From hak at ca.ibm.com Mon Mar 1 03:45:37 2010 From: hak at ca.ibm.com (Hassan Ait-Kaci) Date: Sun, 28 Feb 2010 18:45:37 -0800 Subject: CFP - RULE 2010 (Edinburgh, UK, July 14, 2010) In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [Although we try avoiding cross-posting, we apologize if that happens] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ RULE 2010 ELEVENTH INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON RULE-BASED SPECIFICATION AND PROGRAMMING RULE-BASED PROGRAMMING IN INDUSTRY AND THE SEMANTIC WEB Edinburgh, UK July 14, 2010 http://www.di.uminho.pt/rule2010 IMPORTANT DATES: Submission deadline: Friday, April 16, 2010 PC meeting: Monday-Friday, May 24-28, 2010 Authors notified: Thursday, June 3, 2010 Final copies due: Friday, June 25, 2010 RULE 2010 Workshop: Wednesday, July 14, 2010, ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -------------- nächster Teil -------------- Ein Dateianhang mit HTML-Daten wurde abgetrennt... URL: From enric at iiia.csic.es Mon Mar 1 10:52:25 2010 From: enric at iiia.csic.es (Enric Plaza) Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2010 10:52:25 +0100 Subject: Call for papers WebCBR: 2nd Workshop on Reasoning from Experiences on the Web Message-ID: <97EA3202-FDE3-4EE4-B94D-A09F918981BA@iiia.csic.es> -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- ** Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this announcement ** ** Please forward to anyone who might be interested ** -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- ------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS WebCBR: 2nd Workshop on Reasoning from Experiences on the Web http://www.comp.dit.ie/aigroup/webcbr Workshop at the 18th International Conference on Case Based Reasoning 19th July 2010, Alessandria, Italy http://www.iccbr.org/iccbr10/ Paper Submission Deadline: 28th April 2010 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Papers -------------------- The aim of this workshop is to provide a forum for the discussion of trends, research issues and practical experiences on the role of CBR in reasoning with web-related experiential content. For this purpose, the workshop is not intended to have a mini-conference format of paper presentations, but a structure of activities that helps debate and interaction in order to elucidate the main bottlenecks and challenges as well as the more promising research lines for applying CBR on web- related experiential content. Therefore, the workshop will consist of panels and presentations of complete research, ongoing research and position papers. Topics will include, but not be limited to, the following: • How to express experiences • How to analyze and use people’s web content • How to develop and use folksonomies • How to integrate ontologies and domain knowledge • How to capture and exploit user interaction for web search and browsing • How to express a user’s needs for other people’s experiences • How to capture and exploit the experiential content in social software technologies Submissions which are responses to the WebCBR Challenge (http://www.comp.dit.ie/aigroup/?page_id=549 ) are very welcome. Format and Submission ------------------------------- Workshop papers should be submitted in Springer LNCS format, which is the format required for the final camera-ready copy, with a maximum of 10 pages for full and application papers and 5 pages for short (position) papers. Authors’ instructions along with LaTeX and Word macro files are available on the web http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html. Each submission should state whether it is: • a full paper, • a position paper, • an application paper. Full papers in PDF format should be submitted using the ICCBR 2010 EasyChair Conference Site and the WebCBR Workshop track submission facility: https://www.easychair.org/login.cgi?conf=iccbr2010 Deadline Dates --------------------- 28th April 2010 Submission of workshop papers 26th May 2010 Notification of acceptance of workshop papers 4th June 2010 Final camera ready copies to be received by workshop organisers 20th July 2010 Workshop Organising Committee ------------------------------ • Derek Bridge, University College Cork, Ireland • Sarah Jane Delany, Dublin Institute of Technology, Ireland • Enric Plaza, IIIA-CSIC, Catalonia, Spain • Barry Smyth, University College Dublin, Ireland • Nirmalie Wiratunga, Robert Gordon University, Scotland, UK Program Committee --------------------------- • Klaus-Dieter Althoff, University of Hildesheim, Germany • Ralph Bergmann, University of Trier, Germany • David Leake, Indiana University, USA • Ashwin Ram, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA From geoff at cs.miami.edu Mon Mar 1 16:11:32 2010 From: geoff at cs.miami.edu (Geoff Sutcliffe) Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2010 10:11:32 -0500 (EST) Subject: LPAR-16 Short Papers - CFP Message-ID: <20100301151132.AE7E011FBCA@mcclellan.cs.miami.edu> ===================== CALL FOR SHORT PAPERS ===================== LPAR-16 16th International Conference on Logic for Programming, Artificial Intelligence and Reasoning April 25 - May 1, 2010 Dakar, Senegal http://www.lpar.net/lpar-16/ The series of International Conferences on Logic for Programming, Artificial Intelligence and Reasoning (LPAR) is a forum where, year after year, some of the most renowned researchers in the areas of logic, automated reasoning, computational logic, programming languages and their applications come to present cutting-edge results, to discuss advances in these fields, and to exchange ideas in a scientifically emerging part of the world. The 16th edition will be held in Dakar, Senegal. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- In keeping with the tradition of LPAR, researchers and practioners are encouraged submit short papers reporting on interesting work in progress or providing system descriptions. They need not be original. Extended versions of the short papers may be submitted concurrently with or after LPAR-16 to another conference or a journal. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Logic is a fundamental organizing principle in nearly all areas in Computer Science. It runs a multifaceted gamut from the foundational to the applied. At one extreme, it underlies computability and complexity theory and the formal semantics of programming languages. At the other, it drives billions of gates every day in the digital circuits of processors of all kinds. Logic is in itself a powerful programming paradigm but it is also the quintessential specification language for anything ranging from real-time critical systems to networked infrastructures. Logical techniques link implementation and specification through formal methods such as automated theorem proving and model checking. Logic is also the stuff of knowledge representation and artificial intelligence. Because of its ubiquity, logic has acquired a central role in Computer Science education. Topics ------ New results in the fields of computational logic and applications are welcome. Also welcome are more exploratory presentations, which may examine open questions and raise fundamental concerns about existing theories and practices. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Automated reasoning * Verification * Interactive theorem proving and proof assistants * Model checking * Implementations of logic * Satisfiability modulo theories * Rewriting and unification * Logic programming * Satisfiability checking * Constraint programming * Decision procedures * Logic and the Web * Ontologies and large knowledge bases * Logic and databases * Modal and temporal logics * Program analysis * Foundations of security * Description logics * Non-monotonic reasoning * Specification using logics * Logic in artificial intelligence * Logic and types * Logical foundations of programming * Logical aspects of concurrency * Logic and computational complexity * Knowledge representation and reasoning * Logic of distributed systems Programme Chairs ---------------- * Ed Clarke * Andrei Voronkov Programme Committee ------------------- * Rajeev Alur * Matthias Baaz * Peter Baumgartner * Armin Biere * Nikolaj Bjorner * Iliano Cervesato * Agata Ciabattoni * Hubert Comon-Lundh * Nachum Dershowitz * Juergen Giesl * Guillem Godoy * Georg Gottlob * Jean Goubault-Larrecq * Reiner Haehnle * Claude Kirchner * Michael Kohlhase * Konstantin Korovin * Laura Kovacs * Orna Kupferman * Leonid Libkin * Aart Middeldorp * Luke Ong * Frank Pfenning * Andreas Podelski * Andrey Rybalchenko * Helmut Seidl * Geoff Sutcliffe * Ashish Tiwari * Toby Walsh * Christoph Weidenbach Submission Details ------------------ Short papers are limited in length to 5 pages in the EasyChair format. The class style may be downloaded from http://www.easychair.org/easychair.zip. Short papers must be submitted through the EasyChair system using the web page ... http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lpar16short The short paper proceedings will be available as an EasyChair collection volume. Participation ------------- Authors of accepted papers are required to ensure that at least one of them will be present at the conference. Papers that do not adhere to this policy will be removed from the proceedings. Important Dates --------------- Paper submission deadline: 17 March 2010 Notification of acceptance: 25 March 2010 Final version: 1 April 2010 LPAR-16: 25 April - 1 May 2010 From zdun at infosys.tuwien.ac.at Tue Mar 2 09:47:59 2010 From: zdun at infosys.tuwien.ac.at (Uwe Zdun) Date: Tue, 02 Mar 2010 09:47:59 +0100 Subject: CFP: 1st Workshop on Engineering SOA and the Web (ESW'10) Message-ID: <4B8CD0BF.6070407@infosys.tuwien.ac.at> CALL FOR PAPERS 1st Workshop on Engineering SOA and the Web (ESW'10) Hosted at Tenth International Conference on Web Engineering (ICWE 2010) July 5 - 9, 2010 in Vienna, Austria http://www.infosys.tuwien.ac.at/linksites/events/ESW10/ ------------------------------------------------------------ Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA) are nowadays used as the backbone of many Web applications. ESW'10 will focus on the overlap of engineering service-oriented systems and Web applications into a coherent system. The main goals of the workshop are to bring together experts, both from industry and academia, who work on the interdependent context of SOA and Web applications and use engineering methods to make that link. The workshop will be a full day interactive workshop with sessions organized to facilitate discussion and interaction among the participants. The main goals of the workshop are to bring together experts, both from industry and academia, who work on the interdependent context of SOA and Web applications, and use engineering methods to make that link. The workshop seeks high quality papers on the following topics (among others): * Monitoring of SOAs via the Web * Management of SOAs via the Web * Governance of SOAs via the Web * Integration of SOAs and Web Applications * Web Dashboards for SOAs * Monitoring and Management for Compliance of SOA * Metrics for SOA Management * Security Management in SOA * Engineering Methods and Approaches for SOAs and Web Applications PUBLICATION The ICWE'10 workshops will be published in a Springer LNCS volume as post-proceedings. Please use the Springer Guidelines already for paper submission (see instructions below). ORGANIZERS Uwe Zdun Information Systems Institute Vienna University of Technology Austria Schahram Dustdar Information Systems Institute Vienna University of Technology Austria Bruno Crispo Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science University of Trento Italy PROGRAM COMMITEE - Farhad Arbab, Stichting Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica, Netherlands - Aliaksandr Birukou, Universita degli Studi di Trento, Italy - Vincenzo D'Andrea, Universita degli Studi di Trento, Italy - Mohand-Said Hacid, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, France - Frank Leymann, Universität Stuttgart, Germany - Willem-Jan van den Heuvel, Stichting Katholieke Universiteit Brabant, Netherlands - Huy Tran, Technische Universität Wien, Austria - Mark Strembeck, Vienna University of Economics, Austria - Ralph Mietzner, Universität Stuttgart, Germany - Marco Aiello, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, Netherlands - Pietro Mazzoleni, IBM, USA - Fabio Massacci, University of Trento, Italy - Guenter Karioth, IBM, Switzerland - Philip Robinson, SAP GUIDELINES FOR SUBMISSION All submissions should not exceed 12 Springer LNCS pages. Submissions should be sent as PDF files via the electronic submission system: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=esw10 Formatting guidelines can be found at: Springer LNCS guide. Submissions should be original and unpublished research work or industrial experiences. Each submitted paper will undergo a rigorous review process by at least three members of the Program Committee. IMPORTANT DATES April 21st, 2010: Paper Submission May 21st, 2010: Author Notification June 7th, 2010: Camera-Ready Copy July 5 - 6, 2010: Workshop takes place From Philipp.Ruemmer at comlab.ox.ac.uk Tue Mar 2 19:48:06 2010 From: Philipp.Ruemmer at comlab.ox.ac.uk (Philipp Ruemmer) Date: Tue, 02 Mar 2010 18:48:06 +0000 Subject: CFP, LfSA10 -- Logics for System Analysis 2010 at FLoC, Edinburgh Message-ID: <1267555686.15729.13.camel@clpc442.comlab.ox.ac.uk> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Second call for papers LfSA'10 - Logics for System Analysis Workshop Affiliated with IJCAR and LICS at FLoC 2010 July 15th, 2010, Edinburgh, UK http://www.ls.cs.cmu.edu/LfSA10/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Safety-critical systems frequently occur as real-time systems, embedded systems, hybrid systems, distributed systems, and cyber-physical systems. They are also becoming more and more important in many application domains, including aviation, automotive, railway, robotic, or medical applications. To ensure the correct functioning of safety-critical systems it is necessary to model and reason about hardware (including physical properties or movement), software, communication aspects, and qualitative and quantitative aspects of the system environment. Logics for system analysis, system modeling, and specification, are primary tools to analyze system behavior. Logic is equally important for understanding the theoretical foundations of system analysis and as the basis for practical analysis tools that establish correct functioning of systems or find bugs in their designs. Depending on the nature of the system, modeling languages that are amenable to logical analysis and the study of correctness properties include logical representations, automata, state charts, Petri nets, dataflow models, or systems of differential equations. Several system models can be analyzed rigorously with the help of techniques such as logical calculi, decision procedures, model checking, and abstraction. LfSA'10 is devoted to the systematic theoretical study, practical development, and applied use of logics for system analysis. The purpose of the LfSA workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners interested in studying practically relevant systems or in developing the logical foundations and analysis tools for their study. Topics ------ * Logics for safety-critical systems (real-time, embedded, hybrid, distributed, stochastic, cyber-physical) * Logic-based methods for development of safety-critical systems * System representations using logics, automata, modeling languages, state charts, Petri nets, dataflow models * Theories, decision procedures, and calculi for system analysis * Model checking, theorem proving, and systematic testing * Case studies for logical system analysis * Applications of system analysis to industrial problems (including automotive, aviation, railway, robotics, process control, mixed analog/digital circuits in chip design) In particular, we invite contributions that bridge the gap between theory and practice or that combine different application domains. Submission Categories --------------------- * Regular papers (up to 15 pages), which should present previously unpublished work (completed or in progress), including descriptions of research, tools, and applications. * Short papers (up to 5 pages), which describe work in progress or aim at initiating discussions. * Presentation-only papers, i.e., papers already submitted or presented at a conference or another workshop; such papers will not be included in the LfSA proceedings but will be presented during the workshop. In addition to informal and electronic workshop proceedings, we consider the option of a special issue in a journal after the workshop. Submission is done via Easychair: https://www.easychair.org/login.cgi?conf=lfsa2010 Important Dates/Deadlines ------------------------- Abstract submission: March 25, 2010 Paper submission: April 1, 2010 Notification: April 28, 2010 Final version due: May 20, 2010 Workshop: July 15, 2010 Workshop/Programme Chairs ------------------------- André Platzer (Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA) aplatzer at cs.cmu.edu Philipp Rümmer (Oxford University, UK) philr at comlab.ox.ac.uk Invited Speakers ---------------- Thomas A. Henzinger (IST Austria) (second invited speaker TBA) Programme Committee ------------------- Raul Barbosa (Chalmers, Gothenburg, Sweden) Alessandro Cimatti (IRST Trento, Italy) Stéphane Demri (CNRS Cachan, France) Javier Esparza (TU Munich, Germany) Georgios E. Fainekos (Arizona State University, USA) Martin Giese (University of Oslo, Norway) Franjo Ivančić (NEC Laboratories Princeton, USA) Einar Broch Johnsen (University of Oslo, Norway) Dexter Kozen (Cornell, Ithaca, USA) Daniel Kroening (Oxford University, UK) Bruce H. Krogh (Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA) Marta Kwiatkowska (Oxford University, UK) Larissa Meinicke (Macquarie University, Australia) George J. Pappas (University of Pennsylvania, USA) Jean-François Raskin (Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium) Peter H. Schmitt (Karlsruhe University, Germany) Viorica Sofronie-Stokkermans (MPI Saarbrücken, Germany) Cesare Tinelli (The University of Iowa, USA) Uwe Waldmann (MPI Saarbrücken, Germany) -------------- nächster Teil -------------- Ein Dateianhang mit Binärdaten wurde abgetrennt... Dateiname : CFP.pdf Dateityp : application/pdf Dateigröße : 61458 bytes Beschreibung: nicht verfügbar URL : From tommie.meyer at meraka.org.za Wed Mar 3 08:58:21 2010 From: tommie.meyer at meraka.org.za (Tommie Meyer) Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2010 09:58:21 +0200 Subject: First Call for Participation: NMR 2010 Message-ID: Sincere apologies for cross-postings First Call for Participation: NMR 2010 13th INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON NON-MONOTONIC REASONING May 14-16, 2010, Sutton Place, Toronto, Canada Early Bird Registration Deadline: March 12, 2010 Website: http://www.cs.sfu.ca/NMR2010/ (Collocated with KR 2010, ICAPS 2010, FOIS 2010 and AAMAS 2010) NMR 2010 will be composed of six specialized sub-workshops: * Argument, Dialog and Decision * Declarative Programming for NMR * Action and Belief Change * Preferences and Norm * Commonsense and NMR for Ontologies * NMR and Uncertainty Invited speakers: Franz Baader Gerhard Brewka Marc Denecker Jack Minker Torsten Schaub The NMR workshop series is the premier specialized forum for researchers in non-monotonic reasoning and related areas. This will be the 13th workshop in the series. Its aim is to bring together active researchers in the broad area of non-monotonic reasoning, including belief revision, reasoning about actions, argumentation, declarative programming, preferences, non-monotonic reasoning for ontologies, uncertainty, and other related topics. Topics of Interest: NMR'10 welcomes the submission of papers broadly centred on issues and research in non-monotonic reasoning. We welcome papers of either a theoretical or practical nature. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): foundations of non-monotonic reasoning, default reasoning, representing actions and planning, belief revision and information fusion, reasoning and decision-making under uncertainty, answer set programming, belief updating and inconsistency handling, similarity-based reasoning, empirical studies of reasoning strategies, argument-based non-monotonic logics, abductive reasoning, algorithms and implementations, non-monotonic logics in multi-agent interaction, including negotiation and dispute resolution, non- monotonic reasoning for ontologies, declarative programming for non- monotonic reasoning, and reasoning with preferences. Programme co-chairs: Thomas Meyer tommie.meyer at meraka.org.za http://ksg.meraka.org.za/~tmeyer/ Eugenia Ternovska ter at cs.sfu.ca http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~ter From Joost.Vennekens at cs.kuleuven.be Wed Mar 3 10:57:09 2010 From: Joost.Vennekens at cs.kuleuven.be (Joost Vennekens) Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2010 10:57:09 +0100 Subject: KR 2010 - Early Registration 12 March Message-ID: <201003030957.o239v94v012498@borgraf.cs.kuleuven.be.> Ein eingebundener Text mit undefiniertem Zeichensatz wurde abgetrennt. Name: nicht verfügbar URL: From lorini at irit.fr Wed Mar 3 14:10:13 2010 From: lorini at irit.fr (Emiliano Lorini) Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2010 14:10:13 +0100 Subject: ESSLLI workshop "Theories of Information Dynamics and Interaction and their Application to Dialogue" Message-ID: <208766D50E6F49048541203DC624AAE3@Ernesto> Apologies for multiple copies ------------------------------------------------------------------ CALL FOR PAPERS Workshop on Theories of Information Dynamics and Interaction and their Application to Dialogue TIDIAD at ESSLLI2010 http://www.irit.fr/~Laure.Vieu/Esslli10 Workshop organized as part of the European Summer School on Logic, Language and Information ESSLLI 2010 (http://esslli2010cph.info/) August 16-20 (ESSLLI 2nd week) 2010, Copenhagen Workshop Purpose and Topics: ---------------------------- Theoretical approaches to communication and dialogue modeling are varied and often unrelated because separately focusing on different aspects of dialogue (speech acts, goals, beliefs, plans, questions, conventions, roles, cooperation, disputes, argumentation, reference, semantics-pragmatics interface...). On the other hand, the area of foundations of multi-agent systems is inducing new developments in logics of interaction and information dynamics, with a recent trend towards comparison and integration. Analyzing the impact of this trend on communication and dialogue modeling is timely. This workshop aims at discussing formal theories and logics of information dynamics and interaction and their applications to dialogue and communication modeling. It is intended to bring together logicians, linguists and computer scientists in order to provide a better understanding of the potentialities and limitations of formal methods for the analysis of dialogue and communication. Its scope includes not only the technical aspects of logics, but also multidisciplinary aspects from linguistics, philosophy of language, philosophy of social reality, social sciences (social psychology, economics). The following are some examples of formal theories and logics that are relevant to the workshop (no order): speech act theory, argumentation theory, game theory, public announcement logic, dynamic epistemic logic (DEL), logics of agency and power (e.g. STIT, ATL, Coalition Logic), theories of persuasion, theories of commitment, dynamic semantics, semantic approaches to interrogative clauses, rhetorical approaches to dialogue (e.g., Segmented Discourse Representation Theory). The focus of the workshop will be on recent developments, especially those that combine several approaches (e.g. dynamic epistemic logic and speech act theory, dynamic epistemic logic and segmented discourse representation theory, public announcement logic and commitment theories, STIT and dynamic epistemic logic, Coalition Logic and public announcement logic...) to deal with complex dialogue and communication phenomena. Invited speakers: ----------------- Patrick Blackburn, LORIA, INRIA Nancy Jeroen Groenendijk, ILLC, University of Amsterdam Workshop Organizers: -------------------- Emiliano Lorini ("lorini at irit.fr") and Laure Vieu ("vieu at irit.fr"), IRIT-CNRS, Toulouse Workshop Programme Committee: ----------------------------- Nicholas Asher, IRIT-CNRS, Toulouse Guillaume Aucher, Univ. of Luxembourg Alexandru Baltag, Oxford Univ. Anton Benz, ZAS, Berlin Patrick Blackburn, INRIA, Nancy Guido Boella, Univ. of Turin Jan Broersen, Univ. of Utrecht Cristiano Castelfranchi, ISTC-CNR, Rome Hans van Ditmarsch, Univ. of Otago & Univ. of Seville Raquel Fernández, Univ. of Amsterdam Jonathan Ginzburg, King's College, London Jeroen Groenendijk, Univ. of Amsterdam Davide Grossi, Univ. of Amsterdam Andreas Herzig, IRIT-CNRS, Toulouse Wiebe van der Hoek, Univ. of Liverpool Joris Hulstijn, Vrije Univ. of Amsterdam Andrew Jones, King's College, London Barteld Kooi, Univ. of Groningen Kepa Korta, Univ. of Basque Country, Donostia Alex Lascarides, Univ. Edinburgh Dominique Longin, IRIT-CNRS, Toulouse John-Jules Meyer, Univ. of Utrecht Paul Piwek, The Open Univ., Milton Keynes Henry Prakken, Univ. of Utrecht Leon van der Torre, Univ. of Luxembourg Submission Details: ------------------- Authors are invited to submit an extended abstract presenting work relevant to the area of information dynamics, interaction and dialogue. Extended abstracts should have a maximum of 6 pages, font size of at least 11pt, and margins of at least 2 cm. Papers should be in PDF format (Latex-generated papers are preferred, but not necessary), and uploaded by April 12 using Easychair at: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=tidiadesslli10 The submissions will be reviewed by the program committee and possibly additional reviewers. The accepted papers will appear in the workshop proceedings published by ESSLLI. The format for the final versions will be made available in due course. A special issue of the journal Synthese is planned, based on selected papers presented at the workshop, of which full versions will be independently reviewed. Important dates: ---------------- Apr 12, 2010: Deadline for submission May 24, 2010: Notification June 1, 2010: Deadline for early registration to ESSLLI Jun 15, 2010: Deadline for final papers August 16-20, 2010: Workshop Local Arrangements: ------------------- All workshop participants including the presenters will be required to register for ESSLLI. Further Information: -------------------- About the workshop: http://www.irit.fr/~Laure.Vieu/Esslli10 About ESSLLI: http://esslli2010cph.info/ -------------- nächster Teil -------------- Ein Dateianhang mit HTML-Daten wurde abgetrennt... URL: From cfp.kes2010 at kesinternational.org Thu Mar 4 12:10:27 2010 From: cfp.kes2010 at kesinternational.org (KES 2010) Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2010 12:10:27 +0100 (MET) Subject: Call For Papers KES2010 extended deadline Message-ID: <201003041110.o24BARl0012745@post.webmailer.de> Ein Dateianhang mit HTML-Daten wurde abgetrennt... URL: -------------- nächster Teil -------------- CALL FOR PAPERSPaper Submission Deadline (EXTENDED): 21st March, 2010KES201014th International Conference on Knowledge-Based and IntelligentInformation & Engineering Systems8- 10 September 2010, Cardiff, UKhttp://kes2010.kesinternational.org/index.php You are invited to submit a full paper for consideration. All acceptedpapers will be published in the respective conference proceedings(published by Springer-Verlag in Lecture Notes in AI as part of theLNCS/LNAI ). Extended versions of selected papers will be published in specialissues of the "Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence" and"Neural Computing and Applications" journals.IMPORTANT DATES:21 March, 2010: Submission of papers (up to 10 pages);21 April, 2010: Notification of acceptance24 May, 2010: Final papers + Copyright + Registration8-10 September, 2010: The 14th International Conference on Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Information & Engineering Systems (KES2010) From d.tykhonov at tudelft.nl Thu Mar 4 18:00:26 2010 From: d.tykhonov at tudelft.nl (Dmytro Tykhonov) Date: Thu, 04 Mar 2010 18:00:26 +0100 Subject: CfP: Automated Negotiating Agents Competition (ANAC) 2010 Message-ID: <4B8FE72A.2060109@tudelft.nl> ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Participation Automated Negotiating Agents Competition (ANAC) 2010 In conjunction with the 9th International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2010), Toronto Canada Spring 2010 http://mmi.tudelft.nl/negotiation/tournament negotiation at mmi.tudelf.nl ------------------------------------------------------------------------ We would like to invite you to participate in the Automated Negotiating Agents Competition (ANAC). The purpose of the competition is to steer the research in the area bilateral multi-issue closed negotiation. Closed negotiation, when opponents do not reveal their preferences to each other, is an important class of real-life negotiations. Negotiating agents designed using heuristic approach need extensive evaluation, typically through simulations and empirical analysis, since it is usually impossible to predict precisely how the system and the constituent agents will behave in a wide variety of circumstances. Furthermore, there is a need for the development of a best practice repository for negotiation techniques. That is, a coherent resource that describes which negotiation techniques are best suited to a given type of problem or domain. To facilitate research in the area of bilateral multi-issue negotiation the GENIUS system is developed. It allows easy development and integration of existing negotiating agents. GENIUS can be used to simulate individual negotiation sessions as well as tournaments between negotiating agents in various negotiation scenarios. It allows the specification of negotiation domains and preference profiles by means of a graphical user interface. GENIUS can be used to train human negotiators by means of negotiations against automated agents or other humans. Furthermore, it can be used to teach the design of generic automated negotiating agents. The ANAC competition will be held in spring 2010, with the finals being run during the AAMAS 2010 conference. The reward for the winner of the competition is US$2000 (The prize will be paid only if the number of participants is sufficient, that is at least 4 participants. In case if the number of participants is less than 8 the prize will be downgraded to US$1000). ORGANIZATION TEAM * Prof. Dr. Catholijn Jonker (organization chair) * Prof. Dr. Sarit Kraus (organization chair) * Dr. Koen Hindriks * Dr. Raz Lin * Dmytro Tykhonov TIMELINE * Design and test your agent in GENIUS yourself. * Upload your agent on the GENIUS server and try it in tournaments against agents uploaded by the other teams * Registration deadline: 31 March 2010 at 12.00 CET * Test phase of submissions: 1 – 11 April 2010 * Qualifying Rounds: 12-16 April 2010 * Quarter Finals: Monday 26 April 2010, 4 x 4 agents * Semi-Finals: Thursday 29 April 2010, 2 x 4 agents * Finals: during AAMAS 2010 (10-14 May 2010), 4 agents From ag at di.fct.unl.pt Thu Mar 4 18:59:06 2010 From: ag at di.fct.unl.pt (Alfredo Gabaldon) Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2010 17:59:06 +0000 Subject: Call for Participation:NMR'10 Sub-Workshop on Actions and Belief Change Message-ID: <20100304175906.GA16323@localhost.localdomain> Apologies for multiple postings --------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PARTICIPATION NMR'10 Sub-Workshop on Action and Belief Change Co-located with KR'10 Toronto, Canada, 14-16 May 2010 http://www.cs.sfu.ca/NMR2010/NMR_2010/Action_and_Belief_Change.html Reasoning about actions, causality, and belief change are well established research areas in nonmonotonic reasoning. Thanks to advances in these areas in recent years, it has become evident that the boundaries between these research areas are hardly discernible and that they have more in common than it was previously believed. For this reason, since the 2008 edition of NMR, the traditional ``Action and Change'' and ``Belief Change'' tracks have been merged into a new ``Actions and Belief Change'' sub-workshop. In addition to the traditional topics in the areas of reasoning about actions and belief change, we particularly encourage papers exploring the common territory that will further promote the cross-fertilization between these two areas. This would include, for example, reasoning about complex and dynamic environments, belief and knowledge merging under actions, multi-agent belief revision through communication, and so on. The specialized workshop on Action and Belief Change is a one-day event intended to bring together researchers interested in the areas of reasoning about action, causality and belief change, and to discuss current research, results and problems of a theoretical, foundational or practical nature. In particular, researchers from allied fields are encouraged to submit papers and participate in the workshop. This workshop will be part of the technical program of the 13th International Workshop on Nonmonotonic Reasoning (NMR'10), to be held in Toronto, Canada, and collocated with the KR 2010, ICAPS 2010, FOIS 2010 and AAMAS 2010 conferences. Panel discussions We welcome suggestions for panel discussions. Contact the session co-chairs with your ideas. Registration To register for NMR'10 (possibly in combination with the co-located events), go to http://www.aaai.org/Forms/torontoregistration-form.php for more details. Please note the deadline for early bird registration is **March 12**. Important Dates * Early bird registration deadline: March 12 2010 * Late registration deadline: April 9 2010 * NMR workshop dates: May 14-16, 2010 Session Co-Chairs * Richard Booth, University of Luxembourg & Mahasarakham University * Alfredo Gabaldon, New University of Lisbon Program Committee * Guillaume Aucher, University of Luxembourg * Richard Booth, University of Luxembourg & Mahasarakham University * Jim Delgrande, Simon Fraser University * Esra Erdem, Sabanciu University * Alfredo Gabaldon, New University of Lisbon * Andreas Herzig, Universite Paul Sabatier * Sebastien Konieczny, Universite d'Artois * Gerhard Lakemeyer, RWTH Aachen * Joohyung Lee, Arizona State University * Ronald Petrick, University of Edinburgh * Guilin Qi, Southeast University, Nanjing * Hans Rott, University of Regensburg * Sebastian Sardina, RMIT University * Michael Thielscher, TU Dresden * Son Cao Tran, New Mexico State University * Dongmo Zhang, University of Western Sydney From Agnieszka.Lawrynowicz at cs.put.poznan.pl Fri Mar 5 12:05:21 2010 From: Agnieszka.Lawrynowicz at cs.put.poznan.pl (Agnieszka.Lawrynowicz at cs.put.poznan.pl) Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2010 12:05:21 +0100 (CET) Subject: Deadline extension: IRMLeS'10: 2nd Int. Workshop on Inductive Reasoning and Machine Learning on the Semantic Web @ ESWC 2010 Message-ID: <64149.83.18.42.110.1267787121.squirrel@www.cs.put.poznan.pl> ------------- Apologies for multiple cross-postings --------------------- ======================= DEADLINE EXTENSION ================================ The new proposed schedule of important dates is as follows: ============================================================ * Abstract submission: 10 March 2010 (NEW) * Paper submission: 12 March 2010 (EXTENDED) * Notification 7 April 2010 (EXTENDED) * Camera-ready: 18 April 2010 * Workshop day: 31 May 2010 The 2nd ESWC Workshop on Inductive Reasoning and Machine Learning for the Semantic Web (IRMLeS 2010) May, 31st 2010 | Heraklion, Greece http://irmles.di.uniba.it/2010/ In conjunction with the 7th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2010) http://www.eswc2010.org/ *NEW* Invited speakers ============================================================= Steffen Staab, University of Koblenz-Landau Melanie Hilario, University of Geneva Overview ============================================================ The upcoming 2nd International Workshop on Inductive Reasoning and Machine Learning for the Semantic Web (IRMLeS), will be held as part of the 7th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC) in Heraklion, Crete (Greece). The primary goal of the workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners interested in the interdisciplinary research on the intersection of the Semantic Web with Knowledge Discovery and Machine Learning. The workshop is conceived to provide a meeting point for the related communities to stimulate collaboration and enable cross-fertilization of ideas. Large amounts of data increasingly becoming available and described using real-life ontologies represented in Semantic Web languages recently opened up the possibility for interesting real-world data mining applications on the Semantic Web. However, exploiting this global resource of data requires new kinds of approaches for data mining and data analysis that would be able to deal at the same time with its scale and with the complexity, expressivity, and heterogeneity of the representation languages, leverage on availability of ontologies and explicit semantics of the resources, and account for novel assumptions (e.g., "open world") that underlie reasoning services within the Semantic Web. The workshop will try to address the above issues, in particular focusing on the problems of how machine learning techniques, such as statistical learning methods and inductive forms of reasoning, can work directly on the richly structured Semantic Web data and exploit the Semantic Web technologies, what is the value added of machine learning methods for the Semantic Web, and what are the challenges for developers of machine learning techniques for the Semantic Web data, for example in the area of ontology mining. Topics of interest ============================================================ The topics of interest of the workshop include, but are not limited to: * Knowledge Discovery and Ontologies: data mining techniques using ontologies, ontology mining and knowledge discovery from ontological knowledge bases, ontology-based interpretation and validation of discovered knowledge, evaluation methodologies and metrics for the interaction of knowledge discovery and ontologies, whole knowledge discovery process guided by ontologies * Inductive Reasoning with Concept Languages: inductive aggregation, concept retrieval and query answering, approximate classification, inductive methods and fuzzy reasoning for ontology mapping, construction and evolution, concept change and novelty detection for ontology evolution * Statistical learning for the Semantic Web: refinement operators for concept and rule languages, concept and rules learning, kernels and instance-based learning for structured representations, semantic (dis )similarity measures and conceptual clustering, probabilistic methods for concept and rule languages * Special focus topics: OWA vs CWA in learning, applicability of relational learning in the Semantic Web context, integration of induction and deduction, benchmarking of datasets * Applications: (in the domains of the main tracks of ESWC) plus life sciences, cultural heritage, semantic multimedia, geo-informatics, and others Paper submisssion ============================================================ The contributed papers, written in English, should be submitted in PDF or PostScript format, not exceeding the following limits * 12 pages (full papers) * 5 pages (position papers) following the ESWC formatting style (Springer LNCS). All submissions will be reviewed by at least 2 referees. In addition to the ESWC workshop proceedings, depending on the quality and quantity of submissions, it is intended to publish a selection of revised accepted papers in a journal special issue or a book volume. Organizing Committee ============================================================ * Claudia d'Amato, University of Bari, Italy * Nicola Fanizzi, University of Bari, Italy * Marko Grobelnik, Jozef Stefan Institute, Slovenia * Agnieszka Lawrynowicz, Poznan University of Technology, Poland * Vojtech Svatek, University of Economics, Prague, Czech Republic Program Committee ============================================================ * Sarabjot S. Anand - University of Warwick * Bettina Berendt - Katholieke Universiteit Leuven * Abraham Bernstein - University of Zurich * Floriana Esposito - University of Bari * Mohand-Said Hacid - University Lyon 1 * Melanie Hilario - University of Geneva * Andreas Hotho - University of Kassel * Jose Iria - IBM Research, Zurich * Ross D. King - University of Aberystwyth * Jens Lehmann - University of Leipzig * Francesca A. Lisi - University of Bari * Thomas Lukasiewicz - Oxford University * Matthias Nickles - University of Bath * Sebastian Rudolph - University of Karlsruhe * Jetendr Shamdasani - University of the West of England * Steffen Staab - University of Koblenz-Landau * Umberto Straccia - ISTI-CNR, Pisa * Volker Tresp - Siemens Further information ============================================================ http://irmles.di.uniba.it/2010/ From nicola.olivetti at univ-cezanne.fr Fri Mar 5 16:19:09 2010 From: nicola.olivetti at univ-cezanne.fr (Nicola OLIVETTI) Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2010 16:19:09 +0100 (CET) Subject: Professorship Announcement In-Reply-To: <4B911608.7030004@univ-cezanne.fr> References: <4B8BBF1E.8030902@univ-cezanne.fr> <25064259.98711.1267491436201.JavaMail.root@frontal1> <4B8E3B0E.7020604@univ-cezanne.fr> <19020509.122256.1267628865571.JavaMail.root@frontal2> <4B911608.7030004@univ-cezanne.fr> Message-ID: <20984015.148963.1267802351319.JavaMail.root@frontal2> PROFESSOR POSITION VACANCY IN COMPUTER SCIENCE AT THE UNIVERSITY OF AIX-MARSEILLES III The University of Aix-Marseilles III seeks a strong candidate in computer science, with a preferred expertise in the area of Artificial Intelligence. Applicants must either have acquired the French "qualification aux fonctions de professeur" (see http://www.enseignementsup-recherche.gouv.fr/pid20610/les-enseignants-chercheurs.html) or must already have a Professor position, or they must have a Ph.D. and have a provable academic experience corresponding to an Associate Professor/Lecturer position. The Scientific Council of the university will anyway validate candidate’s credentials who do not have the above mentioned French qualification. NATURE OF THE POSITION AND ACADEMIC CONTEXT The vacancy is a permanent position in the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Aix-Marseille III. The successful candidate will be appointed to the degree PR2 with a possibility of further carrier. Note that the University of Aix-Marseille is one of the ten French universities selected by the French government for special research development in the next future (CAMPUS Project); this prominent status will benefit the academic staff by increased funding and facilities. RESEARCH The successful candidate will integrate the laboratoire CNRS LSIS (Laboratoire des Sciences de l'Information et des Systèmehttp://www.lsis.org) of Marseilles. The LSIS is (one of) the largest research institution in computer science in Marseilles, its research activities stetch from computer science, to robotics, to automation and control, and to image processing. This appointment is aimed to reinforce the research activities in Computer Science of LSIS, notably those ones in the area of Artificial Intelligence, with a particular interest to algorithmic aspects of IA (constraint satisfaction, SAT) and/or knowledge representation/automated reasoning. The successful candidate is expected to integrate the INCA team of LSIS (seewww.lsis.org/spip.php?id_rubrique=67) whose main research activities cover the above mentioned subareas of IA. TEACHING The appointed professor will take part to the teaching programs in computer science of the Faculty of Science, both at the undergraduate and graduate level. His/Her teaching charges at undergraduate level will cover standard courses in computer science. (S)he is expected to teach in French. HOW TO APPLY Candidates must register electronically and confirm their candidature on the site http://www.enseignementsup-recherche.gouv.fr/cid22713/galaxie.html before March 25, 2010. They must also send their application dossier to the following address: Universite Paul Cezanne - Aix-Marseille 3 Direction des Ressources Humaines 3, avenue Robert Schuman 13628 Aix en Provence Cedex 1 France no later than March 25, 2010 (postal stamp). Their application dossier must be in French or in English with a short CV in French. CONTACTS For further information, please contact: Philippe Jegou,philippe.jegou at univ-cezanne.fr Nicola Olivetti,nicola.oliveti at univ-cezanne.fr From Ralf.Treinen at pps.jussieu.fr Fri Mar 5 18:08:17 2010 From: Ralf.Treinen at pps.jussieu.fr (Ralf Treinen) Date: Fri, 05 Mar 2010 18:08:17 +0100 Subject: 2nd Call for Papers: LoCoCO 2010 Message-ID: <1267808897.584249.3591.nullmailer@vanadium.pps.jussieu.fr> LoCoCo 2010 -- Workshop on Logics for Component Configuration Workshop of SAT at FLoC 2010, Edinburgh, Scotland, July 10, 2010 http://lococo2010.mancoosi.org/ Second Call for Papers Scope: ====== Modern software distributions are based on the notion of components, which denote units of independent development and deployment. Components provide the necessary flexibility when organizing a complex software distribution, but also are a challenge when it comes to selecting components from a large repository of possible choices, and configuring these components according to user needs, resource constraints, and interdependencies with other components. Representing and solving configuration problems is a hot topic of great importance for many application domains. Some well-known examples of complex systems of components in the world of Free and Open Source software are the different distributions for GNU/Linux, BSD, or Eclipse plugins. Understanding and solving these questions is an attractive research topic since the problems to be solved are complex and interesting for researchers working on solving techniques, and on the other hand have the potential of high impact on the way the software we all use everyday is developed and deployed. Not only adequate logical formalisms to represent a configuration problem are required, but also sophisticated reasoning technologies to deal with large amounts of data. Further relevant aspects include diagnosis of failed configuration settings and an intelligent behavior dealing with user preferences. This workshop will focus on logic-based methods for specifying and solving complex configuration problems for software components. The goal of the workshop is to bring together both researchers and practitioners active in the area of component configuration of software systems, using different modeling and solving techniques, such as constraint and logic programming, description logics, satisfiability and its extensions. The workshop will be an opportunity to discuss common and complementary solutions for solving component configuration. Topics: ======= Main areas of interest include, but are not restricted to: o Configuration problems and models: knowledge representation and acquisition, incomplete knowledge, inconsistent knowledge, etc. o Reasoning methods for solving configuration problems: constraint satisfaction and optimization, SAT solving and extensions, integer programming, local search, symmetry breaking, etc. o Interactivity: user preferences, machine learning, distributed environments, etc. o Applications and tools: case studies, current challenges, application reports, etc. Invited Talk ============ An invited talk will be given by Carsten Sinz (University of Karlsruhe). MISC 2010 ========= The first Mancoosi International Solver Competition will be held in conjunction with the LoCoCo workshop: http://www.mancoosi.org/misc-2010 Important Dates =============== Friday, March 26 Submission deadline Friday, April 23 Notification about acceptance Friday, May 21 Final paper due Saturday, July 10 Workshop Submission and Publication ========================== We welcome submissions of various types of papers related to the topics of the workshop: * Regular research papers must be original work, and must not have been previously published, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere. This category includes system descriptions and tutorial overview papers. System descriptions should come with an URL allowing to access or download the system, with preference to systems that can be downloaded under an open source licence. Presentations of system descriptions at the workshop should include a system demonstration. * Presentations reporting on recent or ongoing work. They are not subject to restriction as for previous, simultaneous, or future publication elsewhere. The complete proceedings, containing the accepted papers of both categories, will be made freely available on the web for the workshop. It is planned to provide electronic copies on an USB stick to registered workshop participants. In addition to that, accepted regular research papers will be published in a special issue of Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science (EPTCS). Submitted papers of both categories must not exceed a limit of 10 pages, and have to be prepared in LaTeX following the EPTCS formatting instructions. Authors may provide pointers to additional online resources if necessary, and which the reviewers may use to their sole discretion. Authors of accepted papers will keep their copyright, however all papers (of both categories) must carry one of the different brands of the Creative Commons Licence mandated by EPTCS. Authors of accepted papers for the EPTCS proceedings have to grant EPTCS a non-exclusive licence to distribute. Submissions are handled by easychair at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lococo2010. Program Committee ================= Daniel Le Berre (Universite d'Artois, France) Roberto Di Cosmo (Universite Paris-Diderot, France) Georg Gottlob (Oxford University, UK) Pascal van Hentenryck (Brown University, USA) Matti Jarvisalo (University of Helsinki, Finland) Ines Lynce (INESC-ID, Lisbon, Portugal), co-chair Toni Mancini (Sapienza Universita di Roma, Italy) Albert Oliveras (Technical University of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain) Christian Schulte (KTH, Stockholm, Sweden) Ralf Treinen (Universite Paris-Diderot, France), co-chair Nic Wilson (UCC, Cork, Irland) From O.Kullmann at swansea.ac.uk Fri Mar 5 20:43:13 2010 From: O.Kullmann at swansea.ac.uk (Oliver Kullmann) Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2010 19:43:13 +0000 Subject: Four PhD studentships in Computer Science, Swansea University Message-ID: <20100305194313.GA14896@cs-wsok.swansea.ac.uk> Four PhD studentships are available in Computer Science at Swansea University. **************************************** Overseas and EU candidates ARE eligible for two of the studentships! **************************************** * EPSRC Doctoral Training Grants will fund two PhD studentships with an annual stipend of 13,290 GBP plus tuition fees. Only UK candidates are eligible for these two studentships. * The Department will fund two PhD studentships with an annual stipend of 15,000 GBP, where tuition fees have to be paid from the stipend. All students (UK, EU and overseas) are eligible for these two studentships. Information about tuition fees can be found at http://www.swansea.ac.uk/international/money/ScholarshipsandFees/ Potential candidates should preferably have a first-class Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a cognate discipline, or an equivalent or higher qualification. To ensure consideration for an award, please apply to the University for admission as a PhD student in Computer Science: http://www.swansea.ac.uk/postgraduate/apply/ ************************ Deadline: 23 April 2010 ************************ Applications received after the deadline may be disregarded in connection with awards of studentships. Separate application for an award is NOT required. Candidates should however discuss possible topics with potential supervisors before the end of May. Computer Science at Swansea University offers an active and stimulating research atmosphere for PhD students, with internationally-leading research groups in Theory, Graphics and HCI. For further details of our research, see: http://www.swansea.ac.uk/compsci/research/ Decisions concerning awards are expected by mid-July. Queries may be addressed to Dr Oliver Kullmann . In RAE 2008, 70% of the research submitted by the department was assessed as either world-leading or internationally excellent; only 12 Computer Science departments throughout the UK achieved a higher percentage of world-leading research. From xrambous at aurora.fi.muni.cz Fri Mar 5 22:54:27 2010 From: xrambous at aurora.fi.muni.cz (TSD 2010) Date: Fri, 05 Mar 2010 22:54:27 +0100 Subject: TSD 2010 Second Call for Paper Message-ID: ********************************************************* TSD 2010 - SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS ********************************************************* Thirteenth International Conference on TEXT, SPEECH and DIALOGUE (TSD 2010) Brno, Czech Republic, 6-10 September 2010 http://www.tsdconference.org/ The conference is organized by the Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University, Brno, and the Faculty of Applied Sciences, University of West Bohemia, Pilsen. The conference is supported by International Speech Communication Association. Venue: Brno, Czech Republic THE SUBMISSION DEADLINES: March 15 2010 ............ Submission of abstracts March 22 2010 ............ Submission of full papers Submission of abstract serves for better organization of the review process only - for the actual review a full paper submission is necessary. TSD SERIES TSD series evolved as a prime forum for interaction between researchers in both spoken and written language processing from the former East Block countries and their Western colleagues. Proceedings of TSD form a book published by Springer-Verlag in their Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) series. TSD Proceedings are regularly indexed by Thomson Reuters Conference Proceedings Citation Index. Moreover, LNAI series are listed in all major citation databases such as DBLP, SCOPUS, EI, INSPEC or COMPENDEX. TOPICS Topics of the conference will include (but are not limited to): text corpora and tagging transcription problems in spoken corpora sense disambiguation links between text and speech oriented systems parsing issues parsing problems in spoken texts multi-lingual issues multi-lingual dialogue systems information retrieval and information extraction text/topic summarization machine translation semantic networks and ontologies semantic web speech modeling speech segmentation speech recognition search in speech for IR and IE text-to-speech synthesis dialogue systems development of dialogue strategies prosody in dialogues emotions and personality modeling user modeling knowledge representation in relation to dialogue systems assistive technologies based on speech and dialogue applied systems and software facial animation visual speech synthesis Papers on processing languages other than English are strongly encouraged. PROGRAM COMMITTEE Frederick Jelinek, USA (general chair) Hynek Hermansky, Switzerland (executive chair) Eneko Agirre, Spain Genevieve Baudoin, France Jan Cernocky, Czech Republic Attila Ferencz, Romania Alexander Gelbukh, Mexico Louise Guthrie, GB Jan Hajic, Czech Republic Eva Hajicova, Czech Republic Patrick Hanks, Czech Republic Ludwig Hitzenberger, Germany Jaroslava Hlavacova, Czech Republic Ales Horak, Czech Republic Eduard Hovy, USA Ivan Kopecek, Czech Republic Steven Krauwer, The Netherlands Siegfried Kunzmann, Germany Natalija Loukachevitch, Russia Vaclav Matousek, Czech Republic Hermann Ney, Germany Elmar Noeth, Germany Karel Oliva, Czech Republic Karel Pala, Czech Republic Nikola Pavesic, Slovenia Vladimir Petkevic, Czech Republic Fabio Pianesi, Italy Adam Przepiorkowski, Poland Josef Psutka, Czech Republic James Pustejovsky, USA Leon Rothkrantz, The Netherlands Milan Rusko, Slovakia Ernst G. Schukat-Talamazzini, Germany Pavel Skrelin, Russia Pavel Smrz, Czech Republic Petr Sojka, Czech Republic Marko Tadic, Croatia Tamas Varadi, Hungary Zygmunt Vetulani, Poland Taras Vintsiuk, Ukraine Yorick Wilks, GB Victor Zakharov, Russia KEYNOTE SPEAKERS John Carroll, University of Sussex, UK Christiane Fellbaum, Princeton University, USA FORMAT OF THE CONFERENCE The conference program will include presentation of invited papers, oral presentations, and poster/demonstration sessions. Papers will be presented in plenary or topic oriented sessions. Social events including a trip in the vicinity of Brno will allow for additional informal interactions. SUBMISSION OF PAPERS Authors are invited to submit a full paper not exceeding 8 pages formatted in the LNCS style (see below). Those accepted will be presented either orally or as posters. The decision about the presentation format will be based on the recommendation of the reviewers. The authors are asked to submit their papers using the on-line form accessible from the conference website. Papers submitted to TSD 2010 must not be under review by any other conference or publication during the TSD review cycle, and must not be previously published or accepted for publication elsewhere. As reviewing will be blind, the paper should not include the authors' names and affiliations. Furthermore, self-references that reveal the author's identity, e.g., "We previously showed (Smith, 1991) ...", should be avoided. Instead, use citations such as "Smith previously showed (Smith, 1991) ...". Papers that do not conform to the requirements above are subject to be rejected without review. The authors are strongly encouraged to write their papers in TeX or LaTeX formats. These formats are necessary for the final versions of the papers that will be published in the Springer Lecture Notes. Authors using a WORD compatible software for the final version must use the LNCS template for WORD and within the submit process ask the Proceedings Editors to convert the paper to LaTeX format. For this service a service-and-license fee of CZK 1500 will be levied automatically. The paper format for review has to be either PDF or PostScript file with all required fonts included. Upon notification of acceptance, presenters will receive further information on submitting their camera-ready and electronic sources (for detailed instructions on the final paper format see http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html#Proceedings.) Authors are also invited to present actual projects, developed software or interesting material relevant to the topics of the conference. The presenters of the demonstration should provide the abstract not exceeding one page. The demonstration abstracts will not appear in the conference proceedings. IMPORTANT DATES March 15 2010 ............ Submission of abstracts March 22 2010 ............ Submission of full papers May 15 2010 .............. Notification of acceptance May 31 2010 .............. Final papers (camera ready) and registration July 23 2010 ............. Submission of demonstration abstracts July 30 2010 ............. Notification of acceptance for demonstrations sent to the authors September 6-10 2010 ...... Conference date Submission of abstracts serves for better organization of the review process only - for the actual review a full paper submission is necessary. The contributions to the conference will be published in proceedings that will be made available to participants at the time of the conference. OFFICIAL LANGUAGE The official language of the conference is English. ACCOMMODATION The organizing committee will arrange discounts on accommodation in the 3-star hotel at the conference venue. The current prices of the accommodation will be available at the conference website. ADDRESS All correspondence regarding the conference should be addressed to Dana Hlavackova, TSD 2010 Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University Botanicka 68a, 602 00 Brno, Czech Republic phone: +420-5-49 49 33 29 fax: +420-5-49 49 18 20 email: tsd2010 at tsdconference.org The official TSD 2010 homepage is: http://www.tsdconference.org/ LOCATION Brno is the second largest city in the Czech Republic with a population of almost 400.000. The city is the country's judiciary and trade-fair center. Brno is the capital of Moravia, which is in the south-east part of the Czech Republic. Brno had been a Royal City since 1347 and with its six universities it forms also a cultural center of the region. Brno can be reached easily by direct flights from London, Moscow and Prague and by trains or buses from Prague (200 km) or Vienna (130 km). For the participants with some extra time, some nearby places may also be of interest. Local ones include: Brno Castle now called Spilberk, Veveri Castle, the Old and New City Halls, the Augustine Monastery with St. Thomas Church and crypt of Moravian Margraves, Church of St. James, Cathedral of St. Peter & Paul, Cartesian Monastery in Kralovo Pole, the famous Villa Tugendhat designed by Mies van der Rohe along with other important buildings of between-war Czech architecture. For those willing to venture out of Brno, Moravian Karst with Macocha Chasm and Punkva caves, battlefield of Battle of three emperors (Napoleon, Russian Alexander and Austrian Franz - Battle by Austerlitz), Chateau of Slavkov (Austerlitz), Pernstejn Castle, Buchlov Castle, Lednice Chateau, Buchlovice Chateau, Letovice Chateau, Mikulov with one of the largest Jewish cemeteries in Central Europe, Telc - a town on the UNESCO heritage list, and many others are all within easy reach. From lange.martin at gmail.com Sat Mar 6 07:29:57 2010 From: lange.martin at gmail.com (Martin Lange) Date: Sat, 06 Mar 2010 07:29:57 +0100 Subject: 2nd call for submissions - Workshop on Comparing Logical Decision Methods at FLoC'10 In-Reply-To: <4B30B6AB.6050300@ifi.lmu.de> References: <4B30B6AB.6050300@ifi.lmu.de> Message-ID: <4B91F665.4090305@gmail.com> *** Apologies for multiple postings *** CLODEM 2010 Workshop on Comparing Logical Decision Methods http://www2.imm.dtu.dk/~vfgo/CLODEM2010/CLODEM2010.html Edinburgh, July 15th, 2010 affiliated with LICS and IJCAR at FLoC'10 TOPIC AND OBJECTIVE: Methods for deciding satisfiability of formulae are of vital importance for both the theoretical relevance and practical impact of a logic. Different logics require different decision procedures. Nevertheless, certain methodologies like terminating semantic tableaux, automata, games, SAT/SMT methods, resolution, reductions, etc. have proved to be successful in providing decidability results for several, even quite different logics. Perception of some methodology being better than others has grown within certain communities, for example regarding automata-based techniques in automatic verification or tableau-based techniques in knowledge representation. Such perception, however, is often not based on systematic comparative analysis. Sometimes, different methodologies also turn out to do or even be the same in certain cases. Yet, few formal technical results to that effect are known, and the scientific discussions on the pros and cons, and similarities and differences between different methodologies have been rather sporadic so far. The purpose of this workshop is to provide an expert forum for such discussion, to provoke and foster discussion between communities, and to stimulate further research on that topic. It is a generalization and follow-up of the AutoTab workshop which was held with TABLEAUX'09 last year. The workshop welcomes contributions on comparisons between different methods, exhibiting differences or similarities, in theory or in practice, in general or with respect to a certain logic. SUBMISSIONS: Submissions should be in the form of extended abstracts of at most 5 A4 pages in PDF format, preferably using Springer LNCS style or a comparable format. Submissions may be based on new and original, or on already published or submitted work, but they should address the topic of the workshop. The abstracts of the workshop talks will be included in informal proceedings. No formal proceedings are currently planned, but informal proceedings with all workshop contributions will be made available to the participants on USB sticks, and if the workshop attracts sufficiently many good and original contributions, a journal special issue will be organized after the event. One author of each submission that is accepted for the workshop must register for and attend the workshop in order to present the paper. IMPORTANT DATES: Submissions deadline: March 27, 2010 Notification deadline: April 27, 2010 Finalized workshop programme: April 30, 2010 Final versions of abstracts for the informal proceedings: May 31, 2010 Workshop: July 15, 2010 INVITED SPEAKER (more are expected to follow): * Jerome Leroux, CNRS Bordeaux, F WORKSHOP PROGRAM COMMITTEE: * Stephane Demri, CNRS Cachan, F * Valentin Goranko, DTU Copenhagen, DK * Rajeev Gore, ANU Canberra, AUS * Felix Klaedtke, ETH Zurich, CH * Daniel Kröning, Oxford University, UK * Martin Lange, LMU Munich, D * Christof Löding, RWTH Aachen, D * Carsten Lutz, Univ. of Bremen, D * Renate Schmidt, Univ. of Liverpool, UK * Colin Stirling, Univ. of Edinburgh, UK FURTHER INFORMATION: - Workshop dinner: We intend to organize a dinner for the participants of the workshop on July 15. At this stage the budget of the workshop is unknown, so we cannot make any commitment for covering, partly or in full, the cost of the dinner. - Workshop website: http://www2.imm.dtu.dk/~vfgo/CLODEM2010/CLODEM2010.html - FLoC'10 website: http://www.floc-conference.org/ - LICS'10 website: http://www2.informatik.hu-berlin.de/lics/lics10/index.html - IJCAR'10 website: http://www.floc-conference.org/IJCAR-home.html ENQUIRIES to the organizers: - Valentin Goranko, http://www2.imm.dtu.dk/~vfgo - Martin Lange, http://www.tcs.ifi.lmu.de/~mlange From csoares at fep.up.pt Sat Mar 6 10:05:58 2010 From: csoares at fep.up.pt (Carlos Soares) Date: Sat, 6 Mar 2010 09:05:58 +0000 Subject: CFP: Planning to Learn workshop (PlanLearn-2010) Message-ID: <15099439-4B6B-4A3F-B70C-1A9A3A10037C@fep.up.pt> ********************************************************************** *** Call for Papers *** *** 3rd PLANNING TO LEARN Workshop (PlanLearn) *** at ECAI 2010, Lisbon August 17, 2010 Of particular interest are methods and proposals that address the following issues: * Planning to construct composite systems, * Exploitation of ontologies of tasks and methods, * Representation of learning goals and states in learning, * Control and coordination of learning processes, * Recovering / adapting sequences of DM operations, * Meta-learning and exploitation of meta-knowledge, * Layered learning, * Multi-task learning, * Transfer learning, * Multi-predicate learning (and other relevant ILP methods), * Combining induction and abduction, * Multi-strategy learning, * Learning to learn. Important Dates * Submission deadline: May 7, 2010 (paper or extended abstract) * Acceptance notification: June 7, 2010 * Final Paper: June 20, 2010 Workshop organizers (Program Chair /Co-Chairs) * Pavel Brazdil, LIAAD-INESC L.A., University of Porto * Abraham Bernstein, University of Zurich, Switzerland * Jörg-Uwe Kietz, University of Zurich, Switzerland More details can be found at: http://www.ifi.uzh.ch/ddis/planlearn10.html, including: * Motivation * Programme Committee, * Submitting instructions and emails of organizers, * Registration details etc. End == Carlos Soares Faculdade de Economia do Porto - Prof. Auxiliar LIAAD-INESC Porto LA - Investigador csoares at fep.up.pt -------------- nächster Teil -------------- Ein Dateianhang mit HTML-Daten wurde abgetrennt... URL: From alfrednabbles7 at gmail.com Sat Mar 6 20:43:42 2010 From: alfrednabbles7 at gmail.com (Alfred Nabbles) Date: Sat, 6 Mar 2010 14:43:42 -0500 Subject: Call for papers: MULTICONF-10, USA, July 2010 Message-ID: It would be highly appreciated if you could share this announcement with your colleagues, students and individuals whose research is in computer science, computer engineering, information science and related areas. Call for papers: MULTICONF-10, USA, July 2010 The 2010 multi-conference (MULTICONF-10) (website: http://www.PromoteResearch.org ) will be held during July 12-14, 2010 in Orlando, Florida, USA. The primary goal of MULTICONF is to promote research and developmental activities in computer science, information technology, control engineering, and related fields. Another goal is to promote the dissemination of research to a multidisciplinary audience and to facilitate communication among researchers, developers, practitioners in different fields. The following conferences are planned to be organized as part of MULTICONF-10. • International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Pattern Recognition (AIPR-10) • International Conference on Automation, Robotics and Control Systems (ARCS-10) • International Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, Genomics and Chemoinformatics (BCBGC-10) • International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (CCN-10) • International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems and Web Technologies (EISWT-10) • International Conference on High Performance Computing Systems (HPCS-10) • International Conference on Information Security and Privacy (ISP-10) • International Conference on Image and Video Processing and Computer Vision (IVPCV-10) • International Conference on Software Engineering Theory and Practice (SETP-10) • International Conference on Theoretical and Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science (TMFCS-10) MULTICONF-10 will be held at Imperial Swan Hotel and Suites. It is a full-service resort that puts you in the middle of the fun! Located 1/2 block south of the famed International Drive, the hotel is just minutes from great entertainment like Walt Disney World® Resort, Universal Studios and Sea World Orlando. Guests can enjoy free scheduled transportation to these theme parks, as well as spacious accommodations, outdoor pools and on-site dining — all situated on 10 tropically landscaped acres. Here, guests can experience a full-service resort with discount hotel pricing in Orlando. Please see the website http://www.PromoteResearch.org for more details. Sincerely Alfred Nabbles -------------- nächster Teil -------------- Ein Dateianhang mit HTML-Daten wurde abgetrennt... URL: From invitation at iariaannounce.org Sun Mar 7 12:13:11 2010 From: invitation at iariaannounce.org (SoftNet 2010) Date: Sun, 7 Mar 2010 06:13:11 -0500 (EST) Subject: 2nd CfP || SoftNet 2010 [ICSEA, ICSNC, CENTRIC, VALID, SIMUL] August 22-27, 2010 - Nice, France Message-ID: <11751473.3427.1267960391142.JavaMail.owner@owner-PC> INVITATION Please consider to contribute and encourage your team members and fellow scientists to contribute to the following federated events. The submission deadline is March 20, 2010. Publisher: CPS ( see: http://www2.computer.org/portal/web/cscps ) Archived: IEEE CSDL (Computer Science Digital Library) and IEEE Xplore Submitted for indexing: Elsevier's EI Compendex Database, EI?s Engineering Information Index Thanks for forwarding the information on this Call for Submissions to those potentially interested to submit. ===== Call for Submissions ======= SoftNet 2010, August 22-27, 2010 - Nice, France see: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2010/SoftNet10.html SoftNet 2010 is a federated event focusing on advances topics concerning the networks, software engineering, testing, validation, and simulation. SoftNet 2010 continues the tradition of well-established conferences ICSEA and ICSNC, while complementing the topics with CENTRIC, VALID, and SIMUL. Submission (full paper) new deadline: March 20, 2010. Submissions must be electronically done using the 'Submit a Paper' link on the entry page of each conference. Before submission, please check and conform with the Editorial rules: http://www.iaria.org/editorialrules.html. For details on the each conference's topics, see the individual Call for Papers for each conference. Unpublished high quality contributions in terms of Regular papers and Posters or Work in Progress are welcome. Workshop proposals and Panel proposals on challenging topics are encouraged. Extended versions of selected papers will be published in IARIA on-line Journals (http://www.iariajournals.org) and in Special issues of different journals mentioned on the entry page of each conference. Submissions will be peer-reviewed, published by IEEE Computer Society Press, posted in IEEE Digital Library, and indexed via all the IEEE indexing agreements. All tracks/topics are open to both research and industry contributions. -- ICSEA 2010, The Fifth International Conference on Software Engineering Advances http://www.iaria.org/conferences2010/ICSEA10.html -- ICSNC 2010, The Fifth International Conference on Systems and Networks Communications http://www.iaria.org/conferences2010/ICSNC10.html -- CENTRIC 2010, The Third International Conference on Advances in Human-oriented and Personalized Mechanisms, Technologies, and Services http://www.iaria.org/conferences2010/CENTRIC10.html -- MultiA-Pro 2010, The First International Workshop on User Profiles in Multi-application Environments http://www.iaria.org/conferences2010/MultiAPro.html -- EuroCAT 2010, 4th Workshop on Combining Context with Trust, Security, and Privacy http://www.cat10.uni.lu/index.html -- VALID 2010, The Second International Conference on Advances in System Testing and Validation Lifecycle http://www.iaria.org/conferences2010/VALID10.html -- SIMUL 2010, The Second International Conference on Advances in System Simulation http://www.iaria.org/conferences2010/SIMUL10.html -------------------------------- IARIA Publicity Board ------------------------------- To stop receiving notices about SoftNet, please reply with "DROP SoftNet event at in.tu-clausthal.de" in the subject field. To receive notices about specific topics only, please reply with "TOPIC CHANGE event at in.tu-clausthal.de" in the subject field, and the specific topics in the email body. To stop receiving any notice, please reply with "UNSUBSCRIBE event at in.tu-clausthal.de" in the subject field. From tkren at kr.tuwien.ac.at Mon Mar 8 12:28:50 2010 From: tkren at kr.tuwien.ac.at (Thomas Krennwallner) Date: Mon, 08 Mar 2010 12:28:50 +0100 Subject: Vienna PhD School of Informatics - Call for Applications Message-ID: <4B94DF72.9080707@kr.tuwien.ac.at> Dear colleague, the Faculty of Informatics at the Vienna University of Technology invites applicants from all countries to its "Vienna PhD School of Informatics". Application deadline for courses starting in October 2010 is May 7th, 2010. The Vienna PhD School of Informatics offers a three year programme with an intense period of supervised study and research, culminating in the submission of a thesis. The PhD School's curriculum covers the five main research areas of the Faculty of Informatics * Business Informatics * Computational Intelligence * Computer Engineering * Distributed and Parallel Systems * Media Informatics and Visual Computing Each year up to 15 students will be awarded a scholarship amounting to EUR 1.000 per month, to cover the cost of living. Female applicants are explicitly encouraged to apply. Preference will be given when equally qualified. Further details are available on the PhD School website: http://www.informatik.tuwien.ac.at/phdschool Best regards Gerald Steinhardt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . FACULTY OF !NFORMATICS Prof. Dr. Gerald Steinhardt Dean of the Faculty of Informatics Vienna University of Technology A-1060 Wien; Getreidemarkt 9/180; Österreich Tel.: ++43-1-58801-10000 Fax: ++43-1-58801-10099 E-Mail: G.Steinhardt at tuwien.ac.at http://www.informatik.tuwien.ac.at/ Vienna PhD School of Informatics Tel.: ++43-1-58801-19567 E-Mail: phdschool at informatik.tuwien.ac.at http://www.informatik.tuwien.ac.at/phdschool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . From marco.gavanelli at unife.it Mon Mar 8 16:54:23 2010 From: marco.gavanelli at unife.it (Marco Gavanelli) Date: Mon, 08 Mar 2010 16:54:23 +0100 Subject: RCRA 2010 Call for Papers Message-ID: <4B951DAF.7010604@unife.it> * ______________________________________________________________________ * The RCRA group (Knowledge Representation & Automated Reasoning) of the AI*IA (Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence) http://rcra.aixia.it organises the 17th RCRA workshop: Experimental evaluation of algorithms for solving problems with combinatorial explosion (RCRA 2010) in association with CP-AI-OR 2010 Bologna, Italy, June 10-11, 2010 Email: rcra.aixia.10 at gmail.com RCRA group web site: http://rcra.aixia.it/ Workshop web site: http://rcra.aixia.it/rcra2010 * ______________________________________________________________________ * This event follows the series of the RCRA (Knowledge Representation and Automated Reasoning) annual meetings, held since 1994. The success of the previous events shows that RCRA is becoming a major forum for exchanging ideas and proposing experimentation methodologies for algorithms in artificial intelligence. * ______________________________________________________________________ * As in previous editions (http://rcra.aixia.it/publications), authors of papers orally presented at the workshop will have the opportunity to participate to the selection of a special issue that will appear on an International journal. The workshop will take place in Bologna, Italy on June 10-11, 2010, in association with CP-AI-OR 2010 (http://cpaior2010.ing.unibo.it). AIMS AND SCOPE Many problems in Artificial Intelligence show an exponential explosion of the search space. Although stemming from different research areas in AI, such problems are often addressed with algorithms that have a common goal: the effective exploration of huge state spaces. Many algorithms developed in one research area are applicable to other problems, or can be hybridised with techniques in other areas. Artificial Intelligence tools often exploit or hybridise techniques developed by other research communities, such as Operations Research. In recent years, research in AI has more and more focussed on experimental evaluation of algorithms, the development of suitable methodologies for experimentation and analysis, the study of languages and the implementation of systems for the definition and solution of problems. Scope of the workshop is fostering the cross-fertilisation of ideas stemming from different areas, proposing benchmarks for new challenging problems, comparing models and algorithms from an experimental viewpoint, and, in general, comparing different approaches with respect to efficiency, problem modelling, and ease of development. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Experimental evaluation of algorithms for o knowledge representation o automated reasoning o planning o scheduling o machine learning o model checking o boolean satisfiability (SAT) o constraint programming o constraint satisfaction o quantified boolean formulae and quantified constraints o modal logics o logic programming o disjunctive logic programming o temporal reasoning o combinatorial optimization * Definition and construction of benchmarks * Experimentation methodologies * Metaheuristics * Algorithm hybridisation * Static analysis of combinatorial problems * Languages and systems for definition and solution of problems * Comparisons between systems and algorithms * Application experiences WORKSHOP CHAIRS * Marco Gavanelli, Università degli Studi di Ferrara, Italy * Toni Mancini, Sapienza Università di Roma, Italy WORKSHOP PROGRAM COMMITTEE * Stefania Costantini - Università dell'Aquila, Italy * Esra Erdem - Sabanci University, Turkey * Stefano Ferilli - Università di Bari, Italy * Marco Gavanelli - Università di Ferrara, Italy * Marjin Heule - Technical University of Delft, Netherlands * Jörg Hoffmann - INRIA Nancy Grand Est, France * Angel Juan - Universidad Oberta de Catalunya, Spain * Ines Lynce - Universidade Técnica de Lisboa, Portugal * Toni Mancini - Sapienza Università di Roma, Italy * Joao Marquez-Silva - University College Dublin, Ireland * Alfredo Milani - Università di Perugia, Italy * Alessandra Mileo - Università di Milano Bicocca, Italy * Angelo Oddi - Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR), Italy * Justin Pearson - Uppsala University, Sweden * Luca Pulina - Università di Genova, Italy * Francesco Ricca - Università della Calabria, Italy * Fabrizio Riguzzi - Università di Ferrara, Italy * Andrea Roli - Università di Bologna, Italy * Carsten Sinz - University of Karlsruhe, Germany * Kostas Stergiou - University of the Aegean, Greece * Paolo Torroni - Università di Bologna, Italy HOST ORGANIZATION Dept. of Electronics, Computer Science and Systems (DEIS) University of Bologna, Italy LOCAL COMMITTEE Stefano Bragaglia, University of Bologna, Italy SUBMISSIONS Authors are invited to submit either original papers, or papers that appear on conference proceedings. Publications showing negative results are welcome, provided that the approach was original and very promising in principle, the experimentation was well-conducted, the results obtained were unforeseeable and gave important hints in the comprehension of the target problem, helping other researchers to avoid unsuccessful paths. At the time of submission, authors are requested to clearly specify whether their submission is original or already published. Workshop submissions must be in PDF format, do not exceed 15 pages, and should be written in LaTeX, using the RCRA 2010 style available on the workshop web site. Page for submissions: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=rcra2010 Submissions will be reviewed by at least three members of the program committee. Original papers accepted at the workshop will be electronically published on the workshop web site and as an issue of the CEUR Workshop Proceedings series. As for papers already published, a DOI link to their copyrighted version will be provided instead, both on the workshop web site and in the CEUR-WS issue. Final and detailed submission instructions will be available on the workshop web site soon. SELECTION FOR THE POST-PROCEEDINGS Few weeks after the workshop, authors of papers orally presented at the workshop will have the opportunity to participate to the selection for the post-proceedings by submitting an extended version of their work. As in previous editions (http://rcra.aixia.it/publications), workshop post-proceedings will appear in a special issue of an International journal, provided that a sufficient amount of high quality papers is collected. All candidate articles must be original: they cannot have already been published in journals, and must contain significant additional material with respect to any formal publication. Such papers will go through a second formal selection process, and will be reviewed by at least three reviewers. The selection process will be kept very short, and at most one re-submission stage will be allowed (cf. important dates). Hence, authors are invited to work on their paper mainly before the workshop date. IMPORTANT DATES * Abstract submission: 14 March 2010 * Submissions to the RCRA workshop: 21 March 2010 * Notification of acceptance/reject: 18 April 2010 * Final version due: 16 May 2010 * RCRA workshop: 10-11 June 2010 SELECTION FOR JOURNAL POST-PROCEEDINGS * Extended papers submission deadline: 18 July 2010 * Notification of reviews of the 1st round: 12 September 2010 * Re-submission deadline (for papers not accepted with minor rev.): 24 October 2010 * Final notification of acceptance: 7 November 2010 * Final version due: 21 November 2010 -- Marco Gavanelli, Ph.D. in Computer Science Dept of Engineering University of Ferrara Tel/Fax +39-0532-97-4833 http://www.ing.unife.it/docenti/MarcoGavanelli/ From hak at ca.ibm.com Mon Mar 8 18:47:20 2010 From: hak at ca.ibm.com (Hassan Ait-Kaci) Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2010 09:47:20 -0800 Subject: CFP - RULE 2010 (Edinburgh, UK, July 14, 2010) Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [Although we try avoiding cross-posting, we apologize if that happens] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ RULE 2010 ELEVENTH INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON RULE-BASED SPECIFICATION AND PROGRAMMING RULE-BASED PROGRAMMING IN INDUSTRY AND THE SEMANTIC WEB Edinburgh, UK July 14, 2010 http://www.di.uminho.pt/rule2010 IMPORTANT DATES: Submission deadline: Friday, April 16, 2010 PC meeting: Monday-Friday, May 24-28, 2010 Authors notified: Thursday, June 3, 2010 Final copies due: Friday, June 25, 2010 RULE 2010 Workshop: Wednesday, July 14, 2010, ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -------------- nächster Teil -------------- Ein Dateianhang mit HTML-Daten wurde abgetrennt... URL: From j44zhang at cs.uwaterloo.ca Tue Mar 9 01:42:30 2010 From: j44zhang at cs.uwaterloo.ca (Jie Zhang) Date: Mon, 08 Mar 2010 19:42:30 -0500 Subject: PST2010 CFP: EIGHTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE on PRIVACY, SECURITY, and TRUST In-Reply-To: <20100207222955.48694q9idjzfno74@www.nexusmail.uwaterloo.ca> References: <20100207222955.48694q9idjzfno74@www.nexusmail.uwaterloo.ca> Message-ID: <20100308194230.967676z4slevptkw@www.nexusmail.uwaterloo.ca> (Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message) ******************************************************************** PST 2010 EIGHTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE on PRIVACY, SECURITY, and TRUST Ottawa, Canada August 17-19, 2010 http://pstnet.unb.ca/pst2010 ******************************************************************** Preliminary Call for Papers The PST2010 International Conference on Privacy, Security and Trust (PST) is being held in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, August 17-19, 2010. PST2010 is the eighth such annual conference focusing on PST technologies. PST2010 provides a forum for researchers world-wide to unveil their latest work in privacy, security and trust and to show how this research can be used to enable innovation. This year's theme is "Privacy, Security and Trust by Design: PbD - The Gold Standard." With the growth and ubiquity of data in today's hyper-networked world, the need for trust has become more critical than ever. We need new paradigms that seek to integrate and build privacy, security and trustworthiness directly into technologies and systems from the outset and by default. IMPORTANT DATES: ---------------- Paper submission due: April 3, 2010 Notification of acceptance: May 29, 2010 Final manuscripts due: June 26, 2010 PST2010 will include an Industry Day followed by two days of high-quality research papers whose topics include, but are NOT limited to, the following: - Privacy Preserving / Enhancing Technologies - Trust Technologies, Technologies for Building Trust in e-Business Strategy - Critical Infrastructure Protection - Observations of PST in Practice, Society, Policy and Legislation - Network and Wireless Security - Digital Rights Management - Operating Systems Security - Identity and Trust management - Intrusion Detection Technologies - PST and Cloud Computing - Secure Software Development and Architecture - Human Computer Interaction and PST - PST Challenges in e-Services - Implications of, and Technologies for, Lawful Surveillance - Network Enabled Operations - Biometrics, National ID Cards, Identity Theft - Advanced Training Tools - PST and Web Services / SOA - Information Filtering, Data Mining & Knowledge from Data - Privacy, Traceability, and Anonymity - National Security and Public Safety - Trust and Reputation in Self-Organizing Environments - Security Metrics - Anonymity and Privacy vs. Accountability - Recommendation, Reputation and Delivery Technologies - Access Control and Capability Delegation - Continuous Authentication - Representations and Formalizations of Trust in Electronic and Physical Social Systems High-quality papers in all PST related areas that, at the time of submission, are not under review and have not already been published or accepted for publications elsewhere are solicited. Accepted papers will be accepted as "regular" papers up to 8 pages and with oral presentations, or "short" papers of up to 2 pages with poster presentations. The standard IEEE two-column conference format should be used for all submission. A copy of the IEEE Manuscript Templates for Microsoft Word or LaTeX and additional information about paper submission and conference topics and events can be found at the conference web site. All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceeding, and by IEEE and will be accessible via IEEE Xplore Digital Library. Best Paper and Best Student Paper awards will be presented. Some travel grants to students who are presenting their work in the conference will also be made available. For additional information please visit the conference web site: http://pstnet.unb.ca/pst2010 -------------- nächster Teil -------------- Ein Dateianhang mit Binärdaten wurde abgetrennt... Dateiname : pst2010_cfp v4.pdf Dateityp : application/pdf Dateigröße : 427765 bytes Beschreibung: nicht verfügbar URL : From saidi at csl.sri.com Tue Mar 9 03:27:34 2010 From: saidi at csl.sri.com (Hassen Saidi) Date: Mon, 08 Mar 2010 18:27:34 -0800 Subject: CFP: 5th Automated Formal Methods Workshop first call for papers (In association with Computer-Aided Verification 2010 and FLoC 2010) Message-ID: <4B95B216.5060307@csl.sri.com> CALL FOR PAPERS AFM10 (Automated Formal Methods) July 14, 2010, Edinburg, UK http://fm.csl.sri.com/AFM10/ In association with Computer-Aided Verification 2010 http://www.floc-conference.org/CAV-home.html Federated Logic Conference (FLoC) 2010 AFM is a one-day workshop centered around the use and integration of formal verification tools for specification, interactive theorem proving, satisfiability (SAT) and satisfiability modulo theories (SMT), model checking, program verification, code generation, and testing, as well as interfaces, documentation, and education. This workshop was first initiated as a users' group meeting for the SRI formal verification tools such as PVS, SAL, and Yices, but the topics are not restricted to these tools. The first workshop was held at FLoC'06, the second workshop with ASE'07, and the third and forth workshops took place respectively in conjunction with CAV'08 and CAV'09. We welcome position papers, research papers, and reports on work in progress on the topics listed above, particularly those that report on experiments, tool integration and evaluation, and case studies. Papers must be fewer than 8 pages long in the ACM SIG Proceedings style (http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates) and should be submitted to (http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=afm10). ORGANIZERS: Bruno Dutertre and Hassen Saidi PROGRAM COMMITTEE: TBD KEY DATES: Position papers due: March 26, 2010 Reviews/decisions: April 16, 2010 Camera ready versions due: April 30, 2010 AFM10 Workshop: July 14, 2010 From aldini at sti.uniurb.it Tue Mar 9 10:13:25 2010 From: aldini at sti.uniurb.it (Alessandro Aldini) Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2010 10:13:25 +0100 (CET) Subject: FOSAD 2010: call for participation Message-ID: =========================================================================== (Apologies for multiple copies) ** Application Deadline: June 30, 2010 ** %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% % % % TENTH INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL ON % % FOUNDATIONS OF SECURITY ANALYSIS AND DESIGN % % ============================================== % % % % FOSAD 2010 % % http://www.sti.uniurb.it/events/fosad10 % % % % 6 - 11 September 2010, Bertinoro, Italy % % % % *** Announcement *** % % % %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% FOSAD has been one of the foremost events established with the goal of disseminating knowledge about foundations of security analysis and design to graduate students and young computer scientists from academia or industry. SCHOOL PROGRAMME> The 10th edition of FOSAD alternates monographic courses of 4 hours and special sessions dedicated to presentations given by participants who intend to take advantage of the audience for discussing their current research in the area. The program will cover foundations of cryptography, verification of cryptographic protocols, trust management, wireless security, anonimity and privacy, analysis of security APIs, and web services security. The lecturers of the monographic courses are: * Veronique Cortier - CNRS at Loria, France * George Danezis - Microsoft Research Cambridge, UK * Riccardo Focardi - University Ca' Foscari, Venezia, Italy * Cédric Fournet - Microsoft Research Cambridge, UK * Hugo Krawczyk - Technion Institute of Technology, Israel * Fabio Martinelli - CNR-IIT Pisa, Italy * Paul Syverson - Naval Research Laboratory, USA * Gene Tsudik - University of California at Irvine, USA Scientific Committee: Roberto Gorrieri (Chair) Sandro Etalle Martin Abadi Javier Lopez Alessandro Aldini Fabio Martinelli Gilles Barthe Catherine Meadows SCHOOL VENUE> The school is organized at the University Residential Center of Bertinoro, Italy: http://www.ceub.it/ The host venue provides accommodation, meeting rooms, and modern conference facilities with computing services and Internet access. SCHOOL DATES> Prospective participants should apply through the FOSAD web page by: June 30, 2010. Notification of accepted applicants will be posted by July 7, 2010. Registration to the school is due by July 31, 2010. SCHOOL FEES> The full fee is 900 Euros and covers costs for 7 nights - starting from 5 September - in double room, half board (breakfast and lunch), dinner of 5 September included, lunch of 12 September excluded. Fund requests are pending. In case of approval, a limited amount of grants will be provided to cover part of the expenses. SCHOOL SPONSORSHIP> FOSAD is under the auspices of: * CNR-IIT, Pisa * EATCS - IT * EEF * ERCIM STM WG * IEEE CS - IT * University of Bologna SCHOOL PARTNERS> SecVote 2010: 1-4 Sep 2010, Bertinoro, Italy http://secvote2010.uni.lu/ Overview: The summer school SecVote will cover the foundations of secure voting, as well as examine recent developments in the field of e-voting. The program consists of 3 main topics: - Cryptographic support for voting - Formal analysis/verification of voting system security - In-depth examination of current voting systems in literature This core program will be supported by lectures on practical security and political science wrt. voting. From C.Orasan at wlv.ac.uk Tue Mar 9 14:16:55 2010 From: C.Orasan at wlv.ac.uk (Constantin Orasan) Date: Tue, 09 Mar 2010 13:16:55 +0000 Subject: CALL FOR APPLICATIONS for Erasmus Mundus Masters Course Message-ID: <1268140615.5113.73.camel@dinel-work> (apologies for cross-posting) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Erasmus Mundus Masters Course - International Masters in NLP and HLT CALL FOR APPLICATIONS students and scholars http://mastermundusnlp-hlt.univ-fcomte.fr/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR APPLICATIONS students (all categories except A, http://mastermundusnlp-hlt.univ-fcomte.fr/) and scholars Deadline : 19th of April 2010 8 scholarships are offered to the best candidates We invite applications for the Erasmus Mundus MA course on NLP and HLT, organized jointly by Universite de Franche-Comte (France), Universitat Autònoma 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 8 best EU and non-EU candidates (not category A) will be offered a grant for the duration of the course. 4 grants will also be offered to scholars to come for 3 months in one or 2 of the partner 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 http://www.wlv.ac.uk/~in6093/ University of Wolverhampton -- Scanned by iCritical. From borgo at loa-cnr.it Tue Mar 9 14:48:02 2010 From: borgo at loa-cnr.it (Stefano Borgo) Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2010 14:48:02 +0100 Subject: FOIS call for participation References: <512580F8-D822-4010-AD68-3C4BDDA573E2@loa-cnr.it> Message-ID: <31E5BB64-66F4-41C9-B26F-5FED3CACA84A@loa-cnr.it> FOIS 2010 Sixth International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems (co-located with KR 2010) http://fois2010.mie.utoronto.ca C A L L F O R P A R T I C I P A T I O N CONFERENCE DESCRIPTION The FOIS conference series began with the first meeting in Trento, Italy, in June 1998, which was followed by meetings in 2001, 2004, 2006, and 2008. The sixth FOIS conference will be held in Toronto, Canada, on 11-14 May 2010. Starting from this conference, FOIS will be an official initiative of the new International Association for Ontology and its Applications (IAOA, www.iaoa.org), which will hold its first Assembly on May 13th. IAOA members will be entitled to get reduced rates for conference registration (see below - early registration deadline March 12). Ontology began life in ancient times as a fundamental part of philosophical enquiry concerned with the analysis and categorisation of what exists. In recent years, the subject has taken a practical turn with the advent of complex computerised information systems which are reliant on robust and coherent representations of their subject matter. The systematisation and elaboration of such representations and their associated reasoning techniques constitute the modern discipline of formal ontology, which is now being applied to such diverse domains as artificial intelligence, computational linguistics, bioinformatics, GIS, knowledge engineering, information retrieval, and the Semantic Web. Researchers in all these areas are becoming increasingly aware of the need for serious engagement with ontology, understood as a general theory of the types of entities and relations making up their respective domains of enquiry, to provide a solid foundation for their work. FOIS is intended to provide a meeting point for researchers from these and other disciplines with an interest in formal ontology, where both theoretical issues and concrete applications can be explored in a spirit of genuine interdisciplinarity. CONFERENCE ORGANISATION Conference chair: Nicola Guarino (ISTC-CNR, Trento, Italy) Program chairs: Antony Galton (University of Exeter, UK) Riichiro Mizoguchi (Osaka University, Japan) Local organisation: Chris Welty (IBM Research, Hawthorne, NY, USA) Michael Gruninger (University of Toronto, Canada) TOPICS COVERED Topic areas of particular interest to the conference are: Foundational Issues * Kinds of entity: particulars vs universals, continuants vs occurrents, abstracta vs concreta, dependent vs independent, natural vs artificial * Formal relations: parthood, identity, connection, dependence, constitution, subsumption, instantiation * Vagueness and granularity * Identity and change * Formal comparison among ontologies * Ontology of physical reality (matter, space, time, motion, ...) * Ontology of biological reality (genes, proteins, cells, organisms, ...) * Ontology of artefacts, functions and roles * Ontology of mental reality and agency (beliefs, intentions and other mental attitudes; emotions, ...) * Ontology of social reality (institutions, organizations, norms, social relationships, artistic expressions, ...) * Ontology of the information society (information, communication, meaning negotiation, ...) * Ontology and Natural Language Semantics, Ontology and Cognition Methodologies and Applications * Top-level vs application ontologies * Ontology integration and alignment; role of reference ontologies * Ontology-driven information systems design * Ontology-based application systems * Requirements engineering * Knowledge engineering * Knowledge management and organization * Knowledge representation; Qualitative modeling * Computational lexicons; Terminology * Information retrieval; Question-answering * Semantic web; Web services; Grid computing * Domain-specific ontologies, especially for: Linguistics, Geography, Law, Library science, Biomedical science, E-business, Enterprise integration, ... PROGRAMME The programme will comprise three invited talks: Francis Jeffry Pelletier: Ontological Lessons from the Semantics of Mass and Count Nouns John Bateman: Ontological Diversity: The Case from Space Alan Rector: Knowledge-Driven Software and "Fractal tailoring": Ontologies in Development Environments for Clinical Systems as well as 28 submitted papers. In addition, there will be a poster session and two workshops: - The 4th International Workshop on Modular Ontologies - Workshop on Ontology Education REGISTRATION Registration for FOIS may be done from the AAAI web-sit at http://www.aaai.org/Forms/fois-registration-form.php. Note that there are reduced rates form members of the International Association for Ontology and its Applications (IAOA). The deadline for early registration is 12th March 2010. Registration includes attendance at the FOIS workshop programme. Workshop-only registration is also possible. --------------------------------------------- Dr Antony Galton, SECaM, University of Exeter -------------- nächster Teil -------------- Ein Dateianhang mit HTML-Daten wurde abgetrennt... URL: From Valerio.Genovese at uni.lu Tue Mar 9 20:35:18 2010 From: Valerio.Genovese at uni.lu (Valerio Genovese) Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2010 20:35:18 +0100 Subject: ESSLLI workshop "Logics for Security" Message-ID: <38B6DB9B34253F4181DD89BC50B171C33D5FB6E466@BASHIR.uni.lux> Apologies for multiple copies -------------------------------------------------------- August 9th - 13th at University of Copenhagen. LOGICS IN SECURITY http://lis.gforge.uni.lu CO-LOCATED WITH ESSLLI2010 http://esslli2010cph.info/ ------------------------------------------------------------- WORKSHOP CHAIRS - Dov Gabbay (King's College London, Bar-Ilan University and University of Luxembourg) - Leendert van der Torre (University of Luxembourg) -------------------------------------------------------------- ABSTRACT In the past two decades, a number of logics and formal frameworks have been proposed to model and analyse interconnected systems from the security point of view. Recently, the increasing need to cope with distributed and complex scenarios forced researchers in formal security to employ non-classical logics to reason about these systems. The aim of this workshop is to bring together logicians and formal security researchers to foster the cross-fertilization between these two areas. Logicians have a lot to benefit from specifying and reasoning about real-world scenarios as well as researchers in security can apply recent advances in non-classical logics to improve their formalisms. We are interested in logical foundations of security and in particular in the following topics: Language-based security Judgemental Analysis Automated Theorem Proving Term-Rewriting Systems Logical Programming Modal Logic Dynamic Logic Epistemic and Deontic Logic applied to Access Control Privacy Protocol Verification Security Architectures Trust and Reputation Management Static Analysis of Programs Risk Management Policy Compliance Security in Multi-Agent System Formal Cryptography Please find more informations at: http://lis.gforge.uni.lu -------------------------------------------------------------- SPECIAL ISSUE A selection of the accepted papers will be published in a special issue of the Journal of Logic and Computation ______________________________________________________________ IMPORTANT DATES Paper submission deadline: April 1st, 2010. Notification of acceptance: May 25th, 2010. Workshop: August 9th - 13th, 2010. -------------------------------------------------------------- PAPER SUBMISSION Papers should be at most 15 pages, including references in the Springer LNCS style available at the URL http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html. Only pdf files will be accepted. Papers must be received by the deadline of April 1st, 2010. Authors of accepted papers must guarantee that their papers will be presented at the workshop. Authors should submit their papers electronically, in .pdf format at the website : http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lis2010 -------------------------------------------------------------- PROGRAMME COMMITTEE Steve Barker (King's College, UK) Moritz Y. Becker (Microsoft Research, UK) Guido Boella (University of Torino, Italy) Fr√©d√©ric Cuppens (ENST-Bretagne, France) Deepak Garg (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) Fausto Giunchiglia (University of Trento, Italy) Wojtek Jamroga (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg) Simon Kramer (University of Tsukuba, Japan) Alessio Lomuscio (Imperial College London, UK) Fabio Martinelli (CNR, Italy) Fabio Masacci (University of Trento, Italy) Sjouke Mauw (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg) Catuscia Palamidessi (INRIA and Ecole Polytechnique, France) Jun Pang (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg) Jean-Francois Raskin (Universit√© Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium) Mark Ryan (University of Birmingham, UK) Hans van Ditmarsch (University of Sevilla, Spain) Luca Viganò (University of Verona, Italy ) ------------------------------------------------------------ CONTACTS For further inquiries please contact: leon.vandertorre at uni.lu -------------------------------------------------------------- From a.artikis at gmail.com Wed Mar 10 10:22:18 2010 From: a.artikis at gmail.com (Alexander Artikis) Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 11:22:18 +0200 Subject: Call for Participation: Agent Communication@AAMAS2010 Message-ID: <130ef5931003100122r6925082exdf007ecc752ac264@mail.gmail.com> Apologies for cross-posting. ====================== http://users.encs.concordia.ca/~bentahar/AC2010/AC2010.htm Please find below a more or less final program for the workshop on Agent Communication. Besides the selected papers, we have an invited talk by Professor Daniel Vanderveken, and manifestos on agent communication -- some by the most preeminent names in multiagent systems. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 8:50AM-9:00 Opening 9:00-10:00 Invited talk, by Daniel Vanderveken 10:00-10:30 COFFEE BREAK 10:30-10:50 Manifesto: Criteria for adequacy of ACLs, by Andrew J. I. Jones and Alexander Artikis 10:50-11:20 Paper: Constraints among commitments: Regulative specification of interaction protocols, by Matteo Baldoni, Cristina Baroglio and Elisa Marengo 11:20-11:40 Manifesto: Community standards for agent communication, by Munindar P. Singh 11:40-12:00 Manifesto: New challenges for agent communication, by Jamal Bentahar 12:00-13:30 LUNCH BREAK 13:30-14:00 Paper: Verifying conformance of commitment protocols via symbolic model checking, by Mohamed El-Menshawy, Jamal Bentahar, Wei Wan and Rachida Dssouli 14:00-14:20 Manifesto: When agents need an ACL to communicate, by Frank Dignum 14:20-14:50 Paper: Protocol refinement: Formalization and verification via model checking, by Scott Gerard and Munindar P. Singh 14:50-15:30 COFFEE BREAK 15:30-15:50 Manifesto: Agents, autonomy, and multiagent systems, by Amit K. Chopra 15:50-16:20 Paper: The logic of conversation : From speech acts to the logic of games, by Michel A. Paquette 16:20-16:50 Paper: Counter-proposal: A multi-agent negotiation protocol for resolving resource contention in open control systems, by Jan Corfixen Sorensen and Bo Norregaard Jorgensen 17:50-17:10 Wrap up, open discussion From berndt.farwer at durham.ac.uk Wed Mar 10 11:26:03 2010 From: berndt.farwer at durham.ac.uk (Berndt Farwer) Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 10:26:03 +0000 Subject: 2nd CfP -- 3rd Int. Workshop LAM'10 Message-ID: 2nd Call for Papers 3rd International Workshop on Logics, Agents, and Mobility (LAM'10) http://www.dur.ac.uk/lam.10 15 July 2010, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK organised as satellite workshop at the Twenty-Fifth Annual IEEE Symposium on LOGIC IN COMPUTER SCIENCE (LICS 2010), Edinburgh, Scotland, UK (part of FLoC 2010) Workshop Purpose: The aim of this series of workshops is to bring together active researchers in the areas of logics and other formal frameworks that can be used to describe and analyse dynamic or mobile systems. The main focus is on the field of logics and calculi for mobile agents, and multi-agent systems. Many notions used in the theory of agents are derived from philosophy, logic, and linguistics (belief, desire, intention, speech act, etc.), and interdisciplinary discourse has proved fruitful for the advance of this domain. The workshop intends to encourage discussion and work across the boundaries of the traditional disciplines. Outside of academia, distributed systems are a reality and agent programming is beginning established itself as a serious contender against more traditional programming paradigms. For example, the deployment of large-scale pervasive infrastructures (mobile ad-hoc networks, mobile devices, RFIDs, etc.) raises a number of scientific and technological challenges for the modelling and programming of such large-scale, open and highly-dynamic distributed systems. The agent and multi-agent systems approach seems particularly adapted to tackle this challenge, but there are many issues remaining to be investigated. For instance, the agents must be location-aware since the actual services available to them may depend on their (physical or virtual) location. The quality and quantity of resources at their disposal is also largely fluctuant, and the agents must be able to adapt to such highly dynamic environments. Moreover, mobility itself raises a large number of difficult issues related to safety and security, which require the ability to reason about the software (e.g. for analysis or verification). Logics and type systems with temporal or other kinds of modalities (relating to location, resource and/or security-awareness) play a central role in the semantic characterisation and verification of mobile agent systems. In the past two or three years, some logics have been proposed that would be able to handle certain aspects of these requirements, but there are still many open problems and research questions in the theory of such systems. The workshop is intended to showcase results and current work being undertaken in the areas outlined above with a focus on logics and other formalisms for the specification and verification of dynamic, mobile systems. Scopes of Interest: The main topics of interest include - specification and reasoning about agents, MAS, and mobile systems - modal and temporal logics - model-checking - treatment of location and resources in logics - security - type systems and static analysis - logic programming - concurrency theory with a focus on mobility or dynamics in agent systems. Previous Workshops: LAM'08: 4--8 August 2008 at ESSLI in Hamburg, Germany LAM'09: 10 August 2009 at LICS in Los Angeles, USA Format of the Workshop: The workshop will be held as a one day event after LICS. There will be a short introduction and brief survey of the field by the organiser as an introduction to the workshop. The workshop will contain invited talks, contributed talks, and a discussion session. The latter is will give the participants a chance to discuss informally research directions, open problems, and possible co-operations. Submission details: Authors are invited to submit a full paper of original work in the areas mentioned above. The workshop chair should be informed of closely related work submitted to a conference or journal in advance of submission. One author of each accepted paper will be expected to present it at the LAM'10 workshop. Submissions should not exceed 15 pages, preferably using LaTeX and a suitable class for the proceedings. The following formats are accepted: PDF, PS. Please send your submission electronically via EasyChair by the deadline listed below. The submissions will be reviewed by the workshop's programme committee and additional reviewers. Accepted papers will appear in electronic proceedings (probably in EPTCS) and authors will be encouraged to re-submit papers to formal proceedings to be published as a separate publication, e.g. as a special journal issue. Invited Speakers: David Pym (University of Bath and HP) TBA Important Dates: Submission Deadline: 9 April 2010 Notification: 1 May 2010 Workshop: 15 July 2010 Programme Committee: Thomas Agotnes, Bergen, Norway Matteo Baldoni, Torino, Italy Marina De Vos, Bath, UK Louise Dennis, Liverpool, UK Jürgen Dix, Clausthal, Germany Berndt Farwer (chair), Durham, UK Michael Fisher, Liverpool, UK Didier Galmiche, Nancy, France James Harland, Melbourne, Australia Andreas Herzig, Toulouse, France Wojtek Jamroga, Clausthal, Germany Michael Köhler-Bußmeier, Hamburg, Germany João Leite, Lisbon, Portugal Alessio Lomuscio, London, UK Dale Miller, INRIA, France Frederic Peschanski, Paris, France Vladimiro Sassone, Southampton, UK Wamberto Vasconcelos, Aberdeen, UK Further Information: About the workshop: http://www.dur.ac.uk/lam.10 About LICS: http://www2.informatik.hu-berlin.de/lics/lics10/ From verify2010 at mais.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de Wed Mar 10 15:57:14 2010 From: verify2010 at mais.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de (verify2010 at mais.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de) Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 15:57:14 +0100 (CET) Subject: Verify 2010 - 2nd Call for Papers Message-ID: <20100310145714.8D97353829@takatuka.fmis.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de> [Apologies for possible multiple postings] CALL FOR PAPERS 6th International Verification Workshop (VERIFY-2010) What are the verification problems? What are the deduction techniques? in connection with IJCAR-2010 at FLoC-2010 July 20-21, 2010, Edinburgh, UK [http://www.mais.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/verify2010/] ********************* Keynote speakers ****************************** ** V�ronique Cortier (LORIA INRIA-Lorraine, France) ** ** Cliff Jones (Newcastle University, UK) ** ** Andr� Platzer (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) ** ********************************************************************** The formal verification of critical information systems has a long tradition as one of the main areas of application for automated theorem proving. Nevertheless, the area is of still growing importance as the number of computers affecting everyday life and the complexity of these systems are both increasing. The purpose of the VERIFY workshop series is to discuss problems arising during the formal modeling and verification of information systems and to investigate suitable solutions. Possible perspectives include those of automated theorem proving, tool support, system engineering, and applications. The VERIFY workshops aim at bringing together people who are interested in the development of safety and security critical systems, in formal methods, in the development of automated theorem proving techniques, and in the development of tool support. Practical experiences gained in realistic verifications are of interest to the automated theorem proving community and new theorem proving techniques should be transferred into practice. The overall objective of the VERIFY workshops is to identify open problems and to discuss possible solutions under the theme What are the verification problems? What are the deduction techniques? The scope of VERIFY includes topics such as + ATP techniques in verification + Information flow security + Case studies + Integration of ATPs and CASE-tools (specification and verification) + Management of change + Combination of verification systems + Refinement and decomposition + Compositional and modular reasoning + Reliability of mobile computing + Experience reports on using + Reuse of specifications and proofs formal methods + Safety-critical systems + Formal methods for fault tolerance + Security models + Gaps between problems and + Tool support for formal methods techniques Submissions are encouraged in one of the following two categories: A. Regular papers: Submissions in this category should describe previously unpublished work (completed or in progress), including descriptions of research, tools, and applications. Papers must be 5-14 pages long (in EasyChair style) or 6-15 pages long (in Springer LNCS style). B. Discussion papers: Submissions in this category are intended to initiate discussions and should address controversial issues, and may include provocative statements. Papers must be 3-14 pages long (in EasyChair style) or 3-15 pages long (in Springer LNCS style). Submission of papers is via EasyChair: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=verify2010 Upon submission, the category (either A or B) should be indicated. Final versions of accepted papers have to be prepared with LaTeX using the EasyChair class (http://www.easychair.org/easychair.zip). Each accepted paper shall be presented at the workshop and at least one author of each paper must attend the workshop. In addition to informal proceedings, we envisage a special issue in a journal on the topic of the workshop. Participants of VERIFY-2010 are particularly encouraged to submit a paper to the special issue, but other submissions will also be welcome. Program & Workshop Co-Chairs M. Aderhold (TU Darmstadt) S. Autexier (DFKI Bremen) H. Mantel (TU Darmstadt) Program Committee B. Beckert (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology) I. Cervesato (Carnegie Mellon University) C. Fournet (Microsoft Research) J. Guttman (Worcester Polytechnic Institute) R. H�hnle (Chalmers University) J. Hurd (Galois Inc.) D. Hutter (DFKI Bremen) P. Jackson (University of Edinburgh) C. Jones (Newcastle University) D. Kapur (University of New Mexico) J.-P. Katoen (RWTH Aachen) G. Klein (NICTA) G. Lowe (University of Oxford) F. Martinelli (CNR Pisa) C. Meadows (Naval Research Laboratory) D. Pichardie (INRIA Rennes) G. Schneider (University of Gothenburg) J. Schumann (NASA Ames Research Center) C. Walther (TU Darmstadt) Important dates: Submission deadline: March 22, 2010 Notification of acceptance: April 29, 2010 Final version due: May 17, 2010 Workshop date: July 20-21, 2010 Workshop e-mail: verify2010 at mais.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de From peter.novak at fel.cvut.cz Wed Mar 10 21:52:31 2010 From: peter.novak at fel.cvut.cz (Peter Novak) Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 21:52:31 +0100 Subject: ProMAS 2010 Call for Participation Message-ID: <20100310205231.GV30269@agents.felk.cvut.cz> [apologies for cross-posting] *********************************************************************** The Eighth International Workshop on Programming Multi-Agent Systems ProMAS 2010 in co-location with The Ninth International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents & Multi-Agent Systems AAMAS 2010 http://agents.felk.cvut.cz/promas2010/ May 11th 2010, Toronto, Canada *********************************************************************** *** ABOUT The ProMAS workshop series aims to address the theoretical and practical programming issues related to developing and deploying multi-agent systems. In particular, ProMAS aims to address how multi-agent systems designs or specifications can be effectively implemented. In its previous editions, ProMAS constituted an invaluable occasion bringing together leading researchers from both academia and industry to discuss issues on the design of programming languages and tools for multi-agent systems. In particular, the workshop promotes the discussion and exchange of ideas concerning the techniques, concepts, requirements, and principles that are important for multi-agent programming technology. These include the theory and applications of agent programming languages, the verification and analysis of agent systems, as well as the implementation of social structure in agent-based systems (e.g. roles within organizations, coordination and communication in multi-agent systems). *** INVITED SPEAKERS * Sarit Kraus, University of Maryland, USA/Bar Ilan University, Israel * Gregory O'Hare, University College Dublin, Ireland (titles to be announced later at the workshop website) *** PROGRAMME Invited Talk 1: Gregory O’Hare: TBA Session 1: Agents & Environments/Organisations * Hugo Carr, Alexander Artikis and Jeremy Pitt: Software Support for Organised Adaptation * Alessandro Ricci, Andrea Santi and Michele Piunti: Action and Perception in Multi-Agent Programming Languages: From Exogenous to Endogenous Environments * Tristan Behrens, Jürgen Dix, Koen Hindriks, Mehdi Dastani, Rafael Bordini, Jomi Hübner, Alexander Pokahr and Lars Braubach: An Interface for Agent-Environment Interaction Invited Talk 2: Sarit Kraus: TBA Session 2: Agent Programming * Howell Jordan and Rem Collier: Evaluating Agent-Oriented Programs: Towards Multi-Paradigm Metrics Session 3: Agent Reasoning * M. Birna van Riemsdijk and Neil Yorke-Smith: Towards Reasoning with Partial Goal Satisfaction in Intelligent Agents * Joost Broekens, Koen Hindriks and Pascal Wiggers: Reinforcement Learning as Heuristic for Action-Rule Preferences Demo Session Reflection Session The reflection session consists of a presentation followed by a discussion among participants. The presentation provides a concise overview of the state of art in multi-agent programming and related development tools, pitfalls, problems, perspectives, milestones, activities, and possible collaboration and community initiatives. *** REGISTRATION We invite you to register for the workshop through the AAMAS 2010 registration website located at http://www.cse.yorku.ca/AAMAS2010/#content=registration. We are looking forward to meet you at the workshop. The ProMAS 2010 organization committee (Juergen Dix, Rem Collier and Peter Novak). -- peter.novak [at] fel.cvut.cz | http://agents.felk.cvut.cz/ Department of Cybernetics | Czech Technical University Karlovo namesti 13 | CZ-12135 Prague 2 | Czech Republic Tel +420 22435 7581 | Fax +420 22492 3677 -------------- nächster Teil -------------- Ein Dateianhang mit Binärdaten wurde abgetrennt... 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Solutions to such problems are now feasible using advances and innovations from the area of Artificial Intelligence. The general focus of the AIAI 2010 conference is to provide insights on how Artificial Intelligence may be applied in real world situations and serve the study, analysis and modelling of theoretical and practical issues. Also, research papers describing advanced prototypes, innovative systems, tools and techniques are encouraged. General survey papers indicating future directions and professional work-in-progress reports are of equal interest. Acceptance will be based on quality, originality and practical merit of the work. Authors are invited to electronically submit original, English-language research contributions or experience reports. Submitted papers must present unpublished work, not being considered for publication in other journals or conferences. SUBMISSIONS: Regular Papers and Workshop Papers: The maximum length permitted is eight (8) pages, formatted according to Springer IFIP series instructions. The Programme Committee may reject papers exceeding this length. Authors are strongly encouraged to use the correct document style from the Springer IFIP website (http://www.springer.com/series/6102). This should be done for their initial submission, so that preparation of the final papers will be simplified. A fully electronic review process by three academic reviewers is planned for all submitted papers. Full papers and workshop or tutorial proposals should be submitted electronically in postscript, pdf or word format. At least one author of each accepted paper is required to register and present the paper. Papers shall not be included in the proceedings if these requirements are not met, nor if the registration fee is not received until the camera-ready deadline. For further information related to the technical programme or other details on the conference, please contact the Organising Chair, Harris Papadopoulos, at H.Papadopoulos at frederick.ac.cy. WORKSHOPS & TUTORIAL PROPOSALS: Workshop proposals comprising original research papers on innovative or otherwise provocative issues within the conference topic areas are also encouraged. Workshops should be held simultaneously with the 6th IFIP AIAI conference. Submitted proposals should include a 2-3 page summary of the topic, including the names and affiliations of Programme Committee members and chairs. Also, the chairs of the workshops should arrange the publication of accepted papers. For questions regarding workshop proposals, please contact the Workshop Chair, Nicos Mateou, at NMateou at mod.gov.cy. Proposals for 90-minute tutorials are also invited in areas within the conference's topics. Tutorial proposals must be 5 pages at most, identifying the intended audience and presenting enough material to provide a sense of what will be covered. For questions related to the tutorials please e-mail the Tutorials Chair, Tasos Sofokleous, at asofok at cs.ucy.ac.cy. SPECIAL ISSUES: Based on the reviewers' comments and on the presentation, and after a second peer review process, a number of selected papers will be published in a special issue of the International Journal on Artificial Intelligence Tools (IJAIT), World Scientific Publishing Co., Print ISSN: 0218-2130, Online ISSN: 1793-6349. TOPICS: Suggested topics include, but are not limited to, the following: Theoretical Advances Machine Learning Adaptive Control Data FusionReasoning Methods Knowledge Acquisition and Representation Planning and Scheduling Artificial Neural Networks Expert Systems Fuzzy Logic and Systems Genetic Algorithms and Programming Particle Swarm Optimisation Bayesian Models Knowledge Engineering Data Mining and Information Retrieval Decision Support Systems Knowledge Management for e-Learning and Enterprise Portals Intelligent Information Systems Web- and Knowledge-Based Information Systems Ontologies Signal Processing Techniques and Knowledge Extraction Computer Vision Human-Machine Interaction / Presence Learning and Adaptive Systems Pattern Recognition Signal and Image Processing Speech and Natural Language Processing Multimedia, Graphics and Artificial Intelligence Multimedia Computing Multimedia Ontologies Smart Graphics Colour/Image Analysis Speech Synthesis Trends in Computing Accessibility and Computers Affective Computing Agent and Multi-Agent Systems Autonomous and Ubiquitous Computing Distributed AI Systems and Architectures Grid-Based Computing Intelligent Profiling and Personalisation Robotics and Virtual Reality Artificial Intelligence Applications eBusiness, eCommerce, eHealth, eLearning Engineering and Industry Environmental Modelling Finance Telecommunications - Transportation Crisis and Risk Management Medical Informatics and Biomedical Engineering Political Decision Making Natural Language Processing Planning and Resource Management Project Management Emerging Applications Forensic Science Other AI and Ethical Issues Evaluation of AI Systems Social Impact of AI ORGANISATION: General Co-Chairs: Andreas S. Andreou, University of Cyprus and Cyprus University of Technology Max Bramer, University of Portsmouth Program Committee Chair: Lazaros Iliadis, Democritus University of Thrace Organising Chair: Harris Papadopoulos, Frederick University More information can be found at http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/aiai2010 We look forward to seeing you in Ayia Napa, Cyprus! Andreas S. Andreou Conference General Co-Chair From hak at ca.ibm.com Thu Mar 11 00:06:33 2010 From: hak at ca.ibm.com (Hassan Ait-Kaci) Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 15:06:33 -0800 Subject: CFP - RULE 2010 (Edinburgh, UK, July 14, 2010) Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [Although we try avoiding cross-posting, we apologize if that happens] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Submission is now open for: RULE 2010 ELEVENTH INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON RULE-BASED SPECIFICATION AND PROGRAMMING RULE-BASED PROGRAMMING IN INDUSTRY AND THE SEMANTIC WEB Edinburgh, UK July 14, 2010 http://www.di.uminho.pt/rule2010 IMPORTANT DATES: Submission deadline: Friday, April 16, 2010 PC meeting: Monday-Friday, May 24-28, 2010 Authors notified: Thursday, June 3, 2010 Final copies due: Friday, June 25, 2010 RULE 2010 Workshop: Wednesday, July 14, 2010, ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -------------- nächster Teil -------------- Ein Dateianhang mit HTML-Daten wurde abgetrennt... 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From eoikarin at tcs.hut.fi Thu Mar 11 11:31:52 2010 From: eoikarin at tcs.hut.fi (Emilia Oikarinen) Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2010 12:31:52 +0200 (EET) Subject: JELIA 2010 Second Call for Papers In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: *** Second call for papers -- Invited speakers announced *** *** Apologies for receiving multiple copies *** JELIA 2010 CALL FOR PAPERS ========================== 12th European Conference on Logics in Artificial Intelligence Helsinki, Finland, September 13-15, 2010 http://jelia2010.tkk.fi/ Logics provide a formal basis and key descriptive notation for the study and development of applications and systems in Artificial Intelligence (AI). With the depth and maturity of formalisms, methodologies, and systems today, such logics are increasingly important. The European Conference on Logics in Artificial Intelligence (or Journées Européennes sur la Logique en Intelligence Artificielle --- JELIA) began back in 1988, as a workshop, in response to the need for a European forum for the discussion of emerging work in this field. Since then, JELIA has been organised biennially, with English as the official language, and with proceedings published in Springer-Verlag's Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence series. In 2010 the conference is organized for the first time in Scandinavia, following previous meetings mainly taking place in Central and Southern Europe (see the general website http://www.jelia.eu/ for details). The increasing interest in this forum, its international level with growing participation from researchers outside Europe, and the overall technical quality, has turned JELIA into a major biennial forum for the discussion of logic-based approaches to AI. Aims and Scope ============== The aim of JELIA 2010 is to bring together active researchers interested in all aspects concerning the use of logics in Artificial Intelligence to discuss current research, results, problems, and applications of both theoretical and practical nature. JELIA strives to foster links and facilitate cross-fertilisation of ideas among researchers from various disciplines, among researchers from academia and industry, and between theoreticians and practitioners. Authors are invited to submit papers presenting original and unpublished research in all areas related to the use of logics in Artificial Intelligence including: -- Abductive and inductive reasoning -- Answer set programming -- Applications and foundations of logic-based AI systems -- Argumentation systems -- Automated reasoning including satisfiability checking and its extensions -- Computational complexity and expressiveness -- Description logics and other logical approaches to semantic web and ontologies -- Hybrid reasoning systems -- Knowledge representation, reasoning, and compilation -- Logic programming and constraint programming -- Logics for uncertain and probabilistic reasoning -- Logics in machine learning -- Logics in multi-agent systems, games, and social choice -- Non-classical such as modal, temporal, spatial, paraconsistent, and hybrid logics -- Nonmonotonic reasoning, belief revision, and updates -- Planning and diagnosis based on logic -- Preferences -- Reasoning about actions and causality Important Dates =============== * Deadline for abstract submission: May 3, 2010 * Deadline for paper submission: May 7, 2010 * Notification of acceptance: June 11, 2010 * Camera ready copy: June 30, 2010 Paper Submission ================ Proceedings will be published by Springer-Verlag in the Lecture Notes on Artificial Intelligence series. Papers should be written in English, and should be formatted according to the standard Springer LNCS style. All submissions must be received by 23:59 GMT on May 3, 2010 (abstract) and May 7, 2010 (full paper), and should be electronically submitted via the link available on the JELIA 2010 web page. There are two categories for submissions: A. Regular papers Submissions should not exceed 13 pages including figures, references, etc., and should contain original research, and sufficient detail to assess the merits and relevance of the contribution. Submissions must not have been previously published or be simultaneously submitted for publication elsewhere. B. System descriptions Submissions should not exceed 4 pages, and should describe an implemented system and its application area(s). A demonstration is expected to accompany a system presentation. Papers describing systems that have already been presented in JELIA before will be accepted only if significant and clear enhancements to the system are reported and implemented. Venue ===== The conference will be held in the main building of University of Helsinki, located in the center of Helsinki. Founded in 1550, Helsinki has been the Finnish capital since 1812, when it was rebuilt in the Empire style by the orders of the Czar of Russia, hence sharing architectural similarities with St. Petersburg even today. Located on the Baltic peninsula centrally between the east and the west, Helsinki "the Daughter of the Baltic" is a city full of contrasts: light and white in summer while dark but full of warmth in winter, with a combination of high-tech, contemporary design, and ever-present nature. Finnish design has made Helsinki world famous, and recently Helsinki was appointed World Design Capital 2012. Invited Speakers ================ Gerhard Brewka, University of Leipzig, Germany http://www.informatik.uni-leipzig.de/~brewka/ Adnan Darwiche, UCLA, USA http://www.cs.ucla.edu/~darwiche/ Stéphane Demri, CNRS, France http://www.lsv.ens-cachan.fr/~demri/ Programme Co-Chairs =================== Tomi Janhunen, Aalto University School of Science and Technology, Finland http://www.tcs.hut.fi/~ttj/ Ilkka Niemelä, Aalto University School of Science and Technology, Finland http://www.tcs.hut.fi/~ini/ Further Information =================== Conference web page: http://jelia2010.tkk.fi/ Co-located events ================= European Workshop on Probabilistic Graphical Models (PGM) http://www.helsinki.fi/pgm2010/ From geoff at cs.miami.edu Thu Mar 11 18:38:19 2010 From: geoff at cs.miami.edu (Geoff Sutcliffe) Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2010 12:38:19 -0500 (EST) Subject: LPAR-17 in Indonesia - Calls for Papers and Workshop Proposals Message-ID: <20100311173819.1027011F9B0@mcclellan.cs.miami.edu> =========================== LPAR-17 CALL FOR PAPERS CALL FOR WORKSHOP PROPOSALS =========================== ============================================================ The 17th International Conference on Logic for Programming, Artificial Intelligence and Reasoning ============================================================ Yogyakarta, Indonesia - October 10th-15th, 2010 http://www.computational-logic.org/lpar-17/Home.html The series of International Conferences on Logic for Programming, Artificial Intelligence and Reasoning (LPAR) is a forum where, year after year, some of the most renowned researchers in the areas of logic, automated reasoning, computational logic, programming languages and their applications come to present cutting-edge results, to discuss advances in these fields, and to exchange ideas in a scientifically emerging part of the world. The 17th LPAR will be held in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. Logic is a fundamental organizing principle in nearly all areas in Computer Science. It runs a multifaceted gamut from the foundational to the applied. At one extreme, it underlies computability and complexity theory and the formal semantics of programming languages. At the other extreme, it drives billions of gates every day in the digital circuits of processors of all kinds. Logic is in itself a powerful programming paradigm, but it is also the quintessential specification language for anything ranging from real-time critical systems to networked infrastructures. Logical techniques link implementation and specification through formal methods such as automated theorem proving and model checking. Logic is also the stuff of knowledge representation and artificial intelligence. Because of its ubiquity, logic has acquired a central role in Computer Science education. Topics ------ New results in the fields of computational logic and applications are welcome. Also welcome are more exploratory presentations, which may examine open questions and raise fundamental concerns about existing theories and practices. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Automated reasoning * Verification * Interactive theorem proving and proof assistants * Model checking * Implementations of logic * Satisfiability modulo theories * Rewriting and unification * Logic programming * Satisfiability checking * Constraint programming * Decision procedures * Logic and games * Logic and the Web * Ontologies and large knowledge bases * Logic and databases * Modal and temporal logics * Program analysis * Foundations of security * Description logics * Non-monotonic reasoning * Uncertainty reasoning * Logics for vague and inconsistent data * Specification using logic * Logic in artificial intelligence * Logic and types * Logical foundations of programming * Logical aspects of concurrency * Logic and computational complexity * Knowledge representation and reasoning * Logic of distributed systems Programme Chairs ---------------- * Chris Fermueller * Andrei Voronkov Submission Details ------------------ Submissions of two kinds are welcome: * Regular papers that describe solid new research results. They can be up to 15 pages long in LNCS style, including figures and references, but excluding appendices (that reviewers are not required to read). * Experimental and tool papers that describe implementations of systems, report experiments with implemented systems, or compare implemented systems. They can be up to 8 pages long in the LNCS style. Both types of papers can be electronically submitted in PDF via EasyChar: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lpar17. Prospective authors are required to register a title and an abstract a week before the paper submission deadline (see below). Workshop Proposals ------------------ LPAR-17 workshops will be held on October 10, either as one-day or half-day events. If you would like to propose a workshop for LPAR-17, please contact the workshop chair, Laura Kovacs, via email, by the proposal deadline (see below). Workshop proposals should contain the following data: * Name of the workshop. * Brief description of the workshop, including workshop topics. * Valid web address of the workshop. * Contact information of the workshop organizers. * An estimate of the audience size. * Proposed format of the workshop (for example, regular talks, tool demos, poster presentations, etc.). * Duration of the workshop (one-day or half-day). * Potential invited speakers (if any). * Procedures for selecting papers and participants. * Special technical or AV needs. Note that workshops will have to be financially self-supporting. Participation ------------- Authors of accepted papers are required to ensure that at least one of them will be present at the conference. Important Dates --------------- * Workshop proposals: 2 April 2010 * Workshop notification: 7 April 2010 * Abstract submission: 1 June 2010 * Paper submission: 8 June 2010 * Notification of acceptance: 26 July 2010 * Camera-ready papers: 6 August 2010 * Conference: 10-15 October 2010 From kuf at dfki.de Thu Mar 11 19:09:01 2010 From: kuf at dfki.de (Klaus Fischer) Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2010 19:09:01 +0100 Subject: ATOP@AAMAS2010: Call for Participation Message-ID: <4B9931BD.mailNUE1XUKJS@dave.dfki.uni-sb.de> Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message. =============================================================================== Call for Participation Agent-based Technologies and applications for enterprise interOPerability ATOP 2010 (http://www-ags.dfki.uni-sb.de/~kuf/atop) Workshop to be held at the Ninth International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents & Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2010) (http://www.cse.yorku.ca/AAMAS2010/) Toronto, Canada, 10 May 2010 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Joerg P. Mueller, Technische Universitaet Clausthal, Germany Klaus Fischer, DFKI, Germany Renato Levy, Intelligent Automation, Inc, Rockville, USA IMPORTANT NOTES Please go to http://www-ags.dfki.uni-sb.de/~kuf/atop to find the workshop program and further details on the workshop. Early registration for AAMAS 2010 and the workshop expires on Friday 12.3.!!! BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF WORKSHOP TOPICS ATOP focuses on technologies that support interoperability in networked organizations, on successful applications of these technologies, and on lessons learned. The main goal is to stimulate a discussion on how far agent technologies can support interoperability in this context and to compare current trends in the development of agent technologies with recent developments in service-oriented and model-driven system design with respect to their ability to solve interoperability problems. Regarding model-driven system design the presentation and discussion of metamodels of the underlying technologies like for example agent technologies and service-oriented architectures is especially of interest. We would like to focus the ATOP 2010 around modeling and metamodels for interoperability in agent-based systems and business applications. Ideally submitted papers should deal with model-driven agent technologies and methodologies in the context of: * simulation and validation of business systems * decision-support in value creation networks * enterprise and business process modeling * case studies of implemented interoperability solutions and systems * coordination and negotiation in distributed business networks * cross-organizational business processes * normative environments for enterprise agents interoperability * decentralized and peer-to-peer models and enactment of business processes * goal-driven and adaptive business process management * semantic annotations of business process descriptions * intelligent enterprise application integration * business process modeling, enactment and integration * intelligent execution, monitoring, management, and optimization of business processes * service-oriented architectures and related topics like service choreography, orchestration, composition, brokering, and mediation * autonomic computing and adaptive autonomous architectures * model-driven architectures for business processes and systems * models and meta-models for agent-based systems * platform-independent models and their relation to agent models * model-to-model and model-to-text transformations * knowledge representations and ontologies in the context of (collaborative) business processes * agent communication languages and standards * self-organization and adaptation in the context of interoperable systems =============================================================================== From jsabater at iiia.csic.es Fri Mar 12 16:59:20 2010 From: jsabater at iiia.csic.es (Jordi Sabater Mir) Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2010 16:59:20 +0100 Subject: [AAMAS-2010] 2nd Call For Participation Message-ID: <2068622651522451225937@Galvatron> 2nd Call for Participation ----------------------------------------------------------------------- NINTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON AUTONOMOUS AGENTS AND MULTIAGENT SYSTEMS (AAMAS-2010) http://www.cse.yorku.ca/AAMAS2010/ !!! EARLY REGISTRATION: 12 March 2010 !!!!!! May 10 - 14, 2010 Toronto, Canada Registration is now open, at http://www.aaai.org/Forms/torontoregistration-form.php You can find the a preliminary schedule of the conference at http://www.csc.liv.ac.uk/~wiebe/AAMAS/timetable.shtml Hotel booking information is available from: http://www.cse.yorku.ca/AAMAS2010/#content=accommodation --------------------------------------------- AAMAS is the leading scientific conference for research on autonomous agents and multiagent systems. This year, AAMAS-2010 has joined forces with DL, FOIS, ICAPS, KR, and NMR. This has materialized in the possibility to register for events jointly, and at AAMAS there will be KR/AAMAS and ICAPS/AAMAS paper sessions, as well as some joint combined invited talk sessions. PROGRAM: The list of accepted long and short papers is available through the website. Among the invited talks are KR/AAMAS talk: Ron Brachman and Hector Levesque, �Great moments in KR� ICAPS/AAMAS talk: Daniele Nardi, �Robotic Agents for Disaster Response Robotics�. On top of this, the program will include talks of winners of the ACM/SIGART Award and the IFAAMAS Dissertation Award, demos, posters of all accepted papers, an industrial track session, sessions on virtual agents, and many others. While the main conference program is on May 12, 13, and 14, there are also opportunities to attend 13 tutorials, 30 workshops and a doctoral training consortium for PhD students on the days before. -------------- nächster Teil -------------- Ein Dateianhang mit HTML-Daten wurde abgetrennt... URL: From Agnieszka.Lawrynowicz at cs.put.poznan.pl Fri Mar 12 20:08:28 2010 From: Agnieszka.Lawrynowicz at cs.put.poznan.pl (Agnieszka.Lawrynowicz at cs.put.poznan.pl) Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2010 20:08:28 +0100 (CET) Subject: IRMLeS'2010: Late breaking news session and final submission deadlines Message-ID: <57823.83.18.42.110.1268420908.squirrel@www.cs.put.poznan.pl> ------------- Apologies for multiple cross-postings --------------------- The 2nd ESWC Workshop on Inductive Reasoning and Machine Learning for the Semantic Web (IRMLeS 2010) May, 31st 2010 | Heraklion, Greece In conjunction with the 7th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2010) *NEW* Call for submissions - "Late breaking news" session ===================================================================== For this session we invite submissions in the form of 1-page extended abstracts in LNCS style presenting work relevant to the workshop topics, even such that has already been accepted to another venue (journal or conference). Instead of regular review process, these submissions will just undergo a relevance check. The abstracts will be part of the electronic workshop notes available at the time of the workshop. Within the session the authors will also give a short oral presentation. The goal of the session is to stimulate gathering the community interested in the theme of the IRMLeS workshop, incent discussions, and enable exchange of ideas. *NEW* Final schedule of important dates ===================================================================== * 31 March 2010 FINAL submission deadline for full and position papers (EXTENDED) * 15 April 2010 Deadline for extended abstracts for "late breaking news" session (NEW) * 19 April 2010 Notification (for all types of submission) (EXTENDED) * 26 April 2010 Camera ready (for full and position papers) (EXTENDED) * 31 May 2010 Workshop day Invited speakers ============================================================= Steffen Staab, University of Koblenz-Landau Melanie Hilario, University of Geneva Overview ============================================================ The upcoming 2nd International Workshop on Inductive Reasoning and Machine Learning for the Semantic Web (IRMLeS), will be held as part of the 7th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC) in Heraklion, Crete (Greece). The primary goal of the workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners interested in the interdisciplinary research on the intersection of the Semantic Web with Knowledge Discovery and Machine Learning. The workshop is conceived to provide a meeting point for the related communities to stimulate collaboration and enable cross-fertilization of ideas. Large amounts of data increasingly becoming available and described using real-life ontologies represented in Semantic Web languages recently opened up the possibility for interesting real-world data mining applications on the Semantic Web. However, exploiting this global resource of data requires new kinds of approaches for data mining and data analysis that would be able to deal at the same time with its scale and with the complexity, expressivity, and heterogeneity of the representation languages, leverage on availability of ontologies and explicit semantics of the resources, and account for novel assumptions (e.g., "open world") that underlie reasoning services within the Semantic Web. The workshop will try to address the above issues, in particular focusing on the problems of how machine learning techniques, such as statistical learning methods and inductive forms of reasoning, can work directly on the richly structured Semantic Web data and exploit the Semantic Web technologies, what is the value added of machine learning methods for the Semantic Web, and what are the challenges for developers of machine learning techniques for the Semantic Web data, for example in the area of ontology mining. Topics of interest ============================================================ The topics of interest of the workshop include, but are not limited to: * Knowledge Discovery and Ontologies: data mining techniques using ontologies, ontology mining and knowledge discovery from ontological knowledge bases, ontology-based interpretation and validation of discovered knowledge, evaluation methodologies and metrics for the interaction of knowledge discovery and ontologies, whole knowledge discovery process guided by ontologies * Inductive Reasoning with Concept Languages: inductive aggregation, concept retrieval and query answering, approximate classification, inductive methods and fuzzy reasoning for ontology mapping, construction and evolution, concept change and novelty detection for ontology evolution * Statistical learning for the Semantic Web: refinement operators for concept and rule languages, concept and rules learning, kernels and instance-based learning for structured representations, semantic (dis )similarity measures and conceptual clustering, probabilistic methods for concept and rule languages * Special focus topics: OWA vs CWA in learning, applicability of relational learning in the Semantic Web context, integration of induction and deduction, benchmarking of datasets * Applications: (in the domains of the main tracks of ESWC) plus life sciences, cultural heritage, semantic multimedia, geo-informatics, and others Regular paper submisssion ============================================================ The contributed papers, written in English, should be submitted in PDF or PostScript format, not exceeding the following limits * 12 pages (full papers) * 5 pages (position papers) following the ESWC formatting style (Springer LNCS). All submissions will be reviewed by at least 2 referees. In addition to the ESWC workshop proceedings, depending on the quality and quantity of submissions, it is intended to publish a selection of revised accepted papers in a journal special issue or a book volume. "Late breaking news" paper submission ============================================================ The extended abstracts, written in English, should be submitted in PDF or PostScript format, not exceeding 1 page limit following the ESWC formatting style (Springer LNCS). Organizing Committee ============================================================ * Claudia d'Amato, University of Bari, Italy * Nicola Fanizzi, University of Bari, Italy * Marko Grobelnik, Jozef Stefan Institute, Slovenia * Agnieszka Lawrynowicz, Poznan University of Technology, Poland * Vojtech Svatek, University of Economics, Prague, Czech Republic Program Committee ============================================================ * Sarabjot S. Anand - University of Warwick * Bettina Berendt - Katholieke Universiteit Leuven * Abraham Bernstein - University of Zurich * Floriana Esposito - University of Bari * Mohand-Said Hacid - University Lyon 1 * Melanie Hilario - University of Geneva * Andreas Hotho - University of Kassel * Jose Iria - IBM Research, Zurich * Ross D. King - University of Aberystwyth * Jens Lehmann - University of Leipzig * Francesca A. Lisi - University of Bari * Thomas Lukasiewicz - Oxford University * Matthias Nickles - University of Bath * Sebastian Rudolph - University of Karlsruhe * Jetendr Shamdasani - University of the West of England * Steffen Staab - University of Koblenz-Landau * Umberto Straccia - ISTI-CNR, Pisa * Volker Tresp - Siemens Further information ============================================================ http://irmles.di.uniba.it/2010/ From Thomas.Lukasiewicz at kr.tuwien.ac.at Sat Mar 13 00:51:30 2010 From: Thomas.Lukasiewicz at kr.tuwien.ac.at (Thomas Lukasiewicz) Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2010 23:51:30 +0000 Subject: UniDL'10: Call for Papers Message-ID: <4B9AD382.2090300@kr.tuwien.ac.at> Apologies for cross-postings ------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Papers ------------------------------------------------------------------- UniDL'10 First International Workshop on Uncertainty in Description Logics co-located with IJCAR 2010 at FLoC 2010 July 20, 2010 Edinburgh, UK http://lat.inf.tu-dresden.de/UniDL ------------------------------------------------------------------- During the recent decade, handling uncertainty has started to play an important role in ontology languages, especially in application areas like the Semantic Web, biomedicine, and artificial intelligence. For this reason, there is currently a strong research interest in description logics (DLs) that allow for dealing with uncertainty. The subject of the workshop is how to deal with uncertainty and imprecision in Description Logics (DLs). This encompasses approaches that enable probabilistic or fuzzy reasoning in DLs, but the workshop is also open for approaches based on other uncertainty formalisms. The workshop focusses on the investigation of reasoning problems and approaches for solving them, including especially tractable ones. For classical DL reasoning problems such as subsumption and satisfiability, algorithms that can handle uncertainty exist, but they are still less well-investigated than in the case of standard DLs without uncertainty. For novel reasoning services, such as query answering, computation of generalizations, modules, or explanations, it is not yet clear how to realize them in DLs that can express uncertainty. SPONSOR UniDL is sponsored by the Artificial Intelligence Journal (AIJ) INVITED SPEAKER Ralf Moeller, Hamburg University of Technology TOPICS OF INTEREST include but are not limited to: * Modeling of uncertain knowledge in DLs * Different formalisations of uncertainty for DLs * Formal semantics for uncertain information in DLs * Extensions of DL reasoning problems to uncertainty * Reasoning algorithms for DLs with uncertainty, in particular * Tableau algorithms for probabilistic DLs or fuzzy DLs * Tractable DLs with uncertainty * Complexity of uncertain reasoning * System descriptions for implemented reasoning algorithms in uncertain DLs * Novel applications of DLs with uncertainty * Open and future problems IMPORTANT DATES: Submission deadline: March 25, 2010 Notification: April 28, 2010 Final version: May 18, 2010 **Updated** Workshop: July 20, 2010 SUBMISSION DETAILS: The workshop welcomes submissions in pdf format in Springer's LNCS style. Submissions can be - technical papers not exceeding 10 pages, - system descriptions not exceeding 6 pages, or - position papers on work in progress not exceeding 3 pages in LNCS. Submissions exceeding these limits will not be reviewed. Submissions are via EasyChair at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=unidl10 . WORKSHOP CHAIRS: - Thomas Lukasiewicz, Oxford University, UK - Rafael Penaloza, TU Dresden, Germany - Anni-Yasmin Turhan, TU Dresden, Germany PROGRAM COMMITTEE: - Eyal Amir, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign - Fernando Bobillo, University of Zaragoza - Simona Colucci, Technical University of Bari - Fabio G. Cozman, University of Sao Paulo - Manfred Jaeger, Aalborg University - Pavel Klinov, University of Manchester - Ralf Moeller, Hamburg University of Technology - Mathias Niepert, University of Mannheim - Stefan Schlobach, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam - Luciano Serafini, IRS Trento - Giorgos Stoilos, Oxford University - Umberto Straccia, ISTI-CNR - Guilin Qi, Southeast University, China From aplatzer at cs.cmu.edu Sat Mar 13 16:46:57 2010 From: aplatzer at cs.cmu.edu (Andre Platzer) Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2010 10:46:57 -0500 Subject: CFP: LfSA'10 - Logics for System Analysis Message-ID: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Second call for papers LfSA'10 - Logics for System Analysis Workshop Affiliated with IJCAR and LICS at FLoC 2010 July 15th, 2010, Edinburgh, UK http://www.ls.cs.cmu.edu/LfSA10/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- News: Invited speaker announced * Thomas A. Henzinger, IST Austria * Second invited speaker TBA Safety-critical systems frequently occur as real-time systems, embedded systems, hybrid systems, distributed systems, and cyber-physical systems. They are also becoming more and more important in many application domains, including aviation, automotive, railway, robotic, or medical applications. To ensure the correct functioning of safety-critical systems it is necessary to model and reason about hardware (including physical properties or movement), software, communication aspects, and qualitative and quantitative aspects of the system environment. Logics for system analysis, system modeling, and specification, are primary tools to analyze system behavior. Logic is equally important for understanding the theoretical foundations of system analysis and as the basis for practical analysis tools that establish correct functioning of systems or find bugs in their designs. Depending on the nature of the system, modeling languages that are amenable to logical analysis and the study of correctness properties include logical representations, automata, state charts, Petri nets, dataflow models, or systems of differential equations. Several system models can be analyzed rigorously with the help of techniques such as logical calculi, decision procedures, model checking, and abstraction. LfSA'10 is devoted to the systematic theoretical study, practical development, and applied use of logics for system analysis. The purpose of the LfSA workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners interested in studying practically relevant systems or in developing the logical foundations and analysis tools for their study. Topics ------ * Logics for safety-critical systems (real-time, embedded, hybrid, distributed, stochastic, cyber-physical) * Logic-based methods for development of safety-critical systems * System representations using logics, automata, modeling languages, state charts, Petri nets, dataflow models * Theories, decision procedures, and calculi for system analysis * Model checking, theorem proving, and systematic testing * Case studies for logical system analysis * Applications of system analysis to industrial problems (including automotive, aviation, railway, robotics, process control, mixed analog/digital circuits in chip design) In particular, we invite contributions that bridge the gap between theory and practice or that combine different application domains. Submission Categories --------------------- * Regular papers (up to 15 pages), which should present previously unpublished work (completed or in progress), including descriptions of research, tools, and applications. * Short papers (up to 5 pages), which describe work in progress or aim at initiating discussions. * Presentation-only papers, i.e., papers already submitted or presented at a conference or another workshop; such papers will not be included in the LfSA proceedings but will be presented during the workshop. In addition to informal and electronic workshop proceedings, we consider the option of a special issue in a journal after the workshop. Submission is done via Easychair: https://www.easychair.org/login.cgi?conf=lfsa2010 Important Dates/Deadlines ------------------------- Abstract submission: March 25, 2010 Paper submission: April 1, 2010 Notification: April 28, 2010 Final version due: May 20, 2010 Workshop: July 15, 2010 Workshop/Programme Chairs ------------------------- André Platzer (Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA) aplatzer at cs.cmu.edu Philipp Rümmer (Oxford University, UK) philr at comlab.ox.ac.uk Programme Committee ------------------- Raul Barbosa (Chalmers, Gothenburg, Sweden) Alessandro Cimatti (IRST Trento, Italy) Stéphane Demri (CNRS Cachan, France) Javier Esparza (TU Munich, Germany) Georgios E. Fainekos (Arizona State University, USA) Martin Giese (University of Oslo, Norway) Franjo Ivančić (NEC Laboratories Princeton, USA) Einar Broch Johnsen (University of Oslo, Norway) Dexter Kozen (Cornell, Ithaca, USA) Daniel Kroening (Oxford University, UK) Bruce H. Krogh (Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA) Marta Kwiatkowska (Oxford University, UK) Larissa Meinicke (Macquarie University, Australia) George J. Pappas (University of Pennsylvania, USA) Jean-François Raskin (Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium) Peter H. Schmitt (Karlsruhe University, Germany) Viorica Sofronie-Stokkermans (MPI Saarbrücken, Germany) Cesare Tinelli (The University of Iowa, USA) Uwe Waldmann (MPI Saarbrücken, Germany) From pmt6sbc at maths.leeds.ac.uk Sun Mar 14 00:02:02 2010 From: pmt6sbc at maths.leeds.ac.uk (S Barry Cooper) Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2010 23:02:02 +0000 (GMT) Subject: Funding opportunity - Foundational Questions Message-ID: ___________________________________________________________________________ Foundational Questions in the Mathematical Sciences There is a grant opportunity in: A) foundations of: mathematics, mathematical sciences, computer science; B) artificial intelligence; C) closely related fields. The John Templeton Foundation accepts research proposals that directly or indirectly address one of the following questions: (1) What are the limits of mathematics in advancing human knowledge? (2) What have the difficulties of AI taught us about the nature of mind and intelligence? Deadline for the initial inquiry is April 15, 2010. For more information, please visit http://tiny.cc/mJuDR or http://www.templeton.org/ Please feel free to pass the information on to others who might be interested in the grant opportunity. ___________________________________________________________________________ From Y.Bi at ulster.ac.uk Mon Mar 15 18:23:12 2010 From: Y.Bi at ulster.ac.uk (Bi Yaxin) Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2010 17:23:12 -0000 Subject: 4th International Conference on Knowledge Science, Engineering and Management (KSEM`2010) Message-ID: <6F127AEF3EE0114BBFBC03241A817844027EFB77@jnexc09.ad.ulster.ac.uk> ================================================ [please accept our apologies for cross-posting] ========================================== 4th International Conference on Knowledge Science, Engineering and Management (KSEM`2010) 1-3 September 2010, Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK http://www.ulster.ac.uk/ksem2010 *Student Grants The KSEM2010 will make several travel grants available to PhD students. The awards will be used to subsidize conference travel to present papers. The application procedure will be published in the conference web site very soon. *Conference venue Europa Hotel (there are several budget hotels being adjacent it) *Invited speakers Anthony Cohn (University of Leeds, UK) Ian Horrocks (Oxford University, UK) Thierry Denoeux (Université de Technologie de Compiègne, France) *Important dates Paper submission: 30 March, 2010 Author notification: 15 May, 2010 Camera-ready: 30 May, 2010 Early registration: 30 May, 2010 Call for special sessions: 25 January 2010 ============================================ KSEM is an international conference for research on knowledge science, engineering and management, which attracts high quality, state-of-the-art research papers from all over the world. The conference provides a forum for researchers, practitioners and developers to present original work, to share their views, to exchange ideas and to develop new insights into KSEM-related areas. KSEM2010 will be held in Belfast, Northern Ireland, and is the fourth in the conference series, following three successful events in Guilin, China (KSEM'06), Melbourne, Australia (KSEM'07) and Vienna, Austria (KSEM'09). You are invited to submit papers that are original and not yet published. The topics of interest include but are not limited to: *Special sessions Theory and Practice of Ontology for the Semantic Web Application of Data Mining to Seismic Data Analysis for Earthquake Study *Knowledge science Knowledge representation and reasoning Logics of knowledge Formal analysis of knowledge Knowledge complexity and knowledge metrics Reasoning about knowledge in the presence of inconsistency, incompleteness, context-dependency Commonsense knowledge and uncertainty in knowledge Cognitive foundations of knowledge Knowledge in complex systems and multi-agent systems Formal ontology *Knowledge engineering Knowledge extraction Knowledge integration Knowledge fusion Knowledge-based software engineering Knowledge-based systems in life sciences Conceptual modelling in knowledge-based systems Semantic database systems and semantic Web Content engineering and ontological engineering Implementation issues in KBS Knowledge-based systems in earthquake science *Knowledge management Knowledge creation and acquisition Knowledge verification and validation Knowledge dissemination Knowledge management systems Organizational ontology Data mining and knowledge discovery Organizational memory Organizational learning Knowledge management strategies and practices Knowledge management applications *Paper Submission: Prospective participants are requested to electronically submit full papers of their work (12 pages). In accordance with the previous conferences the organisers of KSEM'2010 will publish the conference proceedings with Springer in the Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) series. *General conference co-chairs Bryan Scotney, University of Ulster, Northern Ireland, UK Zhi Jin, Peking University, China *Programme co-chairs Yaxin Bi, University of Ulster, Northern Ireland, UK Mary-Anne Williams, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia *Local organization committee (University of Ulster) James Uhomoibhi (co-chair) Hui Wang (co-chair) Anna Jurek Juan C Augsto David Glass Jun Liu Shengli Wu Nicola Burns Jing Liao Haiying Wang *Steering committee members David Bell, Queen's University Belfast, UK Cungen Cao, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Dimitris Karagiannis, University of Vienna, Austria Zhi Jin, Peking Univeristy, China Jérome Lang, University Paris-Dauphine, France Yoshiteru Nakamori, JAIST, Japan Jorg Siekmann, DFKI, Germany Eric Tsui, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong Zongtuo Wang, Dalian Science and Technology University, China Kwok Kee Wei, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Mingsheng Ying, Tsinghua University, China Zili Zhang (Secretary), Southwest University, China Ruqian Lu (Honorary Chair), Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Chengqi Zhang (Chair), University of Technology, Sydney, Australia *Contact details Email:ksem2010 at ulster.ac.uk website: http://www.ulster.ac.uk/ksem2010 Organization committee of KSEM2010 -------------- nächster Teil -------------- Ein Dateianhang mit HTML-Daten wurde abgetrennt... URL: From wjamroga at in.tu-clausthal.de Mon Mar 15 21:27:32 2010 From: wjamroga at in.tu-clausthal.de (Wojtek Jamroga) Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2010 21:27:32 +0100 Subject: CfP: Logics in Security Message-ID: <4B9E9834.7000902@in.tu-clausthal.de> [Apologies for multiple postings] CALL FOR PAPERS LOGICS IN SECURITY (workshop at ESSLLI 2010) August 9-13, 2010 Copenhagen, Denmark http://lis.gforge.uni.lu http://esslli2010cph.info/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ABSTRACT In the past two decades, a number of logics and formal frameworks have been proposed to model and analyse interconnected systems from the security point of view. Recently, the increasing need to cope with distributed and complex scenarios forced researchers in formal security to employ non-classical logics to reason about these systems. The aim of this workshop is to bring together logicians and formal security researchers to foster the cross-fertilization between these two areas. Logicians have a lot to benefit from specifying and reasoning about real-world scenarios as well as researchers in security can apply recent advances in non-classical logics to improve their formalisms. We are interested in logical foundations of security and in particular in the following topics: Language-based security Access Control Judgemental Analysis Privacy Automated Theorem Proving Protocol Verification Term-Rewriting Systems applied to Security Architectures Logical Programming Trust and Reputation Management Modal Logic Static Analysis of Programs Dynamic Logic Risk Management Epistemic and Deontic Logic Policy Compliance Security in Multi-Agent System Formal Cryptography More details can be found at http://lis.gforge.uni.lu . ---------------------------------------------------------------------- SPECIAL ISSUE A selection of the accepted papers will be published in a special issue of the Journal of Logic and Computation ---------------------------------------------------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES Paper submission deadline: April 1, 2010. Notification of acceptance: May 25, 2010. Workshop: August 9-13, 2010. -------------------------------------------------------------- PAPER SUBMISSION Papers should not exceed 15 pages, including references, in the Springer LNCS style (http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html). Authors of accepted papers must guarantee that their papers will be presented at the workshop. Papers should be submitted electronically, in pdf, via easychair: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lis2010 . -------------------------------------------------------------- WORKSHOP CHAIRS Dov Gabbay (King's College London, Bar-Ilan University and University of Luxembourg) Leendert van der Torre (University of Luxembourg) PROGRAMME COMMITTEE Steve Barker (King's College, UK) Moritz Y. Becker (Microsoft Research, UK) Guido Boella (University of Torino, Italy) Frédéric Cuppens (ENST-Bretagne, France) Deepak Garg (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) Fausto Giunchiglia (University of Trento, Italy) Wojtek Jamroga (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg) Simon Kramer (University of Tsukuba, Japan) Alessio Lomuscio (Imperial College London, UK) Fabio Martinelli (CNR, Italy) Fabio Masacci (University of Trento, Italy) Sjouke Mauw (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg) Catuscia Palamidessi (INRIA and Ecole Polytechnique, France) Jun Pang (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg) Jean-Francois Raskin (Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium) Mark Ryan (University of Birmingham, UK) Hans van Ditmarsch (University of Sevilla, Spain) Luca Viganò (University of Verona, Italy) ------------------------------------------------------------ CONTACT For further inquiries please contact leon.vandertorre at uni.lu . -------------------------------------------------------------- From lorini at irit.fr Tue Mar 16 12:47:47 2010 From: lorini at irit.fr (lorini at irit.fr) Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2010 12:47:47 +0100 (CET) Subject: "Theories of Information Dynamics and Interaction and their Applications to Dialogue", Copenhagen (Denmark), 16-20 August 2010 Message-ID: <1d0cfab59a2c727c4ed921a210ca2c72.squirrel@websecu.irit.fr> CALL FOR PAPERS Workshop on Theories of Information Dynamics and Interaction and their Application to Dialogue TIDIAD at ESSLLI2010 http://www.irit.fr/~Laure.Vieu/Esslli10 Workshop organized as part of the European Summer School on Logic, Language and Information ESSLLI 2010 (http://esslli2010cph.info/) August 16-20 (ESSLLI 2nd week) 2010, Copenhagen Workshop Purpose and Topics: ---------------------------- Theoretical approaches to communication and dialogue modeling are varied and often unrelated because separately focusing on different aspects of dialogue (speech acts, goals, beliefs, plans, questions, conventions, roles, cooperation, disputes, argumentation, reference, semantics-pragmatics interface...). On the other hand, the area of foundations of multi-agent systems is inducing new developments in logics of interaction and information dynamics, with a recent trend towards comparison and integration. Analyzing the impact of this trend on communication and dialogue modeling is timely. This workshop aims at discussing formal theories and logics of information dynamics and interaction and their applications to dialogue and communication modeling. It is intended to bring together logicians, linguists and computer scientists in order to provide a better understanding of the potentialities and limitations of formal methods for the analysis of dialogue and communication. Its scope includes not only the technical aspects of logics, but also multidisciplinary aspects from linguistics, philosophy of language, philosophy of social reality, social sciences (social psychology, economics). The following are some examples of formal theories and logics that are relevant to the workshop (no order): speech act theory, argumentation theory, game theory, public announcement logic, dynamic epistemic logic (DEL), logics of agency and power (e.g. STIT, ATL, Coalition Logic), theories of persuasion, theories of commitment, dynamic semantics, semantic approaches to interrogative clauses, rhetorical approaches to dialogue (e.g., Segmented Discourse Representation Theory). The focus of the workshop will be on recent developments, especially those that combine several approaches (e.g. dynamic epistemic logic and speech act theory, dynamic epistemic logic and segmented discourse representation theory, public announcement logic and commitment theories, STIT and dynamic epistemic logic, Coalition Logic and public announcement logic...) to deal with complex dialogue and communication phenomena. Invited speakers: ----------------- Patrick Blackburn, LORIA, INRIA Nancy Jeroen Groenendijk, ILLC, University of Amsterdam Workshop Organizers: -------------------- Emiliano Lorini ("lorini at irit.fr") and Laure Vieu ("vieu at irit.fr"), IRIT-CNRS, Toulouse Workshop Programme Committee: ----------------------------- Nicholas Asher, IRIT-CNRS, Toulouse Guillaume Aucher, Univ. of Luxembourg Alexandru Baltag, Oxford Univ. Anton Benz, ZAS, Berlin Patrick Blackburn, INRIA, Nancy Guido Boella, Univ. of Turin Jan Broersen, Univ. of Utrecht Cristiano Castelfranchi, ISTC-CNR, Rome Hans van Ditmarsch, Univ. of Otago & Univ. of Seville Raquel Fernández, Univ. of Amsterdam Jonathan Ginzburg, King's College, London Jeroen Groenendijk, Univ. of Amsterdam Davide Grossi, Univ. of Amsterdam Andreas Herzig, IRIT-CNRS, Toulouse Wiebe van der Hoek, Univ. of Liverpool Joris Hulstijn, Vrije Univ. of Amsterdam Andrew Jones, King's College, London Barteld Kooi, Univ. of Groningen Kepa Korta, Univ. of Basque Country, Donostia Alex Lascarides, Univ. Edinburgh Dominique Longin, IRIT-CNRS, Toulouse John-Jules Meyer, Univ. of Utrecht Paul Piwek, The Open Univ., Milton Keynes Henry Prakken, Univ. of Utrecht Leon van der Torre, Univ. of Luxembourg Submission Details: ------------------- Authors are invited to submit an extended abstract presenting work relevant to the area of information dynamics, interaction and dialogue. Extended abstracts should have a maximum of 6 pages, font size of at least 11pt, and margins of at least 2 cm. Papers should be in PDF format (Latex-generated papers are preferred, but not necessary), and uploaded by April 12 using Easychair at: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=tidiadesslli10 The submissions will be reviewed by the program committee and possibly additional reviewers. The accepted papers will appear in the workshop proceedings published by ESSLLI. The format for the final versions will be made available in due course. A special issue of the journal Synthese is planned, based on selected papers presented at the workshop, of which full versions will be independently reviewed. Important dates: ---------------- Apr 12, 2010: Deadline for submission May 24, 2010: Notification June 1, 2010: Deadline for early registration to ESSLLI Jun 15, 2010: Deadline for final papers August 16-20, 2010: Workshop Local Arrangements: ------------------- All workshop participants including the presenters will be required to register for ESSLLI. Further Information: -------------------- About the workshop: http://www.irit.fr/~Laure.Vieu/Esslli10 About ESSLLI: http://esslli2010cph.info/ From Manuela.Bujorianu at manchester.ac.uk Tue Mar 16 13:02:04 2010 From: Manuela.Bujorianu at manchester.ac.uk (Manuela Bujorianu) Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2010 12:02:04 +0000 Subject: CfPart: CPSWEEK workshop on hybrid systems Message-ID: <20100316120204.13967g7inh4k6ud8@webmail.manchester.ac.uk> [ Apologies for cross-postings! Please help us by distributing the advert in your department! ] /----------------------------------\ | CALL FOR PARTICIPATION | \----------------------------------/ " Modeling and Verification of Uncertain Hybrid Systems" A Workshop affiliated with CPSWEEK 2010 Stockholm, 12th of April 2010 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- http://personalpages.manchester.ac.uk/staff/Manuela.Bujorianu/CPS.htm The workshop aims to bring together researchers from computer science, control engineering and applied mathematics interested in studying uncertain systems with hybrid behavior. ====================== Invited speakers ====================== Luca Bortolussi Hybrid Semantics of Stochastic Process Algebras Manuela Bujorianu Autonomous Stochastic Hybrid Systems Alessandro D'Innocenzo Probabilistic Model Checking of Stochastic Hybrid Systems by Abstraction: Application to Air Traffic Management Martin Fränzle TBA Holger Hermanns The Challenge of Stochastic Electricity Balancing Xenofon D. Koutsoukos Multilevel Splitting for Reachability Analysis of Stochastic Hybrid Systems Alexandru Mereacre Model Checking Continuous-Time Markov Chains Against Timed Automata Alessandro Pinto - TBC Anne Remke Hybrid Petri Nets With Costs for Dependability Evaluation Walid Taha What Makes Objects Fly, Bounce, and Break? Paolo Zuliani Verification Issues for Stochastic Hybrid Systems ====================== Organization ====================== 2010 edition organizers: Manuela Bujorianu [University of Manchester, UK] Martin Fränzle [University of Oldenburg, DE] Steering Committee: Prof. David Broomhead [University of Manchester, UK] Manuela Bujorianu [University of Manchester, UK] Prof. Martin Fränzle [University of Oldenburg, DE] André Platzer [CMU, USA] Verena Wolf [University of Saarland, DE] ====================== Proceedings / topics of interest ====================== The workshop pre-proceedings, consisting of a collection of lectures/extended abstracts will appear as an AVACS technical report. It is planned that the workshop will be followed by a special issue of a journal dedicated to formal verification of probabilistic hybrid systems. The topics of interest of this special issue include (but are not limited to): * new modeling paradigms * uncertainty representation * control of uncertain systems * formal verification of safety properties * stochastic models for hybrid systems * probabilistic logics for system specification * stochastic verification methods * performance modeling and verification * case studies ====================== Registration: http://www.trippus.se/eventus/eventus_cat.asp?EventusCat_ID=12775&Lang=eng&c= ====================== ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From hak at ca.ibm.com Tue Mar 16 13:39:51 2010 From: hak at ca.ibm.com (Hassan Ait-Kaci) Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2010 05:39:51 -0700 Subject: CFP: RULE 2010 (Edinburgh, UK, July 14, 2010) Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [Although we try avoiding cross-posting, we apologize if that happens] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Submission is now open for RULE 2010 ELEVENTH INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON RULE-BASED SPECIFICATION AND PROGRAMMING RULE-BASED PROGRAMMING IN INDUSTRY AND THE SEMANTIC WEB Edinburgh, UK July 14, 2010 http://www.di.uminho.pt/rule2010 IMPORTANT DATES: Submission deadline: Friday, April 16, 2010 PC meeting: Monday-Friday, May 24-28, 2010 Authors notified: Thursday, June 3, 2010 Final copies due: Friday, June 25, 2010 RULE 2010 Workshop: Wednesday, July 14, 2010, ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -------------- nächster Teil -------------- Ein Dateianhang mit HTML-Daten wurde abgetrennt... URL: From nguyen at mimuw.edu.pl Tue Mar 16 15:29:14 2010 From: nguyen at mimuw.edu.pl (Linh Anh Nguyen) Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2010 15:29:14 +0100 (CET) Subject: SoICT 2010: First Call for Papers Message-ID: *** Apologies if you have received this CFP more than once *** SoICT 2010 Symposium on Information and Communication Technology Hanoi, Vietnam, August 27-28, 2010 More details and up-to-date information at http://soict.hut.vn/~soict2010/ (Submission deadline 5th May 2010) ABOUT SoICT 2010 ================ SoICT is a scientific symposium for research in all major areas of computing. The aim of the symposium is to bring together researchers and practitioners from academia, industry and government to advance the state of the art and to scale up their application in industries. The symposium is organized by the School of Information and Communication Technology - Hanoi University of Technology, celebrating the 15th foundation anniversary of the school. Authors are invited to submit both research and tool papers. The scientific program will include keynote talks, paper presentations, tutorials and workshops. There will be a school preceding the conference aiming to postgraduate students and researchers from academia and industry. PUBLICATION =========== We plan to publish the proceedings of the symposium in an ACM volume. The symposium language is English. All contributions should be original and not published elsewhere or intended to be published during the review period. Submitted papers should be prepared in ACM style and should not exceed 10 pages. IMPORTANT DATES =============== Submission deadline: May 5, 2010 Author notification: June 15, 2010 Camera-ready papers submission and author registration: July 30, 2010 Conference dates: August 27-28, 2010 RELEVANT TOPICS =============== The symposium solicits submission of research papers in all major areas of computing, organized into the following five scopes. Relevant topics of each scope include, but are not limited to: Innovative computing algorithms and paradigms: - Parallel/distributed computing algorithms - Grid computing - Mobile computing - Ubiquitous/pervasive computing - Cloud computing - Autonomous/self-management computing - Intelligent agents and multi-agent systems - Logic and constraint programming; ... Knowledge-based and information systems: - Database architecture and management - Data warehousing - Advanced database models and languages - Data mining and knowledge discovery - Decision support systems - Knowledge engineering - Machine learning - Neural networks - Natural language processing - Automated reasoning - Robotics - Bioinformatics; ... Computer and communication engineering: - Digital integrated circuits and systems - System architecture, simulation and modeling - Microprocessors, ASICs and FPGAs - Real-time and embedded systems - System testing and verification - Image/video processing - Computer vision - Multimedia data communication and processing - Human-Computer interaction - Network architectures and protocols - Next generation network - Network management, Network security - Network virtualization - Network performance and quality of services; ... Software engineering: - Requirements and specifications - Software architectures - Formal analysis and design methods - Software development techniques and tools - Software verification, testing and debugging - Distribution and maintenance - Reusable softwares - Advanced programming languages; ... Applications: - Web-based information systems (E-commerce, E-health, E-learning, E-Government, ...) - Enterprise integration systems - Digital content services - Mobile and ubiquitous systems - Smarthouse systems; ... SoICT 2010 Conference Committee =============================== Honorary Chair: Nguyen Trong Giang, Hanoi University of Technology, Vietnam General Chairs: Nguyen Thuc Hai, Hanoi University of Technology, Vietnam Huynh Quyet Thang, Hanoi University of Technology, Vietnam Program Chairs: Eric Castelli, MICA, France-Vietnam Linh Anh Nguyen, University of Warsaw, Poland Nguyen Thanh Thuy, Hanoi University of Technology, Vietnam Tran Dinh Khang, Hanoi University of Technology, Vietnam Organizing Chair: Nguyen Kim Khanh, Hanoi University of Technology, Vietnam Ta Tuan Anh, Hanoi University of Technology, Vietnam Workshop Chair: Nguyen Khanh Van, Hanoi University of Technology, Vietnam Tutorial Chair: Tran Duc Khanh, Hanoi University of Technology, Vietnam Publicity Chair: Nguyen Nhat Quang, Hanoi University of Technology, Vietnam Program Committee: Andrzej Szalas, University of Warsaw, Poland Bae Doo Hwan, College of Information Science and Technology, KAIST, Korea Barbara Dunin-Keplicz, University of Warsaw, Poland Bertrand Meyer, ETH Zurich, Switzerland Brigitte Jaumard, Corcordia University, Canada Chui Chee Kong, National University of Singapore, Singapore Dao Thi Thu Ha, CNRS-Versailles University, France Duc Anh Duong, HCM University of Science, HCM VNU, Vietnam Duc Nghia Nguyen, Hanoi University of Technology, Vietnam Duong Hieu Phan, University of Paris 8, France Eric Castelli, MICA, France-Vietnam (co-chair) Helene Kirchner, INRIA, France Hung Son Nguyen, University of Warsaw, Poland Hong Quang Nguyen, Hanoi University of Technology, Vietnam James Cremer, Iowa University, USA James Won-Ki Hong, POSTECH, Korea Jean-Luc Baril, University of Burgundy, France Key-Sun Choi, CS Department, KAIST, Korea Khanh Van Nguyen, Hanoi University of Technology, Vietnam Linh Anh Nguyen, University of Warsaw, Poland (co-chair) Martin Nordio, ETH Zurich, Switzerland Masaru Fukushi, Tohoku University, Japan Michael Rusinowitch, INRIA, France Michel Toulouse, Oklahoma State University, USA Ngoc Thanh Nguyen, Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland Nguyen Thanh Thuy, Hanoi University of Technology, Vietnam (co-chair) Nguyen Thi Kim Anh, Hanoi University of Technology, Vietnam Nguyen Thi Hoang Lan, Hanoi University of Technology, Vietnam Nicolas Brunel, ENSIIE, France Pham Thi Ngoc Yen, MICA, Hanoi University of Technology, Vietnam Phuc Do, University of IT, HCM VNU, Vietnam Piero Fraternali, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Shin Nakajima, National Institute of Informatics, Japan Sinh Hoa Nguyen, Polish-Japanese Institute of Information Technology, Poland Thoai Nam, Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology, Vietnam Thu Tran Dan, HCM University of Science, HCM VNU, Vietnam Thomas Ottmann, University Freiburg, Germany Timo Knuutila, Turku University, Finland Tran Cao Son, New Mexico State University, USA Tran Dinh Khang, Hanoi University of Technology, Vietnam (co-chair) Trinh Van Loan, Hanoi University of Technology, Vietnam Van Chuyet Dang, Hanoi University of Technology, Vietnam Vincent Vajnovszki, University of Burgundy, France Vu Dinh Duc Anh, HCM University of Technology, HCM VNU, Vietnam Xiaohong Jiang, Tohoku University, Japan Organizing Committee: Huynh Thi Thanh Binh, Hanoi University of Technology, Vietnam Truong Thi Dieu Linh, Hanoi University of Technology, Vietnam Truong Thi Van Thu, Hanoi University of Technology, Vietnam From marco.gavanelli at unife.it Tue Mar 16 20:39:16 2010 From: marco.gavanelli at unife.it (Marco Gavanelli) Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2010 20:39:16 +0100 Subject: RCRA10 deadline extension Message-ID: <4B9FDE64.1000501@unife.it> Due to the many requests, the deadline for the RCRA 2010 has been extended. New dates: * Abstract submission: 21 March 2010 * Paper submission: 31 March 2010 * ______________________________________________________________________ * The RCRA group (Knowledge Representation & Automated Reasoning) of the AI*IA (Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence) http://rcra.aixia.it organises the 17th RCRA workshop: Experimental evaluation of algorithms for solving problems with combinatorial explosion (RCRA 2010) in association with CP-AI-OR 2010 Bologna, Italy, June 10-11, 2010 Email: rcra.aixia.10 at gmail.com RCRA group web site: http://rcra.aixia.it/ Workshop web site: http://rcra.aixia.it/rcra2010 * ______________________________________________________________________ * This event follows the series of the RCRA (Knowledge Representation and Automated Reasoning) annual meetings, held since 1994. The success of the previous events shows that RCRA is becoming a major forum for exchanging ideas and proposing experimentation methodologies for algorithms in artificial intelligence. * ______________________________________________________________________ * As in previous editions (http://rcra.aixia.it/publications), authors of papers orally presented at the workshop will have the opportunity to participate to the selection of a special issue that will appear on an International journal. The workshop will take place in Bologna, Italy on June 10-11, 2010, in association with CP-AI-OR 2010 (http://cpaior2010.ing.unibo.it). AIMS AND SCOPE Many problems in Artificial Intelligence show an exponential explosion of the search space. Although stemming from different research areas in AI, such problems are often addressed with algorithms that have a common goal: the effective exploration of huge state spaces. Many algorithms developed in one research area are applicable to other problems, or can be hybridised with techniques in other areas. Artificial Intelligence tools often exploit or hybridise techniques developed by other research communities, such as Operations Research. In recent years, research in AI has more and more focussed on experimental evaluation of algorithms, the development of suitable methodologies for experimentation and analysis, the study of languages and the implementation of systems for the definition and solution of problems. Scope of the workshop is fostering the cross-fertilisation of ideas stemming from different areas, proposing benchmarks for new challenging problems, comparing models and algorithms from an experimental viewpoint, and, in general, comparing different approaches with respect to efficiency, problem modelling, and ease of development. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Experimental evaluation of algorithms for o knowledge representation o automated reasoning o planning o scheduling o machine learning o model checking o boolean satisfiability (SAT) o constraint programming o constraint satisfaction o quantified boolean formulae and quantified constraints o modal logics o logic programming o disjunctive logic programming o temporal reasoning o combinatorial optimization * Definition and construction of benchmarks * Experimentation methodologies * Metaheuristics * Algorithm hybridisation * Static analysis of combinatorial problems * Languages and systems for definition and solution of problems * Comparisons between systems and algorithms * Application experiences WORKSHOP CHAIRS * Marco Gavanelli, Università degli Studi di Ferrara, Italy * Toni Mancini, Sapienza Università di Roma, Italy WORKSHOP PROGRAM COMMITTEE * Stefania Costantini - Università dell'Aquila, Italy * Esra Erdem - Sabanci University, Turkey * Stefano Ferilli - Università di Bari, Italy * Marco Gavanelli - Università di Ferrara, Italy * Marijn Heule - Technical University of Delft, Netherlands * Jörg Hoffmann - INRIA Nancy Grand Est, France * Angel Juan - Universidad Oberta de Catalunya, Spain * Ines Lynce - Universidade Técnica de Lisboa, Portugal * Toni Mancini - Sapienza Università di Roma, Italy * Joao Marquez-Silva - University College Dublin, Ireland * Alfredo Milani - Università di Perugia, Italy * Alessandra Mileo - Università di Milano Bicocca, Italy * Angelo Oddi - Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR), Italy * Justin Pearson - Uppsala University, Sweden * Luca Pulina - Università di Genova, Italy * Francesco Ricca - Università della Calabria, Italy * Fabrizio Riguzzi - Università di Ferrara, Italy * Andrea Roli - Università di Bologna, Italy * Carsten Sinz - University of Karlsruhe, Germany * Kostas Stergiou - University of the Aegean, Greece * Paolo Torroni - Università di Bologna, Italy HOST ORGANIZATION Dept. of Electronics, Computer Science and Systems (DEIS) University of Bologna, Italy LOCAL COMMITTEE Stefano Bragaglia, University of Bologna, Italy SUBMISSIONS Authors are invited to submit either original papers, or papers that appear on conference proceedings. Publications showing negative results are welcome, provided that the approach was original and very promising in principle, the experimentation was well-conducted, the results obtained were unforeseeable and gave important hints in the comprehension of the target problem, helping other researchers to avoid unsuccessful paths. At the time of submission, authors are requested to clearly specify whether their submission is original or already published. Workshop submissions must be in PDF format, do not exceed 15 pages, and should be written in LaTeX, using the RCRA 2010 style available on the workshop web site. Page for submissions: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=rcra2010 Submissions will be reviewed by at least three members of the program committee. Original papers accepted at the workshop will be electronically published on the workshop web site and as an issue of the CEUR Workshop Proceedings series. As for papers already published, a DOI link to their copyrighted version will be provided instead, both on the workshop web site and in the CEUR-WS issue. Final and detailed submission instructions will be available on the workshop web site soon. SELECTION FOR THE POST-PROCEEDINGS Few weeks after the workshop, authors of papers orally presented at the workshop will have the opportunity to participate to the selection for the post-proceedings by submitting an extended version of their work. As in previous editions (http://rcra.aixia.it/publications), workshop post-proceedings will appear in a special issue of an International journal, provided that a sufficient amount of high quality papers is collected. All candidate articles must be original: they cannot have already been published in journals, and must contain significant additional material with respect to any formal publication. Such papers will go through a second formal selection process, and will be reviewed by at least three reviewers. The selection process will be kept very short, and at most one re-submission stage will be allowed (cf. important dates). Hence, authors are invited to work on their paper mainly before the workshop date. IMPORTANT DATES * Abstract submission: 21 March 2010 * Submissions to the RCRA workshop: 31 March 2010 * Notification of acceptance/reject: 25 April 2010 * Final version due: 18 May 2010 * RCRA workshop: 10-11 June 2010 SELECTION FOR JOURNAL POST-PROCEEDINGS * Extended papers submission deadline: 18 July 2010 * Notification of reviews of the 1st round: 12 September 2010 * Re-submission deadline (for papers not accepted with minor rev.): 24 October 2010 * Final notification of acceptance: 7 November 2010 * Final version due: 21 November 2010 -- Marco Gavanelli, Ph.D. in Computer Science Dept of Engineering University of Ferrara Tel/Fax +39-0532-97-4833 http://www.ing.unife.it/docenti/MarcoGavanelli/ From Andrzej.Sieminski at pwr.wroc.pl Wed Mar 17 08:36:36 2010 From: Andrzej.Sieminski at pwr.wroc.pl (Andrzej Sieminski) Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2010 08:36:36 +0100 Subject: 7th International Conference on "Multimedia & Network Information Systems" (MISSI10) Message-ID: <72e0f94c6770.4ba09494@pwr.wroc.pl> Dear colleague, We are pleased to invite participation in the 7th International Conference on "Multimedia & Network Information Systems" (MISSI10).   MISSI10 is organized by the Institute of Informatics, Wrocław University of Technology, Poland. The Conference is a biannual event that offers both the researchers and the practitioners a unique opportunity to exchange experience as well as ideas and opinions. The Conference is a meeting place for the research workers from universities, scientific institutes, libraries, and cultural institutions as well as for the representatives of multimedia software companies.  The distinctive features of the Conference are long, intense and sometimes fierce discussions during both formal and informal meetings. Over the years the Conference has proved to be an invaluable source of inspiration for research on the area. This is particularly useful for research workers staring their academic career. The Conference takes place in Wrocław, a tourist friendly city right in the heart of Europe. The main aim of this conference is to provide an internationally respected forum for scientific research in the field of multimedia and network information systems (IS).  The scope of the Conference covers theoretical and practical aspects of multimedia and network information systems. In particular, the topics include (but are not limited) to the following subjects: Multimedia Information Technology: Multimedia Databases, Multimedia Indexing and Retrieval, Multimedia Processing, Multimedia Sharing Systems, Multimedia Content Management Systems, Virtual Reality Technologies, Video on Demand, Network Games, Extended Reality, Session Mobility, Image Processing, Content-based Image Retrieval, Visual Retrieval Systems, Digital Video, Video Editing Software, Digital Sound Processing, Music Information Retrieval, Speech Recognition and Synthesis. Data Processing in Information Systems:  Data Warehouses and Data Mining, Multi-agent Systems, AI in Information Systems, Computational Intelligence, Human Computer Interaction, Distributed Processing, Efficiency of Information Systems, Metadata in Information Systems, Data Quality, System Integration, Cloud Computing, Mashup Systems, Topical Crawlers, Social Networks. Digital Libraries:  Distributed Repositories, Cultural Heritage Digitalization, Services Atomization, Virtual Museums, Usage Mining, Digital Library Semantics. Information System Applications:  Business Intelligence, Enterprise Information Systems, Geographical Information Systems, Medical Information Systems, Mobile Information Systems, Nature–inspired Information System. Web Systems and Network Technologies:  Semantic Web, Ontology Management and Alignment, Web Usability and Accessibility, Web Traffic Optimization, Deep Web Processing, Web Mining, Internet Search Engines, Web 2.0 and Collaborative Systems, Virtual Communities, Trust and Security Management, Recommender Systems, Machine Learning in Web–based Systems. E-learning:  E-learning Systems Architecture, E-learning Platforms, Content Designing, Intelligent Tutoring Systems, Collaborative Learning, E-learning Standards, E-learning Tools, Social and Psychological Aspects of E–learning. Papers and Publication: Papers are invited from prospective authors with interests on the indicated conference topics and related areas of application. All contributions should be original and not published elsewhere or intended to be published during the review period of time. Papers should not exceed 10 pages. To ensure high quality, all submitted papers will be peer reviewed and evaluated by the MISSI’10 International Programme Committee. The conference proceedings are planned to be published by Springer-Verlag in Advances in Intelligent and Soft Computing series. Extended versions of selected papers will be considered for publication in several internationally recognized journals. Important dates: 31 March 2010 Submission of papers 10 May 2010 Notification of acceptance 24 May 2010 – Final papers to be received Authors/Early Registration 23 – 24 September 2010 - the Conference. Conference Organization General Chair: Aleksander Zgrzywa, Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland Programme Chairs: Nguyen Ngoc Thanh, Wroclaw, University of Technology, Poland,  Andrzej Czyżewski, Gdansk University of Technology, Poland Programme Co-chairs: John Oommen, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada,  Toyoaki Nishida, Kyoto University, Japan Organizing Chair: Elżbieta Kukla, Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland Publicity Chair: Andrzej Siemiński, Wrocław, University of Technology, Poland Invited Sessions Chair: \ Kazimierz Choroś, Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland Web site: http://www.zsi.pwr.wroc.pl/MISSI2010 Email: missi2010 at pwr.wroc.pl Please be so kind to encourage also your colleagues to participate in the Conference.  Excuse us if you receive this mail more than once. If you received this email in error,  please forward it to the appropriate department at your institution.  Thank you for your understanding in this matter. 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URL: From k.v.hindriks at tudelft.nl Wed Mar 17 14:42:29 2010 From: k.v.hindriks at tudelft.nl (Koen Hindriks) Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2010 14:42:29 +0100 Subject: FINAL CFP HuCom@GDN 2010 Message-ID: <011301cac5d7$afeb3bb0$0fc1b310$@v.hindriks@tudelft.nl> ================ CALL FOR PAPERS ========================== Second International Working Conference on Human Factors and Computational Models in Negotiation (HuCom 2010 @ GDN) June 21 - 24, 2010, Delft, The Netherlands http://mmi.tudelft.nl/HuCom10/ IMPORTANT DATES: - April 1, 2010: Paper Submissions Due - April 16, 2010: Notification of paper acceptance/rejection - May 1, 2010: Camera-ready copies of accepted papers - June 21 - 24, 2010: Working Conference on Human Factors and Computational Models in Negotiation PUBLICATION: We are pleased to solicit original and unpublished papers for publication and presentation in the Working Conference on Human Factors and Computational Models in Negotiation. 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 6000 words. Submission is entirely automated by a paper management tool, which is available from the main web site: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=hucom10. Accepted papers will be published in the Proceedings of the Group Decision and Negotiation conference. 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 Program Chairs: Koen Hindriks - Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands Catholijn Jonker - Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands Pascal Wiggers - Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Brooke Abrahams, Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia Reyhan Aydogan, Bogazici University, Turkey Willem-Paul Brinkman, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands Frank Dignum, Utrecht University, The Netherlands Shaheen Fatima, Loughborough University, UK Yakov Gal, Harvard University, US Joseph Giampapa, Carnegie Mellon University, US Gert Jan Hofstede, Wageningen University, The Netherlands Mark Hoogendoorn, Vrije Universiteit, The Netherlands Takayuki Ito, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan Raz Lin, Bar-Ilan University, Israel Steve Love, Brunel University, UK Tom McEwan, Napier University, UK Mark Neerincx, TNO, The Netherlands Iyad Rahwan, Masdar Institute of Science & Technology, United Arab Emirates Valentin Robu, University of Southamption, UK Carles Sierra, IIIA-CSIC, Spain Liz Sonenberg, University of Melbourne, Australia Dmytro Tykhonov, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands Tim Verwaart, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands Hans Weigand, Tilburg University, The Netherlands John Zeleznikow, Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia INFORMATION: For further information please contact: k.v.hindriks at tudelft.nl -------------- nächster Teil -------------- Ein Dateianhang mit HTML-Daten wurde abgetrennt... URL: From pnse10 at informatik.uni-hamburg.de Wed Mar 17 22:44:54 2010 From: pnse10 at informatik.uni-hamburg.de (PNSE 10) Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2010 22:44:54 +0100 Subject: CfP: Petri Nets and Software Engineering (PNSE'10) Message-ID: <20100317214453.GA18319@rzdspc10.informatik.uni-hamburg.de> Apologies if you receive more than one copie due to cross-posting. PNSE'10 International Workshop on Petri Nets and Software Engineering Braga, Portugal, June 21 or 22, 2010 a satellite event of Petri Nets 2010 31st International Conference on Application and Theory of Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency URL: http://www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/TGI/events/pnse10/ Contact e-mail: pnse10 at informatik.uni-hamburg.de Important Dates: Abstracts should be submitted now(!) to get us informed;-) Deadline for full papers: April 1st, 2010 Deadline for short papers: April 1st, 2010 Notification of paper acceptance: April 30th, 2010 Deadline for posters: May 4th, 2010 Notification of poster acceptance: May 18th, 2010 Deadline for final revisions: May 22nd, 2010 Workshop: June 21st or 22nd, 2010 ________________________________________________________________ Some of the best papers from the workshop will be invited for publication in a volume of the journal sub line of Lecture Notes in Computer Science entitled "Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency" (ToPNoC). The papers are expected to be thoroughly revised and they will go through a totally new round of reviewing as is standard practice for journal papers. Papers from previous instances of this workshop (PNSE'07, PNDS'08 and PNSE'09) made it into ToPNoC volumes in the Springer LNCS series (volumes 5100, 5460 and 5800). See: http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-417809-0 _________________________________________________________________ Scope For the successful realisation of complex systems of interacting and reactive software and hardware components the use of a precise language at different stages of the development process is of crucial importance. Petri nets are becoming increasingly popular in this area, as they provide a uniform language supporting the tasks of modelling, validation, and verification. Their popularity is due to the fact that Petri nets capture fundamental aspects of causality, concurrency and choice in a natural and mathematically precise way without compromising readability. The workshop PNSE'10 (Petri nets and Software Engineering) will take place as a satellite event of Petri Nets 2010. The use of Petri nets (P/T-nets, coloured Petri nets and extensions) in the formal process of software engineering, covering modelling, validation, and verification, will be presented as well as their application and tools supporting the disciplines mentioned above. _________________________________________________________________ Topics We welcome contributions describing original research in topics related to Petri nets in combination with software engineering, addressing open problems or presenting new ideas regarding the relation of Petri nets and software engineering. Furthermore we look for surveys addressing open problems and new applications of Petri nets. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: Modelling + representation of formal models by intuitive modelling concepts + guidelines for the construction of system models + representative examples + state-oriented, event-oriented, object-oriented, and agent-oriented approaches + adaption, integration, and enhancement of concepts from other disciplines + views and abstractions of systems + model-driven architecture + modelling software landscapes + web service-based software development Validation and Execution + prototyping + simulation, observation, animation + code generation and execution + testing and debugging + efficient implementation Verification + structural methods (e.g. place invariants, reduction rules) + results for structural subclasses of nets + relations between structure and behaviour + state space based approaches + efficient model checking + assertional and deductive methods (e.g. temporal logics) + process algebraic methods + applications of category theory and linear logic Application of Petri nets in Software Engineering, in particular the use of Petri nets in the domains of + flexible manufacturing, + logistics, + telecommunication, and + workflow management. Tools in the fields mentioned above _________________________________________________________________ Registration & Accommodation Please register for the PNSE'10 workshop at the registration site of the Petri Nets 2010 Hotel Information. Information about how to reach the workshop / conference site and about hotels can be found at the Petri Nets 2010 Registration. _________________________________________________________________ Submissions The programme committee invites submissions of full contributions (up to 15 pages) or short contributions (up to 5 pages). Ongoing work (up to 2 pages) can also be presented in a special poster session. Please note that for full contributions up to 15 pages are recommended. However, up to 20 pages can be used for the pre-proceedings. Nevertheless only 15 pages will be allowed for the possible post-proceedings papers. Papers should be submitted in electronic form (PDF) using the Springer LNCS-format (see http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html). Submissions should include title, authors' addresses, E-mail addresses, keywords and an abstract. For your submission in PDF format please use the online conference management system at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=pnse10 Just create a new account and then upload your paper. (Later you will be able to see your reviews there.) The papers will be peer reviewed by at least four members of the PC. Accepted contributions will be included in the workshop proceedings, which will be available at the workshop and on this website. _________________________________________________________________ For further information on PNSE'10 contact the programme committee by email at pnse10 at informatik.uni-hamburg.de -- Daniel Moldt, Michael Duvigneau Tel.: +49 40 42883-2247 / -2236 Fax: +49 40 42883-2246 mailto:pnse10 at informatik.uni-hamburg.de http://www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/TGI/events/pnse10/ University of Hamburg, Department of Informatics, Theoretical Foundation of Informatics Group From organization at arcoe.org Fri Mar 19 10:13:46 2010 From: organization at arcoe.org (ARCOE) Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2010 17:13:46 +0800 Subject: 2nd CFP: Automated Reasoning about Context and Ontology Evolution (ARCOE-10) collocated with ECAI-2010 Message-ID: <52c479f41003190213p693a10edpf0a0c8c4eebbd4ff@mail.gmail.com> ======================= CALL FOR PARTICIPATION ARCOE-10 at ECAI-10 August 16-17, 2010 Lisbon, Portugal ======================= The ECAI-10 Workshop on Automated Reasoning about Context and Ontology Evolution (ARCOE-10) http://www.arcoe.org/2010/ held on August 16-17, 2010 at the European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI-10) http://ecai2010.appia.pt/ -- Description of the workshop -- Methods of automated reasoning have solved a large number of problems in Computer Science by using formal ontologies expressed in logic. Over the years, though, each problem or class of problems has required a different ontology, and sometimes a different version of logic. Moreover, the processes of conceiving, controlling and maintaining an ontology and its versions have turned out to be inherently complex. All this has motivated much investigation in a wide range of disparate disciplines -- from logic-based Knowledge Representation and Reasoning to Software Engineering, from Databases to Multimedia -- about how to relate ontologies to one another. ARCOE-10 aims at bringing together researchers and practitioners from core areas of Artificial Intelligence (Knowledge Representation and Reasoning, Contexts, and Ontologies) to discuss these kinds of problems and relevant results. Historically, there have been at least three different, yet interdependent motivations behind this type of research: defining the relationship between an ontology and its context, providing support to ontology engineers, enhancing problem solving and communication for software agents. Ontology and Context. Most application areas have recognised the need for representing and reasoning about knowledge that is distributed over many resources. Such knowledge depends on its context, i.e., on the syntactic and/or semantic structure of such resources. Research on information integration, distributed knowledge management, the semantic web, multi-agent and distributed reasoning have pinned down different aspects of how ontologies relate to and/or develop within their context. Ontology Engineering. Ontology engineers are not supposed to succeed right from the beginning when (individually or collaboratively) developing an ontology. Despite their expertise and any assistance from domain experts, revision cycles are the rule. Research on the automation of the process of engineering an ontology has improved efficiency and reduced the introduction of unintended meanings by means of interactive ontology editors. Moreover, ontology matching has studied the process of manual, off-line alignment of two or more known ontologies. Problem Solving and Communication for Agents. Agents that communicate with one another without having full access to their respective ontologies or that are programmed to face new non-classifiable situations must change their own ontology dynamically at run-time -- they cannot rely on human intervention. Research on this problem has either concentrated on non-monotonic reasoning and belief revision or on changes of signature, i.e., of the grammar of the ontology's language, with a minimal disruption to the original theory. ARCOE-10 will provide a multi-disciplinary forum, where differences in methodologies, representation languages and techniques are over-arched and hopefully overcome. Accordingly, the workshop will be structured into four tracks: three of them will focus on specific areas, the fourth one will foster links and integration. Track 1: Context and Ontology This track will select and present works about Context and Ontology, a well-established research area that has mainly concentrated on the relationship between contexts and ontologies for distributed information and for the enhancement of software agents. Track 2: Common Sense and Non-Monotonic Reasoning for Ontologies This track will select and present works about logic-based Knowledge Representation and Reasoning, a classic area of AI, which since its origins has produced remarkable results on logic-based methods for supporting knowledge engineers and for enhancing software agents. Track 3: Automated Ontology Evolution This track will select and present works about Automated Ontology Evolution, an area which in recent years has been drawing the attention of Artificial Intelligence and Knowledge Representation and Reasoning on the automation of ontology evolution. Track 4: Links and integration This track will foster links and integration by means of invited talks and (panel) discussions. Topics that are likely to be covered are: the formalisation of software engineering concepts for ontology development; the relationship between automated reasoning and information retrieval; relationships between representation languages; relationships between canonical domains; relationships between contexts and ontology evolution and between Non-Monotonic Reasoning and ontology evolution. ARCOE-10 will bring the participants to position the various approaches with respect to one another. Hopefully, though, the workshop will also start a process of cross-pollination and set out the constitution of a truly interdisciplinary research-community dedicated to automated reasoning about contexts and ontology evolution. -- Topics -- Track 1: Context and Ontology Submissions are welcome on the role of context and ontology in areas that include but are not limited to the following ones: - Information Integration - The role of context and ontology in Distributed Reasoning and Knowledge Management - The role of context and ontology in Semantic Web - Multi-Agent Systems - Data Grid and Grid Computing - Pervasive Computing and Ambient Intelligence - Peer-to-peer Information Systems - Comparison of uses of contexts and ontologies Track 2: Common Sense and Non-Monotonic Reasoning Submissions are welcome on the role of common sense and non-monotonic reasoning for ontologies in areas that include but are not limited to the following ones: - Ontology Debugging, Update and Merging - Inconsistency Handling, Belief Revision and Theory Change for DL ontologies - Uncertainty Handling, Defeasible Reasoning and Argumentation in ontologies - Heuristic and Approximate Reasoning - Planning and Reasoning about Action and Change on the Semantic Web - Rules and Ontologies - Temporal and Spatial Reasoning Track 3: Automated Ontology Evolution Submissions are welcome on the role of automated ontology evolution in areas that include but are not limited to the following ones: - Ontology fault diagnosis and repair - Problem Solving - Agent Communication - Persistent Agents in Changing Environment - Multimedia on the Web - IT and Automated Reasoning -- Attendance -- Authors will be selected on significance of their submission and will be preferred to simple attendees. Attendees will be selected on a first-come-first-served basis. Please check http://ecai2010.appia.pt/ for registration procedure and fees. -- Submission Requirements and Dates -- ARCOE-10 will accept submissions of long abstracts, for both long presentations and poster presentations. The distinction during the selection-phase will be based on the significance and the quality of submissions as well as oriented towards fostering cross-pollination and discussions during the event. All selected abstracts will be included in the Working Notes. Authors are kindly requested to provide keywords upon submission. The format for submissions is the same as that of ECAI-10. Please check http://ecai2010.appia.pt/ for the style files. Submissions should be no longer than 2 pages and in PDF format. The possibility is being considered of publishing extended versions of the best works from the workshop in a special issue of a peer-reviewed journal. Abstract submission: May 7, 2010 Notification: June 7, 2010 Camera ready: June 21, 2010 Early registration: T.B.A. Late registration: T.B.A. Workshop: August 16-17, 2010 -- Submit to -- Please submit to https://www.easychair.org/login.cgi?conf=arcoe10 -- Workshop Co-Chairs -- Alan Bundy School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh, Informatics Forum, 10 Crichton Street, Edinburgh EH8 9AB, UK. Tel: +44-131-650-2716, Fax No.: +44-131-650-6899 Jos Lehmann (primary contact) School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh, Informatics Forum, 10 Crichton Street, Edinburgh EH8 9AB, UK. Tel: +44-131-650-2725, Fax No.: +44-131-650-6899 Guilin Qi School of Computer Science and Engineering, Southeast University, 211189, Jiangning District, Nanjing, China. Fax: +86-25-52090880 Ivan José Varzinczak Meraka Institute, Meiring Naude Road, CSIR, 0001 Pretoria, South Africa. Tel: +27-12-841-25-94 -- Program Committee -- - Grigoris Antoniou (FORTH, Greece) - Franz Baader (TU Dresden, Germany) - Richard Booth (University of Luxembourg and Mahasarakham University, Thailand) - Paolo Bouquet (University of Trento, Italy) - Jerome Euzenat (INRIA Grenoble Rhone-Alpes, France) - Giorgos Flouris (FORTH, Greece) - Chiara Ghidini (FBK Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy) - Deborah McGuinness (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA) - Thomas Meyer (Meraka Institute, South Africa) - Maurice Pagnucco (The University of New South Wales, Australia) - Valeria de Paiva (Cuil Inc., USA) - Jeff Pan (University of Aberdeen, UK) - Dimitris Plexousakis FORTH, Greece) - Luciano Serafini (FBK Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy) - Renata Wassermann (Universidade de Sao Paulo, Brazil) -------------- nächster Teil -------------- Ein Dateianhang mit HTML-Daten wurde abgetrennt... URL: From smaus at informatik.uni-freiburg.de Fri Mar 19 11:15:04 2010 From: smaus at informatik.uni-freiburg.de (Jan-Georg Smaus) Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2010 11:15:04 +0100 (CET) Subject: Model Checking and Artificial Intelligence (MoChArt 2010): call for papers Message-ID: Sixth Workshop on MODEL CHECKING and ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (MoChArt 2010) At AAAI-2010, Twenty-Fourth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence Atlanta, Georgia, USA, July 11-12, 2010 http://mochart.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/ CALL FOR PAPERS INTRODUCTION Model checking is the process of determining whether a logic formula is satisfied by a model. For many logics of interest, model checking can be efficiently automated. This has led to widespread interest in model checking as a technique for verifying properties of systems, and the development of model checking tools (e.g., SMV, Uppaal, PHAVer, and SPIN). The success of model checking in the computer aided verification community has led to a growth of interest in the use of model checking in artificial intelligence. Automated verification technologies are increasingly relevant for safety and reliability of autonomous systems. There has been a strong interest in this area from, e.g. NASA, which has applied it in the context of the Mars rovers and other autonomous robotics systems. On the other hand, model checking, in particular if viewed in the wider context of system verification, falsification and development, has recently benefited from the use of AI techniques, e.g. search heuristics, abstraction techniques, and constraint satisfaction (particularly SAT solving, which underlies "bounded model checking"). One of the principal benefits of model checkers in verification is their ability to return error traces when the specification is false. Dually, such traces can be viewed as plans for falsifying the specification: this duality means that there is a close relationship with planning. In directed model checking, AI planning techniques are applied in the search for error traces. The MoChArt workshop brings together researchers from AI and model checking. Apart from presentations of accepted papers, the programme will include an invited talk. We expect around 25 participants. Previous editions of the workshop were held in Patras in 2008 (as a satellite workshop of ECAI), Riva del Garda in 2006 (ECAI), San Francisco in 2005 (CONCUR), Acapulco in 2003 (IJCAI), and Lyon in 2002 (ECAI). TOPICS OF INTEREST Topics of interest include (a more detailed list can be found on the workshop webpage): - Application of model checking techniques to AI problems. - Model Checking and AI logics. - Relations between different techniques used in the two fields for similar purposes (e.g., reducing state explosion). - New model checking techniques specifically for AI problems. - Exploitation of AI techniques in model checking. - Software tools for model checking in AI. - Model checking for verification of AI systems. Preliminary papers and papers on applications are strongly encouraged. IMPORTANT DATES Deadline for submissions: March 31, 2010 Notification: April 23, 2010 Camera-ready paper due: May 4, 2010 Workshop: July 11 or 12, 2010 SUBMISSION PROCEDURES Submissions must be no more than 15 pages in length. Papers must be submitted through the EasyChair web-based conference management system: follow the link from the workshop web page. All papers will be peer reviewed. PROCEEDINGS During the workshop, informal proceedings (working notes) will be available. As with previous editions of MoChArt, post-proceedings based on selected papers from the meeting (after a second round of reviewing) and invited papers will be published in the LNCS/LNAI series of Springer-Verlag. PARTICIPATION The workshop forms part of the AAAI-2010 workshop programme. For full information about AAAI-2010, including registration, travel & accomodation, see: http://www.aaai.org/Conferences/AAAI/aaai10.php INVITED SPEAKER to be anncounced PROGRAM CHAIRS AND ORGANISING COMMITTEE * Ron van der Meyden School of Computer Science and Engineering University of New South Wales meyden at cse.unsw.edu.au * Jan-Georg Smaus Institut für Informatik Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg smaus at informatik.uni-freiburg.de PROGRAM COMMITTEE Rajeev Alur, University of Pennsylvania Massimo Benerecetti, Università di Napoli "Federico II", Alessandro Cimatti, IRST, Trento Stefan Edelkamp, Universität Bremen Enrico Giunchiglia, Università di Genova Patrice Godefroid, Microsoft Research, Redmond Aarti Gupta, NEC Laboratories America, Princeton Klaus Havelund, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory & Caltech Orna Kupferman, Hebrew University Marta Kwiatkowska, University of Oxford Alessio Lomuscio, Imperial College London Charles Pecheur, Université Catholique de Louvain Doron Peled, Bar Ilan University Jussi Rintanen, NICTA & Australian National University Michael Wooldridge, University of Liverpool From antonino.rotolo at unibo.it Thu Mar 18 18:52:51 2010 From: antonino.rotolo at unibo.it (Antonino Rotolo) Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2010 18:52:51 +0100 Subject: [RuleML-2010] 1st Call for Papers Message-ID: [Apologies for multiple postings] 1st Call for Papers RuleML-2010 4th International Web Rule Symposium: Research Based and Industry Focused October 21-23, 2010, Washington, DC, USA Co-located with the 13th Business Rules Forum http://2010.ruleml.org/ Overview and Aim ====================================================== The International Web Rule Symposium has evolved from an annual series of international workshops since 2002, international conferences in 2005 and 2006, and international symposia since 2007. This year, the 4th International Web Rule Symposium (RuleML-2010) will be held near Washington, DC, USA, co-located with the 13th Business Rules Forum, the world's largest Business Rules event. RuleML-2010 is devoted to practical distributed rule technologies and rule-based applications, which need language standards for rules (inter)operating in, e.g., the Semantic Web, Enterprise Systems, Intelligent Multi-Agent Systems, Event-Driven Architectures, and Service-Oriented Applications. RuleML-2010 is a research-based, industry-focused symposium: its main goal is to build a bridge between academia and industry in the field of rules and semantic technology, and so to stimulate the cooperation and interoperability between business and research, by bringing together rule system providers, participants in rule standardization efforts, open source communities, practitioners, and researchers. The concept of the symposium has also advanced continuously in the face of extremely rapid progress in practical rule and event processing technologies. As a result, RuleML-2010 will feature hands-on demonstrations and challenges alongside a wide range of thematic tracks. It will thus be an exciting venue to exchange new ideas and experiences on all issues related to the engineering, management, integration, interoperation, and interchange of rules in distributed enterprise intranets and open distributed environments. Conference Theme ====================================================== This year, we particularly welcome submissions that address applications of Web rule technologies for business and information systems. We invite you to share your ideas, results, and experiences: as an industry practitioner, rule system provider, technical expert, developer, rule user or researcher, exploring foundations, developing systems and applications, or using rule-based systems. We invite high-quality submissions related to (but not limited to) one or more of the following topics: Track Topics ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Rules, Semantic Technology, and Cross-Industry Standards Rule Transformation and Extraction Rules and Uncertainty Rules and Norms Rules and Inferencing Rule-based Event Processing and Reaction Rules Rule-Based Distributed/Multi-Agent Systems We also welcome submissions on miscellaneous rule topics, such as - Rules and ontologies - Execution models, rule engines, and environments - Graphical processing, modeling and rendering of rules Case studies, experience reports, and industrial problem statements are particularly encouraged. RuleML-2010 Challenge ====================================================== The RuleML-2010 Challenge is one of the highlights of RuleML-2010. Rules are used in interesting and practically relevant ways to, e.g., derive useful information, transform knowledge, provide decision support, and provide automated rule-based monitoring, enforcement, validation or management of the behavioral logic of an application. The Challenge offers participants the chance to demonstrate their commercial and open source tools, use cases, and applications. Conference Language ====================================================== The official language of the conference will be English. Submission ====================================================== Authors are invited to submit original contributions of practical relevance and technical rigor in the field, experience reports and show/use case demonstrations of effective and practical rule-based technologies, or applications deployed in distributed environments. RuleML-2010 Submission Guidelines, Springer Proceedings, Best Paper Award -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Papers must be in English and may be submitted at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ruleml2010 as: Full Papers (15 pages in the proceedings) Short Papers (8 pages in the proceedings) Please upload all submissions as PDF files in LNCS format (http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html). To ensure high quality, submitted papers will be carefully peer-reviewed by 3 PC members based on originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of exposition. Authors are requested to upload the abstracts of their papers before May 25, 2010 and to upload their complete papers by June 1, 2010. The selected papers will be published in book form in the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series. The best paper from all submissions will be determined by the PC and a Best Paper Award will be presented at the Symposium. All submissions must be made electronically. A selection of revised papers will be resubmitted to a special issue of a journal. RuleML-2010 Challenge Submission Guidelines -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- To be announced Review Process ====================================================== The submitted papers will pass the blind review process. At least three members of the Program Committee will review each submission. Important Dates: ====================================================== Abstract submission deadline: May 25, 2010 Paper Submission deadline: June 1, 2010 Notification of acceptance: July 7, 2010 Camera ready due: July 28, 2010 Symposium dates: October 21-23, 2010 Conference Venue ====================================================== RuleML-2010 will take place at the Hilton Alexandria Mark Center, which is located 5 miles southwest of Washington, DC. The symposium is co-located with the 13th Business Rules Forum. Hilton Alexandria Mark Center 5000 Seminary Road, Alexandria, Virginia, United States 22311 Internet: http://www1.hilton.com/en_US/hi/hotel/DCAAHHF-Hilton-Alexandria-Mark-Center-Virginia/index.do Program Committee ====================================================== General Chairs -------------------- Mike Dean, Raytheon BBN Technologies, USA Said Tabet, RuleML Initiative, USA Program Chairs -------------------- John Hall, Model Systems, UK Antonino Rotolo, University of Bologna, Italy Liaison Chair -------------------- Mark Proctor, Red Hat, UK Track Chairs -------------------- Rules, Semantic Technology, and Cross-Industry Standards Tracy Bost, Valocity, USA Robert Golan, DBMind, USA Rule Transformation and Extraction Mark Linehan, IBM, USA Rules and Uncertainty Davide Sottara, University Bologna, Italy Rules and Norms Thomas Gordon, Fraunhofer FOKUS, Germany Guido Governatori, NICTA, Australia Rules and Inferencing Grigoris Antoniou, Information Systems Laboratory, FORTH, Greece Rule-based Event Processing and Reaction Rules Alex Kozlenkov, Betfair Ltd., UK Adrian Paschke, Free Univ. Berlin, Germany Rule-Based Distributed/Multi-Agent Systems Nick Bassiliades, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece Costin Badica, University of Craiova, Romania RuleML-2010 Challenge Chairs ------------------------------ Enrico Francesconi, ITTIG-CNR, Italy Monica Palmirani, University of Bologna, Italy Fabio Vitali, University of Bologna, Italy -------------- nächster Teil -------------- Ein Dateianhang mit HTML-Daten wurde abgetrennt... URL: From xrambous at aurora.fi.muni.cz Thu Mar 18 11:33:53 2010 From: xrambous at aurora.fi.muni.cz (TSD 2010) Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2010 11:33:53 +0100 Subject: TSD 2010 Last Call for Paper Message-ID: ********************************************************* TSD 2010 - LAST CALL FOR PAPERS ********************************************************* Thirteenth International Conference on TEXT, SPEECH and DIALOGUE (TSD 2010) Brno, Czech Republic, 6-10 September 2010 http://www.tsdconference.org/ THE SUBMISSION DEADLINE: March 22 2010 ............ Submission of full papers The deadline will not be extended - for individual requirements please contact the organizers (tsd2010 at tsdconference.org). KEYNOTE SPEAKERS John Carroll, University of Sussex, UK Christiane Fellbaum, Princeton University, USA The conference is organized by the Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University, Brno, and the Faculty of Applied Sciences, University of West Bohemia, Pilsen. The conference is supported by International Speech Communication Association. Venue: Brno, Czech Republic TSD SERIES TSD series evolved as a prime forum for interaction between researchers in both spoken and written language processing from the former East Block countries and their Western colleagues. Proceedings of TSD form a book published by Springer-Verlag in their Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) series. TSD Proceedings are regularly indexed by Thomson Reuters Conference Proceedings Citation Index. Moreover, LNAI series are listed in all major citation databases such as DBLP, SCOPUS, EI, INSPEC or COMPENDEX. TOPICS Topics of the conference will include (but are not limited to): text corpora and tagging transcription problems in spoken corpora sense disambiguation links between text and speech oriented systems parsing issues parsing problems in spoken texts multi-lingual issues multi-lingual dialogue systems information retrieval and information extraction text/topic summarization machine translation semantic networks and ontologies semantic web speech modeling speech segmentation speech recognition search in speech for IR and IE text-to-speech synthesis dialogue systems development of dialogue strategies prosody in dialogues emotions and personality modeling user modeling knowledge representation in relation to dialogue systems assistive technologies based on speech and dialogue applied systems and software facial animation visual speech synthesis Papers on processing languages other than English are strongly encouraged. PROGRAM COMMITTEE Frederick Jelinek, USA (general chair) Hynek Hermansky, Switzerland (executive chair) Eneko Agirre, Spain Genevieve Baudoin, France Jan Cernocky, Czech Republic Attila Ferencz, Romania Alexander Gelbukh, Mexico Louise Guthrie, GB Jan Hajic, Czech Republic Eva Hajicova, Czech Republic Patrick Hanks, Czech Republic Ludwig Hitzenberger, Germany Jaroslava Hlavacova, Czech Republic Ales Horak, Czech Republic Eduard Hovy, USA Ivan Kopecek, Czech Republic Steven Krauwer, The Netherlands Siegfried Kunzmann, Germany Natalija Loukachevitch, Russia Vaclav Matousek, Czech Republic Hermann Ney, Germany Elmar Noeth, Germany Karel Oliva, Czech Republic Karel Pala, Czech Republic Nikola Pavesic, Slovenia Vladimir Petkevic, Czech Republic Fabio Pianesi, Italy Adam Przepiorkowski, Poland Josef Psutka, Czech Republic James Pustejovsky, USA Leon Rothkrantz, The Netherlands Milan Rusko, Slovakia Ernst G. Schukat-Talamazzini, Germany Pavel Skrelin, Russia Pavel Smrz, Czech Republic Petr Sojka, Czech Republic Marko Tadic, Croatia Tamas Varadi, Hungary Zygmunt Vetulani, Poland Taras Vintsiuk, Ukraine Yorick Wilks, GB Victor Zakharov, Russia FORMAT OF THE CONFERENCE The conference program will include presentation of invited papers, oral presentations, and poster/demonstration sessions. Papers will be presented in plenary or topic oriented sessions. Social events including a trip in the vicinity of Brno will allow for additional informal interactions. SUBMISSION OF PAPERS Authors are invited to submit a full paper not exceeding 8 pages formatted in the LNCS style (see below). Those accepted will be presented either orally or as posters. The decision about the presentation format will be based on the recommendation of the reviewers. The authors are asked to submit their papers using the on-line form accessible from the conference website. Papers submitted to TSD 2010 must not be under review by any other conference or publication during the TSD review cycle, and must not be previously published or accepted for publication elsewhere. As reviewing will be blind, the paper should not include the authors' names and affiliations. Furthermore, self-references that reveal the author's identity, e.g., "We previously showed (Smith, 1991) ...", should be avoided. Instead, use citations such as "Smith previously showed (Smith, 1991) ...". Papers that do not conform to the requirements above are subject to be rejected without review. The authors are strongly encouraged to write their papers in TeX or LaTeX formats. These formats are necessary for the final versions of the papers that will be published in the Springer Lecture Notes. Authors using a WORD compatible software for the final version must use the LNCS template for WORD and within the submit process ask the Proceedings Editors to convert the paper to LaTeX format. For this service a service-and-license fee of CZK 1500 will be levied automatically. The paper format for review has to be either PDF or PostScript file with all required fonts included. Upon notification of acceptance, presenters will receive further information on submitting their camera-ready and electronic sources (for detailed instructions on the final paper format see http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html#Proceedings.) Authors are also invited to present actual projects, developed software or interesting material relevant to the topics of the conference. The presenters of the demonstration should provide the abstract not exceeding one page. The demonstration abstracts will not appear in the conference proceedings. IMPORTANT DATES March 22 2010 ............ Submission of full papers May 15 2010 .............. Notification of acceptance May 31 2010 .............. Final papers (camera ready) and registration July 23 2010 ............. Submission of demonstration abstracts July 30 2010 ............. Notification of acceptance for demonstrations sent to the authors September 6-10 2010 ...... Conference date Submission of abstracts serves for better organization of the review process only - for the actual review a full paper submission is necessary. The contributions to the conference will be published in proceedings that will be made available to participants at the time of the conference. OFFICIAL LANGUAGE The official language of the conference is English. ACCOMMODATION The organizing committee will arrange discounts on accommodation in the 3-star hotel at the conference venue. The current prices of the accommodation will be available at the conference website. ADDRESS All correspondence regarding the conference should be addressed to Dana Hlavackova, TSD 2010 Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University Botanicka 68a, 602 00 Brno, Czech Republic phone: +420-5-49 49 33 29 fax: +420-5-49 49 18 20 email: tsd2010 at tsdconference.org The official TSD 2010 homepage is: http://www.tsdconference.org/ LOCATION Brno is the second largest city in the Czech Republic with a population of almost 400.000. The city is the country's judiciary and trade-fair center. Brno is the capital of Moravia, which is in the south-east part of the Czech Republic. Brno had been a Royal City since 1347 and with its six universities it forms also a cultural center of the region. Brno can be reached easily by direct flights from London, Moscow and Prague and by trains or buses from Prague (200 km) or Vienna (130 km). For the participants with some extra time, some nearby places may also be of interest. Local ones include: Brno Castle now called Spilberk, Veveri Castle, the Old and New City Halls, the Augustine Monastery with St. Thomas Church and crypt of Moravian Margraves, Church of St. James, Cathedral of St. Peter & Paul, Cartesian Monastery in Kralovo Pole, the famous Villa Tugendhat designed by Mies van der Rohe along with other important buildings of between-war Czech architecture. For those willing to venture out of Brno, Moravian Karst with Macocha Chasm and Punkva caves, battlefield of Battle of three emperors (Napoleon, Russian Alexander and Austrian Franz - Battle by Austerlitz), Chateau of Slavkov (Austerlitz), Pernstejn Castle, Buchlov Castle, Lednice Chateau, Buchlovice Chateau, Letovice Chateau, Mikulov with one of the largest Jewish cemeteries in Central Europe, Telc - a town on the UNESCO heritage list, and many others are all within easy reach. From guido.governatori at nicta.com.au Fri Mar 19 12:08:46 2010 From: guido.governatori at nicta.com.au (Guido Governatori) Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2010 20:08:46 +0900 Subject: CFP: Special Session on Norms and Normative Multi Agent Systems at CLIMA XI Message-ID: <0E5F3B1F-C6DB-48F2-8167-5F8DFA2C7EFA@nicta.com.au> [apologies for multiple copies] Call For Papers CLIMA XI Computational Logic in Multi-Agent Systems 16-17 August 2010, Lisbon, Portugal http://centria.di.fct.unl.pt/events/climaXI/index.html Norms and Normative Multi-Agent Systems Session Organiser: Guido Governatori, NICTA, Australia Norms are pervasive in everyday life and influence the conduct of the entities subject to them. One of the main functions of norms is to regulate the behaviour and relationships of agents. Accordingly, any agent or multi agent system, if intended to operate in or model a realistic environment has to take into account to norms regulating. Norms have been proposed in multi-agent systems and computer science to deal with coordination issues, to deal with security issues of multi-agent systems, to model legal issues in electronic institutions and electronic commerce, to model multi-agent organizations, etc. We invite submissions related to (but not limited to) one or more of the following topics on agents and norms: - logical foundations of normative systems - computational models of normative systems - computational models of normative multi-agent systems - formal models of norm dynamics - agent autonomy and norms - agent deliberation and norms - normative agent types - programming normative multi-agent systems Important dates: Submission deadline: 7 May 2010 Notification: 4 June 2010 Camera-Ready: 16 June 2010 Workshop: 16-17 August 2010 Formatting and submission instructions can be found at http://centria.di.fct.unl.pt/events/climaXI/submissions.html Further information about CLIMA XI see http://centria.di.fct.unl.pt/events/climaXI/index.html From pmt6sbc at maths.leeds.ac.uk Fri Mar 19 13:15:52 2010 From: pmt6sbc at maths.leeds.ac.uk (S B Cooper) Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2010 12:15:52 GMT Subject: CiE 2010 - Call for Participation and Informal Presentations Message-ID: <201003191215.o2JCFmun003609@amsta.leeds.ac.uk> COMPUTABILITY IN EUROPE 2010: Programs, Proofs, Processes Ponta Delgada (Azores), Portugal June 30 to July 4, 2010 http://www.cie2010.uac.pt/ ************************************************************ Call for Participation and Informal Presentations ************************************************************ CALL FOR INFORMAL PRESENTATIONS There is a remarkable difference in conference style between computer science and mathematics conferences. Mathematics conferences allow for informal presentations that are prepared very shortly before the conference and inform the participants about current research and work in progress. The format of computer science conferences with pre-conference proceedings is not able to accommodate this form of scientific communication. Again continuing the tradition of past CiE conferences, this year's CiE conference endeavours to get the best of both worlds. In addition to the formal presentations based on our LNCS proceedings volume, we invite researchers to present informal presentations. For this, please send us a brief description of your talk (between one paragraph and half a page) by the DEADLINE: MAY 15, 2010. Please submit your abstract electronically, via EasyChair, selecting the category "Informal Presentation". You will be notified whether your talk has been accepted for informal presentation usually within a week after your submission, so if you intend to apply for ASL ASL Student Travel Awards you should submit your abstract before March 23rd. Let us remind you that we are planning several post-conference publications, which will contain full articles of selected CiE 2010 presentations, including informal presentations. You can find these instructions at http://www.cie2010.uac.pt/contents/call_for_informal_presentations.html *********************************************************************** IMPORTANT DATES: Submission of applications for ASL Student Grants: MARCH 30 Early registration deadline: MAY 28 Submission of informal presentations: MAY 15 Late registration deadline: JUNE 20 *********************************************************************** DETAILS OF PROGRAMME: TUTORIALS: Jeffrey Bub (Information, Computation and Physics), Bruno Codenotti (Computational Game Theory). INVITED SPEAKERS: Eric Allender, Jose L. Balcazar, Shafi Goldwasser, Denis Hirschfeldt, Seth Lloyd, Sara Negri, Toniann Pitassi, and Ronald de Wolf. SPECIAL SESSIONS: Biological Computing, organizers: Paola Bonizzoni, Krishna Narayanan Invited speakers: Natasha Jonoska, Giancarlo Mauri, Yasubumi Sakakibara, Stephane Vialette Computational Complexity, organizers: Luis Antunes, Alan Selman Invited speakers: Eric Allender, Christian Glasser, John Hitchcock, Rahul Santhanam Computability of the Physical, organizers: Cris Calude, Barry Cooper Invited speakers: Giuseppe Longo, Yuri Manin, Cris Moore, David Wolpert Proof Theory and Computation, organizers: Fernando Ferreira, Martin Hyland Invited speakers: Thorsten Altenkirch, Samuel Mimram, Paulo Oliva, Lutz Strassburger Reasoning and Computation from Leibniz to Boole, organizers: Benedikt Loewe, Guglielmo Tamburrini Invited speakers: Nimrod Bar-Am, Michele Friend, Olga Pombo, Sara Uckelman Web Algorithms and Computation, organizers: Thomas Erlebach, Martin Olsen Invited speakers: Hannah Bast, Debora Donato, Alex Hall, Jeannette Janssen SPECIAL TRIBUTE TO MARIAN POUR-EL: Ning Zhong. *********************************************************************** PROGRAMME COMMITTEE: Klaus Ambos-Spies (Heidelberg), Luis Antunes (Porto), Arnold Beckmann (Swansea), Paola Bonizzoni (Milano), Alessandra Carbone (Paris), Steve Cook (Toronto ON), Barry Cooper (Leeds), Erzsebet Csuhaj-Varju (Budapest), Fernando Ferreira (Lisbon, co-chair), Nicola Galesi (Rome), Luis Mendes Gomes (Ponta Delgada), Rosalie Iemhoff (Utrecht), Achim Jung (Birmingham), Michael Kaminski (Haifa), Jarkko Kari (Turku), Viv Kendon (Leeds), James Ladyman (Bristol), Kamal Lodaya (Chennai), Giuseppe Longo (Paris), Benedikt Loewe (Amsterdam), Elvira Mayordomo (Zaragoza, co-chair), Wolfgang Merkle (Heidelberg), Russell Miller (New York NY), Dag Normann (Oslo), Isabel Oitavem (Lisbon), Joao Rasga (Lisbon), Nicole Schweikardt (Frankfurt), Alan Selman (Buffalo NY), Peter van Emde Boas (Amsterdam), Albert Visser (Utrecht) http://www.cie2010.uac.pt/ __________________________________________________________________________ ASSOCIATION COMPUTABILITY IN EUROPE http://www.computability.org.uk CiE Conference Series http://www.illc.uva.nl/CiE CiE 2010 http://www.cie2010.uac.pt/ CiE Membership Application Form http://www.cs.swan.ac.uk/acie CiE on Twitter http://twitter.com/AssociationCiE __________________________________________________________________________ From rseba at disi.unitn.it Fri Mar 19 13:29:10 2010 From: rseba at disi.unitn.it (Roberto Sebastiani) Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2010 13:29:10 +0100 (CET) Subject: PhD position on Formal Verification via SMT available in Trento Message-ID: --------------------------------------------------------------------------- [[[ We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this message ]]] --------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------- PLEASE FORWARD THIS EMAIL TO WHOEVER YOU MAY THINK INTERESTED. -------------------------------------------------------------- Posted: February 26, 2010 One Doctoral Student Position in Information and Communication Technologies on the research project "WORD-LEVEL FORMAL VERIFICATION VIA SMT SOLVING" is available at the International Doctorate School in Information and Communication Technologies (http://www.ict.unitn.it/) of the University of Trento, Italy, under the joint supervision of Dr. ALESSANDRO CIMATTI, Embedded Systems Research Unit, FBK-Irst, via Sommarive 18, I-38100 Povo, Trento, Italy http://sra.fbk.eu/people/cimatti/, cimatti[at]fbk[dot]eu Prof. ROBERTO SEBASTIANI Software Engineering & Formal Methods Research Program DISI, University of Trento, via Sommarive 14, I-38100 Povo, Trento, Italy http://disi.unitn.it/~rseba/. rseba[at]disi[dot]unitn[dot]it The research activity will be carried out jointly within the Embedded Systems (ES) Research Unit of the Center for Scientific and Technological Research of the Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK), Trento, and the Software Engineering & Formal Methods (SE&FM) Research Program, at Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science (DISI) of University of Trento. The research activity will aim at investigating and developing novel techniques, methodologies and support tools for Satisfiability Modulo Theories (SMT) for the verification of WORD-level circuit designs. This work will be part of the "Word-Level Formal Verification via SMT Solving" (WOLFLING) project, a three-year custom research project supported by SRC/GRC (http://grc.src.org/fr/S200802_Call.asp), in strict collaboration with the Formal Verification Group at Intel, Haifa, Israel. SMT tools will be developed on top of the MathSAT SMT platform (http://mathsat4.disi.unitn.it), and Formal Verification tools will be developed on top of the NuSMV Model Checking platform (http://nusmv.fbk.eu). Both platforms are jointly developed and maintained by ES and SE&FM. The selected candidate will be initially enrolled in a stage and, if he/she passes the selection of the Ph.D. school, he/she will be enrolled as Ph.D. students. Ph.D. courses will start in Autumn 2010, and the thesis must be completed in three or four years. People enrolled in a stage and subsequent Ph.D. courses are expected to move to Trento, and will receive monetary support during both phases of their activity. Candidate Profile ================= The ideal candidate should have an MS or equivalent degree in computer science, mathematics or electronic engineering, and combine solid theoretical background and excellent software development skills. The candidate should be able to work in a collaborative environment, with a strong commitment to reaching research excellence and achieving assigned objectives. Background knowledge and/or previous experience in the following areas (in order of preference), though not strictly mandatory, will be considered very favorably: - Satisfiability Modulo Theory (SMT) - Propositional Satisfiability (SAT) - Embedded Systems Design Languages (e.g. Verilog, VHDL) - Symbolic Model Checking - Automated Reasoning - Constraint Solving and Optimization Applications and Inquiries ========================== Interested candidates should inquire for further information and/or apply by sending email to Prof. Sebastiani (rseba[at]disi[dot]unitn[dot]it) with Dr. Cimatti (cimatti[at]fbk[dot]eu) in CC. Applications should contain a statement of interest, with a Curriculum Vitae, and three reference persons. PDF format is strongly encouraged. Emails will be automatically processed and should have 'PHD ON WOLFLING PROJECT' as subject. Contact Person ============== Prof. ROBERTO SEBASTIANI Software Engineering & Formal Methods Research Program DISI, University of Trento, via Sommarive 14, I-38100 Povo, Trento, Italy http://disi.unitn.it/~rseba/. mailto: rseba[at]disi[dot]unitn[dot]it The Embedded Systems Research Unit at FBK ========================================= The Embedded Systems Unit consists of about 15 persons, including researchers, post-Doc, Ph.D. students, and programmers. The Unit carries out research, tool development and technology transfer in the fields of design and verification of embedded systems. Current research directions include: * Satisfiability Modulo Theory, and its application to the verification of hardware, embedded critical software, and hybrid systems (Verilog, SystemC, C/C++, StateFlow/Simulink). * Formal Requirements Analysis based on techniques for temporal logics (consistency checking, vacuity detection, input determinism, cause-effect analysis, realizability and synthesis). * Formal Safety Analysis, based on the integration of traditional techniques (e.g. Fault-tree analysis, FMEA) with symbolic verification techniques. The Embedded Systems Unit is part of Fondazione Bruno Kessler, formerly Istituto Trentino di Cultura, a public research institute of the Autonomous Province of Trento (Italy), founded in 1976. The institute, through its center for the scientific and technological research, is active in the areas of Information Technology, Microsystems, and Physical Chemistry of Surfaces and Interfaces. Today, FBK is an internationally recognized research institute, collaborating with industries, universities, and public and private laboratories in Italy and abroad. The institute's applied and basic research activities aim at resolving real-world problems, driven by the need for technological innovation in society and industry. The SW Engineering & Formal Methods Research Program at DISI ============================================================ The SW Engineering & Formal Methods R. P. at DISI currently consists on 5 faculties, 4 post-docs and 19 PhD students. The Unit carries out research, tool development and technology transfer in the fields of Goal-Oriented Requirements Engineering, Agent-oriented SW engineering, Security, and Formal Methods. Referring to formal methods, current research directions include: * Satisfiability Modulo Theory, and its application to the verification of hardware, embedded critical software, and hybrid systems. * Advanced Model Checking Techniques for Formal Verification of hardware, embedded critical software, and hybrid systems. * Applications of Propositional Satisfiability (SAT) to various domains. The R.P. is part of the Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science, DISI (http://disi.unitn.it/) of University of Trento. University of Trento in the latest years has always been rated among the top-three small&medium-size universities in Italy. DISI currently consists of 50 faculties, 68 research staff and support people, 21 postdocs and 146 Doctoral students, plus administrative and technical staff. DISI covers all the different areas of information technology (computer science, telecommunications, and electronics) and their applications. These disciplines above are studied individually but also with a strong focus on their integration, Location ======== Trento is a lively town of about 100.000 inhabitants, located 130 km south of the border between Italy and Austria. It is well known for the beauty of its mountains and lakes, and it offers the possibility to practice a wide range of sports. Trento enjoys a rich cultural and historical heritage, and it is the ideal starting point for day trips to famous towns such as Venice or Verona, as well as to enjoy great naturalistic journeys. Detailed information about Trento and its region can be found at http://www.trentino.to/home/index.html?_lang=en. From pascal.hitzler at wright.edu Fri Mar 19 18:32:06 2010 From: pascal.hitzler at wright.edu (Pascal Hitzler) Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2010 13:32:06 -0400 Subject: CfP: Web Reasoning and Rule Systems 2010 Message-ID: <4BA3B516.1060604@wright.edu> CALL FOR PAPERS 4th International Conference on Web Reasoning and Rule Systems (RR 2010) Bressanone/Brixen, Italy September 22-24, 2010 http://www.rr-conference.org/RR2010 Co-located with the Italian Workshop on Semantic Web Applications and Perspectives (SWAP) 2010. The International Conference on Web Reasoning and Rule Systems (RR) is a major forum for discussion and dissemination of new results concerning Web Reasoning and Rule Systems. RR 2010 builds on the success of the first three International Conferences on Web Reasoning and Rule Systems (see http://www.rr-conference.org), held in Innsbruck, Austria (2007), Karlsruhe, Germany (2008), and Chantilly, Virginia, USA (2009), which received enthusiastic support from the Web Reasoning community. In 2010, RR will continue the excellence of the new series and aim to attract the best Web Reasoning and Rules researchers from all over the world. Suggested topics include the following (but are not limited to): * Representation techniques for Web-based knowledge * Acquisition of rules and ontologies by knowledge extraction * Combining open and closed-world reasoning * Combining rules and ontologies * Design and analysis of reasoning languages * Efficiency and benchmarking * Implemented tools and systems * Foundations and applications related to relevant standardization bodies such as the W3C Rule Interchange Format (RIF), Web Ontology Language (OWL2) and SPARQL working groups, or the W3C Uncertainty Reasoning for the WWW Incubator Group, etc. * Ontology usability * Ontology languages and their relationships * Querying and optimization * Rules and ontology management (such as inconsistency handling and evolution) * Reasoning with uncertainty and under inconsistency * Reasoning with constraints * Rule languages and systems * Rule interchange formats and Rule markup languages * Scalability vs. expressivity of reasoning on the Web * Approximate reasoning techniques for the Web * Integration of statistical methods and symbolic reasoning * Stream reasoning * Semantic Web Services modeling and applications * Web and Semantic Web applications and experience papers PUBLICATION The proceedings will be published by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series and will be available at the conference. After the conference, there will be a special issue of the (new IOS Press) journal "Semantic Web - Interoperability, Usability, Applicability" with selected papers from the conference (see http://www.semantic-web-journal.net). SUBMISSION OF PAPERS Submissions must be typeset using the Springer LaTeX2e style llncs for Lecture Notes in Computer Science (see http://www.springer.com/comp/lncs/Authors.html), and must be in PDF format. Submission is via EasyChair (http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=rr2010). The length should not exceed 15 pages for full papers, 9 pages for short papers, 4 pages for posters, and 6 pages for system descriptions (for system demos at the conference). The stated lengths include title, abstract, and references. Short papers, posters, and system descriptions should be clearly marked as such in the title and in the easychair submission system. Submissions that deviate substantially from these guidelines may be rejected without review. Original research and application papers are welcome; submissions will especially be judged for originality and scientific quality. All accepted papers, posters, and system descriptions will be included in the proceedings. IMPORTANT DATES Abstract submission deadline: May 15, 2010 Paper/poster/demo submission deadline: May 22, 2010 Paper/poster/demo accept/reject decisions: June 24, 2010 Camera-ready due: July 15, 2010 Last day for early registration fee: July 15, 2010 CONFIRMED INVITED SPEAKERS Georg Gottlob (Oxford University, UK) GENERAL CHAIR José Júlio Alferes (Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal) PROGRAM CHAIRS Pascal Hitzler (Wright State University, USA) Thomas Lukasiewicz (Oxford University, UK) LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS Diego Calvanese (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy) Mariano Rodríguez-Muro (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy) SPONSORSHIP CHAIR Krzysztof Janowicz (Pennsylvania State University, USA) PROGRAM COMMITTEE Grigoris Antoniou (University of Crete, Greece) Marcelo Arenas (PUC Chile, Chile) Jie Bao (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA) Chitta Baral (Arizona State University, USA) Leopoldo Bertossi (Carleton University, Canada) Andrea Calì (Oxford University, UK) Vinay Chaudri (Stanford Research Institute, USA) Kendall Clark (Clark & Parsia, USA) Claudia d'Amato (University of Bari, Italy) Carlos Damasio (Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal) Wlodek Drabent (IPI PAN Warszawa, Poland) Sergio Flesca (University of Calabria, Italy) Christine Golbreich (University of Versailles Saint-Quentin, France) Claudio Gutierrez (University of Chile, Chile) Stijn Heymans (TU Vienna, Austria) Rinke Hoekstra (VU Amsterdam, The Netherlands) Giovambattista Ianni (University of Calabria, Italy) Krzysztof Janowicz (Pennsylvania State University, USA) Natalya G. Keberle (Zaporozhye National University, Ukraine) Domenico Lembo (University of Rome "La Sapienza", Italy) Francesca A. Lisi (University of Bari, Italy) Gergely Lukácsy (DERI Galway, Ireland) Jan Maluszynski (University of Linköping, Sweden) Wolfgang May (University of Göttingen, Germany) Ralf Möller (TU Hamburg, Germany) Boris Motik (Oxford University, UK) Wolfgang Nejdl (LS3 and University of Hannover, Germany) Matthias Nickles (University of Bath, UK) Andrea Pugliese (University of Calabria, Italy) Guilin Qi (Southeast University, China) Sebastian Rudolph (University of Karlsruhe, Germany) Alan Ruttenberg (ScientificCommons, Switzerland) Michael Sintek (DFKI GmbH, Kaiserslautern, Germany) Umberto Straccia (ISTI-CNR Pisa, Italy) Heiner Stuckenschmidt (University of Mannheim, Germany) Terrance Swift (SUNY Stony Brook, USA) Sergio Tessaris (Free University of Bozen, Italy) Dirk Vermeir (University of Brussels, Belgium) Zhe Wu (Oracle, USA) FURTHER INFORMATION For further information refer to the RR 2010 web site at http://www.rr-conference.org/RR2010 -- Prof. Dr. Pascal Hitzler Dept. of Computer Science, Wright State University, Dayton, OH pascal at pascal-hitzler.de http://www.knoesis.org/pascal/ Semantic Web Textbook: http://www.semantic-web-book.org Semantic Web Journal: http://www.semantic-web-journal.net From Jan.Sudeikat at gmx.de Sat Mar 20 18:22:47 2010 From: Jan.Sudeikat at gmx.de (Jan Sudeikat) Date: Sat, 20 Mar 2010 18:22:47 +0100 Subject: The 1st International Conference on Swarm Intelligence and Emergent Computing (SIEC 2010) - Deadline Extension Message-ID: <4BA50467.9080901@gmx.de> [Apologies for multiple postings] ***** New submission deadline: April 09, 2010 ***** SIEC 2010 The 1st International Conference on Swarm Intelligence and Emergent Computing In conjunction with the “The 2010 Systemics and Informatics World Network” (SIWN 2010) Chongqing, China, 12-14 July 2010 Complex Adaptive Systems are widespread both in the nature and in socio-economic phenomena. A Multi-Agent Based Complex System has its dynamic behaviour that is inherently emerging as a result of intensive interactions among its massive agents. Examples of Multi-Agent Based Complex Systems include social insects, population aggregations in urbane regions, market based economy, city taxi cabs, etc. Swarm Intelligence represents a methodology for analyzing and modeling Multi-Agent Based Complex Systems, and Emergent Computing is concerned with the methodology for engineering robust, dependable, self-adaptable Multi-Agent Based Complex Systems out of massive, simple, unreliable objects, devices or units. Essentially Emergent Computing represents a new approach which takes a Collective Intelligence point of view upon all types of artificial systems, e.g., web/Internet based systems, social networking, online virtual communities, pervasive/ubiquitous computing, ambient intelligence, socio-technical systems, and so forth. SIEC2010 aims to provide a timely international, multi-disciplinary forum on the latest theories, methods, techniques and applications in Swarm Intelligence and Emergence Computing. Details can be found at: http://siwn.org.uk/2010/SIEC10.htm Topics of particular interest include (but not limited to) the followings. (1) Biological and Scio-economic Inspirations for Swarms - artificial life - biologically inspired computing - biologically inspired interaction mechanisms - biologically inspired process algebra and formal specifications - collective intelligence - computational pheromones, potential field, economy - market economy - models of social insects - self-organization in biological systems - social insets - social intelligence - stigmergy (2) Emergence and Interactions - autonomy based interactions - cybernetic principles and self-organization - formal approaches to handling local/global agent behaviors - game theoretic approaches to emergence in multi-agent systems - interaction mechanisms for self-organization and adaptation - models, methods and tools for achieving global coherent behaviors - multi-agent based complex systems - principles of emergence, understanding, controlling, or exploiting emergent behaviors - relation between high-level goals and local interactions - specification based interaction mechanisms - trust-based interaction mechanisms (3) Swarm Optimization - ant colony optimization (ACO) - ants algorithms - computational swarm models - cultural evolution - evolutionary computing - particle swarm optimization (PSO) - social evolution (4) Emergent Computing - amorphous computing - analytic models of emergent behaviors - cellular automata approaches to emergence in multi-agent systems - cognitive computing - collective intelligence/emergence in cloud/Grid computing, service-oriented computing (SOC) - collective intelligence/emergence in pervasive/ubiquitous computing, ambient intelligence - collective intelligence/emergence in service discovery and delivery, service-oriented architectures (SOA) - collective intelligence/emergence in social networking, online virtual communities - collective intelligence/emergence in web/Internet systems - controllability of emergence - granular computing - molecular/cellular computer, DNA computing - multi-agent based complex systems - nanocomputing - natural computing, evolutionary computation - performance engineering of emergent behaviors in multi-agent systems - quantum computing (5) Applications - industrial automation - network routing - socio-technical systems - traffic scheduling Submission SIWN 2010 only accepts manuscripts of original contributions. A manuscript for submission to the Conference should neither have been published nor have been under consideration for publication elsewhere. A manuscript for submission to the Conference should be prepared according to the Instructions for Authors of the Journal that can be found at http://fatech.org.uk/press/ita.htm along with Sample Word Doc and Latex file of Camera-Ready Versions. There is a page limit of 8 formatted pages for the CRV of an accepted paper. Additional pages are subject to over-length charges. All accepted papers of the Conferences will be included in the electronic Proceedings of SIWN 2010 and at the same time, will be published in the International Journal <> (ISSN 1757-4439). After the Conferences, authors of selected papers will be invited to submit thoroughly expanded papers for publication at special issues of following International Journals: IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics International Transactions on Systems Science and Applications Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence Advanced Engineering Informatics Important Dates 9 April 2010 Submission of manuscripts 30 April 2010 Notification of acceptance 28 May 2010 Camera-Ready Version (CRV) due 12-14 July 2010 Conference Program Chairs Jan Sudeikat Multimedia Systems Laboratory, Hamburg University of Applied Sciences Berliner Tor 7, 20099 Hamburg, Germany Distributed Systems and Information Systems, Computer Science Department University of Hamburg, Vogt–Kolln–Str. 30, 22527 Hamburg, Germany Jan.Sudeikat at haw-hamburg.de Professor Yu Wu Network and Computation Research Center Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications Chongqing 400065, China wuyu at cqupt.edu.cn From dml2010 at easychair.org Sun Mar 21 21:48:49 2010 From: dml2010 at easychair.org (dml2010 at easychair.org) Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2010 21:48:49 +0100 (CET) Subject: CFP: DML 2010--Towards a Digital Mathematics Library, Paris, FR, Jul 7-8th Message-ID: <20100321204849.03F10F052A@anxur.fi.muni.cz> Call for papers: Towards a Digital Mathematics Library (DML 2010) July 7-8th, 2010, Paris, FR c/o CICM 2010 Web: http://www.fi.muni.cz/~sojka/dml-2010.html Deadlines: April 21th: abstract submissions April 27th: paper submissions May 15th: paper acceptance/rejection decision May 22nd: versions for the proceedings due Jul 7th: workshop date, proceedings on site Submissions: http://www.easychair.org/conferences?conf=dml2010 Submissions will be refereed on the basis of technical quality, novelty, potential impact for building DML, and clarity. Final paper versions should conform to the Springer LNCS (llncs class) style, preferably using LaTeX2e. Submission categories: Full paper: 4-12 LNCS pages Short paper/poster/work in progress report: 1-4 LNCS pages Overview: Mathematicians dream of a digital archive containing all peer-reviewed mathematical literature ever published, properly linked and validated/verified. It is estimated that the entire corpus of mathematical knowledge published over the centuries does not exceed 100,000,000 pages, an amount easily manageable by current information technologies. The workshop's objectives are to formulate the strategy and goals of a global mathematical digital library and to summarize the current successes and failures of ongoing technologies and related projects (EuDML, NUMDAM, DML-CZ,...), asking such questions as: # What technologies, standards, algorithms and formats should be used and what metadata should be shared? # What business models are suitable for publishers of mathematical literature, authors and funders of their projects and institutions? # Is there a model of sustainable, interoperable, and extensible mathematical library that mathematicians can use in their everyday work? # What is the best practice for * retrodigitized mathematics (from images via OCR to MathML and/or TeX); * retro-born-digital mathematics (from existing electronic copy in DVI, PS or PDF to MathML and/or TeX); * born-digital mathematics (how to make needed metadata and file formats available as a side effect of publishing workflow)? Proceedings: will be published by Masaryk University Press or other renown publisher and will be available on site in printed form and in digital form from DML-CZ repository. All previous DML proceedings have been indexed by Thomson Reuters in Conference Proceedings Citation Index CPCI and by Google Scholar and are available in digital form from electronic archive. Best papers will be chosen for a postconference book published by renowned publisher or for a journal special issue. Keynote: Masakazu Suzuki (Project Infty, Kyushu University, JP): title TBA Topics: (include, but are not limited to) o search, indexing and retrieval of mathematical documents o ranking of mathematical papers, similarity of mathematical documents o math OCR with MathML/TeX output o document conversions from/to MathML, OpenMath, LaTeX, PostScript and [tagged] PDF o conversions between various mathematical formalisms o mathematical document compression o processing of scanned images o algorithms for crosslinking of bibliographical items, intext citations search o mathematical document classification, MSC 2010 o mathematical text mining o mathematical documents metadata exchange via OAI-PMH and/or OAI-ORE o long term archiving, data migration o reports and experience from math digitization projects o math publishing with long term archival goal o software engineering aspects of creating, handling MathML, OMDoc, OpenMath documents, and displaying them in web browsers Programme Committee (some members approval pending): Jose Borbinha (Technical University of Lisbon, IST, PT) Thierry Bouche (University Grenoble, Cellule Mathdoc, FR) Michael Doob (University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, CA) Thomas Fischer (Goettingen University, Digitization Center, DE) Vaclav Hlavac (Czech Technical University, Faculty of Engineering, Prague, CZ) Janka Chlebikova (Comenius University, MFF, Bratislava, SK) Enrique Macias-Virgos (University of Santiago de Compostella, ES) Jiri Rakosnik (Academy of Sciences, Mathematical Institute, Prague, CZ) Eugenio Rocha (University of Aveiro, Dept. of Mathematics, PT) David Ruddy (Cornell University, Library, US) Volker Sorge (University of Birmingham, UK) Petr Sojka (Masaryk University, Faculty of Informatics, Brno, CZ) [chair] Masakazu Suzuki (Kyushu University, Faculty of Mathematics, JP) Bernd Wegner (Zentralblatt MATH, Berlin, DE) Organizing Committee: Petr Sojka, Renaud Rioboo, Laurence Rideau Registration, Travel, Accomodation: see CICM web pages http://cicm2010.cnam.fr/ Questions/inquiries: email to dml2010 at easychair dot org CFP distribution: Please, distribute at your institution. Apologies for multiple postings! From hak at ca.ibm.com Mon Mar 22 14:12:02 2010 From: hak at ca.ibm.com (Hassan Ait-Kaci) Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2010 06:12:02 -0700 Subject: [CFP] RULE 2010 (Edinburgh, UK, July 14, 2010) Message-ID: Submission is now open. Please forward as appropriate. 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URL: From lorini at irit.fr Mon Mar 22 15:29:17 2010 From: lorini at irit.fr (lorini at irit.fr) Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2010 15:29:17 +0100 (CET) Subject: "Theories of Information Dynamics and Interaction and their Applications to Dialogue", Copenhagen (Denmark), 16-20 August 2010 Message-ID: <50d20dfbcc0bca5077b799ef291736bb.squirrel@websecu.irit.fr> CALL FOR PAPERS Workshop on Theories of Information Dynamics and Interaction and their Application to Dialogue TIDIAD at ESSLLI2010 http://www.irit.fr/~Laure.Vieu/Esslli10 Workshop organized as part of the European Summer School on Logic, Language and Information ESSLLI 2010 (http://esslli2010cph.info/) August 16-20 (ESSLLI 2nd week) 2010, Copenhagen Workshop Purpose and Topics: ---------------------------- Theoretical approaches to communication and dialogue modeling are varied and often unrelated because separately focusing on different aspects of dialogue (speech acts, goals, beliefs, plans, questions, conventions, roles, cooperation, disputes, argumentation, reference, semantics-pragmatics interface...). On the other hand, the area of foundations of multi-agent systems is inducing new developments in logics of interaction and information dynamics, with a recent trend towards comparison and integration. Analyzing the impact of this trend on communication and dialogue modeling is timely. This workshop aims at discussing formal theories and logics of information dynamics and interaction and their applications to dialogue and communication modeling. It is intended to bring together logicians, linguists and computer scientists in order to provide a better understanding of the potentialities and limitations of formal methods for the analysis of dialogue and communication. Its scope includes not only the technical aspects of logics, but also multidisciplinary aspects from linguistics, philosophy of language, philosophy of social reality, social sciences (social psychology, economics). The following are some examples of formal theories and logics that are relevant to the workshop (no order): speech act theory, argumentation theory, game theory, public announcement logic, dynamic epistemic logic (DEL), logics of agency and power (e.g. STIT, ATL, Coalition Logic), theories of persuasion, theories of commitment, dynamic semantics, semantic approaches to interrogative clauses, rhetorical approaches to dialogue (e.g., Segmented Discourse Representation Theory). The focus of the workshop will be on recent developments, especially those that combine several approaches (e.g. dynamic epistemic logic and speech act theory, dynamic epistemic logic and segmented discourse representation theory, public announcement logic and commitment theories, STIT and dynamic epistemic logic, Coalition Logic and public announcement logic...) to deal with complex dialogue and communication phenomena. Invited speakers: ----------------- Patrick Blackburn, LORIA, INRIA Nancy Jeroen Groenendijk, ILLC, University of Amsterdam Workshop Organizers: -------------------- Emiliano Lorini ("lorini at irit.fr") and Laure Vieu ("vieu at irit.fr"), IRIT-CNRS, Toulouse Workshop Programme Committee: ----------------------------- Nicholas Asher, IRIT-CNRS, Toulouse Guillaume Aucher, Univ. of Luxembourg Alexandru Baltag, Oxford Univ. Anton Benz, ZAS, Berlin Patrick Blackburn, INRIA, Nancy Guido Boella, Univ. of Turin Jan Broersen, Univ. of Utrecht Cristiano Castelfranchi, ISTC-CNR, Rome Hans van Ditmarsch, Univ. of Otago & Univ. of Seville Raquel Fernández, Univ. of Amsterdam Jonathan Ginzburg, King's College, London Jeroen Groenendijk, Univ. of Amsterdam Davide Grossi, Univ. of Amsterdam Andreas Herzig, IRIT-CNRS, Toulouse Wiebe van der Hoek, Univ. of Liverpool Joris Hulstijn, Vrije Univ. of Amsterdam Andrew Jones, King's College, London Barteld Kooi, Univ. of Groningen Kepa Korta, Univ. of Basque Country, Donostia Alex Lascarides, Univ. Edinburgh Dominique Longin, IRIT-CNRS, Toulouse John-Jules Meyer, Univ. of Utrecht Paul Piwek, The Open Univ., Milton Keynes Henry Prakken, Univ. of Utrecht Leon van der Torre, Univ. of Luxembourg Submission Details: ------------------- Authors are invited to submit an extended abstract presenting work relevant to the area of information dynamics, interaction and dialogue. Extended abstracts should have a maximum of 6 pages, font size of at least 11pt, and margins of at least 2 cm. Papers should be in PDF format (Latex-generated papers are preferred, but not necessary), and uploaded by April 12 using Easychair at: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=tidiadesslli10 The submissions will be reviewed by the program committee and possibly additional reviewers. The accepted papers will appear in the workshop proceedings published by ESSLLI. The format for the final versions will be made available in due course. A special issue of the journal Synthese is planned, based on selected papers presented at the workshop, of which full versions will be independently reviewed. Important dates: ---------------- Apr 12, 2010: Deadline for submission May 24, 2010: Notification June 1, 2010: Deadline for early registration to ESSLLI Jun 15, 2010: Deadline for final papers August 16-20, 2010: Workshop Local Arrangements: ------------------- All workshop participants including the presenters will be required to register for ESSLLI. Further Information: -------------------- About the workshop: http://www.irit.fr/~Laure.Vieu/Esslli10 About ESSLLI: http://esslli2010cph.info/ From Richard.Moot at labri.fr Mon Mar 22 18:21:35 2010 From: Richard.Moot at labri.fr (Richard Moot) Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2010 18:21:35 +0100 Subject: E. W. Beth Dissertation Prize: 2010 call for nominations Message-ID: <59271156-9580-48BA-9347-29A809B7B651@labri.fr> [ Please redistribute. Apologies for multiple postings. ] E. W. Beth Dissertation Prize: 2010 call for nominations Since 2002, FoLLI (the Association for Logic, Language, and Information, http://www.folli.org) awards the E.W. Beth Dissertation Prize to outstanding dissertations in the fields of Logic, Language, and Information. We invite submissions for the best dissertation which resulted in a Ph.D. degree in the year 2009. The dissertations will be judged on technical depth and strength, originality, and impact made in at least two of three fields of Logic, Language, and Computation. Interdisciplinarity is an important feature of the theses competing for the E.W. Beth Dissertation Prize. Who qualifies. Nominations of candidates are admitted who were awarded a Ph.D. degree in the areas of Logic, Language, or Information between January 1st, 2009 and December 31st, 2009. There is no restriction on the nationality of the candidate or the university where the Ph.D. was granted. After a careful consideration, FoLLI has decided to accept only dissertations written in English. Dissertations produced in 2009 but not written in English or not translated will be allowed for submission, after translation, also with the call next year (for 2010). The present call for nominations for the E.W. Beth Dissertation Award 2010 will also accept nominations of full English translations of theses originally written in another language than English and defended in 2008 or 2009. Prize. The prize consists of: -a certificate -a donation of 2500 euros provided by the E.W. Beth Foundation -an invitation to submit the thesis (or a revised version of it) to the FoLLI Publications on Logic, Language and Information (Springer). For further information on this series see the FoLLI site. How to submit. Only electronic submissions are accepted. The following documents are required: 1. The thesis in pdf or ps format (doc/rtf not accepted); 2. A ten page abstract of the dissertation in ascii or pdf format; 3. A letter of nomination from the thesis supervisor. Self-nominations are not admitted: each nomination must be sponsored by the thesis supervisor. The letter of nomination should concisely describe the scope and significance of the dissertation and state when the degree was officially awarded; 4. Two additional letters of support, including at least one letter from a referee not affiliated with the academic institution that awarded the Ph.D. degree. All documents must be submitted electronically to buszko at amu.edu.pl. Hard copy submissions are not admitted. In case of any problems with the email submission or a lack of notification within three working days, nominators should write to buszko at amu.edu.pl. Important dates: Deadline for Submissions: April 30, 2010. Notification of Decision: July 20, 2010. Committee : Natasha Alechina (Nottingham) Lev Beklemishev (Moscow) Wojciech Buszkowski (chair) (Poznan) Didier Caucal (IGM-CNRS) Nissim Francez (Haifa) Alexander Koller (Saarbruecken) Alberto Policriti (Udine) Ian Pratt-Hartmann (Manchester) Rob van der Sandt (Nijmegen) Colin Stirling (Edinburgh) Rineke Verbrugge (Groningen) Heinrich Wansing (Dresden) From geoff at cs.miami.edu Mon Mar 22 19:08:23 2010 From: geoff at cs.miami.edu (Geoff Sutcliffe) Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2010 14:08:23 -0400 (EDT) Subject: CSL 2010 - 2nd Call for Papers Message-ID: <20100322180823.593EE11F9AC@mcclellan.cs.miami.edu> Second Call for Papers CSL 2010 Annual Conference of the European Association for Computer Science Logic August 23-27, 2010, Brno, Czech Republic http://mfcsl2010.fi.muni.cz/csl Submission (title & abstract): March 26, 2010 Submission (full paper): April 2, 2010 Notification: May 17, 2010 Final papers: June 6, 2010 Computer Science Logic (CSL) is the annual conference of the European Association for Computer Science Logic (EACSL). The conference is intended for computer scientists whose research activities involve logic, as well as for logicians working on issues significant for computer science. The 19th EACSL Annual Conference on Computer Science Logic (CSL 2010) and the 35th International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science (MFCS 2010) are federated and organized in parallel at the same place. The federated MFCS & CSL 2010 conference has common plenary sessions and social events for all participants. The technical program and proceedings of MFCS 2010 and CSL 2010 are prepared independently. The MFCS & CSL 2010 conference is accompanied by satellite workshops on more specialized topics. Suggested topics of interest include (but are not limited to) automated deduction and interactive theorem proving, constructive mathematics and type theory, equational logic and term rewriting, automata and games, modal and temporal logic, model checking, decision procedures, logical aspects of computational complexity, finite model theory, computational proof theory, logic programming and constraints, lambda calculus and combinatory logic, categorical logic and topological semantics, domain theory, database theory, specification, extraction and transformation of programs, logical foundations of programming paradigms, verification and program analysis, linear logic, higher-order logic, nonmonotonic reasoning. Proceedings will be published in the Advanced Research in Computing and Software Science (ARCoSS) subline of the LNCS series. Each paper accepted by the Programme Committee must be presented at the conference by one of the authors, and a final copy must be prepared according to Springer's guidelines. Submitted papers must be in Springer's LNCS style and of no more than 15 pages, presenting work not previously published. They must not be submitted concurrently to another conference with refereed proceedings. The PC chairs should be informed of closely related work submitted to a conference or journal by March 19, 2010. Papers authored or coauthored by members of the Programme Committee are not allowed. Papers will be submitted through the conference website. Submitted papers must be in English and provide sufficient detail to allow the Programme Committee to assess the merits of the papers. Full proofs may appear in a technical appendix which will be read at the reviewers' discretion. Authors are strongly encouraged to include a well written introduction which is directed at all members of the program committee. The Ackermann Award for 2010 will be presented to the recipients at CSL'10. There will be a Special Issue of the Journal LMCS (Logical Methods in Computer Science) based on selected papers of CSL 2010. *** Programme Committee Armin Biere (Linz) Lars Birkedal (ITU, Denmark) Nikolaj Bjorner (Redmond) Manuel Bodirsky (Paris) Mikolaj Bojanczyk (Warsaw) Iliano Cervesato (Doha) Krishnendu Chatterjee (Klosterneuburg) Agata Ciabattoni (Vienna) Anuj Dawar (Cambridge, co-chair) Azadeh Farzan (Toronto) Georg Gottlob (Oxford) Martin Hofmann (Munich) Orna Kupferman (Jerusalem) Christof Loeding (Aachen) Joao Marques-Silva (Dublin) Tobias Nipkow (Munich) Prakash Panangaden (Montreal) R. Ramanujam (Chennai) Simona Ronchi della Rocca (Torino) Alex Simpson (Edinburgh) Pascal Tesson (Quebec) Helmut Veith (Vienna, co-chair) Yde Venema (Amsterdam) *** CSL/MFCS Plenary Speakers David Basin (Zurich) Herbert Edelsbrunner (Klosterneuburg) Erich Gr?adel (Aachen) Joseph Sifakis (Gieres) *** CSL Invited Speakers Peter O?Hearn (London) Jan Krajicek (Prague) Andrei Krokhin (Durham) Andrey Rybalchenko (Munich) Viktor Kuncak (Lausanne) *** Organizing Committee Jan Bouda (Brno, chair) *** Conference address MFCSL 2010 Faculty of Informatics Masaryk University, Botanicka 68a, 60200 Brno Czech Republic mfcsl2010 at fi.muni.cz From mehdi at cs.uu.nl Mon Mar 22 21:09:31 2010 From: mehdi at cs.uu.nl (Mehdi Dastani) Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2010 21:09:31 +0100 Subject: CALL FOR TUTORIALS -- EASSS 2010 Message-ID: <4BA7CE7B.5040003@cs.uu.nl> !!! CALL FOR TUTORIALS -- EASSS 2010 !!! The twelfth edition of the European Agent Systems Summer School (EASSS 2010) will be in conjunction with MALLOW 2010 and take place at Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Saint-Etienne Saint-Etienne, France 23-27 August, 2010 http://easss2010.emse.fr Researchers and lecturers in the field of autonomous agents and multi-agent systems are invited to submit a proposal for a state-of-the-art course in the twelfth edition of the European Agent Systems Summer School. Like its very successful predecessors, EASSS 2010 aims to offer a valuable forum for knowledge exchange between various research groups in this field for the benefit of students and researchers at both beginner and advanced level. The success of this summer school is essential not only for the mutual benefit of research groups, but also in forming future generations of researchers to maintain the excellence of Agents research and development in Europe. Tutors are encouraged to submit a 1-page course proposal including: the topic and its importance for the field, intended audience and their required background knowledge, outline of the topics to be presented, how the course material will be prepared, the tutors and their experience, level of the course (beginners/advanced), duration (typically 4 or 6 hours), and any special equipment requirements. Proposals will be evaluated based on the importance and quality of the topic description, the quality of the presentation material, and the teaching ability of the proposed speakers. Deadline for proposals: April 18, 2010 Notification: May 24, 2010 material for reader (< 26 pp) July 4, 2010 A typical course has 4 hours in total, but variations are possible. Courses should be broad enough to provide a general introduction to the chosen topic, but it should also cover the most important contributions in depth. Courses are expected to take a wider perspective than one specific approach practised by an individual or group. For an impression, the courses given in 2001 are collected in a volume of Springer's LNAI series (No 2086), and programmes of previous editions of EASSS can be found via the webpage of EASSS09 (http://agents009.di.unito.it/EASSS.html). The summer schools attract about 100 students each year. We intend to give a modest contribution towards tutors' expenses by providing free accommodation, but EASSS would not normally cover tutors' travel costs. Please note that this year EASSS is in conjunction (but not co-located) with MALLOW 2010 for the third time and takes place one week before that event. MALLOW 2010 will be in Lyon (very close to Saint-Etienne). Submissions of tutorial proposals should be sent to Mehdi Dastani (mehdi at cs.uu.nl). The EASSS-2010 Committee members are: Local Chairs: Olivier Boissier Saint-Etienne, France Gauthier Picard Saint-Etienne, France Laurent Vercouter Saint-Etienne, France Program Committee: Mehdi Dastani (chair) Utrecht, Netherlands Rafael Bordini Durham, UK Catholijn Jonker Delft, Netherlands Barbara Keplicz Warszawa, Poland Nicolas Maudet Paris, France Andrea Omicini Bologna, Italy Michal Pechoucek Prague, Czech Republic For information about local organisation please contact Laurent Vercouter (easss2010 at emse.fr). POSSIBLE TOPICS: * action selection and planning in multi-/agent systems * adaptation, evolution and learning in multi-/agent systems * agent-based simulation and modeling * agent communication, agent dialogues and agent argumentation * agents, ontologies, web services and semantic web * agent-oriented software engineering and development methodologies * agent programming languages and development tools * agent standardizations in industry and commerce * applications and deployment for agents and multi-agent systems * architectures for multi-agent systems * artificial market systems, auctions, trading agents and electronic commerce, electronic institutions * autonomous robots and robot teams * believability, human-like qualities of synthetic agents, humanoid and sociable robots * game theory and coalition formation for agents based systems * computational complexity in agent systems * conventions, commitments, norms, social laws and legal issues in multi-agent systems * coordination, cooperation, and collaboration in multi-agent systems * emergence, self-organisation and collective behavior in agent-based systems * foundational issues and theories of agency * information agents, routers, brokering and matchmaking * logics for specification, verification and validation of multi-agent systems * mobile agents * negotiation, task and resource allocation, and conflict handling in multi-agent systems * privacy, safety and security in multi-agent systems * scalability, robustness and dependability of multi-agent systems * social and cognitive models for agents * social and organizational structures of multi-agent systems * trust and reputation in multi-agent systems * Multi-agent systems and/for Web Intelligence * Multi-agent systems and/for Ambient Computing -- Mehdi Dastani Intelligent Systems Group Utrecht University P.O.Box 80.089 3508 TB Utrecht The Netherlands Tel: +31 - 30 - 253 3599 Fax: +31 - 30 - 251 3791 URL: http://www.cs.uu.nl/~mehdi From hr at sti2.at Tue Mar 23 13:49:48 2010 From: hr at sti2.at (HR) Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2010 13:49:48 +0100 Subject: Job ad: PhD Researcher In-Reply-To: <4B6C0284.8070601@sti2.at> References: <46B036DB.1060002@deri.org> <46D3E047.5030103@deri.org> <4A093368.6010004@sti2.at> <4A0933D9.4090109@sti2.at> <4A27D6E4.1010401@sti2.at> <4B0554D8.4010503@sti2.at> <4B6C0262.8030803@sti2.at> <4B6C0284.8070601@sti2.at> Message-ID: <4BA8B8EC.2080101@sti2.at> Dear All, the Semantic Technology Institute (http://www.sti-innsbruck.at) at the University of Innsbruck (Austria) is currently seeking candidates for the following position: - PhD Researcher More Information on the job and the application procedure can be found at http://orawww.uibk.ac.at/public_prod/owa/karriereportal.karriere_detail?asg_id_in=5845 Best Regards, Human Resources STI Innsbruck Technikerstraße 21a 6020 Innsbruck Austria From hr at sti2.at Tue Mar 23 14:57:44 2010 From: hr at sti2.at (HR) Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2010 14:57:44 +0100 Subject: Job ad: PhD Researcher In-Reply-To: <4BA8B8EC.2080101@sti2.at> References: <46B036DB.1060002@deri.org> <46D3E047.5030103@deri.org> <4A093368.6010004@sti2.at> <4A0933D9.4090109@sti2.at> <4A27D6E4.1010401@sti2.at> <4B0554D8.4010503@sti2.at> <4B6C0262.8030803@sti2.at> <4B6C0284.8070601@sti2.at> <4BA8B8EC.2080101@sti2.at> Message-ID: <4BA8C8D8.5060201@sti2.at> As the job ad on the website of the university (http://orawww.uibk.ac.at/public_prod/owa/karriereportal.karriere_detail?asg_id_in=5845 ) is unfortunately not yet available in English her an English version: The Semantic Technology Institute Innsbruck is currently seeking candidates for the following position: *PhD Researcher * Main tasks: - Preparation and implementation of courses (lectures, practicals, seminars) - Implementation of research projects focusing on semantic web - Guidance of students and interns - Teaching Required Qualifications: • Master's degree in computer science • Research interests in logic, ontology language, semantic web services, semantics in business information systems or related fields • Willingness to combine formal scientific work with application-oriented research in order to solve real-world problems • Willingness to work in an international environment We kindly invite you to submit your written application until 07.04.2010 to: *Universität Innsbruck Chiffre MIP-5845 *Posteinlaufstelle der Zentralen Dienste Innrain 52 A-6020 Innsbruck HR schrieb: > Dear All, > > the Semantic Technology Institute (http://www.sti-innsbruck.at) at the University of Innsbruck (Austria) is currently seeking candidates for the following position: > > - PhD Researcher > > > More Information on the job and the application procedure can be found at http://orawww.uibk.ac.at/public_prod/owa/karriereportal.karriere_detail?asg_id_in=5845 > > > Best Regards, > > Human Resources > STI Innsbruck > Technikerstraße 21a > 6020 Innsbruck > Austria > > > > > > From verify2010 at mais.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de Tue Mar 23 18:41:44 2010 From: verify2010 at mais.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de (verify2010 at mais.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de) Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2010 18:41:44 +0100 (CET) Subject: Deadline Extension for Verify 2010 - Call for Papers Message-ID: <20100323174146.515C753825@takatuka.fmis.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de> [Apologies for possible multiple postings] Call for Papers -- * DEADLINE EXTENSION * Paper submission deadline is extended to April 11, 2010. Abstract submission deadline: April 7, 2010. 6th International Verification Workshop (VERIFY-2010) What are the verification problems? What are the deduction techniques? in connection with IJCAR-2010 at FLoC-2010 July 20-21, 2010, Edinburgh, UK [http://www.mais.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/verify2010/] ********************* Keynote speakers ****************************** ** V�ronique Cortier (LORIA INRIA-Lorraine, France) ** ** Cliff Jones (Newcastle University, UK) ** ** Andr� Platzer (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) ** ********************************************************************** The formal verification of critical information systems has a long tradition as one of the main areas of application for automated theorem proving. Nevertheless, the area is of still growing importance as the number of computers affecting everyday life and the complexity of these systems are both increasing. The purpose of the VERIFY workshop series is to discuss problems arising during the formal modeling and verification of information systems and to investigate suitable solutions. Possible perspectives include those of automated theorem proving, tool support, system engineering, and applications. The VERIFY workshops aim at bringing together people who are interested in the development of safety and security critical systems, in formal methods, in the development of automated theorem proving techniques, and in the development of tool support. Practical experiences gained in realistic verifications are of interest to the automated theorem proving community and new theorem proving techniques should be transferred into practice. The overall objective of the VERIFY workshops is to identify open problems and to discuss possible solutions under the theme What are the verification problems? What are the deduction techniques? The scope of VERIFY includes topics such as + ATP techniques in verification + Information flow security + Case studies + Integration of ATPs and CASE-tools (specification and verification) + Management of change + Combination of verification systems + Refinement and decomposition + Compositional and modular reasoning + Reliability of mobile computing + Experience reports on using + Reuse of specifications and proofs formal methods + Safety-critical systems + Formal methods for fault tolerance + Security models + Gaps between problems and + Tool support for formal methods techniques Submissions are encouraged in one of the following two categories: A. Regular papers: Submissions in this category should describe previously unpublished work (completed or in progress), including descriptions of research, tools, and applications. Papers must be 5-14 pages long (in EasyChair style) or 6-15 pages long (in Springer LNCS style). B. Discussion papers: Submissions in this category are intended to initiate discussions and should address controversial issues, and may include provocative statements. Papers must be 3-14 pages long (in EasyChair style) or 3-15 pages long (in Springer LNCS style). Submission of papers is via EasyChair: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=verify2010 Upon submission, the category (either A or B) should be indicated. Final versions of accepted papers have to be prepared with LaTeX using the EasyChair class (http://www.easychair.org/easychair.zip). Each accepted paper shall be presented at the workshop and at least one author of each paper must attend the workshop. In addition to informal proceedings, we envisage a special issue in a journal on the topic of the workshop. Participants of VERIFY-2010 are particularly encouraged to submit a paper to the special issue, but other submissions will also be welcome. Program & Workshop Co-Chairs M. Aderhold (TU Darmstadt) S. Autexier (DFKI Bremen) H. Mantel (TU Darmstadt) Program Committee B. Beckert (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology) I. Cervesato (Carnegie Mellon University) C. Fournet (Microsoft Research) J. Guttman (Worcester Polytechnic Institute) R. H�hnle (Chalmers University) J. Hurd (Galois Inc.) D. Hutter (DFKI Bremen) P. Jackson (University of Edinburgh) C. Jones (Newcastle University) D. Kapur (University of New Mexico) J.-P. Katoen (RWTH Aachen) G. Klein (NICTA) G. Lowe (University of Oxford) F. Martinelli (CNR Pisa) C. Meadows (Naval Research Laboratory) D. Pichardie (INRIA Rennes) G. Schneider (University of Gothenburg) J. Schumann (NASA Ames Research Center) C. Walther (TU Darmstadt) Important dates: Abstract submission deadline: April 7, 2010 Paper submission deadline: April 11, 2010 Notification of acceptance: April 29, 2010 Final version due: May 17, 2010 Workshop date: July 20-21, 2010 Workshop e-mail: verify2010 at mais.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de From Masoud.Mohammadian at canberra.edu.au Wed Mar 24 01:02:48 2010 From: Masoud.Mohammadian at canberra.edu.au (Masoud.Mohammadian) Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2010 11:02:48 +1100 Subject: Call for Papers: 6th IFIP INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE APPLICATIONS & INNOVATIONS (AIAI 2010 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: (Apologies if you have received multiple CFPs) ================================================ 6th IFIP INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE APPLICATIONS & INNOVATIONS (AIAI 2010) 5 - 7 October 2010, Ayia Napa, Cyprus http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/aiai2010 We kindly inform you that due to numerous requests the deadlines for submitting abstracts, full papers, workshop proposals, and tutorial proposals have been extended. ================================================ IMPORTANT DATES: Abstract Submission: 20th March 2010 (new deadline extension) Full Paper Submission: 29th March 2010 (new deadline extension) Workshop Proposal Submission: 20th March 2010 (new deadline extension) Tutorial Proposal Submission: 20th March 2010 (new deadline extension) Notification of Acceptance: 28th May 2008 (new deadline extension) Camera-ready Copy Due: 10th June 2010 (new deadline extension) Conference dates: 5 - 7 October 2010 ================================================ KEYNOTE SPEAKERS: Zbigniew Michalewicz, School of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Adelaide, Australia Alex Gammerman, Department of Computer Science, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK Masoud Mohammadian, Faculty of Information Science and Engineering, University of Canberra: ACT, Australia ================================================ CALL FOR PAPERS: The abundance of information and increase in computing power currently enables researchers to tackle highly complicated and challenging computational problems. Solutions to such problems are now feasible using advances and innovations from the area of Artificial Intelligence. The general focus of the AIAI 2010 conference is to provide insights on how Artificial Intelligence may be applied in real world situations and serve the study, analysis and modelling of theoretical and practical issues. Also, research papers describing advanced prototypes, innovative systems, tools and techniques are encouraged. General survey papers indicating future directions and professional work-in-progress reports are of equal interest. Acceptance will be based on quality, originality and practical merit of the work. Authors are invited to electronically submit original, English-language research contributions or experience reports. Submitted papers must present unpublished work, not being considered for publication in other journals or conferences. SUBMISSIONS: Regular Papers and Workshop Papers: The maximum length permitted is eight (8) pages, formatted according to Springer IFIP series instructions. The Programme Committee may reject papers exceeding this length. Authors are strongly encouraged to use the correct document style from the Springer IFIP website (http://www.springer.com/series/6102). This should be done for their initial submission, so that preparation of the final papers will be simplified. A fully electronic review process by three academic reviewers is planned for all submitted papers. Full papers and workshop or tutorial proposals should be submitted electronically in postscript, pdf or word format. At least one author of each accepted paper is required to register and present the paper. Papers shall not be included in the proceedings if these requirements are not met, nor if the registration fee is not received until the camera-ready deadline. For further information related to the technical programme or other details on the conference, please contact the Organising Chair, Harris Papadopoulos, at H.Papadopoulos at frederick.ac.cy. WORKSHOPS & TUTORIAL PROPOSALS: Workshop proposals comprising original research papers on innovative or otherwise provocative issues within the conference topic areas are also encouraged. Workshops should be held simultaneously with the 6th IFIP AIAI conference. Submitted proposals should include a 2-3 page summary of the topic, including the names and affiliations of Programme Committee members and chairs. Also, the chairs of the workshops should arrange the publication of accepted papers. For questions regarding workshop proposals, please contact the Workshop Chair, Nicos Mateou, at NMateou at mod.gov.cy. Proposals for 90-minute tutorials are also invited in areas within the conference's topics. Tutorial proposals must be 5 pages at most, identifying the intended audience and presenting enough material to provide a sense of what will be covered. For questions related to the tutorials please e-mail the Tutorials Chair, Tasos Sofokleous, at asofok at cs.ucy.ac.cy. SPECIAL ISSUES: Based on the reviewers' comments and on the presentation, and after a second peer review process, a number of selected papers will be published in a special issue of the International Journal on Artificial Intelligence Tools (IJAIT), World Scientific Publishing Co., Print ISSN: 0218-2130, Online ISSN: 1793-6349. TOPICS: Suggested topics include, but are not limited to, the following: Theoretical Advances Machine Learning Adaptive Control Data FusionReasoning Methods Knowledge Acquisition and Representation Planning and Scheduling Artificial Neural Networks Expert Systems Fuzzy Logic and Systems Genetic Algorithms and Programming Particle Swarm Optimisation Bayesian Models Knowledge Engineering Data Mining and Information Retrieval Decision Support Systems Knowledge Management for e-Learning and Enterprise Portals Intelligent Information Systems Web- and Knowledge-Based Information Systems Ontologies Signal Processing Techniques and Knowledge Extraction Computer Vision Human-Machine Interaction / Presence Learning and Adaptive Systems Pattern Recognition Signal and Image Processing Speech and Natural Language Processing Multimedia, Graphics and Artificial Intelligence Multimedia Computing Multimedia Ontologies Smart Graphics Colour/Image Analysis Speech Synthesis Trends in Computing Accessibility and Computers Affective Computing Agent and Multi-Agent Systems Autonomous and Ubiquitous Computing Distributed AI Systems and Architectures Grid-Based Computing Intelligent Profiling and Personalisation Robotics and Virtual Reality Artificial Intelligence Applications eBusiness, eCommerce, eHealth, eLearning Engineering and Industry Environmental Modelling Finance Telecommunications - Transportation Crisis and Risk Management Medical Informatics and Biomedical Engineering Political Decision Making Natural Language Processing Planning and Resource Management Project Management Emerging Applications Forensic Science Other AI and Ethical Issues Evaluation of AI Systems Social Impact of AI ORGANISATION: General Co-Chairs: Andreas S. Andreou, University of Cyprus and Cyprus University of Technology Max Bramer, University of Portsmouth Program Committee Chair: Lazaros Iliadis, Democritus University of Thrace Organising Chair: Harris Papadopoulos, Frederick University More information can be found at http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/aiai2010 We look forward to seeing you in Ayia Napa, Cyprus! Andreas S. Andreou Conference General Co-Chair -------------- nächster Teil -------------- Ein Dateianhang mit HTML-Daten wurde abgetrennt... URL: From jleite at di.fct.unl.pt Wed Mar 24 10:24:58 2010 From: jleite at di.fct.unl.pt (Joao Leite) Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2010 09:24:58 +0000 Subject: CFP: CLIMA XI- 11th Int'l Workshop on Computational Logic in Multi-Agent Systems Message-ID: [Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple postings.] ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Call for Papers CLIMA XI 11th International Workshop on Computational Logic in Multi-Agent Systems with special sessions on: * Norms and Normative Multi-Agent Systems. * Logics for Games and Strategic Reasoning. http://centria.di.fct.unl.pt/events/climaXI/ Lisbon, Portugal, August 16-17, 2010. Affiliated with ECAI'10. Submission deadline: May 7th. Proceedings: LNCS/LNAI volume (available at the workshop). AMAI Special Issue: Selected extended papers will be published in a Special Issue of Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ The purpose of the CLIMA Workshop Series is to provide a forum for discussing techniques, based on computational logic, for representing, programming and reasoning about agents and multi-agent systems in a formal way. Following the previous ten, very successful, editions, the 11th CLIMA will be affiliated with ECAI'10 and will take place in Lisbon, Portugal, on the 16th and 17th of August 2010. In addition to CLIMA's regular topics and sessions, this edition will feature two special sessions: * Norms and Normative Multi-Agent Systems * Logics for Games and Strategic Reasoning We welcome and encourage the submission of high quality, original papers, which have not been accepted for publication nor are currently under review for another journal or conference. LNCS Proceedings: CLIMA's Proceedings will be published by Springer as a volume in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science, and will be available in time for the workshop. AMAI Special Issue: After the workshop, authors of selected papers will be invited to extend and re-submit their work to be considered for inclusion in a CLIMA Special Issue of Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence. Detailed information regarding CLIMA, its topics of interest, the two Special Sessions, formatting and submission instructions is available at http://centria.di.fct.unl.pt/events/climaXI/ Important dates: * Submission: May 7th * Notification: June 4th * Camera Ready: June 16th CLIMA XI Chairs: * Jürgen Dix, Technical University of Clausthal, Germany * João Leite, New University of Lisbon, Portugal Special Session Organisers: * Guido Governatori, NICTA, Australia (Norms and Normative Multi-Agent Systems) * Wojtek Jamroga, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg (Logics for Games and Strategic Reasoning) Please send all enquiries about CLIMA XI to clima2010 at easychair.org. From jean at ensma.fr Wed Mar 24 14:53:07 2010 From: jean at ensma.fr (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?St=E9phane_Jean?=) Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2010 14:53:07 +0100 Subject: Call for Papers: The 11th International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering (WISE 2010) In-Reply-To: <4B5EF766.5000605@ensma.fr> References: <4B5EF766.5000605@ensma.fr> Message-ID: <4BAA1943.8070801@ensma.fr> Apologies for multiple postings =========================================================================================== The 11th International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering (WISE 2010) http://conference.cs.cityu.edu.hk/wise2010/ December 12-14, 2010 Hong Kong, China Hosted by: Department of Computer Science, City University of Hong Kong and the International WISE Society CALL FOR PAPERS =========================================================================================== The aim of this eleventh edition of the conference series on Web Information Systems Engineering is to provide an international forum for researchers, professionals, and industrial practitioners to share their knowledge in the rapidly growing area of Web technologies, methodologies and applications. Previous WISE conferences were held in Hong Kong, China (2000), Kyoto, Japan (2001), Singapore (2002), Roma, Italy (2003), Brisbane, Australia (2004), New York, USA (2005), Wuhan, China (2006), Nancy, France (2007), Auckland, New Zealand (2008), and Poznan, Poland (2009). The proceedings of WISE 2010 will be published in 2 separate volumes by Springer in its Lecture Notes in Computer Science series, with best papers to be recommended for publication in special issues of international journals. Topics of interests include but not limited to: - Cloud, Grid Computing and P2P Systems; - Deep/Hidden Web; - Event Processing and Event-driven Systems; - Mobile Web and Location-based Services; - Rich Web UI; - Semantic Web; - Web Agents and Web Intelligence; - Web Data Integration; - Web Data Mashup; - Web Data Models; - Web Information Retrieval; - Web Metrics and Performance; - Web Mining and Web Warehousing; - Web Monitoring and Management; - Web Security and Trust Management; - Web-based Business Processes and Web Services; - Web-based Enterprise Systems and Transactions; - Web Tools and Languages; - Web Visualisation; - XML and Semi-structured Data; and - Web-based Applications (eg, Auction and Negotiation, e-Commerce, e-Government, e-Learning, etc.). Paper Submission ================ Submitted papers will be carefully evaluated based on originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of exposition. All papers will be refereed by at least three members of the program committee. All submitted papers MUST be formatted according to the author guidelines provided by Springer and MUST NOT be longer than 14 pages. Full Paper Submission Deadline: June 15, 2010 Notification of Acceptance: August 30,2010 Camera-ready Due: September 12,2010 Conference Co-chairs ==================== Qing Li, City U of Hong Kong Karl Aberer, EPFL, Switzerland Dennis McLeod, USC, USA PC Co-chairs ============ Lei Chen, HKUST, Hong Kong Peter Triantafillou, U of Patras, Greece Torsten Suel, NYU Poly, USA Organization Chair ================== Hong Va Leong, PolyU, Hong Kong Workshop Co-chairs ================== Dickson Chiu, Dickson Computer Sys., Hong Kong Ladjel Bellatreche, ENSMA-Poitiers U, France Publicity Co-chairs =================== Hua Wang, U Southern Queesland, Australia Raymong Wong, HKUST, Hong Kong Stephane Jean, Poitiers U, France Feifei Li, Florida State U., USA Finance Chair ============= Xiaohua Jia, City U of Hong Kong Steering Committee Representatives ================================== Yanchun Zhang, Victoria U, Australia Xiaohua Jia, City U of Hong Kong From core at cic.ipn.mx Wed Mar 24 20:55:19 2010 From: core at cic.ipn.mx (core at cic.ipn.mx) Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2010 13:55:19 -0600 Subject: CORE 2010 - CALL FOR PAPERS SUBMISSION EXTENDED DEADLINE: APRIL 4, 2010 Message-ID: <201003241955.o2OJtJte026816@sagitario.cic.ipn.mx> *********************************************************************************** We apologize in advance if you receive multiple copies of this CFP. *********************************************************************************** CORE 2010 10th Conference on Computing A new event of the series of international conferences CORE! www.cic.ipn.mx/core May 27-29, 2010 Mexico City PUBLICATION: Special issue of the journal "Research in Computing Science", ISSN 1870-4069. SUBMISSION GUIDELINES: Up to 12 pages, Springer LNCS format, in English. Please send your contribution by email to core at cic.ipn.mx TOPICS: Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language Processing, Fuzzy Logic, Computer Vision, Multi-agent Systems, Bioinformatics, Neural Networks, Evolutionary Algorithms, Cellular Automata, Knowledge Representation, Semantic Web, Database Systems, Data Mining, Software Engineering, Web Design, Compilers, Formal Languages, Operating Systems, Distributed Systems, Parallelism, Real Time Systems, Algorithm Theory, Scientific Computing, High-Performance Computing, Geoprocessing, Networks and Connectivity, Cryptography, Informatics Security, Digital Systems Design, Digital Signal Processing, Control Systems, Robotics, Virtual Instrumentation, Computer Architecture, etc. IMPORTANT DATES: Paper submission�EXTENDED deadline: April 4 Acceptance notification: April 24 Camera-ready deadline: May 30 AWARDS: Best Paper Award (1st, 2nd and 3rd place). Best Presentation Award. KEYNOTE SPEAKERS: To be announced. CULTURAL PROGRAM: To be announced. WORKING LANGUAGES: English REGISTRATION FEE: Author and public early / public on site: US$ 170 / 240 Full US$ 90 / 150 Student Free Author, researcher or student of CIC-IPN Entrance: Free CONFERENCE PLACE: National Polytechnic Institute Center for Computing Research Info: www.cic.ipn.mx/core core at cic.ipn.mx From saidi at csl.sri.com Thu Mar 25 06:35:23 2010 From: saidi at csl.sri.com (Hassen Saidi) Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2010 22:35:23 -0700 Subject: Final CFP: 5th Automated Formal Methods Workshop first call for papers (In association with Computer-Aided Verification 2010 and FLoC 2010) In-Reply-To: <4B95B216.5060307@csl.sri.com> References: <4B95B216.5060307@csl.sri.com> Message-ID: <4BAAF61B.7020701@csl.sri.com> FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS AFM'10 (Automated Formal Methods) July 14, 2010, Edinburgh, UK http://fm.csl.sri.com/AFM10/ In association with Computer-Aided Verification 2010 http://www.floc-conference.org/CAV-home.html part of Federated Logic Conference (FLoC) 2010 AFM is a one-day workshop centered around the use and integration of formal verification tools for specification, interactive theorem proving, satisfiability (SAT) and satisfiability modulo theories (SMT), model checking, program verification, code generation, and testing, as well as interfaces, documentation, and education. This workshop was first initiated as a users' group meeting for the SRI formal verification tools such as PVS, SAL, and Yices, but the topics are not restricted to these tools. The first workshop was held at FLoC'06, the second workshop with ASE'07, and the third and forth workshops took place respectively in conjunction with CAV'08 and CAV'09. We welcome position papers, research papers, and reports on work in progress on the topics listed above, particularly those that report on experiments, tool integration and evaluation, and case studies. Papers must be fewer than 8 pages long in the ACM SIG Proceedings style (http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates) and should be submitted to (http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=afm10). ORGANIZERS: Bruno Dutertre and Hassen Saidi PROGRAM COMMITTEE: TBD KEY DATES: Position papers due: March 26, 2010 Reviews/decisions: April 16, 2010 Camera ready versions due: April 30, 2010 AFM10 Workshop: July 14, 2010 From sebastian.rudolph at aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de Thu Mar 25 11:37:46 2010 From: sebastian.rudolph at aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de (Sebastian Rudolph) Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2010 11:37:46 +0100 Subject: ISWC 2010 Call for Workshop/Tutorial Proposals, Call for Submissions Message-ID: <87B89F49-69A0-406E-954C-36359979A7EF@aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de> ISWC 2010 Combined Call for Submissions Submissions are invited for ISWC 2010, the Ninth International Semantic Web Conference, to be held November 7-11, 2010, in Shanghai, China. Accepted submissions will be distributed in electronic form to attendees of the conference; accepted research papers will also be published by Springer-Verlag. At least one author of each accepted submission must attend the conference and present the work. Further, up-to-date information is available at http://iswc2010.semanticweb.org WORKSHOP PROPOSALS ISWC workshops are smaller, less formal settings for the presentation and discussion of ongoing work related to the Semantic Web. Workshop proposals will be primarily evaluated on the interest of the workshop to a viable fraction of the Semantic Web community. Proposals Due May 7, 2010 Notification May 28, 2010 Calls Out June 11, 2010 TUTORIAL PROPOSALS ISWC tutorials should teach students, researchers, and others about particular topics related to the Semantic Web. Tutorial proposals will be primarily evaluated on the interest of the tutorial to a viable fraction of the Semantic Web community. Proposals Due May 14, 2010 Notification May 28, 2010 RESEARCH PAPERS Research papers must describe original, significant research on the Semantic Web or on Semantic Web technologies or systems. Authors of accepted papers may submit an accompanying poster or demo (see below). Note that abstracts must be submitted one week before the due date for submissions. Abstracts Due June 21, 2010 Submissions Due June 28, 2010 Notification August 16, 2010 SEMANTIC WEB IN USE In-use papers must present implemented Semantic Web applications or discuss or evaluate the use of Semantic Web techniques or use of other technologies in the Semantic Web. Of particular interest are comparisons between different technologies or approaches and lessons learned from applications. Papers on the use of the Semantic Web in China are specially welcome. Submissions Due June 28, 2010 Notification August 16, 2010 DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM The Doctoral Consortium is designed to allow doctoral students to present their work to members of the Semantic Web community and receive feedback on their research. Submissions to the Doctoral Consortium must describe work performed as part of an ongoing PhD degree. Submissions Due June 28, 2010 Notification August 16, 2010 POSTERS AND DEMOS Posters must describe original research on the Semantic Web or on Semantic Web technologies or systems. Posters can present preliminary results or describe work still in progress. System demonstrations must present a novel hardware or software system of interest in the Semantic Web. Poster submissions and system demonstrations can overlap the work described in other kinds of submissions. Submissions Due August 23, 2010 Notification September 13, 2010 INDUSTRY TALKS Industry talks provide an opportunity to present technical information about Semantic Web products and services. Submissions (abstracts only) will be primarily evaluated based on relevance to the Semantic Web, interest to conference attendees, technical depth and business applicability. Marketing and sales material will not be considered. Submissions Due September 7, 2010 Notification September 21, 2010 SEMANTIC WEB CHALLENGE The Semantic Web Challenge is the premier event for demonstrating practical progress towards achieving the vision of the Semantic Web. This year's 8th edition of the challenge will consist of two tracks: the open track and the billion triples track. The winners in both categories will be selected and announced at the conference. Submissions Due October 1, 2010 _________________________________________________ Dr. Sebastian Rudolph senior researcher & project leader at AIFB Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) rudolph at kit.edu phone +49 721 608 - 7362 www.sebastian-rudolph.de fax +49 721 608 - 5998 From turhan at tcs.inf.tu-dresden.de Thu Mar 25 11:39:31 2010 From: turhan at tcs.inf.tu-dresden.de (A.-Y. Turhan) Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2010 11:39:31 +0100 Subject: UniDL'10: Deadline extension to 11th of April Message-ID: <4BAB3D63.7050307@tcs.inf.tu-dresden.de> ------------------------------------------------------------------- Final Call for Papers New submission deadline: 11. of April ------------------------------------------------------------------- UniDL'10 First International Workshop on Uncertainty in Description Logics co-located with IJCAR 2010 at FLoC 2010 July 20, 2010 Edinburgh, UK http://lat.inf.tu-dresden.de/UniDL ------------------------------------------------------------------- During the recent decade, handling uncertainty has started to play an important role in ontology languages, especially in application areas like the Semantic Web, biomedicine, and artificial intelligence. For this reason, there is currently a strong research interest in description logics (DLs) that allow for dealing with uncertainty. The subject of the workshop is how to deal with uncertainty and imprecision in Description Logics (DLs). This encompasses approaches that enable probabilistic or fuzzy reasoning in DLs, but the workshop is also open for approaches based on other uncertainty formalisms. The workshop focusses on the investigation of reasoning problems and approaches for solving them, including especially tractable ones. For classical DL reasoning problems such as subsumption and satisfiability, algorithms that can handle uncertainty exist, but they are still less well-investigated than in the case of standard DLs without uncertainty. For novel reasoning services, such as query answering, computation of generalizations, modules, or explanations, it is not yet clear how to realize them in DLs that can express uncertainty. SPONSOR UniDL is sponsored by the Artificial Intelligence Journal (AIJ) INVITED SPEAKER Ralf Moeller, Hamburg University of Technology TOPICS OF INTEREST include but are not limited to: * Modeling of uncertain knowledge in DLs * Different formalisations of uncertainty for DLs * Formal semantics for uncertain information in DLs * Extensions of DL reasoning problems to uncertainty * Reasoning algorithms for DLs with uncertainty, in particular * Tableau algorithms for probabilistic DLs or fuzzy DLs * Tractable DLs with uncertainty * Complexity of uncertain reasoning * System descriptions for implemented reasoning algorithms in uncertain DLs * Novel applications of DLs with uncertainty * Open and future problems IMPORTANT DATES: *New* submission deadline: April 11, 2010 Notification: April 29, 2010 Final version: May 18, 2010 Workshop: July 20, 2010 SUBMISSION DETAILS: The workshop welcomes submissions in pdf format in Springer's LNCS style. Submissions can be - technical papers not exceeding 10 pages, - system descriptions not exceeding 6 pages, or - position papers on work in progress not exceeding 3 pages in LNCS. Submissions are via EasyChair at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=unidl10 . The workshop prceedings will be published as CEUR proceedings. WORKSHOP CHAIRS: - Thomas Lukasiewicz, Oxford University, UK - Rafael Penaloza, TU Dresden, Germany - Anni-Yasmin Turhan, TU Dresden, Germany PROGRAM COMMITTEE: - Eyal Amir, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign - Fernando Bobillo, University of Zaragoza - Simona Colucci, Technical University of Bari - Fabio G. Cozman, University of Sao Paulo - Manfred Jaeger, Aalborg University - Pavel Klinov, University of Manchester - Ralf Moeller, Hamburg University of Technology - Mathias Niepert, University of Mannheim - Stefan Schlobach, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam - Luciano Serafini, IRS Trento - Giorgos Stoilos, Oxford University - Umberto Straccia, ISTI-CNR - Guilin Qi, Southeast University, China From ter at cs.sfu.ca Thu Mar 25 13:54:06 2010 From: ter at cs.sfu.ca (Evgenia (Eugenia) Ternovska) Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2010 05:54:06 -0700 Subject: CFP: Logic and Search (LaSh'2010) Message-ID: CALL FOR PAPERS LaSh 2010 Third International Workshop on Logic and Search July 15, 2010, Edinburgh www.logicandsearch.org/LaSh2010 A SAT/ICLP Workshop at FLoC 2010 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Many challenging problems in computer science and application areas involve constructing a combinatorial object satisfying given properties. Examples include exam timetables, shop schedules, phylogenetic trees, system configurations, and computations that demonstrate a hardware or software bug. A number of communities are developing general purpose tools and techniques for solving such problems, including researchers in SAT, ASP, SMT, constraint modelling languages, CSP, finite FO model generation, Integer Programming, and others. A general approach to solving these problems is to have users represent the properties of a solution in some logic-based formalism, and then use a solver to construct models for the representation. Practical effectiveness of this approach has been clearly demonstrated by, for example, the success of SAT and SMT techniques in formal verification. In addition to widespread work on effective ground solvers, a number of communities have been developing high level declarative modelling or representation languages, which are essential for broad applicability. The goal of the LaSh workshops is to bring together researchers from all relevant areas to foster the exchange and development of ideas in both theory and practice of logic-based methods for combinatorial problem solving. LaSh is an occasion to discuss specific technical problems, formulate challenges and opportunities, compare and contrast techniques of different groups, and examine possible synergies and integrations. LaSh 2010 follows LaSh 2006, an ICLPLP workshop at FLoC 2006 (www.easychair.org/FLoC-06/LaSh.html), and LaSh 2008, a two day stand-alone workshop (www.cs.kuleuven.be/~dtai/LaSh08). We invite contributions to modeling languages, methodology, theory, algorithms and systems. To facilitate discussion of the most relevant current research, we welcome submission of previously-published research as well as new work. Authors may also submit to a follow-up journal special issue. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * modeling languages and techniques * logics * solver design and implementation * expressiveness and complexity * algorithms for grounding and solving * logics-based methods for optimization problems * new applications * system descriptions * experimental evaluations LaSh 2010 will feature invited talks, technical paper sessions, a special session on grounding, a demo session, and a panel/open problem session. SPECIAL SESSION ON GROUNDING Grounding plays an important role in many areas, including constraint programming, theorem proving, and answer set programming, to mention a few. It provides the essential connection between high-level problem representations and efficient ground solvers. Despite the importance, the literature on grounding is limited and there has been little interaction between its many application areas. The goal of the this special session is to begin to improve this situation. PROCEEDINGS AND JOURNAL SPECIAL ISSUE The workshop proceedings will be informal and electronic. Authors are invited to submit (possibly extended) versions of their papers to a post-workshop special issue of AI Communications. These submissions, which will undergo a separate round of review, must be of high quality and satisfy the requirements of the journal. SUBMISSIONS We welcome submissions of three kinds: * Regular technical papers, presenting previously unpublished research; * Short papers (system descriptions; work in progress; position papers); * Presentation-only papers, presenting research that is highly relevant but which will have previously been presented elsewhere. (Authors may elect to have such papers excluded from the proceedings.) At the time of submission, authors are requested to clearly specify whether their submission is new or previously published, by adding (New Work) or (Presentation Only) as an additional line in the paper title. Each submissions will be reviewed by at least two members of the program committee. Submissions may be in any common format, such as LNCS, AAAI and Easychair. We prefer that submissions not exceed the equivalent of 15 LNCS pages (5 pages for short papers). Authors should submit a PDF file via Easychair, at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lash10 IMPORTANT DATES Paper Submission: April 7 Notification of Acceptance: April 30 Camera Ready Deadline: May 15 Workshop: July 15 CONFERENCE ORGANIZERS David Mitchell Simon Fraser University, Canada Eugenia Ternovska Simon Fraser University, Canada PROGRAM COMMITTEE Peter Baumgartner, The Australian National University Koen Claessen, Chalmers University of Technology Adnan Darwiche, UCLA Marc Denecker, Catholic University of Leuven Thomas Eiter, Vienna University of Technology Alan Frisch, University of York Enrico Giunchiglia, University of Genova Tomi Janhunen, Aalto University Daniel LeBerre, Universite d'Artois Ines Lynce, INESC-ID Pierre Marquis, Universite d'Artois Tony Mancini, Sapienza Universita di Roma David Mitchell, Simon Fraser University Ilkka Niemela, Helsinki University of Technology Robert Nieuwenhuis, UPC Barry O'Sullivan, University College Cork Torsten Schaub, Universitat Potsdam Eugenia Ternovska, Simon Fraser University Mirek Truszczynski, University of Kentucky Emina Torlak, IBM Victor Marek, University of Kentucky Toby Walsh, University of New South Wales ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Enrico Giunchiglia, University of Genova Victor Marek, University of Kentucky David Mitchell, Simon Fraser University Eugenia Ternovska Simon Fraser University Mirek Truzczynski, University of Kentucky Marc Denecker, K.U.Leuven From Wiebe.Van-Der-Hoek at liverpool.ac.uk Thu Mar 25 14:47:42 2010 From: Wiebe.Van-Der-Hoek at liverpool.ac.uk (Wiebe van der Hoek) Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2010 13:47:42 +0000 Subject: Job: 2 x Lectureships in Economics/Game Theory and Computation Message-ID: The UNIVERSITY of LIVERPOOL -- DEPARTMENT of COMPUTER SCIENCE TWO LECTURERSHIPS AVAILABLE in ECONOMICS and COMPUTATION SALARY IN RANGE GBP 36,715 - 41,323 per annum The Department of Computer Science at the University of Liverpool was ranked in the top 10 UK Computer Science departments in the UK Government's 2008 assessment of research quality (RAE2008). Building on this success, we seek to significantly expand current research around existing strengths at the intersection of economics/game theory and computer science through the appointment of two lecturers (a lecturer is broadly the UK equivalent of a tenured assistant professor, with full opportunities for promotion to full professor). You will join Professor Paul Goldberg, Dr Martin Gairing, Dr Piotr Krysta, and Dr Rahul Savani in our newly established research group on Economics and Computation. The group carries out research in the computational foundations of economics and game theory and enjoys close collaborative links with other strong research groups in the Department (algorithms and complexity theory, multi-agent systems, and logic and computation). Current research interest of the group include: * algorithmic game theory; * mechanism design and auction theory; * complexity of solution concepts; * optimization problems in economics; * computational social choice; * e-commerce. You should have a PhD in Computer Science or related discipline and an excellent track record of research at the intersection of computer science and economics/e-commerce/game theory. The post attracts a special HEFCE-funded "Golden Hello" to the value of GBP 9K, subject to individuals satisfying the eligibility criteria. Informal enquiries are welcome, and may be directed either to the head of group: Prof Paul Goldberg mailto:goldberg at liverpool.ac.uk or head of department: Prof Wiebe van der Hoek mailto:Wiebe.Van-Der-Hoek at liverpool.ac.uk ** Job Ref: A-570581 ** Closing Date for Applications: 30 April 2010 For further details, or to request an application pack, visit: http://www.liv.ac.uk/working/job_vacancies/ or e-mail: mailto:jobs at liv.ac.uk ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Prof. Wiebe van der Hoek Head of Department of Computer Science University of Liverpool http://www.csc.liv.ac.uk/~wiebe/ tel (+44 151) 79 47480/54292 fax (+44 151) 79 54235 Liverpool L69 3BX, United Kingdom Wiebe.Van-Der-Hoek at liverpool.ac.uk From alessandro.dalpalu at unipr.it Thu Mar 25 18:50:05 2010 From: alessandro.dalpalu at unipr.it (Alessandro Dal Palu ) Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2010 18:50:05 +0100 Subject: [Call for papers] Workshop on Constraint Based Methods for Bioinformatics Message-ID: <20100325174916.M18028@unipr.it> *Apologies for multiple copies* We would like to invite you to submit a paper to Call for papers WCB10 - Workshop on Constraint Based Methods for Bioinformatics --------------------------------------------------------------- July 21st, 2010 Edinburgh co-located to ICLP/FLOC 2010 http://wcb10.dimi.uniud.it/ Submission: April 1st, 2010 OVERVIEW AND SCOPE Bioinformatics is a challenging and fast growing area of research, which is of utmost importance for our understanding of life. Major contributions to this discipline can have thousands of positive effects in medicine, agriculture, or industry. To pick out only a few examples, Bioinformatics tackles problems related to * Recognition, analysis, and organization of DNA sequences. For instance, Haplotype/Pedigree inference, Phylogenetic reconstruction, Motif localization, and Alignments * Biological systems simulations (for metabolic or regulatory networks) * Prediction of the spatial conformation of a bio-polymer, given its sequence of monomers (in particular for proteins and RNA). The main aim of this workshop is twofold. On the one hand, to share recent results in this area (new ideas, systems and solvers that rely on constraints, but also on Logic Programming, Answer Set Programming, Linear Programming, Mixed Integer Linear Programming, Local Search, and any other AI techniques, possibly combining some of them). On the other hand, to present new challenging problems recently formalized but still beyond current computing capabilities. Submitted papers can be * Extended Abstracts of new results or * Abstract of ongoing works * Systems presentations (with demos at the workshop) * Summaries of already accepted or recently published results in the topics above. Submission style is the standard llncs style. Page limit is 6 pages. Submission is handled by Easychair http://www.easychair.org/ IMPORTANT DATES Submission Deadline: April 1st, 2010 Notification to Authors: April 30th, 2010 Camera-ready: TBA Workshop: July 21st, 2010. The final submission must include latex sources. Participation of at least one author is mandatory. PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS Alessandro Dal Palu' Parma Univ., Italy Agostino Dovier Udine Univ., Italy Sebastian Will Freiburg and MIT, USA PROGRAM COMMITTEE Rolf Backofen, Freiburg Univ., Germany. Pedro Barahona, Univ. Nova de Lisboa, Portugal Alexander Bockmayr, Freie Univ. Berlin, Germany Mats Carlsson, SICS, Uppsala Sweden Esra Erdem, Sabanci Univ., Turkey Alessandro Dal Palù Univ. of Parma, Italy (co-chair) Simon de Givry, INRA, Toulouse, France Agostino Dovier Udine Univ., Italy (co-chair) Francois Fages, INRIA Rocquencourt, France Inês Lynce, INESC-ID Lisboa, Portugal Neil Moore, Univ. of St Andrews, Scotland Enrico Pontelli, NMSU, USA Sebastian Will Freiburg Univ. and MIT, USA, Germany (co-chair) -- Universita' degli Studi di Parma (http://www.unipr.it) From tagotnes at gmail.com Fri Mar 26 13:01:45 2010 From: tagotnes at gmail.com (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Thomas_=C5gotnes?=) Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2010 13:01:45 +0100 Subject: Call for Papers: STAIRS 2010 Starting AI Research Message-ID: ###################################################################### ## STAIRS-2010 ## Call for Papers ## STAIRS-2010 ## ###################################################################### The Fifth "Starting Artificial Intelligence Research" Symposium 16-20 August 2010 ## Lisbon, Portugal http://ecai2010.appia.pt/ Deadline for submission of papers: Monday, 3 May 2010 ###################################################################### ## INTRODUCTION ## ###################################################################### The STAIRS-10 is the fourth European Starting AI Researcher Symposium. STAIRS is an international meeting intended to support AI researchers, from all countries, at the beginning of their career: PhD students or people holding a PhD for less than one year. STAIRS-2010 will be co-located with ECAI-2010, the European Conference on AI, in Lisbon, Portugal, over 16-20 August 2010. STAIRS offers doctoral students and young post-doctoral AI fellows: * a first experience on submitting and presenting a paper in an international forum with a broad scope and a peer review process * an opportunity to gather knowledge and exchange ideas related to their research problems and approaches together with information on European research careers and mobility. Co-location with both ECAI and PAIS aims at creating a unique and valuable opportunity for young researchers to gain experience at presenting their work in a supportive scientific environment, and obtain constructive feedback on the technical content of the work as well as how to present the work and other related topics. ###################################################################### ## TOPICS OF INTEREST ## ###################################################################### Papers are welcome on all aspects of contemporary AI, including, but not restricted to: * Agents & Multiagent Systems * Case-Based Reasoning * Cognitive Modeling & Interaction * Constraints & Search * Knowledge Representation & Reasoning * Machine Learning * Model-Based Reasoning * Natural Language Processing * Perception & Sensing * Planning & Scheduling * Robotics * Uncertainty in AI * Applications of AI An extensive list of subtopics is available at the conference website. ###################################################################### ## IMPORTANT DATES ## ###################################################################### Paper submission deadline: Monday, 3 May 2010 Notification of acceptance/rejection: Friday, 28 May 2010 Conference: 16-20 August 2010 ###################################################################### ## PAPER FORMATTING & SUBMISSION INFORMATION ## ###################################################################### Papers must not exceed SIX (6) pages in camera-ready format. Over-length submissions will be rejected without review. Papers for STAIRS should be submitted using the ECAI formatting style; details of the style are available at: http://www.csc.liv.ac.uk/~mjw/ecai2010.zip This file unpacks to a directory "ecai2010", and contains LaTeX and other style files. The file "ecai2010.tex" is an example paper in LaTeX format using the appropriate styles, and can be used as a template for submissions. Each accepted paper will be allocated SIX (6) pages in the proceedings. Multiple submissions with ECAI and PAIS is allowed if this is clearly indicated on a front page preceding the paper itself. In borderline cases single submissions will be preferred over multiple submissions. In case of multiple acceptances the author(s) are strictly required to withdraw their paper from all but one of the events. The proceedings of STAIRS, together with those of its associated events, ECAI and PAIS, will be published and distributed by IOS Press as a book and as a CD-ROM. The authors will be responsible for producing camera-ready copies of papers, conforming to the ECAI 2010 formatting guidelines for inclusion in the proceedings. At least one author of each accepted paper or poster is required to attend the conference to present the contribution. Submission and review of papers for ECAI-2010 will be managed via the EasyChair system: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=stairs2010 All submissions will be subject to LIGHT TOUCH review, with the goal of providing constructive feedback to authors. Depending on the quality of submissions, a subset of accepted papers will be invited to submit a revised version to a journal special issue. IMPORTANT NOTE: At least one of the authors must be a PhD student, or a person holding a PhD for less than one year. Papers not satisfying this criterion will be rejected. ###################################################################### ## ORGANISATION ## ###################################################################### STAIRS General Chair: Thomas Ågotnes (mailto:Thomas.Agotnes at infomedia.uib.no) University of Bergen, Norway ###################################################################### ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thomas Ågotnes Department of Information Science and Media Studies University of Bergen P.O. Box 7802, N-5020 Bergen, Norway Tel: (+47) 55584105 Fax: (+47) 55589149 Thomas.Agotnes at infomedia.uib.no http://folk.uib.no/nmita/ From Philipp.Ruemmer at comlab.ox.ac.uk Fri Mar 26 14:50:31 2010 From: Philipp.Ruemmer at comlab.ox.ac.uk (Philipp Ruemmer) Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2010 14:50:31 +0100 Subject: CFP: Deadline extension - LfSA'10 - Logics for System Analysis Message-ID: <1269611431.6261.4.camel@hal3> [Apologies for possible multiple postings] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ** Deadline extension ** Call for papers LfSA'10 - Logics for System Analysis Workshop Affiliated with IJCAR and LICS at FLoC 2010 July 15th, 2010, Edinburgh, UK http://www.ls.cs.cmu.edu/LfSA10/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ============================================= Extended abstract submission: March 30, 2010 Extended paper submission: April 5, 2010 ============================================= Invited speakers ---------------- * Thomas A. Henzinger, IST Austria * César A. Muñoz, NASA Langley Safety-critical systems frequently occur as real-time systems, embedded systems, hybrid systems, distributed systems, and cyber-physical systems. They are also becoming more and more important in many application domains, including aviation, automotive, railway, robotic, or medical applications. To ensure the correct functioning of safety-critical systems it is necessary to model and reason about hardware (including physical properties or movement), software, communication aspects, and qualitative and quantitative aspects of the system environment. Logics for system analysis, system modeling, and specification, are primary tools to analyze system behavior. Logic is equally important for understanding the theoretical foundations of system analysis and as the basis for practical analysis tools that establish correct functioning of systems or find bugs in their designs. Depending on the nature of the system, modeling languages that are amenable to logical analysis and the study of correctness properties include logical representations, automata, state charts, Petri nets, dataflow models, or systems of differential equations. Several system models can be analyzed rigorously with the help of techniques such as logical calculi, decision procedures, model checking, and abstraction. LfSA'10 is devoted to the systematic theoretical study, practical development, and applied use of logics for system analysis. The purpose of the LfSA workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners interested in studying practically relevant systems or in developing the logical foundations and analysis tools for their study. Topics ------ * Logics for safety-critical systems (real-time, embedded, hybrid, distributed, stochastic, cyber-physical) * Logic-based methods for development of safety-critical systems * System representations using logics, automata, modeling languages, state charts, Petri nets, dataflow models * Theories, decision procedures, and calculi for system analysis * Model checking, theorem proving, and systematic testing * Case studies for logical system analysis * Applications of system analysis to industrial problems (including automotive, aviation, railway, robotics, process control, mixed analog/digital circuits in chip design) In particular, we invite contributions that bridge the gap between theory and practice or that combine different application domains. Submission Categories --------------------- * Regular papers (up to 15 pages), which should present previously unpublished work (completed or in progress), including descriptions of research, tools, and applications. * Short papers (up to 5 pages), which describe work in progress or aim at initiating discussions. * Presentation-only papers, i.e., papers already submitted or presented at a conference or another workshop; such papers will not be included in the LfSA proceedings but will be presented during the workshop. In addition to informal and electronic workshop proceedings, we consider the option of a special issue in a journal after the workshop. Submission is done via Easychair: https://www.easychair.org/login.cgi?conf=lfsa2010 Important Dates/Deadlines ------------------------- Abstract submission: March 30, 2010 Paper submission: April 5, 2010 Notification: April 28, 2010 Final version due: May 20, 2010 Workshop: July 15, 2010 Workshop/Programme Chairs ------------------------- André Platzer (Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA) aplatzer at cs.cmu.edu Philipp Rümmer (Oxford University, UK) philr at comlab.ox.ac.uk Programme Committee ------------------- Raul Barbosa (Chalmers, Gothenburg, Sweden) Alessandro Cimatti (IRST Trento, Italy) Stéphane Demri (CNRS Cachan, France) Javier Esparza (TU Munich, Germany) Georgios E. Fainekos (Arizona State University, USA) Martin Giese (University of Oslo, Norway) Franjo Ivančić (NEC Laboratories Princeton, USA) Einar Broch Johnsen (University of Oslo, Norway) Dexter Kozen (Cornell, Ithaca, USA) Daniel Kroening (Oxford University, UK) Bruce H. Krogh (Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA) Marta Kwiatkowska (Oxford University, UK) Larissa Meinicke (Macquarie University, Australia) George J. Pappas (University of Pennsylvania, USA) Jean-François Raskin (Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium) Peter H. Schmitt (Karlsruhe University, Germany) Viorica Sofronie-Stokkermans (MPI Saarbrücken, Germany) Cesare Tinelli (The University of Iowa, USA) Uwe Waldmann (MPI Saarbrücken, Germany) From cacs at cacs2010.org Sat Mar 27 03:44:46 2010 From: cacs at cacs2010.org (CACS 2010) Date: Sat, 27 Mar 2010 10:44:46 +0800 Subject: Congress on Computer Applications and Computational Science, Singapore [EI Compendex,ISTP,IEEE Xplore] Message-ID: <20100327025016.36A6D25BCF0@selket.rz.tu-clausthal.de> [ Please forward to those who may be interested. 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URL: From amast-10 at kestrel.edu Sat Mar 27 20:10:35 2010 From: amast-10 at kestrel.edu (amast-10 at kestrel.edu) Date: Sat, 27 Mar 2010 12:10:35 -0700 (PDT) Subject: AMAST 2010: deadline approaching Message-ID: <20100327191035.68F0D1647BA@egret.kestrel.edu> CALL FOR PAPERS: AMAST 2010: Algebraic Methodology and Software Technology (Thirteenth International Conference) - Held jointly with: - MPC 2010: Mathematics of Program construction* - (Tenth International Conference) When:...................Jun 23, 2010 - Jun 26, 2010 Where:..................Manoir St-Castin Link:...................http://mpc-amast2010.fsg.ulaval.ca/amast/ *************** New deadlines: *************** Submission deadline:....April 9, 2010 (23:59 Pacific (UTC-8)) Notification due:.......May 16, 2010 Final Version due:......May 30, 2010 Submission site:........http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=amast2010 (Due to circumstances beyond our control, the previous Call for Papers, with earlier deadlines, has not been circulated, but only posted on the web. In order to be able to circulate this Call, we postponed the deadlines. As a consequence, the publication date of the proceedings, which are planned in the same format, has been moved to after the conference.) BACKGROUND The major goal of the AMAST Conferences is to promote research that may lead to the setting of software technology on a firm, mathematical basis. This goal is achieved by a large international cooperation with contributions from both academia and industry. The virtues of a software technology developed on a mathematical basis include the provision of software that is * correct, and the correctness can be proved mathematically, * safe, so that it can be used in the implementation of critical systems, * portable, i.e., independent of computing platforms and language generations, * evolutionary, i.e. it adapts to the environment changes, and evolves with the problem domain, * secure, so that its network and user interactions can be predicted and controlled. All previous editions of the AMAST Conference, which were held at Iowa City (1989,1991), Twente (1993), Montreal (1995), Munich (1996), Sydney (1997), Manaus (1999), Iowa City (2000), Reunion Island (2002), Stirling (2004), Saaremaa (2006) and Urbana-Champaign (2008), made contributions to the AMAST goals by reporting and disseminating academic and industrial achievements within the AMAST area of interest. During these meetings, AMAST attracted an international following among researchers and practitioners interested in software technology, programming methodology and their algebraic and logical foundations. The 2010 conference will be held in Lac-Beauport, a suburb of Québec City, Canada, and will be colocated with MPC '10 (21-23 June 2010). TOPICS As in previous years, we invite papers reporting original research on setting software technology on a firm mathematical basis. We expect two kinds of submissions: technical papers and system demonstrations. Of particular interest is research on using algebraic, logic, and other formalisms suitable as foundations for software technology, as well as software technologies developed by means of logic and algebraic methodologies. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: ** Software technology * systems software technology * application software technology * software architecture * concurrent and reactive systems * formal methods in industrial software development * requirements engineering * software synthesis * evolutionary and adaptive software systems ** Programming methodology * logic programming, functional programming, object paradigms * constraint programming and concurrency * program transformation and verification * programming calculi * specification languages and tools * incremental development * web programming and network computation ** Algebraic and logical foundations * logic in computer science * category theory, relation algebra, computational algebra * algebraic foundations for languages, systems and specifications * coinduction and coalgebraic methods * logical frameworks and theorem proving * logics of programs * formal approaches to dependability and security ** Systems and tools (for system demonstrations or ordinary papers) * software development environments * provably correct software development * validation and verification * security tools * system support for reuse * tools for prototyping * component based software development tools * computer algebra systems * theorem proving systems PUBLICATION As in the past, the proceedings of AMAST 2010 will be published by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. The preliminary version of the proceedings will be available at the conference. The final version will be distributed after the conference. We invite prospective authors to submit electronically previously unpublished papers of high quality. Submissions should not have been published and should not be under consideration for publication elsewhere. Papers must be no longer than 15 pages (6 pages for system demonstrations) and should be prepared using LaTeX and the LNCS style that can be downloaded from http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html. The submission site and dates are at the beginning of this Call. VENUE The conference will be held in the Manoir St-Castin (http://www.hotelsvillegia.com/villegia_stcastin/pages-eg/). This resort is located on the shore of Beauport lake, 15 minutes from downtown Québec City (http://www.quebecregion.com/en/) and 15 minutes from the Jean-Lesage International Airport. PROGRAM COMMITTEE Paolo Baldan Gilles Barthe Michel Bidoit Manfred Broy Roberto Bruni Iliano Cervesato Adriana Compagnoni Jose Luiz Fiadeiro Kokichi Futatsugi Rob Goldblatt Ichiro Hasuo Rolf Hennicker Michael Johnson (co-chair) Helene Kirchner Barbara Koenig Narciso Marti Oliet Michael Mislove Larry Moss Till Mossakowski Peter D. Mosses Andrzej Murawski Uwe Nestmann Fernando Orejas Dusko Pavlovic (co-chair) Leila Ribeiro Grogore Rosu Jan Rutten Lutz Schroeder Wolfram Schulte Douglas Smith Carolyn Talcott Andrzej Tarlecki Varmo Vene E.P. de Vink James Worrell CONTACT For further information, consult the webiste or send email to Michael Johnson at mike at ics.mq.edu.au, or Dusko Pavlovic at dusko at kestrel.edu. From paolo.torroni at unibo.it Mon Mar 22 14:44:13 2010 From: paolo.torroni at unibo.it (Paolo Torroni) Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2010 14:44:13 +0100 Subject: ASPOCP 2010 Call For Papers Message-ID: <4BA7742D.6060406@unibo.it> =============================================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS ASPOCP 2010 3rd Workshop on Answer Set Programming and Other Computing Paradigms http://www.dbai.tuwien.ac.at/proj/aspocp10/ Collocated with the International Conference on Logic Programming 2010 Edinburgh (Scotland, U.K) July 16-19, 2010 =============================================================================== AIMS AND SCOPE Since its introduction in the 1990s, answer set programming (ASP) has been widely applied to various knowledge-intensive tasks and combinatorial search problems. ASP was found to be closely related to SAT, which has led to a new method of computing answer sets using SAT solvers and techniques adapted from SAT. While this has been the most studied relationship, the relationship of ASP to other computing paradigms, such as constraint satisfaction, quantified Boolean formulas (QBF), or first-order logic (FOL) is also the subject of active research. New methods of computing answer sets are being developed based on the relation between ASP and other paradigms, such as the use of pseudo-Boolean solvers, QBF solvers, and FOL theorem provers. Furthermore, the practical application of ASP also fosters work on multi-paradigm problem-solving, and in particular language and solver integration. The most prominent examples in this area currently are the integration of ASP with description logics (in the realm of the Semantic Web) and constraint satisfaction. This workshop will facilitate the discussion about crossing the boundaries of current ASP techniques, in combination with or inspired by other computing paradigms. TOPICS Topics of interests include (but are not limited to): - Relating ASP to classical logic formalisms (SAT/FOL/QBF/SMT/DL). - Relating ASP to constraint programming. - Relating ASP to other logic programming paradigms. - Relating ASP to other nonmonotonic languages. - New methods of computing answer sets using algorithms or systems of other paradigms. - ASP and probabilistic reasoning. - ASP and machine learning. - Language extensions to ASP. - ASP and argumentation. - ASP and multi-agent systems. - Multi-paradigm problem solving involving ASP. - Evaluation and comparison of ASP to other paradigms. - Embedding ASP for challenging applications. - Hybridizing ASP with procedural approaches. - Enhanced grounding or beyond grounding. SUBMISSIONS Papers must describe original research and should not exceed 15 pages in the Springer LNCS format . Paper submission will be handled electronically by means of the Easychair system. The submission page is available at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aspocp10 IMPORTANT DATES (tentative) Submission deadline: March 26, 2010 Notification: April 16, 2010 Camera-ready articles due: April 30, 2010 Workshop: July 20, 2010 PROCEEDINGS The workshop contributions will be published electronically, using the Computing Research Repository (CoRR). Informal proceedings will be provided at the workshop. Selected papers will also be published in a special edition of AI Communications. LOCATION The workshop will be held in Edinburgh (Scotland, U.K), collocated with the International Conference on Logic Programming (ICLP) 2010. WORKSHOP CO-CHAIRS Marcello Balduccini (Kodak Research Labs, USA) Stefan Woltran (Vienna University of Technology, Austria) PROGRAM COMMITTEE Gerhard Brewka (University of Leipzig, Germany) Pedro Cabalar (Corunna University, Spain) Wolfgang Faber (University of Calabria, Italy) Michael Fink (Vienna University of Technology, Austria) Martin Gebser (University of Potsdam, Germany) Joohyung Lee (Arizona State University, USA) Vladimir Lifschitz (University of Texas at Austin, USA) Fangzhen Lin (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China) Marco Maratea (University of Genoa, Italy) Emilia Oikarinen (University of Helsinki, Finland) Axel Polleres (DERI, National University of Ireland, Ireland) Ashish Sabharwal (Cornell University, USA) Guillermo R. Simari (Universidad Nacional del Sur, Argentina) Paolo Torroni (University of Bologna, Italy) Miroslaw Truszczynski (University of Kentucky, USA) Dirk Vermeir (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium) Jia-Huai You (University of Alberta, Canada) From ines at sat.inesc-id.pt Sat Mar 27 20:45:05 2010 From: ines at sat.inesc-id.pt (Ines Lynce) Date: Sat, 27 Mar 2010 19:45:05 GMT Subject: LoCoCO 2010: extended deadline April 9th Message-ID: <201003271945.o2RJj5Zn012246@sat.inesc-id.pt> LoCoCo 2010 -- Workshop on Logics for Component Configuration Workshop of SAT at FLoC 2010, Edinburgh, Scotland, July 10, 2010 http://lococo2010.mancoosi.org/ Final Call for Papers Scope: ====== Modern software distributions are based on the notion of components, which denote units of independent development and deployment. Components provide the necessary flexibility when organizing a complex software distribution, but also are a challenge when it comes to selecting components from a large repository of possible choices, and configuring these components according to user needs, resource constraints, and interdependencies with other components. Representing and solving configuration problems is a hot topic of great importance for many application domains. Some well-known examples of complex systems of components in the world of Free and Open Source software are the different distributions for GNU/Linux, BSD, or Eclipse plugins. Understanding and solving these questions is an attractive research topic since the problems to be solved are complex and interesting for researchers working on solving techniques, and on the other hand have the potential of high impact on the way the software we all use everyday is developed and deployed. Not only adequate logical formalisms to represent a configuration problem are required, but also sophisticated reasoning technologies to deal with large amounts of data. Further relevant aspects include diagnosis of failed configuration settings and an intelligent behavior dealing with user preferences. This workshop will focus on logic-based methods for specifying and solving complex configuration problems for software components. The goal of the workshop is to bring together both researchers and practitioners active in the area of component configuration of software systems, using different modeling and solving techniques, such as constraint and logic programming, description logics, satisfiability and its extensions. The workshop will be an opportunity to discuss common and complementary solutions for solving component configuration. Topics: ======= Main areas of interest include, but are not restricted to: o Configuration problems and models: knowledge representation and acquisition, incomplete knowledge, inconsistent knowledge, etc. o Reasoning methods for solving configuration problems: constraint satisfaction and optimization, SAT solving and extensions, integer programming, local search, symmetry breaking, etc. o Interactivity: user preferences, machine learning, distributed environments, etc. o Applications and tools: case studies, current challenges, application reports, etc. Invited Talk ============ An invited talk will be given by Carsten Sinz (University of Karlsruhe). MISC 2010 ========= The first Mancoosi International Solver Competition will be held in conjunction with the LoCoCo workshop: http://www.mancoosi.org/misc-2010 Important Dates =============== Friday, April 9 Submission deadline Friday, April 23 Notification about acceptance Friday, May 21 Final paper due Saturday, July 10 Workshop Submission and Publication ========================== We welcome submissions of various types of papers related to the topics of the workshop: * Regular research papers must be original work, and must not have been previously published, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere. This category includes system descriptions and tutorial overview papers. System descriptions should come with an URL allowing to access or download the system, with preference to systems that can be downloaded under an open source licence. Presentations of system descriptions at the workshop should include a system demonstration. * Presentations reporting on recent or ongoing work. They are not subject to restriction as for previous, simultaneous, or future publication elsewhere. The complete proceedings, containing the accepted papers of both categories, will be made freely available on the web for the workshop. It is planned to provide electronic copies on an USB stick to registered workshop participants. In addition to that, accepted regular research papers will be published in a special issue of Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science (EPTCS). Submitted papers of both categories must not exceed a limit of 10 pages, and have to be prepared in LaTeX following the EPTCS formatting instructions. Authors may provide pointers to additional online resources if necessary, and which the reviewers may use to their sole discretion. Authors of accepted papers will keep their copyright, however all papers (of both categories) must carry one of the different brands of the Creative Commons Licence mandated by EPTCS. Authors of accepted papers for the EPTCS proceedings have to grant EPTCS a non-exclusive licence to distribute. Submissions are handled by easychair at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lococo2010. Program Committee ================= Daniel Le Berre (Universite d'Artois, France) Roberto Di Cosmo (Universite Paris-Diderot, France) Georg Gottlob (Oxford University, UK) Pascal van Hentenryck (Brown University, USA) Matti Jarvisalo (University of Helsinki, Finland) Ines Lynce (INESC-ID, Lisbon, Portugal), co-chair Toni Mancini (Sapienza Universita di Roma, Italy) Albert Oliveras (Technical University of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain) Christian Schulte (KTH, Stockholm, Sweden) Ralf Treinen (Universite Paris-Diderot, France), co-chair Nic Wilson (UCC, Cork, Irland) From vfgo at imm.dtu.dk Mon Mar 29 07:11:29 2010 From: vfgo at imm.dtu.dk (Valentin Goranko) Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2010 07:11:29 +0200 Subject: FLoC'2010 Workshop on Comparing Logical Decision Methods (CLODEM 2010): Extended call for submissions Message-ID: <1B2508547E54154C841F8FD759818B80574368@mail.ad.imm.dtu.dk> %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %% %% %% CLODEM 2010 %% %% Workshop on Comparing Logical Decision Methods %% %% %% %% http://www2.imm.dtu.dk/~vfgo/CLODEM2010/CLODEM2010.html %% %% %% %% Edinburgh, July 15th, 2010 %% %% affiliated with LICS and IJCAR at FLoC'10 %% %% %% %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% *****EXTEDED SUBMISSION DEADLINE: APRIL 12***** TOPIC AND OBJECTIVE: Methods for deciding satisfiability of formulae are of vital importance for both the theoretical relevance and practical impact of a logic. Different logics require different decision procedures. Nevertheless, certain methodologies like terminating semantic tableaux, automata, games, SAT/SMT methods, resolution, reductions, etc. have proved to be successful in providing decidability results for several, even quite different logics. Perception of some methodology being better than others has grown within certain communities, for example regarding automata-based techniques in automatic verification or tableau-based techniques in knowledge representation. Such perception, however, is often not based on systematic comparative analysis. Sometimes, different methodologies also turn out to do or even be the same in certain cases. Yet, few formal technical results to that effect are known, and the scientific discussions on the pros and cons, and similarities and differences between different methodologies have been rather sporadic so far. The purpose of this workshop is to provide an expert forum for such discussion, to provoke and foster discussion between communities, and to stimulate further research on that topic. It is a generalization and follow-up of the AutoTab workshop which was held with TABLEAUX'09 last year. The workshop welcomes contributions on comparisons between different methods, exhibiting differences or similarities, in theory or in practice, in general or with respect to a certain logic. SUBMISSIONS: Submissions should be in the form of extended abstracts of at most 5 A4 pages in PDF format, preferably using Springer LNCS style or a comparable format. Submissions may be based on new and original, or on already published or submitted work, but they should address the topic of the workshop. The abstracts of the workshop talks will be included in informal proceedings. No formal proceedings are currently planned, but if the workshop attracts sufficiently many good and original contributions, a journal special issue will be organized after the event. One author of each submission that is accepted for the workshop must register for and attend the workshop in order to present the paper. IMPORTANT DATES: Extended submissions deadline: April 12, 2010 Notification deadline: April 27, 2010 Finalized workshop programme: April 30, 2010 Final versions of abstracts for the informal proceedings: May 31, 2010 Workshop: July 15, 2010 INVITED SPEAKERS: So far we have following confirmed invited speakers: Moshe Vardi Jerome Leroux More invited speakers may be added soon. WORKSHOP PROGRAM COMMITTEE: * Stephane Demri, CNRS Cachan, F * Valentin Goranko, DTU Copenhagen, DK * Rajeev Gore, ANU Canberra, AUS * Felix Klaedtke, ETH Zurich, CH * Daniel Kröning, Oxford University, UK * Martin Lange, LMU Munich, D * Christof Löding, RWTH Aachen, D * Carsten Lutz, Univ. of Bremen, D * Renate Schmidt, Univ. of Liverpool, UK * Colin Stirling, Univ. of Edinburgh, UK FURTHER INFORMATION: - Workshop website: http://www2.imm.dtu.dk/~vfgo/CLODEM2010/CLODEM2010.html - FLoC'10 website: http://www.floc-conference.org/ - LICS'10 website: http://www2.informatik.hu-berlin.de/lics/lics10/index.html - IJCAR'10 website: http://www.floc-conference.org/IJCAR-home.html ENQUIRIES to the organizers: - Valentin Goranko, http://www2.imm.dtu.dk/~vfgo - Martin Lange, http://www.tcs.ifi.lmu.de/~mlange -------------- nächster Teil -------------- Ein Dateianhang mit HTML-Daten wurde abgetrennt... URL: From berndt.farwer at durham.ac.uk Mon Mar 29 10:26:41 2010 From: berndt.farwer at durham.ac.uk (Berndt Farwer) Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2010 09:26:41 +0100 Subject: 3rd CfP -- 3rd Int. Workshop LAM'10 Message-ID: <0129228E-B28A-426C-B6D3-F0613C68C057@durham.ac.uk> 3rd Call for Papers 3rd International Workshop on Logics, Agents, and Mobility (LAM'10) http://www.dur.ac.uk/lam.10 15 July 2010, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK organised as satellite workshop at the Twenty-Fifth Annual IEEE Symposium on LOGIC IN COMPUTER SCIENCE (LICS 2010), Edinburgh, Scotland, UK *************************************************************** NEWS: Invited Speakers: Frank Pfenning, David Pym *************************************************************** Workshop Purpose: The aim of this series of workshops is to bring together active researchers in the areas of logics and other formal frameworks that can be used to describe and analyse dynamic or mobile systems. The main focus is on the field of logics and calculi for mobile agents, and multi-agent systems. Many notions used in the theory of agents are derived from philosophy, logics, and linguistics (belief, desire, intention, speech act, etc.), and interdisciplinary discourse has proved fruitful for the advance of this domain. The workshop intends to encourage discussion and work across the boundaries of the traditional disciplines. Outside of academia, distributed systems are a reality and agent programming is beginning established itself as a serious contender against more traditional programming paradigms. For example, the deployment of large-scale pervasive infrastructures (mobile ad-hoc networks, mobile devices, RFIDs, etc.) raises a number of scientific and technological challenges for the modelling and programming of such large-scale, open and highly-dynamic distributed systems. The agent and multi-agent systems approach seems particularly adapted to tackle this challenge, but there are many issues remaining to be investigated. For instance, the agents must be location-aware since the actual services available to them may depend on their (physical or virtual) location. The quality and quantity of resources at their disposal is also largely fluctuant, and the agents must be able to adapt to such highly dynamic environments. Moreover, mobility itself raises a large number of difficult issues related to safety and security, which require the ability to reason about the software (e.g. for analysis or verification). Logics and type systems with temporal or other kinds of modalities (relating to location, resource and/or security-awareness) play a central role in the semantic characterisation and verification of mobile agent systems. In the past two or three years, some logics have been proposed that would be able to handle certain aspects of these requirements, but there are still many open problems and research questions in the theory of such systems. The workshop is intended to showcase results and current work being undertaken in the areas outlined above with a focus on logics and other formalisms for the specification and verification of dynamic, mobile systems. Scopes of Interest: The main topics of interest include - specification and reasoning about agents, MAS, and mobile systems - modal and temporal logics - model-checking - treatment of location and resources in logics - security - type systems and static analysis - logic programming - concurrency theory with a focus on mobility or dynamics in agent systems. Previous Workshops: LAM'08: 4--8 August 2008 at ESSLI in Hamburg, Germany LAM'09: 10 August 2009 at LICS in Los Angeles, USA Format of the Workshop: The workshop will be held as a one day event after LICS. There will be a short introduction and brief survey of the field by the organiser as an introduction to the workshop. The workshop will contain invited talks, contributed talks, and a discussion session. The latter is will give the participants a chance to discuss informally research directions, open problems, and possible co-operations. Submission details: Authors are invited to submit a full paper of original work in the areas mentioned above. The workshop chair should be informed of closely related work submitted to a conference or journal in advance of submission. One author of each accepted paper will be expected to present it at the LAM’10 workshop. Submissions should not exceed 15 pages, preferably using the LaTeX article class. The following formats are accepted: PDF, PS. Please send your submission electronically via EasyChair (http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lam09) by the deadline listed below. The submissions will be reviewed by the workshop's programme committee and additional reviewers. Accepted papers will appear in electronic proceedings and authors will be encouraged to re-submit papers to formal proceedings to be published as a separate publication, e.g. as a special journal issue. Invited Speakers: Frank Pfenning (Carnegie Mellon University) David Pym (University of Bath and HP) Important Dates: Submission Deadline: 9 April 2010 Notification: 1 May 2010 Workshop: 15 July 2010 Programme Committee: Thomas Agotnes, Bergen, Norway Matteo Baldoni, Torino, Italy Marina De Vos, Bath, UK Louise Dennis, Liverpool, UK Jürgen Dix, Clausthal, Germany Berndt Farwer (chair), Durham, UK Michael Fisher, Liverpool, UK Didier Galmiche, Nancy, France James Harland, Melbourne, Australia Andreas Herzig, Toulouse, France Wojtek Jamroga, Clausthal, Germany Michael Köhler-Bußmeier, Hamburg, Germany João Leite, Lisbon, Portugal Alessio Lomuscio, London, UK Dale Miller, INRIA, France Frederic Peschanski, Paris, France Vladimiro Sassone, Southampton, UK Wamberto Vasconcelos, Aberdeen, UK Further Information: About the workshop: http://www.dur.ac.uk/lam.10 About LICS: http://www2.informatik.hu-berlin.de/lics/lics10/ From hak at ca.ibm.com Mon Mar 29 12:59:09 2010 From: hak at ca.ibm.com (Hassan Ait-Kaci) Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2010 03:59:09 -0700 Subject: [CFP] RULE 2010 (Edinburgh, UK, July 14, 2010) Message-ID: Submission is now open. Please forward as appropriate. Thank you very much. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Although we try avoiding cross-posting, we do apologize if that happens] --------------------------------------------------------------------------- RULE 2010 ELEVENTH INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON RULE-BASED SPECIFICATION AND PROGRAMMING RULE-BASED PROGRAMMING IN INDUSTRY AND THE SEMANTIC WEB Edinburgh, UK July 14, 2010 http://www.di.uminho.pt/rule2010 IMPORTANT DATES: Submission deadline: Friday, April 16, 2010 PC meeting: Monday-Friday, May 24-28, 2010 Authors notified: Thursday, June 3, 2010 Final copies due: Friday, June 25, 2010 RULE 2010 Workshop: Wednesday, July 14, 2010, --------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------- nächster Teil -------------- Ein Dateianhang mit HTML-Daten wurde abgetrennt... URL: From jean at ensma.fr Mon Mar 29 15:02:35 2010 From: jean at ensma.fr (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?St=E9phane_Jean?=) Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2010 15:02:35 +0200 Subject: Call for Papers: The 11th International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering (WISE 2010) In-Reply-To: <4BAA1943.8070801@ensma.fr> References: <4B5EF766.5000605@ensma.fr> <4BAA1943.8070801@ensma.fr> Message-ID: <4BB0A4EB.7020602@ensma.fr> Apologies for multiple postings =====================* The 11th International Conference on Web Information System Engineering(WISE 2010)*** http://conference.cs.cityu.edu.hk/wise2010/ *Call For Workshop Proposals * *Important dates for workshop proposals* Submission deadline: May 1, 2010. Notification: June 1, 2010. WISE is a leading international conference for researchers, practitioners, developers and users to share and exchange cutting-edge ideas, results, experience, techniques and tools in connection with all aspects of Web-based Information Systems. As the 11th event in the increasingly popular series, WISE 2010 expects to attract outstanding researchers from all over the world to Hong Kong - the Pearl of the Orient as a special administrative region of China, and continues to establish the status of WISE as one of the major conferences on Web-based information systems. We invite proposals for WISE 2010 workshops. Workshops are intended to provide a forum for the discussion and exchange of research results related to the conference topics among an international group of researchers. Workshop duration is either a whole day or a half day. Proposals to organize workshops should include the following information: · workshop title, brief description about the workshop, including a list of topics · why the proposed workshop is of interest to the WISE'10 attendees · names and contact information of the proposers · a tentative list of intended PC members for the workshop · the length (a half day or a whole day) and the format of the workshop · important dates · the expected number of attendees · a brief introduction of the proposers, including their qualifications The workshop proposers will be responsible for advertising the workshop, reviewing and selecting the papers. WISE'10 has a single registration for conferences, workshops and tutorials, and provides administrative support for workshop room booking, registration, and publication. All papers accepted by WISE'10 workshops will be published in a combined volume of LNCS series published by Springer (pending for approval). Since the final workshop proceedings may take 9 to 10 weeks for the publisher to print and deliver, the workshop proposers should take this into consideration when defining the important dates. Proposals should be sent as e-mail attachments to both of the workshops chairs by the captioned deadline. Enquiries can also be sent to the workshops chairs. *Workshop Co-Chairs* Dickson Chiu Dickson Computer Systems, Hong Kong dicksonchiu at ieee.org Ladjel Bellatreche LISI/ENSMA-Poitiers University, France bellatreche at ensma.fr -------------- nächster Teil -------------- Ein Dateianhang mit HTML-Daten wurde abgetrennt... URL: From tb at imm.dtu.dk Mon Mar 29 15:01:44 2010 From: tb at imm.dtu.dk (Thomas Bolander) Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2010 15:01:44 +0200 Subject: HyLo 2010: Deadline extended till April 7 Message-ID: <4BB0A4B8.4030903@imm.dtu.dk> ******************************************************************* HYLO 2010 DEADLINE EXTENDED! New deadline is Wednesday April 7 ******************************************************************* FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS International Workshop on Hybrid Logic and Applications (HyLo 2010) Affiliated with LICS 2010 July 10, 2010, Edinburgh, Scotland ******************************************************************* Scope ----- Hybrid logic is an extension of modal logic which allows us to refer explicitly to states of the model in the syntax of formulas. This extra capability, very natural in the realm of temporal logics, where one usually wants to refer to specific times, has been shown very effective in other domains too. Although they date back to the late 1960s, and have been sporadically investigated ever since, it was only in the 1990s that work on them really got into its stride. It is easy to justify interest in hybrid logic on applied grounds, with the usefulness of the additional expressive power. For example, when reasoning about time one often wants to build up a series of assertions about what happens at a particular instant, and standard modal formalisms do not allow this. What is less obvious is that the route hybrid logic takes to overcome this problem (the basic mechanism being to add nominals - atomic symbols true at a unique point - together with extra modalities to exploit them) often actually improves the behaviour of the underlying modal formalism. For example, it becomes far simpler to formulate modal tableau, resolution, and natural deduction in hybrid logic, and completeness and interpolation results can be proved of a generality that is simply not available in modal logic. That is, hybridization - adding nominals and related apparatus - seems a fairly reliable way of curing many known weaknesses in modal logic. Hybrid logic is now a mature field with significant impact on a range of other fields, including - description logic, - applied modal logics, - temporal logic, - memory logics, - memoryful logics, - reactive logic, - labelled deduction, and - feature logic. The topic of the HyLo workshop of 2010 is hybrid logic and its applications, for instance within the fields mentioned above. The scope is not only standard hybrid-logical machinery like nominals, satisfaction operators, and the downarrow binder but, more generally, extensions of modal logic that increase its expressive power. The workshop continues a series of previous workshops on hybrid logic and applications, for example the LICS-affiliated HyLo 2002 (http://floc02.diku.dk/HYLO) and HyLo 2006 (http://hylomol.ruc.dk/HyLo2006) which both were held as part of FLoC. Submissions ----------- Please use the HyLo 2010 submission page to submit papers (https://www.easychair.org/login.cgi?conf=hylo2010). Papers should not exceed 15 pages including references. The revised versions of accepted papers will be published online in a volume of Elsevier Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science (ENTCS). A preliminary version of the proceedings will be distributed at the workshop. Authors are invited to submit papers in the following two categories: - Regular papers describing original research. - Presentation-only papers describing work recently published or submitted. The presentation-only papers will be included in the preliminary proceedings, but not in the final proceedings in ENTCS. One author for each accepted paper must attend the workshop in order to present the paper. Authors are strongly encouraged to prepare their submissions according to the ENTCS guidelines (http://www.entcs.org). Important Dates --------------- Deadline for submissions: April 7, 2010 (strict) Notification of acceptance: May 1, 2010 Deadline for final versions: May 17, 2010 Invited Speakers ---------------- - Moshe Vardi, Rice University, USA - Gert Smolka, Saarland University, Germany Program Committee ----------------- Carlos Areces (INRIA Lorraine, France) Patrick Blackburn (INRIA Lorraine, France) Thomas Bolander (Technical University of Denmark), Co-chair Torben Braüner (Roskilde University, Denmark), Co-chair Stephane Demri (ENS de Cachan, France) Mai Gehrke (Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen, The Netherlands) Valentin Goranko (Technical University of Denmark) Valeria de Paiva (Cuil Inc., USA) Thomas Schneider (University of Manchester) Contact Details --------------- See the workshop home page (http://hylocore.ruc.dk/HyLo2010.html) for further information. Please send all correspondence regarding the workshop to the organizers: Thomas Bolander http://www.imm.dtu.dk/~tb Torben Braüner http://www.ruc.dk/~torben From Masoud.Mohammadian at canberra.edu.au Tue Mar 30 01:47:40 2010 From: Masoud.Mohammadian at canberra.edu.au (Masoud.Mohammadian) Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2010 10:47:40 +1100 Subject: CFP: 6th IFIP INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE APPLICATIONS & INNOVATIONS (AIAI 2010) References: Message-ID: (Apologies if you have received multiple CFPs) ================================================ 6th IFIP INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE APPLICATIONS & INNOVATIONS (AIAI 2010) 5 - 7 October 2010, Ayia Napa, Cyprus http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/aiai2010 We kindly inform you that due to numerous requests the deadlines for submitting abstracts, full papers, workshop proposals, and tutorial proposals have been extended. ================================================ IMPORTANT DATES: Abstract Submission: 20th March 2010 (new deadline extension) Full Paper Submission: 29th March 2010 (new deadline extension) Workshop Proposal Submission: 20th March 2010 (new deadline extension) Tutorial Proposal Submission: 20th March 2010 (new deadline extension) Notification of Acceptance: 28th May 2008 (new deadline extension) Camera-ready Copy Due: 10th June 2010 (new deadline extension) Conference dates: 5 - 7 October 2010 ================================================ KEYNOTE SPEAKERS: Zbigniew Michalewicz, School of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Adelaide, Australia Alex Gammerman, Department of Computer Science, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK Masoud Mohammadian, Faculty of Information Science and Engineering, University of Canberra: ACT, Australia ================================================ CALL FOR PAPERS: The abundance of information and increase in computing power currently enables researchers to tackle highly complicated and challenging computational problems. Solutions to such problems are now feasible using advances and innovations from the area of Artificial Intelligence. The general focus of the AIAI 2010 conference is to provide insights on how Artificial Intelligence may be applied in real world situations and serve the study, analysis and modelling of theoretical and practical issues. Also, research papers describing advanced prototypes, innovative systems, tools and techniques are encouraged. General survey papers indicating future directions and professional work-in-progress reports are of equal interest. Acceptance will be based on quality, originality and practical merit of the work. Authors are invited to electronically submit original, English-language research contributions or experience reports. Submitted papers must present unpublished work, not being considered for publication in other journals or conferences. SUBMISSIONS: Regular Papers and Workshop Papers: The maximum length permitted is eight (8) pages, formatted according to Springer IFIP series instructions. The Programme Committee may reject papers exceeding this length. Authors are strongly encouraged to use the correct document style from the Springer IFIP website (http://www.springer.com/series/6102). This should be done for their initial submission, so that preparation of the final papers will be simplified. A fully electronic review process by three academic reviewers is planned for all submitted papers. Full papers and workshop or tutorial proposals should be submitted electronically in postscript, pdf or word format. At least one author of each accepted paper is required to register and present the paper. Papers shall not be included in the proceedings if these requirements are not met, nor if the registration fee is not received until the camera-ready deadline. For further information related to the technical programme or other details on the conference, please contact the Organising Chair, Harris Papadopoulos, at H.Papadopoulos at frederick.ac.cy. WORKSHOPS & TUTORIAL PROPOSALS: Workshop proposals comprising original research papers on innovative or otherwise provocative issues within the conference topic areas are also encouraged. Workshops should be held simultaneously with the 6th IFIP AIAI conference. Submitted proposals should include a 2-3 page summary of the topic, including the names and affiliations of Programme Committee members and chairs. Also, the chairs of the workshops should arrange the publication of accepted papers. For questions regarding workshop proposals, please contact the Workshop Chair, Nicos Mateou, at NMateou at mod.gov.cy. Proposals for 90-minute tutorials are also invited in areas within the conference's topics. Tutorial proposals must be 5 pages at most, identifying the intended audience and presenting enough material to provide a sense of what will be covered. For questions related to the tutorials please e-mail the Tutorials Chair, Tasos Sofokleous, at asofok at cs.ucy.ac.cy. SPECIAL ISSUES: Based on the reviewers' comments and on the presentation, and after a second peer review process, a number of selected papers will be published in a special issue of the International Journal on Artificial Intelligence Tools (IJAIT), World Scientific Publishing Co., Print ISSN: 0218-2130, Online ISSN: 1793-6349. TOPICS: Suggested topics include, but are not limited to, the following: Theoretical Advances Machine Learning Adaptive Control Data FusionReasoning Methods Knowledge Acquisition and Representation Planning and Scheduling Artificial Neural Networks Expert Systems Fuzzy Logic and Systems Genetic Algorithms and Programming Particle Swarm Optimisation Bayesian Models Knowledge Engineering Data Mining and Information Retrieval Decision Support Systems Knowledge Management for e-Learning and Enterprise Portals Intelligent Information Systems Web- and Knowledge-Based Information Systems Ontologies Signal Processing Techniques and Knowledge Extraction Computer Vision Human-Machine Interaction / Presence Learning and Adaptive Systems Pattern Recognition Signal and Image Processing Speech and Natural Language Processing Multimedia, Graphics and Artificial Intelligence Multimedia Computing Multimedia Ontologies Smart Graphics Colour/Image Analysis Speech Synthesis Trends in Computing Accessibility and Computers Affective Computing Agent and Multi-Agent Systems Autonomous and Ubiquitous Computing Distributed AI Systems and Architectures Grid-Based Computing Intelligent Profiling and Personalisation Robotics and Virtual Reality Artificial Intelligence Applications eBusiness, eCommerce, eHealth, eLearning Engineering and Industry Environmental Modelling Finance Telecommunications - Transportation Crisis and Risk Management Medical Informatics and Biomedical Engineering Political Decision Making Natural Language Processing Planning and Resource Management Project Management Emerging Applications Forensic Science Other AI and Ethical Issues Evaluation of AI Systems Social Impact of AI ORGANISATION: General Co-Chairs: Andreas S. Andreou, University of Cyprus and Cyprus University of Technology Max Bramer, University of Portsmouth Program Committee Chair: Lazaros Iliadis, Democritus University of Thrace Organising Chair: Harris Papadopoulos, Frederick University More information can be found at http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/aiai2010 We look forward to seeing you in Ayia Napa, Cyprus! Andreas S. Andreou Conference General Co-Chair From baojie at gmail.com Tue Mar 30 13:42:47 2010 From: baojie at gmail.com (Jie Bao) Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2010 07:42:47 -0400 Subject: Call for Participation and Proposals - The Metadata Committee of The International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC) 2010 Message-ID: *Call for Participation and Proposals* The Metadata Committee of The International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC) 2010 Nov 7th-11th, 2010. Shanghai, China ==Objectives== In the past decade, the semantic web technologies have been matured, and the amount of semantic data published on the Web has increased dramatically. The International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC), one of the major events for the Semantic Web, has collected data about the conference itself (e.g., papers, people and satellite events) since 2004. The data, along with data from several other Web-related conferences such as ESWC and WWW, is publicly accessible from the "Semantic Web Dog Food" (SWDF) server (http://data.semanticweb.org). The International Semantic Web Conference 2010 plans to extend the scope of the data it will collect about the event, and to encourage the development of innovative applications that use the ISWC data as well other linked data (including other SWDF data). The goal is to demonstrate the value of semantic technologies, to explore novel approaches in building semantic applications, and to better serve the Semantic Web community by "eating our own dog food". ==How to Participate== For this goal, ISWC 2010 establishes a Metadata Committee. Each member of the committee will be responsible for a specific project that contributes new data related to the conference or builds an application consuming the ISWC data. To participate in the committee, interested parties should submit a proposal for participation that contains information about * Type of the project (e.g., data contribution or application development) * Topic (e.g., scope of the data or the functionality of the application) * Brief description about the proposed approach * Project schedule * Participants and contact information Interested parties should email the proposal to the Metadata Committee Chair (Jie Bao, baojie at cs.rpi.edu) by the submission deadline. During ISWC 2010, participants of the committee will report their work at an "ISWC Metadata Demonstration Session" session. Successful participants are expected to submit a paper after the conference describing their projects. Selected papers will be published online at CEUR proceedings. ==Topics of the Proposal== Topics of the proposal include but are not limited to * New forms of data related to ISWC (e.g., about submissions, participants, schedule, on-site activities, etc.) * Mashup ISWC data with Social Web data (e.g., from Facebook or Twitter) * Visualization of ISWC data * Applications to improve real-time interactive of conference participants. * Better means for searching ISWC data * Applying ISWC data to improve community building * Discovering community-related knowledge from ISWC data ==Proposal Deadlines== * Proposal due: June 7th, 2010 * Notification of acceptance: June 14th, 2010 * Presentation about the project: Nov 7th-11th, 2010 (TBD) From franconi at inf.unibz.it Tue Mar 30 15:35:22 2010 From: franconi at inf.unibz.it (Enrico Franconi) Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2010 15:35:22 +0200 Subject: European Master in Computational Logic - many scholarships for all students Message-ID: <8B317556-0570-46ED-89BA-C083DB7429E0@inf.unibz.it> *** EUROPEAN MASTERS PROGRAM IN COMPUTATIONAL LOGIC *** http://www.computational-logic.eu The Faculty of Computer Science at the Free University of Bozen- Bolzano (FUB), in Italy (at the heart of the Dolomites mountains in South-Tyrol), is offering the European Masters Program in Computational Logic as part of its Master of Science in Computer Science offer (Laurea Magistrale). The European Masters Program in Computational Logic is an international distributed Master of Science course, in cooperation with the computer science departments in the following universities: * Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy * Technische Universitaet Dresden, Germany * Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal * Technische Universitaet Wien, Austria Within this program, completely in English, students will spend the first semester of the first year at the Technische Universitaet Dresden (TUD), the second semester of the first year at the Free Uni- versity of Bozen-Bolzano (FUB), and the second year in one of the 4 partner universities chosen by the student. It is possible to spend 3 months at the National ICT Australia (NICTA) Research Centre of Excellence, which gives the possibility to work on a project at one of the world's leading research centers. After this, the student will obtain a joint European Master of Science degree. APPLICATION DEADLINE: - *** 15 May 2010 *** deadline for European and non-European students (notification of acceptance: 15 June 2008) SCHOLARSHIPS & MONEY SUPPORT: Several scholarships (all including tuition/enrolment fee waivers) are offered by the EMCL to the best students for the duration of the master program: FULL scholarships of 750 EUR per month; SMALL scholarships of 200 EUR per month; and SIMPLE tuition/enrolment fee waivers. All European students will get a LLP Socrates Erasmus scholarship for the second year of study, corresponding to 330 EUR per month. European citizens can apply to scholarships which are granted purely on the basis of the yearly income of the applicant and of her/his parents or husband/wife. This scholarship is only for the year of study at FUB and it may amount up to more than 6,000 EUR per academic year, plus support on the accommodation and a tuition/enrolment fee waiver. These scholarships are also available to non-European citizens with residence in Italy. Check the web page for detailed info on other available scholarships: http://www.computational-logic.eu THE STUDY PROGRAMME: The European Masters Program in Computational Logic is designed to meet the demands of industry and research in this rapidly growing area. Based on a solid foundation in mathematical logic, theoretical computer science, artificial intelligence and declarative programming students will acquire in-depth knowledge necessary to specify, implement and run complex systems as well as to prove properties of these systems. In particular, the focus of instruction will be in deduction systems, knowledge representation and reasoning, artificial intelligence, formal specification and verification, logic and automata theory, logic and computability. This basic knowledge is then applied to areas like logic and natural language processing, logic and the semantic web, bioinformatics, information systems and database technology, software and hardware verification. Students will acquire practical experience and will become familiar in the use of tools within these applications. In addition, students will be prepared for a future PhD, they will come in contact with the international research community and will be integrated into ongoing research projects. They will develop competence in foreign languages and international relationships, thereby improving their social skills. Applicants should have a Bachelor degree (Laurea triennale) in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or other relevant disciplines; special cases will be considered. The programme is part of the Master in Computer Science (Laurea Magistrale in Informatica) and it has various strengths that make it unique amongst Italian and European universities: * Curriculum taught entirely in English: The programme is open to the world and prepares the students to move on the international scene. * Possibility of a strongly research-oriented curriculum. * Possibility for project-based routes to obtain the degree and extensive lab facilities. * Other specialisations with streams in the hottest Computer Science areas, such as Web Technologies, Information and Knowledge Management, Databases and Software Engineering. * International student community. * Direct interaction with the local and international industry and research centres, with the possibility of practical and research internships that can lead to future employment. * Excellent scholarship opportunities and student accommodations. The European Masters Program in Computational Logic is sponsored scientifically by the European Network of Excellence on Computational Logic (CoLogNET), the European Association of Logic, Language and Information (FoLLI), the European Coordinating Committee for Artificial Intelligence (ECCAI), the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence (AI*IA), the Italian Association for Informatics (AICA, member of the Council of European Professional Informatics Societies), the Italian Association for Logic and its Applications (AILA), and the Portuguese Association for Artificial Intelligence (APPIA). THE FREE UNIVERSITY OF BOZEN-BOLZANO: The Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, founded in 1997, boasts modern premises in the centre of Bozen-Bolzano. The environment is multilingual, South Tyrol being a region where three languages are spoken: German, Italian and Ladin. Studying in a multilingual area has shown that our students acquire the cutting edge needed in the international business world. Many of our teaching staff hails from abroad. Normal lectures are complemented with seminars, work placements and laboratory work, which give our students a vocational as well as theoretical training, preparing them for their subsequent professional careers. Studying at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano means, first and foremost, being guided all the way through the student's educational career. Bozen-Bolzano, due to its enviable geographical position in the centre of the Dolomites, also offers our students a multitude of opportunities for spending their free-time. The city unites the traditional with the modern. Young people and fashionable shops throng the city centre where ancient mercantile buildings are an attractive backdrop to a city that is in continual growth. To the south there is the industrial and manufacturing area with prosperous small and medium-sized businesses active in every economic sector. Back in the 17th century Bozen-Bolzano was already a flourishing mercantile city that, thanks to its particular geographic position, functioned as a kind of bridge between northern and southern Europe. As a multilingual town and a cultural centre Bozen-Bolzano still has a lot to offer today. Its plethora of theatres, concerts with special programmes, cinemas and museums, combined with a series of trendy night spots that create local colour make Bozen-Bolzano a city that is beginning to cater for its increasingly demanding student population. And if you fancy a very special experience, go and visit the city's favourite and most famous resident - "Oetzi", the Ice Man of Similaun, housed in his very own refrigerated room in the recently opened archaeological museum. Bozen-Bolzano and its surroundings are an El Dorado for sports lovers: jogging on the grass alongside the River Talfer-Talvera, walks to Jenesien-S.Genesio and on the nearby Schlern-Sciliar plateau, excursions and mountain climbing in the Dolomites, swimming in the numerous nearby lakes and, last but not least, skiing and snowboarding in the surrounding ski areas. FURTHER INFORMATION: Prof. Enrico Franconi or Dr. Sergio Tessaris at info at fub.computational-logic.eu European Masters Program in Computational Logic Faculty of Computer Science Free University of Bozen-Bolzano Piazza Domenicani, 3 I-39100 Bozen-Bolzano BZ, Italy Phone: +39 0471 016 000 Fax: +39 0471 016 009 Email: info at fub.computational-logic.eu Web site: http://www.computational-logic.eu From walid.chainbi at gmail.com Tue Mar 30 19:20:45 2010 From: walid.chainbi at gmail.com (Walid Chainbi) Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2010 19:20:45 +0200 Subject: CFP: Adaptation of Web Services (AWS'2010) Message-ID: [Apologies if you receive this more than once] ****************************************** Call For Papers ********************************************** * First International Workshop on the Adaptation of Web Services (AWS'2010) * * August 31st, Toronto, Canada, 2010 * * http://www.uc.rnu.tn/aws2010.html * * within WI/IAT’2010 conference * AIMS AND SCOPE ++++++++++++++ Service-Oriented Computing (SOC) is a computing paradigm that utilizes Web services as the basic constructs to support the development of rapid, low-cost and easy composition of distributed applications even in heterogeneous environments. With the advent of SOC, computing environments have become open, and components are no longer under a single organization’s control. Consequently, Web services based applications are becoming difficult to adapt. Moreover, with the rapid growth of communication and information technologies, adaptation has gained a significant attention as it becomes a key feature of Web services allowing them to operate and evolve in highly dynamic environments. Adaptation mechanisms refer to different instantiations including configuration, healing, optimization, and protection. The primary objective of this workshop is to investigate ideas that may contribute to the adaptation of Web services. Theoretical as well as practical aspects are welcome. The workshop organizers welcome participation and contributions from those working or interested in the intersection of technologies such as agent technology and autonomic computing with SOC. TOPICS OF INTEREST ++++++++++++++++++ The topics of interest for AWS’2010 include, but are not limited to: * Adaptation solutions to Web services * Applications of adaptive Web services * Optimization of Web services * Configuration of Web services * Healing of Web services * Protection of Web Services * Self-* Web services * Agents vs. Web services * Agents for Web services * Design and management of self-* Web services. SUBMISSION PROCEDURE and FORMATTING GUIDELINES ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Authors should submit their contributions electronically in PDF format by using the WI-IAT CyberChair system http://wi-consortium.org/cyberchair/wiiat10/scripts/ws_submit.php by the deadline given below. Papers should be written in English with a maximum of 15 pages. All submitted papers will be reviewed on the basis of technical quality, relevance, significance, and clarity. Accepted papers will be included in the Workshop Proceedings published by the IEEE Computer Society Press and will be available at the workshop. Depending on the quality of contributions, we are planning to publish a post-proceedings of the papers either as a book or a special issue of an international journal. WORKSHOP CHAIRS +++++++++++++++ Dr. Walid Chainbi Sousse National School of Engineers/ LI3, Sousse University, Tunisia E-mail: Walid.Chainbi at gmail.com Pr. Khaled Ghedira Institut Supérieur de Gestion de Tunis/LI3, Tunis University, Tunisia E-mail:Khaled.Ghedira at isg.rnu.tn PROGRAM COMMITTEE +++++++++++++++++ * Walt Truszkowski, NASA Goaddard Space Flight Center (USA) * Roy Sterritt, University of Ulster at Jordanstown (Northern Ireland) * Huaglory Tianfield, Glasgow Caledonian University (UK) * Jeffrey Kephart, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center (USA) * Walid Chainbi, Sousse National School of Engineers (Tunisia) * Rainer Unland, University of Duisburg-Essen (Germany) * Christoph Reich, Hochschule Furtwangen University (Germany) * Zakaria Maamar, Zaied University (UAE) * Giovanni Russello, Create-net (Italy) * ALi A. Ghorbani, University of New Brunswick (Canada) * David Chess, Thomas J. Watson Research Center, IBM Research Division (USA) * Manish Parashar, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (USA) * Hamid Motahari, Hewlett Packard Laboratories, Palo Alto (USA) * Mohand-Said Hacid, University Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (France) IMPORTANT DATES +++++++++++++++ * April, 16, submission due. * June, 7, notification of acceptance. * June, 21, camera-ready due. If you have any question or need clarification on any of the information in this CFP, please contact Dr. Walid Chainbi at: Walid.Chainbi at gmail.com. ****************************************************************************************************************** -------------- nächster Teil -------------- Ein Dateianhang mit HTML-Daten wurde abgetrennt... URL: From j44zhang at cs.uwaterloo.ca Tue Mar 30 23:55:41 2010 From: j44zhang at cs.uwaterloo.ca (Jie Zhang) Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2010 17:55:41 -0400 Subject: PST2010 CFP: EIGHTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE on PRIVACY, SECURITY, and TRUST In-Reply-To: <20100207222955.48694q9idjzfno74@www.nexusmail.uwaterloo.ca> References: <20100207222955.48694q9idjzfno74@www.nexusmail.uwaterloo.ca> Message-ID: <20100330175541.155424c1i3zk1c2s@www.nexusmail.uwaterloo.ca> (Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message) ******************************************************************** PST 2010 EIGHTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE on PRIVACY, SECURITY, and TRUST Ottawa, Canada August 17-19, 2010 http://pstnet.unb.ca/pst2010 ******************************************************************** Preliminary Call for Papers The PST2010 International Conference on Privacy, Security and Trust (PST) is being held in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, August 17-19, 2010. PST2010 is the eighth such annual conference focusing on PST technologies. PST2010 provides a forum for researchers world-wide to unveil their latest work in privacy, security and trust and to show how this research can be used to enable innovation. This year's theme is "Privacy, Security and Trust by Design: PbD - The Gold Standard." With the growth and ubiquity of data in today's hyper-networked world, the need for trust has become more critical than ever. We need new paradigms that seek to integrate and build privacy, security and trustworthiness directly into technologies and systems from the outset and by default. IMPORTANT DATES: ---------------- Paper submission due: April 3, 2010 Notification of acceptance: May 29, 2010 Final manuscripts due: June 26, 2010 PST2010 will include an Industry Day followed by two days of high-quality research papers whose topics include, but are NOT limited to, the following: - Privacy Preserving / Enhancing Technologies - Trust Technologies, Technologies for Building Trust in e-Business Strategy - Critical Infrastructure Protection - Observations of PST in Practice, Society, Policy and Legislation - Network and Wireless Security - Digital Rights Management - Operating Systems Security - Identity and Trust management - Intrusion Detection Technologies - PST and Cloud Computing - Secure Software Development and Architecture - Human Computer Interaction and PST - PST Challenges in e-Services - Implications of, and Technologies for, Lawful Surveillance - Network Enabled Operations - Biometrics, National ID Cards, Identity Theft - Advanced Training Tools - PST and Web Services / SOA - Information Filtering, Data Mining & Knowledge from Data - Privacy, Traceability, and Anonymity - National Security and Public Safety - Trust and Reputation in Self-Organizing Environments - Security Metrics - Anonymity and Privacy vs. Accountability - Recommendation, Reputation and Delivery Technologies - Access Control and Capability Delegation - Continuous Authentication - Representations and Formalizations of Trust in Electronic and Physical Social Systems High-quality papers in all PST related areas that, at the time of submission, are not under review and have not already been published or accepted for publications elsewhere are solicited. Accepted papers will be accepted as "regular" papers up to 8 pages and with oral presentations, or "short" papers of up to 2 pages with poster presentations. The standard IEEE two-column conference format should be used for all submission. A copy of the IEEE Manuscript Templates for Microsoft Word or LaTeX and additional information about paper submission and conference topics and events can be found at the conference web site. All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceeding, and by IEEE* and will be accessible* via IEEE Xplore Digital Library. Best Paper and Best Student Paper awards will be presented. Some travel grants to students who are presenting their work in the conference will also be made available. For additional information please visit the conference web site: http://pstnet.unb.ca/pst2010 From richard.booth at uni.lu Wed Mar 31 10:20:06 2010 From: richard.booth at uni.lu (Richard Booth) Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2010 10:20:06 +0200 Subject: Open PhD position (Luxembourg/Lens): Dynamics of Argumentation Message-ID: Apologies for multiple postings ---------------------- The University of Luxembourg is inviting applications for a 2+2-year PhD position in Computer Science (ref. number F1-070088). The position is embedded in a project "Dynamics of Argumentation" (http://icr.uni.lu/dynarg/DYNARG/Home.html), which is a common project between the Individual and Collective Reasoning (ICR) group at the Computer Science and Communication Research Unit (CSC) in Luxembourg (Responsible: Leon van der Torre) and the Centre de Recherche en Informatique de Lens (CRIL) at the Universit√© d'Artois, in Lens, France (Responsible: Souhila Kaci). The position is foreseen as a co-tutuelle position, that is the student will receive a degree from both universities. The successful candidate will be expected to work on abstract argumentation theory and belief dynamics. Offer: * A 2+2-year PhD position in Computer Science * Work in cooperation with 2 first class and highly active research groups (ICR and CRIL) in a friendly working environment; * Salary: 2300 Euros/month (gross) * Starting date: as soon as possible. Profile: * Candidates must hold a master degree in computer science or related areas; * The ideal candidate should have a strong background in logic-based approaches to artificial intelligence, e.g., in knowledge representation, reasoning about uncertainty, or reasoning about preferences. * Candidates should be proficient in mathematical reasoning and be capable of working with abstract concepts. * Candidates should possess good oral and written English skills. Applications should include an introduction letter indicating the motivation, a detailed CV including copies of the MSc diploma and information about the grades, and the names and contact details of two referees. We accept only electronic submissions, which should be sent to Richard Booth (richard.booth at uni.lu) and Leon van der Torre (leon.vandertorre at uni.lu), quoting the reference number for this position F1-070088. The deadline for applications is **April 15, 2010**. More information can be obtained from Richard Booth (richard.booth at uni.lu). DYNARG project homepage: http://icr.uni.lu/dynarg/DYNARG/Home.html University of Luxembourg homepage: http://www.uni.lu ICR homepage: http://http://icr.uni.lu CRIL homepage: http://www.cril.univ-artois.fr The University of Luxembourg, which was founded in 2003, is a research university at the heart of Europe. The Computer Science and Communication Research (CSC) research unit, which belongs to the Faculty of Science, Technology and Communication and counts around 150 people, is located in the city of Luxembourg, next to the European Institutions. From rendsvig at gmail.com Wed Mar 31 16:19:14 2010 From: rendsvig at gmail.com (Rasmus K. Rendsvig) Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2010 16:19:14 +0200 Subject: ESSLLI 2010 Poster and Call for Participation Message-ID: CALL FOR PARTICIPATION ********************************** ESSLLI 2010 / UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN / DENMARK / AUGUST 9-20, 2010 The European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI) is organized every year by the Association for Logic, Language and Information (FoLLI) in different sites around Europe. The main focus of ESSLLI is on the interface between linguistics, logic and computation. ESSLLI offers foundational, introductory and advanced courses, as well as workshops, covering a wide variety of topics within the three areas of interest: Language and Computation, Language and Logic, and Logic and Computation. Previous summer schools have been highly successful, attracting up to 500 students from Europe and elsewhere. The school has developed into an important meeting place and forum for discussion for students and researchers interested in the interdisciplinary study of Logic, Language and Information. During two weeks, around 50 courses and 10 workshops are offered to the attendants, each of 1.5 hours per day during a five days week, with up to seven parallel sessions. ESSLLI also includes a student session (papers and posters by students only, 1.5 hour per day during the two weeks) and four evening lectures by senior scientists in the covered areas. In 2010, the venue for ESSLLI will be The University of Copenhagen, Denmark. Chair of the Program Committee is Valentin Goranko (The Technical University of Denmark), and Chair of the Organizing Committee is Vincent F. Hendricks (The University of Copenhagen). The registration for ESSLLI 2010 is open, and until June 1, an early bird discount is available. * Student: €300 before June 1, 2010, 350€ after. * Regular: €450 before June 1, 2010, 480€ after. Different accommodation packages are available, from 21€/night to 46€/night. All packages are currently available, but availability cannot be guaranteed after May 3, 2010. The rooms suggested are at Danhostel Copenhagen City, a mere 10 minute walk from the main venue. For more information and links to registration and accommodation pages, please visit the ESSLLI 2010 website: http://esslli2010cph.info/ Attached is the ESSLLI 2010 poster -- feel free to print and/or circulate. Best regards, Rasmus K. Rendsvig, ESSLLI 2010 Organization Committee ------ Rasmus K. 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