IEEE Technically Co-Sponsored Science and Information (SAI) Conference 2014

August 27-29, 2014 | London UK

 

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Science and Information Conference 2014 is hosted by The Science and Information Organization, and is being organized with support from Springer and IEEE. We invite you to submit your work for SAI Conference 2014 which is due by March 15, 2014. Submissions may include Research Papers, Survey Papers, Poster Papers or Demo Presentation Proposals. Submit your Papers at http://thesai.org/SAIConference2014/Submit.

 

Call for Papers: http://thesai.org/SAIConference2014/CallforPapers.

·         Paper Submission : March 15, 2014 (Extended)

·         Acceptance Notification : April 15, 2014 (Extended)

·         Author Registration : May 01, 2014

·         Camera Ready Submission : May 15, 2014

 

All SAI Conference 2014 presented papers and posters will be included in the conference proceedings and indexed in IEEE Xplore and various international databases like Scopus, Inspec, Google Scholar etc.

 

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------=_NextPart_000_03C1_01CF393D.498895B0-- ========================================================================Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2014 11:49:19 +0000 Reply-To: "Vasconcelos, Dr Wamberto W. M. P. D." <[log in to unmask]> Sender: "Knowledge Based Systems and Applied Artificial Intelligence(SGES)" <[log in to unmask]> From: "Vasconcelos, Dr Wamberto W. M. P. D." <[log in to unmask]> Subject: CFP: CLIMA XV Special Session on Logics for Agreement Technologies Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="_000_a4b5d86bbdd441559089adaea1b4c8c0DBXPR04MB269eurprd04pro_" MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <[log in to unmask]> --_000_a4b5d86bbdd441559089adaea1b4c8c0DBXPR04MB269eurprd04pro_ Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Apologies for multiple copies ------------------------------------------------------------------- Special Session On *** Logics For Agreement Technologies *** CLIMA XV 15th International Workshop on Computational Logic in Multi-Agent Systems http://www-sop.inria.fr/members/Serena.Villata/climaXV.html Prague, Czech Republic, August 18-19, 2014 Affiliated with ECAI 2014 Submission deadline: 11 May 2014 Call for Papers ------------------------------------------------------------------- Proceedings to be published as a LNCS/LNAI volume (available at the workshop). Selected and extended papers will also be published in a Special Issue of the Journal of Logic and Computation. ------------------------------------------------------------------- INTRODUCTION ------------------------------------------------------------------- A growing number of computer systems are based on software agents, which act on behalf of humans. These agents are becoming increasingly responsible for complex tasks delegated to them, interacting with each other in sophisticated ways so as to forge agreements in the interest of human users. The CLIMA XV Special Session on Logics for Agreement Technologies aims at expanding the state-of-the-art on logic-based approaches and technologies to enable different aspects of many-party agreements and to support the lifecycle of such systems. We invite submissions on logic-based approaches, computational models, methodologies and frameworks for software agents and multi-agent systems, addressing (but not limited to) the following topics: * Negotiation * Formal argumentation * Software agent organisations * Electronic institutions * Trust and reputation * Norms and normative systems * Social computing ------------------------------------------------------------------- SUBMISSION ------------------------------------------------------------------- We welcome and encourage the submission of high quality, original papers, which have not been accepted for publication nor are currently under review for another journal or conference. Papers are submitted to the special session by following the submission instructions for CLIMA: http://www-sop.inria.fr/members/Serena.Villata/climaXVsubs.html The special session on Logics for Agreement Technologies is chosen under "category" in Easychair. ------------------------------------------------------------------- PROCEEDINGS AND POST-PROCEEDINGS ------------------------------------------------------------------- LNCS Proceedings: All the accepted papers (including special session papers) will be published by Springer as a volume in Lecture Notes in Computer Science, and will be available in time for the workshop. Selected and extended papers will be published in a Special Issue of the Journal of Logic and Computation. ------------------------------------------------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES ------------------------------------------------------------------- * Paper Submission: 11 May 2014 * Notification: 9 June 2014 * Camera Ready: 16 June 2014 * Workshop: 18-19 August 2014 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Special Session Organiser: * Wamberto Vasconcelos, University of Aberdeen, UK ------------------------------------------------------------------- -- end of call -- ------------------------------------------------------------------- The University of Aberdeen is a charity registered in Scotland, No SC013683. --_000_a4b5d86bbdd441559089adaea1b4c8c0DBXPR04MB269eurprd04pro_ Content-Type: text/html; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

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                                                  Special Session On

                      *** Logics For Agreement Technologies ***

 

                                                       CLIMA XV

                                    15th International Workshop on

                      Computational Logic in Multi-Agent Systems

 

     http://www-sop.inria.fr/members/Serena.Villata/climaXV.html

                                                                  

                      Prague, Czech Republic, August 18-19, 2014

 

                                      Affiliated with ECAI 2014

                                   Submission deadline: 11 May 2014

 

                                                   Call for Papers

 

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Proceedings to  be published as  a LNCS/LNAI volume (available  at the

workshop).

 

Selected and extended papers will also be published in a Special Issue

of the Journal of Logic and Computation.

 

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INTRODUCTION

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A growing  number of  computer systems are  based on  software agents,

which act on behalf of  humans. These agents are becoming increasingly

responsible for complex tasks delegated to them, interacting with each

other in sophisticated ways so  as to forge agreements in the interest

of human users.  The CLIMA XV Special Session  on Logics for Agreement

Technologies  aims at  expanding the  state-of-the-art  on logic-based

approaches and technologies to  enable different aspects of many-party

agreements and to support the lifecycle of such systems.

 

We invite submissions on logic-based approaches, computational models,

methodologies  and  frameworks  for  software agents  and  multi-agent

systems, addressing (but not limited to) the following topics:

 

* Negotiation

* Formal argumentation

* Software agent organisations

* Electronic institutions

* Trust and reputation

* Norms and normative systems

* Social computing

 

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SUBMISSION

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We  welcome and  encourage the  submission of  high  quality, original

papers, which have not been accepted for publication nor are currently

under review for another journal or conference.

 

Papers  are  submitted  to   the  special  session  by  following  the

submission instructions for CLIMA:

 

http://www-sop.inria.fr/members/Serena.Villata/climaXVsubs.html

 

The  special session on  Logics for  Agreement Technologies  is chosen

under "category" in Easychair.

 

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PROCEEDINGS AND POST-PROCEEDINGS

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LNCS Proceedings:  All the accepted papers  (including special session

papers) will be published by Springer  as a volume in Lecture Notes in

Computer Science, and will be available in time for the workshop.

 

Selected and extended  papers will be published in  a Special Issue of

the Journal of Logic and Computation.

 

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IMPORTANT DATES

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* Paper Submission: 11 May 2014

* Notification: 9 June 2014

* Camera Ready: 16 June 2014

* Workshop: 18-19 August 2014

 

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Special Session Organiser:

* Wamberto Vasconcelos, University of Aberdeen, UK

 

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The University of Aberdeen is a charity registered in Scotland, No SC013683. --_000_a4b5d86bbdd441559089adaea1b4c8c0DBXPR04MB269eurprd04pro_-- ========================================================================Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2014 12:13:41 +0100 Reply-To: Giacomo Cabri <[log in to unmask]> Sender: "Knowledge Based Systems and Applied Artificial Intelligence(SGES)" <[log in to unmask]> From: Giacomo Cabri <[log in to unmask]> Subject: CfP: The Eight IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems,(SASO 2014) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <[log in to unmask]> ************************************************************************************************************ CALL FOR PAPERS The Eight IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems (SASO 2014) Imperial College, London (UK); 8-12 September 2014 http://www.iis.ee.imperial.ac.uk/saso2014/ ************************************************************************************************************ Part of FAS* - Foundation and Applications of Self* Computing Conferences Collocated with: The International Conference on Cloud and Autonomic Computing (CAC 2014) The 14th IEEE Peer-to-Peer Computing Conference ------------------- Aims and Scope ------------------- The aim of the Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing systems conference series (SASO) is to provide a forum for the foundations of a principled approach to engineering systems, networks and services based on self-adaptation and self-organization. The complexity of current and emerging networks, software and services, especially in dealing with dynamics in the environment and problem domain, has led the software engineering, distributed systems and management communities to look for inspiration in diverse fields (e.g., complex systems, control theory, artificial intelligence, sociology, and biology) to find new ways of designing and managing such computing systems. In this endeavor, self-organization and self-adaptation have emerged as two promising interrelated approaches. The eight edition of the SASO conference embraces the inter-disciplinarity and the scientific, empirical and application dimensions of self-* systems and welcomes novel results on both self-adaptive and self-organizing systems research. The topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Self-* systems theory: theoretical frameworks and models; biologically- and socially-inspired paradigms; inter-operation of self-* mechanisms; - Self-* systems engineering: reusable mechanisms, design patterns, architectures, methodologies; software and middleware development frameworks and methods, platforms and toolkits; hardware; self-* materials; - Self-* system properties: robustness, resilience and stability; emergence; computational awareness and self-awareness; reflection; - Self-* cyber-physical and socio-technical systems: human factors and visualization; self-* social computers; crowdsourcing and collective awareness; - Applications and experiences of self-* systems: cyber security, transportation, computational sustainability, big data and creative commons, power systems. Contributions must present novel theoretical or experimental results; novel design patterns, mechanisms, system architectures, frameworks or tools; or practical approaches and experiences in building or deploying real-world systems and applications. Contributions contrasting different approaches for engineering a given family of systems, or demonstrating the applicability of a certain approach for different systems, are equally encouraged. Where relevant and appropriate, accepted papers will also be encouraged to submit accompanying papers for the Demo or Poster Sessions. -------------------- Important Dates -------------------- Abstract submission: May 2, 2014 Paper submission: May 09, 2014 Notification: June 21, 2014 Camera ready copy due: July 18, 2014 Early registration: August 22, 2014 Conference: September 8 - 12, 2014 ---------------------------- Submission Instructions ---------------------------- All submissions should be 10 pages and formatted according to the IEEE Computer Society Press proceedings style guide and submitted electronically in PDF format. Please register as authors and submit your papers using the SASO 2014 conference management system, which is located at: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=saso2014 The proceedings will be published by IEEE Computer Society Press, and made available as a part of the IEEE digital library. Note that a separate call for poster submissions has also been issued. -------------------- Review Criteria -------------------- Papers should present novel ideas in the cross-disciplinary research context described in this call, clearly motivated by problems from current practice or applied research. We expect both theoretical and empirical contributions to be clearly stated, substantiated by formal analysis, simulation, experimental evaluations, comparative studies, and so on. Appropriate reference must be made to related work. Because SASO is a cross-disciplinary conference, papers must be intelligible and relevant to researchers who are not members of the same specialized sub-field. Authors are also encouraged to submit papers describing applications. Application papers are expected to provide an indication of the real world relevance of the problem that is solved, including a description of the deployment domain, and some form of evaluation of performance, usability, or comparison to alternative approaches. Experience papers are also welcome but they must clearly state the insight into any aspect of design, implementation or management of self-* systems which is of benefit to practitioners and the SASO community ------------------- Program Chairs ------------------- Ada Diaconescu Telecom ParisTech, France Nagarajan Kandasamy Drexel University, USA Mirko Viroli University of Bologna, Italy --------------------- Contact Details --------------------- Please send any inquiries to: mailto:[log in to unmask] -- |----------------------------------------------------| | Prof. Giacomo Cabri - Ph.D., Associate Professor | Dip. di Scienze Fisiche, Informatiche e Matematiche | Universita' di Modena e Reggio Emilia - Italia | e-mail [log in to unmask] | tel. +39-059-2058320 fax +39-059-2055216 |----------------------------------------------------| ========================================================================Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2014 13:02:09 +0100 Reply-To: Giacomo Cabri <[log in to unmask]> Sender: "Knowledge Based Systems and Applied Artificial Intelligence(SGES)" <[log in to unmask]> From: Giacomo Cabri <[log in to unmask]> Subject: SASO 2014 - Call for Workshops and Tutorials MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-ID: <[log in to unmask]> SASO 2014 - Call for Workshops and Tutorials 8th IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems London, UK; 8-12 September 2014 http://www.saso-conference.org =============================== ********************* 1. Call for workshops ********************* The SASO 2014 Steering Committee invites proposals for the Workshop Program to be held along with the technical conference. SASO 2014 workshops will provide a meeting for presenting novel ideas in a less formal and possibly more focused way than the conference itself. Its aim is to stimulate and facilitate active exchange, interaction, and comparison of approaches, methods, and ideas related to specific topics, both theoretical and applied, in the general area of Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems. To motivate the discussion and participation of all the workshop attendants, we encourage organizers to get away of the typical "mini-conference" format of a workshop, and include more discussion sessions, panels, etc. Members from all areas of the SASO community are invited to submit workshop proposals for review. Workshops on global challenges, applications or on new and emerging topics are particularly encouraged. Workshops can vary in length, but most will be one full day in duration. Optionally, if desired by the organizers, workshop proceedings can be published through IEEE. Attendance of workshops will be included in the registration fee for the main SASO conference. Important Dates ============== Proposal Submission Deadline: April 11, 2014 Acceptance Notification: April 18, 2014 CFP Submission Deadline: April 25, 2014 Paper Submission Deadline: July 11, 2014 11 Paper Acceptance Notification: August 1, 2014 Early Registration Deadline: TBD Camera-Ready Papers due: August 13, 2014 Workshop notes submission to WS chairs: August 18, 2014 Workshops dates: September 8 & 12, 2014 SASO 2014 Workshops - Requirements for Submission ================================================ Proposals for workshops should be separated in two parts. The first part should be organized as preliminary call for papers or call for participation, depending on the intended format of the workshop with a maximum of two pages and contain the following information: - Title of the workshop. - A brief technical description of the workshop, specifying the workshop goals, the technical issues that it will address, and the relevance of the workshop to the main conference. - Description of paper review process (if any) and acceptance standards in order to keep the workshop high in quality. Note that papers must be in the same format as the conference proceedings and may not be more than 6 pages in length. - The names, affiliations, postal addresses, phone numbers, and email addresses of the proposed workshop organizing committee. This committee should consist of three or four people knowledgeable about the technical issues to be addressed. The organizing committee should include individuals from multiple institutions. - The primary email address for contacting the organizing committee. - Expected duration of the workshop (half or full day). - A brief description of the workshop format. - List of potential program committee members (if applicable), including their title and affiliations. - List of potential invited speakers, panelists, or disputants (if applicable). The second part with a maximum of three pages should contain additional information not suitable for a Call for Papers, including: - A discussion of why and to whom the workshop is of interest. - A list of related workshops held within the last three years, if any, and their relation to the proposed workshop. - Information about previous offerings of the proposed workshop: when and where it has been offered in the past, organizers names and affiliations, number of submissions, acceptances and registered attendees. - A description of the qualifications of the individual committee members with respect to organizing a SASO workshop, including a list of workshops previously arranged by any members of the proposed organizing committee, if any. - A list of places (distribution lists, web sites, journals, etc.) where the workshop is planned to be advertised. All proposals should be submitted in plain ASCII text or PDF format by electronic mail to the SASO 2014 Workshops Chairs. The selection of the workshops to be included in the final SASO 2014 Workshop program will be based upon multiple factors, including: - the scientific/technical interest of the topics, - the quality of the proposal, - complementarity with the conference topics, - balance and distinctness of workshop topics, and - the capacity of the conference workshop program. Note that authors of proposals addressing similar and/or overlapping content areas and/or audiences may be requested to merge their proposals. Responsibilities of SASO 2014 and Workshop Organizers ==================================================== For all accepted proposals, SASO 2014 will be responsible for: - Providing publicity for the workshop series as a whole. - Providing logistical support and a meeting place for the workshop. - Together with the organizers, determining the workshop date and time. - Liaising and coordinating between the workshop chairs and the finance chair, publicity chair, registration chair, and web chair for SASO. - Arranging for publication of proceedings. Workshop organizers will be responsible for the following: - Setting up a web site for the workshop. - Advertising the workshop (and the main SASO conference), and issuing a call for papers and a call for participation. - Collecting and evaluating submissions, notifying authors of acceptance or rejection on a timely basis, and ensuring a transparent and fair selection process. All workshop organizers commit themselves to adopt the deadlines set by the committee. - Making the pdf of the whole workshop notes available to the workshop chair, as well as a list of audio-visual requirements and any special room requirements. - Writing a 1-page organizers introduction for your proceedings. - Ensuring that the workshop organizers and the participants register for the workshop and/or the main conference (at least one author must register for the paper to appear in the proceedings). SASO reserves the right to cancel any workshop if the above responsibilities are not fulfilled, or if too few attendees register for the workshop to support its running costs. Submissions and Inquiries ======================== Please send proposals (as a PDF document) and inquiries to the SASO 2014 workshop chairs: Jan-Philipp Steghöfer (University of Augsburg, Germany) [log in to unmask] Didac Busquets (Imperial College London, UK) [log in to unmask] ************************** 2. Call for tutorials ************************** Important Dates ============== The exact deadlines are at 11:59 PM CET (Central European Time). Proposal Submission Deadline: April 18, 2014 Presenter Notification: April 25, 2014 Extended Abstract and Presentation Handouts due: August 1, 2014 Tutorial presentation: September 8 & 12, 2014 Call for Tutorials ================= SASO 2014 will host a tutorial program, to be held in Imperial College London, UK, in the week of September 8-12, 2014. For detailed information about SASO 2014 please visit the conference website. Goal and Scope ============= The goal of the tutorial program of SASO 2014 is to provide an instructional offer to scholars, practitioners and students attending the conference, on a range of topics related to self-adaptive and self-organizing systems. We plan to accommodate either half-day tutorials (approx. 3.0 hours, plus one 30-minutes break) and full-day tutorials (approx 6.0 hours, plus two 30-minutes breaks, and a lunch break). The topic of a tutorial may range from practical techniques and technologies, to methodologies, guidelines over standards, to theoretical aspects related to self-adaptive and self-organizing systems (software, networks or services). The topic areas that fall into the general scope of SASO, as well as the focus of this year's conference, are listed in the Call for Papers that is available on the conference web site. Please note that no marketing or product specific tutorials will be accepted. Tutorial levels may be introductory, intermediate, or advanced. Topics that can capture the interest of a broad audience of scholars, practitioners or students are preferred. Review Process ============= Each tutorial proposal will be evaluated by the SASO organizing committee according to relevance and to SASO and its community, attractiveness and novelty of the topic, consistency with the focus of the conference, general fit within the overall tutorial program, and previous teaching experience of the proposers. Submission Guidelines ==================== Tutorial proposals must not be longer than three pages, in the same format of the SASO research papers, that is, compliant with the IEEE Computer Society Press proceedings style. Please make sure the submission includes the following elements: - title of the tutorial; - preferred duration (half-day or full-day); - intended level (introductory, intermediate, or advanced) and prerequisites - contact information for all presenters, including full name, affiliation, email address, full postal address, phone and fax number, URL of personal homepage; - short bio of all presenters including prior teaching and tutorial experiences; - description of the material covered by the tutorial, not exceeding two pages (approx. 1500 words): must include a proposed structure of the content to be presented; - identification of the target audience (e.g., researchers, teachers, practitioners, students); - references of publications (books, papers etc.) the tutorial builds on; - indication of whether the submission of a tutorial paper (see below) is planned. All proposals should be submitted as a PDF document via email to the tutorial chair at the following address: [log in to unmask] Accepted Proposals ================= Once notified that the tutorial has been accepted, tutorial proposers should prepare a two-page extended abstract - compliant with the IEEE Computer Society Press proceedings style - describing the content of the tutorial, in addition to the handout material that is going to be distributed to the participants to their tutorial. Both the extended abstract and the handout material must be ready and submitted to the Tutorial Chair by the deadline noted above. Submissions and Inquiries ======================== Please send proposals and inquiries to the SASO 2014 tutorial chair: Alexander Artikis <[log in to unmask]> -- |----------------------------------------------------| | Prof. Giacomo Cabri - Ph.D., Associate Professor | Dip. di Scienze Fisiche, Informatiche e Matematiche | Universita' di Modena e Reggio Emilia - Italia | e-mail [log in to unmask] | tel. +39-059-2058320 fax +39-059-2055216 |----------------------------------------------------| ========================================================================Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2014 11:54:26 +0530 Reply-To: Supriya Kapoor <[log in to unmask]> Sender: "Knowledge Based Systems and Applied Artificial Intelligence(SGES)" <[log in to unmask]> From: Supriya Kapoor <[log in to unmask]> Subject: Last CFP : 2 days to Deadline- SAI Conference 2014 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_0266_01CF3EB3.1FED0990" Message-ID: <[log in to unmask]> This is a multipart message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0266_01CF3EB3.1FED0990 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit IEEE Technically Co-Sponsored Science and Information (SAI) Conference 2014 August 27-29, 2014 | London UK Latest news: * Paper Submission : March 15, 2014 (Extended) * We have currently received more than 300 papers for the review process * IEEE Members receive discount on registration. * Free post conference London Tour on August 30, 2014! * Dr Ann Cavoukian, Helen Papagiannis and many more experts will be speaking at SAI Conference 2014. Science and Information Conference 2014 is hosted by The Science and Information Organization, and is being organized with support from Springer and IEEE. We invite you to submit your work for SAI Conference 2014 which is due by March 15, 2014. Submissions may include Research Papers, Survey Papers, Poster Papers or Demo Presentation Proposals. Submit your Papers at http://thesai.org/SAIConference2014/Submit. Call for Papers: http://thesai.org/SAIConference2014/CallforPapers. . Paper Submission : March 15, 2014 (Extended) . Acceptance Notification : April 15, 2014 (Extended) . Author Registration : May 01, 2014 . Camera Ready Submission : May 15, 2014 All SAI Conference 2014 presented papers and posters will be included in the conference proceedings and indexed in IEEE Xplore and various international databases like Scopus, Inspec, Google Scholar etc. Kindly circulate this e-mail among your colleagues who might be interested in the conference. Looking forward to see you at the conference. Regards, Conference Manager Science and Information Conference www.conference.thesai.org | [log in to unmask] Check out the Conference Page on Facebook! And Yes, our new official twitter handle @SAIConference ------=_NextPart_000_0266_01CF3EB3.1FED0990 Content-Type: text/html; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

IEEE Technically Co-Sponsored Science and Information (SAI) Conference 2014

August 27-29, 2014 | London UK

 

Latest news:

  • Paper Submission : March 15, 2014 (Extended)
  • We have currently received more than 300 papers for the review process
  • IEEE Members receive discount on registration.
  • Free post conference London Tour on August 30, 2014!
  • Dr Ann Cavoukian, Helen Papagiannis and many more experts will be speaking at SAI Conference 2014.

 

Science and Information Conference 2014 is hosted by The Science and Information Organization, and is being organized with support from Springer and IEEE. We invite you to submit your work for SAI Conference 2014 which is due by March 15, 2014. Submissions may include Research Papers, Survey Papers, Poster Papers or Demo Presentation Proposals. Submit your Papers at http://thesai.org/SAIConference2014/Submit.

 

Call for Papers: http://thesai.org/SAIConference2014/CallforPapers.

·         Paper Submission : March 15, 2014 (Extended)

·         Acceptance Notification : April 15, 2014 (Extended)

·         Author Registration : May 01, 2014

·         Camera Ready Submission : May 15, 2014

 

All SAI Conference 2014 presented papers and posters will be included in the conference proceedings and indexed in IEEE Xplore and various international databases like Scopus, Inspec, Google Scholar etc.

 

Kindly circulate this e-mail among your colleagues who might be interested in the conference.

Looking forward to see you at the conference.

 

Regards,

Conference Manager

Science and Information Conference

www.conference.thesai.org | [log in to unmask]

 

Check out the Conference Page on Facebook!

And Yes, our new official twitter handle @SAIConference

 

------=_NextPart_000_0266_01CF3EB3.1FED0990-- ========================================================================Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2014 18:00:02 +0100 Reply-To: Giacomo Cabri <[log in to unmask]> Sender: "Knowledge Based Systems and Applied Artificial Intelligence(SGES)" <[log in to unmask]> From: Giacomo Cabri <[log in to unmask]> Subject: SASO 2014 - Call for Demos and Posters MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-ID: <[log in to unmask]> ====================================================================SASO 2014 - CALL FOR DEMOS AND POSTERS 8th IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems London, UK; 8-12 September 2014 http://www.saso-conference.org ==================================================================== ***************** 1. CALL FOR DEMOS ***************** — IMPORTANT DATES: — Deadline for demo submission: June 25, 2014 Notification of acceptance or rejection: July 25, 2014 Demo session date: September, 2014 — CALL FOR DEMOS: — The demonstration track at SASO 2014 aims at providing an opportunity to participants from academia and industry to present their latest applications and systems to fellow researchers and practitioners in the field. Submissions will be evaluated based on their overall self-* characteristics, originality and maturity. The committee will particularly consider system robustness, resilience and scaling abilities in addition to the self-* functions of the contributions. Interactivity of the demos will be considered a further asset. Demonstrations may target: * virtual systems, such as software applications; * physical systems, such as robots or sensor networks; * cyber-physical systems, combining the above; where physical systems might be presented either with real equipment, by simulation, or hybrid demos using both simulations and real platforms. We particularly solicit authors to highlight the utility and general applicability of their contributions, whether for the short, medium or long term. This call is open to the full range of conference topics, however we encourage authors to also consider socio-inspired and normative systems as focus issue. These comprise self-adaptive and self-organizing algorithms, platforms and coordination mechanisms which are influenced by the design or modeling of social and normative systems. For a detailed list of relevant topics, please refer to the SASO 2014 website or SASO 2014 CFP. — SUBMISSION: — Demo submissions must include: * a short paper (2 pages, conference format) describing the system and its self-* capabilities; if accepted, papers will be published in the official proceedings; * a URL of a website providing a self-explanatory video showing the system at work; and (optionally) allowing viewers to interact with the real system or with an emulator. Electronic submission: http://www.saso-conference.org 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 summarizing their system and demo. — 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. — ORGANIZATION: — Please contact the chairs for any questions regarding the Demo session. The list of committee members comprising an international group of judges from academia and industry will be made available as soon as possible. — CHAIRS: — * Jean Botev, University of Luxembourg, LU; Email: [log in to unmask] * Maite Lopez-Sanchez, University of Barcelona, ES; Email: [log in to unmask] — PROGRAM COMMITTEE: — * Tina Balke, University of Surrey, UK * Jose Luis Fernandez-Marquez, University of Geneva, CH * Kurt Geihs, University of Kassel, DE * Juan Antonio RodriÌguez-Aguilar, AI Research Institute (IIIA-CSIC), ES * Steffen Rothkugel, University of Luxembourg, LU * Ingo Scholtes ETH Zurich, CH * Jaime Simão Sichman, University of São Paulo, BR ******************* 2. CALL FOR POSTERS ******************* Important Dates (All deadlines are at 11:59 PM GMT) Deadline for submission: June 9, 2014 Notification of acceptance or rejection: June 30, 2014 Camera ready poster abstract due: July 18, 2014 Early registration deadline: August 22, 2014 Call for Posters ===============Overview The seventh SASO conference continues its tradition of offering poster sessions, a great opportunity for interactive presentation of emerging ideas, late-breaking results, experiences, and challenges on SASO topics. Poster 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 should contain original cutting-edge ideas, as well as 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, and 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. Submission Process ================ For evaluation and selection, authors should submit a two-page extended abstract of their poster. The format of this extended abstract must comply with the IEEE Computer Society Press proceedings style guide and it shall be submitted electronically in PDF format. Templates for Word and LaTeX are available at the conference site. Please register as authors and submit your papers using the SASO 2014 conference management system. Poster authors should use the poster track for their submissions. Accepted Posters ===============If selected, authors shall prepare a final, camera ready version of the extended abstract, taking into account all feedback from reviewers, and formatted according to the IEEE Computer Society Press proceedings style guide. Posters will be advertised in the final program, and authors' two-page extended abstracts will be published by the IEEE Computer Society Press as part of the conference proceedings. Abstracts will also be available as part of the IEEE Digital Library. Poster Content =============Authors shall prepare their poster for presentation in the reserved poster 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 citations for any papers, books, or other materials that provide additional information. Poster Layout Guidelines ======================= The format of posters and the nature of poster sessions require authors to capture the viewers' attention effectively, and present core concepts so as 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 at the conference. Attendance =========At least one of the poster authors is required to register at the conference and will be required to give a brief presentation of the poster in the interactive poster session, as well as staying with the poster to discuss the work with conference attendees for the duration of the scheduled poster sessions. Contact details ==============For additional information, clarification, or questions, please contact the Poster Chairs. 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Joining this Doctoral Training Programme will give you the opportunity to: * Receive the training needed for a professional career in 3D Printing in a four-year course * Work with leading academics and industrialists * Enhanced stipends available and fees covered for eligible students * Starting date: October 2014 More details and how to apply: http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/additivemanufacturing/index.aspx Uwe Aickelin ========================================================================Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2014 14:36:41 +0000 Reply-To: [log in to unmask] Sender: "Knowledge Based Systems and Applied Artificial Intelligence(SGES)" <[log in to unmask]> From: Silvio Peroni <[log in to unmask]> Subject: ESWC 2014 Final Call for Posters: Deadline Extension 23 March 2014 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <[log in to unmask]> ** apologies for cross-posting ** ==== Final Call for Posters ===http://2014.eswc-conferences.org/important-dates/call-posters ** Deadline Extension: ** Sunday 23 March 2014 - 23:59 Hawaii Time 11th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC) 2014 Dates: May 25 - 29, 2014 Venue: Anissaras, Crete, Greece Hashtag: #eswc2014 Feed: @eswc_conf Site: http://2014.eswc-conferences.org General Chair: Valentina Presutti (STLab, ISTC-CNR, IT) Poster and Demo Chairs: - Raphael Troncy (Multimedia Department, EURECOM, FR) - Eva Blomqvist (Department of Computer and Information Science, Linkoping University, SE) The poster track of ESWC 2014 will provide an opportunity for presenting late-breaking results, on-going research projects, and speculative or innovative work in progress. Posters are intended to provide authors and participants with the ability to connect with each other and to engage in discussions about the work. We invite submissions relevant to the area of the Semantic Web that address, but are not limited to, the topics of the Research Track. Theoretical or technical posters, reports on semantic systems (however, demonstrations of such systems should be submitted in the demo track), descriptions of completed work, and work in progress are equally welcome. Papers submitted to the research track will NOT automatically be considered for the poster track. A separate poster submission must be made. For example, a poster can be used to present work that was insufficiently mature for the research track. * Submission Guidelines * Authors must submit a 4-page paper (PDF, Springer LNCS style) with a short abstract for evaluation. The paper must clearly demonstrate relevance to the Semantic Web and the topics of interest of ESWC 2014. Decisions about acceptance will be based on relevance to the Semantic Web, originality, potential significance, topicality and clarity. Papers that exceed the given page length or do not follow the LNCS guidelines will be rejected without a review. Submissions should be uploaded using the Easychair system: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=eswc2014pd * Important Dates * Submission Deadline: March 23, 2014 (23:59 Hawaii Time) Notification of Acceptance: April 10, 2014 Camera-Ready Paper: April 25, 2014 * Important Notes * Poster papers will appear in supplementary post-conference proceedings to be published by Springer in the series Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). Participants with an accepted poster must register for the conference and present their work during the Poster Session. A space will be allocated for each participant. The organizers should be contacted well in advance of the conference in case of any special requirement. ========================================================================Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2014 15:43:15 +0000 Reply-To: [log in to unmask] Sender: "Knowledge Based Systems and Applied Artificial Intelligence(SGES)" <[log in to unmask]> From: Silvio Peroni <[log in to unmask]> Subject: ESWC 2014 Final Call for Demos: Deadline Extension 23 March 2014 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <[log in to unmask]> ** apologies for cross-posting ** ==== Final Call for Demos ===http://2014.eswc-conferences.org/important-dates/call-demos ** Deadline Extension: ** Sunday 23 March 2014 - 23:59 Hawaii Time 11th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC) 2014 Dates: May 25 - 29, 2014 Venue: Anissaras, Crete, Greece Hashtag: #eswc2014 Feed: @eswc_conf Site: http://2014.eswc-conferences.org General Chair: Valentina Presutti (STLab, ISTC-CNR, IT) Poster and Demo Chairs: - Raphael Troncy (Multimedia Department, EURECOM, FR) - Eva Blomqvist (Department of Computer and Information Science, Linkoping University, SE) The demonstrations track of the ESWC 2014 complements the overall program of the conference with demonstrations of real-world, applied-and-tested advances of semantic technologies. In addition to papers and posters presenting latest theoretical achievements, the ESWC 2014 is seeking demonstrations of novel applications of semantics in various sectors, including: eGovernment, eEnvironment, eMobility and smart cities, eHealth, Life Sciences, Sensor networks and RDF Stream Processing, Linked Science, Media and entertainment, Telecommunications, Cultural heritage, Financial services, Energy and utilities, Manufacturing, Digital libraries, Cloud applications, Personal Information Management, Decision support, Emergency and crisis management etc. The demonstrations track is an opportunity for researchers and practitioners to present their innovative prototypes, practical developments, on-going projects, lessons learned and late-breaking results, relevant for the topics of interest of the main conference and the research and poster tracks. Submissions to the demonstrations track should make clear what will be demonstrated, and in particular point out what makes the demonstration a novel showcase. A video of the demo should be provided if a link to the demonstrator is not available. Submission should also specify: * What is the research background and application context of the demonstration, and what makes this a novel showcase for semantic technologies. * What is the key technology used, and how does the demonstrated system, application or infrastructure relate to pre-existing work. * What exactly will be demonstrated? What exactly will a visitor of the demonstration learn? * Submission Guidelines * Submissions to the demonstrations track must be in the form of a textual description of the demonstration to be given at the conference (which may include screenshots and must include either a link to the online demo or a video presenting it). The submissions must be at most 5 pages long including reference list (Springer LNCS style) and submitted as PDF. Decisions about acceptance will be based on relevance to the Semantic Web area, originality, potential significance, topicality and clarity. Papers that exceed the given page length or do not follow the LNCS guidelines will be rejected without a review. Submissions should be uploaded using the Easychair system: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=eswc2014pd * Important Dates * Submission Deadline: March 23, 2014 (23:59 Hawaii Time) Notification of Acceptance: April 10, 2014 Camera-Ready Paper: April 25, 2014 * Important Notice * Demonstrator papers will appear in supplementary post-conference proceedings to be published by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. Participants with an accepted demo paper must register for the conference and present their system during the Demo Session. A space for demonstration will be allocated for each participant. Participants should use their own laptop for the demos. The organizers should be contacted well in advance of the conference in case of any special requirement. ========================================================================Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2014 16:49:45 +0000 Reply-To: [log in to unmask] Sender: "Knowledge Based Systems and Applied Artificial Intelligence(SGES)" <[log in to unmask]> From: Silvio Peroni <[log in to unmask]> Subject: ESWC 2014 Final Call for Challenge [Deadline Extension]: Linked Open Data-enabled Recommender Systems Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <[log in to unmask]> ** apologies for cross-posting ** ==== Final Call for Challenge: Linked Open Data-enabled Recommender Systems ===Challenge Website: http://challenges.2014.eswc-conferences.org/RecSys Call Web page: http://2014.eswc-conferences.org/important-dates/call-RecSys ** Deadline Extension: ** Friday 21 March 2014 - 23:59 Central European Time 11th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC) 2014 Dates: May 25 - 29, 2014 Venue: Anissaras, Crete, Greece Hashtag: #eswc2014 Feed: @eswc_conf Site: http://2014.eswc-conferences.org General Chair: Valentina Presutti (STLab, ISTC-CNR, IT) Challenge Coordinator: Milan Stankovic (Sepage & Universite Paris-Sorbonne, FR) Challenge Chairs: - Tommaso Di Noia (Polytechnic University of Bari, IT) - Ivan Cantador (Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, ES) MOTIVATION AND OBJECTIVES People generally need more and more advanced tools that go beyond those implementing the canonical search paradigm for seeking relevant information. A new search paradigm is emerging, where the user perspective is completely reversed: from finding to being found. Recommender systems may help to support this new perspective, because they have the effect of pushing relevant objects, selected from a large space of possible options, to potentially interested users. To achieve this result, recommendation techniques generally rely on data referring to three kinds of objects: users, items and their relations. Recent developments in the Semantic Web community offer novel strategies to represent data about users, items and their relations that might improve the current state of the art of recommender systems, in order to move towards a new generation of recommender systems that fully understand the items they deal with. More and more semantic data are published following the Linked Data principles, that enable to set up links between objects in different data sources, by connecting information in a single global data space: the Web of Data. Today, the Web of Data includes different types of knowledge represented in a homogeneous form: sedimentary one (encyclopedic, cultural, linguistic, common-sense) and real-time one (news, data streams, ...). These data might be useful to interlink diverse information about users, items, and their relations and implement reasoning mechanisms that can support and improve the recommendation process. The primary goal of this challenge is twofold. On the one hand, we want to create a link between the Semantic Web and the Recommender Systems communities. On the other hand, we aim to show how Linked Open Data (LOD) and semantic technologies can boost the creation of a new breed of knowledge-enabled and content-based recommender systems. TARGET AUDIENCE The target audience is all of the Semantic Web and the Recommender Systems communities, both academic and industrial, which are interested in personalized information access with a particular emphasis on Linked Open Data. During the last ACM RecSys conference more than 60% of participants were from industry. This is for sure a witness of the actual interest of recommender systems for industrial applications ready to be released in the market. TASKS * Task 1: Rating prediction in cold-start situations This task deals with the rating prediction problem, in which a system is requested to estimate the value of unknown numeric scores (a.k.a. ratings) that a target user would assign to available items, indicating whether she likes or dislikes them. In order to favor the proposal of content-based, LOD-enabled recommendation approaches, and limit the use of collaborative filtering approaches, this task aims at predicting ratings in cold-start situations, that is, predicting ratings for users who have a few past ratings, and predicting ratings of items that have been rated by a few users. The dataset to use in the task - DBbook - relates to the book domain. It contains explicit numeric ratings assigned by users to books. For each book we provide the corresponding DBpedia URI. Participants will have to exploit the provided ratings as training sets, and will have to estimate unknown ratings in a non-provided evaluation set. Recommendation approaches will be evaluated on the evaluation set by means of metrics that measure the differences between real and estimated ratings, namely the Root Mean Square Error (RMSE). * Task 2: Top-N recommendation from binary user feedback This task deals with the top-N recommendation problem, in which a system is requested to find and recommend a limited set of N items that best match a user profile, instead of correctly predict the ratings for all available items. Similarly to Task 1, in order to favor the proposal of content-based, LOD-enabled recommendation approaches, and limit the use of collaborative filtering approaches, this task aims to generate ranked lists of items for which no graded ratings are available, but only binary ones. Also in this case, the DBbook dataset is used. In this task, the accuracy of recommendation approaches will be evaluated on an evaluation set using the F-measure. * Task 3: Diversity A very interesting aspect of content-based recommender systems, and then of LOD-enabled ones, is giving the possibility to evaluate the diversity of recommended items in a straight way. This is a very popular topic in content-based recommender systems, which usually suffer from over-specialization. In this task, the evaluation will be made by considering a combination of both accuracy (F-measure) of the recommendation list and the diversity (Intra-List Diversity) of items belonging to it. Also for this task, the DBbook dataset is used. Given the domain of books, diversity with respect to the two properties http://dbpedia.org/ontology/author and http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject will be considered. DATASET * DBbook dataset This dataset relies on user data and preferences retrieved from the Web. The books available in the dataset have been mapped to their corresponding DBpedia URIs. The mapping contains 8170 DBpedia URIs. These mappings can be used to extract semantic features from DBpedia or other LOD repositories to be exploited by the recommendation approaches proposed in the challenge. The dataset is split in a training set and an evaluation set. In the former, user ratings are provided to train a system while in the latter, ratings have been removed, and they will be used in the eventual evaluation step. The mapping file is available at: http://sisinflab.poliba.it/semanticweb/lod/recsys/2014challenge/DBbook_Items_DBpedia_mapping.tsv.zip It contains a tab-separated values file where each line has the following format: DBbook_ItemID \t name \t DBpedia_URI. We suggest to extract a semantic descriptions for all the items present in this mapping file by starting from the DBpedia URIs. The training sets are available at: * Task 1: http://sisinflab.poliba.it/semanticweb/lod/recsys/2014challenge/DBbook_train_ratings.zip The archive contains a tab-separated values file containing the training data and a README describing its content. Each line in the file is composed by: userID \t itemID \t rating. The ratings are in scale 0-5. The training set contains 75559 ratings. There are 6181 users and 6166 items which have been rated by at least one user. * Task 2 and Task 3: http://sisinflab.poliba.it/semanticweb/lod/recsys/2014challenge/DBbook_train_binary.zip The archive contains a tab-separated values file containing the training data and a README describing its content. Each line in the file is composed by: userID \t itemID \t rating. The ratings are in binary scale. 1 means that the item is relevant for the user, 0 means irrelevant. The training set contains 72372 ratings. There are 6181 users and 6733 items which have been rated by at least one user. ADDITIONAL DATASETS Although not used in the challenge, two additional rating datasets linked to DBpedia are provided, namely the well known MovieLens10M dataset and the Last.fm dataset published at HetRec'11 workshop. http://sisinflab.poliba.it/semanticweb/lod/recsys/datasets/ We encourage participants to use these datasets for testing the developed recommendation approaches on several domains. JUDGING AND PRIZES After a first round of reviews, the Program Committee and the chairs will select a number of submissions that will have to satisfy the challenge requirements, and will have to be presented at the conference. Submissions accepted for presentation will receive constructive reviews from the Program Committee, and will be included in post-proceedings. All accepted submissions will have a slot in a poster session dedicated to the challenge. In addition, the winners will present their work in a special slot of the main program of ESWC'14, and will be invited to submit a paper to a dedicated Semantic Web Journal special issue. For each task we will select: * the best performing tool, given to the paper which will get the highest score in the evaluation * the most original approach, selected by the Challenge Program Committee with the reviewing process An amount of 700 Euro has already been secured for the final prize. We are currently working on securing further funding. Winners will be selected only for tasks with at least 3 participants. In any case, all submissions will be reviewed and, if accepted, published at ESWC post-proceedings. HOW TO PARTICIPATE 1. Make your result submission * Register your group using the registration web form available at: http://193.204.59.20:8181/eswc2014lodrecsys/signup.html * Choose one or more tasks among Task 1, Task 2 and Task 3 * Build your recommender system using the provided training data. * Evaluate your approach by submitting your results using the evaluation service. * Your final score will be the one computed with respect to the last result submission made before March 7, 2014, 23:59 CET. 2. Submit your paper The following information has to be provided: * Abstract: no more than 200 words. * Description: It should contain the details of the system, including why the system is innovative, how it uses Semantic Web, which features or functions the system provides, what design choices were made, and what lessons were learned. The description should also summarize how participants have addressed the evaluation tasks. Papers must be submitted in PDF format, following the style of the Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series (http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs/lncs+authors), and not exceeding 5 pages in length. All submissions should be provided via EasyChair: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=eswc2014-challenges MAILING LIST We invite the potential participants to subscribe to our mailing list in order to be kept up to date with the latest news related to the challenge. https://lists.sti2.org/mailman/listinfo/eswc2014-recsys-challenge IMPORTANT DATES * EXTENDED to March 14, 2014, 23:59 CET: Result submission due * EXTENDED to March 21, 2014, 23:59 CET: Paper submission due * April 9, 2014, 23:59 CET: Notification of acceptance * May 27-29, 2014: The Challenge takes place at ESWC'14 EVALUATION COORDINATOR * Vito Claudio Ostuni (Polytechnic University of Bari, IT) PROGRAM COMMITTEE (to be completed) * Pablo Castells, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain * Oscar Corcho, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain * Marco de Gemmis, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Italy * Frank Hopfgartner, Technische Universitat Berlin, Germany * Andreas Hotho, Universitat Wurzburg, Germany * Dietmar Jannach, TU Dortmund University, Germany * Pasquale Lops, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Italy * Valentina Maccatrozzo, VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands * Roberto Mirizzi, Polytechnic University of Bari, Italy * Alexandre Passant, seevl.fm, Ireland * Francesco Ricci, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy * Giovanni Semeraro, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Italy * David Vallet, NICTA, Australia * Manolis Wallace, University of Peloponnese, Greece * Markus Zanker, Alpen-Adria-Universitaet Klagenfurt, Austria * Tao Ye, Pandora Internet Radio, USA ========================================================================Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2014 16:58:43 +0000 Reply-To: [log in to unmask] Sender: "Knowledge Based Systems and Applied Artificial Intelligence(SGES)" <[log in to unmask]> From: Silvio Peroni <[log in to unmask]> Subject: ESWC 2014 Final Call for Challenge [Deadline Extension]: Semantic Publishing Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <[log in to unmask]> ** apologies for cross-posting ** ==== Final Call for Challenge: Semantic Publishing ===Challenge Website: http://challenges.2014.eswc-conferences.org/SemPub Call Web page: http://2014.eswc-conferences.org/important-dates/call-SemPub ** Deadline Extension: ** Friday 21 March 2014 - 23:59 Central European Time 11th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC) 2014 Dates: May 25 - 29, 2014 Venue: Anissaras, Crete, Greece Hashtag: #eswc2014 Feed: @eswc_conf Site: http://2014.eswc-conferences.org General Chair: Valentina Presutti (STLab, ISTC-CNR, IT) Challenge Coordinator: Milan Stankovic (Sepage & Universite Paris-Sorbonne, FR) Challenge Chairs: - Angelo Di Iorio (Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Bologna, IT) - Christoph Lange (Enterprise Information Systems, University of Bonn / Fraunhofer IAIS, DE) MOTIVATION AND OBJECTIVES Scholarly publishing is increasingly enabling a new wave of applications that better support researchers in disseminating, exploiting and evaluating their results. The potential of publishing scientific papers enriched with semantic information is huge and raises interesting and challenging issues. Semantic Web technologies play a central role in this context, as they can help publishers to make scientific results available in an open format the whole research community can benefit from. The Semantic Publishing Challenge 2014 is intended to be the first in a series of events at ESWC for producing and exploiting semantic publishing data. The main focus this year is on extracting information and using this information to assess the quality of scientific productions. Linked open datasets about scientific production exist - e.g. DBLP - but they usually cover basic bibliographic information, which is not sufficient to assess quality. Quality-related information are often hidden and not yet available as LOD. There is also a growing interest in alternative forms of publishing scientific data as (semantic) datasets that can be more easily shared, linked to each other, and reasoned on. Alternative metrics for scientific impact are also gaining relevance. We are seeking the most innovative and impacting applications in this emerging contexts. TARGET AUDIENCE The Challenge is open to everyone from industry and academia. TASKS The Challenge includes three tasks. Participants can participate in as many tasks as they like. = Extraction Tasks We ask challengers to automatically annotate a set of multi-format and multi-source input documents and to produce a Linked Open Dataset that fully describes these documents, their context, and relevant parts of their content. The evaluation will consist of evaluating a set of queries against the produced dataset to assess its correctness and completeness. The input dataset will be split in two parts: a training/testing part and an evaluation part, which will disclosed a few days before the submission deadline. Participants will be asked to run their tool on the evaluation dataset and to produce the final Linked Open Dataset. == Task 1: Extraction and assessment of workshop proceedings information = Participants are required to extract information from a set of HTML tables of contents, partly including microformat and RDFa annotations but not necessarily being valid HTML, of selected computer science workshop proceedings published with the CEUR-WS.org open access service. The extracted information is expected to answer queries about the quality of these workshops, for instance by measuring their growth, longevity, connection with other events, distribution of papers and authors. == Task 2: Extraction and characterization of citations = Participants are required to extract information about the citations in scientific journals and their relevance. Input documents are in XML JATS and TaxPub, an official extension of JATS customized for taxonomic treatments, and selected from the PubMedCentral Open Access Subset and the Pensoft Biodiversity Data Journal and ZooKeys archive. The extracted information is expected to be used for assessing the value of citations, for instance by considering their position in the paper, their co-location with other citations or their purpose. == In-use Task 3: Semantic technologies in improving scientific production = Participants are asked to submit demos that showcase the potential of Semantic Web technology for enhancing and assessing the quality of scientific production. The task has a completely open structure and is, in particular, independent from tasks 1 and 2: participants are free to decide which tool to show and which dataset to use. The evaluation will be different from other tasks and will consist of two phases: after a first round of review, a number of submissions will be invited to demo their work at ESWC. The final decision will be taken at the Conference by a jury formed of PC members present at the event and other invited experts. Further details are available at: http://challenges.2014.eswc-conferences.org/index.php/SemPub/Task3 EVALUATION = Extraction Tasks 1 and 2 Participants will be requested to submit the LOD that their tool produces from the evaluation dataset, as well as a paper that describes their approach. They will also be given a set of queries in natural language form and will be asked to translate those queries into a SPARQL form that works on their LOD. The results of the queries on the produced LOD will be compared with the expected output, and precision and recall will be measured to identify the best performing approach. Separately, the most original approach will be assigned by the Program Committee. = In-use Task 3 Participants are required to submit a paper description as for tasks 1 and 2 and a demo version of the tool (open source appreciated but not mandatory). The evaluation will consist of two phases: after a first round of review, a number of submissions will be invited to demo their work at ESWC. The final decision will be taken at the Conference by a jury formed of PC members present at the event and other invited experts. The winner will be selected according to its potential impact, originality, breakthrough, the quality of the demo, and the appropriateness for ESWC. Further details about the evaluation are provided on the challenge wiki. FEEDBACK AND DISCUSSION A discussion group is open for participants to ask questions and to receive updates about the challenge (see link at bottom). Participants are invited to subscribe to this group as soon as possible and to communicate their intention to participate. They are also invited to use this channel to discuss problems in the input dataset and to suggest changes. JUDGING AND PRIZES The Program Committee and the chairs will select a number of submissions conforming to the challenge requirements that will be invited to present their work. Submissions accepted for presentation will receive constructive reviews from the Program Committee, they will be included in the Springer LNCS post-proceedings of ESWC, and they will also have a presentation slot in a poster session dedicated to the challenge. In addition, the winners will present their work in a special slot of the main program of ESWC and will be invited to submit a revised and extended paper to a dedicated Semantic Web Journal special issue. Five winners will be selected. For each of Tasks 1 and 2 we will select: * best performing tool, given to the paper which will get the highest score in the evaluation * most original approach, selected by the Challenge Committee with the reviewing process The winner of Task 3 will be selected by the jury according to its potential impact, originality, breakthrough, the quality of the demo, and the appropriateness for ESWC. Winners will be selected only for tasks with at least 3 participants. In any case all submissions will be reviewed and, if accepted, published in ESWC post-proceedings. An amount of 700 Euro has already been secured for the final prize. We are currently working on securing further funding. HOW TO PARTICIPATE Participants are required to submit: * Abstract: no more than 200 words. * Description: It should explain the details of the automated annotation system, including why the system is innovative, how it uses Semantic Web technology, what features or functions the system provides, what design choices were made and what lessons were learned. The description should also summarize how participants have addressed the evaluation tasks. An outlook towards how the data could be consumed is appreciated but not strictly required. Papers must be submitted in PDF format, following the style of the Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series (http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs/lncs+authors), and not exceeding 5 pages in length. Submissions for task 1 and task 2 also have to include: * The Linked Open Dataset produced by the tool on the evaluation dataset (as a file or as a URL, in Turtle or RDF/XML). * A set of SPARQL queries that work on that LOD and correspond to the natural language queries provided as input * Participants will also be asked to submit their tool (source and/or binaries, or a link these can be downloaded from, or a web service URL) for verification purposes. Submissions for the in-use task 3 have to include: * a demo version of the tool. The demo must be made available along with the paper submission but participants are allowed to refine it until the presentation at ESWC-14. All papers submissions should be provided via EasyChair: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=eswc2014-challenges MAILING LIST We invite the potential participants to subscribe to our mailing list in order to be kept up to date with the latest news related to the challenge. https://lists.sti2.org/mailman/listinfo/eswc2014-sempub-challenge IMPORTANT DATES * December 3, 2013: Publication of the full description of the extraction tasks 1 and 2, rules and queries; publication of the training/testing dataset * January 31, 2014, 23:59 CET: Deadline for making remarks to the task 1 and 2 training/testing datasets * February 5, 2014: Publication of the final task 1 and 2 training/testing datasets * EXTENDED to March 18, 2014, 23:59 CET: Abstract submission (task 3 only) * EXTENDED to March 18, 2014: Publication of the task 1 and 2 evaluation dataset * EXTENDED to March 21, 2014, 23:59 CET: Submission due * April 9, 2014, 23:59 CET: Notification of acceptance * May 27-29, 2014: Demo at ESWC-14, and winner selection PROGRAM COMMITTEE Soren Auer (University of Bonn / Fraunhofer IAIS, DE) (supervisor) Chris Bizer (University of Mannheim, DE) Sarven Capadisli (University of Leipzig, DE) Alexander Constantin (University of Manchester, UK) Jeremy Debattista (University of Bonn / Fraunhofer IAIS, DE) Alexander Garcia Castro (Florida State University, US) Leyla Jael Garcia Castro (Bundeswehr University of Munich, DE) Paul Groth (VU University of Amsterdam, Netherlands) Rinke Hoekstra (VU University of Amsterdam, Netherlands) Aidan Hogan (DCC, Universidad de Chile) Evangelos Milios (Dalhousie University, CA) Lyubomir Penev (Pensoft Publishers, BG) Robert Stevens (University of Manchester, UK) Jun Zhao (Lancaster University, UK) We are inviting further members. ========================================================================Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2014 17:07:47 +0000 Reply-To: [log in to unmask] Sender: "Knowledge Based Systems and Applied Artificial Intelligence(SGES)" <[log in to unmask]> From: Silvio Peroni <[log in to unmask]> Subject: ESWC 2014 Final Call for Challenge [Deadline Extension]: Concept-Level Sentiment Analysis Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <[log in to unmask]> ** apologies for cross-posting ** ==== Final Call for Challenge: Concept-Level Sentiment Analysis ===Challenge Website: http://challenges.2014.eswc-conferences.org/SemSA Call Web page: http://2014.eswc-conferences.org/important-dates/call-SemSA ** Deadline Extension: ** Friday 21 March 2014 - 23:59 Central European Time 11th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC) 2014 Dates: May 25 - 29, 2014 Venue: Anissaras, Crete, Greece Hashtag: #eswc2014 Feed: @eswc_conf Site: http://2014.eswc-conferences.org General Chair: Valentina Presutti (STLab, ISTC-CNR, IT) Challenge Coordinator: Milan Stankovic (Sepage & Universite Paris-Sorbonne, FR) Challenge Chairs: - Erik Cambria (National University of Singapore, SG) - Diego Reforgiato (STLab, ISTC-CNR, IT) MOTIVATION AND OBJECTIVES Mining opinions and sentiments from natural language is an extremely difficult task as it involves a deep understanding of most of the explicit and implicit, regular and irregular, syntactical and semantic rules proper of a language. Existing approaches mainly rely on parts of text in which opinions and sentiments are explicitly expressed such as polarity terms, affect words and their co-occurrence frequencies. However, opinions and sentiments are often conveyed implicitly through latent semantics, which make purely syntactical approaches ineffective. To this end, concept-level sentiment analysis aims to go beyond a mere word-level analysis of text and provide novel approaches to opinion mining and sentiment analysis that allow a more efficient passage from (unstructured) textual information to (structured) machine-processable data, in potentially any domain. Concept-level sentiment analysis focuses on a semantic analysis of text through the use of web ontologies or semantic networks, which allow the aggregation of conceptual and affective information associated with natural language opinions. By relying on large semantic knowledge bases, concept-level sentiment analysis steps away from blind use of keywords and word co-occurrence count, but rather relies on the implicit features associated with natural language concepts. This Challenge focuses on the introduction, presentation, and discussion of novel approaches to concept-level sentiment analysis. Participants will have to design a concept-level opinion-mining engine that exploits common-sense knowledge bases, e.g., SenticNet, and/or Linked Data and Semantic Web ontologies, e.g., DBPedia, to perform multi-domain sentiment analysis. The main motivation for the Challenge, in particular, is to go beyond a mere word-level analysis of natural language text and provide novel concept-level tools and techniques that allow a more efficient passage from (unstructured) natural language to (structured) machine-processable data, in potentially any domain. Systems must have a semantics flavor (e.g., by making use of Linked Data or known semantic networks within their core functionalities) and authors need to show how the introduction of semantics can be used to obtain valuable information, functionality or performance. Existing natural language processing methods or statistical approaches can be used too as long as the semantics plays a main role within the core approach (engines based merely on syntax/word-count will be excluded from the competition). TARGET AUDIENCE The Challenge is open to everyone from industry and academia. TASKS The Concept-Level Sentiment Analysis Challenge is defined in terms of different tasks. The first task is elementary whereas the others are more advanced. The input units of each task are sentences. Sentences are assumed to be in grammatically correct American English and have to be processed according to the input format specified at http://sentic.net/challenge/sentence. * Elementary Task: Polarity Detection The main goal of the task is polarity detection. The proposed systems will be assessed according to precision, recall and F-measure of detected binary polarity values (1=positive; 0=negative) for each input sentence of the evaluation dataset, following the same format as in http://sentic.net/challenge/task0. The problem of subjectivity detection is not addressed within this Challenge, hence participants can assume that there will be no neutral sentences. Participants are encouraged to use the Sentic API or further develop and apply sentic computing tools. * Advanced Task #1: Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis The output of this task will be a set of aspects of the reviewed product and a binary polarity value associated to each of such aspects, in the format specified at http://sentic.net/challenge/task1. So, for example, while for the Elementary task an overall polarity (positive or negative) is expected for a review about a mobile phone, this task requires a set of aspects (such as 'speaker', 'touchscreen', 'camera', etc.) and a polarity value (positive OR negative) associated with each of such aspects. Systems will be assessed according to both aspect extraction and aspect polarity detection. * Advanced Task #2: Semantic Parsing As suggested by the title, the Challenge focuses on sentiment analysis at concept-level. This means that the proposed systems are not supposed to work at word/syntax level but rather work with concepts/semantics. Hence, this task will evaluate the capability of the proposed systems to deconstruct natural language text into concepts, following the same format as in http://sentic.net/challenge/task2. SenticNet will be taken as a reference to test the efficiency of the proposed parsers, but extracted concepts won't necessary have to match SenticNet concepts. The proposed systems, for example, are supposed to be able to extract a multi-word expression like 'buy christmas present' from sentences such as 'Today I bought a lot of very nice Christmas presents'. The number of extracted concepts per sentence will be assessed through precision, recall and F-measure against the evaluation dataset. * Advanced Task #3: Topic Spotting Input sentences will be about four different domains, namely: books, DVDs, electronics, and kitchen appliances. This task focuses on the automatic classification of sentences into one of such domains, in the format specified at http://sentic.net/challenge/task3. All sentences are assumed to belong to only one of the above-mentioned domains. The proposed systems are supposed to exploit the extracted concepts to infer which domain each sentence belongs to. Classification accuracy will be evaluated in terms of precision, recall and F-measure against the evaluation dataset. EVALUATION DATASET Systems will be evaluated against a testing dataset which will be revealed and released after the first-round of evaluation during the Conference. The dataset will be made public on the challenge website. Participants are suggested to train and/or test their own systems using the Blitzer Dataset. The testing dataset will be constructed in the same way and from the same sources as the Blitzer dataset. EVALUATION The evaluation will be performed by the members of the Program Committee. For systems that can be tuned with different parameters, please indicate a range of up to 4 sets of settings. Settings with the best F-measures will be considered for judgment. For each system, reviewers will give a numerical score within the range [1-10] and details motivating their choice. The scores will be given to the following aspects: 1. Use of common-sense knowledge and semantics; 2. Precision, recall, and F-measure wrt the selected task; 3. Computational time; 4. Innovative nature of the approach. JUDGING AND PRIZES After a first round of review, the Program Committee and the chairs will select a number of submissions confirming to the challenge requirements that will be invited to present their work. Submissions accepted for presentation will be included in post-proceedings and will receive constructive reviews from the Program Committee. All accepted submissions will have a slot in a poster session dedicated to the challenge. In addition, the winners will present their work in a special slot of the main program of ESWC and will be invited to submit a paper to a dedicated Semantic Web Journal special issue. For the Concept-Level Sentiment Analysis Challenge there will be two awards for each task: * Quantitative: the system with the highest average score in items 1-3 above; * Innovative: the system with the highest score in item 4 above. There will be a board of judges at the conference who will evaluate again the systems in more detail. The judges will then meet in private to discuss the entries and to determine the winners. It may happen that the same system runs for both the awards. Winners will be selected only for tasks with at least 3 participants. In any case all submissions will be reviewed and, if accepted, published in ESWC post-proceedings. An amount of 700 euros has already been secured for the first task for what the first point of the evaluation aspects is concerned. We are currently working on securing further funding. HOW TO PARTICIPATE The following information has to be provided: * Abstract: no more than 200 words. * Description: It should contain the details of the system, including why the system is innovative, how it uses Semantic Web, which features or functions the system provides, what design choices were made and what lessons were learned. The description should also summarize how participants have addressed the evaluation tasks. Papers must be submitted in PDF format, following the style of the Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series (http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs/lncs+authors), and not exceeding 5 pages in length. * Web Access: The application can either be accessible via the web or downloadable. If the application is not publicly accessible, password must be provided. A short set of instructions on how to use the application should be provided as well. All submissions should be provided via EasyChair: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=eswc2014-challenges MAILING LIST We invite the potential participants to subscribe to our mailing list in order to be kept up to date with the latest news related to the challenge. https://lists.sti2.org/mailman/listinfo/eswc2014-semsa-challenge IMPORTANT DATES * EXTENDED to March 21, 2014, 23:59 CET: Submission due * April 9, 2014, 23:59 CET: Notification of acceptance * May 27-29, 2014: The Challenge takes place at ESWC-14 PROGRAM COMMITTEE * Newton Howard, MIT Media Laboratory (USA) * Cheng Xiang Zhai, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (USA) * Rada Mihalcea, University of North Texas (USA) * Ping Chen, University of Houston-Downtown (USA) * Yongzheng Zhang, LinkedIn Inc. (USA) * Giuseppe Di Fabbrizio, Amazon Inc. (USA) * Rui Xia, Nanjing University of Science and Technology (China) * Rafal Rzepka, Hokkaido University (Japan) * Amir Hussain, University of Stirling (UK) * Alexander Gelbukh, National Polytechnic Institute (Mexico) * Bjoern Schuller, Technical University of Munich (Germany) * Amitava Das, Samsung Research India (India) * Dipankar Das, National Institute of Technology (India) * Carlo Strapparava, Fondazione Bruno Kessler (Italy) * Stefano Squartini, Marche Polytechnic University (Italy) * Cristina Bosco, University of Torino (Italy) * Paolo Rosso, Technical University of Valencia (Spain) ========================================================================Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2014 09:47:18 +0000 Reply-To: [log in to unmask] Sender: "Knowledge Based Systems and Applied Artificial Intelligence(SGES)" <[log in to unmask]> From: Silvio Peroni <[log in to unmask]> Subject: Open Position for Graduate Fellowship in Semantic Web Technologies at CNR-STLAB Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <[log in to unmask]> TITLE: Open Position for Graduate Fellowship in Semantic Web Technologies at CNR-STLAB Important notice: send by March 30th to [log in to unmask] your CV, a motivational statement, and the contact of at least one referee (or a recommendation letter). The official procedure for being admitted to the selection is described on the official application post (see below) and the deadline is April 9th. Topic: Theories and methods for knowledge extraction and representation at a web scale and their application to cultural heritage and eGovernment. Type of Grant: Graduate Fellowship Employer: Institute of Cognitive Science and Technologies of CNR Salary: EUR 19.367,00 (nineteen-thousand-three-hundred-sixtyseven/00) net of expenses in charge of CNR. Starting from: April 2014 Duration: 12 months Location: Rome, Italy Official application deadline: 27 February, 2014 Link to the official application post: http://bit.ly/1grbiBH Contact person (administrative issues): [log in to unmask] Scientific responsible: Dr. Valentina Presutti Type of Grant: Graduate Fellowship There will be a public selection procedure, based on qualifications and an interview, for the assignment of n. 1 (one) - Graduate Fellowship in order to conduct research related to the Scientific Area Information Sciences AND Computer Sciences at the Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies, CNR, in the scope of the projects: eGovernment, Digital Libraries and Hermes, under the scientific responsibility of Dr. Valentina Presutti. To the selection may apply individuals who, whatever their nationality or age, are in possession of the following requirements at the date of expiry of the deadline for submission of applications: a) Degree in Computer Science or Engineering or Literature and Philosophy in accordance with the legislation in force before DM 509/99 or Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Linguistics or Science of Language (or equivalent) in accordance with the regulations referred to in DM 509/99 or Master's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering Linguistics or Science of Language (or equivalent) in accordance with the regulations referred to in DM 270/04, with professional resume suitable for the conduct of research according to the specifications given in the following points (the candidate is in charge, penalty of exclusion, of demonstrating equiparation of graduation diplomas); b) All qualifications obtained abroad (bachelor's degree, doctorate, and any other qualification) shall be previously recognized in Italy in accordance with current legislation (information on the website of the Ministry of University and Scientific Research: www.miur.it). The equivalence of those diplomas obtained abroad who have not already been recognized in Italy with the expected formal procedure above, will be evaluated, with the only purpose of the present selection, by the Examining Committee constituted according to art. 6, paragraph 1 of the Regulations; c) Documented experience of research, development and application of semantic technologies. In particular, it is required expertise in at least one of the following areas: ontology design and open data, knowledge representation, and natural language processing; d) Excellent knowledge of OWL, RDF, and SPARQL; e) Knowledge of mobile application development platforms; f) Knowledge and documented experience of Java development; preference will be given to candidates that know also other programming languages; g) English proficiency. THE ENGLISH CALL ON THE WEB-SITE DOES NOT HAVE LEGAL VALUE IN ITSELF, AND THUS DOES NOT SUPERSEDE THE ITALIAN VERSION OF THE CALL ANNOUNCEMENT (BANDO). ========================================================================Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2014 12:46:28 +0100 Reply-To: Ana Lucila Sandoval Orozco <[log in to unmask]> Sender: "Knowledge Based Systems and Applied Artificial Intelligence(SGES)" <[log in to unmask]> From: Ana Lucila Sandoval Orozco <[log in to unmask]> Subject: CFP: IET Wireless Sensor Systems - Special Issue: Advanced Applications and Services on SDN and SDSN MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundaryMessage-ID: <[log in to unmask]> --001a11c34e8e826fbd04f4cbf94f Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 *** CALL FOR PAPERS *** IET Wireless Sensor Systems, Editor-in-Chief: Sherali Zeadally, University of Kentucky, USA Special Issue: Advanced Applications and Services on Software Defined Networking (SDN) and Software Defined Sensor Networks (SDSN) Software Defined Networking (SDN) is a novel paradigm that is changing the way we think of networks and communications. The basic idea of SDN is the separation between data and control plane in network devices and the centralized control of the network. This new global view of network resources has led to tremendous advances in new intelligent network services, usually not fulfilled by traditional architectures. In addition, SDN reduces the complexity of network configuration and management. For this reason, SDN-based applications are expected to experience an exponential growth in the next few years including an extension of this concept for example to infrastructure-less wireless networks (Software Defined Sensor Networks SDSN). However, this paradigm shift creates new challenges for both the industry and research communities. Efficient resource management, security, quality of service or the integration with other platforms such as cloud, big data or internet of things are still open questions in this new model. To explore these research issues, this special issue will present state-of-the-art of issues, current efforts, and solutions for SDN and SDSN. All submitted papers will be peer-reviewed and selected based on their quality and their relevance to this special issue. Potential topics include, but are not limited to: * SDN-SDSN Applications for wireless, mobile and multimedia networks. * Advancement in Southbound and Northbound APIs for SDN-SDSN networks. * Software Defined Networks programming and simulation. * Tools for Management and Troubleshooting of Software Defined based networks. * Interoperable service-oriented technologies to share real world data among heterogeneous devices. * Integration of Software Defined technologies with traditional Sensor Network architectures. * Scalable management of network, computing and storage capacity. * Advanced security, privacy, authentication, trust and verification with the SDN-SDSN technology. * Performance Analysis on single and multi-controller architectures * Orchestration of Virtual Network Resources The Authors should indicate "Special Issue on Advanced Applications and Services on Software Defined Networking (SDN) and Software Defined Sensor Networks (SDSN)" on their manuscripts. Any enquiries can be made to the IET or the Guest Editors. All submissions are subject to the journal's peer-review procedures. The authors should follow the journal's Author Guide at http://digital-library.theiet.org/journals/author-guide when preparing papers for submission to the Special Issue. Important dates: Submission Deadline: 31 August 2014 Notification of Acceptance: 31 October 2014 Publication: March 2015 Guest Editors: Luis Javier Garcia Villalba, Complutense University of Madrid (UCM), Spain, E-mail: [log in to unmask] Ana Lucila Sandoval Orozco, Complutense University of Madrid (UCM), Spain, E-mail: [log in to unmask] Jose M. Alcaraz Calero, University of the West of Scotland (UWS), UK, E-mail: [log in to unmask] --001a11c34e8e826fbd04f4cbf94f Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
*** CALL FOR PAPERS ***

IET Wireless Sensor Systems, Editor-in-Chief: Sherali Zeadally, University of Kentucky, USA

Special Issue: Advanced Applications and Services on Software Defined Networking (SDN) and Software Defined Sensor Networks (SDSN)

Software Defined Networking (SDN) is a novel paradigm that is changing the way we think of networks and communications. The basic idea of SDN is the separation between data and control plane in network devices and the centralized control of the network. This new global view of network resources has led to tremendous advances in new intelligent network services, usually not fulfilled by traditional architectures. In addition, SDN reduces the complexity of network configuration and management. For this reason, SDN-based applications are expected to experience an exponential growth in the next few years including an extension of this concept for example to infrastructure-less wireless networks (Software Defined Sensor Networks SDSN). However, this paradigm shift creates new challenges for both the industry and research communities. Efficient resource management, security, quality of service or the integration with other platforms such as cloud, big data or internet of things are still open questions in this new model. To explore these research issues, this special issue will present state-of-the-art of issues, current efforts, and solutions for SDN and SDSN.

All submitted papers will be peer-reviewed and selected based on their quality and their relevance to this special issue.

Potential topics include, but are not limited to:

•    SDN-SDSN Applications for wireless, mobile and multimedia networks.
•    Advancement in Southbound and Northbound APIs for SDN-SDSN networks.
•    Software Defined Networks programming and simulation.
•    Tools for Management and Troubleshooting of Software Defined based networks.
•    Interoperable service-oriented technologies to share real world data among heterogeneous devices.
•    Integration of Software Defined technologies with traditional Sensor Network architectures.
•    Scalable management of network, computing and storage capacity.
•    Advanced security, privacy, authentication, trust and verification with the SDN-SDSN technology.
•    Performance Analysis on single and multi-controller architectures
•    Orchestration of Virtual Network Resources

The Authors should indicate “Special Issue on Advanced Applications and Services on Software Defined Networking (SDN) and Software Defined Sensor Networks (SDSN)” on their manuscripts. Any enquiries can be made to the IET or the Guest Editors.

All submissions are subject to the journal’s peer-review procedures. The authors should follow the journal’s Author Guide at http://digital-library.theiet.org/journals/author-guide when preparing papers for submission to the Special Issue.

Important dates:
Submission Deadline:           31 August 2014          
Notification of Acceptance:    31 October 2014
Publication:                      March 2015

Guest Editors:
Luis Javier Garcia Villalba, Complutense University of Madrid (UCM), Spain, E-mail: [log in to unmask]
Ana Lucila Sandoval Orozco, Complutense University of Madrid (UCM), Spain, E-mail: [log in to unmask]
Jose M. Alcaraz Calero, University of the West of Scotland (UWS), UK, E-mail: [log in to unmask]
--001a11c34e8e826fbd04f4cbf94f-- ========================================================================Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2014 19:48:47 -0400 Reply-To: Matthew Taylor <[log in to unmask]> Sender: "Knowledge Based Systems and Applied Artificial Intelligence(SGES)" <[log in to unmask]> From: Matthew Taylor <[log in to unmask]> Subject: [AAMAS-14] Early Registration Deadline Approaching MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundaryMessage-ID: <[log in to unmask]> --001a1136c0bc8d25b204f4d60ffb Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Registration is now open for the 13th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2014). AAMAS 2014 will be held in Paris, France, May 5-9, 2014. Early registration deadline: March 25, 2014 Please note that the AAMAS registration procedure has changed this year. Now, when you register for a workshop day (either Monday, Tuesday, or both), you are allowed to attend any or all of the workshop sessions on that day! See http://aamas2014.lip6.fr for more information about accommodations andregistration. AAMAS 2014 is the thirteenth conference in the AAMAS series. AAMAS is the leading scientific conference for research in autonomous agents andmultiagent systems. The aim of the joint conference is to provide a single, high-profile, internationally respected archival forum for scientific research in the theory and practice of autonomous agents and multiagent systems. AAMAS 2014 has 28 different workshops scheduled, to take place during the first two days of the conference, as well as a doctoral consortium. The gala dinner will take place on May 8th aboard a "bateau-mouche," cruising along the banks of the River Seine to showcase many historical monuments. Program details will be posted soon at http://aamas2014.lip6.fr/programme.php We hope to see you in Paris! --001a1136c0bc8d25b204f4d60ffb Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

Registration is now open for the 13th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2014). AAMAS 2014 will be held in Paris, France, May 5-9, 2014.

Early registration deadline: March 25, 2014 

Please note that the AAMAS registration procedure has changed this year. Now, when you register for a workshop day (either Monday, Tuesday, or both), you are allowed to attend any or all of the workshop sessions on that day!

See http://aamas2014.lip6.fr for more information about accommodations and registration.

 

AAMAS 2014 is the thirteenth conference in the AAMAS series. AAMAS is the leading scientific conference for research in autonomous agents and multiagent systems. The aim of the joint conference is to provide a single, high-profile, internationally respected archival forum for scientific research in the theory and practice of autonomous agents and multiagent  systems. 

AAMAS 2014 has 28 different workshops scheduled, to take place during the  first two days of the conference, as well as a doctoral consortium. The  gala dinner will take place on May 8th aboard a "bateau-mouche," cruising  along the banks of the River Seine to showcase many historical monuments.


Program details will be posted soon at 

http://aamas2014.lip6.fr/programme.php

We hope to see you in Paris!

--001a1136c0bc8d25b204f4d60ffb-- ========================================================================Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2014 11:10:43 +0000 Reply-To: Uwe Aickelin <[log in to unmask]> Sender: "Knowledge Based Systems and Applied Artificial Intelligence(SGES)" <[log in to unmask]> From: Uwe Aickelin <[log in to unmask]> Subject: Horizon Digital Economy Research Institute - Horizon Centre for Doctoral Training in My Life in Data Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Message-ID: <[log in to unmask]> The Horizon My Life in Data Centre for Doctoral Training will train a community of PhD students with the interdisciplinary skills to address the challenge of digital identity and personal data for the 21st century. In collaboration with industry and international partners, our students will establish the technologies, applications and principles to enable citizens to construct their digital identities from personal data and effectively manage them to derive economic and social value. We are interested in students from a wide variety of backgrounds including computer science, engineering, human factors, psychology, sociology, business, geography, social science and the arts, providing they have an excellent first degree and can demonstrate an enthusiasm for interdisciplinary research. Students will be recruited onto one of three pathways; institutional, international or industry.Our industry research themes for this round include Communities, identities and place,Curating traveller identity,Digital identities for personalised media experiences, Intelligent mobility, Introducing a social perspective to future digital identity products, Data analytics for digital identity, The contextual footprint at work and Augmenting fast-moving consumer goods in the home to support sustainable living and wellbeing, and personal data to encourage wellbeing. More information on pathways and themes can be found in the application pack available from http://www.horizon.ac.uk/Current-Opportunities. Adverts with international and institutional themes will follow in later recruitment rounds. Our students will benefit from: A fully-funded four-year PhD programme that integrates a leading-edge research project with research training in interdisciplinary skills. A personalised pathway through this programme that enables students to gain a balance of skills across key technology areas, future applications and human and societal issues. Training in innovation and ingenuity to equip students for careers in industry, from global companies to start-ups. An internship with one of our partners. Regular seminars and meetings with industry representatives to develop contacts with future employers. An enhanced stipend of £16,000 per annum as well as a personal laptop. Supervision from international leaders in the associated disciplines. Career guidance support tailored to individual needs. Office and laboratory space on Nottingham’s award-winning Jubilee Campus. We have funding for UK/Home/EU/International students. Places are also available for those in receipt of four year independent funding/scholarships. Further information can be found on the Horizon Centre for Doctoral Training website; www.horizon.ac.uk. Informal enquiries may be addressed to Miss E Juggins, tel: 0115 823 2316 or Email: [log in to unmask] Application forms are available from Miss E Juggins or downloadable from http://www.horizon.ac.uk/Current-Opportunitiesand should be returned by email with a detailed CV, transcript, copy references and a statement of research interests to [log in to unmask] Please quote ref: SCI1362. Closing date: 4 April 2014. Shortlisting date: 14 April 2014. Interview date: 6 May 2014. ========================================================================Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2014 11:36:49 +0000 Reply-To: Sam Devlin <[log in to unmask]> Sender: "Knowledge Based Systems and Applied Artificial Intelligence(SGES)" <[log in to unmask]> From: Sam Devlin <[log in to unmask]> Subject: Call for Participation: Adaptive Learning Agents Workshop @ AAMAS 2014 Comments: To: [log in to unmask] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary¼aec51dd55185c58f04f4f411f0 Message-ID: <[log in to unmask]> --bcaec51dd55185c58f04f4f411f0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable *Call For Participation* *Adaptive and Learning Agents Workshop 2014 * *at AAMAS 2014 (Paris, France)* *May 5-6* ******************************************************* Register at: http://aamas2014.lip6.fr/registration.php ******************************************************* ALA 2014: Adaptive and Learning Agents Workshop held at AAMAS 2014 (Paris, France). The ALA workshop has a long and successful history and is now in its 14th edition. The workshop is a merger of European ALAMAS and the American ALAg series which is usually held at AAMAS. Our technical program will include 18 oral presentations, an invited speaker and 2 tutorial sessions on multi-agent reinforcement learning and reward shaping (difference rewards and potential-based reward shaping). More details may be found on the workshop web site: http://swarmlab.unimaas.nl/ala2014/ ******************************************************* * Early Registration Deadline: March 25, 2014 * Workshop: May 5-6, 2014 Register at: http://aamas2014.lip6.fr/registration.php ******************************************************* Adaptive and Learning Agents, particularly those in a multi-agent setting are becoming more and more prominent as the sheer size and complexity of many real world systems grows. How to adaptively control, coordinate and optimize such systems is an emerging multi-disciplinary research area at the intersection of Computer Science, Control theory, Economics, and Biology. The ALA workshop will focus on agent and multi-agent systems which employ learning or adaptation. The goal of this workshop is to increase awareness and interest in adaptive agent research, encourage collaboration and give a representative overview of current research in the area of adaptive and learning agents and multi-agent systems. It aims at bringing together not only scientists from different areas of computer science but also from different fields studying similar concepts (e.g., game theory, bio-inspired control, mechanism design). This workshop will focus on all aspects of adaptive and learning agents and multi-agent systems with a particular emphasis on how to modify established learning techniques and/or create new learning paradigms to address the many challenges presented by complex real-world problems. The topics of interest include but are not limited to: * Novel combinations of reinforcement and supervised learning approaches * Integrated learning approaches that work with other agent reasoning modules like negotiation, trust models, coordination, etc. * Supervised multi-agent learning * Reinforcement learning (single and multi-agent) * Planning (single and multi-agent) * Reasoning (single and multi-agent) * Distributed learning * Adaptation and learning in dynamic environments * Evolution of agents in complex environments * Co-evolution of agents in a multi-agent setting * Cooperative exploration and learning to cooperate and collaborate * Learning trust and reputation * Communication restrictions and their impact on multi-agent coordination * Design of reward structure and fitness measures for coordination * Scaling learning techniques to large systems of learning and adaptive agents * Emergent behaviour in adaptive multi-agent systems * Game theoretical analysis of adaptive multi-agent systems * Neuro-control in multi-agent systems * Bio-inspired multi-agent systems * Applications of adaptive and learning agents and multi-agent systems to real world complex systems * Learning of Co-ordination ******************************************************* Organization *Workshop chairs:* Samuel Barrett (The University of Texas at Austin, USA) Sam Devlin (University of York, UK) Daniel Hennes (European Space Agency, The Netherlands) If you have any questions about the ALA workshop, please contact the organizers at: ala.workshop.2014 AT gmail.com *Senior Steering Committee Members:* Daniel Kudenko (University of York, UK) Ann Nowé (Vrije Universiteit Brussels, Belgium) Peter Stone (University of Texas at Austin, USA) Matthew Taylor (Lafayette College, USA) Kagan Tumer (Oregon State University, USA) Karl Tuyls (Maastricht University, The Netherlands) ******************************************************* -- Dr Sam Devlin Research Associate York Centre for Complex Systems Analysis The University of York Deramore Lane, York, YO10 5GH w: http://www.cs.york.ac.uk/~devlin/ Disclaimer: http://www.york.ac.uk/docs/disclaimer/email.htm --bcaec51dd55185c58f04f4f411f0 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable


Call For Participation


Adaptive and Learning Agents Workshop 2014 

at AAMAS 2014 (Paris, France)

May 5-6


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Register at: http://aamas2014.lip6.fr/registration.php


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ALA 2014: Adaptive and Learning Agents Workshop held at AAMAS 2014 (Paris, France). The ALA workshop has a long and successful history and is now in its 14th edition. The workshop is a merger of European ALAMAS and the American ALAg series which is usually held at AAMAS. 


Our technical program will include 18 oral presentations, an invited speaker and 2 tutorial sessions on multi-agent reinforcement learning and reward shaping (difference rewards and potential-based reward shaping).


More details may be found on the workshop web site:


http://swarmlab.unimaas.nl/ala2014/


*******************************************************

* Early Registration Deadline: March 25, 2014

* Workshop: May 5-6, 2014

Register at: http://aamas2014.lip6.fr/registration.php


*******************************************************


Adaptive and Learning Agents, particularly those in a multi-agent setting are becoming more and more prominent as the sheer size and complexity of many real world systems grows. How to adaptively control, coordinate and optimize such systems is an emerging multi-disciplinary research area at the intersection of Computer Science, Control theory, Economics, and Biology. The ALA workshop will focus on agent and multi-agent systems which employ learning or adaptation.


The goal of this workshop is to increase awareness and interest in adaptive agent research, encourage collaboration and give a representative overview of current research in the area of adaptive and learning agents and multi-agent systems. It aims at bringing together not only scientists from different areas of computer science but also from different fields studying similar concepts (e.g., game theory, bio-inspired control, mechanism design). This workshop will focus on all aspects of adaptive and learning agents and multi-agent systems with a particular emphasis on how to modify established learning techniques and/or create new learning paradigms to address the many challenges presented by complex real-world problems.




The topics of interest include but are not limited to:

     * Novel combinations of reinforcement and supervised learning approaches

     * Integrated learning approaches that work with other agent reasoning modules like  

       negotiation, trust models, coordination, etc.

     * Supervised multi-agent learning

     * Reinforcement learning (single and multi-agent)

     * Planning (single and multi-agent)

     * Reasoning (single and multi-agent)

     * Distributed learning 

     * Adaptation and learning in dynamic environments

     * Evolution of agents in complex environments

     * Co-evolution of agents in a multi-agent setting

     * Cooperative exploration and learning to cooperate and collaborate

     * Learning trust and reputation

     * Communication restrictions and their impact on multi-agent coordination

     * Design of reward structure and fitness measures for coordination

     * Scaling learning techniques to large systems of learning and adaptive agents

     * Emergent behaviour in adaptive multi-agent systems

     * Game theoretical analysis of adaptive multi-agent systems

     * Neuro-control in multi-agent systems

     * Bio-inspired multi-agent systems

     * Applications of adaptive and learning agents and multi-agent systems to real world complex 

       systems

     * Learning of Co-ordination


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Organization


Workshop chairs:


Samuel Barrett (The University of Texas at Austin, USA)
Sam Devlin (University of York, UK)
Daniel Hennes (European Space Agency, The Netherlands)


If you have any questions about the ALA workshop, please contact the organizers at:
ala.workshop.2014 AT gmail.com



Senior Steering Committee Members:


Daniel Kudenko (University of York, UK)

Ann Nowé (Vrije Universiteit Brussels, Belgium)

Peter Stone (University of Texas at Austin, USA)

Matthew Taylor (Lafayette College, USA)

Kagan Tumer (Oregon State University, USA)

Karl Tuyls (Maastricht University, The Netherlands)

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--
Dr Sam Devlin
Research Associate
York Centre for Complex Systems Analysis
The University of York
Deramore Lane, York, YO10 5GH

w: http://www.cs.york.ac.uk/~devlin/

Disclaimer: http://www.york.ac.uk/docs/disclaimer/email.htm
--bcaec51dd55185c58f04f4f411f0-- ========================================================================Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2014 15:20:13 +0000 Reply-To: Roger Evans <[log in to unmask]> Sender: "Knowledge Based Systems and Applied Artificial Intelligence(SGES)" <[log in to unmask]> From: Roger Evans <[log in to unmask]> Subject: Research opportunities in Natural Language Technology and Metadata and Ontological Engineering MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="------------060808060800040506030708" Message-ID: <[log in to unmask]> This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------060808060800040506030708 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit *Applications are invited for two part time research fellow posts in Digital Humanities (Natural Language Technology and Metadata and Ontological Engineering) in the Natural Language Technology Group (NLTG) University of Brighton, UK*. ** **Deadline: 1 April 2014*.* *Research Fellow in Natural Language Technology (50%FTE, 12 months) - Ref: SM4041* Traces through Time is a collaborative project, led by The National Archives, to trace individuals across large, diverse historical datasets. Your role will be to develop tools for entity recognition and extraction from different historical text types, with a focus on uncertainty and ambiguity, building on our work in the ChartEx project.. A good (1 or 2:1) degree in computer science or a related discipline, and a PhD in Natural Language Processing or equivalent professional research experience are essential. Expertise in text mining or entity extraction, particularly involving symbolic or hybrid approaches, is desirable as is experience of working with historical documents and digital prosopography. The post is fixed-term for 12 months as funding is limited. *Research Fellow in Metadata and Ontological Design (25%FTE, to 1 April 2015) - Ref: AD4005* The DEEP FILM Access project aims to improve access to the complex datasets generated by industrial film production. You will collaborate on the design and evaluation of an ontology for digital assets of a feature-length film, and a methodology for integrating assets at the point of creation, linking computer-generated and manually-created metadata. A good (1 or 2:1) degree in computer science or a related discipline, and a PhD in computer science or equivalent professional research experience are essential. Experience of working with diverse media types, associated metadata and ontological design is desirable, as is knowledge of metadata standards and open application interfaces. The post is fixed-term until 1 April 2015 as funding is limited. The posts are supported by the 'Digital Transformations in the Arts and Humanities: Big Data Research' programme funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) with support from the Economic and Social Research Council. Applications to both posts from suitably qualified candidates are welcome, although no special preference will be given to such applications - the selection processes for the posts will run entirely independently. For full details and application forms, see the University of Brighton Vacancies page . For further information about NLTG, see http://www.brighton.ac.uk/cem/research/groups/nltg.php?PageId)0 Please get in touch if you have any questions about these posts, and forward this email to anyone who might be interested. kind regards Roger ___________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by MessageLabs' Email Security System on behalf of the University of Brighton. For more information see http://www.brighton.ac.uk/is/spam/ ___________________________________________________________ --------------060808060800040506030708 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Applications are invited for two part time research fellow posts in Digital Humanities (Natural Language Technology and Metadata and Ontological Engineering) in the Natural Language Technology Group (NLTG)  University of Brighton, UK.

Deadline: 1 April 2014.

Research Fellow in Natural Language Technology (50%FTE, 12 months) - Ref: SM4041
Traces through Time is a collaborative project, led by The National Archives, to trace individuals across large, diverse historical datasets. Your role will be to develop tools for entity recognition and extraction from different historical text types, with a focus on uncertainty and ambiguity, building on our work in the ChartEx project.. A good (1 or 2:1) degree in computer science or a related discipline, and a PhD in Natural Language Processing or equivalent professional research experience are essential. Expertise in text mining or entity extraction, particularly involving symbolic or hybrid approaches, is desirable as is experience of working with historical documents and digital prosopography. The post is fixed-term for 12 months as funding is limited.

Research Fellow in Metadata and Ontological Design (25%FTE, to 1 April 2015) - Ref: AD4005
The DEEP FILM Access project aims to improve access to the complex datasets generated by industrial film production. You will collaborate on the design and evaluation of an ontology for digital assets of a feature-length film, and a methodology for integrating assets at the point of creation, linking computer-generated and manually-created metadata. A good (1 or 2:1) degree in computer science or a related discipline, and a PhD in computer science or equivalent professional research experience are essential. Experience of working with diverse media types, associated metadata and ontological design is desirable, as is knowledge of metadata standards and open application interfaces. The post is fixed-term until 1 April 2015 as funding is limited.

The posts are supported by the 'Digital Transformations in the Arts and Humanities: Big Data Research' programme funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) with support from the Economic and Social Research Council.

Applications to both posts from suitably qualified candidates are welcome, although no special preference will be given to such applications - the selection processes for the posts will run entirely independently.

For full details and application forms, see the University of Brighton Vacancies page.
For further information about NLTG, see http://www.brighton.ac.uk/cem/research/groups/nltg.php?PageId)0


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--------------060808060800040506030708-- ========================================================================Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2014 13:39:44 -0400 Reply-To: Pascal Hitzler <[log in to unmask]> Sender: "Knowledge Based Systems and Applied Artificial Intelligence(SGES)" <[log in to unmask]> From: Pascal Hitzler <[log in to unmask]> Subject: CfP: Ontology Design Patterns descriptions. Special call of the Semantic Web journal MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <[log in to unmask]> Special Call of the Semantic Web journal for ONTOLOGY DESIGN PATTERN DESCRIPTIONS http://www.semantic-web-journal.net/blog/special-call-ontology-design-pattern-descriptions An ontology design pattern is a reusable solution to a recurring ontology modeling problem. Different kinds of ontology design patterns have been identified, and they are used for different purposes ranging from their use as building blocks and strategies for ontology creation to their utilization for heterogneity preservation in information integration. The Semantic Web journal calls for papers containing concise descriptions of an Ontology Design Pattern. Papers are typically expected to include discussions of at least the following aspects. * A general introduction concerning the rationale of making the pattern. * A graphical depiction of the pattern accompanied by an explanation, in intuitive terms, of the design choices made. * A detailed axiomatization, e.g. using OWL, for the relationships between the vocabulary terms used in the patterns. * A detailed discussion of related patterns or ontology modeling practices and their relationships with the presented pattern. * A convincing discussion of use cases. * Examples for existing datasets which can be used with the pattern. Papers will be evaluated along the following dimensions: Quality of the pattern, usefulness (or potential usefulness) of the pattern, clarity and completeness of the descriptions. Prospective authors must take notice of the submission guidelines posted at http://www.semantic-web-journal.net/authors Deadlines: Paper submission: June 15, 2014 Notification: Usually within 8 weeks of submission Members of the Guest Editorial Board will be invited as papers are submitted. In case of questions, please contact the Editors-in-chief: Pascal Hitzler Krzysztof Janowicz [log in to unmask] -- Prof. Dr. Pascal Hitzler Dept. of Computer Science, Wright State University, Dayton, OH [log in to unmask] http://www.knoesis.org/pascal/ Semantic Web Textbook: http://www.semantic-web-book.org Semantic Web Journal: http://www.semantic-web-journal.net ========================================================================Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2014 17:24:32 -0000 Reply-To: Calendar Sites <[log in to unmask]> Sender: "Knowledge Based Systems and Applied Artificial Intelligence(SGES)" <[log in to unmask]> From: Calendar Sites <[log in to unmask]> Subject: CFP - 4th International Conference on Operations Research and Enterprise Systems - ICORES 2015 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_0187_01CF452A.7CB91100" Message-ID: <[log in to unmask]> This is a multipart message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0187_01CF452A.7CB91100 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable CALL FOR PAPERS 4th International Conference on Operations Research and Enterprise Systems – ICORES 2015 Website: [log in to unmask] January 10-12, 2015 Lisbon, Portugal Regular Papers Regular Paper Submission: July 29, 2014 Regular Paper Authors Notification: November 3, 2014 Regular Paper Camera Ready and Registration: November 17, 2014 Sponsored by: INSTICC-Institute for Systems and Technologies of Information, Control and Communication INSTICC is Member of: WfMC- Workflow Management Coalition Logistics Partner: SCITEVENTS – Science and Technology Events The purpose of the International Conference on Operations Research and Enterprise Systems (ICORES) is to bring together researchers, engineers and practitioners interested in the advances and applications in the field of operations research. Two simultaneous tracks will be held, covering on one side domain independent methodologies and technologies and on the other side practical work developed in specific application areas. KEYNOTE SPEAKERS ICORES 2015 will have several invited keynote speakers, who are internationally recognized experts in their areas. Their names are not yet confirmed. PUBLICATIONS All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings, under an ISBN reference, on paper and on CD-ROM support. SCITEPRESS is member of CrossRef ( http://www.crossref.org/). All papers presented at the conference venue will be available at the SCITEPRESS Digital Library. The proceedings will be submitted for indexation by Thomson Reuters Conference Proceedings Citation Index (ISI), INSPEC, DBLP, EI (Elsevier Index) and Scopus. AWARDS The awards will be announced and bestowed at the conference closing session. Please check the website for further information: http://www.icores.org/PreviousAwards.aspx ICORES CONFERENCE CHAIR Dominique de Werra, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS Begoña Vitoriano, Complutense University, Spain Greg H. Parlier, MAS of INFORMS, United States CONFERENCE AREAS: Each of these topic areas is expanded below but the sub-topics list is not exhaustive. Papers may address one or more of the listed sub-topics, although authors should not feel limited by them. Unlisted but related sub-topics are also acceptable, provided they fit in one of the following main topic areas: 1. METHODOLOGIES AND TECHNOLOGIES 2. APPLICATIONS AREA 1: METHODOLOGIES AND TECHNOLOGIES · Decision Analysis · Optimization · Management Sciences · Data Mining and Business Analytics · Information Systems · Industrial Engineering · Stochastic Processes · Forecasting · Dynamic Programming · Linear Programming · Inventory Theory · Simulation · Queuing Theory · Game Theory · Mathematical Modeling AREA 2: APPLICATIONS · Project Management · Scheduling · Network Optimization · Supply Chain Management · Routing · Logistics · Energy and Environment · Automation of Operations · Maintenance · Globalization and Productivity · Resource Allocation · Decision Support Systems · Optimization in Finance · Risk Management · Security · OR in Telecommunications · OR in Health · OR in Transportation · OR in Government · OR in Education PROGRAM COMMITTEE http://www.icores.org/ProgramCommittee.aspx Please check further details at the conference website (http://www.icores.org) ------=_NextPart_000_0187_01CF452A.7CB91100 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

CALL FOR PAPERS

4th International Conference on Operations Research and Enterprise Systems – ICORES 2015

Website: [log in to unmask]

January 10-12, 2015

Lisbon, Portugal

Regular Papers

Regular Paper Submission: July 29, 2014
Regular Paper Authors Notification: November 3, 2014
Regular Paper Camera Ready and Registration: November 17, 2014

 

Sponsored by:

INSTICC-Institute for Systems and Technologies of Information, Control and Communication

INSTICC is Member of:

WfMC- Workflow Management Coalition

Logistics Partner:

SCITEVENTS – Science and Technology Events

 

The purpose of the International Conference on Operations Research and Enterprise Systems (ICORES) is to bring together researchers, engineers and practitioners interested in the advances and applications in the field of operations research. Two simultaneous tracks will be held, covering on one side domain independent methodologies and technologies and on the other side practical work developed in specific application areas.

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

ICORES 2015 will have several invited keynote speakers, who are internationally recognized experts in their areas. Their names are not yet confirmed.

 

PUBLICATIONS

All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings, under an ISBN reference, on paper and on CD-ROM support.
SCITEPRESS is member of CrossRef (http://www.crossref.org/).
All papers presented at the conference venue will be available at the SCITEPRESS Digital Library.
The proceedings will be submitted for indexation by Thomson Reuters Conference Proceedings Citation Index (ISI), INSPEC, DBLP, EI (Elsevier Index) and Scopus.

AWARDS

The awards will be announced and bestowed at the conference closing session.

Please check the website for further information: http://www.icores.org/PreviousAwards.aspx

 

ICORES CONFERENCE CHAIR

Dominique de Werra, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland

 

PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS

Begoña Vitoriano, Complutense University, Spain
Greg H. Parlier, MAS of INFORMS, United States

 

CONFERENCE AREAS:

Each of these topic areas is expanded below but the sub-topics list is not exhaustive. Papers may address one or more of the listed sub-topics, although authors should not feel limited by them. Unlisted but related sub-topics are also acceptable, provided they fit in one of the following main topic areas:

1. METHODOLOGIES AND TECHNOLOGIES
2. APPLICATIONS

 

AREA 1: METHODOLOGIES AND TECHNOLOGIES

·       Decision Analysis

·       Optimization

·       Management Sciences

·       Data Mining and Business Analytics

·       Information Systems

·       Industrial Engineering

·       Stochastic Processes

·       Forecasting

·       Dynamic Programming

·       Linear Programming

·       Inventory Theory

·       Simulation

·       Queuing Theory

·       Game Theory

·       Mathematical Modeling

AREA 2: APPLICATIONS

·       Project Management

·       Scheduling

·       Network Optimization

·       Supply Chain Management

·       Routing

·       Logistics

·       Energy and Environment

·       Automation of Operations

·       Maintenance

·       Globalization and Productivity

·       Resource Allocation

·       Decision Support Systems

·       Optimization in Finance

·       Risk Management

·       Security

·       OR in Telecommunications

·       OR in Health

·       OR in Transportation

·       OR in Government

·       OR in Education

 

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

http://www.icores.org/ProgramCommittee.aspx

 

 

Please check further details at the conference website (http://www.icores.org)

 

------=_NextPart_000_0187_01CF452A.7CB91100-- ========================================================================Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2014 16:20:41 +0100 Reply-To: GRLMC <[log in to unmask]> Sender: "Knowledge Based Systems and Applied Artificial Intelligence(SGES)" <[log in to unmask]> From: GRLMC <[log in to unmask]> Subject: SLSP 2014: 2nd call for papers MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-ID: *To be removed from our mailing list, please respond to this message with UNSUBSCRIBE in the subject line* **************************************************************************** ****** 2nd INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON STATISTICAL LANGUAGE AND SPEECH PROCESSING SLSP 2014 Grenoble, France October 14-16, 2014 Organised by: Équipe GETALP Laboratoire d’Informatique de Grenoble Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics (GRLMC) Rovira i Virgili University http://grammars.grlmc.com/slsp2014/ **************************************************************************** ****** AIMS: SLSP is a yearly conference series aimed at promoting and displaying excellent research on the wide spectrum of statistical methods that are currently in use in computational language or speech processing. It aims at attracting contributions from both fields. Though there exist large, well-known conferences and workshops hosting contributions to any of these areas, SLSP is a more focused meeting where synergies between subdomains and people will hopefully happen. In SLSP 2014, significant room will be reserved to young scholars at the beginning of their career and particular focus will be put on methodology. VENUE: SLSP 2014 will take place in Grenoble, at the foot of the French Alps. SCOPE: The conference invites submissions discussing the employment of statistical methods (including machine learning) within language and speech processing. The list below is indicative and not exhaustive: phonology, phonetics, prosody, morphology syntax, semantics discourse, dialogue, pragmatics statistical models for natural language processing supervised, unsupervised and semi-supervised machine learning methods applied to natural language, including speech statistical methods, including biologically-inspired methods similarity alignment language resources part-of-speech tagging parsing semantic role labelling natural language generation anaphora and coreference resolution speech recognition speaker identification/verification speech transcription speech synthesis machine translation translation technology text summarisation information retrieval text categorisation information extraction term extraction spelling correction text and web mining opinion mining and sentiment analysis spoken dialogue systems author identification, plagiarism and spam filtering STRUCTURE: SLSP 2014 will consist of: invited talks invited tutorials peer-reviewed contributions INVITED SPEAKERS: Claire Gardent (LORIA, Nancy, FR), Grammar Based Sentence Generation and Statistical Error Mining Roger K. Moore (Sheffield, UK), Spoken Language Processing: Time to Look Outside? Martti Vainio (Helsinki, FI), Phonetics and Machine Learning: Hierarchical Modelling of Prosody in Statistical Speech Synthesis PROGRAMME COMMITTEE: Sophia Ananiadou (Manchester, UK) Srinivas Bangalore (Florham Park, US) Patrick Blackburn (Roskilde, DK) Hervé Bourlard (Martigny, CH) Bill Byrne (Cambridge, UK) Nick Campbell (Dublin, IE) David Chiang (Marina del Rey, US) Kenneth W. Church (Yorktown Heights, US) Walter Daelemans (Antwerpen, BE) Thierry Dutoit (Mons, BE) Alexander Gelbukh (Mexico City, MX) James Glass (Cambridge, US) Ralph Grishman (New York, US) Sanda Harabagiu (Dallas, US) Xiaodong He (Redmond, US) Hynek Hermansky (Baltimore, US) Hitoshi Isahara (Toyohashi, JP) Lori Lamel (Orsay, FR) Gary Geunbae Lee (Pohang, KR) Haizhou Li (Singapore, SG) Daniel Marcu (Los Angeles, US) Carlos Martín-Vide (Tarragona, ES, chair) Manuel Montes-y-Gómez (Puebla, MX) Satoshi Nakamura (Nara, JP) Shrikanth S. Narayanan (Los Angeles, US) Vincent Ng (Dallas, US) Joakim Nivre (Uppsala, SE) Elmar Nöth (Erlangen, DE) Maurizio Omologo (Trento, IT) Mari Ostendorf (Seattle, US) Barbara H. Partee (Amherst, US) Gerald Penn (Toronto, CA) Massimo Poesio (Colchester, UK) James Pustejovsky (Waltham, US) Gaël Richard (Paris, FR) German Rigau (San Sebastián, ES) Paolo Rosso (Valencia, ES) Yoshinori Sagisaka (Tokyo, JP) Björn W. Schuller (London, UK) Satoshi Sekine (New York, US) Richard Sproat (New York, US) Mark Steedman (Edinburgh, UK) Jian Su (Singapore, SG) Marc Swerts (Tilburg, NL) Jun'ichi Tsujii (Beijing, CN) Gertjan van Noord (Groningen, NL) Renata Vieira (Porto Alegre, BR) Dekai Wu (Hong Kong, HK) Feiyu Xu (Berlin, DE) Roman Yangarber (Helsinki, FI) Geoffrey Zweig (Redmond, US) ORGANISING COMMITTEE: Laurent Besacier (Grenoble, co-chair) Adrian Horia Dediu (Tarragona) Benjamin Lecouteux (Grenoble) Carlos Martín-Vide (Tarragona, co-chair) Florentina Lilica Voicu (Tarragona) SUBMISSIONS: Authors are invited to submit non-anonymized papers in English presenting original and unpublished research. Papers should not exceed 12 single-spaced pages (including eventual appendices) and should be prepared according to the standard format for Springer Verlag's LNAI/LNCS series (see http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0). Submissions have to be uploaded to: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=slsp2014 PUBLICATIONS: A volume of proceedings published by Springer in the LNAI/LNCS series will be available by the time of the conference. A special issue of a major journal will be later published containing peer-reviewed extended versions of some of the papers contributed to the conference. Submissions to it will be by invitation. REGISTRATION: The period for registration is open from January 16, 2014 to October 14, 2014. The registration form can be found at: http://grammars.grlmc.com/slsp2014/Registration.php DEADLINES: Paper submission: May 7, 2014 (23:59h, CET) Notification of paper acceptance or rejection: June 18, 2014 Final version of the paper for the LNAI/LNCS proceedings: June 25, 2014 Early registration: July 2, 2014 Late registration: September 30, 2014 Submission to the post-conference journal special issue: January 16, 2015 QUESTIONS AND FURTHER INFORMATION: [log in to unmask] POSTAL ADDRESS: SLSP 2014 Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics (GRLMC) Rovira i Virgili University Av. Catalunya, 35 43002 Tarragona, Spain Phone: +34 977 559 543 Fax: +34 977 558 386 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS: Departament d’Economia i Coneixement, Generalitat de Catalunya Laboratoire d’Informatique de Grenoble Universitat Rovira i Virgili ========================================================================Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2014 09:59:38 +0100 Reply-To: Flavien BALBO <[log in to unmask]> Sender: "Knowledge Based Systems and Applied Artificial Intelligence(SGES)" <[log in to unmask]> From: Flavien BALBO <[log in to unmask]> Subject: PhD Position at EMSE St-Etienne Comments: To: [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask] Comments: cc: Antoine ZIMMERMANN <[log in to unmask]> MIME-Version: 1.0 content-type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Dear All Firstly, apologies for cross posting. A PhD studentship is available at ENS Mines Saint-Etienne. He/she will be supervised by Professor Flavien Balbo and assistant Professor Antoine Zimmermann (ISCOD team, iscod.emse.fr). Scientific context: Intelligent transportation systems (ITS) aims at improving public transports, logistics and traffic management by utilising new hardware infrastructures (such as, sensors and communication networks) with modern information technologies for simulation, real-time control, data and knowledge management and exploitation. This opens new issues for the collection, storage and distribution of information related to travellers and goods. More specifically, information sources and services are numerous, multi-scale, heterogeneous and independent. As an example, recommending a multimodal route demands access to data and services that belong to independent operators, and that are difficult to combine. Therefore, one of the major objectives of ITS is to propose an adapted answer to the needs and dynamic context of travalers, thanks to a combined use of multiple services, data sources and partially formalised knowledge. Doctoral issue: In this context, the goal of this PhD thesis is the design of a generic framework to collect and share information and services in the transportation domain. Information and services are proposed by multiple operators in order to offer flexible and adapted advanced services to the travelers. The resulting middleware has to process heterogeneous and multi-scale information. The middleware design will be based on multi-agent and semantic web technologies. More precisely, the design of the shared information space will exploit open ontologies and linked data to integrate and to access heterogeneous and distributed data or service sources. The explicitation and context awareness of users will be based on the research of the ISCOD team and will be adapted to the transportation domain. Finally, the deployment of the middleware in an open and distributed environment will benefit from the research on interaction and coordination models in the multi-agent domain with the integration of the mobility dimension. Additional Information: The ISCOD laboratory belongs to the Henri Fayol institute that is a Joint Research Unit (JRU) of ARMINES and its partner school ENS Mines Saint-Etienne that deals with industrial management, systems engineering and information technology. Its objectives are to develop and explore advanced methods, models and tools to improve the overall performance of organisations, companies, and businesses, from both social responsibility and sustainable development perspectives. One of its research activities contribute to the development of a transparent and intelligent mediation infrastructure between the strongly interconnected digital world (contents and services) and real world (things and people). The models, technologies and applications that are developed within the group address the challenges of Decentralisation, Cooperation and Openness that are at the core of current ITs application (Web intelligence, Ambient Computing). The main research subjects investigated are multi-agent-oriented computing, information retrieval, semantic technologies, trust and privacy, artificial intelligence. Candidate Profile: The ideal candidate should have an MSc or equivalent degree in computer science or mathematics and should be able to work in a collaborative environment. Background knowledge and/or previous experience in the following areas, will be considered favorably: - Multi-agent System, - Semantic Web, - Software engineering. Contact Email CV and motivation letter to - Flavien Balbo : Flavien [dot) Balbo [at) emse (dot] fr - Antoine Zimmermann : Antoine (dot] Zimmermann (at] emse [dot) fr ========================================================================Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2014 15:29:50 +0000 Reply-To: [log in to unmask] Sender: "Knowledge Based Systems and Applied Artificial Intelligence(SGES)" <[log in to unmask]> From: Silvio Peroni <[log in to unmask]> Subject: ESWC 2014 Call for EU Project Networking Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <[log in to unmask]> ** apologies for cross-posting ** ==== Call for EU Project Networking ===http://2014.eswc-conferences.org/program/eu-project-networking 11th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC) 2014 Dates: May 25 - 29, 2014 Venue: Anissaras, Crete, Greece Hashtag: #eswc2014 Feed: @eswc_conf Site: http://2014.eswc-conferences.org General Chair: Valentina Presutti (STLab, ISTC-CNR, IT) Project Networking Session Chairs: - Alessio Iabichella (STLab, ISTC-CNR, Italy) - Sergio Consoli (STLab, ISTC-CNR, Italy) The EU project networking track of the ESWC2014 will provide an opportunity for * Knowledge sharing among EU projects * Presentation and discussion of project results with ESWC participants * Networking with officials from the European Commission The project networking track is intended to provide EU projects with the ability to connect with each other and engage in discussions about their respective research and development, establish opportunities for knowledge and technology sharing, and identify complementary activities and goals which can form the basis for future collaborations, research proposals, researcher exchange or joint participation at events or in initiatives. EC officials will be present for related discussions. * SUBMISSION * Projects willing to participate at the session must submit a 2-page extended abstract (PDF, Springer LNCS style). The abstract should introduce the EU funded R&D project, briefly describe its R&D activities and goals, outline what the project would show / demonstrate in the session and specify what the project expects to gain from networking with other projects (what it offers, what it is looking for). Submissions will be evaluated by a separate Program Committee. There will be a limited number of places for EU projects in the networking space. Decisions about acceptance will be based on relevance to ESWC2014, tangible innovation and uniqueness in the R&D activities and a clear goal to benefit from networking with other projects. Submission will be through the Easychair system: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=eswc2014euprojects * IMPORTANT DATES * Abstract submission deadline April 9th, 2014, 23:59 Hawaii Time Notification of acceptance/rejection April 15th, 2014 EU Project Networking Session May 27th, 2014 * IMPORTANT NOTICE * Projects accepted for participation in the project networking track must register at least one representative for the conference and be present with their demo and poster. ========================================================================Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2014 17:02:27 +0000 Reply-To: BioCentre Matt James <[log in to unmask]> Sender: "Knowledge Based Systems and Applied Artificial Intelligence(SGES)" <[log in to unmask]> From: BioCentre Matt James <[log in to unmask]> Subject: ROBOTICS AND OLDER PERSONS: EMPOWERING INDEPENDENT LIVING OR INTENSIFYING ISOLATION - BioCentre thought leader teleconference Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Message-ID: <[log in to unmask]> ** Apologies for any cross posting ** BioCentre invites you to its next THOUGHT LEADER TELECONFERENCE: "ROBOTICS AND OLDER PERSONS: EMPOWERING INDEPENDENT LIVING OR INTENSIFYING ISOLATION? Friday 11th April 2014, 3pm (UK time) ------------- Telecons are open to all and accessible worldwide. To receive call–in details, email your name and affiliation to: [log in to unmask] ------------- Participating speakers will include: [+] DR. GLENDA COOK, Professor of Nursing, specialising in gerontology and long term care of older people, Northumbria University, Newcastle [+] DEBORAH GALE, Gerontologist, writer and commentator [+] DR WALTER GREENLEAF, Senior Research Scholar and Director, Mind Division, Stanford Center on Longevity, Stanford University, USA [+] DR AMANDA SHARKEY, Senior Lecturer in the Department of Computer Science, University of Sheffield. The fastest growing population in developed nations is those aged 65 and older. Estimates propose that there are 10 million over–65s in the United Kingdom – 1.5 million of those are over 85 – and the figures are expected to rise in the coming years. Globally, over 60 year olds represent 11% of the world population and is expected to double by 2050. Research suggests about three–quarters of elderly people will develop a social care need, which can include anything from help getting up in the morning to round–the–clock support in a residential home. The numbers of younger, disabled adults are predicted to rise too, as medical advances mean many people with disabilities including Downs Syndrome, are living longer. In the 21C, use of lifelike robots in care of older adults is an emerging social change with compelling implications for the positive disruption in healthcare provision for older adults. In light of this rapid rise in the elderly population, scientists are suggesting that robots could take on some of the burden of providing care, support and even a form of companionship. If this notion seems difficult to imagine you only have to look at countries that are much further down this route such as Japan which has the world’s oldest population. Here 2.39bn yen (£14.3m) was allocated in the 2013 budget to develop robots to help with care. Currently applications range from those that monitor and keep track of a person’s medical condition, automatically alerting care staff when their intervention and assistance is required, to assistive technologies designed to assist elderly people complete basic tasks such as turning on a tap, washing their hair or feeding themselves. One company in America estimates that by 2020 the personal assistant robot will be as ubiquitous as the PC is today. The optimum future is one in which the use of robotics will help older people live safer, more connected lives. But evidence suggests that there may be a psychological, philosophical and even spiritual implications of robots replacing traditional nursing care and nursing values. Thus, the challenges of an ageing population are vast and technology could help solve some of these issues. But what are the key questions which need to build the agenda on this subject as we prepare for the future? [+] How far should technology monitor the health needs of the elderly and assist them in everyday tasks? How do we keep in tension monitoring, assistance,care and control? [+] Is there a problem with “inauthentic relationships†(Sherry Turkle, MIT) between humans and robots? [+] Given that there is little evidence of older people being involved in the design process, how can innovators harness the perspectives and insights of the ageing population in their research and development of new technologies? [+] How do you keep the human more important than the technology or is that becoming less important? Join us for what promises to be a stimulating discussion. Telecons are open to all and accessible worldwide. To receive call–in details, email your name and affiliation to: [log in to unmask] ========================================================================Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2014 13:15:52 +0100 Reply-To: Mario Pavone <[log in to unmask]> Sender: "Knowledge Based Systems and Applied Artificial Intelligence(SGES)" <[log in to unmask]> From: Mario Pavone <[log in to unmask]> Subject: SSBSS 2014 News & 2nd CfP - Biology meets Engineering & Computer Science, Taormina - Sicily, Italy, June 15-19, 2014 Comments: To: [log in to unmask] Comments: cc: [log in to unmask] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed; DelSp=Yes MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Message-ID: <[log in to unmask]> 2nd Call for Participation (apologies for multiple copies) ______________________________________________________ Synthetic and Systems Biology Summer School: Biology meets Engineering and Computer Science, Taormina - Sicily, Italy, June 15-19, 2014 http://www.taosciences.it/ssbss2014/ [log in to unmask] We are pleased to inform that we received more than 120 applications and 60 Abstracts/Posters and, due to many requests, we are extending the application *deadline to March 31, 2014.* For this reason, we will have up to ~150 slots (no 100 slots as previously written) for selected and motivated students. *Application Deadline: March 31, 2014* * Speakers & Courses * + Uri Alon, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel Lecture I: Elementary Circuits in Biology Lecture II: Evolution and Optimality of Gene Circuits + Joel Bader, Johns Hopkins University, USA Lecture I: Network Remodeling during Development and Disease Lecture II: Gene and Pathway Analysis of Genome-wide Association Studies + Jef Boeke, Johns Hopkins University, USA Lecture I: Genome Synthesis Lecture II: Combinatorial DNA Assembly methods and their applications + Jason Chin, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, UK Lecture I: Reprogramming the Genetic Code + Virginia Cornish, Columbia University, USA Lecture : TBA + Paul Freemont, Imperial College London, UK Lecture I: Foundational Technologies for Synthetic Biology - from DNA Assembly to Part Characterisation Lecture II: Synthetic biology designs for biosensor applications + Farren Isaacs, Yale University, USA Lecture I: Genome engineering technologies for rapid editing & evolution organisms Lecture II: Design, construction & function of genomically recoded organisms + Tanja Kortemme, University of California San Francisco, USA Lecture I: Computational protein design - principles, challenges and progress Lecture II: Design of reprogrammed and new functions - from proteins to cells + Giuseppe Nicosia, University of Catania, Italy Lecture I: Biological Circuit Design by Pareto Optimality Lecture II: Programming Living Molecular Machines for Biofuel Production + Sven Panke, ETH, Switzerland Lecture I: Synthetic Biology of Cell free Systems Lecture II: Exploiting Engineered Cell-Cell Communications in Large Scale Biotechnology + Rahul Sarpeshkar, MIT, USA Lecture I: Analog versus Digital Computation in Biology Lecture II: Analog Synthetic and Systems Biology + Giovanni Stracquadanio, Johns Hopkins University, USA Lecture I: Minimal Genomes: High-Throughput Sequencing, Statistical Methods and Physics Models to Unveil Minimal Yeast Chromosomes Compatible with Life Lecture II: Computational Tools for Genome editing, Combinatorial Assembly and Workflow Tracking + Ron Weiss, MIT, USA Lecture : TBA *School Directors* + Jef Boeke, Johns Hopkins University, USA + Giuseppe Nicosia, University of Catania, Italy + Mario Pavone, University of Catania, Italy + Giovanni Stracquadanio, Johns Hopkins University, USA *Short Talk and Poster Submission* Students may submit a research abstract for presentation. School directors will review the abstracts and will recommend for poster or short-oral presentation. Abstract should be submitted by *February 15, 2014*. The abstracts will be published on the electronic hands-out material of the summer school. Co-located Event: The 3rd International Synthetic Yeast Genome (Sc2.0) Meeting will be held in Taormina Friday June 20, 2014 http://www.taosciences.it/ssbss2014/ [log in to unmask] -- Dr. Mario Pavone (PhD) Assistant Professor Department of Mathematics and Computer Science University of Catania V.le A. Doria 6 - 95125 Catania, Italy tel: 0039 095 7383038 fax: 0039 095 330094 Email: [log in to unmask] http://www.dmi.unict.it/mpavone/ =========================================================================International Synthetic & Systems Biology Summer School * Biology meets Engineering and Computer Science * June 15-19, 2014 - Taormina, Italy http://www.taosciences.it/ssbss2014/ =========================================================================12th European Conference on Artificial Life - ECAL 2013 September 2-6, 2013 - Taormina, Italy http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/advances-artificial-life-ecal-2013 =================================================================================================================================================Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2014 12:10:50 +0100 Reply-To: GRLMC <[log in to unmask]> Sender: "Knowledge Based Systems and Applied Artificial Intelligence(SGES)" <[log in to unmask]> From: GRLMC <[log in to unmask]> Subject: SSTiC 2014: April 12, 5th registration deadline MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-ID: *To be removed from our mailing list, please respond to this message with UNSUBSCRIBE in the subject line* ********************************************************************* 2014 TARRAGONA INTERNATIONAL SUMMER SCHOOL ON TRENDS IN COMPUTING SSTiC 2014 Tarragona, Spain July 7-11, 2014 Organized by Rovira i Virgili University http://grammars.grlmc.com/sstic2014/ ********************************************************************* --- April 12, 5th registration deadline --- ********************************************************************* AIM: SSTiC 2014 is the second edition in a series started in 2013. For the previous event, see http://grammars.grlmc.com/SSTiC2013/ SSTiC 2014 will be a research training event mainly addressed to PhD students and PhD holders in the first steps of their academic career. It intends to update them about the most recent developments in the diverse branches of computer science and its neighbouring areas. To that purpose, renowned scholars will lecture and will be available for interaction with the audience. SSTiC 2014 will cover the whole spectrum of computer science through 6 keynote lectures and 24 six-hour courses dealing with some of the most lively topics in the field. The organizers share the idea that outstanding speakers will really attract the brightest students. ADDRESSED TO: Graduate students from around the world. There are no formal pre-requisites in terms of the academic degree the attendee must hold. However, since there will be several levels among the courses, reference may be made to specific knowledge background in the description of some of them. SSTiC 2014 is also appropriate for more senior people who want to keep themselves updated on developments in their own field or in other branches of computer science. They will surely find it fruitful to listen and discuss with scholars who are main references in computing nowadays. REGIME: In addition to keynotes, 3 parallel sessions will be held during the whole event. Participants will be able to freely choose the courses they will be willing to attend as well as to move from one to another. VENUE: SSTiC 2014 will take place in Tarragona, located 90 kms. to the south of Barcelona. The venue will be: Campus Catalunya Universitat Rovira i Virgili Av. Catalunya, 35 43002 Tarragona KEYNOTE SPEAKERS: Larry S. Davis (U Maryland, College Park), A Historical Perspective of Computer Vision Models for Object Recognition and Scene Analysis David S. Johnson (Columbia U, New York), Open and Closed Problems in NP-Completeness George Karypis (U Minnesota, Twin Cities), Recommender Systems Past, Present, & Future Steffen Staab (U Koblenz), Explicit and Implicit Semantics: Two Sides of One Coin Philip Wadler (U Edinburgh), You and Your Research and The Elements of Style Ronald R. Yager (Iona C, New Rochelle), Social Modeling COURSES AND PROFESSORS: Divyakant Agrawal (U California, Santa Barbara), [intermediate] Scalable Data Management in Enterprise and Cloud Computing Infrastructures Pierre Baldi (U California, Irvine), [intermediate] Big Data Informatics Challenges and Opportunities in the Life Sciences Rajkumar Buyya (U Melbourne), [intermediate] Cloud Computing John M. Carroll (Pennsylvania State U, University Park), [introductory] Usability Engineering and Scenario-based Design Kwang-Ting (Tim) Cheng (U California, Santa Barbara), [introductory/intermediate] Smartphones: Hardware Platform, Software Development, and Emerging Apps Amr El Abbadi (U California, Santa Barbara), [introductory] The Distributed Foundations of Data Management in the Cloud Richard M. Fujimoto (Georgia Tech, Atlanta), [introductory] Parallel and Distributed Simulation Mark Guzdial (Georgia Tech, Atlanta), [introductory] Computing Education Research: What We Know about Learning and Teaching Computer Science David S. Johnson (Columbia U, New York), [introductory] The Traveling Salesman Problem in Theory and Practice George Karypis (U Minnesota, Twin Cities), [intermediate] Programming Models/Frameworks for Parallel & Distributed Computing Aggelos K. Katsaggelos (Northwestern U, Evanston), [intermediate] Optimization Techniques for Sparse/Low-rank Recovery Problems in Image Processing and Machine Learning Arie E. Kaufman (U Stony Brook), [advanced] Visualization Carl Lagoze (U Michigan, Ann Arbor), [introductory] Curation of Big Data Dinesh Manocha (U North Carolina, Chapel Hill), [introductory/intermediate] Robot Motion Planning Bijan Parsia (U Manchester), [introductory] The Empirical Mindset in Computer Science Charles E. Perkins (FutureWei Technologies, Santa Clara), [intermediate] Beyond LTE: the Evolution of 4G Networks and the Need for Higher Performance Handover System Designs Sudhakar M. Reddy (U Iowa, Iowa City), [introductory] Test and Design for Test of Digital Logic Circuits Robert Sargent (Syracuse U), [introductory] Validation of Models Mubarak Shah (U Central Florida, Orlando), [intermediate] Visual Crowd Analysis Steffen Staab (U Koblenz), [intermediate] Programming the Semantic Web Mike Thelwall (U Wolverhampton), [introductory] Sentiment Strength Detection for Twitter and the Social Web Jeffrey D. Ullman (Stanford U), [introductory] MapReduce Algorithms Nitin Vaidya (U Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), [introductory/intermediate] Distributed Consensus: Theory and Applications Philip Wadler (U Edinburgh), [intermediate] Topics in Lambda Calculus and Life ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: Adrian Horia Dediu (Tarragona) Carlos Martín-Vide (Tarragona, chair) Florentina Lilica Voicu (Tarragona) REGISTRATION: It has to be done at http://grammars.grlmc.com/sstic2014/registration.php The selection of up to 8 courses requested in the registration template is only tentative and non-binding. For the sake of organization, it will be helpful to have an approximation of the respective demand for each course. Since the capacity of the venue is limited, registration requests will be processed on a first come first served basis. The registration period will be closed when the capacity of the venue will be complete. It is very convenient to register prior to the event. FEES: As far as possible, participants are expected to attend for the whole (or most of the) week (full-time). Fees are a flat rate allowing one to participate to all courses. They vary depending on the registration deadline. ACCOMMODATION: Information about accommodation is available on the website of the School. CERTIFICATE: Participants will be delivered a certificate of attendance. QUESTIONS AND FURTHER INFORMATION: [log in to unmask] POSTAL ADDRESS: SSTiC 2014 Lilica Voicu Rovira i Virgili University Av. Catalunya, 35 43002 Tarragona, Spain Phone: +34 977 559 543 Fax: +34 977 558 386 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS: Departament d’Economia i Coneixement, Generalitat de Catalunya Universitat Rovira i Virgili