complex OWL ontologies become available on the Web, the need for mechanisms and methodologies for managing them becomes more urgent. This tutorial provides a practical introduction to module oriented development of OWL ontologies. RDFa: Bridging the Web of Documents and the Web of Data 14:00 - 17:30 RDFa is the bridge between the Web of Documents, targeting at human users, and the Web of Data, focusing on machines. This tutorial will introduce the usage of RDFa in real-world use cases and will enable the attendees to work with RDFa both on the client as on the server side. Knowledge Representation and Extraction for Business Intelligence 14:00 - 17:30 The tutorial will give an overview of approaches to identify, extract, and consolidate semantic information for business intelligence, also stressing the role of temporal information. PROGRAM 27 Oct, 2008 (Monday) --------------------------------- Reasoning for Ontology Engineering and Usage (full-day) 9:00 - 17:30 Engineering and using OWL ontologies is a complex task for which impressive tool support has recently been developed. Since OWL ontologies are based on logic and involve entailments, this tool support may involve reasoning, e.g., for query answering, inference explanation, etc. Our tutorial provides a comprehensive overview over such tool support from a user perspective, and explains the benefits of automated reasoning for the user. RSWA 2008: Realizing a Semantic Web Application 9:00 - 12:30 The RSWA tutorial explains how to develop step-by-step a Semantic Web application that expects a music style as an input; retrieves data from online music archives and event databases; merges them and let the users explore events related to artists that practice the required style. How to Publish Linked Data on the Web 9:00 - 12:30 This tutorial will help data publishers, researchers, developers and Web practitioners to understand Linked Data principles and practice and provide participants with a solid foundation from which to begin publishing Linked Data on the Web, as well as to implement applications that consume Linked Data from the Web. Semantic Web for Health Care and Life Sciences 14:00 - 17:30 HCLSIG demonstrates the use of Semantic Web technologies to access data on a web scale, taking advantage of OWL and rules to allow queries to re-purpose data without the need to coordinate with the data custodian. Attendees will learn possible applications of Semantic Web tools to share data between and within organizations and solve large scale data integration problems. Free Semantic Content: Using OpenCyc in Semantic Web Applications 14:00 - 17:30 The tutorial will describe how Semantic Web researchers and practitioners can benefit from integrating their representations with the extensive upper and middle level ontological content of the free and unrestricted OpenCyc knowledge base, and other integrative vocabularies like Okkam. The syntax of OpenCyc will be described both in raw form, and as mapped onto Semantic Web standard languages, and the content of the knowledge base will be described in overview. Complete details about ISWC 2008 tutorials can be found at http://iswc2008.semanticweb.org/tutorials/ From tc at cs.bath.ac.uk Thu Oct 9 00:47:08 2008 From: tc at cs.bath.ac.uk (Tom Crick) Date: Wed, 08 Oct 2008 23:47:08 +0100 Subject: 1st Call for Participation: EUMAS 2008 Message-ID: <48ED386C.6050709@cs.bath.ac.uk> ***Apologies for multiple copies*** *********************************************************** CALL FOR PARTICIPATION Sixth European Workshop on Multi-Agent Systems (EUMAS 2008) University of Bath, Bath, UK, 18th--19th December 2008 http://eumas08.cs.bath.ac.uk/ *********************************************************** OVERVIEW EUMAS 2008 is the sixth edition of the EUMAS meeting series that started in Oxford in 2003. This year's meeting retains the traditions of past events with a focus on student presentation, early results and re-presentation of recent conference papers. Additionally, it is hoped that as in past years, there will be several Technical Forum Groups on the day prior to the meeting (Wednesday, December 17th). Details are yet to be finalized. Please see http://eumas08.cs.bath.ac.uk/tfg/. We are pleased to report there were 71 submissions this year. These are currently in review, with decisions due on October 20th. LOCATION The City of Bath is a UNESCO World Heritage site located in the south-west of England. Founded by the Romans as a thermal spa, Bath became an important centre of the wool industry in the Middle Ages. In the 18th century, under King George III, it developed into an elegant town with neo-classical Palladian buildings, which blend harmoniously with the Roman baths. The University of Bath campus is situated in the hills surrounding the city and is a leading UK university with an international reputation for teaching quality and research. Further information about the University of Bath, how to get here and finding your way around is available from http://www.bath.ac.uk/getting-here/. Bath can be easily reached by road, train or air. For international participants, Bath is best served by either Bristol International Airport or London Heathrow; we advise strongly against using any of the other London airports. REGISTRATION Registration is now open for EUMAS 2008 and information is available online at: http://eumas08.cs.bath.ac.uk/registration/ The early registration period runs until *31st October*, and late registration until *30th November*. Your registration fee includes: the electronic proceedings, a ticket for the welcome reception at the Roman Baths, a ticket for the evening banquet, lunch and refreshments on both days of the workshop (and accommodation on Wednesday 17th and Thursday 18th Dec, if selected). Reduced registration fees are available for students. Thanks to sponsorship from the Engineering and Physical Science Research Council (EPSRC), we can offer a limited number of student bursaries. Please note that only EPSRC-funded students are eligible for these bursaries. If you are in receipt of an EPSRC studentship, and wish to apply, please consult the website for further details. These bursaries will be allocated on a first-come, first-served basis. CONTACT DETAILS EUMAS 2008 Organizers Department of Computer Science University of Bath Bath BA2 7AY UK Fax: +44 (0)1225 383493 Email: eumas08 at cs.bath.ac.uk IMPORTANT DATES Paper notification: 20th October 2008 Early registration closes: 31st October 2008 Camera-ready submission: 17th November 2008 Late registration closes: 30th November 2008 Technical Forum Group meetings: 17th December 2008 EUMAS 2008 workshop: 18th/19th December 2008 OFFICIALS General Chair Julian Padget, University of Bath, UK Program Chair Franziska Klugl, Orebro University, Sweden Local Organization Marina De Vos, University of Bath, UK Julian Padget, University of Bath, UK Publicity/Web Tom Crick, University of Bath, UK Owen Cliffe, University of Bath, UK From tc at cs.bath.ac.uk Wed Oct 8 23:37:47 2008 From: tc at cs.bath.ac.uk (Tom Crick) Date: Wed, 08 Oct 2008 22:37:47 +0100 Subject: Subscribe me! Message-ID: <48ED282B.70608@cs.bath.ac.uk> From tc at cs.bath.ac.uk Thu Oct 9 00:45:04 2008 From: tc at cs.bath.ac.uk (Tom Crick) Date: Wed, 08 Oct 2008 23:45:04 +0100 Subject: Confirmation Request (2044112376) In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <48ED37F0.4050506@cs.bath.ac.uk> event administration wrote: > This is an automated message from the > mailing list manager > > Somebody (probably you) have requested the subscribe(digest) operation > for your address > > If you want to confirm this operation, > use the Reply command in your mailer. > > Check that the Subject of the reply message contains > the confirmation ID: 2044112376, > the reply is directed to , > and the 'From' address of your reply is . > > If you do not want to confirm the requested operation, simply do nothing > > All requests about this mailing list > should be sent to > From csoares at fep.up.pt Fri Oct 10 00:42:27 2008 From: csoares at fep.up.pt (Carlos Soares) Date: Thu, 09 Oct 2008 23:42:27 +0100 Subject: Call for Participation - DDDM 2008 Message-ID: <48EE88D3.4090700@fep.up.pt> Please distribute. Apologies for multiple postings. ******************************************************************** Call for Participation - DDDM 2008 The 2nd International Workshop on Domain Driven Data Mining Pisa, Italy, December 15, 2008 In conjunction with IEEE ICDM'08 URL: http://datamining.it.uts.edu.au/dddm08/ ******************************************************************** Keynote Speech -------------- Domain Driven Data Mining (D3M) By Longbing Cao and Chengqi Zhang University of Technology, Sydney, Australia Accepted Papers --------------- S2211: Food Sales Prediction: "If Only It Knew What We Know", by Patrick Meulstee and Mykola Pechenizkiy S2205: Parameter Tuning for Differential Mining of String Patterns, by Jeremy Besson, Christophe Rigotti, Ieva Mitasiunaite, and Jean-Francois Boulicaut S2212: Behavior Informatics and Analytics: A New and Promising Area, by Longbing Cao S2202: Discovering Implicit Redundancies in Network Communications for Detecting Inconsistent Values by Bogdan Nassu, Takashi Nanya, and Hiroshi Nakamura S2208: Identification of Causal Variables for Building Energy Fault Detection by Semi-supervised LDA and Decision Boundary Analysis, by Keigo Yoshida, Minoru Inui, Takehisa Yairi, Kazuo Machida, Masaki Shioya, and Yoshio Masukawa S2206: Actionable Knowledge Discovery for Threats Intelligence Support using a Multi-Dimensional Data Mining Methodology, by Olivier Thonnard and Marc Dacier DM830: Post-Processing of Discovered Association Rules using Ontologies, by Claudia Marinica, Fabrice Guillet, and Henri Briand DM424: TransRank: A Novel Algorithm for Transfer of Rank Learning, by Depin Chen, Jun Yan, Gang Wang, and Weiguo Fan DM698: Scoring Models for Insurance Risk Sharing Pool Optimization, by Nicolas Chapados, Charles Dugas, Pascal Vincent, and Rejean Ducharme DM422: One-class Classification of Text Streams with Concept Drift, by Xue Li and Yang ZHANG Organizing Committee -------------------- General Chair Philip S. Yu University of Illinois at Chicago, USA Program Chairs Yanchang Zhao University of Technology, Sydney, Australia Graham Williams Australian Taxation Office, Australia Carlos Soares University of Porto, Portugal Contact ------- Email: dddm08(at)it.uts.edu.au From rivalino at ece.duke.edu Fri Oct 10 05:17:04 2008 From: rivalino at ece.duke.edu (Rivalino Matias Jr.) Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2008 23:17:04 -0400 Subject: Call for Participation - WoSAR'08, WA, US Message-ID: <46574201E53C4750959301E9E762C934@LBM> Dear Colleagues, The WoSAR'08 Organizing Committee is proud to announce the final program for the workshop, which will occur in conjunction with the ISSRE 2008 in Seattle, WA, US, on November 11, 2008. Additional information related to the workshop location, hotel and registration you find in the Call for Participation pdf attached. I'd like kindly ask you to help us distributing this attached pdf for your networking. My Best Regards, Rivalino Matias Publicity/Publication Chair. WoSAR'08 -------------- nächster Teil -------------- Ein Dateianhang mit HTML-Daten wurde abgetrennt... URL: -------------- nächster Teil -------------- Ein Dateianhang mit Binärdaten wurde abgetrennt... Dateiname : Call for Participation - WoSAR 2008.pdf Dateityp : application/pdf Dateigröße : 178648 bytes Beschreibung: nicht verfügbar URL : From simon.miles at kcl.ac.uk Fri Oct 10 10:23:57 2008 From: simon.miles at kcl.ac.uk (Simon Miles) Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2008 09:23:57 +0100 Subject: AAMAS-09 Call for Tutorial Proposals Message-ID: Second Call for Tutorial Proposals Eighth International Joint Conference on AUTONOMOUS AGENTS AND MULTIAGENT SYSTEMS (AAMAS 2009) Budapest, Hungary May 10--15, 2009 http://www.conferences.hu/AAMAS2009/ The AAMAS-09 Organizing Committee invites proposals for the Tutorial Program, to be held on May 10--12, immediately before to the technical conference. AAMAS-09 Tutorials should serve one or more of the following objectives: * Introduce novices to major topics of AAMAS research. * Provide instruction in established practices and methodologies. * Survey a mature area of AAMAS research or practice. * Motivate and explain an AAMAS topic of emerging importance. * Introduce expert non-specialists to an AAMAS area. * Survey an area of agent research especially relevant for people from industry Submission Requirements: ------------------------ Proposals should be two to four pages in length, and should contain the following information: * A brief description of the tutorial, suitable for inclusion in the conference registration brochure. * A detailed outline of the tutorial, including preferred length (half or full day). * Characterization of the potential target audience for the tutorial, including prerequisite knowledge. * A description of why the tutorial topic would be of interest to a substantial part of the AAMAS audience. * A brief resume of the presenter(s), which should include name, postal address, phone and fax numbers, e-mail address, background in the tutorial area, any available example of work in the area (ideally, a published tutorial-level article on the subject), evidence of teaching experience (including references that address the proposer's presentation skills), and evidence of scholarship in the area. * The name and e-mail address of the corresponding presenter. The corresponding presenter should be available for e-mail correspondence during the evaluation process, in the case clarifications and discussions on the scope and content of the proposal are needed. The evaluation of the proposal will take into account its general interest for AAMAS attendees, the quality of the proposal as well as the expertise and skills of the presenters. We emphasize that the primary criteria for evaluation will be whether a proposal is interesting, well-structured, and motivated, rather than the perceived experience/standing of the proposer. Those submitting a proposal should keep in mind that tutorials are intended to provide an overview of the field; they should present reasonably well established information in a balanced way. Tutorials should not be used to advocate a single avenue of research, nor should they promote a product. The selection of the tutorials to be included in the final AAMAS program will be based upon a number of factors, including: the scientific/technical interest of the topics, the quality of the proposal, the need to avoid strictly overlapping tutorials, and the unavoidable need to limit the overall number of selected tutorials. Responsibilities (with respect to accepted proposals): ----------------------------------------------------- AAMAS will be responsible for: * Providing logistic support and a meeting place for the tutorial. * Together with the organizers, determining the tutorial date and time. * Duplicating tutorial material and distributing them to the participants. Tutorial organizers will be responsible for: ---------------------------------------------------------- * Providing AAMAS with a legible PDF copy of their tutorial notes by February 6, 2009. * Presenting the tutorial at AAMAS-09. AAMAS reserves the right to cancel any tutorial if the above responsibilities are not fulfilled, if deadlines are missed, or if too few attendees register for the tutorial to support the costs of running the tutorial. Important Dates: ---------------- November 14, 2008: Tutorial Proposal Submission Deadline December 5, 2008: Tutorial Acceptance Notifications February 6, 2009: Deadline for submitting tutorial materials May 10--12, 2009: AAMAS-2009 Tutorials Submissions and Inquiries: -------------------------- Proposals and inquiries should be sent by email (in ASCII) to the tutorials chair: Mehdi Dastani Intelligent Systems Group Utrecht University mehdi at cs.uu.nl -- Dr Simon Miles Agents and Intelligent Systems Group Department of Computer Science Kings College London, UK From lpnmr09 at cs.uni-potsdam.de Mon Oct 13 18:19:58 2008 From: lpnmr09 at cs.uni-potsdam.de (lpnmr09 at cs.uni-potsdam.de) Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2008 18:19:58 +0200 Subject: LPNMR'09 First CFP Message-ID: <20081013181958.nmqg4xgdk48csogs@mail.cs.uni-potsdam.de> CALL FOR PAPERS: LPNMR?09 10th International Conference on Logic Programming and Nonmonotonic Reasoning Potsdam, Germany, 14-18 September, 2009 http://www.cs.uni-potsdam.de/lpnmr09 ABOUT THE CONFERENCE -------------------- LPNMR?09 is the tenth in the series of international meetings on logic programming and nonmonotonic reasoning. Nine previous meetings were held in Washington, D.C., USA (1991), Lisbon, Portugal (1993), Lexington, Kentucky, USA (1995), Dagstuhl, Germany (1997), El Paso, Texas, USA (1999), Vienna, Austria (2001), Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA (2004), Diamante, Italy (2005), and Tempe, Arizona, USA (2007). The special theme for LPNMR?09 is Applications of Logic Programming and Nonmonotonic Reasoning in general and Answer Set Programming (ASP) in particular. LPNMR?09 aims at providing a comprehensive survey of the state-of-the-art of ASP/LPNMR Applications. As in the past, the proceedings of the conference will be published in the Springer Verlag Lecture Notes in Computer Science series; see http://www.springeronline.com/lncs. AIMS AND SCOPE -------------- LPNMR is a forum for exchanging ideas on declarative logic programming, nonmonotonic reasoning and knowledge representation. The aim of the conference is to facilitate interactions between researchers interested in the design and implementation of logic based programming languages and database systems, and researchers who work in the areas of knowledge representation and nonmonotonic reasoning. LPNMR strives to encompass these theoretical and experimental studies that lead to the construction of practical systems for declarative programming and knowledge representation. Authors are invited to submit papers presenting original and unpublished research on nonmonotonic aspects of logic programming and knowledge representation. We particularly encourage papers on LPNMR techniques which led to the development of signifcant applications. A non-exhaustive list of topics of interest includes: - Mathematical foundations of non-monotonic logical systems: Semantics of new and existing languages; Relationships among formalisms; Complexity and expressive power; Development of inference algorithms and search heuristics for LPNMR systems; Extensions of ?classical? LPNMR languages; Updates and other operations on LPNMR systems; Uncertainty in LPNMR systems. - Implementation of LPNMR systems: System descriptions, comparisons, evaluations; LPNMR benchmarks. - Applications of LPNMR systems, including: LPNMR languages and algorithms in planning, diagnosis, software engineering, decision making, and other domains; Applications of LPNMR languages in Data Integration and Exchange systems; Methodology of representing knowledge in LPNMR languages. In addition to technical papers we also invite submission of posters which will be presented in a poster session. See below for submission details. It will be possible for authors of technical papers to specify interest in poster acceptance in case of rejection as full paper. Accepted papers and posters will be allocated time for presentation during the conference. At least one author of each accepted submission is expected to register and participate in the event. Systems and Applications Demonstrations --------------------------------------- As part of the technical program we also plan a special session devoted to presentations and demonstrations of implemented nonmonotonic reasoning systems and/or corresponding applications. Those interested in demonstrating a system/application should submit a system description (see below). ASP/LPNMR Applications ---------------------- The special theme of LPNMR?09 is ASP/LPNMR Applications, and we plan to have a special session at the conference devoted to applications of LPNMR with a focus on applications of ASP. In addition to original technical papers on significant ASP/LPNMR applications, we solicit papers that provide an overview of existing successful applications of ASP/LPNMR systems (see below). WORKSHOPS --------- The program of LPNMR?09 will also include several workshops. They are perhaps the best place for the presentation of preliminary work, novel ideas, and new open problems to a more focused and specialized audience. Workshops also provide a venue for presenting specialized topics and opportunities for intensive discussions and project collaboration in any areas related to LPNMR, including cross-disciplinary areas. Those interested in organizing a workshop at LPNMR?09 are invited to submit an informal workshop proposal to the program chairs until 30 April 2009. IMPORTANT (PRELIMINARY) DATES ----------------------------- Paper registration 15 April 2009 Paper submission 20 April 2009 Notification 1 June 2009 Final conference papers 22 June 2009 SUBMISSION ---------- Technical papers (including original application papers) must not exceed thirteen (13) pages including title page, references and ?figures, and must be formatted according to the Springer LNCS/LNAI authors instructions. Papers must be written in English and present original research, not being simultaneously submitted for publication elsewhere. All submissions will be peer-reviewed by an international panel. Paper submission will be electronic; details will be announced on the conference home page http://www.cs.uni-potsdam.de/lpnmr09 In addition to technical papers, it is also possible to submit posters (up to 6 pages in Springer format), system descriptions (up to 6 pages in Springer format), and overviews of existing ASP/LPNMR applications (up to 6 pages in Springer format). VENUE ----- The conference will be held at the University of Potsdam?s Institute of Informatics. Potsdam, once a city of kings and royal residences, is today the capital of the state of Brandenburg in Germany and at the same time a European city of culture and science. The heart of Prussia is famous for its palaces and parks, its gardens and villas, and its numerous museums. Last but not least it nicely complements the adjacent capital city of Berlin. PROGRAM CHAIRS -------------- Fangzhen Lin, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, China, http://www.cs.ust.hk/~flin Torsten Schaub, University of Potsdam, Germany, http://www.cs.uni-potsdam.de/~torsten ASP/LPNMR APPLICATION THEME CHAIR --------------------------------------------------------------- Esra Erdem, Sabanci University, Istanbul, Turkey, http://people.sabanciuniv.edu/esraerdem ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program. From Patrick.Hung at uoit.ca Tue Oct 14 04:01:38 2008 From: Patrick.Hung at uoit.ca (Patrick Hung) Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2008 22:01:38 -0400 Subject: Call For Papers: IEEE Transactions on Services Computing Message-ID: Apologies for cross-postings. Please send it to interested colleagues, researchers and students. Many Thanks. IEEE Transactions on Services Computing ======================================= http://www.computer.org/tsc Call for Papers --------------- Services Computing has become a cross-discipline that covers the science and technology of bridging the gap between Business Services and IT Services. The underneath breaking technology suite includes Web services and service-oriented architecture (SOA), business consulting methodology and utilities, business process modeling, transformation and integration. The goal of Services Computing is to enable IT services and computing technology to perform business services more efficiently and effectively. From a technology foundation perspective, Services Computing has become the default discipline in the modern services industry. The IEEE Transactions on Services Computing (TSC) publishes archival research papers in all computing and software aspects of the science and technology of services innovation research and development. IEEE Transactions on Services Computing will emphasize the algorithmic, mathematical, statistical and computational methods that are central in services computing; the emerging field of Service Oriented Architecture, Web Services, Business Process Integration, Solution Performance Management, Services Operations and Management. Papers will be published online only. Scope IEEE Transactions on Services Computing will emphasize the algorithmic, mathematical, statistical and computational methods that are central in services computing; the emerging field of Service Oriented Architecture, Web Services, Business Process Integration, Solution Performance Management, Services Operations and Management. Specifically, this new title covers but not limited to the following topics: - Mathematical foundation of Services Computing; - Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA); - Service creation, development, and management; - Linkage between IT services and business services; - Web services security and privacy; - Web services agreement and contract; - Web services discovery and negotiation; - Web services management; - Web services collaboration; - Quality of Service for Web services; - Web services modeling and performance management; - Solution frameworks for building service-oriented applications; - Composite Web service creation and enabling infrastructures; - Business and scientific applications using Web services and SOA; - Business process integration and management using Web Services; - Standards and specifications of Services Computing; - Utility Models and Solution Architectures; - Resource acquisition models in Utility Computing; - Mathematical foundation of business process modeling, integration and management; - Business process modeling, integration, and collaboration; and - Software As A Service (SaaS) and Services As Software (SaS). 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Articles describing novel ideas and applications in all areas related to human factors and computational models in negotiation are of interest. We also invite submissions of statements of interests or position papers. Submit your paper electronically in either PDF or postscript format. Papers should not be more than 15 pages. Submission is entirely automated by a paper management tool, which is available from the main web site: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=hucom08. Accepted papers will be made available in the ACM online digital library. Furthermore, a selection of accepted papers will be considered for publication in the Group Decision and Negotiation Journal. AIMS AND SCOPE: Negotiation is a complex and sometimes emotional decision-making process aiming to reach an agreement to exchange goods or services. Although a daily activity, extensive research has shown that few people are effective negotiators. Current state of the art negotiation support systems can help make a significant improvement in negotiation performance. In particular, when the negotiation space is well-understood such systems can make a difference, partly because machines can much better deal with the computational complexity involved. However, the negotiation space can only be properly developed if the human parties jointly explore their interests. The inherent semantic problem and the emotional issues involved make that negotiation cannot be handled by artificial intelligence alone, and a human-machine collaborative system is required. Such systems are not only to support humans in providing strategic advice but also in coping with emotions and moods in human-human interactions. In order to develop human-machine collaborative negotiation support systems there is a need for the development of computational models, frameworks, and experimental, user-centred and ergonomic methods that enable the engineering of negotiation support systems. It is important for this purpose to study the role of human factors in negotiation as well as computational models to enable intelligent support for negotiation. To develop the next generation of negotiation support systems there are still many, diverse challenges: models of (qualitative, incomplete) preferences, preference change and strategies, preference elicitation, assessment methods for negotiation performance, learning and adaptativeness in negotiation, models of emotion and user awareness, the use and creation of domain knowledge, user interfaces for negotiation support, human-supported assessment of opponent, conflict handling styles, experimental methods. Topics covered include but are not limited to: Negotiation strategies (bidding, acceptance) Argumentation for negotiation Negotiation interaction Learning in negotiation Negotiation domain knowledge Case studies Preference elicitation Qualitative preferences Incomplete preferences Ontologies for negotiation (protocols, preferences, domain knowledge) Negotiation Support Systems User interfaces for Negotiation Support Systems Human-machine negotiation Negotiation, conflict handling, and experiments related to e.g. consensus building Personality in negotiation (e.g. Big Five) Emotions in negotiation Cultural factors in negotiation Negotiation bidding advice Negotiation conflict styles Trust in automatically generated negotiation advice Negotiation applications E-commerce Methods and tools for negotiation tasks Design and Evaluation of support systems Conflict handling styles and consensus building HCI aspects and human factors of negotiation ORGANIZERS Willem-Paul Brinkman - Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands Koen Hindriks - Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands Dmytro Tykhonov - Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands Program Chairs: Koen Hindriks - Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands Catholijn Jonker - Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands Liz Sonenberg - The University of Melbourne, Australia PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Frank Dignum, Utrecht University, The Netherlands; Shaheen Fatima, Loughborough University, UK; Kobi Gal, Harvard University, US; Gert-Jan Hofstede, Wageningen University, The Netherlands; Mark Hoogendoorn, Vrije Universiteit, The Netherlands; Takayuki Ito, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan; Gregory Kersten, Concordia University, Canada; Steve Love, Brunel University, UK; Tom McEwan, Napier University, UK; Mark Neerincx, TNO, The Netherlands; Avi Pfeffer, Harvard University, US; Iyad Rahwan, British University in Dubai, United Arab Emirates; Valentin Robu, CWI, The Netherlands; Pierre-Yves Schobbens, University of Namur, Belgium; Carles Sierra, IIIA-CSIC, Spain; Alexander Verbraeck, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands; Rineke Verbrugge, University of Groningen, The Netherlands; Hans Weigand, Tilburg University, The Netherlands; Pinar Yolum, Bogazici University, Turkey INFORMATION: For further information please contact: k.v.hindriks at tudelft.nl From iclp08pub at cs.nmsu.edu Thu Oct 16 16:55:13 2008 From: iclp08pub at cs.nmsu.edu (ICLP 08) Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2008 08:55:13 -0600 Subject: ICLP'08 CALL FOR PARTICIPATION Message-ID: <200810161455.m9GEtDw9030912@pippo.cs.nmsu.edu> CALL FOR PARTICIPATION ** EARLY REGISTRATION DEADLINE EXTENDED ** ** October 26, 2008 ** ICLP'08 24th International Conference on Logic Programming Udine, Italy, December 9th-13th, 2008 http://iclp08.dimi.uniud.it We are pleased to announce the 24th International Conference on Logic Programming, to be held in Udine, Italy, in December 2008. The ICLP'08 program includes 37 regular presentations, 26 short presentations, 2 invited talks, 4 tutorials, 5 workshops (ASPOCP, WG17, ALPSWS, WLPE and CICLOPS) and the traditional logic programming contest. The program features the invited talks by Vitor Santos Costa, University of Porto and by Pedro Domingos, University of Washington. The tutorials include presentations given by: - Tom Schrijvers (Constraint Handling Rules) - Peter O'Hearn (Separation Logic) - Carla Piazza e Alberto Policriti (Systems Biology: Models and Logics) - Angelo Montanari (Temporal Logics) The conference celebrates the 20th anniversary of the stable-model semantics with a special session at ICLP 2008 dedicated to answer-set programming. The session will feature invited talks by Michael Gelfond, Vladimir Lifschitz, Nicola Leone and David Pearce, as well as by other major contributors to the field, presenting personal perspectives on the stable-model semantics, its impact and its future. An additional highlight of the program is a session aimed at uniting and inspiring the Prolog community, organized by Tom Schrijvers and Bart Demoen. Online registration for ICLP is open at: http://iclp08.dimi.uniud.it/ICLPRegistrationForm/ICLP2008registration.html New deadline for early registration is October 26, 2008 (strict). ---------------------------------------------------- For further information: iclp08 at cs.nmsu.edu http://iclp08.dimi.uniud.it From simon.miles at kcl.ac.uk Fri Oct 17 11:40:11 2008 From: simon.miles at kcl.ac.uk (Simon Miles) Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2008 10:40:11 +0100 Subject: AAMAS-09 2nd Call for Workshop Proposals Message-ID: (apologies if you receive multiple copies of this call) AAMAS 2009 Workshops Second Call for Proposals The AAMAS-2009 Organizing Committee invites proposals for the Workshop Program to be held immediately prior to the main technical program of the AAMAS conference. The main goal of the AAMAS-2009 workshops is to stimulate and facilitate active exchange, interaction, and comparison of approaches, methods, and ideas related to specific topics, both theoretical and applied, in the general area of Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems. The workshops will provide an informal setting where participants will have the opportunity to discuss specific technical topics in an atmosphere that fosters the active exchange of ideas. Members from all areas of the AAMAS community are invited to submit workshop proposals for review. Workshops on new and emerging topics, or on applications, are particularly encouraged. Workshops can vary in length from half-day to two full days, but most will be one full day in duration. Important Dates for Workshop Proposals -------------------------------------- November 1, 2008 Proposal Submission Deadline December 1, 2008 Acceptance Notification December 15, 2008 Deadline for posting Workshops Call for Papers December 15, 2008 AAMAS-08 Workshops Program Announced May 11-12, 2009 AAMAS-2009 WORKSHOPS AAMAS-09 Workshops Requirements for Submission ---------------------------------------------- Proposals for workshops should contain the following information: o A technical description of the workshop, specifying the workshop goals, the technical issues that it will address, and the relevance of the workshop to the main conference. This description should include a discussion of why and to whom the workshop is of interest. o A list of related workshops (or previous incarnations of the proposed workshop) held within the last three years, if any, and their relation to the proposed workshop. If known, organizers' names and affiliations, number of submissions, acceptances and registered attendees, and follow-up publications should be noted. o A preliminary workshop agenda, planned duration, and a proposed schedule for organizing the workshop. This should include a brief description of how the organizers intend to encourage an atmosphere appropriate for a workshop, description of paper review process, and publicity plans (distribution lists, web sites, journals, etc.). o If available, a list of tentatively confirmed attendees. o The names, affiliations, and contact details postal addresses, phone numbers, and email addresses of the proposed workshop organizing and/or program committees, and the chair(s). The committee should consist of at least three or four people, from different institutions, knowledgeable about the technical issues to be addressed. o A description of the qualifications of the chair(s) (and organizing committee, if available) with respect to organizing an AAMAS workshop, including a list of workshops previously arranged by any members of the proposed organizing committee, if any. Proposers are encouraged to send their draft proposal to potential participants for comments before submission. All proposals should be submitted by the deadline (November 1, 2008), via electronic mail, to the AAMAS-09 Workshop Chair: Gal A. Kaminka (galk at cs.biu.ac.il) Plain ASCII is **strongly** preferred. Prospective organizers will be notified of the committee's decision no later than: December 1, 2008. The selection of the workshops to be included in the final AAMAS program will be based upon multiple factors, including: the scientific/technical interest of the topics, the quality of the proposal, balance and distinctness of workshop topics, and the capacity of the conference workshop program. Note that authors of proposals addressing similar and/or overlapping content areas and/or audiences may be requested to merge their proposals as a condition for acceptance. Responsibilities of AAMAS and workshop organizers ------------------------------------------------- For all accepted proposals, AAMAS will be responsible for: o Providing publicity for the workshop series as a whole. o Providing logistic support and a meeting place for the workshop. o Together with the organizers, determining the workshop date and time. o Duplicating working notes and distributing them to the participants. o A total of one (1) free workshop registration (up to organizers to decide who gets it). Workshop organizers will be responsible for the following: o Setting up a web site for the workshop. o Advertising the workshop and issuing a call for papers (by December 15, 2008) and later, a call for participation. o Collecting and evaluating submissions, notifying authors of acceptance or rejection on a timely basis, and ensuring a transparent and fair selection process. o Making the PDF of the whole workshop notes available to the workshop chair by the printing deadline (expected MARCH 15, 2009), as well as a list of audio-visual requirements and any special room requirements. o Ensuring that the workshop organizers and the participants register for the workshop and are invited to register to the main conference (at least one author must register for the workshop in order for a paper to appear in the workshop proceedings). AAMAS reserves the right to cancel any workshop if the above responsibilities are not fulfilled, or if too few attendees register for the workshop to support its running costs. To cover costs, it will be necessary to charge workshop participants a workshop fee. Inquiries --------- Please send proposals and inquiries to: Gal A. Kaminka (galk at cs.biu.ac.il) The MAVERICK Group Computer Science Department Bar Ilan University, Israel -- Dr Simon Miles Agents and Intelligent Systems Group Department of Computer Science Kings College London, UK From leucker at in.tum.de Sun Oct 19 18:23:26 2008 From: leucker at in.tum.de (Martin Leucker) Date: Sun, 19 Oct 2008 18:23:26 +0200 Subject: ICTAC'09: Call for Workshop Proposals Message-ID: <20081019162326.GA19339@lapbroy101> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ICTAC'09 6th International Colloquium on Theoretical Aspects of Computing *** CALL FOR WORKSHOP PROPOSALS *** Equatorial Hotel Bangi, Malaysia University Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM) August 18th - 20th 2009 http://www.ictac.net/ictac09/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The 6th International Colloquium on Theoretical Aspects of Computing is taking place from the 18th till the 20th of August 2009 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. ICTAC'09 is organized by Abdullah Mohd Zin, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia and Jeff Sanders, United Nation University, Institute of Software Technology, Macao. The PC is chaired by Martin Leucker (TU Munich) and Carroll Morgan (UNSW). Visit http://www.ictac.net/ictac09 for a preliminary web page. About ICTAC 2009 ---------------- ICTAC 2009 is the 6th International Colloquium on Theoretical Aspects of Computing, the latest in a series founded by the International Institute for Software Technology of the United Nations University (UNU-IIST). The main purpose of ICTAC is to bring together practitioners and researchers from academia, industry and government to present research and to exchange ideas and experience addressing challenges in both theoretical aspects of computing and in the exploitation of theory through methods and tools for system development. The previous four ICTAC events were held in Guiyang, China (2004), Hanoi, Vietnam (2005), Tunis, Tunisia (2006), Macau (2007) and Istanbul (2008). Workshops --------- Traditionally, ICTAC'09 is hosting a number of affiliated workshops complementing its technical program. Affiliated workshops will be organized on August 16 and 17 as pre-event workshops. Proposals for workshops affiliated with ICTAC'09 are cordially invited. Informal proposals should be sent by e-mail by **November 30, 2008** to the workshop chair Abhik Roychoudhury (abhik at comp.nus.edu.sg) and should include the following information: - Name of the workshop - Intended aims and scope of the workshop - Intended format of the workshop (break-out sessions/panels/paper presentations) - History of the workshop, if applicable - Expected number of participants (min/av/max) - Length of the event (1/2, 1 or 2 days) - Plans for dissemination (for example, published proceedings or special issues of journals). - Contact person with full contact information ICTAC'09 will provide organizational and administrative support for the workshops. The proposals should be submitted to the workshop chairs as soon as possible, but no later than **November 30, 2008**. Notification will be sent shortly afterwards. 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URL: From geoff at cs.miami.edu Mon Oct 20 07:17:24 2008 From: geoff at cs.miami.edu (Geoff Sutcliffe) Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2008 01:17:24 -0400 (EDT) Subject: ALICS workshop at LPAR Message-ID: <20081020051724.9AD3B11FA9A@mcclellan.cs.miami.edu> ----------------------------------------------------- *ALICS* - Applications of Logic in Computer Security LPAR 2008 workshop, November 22, Doha, Qatar ----------------------------------------------------- EXTENDED SUBMISSION DEADLINE - 24th October ----------------------------------------------------- Organizer: Catherine Meadows, NRL Submission deadline: October 24, 2008 Submission: 1-5 pages abstract Web: http://chacs.nrl.navy.mil/projects/ALICS08 Scope: ALICS is intended to be an informal workshop devoted to the applications of logic in computer security. This workshop is intended for presentation and discussion of work in progress and the discussion of emerging and foundational ideas. We are interested in all aspects of the application of logic to computer security. Applications of interest include security policy, access control, security protocols, information flow, but we are also interested in new and as yet untried applications of logic to different areas of computer security. We are also interested in discussion papers that raise fundamental questions and/or suggest new lines of research in this area. Work that has already appeared or is under consideration by other venues is welcome. No formal proceedings is planned, but accepted abstracts will be posted online. Program Committe and Organizers: Catherine Meadows, Naval Research Laboratory, USA (Workshop Organizer) Andreas Bauer, Australian National University, Australia Heiko Mantel, TU Darmstadt, Germany Mike Mislove, Tulane University, USA Dusko Pavlovic, Kestrel Institute (USA) and Oxford University(UK) Luca Vigano, University of Verona, Italy From nbassili at csd.auth.gr Mon Oct 20 12:10:59 2008 From: nbassili at csd.auth.gr (Nick Bassiliades) Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2008 13:10:59 +0300 Subject: RuleML-2008 Final Call for Participation Message-ID: <48FC5933.2070401@csd.auth.gr> [ our apologies should you receive this message more than one time ] ===================================================================== FINAL CALL FOR PARTICIPATION 2008 International RuleML Symposium on Rule Interchange and Applications (RuleML-2008) Co-located with the 11th International Business Rules Forum October 30-31, 2008, Orlando, Florida http://2008.ruleml.org Register for RuleML-2008 and book you room now! 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Joint keynote between RuleML-2008 and RR2008. o Benjamin Grosof (Vulcan, Inc.) on "Hyper Logic Programs in SILK: Redefining the KR Playing Field for Business and VLKB". * Joint Lunch Panel held in conjunction with the co-located Business Rules Forum on "Rules on the Web". * A RuleML-2008 Challenge with prizes to demonstrate tools, use cases, and applications. * Special Invited Sessions on Rule Standards and rule-based software demonstrations. * Industry, demo and scientific research & development papers and presentations advancing and assessing the state of the art in event and rule-based systems selected in a peer-reviewed fashion by an international program committee. * Papers will be published as a Springer LNCS proceedings. 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OVERVIEW ------------ Multimedia metadata description standards (e.g. MPEG-7/21) proposed in the recent years have been an important aspect of the creation of multimedia content and related semantic management. A number of multimedia metadata formats and standards have been tailored to specific application domains (e.g. broadcasting, multimedia mobile, etc.). The application of Semantic Web technologies to multimedia content has brought forward the use of Resource Description Framework, XTM, and Topic Maps for the description of multimedia metadata. But, in order to make multimedia applications ubiquitous, accessible, and interoperable, we need new mechanisms to describe and process contextual semantics of multimedia artefacts, especially over the Web. Contextual metadata, including linguistic semantics and visual semantics (e.g. semaphore) about multimedia artefacts, will play an important role in these mechanisms. The general aim of this special issue is to assess the current status and technologies, as well as to outline the major challenges and future perspectives, related to multimedia production, management, and exchange from a Semantic Web perspective in contextualized ubiquitous, accessible and interoperable environments. It aims to provide an overview of the state of the art and future directions in this field, by including a wide range of interdisciplinary contributions from various research groups. Overall, it aims to outline the rich potential of the multimedia area for advanced contextual metadata- and semantic-driven multimedia systems and semantic-oriented services along the Web 3.0 evolutions. TOPICS ----------- The topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Multimedia Semantics - Contextual Multimedia Metadata - Contextual Multimedia Metadata Interoperability - Metadata Modeling and Contextual Ontologies for Multimedia Applications - Multimedia and Web 3.0 - Multimedia Authoring - Multimedia-based Access Control and Authorization - Management of Multimedia Metadata (Relational and XML Databases, Semantic Stores, etc.) - Multimedia Retrieval - Personalizing Multimedia Content - Cross-media Clustering - Mobile Applications - Multimedia Web Applications and Related Metadata Support - Novel and Challenging Multimedia Applications PAPER SUBMISSION ------------------ Manuscript must be submitted at https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/cs-ieee after preparing it according to the instructions for authors (more details are provided at http://www.computer.org/multimedia/author.htm). When uploading your paper, please select the appropriate special issue title under the category 'Manuscript Type'. If you have any questions regarding the submission system, please contact Alkenia Winston at mm-ma at computer.org. All submissions will undergo a blind peer review by at least two expert reviewers to ensure a high standard of quality. Referees will consider originality, significance, technical soundness, clarity of exposition, and relevance to the special issue topics above. More details are provided here: http://www.computer.org/portal/site/multimedia/menuitem.deecb35fb1b4b95f96d34f108bcd45f3/index.jsp?&pName=multimedia_level1&path=multimedia/content&file=CFPOct-Dec09.xml&xsl=article.xsl& GUEST EDITORS --------------- Richard Chbeir, Bourgogne University, France (richard.chbeir at u-bourgogne.fr) Harald Kosch, University of Passau, Germany (Harald.Kosch at uni-passau.de) Frederic Andres, National Institute of Informatics, Japan (andres at nii.ac.jp) Hiroshi Ishikawa, Shizuoka University, Japan (ishikawa at inf.shizuoka.ac.jp) Please contact the guest editors for any inquiries regarding the special issue. #################################################### # Richard CHBEIR, Ph.D. in Computer Science # # Associate Professor # # Laboratoire LE2I (UMR - CNRS) # # Bourgogne University # # Aile de l'Ingénieur # # Office GS 16 # # BP 47870 # # 21078 Dijon CEDEX France # # Tel.: +333 80 39 36 55 # # Fax: +333 80 39 68 69 # # Email: richard.chbeir at u-bourgogne.fr # # Web: http://www.le2I.com # #################################################### From evomusart at yahoo.com Mon Oct 20 18:34:32 2008 From: evomusart at yahoo.com (Penousal Machado) Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2008 09:34:32 -0700 (PDT) Subject: EvoMUSART 2009 : Last Call for Papers Message-ID: <111803.36191.qm@web59814.mail.ac4.yahoo.com> Please distribute (Apologies for multiple posting) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- LAST CALL FOR PAPERS EvoMUSART 2009 7th European Workshop on Evolutionary and Biologically Inspired Music, Sound, Art and Design 15-17 April, 2009, Tubingen, Germany http://evostar.na.icar.cnr.it/EvoWorkshops/EvoMUSART/EvoMUSART.html http://www.evostar.org ---------------------------------------------------------------------- INTRODUCTION ---------------------------------------------------------------------- EvoMUSART 2009 is the seventh workshop of the EvoNet working group on Evolutionary Music and Art. Following the success of previous events and the growth of interest in the field, the main goal of EvoMUSART 2009 is to bring together researchers who are using biologically inspired techniques for artistic tasks, providing the opportunity to promote, present and discuss ongoing work in this area. The workshop will be held from 15-17 April, 2009 in Tubingen, Germany as part of the EvoStar event. Accepted papers will be presented orally at the workshop and included in the EvoWorkshops proceedings, published by Springer Verlag in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. EvoMUSART 2009 important dates are: Submission deadline: November 5, 2008 Conference: April 15-17, 2009 To submit a paper you can directly access the page: http://myreview.csregistry.org/evoworkshops09/ or otherwise find all instructions and information about the EvoStar 2009 events at the page: http://www.evostar.org ---------------------------------------------------------------------- TOPICS OF INTEREST ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The papers should concern the use of bio-inspired techniques - e.g. Evolutionary Computation, Artificial Life, Artificial Neural Networks, Swarm Intelligence, etc. - in the scope of the generation, analysis and interpretation of art, music, design, architecture and other artistic fields. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Generation o Biologically Inspired Design and Art-Systems that create drawings, images, animations, sculptures, poetry, text, objects, designs, webpages, buildings, etc.; o Biologically Inspired Sound and Music - Systems that create music, sounds, instruments, voices, sound effects, sound analysis, etc.; o Robotic Based Evolutionary Art and Music; o Other related generative techniques; - Theory o Computational Aesthetics, Emotional Response, Surprise, Novelty; o Representation techniques; o Surveys of the state-of-the-art in the area; identification of weaknesses and strengths; comparative analysis and classification; o Validation methodologies; o Studies on the applicability of these techniques to related areas; o New models designed to promote the creative potential of biologically inspired computation; - Computer Aided Creativity o Systems in which biologically inspired computation is used to promote the creativity of a human user; o New ways of integrating the user in the evolutionary cycle; o Analysis and evaluation of: the artistic potential of biologically inspired art and music; the artistic processes inherent to these approaches; the resulting artifacts; o Collaborative distributed artificial art environments; - Automation o Techniques for automated fitness assignment; o Systems in which an analysis or interpretation of the artworks is used in conjunction with biologically inspired techniques to produce novel objects; o Systems that exploit biologically inspired computation to perform the analysis of image, music, sound, sculpture, or some other types of artistic object; ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ADDITIONAL INFORMATION AND SUBMISSION DETAILS ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Submit your manuscript, at most 10 A4 pages long, in Springer LNCS format no later than November 5, 2008. Formatting instructions available at: http://www.springer.com/dal/home/computer/lncs?SGWID=1-164-7-72376-0&teaserId=45515&CENTER_ID=73062) The papers will be peer reviewed by at least three members of the program committee. Authors will be notified via email on the results of the review by December 20, 2008. The authors of accepted papers will have to improve their paper on the basis of the reviewers' comments and will be asked to send a camera ready version of their manuscripts, along with text sources and pictures, by January 8, 2009. The accepted papers will appear in the workshop proceedings, published in Springer LNCS Series, which will be available at the workshop. Further information, including the Online Submission Details, can be found on the following pages: Evo*2009: http://www.evostar.org EvoMUSART2009: http://evostar.na.icar.cnr.it/EvoWorkshops/EvoMUSART/EvoMUSART.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Submission: 5 November 2008 Notification: 20 December 2008 Camera ready: 8 January 2009 Workshop: 15-17 April 2009 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- PROGRAMME COMMITTEE ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Alain Lioret, Paris 8 University, France Alan Dorin, Monash University, Australia Alejandro Pazos, University of A Coruna, Spain Amilcar Cardoso, University of Coimbra, Portugal Andrew Gildfind, Google, Inc., Australia Andrew Horner, University of Science & Technology, Hong Kong Anna Ursyn, University of Northern Colorado, USA Antonino Santos, University of A Coruna, Spain Artemis Sanchez Moroni, Renato Archer Research Center, Brazil Bill Manaris, College of Charleston, USA Brian Ross, Brock University, Canada Carla Farsi, University of Colorado, USA Christian Jacob , University of Calgary, Canada Colin Johnson, University of Kent, UK David Hart, Independent Artist, USA Eleonora Bilotta, University of Calabria, Italy Erwin Driessens, Independent Artist, Netherlands Gary Greenfield, University of Richmond, USA Gary Nelson, Oberlin College, USA Gerhard Widmer, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria Hans Dehlinger, Independent Artist, Germany James McDermott, University of Limerick, Ireland John Collomosse, University of Bath, UK Jon Bird, University of Sussex, UK Jonatas Manzolli , UNICAMP, Brasil Jorge Tavares, INRIA Lille - Nord Europe, France Juan Romero, University of A Coruna, Spain Luigi Pagliarini, Pescara Electronic Artists Meeting & University of Southern Denmark, Italy Maria Verstappen, Independent Artist, Netherlands Matthew Lewis, Ohio State University, USA Mauro Annunziato, Plancton Art Studio, Italy Nicolas Monmarché, University of Tours, France Pablo Gervás, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain Paul Brown, University of Sussex, UK Paulo Urbano, Universidade de Lisboa , Portugal Peter Bentley, University College London , UK Philip Galanter, Texas A&M College of Architecture, USA Rafael Ramirez, Pompeu Fabra University, Spain Rodney Waschka II, North Carolina State University, USA Ruli Manurung, University of Indonesia, Indonesia Simon Colton, Imperial College, UK Somnuk Phon-Amnuaisuk, Multimedia University, Malaysia Stefano Cagnoni, University of Parma, Italy Stephen Todd, IBM, UK Steve DiPaola, Simon Fraser University, Canada Tim Blackwell, Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK William Latham, Art Games Ltd, UK ---------------------------------------------------------------------- STEERING COMMITTEE ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Penousal Machado University of Coimbra, Portugal Machado AT dei DOT uc DOT pt Juan Romero University of A Coruna, Spain jj AT udc DOT es Jon McCormack Monash University Jon DOT McCormack AT infotech DOT monash DOT edu DOT au ---------------------------------------------------------------------- WORKSHOP CHAIRS ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Penousal Machado University of Coimbra, Portugal Machado AT dei DOT uc DOT pt Jon McCormack Monash University Jon DOT McCormack AT infotech DOT monash DOT edu DOT au __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com From C.Orasan at wlv.ac.uk Mon Oct 20 20:59:53 2008 From: C.Orasan at wlv.ac.uk (Constantin Orasan) Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2008 19:59:53 +0100 Subject: Call for applications: International Masters in NLP and HLT Message-ID: <1224529193.10623.25.camel@dinel-desktop> [Apologies for multiple postings] Erasmus Mundus Masters Course: International Masters in NLP and HLT Deadline for submitting applications: 24th of January 2009 CALL FOR APPLICATIONS We invite applications for the Erasmus Mundus MA course on NLP and HLT, organized jointly by Universite de Franche-Comte (France), Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona (Spain), Universidade do Algarve (Portugal), and the University of Wolverhampton (UK). The objective of this Masters Course is to provide education and training of specialists in Language Technologies and their applications and prepare them for careers in the LT industry, research and academia. Students from European or non European countries will be able to select a combination of modules on topics in Linguistics, Translation Studies, Computer Science, and Mathematics, the languages of instruction being those of the country of each partner university. As part of the course, the students will complete a research project jointly supervised by lecturers from the partner universities. During the two-year programme, each student will spend two semesters at one university of his/her choice, and another two at either one or two other universities. After completing the programme, students will receive a multiple Masters degree from the universities they have attended. Up to 18 best non-EU candidates will be offered a grant covering tuition fees, accommodation and subsistence for the duration of the course. 4 grants are also offered to scholars to come for 3 months in one or 2 of the consortium universities For more information on the course, please visit: http://mastermundusnlp-hlt.univ-fcomte.fr/ -- Dr. Constantin Orasan Senior Lecturer in Computational Linguistics Research Group in Computational Linguistics University of Wolverhampton, Wolverhampton, UK http://www.wlv.ac.uk/~in6093/ -- Scanned by iCritical. From fuchs at ifi.uzh.ch Mon Oct 20 23:21:20 2008 From: fuchs at ifi.uzh.ch (Norbert E. Fuchs) Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2008 23:21:20 +0200 Subject: Second Call for Submissions: CNL 2009 Workshop on Controlled Natural Languages Message-ID: ********************************************************************* Second Call for Submissions CNL 2009 Workshop on Controlled Natural Languages http://attempto.ifi.uzh.ch/site/cnl2009/ Location: Marettimo Island, Sicily (Italy) Workshop date: 8-10 June 2009 Submission deadline: 14 November 2008 ********************************************************************* Controlled natural languages (CNLs) are subsets of natural languages, obtained by restricting the grammar and vocabulary in order to reduce or eliminate ambiguity and complexity. Traditionally, controlled languages fall into two major types: those that improve readability for human readers, and those that enable reliable automatic semantic analysis of the language. [...] The second type of languages has a formal logical basis, i.e. they have a formal syntax and semantics, and can be mapped to an existing formal language, such as first-order logic. Thus, those languages can be used as knowledge representation languages, and writing of those languages is supported by fully automatic consistency and redundancy checks, query answering, etc. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controlled_natural_language) Various controlled natural languages of the second type have been developed by a number of organisations, and have been used in many different application domains, most recently within the semantic web. This workshop is dedicated to discussing the similarities and differences of existing controlled natural languages of the second type, possible improvements to these languages, relations to other knowledge representation languages, tool support, existing and future applications, and further topics of interest. Topics: CNL 2009 will address the following aspects of controlled natural languages (CNLs): - design of CNLs - parsing of CNLs - CNLs for knowledge representation - CNLs for specifications - CNLs and the semantic web - CNLs as user interface - CNLs for interaction and communication - tool support for CNLs - reasoning in CNLs - comparisons of CNLs - applications of CNLs - business rules - user studies - theoretical results - etc. The workshop will be informal with lots of time for presentations and discussions in the fashion of the seminars organised at Dagstuhl in Germany (http://www.dagstuhl.de/programm/dagstuhl-seminare). To ensure the informal atmosphere the number of participants will be limited. Submission Details: We invite researchers to submit extended abstracts of exactly 4 pages (inclusive references). These extended abstracts will be intensively reviewed by several members of the programme committee. Authors of accepted extended abstracts will be invited to present their research at the workshop. Revised versions of the accepted abstracts will be published before the workshop as a technical report of the Department of Informatics of the University of Zurich. During the workshop authors will have one full hour to present their work and to have it discussed by the participants. All authors are then invited to submit a full paper of up to 20 pages (inclusive references) that takes the discussions during the workshop into account. Full papers will again be reviewed by the programme committee. Revised versions of the full papers will be published by Springer in their LNCS/LNAI series. Extended abstracts and full papers should use the Springer LNCS format. Extended abstracts must be submitted electronically in PDF format to EasyChair (www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cnl2009). Venue: The workshop will take place on the Italian island Marettimo at the Marettimo Residence (www.marettimoresidence.com/inglese/home.php) that consists of a set of two-storey houses within a beautiful garden. On top of the garden of the residence there is a large lecture hall with wireless internet. Marettimo is the outermost of the Egadian Islands to the west of Sicily, and is easily reached from the airports of Palermo and Trapani. Marettimo offers the simple and relaxed life of southern Italy, unspoilt landscape, stupendous views, hiking, swimming, diving, boat trips, and excursions on donkeys. There are several restaurants and bars, and some shops. What the island does not offer: traffic - there are practically no roads - fancy shops and restaurants, night life, and sandy beaches. Registration Fee: There is no registration fee for CNL 2009. Accommodation: The Marettimo Residence (www.marettimoresidence.com/inglese/home.php) offers one- and two-bedroom apartments with fully equipped kitchens. A number of apartments for the participants of CNL 2009 will be reserved until early 2009 at a price 10% below the regular price. Participants should get into direct contact with the Marettimo Residence to organise their accommodation. Alternative accommodations on Marettimo can be found via the internet. Conference Dinner: A conference dinner will be arranged during the workshop, and will be paid individually by the participants. Important Dates: - deadline for submissions of extended abstracts: 14 November 2008 - notification of acceptance of extended abstracts: 9 January 2009 - participants contact Marettimo Residence concerning accommodation: end of January 2009 - revised versions of extended abstracts: 13 March 2009 - workshop: 8-10 June 2009 - deadline of submission of full papers: 4 August 2009 - feedback on full papers: 2 October 2009 - revised versions of full papers: 6 November 2009 Program Committee: Piero Bonatti (University of Naples, Italy) Johan Bos (University of Rome "La Sapienza", Italy) Peter E. Clark (Boeing, Seattle, USA) Hamish Cunningham (University of Sheffield, UK) Enrico Franconi (University of Bolzano, Italy) Norbert E. Fuchs (University of Zurich, Switzerland) (chair) Glen Hart (Ordnance Survey, Southampton, UK) Jerry R. Hobbs (USC/ISI, USA) Kaarel Kaljurand (University of Zurich, Switzerland) Peter Koepke (University of Bonn, Germany) Tobias Kuhn (University of Zurich, Switzerland) Ian Pratt-Hartmann (University of Manchester, UK) Stephen Pulman (University of Oxford, UK) Mike Rosner (University of Malta, Malta) Rolf Schwitter (Macquarie University, Australia) John Sowa (VivoMind, USA) Silvie Spreeuwenberg (LibRT, Amsterdam, Netherlands) Uta Schwertel (imc, Germany) Yorick Wilks (University of Sheffield, UK) Further Information: http://attempto.ifi.uzh.ch/site/cnl2009/ Organisation: Norbert E. Fuchs (University of Zurich, Switzerland) fuchs at ifi.uzh.ch From ruy at cin.ufpe.br Tue Oct 21 20:36:59 2008 From: ruy at cin.ufpe.br (Ruy de Queiroz) Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2008 16:36:59 -0200 Subject: WoLLIC 2009 - Call for Papers Message-ID: <48FE214B.9050600@cin.ufpe.br> [** sincere apologies for duplicates **] Call for Papers /*16th Workshop on Logic, Language, Information and Computation*/ (/*WoLLIC 2009*/) Tokyo, Japan June 21-24, 2009 (SPECIAL: There will be a screening of George Csicsery's "N is a Number: A Portrait of Paul Erdos" http://zalafilms.com/films/nisanumber.html with kind permission of the film director) WoLLIC is an annual international forum on inter-disciplinary research involving formal logic, computing and programming theory, and natural language and reasoning. Each meeting includes invited talks and tutorials as well as contributed papers. The Sixteenth WoLLIC will be held at the National Institute of Informatics in Tokyo, Japan, from June 21 to 24, 2009. It is jointly sponsored by the Association for Symbolic Logic (ASL), the Interest Group in Pure and Applied Logics (IGPL), the Association for Logic, Language and Information (FoLLI), the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science (EATCS), the Sociedade Brasileira de Computacao (SBC), and the Sociedade Brasileira de Logica (SBL). *SPECIAL EVENT* 2009 will mark the 60-th anniversary of the publication of Paul Erdos' elementary proof of the Prime Number Theorem. WoLLIC will celebrate this by screening the documentary about Paul Erdos which was directed by George Csicsery "N is a number - A Portrait of Paul Erdos" http://zalafilms.com/films/nisanumber.html *PAPER SUBMISSION* Contributions are invited on all pertinent subjects, with particular interest in cross-disciplinary topics. Typical but not exclusive areas of interest are: foundations of computing and programming; novel computation models and paradigms; broad notions of proof and belief; formal methods in software and hardware development; logical approach to natural language and reasoning; logics of programs, actions and resources; foundational aspects of information organization, search, flow, sharing, and protection. Proposed contributions should be in English, and consist of a scholarly exposition accessible to the non-specialist, including motivation, background, and comparison with related works. They must not exceed 10 pages (in font 10 or higher), with up to 5 additional pages for references and technical appendices. The paper's main results must not be published or submitted for publication in refereed venues, including journals and other scientific meetings. It is expected that each accepted paper be presented at the meeting by one of its authors. Papers must be submitted electronically at http://wollic.org/wollic2009/instructions.html A title and single-paragraph abstract should be submitted by February 28, and the full paper by March 8 (firm date). Notifications are expected by April 19, and final papers for the proceedings will be due by May 3 (firm date). *PROCEEDINGS* The proceedings of WoLLIC 2009, including both invited and contributed papers, will be published in advance of the meeting as a volume in Springer's /Lecture Notes in Computer Science/ series (TBC). In addition, abstracts will be published in the Conference Report section of the /Logic Journal of the IGPL/, and selected contributions will be published as a special post-conference WoLLIC 2009 issue of a scientific journal. *INVITED SPEAKERS* Arnold Beckmann (Swansea U, UK) Carlos Caleiro (UT Lisbon, Portugal) Thomas Eiter (Tech U Wien, Austria) Sylvain Salvati (INRIA, France) Taisuke Sato (Tokyo Inst Tech, Japan) Michiel van Lambalgen (U Amsterdam, NL) Frank Wolter (U Liverpool, UK) *STUDENT GRANTS* ASL sponsorship of WoLLIC 2009 will permit ASL student members to apply for a modest travel grant (deadline: April 1, 2009). See http://www.aslonline.org/studenttravelawards.html for details. *IMPORTANT DATES* February 28, 2009: Paper title and abstract deadline March 8, 2009: Full paper deadline (firm) April 19, 2009: Author notification May 3, 2009: Final version deadline (firm) *PROGRAM COMMITTEE* Toshiyasu Arai (Kobe U, Japan) Matthias Baaz (Tech U Wien) Alexandru Baltag (Oxford U) Josep Maria Font (U Barcelona) Silvio Ghilardi (U Milano) Katsumi Inoue (Nat Inst of Informatics, Japan) Marcus Kracht (U Bielefeld) Hiroakira Ono (JAIST, Japan) (Chair) Masanao Ozawa (Nagoya U) John Slaney (Australian Nat U) Mark Steedman (Edinburgh U) Hans Tompits (Tech U Wien) *ORGANISING COMMITTEE* Makoto Kanazawa (Nat Inst of Informatics, Japan, co-chair) Anjolina de Oliveira (U Fed Pernambuco, Brazil) Ruy de Queiroz (U Fed Pernambuco, Brazil, co-chair) Ken Satoh (Nat Inst of Informatics, Japan) *STEERING COMMITTEE* Samson Abramsky , Johan van Benthem , Joe Halpern , Wilfrid Hodges , Daniel Leivant , Angus Macintyre , Grigori Mints , Ruy de Queiroz *WEB PAGE* wollic.org/wollic2009/ --- -------------- nächster Teil -------------- Ein Dateianhang mit HTML-Daten wurde abgetrennt... URL: From sofronie at mpi-sb.mpg.de Wed Oct 22 22:46:00 2008 From: sofronie at mpi-sb.mpg.de (Viorica Sofronie-Stokkermans) Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2008 22:46:00 +0200 (CEST) Subject: Tableaux 2009 CfP Message-ID: <10040.217.247.235.245.1224708360.squirrel@mail.mpi-inf.mpg.de> [We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this announcement] %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %% Call for Papers, Call for Tutorials and %% %% Call for Workshop Proposals %% %% %% %% TABLEAUX 2009 %% %% %% %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% International Conference TABLEAUX 2009 Automated Reasoning with Analytic Tableaux and Related Methods Oslo, Norway 6.-10. July 2009 http://heim.ifi.uio.no/martingi/Tableaux09/ IMPORTANT DATES Workshop & Tutorial submission: Friday, 9. Jan 2009 Workshop & Tutorial notification: Friday 23. Jan Abstract and Title submission: Monday, 19. Jan Paper Submission: Monday, 26. Jan Notification: Tuesday, 24. Mar End of rebuttal phase: Friday, 27. Mar Final Notification: Friday, 3. Apr Final Versions: Friday, 24. Apr Workshops: Monday, 6. July Conference: Tuesday, 7. to Friday, 10. July GENERAL INFORMATION This conference is the 18th in a series of international meetings on Automated Reasoning with Analytic Tableaux and Related Methods. In July 2009, the conference will be held in Oslo, Norway. The conference proceedings will be published in LNAI series as in the previous editions of the conference. See http://heim.ifi.uio.no/martingi/Tableaux09/ for more information on TABLEAUX 2009, and http://i12www.ira.uka.de/TABLEAUX for information about the TABLEAUX conference series. TOPICS Tableau methods are a convenient formalism for automating deduction in various non-standard logics as well as in classical logic. Areas of application include verification of software and computer systems, deductive databases, knowledge representation and its required inference engines, and system diagnosis. The conference brings together researchers interested in all aspects - theoretical foundations, implementation techniques, systems development and applications - of the mechanization of reasoning with tableaux and related methods. Topics of interest include (but are not restricted to): * analytic tableaux for various logics (theory and applications) * related techniques and concepts, e.g., model checking and BDDs * related methods (model elimination, sequent calculi, connection method, ...) * new calculi and methods for theorem proving in classical and non-classical logics (modal, description, intuitionistic, linear, temporal, many-valued...) * systems, tools, implementations and applications. As in previous years, TABLEAUX 2009 puts a special emphasis on applications. Papers describing applications of tableaux and related methods in areas such as hardware and software verification, semantic technologies, knowledge engineering, etc. are particularly invited. One or more tutorials will be part of the conference program. SUBMISSIONS The conference will include contributed papers, tutorials, system descriptions, position papers and invited lectures. Submissions are invited in four categories: A Research papers (reporting original theoretical and/or experimental research, up to 15 pages) B System descriptions (up to 5 pages) C Position papers and brief reports on work in progress D Tutorials in all areas of analytic tableaux and related methods from academic research to applications (proposals up to 5 pages) Submissions in categories A and B will be reviewed by peers, typically members of the program committee. They must be unpublished and not submitted for publication elsewhere. For category B submissions a working implementation must exist and be available to the referees. After the notification, there will be a rebuttal phase of three days during which the authors of rejected papers will have the opportunity to respond to the reviews. Accepted papers in these categories will be published in the conference proceedings. Submissions in category C will be reviewed by members of the program committee and a collection of the accepted papers in this category will be published as a Technical Report of the University of Oslo. Tutorial submissions (Category D) may be at introductory, intermediate, or advanced levels. Novel topics and topics of broad interest are preferred. The submission should include the title, the author, the topic of the tutorial, its level, its relevance to conference topics, and a description of the interest and the scientific contents of the proposed tutorial. Tutorial proposals will be reviewed by members of the program committee. Authors of accepted papers are expected to present their work at the conference. CALL FOR WORKSHOP PROPOSALS TABLEAUX 2009 launches a Call for Workshop Proposal on specialised subjects in the range of the conference topics. We can accept up to 2 proposals. The proposals are reviewed by members of the PC committee. The purpose of a workshop is to offer an opportunity of presenting novel ideas, ongoing research, and to discuss the state of the art of an area in a less formal but more focused way than the conference itself. It is also a good opportunity for young researchers to present their own work and to obtain feedback. The format of a workshop is left to the the organizers, but it is expected to contain significant time for discussion. The intended schedule is for one-day workshops. Further information and instructions about submissions will be available on the conference website at http://heim.ifi.uio.no/martingi/Tableaux09/ PROGRAM COMMITTEE PC Chairs * Martin Giese, Univ. of Oslo, Norway * Arild Waaler, Univ. of Oslo, Norway PC Members * Peter Baumgartner, NICTA, Canberra, Australia * Bernhard Beckert, Univ. of Koblenz-Landau, Germany * Christoph Benzm??ller, Saarland Univ., Saarbr??cken, Germany * Marc Bezem, Univ. of Bergen, Norway * Torben Bra??ner, Roskilde Univ., Denmark * Agata Ciabattoni, TU Wien, Austria * Marta Cialdea Mayer, Univ. of Rome 3, Italy * St??phane Demri, CNRS, Cachan, France * Roy Dyckhoff, Univ. of St Andrews, Scotland * Ulrich Furbach, Univ. of Koblenz-Landau, Germany * Didier Galmiche, LORIA, Henri Poincar?? Univ., Nancy, France * Valentin Goranko, Univ. of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa * Rajeev Gor??, The Australian National Univ., Canberra, Australia * Reiner H??hnle, Chalmers Univ., G??teborg, Sweden * Ullrich Hustadt, Univ. of Liverpool, UK * Christoph Kreitz, Univ. Potsdam, Germany * George Metcalfe, Vanderbilt Univ., Nashville, USA * Neil V. Murray, Univ. at Albany - SUNY, USA * Nicola Olivetti, Paul C??zanne University, Marseille, France * Jens Otten, Univ. Potsdam, Germany * Nicolas Peltier, LIG, Grenoble, France * Ulrike Sattler, Univ. of Manchester, UK * Viorica Sofronie-Stokkermans, MPI, Saarbr??cken, Germany * Frank Wolter, Univ. of Liverpool, UK ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Conference co-Chairs: * Martin Giese, Univ. of Oslo, Norway * Arild Waaler, Univ. of Oslo, Norway Local organisers: * Roger Antonsen * Christian M. Hansen * Bjarne Holen (webmaster) * Magdalena Ivanovska * Espen H. Lian * Martin G. Skj??veland * Evgenij Thorstensen * Terje Aaberge From simon.miles at kcl.ac.uk Fri Oct 24 11:33:19 2008 From: simon.miles at kcl.ac.uk (Simon Miles) Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2008 10:33:19 +0100 Subject: AAMAS-09 Call for Demonstrations Message-ID: (apologies if you receive multiple copies of this call) Eighth International Joint Conference on AUTONOMOUS AGENTS AND MULTIAGENT SYSTEMS (AAMAS 2009) Budapest, Hungary May 10-15, 2009 Call for Demonstrations AAMAS 2009 will include a demonstration session. Demonstration submissions are be invited for four different categories: * INDUSTRIAL SOFTWARE * ACADEMIC SOFTWARE * ROBOTICS * STUDENT PROJECTS. A best demo award will be chosen separately for each category. A price of 1000 Euro is provided for the winner in the category "student projects." The award selection will be done in consultation by the advisory board and the exhibits and demo co-chairs. Demonstrators are expected to present a live interactive demo at assigned time slots during the conference. Developers of software or robotic system based on autonomous agents or multi-agent techniques, especially those showing novel technology, are welcome to submit a demo. Examples of demos include but are not limited to: * Multi-agent software systems * Industrial and military applications (including prototypes) * Agent-based games * Agent platforms and development environments * Open-source software tools * Robotic systems (single and multi-agent) * Virtual agents and interactive virtual environments * Simulation environments The demonstration sessions will be held as part of the AAMAS main conference. The goal of the AAMAS demonstrations is to give participants, from industry and academia an opportunity to present their latest developments on software and/or robotic system. In addition, we strongly encourage students to submit valuable demos resulting from their projects or thesis work. Submissions accepted for the demonstration session will be advertised on the AAMAS website and in the conference booklet, which will contain abstracts of all available demos. Each demo submission should consist of three parts: 1. A 2-page paper in which the authors describe the system to be demonstrated. The paper should describe the application domain/problem/scenario, the technology used, the agent/multi-agent techniques involved, the innovations of the system, its live and interactive aspects, etc. Papers have to be prepared in PDF format using the AAMAS style (follow the instructions at http://www.conferences.hu/AAMAS2009/). 2. A demonstration movie (youtube compatible) that clearly shows the purpose and use of the demo. Alternatively, the authors can submit a scenario that consists of a series of snapshots of the demo annotated with an explanation. 3. For student projects only: a 1 page statement in which the student clearly describes his personal contribution to the project 4. Additional information in a plain text file including the following information: - Demonstration title - Authors (name, affiliation, email, address, phone fax) - The corresponding author with her/his email address - Abstract (max. 150 words) - Keywords - URL (if available) - Paper ID if the demo is related to a paper at the main conference - Equipment you will bring (e.g., laptop, robot) - Equipment you will need (e.g., table, poster board, power sockets) - Special requirements (e.g., space for robot and if so how much, video projector) - A discussion of the present state of your demo (e.g., ready to demonstrate now, but if not, include a realistic estimate for conclusion and what remains to be done before you have a demonstrable software/robotic system). Accepted demos will have the 2-page papers included in the AAMAS proceedings. Submissions All demonstration proposals should be send to demos at aamas2009.org Submissions are open from October 27, 2009 Submission Deadline: January 12, 2009, 23:59 UTC Selection Process The submission and selection processes for the AAMAS 2009 demos will be separate from that of the main conference. Each submission will be assessed by the demo co-chairs and at least one member of the advisory board. The authors will receive a brief report with the result of the evaluation with the notification. The main evaluation criteria are: * Relevance to AAMAS * Quality and soundness of the underlying technology * Novelty of the application domain * Maturity of the (deployed) system * Potential for public interaction Notification of acceptance or rejection of submitted demos will be sent to the corresponding author by January 30, 2009. At least one author of each accepted demonstration is required to register and to attend the conference to give the demonstration. Important Dates Submission deadline: January 12, 2009. Notification of acceptance/rejection: January 30, 2009. Camera-ready paper: February 6, 2009 Contact Information For more information, contact the demos co-chairs: demos at aamas2009.org AAMAS 2009 Advisory Board James Odell, Independent consultant, USA Andrea Omicini, Università di Bologna, Italy H. Van Dyke Parunak, NewVectors LLC, Ann Arbor, USA Juan Pavón, Universidad Complutense Madrid, Spain Giovanni Rimassa, Whitestein Technologies Michael Winikoff, RMIT Melbourne, Australia AAMAS 2009 Demo & Exibits Co-Chairs Paolo Giorgini, University of Trento, Povo (Italy) Danny Weyns, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium) -- Dr Simon Miles Agents and Intelligent Systems Group Department of Computer Science Kings College London, UK From areces at pluton.loria.fr Mon Oct 27 09:43:27 2008 From: areces at pluton.loria.fr (Carlos Areces) Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2008 09:43:27 +0100 Subject: Final Call for Bids to Host the 22-th ESSLLI, 2010 Message-ID: <200810270843.m9R8hRDf026654@pluton.loria.fr> ****************************************************** * Final Call for Bids to Host the 22-th ESSLLI, 2010 * ****************************************************** The Association for Logic, Language and Computation (FoLLI) and the ESSLLI Standing Committee invite proposals to host the 22-nd European Summer School in Logic, Language, and Information (ESSLLI), to be held in August 2010. *** The ESSLLI Summer School *** ESSLLI is a summer school which takes place two weeks in the summer, every year since 1989. The school hosts approximately 50 courses at both introductory and advanced level, and convokes around 400 participants each year from all over the world. The main focus of the program of the summer schools is the interface between linguistics, logic and computation. Courses, both introductory and advanced, cover a wide variety of topics within the combined areas of interest: Language and Computation, Language and Logic, and Logic and Computation. Workshops are also organized, providing opportunities for in-depth discussion of issues at the forefront of research, as well as a series of invited lectures. Detailed information about the ESSLLI organization can be found in the ESSLLI general guide, and the organizing and program committee guides. The guides can be obtained via the Standing Committee secretary. *** Submission Procedure *** At this time we seek draft proposals from prospective bidders. Based on an evaluation of the draft proposals, promising bidders will be asked to provide additional information for the final selection procedure. The ESSLLI Standing Committee (SC), in consultation with the management board of FoLLI, will finally select the site, the organizing committee, and the program committee, and supervise the subsequent organization. *** Draft Proposals *** Draft proposals should identify a target site, date and organizing team with a chair who will be responsible for the overal organization. The organization committee is responsible for all matters having to do with the practical organization. Draft proposals should at least include information on: -> Location (accessibility; school venue; accommodation and facilities) -> Proposed dates and organizing team -> Endorsement by hosting organization -> Local Language, Logic, and Computation community -> Meeting and accommodation venues; audiovisual equipment -> Catering and reception facilities; social program opportunities -> Budget estimates *** Proposal Assessment *** Proposals will be evaluated according to the following criteria (unordered): -> Experience of organizing team, involvement in previous ESSLLIs -> Local endorsement -> Appropriateness of proposed dates -> Accessibility and attractiveness of proposed site -> Adequacy of campus facilities for the anticipated number of registrants -> Adequacy of residence accommodations and food services in an appropriate range of price categories and close to the conference facilities -> Adequacy of budget projections -> Geographical and national balance with regard to meetings in the decade prior to 2010: Birmingham (2000), Helsinki (2001), Trento (2002), Wien (2003), Nancy (2004), Edinburgh (2005), Malaga (2006), Dublin (2007), Hamburg (2008), Bordeaux (2009) *** Important Dates *** -> September 15, 2008, call for bids posted -> November 15, 2008, draft proposals due -> November/December, 2008, SC provides feedback -> January 31, 2009, final proposals due -> February 28, 2009, bid selected at ESSLLI SC meeting -> July 25, 2009, OC and PC progress report -> August, 2010, 22-nd ESSLLI Information about FoLLI and ESSLLI can be found at: http:// www.folli.org/. If you want to consult the ESSLLI guidelines, or have any other queries about drafting your bid, please contact Sophia Katrenko or Paul Dekker. Draft proposals should be sent to: Sophia Katrenko Paul Dekker Informatics Institute ILLC/Department of Philosophy Faculty of Science Faculty of Humanities Universiteit van Amsterdam Kruislaan 419 Nieuwe Doelenstraat 15 NL-1098 VA Amsterdam NL-1012 CP Amsterdam The Netherlands +31 (0)20 525 6786 +31 (0)20 5254541 +31 (0)20 525 6896 (fax) +31 (0)20 5254503 (fax) katrenko at science.uva.nl p.j.e.dekker at uva.nl From dcarmel at ie.technion.ac.il Mon Oct 27 21:01:55 2008 From: dcarmel at ie.technion.ac.il (Carmel Domshlak) Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2008 22:01:55 +0200 Subject: CFP: Special Issue of AIJ on Preferences In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: [ please distribute - apologies for multiple postings ] C A L L F O R P A P E R S Special issue of the ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE Journal Representing, Learning, and Processing Preferences: Theoretical and Practical Challenges http://www.uni-marburg.de/fb12/kebi/si-ai =================================================== Background and Scope =================================================== The topic of preferences has recently attracted considerable attention in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and plays an increasingly important role in several AI-related research fields, including, e.g., agents, constraint satisfaction, decision theory, planning, machine learning, and argumentation. Representing and processing knowledge in terms of preferences appears to be especially appealing from an AI perspective, notably as it allows one to specify desires in a declarative way, to combine qualitative and quantitative modes of reasoning and to deal with inconsistencies and exceptions in a quite flexible manner. Even though methods for dealing with preferences in a formal way have been developed in research areas such as operations research, game and decision theory, and social choice for quite a while, AI research has made novel and complementary contributions to preference handling during the last decade. Besides, having contemporary application fields such as electronic auctions, e-commerce, and recommender systems in mind, AI research has raised new problems and put emphasis on additional aspects such as combinatorial structure of the alternatives, algorithmic issues and complexity, and the absence of a decision analyst in the loop (which is typical for many applications). Despite the existence of some established representation frameworks that allow for building and handling preference models in an effective and tractable way, research in the preference field has remained very active and still faces many challenges, such as comparing the expressivity and complexity of existing modeling languages, combining different representation modes and frameworks, supporting the knowledge acquisition task by discovering, learning, and adapting user preferences based on different types of feedback, handling preferences in multi-agent systems and group decision making, and developing efficient and theoretically sound algorithms for preference aggregation and revision, just to mention a few. The aim of this special issue is to provide an up-to-date picture of the current trends in the AI research on handling user preferences. Especially welcome are contributions that bridge the gap between the rather particulate approaches existing so far, thereby helping to establish a coherent theoretical foundation of preferences in AI, as well as interdisciplinary work that combines or integrates approaches from other fields, such as operations research, databases, or game and decision theory. =================================================== Submission Information =================================================== All manuscripts must adhere to the submission guidelines of the AI journal and should be submitted to the journal in the usual way (that is, not to the guest editors directly). To give notice of submitting to the special issue, please put "Special Issue on Preferences" in the subject heading of your email to aij at ida.liu.se. We kindly ask prospective authors to express, as far as possible, their intention to submit a paper. To this end, please send an email including a tentative title and a short abstract to all guest editors. =================================================== Timetable =================================================== * Intention: December 15th, 2008 * Submission: February 15th, 2008 * Notification: June 15th, 2009 * Revised papers: July 30th, 2009 =================================================== Guest Editors =================================================== Carmel Domshlak, Israel Institute of Technology dcarmel at ie.technion.ac.il Eyke Hüllermeier, University of Marburg, Germany mail at eyke.de Souhila Kaci, IUT de Lens, France, kaci at cril.univ-artois.fr Henri Prade, University of Toulouse, France, prade at irit.fr From kordoni at CoLi.Uni-SB.DE Tue Oct 28 13:23:44 2008 From: kordoni at CoLi.Uni-SB.DE (Valia Kordoni) Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2008 13:23:44 +0100 Subject: Scholarships for M.Sc. in Language Technology and Computational Linguistics: Erasmus Mundus Masters Program in Language and Communication Technologies (LCT) Message-ID: <49070450.7@coli.uni-sb.de> Apologies for multiple postings -- The following consortium of Universities 1. Saarland University in Saarbruecken, Germany (coordinator) 2. Free University of Bozen - Bolzano, Italy 3. University of Malta 4. University of Nancy 2, France 5. Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic 6. Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, The Netherlands are offering the European Masters Program in Language and Communication Technologies (LCT; http://lct-master.org) under the auspices of the Erasmus Mundus Program of the European Union (http://ec.europa.eu/education/external-relation-programmes/doc72_en.htm). The Erasmus Mundus Masters Program in Language and Communication Technologies is an international distributed Master of Science course. The program involves studying one year at one of the Universities of the consortium, and completing the second year with a stay in one of the other partner Universities. After this, the student will obtain two Master degrees with legal value in each of the countries of issue. The Program in brief Objectives: The Erasmus Mundus Masters Program in Language and Communication Technologies provides students with profound knowledge and insight into the various disciplines that contribute to the methods of language and communication technologies and it strengthens their ability to work according to scientific methods. Moreover, the students acquire practice-oriented knowledge by choosing appropriate combinations of modules in Language Technology, Computational and Theoretical Linguistics, and Computer Science. As such, the European Masters Program in LCT is designed to meet the demands of industry and research in the rapidly growing area of Language Technology. It offers education and training opportunities for future generations of leaders in research and innovation. Duration: 2 years (120 ECTS credits) Language of instruction: English Summary of Study Programme: The course consists of compulsory core modules, as well as elective advanced modules in Language Technology and Computer Science, optionally complemented by a project, and completed by a Masters dissertation. APPLICATION DEADLINES: Applications to the LCT and the Erasmus Mundus Scholarships scheme for the academic years 2009-2011 can be made online at http://lct-master.org/registration-2008/index.php?authorsInstructions=1 Study Requirements Applicants must satisfy the following study requirements: 1. a Bachelor degree or equivalent in the area of (Computational) Linguistics, Language Technology, Cognitive Sciences, Computer Science, Mathematics, Artificial Intelligence, or other relevant disciplines 2. proficiency in English (for non-native speakers) must be certified by one of the following (for more details, please check http://lct-master.org/index.php?id=prerequisites): a. TOEFL score of at least 250 (computer-based test) or 575 (paper-based test) b. Cambridge Proficiency Exam -- pass c. IELTS -- > 6.5 d. Possession of a first degree taught in English e. Internet-based TOEFL score: 79 For detailed info on applications, please, check the web pages: http://lct-master.org/index.php?id=deadlines For further information please contact: Dr. Valia Kordoni at kordoni at coli.uni-sb.de Program coordinators: Prof. Hans Uszkoreit (hansu at coli.uni-sb.de) Dr. Valia Kordoni (kordoni at coli.uni-sb.de) Further contacts can be found at: http://lct-master.org/index.php?id=local -- PD Dr. Valia Kordoni, Computational Linguistics-Saarland University, P.O. 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URL: From esmiralda.moradian at dis.uu.se Wed Oct 29 11:39:03 2008 From: esmiralda.moradian at dis.uu.se (Esmiralda Moradian) Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2008 11:39:03 +0100 Subject: Call for papers, KES-AMSTA 2009 Message-ID: <20081029113903.s10je964g4wowgcw@webmail6.uu.se> ****** Apologies for multiple postings ******* * please distribute to interested colleagues * *************************************************************************** CALL FOR PAPERS The 3rd KES International Symposium on AGENTS AND MULTI-AGENT SYSTEMS - TECHNOLOGIES AND APPLICATIONS (KES-AMSTA-09) Uppsala, Sweden June 3 - June 5, 2009 http://amsta-09.kesinternational.org/ INTRODUCTION KES-AMSTA-2009 is an international scientific symposium for research in the field of agent and multi-agent systems. The aim of the symposium is to provide an internationally respected forum for scientific research in the technologies and applications of agent and multi-agent systems. Agents and multi-agent systems are related to a modern software paradigm which has long been recognized as a promising technology for constructing autonomous, complex and intelligent systems. This symposium will provide and excellent opportunity for researchers to discuss modern approaches and techniques for agent and multi-agent systems and their applications. KES-AMSTA-2009 is organized by KES International and Uppsala University, Sweden, and will take place in Uppsala. IMPORTANT DATES Submission of papers: 10 Nov. 2008 Notification of acceptance: 10 Jan. 2009 Final papers to be received: 1 Feb. 2009 Authors / Early registration: 16 Feb. 2009 Symposium: 4 Jun - 5 Jun 2009 TOPICS OF INTEREST Agent Systems Formal models of agency. Agent architectures. BDI architecture. Learning, evolution, and adaptation. Perception and action. Communication: languages, semantics, pragmatics, protocols, and conversations. Knowledge representation Computational complexity. Autonomous or humanoid robots. Social robots and robot teams. Autonomy aspect. Cognitive models, including emotions and philosophies. Embodied and believable agents. Emergent behaviour. Ontologies. Multi-agent Systems Cooperative distributed problem solving. Task and resource allocation. Mechanism design, auctions, and game theory. Modelling other agents and self. Multi-agent planning. Negotiation protocols. Multi-agent learning. Conflict resolution. Trust and reputation management. Privacy, safety and security. Scalability, robustness and dependability. Social and organizational structures. Verification and validation. Novel computing paradigms (autonomic, grid, P2P, ubiquitous computing). Brokering and matchmaking. Agent-oriented software engineering, including implementation languages and frameworks. Mobile agents. Per-formance, scalability, robustness, and dependability. Verification and validation. E-business agents. Pervasive computing. Privacy, safety, and security. Tools and Applications Simulation systems. Web services and service-oriented computing. Artificial social systems. Autonomic computing. Case studies and reports on deployments. Computational infrastructures. Information retrieval. Web services and semantic web. E-learning sys-tems. E-institutions. E-commerce. INFORMATION FOR AUTHORS Papers are invited from prospective authors with interests on the indicated symposium topics and related areas of application. All contributions should be original and not published elsewhere or intended to be published during the review period. Contributions from more applied related fields in industry and commerce are very welcome. All accepted papers must be presented by one of the authors who must register for the conference and pay the fee. To ensure high quality, all papers will be thoroughly reviewed by the KES-AMSTA-09 International Programme Committee. The symposium proceedings are planned to be published by Springer-Verlag in LNCS/LNAI series (subject to confirmation). Submitted papers should be prepared in LNCS/LNAI style and should not exceed 10 pages. Extended versions of selected papers will be considered for publication in special issues to be included in several journals indexed by ISI, KES Journal and Int. Journal of Intelligent Information and Database Systems. Ph.D. students are invited to submit papers to Doctoral Track. Special sessions are also welcome. POST-CONFERENCE PUBLICATION A selected number of accepted and personally presented papers will be expanded and revised for possible inclusion in special issues for the following prestigious international journals and books: - Knowledge and Information Systems: An International Journal (Springer, ISI/SCI indexed) - International Journal of Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (Springer, ISI/SCI indexed) - Journal of Universal Computer Science (Graz University, ISI/SCI indexed) - Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems 17(3) (IOS Press, ISI/SCI indexed) - International Journal of Intelligent Information and Databse Systems (Inderscience, EI, Inspec, DBLP indexed) - Edited book (title will be announced later), to be published by Springer in series Studies in Computational Intelligence - Edited book (title will be announced later) to be published by IGI Global Publishers in series Computational Intelligence and its Applications Note that only papers personally presented at the symposium will be considered for invitation to the special issues and books. PAPER SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION The symposium proceedings are planned to be published by Springer-Verlag in LNCS/LNAI series (subject to confirmation). Submitted papers should be prepared in LNCS/LNAI style and should not exceed 10 pages. Extended versions of selected papers will be considered for publication in special issues to be included in several journals indexed by ISI, KES Journal and Int. Journal of Intelligent Information and Database Systems. Ph.D. students are invited to submit papers to Doctoral Track. Special sessions are also welcome. ORGANIZATION COMMITTEES Honorary Chair: L. Magnusson, Uppsala University, Sweden General Co-Chairs: A. Håkansson, Uppsala University, Sweden and N.T. Nguyen, Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland Executive Chair: R.J. Howlett, University of Brighton, UK Program Co-Chairs: R.L. Hartung, Franklin University, USA, and D. Sharma, Canberra University, Australia Local Organizing Chair: T. Palm, Uppsala University, Sweden Publicity Co-Chairs: Z. Kiziltan, University of Bologna, Italy and E. Moradian, Uppsala University, Sweden Invited Session Chair: L.C. Jain, University of South Australia, Australia Doctoral Track Chair: A. Pietrusiewicz, Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland KES-AMSTA-2009 is part of the AMSTA Series Chair: N.T. Nguyen, which is a sub-series of KES International Conference Series, Chairs L.C. Jain and R.J. Howlett CONTACT DETAILS Email: amsta-09 at kesinternational.org Postal Address:- KES International 2nd Floor, 145-157 St John Street London EC1V 4PY United Kingdom Best regards, KES-AMSTA-09 Organizing Committee From tc at cs.bath.ac.uk Wed Oct 29 18:19:13 2008 From: tc at cs.bath.ac.uk (Tom Crick) Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2008 17:19:13 +0000 Subject: 2nd Call for Participation: EUMAS 2008 Message-ID: <49089B11.70204@cs.bath.ac.uk> ***Apologies for multiple copies*** *********************************************************** CALL FOR PARTICIPATION Sixth European Workshop on Multi-Agent Systems (EUMAS 2008) University of Bath, Bath, UK 18th--19th December 2008 http://eumas08.cs.bath.ac.uk/ *** note: early registration ends on 31st October! *** *********************************************************** OVERVIEW EUMAS 2008 is the sixth edition of the EUMAS meeting series that started in Oxford in 2003. This year's meeting retains the traditions of past events with a focus on student presentation, early results and re-presentation of recent conference papers. Additionally, it is hoped that as in past years, there will be several Technical Forum Groups on the day prior to the meeting (Wednesday 17th December). Details are yet to be finalised; please see http://eumas08.cs.bath.ac.uk/tfg/. We are pleased to report there were 71 submissions this year, of which 42 were accepted for full presentations and 12 for short presentations (overall acceptance rate of 76%). LOCATION The City of Bath is a UNESCO World Heritage site located in the south-west of England. Founded by the Romans as a thermal spa, Bath became an important centre of the wool industry in the Middle Ages. In the 18th century, under King George III, it developed into an elegant town with neo-classical Palladian buildings, which blend harmoniously with the Roman baths. The University of Bath campus is situated in the hills surrounding the city and is a leading UK university with an international reputation for teaching quality and research. Further information about the University of Bath, how to get here and finding your way around is available from http://www.bath.ac.uk/getting-here/. Bath can be easily reached by road, train or air. For international participants, Bath is best served by either Bristol International Airport or London Heathrow; we advise strongly against using any of the other London airports. REGISTRATION Registration is now open for EUMAS 2008 and information is available online at: http://eumas08.cs.bath.ac.uk/registration/ The early registration period runs until *31st October*, and late registration until *30th November*. Your registration fee includes: the electronic proceedings, a ticket for the welcome reception at the Roman Baths, a ticket for the evening banquet, lunch and refreshments on both days of the workshop (and accommodation on Wednesday 17th and Thursday 18th Dec, if selected). Reduced registration fees are available for students. Thanks to sponsorship from the Engineering and Physical Science Research Council (EPSRC), we can offer a limited number of student bursaries. Please note that only EPSRC-funded students are eligible for these bursaries. If you are in receipt of an EPSRC studentship, and wish to apply, please consult the website for further details. These bursaries will be allocated on a first-come, first-served basis. CONTACT DETAILS EUMAS 2008 Organisation Department of Computer Science University of Bath Bath BA2 7AY UK Fax: +44 (0)1225 383493 Email: eumas08 at cs.bath.ac.uk IMPORTANT DATES Early registration closes: ***31st October 2008*** Camera-ready submission: 17th November 2008 Late registration closes: 30th November 2008 Technical Forum Group meetings: 17th December 2008 EUMAS 2008 workshop: 18th/19th December 2008 OFFICIALS General Chair Julian Padget, University of Bath, UK Program Chair Franziska Klugl, Orebro University, Sweden Local Organisation Marina De Vos, University of Bath, UK Julian Padget, University of Bath, UK Publicity/Web Tom Crick, University of Bath, UK Owen Cliffe, University of Bath, UK From jenny.benois at labri.fr Wed Oct 29 19:42:23 2008 From: jenny.benois at labri.fr (Jenny Benois-Pineau) Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2008 19:42:23 +0100 Subject: CBMI'2009 Call for Papers Message-ID: <4908AE8F.6060200@labri.fr> We apologize if you receive this message several times *7th International Workshop on Content-Based Multimedia Indexing CBMI'2009 * Following the six successful previous events (Toulouse 1999, Brescia 2001, Rennes 2003, Riga 2005, Bordeaux 2007, London 2008), *2009 International Workshop on Content-Based Multimedia Indexing (CBMI) *will be held on June 3-5, 2009 at the picturesque city of *Chania*, in *Crete Island, Greece*. It will be organized by Image, Video and Multimedia Laboratory of National Technical University of Athens . CBMI 2009 aims at bringing together the various communities involved in the different aspects of content-based multimedia indexing, such as image processing and information retrieval with current industrial trends and developments. CBMI 2009 is supported by IEEE, EURASIP, University of Athens. The technical program of CBMI 2009 will include presentation of invited plenary talks, special sessions as well as regular sessions with contributed research papers. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Multimedia indexing and retrieval (image, audio, video, text) Matching and similarity search Construction of high level indices Multimedia content extraction Identification and tracking of semantic regions in scenes Multi-modal and cross-modal indexing Content-based search Multimedia data mining Metadata generation, coding and transformation Large scale multimedia database management Summarisation, browsing and organization of multimedia content Presentation and visualization tools User interaction and relevance feedback Personalization and content adaptation Evaluation and metrics Paper Submission Prospective authors are invited to submit full papers at the conference web site: http://www.cbmi2009.org/submission. Style files (Latex and Word) will be provided for the convenience of the authors. *Important Dates* Submission of full papers: January 8, 2009 Notification of acceptance: February 23, 2009 Submission of camera-ready papers: March 13, 2009 Early registration due: March 13, 2009 *Main Workshop:* *June 3-5, 2009* Venue CBMI 2009 will be hosted at *KAM - Mediterranean Centre of Architecture*, *Chania*, at the *island of Crete*, one of the most exciting Greek destinations. KAM was settled by Chania municipality in 1996 and is situated since 2002 at Great Arsenali, the old port of Chania. On behalf of CBMI'2009 Organising Committee, CBMI'2009 Publicity chair -- Jenny Benois-Pineau, Professeure, Professor, resp. du thème head of research group on Analyse et Indexation Vidéo Video Analysis and Indexing Image et Son Image and Sound dept. LABRI UMR 5800 CNRS/Université Bordeaux 1/Bordeaux 2/ ENSEIRB tel. 33 (0) 5 40 00 84 24 fax. 33 (0) 4 40 00 66 69 http://www.labri.fr/projet/AIV/Analyseetindexationvideo/Accueil.html -------------- nächster Teil -------------- Ein Dateianhang mit HTML-Daten wurde abgetrennt... URL: From behrens at in.tu-clausthal.de Fri Oct 31 08:52:29 2008 From: behrens at in.tu-clausthal.de (Tristan Behrens) Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2008 08:52:29 +0100 Subject: Special Issue of IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering Message-ID: <490AB93D.2080102@in.tu-clausthal.de> *Call for Papers*---/Rule Representation, Interchange and Reasoning in Distributed, Heterogeneous Environments/ Guest Editors: Nick Bassiliades, Guido Governatori, Adrian Paschke, Jürgen Dix In recent years rule based technologies have enjoyed remarkable adoption in two areas: (1) Business Rule Processing and (2) Web-Centered Reasoning. The first trend is caused by the software development life cycle, which needs to be accelerated at reduced cost. The second trend is related to the Semantic Web and Service-oriented technologies, which aim to turn the Web into a huge repository of cross-referenced, machine-understandable data and processes. For both trends, rules can be used to extract, derive, transform, and integrate information in a platform-independent manner. While early rule engines and environments were complex, expensive to maintain, and not very user friendly, the current generation of rule technology provides enhanced usability, scalability and performance, and is less costly. A general advantage of using rules is that they are usually represented in a platform independent manner, often using XML. This fits well into today's distributed, heterogeneous Web-based system environments. Rules represented in standardized Web formats can be discovered, interchanged and invoked at runtime within and across Web systems, and can be interpreted and executed on any platform. This special issue solicits state-of-the-art approaches, solutions and applications in the area of Rule Representation, Reasoning and Interchange in the context of distributed, (partially) open, heterogeneous environments, such as the Semantic Web, Intelligent Multi-Agent Systems, Event-Driven Architectures and Service-Oriented Computing. We strongly advise that solicited contributions should clearly identify the target class of applications they enable. Download the CfP (PDF) here: http://www.computer.org/portal/cms_docs_transactions/transactions/tkde/CFP/cfp_rule-representation.pdf