From carlos.areces at gmail.com Tue Aug 2 00:02:03 2011 From: carlos.areces at gmail.com (Carlos Areces) Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2011 19:02:03 -0300 Subject: NASSLLI 2012: Call for Course and Workshop Proposals - EXTENDED DEADLINE Message-ID: ============================================================ NASSLLI 2012 North American Summer School in Logic, Language and Information 2012 http://nasslli2012.com/ June 18-22, University of Texas at Austin 2nd CALL for COURSE and WORKSHOP PROPOSALS The fifth NASSLLI (after previous editions at Stanford University, Indiana University and UCLA) will be hosted at the University of Texas at Austin, on June 18 - 22, 2012. The summer school, loosely modeled on the long- running ESSLLI series in Europe, will consist of a number of courses and workshops, selected on the basis of the proposals. By default, courses and workshops meet for 90 minutes on each of five days. Proposals are invited that present interdisciplinary work between the areas of logic, linguistics, computer science, cognitive science, philosophy and artificial intelligence, though work in just one area is within the scope of the summer school if it can be applied in other fields. Examples of possible topics would include e.g. logics for communication, computational semantics, game theory (for logic, language and/or computation), dynamic semantics, modal logics, linear logic, machine learning techniques, statistical language models, and automated theorem proving. We encourage potential course or workshop contributors to check out previous programs at: * http://www.linguistics.ucla.edu/nasslli04/program.html * http://www.stanford.edu/group/nasslli/ * http://www.indiana.edu/~nasslli/2003/program.html * http://www.indiana.edu/~nasslli/ Courses and workshops should aim to be accessible to an interdisciplinary, graduate level audience. Courses may certainly focus on a single area, but lecturers should then include introductory background, try to avoid specialized notation that cannot be applied more widely, and spend time on the question of how the topic is relevant to other fields. A workshop can be more accessible if its program is bracketed by broader-audience talks that introduce and summarize the week's presentations. Associated Workshops/Conferences: In addition to courses and workshops taking place during the main NASSLLI five day session, NASSLLI welcomes proposals for 1-3 day workshops or conferences hosted on campus immediately before or after the summer school, thus on the weekends of June 15-17 and June 23-25 2012. Previous such associated meetings have included the Dynamic Epistemic Logic Workshop, the Mathematics of Language conference, and the Theoretical Aspects of Reasoning About Knowledge (TARK) conference. Submission Details: Submissions should be submitted using EasyChair (http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=nasslli2012), and should indicate 1) person(s) in charge of the course/workshop and affiliation(s) 2) type of event (one week course or workshop, 2 hours a day) 3) an outline of the course/workshop up to 500 words 4) Special equipment (if any) needed to teach the course (beamer, computer ...) 5) a statement about the instructor's experience in teaching in interdisciplinary settings 6) expected costs (whether you want to be paid hotel and/or travel, and descriptions of funding in hand or for which you will apply) Financial Details: A course may be taught by one or two persons. Conference fees are waived for all instructors. However, we are only able to pay for the full travel and expenses of one instructor per course. If two persons are lecturing, they may share a lump sum paid for both. We must also stress that while proposals from all over the world are welcomed, the Summer School can in general guarantee only to reimburse travel costs for travel from destinations within North America to Texas, although exceptions can be made depending on the financial situation. Furthermore, we encourage all lecturers to fund their own travel if this is feasible, since this will allow us to use our available funding for student scholarships. Workshops are more complicated financially than courses, and a proposal for a workshop should include a plan to obtain some outside funding for the speakers. Schedule: August 15, 2011 - EXTENDED DEADLINE for submissions; August 31, 2011 - Course/workshop proposers notified of p.c. decisions; May 15, 2012 - Material for courses available for printing; Program Committee: Carlos Areces (co-chair), Universidad Nacional de Córdoba David Beaver, University of Texas, Austin Emily Bender, University of Washington Josh Dever, University of Texas, Austin Valeria de Paiva (co-chair), Rearden Commerce, Inc. Angelika Kratzer, University of Massachusetts Lawrence Moss, Indiana University Vladimir Lifschitz, University of Texas, Austin Eric Pacuit, Maryland University Chris Potts, Stanford University Chung-chieh Shan, Rutgers University Annie Zaenen, Stanford University and PARC Standing NASSLLI Steering Committee: David Beaver, University of Texas, Austin Phokion Kolaitis, UC Santa Cruz and IBM Almaden Research Center Lawrence S. Moss, Indiana University Valeria de Paiva , Rearden Commerce, Inc. Stuart Shieber, Harvard University Moshe Vardi, Rice University From Wiebe.Van-Der-Hoek at liverpool.ac.uk Wed Aug 3 10:52:39 2011 From: Wiebe.Van-Der-Hoek at liverpool.ac.uk (Wiebe van der Hoek) Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2011 09:52:39 +0100 Subject: CFP: psychological models of (ir)rationality and decision making Message-ID: Reminder: Call for papers For Knowledge, Rationality and Action, a permanent special section of Synthese, we would like to solicit papers for a special issue on psychological models of (ir)rationality and decision making. Further keywords include but are not limited to: preferences, analytic reasoning, intuition, emotions, and individual differences. The models may be general, pertaining to decision making in daily life, or applied to a specific professional domain. In the latter case, the domain should be introduced frugally and possible generalisations of the presented models to other domains should be discussed. Both empirical and conceptual papers are welcome. Contributions may not exceed 25 manuscript pages (double-spaced, pitch 12) or 5,000 words, including figures, tables, and references. Authors should follow the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (6th ed.) for general style and layout. Abstracts (maximum 250 words) of proposed submissions may be sent to the guest editor of this issue at C.Witteman at socsci.ru.nl before September 1st, 2011. Suitability of the abstracts will be judged by the guest editor before October 1st, 2011. When approved, full papers are due before December 1st, 2011. Reviews will be sent out by March 1st, 2012, and revisions are expected by May 1st 2012. The aim is to publish the special issue late 2012 or early 2013. Cilia Witteman, PhD, Behavioural Science Institute, Radboud University Nijmegen Wiebe van der Hoek, PhD, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Liverpool ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Prof. Wiebe van der Hoek Department of Computer Science University of Liverpool http://www.csc.liv.ac.uk/~wiebe/ tel (+44 151) 7954292 (office) (+44) 7970247480 (mobile) fax (+44 151) 79 54235 Liverpool L69 3BX, United Kingdom Wiebe.Van-Der-Hoek at liverpool.ac.uk From a.ricci at unibo.it Fri Aug 5 14:16:12 2011 From: a.ricci at unibo.it (Alessandro Ricci) Date: Fri, 5 Aug 2011 12:16:12 +0000 Subject: CFP: AGERE! at SPLASH - UPDATES Message-ID: <4D5ACA6E-BD0E-4AAF-8FA7-9690D3444C67@unibo.it> AGERE! CALL FOR PAPERS - UPDATES Event: AGERE! International Workshop at SPLASH 2011- Programming Systems, Languages, and Applications based on Agents, Actors, and Decentralized Control (http://agere2011.apice.unibo.it) IMPORTANT DATES **UPDATED**: Papers can now be submitted in two different moments: Early Submissions (to apply for the early SPLASH registration) - Deadlines: Paper Submission: Friday, 19 August 2011 Notification: Monday, 19 September 2011 Early SPLASH registration: Friday, 23 September 2011 Final version: Monday, 10 October 2011 Late Submissions - Deadlines: Paper Submission: Friday, 9 September 2011 Notification: Monday, 3 October 2011 Final version: Monday, 10 October 2011 Demo Demo submission: Friday, 9 September 2011 Demo notification: Monday, 19 September 2011 Workshop date: Monday, 24 October 2011 ABSTRACT The fundamental turn of software into concurrency and distribution is not only a matter of performance, but also of design and abstraction, calling for programming paradigms that would allow more naturally than the current ones to think, design, develop, execute, debug and profile programs exhibiting different degrees of concurrency, reactiveness, autonomy, decentralization of control, distribution. This workshop aims at exploring programming approaches explicitly providing a level of abstraction that promotes a decentralized mindset in solving problems and programming systems. To this end, the abstractions of agents and actors (and systems of agents and actors) are taken as a natural reference: the objective of the workshop is then to foster the research in all aspects of agent-oriented programming and actor-oriented programming as evolution of mainstream paradigms (such as OOP), including the theory and the practice of design and programming, bringing together researchers working on the models, languages and technologies, and practitioners developing real-world systems and applications. Read more at: http://agere2011.apice.unibo.it Join the group: https://groups.google.com/group/agere-at-splash to contribute to ongoing discussions about the AGERE! topics and workshop organization. ("Starting the workshop Now!" initiative) From K.M.Atkinson at liverpool.ac.uk Fri Aug 5 14:40:29 2011 From: K.M.Atkinson at liverpool.ac.uk (Atkinson, Katie) Date: Fri, 5 Aug 2011 12:40:29 +0000 Subject: JURIX 2011 - 2nd call for papers Message-ID: <681722A6-98C4-4573-ABF1-FE52BECAF1C2@liverpool.ac.uk> ------------------------------------- Apologies for cross-postings. ------------------------------------ 2nd Call for Papers: JURIX 2011 The 24th International Conference on Legal Knowledge and Information Systems University of Vienna, Austria, 14th-16th December 2011 http://www.univie.ac.at/RI/JURIX2011/ The submission site through EasyChair is now open at: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=jurix2011 The JURIX conference has been running annually for over 20 years and provides an international forum for both academics and practitioners in the field of legal informatics to meet and share their research and ideas to advance the field of legal knowledge systems. The 24th edition of JURIX will be hosted by the University of Vienna. We invite submission of original papers on the advanced management of legal information and knowledge, covering foundations, methods, tools, systems and applications for the following (non-exhaustive) list of topics: * Support for lawyers, in legal reasoning, document drafting, negotiation; * Support for the production and management of legislation, in agenda setting, policy analysis, drafting, workflow management, monitoring implementation; * Support for the judiciary, in application of the law, analysis of evidence, management of cases; * Support for police activities, in forensic inquiries, search and evaluation of evidence, management of investigations; * Support for public administration, in applying regulations and managing information; * Support for the acquisition, management or use of legal knowledge, using rules, cases, neural networks, intelligent agents or other methods; * Systems and methods to support policies and legal issues for social networks; * Retrieval of legal information; * Legal education; * Digital-rights management; * Alternative dispute resolution, particularly on-line; * Regulatory compliance and compliance of business processes; * Theoretical foundations for the use of Artificial Intelligence techniques in the legal domain; * Models of legal knowledge, including concepts (legal ontologies), rules, cases, principles, values and procedures; * Legal inference and argumentation; * Verification and validation of legal knowledge systems; * Management of legal information in the semantic web; * XML standards for legal documents, including legislative, judicial, administrative acts as well as private documents, such as contracts; * Modelling the legal interactions of autonomous agents and digital institutions; * Methods for managing organizational change when introducing legal knowledge systems; * Evaluation of systems using advanced informatics techniques in legal applications; * Interdisciplinary applications of legal informatics methods and systems. The deadline for paper submission is September 5th, 2011. Papers should be submitted through the EasyChair Conference Management System, using PDF, PostScript or Word format, and should not exceed 10 pages when formatted using the styles and guidelines in the Instructions for Authors. Author instructions and style sheets can be found at the IOS Press site. Workshops and a selection of conference papers will be published in the electronic journal Jusletter IT. Proposals for tutorials and workshops are invited and strongly encouraged. All proposals, including a short description of the topic, should be sent to the Programme Chair by email. Important Dates: * Submissions of papers: Monday 5th September 2011 * Proposals for workshops and tutorials: Monday 12th September 2011 * Notification of acceptance: Late September 2011 * Camera-ready copies: Mid-October 2011 * Conference: 14th-16th December 2011 JURIX conferences are held under the auspices of the Dutch Foundation for Legal Knowledge Systems. Programme Chair: Katie Atkinson, University of Liverpool, UK. Email: K.M.Atkinson at liverpool.ac.uk Local Organisation Chair: Erich Schweighofer, University of Vienna, Austria in co-operation with University of Brno, Czech Republic and Austrian Computer Society OCG, Vienna. Email: Erich.Schweighofer at univie.ac.at Programme Committee: Kevin Ashley, University of Pittsburgh, USA Zsolt Balogh, University of Pecs, Hungary Trevor Bench-Capon, University of Liverpool, UK Floris Bex, University of Dundee, UK Alexander Boer, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands Daniele Bourcier, CNRS CERSA, University of Paris 2, France Pompeu Casanovas, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain Jack G. Conrad, Thomson Reuters, USA Enrico Francesconi, ITTIG-CNR, Florence, Italy Anne Gardner, Atherton, USA Thomas Gordon, Fraunhofer FOKUS, Berlin, Germany Guido Governatori, NICTA, Australia Davide Grossi, University of Liverpool, UK Carole Hafner, Northeastern University, USA Rinke Hoekstra, VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands Friedrich Lachmayer, University of Innsbruck, Austria L. Thorne McCarty, Rutgers University, USA Laurens Mommers, Legal Intelligence, Rotterdam, The Netherlands Paulo Novais, Universidade do Minho, Portugal Monica Palmirani, University of Bologna, Italy Radim Polčák, Masaryk University, Czech Republic Henry Prakken, Universiteit Groningen & Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands Paulo Quaresma, Universidade de Evora & Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal Gerald Quirchmayr, University of Vienna, Austria Antonino Rotolo, University of Bologna, Italy Giovanni Sartor, European University Institute, Florence – Cirsfid, University of Bologna, Italy Ken Satoh, National Institute of Informatics and Sokendai, Japan Burkhard Schafer, University of Edinburgh, Scotland Uri Schild, Bar Ilan University, Israel Erich Schweighofer, University of Vienna, Austria Tom van Engers, Leibniz Center for Law, The Netherlands Bart Verheij, Universiteit Groningen, The Netherlands Doug Walton, University of Windsor, Canada Radboud Winkels, Leibniz Center for Law, Netherlands Adam Wyner, University of Liverpool, UK John Zeleznikow, Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia ------------------------------------ -------------- nächster Teil -------------- Ein Dateianhang mit HTML-Daten wurde abgetrennt... URL: From md63 at buffalo.edu Sat Aug 6 00:06:08 2011 From: md63 at buffalo.edu (Maureen Donnelly) Date: Fri, 5 Aug 2011 18:06:08 -0400 Subject: FOIS 2012: First call for papers Message-ID: <4526.1312581968@buffalo.edu> apologies for cross-posting ... CALL FOR PAPERS 7th International Conference on Formal Ontologies in Information Systems (FOIS 2012) held together with the 3rd International Conference on Biomedical Ontology (ICBO 2012), July, 24-27, 2012 in Graz, Austria http://purl.org/icbofois2012 ----------------------------------- DEFINITION AND SCOPE ----------------------------------- Ontology, originally a fundamental part of philosophical enquiry, is concerned with the analysis and categorization of what exists. In recent years, however, a complementary focus of ontological inquiry gained significant momentum fueled by the advent of complex information systems which rely on robust and coherent representations of their subject matter. The systematic study of such representations, their reasoning techniques and their relations to reality, are at the center of the modern discipline of formal ontology. Formal ontology in this modern sense is now a research focus in such diverse domains as conceptual modeling, database design, software engineering, organizational modeling, artificial intelligence, computational linguistics, the life sciences, bioinformatics, geographic information science, knowledge engineering, information retrieval, and the semantic web. Researchers in all these areas increasingly recognize 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, in providing a solid foundation for their work. The FOIS conference is designed to provide a meeting point for researchers from all disciplines with an interest in formal ontology. The conference encourages submission of high quality articles on both theoretical issues and concrete applications. As in previous years, FOIS 2012 is intended as a nexus of interdisciplinary research and communication. The FOIS conference series began with the first meeting in Trento, Italy in June 1998 followed by meetings in 2001, 2004, 2006, 2008, and 2010. The seventh FOIS conference will be held in Graz, Austria July 24-27, 2012, in conjunction with the 3rd International Conference on Biomedical Ontology (ICBO 2012). FOIS is the flagship conference of the International Association for Ontology and its Applications (IAOA), which is a non-profit organization the purpose of which is to promote interdisciplinary research and international collaboration at the intersection of philosophical ontology, linguistics, logic, cognitive science, and computer science, as well as in the applications of ontological analysis to conceptual modeling, knowledge engineering, knowledge management, information-systems development, library and information science, scientific research, and semantic technologies in general. ------------------------------ TOPICS OF INTEREST ------------------------------ We seek high-quality papers on a wide range of topics. While authors may focus on fairly narrow and specific issues, all papers should emphasize the relevance of the work described to formal ontology and to information systems. Papers that completely ignore one or the other of these aspects will be considered as lying outside the scope of the meeting. Topic areas of particular interest to the conference are: Foundational Issues * Kinds of entity: particulars/universals, continuants/occurrents, abstracta/concreta, dependent entities/independent entities, natural objects/artifacts * 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 artifacts, functions and roles * Ontology of mental reality and agency (beliefs, intentions, 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 * Ontological foundations for conceptual modeling * 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: Biomedical science, E-business, Enterprise integration, Engineering, Geography, Law, Library science, Linguistics, ... ----------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES ----------------------------- We are calling for papers to be considered for inclusion in FOIS 2012. Paper Submission Deadline: January 31, 2012 Notification: March 8, 2012 Camera-Ready Deadline for accepted papers: March 24, 2012 Conference Dates: July, 24-27, 2012 -------------------------------------------- CONFERENCE ORGANISATION -------------------------------------------- Conference chair: Michael Gruninger (University of Toronto, Canada) Program chairs: Maureen Donnelly (University at Buffalo, USA) and Giancarlo Guizzardi (Federal University of Espírito Santo, Brazil) Local organization: Stephan Schulz (Gratz University, Austria) ------------------------------------------------------ PROGRAM COMMITTEE (TENTATIVE) ------------------------------------------------------ Achille Varzi (Columbia University, New York, USA) Alan Rector (University of Manchester, UK) Albert Goldfain (University at Buffalo, USA) Aldo Gangemi (ISTC-CNR, Rome, Italy) Alessandro Lenci (University of Pisa, Italy) Antony Galton (University of Exeter, UK) Barry Smith (University at Buffalo, USA) Bill Andersen (Highleet, Inc., USA) Brandon Bennett (University of Leeds, UK) Carola Eschenbach (University of Hamburg, Germany) Chris Menzel (Texas A&M University, USA) Chris Welty (IBM Research, Hawthorne, USA) Christiane Fellbaum (Princeton University, USA) Claudio Masolo (ISTC-CNR, Trento, Italy) Colin Batchelor (Royal Society of Chemistry, UK) David Mark (University at Buffalo, USA) Decio Krause (Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC), Brazil) Fabian Neuhaus (NIST, USA) Florian Probst (SAP, Germany) Frank Loebe (University of Leipzig, Germany) Fred Freitas (Federal University of Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil) Frederico Fonseca (Penn State University, USA) Gerd Wagner (Brandenburg University of Technology, Germany) Heinrich Herre (University of Leipzig, Germany) Jan Dietz (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands) Janna Hastings (University of Geneva, Switzerland) Jeffrey Parsons (Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada) Jerome Euzenat (INRIA, Grenoble, France) Jerry Hobbs (University of Southern California, USA) Johanna Seibt (University of Aarhus, Denmark) John Bateman (University of Bremen, Germany) John Mylopoulos (University of Toronto, Canada) John Sowa (Vivomind Intelligence Inc., USA) Joost Breuker (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands) Krzysztof Janowicz, (UCLA, USA) Laure Vieu (CNRS-IRIT, Toulouse, France) Leo Obrst (The Mitre Corporation, USA) Leonardo Lesmo (University of Torino, Italy) Maria Luiza Machado Campos (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) Mark Musen (Stanford University, USA) Martin Doerr (Foundation for Research and Technology, Greece) Mathias Brochhausen (University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, USA) Matteo Cristani (University of Verona, Italy) Mauricio Barcelos de Almeida (Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil) Michael F. Uschold (Semantic Arts, Canada) Michael Gruninger (University of Toronto, Canada) Michael Sintek (DFKI GmbH, Kaiserslautern, Germany) Michel Dumontier (Carleton University, Canada) Nicola Guarino (ISTC-CNR, Trento, Italy) Olivier Bodenreider (National Library of Medicine, USA) Oscar Pastor (Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain) Paul Buitelaar (National University of Ireland, Galway) Peter Rittgen (University College Boras, Sweden) Pierdaniele Giaretta (University of Verona, Italy) Pierre Grenon (Open University, UK) Ricardo Falbo (Federal University of Espírito Santo, Brazil) Riichiro Mizoguchi (University of Osaka, Japan) Robert Hoehndorf (University of Cambridge, UK) Roberta Ferrario (ISTC-CNR, Trento, Italy) Roberto Casati (CNRS-EHSS, Paris, France) Stefano Borgo (ISTC-CNR, Trento, Italy) Terry Halpin (LogicBlox, Australia) Terry Langendoen (University of Arizona, USA) Thomas Bittner (University at Buffalo, USA) Ulrike Sattler (University of Manchester, UK) Veda Storey (Georgia State University, USA) Werner Ceusters (University at Buffalo, USA) Werner Kuhn (University of Munster, Germany) William McCarthy (Michigan State University, USA) Yair Wand (University of British Columbia, Canada) From jeffpan.sw at googlemail.com Wed Aug 10 18:43:27 2011 From: jeffpan.sw at googlemail.com (Jeff Pan) Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2011 17:43:27 +0100 Subject: [CFP] The Joint International Semantic Technology Conference (JIST 2011, deadline extended to 29 Aug, 2011) Message-ID: Apologies for cross-posting! ************************************************************************ * * CALL FOR PAPERS * The Joint International Semantic Technology Conference (JIST 2011) * * http://www.jist-conference.org/ * * *******Deadline extension: 29 Aug, 2011 (hard deadline)****** * *******Page limit: 16 pages max****** * * December 4-7, 2011 * Hangzhou, China * ************************************************************************ The Joint International Semantic Technology Conference (JIST) is a regional federation of Semantic Web related conferences. The mission of JIST is to bring together researchers in disciplines related to the semantic technology from across the Asia-Pacific Region. JIST 2011 incorporates the Asian Semantic Web Conference 2011 (ASWC 2011) and Chinese Semantic Web Conference 2011 (CSWC 2011). * Topics of Interest Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: ** Applications of the Semantic Web -Applications with clear lessons learned or evaluations -Semantic Web for large scale applications -Semantic Web for desktops or personal information management -Semantic Web for eGovernment -Semantic Web for life sciences and healthcare -Semantic Web for multimedia, sensors, and situational awareness -Semantic Web for P2P, services, agents, grids, and middleware -Semantic Web for software and systems engineering -Semantic Web in other areas -Mobile Semantic Web ** Management of Semantic Web Data -Languages, tools, and methodologies for representing and managing Semantic Web data -Database, IR, and AI technologies for the Semantic Web -Search, query, integration, and analysis on the Semantic Web -Robust and scalable knowledge management and reasoning on the Web -Machine learning and information extraction for the Semantic Web -Cleaning, assurance, and provenance of Semantic Web data, services, and processes -Principles and applications of very large Semantic Web data bases -Semantic wikis ** Ontology and Reasoning -Ontology modelling, reuse, extraction, and evolution -Ontology mapping, merging, and alignment -Ontology evaluation -Searching and ranking ontologies -Reasoning over Semantic Web data -New formalisms (such as probabilistic approaches) -Lightweight semantics (linked data, microformats, etc.) **Social Semantic Web -Social networks and processes on the Semantic Web -Semantic Web technologies for collaboration and cooperation -Representing and reasoning about trust, privacy, and security ** User Interfaces to the Semantic Web -Interacting with Semantic Web data -Semantic Web content creation and annotation -Mashing up Semantic Web data and processes -Novel interaction paradigms aimed at linked data -Semantic web applications to Web 2.0 sites -Natural language Semantic Web interfaces -Information visualisation of Semantic Web data * Submission Submissions to JIST 2011 should describe original, significant research on the semantic technologies. Submissions to JIST 2011 are expected to present their claimed contribution, with clear evidence to support their claims. All submissions will be critically reviewed by at least three members of the program committee. To assess submissions, reviewers will judge their relevance to semantic technologies, their originality, the technical soundness of their proposed approach and the readability of the submission. Submissions must be in PDF format, using the style of the Springer Publications format for Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). Submissions must be no longer than 16 pages. Submissions that exceed this limit may be rejected without review. JIST 2011 will not accept submissions that are under review for or have already been published in or accepted for publication in a journal or another conference. All submissions be submitted via EasyChair at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=jist2011 Accepted papers will be distributed to conference attendees and also published by Springer in the printed conference proceedings. At least one author of each accepted paper must register for the conference and present the paper there. * Important Dates - Submissions due: August 29, 2011, 23:59 (11:59pm, hard deadline) Hawaii time - Notification: Oct 6, 2011, 23:59 (11:59pm) Hawaii time - Camera ready: October 15, 2011, 23:59 (11:59pm) Hawaii time - Conference dates: December 4-7, 2011 * Organisation ** General Chairs - Ian Horrocks - Riichiro Mizoguchi - Zhaohui Wu ** Program Chairs - Huajun Chen - Hong-Gee Kim - Juanzi Li - Jeff Z. Pan -------------- nächster Teil -------------- Ein Dateianhang mit HTML-Daten wurde abgetrennt... URL: From lukasiew at gmail.com Sat Aug 13 23:05:42 2011 From: lukasiew at gmail.com (Thomas Lukasiewicz) Date: Sat, 13 Aug 2011 22:05:42 +0100 Subject: Deadline Extension: URSW 2011 Message-ID: <4E46E726.8040401@cs.ox.ac.uk> [Apologies for multiple copies] *********************************************************** CALL FOR PAPERS !! NEW SUBMISSION DEADLINE: August 18, 2011 !! 7th International Workshop on Uncertainty Reasoning for the Semantic Web http://c4i.gmu.edu/ursw/2011 In conjunction with the 10th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2011) Bonn, Germany October 23-27, 2011 *********************************************************** You are invited to participate in the upcoming workshop on Uncertainty Reasoning for the Semantic Web (URSW), to be held as part of the 10th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC) in October of 2011 at the Hotel Maritim Bonn, Germany. ISWC is a major international forum for presenting visionary research on all aspects of the Semantic Web. The Uncertainty Reasoning Workshop is an exciting opportunity for collaboration and cross-fertilization between the uncertainty reasoning community and the Semantic Web community. Effective methods for reasoning under uncertainty are vital for realizing many aspects of the Semantic Web vision, but the ability of current-generation web technology to handle uncertainty is extremely limited. Recently, there has been a groundswell of demand for uncertainty reasoning technology among Semantic Web researchers and developers. This surge of interest creates a unique opening to bring together two communities with a clear commonality of interest but little history of interaction. By capitalizing on this opportunity, URSW could spark dramatic progress toward realizing the Semantic Web vision. AUDIENCE The intended audience for this workshop includes the following - Researchers in uncertainty reasoning technologies with interest in Semantic Web and Web-related technologies; - Semantic web developers and researchers; - People in the knowledge representation community with interest in the Semantic Web. - Ontology researchers and ontological engineers; - Web services researchers and developers with interest in the Semantic Web; - Developers of tools designed to support semantic web implementation, e.g., Jena developers, Protégé developers, OWL-API developers. TOPIC LIST We intend to have an open discussion on any topic relevant to the general subject of uncertainty in the Semantic Web (including fuzzy theory, probability theory, and other approaches). Therefore, the following list should be just an initial guide. - Syntax and semantics for extensions to Semantic Web languages to enable representation of uncertainty; - Logical formalisms to support uncertainty in Semantic Web languages; - Probability theory as a means of assessing the likelihood that terms in different ontologies refer to the same or similar concepts; - Architectures for applying plausible reasoning to the problem of ontology mapping; - Using fuzzy approaches to deal with imprecise concepts within ontologies; - The concept of a probabilistic ontology and its relevance to the Semantic Web; - Best practices for representing uncertain, incomplete, ambiguous, or controversial information in the Semantic Web; - The role of uncertainty as it relates to Web services; - Interface protocols with support for uncertainty as a means to improve interoperability among Web services; - Uncertainty reasoning techniques applied to trust issues in the Semantic Web; - Existing implementations of uncertainty reasoning tools in the context of the Semantic Web; - Issues and techniques for integrating tools for representing and reasoning with uncertainty; - The future of uncertainty reasoning for the Semantic Web. IMPORTANT DATES August 18, 2011 Paper submissions due August 31 Paper acceptance notification September 5 Camera-ready papers due October 17 Presentations due October 23 7th Workshop on Uncertainty Reasoning for the Semantic Web SUBMISSION DETAILS The URSW will be accepting submissions of technical papers and position papers. Each submission will be evaluated for acceptability by at least three members of the Program Committee. Decisions about acceptance will be based on relevance to the above topic list, originality, potential significance, topicality and clarity. Since all accepted papers will be presented at the workshop, we require that at least one of the submitting authors must be a registered participant at the ISWC 2011 Conference, and committed to attend the URSW Workshop. Submissions to the Workshop are only accepted in electronic format and should be sent via the workshop's submission site: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ursw2011 Papers must be formatted in the style of the Springer Publications format for Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). This is the very same format adopted by the ISWC 2011. For complete details, see Springer's Author Instructions (http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0). Technical papers submitted to the URSW Workshop must not exceed 12 pages, including figures. Submissions exceeding this limit will not be reviewed. Position papers consist of a summary of ideas, projects, or any research efforts that are relevant to the URSW Workshop and must not exceed 4 pages. Following the general acceptance rules of the ISWC 2011 conference, papers that, at the time of submission, are under review for or have already been published in or accepted for publication in a journal or another conference will not be accepted to the URSW workshop. PRESENTATION AND PUBLICATION URSW 2011 will be a full-day workshop divided into 4 sessions. The first session will start with the workshop's keynote presentation, which will be followed by technical paper presentations. Sessions two and three will be devoted to presenting our selected technical and position papers, while the remaining session will be planned in a format that invites an open debate on the results, conclusions, recommendations, and follow-up work of the URW3-XG group. We plan to convey a work meeting after the workshop, if the last session needs to be extended. All papers accepted to the URSW will be presented during the workshop and published in the workshop proceedings, which will be available as a separate publication after the Conference. Authors of accepted technical papers will have 20 minutes to present their work, while authors of accepted position papers will have a 10-minute slot to share their ideas. After each presentation, 5 minutes will be allocated to questions from the audience. Both technical and position papers will be published in the URSW Workshop proceedings, to be available after the ISWC 2011 Conference. In addition, technical papers accepted for presentation at the URSW 2011 will be eligible for participating in an international journal special issue or in a post-proceedings book. ORGANIZING COMMITTEE The organizing committee is as follows (in alphabetical order): - Fernando Bobillo - University of Zaragoza, Spain - Rommel N. Carvalho - George Mason University, USA - Paulo C. G. Costa - George Mason University, USA - Claudia d'Amato - University of Bari, Italy - Nicola Fanizzi - University of Bari, Italy - Kathryn Laskey - George Mason University, USA - Ken Laskey - MITRE Corporation, USA - Thomas Lukasiewicz - Oxford University, UK - Trevor Martin - University of Bristol, UK - Matthias Nickles - Technical University of Munich, Germany - Michael Pool - Convera, Inc., USA PROGRAM COMMITTEE The confirmed members of the program committee are the following (in alphabetical order): - Fernando Bobillo - Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain - Silvia Calegari - University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy - Rommel N. Carvalho - George Mason University, USA - Paulo C. G. Costa - George Mason University, USA - Fabio G. Cozman - Universidade de Sao Paulo, Brazil - Claudia D'Amato - University of Bari, Italy - Nicola Fanizzi - University of Bari, Italy - Marcelo Ladeira - University of Brasilia, Brazil - Kathryn B. Laskey - George Mason University, USA - Kenneth J. Laskey - MITRE Corporation, USA - Thomas Lukasiewicz - Oxford University, UK - Trevor Martin - University of Bristol, UK - Matthias Nickles - Technical University of Munich, Germany - Jeff Z. Pan - University of Aberdeen, UK - Rafael Peñaloza, Technical University Dresden, Germany - Michael Pool - Convera, Inc., USA - Livia Predoiu - Universität Mannheim, Germany - Célia Ralha - University of Brasilia, Brazil - David Robertson - University of Edinburgh, UK - Daniel Sánchez - European Centre for Soft Computing, Spain - Thomas Scharrenbach - Swiss Federal Institute WSL, Switzerland - Sergej Sizov - University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany - Giorgos Stoilos - Oxford University, UK - Umberto Straccia - ISTI-CNR, Pisa, Italy - Andreas Tolk - Old Dominion University, USA - Peter Vojtas - Charles University, Czech Republic We are looking forward to seeing you in Bonn! From t.dinoia at poliba.it Sun Aug 14 22:12:19 2011 From: t.dinoia at poliba.it (Tommaso Di Noia) Date: Sun, 14 Aug 2011 22:12:19 +0200 Subject: Deadline Extension: 2nd SPIM workshop at ISWC 2011 Message-ID: <4E482C23.7000309@poliba.it> [Apologies for possible multiple posts] ---------------------------------------- !! NEW SUBMISSION DEADLINE: August 21, 2011 !! ============================ CALL FOR PAPERS ============================ 2nd Workshop on Semantic Personalized Information Management: Retrieval and Recommendation (SPIM 2011) in conjunction with ISWC2011, October 23-27, 2011, Bonn, Germany Deadline for paper submission: August 21, 2011 Web: http://www.dai-labor.de/spim2011/ MOTIVATIONS ---------------------------------------- Search engines implementing the canonical search paradigm are adequate for most ad-hoc keyword-based search tasks, but they reach limits when user needs have to be satisfied in a personalized way. With the advent of the Semantic Web, new opportunities emerge for semantic information retrieval systems to better match user needs. Next generation search engines should implement a novel search paradigm, where the user perspective is completely reversed: from finding to being found. Recommender Systems may help to support this new perspective, because they have the effect of pushing relevant objects to potentially interested users. An emerging approach is to use Semantic Web technologies to model information about users, their needs and preferences, their context and relations, and to incorporate data from other resources like Linked Open Data. The aim of the workshop is to investigate whether and how this large amount of wide-coverage and linked semantic knowledge can significantly improve the search/recommendation process in those tasks that cannot be solved merely through a straightforward matching of queries and documents. The list below provides the topics of interest of this workshop. TOPICS ---------------------------------------- * Systems that create, exploit, and evaluate semantic technologies for improving PIM * Exploiting Linked Open Data for PIM * Semantic search: information retrieval, extraction and filtering * Semantic exploratory browsing * Semantic recommender systems * Personalized search: ranking integration, privacy issues, novelty and serendipity * Ontology-based user modeling and user model aggregation * Personalized interaction in mobile, ubiquitous and context-aware computing * Use of semantic technologies in UI/HCI * Hybridizing Semantic Web and Machine Learning techniques for PIM * New personalization algorithms for large semantic data sets * Applications for SPIM FORMAT/SUBMISSION ---------------------------------------- We welcome work at all stages of development: papers can describe applied systems, empirical results or theoretically grounded positions. All papers must represent original and unpublished work that is not currently under review. Papers will be evaluated according to their significance, originality, technical content, style, clarity, and relevance to the workshop. At least one author of each accepted paper is expected to attend the workshop. Submissions must adhere to the Springer LNCS format (see the example document with author instructions), and be made through the EasyChair conference system. Full papers: 10-12 pages. Original mature research Short papers: 6-8 pages. Original ongoing research Posters: 4 pages. Original ongoing research or research ideas of visual nature Accepted papers will be included in the workshop proceedings and will be published on the workshop webpage and on CEUR-WS.org site. IMPORTANT DATES ---------------------------------------- Submissions due: August 21, 2011 Notification: September 5, 2011 Camera-ready: September 12, 2011 Workshop day: October 24 ---------------------------------------- Workshop Organizers and Program Chairs ---------------------------------------- * Marco de Gemmis, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Italy * Ernesto William De Luca, Berlin Institute of Technology, Germany * Tommaso Di Noia, Technical University of Bari, Italy * Aldo Gangemi, Italian National Research Council (ISTC-CNR), Italy * Michael Hausenblas, National University of Ireland (NUIG), Ireland * Pasquale Lops, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Bari, Italy * Thomas Lukasiewicz, University of Oxford, United Kingdom * Till Plumbaum, Berlin Institute of Technology, Germany * Giovanni Semeraro, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Italy PROGRAM COMMITTEE ---------------------------------------- * Fabian Abel, TU Delft, The Netherlands * Claudio Bartolini, HP Labs, Palo Alto, USA * Marco Brambilla, Politecnico di Milano, Italy * Andrea Calì, University of Oxford, United Kingdom * Charles Callaway, University of Haifa, Israel * Ivan Cantador, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain * Pablo Castells, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain * Federica Cena, Università degli Studi di Torino, Italy * Philipp Cimiano, University of Bielefeld, Germany * Mathieu D’Aquin, Knowledge Media institute of the Open University in Milton Keynes, United Kingdom * Marco de Gemmis, University of Bari “Aldo Moro”, Italy * Ernesto William De Luca, Berlin Institute of Technology, Germany * Tommaso Di Noia, Technical University of Bari, Italy * Nicola Fanizzi, Università degli Studi di Bari, Italy * Bettina Fazzinga, Università della Calabria, Italy * Miriam Fernandez, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain * Tim Furche, Oxford University Computing Laboratories, United Kingdom * Aldo Gangemi, Institute for Cognitive Sciences and Technology, Italy * Michael Hausenblas, DERI – Digital Enterprise Research Institute, Ireland * Tom Heath, Talis Information Ltd, United Kingdom * Dominikus Heckmann, DFKI, Germany * Eelco Herder, L3S Research Center, Germany * Dietmar Jannach, Dortmund University of Technology, Germany * Pasquale Lops, University of Bari “Aldo Moro”, Italy * Thomas Lukasiewicz, University of Oxford, United Kingdom * Till Plumbaum, Berlin Institute of Technology, Germany * Georg Ruß, University of Magdeburg, Germany * Alan Said, Berlin Institute of Technology, Germany * Giovanni Semeraro, University of Bari “Aldo Moro”, Italy * Wolf Siberski, Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany CONTACTS ---------------------------------------- For any queries please contact: Web: http://www.dai-labor.de/spim2011/ E-mail: spim at lists.dai-labor.de Twitter: @SPIMWS From sofronie at mpi-inf.mpg.de Mon Aug 15 00:27:30 2011 From: sofronie at mpi-inf.mpg.de (Viorica Sofronie-Stokkermans) Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2011 00:27:30 +0200 (CEST) Subject: FroCoS 2011: Call for Participation Message-ID: <4c0d026eba47e5d2c2a7f5e8be9cf518.squirrel@mail.mpi-inf.mpg.de> ================================================================== CALL FOR PARTICIPATION FroCoS'11 8th International Symposium on FRONTIERS OF COMBINING SYSTEMS Saarbruecken, Germany, October 5-7, 2011 http://www.mpi-inf.mpg.de/conferences/frocos2011/ ==================================================================== GENERAL INFORMATION ------------------- FroCoS offers a common forum for the presentation and discussion of research in the general area of combination, modularization and integration of systems, with emphasis on logic-based systems and their applications. This research touches many areas of computer science such as computational logic, program development and verification, artificial intelligence, automated reasoning, constraint solving, declarative programming, and symbolic computation. REGISTRATION & ACCOMODATION --------------------------- Registration, accomodation, and travel information for FroCoS'11 can be found on the FroCoS'11 web pages http://www.mpi-inf.mpg.de/conferences/frocos2011/ DEADLINES: Early registration: until 25.08.2011 Regular registration: from 26.08.2011 until 25.09.2011 Late registration: from 26.09.2011 SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM * Presentation of 3 invited talks * Presentation of 1 invited tutorial * Presentation of 15 regular research papers INVITED SPEAKERS * Alessandro Artale, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano * Martin Lange, University of Kassel * Tobias Nipkow, Technical University München TUTORIAL * André Platzer, Carnegie Mellon University PROGRAM -------- The program is available at: http://www.mpi-inf.mpg.de/conferences/frocos2011/frocos11-program.html ===================================================================== From alan.wu at oracle.com Sat Aug 20 00:50:42 2011 From: alan.wu at oracle.com (Zhe Wu) Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2011 15:50:42 -0700 Subject: CALL FOR POSTER AND DEMONSTRATION PAPERS: JIST 2011 http://www.jist-conference.org/ Message-ID: <4E4EE8C2.7030309@oracle.com> Apologies for cross-posting! ************************************************************************ * * CALL FOR POSTER AND DEMONSTRATION PAPERS * The Joint International Semantic Technology Conference (JIST 2011) * *http://www.jist-conference.org/ * * *******Abstract Deadline: 29 Aug, 2011****** *******Submission Deadline: 9 Sept, 2011****** * *******Page limit: 6 pages max****** * * December 4-7, 2011 * Hangzhou, China * ************************************************************************ The JIST 2011 Posters and Demonstration papers complements the full papers of the conference and offer an opportunity for presenting late-breaking research results, ongoing research projects, and speculative or innovative work in progress. Poster and Demo presentations allow researchers to present and to receive direct feedback from audience about significant work in progress, bleeding-edge work, or research that is best communicated in an interactive or graphical fashion. We invite submissions relevant to the area of the Semantic Technology and which address, but are not limited to, the topics of mentioned in the CFP of JIST2011 full papers. Descriptions of ongoing/completed research work, reports on semantic software systems, "idea papers" (raising an interesting question or motivating an interesting line of research without already having solid results), position papers presenting a birds' eye view on some aspect of Semantic Technology in the sense of a meta-analysis, and PhD thesis abstracts are all welcome. Demonstrations are intended to showcase innovative Semantic Technology and related implementations. All submissions are intended to convey a scientific result or work in progress and should not be advertisements for commercial software packages. All Poster / Demonstration papers will be reviewed and published in the JIST2011 proceedings. Submissions must be in PDF format (no longer than 6 pages), using the style of the Springer Publications format for Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). All submissions be submitted via EasyChair at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=jist2011 Accepted papers will be distributed to conference attendees and also published by Springer in the printed conference proceedings. At least one author of each accepted paper must register for the conference and present the paper there. * Important Dates - Abstract due: August 29, 2011, 23:59 (11:59pm) Hawaii time - Submission due: September 9, 2011, 23:59 (11:59pm) Hawaii time - Notification: Oct 6, 2011, 23:59 (11:59pm) Hawaii time - Camera ready: October 15, 2011, 23:59 (11:59pm) Hawaii time - Conference dates: December 4-7, 2011 * Organisation - Zhe Wu (Oracle) - Yuan Ni (IBM China Research Lab) From aamas2012_publicity at infoscience.otago.ac.nz Mon Aug 22 05:39:24 2011 From: aamas2012_publicity at infoscience.otago.ac.nz (AAMAS 2012 Publicity Chair) Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2011 15:39:24 +1200 (NZST) Subject: CFP: Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS), June 4-8, 2012, Valencia, Spain In-Reply-To: <3de86a88-05ec-47ca-9aae-80fb643263d9@SBIS4329> Message-ID: <62daa813-b2a2-4734-ac81-9dc9a36a70f1@SBIS4329> CALL FOR PAPERS 11th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2012) Valencia, Spain June 4–8, 2012 http://aamas2012.webs.upv.es ** ABOUT AAMAS ** AAMAS is the leading scientific conference for research in autonomous agents and multiagent systems. The AAMAS conference series was initiated in 2002 by merging three highly respected meetings: the International Conference on Multi-Agent Systems (ICMAS); the International Workshop on Agent Theories, Architectures, and Languages (ATAL); and the International Conference on Autonomous Agents (AA). The aim of the joint conference is to provide a single, high-profile, internationally respected archival forum for scientific research in the theory and practice of autonomous agents and multiagent systems. AAMAS 2012 is the eleventh conference in the AAMAS series, following enormously successful previous conferences, and will be held at the Universitat Politècnica de València in Valencia, Spain, June 4-8, 2012. See http://www.ifaamas.org for more information on the AAMAS conference series. ** WHAT’S NEW? ** We realise that many of you will not read the CFP in detail. Please at least read the following points, which highlight significant recent changes. 1. When submitting papers, if the paper has appeared anywhere before, even as a short paper or in a workshop, then you must provide information on this - see the Submission Instructions section below for details. 2. The "industry track" changed in 2011 to the "innovative applications" track. 3. In response to comments at the AAMAS 2011 community discussion session, AAMAS 2012 also invites "perspective" papers (see the end of topic list for more information) ** TOPICS OF INTEREST ** Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Agent Communication: 1. Agent commitments 2. Communication languages 3. Communication protocols 4. Speech act theory Agent Cooperation: 1. Biologically-inspired approaches and methods 2. Collective intelligence 3. Distributed problem solving 4. Human-robot/agent interaction 5. Multi-user/multi-virtual-agent interaction 6. Teamwork, coalition formation, coordination 7. Incentives for Cooperation 8. Implicit Cooperation Agent Reasoning: 1. Planning (single and multiagent) 2. Reasoning (single and multiagent) 3. Cognitive models 4. Knowledge representation Agent Societies and Societal issues: 1. Artificial social systems 2. Environments, organisations and institutions 3. Ethical and legal issues 4. Peer to peer coordination 5. Privacy, safety and security 6. Social and organizational structure 7. Trust, reliability and reputation Agent Theories, Models and Architectures: 1. BDI 2. Belief revision 3. Bounded rationality 4. Formal models of agency 5. Logic-based approaches and methods 6. Mobile agents 7. Modeling other agents and self 8. Modeling the dynamics of MAS 9. Reactive vs. deliberative approaches 10. Service oriented architectures 11. Verification of MAS Agent-based simulation: 1. Artificial societies 2. Emergent behavior 3. Simulation techniques, tools and environments 4. Social simulation Agent-based system development: 1. Agent development techniques, tools and environments 2. Agent programming languages 3. Agent specification or validation languages 4. Design languages for agent systems 5. Development environments 6. Programming languages 7. P2P, web services, grid computing 8. Software engineering (agent- or multi agent-oriented) Agreement Technologies: 1. Argumentation 2. Collective decision making 3. Judgment aggregation and belief merging 4. Negotiation 5. Norms Economic paradigms: 1. Electronic markets 2. Economically-motivated agents 3. Game Theory (cooperative and non-cooperative) 4. Social choice theory 5. Voting protocols 6. Artificial economies/markets 7. Auction and mechanism design 8. Bargaining and negotiation Learning and Adaptation: 1. Computational architectures for learning 2. Reward structures for learning 3. Evolution, adaptation 4. Co-evolution 5. Single agent Learning 6. Multiagent Learning Systems and Organisation: 1. Autonomic computing 2. Complex systems 3. Self-organisation Perspectives (see below) * Perspective Papers * These are papers that analyse in some way the agents research community, or part of it. These papers will be handled like any other AAMAS submission; they will be evaluated in terms of their originality, soundness, significance, presentation, understanding of the state of the art, and overall quality of their technical contribution. Papers that merely present a numerical analysis of trends without insightful interpretation, or that fail to situate their analysis within the existing body of literature, are unlikely to be accepted. Examples of appropriate topics for perspective papers include (but are not necessarily limited to): 1. An analysis of data concerning trends in a given sub-area of agents, along with a discussion of these trends. 2. An overview of the state of adoption in practice of agents, along with an analysis of reasons and future trends 3. Any other papers that take a "step back" and consider the research and/or adoption of some aspect (or all of) the agents community ** KEY DATES ** For Authors: Electronic Abstract Submission: October 7, 2011 (11:59 PM HST) Full Paper Submission: October 12, 2011 (11:59 PM HST) Rebuttal Phase: November 29 – December 1, 2011 (11:59 PM HST) Author Notification: December 21, 2011 (11:59 PM HST) Conference: June 4–8, 2012 For Reviewers: Bidding deadline: October 14, 2011 (11:59pm HST) Paper assignments announced: October 24, 2011 Reviewing Period: October 24 – November 21, 2011 Discussion Period: December 2–9, 2011 ** SUBMISSION ** AAMAS 2012 seeks submissions of high-quality full papers, limited to 8 pages in length. Submissions will be rigorously peer reviewed and evaluated on the basis of originality, soundness, significance, presentation, understanding of the state of the art, and overall quality of their technical contribution. Reviews will be double blind; authors must avoid including anything that can be used to identify them. Please note that prior submission of an abstract is required to submit a full paper. However, the abstracts will not be reviewed and full (8 page) papers must be submitted for the review process to start. All work must be original (must not have appeared in a conference proceedings, book, or journal). * Submission Instructions * To register and submit your paper (in PDF format), please go to the submission website: http://aamas2012.confmaster.net and follow the instructions. Please keep in mind that you must submit an abstract by October 7, 2011 to be able to upload your paper (abstract submission is required to submit a paper, but abstracts will NOT be reviewed). The abstract and paper submissions close at 11:59 PM Hawaii Standard Time (HST = GMT - 10:00) on Oct 7 and Oct 12 respectively. If any substantial part of your work appeared previously, please provide the citation and a one sentence description of the differences in the box provided. It is OK to submit work that has previously appeared in a workshop (without an associated archival publication). For such papers simply fill in the paper and workshop info. For papers that build on earlier work that appeared in an archival publication, please provide the citation and a one sentence description of the key advances/differences. This information will be kept from the reviewers to ensure a double-blind review and will only be used by the program chairs. * Formatting Instructions * The page limit for AAMAS 2012 submissions is 8 pages. The format follows the ACM proceedings guidelines and consists of balanced double columns, 9 pt text, 1" (2.54cm) margins top and bottom, and 0.75" (1.9cm) margins left and right. Each column is 3.33" (8.45cm) wide with a separation of 0.33" (0.83cm). A LaTeX style file and a Microsoft Word template will be available soon on the conference Web site (http://aamas2012.webs.upv.es). Please do not modify the style files, or any layout parameters. To ensure the effectiveness of the double-blind review process, make sure to put paper numbers (provided upon paper registration) instead of author names. In addition, please ensure that any references to your own previous work is made in a way that does not disclose author identity (for example, instead of "in previous work, we have shown X [ref]" use "X was shown in [ref]"). In some cases where the work is clearly a continuation of your earlier work, you may consider removing citations to your own work until the final version (for example, "we have shown X [ref]" where [ref]= "Anonymous, 200X"). Please also check that the PDF file submitted does not contain embedded identifying information. * Mandatory Sections * The mandatory sections of the ACM styles are also mandatory for AAMAS 2012 submissions. Not only will these sections help select the reviewers, but according to ACM: "these index terms effect the ease and accuracy of retrieval within the Digital Library which ultimately benefits authors by allowing for greater distribution of their work". Thus, although it may not be trivial to find the appropriate classification information, you should make an effort filling these sections: 1. Categories and Subject Descriptors: Details of the ACM Computing Classification Scheme are available at http://www.acm.org/about/class/1998/ 2. General Terms: This section is limited to the following 16 terms: Algorithms, Management, Measurement, Documentation, Performance, Design, Economics, Reliability, Experimentation, Security, Human Factors, Standardization, Languages, Theory, Legal Aspects, Verification. 3. Keywords: This section is your choice of terms you would like to be indexed by. Please refer to the Call for Paper page for a list of keywords. ** SPECIAL TRACKS ** In addition to submissions in the main track, AAMAS-2012 will be soliciting papers in three special tracks. The review process for the special tracks will be similar to the main track, but with program committee members specially selected for that track. * Special Track on Robotics (Chair: Daniele Nardi) * Papers that advance theory and applications of single and multiple robots are welcome, specifically those focusing on real robots that interact with their environment. Papers should clearly explain how the work addresses challenges in robotics, opportunities for novel applications, and fundamental research issues in autonomous robotic systems. The goal is to demonstrate the synergy achieved from integration of research in agents and robotics. Keywords for Robotics Track: 1. Cognitive robotics 2. Formal methods 3. Integrated perception, cognition, and action 4. Intelligence for human-robot interaction 5. Machine learning for robotics 6. Mapping (including exploration, coverage, and SLAM) 7. Networked robot/sensor systems 8. Robot planning (including action and motion planning) 9. Robot teams, multi-robot systems 10. Robot coordination 11. Robotic agent languages and middleware for robot systems * Special Track on Virtual Agents (Chair: Stefan Kopp) * Virtual agents are embodied agents in interactive virtual or physical environments that emulate human-like behavior. We encourage papers on the design, implementation, and evaluation of virtual agents as well as challenging applications featuring them. The goal is to provide an opportunity for interaction and cross-fertilization between the AAMAS community and researchers working on virtual agents and to strengthen links between the two communities. Keywords for Virtual Agents Track: 1. Modeling cognition and socio-cultural behavior 2. Conversational agents 3. Verbal and non-verbal expression 4. Affect and personality 5. Multimodal agent interaction 6. Computational models of narrative 7. Pedagogical, companion, and coaching agents 8. Culturally-aware agents 9. Virtual character modeling and animation in games, education, training, and virtual environments 10. Empirical studies * Special Track on Innovative Applications (Chairs: Klaus Fischer & Alex Rogers) * The Innovative Applications Track is a continuation of the tradition started by the Industry Track in past years. Due to the growing maturity of the field there are now agent-based applications in widespread use across many domains, responsible for the generation of significant revenues, or the saving of major costs, or for supporting important public policy and business strategy decision-making. This special track provides the ideal forum to present and discuss your work: to inform and inspire the largest international gathering of agent technology researchers and practitioners with presentations and demonstrations of your compelling applications, agent system deployment experiences, and new business ideas. The goal is to promote the fostering of mutually beneficial relationships between members of the AAMAS community who are engaged in foundational scientific research and those who are working to make autonomous agents and multi-agent systems a commercial or public policy reality. Due to the special review process for the Innovative Applications track, papers accepted in this track may be designated in the proceedings as belonging to this track. For submissions to the special track on innovative applications, authors are particularly encouraged to address the following questions: What is the rationale for using agent-based technology in this application domain, as opposed to other approaches? If you have deployed your technology, what insights have you gained from the experience? For instance, what lessons do you have for anyone pitching, designing, implementing, deploying, using, or evaluating similar agent systems or working in similar domains? What improvements or external factors (such as technology standards) might facilitate wider-spread adoption of your technology? What improvements in fundamental agent technology might improve your application, or enable it to be adopted more broadly, or support its better use? Keywords for Innovative Applications Track: 1. Telecommunications and media 2. Energy and emissions 3. Bio-technology and health care 4. Financial markets 5. Manufacturing and logistics 6. Transportation and telematics 7. Ambient intelligence 8. Surveillance and security 9. Aerospace and defense 10. Business strategy and marketing 11. e-Government and e-Democracy 12. Public policy and Economics 13. Simulation 14. Implementation lessons 15. Business cases for MAS From announce at teco.edu Tue Aug 23 20:24:37 2011 From: announce at teco.edu (announce at teco.edu) Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2011 20:24:37 +0200 Subject: CONTEXT'11 - Call for Participation and CfP Doctoral Colloquium Message-ID: . . . . . . . . . . . . CONTEXT '11 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . The Seventh International and Interdisciplinary Conference . . . . . . . . . on Modeling and Using Context . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . September 26th - 30th, Karlsruhe, Germany . . . . . . . . . . . . . http://context-11.teco.edu/ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Call for Participation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Open Call: Doctoral Colloquium. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Post-Conference Publications. . . . . . . . . . PROGRAM ONLINE The Seventh International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Modeling and Using Context (CONTEXT'11) sets out to extend foundational and applied research on the topic of context. CONTEXT'11 will provide a forum for presenting and discussing about latest results on topics of context research. We invite participants from all areas related to context to register for the conference: http://context-11.teco.edu/registration.html >From the range of submissions, we have selected a program of 24 presentations on foundational and application-oriented research results. Moreover, three keynotes have been confirmed: Jerry Hobbs: Discourse Interpretation in Context Ruth Kempson: Modelling Context-Dependence: Ellipsis in Conversational Dialogue Paul Holleis: Providing Generic Context for Mobile Games on Phones More information about the keynotes at http://context-11.teco.edu/is.html The full program is online at http://context-11.teco.edu/program.html POST-CONFERENCE PUBLICATIONS Post-conference special issues on topics of CONTEXT'11 have been confirmed with the journals Personal and Ubiquitous Computing and Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Smart Environments. OPEN CALL: DOCTORAL COLLOQUIUM CONTEXT'11 will host a doctoral colloquium to give PhD students a forum to present their current work and discuss it with leading scientists in the interdisciplinary research area of Context. The doctoral colloquium intends * to provide a setting for mutual feedback on participants' current work and pointers on future directions; * to develop a supportive community of scholars and a spirit of collaborative research; * and to contribute to a successful conference fostering interaction between researchers. For more information: http://context-11.teco.edu/dc.html IMPORTANT DATES Sept. 7th, 2011 . . . . . Submission Deadline Sept. 9th, 2011 . . . . . Notification of Acceptance Sept. 15th, 2011 . . . . . All Camera-ready Copies Sept. 26th, 2011 . . . . . Date of Colloquium GENERAL CHAIRS Michael Beigl, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany Henning Christiansen, Roskilde University, Denmark Thomas R. Roth-Berghofer, University of Hildesheim, Germany PROGRAM CHAIRS Hedda R. Schmidtke, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany Anders Kofod-Petersen, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway Kenny R. Coventry, Northumbria University, United Kingdom e-mail: context11-pch at teco.edu From shenghui.wang at gmail.com Fri Aug 26 16:52:32 2011 From: shenghui.wang at gmail.com (shenghui wang) Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2011 16:52:32 +0200 Subject: First Call for Tutorials: The Joint International Semantic Technology Conference (JIST 2011) Message-ID: Apologies for cross-posting! ************************************************************************ * * CALL FOR TUTORIALS * The Joint International Semantic Technology Conference (JIST 2011) * * http://www.jist-conference.org/ * * *******Deadline: 15 Sept, 2011****** * * * December 4-7, 2011 * Hangzhou, China * ************************************************************************ The Joint International Semantic Technology Conference (JIST) is a regional federation of Semantic Web related conferences. The mission of JIST is to bring together researchers in disciplines related to the semantic technology from across the Asia-Pacific Region. JIST 2011 incorporates the Asian Semantic Web Conference 2011 (ASWC 2011) and Chinese Semantic Web Conference 2011 (CSWC 2011). Besides the main technical programme, JIST will host a number of tutorials on topics related to the general theme of the conference. We welcome submissions of tutorial proposals on all major topics related to semantic technologies, including, but not limited to those covered by the main conference: - Applications of the Semantic Web - Management of Semantic Web Data - Ontology and Reasoning - Social Semantic Web - user Interfaces to the Semantic Web JIST tutorials may be either for a full day or for a half day, but the rationale for the choice needs to be explained in the proposal. Tutorials may focus entirely on theoretical aspects; however, we encourage organisers to incorporate hands-on sessions where appropriate. Finally, we expect proposers to consider tutorials as educational events first, therefore they should plan to provide the attendees with a comprehensive introduction to the state-of-the-art in the tutorial’s topic before moving on to cover specific approaches in more depth. * Important Dates - Proposal submission: 15 September, 2011 - Notification of acceptance: 22 September 2011 - Tutorial date(s) at the conference: 4-5 December 2011 * Submission Guidelines Tutorial proposals should not exceed 5 pages and should contain the following information: - Title - Abstract (200 words maximum) - Justification for the tutorial, including timeliness and relevance to JIST 2011 - Tutorial description (aims, target audience, presentation method, technical requirements) - Outline of the tutorial content and schedule - Information on presenters (name, affiliation, expertise, experience in teaching and in tutorial presentation) Proposals should be submitted as a single PDF file by email to the Tutorial Chairs: - Shenghui Wang shenghui.wang (at) wur.nl - Ming Zhang mzhang (at) net.pku.edu.cn From romain.rouvoy at lifl.fr Tue Aug 30 12:49:51 2011 From: romain.rouvoy at lifl.fr (Romain Rouvoy) Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2011 12:49:51 +0200 Subject: =?windows-1252?Q?=5BCFP=5D_European_Conference_on_Computer_Syste?= =?windows-1252?Q?ms_=28EuroSys=9212=29?= Message-ID: EuroSys’12, the European Conference on Computer Systems 10-13 April 2012 Bern, Switzerland http://eurosys2012.unibe.ch EuroSys’12, the European Conference on Computer Systems, seeks papers on all aspects of computer systems, especially ones that bridge traditionally disjoint areas. All areas of operating systems and distributed systems are of interest, including: * Systems aspects of: - Cloud, grid, and internet/web computing - Databases, and information and data management - Dependable computing - Distributed computing - Local and distributed storage - Management, autonomics, and control - Measurement, monitoring, analysis, and diagnostics - Mobile, personal, and pervasive computing - Parallel and concurrent computing - Programming-language support and runtime systems - Real-time and embedded systems - Security - Sensor nets and tiny devices * Experience with existing systems * Negative results / reproduction or refutation of previous results In addition to papers that report on the design, implementation, evaluation and deployment of systems or research work, we also actively encourage papers about new ideas, or experiences with ideas or systems. Appropriate standards will be applied to papers in different categories: for experiences papers, evaluation and lessons learned will be more important than novelty. Papers are reviewed by the program committee in a two-round process. Papers will be accepted primarily for their impact on the systems community. Novelty, clarity of explanation, thoroughness of evaluation, and bridging gaps between different communities are additional criteria. Note that the above does not preclude the submission of a paper that is derived from a previous short paper or workshop paper, as long as it provides a significant new contribution. Acceptance may be provisional, subject to further shepherding by a member of the program committee before final acceptance. Reviewing will be double-blind, meaning the authors' identities will be hidden from the reviewers. EuroSys applies ACM's policies for plagiarism, submission confidentiality, reviewer anonymity, and prior and concurrent paper submission. EuroSys implements confidentiality of submissions by (a) limiting access to submitted papers to the PC members and, in case the designated PC member needs a second opinion, external reviewers from the PC member’s organisation, and (b) publishing the names of all external reviewers. Submissions accompanied by nondisclosure agreement forms will not be considered. Submissions may not exceed 12 pages double column, including everything (i.e., figures, tables, references, appendices, etc.), and should use a 10pt font. A LaTeX style file is available from the submission site. No changes to margins, spacing, or font sizes are allowed from those specified by the style file. Papers that violate the submission guidelines will be automatically rejected without consideration of their merit. Accepted papers will be allowed 14 pages in the proceedings. At least one author of an accepted paper will be expected to travel to the conference to present it. Authors who are unsure whether or not their submissions might meet these guidelines, or with specific questions about the guidelines, are welcome to contact the program committee co-chairs, via eurosys2012-chairs at cs.vu.nl. In order to encourage and aid authors less experienced in writing competitive systems papers, we offer a pre-submission option. All complete papers received by the pre-submission deadline (4 weeks before the actual paper deadline) will, within one week, receive feedback from an experienced systems researcher and reviewer on how to improve the paper. This feedback will focus on structure and presentation issues and emphasize improving the writeup rather than critiquing the research. As such, the same standards of double-blind reviewing apply as for the final papers. In addition to paper presentations, EuroSys'12 will have a poster session. Submissions for posters will open closer to the conference deadline. Accepted papers will automatically qualify for the poster session, and authors will be strongly encouraged to participate. We will offer awards for the best paper and for the best paper with a student as the primary author. --------------- Important dates --------------- * Paper pre-submission deadline: 20 September 2011 * Abstract submission deadline: 14 October 2011 * Full paper submission deadline: 20 October 2011 * Reviews released to authors: 24 December 2011 * Author rebuttals due: 1 January 2012 * Notification to authors: 8 January 2012 * EuroSys'12 workshops: 10 April 2012 * EuroSys'12 conference: 11-13 April 2012 ----------------- Program Committee ----------------- PC Chairs * Frank Bellosa, KIT * Herbert Bos, VU University PC Members * Ricardo Bianchini, Rutgers University * Willem de Bruijn, Google * George Candea, EPFL * Manuel Costa, MSR Cambridge * Jon Crowcroft, Cambridge University * Leendert van Doorn, AMD * Kevin Elphinstone, UNSW & NICTA * Dawson Engler, Stanford University * Bryan Ford, Yale University * Andy Georges, Ghent University * Ashvin Goel, University of Toronto * Steve Gribble, University of Washington * Andreas Haeberlen, University of Pennsylvania * Hermann Härtig, TU Dresden * Eric van Hensbergen, IBM Austin * Maurice Herlihy, Brown University * Nikolai Joukov, IBM Watson * Eric Jul, DIKU * Frans Kaashoek, MIT * Terence Kelly, HP Labs * Anne-Marie Kermarrec, INRIA * Orran Krieger, VMWare * Jeff Mogul, HP Labs * Frank Müller, NCSU * Jason Nieh, Columbia University * Pradeep Padala, Docomo Labs * Guillaume Pierre, VU University * Niels Provos, Google * Rodrigo Rodrigues, MPI-SWS * Timothy Roscoe, ETH Zurich * Wolfgang Schröder-Preikschat, FAU * Assaf Schuster, Technion * Karsten Schwan, Georgia Tech * Emin Gün Sirer, Cornell University * Paulo Verissimo, University of Lisboa * Andrew Warfield, University of British Columbia * Yuanyuan Zhou, UCSD ------- Contact ------- Conference Website: http://eurosys2012.unibe.ch/ Follow us on twitter: http://twitter.com/eurosys2012 For any inquiries please contact the program chairs at: eurosys2012-chairs at cs.vu.nl From Narendra.Jussien at mines-nantes.fr Wed Aug 31 08:16:57 2011 From: Narendra.Jussien at mines-nantes.fr (Narendra Jussien) Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2011 08:16:57 +0200 Subject: CPAIOR 2012 first CFP Message-ID: <7FF67BC6-E46D-4737-A811-8339D4067830@mines-nantes.fr> CPAIOR 2012 First call for papers Ninth International Conference on Integration of Artificial Intelligence and Operations Research Techniques in Constraint Programming Cité des Congrès, Nantes, France MAY 28 - JUNE 1, 2012 ===================================== DEADLINES (beware EARLIER than usual) ===================================== PAPER SUBMISSION Abstract due : DECEMBER 01, 2011 Paper due: DECEMBER 05, 2011 Notification: JANUARY 12, 2012 web: http://www.emn.fr/z-info/cpaior-2012/ cpaior series: http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/vanhoeve/cpaior/ The Ninth International Conference on Integration of Artificial Intelligence and Operations Research Techniques in Constraint Programming will be held in Nantes, France, May 28-June 1, 2012. The aim of the conference is to bring together interested researchers from constraint programming (CP), artificial intelligence (AI) and operations research (OR) to present new techniques or new applications in combinatorial optimization and to provide an opportunity for researchers in one area to learn about techniques in the others. A main objective of this conference series is also to give these researchers the opportunity to show how the integration of techniques from different fields can lead to interesting results on large and complex problems. Therefore papers that actively combine, integrate, or contrast approaches from more than one of the areas are especially solicited. High quality papers from a single area are also welcome. Finally, application papers showcasing CP/AI/OR techniques on innovative and challenging applications or experience reports on such applications are strongly encouraged. The program committee invites submissions that include but are not limited to the following topics: * Inference and relaxation methods: constraint propagation, cutting planes, global constraints, graph algorithms, dynamic programming, Lagrangean and convex relaxations, counting based inferences and heuristics, constraint relaxation based heuristics. * Search methods: branch and bound, intelligent backtracking, incomplete search, randomized search, column generation and other decomposition methods, local search, meta-heuristics. * Integration methods: static/dynamic problem decomposition, solver communication, transformations between models and solvers, collaboration between concurrent methods, models, and solvers. * Modeling methods: comparison of models, symmetry breaking, uncertainty, dominance relationships, model compilation into different technologies (CP, LP, etc.), learning (CP, LP) models from examples. * Innovative Applications of CP/AI/OR techniques. * Implementation of CP/AI/OR techniques and optimization systems. PAPER SUBMISSION Paper submissions are of two types: Long papers and short papers. INSTRUCTION FOR LONG PAPERS: Long papers should present original unpublished work and be at most 15 pages plus references in length, and should be prepared in the format used for the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science series (http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html). These papers will undergo rigorous review. The proceedings will be published in the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. NOTE: Unlike previous CPAIOR conferences the page limit for long papers is 15 LNCS pages *plus references*. INSTRUCTION FOR SHORT PAPERS: Short papers are also encouraged, limited to 5 LNCS pages plus references and should be prepared with the same format as long papers (http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html). Although containing less material, short papers should describe original unpublished work and will be reviewed to the same criteria of quality as long papers. It is also encouraged to submit short papers about work in progress on ideas that are interesting but for which the practical or theoretical relevance is not yet fully identified. Short papers will be presented at the conference and published in the conference proceedings. For any queries on the paper submission process, please contact the Program Chairs on the email cpaior2012 at mines-nantes.fr CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION: Program Chairs Nicolas Beldiceanu Narendra Jussien Eric Pinson Conference Chair Narendra Jussien -- Pr. Narendra Jussien, Head of the CS departement Ecole des Mines de Nantes, LINA CNRS UMR 6241 - http://www.emn.fr/jussien