From pascal.hitzler at wright.edu Mon Dec 1 01:58:55 2014 From: pascal.hitzler at wright.edu (Pascal Hitzler) Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2014 19:58:55 -0500 Subject: CfP: Semantic Web journal special call for Tools/Systems papers Message-ID: <547BBD4F.9080407@wright.edu> special call for papers on SEMANTIC WEB TOOLS AND SYSTEMS http://www.semantic-web-journal.net/blog/special-call-tools-and-systems-papers The "Semantic Web" journal invites submissions of papers describing mature Semantic Web related tools and systems. These reports should be brief and pointed, indicating clearly the capabilities of the described tool or system. It is strongly encouraged, that the described tools or systems are free, open, and accessible on the Web. If this is not possible, then they have to be made available to the reviewers. For commercial tools and systems, exceptions can be arranged through the editors. Submissions will be reviewed along the following dimensions: (1) Quality, importance, and impact of the described tool or system (convincing evidence must be provided). (2) Clarity, illustration, and readability of the describing paper, which shall convey to the reader both the capabilities and the limitations of the tool. Some of the most visible papers in the Semantic Web journal are tools and systems papers. For a list of previously accepted such papers, please see http://www.semantic-web-journal.net/tools_and_systems. Tools and Systems papers are typically 8-10 pages long, but longer papers can also be submitted if there is significant additional content. Submission Deadline: 31st of January, 2015. Please take note of the submission information and guidelines. When entering your manuscript into the review system, please state "Tools and Systems" in the cover letter. Please also note the journal's open review process. Contact For any questions, please contact the editors-in-chief Pascal Hitzler, Wright State University Krzysztof Janowicz, University of California, Santa Barbara via contact @ semantic-web-journal . net -- 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 calimeri at mat.unical.it Tue Dec 2 00:39:36 2014 From: calimeri at mat.unical.it (Francesco Calimeri) Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2014 00:39:36 +0100 Subject: CfP LPNMR 2015 Announcement: selected papers to appear in AI Journal and TPLP Message-ID: [apologies for any cross-posting] Call for Papers --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 13th International Conference on Logic Programming and Non-monotonic Reasoning LPNMR 2015 http://lpnmr2015.mat.unical.it/ Lexington, KY, USA September 27-30, 2015 (Collocated with the 4th Conference on Algorithmic Decision Theory 2015) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- AIMS AND SCOPE LPNMR 2015 is the thirteenth in the series of international meetings on logic programming and non-monotonic reasoning. LPNMR is a forum for exchanging ideas on declarative logic programming, non-monotonic reasoning, and knowledge representation. The aim of the conference is to facilitate interactions between researchers and practitioners interested in the design and implementation of logic-based programming languages and database systems, and those working in knowledge representation and nonmonotonic reasoning. LPNMR strives to encompass theoretical and experimental studies that have led or will lead to the construction of systems for declarative programming and knowledge representation, as well as their use in practical applications. This edition of LPNMR will feature several workshops, a special session dedicated to the 6th ASP Systems Competition, and will be collocated with the 4th Algorithmic Decision Theory Conference, ADT 2015. Joint LPNMR-ADT Doctoral Consortium will be a part of the program. Authors are invited to submit papers presenting original and unpublished research on all aspects of non-monotonic approaches in logic programming and knowledge representation. We invite submissions of both long and short papers. TOPICS Conference topics include, but are not limited to: 1. Foundations of LPNMR Systems: * Semantics of new and existing languages; * Action languages, causality; * Relationships among formalisms; * Complexity and expressive power; * Inference algorithms and heuristics for LPNMR systems; * Extensions of traditional LPNMR languages such as new logical connectives or new inference capabilities; * Updates, revision, and other operations on LPNMR systems; * Uncertainty in LPNMR systems. 2. Implementation of LPNMR systems: * System descriptions, comparisons, evaluations; * Algorithms and novel techniques for efficient evaluation; * LPNMR benchmarks. 3. Applications of LPNMR: * Use of LPNMR in formalization of Commonsense Reasoning and other areas of KR; * LPNMR languages and algorithms in planning, diagnosis, argumentation, reasoning with preferences, decision making and policies; * Applications of LPNMR languages in data integration and exchange systems, software engineering and model checking; * Applications of LPNMR to linguistics, psychology, and other sciences * Integration of LPNMR systems with other computational paradigms; * Embedded LPNMR: Systems using LPNMR subsystems. SUBMISSION LPNMR 2015 welcomes submissions of long papers (13 pages) or short papers (6 pages) in the following categories: * Technical papers * System descriptions * Application descriptions The indicated number of pages includes title page, references and figures. All submissions will be peer-reviewed and accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings published in the Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI/LNCS) series. At least one author of each accepted paper is expected to register for the conference to present the work. Submissions must be formatted according to the Springer LNCS author instructions, http://www.springer.com/comp/lncs/Authors.html must be written in English, and present original research. Paper submission will be electronic through the LPNMR-15 Easychair site: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lpnmr2015 Two best papers of general AI interest will be invited for rapid publication in the journal Artificial Intelligence - Journal - Elsevier. Two best papers with narrower logic programming focus will be invited for a rapid publication in the journal Theory and Practice of Logic Programming. MULTIPLE SUBMISSION POLICY LPNMR 2015 will not accept any paper which, at the time of submission, is under review or has already been published or accepted for publication in a journal or another conference. Authors are also required not to submit their papers elsewhere during LPNMR's review period. However, these restrictions do not apply to previous workshops with a limited audience and without archival proceedings. ASSOCIATED EVENTS WORKSHOPS - LPNMR 2015 will include specialized workshops to be held on September 27 prior to the main conference. Currently planned workshops include: - Grounding, Transforming, and Modularizing Theories with Variables Organizers: Marc Denecker, Tomi Janhunen - Action Languages, Process Modeling, and Policy Reasoning Organizer: Joohyung Lee - Natural Language Processing and Automated Reasoning Organizers: Marcello Balduccini, Ekaterina Ovchinnikova, Peter Schueller - Learning and Nonmonotonic Reasoning Organizers: Alessandra Russo and Alessandra Mileo ASP COMPETITION - A special session dedicated to a discussion of the 6th ASP System Competition, including the methodology of the competition, benchmarks used, lessons learned and, most importantly, the results and the announcement of the winners. ALGORITHMIC DECISION THEORY (ADT) 2015 (collocated - same time and place) Algorithmic Decision Theory is a vibrant and growing area of research concerned with algorithmic aspects of problems arising in social choice and economics that involve optimal ways to aggregate preferences. The area abounds in hard computational problems and may be an axciting area of applications for ASP. The two conferences will seek ways to identify and promote synergies between their respective areas of focus. JOINT LPNMR-ADT DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM: Details to be announced co-Chairs: - Esra Erdem (LPNMR), Sabanci University, Turkey - Nick Mattei (ADT), NICTA, Australia IMPORTANT DATES (TENTATIVE) * Paper registration: April 13, 2015 * Paper submission: April 20, 2015 * Notification: June 1, 2015 * Final versions due: June 15, 2015 VENUE Lexington is a medium size, pleasant and quiet university town. It is located in the heart of the so-called Bluegrass Region in Central Kentucky. The city is surrounded by beautiful horse farms on green pastures dotted with ponds and traditional architecture stables, and small race tracks, and bordered by white or black fences. The Horse Museum is as beautifully located as it is interesting. Overall, the city has a nice feel that mixes well old and new. The conference will be held in the Hilton Lexington Downtown hotel. GENERAL CHAIR Victor Marek, University of Kentucky, KY, USA PROGRAM CHAIRS Giovambattista Ianni, University of Calabria, Italy Mirek Truszczynski, University of Kentucky, KY, USA WORKSHOPS CHAIR Yuliya Lierler, University of Nebrska at Omaha, NE, USA PUBLICITY CHAIR Francesco Calimeri, University of Calabria, Italy PROGRAM COMMITTEE Agostino Dovier, Università di Udine, Italy Agustín Valverde, Universidad de Màlaga, Spain Alessandra Mileo, National University of Ireland, Galway, INSIGHT Centre for Data Analytics, Ireland Andrea Formisano, Dip. di Matematica e Informatica, Università di Perugia, Italy Axel Polleres, Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria Bart Bogaerts, Department of Computer Science, KU Leuven, Belgium Chiaki Sakama, Wakayama University, Japan Chitta Baral, Arizona State University, USA Christoph Redl, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Daniela Inclezan, Miami University, USA David Pearce, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain Emilia Oikarinen, Aalto University, Finland Enrico Pontelli, New Mexico State University, USA Esra Erdem, Sabanci University, Istanbul, Turkey Eugenia Ternovska, Simon Fraser University, Canada Fangkai Yang, Schlumberger Ltd Fangzhen Lin, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong Francesco Calimeri, Università della Calabria, Italy Gerhard Brewka, Leipzig University, Germany Giovanni Grasso, Oxford University, UK Hannes Strass, Leipzig University, Germany Hans Tompits, Vienna University of Technology, Austria James Delgrande, Simon Fraser University, Canada Jia-Huai You, University of Alberta, Canada Joohyung Lee, Arizona State University, USA Jose Julio Alferes, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal Kewen Wang, Griffith University, Australia Marc Denecker, K.U.Leuven, Belgium Marcello Balduccini, Drexel University, USA Marina De Vos, University of Bath, UK Martin Gebser, University of Potsdam, Germany Matthias Knorr, CENTRIA, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal Mauricio Osorio, Fundacion de la Universidad de las Americas, Puebla, Mexico Michael Fink, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Michael Gelfond, Texas Tech University, USA Orkunt Sabuncu, University of Potsdam, Germany Paul Fodor, Stony Brook University, USA Pedro Cabalar, University of Corunna, Spain Saadat Anwar, Arizona State University, USA Stefan Woltran, Vienna University of Technology Stefania Costantini, Dipartimento di Ingegneria e Scienze dell'Informazione, e Matematica, Univ. di L'Aquila, Italy Terrance Swift, CENTRIA, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal Thomas Eiter, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Tomi Janhunen, Aalto University, Finland Torsten Schaub, University of Potsdam, Germany Tran Cao Son, New Mexico State University, USA Vladimir Lifschitz, University of Texas at Austin, USA Wolfgang Faber, University of Huddersfield, UK Yi Zhou, University of Western Sydney, Australia Yisong Wang, Guizhou University, China Yuliya Lierler, University of Nebraska at Omaha, USA CONTACT lpnmr2015 at mat.unical.it From K.M.Atkinson at liverpool.ac.uk Tue Dec 2 16:46:06 2014 From: K.M.Atkinson at liverpool.ac.uk (Atkinson, Katie) Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2014 15:46:06 +0000 Subject: ICAIL 2015 - Final Call for Workshops and Tutorial Proposals Message-ID: <0E32BF10-13F2-4971-B1B6-D07EA364E740@liverpool.ac.uk> ICAIL 2015 – Call for Workshops and Tutorials www.icail2015.org The 15th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law (ICAIL 2015) will be held at the University of San Diego School of Law from Monday, June 8 to Friday, June 12, 2015. The main Call for Papers can be found at: http://sites.sandiego.edu/icail/call-for-papers/ The deadline for submissions of workshop and tutorial proposals is on Friday, December 5, 2014. ICAIL 2015 will run workshops and tutorials on Monday, June 8 and Friday, June 12. Proposals for workshops and tutorials are invited, and should be sent by email to the Program Chair (K.M.Atkinson at liverpool.ac.uk). Tutorials should cover a broad topic of relevance to the AI and Law community. Proposals should contain enough information to permit evaluation on the basis of importance, quality, and community interest. Each workshop should have one or more designated organizers and a program or organizing committee. Proposals should be 2 to 4 pages and include at least the following information: * The workshop or tutorial topic and goals, their significance, and their appropriateness for ICAIL 2015 * The intended audience, including the research areas from which participants may come, the likely number of participants (with some of their names, if known), and plans for publicizing the workshop * Organization of the workshop or tutorial, including the intended format (such as invited talks, presentations, panel discussions, or other methods for ensuring an interactive atmosphere) and the expected length (full day or half day) * Organizers’ details: a description of the main organizers’ backgrounds in the proposed topic; and complete addresses including webpages of all organizers and committee members (if applicable) In the interest of reaching out to under-represented research communities in the Americas who are interested in AI and Law, IAAIL will also consider hosting at ICAIL 2015 one or two AI and Law workshops in Spanish or Portuguese. The submission deadline for workshop and tutorial proposals is December 5, 2014. Proposals and questions should be directed to Katie Atkinson, Program Chair, Department of Computer Science, University of Liverpool, UK, K.M.Atkinson at liverpool.ac.uk. -------------- nächster Teil -------------- Ein Dateianhang mit HTML-Daten wurde abgetrennt... URL: From serge.autexier at dfki.de Tue Dec 2 19:11:05 2014 From: serge.autexier at dfki.de (Serge Autexier) Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2014 19:11:05 +0100 (CET) Subject: CICM 2015: Call for Workshops Message-ID: <20141202181105.954212430146@gigondas.local> Call for Workshop Proposals CICM 2015 - Conference on Intelligent Computer Mathematics July 13-17, 2015 The George Washington University, Washington, D.C , USA http://www.cicm-conference.org/2015 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- As computers and communications technology advance, greater opportunities arise for intelligent mathematical computation. While computer algebra, automated deduction, mathematical publishing and novel user interfaces individually have long and successful histories, we are now seeing increasing opportunities for synergy among these areas. The Conference on Intelligent Computer Mathematics (CICM) offer a venue for discussing these areas and their synergy. CICM has been held annually as a joint meeting since 2008, colocating related conferences and workshops to advance work in these subjects. Previous meetings have been held in Birmingham (U.K. 2008), Grand Bend (Canada 2009), Paris (France 2010), Bertinoro (Italy 2011), Bremen (Germany 2012), Bath (U.K. 2013) and Coimbra (Portugal, 2014). This is a call for proposals for workshops to be held at CICM 2015, which will be held in Washington D.C. (USA), July 13-17 next year. The principal tracks of the 2015 meeting will be Calculemus (Symbolic Computation and Mechanised Reasoning) DML (Towards a Digital Mathematics Library) MKM (Mathematical Knowledge Management) Systems and Data Some of the workshops that have been held at past CICM meetings are: Automated Reasoning: Bridging the Gap between Theory and Practice Compact Computer Algebra Empirically Successful Automated Reasoning for Mathematics Intelligent Proof Search Mathematical user Interfaces OpenMath Pen-Based Mathematical Computation Programming languages for Mechanized Mathematics Systems SCIEnce The Notion of Proof Proposals for workshops to be held at CICM 2015 are solicited. Both well-established workshops and newer or brand new ones are encouraged. Please provide the following information: + Workshop title. + Names and affiliations of organizers. + Brief description of workshop goals and/or topics. + Proposed workshop duration (half a day up to two days is possible). + If the workshop has met previously, please include the conference affiliation for the previous meeting. If the workshop is new, please indicate so. CICM will take care of copying and distributing informal printed proceedings for workshops that would like this service, as well as permanently archived open access online proceedings with CEUR-WS.org. All proposals should be sent via email to cicm-organizers at cs.bham.ac.uk for consideration by the CICM 2015 organizers: Local Organization Chairs: Bruce Miller (NIST) Abdou Youssef (GWU, USA) General Program Chair: Manfred Kerber (U. Birmingham, UK) Calculemus Track Chair: Jacques Carette (McMaster U., Canada) DML Track Chair: Volker Sorge (U. Birmingham, UK) MKM Track Chair: Cezary Kaliszyk (U. Innsbruck, Austria) System & Data Chair: Florian Rabe (JUB, Germany) Workshop Chair: Serge Autexier (DFKI, Germany) Important dates: Deadline for proposal submissions: January 23, 2015 Acceptance/rejection notification: February 4, 2015 Workshop dates: July 13-17, 2015 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From abanades at ajz.ucm.es Wed Dec 3 08:56:10 2014 From: abanades at ajz.ucm.es (=?UTF-8?B?TWlndWVsIMOBLiBBYsOhbmFkZXM=?=) Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2014 08:56:10 +0100 Subject: =?UTF-8?B?Q2FsbCBmb3IgUGFwZXJzICwg77u/77u/UG9zdC1jb25mZXJlbmNlIFByb2NlZWRpbmdz?= =?UTF-8?B?77u/LCBBREcgMjAxNO+7vw==?= Message-ID: [Apologies for multiple copies of this announcement] ---------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Papers  Post-conference Proceedings Automated Deduction in Geometry (ADG 2014) http://www.uc.pt/en/congressos/adg/adg2014 -------------------------------------------------------------------- *OVERVIEW* ADG is a forum to exchange ideas and views, to present research results and progress, and to demonstrate software tools at the intersection between geometry and automated deduction. The post-conference proceedings of ADG 2014 will be published in the LNCS/LNAI series by Springer-Verlag. You are invited to submit original research papers (of 10-20 pages) for possible publication. Your contributions have to be within the scope of ADG, but their contents do not necessarily have to be related to the presentations made at ADG 2014. Moreover, contributions from authors who were not present at ADG 2014 are also welcome. All submissions will be formally reviewed according to the usual standard of international conferences. *SCOPE* Relevant topics include (but are not limited to): polynomial algebra, invariant and coordinate-free methods, probabilistic, synthetic, and logical approaches, techniques for automated geometric reasoning from discrete mathematics, combinatorics, and numerics; symbolic and numeric methods for geometric computation, geometric constraint solving, automated generation/reasoning and manipulation with diagrams; design and implementation of geometry software, special-purpose tools, automated theorem provers, experimental studies; applications of ADG to mechanics, geometric modelling, CAGD/CAD, computer vision, robotics, and education. *SUBMISSION GUIDELINES* We invite the submission of full papers up to 20 pages. The submissions should follow the standard LaTeX2e format for Springer LNCS Proceedings and Other Multiauthor Volumes available here; Electronic submission is required via EasyChair (Easychair track, ADG 2014 post-proceedings). Note that submissions go through a new Easychair track, ADG 2014 post-proceedings. Please, do not remove your old submission, if any. If you have any problems with the submission of your paper, or questions concerning ADG 2014 or EasyChair, please contact any of the editors. *IMPORTANT DATES* Submission: 2015/01/30 Reviews sent to authors: 2015/03/20 Revised papers due: 2015/03/27 Final Decision: 2015/04/03 Camera ready copies due: 2015/04/17 *EDITORS* * Francisco Botana, University of Vigo, Spain. * Pedro Quaresma, University of Coimbra, Portugal. *PROGRAM COMMITTEE* * Francisco Botana, University of Vigo, Spain (Chair) * Hirokazu Anai, Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd/Kyushu University, Japan * Xiaoyu Chen, Beihang University, China * Giorgio Dalzotto, ISI N. Machiavelli, Italy. * Jacques Fleuriot, University of Edinburgh, UK * Xiao-Shan Gao, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China * Tetsuo Ida, University of Tsukuba, Japan * Predrag Janicic, University of Belgrade, Serbia * Ulrich Kortenkamp, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Germany * Shuichi Moritsugu, University of Tsukuba, Japan * Julien Narboux, University of Strasbourg, France * Pavel Pech, University of South Bohemia, Czech Republic * Pedro Quaresma, University of Coimbra, Portugal * Eugenio Roanes-Lozano, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain * Pascal Schreck, University of Strasbourg, France * Meera Sitharam, University of Florida, USA * Thomas Sturm, Max Planck Institute, Germany * Dingkang Wang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China * Dongming Wang, Beihang University, China and UPMC-CNRS, France -------------- nächster Teil -------------- Ein Dateianhang mit HTML-Daten wurde abgetrennt... URL: From tobias.philipp at tu-dresden.de Wed Dec 3 10:34:56 2014 From: tobias.philipp at tu-dresden.de (Tobias Philipp) Date: Wed, 03 Dec 2014 10:34:56 +0100 Subject: The European Master's Program in Computational Logic Message-ID: Dear all, I'd like to draw your attention to the fact that fresh Erasmus Mundus scholarships are available for Non-European AND European students who enrol in our European Master's Program in Computational Logic in the fall of 2015. The deadline for application is 31 January, 2015. More details are given below. Please spread this information as wide as possible among friends and colleagues, at your old universities and the places, where you currently live and work. Many thanks -- Steffen ******************************************************************************************************* The European Master's Program in Computational Logic We are glad to announce to you the possibility to join our European Master's Program of Computational Logic. This program is offered jointly at the Free-University of Bozen-Bolzano in Italy, the Technische Universität Dresden in Germany, the Universidade Nova de Lisboa in Portugal and the Technische Universität Wien in Austria. Within this program you have the choice to study at two /three of the four European universities. In addition, you can do your project work at the National ICT of Australia (NICTA). You will graduate with a MSc in Computer Science and obtain a joint degree. Information on the universities and the program including the application procedure is provided here: http://www.emcl-study.eu/home.html Language of instruction is English. Tuition fees are 3.000 EUR (for non-European students) and 1.000 (for European students) per year. We would like to draw your attention to the ERASMUS-MUNDUS scholarship program. The ERASMUS-MUNDUS consortium offers 2-year scholarships up to 41.800 EUR for non-EU students and up to 32.800 EUR for EU students of our European Master's Program in Computational Logic. More information on the scholarship program is available from: http://www.emcl-study.eu/fileadmin/emcl_booklet_tree/ma_em_grant.html Do not hesitate to contact us if you have any further questions. Kind regards -- Steffen Hölldobler Prof. Dr. Steffen Hoelldobler International Center for Computational Logic Technische Universität Dresden 01062 Dresden, Germany phone: [+49](351)46 33 83 40 fax: [+49](351)46 33 83 42 email: sh at iccl.tu-dresden.de From huajunsir at zju.edu.cn Wed Dec 3 16:08:56 2014 From: huajunsir at zju.edu.cn (Chen Huajun) Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2014 23:08:56 +0800 Subject: WWW2015 Workshop on Web Data Science and Smart Cities - First call for submissions References: <201411301354.sAUDsahJ022358@igor.cs.wisc.edu> Message-ID: <601FFB2C-9DBD-4004-A742-137CC55E62E3@zju.edu.cn> Ein Dateianhang mit HTML-Daten wurde abgetrennt... URL: From publicity at ecmlpkdd2015.org Wed Dec 3 20:03:16 2014 From: publicity at ecmlpkdd2015.org (ECMLPKDD 2015) Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2014 19:03:16 -0000 Subject: ECMLPKDD 2015: Call for Papers, Tutorials and Workshops Message-ID: <015c01d00f2b$cc2a29b0$647e7d10$@ecmlpkdd2015.org> The European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECMLPKDD) will take place in Porto, Portugal, from September 7th to 11th, 2015 (http://www.ecmlpkdd2015.org). This event is the leading European scientific event on machine learning and data mining and builds upon a very successful series of 25 ECML and 18 PKDD conferences, which have been jointly organized for the past 14 years. ECMLPKDD 2015 will host three tracks, tutorials and a set of workshops. Therefore, we invite all researchers and practitioners from different communities to submit papers and/or present tutorial and workshop proposals. ************************* CALL FOR PAPERS * ************************* JOURNAL TRACK ********************* Articles for this track are submitted all year long directly to either Machine Learning or Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, and are reviewed like regular journal articles. Accepted articles appear in full in the journal and the authors are given a presentation slot at the conference. Articles deemed insufficiently mature for journal publication may be accepted for inclusion in the proceedings. Submissions to the journal track will be managed by the Guest Editorial Board. Paper Submission: Cut-off dates for the bi-weekly batches are 14 Dec, 2014 and 4 Jan, 18 Jan, 1 Feb, 15 Fev, 1 Mar, 15 Mar, 29 Mar, 12 Apr, 26 Apr of 2015 Web Page: http://www.ecmlpkdd2015.org/submission/journal-track RESEARCH PROCEEDINGS TRACK ******************************************* The research proceedings track, which is organized in the traditional way. Accepted papers will be published in the Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNCS/LNAI) of Springer, after reviewing by the program committee. Abstract submission deadline: March 26, 2015 Paper Submission deadline: April 2, 2015 Paper Acceptance Notification: June 1, 2015 Paper Camera Ready: June 15, 2015 Web Page: http://www.ecmlpkdd2015.org/submission/research-proceedings-track INDUSTRIAL, GOVERNAMENTAL & NON-GOVERNAMENTAL PROCEEDINGS TRACK ****************************************************************** The NEW industrial, governmental & non-governmental (NGO) proceedings track is independent and distinct from the Research Track. Submissions to this track should solve real-world problems and focus on engineering systems, applications, and challenges. Accepted papers will be published in the Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNCS/LNAI) of Springer, after reviewing by the programme committee. Abstract submission deadline: March 26, 2015 Paper Submission deadline: April 2, 2015 Paper Acceptance Notification: June 1, 2015 Camera ready submission: June 15, 2015 Web Page: http://www.ecmlpkdd2015.org/submission/industrial-proceedings-track ***************************************************************** CALL FOR TUTORIAL AND WORKSHOP PROPOSALS * ***************************************************************** TUTORIALS ************** The tutorials are intended to provide a comprehensive introduction to established or emerging research topics of interest for the machine learning and the data mining community. These topics include related research fields or applications. The ideal tutorial should attract a wide audience. It should be broad enough to provide a basic introduction to the chosen research area, but it should also cover the most important topics in depth. We welcome half day workshop proposals. Proposal deadline: March 2, 2015 Proposal Acceptance Notification: March 23, 2015 Web Page: http://www.ecmlpkdd2015.org/submission/call-for-tutorials WORKSHOPS **************** The workshops will be on relevant and current topics in Machine Learning and Data Mining. The scope of the proposal should be consistent with the conference themes as described in the ECML PKDD 2015 Call for Papers (http://www.ecmlpkdd2015.org/submission). Interdisciplinary workshops that bring together researchers and practitioners from different communities are especially welcome. We encourage workshops that bridge the gap between theoretical advances and important and/or innovative applications of machine learning and data mining. We welcome both full and half day workshop proposals. Proposal deadline: March 2, 2015 Proposal Acceptance notification: March 23, 2015 Workshop websites and call for papers online: March 27, 2015 Workshop proceedings (camera-ready): August 3, 2015 Web Page: http://www.ecmlpkdd2015.org/submission/call-for-workshop-proposals Hope to see you all soon in Porto, Portugal!!! The publicity chairs of the ECML PKDD 2015, Carlos Abreu Ferreira Ricardo Campos --- Este e-mail foi verificado em termos de vírus pelo software antivírus Avast. http://www.avast.com From a.artikis at gmail.com Wed Dec 3 21:40:37 2014 From: a.artikis at gmail.com (Alexander Artikis) Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2014 22:40:37 +0200 Subject: EPForDM workshop@EDBT: deadline extension Message-ID: New deadline: December 15. Apologies for cross-posting. ************************* Call for Papers *************************** Event Processing, Forecasting and Decision-Making in the Big Data Era (EPForDM) EDBT 2015 Workshop March 27, 2015 http://cer.iit.demokritos.gr/epfordm ********************************************************************* The Big Data era has posed a number of challenges in applications related to event processing. In particular, the data volume, velocity and distribution necessitate the design on new scalable approaches for the efficient and timely processing of the produced data. The lack of veracity in the handled data/events further complicates the problem. Moreover, key challenges concern the use of the voluminous data in order to forecast future events and perform proactive event-driven decision-making. Event forecasting is important because eliminating or mitigating an anticipated problem, or capitalizing on a forecast opportunity, can substantially improve our quality of life, and prevent environmental and economic damage. For example, changing traffic-light priority and speed limits to avoid traffic congestions will reduce carbon emissions, optimize transportation and increase the productivity of commuters. At the business level, making smart decisions ahead of time can become a differentiator leading to significant competitive advantage. In a wide range of applications, prevention is more effective than the cure. To prevent problems and to capitalize on opportunities before they even occur, a proactive event-driven decision-making paradigm is necessary. Decisions are triggered by forecasting events instead of reacting to them once they happen. Moreover, decisions are made in real-time and require on-the-fly processing of Big Data, that is, extremely large amounts of noisy data flooding in from various locations, as well as historical data. The aim of the EPForDM workshop is to bring together computer scientists with interests in the fields of event processing, event forecasting and event-driven decision-making to present recent innovations, find topics of common interest and stimulate further development of new approaches to make sense of Big Data. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): -Scalable event processing under uncertainty -Distributed event processing -Event forecasting -Multi-scale temporal aggregation of events -Machine learning for event processing and forecasting -Distributed machine learning -Event-driven decision-making -Visual analytics for proactive decision-making and Big Data -Human Factors evaluation of proactive event-driven systems -Novel architectures for Big Data processing -Engineering proactive event-driven systems -Position papers on proactive event-driven systems -Privacy issues in Big Data processing -Energy efficiency and reliability in Big Data processing -Scheduling and provisioning issues in Big Data processing IMPORTANT DATES Paper submission: December 15, 2014, 23:59 CET Notification: January 16, 2015 Camera-ready version: January 23, 2015, 23:59 CET Workshop date: March 27, 2015 ORGANISATION General Chairs: Alexander Artikis, NCSR Demokritos, Greece Antonios Deligiannakis, Technical University of Crete, Greece Program Committee Chairs: Minos Garofalakis, Technical University of Crete, Greece Pedro Bizarro, FeedZai, Portugal -------------- nächster Teil -------------- Ein Dateianhang mit HTML-Daten wurde abgetrennt... URL: From announce at cs.ucy.ac.cy Fri Dec 5 15:03:05 2014 From: announce at cs.ucy.ac.cy (Announce Announcements) Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2014 16:03:05 +0200 Subject: WIMS 2015: Last Call for Tutorials, Demos and Workshops Message-ID: *** Last Call for Tutorials, Demos and Workshops *** 5th International Conference on Web Intelligence, Mining and Semantics WIMS 2015 July 13-15, 2015, St. Raphael Resort, Limassol, Cyprus http://cyprusconferences.org/wims2015/ The 5th International Conference on Web Intelligence, Mining and Semantics (WIMS 2015) organization committee invites proposals for tutorials, demonstrations (on new applications) and workshops providing in-depth background on subjects that are of broad interest to the Web Mining and Web Semantics community. The overall purpose of tutorials and workshops is to provide participants with the opportunity to present and discuss novel research ideas in areas of Web intelligence, Web mining and Web semantics, with a particular emphasis on the fundamental interaction between these vibrant fields of research and development. The purpose of demonstrations is to provide developers with a place to showcase new practical and innovative implementations of state-of-the-art systems in the areas of interest to the Web Intelligence and Semantics community. Tutorials and workshops provide a forum for an intensive and focused scientific exchange amongst researchers and practitioners interested in a particular topic and a meeting venue for the community. Organizers may structure tutorials/workshops as they see fit, possibly including invited talks, panel discussions, presentations of work in progress, peer-reviewed papers, demonstrations or some combination. A tutorial/workshop could be scheduled for a half a day or a full day, depending on potential interest and organizers preference. The proposals should address topics that satisfy the following criteria: * The topic falls in the general scope of WIMS 2015 (http://Cyprusconferences.org/wims2015). * There is a clear focus on a specific theme, technology, problem, or application. * There is a sufficiently large audience interested in the topic. The organizers of successful workshops will be responsible for their own reviewing process, website, arranging invited speakers and coordinate the collection and delivery of camera ready material. There is an opportunity for papers accepted in workshops to be published in the WIMS 2015 proceedings and disseminated through the ACM Digital Library, provided they follow the ACM submission guidelines and template and adhere to camera-ready submission and registration deadlines as those set for the main conference. Selected extended papers will be invited to appear in a special issue of a reputed journal in the field. Important Dates 15.12.2014 Submission of proposals 12.01.2015 Notification of acceptance Proposal Details A proposal should be not more than 4 pages in length and should be in PDF format. It should contain the following information: * A title of the tutorial/demonstration/workshop * Name, affiliation, postal address and email of contact person * Names and affiliations of organisers * A 150 word abstract * Aims and scope * Important dates (for tutorials/workshops) * Description of the proposed tutorial/workshop * Estimated duration of the tutorial/workshop (half day, full day, etc.) Proposals should be submitted via email to the tutorial and workshop chairs. Submission Procedure - EasyChair Submissions should be made electronically in PDF format via the electronic submission system of the WIMS 2015 Conference Management system at: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wims15 If you do not have an EasyChair account, then register and once you get the log-in information by mail, log into the system as an author. Enter all the required data about your submission and finally upload your contributed paper in PDF format. WIMS 2015 Tutorial and Workshop Chairs Monika Solanki, Aston University, United Kingdom Freddy Lecue, IBM Research, Ireland -------------------------------------------------------------------- This is not SPAM. If you want to be removed from this list, please send an email to [announce at cs.ucy.ac.cy] with the single word 'remove' in the subject of the email. -------------- nächster Teil -------------- Ein Dateianhang mit HTML-Daten wurde abgetrennt... URL: From moreno.falaschi at unisi.it Sat Dec 6 10:23:20 2014 From: moreno.falaschi at unisi.it (FALASCHI MORENO) Date: Sat, 06 Dec 2014 10:23:20 +0100 Subject: First call for papers LOPSTR 2015 -- 25th International Symposium on Logic-Based Program Synthesis and Transformation -- Siena, Italy Message-ID: <74401bd6b05bde546332b5608f33df27@imap.unisi.it> 25th International Symposium on Logic-Based Program Synthesis and Transformation LOPSTR 2015 http://alpha.diism.unisi.it/lopstr15/ University of Siena, Siena, IT, July 13-15, 2015 DEADLINES Abstract submission: April 6, 2015 Paper/Extended abstract submission: April 13, 2015 ============================================================ The aim of the LOPSTR series is to stimulate and promote international research and collaboration on logic-based program development. LOPSTR is open to contributions in logic-based program development in any language paradigm. LOPSTR has a reputation for being a lively, friendly forum for presenting and discussing work in progress. Formal proceedings are produced only after the symposium so that authors can incorporate this feedback in the published papers. The 25th International Symposium on Logic-based Program Synthesis and Transformation (LOPSTR 2015) will be held at the University of Siena, Siena, Italy; previous symposia were held in Canterbury, Madrid, Leuven, Odense, Hagenberg, Coimbra, Valencia, Lyngby, Venice, London, Verona, Uppsala, Madrid, Paphos, London, Venice, Manchester, Leuven, Stockholm, Arnhem, Pisa, Louvain-la-Neuve, and Manchester. LOPSTR 2015 will be co-located with PPDP 2015 (International ACM SIGPLAN Symposium on Principles and Practice of Declarative Programming). Topics of interest cover all aspects of logic-based program development, all stages of the software life cycle, and issues of both programming-in-the-small and programming-in-the-large. Both full papers and extended abstracts describing applications in these areas are especially welcome. Contributions are welcome on all aspects of logic-based program development, including, but not limited to: * synthesis * transformation * specialization * composition * optimization * inversion * specification * analysis and verification * testing and certification * program and model manipulation * transformational techniques in SE * applications and tools Survey papers that present some aspects of the above topics from a new perspective, and application papers that describe experience with industrial applications are also welcome. Papers must describe original work, be written and presented in English, and must not substantially overlap with papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal, conference, or workshop with refereed proceedings. Work that already appeared in unpublished or informally published workshop proceedings may be submitted (please contact the PC chair in case of questions). Important Dates Abstract submission: April 6, 2015 Paper/Extended abstract submission: April 13, 2015 Notification: May 25, 2015 Camera-ready (for electronic pre-proceedings): June 15, 2015 Symposium: July 13-15, 2015 Submission Guidelines Authors should submit an electronic copy of the paper (written in English) in PDF, formatted in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science style. Each submission must include on its first page the paper title; authors and their affiliations; contact author's email; abstract; and three to four keywords which will be used to assist the PC in selecting appropriate reviewers for the paper. Page numbers should appear on the manuscript to help the reviewers in writing their report. Submissions cannot exceed 15 pages including references but excluding well-marked appendices not intended for publication. Reviewers are not required to read the appendices, and thus papers should be intelligible without them. Papers should be submitted via the Easychair submission website for LOPSTR 2015, which you can access through the website of LOPSTR 2015. Proceedings The formal post-conference proceedings will be published by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series (to be confirmed). Full papers can be directly accepted for publication in the formal proceedings, or accepted only for presentation at the symposium and inclusion in informal proceedings. After the symposium, all authors of extended abstracts and full papers accepted only for presentation will be invited to revise and/or extend their submissions in the light of the feedback solicited at the symposium. Then, after another round of reviewing, these revised papers may also be published in the formal proceedings. Special journal issue After the symposium, a selection of the best papers will be invited to a special issue of a primary computer science journal. The submissions to the special issue must be substantial extensions of the proceedings versions and will undergo the usual journal reviewing process. Program Committee Slim Abdennadher German University of Cairo, Egypt Maria Alpuente Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, Spain Demis Ballis University of Udine, Italy Olaf Chitil University of Kent, UK Michael Codish Ben-Gurion University, Israel Moreno Falaschi University of Siena, Italy (Program Chair) Jerome Feret INRIA and ENS, France Maurizio Gabbrielli University of Bologna, Italy Jurgen Giesl RWTH Aachen University, Germany Miguel Gomez-Zamalloa Complutense University of Madrid, Spain Arnaud Gotlieb SIMULA Research Laboratory, Norway Gopal Gupta University of Texas at Dallas, USA Manuel Hermenegildo IMDEA, Spain Viktor Kuncak EPFL Lausanne, Switzerland Alexei Lisitsa University of Liverpool, UK Narciso Marti-Oliet Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain Jorge Navas NASA, USA Kazuhiro Ogata JAIST, Japan Carlos Olarte ECT, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Brasil Catuscia Palamidessi INRIA and Ecole Polytechnique, France Maurizio Proietti IASI-CNR, Italy Albert Rubio Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain Wim Vanhoof University of Namur, Belgium Program and Symposium Chair: Moreno Falaschi, Dept. of Information Engineering and Mathematics, Univ. of Siena, Italy (moreno.falaschi at unisi.it) Organizing Committee Monica Bianchini, Dept. of Information Engineering and Mathematics, Univ. of Siena, Italy Sara Brunetti, Dept. of Information Engineering and Mathematics, Univ. of Siena, Italy Simone Rinaldi, Dept. of Information Engineering and Mathematics, Univ. of Siena, Italy Elisa Tiezzi, Dept. of Information Engineering and Mathematics, Univ. of Siena, Italy From moreno.falaschi at unisi.it Sat Dec 6 11:00:11 2014 From: moreno.falaschi at unisi.it (FALASCHI MORENO) Date: Sat, 06 Dec 2014 11:00:11 +0100 Subject: PPDP 2015 Call for papers -- 17th International Symposium on Principles and Practice of Declarative Programming -- Siena, Italy Message-ID: <4272e69d36e6f37f79f3cc26293fd32d@imap.unisi.it> Call for papers 17th International Symposium on Principles and Practice of Declarative Programming PPDP 2015 Special Issue of Science of Computer Programming (SCP) Siena, Italy, July 14-16, 2015 (co-located with LOPSTR 2015) http://costa.ls.fi.upm.es/ppdp15 ====================================================================== SUBMISSION DEADLINE: 20 MARCH, 2015 PPDP 2015 is a forum that brings together researchers from the declarative programming communities, including those working in the logic, constraint and functional programming paradigms, but also embracing languages, database languages, and knowledge representation languages. The goal is to stimulate research in the use of logical formalisms and methods for specifying, performing, and analyzing computations, including mechanisms for mobility, modularity, concurrency, object-orientation, security, verification and static analysis. Papers related to the use of declarative paradigms and tools in industry and education are especially solicited. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to * Functional programming * Logic programming * Answer-set programming * Functional-logic programming * Declarative visual languages * Constraint Handling Rules * Parallel implementation and concurrency * Monads, type classes and dependent type systems * Declarative domain-specific languages * Termination, resource analysis and the verification of declarative programs * Transformation and partial evaluation of declarative languages * Language extensions for security and tabulation * Probabilistic modeling in a declarative language and modeling reactivity * Memory management and the implementation of declarative systems * Practical experiences and industrial application This year the conference will be co-located with the 25th International Symposium on Logic-Based Program Synthesis and Transformation (LOPSTR 2015). The conference will be held in Siena, Italy. Previous symposia were held at Canterbury (UK), Madrid (Spain), Leuven (Belgium), Odense (Denmark), Hagenberg (Austria), Coimbra (Portugal), Valencia (Spain), Wroclaw (Poland), Venice (Italy), Lisboa (Portugal), Verona (Italy), Uppsala (Sweden), Pittsburgh (USA), Florence (Italy), Montreal (Canada), and Paris (France). You might have a look at the contents of past PPDP symposia. Papers must describe original work, be written and presented in English, and must not substantially overlap with papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal, conference, or workshop with refereed proceedings. Work that already appeared in unpublished or informally published workshop proceedings may be submitted (please contact the PC chair in case of questions). After the symposium, a selection of the best papers will be invited to extend their submissions in the light of the feedback solicited at the symposium. The papers are expected to include at least 30% extra material over and above the PPDP version. Then, after another round of reviewing, these revised papers will be published in a special issue of SCP with a target publication date by Elsevier of 2016. Important Dates Abstract Submission: 14 March, 2015 Paper submission: 20 March, 2015 Notification: 14 May, 2015 Camera-ready: To be announced Symposium: 14-16 July, 2015 Authors should submit an electronic copy of the full paper in PDF. Papers should be submitted to the submission website for PPDP 2015. Each submission must include on its first page the paper title; authors and their affiliations; abstract; and three to four keywords. The keywords will be used to assist the program committee in selecting appropriate reviewers for the paper. Papers should consist of the equivalent of 12 pages under the ACM formatting guidelines. These guidelines are available online, along with formatting templates or style files. Submitted papers will be judged on the basis of significance, relevance, correctness, originality, and clarity. They should include a clear identification of what has been accomplished and why it is significant. Authors who wish to provide additional material to the reviewers beyond the 12-page limit can do so in clearly marked appendices: reviewers are not required to read such appendices. Program Committee Michael Adams, University of Utah, USA Puri Arenas, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain Amir Ben-Amram, Tel-Aviv Academic College, Israel Ines Castro, Universidade do Porto, Portugal Patrick Cousot, New York University, USA Gregory Duck, National University of Singapore, Singapore Fabio Fioravanti, University of Chieti-Pescara, Italy Thom Frühwirth, University of Ulm, Germany Roberto Giacobazzi, University of Verona, Italy Michael Hanus, CAU Kiel, Germany Andy King, University of Kent, UK F. López-Fraguas, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain Ian Mackie, University of Sussex, UK Dale Miller, INRIA and LIX/Ecole Polytechnique, France Torsten Schaub, University of Potsdam, Germany Tom Schrijvers KU Leuven, Belgium Frank D. Valencia, CNRS and LIX, Ecole Polytechnique, France German Vidal, Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, Spain Marina Vos, University of Bath, UK Nobuko Yoshida, Imperial College London, UK Program Chair Elvira Albert Complutense University of Madrid C/ Profesor Garcia Santesmases E-28040 Madrid, Spain Email: elvira at sip.ucm.es Symposium Chair Moreno Falaschi Department of information engineering and mathematics University of Siena, Italy Email: moreno.falaschi at unisi.it From announce at cs.ucy.ac.cy Sat Dec 6 12:46:03 2014 From: announce at cs.ucy.ac.cy (Announce Announcements) Date: Sat, 6 Dec 2014 13:46:03 +0200 Subject: WIMS 2015: First Call for Papers Message-ID: *** First Call for Papers *** 5th International Conference on Web Intelligence, Mining and Semantics WIMS 2015 July 13-15, 2015, St. Raphael Resort, Limassol, Cyprus http://cyprusconferences.org/wims2015/ Conference Purpose and Scope WIMS is a series of peer-reviewed International Computer Science conferences. It is a forum for researchers and practitioners to present their state-of-the-art results in building Intelligent Web, to examine performance characteristics of various approaches in Web-based intelligent information technology, and to cross-fertilize their ideas on the development of Web -based intelligent information management solutions across different domains. The purpose of the WIMS series is to: * Provide a forum for established researchers and practitioners to present their contributions to the state of the art research and development in Web technology and applications. * Give doctoral students an opportunity to present their research to a friendly and knowledgeable audience and receive valuable feedback. * Provide an informal social event where Web technology researchers and practitioners can meet. WIMS traditionally hosts a small number of short tutorials on the topics related to the scope of the conference series. The role of a WIMS tutorial is to be a theme-oriented comprehensive survey. The call for WIMS 2015 tutorials is published separately. WIMS also offers its infrastructure and facilities for the organizers of satellite workshops that complement the scope of the conference. The call for WIMS 2015 workshops is also published separately. Companies or individuals interested in presenting their industrial products or methodologies are invited to contact the conference chairs. Conference Scope WIMS solicits regular and work-in-progress research, discussion papers and industry experience report papers in related fields. Papers exploring new directions or areas are also welcome. In particular but not exclusively the submissions within the following areas are relevant: * Scalable Web and Data Architectures and Infrastructures - Crawling, caching and querying Linked (Semantic) Data - Dataset dynamics and synchronization - Big Data computing - User Interfaces and visualization for the Web of (Linked Semantic) Data at scale - Indexing and information extraction from the (Semantic) Deep Web - 3D media and content - Sensing Web and the Web of Things - Web-based Health- and Bio- Information Systems - Web security, integrity, privacy, and trust - Nature-inspired models and approaches in Web and data processing infrastructures * Web Intelligence (WI) - Semantic Agent Systems for WI - Advanced Interaction and Communication Paradigms with WI - Natural Language / Ontology-/Taxonomy-based / Hybrid Interfaces - Intelligence for Visualizing (Linked Semantic) Web Data at scale - Intelligence for Big Data Analytics - Ubiquitous Intelligence and the Internet of Things - WI in Social Media - WI in Human Computation and Social Games - Opinion Mining / Sentiment Analysis on the Social Web - Social Monetization and Computational Advertising - Visualising social network data - WI for services, grids, and middleware - Nature-inspired Models and approaches for WI * Web Mining, Information and Knowledge Extraction - Text, data stream, web and multimedia content mining - Contextualization and clustering in web mining and information extraction - Knowledge extraction and ontology learning from the Web - Linked Data mining - Information Extraction and Knowledge Discovery from Big Data - Mining and Information Extraction from the Deep Web - Semantic Deep Web data fusion * Web Semantics and Reasoning - Knowledge Representation for the Web - Ontology specification: expressivity versus usability - Ontologies and Linked Semantic Data - Development and re-use of ontologies for the Web - Crowdsourcing for ontology engineering and management on the Social Web - Lifecycle, management, and evolution of Web ontologies - Ontology merging and alignment - Rule markup languages and systems - Semantic annotation - Reasoning: scalability, expressivity, incompleteness, vagueness, and/or uncertainty * WIMS Applications - Web applications of semantic agent systems - Semantics-driven information retrieval - Semantic search - Intelligent e-Technology and the Semantic Web - Intelligence and semantics for business information management and integration - Intelligence and semantic technologies in Digital Media - Semantic technologies in e-Business, e-Commerce, e-Finance, e-Health, e-Science, e-Government, e-Learning - WI for multimedia, sensors, and situational awareness - WI for software and systems engineering - Quality of Life Technology for Web Access - Nature-inspired models and approaches in WIMS applications * Evaluation and Validation of WIMS Technologies and Applications - Evaluation and validation Methodologies - Datasets and Benchmarks for cross-evaluations and competitions - Evaluation and validation Infrastructures - Evaluation and validation metrics (e.g. fitness, quality, completeness, correctness, etc.) Submission Guidelines Four types of submissions are solicited for the main conference: i. Regular research papers ii. Short research papers iii. Case Studies and Applications papers iv. Posters The papers in all the categories should describe original results that have not been accepted or submitted for publication elsewhere. All submissions will be evaluated by at least three members of the international program committee. Regular Research Papers The papers in this category are the reports on accomplished research work or in-depth discussions and analysis of a certain problem. The first type of papers can present a novel method, technique or analysis with appropriate empirical or other type of evaluation as a proof of validity. The main evaluation criteria for this category are originality, technical soundness, and the soundness of evaluation. For the second type within the genre we expect receiving reasonable overviews placing a problem onto the state-of-the-art landscape and analyzing how far current solutions fall short. We also expect in-depth discussions and analysis of a certain problem, with clear definitions and argumentation in terms of qualitative or quantitative representation of the main characteristics of the problem. Page limit: 12 ACM pages Short Research Papers The papers in this category are the short reports of the preliminary results or describing the work in progress. The main evaluation criteria for this category are originality, technical correctness, and possible value of the planned results in a short to mid-term perspective. Short papers can be also presented in a form of a poster. Page limit: 6 ACM pages Case Studies and Applications Papers The papers in this category describe case studies of deployed applications, lessons learnt, and examples of measurable benefits. This category also includes papers that reports innovative applications of WIMS in areas of industry and government, as well as industrial experience and demonstrations of innovative systems. Page limit: 12 ACM pages Posters WIMS poster track is a venue for late-breaking results, ongoing research activities, and speculative or innovative work in progress. This track is intended to provide authors and participants with the ability to connect with each other and to engage in discussions about the work. Posters provide authors with a unique opportunity to draw attention to their work during the conference. Page limit: 4 ACM pages Submissions should be made electronically in PDF or DOC/DOCX (MS/Open Word) format via the electronic submission system of the WIMS2015 Conference Management system at: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wims15 Publication Accepted papers/tutorials/posters will be published by ACM and disseminated through the ACM Digital Library through the International Conference Proceedings Series (ICPS). Important Dates 24.03.2015 Submission of papers/posters 27.04.2015 Notification of acceptance for papers/posters 11.05.2015 Camera ready versions of the accepted papers, posters, tutorial papers 30.05.2015 Author registration deadline 13-15.07.2015 Conference All the above deadlines are 23:59 Hawaii Time. WIMS Conferences Chair Rajendra Akerkar, Western Norway Research Institute, Norway General Chair Marios D. Dikaiakos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Program Committee Co-Chairs Achilleas P. Achilleos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Tope Omitola, University of Southampton, United Kingdom Advisory Committee Grigoris Antoniou, University of Huddersfield, UK Harold Boley, Faculty of Computer Science, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, Canada James Hendler, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, USA Guus Schreiber, VU University, Amsterdam, the Netherlands Amit Sheth, Ohio Center of Excellence on Knowledge-enabled Computing, Ohio, USA Industrial Track Chair John Davies, BT Research & Innovation, UK Publicity Chair Christos Mettouris, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Local Organization Chair George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Web Chair Kyriakos Georgiadis, EasyConferences LTD, Cyprus The proceedings of the previous WIMS conferences are available at: - WIMS2011: https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1988688 - WIMS?2012: https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2254129 - WIMS?2013: https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2479787 - WIMS?2014: https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2611040 Look for updates and more details at: http://cyprusconferences.org/wims2015/ http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=3933343 https://www.facebook.com/groups/WIMSCon/ https://twitter.com/wims2015 -------------------------------------------------------------------- This is not SPAM. If you want to be removed from this list, please send an email to [announce at cs.ucy.ac.cy] with the single word 'remove' in the subject of the email. -------------- nächster Teil -------------- Ein Dateianhang mit HTML-Daten wurde abgetrennt... URL: From andrea at dcs.bbk.ac.uk Sun Dec 7 00:29:03 2014 From: andrea at dcs.bbk.ac.uk (Andrea Cali) Date: Sat, 6 Dec 2014 23:29:03 +0000 Subject: AMW 2014 Call for Papers Message-ID: Apologies for multiple postings. Call for Papers The 9th Alberto Mendelzon International Workshop on Foundations of Data Management 2015 (AMW2015) The Alberto Mendelzon International Workshop on Foundations of Data Management is an event held yearly in Latin America, to honor the memory of Alberto Mendelzon, who greatly contributed to the Latin American scientific community. The Mendelzon Workshop is intended to promote research in Latin America; however, it is an international venue that welcomes submissions and participants from anywhere. The workshop especially encourages the participation of Latin American and international graduate students and young researchers, and includes the AMW 2015 School tailored to them. AMW will be held in 2015 in Lima, Peru. Previous editions took place in Cartagena de Indias, Colombia (2014); Puebla, Mexico (2013); Ouro Preto, Brazil (2012); Santiago, Chile (2011); Buenos Aires, Argentina (2010); Arequipa, Peru (2009); Punta del Este, Uruguay (2007); Laguna San Rafael, Chile (2006). We solicit submissions in the following areas of data management, but not limited to them. Logic and databases; data integration; incompleteness and inconsistency in databases; data exchange; model theory and databases; conceptual modeling; integrity constraints (dependencies) in databases; knowledge bases; constraint databases; data mining; data modeling; web data management; data streams; data warehousing; query processing and optimisation; distributed and parallel databases; information retrieval; multimedia databases; ontology-based data management; physical design; data privacy and security; data provenance; query languages; real-time data; semantic web; semi-structured data; sensor data; web services; spatial data; temporal data; transaction management; probabilistic databases; fuzzy data management; and Web mining. Papers addressing foundational aspects are particularly welcome. However, we also encourage the submission of papers (especially short papers; see submission instructions below) that illustrate applications of foundational results in real-world contexts. =========================== SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS =========================== We invite two types of submissions. (a) Extended abstracts of up to 10 pages, presenting original research. These papers are intended to be published in the WS CEUR proceedings (http://ceur-ws.org). (b) Short papers of up to 4 pages that may contain either original ongoing research or recently published results. Papers have to be formatted according to the LNCS Springer style for Lecture Notes in Computer Science (available at http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html) and submitted electronically via EasyChair in PDF format: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=amw2015. The submissions will be judged by the Program Committee for scientific quality and relevance. At least one author of each accepted paper must attend the workshop to present the work. =========================== IMPORTANT DATES =========================== Paper submission: 8th February, 2015 Notification of acceptance: 15th March, 2015 Camera ready copy due: 15th April, 2015 Workshop dates: 5th - 8th May, 2015 =========================== ORGANIZATION =========================== GENERAL CHAIR Pablo Barceló (Universidad de Chile, Chile) PROGRAM COMMITTEE CHAIRS Andrea Cali (Birkbeck, University of London, UK) Maria-Esther Vidal (Universidad Simon Bolivar, Venezuela) AMW SCHOOL CHAIRS Aidan Hogan (Universidad de Chile) Domagoj Vrgoč (Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile) STEERING COMMITTEE Ricardo Baeza-Yates (Yahoo Research, Spain) Pablo Barcelo (Universidad de Chile) Leopoldo Bertossi (Carleton University, Canada) Mariano Consens (University of Toronto, Canada) Alberto H. F. Laender (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil) Jorge Pérez (Universidad de Chile) LOCAL ORGANIZATION CHAIRS Hugo Vega (Universidad Nacional mayor de San Marcos, Universidad Ricardo Palma) Oscar Benito Pacheco (Universidad Nacional mayor de San Marcos, Universidad Ricardo Palma). =========================== PROGRAM COMMITTEE =========================== Cristina Dutra De Aguiar Ciferri (Universidade de Sao Paulo, Brazil) Oscar Corcho (Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain) Isabel Cruz (University of Ilinnois at Chicago, USA) Amelie Gheerbrant (University of Paris VII Denis Diderot, France) Parke Godfrey (York University, Canada) Sergio Greco (Universita della Calabria, Italy) Claudio Gutierrez (Universidad de Chile) Mauricio A. Hernandez-Sherrington (IBM Research Almaden, USA) Aidan Hogan (Universidad de Chile) Elizabeth Leon (Universidad Nacional de Colombia) Jorge Lobo (ICREA and Universidad Pompeu Fabra, Spain) Maria Vanina Martinez (Universidad Nacional del Sur, Argentina) Filip Murlak (University of Warsaw, Poland) Mauricio Osorio (Universidad de las Americas Puebla, Mexico) Reinhard Pichler (Vienna University of Technology, Austria) Andreas Pieris (Vienna University of Technology, Austria) Alessandro Provetti (University of Messina, Italy) Jarek Szlichta (University of Ontario, Canada) Regina Paola Ticona Herrera (Universita de Pau et des Pays de l'Adour, France) Peter Wood (Birkbeck, University of London, UK) -------------- nächster Teil -------------- Ein Dateianhang mit HTML-Daten wurde abgetrennt... URL: From announce at cs.ucy.ac.cy Sun Dec 7 12:02:58 2014 From: announce at cs.ucy.ac.cy (Announce Announcements) Date: Sun, 7 Dec 2014 13:02:58 +0200 Subject: WETICE 2015: First Call for Papers Message-ID: <7VY5D7BL-BE5P-4HN4-GKCV-58W6PHS055@cs.ucy.ac.cy> *** FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS *** 24th IEEE International Conference on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises (WETICE 2015) 15-17 June 2015, Golden Bay Beach Hotel, Larnaca, Cyprus http://www.cyprusconferences.org/wetice2015/ The IEEE International Conference on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises (WETICE) is an international forum for the state-of-the-art research in enabling technologies for collaboration, consisting of a number of related conference tracks. The conference proceedings are published by IEEE Computer Society and are also available online through the IEEE's Xplore digital library. The proceedings will be submitted for indexing through INSPEC, Scopus, Compendex, Thomson Reuters, DBLP, Google Scholar and EI Index. The 24th WETICE edition, held on June 15-17, 2015 in Larnaca (Cyprus), consists of a set of self-contained and self-managed tracks. The Program Committee solicits the submission of papers to the following tracks: · ACEC - 12th Track on Adaptive Computing (and Agents) for Enhanced Collaboration · AROSA - 4th Track on Adaptive and Reconfigurable Service-oriented and component-based Applications and Architectures · CAGing - 3rd Track on Collaborative and Autonomic Green Computing · CDCGM - 4th Track on Convergence of Distributed Clouds, Grids and their Management · CoMetS - 4th Track on Collaborative Modeling & Simulation · COPECH - 5th Track on Collaboration tools for Preservation of Environment and Cultural Heritage · CPS - 4th Track on Capacity driven Processes and Services for Cyber Physical Society · CSP - 3rd Track Conference on Collaborative Software Processes · FISA - 1st Track on Future Internet Services and Applications (formerly PASCS and PROMASC) · FVSBS - 2nd Track on Formal Verification of Service Based Systems · MADYNE - 3rd Track on Management of Dynamic Networked Enterprises · VSC - 2nd Track on Validating Software for Critical Systems · Web2Touch - 6th Track on Modeling the Collaborative Web Knowledge Prospective authors are invited to use the links available at the List of Tracks page of the WETICE 2015 main website (www.wetice.org) to get detailed information about the list of topics addressed by each single track. The paper submission procedure is carried out using the EasyChair conference management system; a link for submission will be available on the web site. IMPORTANT DATES · Submission deadline: February 13th, 2015 · Notification of acceptance: March 27th, 2015 · Camera-ready submission: April 10th, 2015 Papers up to six (6) pages (including figures, tables and references) should contain original contributions not published or submitted elsewhere and are to be formatted according to the IEEE template, which is available at the link: http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html Accepted papers will be included in the proceedings published by the IEEE Computer Society Press and will be archived in the IEEE digital library. At least one author for each accepted paper should register and attend WETICE 2015 to have the paper published in the proceedings. Please contact the Program Chairs for any additional information or request. 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URL: From grlmc at urv.cat Sun Dec 7 17:34:40 2014 From: grlmc at urv.cat (GRLMC) Date: Sun, 7 Dec 2014 17:34:40 +0100 Subject: InfoSec 2015: 1st announcement Message-ID: <8AB889899BC7463D93A92FB509D43A05@Carlos1> *To be removed from our mailing list, please respond to this message with UNSUBSCRIBE in the subject line* ********************************************************************** INTERNATIONAL SUMMER SCHOOL ON INFORMATION SECURITY InfoSec 2015 Tarragona, Spain July 6-10, 2015 Organized by Rovira i Virgili University http://grammars.grlmc.com/InfoSec2015/ ********************************************************************** --- Early registration deadline: January 3, 2015 --- ********************************************************************** AIM: InfoSec 2015 will be a major research training event addressed to graduates and postgraduates in the first steps of their academic career. With a global scope, it aims at updating them about the most recent advances in the critical and fast developing area of information security, which covers a large spectrum of current exciting academic research and industrial innovation. It refers to procedures to defend information from unauthorized access, use, modification, recording or destruction, with a critical role to play in order to avoid or minimize risks in the digital world. Renowned academics and industry pioneers will lecture and share their views with the audience. Most information security subareas will be displayed, namely: computer security, cryptography, privacy, cyber security, mobile security, network security, world wide web security, fraud prevention, data protection, etc. Main challenges of information security will be identified through 5 keynote lectures and 24 six-hour courses, which will tackle the most active and promising topics. The organizers believe outstanding speakers will attract the brightest and most motivated students. Interaction will be a main component of the event. ADDRESSED TO: Graduates and postgraduates from around the world. There are no formal pre-requisites in terms of academic degrees. However, since there will be differences in the course levels, specific background knowledge may be required for some of them. InfoSec 2015 is also appropriate for more senior people who want to keep themselves updated on recent developments and future trends. They will surely find it fruitful to listen and discuss with major researchers, industry leaders and innovators. REGIME: In addition to keynotes, 3 courses will run in parallel during the whole event. Participants will be able to freely choose the courses they will be willing to attend as well as to move from one to another. VENUE: InfoSec 2015 will take place in Tarragona, located 90 kms. to the south of Barcelona. The venue will be: Campus Catalunya Universitat Rovira i Virgili Av. Catalunya, 35 43002 Tarragona KEYNOTE SPEAKERS (to be completed): Jennifer Seberry (University of Wollongong), The Global Village: the Beginning of the Need for Computer Security [via videoconference] PROFESSORS AND COURSES (to be completed): N. Asokan (Aalto University), [intermediate] Mobile Security: Overview of Hardware Platform Security and Considerations of Usability Jan Camenisch (IBM Research, Zurich), [introductory/intermediate] Privacy in a Digital World Hao Chen (University of California, Davis), [intermediate/advanced] Security of the Mobile App Ecosystem Joan Daemen (ST Microelectronics Belgium, Diegem), [introductory/intermediate] Sponge Functions, Keccak and SHA-3 Sajal K. Das (Missouri University of Science and Technology, Rolla), [intermediate/advanced] Securing Cyber-Physical Systems: Challenges and Opportunities David Evans (University of Virginia, Charlottesville), [introductory/intermediate] Secure Multiparty Computation: Techniques, Theory, and Tools for Building Privacy-Preserving Applications Markus Jakobsson (Qualcomm, Santa Clara), [introductory/intermediate] Frontiers in Fraud Prevention Somesh Jha (University of Wisconsin, Madison), [intermediate/advanced] Analysis Techniques in Information Security Songwu Lu (University of California, Los Angeles), [introductory/intermediate] Cellular Network Security: Issues and Defenses Catherine Meadows (Naval Research Laboratory, Washington DC), [introductory/intermediate] Formal Analysis of Cryptographic Protocols Nasir Memon (New York University), [introductory/intermediate] User Authentication Stefano Paraboschi (University of Bergamo), [introductory/intermediate] Data Protection in Network-enabled Systems Bart Preneel (KU Leuven), [introductory/intermediate] Cryptology: State of the Art and Research Challenges Jean-Jacques Quisquater (Catholic University of Louvain), [introductory/intermediate] The History of RSA: from Babylon to Smart Cards Stefan Saroiu (Microsoft Research, Redmond), [advanced] Dealing with Loss: Protecting Data on a Lost Mobile Device Milind Tambe (University of Southern California, Los Angeles), [introductory/intermediate] Introduction to the Emerging Science of Security Games Gene Tsudik (University of California, Irvine), [intermediate/advanced] Security and Privacy in Candidate Future Internet Architectures Yang Xiao (University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa), [introductory/advanced] Security in Smart Grids Wenyuan Xu (University of South Carolina, Columbia), [intermediate] Security and Privacy Analysis of Embedded Systems Yuliang Zheng (University of North Carolina, Charlotte), [introductory] Cryptography and the Future of Money ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: Adrian Horia Dediu (Tarragona) Carlos Martín-Vide (Tarragona, chair) Florentina Lilica Voicu (Tarragona) REGISTRATION: The registration form can be found at: http://grammars.grlmc.com/InfoSec2015/registration.php The selection of up to 8 courses requested in the registration template is only tentative and non-binding. For the sake of organization, it will be helpful to have an approximation of the respective demand for each course. Since the capacity of the venue is limited, registration requests will be processed on a first come first served basis. The registration period will be closed and the on-line registration facility disabled when the capacity of the venue will be complete. It is much recommended to register prior to the event. FEES: Fees are a flat rate covering the attendance to all courses during the week. There are several early registration deadlines. Fees depend on the registration deadline. ACCOMMODATION: Suggestions of accommodation will be provided in due time. CERTIFICATE: Participants will be delivered a certificate of attendance. QUESTIONS AND FURTHER INFORMATION: florentinalilica.voicu at urv.cat POSTAL ADDRESS: InfoSec 2015 Lilica Voicu Rovira i Virgili University Av. Catalunya, 35 43002 Tarragona, Spain Phone: +34 977 559 543 Fax: +34 977 558 386 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS: Universitat Rovira i Virgili --- Este mensaje no contiene virus ni malware porque la protección de avast! Antivirus está activa. http://www.avast.com From m.b.vanriemsdijk at tudelft.nl Tue Dec 9 09:34:56 2014 From: m.b.vanriemsdijk at tudelft.nl (Birna van Riemsdijk) Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2014 09:34:56 +0100 Subject: JOBS: 2 PhD/Postdoc positions - Formal semantics/logic, quantitative reasoning, normative agents Message-ID: <9B47D3ED-F243-4AD2-B439-FC668E57DADD@tudelft.nl> ** JOB OPENING: TWO PhD/Postdoc POSITIONS ** ** FORMAL SEMANTICS & LOGIC, QUANTITATIVE REASONING, NORMATIVE AGENTS ** ** with Dr. M. Birna van Riemsdijk and Prof. Dr. Catholijn Jonker, Delft University of Technology ** ** Deadline for application: December 15th, 2014 ** --------------- JOB DESCRIPTION --------------- The purpose of this email is to solicit applications for two PhD/postdoc positions (PhD: 4 years, postdoc: 2 years), attached to a newly funded NWO Vidi grant obtained by Birna van Riemsdijk. The project is entitled Computational Reasoning for Socially Adaptive Electronic Partners (CoreSAEP). The research lies in the intersection of theoretical computer science (formal semantics, temporal logic) and multi-agent systems (agent programming, normative systems). The overall aim of the project is to develop a reasoning framework that combines logic and quantitative techniques for Socially Adaptive Electronic Partners (SAEPs) that adapt their behavior to norms and values of people. This becomes more and more important as technology becomes an integral part of our daily lives. The computational reasoning techniques are aimed at determining when and to what extent norm-compliance can be guaranteed, and deciding what to do if in exceptional situations a norm cannot or should not be complied with. We will implement the reasoning framework to evaluate its run-time behavior. The associated research posts will be in the following areas: POST 1 - formal semantics, temporal logic & normative agents (vacancy number: EWI2014-29) POST 2 - quantitative reasoning, logic & normative agents (vacancy number: EWI2014-34) More information on the project and the team you will be working in, can be found on http://ii.tudelft.nl/~birna/projects/CoreSAEP.html. For further information about the positions, please contact Birna van Riemsdijk via email (m.b.vanriemsdijk at tudelft.nl). Salary for a PhD position is EUR2083 to EUR2664 per month gross, and for a postdoc position EUR2427 to EUR3831 per month gross. ------------ REQUIREMENTS ------------ The applicant: * Has a Master's degree in computer science or artificial intelligence. If applying for a postdoc, a PhD is also required. * Has good command of the English language. * Has a willingness to try new things and learn from others, has an eye for detail, and stamina. ------------ HOW TO APPLY ------------ Applications will be accepted until all positions have been filled. The first round of interviews will be conducted based on applications received before *** December 15th 2014 ***. To apply, please submit the following application material to Hr-eemcs at tudelft.nl and state the vacancy number in the subject line of the email: (1) Curriculum Vitae (with publications if you have any). (2) Course lists with grades and degree certificates (3) A letter of application in which you explain both your motivation and the relevance of your skills and experience for this research project. The motivational letter should be on-topic, generic letters will cause your application to be rejected immediately. (4) A list of 3 (academic) references that we can contact (5) When applying for a PhD position: your MSc thesis in English (or alternatively if your MSc thesis is not in English, a 5-page summary of your MSc thesis in English). When applying for the postdoc position: a copy of your PhD thesis (or a draft thereof) and a detailed list of your publications. TU Delft is an "equal opportunity" employer. ----------------------------- Dr. M. Birna van Riemsdijk assistant professor Interactive Intelligence Group Department of Intelligent Systems Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science Delft University of Technology Mekelweg 4 2628 CD Delft The Netherlands Room: HB 12.040 Telephone: +31 (0)15 2786331 Website: http://ii.tudelft.nl/~birna/ Twitter: @mbirna From aamas2014publicity at gmail.com Tue Dec 9 12:07:53 2014 From: aamas2014publicity at gmail.com (Amit Chopra) Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2014 11:07:53 +0000 Subject: Call for IFAAMAS-14 Victor Lesser Distinguished Dissertation Award nominations Message-ID: Nominations are invited for the 2014 Victor Lesser Distinguished Dissertation Award sponsored by IFAAMAS, the International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (http://www.ifaamas.org) and to be presented at AAMAS-2015 (http://www.aamas2015.com/). Eligible doctoral dissertations are those defended between January 1, 2014 and December 31, 2014 in the area of Autonomous Agents or Multiagent Systems. This award includes a certificate and a 1500EUR payment. The selection of the dissertation will be based on the originality, significance, and impact of the work. Evidence of such impact include publications at highly selective conferences and journals in the field with due importance given to the AAMAS conference series and JAAMAS. Research output that resulted primarily from the student's initiative will be considered more favourably. The selection committee will be the final arbiter in the decision process. The selection committee might decide to consult external assessors and reserves the right to not award the prize if the nominations do not meet the expected quality level. The dissertation must be nominated by the thesis supervisor and must be supported by the following documents (the documents must be placed on a web page and only a link to this page e-mailed to Michael Winikoff, michael.winikoff at otago.ac.nz, on or before February 28, 2015): 1. A PDF file of the dissertation. If the dissertation is not written in English, the nomination must include a substantial manuscript in English, with the nominee as the first author, published in a journal or a prestigious conference. 2. A list of citations to published papers based primarily on this dissertation with links to corresponding PDF files. 3. A recommendation from the dissertation supervisor, on departmental letterhead, nominating the dissertation for the IFAAMAS-14 Victor Lesser Distinguished Dissertation Award. The recommendation should argue the merit of the dissertation and highlight, where relevant, how the work resulted from the initiative of the student. This document, not to exceed 500 words, should also certify the eligibility of the PhD by asserting that the PhD was defended in calendar year 2014. 4. The names, email addresses, and affiliations of at most three referees, familiar with the research of the candidate and experts in the pertinent research area, who will directly email their recommendations for the candidate to the chair of the selection committee. It is the responsibility of the dissertation supervisor to contact the referees and ensure that the letters are submitted by the deadline. A reference letter should be no more than 500 words in length and should be on official letterhead, signed and emailed as scanned PDF file. Though the nomination is to be submitted by the nominee's dissertation supervisor, it is required that the nominee has consented that the dissertation be considered for this award and, if selected for the award, commits to attend the AAMAS-2015 conference, where he/she will receive the award, and will give an hour-long presentation in a special session of the conference on the work contained in the dissertation. The cost of attending the conference is not covered by the award. -------------- nächster Teil -------------- Ein Dateianhang mit HTML-Daten wurde abgetrennt... URL: From xrambous at aurora.fi.muni.cz Wed Dec 10 00:55:17 2014 From: xrambous at aurora.fi.muni.cz (TSD 2015) Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2014 00:55:17 +0100 Subject: TSD 2015 - Preliminary Call for Papers Message-ID: ************************************************************************** TSD 2015 - PRELIMINARY CALL FOR PAPERS ************************************************************************** Eighteenth International Conference on TEXT, SPEECH and DIALOGUE (TSD 2015) Plzen (Pilsen), Czech Republic, 14-17 September 2015 http://www.tsdconference.org TSD HIGHLIGHTS * Invited speakers Hermann Ney, Dan Roth, Björn W. Schuller, Peter D. Turney, and Alexander Waibel. * TSD is traditionally published by Springer-Verlag and regularly listed in all major citation databases: Thomson Reuters Conference Proceedings Citation Index, DBLP, SCOPUS, EI, INSPEC, COMPENDEX, etc. * TSD offers high-standard transparent review process - double blind, final reviewers discussion. * TSD will take place in Pilsen, the European Capital of Culture 2015. * TSD provides an all-service package (conference access and material, all meals, one social event etc) for an easily affordable fee starting at 270 EUR for students and 330 EUR for full participants. TSD SERIES TSD series have evolved as a prime forum for interaction between researchers in both spoken and written language processing from all over the world. Proceedings of TSD form a book published by Springer-Verlag in their Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) series. The TSD proceedings are regularly indexed by Thomson Reuters Conference Proceedings Citation Index. 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): Corpora and Language Resources (monolingual, multilingual, text and spoken corpora, large web corpora, disambiguation, specialized lexicons, dictionaries) Speech Recognition (multilingual, continuous, emotional speech, handicapped speaker, out-of-vocabulary words, alternative way of feature extraction, new models for acoustic and language modelling) Tagging, Classification and Parsing of Text and Speech (multilingual processing, sentiment analysis, credibility analysis, automatic text labeling, summarization, authorship attribution) Speech and Spoken Language Generation (multilingual, high fidelity speech synthesis, computer singing) Semantic Processing of Text and Speech (information extraction, information retrieval, data mining, semantic web, knowledge representation, inference, ontologies, sense disambiguation, plagiarism detection) Integrating Applications of Text and Speech Processing (machine translation, natural language understanding, question-answering strategies, assistive technologies) Automatic Dialogue Systems (self-learning, multilingual, question-answering systems, dialogue strategies, prosody in dialogues) Multimodal Techniques and Modelling (video processing, facial animation, visual speech synthesis, user modelling, emotions and personality modelling) OFFICIAL LANGUAGE The official language of the event will be English. However, papers on processing of languages other than English are strongly encouraged. IMPORTANT DATES March 31, 2015 ............ Submission of full papers May 10, 2015 .............. Notification of acceptance May 31, 2015 .............. Final papers (camera ready) and registration September 14-17, 2015 ....... Conference date The contributions to the conference will be published in proceedings that will be made available on a CD to participants at the time of the conference. CONFERENCE FEES The conference fee depends on the date of payment and on your status. It includes one copy of the conference proceedings, refreshments/coffee breaks, opening dinner, welcome party, mid-conference social event admissions, and organizing costs. In order to lower the fee as much as possible, the accommodation and the conference trip are not included. Full participant: early registration by May 31, 2015 - CZK 9.000 (approx. 330 EUR) late registration by August 1, 2015 - CZK 10.000 (approx. 370 EUR) on-site registration - CZK 10.700 (approx. 390 EUR) Student (reduced): early registration by May 31, 2015 - CZK 7.400 (approx. 270 EUR) late registration by August 1, 2015 - CZK 9.000 (approx. 330 EUR) on-site registration - CZK 10.000 (approx. 370 EUR) LOCATION The city of Plzeň (Pilsen) is situated in Western Bohemia at the confluence of four rivers. With its 170,000 inhabitants it is the fourth largest city in the Czech Republic and an important industrial, commercial, and administrative centre. It is also the capital of the Pilsen Region. In addition, Pilsen won the title of the European Capital of Culture for the upcoming year 2015. Pilsen is well-known for its brewing tradition. The trademark Pilsner-Urquell has a good reputation all over the world thanks to the traditional recipe, high quality hops and good groundwater. Beer lovers will also appreciate a visit to the Brewery Museum or the Brewery itself. Apart from its delicious beer, Pilsen hides lots of treasures in its core. The city can boast the second largest synagogue in Europe. The dominant of the old part of the city center is definitely the 13th-century Gothic cathedral featuring the highest church tower in Bohemia (102.34 m). It is possible to go up and admire the view of the city. Not far from the cathedral is the splendid Renaissance Town Hall from 1558 and plenty of pleasant cafes and pubs are situated on and around the main square. There is also the beautiful Pilsen Historical Underground - under the city center, a complex network of passageways and cellars can be found. They are about 14 km long and visitors can see the most beautiful part of this labyrinth during the tour. It is recommended to visit the City Zoological Garden, having the second largest space for bears in Europe and keeping several Komodo dragons, large lizards which exist only in a few zoos in the world. The University of West Bohemia in Pilsen provides a variety of courses for both Czech and international students. It is the only institution of higher education in this part of the country which prepares students for careers in engineering (electrical and mechanical), science (computer science, applied mathematics, physics, and mechanics), education (both primary and secondary), economics, philosophy, politics, archeology, anthropology, foreign languages, law and public administration, art and design. ABOUT CONFERENCE The conference is organized by the Faculty of Applied Sciences, University of West Bohemia, Pilsen, and the Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University, Brno. The conference is supported by International Speech Communication Association (ISCA). Venue: Plzeň (Pilsen), Parkhotel Congress Center Plzeň, Czech Republic ADDRESS All correspondence regarding the conference should be addressed to: Ms Anna Habernalová, TSD2015 Conference Secretary E-mail: tsd2015 at tsdconference.org Phone: (+420) 724 910 148 Fax: +420 377 632 402 - Please, mark the faxed material with capitals 'TSD' on top. TSD 2015 conference web site: http://www.tsdconference.org/tsd2015 From geoff at cs.miami.edu Wed Dec 10 14:32:04 2014 From: geoff at cs.miami.edu (Geoff Sutcliffe) Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2014 08:32:04 -0500 (EST) Subject: CICM Call for Papers Message-ID: <20141210133204.65D4B1214B4@mcclellan.cs.miami.edu> Call for Papers Conference on Intelligent Computer Mathematics CICM 2015 13-17 July 2015 Washington DC, USA Digital and computational solutions are becoming the prevalent means for the generation, communication, processing, storage and curation of mathematical information. Separate communities have developed to investigate and build computer based systems for computer algebra, automated deduction, and mathematical publishing as well as novel user interfaces. While all of these systems excel in their own right, their integration can lead to synergies offering significant added value. The Conference on Intelligent Computer Mathematics (CICM) offers a venue for discussing and developing solutions to the great challenges posed by the integration of these diverse areas. CICM has been held annually as a joint meeting since 2008, co-locating related conferences and workshops to advance work in these subjects. Previous meetings have been held in Birmingham (UK 2008), Grand Bend (Canada 2009), Paris (France 2010), Bertinoro (Italy 2011), Bremen (Germany 2012), Bath (UK 2013), and Coimbra (Portugal 2014). This is a (short version of the) call for papers for CICM 2015, which will be held in Washington, D.C., 13-17 July 2015. The full version of the CFP is available from the conference web page at http://cicm-conference.org/2015/cicm.php ********************************************************************** The principal tracks of the conference will be: ********************************************************************** * Calculemus (Symbolic Computation and Mechanised Reasoning) Chair: Jacques Carette * DML (Digital Mathematical Libraries) Chair: Volker Sorge * MKM (Mathematical Knowledge Management) Chair: Cezary Kaliszyk * Systems and Data Chair: Florian Rabe Publicity chair is Serge Autexier. The local arrangements will be coordinated by the Local Arrangements Chairs, Bruce R. Miller (National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA) and Abdou Youssef (The George Washington University, Washington, D.C.), and the overall programme will be organized by the General Programme Chair, Manfred Kerber (U. Birmingham, UK). As in previous years, it is anticipated that there will be a number co-located workshops, including one to mentor doctoral students giving presentations. We also solicit for project descriptions and work-in-progress papers. ********************************************************************** Important Dates ********************************************************************** Conference submissions: Abstract submission deadline: 16 February 2015 Submission deadline: 23 February 2015 Reviews sent to authors: 6 April 2015 Rebuttals due: 9 April 2015 Notification of acceptance: 13 April 2015 Camera ready copies due: 27 April 2015 Conference: 13-17 July 2015 Work-in-progress and Doctoral Programme submissions: Submission deadline: (Doctoral: Abstract+CV) 4 May 2015 Notification of acceptance: 25 May 2015 Camera ready copies due: 1 June 2015 From laurajones at knowalliance.org Wed Dec 10 15:32:27 2014 From: laurajones at knowalliance.org (Laura Jones) Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2014 14:32:27 +0000 Subject: =?windows-1252?Q?Agents_and_Multi-agent_Systems_=96_Technologies?= =?windows-1252?Q?_=26_Applications_=28AMSTA-15=29_Call_for_Paper?= =?windows-1252?Q?s?= References: Message-ID: <8A05877F-DFCF-478D-884E-EA16F072C946@knowalliance.org> =================================================================== 9th International KES Conference on Agents and Multi-agent Systems – Technologies & Applications (AMSTA-15) Hilton Sorrento Palace, Sorrento, Italy 17th-19th June 2015 http://amsta-15.kesinternational.org/ =================================================================== -----Paper submission deadline is less than a month away! Submit your papers by the 5th January 2015 KES-AMSTA-2015 is an international scientific conference for research in the field of agent and multi-agent systems. The aim of the conference is to provide an internationally respected forum for scientific research in the technologies and applications of agent and multi-agent systems. Agents and multi-agent systems are related to a modern software paradigm which has long been recognised as a promising technology for constructing autonomous, complex and intelligent systems. This conference will provide an excellent opportunity for researchers to discuss modern approaches and techniques for agent and multi-agent systems and their applications. The conference will be co-located under the KES Smart Digital Futures umbrella with our other Intelligent Systems conferences: IIMSS and IDT and SEEL (Smart Education and E-Learning). Registration gives access to all of these conferences, together with a paper published in one set of proceedings. The conference proceedings will be published in the KES Springer series 'Smart Innovations, Systems and Technologies' and submitted for indexing in Scopus and CPCI which is part of Web of Science. Please see the Smart Digital Futures 2015 website: http://sdf-15.kesinternational.org/ for more information. =============== Conference Scope =============== Agent Systems Formal models of agency. Agent architectures. BDI architecture. Learning, evolution, and adaptation. Perception and action. Communication: languages, semantics, pragmatics, protocols, and conversations. Knowledge representation Computational complexity. Autonomous or humanoid robots. Social robots and robot teams. Autonomy aspect. Cognitive models, including emotions and philosophies. Embodied and believable agents. Emergent behaviour. Ontologies. Multi-agent Systems Cooperative distributed problem solving. Task and resource allocation. Mechanism design, auctions, and game theory. Modelling other agents and self. Multi-agent planning. Negotiation protocols. Multi-agent learning. Conflict resolution. Trust and reputation management. Privacy, safety and security. Scalability, robustness and dependability. Social and organisational structures. Verification and validation. Novel computing paradigms (autonomic, grid, P2P, ubiquitous computing). Brokering and matchmaking. Agent-oriented software engineering, including implementation languages and frameworks. Mobile agents. Performance, scalability, robustness, and dependability. Verification and validation. E-business agents. Pervasive computing. Privacy, safety, and security. Tools and Applications Simulation systems. Web services and service-oriented computing. Artificial social systems. Autonomic computing. Case studies and reports on deployments. Computational infrastructures. Information retrieval. Web services and semantic web. E-learning sys-tems. E-institutions. E-commerce. ============= Invited Sessions ============= An invited session consists of a presentation session of 6 to 12 or more papers on a specific conference topic, organised as half or full day mini-conference. We invite senior scientists who have a special interest in a specific conference topic to take responsibility for an invited session, gathering papers from a range of research expertise around the world. If you would like to arrange an Invited Session, please contact: admin at kesinternational.org Here is a list of the approved sessions so far: IS01: Agent-Based Modelling and Simulation (ABMS) IS02: Digital Economy 2015 IS03: LP:ABA - Learning Paradigms and Applications: Agent-based Approach IS04: Anthropic-Oriented Computing (AOC) IS05: Business Model Innovation and Disruptive Technologies IS06: Serious Game and Business Intelligence through Agent-based Modelling For more details on these sessions please visit: http://amsta-15.kesinternational.org/cmsISdisplay.php ================ Dates and Deadlines ================ General Track Papers Submission of Papers: 5 January 2015 Notification of Acceptance: 16 February 2015 Upload of Final Publication Files: 2 March 2015 Invited Session and Workshops Submission of Invited Session Proposals: 1 December 2014 Submission of Papers: Session Chair Sets Deadline Notification of Acceptance: Session Chair Sets Deadline Upload of Final Publication Files: 2 March 2015 (Publication files are the wordprocessor source in MS Word or LaTeX together with a final PDF.) Early Registration Deadline: 2 March 2015 Every paper for inclusion in the published proceedings must have at least one author who has registered for the conference with payment by: 2 March 2015 ===== Venue ===== The conference will be held at the Hilton Sorrento Palace. This hotel boasts stunning views of Mount Vesuvius and you can also visit the historic ruins of ancient Pompeii, take a short boat trip to the stunningly beautiful island of Capri, or explore the alluring hotspots of Positano and Ravello on the gorgeous Amalfi Coast, with their glorious coupling of rough sea cliffs and vibrant azure waters. Find out more here: http://www.sorrentopalacehotel.com/ ========== Organisation ========== Honorary Chairs: I. Lovrek, University of Zagreb, Croatia L. C. Jain, University of South Australia General Chair: G. Jezic, University of Zagreb, Croatia Executive Chair: R.J. Howlett, Bournemouth University, UK Programme Chair: M. Kusek, University of Zagreb, Croatia Publicity Chair: D. Katusic, University of Zagreb, Croatia =============== Further Information =============== Please note that the above deadlines are provisional and subject to change. For further information on all the above, please visit the conference website at the top of the page. For general enquiries about the conference, please contact: admin at kesinternational.org For registration enquiries, please contact: registration at kesinternational.info You can follow us for updates on: Twitter: @KESIntsys or @KESIntl Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/KesInternational -------------- nächster Teil -------------- Ein Dateianhang mit HTML-Daten wurde abgetrennt... URL: From ruy at cin.ufpe.br Wed Dec 10 22:15:39 2014 From: ruy at cin.ufpe.br (Ruy de Queiroz) Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2014 18:15:39 -0300 Subject: WoLLIC 2015 - Second Call for Papers Message-ID: [Please circulate. Apologies for cross-postings.] WoLLIC 2015 22nd Workshop on Logic, Language, Information and Computation July 20th-23rd, 2015 Bloomington, IN, USA SCIENTIFIC SPONSORSHIP Interest Group in Pure and Applied Logics (IGPL) The Association for Logic, Language and Information (FoLLI) Association for Symbolic Logic (ASL) European Association for Theoretical Computer Science (EATCS) European Association for Computer Science Logic (EACSL) Sociedade Brasileira de Computação (SBC) Sociedade Brasileira de Lógica (SBL) ORGANISATION Department of Computer Science, Indiana University, USA Program in Pure and Applied Logic, Indiana University, USA Centro de Informática, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil HOSTED BY Department of Computer Science, Indiana University, USA CALL FOR PAPERS WoLLIC is an annual international forum on inter-disciplinary research involving formal logic, computing and programming theory, and natural language and reasoning. Each meeting includes invited talks and tutorials as well as contributed papers. The twenty-second WoLLIC will be held at the Department of Computer Science Indiana University, from July 20th to 23rd, 2015. It is sponsored by the Association for Symbolic Logic (ASL), the Interest Group in Pure and Applied Logics (IGPL), the The Association for Logic, Language and Information (FoLLI), the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science (EATCS), the European Association for Computer Science Logic (EACSL), the Sociedade Brasileira de Computação (SBC), and the Sociedade Brasileira de Lógica (SBL). PAPER SUBMISSION Contributions are invited on all pertinent subjects, with particular interest in cross-disciplinary topics. Typical but not exclusive areas of interest are: foundations of computing and programming; novel computation models and paradigms; broad notions of proof and belief; proof mining, type theory, effective learnability; formal methods in software and hardware development; logical approach to natural language and reasoning; logics of programs, actions and resources; foundational aspects of information organization, search, flow, sharing, and protection; foundations of mathematics; philosophical logic. Proposed contributions should be in English, and consist of a scholarly exposition accessible to the non-specialist, including motivation, background, and comparison with related works. They must not exceed 10 pages (in font 10 or higher), with up to 5 additional pages for references and technical appendices. The paper's main results must not be published or submitted for publication in refereed venues, including journals and other scientific meetings. It is expected that each accepted paper be presented at the meeting by one of its authors. Papers must be submitted electronically at the WoLLIC 2015 EasyChair website. (Please go to http://wollic.org/wollic2015/instructions.html for instructions.) A title and single-paragraph abstract should be submitted by Feb 8, 2015, and the full paper by Feb 15, 2015 (firm date). Notifications are expected by Mar 22, 2015, and final papers for the proceedings will be due by Apr 5, 2015 (firm date). PROCEEDINGS The proceedings of WoLLIC 2015, including both invited and contributed papers, will be published in advance of the meeting as a volume in Springer's LNCS series. In addition, abstracts will be published in the Conference Report section of the Logic Journal of the IGPL, and selected contributions will be published as a special post-conference WoLLIC 2015 issue of Mathematical Structures in Computer Science, CUP (to be confirmed). INVITED SPEAKERS Adriana Compagnoni (Stevens Institute, USA) John Harrison (Intel, USA) Peter Jipsen (Chapman U, USA) Andre Joyal (U du Québec à Montreal, Canada) Chung-chieh Shan (Indiana U, USA) Alexandra Silva (Radboud U Nijmegen, The Netherlands) Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh (Queen Mary, UK) STUDENT GRANTS ASL sponsorship of WoLLIC 2015 will permit ASL student members to apply for a modest travel grant (deadline: May 1st, 2015). See http://www.aslonline.org/studenttravelawards.html for details. IMPORTANT DATES Feb 8, 2015: Paper title and abstract deadline Feb 15, 2015: Full paper deadline Mar 22, 2015: Author notification Apr 5, 2015: Final version deadline (firm) PROGRAMME COMMITTEE Juliana Küster Filipe Bowles (U St Andrews, Scotland) Guillaume Brunerie (ENS Ulm, France) (TBC) Ann Copestake (U Cambridge, UK) (TBC) Robin Cooper (U Gothenburg, Sweden) Nikos Galatos (U Denver, USA) Achim Jung (U Birmingham, UK) Sara Kalvala (U Warwick, UK) Elham Kashefi (Edinburgh U, Scotland) Peter Lefanu Lumsdaine (Institute for Advanced Study, USA) Ian Mackie (U Sussex, UK) Gerard de Melo (Tsinghua University, China) Vivek Nigam (Federal U of Paraíba, Brazil) Valeria de Paiva (Nuance Comm, USA) (CHAIR) Luiz Carlos Pereira (PUC-Rio, Brazil) Elaine Pimentel (Federal U of Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil) Alexandra Silva (Radboud Nijmegen U, The Netherlands) Carolyn Talcott (SRI International, USA) Josef Urban (Radboud Nijmegen U, The Netherlands) Laure Vieu (IRIT-Toulouse, France) (TBC) Renata Wasserman (U São Paulo, Brazil) Anna Zamansky (U Haifa, Israel) STEERING COMMITTEE Samson Abramksy, Johan van Benthem, Anuj Dawar, Joe Halpern, Wilfrid Hodges, Ulrich Kohlenbach, Daniel Leivant, Leonid Libkin, Angus Macintyre, Luke Ong, Hiroakira Ono, Ruy de Queiroz. ORGANISING COMMITTEE Daniel Leivant (Indiana U) (Local co-chair) Larry Moss (Indiana U) (Local co-chair) Anjolina G. de Oliveira (U Fed Pernambuco) Ruy de Queiroz (U Fed Pernambuco) (co-chair) FURTHER INFORMATION Contact one of the Co-Chairs of the Organising Committee. WEB PAGE http://wollic.org/wollic2015/ -------------- nächster Teil -------------- Ein Dateianhang mit HTML-Daten wurde abgetrennt... URL: From P.Schulz at uva.nl Thu Dec 11 14:21:37 2014 From: P.Schulz at uva.nl (Schulz, Philip) Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2014 13:21:37 +0000 Subject: CfP: ESSLLI Student Session 2015, Barcelona, August 3-14 2015 Message-ID: <3B1634E7DBEFD54D89614385189A7F88F047F1@MBX02.uva.nl> *1st Call for Papers* *ESSLLI 2015 STUDENT SESSION* Held during the 27th European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information Barcelona, Spain, August 03-14, 2015 *Deadline for submissions: March 25th, 2015* https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=essllistus2015 *ABOUT:* The Student Session of the 27th European Summer School in Logic, Language, and Information (ESSLLI) will take place in Barcelona, Spain, August 3rd to 14th (http://esslli2015.org). We invite submissions of original, unpublished work from students in any area at the intersection of Logic & Language, Language & Computation, or Logic & Computation. Submissions will be reviewed by several experts in the field, and accepted papers will be presented orally or as posters and will appear in the student session proceedings by Springer. This is an excellent opportunity to receive valuable feedback from expert readers and to present your work to a diverse audience. *ORAL/POSTER PRESENTATIONS:* Note that there are two separate kinds of submissions, one for oral presentations and one for posters. This means that papers are directly submitted either as oral presentations or as poster presentations. Reviewing and ranking will be done separately. We particularly encourage submissions for posters, as they offer an excellent opportunity to present smaller research projects and research in progress. *SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:* Authors must be students, and submissions may be singly or jointly authored. Each author may submit at most one single and one jointly authored contribution. Submissions should not be longer than 8 pages for an oral presentation or 4 pages for a poster presentation (including examples and references). Submissions must be anonymous, without any identifying information. More detailed guidelines regarding submission can be found on the Student Session website: http://esslli-stus-2015.phil.hhu.de/. *FURTHER INFORMATION:* Please direct inquiries about submission procedures or other matters relating to the Student Session to P.Schulz at uva.nl and kaeshammer at phil.uni-duesseldorf.de. ESSLLI 2015 will feature a wide range of foundational and advanced courses and workshops in all areas of Logic, Language, and Computation. For further information, including registration information and course listings, and for general inquiries about ESSLLI 2015, please consult the main ESSLLI 2015 page: http://esslli2015.org. Kind regards, The ESSLLI 2015 Student Session Organization Committee Chairs: Miriam Kaeshammer (Universität Düsseldorf) Philip Schulz (Universiteit van Amsterdam) LoCo co-chairs: Giovanni Cina (Universiteit van Amsterdam) Zeynep Saribatur (Technische Universität Wien) LoLa co-chairs: Marisa Delz (Universität Tübingen) Veronika Richtacikova (Universitat Pompeu Fabra Barcelona) LaCo co-chairs: Angeliki Lazaridou (University of Trento) Maria Nadejde (University of Edinburgh) -------------- nächster Teil -------------- Ein Dateianhang mit HTML-Daten wurde abgetrennt... URL: From john.r.woodward at gmail.com Thu Dec 11 14:27:23 2014 From: john.r.woodward at gmail.com (John Woodward) Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2014 13:27:23 +0000 Subject: 1st CfP: ECADA 2015 @GECCO 2015 in Madrid, Spain Message-ID: 5th Workshop on Evolutionary Computation for the Automated Design of Algorithms (ECADA) July 11-15, 2015 @ GECCO 2015 in Madrid, Spain http://web.mst.edu/~tauritzd/ECADA/ CALL FOR PAPERS The ECADA workshop explores the Automated Design of Algorithms employing hyper-heuristics which are meta-heuristics applied to algorithm space, with an emphasis on hyper-heuristics of the evolutionary computation persuasion. Genetic Programming has most famously been employed to this end, but random search and iterative hill-climbing have both also successfully been employed to automatically design novel (components of) algorithms. These methods have the advantage of producing solutions that are applicable to any instance of a specified problem domain, instead of a solution specifically produced for a single problem instance. This is particularly useful for real-world problem solving where one can afford a large amount of a priori computational time to subsequently solve many problem instances drawn from a specified problem domain. The areas of application of these methods include, for instance, data mining, machine learning, optimization, bioinformatics, image processing, economics, cyber security, critical infrastructure protection, etc. The workshop welcomes original submissions on all aspects of Evolutionary Computation for the Automated Design of Algorithms, which include - but are not limited to - the following topics and themes: - Hyper-heuristics, in particular of the evolutionary computation persuasion, for designing a particular type of algorithm/heuristic for anything from optimization to machine learning to bioinformatics, etc. - Hyper-heuristics, in particular of the evolutionary computation persuasion, for designing other algorithms of the evolutionary computation persuasion (effectively Meta-Evolutionary Algorithms). - Empirical comparison of different hyper-heuristics. - Theoretical analyses of hyper-heuristics. - Automatic selection/creation of algorithm primitives (i.e., building blocks) as a preprocessing step for the use of hyper-heuristics. - Analysis of the trade-off between generality and effectiveness of different hyper-heuristics or of algorithms produced by a hyper-heuristic. - Analysis of the most effective representations for hyper-heuristics (e.g., Koza style Genetic Programming versus Cartesian Genetic Programming). - Real-world applications of hyper-heuristics. For more detailed information, see the ECADA workshop website ( http://web.mst.edu/~tauritzd/ECADA/). IMPORTANT DATES To be announced on the ECADA workshop website ( http://web.mst.edu/~tauritzd/ECADA/). PAPER SUBMISSION Submitted papers may not exceed 8 pages and are required to be in compliance with the GECCO 2015 Call for Papers Preparation Instructions. However, note that the review process of the workshop is not double-blind; hence, authors' information should be included in the paper. To submit, E-mail papers to: dtauritz at acm.org and jrw at cs.stir.ac.uk All accepted papers will be presented at the workshop and appear in the GECCO Conference Companion Proceedings published by ACM. WORKSHOP SCHEDULE The schedule will be announced on the workshop website shortly after the paper acceptance notification deadline. ORGANIZERS & CONTACT INFO Daniel Tauritz (dtauritz at acm.org) John Woodward (jrw at cs.stir.ac.uk) WORKSHOP WEBSITE http://web.mst.edu/~tauritzd/ECADA/ --thanks John R. Woodward (http://www.cs.stir.ac.uk/~jrw/) --NEWS talk with audio at http://www.cs.stir.ac.uk/~jrw/talks/WSC18tutorial2014/ --NEWS public lecture Cmprsd Vw f nfrmtn Thry: A Compressed View of Information Theory, coming soon. -------------- nächster Teil -------------- Ein Dateianhang mit HTML-Daten wurde abgetrennt... URL: From P.Schulz at uva.nl Thu Dec 11 15:30:58 2014 From: P.Schulz at uva.nl (Schulz, Philip) Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2014 14:30:58 +0000 Subject: CfP: ESSLLI Student Session 2015, Barcelona, August 3-14 2015 Message-ID: <3B1634E7DBEFD54D89614385189A7F88F05911@MBX02.uva.nl> *1st Call for Papers* *ESSLLI 2015 STUDENT SESSION* Held during the 27th European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information Barcelona, Spain, August 03-14, 2015 *Deadline for submissions: March 25th, 2015* https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=essllistus2015 *ABOUT:* The Student Session of the 27th European Summer School in Logic, Language, and Information (ESSLLI) will take place in Barcelona, Spain, August 3rd to 14th (http://esslli2015.org). We invite submissions of original, unpublished work from students in any area at the intersection of Logic & Language, Language & Computation, or Logic & Computation. Submissions will be reviewed by several experts in the field, and accepted papers will be presented orally or as posters and will appear in the student session proceedings by Springer. This is an excellent opportunity to receive valuable feedback from expert readers and to present your work to a diverse audience. *ORAL/POSTER PRESENTATIONS:* Note that there are two separate kinds of submissions, one for oral presentations and one for posters. This means that papers are directly submitted either as oral presentations or as poster presentations. Reviewing and ranking will be done separately. We particularly encourage submissions for posters, as they offer an excellent opportunity to present smaller research projects and research in progress. *SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:* Authors must be students, and submissions may be singly or jointly authored. Each author may submit at most one single and one jointly authored contribution. Submissions should not be longer than 8 pages for an oral presentation or 4 pages for a poster presentation (including examples and references). Submissions must be anonymous, without any identifying information. More detailed guidelines regarding submission can be found on the Student Session website: http://esslli-stus-2015.phil.hhu.de/. *FURTHER INFORMATION:* Please direct inquiries about submission procedures or other matters relating to the Student Session to P.Schulz at uva.nl and kaeshammer at phil.uni-duesseldorf.de. ESSLLI 2015 will feature a wide range of foundational and advanced courses and workshops in all areas of Logic, Language, and Computation. For further information, including registration information and course listings, and for general inquiries about ESSLLI 2015, please consult the main ESSLLI 2015 page: http://esslli2015.org. Kind regards, The ESSLLI 2015 Student Session Organization Committee Chairs: Miriam Kaeshammer (Universität Düsseldorf) Philip Schulz (Universiteit van Amsterdam) LoCo co-chairs: Giovanni Cina (Universiteit van Amsterdam) Zeynep Saribatur (Technische Universität Wien) LoLa co-chairs: Marisa Delz (Universität Tübingen) Veronika Richtacikova (Universitat Pompeu Fabra Barcelona) LaCo co-chairs: Angeliki Lazaridou (University of Trento) Maria Nadejde (University of Edinburgh) -------------- nächster Teil -------------- Ein Dateianhang mit HTML-Daten wurde abgetrennt... URL: From grlmc at urv.cat Sat Dec 13 16:15:33 2014 From: grlmc at urv.cat (GRLMC) Date: Sat, 13 Dec 2014 16:15:33 +0100 Subject: BigDat 2015: registration deadline 23 December Message-ID: <57C3AA4B259C41D1BC0C96F6128D1DAA@Carlos1> *To be removed from our mailing list, please respond to this message with UNSUBSCRIBE in the subject line* ***************************************************** INTERNATIONAL WINTER SCHOOL ON BIG DATA BigDat 2015 Tarragona, Spain January 26-30, 2015 Organized by Rovira i Virgili University http://grammars.grlmc.com/bigdat2015/ ***************************************************** --- 7th registration deadline: December 23, 2014 --- ***************************************************** AIM: BigDat 2015 is a research training event for graduates and postgraduates in the first steps of their academic career. It aims at updating them about the most recent developments in the fast developing area of big data, which covers a large spectrum of current exciting research, development and innovation with an extraordinary potential for a huge impact on scientific discoveries, medicine, engineering, business models, and society itself. Renowned academics and industry pioneers will lecture and share their views with the audience. All big data subareas will be displayed, namely: foundations, infrastructure, management, search and mining, security and privacy, and applications. Main challenges of analytics, management and storage of big data will be identified through 4 keynote lectures, 22 six-hour courses, and 1 round table, which will tackle the most lively and promising topics. The organizers believe outstanding speakers will attract the brightest and most motivated students. Interaction will be a main component of the event. ADDRESSED TO: Graduate and postgraduates from around the world. There are no formal pre-requisites in terms of academic degrees. However, since there will be differences in the course levels, specific knowledge background may be required for some of them. BigDat 2015 is also appropriate for more senior people who want to keep themselves updated on recent developments and future trends. They will surely find it fruitful to listen and discuss with major researchers, industry leaders and innovators. REGIME: In addition to keynotes, 3 courses will run in parallel during the whole event. Participants will be able to freely choose the courses they will be willing to attend as well as to move from one to another. VENUE: BigDat 2015 will take place in Tarragona, located 90 kms. to the south of Barcelona. The venue will be: Campus Catalunya Universitat Rovira i Virgili Av. Catalunya, 35 43002 Tarragona KEYNOTE SPEAKERS: Ian Foster (Argonne National Laboratory), Taming Big Data: Accelerating Discovery via Outsourcing and Automation Geoffrey C. Fox (Indiana University, Bloomington), Mapping Big Data Applications to Clouds and HPC C. Lee Giles (Pennsylvania State University, University Park), Scholarly Big Data: Information Extraction and Data Mining William D. Gropp (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), tba COURSES AND PROFESSORS: Hendrik Blockeel (KU Leuven), [intermediate] Decision Trees for Big Data Analytics Diego Calvanese (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano), [introductory/intermediate] End-User Access to Big Data Using Ontologies Jiannong Cao (Hong Kong Polytechnic University), [introductory/intermediate] Programming with Big Data Edward Y. Chang (HTC Corporation, New Taipei City), [introductory/advanced] Big Data Analytics: Architectures, Algorithms, and Applications Ernesto Damiani (University of Milan), [introductory/intermediate] Process Discovery and Predictive Decision Making from Big Data Sets and Streams Gautam Das (University of Texas, Arlington), [intermediate/advanced] Mining Deep Web Repositories Maarten de Rijke (University of Amsterdam), tba Geoffrey C. Fox (Indiana University, Bloomington), [intermediate] Using Software Defined Systems to Address Big Data Problems Minos Garofalakis (Technical University of Crete, Chania) [intermediate/advanced], Querying Continuous Data Streams Vasant G. Honavar (Pennsylvania State University, University Park) [introductory/intermediate], Learning Predictive Models from Big Data Tao Li (Florida International University, Miami), [introductory/intermediate] Data Mining Techniques to Understand Textual Data Kwan-Liu Ma (University of California, Davis), [intermediate] Big Data Visualization Christoph Meinel (Hasso Plattner Institute, Potsdam), [introductory/intermediate] New Computing Power by In-Memory and Multicore to Tackle Big Data Manish Parashar (Rutgers University, Piscataway), [intermediate] Big Data Challenges in Simulation-based Science Srinivasan Parthasarathy (Ohio State University, Columbus), [intermediate] Scalable Data Analysis Evaggelia Pitoura (University of Ioannina), [introductory/intermediate] Online Social Networks Vijay V. Raghavan (University of Louisiana, Lafayette), [introductory/intermediate] Visual Analytics of Time-evolving Large-scale Graphs Pierangela Samarati (University of Milan), [intermediate], Data Security and Privacy in the Cloud Peter Sanders (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology), [introductory/intermediate] Algorithm Engineering for Large Data Sets Johan Suykens (KU Leuven), [introductory/intermediate] Fixed-size Kernel Models for Big Data Domenico Talia (University of Calabria, Rende), [intermediate] Scalable Data Mining on Parallel, Distributed and Cloud Computing Systems Jieping Ye (Arizona State University, Tempe), [introductory/advanced] Large-Scale Sparse Learning and Low Rank Modeling ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: Adrian Horia Dediu (Tarragona) Carlos Martín-Vide (Tarragona, chair) Florentina Lilica Voicu (Tarragona) REGISTRATION: It has to be done at http://grammars.grlmc.com/bigdat2015/registration.php The selection of up to 8 courses requested in the registration template is only tentative and non-binding. For the sake of organization, it will be helpful to have an approximation of the respective demand for each course. Since the capacity of the venue is limited, registration requests will be processed on a first come first served basis. The registration period will be closed and the on-line registration facility disabled when the capacity of the venue will be complete. It is much recommended to register prior to the event. FEES: As far as possible, participants are expected to stay full-time. Fees are a flat rate covering the attendance to all courses during the week. There are several early registration deadlines. Fees depend on the registration deadline. ACCOMMODATION: Suggestions of accommodation are available on the webpage. CERTIFICATE: Participants will be delivered a certificate of attendance. QUESTIONS AND FURTHER INFORMATION: florentinalilica.voicu at urv.cat POSTAL ADDRESS: BigDat 2015 Lilica Voicu Rovira i Virgili University Av. Catalunya, 35 43002 Tarragona, Spain Phone: +34 977 559 543 Fax: +34 977 558 386 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS: Universitat Rovira i Virgili --- Este mensaje no contiene virus ni malware porque la protección de avast! Antivirus está activa. http://www.avast.com From mpavone at dmi.unict.it Sun Dec 14 21:53:10 2014 From: mpavone at dmi.unict.it (Mario Pavone) Date: Sun, 14 Dec 2014 21:53:10 +0100 Subject: CFP AIS 2015 - International Workshop on Artificial Immune Systems, 15-18 July 2015, Taormina, Italy Message-ID: <20141214215310.Horde.AspUZuph4B9Ujfi2pfxwU5A@mbox.dmi.unict.it> CALL FOR PAPERS, ABSTRACTS, ORAL/POSTER PRESENTATIONS ** Apologies for cross-posting ** ** Please forward to anybody who might be interested. ** International Workshop on Artificial Immune Systems - Systems & Synthetic Immunology, Computational Immunology & Immune-Inspired Engineering - July 17-18, 2015 - Taormina, Italy http://www.dmi.unict.it/ais2015/ ais2015 at ieee-cis-ais.org -- **** PLENARY SPEAKERS: Hugues Bersini & Alessandro Sette. http://www.dmi.unict.it/ais2015/plenary.html **** PROCEEDINGS in IEEE Press, as post-proceedings http://www.dmi.unict.it/ais2015/calls.html **** SUBMISSION DEADLINE: 18th February 2015 http://www.dmi.unict.it/ais2015/dates.html -- ** General Information ** The main aim of AIS 2015 is to foster the essential relations between immunologists and modelers that work into the research areas of systems immunology, synthetic immunology, computational immunology, cellular immunology, immune-inspired computation and immune-inspired engineering. In addition to peer-reviewed papers, the workshop will present a range of plenary lectures in order to inspire and facilitate all AIS researchers in their current and future work. The workshop is under the patronage of IEEE CIS Task Force on Artificial Immune Systems (http://ieee-cis-ais.org) and it is co-sponsored by IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (http://cis.ieee.org/) *** You are invited to submit papers to this exciting event! *** ** Important Dates ** - Abstract submission: 18th February 2015 - Regular Paper submission: 18th February 2015 - Abstract Notification: 26th March 2015 - Regular Paper notification: 26th March 2015 - Camera-ready submission: 16th April 2015 - Early Registration: 20th April 2015 ** Plenary Speakers ** - Hugues Bersini, IRIDIA, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium - Alessandro Sette, La Jolla Institute for Allergy & Immunology, La Jolla, USA More speakers to be announced http://www.dmi.unict.it/ais2015/plenary.html ** Paper Submission ** Authors are encouraged to submit novel contributions in one of the main topics of AIS 2015, and explain how their work sheds light on the fundamental properties of natural and artificial immune system, and makes progress on the important open questions of systems & synthetic immunology, computational immunology, and immune-inspired engineering. AIS 2015 includes three different types of submission: 1) *regular paper*: 8-pages maximum length, including figures, table & references. It should report on new and unpublished work; 2) *abstract*: max 2 pages length; 3) *Oral/Poster presentations*: no pages restriction. It should discuss works in progress; new research ideas; works previously published elsewhere (it is essential that a reference to the previous article is clearly cited); and all that may be relevant and fruitful for soliciting discussions at the workshop. All the submitted papers must be formatted using IEEE style (http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html). Note that the format is exactly the same for all options. All submissions will be subject to peer review by the program committee, and all accepted submissions are allocated either an oral presentation slot or a poster slot with no distinction being made between the submission options. ** Proceedings - IEEE press ** All accepted papers for the first two options will be published in a volume by IEEE Press, whilst all accepted papers relative to the last option will be published in an electronic book, and it will put online in the workshop website. The authors of the best papers will have the opportunity to publish a revised and expanded version of their conference paper in international journal (TBA). ** Location ** The conference will be held in Taormina http://www.dmi.unict.it/ais2015/location.html All information about venue and accommodation may be found at the following links: http://www.dmi.unict.it/ais2015/venue.html http://www.dmi.unict.it/ais2015/accommodation.html ----- http://www.dmi.unict.it/ais2015/ ais2015 at ieee-cis-ais.org Looking forward to welcoming you to Taormina in July 2015. Carlos A. Coello Coello, Vincenzo Cutello, Doheon Lee, and Mario Pavone. -- Dr. Mario Pavone (PhD) Assistant Professor Department of Mathematics and Computer Science University of Catania V.le A. Doria 6 - 95125 Catania, Italy tel: 0039 095 7383038 fax: 0039 095 330094 Email: mpavone at dmi.unict.it http://www.dmi.unict.it/mpavone/ =========================================================================== International Synthetic & Systems Biology Summer School * Biology meets Engineering and Computer Science * July 5-9, 2015 - Taormina, Italy http://www.taosciences.it/ssbss2015/ =========================================================================== International Workshop on Artificial Immune Systems * Systems & Synthetic Immunology, Computational Immunology, Immune-Inspired Engineering * July 17-18, 2015 - Taormina, Italy http://www.dmi.unict.it/ais2015/ =========================================================================== 12th European Conference on Artificial Life - ECAL 2013 September 2-6, 2013 - Taormina, Italy http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/advances-artificial-life-ecal-2013 =========================================================================== From youakim.badr at insa-lyon.fr Mon Dec 15 10:45:12 2014 From: youakim.badr at insa-lyon.fr (Youakim Badr) Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2014 10:45:12 +0100 (CET) Subject: CfP : ACM MEDES'15 - Sao Paulo, Brazil In-Reply-To: <1801670561.8817907.1418636257828.JavaMail.zimbra@insa-lyon.fr> Message-ID: <1815744627.8820767.1418636712701.JavaMail.zimbra@insa-lyon.fr> * Please distribute widely and accept our apologies for cross-posting * *************** CALL FOR PAPERS *************** The 7th International ACM Conference on Management of computational and collective Intelligence in Digital EcoSystems (MEDES 2015) In-Cooperation with ACM, ACM SIGAPP and IFIP WG 2.6 http://sigappfr.acm.org/MEDES/15/ September 25-29, 2015 Caraguatatuba, Sao Paulo, Brazil Description and Objectives --------------------------- In the world of the Internet of Things (IoT), the rapid growth and exponential use of digital components leads to the emergence of intelligent environments namely "digital ecosystems" connected to the web and composed of multiple and independent entities such as individuals, organizations, services, software and applications sharing one or several missions and focusing on the interactions and inter-relationships among them. With the help of the computational intelligence, these digital ecosystems can exhibit new self-* properties (such as self-management, self-healing and self-configuration) environments, thanks to the re-combination and evolution of its "digital components", in which resources provided by each entity are properly conserved, managed and used. The underlying web-based resources mainly comprehend big data management, innovative services, smart and self-* properties platforms. Due to the multi-disciplinary nature of digital ecosystems, they are highly complex to study and design. This also leads to a poor understanding as to how managing resources will empower digital ecosystems to be innovative, intelligent and value-creating. The application of Information Technologies has the potential to enable the understanding of how entities request resources and ultimately interact to create benefits and added-values, impacting business practices and knowledge. These technologies can be improved through novel techniques, models and methodologies for fields such as big data management, web technologies, networking, security, human-computer interactions, artificial intelligence, e-services and self-organizing systems to support the establishment of digital ecosystems and manage their resources. The International ACM Conference on Management of computational and collective IntElligence in Digital EcoSystems (MEDES) aims to develop and bring together a diverse community from academia, research laboratories and industry interested in exploring the manifold challenges and issues related to resource management of Digital Ecosystems and how current approaches and technologies can be evolved and adapted to this end. MEDES 2015 calls for full papers presenting interesting recent results or novel ideas in all areas of Emergent Digital EcoSystems. At the same time, the conference calls for short papers presenting interesting and exciting recent results or novel thought-provoking ideas that are not quite ready, and preferably include a system demonstration. Topics ------- MEDES 2015 seeks contributions in the following 10 areas: 1. Digital Ecosystem Infrastructure 2. Green computing 3. Computational and Collective Intelligence 4. Services 5. Trust, Security & Privacy 6. Data & Knowledge Management 7. Internet of Things and Intelligent Web 8. Human-Computer Interaction 9. Networks and Protocols 10. Open Source Paper Submission ---------------- Submissions must be in an electronic form as PDF format and should be uploaded using the conference website. The submitted paper should be at most 8 ACM single-space printed pages. Papers that fail to comply with length limit will be rejected. Submissions will be peer-reviewed by at least 3 peer reviewers. After the preliminary notification date, authors rebut by evidence and arguments all reviewer inquiries and their comments. Based on the rebuttal feedback, reviewers notify authors with the final decision. Selection criteria will include: relevance, significance, impact, originality, technical soundness, and quality of presentation. Preference will be given to submissions that take strong or challenging positions on important emergent topics related to Digital Ecosystems. At least one author should attend the conference to present the paper. The conference Proceedings will be published by ACM and indexed by the ACM Digital Library and DBLP. Important Dates ---------------- - Submission Deadline: May 15th, 2015 - Notification of Acceptance: June 26th, 2015 - Camera Ready: July 03rd, 2015 - Paper Registration: July 09th, 2015 - Conference Dates: 25-29 October 2015 Keynote speakers ---------------- Nivio Ziviani, CEO, Zunnit Technologies, Brazil Claudia Bauzer Medeiros, UNICAMP, Brazil Mario A. Nascimento, University of Alberta, Canada Conference Chairs ---------------- Victor Pellegrini Mammana, CTI, Brazil Yannis Manolopoulos, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece Eduado Antonio Mondena, IFSP, Brazil Program Chairs ---------------- Agma Traina, Sao Paolo University, Brazil Oscar Salviano, CTI, Brazil Youakim Badr, INSA de Lyon, France Frederic Andres, NII, Japan International Program Committee: -------------------------------- (Please check the web site for the full list) From idsistworkshops at gmail.com Mon Dec 15 12:16:26 2014 From: idsistworkshops at gmail.com (PIS@WorldCIST'15) Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2014 11:16:26 +0000 Subject: [WorldCIST'15]: Pervasive Information Systems Workshop - Call for Papers | New Deadline: December 20th, 2014 Message-ID: <548EC30A.4030304@gmail.com> Ein Dateianhang mit HTML-Daten wurde abgetrennt... URL: From Xin.Li at uts.edu.au Mon Dec 15 23:41:10 2014 From: Xin.Li at uts.edu.au (Xin Li) Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2014 09:41:10 +1100 Subject: =?utf-8?B?77u/SUNXRSAyMDE1IENBTEwgRk9SIFBBUEVSUw==?= Message-ID: <50D6C04FC4A4484B9511E345620A47F7CCCCCD4202@MAILBOXCLUSTER3.adsroot.uts.edu.au> 15th International Conference on Web Engineering Rotterdam, the Netherlands | June 23-26, 2015 http://icwe2015.webengineering.org/ IMPORTANT DATES * Abstract submission: February 05, 2015 (23h59 Hawaii Time) * Full paper submission: February 12, 2015 (23h59 Hawaii Time) * Paper notification: March 20, 2015 (23h59 Hawaii Time) * Camera-ready paper: April 10, 2015 (23h59 Hawaii Time) ICWE 2015 AT A GLANCE ICWE aims to bring together researchers and practitioners from various disciplines in academia and industry to tackle the emerging challenges in the engineering of Web applications and in the problems of its associated technologies, as well as the impact of those technologies on society and culture. The 15th edition of ICWE will be organized in thematic tracks, each focusing on a different dimension of Web applications - Web application modeling and engineering, mobile Web applications, social Web applications, Semantic Web applications, quality and accessibility aspects of Web applications, Web composition and mashups, Web user interfaces, and security and privacy in Web applications. In addition to the research tracks, ICWE 2015 also seeks contributions of demos and posters, student papers to the PhD Symposium, tutorials, and workshops, which are the subject of individual calls for papers. The conference will be held at the World Trade Center in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Rotterdam is the second largest city in the Netherlands, one of the largest seaports worldwide, and host to several leading universities. Further information can be found at http://icwe2015.webengineering.org/. ORGANIZATION General Chair: Flavius Frasincar, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Rotterdam, the Netherlands Contact: generalchair.icwe2015 at webengineering.org Vice-General Chair: Geert-Jan Houben, Delft University of Technology, Delft, the Netherlands Contact: generalchair.icwe2015 at webengineering.org Program Co-Chairs: Philipp Cimiano, Bielefeld University, Bielefeld, Germany Daniel Schwabe, Pontifical Catholic University, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Contact: pcchair.icwe2015 at webengineering.org Other members of the organization, including the Program Committee, can be found at http://icwe2015.webengineering.org/organization/ SUBMISSIONS INFORMATION This call addresses research contributions in one of the following categories: * Full research papers: mature, original research contribution. Reported results should be supported by some type of validation, and also include a justification about the choice/suitability of the validation method. In addition, evidence of use in practice and/or demonstration of scalability is regarded as a plus. (max. 18 pages) * Position papers: short papers presenting a discussion, analysis, criticism, proposal, etc., about relevant aspects of Web engineering topics. These papers are intended to generate discussions that promise potential for research that will impact Web engineering in the coming years. (max. 10 pages) Papers must be formatted according to the information for Springer LNCS authors at http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html and submitted in PDF. Accepted contributions will be included into the ICWE 2015 Springer LNCS proceedings. The best papers will be selected to be proposed, in extended form, as part of a special issue of the Journal of Web Engineering. 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URL: From m.b.vanriemsdijk at tudelft.nl Wed Dec 17 11:59:26 2014 From: m.b.vanriemsdijk at tudelft.nl (Birna van Riemsdijk) Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2014 11:59:26 +0100 Subject: CFP Agents and Multiagent Systems Schools (IFAAMAS) Message-ID: <6FE9C8A2-D9AF-42C2-9B21-32D09A1C458C@tudelft.nl> ******************************************************** CALL FOR PROPOSALS AGENTS and MULTIAGENT SYSTEMS SCHOOLS ******************************************************** *** deadline: February 15th 2015 *** The International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (IFAAMAS) invites proposals for Agent and Multiagent System Schools from countries or regions that have been traditionally under-represented in the AAMAS conference (International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems). For more information on the conference series, please look at www.aamas-conference.org The intent is to encourage further participation of researchers from such countries in AAMAS, and to foster research in the field of agent and multiagent systems. Attendees at such schools can be from academia (typically graduate students but also faculty looking to enter the field) or from industry and government. WHAT IS IFAAMAS? IFAAMAS is the International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (http://ifaamas.org/). It is a legally registered not-for-profit organisation responsible for organising the AAMAS conference series. Broadly, the aims of IFAAMAS are to promote research into and awareness of agent and multiagent systems, primarily by means of its involvement in organising the AAMAS conferences, but also by providing student travel scholarships, and the like. WHAT IS IFAAMAS TRYING TO ACHIEVE WITH THIS INITIATIVE? A number of advanced schools on agent systems have been held throughout the world since 1999 (the European Agent Systems Summer School (EASSS) in Europe, the Americas schools, the Pacific Rim region school). While these events have been enormously successful, they have primarily been focussed around regions and countries that already have substantial agent research communities, and that in addition have the resources to travel to international conferences. For this reason, IFAAMAS has initiated similar teaching events in regions that are not so well represented in terms of established research groups, and that do not have easy access to funds for international travel. WHAT KIND OF EVENTS ARE WE AIMING AT? IFAAMAS will consider any reasonable proposal for a training event, but typically 3 to 5 days of intensive courses (or tutorials), presented by internationally or regionally recognised speakers, on a variety of topics in the agent systems area, with some 5-15 courses, each of 1/2 day to a day duration. The aim is usually to provide both introductory and more advanced courses and in addition to provide a "balanced curriculum" insofar as this is possible. Please do not feel constrained by this model, however; IFAAMAS will consider any reasonable structure, provided a justification is given. WHAT SUPPORT WILL BE AVAILABLE? IFAAMAS will provide a grant to subsidize the agent school so as to make it affordable to the participants, for example, by providing travel support for students to attend the school. In the past, levels of financial support have been in the form of a (roughly $5000) grant. Most importantly, the amount and use of requested funding should be motivated in light of the aims of this call for proposals and what is needed to run a successful school. WHICH REGIONS/COUNTRIES ARE ELIGIBLE? Broadly, regions/countries that (i) do not have major established research groups in the agents area, and (ii) do not have easy access to funds for international travel. HOW DO I APPLY? Proposal writers are encouraged to submit proposals as soon as possible but no later than *February 15th, 2015*. Proposals will undergo an evaluation and selection process. Please send your proposals in pdf or plain text form to Birna van Riemsdijk (m.b.vanriemsdijk at tudelft.nl). Proposals should include the following information: - Expected value to the community * What is the "catchment area" for your school, i.e., which countries/regions might you expect students from, and what proportion will be from under-represented countries? * What is the potential for (further) developing agent research in the region where you plan to hold your school? For example, do you see a growing interest in agents and multiagent systems and could the school help to create momentum for its (further) development? * How many students might be expected to attend? * How do you plan to use the requested funds to support the aims of this call for proposals? - Programme and organization * Who are the organizers of the school? * What structure do you envisage the event having? How many courses/lecturers and on which topics? How many parallel sessions (if any)? Not all lecturers need be international lecturers; including some local/regional speakers can sometimes be beneficial. * When will the school be held, and what will be the duration of the school? (Please provide multiple possibilities). Is it colocated with other events? * What is the location of the school and will this be easily accessible to lecturers and students? - Finances * What amount of funding do you request? * Is there potential for other support (sponsorship) for the school beyond IFAAMAS? For instance, would some universities, industry, or the government potentially support the school? * Can you give a *preliminary* breakdown of costs? Note that a detailed breakdown is not necessary at this stage. * Will affordable student accommodation be available? If so, how many rooms and how much will they cost? IFAAMAS Education and Training Subcommittee, M. Birna van Riemsdijk, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands (chair) Ana Bazzan, UFRGS, Brazil Sascha Ossowski, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Spain From andrea at dcs.bbk.ac.uk Wed Dec 17 21:59:35 2014 From: andrea at dcs.bbk.ac.uk (Andrea Cali) Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2014 20:59:35 +0000 Subject: AMW 2015 Call for Papers Message-ID: Apologies for multiple postings Call for Papers The 9th Alberto Mendelzon International Workshop on Foundations of Data Management (AMW2015) http://dcc.uchile.cl/amw2015 The Alberto Mendelzon International Workshop on Foundations of Data Management is an event held yearly in Latin America, to honor the memory of Alberto Mendelzon, who greatly contributed to the Latin American scientific community. The Mendelzon Workshop is intended to promote research in Latin America; however, it is an international venue that welcomes submissions and participants from anywhere. The workshop especially encourages the participation of Latin American and international graduate students and young researchers, and includes the AMW 2015 School tailored to them. AMW will be held in 2015 in Lima, Peru. Previous editions took place in Cartagena de Indias, Colombia (2014); Puebla, Mexico (2013); Ouro Preto, Brazil (2012); Santiago, Chile (2011); Buenos Aires, Argentina (2010); Arequipa, Peru (2009); Punta del Este, Uruguay (2007); Laguna San Rafael, Chile (2006). We solicit submissions in the following areas of data management, but not limited to them. Logic and databases; data integration; incompleteness and inconsistency in databases; data exchange; model theory and databases; conceptual modeling; integrity constraints (dependencies) in databases; knowledge bases; constraint databases; data mining; data modeling; web data management; data streams; data warehousing; query processing and optimisation; distributed and parallel databases; information retrieval; multimedia databases; ontology-based data management; physical design; data privacy and security; data provenance; query languages; real-time data; semantic web; semi-structured data; sensor data; web services; spatial data; temporal data; transaction management; probabilistic databases; fuzzy data management; and Web mining. Papers addressing foundational aspects are particularly welcome. However, we also encourage the submission of papers (especially short papers; see submission instructions below) that illustrate applications of foundational results in real-world contexts. =========================== SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS =========================== We invite two types of submissions. (a) Extended abstracts of up to 10 pages, presenting original research. These papers are intended to be published in the WS CEUR proceedings (http://ceur-ws.org). (b) Short papers of up to 4 pages that may contain either original ongoing research or recently published results. Papers have to be formatted according to the LNCS Springer style for Lecture Notes in Computer Science (available at http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html) and submitted electronically via EasyChair in PDF format: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=amw2015. The submissions will be judged by the Program Committee for scientific quality and relevance. At least one author of each accepted paper must attend the workshop to present the work. =========================== IMPORTANT DATES =========================== Paper submission: 8th February, 2015 Notification of acceptance: 15th March, 2015 Camera ready copy due: 15th April, 2015 Workshop dates: 5th - 8th May, 2015 =========================== ORGANIZATION =========================== GENERAL CHAIR Pablo Barceló (Universidad de Chile, Chile) PROGRAM COMMITTEE CHAIRS Andrea Cali (Birkbeck, University of London, UK) Maria-Esther Vidal (Universidad Simon Bolivar, Venezuela) AMW SCHOOL CHAIRS Aidan Hogan (Universidad de Chile) Domagoj Vrgoč (Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile) STEERING COMMITTEE Ricardo Baeza-Yates (Yahoo Research, Spain) Pablo Barcelo (Universidad de Chile) Leopoldo Bertossi (Carleton University, Canada) Mariano Consens (University of Toronto, Canada) Alberto H. F. Laender (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil) Jorge Pérez (Universidad de Chile) LOCAL ORGANIZATION CHAIRS Hugo Vega (Universidad Nacional mayor de San Marcos, Universidad Ricardo Palma) Oscar Benito Pacheco (Universidad Nacional mayor de San Marcos, Universidad Ricardo Palma). =========================== PROGRAM COMMITTEE =========================== Cristina Dutra De Aguiar Ciferri (Universidade de Sao Paulo, Brazil) Oscar Corcho (Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain) Isabel Cruz (University of Ilinnois at Chicago, USA) Amelie Gheerbrant (University of Paris VII Denis Diderot, France) Parke Godfrey (York University, Canada) Sergio Greco (Universita della Calabria, Italy) Claudio Gutierrez (Universidad de Chile) Mauricio A. Hernandez-Sherrington (IBM Research Almaden, USA) Aidan Hogan (Universidad de Chile) Elizabeth Leon (Universidad Nacional de Colombia) Jorge Lobo (ICREA and Universidad Pompeu Fabra, Spain) Maria Vanina Martinez (Universidad Nacional del Sur, Argentina) Filip Murlak (University of Warsaw, Poland) Mauricio Osorio (Universidad de las Americas Puebla, Mexico) Reinhard Pichler (Vienna University of Technology, Austria) Andreas Pieris (Vienna University of Technology, Austria) Alessandro Provetti (University of Messina, Italy) Jarek Szlichta (University of Ontario, Canada) Regina Paola Ticona Herrera (Universita de Pau et des Pays de l'Adour, France) Peter Wood (Birkbeck, University of London, UK) -------------- nächster Teil -------------- Ein Dateianhang mit HTML-Daten wurde abgetrennt... URL: From Johannes.Faehndrich at dai-labor.de Thu Dec 18 07:55:20 2014 From: Johannes.Faehndrich at dai-labor.de (=?utf-8?B?Sm9oYW5uZXMgRsOkaG5kcmljaA==?=) Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2014 06:55:20 +0000 Subject: SEA 2015: Fourth International Workshop on Self-Explaining Agents (SEA). CALL FOR PAPERS Message-ID: <6E4E816B-BD6E-4FC4-B2B8-3F4120384A8B@dai-labor.de> *** Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message *** ———— SEA 2015 Call for Paper ———— (We apologize for multiples copies) (Please distribute this CFP among your colleagues and students) ———— SEA 2015 Call for Paper ———— Fourth International Workshop on Self-Explaining Agents (SEA) Workshop web page: http://sea.dai-labor.de/ The workshop will be held in conjunction with the 13st International Conference on Practical Applications of Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (PAAMS 2015) at the University of Salamanca, 3rd - 5th June, 2015. Call for Paper Self-Explaining systems have the ability to describe their functionality in a context depending and structured way. Self-explanatory descriptions thus help reasoners to better understand these systems. Becoming more self-explanatory requires not only work on the descriptions, the used languages and description paradigms but also on the reasoners, which utilize such descriptions and tools to create them. This places the research questions of this workshop in between the Service, the Agent and the Artificial Intelligence community. Services and their descriptions have been well researched and researchers investigated languages like OWL and OWL-S. Such languages are used to describe functionality which enables reusability and adaptability of service oriented architectures with reasoners like FACT++ or Pellet. This is one reason why service descriptions become more self-explanatory these days. Agents on the other hand use less self-explanatory description. The agent community focus on developing more sophisticated planning algorithms (e.g., Fast Downward Stone Soup) and heuristics to select the right functionality to become part of the plan. Both paradigms cope with situations where complex systems are build upon descriptions of functionalities, which are more or less self-explanatory. Artificial Intelligent reasoners are used to analyze those descriptions and reason whether the functionality satisfies a given requests or preconditions and effects. Combining the strong suits of both research areas, bear opportunities for self-explaining agents. This workshop analyzes state-of-the-art in regards to the use of self-explanatory descriptions used by service matcher, agent planner as well as how to extract heuristics by reasoning upon self-explanatory descriptions and semantic description language with the goal of building more loosely coupled, dynamic and adaptive software. Thus we welcome practical applications as well as theoretical foundations as contributions for this workshop. Thus self-explanations rises the following questions: – How to describe a functionality to become more self-explaining? – How to improve AI reasoners to better understand self-explaining functionality descriptions? – What are requirements to languages used to create more self-explaining descriptions of functionality? Evaluation frameworks for such approaches are represented by research contests like the Semantic Service Selection Contest (http://www-ags.dfki.uni-sb.de/~klusch/s3/) or the International Planning Competition (http://helios.hud.ac.uk/scommv/IPC-14/). Goals of the Workshop: This workshop deepen (but is not limited to) the following research areas: - Reasoning on Semantic Descriptions - Languages for Semantic Descriptions - AI Methods on Adaption and Semantic Reasoning - IOPE/OWL-S and other Description Paradigms - Semantic Service Matchmaking - Service Planning - AI Planning using semantic descriptions - Reinforcement Learning on functionality descriptions - Requirements of Self-Explaining Systems - Self-Configuration through Self-Explanation The workshop will consist of paper presentation of the accepted papers and a follow up discussion on the research questions of the workshop. Important Dates: – Paper submission: 19th January 2015 – Notification: 23rd February 2015 – Camera-ready: 9th March 2015 – Workshop date: 3rd - 5th June 2015 Submission and Proceedings: All accepted papers will be scheduled for oral presentations and will be included in the proceedings of the PAAMS 2015. At least one author of each accepted paper is required to register and attend the conference to present the work. The submitted paper must be formatted according to the guidelines of the LNCS/LNAI Series Springer Template. The submitted papers must be no longer than 12 pages in length, including all figures, tables and references. Authors are requested to submit their papers electronically using the online conference management system4 in PDF format before the deadline (see important dates). Paper submission is electronic. To submit, please prepare a Self-Explaining Agents (SEA) PDF file of your paper, a short abstract in plain text, and a list of two to five keywords. The submission processes will be managed by easychair.org. If you have used this system before, you can use the same username and password. If this is your first time using EasyChair, you will need to register for an account by clicking ”I have no EasyChair account” button. Upon completion of registration, you will get a notification email from the system and you are ready for submitting your paper. You can upload and re-upload the paper to the system by the submission due date. All papers will be reviewed by at least 2 reviewers. Criteria for selection of papers include the relevance to topics, innovation, soundness, overall quality and readability. Conference management system: https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?timeout=1;key=18581150.xAUrLUBXLADDPBbw Program Commitee: - David B. Leake, Indiana University - Katia Sycara, Carnegie Mellon University - Birgitta König-Ries, University of Jena - Maria Ganzha, University of Gdańsk - Maltese Vincenzo, University of Trento - Stefan Schulten University Of Newcastle - Nils Masuch, DAI-Labor - Michael Kaisers, Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica - Benjamin Hirsch, EBTIC, Khalifa University - Marco Lützenberger, Technische Universität Berlin Contact Information Johannes Fähndrich, Technische Universität Berlin E-mail: johannes.faehndrich at dai-labor.de Web: http://sea.dai-labor.de/ From Johannes.Faehndrich at dai-labor.de Thu Dec 18 07:57:44 2014 From: Johannes.Faehndrich at dai-labor.de (=?utf-8?B?Sm9oYW5uZXMgRsOkaG5kcmljaA==?=) Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2014 06:57:44 +0000 Subject: =?utf-8?B?Sk9COiBQaGQgUG9zaXRpb24gQCBUZWNobmlzY2hlIFVuaXZlcnNpdMOkdCBC?= =?utf-8?Q?erlin?= Message-ID: <8B922B79-D2F2-4BCB-9038-59BB7E9CB05C@dai-labor.de> ** Technische Universität Berlin - Department of Computer Science ** Starting from 1.1.2015 a fully funded research position is available at the Distributed Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at the TU-Berlin. The DAI-Labor at the Technische Universität Berlin is looking for a doctoral research associate in the areas of semantic service composition, artificial intelligence, smart environments, and electric mobility. The candidate will be responsible for including leading a team of students, managing projects, writing project proposals as well as communicating with national and international partners. Assignment: • Research in semantic service composition, adaptive systems, user modelling, and semantic service interconnection • Evaluation in the areas of smart environments, e-mobility services, adaptive and dynamic service compositions • Leading and supervision of a team of students • Preparation of scientific publications • Conceptual design of projects • Acquisition and management of third party funded projects • Communication with external project partners Your profile • Master degree in computer science or a discipline related to the research area • Knowledge in the field of model-based development and model-driven engineering would be appreciated. • Experience in project and team management, very good social and effective communication skills • Willingness for independent scientific work • Maker and doer, used to take initiative, and a team player • Excellent spoken and written English, German is a plus • Experience in teaching We offer • Exciting topics and a vibrant environment • Excellent state-of-the-art infrastructure with access to new and emerging technologies • A smart home environment and living lab for evaluation of results • Close collaboration with national and international partners from research institutes, universities and industry • Possibility to pursue Phd About the DAI-Labor The DAI-Labor and the chair "Agent technologies in business applications and telecommunication" at the Technische Universität Berlin, headed by Prof. Dr. Dr. hc Sahin Albayrak, perform research and development in order to provide solutions for a new generation of systems and services – "smart services and smart systems". Research at the DAI-Labor is done in competence centers, which address different areas, ranging from investigation of the foundations of distributed systems and machine learning, to enhancing security in networks and interactive systems. The scientific grounding and results of the competence centers are used to develop system solutions in different application centers. The application centers focus on the development of intelligent services and systems to deal with current and future challenges of society. State-of-the-art testbeds allow validating and demonstrating these services in realistic scenarios. Close cooperation with industry partners ensures an approach that is both practical and solution oriented. All of this allows the DAI-Labor to develop technologies within a university environment that meets even the highest industry standards. For further information regarding this position and our institute, please see our website http://www.dai-labor.de, or contact Johannes Fähndrich at johannes.faehndrich at dai-labor.de. Applications including a CV, a brief description of their research interests, copies of their university degree and/or study transcripts, and a list of publications should be sent to bewerbungNGS at dai-labor.de, with reference IV-496/14 no later than December 30th, 2015. To apply please send your application to: Technische Universität Berlin - Der Präsident - , Fakultät IV, Institut für Wirtschaftsinformatik und Quantitative Methoden, DAI-Labor, Prof. Dr. Dr. Albayrak, Sekr. TEL 14, Ernst-Reuter-Platz 7, 10587 Berlin. More details can be found here: http://www.personalabteilung.tu-berlin.de/menue/jobs/externe_jobs/ From invitation at iariaprogram.org Thu Dec 18 17:34:37 2014 From: invitation at iariaprogram.org (ICNS 2015) Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2014 11:34:37 -0500 Subject: Deadline Extension: ICNS 2015 and CONNET 2015 || May 24 - 29, 2015 - Rome, Italy Message-ID: <1418920477811.1451@iariaprogram.org> INVITATION: ================= Please consider to contribute to and/or forward to the appropriate groups the following opportunity to submit and publish original scientific results to: - ICNS 2015, The Eleventh International Conference on Networking and Services - CONNET 2015, The International Symposium on Advances in Content-oriented Networks and Systems The submission deadline is extended to January 16, 2015. Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended article versions to one of the IARIA Journals: http://www.iariajournals.org ================= ============== ICNS 2015 | CONNET 2015 | Call for Papers =============== CALL FOR PAPERS, TUTORIALS, PANELS ICNS 2015, The Eleventh International Conference on Networking and Services General page: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2015/ICNS15.html Submission page: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2015/SubmitICNS15.html CONNET 2015, The International Symposium on Advances in Content-oriented Networks and Systems General page: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2015/CONNET.html Submission page: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2015/CONNET.html#SubmitAPaper Events schedule: May 24 - 29, 2015 - Rome, Italy Contributions: - regular papers [in the proceedings, digital library] - short papers (work in progress) [in the proceedings, digital library] - ideas: two pages [in the proceedings, digital library] - extended abstracts: two pages [in the proceedings, digital library] - posters: two pages [in the proceedings, digital library] - posters: slide only [slide-deck posted at www.iaria.org] - presentations: slide only [slide-deck posted at www.iaria.org] - demos: two pages [posted at www.iaria.org] - doctoral forum submissions: [in the proceedings, digital library] Proposals for: - mini symposia: see http://www.iaria.org/symposium.html - workshops: see http://www.iaria.org/workshop.html - tutorials: [slide-deck posed on www.iaria.org] - panels: [slide-deck posed on www.iaria.org] Submission deadline: January 16, 2015 Sponsored by IARIA, www.iaria.org Extended versions of selected papers will be published in IARIA Journals: http://www.iariajournals.org Print proceedings will be available via Curran Associates, Inc.: http://www.proceedings.com/9769.html Articles will be archived in the free access ThinkMind Digital Library: http://www.thinkmind.org The topics suggested by the conference can be discussed in term of concepts, state of the art, research, standards, implementations, running experiments, applications, and industrial case studies. Authors are invited to submit complete unpublished papers, which are not under review in any other conference or journal in the following, but not limited to, topic areas. All tracks are open to both research and industry contributions, in terms of Regular papers, Posters, Work in progress, Technical/marketing/business presentations, Demos, Tutorials, and Panels. Before submission, please check and comply with the editorial rules: http://www.iaria.org/editorialrules.html ICNS 2015 Topics (for topics and submission details: see CfP on the site) Call for Papers: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2015/CfPICNS15.html ============================================================ ENCOT: Emerging Network Communications and Technologies Access and home networks; Ad hoc networks; Application-specific networks (e.g. SANs); Autonomic Networks; Delay-tolerant Networking; Distributed communications systems & applications; Energy-efficient networking; High-speed & optical networks; Mobile networking and systems; 5G and LTE approaches; Multimedia and multicast communications; Networking Communication theory; Network modeling & simulation; Network monitoring techniques; Network security; Next Generation Networks (NGN); Overlay networks; Peer-to-peer networking; Programmable and Active Networks; Sensor networks; Wireless and Satellite Networks; Content-oriented networks; Ambient environments CGNS: CLOUD/GRID Networks and Services CLOUD frameworks, architectures, computation, storage; GRID theory, frameworks, methodologies, architecture, ontology; Cloud and GRID infrastructure and technologies; CLOUD/GRID middleware; CLOUD computing, utility computing, autonomic computing, metacomputing; Programmable CLOUD/GRID; CLOUD services and applications; VIRTUALIZATION, modeling, and metadata; Resource management, scheduling, and scalability in CLOUD/GRID; CLOUD/GRID monitoring, control, and management; Traffic and load balancing in CLOUD/GRID; User profiles and priorities in CLOUD/GRID; Performance and security in CLOUD/GRID systems; Fault tolerance, resilience, survivability, robustness in CLOUD/GRID; QoS/SLA in CLOUD/GRID networks; CLOUD/GRID fora, standards, development, evolution; CLOUD/GRID case studies, validation testbeds, prototypes, and lessons learned UBI: Ubiquitous mobile services and protocols Frameworks, architectures, and languages for ubiquitous services; Queries, transactions and workflows in mobile and ubiquitous Networks; Algorithms for ubiquitous systems; SLA/QoS in ubiquitous services; Ontology-based services; Location-based services; Protocols and interaction mechanisms for ubiquitous services; Mobile services and service convergence; Service discovery mechanisms; Tracking in ubiquitous environments; Measurement, control, and management of ubiquitous services; Design and development of ubiquitous services; Wireless/mobile service delivery SERVI: Multi-technology service deployment and assurance Service-oriented architectures; Service definition, creation, bundling, deployment; Service reuse, composition and service feature interaction; Service orchestration and federation; Inter-provider service dependency; Intra-provider service dependency and service interaction; Service middleware and service development platforms (SDPs); Service open architecture (SOA); Profiling and service adaptation; Service privacy and security; Quality of service, service level agreement [QoS/SLA]; Service agreement violations; Mobile services and service migration; Reliability, availability, serviceability [RAS]; Service performance metrics; Traffic engineering, metering, monitoring; Voice over IP services; IP Multimedia services; Real-time/not-real-rime services; Real-time services over IP/IPv6; Service performance evaluation, tools, simulation NGNUS: Next Generation Networks and Ubiquitous Services Methodologies, development support, and tools for NGN and converging services; NGN and convergence of ubiquitous services; NGN frameworks, architectures, and concepts; NGN technologies and mechanisms; QoS/SLA, traffic in NGN; NGN transport/service layered capabilities and operations; NGN concepts for active, ad hoc, mobile, and wireless networks; 3G, 4G, and 5G Mobile networks; Fixed/mobile networks integration and internetworking; Services and service differentiation over NGN; Managing ubiquitous services in NGN; NGN interworking, non-NGN interoperability, migration; Regulatory services in NGN and standard activities; NGN device instrumentation; NGN policy-based control; Next Generation Internet COMAN: Network Control and Management Network, control and service architectures; Measurement of stream characteristics (reordering, delay, losses, jitter, etc.); Network signaling, pricing and billing; Network middleware; Network management, monitoring and control; Network resource scheduling; Networks policy-based management; Management of autonomic networks and systems; Telecommunication networks architectures; On-demand networks, utility computing architectures; Traffic engineering; Impact of packet dynamics on application performance; Applications and case studies MPQSI: Multi Provider QoS/SLA Internetworking Architectures, frameworks, mechanisms for admission control and measurement; QoS in multi-provider and multi-technology networks; Service classes and multi-provider service class discovery; Service level agreement and service assurance in multi-provider environments; Carrier-class end-to-end SLA and QoS monitoring and management; Multi provider accounting/billing/cost sharing; Management, monitoring, and measurements in multi-provider networks; End-to-end QoS/SLA advanced network services in multi-provider networks; End-to-end QoS/SLA for multimedia applications and services in multi-provider networks; Security issues in multi-service provider networks; Business models for multi-providers under QoS/SLA constraints; Standards and fora activities SDN: Software Defined Networking SDN architectures; Openflow protocols; SDN switches and routers; SDN controllers; Network operating systems; SDN scalability; Virtualization; Flow based operation; Distributed Controllers; State distribution in SDN control; Fault tolerance in SDN; Secure and dependable SDN; Openflow vulnerabilities; Software defined Internet architectures;Scaling virtualized functions; Traffic engineering with SDN; Abstractions for SDN; Network programming languages; Information centric networking and SDN; SDN in cloud computing; SDN applications; SDN in wireless environment; Controller performance evaluations; Mobility solutions EDNA: Emergency Services and Disaster Recovery of Networks and Applications Theory on disaster-tolerant robust networks; Recovery by disruption resource procedures; Security issues with emergency services and disaster recovery; Networks resiliency methods; Formal methods for safety-critical systems; Networks emergency services; Public safety, reliable emergency communications, and applications; Response to the networks emergency services; Disaster prevention and recovery; Fighting mechanisms for disaster of networks and applications; Notifications and recovery in various network technologies; Customer protection and serviceability perception; Cost models and business impact; Cultural and legal aspects; Future advanced network development and evolution; Standards and guidelines; Lawful interception and defense strategies; DEPLOY: Deploying the Future Infrastructures Advanced Topics and Latest Developments in IPv6; IPv6 Deployment Experiences and Case Studies; IPv6 Enabled Applications and Devices; Deploying large-scale Internet of Things (IoT)-based networks and services; Optical Network Infrastructures; Deploying 5G and beyond networks; Deploying sensor networks; Deploying wireless and wired body-networks CGOBS: CLOUD/GRID over Optical Burst Switching Networks Terabit burst switching; Burst assembly for IP DiffServ over optical burst switching networks; Optical network infrastructure for CLOUD/GRID; Synchronous stream optical burst switching; Optical burst switching based CLOUD/GRID architectures; Reliable optical burst switching for next-generation Grid networks; Optical burst switching for IP-over-WDM/DWDM; Customizable Grid-to-optical network; Ultra high capacity optical networks; Hybrid optical burst/circuit switched for CLOUD/GRID-enabled optical networks; Job scheduling in optical burst switching CLOUD/GRID networks; Architecture and middleware for CLOUD/GRID-Over-OBS APP: Users, applications, and business models Mobile user interfaces; Ubiquitous user-generated content (weblogs, wikis, etc.); Mobile and ubiquitous computing; User modeling and personalization; Context- and location-aware applications; Toolkits, testbeds, development environments; Tools and techniques for designing, implementing, & evaluating ubiquitous networks and services; Constructing, deploying and prototyping of ubiquitous applications; Evaluation of user models for ubiquitous environments; On-line analytical techniques; Human-computer interaction in ubiquitous computing environments; Ubiquitous e-Development (business, science, health, etc.); Case Studies; Emerging industrial/business/scientific ubiquitous scenarios CONNET 2015 Topics (for topics and submission details: see CfP on the site) CfP: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2015/CONNET.html#CallForPapers ========================== CON and CDN concepts and architectures Content naming in CON Content-based (adaptive) routing and forwarding CON content delivery and dissemination In-network caching policies in CON CDN and P2P caching policies and solutions CON specific protocols Resources and traffic management in CON CON multicast and mobility solutions Media and real time content delivery and QoS assurance in CON CON solutions for security Energy-efficient CON networking CON performance evaluation and scalability Application Programming Interfaces CON implementation and deployment in real networks: seamless or revolutionary CON Publish/subscribe systems CON in cloud environments CON in SDN (Software Defined Networking) and virtualization frameworks CON-CDN-P2P cooperation for content delivery Content-based high level communication services Content-based approach in special contexts: vehicular networks, Web Servers Clusters, Delay-tolerant networks ------------------------ ICNS 2015 Committee: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2015/ComICNS15.html CONNET 2015 Committee: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2015/CONNET.html#Committees To stop receiving notices about ICNS, please reply with "DROP ICNS event at in.tu-clausthal.de" in the subject field. 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From cfp2015a at cicling.org Fri Dec 19 00:22:34 2014 From: cfp2015a at cicling.org (Alexander Gelbukh (CFP)) Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2014 17:22:34 -0600 Subject: CFP: CICLing 2015 / NLP - Egypt - Springer LNCS Message-ID: <001801d01b19$841a41b0$8c4ec510$@cicling.org> CICLing 2015 16th Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics + 1st Workshop on Arabic NLP / sentiment analysis Cairo, Egypt - April 14-20, 2015 Springer LNCS, journals Deadline: Abstract January 25 then full text February 1 www.CICLing.org/2015 TOPICS: All topics related to computational linguistics, natural language processing, human language technologies, information retrieval, opinion mining, sentiment analysis, etc. PUBLICATION: LNCS - Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science; poster session: special issues of journals KEYNOTE SPEAKERS: Lauri Karttunen (Stanford U.), Joakim Nivre (Uppsala U.), Mona Talat Diab (George Washington U.), Erik Cambria (Nanyang Tech. U.) CULTURAL PROGRAM: Three days of cultural activities: Giza pyramids, Old Cairo, Cairo Museum, pre- and post-conf tours to Luxor and/or Aswan (for separate fee) AWARDS: Best paper, best student paper, best presentation, best poster, best software SUBMISSION DEADLINES: January 25: registration of tentative abstract / title (why not register your tentative abstract right now?), February 1: full text of the registered papers (contact us for late submissions) SAFETY: Yes, it is safe. More details on the webpage. See complete CFP and contact on www.CICLing.org/2015 From announce at cs.ucy.ac.cy Fri Dec 19 16:34:41 2014 From: announce at cs.ucy.ac.cy (Announce Announcements) Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2014 17:34:41 +0200 Subject: ISCC 2015: Call for Workshop Proposals Message-ID: *** Call for Workshop Proposals *** The 20th IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC 2015) 6-9 July 2015, Golden Bay Beach Hotel, Larnaca, Cyprus http://ieee-iscc.org/2015 Continuing the well-established tradition of this series of symposia, IEEE ISCC 2015 will be an international technical forum of experts from industry and academia to exchange ideas and present the results of ongoing research work in state-of-the-art of computers and communications as listed in its call for papers (the web site is on http://www.ieee-iscc.org/2015). ISSC 201515 Workshops Committee invites proposals for half or full day workshops affiliated with the conference. Example topics would be 5G, Internet of Things, Software-Defined Networking, Big Data, Cloud Computing, M2M communications or Smart Grid. The purpose of these workshops is to provide a platform for presenting novel ideas in a less formal and possibly more sharply focused way than at the conference itself. All papers included in the ISCC 2015 workshops will be included in the conference proceedings published by IEEE. We expect that all selected workshops to adhere to the common paper submission and reviewing schedule as outlined in the ISCC 2015 Call for Papers. Each workshop proposal must include the following: · The name of the workshop · The names, addresses, and short bios of the organizers · A brief description (up to one page long) of the technical issues that the Workshop's focus will be on, and the reasons why the workshop is of interest at this time · The names of potential Program Committee members · The planned format of the Workshop, including a strategy to facilitate lively discussions and involvement of the attendees · If a keynote speech is included in the planned format of the workshop, the name(s) of the potential keynote speaker(s) · If applicable, a description of past versions of the workshop, including dates, organizers, number of submitted and accepted papers, and number of attendees · If the workshop is going to be organized for the first time, an estimate of the expected number of submissions and attendees · A tentative Call for Papers · A description of the plans for publicity and workshop Web site Workshop proposals should be submitted, no later than Monday 12th January 2015, by email (in PDF format) with the subject line "ISCC'15 Workshop Proposal" to all Workshop Co-Chairs Periklis Chatzimisios (peris at it.teithe.gr), Andreas Kamilaris (kami at cs.ucy.ac.cy) and Massimo Villari (mvillari at unime.it). -------------------------------------------------------------------- This is not SPAM. If you want to be removed from this list, please send an email to [announce at cs.ucy.ac.cy] with the single word 'remove' in the subject of the email. -------------- nächster Teil -------------- Ein Dateianhang mit HTML-Daten wurde abgetrennt... URL: From announce at cs.ucy.ac.cy Sat Dec 20 13:25:23 2014 From: announce at cs.ucy.ac.cy (Announce Announcements) Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2014 14:25:23 +0200 Subject: ISPDC 2015: Second Call for Papers Message-ID: *** Second Call for Papers *** The 14th International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Computing (ISPDC 2015) 29 June - 2 July, 2015, St. Raphael Resort 5*, Limassol, Cyprus http://www.cyprusconferences.org/ispdc2015/ Following very successful previous editions since 2002, the 14th ISPDC conference will be hosted in Limassol, a beautiful coastal Mediterranean city on the south coast of Cyprus. The conference will be devoted to a highly selective program with papers describing original and unpublished research advancing the state of the art in the field of Parallel and Distributed Computing paradigms and applications. The goal is to provide an interactive and friendly, yet professional forum, for original research contributions describing novel ideas, groundbreaking results and/or experiences. We kindly invite you to submit original contributions to ISPDC 2015 on topics including, but not limited to: System Architectures for Parallel and Distributed Computing - Multi-Cores, Virtualization - Clusters and Grid Computing - Methods and Tools for Parallel and Distributed Programming - Embedded, Mobile and Networking Environments - System Architecture and System Software for In-Memory Computing - Innovative System Architecture for Big Data Processing - System Architecture for Graph Computing/Processing - Interconnect Architecture for HPC and Data Centers High Performance Computing and Large Scale Applications - Tools and Environments for Parallel Program Design/Analysis - Scalable Algorithms and Applications - Urban Networks and Applications, Vehicular Networks - Parallel, Distributed and Mobile big-Data Management Parallel Computing and Algorithms - Parallel Programming Paradigms and APIs - GPU Programming - Bio-inspired Parallel Algorithms - Big Data and Graph Analytics - Algorithms, Models and Formal Verification Cloud Computing - Cloud Resource Provisioning and Allocation - Pricing of Cloud Resources - Cloud Performance, and Capacity Management - Green Cloud Computing - Mobile Clouds - Security and Privacy in Clouds - Cloud Computing Techniques for Big Data - Storage Architectures for Clouds and Big Data Processing Distributed and Embedded Computing - Collaborative Computing, P2P Computing - Mobile and Ubiquitous Computing - Web Services and Internet Computing - Distributed Software Components, Multi-agent Systems - Parallel Embedded Systems Programming - Highly Embedded Parallel Systems Support for Programming - FPGA and SoC Solutions Performance Modeling, Management and Optimization - Scheduling and Load Balancing - Performance Modeling, Analysis and Evaluation - Optimisation, Security and Dependability Interactivity - Real-time Distributed and Parallel Systems - Visualisation of Massively Parallel Data - IoT, Social Networks You are invited to submit original papers of up to 10 pages, written in English and compliant with the IEEE standard (8.5"x11", two-column). The IEEE Computer Society Press will publish the proceedings. A best paper award will be presented to paper(s) receiving the highest quality rating from the reviewers and the PC. Key Dates Submission of full papers: 15 January, 2015 Notification of authors: 15 March, 2015 Camera ready papers: 30 March, 2015 Authors and early registration deadline: 6 May, 2015 Symposium dates: 29 June - 2 July, 2015 General Chair George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Program Committee Co-Chairs Daniel Grosu, Wayne State University, USA Hai Jin, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China Steering Committee Ioana Banicescu, Mississippi State University, USA Hans-Joachim Bungartz, Technische Universität München, Germany Valentin Cristea, University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania Bertil Folliot, University of Paris, France Dan Grigoras, University College Cork, Ireland John Morrison, University College Cork, Ireland Traian Muntean, Aix Marseille University, France Dana Petcu, Western Univ. of Timisoara and e-Austria, Timisoara, Romania Marek Tudruj, Polish Acad. of Sciences and PJIIT, Warsaw, Poland Program Committee http://www.cyprusconferences.org/ispdc2015/committees.html -------------------------------------------------------------------- This is not SPAM. If you want to be removed from this list, please send an email to [announce at cs.ucy.ac.cy] with the single word 'remove' in the subject of the email. -------------- nächster Teil -------------- Ein Dateianhang mit HTML-Daten wurde abgetrennt... URL: From announce at cs.ucy.ac.cy Mon Dec 22 14:06:42 2014 From: announce at cs.ucy.ac.cy (Announce Announcements) Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2014 15:06:42 +0200 Subject: Academic Vacancies - CS Dept - University of Cyprus Message-ID: ANNOUNCEMENT OF ACADEMIC POSITION The University of Cyprus invites applications for one (1) tenure-track academic position at the rank of Lecturer or Assistant Professor. DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE One position at the rank of Lecturer or Assistant Professor in the field of: "Computer Security"with emphasis in: - Operating System Security or - Internet Security or - Web Security or - Network Security For all academic ranks, an earned Doctorate from a recognized University is required. Requirements for appointment depend on academic rank and include: prior academic experience, research record and scientific contributions, involvement in teaching and in the development of high quality undergraduate and graduate curricula. The minimum requirements for each academic rank can be found at the webpage: http://goo.gl/lb6I61 The official languages of the University are Greek and Turkish. For the above position knowledge of Greek is necessary. Holding the citizenship of the Republic of Cyprus is not a requirement. In the case that the selected candidate does not have sufficient knowledge of the Greek language, it is the selected candidate's and the Department's responsibility to ensure that the selected academic acquires sufficient knowledge of the Greek language within 3 years, since the official language of teaching at the University is the Greek language. It is noted that each Department sets its own criteria for the required level of adequacy of knowledge of the Greek language. The annual gross salary (including the 13th salary) is: Lecturer (Scale A12-A13) 43,851.21 Euro - 71,358.82 Euro Assistant Professor (Scale A13-A14) 57,694.26 Euro - 77,811.11 Euro Applications must be submitted by Thursday, 12th of March 2015. The application dossiers must include two (2) sets of the following documents in printed and electronic form (i.e., two (2) hardcopies and two (2) CDs with the documents in PDF (Portable Document Format) or Word files). I. Cover letter stating the Department, the field of study, the academic rank(s) for which the candidate applies, and the date on which the candidate could assume duties if selected. II. Curriculum Vitae. III. Brief summary of previous research work and a statement of plans for future research (up to 1500 words). IV. List of publications. V. Copies of the three most representative publications. VI. Copies of Degree certificates should be scanned and included in the CDs. VII. Names and contact details for three academic referees. Applicants must ask three academic referees to send recommendation letters directly to the University. The names and contact details of these referees must be indicated in the application, because additional confidential information may be requested. The recommendation letters must reach the University by Thursday, 12th of March 2015. The Curriculum Vitae and the statements of previous work and future research plans should be written in Greek or in Turkish, and in one international language, preferably English. Selected candidates will be required to submit copies of degree certificates officially certified by the Ministry of Education (for certificates received from Universities in Cyprus) or from the Issuing Authority (for foreign Universities). Applications, supporting documents and reference letters submitted in response to previous calls in the past will not be considered and must be resubmitted. Incomplete applications, not conforming to the specifications of the call, will not be considered. All application material must be submitted, in person, to: Human Resources Service University of Cyprus University Campus Council/Senate Anastasios G Leventis Building P.O. Box 20537 1678 Nicosia, Cyprus Tel. 22894158/4155 by Thursday, 12th of March 2015, 2:00 p.m. Alternatively, applications can be sent by post; they will be accepted as valid as long as the sealed envelopes are post-marked before the deadline of March 12, 2015, and they reach the Human Resources Service by March 19, 2015, on the sole responsibility of the applicant. For more information, candidates may contact the Human Resources Service (tel.: 00357 22894158/4155) or the Department of Computer Science (cs at cs.ucy.ac.cy, 00357 22892700/2669). -------------------------------------------------------------------- This is not SPAM. If you want to be removed from this list, please send an email to [announce at cs.ucy.ac.cy] with the single word 'remove' in the subject of the email. -------------- nächster Teil -------------- Ein Dateianhang mit HTML-Daten wurde abgetrennt... URL: From phdsinlogic at gmail.com Mon Dec 22 15:06:14 2014 From: phdsinlogic at gmail.com (PhDs in Logic VI) Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2014 15:06:14 +0100 Subject: Call for Abstracts (PhDs in Logic VII) Message-ID: PhDs in Logic VII May 14-16th, 2015 VIENNA, AUSTRIA http://phdsinlogic.logic-cs.at FIRST CALL FOR ABSTRACTS AND PARTICIPATION PhDs in Logic is an annual graduate conference in logic. Each year we invite four established researchers in various branches of logic to do a tutorial on their work in two 45-minute sessions. We also give PhD students the opportunity to do a twenty-minute presentation on (a) their own work or (b) an overview of some topic in their field. The conference includes the following tutorial speakers. Thomas Eiter (Vienna University of Technology) Michael Moortgat (Universiteit Utrecht) Revantha Ramanayake (Vienna University of Technology) Torsten Schaub (University Potsdam) PhD students in logic with a background in philosophy, computer science, mathematics or linguistics are the intended audience for these tutorials. They are also the type of students we have in mind for our thirty-minute student sessions. Students interested in doing a talk should send a 500-1000 word blinded abstract to https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=pil2015 by February 12th, 2015. The selection of the talks will follow a double-blind review process. Please make sure that your name and affiliation are not included in the abstract. We welcome students to participate in PhDs in Logic VII regardless of whether they want to do a presentation. We also invite master students in logic, first year postdocs, and logicians from disciplines other than philosophy, computer science, mathematics and linguistics to apply. Students interested in participating without giving a talk should contact us at phdsinlogic at gmail.com. For more information, visit our website at http://phdsinlogic.logic-cs.at. In case you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us via phdsinlogic at gmail.com. Organizing Committee: Ronald de Haan, Martin Kronegger. Scientific Committee: Agata Ciabattoni, Jan van Eijck, Chris Fermüller, Nina Gierasimczuk, Thomas Icard, Eric Pacuit, Jakub Szymanik, Anna Zamansky. Advisory Board: Stefan Szeider, Helmut Veith. Sponsors: Vienna Center for Logic and Algorithms, Doctoral Program Logical Methods in Computer Science. -------------- nächster Teil -------------- Ein Dateianhang mit HTML-Daten wurde abgetrennt... URL: From K.M.Atkinson at liverpool.ac.uk Mon Dec 22 22:39:48 2014 From: K.M.Atkinson at liverpool.ac.uk (Atkinson, Katie) Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2014 21:39:48 +0000 Subject: ICAIL 2015 final call for papers Message-ID: <86644A89-4317-470C-8653-13884B342865@liverpool.ac.uk> ------------------------------------- Apologies for cross-postings ------------------------------------ ICAIL 2015 Final CFP 22 December 2014 www.icail2015.org The 15th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law (ICAIL 2015) will be held at the University of San Diego School of Law from Monday, June 8 to Friday, June 12, 2015. The conference will feature a main track for technical papers, a demonstration track, workshops, tutorials, continuing legal education sessions, a doctoral consortium and best paper prizes. Details about tracks still open for submissions, the topics of relevance to the conference, and instructions for submitting papers are given below. Deadline for submission of papers: January 16, 2015 Artificial Intelligence and Law is a vibrant research field that focuses on: * Legal reasoning and development of computational methods of such reasoning * Applications of AI and other advanced information technologies to support the legal domain * Discovery of electronically stored information for legal applications (eDiscovery) * Machine learning and data mining for legal applications * Formal models of norms, normative systems, and norm-governed societies Since it began in 1987, the ICAIL conference has been established as the foremost international conference addressing research in Artificial Intelligence and Law. It is organized biennially under the auspices of the International Association for Artificial Intelligence and Law (IAAIL), and in cooperation with the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI). The conference proceedings are published by ACM. The journal Artificial Intelligence and Law regularly publishes expanded versions of selected ICAIL papers. Important Dates * Deadline for submission of abstracts (optional): January 9, 2015 * Deadline for submission of papers: January 16, 2015 (this deadline is hard) * Deadline for submission of demonstration abstracts: January 23, 2015 * Notification of acceptance: March 13, 2015 * Deadline for submission of doctoral consortium papers: March 31, 2015 * Deadline for final revised and formatted papers: April 17, 2015 * Conference: June 8 – June 12, 2015 Topics The field serves as an excellent setting for AI researchers to demonstrate the application of their work in a rich, real-world domain. The conference also serves as a venue for researchers to showcase their work on the theoretical foundations of computational models of law. Accordingly, authors are invited to submit papers on a broad spectrum of research topics that include, but are not restricted to: * Formal and computational models of legal reasoning, including argumentation, evidential reasoning, and decision making * Legal reasoning in multi-agent systems * Knowledge acquisition techniques for the legal domain, including natural language processing and data mining * Legal knowledge representation including legal ontologies and common sense knowledge * Automatic legal text classification and summarization * Automated information extraction from legal databases and texts * Data mining applied to the legal domain * Conceptual or model-based legal information retrieval * E-government, e-democracy and e-justice * Modeling norms for multi-agent systems * Modeling negotiation and contract formation * Online dispute resolution * Intelligent legal tutoring systems * Intelligent support systems for the legal domain * Interdisciplinary applications of legal informatics methods and systems ICAIL is keen to broaden its scope to include topics of growing importance in artificial intelligence research. Therefore, papers are invited in the following featured categories: * eDiscovery and information governance * Open data, linked data, and big data * Machine learning * Argument mining Papers will be assessed in a rigorous reviewing procedure. Standard assessment criteria for research papers will apply to all submissions (relevance, originality, significance, technical quality, evaluation, presentation). Papers proposing formal or computational models should provide examples and/or simulations that show the models’ applicability to a realistic legal problem or domain. Papers on applications should describe clearly the underlying motivations, the techniques employed, and the current state of both implementation and evaluation. All papers should make clear their relation to prior work. Demonstrations A session will be organized for the demonstration of creative, robust, and practical working applications and tools. Where a demonstration is not connected to a submitted paper, a two-page extended abstract about the system should be submitted for review, via the conference support system and following the conference style, by the demo submission deadline of January 23, 2015. Accepted extended abstracts will be published in the conference proceedings. For those demonstrations that are connected to a paper in the main track, no separate statement about the demonstration need be submitted, but the author(s) should send an email to the Program Chair by the demo submission deadline to register their interest in demonstrating their work at this session. Continuing Legal Education Sessions In addition to the workshops and tutorials that will be held as part of ICAIL 2015, the conference will feature three continuing legal education (CLE) sessions as follows: Monday, June 8 * eDiscovery Friday, June 12 * Software, automation and machine learning in IP law * Trends in legal software and search engines The CLE sessions will also feature an “exhibit hall” for vendors and law firms. Interested parties should email Ted Sichelman, Conference Chair (tsichelman at sandiego.edu) for more information. The University of San Diego School of Law is a State Bar of California-approved MCLE provider. Further information about the CLE events will be posted at: http://www.sandiego.edu/law/school/events/detail.php?_focus=47565 Doctoral Consortium for ICAIL 2015 A Doctoral Consortium will be held as part of ICAIL 2015. The event will provide doctoral students with an opportunity to publish and present papers on their PhD research and to receive feedback and encouragement from the AI and Law community. Students who submit papers to the main conference are also welcome to submit their work to the Doctoral Consortium. A call for papers specifically for the Doctoral Consortium will be forthcoming. Further details will be provided at the conference website: http://www.icail2015.org Submission Details, including instructions for blind review Papers should not exceed 10 pages in the approved style. Style format template files can be found athttp://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html. While papers can be prepared using LaTeX or Word, all papers should be converted to PDF prior to submission. All papers must be submitted electronically to the conference support system, https://www.conftool.net/icail2015/ by the paper submission deadline. To aid the reviewing process, authors are requested to submit abstracts of their papers by the above abstract submission deadline. Abstract submissions should include the paper title, up to four keywords, and a contact address for the corresponding author. Both papers and abstracts should be submitted electronically to the conference support system. Reviewing for ICAIL 2015 will be double blind. The first page of each submitted paper should include the title of the paper and the ID number of the paper as allocated when the paper is registered on the conference support system. Papers submitted for review should not include names and affiliations of the authors, nor an acknowledgements section. These aspects can be added at the camera-ready stage. The references should include all published literature relevant to the paper, including previous works of the authors, though care should be taken in the style of writing in order to preserve anonymity. Authors will be notified of the acceptance decision by the date indicated above. Papers not accepted for full publication and presentation may be accepted as short research abstracts. Papers (including research abstracts) must be presented at the conference in order to appear in the proceedings (and, moreover, all papers and abstracts presented at the conference will appear in the proceedings, which will be published by ACM). Final versions of papers for publication in the proceedings will be due by the date indicated above. Donald H. Berman Award for Best Student Paper IAAIL has established a best student paper award in memory of Donald H. Berman, a Professor of Law at Northeastern University who was a co-founder of the AI and Law journal. The award consists of a cash gift and free attendance at ICAIL 2015. For a paper to be considered for the award, the student author(s) should be clearly designated as such when the paper is submitted, and any non-student co-authors should provide a statement by email to the Program Chair that affirms that the paper is primarily student work. Notification will be made through the ICAIL website, and the award will be presented at the conference banquet. Peter Jackson Award for Best Innovative Application Paper At ICAIL 2015 a new award is being introduced for the best innovative application paper. The award is in honor of Peter Jackson, Thomson Reuters’ Chief Research Scientist, who was a strong supporter of the ICAIL conferences and a significant contributor to the development of advanced technologies in AI and Law. The award will consist of a special commemorative plaque and recognition on the conference and IAAIL websites. For a paper to be considered for the award, the author(s) should clearly identify it as an application paper by including “innovative applications” as a keyword. Notification will be made through the ICAIL website, and the award will be presented at the conference banquet. Conference Officials Program Chair Katie Atkinson Department of Computer Science, University of Liverpool, UK K.M.Atkinson at liverpool.ac.uk Conference Chair Ted Sichelman, University of San Diego School of Law, San Diego, CA USA tsichelman at sandiego.edu Conference Co-Chair Richard Belew Cognitive Science Department, University of California, San Diego, CA USA rik at cogsci.ucsd.edu Secretary/Treasurer Anne Gardner Atherton, CA, USA gardner at cs.stanford.edu Program Committee: Thomas Agotnes, University of Bergen, Norway Francisco Andrade, Universidade do Minho Law School, Portugal Michal Araszkiewicz, Jagiellonian Univerity, Poland Kevin Ashley, University of Pittsburgh, USA Trevor Bench-Capon, University of Liverpool, UK Floris Bex, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands Guido Boella, University of Turin, Italy Alexander Boer, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands Michael Bommarito, Michigan State University, USA Daniele Bourcier, Universite of Paris 2, France Karl Branting, The MITRE Corporation, USA Scott Brewer, Harvard Law School, USA Jan Broersen, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands Thomas Bruce, Cornell Law School, USA Pompeu Casanovas Romeu, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain & Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia Frans Coenen, University of Liverpool, UK Phan Minh Dung, Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand Jack G. Conrad, Thomson Reuters, USA Norman Fenton, Queen Mary University of London, UK Enrico Francesconi, CNR – ITTIG, Italy Fernando Galindo Ayuda, Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain Anne Gardner, IAAIL, USA Thomas Gordon, Fraunhofer FOKUS, Germany Guido Governatori, NICTA, Australia Matthias Grabmair, University of Pittsburgh, USA Davide Grossi, University of Liverpool, UK Ben Hachey, University of Sydney, Australia Bruce Hedin, H5, USA Rinke Hoekstra, VU Amsterdam/University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands John Horty, University of Maryland, USA Jeroen Keppens, King’s College London, UK Steven Orla Kimbrough, University of Pennsylvania, USA Marc Lauritsen, Capstone Practice Systems, USA Arno Lodder, Vrije Universiteit, The Netherlands L. Thorne McCarty, Rutgers University, USA Raquel Mochales, Nuance, Belgium Katsumi Nitta, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan Paulo Novais, University of Minho, Portugal Douglas Oard, University of Maryland, USA Anja Oskamp, Open Universiteit, The Netherlands Monica Palmirani, University of Bologna, Italy Jeremy Pickens, Catalyst Repository Systems, USA Henry Prakken, Utrecht University & University of Groningen, The Netherlands Paulo Quaresma, University of Evora, Portugal Edwina Rissland, University of Massachusetts/Amherst, USA Antonino Rotolo, CIRSFID – University of Bologna, Italy Giovanni Sartor, European University Institute – Law Department, Italy Ken Satoh, National Institute of Informatics, Japan Burkhard Schafer, University of Edinburgh, UK Uri Schild, Bar Ilan University, Israel Erich Schweighofer, University of Vienna, Austria Fabrizio Sebastiani, Qatar Foundation, Qatar Ted Sichelman, University of San Diego School of Law, USA Thomas Smith, University of San Diego School of Law, USA Daniela Tiscornia, CNR – ITTIG, Italy Leon van der Torre, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Tom van Engers, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands Bart Verheij, Artificial Intelligence – University of Groningen, The Netherlands Serena Villata, INRIA Sophia Antipolis, France Vern R. Walker, Maurice A. Deane School of Law at Hofstra University, USA Douglas Walton, University of Windsor, Canada Radboud Winkels, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands Adam Zachary Wyner, University of Aberdeen, UK Hajime Yoshino, Meiji Gakuin University, Japan John Zeleznikow, Victoria University, Australia Tomasz Zurek, Marie Curie-Sklodowska University in Lublin, Poland Local Committee: Richard Belew, University of California, San Diego Karl Gruben, University of San Diego School of Law Dan Katz, Michigan State University College of Law Ted Sichelman, University of San Diego School of Law Thomas Smith, University of San Diego School of Law Roland Vogl, Stanford Law School -------------- nächster Teil -------------- Ein Dateianhang mit HTML-Daten wurde abgetrennt... URL: From grlmc at urv.cat Wed Dec 24 16:15:14 2014 From: grlmc at urv.cat (GRLMC) Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2014 16:15:14 +0100 Subject: AlCoB 2015: 2nd call for papers Message-ID: *To be removed from our mailing list, please respond to this message with UNSUBSCRIBE in the subject line* **************************************************************************** ****** 2nd INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ALGORITHMS FOR COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY AlCoB 2015 Mexico City, Mexico August 4-6, 2015 Organized by: Centre for Complexity Sciences (C3) School of Sciences Institute for Research in Applied Mathematics and Systems (IIMAS) Graduate Program in Computing Science and Engineering National Autonomous University of Mexico Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics (GRLMC) Rovira i Virgili University http://grammars.grlmc.com/alcob2015/ **************************************************************************** ****** AIMS: AlCoB aims at promoting and displaying excellent research using string and graph algorithms and combinatorial optimization to deal with problems in biological sequence analysis, genome rearrangement, evolutionary trees, and structure prediction. The conference will address several of the current challenges in computational biology by investigating algorithms aimed at: 1) assembling sequence reads into a complete genome, 2) identifying gene structures in the genome, 3) recognizing regulatory motifs, 4) aligning nucleotides and comparing genomes, 5) reconstructing regulatory networks of genes, and 6) inferring the evolutionary phylogeny of species. Particular focus will be put on methodology and significant room will be reserved to young scholars at the beginning of their career. VENUE: AlCoB 2015 will take place in Mexico City, the oldest capital city in the Americas and the largest Spanish-speaking city in the world. The venue will be the main campus of the National Autonomous University of Mexico. SCOPE: Topics of either theoretical or applied interest include, but are not limited to: Exact sequence analysis Approximate sequence analysis Pairwise sequence alignment Multiple sequence alignment Sequence assembly Genome rearrangement Regulatory motif finding Phylogeny reconstruction Phylogeny comparison Structure prediction Compressive genomics Proteomics: molecular pathways, interaction networks ... Transcriptomics: splicing variants, isoform inference and quantification, differential analysis Next-generation sequencing: population genomics, metagenomics, metatranscriptomics ... Microbiome analysis Systems biology STRUCTURE: AlCoB 2015 will consist of: invited lectures peer-reviewed contributions INVITED SPEAKERS: Julio Collado-Vides (National Autonomous University of Mexico, Cuernavaca), >From Curation of Information to Knowledge Encoding Gaston Gonnet (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich), Human-Dog-Mouse, Probably and Provable Non-trivial Evolution Close to the Root of the Mammalian Clade Peter D. Karp (SRI International, Menlo Park), Algorithms for Metabolic Route Search and Determination of Reaction Atom Mappings PROGRAMME COMMITTEE: Stephen Altschul (National Center for Biotechnology Information, Bethesda, USA) Yurii Aulchenko (Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, Russia) Pierre Baldi (University of California, Irvine, USA) Daniel G. Brown (University of Waterloo, Canada) Yuehui Chen (University of Jinan, China) Keith A. Crandall (George Washington University, Washington, USA) Joseph Felsenstein (University of Washington, Seattle, USA) Michael Galperin (National Center for Biotechnology Information, Bethesda, USA) Susumu Goto (Kyoto University, Japan) Igor Grigoriev (DOE Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, USA) Martien Groenen (Wageningen University, The Netherlands) Yike Guo (Imperial College, London, UK) Javier Herrero (University College London, UK) Karsten Hokamp (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland) Hsuan-Cheng Huang (National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan) Ian Korf (University of California, Davis, USA) Nikos Kyrpides (DOE Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, USA) Mingyao Li (University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA) Yun Li (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA) Jun Liu (Harvard University, Cambridge, USA) Rodrigo López (European Bioinformatics Institute, Hinxton, UK) Andrei N. Lupas (Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, Tübingen, Germany) B.S. Manjunath (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA) Carlos Martín-Vide (chair, Rovira i Virgili University, Tarragona, Spain) Tarjei Mikkelsen (Broad Institute, Cambridge, USA) Henrik Nielsen (Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark) Zemin Ning (Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, UK) Christine Orengo (University College London, UK) Modesto Orozco (Institute for Research in Biomedicine, Barcelona, Spain) Christos A. Ouzounis (Centre for Research & Technology Hellas, Thessaloniki, Greece) Manuel Peitsch (Philip Morris International R&D, Neuchâtel, Switzerland) David A. Rosenblueth (National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico) Julio Rozas (University of Barcelona, Spain) Alessandro Sette (La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology, USA) Peter F. Stadler (University of Leipzig, Germany) Guy Theraulaz (Paul Sabatier University, Toulouse, France) Alfonso Valencia (Spanish National Cancer Research Centre, Madrid, Spain) Kai Wang (University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA) Lusheng Wang (City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong) Zidong Wang (Brunel University, Uxbridge, UK) Harel Weinstein (Cornell University, New York, USA) Jennifer Wortman (Broad Institute, Cambridge, USA) Jun Yu (Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China) Mohammed J. Zaki (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, USA) Louxin Zhang (National University of Singapore, Singapore) Hongyu Zhao (Yale University, New Haven, USA) ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: Adrian Horia Dediu (Tarragona) Francisco Hernández-Quiroz (Mexico City) Carlos Martín-Vide (Tarragona, co-chair) David A. Rosenblueth (Mexico City, co-chair) Florentina Lilica Voicu (Tarragona) SUBMISSIONS: Authors are invited to submit non-anonymized papers in English presenting original and unpublished research. Papers should not exceed 12 single-spaced pages (including eventual appendices, references, proofs, etc.) and should be prepared according to the standard format for Springer Verlag's LNCS series (see http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0). Submissions have to be uploaded to: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=alcob2015 PUBLICATIONS: A volume of proceedings published by Springer in the LNCS/LNBI series will be available by the time of the conference. A special issue of a major journal will be later published containing peer-reviewed substantially extended versions of some of the papers contributed to the conference. Submissions to it will be by invitation. REGISTRATION: The registration form can be found at: http://grammars.grlmc.com/alcob2015/Registration.php DEADLINES: Paper submission: March 2, 2015 (23:59 CET) Notification of paper acceptance or rejection: April 10, 2015 Final version of the paper for the LNCS/LNBI proceedings: April 19, 2015 Early registration: April 19, 2015 Late registration: July 21, 2015 Submission to the journal special issue: November 6, 2015 QUESTIONS AND FURTHER INFORMATION: florentinalilica.voicu at urv.cat POSTAL ADDRESS: AlCoB 2015 Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics (GRLMC) Rovira i Virgili University Av. Catalunya, 35 43002 Tarragona, Spain Phone: +34 977 559 543 Fax: +34 977 558 386 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS: National Autonomous University of Mexico Rovira i Virgili University --- Este mensaje no contiene virus ni malware porque la protección de avast! Antivirus está activa. http://www.avast.com From announce at cs.ucy.ac.cy Sun Dec 28 13:34:14 2014 From: announce at cs.ucy.ac.cy (Announce Announcements) Date: Sun, 28 Dec 2014 14:34:14 +0200 Subject: ISCC 2015: Third Call for Papers Message-ID: *** Third Call for Papers *** The 20th IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC 2015) 6-9 July 2015, Golden Bay Beach Hotel, Larnaca, Cyprus http://ieee-iscc.org/2015 ISCC 2015, in its 20th anniversary, will provide an insight into the unique world stemming from the interaction between the fields of computers and communications. ISCC 2015 will provide an international technical forum for experts from industry and academia to exchange ideas and present results of ongoing research in most state-of-the-art areas of computer and communications. This year, special focus will be on the challenging issues and opportunities related to the computing, sensing and communication in the era of the Internet of Things, Cloud Computing and Big Data. You are invited to submit a full paper or a proposal for a panel/invited session or a tutorial, related to the following topics of interest. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: * ACCESS NETWORKS * DIGITAL MEDIA TECHNOLOGIES * BIOINFORMATICS AND MEDICAL INFORMATICS * MODELING AND SIMULATION * BIG DATA, DATA MINING AND DATABASE * APPLICATIONS * DIGITAL SATELLITE COMMUNICATIONS SERVICE * NETWORK DESIGN, OPTIMIZATION, AND MANAGEMENT * NEXT GENERATION NETWORKS INFRASTRUCTURES AND MANAGEMENT * DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS ARCHITECTURE AND MANAGEMENT * NETWORK RELIABILITY, QUALITY OF SER-VICE AND QUALITY OF EXPERIENCE * ECONOMIC AND REGULATORY ISSUES * OPTICAL NETWORKING * E-COMMERCE AND E-SERVICES * FAULT-TOLERANCE AND ERROR RECOVERY * PEER-TO-PEER COMPUTING * REAL TIME COMMUNICATION SERVICES * GRID, CLUSTER AND CLOUD COMPUTING * ROUTING AND MULTICAST * HUMAN LANGUAGE TECHNOLOGIES * IMAGE PROCESSING AND VISUALIZATION * SECURITY, CRYPTOGRAPHY AND PRIVACY * SOFTWARE ENGINEERING * INTERNET SERVICES AND APPLICATIONS * STANDARDS EVOLUTION * ADVANCES IN INTERNET PROTOCOLS * MANAGEMENT OF TELECOMMUNICATIONS AND NETWORKS * COGNITIVE RADIO NETWORKING * SENSOR NETWORKS AND MOBILE SENSING * DISTRIBUTED AND MOBILE MIDDLEWARE * OVERLAY AND PROGRAMMABLE NETWORKS * WEB SERVICES AND SERVICE ORIENTED ARCHITECTURES * WIRELESS, CELLULAR AND MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS * GREEN NETWORKING AND SMART GRID * CLOUD COMPUTING * INTERNET OF THE FUTURE * BIO-INSPIRED COMPUTING IN COMMUNICATIONS * COMMUNICATIONS SERVICES AND MANAGEMENT * INTERNET OF THINGS AND SMART CITIES * ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS * SOCIAL NETWORKS AND CROWDSOURCING * SERVICES AND SUPPORT FOR SMART CITIES * WIRELESS BODY AREA NETWORKS AND WIRELESS HEALTH Review manuscripts should describe original work and should be no more than 8 pages in the IEEE double column proceedings format including tables, figures and references. Note that accepted papers up to 6 pages will be published with no additional charge. Exceeding pages will be charged an additional fee. Extended versions of selected best papers will be recommended for publication in a Special Issue of a prestigious International Journal. Papers must be submitted electronically, in PDF format, on-line via the EDAS system: http://edas.info/N18819 Paper Submission Deadline: January 26th, 2015 Notification of Paper Acceptance: March 27th, 2015 Submission of Camera-Ready Paper: April 17th, 2015 General Co-Chairs Andreas Pitsillides, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Mahmoud Daneshmand, Stevens Institute of Technology, USA Technical Program Co-Chairs Vasos Vassiliou, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Honggang Wang, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, USA Local Arrangement Co-Chairs George Pallis, University of Cyprus, Cyprus George Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Finance and Registration Co-Chairs Reda Ammar, University of Connecticut, USA Christos Douligeris, University of Piraeus, Greece Publication Co-Chairs Josephine Antoniou, University of Central Lancanshire, Cyprus Nicos Komninos, City University London, UK Keynote Speakers Co-Chairs Panayiotis Kolios, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Marios Lestas, Frederick University, Cyprus Workshop Co-Chairs Periklis Chatzimisios, Alexander Technological Educational Institute of Thessaloniki, Greece Andreas Kamilaris, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Massimo Villari, University of Messina, Italy Publicity Co-Chairs Habib M. Ammari, Univ. of Michigan-Dearborn, USA Chrysostomos Chrysostomou, Frederick University, Cyprus Mario Dantas, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Brazil Salil Kanhere, University of New South Wales, Australia Ahmet Sekercioglu, Monash University, Australia Qing Yang, Montana State University, USA Steering Committee Reda Ammar, University of Connecticut, USA Antonio Corradi, University of Bologna, Italy Mahmoud Daneshmand, Stevens Institute of Technology, USA Christos Douligeris, Univ. of Piraeus, Greece Adel S. Elmaghraby, Univ. of Louisville, USA Hussein Mouftah, University of Ottawa, Canada Sartaj Sahni, University of Florida, USA Ahmed Tantawy, IBM, USA -------------------------------------------------------------------- This is not SPAM. 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At one end of the spectrum, this includes human efforts to form collaborative units. On the other end of the spectrum, we seek to understand techniques and methodologies for constructing online agent organizations that represent the interests of their human counterparts and take actions autonomously. The workshop will reflect the impacts of social network proliferation and the beginnings of agent systems that exploit and explore opportunities heralded by social media and the ever-faster pace of interconnectivity. Agents must multitask. Beyond performing their design tasks, they must be aware of the social climate of their environment. They must account for interactions with other agents and humans so as to perform social acts in order to complement their physical and speech acts. A substantial amount of research work is advancing distributed knowledge management. Therefore, this workshop will emphasize the operational elements of social networks that facilitate elements of online organizations. Social as well as cognitive foundations surrounding network organizations are of special interest and the focal theme. This theme includes social capital and the nature of interactions among individuals engaged in meaningful exchange. [ Topics include (but are not limited to) the following ]: - Agent-based networked environments - Cooperation and collaboration mechanisms - Collective benefits of political fallouts and economic externalities - Computational models of organizations - Digital communities and virtual organizations - Distributed technologies for group networks - Globalized networks and grid alliances - Network-centric warfare - Networked individualism - Networked organizations - Social capital and human-centric based group networks - Social networks and community discovery - Social computing and inter-cultural networks - Theoretical aspects of distributed organizations [ Submissions ]: COOS 2015 seeks good-quality submissions following AAMAS general formatting instructions (http://www.aamas2015.com/en/Submission-Instructions.html). Manuscripts should be submitted to: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=coos2015 [ Important dates ]: Papers submission: February 11, 2015 Notification of acceptance: March 10, 2015 Final manuscript due: March 19, 2015 [ Post Proceeding ]: Extended and improved versions will be included in a post-proceeding published in the special issue titled “Networked Agents of Complex Online Organizations”. We also strongly encourage researchers unable to participate in the workshop to submit articles for this issue. Authors interested should follow the time table below, following the journal submission instructions and formatting style (please visit: http://www.inderscience.com/info/ingeneral/cfp.php?id=2848). Submission deadline: April 15, 2015 Notification of 1st review: June 15, 2015 2nd Submission: August 15, 2015 Final papers due: September 15, 2015 Best regards.. -------------- nächster Teil -------------- Ein Dateianhang mit HTML-Daten wurde abgetrennt... URL: From announce at cs.ucy.ac.cy Mon Dec 29 13:07:51 2014 From: announce at cs.ucy.ac.cy (Announce Announcements) Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2014 14:07:51 +0200 Subject: CONTEXT 2015: First Call for Papers and Call for Workshop Proposals Message-ID: *** First Call for Papers and Call for Workshop Proposals *** The 9th International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Modeling and Using Context (CONTEXT 2015) 2-6 November 2015, Lordos Beach Hotel, Larnaca, Cyprus http://cyprusconferences.org/context2015 The CONTEXT conferences are the world's prime forum for presentation and exchange of insights and cutting-edge results from the wide range of disciplines concerned with context. The main theme of CONTEXT 2015 is "Back to the roots", focusing on the importance of interdisciplinary cooperations and studies of the phenomenon. Context, context modeling and context comprehension are central topics in linguistics, philosophy, sociology, artificial intelligence, computer science, art, law, organizational sciences, cognitive science, psychology, etc. and are also essential for the effectiveness of modern, complex and distributed software systems. CONTEXT 2015 invites high-quality contributions from researchers and practitioners in foundational studies, applications and evaluations of modeling and use of context in all relevant fields. Areas of interest include, but are not limited to, the role of context seen from different perspectives in: · Agent-based architectures · Ambient intelligence · Cognition and perception by humans and artifacts · Context-aware and situated systems · Context modeling tools · Communication and dialogue · Data analysis and visualization · Decision making · Discourse comprehension and representation · Engineering, e.g., in transport networks, industrial plants etc. · Experimental philosophy and experimental pragmatics · (Formal) models of context · Human-computer interaction · Knowledge representation · Language acquisition and processing · Learning, knowledge management and sharing · Logic and reasoning · Machine learning · Ontology/ies · Semantics and Pragmatics · Smart and interactive spaces · Understanding art, images, music and theatre Proceedings Accepted papers and poster abstracts will be published in a volume of the Springer LNAI series. Submission format Submissions may be either full papers of up to 14 pages (in Springer LNCS format) or poster abstracts of 4-6 pages. Full papers may be accepted as such with oral presentation, or their authors may be invited to prepare a poster abstract. Detailed formatting and submissions instructions will be provided. Conference events CONTEXT 2015 will include paper presentation sessions, a poster and demonstration session, two days of workshops, and a doctoral consortium as well as keynote talks and a panel discussion. Workshops and the doctoral consortium will circulate separate calls for papers and participation, which will also be available at the conference web site. All accepted authors will have the option of presenting a system demonstration at the poster session. Important dates Full papers and posters: · Submission deadline: June 1, 2015 · Notification: July 13, 2015 · Final version: August 17, 2015 Workshops CONTEXT 2015 workshops will provide a platform for presenting novel and emerging ideas in the use and the modelling of context in a less formal and possibly more focused way than the conference itself. The format of each workshop is to be determined by the organisers, but it is expected that workshops will contain ample time for general discussion and engagement by all participants - not just those presenting papers. Workshops that foster collaboration, discussion, group problem-solving and community-building initiatives are particularly encouraged. Researchers and practitioners from all relevant fields are invited to submit proposals for review. Proposals for workshops should contain: 1. A title and brief (2-page max) description of the workshop topic and content. 2. The desired workshop length (one day, two days or a half day) and an estimate of the number of attendees. 3. The names, postal addresses, phone numbers, and email addresses of the organisers, with one-paragraph statements of their research interests and areas of expertise. 4. A list of potential members of the program committee, with an indication of which members have already signed up. 5. A description of any shared tasks associated with the workshop. 6. A description of special requirements for technical needs. 7. An indication of whether posters are likely to be included in the workshop program. Please submit proposals in plain text in the body of an email to the workshop organiser Samia Oussena (samia.oussena at uwl.ac.uk) no later than March 20, 2015. Notification of acceptance of workshop proposals will occur no later than April 1, 2015. Organisers of accepted workshops will be responsible for publicising and running the workshop, including reviewing submissions and producing the camera-ready workshop proceedings and a possibly printed version; the conference website may link to online workshop proceedings. It is crucial that organisers commit to all deadlines. Workshop organisers cannot accept for publication papers that will be (or have been) published elsewhere, although they are free to set their own policies on simultaneous submission and review. At least one organiser of an accepted workshop is expected attend and lead the workshop; any participant and speaker must register for the conference. The CONTEXT 2015 organisers will set the workshop fees, provide rooms, equipment, technical support, coffee and lunch breaks. Workshop timeline · Submission of proposals: March 20, 2015 · Notification: April 1, 2015 · Submission deadline, workshop papers: August 1, 2015 · Notification for workshop papers: September 1, 2015 · Final version of workshop papers: October 1, 2015 Doctoral Consortium TBA Program Chairs Henning Christiansen, Roskilde University, Denmark Isidora Stojanovic, UPF, Spain & CNRS, France Workshop Chair Samia Oussena, University of West London, UK Local Arrangements Chair George Angelos Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus General Chair Henning Christiansen, Roskilde University, Denmark Chairs of the Community of Context Patrick Blackburn, Roskilde University, Denmark Patrick Brezillon, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, France Henning Christiansen, Roskilde University, Denmark Richard Dapoigny, Université de Savoie, France Thomas R. Roth-Berghofer, University of West London, UK Hedda R. 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URL: From ijcai2015.publicity at gmail.com Tue Dec 30 19:00:01 2014 From: ijcai2015.publicity at gmail.com (IJCAI 2015 Publicity Chairs) Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2014 15:00:01 -0300 Subject: IJCAI-15 Call for Papers Message-ID: [Apology for cross-postings] ************************************************************************************************* Call for Papers 24th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-15), Buenos Aires, Argentina / 25 July-1 August 2015 http://ijcai-15.org/ IMPORTANT DATES * Abstract submission: Feb 8, 2015 (11:59PM, UTC-12). * Paper submission: Feb 12, 2015 (11:59PM, UTC-12). * Author feedback: March 17-23, 2015 (11:59PM, UTC-12). * Notification of acceptance/rejection: April 16, 2015. * Camera-ready copy due: May 2, 2015. ************************************************************************************************* The Program Committee of the Twenty-fourth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-15) invites the submission of original technical papers for the conference, to be held in Buenos Aires, Argentina, from July 25th to August 1st, 2015. Submissions are invited on significant, original, and previously unpublished research on all aspects of artificial intelligence. Over the past forty years, IJCAI has enjoyed tremendous success in bringing together the international AI community in communicating and celebrating the achievements and advances of artificial intelligence research and practice. With the current explosion of Artificial Intelligence in all walks of life, this year’s IJCAI conference will have even more to celebrate! A theme of IJCAI-15 is Artificial Intelligence and Arts. This theme will highlight AI’s increasingly important role in how we create, discover, disseminate, learn and appreciate arts. THE LOCATION: BUENOS AIRES AND ARGENTINA South America has never before hosted an IJCAI conference, and Buenos Aires is surely an ideal choice for this landmark event. As a key cultural centre in South America, the City of Buenos Aires is also one of the most important and dynamic business and intellectual centres of the region. Buenos Aires has incredible food and wine, innovative and exciting young designers, and a thriving cultural scene. This zest for life makes Buenos Aires one of Latin America's essential destinations. IJCAI-15 will take place close to the downtown area of Buenos Aires. Attendees will find an outstanding modern conference venue, close to many restaurants, with a vibrant street life. And of course, since a visit to Buenos Aires would be incomplete without a visit to the famous Boca neighbourhood and taking in a tango show, we have planned an exciting social program including both. Beyond Buenos Aires, Argentina provides tremendous opportunities for tourism, from the dramatic UNESCO World Heritage site of Iguazu Falls to the ice dams of Los Glaciares National Park. For more information on Argentina tourism, see: http://www.turismo.gov.ar/ SUBMISSION DETAILS Full instructions including formatting guidelines and electronic templates are available on the IJCAI 2015 website: http://ijcai-15.org/index.php/call-for-papers AI AND THE ARTS IJCAI-15 will include a special track around the theme of “AI and the Arts”. This will include social activities around this theme, as well as a scientific track. Details will be made available on the conference website. Shuiwang Ji and Ana Maguitman IJCAI-15 Publicity Co-Chairs Find IJCAI-15 on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/ijcai15 Find IJCAI-15 on Weibo: http://weibo.com/5225989544 Follow IJCAI-15 on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ijcai15 -------------- nächster Teil -------------- Ein Dateianhang mit HTML-Daten wurde abgetrennt... URL: From ijcai2015.publicity at gmail.com Tue Dec 30 19:02:59 2014 From: ijcai2015.publicity at gmail.com (IJCAI 2015 Publicity Chairs) Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2014 15:02:59 -0300 Subject: IJCAI 2015 Machine Learning Track - CALL FOR PAPERS Message-ID: [Apology for cross-postings] ************************************************************************************************* Machine Learning Track CALL FOR PAPERS 24th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-15) Machine Learning Track Buenos Aires, Argentina / 25 July-1 August 2015 http://ijcai-15.org/ The Machine Learning Track Program Committee of the Twenty-fourth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-15) invites the submission of original technical papers to the Machine Learning Track of IJCAI-15. Machine Learning is a core area of artificial intelligence research, with implications and deep connections to computer perception, automated cognition and intelligent behavior. As a foundational subject, machine learning touches almost every area of artificial intelligence as a target competence or an enabling technology. Since it is a rapidly growing area that is driving pervasive technological change, machine learning has developed a variety of its own sub-fields, specialized technical tools and methodologies. To counter the perception that machine learning research is diverging from the interests of other areas of artificial intelligence, a strong presence in machine learning will be maintained at IJCAI-15. In addition to highlighting top quality research, the Machine Learning Track will also emphasize research that connects to other areas of artificial intelligence. Submissions are therefore invited on significant, original, and previously unpublished research on all aspects of machine learning, with a special encouragement for machine learning research that demonstrates clear relevance to other areas of artificial intelligence research. General areas of interest include, but are not limited to: probabilistic models and methods, large margin and kernel methods, deep learning and neural learning, ensemble methods, learning from partial labellings, unsupervised learning, relation learning and graphs, reinforcement learning and on-line learning, learning in games and multi-agent systems, evolutionary learning and nature inspired learning, learning theory and machine learning applications. We particularly welcome papers that formulate "new problems" for machine learning and artificial intelligence research, in addition to more traditional papers that propose "solutions" to established problems. Such "new problem" papers will be assessed in terms of the clarity of the proposed formulation, strength of the motivation, depth of the challenges identified, and feasibility of the problems. Such papers can provide value for the community identifying new paths to advancing Artificial Intelligence. We would also like to draw attention to the IJCAI-15 theme of "AI and the Arts" and encourage machine learning submissions that are relevant to this theme. SUBMISSION DETAILS All papers submitted to the Machine Learning track are regarded as regular submissions to IJCAI 2015. Please consult the main IJCAI 2015 Call For Papers at http://ijcai-15.org/index.php/call-for-papers for important dates, detailed submission instructions, (including formatting guidelines and electronic templates), review process, and important policies (on multiple submissions, confidentiality and conflict of interest). IJCAI 2015 Machine Learning Track Co-chairs: Dale Schuurmans (University of Alberta, Canada) Zhi-Hua Zhou (Nanjing University, China) Find IJCAI-15 on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/ijcai15 Find IJCAI-15 on Weibo: http://weibo.com/5225989544 Follow IJCAI-15 on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ijcai15 From ijcai2015.publicity at gmail.com Tue Dec 30 19:07:06 2014 From: ijcai2015.publicity at gmail.com (IJCAI 2015 Publicity Chairs) Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2014 15:07:06 -0300 Subject: IJCAI 2015 KR Track - CALL FOR PAPERS Message-ID: [Apology for cross-postings] ************************************************************************************************* KR Track CALL FOR PAPERS Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KRR) is an exciting, central, and well-established area of Artificial Intelligence. In KRR, a fundamental assumption is that an agent's knowledge is explicitly represented, and is amenable for processing by domain-independent reasoning engines. The notion of "knowledge" in KRR is broadly taken and includes not just an agent's beliefs, but also its preferences, intentions, assumptions, goals, and any other phenomena that allows a declarative representation. As well, the notion of "reasoning" in KRR is similarly broadly taken and includes not just classical deductive inference, but also nonmonotonic, plausible, qualitative, probabilistic, and other forms of principled reasoning. The assumption that much of the information that an agent deals with is knowledge-based is common in many modern intelligent systems. Consequently, KRR has contributed to the foundations of various areas in AI, such as automated planning, natural language understanding, among others, as well as to fields beyond AI, including databases, verification, and software engineering. More recently KRR techniques and approaches have been applied in fields such as the semantic web, computational biology, software agents, question answering and video understanding. We invite authors to submit papers presenting original and unpublished research on Knowledge Representation and Reasoning. We solicit papers that contribute to the formal foundations of relevant areas or that show the applicability of results to implemented or implementable systems. KRR papers in IJCAI 2015 will be organized under a special KRR track with an aim to particularly welcome KRR papers that address AI as a whole as well as KRR papers that arise from other areas of AI, in addition to the traditional KRR papers. In addition, papers that raise novel KRR questions, rather than only providing solutions to existing KRR questions, will be especially welcome. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Action, change, causality and causal reasoning - Argumentation - Belief change: revision and update, belief merging, information fusion - Contextual reasoning - Deployed KR systems - Description logics - Diagnosis, abduction, explanation finding - Inconsistency and exception tolerant reasoning, paraconsistent logics - KR and data management, ontology-based data access, queries and updates over incomplete data - KR and decision making, game theory, economic models - KR and the web - KR and general game playing - KR in video games, virtual environments - KR in image and video understanding - KR in machine learning, inductive logic programming, knowledge discovery and acquisition - KR in natural language understanding and question answering - KR in software engineering - Logic programming, answer set programming, constraint logic programming - Multi-agent systems, autonomous agents, cognitive robotics, logical models of agency - Nonmonotonic logics, default logics, conditional logics - Ontology languages and modeling - Philosophical foundations of KR - Preference modeling and representation, reasoning about preferences, preference-based reasoning - Qualitative reasoning, reasoning about physical systems - Reasoning about knowledge and belief, epistemic and doxastic logics - Reasoning about norms and organizations, social knowledge and behavior - Reasoners and solvers: theorem provers, SAT solvers, QBF solvers, and others. - Spatial reasoning and temporal reasoning - Uncertainty, representations of vagueness, many-valued and fuzzy logics, relational probability models SUBMISSION DETAILS All papers submitted to the KR track are regarded as regular submissions to IJCAI 2015. Please consult the main IJCAI 2015 Call For Papers at http://ijcai-15.org/index.php/call-for-papers for important dates, detailed submission instructions, (including formatting guidelines and electronic templates), review process, and important policies (on multiple submissions, confidentiality and conflict of interest). IJCAI 2015 KR Track Co-chairs: James Delgrande, Simon Fraser University, Canada Fangzhen Lin, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong Find IJCAI-15 on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/ijcai15 Find IJCAI-15 on Weibo: http://weibo.com/5225989544 Follow IJCAI-15 on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ijcai15 From ijcai2015.publicity at gmail.com Tue Dec 30 19:10:16 2014 From: ijcai2015.publicity at gmail.com (IJCAI 2015 Publicity Chairs) Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2014 15:10:16 -0300 Subject: IJCAI 2015 Special Track "AI and the Arts" - CALL FOR PAPERS Message-ID: [Apology for cross-postings] ************************************************************************************************* Special Track "AI and the Arts" CALL FOR PAPERS There is a growing interest in developing artificial intelligence techniques that can have a role in the production of works of art. Research in this field has already produced AI systems that can produce outputs in fields such as music, fine arts, storytelling and performance either autonomously or in collaboration with humans. The main motivation for this special track is to explore how AI can help in generating artistic works and how working in the arts helps in moving forward the field of AI. Relating to this motivation we suggest a number of questions that, among others, papers submitted to this special track could look to address: - In what way can AI give us an understanding of the human creative process? - When building AI systems for producing creative artefacts should we aim to mimic our own - creative behaviour, the behaviours we find in nature, or design completely new mechanisms? - Under what conditions could work produced solely by machine be considered as art? - What is the role of AI in producing systems that can inspire more of us to engage with the creative process in order to produce art? - What are the kinds of interactions with computational systems that will inspire, provoke, and challenge us into meaningful creative dialogues with machines? - Are current value systems that humans use to experience and evaluate art suitable for computer-created art, or are new value-systems required? - How can AI help us re-conceptualise current methods of interaction between computers and people so as to better encourage creative flow and feedback? - How can AI help develop our relationships with computers to encourage new opportunities for experiencing both human- and computer-generated creative artefacts? SUBMISSION DETAILS Papers focusing on the interplay between AI and the arts, submitted to this special track will be reviewed according to the same standards as all other papers. The authors of accepted papers will additionally have the option of showing a demo related to what they have presented in the paper. In addition, submissions of demos without submitting a full paper, as well as video submissions are also welcome. The demos and videos will be reviewed according to the standards regarding demos and video submissions of past IJCAI conferences. Please consult the main IJCAI 2015 Call For Papers at http://ijcai-15.org/index.php/call-for-papers for important dates, detailed submission instructions, (including formatting guidelines and electronic templates), review process, and important policies (on multiple submissions, confidentiality and conflict of interest). IJCAI 2015 AI and the Arts Track Co-chairs Ramon Lopez de Mantaras, Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Barcelona, Spain Francois Pachet, Sony Computer Science Laboratories, Paris, France Mark d’Inverno, Goldsmiths, University of London, London, UK Find IJCAI-15 on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/ijcai15 Find IJCAI-15 on Weibo: http://weibo.com/5225989544 Follow IJCAI-15 on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ijcai15 From ijcai2015.publicity at gmail.com Tue Dec 30 19:16:41 2014 From: ijcai2015.publicity at gmail.com (IJCAI 2015 Publicity Chairs) Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2014 15:16:41 -0300 Subject: =?UTF-8?Q?IJCAI_2015_Doctoral_Consortium_=2D_CALL_FOR_APPLICATIO?= =?UTF-8?Q?=E2=80=8BNS?= Message-ID: [Apology for cross-postings] ************************************************************************************************* IJCAI 2015 - Doctoral Consortium Call for Applications Students are invited to apply for admission to the doctoral consortium to be held at the IJCAI conference, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 25 July-1 August 2015. The doctoral consortium provides an opportunity for Ph.D. students to discuss their research interests and career objectives with established researchers in AI, network with other participants, and receive mentoring about career planning and career options. The doctoral consortium will expose students to different areas of research within AI and help building professional connections within the international community of AI researchers. Deadline for applications: February 26, 2015 Notification of acceptance: April 16, 2015 Perspective applicants should submit: 1. a two-page extended abstract on their thesis, formatted following the IJCAI requirements. Accepted abstracts will be included in the IJCAI Proceedings and be presented briefly at the doctoral consortium. Acceptance for publication is not a requirement for admission to the doctoral consortium, but submission is required to apply to the doctoral consortium. Accepted extended abstracts will be published in the IJCAI Proceedings. 2. a curriculum vitae (2 pages) with background (name, university), education (degree sought, year/status in degree, previous degrees), employment, and relevant experience in research (publications, presentations, conferences attended, etc). 3. a personal statement (1-2 pages max) with answers to the following questions: a. Is this the first time you attend IJCAI DC? If not, have you attended other DC? Please say which one(s) and what was most useful to you. b. Have you submitted an article to IJCAI and/or IJCAI workshops? c. When do you expect to graduate? d. What type of job do you desire after graduation (research, teaching, development, etc)? 4. a letter of support from the advisor For details visit http://ijcai15.org/. Submissions to: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ijcai2015dc Some funding will be available to cover in part travel costs. IJCAI will offer additional travel grants to student authors of accepted papers. Details will be available later. For additional information and questions contact: Maria Gini (Univ. of Minnesota, USA) Silvia Schiaffino (ISISTAN, UNCPBA, Argentina) Co-chairs, Doctoral Consortium, IJCAI 2015 email: ijcai15dc at cs.umn.edu Find IJCAI-15 on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/ijcai15 Find IJCAI-15 on Weibo: http://weibo.com/5225989544 Follow IJCAI-15 on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ijcai15 From ijcai2015.publicity at gmail.com Tue Dec 30 19:20:24 2014 From: ijcai2015.publicity at gmail.com (IJCAI 2015 Publicity Chairs) Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2014 15:20:24 -0300 Subject: =?UTF-8?Q?IJCAI_2015_Robot_Competitio=E2=80=8Bn_and_Exhibition_=2D_CAL?= =?UTF-8?Q?L_FOR_PARTICIPAT=E2=80=8BION?= Message-ID: [Apology for cross-postings] ************************************************************************************************* Robot Competition and Exhibition CALL FOR PARTICIPATION Competition IJCAI-15 will host a Robot Competition to help raise awareness of robotics in the AI community and to identify robotics problems that AI can help to address. The competition will take place at IJCAI-15 in Buenos Aires. A list of expert judges will be announced later. There will be five prizes on offer for real-time robot demonstrations in the following categories: physical skills (e.g. manipulation and motion), social skills (e.g. human-robot interaction, multi-robot collaboration, theory of mind), service tasks (e.g. general-purpose service, cleaning the house, cocktail waiter, security guard) and open (e.g. incredibly awesome applications). As the theme of IJCAI-15 will be AI and Arts, we also welcome entries that demonstrate the interplay of Robotics and Arts. The key criteria are: - Innovation - what new value or potential impact does the demonstrated capability bring; - Significance - quality of new AI/Robotics research questions it addresses or exposes; - Technical Quality - how well is the demonstration accomplished; - Understandability - quality of the demonstration presentation. Demonstration are expected to be given in an arena such as a living room and are required to be completed in 10 minutes with synchronous presentation/commendatory, followed by a 10 minute Q&A. If you are interested in participating in the IJCAI Robot Competition, please complete the registration form below, and send it to the ijcai15.robot at gmail.com as early as possible, but no later than May 5, 2015. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Entry Team Name: Country: Affiliations: Contact Details including email address: Team Description including link to website if there is one: Robot Description including link to website if there is one: Task/Skill Description of the robot skill/task you will attempt, the AI problems you will address, your general approach, photo/video(s) of the robot(s) not more than 2 pages. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Successful teams will be notified by May 15 if they can be accommodated at the IJCAI-15 venue. Physical constraints of the demonstration area will be made available later. Specific requirements should be pre-approved by the robotic program chairs. Exhibition A robot exhibition will be held together with the 2015 IJCAI Robot Competition. The Robot Exhibition is designed to provide a unique opportunity for universities and companies to bring their own robots and show them at the exhibit area, which is open to the conference participants and the public. If you are interested in participating in the IJCAI Robot Exhibition, please send the registration form to ijcai15.robot at gmail.com as early as possible, but no later than Friday May 15, 2015. Participants are expected to manage the logistics for their robots on their own. Xiaoping Chen and Michael Beetz, ijcai15.robot at gmail.com Chairs, the 2015 IJCAI Robot Competition and Exhibition Find IJCAI-15 on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/ijcai15 Find IJCAI-15 on Weibo: http://weibo.com/5225989544 Follow IJCAI-15 on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ijcai15 From grlmc at urv.cat Wed Dec 31 15:42:23 2014 From: grlmc at urv.cat (GRLMC) Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2014 15:42:23 +0100 Subject: InfoSec 2015: registration deadline 3 January Message-ID: <56A9DA34D0F74AD48C74558E4623A312@Carlos1> *To be removed from our mailing list, please respond to this message with UNSUBSCRIBE in the subject line* ********************************************************************** INTERNATIONAL SUMMER SCHOOL ON INFORMATION SECURITY InfoSec 2015 Tarragona, Spain July 6-10, 2015 Organized by Rovira i Virgili University http://grammars.grlmc.com/InfoSec2015/ ********************************************************************** --- Early registration deadline: January 3, 2015 --- ********************************************************************** AIM: InfoSec 2015 will be a major research training event addressed to graduates and postgraduates in the first steps of their academic career. With a global scope, it aims at updating them about the most recent advances in the critical and fast developing area of information security, which covers a large spectrum of current exciting academic research and industrial innovation. It refers to procedures to defend information from unauthorized access, use, modification, recording or destruction, with a critical role to play in order to avoid or minimize risks in the digital world. Renowned academics and industry pioneers will lecture and share their views with the audience. Most information security subareas will be displayed, namely: computer security, cryptography, privacy, cyber security, mobile security, network security, world wide web security, fraud prevention, data protection, etc. Main challenges of information security will be identified through 4 keynote lectures, 33 six-hour courses, and 1 round table, which will tackle the most active and promising topics. The organizers believe outstanding speakers will attract the brightest and most motivated students. Interaction will be a main component of the event. ADDRESSED TO: Graduates and postgraduates from around the world. There are no formal pre-requisites in terms of academic degrees. However, since there will be differences in the course levels, specific background knowledge may be required for some of them. InfoSec 2015 is also appropriate for more senior people who want to keep themselves updated on recent developments and future trends. They will surely find it fruitful to listen and discuss with major researchers, industry leaders and innovators. REGIME: In addition to keynotes, 4 courses will run in parallel during the whole event. Participants will be able to freely choose the courses they will be willing to attend as well as to move from one to another. VENUE: InfoSec 2015 will take place in Tarragona, located 90 kms. to the south of Barcelona. The venue will be: Campus Catalunya Universitat Rovira i Virgili Av. Catalunya, 35 43002 Tarragona KEYNOTE SPEAKERS: Jan Camenisch (IBM Research, Zurich), Privacy in a Digital World: a Lost Cause? Hao Chen (University of California, Davis), (In)security of Mobile Apps in Untrusted Networks Jennifer Seberry (University of Wollongong), The Global Village: the Beginning of the Need for Computer Security [via videoconference] Gene Tsudik (University of California, Irvine), Off-line Proximity-based Social Networking PROFESSORS AND COURSES: N. Asokan (Aalto University), [intermediate] Mobile Security: Overview of Hardware Platform Security and Considerations of Usability Jan Camenisch (IBM Research, Zurich), [introductory/intermediate] Technologies to Protect Online Privacy Hao Chen (University of California, Davis), [intermediate/advanced] Security of the Mobile App Ecosystem Nicolas T. Courtois (University College London), [introductory/intermediate] Security of ECDSA in Bitcoin and Crypto Currency Claude Crépeau (McGill University, Montréal), [introductory/intermediate] Quantum Computation, Cryptography and Cryptanalysis Joan Daemen (ST Microelectronics Belgium, Diegem), [introductory/intermediate] Sponge Functions, Keccak and SHA-3 Sajal K. Das (Missouri University of Science and Technology, Rolla), [intermediate/advanced] Securing Cyber-Physical Systems: Challenges and Opportunities Hervé Debar (Télécom SudParis), [introductory/intermediate] Detection and Reaction to Attacks: from Intrusion Detection to Cyber-Defense Yevgeniy Dodis (New York University), [intermediate/advanced] Randomness in Cryptography David Evans (University of Virginia, Charlottesville), [introductory/intermediate] Secure Multiparty Computation: Techniques, Theory, and Tools for Building Privacy-Preserving Applications Rosario Gennaro (City University of New York), [intermediate/advanced] A Survey of Verifiable Delegation of Computation Trent Jaeger (Pennsylvania State University, University Park), [intermediate/advanced] How to Add Security Enforcement to Legacy Programs Markus Jakobsson (Qualcomm, Santa Clara), [introductory/intermediate] Frontiers in Fraud Prevention Antoine Joux (Pierre et Marie Curie University, Paris), [introductory/intermediate] Discrete Logarithms in Finite Fields Marc Joye (Technicolor R&I, Los Altos), [introductory/intermediate] Secure Public-Key Cryptosystems Somesh Jha (University of Wisconsin, Madison), [intermediate/advanced] Analysis Techniques in Information Security Lars R. Knudsen (Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby), [introductory/intermediate] Block Ciphers: the Workhorses in Cryptography Songwu Lu (University of California, Los Angeles), [introductory/intermediate] Cellular Network Security: Issues and Defenses Catherine Meadows (Naval Research Laboratory, Washington DC), [introductory/intermediate] Formal Analysis of Cryptographic Protocols Nasir Memon (New York University), [introductory/intermediate] User Authentication Ethan L. Miller (University of California, Santa Cruz), [intermediate/advanced] Securing Stored Data in a Connected World Stefano Paraboschi (University of Bergamo), [introductory/intermediate] Data Protection in Network-enabled Systems Bart Preneel (KU Leuven), [introductory/intermediate] Cryptology: State of the Art and Research Challenges Jean-Jacques Quisquater (Catholic University of Louvain), [introductory/intermediate] The History of RSA: from Babylon to Smart Cards Shantanu Rane (Palo Alto Research Center), [introductory/intermediate] Privacy-preserving Data Analytics: Problems, Solutions and Challenges Mark Ryan (University of Birmingham), [introductory/intermediate] Designing Security Protocols: Electronic Voting, and Electronic Mail Rei Safavi-Naini (University of Calgary), [introductory] Information-theoretic Security Stefan Saroiu (Microsoft Research, Redmond), [advanced] Dealing with Loss: Protecting Data on a Lost Mobile Device Milind Tambe (University of Southern California, Los Angeles), [introductory/intermediate] Introduction to the Emerging Science of Security Games Gene Tsudik (University of California, Irvine), [intermediate/advanced] Security and Privacy in Candidate Future Internet Architectures Yang Xiao (University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa), [introductory/advanced] Security in Smart Grids Wenyuan Xu (University of South Carolina, Columbia), [intermediate] Security and Privacy Analysis of Embedded Systems Yuliang Zheng (University of North Carolina, Charlotte), [introductory] Cryptography and the Future of Money ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: Adrian Horia Dediu (Tarragona) Carlos Martín-Vide (Tarragona, chair) Florentina Lilica Voicu (Tarragona) REGISTRATION: The registration form can be found at: http://grammars.grlmc.com/InfoSec2015/registration.php The selection of up to 8 courses requested in the registration template is only tentative and non-binding. For the sake of organization, it will be helpful to have an approximation of the respective demand for each course. Since the capacity of the venue is limited, registration requests will be processed on a first come first served basis. The registration period will be closed and the on-line registration facility disabled when the capacity of the venue will be complete. It is much recommended to register prior to the event. FEES: Fees are a flat rate covering the attendance to all courses during the week. There are several early registration deadlines. Fees depend on the registration deadline. ACCOMMODATION: Suggestions of accommodation will be provided in due time. CERTIFICATE: Participants will be delivered a certificate of attendance. QUESTIONS AND FURTHER INFORMATION: florentinalilica.voicu at urv.cat POSTAL ADDRESS: InfoSec 2015 Lilica Voicu Rovira i Virgili University Av. 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