From grlmc at grlmc.com Mon Jan 2 03:46:45 2017 From: grlmc at grlmc.com (GRLMC) Date: Mon, 02 Jan 2017 03:46:45 +0100 Subject: DeepLearn 2017: early registration January 27 Message-ID: <545102060a010b0103525101030b5a04015e0351025002520b560d080555015607595400055d070b0903540b575350@grlmc_ip-zone_com-6> DeepLearn 2017: early registration January 27*To be removed from our mailing list, please respond to this message with UNSUBSCRIBE in the subject line*   ************************************************************   INTERNATIONAL SUMMER SCHOOL ON DEEP LEARNING   DeepLearn 2017   Bilbao, Spain   July 17-21, 2017   Organized by: University of Deusto Rovira i Virgili University   http://grammars.grlmc.com/DeepLearn2017/   ************************************************************   SCOPE:   DeepLearn 2017 will be a research training event with a global scope aiming at updating participants about the most recent advances in the critical and fast developing area of deep learning. This is a branch of artificial intelligence covering a spectrum of current exciting machine learning research and industrial innovation that provides more efficient algorithms to deal with large-scale data in neuroscience, computer vision, speech recognition, language processing, drug discovery, biomedical informatics, recommender systems, learning theory, robotics, games, etc. Renowned academics and industry pioneers will lecture and share their views with the audience.   Most deep learning subareas will be displayed, and main challenges identified through 4 keynote lectures, 24 six-hour courses, and 1 round table, which will tackle the most active and promising topics. The organizers are convinced that outstanding speakers will attract the brightest and most motivated students. Interaction will be a main component of the event. An open session will give participants the opportunity to present their own work in progress in 5 minutes.   ADDRESSED TO:   In principle, graduate students, doctoral students and postdocs from around the world will be typical profiles of participants. However, there are no formal pre-requisites for attendance in terms of academic degrees. Since there will be a variety of levels, specific knowledge background may be assumed for some of the courses. DeepLearn 2017 is also appropriate for more senior people who want to keep themselves updated on recent developments and future trends. All will surely find it fruitful to listen and discuss with major researchers, industry leaders and innovators.   REGIME:   In addition to keynotes, 3 courses will run in parallel during the whole event. Participants will be able to freely choose the courses they wish to attend as well as to move from one to another.   VENUE:   DeepLearn 2017 will take place in Bilbao, the largest city in the Basque Country, famous for its gastronomy and the seat of the Guggenheim Museum. The venue will be:   DeustoTech, School of Engineering University of Deusto Avda. Universidades, 24 48014 Bilbao, Spain   KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:   tba   PROFESSORS AND COURSES: (to be completed)   Sven Behnke (University of Bonn), [intermediate] Visual Perception using Deep Convolutional Neural Networks    Mohammed Bennamoun (University of Western Australia), tba   Hervé Bourlard (Idiap Research Institute), tba   George Cybenko (Dartmouth College), tba   Rina Dechter (University of California, Irvine), tba   Li Deng (Microsoft Research), tba   Jianfeng Gao (Microsoft Research), [introductory/intermediate] An Introduction to Deep Learning for Natural Language Processing   Yufei Huang (University of Texas, San Antonio), tba   Soo-Young Lee (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology), tba   Li Erran Li (Columbia University), tba   Jose C. Principe (University of Florida), [intermediate/advanced] Cognitive Architectures for Object Recognition in Video   Ruslan Salakhutdinov (Carnegie Mellon University), tba   Joos Vandewalle (KU Leuven), Data Processing Methods, and Applications of Least Squares Support Vector Machines   Georgios N. Yannakakis (University of Malta), Deep Learning for Games - But not for Playing them   OPEN SESSION:   An open session will collect 5-minute presentations of work in progress by participants. They should submit a half-page abstract containing title, authors, and summary of the research to david.silva409 (at) yahoo.com by July 10, 2017.   ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:   José Gaviria Carlos Martín (co-chair) Manuel Jesús Parra Iker Pastor Borja Sanz (co-chair) David Silva   REGISTRATION:   It has to be done at   http://grammars.grlmc.com/DeepLearn2017/registration.php   The selection of up to 8 courses requested in the registration template is only tentative and non-binding. For the sake of organization, it will be helpful to have an approximation of the respective demand for each course.   Since the capacity of the venue is limited, registration requests will be processed on a first come first served basis. The registration period will be closed and the on-line registration facility disabled when the capacity of the venue will be complete. It is much recommended to register prior to the event.   FEES:   Fees comprise access to all courses and lunches. There are several early registration deadlines. Fees depend on the registration deadline.   ACCOMMODATION:   Suggestions for accommodation will be available on the website.   CERTIFICATE:   Participants will be delivered a certificate of attendance including the number of hours of lectures.   QUESTIONS AND FURTHER INFORMATION:   david.silva409 (at) yahoo.com   ACKNOWLEDGMENTS:   Universidad de Deusto Universitat Rovira i Virgili -------------- nächster Teil -------------- Ein Dateianhang mit HTML-Daten wurde abgetrennt... URL: From geoff at cs.miami.edu Tue Jan 3 15:29:40 2017 From: geoff at cs.miami.edu (Geoff Sutcliffe) Date: Tue, 3 Jan 2017 09:29:40 -0500 (EST) Subject: Special issue of AI Communications on Automated Reasoning Message-ID: <20170103142940.E2B3E121510@mcclellan.cs.miami.edu> --------------------------------- Special issue of AI Communications on Automated Reasoning CALL FOR PAPERS --------------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES --------------- Abstract submission: January 8, 2017 Paper submission: January 15, 2017 Notification of acceptance: April 15, 2017 Final versions: June 15, 2017 BACKGROUND ---------- This special issue follows two successful 2016 events in Automated Reasoning: Artificial Intelligence and Theorem Proving (AITP 2016) (http://aitp-conference.org/) Practical Aspects of Automated Reasoning (PAAR 2016) (http://cs.ru.nl/paar16/). About PAAR: 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. PAAR brings together different groups to concentrate on practical aspects of the implementation and application of automated reasoning tools. About AITP: Large-scale semantic processing and strong computer assistance of mathematics and science is our inevitable future. New combinations of AI and reasoning methods and tools deployed over large mathematical and scientific corpora will be instrumental to this task. AITP is the forum for discussing how to get there as soon as possible, and the force driving the progress towards that. SCOPE AND TOPICS ---------------- The focus of the special issue will be on new combination of AI and Automated Reasoning, and on practical applications of Automated Reasoning. The topics of interest include: * Automated reasoning in propositional, first-order, higher-order and non-classical logics * AI and big-data methods in theorem proving and mathematics * Collaboration between automated and interactive theorem proving * Alignment and joint processing of formal, semi-formal, and informal libraries * Implementation of provers (SAT, SMT, resolution, tableau, instantiation- based, rewriting, logical frameworks, etc) * Automated reasoning tools for all kinds of practical problems and applications * Methods for large-scale computer understanding of mathematics and science * Common-sense reasoning and reasoning in science * Combinations of linguistic/learning-based and semantic/reasoning methods * 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, optimizations techniques, strategies and heuristics, fairness Participants of AITP 2016 and PAAR 2016, as well as other authors are invited to submit contributions. SUBMISSION GUIDELINES --------------------- This special issue welcomes original high-quality contributions that have been neither published in nor simultaneously submitted to other venues. Submissions will be peer-reviewed using the standard refereeing procedure of the AI Communications. Full papers of a maximum extension of 15 pages should be prepared according to the AIComm style guidelines described at the following link: http://www.iospress.nl/journal/ai-communications/ Papers should be submitted through the AIComm mstracker: http://mstracker.com/submit1.php?jc=aic GUEST EDITORS ------------- Pascal Fontaine Cezary Kaliszyk Stephan Schulz Josef Urban From ruy at cin.ufpe.br Thu Jan 5 16:04:43 2017 From: ruy at cin.ufpe.br (Ruy de Queiroz) Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2017 12:04:43 -0300 Subject: 24th WoLLIC 2017 - Second Call for Papers Message-ID: WoLLIC 2017 24th Workshop on Logic, Language, Information and Computation July 18-21, 2017 University College London (UCL), London, UK 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) ACM Special Interest Group on Logic and Computation (ACM-SIGLOG) (TBC) Sociedade Brasileira de Computação (SBC) Sociedade Brasileira de Lógica (SBL) ORGANISATION Department of Computer Science, University College London, London, UK School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science, Queen Mary College, London, UK Centro de Informática, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil HOSTED BY Department of Computer Science, University College London, London, UK CALL FOR PAPERS WoLLIC is an annual international forum on inter-disciplinary research involving formal logic, computing and programming theory, and natural language and reasoning. Each meeting includes invited talks and tutorials as well as contributed papers. The twenty-fourth WoLLIC will be held at the School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science, Queen Mary College, London, UK, from July 18th to 21st, 2017. It is sponsored by the Association for Symbolic Logic (ASL), the Interest Group in Pure and Applied Logics (IGPL), the The Association for Logic, Language and Information (FoLLI), the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science (EATCS), the European Association for Computer Science Logic (EACSL), the Sociedade Brasileira de Computação (SBC), and the Sociedade Brasileira de Lógica (SBL). PAPER SUBMISSION Contributions are invited on all pertinent subjects, with particular interest in cross-disciplinary topics. Typical but not exclusive areas of interest are: foundations of computing and programming; novel computation models and paradigms; broad notions of proof and belief; proof mining, type theory, effective learnability; formal methods in software and hardware development; logical approach to natural language and reasoning; logics of programs, actions and resources; foundational aspects of information organization, search, flow, sharing, and protection; foundations of mathematics; philosophy of mathematics; philosophical logic. Proposed contributions should be in English, and consist of a scholarly exposition accessible to the non-specialist, including motivation, background, and comparison with related works. Articles should be written in the LaTeX format of LNCS by Springer (see authors instructions at http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0). They must not exceed 12 pages, 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 2017 EasyChair website. (Please go to http://wollic.org/wollic2017/instructions.html for instructions.) A title and single-paragraph abstract should be submitted by Mar 14, 2017, and the full paper by Mar 21, 2017 (firm date). Notifications are expected by Apr 22, 2017, and final papers for the proceedings will be due by May 6, 2017 (firm date). PROCEEDINGS The proceedings of WoLLIC 2017, 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 2017 issue of a scientific journal (to be confirmed). INVITED SPEAKERS Hazel Brickhill (Bristol) (University of Bristol) Michael Detlefsen (University of Notre Dame) Alexander Kurz (University of Leicester) Frederike Moltmann (New York University) David Pym (University College London) Nicole Schweikardt (Humboldt Universitat) Fan Yang (Delft University) Boris Zilber (University of Oxford), STUDENT GRANTS ASL sponsorship of WoLLIC 2017 will permit ASL student members to apply for a modest travel grant (deadline: May 1st, 2017). See http://www.aslonline.org/studenttravelawards.html for details. IMPORTANT DATES Mar 14, 2017: Paper title and abstract deadline Mar 21, 2017: Full paper deadline Apr 22, 2017: Author notification May 6, 2017: Final version deadline (firm) PROGRAMME COMMITTEE Matthias Baaz (University of Technology, Vienna, Austria) John Baldwin (University of Illinois at Chicago, USA) Dana Bartozová (Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil) Agata Ciabattoni (University of Technology, Vienna, Austria) Walter Dean (University of Warwick, UK) Erich Grädel (RWTH Aachen, Germany) Volker Halbach (University of Oxford, UK) Juliette Kennedy (Helsinki University, Finland) (Chair) Dexter Kozen (Cornell University, USA) Janos Makowsky (Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel) Larry Moss (indiana University, USA) Alessandra Palmigiano (Delft University, The Netherlands) Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh (Queen Mary, UK) Sonja Smets (Amsterdam University, The Netherlands) Asger Törnquist (Københavns Universitet, Denmark) Rineke Verbrugge (University of Groningen, The Netherlands) Andrés Villaveces (Universidad Nacional, Colombia) Philip Welch (University of Bristol, UK) STEERING COMMITTEE Samson Abramksy, Johan van Benthem, Anuj Dawar, Joe Halpern, Wilfrid Hodges, Ulrich Kohlenbach, Daniel Leivant, Leonid Libkin, Angus Macintyre, Luke Ong, Hiroakira Ono, Valeria de Paiva, Ruy de Queiroz, Jouko Väänänen. ORGANISING COMMITTEE Alexandra Silva (Univ College London, UK) (Local co-chair) Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh (Queen Mary, UK) (Local co-chair) Paulo Oliva (Queen Mary, UK) James Brotherston (Univ College London, UK) Anjolina G. de Oliveira (U Fed Pernambuco) Ruy de Queiroz (U Fed Pernambuco) (co-chair) FURTHER INFORMATION Contact one of the Co-Chairs of the Organising Committee. WEB PAGE http://wollic.org/wollic2017/ -------------- nächster Teil -------------- Ein Dateianhang mit HTML-Daten wurde abgetrennt... URL: From cfp2017a at cicling.org Thu Jan 5 18:24:58 2017 From: cfp2017a at cicling.org (Alexander Gelbukh (CFP)) Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2017 11:24:58 -0600 Subject: CFP: CICLing 2017 (NLP) - Springer LNCS & journals - Budapest, Hungary Message-ID: CICLing 2017 18th International Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary - April 17-23, 2017 Springer LNCS, journals Deadline: Abstract January 25; full text February 1 Monetary prizes for best papers anticipated www.CICLing.org/2017 TOPICS: All topics related to computational linguistics, natural language processing, human language technologies, information retrieval, opinion mining, sentiment analysis, etc. PUBLICATION: Springer LNCS - Lecture Notes in Computer Science; special issues of journals KEYNOTE SPEAKERS: Marco Baroni, Iryna Gurevych, Björn W. Schuller, Hinrich Schütze CULTURAL PROGRAM: Three days of cultural activities: Folk festival, Budapest, Visegrád AWARDS: Tentative: 1000 euro award fund sponsored by Springer for Best paper awards and Best student paper award. Awards for best presentation, best poster, best software SUBMISSION DEADLINES: January 25: Registration of tentative abstract / title (why not register your tentative abstract right now?), February 1: Full text of the registered papers (contact us for late submissions) Want to organize a future CICLing event? Contact us! See complete CFP and contact on www.CICLing.org/2017 Please pass this CFP to relevant colleagues. If this message was sent to you by error, please reply. From grlmc at grlmc.com Fri Jan 6 00:57:08 2017 From: grlmc at grlmc.com (GRLMC) Date: Fri, 06 Jan 2017 00:57:08 +0100 Subject: BigDat 2017: early registration January 13 Message-ID: <545102060a010b01035e540106045a5c51555352040107580407000554570556515704560a0e0856535e0750525100@grlmc_ip-zone_com-6> BigDat 2017: early registration January 13*To be removed from our mailing list, please respond to this message with UNSUBSCRIBE in the subject line*   ********************************************************   3rdINTERNATIONAL WINTER SCHOOL ON BIG DATA   BigDat 2017   Bari, Italy   February 13-17, 2017   Organized by: University of Bari "Aldo Moro" Rovira i Virgili University   http://grammars.grlmc.com/BigDat2017/   ********************************************************   --- Early registration deadline: January 13, 2017 ---   ********************************************************   AIM:   BigDat 2017 will be a research training event with a global scope aiming at updating participants about the most recent advances in the critical and fast developing area of big data, which covers a large spectrum of current exciting research and industrial innovation with an extraordinary potential for a huge impact on scientific discoveries, medicine, engineering, business models, and society itself. Renowned academics and industry pioneers will lecture and share their views with the audience.   Most big data subareas will be displayed, namely foundations, infrastructure, management, search and mining, security and privacy, and applications (to biological and health sciences, to business, finance and transportation, to online social networks, etc.). Main challenges of analytics, management and storage of big data will be identified through 4 keynote lectures, 24 six-hour courses, and 1 round table, which will tackle the most active and promising topics. The organizers are convinced that outstanding speakers will attract the brightest and most motivated students. Interaction will be a main component of the event. An open session will give participants the opportunity to present their own work in progress in 5 minutes.   ADDRESSED TO:   In principle, graduate students, PhD students and postdocs from around the world will be the most typical profiles. However, there are no formal pre-requisites for participation in terms of academic degrees. Since there will be differences in level, specific knowledge background may be assumed for some of the courses. BigDat 2017 is also appropriate for more senior people who want to keep themselves updated on recent developments and future trends. All will surely find it fruitful to listen and discuss with major researchers, industry leaders and innovators.   REGIME:   In addition to keynotes, 2-3 courses will run in parallel during the whole event. Participants will be able to freely choose the courses they wish to attend as well as to move from one to another.   VENUE:   BigDat 2017 will take place in Bari, a lively university city on the Adriatic Sea in Southern Italy. The venue will be:   Department of Computer Science University of Bari "Aldo Moro" via Orabona, 4 70125 Bari, Italy   KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:   Ernesto Damiani (EBTIC, Khalifa University, Abu Dhabi & University of Milan), Model-driven Development of Big Data Applications   Daniele Quercia (Bell Labs), Good City Life   PROFESSORS AND COURSES:   Thomas Bäck (Leiden University), [introductory/intermediate] Data Analytics and Optimization for Industrial Applications: Introduction, Algorithms, and Examples   Paul Bliese (University of South Carolina), [introductory/intermediate] Using R for Mixed-effects (Multilevel) Models   Hendrik Blockeel (KU Leuven), [intermediate] Decision Trees for Big Data Analytics   Tamás Budavári (Johns Hopkins University), [introductory] Big Data Approaches in Astronomy   Diego Calvanese (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano), [advanced] Data-aware Processes: Modeling and Verification   Amr El Abbadi (University of California, Santa Barbara), [introductory/intermediate] Managing Big Data in the Cloud   Geoffrey C. Fox (Indiana University), [intermediate] Using High Performance Computing for Big Data Analytics   Minos Garofalakis (Technical University of Crete), [intermediate/advanced] Streaming Big Data Analytics   David W. Gerbing (Portland State University), [introductory] Data Visualization with R   Georgios B. Giannakis (University of Minnesota), [advanced] Signal Processing Tools for Big Data Analytics   Sander Klous (University of Amsterdam), [introductory] We Are Big Data   Laks V.S. Lakshmanan (University of British Columbia), [introductory] Analysis of Large Social Networks   Maurizio Lenzerini (Sapienza University of Rome), [intermediate/advanced] Ontology-based Data Management   Soumya D. Mohanty (University of Texas Rio Grande Valley), [introductory/intermediate] Swarm Intelligence Methods and Optimization Problems in Big Data Analytics   Bernhard Pfahringer (University of Waikato), [introductory] Introduction to Data Stream Mining for Big Data   Krithi Ramamritham (Indian Institute of Technology Bombay), [introductory/intermediate] Harnessing Big Data for Building Smart Things   Michael Rosenblum (University of Potsdam), [introductory/intermediate] Coupled Oscillators Approach in Time Series Analysis   Pierangela Samarati (University of Milan), [intermediate] Data Security and Privacy in the Cloud   V.S. Subrahmanian (University of Maryland), [introductory/intermediate] Big Data and Cybersecurity   Alexander S. Tuzhilin (New York University), [introductory/intermediate] Recommender Systems and Big Data   Jeffrey Ullman (Stanford University), [introductory] Big Data Algorithms that Aren't Machine Learning   Lyle Ungar (University of Pennsylvania), [introductory] Sentiment Mining from User Generated Content   John Wright (Columbia University), [intermediate/advanced] Sparse and Low-Dimensional Models for High-Dimensional Data: Theory, Algorithms and Applications   Zhongfei Zhang (Binghamton University), [introductory/advanced] Knowledge Discovery from Relational and Multimedia Data   OPEN SESSION   An open session will collect 5-minute presentations of work in progress by participants. They should submit a half-page abstract containing title, authors, and summary of the research to david.silva409 (at) yahoo.com by February 10, 2017.   ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:   Annalisa Appice Michelangelo Ceci (co-chair) Stefano Franco Corrado Loglisci Donato Malerba (co-chair) Carlos Martín-Vide (co-chair) Manuel Jesús Parra Royón Gianvito Pio David Silva   REGISTRATION:   It has to be done at   http://grammars.grlmc.com/BigDat2017/registration.php   The selection of up to 8 courses requested in the registration template is only tentative and non-binding. For the sake of organization, it will be helpful to have an approximation of the respective demand for each course.   Since the capacity of the venue is limited, registration requests will be processed on a first come first served basis. The registration period will be closed and the on-line registration facility disabled when the capacity of the venue will be complete. It is much recommended to register prior to the event.   FEES:   Fees comprise access to all courses and lunches. There are several early registration deadlines. Fees depend on the registration deadline.   ACCOMMODATION:   Suggestions for accommodation are available on the website.   CERTIFICATE:   Participants will be delivered a certificate of attendance.   QUESTIONS AND FURTHER INFORMATION:   david.silva409 (at) yahoo.com   ACKNOWLEDGMENTS:   Università degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro Universitat Rovira i Virgili -------------- nächster Teil -------------- Ein Dateianhang mit HTML-Daten wurde abgetrennt... URL: From franconi at inf.unibz.it Fri Jan 6 20:03:34 2017 From: franconi at inf.unibz.it (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Enrico_Franconi?=) Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2017 20:03:34 +0100 Subject: RuleML+RR 2017 Call for Tutorials Message-ID: <06012017200334597GGh77pfXqRRd0219@smtp.office365.com> INTERNATIONAL JOINT CONFERENCE ON RULES AND REASONING RuleML+RR 2017 http://2017.ruleml-rr.org CALL FOR TUTORIALS The first edition of the International Joint Conference on Rules and Reasoning RuleML+RR 2017 (London, 15-17 July 2017) focuses on theoretical advances, novel technologies, as well as innovative applications concerning knowledge representation and reasoning with rules. Stemming from the synergy between the well-known premier RuleML and RR events, the conference will provide a forum for stimulating cooperation and cross-fertilisation between the many different communities focused on the research, development and applications of rule-based systems. We solicit proposals for tutorials to be presented at the RuleML+RR 2017 conference. Tutorials should concern research or application areas fitting the conference scope, and may introduce novices to major topics in the area, introduce experts to a special subarea, motivate and explain a topic of emerging importance, survey a mature area of research and/or practice, present a novel synthesis combining distinct lines of work, introduce the audience to an external topic that can relate to research in the area, mentor researchers (particularly, junior researchers) on a relevant topic. Tutorial attendance is complimentary for all RuleML+RR 2017 conference registrants. SUBMISSIONS Tutorial proposals should be submitted via easychair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ruleml-rr-2017-tutorials Each submission (up to two pages) should include the following information: • A title. • An abstract. • The preferred duration (up to half-day). • A description that outlines which topics would be covered, and the depth to which they would be covered. If different length options are possible, the proposal should identify which parts would be included for each length. • A short description of the intended audience and any prerequisite knowledge for attendees. • A brief biography of the proposed presenter(s), along with contact information. • If (part of) the tutorial material or an earlier version of it has been presented elsewhere, the proposal should indicate those respective events (and dates), and describe how the current proposal differs from the previous ones. A two-page extended abstract of the tutorial will be included in the conference proceedings. Tutorial slides are expected to be made available online to conference participants. IMPORTANT DATES Proposal submission: 20 January 2017 Notification: 6 February 2017 Camera-ready due: 24 April 2017 Possible tutorial dates: 12, 13, 14, 15 July 2017 The RuleML+RR 2017 program chairs: Stefania Costantini (University of L’Aquila, Italy), Enrico Franconi (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy), William Van Woensel (Dalhousie University, Canada); and the RuleML+RR 2017 General Chairs: Roman Kontchakov (Birkbeck, University of London, UK), Fariba Sadri (Imperial College London, UK). -------------- nächster Teil -------------- Ein Dateianhang mit HTML-Daten wurde abgetrennt... URL: From announce at cs.ucy.ac.cy Sat Jan 7 11:15:08 2017 From: announce at cs.ucy.ac.cy (Announce Announcements) Date: Sat, 7 Jan 2017 12:15:08 +0200 Subject: 9th International Conference on Computational Collective Intelligence (ICCCI 2017): Third Call for Papers and Special Sessions & Workshops Proposals Message-ID: <8NTC82HY-07Q6-5QVE-Z8S7-HNYGVV6EKZ8@cs.ucy.ac.cy> *** Third Call for Papers and Special Sessions & Workshops Proposals *** 9th International Conference on Computational Collective Intelligence ICCCI 2017 Hilton Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus 27 - 29 September, 2017 http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=YWZpaG0ub3JnICwJCQlldmVudEBpbi50dS1jbGF1c3RoYWwuZGUJOXRoIEludGVybmF0aW9uYWwgQ29uZmVyZW5jZSBvbiBDb21wdXRhdGlvbmFsIENvbGxlY3RpdmUgSW50ZWxsaWdlbmNlIChJQ0NDSSAyMDE3KTogVGhpcmQgQ2FsbCBmb3IgUGFwZXJzIGFuZCBTcGVjaWFsIFNlc3Npb25zICYgV29ya3Nob3BzIFByb3Bvc2Fscwk1CUxpc3RzCTIxMwljbGljawl5ZXMJbm8=&url=http%3A%2F%2Fcyprusconferences.org%2Ficcci2017%2F Computational Collective Intelligence is most often understood as an AI subfield dealing with soft computing methods which enable making group decisions or processing knowledge among autonomous units acting in distributed environments. Web-based systems, social networks and multi-agent systems very often need these tools for working out consistent knowledge states, resolving conflicts and making decisions. ICCCI 2017 is the 9th edition of the conference organized by the University of Cyprus and Wroclaw University of Science and Technology in Poland, in cooperation with the IEEE SMC Technical Committee on Computational Collective Intelligence. The aim of the conference is to provide an internationally respected forum for scientific research in the computer-based methods of collective intelligence and their applications in (but not limited to) such fields as group decision making, consensus computing, knowledge integration, semantic web, social networks and multi-agent systems. Instructions to Authors Prospective authors of papers are invited to submit contributions for presentations at ICCCI 2017. The submissions should present the results of original research or innovative practical applications relevant to the conference topics. Practical experiences with state-of-the-art in CCI methodologies are also acceptable to reflect lessons of unique value for the conference attendees. Contributions should be original and not published elsewhere or intended to be published during the review process. The conference language is English. The conference proceedings of ICCCI 2017 will be published in the prestigious Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence series by Springer and indexed by ISI(CPCI-S), Web of Science, EI, Scopus, DBLP, ACM Digital Library. All submissions should follow the LNCS/LNAI style and not exceed 10 pages. At least one full registration is required for each accepted paper in order to be included in the ICCCI 2017 proceedings. Each paper is to be submitted electronically as a single PDF file through EasyChair at http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=YWZpaG0ub3JnICwJCQlldmVudEBpbi50dS1jbGF1c3RoYWwuZGUJOXRoIEludGVybmF0aW9uYWwgQ29uZmVyZW5jZSBvbiBDb21wdXRhdGlvbmFsIENvbGxlY3RpdmUgSW50ZWxsaWdlbmNlIChJQ0NDSSAyMDE3KTogVGhpcmQgQ2FsbCBmb3IgUGFwZXJzIGFuZCBTcGVjaWFsIFNlc3Npb25zICYgV29ya3Nob3BzIFByb3Bvc2Fscwk1CUxpc3RzCTIxMwljbGljawl5ZXMJbm8=&url=https%3A%2F%2Feasychair.org%2Fconferences%2F%3Fconf%3Diccci2017 . To ensure high quality, all papers will be thoroughly reviewed by the ICCCI 2017 International Program Committee. Referees will be asked to nominate papers for a Best Paper award to be announced at the conference. All accepted papers must be presented by one of the authors who must register for the conference and pay the author registration fee. A selected number of accepted and personally presented papers, will be expanded and revised for possible inclusion in special issues of high quality scientific journals. Topics of Interest We welcome all submissions in the subjects of CCI related (but not limited) to the following topics: · Agent Theory and Application · Automated Reasoning · Cognitive Modeling of Agent Systems · Collective Intelligence · Collective Processing · Computational Biology · Computer Vision · Computational Intelligence · Computational Security · Consensus Computing · Cooperative Systems and Control · Cybernetics for Informatics · Data Integration · Data Mining for Social Networks · Distributed Intelligence · Evolutionary computing · Fuzzy Systems · Geographic Information Systems · Grey Theory · Group Decision Making · Hybrid Systems · Information Retrieval and Integration · Information Hiding · Intelligent Architectures · Intelligent Applications · Intelligent Buildings · Intelligent Control · Intelligent E-learning/Tutoring · Intelligent Image Processing · Intelligent Networks · Intelligent Transportation Systems · Knowledge Integration · Knowledge Representation · Knowledge-Based Systems · Logic in Intelligence · Machine Learning · Mobile Intelligence · Multicriteria Decision Making · Natural Language Processing · Optimization and Swarm Intelligence · Pattern Recognition · Probabilistic and Uncertain Reasoning · Rough Sets · Semantic Web · Smart Living Technology · Smart Sensor Networks · Soft Computing · Social Networks · Ubiquitous Computing · Web Intelligence and Interaction Call for Special Sessions and Workshops Proposals ICCCI 2017 invites proposals for Special Sessions and Workshops to be held during the conference. They intend to provide researchers in focused areas the opportunity to present and discuss their work, as well as to offer a forum for interaction among a broader community of researchers. A Special Session or Workshop will consist of a group of papers in a sub-discipline of Computational Collective Intelligence related to the main topics of ICCCI 2017. The papers will be required to meet the same standards as ICCCI 2017 papers and will be published in the conference proceedings, in a bound volume by Springer in their Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence series. All the Special Sessions and Workshops will be centralized as tracks in the same conference submission and reviewing system (EasyChair) as the regular papers. Please send the Special Session and Workshop proposals with the following information: · Title & acronym of the special session · Brief profiles of special session organizers · General description of the special session scope · List of topics · Proposed Session Program Committee (to be invited) The format for the Special Session or Workshop proposal should follow the pattern of the template available on the conference web site. The organizers will be responsible for the advertisement and promotion of the Special Sessions or Workshops and the conference including the Special Sessions and Workshops webpage preparation. The management of papers review will be achieved by Special Session and Workshops Committees, using the Conference System (a separate EasyChair track will be provided for each Special Session and Workshop). The organizers are responsible for managing the review process. All the reviews should be submitted through EasyChair. Each paper should obtain at least two reviews. For Special Sessions and Workshops Issues please contact: Bogdan Trawinski Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Poland bogdan.trawinski at pwr.edu.pl Important Dates · Special Session & Workshop Proposals: February 15, 2017 · Special Session & Workshop Acceptance: February 22, 2017 · Submission of Papers: April 1, 2017 · Notification of Acceptance: May 1, 2017 · Camera-ready Submission: May 15, 2017 · Registration and Payment for Authors: June 15, 2017 · Conference Dates: September 27-29, 2017 Organization Honorary Chairs · Costas Christophides, Rector of University of Cyprus, Cyprus · Pierre Lévy, University of Ottawa, Canada · Cezary Madryas, Rector of Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland General Chairs · Ngoc Thanh Nguyen, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Poland · George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Program Chairs · Costin Badica, University of Craiova, Romania · Piotr J?drzejowicz, Gdynia Maritime University, Poland · Kazumi Nakamatsu, University of Hyogo, Japan Organising Chair · Georgia Kapitsaki, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Special Sessions and Workshops Chairs · Achilleas Achilleos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus · Bogdan Trawinski, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Poland Doctoral Track Chair · George Pallis, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Publicity Chair · Christos Mettouris , University of Cyprus, Cyprus Local Organising Committee · Marios Komodromos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus · Christos Mettouris, University of Cyprus, Cyprus · Rafa? Kern, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Poland · Marcin Pietranik, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Poland · Zbigniew Telec, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Poland Steering Committee · Ngoc Thanh Nguyen (chair), Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Poland · Piotr J?drzejowicz, Gdynia Maritime University, Poland · Shyi-Ming Chen, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taiwan · Kiem Hoang, University of Information Technology, VNU-HCM, Vietnam · Lakhmi C. Jain, University of South Australia, Australia · Geun-Sik Jo, Inha University, Korea · Janusz Kacprzyk, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland · Ryszard Kowalczyk, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia · Toyoaki Nishida, Kyoto University, Japan · Manuel Núñez, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain -------------- nächster Teil -------------- Ein Dateianhang mit HTML-Daten wurde abgetrennt... URL: From helene.jaudoin at univ-rennes1.fr Mon Jan 9 10:57:13 2017 From: helene.jaudoin at univ-rennes1.fr (=?utf-8?Q?H=C3=A9l=C3=A8ne_Jaudoin?=) Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2017 10:57:13 +0100 Subject: FQAS - Last CFP and deadline extension Message-ID: <6331C113-B5C0-4B9C-93EA-2C3742D96223@univ-rennes1.fr> FQAS 2017 - LAST CALL FOR PAPER *** extended deadline to February 1, 2017 *** ***************************************************************************************** *** 12th International Conference on Flexible Query Answering Systems *** *** 21st - 23rd June, 2017 *** University of Westminster, London, UK *** *** http://fqas-2017.org ***************************************************************************************** *** organized back-to-back with ISMIS 2017 http://ismis2017.ii.pw.edu.pl in Warsaw, June 26-29 FQAS is the premier conference focusing on the key issue in the information society of providing easy, flexible, and intuitive access to information to everybody. In targeting this issue, the conference draws on several research areas, such as information retrieval, database management, data science, information filtering, knowledge representation, knowledge discovery, analytics, soft computing, management of multimedia information, and human-computer interaction. The guiding topic of the FQAS conferences are innovative query systems aimed at providing easy, flexible and human-friendly access to information. Such systems are becoming increasingly important also due to the huge and always growing number of users as well as the growing amount of available information. Thus, the works related to the concepts of data science, data streams querying etc. are very welcome Since 1994, the conference has provided a unique and multidisciplinary forum for researchers, developers and practitioners to explore and exchange new ideas and approaches in all mentioned research areas. We invite submission of original research contributions, and proposals for invited sessions, panels, and tutorials. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following in the context of intelligent information access and/or flexible query answering systems: · Flexible question answering systems · Context-awareness in query interpretation · Multimodal, Spoken and Multimedia query answering · Mobile information access systems · Ambient information access systems · Semantic Web · Data science and big data · Knowledge Discovery · Multimedia information Management · Business Analytics · Information Retrieval, Extraction and Fusion · Text and data mining · Knowledge representation · Ontologies · Ontology based query answering · Database management · Cross language querying and retrieval · Semantic query expansion · Domain and User Context Modelling · Privacy preserving Querying Answering · Human-Computer Interaction · User interfaces and data visualization · Search engines · Summarization of search results · Social media · Cloud Computing and Cloud Information Access · Collaborative information management · Approximate reasoning models · Soft Computing · Fuzzy sets, Logic and Probabilistic models · Imperfection/uncertainty management · Belief/trust management · Description Logics · Knowledge fusion from multilingual sources · Multilingual information extraction and QA systems Keynote speakers ********************* Anne Laurent, full professor at the University of Montpellier, France Jens Lehmann, full professor at the University of Bonn, Germany Alexandra Poulovassilis, full professor at the Birkbeck University of London, UK Instructions for authors ************************* All accepted papers will be published by Springer-Verlag in their Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) series. Authors are invited to submit original previously unpublished research papers written in English, of up to 12 pages, strictly following the LNCS/LNAI format guidelines. Authors can download the Latex (recommended) or Word templates available at Springer's web site (www.springer.com/lncs ). Submissions not following the format guidelines will be rejected without review. At least one author of each published paper must register for the conference and present the paper at the conference. Important dates ***************** Paper Submission: deadline EXTENDED to February 1, 2017 Notification: March 1, 2017 Final Paper Due: April 1, 2017 Conference Dates: June 21-23, 2017 General Co-chairs ******************* Henning Christiansen, Denmark Panagiotis Chountas, United Kingdom Program Co-chairs ******************** Henning Christiansen, Denmark Hélène Jaudoin, France Steering Committee ********************* Troels Andreasen, Denmark Henning Christiansen, Denmark Henrik Legind Larsen, Denmark -------------- nächster Teil -------------- Ein Dateianhang mit HTML-Daten wurde abgetrennt... URL: From announce at cs.ucy.ac.cy Mon Jan 9 12:45:01 2017 From: announce at cs.ucy.ac.cy (Announce Announcements) Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2017 13:45:01 +0200 Subject: 21st European Conference on Advances in Databases and Information Systems (ADBIS 2017): Last Call for Workshop Proposals Message-ID: <3U3BLRG-GTD1-UAD1-2FU6-FJX2NMSRD6KV@cs.ucy.ac.cy> *** Last Call for Workshop Proposals *** 21st European Conference on Advances in Databases and Information Systems ADBIS 2017 Hilton Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus 24 - 27 September, 2017 http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=YWZpaG0ub3JnICwJCQlldmVudEBpbi50dS1jbGF1c3RoYWwuZGUJMjFzdCBFdXJvcGVhbiBDb25mZXJlbmNlIG9uIEFkdmFuY2VzIGluIERhdGFiYXNlcyBhbmQgSW5mb3JtYXRpb24gU3lzdGVtcyAoQURCSVMgMjAxNyk6IExhc3QgQ2FsbCBmb3IgV29ya3Nob3AgUHJvcG9zYWxzCTcJTGlzdHMJMTk0CWNsaWNrCXllcwlubw==&url=http%3A%2F%2Fcyprusconferences.org%2Fadbis2017%2F The internationally recognized ADBIS conference already for 21 years is gathering researchers and practitioners around topics related to databases, data processing, and information systems, in general. The conference is run in Europe but attracts researchers from all over the world. The 21st ADBIS conference will be held in Nicosia, Cyprus. The conference is accompanied by satellite events, including PhD consortia and workshops. WORKSHOPS Typically, workshops focus on multiple topics related to data storage and processing. This year we would encourage also workshops focusing on practical applications of research in business/industry and on joint projects run by industry and research entitites. The list of workshop topics is not limited to the aforementioned and we encourage representatives of research and business to submit workshop proposals promoting their achievements. SUBMITTING WORKSHOP PROPOSALS Workshop proposals should be emailed to the workshop chairs: · Johann Gamper (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano) gamper at inf.unibz.it · Robert Wrembel (Poznan Univ. of Technology) robert.wrembel at cs.put.poznan.pl The proposal should include: · a workshop title · estimated length (1 day or 1/2 day) · names, affiliations, and e-mails of PC chairs · short bio of the workshop PC chairs, including previous experience in organizing workshops or conferences (if applicable) · a (tentative) list of PC (if possible) · a workshop main goals · the list of a workshop topics · preliminary CFP · how information about a workshop will be disseminated and how papers will be solicited The organizers of accepted workshops are expected to: · organize the workshop's program committee · disseminate the workshop call for papers · solicit submissions · conduct the reviewing process · prepare the final workshop program The official language of workshops is English. ORGANIZATIONAL SUPPORT Workshops will benefit from the ADBIS 2017 organizational infrastructure and receive support w.r.t. registration, badges, lunches, coffee breaks, and publication of the workshop proceedings. PUBLICATION Workshops papers will be published by Springer in 'Communications in Computer and Information Science'. We plan to invite selected workshop papers for publication in a journal. IMPORTANT DATES · Submission of Workshop Proposals: January 15, 2017 · Workshop acceptance/rejection Notification: January 21, 2017 · Camera-ready Submission of Papers: June 25, 2017 · Workshops held: September 24, 2017 A detailed workshop timeline, i.e., deadlines for submissions, reviews, camera-ready due, are proposed by the workshop PC chairs, in agreement with the ADBIS 2017 workshop chairs. COMMITTEES Steering Committee Chair · Leonid Kalinichenko, Russian Academy of Science, Russia General Chair · George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Program Chairs · Marite Kirikova, Riga Technical University, Latvia · Kjetil Norvag, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway Proceedings Chair · Christos Mettouris, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Workshops Chairs · Johann Gamper, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy · Robert Wrembel, Poznan University of Technology, Poland Doctoral Consortium Chairs · Jerome Darmont, Universite Lyon 2, France · Stefano Rizzi, University of Bologna, Italy -------------- nächster Teil -------------- Ein Dateianhang mit HTML-Daten wurde abgetrennt... URL: From slim.kallel at gmail.com Mon Jan 9 14:00:12 2017 From: slim.kallel at gmail.com (Slim Kallel) Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2017 14:00:12 +0100 Subject: CFP - AROSA @ the 26th IEEE WETICE and Special Issue Message-ID: Track on Adaptive and Reconfigurable Systems and Architectures http://arosa2017.redcad.org Conference Track @ the 26th IEEE WETICE Conference, Poznan Poland, June 21-23, 2017. http://wetice.ue.poznan.pl Best papers of AROSA2017 will be invited to participate in the associated Special Issue on New Trends in Adaptive Smart Systems, Services, and Architectures AROSA2017 in Wiley CCPE Journal http://www.cc-pe.net/journalinfo/issues/2017.html#AROSA2017 Impact Factor: 0.942 -------------- IMPORTANT DATES Paper Submission: February 26, 2017 Decision Notification: April 2, 2017 Camera-Ready Submission : April 15, 2017 -------------- INTRODUCTION The goal of this track is to bring together researchers and practitioners both from the Academia and from the Industry working in the areas of the adaptation and reconfiguration of distributed systems. Different investigation topics are involved, such as: CBSE, Web service, cloud applications, mobile applications, Functional and Non-Functional requirements (QoS, performance, resilience), monitoring, diagnosis, decision and execution of adaptation and reconfiguration. Different research areas are covered: concepts, methods, techniques, and tools to design, develop, deploy and manage adaptive and reconfigurable software systems. The concept of adaptive and reconfigurable software systems has been introduced in order to describe architectures, which exhibit such properties. An adaptive and reconfigurable software system can repair itself if any execution problems occur, in order to successfully complete its own execution, while respecting functional and Non-Functional agreements. In the design of an adaptive and reconfigurable software system, several aspects have to be considered. For instance, the system should be able to predict or to detect degradations and failures as soon as possible and to enact suitable recovery actions. -------------- TOPICS For this track, contributions are devoted to functional and non functional adaptability and reconfiguration management in service-oriented and component-based software systems. Specifically, the relevant topics include, but are not limited to: -Distributed and centralized collaborative solutions for the diagnosis and repair of software systems -Design for the diagnosability and repairability -Collaborative Management of Non-Functional requirements (quality, security, robustness, availability) -Monitoring simple and composite architectures, components and services -Semantic (or analytic) architectural and behavioral models for monitoring of software systems -Dynamic reconfiguration of cloud and mobile applications -Collaborative planning and decision making -Collaborative technologies for ensuring autonomic properties -Predictive management of adaptability. -Collaborative Management of autonomic properties -Experiences in practical adaptive and reconfigurable applications -Tools and prototypes for managing adaptability of applications -------------- PAPER SUBMISSION Papers up to six double-column pages (including figures, tables and references) should contain original contributions not published or submitted elsewhere and are to be formatted according to the IEEE template. Each paper will be reviewed by at least three reviewers for ensuring high quality. Authors must upload their paper as PDF file using the EasyChair submission system: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wetice2017 -------------- TRACK CHAIRS Khalil Drira, LAAS-CNRS and Université de Toulouse, France Mohamed Jmaiel, CRN Sfax, Tunisia Slim Kallel, ReDCAD, Sfax, Tunisia Ismail Bouassida, ReDCAD, University of Sfax, Tunisia -------------- nächster Teil -------------- Ein Dateianhang mit HTML-Daten wurde abgetrennt... URL: From roberto.santana at ehu.es Mon Jan 9 14:09:34 2017 From: roberto.santana at ehu.es (Roberto Santana) Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2017 14:09:34 +0100 Subject: IEEE CEC-2017, San Sebastian CFP. Deadline extended: January 30 Message-ID: <8970bf9b-f9bb-d71d-f585-b3381bd0f1c8@ehu.es> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ We apologize if you received multiple copies of this message Please, feel free to distribute it to those who might be interested. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ We are pleased to announce that the 2017 IEEE Conference on Evolutionary Computation (www.cec2017.org) will be held in San Sebastian, Spain, in June 5-8, 2017. IEEE CEC is a world-class conference that aims to bring together researchers and practitioners in the field of evolutionary computation and computational intelligence from all around the globe. Technical exchanges within the research community will encompass keynote lectures, regular and special sessions, tutorials, and competitions as well as poster presentations. In addition, participants will be treated to a series of social functions, receptions, and networking to establish new connections and foster everlasting friendship among fellow counterparts. Donostia/San Sebastian is a coastal medium-size city located in northern Spain, 20km from the border with France. It stands as an amphitheatre over-looking the sea. It is known the world over for its spectacular bay and is referred to as the Pearl of the Cantabrian Sea. It is also internationally renowned for being a culinary haven where visitors will find more Michelin stars per square meter than in any other city in the world. The conference will take place at the Kursaal Convention Center and Auditorium. Kursaal is located in the city center, overlooking the seafront. This avant-garde architectural showpiece was designed by Rafael Moneo and won the Mies van der Rohe prize for the best building in Europe in 2001. The main hotels, restaurants and shopping areas are within walking distance. CEC 2017 covers all topics in the field of Evolutionary Computation including the following non-exhaustive list: * Genetic algorithms * Genetic programming * Estimation of distribution algorithms * Evolutionary programming * Evolution strategies * Bioinformatics and bioengineering * Coevolution and collective behavior * Combinatorial and numerical optimization * Constraint and uncertainty handling * Evolutionary data mining * Evolutionary learning systems * Evolvable/adaptive hardware and systems * Evolving neural networks and fuzzy systems * Evolutionary multi-objective optimization * Ant colony optimization * Artificial life * Agent-based systems * Molecular and quantum computing * Particle Swarm Optimization * Artificial immune systems * Representation and operators * Industrial applications of EC * Evolutionary game theory * Cognitive systems and applications * Computational finance and economics * Estimation of distribution algorithms * Evolutionary design * Evolutionary scheduling The complete list of special sessions is complete: http://www.cec2017.org/#special_session_sessions Important Dates: Deadline for the submission of tutorials and competitions proposals: January 9, 2017 Paper submission deadline: January 30, 2017 Paper Decision notification: February 26, 2017 All the papers have to be submitted electronically through the congress application. For Program inquiries please contact the Program Chair, Carlos Coello at ccoello at cs.cinvestav.mx. General inquiries for IEEE CEC 2017 should be sent to the General Chair, Jose A. Lozano at info at cec2017.org You can also follow CEC 2017 on Twitter: https://twitter.com/cec2017 We are looking forward to seeing you in San Sebastian! -- Roberto Santana Research Professor Intelligent Systems Group (ISG) Department of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) Office: 344. Tel: +34 943018556 Paseo Manuel de Lardizábal 1, CP-20008. San Sebastián, Spain. http://www.sc.ehu.es/ccwbayes/members/rsantana/ From nevrenato at gmail.com Tue Jan 10 14:05:39 2017 From: nevrenato at gmail.com (Renato Neves) Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2017 13:05:39 +0000 Subject: First School on Foundations of Programming and Software systems -- Probabilistic programming Message-ID: <20170110130539.GA32046@p187.glmf.di.uminho.pt> It is our greatest pleasure to announce the first edition of the School on Foundations of Programming and Software systems. The school is jointly funded by EATCS, ETAPS, ACM SIGLOG, and ACM SIGPLAN. The topic of the first edition is Probabilistic programming. It will take place in Braga, Portugal, May 29th - June 4th 2017. Probabilistic programming languages are used for modelling and analysis purposes across multiple areas of computer science, including machine learning, security, and quantitative biology. In particular, they provide a rigorous foundation for machine learning where they are used to describe probabilistic models and to perform inference in presence of uncertain information. Probabilistic programs are also used in cryptography and in privacy for modelling and quantifying security. The goal of the school is to introduce attendants to theoretical and practical aspects of programming languages, and will propose courses that cover the following topics: semantics, analysis, verification, applications to machine learning, privacy, and security. The school will have lectures by Andy Gordon, Catuscia Palamidessi, Christel Baier, Dexter Kozen, Frank Wood, Hongseok Yang, Javier Esparza, Michael Carbin, Peter Selinger, Prakash Panangaden, Sriram Sankaranarayanan, and Vitaly Shmatikov. For more information please check the school webpage http://probprogschool2017.di.uminho.pt/ If you have any queries feel free to contact the organisers. Best wishes, Luis Barbosa Gilles Barthe Joost-Pieter Katoen Renato Neves Alexandra Silva From s.singh at acm.org Tue Jan 10 17:30:26 2017 From: s.singh at acm.org (Satnam Singh) Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2017 08:30:26 -0800 Subject: ACM SIGPLAN Awards deadline extended to 30 January Message-ID: The deadline for submitting nominations for the following awards has been extended to 30 January: - Programming Languages Software Award (last year's winner V8) - Programming Languages Achievement Award (last year's winner Simon Peyton-Jones) - Robin Milner Young Researcher Award (last year's winner Stephanie Weirich) Descriptions of these awards and the link for submitting nominations can be found at http://www.sigplan.org/Awards/ (note that the deadline for the John C. Reynolds dissertation award is not extended). Please can you consider submitting nominations and also publicizing these awards to other colleagues and appropriate groups. Thank you kindly. Please don't hesitate to contact me if you have any questions about the awards. Satnam Singh ACM SIGPLAN EC Awards Chair Satnam Singh Email: s.singh at acm.org satnamsingh at fb.com satnam at raintown.org satnam6502 at gmail.com Cell (USA, personal): +1 408 656 4590 Cell (Facebook, work): +1 650 924 6838 Home (Los Altos, California): +1 650 383 7650 Twitter: @satnam6502 LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/satnam6502 - -------------- nächster Teil -------------- Ein Dateianhang mit HTML-Daten wurde abgetrennt... URL: From geoff at cs.miami.edu Tue Jan 10 18:35:51 2017 From: geoff at cs.miami.edu (Geoff Sutcliffe) Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2017 12:35:51 -0500 (EST) Subject: LPAR-21 extended deadlines Message-ID: <20170110173551.4E7DF121471@mcclellan.cs.miami.edu> **************************************************************************** EXTENDED DEADLINES!! EXTENDED DEADLINES!! The 21st International Conference on Logic for Programming, Artificial Intelligence and Reasoning LPAR-21 Cresta Riley's Hotel, Maun, Botswana http://www.LPAR-21.info CALL FOR PAPERS The series of International Conferences on Logic for Programming, Artificial Intelligence and Reasoning (LPAR) is a forum where, year after year, some of the most renowned researchers in the areas of logic, automated reasoning, computational logic, programming languages and their applications come to present cutting-edge results, to discuss advances in these fields, and to exchange ideas in a scientifically emerging part of the world. The 21st LPAR will be held will be held in Maun, Botswana, at Cresta Riley's Hotel, 7-12th May 2017. The proceedings will be published by EasyChair Publications, in the EPiC Series in Computing. The volume will be open access and the authors will retain copyright. ==Important Dates Abstract submission: 18 January 2017 Paper submission: 22 January 2017 Notification: 1 March 2017 Camera ready: 1 April 2017 Workshops: 7 May 2017 Conference: 8-12 May 2017 ==Topics New results in the fields of computational logic and applications are welcome. Also welcome are more exploratory presentations, which may examine open questions and raise fundamental concerns about existing theories and practices. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: + Abduction and interpolation methods + Answer set programming + Automated reasoning + Constraint programming + Contextual reasoning + Decision procedures + Description logics + Foundations of security + Hardware verification + Implementations of logic + Inconsistency- and exception tolerant reasoning + Interactive theorem proving + Knowledge representation and reasoning + Logic and computational complexity + Logic and databases + Logic and games + Logic and machine learning + Logic and the web + Logic and types + Logic in artificial intelligence + Logic of distributed systems + Logic of knowledge and belief + Logic programming + Logical aspects of concurrency + Logical foundations of programming + Modal and temporal logics + Model checking + Non-monotonic reasoning + Ontologies and large knowledge bases + Paraconsistent logics + Probabilistic and fuzzy reasoning + Program analysis + Rewriting + Satisfiability checking + Satisfiability modulo theories + Software verification + Specification using logic + Unification theory ==Organization Program Chairs: David Sands (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden) Thomas Eiter (Technische Universitaet Wien, Austria) Conference Chair: Geoff Sutcliffe (University of Miami, USA) ==Submission Details Submissions of two kinds are welcome: - Regular papers that describe solid new research results. They can be up to 15 pages long in EasyChair style, including figures but excluding references and appendices (that reviewers are not required to read). - Experimental and tool papers that describe implementations of systems, report experiments with implemented systems, or compare implemented systems. They can be up to 8 pages long in the EasyChair style. Both types of papers must be electronically submitted in PDF via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lpar21 Authors must register a title and an abstract by the abstract submission deadline. ==Participation Authors of accepted papers are required to ensure that at least one of them will be present at the conference. For more details about the venue and organization, see the conference webpage http://www.LPAR-21.info **************************************************************************** From rl.stpuu at gmail.com Tue Jan 10 22:08:30 2017 From: rl.stpuu at gmail.com (Roussanka Loukanova) Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2017 22:08:30 +0100 Subject: CfP - Logic, Information, Language, Memory, Reasoning 2017 (LogInfoLangMR'17) Message-ID: ========================================================================= CALL FOR PAPERS Special Session on Logic, Information, Language, Memory, Reasoning 2017 (LogInfoLangMR’17) http://www.dcai-conference.net/special-sessions/loginfolangmr 14th International Conference on Distributed Computing and Artificial Intelligence 2017 (DCAI'17) Polytechnic of Porto, Porto (Portugal) June 21-23, 2017 * Submission deadline: February 6, 2017 * ========================================================================= DESCRIPTION ===== We are in the reality of systems that model human language, reasoning, and use advanced techniques for saving and accessing information. Prominently, computational processing of human language is an interdisciplinary area of research and development of computerized systems. In nature, relations between information, language, reasoning, and memory have many, interdependent facets that can be heterogeneous. Theories, applications, and technologies strive to meet adequate treatment of natural phenomena of information, language, and information exchange. Furthermore, integrated approaches from mathematics and computer science provide support for reliable, advanced, applications. We welcome submissions of papers on the following topics, without limiting to them, across theories, applications, methods, approaches, and technologies: - Logic for applications to language processing - Classic and new theories of formal and natural languages - Computational processing of natural language --- approaches, theories, methods, computerized systems - Computational morphology, syntax, semantics, and syntax-semantics interfaces - Multilingual Processing - Speech Processing - Logic for reasoning systems --- theories and applications - Logic in data science - Information theories - Integration of data and reasoning - Models of computation - Mathematics for linguistics and cognitive science - Interdisciplinary approaches to computation, language, reasoning, memory, data - Computational theories and applications in life sciences - Computational neuroscience of information, language, memory, reasoning - Computational aspects of information, languages, and memory in nature IMPORTANT DATES: ===== Submission dates: 6th February, 2017 Notification date: 13th March, 2017 Paper ready deadline: 27th March, 2017 Conference dates: 21st-23rd June, 2017 SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS: ===== DCAI Special Session papers must be formatted according to the Springer LNCS Template, with a maximum length of 8 pages in length, including figures and references. All proposed papers must be submitted in electronic form (PDF format) using the Paper Submission Page. http://www.dcai-conference.net/submission PUBLICATION: ===== Accepted papers will be included in DCAI Proceedings. At least one of the authors will be required to register and attend the symposium to present the paper in order to include the paper in the conference proceedings. All accepted papers will be published by Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing series of Springer Verlag. For more details, see: http://www.dcai-conference.net/special-sessions CO-CHAIRS: ===== Roussanka Loukanova, Stockholm University, Sweden Kristina Liefke, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Germany Program Committee (PC): The PC consists of experts in the topics of the event. CONTACT: ===== Roussanka Loukanova Kristina Liefke From alexandra.silva at ucl.ac.uk Thu Jan 12 12:35:42 2017 From: alexandra.silva at ucl.ac.uk (Alexandra Silva) Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2017 12:35:42 +0100 (CET) Subject: MFPS 33: first call for papers Message-ID: <20170112113542.C40993422B8@sphinx.rz.tu-clausthal.de> The 33rd Conference on the Mathematical Foundations of Programming Semantics (MFPS XXXIII) will take place on the campus of Ljubljana University, Slovenia, between 12 and 15 June 2017. MFPS conferences are dedicated to the areas of mathematics, logic, and computer science that are related to models of computation in general, and to semantics of programming languages in particular. This is a forum where researchers in mathematics and computer science can meet and exchange ideas. The participation of researchers in neighbouring areas is strongly encouraged. Topics include, but are not limited to, the following: bio-computation; concurrent qualitative and quantitative distributed systems; process calculi; probabilistic systems; constructive mathematics; domain theory and categorical models; formal languages; formal methods; game semantics; lambda calculus; programming-language theory; quantum computation; security; topological models; logic; type systems; type theory. We also welcome contributions that address applications of semantics to novel areas such as complex systems, markets, and networks, for example. Conference home page: http://coalg.org/mfps-calco2017 ## INVITED SPEAKERS * Rehana Patel, Olin College * Laura Kovacs, TU Wien * Dexter Kozen, Cornell University * Amr Sabry, Indiana University ## TUTORIAL SPEAKERS AND SPECIAL SESSIONS * Laure Daviaud, Warsaw - Algebraic automata theory * Nate Foster, Cornell - Foundations of Network Programming, special session in honour of Dexter Kozen’s 65th Birthday * Ben Worrell, Oxford - Metrics and Privacy (Joint MPFS & CALCO) * Derek Dreyer, MPI-SWS - Formal Verification ## SUBMISSION ### Important dates: * Submission Deadline: March 10 * Notification: April 28 * Proceedings: May 19 * Conference: June 12-15 ### Submitting Submissions should be prepared using the [ENTCS Macros](http://www.entcs.org/), in the form of a PDF file not exceeding 15 pages. Submissions are open on [EasyChair] (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mfps33). ### Proceedings A preliminary version will be distributed at the meeting. Final proceedings will appear in ENTCS after the meeting. ## PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Gilles Barthe, Madrid, Spain Andrej Bauer, Ljubljana, Slovenia Steve Brookes, Pittsburgh, PA, USA Carla Ferreira, Lisbon, Portugal Nate Foster, Ithaca, NY, USA Chris Heunen, Edinburgh, UK Justin Hsu, Philadelphia, PA, USA Achim Jung, Birmingham, UK Elham Kashefi, Edinburgh, UK Clemens Kupke, Glasgow, UK Barbara Koenig, Duisburg, Germany Catherine Meadows, NRL , USA Andrzej Murawski, Warwick, UK, Bart Jacobs, Radboud U, Netherlands Bob Coecke, Oxford, UK Cameron Freer, Cambridge MA, USA Catherine Meadows, Washington, DC, USA Michael Mislove, New Orleans, LA, USA Joel Ouaknine, Saarbrucken, Germany Alessandra Palmigiano, Delft, The Netherlands Prakash Panangaden, Montreal, Canada Daniela Petrisan, Paris, France Brigitte Pientka, Montreal, Canada Jurriaan Rot, Nijmegen, The Netherlands Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh, London, UK Alexandra Silva (Chair), London, UK Ana Sokolova, Salzburg, Austria Valeria Vignudelli, Bologna, Italy ## LOCAL ORGANISERS: * Matja Pretnar * Andrej Bauer From asaffio at aass.oru.se Thu Jan 12 13:58:11 2017 From: asaffio at aass.oru.se (Alessandro Saffiotti) Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2017 13:58:11 +0100 (CET) Subject: [jobs] Postdoc position in Robotics and AI at Orebro University Message-ID: ====================================================================== Orebro University, Sweden, seeks a postdoctoral researcher with experience in Artificial Intelligence and Robotics to work in a European project on culturally aware assistive robots. Application deadline: January 31, 2017 Expected starting date: March 1, 2017 ====================================================================== ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Task Description ---------------------------------------------------------------------- We seek a postdoctoral researcher who will work at the AASS research center of Orebro University, in the context of the EU project CARESSES. The CARESSES project aims to make assistive robots that are culturally aware, meaning that they adapt to the culture of their assistee. The researcher will develop methods for making the actions and behaviors of the robots consonant to a given cultural profile, and will implement those methods on real assistive robots. The researcher will also work in close collaboration with other partners within the project. This includes taking part in extensive user evaluation campains involving elderly volunteers living in assistive residences in the UK. In order to perform the above tasks, applicants are expected to have a strong background in Artificial Intelligence as well as good programming skills. The appointed researcher must be able to successfully work in a large international team, and to cope with project committments and deadlines. The appointed researcher must also be willing and available to travel within and ouside the EU, and to spend extensive periods of time in the UK during the evaluation campains. A proven record of working with robots is a plus, as well as previous experience in human-robot interaction, in user-centered design, and in user-based evaluation of welfare technologies. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Eligibility and Assessment Criteria ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To qualify for this position appplicants must hold a doctoral degree in Computer Science or related subjects. The degree must have been awarded at most three years before the application deadline. Candidates who obtained a degree earlier may be considered if there are specific reasons like illness, parental leave, or other similar circumstances. Applicants should show that that they have the competences needed to perform this project as well as the ability to work collaboratively in a scientific environment. Proficiency in spoken and written English is necessary. Special importance will be given to the following additional criteria: - The applicant should show evidence of scientific excellence, e.g., impact of conducted research both before and after the obtainment of the PhD degree; - The applicant should show the ability to work within collaborative international projects, e.g., experience in previous EU projects. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Application ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The position is a full-time position for a bounded term of two years. The salary depends on the successful candidate's qualifications and experience. Our ambition is to create a place of work that is characterised by gender equality and diversity. Applications must be sent through the Orebro University website here: https://www.oru.se/english/working-at-orebro-university/jobs-and-vacancies/?rmpage=job&rmjob=2844&rmlang=UK Applications must include: * Covering letter * CV * An account of research qualifications * Copies of relevant course/degree certificates and references * Copies of scientific publications (maximum of 10) The application deadline is January 31, 2017, strict. Inquiries: Prof Alessandro Saffiotti ---------------------------------------------------------------------- About the Host Institution ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Orebro University (www.oru.se) is a modern university which currently enrolls more than 15,000 students. It is located in Orebro, a city of 130,000 inhabitants situated in central Sweden. The Center for Applied Autonomous Sensor Systems (AASS, aass.oru.se) is one of the Strong Research Environments at Orebro University. It carries out multi-disciplinary research at the intersection of robotics and artificial intelligence. The research and human environment at AASS is young and enthusiastic. Researchers come from a dozen different countries and have different scientific and cultural backgrounds. AASS frequently hosts international researchers and is involved in many national and international projects, both in fundamental and applied research. AASS is internationally renowned for its research in mobile robotics, cognitive robotic systems, robot ecologies, assistive technologies, and artificial olfaction. The work will be carried out at the Cognitive Robotic Systems laboratory of AASS. ====================================================================== From giovanni.degasperis at aixia.it Thu Jan 12 15:04:25 2017 From: giovanni.degasperis at aixia.it (Giovanni De Gasperis) Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2017 15:04:25 +0100 Subject: [CfP] RuleML+RR 2017 Call for Papers Message-ID: RuleML+RR 2017: International Joint Conference on Rules and Reasoning http://2017.ruleml-rr.org This leading international joint conference in the field of rule-based reasoning calls for high-quality papers related to theoretical advances, novel technologies, and innovative applications concerning knowledge representation and reasoning with rules. Stemming from the synergy between the well-known high-impact RuleML and RR events, one of the main goals of this conference is to build bridges between academia and industry. RuleML+RR 2017 aims to bring together rigorous researchers and inventive practitioners, interested in the foundations and applications of rules and reasoning in academia, industry, engineering, business, finance, healthcare and other application areas. It will provide a forum for stimulating cooperation and cross-fertilization between the many different communities focused on the research, development and applications of rule-based systems. In addition to regular submissions, RuleML+RR 2017 will host an Industry Track(1), a Doctoral Consortium(2), the DecisionCAMP(3), the 11th International Rule Challenge(4), and the 13th Reasoning Web Summer School(4). RuleML+RR 2017 will be collocated with the 32nd British International Conference on Databases (BICOD 2017(5)). Links: (1) http://2017.ruleml-rr.org/calls/industry-track (2) http://2017.ruleml-rr.org/doctoral-consortium (3) http://2017.ruleml-rr.org/decisioncamp-2017 (4) http://2017.ruleml-rr.org/calls/international-rule-challenge (5) http://www.dcs.bbk.ac.uk/bicod17 Venue: the conference will take place at Birkbeck, University of London (London, UK) http://www.bbk.ac.uk . Topics include, but are not limited to: * Production rules systems * Logic programming engines and applications * Business rules engines and management systems * Logic-based reasoning for rules * Inductive and abductive logic programming * Rule markup languages and rule interchange formats * Rule-based policies, reputation, and trust * Pragmatic web reasoning and distributed rule inference / rule execution * Reaction and ECA rules * Constraint programming * Rule-based languages for intelligent information access and the Semantic Web * Vocabularies, ontologies, and business rules * Bridge rules in multi-context systems * Rule discovery, extraction and transformation * Rule-based data management, data integration, and data interoperability * Scalability and expressive power of logics for rules * Mapping rules for ontology-based data access * Rule-based dynamic data, stream, and complex event processing * Reasoning with incomplete, inconsistent and uncertain data * Non-monotonic, common-sense, and closed-world reasoning * Non-classical logics and the Web * Combining rules with knowledge extraction and information retrieval * Rules, agents, and norms * Rule-based distributed / multi-agent systems * Rule-based communication/dialogue * Argumentation models * Rules and human language technology * Rules in online market research and online marketing * Applications of rule technologies in healthcare and life sciences * Industrial applications of rules * Rules and business process compliance checking * Standards activities related to rules * Rules and social media Submissions Papers must be original contributions written in English and must be submitted at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=rulemlrr2017 as: * Full Paper (15 pages in the proceedings) * Short Paper (8 pages in the proceedings) Please upload all submissions in LNCS format(6). To ensure high quality, submitted papers will be carefully peer-reviewed by at least 3 PC members based on originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of exposition. They must not substantially overlap with papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference / workshop with formal proceedings. The accepted papers will be published in book form in the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series. Short papers may contain 1 extra page (max.) for which there is a charge of US$200. Long papers are allowed 2 extra pages (max.), with a charge of US$200 for EACH extra page. Authors of a selection of the best papers from all tracks will be invited to revise and extend their work for publication in the journal TPLP (Theory and Practice of Logic Programming). Links: (6) http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html Student Travel Support Some financial support will be available to enable student authors to travel to the conference. These will be awarded on a case-by-case basis. Proof of studentship will be required at time of registration. Keynotes and speeches * Stephen Muggleton (Imperial College London) http://wp.doc.ic.ac.uk/shm * Elena Baralis (Politecnico di Torino) * Jordi Cabot (IN3-UOC, Barcelona) * Bob Kowalski will present an after-dinner speech entitled “Logic and AI – The last 50 years”. .. more to follow! ======================================================================= Important dates Title and abstract registration: 15 February 2017 Paper submission: 22 February 2017 Author feedback on initial reviews: 30 March - 3 April 2017 Author notification: 10 April 2017 Camera ready: 24 April 2017 Conference: 12-15 July 2017 ======================================================================= # 11th International Rule Challenge The RuleML+RR 2017 Challenge is one of the highlights of the conference, and seeks to provide competition among innovative rule-oriented applications, aimed at both the research and industrial side. Submissions may present demos related to the RuleML+RR 2017 track topics (see above), supply benchmarks and comparison results for rule engines, illustrate rule- and model-driven engineering, report on industrial experience, present real cases and practical experiences, and realize mobile deployment of rule-based reasoning. # Doctoral Consortium We welcome submissions from PhD students whose research activity is closely related to rule and reasoning systems. The Doctoral Consortium is an excellent opportunity for students to interact with leading experts in the field, and to present and discuss their ideas in a dynamic and friendly setting. # Industry Track The Industry Track targets businesses and the private sector interested in sharing, exploring, and learning about the use of rule technologies for solving real-life business problems, for instance in the field of logistics, planning, domotics, healthcare, big data and high- scalability reasoning, and financial applications including high-frequency trading. # 13th Reasoning Web Summer School (RW 2017) The purpose of the Reasoning Web Summer School is to disseminate recent advances on reasoning techniques which are of particular interest to Semantic Web, Linked Data, Ontologies, Rules, Logic, and Knowledge Graph applications. It is primarily intended for postgraduate (PhD or MSc) students, postdoctoral researchers, young researchers, and senior researchers wishing to learn about Reasoning on the Semantic Web and related issues. The Reasoning Web series of annual Summer Schools was started in 2005 by the European Network of Excellence REWERSE. With kind regards, RuleML+RR 2017 Program Chairs: Stefania Costantini, University of L’Aquila, Italy Enrico Franconi, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy William Van Woensel, Dalhousie University, Canada RuleML+RR 2017 General Chairs: Roman Kontchakov, Birkbeck, University of London, UK Fariba Sadri, Imperial College London, UK RuleML+RR 2017 Publicity Chair: Giovanni De Gasperis, University of L'Aquila, Italy -------------- nächster Teil -------------- Ein Dateianhang mit HTML-Daten wurde abgetrennt... URL: From giovanni.degasperis at aixia.it Thu Jan 12 20:41:52 2017 From: giovanni.degasperis at aixia.it (Giovanni De Gasperis) Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2017 20:41:52 +0100 Subject: [CfT] RuleML+RR 2017 Call for Tutorials Message-ID: INTERNATIONAL JOINT CONFERENCE ON RULES AND REASONING RuleML+RR 2017 http://2017.ruleml-rr.org CALL FOR TUTORIALS The first edition of the International Joint Conference on Rules and Reasoning RuleML+RR 2017 (London, 15-17 July 2017) focuses on theoretical advances, novel technologies, as well as innovative applications concerning knowledge representation and reasoning with rules. Stemming from the synergy between the well-known premier RuleML and RR events, the conference will provide a forum for stimulating cooperation and cross-fertilisation between the many different communities focused on the research, development and applications of rule-based systems. We solicit proposals for tutorials to be presented at the RuleML+RR 2017 conference. Tutorials should concern research or application areas fitting the conference scope, and may introduce novices to major topics in the area, introduce experts to a special subarea, motivate and explain a topic of emerging importance, survey a mature area of research and/or practice, present a novel synthesis combining distinct lines of work, introduce the audience to an external topic that can relate to research in the area, mentor researchers (particularly, junior researchers) on a relevant topic. Tutorial attendance is complimentary for all RuleML+RR 2017 conference registrants. SUBMISSIONS Tutorial proposals should be submitted via easychair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ruleml-rr-2017-tutorials Each submission (up to two pages) should include the following information: * A title. * An abstract. * The preferred duration (up to half-day). * A description that outlines which topics would be covered, and the depth to which they would be covered. If different length options are possible, the proposal should identify which parts would be included for each length. * A short description of the intended audience and any prerequisite knowledge for attendees. * A brief biography of the proposed presenter(s), along with contact information. * If (part of) the tutorial material or an earlier version of it has been presented elsewhere, the proposal should indicate those respective events (and dates), and describe how the current proposal differs from the previous ones. A two-page extended abstract of the tutorial will be included in the conference proceedings. Tutorial slides are expected to be made available online to conference participants. IMPORTANT DATES Proposal submission: 20 January 2017 Notification: 6 February 2017 Camera-ready due: 24 April 2017 Possible tutorial dates: 12, 13, 14, 15 July 2017 The RuleML+RR 2017 program chairs: Stefania Costantini (University of L’Aquila, Italy), Enrico Franconi (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy), William Van Woensel (Dalhousie University, Canada); The RuleML+RR 2017 General Chairs: Roman Kontchakov (Birkbeck, University of London, UK), Fariba Sadri (Imperial College London, UK); Publicity Chair: Giovanni De Gasperis (University of L'Aquila, Italy). -------------- nächster Teil -------------- Ein Dateianhang mit HTML-Daten wurde abgetrennt... URL: From geoff at cs.miami.edu Fri Jan 13 14:35:49 2017 From: geoff at cs.miami.edu (Geoff Sutcliffe) Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2017 08:35:49 -0500 (EST) Subject: CADE-26 Call for Papers Message-ID: <20170113133549.0CC88121496@mcclellan.cs.miami.edu> The 26th International Conference on Automated Deduction (CADE-26) Gothenburg, Sweden 6-11 August 2017 http://www.cade-26.info CALL FOR PAPERS CADE is the major international forum at which research on all aspects of automated deduction is presented. High-quality submissions on the general topic of automated deduction, including foundations, applications, implementations, theoretical results, practical experiences and user studies are solicited. Key dates: Abstract deadline: 11 February 2017 Submission deadline: 18 February 2017 * Logics of interest include propositional, first-order, equational, higher-order, classical, description, modal, temporal, many-valued, constructive, other non-classical, meta-logics, logical frameworks, type theory, set theory, as well as any combination thereof. * Paradigms of interest include theorem proving, model building, constraint solving, computer algebra, model checking, proof checking, and their integration. * Methods of interest include resolution, superposition, completion, saturation, term rewriting, decision procedures, model elimination, connection methods, tableaux, sequent calculi, natural deduction, as well as their supporting algorithms and data structures, including matching, unification, orderings, induction, indexing techniques, proof presentation and explanation, proof planning. * Applications of interest include program analysis, verification and synthesis of software and hardware, formal methods, computational logic, computer mathematics, natural language processing, computational linguistics, knowledge representation, ontology reasoning, deductive databases, declarative programming, robotics, planning, and other areas of artificial intelligence. Submissions can be made in two categories: regular papers and system descriptions. The page limit in Springer LNCS style is 15 pages excluding references for regular papers and 10 pages excluding references for system descriptions. Submissions must be unpublished and not submitted for publication elsewhere. They will be judged on relevance, originality, significance, correctness, and readability. System descriptions must contain a link to a working system and will also be judged on usefulness and design. Proofs of theoretical results that do not fit in the page limit, executables of systems, and input data of experiments should be made available, via a reference to a website or in an appendix of the paper. For papers containing experimental evaluations, all data needed to rerun the experiments must be available. Reviewers will be encouraged to consider this additional material, but submissions must be self-contained within the respective page limit; considering the additional material should not be necessary to assess the merits of a submission. The review process will include a feedback/rebuttal period where authors will have the option to respond to reviewer comments. The PC chairs may solicit further reviews after the rebuttal period. The proceedings of the conference will be published in the Springer LNCS/LNAI series. Formatting instructions and the LNCS style files can be obtained at http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html At every CADE conference the Program Committee selects one of the accepted papers to receive the CADE Best Paper Award. The award recognizes a paper that the Program Committee collegially evaluates as the best in terms of originality and significance, having substantial confidence in its correctness. Overall technical quality, completeness, scholarly accuracy, and readability are also considered. Characteristics associated with a best paper include, for instance, introduction of a strong new technique or approach, solution of a long-standing open problem, introduction and solution of an interesting and important new problem, highly innovative application of known ideas or existing techniques, and presentation of a new system of outstanding power. Under exceptional circumstances, the Program Committee may give two awards (ex aequo) or give no award. IMPORTANT DATES Abstract deadline: 11 February 2017 Submission deadline: 18 February 2017 Rebuttal phase: 8 April 2017 Notification: 22 April 2017 Final version: 27 May 2017 SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS Papers should be submitted via https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cade26 CADE-26 ORGANIZERS Conference Chairs: Wolfgang Ahrendt Chalmers University of Technology Moa Johansson Chalmers University of Technology Program Committee Chair: Leonardo de Moura Microsoft Research Workshop, Tutorial, and Competition Chair: Philipp Ruemmer Uppsala University Publicity Chair: Magnus Myreen Chalmers University of Technology Program Committee: Clark Barrett Stanford University Christoph Benzmueller Freie Universitaet Berlin Jasmin Christian Blanchette Inria Nancy & LORIA Nikolaj Bjorner Microsoft Research Maria Paola Bonacina Universita degli Studi di Verona Leonardo de Moura Microsoft Research Hans de Nivelle University of Wroclaw Stephanie Delaune CNRS, IRISA Gilles Dowek Inria & ENS Paris-Saclay Amy Felty University of Ottawa Silvio Ghilardi Universita degli Studi di Milano Reiner Haehnle Technical University of Darmstadt Marijn Heule The University of Texas at Austin Moa Johansson Chalmers University of Technology Dejan Jovanovic SRI International Deepak Kapur University of New Mexico Konstantin Korovin The Manchester University Laura Kovacs Vienna University of Technology Christopher Lynch Clarkson University Assia Mahboubi INRIA Aart Middeldorp University of Innsbruck Dale Miller INRIA and LIX/Ecole Polytechnique Albert Oliveras Technical University of Catalonia Lawrence Paulson University of Cambridge Ruzica Piskac Yale University Philipp Ruemmer Uppsala University Renate Schmidt The University of Manchester Stephan Schulz DHBW Stuttgart Roberto Sebastiani University of Trento Viorica Sofronie-Stokkermans University Koblenz-Landau Geoff Sutcliffe University of Miami Cesare Tinelli The University of Iowa Ashish Tiwari SRI International Andrei Voronkov The University of Manchester Christoph Weidenbach Max Planck Institute for Informatics Freek Wiedijk Radboud University Nijmegen From nsmattei at gmail.com Fri Jan 13 19:55:35 2017 From: nsmattei at gmail.com (Nicholas Mattei) Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2017 13:55:35 -0500 Subject: FINAL CFP: EXPLORE 2017 @ AAMAS 2017: The 4th Workshop on ExploringBeyond the Worst Case in Computational Social Choice Message-ID: [Sorry for multiple postings!] *CFP: EXPLORE 2017 @ AAMAS 2017: The 4th Workshop on ExploringBeyond the Worst Case in Computational Social Choice* To be held at the 16th Conference for Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, AAMAS 2017. May 8th or 9th, 2017 São Paulo, Brazil http://www.explore-2017.preflib.org/ Computational Social Choice (ComSoc) lies at the intersection of computer science, economics, social choice, and political science. Many, often disjoint, groups of researchers both outside and within computer science study group decision making and preference aggregation. The computer science view of social choice focuses, broadly, on computational aspects of social choice and importing ideas from social choice into computer science. While the surge of research in this area has created dramatic benefits in the areas of market matchings, recommendation systems, and preference aggregation, much of the ComSoc community is focused on worst case assumptions. As ComSoc evolves there is a growing need to relax or revise some of the more common assumptions in the field: worst case complexity, complete information, and overly-restricted domains, among others. This means going beyond traditional algorithmic and complexity results and providing a more nuanced look, using real data, parameterized algorithms, and human and agent experimentation to provide a fresh and impactful view of group decision making. This goes hand in hand with highlighting the practical applications of much of the theoretical research — as much of the most impactful work in ComSoc does. It also involves looking at more complex preference aggregation settings that help model real world requirements. We encourage research related to: * Algorithms and analysis * Empirical Studies * Average case analysis * Identification of tractable sub-cases * Fixed parameter complexity analysis * Benchmarking and analysis from the preference handling and recommendation systems * Matchings under preferences * Auction and market design in the real world * Crowd-sourcing and other real-world data aggregation domains * Ethical decision making (with applicative bent) Many of these tools, techniques, and studies are concentrated in a particular sub-field and researchers in other areas of ComSoc and related communities may be keen to import some of the tools and techniques developed in other areas. The workshop is currently scheduled for a full day. We plan for the program to include an invited talk from a local researcher and possibly a short tutorial. Important Dates ------------------------------- Paper Submission Deadline: February 7, 2017 Author Notification: March 2, 2017 Conference and Workshop: May 8 or 9, 2017 Submission Instructions ------------------------------- Submissions will be handled by EasyChair, the site is available at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=explore2017 Papers should be in AAMAS format, allowing 8 pages of text plus 1 page for references. Organization Committee ------------------------------- Haris Aziz, Data61 and UNSW John P. Dickerson, University of Maryland Omer Lev, University of Toronto Nicholas Mattei, IBM Research Travel and Attendance Information ----------------------------------- The workshop will be held in conjunction with AAMAS 2017 in São Paulo, Brazil. Please see the AAMAS website for more information regarding registration, travel, and accommodations: http://www.aamas2017.org We hope to see you there. --Haris, John, Omer, and Nick. -- Nicholas Mattei Research Staff Member | Cognitive Computing *IBM T.J. Watson Research Center* 1101 Kitchawan Road, Office 30-110, Yorktown Heights, NY 10598 E: n.mattei at ibm.com | T: +1 914 945 3305 -------------- nächster Teil -------------- Ein Dateianhang mit HTML-Daten wurde abgetrennt... URL: From grlmc at grlmc.com Sat Jan 14 23:22:28 2017 From: grlmc at grlmc.com (GRLMC) Date: Sat, 14 Jan 2017 23:22:28 +0100 Subject: DeepLearn 2017: early registration January 27 Message-ID: <545102060a010b010455510601015a52015f57590b020f53010b5c035054575352030756020d520b00030556010158@grlmc_ip-zone_com-6> DeepLearn 2017: early registration January 27*To be removed from our mailing list, please respond to this message with UNSUBSCRIBE in the subject line*   ************************************************************   INTERNATIONAL SUMMER SCHOOL ON DEEP LEARNING   DeepLearn 2017   Bilbao, Spain   July 17-21, 2017   Organized by: University of Deusto Rovira i Virgili University   http://grammars.grlmc.com/DeepLearn2017/   ************************************************************   --- Early registration deadline: January 27, 2017 ---   ********************************************************   SCOPE:   DeepLearn 2017 will be a research training event with a global scope aiming at updating participants about the most recent advances in the critical and fast developing area of deep learning. This is a branch of artificial intelligence covering a spectrum of current exciting machine learning research and industrial innovation that provides more efficient algorithms to deal with large-scale data in neuroscience, computer vision, speech recognition, language processing, drug discovery, biomedical informatics, recommender systems, learning theory, robotics, games, etc. Renowned academics and industry pioneers will lecture and share their views with the audience.   Most deep learning subareas will be displayed, and main challenges identified through 4 keynote lectures, 28 six-hour courses, and 1 round table, which will tackle the most active and promising topics. The organizers are convinced that outstanding speakers will attract the brightest and most motivated students. Interaction will be a main component of the event. An open session will give participants the opportunity to present their own work in progress in 5 minutes.   ADDRESSED TO:   In principle, graduate students, doctoral students and postdocs from around the world will be typical profiles of participants. However, there are no formal pre-requisites for attendance in terms of academic degrees. Since there will be a variety of levels, specific knowledge background may be assumed for some of the courses. DeepLearn 2017 is also appropriate for more senior people who want to keep themselves updated on recent developments and future trends. All will surely find it fruitful to listen and discuss with major researchers, industry leaders and innovators.   REGIME:   In addition to keynotes, 3 courses will run in parallel during the whole event. Participants will be able to freely choose the courses they wish to attend as well as to move from one to another.   VENUE:   DeepLearn 2017 will take place in Bilbao, the largest city in the Basque Country, famous for its gastronomy and the seat of the Guggenheim Museum. The venue will be:   DeustoTech, School of Engineering University of Deusto Avda. Universidades, 24 48014 Bilbao, Spain   KEYNOTE SPEAKERS: (to be completed)   Richard Socher (Salesforce), Tackling the Limits of Deep Learning   PROFESSORS AND COURSES: (to be completed)   Narendra Ahuja (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), tba   Pierre Baldi (University of California, Irvine), [intermediate/advanced] Deep Learning: Theory and Applications to the Natural Sciences   Sven Behnke (University of Bonn), [intermediate] Visual Perception using Deep Convolutional Neural Networks    Mohammed Bennamoun (University of Western Australia), [introductory/intermediate] Deep Learning for Computer Vision   Hervé Bourlard (Idiap Research Institute), [intermediate/advanced] Deep Sequence Modeling: Historical Perspective and Current Trends   Thomas Breuel (NVIDIA Corporation), tba   George Cybenko (Dartmouth College), [intermediate] Deep Learning of Behaviors   Rina Dechter (University of California, Irvine), tba   Li Deng (Microsoft Research), tba   Jianfeng Gao (Microsoft Research), [introductory/intermediate] An Introduction to Deep Learning for Natural Language Processing   Michael Gschwind (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center), [introductory/intermediate] Deploying Deep Learning Applications at the Enterprise Scale   Yufei Huang (University of Texas, San Antonio), tba   Soo-Young Lee (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology), [intermediate/advanced] Multi-modal Deep Learning for the Recognition of Human Emotions in the Real   Li Erran Li (Columbia University), [intermediate/advanced] Deep Learning Security: Adversarial Examples and Adversarial Training   Michael C. Mozer (University of Colorado, Boulder), [introductory/intermediate] Incorporating Domain Bias into Neural Networks   Hermann Ney (RWTH Aachen University), [intermediate/advanced] Speech Recognition and Machine Translation: From Statistical Decision Theory to Machine Learning and Deep Neural Networks   Jose C. Principe (University of Florida), [intermediate/advanced] Cognitive Architectures for Object Recognition in Video   Maximilian Riesenhuber (Georgetown University), [introductory/intermediate] Deep Learning in the Brain   Ruslan Salakhutdinov (Carnegie Mellon University), [intermediate/advanced] Foundations of Deep Learning and its Recent Advances   Alessandro Sperduti (University of Padua), [intermediate/advanced] Deep Learning for Sequences   Jimeng Sun (Georgia Institute of Technology), [introductory] Interpretable Deep Learning Models for Healthcare Applications   Julian Togelius (New York University), [intermediate] (Deep) Learning for (Video) Games   Joos Vandewalle (KU Leuven), [introductory/intermediate] Data Processing Methods, and Applications of Least Squares Support Vector Machines   Ying Nian Wu (University of California, Los Angeles), [introductory/intermediate] Deep Generative Models and Unsupervised Learning   Eric P. Xing (Carnegie Mellon University), tba   Georgios N. Yannakakis (University of Malta), [introductory/intermediate] Deep Learning for Games - But Not for Playing them   Scott Wen-tau Yih (Microsoft Research), tba   Richard Zemel (University of Toronto), tba   OPEN SESSION:   An open session will collect 5-minute presentations of work in progress by participants. They should submit a half-page abstract containing title, authors, and summary of the research to david.silva409 (at) yahoo.com by July 10, 2017.   ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:   José Gaviria Carlos Martín (co-chair) Manuel Jesús Parra Iker Pastor Borja Sanz (co-chair) David Silva   REGISTRATION:   It has to be done at   http://grammars.grlmc.com/DeepLearn2017/registration.php   The selection of up to 8 courses requested in the registration template is only tentative and non-binding. For the sake of organization, it will be helpful to have an approximation of the respective demand for each course.   Since the capacity of the venue is limited, registration requests will be processed on a first come first served basis. The registration period will be closed and the on-line registration facility disabled when the capacity of the venue will be complete. It is much recommended to register prior to the event.   FEES:   Fees comprise access to all courses and lunches. There are several early registration deadlines. Fees depend on the registration deadline.   ACCOMMODATION:   Suggestions for accommodation will be available on the website.   CERTIFICATE:   Participants will be delivered a certificate of attendance including the number of hours of lectures.   QUESTIONS AND FURTHER INFORMATION:   david.silva409 (at) yahoo.com   ACKNOWLEDGMENTS:   Universidad de Deusto Universitat Rovira i Virgili -------------- nächster Teil -------------- Ein Dateianhang mit HTML-Daten wurde abgetrennt... URL: From Wiebe.Van-Der-Hoek at liverpool.ac.uk Mon Jan 16 11:26:19 2017 From: Wiebe.Van-Der-Hoek at liverpool.ac.uk (Van Der Hoek, Wiebe) Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2017 10:26:19 +0000 Subject: TARK 2017 Call for Papers Message-ID: * CALL FOR PAPERS * TARK 2017 16th Conference on Theoretical Aspects of Rationality and Knowledge July 24-26, 2017 University of Liverpool, UK Conference website: coming soon About the Conference The mission of the TARK conferences is to bring together researchers from a wide variety of fields, including - Artificial Intelligence, Knowledge Representation, Multi-Agent Systems - Cognitive Science, Psychology - Cryptography - Distributed Computing - Economics, Decision Theory, Game Theory, Social Choice - Linguistics - Philosophy in order to further our understanding of interdisciplinary issues involving reasoning about rationality and knowledge. TARK 2017 is the 16th conference of the TARK conference series. Previous conferences have been held bi-annually around the world. The most recent conference was held in 2015 at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA, see http://www.imsc.res.in/tark/tark15.html. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, semantic models for knowledge, belief, awareness and uncertainty; bounded rationality and resource-bounded reasoning; commonsense epistemic reasoning; epistemic logic; epistemic game theory; knowledge and action; applications of reasoning about knowledge and other mental states; belief revision; computational social choice; algorithmic game theory; and foundations of multi-agent systems. SUBMISSIONS Submissions are now invited to TARK 2017. Extended Abstracts can be submitted here: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=tark2017 The deadline for submissions is April 3, 2017. Strong preference will be given to papers whose topic is of interest to an interdisciplinary audience, and papers should be accessible to such an audience. Papers will be held to the usual high standards of research publications. In particular, they should: 1) contain enough information to enable the program committee to identify the main contribution of the work; 2) explain the significance of the work -- its novelty and its practical or theoretical implications; and 3) include comparisons with and references to relevant literature. Extended abstracts should be no longer than 5,000 words (around 6 pages, double-column style as indicated below). Optional technical details such as proofs may be included in an appendix. One author of each accepted paper will be expected to present the paper at the conference. To format your paper please use: LaTeX2e - Tighter Alternate style from http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates The 5000 word limit is to ensure that the reviewers can read and express an opinion on the submission within the short time, though the submission format compresses the paper considerably. Please ensure that the main text for the reviewers stays within this limit. TARK reviewing is not double-blind, so author names can be included in the submission. While economics papers follow the same submission guidelines for review purposes, they can specify that only a short abstract be included for the Proceedings (with a link to a full working paper available online). The proceedings of all previous TARK conferences can be accessed at http://www.tark.org/. The proceedings of TARK 2017 will also be open access and available online. Important Dates: Submission of abstracts: April 3, 2017 Notification to authors: May 20, 2017 Camera Ready Copy of Accepted Papers due: June 10, 2017 Conference Dates: July 24 - 26, 2017 Chairs: Conference Chair: Joe Halpern, Cornell University Program Chair: Jérôme Lang, CNRS, Université Paris-Dauphine Organizing chair: Wiebe van der Hoek, University of Liverpool Program Committee: Christian Bach, University of Liverpool Adam Bjorndahl, Carnegie Mellon University Jan van Eijck, CWI Nina Gierasimczuk, Danish Technical University Andreas Herzig, CNRS Jeff Horty, University of Maryland Jérôme Lang (chair), CNRS, Université Paris-Dauphine Fenrong Liu, Tsinghua University, Beijing Michael Mandler, Royal Holloway College, University of London Larry Moss, Indiana University Pavel Naumov, Vassar College Rafael Pass, Cornell University Gabriella Pigozzi, Université Paris-Dauphine Ariel Procaccia, Carnegie Mellon University Burkhard Schipper, University of California, Davis Sunil Simon, IIT Kanpur Rineke Verbrugge, University of Groningen ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Prof. Wiebe van der Hoek Head of School of EEE&CS University of Liverpool http://www.csc.liv.ac.uk/~wiebe/ tel (+44) 7970247480 wiebe at liverpool.ac.uk From cfp at dsi.uminho.pt Mon Jan 16 13:34:55 2017 From: cfp at dsi.uminho.pt (Filipe Portela) Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2017 12:34:55 +0000 Subject: FiCloud 2017 - The 5th International Conference on Future Internet of Things and Cloud (Call For Workshops) In-Reply-To: <77798e4d-34da-62b0-de45-966f40f5fa47@dsi.uminho.pt> References: <77798e4d-34da-62b0-de45-966f40f5fa47@dsi.uminho.pt> Message-ID: <6711d638-1697-6e99-5fee-ca6457a1b576@dsi.uminho.pt> ============================================== *FiCloud 2017*** 5th International Conference on Future Internet of Things and Cloud 21-23 August 2017, Prague, Czech Republic http://www.ficloud.org/2017/workshops.php *CALL FOR WORKSHOPS *Deadline for submission of workshops proposals (via email): 25 January 2017 ============================================== *WORKSHOP FORMAT* FiCloud 2017 invites workshop proposals. Research and industrial community is invited to submit proposals of Workshops for FiCloud 2017 - The 5th International Conference on Future Internet of Things and Cloud to be held at Prague, Czech Republic, *21-23 August 2017*: http://www.ficloud.org/2017/ The main objective of the workshops is to provide a forum for researchers and professionals to discuss a specific topics related to the theme of FiCloud 2017. Each workshop will be coordinated by an Organizing Committee (Workshop Chair) composed of, at least, two researchers in the field. The organizers should create an international Program Committee for the Workshop, with recognized researchers within the specific Workshop scientific area. The selection of Workshops will be performed by FiCloud 2017 Workshop Coordinator. Workshops full and short papers will be published in the conference main proceedingsby the IEEE Computer Society Conference Publishing Service (CPS) (approval pending). The proceedings will be submitted to the IEEE-Xplore and the IEEE Computer Society (CSDL) digital libraries. The proceedings are also submitted for indexing through IEE INSPEC, EI (Compendex), Thomson ISI, and other indexing services; Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit an extended version of their papers for a special issues in international journals (see Journal Special Issues section). Detailed and up-to-date information may be found at FiCloud website: _http://www.ficloud.org/2017_ *WORKSHOP ORGANIZATION* The Organizing Committee of each Workshop will be responsible for: -Producing and distributing the Workshop Call for Papers (CFP); -Coordinating the review and selection process for the papers submitted to the Workshop, as Workshop chairs (on the paper submission system to be installed); -Delivering the final versions of the papers accepted for the Workshop in accordance with the guidelines and deadlines defined by FiCloud 2017 organizers; -Coordinating and chairing the Workshop sessions at the conference. Submission and reviewing of the papers will be managed by the workshops organizers. All the workshop papers must be reviewed by at least of 2 PC members. *PROPOSAL CONTENT* Workshop proposals should contain the following information: -Title of the proposed workshop -Brief description of the specific scientific scope of the Workshop; -Workshop theme and call for papers; -List of topics of interest; -Name and contact of workshop chairs -List of potential Workshop Program Committee (Names and affiliations) -Important dates (You should see the conference dates) Proposals should be submitted electronically by email to cfp at dsi.uminho.pt, in PDF, (in English), by January 25, 2017. ** *Workshop Coordinator* Filipe Portela, University of Minho, Portugal From announce at cs.ucy.ac.cy Mon Jan 16 15:50:14 2017 From: announce at cs.ucy.ac.cy (Announce Announcements) Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2017 16:50:14 +0200 Subject: 22nd ACM International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2017): Student Travel Grants Message-ID: *** Student Travel Grants *** 22nd ACM International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces IUI 2017 St. Raphael Resort, Limassol, Cyprus March 13-16, 2017 http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=YWZpaG0ub3JnICwJCQlldmVudEBpbi50dS1jbGF1c3RoYWwuZGUJMjJuZCBBQ00gSW50ZXJuYXRpb25hbCBDb25mZXJlbmNlIG9uIEludGVsbGlnZW50IFVzZXIgSW50ZXJmYWNlcyAoSVVJIDIwMTcpOiBTdHVkZW50IFRyYXZlbCBHcmFudHMJOQlMaXN0cwkxOTQJY2xpY2sJeWVzCW5v&url=http%3A%2F%2Fiui.acm.org%2F2017%2Fstudcons.html *** Applications Due: January 22, 2017 (FIRM DEADLINE) *** *** Notification: January 31, 2017 (late applications will not be considered) *** ACM IUI 2017 is the 22nd annual meeting of the intelligent interfaces community and serves as a premier international forum for reporting outstanding research and development on intelligent user interfaces. ACM IUI is where the Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) community meets the Artificial Intelligence (AI), with contributions from related fields such as psychology, behavioral science, cognitive science, computer graphics, design or the arts. The objective of IUI's student support is to encourage students interested in subjects related to Intelligent User Interfaces to become active members of the IUI community. To apply, the student should be actively enrolled as a student in an academic institution. Priority will be given to students who are first authors of accepted papers and to participants in the doctoral consortium, to minorities and women. Recipients of the stipend are also expected to help the conference organization as student volunteers. The level of support will be determined by the availability of funds and the number of eligible applications. The student volunteer chairs are here to help, please contact us at sv2017 at iui.acm.org if you have any questions that are not covered by the documents and links found below. Currently, there are four grant schemes available which are detailed below: - The SIGAI Student Travel Grant. - The IUI Travelling Grant supported by SIGCHI. - The German AI Society Travel Grant - for German students. - The National Science Foundation Travelling Grant - for US students. The IUI Chairs will decide about the allocation of the sources of support to students that will be eligible for travelling grants (there are some differences between the sources and what is required from the students - see below). The application should include: 1. Full name. 2. Email address. 3. The school you are attending, your major, and the country in which the school resides. 4. If you will present at the conference, please provide the title of the submission and its type (e.g. research paper, student consortium, demo). Please note if you have submitted but have not found out if your submission has been accepted. 5. A short statement describing your research interests and how you wish to benefit from attending IUI 2017. 6. The location you are flying from and the cost for your airfare, as determined by the availability of low-cost economy fares for travel to the conference. Please describe any other expenses you expect to accrue, but do not include registration and housing costs, as they are similar for all students. 7. Students may specify if they are female, ethnic minority, or students with disabilities, as we will consider these aspects when discussing the applications. A letter of recommendation from your thesis or doctoral advisor (or supervising faculty member) sent separately by email to the Student Volunteer Co-Chairs at sv2017 at iui.acm.org. If you are also applying to the Student Consortium, one appropriately worded recommendation letter can be used for both applications, or you may submit a slightly different letter for each application. Please submit your single, combined PDF (except letter of recommendation) to: http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=YWZpaG0ub3JnICwJCQlldmVudEBpbi50dS1jbGF1c3RoYWwuZGUJMjJuZCBBQ00gSW50ZXJuYXRpb25hbCBDb25mZXJlbmNlIG9uIEludGVsbGlnZW50IFVzZXIgSW50ZXJmYWNlcyAoSVVJIDIwMTcpOiBTdHVkZW50IFRyYXZlbCBHcmFudHMJOQlMaXN0cwkxOTQJY2xpY2sJeWVzCW5v&url=https%3A%2F%2Fprecisionconference.com%2F%7Esigchi%2F by January 22nd 2017. Types/sources of support The SIGAI Student Travel Grant Following the tradition of previous years, we will offer student participation support provided by SIGAI to attend the IUI Conference. This support is in the form of a small stipend to cover the registration fee and partially cover the costs of travel and living expenses while attending the conference. The students will be reimbursed for their expenses after the conference. All students who get travel grants from SIGAI must send us a paragraph about their experience and a headshot before they will be reimbursed. You must be a member of SIGAI before submitting the reimbursement forms ($11 dues). The stipend recipient must be a member of SIGAI before submitting the reimbursement forms. The IUI Travelling Grant supported by SIGCHI Following the tradition of previous years, we will offer student participation support provided by SIGCHI to attend the IUI Conference. This support is in the form of a small stipend to cover the registration fee and partially cover the costs of travel and living expenses while attending the conference. The students will be reimbursed for their expenses after the conference. All students who get travel grants from SIGCHI must send us a paragraph about their experience and a headshot before they will be reimbursed. The stipend recipient must be a member of SIGCHI before submitting the reimbursement forms. The German AI Society Travel Grant The German AI society (AI chapter of the Gesellschaft für Informatik) is kindly offering support for German students or students working in Germany to attend the IUI Conference. This support is provided in the form of three small stipends (500 EUR each) to partially cover the registration fee and the costs of travel and living expenses while attending the conference. The students will be reimbursed for their expenses after the conference. After the conference, students write a short report (1 page) for the national AI magazine. Students must be member of the German AI society before submitting the reimbursement forms. The NSF Travelling Grant (Only for US students) We are happy to announce that student participation support provided by NSF to attend the IUI Conference will be provided (limited to US students). This support is in the form of a small stipend to cover the registration fee and partially cover the costs of travel and living expenses while attending the conference. The students will be reimbursed for their expenses after the conference. All students who get travel grants from the NSF funding must send us a paragraph about their experience and a headshot before they will be reimbursed. -------------- nächster Teil -------------- Ein Dateianhang mit HTML-Daten wurde abgetrennt... URL: From valentina.ivanova at liu.se Mon Jan 16 18:38:09 2017 From: valentina.ivanova at liu.se (Valentina Ivanova) Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2017 17:38:09 +0000 Subject: [CfP] Extended Deadline: JWS Special Issue on Visualization and Interaction for Ontologies and Linked Data Message-ID: [CfP] Extended Submission Deadline for JWS Special Issue on Visualization and Interaction for Ontologies and Linked Data --------------------------------------------------- Extended Submission Deadline: February 15, 2017 (23:59 Hawaii Standard Time) --------------------------------------------------- http://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-web-semantics/call-for-papers/special-issue-on-visualization-and-interaction-for-ontologie (page update pending) --------------------------------------------------- Topics of interest include: --------------------------------------------------- * Visualizations and user interfaces for ontologies and Linked Data (overview, exploration, analysis, visual analytics, querying, etc.) * Visualizations and user interfaces for ontology engineering (ontology development, alignment, debugging, evolution, provenance, collaboration, etc.) * Case studies of applying visualizations in ontology engineering and Linked Data consumption * User evaluations of visual interfaces for Linked Data and ontologies * Analyses of different user types and needs * Cognitive aspects of interaction and visualization * Context-aware visualization and interaction techniques * Applications of novel interaction techniques (e.g., touch and gesture interaction) * Mobile user interfaces for ontology engineering and Linked Data exploration We are looking forward to your submissions! Valentina Ivanova Patrick Lambrix Steffen Lohmann Catia Pesquita Guest Editors From newsletter at saso-conference.org Mon Jan 16 22:30:59 2017 From: newsletter at saso-conference.org (Markus Esch) Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2017 22:30:59 +0100 Subject: =?utf-8?b?Q2ZQOiBTQVNPIDIwMTcgLSBJRUVFIEludGVybmF0aW9uYWwgQ29uZmVy?= =?utf-8?b?ZW5jZSBvbiBTZWxmLUFkYXB0aXZlIGFuZCBTZWxmLU9yZ2FuaXppbmcg?= =?utf-8?b?U3lzdGVtcywgU2VwdGVtYmVyIDE4LTIyLCBUdWNzb24sIEFyaXpvbmEg?= Message-ID: ************************************************************************* CALL FOR PAPERS The Eleventh IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems (SASO 2017) University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ; 18-22 September 2017 https://saso2017.telecom-paristech.fr/ ************************************************************************* Part of FAS* - Foundation and Applications of Self-* Computing Conferences Collocated with: The International Conference on Cloud and Autonomic Computing (ICCAC 2017) ------------------- Aims and Scope ------------------- The aim of the Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems conference series (SASO) is to provide a forum for the presentation and discussion of research on the foundations of engineered systems that self-adapt and self-organize. The complexity of current and emerging networks, software, and services can be characterized by issues such as scale, heterogeneity, openness, and dynamics in the environment. This 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, chemistry, psychology, sociology, and biology) to find new ways of designing and managing such computing systems in a principled way. In this endeavor, self-organization and self-adaptation have emerged as two promising interrelated approaches. They form the basis for many other so-called self-* properties, such as self-configuration, self-healing, or self-optimization. SASO aims to be an interdisciplinary meeting, where contributions from participants with different backgrounds leads to the fostering of a cross-pollination of ideas, and where innovative theories, frameworks, methodologies, tools, and applications can emerge. The eleventh edition of the SASO conference embraces this inter-disciplinary nature, and welcomes novel contributions to both the foundational and application-focused dimensions of self-adaptive and self-organizing systems research. The topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Systems theory: nature-inspired and socially-inspired paradigms and heuristics; inter-operation of self-* mechanisms; theoretical frameworks and models; control theory; - System properties: robustness; resilience; stability; anti-fragility; diversity; self-reference and reflection; emergent behavior; computational awareness and self-awareness; - Systems engineering: reusable mechanisms and algorithms; design patterns; architectures; methodologies; software and middleware development frameworks and methods; platforms and toolkits; multi-agent systems; - Theory and practice of organization: self-governance, change management, electronic institutions, distributed consensus, commons, knowledge management, and the general use of rules, policies, etc. in self-* systems - Theory and practice of adaptation: mechanisms for adaptation, including evolution, logic, learning; adaptability, plasticity, flexibility - Socio-technical systems: human and social factors; visualization; crowdsourcing and collective awareness; humans-in-the-loop; ethics and humanities in self-* systems; - Data-driven approaches: data mining; machine learning; data science and other statistical techniques to analyze, understand, and manage behavior of complex systems; - Self-adaptive and self-organizing hardware: self-* materials; self-construction; reconfigurable hardware; - Education: experience reports; curricula; innovative course concepts; methodological aspects of self-* systems education; Applications and experiences with self-* systems in any of the following domains are of particular interest: + Smart systems: smart grids, smart cities, smart environments, smart homes, etc. + Industrial automation: embedded self-* systems, adaptive industrial plants, Industry 4.0, cyber physical systems + Transportation: autonomous vehicles, traffic optimization + Autonomous systems: aerial vehicles, undersea vehicles, autonomous robotics + Internet of Things: self-* for network management, self-* applied to cyber security We are looking for contributions that present new fundamental understanding of self-adaptive and self-organizing systems and how they can be engineered and used, including: novel theoretical or experimental results, novel design patterns, mechanisms, system architectures, frameworks, tools, and practical experiences in building or deploying 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. Likewise, papers describing substantial innovation or insights in the use and communication of self-* systems in the classroom are welcome. Where relevant and appropriate, accepted papers will also be encouraged to participate in the Demo or Poster Sessions. -------------------- Important Dates -------------------- Abstract submission: May 1, 2017 Paper submission: May 10, 2017 Notification: June 30, 2017 Camera ready copy due: July 12, 2017 Conference: September 18-22, 2017 ---------------------------- Submission Instructions ---------------------------- Submissions can be up to 10 pages, formatted according to the standard IEEE Computer Society Press proceedings style guide, and submitted electronically in PDF format. Please submit your papers using the SASO 2017 conference management system https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=saso2017. The proceedings will be published by the IEEE Computer Society Press, and made available as a part of the IEEE Digital Library. Note that a separate Call for Poster and Demo Submissions will also be issued. As per the standard IEEE policies, all submissions should be original, i.e., they must not have been previously published in any conference proceedings, book, or journal and must not currently be under review for another archival conference. We also highlight the IEEE policies regarding plagiarism and self-plagiarism (http://www.ieee.org/publications_standards/publications/rights/ID_Plagiarism.html). --------------------- Review Criteria --------------------- Papers should present novel ideas in the cross-disciplinary research context described in this call, motivated by problems from current practice or applied research. Both theoretical and empirical contributions should be highlighted, substantiated by formal analysis, simulation, experimental evaluations, or comparative studies, etc. Appropriate references must be made to related work. Because SASO is a cross-disciplinary conference, we encourage papers to 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 should provide an indication of the real-world relevance of the problem that is solved, including a description of the domain, and an evaluation of performance, usability, or comparison to alternative approaches. Experience papers are also welcome, especially if they highlight insights into any aspect of design, implementation or management of self-* systems that would be of benefit to practitioners and the SASO community. All submissions will be rigorously peer reviewed and evaluated based on the quality of their technical contribution, originality, soundness, significance, presentation, understanding of the state of the art, and overall quality. ------------------------------- Conference General Chair ------------------------------- Ada Diaconescu Telecom Paris-Tech, Paris, FR -------------------- Program Chairs -------------------- Peter Lewis, Aston University, Birmingham, UK Sam Malek, University of California, Irvine, USA Hella Seebach, Augsburg University, Augsburg, DE From amedeo.napoli at loria.fr Tue Jan 17 10:21:19 2017 From: amedeo.napoli at loria.fr (Amedeo Napoli) Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2017 10:21:19 +0100 (CET) Subject: 2nd CFP Special Session on ``Knowledge Discovery with Formal Concept Analysis and related formalisms (FCA4KD++)'' at ISMIS 2017 In-Reply-To: <8551302.15292767.1484644774835.JavaMail.zimbra@loria.fr> Message-ID: <1369558365.15293824.1484644879124.JavaMail.zimbra@loria.fr> Special Session on ``Knowledge Discovery with Formal Concept Analysis and related formalisms (FCA4KD++)'' A Special Session co-located with the 23rd Int. Symposium on Methodologies for Intelligent Systems (ISMIS 2017) Warsaw, Poland, June 26-29, 2017 OBJECTIVES Formal Concept Analysis (FCA) is a mathematically well-founded theory aimed at data analysis and classification. FCA allows one to build a concept lattice and a system of dependencies (rules, implications) which can be used for many purposes, e.g. knowledge discovery, learning, biclustering, knowledge representation, reasoning, ontology engineering, information retrieval, recommendation, and text processing. Accordingly, there are many links between FCA and Knowledge Discovery, e.g. pattern mining, but also between FCA and other formalisms such as databases (e.g. functional dependencies), rough sets, fuzzy sets... Recent years have shown an increased activity in FCA, in particular in extending the possibilities of FCA w.r.t. knowledge processing in all dimensions, such as work on pattern structures and relational concept analysis. These extensions allow FCA to deal with more complex than just binary data (e.g. RDF data), for data analysis, knowledge discovery and knowledge engineering. All these works extend the capabilities of FCA and offer new possibilities for discovery and representation activities. Accordingly, this special session will be interested in issues such as: - How can FCA support Knowledge Discovery and Knowledge Engineering, e.g. text mining, RDF data classification, knowledge representation, reasoning, information retrieval, recommendation... - How can FCA be extended in order to help researchers to solve new and complex problems. - How relations with other formalisms such as databases, rough sets, fuzzy sets, can be exploited for improving each formalism capabilities? TOPICS OF INTEREST include but are not limited to: - Concept lattices and related structures: description logics, pattern structures, relational structures, rough sets, fuzzy sets... - Knowledge discovery and data mining with FCA: association rules, itemsets and data dependencies, attribute implications, data pre-processing, redundancy and dimensionality reduction, classification and clustering. - FCA and Knowledge Engineering: ontology engineering, knowledge representation and reasoning. - Scalable algorithms for concept lattices ``in the large'': distributed aspects. - Applications of concept lattices: text mining, classification and mining in web of data, information retrieval, recommendation, visualization and navigation. SPECIAL SESSION ORGANIZERS: Davide Ciucci University Milano-Bicocca, Italy Sergei O. Kuznetsov Higher Schools of Economics, Moscow, Russia Amedeo Napoli LORIA (CNRS-Inria-Université de Lorraine), Nancy, France IMPORTANT DATES: Paper submission due: January 22, 2017 Notification of review results: March 14, 2017 Camera ready papers due: April 3, 2017 PROCEEDINGS The accepted papers will be published within the ISMIS main conference proceedings (Springer LNAI Series). Paper submission Authors are invited to submit their manuscripts using the Springer LNCS/LNAI style, with a maximum of 10 pages. Detailed instructions are provided on the conference homepage. Papers should be submitted in PDF format via the ISMIS 2017 Online Submission System (please see http://ismis2017.ii.pw.edu.pl/paper_submission.php). -------------- nächster Teil -------------- Ein Dateianhang mit HTML-Daten wurde abgetrennt... URL: From announce at cs.ucy.ac.cy Tue Jan 17 15:25:15 2017 From: announce at cs.ucy.ac.cy (Announce Announcements) Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2017 16:25:15 +0200 Subject: 22nd ACM International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2017): Call for Participation Message-ID: <16NJVJE7-AN4D-G6QS-WC6O-RN6WW7LALHMB@cs.ucy.ac.cy> ** Call for Participation *** 22nd ACM International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces IUI 2017 St. Raphael Resort, Limassol, Cyprus March 13-16, 2017 http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=YWZpaG0ub3JnICwJCQlldmVudEBpbi50dS1jbGF1c3RoYWwuZGUJMjJuZCBBQ00gSW50ZXJuYXRpb25hbCBDb25mZXJlbmNlIG9uIEludGVsbGlnZW50IFVzZXIgSW50ZXJmYWNlcyAoSVVJIDIwMTcpOiBDYWxsIGZvciBQYXJ0aWNpcGF0aW9uCTExCUxpc3RzCTE5NAljbGljawl5ZXMJbm8=&url=http%3A%2F%2Fiui.acm.org%2F2017 *** Early Registration Deadline: February 7, 2017 *** ACM IUI 2017 is the 22nd annual meeting of the intelligent interfaces community and serves as a premier international forum for reporting outstanding research and development on intelligent user interfaces. ACM IUI is where the Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) community meets the Artificial Intelligence (AI), with contributions from related fields such as psychology, behavioral science, cognitive science, computer graphics, design or the arts. Our focus is to improve the interaction between humans and machines, by leveraging both more traditional HCI approaches, as well as solutions that involve state-of-the art AI techniques such as machine learning, natural language processing, data mining, knowledge representation and reasoning. ACM IUI welcomes contribution from any relevant arena: academia, business, or non-profit organizations. The conference brings together people from academia, industry and non-profit organizations and gives its participants the opportunity to present and see cutting-edge IUI work in a focused and interactive setting. It is large enough to be diverse and lively, but small enough to allow for extensive interaction among attendees and easy attendance to the events that the conference offers, ranging from oral paper presentations, poster sessions, workshops, panels and doctoral consortium for graduate students. The 22nd edition of the conference will be held in Limassol, Cyprus. Limassol (or Lemesos) is a multicultural bustling town, flanked by two ancient cities, Amathus and Kourion, and guarded by the Amathusian Aphrodite and Appolo Hylates. It is a town of great visual diversity and contrast from spectacular seafront views, historic places like the mediaeval Castle, and Byzantine churches. Along the 17 km long sandy beaches, two Marinas, world renowned 5 star hotels, and a most exciting dining, shopping, nightlife and yachting scene create a year-round vibrant lifestyle well beyond the expectations of a Mediterranean island. The conference venue is the well known 5* beach hotel St. Raphael Resort, situated on one of the largest Blue Flag accredited beaches, only a short coastal drive from the lively centre of town, approximately 10 minutes away (http://www.raphael.com.cy). The Larnaca International Airport is 35 minutes away, and Paphos International Airport is 55 minutes away. There are shops, restaurants and bars within walking distance and a bus stop exactly outside the hotel. The conference organizers have secured very competitive rates for accommodation, both at the venue hotel as well as a number of other hotels at close distance (http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=YWZpaG0ub3JnICwJCQlldmVudEBpbi50dS1jbGF1c3RoYWwuZGUJMjJuZCBBQ00gSW50ZXJuYXRpb25hbCBDb25mZXJlbmNlIG9uIEludGVsbGlnZW50IFVzZXIgSW50ZXJmYWNlcyAoSVVJIDIwMTcpOiBDYWxsIGZvciBQYXJ0aWNpcGF0aW9uCTExCUxpc3RzCTE5NAljbGljawl5ZXMJbm8=&url=http%3A%2F%2Fiui.acm.org%2F2017/accommodation.html). In addition, the conference organization offers airport transfers to and from the hotels at very reasonable prices. This year IUI attracted an overwhelming number of submissions for all types of contributions (papers, posters, demos, etc.). The list of accepted contributions can be found here: http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=YWZpaG0ub3JnICwJCQlldmVudEBpbi50dS1jbGF1c3RoYWwuZGUJMjJuZCBBQ00gSW50ZXJuYXRpb25hbCBDb25mZXJlbmNlIG9uIEludGVsbGlnZW50IFVzZXIgSW50ZXJmYWNlcyAoSVVJIDIwMTcpOiBDYWxsIGZvciBQYXJ0aWNpcGF0aW9uCTExCUxpc3RzCTE5NAljbGljawl5ZXMJbm8=&url=http%3A%2F%2Fiui.acm.org%2F2017/accepted.html . The program will consist of paper presentations, posters and demos sessions, a Student Consortium and several workshops and tutorials. This exciting program will be further enhanced with 3 keynotes by the Distinguisheed ACM Speaker Panos Markopoulos (Eindhoven University of Technology), George Samaras (University of Cyprus) and Shumin Zhai (Google). The technical program will be complemented with a rich social program, including a welcome reception and a conference dinner at a local traditional Greek taverna with live entertainment. We cordially invite you to attend IUI 2017 and the co-located workshops and tutorials. Registration is open (http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=YWZpaG0ub3JnICwJCQlldmVudEBpbi50dS1jbGF1c3RoYWwuZGUJMjJuZCBBQ00gSW50ZXJuYXRpb25hbCBDb25mZXJlbmNlIG9uIEludGVsbGlnZW50IFVzZXIgSW50ZXJmYWNlcyAoSVVJIDIwMTcpOiBDYWxsIGZvciBQYXJ0aWNpcGF0aW9uCTExCUxpc3RzCTE5NAljbGljawl5ZXMJbm8=&url=http%3A%2F%2Fiui.acm.org%2F2017/registration.html). Committees General Chairs · Tsvika Kuflik, University of Haifa, Israel · George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Program Committee Chairs · Fang Chen, NICTA, Australia · Carlos Duarte, University of Lisbon, Portugal · Wai-Tat Fu, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA Program Committee http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=YWZpaG0ub3JnICwJCQlldmVudEBpbi50dS1jbGF1c3RoYWwuZGUJMjJuZCBBQ00gSW50ZXJuYXRpb25hbCBDb25mZXJlbmNlIG9uIEludGVsbGlnZW50IFVzZXIgSW50ZXJmYWNlcyAoSVVJIDIwMTcpOiBDYWxsIGZvciBQYXJ0aWNpcGF0aW9uCTExCUxpc3RzCTE5NAljbGljawl5ZXMJbm8=&url=http%3A%2F%2Fiui.acm.org%2F2017/pco.html Posters/Demos Chairs · Andrina Granic, University of Split, Croatia · Denis Parra. PUC, Chile · Jingtaw Wang, University of Pittsburgh, USA Workshops/Tutorials Chairs · Shlomo Berkovsky, CSIRO, Australia · Bart Kninijnburg, Clemson University, USA Student Consortium Chairs · Peter Brusilovsky, University of Pittsburgh, USA · Katrien Verbert, KULeuven, Belgium Student Volunteers Chairs · Christos Mettouris, University of Cyprus, Cyprus · Tobias Grosse-Puppendahl, Microsoft Research, UK · Julia Sheidin, University of Haifa, Israel Sponsorship Chairs · Daniel Sonntag, DFKI, Germany (for Europe) · Feng Tian, Institute of Software Chinese Academy of Sciences, China (for Asia) Treasurer · George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Proceedings Chair · Daniel Afergan, Google, USA Web Master · Marios Christou, Easy Conferences, Cyprus · Kyriakos Georgiades, Easy Conferences, Cyprus -------------- nächster Teil -------------- Ein Dateianhang mit HTML-Daten wurde abgetrennt... URL: From geoff at cs.miami.edu Tue Jan 17 15:50:37 2017 From: geoff at cs.miami.edu (Geoff Sutcliffe) Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2017 09:50:37 -0500 (EST) Subject: TABLEAUX 2017 - 2nd Call for Papers Message-ID: <20170117145037.1E412121503@mcclellan.cs.miami.edu> SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS TABLEAUX 2017 26th International Conference on Automated Reasoning with Analytic Tableaux and Related Methods University of Brasilia, Brazil September 25-28, 2017 Submission Deadline: 25 Apr 2017 http://tableaux2017.cic.unb.br/ GENERAL INFORMATION TABLEAUX is the main international conference at which research on all aspects, theoretical foundations, implementation techniques, systems development and applications, of the mechanization of tableau-based reasoning and related methods is presented. As the first TABLEAUX workshop was held in Lautenbach in 1992, this year's conference will include special events celebrating 25 years of TABLEAUX. The conference will be held in Brasilia from 25-28 September 2017. It will be co-located with both the 11th International Symposium on Frontiers of Combining Systems (FroCoS 2017) and the 8th International Conference on Interactive Theorem Proving (ITP 2017). TOPICS Tableau methods offer a convenient and flexible set of tools for automated reasoning in classical logic, extensions of classical logic, and a large number of non-classical logics. For large groups of logics, tableau methods can be generated automatically. Areas of application include verification of software and computer systems, deductive databases, knowledge representation and its required inference engines, teaching, and system diagnosis. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: * tableau methods for classical and non-classical logics (including first-order, higher-order, modal, temporal, description, hybrid, intuitionistic, substructural, relevance, non-monotonic logics) and their proof-theoretic foundations; * related methods (SMT, model elimination, model checking, connection methods, resolution, BDDs, translation approaches); * sequent calculi and natural deduction calculi for classical and non-classical logics, as tools for proof search and proof representation; * flexible, easily extendable, light weight methods for theorem proving; * novel types of calculi for theorem proving and verification in classical and non-classical logics; * systems, tools, implementations, empirical evaluations and applications (provers, logical frameworks, model checkers, ...); * implementation techniques (data structures, efficient algorithms, performance measurement, extensibility, ...); * extensions of tableau procedures with conflict-driven learning, generation of proofs; compact (or humanly readable) representation of proofs; * decision procedures, theoretically optimal procedures; * applications of automated deduction to mathematics, software development, verification, deductive and temporal databases, knowledge representation, ontologies, fault diagnosis or teaching. We also welcome papers describing applications of tableau procedures to real world examples. Such papers should be tailored to the tableau community and should focus on the role of reasoning, and logical aspects of the solution. CELEBRATING 25 YEARS To celebrate 25 years TABLEAUX the conference will include a special session of invited talks by: Reiner Haehnle Technische Universitaet Darmstadt, Germany Wolfgang Bibel Technische Universitaet Darmstadt, Germany INVITED SPEAKERS: Carlos Areces FaMAF - Universidad Nacional de Cordoba, Argentina Katalin Bimbo University of Alberta, Canada (joint with FroCoS and ITP) Jasmin Blanchette Inria and LORIA, Nancy, France (joint with FroCoS and ITP) Cesary Kaliszyk Universitaet Innsbruck, Austria (joint with FroCoS and ITP) WORKSHOPS AND TUTORIALS There will be a three-day programme of four workshops and four tutorials from 23-25 September. Workshops: 12th Logical and Semantic Frameworks with Applications (LSFA 2017) Sandra Alves, Renata Wassermann, Flavio L. C. de Moura 23 and 24 September 2017 Proof eXchange for Theorem Proving (PxTP) Catherine Dubois, Bruno Woltzenlogel Paleo 23 and 24 September 2017 EPS - Encyclopedia of Proof Systems Giselle Reis, Bruno Woltzenlogel Paleo 24 and 25 September 2017 DaLi - Dynamic Logic: new trends and applications Mario Benevides, Alexandre Madeira 24 September 2017 Tutorials: General methods in proof theory for modal and substructural logics Bjoern Lellmann, Revantha Ramanayake 23 September 2017 From proof systems to complexity bounds Anupam Das 24 September 2017 Proof Compressions and the conjecture NP =3D PSPACE Lew Gordeev, Edward Hermann Haeusler 25 September 2017 PVS for Computer Scientists Cesar Munoz, Mauricio Ayala-Rincon, Mariano Moscato 25 September 2017 Details will be published in separate calls and on the conference website. PUBLICATION DETAILS The conference proceedings will published in the Springer LNAI/LNCS series, as in previous editions. SUBMISSIONS Submissions are invited in two categories: A Research papers, which describe original theoretical research, original algorithms, or applications, with length up to 15 pages. B System descriptions, with length up to 9 pages. Submissions will be reviewed by the PC, possibly with the help of external reviewers, taking into account readability, relevance and originality. For category A, theoretical results and algorithms must be original, and not submitted for publication elsewhere. Submissions will be reviewed taking into account correctness, theoretical elegance, and possible implementability. For category B submissions, a working implementation must be accessible via the internet, which includes sources. The aim of a system description is to make the system available in such a way that users can use it, understand it, and build on it. Accepted papers in both categories will be published in the conference proceedings. Papers must be edited in LaTeX using the llncs style and must be submitted electronically as PDF files via the EasyChair system: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=3Dtableaux2017. For all accepted papers at least one author is required to attend the conference and present the paper. A paper title and a short abstract of about 100 words must be submitted before the paper submission deadline. Further information about paper submissions will be made available at the conference website. Be aware that neither plagiarism, nor self-plagiarism, nor duplicate publication is acceptable. Formatting instructions and the LNCS style files can be obtained via http://www.springer.com/br/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gui= delines BEST PAPER AWARD The TABLEAUX 2017 Best Paper Award will be presented to the best submission nominated and chosen by the Program Committee among the accepted papers. The eligibility criteria will place emphasis on the originality and significance of the contribution, but readability and the overall technical quality, including correctness and completeness of results, will also be considered. The TABLEAUX Best Paper Award was established in 2015 and is a permanent initiative of TABLEAUX. IMPORTANT DATES 18 Apr 2017 Abstract submission 25 Apr 2017 Paper submission 8 Jun 2017 Notification of paper decisions 3 Jul 2017 Camera-ready papers due 23-25 Sep 2017 Workshops & Tutorials 25-28 Sep 2017 TABLEAUX Conference PROGRAM COMMITTEE Peter Baumgartner National ICT Australia, Canberra Maria Paola Bonacina Universita degli Studi di Verona Laura Bozzelli Universidad Politecnica de Madrid Torben Brauener Roskilde University Serenella Cerrito Ibisc, Universite d'Evry Val d'Essonne Agata Ciabattoni Technische Universitaet Wien Clare Dixon University of Liverpool Pascal Fontaine LORIA, INRIA, Universite de Lorraine Didier Galmiche LORIA, Universite de Lorraine Martin Giese Universitetet i Oslo Laura Giordano DISIT, Universita del Piemonte Orientale Rajeev Gore The Australian National University Volker Haarslev Concordia University George Metcalfe Universitaet Bern Angelo Montanari Universita degli Studi di Udine Barbara Morawska Technische Universitaet Dresden Boris Motik University of Oxford Leonardo de Moura Microsoft Research Neil Murray SUNY at Albany Claudia Nalon Universidade de Brasilia Linh Anh Nguyen Uniwersytet Warszawski Hans de Nivelle Uniwersytet Wroclawski Nicola Olivetti LSIS, Aix-Marseille Universite Jens Otten Universitetet i Oslo Valeria de Paiva Nuance Communications Nicolas Peltier Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Laboratoire d'Informatique de Grenoble Elaine Pimentel Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte Giselle Reis Carnegie Mellon University-Qatar Philipp Ruemmer Uppsala Universitet Katsuhiko Sano Hokkaido University Renate Schmidt The University of Manchester Cesare Tinelli The University of Iowa Alwen Tiu Nanyang Technological University David Toman University of Waterloo Josef Urban Ceske vysoke uceni technicke v Praze LOCAL CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION COMMITTEE Claudia Nalon, Universidade de Brasilia, Brazil Daniele Nantes Sobrinho, Universidade de Brasilia, Brazil Elaine Pimentel, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil Joao Marcos, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil CONFERENCE CHAIR Claudia Nalon, University of Brasilia, Brazil PC CHAIRS Claudia Nalon, University of Brasilia, Brazil Renate Schmidt, The University of Manchester, UK From starai.frontiers at gmail.com Tue Jan 17 22:45:24 2017 From: starai.frontiers at gmail.com (StarAI-Frontiers) Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2017 22:45:24 +0100 Subject: CfP for a Research Topic on Statistical Relational AI Message-ID: === Apologies for cross-posting === STATISTICAL RELATIONAL ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE Call for Papers for a Research Topic on Frontiers in Robotics and AIhttp://journal.frontiersin.org/researchtopic/5640/statistical-relational-artificial-intelligence Guest-edited by Fabrizio Riguzzi, University of Ferrara Kristian Kersting, TU Dortmund University Marco Lippi, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia Sriraam Natarajan, Indiana University AIMS AND SCOPE Statistical Relational Artificial Intelligence (StarAI) combines logical (or relational) AI and probabilistic (or statistical) AI. Relational AI deals very effectively with complex domains involving many and even a varying number of entities connected by complex relationships, while statistical AI manages well the uncertainty that derives from incomplete and noisy descriptions of the domains. Both fields achieved significant successes over the last thirty years. Relational AI laid the foundation of knowledge representation and has significantly broadened the application domain of data mining especially in bio- and chemo-informatics. It now represents some of the best-known examples of scientific discovery by AI systems in the literature. Statistical AI, in particular the use of probabilistic graphical models, has revolutionized AI, too, by exploiting probabilistic independencies. The independencies specified in such models are natural, provide structure that enables efficient reasoning and learning, and allow one to model complex domains. Many AI problems arising in a wide variety of fields such as machine learning, diagnosis, network communication, computational biology, computer vision, and robotics have been elegantly encoded and solved using probabilistic graphical models. However, both fields evolved largely independently until about fifteen years ago, when the potential originating from their combination started to emerge. Statistical Relational Learning (SRL) was proposed for exploiting relational descriptions in statistical machine learning methods from the field of graphical models. Languages such as Markov Logic Networks, Relational Dependency Networks, PRISM, Probabilistic Relational Models, ProbLog allow the user to reason and learn with models that describe complex and uncertain relationships among domain entities. Meanwhile, the scope of SRL was significantly advanced in StarAI to cover all forms of reasoning and models of AI. StarAI is nowadays an ample area encompassing many and diverse approaches. One major example is given by neural-symbolic paradigms, that address the long-standing problem of combining symbolic and connectionist approaches for knowledge representation, learning and reasoning, with new impulse coming from the area of deep learning. The goal of this Research Topic in the Computational Intelligence specialty section of Frontiers in Robotics and AI is to collect articles providing a picture of the current status and trends of StarAI. We are also organizing a summer school to be held in 2018 on StarAI and we plan to invite selected authors of papers from the Research Topic to give lectures in the school. A non-exhaustive list of topics of interest for this Research Topic is: - Representation languages - Inference algorithms - Lifted inference - Learning algorithms - Complexity analyses - Tractable languages - Algorithm scaling - Theoretical frameworks - Probabilistic Programming - Optimization - Neural-symbolic paradigms - Deep neural architectures for knowledge representation and reasoning ABOUT FRONTIERS RESEARCH TOPICS Founded by scientists in 2007, Frontiers is a community-rooted open-access publisher, driving innovations in peer review, article-level metrics and research networking. The "Frontiers in" journal series hosts 54 journals covering more than 350 academic specialties, with a network of over 200,000 leading researchers worldwide. Frontiers is a registered member of the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (http://www.oaspa.org/member/Frontiers) and was recognized by the ALPSP Award for Innovation in Publishing in 2014. The idea behind a Frontiers Research Topic is to create a comprehensive collection of peer-reviewed articles that address a specific theme of research, as well as a forum for discussion and debate. Contributions can be articles describing original research, methods, hypothesis & theory, opinions, and more. Please see the relevant journal for a full list of accepted article types. Frontiers will also compile an e-book, as soon as all contributing articles are published, that can be used as educational material, be sent to foundations that fund your research, to journalists and press agencies, or to your professional network. E-books are free to read and download. Once published, your articles will be free to access for all readers, indexed in relevant repositories, and as an author in Frontiers, you retain the copyright to your own papers and figures. FRONTIERS PUBLISHING FEES Manuscripts accepted for publication are subject to publishing fees, which vary depending on the article type. Research Topic A type articles receive a discount on publishing fees; please see here for a full fee table, and further relevant FAQs: http://www.frontiersin.org/about/PublishingFees. IMPORTANT DATES 31 March 2017: abstract submission 29 September 2017: manuscript submission SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS AND GUIDE FOR AUTHORS See http://journal.frontiersin.org/researchtopic/5640/statistical-relational-artificial-intelligence -------------- nächster Teil -------------- Ein Dateianhang mit HTML-Daten wurde abgetrennt... URL: From sdmpublic2 at gmail.com Wed Jan 18 09:59:44 2017 From: sdmpublic2 at gmail.com (SDM Publicity Chairs) Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2017 09:59:44 +0100 Subject: SDM'17: Call for Doctoral Student Forum Participants and Student Travel Scholarship Applications Message-ID: SDM'17: THE SEVENTEENTH SIAM INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON DATA MINING *** Call for Doctoral Student Forum Participants and Student Travel Scholarship Applications ** April 27 - April 29, 2017 The Westin Galleria Houston Houston, Texas, USA www.siam.org/meetings/sdm17/ Important Dates ------------------------------------------------------------ Submission of Applications (for full consideration): February 6, 2017 at 11:59 PM (PDT) Notifications: February 27, 2017 FOLLOW SDM ------------------------------------------------------------ https://twitter.com/SIAMDataMining https://www.facebook.com/events/475483799321188/ -- Call for Doctoral Student Forum Participants and Student Travel Scholarship Applications -- The SDM Doctoral Forum is a unique opportunity for PhD students in data science (including data mining, machine learning, databases, and pattern recognition) to present their doctoral dissertation in poster format and get feedback from SDM participants and senior leaders in the field. The SDM doctoral forum will be held in a plenary poster session alongside posters from the main conference, allowing for an interesting cross fertilization of ideas. Past participants have benefited significantly from this plenary session. Travel funding is also exclusively set aside for SDM doctoral forum participants for both US-based and international applicants. With the generous support of SIAM, industry sponsors, and NSF (pending), the SIAM Conference on Data Mining (SDM 2017) is pleased to announce the availability of a limited number of student travel scholarships to cover the registration and travel expenses for students participating in SDM 2017 for: Student authors of papers that have been accepted for presentation in the main conference of SDM 2017 Participants of the SDM 2017 Doctoral Forum For the travel scholarships, local students who live within 30 miles of the conference venue can receive only registration expenses. 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URL: From announce at cs.ucy.ac.cy Wed Jan 18 17:38:54 2017 From: announce at cs.ucy.ac.cy (Announce Announcements) Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2017 18:38:54 +0200 Subject: 8th IEEE International Conference on Information, Intelligence, Systems and Applications (IISA 2017): Second CFP, Invited Sessions, Tutorials & Workshops Proposals Message-ID: <874ZGGDJ-NPR-YEHU-MFMC-XYL2YYHSH82T@cs.ucy.ac.cy> *** Second Call for Papers and Invited Sessions, Tutorials & Workshops Proposals *** 8th International Conference on Information, Intelligence, Systems and Applications IISA 2017 Golden Bay Beach Hotel, Larnaca, Cyprus 28 - 30 August, 2017 http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=YWZpaG0ub3JnICwJCQlldmVudEBpbi50dS1jbGF1c3RoYWwuZGUJOHRoIElFRUUgSW50ZXJuYXRpb25hbCBDb25mZXJlbmNlIG9uIEluZm9ybWF0aW9uLCBJbnRlbGxpZ2VuY2UsIFN5c3RlbXMgYW5kIEFwcGxpY2F0aW9ucyAoSUlTQSAyMDE3KTogU2Vjb25kIENGUCwgSW52aXRlZCBTZXNzaW9ucywgVHV0b3JpYWxzICYgV29ya3Nob3BzIFByb3Bvc2FscwkxMwlMaXN0cwkxOTMJY2xpY2sJeWVzCW5v&url=http%3A%2F%2Fiisa2017.unipi.gr The International Conference on Information, Intelligence, Systems and Applications (IISA) series offers a forum for the constructive interaction and prolific exchange of ideas among scientists and practitioners from different research fields such as computers, mathematics, physics, biology, medicine, chemistry, experimental psychology, social sciences, linguistics, and engineering having the goal of developing methodologies and tools for the solution of complex problems in artificial intelligence, biology, neuroscience, security, monitoring, surveillance, healthcare, sustainability in energy sources, governance, education, commerce, automation, robotics, optimization, image, speech and natural languages, and their integration. IISA 2017 is the eighth conference in the IISA series, technically co-sponsored by IEEE, BAIF, the University of Piraeus and the University of Cyprus. The IISA 2017 proceedings will be published by IEEE and be included in the IEEE DL. The conference is intended as an international forum for researchers and professionals in all areas of Information, Intelligence, Systems, and Applications. We invite submissions of papers presenting high-quality original research and developments for the conference tracks listed below. The conference venue is the Golden Bay Beach Hotel (http://www.goldenbay.com.cy) perfectly situated at the edge of the tourist part of Larnaca, right on a long and wide stretch of fine and clear sandy beach, 10 km from the town center, just 15 km from Larnaca International Airport and 30 minutes from the capital city of Nicosia. This prestigious 5* hotel is renowned for its excellent facilities, combined with impeccable service and finest cuisine in luxurious surroundings The conference will last for three days and will feature tutorials, technical paper presentations, workshops, and distinguished keynote speeches. Instructions to Authors Papers must be submitted in IEEE Conference Style format, which can be downloaded from http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=YWZpaG0ub3JnICwJCQlldmVudEBpbi50dS1jbGF1c3RoYWwuZGUJOHRoIElFRUUgSW50ZXJuYXRpb25hbCBDb25mZXJlbmNlIG9uIEluZm9ybWF0aW9uLCBJbnRlbGxpZ2VuY2UsIFN5c3RlbXMgYW5kIEFwcGxpY2F0aW9ucyAoSUlTQSAyMDE3KTogU2Vjb25kIENGUCwgSW52aXRlZCBTZXNzaW9ucywgVHV0b3JpYWxzICYgV29ya3Nob3BzIFByb3Bvc2FscwkxMwlMaXN0cwkxOTMJY2xpY2sJeWVzCW5v&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ieee.org%2Fconferences_events%2Fconferences%2Fpublishing%2Ftemplates.html . Papers must be limited to 6 pages in length. Topics of Interest We welcome all submissions in the subjects of IISA related (but not limited) to the following tracks and topics: Track I: Information Processing and Intelligence · Advances in databases · Information systems · Information and data management · Data mining, warehousing and knowledge extraction · Recommender systems · Digital rights management · Processing of Social and Emotional Interactions · Biological and artificial neural networks · Biological and artificial immune systems · Cognitive science · Neuroscience · Computational biology · DNA computing · Evolutionary computing and genetic algorithms · Bayesian networks · Expert systems & intelligent agents · Swarm intelligence · Fuzzy logic systems · Kernel methods - support vector machines · Ensemble classifiers · Emerging machine learning paradigms · Decision making techniques · Knowledge-based systems · Ambient-ubiquitous intelligence · Robotics and automation · Affective computing Track II: Multimedia Systems and Networks · Advances in audio/video and multimedia processing · Signal mining · Signal visualization · Human-machine interaction · Multimodal systems · Multimedia systems · Autonomous Computing · Distributed computing · Quantum computing · Mobile computing · Green computing · Trusted computing · Proactive computing · Cloud computing · Ubiquitous computing · Networking · Sensing, sensory systems and sensor networks · Design and implementation · Real time systems Track III: Educational Informatics · Adaptive and personalized learning · Student modeling · Intelligent tutoring systems · E-learning and mobile learning · Social media and learning · Educational games · Computer-supported collaborative learning · Big data in education and learning analytics · Affective computing in learning systems · Smart learning environments · Virtual and augmented reality in education · Risk management in education · Learning management systems · Content management systems · Learning technologies for students with special needs Track IV: Cyber Security · Watermarking, cryptography, cryptanalysis, steganography, and stegananalysis · Privacy and authentication · Malicious software analysis · Information, computer and network security · Infrastructure security · Forensics · Biometrics Track V: Smart Energy and Smart Cities · Methodologies and tools for assessing the energy status in smart cities · Intelligent sensors and data analytics for energy optimization · Monitoring and control of energy resources · Smart grid · Fault detection · Decision support systems in energy planning and scheduling · Middleware for urban computing · Intelligent transportation systems · Public displays for modern cities · Impact of urban computing in modern cities · Case studies and best practices · Big city data · Culture for smart cities Track VI: Healthcare · E-health, mobile health and smart health · Infrastucture for smart health · Advanced devices and robotics for smart health · Ambient intelligence in assisted living · Health information systems · Healthcare management · Case studies Track VII: Applications · E-government and m-government · E-commerce and m-commerce · E-entertainment and m-entertainment · E-legal and m-legal services · Personalized systems and services · Enabling technologies, frameworks and standards · Empirical evaluations · Simulation and evaluation via simulation · Case studies · Applications in culture and heritage · Applications in tourism · Applications in natural resource management · Applications in disabilities and to people at need Important Dates · Invited Session, Tutorial & Workshop Proposals: March 13, 2017 · Invited Session, Tutorial & Workshop Acceptance: March 20, 2017 · Submission of Papers: April 24, 2017 · Notification of Acceptance: May 29, 2017 · Camera-ready Submission: June 12, 2017 · Registration and Payment for Authors: June 12, 2017 · Conference Dates: August 28-30, 2017 Organization Program Chairs · N. Bourbakis, Wright State University, USA · G. A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus · G. A. Tsihrintzis, University of Piraeus, Greece · N. Virvou, University of Piraeus, Greece Program Committee http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=YWZpaG0ub3JnICwJCQlldmVudEBpbi50dS1jbGF1c3RoYWwuZGUJOHRoIElFRUUgSW50ZXJuYXRpb25hbCBDb25mZXJlbmNlIG9uIEluZm9ybWF0aW9uLCBJbnRlbGxpZ2VuY2UsIFN5c3RlbXMgYW5kIEFwcGxpY2F0aW9ucyAoSUlTQSAyMDE3KTogU2Vjb25kIENGUCwgSW52aXRlZCBTZXNzaW9ucywgVHV0b3JpYWxzICYgV29ya3Nob3BzIFByb3Bvc2FscwkxMwlMaXN0cwkxOTMJY2xpY2sJeWVzCW5v&url=http%3A%2F%2Fiisa2017.unipi.gr/committees/ -------------- nächster Teil -------------- Ein Dateianhang mit HTML-Daten wurde abgetrennt... URL: From geoff at cs.miami.edu Wed Jan 18 18:16:06 2017 From: geoff at cs.miami.edu (Geoff Sutcliffe) Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2017 12:16:06 -0500 (EST) Subject: DL 2017, Call for Papers Message-ID: <20170118171606.C5FFC1214EC@mcclellan.cs.miami.edu> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS 30th International Workshop on Description Logics, DL 2017 July 18th to July 21st, 2017 - Montpellier, France http://dl.kr.org/dl2017/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Papers ==================== DL 2017: the 30th International Workshop on Description Logics The DL workshop is the major annual event of the description logic research community. It is the forum at which those interested in description logics, both from academia and industry, meet to discuss ideas, share information and compare experiences. The workshop will be held in Montpellier, France from July 18th to July 21st, 2017. Important Dates (Firm Deadlines) ============ Paper registration deadline: April 28, 2017 Paper submission deadline: May 8, 2017 Notification of acceptance: June 12, 2017 Camera-ready copies: July 3, 2017 Workshop: July 18-21, 2017 Since we want the DL submission deadlines to be after the IJCAI notification date, the schedule is tight and NO DEADLINE EXTENSIONS will be possible. Invited Speakers ============= * Markus Krötzsch, Technical University of Dresden * Andreas Pieris, University of Edinburgh * Uli Sattler, University of Manchester Workshop Scope ============= We invite contributions on all aspects of description logics, including but not limited to: * Foundations of description logics: decidability and complexity of reasoning, expressive power, novel inference problems, inconsistency management, reasoning techniques, and modularity aspects * Extensions of description logics: closed-world and nonmonotonic reasoning, epistemic reasoning, temporal and spatial reasoning, procedural knowledge, query answering, reasoning over dynamic information * Integration of description logics with other formalisms: object-oriented representation languages, database query languages, constraint-based programming, logic programming, and rule-based systems * Applications and use areas of description logics: ontology engineering, ontology languages, databases, ontology-based data access, semi-structured data, graph structured data, linked data, document management, natural language, learning, planning, Semantic Web, cloud computing, conceptual modelling, web services, business processes * Systems and tools around description logics: reasoners, software tools for and using description logic reasoning (e.g. ontology editors, database schema design, query optimisation, and data integration tools), implementation and optimisation techniques, benchmarking, evaluation, modelling Submissions ========== * Submissions may be of two types: (1) Papers accepted at some conference can be submitted as accepted elsewhere together with a 1-page abstract that also specifies where the paper has been accepted. (2) Other submissions consist of 11 pages LNCS plus references. There is no page limit on the list of references. If the paper should not appear in the proceedings, an additional 1-page abstract has to be submitted. * For submissions with an additional 1-page abstract, only the abstract is published in the proceedings. The abstracts might not be indexed in dblp. This option is designed for authors who wish to announce results that have been published elsewhere, or which the authors intend to submit or have already submitted to a venue with an incompatible prior / concurrent publication policy. * All submissions may optionally include a clearly marked appendix (e.g., with additional proofs or evaluation data). The appendix will be read at the discretion of the reviewers and not included in the proceedings. The appendix does not need to be in LNCS format. * Submission page: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dl2017 * Accepted papers and 1-page abstracts will be made available electronically in the CEUR Workshop Proceedings series (http://www.CEUR-ws.org/). * Accepted submissions, be they full papers or 1-page abstracts, will be selected for either oral or poster presentation at the workshop. Submissions will be judged solely based upon their content, and the type of submission will have no bearing on the decision between oral and poster presentation. Organisation ========== * Alessandro Artale, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano (Programme co-Chair) * Birte Glimm, University of Ulm (Programme co-Chair) * Meghyn Bienvenu, University of Montpellier (Workshop co-Chair) * Marie-Laure Mugnier, University of Montpellier (Workshop co-Chair) Resources ======== * Information about submission, registration, travel information, etc., is available on the DL 2017 homepage: http://dl.kr.org/dl2017/ * The official description logic homepage is at http://dl.kr.org/ From geoff at cs.miami.edu Wed Jan 18 23:04:22 2017 From: geoff at cs.miami.edu (Geoff Sutcliffe) Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2017 17:04:22 -0500 (EST) Subject: FMCAD 2017 - Call for Papers Message-ID: <20170118220422.DECBC12143E@mcclellan.cs.miami.edu> CALL FOR PAPERS International Conference on Formal Methods in Computer-Aided Design (FMCAD) Vienna, Austria, October 2-6, 2017 http://www.fmcad.org/FMCAD17 IMPORTANT DATES Abstract Submission: May 01, 2017 Paper Submission: May 08, 2017 Author Response Period: June 19-23, 2017 Author Notification: July 14, 2017 Camera-Ready Version: Aug 09, 2017 All deadlines are 11:59 pm AoE (Anywhere on Earth) FMCAD Tutorial Day: October 2, 2017 FMCAD Regular Program: October 3-6, 2017 Part of the FMCAD 2017 program: - Symposium in memoriam of Helmut Veith - FMCAD Student Forum CONFERENCE SCOPE AND PUBLICATION FMCAD 2017 is the seventeenth in a series of conferences on the theory and applications of formal methods in hardware and system verification. FMCAD provides a leading forum to researchers in academia and industry for presenting and discussing groundbreaking methods, technologies, theoretical results, and tools for reasoning formally about computing systems. FMCAD covers formal aspects of computer-aided system design including verification, specification, synthesis, and testing. FMCAD employs a rigorous peer-review process. Accepted papers are distributed through both ACM and IEEE digital libraries. In addition, published articles are made available freely on the conference page; the authors retain the copyright. There are no publication fees. At least one of the authors is required to register for the conference and present the accepted paper. A small number of outstanding FMCAD submissions will be considered for inclusion in a Special Issue of the journal on Formal Methods in System Design (FMSD). TOPICS OF INTEREST FMCAD welcomes submission of papers reporting original research on advances in all aspects of formal methods and their applications to computer- aided design. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): -- Model checking, theorem proving, equivalence checking, abstraction and reduction, compositional methods, decision procedures at the bit- and word-level, probabilistic methods, combinations of deductive methods and decision procedures. -- Synthesis and compilation for computer system descriptions, modeling, specification, and implementation languages, formal semantics of languages and their subsets, model-based design, design derivation and transformation, correct-by-construction methods. -- Application of formal and semi-formal methods to functional and non-functional specification and validation of hardware and software, including timing and power modeling, verification of computing systems on all levels of abstraction, system-level design and verification for embedded systems, cyber-physical systems, automotive systems and other safety-critical systems, hardware-software co-design and verification, and transaction-level verification. -- Experience with the application of formal and semi-formal methods to industrial-scale designs; tools that represent formal verification enablement, new features, or a substantial improvement in the automation of formal methods. -- Application of formal methods to verifying safety, correctness, connectivity, and security properties of networks and distributed systems. SUBMISSIONS Submissions must be made electronically in PDF format via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fmcad17 Two categories of papers are invited: Regular papers, and Tool & Case Study papers. Regular papers are expected to offer novel foundational ideas, theoretical results, or algorithmic improvements to existing methods, along with experimental impact validation where applicable. Tool & Case Study papers are expected to report on the design, implementation or use of verification (or related) technology in a practically relevant context (which need not be industrial), and its impact on design processes. Both Regular and Tool & Case study papers must use the IEEE Transactions format on letter-size paper with a 10-point font size. Regular papers can be up to 8 pages in length and tool papers up to 4 pages, although there is no requirement to fill all pages in either category. Authors will be required to select the appropriate paper category at abstract submission time. Submissions may contain an optional appendix, which will not appear in the final version of the paper. The reviewers should be able to assess the quality and the relevance of the results in the paper without reading the appendix. Submissions in both categories must contain original research that has not been previously published, nor is concurrently submitted for publication. Any partial overlap with published or concurrently submitted papers must be clearly indicated. If experimental results are reported, authors are strongly encouraged to provide the reviewers access to their data at submission time, so that results can be independently verified. FMCAD 2017 COMMITTEES PROGRAM CHAIRS: Daryl Stewart, ARM Georg Weissenbacher, TU Wien STUDENT FORUM CHAIR: Keijo Heljanko, Aalto University LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS CHAIR & WEBMASTER: Jens Katelaan, TU Wien PUBLICATION CHAIR: Mitra Tabaei Befrouei, TU Wien PROGRAM COMMITTEE Jade Alglave University College London and Microsoft Research Christel Baier Technical University of Dresden Roderick Bloem Graz University of Technology Hana Chockler King's College London Andreas Griesmayer ARM Arie Gurfinkel University of Waterloo Ziyad Hanna Cadence Design Systems Fei He Tsinghua University Alan J. Hu University of British Columbia Warren A. Hunt Jr. University of Texas Alexander Ivrii IBM Barbara Jobstmann EPFL and Cadence Design Systems Dejan Jovanovic SRI International Gerwin Klein Data61 and UNSW Australia Igor Konnov TU Wien Rebekah Leslie-Hurd Intel Ines Lynce INESC-ID/IST, Universidade de Lisboa Ken McMillan Microsoft Research Charles Morisset Newcastle University Lee Pike Galois Inc. Mitra Purandare IBM Ajitha Rajan University of Edinburgh Ahmed Rezine Linköping University Sean Safarpour Synopsys Roopsha Samanta Purdue University Martina Seidl Johannes Kepler University Linz Natasha Sharygina USI Lugano Anna Slobodova Centaur Technology Ana Sokolova University of Salzburg Daryl Stewart ARM Murali Talupur FormalSim Michael Tautschnig Queen Mary University of London Thomas Wahl Northeastern University Chao Wang University of Southern California Georg Weissenbacher TU Wien Florian Zuleger TU Wien FMCAD STEERING COMMITTEE Armin Biere, Johannes Kepler University in Linz, Austria Alan Hu, University of British Columbia, Canada Warren A. Hunt Jr., University of Texas at Austin, USA Vigyan Singhal, Oski Tech From tommaso.dinoia at poliba.it Thu Jan 19 11:44:22 2017 From: tommaso.dinoia at poliba.it (Tommaso Di Noia) Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2017 11:44:22 +0100 Subject: [CFP] ICWE 2017-Call for Application Papers Message-ID: <0e998748-906d-4d3e-9a24-8ae74ba03e0d@sisinf07.poliba.it> CALL FOR APPLICATION PAPERS @ ICWE2017 17th International Conference on Web Engineering ------------------------------------------------ 5-8 June 2017, Rome, Italy http://icwe2017.webengineering.org/ CALL FOR APPLICATION PAPERS The Applications Track @ ICWE 2017 covers innovative commercial Web systems, industrial solutions, and implementations, novel applications of Web technologies, and experience in applying recent research advances to real-world problems. During the last decade, the Web has served as a fundamental driver for industrial research, and many small to large companies are contributing to the development of new Web-based scientific and engineered solutions. The Applications Track at ICWE 2016 provides a forum for the community to explore the benefits and challenges of applying cutting edge Web technologies in concrete, practical applications, in contexts ranging from industry to government and science. We are also looking for descriptions of applied and validated industry solutions that benefit from the most recent Web technologies and tools. We invite submissions in any of the following example areas and in other areas where Web applications play an important role: Mashups Web of Things/Everythings Web Mining and Analytics Artificial Intelligence and the Web Linked Data applications and solutions Semantics-aware Web Personalized information access/ Recommender Systems/ Search Application Areas (Government, Finance, Telecommunications, Home and Personal Computing, ...) Web Security, Privacy Big Data and the Web Cloud Data Services Enterprise Data Management Web-centric Applications for Smart Phones Systems that Exploit New Hardware Trends Web Data Management, Social Network Applications We invite authors to submit high quality contributions describing significant, original, and unpublished description of applications. Papers submitted to the Applications Track @ ICWE 2017 should describe mature and innovative applications. The paper must describe the overall application with a particular focus on its innovative aspects in terms of both technologies and solutions adopted. Applications should be available online. Where a submission builds upon previous work of the author(s), the novelty of the new contribution must be clearly described with respect to the previous work. Max 12 pages. Important Dates --------------------- Submission: 10 March 2017 Notification: 31 March 2017 Camera-ready version: 7 April 2017 Submission Information --------------------------------- All Proposals must be formatted according to the information for Springer LNCS authors at http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html and submitted in PDF. ICWE 2017 submissions are reviewed following a single blind review process, meaning, you do not need to hide authors’ names and affiliations. Accepted contributions will be included into the official ICWE 2017 Springer LNCS proceedings. Submissions that are not in compliance with the required submission format or that are out of the scope of the conference will be desk rejected without reviewing. Submissions and reviewing are supported by the EasyChair system in the multi-track configuration at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icwe2017. Papers submitted to ICWE 2017 must not be under review elsewhere while under consideration for ICWE 2017, nor may have been already previously published elsewhere. ICWE 2017 AWARDS AND SPECIAL ISSUE ----------------------------------------------------------- Awards will be given to the top-10% papers (along all categories) according to the program committee review feedback. Selected papers may be invited to submit their extended version of their papers to a special issue on "Web Engineering and Big Data" in the Elsevier Information Systems Journal Organization ----------------- Application Track Chair Tommaso Di Noia, Polytechnic University of Bari, Italy Contact ------------ http://icwe2017.webengineering.org/ icwe2017 at easychair.org -------------- nächster Teil -------------- Ein Dateianhang mit HTML-Daten wurde abgetrennt... URL: From geoff at cs.miami.edu Thu Jan 19 15:14:46 2017 From: geoff at cs.miami.edu (Geoff Sutcliffe) Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2017 09:14:46 -0500 (EST) Subject: JAR Special Issue on Automated Reasoning Systems Message-ID: <20170119141446.8DEF0121481@mcclellan.cs.miami.edu> =============================================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS Journal of Automated Reasoning Special Issue On Automated Reasoning Systems The past few decades have seen major developments and practical achievements in automated reasoning systems. For example, SAT solving has become an inherent part of the standard hardware production process; SMT solvers are now the backbone of most software verification techniques; first-order theorem provers have pushed the productivity of interactive theorem proving to a new level; computer algebra systems have solved difficult problems in mathematics and biology; knowledge representation systems have become indispensable for reasoning in the world wide web; automatic termination checkers routinely prove the termination of complex programs. This special issue is dedicated to automated reasoning systems in their full variety along the following dimensions: 1) considered logic: propositional (including (D)QBF), first-order modulo theories, modal, temporal, decidable fragments of larger logics, FOL, and HOL, ...; 2) considered problem: satisfiability, interpolation, quantifier elimination, consequence finding, model building, reachability, termination, ...; 3) application area: formal methods, artificial intelligence, mathematics, biology, product development, security, ...; 4) user base: academic, educational, or industrial. In particular, we welcome papers emphasizing engineering aspects because, while often crucial for the success of automated reasoning tools, they are typically not given a sufficiently detailed treatment in theory papers or system description papers published at conferences or workshops. We welcome full-length papers describing past work not previously published in a journal as well as papers of any length describing new developments. Revised and enhanced versions of papers published in conference proceedings that have not appeared in archival journals are also eligible for submission. All submissions will be reviewed according to the usual standards of scholarship and originality. We encourage submissions that include most, if not all, of the following: (i) theory details (ii) implementation details (iii) applications, and (iv) experiments. Papers should be in PDF format, following the JAR guidelines for authors, http://www.springer.com/computer/theoretical+computer+science/journal/10817 and be submitted using EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=jars2017 To encourage a speedy review cycle, we will expect authors of submissions to serve as referees for other submissions as needed. Important Dates 3 Apr 2017 Submission deadline 1 Nov 2017 Notification of acceptance/rejection 1 Mar 2018 Final version For more information, please see https://www.mpi-inf.mpg.de/JARS17/ Guest Editors Armin Biere, Johannes Kepler University, Linz, Austria Cesare Tinelli, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, USA Christoph Weidenbach, Max Planck Institute for Informatics, Saarbruecken, Germany From announce at cs.ucy.ac.cy Thu Jan 19 15:37:57 2017 From: announce at cs.ucy.ac.cy (Announce Announcements) Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2017 16:37:57 +0200 Subject: 21st European Conference on Advances in Databases and Information Systems (ADBIS 2017): Fourth Call for Papers Message-ID: *** Fourth Call for Papers *** 21st European Conference on Advances in Databases and Information Systems ADBIS 2017 Hilton Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus 24 - 27 September, 2017 http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=YWZpaG0ub3JnICwJCQlldmVudEBpbi50dS1jbGF1c3RoYWwuZGUJMjFzdCBFdXJvcGVhbiBDb25mZXJlbmNlIG9uIEFkdmFuY2VzIGluIERhdGFiYXNlcyBhbmQgSW5mb3JtYXRpb24gU3lzdGVtcyAoQURCSVMgMjAxNyk6IEZvdXJ0aCBDYWxsIGZvciBQYXBlcnMJMTUJTGlzdHMJMTkyCWNsaWNrCXllcwlubw==&url=http%3A%2F%2Fcyprusconferences.org%2Fadbis2017%2F The main objective of the ADBIS series of conferences is to provide a forum for the dissemination of research accomplishments and to promote interaction and collaboration between the database and information system research communities from European countries and the rest of the world. The ADBIS conferences provide an international platform for the presentation of research on database theory, development of advanced DBMS technologies, and their advanced applications. The conference will consist of regular sessions with technical contributions (regular papers, short papers) reviewed and selected by an international program committee, as well as of invited talks and tutorials presented by leading scientists. The official language of the conference will be English. A Doctoral Consortium and different Workshops will be held in line with the main conference. TOPICS We invite original papers describing results that broadly belong to both theory and practice of databases and information systems. The list of specific topics of interest follows, with a note that it is not exhaustive and we welcome novel results addressing topics not included in the list. · Data intensive sciences and databases · Theoretical foundations of databases · Management of large scale data systems · Data models and query languages · Database monitoring and (self-)tuning · Data curation, annotation, and provenance · Data warehousing, OLAP, and ETL tools · Indexing, query processing and optimization · Data mining and knowledge discovery · Big data storage, replication, and consistency · Modeling, mining and querying user generated content · Data quality and data cleansing · Web, XML and semi-structured databases · Sensor databases and mobile data management · Text databases and information retrieval · Probabilistic databases, uncertainty and approximate querying · Temporal and spatial databases · Graph databases · Databases on emerging hardware architectures · Distributed data platforms, including Cloud data systems, key-value stores, and Big Data systems · Information extraction and integration · Streaming data analysis · Scalable data analysis and analytics · Data and information visualization; and user interfaces · Information quality and usability · Information system architectures and networking · Business process modeling and optimization · Data and information flow engineering and management · Context-aware and adaptive information systems · Data and information intensive services · Requirements engineering for databases and information systems · Artificial intelligence in databases and information systems · Data, information, and information systems security · Innovative platforms for data and information handling · Innovative approaches for database and information systems engineering · Novel database and information systems applications PAPER PUBLISHING ADBIS accepted research papers will be published in a Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science volume. Papers must not exceed 14 pages in the LNCS format. For camera-ready papers use Latex or Word style (find here http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=YWZpaG0ub3JnICwJCQlldmVudEBpbi50dS1jbGF1c3RoYWwuZGUJMjFzdCBFdXJvcGVhbiBDb25mZXJlbmNlIG9uIEFkdmFuY2VzIGluIERhdGFiYXNlcyBhbmQgSW5mb3JtYXRpb24gU3lzdGVtcyAoQURCSVMgMjAxNyk6IEZvdXJ0aCBDYWxsIGZvciBQYXBlcnMJMTUJTGlzdHMJMTkyCWNsaWNrCXllcwlubw==&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.springer.com%2Fcomputer%2Flncs%3FSGWID%3D0-164-2-793332-0%26changeHeader%29 . The program committee may decide to accept a submission as a short paper if it reports interesting results but does not justify publication of a full paper. ADBIS short research papers must not exceed 8 pages. The best paper authored solely by students will receive an award. Best papers of the main conference will be invited for submission in special issues of the ISI-indexed journals Information Systems (http://www.journals.elsevier.com/information-systems/) and Informatica (http://www.informatica.si/). SUBMISSION GUIDELINES · Papers must be written in English. · Papers must contain previously unpublished work and not be submitted concurrently to another conference. · Papers are submitted using an electronic submissions system, as detailed below. · An Author of an accepted paper must register to ADBIS 2017 in order to have the paper published. · Accepted papers must be presented at the conference by one of the authors. · ADBIS papers must be submitted via the EasyChair system: http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=YWZpaG0ub3JnICwJCQlldmVudEBpbi50dS1jbGF1c3RoYWwuZGUJMjFzdCBFdXJvcGVhbiBDb25mZXJlbmNlIG9uIEFkdmFuY2VzIGluIERhdGFiYXNlcyBhbmQgSW5mb3JtYXRpb24gU3lzdGVtcyAoQURCSVMgMjAxNyk6IEZvdXJ0aCBDYWxsIGZvciBQYXBlcnMJMTUJTGlzdHMJMTkyCWNsaWNrCXllcwlubw==&url=https%3A%2F%2Feasychair.org%2Fconferences%2F%3Fconf%3Dadbis2017 . · Papers must be submitted as a single PDF document · Authors of accepted papers must submit along with the camera-ready version of their paper a copyright form filled (http://www.cyprusconferences.org/adbis2017/files/springerform.pdf) and signed. Please note that only authors employed by the EU (as an institution) tick the relevant box. Authors who simply reside or work in an EU country should not tick this box. IMPORTANT DATES · Full and Short Papers: March 30, 2017 · Notification of Acceptance: May 25, 2017 · Camera-ready Submission: June 15, 2017 COMMITTEES Steering Committee Chair · Leonid Kalinichenko, Russian Academy of Science, Russia General Chair · George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Program Chairs · Marite Kirikova, Riga Technical University, Latvia · Kjetil Norvag, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway Proceedings Chair · Christos Mettouris, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Workshops Chairs · Johann Gamper, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy · Robert Wrembel, Poznan University of Technology, Poland Doctoral Consortium Chairs · Jerome Darmont, Universite Lyon 2, France · Stefano Rizzi, University of Bologna, Italy -------------- nächster Teil -------------- Ein Dateianhang mit HTML-Daten wurde abgetrennt... URL: From dilian at csc.kth.se Thu Jan 19 16:52:30 2017 From: dilian at csc.kth.se (Dilian Gurov) Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2017 16:52:30 +0100 Subject: CSL 2017: Second Call For Papers In-Reply-To: <974c32cb-5138-00d9-143b-6be1c34259f8@csc.kth.se> References: <974c32cb-5138-00d9-143b-6be1c34259f8@csc.kth.se> Message-ID: <93229eb5-8fe2-5348-3000-d2a33ac36a23@csc.kth.se> ================================================================= SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS 26th EACSL Annual Conference on Computer Science Logic (CSL 2017) August 20-24, 2017, Stockholm, Sweden https://www.csl17.conf.kth.se ================================================================= AIM AND SCOPE Computer Science Logic (CSL) is the annual conference of the European Association for Computer Science Logic (EACSL). It is an interdisciplinary conference, spanning across both basic and application oriented research in mathematical logic and computer science and is intended for computer scientists whose research involves logic, as well as for logicians working on issues essential for computer science. CSL 2017 is the 26th EACSL annual conference. It will be co-organised by Stockholm University and KTH Royal Institute of Technology, and hosted by Stockholm University. CSL 2017 will be co-located with, and immediately preceded by, the Logic Colloquium 2017 (LC 2017). There will be a joint session of CSL 2017 and LC 2017 in the morning of August 20, as well as CSL-affiliated workshops during August 25-26. IMPORTANT DATES: --------------------------------------------------------------- Abstract submission for contributed papers: March 24, 2017 Paper submission: March 31, 2017 Notification: May 31, 2017 Abstract submission for short presentations: June 4, 2017 Notification on short presentations: June 14, 2017 --------------------------------------------------------------- TOPICS OF INTEREST for CSL 2017 include (but are not limited to): ----------------------------------------------------------------- • automata and games, game semantics • automated deduction and interactive theorem proving • bounded arithmetic and propositional proof complexity • categorical logic and topological semantics • computational proof theory • constructive mathematics and type theory • decision procedures • domain theory • equational logic and rewriting • finite model theory • higher-order logic • lambda calculus and combinatory logic • linear logic and other substructural logics • logic programming and constraints • logical aspects of computational complexity • logical aspects of quantum computing • logic in database theory • logical foundations of programming paradigms • logical foundations of cryptography and information hiding • logics for multi-agent systems • modal and temporal logic • model checking and logic-based verification • nonmonotonic reasoning • SAT solving and automated induction • satisfiability modulo theories • specification, extraction and transformation of programs • verification and program analysis ----------------------------------------------------------------- INVITED SPEAKERS ----------------------------------------------------------------- LC-CSL joint session highlight speakers: • Phokion Kolaitis, University of California Santa Cruz and IBM Research - Almaden • Wolfgang Thomas, RWTH Aachen CSL plenary speakers: • Laura Kovács, Vienna University of Technology • Stephan Kreutzer, Technische Universität Berlin • Meena Mahajan, Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai • Margus Veanes, Microsoft Research ----------------------------------------------------------------- SPECIAL AND AFFILIATED EVENTS ----------------------------- In addition to the plenary and contributed talks CSL 2017, the conference will also include the following events: • Joint session of CSL 2017 and LC 2017 in the morning of August 20, consisting of four plenary highlight talks, offered by speakers from both conferences. • Presentation of the Alonzo Church award for Outstanding Contributions to Logic and Computation, • Presentation of the EACSL Ackermann award for Outstanding Dissertation on Logic in Computer Science, • CSL-affiliated workshops, to be held as co-located events on August 25 and (possibly) 26, including: • Workshop on Logical Aspects of Multi-Agent Systems LAMAS 2017 (August 25) • Workshop on Logic and Automata Theory (in memory of Zoltan Ezik) (August 25) • Workshop on Logic and Algorithms in Computational Linguistics LACompLing 2017 (August 26) SUBMISSIONS ----------- The CSL 2017 conference proceedings will be published in Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs). Authors are invited to submit contributed papers of no more than 15 pages in LIPIcs style (including references), presenting not previously published work, fitting the scope of the conference. The submission of contributed papers will be in two stages: * abstracts, due by March 24, 2017 (AoE); * full papers, due by March 31, 2017 (AoE). The submissions must be done via the EasyChair page for the conference: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=CSL 2017. Submitted papers must be in English and must provide sufficient detail to allow the Programme Committee to assess the merits of the paper. Full proofs may appear in a clearly marked technical appendix which will be read at the reviewers' discretion. Authors are strongly encouraged to include a well written introduction which is directed at all members of the PC. Papers may not be submitted concurrently to another conference with refereed proceedings. The PC chairs should be informed of closely related work submitted to a conference or a journal. Papers authored or co-authored by members of the PC are not allowed. In addition, there will be an opportunity for short oral presentations at the conference. Abstracts for such oral presentations must be submitted through the Easychair submission webpage, under the category ``short presentations'', by June 4, 2017. They will not be included in the proceedings. PROGRAMME COMMITTEE ------------------- • Parosh Aziz Abdulla (University of Uppsala), • Lars Birkedal (University of Aarhus), • Nikolaj Bjorner (Microsoft Research), • Maria Paola Bonacina (Università degli Studi di Verona), • Patricia Bouyer-Decitre (LSV, ENS Cachan), • Agata Ciabattoni (University of Viena), • Thierry Coquand (University of Gothenburg), • Mads Dam (KTH, Stockholm), PC co-chair • Ugo Dal Lago (University of Bologna), • Anuj Dawar (Cambridge University), • Valentin Goranko (Stockholm University), PC co-chair • Maribel Fernandez (King's College London), • Martin Grohe (RWTH Aachen), • Lauri Hella (University of Tampere), • Joost-Pieter Katoen (RWTH Aachen), • Orna Kupferman (University of Jerusalem), • Leonid Libkin (University of Edinburgh), • Angelo Montanari (University of Udine), • Catuscia Palamidessi (Paris, INRIA), • Frank Pfenning (Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh) • Ram Ramanujam (Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai), • Jean-Francois Raskin (University of Bruxelles), • Thomas Schwentick (TU Dortmund University), • Viorica Sofronie-Stokkermans (University of Koblenz-Landau), • Thomas Streicher (University of Darmstadt), • Jean-Marc Talbot (University of Aix-Marseille), • Luca Viganò (King's College London), • Ron van der Meyden (UNSW Australia), • Lijun Zhang (Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing). ORGANISING COMMITTEE -------------------- • Mads Dam (OC co-chair), Department of Theoretical Computer Science, KTH • Valentin Goranko (OC co-chair), Department of Philosophy, Stockholm University • Dilian Gurov (Workshops chair), Department of Theoretical Computer Science, KTH • Roussanka Loukanova, Department of Mathematics, Stockholm University • Peter LeFanu Lumsdaine, Department of Mathematics, Stockholm University • Anders Lundstedt, Department of Philosophy, Stockholm University • Erik Palmgren (OC co-chair), Department of Mathematics, Stockholm University • Henning Strandin, Department of Philosophy, Stockholm University CONTACTS AND ENQUIRIES ---------------------- With enquiries on organising matters, send email to: CSL 2017philosophy.su.se With enquiries on scientific and programme issues, send email to: CSL 2017pcgmail.com From info at ecmlpkdd2017.org Thu Jan 19 17:10:52 2017 From: info at ecmlpkdd2017.org (ECML-PKDD 2017) Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2017 17:10:52 +0100 Subject: ECML-PKDD 2017 - CALL FOR PAPERS - [Conference Research Track] Message-ID: ############################################################ European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECML-PKDD) Skopje, Macedonia, September 18-22, 2017 (http://www.ecmlpkdd2017.org). ############################################################ Submissions are solicited for the 2017 edition of the European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECML-PKDD 2017). The conference provides an international forum for the discussion of the latest high-quality research results in all areas related to machine learning and knowledge discovery in databases and other innovative application domains. The 2017 conference will take place in Skopje, Macedonia, 18‐22 September 2017. Submissions are invited on all aspects of machine learning, knowledge discovery and data mining, including real-world applications. Following the tradition of ECML-PKDD, we expect high-quality papers in terms of their scientific contribution, rigor, correctness, quality of presentation and reproducibility of experiments. Submission process Electronic submissions will be handled via CMT at the following address: https://cmt.research.microsoft.com/ECMLPKDD2017/. Please note that user accounts in each CMT conference are independent of other conferences, so you will need to create a new account. Abstracts need to be registered by Thursday April 13, 2017 and full submissions will be accepted until Thursday April 20, 2017. Papers must be written in English and formatted according to the Springer LNAI guidelines. Author instructions, style files and copyright form can be downloaded at: http://www.springer.de/comp/ lncs/authors.html. The maximum length of papers is 16 pages in this format. Overlength 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 overlength). Up to 10 MB of additional materials (e.g. proofs, audio, images, video, data or source code) can be attached to the submission. Note that the reviewers and the program committee reserve the right to judge the paper solely on the basis of the 16 pages of the paper; looking at any additional material is up to the discretion of the reviewers and is not required. Reviewing process The review process is single-blind (authors identities known to reviewers). Submissions will be evaluated on the basis of technical quality, novelty, potential impact, and clarity. Authors will have the opportunity to point out factual errors, obvious mistakes, or misconceptions by reviewers during a rebuttal phase following the release of initial reviews. Dual submissions policy Papers submitted should report original work. ECML-PKDD 2017 will not accept any paper that, 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. The dual submissions policy applies during the whole ECML-PKDD 2017 reviewing period from April 20 to June 22, 2017. Reproducible research papers Authors are encouraged to adhere to the best practices of Reproducible Research (RR), by making available data and software tools for reproducing the results reported in their papers. Authors may flag their submissions as RR and make software and data accessible to reviewers and to the program committee who will verify the accessibility of software and data. Links to data and code will then be inserted in the final version of RR papers. For the sake of persistence and proper authorship attribution, we require the use of standard repository hosting services such as Dataverse, mldata.org, OpenML, etc. for data sets, and mloss.org, Bitbucket, GitHub, etc. for source code. If data or code gets updated after the paper is published, it is important to enable researchers to access the versions that were used to produce the results reported in the paper. Proceedings The conference proceedings will be published by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence series (LNAI). In addition to normal conference submissions, papers can be submitted to other tracks: Industrial, Governmental and NGO; Demo; Ph.D.; Nectar; journal track. Accepted papers in all the tracks, including journal track, will be presented at the conference. For information about other tracks, please see the separate call for papers. Important dates Abstract submission deadline: *Thursday April 13, 2017* Paper submission deadline: *Thursday April 20, 2017* Author notification: *Thursday June 22, 2017* Camera ready submission: *Thursday July 6, 2017* Contact For any additional questions you can contact the Program Chairs (Michelangelo Ceci, Jaakko Hollmén, Ljupčo Todorovski, Celine Vens) at *pc_chairs at ecmlpkdd2017.org * -- Nikola Simidjievski & Dragi Kocev Publicity Chairs of ECML-PKDD 2017 -------------- nächster Teil -------------- Ein Dateianhang mit HTML-Daten wurde abgetrennt... URL: From elena.troubitsyna at abo.fi Thu Jan 19 17:15:21 2017 From: elena.troubitsyna at abo.fi (Elena Troubitsyna) Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2017 18:15:21 +0200 Subject: Special Issue on Software Reliability: Elsevier Journal of Systems and Software Message-ID: <20170119181521.4aleprb82w48wc8w@webmail1.abo.fi> Elsevier Journal of Systems and Software: Special Issue on Software Reliability Call for Papers Description The special issue focuses on advanced methods and tools for enhancing, assessing and predicting the reliability, safety, and security of software products. We invite the original previously unpublished papers presenting the novel work in these areas. In particular, we welcome extended versions of papers presented at the 27th Annual International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE 2016). List of Topics Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: • Reliability, availability and safety of software systems • Verification and validation • Advanced methods for error detection, fault tolerance and debugging • Software quality, metrics and measurements, estimation and prediction of quality/reliability • Software security • Dependability, survivability and resilience of software systems • Systems (hardware + software) reliability engineering • Productivity evaluation and improvement • Services reliability engineering • Open source software reliability engineering • Supporting tools and automation • Industry best practices • Software as a Service • Virtualization and software reliability • Reliability of mobile devices and applications • Green and Sustainable Software Engineering • Reliability engineering for Big Data • Dependability aspects of Internet of Things • Empirical studies of any of the above topics • Software Standards Important dates Full paper submission deadline: March 25, 2017 Publication: January, 2018 Submission information All submitted papers should follow the guidelines for publishing in the Journal of Systems and Software and be prepared according to the Guide for Authors http://ees.elsevier.com/jss. When submitting papers via the on-line submission system, the authors should choose an article type from the pull-down menu. Please select SI: SWR that indicates that you are submitting to the special issue. Submitted papers must be original, must not have been previously published or be under consideration for publication elsewhere. In case a paper has been already presented at a conference, it should be extended by at least 30% of the new technical contribution to merit the submission to this special issue. Editor in Chief H. van Vliet Special Issues Editor W.K. Chan Guest editors Alexander Romanovsky, Newcastle University, UK Elena Troubitsyna, Aabo Akademi, Finland Expert Panel Andrea Bondavalli, University of Florence Bojan Cukic, University of North Carolina at Charlotte Michel Cukier, University of Mariland Tadashi Dohi, Hiroshima University Katerina Goseva-Popstojanova, West Virginia University Sudipto Ghosh, Colorado State University John Knight, University of Viginia Henrique Madeira, University of Coimbra Veena Mendiratta, Bell Labs, Nokia Karthik Pattabiraman, University of British Columbia Peter Popov, City University London Helene Waeselynck, LAAS/CNRS From info at ecmlpkdd2017.org Thu Jan 19 17:15:04 2017 From: info at ecmlpkdd2017.org (ECML-PKDD 2017) Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2017 17:15:04 +0100 Subject: ECML-PKDD 2017 - CALL FOR PAPERS - [Nectar Track] Message-ID: ############################################################ European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECML-PKDD) Skopje, Macedonia, September 18-22, 2017 (http://www.ecmlpkdd2017.org). ############################################################ The European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECMLPKDD) provides an international forum for the discussion of the latest high-quality research results in all areas related to machine learning and knowledge discovery in databases and related application domains. The goal of the Nectar Track, started in 2012, is to offer conference attendees a compact overview of recent scientific advances at the frontier of machine learning and data mining with other disciplines, as published in related conferences and journals. For researchers from the other disciplines, the Nectar Track offers a place to present their work to the ECMLPKDD community and to raise the community's awareness of data analysis results and open problems in their field. We invite senior and junior researchers to submit summaries of their own work published in neighbouring fields, such as (but not limited to) artificial intelligence, big data analytics, bioinformatics, cyber security, games, computational linguistics, natural language processing, information retrieval, computer vision and image analysis, geoinformatics, health informatics, database theory, human computer interaction, information and knowledge management, robotics, pattern recognition, statistics, social network analysis, theoretical computer science, uncertainty in AI, network science, complex systems science, and computationally oriented sociology, economy and biology, as well as critical data science/studies. Particularly welcome is work that summarizes a line of work that comprises older and more recent papers. The described work should be relevant to a broad audience within ECMLPKDD, and (a) illustrate the pervasiveness of data-driven exploration and modelling in science, technology, and the public, as well as innovative applications, and/or (b) focus on theoretical results. Note that papers focusing only on software implementations rather than on the interdisciplinary use of ML/DM should rather be submitted to the demo track. Work at the core of ML/DM should target the main tracks of ECMLPKDD rather than the Nectar Track. Submission guidelines Papers must be 4 pages and should be formatted according to the Author instructions, style files and copyright form that can be found at http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html. Submissions must clearly indicate which corresponding original publication(s) are presented, and must clearly motivate the relevance of the work in the context of machine learning and data mining. Papers should be submitted through the conference CMT submission system (select from the menu the Nectar track). Accepted Nectar contributions will be presented as oral presentations and included in the conference proceedings. Important dates · Submission deadline: *Thursday, May 18, 2017* · Notifications of acceptance: *Thursday, June 22, 2017* · Submission of camera ready copies: *Thursday, July 6, 2017* Contacts In case you have any question, please do not hesitate to contact the Nectar Track Chairs (Donato Malerba, Jerzy Stefanowski) at nectar_chairs at ecmlpkdd2017.org. We are looking forward to your proposals. -- Nikola Simidjievski & Dragi Kocev Publicity Chairs of ECML-PKDD 2017 -------------- nächster Teil -------------- Ein Dateianhang mit HTML-Daten wurde abgetrennt... URL: From info at ecmlpkdd2017.org Thu Jan 19 17:17:30 2017 From: info at ecmlpkdd2017.org (ECML-PKDD 2017) Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2017 17:17:30 +0100 Subject: ECML-PKDD 2017 - CALL FOR PAPERS - [Applied Data Science Track] Message-ID: ############################################################ European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECML-PKDD) Skopje, Macedonia, September 18-22, 2017 (http://www.ecmlpkdd2017.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 and applications in all areas related to machine learning, data mining and knowledge discovery in databases, as well as other innovative application domains. The 2017 edition of ECML-PKDD will take place in Skopje, Macedonia, September 18-22. The APPLIED DATA SCIENCE Track of ECML-PKDD 2017 follows the success of the previous years with a separate Program Committee and a separate Proceedings volume. The track aims to bring together participants from academia, industry, governments and NGOs (non-governmental organizations) in a venue that highlights practical and real-world studies of machine learning, knowledge discovery and data mining. This track wants to encourage mutually beneficial interactions between those engaged in scientific research and practitioners working to improve big data mining and large-scale machine learning analytics. Novel and practical ideas, open problems in applied data science, description of application–specific challenges and unique solutions adopted in bridging the gap between research and practice are some of the relevant topics for this track. Submissions are invited on innovative real-world data systems and applications, state-of-the-art practices, identification of unsolved challenges in deploying research ideas in practical data science applications, surveys from real-world projects and industrial experiences that advance the understanding of the contributions and limitations of machine learning and data mining technologies in real-world applications. The APPLIED DATA SCIENCE Track is distinct from the Research Track in that submissions solve real-world problems and focus on applications and challenges. Submissions must clearly identify one of the following three areas they fall into: "Engineering Systems", "Data Analytics", or "Challenges". The criteria for submissions are the following: • Engineering Systems: presents non-trivial systems or infrastructure designed to solve real-world big data problems, where the main novelty is the approach to design, deploy and manage the system. • Data Analytics: presents new practical data science studies that provide value to the community of practitioners, and researchers in industry, governments and NGOs. These studies should be useful, non-trivial, and externally validated. • Challenges: presents novel ideas, current data analytic challenges, controversial issues, open problems and comparisons of competing approaches. Proceedings The APPLIED DATA SCIENCE Track proceedings of ECML-PKDD 2017 will be published by Springer in a separate volume of the Proceedings of ECML-PKDD 2017, in the Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence series (LNAI). At least one of the authors of each accepted paper must register for the conference to present the paper on site. Submissions The papers must be written in English and formatted according to the Springer LNAI guidelines. Author's instructions and style files can be downloaded at: http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html The maximum length of papers is 12 pages in this format. Longer 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 2017 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. To submit a paper: • Create an account and log into the conference CMT submission site for ECML-PKDD 2017. Please note that user accounts for different CMT conferences are independent of each other. Thus, any credentials you might have for previous CMT conferences will not work for ECML-PKDD 2017. • Specify your conflict domains. • Create a New Paper submission. • Select the Industrial Track. • Complete the submission form by providing title, authors, one primary subject area, any number of secondary subject areas and a short abstract. The manuscript must be uploaded in pdf format. You will also need to answer the questions at the site. Evaluation and Decision Criteria Submissions will be evaluated on the basis of relevance, novelty, originality, technical soundness, clarity, empirical and/or practical validation, external significance and validity, quality and consistency of presentation, and appropriate comparison to related work. Special emphasis will be placed on the relevance of the proposed contribution to practitioners. Authors are strongly encouraged to make data and code publicly available whenever possible. Authors of papers submitted to the APPLIED DATA SCIENCE Track of ECML-PKDD 2017 must identify the application domain that is the subject of their paper. Application domains include, but are not limited to the following: finance, government, e-commerce, retail, mobile, medicine, healthcare, security, public policy, science, engineering, law, manufacturing, and communications. Reviewing process The APPLIED DATA SCIENCE Track of ECML-PKDD 2017 has a separate Program Committee from the Research Track. Papers submitted to the APPLIED DATA SCIENCE Track of ECML-PKDD 2017 will be reviewed by at least 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: Thursday, April 13, 2017 • Paper submission deadline: Thursday, April 20, 2017 • Author notification: Thursday, June 22, 2017 • Camera ready submission: Thursday, July 6, 2017 Contact You can contact the Industrial Track Chairs (Yasemin Altun, Kamalika Das, Taneli Mielikäinen) at mailto:industrial_chairs at ecmlpkdd2017.org. -- Nikola Simidjievski & Dragi Kocev Publicity Chairs of ECML-PKDD 2017 -------------- nächster Teil -------------- Ein Dateianhang mit HTML-Daten wurde abgetrennt... URL: From info at ecmlpkdd2017.org Thu Jan 19 17:19:26 2017 From: info at ecmlpkdd2017.org (ECML-PKDD 2017) Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2017 17:19:26 +0100 Subject: ECML-PKDD 2017 - CALL FOR PAPERS - [Demo Track] Message-ID: ############################################################ European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECML-PKDD) Skopje, Macedonia, September 18-22, 2017 (http://www.ecmlpkdd2017.org). ############################################################ We solicit submissions for demos for ECML PKDD 2017 in Skopje, Macedonia. Submissions must describe working systems and be based on state-of-the-art machine learning and data mining technology. These systems may be innovative prototype implementations or mature systems that use machine learning techniques and knowledge discovery processes in a real setting. Systems that use basic statistics are not acceptable. Commercial software systems are not acceptable. The accepted papers for demos will be included in the conference proceedings, to be published by Springer Verlag in the "Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence" (LNAI) Series(http://www.springer.com/lncs). The demos will be presented in a special demonstration session. At least one of the demo submitters must register for the conference, and perform the demo on site. ### Submission Guidelines All aspects of the submission and notification process will be handled online via the conference CMT submission site( https://cmt.research.microsoft.com/ECMLPKDD2017). Please choose the right track during the submission. Instructions concerning the submission (except for the "reproducible research" part which is not relevant for a demo paper), camera-ready formatting and copyright transfer for conference papers also hold for demo papers, unless otherwise specified. A demonstration submission must be up to 4 pages long. It must provide adequate information on the system's components and the way the system is operated, including e.g. screenshots. Submitters should keep in mind that the description of a demo has inherently different content than a research paper submitted to the main conference. A successful demonstration paper provides satisfactory answers to the following questions: * What are the innovative aspects or in what way/area does it represent the state of the art? * Who are the target users and why is the system interesting/useful for them? * If there are similar/related pieces of software, what are the advantages and disadvantages of the presented one? The formatting guidelines of Springer Verlag for the LNAI series apply, and the author instructions and style files under http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html must be used. For inquiries concerning submissions please contact the Demo Track Chairs. ### Important Dates - Demo submission deadline: **Thursday, May 11, 2017** - Notification of acceptance: **Thursday, June 22, 2017** - Camera-ready paper due: **Thursday, July 6, 2017** - Presentation of the live demos: **Tuesday September 19, 2017** and **Thursday September 21, 2017** ### Contacts For further information please contact the Demo Track Chairs (Marinka Zitnik, Jesse Read) at [demo_chairs at ecmlpkdd2017.org] -- Nikola Simidjievski & Dragi Kocev Publicity Chairs of ECML-PKDD 2017 -------------- nächster Teil -------------- Ein Dateianhang mit HTML-Daten wurde abgetrennt... URL: From info at ecmlpkdd2017.org Thu Jan 19 17:20:50 2017 From: info at ecmlpkdd2017.org (ECML-PKDD 2017) Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2017 17:20:50 +0100 Subject: ECML-PKDD 2017 - CALL FOR TUTORIALS Message-ID: ############################################################ European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECML-PKDD) Skopje, Macedonia, September 18-22, 2017 (http://www.ecmlpkdd2017.org). ############################################################ The ECML-PKDD 2017 Organizing Committee invites proposals for half-day tutorials to be held on the first and last days of the conference (September 18 and 22, 2017), which will take place in Skopje, Macedonia. Tutorials are intended to provide a comprehensive introduction to established or emerging research topics of interest for the machine learning and the data mining community. These topics include related research fields or applications but also well-developed tools and suites that support ML/DM research. The ideal tutorial should attract a wide audience. It should be broad enough to provide a basic introduction to the chosen area, but it should also cover the most important topics in depth. Each tutorial should be well-focused so that its content can be covered in a half-day slot. Proposals that exclusively focus on the presenter’s own work or commercial demonstrations are strongly discouraged. Tutorial slides will be made available online at the ECML-PKDD website, although authors can provide them on additional websites as well. Depending on the budget, we expect to offer a waived registration fee for attendance on the workshop day to one speaker of each accepted tutorial (i.e., no guarantee). Guidelines for proposals Tutorial proposals should contain at least the following: ● A title and an abstract of the tutorial. ● A brief description of the tutorial content and its relevance to the ECML-PKDD community (no more than 2 pages). ● A brief outline of the tutorial structure showing that the tutorial’s core content can be covered in a 4 hours slot (including a 30 minutes break). ● The names and contact information of the tutorial instructors, including one-paragraph statements of their research interests and areas of expertise; it is required to indicate in the proposal who is planning to attend the conference and present which part. ● A list of previous venues and approximate audience sizes, if the same or a similar tutorial has been given elsewhere; otherwise an estimate of the audience size. ● A description of special requirements for technical equipment (e.g., audio equipment). Combined Tutorial & Workshop Especially for a relatively novel but rapidly maturing topic, a half day tutorial (4h incl. one 30 minute break) followed by a half day workshop (4h incl. one 30 minute break) could be a good format. We kindly ask you to write a single proposal for the tutorial and workshop that covers the different guidelines and requirements for tutorials and workshops. In addition, the links should be clearly described and the proposal should be submitted to the workshop and tutorial chairs (select both 'Workshop' and 'Tutorial' as topics). For workshop guidelines, please see the separate Call For Workshop Proposals. Proposal reviewing process The proposal will be reviewed by the workshop and tutorial co-chairs, who may use the help of external reviewers, and experts on the submission topics. The features that will be evaluated are: ● The interestingness for the ECML-PKDD areas, which should result in a large audience. ● The clarity of the tutorial, which should emerge from its description. ● Good organization as appearing from the outline. ● The adequacy of the speakers, i.e., her/his background/experience in teaching the target topics. ● The ability to explain the topics to a large audience with heterogeneous background. Submission Please submit your tutorial proposals in PDF format using EasyChair. The submitted proposals will be reviewed in a close collaboration with the conference chairs and the program committee. Important dates The following deadlines are important for the tutorial organizers: ● Tutorial proposal deadline Monday, April 17, 2017 ● Tutorial acceptance notification Monday, May 1, 2017 ● Tutorial final abstract submission Monday, May 15, 2017 ● Tutorial course material (slides, bibliography) online Monday, September 4, 2017 Contact In case you have further questions, please do not hesitate to contact the Workshop and Tutorial Chairs (Panče Panov and Nathalie Japkowicz) at wt_chairs at ecmlpkdd2017.org. We are looking forward to your proposals. -- Nikola Simidjievski & Dragi Kocev Publicity Chairs of ECML-PKDD 2017 -------------- nächster Teil -------------- Ein Dateianhang mit HTML-Daten wurde abgetrennt... URL: From info at ecmlpkdd2017.org Thu Jan 19 17:22:47 2017 From: info at ecmlpkdd2017.org (ECML-PKDD 2017) Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2017 17:22:47 +0100 Subject: ECML-PKDD 2017 - CALL FOR WORKSHOPS Message-ID: ############################################################ European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECML-PKDD) Skopje, Macedonia, September 18-22, 2017 (http://www.ecmlpkdd2017.org). ############################################################ The ECML-PKDD 2017 Organizing Committee invites proposals for workshops to be held on the first and last days of the conference (September 18 and 22, 2017), which will take place in Skopje, Macedonia. We invite proposals for both full- and half-day workshops in current and emerging topics in machine learning and data mining. Workshops provide an opportunity to discuss novel topics in a small and interactive atmosphere. They can concentrate in-depth on research topics, but can also be devoted to application issues, or to questions concerning the economic and social aspects of machine learning and data mining. Multidisciplinary workshops that bring together researchers and practitioners from different communities are particularly welcome. If the budget permits, one organizer or invited speaker of an accepted workshop will be offered the possibility of waived registration fee for attendance on the workshop day (only). *Duration & format* We welcome both full- and half-day workshop proposals. Full-day workshops will have a program of typically 8 hours including two 30-minute coffee breaks and a 90-minute lunch break. Half-day workshops will have a 4 hours program with a 30-minute coffee break. We would like to encourage proposers to aim for a program that is both varied and interesting. Especially where the format of the workshop is concerned, we would like you to think about ways of going beyond the usual list of presentations of accepted papers. Keep in mind that the main conference is necessarily more time-constrained and workshops therefore allow for group explorations of interesting topics, for example by means of discussions, demo sessions, invited talks, and panels. Another way of extending the usual format is to include a specific challenge problem that can be addressed by the workshop participants, with a dedicated challenge session in the workshop program. Note, however, that the challenge should be only one of the components of the workshop, targeting a problem which is specific to the workshop topic(s). For some workshops, it may be useful to first present an introduction to the state-of-the-art in the field given by experienced invited presenters, and afterwards discuss more technical or novel work in a standard (or non-standard!) workshop setting. *Combined Tutorial & Workshop* Especially for a relatively novel but rapidly maturing topic, giving the aforementioned introduction of the state-of-the-art may go beyond the scope of an invited presentation. In this case, a half day tutorial (4h incl. one 30 minute break) followed by a half day workshop (4h incl. one 30 minute break) could be a good format. We kindly ask you to write a single proposal for the tutorial and workshop that covers the different guidelines and requirements for tutorials and workshops. In addition, the links should be clearly described and the proposal should be submitted to the workshop and tutorial chairs (select both 'Workshop' and 'Tutorial' as topics). For tutorial guidelines, please see the separate Call For Tutorial Proposals . *Guidelines for proposals* Workshop proposals should contain the necessary information for the workshop chairs and reviewers to judge the importance, quality, and community interest in the proposed topic (a minimum of 15-20 expected participants is required). Each workshop should have one or more designated organisers and a program. When proposing a workshop, please provide (at least) the following information: ● A *brief description of the specific issues that the workshop will address*, the *reasons why the workshop is of interest*, the *main research areas involved*, and *what the workshop will add to the conference* (e.g., do you expect papers of a theme that would not fit the main conference?). ● *Contact information of the workshop chairs*, their competence in the proposed topic(s), and previous experience in chairing scientific events. ● A *tentative list of Program Committee members* and *potential invited speakers.* ● A *draft of the Call for Papers*, including information on accepted formats (e.g., regular papers, extended abstracts, oral-only presentations of relevant recently published or submitted contributions, etc.) and expected format of the workshop (e.g., invited talks, presentations, poster sessions, panel discussions, challenge sessions, or other ideas for ensuring an interactive atmosphere). In the case of a combined tutorial-workshop, please clearly indicate the format. ● *Any special requirements regarding logistics* (e.g., poster stands, audio equipment), if applicable. ● An *estimate of the number of expected submissions*, and an *estimate of the number of expected workshop participants* at the conference. *Submission* Please submit your workshop proposals in PDF format using EasyChair . The submitted proposals will be reviewed in a close collaboration with the conference chairs and the program committee. Important dates The following deadlines are important for the workshop organizers: ● Workshop proposal deadline *Monday, April 17, 2017* ● Workshop acceptance notification *Monday, May 1, 2017* ● Workshop websites and call for papers online *Monday, May 15, 2017* ● Workshop program and proceedings online *Monday, September 4, 2017* For paper submission, reviewing and final revisions, please consider the following deadlines: ● Workshop paper submission deadline *Monday, July 3, 2017* ● Workshop paper acceptance notification *Monday, July 24, 2017* ● Workshop paper camera-ready deadline *Monday, August 7, 2017* These deadlines are somewhat flexible, but consider as constraints that the paper submission deadline should be after conference author notification (June 19) and acceptance notification should be before the conference early registration deadline (July 31). *Contact* In case you have further questions, please do not hesitate to contact the Workshop and Tutorial Chairs (Panče Panov and Nathalie Japkowicz) at wt_chairs at ecmlpkdd2017.org. We are looking forward to your proposals. -- Nikola Simidjievski & Dragi Kocev Publicity Chairs of ECML-PKDD 2017 -------------- nächster Teil -------------- Ein Dateianhang mit HTML-Daten wurde abgetrennt... URL: From gordon.plotkin at gmail.com Thu Jan 19 22:33:43 2017 From: gordon.plotkin at gmail.com (Gordon Plotkin) Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2017 21:33:43 +0000 Subject: Alonzo Church Award 2017: Call for Nominations Message-ID: *Introduction* An annual award, called the Alonzo Church Award for Outstanding Contributions to Logic and Computation was established in 2015 by the ACM Special Interest Group for Logic and Computation (SIGLOG), the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science (EATCS), the European Association for Computer Science Logic (EACSL), and the Kurt Gödel Society (KGS). The award is for an outstanding contribution represented by a paper or by a small group of papers published within the past 25 years. This time span allows the lasting impact and depth of the contribution to have been established. The award can be given to an individual, or to a group of individuals who have collaborated on the research. For the rules governing this award, see: http://siglog.hosting.acm.org/the-alonzo-church-award-for- outstanding-contributions-to-logic-and-computation/ The 2016 Alonzo Church Award was given to Rajeev Alur and David Dill for their invention of timed automata, see: *http://siglog.hosting.acm.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/church16.pdf * *Eligibility and Nominations* The contribution must have appeared in a paper or papers published within the past 25 years. Thus, for the 2017 award, the cut-off date is January 1, 1992. When a paper has appeared in a conference and then in a journal, the date of the journal publication will determine the cut-off date. In addition, the contribution must not yet have received recognition via a major award, such as the Turing Award, the Kanellakis Award, or the Gödel Prize. (The nominee(s) may have received such awards for other contributions.) While the contribution can consist of conference or journal papers, journal papers will be given a preference. Nominations for the 2017 award are now being solicited. The nominating letter must summarise the contribution and make the case that it is fundamental and outstanding. The nominating letter can have multiple co-signers. Self-nominations are excluded. Nominations must include: a proposed citation (up to 25 words); a succinct (100-250 words) description of the contribution; and a detailed statement (not exceeding four pages) to justify the nomination. Nominations may also be accompanied by supporting letters and other evidence of worthiness. Nominations are due by *March 1, 2017* and should be submitted to gdp at inf.ed.ac.uk. *Presentation of the Award* The 2017 award will be presented at the CSL conference, the annual meeting of the European Association for Computer Science Logic. The award will be accompanied by an invited lecture by the award winner, or by one of the award winners. The awardee(s) will receive a certificate and a cash prize of USD 2,000. If there are multiple awardees, this amount will be shared. *Award Committee* The 2017 Alonzo Church Award Committee consists of the following four members: Natarajan Shankar, Catuscia Palamidessi, Gordon Plotkin (chair), and Moshe Vardi. -------------- nächster Teil -------------- Ein Dateianhang mit HTML-Daten wurde abgetrennt... URL: From epontell at cs.nmsu.edu Fri Jan 20 04:34:44 2017 From: epontell at cs.nmsu.edu (Enrico Pontelli) Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2017 20:34:44 -0700 Subject: ICLP 2017 - Call for Workshop Message-ID: *** CALL FOR WORKSHOP PROPOSALS *** ICLP 2017 33rd International Conference on Logic Programming August 29 - September 1, 2017 Melbourne, Australia http://iclp17.a4lp.org ICLP 2017, the 33rd International Conference on Logic Programming, will be held in Melbourne, Australia, from August 29 to September 1, 2017. The ICLP conference series has a long standing tradition of hosting a rich set of co-located workshops. ICLP workshops provide a unique opportunity for the presentation and discussion of work that can be preliminary in nature, novel ideas, and new open problems to a wide and interested audience. Co-located workshops also provide an opportunity for presenting specialized topics and opportunities for intensive discussions and project collaboration. The topics of the workshops co-located with ICLP 2017 can cover any areas related to logic programming, (e.g., theory, implementation, environments, language issues, alternative paradigms, applications), including cross-disciplinary areas. However, any relevant workshop proposal will be considered. The format of the workshop will be decided by the workshop organizers, but ample time should be allowed for general discussion. Workshops can vary in length, but the optimal duration will be half a day or a full day. Workshop Proposal: ================== Those interested in organizing a workshop at ICLP 2017 are invited to submit a workshop proposal. Proposals should be in English and about two pages in length. They should contain: * The title of the workshop. * A brief technical description of the topics covered by the workshop. * A discussion of the timeliness and relevance of the workshop. * A list of some related workshops held in the last years * The estimated length of the workshop and an estimate of the number of expected attendees. * The names, affiliation and contact details (email, web page, phone) of the workshop organizers together with a designated contact person. * Previous experience of the workshop organizers in workshop/conference organization. Proposals are expected in text or PDF format. All proposals should be submitted to the Workshop Chair by email by March 27, 2017. Reviewing Process: ================== Each submitted proposal will be reviewed by the Workshop, Program and General Chairs. Proposals that appear well-organized and that fit the goals and scope of ICLP will be selected. The decision will be notified by email to the responsible organizer by April 10, 2017. The definitive length of the workshop will be planned according to the number of submissions received by the different workshops. For every accepted workshop, the ICLP local organizers will prepare a meeting room. The workshops and the conference organizers will collaborate in establishing a uniform approach to produce uniform and accessible proceedings for the workshops. Workshop Organizers' Tasks: =========================== * Producing a "Call for Papers" for the workshop and posting it on the Internet and other means. A web page URL should be provided by May 1, 2017, and will be published on the ICLP 2017 home page. * Providing a brief description of the workshop for the conference program. * Reviewing/accepting submitted papers. * Scheduling workshop activities in collaboration with the local organizers and the Workshop Chair. * Providing a workshop program in a format specified by the conference organizers for posting by August 15, 2017. * Coordinating the preparation of the workshop proceedings according to the specifications provided by the Workshop chair. Location: ========= Workshops be collocated with ICLP 2017, in Melbourne, Australia. See the ICLP 2017 web site (http://iclp17.a4lp.org) for location details. Important Dates: ================ March 27, 2017: Proposal submission deadline April 10, 2017: Notification May 1, 2017: Deadline for receipt of CfP and workshop web page URL August 15, 2017: Deadline for workshop program TBA: ICLP workshops Submissions: ============ Please submit your workshop proposals by email to the Workshop Chair. Workshop Chair: =============== Enrico Pontelli epontell at cs.nmsu.edu From announce at cs.ucy.ac.cy Fri Jan 20 14:45:05 2017 From: announce at cs.ucy.ac.cy (Announce Announcements) Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2017 15:45:05 +0200 Subject: 5th European Conference on the Engineering of Computer Based Systems (ECBS 2017): Second Call for Papers Message-ID: *** Second Call for Papers *** 5th European Conference on the Engineering of Computer Based Systems ECBS 2017 Lordos Hotel, Larnaca, Cyprus 31 August - 1 September, 2017 http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=YWZpaG0ub3JnICwJCQlldmVudEBpbi50dS1jbGF1c3RoYWwuZGUJNXRoIEV1cm9wZWFuIENvbmZlcmVuY2Ugb24gdGhlIEVuZ2luZWVyaW5nIG9mIENvbXB1dGVyIEJhc2VkIFN5c3RlbXMgKEVDQlMgMjAxNyk6IFNlY29uZCBDYWxsIGZvciBQYXBlcnMJMTcJTGlzdHMJMTkyCWNsaWNrCXllcwlubw==&url=http%3A%2F%2Fcyprusconferences.org%2Fecbs2017%2F In Cooperation with ACM SIGAPP, SIGOPS and SIGSOFT ECBS 2017 is a formal meeting dedicated to formulating and advancing methods, techniques, and tools for engineering of computer-based systems. The conference is devoted to the design, development, deployment, and analysis of the complex systems whose behavior is largely determined or controlled by computers. Such systems are characterized by functional, performance, and reliability requirements that mandate the tight integration of information processing and physical processes. ECBS integrates software, hardware, and communication perspective of system engineering through its many facets that include system modeling, requirements specification, simulation, architectures, safety, security, reliability, human-computer interaction, system integration, verification and validation, high performance/parallel computing, cloud-based technologies, and project management. The conference provides a bridge between industry and academia, blending academic research and industrial development. The proceedings will be published in the International Conference Proceedings Series of ACM and after the conference they will be accessible in the ACM Digital Library. A Best Paper Award will be presented to the best paper presented at the conference, and a Best Student Paper Award will be presented to the best paper written solely or mostly by students. Scope Papers are sought which reflect this intent in fundamental ECBS technologies and application domains including, but not limited to the following topics: · Agile and Lean Approaches and Human Aspects of Software Development · Architectures · Advanced Modularity · Cloud-based Applications · Co-Design · Component-Based System Design · Cyber-Physical Systems · Parallel & Distributed Systems · Parallel Programming Methodologies and Languages · FPGA Systems Design · ECBS Infrastructure (Tools and Environments) · Education and Training · Embedded Real-Time Software Systems · Integration Engineering · Lifecycle Processes and Process Evolution · Model-Based System Development · Modeling and Analysis of Complex Systems · Networked Control Systems · Reengineering & Reuse · Reliability, Safety, Dependability, and Security · Software Engineering · System Assessment, Testing, and Metrics · Verification and Validation Industrial reports of practical solutions, trends, and new system characteristics for ECBS, taking an integrated systems approach, are particularly welcome. They may target application domains such as: Aerospace Systems, Command and Control, Continuous and Discrete Manufacturing, Environmental Systems, Instrumentation and Control Applications, Internet Technology and Applications, Intelligent Highway- Vehicle Systems (IHVS), Medical Systems, High Performance Computing Development Environments and Applications, and Telecommunications. Submission of Papers The conference solicits regular (no more than 10 pages) and short papers (no more than 4 pages). The Program Committee may require an accepted paper to be adapted into a short paper or extended abstract (no more than 2 pages and poster presentation only). All papers must be prepared according to the ACM SIG Proceedings Template format (see the conference web site for further information). The papers must be original contributions not submitted or accepted for publication elsewhere. A submitted contribution should clearly indicate the conference topics it targets. For an accepted contribution to be included in the proceedings, at least one author must register and present the paper at the conference. For further information, see the submission guidelines on the conference web site. Important Dates · Submission of Papers: 1 May, 2017 · Notification of Acceptance: 1 July, 2017 · Camera-ready Submission: 17 July, 2017 · Registration and Payment for Authors: 17 July, 2017 · Early Registration for Non-Authors: 9 August, 2017 Organization General Chair · George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Program Chair · Ondrej Rysavy, Brno University of Technology , Czech Republic Program Co-Chair · Valentino Vranic, Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava, Slovakia Steering Committee · Hassan Charaf, ECBS-EERC 2013 General Chair · George Angelos Papadopoulos, General Chair · Miroslav Popovic, ECBS-EERC 2009 General Chair · Ondrej Rysavy, ECBS-EERC 2015 General Chair · Valentino Vranic, ECBS-EERC 2011 General Chair Program Committee http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=YWZpaG0ub3JnICwJCQlldmVudEBpbi50dS1jbGF1c3RoYWwuZGUJNXRoIEV1cm9wZWFuIENvbmZlcmVuY2Ugb24gdGhlIEVuZ2luZWVyaW5nIG9mIENvbXB1dGVyIEJhc2VkIFN5c3RlbXMgKEVDQlMgMjAxNyk6IFNlY29uZCBDYWxsIGZvciBQYXBlcnMJMTcJTGlzdHMJMTkyCWNsaWNrCXllcwlubw==&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cyprusconferences.org%2Fecbs2017%2Forganizers.html -------------- nächster Teil -------------- Ein Dateianhang mit HTML-Daten wurde abgetrennt... URL: From grlmc at grlmc.com Sat Jan 21 02:42:59 2017 From: grlmc at grlmc.com (GRLMC) Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2017 02:42:59 +0100 Subject: AlCoB 2017: submission deadline extended January 29 Message-ID: <545102060a010b010451540400015a03515305510b5553580b045a065254000500040052510b070056050257000b57@grlmc_ip-zone_com-6> AlCoB 2017: submission deadline extended January 29*To be removed from our mailing list, please respond to this message with UNSUBSCRIBE in the subject line*   ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ***** SUBMISSION DEADLINE EXTENDED: January 29 ***** ------------------------------------------------------------------------------   ********************************************************************************** 4th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ALGORITHMS FOR COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY   AlCoB 2017   Aveiro, Portugal   June 5-7, 2017   Organized by:   Center for Research & Development in Mathematics and Applications (CIDMA) Institute of Electronics and Informatics Engineering of Aveiro (IEETA) University of Aveiro   Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics (GRLMC) Rovira i Virgili University   http://grammars.grlmc.com/AlCoB2017/ **********************************************************************************   AIMS:   AlCoB aims at promoting and displaying excellent research using string and graph algorithms and combinatorial optimization to deal with problems in biological sequence analysis, genome rearrangement, evolutionary trees, and structure prediction.   Previous events were held in Tarragona, Mexico City, and Trujillo.   The conference will address several of the current challenges in computational biology by investigating algorithms aimed at:   1) assembling sequence reads into a complete genome, 2) identifying gene structures in the genome, 3) recognizing regulatory motifs, 4) aligning nucleotides and comparing genomes, 5) reconstructing regulatory networks of genes, and 6) inferring the evolutionary phylogeny of species.   Particular focus will be put on methodology and significant room will be reserved to young scholars at the beginning of their career.   VENUE:   AlCoB 2017 will take place in Aveiro, an industrial city with an important seaport on the Atlantic Ocean, and known as "the Portuguese Venice" due to its network of canals. The venue will be:   Department of Mathematics University of Aveiro Campus Universitário de Santiago 3810-193 Aveiro   SCOPE:   Topics of either theoretical or applied interest include, but are not limited to:   Exact sequence analysis Approximate sequence analysis Pairwise sequence alignment Multiple sequence alignment Sequence assembly Genome rearrangement Regulatory motif finding Phylogeny reconstruction Phylogeny comparison Structure prediction Compressive genomics Proteomics: molecular pathways, interaction networks Transcriptomics: splicing variants, isoform inference and quantification, differential analysis Next-generation sequencing: population genomics, metagenomics, metatranscriptomics Microbiome analysis Systems biology   STRUCTURE:   AlCoB 2017 will consist of:   invited lectures peer-reviewed contributions posters   INVITED SPEAKERS:   Michael Biehl (University of Groningen), Prototype-based Models for the Analysis of Biomedical Data   Benedict Paten (University of California, Santa Cruz), The Human Genome Variation Map Project   Marie-France Sagot (INRIA, Villeurbanne), Algorithmically Exploring and Exploiting Interspecific Interactions   PROGRAMME COMMITTEE:   Can Alkan (Bilkent University, Ankara, TR) Stephen Altschul (National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, US) Yurii Aulchenko (PolyOmica, Groningen, NL) Timothy L. Bailey (University of Nevada, Reno, US) Bonnie Berger (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, US) Philipp Bucher (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne, CH) Ken Chen (University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, US) Julio Collado-Vides (National Autonomous University of Mexico, Cuernavaca, MX) Eytan Domany (Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, IL) Dmitrij Frishman (Technical University of Munich, DE) Terry Furey (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, US) Olivier Gascuel (Pasteur Institute, Paris, FR) Debashis Ghosh (University of Colorado, Denver, US) Susumu Goto (Kyoto University, JP) Osamu Gotoh (Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Tokyo, JP) Artemis Hatzigeorgiou (University of Thessaly, Volos, GR) Javier Herrero (University College London, UK) Karsten Hokamp (Trinity College Dublin, IE) Fereydoun Hormozdiari (University of California, Davis, US) Kazutaka Katoh (Osaka University, JP) Lukasz Kurgan (Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, US) Gerton Lunter (University of Oxford, UK) Carlos Martín-Vide (Rovira i Virgili University, Tarragona, ES, chair) Zemin Ning (Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, UK) William Stafford Noble (University of Washington, Seattle, US) Cedric Notredame (Center for Genomic Regulation, Barcelona, ES) Christos Ouzounis (Centre for Research & Technology Hellas, Thessaloniki, GR) Manuel C. Peitsch (Philip Morris International, Bern, CH) Matteo Pellegrini (University of California, Los Angeles, US) Graziano Pesole (University of Bari, IT) David Posada (University of Vigo, ES) Knut Reinert (Free University of Berlin, DE) Peter Robinson (The Jackson Laboratory, Farmington, US) Julio Rozas (University of Barcelona, ES) David Sankoff (University of Ottawa, CA) Alejandro Schäffer (National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, US) Xinghua Shi (University of North Carolina, Charlotte, US) Nicholas D. Socci (Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, US) Alexandros Stamatakis (Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies, DE) Granger Sutton (J. Craig Venter Institute, La Jolla, US) Kristel Van Steen (University of Liège, BE) Arndt von Haeseler (Center for Integrative Bioinformatics Vienna, AT) Kai Wang (Columbia University, New York, US) Haim J. Wolfson (Tel Aviv University, IL) Ioannis Xenarios (Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Lausanne, CH) Jinn-Moon Yang (National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu City, TW) Shibu Yooseph (University of Central Florida, Orlando, US) Mohammed J. Zaki (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, US) Daniel Zerbino (European Bioinformatics Institute, Hinxton, UK) Weixiong Zhang (Washington University in St. Louis, US) Zhongming Zhao (University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, US)   ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:   Diana Costa (Aveiro, CIDMA) Daniel Figueiredo (Aveiro, CIDMA, co-chair) Carlos Martín-Vide (Tarragona, co-chair) Manuel A. Martins (Aveiro, CIDMA) Manuel Jesús Parra Royón (Granada) Armando J. Pinho (Aveiro, IEETA) Diogo Pratas (Aveiro, IEETA, co-chair) David Silva (London) Miguel A. Vega-Rodríguez (Cáceres)   SUBMISSIONS:   Authors are invited to submit non-anonymized papers in English presenting original and unpublished research. Papers should not exceed 12 single-spaced pages (including eventual appendices, references, proofs, graphics, etc.) and should be prepared according to the standard format for Springer Verlag's LNCS series (see http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0).   Submissions have to be uploaded to:   https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=alcob2017   PUBLICATIONS:   A volume of proceedings published by Springer in the LNCS/LNBI series will be available by the time of the conference.   A special issue of the Journal of Computational Biology (2015 JCR impact factor: 1.537) will be later published containing peer-reviewed substantially extended versions of some of the papers contributed to the conference. Submissions to it will be by invitation.   REGISTRATION:   The registration form can be found at:   http://grammars.grlmc.com/AlCoB2017/Registration.php   DEADLINES (all at 23:59 CET):   Paper submission: January 29, 2017 – EXTENDED – Notification of paper acceptance or rejection: February 25, 2017 Final version of the paper for the LNCS/LNBI proceedings: March 9, 2017 Early registration: March 9, 2017 Late registration: May 22, 2017 Submission to the journal special issue: September 7, 2017   COLLOCATED EVENTS:   AlCoB 2017 will be collocated with the Fourth Workshop on Molecular Logic:   http://molecularlogic2017.weebly.com/   QUESTIONS AND FURTHER INFORMATION:   david.silva409 (at) yahoo.com   POSTAL ADDRESS:   AlCoB 2017 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:   Universidade de Aveiro Universitat Rovira i Virgili -------------- nächster Teil -------------- Ein Dateianhang mit HTML-Daten wurde abgetrennt... URL: From francesco.nocera at poliba.it Sat Jan 21 12:33:18 2017 From: francesco.nocera at poliba.it (Francesco Nocera) Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2017 11:33:18 +0000 Subject: CFP: The first International Workshop on Engineering the Web of Things (EnWoT 2017) Message-ID: *** We apologize if you receive multiple copies *** CALL FOR PAPERS --** EnWoT 2017 **--**The first International Workshop on Engineering the Web of Things** http://sisinflab.poliba.it/EnWoT/2017/ Held in conjunction with 17th International Conference on Web Engineering (ICWE 2017) 5-8 June, 2017, Rome, Italy http://icwe2017.webengineering.org/index.html ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES: Submission: 31 March 2017 Notification: 28 April 2017 Camera-ready: 12 May 2017 Workshop dates: 5 and 8 June 2017 Camera-ready (post proceedings): 24 June 2017 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The goal of this workshop is to bring the attention of researchers to the opportunities and challenges involved in engineering a web of things. Web technologies (e.g., HTML, JavaScript, Ajax, PHP, Ruby) can be used to build applications involving smart things, on the other hand well-known Web mechanisms are available to interact with and share these devices. As a matter of fact, this calls for architectural styles and patterns that allow real-world objects to be part of the World Wide Web. EnWoT 2017 aims at attracting contributions related to the subject at different levels, from modelling and design to engineering. Foundational contributions, as well as concrete application experiments are sought. The workshop welcomes submissions describing unpublished research, as well as deployment experiences on various topics related to engineering web of things as outlined below. TOPICS: Topics of interested include but are not limited to: - Software architectural styles and patterns for connecting objects to the World Wide Web - Engineering smart objects on the web - Semantic web and Linked open data - Web of Thing and Internet of Everything - Challenges for Big Data and IoT applications - Architectures and Framework for smart devices connection - Other topics relevant to web of thing SUBMISSION: Authors are invited to submit two types of papers, o regular papers of 12 pages and o demo papers of 4 pages . Submitted papers should conform to the Springer LNCS style and should describe, in English, original work that has not been published or submitted for publication elsewhere. A single PDF versions of papers should be submitted electronically via the EasyChair submission page [ https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=enwot2017]. Post-workshop proceedings to appear in Springer's LNCS series. Submissions will be judged on novelty, relevance, clarity of presentation, and correctness. Authors of accepted submissions are required to present their work. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ORGANIZING COMMITTEE __ Workshop Chairs: o Marina Mongiello, Politecnico di Bari, Italy o Tommaso Di Noia, Politecnico di Bari, Italy o Eugenio Di Sciascio, Politecnico di Bari, Italy __ Publicity Chair: o Francesco Nocera, Politecnico di Bari, Italy __ Program Committee: TBA EnWoT 2017 Workshop Chairs Marina Mongiello, Tommaso Di Noia and Eugenio Di Sciascio -------------- nächster Teil -------------- Ein Dateianhang mit HTML-Daten wurde abgetrennt... URL: From abb at cs.stir.ac.uk Sat Jan 21 17:57:27 2017 From: abb at cs.stir.ac.uk (Andrea Bracciali) Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2017 16:57:27 +0000 Subject: BIOTECHNO 2017 --- LAST cfp References: <819553DD-F9A7-4271-9F5C-C358C0570AD0@cs.stir.ac.uk> Message-ID: [apologies for cross-posting!] Call for Contributions Inform the Chair: with the Title of your Contribution Submission URL: https://www.iariasubmit.org/conferences/submit/newcontribution.php?event=BIOTECHNO+2017+Special Please select Track Preference as MLPM ——————————————————— Special track MLPM: Machine Learning Approaches to Precision Medicine Chair and Coordinator: Alexandru Floares, Md, PhD, President of SAIA Institute - Cluj, Romania alexandru.floares at saia-institute.org Co-Chair: Dr. Andrea Bracciali, SICSA Lecturer, University of Stirling, UK abb at cs.stir.ac.uk along with BIOTECHNO 2017, May 21 - 25, 2017 - Barcelona, Spain The Ninth International Conference on Bioinformatics, Biocomputational Systems and Biotechnologies http://www.iaria.org/conferences2017/BIOTECHNO17.html ——————————————————— The common biomedical community conception is that Precision Medicine’s goals can be reached only by increasing the accuracy of wet lab measurements. The results of biological experiments enter more and more into the realm of Big Data. Big Data do not talk themselves. Data should be preprocessed and analyzed. Moreover, identifying differentially expressed genes should not be the final result of the bioinformatic analysis, being an incomplete response to a potentially significant biomedical question. This is why we will not often see studies reporting the results of a t-test or similar algorithms, for a classification problem, in other fields than biomedical research. Most of them end with a classifier, developed using machine learning techniques. So, accurate measurements of informative classes of biomedical variables, either molecules or extracted from medical images, combined with adequate machine learning methods, could lead to Precision Medicine. These can be used to develop highly accurate, robust (generalizing well to new cases) and transparent (easy to understand) predictive models. However, biological systems are highly redundant, and this is related to their amazing robustness. The usual machine learning approach, exclusively focused on identifying the minimal subset of relevant variables, while perfectly justified, preclude redundancy understanding and exploiting. Thus, new machine learning methods or adapting the existing ones is needed. The special session opens to everybody as well as industrial partners to make contributions in this area. Topics for this session include but are not limited to:  Predictive models for diagnosis, prognosis and response to treatment  Biomedical image processing and analysis  Analysis of high-throughput biotechnology data  Machine learning integration with Electronic Health Records  Machine learning approaches to liquid biopsy  Machine learning approaches to redundancy understanding and exploiting  Evaluation and use of information technology in healthcare  Industrial challenges in bioinformatics  Future directions and challenges in bioinformatics Important Datelines - Inform the Chair: As soon as you decided and secured the financial support - Submission: February 3 - Notification with comments for camera-ready: March 3 - Registration: March 18 - Camera ready: April 9 Contribution Types - Regular papers [in the proceedings, digital library] - Short papers (work in progress) [in the proceedings, digital library] - Posters: two pages [in the proceedings, digital library] - Posters: slide only [slide-deck posted on www.iaria.org ] - Presentations: slide only [slide-deck posted on www.iaria.org ] - Demos: two pages [posted on www.iaria.org ] Paper Format - See: http://www.iaria.org/format.html - Before submission, please check and comply with the editorial rules: http://www.iaria.org/editorialrules.html Publications - 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 Paper Submission https://www.iariasubmit.org/conferences/submit/newcontribution.php?event=BIOTECHNO+2017+Special Please select Track Preference as MLPM Registration - Each accepted paper needs at least one full registration, before the camera-ready manuscript can be included in the proceedings. - Registration fees are available at http://www.iaria.org/registration.html Contact Alexandru Floares, Md, PhD, President of SAIA Institute, Romania alexandru.floares at saia-institute.org Logistics: steve at iaria.org -------------- nächster Teil -------------- Ein Dateianhang mit HTML-Daten wurde abgetrennt... 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The Virtual Robot Competition has been largely renewed last year, both in terms of simulation environment, with the transition from the an Unreal-based environment to a ROS/Gazebo based environment, and in terms of challenges and rules. If you are interested to participate please take the time to pre-register your team for the RoboCup 2017 Virtual Robot Competition as soon as possible, so that we can inform you about the latest developments. (1) RoboCup Rescue Simulation League and Virtual Robot Competition --------------------- The RoboCup Rescue Simulation League is a socially relevant part of RoboCup event. Its main purpose is to provide emergency decision support by integration of disaster information, prediction, planning, and human interface. A generic urban disaster simulation environment is constructed on network computers. Heterogeneous intelligent agents such as fire fighters, commanders, victims, volunteers, etc. conduct search and rescue activities in this virtual disaster world. Agents can sense their environment and make decisions on the basis of the perceived data. Mission-critical human interfaces support disaster managers, disaster relief brigades, residents, and volunteers to decide their actions to minimize the disaster damage. Addressing this problem involves advanced and interdisciplinary research themes. As AI/robotics research, for example, behavior strategy (e.g., multi-agent planning, realtime/anytime planning, heterogeneity of agents, robust planning, mixed-initiative planning) is a challenging problem. For disaster researchers, RoboCup Rescue works as a standard basis in order to develop practical comprehensive simulators adding necessary disaster modules. >From last year, the Virtual Robot Competition is based on ROS/Gazebo, an advanced robot simulator in which users can simulate multiple agents whose capabilities closely mirror those of real robots. ROS/Gazebo currently features several ground and air robots, as well as a wide range of sensors and actuators. Moreover, exploiting ROS, users can easily develop their robot systems integrating standard modules. For more information: - RoboCup Rescue Simulation League: http://wiki.robocup.org/Rescue_Simulation_League - Tutorials and links to repositories for the simulation environment: https://staff.fnwi.uva.nl/a.visser/activities/FutureOfRescue/ - A demo: https://github.com/m-shimizu/RoboCup2016RVRL_Demo - Simulated worlds from previous competitions: https://github.com/m-shimizu/RoboCup2016RVRL_FieldModels - Document describing the transition to the new simulator: http://robocup.oss-cn-beijing.aliyuncs.com/symposium%2FRoboCup_Symposium_2015_submission_14.pdf (2) Intention of participation ------------------- If you are interested to participate in the competition, please send, before February 15, 2017, an email to francesco.amigoni at polimi.it with as attachment the following form filled in: http://home.deib.polimi.it/amigoni/research/IntentVirtual2017.txt (3) Qualification material ------------------------- Besides sending the intention of participation, please prepare before March 30, 2017, a Team Description Paper describing the most innovative contributions or scientific results your team is intended to provide. The TDP is limited to 8 pages and must be formatted according to the LNCS format: http://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines The Team Description Paper is an overview of the methodologies you use or intend to use to control your robots inside the Virtual Robot Competition. If applicable, include a reference to your latest publications. The qualification material should be placed on a dedicated web page on the team's home page. Please include the link to the qualification material on the intention of participation information. (4) Deadlines ----------- - Deadline for intention of participation to Virtual Robot Competition: February 15, 2017 - Deadline for qualification material Virtual Robot Competition: March 30, 2017 - Team qualification notification: April 10, 2017 - Early registration period: March 28 - May 31, 2017 (5) Rules -------- The rules for the RoboCup 2017 Virtual Robot Competition will be published in due time at: http://wiki.robocup.org/Rescue_Simulation_League#Rules With respect to rules adopted in 2016, we expect to list allowed sensors and platforms and, possibly, to include a ROS node for realistically simulating communication between robots. We hope to see you all in Japan! With kind regards, Sanaz, Taleghani, Fatemeh Pahlevan Agahababa, Masaru Shimizu, and Francesco Amigoni (members of the 2017 RoboCup Rescue Simulation Virtual Robot Competition Technical and Organization Committees) --------------------------------------------------------- Francesco Amigoni, Ph.D. Associate Professor Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Laboratory Dipartimento di Elettronica, Informazione e Bioingegneria Politecnico di Milano Piazza Leonardo da Vinci, 32 I-20133 Milano (MI), Italy Voice: +39 02 2399-3475 Fax: +39 02 2399-3411 Email: francesco.amigoni at polimi.it Web: http://www.deib.polimi.it/people/amigoni --------------------------------------------------------- From bogom.s at gmail.com Mon Jan 23 01:47:28 2017 From: bogom.s at gmail.com (Sergiy Bogomolov) Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2017 11:47:28 +1100 Subject: 2nd CfP: Workshop SNR affiliated with ETAPS 2017 Message-ID: <018301d27512$6e8fbaa0$4baf2fe0$@gmail.com> CALL FOR PAPERS SNR 2017 ======== 3rd International Workshop on Symbolic and Numerical Methods for Reachability Analysis April 22, 2017, Uppsala, Sweden Affiliated with ETAPS 2017 http://snr2017.pages.ist.ac.at/ Important Dates =============== Abstract submission: January 27, 2017 Paper submission: February 3, 2017 Notification: March 10, 2017 Final version: March 24, 2017 Workshop date: April 22, 2017 Scope ===== Hybrid systems are complex dynamical systems that combine discrete and continuous components. Reachability questions, regarding whether a system can run into a certain subset of its state space, stand at the core of verification and synthesis problems for hybrid systems. There are several successful methods for hybrid systems reachability analysis. Some methods explicitly construct flow-pipes that over-approximate the set of reachable states over time, where efficient computation of such over-approximations requires symbolic representations such as support functions. Other methods based on satisfiability checking technologies, symbolically encode reachability properties as logical formulas, while solving such formulas requires numerically-driven decision procedures. Last but not least, also automated deduction and the usage of theorem provers led to efficient analysis approaches. The goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers working with different reachability analysis techniques and to seek for synergies between the different approaches. The SNR workshop solicits papers broadly in the area of analysis and synthesis of continuous and hybrid systems. The scope of the workshop includes, but is not restricted to, the following topics with application to continuous and hybrid systems: - Reachability analysis - Flow-pipe construction; symbolic state set representations - Logical frameworks for reasoning - Bounded model checking - Automated deduction - Invariant generation - Symbolic execution - Trajectory generation; counterexample computation - Abstraction techniques - Reliable integration - Simulation - Reachability analysis for planning and synthesis - Domain-specific approaches in biology, robotics, etc. - Stochastic/probabilistic hybrid systems Submission Information ====================== The workshop solicits - long research papers (not exceeding 15 pages excluding references), - short research papers (not exceeding 6 pages excluding references) and - work-in-progress papers (not exceeding 6 pages excluding references). Research papers must present original unpublished work which is not submitted elsewhere. In order to foster the exchange of ideas, we also encourage work-in-progress papers, which present recent or on-going work. The papers should be written in English and formatted according to the EPTCS guidelines (http://style.eptcs.org/). Papers can be submitted using the EasyChair system: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=snr2017 All submissions will undergo a peer-reviewing process. Accepted research papers will be presented at the workshop and published in the Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science (EPTCS, http://www.eptcs.org/). Accepted work-in-progress papers will be presented at the workshop but will not be included in the proceedings. Invited Speakers ================ TBA Workshop Co-Chairs ================== Erika Abraham (RWTH Aachen University, Germany) Sergiy Bogomolov (Australian National University, Australia) Publicity Chair =============== Przemyslaw Daca (Institute of Science and Technology Austria, Austria) Program Committee ================= Matthias Althoff (Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany) Stanley Bak (United States Air Force Research Lab, USA) Franck Cassez (Macquarie University, Australia) Xin Chen (University of Colorado at Boulder, USA) Thao Dang (CNRS/VERIMAG, France) Martin Fraenzle (University of Oldenburg, Germany) Goran Frehse (Verimag, France) Antoine Girard (L2S, CNRS, France) Thomas Heinz (Robert Bosch GmbH, Germany) Hui Kong (Institute of Science and Technology Austria, Austria) Oleksandr Letychevskyi (Glushkov Institute of Cybernetics, Ukraine) Nikolaj Nikitchenko (Kyiv National Taras Shevchenko University, Ukraine) Maria Prandini (Politecnico di Milano, Italy) Stefan Ratschan (Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic) Rajarshi Ray (National Institute of Technology Meghalaya, India) Stavros Tripakis (Aalto University, Finland, and UC Berkeley, USA) Vladimir Ulyantsev (ITMO University, Russia) Edmund Widl (Austrian Institute of Technology, Austria) Paolo Zuliani (University of Newcastle, UK) -------------- nächster Teil -------------- Ein Dateianhang mit HTML-Daten wurde abgetrennt... URL: From bogom.s at gmail.com Mon Jan 23 03:32:35 2017 From: bogom.s at gmail.com (Sergiy Bogomolov) Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2017 13:32:35 +1100 Subject: CfP: 4th International Workshop on Applied Verification for Continuous and Hybrid Systems (CPSWeek 2017) Message-ID: <10cb01d27520$f7253620$e56fa260$@gmail.com> Call for Submissions ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 4th International Workshop on Applied Verification for Continuous and Hybrid Systems CMU campus alongside CPSWeek, Pittsburgh, USA, April 17, 2017 http://cps-vo.org/group/ARCH The workshop on applied verification for continuous and hybrid systems (ARCH) brings together researchers and practitioners, and establishes a curated set of benchmarks submitted by academia and industry. Verification of continuous and hybrid systems is increasing in importance due to new cyber-physical systems that are safety- or operation-critical. This workshop addresses verification techniques for continuous and hybrid systems with a special focus on the transfer from theory to practice. Topics include, but are not limited to - Proposals for new benchmark problems (not necessarily yet solvable) - Tool presentations - Tool executions and evaluations based on ARCH benchmarks - Experience reports including open issues for industrial success - Reports on results of our friendly competition Submission Guidelines ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Submissions consist of papers of ideally 3-8 pages (pdf ) and optional files (e.g. models or traces) submitted through the ARCH’17 EasyChair web site (http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=arch17). Authors have to use the EasyChair template (http://www.easychair.org/publications/for_authors).The extended abstract should be classified in its title as benchmark proposal, tool presentation, benchmark results, or experience report. Submissions receive at least 3 anonymous reviews, including one from industry and one from academia. Details on the evaluation criteria can be found at http://cps-vo.org/group/ARCH/CallForSubmissions. Submission deadline: February 15, 2017 Notification: March 7, 2017 Final Version: March 31, 2017 Workshop: April 17, 2017 (different from other CPS Week workshops; this year free of charge!) Website: http://cps-vo.org/group/ARCH (includes forums, archive, wiki, etc.) Prize ----------------------------------------------------------------------- The paper with the most promising benchmark results receives a prize of 500 Euros sponsored by Robert Bosch GmbH, Germany. The winner is preselected by the program committee and determined by an audience voting. Organizers ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Program chairs: Matthias Althoff, Technische Universität München, Germany Goran Frehse, UJF-Verimag, France Local chair: Sebastian Scherer, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Publicity chair: Sergiy Bogomolov, Australian National University, Australia Evaluation chair: Taylor T. Johnson, Vanderbilt University, USA Program Committee (tentative) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Academia: Pieter Collins (Maastricht Univ.) Alexandre Donze (UC Berkeley) Ian Mitchell (Univ. British Colombia) Sayan Mitra (UI Urbana Champaign) Andre Platzer (CarnegieMellon Univ.) Nacim Ramdani (Université d’Orléans) Aditya Zutshi (Duke University) Xin Chen (RWTH Aachen University) Sicun Gao (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Stanley Bak (Air Force Research Lab) Industry: Ajinkya Bhave (Siemens PLM) Jyotirmoy Deshmukh (Toyota) Luca Parolini (BMW) Alessandro Pinto (United Technologies) Matthias Woehrle (Bosch) William Hung (Synopsys Inc) Olivier Bouissou (MathWorks) Daniel Bryce (SIFT) Aaron Fifarek (Linquest) -------------- nächster Teil -------------- Ein Dateianhang mit HTML-Daten wurde abgetrennt... URL: From peter.schuller at marmara.edu.tr Mon Jan 23 09:51:49 2017 From: peter.schuller at marmara.edu.tr (Peter Schüller) Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2017 11:51:49 +0300 (+03) Subject: CFP International Conference on Logic Programming and Non-monotonic Reasoning, Finland, 3-6 July 2017 Message-ID: <20170123085149.CD8142C00D0@omsievews> Call for Papers --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 14th International Conference on Logic Programming and Non-monotonic Reasoning LPNMR 2017 http://lpnmr2017.aalto.fi/ Hanasaari, Espoo, Finland July 3-6, 2017 !!! Submissions enabled !!! AIJ&TPLP Fast Tracks !!! Springer PB Prize !!! --------------------------------------------------------------------------- AIMS AND SCOPE LPNMR 2017 is the fourteenth in the series of international meetings on logic programming and non-monotonic reasoning. LPNMR is a forum for exchanging ideas on declarative logic programming, non-monotonic reasoning, and knowledge representation. The aim of the conference is to facilitate interactions between researchers and practitioners interested in the design and implementation of logic-based programming languages and database systems, and those working in knowledge representation and nonmonotonic reasoning. LPNMR strives to encompass theoretical and experimental studies that have led or will lead to advances in declarative programming and knowledge representation, as well as their use in practical applications. This edition of LPNMR will feature several workshops and a special session dedicated to the 7th ASP Competition. A Doctoral Consortium will also be a part of the program. INVITED SPEAKERS Joao Leite, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal Tran Cao Son, New Mexico State University, Las Cruses, New Mexico, USA Francesca Toni, Imperial College, London, UK TOPICS Authors are invited to submit papers presenting original and unpublished research on all aspects of non-monotonic approaches in logic programming and knowledge representation. We invite submissions of both long and short papers on topics detailed below. Conference topics include, but are not limited to: 1. Foundations of LPNMR Systems: * Semantics of new and existing languages; * Action languages, causality; * Formalization of Commonsense Reasoning and understanding its laws and nature; * Relationships among formalisms; * Complexity and expressive power; * Inference algorithms and heuristics for LPNMR systems; * Extensions of traditional LPNMR languages such as new logical connectives or new inference capabilities; * Updates, revision, and other operations on LPNMR systems; * Uncertainty in LPNMR systems. 2. Implementation of LPNMR systems: * System descriptions, comparisons, evaluations; * Algorithms and novel techniques for efficient evaluation; * LPNMR benchmarks. 3. Applications of LPNMR: * Use of LPNMR in Commonsense Reasoning and other areas of KR; * LPNMR languages and algorithms in planning, diagnosis, argumentation, reasoning with preferences, decision making and policies; * Applications of LPNMR languages in data integration and exchange systems, software engineering and model checking; * Applications of LPNMR to bioinformatics, linguistics, psychology, and other sciences; * Integration of LPNMR systems with other computational paradigms; * Embedded LPNMR: Systems using LPNMR subsystems. SUBMISSION LPNMR 2017 welcomes submissions of long papers (13 pages) or short papers (6 pages) in the following categories: * Technical papers * System descriptions * Application descriptions The indicated number of pages includes title page, references and figures. All submissions will be peer-reviewed and accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings published in the Springer's Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI/LNCS) series. At least one author of each accepted paper is expected to register for the conference to present the work. Submissions must be written in English, present original research, and be formatted according to Springer's guidelines and technical instructions available at: https://www.springer.com/gp/authors-editors/conference-proceedings/conference-proceedings-guidelines Paper submission is now enabled via the LPNMR-17 Easychair site: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lpnmr2017 Two best papers of general AI interest will be invited for a rapid publication in the Artificial Intelligence Journal (AIJ). Two best papers with narrower logic programming focus will be invited for a rapid publication in Theory and Practice of Logic Programming (TPLP). An additional prize of 1000 EUR, sponsored by Springer, will be shared out among the best papers of the conference. MULTIPLE SUBMISSION POLICY LPNMR 2017 will not accept any paper which, at the time of submission, is under review or has already been published or accepted for publication in a journal or another conference. Authors are also required not to submit their papers elsewhere during LPNMR's review period. However, these restrictions do not apply to previous workshops with a limited audience and without archival proceedings. ASSOCIATED EVENTS WORKSHOPS - LPNMR 2017 will include specialized workshops to be held on July 3 prior to the main conference. Currently planned workshops include: - Answer Set Programming and Other Computing Paradigms (ASPOCP) Organizers: Bart Bogaerts and Amelia Harrison - Defeasible and Ampliative Reasoning (DARe) Organizers: Richard Booth, Giovanni Casini, and Ivan Varzinczak - Grounding and Transformations for Theories with Variables (GTTV) Organizers: Simona Perri and Shahab Tasharrofi - Knowledge Representation and Planning for Robotics and Autonomous Systems (KPRAS) Organizers: Fangkai Yang and Shiqi Zhang - Practical Aspects of Answer Set Programming (PAoASP) Organizers: Martin Gebser, Marco Maratea, and Francesco Ricca - User-Oriented Logic Paradigms (IULP) Organizers: Stefan Ellmauthaler and Claudia Schulz ASP COMPETITION - A special session dedicated to a discussion of the 7th ASP System Competition, including the methodology of the competition, benchmarks used, lessons learned and, most importantly, the results and the announcement of the winners. DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM - A mentoring event where PhD students have a change to present their current research, get feedback from peers and senior researchers, and establish contacts for the future. FURTHER INFORMATION WWW: lpnmr2017.aalto.fi/ email: lpnmr2017 at list dot aalto dot fi IMPORTANT DATES * Paper registration: January 27th, 2017 * Paper submission: February 3rd, 2017 * Notification: March 3rd, 2017 * Final versions due: March 17th, 2017 VENUE Espoo, the second largest and the fastest growing city in Finland, is located right next to the capital Helsinki in the coastal Finland. Espoo is Northern Europe's largest high-tech and innovation hub where science, business and culture meet the wilderness of Nuuksio National Park and stunning seaside environment. Espoo's location offers excellent traffic connections: only half an hour from the international airport and harbors. The main campus of Aalto University is situated in Espoo. The LPNMR 2017 conference will be held in the Hanasaari Conference center that is located on an island of its own and is only 15 minutes away from Helsinki center by public transport. PROGRAM CHAIRS Marcello Balduccini, Drexel University, USA Tomi Janhunen, Aalto University, Finland PUBLICITY CHAIR Peter Schüller, Marmara University, Turkey WORKSHOPS CHAIR Joohyung Lee, Arizona State University, USA DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM CHAIR Marina De Vos, University of Bath, UK 7TH ASP COMPETITION ORGANIZERS Martin Gebser, University of Potsdam, Germany Marco Maratea, University of Genoa, Italy Francesco Ricca, University of Calabria, Italy PROGRAM COMMITTEE Jose Julio Alferes, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal Marcello Balduccini, Drexel University, USA Chitta Baral, Arizona State University, USA Bart Bogaerts, KU Leuven, Belgium Gerhard Brewka, Leipzig University, Germany Pedro Cabalar, University of Corunna, Spain Francesco Calimeri, University of Calabria, Italy Stefania Costantini, University of L'Aquila, Italy James Delgrande, Simon Fraser University, Canada Marc Denecker, K.U.Leuven, Belgium Marina De Vos, University of Bath, UK Agostino Dovier, University of Udine, Italy Thomas Eiter, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Wolfgang Faber, University of Huddersfield, UK Paul Fodor, Stony Brook University, USA Alfredo Gabaldon, GE Global Research, USA Martin Gebser, University of Potsdam, Germany Michael Gelfond, Texas Tech University, USA Giovanni Grasso, Oxford University, UK Giovambattista Ianni, University of Calabria, Italy Daniela Inclezan, Miami University, USA Tomi Janhunen, Aalto University, Finland Matthias Knorr, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal Joohyung Lee, Arizona State University, USA Yuliya Lierler, University of Nebraska at Omaha, USA Vladimir Lifschitz, University of Texas at Austin, USA Fangzhen Lin, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong Marco Maratea, University of Genoa, Italy Alessandra Mileo, National University of Ireland, Ireland Emilia Oikarinen, Finnish Institute of Occupational Health, Finland Mauricio Osorio, Universidad de las Americas Puebla, Mexico Ravi Palla, GE Global Research, USA David Pearce, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain Axel Polleres, Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria Enrico Pontelli, New Mexico State University, USA Christoph Redl, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Alessandra Russo, Imperial College, United Kingdom Orkunt Sabuncu, University of Potsdam, Germany Chiaki Sakama, Wakayama University, Japan Torsten Schaub, University of Potsdam, Germany Peter Schüller, Marmara University, Turkey Tran Cao Son, New Mexico State University, USA Hannes Strass, Leipzig University, Germany Theresa Swift, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal Shahab Tasharrofi, Aalto University, Finland Eugenia Ternovska, Simon Fraser University, Canada Hans Tompits, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Mirek Truszczynski, University of Kentucky, USA Agustin Valverde, Universidad de Màlaga, Spain Kewen Wang, Griffith University, Australia Yisong Wang, Guizhou University, China Stefan Woltran, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Jia-Huai You, University of Alberta, Canada Yi Zhou, University of Western Sydney, Australia (Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this email. Please distribute to interested parties.) From compsac at polito.it Mon Jan 23 17:27:39 2017 From: compsac at polito.it (IEEE COMPSAC) Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2017 17:27:39 +0100 Subject: IEEE COMPSAC 2017 - Final Call for Papers (paper submission deadline extended to January 31st) Message-ID: <7b50a954-109f-1880-0ed9-90d628c552e8@polito.it> Dear Colleague, please note that the paper submission deadline has been extended until January 31st, 2017. IEEE COMPSAC 2017 www.compsac.org Where: Turin, Italy. July 4–8, 2017 Paper submission deadline: January 31st, 2017 IEEE COMPSAC offers opportunities for recommending best papers for inclusions in IEEE publications (https://www.computer.org/web/compsac2017/journal-publication-opportunities for more details). ======================================= IEEE COMPSAC 2017 ======================================= COMPSAC (www.compsac.org) is the IEEE Computer Society Signature Conference on Computers, Software, and Applications. It is a major international forum for academia, industry, and government to discuss research results and advancements, emerging problems, and future trends in computer and software technologies and applications. The technical program includes keynote addresses, research papers, industrial case studies, plenary and specialized panels, fast abstracts, a doctoral symposium, poster sessions, and a number of workshops and tutorials on emerging and important topics. The theme of the 41st COMPSAC is Building Digital Autonomy for a Sustainable World. COMPSAC 2017 Symposia are as follows: CELT: Computer Education & Learning Technologies CAP: Computer Architecture & Platforms DSAT: Data Sciences, Analytics, & Technologies EATA: Emerging Advances in Technology & Applications HCSC: Human Computing & Social Computing ITiP: IT in Practice MOWU: Mobile, Wearable, & Ubiquitous Computing NCIW: Networks, Communications, Internet, & Web Technologies SEPT: Security, Privacy, & Trust SETA: Software Engineering Technology & Applications Sessions will include topics and issues related to adaptive learning and teaching, autonomous computing, wearable computing, the internet-of-things, social networking, cross-domain data fusion, privacy, security and surveillance, cloud computing, big data, physiological computing, self-aware and self-expressive systems, and emerging architectures and network issues that affect all these developing technology-driven innovations. Authors are invited to submit original, unpublished research work, as well as industrial practice reports. COMPSAC offer publication opportunities in IEEE journals following the "Conference First / Journal Second (C1J2)" and "Journal First / Conference Second (J1C2)" Schemes (https://www.computer.org/web/compsac2017/journal-publication-opportunities). ======================================= JOURNAL PUBLICATION OPPORTUNITIES ======================================= COMPSAC is offering opportunities to recommend our best papers for inclusion in IEEE publications, and to encourage presentation of already published journal papers during the conference. These schemes, to be executed at the discretion of individual COMPSAC symposia and workshops chairs, are as follows: COMPSAC "Conference First / Journal Second (C1J2)" Scheme: Chairs may offer the authors of accepted papers opportunity for publication in an IEEE journal. In this C1J2 Scheme, a chair initiates the process to offer the paper(s), together with their COMPSAC reviews, for publication in an IEEE journal to the journal editor-in-chief (EIC). EICs may or may not use our reviews at their discretion, but may instead prefer to rely solely on their own reviewer communities. Such papers accepted by a journal for publication will appear in the COMPSAC proceeding as only an abstract accompanied by a note that the paper has been submitted to the journal for consideration for publication in that journal. If the paper is accepted for publication, a link to it will be provided in the conference proceedings, thus providing conference participants access to that paper. The paper will still be registered for COMPSAC and must as well be presented during the conference. If such a paper is not accepted by the journal, the paper will be later included in the conference electronic proceedings. COMPSAC "Journal First / Conference Second (J1C2)" Scheme: Similar to the above mentioned scheme, but taking place in the reverse order is the J1C2 scheme – journal publication first, conference presentation to follow. A published work in an IEEE journal, say within couple of years, or even accepted but not yet published, may be submitted to and presented at COMPSAC. If accepted, the conference proceedings will contain an abridged abstract and a link to the published version, thus conference participants may have access to that paper. This scheme benefits authors by presenting their work to a wider audience in person, discussion, networking with peers, and driving renewed interest to their work. The process is as follows: the author offers a paper by proposing it as a full-text manuscript submission to a symposium or a workshop; the paper is then lightly reviewed for suitability, scope, technical content and merit by the PC of the symposium/workshop; finally, the PC Chair(s) proposes a notification decision. The author then registers the paper and presents it during the conference at the time identified in the program. ============== KEYNOTES ============== Francesco Profumo, Politecnico di Torino, Turin, Italy Alberto Sangiovanni Vincentelli, University of California, Berkeley ============== MAIN DEADLINES ============== Main Conference Papers Due: 31 January 2017 Main Conference Notification: 27 March 2017 Workshop Papers Due: 10 April 2017 Workshop Paper Notification: 25 April 2017 Camera Ready and Registration Due: 9 May 2017 --- Questa e-mail è stata controllata per individuare virus con Avast antivirus. https://www.avast.com/antivirus -------------- nächster Teil -------------- Ein Dateianhang mit HTML-Daten wurde abgetrennt... URL: From geoff at cs.miami.edu Mon Jan 23 18:57:20 2017 From: geoff at cs.miami.edu (Geoff Sutcliffe) Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2017 12:57:20 -0500 (EST) Subject: ITP 2017 - 2nd Call for Papers Message-ID: <20170123175720.9866012148B@mcclellan.cs.miami.edu> SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS ITP 2017 8th International Conference on Interactive Theorem Proving Brasilia, Brazil September 26-29, 2017 http://itp2017.cic.unb.br SUBMISSION DEADLINES * April 3, 2017 (abstracts) * April 10, 2017 (full papers) GENERAL INFORMATION The ITP conference series is concerned with all topics related to interactive theorem proving, ranging from theoretical foundations to implementation aspects and applications in program verification, security, and formalization of mathematics. ITP is the evolution of the TPHOLs conference series to the broad field of interactive theorem proving. TPHOLs meetings took place every year from 1988 until 2009. The eighth ITP conference, ITP 2017, will be held at Universidade de Brasilia, September 26-29, 2017. SCOPE OF CONFERENCE ITP welcomes submissions describing original research on all aspects of interactive theorem proving and its applications. Suggested topics include but are not limited to the following: * formal aspects of hardware and software * formalizations of mathematics * improvements in theorem prover technology * user interfaces for interactive theorem provers * formalizations of computational models * verification of security algorithms * use of theorem provers in education * industrial applications of interactive theorem provers * concise and elegant worked examples of formalizations (proof pearls) PUBLICATION DETAILS The proceedings of the symposium will be published in the Springer's LNCS series. PAPER SUBMISSIONS All submissions must be original, unpublished, and not submitted concurrently for publication elsewhere. Furthermore, when appropriate, submissions are expected to be accompanied by verifiable evidence of a suitable implementation, such as the source files of a formalization for the proof assistant used. Submissions should be no more than 16 pages in length and are to be submitted in PDF via EasyChair at the following address: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=itp2017 Submissions must conform to the LNCS style in LaTeX. Authors of accepted papers are expected to present their paper at the conference and will be required to a sign copyright release form. In addition to regular papers, described above, there will be a rough diamond section. Rough diamond submissions are limited to 6 pages and may consist of an extended abstract. They will be refereed and be expected to present innovative and promising ideas, possibly in an early form and without supporting evidence. Accepted diamonds will be published in the main proceedings and will be presented as short talks. After the conference the authors of selected papers will be invited to submit revised papers for a special issue of the Journal of Automated Reasoning. IMPORTANT DATES Abstract submission deadline: April 3, 2017 Full paper submission deadline: April 10, 2017 Author notification: June 2, 2017 Camera-ready papers: June 30, 2017 Workshops & Tutorials: September 23-25, 2017 Conference: September 26-29, 2017 INVITED SPEAKERS Moa Johansson, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden Leonardo de Moura, Microsoft Research Katalin Bimbo, University of Alberta, Canada (joint with TABLEAUX and FroCos) Jasmin Blanchette Inria and LORIA, Nancy, France (joint with TABLEAUX and FroCos) Cesary Kaliszyk Universitaet Innsbruck, Austria (joint with TABLEAUX and FroCos) WORKSHOPS AND TUTORIALS There will be a three-day programme of four workshops and four tutorials from 23-25 September. Workshops: 12th Logical and Semantic Frameworks with Applications (LSFA 2017) Sandra Alves, Renata Wassermann, Flavio L. C. de Moura 23 and 24 September 2017 Proof eXchange for Theorem Proving (PxTP) Catherine Dubois, Bruno Woltzenlogel Paleo 23 and 24 September 2017 EPS - Encyclopedia of Proof Systems Giselle Reis, Bruno Woltzenlogel Paleo 24 and 25 September 2017 DaLi - Dynamic Logic: new trends and applications Mario Benevides, Alexandre Madeira 24 September 2017 Tutorials: General methods in proof theory for modal and substructural logics Bjoern Lellmann, Revantha Ramanayake 23 September 2017 From proof systems to complexity bounds Anupam Das 24 September 2017 Proof Compressions and the conjecture NP =3D PSPACE Lew Gordeev, Edward Hermann Haeusler 25 September 2017 PVS for Computer Scientists Cesar Munoz, Mauricio Ayala-Rincon, Mariano Moscato 25 September 2017 Details will be published in separate calls and on the conference website. PROGRAM COMMITTEE CHAIRS Mauricio Ayala-Rincon, U. Brasilia Cesar Munoz, NASA PROGRAM COMMITTEE CHAIRS Maria Alpuente, T.U. Valencia Vander Alves, U. Brasilia June Andronick, Data61, CSIRO, UNSW Jeremy Avigad, Carnegie Mellon U. Sylvie Boldo, INRIA LRI Ana Bove, Chalmers & Gothenburg U. Adam Chlipala, MIT Gilles Dowek, INRIA, ENS Cachan Aaron Dutle, NASA Amy Felty, U. Ottawa Marcelo Frias, I.T. Buenos Aires Ruben Gamboa, U. Wyoming Herman Geuvers, Radboud U. Elsa Gunter, U. Illinois U.C. John Harrison, Intel Corporation Nao Hirokawa, JAIST Matt Kaufmann, U. Texas Austin Mark Lawford, McMaster U. Andreas Lochbihler, ETH Zurich Assia Mahboubi, INRIA Panagiotis Manolios, Northeastern U. Gopalan Nadathur, U. Minnesota Keiko Nakata, SAP Potsdam Adam Naumowicz, U. Bialystok Tobias Nipkow, T.U. Munich Scott Owens, U. Kent Sam Owre, SRI Lawrence Paulson, U. Cambridge Leila Ribeiro, U.F. Rio Grande do Sul Claudio Sacerdoti Coen, U. Bologna Augusto Sampaio, U.F. Pernambuco Monika Seisenberger, Swansea U. Christian Sternagel, U. Innsbruck Sofiene Tahar, Concordia U. Christian Urban, King's College London Josef Urban, Czech T.U. 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March 2017 Message-ID: <20170124102358.B7E50E90395@mbp-autexier.informatik.uni-bremen.de> Call for Papers 10th Conference on Intelligent Computer Mathematics - CICM 2017 - July 17-21, 2016 University of Edinburgh, Scotland http://www.cicm-conference.org/2017 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Digital and computational solutions are becoming the prevalent means for the generation, communication, processing, storage and curation of mathematical information. Separate communities have developed to investigate and build computer based systems for computer algebra, automated deduction, and mathematical publishing as well as novel user interfaces. While all of these systems excel in their own right, their integration can lead to synergies offering significant added value. The Conference on Intelligent Computer Mathematics (CICM) offers a venue for discussing and developing solutions to the great challenges posed by the integration of these diverse areas. CICM has been held annually as a joint meeting since 2008, co-locating related conferences and workshops to advance work in these subjects. Previous meetings have been held in Birmingham (UK 2008), Grand Bend (Canada 2009), Paris (France 2010), Bertinoro (Italy 2011), Bremen (Germany 2012), Bath (UK 2013), Coimbra (Portugal 2014), Washington DC (USA 2015) and Bialystok (Poland 2016). This is a call for papers for CICM 2017, which will be held in Edinburgh, Scotland, July 17-21, 2016. CICM 2017 also invites work-in- progress papers. The principal tracks of the conference will be: * Track: Calculemus (chair: Matthew England) All topics in the intersection of computer algebra systems and automated reasoning systems including: - Automated theorem proving in computer algebra systems. - Computer algebra and symbolic computation in theorem proving systems. - Theory, design and implementation of interdisciplinary systems for computer mathematics. - Case studies and applications that involve a mix of computation and reasoning. - Case studies in formalization of mathematical theories that include non-trivial computations. - Representation of mathematics in computer algebra systems. - Input languages, programming languages, types and constraint languages, and modeling languages for mathematical assistant systems. * Track: Digital Mathematical Libraries (DML) (chair: Olaf Teschke) All topics related to the formation of a Global Digital Mathematics Library (GDML) network, ranging from experiences from existing DMLs, policies and standards facilitating interoperability, to development and integration of new techniques for content creation, preservation, enhancement and retrieval of the corpus, including: - DML creation and maintenance (content aggregation, validation, curation, enhancement). - DML architecture and representations (organization, workflows, policies, standards). - DML access and applications (retrieval, interfaces, interoperability). - DML collections and systems (experiences from various existing DMLs). * Track: Mathematical Knowledge Management (MKM) (chair: Florian Rabe) - Knowledge representation using, e.g., formal logics, computational systems, narrative document formats, or databases - Solutions to create, store, disseminate, discover, or manipulate mathematical knowledge - Corpora of knowledge inlcuding documents, theories, theorems, proofs, models, algorithms, exercises, or examples - Methods, systems, frameworks, case studies, challenges, benchmarks, or applications for mathematical knowledge - Comparisons, evaluations, or integrations of MKM solutions * Track: Systems & Projects (chair: Osman Hasan) - Systems: Stand-alone; plugins, libraries, or extensions of existing systems; or integrations of existing systems - Data: Formalizations; harvests or new processing of existing data; or case studies, test cases, or benchmark suites for systems - Projects: finished, ongoing or new - Survey papers * Track: Doctoral Programme (chair: TBD) The overall programme is organized by the General Program Chair Herman Geuvers. The local arrangements will be coordinated by Jacques Fleuriot. The publicity chair is Serge Autexier. We plan to have proceedings of the conference as in previous years with Springer Verlag as a volume in Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI). *Important Dates* Conference submissions - Abstract submission deadline: 15. March 2017 - Submission deadline: 22. March 2017 - Reviews sent to authors: 26. April 2017 - Rebuttals due: 30. April 2017 - Notification of acceptance: 12. May 2017 - Camera ready copies due: 26. May 2017 - Conference: 17.-21. July 2017 Workshop Proposals - Submission deadline: 10. February 2017 - Notification of acceptance: 15. February 2017 More details on the conference are available from http://www.cicm-conference.org/2017 From andrea.orlandini at istc.cnr.it Tue Jan 24 11:35:34 2017 From: andrea.orlandini at istc.cnr.it (AndreA Orlandini) Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2017 11:35:34 +0100 Subject: Call for Papers - Workshop on AI Planning and Robotics - ICRA 2017 Message-ID: <252552c7-ba93-b666-c5a6-f2f1871924e9@istc.cnr.it> [Apologies for multiple copies of this announcement] ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ** CALL FOR PAPERS ** ICRA Workshop on AI Planning & Robotics: Challenges and Methods Singapore, May 29, 2017 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Topic and Objectives *************** In complex robotic systems, planning and plan execution techniques are pervasively deployed at different levels of abstraction, combining task, path, and motion planning capabilities. AI Planning & Scheduling (P&S) methods are often crucial to enable intelligent robots to perform autonomous, flexible, and interactive behaviors. However, these methods and frameworks cannot be considered as stand-alone functionalities, but need to be deeply integrated into robotic architectures in order to be effective. This requires collaboration between researchers from both the AI and the Robotics communities. The aim of this workshop is to bring researchers from the AI P&S and Robotics communities together to exchange ideas, discuss techniques and problems as well as identify common open challenges related to robotic planning methods. The goal of the workshop is twofold. First, it will foster the discussion in the Robotics community about challenges related to AI planning for autonomous robots (deliberative, reactive, continuous planning and execution, etc.) as well as their expectations from the P&S community. Second, it will attract representatives from the AI P&S community to further develop their interests and efforts towards robotic problems and applications. Relevant topics include (but are not limited to): - Combined task, path, and motion planning; - Integration of planning and plan execution methods in robotic architectures; - Representation and learning of planning models for robotics; - Optimization and scheduling techniques for robot planning and scheduling; - Planning for long-term autonomy in robotics; - Planning with uncertainty for reliable robots; - Multi-robot planning, delegation, coordination, and execution; - Human-aware planning and execution in (safe) human-robot interaction/collaboration; - Mixed-initiative planning and adjustable autonomy; - V&V of plan-based robot autonomy; - Real-world planning applications for autonomous/interactive robots. Submissions *************** We invite extended abstracts/short papers and regular papers in the standard IEE ICRA conference format. Abstract/short papers are a maximum of 4 (four) pages, regular papers are a maximum of 6 (six) pages. Authors of accepted papers are expected to give a talk and/or to present a poster at the workshop. All papers should be typeset in the ICRA IEEE style. Accepted papers will be published on the workshop website. Papers should be submitted via the EasyChair website: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icraplanrob2017 The organizers will investigate the availability of journal editors in order to invite a selection of accepted papers from the workshop to a special issue or post-proceedings volume. Any additional questions can be directed towards the general workshop contact email: icraplanrob2017 at easychair.org Important Dates *************** Deadline for paper submission, 28th of February, 2017 Notification of acceptance for papers, 15th of March, 2017 Deadline for camera-ready paper submission, 1st of April, 2017 Workshop Date, May 29, 2017 Workshop Organizers ******************* J. Christopher Beck Department of Mechanical & Industrial Engineering University of Toronto Alberto Finzi Dipartimento di Ingegneria Elettrica e delle Tecnologie dell'Informazione University of Naples “Federico II” Nick Hawes School of Computer Science University of Birmingham Goldie Nejat Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering University of Toronto AndreA Orlandini Institute of Cognitive Science and Technology, National Research Council of Italy (CNR-ISTC), From m.b.vanriemsdijk at tudelft.nl Wed Jan 25 10:30:40 2017 From: m.b.vanriemsdijk at tudelft.nl (Birna van Riemsdijk) Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2017 10:30:40 +0100 Subject: JOBS: 2 PhD/postdoc positions in normative & value-based reasoning Message-ID: <592FEF05-7A86-4BBC-8752-B198F7862CA2@tudelft.nl> ** JOB OPENING - Deadline approaching! ** ** TWO PhD/Postdoc POSITIONS ** ** NORMATIVE AND VALUE-BASED REASONING FOR SOCIALLY ADAPTIVE SOFTWARE ** ** with Dr. M. Birna van Riemsdijk and Prof. Dr. Catholijn Jonker, Delft University of Technology ** ** Deadline for application: January 31st, 2017 ** JOB DESCRIPTION The purpose of this email is to solicit applications for one PhD and one postdoc position (PhD: 4 years, postdoc: 2 years), attached to the NWO Vidi grant obtained by Birna van Riemsdijk. Vidi is a highly competitive grant programme that funds innovative lines of research. Birna van Riemsdijk was awarded the Dutch Award for ICT research 2014. The project is entitled Computational Reasoning for Socially Adaptive Electronic Partners (CoreSAEP). The vision underlying the project has been outlined in a publication in the AAMAS "Blue Sky Ideas" track in 2015 (http://ii.tudelft.nl/~birna/publications/2015/riemsdijk15aamassaep.pdf). The research lies in the intersection of theoretical computer science (formal semantics, temporal logic) and multi-agent systems (agent programming, normative systems). The overall aim of the project is to develop a reasoning framework that combines logic and quantitative techniques for Socially Adaptive Electronic Partners (SAEPs) that adapt their behavior to norms and values of people. This becomes more and more important as technology becomes an integral part of our daily lives. The computational reasoning techniques are aimed at determining when and to what extent norm-compliance can be guaranteed, and deciding what to do if in exceptional situations a norm cannot or should not be complied with. We will implement the reasoning framework to evaluate its run-time behavior. We develop the reasoning techniques through a scenario-based approach in cooperation with users and other stakeholders, grounding the formal work in real-world use cases. The associated research posts will be in the following areas: POST 1 - formal semantics, temporal logic & normative agents (vacancy number: EWI2016-61) POST 2 - quantitative reasoning, logic & normative agents (vacancy number: EWI2016-60) More information on the project and the team you will be working in, can be found on http://ii.tudelft.nl/~birna/projects/CoreSAEP.html. For further information about the positions, please contact Birna van Riemsdijk via email (m.b.vanriemsdijk at tudelft.nl). Salary for a PhD position is EUR2191 to EUR2801 per month gross, and for a postdoc position EUR2552 to EUR4028 per month gross. REQUIREMENTS The applicant: * Has a Master's degree in computer science or artificial intelligence. If applying for a postdoc, a PhD is also required. * Has good command of the English language. * Has strong (formal) modelling skills. * Has strong organizational skills and affinity for a scenario-based research approach. * Has a willingness to try new things and learn from others, has an eye for detail, and stamina. HOW TO APPLY Applications will be accepted until all positions have been filled. The first round of interviews will be conducted based on applications received before *** January 31st 2017 ***. To apply, please submit the following application material to Hr-eemcs at tudelft.nl and state the vacancy number in the subject line of the email: (1) Curriculum Vitae (with publications if you have any). (2) Course lists with grades and degree certificates (3) A letter of application in which you explain both your motivation and the relevance of your skills and experience for this research project. The motivational letter should be on-topic, generic letters will cause your application to be rejected immediately. (4) A list of 3 (academic) references that we can contact (5) When applying for a PhD position: your MSc thesis in English (or alternatively if your MSc thesis is not in English, a 5-page summary of your MSc thesis in English). When applying for the postdoc position: a copy of your PhD thesis (or a draft thereof) and a detailed list of your publications. ----------------------------- Dr. M. Birna van Riemsdijk assistant professor Interactive Intelligence Group Department of Intelligent Systems Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science Delft University of Technology Mekelweg 4 2628 CD Delft The Netherlands Room: HB 12.040 Telephone: +31 (0)15 2786331 Website: http://ii.tudelft.nl/~birna/ Twitter: @mbirna From roberto.santana at ehu.eus Thu Jan 26 00:03:05 2017 From: roberto.santana at ehu.eus (Roberto Santana Hermida) Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2017 00:03:05 +0100 Subject: IEEE CEC-2017, San Sebastian. Only 6 days to the dealine!!! Message-ID: <20170126000305.Horde.0PWq7tmrAhcEQHbeZ5NEcRR@webposta.ehu.eus> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ We apologize if you received multiple copies of this message Please, feel free to distribute it to those who might be interested. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ We are pleased to announce that the 2017 IEEE Conference on Evolutionary Computation (www.cec2017.org) will be held in San Sebastian, Spain, in June 5-8, 2017. IEEE CEC is a world-class conference that aims to bring together researchers and practitioners in the field of evolutionary computation and computational intelligence from all around the globe. Technical exchanges within the research community will encompass keynote lectures, regular and special sessions, tutorials, and competitions as well as poster presentations. In addition, participants will be treated to a series of social functions, receptions, and networking to establish new connections and foster everlasting friendship among fellow counterparts. Donostia/San Sebastian is a coastal medium-size city located in northern Spain, 20km from the border with France. It stands as an amphitheatre over-looking the sea. It is known the world over for its spectacular bay and is referred to as the Pearl of the Cantabrian Sea. It is also internationally renowned for being a culinary haven where visitors will find more Michelin stars per square meter than in any other city in the world. The conference will take place at the Kursaal Convention Center and Auditorium. Kursaal is located in the city center, overlooking the seafront. This avant-garde architectural showpiece was designed by Rafael Moneo and won the Mies van der Rohe prize for the best building in Europe in 2001. The main hotels, restaurants and shopping areas are within walking distance. CEC 2017 covers all topics in the field of Evolutionary Computation including the following non-exhaustive list: * Genetic algorithms * Genetic programming * Estimation of distribution algorithms * Evolutionary programming * Evolution strategies * Bioinformatics and bioengineering * Coevolution and collective behavior * Combinatorial and numerical optimization * Constraint and uncertainty handling * Evolutionary data mining * Evolutionary learning systems * Evolvable/adaptive hardware and systems * Evolving neural networks and fuzzy systems * Evolutionary multi-objective optimization * Ant colony optimization * Artificial life * Agent-based systems * Molecular and quantum computing * Particle Swarm Optimization * Artificial immune systems * Representation and operators * Industrial applications of EC * Evolutionary game theory * Cognitive systems and applications * Computational finance and economics * Estimation of distribution algorithms * Evolutionary design * Evolutionary scheduling The complete list of special sessions is complete: http://www.cec2017.org/#special_session_sessions Important Dates: Deadline for the submission of tutorials and competitions proposals: January 9, 2017 Paper submission deadline: January 30, 2017 Paper Decision notification: February 26, 2017 All the papers have to be submitted electronically through the congress application. For Program inquiries please contact the Program Chair, Carlos Coello at ccoello at cs.cinvestav.mx. General inquiries for IEEE CEC 2017 should be sent to the General Chair, Jose A. Lozano at info at cec2017.org You can also follow CEC 2017 on Twitter: https://twitter.com/cec2017 We are looking forward to seeing you in San Sebastian! From Mary-Anne at themagiclab.org Thu Jan 26 05:07:54 2017 From: Mary-Anne at themagiclab.org (Mary-Anne Williams) Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2017 15:07:54 +1100 Subject: CFP: IJCAI 2017 Human-Robot Engagement in the Home, Workplace and Public Spaces Workshop Message-ID: IJCAI 2017 HUMAN-ROBOT ENGAGEMENT in the Home, Workplace and Public Spaces WORKSHOP PRELIMINARY CALL FOR PAPERS Social robots are poised to have a profound impact on business, society and the global economy. They are a disruptive technology. A self-driving vehicle is an example of a social robot, not only does it need to drive on the road safely but it must also create enjoyable experiences for humans inside the vehicle, while at the same time communicating with and anticipating nearby cars, pedestrians, city infrastructure, land and space based technologies. The key to success of any social robot is how well it can engage people around it as it pursues its design goals. The critical research question is how can we design social robots to enhance the human experience and improve people's lives? The purpose of this workshop is to explore how social robots can generate value and create engaging experiences for people in the home, workplace and public spaces. The workshop will focus on social robots in the home, workplace and public spaces. Robot encounters in public spaces will be different to those in workplaces where a robot is a long-term partner and expected to help humans be more productive. The key research challenges are autonomy, proactivity and intelligence, sociability. Social robotics is a transdisciplinary field. We seek to bring together research interests that are not traditionally 'close'. In particular, the workshop will provide a venue for fruitful discussion between artificial intelligence researchers exploring pervasive computing, social robotics, cognitive science, software engineering, law, AI planning and knowledge representation. In addition to presented papers the Workshop will involve an ideation session and much lively discussion and debate on the applications and implications of social robotics. Relevant topics include, but are not limited, to the following: - Human-robot interaction and collaboration - Social intelligence for proactive autonomous robots - Law abiding autonomous robots - Engagement and disengagement in HRI - Human attention, proactive decision making and behaviour - Autonomy, learning and intelligence - Joint attention and emotional connection - Social robots in an Internet of Things ecosystem - Privacy and security for Social Robotics - Legal and ethical implications of social robots IMPORTANT DATES Paper Submission Deadline: *May 15, 2017 *(EasyChair Submission Website will Open in March) Acceptance Notification: *June 8, 2017* Camera-Ready Version: *June 22, 2017* SUBMISSION DETAILS Submitted papers must be original work of no more than 6 pages in length and formatted according to IJCAI guidelines and submitted electronically through the Workshop submission site, which will be available in March from Workshop website. Formatting Guidelines, LaTeX Styles and Word Template can be dowloaded from here . Submissions must be in electronic form. Additional material such as videos may also be submitted. At least one author of each accepted paper is required to attend the workshop to present the work. Submissions received after the deadline or that do not meet the length or formatting requirements will not be considered for review. No email or fax submissions will be accepted. Notification of receipt of an electronically submitted paper will be emailed to the designated contact author soon after receipt. ORGANIZING COMMITTEE *Mary-Anne Williams*, University of Technology Sydney and CodeX Stanford University (Chair) *Benjamin Johnston*, University of Technology Sydney *William Judge*, Commonwealth Bank of Australia *Amit Kumar Pandey*, Softbank Robotics Europe *Meg Tonkin*, University of Technology Sydney *Jonathan Vitale,* University of Technology Sydney PROGRAM COMMITTEE *Nic Carey*, Harvard University, USA *Xiaoping Chen*, University of Science and Technology of China *Jesse Clark,* University of Technology Sydney, Australia *Tony Cohn*, Leeds University, UK *Kate Darling*, MIT, USA *Peter Gärdenfors*, Lund University, Sweden *Georg Gottlob*, Oxford University, UK *Daniel Grollman*, Sphero, USA *Michael Genesereth*, CodeX and the Dept of Computer Science, Stanford University, USA *Hatice Gunes*, University of Cambridge, UK *George Konidaris*, Brown University, USA *Eryk Korfel*, Commonwealth Bank of Australia *Mahya Knox*, University of Technology Sydney, Australia *Séverin Lemaignan*, University of Plymouth, UK *William Mailer*, Commonwealth Bank of Australia *Lilia Moshkina*, Neato Robotics, USA *Yukie Naga*i, Osaka University, Japan *Bernhard Nebel*, University of Freiburg, Germany *Suman Ojha*, University of Technology Sydney, Australia *David Parkes*, Harvard University, USA *Pavlos Peppas*, Patras University, Greece *Sammy Pfeiffer*, University of Technology Sydney, Australia *Brian Scassellati*, Yale University, USA *Julie Shah*, MIT, USA *Harry Surden,* University of Colorado and Stanford University, USA *Manuela Veloso*, Carnegie Mellon University, USA *Roland Vogl*, CodeX and the Law School, Stanford University, USA *Holly Yanco*, UMass Lowell, USA *Xun Wang*, University of Technology Sydney and Commonwealth Bank of Australia WORKSHOP INFORMATION Place: IJCAI-17 International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence , Melbourne, Australia. 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URL: From xrambous at aurora.fi.muni.cz Thu Jan 26 09:31:35 2017 From: xrambous at aurora.fi.muni.cz (TSD 2017) Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2017 09:31:35 +0100 Subject: TSD 2017 - First Call for Papers Message-ID: ************************************************************************** TSD 2017 - FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS ************************************************************************** The twentieth anniversary International Conference on TEXT, SPEECH and DIALOGUE (TSD 2017) Praha (Prague), Czech Republic August 27-31, 2017 http://www.tsdconference.org TSD HIGHLIGHTS * Invited speakers: Tomas Mikolov (Facebook AI Research Group, USA), Lucia Specia (The University of Sheffield, UK), Rico Sennrich (The University of Edinburgh, UK) and other eminent personages with various expertise related to the topics of the conference have been asked to give their respective pieces of speech. * TSD is traditionally published by Springer-Verlag and regularly listed in all major citation databases: Thomson Reuters Conference Proceedings Citation Index, DBLP, SCOPUS, EI, INSPEC, COMPENDEX, etc. * TSD offers high-standard transparent review process - double blind, final reviewers discussion. * The TSD2017 conference is supported by the International Speech Communication Association (ISCA). It holds the status of an ISCA Supported Event. * TSD is officially recognized as an INTERSPEECH 2017 satellite event. * TSD will take place in the historical centre of Prague, the Capital of the Czech Republic. * The conference is organized in co-operation with the Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics of the Charles University. * TSD provides an all-service package (conference access and material, all meals, one social event, etc.) for an easily affordable fee starting at 290 EUR for students and 360 EUR for full participants. * Moreover, we succeeded in our effort to provide students with an accommodation option for an affordable price of 20 EUR/night (+ 5 EUR for the breakfast) in the nearby dormitories. IMPORTANT DATES March 31, 2017 ......... Deadline for submission of contributions May 10, 2017 ........... Notification of acceptance or rejection May 31, 2017 ........... Deadline for submission of camera-ready papers August 27-31, 2017 ..... TSD2017 conference date The proceedings will be provided on flash drives in form of navigable content. Printed books will be available for extra fee. TSD SERIES TSD series have evolved as a prime forum for interaction between researchers in both spoken and written language processing from all over the world. Proceedings of the TSD conference form a book published by Springer-Verlag in their Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) series. The TSD proceedings are regularly indexed by Thomson Reuters Conference Proceedings Citation Index. LNAI series are listed in all major citation databases such as DBLP, SCOPUS, EI, INSPEC, or COMPENDEX. TOPICS Topics of the 20th anniversary conference will include (but are not limited to): Speech Recognition (multilingual, continuous, emotional speech, handicapped speaker, out-of-vocabulary words, alternative way of feature extraction, new models for acoustic and language modelling). Corpora and Language Resources (monolingual, multilingual, text, and spoken corpora, large web corpora, disambiguation, specialized lexicons, dictionaries). Speech and Spoken Language Generation (multilingual, high fidelity speech synthesis, computer singing). Tagging, Classification and Parsing of Text and Speech (multilingual processing, sentiment analysis, credibility analysis, automatic text labeling, summarization, authorship attribution). 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, emotion and personality modelling). PROGRAMME COMMITTEE All programme committee members are listed on the conference web pages: http://www.tsdconference.org/tsd2017/index.php?page=committees OFFICIAL LANGUAGE The official language of the event is English, however, papers on issues related to text and speech processing in languages other than English are strongly encouraged. CONFERENCE FEES The conference fee depends on the date of payment and on the participant's status (full or student). It includes one copy of the conference proceedings (on a USB flash drive), refreshments/coffee breaks, lunches and dinners, opening dinner, welcome party, mid-conference social event admissions, and organizing costs. In order to lower the fee as much as possible, the accommodation and the conference trip are not included in it this time. Full participant: early registration by May 31, 2017 - CZK 10 000 (approx. 360 EUR) late registration by August 1, 2017 - CZK 11 000 (approx. 400 EUR) on-site registration - CZK 12 000 (approx. 444 EUR) Student (reduced): early registration by May 31, 2017 - CZK 8 000 (approx. 290 EUR) late registration by August 1, 2017 - CZK 8 700 (approx. 322 EUR) on-site registration - CZK 10 000 (approx. 360 EUR) Dormitory accommodation 20 EUR/night (+ 5 EUR for the breakfast) Please, keep in mind that the fees are preliminary and they may slightly change in the future. LOCATION Praha (Prague)--also called The City of a Hundred Spires or The Heart of Europe--is situated in the very centre of Bohemia on the banks of the river Vltava. There live more than 1.2 million people in the metropolitan area. Thus, Praha is considered the centre of science, higher education, culture, economy and authorities. The city is divided into ten districts. Each of them offers its own charming atmosphere predicated upon its rich history. A good example can be the Jewish Quarter (Josefov) known especially for the legend of Golem and famous writer Franz Kafka. Then, walking the Parizska street (said to be the most luxurious street in the city), there is the Old Town Square. One of the most important squares of the city renowned for the rare Prague Astronomical Clock (Orloj), number of galleries, Bethlehem Chapel and a monument of religious reformer Jan Hus. The next place of interest can be found in the area of the New Town. The Wenceslas square with the monument of St. Wenceslas, the patron saint of the Czech state, is the longest square of the republic. Its capacity is fully used by various shops, restaurants, clubs and street artists. Also the renaissance revival-styled building of National Museum, which is now under reconstruction, is situated on the upper end of the square. Modern art and architecture together with technical mastery demonstration are represented by the Zizkov Television Tower, the Dancing House (Fred and Ginger Building) or the Stefanik's Observatory on the Petrin hill located in the neighbourhood of the quarter Hradcany. Also Krizik's light fountain or Industrial Palace in the area of the Holesovice Showground are worth seeing. However, the dominant feature of the skyline is still created by the Prague Castle and the Gothic St. Vitus Cathedral spires. The Golden Lane heading down to the Lesser Town shows the tiny and colorful medieval houses. There are many bridges connecting the banks of the Vltava River. However, only one of them is well known in the whole world--the Charles bridge. Czech King and Holy Roman Emperor Charles IV promoted its construction in the 14th century. The bridge is 520 metres long and stands for a connection between the Lesser Town and the Old Town. It was built in the Gothic style as well as the St. Vitus Cathedral. Charles IV was also the founder of the University, which now proudly bears his name--The Charles University. It is one the world's oldest universities and with 17 faculties, 3 institutes, 6 centres of teaching, research and development it is also the largest and best rated university in the Czech Republic. The students can choose some of the 642 courses within 300 of accredited degree programmes in the field of medicine, law, theology, pharmacy, arts, science, mathematics and physics, education, social sciences, physical education and sports, and humanities. We are justifiably very proud of the fact that the campus of the Charles University is going to host the TSD2017 conference. ABOUT CONFERENCE The conference is organized by the Faculty of Applied Sciences, University of West Bohemia, Pilsen, the Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University, Brno, and the Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics of the Charles University. The TSD2017 conference is officially recognized as an INTERSPEECH 2017 satellite event and it holds the status of an ISCA Supported Event as well. Venue: Faculty of Mathematics and Physics of the Charles University Mala Strana Campus - "S" Building Malostranske nam. 2/25 CZ-118 00 Praha 1 Accommodation: Orea Hotel Pyramida **** Belohorska 24 CZ-169 00 Praha 6 CONTACT The preferred way of contacting the conference organizing committee is writing an e-mail to: Mrs Romana Strapkova, TSD2017 Conference Secretary E-mail: tsd2017 at tsdconference.org Phone: (+420) 736 664 500 All paper correspondence regarding the conference should be addressed to: TSD2017 - KIV Fakulta aplikovanych ved Zapadoceska univerzita v Plzni Univerzitni 8 CZ-306 14 Plzen Czech Republic Fax: (+420) 377 632 402 -- Please, mark the faxed material with large capitals 'TSD' on top. TSD 2017 conference web site: http://www.tsdconference.org/tsd2017 From announce at cs.ucy.ac.cy Fri Jan 27 14:51:03 2017 From: announce at cs.ucy.ac.cy (Announce Announcements) Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2017 15:51:03 +0200 Subject: 21st European Conference on Advances in Databases and Information Systems (ADBIS 2017): Third Call for Doctoral Consortium Message-ID: *** Third Call for Doctoral Consortium *** 21st European Conference on Advances in Databases and Information Systems ADBIS 2017 Hilton Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus 24 - 27 September, 2017 http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=YWZpaG0ub3JnICwJCQlldmVudEBpbi50dS1jbGF1c3RoYWwuZGUJMjFzdCBFdXJvcGVhbiBDb25mZXJlbmNlIG9uIEFkdmFuY2VzIGluIERhdGFiYXNlcyBhbmQgSW5mb3JtYXRpb24gU3lzdGVtcyAoQURCSVMgMjAxNyk6IFRoaXJkIENhbGwgZm9yIERvY3RvcmFsIENvbnNvcnRpdW0JMjAJTGlzdHMJMTkxCWNsaWNrCXllcwlubw==&url=http%3A%2F%2Fcyprusconferences.org%2Fadbis2017%2Fconsortium.html The internationally recognized ADBIS conference already for 21 years is gathering researchers and practitioners around topics related to databases, data processing, and information systems, in general. The conference is run in Europe but attracts researchers from all over the world. The 21st ADBIS conference will be held in Nicosia, Cyprus. The conference is accompanied by satellite events, including doctoral consortia and workshops. DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM The Doctoral Consortium (DC) is a forum where PhD students can present their research ideas, confront them with the scientific community, receive feedback from mentors, and tie cooperation bounds. Students will receive inspiration from their peers and will have a chance to discuss their research objectives with senior members of the community in the context of an established international conference. The DC session will take place on September 24, in parallel with the workshop sessions. Each participant will present her/his work, followed by a discussion with senior researchers. ELIGIBILITY We seek PhD students who have either determined the direction of their thesis research (probably with some preliminary results already published), but who still have substantial work to complete, or PhD student participants who are in the early stages of their dissertation year. It is not required to have a paper accepted for the main conference in order to participate in the DC. SUBMISSIONS To apply to the DC, please submit a single-authored paper (which will appear in the proceedings of DC), accompanied by a short email from the thesis advisor stating support for your participation in the DC, describing the current status of the thesis research, and giving your expected date of graduation. The papers for DC should be at most 12 pages in Springer format (formatting instructions can be obtained via http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=YWZpaG0ub3JnICwJCQlldmVudEBpbi50dS1jbGF1c3RoYWwuZGUJMjFzdCBFdXJvcGVhbiBDb25mZXJlbmNlIG9uIEFkdmFuY2VzIGluIERhdGFiYXNlcyBhbmQgSW5mb3JtYXRpb24gU3lzdGVtcyAoQURCSVMgMjAxNyk6IFRoaXJkIENhbGwgZm9yIERvY3RvcmFsIENvbnNvcnRpdW0JMjAJTGlzdHMJMTkxCWNsaWNrCXllcwlubw==&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.springer.com%2Fcomputer%2Flncs%3FSGWID%3D0-164-2-793332-0%29 and describe the state of the whole PhD project, rather than a specific completed result. The paper should outline the objectives, the problem, state of the art, results obtained so far, and what is still to be done in the frame of the PhD project. If an author prefers to present a completed research result, the paper should be submitted to the main conference or one of accompanying workshops. A paper submitted to the DC may not be under review for any other conference or journal during the time it is being considered for the DC. Submissions should be made electronically in PDF format at CMT: http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=YWZpaG0ub3JnICwJCQlldmVudEBpbi50dS1jbGF1c3RoYWwuZGUJMjFzdCBFdXJvcGVhbiBDb25mZXJlbmNlIG9uIEFkdmFuY2VzIGluIERhdGFiYXNlcyBhbmQgSW5mb3JtYXRpb24gU3lzdGVtcyAoQURCSVMgMjAxNyk6IFRoaXJkIENhbGwgZm9yIERvY3RvcmFsIENvbnNvcnRpdW0JMjAJTGlzdHMJMTkxCWNsaWNrCXllcwlubw==&url=https%3A%2F%2Fcmt3.research.microsoft.com%2FADBISDC2017. In case of multiple files, please submit a single compressed file (zip or rar). After logging into CMT, please choose the "ADBIS 2017 Doctoral Consortium" track. REVIEW PROCESS Each paper submitted to the DC will be reviewed by at least two members of the DC program committee and will be judged based on originality, technical merit, presentation quality, and relevance. The authors of successful submissions must take into account the reviewers' comments during the preparation of the final version and describe the changes in a separate document to be submitted together with the final camera-ready version. The program committee reserves the right to reject a paper if the final version does not meet the requirements above. Applications not adhering to the provided guidelines (including page limits) will not be considered. The authors of accepted papers must register to the conference, attend the DC and present their work. PROCEEDINGS The DC papers will be published by Springer, together with the ADBIS workshops proceedings, in the Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing series. IMPORTANT DATES · Submission: May 19, 2017 · Acceptance/Rejection Notification: June 30, 2017 · Camera-ready Submission: July 14, 2017 · Doctoral Consortium: September 24, 2017 COMMITTEES Steering Committee Chair · Leonid Kalinichenko, Russian Academy of Science, Russia General Chair · George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Program Chairs · Marite Kirikova, Riga Technical University, Latvia · Kjetil Norvag, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway Proceedings Chair · Christos Mettouris, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Workshops Chairs · Johann Gamper, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy · Robert Wrembel, Poznan University of Technology, Poland Doctoral Consortium Chairs · Jerome Darmont, Universite Lyon 2, France · Stefano Rizzi, University of Bologna, Italy -------------- nächster Teil -------------- Ein Dateianhang mit HTML-Daten wurde abgetrennt... URL: From mpavone at dmi.unict.it Fri Jan 27 15:09:21 2017 From: mpavone at dmi.unict.it (Mario Pavone) Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2017 15:09:21 +0100 Subject: [AIS @ CEC 2017] A few days left CfP - AIS: Algorithms, Simulation, Modelling & Theory Message-ID: <20170127150921.Horde.XIvhdeph4B9Yi1SRrugX0NA@mbox.dmi.unict.it> * Apologies if you received multiple copies * Please kindly forward to those who may be interested. CALL FOR PAPERS Artificial Immune Systems: Algorithms, Simulation, Modelling & Theory IEEE CEC 2017 Special Session June 5-8, 2017, Donostia - San Sebastián, Spain http://ieee-cis-ais.org/ais-cec2017/ ais.cec2017 at gmail.com *** EXTENDED DEADLINE: January 30, 2017 *** NEWS: The BEST ACCEPTED papers, and the ones most REPRESENTATIVE in AIS will be invited to be significantly extended in order to be considered for a SPECIAL ISSUE in NATURAL COMPUTATION journal. * Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Computational & Mathematical modelling of the Immune System; - Theoretical aspects of immune inspired algorithms; - Novel algorithms and new immune operators; - Benchmarking immune inspired algorithms against other techniques; - Empirical and Theoretical investigations into performance and complexity of immune inspired algorithms; - Hybridisation of immune inspired algorithms with other techniques; - Systems & Synthetic Immunology. This special session is supported by IEEE CIS Task Force on Artificial Immune Systems (http://ieee-cis-ais.org). * IMPORTANT DATES: paper submission: January 30, 2017 notification of acceptance: February 26, 2017 final paper submission: March 12, 2017 Conference dates: June 5-8, 2017 * ORGANIZERS: Thomas Jansen, Aberystwyth University, UK Mario Pavone, University of Catania, Italy Jon Timmis, University of York, UK -- 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/ ====================================================== From geoff at cs.miami.edu Fri Jan 27 15:23:59 2017 From: geoff at cs.miami.edu (Geoff Sutcliffe) Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2017 09:23:59 -0500 (EST) Subject: FroCoS 2017 - 2nd Call for Papers Message-ID: <20170127142359.0F7C5121493@mcclellan.cs.miami.edu> *** Apologies for multiple copies, please redistribute *** SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS FroCoS 2017 11th International Symposium on Frontiers of Combining Systems Brasilia, Brazil September 25-29th, 2017 http://frocos2017.cic.unb.br Submission Deadlines: 24th April 2017 (abstracts) 28th April 2017 (full papers) GENERAL INFORMATION The 11th International Symposium on Frontiers of Combining Systems (FroCoS 2017) will be held in Brasilia, Brazil, between September 25 to September 29, 2017. Its main goal is to disseminate and promote progress in research areas related to the development of techniques for the integration, combination, and modularization of formal systems together with their analysis. FroCoS 2017 will be co-located with the 26th International Conference on Automated Reasoning with Analytic Tableaux and Related Methods (TABLEAUX 2017) and the 8th International Conference on Interactive Theorem Proving (ITP 2017). The local organization of all events will be organised by Claudia Nalon (USB, Brazil), Daniele Nantes (UnB, Brazil), Elaine Pimentel (UFRN, Brazil) and Joao Marcos (UFRN, Brazil). SCOPE OF CONFERENCE In various areas of computer science, such as logic, computation, program development and verification, artificial intelligence, knowledge representation, and automated reasoning, there is an obvious need for using specialized formalisms and inference systems for selected tasks. To be usable in practice, these specialized systems must be combined with each other and integrated into general purpose systems. This has led---in many research areas---to the development of techniques and methods for the combination and integration of dedicated formal systems, as well as for their modularization and analysis. The International Symposium on Frontiers of Combining Systems (FroCoS) traditionally focusses on these types of research questions and activities. Like its predecessors, FroCoS 2017 seeks to offer a common forum for research in the general area of combination, modularization, and integration of systems, with emphasis on logic-based ones, and of their practical use. Typical topics of interest include (but are not limited to): * combinations of logics (such as higher-order, first-order, temporal, modal, description or other non-classical logics); * combination and integration methods in SAT and SMT solving; * combination of decision procedures, satisfiability procedures, constraint solving techniques, or logical frameworks; * combinations and modularity in ontologies; * integration of equational and other theories into deductive systems; * hybrid methods for deduction, resolution and constraint propagation; * hybrid systems in knowledge representation and natural language semantics; * combined logics for distributed and multi-agent systems; * logical aspects of combining and modularizing programs and specifications; * integration of data structures into constraint logic programming and deduction; * combinations and modularity in term rewriting; * applications of methods and techniques to the verification and analysis of information systems. INVITED SPEAKERS - Katalin Bimbo (University of Alberta, Canada) (joint with TABLEAUX and ITP) - Jasmin Blanchette (Inria and LORIA, Nancy, France) (joint with TABLEAUX and ITP) - Cezary Kaliszyk (University of Innsbruck, Austria) (joint with TABLEAUX and ITP) - Cesare Tinelli (University of Iowa, USA) - Renata Wassermann (University of Sao Paulo, Brazil) PUBLICATION DETAILS The proceedings of the symposium will be published in the Springer LNAI/LNCS series. PAPER SUBMISSIONS The program committee seeks high-quality submissions describing original work, written in English, not overlapping with published or simultaneously submitted work to a journal or conference with archival proceedings. Selection criteria include accuracy and originality of ideas, clarity and significance of results, and quality of presentation. The page limit in Springer LNCS style is 16 pages. Papers must be edited in LaTeX using the llncs style and must be submitted electronically as PDF files via the EasyChair system at the following address: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=frocos2017 For each accepted paper, at least one of the authors is required to attend the symposium and present the work. Prospective authors must register a title and an abstract five days before the paper submission deadline. Further information about paper submissions is available at the conference website that can be found at the beginning of this call for papers. WORKSHOPS AND TUTORIALS Proposals for Workshops and Tutorial sessions have been solicited in a separate call, which can be found at http://frocos2017.cic.unb.br/#cfw. IMPORTANT DATES 24th April 2017: Abstract submission deadline 28th April 2017: Full paper submission deadline 9th June 2017: Author notification 23rd June 2017: Camera-ready version due September 25-29, 2017: FroCoS Conference PROGRAM COMMITTEE Carlos Areces, FaMAF - Universidad Nacional de Cordoba Alessandro Artale, Free University of Bolzano-Bozen Mauricio Ayala-Rincon, Universidade de Brasilia Franz Baader, TU Dresden Peter Baumgartner, National ICT Australia Christoph Benzmueller, Freie Universitaet Berlin Thomas Bolander, Technical University of Denmark Marcelo Coniglio, State University of Campinas Clare Dixon, University of Liverpool [co-chair] Francois Fages, Inria Paris-Rocquencourt Marcelo Finger, Universidade de Sao Paulo [co-chair] Pascal Fontaine, LORIA, INRIA, University of Lorraine Didier Galmiche, LORIA, University of Lorraine Vijay Ganesh, University of Waterloo Silvio Ghilardi, Universita degli Studi di Milano Juergen Giesl, RWTH Aachen Laura Giordano, Universita del Piemonte Orientale Agi Kurucz, Kings College, London Till Mossakowski, Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg Claudia Nalon, University of Brasilia Elaine Pimentel, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte Silvio Ranise, Fondazione Bruno Kessler-Irst Christophe Ringeissen, LORIA-INRIA Uli Sattler, University of Manchester Roberto Sebastiani, University of Trento Guillermo Simari, Universidad Nacional del Sur in Bahia Blanca Viorica Sofronie-Stokkermans, University Koblenz-Landau Andrzej Szalas, University of Warsaw Rene Thiemann, University of Innsbruck Ashish Tiwari, SRI International Christoph Weidenbach, Max Planck Institute for Informatics From grlmc at grlmc.com Sun Jan 29 02:47:45 2017 From: grlmc at grlmc.com (GRLMC) Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2017 02:47:45 +0100 Subject: BigDat 2017: works in progress February 10 Message-ID: <545102060a010b010554510401035a5207030d530b030e50015758045557015607510454570b03045656540a055107@grlmc_ip-zone_com-6> BigDat 2017: works in progress February 10*To be removed from our mailing list, please respond to this message with UNSUBSCRIBE in the subject line*   ********************************************************   3rd INTERNATIONAL WINTER SCHOOL ON BIG DATA   BigDat 2017   Bari, Italy   February 13-17, 2017   Organized by: University of Bari "Aldo Moro" Rovira i Virgili University   http://grammars.grlmc.com/BigDat2017/   ********************************************************   --- Regular registration deadline: February 10, 2017 ---   ********************************************************   AIM:   BigDat 2017 will be a research training event with a global scope aiming at updating participants about the most recent advances in the critical and fast developing area of big data, which covers a large spectrum of current exciting research and industrial innovation with an extraordinary potential for a huge impact on scientific discoveries, medicine, engineering, business models, and society itself. Renowned academics and industry pioneers will lecture and share their views with the audience.   Most big data subareas will be displayed, namely foundations, infrastructure, management, search and mining, security and privacy, and applications (to biological and health sciences, to business, finance and transportation, to online social networks, etc.). Main challenges of analytics, management and storage of big data will be identified through 4 keynote lectures, 23 six-hour courses, and 1 round table, which will tackle the most active and promising topics. The organizers are convinced that outstanding speakers will attract the brightest and most motivated students. Interaction will be a main component of the event. An open session will give participants the opportunity to present their own work in progress in 5 minutes.   ADDRESSED TO:   In principle, graduate students, PhD students and postdocs from around the world will be the most typical profiles. However, there are no formal pre-requisites for participation in terms of academic degrees. Since there will be differences in level, specific knowledge background may be assumed for some of the courses. BigDat 2017 is also appropriate for more senior people who want to keep themselves updated on recent developments and future trends. All will surely find it fruitful to listen and discuss with major researchers, industry leaders and innovators.   REGIME:   In addition to keynotes, 2-3 courses will run in parallel during the whole event. Participants will be able to freely choose the courses they wish to attend as well as to move from one to another.   VENUE:   BigDat 2017 will take place in Bari, a lively university city on the Adriatic Sea in Southern Italy. The venue will be:   Department of Computer Science University of Bari "Aldo Moro" via Orabona, 4 70125 Bari, Italy   KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:   Ernesto Damiani (EBTIC, Khalifa University, Abu Dhabi & University of Milan), Model-driven Development of Big Data Applications   Daniele Quercia (Bell Labs), Good City Life   PROFESSORS AND COURSES:   Paul Bliese (University of South Carolina), [introductory/intermediate] Using R for Mixed-effects (Multilevel) Models   Hendrik Blockeel (KU Leuven), [intermediate] Decision Trees for Big Data Analytics   Tamás Budavári (Johns Hopkins University), [introductory] Big Data Approaches in Astronomy   Diego Calvanese (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano), [advanced] Data-aware Processes: Modeling and Verification   Amr El Abbadi (University of California, Santa Barbara), [introductory/intermediate] Managing Big Data in the Cloud   Geoffrey C. Fox (Indiana University), [intermediate] Using High Performance Computing for Big Data Analytics   Minos Garofalakis (Technical University of Crete), [intermediate/advanced] Streaming Big Data Analytics   David W. Gerbing (Portland State University), [introductory] Data Visualization with R   Georgios B. Giannakis (University of Minnesota), [advanced] Signal Processing Tools for Big Network Data Analytics   Sander Klous (University of Amsterdam), [introductory] We Are Big Data   Laks V.S. Lakshmanan (University of British Columbia), [introductory] Analysis of Large Social Networks   Maurizio Lenzerini (Sapienza University of Rome), [intermediate/advanced] Ontology-based Data Management   Soumya D. Mohanty (University of Texas Rio Grande Valley), [introductory/intermediate] Swarm Intelligence Methods and Optimization Problems in Big Data Analytics   Bernhard Pfahringer (University of Waikato), [introductory] Introduction to Data Stream Mining for Big Data   Krithi Ramamritham (Indian Institute of Technology Bombay), [introductory/intermediate] Harnessing Big Data for Building Smart Things   Michael Rosenblum (University of Potsdam), [introductory/intermediate] Coupled Oscillators Approach in Time Series Analysis   Pierangela Samarati (University of Milan), [intermediate] Data Security and Privacy in the Cloud   V.S. Subrahmanian (University of Maryland), [introductory/intermediate] Big Data and Cybersecurity   Alexander S. Tuzhilin (New York University), [introductory/intermediate] Recommender Systems and Big Data   Jeffrey Ullman (Stanford University), [introductory] Big Data Algorithms that Aren't Machine Learning   Lyle Ungar (University of Pennsylvania), [introductory] Sentiment Mining from User Generated Content   John Wright (Columbia University), [intermediate/advanced] Sparse and Low-Dimensional Models for High-Dimensional Data: Theory, Algorithms and Applications   Zhongfei Zhang (Binghamton University), [introductory/advanced] Knowledge Discovery from Relational and Multimedia Data   OPEN SESSION   An open session will collect 5-minute presentations of work in progress by participants. They should submit a half-page abstract containing title, authors, and summary of the research to david.silva409 (at) yahoo.com by February 10, 2017.   ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:   Annalisa Appice Michelangelo Ceci (co-chair) Stefano Franco Corrado Loglisci Donato Malerba (co-chair) Carlos Martín-Vide (co-chair) Manuel Jesús Parra Royón Gianvito Pio David Silva   REGISTRATION:   It has to be done at   http://grammars.grlmc.com/BigDat2017/registration.php   The selection of up to 8 courses requested in the registration template is only tentative and non-binding. For the sake of organization, it will be helpful to have an approximation of the respective demand for each course.   Since the capacity of the venue is limited, registration requests will be processed on a first come first served basis. The registration period will be closed and the on-line registration facility disabled when the capacity of the venue will be complete. It is much recommended to register prior to the event.   FEES:   Fees comprise access to all courses and lunches. There are several early registration deadlines. Fees depend on the registration deadline.   ACCOMMODATION:   Suggestions for accommodation are available on the website.   CERTIFICATE:   Participants will be delivered a certificate of attendance.   QUESTIONS AND FURTHER INFORMATION:   david.silva409 (at) yahoo.com   ACKNOWLEDGMENTS:   Università degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro Universitat Rovira i Virgili -------------- nächster Teil -------------- Ein Dateianhang mit HTML-Daten wurde abgetrennt... URL: From peter.schuller at marmara.edu.tr Mon Jan 30 12:01:54 2017 From: peter.schuller at marmara.edu.tr (Peter Schüller) Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2017 14:01:54 +0300 (+03) Subject: Final CFP with Deadline Extension: LPNMR - International Conference on Logic Programming and Non-monotonic Reasoning, Finland, 3-6 July 2017 Message-ID: <20170130110154.D52FE2C00D8@omsievews> Call for Papers --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 14th International Conference on Logic Programming and Non-monotonic Reasoning LPNMR 2017 http://lpnmr2017.aalto.fi/ Hanasaari, Espoo, Finland July 3-6, 2017 !!! Deadline Extension !!! AIJ&TPLP Fast Tracks !!! Springer BP Prize !!! --------------------------------------------------------------------------- AIMS AND SCOPE LPNMR 2017 is the fourteenth in the series of international meetings on logic programming and non-monotonic reasoning. LPNMR is a forum for exchanging ideas on declarative logic programming, non-monotonic reasoning, and knowledge representation. The aim of the conference is to facilitate interactions between researchers and practitioners interested in the design and implementation of logic-based programming languages and database systems, and those working in knowledge representation and nonmonotonic reasoning. LPNMR strives to encompass theoretical and experimental studies that have led or will lead to advances in declarative programming and knowledge representation, as well as their use in practical applications. This edition of LPNMR will feature several workshops and a special session dedicated to the 7th ASP Competition. A Doctoral Consortium will also be a part of the program. INVITED SPEAKERS Joao Leite, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal Tran Cao Son, New Mexico State University, Las Cruses, New Mexico, USA Francesca Toni, Imperial College, London, UK TOPICS Authors are invited to submit papers presenting original and unpublished research on all aspects of non-monotonic approaches in logic programming and knowledge representation. We invite submissions of both long and short papers on topics detailed below. Conference topics include, but are not limited to: 1. Foundations of LPNMR Systems: * Semantics of new and existing languages; * Action languages, causality; * Formalization of Commonsense Reasoning and understanding its laws and nature; * Relationships among formalisms; * Complexity and expressive power; * Inference algorithms and heuristics for LPNMR systems; * Extensions of traditional LPNMR languages such as new logical connectives or new inference capabilities; * Updates, revision, and other operations on LPNMR systems; * Uncertainty in LPNMR systems. 2. Implementation of LPNMR systems: * System descriptions, comparisons, evaluations; * Algorithms and novel techniques for efficient evaluation; * LPNMR benchmarks. 3. Applications of LPNMR: * Use of LPNMR in Commonsense Reasoning and other areas of KR; * LPNMR languages and algorithms in planning, diagnosis, argumentation, reasoning with preferences, decision making and policies; * Applications of LPNMR languages in data integration and exchange systems, software engineering and model checking; * Applications of LPNMR to bioinformatics, linguistics, psychology, and other sciences; * Integration of LPNMR systems with other computational paradigms; * Embedded LPNMR: Systems using LPNMR subsystems. SUBMISSION LPNMR 2017 welcomes submissions of long papers (13 pages) or short papers (6 pages) in the following categories: * Technical papers * System descriptions * Application descriptions The indicated number of pages includes title page, references and figures. All submissions will be peer-reviewed and accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings published in the Springer's Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI/LNCS) series. At least one author of each accepted paper is expected to register for the conference to present the work. Submissions must be written in English, present original research, and be formatted according to Springer's guidelines and technical instructions available at: https://www.springer.com/gp/authors-editors/conference-proceedings/conference-proceedings-guidelines Paper submission is now enabled via the LPNMR-17 Easychair site: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lpnmr2017 Two best papers of general AI interest will be invited for a rapid publication in the Artificial Intelligence Journal (AIJ). Two best papers with narrower logic programming focus will be invited for a rapid publication in Theory and Practice of Logic Programming (TPLP). An additional prize of 1000 EUR, sponsored by Springer, will be shared out among the best papers of the conference. MULTIPLE SUBMISSION POLICY LPNMR 2017 will not accept any paper which, at the time of submission, is under review or has already been published or accepted for publication in a journal or another conference. Authors are also required not to submit their papers elsewhere during LPNMR's review period. However, these restrictions do not apply to previous workshops with a limited audience and without archival proceedings. ASSOCIATED EVENTS WORKSHOPS - LPNMR 2017 will include specialized workshops to be held on July 3 prior to the main conference. Currently planned workshops include: - Answer Set Programming and Other Computing Paradigms (ASPOCP) Organizers: Bart Bogaerts and Amelia Harrison - Defeasible and Ampliative Reasoning (DARe) Organizers: Richard Booth, Giovanni Casini, and Ivan Varzinczak - Grounding and Transformations for Theories with Variables (GTTV) Organizers: Simona Perri and Shahab Tasharrofi - Knowledge Representation and Planning for Robotics and Autonomous Systems (KPRAS) Organizers: Fangkai Yang and Shiqi Zhang - Practical Aspects of Answer Set Programming (PAoASP) Organizers: Martin Gebser, Marco Maratea, and Francesco Ricca - User-Oriented Logic Paradigms (IULP) Organizers: Stefan Ellmauthaler and Claudia Schulz ASP COMPETITION - A special session dedicated to a discussion of the 7th ASP System Competition, including the methodology of the competition, benchmarks used, lessons learned and, most importantly, the results and the announcement of the winners. DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM - A mentoring event where PhD students have a change to present their current research, get feedback from peers and senior researchers, and establish contacts for the future. FURTHER INFORMATION WWW: lpnmr2017.aalto.fi/ email: lpnmr2017 at list dot aalto dot fi IMPORTANT DATES * Paper registration: February 5th, 2017, 23:59 PDT (EXTENDED) * Paper submission: February 9th, 2017, 23:59 PDT (EXTENDED) * Notification: March 7th, 2017 (EXTENDED) * Final versions due: March 17th, 2017 VENUE Espoo, the second largest and the fastest growing city in Finland, is located right next to the capital Helsinki in the coastal Finland. Espoo is Northern Europe's largest high-tech and innovation hub where science, business and culture meet the wilderness of Nuuksio National Park and stunning seaside environment. Espoo's location offers excellent traffic connections: only half an hour from the international airport and harbors. The main campus of Aalto University is situated in Espoo. The LPNMR 2017 conference will be held in the Hanasaari Conference center that is located on an island of its own and is only 15 minutes away from Helsinki center by public transport. PROGRAM CHAIRS Marcello Balduccini, Drexel University, USA Tomi Janhunen, Aalto University, Finland PUBLICITY CHAIR Peter Schüller, Marmara University, Turkey WORKSHOPS CHAIR Joohyung Lee, Arizona State University, USA DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM CHAIR Marina De Vos, University of Bath, UK 7TH ASP COMPETITION ORGANIZERS Martin Gebser, University of Potsdam, Germany Marco Maratea, University of Genoa, Italy Francesco Ricca, University of Calabria, Italy PROGRAM COMMITTEE Jose Julio Alferes, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal Marcello Balduccini, Drexel University, USA Chitta Baral, Arizona State University, USA Bart Bogaerts, KU Leuven, Belgium Gerhard Brewka, Leipzig University, Germany Pedro Cabalar, University of Corunna, Spain Francesco Calimeri, University of Calabria, Italy Stefania Costantini, University of L'Aquila, Italy James Delgrande, Simon Fraser University, Canada Marc Denecker, K.U.Leuven, Belgium Marina De Vos, University of Bath, UK Agostino Dovier, University of Udine, Italy Thomas Eiter, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Wolfgang Faber, University of Huddersfield, UK Paul Fodor, Stony Brook University, USA Alfredo Gabaldon, GE Global Research, USA Martin Gebser, University of Potsdam, Germany Michael Gelfond, Texas Tech University, USA Giovanni Grasso, Oxford University, UK Giovambattista Ianni, University of Calabria, Italy Daniela Inclezan, Miami University, USA Tomi Janhunen, Aalto University, Finland Matthias Knorr, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal Joohyung Lee, Arizona State University, USA Yuliya Lierler, University of Nebraska at Omaha, USA Vladimir Lifschitz, University of Texas at Austin, USA Fangzhen Lin, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong Marco Maratea, University of Genoa, Italy Alessandra Mileo, National University of Ireland, Ireland Emilia Oikarinen, Finnish Institute of Occupational Health, Finland Mauricio Osorio, Universidad de las Americas Puebla, Mexico Ravi Palla, GE Global Research, USA David Pearce, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain Axel Polleres, Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria Enrico Pontelli, New Mexico State University, USA Christoph Redl, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Alessandra Russo, Imperial College, United Kingdom Orkunt Sabuncu, University of Potsdam, Germany Chiaki Sakama, Wakayama University, Japan Torsten Schaub, University of Potsdam, Germany Peter Schüller, Marmara University, Turkey Tran Cao Son, New Mexico State University, USA Hannes Strass, Leipzig University, Germany Theresa Swift, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal Shahab Tasharrofi, Aalto University, Finland Eugenia Ternovska, Simon Fraser University, Canada Hans Tompits, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Mirek Truszczynski, University of Kentucky, USA Agustin Valverde, Universidad de Màlaga, Spain Kewen Wang, Griffith University, Australia Yisong Wang, Guizhou University, China Stefan Woltran, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Jia-Huai You, University of Alberta, Canada Yi Zhou, University of Western Sydney, Australia (Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this email. Please distribute to interested parties.) From owre at csl.sri.com Mon Jan 30 23:32:40 2017 From: owre at csl.sri.com (Sam Owre) Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2017 14:32:40 -0800 Subject: Automated Formal Methods (AFM) 2017 Call for papers Message-ID: The sixth Automated Formal Methods (AFM) workshop will be held during May 19-20, 2017, at SRI International in Menlo Park. The earlier workshops were AFM06, AFM07, AFM08, AFM09, and AFM10. The 2017 workshop immediately follows the NASA Formal Methods (NFM) 2017 symposium. It consists of both invited talks and contributed papers on May 19, and tutorials covering recent progress in tools such as PVS, SAL/SALLY/HybridSAL, Yices, SeaHorn, Radler, and Bixie. AFM functions both as a user's meeting for SRI's tools such as PVS, SAL, and Yices, and as a workshop for those interested in state of the art automation for formal methods generally. Workshop Description AFM is a workshop centered around the use and integration of highly automated formal verification tools for specification, interactive theorem proving, satisfiability (SAT) and satisfiability modulo theories (SMT), model checking, program verification, static analysis, runtime verification, code generation, and testing, as well as interfaces, documentation, and education. This workshop was originally initiated as a users' group meeting for the SRI formal verification tools, which now include PVS, SAL, HybridSAL, SALLY, Yices, NL-Yices, Joogie, Bixie, and SeaHorn, together with technologies under development, such as ARSENAL, Radler, Occam, PCE, and ETB. However, topics are not restricted to these tools: we welcome contributions on all aspects of state of the art automation. The proceedings of the workshop will be published through the ACM Digital Library. We welcome position papers, research papers, and reports on work in progress on the topics listed above, particularly those that report on experiments, tool integration and evaluation, and case studies. Papers must be fewer than 8 pages long in the ACM SIG Proceedings style (http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates) and should be submitted to https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=afm17). Important Dates Position papers due March 27, 2017 Reviews/decisions April 17, 2017 Camera ready versions due May 1, 2017 AFM17 Workshop May 19, 2017 AFM17 Tutorials May 20, 2017 Workshop Program The program includes contributed papers and invited talks selected by the international program committee on May 19, and a series of tutorials on May 20, 2017. Program Committee Saddek Bensalem (Verimag) Matthew Bolton (Buffalo) Maria Paola Bonacina (Verona) Alessandro Coglio (Kestrel Institute) Bruno Dutertre (SRI, co-Chair) Leonard Gerard (SRI) Stephane Graham-Lengrand (Ecole Polytechnique) Arie Gurfinkel (U. of Waterloo) Liana Hadarean (Synopsys) Ben Hocking (Dependable Computing) Susmit Jha (SRI) Dejan Jovanovic (SRI) Temesghen Kahsai (CMU West) Aditya Kanade (IISc, Bangalore) Wenchao Li (Boston University) Paolo Masci (Queen Mary) Mariano Moscato (NIA) Cesar Munoz (NASA Langley) Anitha Murugesan (Honeywell Research) Jorge Navas (SRI) Natasha Neogi (NIA) Sam Owre (SRI) Lee Pike (Galois) Elvinia Riccobene (Milan) Kristin Rozier (Iowa) John Rushby (SRI) Martin Schaef (SRI) Natarajan Shankar (SRI, co-Chair) Wilfried Steiner (TTTech) Ashish Tiwari (SRI) Alan Wassyng (McMaster University) From announce at cs.ucy.ac.cy Tue Jan 31 13:56:42 2017 From: announce at cs.ucy.ac.cy (Announce Announcements) Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2017 14:56:42 +0200 Subject: 22nd ACM International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2017): Call for Participation Message-ID: ** Call for Participation *** 22nd ACM International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces IUI 2017 St. Raphael Resort, Limassol, Cyprus March 13-16, 2017 http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=YWZpaG0ub3JnICwJCQlldmVudEBpbi50dS1jbGF1c3RoYWwuZGUJMjJuZCBBQ00gSW50ZXJuYXRpb25hbCBDb25mZXJlbmNlIG9uIEludGVsbGlnZW50IFVzZXIgSW50ZXJmYWNlcyAoSVVJIDIwMTcpOiBDYWxsIGZvciBQYXJ0aWNpcGF0aW9uCTIyCUxpc3RzCTE4NQljbGljawl5ZXMJbm8=&url=http%3A%2F%2Fiui.acm.org%2F2017 *** Early Registration Deadline: February 7, 2017 *** ACM IUI 2017 is the 22nd annual meeting of the intelligent interfaces community and serves as a premier international forum for reporting outstanding research and development on intelligent user interfaces. ACM IUI is where the Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) community meets the Artificial Intelligence (AI), with contributions from related fields such as psychology, behavioral science, cognitive science, computer graphics, design or the arts. Our focus is to improve the interaction between humans and machines, by leveraging both more traditional HCI approaches, as well as solutions that involve state-of-the art AI techniques such as machine learning, natural language processing, data mining, knowledge representation and reasoning. ACM IUI welcomes contribution from any relevant arena: academia, business, or non-profit organizations. The conference brings together people from academia, industry and non-profit organizations and gives its participants the opportunity to present and see cutting-edge IUI work in a focused and interactive setting. It is large enough to be diverse and lively, but small enough to allow for extensive interaction among attendees and easy attendance to the events that the conference offers, ranging from oral paper presentations, poster sessions, workshops, panels and doctoral consortium for graduate students. The 22nd edition of the conference will be held in Limassol, Cyprus. Limassol (or Lemesos) is a multicultural bustling town, flanked by two ancient cities, Amathus and Kourion, and guarded by the Amathusian Aphrodite and Appolo Hylates. It is a town of great visual diversity and contrast from spectacular seafront views, historic places like the mediaeval Castle, and Byzantine churches. Along the 17 km long sandy beaches, two Marinas, world renowned 5 star hotels, and a most exciting dining, shopping, nightlife and yachting scene create a year-round vibrant lifestyle well beyond the expectations of a Mediterranean island. The conference venue is the well known 5* beach hotel St. Raphael Resort, situated on one of the largest Blue Flag accredited beaches, only a short coastal drive from the lively centre of town, approximately 10 minutes away (http://www.raphael.com.cy). The Larnaca International Airport is 35 minutes away, and Paphos International Airport is 55 minutes away. There are shops, restaurants and bars within walking distance and a bus stop exactly outside the hotel. The conference organizers have secured very competitive rates for accommodation, both at the venue hotel as well as a number of other hotels at close distance (http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=YWZpaG0ub3JnICwJCQlldmVudEBpbi50dS1jbGF1c3RoYWwuZGUJMjJuZCBBQ00gSW50ZXJuYXRpb25hbCBDb25mZXJlbmNlIG9uIEludGVsbGlnZW50IFVzZXIgSW50ZXJmYWNlcyAoSVVJIDIwMTcpOiBDYWxsIGZvciBQYXJ0aWNpcGF0aW9uCTIyCUxpc3RzCTE4NQljbGljawl5ZXMJbm8=&url=http%3A%2F%2Fiui.acm.org%2F2017/accommodation.html). In addition, the conference organization offers airport transfers to and from the hotels at very reasonable prices. This year IUI attracted an overwhelming number of submissions for all types of contributions (papers, posters, demos, etc.). The list of accepted contributions can be found here: http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=YWZpaG0ub3JnICwJCQlldmVudEBpbi50dS1jbGF1c3RoYWwuZGUJMjJuZCBBQ00gSW50ZXJuYXRpb25hbCBDb25mZXJlbmNlIG9uIEludGVsbGlnZW50IFVzZXIgSW50ZXJmYWNlcyAoSVVJIDIwMTcpOiBDYWxsIGZvciBQYXJ0aWNpcGF0aW9uCTIyCUxpc3RzCTE4NQljbGljawl5ZXMJbm8=&url=http%3A%2F%2Fiui.acm.org%2F2017/accepted.html . The program will consist of paper presentations, posters and demos sessions, a Student Consortium and several workshops and tutorials. This exciting program will be further enhanced with 3 keynotes by the Distinguisheed ACM Speaker Panos Markopoulos (Eindhoven University of Technology), George Samaras (University of Cyprus) and Shumin Zhai (Google). The technical program will be complemented with a rich social program, including a welcome reception and a conference dinner at a local traditional Greek taverna with live entertainment. We cordially invite you to attend IUI 2017 and the co-located workshops and tutorials. Registration is open (http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=YWZpaG0ub3JnICwJCQlldmVudEBpbi50dS1jbGF1c3RoYWwuZGUJMjJuZCBBQ00gSW50ZXJuYXRpb25hbCBDb25mZXJlbmNlIG9uIEludGVsbGlnZW50IFVzZXIgSW50ZXJmYWNlcyAoSVVJIDIwMTcpOiBDYWxsIGZvciBQYXJ0aWNpcGF0aW9uCTIyCUxpc3RzCTE4NQljbGljawl5ZXMJbm8=&url=http%3A%2F%2Fiui.acm.org%2F2017/registration.html). Committees General Chairs · Tsvika Kuflik, University of Haifa, Israel · George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Program Committee Chairs · Fang Chen, NICTA, Australia · Carlos Duarte, University of Lisbon, Portugal · Wai-Tat Fu, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA Program Committee http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=YWZpaG0ub3JnICwJCQlldmVudEBpbi50dS1jbGF1c3RoYWwuZGUJMjJuZCBBQ00gSW50ZXJuYXRpb25hbCBDb25mZXJlbmNlIG9uIEludGVsbGlnZW50IFVzZXIgSW50ZXJmYWNlcyAoSVVJIDIwMTcpOiBDYWxsIGZvciBQYXJ0aWNpcGF0aW9uCTIyCUxpc3RzCTE4NQljbGljawl5ZXMJbm8=&url=http%3A%2F%2Fiui.acm.org%2F2017/pco.html Posters/Demos Chairs · Andrina Granic, University of Split, Croatia · Denis Parra. PUC, Chile · Jingtaw Wang, University of Pittsburgh, USA Workshops/Tutorials Chairs · Shlomo Berkovsky, CSIRO, Australia · Bart Kninijnburg, Clemson University, USA Student Consortium Chairs · Peter Brusilovsky, University of Pittsburgh, USA · Katrien Verbert, KULeuven, Belgium Student Volunteers Chairs · Christos Mettouris, University of Cyprus, Cyprus · Tobias Grosse-Puppendahl, Microsoft Research, UK · Julia Sheidin, University of Haifa, Israel Sponsorship Chairs · Daniel Sonntag, DFKI, Germany (for Europe) · Feng Tian, Institute of Software Chinese Academy of Sciences, China (for Asia) Treasurer · George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Proceedings Chair · Daniel Afergan, Google, USA Web Master · Marios Christou, Easy Conferences, Cyprus · Kyriakos Georgiades, Easy Conferences, Cyprus -------------- nächster Teil -------------- Ein Dateianhang mit HTML-Daten wurde abgetrennt... URL: