From epontell at cs.nmsu.edu Wed Mar 1 02:22:10 2017 From: epontell at cs.nmsu.edu (Enrico Pontelli) Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2017 20:22:10 -0500 Subject: ICLP 2017: Second Call for Workshop Proposals Message-ID: <021B8669-D6BF-4ABF-B18B-C9339CE228C1@cs.nmsu.edu> *** 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 newsletter at saso-conference.org Wed Mar 1 22:00:03 2017 From: newsletter at saso-conference.org (Markus Esch) Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2017 22:00:03 +0100 Subject: =?utf-8?b?Q2ZEUzogU0FTTyAyMDE3IC0gSUVFRSBJbnRlcm5hdGlvbmFsIENvbmZl?= =?utf-8?b?cmVuY2Ugb24gU2VsZi1BZGFwdGl2ZSBhbmQgU2VsZi1Pcmdhbml6aW5n?= =?utf-8?b?IFN5c3RlbXMsIFNlcHRlbWJlciAxOC0yMiwgVHVjc29uLCBBcml6b25h?= Message-ID: ==== Call For Doctoral Symposium Submissions ==== Foundations and Applications of Self* Systems (FAS*) is the umbrella for two closely related but independent conferences, the International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems (SASO) and the International Conference on Cloud and Autonomic Computing (ICCAC). The FAS* Doctoral Symposium provides an international forum for PhD students working in research areas addressed by FAS*. In this forum, PhD students will get unique opportunities to subject their research to the scrutiny of external experts, gain experience in the presentation of research, connect to peers and experts addressing similar problems, and get advice from a panel of internationally leading researchers. Different from the technical tracks of the conference, the FAS* Doctoral Symposium focuses on the specific needs of young researchers at the beginning of their career. As such, emphasis will be placed on a critical and constructive feedback that shall help participants to successfully conclude their PhD studies. PhD students working in any area addressed by the FAS* conferences are invited to submit a Doctoral Symposium paper in which they describe the key motivation and objectives of their research project, and reflect on the methodology as well as the current status of their PhD studies. Complementing the thematic focus of FAS*, we particularly solicit contributions in the following areas: - Engineering of self-organizing and self-adaptive systems - Complex cyber-physical and socio-technical systems - Self-* approaches in massive-scale decentralized systems - Application of self-* in robotics and spatial computing - Autonomic and cloud computing - Scalable and applied machine learning / data mining ==== Submission Instructions ==== Submissions should have a length of max. two pages (not including references) and be formatted according to the IEEE Computer Society Press proceedings style guide. Authors should submit their papers using the EasyChair installation of the main conference, which is available at: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=saso2017 Please note that only single-author submissions are accepted, which focus on the topic of the doctoral work. The name of the supervisor should be clearly marked below the author’s name in the paper. Submissions should further adhere to the following structure: - Motivation: motivate the open problem that you want to address and briefly summarize existing approaches along with their deficiencies. - Objectives: describe the key objectives of your PhD project and argue how achieving them will solve the open problem outlined in the motivation. - Methodology: outline what methodology you will adopt to meet the objectives of your project. Clearly state on what existing works your work will build. - Research Plan: describe what preliminary results – if any – you have already achieved and summarize your plans for future work. Please add a rough schedule that allows to judge whether your research plan is feasible. Authors of accepted papers shall prepare a final, camera ready version of the paper, taking into account all feedback from reviewers, and formatted according to the IEEE Computer Society Press proceedings style guide. Doctoral Symposium papers will be advertised in the final program, and will be submitted to IEEE Xplore as part of the SASO proceedings. Papers will also be made available in the IEEE Digital Library. ==== Review Process==== Each submission will be reviewed by at least two Doctoral Symposium experts that cover the different areas of interest of the conference. Submissions will be evaluated based on their relevance, the motivation and quality of the proposed research, as well as the suitability of the chosen methodology. Authors of accepted papers will have different opportunities to present their project at the conference. Besides a full presentation during the PhD Symposium session, an “Elevator Pitch Session” will be organized during the main conference, where authors get the chance to briefly showcase their research. In addition, the Best Doctoral Symposium paper will be selected and the award will be presented during the main conference. Finally, selected authors will have the additional chance to present their work via a poster in the poster session of the main conference. ==== Important Dates ==== Submission deadline: June 10, 2017 Notifications due: July 1, 2017 Camera-ready copy due: July 12, 2017 Conference date: September 18-22, 2017 ==== Contact Information ==== Any inquiries related to the Doctoral Symposium should be directed to: Jean Botev (jean.botev at uni.lu) https://saso2017.telecom-paristech.fr/committees.html From dilian at csc.kth.se Thu Mar 2 15:33:37 2017 From: dilian at csc.kth.se (Dilian Gurov) Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2017 15:33:37 +0100 Subject: CSL 2017: Final Call For Papers In-Reply-To: <25d1cb16-8773-7f01-7f70-0ac8ba989600@csc.kth.se> References: <25d1cb16-8773-7f01-7f70-0ac8ba989600@csc.kth.se> Message-ID: ================================================================= FINAL 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 ----------------------------------------------------------------- CSL invited highlight speakers for the LC-CSL joint session on August 20: • 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 CSL co-located events: • 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'17 (August 18-19) 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 2017easychair.org From announce at cs.ucy.ac.cy Fri Mar 3 10:14:44 2017 From: announce at cs.ucy.ac.cy (Announce Announcements) Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2017 11:14:44 +0200 Subject: 5th European Conference on the Engineering of Computer Based Systems (ECBS 2017): Third Call for Papers Message-ID: *** Third 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=YWZpaG0ub3JnICwJCQlldmVudEBpbi50dS1jbGF1c3RoYWwuZGUJNXRoIEV1cm9wZWFuIENvbmZlcmVuY2Ugb24gdGhlIEVuZ2luZWVyaW5nIG9mIENvbXB1dGVyIEJhc2VkIFN5c3RlbXMgKEVDQlMgMjAxNyk6IFRoaXJkIENhbGwgZm9yIFBhcGVycwk0NAlMaXN0cwkxODYJY2xpY2sJeWVzCW5v&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. The conference proceedings will be published by ACM ICPS and archived in the ACM Digital Library. 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=YWZpaG0ub3JnICwJCQlldmVudEBpbi50dS1jbGF1c3RoYWwuZGUJNXRoIEV1cm9wZWFuIENvbmZlcmVuY2Ugb24gdGhlIEVuZ2luZWVyaW5nIG9mIENvbXB1dGVyIEJhc2VkIFN5c3RlbXMgKEVDQlMgMjAxNyk6IFRoaXJkIENhbGwgZm9yIFBhcGVycwk0NAlMaXN0cwkxODYJY2xpY2sJeWVzCW5v&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cyprusconferences.org%2Fecbs2017%2Forganizers.html -------------- nächster Teil -------------- Ein Dateianhang mit HTML-Daten wurde abgetrennt... URL: From bogom.s at gmail.com Fri Mar 3 13:39:18 2017 From: bogom.s at gmail.com (Sergiy Bogomolov) Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2017 23:39:18 +1100 Subject: DEADLINE EXTENSION for 4th International Workshop on Applied Verification for Continuous and Hybrid Systems (CPSWeek 2017) Message-ID: <012e01d2941b$5333b090$f99b11b0$@gmail.com> Call for Submissions -- DEADLINE EXTENSION UNTIL MARCH 6 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 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: March 6, 2017 Notification: March 15, 2017 (2 days before early registration of CPSWeek) 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 jleite at fct.unl.pt Fri Mar 3 18:09:34 2017 From: jleite at fct.unl.pt (Joao Leite) Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2017 17:09:34 +0000 Subject: Call for Papers for KRR track at EPIA 2017 Message-ID: *** Apologies for multiple copies *** CALL FOR PAPERS Knowledge Representation and Reasoning 18th EPIA Conference on Artificial Intelligence Porto, Portugal September, 5-8, 2017 Submission Deadline: April 15, 2017 The aim of this track is to gather and discuss novel research in the area of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning, both for theoretical results as well as implemented systems and applications. EPIA is a well-established international conference on Artificial Intelligence, this year to be held in the beautiful city of Porto. The scientific program is composed of thematic tracks. Submitted papers will be subject to a rigorous revision process and accepted papers will be published in Springer's Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI). Awards for the best paper and the best application paper will be granted. Topics of interest for the KRR track include, but are not limited to: • Action, change, causality and causal reasoning • Argumentation • Belief revision and update, belief merging • Commonsense reasoning • Constraint programming and KRR • Contextual reasoning • Description logics • Diagnosis, abduction, explanation finding • Inconsistency- and exception tolerant reasoning, paraconsistent logics • KR and autonomous agents: intelligent agents, cognitive robotics, multi-agent systems • KR and decision making, game theory, social choice • KR and machine learning, inductive logic programming, knowledge discovery and acquisition • KR and stream reasoning • KR and the Web, Semantic Web • Logic programming, answer set programming, constraint logic programming • Non-monotonic logics, default logics, conditional logics • Ontology formalisms and models • Preferences: modeling and representation, preference-based reasoning • Reasoners and solvers: SAT solvers, theorem provers, QBF solvers, and others • Reasoning about knowledge and belief, dynamic epistemic logic, epistemic and doxastic logics • Spatial reasoning and temporal reasoning, qualitative reasoning • Uncertainty, representations of vagueness, many-valued and fuzzy logics Organizing Committee Ricardo Gonçalves, NOVA LINCS, Lisbon, Portugal Minh Dao-Tran, KBS, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Matthias Knorr, NOVA LINCS, Lisbon, Portugal Jörg Pührer, ISG-CSI, Leipzig University, Germany Program Committee Slim Abdennadher, German University in Cairo, Egypt Salvador Abreu, University of Evora, Portugal Gerhard Brewka, Leipzig University, Germany Pedro Cabalar, Corunna University, Spain Esra Erdem, Sabanci University, Turkey Cristina Feier, University of Bremen, Germany Sarah Alice Gaggl, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany Martin Homola, Comenius University, Slovakia Daniela Inclezan, Miami University, USA Adila A. Krisnadhi, Wright State University & Universitas Indonesia, USA/Indonesia Joao Leite, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal Francesca Alessandra Lisi, Università degli Studi di Bari “Aldo Moro”, Italy Ines Lynce, University of Lisbon, Portugal Joao Marques-Silva, University of Lisbon, Portugal Loizos Michael, Open University of Cyprus, Cyprus David Rajaratnam, University of New South Wales, Australia Orkunt Sabuncu, TED University, Ankara, Turkey Peter Schüller, Marmara University, Turkey Mantas Simkus, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Daria Stepanova, Max Planck Institute for Informatics, Germany Hannes Strass, Leipzig University, Germany Matthias Thimm, Universität Koblenz-Landau, Germany Ivan Varzinczak, Université d’Artois, France Carlos Viegas Damásio, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal Antonius Weinzierl, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Stefan Woltran, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Guohui Xiao, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy Özgür Lütfü Özcep, University of Lübeck, Germany For more info on the track: https://web.fe.up.pt/~epia2017/thematic-tracks/krr/ Regarding the submission: https://web.fe.up.pt/~epia2017/call-for-papers/ For more info on EPIA itself, such as the program, invited speakers and registration, please refer to: https://web.fe.up.pt/~epia2017/ ----------------------------------------------------------------- -- --------------------------------------------------------------- Joao Leite FCT-UNL - Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, Departamento de Informatica e-mail: jleite at fct.unl.pt web: http://userweb.fct.unl.pt/~jleite/ --------------------------------------------------------------- -------------- nächster Teil -------------- Ein Dateianhang mit HTML-Daten wurde abgetrennt... URL: From announce at cs.ucy.ac.cy Sat Mar 4 09:59:05 2017 From: announce at cs.ucy.ac.cy (Announce Announcements) Date: Sat, 4 Mar 2017 10:59:05 +0200 Subject: 8th IEEE International Conference on Information, Intelligence, Systems and Applications (IISA 2017): Last Call for Invited Sessions, Tutorials & Workshops Proposals Message-ID: <4J7YAG8C-H5I-HGS7-1TYI-0BIUKSEC6JN4@cs.ucy.ac.cy> *** Last Call for 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=YWZpaG0ub3JnICwJCQlldmVudEBpbi50dS1jbGF1c3RoYWwuZGUJOHRoIElFRUUgSW50ZXJuYXRpb25hbCBDb25mZXJlbmNlIG9uIEluZm9ybWF0aW9uLCBJbnRlbGxpZ2VuY2UsIFN5c3RlbXMgYW5kIEFwcGxpY2F0aW9ucyAoSUlTQSAyMDE3KTogTGFzdCBDYWxsIGZvciBJbnZpdGVkIFNlc3Npb25zLCBUdXRvcmlhbHMgJiBXb3Jrc2hvcHMgUHJvcG9zYWxzCTQ2CUxpc3RzCTE4NAljbGljawl5ZXMJbm8=&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 submit a proposal for a Special Session, Tutorial or Workshop, please refer to the instructions on the web site. Topics of Interest 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 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=YWZpaG0ub3JnICwJCQlldmVudEBpbi50dS1jbGF1c3RoYWwuZGUJOHRoIElFRUUgSW50ZXJuYXRpb25hbCBDb25mZXJlbmNlIG9uIEluZm9ybWF0aW9uLCBJbnRlbGxpZ2VuY2UsIFN5c3RlbXMgYW5kIEFwcGxpY2F0aW9ucyAoSUlTQSAyMDE3KTogTGFzdCBDYWxsIGZvciBJbnZpdGVkIFNlc3Npb25zLCBUdXRvcmlhbHMgJiBXb3Jrc2hvcHMgUHJvcG9zYWxzCTQ2CUxpc3RzCTE4NAljbGljawl5ZXMJbm8=&url=http%3A%2F%2Fiisa2017.unipi.gr/committees/ -------------- nächster Teil -------------- Ein Dateianhang mit HTML-Daten wurde abgetrennt... URL: From ruy at cin.ufpe.br Sat Mar 4 16:20:38 2017 From: ruy at cin.ufpe.br (Ruy de Queiroz) Date: Sat, 4 Mar 2017 12:20:38 -0300 Subject: 24th WoLLIC 2017 - DEADLINE APPROACHING Message-ID: [Please circulate. Apologies for multiple copies] WoLLIC 2017 24th Workshop on Logic, Language, Information and Computation July 18-21, 2017 University College London (UCL), London, UK SPECIAL SESSION: Screening of Navajo Math Circles (Directed by George Paul Csicsery, 2016, 58min) SCIENTIFIC SPONSORSHIP Interest Group in Pure and Applied Logics (IGPL) The Association for Logic, Language and Information (FoLLI) Association for Symbolic Logic (ASL) European Association for Theoretical Computer Science (EATCS) European Association for Computer Science Logic (EACSL) Sociedade Brasileira de Computação (SBC) Sociedade Brasileira de Lógica (SBL) IN COOPERATION WITH ACM Special Interest Group on Logic and Computation (ACM-SIGLOG) 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). The workshop is held in cooperation with ACM Special Interest in Computational Logic (SIGLOG). 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 Universität) 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 Abramsky, 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 Mary-Anne at themagiclab.org Sun Mar 5 02:01:42 2017 From: Mary-Anne at themagiclab.org (Mary-Anne Williams) Date: Sun, 5 Mar 2017 12:01:42 +1100 Subject: RO-MAN 2017 Intention in Social Robotics Special Session Message-ID: 26th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, RO-MAN 2017 , will be held in Lisbon, Portugal, from 28 to 31 of August 2017. We are organizing a special session on *Intention in Social Robotics . * The *submission* *due date is March 26*. If you would like to submit a paper to our special the session, please use the code (588fb) in the paper submission system. Submission instructions are available at the main RO-MAN conference website . Imagine an intelligent robot with social skills that was fun to work with and that could help you achieve tasks efficiently, i.e. a social robot. Social robots are a disruptive technology, poised to have a profound impact on business, society and the global economy. This exciting RO-MAN Special Session on Intention in Social Robotics will focus on predicting and exploiting Intention in Social Robotics. A self-driving vehicle is a social robot, not only does it need to drive on the road safely but it must communicate with and anticipate the behaviour of nearby cars and people; a delivery robot has to anticipate the behaviour of people in workplaces. Understanding human intention is critical to anticipating human behaviour. The critical research question is how can we design social robots able to understand human intention and anticipate human motion and desires. Conversely, the question of how robots can indicate intention to help humans is also important. The purpose of this special session is to explore how social robots can understand and predict people's intention without requiring humans to explicitly indicate or express what they are trying to do or about to do next. Relevant topics include, but are not limited to: ● Human-robot interaction and collaboration ● Human and/or Robot attention and intention ● Natural low cognitive load methods for signaling intention ● Privacy and security ● Legal and ethical implications of social robots The goal of special sessions at RO-MAN is to provide a forum for oral presentations that are highly specialized in some particular theme, focused on new topics or innovative applications of established approaches. A special session consists of four to six papers, which, addresses a particular theme or consist of work done in some particular international project. Best wishes, *Tony Cohn* (Leeds University) *William Judge* (Commonwealth Bank of Australia) *Reid Simmons* (Carnegie Mellon University) *Mary-Anne Williams* (University of Technology Sydney) *Professor Mary-Anne Williams * *Director, Disruptive Innovation* University of Technology Sydney (UTS) Founder and Director, Innovation and Enterprise Research Lab (The Magic Lab) Fellow, Stanford University Twitter: @SwizzleFish -------------- nächster Teil -------------- Ein Dateianhang mit HTML-Daten wurde abgetrennt... URL: From Regis.Riveret at data61.csiro.au Mon Mar 6 05:30:54 2017 From: Regis.Riveret at data61.csiro.au (Regis.Riveret at data61.csiro.au) Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2017 04:30:54 +0000 Subject: CFP - First International Workshop on Blockchain, Smart Contracts and Law Message-ID: <9d03f8d4d57a440fab78d11059d6d510@exch1-cdc.nexus.csiro.au> Call for Papers First International Workshop on Blockchain, Smart Contracts and Law London, UK, June 12, 2017 http://www.cs.bath.ac.uk/smartlaw2017/ The first international workshop on Blockchain, Smart Contracts and Law (Smart Law at ICAIL 2017) will be held in conjunction with the 16th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law 2017 (https://nms.kcl.ac.uk/icail2017) in London, UK (June 12-16, 2017). - Overview - Blockchain is an emerging technology for decentralised and transactional data sharing across a large network of untrusted participants. It enables new forms of distributed software architectures, where agreement on shared states can be established without trusting a central integration point. Smart contracts are promoted as means to leverage efficiency, security and impartiality in the execution of an agreement, thereby reducing the costs in implementing contracts, facilitating their use and execution and increasing trust between contracting parties. Smart contracts can be implemented in open blockchain systems that are used both to store the smart contracts and to execute contractual instructions. Many technical and legal challenges arise with the rapid development of these new technologies. For example, building applications on blockchain is challenging, as there are many variants and configuration choices, while one can question the legal bindingness of smart contracts. The aim of the workshop is to promote research at the intersection of blockchain systems, smart contracts and law. Hence the workshop welcomes submissions at this intersection. Contributions on other innovative applications of blockchain technologies, e.g. in the public sector, are also welcome. - Invited speakers (more invited speakers to be announced) - Prof. Roger Brownsword, Professor of Law at King's College London. - Paper format and submission - Papers should not exceed 10 pages in the approved style. Please use the paper2 style (two column style without page number) in the CEUR-WS style templates (http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-XXX/samplestyles/). All papers should be converted to PDF prior to submission. You can submit your paper to the SmartLaw 2017 EasyChair submission webpage (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=smartlaw2017) - Important dates - April 2, 2017: Deadline for paper submissions. May 1, 2017: Paper notifications sent. May 15, 2017: Camera-ready copy due. June 12, 2017: Date of workshop. - Workshop co-chairs - Julian Padget, Computer Science, University of Bath. Regis Riveret, Data61, CSIRO, Brisbane. Giovanni Sartor, Law School, European University Institute, Florence. - Program committee - Mark Staples, Data61, CSIRO, Sydney. Florian Idelberger, Law School, European University Institute, Florence. Peter Mcburney, Computer Science, King's College London. Xiwei Xu, Data61, CSIRO, Sydney. Adrian McCullagh, ODMOB Lawyers, Brisbane. Andrew Charlesworth, University of Bristol. Wamberto Vasconcelos, Computing Science, University of Aberdeen. Mark Toohey, University of Melbourne. Daniele Magazzeni, Computer Science, King's College London. Pompeu Casanovas, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Masha McConaghy, BigchainDB, Berlin. -------------- nächster Teil -------------- Ein Dateianhang mit HTML-Daten wurde abgetrennt... URL: From geoff at cs.miami.edu Mon Mar 6 15:10:48 2017 From: geoff at cs.miami.edu (Geoff Sutcliffe) Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2017 09:10:48 -0500 (EST) Subject: TABLEAUX 2017 - Final Call for Papers Message-ID: <20170306141048.AB6371214DF@mcclellan.cs.miami.edu> ************************************************************************ FINAL 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 Deadlines: 18 Apr 2017 (abstract), 25 Apr 2017 (paper) 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 (with FroCoS and ITP) Jasmin Blanchette Inria and LORIA, Nancy, France (with FroCoS and ITP) Cezary Kaliszyk Universitaet Innsbruck, Austria (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 = 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. POSTER SESSION There will be a joint poster session for TABLEAUX 2017, FroCos 2017, and ITP 2017. The session is intended for descriptions of work in progress, student projects and relevant research being published elsewhere. The deadline for posters submission is June 15, 2017. More details can be found at http://tableaux2017.cic.unb.br/#postersession. 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=tableaux2017. 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-guidelines 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 C.Orasan at wlv.ac.uk Mon Mar 6 17:17:55 2017 From: C.Orasan at wlv.ac.uk (Orasan, Constantin) Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2017 16:17:55 +0000 Subject: Job openings at University of Wolverhampton Message-ID: <1488817075.6443.13.camel@wlv.ac.uk> *** Apologies for cross-posting *** The Research Group in Computational Linguistics at the University of Wolverhampton (http://rgcl.wlv.ac.uk) is currently recruiting a Reader in Translation Technology (permanent) and a Research Fellow in Translation Technology (3 year position with the possibility of extension). The purpose of these posts is to  strengthen the research group by enhancing its research and publications in the field of translation technology. The appointed candidates will be expected to produce REF-returnable outputs, attract external income, seek industrial collaborations, teach at Masters level and supervise PhD students.   ------- Profile -------   The post holders will hold a first degree in a relevant discipline, together with a PhD (or equivalent) in a field related to machine translation, translation memories or translation technologies, and will have completed work at postdoctoral research level at a university, research institute or in a related part of the private sector in the UK or abroad. They will be proficient in a range of subject-specific skills and ideally will have extensive experience in site-based research settings. The post holders will be able to demonstrate the ability to work independently to develop new research objectives and proposals including contributing to the securing of external funding and collaborative projects.    For the research fellow position, the appointed candidate will have a developing portfolio of publications in high impact peer-reviewed research journals or equivalent, relevant to their field and will have supervised student research projects. Programming skills and experience with the development of software in fields related to translation technology are a plus, but not compulsory. We will also consider candidates from a corpus linguistics/translation studies background who have experience in using technologies in translation.   For the reader position, the appointed candidate should have evidence of an individual track record in research which is at the cutting edge of machine translation and/or translation technology and is recognised internationally (e.g. through publications in journals). They should have a track record of having successfully obtained funding  from external sources and successfully completed projects. Candidates should have teaching experience and a track record in supervising PhD students.   ------------ How to apply ------------ The applications should be made via the University of Wolverhampton's e-recruitment site: https://jobs.wlv.ac.uk/vacancies.html   The closing date for the applications is 23 March 2017. Interview dates to be confirmed. Start of the posts: to be agreed with the successful candidates, but no later than autumn 2017.   For informal discussion about the roles please contact Dr Constantin Orasan (c.orasan at wlv.ac.uk).    ----------------------------------------------- The Research Group in Computational Linguistics ----------------------------------------------- The Research Group in Computational Linguistics (http://rgcl.wlv.ac.uk) at the University of Wolverhampton was founded by Prof. Ruslan Mitkov in 1998 and is one of the leading research groups in computational linguistics in the UK. The group is well known for its high level research with strong international and inter-sector collaboration, and is renowned for its innovative NLP research and development of various NLP tools and resources. RGCL was the coordinator of the recently completed EXPERT project (http://expert-itn.eu) which trained young res earchers to promote the research, development and use of hybrid language translation technologies. The reader and research fellow to be appointed are expected to continue the work in this direction.  -- Dr. Constantin Orasan Reader in Computational Linguistics Deputy Head of the Research Group in Computational Linguistics Research Group in Computational Linguistics http://www.wlv.ac.uk/~in6093/ University of Wolverhampton From geoff at cs.miami.edu Mon Mar 6 21:10:34 2017 From: geoff at cs.miami.edu (Geoff Sutcliffe) Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2017 15:10:34 -0500 (EST) Subject: LPAR-21 Short Presentation Papers - Call for Papers Message-ID: <20170306201034.34AB2121492@mcclellan.cs.miami.edu> ****************************************************************************** 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 SHORT PRESENTATION PAPERS In keeping with the tradition of LPAR, researchers and practitioners are invited to submit short presentation papers (the papers can be full length, the presentation slots will be short), reporting on interesting work in progress, system and tool descriptions, experimental results, etc. They need not be original, and extended or revised versions of the papers may be submitted concurrently with or after LPAR to another conference or a journal. Authors of accepted papers are required to ensure that at least one of them will be present at the conference. Papers that do not adhere to this policy will not be published. The short presentation papers will be published electronically as a volume in the Kalpa series, see http://www.easychair.org/publications/Kalpa. The LaTeX and Microsoft Word templates for the Kalpa series can be downloaded from http://www.easychair.org/publications/for_authors. Papers may be up to 15 pages long, and must be submitted through the EasyChair system using the web page https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lpar21. Paper submission deadline: 18th March 2017 Notification of acceptance: 1st April 2017 Final version: 8th April 2017 ... however, in order to facilitate authors making travel arrangements, papers submitted before the deadline will be reviewed immediately, and a decision made in approximately one week. Submit early, and submit often! ****************************************************************************** From C.Orasan at wlv.ac.uk Wed Mar 8 11:57:40 2017 From: C.Orasan at wlv.ac.uk (Orasan, Constantin) Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2017 10:57:40 +0000 Subject: CFP: 39th Translating and the Computer Conference Message-ID: <034C0B87CC091D46B6CF0FD17E97B38301D267C15E@EXCHMBX10X03.unv.wlv.ac.uk> [apologies for cross-posting] 39th Translating and the Computer Conference (TC39), 16-17 November 2017, London CALL FOR PROPOSALS The International Association for Advancement in Language Technology (AsLing) is delighted to announce the forthcoming 39th edition of the annual Translating and the Computer Conference (TC39) on 16 and 17 November 2017 in London. The TC conference series has emerged as a leading forum for users, developers and vendors of Translation Technology tools. It is a distinctive event where translators, interpreters, researchers and business people, from translation companies, international organisations, universities and research labs, as well as freelance professionals, come together to exchange ideas and learn about the latest developments in translation and interpretation technologies. TC conferences feature presentations and posters, panel discussions and workshops. In addition, the conference welcomes two distinguished experts as keynote speakers. In 2017 our keynotes will be given by Roberto Navigli (Università degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza") and Alex Waibel (Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, and Karlsruher Institut für Technologie). This call invites submissions of extended abstracts for papers, posters and workshop proposals to be given at the TC39 conference. Conference topics CAT tools (e.g. Translation Memory systems), Terminology Management tools, Machine Translation (e.g. statistical MT, neural MT, rule-based MT). We particularly welcome contributions addressing these technologies in relation to the following themes: appropriate use, quality assessment and quality control, post-editing, customisation, interoperability and integration of different systems and tools, crowd-sourcing, Natural Language Processing for translation and interpreting, as well as translation and interpreting workflow and management. Other important topics include training (including university translation programmes and the effect of rapid change in the translation industry), tools and resources for interpreters and translators, enhancing collaboration between translators and translation companies, and mobile technologies to support translators' and interpreters' work. The emphasis of TC39 will be on the new and emerging language technologies, tools and resources which can support the work of interpreters. Submission guidelines Proposals for original unpublished papers and posters on all aspects of translation and interpretation technologies are invited, as well as workshop proposals. Papers and posters may report on research, commercial translation and interpretation products or user experience. Proposals should be submitted via the START conference submission system at https://www.softconf.com/i/tc2017 or, in exceptional circumstances and subject to prior confirmation by the conference organisers, may be sent by email to . Further information is available on the Conference website at http://www.asling.org/tc39. Schedule The conference schedule is as follows: 15 June 2017 - deadline for abstracts of papers and posters and workshop proposals 1 August 2017 - all authors notified of decisions 2 October 2017 - speakers' full papers and posters to be submitted for inclusion in the e-proceedings 3 November 2017 - speakers' presentations to be submitted 16-17 November 2017 - conference takes place in London Organising and Programme Committees Organising Committee: Joanna Drugan, University of East Anglia João Esteves-Ferreira, Tradulex, International Association for Quality Translation (conference chair) Juliet Macan, Language technology consultant (conference chair) Ruslan Mitkov, University of Wolverhampton (conference chair) Olaf-Michael Stefanov, United Nations (ret), JIAMCATT (conference chair) Jean-Marie Vande Walle, Belgian Court of Auditors Programme Committee: Anne Aboh Dauvergne, United Nations Juanjo Arevallillo, Hermes Traducciones and Universidad Alfonso X el Sabio de Madrid Wilker Aziz, Universiteit van Amsterdam David Chambers, AsLing Honorary Member Eleanor Cornelius, University of Johannesburg and FIT Council Gloria Corpas Pastor, Universidad de Málaga David Filip, CNGL / ADAPT - Trinity College, Dublin Sarah Griffin-Mason, Institute of Translation and Interpreting and University of Portsmouth Camelia Ignat, Research Centre of the European Union Joss Moorkens, Dublin City University Bruno Pouliquen, World Intellectual Property Organization Antonio Toral, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen Paola Valli, Taus and Università degli Studi di Trieste Nelson Verástegui, International Telecommunications Union (ret) David Verhofstadt, International Atomic Energy Agency (AsLing reserves the right to expand the Programme Committee) Further information and contact details Registration fees and other relevant information about venue, accommodation, conference sponsors and keynote speakers will be published on the Conference website as soon as they are available, and at the latest by 31st May 2017. 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URL: From announce at cs.ucy.ac.cy Wed Mar 8 14:06:24 2017 From: announce at cs.ucy.ac.cy (Announce Announcements) Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2017 15:06:24 +0200 Subject: 9th International Conference on Computational Collective Intelligence (ICCCI 2017): Last Call for Special Sessions & Workshops Proposals Message-ID: <7ICP37Y3-UYK0-W8LL-ITN-MP4RXQUFE1HH@cs.ucy.ac.cy> *** Last Call for 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=YWZpaG0ub3JnICwJCQlldmVudEBpbi50dS1jbGF1c3RoYWwuZGUJOXRoIEludGVybmF0aW9uYWwgQ29uZmVyZW5jZSBvbiBDb21wdXRhdGlvbmFsIENvbGxlY3RpdmUgSW50ZWxsaWdlbmNlIChJQ0NDSSAyMDE3KTogTGFzdCBDYWxsIGZvciBTcGVjaWFsIFNlc3Npb25zICYgV29ya3Nob3BzIFByb3Bvc2Fscwk0OAlMaXN0cwkxODIJY2xpY2sJeWVzCW5v&url=http%3A%2F%2Fcyprusconferences.org%2Ficcci2017%2F *** Firm Deadline: 15th March 2017 *** 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. 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: March 15, 2017 (*** firm ***) · Special Session & Workshop Acceptance: March 22, 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 Jdrzejowicz, 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 xrambous at aurora.fi.muni.cz Wed Mar 8 15:29:56 2017 From: xrambous at aurora.fi.muni.cz (TSD 2017) Date: Wed, 08 Mar 2017 15:29:56 +0100 Subject: TSD 2017 - Second Call for Papers Message-ID: ************************************************************************** TSD 2017 - SECOND 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 As the spring is drawing nearer so does the deadline for submission of contributions. All papers need to be submitted until March 31. >>>> There are only 23 days left! <<<< 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 tommaso.dinoia at poliba.it Wed Mar 8 19:09:12 2017 From: tommaso.dinoia at poliba.it (Tommaso Di Noia) Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2017 18:09:12 +0000 Subject: [CFP] deadline extension - ICWE 2017-Call for Application Papers Message-ID: <3A062A4F-C6CF-4E27-8147-2C8527093EF1@poliba.it> CALL FOR APPLICATION PAPERS @ ICWE2017 17th International Conference on Web Engineering ------------------------------------------------ 5-8 June 2017, Rome, Italy http://icwe2017.webengineering.org/ !!! DEADLINE EXTENDED TO March 17, 2017 !!! CALL FOR APPLICATION PAPERS The Application 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 2017 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: 17 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 tommaso.dinoia at poliba.it Wed Mar 8 19:18:07 2017 From: tommaso.dinoia at poliba.it (Tommaso Di Noia) Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2017 18:18:07 +0000 Subject: 8th Italian Information Retrieval Workshop - IIR 2017 - Call for Papers Message-ID: 8th Italian Information Retrieval Workshop - IIR 2017 http://iir2017.usi.ch/ June 5-7, 2017 Università della Svizzera Italiana Via G. Buffi, 13 Lugano, Switzerland SCOPE The purpose of the Italian Information Retrieval Workshop (IIR) is to provide a meeting forum for stimulating and disseminating research in Information Retrieval are related areas. It aims at being a place where Italian-speaking researchers (especially young ones) and researchers affiliated with Italian-speaking institutions can network and discuss their research results in an informal way. IIR 2017 is the 8th edition of the Italian Information Retrieval Workshop. The event has been held annually in Italy since 2010. This year it will take place outside of Italy, but still in an Italian speaking region, on June 5-7, 2017 at the Università della Svizzera Italiana (USI) in Lugano, Switzerland. !!! For its 8th edition, IIR will host a track completely devoted to Recommender Systems together with the first meeting of the RecSys Italian chapter !!! TOPICS IIR 2017 offers an opportunity to present and discuss both theoretical and empirical research. Relevant topics include, but are not restricted to, the following subjects: Document Representation and Content Analysis (text representation, document structure, linguistic analysis, NLP for IR, cross- and multi-lingual IR, information extraction, sentiment analysis, clustering, classification, topic models, facets, text streams). Document Indexing (index granularity, distributed indexing, compression). Queries and Query Analysis (query intent, query suggestion and prediction, query representation and reformulation, query log analysis, conversational search and dialogue, spoken queries, summarization, question answering, query log mining). Retrieval Models and Ranking (IR theory, language models, probabilistic retrieval models, learning to rank, combining searches, diversity and aggregated search). Search Engine Architectures (gathering, indexing, distributed IR, mobile IR, cloud IR). Users and Interactive IR (user studies, user and task models, interaction analysis, session analysis, exploratory search, personalized search, social and collaborative search, search interface, whole-session support, user engagement). Filtering and Recommending (content-based filtering, collaborative filtering, recommender systems). IR and the Web of Data (Linked Data, Open Data, data mashups) Knowledge-enabled IR (Knowledge graphs, ontologies, Semantic Web, entity extraction and linking) Evaluation (test collections, experimental design, effectiveness measures, session-based evaluation, simulation). Web IR and Social Media Search (link analysis, click models/behavioral modeling, social tagging, social network analysis, blog and microblog search, forum search, community-based QA, adversarial IR and spam, vertical and local search, expert finding). IR and Structured Data (XML search, ranking in databases, desktop search, entity search) Multimedia IR (image search, video search, speech/audio search, music search). Application of neural network models in IR tasks. Other Applications (digital libraries, enterprise search, genomics IR, legal IR, patent search, text reuse, new retrieval problems). SUBMISSIONS Submissions must be written in English and follow the guidelines set by Springer in the LNCS series (see the web site for details). Submissions will be peer-reviewed and accepted papers will appear in the CEUR-WS on-line proceedings series (indexed by DBLP), as happened for all previous IIR editions. Authors of accepted papers can choose not to have their papers published in the CEUR-WS collection. We particularly encourage PhD students or early-stage researchers to submit their work and also welcome contributions from industry. The conference languages are Italian and English. Authors are invited to submit one of the following types of contributions: * Full original papers (up to 12 pages); * Short original papers (up to 8 pages); * Extended abstracts containing descriptions of ongoing projects or presenting already published results (up to 4 pages). Submission page : https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iir2017 IMPORTANT DATES * Submission deadline : 31 March 2017 * Notification of acceptance : 5 May 2017 * IIR 2017 takes place on : 5-7 June 2017 REGISTRATION For the first time since the first edition in 2010, this year IIR will require a small registration fee to cover the costs of coffee breaks and social dinner. Università della Svizzera Italiana will organize and host the workshop for free. -------------- nächster Teil -------------- Ein Dateianhang mit HTML-Daten wurde abgetrennt... URL: From Tommaso.Urli at data61.csiro.au Wed Mar 8 23:36:02 2017 From: Tommaso.Urli at data61.csiro.au (Tommaso.Urli at data61.csiro.au) Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2017 22:36:02 +0000 Subject: [ICLP 2017] Second Call for Papers + Deadlines Message-ID: <1489012561281.60894@data61.csiro.au> Call for Papers 33rd International Conference on Logic Programming (co-located with CP and SAT and following IJCAI) Melbourne, Australia August 28 - September 1, 2017 http://iclp17.a4lp.org DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACT: MARCH 10 AND PAPER SUBMISSION: MARCH 17​ Conference Scope ---------------- Since the first conference held in Marseille in 1982, ICLP has been the premier international conference for presenting research in logic programming. Contributions are sought in all areas of logic programming, including but not restricted to: - Theory: Semantic Foundations, Formalisms, Nonmonotonic Reasoning, Knowledge Representation. - Implementation: Compilation, Virtual Machines, Parallelism, Constraint Handling Rules, Tabling. - Environments: Program Analysis, Transformation, Validation, Verification, Debugging, Profiling, Testing. - Language Issues: Concurrency, Objects, Coordination, Mobility, Higher Order, Types, Modes, Assertions, Programming Techniques. - Related Paradigms: Inductive and Co-inductive Logic Programming, Constraint Logic Programming, Answer-Set Programming, SAT-Checking. - Applications: Databases, Big Data, Data Integration and Federation, Software Engineering, Natural Language Processing, Web and Semantic Web, Agents, Artificial Intelligence, Bioinformatics, and Education. In addition to the presentations of accepted papers, the technical program will include invited talks, advanced tutorials, the doctoral consortium, and several workshops. Important Dates (RP: Regular Paper / TC: Technical Communication) ----------------------------------------------------------------- RP registration (abstract): 10 March, 2017 RP submission: 17 March, 2017 First notification (RPs): 24 April, 2017 TC submission (extra round): 1 May, 2017 Revision submission (RPs): 15 May, 2017 Final notifications (RPs + TCs): 29 May, 2017 Camera-ready copy (RPs + TCs): 19 June, 2017 Conference: 28 Aug / 1 Sep, 2017 Submission Details ------------------ All submissions must be made via the EasyChair conference system (http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iclp2017). Submissions of regular papers (RPs) must follow the condensed TPLP format (template available from ICLP’s web page) and not exceed 14 pages including bibliography. RPs may be supplemented with appendices for proofs and details of datasets which do not count towards the page limit and which will be available as appendices to the published paper. Three kinds of RPs will be accepted: * Technical papers for technically sound, innovative ideas that can advance the state of logic programming; * Application papers that impact interesting application domains; * System and tool papers which emphasize novelty, practicality, usability, and availability of the systems and tools described. Application, system, and tool papers need to be clearly marked in their title. All submissions must be written in English and describe original, previously unpublished research, and must not simultaneously be submitted for publication elsewhere. These restrictions do not apply to previously accepted workshop papers with a limited audience and/or without archival proceedings. Papers of the highest quality will be selected to be published in the journal of Theory and Practice of Logic Programming (TPLP), Cambridge University Press (CUP). In order to ensure the quality of the final version, papers may be subject to more than one round of refereeing (within the decision period). The program committee may recommend some RPs to be published as Technical Communications (TCs). TCs will be published by Dagstuhl Publishing in the OpenAccess Series in Informatics (OASIcs). TCs must follow the OASIcs format (template available from ICLP’s web page) and not exceed 14 pages excluding the bibliography and a short appendix (up to 5 more pages). TC’s authors can also elect to convert their submissions into extended abstracts, of 2 or 3 pages, for inclusion in the OASIcs proceedings. This should allow authors to submit a long version elsewhere. There is also a second submission round only for TCs. Submissions to this extra round must also follow the OASIcs format indicated above. RPs accepted as TCs do not need to be resubmitted to the TC extra round. Rejected RPs cannot be resubmitted as TCs. All RPs and TCs will be presented during the conference. Authors of accepted papers will, by default, be automatically included in the list of ALP members, who will receive quarterly updates from the Logic Programming Newsletter at no cost. Conference Organization ----------------------- General Chairs: Maria Garcia de la Banda Monash University, Australia Guido Tack Monash University, Australia Program Chairs: Ricardo Rocha University of Porto, Portugal Tran Cao Son New Mexico State University, USA Workshop Chair: Enrico Pontelli New Mexico State University, USA Publicity Chair: Tommaso Urli Australian National University, Australia Sponsorship Chair: Maria Garcia de la Banda Monash University, Australia Doctoral Consortium Chair (joint event with CP and SAT): Neda Saeedloei University of Minnesota Duluth, USA Christopher Mears Monash University, Australia Programming Contest Chairs: Paul Fodor Stony Brook University, USA Graeme Gange University of Melbourne, Australia Web Presence: Tommaso Urli Australian National University, Australia Program Committee ----------------- Mario Alviano, University of Calabria, Italy Marcello Balduccini, Drexel University, USA Pedro Cabalar, University of Coruña, Spain Mats Carlsson, SICS, Sweden Manuel Carro, Technical University of Madrid and IMDEA Software Institute, Spain Michael Codish, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel Alessandro Dal Palù, Università degli Studi di Parma, Italy Broes De Cat, Flanders Make, Belgium Marina De Vos, University of Bath, UK Marc Denecker, KU Leuven, Belgium Agostino Dovier, Università degli Studi di Udine, Italy Inês Dutra, University of Porto, Portugal Esra Erdem, Sabanci University, Istanbul, Turkey Wolfgang Faber, University of Huddersfield, UK Thom Fruehwirth, University of Ulm, Germany Sarah Alice Gaggl, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany Graeme Gange, University of Melbourne, Australia Maria Garcia De La Banda, Monash University, Australia Marco Gavanelli, Università degli studi di Ferrara, Italy Martin Gebser, University of Potsdam, Germany Gopal Gupta, University of Texas at Dallas, USA Amelia Harrison, University of Texas at Austin, USA Manuel V. Hermenegildo, Technical University of Madrid and IMDEA Software Institute, Spain Tomi Janhunen, Aalto University, Finland Andy King, University of Kent, UK Ekaterina Komendantskaya, Heriot-Watt University, UK Joohyung Lee, Arizona State University, USA Michael Leuschel, University of Düsseldorf, Germany Vladimir Lifschitz, University of Texas, USA Alessandra Mileo, Dublin City University, Ireland Enrico Pontelli, New Mexico State University, USA C. R. Ramakrishnan, Stony Brook University, USA Francesco Ricca, University of Calabria, Italy Ricardo Rocha, University of Porto, Portugal Alessandra Russo, Imperial College London, UK Chiaki Sakama, Wakayama University, Japan Tom Schrijvers, KU Leuven, Belgium Tran Cao Son, New Mexico State University, USA Theresa Swift, NOVALINKS, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal Guido Tack, Monash University, Australia Paul Tarau, University of North Texas, USA Daniele Theseider Dupré, Universita’ del Piemonte Orientale, Italy Mirek Truszczynski, University of Kentucky, USA German Vidal, Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, Spain Jan Wielemaker, VU University Amsterdam, Netherlands Stefan Woltran, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Jia-Huai You, University of Alberta, Canada Neng-Fa Zhou, CUNY Brooklyn College and Graduate Center, USA​ Workshops --------- The ICLP 2017 program will include several workshops. They are perhaps the best places for the presentation of preliminary work, underdeveloped novel ideas, and new open problems to a wide and interested audience with opportunities for intensive discussions and project collaboration. Doctoral Consortium ------------------- The Thirteen Doctoral Consortium (DC) on Logic Programming [this year being co-organized and taking place together with CP 2017 and SAT 2017] provides research students with the opportunity to present and discuss their research directions, and to obtain feedback from both peers and experts in the field. Accepted participants will receive partial financial support to attend the event and the main conference. The best paper from the DC will be given the opportunity to present in a session of the main ICLP conference. Doctoral consortium position papers, of between 10 and 14 pages, will also be published as TCs. Conference Venue ---------------- The venue will be the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre. Melbourne is the second most populous city in Australia and the coastal capital of the south-eastern Australian state of Victoria. Set on the shores of beautiful Port Phillip Bay, Melbourne has been named the World’s Most Liveable City for six years running and it is widely recognised as the cultural and culinary capital of Australia. It is a safe, creative and multi-cultural city full of exciting places to see, delicious foods to eat, and excellent events to experience; from the Arts precinct to the river bank parks and gardens to the buzzing city centre and the hidden thrills of Melbourne’s laneways. It is also an air-hop away from breathtaking destinations like The Great Barrier Reef, Sydney and Uluru. The Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre (MCEC) is located on the banks of the iconic Yarra River in Melbourne's South Wharf. Given its central location, it has a huge variety of accommodation close-by, with more than 6000 rooms within walking distance. MCEC is easily accessible by public transport, particularly as the Melbourne's city centre has a free tram zone that makes it easier for tourists to move around the city. Related Events -------------- Several other AI events will be held in Melbourne and other parts of Australia close to these dates, offering attendees a variety of choices for an extended itinerary. These events will include the International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming (CP 2017) and the International Conference on Theory and Applications of Satisfiability Testing (SAT 2017), both co-located with ICLP 2017. The International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2017), the Australasian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AusAI 2017), the Australasian Conference on Data Mining (AusDM 2017), and the International Conference on Knowledge Science, Engineering, and Management (KSEM 2017) will all to be held in Melbourne one week before ICLP. The International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2017) will also be held in Sydney Australia shortly before ICLP 2017. Sponsor ------- The conference is sponsored by the Association for Logic Programming (ALP), the Association for Constraint Programming (ACP), CSIRO Data61, and Monash University. Financial Assistance -------------------- The Association for Logic Programming has funds to assist financially disadvantaged participants and, especially, students to enable them to attend the conference. Inquiries should be made to the general chairs. Dr Tommaso Urli Researcher | Optimisation Platforms DATA61 | CSIRO E tommaso.urli at data61.csiro.au T +61 2 6218 3862 M +61 403 464 731 Tower A Level 3, 7 London Circuit, Canberra ACT 2601 www.data61.csiro.au CSIRO’s Digital Productivity business unit and NICTA have joined forces to create digital powerhouse Data61 [Data61 | CSIRO logo] -------------- nächster Teil -------------- Ein Dateianhang mit HTML-Daten wurde abgetrennt... URL: From nicola.olivetti at univ-amu.fr Thu Mar 9 00:31:41 2017 From: nicola.olivetti at univ-amu.fr (OLIVETTI Nicola) Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2017 23:31:41 +0000 Subject: POSITION ANNOUNCEMENT, UNIVERSITY OF AIX-MARSEILLES Message-ID: <1489015900381.31261@univ-amu.fr> ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR VACANCY IN COMPUTER SCIENCE AT THE UNIVERSITY OF AIX-MARSEILLES The University of Aix-Marseilles seeks a strong candidate in computer science for a position of Maître de Conférence (Associate Professor, Lecturer). The vacancy is a permanent position in the Faculté d'Economie et Gestion (Faculty of Economics and Management), Institut Supérieur des Sciences de Gestion of Aix-Marseille University, nowadays the largest university in France. REQUIREMENTS TO APPLY Applicants must either have acquired the French "qualification aux fonctions de Maître de Conférence" or must currently have a position equivalent to the one of Maître de Conférence, or exceptionally, they must have a Ph.D and have a provable academic experience comparable to the one of a Maître de Conférence. The Scientific Council of the university is in charge to evaluate the academic credentials of candidates who do not have the above mentioned French qualification in order to determine whether they can be admitted to the selection for the position. RESEARCH The successful candidate will integrate the laboratoire CNRS LSIS (Laboratoire des Sciences de l'Information et des Système (http://www.lsis.org) of Marseilles. The LSIS is a main research institutions in computer science in Marseilles, its research activities stretch from computer science, to robotics, to automation and control, and to image processing. This appointment is aimed to reinforce the research activities in Computer Science of LSIS, notably in one of the two following areas: - Logic: in particular proof theory, semantics, knowledge representation, and automated reasoning. - Simulation: in particular the development of methodologies for construction, verification and validation / simulation of discrete event models (DEVS). TEACHING The recruited Maître de Conférence will have to teach basic courses in computer science, as well as, more advanced courses within computer science and management programmes. At the bachelor level, the appointed Maître de Conference is expected to teach basic computer science courses in the first years of the "economics and management" degrees, such as introduction to computer science, programming, database, and spreadsheets. At the Master level, the appointed Maître de Conférence is expected to teach more advanced courses, in particular in the area of Information Systems, information retrieval, data mining, business intelligence, and machine learning. The recruited Maître de Conférence must be ready to take in charge the administrative managing of master or bachelor degrees. A teaching experience in economics/management degrees, as well as experience in the organisation of teaching is particularly sought. The teaching activity in mostly in French, the applicants must have an adequate proficiency in this language. HOW TO APPLY Applicants must register their application by the GALAXIE application on the website: https://galaxie.enseignementsup-recherche.gouv.fr/antares/can/astree/index.jsp Please note the deadline is: March 30, 16:00 (Paris time) CONTACTS For further information, please contact: - Research: Mustapha Ouladsine, mustapha.ouladsine at lsis.org Head of The Laboratoire LSIS - Teaching: Jean Caussanel, jean.caussanel at univ-amu.fr Head of the Institut Supérieur des Sciences de Gestion -------------- nächster Teil -------------- Ein Dateianhang mit HTML-Daten wurde abgetrennt... URL: From announce at cs.ucy.ac.cy Thu Mar 9 10:41:38 2017 From: announce at cs.ucy.ac.cy (Announce Announcements) Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2017 11:41:38 +0200 Subject: 16th World Conference on Mobile and Contextual Learning (mLearn 2017): Second Call for Papers and Workshop Proposals Message-ID: *** Second Call for Papers and Workshop Proposals *** 16th World Conference on Mobile and Contextual Learning mLearn 2017 Golden Bay Beach Hotel, Larnaca, Cyprus 30 October - 1 November, 2017 http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=YWZpaG0ub3JnICwJCQlldmVudEBpbi50dS1jbGF1c3RoYWwuZGUJMTZ0aCBXb3JsZCBDb25mZXJlbmNlIG9uIE1vYmlsZSBhbmQgQ29udGV4dHVhbCBMZWFybmluZyAobUxlYXJuIDIwMTcpOiBTZWNvbmQgQ2FsbCBmb3IgUGFwZXJzIGFuZCBXb3Jrc2hvcCBQcm9wb3NhbHMJNTAJTGlzdHMJMTgyCWNsaWNrCXllcwlubw==&url=http%3A%2F%2Fiamlearn.org%2Fmlearn%2F In Cooperation with ACM SIGAPP The International Association for Mobile Learning (IAmLearn) (www.iamlearn.org) is the custodian of the mLearn conference series. mLearn is the leading annual international conference for researchers, policy makers, educators, developers and solutions providers in the fields of mobile, ubiquitous and contextual learning, as well as learning with emerging ambient and wearable technologies. mLearn attracts a large number of participants from more than 60 countries representing all continents, and is, therefore, the world's largest international conference on mLearning and emerging ambient technologies. Conference Themes The overarching conference theme is 'mLearning and Design for Social Change and Innovation'. Higher education institutions are called upon to provide for the competencies and skills that foster design for social change and innovation. In addition, knowledge and skills alliances are encouraged by funding bodies to cultivate, share and disseminate competencies that foster social entrepreneurship and innovation. However, little is known on how mlearning can facilitate this process, how it can contribute towards social change, innovation and entrepreneurship. The topics of interest can go beyond the conference theme, and can include any of the following: · The development, deployment and implementation of mlearning in the context of social entrepreneurship, innovation and social change · mLearning as a tool that fosters social change and social entrepreneurship · Innovations in mlearning theory and pedagogy · From pilot projects to mainstream implementation: strategies for the deployment of mLearning · Mobile technology to support open and distance learning · Mobile technology for teaching and learning support · Assessment techniques and practices in mLearning · Design and development of learning material for mLearning · Learning objects and metadata for mLearning · Informal and lifelong learning with the aid of mobile technologies · Challenges for mLearning in developing countries · Building and implementing mLearning strategies in educational institutions, companies and public sector organisations · mLearning management systems (mLMSs) · Computer tablets · Creating interactive and collaborative mLearning environments · Future trends in mLearning technology, including the impact of emerging technologies · Emerging hardware and software for mLearning including wearable technologies · Location-aware technologies · Contextual and situated learning · Augmented reality · Serious gaming and simulations · Ambient intelligence and ubiquitous learning Submission Information The conference solicits regular papers (no more than 8 pages), short papers (no more than 4 pages), as well as posters (no more than 2 pages). The Program Committee may require an accepted paper to be adapted into a short paper or poster. 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. The conference proceedings will be published by ACM ICPS and archived in the ACM Digital Library. Important Dates · Submission of Workshop Proposals: 31 March 2017 · Notification for Workshop Proposals: 7 April 2017 · Submission Deadline for Conference Papers: 1 June 2017 · Submission Deadline for Workshop Papers: 21 July 2017 · Accept/Reject Notification for Conference Papers: 15 July 2017 · Accept/Reject Notification for Workshop Papers: 25 August 2017 · Camera-Ready Submission of all Papers: 1 September 2017 Information on registration categories and registration fees for the mLearn 2017 is available online at: http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=YWZpaG0ub3JnICwJCQlldmVudEBpbi50dS1jbGF1c3RoYWwuZGUJMTZ0aCBXb3JsZCBDb25mZXJlbmNlIG9uIE1vYmlsZSBhbmQgQ29udGV4dHVhbCBMZWFybmluZyAobUxlYXJuIDIwMTcpOiBTZWNvbmQgQ2FsbCBmb3IgUGFwZXJzIGFuZCBXb3Jrc2hvcCBQcm9wb3NhbHMJNTAJTGlzdHMJMTgyCWNsaWNrCXllcwlubw==&url=http%3A%2F%2Fiamlearn.org%2Fmlearn%2F. Organization General Chair · George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Program Chairs · Fernando Loizides, University of Wolverhampton, United Kingdom · Nicos Souleles, Cyprus University of Technology, Cyprus Program Committee http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=YWZpaG0ub3JnICwJCQlldmVudEBpbi50dS1jbGF1c3RoYWwuZGUJMTZ0aCBXb3JsZCBDb25mZXJlbmNlIG9uIE1vYmlsZSBhbmQgQ29udGV4dHVhbCBMZWFybmluZyAobUxlYXJuIDIwMTcpOiBTZWNvbmQgQ2FsbCBmb3IgUGFwZXJzIGFuZCBXb3Jrc2hvcCBQcm9wb3NhbHMJNTAJTGlzdHMJMTgyCWNsaWNrCXllcwlubw==&url=http%3A%2F%2Fiamlearn.org%2Fmlearn%2Fcommittees.php -------------- nächster Teil -------------- Ein Dateianhang mit HTML-Daten wurde abgetrennt... URL: From sdmpublic2 at gmail.com Thu Mar 9 16:44:16 2017 From: sdmpublic2 at gmail.com (SDM Publicity Chairs) Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2017 16:44:16 +0100 Subject: Call for Participation: SDM'17 (April 27-29, 2017) Message-ID: CALL FOR PARTICIPATION SDM'17: THE SEVENTEENTH SIAM INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON DATA MINING *** Call for Participation *** April 27 - April 29, 2017 The Westin Galleria Houston Houston, Texas, USA www.siam.org/meetings/sdm17/ REGISTRATION - IMPORTANT DATES Pre-registration deadline: March 30, 2017 at 11:59 PM (PDT) Register now at http://www.siam.org/meetings/sdm17/reginfo.php FOLLOW SDM https://twitter.com/SIAMDataMining https://www.facebook.com/events/475483799321188/ DESCRIPTION Data mining is the computational process for discovering valuable knowledge from data. It has enormous application in numerous fields, including science, engineering, healthcare, business, and medicine. Typical datasets in these fields are large, complex, and often noisy. Extracting knowledge from these datasets requires the use of sophisticated, high-performance, and principled analysis techniques and algorithms, which are based on sound theoretical and statistical foundations. These techniques in turn require implementations on high performance computational infrastructure that are carefully tuned for performance. Powerful visualization technologies along with effective user interfaces are also essential to make data mining tools appealing to researchers, analysts, and application developers from different disciplines. The SDM conference provides a venue for researchers who are addressing these problems to present their work in a peer-reviewed forum. It also provides an ideal setting for graduate students and others new to the field to learn about cutting-edge research by hearing outstanding invited speakers and attending presentations and tutorials (included with conference registration). A set of focused workshops is also held on the last day of the conference. The proceedings of the conference are published in archival form, and are also made available on the SIAM web site. HOTEL The conference will be held at the Westin Galleria Hotel, Downtown, Houston, TX. Additional information about hotel reservations is available at the following website: http://www.siam.org/meetings/sdm17/hotel.php PROGRAM Up-to-date information on the SDM'17 program will be available in early March at: http://www.siam.org/meetings/sdm17/program.php TUTORIALS The conference features the following tutorials on several special topics. For more details, please visit the conference website http://www.siam.org/meetings/sdm17/tutorials.php - An Introduction to Redescription Mining Presenters: Pauli Miettinen, MPI-INF, Germany; Esther Galbrun, INRIA, France - IoT Big Data Stream Mining Presenters: Gianmarco De Francisci Morales, QCRI, Qatar; Albert Bifet, Telecom-ParisTech, France; Latifur Khan, University of Texas at Dallas, USA; Joao Gama, University of Porto, Portugal; Wei Fan, Baidu Research, California, USA - Leveraging Propagations for Data Mining Presenters: B. Aditya Prakash, Virginia Tech, USA; Naren Ramakrishnan, Virginia Tech, USA - Opportunities, Challenges and Methods for Higher Education Data Mining Presenters: Huzefa Rangwala, George Mason University, USA; Aditya Johri, George Mason University, USA; Asmaa El Badrawy, University of Minnesota, USA; George Karypis, University of Minnesota, USA - Summarizing Large-Scale Graph Data Presenter: Danai Koutra, University of Michigan, USA WORKSHOPS The conference features the following workshops and minisymposium on several special topics. For more details, please visit the links mentioned next to each workshop or the conference website at http://www.siam.org/meetings/sdm17/workshops.php Data Mining for Medicine and Healthcare (full day) Organizers: Wang Fei, Xia Ben Hu, Gregor Stiglic, Nitesh Chawla, Zoran Obradovic http://www.dmmh.org/sdm17 Inferring Networks From Non-Network Data (full day) Organizers: Rajmonda Caceres, Tanya Berger-Wolf, Brian Gallagher, Ivan Brugere http://compbio.cs.uic.edu/netinf17/ Machine Learning Methods for Recommender Systems (full day) Organizers: Xia Ning, Deguang Kong, George Karypis http://mlrec.org/2017/index.html Mining Big Data in Climate and Environment (full day) Organizers: Vipin Kumar, Shashi Shekhar https://sites.google.com/a/umn.edu/mbdce-2017/home Workshop on Data Mining for Oil & Gas (half day) Organizers: Alipio Jorge, German Larrazabal, Rui L. Lopes http://dm4og.inesctec.pt/ Women in Data Science (full day) Organizers: Ana Paula Appel, Marisa A. Vasconcelos, Mirella M. Moro, Yasuko Matsubara https://sites.google.com/site/workshopwinds2017/ DOCTORAL FORUM The Doctoral Forum is special poster session collocated with the SDM conference oral presentation and poster sessions. Selected PhD students will present their work, discuss and receive feedback on their research. http://www.eecs.wsu.edu/~sji/SDM17Scholarship/ -------------- nächster Teil -------------- Ein Dateianhang mit HTML-Daten wurde abgetrennt... URL: From owre at csl.sri.com Thu Mar 9 22:01:56 2017 From: owre at csl.sri.com (Sam Owre) Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2017 13:01:56 -0800 Subject: Automated Formal Methods (AFM) 2017 Final 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 Fri Mar 10 13:51:49 2017 From: announce at cs.ucy.ac.cy (Announce Announcements) Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2017 14:51:49 +0200 Subject: 8th IEEE International Conference on Information, Intelligence, Systems and Applications (IISA 2017): Fourth Call for Papers Message-ID: *** Fourth Call for Papers *** 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=YWZpaG0ub3JnICwJCQlldmVudEBpbi50dS1jbGF1c3RoYWwuZGUJOHRoIElFRUUgSW50ZXJuYXRpb25hbCBDb25mZXJlbmNlIG9uIEluZm9ybWF0aW9uLCBJbnRlbGxpZ2VuY2UsIFN5c3RlbXMgYW5kIEFwcGxpY2F0aW9ucyAoSUlTQSAyMDE3KTogRm91cnRoIENhbGwgZm9yIFBhcGVycwk1MglMaXN0cwkxODIJY2xpY2sJeWVzCW5v&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=YWZpaG0ub3JnICwJCQlldmVudEBpbi50dS1jbGF1c3RoYWwuZGUJOHRoIElFRUUgSW50ZXJuYXRpb25hbCBDb25mZXJlbmNlIG9uIEluZm9ybWF0aW9uLCBJbnRlbGxpZ2VuY2UsIFN5c3RlbXMgYW5kIEFwcGxpY2F0aW9ucyAoSUlTQSAyMDE3KTogRm91cnRoIENhbGwgZm9yIFBhcGVycwk1MglMaXN0cwkxODIJY2xpY2sJeWVzCW5v&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 · 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=YWZpaG0ub3JnICwJCQlldmVudEBpbi50dS1jbGF1c3RoYWwuZGUJOHRoIElFRUUgSW50ZXJuYXRpb25hbCBDb25mZXJlbmNlIG9uIEluZm9ybWF0aW9uLCBJbnRlbGxpZ2VuY2UsIFN5c3RlbXMgYW5kIEFwcGxpY2F0aW9ucyAoSUlTQSAyMDE3KTogRm91cnRoIENhbGwgZm9yIFBhcGVycwk1MglMaXN0cwkxODIJY2xpY2sJeWVzCW5v&url=http%3A%2F%2Fiisa2017.unipi.gr/committees/ -------------- nächster Teil -------------- Ein Dateianhang mit HTML-Daten wurde abgetrennt... URL: From cie2017 at abo.fi Fri Mar 10 16:39:54 2017 From: cie2017 at abo.fi (CIE2017) Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2017 17:39:54 +0200 Subject: CiE 2017: call for informal presentations Message-ID: Call for informal presentations *Computability in Europe 2017*, June 12-16, Turku, Finland http://math.utu.fi/cie2017/ Important dates • Submission deadline: May 1, 2017 • Notification of acceptance: Within two weeks of submission There is a remarkable difference in conference style between computer science and mathematics conferences. Mathematics conferences allow for informal presentations that are prepared very shortly before the conference and inform the participants about current research and work in progress. The format of computer science conferences with pre-conference proceedings is not able to accommodate this form of scientific communication. Continuing the tradition of past CiE conferences, also this year’s CiE conference endeavours to get the best of both worlds. In addition to the formal presentations based on our LNCS proceedings volume, we invite researchers to present informal presentations. For this, please send us a brief description of your talk (one page) by the submission deadline May 1st. Please submit your abstract electronically, via EasyChair , selecting the category “Informal Presentation”. You will be notified whether your talk has been accepted for informal presentation within two weeks after your submission. Jarkko Kari and Ion Petre (PC co-chairs of CiE 2017) cie2017 at utu.fi -------------- nächster Teil -------------- Ein Dateianhang mit HTML-Daten wurde abgetrennt... URL: From nsmattei at gmail.com Fri Mar 10 16:47:32 2017 From: nsmattei at gmail.com (Nicholas Mattei) Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2017 10:47:32 -0500 Subject: Deadline Extension -- Call for Submissions: ACM SIGAI Student Essay Contest on the Responsible Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) Technologies! Message-ID: [Apologies for Multiple Postings -- please pass on to contacts who may have interested students] Deadline Extension -- We have extended the deadline to March 31st, 2017. Please encourage all students, high school, undergrad, and grad, to submit. Winning entries will be published in the ACM SIGAI Matters Newsletter! Do you have an opinion on the responsible use of AI technologies? Do you want to win one of several $500 cash prizes? Do you want to talk one-on-one (via skype) to one of the following AI researchers: * Murray Campbell (Senior Manager, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center) * Eric Horvitz (Managing Director, Microsoft Research) * Peter Norvig (Director of Research, Google) * Stuart Russell (Professor, University of California at Berkeley) or * Michael Wooldridge (Head of the CS Department, University of Oxford)? Read on! We are happy to announce the ACM SIGAI Student Essay Contest on the Responsible Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) Technologies. An increasing number of AI technologies now affect our lives (or soon will), from intelligent assistants to self-driving cars. As a result, AI technologies are often in the news and a number of organizations (including the U.S. government) are trying to ensure that AI technologies are being used for the maximum benefit of society. As with all potentially transformative technologies (such as the automobile and the transistor), there is some uncertainty about exactly how the future will look like and how it should best be shaped to harness the power of AI technologies while avoiding any drawbacks or misuses. ACM SIGAI is in a unique position to shape the conversation around these issues. ACM SIGAI is interested in obtaining input from students worldwide to help shape this debate. We therefore invite all student members to enter an essay in the ACM SIGAI Student Essay Contest, to be published in the ACM SIGAI newsletter “AI Matters,” answering the following questions while providing supporting evidence: What do you see as the 1-2 most pressing ethical, social or regulatory issues with respect to AI technologies? What position or steps can governments, industries or organizations (including ACM SIGAI) take to address these issues or shape the discussions on them? The ACM SIGAI Student Essay Contest is open to all ACM SIGAI student members at the time of submission. (If you are a student but not an ACM SIGAI member, you can join ACM SIGAI before submission for just USD 11, even if you are not an ACM member.) The deadline for submissions is March 31, 2017. The submission site for essays is https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sigaiethics2017 Please find all details in the ACM SIGAI AI Matters blog (https:// sigai.acm.org/aimatters/blog/2016/12/04/essaycontest/). Please also help us out by distributing this email to students who might be interested in participating. -- 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 jef.wijsen at umons.ac.be Fri Mar 10 17:00:53 2017 From: jef.wijsen at umons.ac.be (Jef Wijsen) Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2017 17:00:53 +0100 Subject: TIME 2017 Second call for papers Message-ID: <5487b75c-223c-4589-c40c-615f27304e2e@umons.ac.be> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- TIME 2017 24th International Symposium on Temporal Representation and Reasoning Mons (Belgium), 16-18 October 2017 Second Call for Papers http://informatique.umons.ac.be/time2017/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Aims and scope -------------- TIME 2017 aims to bring together researchers interested in reasoning about temporal aspects of information in any area of Computer Science. The symposium, currently in its 24th edition, has a wide remit and intends to cater to both theoretical aspects and well-founded applications. One of the key aspects of the symposium is its interdisciplinarity, with attendees from distinct areas such as artificial intelligence, database management, logic and verification, and beyond. The symposium will encompass three tracks on temporal representation and reasoning in (1) Artificial Intelligence, (2) Databases and (3) Logic and Verification. The Artificial Intelligence track includes, but is not limited to: - temporal aspects of agent- and policy-based systems - spatial and temporal reasoning - reasoning about actions and change - planning and planning languages - ontologies of time and space-time - belief and uncertainty in temporal knowledge - temporal learning and discovery - time in problem solving (e.g. diagnosis, scheduling) - time in human-machine interaction - temporal information extraction - time in natural language processing - spatio-temporal knowledge representation systems - spatio-temporal ontologies for the semantic web - constraint-based temporal reasoning - temporal preferences The Database track includes, but is not limited to: - temporal data models and query languages - temporal query processing and indexing - temporal data mining - time series data management - stream data management - spatio-temporal data management, including moving objects - data currency and expiration - indeterminate and imprecise temporal data - temporal constraints - temporal aspects of business processes and ECA systems - real-time databases - time-dependent security policies - privacy in temporal and spatio-temporal data - temporal aspects of multimedia databases - temporal aspects of e-services and web applications - temporal aspects of distributed systems - temporal aspects and big data - temporal aspects in NoSQL databases - temporal data warehouses - temporal healthcare databases and warehouses - time series analysis and mining - semistructured temporal data - novel applications of temporal database management - novel visualizations and interfaces for temporal data - experiences with real applications The Logic and Verification track includes, but is not limited to: - specification and verification of systems - verification of web applications - synthesis and execution - model-checking algorithms and implementations - verification of infinite-state systems - reasoning about transition systems - temporal architectures - temporal logics for distributed systems - temporal logics for games and open systems - temporal logics of knowledge - hybrid systems and real-time logics - cyber-physical systems - tools and practical systems - temporal issues in security Submission and publication -------------------------- Submissions of high-quality papers describing research results are solicited. Submitted papers should contain original, previously unpublished content, should be written in English, and must not be simultaneously submitted for publication elsewhere. Submitted papers will be refereed for quality, correctness, originality, and relevance. Detailed submission instructions can be found on the website of TIME 2017: http://informatique.umons.ac.be/time2017/ Accepted papers will be presented at the symposium and included in the proceedings, which will be published by LIPIcs-Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics, which is a series of high-quality peer-reviewed conference proceedings, published according to the principle of OpenAccess. At least one author of each accepted paper must register at the conference and present the paper. Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit an extended version of their contribution to a special issue of the journal Theoretical Computer Science. Important Dates --------------- Abstracts due: May 8, 2017 Full papers due: May 12, 2017 Notification: June 27, 2017 Final version due: July 14, 2017 Symposium: October 16-18, 2017 Program Committee Chairs ------------------------ Sven Schewe, University of Liverpool, UK Thomas Schneider, University of Bremen, Germany Jef Wijsen, University of Mons, Belgium Program Committee ----------------- - Johann Eder (Alpen Adria Universität Klagenfurt, Austria) - Fabio Grandi (University of Bologna, Italy) - Ernst Moritz Hahn (State Key Laboratory of Computer Science, Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China) - Michael R. Hansen (Technical University of Denmark, Denmark) - Fredrik Heintz (Linköping University, Sweden) - Marcin Jurdzinski (University of Warwick, UK) - Roman Kontchakov (Birkbeck, University of London, UK) - Jan Kretínský (Technical University of Munich, Germany) - Bart Kuijpers (Hasselt University, Belgium) - Martin Lange (University of Kassel, Germany) - Martin Leucker (University of Lübeck, Germany) - Cláudia Nalon (University of Brasília, Brazil) - Andrea Orlandini (National Research Council of Italy ISTC-CNR, Italy) - Doron Peled (Bar Ilan University, Israel) - Roberto Posenato (Università degli Studi di Verona, Italy) - Jean-François Raskin (Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium) - Peter Z. Revesz (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA) - Mark Reynolds (The Univeristy of Western Australia, Australia) - Sven Schewe (University of Liverpool, UK) - Renate A. Schmidt (University of Manchester, UK) - Thomas Schneider (University of Bremen, Germany) - Paolo Terenziani (University Piemonte Orientale, Italy) - David Toman (University of Waterloo, Canada) - Kristian Torp (Aalborg University, Denmark) - Alejandro A. Vaisman (Instituto Tecnológico de Buenos Aires, Argentina) - Kristen B. Venable (Tulane University, USA) - Jef Wijsen (University of Mons, Belgium) - Stefan Wölfl (University of Freiburg, Germany) - Martin Zimmermann (Saarland University, Germany) Invited Speakers ---------------- Alessandro Artale, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy Javier Esparza, Technical University of Munich, Germany Sheila McIlraith, University of Toronto, Canada Venue ----- TIME 2017 will take place in Mons, a beautiful city in the French-speaking part of Belgium, and a former European Capital of Culture. From serge.autexier at dfki.de Fri Mar 10 17:26:37 2017 From: serge.autexier at dfki.de (Serge Autexier) Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2017 17:26:37 +0100 (CET) Subject: 2nd Call for Papers - 10th Conference on Intelligent Computer Mathematics - CICM 2017 - Abstract Submission Deadline 15. March 2017 Message-ID: <20170310162637.30924112659B@mbp-autexier.informatik.uni-bremen.de> Second Call for Papers 10th Conference on Intelligent Computer Mathematics - CICM 2017 - July 17-21, 2017 University of Edinburgh, Scotland http://www.cicm-conference.org/2017 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- NEW * Invited Speakers: Alan Bundy (University of Edinburgh) and Grant Olney Passmore (University of Cambridge) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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, 2017. 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 andrej.tibaut at um.si Fri Mar 10 19:57:27 2017 From: andrej.tibaut at um.si (Andrej Tibaut (UM)) Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2017 19:57:27 +0100 Subject: CfP: ICE/IEEE ITM 2017, Track KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT & ENGINEERING Message-ID: <00556BF5-07AC-4A99-8B4A-599474278E9C@um.si> CALL FOR PAPERS FOR THE TRACK of SESSIONS “KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT & ENGINEERING" http://www.ice-conference.org/Home/Special-Sessions.aspx Track-Chair: Prof. Andrej Tibaut, University of Maribor, Faculty of Civil Engineering, Transportation Engineering and Architecture, Slovenia, andrej.tibaut at um.si including topics covering research and application in: STRATEGIC KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT THEORIES, POLICIES AND PRACTICES based on topics: Models for Strategic Knowledge Management, Strategic Knowledge Management in Organizations, Role of ITC in Knowledge Management, Knowledge Management Benchmarking Systems Session Chairs: Prof. Elias G Carayannis, Professor of Science, Innovation, Technology and Entrepreneurship, GWU School of Business, USA, caraye at gwu.edu Prof. Manlio Del Giudice, Professor of Business Management, University of Rome (Link Campus), Italy, manlio.delgiudice at oasipc.com Dr. Armando Papa, University of Rome "Link Campus", Italy, papa.armando at hotmail.it SYSTEMS APPROACH TO KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING - PEOPLE, CULTURE AND TECHNOLOGY CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES based on topics: Knowledge Capture, Knowledge Modelling & Models, Domain Ontologies (architecture, engineering, construction, operation, medicine, pharmacy, manufacturing, public sector, etc.), Ontology Engineering, Ontology Alignment, Fuzzy Ontologies, Ontology-based Representation and Reasoning, Knowledge Bases, Linked Data and Semantic Web, Big Data and Semantic Data Management, Reinforced Learning Session Chairs: Prof. Elias G Carayannis, Professor of Science, Innovation, Technology and Entrepreneurship, GWU School of Business, USA, caraye at gwu.edu Prof. Manlio Del Giudice, Professor of Business Management, University of Rome (Link Campus), Italy, manlio.delgiudice at oasipc.com Dr. Branko Kaučič, Initut, Institute of Information Technology Ltd, Slovenia, branko.kaucic at initut.com in frame of the ICE/IEEE ITM: 23rd INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ENGINEERING, TECHNOLOGY AND INNOVATION Madeira Island – Portugal, 27-29 June 2017 http://www.ice-conference.org/ this year under the theme: “Engineering, Technology and Innovation Management beyond 2020: New Challenges, New Approaches” Selected and presented papers for the track will be published in the digital conference proceedings to be available via IEEE Xplore® (with ISBN Number and DOI for the paper). In addition to that, selected papers for the track sessions will undergo double-blind review to be considered for the following journal and potential Special Issues: Journal of Knowledge Management (http://emeraldgrouppublishing.com/products/journals/journals.htm?id=JKM , SCI JCR Impact Factor 1.689), special issue “STRATEGIC KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT THEORIES, POLICIES AND PRACTICES” Journal of Knowledge Management (http://emeraldgrouppublishing.com/products/journals/journals.htm?id=JKM , SCI JCR Impact Factor 1.689), special issue “SYSTEMS APPROACH TO KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING - PEOPLE, CULTURE AND TECHNOLOGY CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES” Important Dates: Paper Submission: 30th April 2017, http://www.ice-conference.org/Home/Submissions.aspx Notification of Acceptance: 26th May 2017 Camera-ready for publication: 06th June 2017 -------------- nächster Teil -------------- Ein Dateianhang mit HTML-Daten wurde abgetrennt... URL: From alexandra.silva at ucl.ac.uk Fri Mar 10 20:51:57 2017 From: alexandra.silva at ucl.ac.uk (Alexandra Silva) Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2017 20:51:57 +0100 (CET) Subject: MFPS 33: Deadline Extension Message-ID: <20170310195157.5E19F341D14@sphinx.rz.tu-clausthal.de> MFPS XXXIII : Mathematical Foundations of Programming Semantics XXXIII New submission deadline -- March 17th AoE 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 17 (extended) * 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 Baue From owre at csl.sri.com Sat Mar 11 08:06:27 2017 From: owre at csl.sri.com (Sam Owre) Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2017 23:06:27 -0800 Subject: Seventh Summer School on Formal Techniques, May 21-26, 2017, Menlo College, Atherton Message-ID: Seventh Summer School on Formal Techniques, May 21 - May 26, 2017, Menlo College Atherton, California http://fm.csl.sri.com/SSFT17 Lecturers: Stephanie Delaune (IRISA France), Marijn Heule (University of Texas at Austin), K. Rustan M. Leino (Microsoft Research, Redmond WA), Sam Blackshear (Facebook), and Ashish Tiwari (SRI) Techniques based on formal logic, such as model checking, satisfiability, static analysis, and automated theorem proving, are finding a broad range of applications in modeling, analysis, verification, and synthesis. This school, the sixth in the series, will focus on the principles and practice of formal techniques, with a strong emphasis on the hands-on use and development of this technology. It primarily targets graduate students and young researchers who are interested in studying and using formal techniques in their research. A prior background in formal methods is helpful but not required. Participants at the school will have a seriously fun time experimenting with the tools and techniques presented in the lectures during laboratory sessions. The lecturers at the school include: * Stephanie Delaune (IRISA France): Verification of security protocols: from confidentiality to privacy Abstract: Security protocols are widely used today to secure transactions that take place through public channels like the Internet. Typical functionalities are the transfer of a credit card number or the authentication of a user on a system. Because of their increasing ubiquity in many important applications (e.g. electronic commerce, smartphone, government-issued ID . . . ), a very important research challenge consists in developing methods and verification tools to increase our trust on security protocols, and so on the applications that rely on them. Formal methods offer symbolic models to carefully analyse security protocols, together with a set of proof techniques and efficient tools such as ProVerif. These methods build on techniques from model-checking, automated reasoning and concurrency theory. We will explain how security protocols as well as the security properties they are supposed to achieve are formalised in symbolic models. Then, we will describe and discuss techniques to automatically verify different kinds of security properties. The lab sessions will be the opportunity to play with the ProVerif verification tool. * Marjijn Heule (University of Texas at Austin): State-of-the-art SAT Solving Abstract: Satisfiability (SAT) solvers have become powerful search engines to solve a wide range of applications in fields such as formal verification, planning and bio-informatics. Due to the elementary representation of SAT problems, many low-level optimizations can be implemented. At the same time, there exist clause-based techniques that can simulate several high-level reasoning methods. The teaching session focuses on the search procedures in successful conflict-driven clause learning SAT solvers. It shows how to learn from conflicts and provides an overview of effective heuristics for variable and value selection. Additionally, the teaching session covers recent developments, in particular a technique used in today's strongest solvers: the alternation between "classic" depth-first search with learning, and breadth-first search for simplification. * K. Rustan M. Leino (Microsoft Research, Redmond WA): Verified programs and proofs in Dafny Abstract: In these lectures, you will learn and practice the foundations of program verification, like pre- and postcondition specifications, loop invariants, termination, proofs, and induction. Dafny is a programming language that includes specifications and proof-authoring features. The lectures and labs will give you hands-on experience in using the Dafny to write and specify programs, both imperative and functional, and to write mechanically checked proofs. * Sam Blackshear (Facebook): Building compositional static analyzers with Infer Abstract: Infer is an open-source static analysis tool used to find bugs in Java, Objective-C, and C++ code at Facebook. Recently, Infer has transitioned from a standalone separation logic-based analyzer into a general framework for quickly developing modular and compositional interprocedural analyses. The framework lifts a simple intraprocedural abstract interpreter that computes the summary for a single procedure to a compositional interprocedural analysis that scales to millions of lines of code. * Ashish Tiwari (SRI International Computer Science Laboratory): Formal Techniques for Analyzing Hybrid Systems Abstract: Hybrid dynamical systems combine discrete state transition systems with continuous dynamical systems. They are used to model complex systems that have interacting discrete and continuous components, or systems that are broadly referred to as cyber-physical systems. This course will cover the basics of hybrid systems, and it will delve deeper into the verification problem and the various approaches for analyzing hybrid systems. The lab sessions will involve using tools for verification of hybrid systems. The main lectures in the summer school will be preceded by a background course on logic taught by Natarajan Shankar (SRI)and Stephane Graham-Lengrand (Ecole Polytechnique) on * Speaking Logic Abstract: Formal logic has become the lingua franca of computing. It is used for specifying digital systems, annotating programs with assertions, defining the semantics of programming languages, and proving or refuting claims about software or hardware systems. Familiarity with the language and methods of logic is a foundation for research into formal aspects of computing. This course covers the basics of logic focusing on the use of logic as a medium for formalization and proof. Note: The school is preceded by the 9th NASA Formal Methods Symposium (NFM) 2017 (https://ti.arc.nasa.gov/events/nfm-2017/) and the associated sixth Automated Formal Methods (AFM) 2017 (http://fm.csl.sri.com/AFM17/) workshop. On May 20 there will be an AFM tutorial day that students are encouraged to attend. Information about previous Summer Schools on Formal Techniques can be found at http://fm.csl.sri.com/SSFT11 http://fm.csl.sri.com/SSFT12 http://fm.csl.sri.com/SSFT13 http://fm.csl.sri.com/SSFT14 http://fm.csl.sri.com/SSFT15 http://fm.csl.sri.com/SSFT16 We expect to provide support for the travel and accommodation for a limited number of students registered at US universities, but welcome applications from non-US students as well as non-students (if space permits). Non-US students will have to cover their own travel and will be charged around US$600 for meals and lodging. Applications should be submitted at the website http://fm.csl.sri.com/SSFT17 Applicants are urged to submit their applications before April 30, 2016, since there are only a limited number of spaces available. Non-US applicants requiring US visas are requested to apply early. We strongly encourage the participation of women and under-represented minorities in the summer school. From announce at cs.ucy.ac.cy Sat Mar 11 11:29:32 2017 From: announce at cs.ucy.ac.cy (Announce Announcements) Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2017 12:29:32 +0200 Subject: 9th International Conference on Computational Collective Intelligence (ICCCI 2017): Fifth Call for Papers Message-ID: <22X33JAA-S7YI-J087-ZKLD-GX06P7Z6NWNQ@cs.ucy.ac.cy> *** Fifth Call for Papers *** 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=YWZpaG0ub3JnICwJCQlldmVudEBpbi50dS1jbGF1c3RoYWwuZGUJOXRoIEludGVybmF0aW9uYWwgQ29uZmVyZW5jZSBvbiBDb21wdXRhdGlvbmFsIENvbGxlY3RpdmUgSW50ZWxsaWdlbmNlIChJQ0NDSSAyMDE3KTogRmlmdGggQ2FsbCBmb3IgUGFwZXJzCTU2CUxpc3RzCTE4MgljbGljawl5ZXMJbm8=&url=http%3A%2F%2Fcyprusconferences.org%2Ficcci2017%2F *** Deadline Extension: April 15th, 2017 *** 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=YWZpaG0ub3JnICwJCQlldmVudEBpbi50dS1jbGF1c3RoYWwuZGUJOXRoIEludGVybmF0aW9uYWwgQ29uZmVyZW5jZSBvbiBDb21wdXRhdGlvbmFsIENvbGxlY3RpdmUgSW50ZWxsaWdlbmNlIChJQ0NDSSAyMDE3KTogRmlmdGggQ2FsbCBmb3IgUGFwZXJzCTU2CUxpc3RzCTE4MgljbGljawl5ZXMJbm8=&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 Important Dates · Submission of Papers: April 15, 2017 (extended) · Notification of Acceptance: June 1, 2017 · Camera-ready Submission: June 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 Jedrzejowicz, 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 Jedrzejowicz, 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 grlmc at grlmc.com Sun Mar 12 21:24:50 2017 From: grlmc at grlmc.com (GRLMC) Date: Sun, 12 Mar 2017 21:24:50 +0100 Subject: AlCoB 2017: call for posters Message-ID: <545102060a010b01075e520b0e035a5c015e53530104025703035d530e575a0252035406505c090608045800500b58@grlmc_ip-zone_com-6> AlCoB 2017: call for posters*To be removed from our mailing list, please respond to this message with UNSUBSCRIBE in the subject line* ********************************************************************************** The 4th International Conference on Algorithms for Computational Biology (AlCoB 2017) invites researchers to submit poster presentations. AlCoB 2017 will be held in Aveiro (Portugal) on June 5-7, 2017. See  http://grammars.grlmc.com/AlCoB2017/ Poster presentations are intended to enhance informal interactions with conference participants, at the same time allowing for in-depth discussion. TOPICS Presentations displaying novel work in progress on algorithms in computational biology are encouraged on the following topics: - assembling sequence reads into a complete genome, - identifying gene structures in the genome, - recognizing regulatory motifs, - aligning nucleotides and comparing genomes, - reconstructing regulatory networks of genes, and - inferring the evolutionary phylogeny of species. Posters do not need to show final research results. Work that might lead to new interesting developments is welcome. KEY DATES Poster submission deadline: April 28, 2017 Notification of poster acceptance or rejection: May 5, 2017 SUBMISSION Please submit a .pdf abstract through: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=alcob2017 It should contain the title, author(s) and affiliation, and should not exceed 500 words. PRESENTATION Posters will be allocated 10 minutes each in the programme for oral presentation. Moreover, they will remain hanging out during the whole conference for discussion. PUBLICATION Posters will not appear in the LNCS/LNBI proceedings volume of AlCoB 2017. However, they will be eligible for submission to the post-conference journal special issue in the Journal of Computational Biology (2015 JCR impact factor: 1.537). REGISTRATION At least one author of each accepted poster must register to the conference by May 22, 2017. The registration fare is reduced: 260 Euro. It gives the same rights all other conference participants have (attendance, copy of the proceedings volume, lunches...). Contributors of regular papers who in addition get a poster accepted must register for the latter independently. -------------- nächster Teil -------------- Ein Dateianhang mit HTML-Daten wurde abgetrennt... URL: From pokahr at informatik.uni-hamburg.de Mon Mar 13 12:47:46 2017 From: pokahr at informatik.uni-hamburg.de (Alexander Pokahr) Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2017 12:47:46 +0100 Subject: Joint PhD Mentoring track of IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence 2017 (WI'17) and 15th German Conference on Multiagent System Technologies (MATES'17) Message-ID: <4cbd16de-da0d-16a3-ff17-4441a143026a@informatik.uni-hamburg.de> [Apologies if you receive this more than once] Please forward this CFP to anyone who might be interested. ======================================================================== Call for papers for the Joint PhD Mentoring track IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence 2017 (WI'17) 15th German Conference on Multiagent System Technologies (MATES'17) August 23-26, 2017, Leipzig, Germany Conference Websites: http://webintelligence2017.com/ http://mates2017.uni-trier.de ======================================================================== WI SPONSORS ========================= Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) IEEE Computer Society Web Intelligence Consortium (WIC) IMPORTANT DATES ========================= Submission of PhD Mentoring Papers: May 14, 2017 Notification of PhD Mentoring Papers acceptance: Jun. 02, 2017 Camera-Ready Papers: Jun. 18, 2017 Main conference: Aug. 23-26, 2017 AIMS AND SCOPE ========================= The WI/MATES PhD mentoring (doctoral consortium) is meant to support PhD students working in the area of web intelligence and/or multi-agent system technologies. It offers a platform to researchers in all stages of their PhD studies to present and discuss their ideas in a professional academic environment. The program provides an opportunity to PhD students to interact with their peers as well as with experienced researchers in the field, and to receive valuable feedback on their work and advice for their future careers. In particular, each student will be assigned an experienced researcher in the relevant field who will be available for personal interactions during the day of the WI/MATES PhD mentoring track. More information is to be found on the WI or MATES homepages. The main goals of the PhD mentoring session are - to give PhD researchers an opportunity to get feedback and suggestion on their work from experienced researchers and their peers. - to interact with other PhD researchers and to get an overview of the field of multi-agent systems. - to get advice for their (academic) career. - to provide networking opportunities. SPECIAL PANEL DISCUSSION ========================= In addition to individual mentoring this year's PhD mentoring will offer for all participants a plenary session. All participants will have the possibility to discuss with well-recognized researchers a current topic fundamental to virtually all fields of computer science, but also currently for a large number of other disciplines: -- REPRODUCABILITY: A PROBLEM FOR AI RESEARCH? -- While at the first hand reproducibility does not seem to be an big issue in IT; as computers are deterministic machines, reproducing results from a calculation seems to be an rather easy issue. However, anyone who tried to re-implement an algorithm from a paper knows some of the difficulties. Often descriptions are abstract, and relevant parts have been omitted. Or our research is based on data sources. Often it is not clear, if the data really represents the total population, or is biased to one sub-group. Thus, even if, methods are well known, and can be re-implemented, using the same data set might be dangerous, as a conclusion might be induced by some bias in the available data. These and other question we will put at our panel, and discuss if with them, how proper research can look like in our fields. TOPICS of WEB INTELLIGENCE ========================= Track-1: Collective Intelligence Track-2: Data Science Track-3: Human-Centric Computing Track-4: Knowledge Management Track-5: Network Science For more detailed information see: http://webintelligence2017.com/participants/submissions/ TOPICS of MATES ========================= MATES 2017 covers all areas of intelligent agents and multiagent system technologies. For more detailed information see: http://mates2017.uni-trier.de/ PhD-Paper Submission: ========================= Submissions to the PhD mentoring session (PhD short papers) should provide information on the following aspects of the PhD work: - Motivation - State of the Art - Methodical approach - Preliminary results/findings (optional - Affiliation and contact details of the PhD supervisor PhD papers can be up to 6 pages long, written in English and formatted according to the Springer LNCS style (see below). The selection process takes into account the quality of the submitted PhD short paper which will be peer-reviewed by members of the MATES PhD mentoring program committee. The PhD short papers must be submitted electronically via e-mail to PhDChair at webintelligence2017.com Presentation and Publication: ============================= All accepted PhD short papers will be assigned a slot for oral presentation during the WI/MATES PhD mentoring session. In addition, a selected set of these accepted papers describing original, unpublished work mature enough for publication will be included in the WI resp. MATES proceedings. Doctoral Consortium chairs: =========================== Alexander Pokahr (Universität Hamburg, DE) René Schumann (HES-SO Valais Wallis, CH) From cie2017 at abo.fi Mon Mar 13 15:12:22 2017 From: cie2017 at abo.fi (CIE2017) Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2017 16:12:22 +0200 Subject: Symposium honouring Grzegorz Rozenberg on the occasion of his 75th birthday Message-ID: <46b10ea5-88d8-1239-e932-09bf326252be@abo.fi> *Magic in Science*, June 17, 2017, Turku, Finland http://combio.abo.fi/rozenberg75/ This symposium will be co-located with “Computability in Europe (CiE) 2017“. It takes place on June 17, 2017, immediately after CiE. The symposium celebrates the 75th birthday of Prof. Grzegorz Rozenberg, University of Leiden, the Netherlands and University of Colorado at Boulder, USA (the actual birthday date is March 14). Grzegorz Rozenberg is one of the world leaders in research on Theoretical Computer Science and Natural Computing. As a matter of fact, he is often called the guru of Natural Computing, having started promoting it as a coherent scientific discipline already from the 1970s – he gave this area its name and defined its scope. He played a central role in the development of theoretical computer science in Europe. His research is very broad in scope and it is a prime example of interdisciplinary research. He has authored exceptionally many research papers opening new vistas as well as well-known books about theoretical computer science and natural computing. He supervised numerous Ph.D. students, many of whom have become known scientists. He serves or has served the international computer science community in numerous roles, including: president of the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science (EATCS); cofounder and president of the International Society for Nanoscale Science, Computation, and Engineering (ISNSCE); chair of the steering committee of the DNA Computing Conference; cofounder and chair of the steering committee of the International Conference on Application and Theory of Petri Nets; chair of the steering committee of the European Educational Forum; cofounder and chair of the steering committee of the International Conference on Developments in Language Theory; co-chair of the steering committee of the International Conference on Unconventional Computation and Natural Computation; and director of European Molecular Computing Consortium. He also served on the editorial boards of many international journals and book series. He is the editor-in-chief and either the founder or a cofounder of some very well-known journals and book series: the journal Natural Computing, the journal Theoretical Computer Science C (Theory of Natural Computing), the book series Monographs and Texts in Theoretical Computer Science, the book series Natural Computing, and the book series Advances in Petri Nets. For over 20 years, he was the editor of the Bulletin of the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science. He edited four handbooks: on formal languages, on graph grammars and computing by graph transformations, on membrane computing, and on natural computing. G. Rozenberg is a Foreign Member of the Finnish Academy of Sciences and Letters, a member of Academia Europaea, and the holder of Honorary Doctorates of the University of Turku, Finland, the Technical University of Berlin, Germany, the University of Bologna, Italy, the Åbo Akademi University in Turku, Finland, the Warsaw University of Technology, Poland, and the University of Bucharest, Romania. He has received the Distinguished Achievements Award of the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science “in recognition of his outstanding scientific contributions to theoretical computer science”. He is an ISI highly cited researcher. He has also a very active and creative life outside science. For example, he is a performing magician, which is also reflected in his research. His very impressive numerous scientific results are somehow sprinkled with a touch of magic: this explains the title of the symposium. Also, he is an expert in paintings of Dutch painter Hieronymus Bosch. The talks given at the symposium will have an overview character and together they will cover a broad range of topics reflecting Grzegorz Rozenberg’s broad research interests. Among the topics covered are: P vs NP, stochastic search, natural computing, biologically-inspired models of computation, reaction systems, chemical reaction networks, membrane computing, graph isomorphism, graph polynomials, matroids, synthesis of concurrent systems, Petri nets, formal language theory and combinatorics on words, DNA rearrangements in ciliates, patterns in genomes, smart textiles, smart drones, magic squares, wonder cubes, and odor reproduction. Confirmed speakers include: • David Harel, Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel – “On odor reproduction and how to test for it“ • Hendrik Jan Hoogeboom, University of Leiden, the Netherlands – “From DNA rearrangements in ciliates to elegant graph problems“ • Juraj Hromkovic, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Switzerland – “Why P vs. NP is so hard that even magicians failed to solve it“ • Natasha Jonoska, University of South Florida, USA – “Patterns emerging from a scrambled ciliate genome“ • Juhani Karhumäki, University of Turku, Finland – “Combinatorics on words and k-abelian equivalence“ • Jetty Kleijn, Leiden University, the Netherlands – “The spellbinding simplicity of complex reaction systems“ • Maciej Koutny, Newcastle University, UK – “Regions: the magic ingredient in synthesis of concurrent systems“ • Hermann Maurer, Academia Europaea and Graz University of Technology, Austria – “Some unusual applications of computer science“ • Giancarlo Mauri, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy – “Modelling and simulation of biochemical reaction systems“ • George Paun, Institute of Mathematics of the Academy of Romania – “Borderlines or limits? (in Natural Computing)“ • Azaria Paz, Technion, Israel – “Linked magic squares on a cube. Theme and variations“ • Moshe Vardi, Rice University, USA – “The Automated-Reasoning Revolution: From Theory to Practice and Back“ • Erik Winfree, Caltech, USA – “Chemical reaction networks and stochastic local search“ Important dates: • Registration deadline: June 5, 2017 • Symposium: June 17, 2017 Registration and fees: • The registration can be done at http://combio.abo.fi/rozenberg75/ -------------- nächster Teil -------------- Ein Dateianhang mit HTML-Daten wurde abgetrennt... URL: From ijv at acm.org Mon Mar 13 17:37:47 2017 From: ijv at acm.org (=?utf-8?Q?Ivan_Jos=C3=A9_Varzinczak?=) Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2017 17:37:47 +0100 Subject: Third call for papers: DARe at LPNMR'17 Message-ID: <64D29C02-F85A-4129-B336-A4415070C890@acm.org> * Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this call * ============================== Call for Papers DARe at LPNMR 2017 Date: 3 July 2017 Espoo, Finland *** Deadline: 3 April 2017 *** ============================== The Fourth International Workshop on "Defeasible and Ampliative Reasoning" (DARe) https://sites.google.com/view/dare-17 held at the International Conference on Logic Programming and Nonmonotonic Reasoning (LPNMR 2017) -- Latest News -- There will be a special issue of the International Journal of Approximate Reasoning (IJAR) containing selected extended versions of papers that have been accepted at DARe. The call for this special issue is planned for late 2017. More information to follow. -- Workshop Description and Aims -- Classical reasoning is not flexible enough when directly applied to the formalization of certain nuances of human quotidian decision making. These involve different kinds of reasoning such as reasoning with uncertainty, exceptions, similarity, vagueness, incomplete or contradictory information and many others. It turns out that everyday reasoning usually shows the two salient intertwined aspects below: * Ampliative aspect: augmenting the underlying reasoning by allowing more conclusions. In practical contexts, this amounts to the ability to make inferences that venture beyond the scope of the premises, somehow in an unsound but justifiable way. Prominent examples are (i) default reasoning: jumping to conclusions deemed as plausible 'by default', i.e., in the absence of information to the contrary, like applying negation as failure or adopting the closed-world assumption; (ii) inductive and abductive reasoning: taking chances in drawing conclusions that implicitly call for further scrutiny or tests by empirical observations, like in making inductive hypotheses in scientific theories or finding abductive explanations in forensics, and (iii) analogical reasoning: extrapolating from very few examples (in the worst case only one) on the basis of observable similarities or dissimilarities. * Defeasible aspect: curtailing the underlying reasoning by either disregarding or disallowing some conclusions that somehow ought not to be sanctioned. In practice, this amounts to the ability to backtrack one's conclusions or to admit exceptions in reasoning. Some examples of this are (i) retractive reasoning: withdrawing conclusions that have already been derived, like in belief contraction or in negotiation, and (ii) preemptive reasoning: preventing or blocking the inference of some conclusions by disallowing their derivation in the first place, like in dealing with exceptional cases in multiple inheritance networks and in regulatory systems. Several efforts have been put into the study and definition of formalisms within which the aforementioned aspects of everyday reasoning could adequately be captured at different levels. Despite the progress that has been achieved, a large avenue remains open for exploration. Indeed, the literature on non-monotonic reasoning has focused almost exclusively on defeasibility of argument forms, whereas belief revision paradigms are restricted to an underlying classical (Tarskian) consequence relation. Moreover, even if some of the issues related to uncertainty in reasoning have been studied using probabilistic approaches and statistical methods, their integration with qualitative frameworks remain a challenge. Finally, well-established approaches are largely based on propositional languages or haunted by the undecidability of full first-order logic. Modern applications require formalisms with a good balance between expressive power and computational complexity. DARe aims at bringing together researchers and practitioners from core areas of artificial intelligence, cognitive sciences, philosophy and related disciplines to discuss these kinds of problems and relevant results in a multi-disciplinary forum. The goal of the workshop is to present latest research developments, to discuss current directions in the field, and to collect first-hand feedback from the community. -- Scope of the Workshop -- DARe welcomes contributions on all aspects of defeasible and ampliative reasoning such as (but not limited to): - Abductive and inductive reasoning - Explanation finding, diagnosis and causal reasoning - Inconsistency handling and exception-tolerant reasoning - Decision-making under uncertainty and incomplete information - Default reasoning, non-monotonic reasoning, non-monotonic logics, conditional logics - Specific instances and variations of ampliative and defeasible reasoning - Probabilistic and statistical approaches to reasoning - Vagueness, rough sets, granularity and fuzzy-logics - Philosophical foundations of defeasibility - Empirical studies of reasoning - Relationship with cognition and language - Contextual reasoning - Preference-based reasoning - Analogical reasoning - Similarity-based reasoning - Belief dynamics and merging - Argumentation theory, negotiation and conflict resolution - Heuristic and approximate reasoning - Defeasible normative systems - Reasoning about actions and change - Reasoning about knowledge and belief, epistemic and doxastic logics - Ampliative and defeasible temporal and spatial reasoning - Computational aspects of reasoning with uncertainty - Implementations and systems - Applications of uncertainty in reasoning -- Submission Requirements -- We invite submissions of papers presenting original research results or position statements. Submissions must be prepared using the Springer LNAI/LNCS format (which can be found at http://lpnmr2017.aalto.fi/submission.html) and should be no longer than 13 pages. Please submit to: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dare17 -- Workshop Proceedings/Notes -- Accepted papers will be made available electronically in the CEUR Workshop Proceedings series (http://ceur-ws.org). Copyright of papers remain with the authors. The 2014 proceedings are available at http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1212/ The 2015 proceedings are available at http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1423/ The 2016 proceedings are available at http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1626/ -- Attendance -- The selection of accepted contributions will be based on relevance, significance and the work's potential to foster discussions and cross-pollination. Therefore submissions of ongoing work are also strongly encouraged. At least one co-author of each accepted paper must register for the workshop. Please check the LPNMR 2017 website for registration procedure, fees as well as cancellation policies. -- Important Dates -- - Submission deadline: 3 April 2017 - Notification: 1 May 2017 - Camera ready: 22 May 2017 - Workshop date: 3 July 2017 -- Invited Speaker -- [TBA] -- Workshop Co-Chairs -- - Richard Booth, Cardiff University, UK - Giovanni Casini, University of Luxembourg - Ivan Varzinczak, CRIL, Univ. Artois & CNRS, France -- Program Committee -- - Natasha Alechina, University of Nottingham, UK - Grigoris Antoniou, University of Huddersfield, UK - Ofer Arieli, Academic College of Tel-Aviv, Israel - Guillaume Aucher, University of Rennes 1 - INRIA, France - Christoph Beierle, FernUniversitaet Hagen, Germany - Mario Benevides, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - Antonis Bikakis, University College London, UK - Alexander Bochman, Holon Institute of Technology, Israel - Katarina Britz, Stellenbosch University, South Africa - James Delgrande, Simon Fraser University, Canada - Marcelo Finger, Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil - Nina Gierasimczuk, Danish Technical University, Denmark - Patrick Girard, University of Auckland, New Zealand - Sven Ove Hansson, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden - Andreas Herzig, IRIT CNRS, France - Aaron Hunter, British Columbia Institute of Technology, Canada - Souhila Kaci, Université Montpellier 2, France - Gabriele Kern-Isberner, TU Dortmund, Germany - Simon Kramer, SK-R&D, Switzerland - Michael Maher, University of New South Wales, Australia - João Marcos, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil - Thomas Meyer, University of Cape Town, South Africa - Gilles Richard, Université Paul Sabatier, France - Francois Schwarzentruber, ENS Rennes/IRISA, France - Umberto Straccia, CNR, Italy - Joost Vennekens, K.U. Leuven, Belgium - Peter Verdée, Universiteit Gent, Belgium - Heinrich Wansing, Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum, Germany - Renata Wassermann, Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil - Anna Zamansky, University of Haifa, Israel -- Further Information -- Please visit the workshop website (https://sites.google.com/view/dare-17) for further information and regular updates. Enquiries should be sent to dare.to.contact.us at gmail.com -- Ivan Varzinczak CRIL, Univ. Artois & CNRS, France http://member.acm.org/~ijv From marcello.dibello at gmail.com Mon Mar 13 20:04:36 2017 From: marcello.dibello at gmail.com (Marcello Di Bello) Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2017 15:04:36 -0400 Subject: CFP: Evidence & Decision Making in the Law - King's College London - June 16, 2017 Message-ID: -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Papers: Evidence & Decision Making in the Law Theoretical, Computational and Empirical Approaches -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ICAIL 2017 Workshop June 16, 2017 King's College London https://icail2017evidencedecision.wordpress.com/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------- The workshop "Evidence & Decision Making in the Law: Theoretical, Computational and Empirical Approaches" is held in conjunction with 2017 ICAIL and aims to foster an interdisciplinary debate on the interactions between evidential reasoning establishing the facts and deliberative decision making determining legal action. In the process, different values must be balanced, in particular accuracy, fairness and efficiency. We invite submissions that make progress in our understanding of the following: (1) Modeling evidential reasoning and decision making at trial (e.g. evidence weighing; conflict resolution; standards of proof and rules of decision); (2) Evidence-based decision making and the architecture of the trial system (e.g. rules of admissibility; discovery procedures; adversary v. inquisitorial models; rules of weight v. free proof); and (3) The role and limitations of expected utility theory, and more generally cost/benefit analysis, for evidence-based decision making. We welcome contributions that address the topics above by applying theoretical, computational and empirical approaches, broadly construed, to the study of the law. The workshop should be of interest to researchers in AI & Law working on legal reasoning, argumentation theory, the interface between probability, psychology and argumentation; legal scholars in evidence law, criminal and civil procedure; the law & economics community; philosophers of law, legal epistemologists, logicians and probability theorists; social scientists, sociologists, economists and anthropologists with an interest in the law. Important dates: Deadline for abstract submission: April 15 Accept/reject notification: April 25 Submissions: Abstracts should be at least 300 words and no more than 500 words Abstracts should be submitted in PDF format Authors should send abstracts to marcello.dibello at lehman.cuny.edu Workshop organizers: Marcello Di Bello, Lehman College - City University of New York Bart Verheij, University of Groningen Please send inquiries to marcello.dibello AT lehman.cuny.edu -------------- nächster Teil -------------- Ein Dateianhang mit HTML-Daten wurde abgetrennt... URL: From Tommaso.Urli at data61.csiro.au Wed Mar 15 00:03:35 2017 From: Tommaso.Urli at data61.csiro.au (Tommaso.Urli at data61.csiro.au) Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2017 23:03:35 +0000 Subject: [ICLP 2017] Extended deadline Message-ID: <1489532613221.85466@data61.csiro.au> ************ DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACT EXTENDED TO March 17 *********** ************ SAME DAY AS PAPER SUBMISSION DEADLINE *********** ICLP 2017 Call for Papers ------------------------- The 33rd International Conference on Logic Programming (ICLP 2017) will take place in Melbourne, Australia alongside SAT 2017 and CP 2017, from August 28th to September 1st, 2017 which is the week immediately following IJCAI 2017. Full information at http://iclp17.a4lp.org Call for Papers at http://iclp17.a4lp.org/call_for_papers.html Conference Scope ---------------- Since the first conference held in Marseille in 1982, ICLP has been the premier international conference for presenting research in logic programming. Contributions are sought in all areas of logic programming, including but not restricted to: - Theory: Semantic Foundations, Formalisms, Nonmonotonic Reasoning, Knowledge Representation. - Implementation: Compilation, Virtual Machines, Parallelism, Constraint Handling Rules, Tabling. - Environments: Program Analysis, Transformation, Validation, Verification, Debugging, Profiling, Testing. - Language Issues: Concurrency, Objects, Coordination, Mobility, Higher Order, Types, Modes, Assertions, Programming Techniques. - Related Paradigms: Inductive and Co-inductive Logic Programming, Constraint Logic Programming, Answer-Set Programming, SAT-Checking. - Applications: Databases, Big Data, Data Integration and Federation, Software Engineering, Natural Language Processing, Web and Semantic Web, Agents, Artificial Intelligence, Bioinformatics, and Education. In addition to the presentations of accepted papers, the technical program will include invited talks, advanced tutorials, the doctoral consortium, and several workshops. Important Dates (RP: Regular Paper / TC: Technical Communication) ----------------------------------------------------------------- - RP registration (abstract): 17 March, 2017 - RP submission: 17 March, 2017 - First notification (RPs): 24 April, 2017 - TC submission (extra round): 1 May, 2017 - Revision submission (RPs): 15 May, 2017 - Final notifications (RPs + TCs): 29 May, 2017 - Camera-ready copy (RPs + TCs): 19 June, 2017 - Conference: 28 Aug / 1 Sep, 2017 Submission Details ------------------ All submissions must be made via the EasyChair conference system (http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iclp2017). Submissions of regular papers (RPs) must follow the condensed TPLP format (template available from ICLP’s web page) and not exceed 14 pages including bibliography. RPs may be supplemented with appendices for proofs and details of datasets which do not count towards the page limit and which will be available as appendices to the published paper. Three kinds of RPs will be accepted: * Technical papers for technically sound, innovative ideas that can advance the state of logic programming; * Application papers that impact interesting application domains; * System and tool papers which emphasize novelty, practicality, usability, and availability of the systems and tools described. Application, system, and tool papers need to be clearly marked in their title. All submissions must be written in English and describe original, previously unpublished research, and must not simultaneously be submitted for publication elsewhere. These restrictions do not apply to previously accepted workshop papers with a limited audience and/or without archival proceedings. Papers of the highest quality will be selected to be published in the journal of Theory and Practice of Logic Programming (TPLP), Cambridge University Press (CUP). In order to ensure the quality of the final version, papers may be subject to more than one round of refereeing (within the decision period). The program committee may recommend some RPs to be published as Technical Communications (TCs). TCs will be published by Dagstuhl Publishing in the OpenAccess Series in Informatics (OASIcs). TCs must follow the OASIcs format (template available from ICLP’s web page) and not exceed 14 pages excluding the bibliography and a short appendix (up to 5 more pages). TC’s authors can also elect to convert their submissions into extended abstracts, of 2 or 3 pages, for inclusion in the OASIcs proceedings. This should allow authors to submit a long version elsewhere. There is also a second submission round only for TCs. Submissions to this extra round must also follow the OASIcs format indicated above. RPs accepted as TCs do not need to be resubmitted to the TC extra round. Rejected RPs cannot be resubmitted as TCs. All RPs and TCs will be presented during the conference. Authors of accepted papers will, by default, be automatically included in the list of ALP members, who will receive quarterly updates from the Logic Programming Newsletter at no cost. Conference Organization ----------------------- General Chairs: - Maria Garcia de la Banda Monash University, Australia - Guido Tack Monash University, Australia Program Chairs: - Ricardo Rocha University of Porto, Portugal - Tran Cao Son New Mexico State University, USA Workshop Chair: - Enrico Pontelli New Mexico State University, USA Publicity Chair: - Tommaso Urli Australian National University, Australia Sponsorship Chair: - Maria Garcia de la Banda Monash University, Australia Doctoral Consortium Chair (joint event with CP and SAT): - Neda Saeedloei University of Minnesota Duluth, USA - Christopher Mears Monash University, Australia Programming Contest Chairs: - Paul Fodor Stony Brook University, USA - Graeme Gange University of Melbourne, Australia Web Presence: - Tommaso Urli Australian National University, Australia Program Committee ----------------- See full program committee at http://iclp17.a4lp.org/program_committee.html Workshops --------- The ICLP 2017 program will include several workshops. They are perhaps the best places for the presentation of preliminary work, underdeveloped novel ideas, and new open problems to a wide and interested audience with opportunities for intensive discussions and project collaboration. See call for workshop proposals at http://iclp17.a4lp.org/call_for_workshop_proposals Doctoral Consortium ------------------- The Thirteen Doctoral Consortium (DC) on Logic Programming [this year being co-organized and taking place together with CP 2017 and SAT 2017] provides research students with the opportunity to present and discuss their research directions, and to obtain feedback from both peers and experts in the field. Accepted participants will receive partial financial support to attend the event and the main conference. The best paper from the DC will be given the opportunity to present in a session of the main ICLP conference. Doctoral consortium position papers, of between 10 and 14 pages, will also be published as TCs. Conference Venue ---------------- The venue will be the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre. Melbourne is the second most populous city in Australia and the coastal capital of the south-eastern Australian state of Victoria. Set on the shores of beautiful Port Phillip Bay, Melbourne has been named the World’s Most Liveable City for six years running and it is widely recognised as the cultural and culinary capital of Australia. It is a safe, creative and multi-cultural city full of exciting places to see, delicious foods to eat, and excellent events to experience; from the Arts precinct to the river bank parks and gardens to the buzzing city centre and the hidden thrills of Melbourne’s laneways. It is also an air-hop away from breathtaking destinations like The Great Barrier Reef, Sydney and Uluru. The Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre (MCEC) is located on the banks of the iconic Yarra River in Melbourne's South Wharf. Given its central location, it has a huge variety of accommodation close-by, with more than 6000 rooms within walking distance. MCEC is easily accessible by public transport, particularly as the Melbourne's city centre has a free tram zone that makes it easier for tourists to move around the city. Related Events -------------- Several other AI events will be held in Melbourne and other parts of Australia close to these dates, offering attendees a variety of choices for an extended itinerary. These events will include the International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming (CP 2017) and the International Conference on Theory and Applications of Satisfiability Testing (SAT 2017), both co-located with ICLP 2017. The International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2017), the Australasian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AusAI 2017), the Australasian Conference on Data Mining (AusDM 2017), and the International Conference on Knowledge Science, Engineering, and Management (KSEM 2017) will all to be held in Melbourne one week before ICLP. The International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2017) will also be held in Sydney Australia shortly before ICLP 2017. Sponsors -------- The conference is sponsored by the Association for Logic Programming (ALP), the Association for Constraint Programming (ACP), Monash University, and CSIRO Data61. See the sponsor information at http://iclp17.a4lp.org/sponsors.html Financial Assistance -------------------- The Association for Logic Programming has funds to assist financially disadvantaged participants and, especially, students to enable them to attend the conference. Inquiries should be made to the general chairs. ? 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URL: From wjamroga at in.tu-clausthal.de Wed Mar 15 12:12:15 2017 From: wjamroga at in.tu-clausthal.de (Wojtek Jamroga) Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2017 12:12:15 +0100 Subject: Extended deadline: EASSS-2017 Call for Tutorials (European Agent Systems Summer School) Message-ID: <6c99345b-ef81-f240-f7f6-05958726ee95@in.tu-clausthal.de> *********************************************************************** * FINAL CALL FOR TUTORIALS * 19th European Agent Systems Summer School (EASSS-2017) 7-11 August 2017 @ Gdańsk, Poland http://easss2017.ipipan.waw.pl/ Deadline for Proposals: *31 March 2017 (EXTENDED)* Please submit proposals to: easss2017 at ipipan.waw.pl *********************************************************************** We invite tutorial proposals for the 19th European Agent Systems Summer School (EASSS-2017), which will be held at the University of Gdańsk, Poland. EASSS tutorials are typically 3.5 hours long, divided into two sessions of 1.45 hours each. For the detailed call for tutorials, please see below. *********************************************************************** ABOUT EASSS-2017 *********************************************************************** Since 1999, the annual European Agent Systems Summer School (EASSS) has provided a highly successful forum for knowledge exchange between researchers in the field of autonomous agents and multi-agent systems. The 19th European Agent Systems Summer School will be held at the University of Gdansk, Poland, from the 7th to the 11th of August 2017. As was the case with the earlier editions, EASSS-2017 will offer a rich programme of both introductory and advanced courses on a broad range of topics in the area of Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems. The courses will be taught by leading researchers in the field, and are aimed at advanced Masters students, PhD students, and other young researchers. EASSS 2017 is organised under the auspices of EURAMAS, the European Association for Multiagent Systems (http://www.euramas.org/). *** We invite proposals from members of the research community who are willing to offer tutorials at EASSS-2017. *** We are interested in tutorial proposals in all areas of current research in Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems. As a very rough guideline, any topic that might be covered at the AAMAS conference or in the JAAMAS journal would be suitable for EASSS. We aim for a mix of tutorials on fundamental and well-established topics, as well as overviews of new and emerging areas of research. Tutorials should cover an appropriate selection of approaches and not specifically focus on the tutors' own contributions. Besides providing a coherent overview of a specific research topic, we specifically encourage tutorial proposals to articulate a clear link to applications and pragmatic consideration of the fundamental topics presented. We encourage both well-established senior researchers and younger colleagues to submit proposals. Each tutorial is usually given by one or two people. Exceptions are of course possible; for proposals by more than two tutors, please justify this choice in the proposal and explain how you intend to ensure the coherence of the tutorial. To support the tutors, we can commit to the provision of up to 350 EUR per tutorial that would partially cover their travel and accommodation costs. *********************************************************************** SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS *********************************************************************** A tutorial proposal should take the form of a single PDF document covering the points listed below. The maximal length of the proposal is 2 pages. Please, submit the proposal by email to easss2017 at ipipan.waw.pl mentioning [TUTORIAL] in the subject line. The following points should be addressed in the tutorial proposal, preferably in the order stated below: (1) Title of the proposed tutorial. (2) Tutor(s): name, affiliation, full contact details, and a link to the personal homepage of each tutor. (3) Abstract: a short paragraph describing the tutorial (100-300 words), suitable for publication at the EASSS-2017 website. (4) Topics covered: detailed list of topics covered in the tutorial in terms of a list, preferably in the order in which the tutorial will cover them. (5) Type: a clear indication of whether the tutorial takes a theoretical or applications-oriented perspective on the topics covered. We encourage tutorial proposals that balance the two perspectives. (6) Level: please indicate the target audience and level of the course. If there are prerequisites, describe what knowledge will be assumed by the tutorial. (7) Teaching materials: Please indicate what kind of teaching materials you intend to provide. Note that we will require materials by the date below, so that they can be distributed to EASSS attendees in advance. (8) Duration: Tutorials are typically 3.5 hours long. If you have good reasons for wanting to deviate from this standard, please explain this in your proposal. (9) Equipment: Please list any special equipment (beyond data projector and blackboard/whiteboard) that you might need. (10) Short biographical sketch for each tutor (around 100 words per tutor), suitable for publication at the EASSS-2017 website. (11) Experience of tutor(s): please provide details on relevant teaching experience of the tutor(s). (12) Additional information on the proposed tutorial. Include as much detail as you see fit. *********************************************************************** IMPORTANT DATES *********************************************************************** Deadline for tutorial proposals: 31 March 2017 Notification of acceptance: 7 April 2017 Teaching materials due: 3 July 2017 Summer school: 7-11 August 2017 *********************************************************************** SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE *********************************************************************** Umberto Grandi, University of Toulouse, France Wojtek Jamroga, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland Brian Logan, University of Nottingham, UK *********************************************************************** CONTACT *********************************************************************** For all matters concerning EASSS-2017 and this call, please contact easss2017 at ipipan.waw.pl *********************************************************************** PREVIOUS EDITIONS *********************************************************************** EASSS has been organised annually in different European locations since 1999. The locations and websites of the most recent editions of EASSS are listed below: * EASSS-2016 in Catania: http://easss2016.dmi.unict.it * EASSS-2015 in Barcelona: http://www.iiia.csic.es/easss2015/ * EASSS-2014 in Chania: http://www.intelligence.tuc.gr/easss2014 * EASSS-2013 in London: http://www.inf.kcl.ac.uk/events/easss13/index.html * EASSS-2012 in Valencia: http://easss2012.webs.upv.es/ * EASSS-2011 in Girona: http://eia.udg.edu/easss2011/ * EASSS-2010 in Saint-Etienne: http://easss2010.emse.fr/ * EASSS-2009 in Torino: http://agents009.di.unito.it/EASSS.html * EASSS-2008 in Lisbon: http://centria.di.fct.unl.pt/events/easss08/ EASSS'07/Durham, UK; EASSS'06/Annecy, France; EASSS'05/Utrecht, Netherlands; EASSS'04/Liverpool, UK; EASSS'03/Bologna, Italy; EASSS'02/Barcelona, Spain; EASSS'01/Prague, Czech Republic; EASSS'00/Saarbrucken, Germany; EASSS'99/Utrecht, Netherlands *********************************************************************** -- Prof. Dr. Wojciech Jamroga Associate Professor Institute of Computer Science, Polish Academy of Sciences http://krak.ipipan.waw.pl/~wjamroga/ From dario.dellamonica at unina.it Wed Mar 15 18:34:18 2017 From: dario.dellamonica at unina.it (Dario Della Monica) Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2017 18:34:18 +0100 Subject: CILC 2017: Preliminary Call For Papers Message-ID: <153575a0-786d-28a0-7a0e-633fa56440fc@unina.it> We are happy to announce the following event. ********************************************************************** CALL FOR PAPERS 32nd Italian Conference on Computational Logic (CILC 2017) -- http://cilc2017.unina.it/ Naples, Italy, September 26-29, 2017 ********************************************************************** CILC (Italian Conference on Computational Logic) is the annual conference organized by GULP (Group of researchers and Users of Logic Programming, www.programmazionelogica.it). Its 32nd edition will be held in Naples (Italy) on September 26-29, 2017. Since the first event of the series, which took place in Genoa in 1986, the annual GULP conference represents the main opportunity for users, researchers and developers working in the field of computational logic to meet and exchange ideas. Over the years the conference broadened its horizons from the specific field of logic programming to include declarative programming and applications in neighboring areas such as artificial intelligence and deductive databases. CILC 2017 is co-located with the 18th Italian Conference on Theoretical Computer Science ICTCS 2017 (http://ictcs2017.unina.it/) with which it will share part of the program. The two events will feature plenary events, on September 29, to be specified later. Contributions: -------------- The conference will feature presentations of refereed contributions, including the demonstration of software prototypes, concerning all aspects of computational logic. The conference invites two types of submissions: full papers, possibly already submitted to other conferences or journals, and short papers, which are particularly suitable for presenting work in progress, software prototypes, extended abstracts of doctoral theses, or general overviews of research projects. The topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: Logic Programming, Constraint Programming and other paradigms of declarative programming Extensions and integrations of declarative programming paradigms Analysis, transformation, validation, and verification of programs Instruments and environments for program development Implementations and benchmarking Model Checking Temporal logics Automated Theorem Proving Non-Monotonic Reasoning Answer Set Programming Knowledge representation and extraction Treatment of uncertain and incomplete knowledge Approximate Reasoning Abductive Logic Programming Model-based Reasoning Inductive Logic Programming Deductive Databases Data Mining and Data Integration Multi-agent systems Logics for strategic reasoning Semantic Web Natural Language Processing Computational logic for concurrency, coordination, mobility and objects Planning and scheduling Probabilistic Logic Programming Computational Logic and formal methods in Artificial Intelligence Applications of Computational Logic Pedagogy of Computational Logic Important dates: ---------------- Abstract, paper, and demo submission deadline: 25 May 2017 Notification of acceptance: 30 June 2017 Final version and early registration deadline: 24 July 2017 Conference: 26-29 September 2017 Submission instructions: ------------------------ Authors are invited to submit their manuscripts in PDF via the EasyChair system at the link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cilc2017 Articles must not exceed 15 pages for full papers and 5 pages for short papers, respectively. Manuscripts should be formatted using the Springer LNCS style. To ease the reviewing process, the authors of regular papers may add an appendix (although reviewers are not required to consider it in their evaluation). All contributions must be written in English. We invite submissions of system or prototype software descriptions which use techniques or tools of computational logic, or which themselves aid the development of applications based on computational logic. Systems of both research and industrial character are welcome. Submissions must include a brief description, prepared according to the guidelines given for short papers, and a specification of the required hardware and software equipment. For each accepted contribution, at least one of the authors is required to attend the conference and present the paper. The event is organized by GULP. Therefore, Italian attendants are required to be members of GULP (it is possible to join GULP at the conference). Proceedings: ------------ Papers accepted for presentation at the conference (both full and short) will be published on CEUR-WS.org. As in previous years, we plan to publish a selection of the best papers in a special issue of an international journal (to be determined). General chair: -------------- Aniello Murano (University of Naples "Federico II") Program co-chairs: ------------------ Dario Della Monica (Universidad Complutense de Madrid) Luigi Sauro (University of Naples "Federico II") Venue: ------ The conference will take place at the "Complesso di San Giovanni a Teduccio---Complesso Napoli Est", in Corso Nicolangelo Protopisani, 70, 80146 Napoli. -------------- For more information email cilc2017 at easychair.org. -- Dario Della Monica, Postdoctoral Researcher Dipartimento di Ingegneria Elettrica e Tecnologie dell'Informazione (DIETI) University of Naples "Federico II" via Claudio, 21, 80125 Naples, Italy cell: (+39) 328 2477327 email: dario.dellamonica [at] unina.it skype: dariodellamonica web site: http://wpage.unina.it/dario.dellamonica/ From geoff at cs.miami.edu Wed Mar 15 18:47:00 2017 From: geoff at cs.miami.edu (Geoff Sutcliffe) Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2017 13:47:00 -0400 (EDT) Subject: ITP and FroCoS - Final CFP Message-ID: <20170315174701.04300121502@mcclellan.cs.miami.edu> *** Apologies for multiple copies, please redistribute *** FINAL 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. ** 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. ** 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. 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 Cezary Kaliszyk, Universitaet Innsbruck, Austria (joint with TABLEAUX and FroCos) Katalin Bimbo, University of Alberta, Canada (joint with TABLEAUX and FroCos) Jasmin Blanchette, Inria and LORIA, Nancy, France (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 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. Prague CONTACT INFORMATION itp2017 at easychair.org http://itp2017.cic.unb.br *** Apologies for multiple copies, please redistribute *** THIRD CALL FOR PAPERS FroCoS 2017 11th International Symposium on Frontiers of Combining Systems Brasilia, Brazil September 27-29th, 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 27 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 in total, including references and figures. 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 There will be a three-day programme of four workshops and four tutorials from 23-25 September. The co-located events are described at http://frocos2017.cic.unb.br/#colocated . 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 27-29, 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 Cl�udia 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 Ren� Thiemann, University of Innsbruck Ashish Tiwari, SRI International Christoph Weidenbach, Max Planck Institute for Informatics From rl.stpuu at gmail.com Thu Mar 16 17:26:08 2017 From: rl.stpuu at gmail.com (Roussanka Loukanova) Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2017 17:26:08 +0100 Subject: CfP: LACompLing2017 - Logic and Algorithms in Computational Linguistics 2017 Message-ID: CALL FOR PAPERS Workshop on Logic and Algorithms in Computational Linguistics 2017 (LACompLing2017) Stockholm, August 16-19, 2017 http://staff.math.su.se/rloukanova/LACompLing17.html * Submission deadline for regular papers: April 14, 2017 * ================================================= Affiliated with the 26th Annual EACSL Conference on Computer Science Logic CSL'2017 Stockholm, 20--26 August 2017 https://www.csl17.conf.kth.se/ Co-located with: Logic in Stockholm 2017 https://www.lis17.conf.kth.se/ ================================================= DESCRIPTION == Computational linguistics studies natural language in its various manifestations from a computational point of view, both on the theoretical level (modeling grammar modules dealing with natural language form and meaning, and the relation between these two) and on the practical level (developing applications for language and speech technology). Right from the start in the 1950ties, there have been strong links with computer science, logic, and many areas of mathematics - one can think of Chomsky's contributions to the theory of formal languages and automata, or Lambek's logical modeling of natural language syntax. The workshop assesses the place of logic, mathematics, and computer science in present day computational linguistics. It intends to be a forum for presenting new results as well as work in progress. -------------------------------- SCOPE == The workshop focuses mainly on logical approaches to computational processing of natural language, and on the applicability of methods and techniques from the study of artificial languages (programming/logic) in computational linguistics. We invite participation and submissions from other relevant approaches too, especially if they can inspire new work and approaches. The topics of LACompLing2017 include, but are not limited to: - Computational theories of human language - Computational syntax - Computational semantics - Computational syntax-semantics interface - Interfaces between morphology, lexicon, syntax, semantics, speech, text, pragmatics - Computational grammar - Logic and reasoning systems for linguistics - Type theories for linguistics - Models of computation and algorithms for linguistics - Language processing - Parsing algorithms - Generation of language from semantic representations - Large-scale grammars of natural languages - Multilingual processing - Data science in language processing - Machine learning of language - Interdisciplinary methods - Integration of formal, computational, model theoretic, graphical, diagrammatic, statistical, and other related methods - Logic for information extraction or expression in written and spoken language - Language theories based on biological fundamentals of information and languages - Computational neuroscience of language IMPORTANT DATES == Submission deadline for regular papers: April 14, 2017 Notification of paper acceptance: May 31, 2017 Abstracts of short presentations: June 4, 2017 Notifications for short presentations: June 12, 2017 Deadline for final submissions: June 25, 2017 Workshop: August 16-19, 2017 SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS == - Regular papers: between 10-15 pages, including figures and references, by using LaTeX, with article.sty: \documentclass[a4paper,11pt]{article} - Abstracts of short presentations: not more than 1 page, by using LaTeX, with article.sty: \documentclass[a4paper,11pt]{article} - We invite original papers that are not submitted concurrently to another conference or for publication elsewhere - The submissions of proposed papers and abstracts of short presentations have to be in pdf - The camera-ready submissions require the pdf of the papers and their LaTeX sources The submissions are via the EasyChair management system of LACompLing2017: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lacompling2017 PUBLICATIONS == - The proceedings of LACompLing2017 will be published digitally by the DiVA system of Stockholm University: http://su.diva-portal.org - Improved and extended versions of selected papers, which have been presented at the workshop LACompLing2017, will be published by the Journal of Logic, Language and Information, JoLLI, after the workshop. ORGANIZERS == Krasimir Angelov, University of Gothenburg, Sweden Valeria de Paiva, Nuance Communications, USA Kristina Liefke, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Germany Roussanka Loukanova, Stockholm University, Sweden (chair) Michael Moortgat, Utrecht University, The Netherlands Reinhard Muskens, Tilburg University, The Netherlands CONTACT == Roussanka Loukanova (rloukanova at gmail.com) Valeria de Paiva (valeria.depaiva at gmail.com) -------------------------------- -------------- nächster Teil -------------- Ein Dateianhang mit HTML-Daten wurde abgetrennt... URL: From rl.stpuu at gmail.com Thu Mar 16 18:06:42 2017 From: rl.stpuu at gmail.com (Roussanka Loukanova) Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2017 18:06:42 +0100 Subject: CfP: AI aspects of Reasoning, Information, and Memory 2017 (AIRIM'17) Message-ID: CALL FOR PAPERS 2nd International Workshop on AI aspects of Reasoning, Information, and Memory 2017 (AIRIM'17) https://www.fedcsis.org/2017/airim Prague, Czech Republic, 3-6 September, 2017 Paper submission: May 10, 2017 ------------------------------------------------------------- SCOPE There is general realization that computational models of languages and reasoning can be improved by integration of heterogeneous resources of information, e.g., multidimensional diagrams, images, language, syntax, semantics, quantitative data, memory. While the event targets promotion of integrated computational approaches, we invite contributions from any individual areas related to information, language, memory, reasoning. TOPICS We welcome submissions of papers on the following topics, without limiting to them, across approaches, methods, theories, and applications: - Reasoning systems --- theories and applications - Proof systems and model checkers - Theories of computation and information - Interactive computation and reasoning - Computation and reasoning with heterogeneous information - Space and time in information, language, memory, and reasoning - Partiality, underspecification, vagueness, and possibilities - Detection of and reasoning with inconsistency - Logic and language --- approaches, theories, methods - Computational morphology, syntax, semantics, and interfaces between these - Constraint-based and type-theoretic approaches and grammars - Logical approaches to multilingual processing - Logical and computational foundations in machine learning and information retrieval - Mathematics for linguistics and cognitive science - Reasoning, information, and memory in computational neuroscience and life sciences - Interdisciplinary approaches to information, language, memory, and reasoning IMPORTANT DATES Paper submission (strict deadline): May 10, 2017 23:59:59 pm HST Position paper submission: May 31, 2017 Authors notification: June 14, 2017 Final paper submission and registration: June 28, 2017 Final deadline for discounted fee: August 01, 2017 Conference dates: September 3-6, 2017 PAPER SUBMISSION and PUBLICATIONS The publication rules for AIRIM'17 are the same as for AAIA'17: https://www.fedcsis.org/2017/airim - Authors should submit draft papers (as Postscript, PDF of MSWord file) - The total length of a paper should not exceed 10 pages IEEE style (including tables, figures and references). IEEE style templates are available at the websites of AIRIM'17 | AAIA'17 - Papers will be refereed and accepted on the basis of their scientific merit and relevance to the workshop - Pre-prints containing accepted papers will be published on a USB memory stick provided to the FedCSIS participants - Only papers presented at the conference will be published in Conference Proceedings and submitted for inclusion in the IEEE Xplore® database - Conference proceedings will be published in a volume with ISBN, ISSN, and DOI numbers and posted at the conference WWW site - Conference proceedings will be indexed in BazEkon and submitted for indexation in: Thomson Reuters - Conference Proceedings Citation Index, SciVerse Scopus, Inspec, Index Copernicus, DBLP Computer Science Bibliography, and Google Scholar - Extended versions of selected papers presented during the conference will be published as Special Issue(s) CONTACT INFORMATION Roussanka Loukanova (rloukanova at gmail.com) ------------------------------------------------------------- -------------- nächster Teil -------------- Ein Dateianhang mit HTML-Daten wurde abgetrennt... URL: From asdm at fi.upm.es Thu Mar 16 18:54:57 2017 From: asdm at fi.upm.es (asdm at fi.upm.es) Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2017 18:54:57 +0100 (CET) Subject: Twelfth Madrid UPM Advanced Statistics and Data Mining Summer School (June 26th - July 7th, 2017) Message-ID: <249515771.6.1489686897780.JavaMail.bmihaljevic@morelia> Dear colleagues, The Technical University of Madrid (UPM) will once more organize the 'Madrid UPM Advanced Statistics and Data Mining' summer school. The summer school will be held in Boadilla del Monte, near Madrid, from June 26th to July 7th. This year's edition comprises 12 week-long courses (15 lecture hours each), given during two weeks (six courses each week). Attendees may register in each course independently. No restrictions, besides those imposed by timetables, apply on the number or choice of courses. INOMICS has selected our summer school as one of the world's top ten summer schools in mathematics and statistics. You can read more at http://bit.ly/1TweJjj Early registration is now *OPEN*. Extended information on course programmes, price, venue, accommodation and transport is available at the school's website: http://www.dia.fi.upm.es/ASDM There is a 25% discount for members of Spanish AEPIA and SEIO societies. Please, forward this information to your colleagues, students, and whoever you think may find it interesting. Best regards, Pedro Larranaga, Concha Bielza, Bojan Mihaljevic and Alberto Ogbechie. -- School coordinators. *** List of courses and brief description *** * Week 1 (June 26th - June 30th, 2017) * 1st session: 9:45-12:45 Course 1: Bayesian Networks (15 h) Basics of Bayesian networks. Inference in Bayesian networks. Learning Bayesian networks from data. Real applications. Practical demonstration: GeNIe, Weka, Bayesia, R. Course 2: Time Series(15 h) Basic concepts in time series. Linear models for time series. Time series clustering. Practical demonstration: R. 2nd session: 13:45-16:45 Course 3: Supervised Pattern Recognition (15 h) Introduction. Assessing the performance of supervised classification algorithms. Preprocessing. Classification techniques. Combining multiple classifiers. Comparing supervised classification algorithms. Practical demonstration: Weka. Course 4: Bayesian Inference (15 h) Introduction: Bayesian basics. Conjugate models. MCMC and other simulation methods. Regression and Hierarchical models. Model selection. Practical demonstration: R and WinBugs. 3rd session: 17:00 - 20:00 Course 5: Neural Networks and Deep Learning (15 h) Introduction. Training algorithms. Learning and Optimization. MLPs in practice. Deep Networks. Practical session: Python with keras and Jupyter notebooks. Course 6: Unsupervised Pattern Recognition (15 h) Introduction to clustering. Data exploration and preparation. Prototype-based clustering. Density-based clustering. Graph-based clustering. Cluster evaluation. Miscellanea. Conclusions and final advise. Practical session: R. * Week 2 (July 3rd - July 7th, 2017) * 1st session: 9:45-12:45 Course 7: Statistical Inference (15 h) Introduction. Some basic statistical test. Multiple testing. Introduction to bootstrap methods. Introduction to Robust Statistics. Practical demonstration: R. Course 8: Big Data with Apache Spark (15 h) Introduction. Spark framework and APIs. Data processing with Spark. Spark streaming. Machine learning with Spark MLlib. 2nd session: 13:45-16:45 Course 9: Text Mining (15 h) Information Retrieval 101. Unsupervised Text Processing. Representation Learning. Information Extraction. Natural Language Understanding. Practical session: Python, with Jupyter notebooks. Course 10: Feature Subset Selection (15 h) Introduction. Filter approaches. Embedded methods. Wrapper methods. Additional topics. Practical session: R and Weka. 3rd session: 17:00-20:00 Course 11: Support Vector Machines and Regularized Learning (15 h) Introduction. SVM models. SVM learning algorithms. Regularized learning. Convex optimization for regularized learning. Practical session: Python with scikit-learn, Jupyter notebooks. Course 12: Hidden Markov Models (15 h) Introduction. Discrete Hidden Markov Models. Basic algorithms for Hidden Markov Models. Semicontinuous Hidden Markov Models. Continuous Hidden Markov Models. Unit selection and clustering. Speaker and Environment Adaptation for HMMs. Other applications of HMMs. Practical session: HTK. If you wish to stop receiving emails regarding the Madrid UPM Advanced Statistics and Data Mining summer school, please reply to this email with the title STOP. From epontell at cs.nmsu.edu Fri Mar 17 05:13:19 2017 From: epontell at cs.nmsu.edu (Enrico Pontelli) Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2017 22:13:19 -0600 Subject: Final Call for Workshop Proposals - ICLP 2017 Workshops (10 Days to the Deadline) Message-ID: <71C453B8-FAB6-4C42-9DD4-A82689084B82@cs.nmsu.edu> *** CALL FOR WORKSHOP PROPOSALS *** 10 Days Left to Deadline! 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 serge.autexier at dfki.de Fri Mar 17 15:38:43 2017 From: serge.autexier at dfki.de (Serge Autexier) Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2017 15:38:43 +0100 (CET) Subject: *Extended submission deadline* - 10th Conference on Intelligent Computer Mathematics - CICM 2017 Message-ID: <20170317143843.37C87114A031@gigondas-5.local> * Extended Submission Deadlines * Call for Papers 10th Conference on Intelligent Computer Mathematics - CICM 2017 - July 17-21, 2017 University of Edinburgh, Scotland http://www.cicm-conference.org/2017 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- * Extended deadlines: Abstract submission deadline : 22. March 2017 Submission deadline : 29. March 2017 * Invited Speakers * - Alan Bundy (University of Edinburgh) - Przemysław Chojecki (Polish Academy of Sciences) - Grant Olney Passmore (University of Cambridge) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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, 2017. 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: 22. March 2017 (extended) - Submission deadline: 29. March 2017 (extended) - 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 More details on the conference are available from http://www.cicm-conference.org/2017 From s.linker at liverpool.ac.uk Fri Mar 17 15:49:59 2017 From: s.linker at liverpool.ac.uk (Sven Linker) Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2017 14:49:59 +0000 Subject: Funded PhD Studentship - Formal Verification of Sensor Networks at the University of Liverpool Message-ID: <09db914d-92e2-73b3-c343-27679bfd0d32@liverpool.ac.uk> [Dear colleague, apologies for cross-posting] --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Funded PhD Studentship - Formal Verification of Sensor Networks Department of Computer Science, University of Liverpool, UK http://www.csc.liv.ac.uk/~michael/S4_PhD_2017.html --------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Department of Computer Science at the University of Liverpool offers a PhD position, commencing in October 2017, and associated with the Science of Sensor Systems Software research programme: http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/research/S4 This position is available to both UK and EU students, and we are looking for outstanding candidates with either a first class degree or a distinction at masters level in Computer Science or Mathematical Logic, together with the desire to undertake PhD study on the formal verification for wireless sensor networks. For further details, see http://www.csc.liv.ac.uk/~michael/S4_PhD_2017.html =============================================================================== HOW TO APPLY: Instructions on how to apply, and the online form to use, can be found at https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/computer-science/postgraduate/phdstudy/applications **DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS IS 17th April 2017.** =============================================================================== From grlmc at grlmc.com Sun Mar 19 04:12:22 2017 From: grlmc at grlmc.com (GRLMC) Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2017 04:12:22 +0100 Subject: DeepLearn 2017: early registration March 24 Message-ID: <545102060a010b010852510603075a5d54515356065357550b050c07010554560702530f015b055705565901540357@grlmc_ip-zone_com-6> DeepLearn 2017: early registration March 24*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: March 24, 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, 30 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 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 academics and practitioners 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, 3-4 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:   Narendra Ahuja (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), [introductory/intermediate] Basics of Deep Learning with Applications to Image Processing, Pattern Recognition and Computer Vision   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), [intermediate] Segmentation, Processing, and Tracking, with Applications to Video, Gaming, VR, and Self-driving Cars   George Cybenko (Dartmouth College), [intermediate] Deep Learning of Behaviors   Rina Dechter (University of California, Irvine), [introductory] Algorithms for Reasoning with Probabilistic Graphical Models   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), [intermediate/advanced] Deep Learning for Bioinformatics   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 Reinforcement Learning: Recent Advances and Frontiers   Michael C. Mozer (University of Colorado, Boulder), [introductory/intermediate] Incorporating Domain Bias into Neural Networks   Roderick Murray-Smith (University of Glasgow), [intermediate] Applications of Deep Learning Models in Human-Computer Interaction Research   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   Marc’Aurelio Ranzato (Facebook AI Research), [introductory/intermediate] Learning Representations for Vision, Speech and Text Processing Applications   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), [intermediate/advanced] Statistical Machine Learning Perspectives of Extending Deep Neural Networks: Kernels, Logics, Regularizers, Priors, and Distributed Algorithms   Georgios N. Yannakakis (University of Malta), [introductory/intermediate] Deep Learning for Games - But Not for Playing them   Scott Wen-tau Yih (Microsoft Research), [introductory/intermediate] Continuous Representations for Natural Language Understanding   Richard Zemel (University of Toronto), [introductory/intermediate] Learning to Understand Images and Text   OPEN SESSION:   An open session will collect 5-minute voluntary 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 9, 2017.   INDUSTRIAL SESSION:   A specific session will be devoted to demonstrations of practical uses of deep learning in industrial processes. Companies/people interested in contributing are welcome to submit a 1-page abstract containing the program of the demonstration, the duration requested and the logistics necessary. At least one of the people participating in the demonstration should have registered for the event. Expressions of interest have to be submitted to david.silva409 (at) yahoo.com by July 2, 2017.   EMPLOYERS SESSION:   Firms searching for personnel well skilled in deep learning will have a space reserved for one-to-one contacts. At least one of the people in charge of the search should have registered for the event. Expressions of interest have to be submitted to david.silva409 (at) yahoo.com by July 2, 2017.   ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:   Pablo García Bringas (co-chair) 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:   A suggestion for accommodation is available on the website.   CERTIFICATE:   Participants will be delivered a certificate of attendance indicating 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 ruy at cin.ufpe.br Sun Mar 19 15:25:33 2017 From: ruy at cin.ufpe.br (Ruy de Queiroz) Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2017 11:25:33 -0300 Subject: 24th WoLLIC 2017 - DEADLINE EXTENDED Message-ID: *DEADLINE EXTENDED* [Please circulate. Apologies for multiple copies] WoLLIC 2017 24th Workshop on Logic, Language, Information and Computation July 18-21, 2017 University College London (UCL), London, UK *DEADLINE EXTENDED* SPECIAL SESSION: Screening of Navajo Math Circles (Directed by George Paul Csicsery, 2016, 58min) SCIENTIFIC SPONSORSHIP Interest Group in Pure and Applied Logics (IGPL) The Association for Logic, Language and Information (FoLLI) Association for Symbolic Logic (ASL) European Association for Theoretical Computer Science (EATCS) European Association for Computer Science Logic (EACSL) Sociedade Brasileira de Computação (SBC) Sociedade Brasileira de Lógica (SBL) IN COOPERATION WITH ACM Special Interest Group on Logic and Computation (ACM-SIGLOG) 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). The workshop is held in cooperation with ACM Special Interest in Computational Logic (SIGLOG). 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 28, 2017 (NEW)* and the full paper by *Mar 28, 2017 (NEW)* 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 Universität) 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 28, 2017 (NEW)*: Paper title and abstract deadline *Mar 28, 2017 (NEW)*: 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 Abramsky, 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 Tommaso.Urli at data61.csiro.au Mon Mar 20 00:18:17 2017 From: Tommaso.Urli at data61.csiro.au (Tommaso.Urli at data61.csiro.au) Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2017 23:18:17 +0000 Subject: [ICLP 2017] Deadline extended to May 2, 2017 Message-ID: <1489965503115.80936@data61.csiro.au> ​************ ABSTRACT REGISTRATION DEADLINE EXTENDED TO April 26 *********** **************** PAPER SUBMISSION DEADLINE EXTENDED TO May 2 *************** ICLP 2017 Call for Papers ------------------------- The 33rd International Conference on Logic Programming (ICLP 2017) will take place in Melbourne, Australia alongside SAT 2017 and CP 2017, from August 28th to September 1st, 2017 which is the week immediately following IJCAI 2017. Full information at http://iclp17.a4lp.org Call for Papers at http://iclp17.a4lp.org/call_for_papers.html Conference Scope ---------------- Since the first conference held in Marseille in 1982, ICLP has been the premier international conference for presenting research in logic programming. Contributions are sought in all areas of logic programming, including but not restricted to: - Theory: Semantic Foundations, Formalisms, Nonmonotonic Reasoning, Knowledge Representation. - Implementation: Compilation, Virtual Machines, Parallelism, Constraint Handling Rules, Tabling. - Environments: Program Analysis, Transformation, Validation, Verification, Debugging, Profiling, Testing. - Language Issues: Concurrency, Objects, Coordination, Mobility, Higher Order, Types, Modes, Assertions, Programming Techniques. - Related Paradigms: Inductive and Co-inductive Logic Programming, Constraint Logic Programming, Answer-Set Programming, SAT-Checking. - Applications: Databases, Big Data, Data Integration and Federation, Software Engineering, Natural Language Processing, Web and Semantic Web, Agents, Artificial Intelligence, Bioinformatics, and Education. In addition to the presentations of accepted papers, the technical program will include invited talks, advanced tutorials, the doctoral consortium, and several workshops. Important Dates ----------------------------------------------------------------- - Abstract registration: April 26, 2017 - Paper submission: May 2, 2017 - Notification: June 6, 2017 - Revision submission (TPLP papers): June 20, 2017 - Final notifications (TPLP papers): July 4, 2017 - Camera-ready copy: July 18, 2017 - Conference: Aug 28 / Sep 1, 2017 Submission Details ------------------ All submissions must be made via the EasyChair conference system (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iclp2017). Submissions of regular papers (RPs) must follow the condensed TPLP format (template available from ICLP’s web page) and not exceed 14 pages including bibliography. RPs may be supplemented with appendices for proofs and details of datasets which do not count towards the page limit and which will be available as appendices to the published paper. Three kinds of RPs will be accepted: * Technical papers for technically sound, innovative ideas that can advance the state of logic programming; * Application papers that impact interesting application domains; * System and tool papers which emphasize novelty, practicality, usability, and availability of the systems and tools described. Application, system, and tool papers need to be clearly marked in their title. All submissions must be written in English and describe original, previously unpublished research, and must not simultaneously be submitted for publication elsewhere. These restrictions do not apply to previously accepted workshop papers with a limited audience and/or without archival proceedings. Papers of the highest quality will be selected to be published in the journal of Theory and Practice of Logic Programming (TPLP), Cambridge University Press (CUP). In order to ensure the quality of the final version, papers may be subject to more than one round of refereeing (within the decision period). The program committee may recommend some RPs to be published as Technical Communications (TCs). TCs will be published by Dagstuhl Publishing in the OpenAccess Series in Informatics (OASIcs). TCs must follow the OASIcs format (template available from ICLP’s web page) and not exceed 14 pages excluding the bibliography and a short appendix (up to 5 more pages). TC’s authors can also elect to convert their submissions into extended abstracts, of 2 or 3 pages, for inclusion in the OASIcs proceedings. This should allow authors to submit a long version elsewhere. All RPs and TCs will be presented during the conference. Authors of accepted papers will, by default, be automatically included in the list of ALP members, who will receive quarterly updates from the Logic Programming Newsletter at no cost. Conference Organization ----------------------- General Chairs: - Maria Garcia de la Banda Monash University, Australia - Guido Tack Monash University, Australia Program Chairs: - Ricardo Rocha University of Porto, Portugal - Tran Cao Son New Mexico State University, USA Workshop Chair: - Enrico Pontelli New Mexico State University, USA Publicity Chair: - Tommaso Urli Australian National University, Australia Sponsorship Chair: - Maria Garcia de la Banda Monash University, Australia Doctoral Consortium Chair (joint event with CP and SAT): - Neda Saeedloei University of Minnesota Duluth, USA - Christopher Mears Monash University, Australia Programming Contest Chairs: - Paul Fodor Stony Brook University, USA - Graeme Gange University of Melbourne, Australia Web Presence: - Tommaso Urli Australian National University, Australia Program Committee ----------------- See full program committee at http://iclp17.a4lp.org/program_committee.html Workshops --------- The ICLP 2017 program will include several workshops. They are perhaps the best places for the presentation of preliminary work, underdeveloped novel ideas, and new open problems to a wide and interested audience with opportunities for intensive discussions and project collaboration. See call for workshop proposals at http://iclp17.a4lp.org/call_for_workshop_proposals Doctoral Consortium ------------------- The Thirteen Doctoral Consortium (DC) on Logic Programming [this year being co-organized and taking place together with CP 2017 and SAT 2017] provides research students with the opportunity to present and discuss their research directions, and to obtain feedback from both peers and experts in the field. Accepted participants will receive partial financial support to attend the event and the main conference. The best paper from the DC will be given the opportunity to present in a session of the main ICLP conference. Doctoral consortium position papers, of between 10 and 14 pages, will also be published as TCs. Conference Venue ---------------- The venue will be the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre. Melbourne is the second most populous city in Australia and the coastal capital of the south-eastern Australian state of Victoria. Set on the shores of beautiful Port Phillip Bay, Melbourne has been named the World’s Most Liveable City for six years running and it is widely recognised as the cultural and culinary capital of Australia. It is a safe, creative and multi-cultural city full of exciting places to see, delicious foods to eat, and excellent events to experience; from the Arts precinct to the river bank parks and gardens to the buzzing city centre and the hidden thrills of Melbourne’s laneways. It is also an air-hop away from breathtaking destinations like The Great Barrier Reef, Sydney and Uluru. The Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre (MCEC) is located on the banks of the iconic Yarra River in Melbourne's South Wharf. Given its central location, it has a huge variety of accommodation close-by, with more than 6000 rooms within walking distance. MCEC is easily accessible by public transport, particularly as the Melbourne's city centre has a free tram zone that makes it easier for tourists to move around the city. Related Events -------------- Several other AI events will be held in Melbourne and other parts of Australia close to these dates, offering attendees a variety of choices for an extended itinerary. These events will include the International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming (CP 2017) and the International Conference on Theory and Applications of Satisfiability Testing (SAT 2017), both co-located with ICLP 2017. The International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2017), the Australasian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AusAI 2017), the Australasian Conference on Data Mining (AusDM 2017), and the International Conference on Knowledge Science, Engineering, and Management (KSEM 2017) will all to be held in Melbourne one week before ICLP. The International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2017) will also be held in Sydney Australia shortly before ICLP 2017. Sponsors -------- The conference is sponsored by the Association for Logic Programming (ALP), the Association for Constraint Programming (ACP), Monash University, and CSIRO Data61. See the sponsor information at http://iclp17.a4lp.org/sponsors.html Financial Assistance -------------------- The Association for Logic Programming has funds to assist financially disadvantaged participants and, especially, students to enable them to attend the conference. Inquiries should be made to the general chairs. Dr Tommaso Urli Researcher | Optimisation Platforms DATA61 | CSIRO E tommaso.urli at data61.csiro.au T +61 2 6218 3862 M +61 403 464 731 Tower A Level 3, 7 London Circuit, Canberra ACT 2601 www.data61.csiro.au CSIRO’s Digital Productivity business unit and NICTA have joined forces to create digital powerhouse Data61 [Data61 | CSIRO logo] -------------- nächster Teil -------------- Ein Dateianhang mit HTML-Daten wurde abgetrennt... URL: From owre at csl.sri.com Mon Mar 20 06:45:52 2017 From: owre at csl.sri.com (Sam Owre) Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2017 22:45:52 -0700 Subject: AFM deadline extension: Automated Formal Methods 2017 Final 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 April 3, 2017 Reviews/decisions April 24, 2017 Camera ready versions due May 8, 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 fscozzari at unich.it Mon Mar 20 10:58:15 2017 From: fscozzari at unich.it (Francesca Scozzari) Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2017 10:58:15 +0100 Subject: NSAD 2017 - Call for Papers Message-ID: <1afb764f-27bd-0c44-b65d-7cdae1f36500@unich.it> Numerical and Symbolic Abstract Domains (NSAD 2017) 7th International Workshop New York City, NY, USA - August 29, 2017 https://www.sci.unich.it/nsad2017/ SCOPE Abstract domains are a key notion in Abstract Interpretation theory and practice. They embed the semantic choices, data-structures and algorithmic aspects, and implementation decisions. The Abstract Interpretation framework provides constructive and systematic formal methods to design, compose, compare, study, prove, and apply abstract domains. Many abstract domains have been designed so far: numerical domains (intervals, congruences, polyhedra, polynomials, etc.), symbolic domains (shape domains, trees, etc.), but also domain operators (products, powersets, completions, etc.), and have been applied to several kinds of static analyses (safety, termination, probability, etc.). The 7th International Workshop on Numerical and Symbolic Abstract Domains is intended to discuss on-going works and ideas in the field. TOPICS The program of NSAD 2017 will consist mainly of presentations of refereed papers. Contributions are welcomed on all aspects of abstract domains, including, but not limited to: numeric abstract domains symbolic abstract domains extrapolations and accelerations compositions and operations on abstract domains data structures and algorithms for abstract domains novel applications of abstract domains implementations practical experiments and comparisons implementations VENUE NSAD 2017 is co-located with SAS 2017 and takes place in the Forbes Building of the New York University. PUBLICATION NSAD 2017 proceedings will be published electronically in a volume of the Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science series by ScienceDirect©, Elsevier. IMPORTANT DATES Abstract submission: May 3, 2017 (AoE) Full paper submission: May 8, 2017 (AoE) Notification: June 19, 2017 Final version: July 3, 2017 Workshop day: August 29, 2017 PROGRAM CHAIR Francesca Scozzari (Università di Chieti-Pescara, Italy) PROGRAM COMMITTEE Gianluca Amato (Università di Chieti-Pescara, Italy) Roberto Bagnara (University of Parma and BUGSENG, Italy) Arlen Cox (IDA Center for Computing Sciences, USA) Laure Gonnord (University of Lyon, France) Denis Gopan (GrammaTech, USA) Andy King (University of Kent, UK) Jorge A. Navas (SRI International, USA) Thomas Reps (University of Wisconsin-Madison and GrammaTech, USA) Axel Simon (Google, USA) LOCAL CHAIR Patrick Cousot (New York University, USA) SUBMISSION Submitted papers should not exceed 12 pages including bibliography, and follow the ENTCS guidelines. Submitted papers may include, in addition, an appendix containing technical details, which reviewers may read or not, at their discretion. Papers must be written and presented in English, and describe original work that does not substantially overlap with papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal, conference, or workshop with refereed proceedings. All submitted papers will be peer-reviewed by the program committee. Submission website: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=nsad2017 From geoff at cs.miami.edu Mon Mar 20 17:56:32 2017 From: geoff at cs.miami.edu (Geoff Sutcliffe) Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2017 12:56:32 -0400 (EDT) Subject: IWIL workshop at LPAR-21 in Botswana Message-ID: <20170320165632.5F13C1214FE@mcclellan.cs.miami.edu> 12th International Workshop on the Implementation of Logics http://www.eprover.org/EVENTS/IWIL-2017.html CALL FOR PAPERS ===============>>>>>>>> Extended Deadline: March 27, 2017. The 12th International Workshop on the Implementation of Logics will be held on 7th May 2017, in conjunction with the 21th International Conference on Logic for Programming, Artificial Intelligence, and Reasoning, at Cresta Riley's Hotel in Maun, Botswana. We are looking for contributions describing implementation techniques for and implementations of automated reasoning programs, theorem provers for various logics, logic programming systems, and related technologies. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: + Propositional logic and decision procedures, including SMT + First-order and higher order logics + Non-classical logics, including modal, temporal, description, non-monotonic reasoning + Formal foundations for efficient implementation of logics + Data structures and algorithms for the efficient representation and processing of logical concepts + Proof/model search organization and heuristics for logical reasoning systems + Data analysis and machine learning approaches to search control + Techniques for proof/model search visualization and analysis + Reasoning with ontologies and other large theories + Implementation of efficient theorem provers and model finders for different logics + System descriptions of logical reasoning systems + Issues of reliability, witness generation, and witness verification + Evaluation and benchmarking of provers and other logic-based systems + I/O standards and communication between reasoning systems We are particularly interested in contributions that help the community to understand how to build useful and powerful reasoning systems, and how to apply them in practice. Researchers interested in participating are invited to submit a position statement (2 pages), a short paper (up to 5 pages), or a full paper (up to 15 pages) via the EasyChair page for IWIL-2017. https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iwil2017 Submissions will be refereed by the program committee, which will select a balanced program of high-quality contributions. Submissions should be in standard-conforming PDF. Final versions will be required to be submitted in LaTeX using the easychair.cls class file. The proceedings will be published as a volume of EPiC Computing. Important Dates: + Submission of papers/abstracts: March 27th, 2017 + Notification of acceptance: April 10th, 2017 + Camera ready versions due: April 21st, 2017 + Workshop: May 7th, 2017 Program committee Stephan Schulz (Co-Chair) DHBW Stuttgart Geoff Sutcliffe (Co-Chair) University of Miami Josef Urban (Co-Chair) Czech Technical University Armin Biere Johannes-Kepler Universität Linz Jasmin Blanchette INRIA Nancy/MPI für Informatik Guillaume Burel ENSIIE/CEDRIC Stefan Hetzl Vienna University of Technology Jan Hladik DHBW Stuttgart Tommi Junttila Aalto University Boris Konev University of Liverpool Jens Otten Universität Potsdam Giles Reger The University of Manchester Andrew Reynolds University of Iowa Peter Schneider-Kamp University of Southern Denmark Laurent Simon University of Bordeaux Martin Suda Vienna University of Technology Bob Veroff University of New Mexico Uwe Waldmann Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik Bruno Woltzenlogel Paleo Australian National University From xavier.parent at uni.lu Mon Mar 20 19:18:46 2017 From: xavier.parent at uni.lu (Xavier PARENT) Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2017 18:18:46 +0000 Subject: CFP: MIREL 2017 - Workshop on `MIning and REasoning with Legal texts' Message-ID: <3D94B1D6-F1C0-4BCA-9973-45E094862D27@uni.lu> [Apologies for cross-posting] Call for Papers ---------------------------------------------------------------- MIREL 2017 - Workshop on `MIning and REasoning with Legal texts' URL: http://www.mirelproject.eu/MIRELws/ Connected with the MIREL (MIning and REasoning with Legal texts) project, H2020 Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant agreement No 690974. Website: http://www.mirelproject.eu. Co-located with ICAIL 2017, London, UK December 14, 2016 **Paper submission deadline: April 20th, 2017** ---------------------------------------------------------------- Legal scholars and practitioners are feeling increasingly overwhelmed with the expanding set of legislation and case law available these days, which is assuming more and more of an international character. For example, European legislation is estimated to be 170,000 pages long, of which over 100,000 pages have been produced in the last ten years. Furthermore, legislation is available in unstructured formats, which makes it difficult for users to cut through the information overload. As the law gets more complex, conflicting, and ever changing, more advanced methodologies are required for analyzing, representing and reasoning on legal knowledge. The management of large repositories of norms, and the semantic access and reasoning to these norms are key challenges in Legal Informatics, which is experiencing growth in activity, also at the industrial level. Specifically, it is necessary to address both conceptual challenges, such as the role of legal interpretation in mining and reasoning, and computational challenges, such as the handling of big legal data, and the complexity of regulatory compliance. Legal domain has always been attractive to language and semantic technology because of its importance for the society with respect to globalization and common markets as well as for its challenges for formalization and specific language use. For this reason, several research projects in the legal domain have been recently funded by the EU and similar institutions, among which ``MIREL: MIning and REasoning with Legal texts''. The aim of MIREL-2016 workshop is to bridge the gap between the community working on legal ontologies and NLP parsers and the community working on reasoning methods and formal logic, towards these objectives described above. We invite submissions up to 12 pages plus 3 additional pages for bibliography and appendix, in LNCS format. A selection of the best papers of the workshop will be published at LNAI Springer Series jointly with AICOL follow-up activities. Authors shall submit their papers electronically via EasyChair before the due date in PDF format. https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mirel2017 We welcome submissions related but not limited to the following topics: - Language technologies for processing legal texts - Legal reasoning (searching, compliance checking, decision support) - Ontology design patterns for the legal domain - Ontological modeling of legal data - Core and domain ontologies for the legal domain - Legal knowledge on the Web - Legal Linked Open Data - Machine learning and data mining for legal applications - Adaptation of language processing modules to legal domain - Large-scale normative reasoning - Computational methods for legal reasoning - Extraction of legal Named entities - legal citations, etc. - Legal search engines - requirements, implementations, etc. - Semantic annotations for legal texts - Formal analysis of normative concepts and normative systems - Formal analysis of the semantics/pragmatics of deontic and normative expressions in natural language - Expressive vs. lightweight representations of legal knowledge - Legislation and case law corpora in Linked Open Data - Applications in the legal domain *Important Dates* - Paper submission: 20th April, 2017 - Notification to authors: 15th May, 2017 - Camera-ready: 1st June 2017 - Workshop date: 16th June 2017 *Organisers* Livio Robaldo - University of Luxembourg (Lux) Grigoris Antoniou - University of Huddersfield (UK) Serena Villata - INRIA (France) Luigi Di Caro - University of Turin (Italy) If have any enquiries/comments about the workshop or the submission procedure, please just contact Livio Robaldo at: livio.robaldo at uni.lu -------------- nächster Teil -------------- Ein Dateianhang mit HTML-Daten wurde abgetrennt... URL: From stefano.borgo at cnr.it Tue Mar 21 12:25:50 2017 From: stefano.borgo at cnr.it (Stefano Borgo) Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2017 12:25:50 +0100 Subject: PhD position in engineering and ontology In-Reply-To: <2947de30-ac9b-8356-00fb-a7b2275d9022@cnr.it> References: <2947de30-ac9b-8356-00fb-a7b2275d9022@cnr.it> Message-ID: <1449e4bb-706b-0604-0254-a917cc5122eb@cnr.it> Doctoral student position in Engineering and Ontology The Politecnica University of Marche (Ancona, Italy) and the Laboratory for Applied Ontology of the CNR Institute for Cognitive Science and Technology (ISTC-CNR, Trento, Italy) offer one PhD position within their collaboration program. We are looking to recruit a student with a strong interest in learning to analyze, develop and apply ontologies for the industrial engineering domain. The use of ontology in engineering is a growing interdisciplinary research area which has an important role in, e.g., design, manufacturing, cyber-physical systems modeling, robotics and human-computer interaction. You should have a good Bachelor or Master degree (in any discipline but priority will be given to degrees in computer science and related areas) and willingness to live in Italy during the PhD program (3 years). The PhD studentship offers the opportunity to engage in international research and to interact with major figures in the domain. The candidate is free to decide whether to locate in Ancona or in Trento. The scholarship amounts to 12.500 Euro per year and starts in fall 2017. Please, send your statement of interest by May 15 to: stefano.borgo at cnr.it f.mandorli at staff.univpm.it -- Laboratory for Applied Ontology, ISTC CNR Trento, Italy From Wiebe.Van-Der-Hoek at liverpool.ac.uk Tue Mar 21 16:19:37 2017 From: Wiebe.Van-Der-Hoek at liverpool.ac.uk (Van Der Hoek, Wiebe) Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2017 15:19:37 +0000 Subject: TARK 2017 final call for papers Message-ID: <560F5E5A-6955-4E3F-AF52-EC8516B3DDEC@liverpool.ac.uk> * CALL FOR PAPERS * TARK 2017 16th Conference on Theoretical Aspects of Rationality and Knowledge July 24-26, 2017 University of Liverpool, UK Conference website: http://tark17.csc.liv.ac.uk/ 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 submitting the title, a one-paragraph abstract and keywords is April 3. The deadline for submitting the extended abstract is April 12. 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 title, one-paragraph abstract, and keywords: April 3, 2017 Submission of extended abstract: April 12, 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 cidconference at newsletters.mercaturaservices.com Tue Mar 21 18:23:33 2017 From: cidconference at newsletters.mercaturaservices.com (VipIMAGE 2017) Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2017 17:23:33 +0000 Subject: ECCOMAS VipIMAGE 2017 – Deadline Postponed Message-ID: VI ECCOMAS Thematic Conference VipIMAGE 2017 www.fe.up.pt/vipimage October 18-20, 2017, Porto, Portugal Chairs: João Manuel R. S. Tavares & Renato Natal Jorge, Universidade do Porto --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dear Colleague,   We are pleased to inform you that the submission deadline of the International Conference VipIMAGE 2017 - VI ECCOMAS THEMATIC CONFERENCE ON COMPUTATIONAL VISION AND MEDICAL IMAGE PROCESSING (www.fe.up.pt/vipimage) to be held in October 18-20, 2017, in Axis Vermar Conference & Beach Hotel, Porto, Portugal, has been postponed to March 31.   Possible Topics (not limited to) - Signal and Image Processing - Computational Vision - Medical Imaging - Physics of Medical Imaging - Tracking and Analysis of Movement - Simulation and Modeling - Image Acquisition - Industrial Applications - Shape Reconstruction - Segmentation, Matching, Simulation - Data Interpolation, Registration, Acquisition and Compression - 3D Vision - Virtual Reality - Visual Inspection - Software Development for Image Processing and Analysis - Computer Aided Diagnosis, Surgery, Therapy, and Treatment - Computational Bioimaging and Visualization - Telemedicine Systems and Applications   Invited Lecturers - Mário Figueiredo, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal - Khan Iftekharuddin, Old Dominion University, USA - Leo Joskowicz, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel - Gerald Schaefer, Loughborough University, UK - Dinggang Shen, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA - Zeyun Yu, University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee, USA   Thematic Sessions - Advanced Techniques for Image-based Numerical Simulation in Biomedical Applications - Advances in Lung CT Image Processing - Application of Image Analysis in Musculoskeletal Radiology - Computational Vision and Image Processing applied to Dental Medicine - Computer Vision in Robotics - Emotions classification from EEG signals - Image Analysis and Machine Learning for Skin Ulcers - Imaging and Image Processing in Ophthalmology - Imaging and Simulation Techniques for Cardiovascular Diseases - Imaging of Flows in Lab-on-Chip Devices: Trends and Challenges - Infrared Thermal Imaging in Biomedicine - Meta-learning in Deep Learning: New Trends and Directions - Shape Analysis in Medical Imaging: From Math to Clinics   Publications Proceedings: The proceedings book will be published by Springer under the book series "Lecture Notes in Computational Vision and Biomechanics" indexed by Elsevier Scopus. Journal Publication: A dedicated special issue of the Taylor & Francis international journal "Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering: Imaging & Visualization" indexed in Scopus, DBLP and Thomson Reuters Emerging Sources Index will be published with extended versions of the best works presented in the conference. Springer Book: A book with invited works from the ones presented in the conference will be organized for publishing by Springer.     Important Dates - Deadline for Extended Abstracts: March 31, 2017 (postponed) - Authors Notification: April 30, 2017 - Deadline for Papers: June 15, 2017   We are looking forward to see you in Porto in October, 2017, João Manuel R. S. Tavares Renato Natal Jorge (VipIMAGE 2017 co-chairs)   For further details, please, have a look in the conference website at: www.fe.up.pt/vipimage, the Facebook page at: www.facebook.com/VipIMAGE2017, or join the LinkedIn group at: www.linkedin.com/groups/4752820. -------------- nächster Teil -------------- Ein Dateianhang mit HTML-Daten wurde abgetrennt... URL: From roberto.santana at ehu.eus Wed Mar 22 22:52:06 2017 From: roberto.santana at ehu.eus (Roberto Santana Hermida) Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2017 22:52:06 +0100 Subject: IEEE CEC-2017, San Sebastian. Extended deadlines for Early Registration and Camera Ready Papers: March 31 Message-ID: <20170322225206.Horde.qLCiqYisI_lDP6w8E072Yn7@webposta.ehu.eus> IEEE CEC-2017, San Sebastian. Extended deadlines for Early Registration and Camera Ready Papers: March 31 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ We apologize if you received multiple copies of this message Please, feel free to distribute it to those who might be interested. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ On behalf of the organizing committee, it is our great pleasure to invite you to the 2017 IEEE Conference on Evolutionary Computation (www.cec2017.org) that 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 lists of plenary talks, special sessions, tutorials, and competitions are now complete: Plenary talks: http://www.cec2017.org/#plenary_talks Special sessions: http://www.cec2017.org/#special_session_sessions Tutorials: http://www.cec2017.org/#tutorials Competitions: http://www.cec2017.org/#competitions Deadlines for Early Registration and Camera Ready Papers have been extended to March 31. 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 ta10 at tu-clausthal.de Fri Mar 24 13:37:31 2017 From: ta10 at tu-clausthal.de (Tobias Ahlbrecht) Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2017 13:37:31 +0100 Subject: IDC 2017 Special Session on Simulation, Mining and Analytics for Software Systems - CFP Message-ID: Call for Papers for a Special Session on Simulation, Mining and Analytics for Software Systems at the 11th International Symposium on Intelligent Distributed Computing (IDC 2017) http://idc2017.pmf.uns.ac.rs 13th October 2017, Belgrade, Serbia Scope and Topics Mining and analytics for software systems comprises the mining in large software archives for collecting empirical data and the use of the empirical data for answering specific research questions for further analysis like, e.g., fault prediction, effort prediction, or as input parameter for simulation purposes. Software archives are often very large and contain heterogeneous structured and unstructured data from software versioning and revision control systems, issue tracking systems, mailing lists or test libraries. Software analytics often require the use of complex and computing intensive algorithms. Thus, mining and analytics of software systems require distributed and intelligent computing solutions, provided, e.g by multiagent systems. The results can be used for various simulation tasks, e.g. the evolution of software projects. Many such problems allow a natural modelling as a multi-agent system and simulating it can be a powerful method for interesting predictions. This special session aims at bringing together researchers from different areas, while focussing on the particular topic “Simulation, Mining and Analytics for software systems”. We invite contributions from the following non-exhaustive list of topics:  Decision-making and Predictive studies in Software Engineering (SE) and evolution  (Distributed) Software repository mining and analysis  Methods and tools for software management planning  Modelling and Simulation studies for software systems  Modelling and simulating software processes  Theoretical aspects of software mining  Verification and (empirical) validation of agent based simulations  Simulation in multi-agent systems and applications for SE  Optimization techniques for multi-agent simulations Submission and Publication Authors are invited to submit short papers (6 pages) via the submission system https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=idc2017 for the appropriate special track. All accepted papers will be published by Springer and are scheduled for presentation at IDC 2017, where at least one co-author must register. Submission deadline: 15.05.2017 Notification of acceptance: 30.05.2017 Camera ready papers: 15.06.2017 Authors of selected papers may be invited to submit a full paper for publication in Annals of Math and AI (or another journal if more appropriate). Organization Co-Chairs  Jürgen Dix, TU Clausthal, Germany  Jens Grabowski, University of Göttingen, Germany  Stephan Waack, University of Göttingen, Germany Program Committee (to be completed and not yet confirmed)  Lars Braubach, University of Hamburg, Germany +  Rem Collier, University College Dublin, Ireland +  Steffen Herbold, University of Göttingen, Germany +  Koen Hindriks,TU Delft, The Netherlands +  Franziska Klügl, Örebro University, Sweden +  Attila Kovács, Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary +  Ming Li, Nanjing University, China +  Helmut Neukirchen, University of Iceland, Iceland, +  Brian Logan, University of Nottingham, UK +  Jorgen Villadsen, DTU, Denmark +  Yingqian Zhang, TU Eindhoven, The Netherlands + -------------- nächster Teil -------------- Ein Dateianhang mit HTML-Daten wurde abgetrennt... URL: From geoff at cs.miami.edu Fri Mar 24 13:46:52 2017 From: geoff at cs.miami.edu (Geoff Sutcliffe) Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2017 08:46:52 -0400 (EDT) Subject: 30th International Workshop on Description Logics - Call for Papers Message-ID: <20170324124652.257FC1214E7@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 wanted 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. Distinguished Student Paper Award ========== As in recent years, the program committee may choose to award a Distinguished Student Paper Award to the authors of a student paper, i.e., a paper that was authored independently by researchers who have not received a doctoral degree yet. Student Grants ========== A limited number of student grants will be available for participation in DL 2017. Each grant will cover the student registration fee and may additionally include a contribution towards travel costs. For details please check https://project.inria.fr/dl2017/students/ Accommodation ========== There are many tourists visiting Montpellier in July, so please make sure to book your accommodation well in advance to ensure the best choice of options. Even if you are not sure to attend the workshop, you may nonetheless want to book a room in a hotel offering free cancellation. 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 peter.schuller at marmara.edu.tr Fri Mar 24 13:53:02 2017 From: peter.schuller at marmara.edu.tr (Peter =?iso-8859-1?q?Sch=FCller?=) Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2017 15:53:02 +0300 (+03) Subject: Final CFP LPNMR Doctoral Student Consortium, Espoo, Finland, 3-6 July, 2017 Message-ID: <20170324125302.42A032C01A4@omsievews> (Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this email. Please distribute to interested parties.) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- LPNMR DC 2017 LPNMR Doctoral Student Consortium to be held at Hanasaari Conference Center, Espoo, Finland, Extact date to be confirmed July 3-6, 2017 http://lpnmr-dc.cs.bath.ac.uk/ https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lpnmrdc2017 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The LPNMR Doctoral Consortium (DC) is to be held as part of the 14th International Conference on Logic Programming and Non-monotonic Reasoning (LPNMR 2017) in the Hanasaari Conference Center, Espoo, Finland,July 3-6, 2017. The DC will take place during LPNMR 2017 on a date to be determined. The DC provides a forum for doctoral students working in all areas related to logic programming and non monotonic reasoning. The DC gives students the opportunity to present and discuss their research and to obtain feedback from peers as well as world-renowned experts a supportive environment. The 14th International Conference 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, implementation and application of logic-based programming languages and database systems, and those who work in the area of knowledge representation and non-monotonic reasoning. LPNMR and its programmatic expression, Answer Set Programming, have roots in the famous special issue of AIJ in 1980, devoted to Nonmonotonic Reasoning. During the DC, there will be significant time for students to present their work, and meet mentors from their own and closely related fields. ** Target Audience ** The DC is designed for students currently enrolled in a Ph.D. program, though we are also open to exceptions (e.g., students currently in a Master's program and interested in doctoral studies). Students at any stage in their doctoral studies are encouraged to apply for participation in the DC, but preference will be given to students who have settled on a research topic or direction but still have some way to go in their studies. Applicants are expected to conduct research in areas related to logic and constraint programming; topics of interest include (but are not limited to): - Theoretical Foundations of LPNMR systems, including semantics of new or existing languages, new language extensions, and computational complexity - Implementation of LPNMR systems, including new systems and algorithms - Applications of LPNMR The DC allows participants to interact with established researchers and fellow students, through presentations, a poster session, question-answer sessions and social interactions. The Doctoral Consortium will provide the possibility to reflect - through short activities, information sessions, and discussions - on the process and lessons of research and life in academia. Each participant will give a short, critiqued, research presentation, present a poster at the main event and attend a lunch in small groups with their mentor/senior researcher. ** Application Process ** An application for participation in the LPNMR DC 2017 consists of a cover sheet, an extended abstract of your (intended) research, a vita, a personal statement and a letter of recommendation (e.g., from your supervisor). All applications must be in English and submitted electronically via EasyChair (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lpnmrdc2017) by 4 April 2017. Detailed submission instructions are provided at the LPNMR DC 2017 website: http://lpnmr-dc.cs.bath.ac.uk/ Applications will be reviewed based on several factors including the quality of the work submitted, stage of research, evidence of research progress, the committee's assessment of the student's contribution to and benefit from participating in the DC, and input from the student's advisor. Details regarding publication of extended abstracts and financial support will follow at a later date. ** Important Dates ** Application Submission: 4 April 2017 Notification: 1 May 2017 Camera-ready Version: 22 May 2017 Doctoral Consortium: During LPNMR, exact date to be confirmed. LPNMR: 3-6 July 2017 ** Organization ** - Program Committee: - Pedro Cabalar University of Corunna - Esra Erdem Sabanci University - Yuliya Lierler University of Nebraska at Omaha - Alessandra Mileo Dublin City University - Alessandra Russo Imperial College London - Hans Tompits Vienna University of Technology - Stefan Woltran Vienna University of Technology - Program Chair: Marina De Vos, University of Bath (M.D.Vos at bath.ac.uk) Website: http://lpnmr-dc.cs.bath.ac.uk/ (Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this email. Please distribute to interested parties.) From ijv at acm.org Fri Mar 24 14:06:31 2017 From: ijv at acm.org (=?utf-8?Q?Ivan_Jos=C3=A9_Varzinczak?=) Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2017 14:06:31 +0100 Subject: DARe'17: New Deadline is 10 April Message-ID: <0C7B6F6B-74BE-4405-9DB6-8FFE47A3A12B@acm.org> * Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this call * ============================== Call for Papers DARe at LPNMR 2017 Date: 3 July 2017 Espoo, Finland *** Deadline: 10 April 2017 *** ============================== The Fourth International Workshop on "Defeasible and Ampliative Reasoning" (DARe) https://sites.google.com/view/dare-17 held at the International Conference on Logic Programming and Nonmonotonic Reasoning (LPNMR 2017) -- Latest News -- There will be a special issue of the International Journal of Approximate Reasoning (IJAR) containing selected extended versions of papers that have been accepted at DARe. The call for this special issue is planned for late 2017. More information to follow. -- Workshop Description and Aims -- Classical reasoning is not flexible enough when directly applied to the formalization of certain nuances of human quotidian decision making. These involve different kinds of reasoning such as reasoning with uncertainty, exceptions, similarity, vagueness, incomplete or contradictory information and many others. It turns out that everyday reasoning usually shows the two salient intertwined aspects below: * Ampliative aspect: augmenting the underlying reasoning by allowing more conclusions. In practical contexts, this amounts to the ability to make inferences that venture beyond the scope of the premises, somehow in an unsound but justifiable way. Prominent examples are (i) default reasoning: jumping to conclusions deemed as plausible 'by default', i.e., in the absence of information to the contrary, like applying negation as failure or adopting the closed-world assumption; (ii) inductive and abductive reasoning: taking chances in drawing conclusions that implicitly call for further scrutiny or tests by empirical observations, like in making inductive hypotheses in scientific theories or finding abductive explanations in forensics, and (iii) analogical reasoning: extrapolating from very few examples (in the worst case only one) on the basis of observable similarities or dissimilarities. * Defeasible aspect: curtailing the underlying reasoning by either disregarding or disallowing some conclusions that somehow ought not to be sanctioned. In practice, this amounts to the ability to backtrack one's conclusions or to admit exceptions in reasoning. Some examples of this are (i) retractive reasoning: withdrawing conclusions that have already been derived, like in belief contraction or in negotiation, and (ii) preemptive reasoning: preventing or blocking the inference of some conclusions by disallowing their derivation in the first place, like in dealing with exceptional cases in multiple inheritance networks and in regulatory systems. Several efforts have been put into the study and definition of formalisms within which the aforementioned aspects of everyday reasoning could adequately be captured at different levels. Despite the progress that has been achieved, a large avenue remains open for exploration. Indeed, the literature on non-monotonic reasoning has focused almost exclusively on defeasibility of argument forms, whereas belief revision paradigms are restricted to an underlying classical (Tarskian) consequence relation. Moreover, even if some of the issues related to uncertainty in reasoning have been studied using probabilistic approaches and statistical methods, their integration with qualitative frameworks remain a challenge. Finally, well-established approaches are largely based on propositional languages or haunted by the undecidability of full first-order logic. Modern applications require formalisms with a good balance between expressive power and computational complexity. DARe aims at bringing together researchers and practitioners from core areas of artificial intelligence, cognitive sciences, philosophy and related disciplines to discuss these kinds of problems and relevant results in a multi-disciplinary forum. The goal of the workshop is to present latest research developments, to discuss current directions in the field, and to collect first-hand feedback from the community. -- Scope of the Workshop -- DARe welcomes contributions on all aspects of defeasible and ampliative reasoning such as (but not limited to): - Abductive and inductive reasoning - Explanation finding, diagnosis and causal reasoning - Inconsistency handling and exception-tolerant reasoning - Decision-making under uncertainty and incomplete information - Default reasoning, non-monotonic reasoning, non-monotonic logics, conditional logics - Specific instances and variations of ampliative and defeasible reasoning - Probabilistic and statistical approaches to reasoning - Vagueness, rough sets, granularity and fuzzy-logics - Philosophical foundations of defeasibility - Empirical studies of reasoning - Relationship with cognition and language - Contextual reasoning - Preference-based reasoning - Analogical reasoning - Similarity-based reasoning - Belief dynamics and merging - Argumentation theory, negotiation and conflict resolution - Heuristic and approximate reasoning - Defeasible normative systems - Reasoning about actions and change - Reasoning about knowledge and belief, epistemic and doxastic logics - Ampliative and defeasible temporal and spatial reasoning - Computational aspects of reasoning with uncertainty - Implementations and systems - Applications of uncertainty in reasoning -- Submission Requirements -- We invite submissions of papers presenting original research results or position statements. Submissions must be prepared using the Springer LNAI/LNCS format (which can be found at http://lpnmr2017.aalto.fi/submission.html) and should be no longer than 13 pages. Please submit to: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dare17 -- Workshop Proceedings/Notes -- Accepted papers will be made available electronically in the CEUR Workshop Proceedings series (http://ceur-ws.org). Copyright of papers remain with the authors. The 2014 proceedings are available at http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1212/ The 2015 proceedings are available at http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1423/ The 2016 proceedings are available at http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1626/ -- Attendance -- The selection of accepted contributions will be based on relevance, significance and the work's potential to foster discussions and cross-pollination. Therefore submissions of ongoing work are also strongly encouraged. At least one co-author of each accepted paper must register for the workshop. Please check the LPNMR 2017 website for registration procedure, fees as well as cancellation policies. -- Important Dates -- - Submission deadline: 10 April 2017 - Notification: 1 May 2017 - Camera ready: 22 May 2017 - Workshop date: 3 July 2017 -- Invited Speaker -- [TBA] -- Workshop Co-Chairs -- - Richard Booth, Cardiff University, UK - Giovanni Casini, University of Luxembourg - Ivan Varzinczak, CRIL, Univ. Artois & CNRS, France -- Program Committee -- - Natasha Alechina, University of Nottingham, UK - Grigoris Antoniou, University of Huddersfield, UK - Ofer Arieli, Academic College of Tel-Aviv, Israel - Guillaume Aucher, University of Rennes 1 - INRIA, France - Christoph Beierle, FernUniversitaet Hagen, Germany - Mario Benevides, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - Antonis Bikakis, University College London, UK - Alexander Bochman, Holon Institute of Technology, Israel - Katarina Britz, Stellenbosch University, South Africa - James Delgrande, Simon Fraser University, Canada - Marcelo Finger, Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil - Nina Gierasimczuk, Danish Technical University, Denmark - Patrick Girard, University of Auckland, New Zealand - Sven Ove Hansson, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden - Andreas Herzig, IRIT CNRS, France - Aaron Hunter, British Columbia Institute of Technology, Canada - Souhila Kaci, Université Montpellier 2, France - Gabriele Kern-Isberner, TU Dortmund, Germany - Simon Kramer, SK-R&D, Switzerland - Michael Maher, University of New South Wales, Australia - João Marcos, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil - Thomas Meyer, University of Cape Town, South Africa - Gilles Richard, Université Paul Sabatier, France - Francois Schwarzentruber, ENS Rennes/IRISA, France - Umberto Straccia, CNR, Italy - Joost Vennekens, K.U. Leuven, Belgium - Peter Verdée, Universiteit Gent, Belgium - Heinrich Wansing, Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum, Germany - Renata Wassermann, Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil - Anna Zamansky, University of Haifa, Israel -- Further Information -- Please visit the workshop website (https://sites.google.com/view/dare-17) for further information and regular updates. Enquiries should be sent to dare.to.contact.us at gmail.com -- Ivan Varzinczak CRIL, Univ. Artois & CNRS, France http://member.acm.org/~ijv -------------- nächster Teil -------------- Ein Dateianhang mit HTML-Daten wurde abgetrennt... URL: From f.zanasi at ucl.ac.uk Fri Mar 24 15:40:17 2017 From: f.zanasi at ucl.ac.uk (Fabio Zanasi) Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2017 15:40:17 +0100 (CET) Subject: CALCO 2017: Last Call for Papers | CALCO Tools & CALCO Early Ideas: Call for Contributions Message-ID: <20170324144017.82332340123@sphinx.rz.tu-clausthal.de> ========================================================= CALL FOR PAPERS: CALCO 2017 7th International Conference on Algebra and Coalgebra in Computer Science June 13 - 16, 2017 Ljubljana, Slovenia http://coalg.org/mfps-calco2017/ ========================================================== Abstract submission: April 3, 2017 Paper submission: April 7, 2017 Author notification: May 15, 2017 Final version due: May 31, 2017 ========================================================== -- SCOPE -- CALCO aims to bring together researchers and practitioners with interests in foundational aspects, and both traditional and emerging uses of algebra and coalgebra in computer science. It is a high-level, bi-annual conference formed by joining the forces and reputations of CMCS (the International Workshop on Coalgebraic Methods in Computer Science), and WADT (the Workshop on Algebraic Development Techniques). Previous CALCO editions took place in Swansea (Wales, 2005), Bergen (Norway, 2007), Udine (Italy, 2009), Winchester (UK, 2011), Warsaw (Poland, 2013) and Nijmegen (the Netherlands, 2015). The seventh edition will be held in Ljubljana, Slovenia, colocated with MFPS XXXIII. -- INVITED SPEAKERS -- Nicoletta Sabadini - University of Insubria, IT Alex Simpson - University of Ljubljana, SL *Joint Session with MFPS on Metrics, Privacy and Learning:* James Worrell - University of Oxford, UK (Tutorial) *Further Invited Speakers:* Catuscia Palamidessi - Ecole polytechnique, FR Vincent Danos - Ecole normale superieure, FR Marco Gaboardi - University at Buffalo, USA -- TOPICS OF INTEREST -- We invite submissions of technical papers that report results of theoretical work on the mathematics of algebras and coalgebras, the way these results can support methods and techniques for software development, as well as experience with the transfer of the resulting technologies into industrial practice. We encourage submissions in topics included or related to those listed below. * Abstract models and logics - Automata and languages - Categorical semantics - Modal logics - Relational systems - Graph transformation - Term rewriting * Specialised models and calculi - Hybrid, probabilistic, and timed systems - Calculi and models of concurrent, distributed, mobile, and context-aware computing - General systems theory and computational models (chemical, biological, etc.) * Algebraic and coalgebraic semantics - Abstract data types - Inductive and coinductive methods - Re-engineering techniques (program transformation) - Semantics of conceptual modelling methods and techniques - Semantics of programming languages * System specification and verification - Algebraic and coalgebraic specification - Formal testing and quality assurance - Validation and verification - Generative programming and model-driven development - Models, correctness and (re)configuration of hardware/middleware/architectures, - Process algebra * Corecursion in Programming Languages - Corecursion in logic / constraint / functional / answer set programming - Corecursive type inference - Coinductive methods for proving program properties - Implementing corecursion - Applications * Algebra and Coalgebra in quantum computing - Categorical semantics for quantum computing - Quantum calculi and programming languages - Foundational structures for quantum computing - Applications of quantum algebra * String Diagrams and Network Theory - Combinatorial approaches - Theory of PROPs and operads - Rewriting problems and higher-dimensional approaches - Automated reasoning with string diagrams - Applications of string diagrams - Connections with Control Theory, Engineering and Concurrency -- SUBMISSION GUIDELINES -- Prospective authors are invited to submit full papers in English presenting original research. Submitted papers must be unpublished and not submitted for publication elsewhere. Experience papers are welcome, but they must clearly present general lessons learned that would be of interest and benefit to a broad audience of both researchers and practitioners. Proceedings will be published in the Dagstuhl LIPIcs???Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics series. Final papers should be no more than 15 pages long in the format specified by LIPIcs (http://www.dagstuhl.de/publikationen/lipics/anleitung-fuer-autoren/). It is recommended that submissions adhere to that format and length. Submissions that are clearly too long may be rejected immediately. Proofs omitted due to space limitations may be included in a clearly marked appendix. Both an abstract and the full paper must be submitted by their respective submission deadlines. A special issue of the open access journal Logical Methods in Computer Science (http://www.lmcs-online.org), containing extended versions of selected papers, is also being planned. Submissions will be handled via EasyChair https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=calco2017 -- BEST PAPER AND BEST PRESENTATION AWARDS -- This edition of CALCO will feature two awards: a Best Paper Award whose recipients will be selected by the PC before the conference and a Best Presentation Award, elected by the participants. -- IMPORTANT DATES -- Abstract submission: April 3, 2017 Paper submission: April 7, 2017 Author notification: May 15, 2017 Final version due: May 31, 2017 -- PROGRAMME COMMITTEE -- Andrej Bauer (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia) Filippo Bonchi (ENS Lyon, France, co-chair) Marcello Bonsangue (University of Leiden, Netherlands) Corina Cirstea (University of Southampton, UK) Robin Cockett (University of Calgary, Canada) Andrea Corradini (University of Pisa, Italy) Sergey Goncharov (Universitaet Erlangen-Nuernberg, Germany) Helle Hvid Hansen (Delft University of Technology, Netherlands) Ichiro Hasuo (University of Tokyo, Japan) Tobias Heindel (University of Copenhagen, Denmark) Tom Hirschowitz (Savoie Mont Blanc University, France) Bart Jacobs (University of Nijmegen, Netherlands) Bartek Klin (Warsaw University, Poland) Barbara Koenig (University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany, co-chair) Alexander Kurz (University of Leicester, UK) Paul Levy (University of Birmingham, UK) Radu Mardare (Aalborg University, Denmark) Stefan Milius (Universitaet Erlangen-Nuernberg, Germany) Samuel Mimram (Ecole Polytechnique, France) Till Mossakowski (Universitaet Magdeburg, Germany) Larry Moss (Indiana University, US) Daniela Petrisan (Universite Paris-Diderot, France) John Power (University of Bath, UK) Grigore Rosu (University of Illinois, US) Jan Rutten (CWI, University of Nijmegen, Netherlands) Peter Selinger (Dalhousie University, Canada) Alexandra Silva (University College London, UK) Pawel Sobocinski (University of Southampton, UK) Ana Sokolova (University of Salzburg, Austria) -- ORGANISING COMMITTEE -- Andrej Bauer (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia) Matija Pretnar (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia) -- PUBLICITY CHAIR -- Fabio Zanasi (University College London, UK) ********************************************************************** CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS: CALCO Tools 2017 ********************************************************************** A satellite event of CALCO 2017 June 13, 2017 http://coalg.org/calco17/tools.html ========================================================== Abstract submission: April 3, 2017 Paper submission: April 7, 2017 Author notification: May 15, 2017 Final version: May 31, 2017 ========================================================== -- SCOPE AND SUBMISSION GUIDELINES -- A special workshop at CALCO 2017 is dedicated to tools based on algebraic and/or coalgebraic principles or that are emerging from the intersection of the two approaches, such as graph grammars or coinductive proof techniques. These include systems/prototypes/tools developed specifically for design, checking, execution, and verification of (co)algebraic specifications, but also tools targeting different application domains while making core or interesting use of (co)algebraic techniques. CALCO-Tools will take place on the same dates as the main CALCO conference, with no overlap between the technical programmes of the two events. Tool submissions should not exceed 5 pages in LiPiCS format. The accepted tool papers will be included in the final proceedings of the conference. The tools should be made available on the web at the time of submission, for download and evaluation. Each submission will be evaluated by at least three reviewers; one or more of the reviewers will be asked to download and use the tool. At least one of the authors of each tool paper must attend the conference to demo the tool. Submissions will be handled via the CALCO 2017 Tools EasyChair site https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=calco2017tools -- INVITED SPEAKER -- Nate Foster - Cornell University, USA ******************************************************************* CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS: CALCO Early Ideas 2017 ******************************************************************** A satellite event of CALCO 2017 June 13-16, 2017 http://coalg.org/calco17/ei.html ========================================================== Submission: May 1, 2017 Author notification: May 19, 2017 Final version: May 31, 2017 ========================================================== -- SCOPE AND SUBMISSION GUIDELINES -- The programme of CALCO 2017 will include special sessions reserved for the CALCO Early Ideas Workshop, featuring presentations of work in progress and original research proposals. PhD students and young researchers are particularly encouraged to contribute. Attendance at the workshop is open to all conference participants. The CALCO Early Ideas Workshop invites submissions on the same topics as the CALCO conference: reporting results of theoretical work, the way these results can support methods and techniques for software development, as well as experience with the transfer of the resulting technologies into industrial practice. CALCO Early Ideas presentations will be selected according to originality, significance, and general interest, on the basis of submitted 2-page short contributions. It can be work in progress, a summary of work submitted to a conference or workshop elsewhere, or work that in some other way might be interesting to the CALCO audience. A booklet with the accepted short contributions will be available at the workshop. Submissions will be handled via the CALCO 2017 Early Ideas EasyChair site https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=calco2017ei From geoff at cs.miami.edu Fri Mar 24 16:41:12 2017 From: geoff at cs.miami.edu (Geoff Sutcliffe) Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2017 11:41:12 -0400 (EDT) Subject: LPAR-21 in Botswana - Come join us! Message-ID: <20170324154112.B8605121469@mcclellan.cs.miami.edu> **************************************************************************** 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 PARTICIPATION 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 conference features: + Over 30 high quality technical papers + Three invited talks: - Rupak Majumdar, Max Planck Institute for Software Systems, Germany - Stephen Muggleton, Imperial College London, United Kingdom - Willem Visser, Stellenbosch University, South Africa + An LPAR quality social program - Reception braai - Full day excursion for game viewing - African theme farewell dinner + The 12th International Workshop on the Implementation of Logics Come join us in Africa! **************************************************************************** From peggy.cellier at irisa.fr Fri Mar 24 16:57:16 2017 From: peggy.cellier at irisa.fr (Peggy Cellier) Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2017 16:57:16 +0100 Subject: =?UTF-8?Q?[Extended_deadline]_Call_for_Posters/Software_Demonstrati?= =?UTF-8?Q?ons_at_ICFCA'17_=e2=80=93_14th_International_Conference_on_Formal?= =?UTF-8?Q?_Concept_Analysis?= In-Reply-To: <3ed7dc50-60c5-337a-924e-db42117229d9@irisa.fr> References: <3ed7dc50-60c5-337a-924e-db42117229d9@irisa.fr> Message-ID: <1c57a11f-a36b-5f08-9dc3-b319cc149a64@irisa.fr> Submission deadline is extended to March 31th, 2017 http://icfca2017.irisa.fr/calls/call-for-posters-and-software-demonstrations/ ================================================================================ ICFCA 2017 14th International Conference on Formal Concept Analysis June 12—16, 2017, Rennes, France Web: Mail: icfca2017 at inria.fr ================================================================================ * Call for Posters and Software Demonstrations The International Conference on Formal Concept Analysis welcomes submissions of posters on relevant topics around FCA research. Posters should be of size not larger than A0, and will be presented at the conference venue in a dedicated poster session. We also invite submission of proposals for demonstrations of software implementing or making use of algorithms and approach from formal concept analysis. Proposals for posters and software demonstrations should be described in an extended abstract of at most 4 pages. Accepted proposals will also be included in the supplementary proceedings of ICFCA, published by the University of Rennes. The supplementary proceedings of ICFCA will receive an ISBN. Submission deadline is *March 31th, 2017*. Abstracts should be send to icfca2017 at inria.fr. * About the Conference Formal Concept Analysis emerged in the 1980's from attempts to restructure lattice theory in order to promote better communication between lattice theorists and potential users of lattice theory. Since its early years, Formal Concept Analysis has developed into a research field in its own right with a thriving theoretical community and a rapidly expanding range of applications in information and knowledge processing including visualization, data analysis (mining) and knowledge management and discovery. The ICFCA conference series aims at bringing together researchers and practitioners working on theoretical or applied aspects of Formal Concept Analysis within major related areas such as Mathematics and Computer and Information Sciences and their diverse applications to fields like Software Engineering, Linguistics, Life and Social Sciences, etc. ** Topics Main topics of interest include, but are not limited to: *** Fundamental aspects of FCA - FCA theory - Lattice theory - Lattice drawing - Philosophical foundations - Algorithms and complexity theory *** Bridging FCA to information sciences and artificial intelligence - FCA and logic, e.g., semantic web, description logics - FCA and conceptual structures, e.g., concept graphs, knowledge spaces - FCA and data analysis, e.g., hierarchical classification, data organization - FCA and data mining, e.g., pattern mining - FCA and information retrieval, e.g. exploratory search, navigation, querying - FCA and machine learning, e.g., learning with hypothesis, feature selection - FCA and database theory, e.g., dependencies, rules, data cubes - FCA and software engineering - FCA and morphological mathematics *** Understanding, modelling real-world data and phenomena with FCA - Analysis of "big data" with FCA, e.g., sampling, parallel computing - Analysis of social networks and their dynamics - Applications for scientific data analysis, e.g., in biology or health care - Applications for sensors data and user interactions traces - Other FCA applications ** Organization The conference will be hosted by IRISA[3] and Centre de Recherche Inria Bretagne Atlantique[4]. [3]: https://www.irisa.fr/en [4]: https://www.inria.fr/centre/rennes *** Conference Chairs Peggy Cellier, IRISA, INSA Rennes, France Sébastien Ferré, IRISA, University Rennes 1, France *** Program Chairs Karell Bertet, L3I, Université de La Rochelle, France Daniel Borchmann, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany *** Editorial Board Jaume Baixeries, Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Catalonia Peggy Cellier, IRISA lab, Rennes, France Florent Domenach, Akita International University, Japan Peter Eklund, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark Sebastien Ferré, Université de Rennes 1, France Bernhard Ganter, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany Cynthia Vera Glodeanu Mehdi Kaytoue, INSA-Lyon, LIRIS, France Sergei Kuznetsov, Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia Leonard Kwuida, Bern University of Applied Sciences Rokia Missaoui, Université du Québec en Outaouais (UQO), Canada Amedeo Napoli, LORIA, Nancy, France Sergei Obiedkov, Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia Manuel Ojeda-Aciego, University of Malaga, Spain Uta Priss, Ostfalia University of Applied Sciences, Wolfenbüttel, Germany Sebastian Rudolph, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany Christian Sacarea, Babes-Bolyai University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania Stefan E. Schmidt, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany Gerd Stumme, Universität Kassel, Germany Petko Valtchev, Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada Karl Erich Wolff, University of Applied Sciences, Darmstadt, Germany *** Honorary Members Vincent Duquenne, ECP6-CNRS, Université Paris 6, France Rudolf Wille, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany¹ *** Program Committee Simon Andrews, Sheffield Hallam University, United Kingdom François Brucker, Centrale Marseille, France Claudio Carpineto, Fondazione Ugo Bordoni, Italy Pablo Cordero, University of Málaga, Spain Jean Diatta, Université de la Réunion, France Felix Distel, d-fine GmbH, Germany Christophe Demko, L3I lab, Université de La Rochelle, France Stephan Doerfel, MICROMATA GmbH, Germany Alain Gély, Université Paul Verlaine, Metz, France Robert Godin, Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada Marianne Huchard, LIRMM, Université Montpellier, France Dmitry Ignatov, Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia Robert Jäschke, University of Sheffield, England Michal Krupka, Palacky University, Olomouc, Czech Republic Marzena Kryszkiewicz, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland Wilfried Lex, Universität Clausthal, Germany Jesús Medina, Cadiz University, Spain Engelbert Mephu Nguifo, LIMOS, Université de Clermont Ferrand 2, France Lhouari Nourine, LIMOS, Université de Clermont Ferrand 2, France Jan Outrata, Palacky University of Olomouc, Czech Republic Jean-Marc Petit, LIRIS, INSA Lyon, France Sandor Radeleczki, University of Miskolc, Hungary Barış Sertkaya, Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences Laszlo Szathmary, University of Debrecen, Hungary Andreja Tepavčević, University of Novi Sad, Serbia Jean-François Viaud, L3I lab, Université de La Rochelle, France ¹ deceased From newsletter at saso-conference.org Fri Mar 24 23:30:30 2017 From: newsletter at saso-conference.org (Markus Esch) Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2017 23:30:30 +0100 Subject: =?utf-8?b?IENmUEQ6IFNBU08gMjAxNyAtIElFRUUgSW50ZXJuYXRpb25hbCBDb25m?= =?utf-8?b?ZXJlbmNlIG9uIFNlbGYtQWRhcHRpdmUgYW5kIFNlbGYtT3JnYW5pemlu?= =?utf-8?b?ZyBTeXN0ZW1zLCBTZXB0ZW1iZXIgMTgtMjIsIFR1Y3NvbiwgQXJpem9u?= =?utf-8?b?YQ==?= Message-ID: ************************************************************************* CALL FOR POSTERS AND DEMOS 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 ==== FAS* conference continues its tradition of offering poster and demo sessions, which are a great opportunity for an interactive presentation of emerging ideas, late-breaking results, experiences, and challenges on FAS* topics. These sessions are informal and highly interactive, and allow authors and participants to engage in in-depth discussions about the presented work from which new collaborations, ideas, and solutions can emerge. Posters should cover the same key areas as Research Papers and present original, cutting-edge ideas inclusive of speculative/provocative ones. Proposals of new research directions and innovative interdisciplinary approaches are also welcome. Submissions in the following areas are particularly encouraged: - Self-* systems theories, frameworks, models, and paradigms, including the ones inspired by the biological, social, and physical worlds. - Self-* systems engineering: goals and requirements, hardware and software design, deployment, management and control, validation. - Properties of self-* systems: self-organisation and emergent behaviour, self-adaptation, self-management, self-monitoring, self-tuning, self-repair, self-configuration, etc. - Evaluation of self-* systems: methods for performance, robustness, dependability assessment and analysis. - Social self-* systems: emergent human behaviour, crowdsourcing, collective awareness, gamification and serious games. - Applications and experiences with self-* systems: cyber security, transportation, computational sustainability, power systems, large networks, large data centers, and cloud computing. - Autonomic Cloud Computing: Self-managing cloud services. Autonomic resource and energy management in cloud computing. Autonomic cloud applications and services - Autonomic Computing Foundations and Design Methods: Evaluation, validation and quality and correctness assessment of autonomic loops. Theoretical frameworks for modeling and analyzing autonomic computing systems, control and decision theory - Autonomic Computing Systems, Tools and Applications: Self-protection techniques of computing systems, networks and applications. Stochastic analysis and prediction of autonomic systems and applications Demos may target virtual systems (e.g., software applications), physical systems (e.g., robots or sensor networks), or cyber-physical systems combining the two. Physical systems might be presented either with real equipment, by simulation, or hybrid solutions using both simulations and real platforms. Submissions which highlight the utility and general applicability of the contribution - whether short, medium or long term - are particularly solicited, and interactivity of a demo is considered a further asset. ==== Important Dates ==== Submission deadline: June 30, 2017 Notification: July 9, 2017 Camera-ready copy due: July 12, 2017 Conference: September 18-22, 2017 ==== Submission Instructions ==== For evaluation and selection, authors should submit a two-page extended abstract for their poster or demo. The format of this extended abstract must comply with the IEEE Computer Society Press proceedings style guide and shall be submitted electronically in PDF format. Templates for Word and LaTeX are available here. Demo submissions must include a URL of a website providing a self-explanatory video showing the system at work. Please visit the SASO website for further information on how to submit: www.saso-conference.org ==== Accepted Posters and Demos ==== If selected, authors shall prepare a final, camera-ready version of the extended abstract, taking into account all feedback from the reviewers, and formatted according to the IEEE Computer Society Press proceedings style guide. Posters and Demos will be advertised in the final program, and authors’ two-page extended abstracts will be submitted to IEEE Xplore as part of the conference proceedings. Abstracts will also be available as part of the IEEE Digital Library. At least one author of accepted posters or demos is required to register at the conference, give a brief presentation of the poster or demo in the interactive session, as well as stay with the poster and/or demo to discuss the work with conference attendees for the duration of the scheduled session. ==== Poster Content and Layout Guidelines ==== Authors shall prepare their poster for presentation in the reserved session, taking into consideration that all posters should include the following information: - The purpose and goals of the work. - Any background and motivation needed to understand the work. - Any critical hypotheses and assumptions that underlie the work. - A clear summary of the contribution and/or results, in sufficient detail for a (re)viewer to understand the work and its relevance. If the work is at an initial stage, it is especially important to state clearly the anticipated contributions and any early results towards them. - The relationship to other related efforts, where appropriate. Authors of accepted posters may be asked to point out relationships to work represented by other accepted posters. - Where to find additional information. This should include but is not restricted to: a web site where viewers can go to find additional information about the work; how to contact the authors, including email addresses; for any papers, books, or other materials that provide additional information. The format and nature of posters require authors to capture the viewers’ attention effectively, and present core concepts to clearly position the context of their research work. For this reason, graphic representations, figures, and screen shots are typically the main medium of communication in successful posters. Few attendees will stop to read a large poster with dense text. If screen shots are used, please ensure that they print legibly and that the fonts are large enough to be read easily once printed. The recommended size for the poster is A0, and all poster authors are required to print and bring their posters to the conference. ==== Demo Guidelines ==== At the conference, software applications will be presented on computers. For cyber-physical systems, if possible, authors are invited to bring their equipment (smart devices, sensors, actuators, robots, et cetera). Software simulations or video recordings can be accepted as an alternative. Additionally, authors must bring a poster summarising their system and demo, following the above guidelines. ==== Evaluation and Awards ==== Submitted demos will undergo a selection process based to equal parts on the quality of the short paper (novelty and impact, technical soundness and presentation) and the online demo system (design, degree of innovation, technical solution, applicability, clarity of the contribution and potential of reuse). At least one author of accepted demos is required to register to the conference and to do an on-site presentation and demonstration of the contributions to the evaluation committee, as well as the other conference attendees. The evaluation committee, consisting of the Demo Program Committee members attending the conference, will award a prize for the best demo in each system category, with cyber-physical systems classifying for both. ==== Contact Information ==== For any further information, please contact the Posters and Demos Chair. From grlmc at grlmc.com Sun Mar 26 21:22:08 2017 From: grlmc at grlmc.com (GRLMC) Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2017 21:22:08 +0200 Subject: AlCoB 2017: call for posters Message-ID: <545102060a010b01085f570b01055a52570353045457075005505c080e0f505556590402550b555506045357065353@grlmc_ip-zone_com-6> AlCoB 2017: call for posters*To be removed from our mailing list, please respond to this message with UNSUBSCRIBE in the subject line* ********************************************************************************** The 4th International Conference on Algorithms for Computational Biology (AlCoB 2017) invites researchers to submit poster presentations. AlCoB 2017 will be held in Aveiro (Portugal) on June 5-6, 2017. See http://grammars.grlmc.com/AlCoB2017/ Poster presentations are intended to enhance informal interactions with conference participants, at the same time allowing for in-depth discussion. TOPICS Presentations displaying novel work in progress on algorithms in computational biology are encouraged on the following topics: - assembling sequence reads into a complete genome, - identifying gene structures in the genome, - recognizing regulatory motifs, - aligning nucleotides and comparing genomes, - reconstructing regulatory networks of genes, and - inferring the evolutionary phylogeny of species. Posters do not need to show final research results. Work that might lead to new interesting developments is welcome. KEY DATES Poster submission deadline: April 28, 2017 Notification of poster acceptance or rejection: May 5, 2017 SUBMISSION Please submit a .pdf abstract through: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=alcob2017 It should contain the title, author(s) and affiliation, and should not exceed 500 words. PRESENTATION Posters will be allocated 10 minutes each in the programme for oral presentation. Moreover, they will remain hanging out during the whole conference for discussion. PUBLICATION Posters will not appear in the LNCS/LNBI proceedings volume of AlCoB 2017. However, they will be eligible for submission to the post-conference journal special issue in the Journal of Computational Biology (2015 JCR impact factor: 1.537). REGISTRATION At least one author of each accepted poster must register to the conference by May 22, 2017. The registration fare is reduced: 260 Euro. It gives the same rights all other conference participants have (attendance, copy of the proceedings volume, lunches...). Contributors of regular papers who in addition get a poster accepted must register for the latter independently.   -------------- nächster Teil -------------- Ein Dateianhang mit HTML-Daten wurde abgetrennt... URL: From giovanni.degasperis at aixia.it Sun Mar 26 23:21:53 2017 From: giovanni.degasperis at aixia.it (Giovanni De Gasperis) Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2017 23:21:53 +0200 Subject: [CfA] The 13th Reasoning Web Summer School (RW 2017) Message-ID: ********************************************** CALL FOR APPLICATIONS The 13th Reasoning Web Summer School (RW 2017) London, U.K., July 7-11, 2017 http://reasoningweb.org/2017 ********************************************** co-located with: - RuleML+RR: International Joint Conference on Rules and Reasoning, London, U.K., July 12-15, 2017 http://2017.ruleml-rr.org - RuleML+RR Doctoral Consortium (submission deadline: March 1, 2017) http://2017.ruleml-rr.org/doctoral-consortium/ - DecisionCAMP 2017, London, U.K., July 13-14, 2017 http://2017.ruleml-rr.org/decisioncamp-2017 - 11th International Rule Challenge London, U.K., July 12-15, 2017 http://reasoningweb.org/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 and Linked Data applications. The school is primarily intended for postgraduate (PhD or MSc) students, postdocs, young researchers, and senior researchers wishing to learn about Reasoning on the Semantic Web and related issues. In 2017, the theme of the school is: "Semantic Interoperability on the Web" As in the previous years, lectures in the summer school will be given by a distinguished group of expert lecturers. Most lecturers will also be present for the duration of the school to interact and establish contacts with the students. The summer school is co-located with RuleML+RR, a conference that joins the well-known RuleML and RR event series, DecisionCAMP 2017, and the 11th International Rule Challenge, hence, there will be a great opportunity for students to also attend some major events in the area. In addition, RuleML+RR will also include a Doctoral Consortium and students of RW are particularly encouraged to also apply to the Doctoral consortium of RuleML+RR. Joint applications are explicitly encouraged. == IMPORTANT DATES == Application deadline: May 10, 2017 Notifications: May 20, 2017 Registration deadline: May 31, 2017 == CONFIRMED LECTURES (to be completed) == The following lecturers are confirmed. - Andrea Calì (Birkbeck University of London, U.K.) "Ontology querying: Datalog strikes back" - Thomas Eiter (Technical University of Wien, Austria) "Answer Set Programming with External Source Access" - Thomas Lukasiewicz (University of Oxford, U.K.) "Uncertainty Reasoning for the Semantic Web" - Marco Montali (Free University of Bolzano/Bozen, Italy) "Ontology-based Data Access for Log Extraction in Process Mining" - Axel Polleres (Vienna University of Economics & Business, Austria) "Challenges for Semantic Data Integration on the Web of Open Data" - Marie-Christine Rousset (University Grenoble-Alpes, Institut Universitaire de France) "Datalog revisited for reasoning in Linked Data" - Torsten Schaub (University of Potsdam, Germany and Inria, Bretagne Atlantique, Rennes, France) "A Tutorial on Hybrid Answer Set Solving" - Juan Sequeda (Capsenta, USA) "Integrating Relational Databases with the Semantic Web" - Giorgos Stamou (National Technical University of Athens, Greece) "Ontological query answering over semantic data" == LECTURE NOTES == The course material used during the summer school will be published within Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series. A copy of the proceedings will be included in the registration fees. == APPLICATIONS == The number of attendees will be limited and participation will depend on submitting an application which will undergo a reviewing process. Applications have to be submitted via Easychair using the following URL: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=rw2017 Applications must be submitted in PDF format not exceeding 2 pages (min. font size 11pt) and contain the following information: - Name, contact details - Affiliation - Motivation for participation - Summary of profile - Supervisor (if applicable) - Publications (if applicable) == SCHOOL FEES == The fee for attending the school is 370 GBPs (for registered RuleML+RR participants, it is 485 GBPs). == SCHOOL VENUE == Birkbeck, University of London, Malet St, London WC1E 7HX, UK == ACCOMMODATION == The registration fee does not cover accommodation, but there will be special offers at hostels and hotels available when the registration opens. == GRANTS == There will be a limited number of student grants available for the summer school and for the co-located RuleML+RR conference. == COMMITTEE == *Chairs Giovambattista Ianni, Università della Calabria Domenico Lembo, Sapienza Università di Roma *Scientific Advisory Board Leopoldo Bertossi, Carleton University Wolfgang Faber, University of Huddersfield Birte Glimm, Universität Ulm Georg Gottlob, Oxford University Steffen Staab, University of Koblenz-Landau == CONTACT == For further information including sponsorship opportunities, please contact the organizing chairs. http://reasoningweb.org/2017 -------------- nächster Teil -------------- Ein Dateianhang mit HTML-Daten wurde abgetrennt... URL: From xrambous at aurora.fi.muni.cz Mon Mar 27 13:12:34 2017 From: xrambous at aurora.fi.muni.cz (Depling 2017) Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2017 13:12:34 +0200 Subject: International Conference on Dependency Linguistics - 1st Call for Papers Message-ID: Fourth International Conference on Dependency Linguistics Pisa, Italy 18-20 September 2017 Conference web site: http://depling.org/depling2017/ FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS CONFERENCE AIMS The Depling conference responds to the growing need for a conference dedicated to dependency-based approaches in linguistics and natural language processing. In the past decade, dependencies, directed labeled graph structures representing hierarchical relations between morphemes, words or semantic units, have become very widespread in natural language processing. However, the linguistic significance of these structures often remains vague, and the need to discuss the theoretical and formal foundations of dependency-based concepts is felt strongly by many people working in these domains. CONFERENCE TOPICS Topics include but are not limited to: - The use of dependency trees in syntactic analysis, parsing, generation, and corpus annotation of written and spoken texts; - Cross-lingual dependency parser evaluation, with particular emphasis on intrinsic evaluation metrics; - The use of semantic valency-based predicate and actancy graph structures and their link to classical logic; - The elaboration of formal dictionaries for dependency-based syntax and semantics, including descriptions of collocations and paradigmatic relations; - Links to morphology and linearization of dependency structures, using, for example, topological field theories; - Dependency-like structures beyond the sentence, for example, to model discourse phenomena; - The description and formalization of semantic and pragmatic phenomena related to information structure; - History, epistemology, and psycholinguistic relevance of dependency grammar, including its relation to generative approaches to language; - Dependency grammar and linguistic universals. SHARED TASK This year Depling is co-located with the "International Workshop on Parsing Technologies" (IWPT 2017), which will take place immediately after Depling 2017. The two conferences will have an overlapping day, September 20th, in which the results will be reported of a joint shared task playing the role of Depling-IWPT "bridge event" and focusing on "Extrinsic Parser Evaluation" (EPE). The goal of this shared task is to try to shed light on the relative `utility' of different types of dependency representations for downstream applications that depend on grammatical analysis. For background and information on participation, see: http://epe.nlpl.eu/ PAPER SUBMISSION INFORMATION Papers should describe original work; they should emphasize completed work rather than intended work, and should indicate clearly the state of completion of the reported results. Submissions will be judged on correctness, originality, technical strength, significance and relevance to the conference, and interest to the attendees. Papers must be submitted in PDF format through the Depling2017 EasyChair site ( https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=depling2017 ). Papers may consist of up to 10 pages of content (including references). All submissions should follow the two-column format and the style guidelines. We strongly recommend the use of the LaTeX style files, OpenDocument or Microsoft Word templates created for the Depling 2017 conference. Reviewing of papers will be double-blind. Therefore, the paper must not include the authors' names and affiliations. Furthermore, self-references that reveal the author's identity, e.g., "We previously showed (Smith, 1991) ...", must be avoided. Instead, use citations such as "Smith (1991) previously showed ...". Papers that do not conform to these requirements will be rejected without review. IMPORTANT DATES Submission deadline: May 5, 2017 Notification of acceptance: June 23, 2017 Final version of papers due: July 15, 2017 Depling conference: September 18-20, 2017 For the shared task timetable, see website. CONFERENCE CHAIRS Simonetta Montemagni, Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale "A. Zampolli" - CNR Joakim Nivre, Uppsala University LOCAL ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Giuseppe Attardi, University of Pisa Felice Dell'Orletta, Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale "A. Zampolli" - CNR Alessandro Lenci, University of Pisa Simonetta Montemagni, Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale "A. Zampolli" - CNR Maria Simi, University of Pisa Email contact: depling2017 at depling.org From Elisa.Marengo at unibz.it Mon Mar 27 13:54:03 2017 From: Elisa.Marengo at unibz.it (Marengo Elisa) Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2017 11:54:03 +0000 Subject: Research Assistant Position at the Free Univ. of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy Message-ID: <367A6C3C-C833-4F4C-80B6-B04E9C3FFA96@unibz.it> **** Research Assistant: IT-Support for Processes in Construction **** The Faculty of Computer Science of the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano has opened a position as Research Assistant for a duration of up to three years. The candidate will work on the multidisciplinary project COCkPiT (Collaborative Construction Process Management), which is run in collaboration with the Faculty of Science and Technology of the university, the Fraunhofer Italia Research Centre and South Tyrolean companies working in the construction sector. The project aims at developing methods and technologies to support the project management in construction, implementing automatic functionalities, such as the generation of an optimised schedule from a process model, satisfying constraints on limited space, workforce and shared resources. The resulting solutions will be used on traditional, mobile and touch devices. The tasks of the RA will combine research in techniques for modelling, scheduling and monitoring processes, advancing the state of the art, implementation of the research results and their application to real construction projects. The RA will also contribute to publishing the results and presenting them at workshops and conferences. The ideal candidate would have a PhD in Computer Science and some knowledge of Web application development. We also consider applicants with a degree in Computer Science or a related area. The start is foreseen for August 2017 and the application deadline is 20 April. The working place is Bolzano and the contract is for a full time position for up to three years. The salary is above the standard salary for the same position in the rest of Italy. The Free University of Bozen-Bolzano was founded in 1997 as a free, state-recognized university. Most of the teaching and research staff have an international professional background. Recently the university has appeared in top positions in various rankings of academic excellence. Situated in the north of Italy, Bolzano hosts different cultures and languages, mainly Italian, German, and Ladin. It is surrounded by the wonderful Dolomites mountain range, declared UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2009. Bolzano is ranked among the first Italian cities in terms of quality of life. Interested candidates are invited to contact as soon as possible Prof. Werner Nutt (werner.nutt at unibz.it) and Dr. Elisa Marengo (elisa.marengo at unibz.it) on how to apply. -------------- nächster Teil -------------- Ein Dateianhang mit HTML-Daten wurde abgetrennt... URL: From Wiebe.Van-Der-Hoek at liverpool.ac.uk Mon Mar 27 22:03:11 2017 From: Wiebe.Van-Der-Hoek at liverpool.ac.uk (Van Der Hoek, Wiebe) Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2017 20:03:11 +0000 Subject: CFP Strategic Reasoning Liverpool, July 26-27 2017 Message-ID: <3BBC48E6-6D1F-4644-B137-B7FEA5A9FCB5@liverpool.ac.uk> ********************************************************************** CALL FOR PAPERS 5th International Workshop on Strategic Reasoning SR 2017 -- http://sr2017.csc.liv.ac.uk/ Liverpool, UK, July 26-27, 2017 ********************************************************************** Strategic reasoning is one of the most active research areas in the multi-agent system domain. The literature in this field is extensive and provides a plethora of logics for modelling strategic ability. Theoretical results are now being used in many exciting domains, including software tools for information system security, robot teams with sophisticated adaptive strategies, and automatic players capable of beating expert human adversaries, just to cite a few. All these examples share the challenge of developing novel theories and tools for agent-based reasoning that take into account the likely behaviour of adversaries. The international workshop on strategic reasoning aims to bring together researchers working on different aspects of strategic reasoning in computer science, both from a theoretical and a practical point of view. SR 2017 will be co-located with TARK 2017, which will be held in Liverpool on July 24-26, 2017. LIST OF TOPICS The topics covered by the workshop include, but are not limited to, the following: Logics for reasoning about strategic abilities; Logics for multi-agent mechanism design, verification, and synthesis; Logical foundations of decision theory for multi-agent systems; Strategic reasoning in formal verification; Automata theory for strategy synthesis; Strategic reasoning under perfect and imperfect information; Applications and tools for cooperative and adversarial reasoning; Robust planning and optimisation in multi-agent systems; Risk and uncertainty in multi-agent systems; Quantitative aspects in strategic reasonings. SUBMISSION Extended abstracts should be submitted not exceeding 10 pages (plus references) in the EPTCS format. If necessary, the work may be supplemented with a clearly marked appendix, which will be consulted at the discretion of the program committee. Submissions must be in PDF format and will be handled via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sr2017 Two types of submission are invited: contributions reporting on novel research; expository contributions reporting on published work. Each submission should be clearly identified as belonging to one category or the other. In both categories, strong preference will be given to papers whose topic is of interest to an interdisciplinary audience and all contributions should be written so that they are accessible to such an audience. Novel research abstracts will be held to the usual high standards of research publications. In particular, they should contain enough information to enable the program committee to identify the main contribution of the work, explain the significance of the work, its novelty, its relevance to the strategic reasoning audience, and its practical or theoretical implications, and include comparisons with and references to relevant literature. Expository abstracts, which will be evaluated using similar high standards, may survey an area or report on more specific previously published work. Submissions from PC members are also allowed. Note that, since the workshop will have informal proceedings, extended versions of the accepted papers can also be submitted elsewhere. Important Dates May 8, 2017: Abstract deadline May 15, 2017: Submission deadline June 16, 2017: Acceptance notification June 30, 2017: Camera-ready deadline September 26-27, 2017: workshop PROCEEDINGS The workshop proceedings will be available as a single PDF file from the workshop website. Extended and revised versions of the best papers presented at the SR workshop will be invited to a special issue. COMMITTEES Workshop co-Chairs Bastien Maubert, University of Naples "Federico II" Aniello Murano, University of Naples "Federico II" Sasha Rubin, University of Naples "Federico II" Wiebe van der Hoek, University of Liverpool Program Committee Thomas Ågotnes, University of Bergen Natasha Alechina, University of Nottingham Nicholas Asher, CNRS & IRIT, Université Paul Sabatier Dietmar Berwanger, CNRS & LSV, ENS Cachan Catalin Dima, LACL, Université Paris Est - Créteil Emmanuel Filiot, Université Libre de Bruxelles Bernd Finkbeiner, Saarland University Dimitar Guelev, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Paul Harrenstein, University of Oxford Orna Kupferman, Hebrew University Stephane Le Roux, Universite libre de Bruxelles Nicolas Markey, CNRS & IRISA, Université de Rennes 1 Marco Montali, KRDB Research Centre, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano Pavel Naumov, Vassar College Giuseppe Perelli, University of Oxford Ocan Sankur, CNRS & IRISA, Université de Rennes 1 Ron van der Meyden, UNSW Dominik Wojtczak, University of Liverpool Local Arrangements Committee Davide Grossi, University of Liverpool Wiebe van Der Hoek, University of Liverpool ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 geoff at cs.miami.edu Tue Mar 28 15:34:25 2017 From: geoff at cs.miami.edu (Geoff Sutcliffe) Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2017 09:34:25 -0400 (EDT) Subject: JAR Special Issue on Automated Reasoning Systems Message-ID: <20170328133425.DA2FF121469@mcclellan.cs.miami.edu> =============================================================================== Due to several requests, the deadline is extendended to May 1st: CALL FOR PAPERS: DEADLINE EXTENSION Special Issue On Automated Reasoning Systems Journal of Automated Reasoning 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 easy chair: 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 1 May 2017 Submission deadline 15 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 francesco.nocera at poliba.it Tue Mar 28 15:45:46 2017 From: francesco.nocera at poliba.it (Francesco Nocera) Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2017 13:45:46 +0000 Subject: Deadline Extension: EnWoT 2017 (with Journal Special Issue) 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: 10 April 2017 (EXTENDED) 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. Selected papers may be invited to submit the extended version to a special issue on "Software Architecture for the Web of Things (SAWoT)" in the IET Software Journal. http://digital-library.theiet.org/files/IET_SEN_CFP_SAWoT.pdf ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 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: o Muhammad Ali Babar, University of Adelaide, Australia o Marco Autili, University of L'Aquila, Italy o Stefano Bistarelli, University of Perugia, Italy o Antonio Bucchiarone, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy o Radu Calinescu, University of York, UK o Rafael Capilla, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Spain o Patricia Lago, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands o Ivano Malavolta, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands o Tommi Mikkonen, Tampere University of Technology, Finland o Raffaela Mirandola, Politecnico di Milano, Italy o Henry Muccini, University of L'Aquila, Italy o Diego Pérez, Politecnico di Milano, Italy o Liliana Pasquale, Lero - The Irish Software Engineering Research Centre, Ireland o Azzurra Ragone, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy o Patrizia Scandurra, University of Bergamo, Italy o Ronny Siebes, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands o Romina Spalazzese, Malmö University, Sweden o Danny Weyns, Katholieke Uviversiteit Leuven, Belgium o Uwe Zdun, University of Vienna, Austria EnWoT 2017 Workshop Chairs Marina Mongiello, Tommaso Di Noia and Eugenio Di Sciascio -------------- nächster Teil -------------- Ein Dateianhang mit HTML-Daten wurde abgetrennt... URL: From sara at fc.ul.pt Tue Mar 28 17:21:45 2017 From: sara at fc.ul.pt (Sara Silva) Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2017 16:21:45 +0100 Subject: Deadline 15/April, Call for Papers ALEA - Artificial Life and Evolutionary Algorithms Message-ID: <6a67352a-2279-925a-3534-0312ce5735f8@fc.ul.pt> ***ALEA - Artificial Life and Evolutionary Algorithms** https://web.fe.up.pt/~epia2017/thematic-tracks/alea/* ** *------------------------------------------------------------------** **This year ALEA will take place in Porto, Portugal:** **https://www.google.pt/images?q=porto* *------------------------------------------------------------------ **Submission deadline: April 15, 2017* *Conference dates: September 5-8, 2017 **------------------------------------------------------------------* ALEA is dedicated to the theory and applications of Artificial Life (ALife) and Evolutionary Algorithms (EA). It focuses on computational bio-inspired models for studying natural systems, as well as for solving engineering and social problems. Its targets are the ALife community, the EA community, and also researchers and practitioners working in the overlap of these two areas, from computer science to physics, engineering, medicine, biology and economy. ALEA has been a track of the biennial international EPIA conferences since 2003. *Topics of Interest* Artificial Chemistries Artificial Immune Systems Classifier Systems Complex Networks Emergent Behaviours Evolution and Learning Dynamics Evolutionary Algorithms Evolutionary Optimization Evolutionary Robotics Genetic Programming Hyper-heuristics Hybrid Approaches Multi-objective Optimization Origins of Life Parallel Evolutionary Algorithms Self-organizing Systems Swarm Intelligence * * *Important Dates* Paper submission deadline: April 15, 2017 Notification of paper acceptance: May 31, 2017 Camera ready papers deadline: June 15, 2017 Conference dates: September 5-8, 2017 *Organizing Committee* Sara Silva, FCUL, Lisbon, Portugal Mauro Castelli, NOVA IMS, UNL, Lisbon, Portugal Leonardo Trujillo, Instituto Tecnológico de Tijuana, Mexico Leonardo Vanneschi, NOVA IMS, UNL, Lisbon, Portugal *Submission, Reviewing and Publication* **Please check the details in the website: *https://web.fe.up.pt/~epia2017/thematic-tracks/alea/* -------------- nächster Teil -------------- Ein Dateianhang mit HTML-Daten wurde abgetrennt... URL: From geoff at cs.miami.edu Tue Mar 28 23:23:52 2017 From: geoff at cs.miami.edu (Geoff Sutcliffe) Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2017 17:23:52 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Encyclopedia of Proof Systems - Call for Contributions Message-ID: <20170328212352.42AAE12147D@mcclellan.cs.miami.edu> == EPS == Encyclopedia of Proof Systems --- call for contributions --- September 24-25, 2017, Brasilia, Brazil Affiliated to: TABLEAUX, FroCoS and ITP 2017 http://tableaux2017.cic.unb.br/ http://frocos2017.cic.unb.br/ http://itp2017.cic.unb.br/ Aims and Scope ============== The Encyclopedia of Proof Systems was created in 2014 with the goal of being a quick reference for the various proof systems used by logicians. Since then, it has collected 64 entries on the most various logics and calculi. This was only possible due to the collaboration of many members of the logic community. This event aims to promote the encyclopedia and attract more contributions and collaborators. It consists of: - a poster session in the afternoon of September 24th, 2017, during which submitted entries will be displayed as posters; - an interactive hands-on meeting in the morning of September 25th, 2017, for those who would like to contribute to the continuous improvement of the encyclopedia. The activities planned for this meeting will be announced closer to the event. Submission Instructions ======================= Please visit the task-force's website for instructions: http://proofsystem.github.io/Encyclopedia Participation in TABLEAUX, FroCoS or ITP is not required for submission, but is strongly encouraged. Important Dates =============== - Submission Deadline: 1st of August 2017 - Notification: 15th of August 2017 Publication Plans ================= We have an agreement with College Publications to publish the encyclopedia as a book. The first edition, containing the entries submitted until 2016, was published on January 2017 (http://www.collegepublications.co.uk/other/?00028). Future editions will contain the entries submitted for this EPS event. The encyclopedia is also available in Github (https://github.com/ProofSystem/Encyclopedia). Organization ============ Bruno Woltzenlogel Paleo (bruno.wp at gmail.com) Giselle Reis (giselle at cmu.edu) From francesco.nocera at poliba.it Wed Mar 29 12:17:04 2017 From: francesco.nocera at poliba.it (Francesco Nocera) Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2017 10:17:04 +0000 Subject: CfP: Special issue on Software Architectures for the Web of Things ( SAWoT) Message-ID: IET Software Special Issue: Software Architectures for the Web of Things ( SAWoT) ** Call for paper ** http://digital-library.theiet.org/files/IET_SEN_CFP_SAWoT.pdf/ Engineering of the Web of Things is a cross-disciplinary research area that interests both engineers of the World Wide Web and researchers of the Internet of Things and 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. This calls for architectural styles and patterns that allow real-world objects to be part of the World Wide Web. The aim of this Special Issue is to bring together researchers, engineers and practitioners interested in architecting the Web of Things; of particular interest are contributions related to the subject at different levels, from modelling and design to engineering. Foundational contributions, as well as experiments of concrete applications, are sought. Topics of interest: - 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 Internet of Things applications - Architectures and frameworks for connection of smart devices - Survey and comparative studies - Other topics relevant to Web of Things All papers must be submitted through the journal's Manuscript Central system: http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/iet-sen Expanded conference papers must include at least 30% new scientific material. Publication Schedule: Submission Deadline: 30 September 2017 Publication Date: June 2018 Guest Editors: o Marina Mongiello, Politecnico di Bari, Italy o Tommaso Di Noia, Politecnico di Bari, Italy o Francesco Nocera, Politecnico di Bari, Italy o Eugenio Di Sciascio, Politecnico di Bari, Italy -------------- nächster Teil -------------- Ein Dateianhang mit HTML-Daten wurde abgetrennt... URL: From jleite at fct.unl.pt Wed Mar 29 19:14:09 2017 From: jleite at fct.unl.pt (Joao Leite) Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2017 18:14:09 +0100 Subject: PRIMA 2017 - First CFP - 20th International Conference on Principles and Practice of Multi-Agent Systems Message-ID: Call for Papers PRIMA 2017 The 20th International Conference on Principles and Practice of Multi-Agent Systems Nice, France https://prima2017.gforge.uni.lu/ ************************ Important Dates ************************ Submission of papers: June 2nd, 2017 Notification of acceptance: July 21st, 2017 Camera-ready version: September 1st, 2017 Conference: October 30th to November 3rd, 2017 ************************ About PRIMA: ************************ Agent-based Computing addresses the challenges in managing distributed computing systems and networks through monitoring, communication, consensus-based decision-making and coordinated actuation. As a result, intelligent agents and multi-agent systems have demonstrated the capability to use intelligence, knowledge representation and reasoning, and other social metaphors like ‘trust’, ‘game’ and ‘institution’, not only to address real-world problems in a human-like way but also to transcend human performance. This has had a transformative impact in many application domains, particularly in e-commerce, and also in planning, logistics, manufacturing, robotics, decision support, transportation, entertainment, emergency relief & disaster management, and data mining & analytics. The 20th International Conference on Principles and Practice of Multi-Agent Systems (PRIMA 2017) invites submissions of original, unpublished, theoretical and applied work on any such topic, and encourages reports on the development of prototype and deployed agent systems, and of experiments that demonstrate novel agent system capabilities. ************************ Information for Authors ************************ The PRIMA 2017 Program Committee invites submissions of original, unpublished, theoretical and applied work strongly relevant to multiagent systems, including reports on the development of prototype and deployed agent systems, and of experiments that demonstrate novel agent system capabilities. An indicative list of topics is provided below. Papers should be at most 16 pages in length in the Springer LNCS format. All accepted papers will be published in Springer’s LNAI series. Papers are to be submitted through the Easychair Conference Management System: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=prima2017. ************************ Committees ************************ General Chairs ++++++++++++++++++++++++ Leendert van der Torre, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Serena Villata, Université Côte d’Azur, France Program Chairs ++++++++++++++++++++++++ Ana Bazzan, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil Joao Leite, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal Bo An, Nanyang Technological University Local Organizing Co-Chairs: ++++++++++++++++++++++++ Andrea G.B. Tettamanzi, Professeur, Université Côte d’Azur Celia da Costa Pereira, McF, Université Côte d’Azur Catherine Faron-Zucker, McF, Université Côte d’Azur Senior Program Committee (preliminary list): ++++++++++++++++++++++++ Matteo Baldoni, University of Torino Tina Balke, University of Surrey Jamal, Bentahar, Concordia University Rafael H. Bordini, PUCRS Mehdi Dastani, Utrecht University Paul Davidsson, Malmö University Yves Demazeau, CNRS - LIG Frank Dignum, Utrecht University Ulle Endriss, University of Amsterdam Rino Falcone, Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies-CNR Katsutoshi Hirayama, Kobe University Felipe Meneguzzi, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul Zinovi Rabinovich, Nanyang Technological University Bastin Tony Roy Savarimuthu, University of Otago Paolo Torroni, Università di Bologna Bo Yang, Jilin University Makoto Yokoo, Kyushu University Topics of interest include (but are not limited to) the following: Logic and Reasoning ++++++++++++++++++++++++ Logics of agency Logics of multiagent systems Norms Argumentation Computational Game Theory Uncertainty in Agent Systems Agent and Multi-Agent Learning Engineering Multi-Agent Systems ++++++++++++++++++++++++ Agent-Oriented Software Engineering Interaction protocols Commitments Institutions and Organizations Normative Systems Formal Specification and Verification Agent Programming Languages Middleware and Platforms Testing, debugging, and evolution Deployed System Case Studies Agent-Based Modeling and Simulation ++++++++++++++++++++++++ Simulation Languages and Platforms Artificial Societies Virtual Environments Emergent Behavior Modeling System Dynamics Application Case Studies Collaboration & Coordination ++++++++++++++++++++++++ Planning Distributed Problem Solving Teamwork Coalition Formation Negotiation Trust and Reputation Economic paradigms ++++++++++++++++++++++++ Auctions and mechanism design Bargaining and negotiation Behavioral game theory Cooperative games: theory & analysis Cooperative games: computation Noncooperative games: theory & analysis Noncooperative games: computation Social choice theory Game theory for practical applications Human-Agent Interaction ++++++++++++++++++++++++ Adaptive Personal Assistants Embodied Conversational Agents Virtual Characters Multimodal User Interfaces Mobile Agents Human-Robot Interaction Decentralized Paradigms ++++++++++++++++++++++++ Grid Computing Service-Oriented Computing Cybersecurity Robotics and Multirobot Systems Ubiquitous Computing Social Computing Internet of Things Application Domains for Multi-Agent Systems ++++++++++++++++++++++++ Healthcare Autonomous Systems Transport and Logistics Emergency and Disaster Management Energy and Utilities Management Sustainability and Resource Management Games and Entertainment e-Business, e-Government, and e-Learning Smart Cities Financial markets Legal applications -------------- nächster Teil -------------- Ein Dateianhang mit HTML-Daten wurde abgetrennt... URL: From riccardo.zese at unife.it Thu Mar 30 16:01:42 2017 From: riccardo.zese at unife.it (Riccardo Zese) Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2017 16:01:42 +0200 Subject: CFP: PLP 2017 - Probabilistic logic programming 2017 Message-ID: * Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this call * PLP-2017: The Fourth Workshop on Probabilistic Logic Programming ------------------------------ ---------------------------------- A workshop of the 27th International Conference on Inductive Logic Programming 7 September 2017 Orléans, France http://stoics.org.uk/plp/plp2017/ Deadline for submissions: 11 June 2017 Overview ----- Probabilistic logic programming (PLP) approaches have received much attention in this century. They address the need to reason about relational domains under uncertainty arising in a variety of application domains, such as bioinformatics, the semantic web, robotics, and many more. Developments in PLP include new languages that combine logic programming with probability theory, as well as algorithms that operate over programs in these formalisms. The workshop encompasses all aspects of combining logic, algorithms, programming and probability. PLP is part of a wider current interest in probabilistic programming. By promoting probabilities as explicit programming constructs, inference, parameter estimation and learning algorithms can be ran over programs which represent highly structured probability spaces. Due to logic programming's strong theoretical underpinnings, PLP is one of the more disciplined areas of probabilistic programming. It builds upon and benefits from the large body of existing work in logic programming, both in semantics and implementation, but also presents new challenges to the field. PLP reasoning often requires the evaluation of large number of possible states before any answers can be produced thus braking the sequential search model of traditional logic programs. While PLP has already contributed a number of formalisms, systems and well understood and established results in: parameter estimation, tabling, marginal probabilities and Bayesian learning, many questions remain open in this exciting, expanding field in the intersection of AI, machine learning and statistics. This workshop provides a forum for the exchange of ideas, presentation of results and preliminary work, in the following areas * probabilistic logic programming formalisms * parameter estimation * statistical inference * implementations * structure learning * reasoning with uncertainty * constraint store approaches * stochastic and randomised algorithms * probabilistic knowledge representation and reasoning * constraints in statistical inference * applications, such as * * bioinformatics * * semantic web * * robotics * probabilistic graphical models * Bayesian learning * tabling for learning and stochastic inference * MCMC * stochastic search * labelled logic programs * integration of statistical software The above list should be interpreted broadly and is by no means exhaustive. Purpose ----- After three successful editions of this workshop at ICLP 2014 in Vienna, ICLP 2015 in Cork and ILP 2016 in London, the fourth edition of PLP is held at the ILP conference in Orléans. We hope that this encourages further collaboration between researchers in PLP and researchers working in other areas of ILP. In particular, we hope that both (a) other ILP researchers will become interested in using PLP formalisms and (b) that PLP researchers are inspired by other inductive learning approaches. Submissions ----- Submissions will be managed via EasyChair. Contributions should be prepared in the LNCS style. A mixture of papers are sought including: new results, work in progress as well as technical summaries of recent substantial contributions. Papers presenting new results should be 6-12 pages in length. Work in progress and technical summaries can be shorter (2-5 pages). The workshop proceedings will clearly indicate the type of each paper. At least one author of each accepted paper will be required to attend the workshop to present the contribution. Publication ----- Informal proceedings will be made available electronically to attendees. They will also be for stored permanently in the form on CEUR Workshop Proceedings (http://ceur-ws.org/). The proceedings will consist of clearly marked sections corresponding to the different types of submissions accepted. Deadlines ----- Papers due: Sun, 11th June 2017 Notification to authors: Tue, 11th July 2017 Camera ready version due: Tue, 25th July 2017 Workshop data: Thu, 7th September 2017 (the deadline for all dates is 23:59 BST) Invited Speaker(s) ----- To be announced Programme Committee ----- Christian Theil Have (Copenhagen University, Denmark) [co-chair] Riccardo Zese (University of Ferrara, Italy) [co-chair] Samer Abdallah (University College London) Elena Bellodi (University of Ferrara, Italy) Fabio Cozman (University of Sao Paulo, Brasil) Yoshitaka Kameya (Meijo University, Japan) Matthias Nickles (NUI Galway, Ireland) Aline Paes (Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brazil) Taisuke Sato (NII/SONAR, Japan) Herbert Wiklicky (Imperial College London, UK) Theresa Swift (CENTRIA, Portugal) Senior Committee ----- Nicos Angelopoulos (Sanger Institute, UK) Vitor Santos Costa (Universidade do Porto, Portugal) Arjen Hommersom (Open University, The Netherlands) Angelika Kimmig (KU Leuven, Belgium) Evelina Lamma (University of Ferrara, Italy) David Poole (University of British Columbia, Canada) Fabrizio Riguzzi (University of Ferrara, Italy) Alessandra Russo (Imperial College, UK) Joost Vennekens (KU Leuven, Belgium) -- Riccardo Zese, PhD ENDIF - Dipartimento di Ingegneria Università di Ferrara Via Saragat 1, I-44122, Ferrara, Italy Tel. +39 0532974827 -------------- nächster Teil -------------- Ein Dateianhang mit HTML-Daten wurde abgetrennt... URL: From Thomas.Agotnes at uib.no Thu Mar 30 19:05:43 2017 From: Thomas.Agotnes at uib.no (=?utf-8?Q?Thomas_=C3=85gotnes?=) Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2017 19:05:43 +0200 Subject: Associate Professorship / Tenure Track Position in Logic, Zhejiang University (Hangzhou, China) Message-ID: <1247D0BE-CBC0-4A06-B5C8-98ACD10392F2@uib.no> Associate Professorship / Tenure Track Position in Logic, Zhejiang University (Hangzhou, China), Deadline: 31 June 2017 The Logic Group at Zhejiang University (P. R. China) is looking for one or two researchers in logic via the tenure track program of Zhejiang University. The applicants should have a background in formal logic (mathematical logic, philosophical and applied logic, and/or related areas). There are three types of possible positions (including a permanent one): * Type A-1: permanent associate professor position, with an opportunity to apply for promotion in each year. Salary level: about 350,000 CNY per year. Applicants should already have an associate professor position at their current institution. * Type A-2: temporary research fellow position with a 3-year contract, with an opportunity to be evaluated for a permanent associate professor position after the period. Salary level: same as Type A-1. Applicants should already have an associate/assistant professor position at their current institution. * Type B: temporary research fellow position with a 6-year contract, with opportunities to be evaluated for a permanent associate professor position after a 3-year period and/or the full period. Salary level: about 200,000 CNY per year. Applicants should be a postdoc or have a PhD degree from an internationally high-ranking university. All types of positions will be offered a CNY 100,000 research funding every year in addition to the salary, and can apply for extra funding from the government. For the type A-1 position, both research and teaching duties are involved. While for the types A-2 and B, teaching is not mandatory, though encouraged. For all types of positions, it is possible to have master and phd students, following the standard rules in Chinese universities. Basic information about the research group can be found here: http://www.xixilogic.org/events/?page_id=74 For more information please contact Thomas Agotnes (thomas.agotnes at uib.no). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thomas Ågotnes Department of Information Science and Media Studies University of Bergen P.O. Box 7802, N-5020 Bergen, Norway Tel: (+47) 55584105 Fax: (+47) 55589149 Thomas.Agotnes at infomedia.uib.no http://folk.uib.no/nmita/