From georgeangelos60 at gmail.com Sat Apr 1 10:28:55 2023 From: georgeangelos60 at gmail.com (georgeangelos60 at gmail.com) Date: Sat, 1 Apr 2023 13:28:55 +0300 Subject: [PlanetKR] 10th European Conference On Service-Oriented And Cloud Computing (ESOCC 2023): Fourth Call for Submissions Message-ID: *** Fourth Call for Submissions *** 10th European Conference On Service-Oriented And Cloud Computing (ESOCC 2023) October 24-26, 2023, Golden Bay Beach Hotel, Larnaca, Cyprus https://cyprusconferences.org/esocc2023/ (Proceedings to be published in Springer LNCS; Journal Special Issue with Springer Computing) AIM AND SCOPE Nowadays, Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing are the primary approaches to build large-scale distributed systems and deliver software services to end users. Cloud-native software is pervading the delivery of enterprise applications, as they are composed of (micro)services that can be independently developed and deployed by exploiting multiple heterogeneous technologies. Resulting applications are polyglot service compositions that can then be shipped in serverful or serverless platforms (e.g., using virtualization technologies). These characteristics make Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing the natural answers for fulfilling the industry?s need for flexibly scalable and maintainable enterprise applications, to be delivered through state-of-the-art methodologies, like DevOps. To further support this, researchers and practitioners need to create methods, tools and techniques to support cost-effective and secure development as well as use of dependable devices, platforms, services and service-oriented applications in the Cloud, now also considering the Cloud-IoT computing continuum to exploit widespread adoption of smart connected things and the increasing growth of their computing capabilities. The European Conference on Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing (ESOCC) is the premier conference on advances in the state-of-the-art and practice of Service-Oriented Computing and Cloud Computing in Europe. ESOCC aims to facilitate the exchange between researchers and practitioners in the areas of Service-Oriented Computing and Cloud Computing, as well as to explore the new trends in those areas and foster future collaborations in Europe and beyond. TOPICS OF INTEREST ESOCC 2023 seeks original, high-quality contributions related to all aspects of Service-Oriented and Cloud computing. Specific topics of interest include, but are not limited to: ? Applications for Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing, e.g., big data, commerce, energy, finance, health, scientific computing, smart cities ? Blockchains for Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing ? Business aspects of Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing, e.g., business models, brokerage, marketplaces, costs, pricing ? Business processes, e.g., service-based workflow deployment and management ? Cloud interoperability, service and Cloud standards, ? Cloud-IoT computing continuum, e.g., edge computing, fog computing, mobility computing, next generation services/IoT ? Cloud-native architectures and paradigms, e.g., microservices and DevOps ? Cloud service models, e.g., IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, DBaaS, FaaS, etc. ? Deployment, composition, and management of applications in Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing ? Foundations and formal methods for Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing ? Enablers for Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing, e.g., service discovery, orchestration, matchmaking, monitoring, and analytics ? Model-Driven Engineering for Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing ? Multi-Cloud, cross-Cloud, and federated Cloud solutions ? Requirements engineering, design, development, and testing of applications in Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing ? Semantic services and service mining ? Service and Cloud middlewares and platforms ? Software/service adaptation and evolution in Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing ? Storage, computation and network Clouds ? Sustainability and energy issues in Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing ? Quality aspects (e.g., governance, privacy, security, and trust) of Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing ? Quality of Service (QoS) and Service-Level Agreement (SLA) for Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing ? Social aspects of Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing, e.g., crowdsourcing services, social and crowd-based Clouds ? Virtualization for Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing, e.g., serverless, container-based virtualization, VMs IMPORTANT DATES ? Submission of abstracts: June 4th, 2023 (AoE) ? Submission of full papers: June 11th, 2023 (AoE) ? Notification to authors: July 14th, 2023 (AoE) ? Camera-ready versions due: July 31st, 2023 (AoE) TYPES OF SUBMISSIONS ESOCC 2023 invites submissions of the following kinds: ? Regular Research Papers (15 pages including references, for the technical and special tracks) ? PhD Symposium (12 pages including references) ? Projects and Industry Reports (Projects and Industry Reports (1 to 6 pages including references, describing an ongoing EU or national project, or providing industrial perspectives on innovative applications, technologies, or methods in ESOCC?s scope)? We only accept original papers, not submitted for publication elsewhere. The papers must be formatted according to the proceedings guidelines of Springer?s Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series (http://www.springer.com/lncs). They must be submitted to the EasyChair site at: ?https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=esocc2023? by selecting the right track. Accepted papers from all tracks will be published in the main conference proceedings by Springer in the LNCS series. For publication to happen, at least one author of each accepted paper is expected to register and present the work at the conference. The best papers accepted will be invited to submit extended versions for a Journal Special Issue to be published by Springer Computing. ORGANISATION General Chair ? George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, CY (george at ucy.ac.cy) ? Program Chairs ? Florian Rademacher, University of Applied Sciences and Arts Dortmund, DE (florian.rademacher at fh-dortmund.de) ? Jacopo Soldani, University of Pisa, IT (jacopo.soldani at unipi.it) Steering and Program Committee https://cyprusconferences.org/esocc2023/committees/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From fstolzenburg at hs-harz.de Mon Apr 3 07:32:26 2023 From: fstolzenburg at hs-harz.de (Frieder Stolzenburg) Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2023 09:32:26 +0200 Subject: [PlanetKR] DC@KI2023: Doctoral Consortium at KI 2023 - CfP Message-ID: <9ec53eec-c642-b9c5-d38b-18b499d320c4@hs-harz.de> CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS KI 2023 ? Doctoral Consortium Berlin, September 26, 2023 https://ki2023.gi.de/doctoral-consortium KI2023 takes place in Berlin, Germany, September 26?29, 2023. It is the 46th edition of the German conference on Artificial Intelligence (abbreviated KI for ?K?nstliche Intelligenz?) organized in cooperation with the Fachbereich K?nstliche Intelligenz der Gesellschaft f?r Informatik (GI-SIG AI). KI is one of the major European AI conferences and traditionally brings together academic and industrial researchers from all areas of AI, providing an ideal place for exchanging news and research results on theory and applications. The technical program of KI2023 comprises paper presentations as well as tutorials and workshops. DOCTORAL CONCORTIUM FORMAT There will be a PhD workshop with keynote and oral presentations during the KI conference, providing an opportunity for obtaining feedback on PhD projects. Doctoral students may also participate in a mentoring program that will connect students with experienced researchers in their field. The organizers will try to schedule personal meetings between mentors and students. Students can indicate their interest in this program when submitting their contribution, or directly by contacting the organizers. The schedule of the meetings will be announced ahead of the event. The organizers plan to publish extended abstracts as proceedings of the PhD workshop, probably with the GI-DL (GI Digital Library). Additionally, there will be the opportunity to participate in the main conference poster session where the participants will have the chance to present their research to a larger audience. APPLICATION To apply for the KI2023 doctoral consortium, please submit the following documents (in a single pdf file) to the EasyChair submission system (Track Doctoral Consortium) until July 10, 2023. An abstract of your thesis, formatted according to the GI-LNI guidelines, preferably in LaTeX , that describes the problem being addressed, the motivation for addressing the problem, related work, the proposed approach, and planned or already executed evaluation. Target length of the abstract is 4?10 pages, including references. A short CV that covers background (name, university, supervisors), education (degree sought, year/status in a degree, previous degrees), employment, and experience in research (publications, presentations, conferences attended) of max. 2 pages. Please indicate in your application if you want to participate in the mentoring program. The extended abstract could be structured in the following way: * Introduction * Motivation * Research Question * Related Work * Approach * (Planned) Evaluation Abstract submissions should be in English and must have a single author who is pursuing the proposed PhD. IMPORTANT DATES Submission Deadline: July 10, 2023 Doctoral Consortium: September 26, 2023 (tentative) CONTACT Should you have any questions regarding the doctoral consortium at KI2023, please do not hesitate to contact Prof. Dr. Frieder Stolzenburg (fstolzenburg at hs-harz.de) -- Prof. Dr. rer.nat. habil. Frieder Stolzenburg Prorektor f?r Forschung und Chancengleichheit FB Automatisierung und Informatik ? Hochschule Harz (Harz University of Applied Sciences) Friedrichstr. 57-59 38855 Wernigerode GERMANY Raum (Office): 2.008 Tel: +49 3943 659-333 Fax: +49 3943 659-399 Skype: fstolzenburg Zoom: http://hs-harz.zoom.us/my/fstolzenburg E-Mail: fstolzenburg at hs-harz.de WWW: http://www.hs-harz.de/fstolzenburg From Guendalina.Righetti at student.unibz.it Mon Apr 3 08:14:53 2023 From: Guendalina.Righetti at student.unibz.it (Righetti Guendalina (Student ENG 18)) Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2023 08:14:53 +0000 Subject: [PlanetKR] =?windows-1252?q?2nd_CfP_-_CognitionAndOntologies=40F?= =?windows-1252?q?OIS2023=2C_July_17-20=2C_Sherbrooke=2C_Qu=E9bec=2C_Canad?= =?windows-1252?q?a?= Message-ID: [Apologies for potential cross-posting] CAOS 2023 - Call for Papers The seventh edition of Cognition And OntologieS part of the 9th Joint Ontology Workshops (JOWO 2022), held at the 13th International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems (FOIS), July 17-20 in Sherbrooke, Qu?bec, Canada Submission deadline: April 17 Website: https://caos.inf.unibz.it/ The purpose of the workshop is to bridge the gap between the cognitive sciences and research on formal ontologies and, thus, to create a venue for researchers interested in interdisciplinary aspects of knowledge representation. More specifically, CAOS investigates key cognitive phenomena and concepts (and the involved terminology) that can be found across language, psychology, and reasoning, and how they can be formally and ontologically understood and analysed. By exploring the connection between cognitive sciences/experimental psychology and ontologies (as well as, more generally, logic and symbolic AI), the aim is to provide formal modelling and analysis for capturing such connections. CAOS, thus, seeks answers to ways such formalisations and ontological analysis can be exploited in Artificial Intelligence and information systems, including in practical application. We welcome submissions on topics related to the ontology of hypothesised building blocks of cognition (such as image schemas, affordances, categories, concepts and related notions) and of cognitive capacities (such as concept invention and combination, language acquisition and categorisation), as well as system-demonstrations modelling these capacities in application settings. We also welcome submissions addressing the cognitive and epistemological adequacy of ontological modelling. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): * Ontologies of cognitive phenomena and cognitive theories (e.g. connection with conceptual spaces, diagrammatic representations, mental models, prototypes, image schemas, scripts) * Cognitive foundations of ontologies * Empirical foundations of ontologies (ontologies driven from observations, measurements, tests, and based on data acquired from empirical procedures) * Logic and cognition (challenges, possible solutions and validation scenarios) * Formal representation of cognitive structures / functions / processes * Knowledge representation and common-sense * Formalisation/modelling of language, image schemas and/or affordance * Cognitive models of concepts and categorisation in formal settings * Concept invention and concept combination in formal settings * Cognitive and language development from an ontological perspective * Metaphors and analogies (formal representation, ontological analysis) * AI for language understanding * Knowledge acquisition and categorisation in AI and Robotics * Concept-based computational creativity * Embodied cognition, image schemas, affordances * Neural networks and ontological modelling. We welcome researchers from all career stages to participate. Besides full research papers, work in progress (short papers) and extended abstracts (presentation only) are also welcome since a central goal of the workshop is the discussion of ongoing interdisciplinary work. All research papers must be original and not submitted to or accepted by any other workshop, conference or journal. Note that, for inclusion in the JOWO proceedings, short papers are required to be at least 5 pages long. All contributions will be peer-reviewed, and the review process will be managed in a collaborative and transparent manner using the EasyChair System as part of the JOWO conference. The workshop is organised as an onsite event. Submissions Submission deadline: April 17, 2023 Submission link: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=fois2023 (select the track for ?CAOS VII: Cognition And OntologieS?) Paper formats: We encourage three types of contributions: ? Full research paper: submitted papers must have between 10 - 14 pages including references. ? Short paper: submitted papers must have between 5 and 9 pages. ? Abstract for presentation: 1-2 page abstracts for presentation. (Note that abstracts will not be included in the proceedings) Papers should be submitted non-anonymously in PDF format in compliance with the new 1-column CEUR-ART Style. 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Putting explicit knowledge at the heart of the reinforcement process may contribute to better explanation and transfer. See: https://moex.inria.fr/joinus/2021-Th-cultural-reinforcement.html Be sure to apply to the links given in these pages. Application deadline: April 30th -- | J?r?me Euzenat INRIA & Univ. Grenoble Alpes, LIG, Grenoble, France | | Jerome : Euzenat # inria : fr https://moex.inria.fr | -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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The BESC series of conferences are technically sponsored by IEEE SMC (Systems, Man and Cybernetics) Society as well as IEEE CIS (Computational Intelligence Society) and the proceedings are published by IEEE BESC 2023 is recruiting new PC members. If you are interested to join the PC and assist in the review process, please fill the form available here: https://forms.gle/X2cYY2jfmVBMHcNi9 Please note the submission deadline and bear in mind that your assistance in the review process will be required between mid-July and mid-September. IMPORTANT DATES ? Submission of all papers: 15 July 2023 ? Notification of acceptance for submitted papers: 15 September 2023 ORGANISATION Steering Committee Chair ? Guandong Xu, University of Technology Sydney, Australia General Chair ? George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Program Chairs ? Georgia Kapitsaki, University of Cyprus, Cyprus ? Ji Zhang, University of Southern Queensland, Australia Special Session Chairs ? 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URL: From mfunk at informatik.uni-leipzig.de Mon Apr 3 13:08:28 2023 From: mfunk at informatik.uni-leipzig.de (Maurice Funk) Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2023 15:08:28 +0200 Subject: [PlanetKR] 36th International Workshop on Description Logics, DL 2023 - Second Call for Papers Message-ID: DL 2023 SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS 36th International Workshop on Description Logics, DL 2023 ????September 2?4, 2023, Rhodes, Greece Website: https://dl2023.w.uib.no/ Contact: dl2023 at easychair.org IMPORTANT DATES * June 2, 2023?? Paper registration & abstract * June 9, 2023?? Paper submission * July 1, 2023? Student grants applications * July 26, 2023? Notification * August 15, 2023? Camera-ready version due * September 2-4, 2023?Workshop It is planned to hold DL2023 as an in-person event, that is, at least one author of every accepted paper has to physically attend the workshop. GENERAL INFORMATION The DL workshop is the major annual event of the description logic research community. It is the forum in which those interested in description logics, both from academia and industry, meet to discuss ideas, share information and compare experiences. The 36th edition will be held in Rhodes, Greece, between September 2nd and 4th 2023. It will be co-located with KR 23 & NMR 23, the 20th International Conference on Principles of Knowledge?Representation and Reasoning and the 21st International Workshop on Non-Monotonic Reasoning. WORKSHOP SCOPE We invite contributions on all aspects of description logic, including, but not limited to the following: Foundations of description logics: decidability and complexity of reasoning, expressive power, novel inference problems, inconsistency management, reasoning techniques, modularisation, ontology extraction, abductive and inductive reasoning, learnability Extensions of description logics: closed-world and non-monotonic reasoning, epistemic reasoning, temporal and spatial reasoning, procedural knowledge, query answering, reasoning over dynamic information Integration of description logics with other formalisms: database query languages, constraint-based programming, logic programming, rule-based systems, knowledge graphs, hybrid reasoning approaches Applications of description logics: ontology engineering, ontology languages, databases, ontology-based data access, semi-structured data, graph-structured data, linked data, document management, natural language, hybrid approaches combining logic and learning, explanations, planning, Semantic Web, cloud computing, conceptual modeling, web services, business processes, practical experiences, case studies, feasibility studies Systems and tools of all kinds around description logics: reasoners, ontology editors, ontology alignment, ontology extraction, ontology learning and mining, other support for ontology development, database schema design, query rewriting/answering/optimization, data integration, implementation and optimization techniques, benchmarking, evaluation, modeling INVITED SPEAKERS Nofar Carmeli, Technion, Israel and DI ENS, Universit? PSL, CNRS, Inria, France Francesca Toni, Imperial College London, UK Anni-Yasmin Turhan, Dresden University of Technology, Germany STUDENT SUPPORT Support for students wishing to attend DL 2023 will be provided either directly by DL organizers or in collaboration with KR 2023.?Details will be announced in due time. SUBMISSIONS DL reviewing is *single-blind*, so the names of the authors will be visible to the reviewers and should be indicated on the submitted files. We allow anonymous submissions on request (see below). Submissions may be of two types: A ? Regular papers of up to 11 pages (excluding references) B ? Extended abstracts of 2?4 pages (excluding references) Both regular papers and abstracts must be formatted using the new CEURART style, based on the DL-specific template available on: * https://dl2023.w.uib.no/submissions/ and submitted via: * https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dl2023 Submissions of type A must contain enough substance that they can be cited in other publications and may not have appeared before. A clearly marked appendix with additional proofs and evaluation data may be included. For submissions of type B, we highly encourage a clearly marked appendix with additional proofs, evaluation data, or extended version of your paper, which was accepted at another conference or which you submitted or plan to submit to another conference. Abstracts of papers accepted or under review at other venues must clearly state the venue where the paper has been submitted alongside its status. The appendix will be read at the discretion of the reviewers and will not be included in the proceedings. The appendix does not need to be in the CEURART format. Accepted submissions of both types will be selected for either oral or poster presentation at the workshop. Submissions will be judged solely based on their content, and the type of submission will have no bearing on the decision between oral and poster presentation. The proceedings will be made publicly available via CEUR-WS.org. In justified cases, if you wish your submission to be handled anonymously (i.e., double-blind), please send an e-mail to dl2023 at easychair.org explaining the reasons. You will receive instructions on how to proceed. ORGANIZATION General Chair: Carsten Lutz, Leipzig University, Germany PC Co-Chairs: Ana Ozaki, University of Bergen, Norway Oliver Kutz, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy Local Chair: Pavlos Peppas, University of Patras, Greece Publicity Co-Chairs: Ricardo Guimar?es, University of Bergen, Norway Maurice Funk, Leipzig University, Germany From raoulxluoar at gmail.com Mon Apr 3 14:30:56 2023 From: raoulxluoar at gmail.com (Raoul Koudijs) Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2023 16:30:56 +0200 Subject: [PlanetKR] Second CFP RuleML + RR 2023 Message-ID: Call for Papers RuleML+RR 2023 18th-20th September in Oslo, Norway (part of DeclarativeAI and co-located with DecisionCAMP and the 19th Reasoning Web Summer School) The RuleML+RR 2023 conference is part of the event ?Declarative AI: Rules, Reasoning, Decisions, and Explanations? and is co-located with DecisionCAMP 2023 and the Reasoning Web Summer School. It features the RuleChallenge and a Doctoral Consortium as associated events. The 7th International Joint Conference on Rules and Reasoning (RuleML+RR 2023) is the leading international joint conference in the field of rule-based reasoning. One of the main goals of RuleML+RR is to build bridges between academia and industry in the area of semantic reasoning. See https://2023.declarativeai.net/events/ruleml-rr. We are looking for high-quality papers related to theoretical advances, novel technologies,and artificial intelligence applications that involve rule-based representation and reasoning. Important dates for the RuleML+RR conference * May 20th, 2023: Title and abstract submission * May 27th, 2023: Paper submission deadline * July 1st, 2023: Notification of acceptance * September 18th-20th, 2023: Conference RuleML+RR 2023 Program Chairs * Anna Fensel, Wageningen University, the Netherlands (anna.fensel at wur.nl) * Ana Ozaki, University of Bergen, Norway (ana.ozaki at uib.no) Topics RuleML+RR welcomes research from all areas of Rules and Reasoning. The topics of the conference include, but are not limited to: ###Ontology/Semantic Web - Vocabularies, ontologies, and business rules - Ontology-based mediated query answering - Rules for knowledge graphs creation and interoperation - Rules for knowledge graph embeddings and ontology learning - Rule-based data integration - Data management and data interoperability for web data - Distributed agent-based systems for the web ###Rules for AI and AI for Rules - Rule-based approaches to natural language processing - Applications of rule technologies with explainable AI (xAI) elements - Machine learning approaches involving rules - Explainable AI approaches based on rules - FAIRness approaches based on rules - Rule-based approaches for intelligent systems and intelligent information access ###Rules and Reasoning / Logics - Non-classical logics and the web - Description Logics, existential rules - Higher-order and modal rules - Constraint programming - Logic programming, ASP, and datalog - Rule based argumentation - Rule-based approaches to agents and multi-agent systems - Reasoning with incomplete, inconsistent and uncertain data - Non-monotonic, common-sense, and closed-world reasoning - Inconsistency-tolerant rule reasoning ###Technical Aspects of Rule Systems / Rule Technology - Streaming data and complex event processing - Web reasoning and distributed rule inference and execution - Scalability and expressive power of logics for the Semantic Web - Scalability and expressive power of logics for rules - Data quality and benchmarks ###Rules and Interoperability - Rule markup languages, rule interchange formats, and rule standards - Rule-based policies, reputation, and trust - Rules and human language technology ###System Descriptions, Applications and Experiences of Ontologies and Rules in - Climate change monitoring, mitigation & adaptation - Environmental protection - Agriculture and agri-food - Healthcare and life sciences - Equity and social welfare - Law, regulation, and finance - Digital Twins - Industrial contexts - Production & business rule systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Main conference track High-quality papers related to theoretical advances, novel technologies, and artificial intelligence applications concerning explainable algorithmic decision-making that involve rule-based representation and reasoning are solicited. We accept the following submission formats for papers: * Long papers (up to 15 pages in LNCS style including references) * Short papers (up to 8 pages in LNCS style including references) Long papers should present original and significant research and/or development results. Short papers should concisely describe general results or specific applications, systems, or position statements. All submissions must be prepared in Springer's LNCS style ( http://www.springer.com/comp/lncs/authors.html). Submissions to the RuleML+RR conference Submitted papers must not substantially overlap with papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference/workshop with formal proceedings. Double submission to a workshop with informal proceedings is allowed. Papers put on arXiv are also allowed as long as they are not refereed (i.e., formally reviewed by peers). Papers can be submitted using EasyChair https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=declarativeai2023 Publication The conference proceedings will be published by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series (LNCS) after the conference. The best paper will be awarded the RuleML+RR Harold Boley Distinguished Paper award. A selection of the best accepted papers (2-6) of RuleML+RR 2023 will be invited for submission to the Journal of Theory and Practice of Logic Programming (TPLP). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . The Doctoral Consortium The RuleML+RR Doctoral Consortium 2023 is an initiative to attract and promote student research in Artificial Intelligence, especially research on rule-based formalisms and reasoning in such formalisms. It offers students close contact with leading experts in the field, as well as the opportunity to present and discuss their ideas in a dynamic and friendly setting. The Doctoral Consortium is organized as part of Declarative AI 2023: Rules, Reasoning, Decisions, and Explanations (Oslo, 18-20 September 2023). We invite PhD students at an early or intermediate stage of their PhD studies, as well as exceptional master?s students who are interested in pursuing a PhD, to submit papers describing their research on any of the topics of RuleML+RR 2023. Papers should range between 8 and 15 pages, be written in English, and follow the CEUR-WS.org format. They are submitted electronically in PDF together with a maximum 2 page-long CV by 20 May 2023 (title and abstract) and 27 May 2023 (full paper and CV). The best paper will be awarded the RuleML+RR Best Doctoral Consortium Paper award 2023. Submissions should be done through the link https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=declarativeai2023. Further details can be found at https://2023.declarativeai.net/events/ruleml-rr/ruleml-rr-doctoral-consortium . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Rule Challenge The 17th International Rule Challenge is one of the highlights of the RuleML+RR conference and creates friendly competition among innovative rule-oriented tools, prototypes and applications, aimed at research, industry, and government. In the 2023 edition of the challenge we give the opportunity to not only present results on self-introduced challenges but also to describe open challenges to be addressed by the community. Particularly, we welcome two kinds of submissions: 1. Challenge proposals: Papers describing open challenges, interesting problems from academia or industry, and benchmarks which are of interest for the community and can be solved by rule-based approaches, including task description, datasets, and evaluation criteria. 2. Challenge solutions: Papers supplying benchmarking or comparison results for rule engines, rule-based machine learning techniques, illustrating rule- and model-driven engineering, reporting on case studies and industrial experiences, and realizing mobile deployment of rule-based reasoning. Specific challenges for this year are listed below from contributors: Rule Engines Benchmarking, submitted by Kevin Angele, Semantic Technology Institute, University of Innsbruck, Austria. The best challenge paper will be awarded the RuleML+RR Rule Challenge award 2023. The assessment criteria include originality, creativity together with feasibility. Submissions should be done through the link https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=declarativeai2023. More information: https://2023.declarativeai.net/events/ruleml-rr/ruleml-rr-rule-challenge -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From matthias.thimm at fernuni-hagen.de Mon Apr 3 18:33:44 2023 From: matthias.thimm at fernuni-hagen.de (Matthias Thimm) Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2023 20:33:44 +0200 Subject: [PlanetKR] Final Call for Papers: Special Issue on Foundations, Applications, and Theory of Inductive Logic Message-ID: <22E95D79-A980-4D56-AC87-64FF852EDFEA@fernuni-hagen.de> [Apologies if you receive multiple copies. Please forward this call to interested parties.] =============================================================================================== Call for Papers: Special Issue on Foundations, Applications, and Theory of Inductive Logic Journal of Applied Logics Guest editors: Martin Adam??k, Matthias Thimm ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Inductive reasoning is one of the most important reasoning techniques for humans and formalises the intuitive notion of ?reasoning from experience?. It has thus influenced both theoretical work on the formalisation of rational models of thought in Philosophy as well as practical applications in the areas of Artificial Intelligence and, in particular, Machine Learning. This special issue is a follow-up to the First International Conference on Foundations, Applications, and Theory of Inductive Logic (FATIL2022) that took place on October 12-14, 2022, in Munich Germany. It aims at bringing together experts from all fields concerned with inductive reasoning. This includes in particular the following aspects: - Foundations of many of our best theories crucially depend on inductive logic and more widely induction. Uncertainty is ubiquitous in our lives and the philosophical problem arises to make sense of probabilities and to act sensibly in the face of uncertainties. General philosophy of science is much interested in (the reconstruction of) rational inference in general and in science, in particular, in cases with inconclusive evidence. - Theory of inductive inference can be developed within several traditions such as pure inductive logic or inductive logic based on the maximum entropy principle. - Applications have sprung from foundational thinking on induction in computer and data science. This includes aspects such as knowledge representation in multi-agent settings and machine learning approaches (such as inductive logic programming). The special issue ?Foundations, Applications, and Theory of Inductive Logic? welcomes contributions in all areas dealing with inductive reasoning. We specifically welcome extended versions of works presented at FATIL2022, but the call is open for further works as well. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Foundational works about inductive reasoning, inductive logic, and induction, in particular critical examinations of existing principles. - Computational approaches to inductive reasoning, in particular non-monotonic and other non-classical logics. - Computational approaches to reasoning under uncertainty. - Machine learning approaches taking inductive reasoning into account such as inductive logic programming. The special issue will be published through the Journal of Applied Logics (https://www.collegepublications.co.uk/ifcolog/). This journal is open access, available in both printed and electronic formats, and is published by College Publications. We welcome technical contributions of any form addressing the above topics of interest. Submissions must be in English, but there is no page limit on papers nor any limit on the number of papers in the issue. Please use the stylesheet available from https://fatil2022.krportal.org/si/myifcolog.clsand consider the general author information available from https://fatil2022.krportal.org/si/GuideForAuthors.pdf. If you intend to submit a paper for this special issue, please declare your interest by sending a mail to the guest editors: - Martin Adam??k (maths38 at gmail.com) - Matthias Thimm (matthias.thimm at fernuni-hagen.de). The schedule for the special issue is as follows - April 30, 2023: submission of papers - End of 2023: publication of the special issue Submissions of papers are handled by Jane Spurr. Please submit your paper via e-mail to ?jane at janespurr.net? no later than April 30, 2023. Use ?Submission to Special Issue on Foundations, Applications, and Theory of Inductive Logic, JAL? as the subject line for the submission. =============================================================================================== ******************************************************************************** Prof. Dr. Matthias Thimm Artificial Intelligence Group University of Hagen, Germany Zoom: https://e.feu.de/thimm-zoom https://www.fernuni-hagen.de/aig - http://www.mthimm.de From georgeangelos60 at gmail.com Tue Apr 4 08:16:34 2023 From: georgeangelos60 at gmail.com (georgeangelos60 at gmail.com) Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2023 11:16:34 +0300 Subject: [PlanetKR] 10th European Conference On Service-Oriented And Cloud Computing (ESOCC 2023): Final Call for Special Track Proposals Message-ID: *** Final Call for Special Track Proposals *** 10th European Conference On Service-Oriented And Cloud Computing (ESOCC 2023) October 24-26, 2023, Golden Bay Beach Hotel, Larnaca, Cyprus https://cyprusconferences.org/esocc2023/ AIM AND SCOPE The European Conference on Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing (ESOCC) is the premier conference on advances in the state of the art and practice of Service-Oriented Computing and Cloud Computing in Europe. The main objectives of this conference are to facilitate the exchange between researchers and practitioners in the areas of Service-oriented Computing and Cloud Computing and to foster future collaborations in Europe and beyond. ESOCC 2023 will host Special Tracks as part of its program. Special Tracks provide a space where ESOCC participants can discuss, e.g., topics relevant to Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing even if not explicitly mentioned in ESOCC?s topics of interest (cf. https://cyprusconferences.org/esocc2023/call-for-papers/), early-stage research ideas and/or results, or demonstrate industry-ready tools and research prototypes. Special Tracks may be driven by research interests, needs from specific application domains, or aim at bringing together practitioners and researchers from the area of Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing. Proposals for special tracks should indicate the title of the Special Track, its aims and scope (150-300 words), the Special Track chair(s), and the tentative members of the track?s? PC. Please email your proposals as a PDF file to the PC chairs of ESOCC 2023, Florian Rademacher (florian.rademacher at fh-dortmund.de) and Jacopo Soldani (jacopo.soldani at unipi.it). Special Tracks will be selected for ESOCC 2023 using a lightweight review process. IMPORTANT DATES ? Special Track Proposal Submission: April 18th, 2023 (AoE) ? Notification of Acceptance: April 24th, 2023 (AoE) ORGANISATIONAL INFORMATION Chairs of accepted Special Tracks can devise a Call for Papers for their track, which will be published on ESOCC 2023 website, together with the provided information on the track (title, aims and scope, PC). The Call for Papers for their track will then be disseminated alongside that of ESOCC, and submissions will be handled through the EasyChair of ESOCC, which will include a special track link.? Papers accepted for Special Tracks will be included in the main conference proceedings of ESOCC 2023, published by Springer in the LNCS series. The best papers accepted in the Special Tracks will be eligible for consideration to be invited to submit extended versions for a Journal Special Issue to be published by Springer Computing. Special Track chairs, presenters, and participants will be required to register through the ESOCC 2023 registration page. In case of any questions related to the Special Tracks, please do not hesitate to contact the Program Chairs. ORGANISATION General Chair ? George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, CY (george at ucy.ac.cy) ? Program Chairs ? Florian Rademacher, University of Applied Sciences and Arts Dortmund, DE (florian.rademacher at fh-dortmund.de) ? 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The BESC series of conferences are technically sponsored by IEEE SMC (Systems, Man and Cybernetics) Society as well as IEEE CIS (Computational Intelligence Society) and the proceedings are published by IEEE The Organizing Committee invites proposals for Special Sessions that cover any topic related to BESC. Special Sessions can also cover any other area focusing on challenging open problems of relevance in applications on Behavioural, Economic, and Socio-Cultural Computing. Papers accepted in the Special Sessions will be included in the same conference volume with those accepted in the main track and will be candidates for being invited to the journal special issues that will be organised for BESC 2023. The proposals for organising Special Sessions should be submitted to the Special Sessions Chairs by the indicated deadline. A proposal should be submitted in PDF, be no longer than 2 pages in length, and contain the following: (i) Title of the proposed Special Session. (ii) Names, affiliations and contact information of the proposers. (iii) Names and affiliations of the Program Committee of the proposed Special Session. (iv) Description of the proposed Special Session, including the covered topics and the rationale as to why it fits into the themes of BESC. (v) A dissemination plan of the CFP for the proposed Special Session that the proposers will undertake, if their proposal is accepted. E-mails for submission of Special Session Proposals: taotao.cai AT usq.edu.au / yuting AT zhejianglab.com IMPORTANT DATES ? Submission of Special Session proposals: ?10 April 2023 ? Acceptance notification for Special Session proposals: 15 April 2023 ORGANISATION Steering Committee Chair ? Guandong Xu, University of Technology Sydney, Australia General Chair ? George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Program Chairs ? Georgia Kapitsaki, University of Cyprus, Cyprus ? Ji Zhang, University of Southern Queensland, Australia Special Session Chairs ? 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The conference welcomes conceptualization, implementation, and experience contributions enabling and driving innovation in data- and compute-intensive research across all disciplines, from the physical and biological sciences to the social sciences, arts, and humanities; encompassing artificial intelligence and machine learning methods; and targeting a broad spectrum of architectures, including HPC, Cloud, and IoT. The overarching theme of the eScience 2023 conference is ?open eScience?. This year, the conference is promoting four additional key topics: ? Computational Science for sustainable development ? FAIR ? Research Infrastructures for eScience ? Continuum Computing: Convergence between Cloud Computing and the Internet of Things (IoT) The conference is soliciting two types of contributions: ? Full papers (10 pages) presenting previously unpublished research achievements or eScience experiences and solutions ? Posters (2 pages) showcasing early-stage results and innovations Submitted papers should use the IEEE 8.5?11 manuscript guidelines: double-column text using single-spaced 10-point font on 8.5?11-inch pages. Templates are available from http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html . Submissions should be made via the Easy Chair system using the submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=escience2023 . All submissions will be single-blind peer reviewed. Selected full papers will receive a slot for an oral presentation. Accepted posters will be presented during a poster reception. Accepted full papers and poster papers will be published in the conference proceedings. Rejected full papers can be re-submitted for a poster presentation. At least one author of each accepted paper or poster must register as an author at the full registration rate. Each author registration can be applied to only one accepted submission. AWARDS eScience 2023 will host the following awards, which will be announced at the conference. ? Best Paper Award ? Best Student Paper Award ? Best Poster Award ? Best Student Poster Award ? Outstanding Early Career Contribution ? this award is associated with poster submissions and short presentations of attendees in their early career phase (i.e., postdoctoral researchers and junior scientists). KEY DATES ? Paper Submissions Due: Friday, May 26, 2023 (AoE) ? Notification of Paper Acceptance: Friday, June 30, 2023 ? Poster Submissions due: Friday, July 7, 2023 (AoE) ? Poster Acceptance Notification: Monday, July 24, 2023 ? All Camera-ready Submissions due: Monday, August 14, 2023 ? Author Registration Deadline: Monday, August 14, 2023 ORGANISATION General Chair ? George Angelos Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Technical Program Co-Chairs ? Rafael Ferreira da Silva, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA ? Rosa Filgueira, University of St Andrews, UK Organisation Committee https://www.escience-conference.org/2023/organizers Steering Committee https://www.escience-conference.org/about/#steering-committee Email contact: Technical-Program at eScience-conference.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From pere.pardo at uni.lu Fri Apr 7 14:05:17 2023 From: pere.pardo at uni.lu (Pere PARDO VENTURA) Date: Fri, 7 Apr 2023 14:05:17 +0000 Subject: [PlanetKR] (CfP) CLAR 2023 5th Int. Conf. on Logic and Argumentation 10-12 Sept 2023 Hangzhou (China) ---deadline extended--- Message-ID: ========================================== CLAR 2023 The 5th International Conference on Logic and Argumentation 10th - 12th September 2023 Hangzhou (China) ========================================== ANNOUNCEMENT: Due to some requests, we announce a deadline extension for CLAR 2023. The new deadline is April 18th. (Please see all dates below.) -------------------------- 1. CLAR 2023 -------------------------- The 5th International Conference on Logic and Argumentation (CLAR 2023) invites contributions from logic, artificial intelligence, philosophy, computer science, linguistics, law, and other areas studying logic and formal argumentation. CLAR 2023 will be held 10th-12th September 2023 at Zhejiang University in Hangzhou. CLAR 2023 aims to highlight recent advances in logic and argumentation and foster interaction in these two areas between researchers within and outside China. The interplay between logic and argumentation spans different disciplines and historical eras: from ancient philosophy (Socrates' dialectics, Aristotle's logic) to contemporary computer science (dialogues, multiagent systems). Research in logic and argumentation offers formal or semi-formal models that capture reasoning patterns and dialogue activities of diverse kinds. Their applications in artificial intelligence range from law and ethics to linguistics. CLAR 2023 will focus on a variety of topics and formalisms, including formal models of argumentation (abstract or structured), preference and support, but also dispute and dialogue systems for online argumentation or the processing of legal texts. Established in 2016 as a workshop hosted by Zhejiang University, the CLAR series has been increasingly successful and become an international event and discussion forum in the two areas of logic and argumentation. Our aim for CLAR 2023 is to be a platform for the advancement of the existing discussions within each of the areas above, to span bridges between their different traditions, and finally to open argumentation to new applications and other areas in artificial intelligence, such as legal reasoning, explainable AI, ethical dilemmas, reasoning about uncertainty and knowledge representation, etc. Previous conferences can be accessed via: http://www.xixilogic.org/events/clar. CLAR 2023 will be financially supported by a national key project called "Research on Logics for New Generation Artificial Intelligence" (2021-2025), granted by the National Social Science Foundation of China. Information about the project: https://xixilogic.org/lngai/. More information about CLAR 2023 can be found at the conference website: https://www.zlaire.net/zjulogai2023/clar2023/index.html -------------------------- 2. Important Dates (submission deadline extended) -------------------------- Submission deadline: 18th April 2023, AoE timezone (Anywhere on Earth) Notification: 15th June 2023 Camera Ready: 30th June 2023 Conference dates: 10th - 12th September 2023 -------------------------- 3. Invited Speakers -------------------------- Leila Amgoud (CNRS IRIT, France) Thomas Studer (University of Bern, Switzerland) Yanjing Wang (Peking University, China) -------------------------- 4. Topics -------------------------- Suggested topics include, but are not limited to, the following: * Abstract argumentation * Applications of logic and/or argumentation * Applied logic * Argumentation and game theory * Argumentation and law * Argumentation and linguistics * Argumentation and medical reasoning * Argumentation and causal reasoning * Argumentation and explainable AI * Argumentation and ethical AI * Argumentation and knowledge graph reasoning * Argumentation and modal logics * Argument mining * Argumentation schemes * BDI logic * Computational argumentation * Deontic logic * Dynamic epistemic logic * Belief revision * Formal models for dialog and argumentation * Informal logic * Judgment aggregation * Knowledge representation and reasoning * Logic for game theory * Logic for multi-agent systems * Logic for semantic web * Logic for social networks * Mathematical logic * Modal logic * Nonmonotonic logics * Numerical and uncertainty reasoning * Philosophical logic * Pragma-Dialectics * Preference logic * Probabilistic argumentation * Quantitative argumentation * Structured (i.e. logic-based) argumentation * Uncertain argumentation -------------------------- 5. Dates and Venue -------------------------- September 10th - 12th 2023, Zheijang University, Hangzhou (China). -------------------------- 6. PC Chairs -------------------------- Andreas Herzig (CNRS IRIT, France) Jieting Luo (Zheijang University, China) Pere Pardo (Univ. Luxembourg, Luxembourg) -------------------------- 7. How to submit -------------------------- We invite submissions describing original unpublished work, not currently under review. Articles should not exceed 16 pages, excluding references. Submission files can be uploaded on EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=clar2023 The submitted work must be typeset using the LNCS latex package that can be found at: https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/new-latex-templates-available/15634678 Additional support material may be included in an appendix, although the main file should be self-contained. CLAR 2023 PC members will be encouraged, but not requested, to consider this additional material in their evaluation. Submissions exceeding the page limit or not adjusting to the format guidelines will be rejected without review. -------------------------- 8. Proceedings -------------------------- The CLAR 2023 conference proceedings will be published by Springer LNAI volume (Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence). -------------------------- 9. Best Paper Award -------------------------- CLAR 2023 will present the best paper award to recognise outstanding contributions. Authors of the winning paper will receive a monetary award of EUR 500, sponsored by Springer. -------------------------- 10. Special Issue -------------------------- After the conference, a selection will be made among the papers accepted at CLAR 2023. The authors will be invited to submit an extended version for a special Issue in a high-impact journal. (To be confirmed) From baiseliao at zju.edu.cn Fri Apr 7 14:22:57 2023 From: baiseliao at zju.edu.cn (Beishui Liao) Date: Fri, 7 Apr 2023 22:22:57 +0800 Subject: [PlanetKR] CfP: ZJULogAI 2023 Zhejiang University Logic and AI Summit Message-ID: ========================================== ZJULogAI 2023 Zhejiang University Logic and AI Summit 8th - 12th September 2023 Hangzhou (China) ========================================== -------------------------- 1. ZJULogAI 2023 -------------------------- Zhejiang University Logic and AI Summit (ZJULogAI 2023) brings together the 5th International Conference on Logic and Argumentation (CLAR 2023), the 3rd International Workshop on Logics for New-Generation Artificial Intelligence (LNGAI 2023), International Workshop on Logic, AI and Law (LAIL 2023), the workshop on Epistemology & AI, and the workshop on AI & Arts. It will take place at Zhejiang University on September 8th ? 12th, 2023. See the venue information for details. With its special focus theme on ?methods and tools for explainable and ethical AI?, a core objective of ZJULogAI is to present the latest developments and progress made on the crucial question of how to make AI more interpretable, explainable, legal and ethical. -------------------------- 2. Multiple Events -------------------------- Epistemology & AI - Event Dates: 8th - 9th September 2023 - Submission Deadline: 15th May 2023 - Web page: https://www.zlaire.net/zjulogai2023/epistemology&ai2023 LNGAI - Event Dates: 8th - 9th September 2023 - Submission Deadline: 1st May 2023 - Web page: https://www.zlaire.net/zjulogai2023/lngai2023/ CLAR: - Event Dates: 10th - 12th September 2023 - Submission Deadline: 18th April 2023 (extended) - Web page: https://www.zlaire.net/zjulogai2023/clar2023/ LAIL - Event Dates: 11th - 12th September 2023 - Submission Deadline: 8th May 2023 - Web page: https://www.zlaire.net/zjulogai2023/lail2023 AI & Arts - 11th September 2023 (tentative) -------------------------- 3. Dates and Venue -------------------------- September 8th - 12th 2023, Zheijang University, Hangzhou (China). -------------------------- 4. Summit Chairs -------------------------- Beishui Liao (Zhejiang University) Leendert van der Torre (University of Luxembourg) Minghui Xiong (Zhejiang University) -------------------------- 5. Local Organizers -------------------------- Bruno Bentzen Davide Fassio Jie Gao Chonghui Li (chair) Jieting Luo Bin Wei Tianwen Xu (chair) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- An embedded and charset-unspecified text was scrubbed... Name: ZJULogAI2023-CfP.txt URL: -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From baiseliao at zju.edu.cn Fri Apr 7 14:25:51 2023 From: baiseliao at zju.edu.cn (Beishui Liao) Date: Fri, 7 Apr 2023 22:25:51 +0800 Subject: [PlanetKR] Two open positions at Zhejiang University | areas: logic, knowledge representation and reasoning Message-ID: Dear all, There are two open positions of logic at Zhejiang University in 2023. Position 1: Faculty member, which can be ?Qiushi? Chair Professor, Tenured Professor, Tenured Associate Professor or ZJU100 Young Professor. Position 2: Postdoctoral researcher Location: Zijingang Campus, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China Research areas: logic, knowledge representation and reasoning Application deadline: 31 May 2023 About the requirements and the benefits of these positions, please refer to the general information published at: http://talent.zju.edu.cn/2022/1012/c71691a2645569/page.htm https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/0zH3ks1iebkFPyZC8xITmQ For further information, please contact Beishui Liao by email (baiseliao at zju.edu.cn ) Thanks! --- Beishui Liao Professor of Logic and AI Room 603, Chenjun Complex 3 Zijingang Campus, Zhejiang University Hangzhou 310028, China http://person.zju.edu.cn/en/beishui Email: baiseliao at zju.edu.cn Phone: (86) 571 8898 1162 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Participants who are not giving a presentation may attend TIME 2023 remotely; of course, we strongly encourage physical participation! * In addition to theoretical work, we invite submissions focusing on the development, deployment and evaluation of *systems* for temporal reasoning. Such systems papers will be evaluated primarily on the quality of the empirical evaluation and reusability. *** Topics *** Topics for TIME 2023 include (but are not limited to): -Time in Artificial Intelligence -Time in Data Science -Temporal Logic and Reasoning -Spatial and temporal reasoning -Time in natural language processing -Reasoning about action and change -Complex event recognition and forecasting -Planning and planning languages -Ontologies of time and space-time -Belief and uncertainty in temporal knowledge -Temporal learning and discovery -Temporal data models and query languages -Temporal query processing and indexing -Temporal data mining -Time-series data management -Stream data management -Spatio-temporal data management, including moving objects -Data currency and expiration -Indeterminate and imprecise temporal data -Temporal constraints -Specification and verification of systems -Verification of software and web applications -Synthesis and execution -Model checking algorithms and implementations -Temporal logics for infinite-state systems -Runtime verification of temporal properties -Temporal aspects of agent- and policy-based systems -Temporal Networks *** Important Dates *** * Abstracts due: April 28, 2023 * Papers due: May 5, 2023 * Notification: June 16, 2023 * Camera-ready version: July 14, 2023 * Conference: September 25-26, 2023 *** Programme Committee Chairs *** Alexander Artikis, University of Piraeus & NCSR Demokritos, Greece Florian Bruse, University of Kassel, Germany Luke Hunsberger, Vassar College, USA -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Note: The submission times are 11:59 pm AoE time (Anywhere on Earth) SUBMISSION FORMATS Demonstrations ? Max. 5 pages + max. 1 additional page for references; ? (Optional) video or external material demonstrating the system; ? Publication in ACM UMAP 2023 Adjunct Proceedings; ? Presentation as a demo + poster at the conference. Description: Demonstrations will showcase research prototypes and commercially available products in a dedicated session. Demo submissions must be based on an implemented and tested system that pursues one or more innovative ideas in the interest areas of the conference. Demonstrations are an excellent and exciting way to showcase implementations and get valuable feedback from the community. Each demo submission must make clear which aspects of the system will be demonstrated, and how these will be demonstrated on-site as well as online. To better identify the value of demos, we also encourage authors to submit a pointer to a screencast (max. 5 minutes on Vimeo or YouTube) or any external material related to the demo (e.g., shared code on GitHub). Descriptions of demonstrations should have a length of max. 5 pages + 1 page of references in the new ACM single-column style. On an extra page (not to be published), submissions should include a specification of the technical requirements for demonstrating the system at UMAP 2023.? Late-Breaking Results ? Max. 7 pages + max. 2 additional pages for references; ? (Required) unpublished page with a list of questions the authors aim to get feedback on; ? Publication in ACM UMAP 2023 Adjunct Proceedings; ? Presentation as a poster at the conference. Description: Late-Breaking Results (LBR) are research-in-progress that must contain original and unpublished accounts of innovative research ideas, preliminary results, industry showcases, and system prototypes, addressing both the theory and practice of User Modeling, Adaptation, and Personalization. In addition, papers introducing recently started research projects or summarizing project results are welcome as well. We encourage researchers and practitioners to submit late-breaking work as it provides a unique opportunity for sharing valuable ideas, eliciting useful feedback on early-stage work, and fostering discussions and collaborations among colleagues. Late-Breaking Results papers have a length of up to 7 pages + 2 pages of references in the new ACM single-column style and will be presented to the conference as posters. On an extra page (not to be published), submissions should include a list of questions that the authors aim to get feedback on during the poster session at UMAP 2023. SUBMISSION AND REVIEW PROCESS Papers will be reviewed single-blind and do not need to be anonymised before submission Papers must be formatted according to the new workflow for ACM publications. The templates and instructions are available here: https://www.acm.org/publications/taps/word-template-workflow. Authors should submit their papers as single-column. The templates are available here (we strongly recommend the usage of LaTeX for the camera-ready papers to minimize the extent of reformatting): ? LaTeX (use \documentclass[manuscript,review]{acmart} in the sample- authordraft.tex file for single-column):? ? https://www.acm.org/binaries/content/assets/publications/consolidated-tex-template/acmart-primary.zip ? Overleaf (use \documentclass[manuscript,review]{acmart} for single-column): ? https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/acm-conference-proceedings-master-template/pnrfvrrdbfwt?? ? MS Word: ? https://www.acm.org/binaries/content/assets/publications/taps/acm_submission_template.docx?? Note: Accepted papers will require further revision to meet the requirements and page limits of the camera-ready format required by ACM. Instructions for the preparation of the camera-ready versions of the papers will be provided after acceptance. The ACM Code of Ethics gives the UMAP program committee the right to (desk-) reject papers that perpetuate harmful stereotypes, employ unethical research practices, or uncritically present outcomes/implications that clearly disadvantage minority communities.? Submit your papers in PDF format via EasyChair for ACM UMAP 2023 Demos and Late-Breaking Results at? https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=umap23 (choose ?New Submission? and make sure to select ?UMAP'23 - LBR and Demos? track). The review process will be single-blind, i.e., authors? names should be included in the papers. Submissions will be reviewed by at least two independent reviewers. They will be assessed based on their originality and novelty, potential contribution to the research field, potential impact in particular use cases, and the usefulness of presented experiences, as well as their overall readability. Papers that exceed the page limits or do not adhere to the formatting guidelines will be returned without review. UMAP has a *no dual submission* policy, which is why full paper submissions should not be currently under review at another publication venue. Further, UMAP operates under the ACM Conference Code of Conduct (https://www.acm.org/about-acm/policy-against-harassment) as well as the ACM Publication Policies and Procedures (https://www.acm.org/publications/policies). PUBLICATION AND PRESENTATION Accepted Demo and Late-Breaking Results papers will be published in the ACM UMAP 2023 Adjunct Proceedings in the ACM Digital Library. Papers will be accessible from the UMAP 2023 website through ACM OpenToc Service for one year after publication in the ACM Digital Library. All categories will be presented at the poster reception of the conference, in the form of a poster and/or a software demonstration following poster format. This form of presentation will provide presenters with an opportunity to obtain direct feedback about their work from a wide audience during the conference.? To be included in the Proceedings, at least one author of each accepted paper must register for the conference and present the paper there. LATE-BREAKING RESULTS AND DEMO CHAIRS ? Ludovico Boratto, University of Cagliari, Italy ? Alisa Rieger, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands ? Shaghayegh (Sherry) Sahebi, University at Albany ? SUNY, USA ? Contact: umap2023-lbr at um.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From frank.loebe at informatik.uni-leipzig.de Wed Apr 12 02:43:02 2023 From: frank.loebe at informatik.uni-leipzig.de (Frank Loebe) Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2023 04:43:02 +0200 Subject: [PlanetKR] =?utf-8?q?ISAO_2023=2C_July_10-14_-_Call_for_Particip?= =?utf-8?q?ation_=28Interdisciplinary_School_on_Applied_Ontology_held_in_S?= =?utf-8?b?aGVyYnJvb2tlLCBRdcOpYmVjLCBDYW5hZGEp?= Message-ID: <99b586fa-d5b0-c317-5b0c-a480f2bb33ff@informatik.uni-leipzig.de> Ready for a fiesta in ontology education?! Registration opens soon, its early phase ends on June 11; fees detailed below. If needed, request letters of invitation by email [1] (more below). = ISAO 2023 [2] - Call for Participation = The Interdisciplinary School on Applied Ontology (ISAO) is the premier educational forum for acquiring and deepening knowledge in ontology - its foundations, applications, and interconnections with related areas. Generously sponsored by the AIJ [3]. July 10-14, 2023 University of Sherbrooke, Qu?bec, Canada (in person only, _no_ online participation) [2] https://fois2023.griis.ca/isao-2023/ Target audience - PhD students - PostDocs and researchers - Ontology practitioners from business, industry and society Leading experts in applied ontology (AO), formal ontology, modeling, semantics and neighboring fields teach various basic courses as well as engage in interactive formats for deepening the knowledge of all participants, providing a full immersion experience in AO for all levels of expertise. As yet, facilitators include M. Gruninger, N. Guarino, G. Guizzardi, R. Hoehndorf, M. Keet, O. Kutz and B. Smith (more info below). == Important Dates & Schedule == (coarse structure as of early April) - Registration not before late April - Detailed program planned for early May - Event on July 10-14 (Mon-Fri) - circa 3 days (July 10-12/13) of courses (rather introductory) - circa 2 days (July 13-14) of interactive formats (incl. advanced) We offer 5-day and 2-day registrations, the latter aiming at additional networking and exchange during July 13-14, right before FOIS 2023 [4]. Early (by Sun, June 11) student fees amount to - 320 CAD|225 EUR|240 USD for all 5 days and - 250 CAD|175 EUR|190 USD for the last 2 days. Please find all fees below (student - academic - industry). Cheap accommodation options ease expenses preferentially for student participants. Grants depend on external funding. Early expressions of interest are very welcome, are considered non-binding, and support us in shaping the event further. Invitation letters (e.g. for visa purposes) will be issued on request (include your full work address). With any issues regarding ISAO 2023, please contact us at [1] iaoa.isao2023 at gmail.com Please feel invited to read more details below, to spread the word within your network, and to join us in July! Best regards, Frank Loebe and Daniele Porello = Details as of mid of April 2023 = == Content of Courses == (shall include, as of Apr 2023) - applied ontology overview - ontological analysis and principles - top-level ontologies - confirmed: tutorial on BFO (by Barry Smith) - bio-ontologies - representation of and logics for ontologies - ontology engineering, managements and methods - relations to - conceptual modeling - cognitive science - machine learning & artificial intelligence - semantic web & knowledge graphs - terminology == Facilitators == *Michael Gruninger* (Semantic Technologies Lab, University of Toronto, Canada) *Nicola Guarino* (Laboratory for Applied Ontology (LOA), ISTC-CNR, Trento, Italy) *Giancarlo Guizzardi* (Semantics, Cybersecurity and Services, University of Twente, The Netherlands) *Robert Hoehndorf* (Bio-Ontology Research Group, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal, Saudi-Arabia) *Maria Keet* (Knowledge Engineering, University of Cape Town, South Africa) *Oliver Kutz* (Cognitive and Conceptual Modeling Research Group, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy) *Barry Smith* (National Center for Ontological Research, Buffalo, New York, USA) + another pending inquiry == Fee Schedule == Fees are valid and payable in CAD. To indicate them in EUR/USD, fees have been approximated assuming 0.70 EUR/0.75 USD per 1 CAD (and rounding up). See [2,5] for a colored, graphical version. . currency CAD # EUR # USD category, period \ time early|late # early|late # early|late . ----------------------------------------------- - student, 5 days 320 |390 # 225 |275 # 240 |295 - student, last 2 days 250| 300 # 175| 210 # 190| 225 - academic, 5 days 525 |625 # 370 |440 # 395 |470 - academic, last 2 days 280| 330 # 200| 235 # 210| 250 - industry, 5 days 700 |850 # 490 |595 # 525 |640 - industry, last 2 days 425| 525 # 300| 370 # 320| 395 Early registration ends on Sunday, June 11. == Expenses & Grants (tentative info) == - budget accommodation available - in university student housing below 50 CAD/35 EUR/40 USD per night per person - single or double rooms; bathrooms shared with 2-3 rooms; WiFi - information about reserving rooms follows when registering for ISAO - depending on further 3rd party funding decisions, grants may materialize for - waiving or reducing ISAO fees - covering budget accommodation - partial coverage of travel expenses (if at all, in very few cases) == Location Details == University of Sherbrooke 2500, boulevard de l'Universit? Sherbrooke, Qu?bec Canada J1K 2R1 == Associated Events == Co-located with and - preceding FOIS 2023 [4], the International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems held from July 17-20 in person and September 18-20 online - sharing selected sessions with EINS 2023 [6] the first Interdisciplinary Summer School in Digital Health (?cole d'?t? interdisciplinaire en num?rique de la sant?; primarily in French) Complementing ESAO [7], the Educational Series of Applied Ontology, a continuous series of virtual educational sessions. == Sponsors == As yet we very much thank as sponsors - the Artificial Intelligence Journal (AIJ) [3] as well as - ScaDS.AI Dresden/Leipzig [8] for its contributions. == Organization == The ISAO series is run by the International Association for Ontology and its Applications (IAOA) [9] and is held jointly with FOIS every two years, typically in the week just before. ISAO 2023 is the 5th instance, after 2012/14/16/18 [10] and 5 years of an undesired gap, and hosted by the University of Sherbrooke, Qu?bec, Canada. Thanks to local organization support in 2023 by - Jean-Fran?ois Ethier - Christina Khnaisser - Anne-Marie Cloutier - Ang?le Gosselin - Sarah Bilodeau - Maryse Couture - Karine Gagnon - Jeanne Morin General Chairs - Frank Loebe (University of Leipzig, Germany) - Daniele Porello (University of Genoa, Italy) == Contact == [2] iaoa.isao2023 at gmail.com == References == [1] ISAO 2023 contact to chairs by email iaoa.isao2023 at gmail.com [2] ISAO 2023 website https://fois2023.griis.ca/isao-2023/ [several updates pending due to technical reasons; cf. also [5]] [3] Artificial Intelligence Journal https://aij.ijcai.org/ [4] FOIS 2023 website https://fois2023.griis.ca/ [5] ISAO 2023 post at the IAOA website [8] https://iaoa.org/index.php/2023/04/12/isao-2023-call-for-participation-fee-schedule/ [6] EINS 2023 website https://eins.griis.ca/ [7] ESAO series website https://wiki.iaoa.org/index.php/Edu:ESAO [8] ScaDS.AI Dresden/Leipzig - Center for Scalable Data Analytics and Artificial Intelligence https://scads.ai [9] IAOA website https://iaoa.org/ [10] ISAO history pages https://iaoa.org/index.php/isao-history/ From hypeuler at gmail.com Wed Apr 12 11:56:10 2023 From: hypeuler at gmail.com (Erman Acar) Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2023 13:56:10 +0200 Subject: [PlanetKR] CfP for KR4HI 2023 - Second International Workshop on Knowledge Representation for Hybrid Intelligence References: Message-ID: <286D5D2E-16F4-40C2-8900-10A966FE97C0@gmail.com> Dear Colleagues, KR4HI-2023 is the second International Workshop on Knowledge Representation for Hybrid intelligence which will be co-located with the 2nd? international conference on Hybrid-Human Artificial Intelligence (HHAI 2022) . The workshop will be held in Design Offices Macherei on June 26th, 2023. Submission Guidelines Submission format: Submissions for contributing papers must be original (i.e., not submitted to any other venue) and are required to be in CEUR format (see http://ceur-ws.org/HOWTOSUBMIT.html) with 12 pages + references (incl. acknowledgements +supplementary material if necessary). Previously published articles or preliminary works can also be submitted in the form of extended abstracts (2 pages + references). There will be a joint CEUR proceedings for all the workshops (final camera ready versions are due May 26th.) Submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=kr4hi2023 The review process: The review process will be carried out as single-blind. List of Topics The workshop has an interdisciplinary theme and welcomes any work from any discipline which uses a KR formalism in a HI scenario. The relevant themes to be used in a HI scenario include but are not limited to: ? Argumentation Frameworks ? Integrating Learning and Reasoning (Neuro-Symbolic systems, Statistical Relational Learning) ? Formal or Applied Ontologies (Knowledge Graphs, Description Logics) ? Causal Inference/Counterfactual Reasoning ? Constraint Programming ? Epistemic Logics and Theory of Mind ? Formal Concept Analysis ? Automated Reasoning, Robotics and Planning ? Non-monotonic Reasoning (Answer-set Programming, Datalog) ? Models of uncertainty (Probabilistic Graphical models, Probabilistic/Fuzzy Logics) ? Temporal logics (Single-agent / Multiagent Logics) ? Preferential/Contextual Reasoning Committees Program Committee tbd Organizing committee Erman Acar (ILLC, University of Amsterdam) Ana Ozaki (University of Bergen) Rafael Pen?aloza (University of Milano-Bicocca) Stefan Schlobach (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) Atefeh Zafarghandi (CWI & Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) Invited Speakers Thomas Bolander (Technical University of Denmark) Max van Duijn (Leiden University) Venue The workshop is co-located with the 2nd? international conference on Hybrid-Human Artificial Intelligence (HHAI 2023) , Design Offices Macherei in Munich, Germany, on June 26th, 2023. Contact For any question, please contact Erman Acar via email: Erman.Acar at uva.nl --- Erman Acar, PhD Assistant Professor (for XAI in Finance) Institute of Logic, Language and Computation Socially Intelligent Artificial Systems (SIAS) Group @ IvI University of Amsterdam -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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To provide a meeting point for researchers to discuss and exchange new ideas and hot topics related to parallel and distributed computing and their applications, Euro-Par 2023 will co-locate workshops that will be held on August 28 - August 29, 2023, the first two days of the conference. Accepted papers are published by Springer in LNCS. WORKSHOPS TO BE HELD ? AMTE 2023 The 3rd International Asynchronous Many-Task systems for Exascale 2023 http://amte2023.stellar-group.org/ ? HETEROPAR 2023 The 21st International Workshop on Algorithms, Models and Tools for Parallel Computing on Heterogeneous Platforms https://icl.utk.edu/workshops/heteropar2023/ ? PECS 2023 The 3rd International Workshop on Performance and Energy-efficiency in Concurrent and Distributed Systems https://pecs-workshop.github.io/ ? QUICKPAR?2023 The 1st International Workshop on Urgent Analytics for Distributed Computing https://quickpar.github.io/ ? RAW 2023 The 2nd International Workshop on Resource AWareness of Systems and Society https://www.cerciras.org/action-events/raw-workshop/raw-2023/call-for-papers/ ? TDLPP 2023 The 1st International Workshop on Tools for Data Locality, Power and Performance https://www.tdlpp-workshop.org/ ? WSCC 2023 The 1st International Workshop on Scalable Compute Continuum https://wscc2023.di.unipi.it/ WORKSHOP CO-CHAIRS ? Demetris Zeinalipour, University of Cyprus, Cyprus (dzeina-AT-ucy.ac.cy) ? Dora Blanco Heras, University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain (dora.blanco-AT- usc.es) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From hypeuler at gmail.com Wed Apr 12 12:47:27 2023 From: hypeuler at gmail.com (Erman Acar) Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2023 14:47:27 +0200 Subject: [PlanetKR] Fwd: CfP for KR4HI 2023 - Second International Workshop on Knowledge Representation for Hybrid Intelligence References: <010701877568ff91-4459c889-08fe-4cfd-a06d-64ea34feb444-000000@eu-central-1.amazonses.com> Message-ID: <88BC02F6-D1A4-415D-AF52-A6A99672247D@gmail.com> Sorry for the multiple posting. I just realised website and the submission deadline was missing. Website for the workshop (for more info): https://sites.google.com/view/kr4hi-2023/home Deadline for submission: May 1st. Best, Erman > Begin forwarded message: > > From: Erman Acar via PlanetKR > Subject: [PlanetKR] CfP for KR4HI 2023 - Second International Workshop on Knowledge Representation for Hybrid Intelligence > Date: 12 April 2023 at 14:20:28 CEST > To: planetkr at kr.org > Reply-To: Erman Acar > > > > Dear Colleagues, > > > > KR4HI-2023 is the second International Workshop on Knowledge Representation for Hybrid intelligence which will be co-located with the 2nd? international conference on Hybrid-Human Artificial Intelligence (HHAI 2022) . The workshop will be held in Design Offices Macherei on June 26th, 2023. > > Submission Guidelines > > Submission format: Submissions for contributing papers must be original (i.e., not submitted to any other venue) and are required to be in CEUR format (see http://ceur-ws.org/HOWTOSUBMIT.html) with 12 pages + references (incl. acknowledgements +supplementary material if necessary). Previously published articles or preliminary works can also be submitted in the form of extended abstracts (2 pages + references). There will be a joint CEUR proceedings for all the workshops (final camera ready versions are due May 26th.) > > Submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=kr4hi2023 > > The review process: The review process will be carried out as single-blind. > > List of Topics > > The workshop has an interdisciplinary theme and welcomes any work from any discipline which uses a KR formalism in a HI scenario. The relevant themes to be used in a HI scenario include but are not limited to: > > ? Argumentation Frameworks > > ? Integrating Learning and Reasoning (Neuro-Symbolic systems, Statistical Relational Learning) > > ? Formal or Applied Ontologies (Knowledge Graphs, Description Logics) > > ? Causal Inference/Counterfactual Reasoning > > ? Constraint Programming > > ? Epistemic Logics and Theory of Mind > > ? Formal Concept Analysis > > ? Automated Reasoning, Robotics and Planning > > ? Non-monotonic Reasoning (Answer-set Programming, Datalog) > > ? Models of uncertainty (Probabilistic Graphical models, Probabilistic/Fuzzy Logics) > > ? Temporal logics (Single-agent / Multiagent Logics) > > ? Preferential/Contextual Reasoning > > Committees > > Program Committee > > tbd > > Organizing committee > > Erman Acar (ILLC, University of Amsterdam) > > Ana Ozaki (University of Bergen) > > Rafael Pen?aloza (University of Milano-Bicocca) > > Stefan Schlobach (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) > > Atefeh Zafarghandi (CWI & Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) > > Invited Speakers > > Thomas Bolander (Technical University of Denmark) > Max van Duijn (Leiden University) > Venue > > The workshop is co-located with the 2nd? international conference on Hybrid-Human Artificial Intelligence (HHAI 2023) , Design Offices Macherei in Munich, Germany, on June 26th, 2023. > > Contact > > For any question, please contact Erman Acar via email: Erman.Acar at uva.nl > > > > --- > Erman Acar, PhD > > Assistant Professor (for XAI in Finance) > Institute of Logic, Language and Computation > Socially Intelligent Artificial Systems (SIAS) Group @ IvI > University of Amsterdam > > _______________________________________________ > PlanetKR mailing list > PlanetKR at kr.org > https://kr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/planetkr -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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This cognitive adequacy has important ramifications for the explainability of approaches in knowledge representation, which in its turn is essential for the trustworthiness of these approaches. However, exactly how cognitive adequacy is ensured has been often left implicit, and connections with cognitive science and psychology have only recently been taken up. The goal of this workshop is to bring together experts from fields including artificial intelligence, psychology, cognitive science and philosophy to discuss important questions related to cognitive aspects of knowledge representation, such as: - How can we study the cognitive adequacy of approaches in AI? - Are declarative approaches cognitively more adequate than other approaches in AI? - What is the connection between cognitive adequacy and explanatory potential? - How to develop benchmarks for studying cognitive aspects of AI? - Which results from psychology are relevant for AI? - What is the role of the normative-descriptive distinction in current developments in AI? ** CALL FOR PAPERS ** We invite three kinds of submissions to CAKR: - long papers (12 pages plus one page for references) reporting unpublished research, - short papers (5 pages plus one page for references) reporting unpublished research, and - extended abstracts (3 pages including references) presenting work relevant to the workshop already published in other conferences or journals. Such an abstract should summarize the contributions of the article and its relevance for the workshop, as well as include bibliographic details of the article and a link to a pdf of the article. Submissions should be formatted in the (one column) CEUR-format (see: http://ceur-ws.org/HOWTOSUBMIT.html). Submissions will be peer-reviewed to ensure quality and relevance to the workshop. Reviewing will be inclusive, i.e. reviews will ensure relevance for the workshop and basic quality control. Submissions are handled through the EasyChair conference management system (under ''Workshop / Tutorial Submission'', choose 'Cognitive Aspects of Knowledge Representation''): https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=kr2023 An informal proceedings containing all submissions will be published online on the CEUR-WS.org website. All rights are retained by the authors. 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Awardees receive a plaque accompanied by a prize of $5,000, and will be recognized at the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence through an agreement with the IJCAI Board of Trustees. After decades of progress in the theory, research and development of AI, AI applications are increasingly moving into the commercial sector. A great deal of pioneering application-level work is being done by those transferring research results into industry?from startups to large corporations?and this is influencing commerce and the broad public in a wide variety of ways. This award complements the numerous academic, best-paper and related awards, in that it focuses on innovators of fielded AI applications. It is intended especially to recognize those who are not only active in the academic community, but also playing key roles in AI commercialization. The award honors these innovators and highlights their achievements (and thus the benefit of AI techniques) to computing professionals and the public at large. The award committee will consider applications that are open-source or proprietary and that may or may not involve hardware. Evaluation Criteria: The criteria include the following, but there is no fixed weighting of them: * Novelty of application area * Novelty and technical excellence of the approach * Importance of AI techniques for the approach * Actual and predicted societal benefits of the fielded application Eligibility Criteria: Any individual or team, worldwide, is eligible for the award. ****************** Nomination Procedure: ****************** One nomination and three endorsements must be submitted. The nomination must identify the individual or team members, describe their fielded AI system, and explain how it addresses the award criteria. The nomination document itself should not be longer than 4000 words (10 pages) including all tables, references, and figures. The nomination may include additional links, however, these links will not be reviewed but may be examined by the committee. The nomination must be written by a member of ACM SIGAI. Two of the endorsements must be from members of ACM or ACM SIGAI. Endorsements are intended to be brief statements of support (typically 1-2 paragraphs and should not exceed 1000 words) that provide additional perspective on the nomination itself. 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The workshops provide a venue to discuss and explore emerging areas of User Modeling and Adaptive Hypermedia research with a group of like-minded researchers and practitioners from industry and academia. There will be a conference adjunct proceedings published by ACM where all the workshop papers will be published. ? CRUM 2023: The first edition of the workshop on Context Representation in User Modelling https://crum-workshop.github.io/ ? ExUM 2023: 5th Workshop on Explainable User Models and Personalised Systems http://www.di.uniba.it/~swap/exum ? GMAP 2023: 2nd Workshop on Group Modelling, Adaptation and Personalisation https://sites.google.com/view/gmap2023 ? HAAPIE 2023: 8th International Workshop on Human Aspects in Adaptive and Personalised Interactive Environments http://haapie.cs.ucy.ac.cy ? PATCH 2023: The 14th International Workshop on Personalised Access to Cultural Heritage https://patch2023.di.unito.it/ ? 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We encourage all submissions that fall in the area of the conference, and particularly those that have a practical (hands-on) component that helps attendees learn new technologies in eScience. We also encourage submissions that disseminate new technologies in eScience to a more diverse audience. TUTORIAL SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Tutorial proposals should be submitted per email as a single pdf file; the file should include (1) a cover sheet and (2) an extended abstract. Submission email: tutorials at escience-conference.org . REQUIREMENTS FOR THE COVER SHEET The cover sheet should include the following elements: ? Full title ? Abstract (300 words) ? Brief schedule - please plan for a half-day tutorial (approx 3 hours plus breaks) ? Intended audience (introductory, intermediate, advanced) ? Prerequisite knowledge or skills required for attendees ? Previous offerings of the tutorial, if any ? Detailed contact information of all presenters (and indication of the main contact person) ? Brief biography (max. 2 paragraphs) for each presenter, highlighting relevant teaching experience REQUIREMENTS FOR THE EXTENDED ABSTRACT The extended abstract (up to 2 pages) should include the following sections: ? Motivation ? Brief outline of the topics to be covered ? Detailed agenda of the tutorial ? Links to related resources ? Type of support materials to be supplied to attendees ? Requirements for online conference system KEY DATES ? Tutorial Submissions Due: Friday, May 26, 2023 (AoE) ? Tutorial Acceptance: Friday, June 30, 2023 ? Tutorials at the Conference: October 9-10, 2023 CONTACT INFORMATION Tutorial Chairs (tutorials at escience-conference.org) ? Silvina Caino-Lores, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, USA ? Philipp Gschwandtner, University of Innsbruck, Austria ORGANISATION General Chair ? George Angelos Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Technical Program Co-Chairs ? Rafael Ferreira da Silva, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA ? 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URL: From anna.bernasconi at polimi.it Tue Apr 18 10:47:09 2023 From: anna.bernasconi at polimi.it (Anna Bernasconi) Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2023 10:47:09 +0000 Subject: [PlanetKR] [ER 2023][CFP] The 42nd International Conference on Conceptual Modeling: Call for Papers and co-located events Message-ID: (apologies for cross-posting) ============================ 42nd International Conference on Conceptual Modeling (ER 2023) Lisbon, Portugal 06 - 09 November 2023 https://er2023.inesc-id.pt/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/ERconf LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/er-2023 ============================ The International Conference on Conceptual Modeling is the main international forum for discussing the state of the art, emerging issues, and future challenges in research and practice on conceptual modeling. Topics of interest span the entire spectrum of conceptual modeling including research and practice in areas such as theories of concepts and ontologies underlying conceptual modeling, techniques for transforming conceptual models into effective implementations, and methods and tools for developing and communicating conceptual models. ER 2023 will be held in Lisbon, Portugal, at the Congress Center of the Instituto Superior T?cnico located in Alameda, in the heart of Lisbon. In this edition, the conference includes the following calls for papers: - Main Papers Track - Tutorials Proposals Track - Forum Track - Symposium on Conceptual Modeling Education (SCME) - Posters and Demonstrations Track - Doctoral Consortium Track - Several well-established or original workshops (CD4IoR, CMLS, CMOMM4FAIR, EmpER, JUSMOD, OntoCom, QUAMES, and SmartFood) ============================ Call for Papers ============================ We welcome submissions of original research on a variety of topics on conceptual modeling. These include well-established areas of research and practice, such as modeling languages and techniques, model theories, methods and tools for developing, transforming, implementing and communicating conceptual models. Submissions that lead to new foundations, links, applications, or enlarge current boundaries of conceptual modeling are especially welcome. We also invite industry reports and vision papers. ** Webpage: https://er2023.inesc-id.pt/calls/papers/ ** For returning authors, please note the following changes: - The review process is double-blind and hence submissions must be anonymized; - Papers are limited to 16 pages excluding references. ** The authors of selected papers will be invited to prepare a substantially revised and extended version to a Special Issue in Elsevier?s Data & Knowledge Engineering. ** Important dates (23:59 AoE) Abstracts submission (mandatory): 17 May 2023 Paper submission: 24 May 2023 Author notification: 24 July 2023 Camera-ready papers and author registration: 11 September 2023 ============================ Call for Tutorial Proposals ============================ ER tutorials introduce general or special topics in ER and relevant neighboring areas. A focus on specific tools and methodologies can still be useful to offer concrete examples and hands-on activities to participants. The topics of interest span the entire spectrum of conceptual modeling including research and practice. ** Webpage: https://er2023.inesc-id.pt/calls/tutorials/ ** Important dates (23:59 AoE) Tutorial proposals submission: 29 May 2023 Tutorial acceptance notification: 12 June 2023 Tutorial camera-ready descriptions: 30 June 2023 ============================ Call for Papers (Doctoral Consortium) ============================ The ER 2023 Doctoral Consortium will offer Ph.D. students in the early stages of their work, with a research problem in the field of conceptual modeling already defined, and eventually also early results produced, the opportunity to present and discuss that and to interact with other researchers and experts in the field, who can provide valuable and constructive feedback. ** Webpage: https://er2023.inesc-id.pt/calls/call-for-doctoral-consortium/ ** Important dates (23:59 AoE) Deadline for submissions: June 10, 2023 Notification of acceptance: July 24, 2023 Camera-ready deadline: September 20, 2023 ============================ Call for Papers (SCME23: 7th Symposium on Conceptual Modeling Education) ============================ The 7th Symposium on Conceptual Modeling Education (SCME 2023) is aimed at providing a forum for discussing (1) the education and teaching of aspects related to conceptual modeling, (2) methods and tools for developing and communicating conceptual modeling techniques for transforming conceptual models into effective implementations, and (3) case studies of interesting projects on conceptual modeling education ** Webpage: https://er2023.inesc-id.pt/calls/call-for-papers-scme-2023/ ** Important dates (23:59 AoE) Submission deadline: July 10, 2023 Notification of acceptance: September 4, 2023 Camera-ready Submission: September 21, 2023 ============================ Call for Posters & Demos ============================ The ER Posters & Demos Session 2023 is intended to showcase work in progress in the field of conceptual modeling, covering any of the conference?s topics. This session will provide an opportunity to present and discuss emerging methods and technologies with researchers and practitioners, allowing the presenters to gather relevant feedback regarding their ongoing work. ** Webpage: https://er2023.inesc-id.pt/calls/call-for-posters-demos/ ** Important dates (23:59 AoE) Poster & Demos Paper Submission: 2 August 2023 Author Notification: 4 September 2023 Camera-ready: 20 September 2023 ============================ Call for Forum ============================ The ER Forum track is a vibrant and interactive platform for presenting and discussing novel and diverse research reports and artifacts on the full range of conceptual modeling topics. Papers include new and promising research results, novel applications, and experience reports, proposed research endeavors still in early stages, and updates from earlier work. Innovation prevails over maturity, in particular regarding emerging new research topics. The main goal of the track is to facilitate the interaction, discussion and exchange of ideas among presenters and participants. ** Webpage: https://er2023.inesc-id.pt/calls/call-for-er-forum/ ** Important dates (23:59 AoE) Forum Abstracts Submission: 28 August 2023 Forum Papers Submission: 4 September 2023 Author Notification: 25 September 2023 Camera-ready: 16 October 2023 ============================ Workshops ============================ CD4IoR: 1st Workshop on Conceptual Design for Internet of Robotic Things --> https://pros.unicam.it/cd4iort CMLS: 4th International Workshop on Conceptual Modeling for Life Sciences --> http://www.bioinformatics.deib.polimi.it/cmls2023 CMOMM4FAIR: 3rd Workshop on Conceptual Modeling, Ontologies and (Meta)data Management for Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable (FAIR) Data --> http://cmomm4fair2023.github.io EmpER: 6th International Workshop on Empirical Methods in Conceptual Modeling --> https://emper-workshop.github.io/2023 JUSMOD: 2nd International Workshop on Digital Justice, Digital Law and Conceptual Modeling --> https://jusmod2023.github.io OntoCom: 9th International Workshop on Ontologies and Conceptual Modeling --> https://ontocomworkshops.github.io/OntoCom2023 QUAMES: 4th International Workshop on Quality and Measurement of Model-Driven Software Development --> https://pros.webs.upv.es/sites/quames_2023 SmartFood: 1st Workshop on Controlled Vocabularies and Data Platforms for Smart Food Systems --> https://sites.google.com/view/smartfoodworkshop ============================ Organizers ============================ **General Chairs Jos? Borbinha; INESC-ID, IST, Universidade de Lisboa; Portugal Giancarlo Guizzardi; University of Twente; The Netherlands **Program Chairs Joa?o Paulo Andrade Almeida; Federal University of Espi?rito Santo; Brazil Jelena Zdravkovic; Stockholm University; Sweden Sebastian Link; University of Auckland; New Zealand Industrial **Industrial Track Chairs Wolfgang Maass; Saarland University; Germany Pedro Sousa; INESC-ID, IST, Universidade de Lisboa; Portugal **Forum Chairs Sotirios Liaskos; York University; Canada David Aveiro; Universidade da Madeira; Portugal **Symposium on Conceptual Modeling Education (SCME) Chairs Maria Keet; University of Cape Town; South Africa Fernanda Bai?o; Pontifical Catholic University of Rio De Janeiro; Brazil Estefania Serral; KU Leuven; Belgium **Panels Chairs Veda Storey; Georgia State University; USA Oscar Pastor; Universidad Politecnica di Valencia; Spain **Posters and Demos Chairs Sergio de Cesare; University of Westminster; UK Miguel Mira da Silva; INOV, IST, University of Lisbon; Portugal **Tutorials Chairs Pnina Soffer; University of Haifa; Israel Maribel Yasmina Santos; University of Minho; Portugal **Workshops Chairs Joa?o Arau?jo; Universidade Nova de Lisboa; Portugal Tiago Prince Sales; University of Twente; The Netherlands **Doctoral Consortium Committee Helena Sofia Pinto; INESC-ID, IST, Universidade de Lisboa; Portugal Ladjel Bellatreche; LIAS/ENSMA; France Simon Hacks; University of Southern Denmark; Denmark **Publicity Chairs Anna Bernasconi; Politecnico di Milano; Italy Claudenir Morais Fonseca; University of Twente; The Netherlands **Sponsorship Chairs Luis Bonino; University of Twente; The Netherlands S?rgio Guerreiro; INESC-ID, IST, Universidade de Lisboa; Portugal **Local Committee Andr? 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Coherence is a key property of any well-organized text and it plays a fundamental role in human discourse processing as well as in a number of NLP applications. Inspired by previous literature on coherence modeling, the DisCoTEX task will be articulated into two subtasks: 1. Last sentence classification: this is conceived as a binary classification task. Specifically, given a short textual passage and an individual sentence, participants will be asked to predict whether the sentence follows or not, thus joining it to the passage gives out a coherent or incoherent passage. 2. Human score prediction: this is conceived as a regression task in which participants will be asked to predict the average coherence score assigned by human raters to short passages (either in their original or modified version). Participants are free to participate in either one of them or both. More details about the task definition, source data and evaluation are available at the task website . Given the novelty of the task and the crucial role that coherence modeling plays in a variety of application scenarios, we expect to attract groups from communities working on distinct fields, such as automatic essay scoring, readability assessment and document summarization. Moreover, we hope that beyond the competition, the task would rise the interest of scholars working on theoretical models of coherence from a linguistic and a cognitive perspective, as well as those involved in the interpretability of current language models based on deep learning networks. ----------------------- Important Dates ----------------------- 7th February 2023: training data available to participants 2nd ? 9 May 2023: test data available (evaluation window starts) 30th May 2023: results notification to participants 14th June 2023: technical report from participants due to task organizers 28th June 2023: final reports from task organizers due to EVALITA chairs 10th July 2023: review deadline 25th July 2023: camera ready version deadline 7th-8th September 2023: EVALITA workshop in Parma Updates will be made available at the Evalita 2023 website, check it often. ---------------- Organizers ---------------- Dominique Brunato* Davide Colla** Felice Dell'Orletta* Irene Dini* Daniele Paolo Radicioni** Andrea Amelio Ravelli*** * ItaliaNLP Lab, Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale "Antonio Zampolli" (ILC-CNR), Pisa ** Dipartimento di Informatica, Universit? degli Studi di Torino *** Universit? di Bologna, Bologna ---------------------------------------------------------------- Contacts: discotex.evalita2023 at gmail.com ---------------------------------------------------------------- Feel free to contact us for further information! 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URL: From ghidini at fbk.eu Tue Apr 18 12:43:51 2023 From: ghidini at fbk.eu (Chiara Ghidini) Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2023 14:43:51 +0200 Subject: [PlanetKR] Spotlight Seminar on AI - YOSHUA BENGIO - April 20 Message-ID: [* Apologies in case of multiple posting *] The Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence is pleased to announce the next seminar of its Spotlight Seminars on AI initiative: April, 20 ? 5:00PM (CEST) Title: Towards Large Neural Networks that can Reason Speaker: YOUSHUA BENGIO, Universit? de Montr?al The aim of the seminar series is to illustrate, explore and discuss current scientific challenges, trends, and possibilities in all branches of our articulated research field. The seminars will be held virtually on the YouTube channel of the Association (https://www.youtube.com/c/AIxIAit), on a monthly basis (and made permanently available on that channel), by leading Italian researchers as well as by top international scientists. The seminars are mainly aimed at a broad audience interested in AI research, and they are also included in the Italian PhD programme in Artificial Intelligence; indeed, AIxIA warmly encourages the attendance of young scientists and PhD students. ? Bio: Yoshua Bengio is recognized worldwide as one of the leading experts in artificial intelligence, known for his conceptual and engineering breakthroughs in artificial neural networks and deep learning. He is a Full Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Operations Research at Universit? de Montr?al and the Founder and Scientific Director of Mila ? Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute, one of the largest academic institutes in deep learning and one of the three federally-funded centers of excellence in AI research and innovation in Canada. He began his studies in Montreal, where he obtained his Ph.D. in Computer Science from McGill University in 1992. After completing a postdoctoral fellowship at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) on statistical learning and sequential data, he completed a second postdoc at AT&T Bell Laboratories, in Holmdel, NJ, on learning and vision algorithms in 1993. That same year, he returned to Montreal and joined UdeM as a faculty member. In 2016, he became the Scientific Director of IVADO. He is Co-Director of the CIFAR Learning in Machines & Brains program that funded the initial breakthroughs in deep learning and since 2019, holds a Canada CIFAR AI Chair and is Co-Chair of Canada?s Advisory Council on AI. In 2022, Yoshua Bengio became the most cited computer scientist in the world (h-index). Concerned about the social impact of AI, he actively took part in the conception of the Montreal Declaration for the Responsible Development of Artificial Intelligence. His goal is to contribute to uncovering the principles giving rise to intelligence through learning while favouring the development of AI for the benefit of all. Yoshua Bengio was made an Officer of the Order of Canada and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2017 and in 2020, became a Fellow of the Royal Society of London. From 2000 to 2019, he held the Canada Research Chair in Statistical Learning Algorithms. He is a member of the NeurIPS Foundation advisory board and Co-Founder of the ICLR conference. His scientific contributions have earned him numerous awards, including the 2019 Killam Prize for Natural Sciences, the 2017 Government of Qu?bec Marie-Victorin Award, the 2018 Lifetime Achievement Award from the Canadian AI Association, the Prix d?excellence FRQNT (2019), the Medal of the 50th Anniversary of the Ministry of International Relations and Francophonie (2018), the 2019 IEEE CIS Neural Networks Pioneer Award, Acfas?s Urgel-Archambault Prize (2009) and in 2017, he was named Radio-Canada?s Scientist of the Year. He is the 2018 laureate of the A.M. Turing Award, ?the Nobel Prize of Computing,? alongside Geoffrey Hinton and Yann LeCun for their important contributions and advances in deep learning. In 2022, he was appointed Knight of the Legion of Honor by France and named co-laureate of Spain?s Princess of Asturias Award for technical and scientific research. Abstract: Current neural networks, such as large language models and those based on images or paired images and text, are trained to fit their training data, with very little in their architecture that could force them to produce answers that are coherent with respect to individual pieces of knowledge. In that sense, they seem to be missing some of the reasoning abilities and causal understanding that humans can benefit from, and this may result in incoherent outputs and mistakes that humans would typically not make, especially out-of-distribution. This raises the larger question of how higher-level cognitive abilities could be incorporated in deep learning. We know a lot from neuroscience and cognitive science about them and that can be used to design new architectures and training frameworks with the corresponding inductive biases. This has motivated a novel form of deep learning called generative flow networks or GFlowNets, borrowing from reinforcement learning, generative models and amortized variational inference. GFlowNets can sequentially generate compositional data structures whose content may be analogous to our thoughts, and they can be trained to sample them with probability proportional to some given or learned reward function that corresponds with the coherence of the context and generated answer with a structured world model. A GFlowNet can thus be trained to perform amortized probabilistic inference that is consistent with the pieces of knowledge of the world model, including in the sense of generating samples from a Bayesian posterior over world models. Like with amortized variational methods, this can be used to learn the world model itself. That arrangement is similar to model-based reinforcement learning (where we separate the policy from the world model) but concerns the learning of a policy that chooses what internal computation (i.e. reasoning) to perform, rather than acting in the world. Unlike with state-of-the-art deep learning and reinforcement learning, this makes it easy to incorporate inductive biases about high-level cognition and causality in the world model itself, such as sparse causal dependencies and reusable modular pieces of knowledge. It means that the GFlowNet probabilistic inference machine can be trained by querying the world model, without having to directly interact with the real world, and can be as large and trained with as many queries as our computational capabilities allow: unlike current deep nets, its effective capacity is not limited by the size of the externally observed data. This is convenient because probabilistic inference is generally intractable and may thus require high capacity in order to be approximated with a fast neural net. The mathematical foundations of GFlowNets and how they constitute an interesting ML-based alternative to MCMC inference will be briefly explained and recent work on GFlowNets highlighted. ? The Spotlight Seminars on AI Committee, Giuseppe De Giacomo Chiara Ghidini Gianluigi Greco Marco Maratea -- -- Le informazioni contenute nella presente comunicazione sono di natura? privata e come tali sono da considerarsi riservate ed indirizzate? esclusivamente ai destinatari indicati e per le finalit? strettamente? legate al relativo contenuto. Se avete ricevuto questo messaggio per? errore, vi preghiamo di eliminarlo e di inviare una comunicazione? all?indirizzo e-mail del mittente. -- The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. 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We invite participants to submit original and unpublished works as posters and/or demos to the Euro-Par 2023 conference presenting the latest breakthroughs which have been developed in H2020, Horizon Europe, EuroHPC JU, national, regional and international R&D projects. Topics of interest should cover the conference scope and tracks (please visit the conference web site for more information about the topics covered by Euro-Par). The poster/demo sessions will provide an excellent opportunity for students and researchers to present early- stage research results and receive valuable feedback on their ongoing research from the community. SUBMISSION AND REVIEW PROCESS The authors are invited to submit poster and/or demo papers formatted in the Springer LNCS style: http://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines and not exceeding 4 pages (including references, etc.) Submission should be done via Easy Chair, using the following link: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=europar2023 ? Submissions to the poster and demo track will be evaluated through a comprehensive peer-review process by the Poster and Demo Track Program Committee. The posters and demos will be evaluated in terms of technical merit, innovation, and the potential to stimulate interesting discussions and exchange of ideas at the conference. ? The authors of accepted poster and demo papers must register and present them at the conference. Accepted poster and demo papers will be included in the workshop proceedings to be published by Springer in LNCS after the conference. ? ? BEST POSTER AND DEMO AWARD? All posters and demos will be considered for the Best Poster Award and the Best Demo Award, respectively. Decisions will be based on the quality of the submission, as well as live interactions with the Committee during the conference. ? ? IMPORTANT DATES ? Deadline for Submission of Posters/Demos: May 20, 2023 ? Notification of Acceptance: July 1, 2023 ? ? POSTER & DEMO CHAIR ? George Pallis, University of Cyprus, Cyprus (pallis-AT-ucy.ac.cy) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From francesco.belardinelli at univ-evry.fr Tue Apr 18 12:21:12 2023 From: francesco.belardinelli at univ-evry.fr (Francesco Belardinelli) Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2023 14:21:12 +0200 Subject: [PlanetKR] Research Assistant/Research Associate in Safe Reinforcement Learning through Formal Methods, Imperial College London, Full-time, Fixed term to start October 2023 for 24 months Message-ID: This post of Research Assistant/Associate (post-doctoral) is to conduct research on /safe reinforcement learning through formal methods//, /under the direction of Dr Francesco Belardinelli, within the EPSRC New Investigator Award /An Abstraction-based Technique for Safe Reinforcement Learning/. Autonomous agents learning to act in unknown environments have been attracting research interest due to their wider implications for AI, as well as for their applications in key domains, including robotics, network optimisation, resource allocation. Currently, one of the most successful approaches is reinforcement learning (RL). However, to learn how to act, agents are required to explore the environment, which in safety-critical scenarios means that they might take dangerous actions, possibly harming themselves or even putting human lives at risk. The main goal of this project is to develop Safe through Abstraction (multi-agent) Reinforcement learning (StAR), a framework to formally guarantee the safe behaviour of agents learning to act in unknown environments, through the satisfaction of safety constraints by the policies synthesized through RL, both at training and test time. We aim at combining RL and formal methods to ensure the satisfaction of constraints expressed in (probabilistic) temporal logic (PTL) in multi-agent environments. The successful applicant will join the Formal Methods in AI (FMAI) research group, led by Dr Belardinelli. For further information on the group and related projects, see: https://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~fbelard/). The position offers an exciting opportunity for conducting internationally leading and impactful research in safe reinforcement learning. The postholder will be responsible for researching and delivering abstraction-based methods to guarantee the safe and trustworthy behaviour of autonomous agents based on the most widely used RL algorithms. They will also be expected to submit publications to top-tier conferences and journals in AI.// To apply, you must have a strong computer science background with a focus on AI, have experience, including a proven publication track-record, in at least two of the following areas, as well as ability and willingness to become familiar with the other: /Logic-based languages and formal methods; Formal verification, including model checking; (safe) Reinforcement/. You should also have:// * Research Assistant: A Master?s degree (or equivalent) in computer science or a related area. * Research Associate: A PhD degree (or equivalent) in computer science or a related area. * Familiarity with /standard reinforcement learning libraries/data analysis/. * Excellent communication skills and ability to work with others. * Ability to organise your own work and set priorities to meet deadlines. *This position is full-time, fixed term, to start October 2023 for 24 months* *To apply* Visit https://www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/ and search using reference ENG02573. In addition to completing the online application, candidates should attach: * A full CV, with a list of all publications * A 2-page research statement indicating what you see are interesting research issues relating to the above post and why your expertise is relevant. Informal enquiries related to the position should be directed to Dr. Francesco Belardinelli: francesco.belardinelli at imperial.ac.uk. 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URL: From giovanni.casini at isti.cnr.it Wed Apr 19 08:38:25 2023 From: giovanni.casini at isti.cnr.it (giovanni.casini) Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2023 10:38:25 +0200 Subject: [PlanetKR] CfP - ENIGMA2023 Workshop @ KR2023 Message-ID: ENIGMA 2023 1st Workshop on AI-driven heterogeneous data management : Completing, merging, handling inconsistencies and query-answering *?Apologies?if?you?receive?multiple?copies?of?this?call?* ============================== Call for Papers ENIGMA2023 @ KR2023 Dates: 2-4 September 2023 (exact day TBD) Rhodes, Greece * Deadlines: 24 May & 31 May 2023 * ============================== ????1st Workshop on AI-driven heterogeneous data management : Completing, merging, handling inconsistencies and query-answering (ENIGMA) ????????https://sites.google.com/view/enigma-2023 ENIGMA 2023 is co-located with the 20th International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KR 2023) https://kr.org/KR2023/. Real-world applications are increasingly fed by large-scale, multi-source, heterogeneous information/data. This concerns private companies as well as public institutions. Urban networks are a typical example of applications that need to manage considerable amounts of heterogenous data. Heterogeneity relates to the presence of different data forms and formats, such as digital images, structured and unstructured files, analog maps, incomplete and unreliable data, etc.? Alongside the notion of data, there are also constraints, knowledge and preferences that are often under-exploited in real-world applications. In order to process and manage such heterogeneous data and information, it is important to identify the relevant elements in each data source, to detect them and finally represent them in a common format that can be easily queried. The objective of this workshop is to bridge fundamental research in knowledge representation and reasoning with applied research. The aim is to encourage the emergence of novel solutions for representing, combining, classifying, clustering, integrating domain knowledge, repairing, explaining and querying data/information of different nature. The workshop will be held in Rhodes, Greece, between the 2nd and the 4th September 2023 (date TBD). Workshop activities will include one invited talk and presentations of technical papers. -- Topics -- Topics of interest include but are not limited to: - Languages for heterogeneous information representation - Data completion - Mapping heterogeneous data to KR languages - Defeasible reasoning - Merging heterogeneous information - Inconsistency handling - Uncertainty reasoning - Graphical models - Query-answering based on heterogeneous data - Knowledge Representation and Machine Learning - Similarity measures and clustering? - Explainability - Applications: urban networks data, access control, etc. -- Invited speaker -- TBA -- Submission Information -- We accept three kinds of submissions: - full papers: 9 pages at most - short papers: 4 pages at most - long abstracts 2 pages at most The page limits have to be intended excluding bibliography and acknowledgments. All papers must be formatted using the KR style, that can be downloaded from the KR website (https://kr.org/KR2023/submission-guidelines/). Papers must be submitted in PDF only. Please submit via Easychair to: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=enigma2023 Papers already published or accepted for publication at other conferences are also welcome, provided that the original publication is mentioned in a footnote on the first page and the submission at ENIGMA 2023 falls within the authors? rights. In the same vein, papers under review for other conferences can be submitted with a similar indication on their front page. -- Workshop Proceedings -- The accepted papers will be at least published online as a technical report. Depending on the number of accepted papers we intend to: - Publish the proceedings in the CEUR Workshop Proceedings series (http://ceur-ws.org/). The copyright of papers would remain with the authors. - Organise a Journal special issue. -- Important Dates -- All dates are 'Anywhere on Earth', namely 23:59 UTC-12. - Paper registration deadline: 24 May 2023 - Paper submission deadline: 31 May 2023 - Notification to authors: 4 July 2023 - Camera ready version: TBD - Workshop dates: 2-4 September 2023 (exact date TBD) -- Workshop Co-Chairs -- - Salem Benferhat (CNRS & Universit? d?Artois, France) - Giovanni Casini (CNR - ISTI, Italy) - Thomas Meyer (CAIR - University of Cape Town, South Africa) - Andrea Tettamanzi (Universit? C?te d?Azur, France) -- Program Committee -- ? Alessandro Antonucci, Polo universitario Lugano. Switzerland ? Ofer Arieli, Tel-Aviv Academic College. Israel ? Ahlame Begdouri, University of Fez. Morocco ? Isabelle Bloch, Sorbonne Universit?. France ? Richard Booth, Cardiff University. The United Kingdom ? Nanee Chahinian, IRD Montpellier, France ? Carol Delenne, University of Montpellier. France ? Dragan Doder, Utrecht university. The Netherlands ? Eduardo Ferm?, Universidade da Madeira. Portugal ? Laura Giordano, Universit? del Piemonte Orientale. Italy ? Anthony Hunter, University College London. The United Kingdom ? Gabriele Kern-Isberner, TU Dortmund. Germany ? S?bastien Konieczny, CRIL, CNRS, University of Artois. France ? Vanina Martinez, CONICET - Universidad de Buenos Aires. Argentina ? Ram?n Pino P?rez, CRIL, CNRS, University of Artois. France ? Tjitze Rienstra, Maastricht University. The Netherlands ? Gerardo Simari, CONICET - Universidad Nacional del Sur. Argentina ? Guillermo Simari, Universidad Nacional del Sur. Argentina ? Umberto Straccia, CNR - ISTI. Italy ? Ivan Jos? Varzinczak, Universit? Paris 8. France ? Leon van der Torre, University of Luxembourg. Luxembourg ? -- Further Information -- Please visit the workshop website (https://sites.google.com/view/enigma-2023/home-page) for further information and regular updates. Contact?email:?enigma2023 at easychair.org From lucia.gomez_alvarez at tu-dresden.de Wed Apr 19 12:20:33 2023 From: lucia.gomez_alvarez at tu-dresden.de (Lucia Gomez Alvarez) Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2023 12:20:33 +0000 Subject: [PlanetKR] Call for Papers: KODIS'23, the Workshop on Knowledge Diversity, collocated with KR'23 Message-ID: <8b312b152a0a4658b20a0b4e311d3279@tu-dresden.de> (apologies for cross-posting) KoDis: Workshop on Knowledge Diversity ================================== Co-located with the 20th International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KR 2023), September 2-8, 2023 Rhodes, Greece https://kodis23.wordpress.com == IMPORTANT DATES == Workshop paper submission deadline: May 31, 2023 (AOE) Workshop paper notification: July 4, 2023 (AOE) Workshop dates: September 2-4, 2023 == AIMS AND SCOPE == KoDis intends to create a space of confluence and a forum for discussion for researchers interested in knowledge diversity in a wide sense, including diversity in terms of diverging perspectives, different beliefs, semantic heterogeneity and others. The importance of understanding and handling the different forms of diversity that manifest between knowledge formalisations (ontologies, knowledge bases, or knowledge graphs) is widely recognised and has led to the proposal of a variety of systems of representation, tackling overlapping aspects of this phenomenon. Besides understanding the phenomenon and considering formal models for the representation of knowledge diversity, we are interested in the variety of reasoning problems that emerge in this context, including reasoning with possibly conflicting sources, interpreting knowledge from alternative viewpoints, consolidating the diversity as uncertainty, reasoning by means of argumentation between the sources and pursuing knowledge aggregations among others. The following is a non-exhaustive list of topics of interest. - Philosophical and cognitive analysis of knowledge diversity. - Formal models for the representation of knowledge diversity. - Ontological approaches capturing multiple perspectives and viewpoints. - Context and concept formation in such systems. - Consistency (or not) in multi-perspective systems; assessment and mitigation of inconsistencies. - Communication between knowledge-diverse systems. - Argumentation-based approaches for dealing with inconsistency - Aggregation of diverse or inconsistent knowledge; judgement aggregation. - Uncertainty in the context of knowledge diversity. - Applications of formal models of knowledge diversity. == SUBMISSIONS == We encourage three types of contributions: - Full research papers: Submitted papers must not exceed 14 pages excluding the bibliography, and must include an abstract of no more than 300 words. Please, note that the minimum length is 10 pages. - Short papers: Submitted papers must not exceed 6 pages excluding the bibliography, and must include an abstract of no more than 300 words. Please, note that the minimum length is 5 pages (including the bibliography). - Extended abstracts (presentation only): should be 2-4 pages long including the bibliography. Please, note that extended abstracts will not be included in the CEUR proceedings. == PUBLICATION == Accepted papers will be published in CEUR Workshop Proceedings. The authors of selected papers will be invited to prepare an extended version to a Special Issue on ?Knowledge Diversity? in the K?nstliche Intelligenz Journal, the German Journal of Artificial Intelligence (Springer). More information at https://kodis23.wordpress.com == ORGANISATION == Luc?a G?mez ?lvarez (TU Dresden, Germany) ---- contact: lucia.gomez_alvarez at tu-dresden.de Rafael Pe?aloza (University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy) Srdjan Vesic (CNRS, France) _________________________ Dr. Luc?a G?mez ?lvarez Computational Logic Group Institute for Artificial Intelligence Faculty of Computer Science TU Dresden GERMANY -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From hypeuler at gmail.com Wed Apr 19 14:41:14 2023 From: hypeuler at gmail.com (Erman Acar) Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2023 16:41:14 +0200 Subject: [PlanetKR] [Jobs] PhD Position Knowledge-Driven Learning for XAI in Fraud Detection at University of Amsterdam Message-ID: <9B8397B0-0512-4408-8DE5-361A5F99B2C8@gmail.com> Dear colleagues and friends, We have a PhD position opening (Project #1 in the link) which might be interesting for students that are interested in neuro-symbolic integration. Topic: Knowledge-Driven Learning for XAI in Fraud Detection This project aims to develop a novel neuro-symbolic framework that mainly combines the strengths of both the data-driven approaches (which comes with adaptability, autonomy, and good qualitative performance) and the knowledge-driven approaches (logical or causal, which comes with interpretability, maintainability, and well-understood computational characteristics) to provide counter-factual explanations for experts in terms of relevant features and the emergent structures in-between. Supervisors: Erman Acar, Ilker Birbil (AI & Optimisation, Amsterdam Business School) Deadline: May 21st. The selected candidate will be a part of the mentioned institutes as well as University of Amsterdam's growing AI4FinTech ecosystem, and will have a chance to work in an environment with major industry partners. For application and further info: https://vacatures.uva.nl/UvA/job/Seven-PhD-positions-in-AI-for-Fintech/768660902/ For more information, please do not hesitate to contact me. Erman --- Erman Acar, PhD Assistant Professor (XAI in Finance) Institute of Logic, Language and Computation (CLC Lab) & Informatics Institute (SIAS Group) University of Amsterdam -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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URL: From pere.pardo at uni.lu Thu Apr 20 14:03:49 2023 From: pere.pardo at uni.lu (Pere PARDO VENTURA) Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2023 14:03:49 +0000 Subject: [PlanetKR] (CfP) CLAR 2023 5th Int. Conf. on Logic and Argumentation 10-12 Sept 2023 Hangzhou (China) ---deadline extended to May 6th--- Message-ID: <17290C92-B101-427D-8AD4-79B26FA737C4@uni.lu> ========================================== CLAR 2023 The 5th International Conference on Logic and Argumentation 10th - 12th September 2023 Hangzhou (China) ========================================== ANNOUNCEMENT: Due to a low number of submissions, we announce a deadline extension for CLAR 2023. The new deadline is May 6th. (Please see all dates below.) The conference will by organised in hybrid mode, with all online talks scheduled in the same session or day. -------------------------- 1. CLAR 2023 -------------------------- The 5th International Conference on Logic and Argumentation (CLAR 2023) invites contributions from logic, artificial intelligence, philosophy, computer science, linguistics, law, and other areas studying logic and formal argumentation. CLAR 2023 will be held 10th-12th September 2023 at Zhejiang University in Hangzhou. CLAR 2023 aims to highlight recent advances in logic and argumentation and foster interaction in these two areas between researchers within and outside China. The interplay between logic and argumentation spans different disciplines and historical eras: from ancient philosophy (Socrates' dialectics, Aristotle's logic) to contemporary computer science (dialogues, multiagent systems). Research in logic and argumentation offers formal or semi-formal models that capture reasoning patterns and dialogue activities of diverse kinds. Their applications in artificial intelligence range from law and ethics to linguistics. CLAR 2023 will focus on a variety of topics and formalisms, including formal models of argumentation (abstract or structured), preference and support, but also dispute and dialogue systems for online argumentation or the processing of legal texts. Established in 2016 as a workshop hosted by Zhejiang University, the CLAR series has been increasingly successful and become an international event and discussion forum in the two areas of logic and argumentation. Our aim for CLAR 2023 is to be a platform for the advancement of the existing discussions within each of the areas above, to span bridges between their different traditions, and finally to open argumentation to new applications and other areas in artificial intelligence, such as legal reasoning, explainable AI, ethical dilemmas, reasoning about uncertainty and knowledge representation, etc. Previous conferences can be accessed via: http://www.xixilogic.org/events/clar. CLAR 2023 will be financially supported by a national key project called "Research on Logics for New Generation Artificial Intelligence" (2021-2025), granted by the National Social Science Foundation of China. Information about the project: https://xixilogic.org/lngai/. More information about CLAR 2023 can be found at the conference website: https://www.zlaire.net/zjulogai2023/clar2023/index.html -------------------------- 2. Important Dates (submission deadline extended) -------------------------- Submission deadline: 6th May 2023, AoE timezone (Anywhere on Earth) Notification: 15th June 2023 Camera Ready: 30th June 2023 Conference dates: 10th - 12th September 2023 -------------------------- 3. Invited Speakers -------------------------- Leila Amgoud (CNRS IRIT, France) Thomas Studer (University of Bern, Switzerland) Yanjing Wang (Peking University, China) -------------------------- 4. Topics -------------------------- Suggested topics include, but are not limited to, the following: * Abstract argumentation * Applications of logic and/or argumentation * Applied logic * Argumentation and game theory * Argumentation and law * Argumentation and linguistics * Argumentation and medical reasoning * Argumentation and causal reasoning * Argumentation and explainable AI * Argumentation and ethical AI * Argumentation and knowledge graph reasoning * Argumentation and modal logics * Argument mining * Argumentation schemes * BDI logic * Computational argumentation * Deontic logic * Dynamic epistemic logic * Belief revision * Formal models for dialog and argumentation * Informal logic * Judgment aggregation * Knowledge representation and reasoning * Logic for game theory * Logic for multi-agent systems * Logic for semantic web * Logic for social networks * Mathematical logic * Modal logic * Nonmonotonic logics * Numerical and uncertainty reasoning * Philosophical logic * Pragma-Dialectics * Preference logic * Probabilistic argumentation * Quantitative argumentation * Structured (i.e. logic-based) argumentation * Uncertain argumentation -------------------------- 5. Dates and Venue -------------------------- September 10th - 12th 2023, Zheijang University, Hangzhou (China). -------------------------- 6. PC Chairs -------------------------- Andreas Herzig (CNRS IRIT, France) Jieting Luo (Zheijang University, China) Pere Pardo (Univ. Luxembourg, Luxembourg) -------------------------- 7. How to submit -------------------------- We invite submissions describing original unpublished work, not currently under review. Articles should not exceed 16 pages, excluding references. Submission files can be uploaded on EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=clar2023 The submitted work must be typeset using the LNCS latex package that can be found at: https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/new-latex-templates-available/15634678 Additional support material may be included in an appendix, although the main file should be self-contained. CLAR 2023 PC members will be encouraged, but not requested, to consider this additional material in their evaluation. Submissions exceeding the page limit or not adjusting to the format guidelines will be rejected without review. -------------------------- 8. Proceedings -------------------------- The CLAR 2023 conference proceedings will be published by Springer LNAI volume (Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence). -------------------------- 9. Best Paper Award -------------------------- CLAR 2023 will present the best paper award to recognise outstanding contributions. Authors of the winning paper will receive a monetary award of EUR 500, sponsored by Springer. -------------------------- 10. Special Issue -------------------------- After the conference, a selection will be made among the papers accepted at CLAR 2023. The authors will be invited to submit an extended version for a special Issue in a high-impact journal. (To be confirmed) From vesic at cril.fr Thu Apr 20 23:02:35 2023 From: vesic at cril.fr (Srdjan Vesic) Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2023 01:02:35 +0200 Subject: [PlanetKR] ECSQARU 2023 (deadlines: abstract 12 May; paper 20 May) Message-ID: CALL FOR PAPERS Seventeenth European Conference on Symbolic and Quantitative Approaches to Reasoning with Uncertainty ECSQARU 2023 September 19-22, 2023 Arras (France) https://www.cril.univ-artois.fr/ecsqaru23/ CONFIRMED INVITED SPEAKERS: Eduardo Ferm? Jesse Davis Rafael Pe?aloza The biennial ECSQARU conferences constitute a major forum for advances in the theory and practice of reasoning under uncertainty, with a focus on bringing symbolic and quantitative aspects together. Contributions come from researchers interested in advancing scientific knowledge and from practitioners using uncertainty techniques in real-world applications. The scope of the ECSQARU conferences encompasses fundamental issues, representation, inference, learning, and decision-making in qualitative and numeric uncertainty paradigms. Previous ECSQARU events have been held in Prague (2021), Belgrade (2019), Lugano (2017), Compiegne (2015), Utrecht (2013), Belfast (2011), Verona (2009), Hammamet (2007), Barcelona (2005), Aalborg (2003), Toulouse (2001), London (1999), Bonn (1997), Fribourg (1995), Granada (1993), and Marseille (1991). ::: SCOPE ::: For ECSQARU 2023 we invite submissions of original papers on topics which include but are not limited to: - Algorithms for uncertain inference - Applications of uncertain systems - Argumentation systems - Automated planning and acting under uncertainty - Belief functions - Belief change & merging - Classification & clustering - Decision theory & decision graphs - Default reasoning - Description logics with uncertainty - Foundations of reasoning under uncertainty - Fuzzy sets & fuzzy logic - Game theory - Hybrid reasoning - Imprecise probabilities - Inconsistency handling - Information fusion - Learning for uncertainty formalisms - Learning for uncertainty formalisms - Logics for reasoning under uncertainty - Markov decision processes - Possibility theory & possibilistic logic - Preferences - Probabilistic graphical models - Probabilistic logics - Qualitative uncertainty models - Rough sets - Uncertainty & data ::: PROCEEDINGS ::: In accordance with the previous conferences, the proceedings of ECSQARU 2023 will be published in the Springer Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence series. In addition to that, extended versions of selected papers will be published in a special issue of the International Journal of Approximate Reasoning. ::: SUBMISSIONS ::: Authors are requested to prepare their conference papers in the LNCS/LNAI format. Submitted papers must be original and not under review in a journal or another venue with formally published proceedings. They will be evaluated by peer reviews based on originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of exposition. Authors of accepted papers are expected to attend the conference to present their work, at least one author of each paper must register for the conference. Submitted papers must be at most 10 pages (excluding references) in the Springer LNCS/LNAI format. 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We are pleased to invite you to submit your papers to MICRADS?23. They can be written in English, Spanish or Portuguese. All submissions will be reviewed on the basis of relevance, originality, importance and clarity. Topics Submitted papers should be related with one or more of the main themes proposed for the Conference: Area A: Systems, Communication and Defense A1) Information and Communication Technology in Education A2) Simulation and computer vision in military applications A3) Analysis and Signal Processing A4) Cybersecurity and Cyberdefense A5) Computer Networks, Mobility and Pervasive Systems Area B: Strategy and political-administrative vision in Defense B1) Air, Space and Maritime Security and Protection B2) Strategy, Geopolitics and Oceanopolitics B3) Administration, economics and logistics applied to Defense B4) Leadership and e-leadership B5) Military marketing B6) Health informatics in military applications B7) Ethics in the context of military operations B8) Operational law (DICA and DD. HH.) B9) Air, space and cyberspace power B10) Legislation on Cybersecurity and Cyberdefense Area C: Engineering and technologies applied to Defense C1) Wearable Technology and Assistance Devices C2) Military Naval Engineering C3) Weapons and Combat Systems C4) Chemical, Biological and Nuclear Defense C5) Defense Engineering (General) C6) Energy efficiency C7) Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning C8) Unmanned platforms Submission and Decision Submitted papers written in English (until 10-page limit) must comply with the format of Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies series (see Instructions for Authors at Springer Website ), must not have been published before, not be under review for any other conference or publication and not include any information leading to the authors? identification. Therefore, the authors? names, affiliations and e-mails should not be included in the version for evaluation by the Scientific Committee. This information should only be included in the camera-ready version, saved in Word or Latex format and also in PDF format. These files must be accompanied by the Consent to Publish form filled out, in a ZIP file, and uploaded at the conference management system. Submitted papers written in Spanish or Portuguese (until 15-page limit) must comply with the format of RISTI - Revista Ib?rica de Sistemas e Tecnologias de Informa??o (download instructions/template for authors in Spanish or Portuguese ), must not have been published before, not be under review for any other conference or publication and not include any information leading to the authors? identification. Therefore, the authors? names, affiliations and e-mails should not be included in the version for evaluation by the Scientific Committee. This information should only be included in the camera-ready version, saved in Word. These file must be uploaded at the conference management system in a ZIP file. All papers will be subjected to a ?blind review? by at least two members of the Scientific Committee. Based on Scientific Committee evaluation, a paper can be rejected or accepted by the Conference Chairs. In the later case, it can be accepted as paper or poster. The authors of papers accepted as posters must build and print a poster to be exhibited during the Conference. This poster must follow an A1 or A2 vertical format. The Conference can includes Work Sessions where these posters are presented and orally discussed, with a 7 minute limit per poster. The authors of accepted papers will have 15 minutes to present their work in a Conference Work Session; approximately 5 minutes of discussion will follow each presentation. Publication and Indexing To ensure that an accepted paper is published, at least one of the authors must be fully registered by the 10 of June 2023, and the paper must comply with the suggested layout and page-limit (until 12 pages, but never inferior to 10 pages). Additionally, all recommended changes must be addressed by the authors before they submit the camera-ready version. No more than one paper per registration will be published. An extra fee must be paid for publication of additional papers, with a maximum of one additional paper per registration. One registration permits only the participation of one author in the conference. Papers can be written in English, Spanish or Portuguese. Accepted and registered papers written in English will be published in Proceedings by Springer, in a book of its SIST series, and will be submitted for indexing by WoS, SCOPUS, EI-Compendex, SpringerLink, and Google Scholar. Papers written in Spanish or Portuguese and registered will be published in a Special Issue of RISTI and will be submitted for indexation by SCOPUS, among others. Important Dates Paper Submission: May 14, 2023. Notification of Acceptance: May 31, 2023. Payment of Registration, to ensure the inclusion of an accepted paper in the conference proceedings: June 10, 2023. Camera-ready Submission: June 10, 2023. MICRADS'23 Website: http://www.micrads.org MICRADS'23 Team http://www.micrads.org -- This email has been checked for viruses by AVG antivirus software. www.avg.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From francesco.belardinelli at univ-evry.fr Fri Apr 21 15:46:55 2023 From: francesco.belardinelli at univ-evry.fr (Francesco Belardinelli) Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2023 17:46:55 +0200 Subject: [PlanetKR] Call for Papers: Safe and Trustworthy AI ICLP 2023 Workshop (at Imperial July 9th/10th) Message-ID: <6b00c181-6559-1c12-2262-254016347029@univ-evry.fr> TL;DR We invite you to the Safe and Trustworthy AI workshop . The workshop?will take place on the *9th or 10th of July*?in London. The *submission deadline*?is the *19th of May. *There will be *prizes*?for the best papers and posters.Please register attendance on Eventbrite. Hi all, We hope this email finds you well. We are pleased to invite you to take part in the second iteration of the Safe and Trustworthy AI workshop . The workshop?will take place on the 9th or 10th of July at Imperial College London as part of ICLP 23 .?There will be a reception in the evening and refreshments will be provided. The field of safe and trustworthy AI is broad and has significant implications for society and individuals. Contemporary AI systems already cause large-scale harm, especially to disadvantaged groups, and future AI systems may pose catastrophic risks. With this workshop we hope to encourage discussion and collaboration between people from a range of backgrounds, especially from underrepresented or disadvantaged groups. *Call for papers.*This workshop takes a broad view of safety and trustworthiness, covering areas such as algorithmic bias and discrimination, alignment, cooperative AI, robustness and verification, and AI policy and regulation. We accept short (4 page) and long (8 page) papers. The submission deadline is the 19th of May. See the call for papers for further details. The workshop is supported by the UKRI Centre for Doctoral Training in Safe and Trusted AI and the Future of Life Institute. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us. All the best, The organizers -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From georgeangelos60 at gmail.com Mon Apr 24 12:42:10 2023 From: georgeangelos60 at gmail.com (georgeangelos60 at gmail.com) Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2023 15:42:10 +0300 Subject: [PlanetKR] 10th International Conference on Behavioural and Social Computing (BESC 2023): Third Call for Papers Message-ID: <5EL1J565-RH5K-T6YH-JH0X-P506BEXS6CZL@gmail.com> *** Third Call for Papers *** 10th International Conference on Behavioural and Social Computing (BESC 2023) October 30 - November 1, 2023, 5* Golden Bay Beach Hotel, Larnaca, Cyprus http://besc-conf.org/2023/ The International Conference on Behavioural and Social Computing (BESC) is a major international forum that brings together academic researchers and industry practitioners from artificial intelligence, computational social sciences, natural language processing, business and marketing, and behavioural and psychological sciences to present updated research efforts and progresses on foundational and emerging interdisciplinary topics of BESC, exchange new ideas and identify future research directions. The BESC series of conferences are technically sponsored by IEEE SMC (Systems, Man and Cybernetics) Society as well as IEEE CIS (Computational Intelligence Society) and the proceedings are published by IEEE BESC 2023 invites submissions of original, high-quality research papers addressing cutting-edge developments from all areas of behavioural and social computing. The conference aims to bring together researchers and practitioners from academia and industry to share their knowledge, experience, and perspectives on the latest trends, challenges, and opportunities in this rapidly evolving field. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Social Computing, Computational Social Science and Applications ? Computational models of social phenomena ? Social behaviour ? Social network analysis ? Semantic web ? Collective intelligence ? Security, privacy, trust in social contexts ? Social recommendation ? Social influence and social contagions ? Quantifying offline phenomena through online data ? Forecasting of social phenomena ? Science and technology studies approaches to computational social science ? Social media and health behaviours ? Social psychology and personality ? New theories, methods, and objectives in computational social science Digital Humanities ? Digital media ? Digital humanities ? Digital games and learning ? Digital footprints and privacy ? Crowd dynamics ? Digital arts ? Digital healthcare ? Activity streams and experience design ? Virtual communities (e.g., open-source, multiplayer gaming, etc.) Information Management and Information Systems (IS) ? Decision analytics ? E-Business ? Decision analytics ? Computational finance ? Societal impacts of IS ? Human behaviour and IS ? IS in healthcare ? IS security and privacy ? IS strategy, structure and organizational impacts ? Service science and IS Natural Language Processing ? Web mining and its social interpretations ? Sentiment Analysis, Stylistic Analysis, and Argument Mining ? Opinion mining and social media analytics ? Credibility of online content ? Computational Linguistics ? Mining big social data ? Cognitive Modelling and Psycholinguistics Behaviour and User Modelling, Privacy, and Ethics ? Behaviour change ? Positive technology ? Personalization for individuals, groups and populations ? Large scale personalization, adaptation and recommendation ? Web dynamics and personalization ? Privacy, perceived security and trust ? Technology and Wellbeing ? Ethics of computational research on human behaviour Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL) ? E-Learning and M-Learning ? Open and Distance Learning ? User modeling and personalization in TEL ? TEL in secondary and in higher education ? New tools for TEL BESC 2023 will also host the following Special Sessions. Papers accepted in any of the Special Sessions will be included in the same IEEE conference proceedings with the papers accepted for the general technical program. ? Computational Social Psychology in Post Covid-19 Period ? Artificial Intelligence for Mental Health, Mental Illness, Psychiatic Diagnosis, and Prediction ? Intelligent E-Learning at Post Covid-19 Era ? Big Data and AI-Powered Decision Support Systems in Business ? Understanding the Citizen's Behavior in Cognitive Cities ? Nudges and Behavioural Computing Models for a Sustainable and Equitable Development SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS The paper submission system is using Easy Chair and the submission link is: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=besc2023 . All papers will be reviewed by the Program Committee on the basis of technical quality, relevance to BESC 2023, originality, significance and clarity. Please note: ? All submissions should use IEEE two-column style. Templates are available here: https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html ? All papers must be submitted electronically through the paper submission system in PDF format only. BESC 2023 accepts research papers (6 pages), special session papers (6 pages) and Doctoral Symposium papers (4 pages). ? The page count above excludes the references (but includes any appendices). ? Paper review will be double-blind, and submissions not properly anonymized will be desk-rejected without review. ? Submitted papers must not substantially overlap with papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference with proceedings. ? Papers must be clearly submitted in English and will be selected based on their originality, timeliness, significance, relevance, and clarity of presentation. ? Submission of a paper should be regarded as a commitment that, should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will register and attend the conference to present the work. ? The use of artificial intelligence (AI)?generated text in an article shall be disclosed in the acknowledgements section of any paper submitted to an IEEE Conference or Periodical. The sections of the paper that use AI-generated text shall have a citation to the AI system used to generate the text. ? All accepted papers will be included in IEEE Xplore and indexed by EI. Top quality papers after presented in the conference will be selected for extension and publication in several special issues of international journals, e.g., World Wide Web Journal (Springer), Web Intelligence (IOS Press), and Social Network Analysis and Mining (Springer), Human-Centric Intelligent Systems (Springer), Information Discovery and Delivery (Emerald Publishing). IMPORTANT DATES ? Submission of all papers: 15 July 2023 ? Notification of acceptance for submitted papers: 15 September 2023 ? Camera-Ready Submission: 1 October 2023 ? Author Registration: 1 October 2023 ORGANISATION Steering Committee Chair ? Guandong Xu, University of Technology Sydney, Australia General Chair ? George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Program Chairs ? Georgia Kapitsaki, University of Cyprus, Cyprus ? Ji Zhang, University of Southern Queensland, Australia Special Session Chairs ? Taotao Cai, University of Southern Queensland, Australia ? Ting Yu, Zhejiang Lab, China Doctoral Symposium Chair ? Barbara Caci, University of Palermo, Italy Panel and Tutorial Chair ? Philippe Fournier-Viger, Shenzhen University, China Proceedings Chair ? Md Rafiqul Islam, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Publicity Chairs ? Chandan Gautam, Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R), A*STAR, Singapore ? Thanveer Shaik, University of Southern Queensland, Australia ? Sanjay Sonbhadra, ITER, Siksha 'O' Anusandhan, India Webmaster ? 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As part of the Diversity-Aware Hybrid Human-Artificial Intelligence workshop, we are soliciting short papers / extended abstracts on interdisciplinary work with a focus on human involvement and on how to develop meaningful paradigms of AI-enabled human-human interactions, human-AI interactions, and human-centered AI-AI interactions. A non-exhaustive list of relevant disciplines and subdisciplines is: Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, Ethics, HCI, Knowledge Representation, Machine Learning, Ontologies, Privacy, Psychology, Social Computing, Social Psychology, Social Sciences. (more information here: https://www.internetofus.eu/diversity-aware-hybrid-human-artificial-intelligence-dhhai/) A special session will also take place, focusing on empirical work that analyzes data made available as part of a shared task. 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Apologies for multiple postings. ________________ FINAL CALLS FOR PAPERS (short papers, technical communications, recently published, demo, BoF) ________________ The 39th International Conference on Logic Programming (ICLP 2023) https://iclp2023.imperial.ac.uk/ London, UK, July 9-15, 2023 ICLP 2023 will be an in-person event PLEASE NOTICE THAT PAPER SUBMISSION DEADLINE for: * Short Papers * Technical communications * Recently Published Journal/Conference Research * Demos * Proposals for Birds of a Feather Sessions IS APRIL 28, 2023 * Final notifications (all paper kinds): May 19, 2023 * Camera-ready copy due (all paper kinds): May 26, 2023 (Deadlines expire at the end of the day, anywhere on earth.) SUBMISSION DETAILS All submissions must be written in English. Accepted papers will be published by Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science (EPTCS). EPTCS format is described at http://style.eptcs.org/ Submissions must be done via EasyChair. The submission Web page for ICLP2023 is https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iclp2023 EXPECTED SUBMISSIONS: * Technical Communications (14 pages in EPTCS format, including references) The accepted TC papers will be published in the Technical Communication Proceedings. * Short papers (7 pages in EPTCS format, including references). The accepted short papers will be published in the Technical Communication Proceedings. * Recently Published Research Track (2-3 pages in EPTCS format) Extended abstract describing previously published research (from January 2021 onwards) in selective journals and conferences, but that have not been previously presented at ICLP. A title page should be appended to the submission with (i) details on the venue, where the original paper appeared, (ii) a link to the original paper, (iii) a paragraph describing why the authors believe this work warrants a presentation at ICLP. The extended abstracts will be published in the Technical Communication Proceedings. * System Demonstrations and BoF Proposals (2-3 pages in EPTCS format) System demonstrations should provide highlights of the novel features of the system, along with information about how to access it. BoF proposals should motivate the choice of the topic and its relevance to logic programming, describe the expected audience, identify discussion leaders and their expertise, and provide a brief description of the activities during the BoF session. We expect BoFs to be inclusive and involve active participation for attendees. Describe how your BoF will use inclusive practices and foster attendees involvement. The extended abstracts will be published in the Technical Communication Proceedings. ****** CONFERENCE: July 9-15, 2023 SCOPE Since the first conference held in Marseille in 1982, ICLP has been the premier international event for presenting research in logic programming. Contributions are sought in all areas of logic programming, including but not restricted to: * Theoretical Foundations. * Language Design and Programming Methodologies. * Program Analysis and Optimization. * Implementation Methodologies. * Related Paradigms, Integration, and Synergies. * Applications of Logic Programming. TRACKS AND SPECIAL SESSIONS Besides the main track, ICLP 2023 will host additional tracks: * Technical Communications and Short Papers: these submissions represent an opportunity to present results which may be more preliminary and discuss cutting-edge ideas which are relevant to the domain of logic programming. * Recently Published Research Track: this track provides a forum to discuss important results related to logic programming that appeared recently (from January 2021 onwards) in selective journals and conferences, but have not been previously presented at ICLP. * System Demonstrations: we invite submissions showcasing logic programming systems and implementations in a live setting. This track is not designed to be sales pitches, demonstrations are a way for the community to see the relevance, potential, and innovation of the tool and allow time for discussion with its creator. * Birds-of-a-Feather (BoF) sessions: we invite proposals for sessions meant to provide an inclusive environment for colleagues with similar interests to meet for informal discussion. Proposers of BoF sessions should serve as discussion leaders only. BoFs are not intended to be presentations. In addition, ICLP 2023 will host: * Doctoral Consortium and Mentoring Sessions: the Doctoral Consortium (DC) on Logic Programming provides students and early career researchers with the opportunity to present and discuss their research directions, obtain feedback from both peers and experts in the field, and participate in mentoring sessions on how to prepare and succeed for a research career. We will have leaders in logic programming research from academia and industry to give invited talks on their research areas. The best paper from the DC will be given the opportunity to make a presentation in a session of the main ICLP conference. * Tutorials. * Co-located Workshops. * Summer School on Logic Programming. * Logic Programming Contest. All accepted papers will be presented during the conference. Authors of accepted papers will, by default, be automatically included in the list of ALP members, who will receive quarterly updates from the Logic Programming Newsletter at no cost. ORGANIZATION ** General Chairs Alessandra Russo and Francesca Toni, Imperial College London, UK ** Program Chairs Stefania Costantini, University of L?Aquila, Italy Enrico Pontelli, New Mexico State University, USA ** Publicity Chair Guilherme Paulino-Passos and Alex Spies, Imperial College London, UK ** Workshop Chair Wolfgang Faber, University of Klagenfurt, Austria ** Tutorials Chairs Agostino Dovier, University of Udine, Italy Esra Erdem, Sabanci University, Turkey ** Doctoral Consortium Chairs Francesco Fabiano, University of Udine, Italy Alessandra Mileo, DCU, Ireland ** Programming Contest Chairs Martin Gebser, Graz University of Technology, Austria Mario Alviano, University of Calabria, Italy ** Recently Published Research Track Chair Sarah Gaggl, TU Dresden, Germany ** Application and Systems/Demo Chair Carmine Dodaro, University of Calabria, Italy ** Summer School Organizers Simona Perri, University of Calabria, Italy Bart Bogaerts, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium ** Thematic Tracks Chairs: - LP and Explainability, Ethics and Trustworthiness Roberta Calegari, University of Bologna, Italy - LP and Machine Learning Artur Garcez, City University of London, UK ** BoF Chair Luciano Serafini, Fondazione Bruno Kessler Trento, Italy Program Committee Abreu, Salvador, University of Evora, Portugal Alviano, Mario, University of Calabria, Italy Artikis, Alexander, NCSR "Demokritos", Greece Balduccini, Marcello, Saint Joseph?s University, USA Baral, Chitta, Arizona State University, USA Bartak, Roman, Charles University, Czech Republic Bellodi, Elena, University of Ferrara, Italy Ben-Eliyahu-Zohary, Rachel, Jerusalem College of Engineering, Israel Bogaerts, Bart, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium Cabalar, Pedro, University of Corunna, Spain Calegari, Roberta, University of Bologna, Italy Calimeri, Francesco, University of Calabria, Italy Codish, Michael, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel Daggit, Matthew, Heriot-Watt University, Israel De Gasperis, Giovanni, University of L?Aquila, Italy De Vos, Marina, University of Bath, UK Dodaro, Carmine, University of Calabria, Italy Dovier, Agostino, University of Udine, Italy Dutra, Ines, University of Porto, Portugal Dyoub, Abeer, University of L?Aquila, Italy Eiter, Thomas, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Erdem, Esra, Sabanci University, Turkey Fabiano, Francesco, University of Parma, Italy Fandinno, Jorge, University of Nebraska Omaha, USA Fioravanti, Fabio, University of Chieti-Pescara, Italy Formisano, Andrea, University of Udine, Italy Gaggl, Sarah Alice, University of Dresden, Germany Garcez, Artur, City University of London, UK Gavanelli, Marco, University of Ferrara, Italy Gebser, Martin, University of Klagenfurt, Austria Gelfond, Michael, Texas Tech University, USA Giordano, Laura, University of Piemonte Orientale, Italy Gupta, Gopal, University of Texas at Dallas, USA Hermenegildo, Manuel, IMDEA Software Institute Madrid, Spain Iclezan, Daniela, Miami University, USA Inoue, Katsumi, NII, Japan Kampik, Timotheus, Ume? Universitet, Sweden Katzouris, Nikos, National Center for Scientific Research "DEMOKRITOS", Greece Kiziltan, Zeynep, University of Bologna, Italy Lamma, Evelina, University of Ferrara, Italy Lifschitz, Vladimir, University of Texas at Austin, USA Lisi, Francesca, University of Bari, Italy Liu, Y. Annie, State University of New York at Stony Brook, USA Manhaeve, Robin, KLU, Belgium Mascardi, Viviana, University of Genova, Italy Michel, Laurent, USA Mileo Alessandra, Dublin City University, Ireland Morales, Jose, IMDEA Software Institute, Spain Nicolosi-Asmundo, Marianna, University of Catania, Italy Oikarinen, Emilia, University of Helsinki, Finland Patsantzis, Stassa, Imperial College, UK Pimentel, Elaine, UCL, UK Piazza, Carla, University of Udine, Italy Pozzato, Gianluca, University of Torino, Italy Ramakrishnan, CR, State University of New York at Stony Brook, USA Ricca, Francesco, University of Cosenza, Italy Riguzzi, Fabrizio, University of Ferrara, Italy Rocha, Ricardo, University of Porto, Portugal Sabuncu, Orkunt, Ted University Ankara, Turkey Sakama, Chiaki, Wakayama University, Japan Saribatur, Zeynep, TU Wien, Austria Md Kamruzzaman, Sarker, University of Hartford, UK Schaub, Torsten, University of Potsdam, Germany Son, Tran Cao, New Mexico State University, USA Swift, Theresa, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal Tarau, Paul, University of North Texas, USA Truszczynski, Mirek, University of Kentucky, USA Vidal, German, Universitat Polit?cnica de Val?ncia, Spain Villaneuva, Alicia, Universitat Polit?cnica de Val?ncia, Spain Warren, David, State University of New York at Stony Brook, USA Weitkamper, Felix, Ludwig-Maximilians University of Munich, Germany Wielemaker, Jan, Vrije University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands Yap, Roland, National University, Singapore Zaverucha, Gerson, UFRJ, Brazil Zhang,Yuanlin, Texas Tech University, USA Zhou, Neng-Fa, Brooklyn College, New York, USA Any additional question can be directed towards the ICLP Chairs: iclp2023 at easychair.org ?-- CLArg/Imperial College London | github | [cid:25761bfa-0e73-4c57-93f3-1df30567c343] -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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We look forward to welcoming the TIME community to Athens after 3 years of online events. * At least one author of each accepted paper must register early and physically attend TIME 2023 to present their work. Participants who are not giving a presentation may attend TIME 2023 remotely; of course, we strongly encourage physical participation! * In addition to theoretical work, we invite submissions focusing on the development, deployment and evaluation of *systems* for temporal reasoning. 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We are pleased to invite you to submit your papers to MICRADS?23. They can be written in English, Spanish or Portuguese. All submissions will be reviewed on the basis of relevance, originality, importance and clarity. Topics Submitted papers should be related with one or more of the main themes proposed for the Conference: Area A: Systems, Communication and Defense A1) Information and Communication Technology in Education A2) Simulation and computer vision in military applications A3) Analysis and Signal Processing A4) Cybersecurity and Cyberdefense A5) Computer Networks, Mobility and Pervasive Systems Area B: Strategy and political-administrative vision in Defense B1) Air, Space and Maritime Security and Protection B2) Strategy, Geopolitics and Oceanopolitics B3) Administration, economics and logistics applied to Defense B4) Leadership and e-leadership B5) Military marketing B6) Health informatics in military applications B7) Ethics in the context of military operations B8) Operational law (DICA and DD. HH.) B9) Air, space and cyberspace power B10) Legislation on Cybersecurity and Cyberdefense Area C: Engineering and technologies applied to Defense C1) Wearable Technology and Assistance Devices C2) Military Naval Engineering C3) Weapons and Combat Systems C4) Chemical, Biological and Nuclear Defense C5) Defense Engineering (General) C6) Energy efficiency C7) Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning C8) Unmanned platforms Submission and Decision Submitted papers written in English (until 10-page limit) must comply with the format of Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies series (see Instructions for Authors at Springer Website ), must not have been published before, not be under review for any other conference or publication and not include any information leading to the authors? identification. Therefore, the authors? names, affiliations and e-mails should not be included in the version for evaluation by the Scientific Committee. This information should only be included in the camera-ready version, saved in Word or Latex format and also in PDF format. These files must be accompanied by the Consent to Publish form filled out, in a ZIP file, and uploaded at the conference management system. Submitted papers written in Spanish or Portuguese (until 15-page limit) must comply with the format of RISTI - Revista Ib?rica de Sistemas e Tecnologias de Informa??o (download instructions/template for authors in Spanish or Portuguese ), must not have been published before, not be under review for any other conference or publication and not include any information leading to the authors? identification. Therefore, the authors? names, affiliations and e-mails should not be included in the version for evaluation by the Scientific Committee. This information should only be included in the camera-ready version, saved in Word. These file must be uploaded at the conference management system in a ZIP file. All papers will be subjected to a ?blind review? by at least two members of the Scientific Committee. Based on Scientific Committee evaluation, a paper can be rejected or accepted by the Conference Chairs. In the later case, it can be accepted as paper or poster. The authors of papers accepted as posters must build and print a poster to be exhibited during the Conference. This poster must follow an A1 or A2 vertical format. The Conference can includes Work Sessions where these posters are presented and orally discussed, with a 7 minute limit per poster. The authors of accepted papers will have 15 minutes to present their work in a Conference Work Session; approximately 5 minutes of discussion will follow each presentation. Publication and Indexing To ensure that an accepted paper is published, at least one of the authors must be fully registered by the 10 of June 2023, and the paper must comply with the suggested layout and page-limit (until 12 pages, but never inferior to 10 pages). Additionally, all recommended changes must be addressed by the authors before they submit the camera-ready version. No more than one paper per registration will be published. An extra fee must be paid for publication of additional papers, with a maximum of one additional paper per registration. One registration permits only the participation of one author in the conference. Papers can be written in English, Spanish or Portuguese. Accepted and registered papers written in English will be published in Proceedings by Springer, in a book of its SIST series, and will be submitted for indexing by WoS, SCOPUS, EI-Compendex, SpringerLink, and Google Scholar. Papers written in Spanish or Portuguese and registered will be published in a Special Issue of RISTI and will be submitted for indexation by SCOPUS, among others. Important Dates Paper Submission: May 14, 2023. Notification of Acceptance: June 14, 2023. Payment of Registration, to ensure the inclusion of an accepted paper in the conference proceedings: June 24, 2023. Camera-ready Submission: June 24, 2023. MICRADS'23 Website: http://www.micrads.org MICRADS'23 Team http://www.micrads.org -- This email has been checked for viruses by AVG antivirus software. www.avg.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From leon.vandertorre at uni.lu Fri Apr 28 06:05:51 2023 From: leon.vandertorre at uni.lu (Leon VAN DER TORRE) Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2023 06:05:51 +0000 Subject: [PlanetKR] Postdoctoral researcher in Deep Learning & Natural Language Processing Message-ID: <8176DB8D-79B1-4291-9B75-AC34E2933519@uni.lu> We are looking for a candidate who enjoys interdisciplinary work within the Doctoral Training Unit 'Deep Data Science of Digital History' (D4H) under the guidance of Prof. van der Torre and Prof. Christoph Schommer. The selected candidate will contribute to research in the areas of the Doctoral Training Unit, in particular in the areas of deep learning systems, explainability, and natural language processing (e.g. transformer models for natural language processing, generation and understanding). Your Role... * Conducting high-quality research in the border area of deep learning systems, explainability, and natural language processing) * Presentation of research findings at workshops and conferences * Publication of scientific papers in peer-reviewed international journals * Writing or helping to write project proposals * Teaching in the context of the Doctoral Training Unit (60h per year) What we expect from you? * A PhD degree related to Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, or a related discipline * Interest in an interdisciplinary work in the context of the Doctoral Training Unit D4H * Evidence of high-quality research documented by good publications * Strong analytical capacity, creativity, and commitment * Very good written and spoken English skills; proficiency in French or German is a plus * Ability to attract research funding We offer... * A dynamic, well-connected international research environment * An opportunity to be part of an innovative academia-industry partnership with access to cutting-edge research facilities * Financial support for participating in scientific activities (workshops, conferences, summer schools, etc.) In Short... * Contract Type: Fixed Term Contract 24 Month * Work Hours: Full Time 40.0 Hours per Week * Foreseen starting date: September 2023 * Location: Belval * Job Reference: UOL05682 The yearly gross salary for every Postdoctoral Researcher at the UL is EUR 81072 (full time) How to apply... Job Portal - University of Luxembourg emea3.mrted.ly [favicon.ico] Applications should include: * Curriculum Vitae * Motivation letter detailing why and how your profile, experience and research interests fit the position * A brief research proposal * Contact information of two references * List of publications We ensure a full consideration for applications received by the 20 June 2023. Please apply ONLINE formally through the HR system. Applications by email will not be considered. The University of Luxembourg embraces inclusion and diversity as key values. We are fully committed to removing any discriminatory barrier related to gender, and not only, in recruitment and career progression of our staff. In return you will get? * Multilingual and international character. Modern institution with a personal atmosphere. Staff coming from 90 countries. Member of the ?University of the Greater Region? (UniGR). * A modern and dynamic university. High-quality equipment. Close ties to the business world and to the Luxembourg labour market. A unique urban site with excellent infrastructure. * A partner for society and industry. Cooperation with European institutions, innovative companies, the Financial Centre and with numerous non-academic partners such as ministries, local governments, associations, NGOs ? * Find out more about the University * Addresses, maps & routes to the various sites of the University Further information... For further information concerning this position, please contact Prof. Christoph Schommer (Email: christoph.schommer at uni.lu ) or Prof Leon van der Torre (Email: leon.vandertorre at uni.lu). -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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INSCI is a multidisciplinary conference that brings together scholars and practitioners at the intersection of technological, social and economic sciences seeking to learn how the Internet can be used to make our world a better place. Its insights are expected to create a better understanding of this complex socio-technical system we call ?Internet?, for instance to inform political decisions on the technological priorities for public funding and to drive a more sustainable and equitable development of the innovation and social ecosystems it supports. INSCI welcomes fundamental and applied multidisciplinary research, including policy- oriented studies and works offering technological solutions, that investigate the role of Internet for sustainable development, social and economic resilience, collective intelligence, reliable information processing and protection, and, more generally, for a holistic understanding of societal transformations, governance shifts and innovation quests.? INSCI welcomes works done in interdisciplinary teams that may include computer scientists, sociologists, policy makers, economists, designers and artists, or complex system scholars, among others, preferably uniting expertise from social, economic and technical sciences. This kind of work is expected to close the gap between societal / economic impact and requirements and technological developments, seen as both drivers and consequences of each other. Thus, INSCI 2023 welcomes submissions to a wide range of topics including but not limited to the following list. TOPICS Green, Sustainability, and Innovation ? The challenges of Responsible Research and Innovation on Internet solution ? The technological, social and economic benefits of Transnational and Inter-Cultural Projects ? Internet solutions supporting Environmental policies related to Climate Change ? Green Computing in a holistic perspective: trade-offs of computing power, social benefits, economic and environmental impacts (e.g. blockchains) ? Design, Implementation, and Analysis of Novel Platforms for alternative distributed economic models ? Distributed environmental awareness: creating a collective consciousness of environmental issues and possible solutions at individual and collective level. Collective intelligence, sensing and action ? Energy optimisation from from networked production to shared consumption, relying on top-down and bottom-up approaches ? Networks for circular economy models: conceiving and putting in place platforms and solutions effectively supporting circular and social economy models, collaborative making, art and creativity. Enabling Technologies, Applications and Infrastructures ? Social implications of Reinforcement Algorithms, Machine Learning and Intelligent Systems ? Feasibility and social /economic aspects of Algorithms for mediation content ? Data Sovereignty and inclusion aspects of Cloud, Grid and Cluster Computing ? Recommender, Adaptive and Context Aware Systems: design, social and inclusion aspects, feasibility and adoption ? Networking and Wireless Systems as enablers: inclusion, health, privacy and pervasiveness aspects ? People-driven Internet Technologies and Applications, including Collaborative Platforms & Social Search, Open Data and New Interfaces? Societal Structures ? How will Internet of Things change Society and interaction models ? Digital Competences and Participation ? Virtual Communities and Behavioural Patterns: how are they affected by the technological platforms being used? ? Knowledge, Education, Technology Enhanced Learning, and Societal Web Impact on Internet Evolution? ? Offline and Online Human Behaviour with Emphasis on Social Media and Online/ER/ VR Interactions? Digital Politics and Governance ? Internet and Political Participation ? Online Political Freedoms in Policing and in Effect: Regional and Local Perspectives, technological impacts and requirements ? Citizen Involvement into Decision-Making: Platforms, Actors, and Experiences ? Political Discussions Online: Issues and Groups Behind Them, technical and collaborative solutions to moderate them ? E-governance Practices of Today?s Authorities across the world ? Internet regulation: Security vs. Openness Free Communication Patterns and Democracy ? Freedom of Speech Online: a Contested Area of Policing ? Algorithms as New Total Communicative Power ? Extremist and Radical Talk Online and Policies or socio-Technical solutions to counteract it ? Universal Internet Freedoms vs. Dark Web ? Participatory Democracy and Budgeting: citizens? involvement in democratic processes, for more equal and inclusive resource allocation ? Cognitive, Psychological Aspects and Incentive Mechanisms for online Engagement, Collaboration and Participation? (smart citizenship, e-literacy, participation skills, decision support and recommendations for informed citizens and collective actions) ? E-Democracy and E-Participation: risks and opportunities, lessons learnt from currently deployed solutions (e.g. e-voting, Decidim) ? Reliable online information: collaborative models and processes to produce/qualify online information (e.g. post-truth Practices Online, filter bubble and fact checking), for health (e.g. vaccination), democracy (international decision-making, political campaigns, opinion and sentiment modelling, governmental censure and influence), economy (product labelling, ethical marketing), safety of online ecosystems (children protection, fake news, digital rebels) ? Crowdsourcing: implications, enablers Sustainable Network Economy ? Legal, economic, technological and innovation hurdles related to Intellectual Property and the Digital Commons? ? New Collaborative Markets Analytics? ? Economic Power of Online Platforms: Expropriation of Digital Labour, Open Data solutions and their applicability ? Digital Corporations: World Leaders and Regional Alternatives ? Analogous Elites, Technological Precariat ? Digital Professions and Reshaping of Online Labour Markets ? New decentralised economic models: enabling and sustaining a distributed ecosystem of platforms and solutions intrinsically respectful of privacy, self- disclosure and digital sovereignty ? The consumer perspective: unlawful profiling, discrimination and lock-in, automated contracts and warranties Global Access Opportunities ? Internet Resilience: Defining/Comparing non-disconnection Technologies, Monitoring Approaches and Internet Governance Models ensuring resiliency and citizens? empowerment and sovereignty ? Global and Local Faces of Today?s Digital Divide ? Comparing existing and future Open Distance Education and Life-long Learning Environments on online/Virtual Reality Platforms, Practices Around the World ? Global Media Online: Translation and Language Divide ? Empowerment of Disabled with New Body Extensions ? Post-human and Tech-human Individuals and Societies Data Sharing and Protection ? Data Openness vs. User Protection: tech and social aspects of open data policies ? Limits of Privacy and Anonymization, their dependance on technological solutions and intended applications ? Clouds, Big Data and Data Protection Regulation vs. knowledge sharing and open innovation ? Global Tech Powers and Alternative Solutions based on decentralisation ? Open Science and Access to Scientific Production: technological enablers, platform governance, economic and innovation aspects IMPORTANT DATES ? Submission of Papers: May 15, 2023 (AoE) ? Notification of Decision: July 1, 2023 ? Camera-Ready Submission: July 15, 2023 ? Author Registration Deadline: July 15. 2023 PAPER REQUIREMENTS All submitted papers must: ? Describe original results that have not been accepted or submitted for publication elsewhere ? Be written in English and be submitted in PDF format ? Contain author names, affiliations, and email addresses ? Be formatted according to the Springer?s LNCS format Proceedings template: http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html? ? Contain three to seven keywords characterizing the paper, to be indicated at the end of the abstract ? Be submitted via the conference system in EasyChair, using the submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=insci2023 Full paper submissions should not exceed 15 pages (including all text, figures, references and appendices). We encourage a length of 12 pages for full papers. The Program Committee reserves the right to accept a submission as a short paper. Submissions not conforming to the LNCS format, exceeding the submission page limits or being obviously out of the scope of the conference, will be rejected without review. SELECTION All submissions will be evaluated by at least three members of the international Program Committee, with a mix of social, economic and technological expertise. The review process will be single-blind. Selection will be based on: ? Degree of interdisciplinarity (between social, economic and/or technical sciences) ? Novelty and technical merit ? Relevance of the generated insights for the future Internet development The best paper will be sponsored with 300 EUR by Springer. CAMERA-READY Camera-ready submissions should be corrected by following the remarks of the reviewers and submitted using the same submission link in zip format including: ? The camera-ready version of the authors? work in pdf format ? The camera-ready version of the authors? work in editable sources format ? The Consent to Publish signed in ink and scanned to image file PUBLICATION Accepted papers will be presented at INSCI2023 and published in the conference proceedings volume, which will be published in the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). Authors of selected best papers from the conference will be contacted in order to consider submission of an expanded version of their papers for publication in a special issue to be organised with the international journal Future Internet (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/futureinternet), published by MDPI. ORGANISATION General Chair ? George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Program Chairs ? Vasileios Mezaris,?Information Technologies Institute, Greece ? Fabrizio Sestini, European Commission DG CONNECT, Belgium Steering & Program Committees https://cyprusconferences.org/insci2023/committees/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: