From announce at cs.ucy.ac.cy Sat Mar 1 13:44:32 2014 From: announce at cs.ucy.ac.cy (Announce Announcements) Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2014 14:44:32 +0200 Subject: WiMob 2014: Second CFP and Last Call for Workshop Proposals Message-ID: *** Second Call for Papers *** *** Last Call for Workshop Proposals *** The 10th IEEE International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications WiMob 2014 Golden Bay Hotel, Larnaca, Cyprus October 8-10, 2014 http://conferences.computer.org/WiMob2014/ Deadline for Workshop Proposals: March 31, 2014 Deadline for Paper Submissions: May 1, 2014 (Proceedings will be published by IEEE) The IEEE WiMob conference is an international forum for the exchange of experience and knowledge among researchers and developers concerned with wireless and mobile technology. For nine years, the International IEEE WiMob conference has provided unique opportunities for researchers to interact, share new results, show live demonstrations, and discuss emerging directions in Wireless Communications, Mobile Networking and Ubiquitous Computing. IEEE WiMob 2014 will take place at Larnaca, Cyprus, between October 8 to 10th, 2014. It will be held at the Golden Bay Beach Hotel, a luxurious 5 star hotel situated in the favored south eastern region of Cyprus at the heart of the Bay of Larnaca. IEEE WiMob 2014 is soliciting high quality technical papers addressing research challenges in the areas of wireless communications, wireless networking, mobility, nomadicity, ubiquitous computing, services and applications. Papers should present original work validated via analysis, simulation or experimentation. Practical experiences and Testbed trials also are welcome. IEEE WiMob 2014 will host three parallel symposiums, including but not limited to the following topics: 1. Wireless Communications Broadband Wireless Communication Systems Signal Separation and Interference Rejection Wireless Personal Communications Multimedia Communications over Wireless Advances in Satellite Communication DSP Applications to Wireless Systems Adaptive Antennas for Wireless Systems Modulation and Coding Multiple Access Techniques Multiuser Detection Femtocells Channel Measurement and Characterization Location Estimation and Tracking OFDM and CDMA Technologies and Systems Resource Allocation and Interference Management MIMO Channels Multirate and Multicarrier Communications Link and System Capacity Spectrum Usage and Cognitive radio systems Cognitive and cooperative MAC Cognitive Radio Applications and Spectrum Management 2. Wireless Networking, Mobility and Nomadicity Mobile IP Networks Inter-working of 2G, 3G and 4G Wireless Networks Security, Privacy and Authentication in Mobile Environments Cellular Systems, PCS Modeling and Configuration Wireless Sensor Networks Cross-layer Design and Optimization Cross-layer security Congestion and Admission Control Mobility patterns, Location and Handoff Management Design and Analysis of Wireless LAN/WAN Wireless multicasting, broadcasting and geocasting Wireless Sensors and Actuators/Robots networks Energy-efficient protocols for wireless networks Green wireless network architectures and communication protocols Opportunistic networks Vehicular wireless networks Wireless Mesh networks Delay Tolerant Networks Integration of ad hoc networks with wireless access networks QoS support for mobile networks RFID networks and protocols B3G/4G Systems, WiMAX, WLAN, WPAN Optimization models and algorithms 3. Ubiquitous Computing, Services and Applications Emerging Wireless/Mobile applications System prototypes, real deployments and experimentation Cognitive Radio applications and spectrum management Resource and service discovery Mobile Social Wireless Networks Opportunistic Applications Gaming Applications in Ubiquitous Computing Environments Operating system and middleware support for mobile computing Multimedia over Wireless Networks Network Coding in wireless networks Security, Privacy and Infrastructure for Ubiquitous Computing Green computing in wireless networks Smart Grid Portable Devices and Wearable Computers Passive, Active and Smart Tags for Ubiquitous Computing Context and Location aware applications Data replication and dissemination in mobile networks Mobile Urban Sensing and Crowd-sensing Data gathering, fusion, and dissemination in WSNs Intelligent Transport Systems applications Wireless communications to vehicle-to-grid applications Wireless telemedicine and e-health services Content distribution in wireless home environment Service oriented architectures, service portability, P2P Smart Cities and smart environment Workshop Proposals As part of the program of WiMob 2014, a limited number of workshops are planned to be held in conjunction with the main conference. The main aim of the workshops is to provide an international forum for researchers to present their early research results and share experiences focused on specific research areas related to the main conference topics. Workshop proposals are solicited in all areas and topics related to wireless networking, mobile computing, mobile and wireless communications, pervasive computing and networking, and its services and applications. All papers accepted by the workshops will be included in the WiMob 2014 Proceedings published by IEEE. All proposals and questions should be submitted to the workshop chairs: * Ebrahim Bagheri, Ryerson University, bagheri at ryerson.ca * Joaquin Garcia-Alfaro, Telecom SudParis, garcia_a at telecom-sudparis.eu * Joan Garcia Haro, Universidad Politecnica de Cartagena, joang.haro at upct.es * Luis Orozco Barbosa, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, luis.orozco at uclm.es Acceptance/rejection notification will be sent to workshop organizers. Proposals for workshops should be no more than 2 pages in length and should contain the following information: 1) A draft of the CFP of the workshop (includes title, description, topics and dates) 2) Proposed duration of the workshop 3) Why is the topic area important? 4) Likely contributors and target audience 5) Organizing committee 6) Plan for workshop advertising and publicity 7) Biography of the main organizer(s) (100-200 words) 8) Can be submitted in PDF or plain text 9) Extended abstract to be presented in the conference proceedings Responsibilities for Workshop Organizers Workshop chair(s) will be responsible for the following: (1) Web page of the workshop and dissemination of "Call for Papers/Participation" for their workshop (2) Paper constraints, such as quality, originality, format and length constraints (3) Description of the workshop to be associated to the conference web page and program (4) Acceptance notification and selection of participants (5) Advertising the workshop beyond the conference web page (6) Assistance in producing a camera-ready version of the workshop proceedings Important Dates Workshop Proposals Deadline: March 31, 2014 Workshops Proposals Acceptance Notification: April 15, 2014 Paper Submission Deadline: May 1, 2014 Notification of Acceptance: July 25, 2014 Camera Ready: August 25, 2014 Organization Committees General Chair Abderrahim Benslimane, University of Avignon, France General Co-Chairs George Angelos Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Ali Miri, Ryerson University, Canada Steering Committee Chair Samuel Pierre, École Polytechnique de Montréal, Canada Steering Committee Abderrahim Benslimane, University of Avignon, France Dovan Thanh, Telenor & Norwegian Univ. of Science& Technology, Norway Hussein Mouftah, University of Ottawa, Canada Ibrahim Habib, City University of New York, USA Khaled Ben Letaief, Hong Kong University of Sci. & Tech. Pierre Boucher, Ericsson Research Canada Samuel Pierre, École Polytechnique de Montréal, Canada TPC Co-Chairs Li CHEN, Sun Yat-Sen University, China - wireless communication track Milena Radenkovic, University of Nottingham, UK - ubiquitous, service and application track Lin Xiaodong, University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Canada- wireless networking, mobility and nomadicity track Workshop Co-Chairs Ebrahim Bagheri, Ryerson University, Canada Joaquin Garcia-Alfaro, Telecom SudParis, France Joan Garcia Haro, Universidad Politecnica dede Cartagena, Spain Luis Orozco Barbosa, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Spain Technical Program Committee http://conferences.computer.org/wimob2014/tpc.html -------------------------------------------------------------------- This is not SPAM. 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WS on Human-Aware Planning (HAP2014) Message-ID: <34f8cb4d394e48ce8cdc046f7d4f781d@birke.dai-lab.de> (We apologize for multiples copies) (Please distribute this CFP among your colleagues and students) The 1st International Workshop on Human-Aware Planning (HAP 2014) URL: http://hap2014.dai-labor.de in conjunction with 44th Annual Conference of the German Computer Science Association (INFORMATIK 2014) September 22 - 26, 2014 Stuttgart, Germany ===== CALL FOR PAPERS ===== The 1st International Workshop on Human-Aware Planning (HAP) provides an international forum for experts that are involved in the research of human-aware planning, joint human-agent-robot activities and human-agent interaction addressing the challenges of future teamwork scenarios that are more complex and incorporate agent, robots and humans in a closed loop. ===== SCOPE ===== The HAP 2014 workshop provides an international forum for researchers interested in Human-Aware Planning, for instance applied to joint human-agent/robot activities or human-agent/robot interaction addressing the challenges of future teamwork scenarios that are more complex and incorporate agent, robots and humans in a closed loop. HAP is an evolving branch of AI planning systems due to the progressive integration of AI in our human daily life. HAP is mainly required when the situation involves artificial and natural agents in the same environment, the actions of the artificial agents being planned and those of the natural agents being predicted only. We find such situations in collaborative application areas like Smart Homes inhabited by agents, robots and humans, e.g., when addressing the ageing of the population with socially assistive robotics. Joint human-agent activities can be seen as an extended set of actions that is executed by an ensemble of natural and artificial agents who are coordinating with each other: the artificial and natural agents have to work together in close and relatively continuous interaction. Making artificial agents a constituent part of human activities leads us to more affiliated teamwork scenarios at the one hand, but also introduces several new challenges on the other. These challenges comprise among others examining accurate models of teamwork and flexible techniques for distributed decision making including planning with and/or for humans. This workshop aims to tackle the challenges of planning associated with the complex nature of humans (e.g. dynamicity, non-determinism, social rules). The main purpose is to explore planning-theories, -methods, and -approaches that support teams of humans, agents and/or robots working together. Application papers that combine findings from artificial planning, cognitive science, social and organizational psychology and human-agent interaction are strongly encouraged. The workshop solicits contributions addressing original research on human-aware planning, joint human-agent-robot activities and human-agent teamwork. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Adjustable/flexible autonomy - Application of human behaviour models - Collaborative planning - Cooperative agent-human systems - Distributed decision making - Human-agent teamwork theories and frameworks - Human-aware navigation - Human-aware motion planning - Human-aware task planning - Human-robot/agent interaction - Joint human-agent-robot activities - Planning for joint-manipulation - Planning for humans - Planning with humans ===== SUBMISSION AND PROCEEDINGS ===== All accepted papers will be scheduled for oral presentations and will be included in the proceedings of the INFORMATIK 2014. 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 Springer Lecture Notes in Informatics (LNI) template (http://www.gi.de/service/publikationen/lni/). The submitted papers must be no longer than twelve pages in length, including all figures, tables and references. Authors are requested to submit their papers electronically using the online conference management system (https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=hap2014) in PDF format before the deadline (see important dates). Paper submission is electronic. To submit, please prepare a 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, soundness, overall quality and readability. ===== IMPORTANT DATES ===== Full paper submission: 22th April 2014 Author notification: 20th May 2014 Camera ready version: 23th June 2014 Workshop: 22th - 26th September 2014 ===== PROGRAM COMMITTEE ===== Sebastian Ahrndt, Technical University Berlin, Germany Rachid Alami, LAAS/CNRS, France Marcello Cirillo, Örebro University, Sweden Johannes Faehndrich, Technical University Berlin, Germany Benjamin Hirsch, EBTIC, Khalifa University, United Arab Emirates Michael Kaisers, Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica, The Netherlands Alexandra Kirsch, University of Tübingen, Germnay Marco Luetzenberger, Technical University Berlin, Germany Cyrille Martin, University of Grenoble, France Rainer Unland, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany ===== REGISTRATION ===== Please visit: http://www.informatik2014.de/registration.html for more information. ===== VENUE, ACCOMMODATION & VISA REQUIREMENTS ===== Please visit: http://www.informatik2014.de/ort.html for more information. ===== WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS ===== Sebastian Ahrndt Distributed Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (DAI-Lab) Technische Universität Berlin sebastian.ahrndt at dai-labor.de Johannes Faehndrich Distributed Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (DAI-Lab) Technische Universität Berlin johannes.faehndrich at dai-labor.de Benjamin Hirsch ETISALAT BT Innovation Center (EBTIC) Khalifa University benjamin.hirsch at kustar.ac.ae Cyrille Martin Laboratoire d'Informatique de Grenoble (LIG lab) University of Grenoble cyrille.martin at imag.fr From announce at cs.ucy.ac.cy Sun Mar 2 12:38:03 2014 From: announce at cs.ucy.ac.cy (Announce Announcements) Date: Sun, 2 Mar 2014 13:38:03 +0200 Subject: KICSS 2014: First Call for Papers Message-ID: <4S6A3LU4-HXOQ-1AH0-UO06-X8RM2GM7TOJZ@cs.ucy.ac.cy> *** FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS *** 9th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON KNOWLEDGE, INFORMATION AND CREATIVITY SUPPORT SYSTEMS (KICSS 2014) Elias Beach Hotel, Limassol, Cyprus 6-8 November, 2014 http://kicss2014.cs.ucy.ac.cy/ (Proceedings will be published by Springer) Following the tradition of previous conferences on Knowledge, Information and Creativity Support Systems, KICSS 2014 will cover all aspects of knowledge management, knowledge engineering, intelligent information systems, and creativity in an information technology context, including computational creativity and its cognitive and collaborative aspects. Papers reporting original unpublished research results on theoretical foundations, IT implementations of decision support and expert systems, as well as case studies of successful applications of the above- mentioned ideas in various fields are equally solicited. The list of conference topics includes but is not limited to: Anticipatory networks, systems, and decisions Autonomous creative systems Cognitive foundations of knowledge Cognitive and psychological issues in creativity research Cognitive foundations of knowledge Collaborative activities in Living Labs Collaborative idea generation and creativity Collaborative knowledge creation Collaborative working environments fostering creativity Complex system modelling Computer supported creativity Creative approaches to model technological evolution Creative business models Creative conflict resolution Creative coordination and cooperation mechanisms Creative decision processes Creative interaction techniques Creative model building Creative reasoning and decision making Creative research environments and their performance Creative social computing Creative visualisation of data and knowledge Creativity in finance Creativity in augmented reality Creativity in health care Creativity in mobile applications Creativity in social media Creativity in the Cloud Creativity measurement Creativity support systems Creativity transfer and stimulation Creativity vs. rationality Creativity-enhancing interfaces Creativity-oriented information system architectures Decision sciences Decision support systems (DSS) Discovering opportunities, threats and challenges Foresight support systems (FSS) Future Internet and knowledge-based society Future exploration and modelling Future perspectives of knowledge, information, and creativity support Game-theoretical aspects of knowledge General creative systems (GCS) Group recommendation, and advise Heuristics and general problem solving Identifying real options in complex business environments Information fusion Information quality Intelligent analysis of Big Data Knowledge extraction, creation, and acquisition Knowledge in multi-agent systems Knowledge integration Knowledge management in business, industry, and administration Knowledge representation and reasoning Knowledge verification and validation Living Lab support systems (LLSS) Machine learning and creativity Malicious creativity in the web, its discovery and remedy Mathematical models of creative processes Multi- and interdisciplinary approaches in creativity research Multicriteria decision making Natural language analysis Non-monotonic reasoning Ontology creation and management Open innovation Organizational learning Preference modelling Reasoning about knowledge Recommender systems Scientific information management Search for a compromise in multicriteria decision making and collaborative games Social Computing Social factors of collaborative creativity Software-based stimulation of creativity Supervised and semi-supervised learning Trust modeling Uncertainty modelling Virtual environment design Visual Analytics and Intelligent User Interfaces Web intelligence tools World models Important Dates Paper Submission Deadline: June 20, 2014 Notification of Acceptance: August 8, 2014 Camera-Ready Version Due: September 8, 2014 Research-in-Progress Report Submission Deadline: September 5, 2014 Research-in-Progress Reports Author Notification Due: September 12, 2014 Research-in-Progress Reports Camera-Ready Versions Due: September 19, 2014 Submission Regular papers on all conference topics should be formatted according to the Springer CS Proceedings (LNCS) format and should not exceed 12 pages. Short and industrial/demo papers as well as research-in-progress reports should not exceed 6 pages according to the above format. Up to 2 additional pages may be allowed at extra charge. The KICSS 2014 papers can be submitted via Easychair. Submissions that overlap substantially with any other papers printed, submitted, or accepted for publication or presentation elsewhere are not allowed. Special session proposals may be submitted by email to the KICSS Organizing Committee. Although there is no formal template for such a proposal, the proposers should nevertheless specify the title of the session, describe briefly its essential content and relation to the conference topics, and specify the expected number of contributions, and titles, if already known. Proceedings The KICSS 2014 (Post-) Proceedings will be published in the Springer Series: Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, ISSN 2194-5357, indexed by ISI Proceedings, SCOPUS, Zentralblatt Math, Ulrich's, EI-Compendex, DBLP, MetaPress, Springerlink, see more here. The Post-Proceedings will contain all the revised regular papers and - following an extension - a selection of research-in-progress reports as well as short and demo papers. The authors of the selected best papers presented at the conference will be invited to submit the revised and extended versions of their contributions to special issues of high-rank scientific journals. Organization Conference Chairs Susumu Kunifuji, JAIST, Japan George Angelos Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Andrzej M.J. Skulimowski, P&BF and AGH, Poland Local Organizing Chair George Angelos Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Award Chairs Susumu Kunifuji, JAIST, Japan Thanaruk Theeramunkong, Thammasat University, Thailand Invited Session Chairs Tomoko Kajiyama, JAIST, Japan Vincent Cheng-Siong Lee, Monash University, Australia Takaya Yuizono, JAIST, Japan Program Committee Chi-Hung Chi, CSIRO, Australia João Clímaco, University of Coimbra, Portugal Simon Colton, University of London, UK Eugene Dubossarsky, Presciient, Australia Mark Embrechts, RPI, USA Ali Eydgahi, Eastern Michigan University, USA John Garofalakis, University of Patras, Greece Tessai Hayama, Kanazawa Institute of Technology, Japan Hidehi Hayashi, Naruto University of Education, Japan Hidehiko Hayashi, Naruto University of Education, Japan Christopher Hinde, Loughborough University, UK Josef Jablonsky, University of Economics Prague, Czech Republic Janusz Kacprzyk, Systems Research Institute - PAS, Poland Hideaki Kanai, JAIST, Japan Takashi Kawaji, Ohtsuki City College, Japan Takahiro Kawaji, Ohtsuki City Colledge, Japan Thomas Koehler, TU Dresden, Germany Paul Kwan, University of New England, USA Vincent Cs Lee, Monash University, Australia Antoni Ligeza, AGH, Poland Ahmad Lotfi, Nottingham Trent University, UK Akinori Minaduk, Kushiro Prefecture University, Japan Motoki Miura, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan Kazunori Miyata, JAIST, Japan David C. Moffat, Glasgow Caledonian University, UK Anna Mura, University Pompeu Fabra, Spain Toyohisa Nakada, Niigata University of Interenational and Information Studies, Japan Kazushi Nishimoto, JAIST, Japan Maciej Nowak, University of Economics Prague, Czech Republic Kok-Leong Ong, Deakin University, Australia Francois Pachet, CSL Sony Paris, France Robert Pearson Przemyslaw Pukocz, AGH, Poland Pawel Rotter, AGH, Poland Jose L. Salmeron, University Pablo de Olavide, Spain Jagannathan Sarangapani, Missouri University of Science and Technology, USA Eric Schai, SCU, USA Hsu-Shih Shih, Tamkang University, Taiwan Mikifumi Shikida, JAIST, Japan Marcin Skowron, Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Austria Johan Suykens, K.U. Leuven, ESAT-SCD, Belgium Ryszard Tadeusiewicz, AGH, Poland I-Hsien Ting, National University of Kaohsiung, Taiwan Brijesh Verma, Central Queensland University, Australia Yongui Wang, Nanjiing University, China Michal Wozniak, Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland Fan Wu, National Chung-Cheng University, Taiwan Takashi Yoshino, Wakayama University, Japan Atsuo Yoshitaka, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Japan Takaya Yuizono, JAIST, Japan John Zeleznikow, Victoria University, Australia Songmao Zhang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Constantin Zopounidis, Technical University of Crete, Greece -------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 tony.savarimuthu at otago.ac.nz Mon Mar 3 03:06:58 2014 From: tony.savarimuthu at otago.ac.nz (Tony Savarimuthu) Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2014 02:06:58 +0000 Subject: SASO 2014 - First CfP (The Eight IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems) Message-ID: ************************************************************************************************************ CALL FOR PAPERS The Eight IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems (SASO 2014) Imperial College, London (UK); 8-12 September 2014 http://www.iis.ee.imperial.ac.uk/saso2014/ ************************************************************************************************************ Part of FAS* - Foundation and Applications of Self* Computing Conferences Collocated with: The International Conference on Cloud and Autonomic Computing (CAC 2014) The 14th IEEE Peer-to-Peer Computing Conference ------------------- Aims and Scope ------------------- The aim of the Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing systems conference series (SASO) is to provide a forum for the foundations of a principled approach to engineering systems, networks and services based on self-adaptation and self-organization. The complexity of current and emerging networks, software and services, especially in dealing with dynamics in the environment and problem domain, has led the software engineering, distributed systems and management communities to look for inspiration in diverse fields (e.g., complex systems, control theory, artificial intelligence, sociology, and biology) to find new ways of designing and managing such computing systems. In this endeavor, self-organization and self-adaptation have emerged as two promising interrelated approaches. The eight edition of the SASO conference embraces the inter-disciplinarity and the scientific, empirical and application dimensions of self-* systems and welcomes novel results on both self-adaptive and self-organizing systems research. The topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Self-* systems theory: theoretical frameworks and models; biologically- and socially-inspired paradigms; inter-operation of self-* mechanisms; - Self-* systems engineering: reusable mechanisms, design patterns, architectures, methodologies; software and middleware development frameworks and methods, platforms and toolkits; hardware; self-* materials; - Self-* system properties: robustness, resilience and stability; emergence; computational awareness and self-awareness; reflection; - Self-* cyber-physical and socio-technical systems: human factors and visualization; self-* social computers; crowdsourcing and collective awareness; - Applications and experiences of self-* systems: cyber security, transportation, computational sustainability, big data and creative commons, power systems. Contributions must present novel theoretical or experimental results; novel design patterns, mechanisms, system architectures, frameworks or tools; or practical approaches and experiences in building or deploying real-world systems and applications. Contributions contrasting different approaches for engineering a given family of systems, or demonstrating the applicability of a certain approach for different systems, are equally encouraged. Where relevant and appropriate, accepted papers will also be encouraged to submit accompanying papers for the Demo or Poster Sessions. ------------------- Important Dates -------------------- Abstract submission: May 2, 2014 Paper submission: May 09, 2014 Notification: June 21, 2014 Camera ready copy due: July 18, 2014 Early registration: August 22, 2014 Conference: September 8 - 12, 2014 --------------------------- Submission Instructions ---------------------------- All submissions should be 10 pages and formatted according to the IEEE Computer Society Press proceedings style guide and submitted electronically in PDF format. Please register as authors and submit your papers using the SASO 2014 conference management system, which is located at: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=saso2014 The proceedings will be published by IEEE Computer Society Press, and made available as a part of the IEEE digital library. Note that a separate call for poster submissions has also been issued. -------------------- Review Criteria -------------------- Papers should present novel ideas in the cross-disciplinary research context described in this call, clearly motivated by problems from current practice or applied research. We expect both theoretical and empirical contributions to be clearly stated, substantiated by formal analysis, simulation, experimental evaluations, comparative studies, and so on. Appropriate reference must be made to related work. Because SASO is a cross-disciplinary conference, papers must be intelligible and relevant to researchers who are not members of the same specialized sub-field. Authors are also encouraged to submit papers describing applications. Application papers are expected to provide an indication of the real world relevance of the problem that is solved, including a description of the deployment domain, and some form of evaluation of performance, usability, or comparison to alternative approaches. Experience papers are also welcome but they must clearly state the insight into any aspect of design, implementation or management of self-* systems which is of benefit to practitioners and the SASO community ------------------- Program Chairs ------------------- Ada Diaconescu - Telecom ParisTech, France Nagarajan Kandasamy - Drexel University, USA Mirko Viroli - University of Bologna, Italy --------------------- Contact Details --------------------- Please send any inquiries to: mailto:saso2014 at easychair.org From youakim.badr at insa-lyon.fr Mon Mar 3 10:22:05 2014 From: youakim.badr at insa-lyon.fr (Youakim Badr) Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2014 10:22:05 +0100 Subject: ACM MEDES 2014: Call for Papers Message-ID: <6F1D6476-3D21-47D9-9781-BB79A5BD3ED4@insa-lyon.fr> * Please distribute widely and accept our apologies for cross-posting * *************** CALL FOR PAPERS *************** The 6th International ACM Conference on Management of Emergent Digital EcoSystems (MEDES 2014) In-Cooperation with ACM, ACM SIGAPP and IFIP WG 2.6 http://sigappfr.acm.org/MEDES/14/ September 15-17, 2014 Buraidah-Al Qassim, Saudi Arabi Description and Objectives --------------------------- In the world of the Internet, the rapid growth and exponential use of digital medias leads to the emergence of virtual environments namely digital ecosystems 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. The digital ecosystem exhibits self-organizing 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 resources mainly comprehend data management, innovative services, computational intelligence and self-organizing platforms. Due to the multi-disciplinary nature of digital ecosystems and their characteristics, 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 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 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 Emergent 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. The conference seeks related original research papers, industrial papers and proposals for demonstrations. Topics ------- MEDES 2014 seeks contributions in the following 10 areas: 1. Digital Ecosystem Infrastructure 2. Cloud computing 3. Emergent Intelligence 4. Service systems and Engineering 5. Trust, Security & Privacy 6. Data & Knowledge Management 7. 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: 12 May 2014 Notification of Acceptance: 25 June 2014 Camera Ready: 20 July 2014 Conference Dates: 15-17 September 2014 Special Tracks: ---------------- Big Data Processing and Management Computational Intelligence Special issues and Journal Publication --------------------------------------- Extended versions of selected papers will be published in several peer reviewed journals. The list of journals will be announced later. General Chair -------------- Obaid Al Motairy, Qassim University, KSA Richard Chbeir, UPPA University, France Mohammed Alodib, Qassim University, KSA Lamri Laouamer, Qassim University, KSA Program Chair -------------- Morad Benyoucef, University of Ottawa, Canada Saad Harous, United Arab Emirates University, UAE International Advisory Board Members ------------------------------------ Asanee Kawtrakul, NECTEC, Thailand Janusz Kacprzyk, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland Philippe De Wilde, Heriot-Watt University, Scotland Yasuo Matsuyama, Waseda University, Japan Albert Zomaya, The University of Sydney, Australia Steering Committee Members -------------------------- Youakim Badr, INSA de Lyon, France Fernando Ferri, IRPPS-CNR, Italy Frederic Andres, National Institute of Informatics, Japan Richard Chbeir, University of Bourgogne, France Hiroshi Ishikawa, Shizuoka University, Japan Asanee Kawtrakul, NECTEC, Thailand Dominique Laurent, University of Cergy-Pontoise, France Epaminondas Kapetanios, University of Westminster, UK Keynote Speakers ---------------- Fabien Gandon, INRIA, France Ton Kalker, DTS Incorporation, USA Kwei-Jay Lin, University of California, Irvine, USA Azer Bestavros, Boston University, USA Roger Lee, Central Michigan University, USA International Program Committee: -------------------------------- (Please check the web site for the full list) From ijv at acm.org Mon Mar 3 13:52:48 2014 From: ijv at acm.org (=?iso-8859-1?Q?Ivan_Jos=E9_Varzinczak?=) Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2014 14:52:48 +0200 Subject: Call for papers: DARe at ECAI 2014 Message-ID: * Apologies for cross-postings * ============================== Call for Papers DARe at ECAI 2014 Date: 19 August 2014 Prague, Czech Republic *** Deadline: 25 May 2014 *** ============================== The International Workshop on "Defeasible and Ampliative Reasoning" (DARe) http://dare2014.yolasite.com held on 19 August 2014 at the European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI 2014) -- Workshop Description and Aims -- Classical reasoning is not flexible enough when directly applied to the formalization of certain nuances of human quotidian decision making. These involve different kinds of reasoning such as reasoning with uncertainty, exceptions, similarity, vagueness, incomplete or contradictory information and many others. It turns out that everyday reasoning usually shows the two salient intertwined aspects below: * Ampliative aspect: augmenting the underlying reasoning by allowing more conclusions. In practical contexts, this amounts to the ability to make inferences that venture beyond the scope of the premises, somehow in an unsound but justifiable way. Prominent examples are (i) default reasoning: jumping to conclusions deemed as plausible 'by default', i.e., in the absence of information to the contrary, like applying negation as failure or adopting the closed-world assumption, and (ii) inductive and abductive reasoning: taking chances in drawing conclusions that implicitly call for further scrutiny or tests by empirical observations, like in making inductive hypothesis in scientific theories or finding abductive explanations in forensics. * Defeasible aspect: curtailing the underlying reasoning by either disregarding or disallowing some conclusions that somehow ought not to be sanctioned. In practice, this amounts to the ability to backtrack one's conclusions or to admit exceptions in reasoning. Some examples of this are (i) retractive reasoning: withdrawing conclusions that have already been derived, like in belief contraction or in negotiation, and (ii) preemptive reasoning: preventing or blocking the inference of some conclusions by disallowing their derivation in the first place, like in dealing with exceptional cases in multiple inheritance networks and in regulatory systems. Several efforts have been put into the study and definition of formalisms within which the aforementioned aspects of everyday reasoning could adequately be captured at different levels. Despite the progress that has been achieved, a large avenue remains open for exploration. Indeed, the literature on nonmonotonic reasoning has focused almost exclusively on defeasibility of argument forms; belief revision paradigms are restricted to an underlying classical (Tarskian) consequence relation, and even if some of the issues related to uncertainty in reasoning have been studied using probabilistic approaches and statistical methods, their integration with qualitative frameworks remain a challenge. Moreover, well-established approaches are largely based on propositional languages or haunted by the undecidability of full first-order logic. Modern applications require formalisms with a good balance between expressive power and computational complexity. DARe aims at bringing together researchers and practitioners from core areas of artificial intelligence, cognitive sciences, philosophy and related disciplines to discuss these kinds of problems and relevant results in a multi-disciplinary forum. The goal of the workshop is to present latest research developments, to discuss current directions in the field, and to collect first-hand feedback from the community. -- Scope of the Workshop -- DARe welcomes contributions on all aspects of defeasible and ampliative reasoning such as (but not limited to): - Abductive and inductive reasoning - Explanation finding, diagnosis and causal reasoning - Inconsistency handling and exception-tolerant reasoning - Decision-making under uncertainty and incomplete information - Default reasoning, nonmonotonic reasoning, nonmonotonic logics, conditional logics - Specific instances and variations of ampliative and defeasible reasoning - Probabilistic and statistical approaches to reasoning - Vagueness, rough sets, granularity and fuzzy-logics - Philosophical foundations of defeasibility - Empirical studies of reasoning - Relationship with cognition and language - Contextual reasoning - Preference-based reasoning - Analogical reasoning - Similarity-based reasoning - Belief dynamics and merging - Argumentation theory, negotiation and conflict resolution - Heuristic and approximate reasoning - Defeasible normative systems - Reasoning about actions and change - Reasoning about knowledge and belief, epistemic and doxastic logics - Ampliative and defeasible temporal and spatial reasoning - Computational aspects of reasoning with uncertainty - Implementations and systems - Applications of uncertainty in reasoning -- Submission Requirements -- We invite submissions of papers presenting original research results or position statements. The format for submissions is the same as that of ECAI 2014 (please check at: http://www.ecai2014.org/papers/). Submissions should be no longer than 5 pages in double-column format excluding references and in PDF format. There is no page limit on the list of references. Please submit to: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dare2014 -- Workshop Proceedings/Notes -- Accepted papers will be made available electronically in the CEUR Workshop Proceedings series (http://ceur-ws.org). Copyright of papers remain with the authors. -- Attendance -- The selection of accepted contributions will be based on relevance, significance and the work's potential to foster discussions and cross-pollination. Therefore submissions of ongoing work are also strongly encouraged. Please check the ECAI 2014 website for registration procedure, fees as well as cancellation policies. -- Important Dates -- - Submission deadline: 25 May 2014 - Notification: 23 June 2014 - Camera ready: 01 July 2014 - Early registration: [TBA] - Late registration: [TBA] - Workshop date: 19 August 2014 -- Invited Speaker -- [TBA] -- Workshop Co-Chairs -- - Richard Booth (Université du Luxembourg) - Giovanni Casini (UKZN-CSIR Meraka Centre for Artificial Intelligence Research, South Africa) - Szymon Klarman (UKZN-CSIR Meraka Centre for Artificial Intelligence Research, South Africa) - Gilles Richard (Université Paul Sabatier, France) - Ivan Varzinczak (UKZN-CSIR Meraka Centre for Artificial Intelligence Research, South Africa) -- Program Committee -- - Natasha Alechina (University of Nottingham, UK) - Carlos Areces (Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina) - Ofer Arieli (Academic College of Tel-Aviv, Israel) - Guillaume Aucher (University of Rennes 1 - INRIA, France) - Christoph Beierle (FernUniversitaet Hagen, Germany) - Mario Benevides (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) - Jean-Yves Béziau (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro and Brazilian Research Council,Brazil) - Antonis Bikakis (University College London, UK) - Alexander Bochman (Holon Institute of Technology, Israel) - Katarina Britz (UKZN-CSIR Meraka Centre for Artificial Intelligence Research, South Africa) - Jim Delgrande (Simon Fraser University, Canada) - Juergen Dix (TU Clausthal, Germany) - Marcelo Finger (Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil) - Michael Fink (TU Wien, Austria) - Nina Gierasimczuk (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands) - Patrick Girard (University of Auckland, New Zealand) - Guido Governatori (NICTA and Queensland University of Technology, Australia) - Sven Ove Hansson (Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden) - Andreas Herzig (IRIT CNRS, France) - Souhila Kaci (Université Montpellier 2, France) - Antonis Kakas (University of Cyprus) - Gabriele Kern-Isberner (TU Dortmund, Germany) - Willem Labuschagne (University of Otago, New Zealand) - João Marcos (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil) - Thomas Meyer (UKZN-CSIR Meraka Centre for Artificial Intelligence Research, South Africa) - Maurice Pagnucco (The University of New South Wales, Australia) - Laurent Perrussel (Université de Toulouse, France) - Guilin Qi (Southeast University, China) - François Schwarzentruber (ENS Rennes/IRISA) - Sonja Smets (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands) - Umberto Straccia (CNR, Italy) - Mirek Truszczynski (University of Kentucky, USA) - Joost Vennekens (K.U. Leuven, Belgium) - Peter Verdée (Universiteit Gent, Belgium) - Petrucio Viana (Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brazil) - Heinrich Wansing (Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum, Germany) - Renata Wassermann (Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil) - Anna Zamansky (University of Haifa, Israel) -- Further Information -- Please note that according to ECAI policy all workshop participants are required to register for both the workshop and the main conference. ECAI reserves the right to cancel a workshop if not enough participants register. Please visit the workshop website (http://dare2014.yolasite.com) for further information and regular updates. Enquiries should be sent to dare.to.contact.us at gmail.com -- Ivan José Varzinczak Centre for Artificial Intelligence Research - South Africa Homepage: http://krr.meraka.org.za/~ivarzinczak From nalon at unb.br Mon Mar 3 15:39:45 2014 From: nalon at unb.br (=?iso-8859-1?b?Q2zhdWRpYQ==?= Nalon) Date: Mon, 03 Mar 2014 11:39:45 -0300 Subject: LSFA 2014 --- CALL FOR PAPERS Message-ID: <20140303113945.Horde.9Pb4FHxkR_ZTFJQx06TSm9A@webmail.unb.br> Apologies for cross-posting. Please distribute to colleagues and students. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 9th Logical and Semantic Frameworks, with Applications                     8-9 September 2014, Brasilia D.F., Brazil                        http://lsfa2014.cic.unb.br               ***** Submission deadline: 25 May 2014 ***** Logical and semantic frameworks are formal languages used to represent logics, languages and systems. These frameworks provide foundations for formal specification of systems and programming languages, supporting tool development and reasoning. The objective of this workshop is to bring together theoreticians and practitioners to promote new techniques and results, and to facilitate feedback on the implementation and application of such techniques and results in practice. Topics of interest to this forum include, but are not limited to:     * Logical frameworks     * Proof theory     * Type theory     * Automated deduction     * Semantic frameworks     * Specification languages and meta-languages     * Formal semantics of languages and systems     * Computational and logical properties of semantic frameworks     * Implementation of logical and/or semantic frameworks     * Applications of logical and/or semantic frameworks LSFA 2014 also aims to be a forum for presenting and discussing work in progress, and therefore to provide feedback to authors on their preliminary research. The proceedings are produced after the meeting, so that authors can incorporate this feedback in the published papers. LSFA 2014 will take place on the 8th and 9th September 2014 in Brasilia. Previous editions took place in Sao Paulo (2013), Rio de Janeiro (2012), Belo Horizonte (2011), Natal (2010), Brasilia (2009), Salvador (2008), Ouro Preto (2007) and Natal (2006). SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION: Contributions should be written in English and submitted in the form of full papers (with a maximum of 16 pages) or short papers (with a maximum of 6 pages). They must be unpublished and not submitted simultaneously for publication elsewhere. The papers should be prepared in latex using ENTCS style. The submission should be in the form of a PDF file uploaded to Easychair: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lsfa2014 The pre-proceedings, containing the reviewed extended abstracts, will be handed-out at event registration. After the meeting the authors will be invited to submit full versions of their works for the post-proceedings to be published in ENTCS. At least one of the authors should register for the conference. Presentations should be in English. IMPORTANT DATES: # Submission: Sunday 25 May # Notification: Friday 11 July # Preliminary proceedings version due: Sunday 03 August # Submission for final proceedings: Sunday 19 October # Notification:  Friday 28 November # Final version: Sunday 21 December INVITED SPEAKERS: Ugo Montanari (Universita di Pisa, Italy) Andrew M Pitts (University of Cambridge, England) Rene Thiemann (University of Innsbruck, Austria)   PROGRAMME COMMITTEE Elvira Albert (U. Complutense de Madrid, Spain) Sandra Alves (U. de Porto, Portugal) Sandra de Amo (UFU, Brazil) Carlos Areces (U. Nacional de Cordoba, Argentina) Mauricio Ayala-Rincon (UnB, Brazil -- co-chair) Mario Benevides (UFRJ, Brazil) Stefan Berghofer (Secunet Security Networks AG, Germany) Walter Carnielli (UNICAMP, Brazil) Carlos Castro (UT Federico Santa Maria, Chile) Adriana Compagnoni (Stevens Institute of Technology, USA) Marcello D'Agostino (U Ferrara, Italy) Maribel Fernandez (King's College London, England) Marcelo Finger (IME-USP, Brazil) Renata de Freitas (UFF, Brazil) Simon Gay (University of Glasgow, Scotland) Edward Hermann Haeusler (PUC-Rio, Brazil) Fairouz Kamareddine (Heriot-Watt, Scotland) Delia Kesner (U. Paris Diderot, France) Luis Lamb (UFRGS, Brazil) Ian Mackie (Ecole Polytechnique Palaiseau, France -- co-chair) Joao Marcos (UFRN, Brazil) Cesar Munoz (NASA LaRC, USA) Vivek Nigam (UFPB, Brazil) Elaine Pimentel (UFMG, Brazil) Renata Hax Sander Reiser (UFPel, Brazil) Femke van Raamsdonk (U. Amsterdam, Holland) Simona Ronchi Della Rocca (U. Torino, Italy) Carolyn Talcott (SRI International, USA) Alvaro Tasistro (U. ORT, Uruguay) Daniel Ventura (UFG, Brazil) Jorge Petrucio Viana (UFF, Brazil) Renata Wassermann (IME-USP, Brazil) Tjark Weber (Uppsala University, Sweden) ORGANISING COMMITTEE Claudia Nalon (UnB, Brazil) Flavio L.C. de Moura (UnB, Brazil) Daniele Nantes Sobrinho (UnB, Brazil) CONTACT: lsfa2014 at easychair.org Home page: http://lsfa2014.cic.unb.br ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Cláudia Nalon Departamento de Ciência da Computação Instituto de Ciências Exatas Universidade de Brasília http://www.cic.unb.br/~nalon -------------- nächster Teil -------------- Ein Dateianhang mit HTML-Daten wurde abgetrennt... URL: From h.hastie at hw.ac.uk Mon Mar 3 16:21:29 2014 From: h.hastie at hw.ac.uk (Helen Hastie) Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2014 15:21:29 +0000 Subject: Third CFP: SIGDIAL 2014 Conference, June 18th-20th, Philadelphia, USA Message-ID: *SIGDIAL 2014 CONFERENCE* *Wednesday, June 18 to Friday, June 20, 2014 * The 15th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialog will be co-located with the 8th International Conference on Natural Language Generation (INLG 2014 ) in Philadelphia, PA, USA and immediately preceding ACL 2014. http://www.sigdial.org/workshops/conference15 *PAPER SUBMISSION DEADLINE: *Sunday, 9 March 2014 (23:59, GMT-11) *CALL FOR PAPERS *The 2014 SIGDIAL conference continues a series of fourteen conferences, providing a regular forum for the presentation of cutting edge research across the areas of discourse and dialog and attracting a diverse set of participants from academia and industry. The conference is sponsored by the SIGdial organization, which serves as the Special Interest Group on discourse and dialog for both ACL and ISCA. *KEYNOTE SPEAKERS*Prof. Lillian Lee from Cornell University, and Prof. Steve Young from the University of Cambridge. *TOPICS OF INTEREST*We welcome formal, corpus-based, system-building or analytical work on discourse and dialog including but not restricted to the following themes and topics: - Discourse Processing and Dialog Systems - Corpora, Tools and Methodology - Pragmatic and/or Semantic Modeling - Dimensions of Interaction - Open Domain Dialog - Style, Voice and Personality in Spoken Dialog and Written Text - Applications of Dialog and Discourse Processing Technology - Novel Methods for Generation Within Dialog for a joint special session with INLG *SPECIAL SESSIONS *There will be one special session co-located with INLG on the morning of June 20th. There will be a second special session on the Dialogue State Tracking Challenge (DSTC) *. * Special session paper submissions will undergo regular SIGdial review process. *IMPORTANT DATES* *Long, Short and Demonstration* *Paper Submission Deadline: * Sunday, 9 March 2014 (23:59, GMT-11) *Paper Notification: * Friday, 18 April 2014 *Final Paper Due* - For papers accepted subject to receiving mentoring Wednesday, 14 May 2014 - For accepted papers Friday, 23 May 2014 *Conference * Wednesday, June 18, 2014 to Friday, June 20, 2014 *SUBMISSIONS* *Papers* The program committee welcomes the submission of long papers, short papers, and demonstration descriptions. All accepted submissions will be published in the conference proceedings. Long papers may, at the discretion of the technical program committee, be accepted for oral or poster presentation. They must be no longer than 8 pages, including title, content, and examples. Two additional pages are allowed for references and appendices, which may include extended example discourses or dialogs, algorithms, graphical representations, etc. Short papers will be presented as posters. They should be no longer than 4 pages, including title and content. One additional page is allowed for references and appendices. Demonstration papers should be no longer than 3 pages, including references. A separate one-page document should be provided to the program co-chairs for demonstration descriptions, specifying furniture and equipment needed for the demo. Authors of a submission may designate their paper to be considered for a SIGDIAL special session, which would highlight a particular area or topic. All papers will undergo regular peer review. Papers that have been or will be submitted to other meetings or publications must provide this information (see submission format). A paper accepted for presentation at SIGDIAL 2014 must not have been presented at any other meeting with publicly available proceedings. Any questions regarding submissions can be sent to the program co-chairs at program-chairs[at]sigdial.org. Authors are encouraged to submit additional supportive material such as video clips or sound clips and examples of available resources for review purposes. Submission is electronic using paper submission software. *FORMAT* All long, short, and demonstration submissions should follow the two-column ACL 2014 format. We strongly recommend the use of ACL LaTeX style files or Microsoft Word style files tailored for the ACL 2014 conference. Submissions must conform to the official ACL 2014 style guidelines ( http://www.cs.jhu.edu/ACL2014/CallforPapers.htm), and they must be electronic in PDF. As in most previous years, submissions will not be anonymous. *MENTORING SERVICE* For several years, the SIGDIAL conference has offered a mentoring service. Submissions with innovative core ideas that may need language (English) or organizational assistance will be flagged for "mentoring" and conditionally accepted with recommendation to revise with a mentor. An experienced mentor who has previously published in the SIGDIAL venue will then help the authors of these flagged papers prepare their submissions for publication. Any questions about the mentoring service can be addressed to the mentoring chair at mentoring[at]sigdial.org. *STUDENT SUPPORT* SIGdial also offers a limited number of scholarships for students presenting a paper accepted to the conference. Application materials will be posted at the conference website. *BEST PAPER AWARDS* In order to recognize significant advancements in dialog and discourse science and technology, SIGDIAL will recognize two best paper awards. A selection committee consisting of prominent researchers in the fields of interest will select the recipients of the awards. *SPONSORSHIP* SIGDIAL offers a number of opportunities for sponsors. For more information, email the conference organizers at sponsor-chair[at]sigdial.org . *DIALOG AND DISCOURSE* SIGDIAL authors are encouraged to submit their research to the journal Dialog and Discourse, which is endorsed by SIGdial. *ORGANIZING COMMITTEE* General Co-Chairs Kallirroi Georgila, University of Southern California, USA Matthew Stone, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, USA Technical Program Co-Chairs Helen Hastie, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK Ani Nenkova, University of Pennsylvania, USA Mentoring Chair Svetlana Stoyanchev, AT&T Research Labs, USA Local Chair Keelan Evanini, Educational Testing Service, USA Sponsorships Chair Giuseppe Di Fabbrizio, Amazon.com, USA SIGdial President Amanda Stent, Yahoo! 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Since 1997, ICFEM has been serving as an international forum for researchers and practitioners who have been seriously applying formal methods to practical applications. Researchers and practitioners, from industry, academia, and government, are encouraged to attend, present their research, and help advance the state of the art. We are interested in work that has been incorporated into real production systems, and in theoretical work that promises to bring practical and tangible benefit. ICFEM 2014 is organised and sponsored by The University of Luxembourg. The city of Luxembourg itself is on the UNESCO World Heritage List, on account of the historical importance of its fortifications. Luxembourg was the first city to be named European Capital of Culture twice. SCOPE AND TOPICS ---------------------------------------- Submissions related to the following principal themes are encouraged, but any topics relevant to the field of formal methods and their practical applications will also be considered. + Abstraction and refinement + Formal specification and modelling + Program analysis + Software verification + Software model checking + Formal approaches to software testing + Formal methods for self-adaptive systems + Formal methods for object and component systems + Formal methods for concurrent and real-time systems + Formal methods for cloud computing and cyber-physical systems + Formal methods for software safety, security, reliability and dependability + Tool development, integration and experiments involving verified systems + Formal methods used in certifying products under international standards + Formal model-based development and code generation This year, ICFEM will have special tracks on application of formal methods in three areas: + Computer Security + Biology + Healthcare Submissions in these topics are especially encouraged. Papers in these areas will be subject to the same rigorous review process as other papers. Accepted special track papers will be organised into special sessions. KEYNOTE SPEAKERS ---------------------------------------- + Nikolaj Bjorner, Microsoft Research + Vincent Danos, University of Edinburgh SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION ---------------------------------------- Submissions to the conference must not have been published or be concurrently considered for publication elsewhere. All submissions will be judged on the basis of originality, contribution to the field, technical and presentation quality, and relevance to the conference. The proceedings will be published in the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. Papers should be written in English and not exceed 16 pages in LNCS format (see http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html for details). Submission should be made through the ICFEM 2014 submission page (https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icfem2014), handled by the EasyChair conference management system. The authors of a selected subset of accepted papers will be invited to submit extended versions of their papers to appear in a special issue of the Formal Aspect Computing journal. WORKSHOP AND TUTORIAL ---------------------------------------- The last two days of the conference (6th and 7th November 2014) will be dedicated to workshops, tutorials and other satellite events. The organising committee of ICFEM 2014 therefore cordially invites proposals for one-day workshops and one-day or half-day tutorials in any area related to formal methods or software engineering, but particularly in new or emerging fields of application of formal methods. Proposals for workshops/tutorial should contain: + a title and brief description of the topic and the history of the workshop/tutorial, if applicable; + the names and contact details of the potential organisers; + a brief justification of the topic and estimated size of audience; + a description of any special technical requirements. Proposals should be sent to ICFEM2014 Workshops Chair, Jun Sun, at no later than 22nd March 2014. SUMMER SCHOOL VTSA 2014 ---------------------------------------- The summer school on verification technology, systems & applications takes place at University of Luxembourg from October 27-31, 2014. It is a co-located event with ICFEM 2014 and is organized by the Montefiore Institute, University of Luxembourg, INRIA Nancy, and the Max Planck Insitute for Informatics Saarbrücken. More detailed information will be provided at the summer school's website. IMPORTANT DATES ---------------------------------------- Abstract Submissions due: 11 April 2014 Full Paper Submissions due: 18 April 2014 Workshop/Tutorial Proposals: 22 March 2014 Acceptance Notification: 20 June 2014 Camera-ready Papers Due: 13 July 2014 ORGANISING COMMITTEE ---------------------------------------- General Co-Chairs Michael Butler, University of Southampton, United Kingdom Sjouke Mauw, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Program Committee Co-Chairs Stephan Merz, INRIA, France Jun Pang, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Workshop and Tutorial Co-Chairs Jun Sun, Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore Local Organisation Chair Andrzej Mizera, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Publicity Chair Yang Liu, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Web Chair: Piotr Kordy, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg PROGRAM COMMITTEE ---------------------------------------- Frank de Boer, CWI, The Netherlands Jonathan Bowen, Birmingham City University, United Kingdom Michael Butler, University of Southampton, United Kingdom Kostas Chatzikokolakis, CNRS and École Polytechnique, France Zhenhua Duan, Xidian University, China Colin Fidge, Queensland University of Technology, Australia Stefania Gnesi, ISTI-CNR, Italy Radu Grosu, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Ian Hayes, University of Queensland, Australia Michaela Huhn, Technische Universität Clausthal, Germany Pierre Kelsen, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Steve Kremer, INRIA Nancy, France Jean Krivine, CNRS and Université Paris Diderot, France Peter Gorm Larsen, Engineering College of Aarhus, Denmark Xuandong Li, Nanjing University, China Shang-Wei Lin, National University of Singapore, Singapore Shaoying Liu, Hosei University, Japan Yang Liu, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Sjouke Mauw, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Dominique Mery, Université de Lorraine, France Stephan Merz, INRIA Nancy, France Mohammad Reza Mousavi, Halmstad University, Sweden Peter Mueller, ETH Zurich, Switzerland Shin Nakajima, National Institute of Informatics, Japan Jun Pang, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Ion Petre, Åbo Akademi University, Finland Jaco van de Pol, University of Twente, The Netherlands Shengchao Qin, Teesside University, United Kingdom Zongyan Qiu, Peking University, China Jing Sun, University of Auckland, New Zealand Jun Sun, Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore Kenji Taguchi, AIST, Japan Viktor Vafeiadis, MPI-SWS, Germany Hai H. Wang, Aston University, United Kingdom Wang Yi, Uppsala University, Sweden Huibiao Zhu, East China Normal University, China STEERING COMMITTEE ---------------------------------------- Keijiro Araki, Kyushu University, Japan Michael Butler, University of Southampton, United Kingdom Jin Song Dong, National University of Singapore, Singapore Jifeng He, East China Normal University, China Shaoying Liu (Chair), Hosei University, Japan Jeff Offutt, George Mason University, United States Shengchao Qin, University of Teesside, United Kingdom ________________________________ CONFIDENTIALITY:This email is intended solely for the person(s) named and may be confidential and/or privileged.If you are not the intended recipient,please delete it,notify us and do not copy,use,or disclose its contents. Towards a sustainable earth:Print only when necessary.Thank you. -------------- nächster Teil -------------- Ein Dateianhang mit HTML-Daten wurde abgetrennt... URL: From ecai2014 at guarant.cz Tue Mar 4 14:40:03 2014 From: ecai2014 at guarant.cz (=?utf-8?q?ECAI_2014?=) Date: Tue, 04 Mar 2014 14:40:03 +0100 Subject: =?utf-8?q?ECAI_2014_-_Tutorials?= Message-ID: <20140304134003.1F7A8174767@gds25d.active24.cz> ** apologies for cross-posting ** ECAI 2014 Conference August 18-22, 2014 Prague, Czech Republic TUTORIALS The tutorials will be scheduled on August 18 and 19, 2014. As in former editions, the conference registration will include free access to all tutorials. However, for organization convenience, we kindly ask you to register for all tutorials you are interested in, in advance. 18.8. 9:00-12:30 T1 - Constraint Processing: From Algorithms to Applications - Roman Bartak 18.8. 9:00-12:30 T2 - Temporal Representation and Reasoning in Interval Temporal Logics - Dario Della Monica, Angelo Montanari, Pietro Sala 18.8. 9:00-10:30 T3 - The Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow of Parallelism in Declarative Programming - Enrico Pontelli 18.8. 11:00-12:30 T4 - Metalearning & Algorithm Selection - Pavel Brazdil, Carlos Soares, Joaquin Vanschoren 18.8. 14:00-17:30 T5 - Software Engineering for Search and Optimization Problems - Luca Di Gaspero, Tommaso Urli 18.8. 14:00-17:30 T6 - Formal Methods for Event Processing - Alexander Artikis, Georgios Paliouras 18.8. 14:00-15:30 T7 - Tabling for Planning - Neng-Fa Zhou 18.8. 16:00-17:30 T8 - Probabilistic Programming - Luc De Raedt, Angelika Kimmig 19.8. 9:00-12:30 T9 - Introduction to Statistical and Behavioural Analysis of Agent-Based Models - Tamas Mahr, Laszlo Gulyas, Richard Oliver Legendi 19.8. 9:00-10:30 T10 - Procedural Content Generation in Games - Noor Shaker 19.8. 11:00-12:30 T11 - Replication and Recomputation in Scientific Experiments - Ian Gent, Lars Kotthoff 19.8. 14:00-17:30 T12 - Search Methods for Classical and Temporal Planning - Jussi Rintanen 19.8. 14:00-15:30 T13 - Intelligent Socio Technical Interaction - Virginia and Frank Dignum 19.8. 16:00-17:30 T14 - Multilingual Semantic Processing - Roberto Navigli, Andrea Moro More information is available on http://www.ecai2014.org/tutorials/ Agostino Dovier and Paolo Torroni (ECAI 2014 Tutorials Chairs) From ferme at uma.pt Tue Mar 4 19:34:04 2014 From: ferme at uma.pt (ferme at uma.pt) Date: Tue, 04 Mar 2014 18:34:04 +0000 Subject: JELIA 2014 - Call For Papers Message-ID: <20140304183404.cnx8dxxd0kc0wc0c@cegonha.uma.pt> Call For Papers JELIA 2014 14th European Conference on Logics in Artificial Intelligence Madeira Island, Portugal September 24-26, 2014 http://www.uma.pt/jelia2014 Submission Deadline: May 19 (Abstracts); May 23 (Papers) ============================================================= ================ About JELIA ================ Logics have, for many years, laid claim to providing a formal basis for the study and development of applications and systems in Artificial Intelligence. With the depth and maturity of formalisms, methodologies and logic-based systems today, this claim is stronger than ever. The European Conference on Logics in Artificial Intelligence (or Journées Européennes sur la Logique en Intelligence Artificielle - JELIA) began back in 1988, as a workshop, in response to the need for a European forum for the discussion of emerging work in this field. Since then, JELIA has been organised biennially, with proceedings published in the Springer-Verlag series Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence. Previous meetings took place in Roscoff, France (1988), Amsterdam, Netherlands (1990), Berlin, Germany (1992), York, UK (1994), Évora, Portugal (1996), Dagstuhl, Germany (1998), Málaga, Spain (2000), Cosenza, Italy (2002), Lisbon, Portugal (2004), Liverpool, UK (2006), Dresden, Germany (2008), Helsinki, Finland (2010) and Toulouse, France (2012). The increasing interest in this forum, its international level with growing participation of researchers from outside Europe, and the overall technical quality, have turned JELIA into a major biennial forum for the discussion of logic-based approaches to artificial intelligence. ================ Aims and Scope ================ The aim of JELIA 2014 is to bring together active researchers interested in all aspects concerning the use of logics in Artificial Intelligence to discuss current research, results, problems, and applications of both theoretical and practical nature. JELIA strives to foster links and facilitate cross- fertilization of ideas among researchers from various disciplines, among researchers from academia and industry, and between theoreticians and practitioners. Authors are invited to submit papers presenting original and unpublished research in all areas related to the use of logics in Artificial Intelligence including: * Abductive and inductive reasoning * Answer set programming * Applications of logic-based AI systems * Argumentation systems * Automated reasoning including satisfiability checking and its extensions * Computational complexity and expressiveness * Deontic logic and normative systems * Description logics and other logical approaches to semantic web and ontologies * Knowledge representation, reasoning, and compilation * Logic-based data access and integration * Logic programming and constraint programming * Logics for uncertain and probabilistic reasoning * Logics in machine learning * Logics in multi-agent systems, games, and social choice * Non-classical logics, such as modal, temporal, epistemic, dynamic, spatial, paraconsistent, and hybrid logics * Planning and diagnosis based on logic * Preferences * Reasoning about actions and causality * Updates, belief revision and nonmonotonic reasoning ================ Paper Submission ================ There are two categories for submissions: A. Regular papers Submissions should contain original research, and sufficient detail to assess the merits and relevance of the contribution. Submissions must not have been previously published or be simultaneously submitted for publication elsewhere. B. System descriptions Submissions should describe an implemented system and its application area(s). A demonstration is expected to accompany a system presentation. Papers describing systems that have already been presented in JELIA before will be accepted only if significant and clear enhancements to the system are reported and implemented. All submissions should not exceed 13 pages including figures etc., but excluding references. All submissions should be written in English, and should be formatted according to the standard Springer LNCS style. The proceedings of JELIA 2014 are published by Springer-Verlag in the Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, a sub-series of Lecture Notes in Computer Science (Important note: Springer will require all the LaTeX source files of all accepted submissions). Policy on Multiple Submission: JELIA 2014 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 JELIA’s review period. However, these restrictions do not apply to previous workshops with a limited audience and without archival proceedings. JELIA 2014 submissions are handled through the EasyChair conference management system. Follow the link http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=jelia2014 to register your abstract and submit your paper. ================ Important Dates ================ Abstract submission deadline: May 19, 2014 Paper submission deadline: May 23, 2014 Author Rebuttal: June 26-27, 2014 Notification of acceptance: July 4, 2014 Final versions due: July 18, 2014 ================ Contact address ================ jelia2014 at easychair.org From marco at dist.unige.it Wed Mar 5 16:57:38 2014 From: marco at dist.unige.it (Marco Maratea) Date: Wed, 05 Mar 2014 16:57:38 +0100 Subject: ASPOCP 2014: Second Call for papers. Message-ID: <1394035058.2253.3.camel@marcobook> [Apologize for multiple posting.] [More information about the planned JLC special issue is added] =============================================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS ASPOCP 2014 7th Workshop on Answer Set Programming and Other Computing Paradigms https://sites.google.com/site/aspocp2014 July 23rd, 2014 Affiliated with the International Conference on Logic Programming 2014 (part of the Federated Logic Conference 2014) Vienna, Austria July 19-22, 2014 Collocated with the Vienna Summer of Logic 2014 Vienna, Austria July 12-24, 2014 =============================================================================== AIMS AND SCOPE Since its introduction in the late 1980s, answer set programming (ASP) has been widely applied to various knowledge-intensive tasks and combinatorial search problems. ASP was found to be closely related to SAT, which has led to a method of computing answer sets using SAT solvers and techniques adapted from SAT. While this has been the most studied relationship which is currently extended towards satisfiability modulo theories (SMT), the relationship of ASP to other computing paradigms, such as constraint satisfaction, quantified boolean formulas (QBF), first-order logic (FOL), or FO(ID) logic is also the subject of active research. New methods of computing answer sets are being developed based on the relation between ASP and other paradigms, such as the use of pseudo-Boolean solvers, QBF solvers, FOL theorem provers, and CLP systems. Furthermore, the practical applications of ASP also foster work on multi-paradigm problem-solving, and in particular language and solver integration. The most prominent examples in this area currently are the integration of ASP with description logics (in the realm of the Semantic Web), constraint satisfaction, and general means of external computation. This workshop will facilitate the discussion about crossing the boundaries of current ASP techniques in theory, solving, and applications, in combination with or inspired by other computing paradigms. TOPICS Topics of interests include (but are not limited to): - ASP and classical logic formalisms (SAT/FOL/QBF/SMT/DL). - ASP and constraint programming. - ASP and other logic programming paradigms, e.g., FO(ID). - ASP and other nonmonotonic languages, e.g., action languages. - ASP and external means of computation. - ASP and probabilistic reasoning. - ASP and machine learning. - New methods of computing answer sets using algorithms or systems of other paradigms. - Language extensions to ASP. - ASP and multi-agent systems. - ASP and multi-context systems. - Modularity and ASP. - ASP and argumentation. - Multi-paradigm problem solving involving ASP. - Evaluation and comparison of ASP to other paradigms. - ASP and related paradigms in applications. - Hybridizing ASP with procedural approaches. - Enhanced grounding or beyond grounding. SUBMISSIONS Papers must describe original research and should not exceed 15 pages in the Springer LNCS format . Paper submission will be handled electronically by means of the Easychair system. The submission page is available at https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aspocp14 IMPORTANT DATES Abstract and paper submission deadline: April 1, 2014 Notification: May 1, 2014 Camera-ready articles due: May 20, 2014 Workshop: July 23, 2014 LOCATION The workshop will be held in Vienna, Austria, collocated with the International Conference on Logic Programming (ICLP) 2014. PROCEEDINGS Accepted papers will be made available online and published in the Computing Research Repository (CoRR) afterwards. A selection of extended and revised versions of accepted papers will appear in a special issue of the Journal of Logic and Computation (http://logcom.oxfordjournals.org/), provided that a sufficient amount of high quality papers is collected. Such papers will go through a second formal selection process to meet the high quality standard of the journal. TIMELINE FOR THE SPECIAL ISSUE (PRELIMINARY) Expression of interest/invitation: Right after the workshop First submissions: Fall 2014 Revision of manuscripts: (for papers not already accepted or rejected) Spring 2015 Final notification/version of accepted papers Summer 2015 WORKSHOP CO-CHAIRS Daniela Inclezan, Miami University, USA Marco Maratea, DIBRIS - University of Genova, Italy PROGRAM COMMITTEE Marcello Balduccini, Drexler University, USA Gerhard Brewka, University of Leipzig, Germany Pedro Cabalar, Corunna University, Spain Wolfgang Faber, University of Huddersfield, UK Cristina Feier, University of Oxford, UK Johannes Klaus Fichte, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Michael Fink, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Gregory Gelfond, Arizona State University, USA Michael Gelfond, Texas Tech University, USA Enrico Giunchiglia, University of Genova, Italy Giovambattista Ianni, University of Calabria, Italy Tomi Janhunen, Aalto University, Finland Joohyung Lee, Arizona State University, USA Joao Leite, New University of Lisbon, Portugal Yuliya Lierler, University of Nebraska at Omaha, USA Vladimir Lifschitz, University of Texas at Austin, USA Alessandro Mosca, Free University of Bolzano, Italy Emilia Oikarinen, Aalto University, Finland Max Ostrowski, University of Potsdam, Germany Axel Polleres, Vienna University of Economics & Business, Austria Francesco Ricca, University of Calabria, Italy Guillermo R. Simari, Universidad Nacional del Sur, Argentina Evgenia Ternovska, Simon Fraser University, Canada Hans Tompits, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Miroslaw Truszczynski, University of Kentucky, USA Joost Vennekens, Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium Marina De Vos, University of Bath, UK Stefan Woltran, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Fangkai Yang, University of Texas at Austin, USA Jia-Huai You, University of Alberta, Canada From xrambous at aurora.fi.muni.cz Thu Mar 6 00:22:03 2014 From: xrambous at aurora.fi.muni.cz (TSD 2014) Date: Thu, 06 Mar 2014 00:22:03 +0100 Subject: TSD 2014 - Second Call for Papers Message-ID: ********************************************************* TSD 2014 - SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS ********************************************************* Seventeenth International Conference on TEXT, SPEECH and DIALOGUE (TSD 2014) Brno, Czech Republic, 8-12 September 2014 http://www.tsdconference.org/ The conference is organized by the Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University, Brno, and the Faculty of Applied Sciences, University of West Bohemia, Pilsen. The conference is supported by International Speech Communication Association. Venue: Brno, Czech Republic THE SUBMISSION DEADLINES: March 15 2014 ............ Submission of abstracts March 22 2014 ............ Submission of full papers Submission of abstract serves for better organization of the review process only - for the actual review a full paper submission is necessary. TSD SERIES TSD series evolved as a prime forum for interaction between researchers in both spoken and written language processing from all over the world. Proceedings of TSD form a book published by Springer-Verlag in their Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) series. TSD Proceedings are regularly indexed by Thomson Reuters Conference Proceedings Citation Index. Moreover, LNAI series are listed in all major citation databases such as DBLP, SCOPUS, EI, INSPEC or COMPENDEX. TOPICS Topics of the conference will include (but are not limited to): 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 (morphological and syntactic analysis, synthesis and disambiguation, 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) Papers on processing of languages other than English are strongly encouraged. PROGRAM COMMITTEE Hynek Hermansky, USA (general chair) Eneko Agirre, Spain Genevieve Baudoin, France Paul Cook, Australia Jan Cernocky, Czech Republic Simon Dobrisek, Slovenia Karina Evgrafova, Russia Darja Fiser, Slovenia Radovan Garabik, Slovakia Alexander Gelbukh, Mexico Louise Guthrie, GB Jan Hajic, Czech Republic Eva Hajicova, Czech Republic Yannis Haralambous, France Ludwig Hitzenberger, Germany Jaroslava Hlavacova, Czech Republic Ales Horak, Czech Republic Eduard Hovy, USA Maria Khokhlova, Russia Daniil Kocharov, Russia Ivan Kopecek, Czech Republic Valia Kordoni, Germany Steven Krauwer, The Netherlands Siegfried Kunzmann, Germany Natalija Loukachevitch, Russia Vaclav Matousek, Czech Republic Diana McCarthy, United Kingdom France Mihelic, Slovenia Hermann Ney, Germany Elmar Noeth, Germany Karel Oliva, Czech Republic Karel Pala, Czech Republic Nikola Pavesic, Slovenia Fabio Pianesi, Italy Maciej Piasecki, Poland Adam Przepiorkowski, Poland Josef Psutka, Czech Republic James Pustejovsky, USA German Rigau, Spain Leon Rothkrantz, The Netherlands Anna Rumshisky, USA Milan Rusko, Slovakia Mykola Sazhok, Ukraine Pavel Skrelin, Russia Pavel Smrz, Czech Republic Petr Sojka, Czech Republic Stefan Steidl, Germany Georg Stemmer, Germany Marko Tadic, Croatia Tamas Varadi, Hungary Zygmunt Vetulani, Poland Pascal Wiggers, The Netherlands Yorick Wilks, GB Marcin Wolinski, Poland Victor Zakharov, Russia KEYNOTE SPEAKERS Ralph Grishman, New York University, USA Bernardo Magnini, FBK - Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy Salim Roukos, IBM, USA FORMAT OF THE CONFERENCE The conference program will include presentation of invited papers, oral presentations, and poster/demonstration sessions. Papers will be presented in plenary or topic oriented sessions. Social events including a trip in the vicinity of Brno will allow for additional informal interactions. The registration fee is not fixed yet, but we can anticipate that it will be similar to that of previous years, e.g. in 2012: Student: Early payment (by May 31) - 10000 CZK (approx. EUR 365) Full participant: Early payment (by May 31) - 12000 CZK (approx. EUR 440) The fee has a "all in one" form, to keep equality between participants. SUBMISSION OF PAPERS Authors are invited to submit a full paper not exceeding 8 pages formatted in the LNCS style (see below). Those accepted will be presented either orally or as posters. The decision about the presentation format will be based on the recommendation of the reviewers. The authors are asked to submit their papers using the on-line form accessible from the conference website. Papers submitted to TSD 2014 must not be under review by any other conference or publication during the TSD review cycle, and must not be previously published or accepted for publication elsewhere. As reviewing will be blind, the paper should not include the authors' names and affiliations. Furthermore, self-references that reveal the author's identity, e.g., "We previously showed (Smith, 1991) ...", should be avoided. Instead, use citations such as "Smith previously showed (Smith, 1991) ...". Papers that do not conform to the requirements above are subject to be rejected without review. The authors are strongly encouraged to write their papers in TeX or LaTeX formats. These formats are necessary for the final versions of the papers that will be published in the Springer Lecture Notes. Authors using a WORD compatible software for the final version must use the LNCS template for WORD and within the submit process ask the Proceedings Editors to convert the paper to LaTeX format. For this service a service-and-license fee of CZK 2000 will be levied automatically. The paper format for review has to be either PDF or PostScript file with all required fonts included. Upon notification of acceptance, presenters will receive further information on submitting their camera-ready and electronic sources (for detailed instructions on the final paper format see http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html#Proceedings, Sample File typeinst.zip). Authors are also invited to present actual projects, developed software or interesting material relevant to the topics of the conference. The presenters of demonstrations should provide an abstract not exceeding one page. The demonstration abstracts will not appear in the conference proceedings. IMPORTANT DATES March 15 2014 ............ Submission of abstracts March 22 2014 ............ Submission of full papers May 15 2014 .............. Notification of acceptance May 31 2014 .............. Final papers (camera ready) and registration August 3 2014 ............ Submission of demonstration abstracts August 10 2014 ........... Notification of acceptance for demonstrations sent to the authors September 8-12 2014 ...... Conference date Submission of abstracts serves for better organization of the review process only - for the actual review a full paper submission is necessary. The accepted conference contributions will be published in proceedings that will be made available to participants at the time of the conference. OFFICIAL LANGUAGE The official language of the conference is English. ACCOMMODATION The organizing committee will arrange discounts on accommodation in the 4-star hotel at the conference venue. The current prices of the accommodation will be available at the conference website. ADDRESS All correspondence regarding the conference should be addressed to Ales Horak, TSD 2014 Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University Botanicka 68a, 602 00 Brno, Czech Republic phone: +420-5-49 49 18 63 fax: +420-5-49 49 18 20 email: tsd2014 at tsdconference.org The official TSD 2014 homepage is: http://www.tsdconference.org/ LOCATION Brno is the second largest city in the Czech Republic with a population of almost 400.000 and is the country's judiciary and trade-fair center. Brno is the capital of South Moravia, which is located in the south-east part of the Czech Republic and is known for a wide range of cultural, natural, and technical sights. South Moravia is a traditional wine region. Brno had been a Royal City since 1347 and with its six universities it forms a cultural center of the region. Brno can be reached easily by direct flights from London, Moscow, and Eindhoven, and by trains or buses from Prague (200 km) or Vienna (130 km). For the participants with some extra time, nearby places may also be of interest. Local ones include: Brno Castle now called Spilberk, Veveri Castle, the Old and New City Halls, the Augustine Monastery with St. Thomas Church and crypt of Moravian Margraves, Church of St. James, Cathedral of St. Peter & Paul, Cartesian Monastery in Kralovo Pole, the famous Villa Tugendhat designed by Mies van der Rohe along with other important buildings of between-war Czech architecture. For those willing to venture out of Brno, Moravian Karst with Macocha Chasm and Punkva caves, battlefield of the Battle of three emperors (Napoleon, Russian Alexander and Austrian Franz - Battle by Austerlitz), Chateau of Slavkov (Austerlitz), Pernstejn Castle, Buchlov Castle, Lednice Chateau, Buchlovice Chateau, Letovice Chateau, Mikulov with one of the largest Jewish cemeteries in Central Europe, Telc - a town on the UNESCO heritage list, and many others are all within easy reach. From pmt6sbc at maths.leeds.ac.uk Thu Mar 6 10:16:25 2014 From: pmt6sbc at maths.leeds.ac.uk (S B Cooper) Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2014 09:16:25 GMT Subject: CiE 2014: Language, Life, Limits - Grants, and Call for Presentations Message-ID: <201403060916.s269GPNF000170@maths.leeds.ac.uk> ------------------------------------------------------------------- COMPUTABILITY IN EUROPE 2014: Language, Life, Limits Budapest, Hungary June 23 - 27, 2014 http://cie2014.inf.elte.hu ------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------ FUNDING DEADLINES - ASL STUDENT TRAVEL GRANTS: 23 March 2014 - WOMEN IN COMPUTING GRANTS: 1 April 2014 - EACTS STUDENT GRANTS: 1 April 2014 ------------------------------------------------------ CALL FOR INFORMAL PRESENTATIONS There is a remarkable difference in conference style between computer science and mathematics conferences. Mathematics conferences allow for informal presentations that are prepared very shortly before the conference and inform the participants about current research and work in progress. The format of computer science conferences with pre-conference proceedings is not able to accommodate this form of scientific communication. Continuing the tradition of past CiE conferences, also this year's CiE conference endeavours to get the best of both worlds. In addition to the formal presentations based on our LNCS proceedings volume, we invite researchers to present informal presentations. For this, please send us a brief description of your talk (between one paragraph and one page) by the DEADLINE: ------------------------------------------------------ APRIL 14, 2014 ------------------------------------------------------ Please submit your abstract electronically, via EasyChair , selecting the category "Informal Presentation". You will be notified whether your talk has been accepted for informal presentation usually within a week or two after your submission. If you intend to apply for the ASL Student Travel Award, you might need us to confirm that your are going to give a presentation at CiE 2014 (applications of students who are presenting get higher priority). Therefore, we would like to ask you to submit your informal presentations by 20 March so that we can send you the notification before the ASL deadline of 23 March 2014. GRANTS: Grants for students, members of the ASL: The Association for Symbolic Logic before the deadline of April 1, 2014. EACTS Students The European Association for Theoretical Computer Science is providing limited funds for student participation. Again, preference is given to student presenting at the conference. Please contact the PC chairs if you are interested before the deadline of April 1, 2014. __________________________________________________ ASSOCIATION COMPUTABILITY IN EUROPE http://www.computability.org.uk CiE Conference Series http://www.illc.uva.nl/CiE CiE 2014: Language, Life, Limits http://cie2014.inf.elte.hu CiE Membership Application Form http://www.lix.polytechnique.fr/CIE AssociationCiE on Twitter http://twitter.com/AssociationCiE __________________________________________________________________________ From w.w.vasconcelos at abdn.ac.uk Thu Mar 6 12:24:59 2014 From: w.w.vasconcelos at abdn.ac.uk (Vasconcelos, Dr Wamberto W. M. P. D.) Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2014 11:24:59 +0000 Subject: CFP: CLIMA XV Special Session on Logics for Agreement Technologies Message-ID: Apologies for multiple copies ------------------------------------------------------------------- Special Session On *** Logics For Agreement Technologies *** CLIMA XV 15th International Workshop on Computational Logic in Multi-Agent Systems http://www-sop.inria.fr/members/Serena.Villata/climaXV.html Prague, Czech Republic, August 18-19, 2014 Affiliated with ECAI 2014 Submission deadline: 11 May 2014 Call for Papers ------------------------------------------------------------------- Proceedings to be published as a LNCS/LNAI volume (available at the workshop). Selected and extended papers will also be published in a Special Issue of the Journal of Logic and Computation. ------------------------------------------------------------------- INTRODUCTION ------------------------------------------------------------------- A growing number of computer systems are based on software agents, which act on behalf of humans. These agents are becoming increasingly responsible for complex tasks delegated to them, interacting with each other in sophisticated ways so as to forge agreements in the interest of human users. The CLIMA XV Special Session on Logics for Agreement Technologies aims at expanding the state-of-the-art on logic-based approaches and technologies to enable different aspects of many-party agreements and to support the lifecycle of such systems. We invite submissions on logic-based approaches, computational models, methodologies and frameworks for software agents and multi-agent systems, addressing (but not limited to) the following topics: * Negotiation * Formal argumentation * Software agent organisations * Electronic institutions * Trust and reputation * Norms and normative systems * Social computing ------------------------------------------------------------------- SUBMISSION ------------------------------------------------------------------- We welcome and encourage the submission of high quality, original papers, which have not been accepted for publication nor are currently under review for another journal or conference. Papers are submitted to the special session by following the submission instructions for CLIMA: http://www-sop.inria.fr/members/Serena.Villata/climaXVsubs.html The special session on Logics for Agreement Technologies is chosen under "category" in Easychair. ------------------------------------------------------------------- PROCEEDINGS AND POST-PROCEEDINGS ------------------------------------------------------------------- LNCS Proceedings: All the accepted papers (including special session papers) will be published by Springer as a volume in Lecture Notes in Computer Science, and will be available in time for the workshop. Selected and extended papers will be published in a Special Issue of the Journal of Logic and Computation. ------------------------------------------------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES ------------------------------------------------------------------- * Paper Submission: 11 May 2014 * Notification: 9 June 2014 * Camera Ready: 16 June 2014 * Workshop: 18-19 August 2014 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Special Session Organiser: * Wamberto Vasconcelos, University of Aberdeen, UK ------------------------------------------------------------------- -- end of call -- ------------------------------------------------------------------- The University of Aberdeen is a charity registered in Scotland, No SC013683. -------------- nächster Teil -------------- Ein Dateianhang mit HTML-Daten wurde abgetrennt... URL: From leon.vandertorre at uni.lu Thu Mar 6 16:47:15 2014 From: leon.vandertorre at uni.lu (Leon Van Der Torre) Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2014 16:47:15 +0100 Subject: Call for Papers - CLIMA XV - 15th International Workshop on Computational Logic in Multi-Agent Systems Message-ID: <53189883.9040607@uni.lu> *** Call for Papers *** CLIMA XV - 15th International Workshop on Computational Logic in Multi-Agent Systems with special sessions on: *Logics for Agreement Technologies *Logics for Games, Strategic Reasoning, and Social Choice http://www-sop.inria.fr/members/Serena.Villata/climaXV.html Prague, Czech Republic, August 18-19, 2014, co-located with ECAI'14. Submission deadline: May 11th Proceedings: LNCS/LNAI volume (available at the workshop). Journal Special Issue: Selected extended papers will be published in a Special Issue of the Journal of Logic and Computation. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ The purpose of the CLIMA Workshop Series is to provide a forum for discussing techniques, based on computational logic, for representing, programming and reasoning about agents and multi-agent systems in a formal way. Following the previous fourteen, very successful, editions, the 15th CLIMA will take place in Prague, Czech Republic, on the 18th and 19th of August 2014, co-located with ECAI'14. In addition to CLIMA's regular topics and sessions, this edition will feature two special sessions: * Logics for Agreement Technologies * Logics for Games, Strategic Reasoning, and Social Choice We welcome and encourage the submission of high quality, original papers, which have not been accepted for publication nor are currently under review for another journal or conference. Submissions will be peer-reviewed by at least three PC members. LNCS Proceedings: We intend to publish CLIMA's Proceedings as a volume in the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science to be available in time for the workshop. Journal Special Issue: After the workshop, authors of selected papers will be invited to extend and re-submit their work to be considered for inclusion in a CLIMA Special Issue of the Journal of Logic and Computation. Detailed information regarding CLIMA, its topics of interest, the two Special Sessions, formatting and submission instructions is available at http://www-sop.inria.fr/members/Serena.Villata/climaXV.html Important dates: * Submission: May 11th * Notification: June 9th * Camera Ready: June 16th CLIMA XIV Chairs: * Nils Bulling, Clausthal University of Technology, Germany * Leon van der Torre, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg * Serena Villata, INRIA Sophia Antipolis, France Special Session Organizers: * Wojtek Jamroga, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg * Wamberto Vasconcelos, University of Aberdeen, UK Please send all inquiries about CLIMA XV to clima2014 at easychair.org -------------- nächster Teil -------------- Ein Dateianhang mit HTML-Daten wurde abgetrennt... URL: From grlmc at urv.cat Thu Mar 6 20:56:45 2014 From: grlmc at urv.cat (GRLMC - URV) Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2014 20:56:45 +0100 Subject: SSTiC 2014: 15 March, 4th registration deadline Message-ID: <000401cf3976$376984a0$6400a8c0@GRLMC.local> *To be removed from our mailing list, please respond to this message with UNSUBSCRIBE in the subject line* ********************************************************************* 2014 TARRAGONA INTERNATIONAL SUMMER SCHOOL ON TRENDS IN COMPUTING SSTiC 2014 Tarragona, Spain July 7-11, 2014 Organized by Rovira i Virgili University http://grammars.grlmc.com/sstic2014/ ********************************************************************* --- March 15, 4th registration deadline --- ********************************************************************* AIM: SSTiC 2014 is the second edition in a series started in 2013. For the previous event, see http://grammars.grlmc.com/SSTiC2013/ SSTiC 2014 will be a research training event mainly addressed to PhD students and PhD holders in the first steps of their academic career. It intends to update them about the most recent developments in the diverse branches of computer science and its neighbouring areas. To that purpose, renowned scholars will lecture and will be available for interaction with the audience. SSTiC 2014 will cover the whole spectrum of computer science through 6 keynote lectures and 24 six-hour courses dealing with some of the most lively topics in the field. The organizers share the idea that outstanding speakers will really attract the brightest students. ADDRESSED TO: Graduate students from around the world. There are no formal pre-requisites in terms of the academic degree the attendee must hold. However, since there will be several levels among the courses, reference may be made to specific knowledge background in the description of some of them. SSTiC 2014 is also appropriate for more senior people who want to keep themselves updated on developments in their own field or in other branches of computer science. They will surely find it fruitful to listen and discuss with scholars who are main references in computing nowadays. REGIME: In addition to keynotes, 3 parallel sessions will be held 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: SSTiC 2014 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: Larry S. Davis (U Maryland, College Park), A Historical Perspective of Computer Vision Models for Object Recognition and Scene Analysis David S. Johnson (Columbia U, New York), Open and Closed Problems in NP-Completeness George Karypis (U Minnesota, Twin Cities), Recommender Systems Past, Present, & Future Steffen Staab (U Koblenz), Explicit and Implicit Semantics: Two Sides of One Coin Philip Wadler (U Edinburgh), You and Your Research and The Elements of Style Ronald R. Yager (Iona C, New Rochelle), Social Modeling COURSES AND PROFESSORS: Divyakant Agrawal (U California, Santa Barbara), [intermediate] Scalable Data Management in Enterprise and Cloud Computing Infrastructures Pierre Baldi (U California, Irvine), [intermediate] Big Data Informatics Challenges and Opportunities in the Life Sciences Rajkumar Buyya (U Melbourne), [intermediate] Cloud Computing John M. Carroll (Pennsylvania State U, University Park), [introductory] Usability Engineering and Scenario-based Design Kwang-Ting (Tim) Cheng (U California, Santa Barbara), [introductory/intermediate] Smartphones: Hardware Platform, Software Development, and Emerging Apps Amr El Abbadi (U California, Santa Barbara), [introductory] The Distributed Foundations of Data Management in the Cloud Richard M. Fujimoto (Georgia Tech, Atlanta), [introductory] Parallel and Distributed Simulation Mark Guzdial (Georgia Tech, Atlanta), [introductory] Computing Education Research: What We Know about Learning and Teaching Computer Science David S. Johnson (Columbia U, New York), [introductory] The Traveling Salesman Problem in Theory and Practice George Karypis (U Minnesota, Twin Cities), [intermediate] Programming Models/Frameworks for Parallel & Distributed Computing Aggelos K. Katsaggelos (Northwestern U, Evanston), [intermediate] Optimization Techniques for Sparse/Low-rank Recovery Problems in Image Processing and Machine Learning Arie E. Kaufman (U Stony Brook), [advanced] Visualization Carl Lagoze (U Michigan, Ann Arbor), [introductory] Curation of Big Data Dinesh Manocha (U North Carolina, Chapel Hill), [introductory/intermediate] Robot Motion Planning Bijan Parsia (U Manchester), [introductory] The Empirical Mindset in Computer Science Charles E. Perkins (FutureWei Technologies, Santa Clara), [intermediate] Beyond LTE: the Evolution of 4G Networks and the Need for Higher Performance Handover System Designs Sudhakar M. Reddy (U Iowa, Iowa City), [introductory] Test and Design for Test of Digital Logic Circuits Robert Sargent (Syracuse U), [introductory] Validation of Models Mubarak Shah (U Central Florida, Orlando), [intermediate] Visual Crowd Analysis Steffen Staab (U Koblenz), [intermediate] Programming the Semantic Web Mike Thelwall (U Wolverhampton), [introductory] Sentiment Strength Detection for Twitter and the Social Web Jeffrey D. Ullman (Stanford U), [introductory] MapReduce Algorithms Nitin Vaidya (U Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), [introductory/intermediate] Distributed Consensus: Theory and Applications Philip Wadler (U Edinburgh), [intermediate] Topics in Lambda Calculus and Life 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/sstic2014/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 when the capacity of the venue will be complete. It is very convenient to register prior to the event. FEES: As far as possible, participants are expected to attend for the whole (or most of the) week (full-time). Fees are a flat rate allowing one to participate to all courses. They vary depending on the registration deadline. ACCOMMODATION: Information about accommodation is available on the website of the School. CERTIFICATE: Participants will be delivered a certificate of attendance. QUESTIONS AND FURTHER INFORMATION: florentinalilica.voicu at urv.cat POSTAL ADDRESS: SSTiC 2014 Lilica Voicu Rovira i Virgili University Av. Catalunya, 35 43002 Tarragona, Spain Phone: +34 977 559 543 Fax: +34 977 558 386 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS: Departament d’Economia i Coneixement, Generalitat de Catalunya Universitat Rovira i Virgili From agi.kurucz at kcl.ac.uk Fri Mar 7 11:34:40 2014 From: agi.kurucz at kcl.ac.uk (Agi Kurucz) Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2014 10:34:40 +0000 Subject: AiML 2014: Call for Papers Message-ID: <5319A0C0.7020702@kcl.ac.uk> *** Apologies for cross-postings **** AiML-2014: CALL FOR PAPERS 10th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ADVANCES IN MODAL LOGIC, GRONINGEN, 5-8 AUGUST, 2014 http://www.philos.rug.nl/AiML2014/ Advances in Modal Logic is an initiative aimed at presenting the state of the art in modal logic and its various applications. The initiative consists of a conference series together with volumes based on the conferences. Information about the AiML series can be obtained at http://www.aiml.net. AiML-2014 is the tenth conference in the series. TOPICS We invite submission on all aspects of modal logic, including: - history of modal logic - philosophy of modal logic - applications of modal logic - computational aspects of modal logic (complexity and decidability of modal and temporal logics, modal and temporal logic programming, model checking, model generation, theorem proving for modal logics) - theoretical aspects of modal logic (algebraic/categorical perspectives on modal logic, coalgebraic modal logic, completeness and canonicity, correspondence and duality theory, many-dimensional modal logics, modal fixed point logics, model theory of modal logic, proof theory of modal logic) - specific instances and variations of modal logic (description logics, modal logics over non-boolean bases, dynamic logics and other process logics, epistemic and deontic logics, modal logics for agent-based systems, modal logic and game theory, modal logic and grammar formalisms, provability and interpretability logics, spatial and temporal logics, hybrid logic, intuitionistic logic, substructural logics, computationally light fragments of all such logics) Papers on related subjects will also be considered. INVITED SPEAKERS: Franz Baader (TU Dresden, Germany) Stephane Demri (New York University, US & CNRS, France) Joseph Halpern (Cornell University, US) Sara Negri (University of Helsinki, Finland) Frank Wolter (University of Liverpool, UK) PAPER SUBMISSIONS There will be two types of submissions to AiML-2014: (1) Full papers for publication in the proceedings and presentation at the conference. (2) Short presentations intended for presentation at the conference but not for the published proceedings. Both types of papers should be submitted electronically using the EasyChair submission page at https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=aiml2014 At least one author of each accepted paper or short presentation must register for and attend the conference. (1) FULL PAPERS Authors are invited to submit, for presentation at the conference and publication in the proceedings, full papers reporting on original research and not submitted elsewhere. The proceedings of AiML-2014 will be published by College Publications http://www.collegepublications.co.uk in a volume to be made available at the conference. The submissions should be at most 15 pages, with an optional technical appendix of up to 5 pages, together with a plain-text abstract of 100-200 words. The submissions must be typeset in LaTeX, using the style files and template that are provided on the AiML-2014 website http://www.philos.rug.nl/AiML2014/ We also ask authors of full papers to submit the abstract in plain text via EasyChair by 14 March. (2) SHORT PRESENTATIONS. These should be at most 5 pages. They may describe preliminary results, work in progress etc., and will be subject to light reviewing. The accepted submissions will be made available at the conference, and the authors will have the opportunity to give short presentations (of up to 15 minutes) on them. IMPORTANT DATES Abstracts of full papers submission deadline: 14 March 2014 Full papers submission deadline: 21 March 2014 Full papers acceptance notification: 2 May 2014 Short presentations submission deadline: 12 May 2014 Short presentations acceptance notification: 2 June 2014 Final version of full papers and short presentations due: 9 June 2014 Conference: 5-8 August, 2014. LOCAL ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Dave Gilbert Barteld Kooi Bouke Kuijer Paolo Maffezioli Allard Tamminga PROGRAMME COMMITTEE Carlos Areces (FaMAF, Universitad Nacional de Cordoba, Argentina) Alexandru Baltag (ILLC, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands) Nick Bezhanishvili (Utrecht University, The Netherlands) Patrick Blackburn (Roskilde University, Denmark) Hans van Ditmarsch (LORIA, France) David Fernández-Duque (ITAM, Mexico) Melvin Fitting (Lehman College, CUNY, USA) Mai Gehrke (LIAFA, Université Paris Diderot, France) Silvio Ghilardi (Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy) Rob Goldblatt (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand) Valentin Goranko (Technical University of Denmark) Guido Governatori (NICTA Queensland, Australia) Andreas Herzig (IRIT, Toulouse, France) Rosalie Iemhoff (Utrecht University, The Netherlands) Roman Kontchakov (Birkbeck College London, UK) Barteld Kooi (University of Groningen) Marcus Kracht (Universität Bielefeld, Germany) Alexander Kurz (University of Leicester, UK) Carsten Lutz (Universität Bremen, Germany) Jakub Michaliszyn (Imperial College London, UK) Larry Moss (Indiana University, USA) Hiroakira Ono (Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology) Revantha Ramanayake (Technical University of Vienna) Mark Reynolds (University of Western Australia) Vladimir Rybakov (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK) Renate Schmidt (University of Manchester, UK) Jeremy Seligman (University of Auckland, New Zealand) Ilya Shapirovsky (Institute for Information Transmission Problems, Moscow, Russia) Valentin Shehtman (Moscow State University, Russia) Dimiter Vakarelov (Sofia University, Bulgaria) Yde Venema (ILLC, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands) Heinrich Wansing (Ruhr University Bochum, Germany) Michael Zakharyaschev (Birkbeck College London, UK) PROGRAMME COMMITTEE CO-CHAIRS Rajeev Gore (The Australian National University, Australia) Agi Kurucz (King's College London, UK) FURTHER INFORMATION. Please see http://www.philos.rug.nl/AiML2014 ENQUIRIES. E-mail enquiries should be directed to the PC co-chairs, sent to aiml2014 at easychair.org From geoff at cs.miami.edu Fri Mar 7 17:44:39 2014 From: geoff at cs.miami.edu (Geoff Sutcliffe) Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2014 11:44:39 -0500 (EST) Subject: PAAR 2014 Call for Papers Message-ID: <20140307164439.797F7121692@mcclellan.cs.miami.edu> PAAR-2014: CALL FOR PAPERS PAAR-2014 – 4th Workshop on Practical Aspects of Automated Reasoning July 23, 2014 Vienna, Austria http://vsl2014.at/pages/PAAR-index.html General Information ------------------- The 4th Workshop on Practical Aspects of Automated Reasoning will be held on July 23, 2014 in Vienna. PAAR will be associated with the 7th International Joint Conference on Automated Reasoning, IJCAR'14 and it will be part of the Vienna Summer of Logic 2014. Scope ----- PAAR provides a forum for developers of automated reasoning tools to discuss and compare different implementation techniques, and for users to discuss and communicate their applications and requirements. The workshop will bring together different groups to concentrate on practical aspects of the implementation and application of automated reasoning tools. It will allow researchers to present their work in progress, and to discuss new implementation techniques and applications. Topics include but are not limited to: - automated reasoning in propositional, first-order, higher-order and non-classical logics; - implementation of provers (SAT, SMT, resolution, tableau, instantiation-based, rewriting, logical frameworks, etc); - automated reasoning tools for all kinds of practical problems and applications; - pragmatics of automated reasoning within proof assistants; - practical experiences, usability aspects, feasibility studies; - evaluation of implementation techniques and automated reasoning tools; - performance aspects, benchmarking approaches; - non-standard approaches to automated reasoning, non-standard forms of automated reasoning, new applications; - implementation techniques, optimisation techniques, strategies and heuristics, fairness; - support tools for prover development; - system descriptions and demos. We are particularly interested in contributions that help the community to understand how to build useful reasoning systems in practice, and how to apply existing systems to real problems. Paper Submissions ----------------- Researchers interested in participating are invited to submit a short abstract of up to 10 pages via EasyChair at https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=paar2014. Submissions will be refereed by the program committee, which will select a balanced program of high-quality contributions. Submissions should be prepared in LaTeX using the EasyChair proceedings style. The package containing the class file and its user guide and some helper tools can be downloaded from http://www.easychair.org/publications/easychair.zip Proceedings will be published in the EasyChair Proceedings in Computing (EPiC) series. If quality and quantity of the subissions warrants this, we plan to produce a special issue of a recognized journal on the topic of the workshop. Important Dates --------------- Submission Deadline April 21st, 2014 Reviews due May 5th, 2014 Notification of acceptance May 12th, 2014 Final versions due May 26th, 2014 Workshop July 23, 2014 Program Committee ----------------- Clark Barrett (New York University) Peter Baumgartner (National ICT Australia) Christoph Benzmüller (Freie Universität Berlin) Jasmin Christian Blanchette (TU Muenchen) Leonardo De Moura (Microsoft Research) - chair Hans De Nivelle (Institute of Computer Science, University of Wroclaw) Pascal Fontaine (Loria, INRIA, University of Nancy) Martin Giese (University of Oslo) Alberto Griggio (FBK-IRST) Marijn Heule (The University of Texas at Austin) Dejan Jovanović (SRI International) Yevgeny Kazakov (The University of Ulm) Boris Konev (The University of Liverpool) - chair Konstantin Korovin (Manchester University) Jens Otten (University of Potsdam) Jeff Z. Pan (University of Aberdeen) Bijan Parsia (University of Manchester) Adam Pease (Articulate Software) Nicolas Peltier (CNRS - LIG) Ruzica Piskac (Yale University) Renate A. Schmidt (University of Manchester) Stephan Schulz (TU München) - chair Geoff Sutcliffe (University of Miami) Christoph Weidenbach (Max Planck Institute for Informatics) From A.Silva at science.ru.nl Sat Mar 8 16:33:45 2014 From: A.Silva at science.ru.nl (Alexandra Silva) Date: Sat, 8 Mar 2014 16:33:45 +0100 Subject: CMCS 2014: call for participation Message-ID: <20140308153345.GA19584@lilo3.science.ru.nl> ========================================== This is a Call for Participation and Registration for 12th International Workshop on Coalgebraic Methods in Computer Science (CMCS'14) 5 - 6 April 2014, Grenoble, France http://www.coalg.org/cmcs14 The CMCS programme features - a keynote talk by Davide Sangiorgi (University of Bologna, IT) - an invited talk by Ichiro Hasuo (University of Tokyo, JP) - an invited tal by Marina Lenisa (University of Udine) In addition there will be a special session on game theory and coalgebras associated with Marina Lenisa's invited talk and featuring tutorials by - Paul-Andre Mellies, Université Paris Denis Diderot, FR - Pierre Lescanne, Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon, FR More information about CMCS 2014, including a list of accepted papers and a full programme, can be found at http://www.coalg.org/cmcs14 Links for registration and information about hotel arrangements can be found at the ETAPS 2014 website http://www.etaps.org/ Please note that CMCS 2014 is organizing a dinner on *** Saturday 5 April ***. This is not the pre-workshop dinner organized by ETAPS. Tickets cost cost 60 EUR each and can be bought directly on the first day of the meeting. . From announce at cs.ucy.ac.cy Sat Mar 8 13:32:50 2014 From: announce at cs.ucy.ac.cy (Announce Announcements) Date: Sat, 8 Mar 2014 14:32:50 +0200 Subject: ICEIRD 2014: Final Call for Papers Message-ID: *** Final Call for Papers *** Note: Due to many requests, we are now allowing submission of the full paper by the indicated (hard!) deadline, even though an abstract has not been submitted before. The 7th International Conference for Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Regional Development (ICEIRD 2014) 5-6 June 2014, Hilton Hotel | Nicosia, Cyprus https://iceird2014.cs.ucy.ac.cy DEADLINES: Paper submission: March 28, 2014 Notification of paper submission: April 11, 2014 Camera-ready paper submission: April 28, 2014 Author registration: April 28, 2014 Conference Themes: Igniting Regional Economies - Knowledge, Innovation and Entrepreneurship in South East Europe Energy Enabled: The Innovation and Cooperation Hotbed of South Eastern Europe In the face of fragile economic recovery following the economic and financial crisis of 2008, many firms all around the world continue to invest in growth-enhancing activities to achieve a sustainable development. While the crisis has heavily hit all aspects of business vested interests, investments in innovation, entrepreneurship and regional partnership have been the key priority to ensuring a strong and stable economic growth. The objective of the conference is to gather decision makers (government, ministries and state agencies), innovation experts (universities, research and development centres, technology transfer centres, start-up centres) and practitioners (smes, business incubators and business support organisations) to generate discussion and exchange on the potential of entrepreneurship promotion and innovation to national and regional competitiveness. CONFERENCE TOPICS OF INTEREST Creativity, Complexity and Competitiveness Issues for Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in SEE vs. other regions (EU and other) * Leveraging e-skills for innovation in the knowledge society * Managing and Leveraging Complexity, Creativity and Innovation in SMEs * Trust, Respect, Culture and Collaboration Issues for SMEs in SEE vs. other regions (EU and other) * Leadership and Management practices that can be applied to SMEs * SME Knowledge management and technology transfer * SME Business process modeling * New Technology Ventures Financing * Business incubation management and leadership * Human Resources Practices for promoting innovation for SMEs South East European Entrepreneurial Innovation Clusters * SMEs' Entrepreneurship as an Innovation Driver * Opportunities and barriers for closer cooperation between South East European SMEs in Innovation & Entrepreneurship: Strategic Integration vs. Flexibility and SME Competitiveness * Innovation Clusters, Technology Transfer and Social Entrepreneurship * Social Networking as Driver of EICs formation * Science & Technology Parks and EICs * Young and Women Entrepreneurs development via EICs * Benchmarking of Entrepreneurship and Innovation Best Practices in the region * Innovation policy in SMEs Technology Innovation, Transfer and Commercialization across Governement, University, Industry domains * The role of the State and Public Policy with regards to SME Innovation and Entrepreneurship * Governmental and regional policies on entrepreneurship and innovation * Entrepreneurial Universities and Entrepreneurial Innovation Clusters * Entrepreneurship education * University - Industry collaboration * ICT and SME Regional competitiveness * SMEs and the role of the Innovation Zone (business centers and incubators) * Intangibles Valuation and Intellectual Property Rights * Innovative Supply Chain Management practices in SEE * Innovative Supply Chains * Information Technology proliferation in SEE SMEs ICEIRD 2014 invites submissions of papers related to all the topics of interest of the conference. Papers that address collaborations between industry and academia, case studies as well as experience reports on any of the conference themes are welcome. For more information on the conference topics, visit the ICEIRD 2014 webpage (https://iceird2014.cs.ucy.ac.cy). SUBMISSIONS * Paper Submission (for review) Authors are requested to submit a full paper of 6-10 pages in either Microsoft Word or Adobe PDF format using the template found on the ICEIRD 2014 webpage (https://iceird2014.cs.ucy.ac.cy). The template has all the styles required for formatting the text. The easiest way to prepare the camera ready is to download the template, delete all exixting text, add your unformatted text and use the styles (top-left drop down menu) to format it. Only papers in this format will be published. Submitted papers, which will go under blind review by at least two referees, must be submitted electronically through the EasyChair Conference System: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iceird2014. * Camera Ready Papers (after acceptance) Following acceptance, authors are requested to sumbit a camera-ready paper using the template found on the website (https://iceird2014.cs.ucy.ac.cy) to the secretariat of ICEIRD2014 by email (iceird2014 at cs.ucy.ac.cy) in both Microsoft Word or PDF format. * Guidelines for Presentations Each presentation will last 20 minutes (15 + 5 minutes for questions). All rooms are fully equiped. Presenters will be requested to upload their presentation at least 15 minutes before the start of their session. Presenters could also use their own laptop. Techinal support will be provided. * Proceedings The Conference Proceedings, including all papers presented, will be published as a SEERC book edited by the Conference Chairs. * Post-Conference Special Journal Issues Selected high quality papers from the conference will be recommended for publication in the special issues of international journals. For more information please visit the ICEIRD 2014 webpage (https://iceird2014.cs.ucy.ac.cy) The official language of the conference is English. Publication is dependent on at least one author registering to attend ICEIRD 2014. Submissions should be submitted to the easychair account on or before the deadline: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iceird2014 IMPORTANT DATES Paper submission: 28th March 2014 (hard deadline!) Notification of paper acceptance: 11th April 2014 Camera ready paper submission: 28th April 2014 Author registration: 28th April 2014 CONFERENCE CHAIRS Prof. George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus - General Chair Prof. Panos H. Ketikidis, CITY College - International Faculty of the University of Sheffield, Greece - Co-Chair Stavriana A. Kofteros, Special Entrepreneurship & RDI Adviser, Democratic Rally (DISY), Cyprus - Co-Chair -------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 akrithara at iit.demokritos.gr Sat Mar 8 18:42:48 2014 From: akrithara at iit.demokritos.gr (Anastasia Krithara) Date: Sat, 8 Mar 2014 19:42:48 +0200 Subject: Second batch of BioASQ task on large-scale biomedical semantic indexing starting Message-ID: <000001cf3af5$d47a5820$7d6f0860$@iit.demokritos.gr> BioASQ challenge on large-scale biomedical semantic indexing and question answering (part of the CLEF 2014 QA track to take place in Sheffield, UK, 15-18 September, 2014) Web site: http://bioasq.org/ twitter: https://twitter.com/bioasq CLEF-QA site: http://nlp.uned.es/clef-qa/ We are happy to announce that the second batch for BioASQ task 2a (large-scale biomedical semantic indexing) will take place in a few days! If you are working in any of the following areas: * Large-scale and hierarchical classification * Machine learning * Semantic Indexing, semantic similarity then BioASQ Task 2a (large-scale biomedical semantic indexing) is relevant to your work and you are invited to participate. Task 2a is be based on the standard process followed by PubMed to index journal abstracts. The participants are asked to classify new PubMed documents, written in English, as they become available online, before PubMed curators annotate (in effect, classify) them manually. The classes come from the MeSH hierarchy; they are the subject headings that are currently used to manually index the abstracts. As new manual annotations become available, they are used to evaluate the classification performance of participating systems (that classify articles before they are manually annotated), using standard IR measures (e.g., precision, recall, accuracy), as well as hierarchical variants of them. The participants are able to train their classifiers, using the whole history of manually annotated abstracts. Training data, consisting of 10,876,004 documents annotated with MeSH terms, are already available at: http://bioasq.lip6.fr/ The challenge is organised in three independent batches of five weeks each, and has started in February 03, 2014. Therefore potential dates to participate in Task 2a are: February 03, 2014, March 10, 2014, April 14, 2014. Prizes will be awarded to the winners. Details about the prizes are available on the Web site of the challenge (http://www.bioasq.org/participate/prizes). More information about the BioASQ challenge and how different research areas relate to the challenge tasks is available at: http://www.bioasq.org/participate/mapping-tasks-techniques The BioASQ challenge and workshop are organised by the BioASQ project, supported by the European Commission within the 7th Framework Programme (Grant Agreement No. 318652). -------------- n?chster Teil -------------- Ein Dateianhang mit HTML-Daten wurde abgetrennt... URL: From nasslli2014 at gmail.com Sun Mar 9 16:52:27 2014 From: nasslli2014 at gmail.com (NASSLLI 2014) Date: Sun, 9 Mar 2014 11:52:27 -0400 Subject: Call for Participation: NASSLLI 2014 at UM, College Park Message-ID: Greetings, We would be very grateful if you would kindly distribute this Call for Participation to potentially interested students, faculty, and researchers. With many thanks in advance, NASSLLI OC & PC ************************************************************* ******************************* ******* NASSLLI 2014 ****** **** Call for Participation *** ******************************* The 6th North American Summer School in Logic, Language and Information (NASSLLI 2014), a bi-annual summer school loosely modeled on the long-running ESSLLI series in Europe, will be held at the University of Maryland, College Park, June 23 - 27, 2014. In addition, we will run three intensive introductory courses ("bootcamps") on Saturday and Sunday, June 21-22. Additional events will be held during the weekend following the summer school, June 28-29. The summer school will consist of 18 courses, scheduled in five parallel sessions throughout the week. Courses will meet for 90 minutes on each of five days. The instructors are prominent researchers who volunteer their time and energy to present work in their disciplines. NASSLLI courses are aimed at graduate students and advanced undergraduates in any of the fields represented at the summer school, but will also be of interest to post-docs and researchers in those fields. Courses are designed with an interdisciplinary audience in mind, by instructors who enjoy addressing students and colleagues from a wide range of disciplines. For the full program of courses, see http://www.nasslli2014.com/program. Registration We are working to keep the registration fee low for NASSLLI participants. The expected registration fee is $175.00 for students and academics, $50.00 for UMD affiliates and $400 professional rate. The exact costs and online registration will be available on the NASSLLI website in mid-March. Location NASSLL is located on the campus of the University of Maryland, College Park. The University of Maryland is located in the Washington D.C. metropolitan area, and is accessible by Metro from downtown Washington DC. Accommodation All NASSLLI participants are responsible for securing their own accommodations during their stay in College Park. However, NASSLLI participants may request accommodation in the South Campus Residence Hall on the University of Maryland, College Park campus. There are also a number of hotels located in College Park within walking distance of the campus. Details on both dorm and hotel accommodations will be available on the NASSLLI website around mid-March. -------------- nächster Teil -------------- Ein Dateianhang mit HTML-Daten wurde abgetrennt... URL: From p.turrini at imperial.ac.uk Wed Mar 12 10:42:40 2014 From: p.turrini at imperial.ac.uk (Paolo Turrini) Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2014 09:42:40 +0000 Subject: Norms Actions Games: Call for participation In-Reply-To: <531ED8A6.2060000@imperial.ac.uk> References: <531ED8A6.2060000@imperial.ac.uk> Message-ID: <53202C10.7040008@imperial.ac.uk> NAG 2014: Call for participation Norms Actions Games King's College London, London (April, 1-2 2014) http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~pturrini/NAG/ *AIMS OF THE WORKSHOP* In strategic interaction, where multiple agents pursue personal objectives, conflict is bound to arise, as the actions of the individual agents have an effect on the welfare of the others. In such situations the need arises for the explicit regulation of individual and collective behaviour which has traditionally followed two alternative approaches, well-known in the economics literature: the spontaneous order approach, which studies how norms result from endogenous agreements among rational individuals, and the mechanism design approach, which studies how norms are exogenously designed in order to reach desirable properties. The present workshop is motivated by the conviction that the two paradigms to understand norms in strategic interaction are by no means incompatible and can be effectively used together for regulative purposes. The aim of the symposium is to gather researchers looking at norms in strategic interaction from different perspectives, i.e. philosophy, computer science, game theory, logic, fostering discussion and interdisciplinary collaboration. Researchers will be given the opportunity of presenting their work in a stimulating environment, without novelty constraints on their contribution. The workshop is sponsored by SINTELNET, the European Network for Social Intelligence, and NIBS, the ESRC Network for Integrated Behavioural Science. *WORKSHOP CHAIRS* Elizabeth Black (Department of Informatics, King's College London) Jan Broersen (Department of Information and Computing Science, Utrecht University) Alex Possajennikov (School of Economics, University of Nottingham) Paolo Turrini (Department of Computing, Imperial College London) *INVITED SPEAKERS* Cristina Bicchieri (Department of Philosophy, University of Pennsylvania) Urs Fischbacher (Thurgau Institute of Economics, University of Konstanz) Martin van Hees (Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences, University of Amsterdam) Marek Sergot (Department of Computing, Imperial College London) Kai Spiekermann (Department of Government, London School of Economics) Jorgen Weibull (Department of Economics, Stockholm School of Economics) Michael Wooldridge (Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford) *CONTRIBUTED PAPERS* The workshop has received over 110 submissions, from all its thematic areas. An extremely selective review process led to the acceptance of 20 papers for oral presentation and 25 posters. The full programme will soon be available on the workshop website. *REGISTRATION* Please register through the following link: https://www.kcl.ac.uk/prospectus/shortcourses/applying/name/normsactionsgames Registration costs (100 pounds for early registration) include lunches, coffee breaks and refreshments. The deadline for early registration is March 21st. *FURTHER INFORMATION* For more information please have a look at the workshop website http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~pturrini/NAG/index.html From vfgo at dtu.dk Wed Mar 12 11:05:38 2014 From: vfgo at dtu.dk (Valentin Goranko) Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2014 10:05:38 +0000 Subject: 9th Scandinavian Logic Symposium SLS'2014: 2nd announcement and call for submissions Message-ID: 9th SCANDINAVIAN LOGIC SYMPOSIUM 25-27 August 2014, University of Tampere, Finland http://www.sis.uta.fi/SLS2014/ SECOND ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS The 9th Scandinavian Logic Symposium will be held at the Museum Centre Vapriikki in Tampere, Finland, during 25-27 August 2014 under the auspices of the Scandinavian Logic Society (SLS, http://scandinavianlogic.org/). As with previous editions of the Symposium, its primary aims are to reflect the current activities in logic in the Nordic countries and to provide a local meeting forum for their logical communities, broadly conceived. Besides, it invites and warmly welcomes participation of logicians from all over the world. SCOPE AND TOPICS The scope of SLS 2014 is broad, ranging over the whole areas of Mathematical and Philosophical Logic, as well as Logical Methods in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Linguistics, etc. Major topics include (but are not limited to): Proof Theory, Constructivism, Model Theory, Set Theory, Computability Theory, Algebra and Logic, Categorical Logic, Logic and Computer Science, Logic and Linguistics, Logic in AI and Multi-Agent Systems, Logics of Games, Modal and other non-classical Logics, Philosophical Logic. INVITED SPEAKERS: Mai Gehrke (LIAFA, Paris) Volker Halbach (University of Oxford) Asger Törnquist (University of Copenhagen) Jouko Väänänen (University of Helsinki and University of Amsterdam) Thomas Ågotnes (University of Bergen) PROGRAM COMMITTEE Co-chairs: Sara Negri (University of Helsinki) and Valentin Goranko (Technical University of Denmark) Members: Luca Aceto (Reykjavik University) Lars Birkedal (Aarhus University) Patrick Blackburn (Roskilde University) Patricia Blanchette (University of Notre Dame, US) Thierry Coquand (University of Gothenburg) Ali Enayat (University of Gothenburg) Øystein Linnebo (University of Oslo and Birkbeck College London) Kerkko Luosto (University of Tampere) Dag Normann (University of Oslo) Gabriel Sandu (University of Helsinki) Arild Waaler (University of Oslo) Dag Westerståhl (University of Stockholm) ORGANISING COMMITTEE Chair: Lauri Hella (University of Tampere) Members: Kerkko Luosto (University of Tampere) Antti Kuusisto (University of Wroclaw) Jonni Virtema (University of Tampere) Jevgeni Haigora (University of Tampere) SUBMISSIONS Abstracts of contributed talks, in PDF format, not exceeding one A4 (11pt) page, should be submitted by April 25, 2014, through EasyChair: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sls2014 Abstracts should be typeset following the format of a LaTeX style file that will be posted on the conference website on March 16. IMPORTANT DATES: Submission deadline: April 25, 2014 Notification: May 16, 2014 Final programme: July 25, 2014 LOCATION Museum Centre Vapriikki is situated on the banks of the Tammmerkoski rapids. It is within a walking distance from the center of Tampere and the railway station. ACCOMMODATION There are several hotels within a walking distance from the conference venue. The organizers will provide a list of some alternatives on the conference website. REGISTRATION Details concerning registration will be posted soon on the conference website. ENQUIRIES: Write email to scandinavianlogicsymposium at gmail.com -------------- nächster Teil -------------- Ein Dateianhang mit HTML-Daten wurde abgetrennt... URL: From quatic_d at outlook.pt Thu Mar 13 07:06:57 2014 From: quatic_d at outlook.pt (Quatic) Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2014 23:06:57 -0700 Subject: Call for Papers - QUATIC 2014 Message-ID: CALL FOR PAPERS QUATIC'2014 9th International Conference on the Quality of Information and Communications Technology Guimarães, Portugal, 23 to 26 September 2014 http://2014.quatic.org GOALS AND SCOPE ------------------------------------- The International Conference on the Quality of Information and Communications Technology (QUATIC) serves as a forum for disseminating advanced methods, techniques and tools for supporting quality approaches to ICT engineering and management. Practitioners and researchers are encouraged to exchange ideas and approaches on how to adopt a quality culture in ICT process and product improvement and to provide practical studies in varying contexts. We invite researchers and practitioners to submit a paper to this conference, and join us in Portugal, in the beautiful and historic city of Guimarães, in September. The conference program is organized on a series of Thematic Tracks, each corresponding to a specific topic of interest: - ICT Verification and Validation http://2014.quatic.org/tracks/thematic-tracks/ict-verification-and-validation - ICT Process Improvement and Assessment http://2014.quatic.org/tracks/thematic-tracks/ict-process-improvement-and-assessment - Quality in ICT Requirements Engineering http://2014.quatic.org/tracks/thematic-tracks/quality-in-ict-requirements-engineering - Quality in Agile Methods http://2014.quatic.org/tracks/thematic-tracks/quality-in-agile-methods - Evidence-Based Software Quality Engineering http://2014.quatic.org/tracks/thematic-tracks/evidence-based-software-quality-engineering - Quality in Web Engineering http://2014.quatic.org/tracks/thematic-tracks/quality-in-web-engineering - Quality in IT Service Management http://2014.quatic.org/tracks/thematic-tracks/quality-in-it-service-management - Quality in Technology Enhanced Learning http://2014.quatic.org/tracks/thematic-tracks/quality-in-technology-enhanced-learning - Quality in Model Driven Engineering http://2014.quatic.org/tracks/thematic-tracks/quality-in-model-driven-engineering The conference will also have a Business Day to foster the dissemination of best practices and to allow a lively discussion of hot topics and quality concerns in specific application domains. During the Business Day conference sponsors will share their knowledge and promote hands-on contact with new tools. Another event, SEDES, will bring together Software Engineering PhD students to present and discuss their work. PROCEEDINGS PUBLICATION --------------------------------------- As in the previous editions, papers accepted at the Thematic Tracks will be published by Conference Publishing Services (CPS), submitted for archiving in the IEEE Digital Library, and submitted for indexing in ISI Web of Science, SCOPUS, ACM Portal, DBLP and DOI System. Authors of the best papers accepted in the Thematic Tracks will be invited to submit extended versions for presentation in the Main Track. During the closing session of QUATIC’2014, awards will be given to the best papers presented during the meeting. Authors of selected papers presented in the Main Track, will be invited to submit extended and improved versions to be published in Software Quality Professional, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Society for Quality. IMPORTANT DATES --------------------------------------- Thematic Tracks - Abstract submission: April 7, 2014 - Paper submission: April 14, 2014 - Authors’ notification: May 26, 2014 - Camera-ready: July 10, 2014 Main Track - Invitation to main track: May 26, 2014 - Extended paper submission: June 16, 2014 - Authors’ notification: July 7, 2014 - Camera-ready: July 21, 2014 PAPER SUBMISSION --------------------------------------- Please follow the specific instructions provided at the page of the respective Thematic Track, from http://2014.quatic.org/tracks/thematic-tracks. COMMITTEES --------------------------------------- General program chairs: - Alberto Silva, University of Lisbon, Portugal - António Rito Silva, University of Lisbon, Portugal Organizing chairs: - Ricardo Machado, University of Minho, Portugal - Miguel Abrunhosa de Brito, University of Minho, Portugal Thematic tracks program chairs: - Karol Frühauf, INFOGEM AG, Switzerland (ICT Process Improvement and Assessment) - Guilherme Horta Travassos, COPPE - Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and Fernando Brito Abreu, ISCTE-IUL & CITI/FCT/UNL, Portugal (Evidence-Based Software Quality Engineering) - Maria Lencastre, University of Pernambuco, Brazil (Quality in ICT Requirements Engineering) - Marion Lepmets, Dundalk Institute of Technology, Ireland (Quality in IT Service Management) - Eda Marchetti, ISTI-CNR, Italy (ICT Verification and Validation) - Maristella Matera, Politecnico di Milano – DEIB, Italy (Quality in Web Engineering) - Panagiotis Sfetsos, Alexander Technological Educational Institution, Greece (Quality in Agile Methods) - Francisco Arcega, University of Zaragoza, Spain (Quality in Technology Enhanced Learning) - Marjan Mernik, University of Maribor, Slovenia (Quality in Model Driven Engineering) Program Committee (Main Track): - Rui Abreu (FEUP) - Pedro Adão (SQIG, IST) - Ademar Aguiar (FEUP) - Vasco Amaral (FCT-UNL) - Francisco Arcega (University of Zaragoza) - Fernando Brito e Abreu (ISCTE-IUL) - Kival Chaves Weber (SOFTEX / PBQP) - François Coallier (ÉTS) - Nelly Condori-Fernández (PROS Research Center) - Taz Daughtrey (James Madison University) - Safiullah Faizullah (Hewlett-Pakard) - David Ferreira (IST-UL) - Hugo Ferreira (FEUP) - Karol Fruëhauf (INFOGEM) - Pedro Guerreiro (University of Algarve) - Guilherme Horta Travassos (COPPE - Federal University of Rio de Janeiro) - Trudy Howles (Rochester Institute of Technology) - Kai Jakobs (RWTH Aachen University) - Maria Lencastre (University of Pernambuco) - Marion Lepmets (Dundalk Institute of Technology) - Ricardo Machado (University of Minho) - Eda Marchetti (ISTI-CNR) - Maristella Matera (Politecnico di Milano - DEIB) - Marjan Mernik (University of Maribor) - Miguel Mira da Silva (IST-UL) - Ana Moreira (New University of Lisbon) - Maurizio Morisio (Politecnico di Torino) - Ana Paiva (FEUP) - João Pascoal Faria (FEUP) - Mark Paulk (CMU) - João Pereira (IST-UL) - Ana Regina Rocha (COPPE / Federal University of Rio de Janeiro) - Paulo Rupino da Cunha (University of Coimbra) - Claudio Sant'Annna (Federal University of Bahia) - Gleison Santos (UNIRIO) - João Saraiva (DefineScope) - Stephen Seidman (Texas State University) - Panagiotis Sfetsos (Alexander Technological Educational Institution) - Maria Clara Silveira (ESTG-IPG) - Carlos Soares (University of Porto) - Marcello Thiry (Univali / Incremental Tecnologia) - Nikolai Tillman (Microsoft Research) - Ambrosio Toval (University of Murcia) - Joost Visser (Software Improvement Group) - George Wilkie (University of Ulster) From agi.kurucz at kcl.ac.uk Thu Mar 13 14:07:32 2014 From: agi.kurucz at kcl.ac.uk (Agi Kurucz) Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2014 13:07:32 +0000 Subject: AiML 2014: *** Deadline EXTENSION *** to 9 April 2014 Message-ID: <5321AD94.9020109@kcl.ac.uk> *** Apologies for cross-postings **** ***** DEADLINE EXTENSION ***** AiML-2014 ************** In response to a number of requests for extension, the deadline for submitting both abstracts and full papers has been *** EXTENDED*** to 9 April 2014 ************************************************************** 10th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ADVANCES IN MODAL LOGIC, GRONINGEN, 5-8 AUGUST, 2014 http://www.philos.rug.nl/AiML2014/ Advances in Modal Logic is an initiative aimed at presenting the state of the art in modal logic and its various applications. The initiative consists of a conference series together with volumes based on the conferences. Information about the AiML series can be obtained at http://www.aiml.net. AiML-2014 is the tenth conference in the series. TOPICS We invite submission on all aspects of modal logic, including: - history of modal logic - philosophy of modal logic - applications of modal logic - computational aspects of modal logic (complexity and decidability of modal and temporal logics, modal and temporal logic programming, model checking, model generation, theorem proving for modal logics) - theoretical aspects of modal logic (algebraic/categorical perspectives on modal logic, coalgebraic modal logic, completeness and canonicity, correspondence and duality theory, many-dimensional modal logics, modal fixed point logics, model theory of modal logic, proof theory of modal logic) - specific instances and variations of modal logic (description logics, modal logics over non-boolean bases, dynamic logics and other process logics, epistemic and deontic logics, modal logics for agent-based systems, modal logic and game theory, modal logic and grammar formalisms, provability and interpretability logics, spatial and temporal logics, hybrid logic, intuitionistic logic, substructural logics, computationally light fragments of all such logics) Papers on related subjects will also be considered. INVITED SPEAKERS: Franz Baader (TU Dresden, Germany) Stephane Demri (New York University, US & CNRS, France) Joseph Halpern (Cornell University, US) Sara Negri (University of Helsinki, Finland) Frank Wolter (University of Liverpool, UK) PAPER SUBMISSIONS There will be two types of submissions to AiML-2014: (1) Full papers for publication in the proceedings and presentation at the conference. (2) Short presentations intended for presentation at the conference but not for the published proceedings. Both types of papers should be submitted electronically using the EasyChair submission page at https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=aiml2014 At least one author of each accepted paper or short presentation must register for and attend the conference. (1) FULL PAPERS Authors are invited to submit, for presentation at the conference and publication in the proceedings, full papers reporting on original research and not submitted elsewhere. The proceedings of AiML-2014 will be published by College Publications http://www.collegepublications.co.uk in a volume to be made available at the conference. The submissions should be at most 15 pages, with an optional technical appendix of up to 5 pages, together with a plain-text abstract of 100-200 words. The submissions must be typeset in LaTeX, using the style files and template that are provided on the AiML-2014 website http://www.philos.rug.nl/AiML2014/ We also ask authors of full papers to submit the abstract in plain text via EasyChair by 14 March. (2) SHORT PRESENTATIONS. These should be at most 5 pages. They may describe preliminary results, work in progress etc., and will be subject to light reviewing. The accepted submissions will be made available at the conference, and the authors will have the opportunity to give short presentations (of up to 15 minutes) on them. IMPORTANT DATES Abstracts and full papers submission deadline *** EXTENDED ***: 9 April 2014 Full papers acceptance notification: 19 May 2014 Short presentations submission deadline: 21 May 2014 Short presentations acceptance notification: 2 June 2014 Final version of full papers and short presentations due: 9 June 2014 Conference: 5-8 August, 2014. LOCAL ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Dave Gilbert Barteld Kooi Bouke Kuijer Paolo Maffezioli Allard Tamminga PROGRAMME COMMITTEE Carlos Areces (FaMAF, Universitad Nacional de Cordoba, Argentina) Alexandru Baltag (ILLC, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands) Nick Bezhanishvili (Utrecht University, The Netherlands) Patrick Blackburn (Roskilde University, Denmark) Hans van Ditmarsch (LORIA, France) David Fernández-Duque (ITAM, Mexico) Melvin Fitting (Lehman College, CUNY, USA) Mai Gehrke (LIAFA, Université Paris Diderot, France) Silvio Ghilardi (Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy) Rob Goldblatt (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand) Valentin Goranko (Technical University of Denmark) Guido Governatori (NICTA Queensland, Australia) Andreas Herzig (IRIT, Toulouse, France) Rosalie Iemhoff (Utrecht University, The Netherlands) Roman Kontchakov (Birkbeck College London, UK) Barteld Kooi (University of Groningen) Marcus Kracht (Universität Bielefeld, Germany) Alexander Kurz (University of Leicester, UK) Carsten Lutz (Universität Bremen, Germany) Jakub Michaliszyn (Imperial College London, UK) Larry Moss (Indiana University, USA) Hiroakira Ono (Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology) Revantha Ramanayake (Technical University of Vienna) Mark Reynolds (University of Western Australia) Vladimir Rybakov (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK) Renate Schmidt (University of Manchester, UK) Jeremy Seligman (University of Auckland, New Zealand) Ilya Shapirovsky (Institute for Information Transmission Problems, Moscow, Russia) Valentin Shehtman (Moscow State University, Russia) Dimiter Vakarelov (Sofia University, Bulgaria) Yde Venema (ILLC, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands) Heinrich Wansing (Ruhr University Bochum, Germany) Michael Zakharyaschev (Birkbeck College London, UK) PROGRAMME COMMITTEE CO-CHAIRS Rajeev Gore (The Australian National University, Australia) Agi Kurucz (King's College London, UK) FURTHER INFORMATION. Please see http://www.philos.rug.nl/AiML2014 ENQUIRIES. E-mail enquiries should be directed to the PC co-chairs, sent to aiml2014 at easychair.org From ruy at cin.ufpe.br Thu Mar 13 14:20:51 2014 From: ruy at cin.ufpe.br (Ruy de Queiroz) Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2014 10:20:51 -0300 Subject: WoLLIC 2014 - Call for Papers (DEADLINE APPROACHING) Message-ID: DEADLINE APPROACHING! [Please circulate. Apologies for any cross-postings.] WoLLIC 2014 21st Workshop on Logic, Language, Information and Computation September 1st to 4th, 2014 Valparaiso, Chile 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, Universidad de Chile, Chile Department of Computer Science, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Chile Centro de Informática, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil HOSTED BY Department of Informatics, Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, Chile 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 twentieth WoLLIC will be held at the Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, from September 1st to 4th, 2014. 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. 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 2014 EasyChair website. (Please go to http://wollic.org/wollic2014/instructions.html for instructions.) A title and single-paragraph abstract should be submitted by Mar 24, 2014, and the full paper by Mar 28, 2014 (firm date). Notifications are expected by May 2, 2014, and final papers for the proceedings will be due by May 15, 2014 (firm date). PROCEEDINGS The proceedings of WoLLIC 2014, 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 2014 issue of a scientific journal (to be confirmed). INVITED SPEAKERS Verónica Becher (Universidad de Buenos Aires) Juha Kontinen (University of Helsinki) Aarne Ranta (University of Gothenburg) Kazushige Terui (Kyoto University) Luca Vigano (Università di Verona) Thomas Wilke (Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel) STUDENT GRANTS ASL sponsorship of WoLLIC 2014 will permit ASL student members to apply for a modest travel grant (deadline: May 1st, 2014). See http://www.aslonline.org/studenttravelawards.html for details. IMPORTANT DATES Mar 24, 2014: Paper title and abstract deadline Mar 28, 2014: Full paper deadline May 2, 2014: Author notification May 15, 2014: Final version deadline (firm) PROGRAMME COMMITTEE Ulrich Kohlenbach (Technische Universität Darmstadt) - Chair Natasha Alechina (University of Nottingham) Eric Allender (Rutgers University) Marcelo Arenas (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile) Steve Awodey (Carnegie Mellon University) Stefano Berardi (Università di Torino) Julian Bradfield (University of Edinburgh) Xavier Caicedo (Universidad de los Andes de Chile) Olivier Danvy (University of Aarhus) Hans van Ditmarsch (LORIA) Marcus Kracht (University of Bielefeld) Michiel van Lambalgen (University of Amsterdam) Klaus Meer (Technische Universität Cottbus) George Metcalfe (University of Bern) Dale Miller (INRIA/LIX) Russell Miller (City University of New York) Sara Negri (University of Helsinki) Grigory Olkhovikov (Urals State University) Nicole Schweikardt (Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main) Sebastiaan Terwijn (Radboud University Nijmegen) STEERING COMMITTEE Samson Abramksy, Johan van Benthem, Anuj Dawar, Joe Halpern, Wilfrid Hodges, Daniel Leivant, Leonid Libkin, Angus Macintyre, Grigori Mints, Luke Ong, Hiroakira Ono, Ruy de Queiroz. ORGANISING COMMITTEE Pablo Barceló (Universidad de Chile) (Local chair) Anjolina G. de Oliveira (U Fed Pernambuco) Ruy de Queiroz (U Fed Pernambuco) (co-chair) Juan Reutter (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile) Cristián Riveros (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile) FURTHER INFORMATION Contact one of the Co-Chairs of the Organising Committee. WEB PAGE http://wollic.org/wollic2014/ -------------- nächster Teil -------------- Ein Dateianhang mit HTML-Daten wurde abgetrennt... URL: From ecmlpkdd2014publicity at gmail.com Thu Mar 13 19:34:04 2014 From: ecmlpkdd2014publicity at gmail.com (ECML PKDD) Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2014 19:34:04 +0100 Subject: ECML/PKDD 2014 2nd Call for Papers Message-ID: ----------------------------------------------------------- 2ND C A L L F O R P A P E R S ECML/PKDD 2014: European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases Nancy, France, September 15-19, 2014 http://www.ecmlpkdd2014.org/ ----------------------------------------------------------- The European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases, ECML/PKDD, provides an international forum for the discussion of the latest high-quality research results in all areas related to machine learning, data mining and knowledge discovery in databases, as well as other innovative application domains. The 2014 edition of ECML/PKDD will take place in Nancy, France, September 15-19. Submissions are invited on all aspects of machine learning, knowledge discovery and data mining, including real-world applications. Papers will mainly be evaluated on the basis of their relevance for the conference, their scientific contribution, rigor and correctness, the quality of presentation and reproducibility of experiments. Apart from that, we specifically welcome submissions which -- have the potential to inspire the research community by introducing new and relevant problems, concepts, solution strategies, and ideas; -- contribute to solving a problem widely recognized as both challenging and important; -- address a novel area of impact of machine learning and data mining. ----------------------------------------------------------- Proceedings ----------------------------------------------------------- The conference proceedings will be published by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence series (LNAI). ----------------------------------------------------------- Submissions ----------------------------------------------------------- The papers must be written in English and formatted according to the Springer LNAI guidelines. Authors instructions and style files can be downloaded at: http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html The maximum length of papers is 16 pages in this format. Over length papers will be rejected without review (papers with smaller page margins and font sizes than specified in the author instructions and set in the style files will also be treated as over length). Papers submitted should report original work; ECML/PKDD 2014 will not accept any paper which, at the time of submission, is under review or has already been accepted for publication in a journal or another conference. Authors are also expected not to submit their papers elsewhere during the review period. Guidelines for submission will be made available on the conference website soon. ----------------------------------------------------------- Reviewing process ----------------------------------------------------------- Papers submitted to ECML/PKDD 2014 will normally be reviewed by three referees. The review process is single-blind (reviewer identities unknown to authors) and there will be no opportunity for author rebuttal. This decision was made to minimize reviewer workload and to concentrate it in time, which may ultimately result in better quality reviews and decisions. If necessary, a discussion will take place among the reviewers of a paper until a decision is reached. ----------------------------------------------------------- Important dates ----------------------------------------------------------- Abstract submission deadline: 12 April 2014 Paper submission deadline: 16 April 2014 Author notification: 15 June 2014 Camera ready submission: 23 June 2014 ----------------------------------------------------------- Contact ----------------------------------------------------------- You can contact the Program Committee Chairs at pcchairs at ecmlpkdd2014.org. Toon Calders, Floriana Esposito, Eyke Hüllermeier, Rosa Meo -------------- nächster Teil -------------- Ein Dateianhang mit HTML-Daten wurde abgetrennt... URL: From calimeri at mat.unical.it Fri Mar 14 20:47:47 2014 From: calimeri at mat.unical.it (Francesco Calimeri) Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2014 20:47:47 +0100 Subject: [UPDATE] 5th Answer Set Programming Competition 2014 - CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS Message-ID: [apologies for any cross-posting] [UPDATED: **IMPORTANT DATES**] ======================================================================== ================================================================== 5th Answer Set Programming Competition 2014 Call for Participant Systems Aalto University, University of Calabria, University of Genova Spring/Summer 2014 https://www.mat.unical.it/aspcomp2014 aspcomp2014 at mat.unical.it ================================================================== Special edition of the ASP competition series: system track **Part of the Olympic Games of the Vienna Summer of Logic 2014** == Important Dates (NEW) == * March 1st, 2014: Participant registration opens * March 31st, 2014: Participant registration closes (NEW) * April 15th, 2014: The competition starts (EXTENDED) * July 2014: Awards are presented at FLoC (22nd) and at ICLP (19th-22nd) ======================================================================== From pnse14 at informatik.uni-hamburg.de Sat Mar 15 23:29:32 2014 From: pnse14 at informatik.uni-hamburg.de (PNSE14) Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2014 23:29:32 +0100 Subject: Call for Papers: PNSE'14 Petri Nets and Software Engineering Message-ID: <5324D44C.2080200@informatik.uni-hamburg.de> PNSE'14 International Workshop on Petri Nets and Software Engineering Tunis, Tunisia, June 23-24, 2014 a satellite event of Petri Nets 2014 and ACSD 2014 35th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON APPLICATION AND THEORY OF PETRI NETS AND CONCURRENCY AND 14th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON APPLICATION OF CONCURRENCY TO SYSTEM DESIGN More information: http://www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/TGI/events/pnse14/ Contact e-mail: pnse14 at informatik.uni-hamburg.de __________________________________________________________________ Important Dates Deadline for full papers: April 1st, 2014 Deadline for short papers: April 1st, 2014 Notification of paper acceptance: May 1st, 2014 Deadline for posters: May 10th, 2014 Notification of poster acceptance: May 12th, 2014 Deadline for final revisions: May 15th, 2014 __________________________________________________________________ Scope For the successful realisation of complex systems of interacting and reactive software and hardware components the use of a precise language at different stages of the development process is of crucial importance. Petri nets are becoming increasingly popular in this area, as they provide a uniform language supporting the tasks of modelling, validation, and verification. Their popularity is due to the fact that Petri nets capture fundamental aspects of causality, concurrency and choice in a natural and mathematically precise way without compromising readability. The workshop PNSE'14 (Petri nets and Software Engineering) will take place as a satellite event of Petri Nets 2014 and ACSD 2014. The use of Petri nets (P/T-nets, coloured Petri nets and extensions) in the formal process of software engineering, covering modelling, validation, and verification, will be presented as well as their application and tools supporting the disciplines mentioned above. __________________________________________________________________ Topics We welcome contributions describing original research in topics related to Petri nets in combination with software engineering, addressing open problems or presenting new ideas regarding the relation of Petri nets and software engineering. Furthermore we look for surveys addressing open problems and new applications of Petri nets. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: Modelling * representation of formal models by intuitive modelling concepts * guidelines for the construction of system models * representative examples * process-, service-, state-, event-, object- and agent-oriented approaches * adaption, integration, and enhancement of concepts from other disciplines * views and abstractions of systems * model-driven architecture * modelling software landscapes * web service-based software development Validation and Execution * prototyping * simulation, observation, animation * code generation and execution * testing and debugging * process mining * efficient implementation Verification * structural methods (e.g. place invariants, reduction rules) * results for structural subclasses of nets * relations between structure and behaviour * state space based approaches * efficient model checking * assertional and deductive methods (e.g. temporal logics) * process algebraic methods * applications of category theory and linear logic * general analysis for software engineering contexts Application of Petri nets in Software Engineering, in particular the use of Petri nets in the domains of * flexible manufacturing * logistics * telecommunication * workflow management * embedded systems Tools in the fields mentioned above __________________________________________________________________ Submissions The programme committee invites submissions of full contributions (up to 20 pages) or short contributions (up to 5 pages). Ongoing work (up to 2 pages) can also be presented in a special poster session. Please note that for full contributions up to 15 pages are recommended. Papers should be submitted in electronic form (PDF) using the Springer LNCS-format (see http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html). Submissions should include title, authors' addresses, E-mail addresses, keywords and an abstract. For your submission in PDF format please use the online conference management system at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=pnse14 Just login or create a new account and then upload your paper. (Later you will be able to see your reviews there.) The papers will be peer reviewed by at least three members of the PC. Accepted contributions will be included in the workshop proceedings, which will be published online at CEUR-WS.org as one volume. __________________________________________________________________ Some of the best papers from the workshop will be invited for publication in a volume of the journal sub line of Lecture Notes in Computer Science entitled "Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency" (ToPNoC). The papers are expected to be thoroughly revised and they will go through a totally new round of reviewing as is standard practice for journal papers. Papers from previous instances of this workshop (PNSE'07, PNDS'08, PNSE'09, PNSE'10, PNSE'11, PNSE'12 and PNSE'13) made it into ToPNoC volumes in the Springer LNCS series (volumes 5100, 5460, 5800, 6550, 6900 and 7400). __________________________________________________________________ Chairs * Daniel Moldt (University of Hamburg, Germany) * Heiko Rölke (DIPF, Germany) -- Please use mailto:pnse14 at informatik.uni-hamburg.de or http://www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/TGI/events/pnse14/ to contact us with respect to PNSE14 PNSE14 PC-Chairs: Daniel Moldt and Heiko Rölke *** Event: Petri Nets and Software Engineering, June 23/24, 2014 *** *** visit: http://www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/TGI/events/pnse14 *** From feeds at sentic.net Sun Mar 16 13:59:02 2014 From: feeds at sentic.net (feeds) Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2014 07:59:02 -0500 (EST) Subject: [SenticNet] Deadline Extension: ESWC'14 Challenge on Concept-Level Sentiment Analysis Message-ID: <1463371656.354734.1394974742946.open-xchange@bosoxweb01.eigbox.net> Apologies for cross-posting, The submission deadline of the ESWC'14 Challenge on Concept-Level Sentiment Analysis (http://sentic.net/challenge) has been extended to 31st March. The Challenge will be held in Crete, Greece, on 25th May 2014 at the European Semantic Web Conference. The Challenge is open to everyone from industry and academia. RATIONALE Mining opinions and sentiments from natural language, however, is an extremely difficult task as it involves a deep understanding of most of the explicit and implicit, regular and irregular, syntactical and semantic rules proper of a language. Existing approaches mainly rely on parts of text in which opinions and sentiments are explicitly expressed such as polarity terms, affect words and their co-occurrence frequencies. However, opinions and sentiments are often conveyed implicitly through latent semantics, which make purely syntactical approaches ineffective. To this end, concept-level sentiment analysis aims to go beyond a mere word-level analysis of text and provide novel approaches to opinion mining and sentiment analysis that allow a more efficient passage from (unstructured) textual information to (structured) machine-processable data, in potentially any domain. Concept-level sentiment analysis focuses on a semantic analysis of text through the use of web ontologies or semantic networks, which allow the aggregation of conceptual and affective information associated with natural language opinions. By relying on large semantic knowledge bases, concept- level sentiment analysis steps away from blind use of keywords and word co- occurrence count, but rather relies on the implicit features associated with natural language concepts. Unlike purely syntactical techniques, concept- based approaches are able to detect also sentiments that are expressed in a subtle manner, e.g., through the analysis of concepts that do not explicitly convey any emotion, but which are implicitly linked to other concepts that do so. The Challenge focuses on the introduction, presentation, and discussion of novel approaches to concept-level sentiment analysis. Participants will have to design a concept-level opinion-mining engine that exploits common-sense knowledge bases, e.g., SenticNet, and/or Linked Data and Semantic Web ontologies, e.g., DBPedia, to perform multi-domain sentiment analysis. The main motivation for the Challenge, in particular, is to go beyond a mere word-level analysis of natural language text and provide novel concept-level tools and techniques that allow a more efficient passage from (unstructured) natural language to (structured) machine-processable data, in potentially any domain. Systems must have a semantics flavor (e.g., by making use of Linked Data or known semantic networks within their core functionalities) and authors need to show how the introduction of semantics can be used to obtain valuable information, functionality or performance. Existing natural language processing methods or statistical approaches can be used too as long as the semantics plays a main role within the core approach (engines based merely on syntax/word-count will be excluded from the competition). TASKS The Concept-Level Sentiment Analysis Challenge is defined in terms of different tasks. The first task is elementary whereas the others are more advanced. The input units of each task are sentences. Sentences are assumed to be in grammatically correct American English and have to be processed according to the input format specified at http://sentic.net/challenge/sentence. Elementary Task: Polarity Detection The main goal of the Challenge is polarity detection. The proposed systems will be assessed according to precision, recall and F-measure of detected binary polarity values (1=positive; 0=negative) for each input sentence of the evaluation dataset, following the same format asinhttp://sentic.net/challenge/task0. The problem of subjectivity detection is not addressed within this Challenge, hence participants can assume that there will be no neutral sentences. Participants are encouraged to use the Sentic API or further develop and apply sentic computing tools. Advanced Task #1: Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis The output of this task will be a set of aspects of the reviewed product and a binary polarity value associated to each of such aspects, in the format specified at http://sentic.net/challenge/task1. So, for example, while for the Elementary Task an overall polarity (positive or negative) is expected for a review about a mobile phone, this task requires a set of aspects (such as ‘speaker’, ‘touchscreen’, ‘camera’, etc.) and a polarity value (positive OR negative) associated with each of such aspects. Systems will be assessed according to both aspect extraction and aspect polarity detection. Advanced Task #2: Semantic Parsing As suggested by the title, the Challenge focuses on sentiment analysis at concept-level. This means that the proposed systems are not supposed to work at word/syntax level but rather work with concepts/semantics. Hence, this task will evaluate the capability of the proposed systems to deconstruct natural language text into concepts, following the same format as in http://sentic.net/challenge/task2. SenticNet will be taken as a reference to test the efficiency of the proposed parsers, but extracted concepts won't necessary have to match SenticNet concepts. The proposed systems, for example, are supposed to be able to extract a multi-word expression like ‘buy christmas present’ from sentences such as “Today I bought a lot of very nice Christmas presents’. The number of extracted concepts per sentence will be assessed through precision, recall and F-measure against the evaluation dataset. Advanced Task #3: Topic Spotting Input sentences will be about four different domains, namely: books, DVDs, electronics, and kitchen appliances. This task focuses on the automatic classification of sentences into one of such domains, in the format specified at http://sentic.net/challenge/task3. All sentences are assumed to belong to only one of the above-mentioned domains. The proposed systems are supposed to exploit the extracted concepts to infer which domain each sentence belongs to. Classification accuracy will be evaluated in terms of precision, recall and F-measure against the evaluation dataset. EVALUATION Systems will be evaluated against a testing dataset which will be revealed and released after the first-round of evaluation during the Conference. Participants are suggested to train and/or test their own systems using the Blitzer Dataset. The testing dataset will be constructed in the same way and from the same sources as the Blitzer dataset. The evaluation will be performed by the members of the Program Committee. For systems that can be tuned with different parameters, please indicate a range of up to 4 sets of settings. Settings with the best F-measures will be considered for judgment. For each system, reviewers will give a numerical score within the range [1-10] and details motivating their choice. The scores will be given to the following aspects: 1. Use of common-sense knowledge and semantics; 2. Precision, recall, and F-measure wrt the selected task; 3. Computational time; 4. Innovative nature of the approach. JUDGING AND PRIZES After a first round of review, the Program Committee and the chairs will select a number of submissions confirming to the challenge requirements that will be invited to present their work. Submissions accepted for presentation will be included in post-proceedings and will receive constructive reviews from the Program Committee. All accepted submissions will have a slot in a poster session dedicated to the challenge. In addition, the winners will present their work in a special slot of the main program of ESWC and will be invited to submit a paper to a dedicated Semantic Web Journal special issue. For the Concept-Level Sentiment Analysis Challenge there will be two awards for each task: - Quantitative: the system with the highest average score in items 1-3 above; - Innovative: the system with the highest score in item 4 above. There will be a board of judges at the conference who will evaluate again the systems in more detail. The judges will then meet in private to discuss the entries and to determine the winners. It may happen that the same system runs for both the awards. An amount of €700 has already been secured for the first task, for what the first point of the evaluation aspects is concerned. We are currently working on securing further funding. HOW TO PARTICIPATE The following information has to be provided via EasyChair: - Abstract: no more than 200 words. - Description: It should contain the details of the system, including why the system is innovative, how it uses Semantic Web, which features or functions the system provides, what design choices were made and what lessons were learned. The description should also summarize how participants have addressed the evaluation tasks. Papers must be submitted in PDF format, following the style of the Springer’s Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series, and not exceeding 5 pages in length. - Web Access: The application can either be accessible via the web or downloadable. If the application is not publicly accessible, password must be provided. A short set of instructions on how to use the application should be provided as well. Please share comments and questions with the challenge mailing list. The organizers will assist you for any potential issues that could be raised. TIMEFRAME - March 31, 2014, 23:59 (Hawaii time): Submission - April 9, 2014, 23:59 (Hawaii time): Notification of acceptance - May 27-29, 2014: Challenge days CHALLENGE CHAIRS - Erik Cambria, National University of Singapore (Singapore) - Diego Reforgiato, CNR STLAB Laboratory (Italy) _______________________________ SenticNet - http://sentic.net Helping machines to learn, leverage, love Twitter: http://twitter.com/senticnet Facebook: http://facebook.com/senticnet Subscribe: mailto:feeds at sentic.net?subject=SUB Unsubscribe: mailto:feeds at sentic.net?subject=UNSUB From announce at cs.ucy.ac.cy Sun Mar 16 12:39:26 2014 From: announce at cs.ucy.ac.cy (Announce Announcements) Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2014 13:39:26 +0200 Subject: ICTAI 2014: Second Call for Papers Message-ID: *** SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS *** 26th IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence ICTAI 2014 (pending IEEE approval) November 10-12, 2014, Limassol, Cyprus http://ictai2014.cs.ucy.ac.cy Aim & Scope The annual IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI) provides a major international forum where the creation and exchange of ideas related to artificial intelligence are fostered among academia, industry, and government agencies. The conference facilitates the cross-fertilization of these ideas and promotes their transfer into practical tools, for developing intelligent systems and pursuing artificial intelligence applications. The ICTAI encompasses all technical aspects of specifying, developing and evaluating the theoretical underpinnings and applied mechanisms of the AI-based components of computer tools such as algorithms, architectures and languages. Topics (not limited to) AI Foundations - Evolutionary computing, Bayesian and Neural Networks - Decision/Utility Theory and Decision Optimization - Search, SAT, and CSP - Description Logic and Ontologies AI in Domain Specific Applications - AI in Natural Language Processing and Understanding - AI in Computational Biology, Medicine and Biomedical Applications - AI in WWW, Communication, Social Networking, Recommender Systems, Games and E-Commerce - AI in Finance and Risk Management AI in Computer Systems - AI in Robotics, Computer Vision and Games - AI in Software Engineering, Real-Time and Embedded Applications, and Sensor Networks - AI in Cloud Computing, Data-Intensive Applications and Online/Streaming and Multimedia Systems - AI in Web search and Information Retrieval - AI in Computer Security, Data Privacy, and Information Assurance AI in Data Analytics and Big Data - Visualization Analytics for Big Data - Computational Modeling for Big Data - Large-scale Recommendation and Social Media Systems - Cloud/Grid/Stream Data Mining for Big Velocity Data - Semantic-based Big Data Mining Machine Learning and Data Mining - Data pre-processing, reduction and feature selection - Learning Graphical Models and Complex Networks - Active, Cost-Sensitive, Semi-Supervised, Multi-Instance, Multi-Label and Multi-Task Learning - Transfer/Adaptive, Rational and Structured Learning - Preference/Ranking, Ensemble, and Reinforcement Learning Knowledge Representation, Reasoning and Cognitive Modelling - Knowledge Representation, Reasoning - Knowledge Extraction, Management and Sharing - Case-Based Reasoning and Knowledge-based Systems - Cognitive Modelling and Semantic Web AI and Decision Systems - Decision Guidance and Support Systems - Optimization-based recommender systems - Group, distributed, and collaborative decisions - Crowd-sourcing and collective intelligence decision making - Strategic, tactical and operational level decisions - Decision making in social and mobile networks Uncertainty in AI - Uncertainty and Fuzziness Representation and Reasoning - Approximate/Exact Probabilistic Inference - Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining for Uncertain Data Paper Submission The submissions should contain original, high quality, not submitted or published elsewhere work. Papers should be submitted electronically through the EasyChair system in pdf format and should conform to IEEE specifications (single-spaced, double-column, 10-point font size, up to 8 pages). Paper Presentation Each accepted paper should be presented by one of the authors and accompanied by at least one full registration fee payment, to guarantee publication in the proceedings. All accepted papers will be included in proceedings of ICTAI 2014 that will be published by the IEEE Computer Society. IJAIT special issue Extended versions of the best papers of the conference will be invited for publication in a special issue of the International Journal on Artificial Intelligence Tools (IJAIT) (SCI Indexed). Important Dates Paper submission: June 30, 2014 Paper notification: July 30, 2014 Camera-ready paper: August 30, 2014 Point of Contact George A. 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URL: From mit at cse.unsw.edu.au Mon Mar 17 08:59:02 2014 From: mit at cse.unsw.edu.au (Michael Thielscher) Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2014 18:59:02 +1100 Subject: KI 2014: Second Call for Papers Message-ID: <681C6B5A-BF79-429F-8523-6AFCF7B3DCEA@cse.unsw.edu.au> **** Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this call **** ====================================================================== KI 2014 - The 37th German Conference on Artificial Intelligence Stuttgart, September 22--26, 2014 ====================================================================== www.ki2014.de KI 2014 is the 37th edition of the German Conference on Artificial Intelligence, which traditionally brings together academic and industrial researchers from all areas of AI, providing a premier forum for exchanging news and research results on theory and applications of intelligent system technology. The technical program of KI 2014 will comprise paper and poster presentations and a variety of workshops and tutorials. KI 2014 will be co-located with Informatik 2014 (Annual Conference of the German Informatics Society) and MATES 2014 (The 12th German Conference on Multi- Agent System Technologies). The conference invites original research papers from all areas of AI, its fundamentals, its algorithms, its history and its applications. You are invited to submit original research and application papers on all aspects of AI research, including but not limited to the following: - Agent-based and multiagent systems - AI applications and innovations - Cognitive modeling - Commonsense reasoning - Computer vision - Constraint satisfaction, search, and optimization - Evolutionary computation - Game playing and interactive entertainment - Information retrieval, integration, and extraction - Knowledge acquisition and ontologies - Knowledge representation and reasoning - Machine learning and data mining - Multidisciplinary AI - Natural language processing - Planning and scheduling - Robotics - Uncertainty in AI - Web and information systems We especially welcome application papers that provide novel insights on the interplay of AI and the real world, as well as papers that bring useful computational technologies from other areas of computer science into AI. ======== Important Dates ======== Workshop/Tutorial submission: March 15 Full/Short Paper submission: May 1 Acceptance notification: June 23 Final version due: July 4 KI Workshops and Conference: September 22-26 ======== Workshops, Tutorials, Doctoral Consortium ======== Together with the main conference, we plan to organize a small number of high-quality workshops and tutorials. We especially encourage workshops organized by AI Special Interest Groups (GI-Fachgruppen), workshops that bring together researchers from different disciplines, and workshops that highlight emerging topics of AI research. Tutorials should target a large percentage of conference participants, including graduate students as well as experienced researchers, and practitioners. The technical program of KI2014 is also complemented by a doctoral consortium that invites participation by PhD students at any stage and from any subject area within AI. The KI doctoral consortium is organized as a joint event with the doctoral program of Informatik 2014, and includes a mentoring program, a PhD workshop, and poster presentations. For details on submitting workshop and tutorials and for applying to the doctoral consortium, please see the KI2014 web page. ======== Submission ======== Submitted papers, which have to be in English, must not exceed 12 pages in Springer LNCS style for full technical contributions and 6 pages for short papers. Full technical papers are expected to report on new research that makes a substantial technical contribution to the field. Short papers are also included in the main proceedings and can report on new research or other issues of interest to the AI community. Examples of work suitable for short paper submissions include: novel ideas whose scope is not large enough for a full paper: important implementation techniques; novel interesting benchmark problems; short experimental studies; interesting applications that are not yet completely solved or analyzed; position or challenge papers; etc. Short paper submissions are especially invited for software demonstration or PhD work in progress. Submission will be through the Easychair conference management system : http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ki2014 Papers will be subject to blind peer review. All papers will be reviewed based on the standard criteria of relevance, significance of results, originality of ideas, soundness, and quality of the presentation. All accepted papers will be published in the main conference proceedings, and will be presented at the conference. At least one author of each accepted paper must register for the conference and present the contribution. The KI 2014 proceedings will be published by Springer as a volume of the LNAI (Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence) series. ======== Main Organizers ======== Program Chairs * Carsten Lutz (Universität Bremen) * Michael Thielscher (University of New South Wales) Workshop and Tutorial Chair * Frieder Stolzenburg (Hochschule Harz) Doctoral Consortium Chair * Markus Krötzsch (TU Dresden) For enquiries, please contact ki2014 at easychair.org. From xrambous at aurora.fi.muni.cz Mon Mar 17 09:30:44 2014 From: xrambous at aurora.fi.muni.cz (TSD 2014) Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2014 09:30:44 +0100 Subject: TSD 2014 - Last Call for Papers Message-ID: ********************************************************* TSD 2014 - LAST CALL FOR PAPERS ********************************************************* Seventeenth International Conference on TEXT, SPEECH and DIALOGUE (TSD 2014) Brno, Czech Republic, 8-12 September 2014 http://www.tsdconference.org/ THE SUBMISSION DEADLINE: March 22 2014 ............ Submission of full papers The submission will be closed during the next working day after the deadline - for individual extension requirements please contact the organizers (tsd2014 at tsdconference.org). KEYNOTE SPEAKERS Ralph Grishman, New York University, USA Bernardo Magnini, FBK - Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy Salim Roukos, IBM, USA The conference is organized by the Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University, Brno, and the Faculty of Applied Sciences, University of West Bohemia, Pilsen. The conference is supported by International Speech Communication Association. Venue: Brno, Czech Republic TSD SERIES TSD series evolved as a prime forum for interaction between researchers in both spoken and written language processing from all over the world. Proceedings of TSD form a book published by Springer-Verlag in their Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) series. TSD Proceedings are regularly indexed by Thomson Reuters Conference Proceedings Citation Index. Moreover, LNAI series are listed in all major citation databases such as DBLP, SCOPUS, EI, INSPEC or COMPENDEX. TOPICS Topics of the conference will include (but are not limited to): 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 (morphological and syntactic analysis, synthesis and disambiguation, 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) Papers on processing of languages other than English are strongly encouraged. PROGRAM COMMITTEE Hynek Hermansky, USA (general chair) Eneko Agirre, Spain Genevieve Baudoin, France Paul Cook, Australia Jan Cernocky, Czech Republic Simon Dobrisek, Slovenia Karina Evgrafova, Russia Darja Fiser, Slovenia Radovan Garabik, Slovakia Alexander Gelbukh, Mexico Louise Guthrie, GB Jan Hajic, Czech Republic Eva Hajicova, Czech Republic Yannis Haralambous, France Ludwig Hitzenberger, Germany Jaroslava Hlavacova, Czech Republic Ales Horak, Czech Republic Eduard Hovy, USA Maria Khokhlova, Russia Daniil Kocharov, Russia Ivan Kopecek, Czech Republic Valia Kordoni, Germany Steven Krauwer, The Netherlands Siegfried Kunzmann, Germany Natalija Loukachevitch, Russia Vaclav Matousek, Czech Republic Diana McCarthy, United Kingdom France Mihelic, Slovenia Hermann Ney, Germany Elmar Noeth, Germany Karel Oliva, Czech Republic Karel Pala, Czech Republic Nikola Pavesic, Slovenia Fabio Pianesi, Italy Maciej Piasecki, Poland Adam Przepiorkowski, Poland Josef Psutka, Czech Republic James Pustejovsky, USA German Rigau, Spain Leon Rothkrantz, The Netherlands Anna Rumshisky, USA Milan Rusko, Slovakia Mykola Sazhok, Ukraine Pavel Skrelin, Russia Pavel Smrz, Czech Republic Petr Sojka, Czech Republic Stefan Steidl, Germany Georg Stemmer, Germany Marko Tadic, Croatia Tamas Varadi, Hungary Zygmunt Vetulani, Poland Pascal Wiggers, The Netherlands Yorick Wilks, GB Marcin Wolinski, Poland Victor Zakharov, Russia FORMAT OF THE CONFERENCE The conference program will include presentation of invited papers, oral presentations, and poster/demonstration sessions. Papers will be presented in plenary or topic oriented sessions. Social events including a trip in the vicinity of Brno will allow for additional informal interactions. SUBMISSION OF PAPERS Authors are invited to submit a full paper not exceeding 8 pages formatted in the LNCS style (see below). Those accepted will be presented either orally or as posters. The decision about the presentation format will be based on the recommendation of the reviewers. The authors are asked to submit their papers using the on-line form accessible from the conference website. Papers submitted to TSD 2014 must not be under review by any other conference or publication during the TSD review cycle, and must not be previously published or accepted for publication elsewhere. As reviewing will be blind, the paper should not include the authors' names and affiliations. Furthermore, self-references that reveal the author's identity, e.g., "We previously showed (Smith, 1991) ...", should be avoided. Instead, use citations such as "Smith previously showed (Smith, 1991) ...". Papers that do not conform to the requirements above are subject to be rejected without review. The authors are strongly encouraged to write their papers in TeX or LaTeX formats. These formats are necessary for the final versions of the papers that will be published in the Springer Lecture Notes. Authors using a WORD compatible software for the final version must use the LNCS template for WORD and within the submit process ask the Proceedings Editors to convert the paper to LaTeX format. For this service a service-and-license fee of CZK 2000 will be levied automatically. The paper format for review has to be either PDF or PostScript file with all required fonts included. Upon notification of acceptance, presenters will receive further information on submitting their camera-ready and electronic sources (for detailed instructions on the final paper format see http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html#Proceedings, Sample File typeinst.zip). Authors are also invited to present actual projects, developed software or interesting material relevant to the topics of the conference. The presenters of demonstrations should provide an abstract not exceeding one page. The demonstration abstracts will not appear in the conference proceedings. IMPORTANT DATES March 22 2014 ............ Submission of full papers May 15 2014 .............. Notification of acceptance May 31 2014 .............. Final papers (camera ready) and registration August 3 2014 ............ Submission of demonstration abstracts August 10 2014 ........... Notification of acceptance for demonstrations sent to the authors September 8-12 2014 ...... Conference date Submission of abstracts serves for better organization of the review process only - for the actual review a full paper submission is necessary. The accepted conference contributions will be published in proceedings that will be made available to participants at the time of the conference. OFFICIAL LANGUAGE The official language of the conference is English. ACCOMMODATION The organizing committee will arrange discounts on accommodation in the 4-star hotel at the conference venue. The current prices of the accommodation will be available at the conference website. ADDRESS All correspondence regarding the conference should be addressed to Ales Horak, TSD 2014 Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University Botanicka 68a, 602 00 Brno, Czech Republic phone: +420-5-49 49 18 63 fax: +420-5-49 49 18 20 email: tsd2014 at tsdconference.org The official TSD 2014 homepage is: http://www.tsdconference.org/ LOCATION Brno is the second largest city in the Czech Republic with a population of almost 400.000 and is the country's judiciary and trade-fair center. Brno is the capital of South Moravia, which is located in the south-east part of the Czech Republic and is known for a wide range of cultural, natural, and technical sights. South Moravia is a traditional wine region. Brno had been a Royal City since 1347 and with its six universities it forms a cultural center of the region. Brno can be reached easily by direct flights from London, Moscow, and Eindhoven, and by trains or buses from Prague (200 km) or Vienna (130 km). For the participants with some extra time, nearby places may also be of interest. Local ones include: Brno Castle now called Spilberk, Veveri Castle, the Old and New City Halls, the Augustine Monastery with St. Thomas Church and crypt of Moravian Margraves, Church of St. James, Cathedral of St. Peter & Paul, Cartesian Monastery in Kralovo Pole, the famous Villa Tugendhat designed by Mies van der Rohe along with other important buildings of between-war Czech architecture. For those willing to venture out of Brno, Moravian Karst with Macocha Chasm and Punkva caves, battlefield of the Battle of three emperors (Napoleon, Russian Alexander and Austrian Franz - Battle by Austerlitz), Chateau of Slavkov (Austerlitz), Pernstejn Castle, Buchlov Castle, Lednice Chateau, Buchlovice Chateau, Letovice Chateau, Mikulov with one of the largest Jewish cemeteries in Central Europe, Telc - a town on the UNESCO heritage list, and many others are all within easy reach. From ricca at mat.unical.it Mon Mar 17 12:53:30 2014 From: ricca at mat.unical.it (Francesco Ricca) Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2014 12:53:30 +0100 Subject: RCRA 2014: call for papers Message-ID: <20140317115330.98E023568009@ml.mat.unical.it> [APOLOGIES FOR MULTIPLE POSTINGS] * __________________________________________________________________________ * Call for papers The 21st RCRA workshop: Experimental evaluation of algorithms for solving problems with combinatorial explosion --- RCRA 2014 --- A FLoC workshop at the Vienna Summer of Logic (VSL 2014) Affiliated with SAT 2014, ICLP 2014, IJCAR 2014 Vienna, Austria, July 17-18, 2014 RCRA group web site: http://rcra.aixia.it/ Workshop web site: http://rcra.aixia.it/rcra2014 e-mail: rcra2014 at gmail.com * __________________________________________________________________________ * The 21st edition of the RCRA workshop will take place in Vienna during the Vienna Summer of Logic ( VSL - htpp://http://vsl2014.at ) which will be the largest event in the history of logic. VSL will consist of twelve large conferences and many workshops, attracting researchers from all over the world. RCRA 2014 is a FLoC workshop affiliated with SAT 2014, ICLP 2014, IJCAR 2014. It will be held in the Workshop Block 2 ( see http://vsl2014.at/ataglance ) after SAT 2014 and before ICLP2014 and IJCAR2014. As in previous editions (http://rcra.aixia.it/publications), authors of papers orally presented at the workshop will have the opportunity to participate to the selection of a special issue that will appear on an international journal. IMPORTANT DATES * Submission deadline for abstracts: March 25, 2014 * Submission deadline for papers: April 1, 2014 * Acceptance/reject notification: May 1, 2014 * Camera-ready papers due: May 20, 2014 * RCRA 2014: July 17-18, 2014 HISTORY OF THE WORKSHOP SERIES The RCRA workshops are organized by the RCRA (Knowledge Representation & Automated Reasoning) group of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence. The last editions have been as follows: * RCRA 2013, Rome, Italy - http://rcra.aixia.it/rcra2013 Extended versions of the best papers will appear in a special issue of Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Artificial Intelligence * RCRA 2012 as a workshop of AI*IA 2012, Rome, Italy - http://rcra.aixia.it/rcra2012 Extended versions of the best papers will appear in a special issue of AI Communications * RCRA 2011 as a workshop of IJCAI 2011, Barcelona, Spain - http://rcra.aixia.it/rcra2011 Extended versions of the best papers appear in a special issue of AI Communications * Previous editions: http://rcra.aixia.it/workshops AIMS AND SCOPE Many problems in Artificial Intelligence show an exponential explosion of the search space. Although stemming from different research areas in AI, such problems are often addressed with algorithms that have a common goal: the effective exploration of huge state spaces. Many algorithms developed in one research area are applicable to other problems, or can be hybridized with techniques in other areas. Artificial Intelligence tools often exploit or hybridize techniques developed by other research communities, such as Operations Research. In recent years, research in Artificial Intelligence has more and more focused on experimental evaluation of algorithms, the development of suitable methodologies for experimentation and analysis, the study of languages and the implementation of systems for the definition and solution of problems. Scope of the workshop is fostering the cross-fertilization of ideas stemming from different areas, proposing benchmarks for new challenging problems, comparing models and algorithms from an experimental viewpoint, and, in general, comparing different approaches with respect to efficiency, problem modeling, and ease of development. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Experimental evaluation of algorithms for o knowledge representation o automated reasoning o planning o scheduling o machine learning o model checking o boolean satisfiability (SAT) o constraint programming o temporal reasoning o combinatorial optimization o quantified boolean formulae and quantified constraints o modal logics o logic programming o answer set programming o ontological reasoning * Definition and construction of benchmarks * Experimentation methodologies * Metaheuristics * Algorithm hybridization * Static analysis of combinatorial problems * Languages and systems for definition and solution of problems * Comparisons between systems and algorithms * Application experiences WORKSHOP CHAIRS * Toni Mancini Sapienza University, Rome, Italy * Marco Maratea University of Genova, Genova, Italy * Francesco Ricca University of Calabria, Rende, Italy WORKSHOP PROGRAM COMMITTEE * Mario Alviano – Università della Calabria, Rende (Italy) * Laura Barbulescu – Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), Pittsburgh, PA (USA) * Roman Bartak – Charles University, Prague (Czech Republic) * Sara Bernardini – King's College London (UK) * Alessandro Dal Palù – Università di Parma (Italy) * Francesco Donini – Università degli Studi della Tuscia, Viterbo (Italy) * Wolfgang Faber – University of Huddersfield, Huddersfield (UK) * Andrea Formisano – Università di Perugia (Italy) * Marco Gavanelli – Università di Ferrara (Italy) * Philippe Laborie – ILOG, IBM, Gentilly (France) * Yuliya Lierler – University of Nebraska, Omaha, (USA) * Ines Lynce – Universidade Técnica de Lisboa (Portugal) * Joao Marques-Silva – University College Dublin (Ireland) * Marco Montali – Free University of Bolzano (Italy) * Angelo Oddi – National Research Council (CNR), Rome (Italy) * Andreas Pieris – University of Oxford (UK) * Luca Pulina – Università di Sassari (Italy) * Daniel Riera – Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Barcelona (Spain) * Marco Roveri – FBK, Trento (Italy) * Francesco Scarcello – Università della Calabria, Rende (Italy) * Ivan Serina – Università degli Studi di Brescia (Italy) * Andrea Schaerf – Università di Udine (Italy) * Paolo Torroni – Università di Bologna (Italy) * Mirek Truszczynski – University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY (USA) * Stefan Woltran – Technische Universitat Wien (Austria) HOST ORGANIZATION Vienna Summer of Logic, Vienna, Austria FLoC workshop affiliated with SAT 2014, ICLP 2014, IJCAR 2014 SUBMISSIONS Authors are invited to submit either original (full or short) papers, or papers that appear on conference proceedings. Publications showing negative results are welcome, provided that the approach was original and very promising in principle, the experimentation was well-conducted, the results obtained were unforeseeable and gave important hints in the comprehension of the target problem, helping other researchers to avoid unsuccessful paths. At the time of submission, authors are requested to clearly specify whether their submission is original or already published. Workshop submissions must be in PDF format, do not exceed 15 (for full papers) or 8 (for short papers) pages, and should be written in LaTeX, using the LNCS-based RCRA 2014 style available at the workshop web site. RCRA 2014 uses EasyChair for the submission of contributions. Details are available on the web-site. Submissions will be reviewed by at least three members of the program committee. SELECTION FOR THE POST-PROCEEDINGS Authors of papers orally presented at the workshop will have the opportunity to participate to the selection for the post-proceedings by submitting an extended version of their work. As in previous editions (http://rcra.aixia.it/publications), workshop post-proceedings will appear in a special issue of an international journal, provided that a sufficient amount of high quality papers is collected. All candidate articles must be original: they cannot have already been published in journals, and must contain significant additional material with respect to any formal publication. Such papers will go through a second formal selection process, and will be reviewed by at least three reviewers. We aim at a short submission process, and at most one re-submission stage will be allowed. From dehaan at kr.tuwien.ac.at Mon Mar 17 16:23:57 2014 From: dehaan at kr.tuwien.ac.at (Ronald de Haan) Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2014 16:23:57 +0100 Subject: ESSLLI 2014 Student Session Final CfP Message-ID: Please forward to students. Apologies for the multiple messages. *Final Call for Papers* *ESSLLI 2014 STUDENT SESSION* Held during the 26th European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information Tübingen, Germany, August 11-22, 2014 *Deadline for submissions: April 1st, 2014* https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=essllistus2014 *ABOUT:* The Student Session of the 26th European Summer School in Logic, Language, and Information (ESSLLI) will take place in Tübingen, Germany on August 11-22, 2014. 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. *SEPARATE POSTER SESSION:* Note that there are two separate kinds of submissions, one for the oral presentations and one for the posters. This means that papers can be directly submitted as posters. Reviewing and ranking will be done separately. We particularly encourage submissions for posters, as they offer an excellent opportunity to present research in progress. *SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:* All authors must be students, and submissions may be singly or jointly authored. Submissions should not be longer than 8 pages for an oral presentation and 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://www.kr.tuwien.ac.at/drm/dehaan/stus2014/ . *FURTHER INFORMATION:* Please direct inquiries about submission procedures or other matters relating to the Student Session to dehaan at kr.tuwien.ac.at. ESSLLI 2014 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 2014, please consult the main ESSLLI 2014 page: http://www.esslli2014.info/. Kind regards, The ESSLLI 2014 Student Session Organization Committee Chair: - Ronald de Haan (Technische Universität Wien) LoCo (Logic and Computation) co-chairs: - Zoé Christoff (Universiteit van Amsterdam) - Aybüke Özgün (Université de Lorraine) LoLa (Logic and Language) co-chairs: - Philip Schulz (Universiteit van Amsterdam) - Thomas Brochhagen (Universität Düsseldorf) LaCo (Language and Computation) co-chairs: - Miriam Kaeshammer (Universität Düsseldorf) - Ramon Ziai (Universität Tübingen) -------------- nächster Teil -------------- Ein Dateianhang mit HTML-Daten wurde abgetrennt... URL: From laurent.perrussel at ut-capitole.fr Mon Mar 17 21:01:32 2014 From: laurent.perrussel at ut-capitole.fr (Laurent Perrussel) Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2014 21:01:32 +0100 Subject: CFP: ESSLLI Workshop on Information Dynamics in Artificial Societies (IDAS@ESSLLI-14) Message-ID: <5327549C.3050001@ut-capitole.fr> Call for Papers - Deadline: April 30, 2014 --------------- ESSLLI Workshop on Information Dynamics in Artificial Societies (IDAS at ESSLLI2014) http://www.irit.fr/~Laurent.Perrussel/idas-14/ Tubingen (Germany) - August 18-22, 2014 Workshop goal ------------- Describing intelligent agents with the help of cognitive and social notions is now well established in the domain of artificial intelligence. In the recent years, concepts such as trust, reputation, delegation, commitment and convention have been proposed in order to describe how artificial agents interact in an artificial society or in a virtual organization. This workshop aimed at discussing formal theories and logics of information dynamics---including formal theories and logics of belief and preference change, learning theory, social choice theory and judgment aggregation---in order to better understand: - how information circulates in an artificial society by direct interaction, communication, signaling, etc.; - how it influences the individual cognitive attitudes (e.g., beliefs, preferences, trust) and the collective attitudes (e.g., mutual expectations and beliefs). The workshop is an event of ESSLLI-14 and will take place on August 18-22 2014, Tubingen, Germany. For more details about ESSLLI: http://www.esslli2014.info/ Invited Speakers ---------------- Valentin Goranko (Technical Uni. of Denmark) Andreas Herzig (IRIT - Uni. of Toulouse) Call for submissions ------------------- This workshop aims at discussing formal theories and logics of information dynamics, including formal theories and logics of belief and preference change, learning theory, social choice theory and judgement aggregation. Its scope includes not only the technical aspects of logics, but also multidisciplinary aspects from social sciences (economics, social psychology and sociology), social epistemology and linguistics. By focusing on the foundational issues of information dynamics, the workshop will provide a better understanding of key issues such as: are the belief change techniques relevant for modelling cognitive state dynamics? What is the role of communication in trust's breakdown and repair? How information propagates in a social network or in a multi-agent system? Are existing formal theories of belief change and existing formal theories of learning relevant for modelling the dynamics of conventions? Scope ----- Topics of interest include: - Belief change - Formal theories of lying and deception - Social choice theory - Judgement aggregation - Reasoning about action and change - Theories of signalling - Theories of conventions - Learning theory - Epistemic game theory - Speech act theory - Dynamic epistemic logic (DEL) - Logics of agency - Preference dynamics - Theories of delegation - Social network theory As shown by the previous topics, the workshop has an multidisciplinary nature, it covers not only research in AI but also research in economics, philosophy of interaction, sociology, social psychology and linguistics. It reflects the aim of ESSLLI to foster interdisciplinary discussion. Program Committee ----------------- *Workshop chairs* Emiliano Lorini IRIT - Univ. de Toulouse (France) Laurent Perrussel IRIT - Univ. de Toulouse (France) *PC members* Thomas Agotnes (Uni. of Bergen - Norway) Guillaume Aucher (IRISA - Uni. of Rennes - France) Jan Broersen (Utrecht Uni. - The Netherlands) Robert Demolombe (IRIT - Uni. of Toulouse - France) Rino Falcone (ISTC - Roma - Italy) Nina Gierasimczuk (Uni. of Amsterdam - The Netherlands) Valentin Goranko (Technical Uni. of Denmark - Denmark) Davide Grossi (Uni. of Liverpool - UK) Andreas Herzig (IRIT - Uni. of Toulouse - France) Wiebe van der Hoek (Uni. of Liverpool - UK) Andrew Jones (King's college London - UK) Barteld Kooi (Uni. of Groningen - The Netherlands) Tiago de Lima (CRIL - Uni. of Artois - France) Fenrong Liu (Tsinghua Uni. - China) Eric Pacuit (Uni. of Maryland - USA) Olivier Roy (Uni. of Bayreuth - Germany) Jordi Sabater (IIIA-CSIC - Barcelona - Spain) Francois Schwarzentruber (IRISA - Uni. of Rennes - France) Jeremy Seligman (Auckland Uni. - New Zealand) Sonja Smets (Uni. of Amsterdam - The Netherlands) Leon van der Torre (Uni. of Luxembourg - Luxembourg) Nicolas Troquard (ISTC - Trento - Italy) Luca Tummolini (ISTC - CNR) Laure Vieu (IRIT - Uni. of Toulouse - France) Renata Wasserman (Uni. of Sao Paulo - Brazil) Dongmo Zhang (Uni. of Western Sydney - Australia) Submission ---------- Interested authors should format their papers according to AAAI formatting guidelines. Submitted papers might be at the time of submission under review or accepted for publication in a journal or another conference. Papers should not exceed 8 pages and are due by April 30, 2014. All papers will be reviewed by at least two reviewers. Papers must be submitted as PDF through the EasyChair conference system: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=idasesslli14 The proceedings of IDAS at ESSLLI-14 workshop will be published in an informal way on the workshop website. An author of each accepted paper is required to register at ESSLLI and present the paper at ITDAS at ESSLLI-14. A special issue of the Journal of Applied Non-Classical Logics (JANCL) is planned based on selected papers presented at the workshop, of which full versions will be independently reviewed. Key dates --------- Submission deadline April 30, 2014 Acceptance notification May 30, 2014 Camera ready June 10, 2014 Workshop August 18-22, 2014 Sponsorship ----------- This workshop will form part of the coordination activities of SINTELNET (http://www.sintelnet.eu/), the European Network for Social intelligence (FP7-286370), within the Working Group co-chaired by Emiliano Lorini. About Esslli ------------ The European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI) is an annual event under the auspices of the Association for Logic, Language and Information (FoLLI) and brings together logicians, linguists, computer scientists, and philosophers to study language, logic, and information, and their interconnections. ESSLLIs attract around 500 participants from all over the world. There will be about 50 courses at introductory and advanced levels, as well as workshops, invited lectures and a student session (August 11-August22). From aamas14publicity at gmail.com Tue Mar 18 00:48:47 2014 From: aamas14publicity at gmail.com (Matthew Taylor) Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2014 19:48:47 -0400 Subject: [AAMAS-14] Early Registration Deadline Approaching Message-ID: Registration is now open for the 13th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2014). AAMAS 2014 will be held in Paris, France, May 5-9, 2014. Early registration deadline: March 25, 2014 Please note that the AAMAS registration procedure has changed this year. Now, when you register for a workshop day (either Monday, Tuesday, or both), you are allowed to attend any or all of the workshop sessions on that day! See http://aamas2014.lip6.fr for more information about accommodations andregistration. AAMAS 2014 is the thirteenth conference in the AAMAS series. AAMAS is the leading scientific conference for research in autonomous agents andmultiagent systems. The aim of the joint conference is to provide a single, high-profile, internationally respected archival forum for scientific research in the theory and practice of autonomous agents and multiagent systems. AAMAS 2014 has 28 different workshops scheduled, to take place during the first two days of the conference, as well as a doctoral consortium. The gala dinner will take place on May 8th aboard a "bateau-mouche," cruising along the banks of the River Seine to showcase many historical monuments. Program details will be posted soon at http://aamas2014.lip6.fr/programme.php We hope to see you in Paris! -------------- nächster Teil -------------- Ein Dateianhang mit HTML-Daten wurde abgetrennt... URL: From ecmlpkdd2014publicity at gmail.com Tue Mar 18 22:47:26 2014 From: ecmlpkdd2014publicity at gmail.com (ECML PKDD) Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2014 22:47:26 +0100 Subject: ECML/PKDD 2014 Call for Papers for the PhD session Message-ID: [Apologies for multiple postings] * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * CALL FOR PAPERS ECML/PKDD 2014 PhD session https://phdsession-ecmlpkdd2014.greyc.fr/ September 15-19, 2014, Nancy, France * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * AIM AND SCOPE The "European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases" (ECML/PKDD) includes a PhD session on machine learning and knowledge discovery in databases and related application domains. The objective of the session is to provide an environment for students to exchange in an interactive atmosphere their ideas and experiences with peers and to get constructive feedback from senior researchers in machine learning, data mining and related areas. The topics for discussion will be ideas of students and their ongoing work in preparation of their PhD dissertations and their interests in machine learning and data mining. The target audience for the session is mainly PhD students, their advisors, and interested researchers and attendees of ECML/PKDD. During the PhD session, researchers with experience in supervising and examining PhD students will be able to participate and provide feedback and advice to participants. It will be an excellent opportunity for developing person-to-person networks to the benefit of the community and PhD students in their future careers. CALL FOR PAPERS We invite PhD students (PhD in progress or defended not earlier than 31st December 2013) interested in machine learning and/or knowledge discovery in databases, to submit papers on all aspects of machine learning, knowledge discovery and data mining, including real-world applications. Research fields in which machine learning and data mining benefit from cross-fertilization are welcome. The submissions need to propose research ideas that are mature enough to be presented as a paper and whose content can evolve to become a substantial part of a PhD dissertation. The work may be in progress. Papers submitted to the PhD session may include the following items: Motivation, problem description Background and related work (including key references) Novelty and significance relative to the state of the art Approach, data, methods and proposed experiments Results obtained and work in progress Specific research issues for discussion at the PhD session The first author must be a PhD student or a Masters student with a concrete PhD research idea. Co-authors may include the research advisors, committee members and other collaborators as needed. Papers submitted to ECML/PKDD 2014 PhD session will be peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be presented in the special PhD session at ECML/PKDD 2014 and will be published in the session proceedings which will be available through the conference website. The PhD student must register for the conference and give an oral presentation at the PhD session. SUBMISSION All aspects of the submission and notification process will be handled online via the CMT conference management toolkit. The papers must be written in English and formatted according to the Springer LNAI guidelines. Authors instructions and style files can be downloaded at: http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html. The maximum length of papers is 10 pages in this format. For more details on the PhD session, see the webpage at https://phdsession-ecmlpkdd2014.greyc.fr/ IMPORTANT DATES Deadline for submissions: 11th June, 2014 Author notification: 11th July, 2014 Final version: 25th July, 2014 PhD session date: 15-19 September, 2014 ORGANIZATION - Radim Belohlavek, Palacky University, CZ radim.belohlavek at acm.org - Bruno Cremilleux, Universite de Caen, FR bruno.cremilleux at unicaen.fr In case you have any question, please do not hesitate to contact us. -------------- nächster Teil -------------- Ein Dateianhang mit HTML-Daten wurde abgetrennt... URL: From ijv at acm.org Wed Mar 19 12:54:46 2014 From: ijv at acm.org (=?iso-8859-1?Q?Ivan_Jos=E9_Varzinczak?=) Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2014 13:54:46 +0200 Subject: 2nd call for papers: DARe at ECAI 2014 Message-ID: * Apologies for cross-postings * ============================== Call for Papers DARe at ECAI 2014 Date: 19 August 2014 Prague, Czech Republic *** Deadline: 25 May 2014 *** ============================== The International Workshop on "Defeasible and Ampliative Reasoning" (DARe) http://dare2014.yolasite.com held on 19 August 2014 at the European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI 2014) -- Workshop Description and Aims -- Classical reasoning is not flexible enough when directly applied to the formalization of certain nuances of human quotidian decision making. These involve different kinds of reasoning such as reasoning with uncertainty, exceptions, similarity, vagueness, incomplete or contradictory information and many others. It turns out that everyday reasoning usually shows the two salient intertwined aspects below: * Ampliative aspect: augmenting the underlying reasoning by allowing more conclusions. In practical contexts, this amounts to the ability to make inferences that venture beyond the scope of the premises, somehow in an unsound but justifiable way. Prominent examples are (i) default reasoning: jumping to conclusions deemed as plausible 'by default', i.e., in the absence of information to the contrary, like applying negation as failure or adopting the closed-world assumption, and (ii) inductive and abductive reasoning: taking chances in drawing conclusions that implicitly call for further scrutiny or tests by empirical observations, like in making inductive hypothesis in scientific theories or finding abductive explanations in forensics. * Defeasible aspect: curtailing the underlying reasoning by either disregarding or disallowing some conclusions that somehow ought not to be sanctioned. In practice, this amounts to the ability to backtrack one's conclusions or to admit exceptions in reasoning. Some examples of this are (i) retractive reasoning: withdrawing conclusions that have already been derived, like in belief contraction or in negotiation, and (ii) preemptive reasoning: preventing or blocking the inference of some conclusions by disallowing their derivation in the first place, like in dealing with exceptional cases in multiple inheritance networks and in regulatory systems. Several efforts have been put into the study and definition of formalisms within which the aforementioned aspects of everyday reasoning could adequately be captured at different levels. Despite the progress that has been achieved, a large avenue remains open for exploration. Indeed, the literature on nonmonotonic reasoning has focused almost exclusively on defeasibility of argument forms; belief revision paradigms are restricted to an underlying classical (Tarskian) consequence relation, and even if some of the issues related to uncertainty in reasoning have been studied using probabilistic approaches and statistical methods, their integration with qualitative frameworks remain a challenge. Moreover, well-established approaches are largely based on propositional languages or haunted by the undecidability of full first-order logic. Modern applications require formalisms with a good balance between expressive power and computational complexity. DARe aims at bringing together researchers and practitioners from core areas of artificial intelligence, cognitive sciences, philosophy and related disciplines to discuss these kinds of problems and relevant results in a multi-disciplinary forum. The goal of the workshop is to present latest research developments, to discuss current directions in the field, and to collect first-hand feedback from the community. -- Scope of the Workshop -- DARe welcomes contributions on all aspects of defeasible and ampliative reasoning such as (but not limited to): - Abductive and inductive reasoning - Explanation finding, diagnosis and causal reasoning - Inconsistency handling and exception-tolerant reasoning - Decision-making under uncertainty and incomplete information - Default reasoning, nonmonotonic reasoning, nonmonotonic logics, conditional logics - Specific instances and variations of ampliative and defeasible reasoning - Probabilistic and statistical approaches to reasoning - Vagueness, rough sets, granularity and fuzzy-logics - Philosophical foundations of defeasibility - Empirical studies of reasoning - Relationship with cognition and language - Contextual reasoning - Preference-based reasoning - Analogical reasoning - Similarity-based reasoning - Belief dynamics and merging - Argumentation theory, negotiation and conflict resolution - Heuristic and approximate reasoning - Defeasible normative systems - Reasoning about actions and change - Reasoning about knowledge and belief, epistemic and doxastic logics - Ampliative and defeasible temporal and spatial reasoning - Computational aspects of reasoning with uncertainty - Implementations and systems - Applications of uncertainty in reasoning -- Submission Requirements -- We invite submissions of papers presenting original research results or position statements. Submissions must be prepared in Springer's LaTeX style llncs (http://www.springer.com/comp/lncs/Authors.html) and should be no longer than 12 pages excluding references and in PDF format. There is no page limit on the list of references. Please submit to: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dare2014 -- Workshop Proceedings/Notes -- Accepted papers will be made available electronically in the CEUR Workshop Proceedings series (http://ceur-ws.org). Copyright of papers remain with the authors. -- Attendance -- The selection of accepted contributions will be based on relevance, significance and the work's potential to foster discussions and cross-pollination. Therefore submissions of ongoing work are also strongly encouraged. Please check the ECAI 2014 website for registration procedure, fees as well as cancellation policies. -- Important Dates -- - Submission deadline: 25 May 2014 - Notification: 23 June 2014 - Camera ready: 01 July 2014 - Early registration: [TBA] - Late registration: [TBA] - Workshop date: 19 August 2014 -- Invited Speaker -- [TBA] -- Workshop Co-Chairs -- - Richard Booth (Université du Luxembourg) - Giovanni Casini (UKZN-CSIR Meraka Centre for Artificial Intelligence Research, South Africa) - Szymon Klarman (UKZN-CSIR Meraka Centre for Artificial Intelligence Research, South Africa) - Gilles Richard (Université Paul Sabatier, France) - Ivan Varzinczak (UKZN-CSIR Meraka Centre for Artificial Intelligence Research, South Africa) -- Program Committee -- - Natasha Alechina (University of Nottingham, UK) - Carlos Areces (Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina) - Ofer Arieli (Academic College of Tel-Aviv, Israel) - Guillaume Aucher (University of Rennes 1 - INRIA, France) - Christoph Beierle (FernUniversitaet Hagen, Germany) - Mario Benevides (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) - Jean-Yves Béziau (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro and Brazilian Research Council,Brazil) - Antonis Bikakis (University College London, UK) - Alexander Bochman (Holon Institute of Technology, Israel) - Katarina Britz (UKZN-CSIR Meraka Centre for Artificial Intelligence Research, South Africa) - Jim Delgrande (Simon Fraser University, Canada) - Juergen Dix (TU Clausthal, Germany) - Marcelo Finger (Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil) - Michael Fink (TU Wien, Austria) - Nina Gierasimczuk (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands) - Patrick Girard (University of Auckland, New Zealand) - Guido Governatori (NICTA and Queensland University of Technology, Australia) - Sven Ove Hansson (Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden) - Andreas Herzig (IRIT CNRS, France) - Souhila Kaci (Université Montpellier 2, France) - Antonis Kakas (University of Cyprus) - Gabriele Kern-Isberner (TU Dortmund, Germany) - Barteld P. Kooi (University of Groningen, Netherlands) - Willem Labuschagne (University of Otago, New Zealand) - João Marcos (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil) - Thomas Meyer (UKZN-CSIR Meraka Centre for Artificial Intelligence Research, South Africa) - Maurice Pagnucco (The University of New South Wales, Australia) - Laurent Perrussel (Université de Toulouse, France) - Guilin Qi (Southeast University, China) - François Schwarzentruber (ENS Rennes/IRISA) - Sonja Smets (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands) - Umberto Straccia (CNR, Italy) - Mirek Truszczynski (University of Kentucky, USA) - Joost Vennekens (K.U. Leuven, Belgium) - Peter Verdée (Universiteit Gent, Belgium) - Petrucio Viana (Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brazil) - Heinrich Wansing (Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum, Germany) - Renata Wassermann (Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil) - Anna Zamansky (University of Haifa, Israel) -- Further Information -- Please note that according to ECAI policy all workshop participants are required to register for both the workshop and the main conference. ECAI reserves the right to cancel a workshop if not enough participants register. Please visit the workshop website (http://dare2014.yolasite.com) for further information and regular updates. Enquiries should be sent to dare.to.contact.us at gmail.com -- Ivan José Varzinczak Centre for Artificial Intelligence Research - South Africa Homepage: http://krr.meraka.org.za/~ivarzinczak From C.Orasan at wlv.ac.uk Wed Mar 19 16:39:45 2014 From: C.Orasan at wlv.ac.uk (Orasan, Constantin) Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2014 15:39:45 +0000 Subject: Job announcement: Post-Doctoral Fellow in Natural Language Processing Message-ID: <1395243587.13646.41.camel@dinel-work-desktop> Post-Doctoral Research Fellow in Natural Language Processing Research Group in Computational Linguistics Research Institute of Information and Language Processing Salary £32,267 - £38,522 (level of appointment dependent on qualifications and experience) Duration: 3-year position Deadline: 16th April 2014 The Research Group in Computational Lingustics at the University of Wolverhampton, UK (http://clg.wlv.ac.uk) is inviting applications for a 3 year Post-Doctoral Research Fellow in Natural Language Processing. The applicant should have a PhD in Computational Linguistics, Computer Science or Natural Language Processing and proven research experience in these fields. The applicant should have experience of language technologies. Publications in peer-reviewed conferences are essential and publications in good journals are desirable. Experience of project proposal writing is ideal. The applicant should have some teaching experience within the field of Computational Linguistics and good knowledge of machine learning is required. A solid background in programming is required. The position also requires that the appointed person supports principal investigators of EC-funded projects. Therefore, the post-holder will have good communication and interpersonal skills including the ability to communicate with staff at all levels, in person, by telephone or in writing. The ability to work well in a team, to meet deadlines and manage a varied workload by effectively prioritising tasks is essential. Experience with general management of projects is desirable as well as experience in producing technical reports, summaries and project outlines. For informal enquiries please contact Prof. Dr. Ruslan Mitkov at R.Mitkov at wlv.ac.uk or his PA Pam Loi at pam.loi at wlv.ac.uk or +44 1902 321630. To apply online please follow the following link: https://jobs.wlv.ac.uk/wd/plsql/wd_portal.show_job?p_web_site_id=3045&p_web_page_id=180574 The closing date for applications is 16 April 2014, with interviews shortly after that. The University is eager to attract larger numbers of applications from groups of people currently under-represented in the staff population, especially from women and people from ethnic minority groups. -- Dr. Constantin Orasan Reader in Computational Linguistics Research Group in Computational Linguistics http://www.wlv.ac.uk/~in6093/ University of Wolverhampton From Wiebe.Van-Der-Hoek at liverpool.ac.uk Thu Mar 20 09:42:53 2014 From: Wiebe.Van-Der-Hoek at liverpool.ac.uk (Van der Hoek, Wiebe) Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2014 08:42:53 +0000 Subject: Logical Aspects of Multi-Agent Systems: Call for participation References: <6E045FC6-05AB-44EC-8713-3F1BA03B0FEB@in.tu-clausthal.de> Message-ID: <1968B498-45D2-44CC-BAE9-AA2A70B4B23F@liverpool.ac.uk> ======================================================== 7th Workshop on Logical Aspects of Multi-Agent Systems *** LAMAS 2014 *** (satellite workshop of AAMAS 2014) May 5, 2014, Paris, France http://lamas2014.in.tu-clausthal.de CALL FOR PARTICIPATION Deadline for early registration: March 25! ======================================================== ================================= INTRODUCTION ================================= There is a growing interdisciplinary community of researchers and research groups working on logical aspects of MAS from the perspectives of logic, artificial intelligence, computer science, game theory, etc. The LAMAS workshop serves the community as a platform for presentation, exchange, and publication of ideas. The workshop is intended to cover the following subjects: - Logical systems for specification, analysis, and reasoning about MAS - Modeling MAS with logic-based models - Logic in game theory - Logic in social choice theory - Deductive systems and decision procedures for logics for MAS - Development, complexity analysis, and implementation of algorithmic methods for formal verification of MAS - Logic-based tools for MAS - Applications of logics in MAS ================================= KEYNOTE SPEAKERS ================================= Invited talk ---------------- The Logic of Emotion by Prof. John-Jules Meyer (Utrecht University, the Netherlands) Invited tutorial ----------------- The Social Laws Paradigm for Coordinating Multi-Agent Systems by Prof. Thomas Agotnes (University of Bergen, Norway) ================================= ACCEPTED PAPERS AND PROGRAM ================================= The workshop program consists of - an invited talk, - an invited tutorial, - 5 short presentations, - 5 long presentations, and - a panel discussion. The list of accepted papers and the program can be found at: http://lamas2014.in.tu-clausthal.de/program.html ================================= REGISTRATION ================================= The registration is done via the AAMAS main conference. The deadline for early registration is March 25! Details for Registration can be found at: http://aamas2014.lip6.fr/registration.php ================================= IMPORTANT LINKS ================================= Workshop web page: http://lamas2014.in.tu-clausthal.de Workshop program at a glance: http://lamas2014.in.tu-clausthal.de/program.pdf AAMAS 2014 page: http://aamas2014.lip6.fr ================================= WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS and PC CHAIRS ================================= Nils Bulling, Clausthal University of Technology, Germany Wiebe van der Hoek, University of Liverpool, UK ================================= PROGRAM COMMITTEE ================================= Thomas Agotnes, University of Bergen, Norway Natasha Alechina, University of Nottingham, UK Thomas Bolander, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark Jan Broersen, Utrecht University, the Netherlands Juergen Dix, Clausthal University of Technology, Germany Michael Fisher, University of Liverpool, UK Pietro Galliani, Clausthal University of Technology, Germany Valentin Goranko, Technical University of Denmark Andreas Herzig, University of Toulouse, France Wojciech Jamroga, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Joao Leite, New University of Lisbon, Portugal Emiliano Lorini, Universite Paul Sabatier, France John-Jules Meyer, Utrecht University, the Netherlands Aniello Murano, Universita di Napoli Federico II, Italy Ram Ramanujam, Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai, India Pierre-Yves Schobbens, University of Namur, Belgium Nicolas Troquard, Laboratory of Applied Ontology, Trento, Italy Dirk Walther, Dresden University of Technology, Germany Michael Wooldridge, University of Oxford, UK ================================= ORGANIZATION AND CONTACT ================================= The workshop is organized by Nils Bulling, Clausthal University of Technology and Wiebe van der Hoek, University of Liverpool. In case of questions, do not hesitate to contact us at bulling at in.tu-clausthal.de and wiebe.van-der-hoek at liverpool.ac.uk, respectively. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Prof. Wiebe van der Hoek Department of Computer Science University of Liverpool http://www.csc.liv.ac.uk/~wiebe/ tel (+44 151) 7954292, (+44) 7970247480 fax (+44 151) 79 54235 Liverpool L69 3BX, United Kingdom Wiebe.Van-Der-Hoek at liverpool.ac.uk From emilia.oikarinen at aalto.fi Thu Mar 20 13:29:27 2014 From: emilia.oikarinen at aalto.fi (Oikarinen Emilia) Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2014 12:29:27 +0000 Subject: CFP: Workshop on Logic and Search - LaSh 2014 In-Reply-To: <274585DE7BDBEB47A4AF18BAEEC7F114EC0FCBF8@EXMDB07.org.aalto.fi> References: <274585DE7BDBEB47A4AF18BAEEC7F114EC0FBBAB@EXMDB07.org.aalto.fi>,<274585DE7BDBEB47A4AF18BAEEC7F114EC0FCBD5@EXMDB07.org.aalto.fi>,<274585DE7BDBEB47A4AF18BAEEC7F114EC0FCBF8@EXMDB07.org.aalto.fi> Message-ID: <274585DE7BDBEB47A4AF18BAEEC7F114EC0FCC12@EXMDB07.org.aalto.fi> [apologies for any cross-posting] ================================================== WORKSHOP ON LOGIC AND SEARCH - LaSh 2014 Representing and Solving Computational Search Problems Call For Submissions Vienna, Austria, July 18, 2014 http://vsl2014.at/lash/ OVERVIEW The purpose of the LaSh workshops is to foster scientific exchange on subjects related to languages for representing, and methods for solving, computationally challenging search problems. The scope includes study of relevant logics, algorithms, and logic-based systems, and also study of other languages and systems from the viewpoint of logic, broadly construed. Hard combinatorial search and optimization problems abound in science, engineering, and other areas. Examples include planning, scheduling and configuration problems. Several communities have developed general purpose solving technologies for such problems, supported by declarative modelling or specification languages. These include answer set programming (ASP) from knowledge representation (KR), constraint solvers and modelling languages from constraint programming (CP), and integer linear programming (ILP) solvers and algebraic modelling languages from mathematical programming. Other relevant areas include propositional satisfiability (SAT), satisfiability modulo theories (SMT), and representation languages based on classical logic and FO(ID). Differences in emphasis notwithstanding, these share the same purpose. Indeed, there are many similarities in solving technologies, and increasing exchange between the areas both in solving and representational issues. From geoff at cs.miami.edu Thu Mar 20 13:34:41 2014 From: geoff at cs.miami.edu (Geoff Sutcliffe) Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2014 08:34:41 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Artificial Intelligence and Symbolic Computation AISC 2014 Message-ID: <20140320123442.0B2D312157D@mcclellan.cs.miami.edu> ** We apologize for multiple copies of this CFP ** **************************************************************************** * * * Call for papers * * * * 12th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence * * and Symbolic Computation AISC 2014 * * * * ( website: http://www.glc.us.es/aisc2014 ) * * * * Seville, Spain * * December 11-13, 2014 * * * * Organized by: University of Sevilla, Spain * * * * Chairs: Gonzalo A. Aranda-Corral (University of Huelva, Spain) * * Francisco J. Martín-Mateos (University of Sevilla, Spain) * * * **************************************************************************** VENUE: AISC 2014 will take place in Sevilla, a very attractive city of Spain. The venue will be the Department of Computer Sciences and Artificial Intelligence at the University of Sevilla. HISTORY: Conferences in this series are held since 1992 on even years. AISMC-1: Karlsruhe (Germany, 1992) AISMC-2: Cambridge (United Kingdom, 1994) AISMC-3: Steyr (Austria, 1996) AISC'1998: Plattsburgh (USA) AISC'2000: Madrid (Spain) AISC'2002: Marseille (France) AISC'2004: Hagenberg (Austria) AISC'2006: Beijing (China) AISC'2008: Birmingham (United Kingdom) (within CICM 2008) AISC'2010: Paris (France) (within CICM 2010) AISC'2012: Bremen (Germany) (within CICM 2012) The goal of this series of conferences was to attract researchers active in Symbolic Computation and Artificial Intelligence. The first three were named "Artificial Intelligence and Symbolic Mathematical Computing (AISMC)". The recent conferences were part of the integrated federation of conferences CICM (Conferences on Intelligent Computer Mathematics). AISC'2014 will be again independent in order to extend the scope of the conference. It will aim at attracting contributions from both classical theory fields and application areas. The aims are to offer a forum for young and advanced researchers and mainly to manage that they have opportunities to interact. SCOPE: Submitted papers should be related with one or more of the main themes proposed for the Conference. As usual the conference welcomes papers with a strong AI component that make use of symbolic computation in a wide sense (not excluding but not restricted to computer algebra). However, AISC 2014 aims at extending the scope of this series of conferences to computing in AI thus covering new areas. Topics of either theoretical or applied interest include the following non-exhaustive list of topics: - AI in Symbolic Mathematical Computing. - Mechanization of Mathematics with special emphasis on Algebraic Geometry and Algebraic Topology. - Computer Algebra Systems and Automated Theorem Provers. - Integration of Logical Reasoning and Computer Algebra. - Logic and Symbolic Computing. - Combining of Logics, including fibring logics, unified logics, logical fibering and similar approaches. - Non-classical logics computation such as non-monotonic reasoning, uncertainty, revision and beliefs. - Causal inferences. - New approaches to AI such as universal AI, heuristic approaches. - Computability, Turing machines, probabilistic Turing Machines. - Symmetries in AI problems, - Foundations and Complexity of Symbolic Programming Languages for Symbolic Computation. - Symbolic Computations for Expert Systems and Machine Learning. - Implementations of Symbolic Computation Systems. - Implementation, Complexity and Performance Issues. - Mechanized program verification. - Mechanical theorem proving in geometry. - Automated reasoning. - Automated discovery. - Machine learning. - Knowledge extraction and verification. - Semantic web technologies. - Mathematical computations and the Internet of Things. - Multi-agent systems. - Decision support systems. - Engineering, Industrial and Operation Research Applications. - Mathematical machine intelligence. - Mathematical Knowledge. - Intelligent interfaces. - Collective intelligence. - Relevant educational systems. - Epistemology and philosophy of Symbolic Mathematical Computing, multiagent systems. - Impact on business models including business plans. Assessment of model - sustainability. - Emerging fields of computational AI such as biocomputing and quantum computing. INVITED SPEAKERS: Volker Sorge (University of Birmingham) José Luis Ruiz-Reina (University of Sevilla, Spain) (to be completed) PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Rajendra Akerkar (Western Norway Research Institute, Norway) Gonzalo A. Aranda-Corral (University of Huelva, Spain) Co-chair Serge Autexier (DFKI Bremen, Germany) Jose Antonio Alonso (University of Sevilla, Spain) Bernhard Beckert (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany) Belaid Benhamou (University of Aix-Marseille, France) Rudolf Berghammer (Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, Germany) Joaquín Borrego (University of Sevilla, Spain) Francisco Botana (University of Vigo, Spain) Jacques Calmet (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany) Jacques Carette (Mc Master University, Canada) John A. Campbell (University College London, UK) Ivo Düntsch (Brock University, Ontario, Canada) Marc Giusti (Polytechnique School, Palaiseau, France) Martin Charles Golumbic (University of Haifa, Israel) Reiner Hähnle (University Darmstadt, Germany) Tetsuo Ida (University of Tsukuba, Japan) David J. Jeffrey (The University of Western Ontario, Canada) Deepak Kapur (University of New Mexico, USA) Ilias S. Kotsireas (Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada) Luis M. Laita (Royal Academy of Sciences, Madrid, Spain) Francisco J. Martín-Mateos (University of Sevilla, Spain) Co-chair Javier Montero (Complutense University of Madrid, Spain) Manuel Ojeda-Aciego (University of Malaga, Spain) Mario Jesus Pérez-Jiménez (University of Sevilla, Spain) Tomas Recio (University of Cantabria, Spain) Renaud Rioboo (ENSIIE, Evry, France) Eugenio Roanes-Lozano (Complutense University of Madrid, Spain) Julio Rubio (University of la Rioja, Spain) Jose Luis Ruiz-Reina (University of Sevilla, Spain) Fariba Sadri (Imperial College, London, UK) Cristina Sernadas (Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal) Tony Shaska (Oakland University, USA) Volker Sorge (University of Birmingham, UK) Stanly Steinberg (University of New Mexico, USA) Carolyn Talcott (SRI International, USA) Dongming Wang (University Pierre & Marie Curie, France) Stephen M. Watt (University of Western Ontario, Canada) Michael Wester (University of New Mexico, USA) Wolfgang Windsteiger (RISC, Johannes Kepler University Linz (JKU), Austria) LOCAL ORGANIZATION COMMITTEE Pedro Almagro Blanco (University of Sevilla, Spain) José Antonio Alonso Jiménez (University of Sevilla, Spain) Joaquín Borrego Díaz (University of Sevilla, Spain) Antonia Chávez González (University of Sevilla, Spain) Juan Galán Páez (University of Sevilla, Spain) María José Hidalgo Doblado (University of Sevilla, Spain) Jaime de Miguel (University of Sevilla, Spain) Antonio Paredes Moreno (University of Sevilla, Spain) M. Carmen Pérez Cardona (University of Sevilla, Spain) José Luis Ruiz Reina (University of Sevilla, Spain) SUBMISSIONS: Authors are invited to submit non-anonymized papers in English presenting original and unpublished research, not currently submitted elsewhere. Regular papers should not exceed 12 single-spaced pages (including eventual appendices) and should be formatted according to the standard format for Springer Verlag LNCS series (see http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0). Works from doctoral students are welcome. A specific chapter of the proceedings will be devoted to such contributions. PUBLICATIONS: As for the previous conferences the proceedings will again be published by Springer in the LNAI series and will be available by the time of the conference. The proceedings editors are Gonzalo A. Aranda-Corral , Francisco J. Martín-Mateos and Jacques Calmet. As for the previous editions of the conference, selected accepted conference papers will be invited to submit peer-reviewed extended versions for publication in special issues of journals. The Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence (AMAI) and the International Journal of Computer Science and Applications (IJCAS) have tentatively agreed to devote special issues to such papers. Selected extended, improved contributions will be considered for publication in the AAECC (Applicable Algebra in Engineering, Communication and Computing) journal. REGISTRATION: Because of the shortage of funding of research and academic institutions, registration fees will be kept as low as possible. IMPORTANT DATES: Paper submission: June 15th 2014 Notification of acceptance/rejection: September 3rd 2014 Camera-ready copy due: September 24th 2014 From ruy at cin.ufpe.br Thu Mar 20 14:57:01 2014 From: ruy at cin.ufpe.br (Ruy de Queiroz) Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2014 10:57:01 -0300 Subject: WoLLIC 2014 - Call for Papers (DEADLINE APPROACHING) Message-ID: DEADLINE APPROACHING! [Please circulate. Apologies for any cross-postings.] WoLLIC 2014 21st Workshop on Logic, Language, Information and Computation September 1st to 4th, 2014 Valparaiso, Chile 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, Universidad de Chile, Chile Department of Computer Science, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Chile Centro de Informática, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil HOSTED BY Department of Informatics, Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, Chile 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 twentieth WoLLIC will be held at the Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, from September 1st to 4th, 2014. 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. 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 2014 EasyChair website. (Please go to http://wollic.org/wollic2014/instructions.html for instructions.) A title and single-paragraph abstract should be submitted by Mar 24, 2014, and the full paper by Mar 28, 2014 (firm date). Notifications are expected by May 2, 2014, and final papers for the proceedings will be due by May 15, 2014 (firm date). PROCEEDINGS The proceedings of WoLLIC 2014, 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 2014 issue of a scientific journal (to be confirmed). INVITED SPEAKERS Verónica Becher (Universidad de Buenos Aires) Juha Kontinen (University of Helsinki) Aarne Ranta (University of Gothenburg) Kazushige Terui (Kyoto University) Luca Vigano (Università di Verona) Thomas Wilke (Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel) STUDENT GRANTS ASL sponsorship of WoLLIC 2014 will permit ASL student members to apply for a modest travel grant (deadline: May 1st, 2014). See http://www.aslonline.org/studenttravelawards.html for details. IMPORTANT DATES Mar 24, 2014: Paper title and abstract deadline Mar 28, 2014: Full paper deadline May 2, 2014: Author notification May 15, 2014: Final version deadline (firm) PROGRAMME COMMITTEE Ulrich Kohlenbach (Technische Universität Darmstadt) - Chair Natasha Alechina (University of Nottingham) Eric Allender (Rutgers University) Marcelo Arenas (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile) Steve Awodey (Carnegie Mellon University) Stefano Berardi (Università di Torino) Julian Bradfield (University of Edinburgh) Xavier Caicedo (Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá) Olivier Danvy (University of Aarhus) Hans van Ditmarsch (LORIA) Marcus Kracht (University of Bielefeld) Michiel van Lambalgen (University of Amsterdam) Klaus Meer (Technische Universität Cottbus) George Metcalfe (University of Bern) Dale Miller (INRIA/LIX) Russell Miller (City University of New York) Sara Negri (University of Helsinki) Grigory Olkhovikov (Urals State University) Nicole Schweikardt (Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main) Sebastiaan Terwijn (Radboud University Nijmegen) STEERING COMMITTEE Samson Abramksy, Johan van Benthem, Anuj Dawar, Joe Halpern, Wilfrid Hodges, Daniel Leivant, Leonid Libkin, Angus Macintyre, Grigori Mints, Luke Ong, Hiroakira Ono, Ruy de Queiroz. ORGANISING COMMITTEE Pablo Barceló (Universidad de Chile) (Local chair) Anjolina G. de Oliveira (U Fed Pernambuco) Ruy de Queiroz (U Fed Pernambuco) (co-chair) Juan Reutter (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile) Cristián Riveros (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile) FURTHER INFORMATION Contact one of the Co-Chairs of the Organising Committee. WEB PAGE http://wollic.org/wollic2014/ -------------- nächster Teil -------------- Ein Dateianhang mit HTML-Daten wurde abgetrennt... URL: From Bertram.Fronhoefer at tu-dresden.de Thu Mar 20 15:40:43 2014 From: Bertram.Fronhoefer at tu-dresden.de (Bertram Fronhoefer) Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2014 15:40:43 +0100 Subject: European PhD Program in Computational Logic (EPCL): Call for Applications Message-ID: <532AFDEB.4050103@tu-dresden.de> ====================================================== European PhD Program in Computational Logic (EPCL) ====================================================== http://www.epcl-study.eu/ CALL FOR APPLICATIONS The European PhD Program in Computational Logic (EPCL) is run jointly by four of the leading European universities in the field: - Free University of Bozen-Bolzano (Italy), - Technische Universität Dresden (Germany), - Technische Universität Wien (Austria), and - Universidade Nova de Lisboa (Portugal). Further international universities, research organizations and enterprises that contribute to Computational Logic or apply results from it are involved as associated partners: The Simon Fraser University (Canada), the Universidad de Chile, the NICTA (National ICT Australia), as well as several companies. The program involves three years of PhD study in at least two of the European partner universities. It leads to a joint doctoral degree issued by the partner universities at which the studies have been physically performed. The language of the program is English. Financial support is available in the form of positions and scholarships. A foundation track and an application-oriented track match with career perspectives in university research as well as in industrial research. Necessary requirements for participation in EPCL are: A Master's degree in Computer Science or Mathematics, or an equivalent degree; the proof of adequate knowledge of English; and substantial knowledge in the areas Foundations of Logics, Foundations of Artificial Intelligence and Declarative Programming. The program starts annually in the winter term. Applications for 2014 have to be electronically submitted on the Webpage http://www.epcl-study.eu/ before the ========================================= Application Deadline on 30 April 2014 ========================================= If you have enquiries, please do not hesitate to contact the coordinator of the program Prof. Steffen Hölldobler Technische Universität Dresden Fakultät Informatik International Center for Computational Logic Email: sh at iccl.tu-dresden.de Phone: +49 (351) 463 38340 EPCL is supported by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) within the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) program International Doctorates in Germany (IPID). From pascal.hitzler at wright.edu Thu Mar 20 18:39:45 2014 From: pascal.hitzler at wright.edu (Pascal Hitzler) Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2014 13:39:45 -0400 Subject: CfP: Ontology Design Patterns descriptions. Special call of the Semantic Web journal Message-ID: <532B27E1.6000106@wright.edu> Special Call of the Semantic Web journal for ONTOLOGY DESIGN PATTERN DESCRIPTIONS http://www.semantic-web-journal.net/blog/special-call-ontology-design-pattern-descriptions An ontology design pattern is a reusable solution to a recurring ontology modeling problem. Different kinds of ontology design patterns have been identified, and they are used for different purposes ranging from their use as building blocks and strategies for ontology creation to their utilization for heterogneity preservation in information integration. The Semantic Web journal calls for papers containing concise descriptions of an Ontology Design Pattern. Papers are typically expected to include discussions of at least the following aspects. * A general introduction concerning the rationale of making the pattern. * A graphical depiction of the pattern accompanied by an explanation, in intuitive terms, of the design choices made. * A detailed axiomatization, e.g. using OWL, for the relationships between the vocabulary terms used in the patterns. * A detailed discussion of related patterns or ontology modeling practices and their relationships with the presented pattern. * A convincing discussion of use cases. * Examples for existing datasets which can be used with the pattern. Papers will be evaluated along the following dimensions: Quality of the pattern, usefulness (or potential usefulness) of the pattern, clarity and completeness of the descriptions. Prospective authors must take notice of the submission guidelines posted at http://www.semantic-web-journal.net/authors Deadlines: Paper submission: June 15, 2014 Notification: Usually within 8 weeks of submission Members of the Guest Editorial Board will be invited as papers are submitted. In case of questions, please contact the Editors-in-chief: Pascal Hitzler Krzysztof Janowicz contact at 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 invitation at iariaevent.org Fri Mar 21 18:35:35 2014 From: invitation at iariaevent.org (NexTech 2014) Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2014 13:35:35 -0400 Subject: Deadline Extension: NexTech 2014 : August 24 - 28, 2014 - Rome, Italy Message-ID: <1395423335718.566@iariaevent.org> INVITATION: Please consider to contribute and encourage your team members and fellow scientists to contribute to the following federated events under NexTech 2014. The submission deadline has been extended to April 12, 2014. 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From grlmc at urv.cat Sat Mar 22 18:18:53 2014 From: grlmc at urv.cat (GRLMC) Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2014 18:18:53 +0100 Subject: SLSP 2014: 2nd call for papers Message-ID: <2A7BE50CA57A435FACF54EB40F63EE77@Carlos1> *To be removed from our mailing list, please respond to this message with UNSUBSCRIBE in the subject line* **************************************************************************** ****** 2nd INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON STATISTICAL LANGUAGE AND SPEECH PROCESSING SLSP 2014 Grenoble, France October 14-16, 2014 Organised by: Équipe GETALP Laboratoire d’Informatique de Grenoble Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics (GRLMC) Rovira i Virgili University http://grammars.grlmc.com/slsp2014/ **************************************************************************** ****** AIMS: SLSP is a yearly conference series aimed at promoting and displaying excellent research on the wide spectrum of statistical methods that are currently in use in computational language or speech processing. It aims at attracting contributions from both fields. Though there exist large, well-known conferences and workshops hosting contributions to any of these areas, SLSP is a more focused meeting where synergies between subdomains and people will hopefully happen. In SLSP 2014, significant room will be reserved to young scholars at the beginning of their career and particular focus will be put on methodology. VENUE: SLSP 2014 will take place in Grenoble, at the foot of the French Alps. SCOPE: The conference invites submissions discussing the employment of statistical methods (including machine learning) within language and speech processing. The list below is indicative and not exhaustive: phonology, phonetics, prosody, morphology syntax, semantics discourse, dialogue, pragmatics statistical models for natural language processing supervised, unsupervised and semi-supervised machine learning methods applied to natural language, including speech statistical methods, including biologically-inspired methods similarity alignment language resources part-of-speech tagging parsing semantic role labelling natural language generation anaphora and coreference resolution speech recognition speaker identification/verification speech transcription speech synthesis machine translation translation technology text summarisation information retrieval text categorisation information extraction term extraction spelling correction text and web mining opinion mining and sentiment analysis spoken dialogue systems author identification, plagiarism and spam filtering STRUCTURE: SLSP 2014 will consist of: invited talks invited tutorials peer-reviewed contributions INVITED SPEAKERS: Claire Gardent (LORIA, Nancy, FR), Grammar Based Sentence Generation and Statistical Error Mining Roger K. Moore (Sheffield, UK), Spoken Language Processing: Time to Look Outside? Martti Vainio (Helsinki, FI), Phonetics and Machine Learning: Hierarchical Modelling of Prosody in Statistical Speech Synthesis PROGRAMME COMMITTEE: Sophia Ananiadou (Manchester, UK) Srinivas Bangalore (Florham Park, US) Patrick Blackburn (Roskilde, DK) Hervé Bourlard (Martigny, CH) Bill Byrne (Cambridge, UK) Nick Campbell (Dublin, IE) David Chiang (Marina del Rey, US) Kenneth W. Church (Yorktown Heights, US) Walter Daelemans (Antwerpen, BE) Thierry Dutoit (Mons, BE) Alexander Gelbukh (Mexico City, MX) James Glass (Cambridge, US) Ralph Grishman (New York, US) Sanda Harabagiu (Dallas, US) Xiaodong He (Redmond, US) Hynek Hermansky (Baltimore, US) Hitoshi Isahara (Toyohashi, JP) Lori Lamel (Orsay, FR) Gary Geunbae Lee (Pohang, KR) Haizhou Li (Singapore, SG) Daniel Marcu (Los Angeles, US) Carlos Martín-Vide (Tarragona, ES, chair) Manuel Montes-y-Gómez (Puebla, MX) Satoshi Nakamura (Nara, JP) Shrikanth S. Narayanan (Los Angeles, US) Vincent Ng (Dallas, US) Joakim Nivre (Uppsala, SE) Elmar Nöth (Erlangen, DE) Maurizio Omologo (Trento, IT) Mari Ostendorf (Seattle, US) Barbara H. Partee (Amherst, US) Gerald Penn (Toronto, CA) Massimo Poesio (Colchester, UK) James Pustejovsky (Waltham, US) Gaël Richard (Paris, FR) German Rigau (San Sebastián, ES) Paolo Rosso (Valencia, ES) Yoshinori Sagisaka (Tokyo, JP) Björn W. Schuller (London, UK) Satoshi Sekine (New York, US) Richard Sproat (New York, US) Mark Steedman (Edinburgh, UK) Jian Su (Singapore, SG) Marc Swerts (Tilburg, NL) Jun'ichi Tsujii (Beijing, CN) Gertjan van Noord (Groningen, NL) Renata Vieira (Porto Alegre, BR) Dekai Wu (Hong Kong, HK) Feiyu Xu (Berlin, DE) Roman Yangarber (Helsinki, FI) Geoffrey Zweig (Redmond, US) ORGANISING COMMITTEE: Laurent Besacier (Grenoble, co-chair) Adrian Horia Dediu (Tarragona) Benjamin Lecouteux (Grenoble) Carlos Martín-Vide (Tarragona, 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) and should be prepared according to the standard format for Springer Verlag's LNAI/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=slsp2014 PUBLICATIONS: A volume of proceedings published by Springer in the LNAI/LNCS series will be available by the time of the conference. A special issue of a major journal will be later published containing peer-reviewed extended versions of some of the papers contributed to the conference. Submissions to it will be by invitation. REGISTRATION: The period for registration is open from January 16, 2014 to October 14, 2014. The registration form can be found at: http://grammars.grlmc.com/slsp2014/Registration.php DEADLINES: Paper submission: May 7, 2014 (23:59h, CET) Notification of paper acceptance or rejection: June 18, 2014 Final version of the paper for the LNAI/LNCS proceedings: June 25, 2014 Early registration: July 2, 2014 Late registration: September 30, 2014 Submission to the post-conference journal special issue: January 16, 2015 QUESTIONS AND FURTHER INFORMATION: florentinalilica.voicu at urv.cat POSTAL ADDRESS: SLSP 2014 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: Departament d’Economia i Coneixement, Generalitat de Catalunya Laboratoire d’Informatique de Grenoble Universitat Rovira i Virgili From brian.davis at deri.org Sun Mar 23 14:23:44 2014 From: brian.davis at deri.org (Brian Davis) Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2014 13:23:44 +0000 Subject: CfP- SWAIE 2014 In-Reply-To: <529DC411.7000007@deri.org> References: <529DC411.7000007@deri.org> Message-ID: <532EE060.6090301@deri.org> **************************************************************** First call for papers SWAIE 2014: Semantic Web and Information Extraction http://swaie2014.wordpress.com Full-day workshop in conjunction with COLING 2014 Submission Deadline: 2 May 2014, 23:59 Hawaii Time **************************************************************** INTRODUCTION There is a vast wealth of information available in textual format that the Semantic Web cannot yet tap into: 80% of data on the Web and on internal corporate intranets is unstructured, hence analysing and structuring the data - social analytics and next generation analytics - is a large and growing endeavour. Here, the Information Extraction community could help as they specialise in mining the nuggets of information from text. Information Extraction techniques could be enhanced by annotated data or domain-specific resources. The Semantic Web community has taken great strides in making these resources available through the Linked Open Data cloud, which are now ready for uptake by the Information Extraction community. Following the previous two SWAIE workshops at EKAW 2012 and RANLP 2013 respectively, we are focusing our attention on fostering awareness of how Semantic Web technologies can benefit the traditional IE and NLP communities. We invite contributions around three particular topics: 1) Semantic Web-driven Information Extraction, 2) Information Extraction for the Semantic Web, and 3) applications and architectures on the intersection of Semantic Web and Information Extraction. MOTIVATION The Semantic Web aims to add a machine tractable, repurposable layer to complement the existing web of natural language hypertext. In order to realise this vision, the creation of semantic annotation, the linking of Web pages to ontologies and the creation, evolution and interrelation of ontologies must become automatic or semi-automatic processes. Information Extraction, a form of natural language analysis, is becoming a central technology to link Semantic Web models with documents. On the other hand, traditional Information Extraction can be enhanced by the addition of semantic information, enabling disambiguation of concepts, reasoning and inference to take place over the documents. The primary goal of this workshop is to advance the understanding of the relationship between Information Extraction and Semantic Web. With the adoption of the Web 2.0 paradigm, these technologies further face new challenges because of their inherent multi-source nature, while the rapidly increasing use of social media also brings a new set of problems in dealing with degraded forms of text such as incorrect grammar, spelling and so on. Information Extraction now has to deal not just with isolated texts or single narratives but with large scale repositories or sources -- in one or many languages -- containing a multiplicity of views, opinions, or commentaries on particular topics, entities or events, in very diverse styles and formats. New methods and tools thus need to be developed to deal with the changing face of data and the changing needs of society. Furthermore, traditional platforms and architectures for Information Extraction are not necessarily capable of smooth handling of the transition to more semantic forms of annotation. While language analysis tools may not require sophisticated ontology handling mechanisms, the ensuing lack of interoperability can be problematic when embedding such tools and platforms in Semantic Web architectures. The general theme of the workshop can be seen as an extensive application area for Semantic Web technologies aimed at generating and exploiting semantically rich data, and is thus a critical area of interest to the COLING community. Furthermore, the multidisciplinary nature of the workshop will allow researchers from several distinct though highly related sub-communities to interact with respect to early ideas, work in progress and comprehensive research results. TOPICS TO BE ADDRESSED We will welcome high-quality papers about current trends in the areas listed in the following, non-exhaustive list of topics. We will seek application-oriented, as well as more theoretical papers and position papers. 1. Semantic Web-driven Information Extraction • Integrating ontologies/Linked Open Data with Language Resources • Enriching Information Extraction systems with Semantic Web data/technologies • Complex Semantic Web-driven Information Extraction tasks e.g., relation extraction, event extraction • Methods and metrics for evaluation of semantic annotations with respect to ontologies • Incorporating semantics into Machine Learning approaches • Recognition and representation of temporal information and dynamics • Data aggregation, consolidation and enrichment • Ontology driven entity disambiguation and resolution 2. Information Extraction for the Semantic Web • Extraction from unstructured versus semi-structured textual sources • Dealing with the imperfections of Information Extraction techniques in the Semantic Web setting and their impact • Multi-source or multilingual Information Extraction for ontology population • Information extraction subtasks (e.g., terminology extraction, relation extraction, coreference resolution) for the Semantic Web • Methods and metrics for evaluation of Information Extraction for the Semantic Web 3. Applications and Architectures Ontology-based Information Extraction for specific domains and applications, e.g. business analytics, healthcare and biomedicine, cultural heritage etc. • Information Extraction for social media mining • Scalability of tools and resources • Platforms and architectures for automatic and semi-automatic semantic annotation • Tools and methodologies for building and managing complex processing workflows IMPORTANT DATES Workshop papers submission deadline: 2nd May 2014 Workshop paper acceptance notification: 6th June 2014 Camera-ready deadline: 27th June 2014 Workshop: 23rd or 24th August 2014 SUBMISSIONS Each submission should explicitly address one or more of the three main topics and should not exceed 8 pages including references. In addition to presenting specific results, the paper should discuss the more general implications for the topics and/or subtopics that it addresses. Where feasible, contributions should include a system demonstration that illustrates the key ideas of the work and encourages interactive discussion at the workshop. All submissions must be in PDF format and must follow the COLING template. Contributions must be submitted through the START website athttps://www.softconf.com/coling2014/WS-7/ There will also be an invited talk, a poster session, and an opportunity to present late-breaking work or novel ideas as a 2-minute lightning talk during the afternoon; these topics may be the stimulus for further debate during the open discussion period. Please direct any questions regarding the workshop tobrian.davis at deri.org ORGANISING COMMITTEE Diana Maynard, University of Sheffield Marieke van Erp, VU University Amsterdam Brian Davis, DERI Galway -- Dr. Brian Davis, Post-doctoral Researcher, Unit for Knowledge Discovery, INSIGHT @ NUI Galway The DERI Building, IDA Business Park, Lower Dangan Galway, Ireland. +353 - 91 -495012, -------------- nächster Teil -------------- Ein Dateianhang mit HTML-Daten wurde abgetrennt... URL: From feeds at sentic.net Mon Mar 24 10:49:50 2014 From: feeds at sentic.net (feeds) Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2014 04:49:50 -0500 (EST) Subject: [SenticNet] CFP: ICML14 workshop on sentiment analysis Message-ID: <43010129.1182999.1395654591002.open-xchange@bosoxweb01.eigbox.net> Apologies for cross-posting, Submissions are invited for MASALA (Machine-learning Approaches to Sentiment Analysis and Learning Algorithms), an ICML14 workshop exploring the new frontiers of big data computing for opinion mining through machine-learning techniques and sentiment learning methods. For more information, please visit: http://sentic.net/masala RATIONALE The distillation of knowledge from social media is an extremely difficult task as the content of today's Web, while perfectly suitable for human consumption, remains hardly accessible to machines. The opportunity to capture the opinions of the general public about social events, political movements, company strategies, marketing campaigns, and product preferences has raised growing interest both within the scientific community, leading to many exciting open challenges, as well as in the business world, due to the remarkable benefits to be had from marketing and financial market prediction. Statistical NLP has been the mainstream NLP research direction since late 1990s. It relies on language models based on popular machine-learning algorithms such as maximum-likelihood, expectation maximization, conditional random fields, and support vector machines. By feeding a large training corpus of annotated texts to a machine-learning algorithm, it is possible for the system to not only learn the valence of keywords, but also to take into account the valence of other arbitrary keywords, punctuation, and word co-occurrence frequencies. However, standard statistical methods are generally semantically weak if they merely focus on lexical co-occurrence elements with little predictive value individually. Endogenous NLP, instead, involves the use of machine-learning techniques to perform semantic analysis of a corpus by building structures that approximate concepts from a large set of documents. It does not involve prior semantic understanding of documents; instead, it relies only on the endogenous knowledge of these (rather than on external knowledge bases). The advantages of this approach over the knowledge engineering approach are effectiveness, considerable savings in terms of expert manpower, and straightforward portability to different domains. Endogenous NLP includes methods based either on lexical semantics, which focuses on the meanings of individual words (e.g., LSA, LDA, and MapReduce), or compositional semantics, which looks at the meanings of sentences and longer utterances (e.g., HMM, association rule learning, and probabilistic generative models). TOPICS MASALA aims to provide an international forum for researchers in the field of machine learning for opinion mining and sentiment analysis to share information on their latest investigations in social information retrieval and their applications both in academic research areas and industrial sectors. The broader context of the workshop comprehends opinion mining, social media marketing, information retrieval, and natural language processing. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: • Endogenous NLP for sentiment analysis • Sentiment learning algorithms • Big social data analysis • Opinion retrieval, extraction, classification, tracking and summarization • Domain specific sentiment analysis and model adaptation • Emotion detection • Sentiment pattern mining • Concept-level sentiment analysis • Biologically-inspired opinion mining • Social-network motivated methods for natural language processing • Topic modeling for aspect-based sentiment analysis • Learning to rank for social media • Content-based and social-based recommendation • Multimodal sentiment analysis • Content-, concept-, and context-based sentiment analysis TIMEFRAME • April 20th, 2014: Submission deadline • May 11th, 2014: Notification of acceptance • May 18th, 2014: Final manuscripts due • June 25th, 2014: Workshop date ORGANIZERS • Yunqing Xia, Tsinghua University (China) • Erik Cambria, National University of Singapore (Singapore) • Newton Howard, MIT Media Laboratory (USA) From marco at dist.unige.it Mon Mar 24 14:37:04 2014 From: marco at dist.unige.it (Marco Maratea) Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2014 14:37:04 +0100 Subject: ASPOCP 2014: Last call for papers Message-ID: <1395668224.2387.24.camel@marcobook> [Apologize for multiple posting.] =============================================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS ASPOCP 2014 7th Workshop on Answer Set Programming and Other Computing Paradigms https://sites.google.com/site/aspocp2014 July 23rd, 2014 Affiliated with the International Conference on Logic Programming 2014 (part of the Federated Logic Conference 2014) Vienna, Austria July 19-22, 2014 Collocated with the Vienna Summer of Logic 2014 Vienna, Austria July 12-24, 2014 =============================================================================== AIMS AND SCOPE Since its introduction in the late 1980s, answer set programming (ASP) has been widely applied to various knowledge-intensive tasks and combinatorial search problems. ASP was found to be closely related to SAT, which has led to a method of computing answer sets using SAT solvers and techniques adapted from SAT. While this has been the most studied relationship which is currently extended towards satisfiability modulo theories (SMT), the relationship of ASP to other computing paradigms, such as constraint satisfaction, quantified boolean formulas (QBF), first-order logic (FOL), or FO(ID) logic is also the subject of active research. New methods of computing answer sets are being developed based on the relation between ASP and other paradigms, such as the use of pseudo-Boolean solvers, QBF solvers, FOL theorem provers, and CLP systems. Furthermore, the practical applications of ASP also foster work on multi-paradigm problem-solving, and in particular language and solver integration. The most prominent examples in this area currently are the integration of ASP with description logics (in the realm of the Semantic Web), constraint satisfaction, and general means of external computation. This workshop will facilitate the discussion about crossing the boundaries of current ASP techniques in theory, solving, and applications, in combination with or inspired by other computing paradigms. TOPICS Topics of interests include (but are not limited to): - ASP and classical logic formalisms (SAT/FOL/QBF/SMT/DL). - ASP and constraint programming. - ASP and other logic programming paradigms, e.g., FO(ID). - ASP and other nonmonotonic languages, e.g., action languages. - ASP and external means of computation. - ASP and probabilistic reasoning. - ASP and machine learning. - New methods of computing answer sets using algorithms or systems of other paradigms. - Language extensions to ASP. - ASP and multi-agent systems. - ASP and multi-context systems. - Modularity and ASP. - ASP and argumentation. - Multi-paradigm problem solving involving ASP. - Evaluation and comparison of ASP to other paradigms. - ASP and related paradigms in applications. - Hybridizing ASP with procedural approaches. - Enhanced grounding or beyond grounding. SUBMISSIONS Papers must describe original research and should not exceed 15 pages in the Springer LNCS format . Paper submission will be handled electronically by means of the Easychair system. The submission page is available at https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aspocp14 IMPORTANT DATES Abstract and paper submission deadline: April 1, 2014 Notification: May 1, 2014 Camera-ready articles due: May 20, 2014 Workshop: July 23, 2014 LOCATION The workshop will be held in Vienna, Austria, collocated with the International Conference on Logic Programming (ICLP) 2014. PROCEEDINGS Accepted papers will be made available online and published in the Computing Research Repository (CoRR) afterwards. A selection of extended and revised versions of accepted papers will appear in a special issue of the Journal of Logic and Computation (http://logcom.oxfordjournals.org/), provided that a sufficient amount of high quality papers is collected. Such papers will go through a second formal selection process to meet the high quality standard of the journal. TIMELINE FOR THE SPECIAL ISSUE (PRELIMINARY) Expression of interest/invitation: Right after the workshop First submissions: Fall 2014 Revision of manuscripts: (for papers not already accepted or rejected) Spring 2015 Final notification/version of accepted papers Summer 2015 WORKSHOP CO-CHAIRS Daniela Inclezan, Miami University, USA Marco Maratea, DIBRIS - University of Genova, Italy PROGRAM COMMITTEE Marcello Balduccini, Drexler University, USA Gerhard Brewka, University of Leipzig, Germany Pedro Cabalar, Corunna University, Spain Wolfgang Faber, University of Huddersfield, UK Cristina Feier, University of Oxford, UK Johannes Klaus Fichte, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Michael Fink, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Gregory Gelfond, Arizona State University, USA Michael Gelfond, Texas Tech University, USA Enrico Giunchiglia, University of Genova, Italy Giovambattista Ianni, University of Calabria, Italy Tomi Janhunen, Aalto University, Finland Joohyung Lee, Arizona State University, USA Joao Leite, New University of Lisbon, Portugal Yuliya Lierler, University of Nebraska at Omaha, USA Vladimir Lifschitz, University of Texas at Austin, USA Alessandro Mosca, Free University of Bolzano, Italy Emilia Oikarinen, Aalto University, Finland Max Ostrowski, University of Potsdam, Germany Axel Polleres, Vienna University of Economics & Business, Austria Francesco Ricca, University of Calabria, Italy Guillermo R. Simari, Universidad Nacional del Sur, Argentina Evgenia Ternovska, Simon Fraser University, Canada Hans Tompits, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Miroslaw Truszczynski, University of Kentucky, USA Joost Vennekens, Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium Marina De Vos, University of Bath, UK Stefan Woltran, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Fangkai Yang, University of Texas at Austin, USA Jia-Huai You, University of Alberta, Canada From calendarsites at insticc.org Mon Mar 24 14:51:12 2014 From: calendarsites at insticc.org (Calendar Sites) Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2014 13:51:12 -0000 Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?CFP_-_4th_International_Conference_on_Operations_Research_?= =?iso-8859-1?Q?and_Enterprise_Systems_-_ICORES_2015?= Message-ID: <03a201cf4768$2cf5c970$86e15c50$@insticc.org> CALL FOR PAPERS 4th International Conference on Operations Research and Enterprise Systems – ICORES 2015 Website: icores.secretariat at insticc.org January 10-12, 2015 Lisbon, Portugal Regular Papers Regular Paper Submission: July 29, 2014 Regular Paper Authors Notification: November 3, 2014 Regular Paper Camera Ready and Registration: November 17, 2014 Sponsored by: INSTICC-Institute for Systems and Technologies of Information, Control and Communication INSTICC is Member of: WfMC- Workflow Management Coalition Logistics Partner: SCITEVENTS – Science and Technology Events The purpose of the International Conference on Operations Research and Enterprise Systems (ICORES) is to bring together researchers, engineers and practitioners interested in the advances and applications in the field of operations research. Two simultaneous tracks will be held, covering on one side domain independent methodologies and technologies and on the other side practical work developed in specific application areas. KEYNOTE SPEAKERS ICORES 2015 will have several invited keynote speakers, who are internationally recognized experts in their areas. Their names are not yet confirmed. PUBLICATIONS All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings, under an ISBN reference, on paper and on CD-ROM support. SCITEPRESS is member of CrossRef ( http://www.crossref.org/). All papers presented at the conference venue will be available at the SCITEPRESS Digital Library. The proceedings will be submitted for indexation by Thomson Reuters Conference Proceedings Citation Index (ISI), INSPEC, DBLP, EI (Elsevier Index) and Scopus. AWARDS The awards will be announced and bestowed at the conference closing session. Please check the website for further information: http://www.icores.org/PreviousAwards.aspx ICORES CONFERENCE CHAIR Dominique de Werra, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS Begoña Vitoriano, Complutense University, Spain Greg H. Parlier, MAS of INFORMS, United States CONFERENCE AREAS: Each of these topic areas is expanded below but the sub-topics list is not exhaustive. Papers may address one or more of the listed sub-topics, although authors should not feel limited by them. Unlisted but related sub-topics are also acceptable, provided they fit in one of the following main topic areas: 1. METHODOLOGIES AND TECHNOLOGIES 2. APPLICATIONS AREA 1: METHODOLOGIES AND TECHNOLOGIES · Decision Analysis · Optimization · Management Sciences · Data Mining and Business Analytics · Information Systems · Industrial Engineering · Stochastic Processes · Forecasting · Dynamic Programming · Linear Programming · Inventory Theory · Simulation · Queuing Theory · Game Theory · Mathematical Modeling AREA 2: APPLICATIONS · Project Management · Scheduling · Network Optimization · Supply Chain Management · Routing · Logistics · Energy and Environment · Automation of Operations · Maintenance · Globalization and Productivity · Resource Allocation · Decision Support Systems · Optimization in Finance · Risk Management · Security · OR in Telecommunications · OR in Health · OR in Transportation · OR in Government · OR in Education PROGRAM COMMITTEE http://www.icores.org/ProgramCommittee.aspx Please check further details at the conference website (http://www.icores.org) -------------- nächster Teil -------------- Ein Dateianhang mit HTML-Daten wurde abgetrennt... URL: From williams at csc.ncsu.edu Mon Mar 24 18:52:16 2014 From: williams at csc.ncsu.edu (Laurie Williams) Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2014 13:52:16 -0400 Subject: CALL FOR PAPERS: FHIES/SEHC 2014: Abstracts due today! Message-ID: Fourth Symposium on Foundations of Health Information Engineering and Systems (FHIES) & Sixth Software Engineering in Healthcare (SEHC) Workshop July 17-18, Washington DC http://fhies-sehc.in.tu-clausthal.de/ =========================================================================================== OVERVIEW For 2014, we will hold a joint event of the Fourth Symposium on Foundations of Health Information Engineering and Systems (FHIES) and the Software Engineering in Healthcare (SEHC) Workshop, which has been collocated with ICSE for the last five years. The goal of FHIES/SEHC '14 is to discuss recent research innovations and to closer integrate an interdisciplinary community to develop a research, educational and industrial agenda for the application of software engineering in the healthcare sector. The ability to deliver timely, effective and cost efficient healthcare services remains one of the world's foremost challenges. The challenge has numerous dimensions including: (a) the need to develop a highly functional yet secure electronic health record system that integrates a multitude of incompatible existing systems; (b) in-home patient support systems and telemedicine to reduce demand on professional health-care facilities; (c) innovative technical devices such as advanced pacemakers that support other healthcare procedures; and (d) the specific constraints for health care imposed in different societies, particularly developing countries. Responding to this challenge will substantially increase the usage of software-intensive systems in all aspects of healthcare services. However the digitization of healthcare results in extensive changes related to the development, use, evolution, and integration of health software, especially with respect to the volume, dependability, safety and security of these software-dependent systems. TOPCS: FHIES/SEHC '14 seeks contributions from both, the solution domain (engineering and scientific methods) and the problem domain (healthcare and health informatics). Solution-domain papers should present their methods in the context of a concrete application in healthcare, while problem-domain papers should be devised to educate the formal methods community about unique challenges and characteristics of the healthcare domain. Submissions should seek to inform and further the development, adaptation, evaluation and adoption of formally based and rigorous engineering methods in health care systems. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: * Conformance to regulations and standards and the certification of software-intensive ICT systems in healthcare * Interoperability between devices and with information systems, integration across institutions and jurisdictions * Application and integration of foundational methods from different disciplines in engineering and science (incl. automation of clinical guidelines, ontology development and reasoning, cloud computing, social networking, mobile devices and pervasive computing) * Health service delivery in different settings, including the developing world. * Software quality, security, safety issues in health care systems and processes * Effective integration of medical devices into overall healthcare systems and processes * Determining the quality of the software in healthcare systems, including embedded medical devices * Requirements engineering for healthcare processes and systems * Healthcare process definition, analysis, automation, and improvement * Architectures for healthcare systems and system integration * User interface issues in healthcare systems and processes * Healthcare issues in aging-in-place (Eldercare) * Privacy of healthcare data * Privacy-preserving sharing of healthcare data * Trusted, privacy-preserving analytics of aggregated healthcare data SUBMISSIONS We solicit high quality full submissions in the following categories: * original research contributions (16 p. max.) * application experience, case studies and software prototypes (16 p. max.) * surveys, comparisons, and state-of-the-art reports (16 p. max.) * position papers on research projects with identified challenges and milestones (8 p.) We invite short submissions for special sessions: * student papers on work in progress on an MSc or PhD project (4 pages max.) * tool demonstrations (2 pages max.) * proposals to organize birds-of-a-feather sessions (BOF) or panels (2 pages max.) Submissions should be in English, prepared in the LNCS format (see Springer's website for details), and all page limits are measured in this format. Full submissions (those in the first four categories above) will be judged on the basis of originality, contribution to the field, technical and presentation quality, and relevance to the symposium; student papers will be judged on clarity of description and the promise of interesting results; tool demonstrations, BOF proposals, and extended abstracts will be judged on relevance to the symposium. All papers will be peer-reviewed by at least three program committee members. Papers should be submitted via EasyChair. Submission constitutes a commitment for at least one author to attend the symposium and present the paper, if it is accepted. Submission Site: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fhiessehc2014 PUBLICATION All accepted submissions will be distributed in a technical report at the Symposium. We plan to publish post proceedings in Springer LNCS. Authors of all accepted full submissions will be invited to revise their papers, in order to resolve any significant issues raised during reviewing. Authors of accepted short submissions will be invited to submit full papers for review, which will be judged on the basis of the criteria mentioned above. If accepted, the papers will be included in the LNCS proceedings as well. IMPORTANT DATES Intention to submit: 24 March 2014 Submission deadline: 4 April 2014 Notification of acceptance: 9 May 2014 Submission of preproceedings version: 15 June 2014 Symposium: 17-18 July 2014 Submission of full versions of short papers: 1 September 2014 Submission for post proceedings review: 15 September 2014 Notification of acceptance (final proceedings): 6 October 2014 PROGRAMME COMMITTEE * Elske Ammenwerth (UMIT, Austria) * George Avrunin (U Massachusetts, US) * Ruth Breu (U Innsbruck, Austria) * Tom Broens (Mobihealth, Netherlands) * Lori Clarke (U Massachusetts, US) * Jeremy Gibbons (U Oxford, UK) * Mats Heimdahl (U Minnesota, US) * Jozef Hooman (Radboud U Nijmegen, Netherlands) * Raoul Jetley * Craig Kuziemsky (U Ottawa, Canada) * Brian Larson (Kansas State University, US) * Yves Ledru (Laboratoire d'Informatique de Grenoble (LIG), France) * Insup Lee (U Pennsylvania, US) * Martin Leucker (U L¸beck, Germany) * Zhiming Liu (Birmingham City University, UK) * Orlando Loques (U Federal Fluminense, Brazil) * Brad Malin (Vanderbilt University, US) * Dominique MÈry (LORIA and U Henri Poincare Nancy, France) * Deshendran Moodley (U KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa) * Leon Osterweil (U Massachusetts, US) * Barbara Paech (U Heidelberg, Germany) * Liam Peyton (U Ottawa, Canada) * Andy Podgurski (Case Western Reserve University, US) * Ita Richardson (Lero, U Limerick, Ireland) * Kamran Sartipi (U Ontario, Canada) * Bernhard Sch‰tz (fortiss, Germany) * Eleni Stroulia (U Alberta, Canada) * Kevin Sullivan (U Virginia, US) * Alan Wassyng (McMaster University, Canada) * Jens Weber (U Victoria, Canada) * Chuck Weinstock (Carnegie Mellon University, US) * Yi Zhang (Food and Drug Administration (FDA), US) PC CHAIRS * Michaela Huhn (TU Clausthal, Germany) * Laurie Williams (North Carolina State University, US) GENERAL CHAIR * Wendy MacCaull (St. Francis Xavier University, Canada) ****************************************** Laurie Williams, PhD North Carolina State University Department of Computer Science 890 Oval Drive, Room 3272 Campus Box 8206 Raleigh, NC 27695-8206 http://collaboration.csc.ncsu.edu/laurie/ From icsai2014cfp at sdju.edu.cn Tue Mar 25 00:38:25 2014 From: icsai2014cfp at sdju.edu.cn (Prof Song) Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2014 07:38:25 +0800 Subject: ICSAI 2014, Shanghai: Submission Deadline 30 May [EI Compendex/ISTP/IEEE Xplore] Message-ID: <595703694.06758@eyou.net> Dear Colleague, The 2014 International Conference on Systems and Informatics (ICSAI 2014) will be held from 15-17 November 2014 in Shanghai, China. ICSAI 2014 aims to be a premier international forum for scientists and researchers to present the state of the art of systems engineering and information science. Keynote speakers include Ljiljana Trajkovic, President of the IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society; Witold Pedrycz, Editor-in-Chief of 3 SCI-indexed journals (including IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems); and Marimuthu Palaniswami, a renowned researcher. Topics include (but are not limited to): Systems · Control and Automation Systems · Power and Energy Systems · Intelligent Systems · Computer Systems and Applications Informatics · Communications and Networking · Image, Video, and Signal Processing · Data Engineering and Data Mining · Software Engineering The registration fee of US$410 includes proceedings, lunches, dinners, banquet, coffee breaks, and all technical sessions. All papers in conference proceedings will be submitted to both IEEE Xplore and EI Compendex for indexing. Substantially extended versions of best papers will be considered for publication in a special issue of a SCI-indexed journal. Shanghai is the largest city in China, with famous historical and cultural heritage. Attractions include Yuyuan Garden ("Happy Garden" built in Ming Dynasty), Shanghai Museum with 120,000 pieces of rare relics, Shanghai World Financial Center, Jade Buddha Temple (Song Dynasty), Oriental Pearl TV Tower, Zhujiajiao Water Town, and Expo 2010 site. To promote international participation of researchers from outside the country/region where the conference is held (i.e., China’s mainland), researchers outside of China’s mainland are encouraged to propose invited sessions. The first author of each paper in an invited session must not be affiliated with an organization in China’s mainland. All papers in the invited sessions can be marked as "Invited Paper". The organizer(s) for each invited session with at least 6 registered papers will jointly enjoy an honorarium of US*D 400. Invited session organizers will solicit submissions, conduct reviews and recommend accept/reject decisions on the submitted papers. Invited session organizers will be able to set their own submission and review schedules, as long as a list of recommended papers is determined by 10 October 2014. Each invited session proposal should include: (1) the name, bio, and contact information of each organizer of the invited session; (2) the title and a short synopsis of the invited session. Please send your proposal to icsai2014 at sdju.edu.cn For more information, visit the conference web page: http://ICSAI2014.sdju.edu.cn If you have any questions after visiting the conference web page, please email the secretariat at icsai2014 at sdju.edu.cn Join us at this major event in exciting Shanghai !!! Organizing Committee icsai2014 at sdju.edu.cn P.S.: Kindly forward to your colleagues or students who may be interested. If you wish to unsubscribe, in which case we apologize, please reply with "unsubscribe event at tu-clausthal.de " in your email subject. Thanks. -------------- nächster Teil -------------- Ein Dateianhang mit HTML-Daten wurde abgetrennt... URL: From paschke at inf.fu-berlin.de Tue Mar 25 11:27:47 2014 From: paschke at inf.fu-berlin.de (Adrian Paschke) Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2014 11:27:47 +0100 Subject: CfP: 8th International Web Rule Symposium (RuleML 2014) Message-ID: <007701cf4814$de12e600$9a38b200$@inf.fu-berlin.de> RuleML 2014 - one week to abstract submission deadline Apologies for cross-postings. Please send to interested colleagues. Call for Papers 8th International Web Rule Symposium (RuleML 2014) In conjunction with ECAI 2014, the 21st European Conference on Artificial Intelligence Prague, Czech Republic, August 18-20, 2014. http://2014.ruleml.org Important Dates ============= Abstract submission: 31 March 2014 Paper submission: 8 April 2014 Notification: 20 May 2014 Camera ready: 6 June 2014 RuleML 2014 dates: 18-20 August 2014 Keynotes and Tutorials =================== * Rules, Events and Actions in Semantic Complex Event Processing, by Adrian Paschke, Freie Universität Berlin * Rule-based Clinical Decision Support, Jürgen Angele, Jürgen Angele, Semedy AG, Zug, Switzerland * Tutorial on Rule Learning, by Johannes Fuernkraz, TU Darmstadt http://2014.ruleml.org/keynotes-tutorials Special Tracks ============ * Rules and Human Language Technology http://2014.ruleml.org/rules-and-human-language-technology * Learning (Business) Rules from Data http://2014.ruleml.org/learning-business-rules-from-data * Legal Rules and Norms http://2014.ruleml.org/legal-rules-and-norms RuleML 2014 is also hosting * The 4th RuleML Doctoral Consortium: http://2014.ruleml.org/dc * The 6th International Rule Challenge: http://2014.ruleml.org/challenge * The Face-to-Face LegalRuleML OASIS TC meeting Awards ====== At a special session of RuleML 2014, we will present the following awards: * RuleML Best Paper and Runner-up Awards * Rule Challenge Best System and Runner-up Awards * Doctoral Consortium Best Paper and Runner-up Awards Topics ====== We invite high-quality submissions related (but not limited) to the special tracks and to the following topics: - Rules and automated reasoning - Rule-based policies, reputation, and trust - Rule-based event processing and reaction rules - Rules and the Web - Rule discovery from data - Fuzzy rules and uncertainty - Logic programming and nonmonotonic reasoning - Non-classical logics and the Web (e.g. modal, especially deontic and epistemic, logics) - Hybrid methods for combining rules and statistical machine learning techniques (e.g., conditional random fields, Probabilistic Soft Logic) - Rule transformation, extraction, and learning - Vocabularies, ontologies, and business rules - Rule markup languages and rule interchange formats - Rule-based distributed/multi-agent systems - Rules, agents, and norms - Rule-based communication, dialogue, and argumentation models - Rule-based data integration - Vocabularies and ontologies for pragmatic primitives (e.g. speech acts and deontic primitives) - Pragmatic web reasoning and distributed rule inference / rule execution - Rules in online market research and online marketing - Applications of rule technologies in health care and life sciences - Industrial applications of rules - Rules and business process compliance checking - Standards activities related to rules - Rules and social media - General rule topics Submission Guidelines =================== Papers must be original contributions written in English and must be submitted at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ruleml2014 as: * Full Papers (15 pages in the proceedings) * Short Papers (8 pages in the proceedings) Accepted papers will be published in book form in the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series. A selection of the best papers will be invited to be revised and extended for the post-conference publication in a Special Issue of TPLP (Theory and Practice of Logic Programming). ======================================== Website: http://2014.ruleml.org Twitter hashtag: #ruleml2014 Blog: http://blog.ruleml.org Call for papers: http://2014.ruleml.org/call-for-papers -------------- nächster Teil -------------- Ein Dateianhang mit HTML-Daten wurde abgetrennt... URL: From wjamroga at in.tu-clausthal.de Tue Mar 25 21:39:45 2014 From: wjamroga at in.tu-clausthal.de (Wojtek Jamroga) Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2014 21:39:45 +0100 Subject: First CfP: Logics for Games, Strategic Reasoning, and Social Choice @ CLIMA XV Message-ID: <5331E991.3010302@in.tu-clausthal.de> [Apologies for multiple postings] ************************************************************************ ***Logics for Games and Strategic Reasoning, and Social Choice*** Special session at CLIMA XV (Computational Logic in Multi-Agent Systems) Prague, Czech Republic, August 18-19, 2014 (colocated with ECAI'14) http://www-sop.inria.fr/members/Serena.Villata/climaXVsessions.html First Call for Papers ************************************************************************ Submission deadline: May 11, 2014 Proceedings: LNCS/LNAI volume (available at the workshop) Post-proceedings: Journal of Logic and Computation ************************************************************************ INTRODUCTION Strategic reasoning occurs in many multi-agent scenarios. This is evident in theoretical approaches to MAS, as well as in practical solutions used, for example, in computer games, IT infrastructures for e-voting procedures, social network services, etc. We invite submissions that address how formal logic can contribute to our understanding, modeling and analysis of strategic behavior. Papers that investigate how the metaphors of game and social interaction can help in constructing and using logical formalisms are also welcome. The list of subjects includes (but is not limited to) the following topics: - Logics for reasoning about games and strategies - Modal logics of strategic ability - Logical foundations of game theory, decision theory, and social choice theory - Logical approaches to rationality and bounded rationality - Solving games and verification of strategies by model checking - Logics for social interaction and social choice - Logics for mechanism design - Game semantics for logics - Games in verification of logical specifications - Logic-based specification and verification of security in social choice procedures. SUBMISSION We encourage submission of high quality, original papers which have not been accepted for publication nor are currently under review for another journal or conference. Submissions should not exceed 16 pages in the Springer LNCS format. Note that, while theoretical papers are welcome, submissions must include at least some illustrating examples. For templates and formatting instructions, see http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html . Papers should be submitted electronically via EasyChair: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=clima14 . PROCEEDINGS AND POST-PROCEEDINGS LNCS Proceedings: All the accepted papers (including special session papers) will be published by Springer as a volume in Lecture Notes in Computer Science, and will be available in time for the workshop. JLC Special Issue: After the workshop, authors of selected papers will be invited to extend and re-submit their work to a special issue of Journal of Logic and Computation. IMPORTANT DATES Paper submission: May 11, 2014 Author notification: June 9, 2014 Camera-ready deadline: June 16, 2014 Workshop: August 18-19, 2014 ORGANIZATION AND CONTACT The special session is organized by Wojtek Jamroga, University of Luxembourg. In case of questions, please do not hesitate to contact me at wojtek.jamroga at uni.lu . General questions about CLIMA XI should be sent to clima2014 at easychair.org . -- Dr. habil. Wojciech Jamroga Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust University of Luxembourg http://icr.uni.lu/wjamroga/ From traverso at fzi.de Wed Mar 26 09:13:24 2014 From: traverso at fzi.de (Ignacio Traverso Ribon) Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2014 08:13:24 +0000 Subject: [AST 2014] CfP: 8th Workshop on Applications of Semantic Technologies In-Reply-To: References: <3FC2DE11E9D10A4C9775D09E5CD71A5D397CC322@ex-ms-1a.fzi.de> Message-ID: [Apologies for cross-postings] ======================================================================= CALL FOR PAPERS 8TH INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON APPLICATIONS OF SEMANTIC TECHNOLOGIES (AST 2014 – http://ast2014.fzi.de) CO-LOCATED WITH INFORMATIK 2014 – BIG DATA: DEALING WITH COMPLEXITY STUTTGART, GERMANY, SEPTEMBER 22, 2014 SUBMISSION DEADLINE: APRIL 22, 2014 ======================================================================= ---------------------------------------- AIM AND GOALS ---------------------------------------- Semantic Technologies encode meanings explicitly and independent from concrete formats and application logic. This enables machines and people likewise to understand, share, and reason over semantically represented data during retrieval and processing time. They provide an abstraction layer on top of existing ICT technologies and infrastructures aiming at the interrelation and integration of data and processes in meaningful ways. In the light of the W3C’s vision of a Web of Linked Data, Semantic Technologies are substantial constituents for the creation of data stores, the building of domain vocabularies, and the specification of data handling rules. The application of Semantic Technologies is currently being investigated in various fields, including Ambient Intelligence, Software Engineering, Cognitive Systems, Corporate Intranets, Knowledge Management, Robotics, Bioinformatics and many more. We believe that the methods and tools provided by Semantic Technologies will play a crucial role in these and other application areas for the foreseeable future, in particular related to Big and Smart Data. A special emphasis will therefore be given to works that describe key issues and practices related to a synthesis of Semantic Technologies and Big and Smart Data. The AST workshop will provide an open and stimulating environment that brings together researchers, practitioners and users from various fields to discuss goals, limitations, challenges, and real experiences related to the application and deployment of Semantic Technologies. ---------------------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES ---------------------------------------- Submission deadline: April 22, 2014 Review deadline: May 2, 2014 Notification: May 20, 2014 Camera-ready version: June 23, 2014 ---------------------------------------- WORKSHOP SCOPE ---------------------------------------- The AST 2014 workshop will foster cross-fertilisation between different application areas of Semantic Technologies and aid technology transfer from foundational research into practice. The workshop covers diverse application areas of Semantic Technologies, including but not limited to the following: * Ambient Intelligence * Big and Smart Data * Cognitive Systems * Information Integration * Multimedia Data Management * Software Engineering * smartEnergy * Machine Learning * Mobile Information Systems * Context-Aware Computing * Text Mining * Service-Oriented Computing * Digital Libraries * Grid and Cloud Computing * Peer-to-Peer Systems * Technology-enhanced learning * Ubiquitous Computing * eScience * eCommerce * eGovernment * eHealth * Bioinformatics * Social Software * Automation * Complex Event Processing ---------------------------------------- INVITED SPEAKERS ---------------------------------------- The AST 2014 workshop will have two keynotes by experts from the fields of Big and Smart Data and Semantic Technologies: * Richard Benjamins, Director of Business Intelligence at Telefónica Digital, Spain * Valentin Zacharias, Senior Consultant Big Data at codecentric AG, Germany ---------------------------------------- PROGRAMME COMMITTEE ---------------------------------------- * Adila Alfa Krisnadhi, Wright State University Dayton Ohio, USA * Andreas Abecker, disy Informationssysteme GmbH, Germany * Bernhard Bauer, University of Augsburg, Germany * Bernhard Haslhofer, AIT- Austrian Institute of Technology, Austria * Bernhard Schandl, mySugr GmbH, gnowsis.com, Austria * Christoph Beierle, University of Hagen, Germany * Christoph Quix, Fraunhofer FIT, St. Augustin, Germany * Dragan Gasevic, Athabasca University, Canada * François-Paul Servant, Renault, France * Frithjof Dau, SAP AG, Dresden, Germany * Gabriele Kern-Isberner, University of Dortmund, Germany * Harald Kosch, University of Passau, Germany * Johannes Busse, Johannes Busse knowledge engineering, Germany * Jürgen Ziegler, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany * Mark Hefke, CAS Software AG, Karlsruhe, Germany * Markus Luczak-Roesch, FU Berlin, Germany * Robert Tolksdorf, FU Berlin, Germany * Simone Braun, CAS Software AG, Karlsruhe, Germany * Stefan Schulte, TU Wien, Austria * Stephan Bloehdorn, IBM, Berlin, Germany * Stephan Grimm, Siemens AG, München, Germany * Thomas Fuhr, Technische Hochschule Nuremberg, Germany * Thorsten Liebig, derivo GmbH, Ulm, Germany * Ulrike Lucke, University of Potsdam, Germany * Valentin Zacharias, codecentric AG, Germany ---------------------------------------- ORGANISING COMMITTEE ---------------------------------------- * Stefan Zander, FZI Research Center for Information Technology, Germany * Verónica Rivera-Pelayo, FZI Research Center for Information Technology, Germany * Ignacio Traverso Ribón, FZI Research Center for Information Technology, Germany * Rudi Studer, FZI Research Center for Information Technology, Germany * Jürgen Bock, FZI Research Center for Information Technology, Germany ---------------------------------------- SUBMISSIONS ---------------------------------------- * We invite you to submit original research, case studies, in-use, or position papers in English language of up to 12 pages. * We encourage you to submit demonstration papers, which will be given special attention in a separate slot (max. 8 pages). * Please use the LNI templates of the GI (Word or LaTeX). General Link: http://www.gi.de/service/publikationen/lni/ LaTeX Template: http://url.fzi.de/ast2014-latex Word Template: http://url.fzi.de/ast2014-word * Accepted contributions will be published in the GI edition “Lecture Notes in Informatics” (LNI). * Submission page: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ast20140 ---------------------------------------- CONTACT ---------------------------------------- For further inquiries, please do not hesitate to contact the AST 2014 organising committee: ast2014 at fzi.de ......................................................... Ignacio Traverso Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter Information Process Engineering (IPE) FZI Forschungszentrum Informatik Haid-und-Neu-Str. 10–14 76131 Karlsruhe, Germany Tel.: +49 721 9654-840 Fax: +49 721 9654-841 traverso at fzi.de www.fzi.de ......................................................... FZI Forschungszentrum Informatik am Karlsruher Institut für Technologie Stiftung des bürgerlichen Rechts Stiftung Az: 14-0563.1 Regierungspräsidium Karlsruhe Vorstand: Dipl. Wi.-Ing. Michael Flor, Prof. Dr. Andreas Oberweis, Prof. Dr. Ralf Reussner, Prof. Dr. J. Marius Zöllner Vorsitzender des Kuratoriums: Ministerialdirigent Günther Leßnerkraus ......................................................... From k.s.schlobach at vu.nl Wed Mar 26 11:40:19 2014 From: k.s.schlobach at vu.nl (Stefan Schlobach) Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2014 11:40:19 +0100 Subject: EKAW 2014: Diversity in a Heterogeneous World Message-ID: <5332AE93.6050707@vu.nl> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- EKAW 2014: Diversity in a Heterogeneous World 19th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management (EKAW 2014). November 24-28, 2014, Linköping, Sweden. http://www.ida.liu.se/conferences/EKAW14 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The 19th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management is concerned with all aspects of eliciting, acquiring, modeling and managing knowledge, and its role in the construction of knowledge-intensive systems and services for the Semantic Web, knowledge management, e-business, natural language processing, intelligent information integration, personal digital assistance systems, and so forth. The special focus of this year's EKAW will be on diversity. In the recent past the amount and ease of availability of data has dramatically increased. While scale and complexity of information has always attracted attention, its heterogeneity in nature and usage are only now being investigated more systematically. Data-driven research is gaining increasing visibility in areas such as in eScience or eHumanities, but such distinct fields require diverse knowledge management and acquisition methods. Knowledge in the Cultural Heritage domain radically differs from what is required to run a global company or support projects in the developing world. The geosciences produce and consume data spanning a wide range of formats, topics, perspectives, and sources, and require the integration of such heterogeneous data to foster data sharing, access, retrieval, and reuse, without restricting semantic heterogeneity. EKAW 2014 will put a special emphasis on this diversity of knowledge and its usage. In addition to the main research track, EKAW 2014 will feature a Tutorial and Workshop Program, as well as a Poster and Demo Track. Moreover, there will be a Doctoral Consortium giving new PhD students a possibility to present their research proposals, and to get feedback on methodological and practical aspects of their planned dissertation. The proceedings of the conference will be published by Springer Verlag in the LNCS series. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ EKAW 2014 welcomes papers dealing with theoretical, methodological, experimental, and application-oriented aspects of knowledge engineering and knowledge management. In particular, but not exclusively, we solicit papers about methods, tools, methodologies and application case studies relevant with regard to the following topics: 1) "Knowledge in a diverse world" Methods and methodologies addressing the challenges of diversity, such as: Semantic heterogeneity - Semantic interoperability - Scalability, robustness, etc. - Multi-perspective data - Semantic mediation - Ontology and vocabulary matching and alignment - Data-driven ontology engineering - Privacy and data security - Data reuse - Maintenance costs and financial risks Lessons learned from case studies, e.g.: - Knowledge management in large organizations - Adoption of semantic web technologies - Maintenance of corporate knowledge repositories - Applications in domains such as - eGovernment and public administration - Life sciences, health and medicine - Humanities and Social Sciences - Automotive and manufacturing industry - Cultural heritage - Digital libraries - Geosciences - Knowledge in the developing world (ICT4D) 2) Knowledge Management - Methodologies and tools for knowledge management - Knowledge sharing and distribution, collaboration - Best practices and lessons learned from case studies - Provenance and trust in knowledge management - Methods for accelerating take-up of knowledge management technologies - Corporate memories for knowledge management - Evolution, maintenance and preservation of knowledge - Web 2.0 technologies for knowledge management - Incentives for human knowledge acquisition (e.g., games with a purpose) 3) Knowledge Engineering and Acquisition - Tools and methodologies for ontology engineering - Ontology design patterns - Ontology localization - Ontology alignment - Knowledge authoring and semantic annotation - Knowledge acquisition from non-ontological resources (thesauri, folksonomies etc.) - Semi-automatic knowledge acquisition, e.g., ontology learning - Mining the Semantic Web and the Web of Data - Ontology evaluation and metrics - Uncertainty and vagueness in knowledge representation - Dealing with dynamic, distributed and emerging knowledge 4) Social and Cognitive Aspects of Knowledge Representation - Similarity and analogy-based reasoning - Knowledge representation inspired by cognitive science - Synergies between humans and machines - Knowledge emerging from user interaction and networks - Knowledge ecosystems - Expert finding, e.g., by social network analysis - Trust and privacy in knowledge representation - Collaborative and social approaches to knowledge management and acquisition - Crowdsourcing in knowledge management ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ We will accept different types of papers. The papers will all have the same status and follow the same formatting guidelines in the proceedings but will receive special treatment during the reviewing phase. In particular, each paper type will be subject to own evaluation criteria. The Programme Committee will also make sure that there is a reasonable balance of the paper types accepted. At submission time the paper has to be clearly identified as belonging to one of the following categories. - Research papers: These are "standard" papers presenting a novel method, technique or analysis with appropriate empirical or other types of evaluation as a proof-of concept. The main evaluation criteria here will be originality, technical soundness and validation. - In-use papers: Here we are expecting papers describing applications of knowledge management and engineering in real environments. Applications need to address a sufficiently interesting and challenging problem on real-world datasets, involving many users etc. The focus is less on the originality of the approach and more on presenting systems that solve a significant problem while addressing the particular challenges that come with the use of real-world data. Evaluations should involve a representative subset of the actual users of the system. - Position papers: We invite researchers to also publish position papers which describe novel and innovative ideas. Position papers may also comprise an analysis of currently unsolved problems, or review these problems from a new perspective, in order contribute to a better understanding of these problems in the research community. We expect that such papers will guide future research by highlighting critical assumptions, motivating the difficulty of a certain problem or explaining why current techniques are not sufficient, possibly corroborated by quantitative and qualitative arguments. Submissions of research and in-use papers should be formatted according to Springer Verlag LNCS guidelines, not exceed 15 pages, and uploaded using Easychair (http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ekaw2014). Position papers are required to have at most 5 pages in the same format. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Combined conference/journal (fast-track) submission: In addition to the regular conference submission, we offer authors the possibility to submit their work to a combined conference/journal submission track. Papers submitted via this track will be published as regular research paper in the EKAW 2014 Springer conference proceedings; an extended version of the paper will be published as a full journal paper at the Semantic Web journal (SWJ) by IOS Press. The deadline and Easychair submission system for the combined submission is the same as for the conference-only track. Authors interested in the combined track should indicate this via the submission system. Papers submitted to the combined track will then undergo the regular (open and transparent) SWJ review process with the following possible decisions: * Rejected * Accepted for the conference proceedings * Accepted for the conference proceedings and invited for extended submission to the Semantic Web journal Papers that are acceptable for both will be printed in the Springer volume and authors will be asked to submit an extended version (at least 30-50% new content, e.g., full literature review, full evaluation, proofs, additional results, additional case studies, implementation details) within 6 weeks. This extended version will then undergo a fast-track review process, i.e., we assume that the paper as such is 'acceptable' and the reviewers will focus on revisions. These revisions could still be substantial and the final acceptance is based on their authors' ability to address those revisions. Papers in the 'accepted for the conference proceedings' category will be accepted to the EKAW Springer proceedings.' The organisers of EKAW 2014 are committed to an open and transparent reviewing process. For this reason we encourage authors to submit their paper as a combined conference/journal submission. Their submissions, and the reviews, are then public, which fosters scientific discourse and high quality reviewing. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Important Dates: Abstract Submission: July 9, 2014 Full Paper Submission: July 16, 2014 Notification: September 3, 2014 Camera-Ready: October 1, 2014 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ General Chairs Patrick Lambrix Linköping University, Sweden Eero Hyvönen Aalto University, Finland Program Chairs Krzysztof Janowicz University of California, USA Stefan Schlobach Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ -------------- nächster Teil -------------- Ein Dateianhang mit HTML-Daten wurde abgetrennt... URL: From mpavone at dmi.unict.it Wed Mar 26 13:52:01 2014 From: mpavone at dmi.unict.it (Mario Pavone) Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2014 13:52:01 +0100 Subject: SSBSS 2014 News & 2nd CfP - Biology meets Engineering & Computer Science, Taormina - Sicily, Italy, June 15-19, 2014 Message-ID: <20140326135201.Horde.Lj9NXuph4B9TMs1xGuPhWzA@mbox.dmi.unict.it> 2nd Call for Participation (apologies for multiple copies) ______________________________________________________ Synthetic and Systems Biology Summer School: Biology meets Engineering and Computer Science, Taormina - Sicily, Italy, June 15-19, 2014 http://www.taosciences.it/ssbss2014/ ssbss2014 at dmi.unict.it We are pleased to inform that we received more than 120 applications and 60 Abstracts/Posters and, due to many requests, we are extending the application *deadline to March 31, 2014.* For this reason, we will have up to ~150 slots (no 100 slots as previously written) for selected and motivated students. *Application Deadline: March 31, 2014* * Speakers & Courses * + Uri Alon, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel Lecture I: Elementary Circuits in Biology Lecture II: Evolution and Optimality of Gene Circuits + Joel Bader, Johns Hopkins University, USA Lecture I: Network Remodeling during Development and Disease Lecture II: Gene and Pathway Analysis of Genome-wide Association Studies + Jef Boeke, Johns Hopkins University, USA Lecture I: Genome Synthesis Lecture II: Combinatorial DNA Assembly methods and their applications + Jason Chin, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, UK Lecture I: Reprogramming the Genetic Code + Virginia Cornish, Columbia University, USA Lecture : TBA + Paul Freemont, Imperial College London, UK Lecture I: Foundational Technologies for Synthetic Biology - from DNA Assembly to Part Characterisation Lecture II: Synthetic biology designs for biosensor applications + Farren Isaacs, Yale University, USA Lecture I: Genome engineering technologies for rapid editing & evolution organisms Lecture II: Design, construction & function of genomically recoded organisms + Tanja Kortemme, University of California San Francisco, USA Lecture I: Computational protein design - principles, challenges and progress Lecture II: Design of reprogrammed and new functions - from proteins to cells + Giuseppe Nicosia, University of Catania, Italy Lecture I: Biological Circuit Design by Pareto Optimality Lecture II: Programming Living Molecular Machines for Biofuel Production + Sven Panke, ETH, Switzerland Lecture I: Synthetic Biology of Cell free Systems Lecture II: Exploiting Engineered Cell-Cell Communications in Large Scale Biotechnology + Rahul Sarpeshkar, MIT, USA Lecture I: Analog versus Digital Computation in Biology Lecture II: Analog Synthetic and Systems Biology + Giovanni Stracquadanio, Johns Hopkins University, USA Lecture I: Minimal Genomes: High-Throughput Sequencing, Statistical Methods and Physics Models to Unveil Minimal Yeast Chromosomes Compatible with Life Lecture II: Computational Tools for Genome editing, Combinatorial Assembly and Workflow Tracking + Ron Weiss, MIT, USA Lecture : TBA *School Directors* + Jef Boeke, Johns Hopkins University, USA + Giuseppe Nicosia, University of Catania, Italy + Mario Pavone, University of Catania, Italy + Giovanni Stracquadanio, Johns Hopkins University, USA *Short Talk and Poster Submission* Students may submit a research abstract for presentation. School directors will review the abstracts and will recommend for poster or short-oral presentation. Abstract should be submitted by *February 15, 2014*. The abstracts will be published on the electronic hands-out material of the summer school. Co-located Event: The 3rd International Synthetic Yeast Genome (Sc2.0) Meeting will be held in Taormina Friday June 20, 2014 http://www.taosciences.it/ssbss2014/ ssbss2014 at dmi.unict.it -- 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 * June 15-19, 2014 - Taormina, Italy http://www.taosciences.it/ssbss2014/ =========================================================================== 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 ricca at mat.unical.it Wed Mar 26 17:26:47 2014 From: ricca at mat.unical.it (Francesco Ricca) Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2014 17:26:47 +0100 Subject: RCRA 2014: deadline extension Message-ID: <20140326162647.2F72E18D0193@ml.mat.unical.it> [APOLOGIES FOR MULTIPLE POSTINGS] *** DEADLINE EXTENSION *** * __________________________________________________________________________ * Call for papers The 21st RCRA workshop: Experimental evaluation of algorithms for solving problems with combinatorial explosion --- RCRA 2014 --- A FLoC workshop at the Vienna Summer of Logic (VSL 2014) Affiliated with SAT 2014, ICLP 2014, IJCAR 2014 Vienna, Austria, July 17-18, 2014 RCRA group web site: http://rcra.aixia.it/ Workshop web site: http://rcra.aixia.it/rcra2014 e-mail: rcra2014 at gmail.com * __________________________________________________________________________ * Due to several requests, we have decided to extend the paper submission deadline to April 13. Although we are consequently extending also the abstract submission deadline, authors are kindly invited to submit their abstracts as soon as possible, in order to allow early allocation of reviewers. IMPORTANT DATES -- ***EXTENDED DEADLINES*** * Submission deadline for abstracts: March 25, 2014 ---> ***extended to April 9*** * Submission deadline for papers: April 1, 2014 ---> ***extended to April 13*** * Acceptance/reject notification: May 1, 2014 * Camera-ready papers due: May 20, 2014 * RCRA 2014: July 17-18, 2014 * __________________________________________________________________________ * The 21st edition of the RCRA workshop will take place in Vienna during the Vienna Summer of Logic ( VSL - htpp://http://vsl2014.at ) which will be the largest event in the history of logic. VSL will consist of twelve large conferences and many workshops, attracting researchers from all over the world. RCRA 2014 is a FLoC workshop affiliated with SAT 2014, ICLP 2014, IJCAR 2014. It will be held in the Workshop Block 2 ( see http://vsl2014.at/ataglance ) after SAT 2014 and before ICLP2014 and IJCAR2014. As in previous editions (http://rcra.aixia.it/publications), authors of papers orally presented at the workshop will have the opportunity to participate to the selection of a special issue that will appear on an international journal. HISTORY OF THE WORKSHOP SERIES The RCRA workshops are organized by the RCRA (Knowledge Representation & Automated Reasoning) group of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence. The last editions have been as follows: * RCRA 2013, Rome, Italy - http://rcra.aixia.it/rcra2013 Extended versions of the best papers will appear in a special issue of Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Artificial Intelligence * RCRA 2012 as a workshop of AI*IA 2012, Rome, Italy - http://rcra.aixia.it/rcra2012 Extended versions of the best papers will appear in a special issue of AI Communications * RCRA 2011 as a workshop of IJCAI 2011, Barcelona, Spain - http://rcra.aixia.it/rcra2011 Extended versions of the best papers appear in a special issue of AI Communications * Previous editions: http://rcra.aixia.it/workshops AIMS AND SCOPE Many problems in Artificial Intelligence show an exponential explosion of the search space. Although stemming from different research areas in AI, such problems are often addressed with algorithms that have a common goal: the effective exploration of huge state spaces. Many algorithms developed in one research area are applicable to other problems, or can be hybridized with techniques in other areas. Artificial Intelligence tools often exploit or hybridize techniques developed by other research communities, such as Operations Research. In recent years, research in Artificial Intelligence has more and more focused on experimental evaluation of algorithms, the development of suitable methodologies for experimentation and analysis, the study of languages and the implementation of systems for the definition and solution of problems. Scope of the workshop is fostering the cross-fertilization of ideas stemming from different areas, proposing benchmarks for new challenging problems, comparing models and algorithms from an experimental viewpoint, and, in general, comparing different approaches with respect to efficiency, problem modeling, and ease of development. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Experimental evaluation of algorithms for o knowledge representation o automated reasoning o planning o scheduling o machine learning o model checking o boolean satisfiability (SAT) o constraint programming o temporal reasoning o combinatorial optimization o quantified boolean formulae and quantified constraints o modal logics o logic programming o answer set programming o ontological reasoning * Definition and construction of benchmarks * Experimentation methodologies * Metaheuristics * Algorithm hybridization * Static analysis of combinatorial problems * Languages and systems for definition and solution of problems * Comparisons between systems and algorithms * Application experiences WORKSHOP CHAIRS * Toni Mancini Sapienza University, Rome, Italy * Marco Maratea University of Genova, Genova, Italy * Francesco Ricca University of Calabria, Rende, Italy WORKSHOP PROGRAM COMMITTEE * Mario Alviano – Università della Calabria, Rende (Italy) * Laura Barbulescu – Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), Pittsburgh, PA (USA) * Roman Bartak – Charles University, Prague (Czech Republic) * Sara Bernardini – King's College London (UK) * Alessandro Dal Palù – Università di Parma (Italy) * Francesco Donini – Università degli Studi della Tuscia, Viterbo (Italy) * Wolfgang Faber – University of Huddersfield, Huddersfield (UK) * Andrea Formisano – Università di Perugia (Italy) * Marco Gavanelli – Università di Ferrara (Italy) * Philippe Laborie – ILOG, IBM, Gentilly (France) * Yuliya Lierler – University of Nebraska, Omaha, (USA) * Ines Lynce – Universidade Técnica de Lisboa (Portugal) * Joao Marques-Silva – University College Dublin (Ireland) * Marco Montali – Free University of Bolzano (Italy) * Angelo Oddi – National Research Council (CNR), Rome (Italy) * Andreas Pieris – University of Oxford (UK) * Luca Pulina – Università di Sassari (Italy) * Daniel Riera – Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Barcelona (Spain) * Marco Roveri – FBK, Trento (Italy) * Francesco Scarcello – Università della Calabria, Rende (Italy) * Ivan Serina – Università degli Studi di Brescia (Italy) * Andrea Schaerf – Università di Udine (Italy) * Paolo Torroni – Università di Bologna (Italy) * Mirek Truszczynski – University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY (USA) * Stefan Woltran – Technische Universitat Wien (Austria) HOST ORGANIZATION Vienna Summer of Logic, Vienna, Austria FLoC workshop affiliated with SAT 2014, ICLP 2014, IJCAR 2014 SUBMISSIONS Authors are invited to submit either original (full or short) papers, or papers that appear on conference proceedings. Publications showing negative results are welcome, provided that the approach was original and very promising in principle, the experimentation was well-conducted, the results obtained were unforeseeable and gave important hints in the comprehension of the target problem, helping other researchers to avoid unsuccessful paths. At the time of submission, authors are requested to clearly specify whether their submission is original or already published. Workshop submissions must be in PDF format, do not exceed 15 (for full papers) or 8 (for short papers) pages, and should be written in LaTeX, using the LNCS-based RCRA 2014 style available at the workshop web site. RCRA 2014 uses EasyChair for the submission of contributions. Details are available on the web-site. Submissions will be reviewed by at least three members of the program committee. SELECTION FOR THE POST-PROCEEDINGS Authors of papers orally presented at the workshop will have the opportunity to participate to the selection for the post-proceedings by submitting an extended version of their work. As in previous editions (http://rcra.aixia.it/publications), workshop post-proceedings will appear in a special issue of an international journal, provided that a sufficient amount of high quality papers is collected. All candidate articles must be original: they cannot have already been published in journals, and must contain significant additional material with respect to any formal publication. Such papers will go through a second formal selection process, and will be reviewed by at least three reviewers. We aim at a short submission process, and at most one re-submission stage will be allowed. From Johannes.Faehndrich at dai-labor.de Thu Mar 27 07:25:00 2014 From: Johannes.Faehndrich at dai-labor.de (=?utf-8?B?Sm9oYW5uZXMgRsOkaG5kcmljaA==?=) Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2014 06:25:00 +0000 Subject: SEA 2014: Third International Workshop on Self-Explaining Agents (SEA). CALL FOR PAPERS Message-ID: <26500185-C58C-466C-86AE-320CDFC7E8FD@dai-labor.de> *** Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message *** ———— SEA 2014 Call for Paper ———— (We apologize for multiples copies) (Please distribute this CFP among your colleagues and students) ———— SEA 2014 Call for Paper ———— Third International Workshop on Self-Explaining Agents (SEA) Workshop web page: http://sea.dai-labor.de/ The workshop will be held in conjunction with the 44th Annual Conference of the German Computer Science Association (INFORMATIK 2014) in Stuttgart, Germany, 22th - 26th September, 2014. 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: 22th April 2014 – Notification: 20th May 2014 – Camera-ready: 23th June 2014 – Workshop date: 22th - 26th September 2014 Submission and Proceedings: All accepted papers will be scheduled for oral presentations and will be included in the proceedings of the INFORMATIK 2014. 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 Springer Lecture Notes in Informatics (LNI) template. The submitted papers must be no longer than 12 pages in length, including all figures, tables and ref- erences. 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/conferences/?conf=sea20140 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 weller at logic.at Thu Mar 27 10:29:48 2014 From: weller at logic.at (Daniel Weller) Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2014 10:29:48 +0100 (CET) Subject: Vienna Summer of Logic: Call for Volunteers Message-ID: (Apologies for multiple postings.) Vienna Summer of Logic: Call for Volunteers =========================================== What is the Vienna Summer of Logic? With over 2000 expected participants, the Vienna Summer of Logic 2014 (VSL) will be the largest event in the history of logic. It will consist of twelve large conferences and numerous workshops, attracting researchers from all over the world. The VSL will take place 9th-24 July 2014, at the Vienna University of Technology in Vienna, Austria. The VSL conferences and workshops will deal with the main theme, logic, from three important aspects: logic in computer science, mathematical logic and logic in artificial intelligence. The program of the conference consists of contributed and invited research talks and includes a number of social events such as a student reception. For more information, visit http://vsl2014.at. Vienna Summer of Logic Student Volunteers? The VSL is organized by the Kurt Goedel Society, and preparations for this event have started some time ago. The most critical phase in the organization of any large scientific meeting is, of course, the time of the meeting itself! To ensure that all the scientific and social meetings taking place in the course of the VSL can be conducted successfully, the organizers of the VSL need *your help as a VSL volunteer*. What are a volunteer's duties? There are many tasks at the VSL that will be performed by volunteers, such as helping with the registration of the participants at the conference, assisting with the use of the technical infrastructure at the conference site, etc. Each volunteer will be supervised by one of the senior organizers who will be the volunteer's contact person at the conference. What are a volunteer's perks? The most important benefit of volunteering is that volunteers may *attend all the VSL conferences for free*: this means that you can attend all the research talks given at the conferences, and mingle with the researchers during the coffee breaks. More precisely, your time at the VSL will be divided in the following way: 50% free time to attend lectures of your choosing, 30% fixed volunteer's duties, and 20% ,,standby duty''. Furthermore, all volunteers may participate in the conference's *student reception* (which is a party for all the students participating at VSL), and will receive a *VSL volunteer's t-shirt* to be able to proudly display their participation in this event in the years to come. How do I become a volunteer? Interested in becoming a Vienna Summer of Logic volunteer? Please visit http://vsl2014.at/volunteers for the application form. The deadline for applications is May 25, 2014. Applicants that have been chosen as volunteers will be contacted before June 1, 2014. From bulling at in.tu-clausthal.de Thu Mar 27 10:50:01 2014 From: bulling at in.tu-clausthal.de (Nils Bulling) Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2014 10:50:01 +0100 Subject: 2nd CfP: CLIMA XV - 15th International Workshop on Computational Logic in Multi-Agent Systems Message-ID: *** Second Call for Papers *** CLIMA XV - 15th International Workshop on Computational Logic in Multi-Agent Systems with special sessions on: *Logics for Agreement Technologies *Logics for Games, Strategic Reasoning, and Social Choice http://www-sop.inria.fr/members/Serena.Villata/climaXV.html Prague, Czech Republic, August 18-19, 2014, co-located with ECAI’14. Submission deadline: May 11th Proceedings: LNCS/LNAI volume (available at the workshop). Journal Special Issue: Selected extended papers will be published in a Special Issue of the Journal of Logic and Computation. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ The purpose of the CLIMA Workshop Series is to provide a forum for discussing techniques, based on computational logic, for representing, programming and reasoning about agents and multi-agent systems in a formal way. Following the previous fourteen, very successful, editions, the 15th CLIMA will take place in Prague, Czech Republic, on the 18th and 19th of August 2014, co-located with ECAI’14. In addition to CLIMA’s regular topics and sessions, this edition will feature two special sessions: * Logics for Agreement Technologies * Logics for Games, Strategic Reasoning, and Social Choice We welcome and encourage the submission of high quality, original papers, which have not been accepted for publication nor are currently under review for another journal or conference. Submissions will be peer-reviewed by at least three PC members. LNCS Proceedings: We intend to publish CLIMA’s Proceedings as a volume in the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science to be available in time for the workshop. Journal Special Issue: After the workshop, authors of selected papers will be invited to extend and re-submit their work to be considered for inclusion in a CLIMA Special Issue of the Journal of Logic and Computation. Detailed information regarding CLIMA, its topics of interest, the two Special Sessions, formatting and submission instructions is available at http://www-sop.inria.fr/members/Serena.Villata/climaXV.html Important dates: * Submission: May 11th * Notification: June 9th * Camera Ready: June 16th CLIMA XIV Chairs: * Nils Bulling, Clausthal University of Technology, Germany * Leon van der Torre, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg * Serena Villata, INRIA Sophia Antipolis, France Special Session Organizers: * Wojtek Jamroga, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg * Wamberto Vasconcelos, University of Aberdeen, UK Please send all inquiries about CLIMA XV to clima2014 at easychair.org -- Dr. Nils Bulling Clausthal University of Technology, Germany http://www.nilsbulling.com phone: +49 5323 72 7182 From r.bordini at acm.org Thu Mar 27 22:04:01 2014 From: r.bordini at acm.org (Rafael H Bordini) Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2014 18:04:01 -0300 Subject: Final CfP: WESAAC-2014 (Brazilian School/Workshop on Agents Message-ID: <53349241.7010104@acm.org> [Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this email] ====================================================================== Final Call for Papers --- WESAAC-2014 8th Workshop-School on Agents, Environments, and Applications PUCRS -- Porto Alegre, RS -- Brazil 28-30th of May 2014 ====================================================================== ************ IMPORTANT NEWS: ************ - Due to many requests, the submission deadline has been extended to: 11/Apr/2014 (abstracts) and 14/Apr/2014 (papers) - IFAAMAS Student Scholarships Available!!! We are grateful to IFAAMAS (http://www.ifaamas.org) for supporting WESAAC. With their kind support, we will be able to provide up to 40 students with free registration and up to 10 student scholarships of BRL 400.00 to help with travel to WESAAC-2014. To apply for free registration and the travel support, please email . For the travel grants, priority will be given to students presenting papers. The criteria to award the travel scholarships include the average review mark of the paper and travel distance. - The invited talks and courses have been announced! Invited Talks: * "Negotiation and Search" Carles Sierra (IIIA CSIC, Spain) * "Group Norms for Multi-Agent Organisations" Wamberto Vasconcelos (U.Aberdeen, UK) * "Argumentation for the Social Web" João Leite (U.Nova de Lisboa, Portugal) * "Multi-Agent Oriented Coordination" Olivier Boissier (EMSE - St. Etienne, France) * "Para uma Noção de Modularidade em Sistemas Multiagentes" A.C. Rocha Costa (FURG) Invited Courses: * "Electronic Institutions" Carles Sierra (IIIA CSIC, Spain) * "Normative Multi-Agent Systems" Wamberto Vasconcelos (U.Aberdeen, UK) * "Agent-Oriented Programming" João Leite (U.Nova de Lisboa, Portugal) * "Organization Oriented Programming" Olivier Boissier (EMSE - St. Etienne, France) * "Programação de Sistemas Multi-Agentes" Jomi F. Hubner (UFSC) * "Engenharia de Software Orientada a Agentes" Anarosa Brandão (USP) ***************************************** Important Dates =============== Abstract submission: 11th of April, 2014 Paper submission: 14th of April, 2014 Notification to authors: 5th of May, 2014 Camera ready version: 16th of May, 2014 Motivation ========== Many current computational systems no longer depend on human intervention to operate in complex dynamic environments. Some of the key features that allow such systems to operate autonomously include the ability to make rational decisions and to react to changes in a timely way. In that respect, agent systems and multi-agent environments provide a computing paradigm that supports the development of intelligent systems that are able to cope with the complexities associated with such dynamic scenarios. Aims ==== The area of agent-based systems is widely known and has numerous papers published internationally every year. However, nationally there are few events in this area and no other national event also provides tutorials and short courses specifically on the main topics of research within autonomous agents and multi-agent systems. WESAAC is therefore of great importance as a national event in this area, aiming to both prepare future generations of Brazilian researchers and to disseminate the current projects of Brazilian researchers. WESAAC aims to be a forum for the discussion of work at all levels, including undergraduate, MSc, and PhD projects currently being conducted. Fundamentally, WESAAC is the best opportunity for Brazilian undergraduate and specially postgraduate students to attend courses by some of the most prominent researchers working in this area throughout the world. Topics of Interest ================== Papers submitted to the event should address topics related to autonomous agents or multi-agent systems, such as (but not restricted to): * agent architectures and theories (BDI, belief revision, automated reasoning) * cooperation/coordination (negotiation, argumentation, reputation) * agent-based software development (programming languages, platforms, tools, methodologies) * agent organisations, societal issues, normative systems, etc. * agent communication * social simulations and agent-based simulation * (formal) specification and verification of multi-agent systems * machine learning and automated planning in agent systems * applications of agents and multi-agent systems Committees ========== General Chair: Rafael H. Bordini (PUCRS) Programme Committee Chair: Viviane Torres da Silva (UFF) Local Chair: Felipe Meneguzzi (PUCRS) WESAAC Steering Committee: Rejane Frozza (UNISC) João Luis Tavares da Silva (UCS) Diana Francisca Adamatti (FURG) Gustavo Alberto Gimênez Lugo (UTFPR) Jomi Fred Hübner (UFSC) Paper Submission ================ Researchers and students are invited to submit papers in Portuguese or English, as a PDF file formatted according to the SBC style (compulsory) available at . The proceedings are published electronically (with an ISBN). Three separate tracks have been created for paper submission: (i) full papers, (ii) short papers (i.e., extended abstracts), and (iii) short papers written by *undergraduate* students. Full papers, reporting work with solid results, must have no more than 12 pages and will be presented orally in a plenary session. Short papers, reporting ongoing work or position papers, must have between 4 and 6 pages and will be presented in poster sessions. Papers must be submitted through EasyChair . For queries related to paper submission, please send an email to . For general queries, please email . From leonel at lingapli.ciges.inf.cu Fri Mar 28 18:39:24 2014 From: leonel at lingapli.ciges.inf.cu (Dr. Leonel Ruiz Miyares) Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2014 12:39:24 -0500 Subject: 14th International Symposium on Social Communication - Santiago de Cuba, Cuba, 2015 In-Reply-To: <1173918902.5564.9.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: <1173918902.5564.9.camel@localhost.localdomain> Message-ID: <5335B3CC.9070900@lingapli.ciges.inf.cu> Dear colleague, Please, find enclosed the announcement of the 14th International Symposium on Social Communication. It will be a pleasure to welcome you in Santiago de Cuba. Yours sincerely, Dr. Leonel Ruiz Miyares President Organizing Committee Centre for Applied Linguistics Santiago de Cuba Cuba Web site of our International Symposiums on Social Communication: http://www.santiago.cu/hosting/linguistica/index.php?id=en (Getting up-to-date) Web site of the Centre for Applied Linguistics: http://www.linguistica.santiago.cu/inicio Web site of our Basic School Dictionary: http://ixa2.si.ehu.es/dbe/index.html ***** [To spread, please, thank you. Apologies if you receive this announcement more than once.] FOURTEENTH INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON SOCIAL COMMUNICATION CENTRE FOR APPLIED LINGUISTICS SANTIAGO DE CUBA, JANUARY 19-23, 2015 (Dedicated to the 500 years of the foundation of the Santiago de Cuba's city) The Centre for Applied Linguistics of the Santiago de Cuba’s branch of the Ministry of Science, Technology and the Environment, is pleased to announce the Fourteenth International Symposium on Social Communication. The event will be held in Santiago de Cuba, January 19 through the 23, 2015 and in this occasion will be dedicated to the 500 years of the foundation of the Santiago de Cuba's city. This interdisciplinary event will focus on social communication processes from the points of view of Linguistics, Computational Linguistics, Medicine, Mass Media, and Art, Ethnology and Folklore. In the context of the XIV Symposium, will be held also the Workshop "Resources and tools of the Spanish and Portuguese languages and his variants in Latin America" sponsored by the Centre for Applied Linguistics and the Spanish Association on Natural Language Processing (SEPLN). The aims of the workshop are to know the new tools on NLP developed in the Spanish-speaking countries and Portuguese of Latin America and to know about Linguistic studies on Latin-America where NLP's instruments are applied. The Symposium will be also sponsored by: . University of Oriente, Santiago de Cuba, Cuba . Pedagogical University "Frank Pais Garcia" Santiago de Cuba, Cuba . Provincial Branch of Writers and Artists Association of Santiago de Cuba, Cuba . University of Twente Enschede, The Netherlands . Basque Country University, Spain . Semantic Technology Institute (STI), University of Innsbruck Innsbruck, Austria . Centre of Lexicography Aarhus University, Denmark . University of Würzburg Würzburg, Germany . Centre Tesnière Université de Franche-Comté Besançon, France . Spanish Association on Natural Language Processing (SEPLN) . Magister on Latinoamerican Studies University of La Serena La Serena, Chile . Latino Education and Advocacy Days Organization California State University San Bernardino, USA Authors will be allowed to present only one paper pertaining to the following disciplines: 1. Linguistics: - Applied Linguistics - Phonetics and Phonology - Lexicology and Lexicography - Quantitative Linguistics - Morphology and Syntax - Anthropology Linguistics or Ethnolinguistics - Textual Linguistics and Pragmalinguistics - Sociolinguistics - Spanish and foreign language teaching - Spanish as a second language - Terminology - Translations - Linguistics Rights - Linguistics Policy 2. Computational Linguistics: - Software related to linguistics research - Automated grammatical tagging of texts - Electronic dictionaries - Software related to the teaching of mother tongues and foreign languages - Information extraction and its applications - Speech recognition and synthesis - Related issues 3. Medical specialties related to speech and voice and with Social Communication in general: - Logopedy and Phoniatry - Neurology - Otorhinolaryngology - Stomatology 4. Mass Media: - Linguistics research related to the speech of journalists, actors and radio and television announcers - Textual Analysis of radio and television programs, and of print and electronic media articles 5. Art, Ethnology and Folklore: - Research related to Social Communication Activities that will take place within the event are: - Pre-Symposium seminars - Discussion of papers in commissions - Keynote speeches - Books presentation - Cultural activities PRE-SYMPOSIUM SEMINARS The Symposium will be preceded by two seminars that will be taught by prestigious specialists. The seminars will take place Monday, January 19th, 2015. The courses are the following: "Modelling language" Prof. Dr. Sylviane Cardey Centre Tesnière Université de Franche-Comté Besançon, France "Automatic learning for the NLP. Two practical cases: the resolution of the correferencia and tagging of semantic roles" Dr. Olatz Arregi Uriarte IXA Group. Basque Country University Basque Country, Spain Participants should say in advance what pre-symposium seminars they want to take part in. An additional fee of 25.00 Cuban Convertible Pesos (CUC) will be charged for each seminar. Participation certificates will be available. KEYNOTE SPEECHES During the symposium several keynote speeches will be delivered. Until now are confirmed: Prof. Dr. Nancy Morejon Director Cuban Academy of Language Havana, Cuba "Before words emerge: Findings, Insights and Future Directions from Thirty Years of Infant Research" Prof. Dr. Kathleen Wermke Würzburg University Würzburg, Germany "Incongruity Humor in Language and Beyond" Prof. Dr. Anton Nijholt Twente University Enschede, The Netherlands "Successful on-line communication of touristic service providers" Prof. Dr. Dieter Fensel Semantic Technology Institute (STI) University of Innsbruck Innsbruck, Austria "State of the Art on Corpus Linguistics in Europe" Prof. Dr. Ann Bertels University of Leuven - KU Leuven Leuven, Belgium PAPER PRESENTATIONS The deadline of submission of papers is August 1st, 2014. The papers should not exceed 5 pages. Notification of acceptance of a paper by the Symposium’s Scientific Committee will be sent before August 31st, 2014. PAPERS To enable the Organizing Committee to include the Proceedings as part of the Symposium’s documentation -as we did since 1997-, accepted papers must be sent before September 15, 2014 if the Scientific Committee had done some observations. Requirements for papers: 1. The paper will not exceed 5 pages including graphics, footnotes and bibliography. 2. It should be written using Word 6.0 or Word 7.0 for Windows and sent to the Symposium’s Executive Secretary via e-mail as attached file. 3. Each page must be written in an A4 format with left, right, top, and bottom margin of 2.5 cm. 4. The paper must be written in one of the event’s official languages: Spanish, English, French or Portuguese. 5. The pages of the text should be unnumered. Instructions for paper submission: 1. Write down the authors' names, one under the other, at the left top of the first page, all in Arial bold capital letters, 9 points (Word 6.0 or 7.0). Under the author's name(s) should appear in bold (only initials capital letters) the institution, city, country and e-mail address. 2. In a separate line, at the center, the title of the paper must be written in Arial bold, italics, 10 points size letters. 3. The text will follow -not in bold- with the same Arial letter, 9 points size and leaving one space between lines. 4. Paragraphs will have no indentation. Spaces between paragraphs will be of 1.5 points. 5. Section titles will be written in Arial bold, 9 points size and sub-sections titles will be written in Arial Italic, 8 points size. 6. Footnotes will appear at the end of each page in Arial 8 points size letters. Presentation time will be 15 minutes. All mail or inquiries should be addressed to: Prof. Dr. Eloina Miyares Bermudez Executive Secretary of the Organizing Committee 14th International Symposium on Social Communication Centre for Applied Linguistics Santiago de Cuba, Cuba Telephone: 53-22-646390 E-mail: simposio at cla.ciges.inf.cu OFFICIAL LANGUAGES: Spanish, English, French and Portuguese REGISTRATION FEE Speakers and Delegates 200.00 CUC (Cuban Convertible Pesos) Companions 100.00 CUC (Cuban Convertible Pesos) Payment of the fee must be sent via bank transfer to the bank account to be announce opportunely and it covers a copy of the Proceedings where your paper is printed, all other documentation related to the event, speaker’s certificate, welcome cocktail and other cultural activities. Companions will have access to all of the above, except copies of the Proceedings. ACCOMODATION The Organizing Committee guarantees accommodation in 3, 4, and 5 star hotels with preferential prices for participants in the event. IMPORTANT REMINDERS - Papers submission deadline: August 1st, 2014 - Notification on paper’s approval by Scientific Committee: by August 31, 2014 - Delivery of papers by e-mail: September 15, 2014 (in case of the observations done by the Scientific Committee) - Pre-Symposium seminars: January 19, 2015 - 14th International Symposium on Social Communication: January 20 through 23, 2015 OTHER ASPECTS OF INTEREST Santiago de Cuba, located at some 900 km from Havana, is Cuba's second largest city. Its economic, cultural and social importance in Cuban history is unquestionable. Santiago is also the capital of the province with the same name. Surrounded by the green mountains of the Sierra Maestra range and the Caribbean Sea, Santiago is unique in its geography and beautiful landscape. Its surroundings make the city one of the most important tourist attractions on the entire island. The Organizing Committee, in coordination with the city's tourist agencies will offer visiting delegates a host of options allowing participants to enjoy the city's beauty and charm. SCIENTIFIC AND ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Pedro Beaton Soler Representative of the Ministry of Science, Technology and the Environment Santiago de Cuba Cuba Eloina Miyares Bermudez Executive Secretary 14th International Symposium on Social Communication Centre for Applied Linguistics Santiago de Cuba Cuba Vitelio Ruiz Hernandez Emeritus Academic Academy of Science of Cuba Centre for Applied Linguistics Santiago de Cuba Cuba Leonel Ruiz Miyares Director of Centre for Applied Linguistics President of the Organizing Committee 14th International Symposium on Social Communication Santiago de Cuba Cuba Celia Maria Perez Marques Researcher Centre for Applied Linguistics Santiago de Cuba Cuba Alex Munnoz Alvarado Investigador Centro de Linguistica Aplicada Santiago de Cuba Cuba Nancy Cristina Alamo Suarez Researcher Centre for Applied Linguistics Santiago de Cuba Cuba Anton Nijholt Professor and Researcher Twente University Enschede, The Netherlands Innaki Alegría Loinaz Professor and Researcher Basque Country University Spain Xabier Artola Zubillaga Professor and Researcher Basque Country University Spain Arantza Diaz de Ilarraza Professor and Researcher Basque Country University Spain Xabier Arregi Iparragirre Professor and Researcher Basque Country University Spain L. Alfonso Urenna Lopez President of the NLP Spanish Association (SEPLN) Jaen University Jaen, Spain Dieter Fensel Director and Researcher Semantic Technology Institute (STI) Innsbruck, Austria Martha Cordies Jackson Director and Researcher African Cultural Centre "Fernando Ortiz" Santiago de Cuba, Cuba Lucia Marconi Researcher Institute for Computational Linguistics Pisa, Italy Paola Cutugno Researcher Institute for Computational Linguistics Pisa, Italy ***** FOURTEENTH INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON SOCIAL COMMUNICATION REGISTRATION FORM Mr./Ms. ___________________________ University: ________________________ Address: __________________________________ City: ______________ Phone: _______________ E-Mail:____________________ Paper title: __________________________ Date: ________________ Signature: ___________ From grlmc at urv.cat Sat Mar 29 16:03:39 2014 From: grlmc at urv.cat (GRLMC) Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2014 16:03:39 +0100 Subject: SSTiC 2014: April 12, 5th registration deadline Message-ID: <03A7FEB70DEE4F65B6E1F2DFFCCD5F2A@Carlos1> *To be removed from our mailing list, please respond to this message with UNSUBSCRIBE in the subject line* ********************************************************************* 2014 TARRAGONA INTERNATIONAL SUMMER SCHOOL ON TRENDS IN COMPUTING SSTiC 2014 Tarragona, Spain July 7-11, 2014 Organized by Rovira i Virgili University http://grammars.grlmc.com/sstic2014/ ********************************************************************* --- April 12, 5th registration deadline --- ********************************************************************* AIM: SSTiC 2014 is the second edition in a series started in 2013. For the previous event, see http://grammars.grlmc.com/SSTiC2013/ SSTiC 2014 will be a research training event mainly addressed to PhD students and PhD holders in the first steps of their academic career. It intends to update them about the most recent developments in the diverse branches of computer science and its neighbouring areas. To that purpose, renowned scholars will lecture and will be available for interaction with the audience. SSTiC 2014 will cover the whole spectrum of computer science through 6 keynote lectures and 24 six-hour courses dealing with some of the most lively topics in the field. The organizers share the idea that outstanding speakers will really attract the brightest students. ADDRESSED TO: Graduate students from around the world. There are no formal pre-requisites in terms of the academic degree the attendee must hold. However, since there will be several levels among the courses, reference may be made to specific knowledge background in the description of some of them. SSTiC 2014 is also appropriate for more senior people who want to keep themselves updated on developments in their own field or in other branches of computer science. They will surely find it fruitful to listen and discuss with scholars who are main references in computing nowadays. REGIME: In addition to keynotes, 3 parallel sessions will be held 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: SSTiC 2014 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: Larry S. Davis (U Maryland, College Park), A Historical Perspective of Computer Vision Models for Object Recognition and Scene Analysis David S. Johnson (Columbia U, New York), Open and Closed Problems in NP-Completeness George Karypis (U Minnesota, Twin Cities), Recommender Systems Past, Present, & Future Steffen Staab (U Koblenz), Explicit and Implicit Semantics: Two Sides of One Coin Philip Wadler (U Edinburgh), You and Your Research and The Elements of Style Ronald R. Yager (Iona C, New Rochelle), Social Modeling COURSES AND PROFESSORS: Divyakant Agrawal (U California, Santa Barbara), [intermediate] Scalable Data Management in Enterprise and Cloud Computing Infrastructures Pierre Baldi (U California, Irvine), [intermediate] Big Data Informatics Challenges and Opportunities in the Life Sciences Rajkumar Buyya (U Melbourne), [intermediate] Cloud Computing John M. Carroll (Pennsylvania State U, University Park), [introductory] Usability Engineering and Scenario-based Design Kwang-Ting (Tim) Cheng (U California, Santa Barbara), [introductory/intermediate] Smartphones: Hardware Platform, Software Development, and Emerging Apps Amr El Abbadi (U California, Santa Barbara), [introductory] The Distributed Foundations of Data Management in the Cloud Richard M. Fujimoto (Georgia Tech, Atlanta), [introductory] Parallel and Distributed Simulation Mark Guzdial (Georgia Tech, Atlanta), [introductory] Computing Education Research: What We Know about Learning and Teaching Computer Science David S. Johnson (Columbia U, New York), [introductory] The Traveling Salesman Problem in Theory and Practice George Karypis (U Minnesota, Twin Cities), [intermediate] Programming Models/Frameworks for Parallel & Distributed Computing Aggelos K. Katsaggelos (Northwestern U, Evanston), [intermediate] Optimization Techniques for Sparse/Low-rank Recovery Problems in Image Processing and Machine Learning Arie E. Kaufman (U Stony Brook), [advanced] Visualization Carl Lagoze (U Michigan, Ann Arbor), [introductory] Curation of Big Data Dinesh Manocha (U North Carolina, Chapel Hill), [introductory/intermediate] Robot Motion Planning Bijan Parsia (U Manchester), [introductory] The Empirical Mindset in Computer Science Charles E. Perkins (FutureWei Technologies, Santa Clara), [intermediate] Beyond LTE: the Evolution of 4G Networks and the Need for Higher Performance Handover System Designs Sudhakar M. Reddy (U Iowa, Iowa City), [introductory] Test and Design for Test of Digital Logic Circuits Robert Sargent (Syracuse U), [introductory] Validation of Models Mubarak Shah (U Central Florida, Orlando), [intermediate] Visual Crowd Analysis Steffen Staab (U Koblenz), [intermediate] Programming the Semantic Web Mike Thelwall (U Wolverhampton), [introductory] Sentiment Strength Detection for Twitter and the Social Web Jeffrey D. Ullman (Stanford U), [introductory] MapReduce Algorithms Nitin Vaidya (U Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), [introductory/intermediate] Distributed Consensus: Theory and Applications Philip Wadler (U Edinburgh), [intermediate] Topics in Lambda Calculus and Life 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/sstic2014/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 when the capacity of the venue will be complete. It is very convenient to register prior to the event. FEES: As far as possible, participants are expected to attend for the whole (or most of the) week (full-time). Fees are a flat rate allowing one to participate to all courses. They vary depending on the registration deadline. ACCOMMODATION: Information about accommodation is available on the website of the School. CERTIFICATE: Participants will be delivered a certificate of attendance. QUESTIONS AND FURTHER INFORMATION: florentinalilica.voicu at urv.cat POSTAL ADDRESS: SSTiC 2014 Lilica Voicu Rovira i Virgili University Av. Catalunya, 35 43002 Tarragona, Spain Phone: +34 977 559 543 Fax: +34 977 558 386 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS: Departament d’Economia i Coneixement, Generalitat de Catalunya Universitat Rovira i Virgili From invitation at iariaschedule.org Mon Mar 31 00:02:54 2014 From: invitation at iariaschedule.org (ICSNC 2014) Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2014 18:02:54 -0400 Subject: 2nd CfP: ICSNC 2014 || October 12 - 16, 2014 - Nice, France Message-ID: <1396216974958.3099@iariaschedule.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 ICSNC 2014. The submission deadline is May 16, 2014. Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended article versions to one of the IARIA Journals: http://www.iariajournals.org ================= ============== ICSNC 2014 | Call for Papers =============== CALL FOR PAPERS, TUTORIALS, PANELS ICSNC 2014, The Ninth International Conference on Systems and Networks Communications October 12 - 16, 2014 - Nice, France General page: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2014/ICSNC14.html Call for Papers: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2014/CfPICSNC14.html - regular papers - short papers (work in progress) - posters Submission page: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2014/SubmitICSNC14.html Submission deadline: May 16, 2014 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 Please note the Poster and Work in Progress options. 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 conform with the Editorial rules: http://www.iaria.org/editorialrules.html ICSNC 2014 Topics (topics and submission details: see CfP on the site) WINET: Wireless networks 3G/4G integration; Wireless protocols, architectural and design concepts; Design and implementation of mobile information systems; Wireless communications and mechanisms; Antenna and RF subsystems; Coding & modulation & equalization; Channel modeling and characterization; Equalization/Synchronization; Wireless technologies; Wireless applications & services; IP Multimedia subsystems (IMS); Wireless and mobility; Wireless-wireline convergence; Radio communications systems; Specialized wireless networks; Management of wireless networks; Position on standards & fora on wireless networks; Business models on wireless networks; Communications regulations, Spectrum management; Software-Defined Radio (SDR) [ architectures, hardware, software, signal processing and smart antennas, etc.] HSNET: High speed networks Technologies, protocols, and applications for high speed networks; Voice over high speed networks; Services and interconnections of high speed networks; Technologies for High speed optical networks; Optical burst switching; End-to-end applications; Optical control plan; Advanced optical technology architectures; Design of high speed systems and networks; Methodologies and development tools for high speed networks; Management and control of high speed networks; Performance in high speed networks; Security aspects in high speed networks; QoS/SLA in high speed networks; Diagnosing high speed networks; High speed networks and NGN SENET: Sensor networks Architectures and protocols for wired and wireless sensor networks; Design of sensor networks; Instrumentation and models for deployment of sensors networks; Power in sensor networks; Ad hoc and wireless sensor networks; Management and control of sensor networks; Performance in sensor networks; Security and reliability aspects in sensor networks; Information assurance in sensor networks; QoS/SLA in sensor networks; Applications, case studies and prototypes with sensor networks MHNET: Mobile and Ad hoc networks Mobile technology and fundamentals; Analytical and validation models for mobility; Architecture and routing protocols for mobile networks; Architectures, frameworks, fundamentals on ad hoc networks; Energy efficient design, cross-layer design, scalability; MAC protocols for ad-hoc and sensor networks (801.11, Bluetooth, etc.); Data, information, and signal processing in mobile networks; Complexity analysis of mobile algorithms and protocols; Software platforms and development tools supporting mobility; QoS/SLA, access control and security in mobile and ad hoc networks; Location and mobility management; Location and service discovery in ad hoc networks; Planning, provisioning, and deployment mobility features; Directional and smart antennas for mobile and ad-hoc networks; Performance and security in ad hoc and mobile networks; Self-organization, synchronization and stability in ad hoc networks; Self-management in ad hoc and mobile networks; Ad hoc and mobile networks and autonomic com puting; Mobile ad hoc platforms, systems and tools; Applications over ad hoc networks; Standards evolution on mobility and ad hoc networks AP2PS: Advances in P2P Systems Architectures and protocols; Gossip-based and epidemic protocols; Integration with network operators and service providers; Autonomic computing and networking; Semantic P2P; Opportunistic networking; Content delivery networks; Applications; Prototypes and simulations; Implementations; Comparative performance analysis; Dependability, resilience and availability; Benchmarking and optimization; Quality of experience; Security, trust and reputation; Digital rights management; Content filtering; P2P and wireless convergence; Integrated approaches; Energy efficiency MESH: Advances in Mesh Networks Architectures and algorithms; Wireless interference models; Large-scale networks; Real-time and non-real-time communications; Centralized and distributed scheduling; Service differentiation; Security, Privacy, and Trust; Protocol interference models; Single-channel multihop/multichannel routing; Quality of Services routing; Multimedia-centric routing; Cross-layer multicast routing; QoS-based access protocols for mesh networks; Multichannel access protocols; Applications; Multimedia services; Home IPTV; WiMax; Broadband home networking communications; Smart buildings; Broadband Internet access VENET: Vehicular networks Communication technologies in vehicular networks; Frameworks and architectures for vehicular networks; Interoperability with Internet and other networks; Vehicle-infrastructure communications; Vehicle-to-vehicle communications; Emerging inter/intra-vehicle and infrastructure-to-vehicle wireless technologies; Cross-layer design and optimization for vehicular networks; Middleware and service architectures for vehicular networks; Propagation issues Vehicular sensors and data collection and process; On-drive diagnostics and repair technologies and systems; Protocol features /MAC, QoS, routing, multicast, addressing, identity/; Mobility and hand-off ; Properties /security, privacy, performance, robustness, real-time, etc./; Control and management in vehicular networks; Driver-oriented support systems /assistance, active&passive safety, etc./; Case studies and fields trials on vehicular networks; Applications across vehicular networks /content distribution, alerting, etc./; Standardization /802.11p, DSRC, etc./ and standard platforms /JasPar, AUTOSTAR, etc./ RFID: Radio-frequency identification systems Fundamentals for RFID systems; Communications in RFID systems; Next generation RFID Technologies; RFID middleware design and architecture; Antenna design for RFID; System design and deployment; Circuits and architecture; RFID ans sensor networks; Bridging RFID networks in heterogeneous networks; Collision, proximity, speed; Security, privacy, trust; Monitoring and control of RFID systems; Localization and tracking; Inventory tracking; Testing and verification; Planing and executing RFID systems; RFID pilot projects; Use cases in deploying and operating /finance, manufacture, agriculture, transportation, etc./; Tools for supporting the design and deployment of RFID systems SESYS: Security systems Security analysis methodologies; Middleware and distributed systems security; Cryptography, certificates, information hiding, access control; Protection, risk, vulnerabilities, attacks, authorization/authentication; Access control, wireless access control, broadband access control; Biometrics, smart cards, identification and trust methodologies; Certification, accreditation anonymity, and audit; Security management, emergency contingency planning, identify theft, life safety; Wireless and mobile security; Fast security associations; Electronic surveillance and e-commerce protocols; Security and trust in web-services-based applications; Peer-to-peer security, denial of services; Information survivability, insider threat protection, integrity; Intellectual property rights, privacy, legal and regulatory issues; Criminal exploitation of technology; Commercial and industrial security; Viruses, hackers, worms, spam, and other malicious code MCSYS: Multimedia communications systems Technologies, protocols, and mechanisms for multimedia communications; Multimedia compression mechanisms and information representation; Multimedia encoding and compression, MPEG-1 to MPEG-4, Wavelet and fractal; Multimedia frameworks, communications, and middleware; Next generation multimedia communications; Mobile multimedia communications; Methodologies and development tools for multimedia communications systems; Wireless mobile multimedia communications; Ad hoc multimedia networks; IP-based Multimedia Subsystems (IMS); QoS/SLA in mobile multimedia services and applications; Mechanisms for interactive multimedia applications; Designing and implementing interactive applications; Multimedia authoring, publishing, and right securing; Security and performance for multimedia communications; Management, QoS, and security aspects in streaming over wireless ad hoc networks; Management and control of multimedia systems; Standards protocols for multimedia communications POSYS: Policy-based systems Policy for automation control; Trusting policy control commands; Policy-driven autonomic organizations; Policy-based control scalability; Policy sensors for feedback control; Policy conflict detection and conflict resolution; Context-aware policy-driven adaptive frameworks; Policy integrity, trust and negotiations; Policy-based software applications; Policing pervasive computing environments; Policing on-demand systems and services PESYS: Pervasive education system Learning and teaching systems; E-learning methods and e-learning scenarios; Tools and architectures for mobile/ubiquitous e-learning; Cooperative learning and working; Mobile technology and education; Distance learning and education; Computers and arts; Education in developing regions; Reflection in learning software and hardware; Social impact metrics on distance learning; Methodologies and processes for education; Curriculum projects and experiences; Intelligent support; Multimedia environment for teaching; E-market place for higher education; Embedded systems education; Wearable computers and education Committee: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2014/ComICSNC14.html ================================================ To stop receiving notices about ICSNC, please reply with "DROP ICSNC event at in.tu-clausthal.de" in the subject field. 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Keynote speakers include Ljiljana Trajkovic, President of the IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society; Witold Pedrycz, Editor-in-Chief of 3 SCI-indexed journals (including IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems); and Marimuthu Palaniswami, a renowned researcher. Topics include (but are not limited to): Systems · Control and Automation Systems · Power and Energy Systems · Intelligent Systems · Computer Systems and Applications Informatics · Communications and Networking · Image, Video, and Signal Processing · Data Engineering and Data Mining · Software Engineering The registration fee of US$410 includes proceedings, lunches, dinners, banquet, coffee breaks, and all technical sessions. All papers in conference proceedings will be submitted to both IEEE Xplore and EI Compendex for indexing. Substantially extended versions of best papers will be considered for publication in a special issue of a SCI-indexed journal. Shanghai is the largest city in China, with famous historical and cultural heritage. Attractions include Yuyuan Garden ("Happy Garden" built in Ming Dynasty), Shanghai Museum with 120,000 pieces of rare relics, Shanghai World Financial Center, Jade Buddha Temple (Song Dynasty), Oriental Pearl TV Tower, Zhujiajiao Water Town, and Expo 2010 site. To promote international participation of researchers from outside the country/region where the conference is held (i.e., China’s mainland), researchers outside of China’s mainland are encouraged to propose invited sessions. The first author of each paper in an invited session must not be affiliated with an organization in China’s mainland. All papers in the invited sessions can be marked as "Invited Paper". The organizer(s) for each invited session with at least 6 registered papers will jointly enjoy an honorarium of US*D 400. Invited session organizers will solicit submissions, conduct reviews and recommend accept/reject decisions on the submitted papers. Invited session organizers will be able to set their own submission and review schedules, as long as a list of recommended papers is determined by 10 October 2014. Each invited session proposal should include: (1) the name, bio, and contact information of each organizer of the invited session; (2) the title and a short synopsis of the invited session. Please send your proposal to icsai2014 at sdju.edu.cn For more information, visit the conference web page: http://ICSAI2014.sdju.edu.cn If you have any questions after visiting the conference web page, please email the secretariat at icsai2014 at sdju.edu.cn Join us at this major event in exciting Shanghai !!! Organizing Committee icsai2014 at sdju.edu.cn P.S.: Kindly forward to your colleagues or students who may be interested. 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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. *SEPARATE POSTER SESSION:* Note that there are two separate kinds of submissions, one for the oral presentations and one for the posters. This means that papers can be directly submitted as posters. For more information, see the Student Session website: http://www.kr.tuwien.ac.at/drm/dehaan/stus2014/. Kind regards, The ESSLLI 2014 Student Session Organization Committee Chair: - Ronald de Haan (Technische Universität Wien) LoCo (Logic and Computation) co-chairs: - Zoé Christoff (Universiteit van Amsterdam) - Aybüke Özgün (Université de Lorraine) LoLa (Logic and Language) co-chairs: - Philip Schulz (Universiteit van Amsterdam) - Thomas Brochhagen (Universität Düsseldorf) LaCo (Language and Computation) co-chairs: - Miriam Kaeshammer (Universität Düsseldorf) - Ramon Ziai (Universität Tübingen) -------------- nächster Teil -------------- Ein Dateianhang mit HTML-Daten wurde abgetrennt... URL: From fernando.lopes at lneg.pt Mon Mar 31 18:09:47 2014 From: fernando.lopes at lneg.pt (Fernando Lopes) Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2014 16:09:47 +0000 Subject: Submission Invitation: IATEM14 and Springer Verlag Forthcoming Book In-Reply-To: <3a7382c26b644d7f981e88557306cd48@DB4PR02MB208.eurprd02.prod.outlook.com> References: <102a7d80a3f8418799a859eee6f183b7@DB4PR02MB208.eurprd02.prod.outlook.com> <7da22e5355304ac8a46e7c563bfe450a@DB4PR02MB208.eurprd02.prod.outlook.com> <69cd14de5ed54c29bf256cfddbe5586c@DB4PR02MB208.eurprd02.prod.outlook.com> <4f659dd2725d45c5bb8004c689d4e98c@DB4PR02MB208.eurprd02.prod.outlook.com> <611f846f3d3e48ad9bd614b79b573a55@DB4PR02MB208.eurprd02.prod.outlook.com> <68a88777632f47a7bd1c7c2ee46e28fe@DB4PR02MB208.eurprd02.prod.outlook.com> <0c35aacd2a4a4f7cace97e4a0bf8dad6@DB4PR02MB208.eurprd02.prod.outlook.com> <1384f8e93ade45d9baecdd9488e3443c@DB4PR02MB208.eurprd02.prod.outlook.com> <478321f6c46b4c838d0217d51c80863e@DB4PR02MB208.eurprd02.prod.outlook.com> <251aa6af1bd74bbfa35de3e3d405ecb2@DB4PR02MB208.eurprd02.prod.outlook.com> <62a264cc0b5d404496ad3ebf3400c4c7@DB4PR02MB208.eurprd02.prod.outlook.com> <319197593a2c4ce9850e0d2d78ea99f3@DB4PR02MB208.eurprd02.prod.outlook.com> <3a7382c26b644d7f981e88557306cd48@DB4PR02MB208.eurprd02.prod.outlook.com> Message-ID: <13d6179175e043e7a071ab9151f985d3@DB4PR02MB208.eurprd02.prod.outlook.com> Dear colleague, Please feel cordially invited to submit your paper(s) to IATEM14, 3rd Workshop on Artificial Intelligence Tecnhiques for Power Systems and Energy Markets: www.gecad.isep.ipp.pt/iatem/ Deadline for full paper submission: April 10th, 2014. All accepted papers will be published by IEEE Computer Society's Conference Publishing. Proceedings will be indexed by Thomson ISI Web of Knowledge. Extended and improved versions of the best papers will be considered for publication in a forthcoming Book on Power Systems and Energy Markets, to be published by Springer Verlag, edited by Fernando Lopes and Helder Coelho, Springer Series in Studies in Systems, Decision and Control. Best regards, Fernando Lopes ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * CALL FOR PAPERS * * * * * ** * * * * * * * * * * * * * * ** 3rd International Workshop on Agent Technology, Power Systems and Energy Markets (IATEM 2014) ** (http://www.gecad.isep.ipp.pt/iatem) 01 - 05 September 2014, Munich, Germany * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Proceedings by IEEE Computer Society ------------------------------------ ** All accepted papers will be published by IEEE Computer Society's Conference Publishing. Proceedings indexed by the Thomson ISI Web of Knowledge. IATEM Workshop ---------------- Traditional power systems were primarily designed to provide energy under efficient and secure conditions. However, the global increase on electricity demand and the corresponding need to invest in modern power systems, gives added urgency to several other major goals, including sustainability, reliability, and mainly the achievement of reduced health and environmental impact. Around the world, power markets are also being reconsidered in an effort to meet a broader mix of objectives: encouraging non-fossil sources of energy, accelerating private investment, encouraging competition and efficiency, and increasing flexibility in system operation, among others. Accordingly, the main purpose of this 3rd international workshop, as an event of DEXA 2014, is to provide a high-profile, internationally respected discussion forum on the most recent and innovative scientific research in the areas of power systems and energy markets that can benefit most from Artificial Intelligence. Topics of Interest (include, but are not limited to): --------------------------------------------------- Power Systems * AI-based Methods for Renewable and Distributed Generation * Intelligent Smart Grid Modelling * Intelligent Optimization of Energy use within Micro-grids and Small Island Systems * Sustainable Energy Systems * Intelligent Optimization in Planning and Operating Energy Networks * AI-based methods for Demand Management * Intelligent Monitoring and Diagnosis of Power Systems * Intelligent Supervisory Control Systems * Other AI-based Methods for Power Systems Energy Markets * Markets for Integrating Variable Renewable Energy * Impact of Distributed Generation on Markets * Markets to Incorporate Demand Response Programs * Market Modelling and Market Strategies * Design of Spot and Bilateral Contracting Markets * Virtual Power Players and Coalition Formation * Design of Capacity and Ancillary Services Markets * Novel Energy Markets and Trading Strategies * Other Intelligent Approaches for Energy Markets Software Agents * Agent-Oriented Software Engineering * Auctions, Contracts and Contracting Issues * Coalition Formation and Management * Expert Systems and Knowledge-based Systems * Interaction Protocols and Mechanism Design * Learning Algorithms and Data Mining Approaches Important Dates ---------------- * Full Paper Submission: 10th April 2014 * Notification of Acceptance: 30th April 2014 * Camera-ready Papers: 20rd May 2014 Submission Information ---------------------- Authors are invited to submit original, unpublished research papers in English, which are not being considered in another forum. Papers should be no longer than 5 pages (two-columns, A4), including figures and references, and should be formatted according to the IEEE format, following the instructions on the IEEE’s site. Submission of papers (in PDF format) is made electronically through the main conference management system ConfDriver. Submitted papers will be peer-reviewed by at least 3 reviewers. Papers will be carefully evaluated based on originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of exposition. Program Committee ----------------- * Alberto Fernández, University Rey Juan Carlos, Spain * Alberto Sardinha, Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal * Angelica Gianfreda, London Business School, UK * Bernhard Freudenthaler, Software Competence Center Hagenberg, Austria * Bert Willems, Tilburg University, The Netherlands * Christian Huemer, Vienna University of Technology, Austria * Erik Delarue, KU Leuven, Belgium * Fernando Lopes, National Research Institute (LNEG), Portugal * Francisco Ramos-Real, University La Laguna, Spain * Helder Coelho, University of Lisbon, Portugal * Hipòlit Torró, University of Valencia, Spain * Huib Aldewereld, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands * Ivan Diaz-Rainey, University of Otago, New Zealand * Jan Treur, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands * João Catalão, University of Beira Interior, Portugal * João Paulo Saraiva, University of Porto, Portugal * João Santana, Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal * Jorge de Sousa, Institute Superior of Engineering of Lisbon, Portugal * Julien Chevallier, University Paris 8, France * Julio Usaola García, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain * Kristin Dietrich, Universidad Pontificia Comillas, Spain * Lars Nordström, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweeden * Massimiliano Giacomin, University of Brescia, Italy * Massimo Genoese, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany * Nick Bassiliades, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece * Nir Oren, University of Aberdeen, UK * Paolo Torroni, University of Bologna, Italy * Paulo Leitão, Polytechnic Institute of Bragança, Portugal * Paulo Novais, University of Minho, Portugal * Rafal Weron, Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland * Sandro Sapio, University of Napoli "Parthenope", Italy * Zhi Zhou, Argonne National Laboratory, USA * Zita Vale, Polytechnic Institute of Porto, Portugal Track Chairs ------------ Fernando Lopes, LNEG - National Research Institute, Lisbon, Portugal Email: fernando.lopes at lneg.pt Zita do Vale, ISEP - Institute Superior of Engineering of Porto, Portugal Email: zav at isep.ipp.pt Jorge Sousa, ISEL - Institute Superior of Engineering of Lisbon, Portugal Email: jsousa at deea.isel.ipl.pt Helder Coelho, University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal Email: hcoelho at di.fc.ul.pt -------------- nächster Teil -------------- Ein Dateianhang mit HTML-Daten wurde abgetrennt... URL: From geoff at cs.miami.edu Mon Mar 31 18:50:43 2014 From: geoff at cs.miami.edu (Geoff Sutcliffe) Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2014 12:50:43 -0400 (EDT) Subject: FLoC workshops - Interpolation, Vampire Message-ID: <20140331165043.24D2B1214D8@mcclellan.cs.miami.edu> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ iPrA 2014 - 2ND WORKSHOP ON INTERPOLATION: FROM PROOFS TO APPLICATIONS CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS Date: July 17-18, 2014 Location: Vienna, Austria (co-located with the Vienna Summer of Logic) Web: http://vsl2014.at/meetings/iPRA-index.html IMPORTANT DATES Submission deadline: April 30, 2014, AOE Notification: May 7, 2014 Workshop: July 17-18, 2014 ORGANISATION AND COMMITTEE Laura Kovacs and Georg Weissenbacher SCOPE Craig interpolation enjoys a continuing popularity in computer science. Historically, Craig's interpolation theorem has received ample attention in proof theory and mathematical logic as well as in complexity theory. Recently, interpolants are increasingly used in automated verification, synthesis, and description logics. The aim of the workshop is to bring together theoreticians and practitioners from these different fields. We solicit submissions in form of an abstract of at most one page in PDF format. The authors of accepted abstracts are required to present their work at the workshop. There will be no published proceedings. We encourage submissions presenting work in progress, tools under development, as well as research of PhD students, such that the workshop can become a forum for active dialog between the groups involved in applications of interpolation. We also encourage contributions from outside the verification community. Presentations of recently published papers are also allowed and encouraged, but please indicate on your submission where the paper was published/presented. Relevant topics include (but are not limited to) applications of interpolation in: - Interpolating decision procedures - Proof theoretic approaches to interpolation - Proof systems and calculi for interpolation - Proof transformation techniques - Inductive Proofs - Logical Abduction - Interpolation techniques based on constraint solving, linear programming... - Alternative techniques for interpolation - Interpolation theorems (for theories and extensions, non-classical logic, ...) - Interpolation-based/Inductive invariant generation - Program analysis and verification - Tools for interpolation - Applications of Craig interpolation (verification, synthesis, automated reasoning, ...) - Forgetting, variable elimination, and uniform interpolation - Complexity results and limitations ... FORMAT The workshop will feature - invited talks and tutorials by distinguished speakers, - presentations (selected by a committee based on the submission of abstracts) by workshop participants, and - discussion and panel sessions. INVITED TALKS As part of the workshop program we will have invited talks given by the following distinguished speakers: - Orna Grumberg (Technion, Israel) - Pavel Pudlák (Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic) - Frank Wolter (University of Liverpool, UK) The titles and abstracts of the talks/tutorials will be announced on the workshop web-page closer to the date. SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS Abstracts (at most one page in PDF format) have to be submitted until April 30 via the EasyChair system: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ipra2014 The authors will be notified on May 7, 2014. There will be no formal workshop proceedings. REGISTRATION Registration for the workshop will be possible via the VSL registration site http://vsl2014.at/registration/. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ========================= Vampire 2014: The Vampire Workshop July 23, 2014, part of FLoC 2014 Vienna, Austria http://www.easychair.org/smart-program/VSL2014//Vampire-index.html ========================= CALL FOR PAPERS ========================= IMPORTANT DATES: Submission deadline:deadlineMay 12, 2014 Notification of acceptance: May 19, 2014 Final paper submission: May 23, 2014 Workshop day:dayJuly 23, 2014 WORKSHOP AIM: The workshop aims at discussing the development and use of the first-order theorem prover Vampire. The workshop will address the newest trends in implementing first-order theorem provers, and focus on new challenges and application areas. Workshop participants will include both Vampire developers and users and provides a convenient opportunity for interesting discussions between tool developers and users. The users can learn more about Vampire and its recent developments. The developers can learn more about the use of Vampire, its efficiency in various application areas and needs of the users. The workshop is going to to shed the light on on problems such as - what is essential for substantial progress in theorem proving tools; - what are the best implementation principles to be used; - what are the best heuristics and strategies, depending on application areas; - both successful and unsuccessful case studies; - missing features in modern theorem provers. The workshop will also overview the most recent advances made in Vampire. PAPER SUBMISSION: We seek submissions reporting on theory, application, case studies, experiments and work-in-progress using Vampire and other theorem provers in various applications. Submissions can be in any form, ranging from work in progress to completed work. For example, the users can submit: - extended abstracts or full papers; - theoretical papers; - experimental papers and case studies - or in general any papers that can benefit tool developers and users. Papers can be of any length, ranging from 2-page abstracts to full papers up to 20 pages in length. The papers should use the EasyChair LaTeX, Microsoft Word, or ODT templates, which can be found at ... http://www.easychair.org/publications/epic-templates. Submissions should be made using EasyChair, via the link ... https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=vampire2014 The workshop proceedings will be published in the EasyChair EPiC series. PROGRAM COMMITEE: Laura Kovacs (Chalmers University of Technology) - chair Andrei Voronkov (University of Manchester) - chair ------------------------------------------------------------------------------