From zimmer at informatik.uni-halle.de Fri Jul 1 11:10:40 2016 From: zimmer at informatik.uni-halle.de (Prof. Dr. Wolf Zimmermann) Date: Fri, 01 Jul 2016 11:10:40 +0200 Subject: [fg-arc] CfP: PhD Symposium of the 5th European Conference on Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing Message-ID: <57763390.1000402@informatik.uni-halle.de> CfP: PhD Symposium of the 5th European Conference on Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing (5.9-7.9.2016, Vienna, Austria) The ESOCC 2016 PhD Symposium is an international forum for PhD students working in any of the areas addressed by the ESOCC conference. The main aim of the Symposium is to give PhD students an opportunity to present their research activity and perspectives, to critically discuss them with other PhD students and with established researchers in the area, and to get fruitful feedbacks and advices on their research activity. PhD students working in any area addressed by the ESOCC conference (all aspects of Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing, which constitute the main technology available to date for implementing service-oriented architectures and cloud computing, cf. http://esocc2016.eu/call-for-papers/) can submit a short report providing a clear statement of the problem they intend to address, motivating the interest and novelty of the underlying research challenges, demonstrating the ideas by examples, and describing the proposed research plan and expected results. Reports should not exceed 8 pages formatted according to the LNCS proceedings guidelines. The papers should be authored by the PhD student and indicate the name of her/his supervisor. Papers will be peer-reviewed by members of the program committee and have to be submitted by July 5, 2016 here. For any problem regarding the submission process, send an email to info at esocc2016.eu. It is planned to provide the participants online proceedings and to publish selected contributions as post-proceedings in the Springer CCIS series. Important Dates: Paper Submission: July 12, 2016 Notification: July 26, 2016 Final Version: TBD Programme Committee: Antonio Brogi, University of Pisa, Italy Friederike Klan, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany Welf Loewe, Linnaeus University, Sweden Flavio de Paoli, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy Alexander Pokahr, University of Hamburg, Germany Ernesto Pimentel, University of Malaga, Spain Emilio Tuosto, University of Leicester, UK Massimo Villari, University of Messina, Italy John Erik Wittern, IBM T.J.Watson Research Center, USA Gianluigi Zavattaro (Co-Chair), University of Bologna, Italy Wolf Zimmermann (Co-Chair), Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany From hkn at informatik.uni-kiel.de Mon Jul 4 14:32:11 2016 From: hkn at informatik.uni-kiel.de (Holger Knoche) Date: Mon, 04 Jul 2016 14:32:11 +0200 Subject: [fg-arc] Umfrage "Migration zu Microservices" Message-ID: Sehr geehrte Damen und Herren, mein Name ist Holger Knoche, und ich bin externer Doktorand am Lehrstuhl für Software Engineering an der Universität Kiel. Schwerpunkt meiner Forschung ist die Migration bestehender Softwaresysteme in Richtung einer Microservice-Architektur, insbesondere mit Hinblick auf Performance und Transaktionalität. Derzeit führe ich eine Umfrage durch, um zu untersuchen, weswegen Unternehmen Microservices einsetzen wollen, welche Hindernisse als besonders bedeutsam angesehen werden und wie bestimmte Aspekte bei der Einführung von Microservices in bestehende Anwendungen eingeschätzt werden. Für diese Umfrage suche ich Teilnehmer, die in der Softwareentwicklung oder dem Betrieb tätig sind und zumindest mit den Grundzügen der Microservice-Architektur vertraut sind. Falls Sie diese Voraussetzungen erfüllen und Interesse haben, an der Umfrage teilzunehmen, finden Sie den Fragebogen unter: http://goo.gl/forms/pZxYcrlj1qW8ldle2 Über Ihre Teilnahme würde ich mich sehr freuen. Sie dürfen den Link auch gern weitergeben. Eine englische Fassung des Fragebogens ist unter folgendem Link erreichbar: http://goo.gl/forms/nwjTT8HRteKhxqtf2 Vielen Dank! Mit freundlichen Grüßen Holger Knoche From grlmc at grlmc.com Sun Jul 3 10:55:30 2016 From: grlmc at grlmc.com (GRLMC) Date: Sun, 03 Jul 2016 10:55:30 +0200 Subject: [fg-arc] WebST 2016: registration deadline 15 July Message-ID: <545102060a010b02015453020e0b5a005551005703090552015108000650000357580556525d515109575851030204@grlmc_ip-zone_com-6> WebST 2016: registration deadline 15 July*To be removed from our mailing list, please respond to this message with UNSUBSCRIBE in the subject line*   ***************************************************************************** INTERNATIONAL SUMMER SCHOOL ON WEB SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   WebST 2016   Bilbao, Spain   July 18-22, 2016   Organized by: University of Deusto Rovira i Virgili University   http://grammars.grlmc.com/WebST2016/ *****************************************************************************   --- Registration deadline: July 15, 2016 ---   ********************************************************   AIM:   WebST 2016 is a research training event addressed to graduates and postgraduates in the first steps of their academic career. With a global scope, it aims at updating them about the most recent advances in the critical, multidisciplinary and fast developing area of web studies, which covers a large spectrum of current exciting research and industrial innovation from computing and technologies to social sciences and the humanities and has turned out to be the largest socio-technical infrastructure in human history. Renowned academics and industry pioneers will lecture and share their views with the audience.   Most subareas of web science and technology will be displayed, namely: content analysis and information extraction, information networks, search, data and semantics, ontologies, user behavior and personalization, online communities, social networks, economic transactions, mobility, security and privacy, graph analysis, web mining and applications. Main challenges and opportunities will be identified through 4 keynote lectures, 16 six-hour courses, and 1 round table, which will tackle the most active and promising topics from various perspectives: philosophy, sociology, politics, digital humanities, economics, computer science, engineering and mathematics. The organizers believe outstanding speakers will attract the brightest and most motivated students. Interaction will be a main component of the event. Moreover, an open session will give participants the opportunity to present their own work in progress in 5 minutes.   ADDRESSED TO:   Graduates and postgraduates from around the world. There are no formal pre-requisites in terms of academic degrees. However, since there will be differences in the course levels, specific knowledge background may be assumed for some of them. WebST 2016 is also appropriate for more senior people who want to keep themselves updated on recent developments and future trends. All will surely find it fruitful to listen and discuss with major researchers, scholars, industry leaders and innovators.   REGIME:   In addition to keynotes, at least 2 courses will run in parallel during the whole event. Participants will be able to freely choose the courses they will be willing to attend as well as to move from one to another.   VENUE:   WebST 2016 will take place in Bilbao, a city famous for its gastronomy and the seat of the Guggenheim Museum. The venue will be:   DeustoTech, School of Engineering University of Deusto Avda. Universidades, 24 48014 Bilbao   KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:   Ricardo Baeza-Yates (Pompeu Fabra University), Data and Algorithmic Bias in the Web   Jiawei Han (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), From Data to Knowledge: A Data-to-Network-to-Knowledge (D2N2K) Paradigm   Prabhakar Raghavan (Google), Three Vignettes from the Theory and Practice of Large Data Analysis   Amit P. Sheth (Wright State University), Semantic, Cognitive and Perceptual Computing – three intertwined strands of a golden braid of intelligent computing   PROFESSORS AND COURSES:   Timothy Baldwin (University of Melbourne), [intermediate] Social Media and Text Analytics   Boualem Benatallah (University of New South Wales), [advanced] API Engineering and Management   Vassilis Christophides (INRIA, Paris), [introductory/intermediate] Entity Resolution in the Web of Data   Brian D. Davison (Lehigh University), [introductory] Useful Web Mining with R   Marco Gori (University of Siena), [advanced] Learning Semantic-based Structures from Textual Sources   Alon Halevy (Recruit Institute of Technology), [introductory] Structured Data on the Web   Jiawei Han (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), [intermediate] Construction and Mining of Text-Rich Heterogeneous Information Networks   Andreas Hotho (University of Würzburg), [intermediate] Social Semantics in the Web   Ravi Kumar (Google), [introductory/intermediate] Computing at Scale: Models and Algorithms   Haewoon Kwak (Qatar Foundation), [introductory/intermediate] From Social Network Analysis to Social Media Analytics and beyond: Challenges and Opportunities   Mirco Musolesi (University College London), [introductory/intermediate] Mining Big (and Small) Mobile Data   Bijan Parsia (University of Manchester), [introductory] The Semantic Web and Linked Data   Prabhakar Raghavan (Google), [intermediate] Introduction to Web Search Engines   Uli Sattler (University of Manchester), [introductory] OWL, Underlying Logics, and What This Reasoning Is All about   Barry Smith (University at Buffalo), [introductory] Towards Ontological Foundations for​ Web Science   Raphael Volz (Pforzheim University of Applied Science), [introductory] Improving Prediction Models with Open Data   OPEN SESSION   An open session will collect 5-minute presentations of work in progress by participants. They should submit a half-page abstract containing title, authors, and summary of the research to florentinalilica.voicu (at) urv.cat by July 15, 2016.   ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:   Carlos Martín-Vide (co-chair) Manuel Jesús Parra Royón Borja Sanz (co-chair) Florentina Lilica Voicu   REGISTRATION:   It has to be done at   http://grammars.grlmc.com/WebST2016/Registration.php   The selection of up to 8 courses requested in the registration template is only tentative and non-binding. For the sake of organization, it will be helpful to have an approximation of the respective demand for each course.   Since the capacity of the venue is limited, registration requests will be processed on a first come first served basis. The registration period will be closed and the on-line registration facility disabled when the capacity of the venue will be complete. It is much recommended to register prior to the event.   FEES:   Fees are a flat rate covering the attendance to all courses during the week and lunches. There are several early registration deadlines. Fees depend on the registration deadline.   ACCOMMODATION:   A suggestion of accommodation in the university campus is available on the webpage.   CERTIFICATE:   Participants will be delivered a certificate of attendance.   QUESTIONS AND FURTHER INFORMATION:   florentinalilica.voicu (at) urv.cat   ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS:   University of Deusto Rovira i Virgili University -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From schmid at sse.uni-hildesheim.de Wed Jul 6 15:52:23 2016 From: schmid at sse.uni-hildesheim.de (Klaus Schmid) Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2016 15:52:23 +0200 Subject: [fg-arc] =?iso-8859-1?q?Gr=FCndung_eines_AK_Software_Architekture?= =?iso-8859-1?q?n_f=FCr_Big_Data_Systeme?= Message-ID: Sehr geehrte Damen und Herren, während dem letzten Treffen der Fachgruppe Architekturen (23/24.6) kam die Idee auf einen AK zum Thema Software Architekturen für Big Data Systeme zu gründen. Einige Interessenten meldeten sich bereits während der Tagung. Wir sind jetzt auf diesem Wege auf der Suche nach weiteren Interessenten. Die nächsten Schritte werden sein: * in nächster Zeit werden Interessenbekundungen gesammelt * nach der Sommerferienpause soll ein erstes gemeinsames Treffen durchgeführt werden, um zu einem Abgleich der unterschiedlichen Interessen und der einer Definition der Agenda des AKs zu kommen. Interessentinnen und Interessenten an einer Mitwirkung an dem AK melden sich bitte bei mir: schmid (at) sse.uni-hildesheim.de Ich werde Sie dann in den Verteiler aufnehmen, um die weitere Abstimmung durchzuführen. Mit freundlichen Grüßen / Best Regards Klaus Schmid ----------------------------------------------------------------- Prof. Dr. Klaus Schmid University of Hildesheim Tel.: +49(0)5121 / 883-40332 Institute of Computer Science Fax.: +49(0)5121 / 883-40333 Universitaetsplatz 1 schmid at sse.uni-hildesheim.de D-31141 Hildesheim, Germany www.sse.uni-hildesheim.de ----------------------------------------------------------------- From holik at fit.vutbr.cz Tue Jul 5 20:48:11 2016 From: holik at fit.vutbr.cz (Lukas Holik) Date: Tue, 5 Jul 2016 20:48:11 +0200 Subject: [fg-arc] MEMICS 2016 CFP Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 11th Doctoral Workshop on Mathematical and Engineering Methods in Computer Science MEMICS 2016 http://www.memics.cz October 21--23, 2016, Telc, Czech Republic Call for Papers ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Since 2005, the aim of MEMICS is to provide a scientific forum for doctoral and master students interested in applications of mathematical and engineering methods in computer science. Besides a rich technical programme (including invited talks, regular papers, and presentations), MEMICS also offers friendly social activities and exciting opportunities for meeting like-minded people. Topics: MEMICS submissions are traditionally invited from all areas of computer science (such as parallel and distributed computing, computer networks, modern hardware and its design, non-traditional computing architectures, information systems and databases, multimedia and graphics, verification and testing, computer security, as well as all related areas of theoretical computer science). In line with the tradition of MEMICS, several areas are, however, given a special focus each year (which is reflected, e.g., in the choice of the invited speakers). In 2016, these areas are: * Logic and decision procedures * Formal methods for complex and cyber-physical systems * Valued structures * Quantum information processing * High-performance and cloud computing and their applications Nevertheless, as stated above, submissions from any other area of computer science are welcome. There will be three invited talks by distinguished researchers from the different areas of interest of the workshop as a part of the programme. The invited speakers are: * Armin Biere (Johannes Kepler University in Linz, Austria) * Roland Meyer (Technische Universität Kaiserslautern, Germany) * Luca Bortolussi (University of Trieste, Italy) Submissions: Students are invited to submit a regular paper, a presentation, or a poster. A regular paper is a previously unpublished original work, not exceeding 12 pages in the LNCS style. Simultaneous submissions of regular papers to other conferences with proceedings are not allowed. A presentation, submitted in the form of a one-page abstract, summarizes recent outstanding work that has been accepted to a leading computer science conference or published in a recognised scientific journal. A poster presents an ongoing work. Detailed instructions are available at the web page http://www.memics.cz/ . In previous years, accepted regular papers appeared (depending on their quality) either in local proceedings, or in a Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) volume dedicated to MEMICS post-proceedings. This year we expect the same schema, LNCS post-proceedings are currently under negotiation. Local proceedings containing accepted regular papers and presentation abstracts will be available at the workshop in printed and/or electronic form. Submissions and dates: All submissions will be handled by the Easychair conference system. * July 24, 2016 (AoE): abstracts of regular papers * July 31, 2016 (AoE): full regular papers * August 28, 2016 (AoE): posters and one-page abstracts of presentations * September 8, 2016: notification of acceptance * September 15, 2016: final camera-ready versions of all accepted submissions Venue: The workshop will be held in the historical town of Telc, which is situated at the south-west tip of Moravia, half-way between Prague and Vienna. The historical centre of the town has retained its unique shape over the centuries and was included in the list of UNESCO World Heritage Sites in 1992: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telč The MEMICS 2016 workshop is organised jointly by: * Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University * Faculty of Information Technology, Brno University of Technology * Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University General Chair * Jan Bouda, Masaryk University Programme Committee Chairs * Lukas Holik, Brno University of Technology * Jan Kofron, Charles University * Jan Strejcek, Masaryk University Programme Committee * Jiri Barnat, Masaryk University * Ezio Bartocci, Vienna University of Technology * Armin Biere, Johannes Kepler University * Luca Bortolussi, University of Trieste * Jan Bouda, Masaryk University * Martina Dankova, University of Ostrava * Frederic Dupuis, Masaryk University * Piotr Gawron, Polish Academy of Sciences * Dana Hlinena, Brno University of Technology * Antti Hyvarinen, University of Lugano * Martin Kalina, Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava * Stanislav Krajci, Pavol Jozef Safarik University in Kosice * Jan Kretinsky, Technical University of Munich * Erwin Laure, KTH Royal Institute of Technology * Vaclav Matyas, Masaryk University * Ludek Matyska, Masaryk University * Roland Meyer, University of Kaiserslautern * Miguel Navascues, Austrian Academy of Sciences * Marcin Pawlowski, University of Gdansk * Igor Peterlik, Inria Nancy – Grand Est * Philipp Ruemmer, Uppsala University * David Safranek, Masaryk University * Peter Vojtas, Charles University * Vit Vondrak, VSB – Technical University of Ostrava * Mario Ziman, Slovak Academy of Sciences Organising Committee Chair * Jan Sebastian Novotny, Masaryk University -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From grlmc at grlmc.com Sun Jul 10 22:50:20 2016 From: grlmc at grlmc.com (GRLMC) Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2016 22:50:20 +0200 Subject: [fg-arc] WebST 2016: short presentations deadline 15 July Message-ID: <545102060a010b020151500a05045a52035101575754065501560000555051595c525003500f550706545651015757@grlmc_ip-zone_com-6> WebST 2016: short presentations deadline 15 July*To be removed from our mailing list, please respond to this message with UNSUBSCRIBE in the subject line*   ***************************************************************************** INTERNATIONAL SUMMER SCHOOL ON WEB SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   WebST 2016   Bilbao, Spain   July 18-22, 2016   Organized by: University of Deusto Rovira i Virgili University   http://grammars.grlmc.com/WebST2016/ *****************************************************************************   --- Registration deadline: July 15, 2016 ---   ********************************************************   AIM:   WebST 2016 is a research training event addressed to graduates and postgraduates in the first steps of their academic career. With a global scope, it aims at updating them about the most recent advances in the critical, multidisciplinary and fast developing area of web studies, which covers a large spectrum of current exciting research and industrial innovation from computing and technologies to social sciences and the humanities and has turned out to be the largest socio-technical infrastructure in human history. Renowned academics and industry pioneers will lecture and share their views with the audience.   Most subareas of web science and technology will be displayed, namely: content analysis and information extraction, information networks, search, data and semantics, ontologies, user behavior and personalization, online communities, social networks, economic transactions, mobility, security and privacy, graph analysis, web mining and applications. Main challenges and opportunities will be identified through 4 keynote lectures, 15 six-hour courses, and 1 round table, which will tackle the most active and promising topics from various perspectives: philosophy, sociology, politics, digital humanities, economics, computer science, engineering and mathematics. The organizers believe outstanding speakers will attract the brightest and most motivated students. Interaction will be a main component of the event. Moreover, an open session will give participants the opportunity to present their own work in progress in 5 minutes.   ADDRESSED TO:   Graduates and postgraduates from around the world. There are no formal pre-requisites in terms of academic degrees. However, since there will be differences in the course levels, specific knowledge background may be assumed for some of them. WebST 2016 is also appropriate for more senior people who want to keep themselves updated on recent developments and future trends. All will surely find it fruitful to listen and discuss with major researchers, scholars, industry leaders and innovators.   REGIME:   In addition to keynotes, at least 2 courses will run in parallel during the whole event. Participants will be able to freely choose the courses they will be willing to attend as well as to move from one to another.   VENUE:   WebST 2016 will take place in Bilbao, a city famous for its gastronomy and the seat of the Guggenheim Museum. The venue will be:   DeustoTech, School of Engineering University of Deusto Avda. Universidades, 24 48014 Bilbao   KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:   Ricardo Baeza-Yates (Pompeu Fabra University), Data and Algorithmic Bias in the Web   Jiawei Han (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), From Data to Knowledge: A Data-to-Network-to-Knowledge (D2N2K) Paradigm   Prabhakar Raghavan (Google), Three Vignettes from the Theory and Practice of Large Data Analysis   Amit P. Sheth (Wright State University), Semantic, Cognitive and Perceptual Computing – three intertwined strands of a golden braid of intelligent computing   PROFESSORS AND COURSES:   Timothy Baldwin (University of Melbourne), [intermediate] Social Media and Text Analytics   Vassilis Christophides (INRIA, Paris), [introductory/intermediate] Entity Resolution in the Web of Data   Brian D. Davison (Lehigh University), [introductory] Useful Web Mining with R   Marco Gori (University of Siena), [advanced] Learning Semantic-based Structures from Textual Sources   Alon Halevy (Recruit Institute of Technology), [introductory] Structured Data on the Web   Jiawei Han (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), [intermediate] Construction and Mining of Text-Rich Heterogeneous Information Networks   Andreas Hotho (University of Würzburg), [intermediate] Social Semantics in the Web   Ravi Kumar (Google), [introductory/intermediate] Computing at Scale: Models and Algorithms   Haewoon Kwak (Qatar Foundation), [introductory/intermediate] From Social Network Analysis to Social Media Analytics and beyond: Challenges and Opportunities   Mirco Musolesi (University College London), [introductory/intermediate] Mining Big (and Small) Mobile Data   Bijan Parsia (University of Manchester), [introductory] The Semantic Web and Linked Data   Prabhakar Raghavan (Google), [intermediate] Introduction to Web Search Engines   Uli Sattler (University of Manchester), [introductory] OWL, Underlying Logics, and What This Reasoning Is All about   Barry Smith (University at Buffalo), [introductory] Towards Ontological Foundations for​ Web Science   Raphael Volz (Pforzheim University of Applied Sciences), [introductory] Improving Prediction Models with Open Data   OPEN SESSION   An open session will collect 5-minute presentations of work in progress by participants. They should submit a half-page abstract containing title, authors, and summary of the research to florentinalilica.voicu (at) urv.cat by July 15, 2016.   ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:   Carlos Martín-Vide (co-chair) Manuel Jesús Parra Royón Borja Sanz (co-chair) Florentina Lilica Voicu   REGISTRATION:   It has to be done at   http://grammars.grlmc.com/WebST2016/Registration.php   The selection of up to 8 courses requested in the registration template is only tentative and non-binding. For the sake of organization, it will be helpful to have an approximation of the respective demand for each course.   Since the capacity of the venue is limited, registration requests will be processed on a first come first served basis. The registration period will be closed and the on-line registration facility disabled when the capacity of the venue will be complete. It is much recommended to register prior to the event.   FEES:   Fees are a flat rate covering the attendance to all courses during the week and lunches. There are several early registration deadlines. Fees depend on the registration deadline.   ACCOMMODATION:   A suggestion of accommodation in the university campus is available on the webpage.   CERTIFICATE:   Participants will be delivered a certificate of attendance.   QUESTIONS AND FURTHER INFORMATION:   florentinalilica.voicu (at) urv.cat   ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS:   University of Deusto Rovira i Virgili University -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From zimmer at informatik.uni-halle.de Thu Jul 14 16:00:42 2016 From: zimmer at informatik.uni-halle.de (Prof. Dr. Wolf Zimmermann) Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2016 16:00:42 +0200 Subject: [fg-arc] Extended Deadline - CfP PhD-Symposium of the 5th European Conference on Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing Message-ID: <57879B0A.70603@informatik.uni-halle.de> CfP: PhD Symposium of the 5th European Conference on Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing (5.9-7.9.2016, Vienna, Austria) The ESOCC 2016 PhD Symposium is an international forum for PhD students working in any of the areas addressed by the ESOCC conference. The main aim of the Symposium is to give PhD students an opportunity to present their research activity and perspectives, to critically discuss them with other PhD students and with established researchers in the area, and to get fruitful feedbacks and advices on their research activity. PhD students working in any area addressed by the ESOCC conference (all aspects of Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing, which constitute the main technology available to date for implementing service-oriented architectures and cloud computing, cf. http://esocc2016.eu/call-for-papers/) can submit a short report providing a clear statement of the problem they intend to address, motivating the interest and novelty of the underlying research challenges, demonstrating the ideas by examples, and describing the proposed research plan and expected results. Reports should not exceed 8 pages formatted according to the LNCS proceedings guidelines. The papers should be authored by the PhD student and indicate the name of her/his supervisor. Papers will be peer-reviewed by members of the program committee and have to be submitted by July 26, 2016 via EasyChair (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=esocc2016) . For any problem regarding the submission process, send an email to info at esocc2016.eu. It is planned to provide the participants online proceedings and to publish selected contributions as post-proceedings in the Springer CCIS series. Important Dates: Paper Submission: July 26, 2016 (extended deadline) Notification: August 6, 2016 Final Version: August 16, 2016 Programme Committee: Antonio Brogi, University of Pisa, Italy Friederike Klan, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany Welf Loewe, Linnaeus University, Sweden Flavio de Paoli, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy Alexander Pokahr, University of Hamburg, Germany Ernesto Pimentel, University of Malaga, Spain Emilio Tuosto, University of Leicester, UK Massimo Villari, University of Messina, Italy John Erik Wittern, IBM T.J.Watson Research Center, USA Gianluigi Zavattaro (Co-Chair), University of Bologna, Italy Wolf Zimmermann (Co-Chair), Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany From Alessio.Malizia at brunel.ac.uk Thu Jul 14 16:51:40 2016 From: Alessio.Malizia at brunel.ac.uk (Alessio Malizia) Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2016 14:51:40 +0000 Subject: [fg-arc] =?windows-1252?q?VL/HCC_2016_Call_for_Participation_=96_?= =?windows-1252?q?early_registration_deadline_31st_July_2016?= In-Reply-To: <573B96F1EFA4DC4DB4B120692BF7C95F289E38ED@v-ex10mb1.academic.windsor> References: <573B96F1EFA4DC4DB4B120692BF7C95F289E38ED@v-ex10mb1.academic.windsor> Message-ID: <573B96F1EFA4DC4DB4B120692BF7C95F289E3933@v-ex10mb1.academic.windsor> ================================ CALL FOR PARTICIPATION ================================ *IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing* September 4–7, 2016 Cambridge, UK * Early registration deadline 31st July 2016 * *www.vlhcc.org* >From the beginning of the computer age, people have sought easier ways to learn, express, and understand computational ideas. Whether this meant moving from punch cards to textual languages, or command lines to graphical UIs, the quest to make computation easier to express, manipulate, and understand by a broader group of people is an ongoing challenge. The IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing (VL/HCC) is the premier international forum for research on this topic. Established in 1984, the mission of the conference is to support the design, theory, application, and evaluation of computing technologies and languages for programming, modeling, and communicating, which are easier to learn, use, and understand by people. We will hold the IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing September 4-7, 2016 in Cambridge, UK at the St Catharine's College. VL/HCC 2016 will present two keynote addresses by prominent speakers and a selection of technical research papers and short papers about emerging topics in visual languages and human-centric computing. See the programme at the conference website (https://sites.google.com/site/vlhcc2016/keynotes). The event will also feature a graduate consortium and will be co-located with PPIG 2016: The Psychology of Programming Interest Group (PPIG). KEYNOTE SPEAKERS * David Dernie, Dean of the Faculty of Architecture and Built Environment at the University of Westminster, UK * Michael Kölling, Professor at the School of Computing, University of Kent, in Canterbury, UK VENUE The city of Cambridge, an hour by train from London, is one of the leading technology innovation centres in Europe. Its vibrant cultural and business environment has developed around the 800 year-old university and medieval city centre. Cambridge is the bicycling capital of the UK, with a wide range of science museums, art galleries and historic churches distributed among the tourist attractions of the scenic parks and river. Cambridge has been a regional market town for 2000 years, and still has a traditional market square at the centre of a charming district that mixes pedestrian precincts with student accommodation, university departments and fashionable shopping. The venue for all conference sessions will be St Catharine’s College, which is located next to King’s College in the historic centre of Cambridge. The college provides on-site accommodation, with the major attractions of the city only a 1-2 minute walk from the front gate. Like most Cambridge Colleges, St Catharine’s provides modern conference facilities in a scenic and historic setting. For further details see http://vlhcc.org/attending REGISTRATION The registration is open now at https://www.caths.cam.ac.uk/vlhcc-and-ppig-2016. Early registration with reduced fees ends on July 31st, 2016. ORGANIZATION General Chair Alan Blackwell - University of Cambridge, UK Program Chairs Gem Stapleton - University of Brighton, UK Beryl Plimmer - University of Auckland, New Zealand (NZ) Publicity Chair Alessio Malizia - Brunel University London, UK Finance Chair Peter Rodgers - University of Kent, UK Graduate Consortium Chair Anita Sarma - Oregon State University, USA Showpieces Chair Advait Sarkar - University of Cambridge, UK Publications Chair Peter Chapman - University of Brighton, UK Social Media Chair Scott Fleming - University of Memphis, US Program Committee Robin Abraham - Microsoft Corporation Paolo Bottoni - Sapienza University of Rome Peter Chapman - Edinburgh Napier University Gennaro Costagliola - Dipartimento di Informatica, Università di Salerno Jacome Cunha - Universidade Nova de Lisboa & HASLab/INESC TEC Juan De Lara - Universidad Autonoma de Madrid Simone Diniz Junqueira Barbosa - PUC-Rio Gregor Engels - University of Paderborn Claudia Ermel - Technische Universität Berlin Martin Erwig - Oregon State University Joao Paulo Fernandes - University of Beira Interior Andrew Fish - University of Brighton Scott Fleming - University of Memphis Judith Good - Department of Informatics, University of Sussex John Grundy - Swinburne University of Technology Felienne Hermans - Delft University of Technology John Hosking - University of Auckland John Howse - University of Brighton Caitlin Kelleher - Washington University in St. Louis Sandeep Kuttal - University of Tulsa Edward Lank - University of Waterloo Thomas D. Latoza - George Mason University Mark Minas - Universität der Bundeswehr München Brad Myers - Carnegie Mellon University Chris Parnin - NCSU Alexander Repenning - University of Colorado Peter Rodgers - University of Kent Joao Saraiva - Universidade do Minho Anita Sarma - Oregon State University Stefan Sauer - University of Paderborn, s-lab - Software Quality Lab Christopher Scaffidi - Oregon State University T. Metin Sezgin - Koc University Simone Stumpf - City University London Steven Tanimoto - University of Washington Franklyn Turbak - Wellesley College Jean Vanderdonckt, Université catholique de Louvain Eric Walkingshaw - Oregon State University Steering Committee Paolo Bottoni - Universita de Roma - Sapienza, Italy Gennaro Costagliola - Università di Salerno, Italy Martin Erwig - Oregon State University, USA Andrew Fish - University of Brighton, UK John Grundy - Swinburne University of Technology, Australia John Howse - University of Brighton, UK Eileen Kraemer - Clemson University, USA Mark Minas - Universität der Bundeswehr München, Germany Brad Myers - Carnegie Mellon University, USA For further information, please visit the conference website at http://vlhcc.org/ We all look forward to welcoming you at VL/HCC 2016 in Cambridge, UK! Alessio Malizia Dr. Senior Lecturer T +44 (0) 1895 266282 Connect with me on Linkedin, Twitter, Facebook Human Centred Design Institute (HCDI) and College of Engineering, Design and Physical Sciences Department of Computer Science Brunel University London St John’s Building, Kingston Lane, Uxbridge, Middlesex, UB8 3PH www.brunel.ac.uk Connect with the University on Linkedin, Twitter, Facebook -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From peter.schuller at marmara.edu.tr Fri Jul 15 15:47:39 2016 From: peter.schuller at marmara.edu.tr (Peter Schueller) Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2016 16:47:39 +0300 (EEST) Subject: [fg-arc] CFP ICLP Doctoral Consortium, New York City, USA, 18 October 2016 Message-ID: <20160715134739.439872C0253@omsievews> (Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this email. Please distribute to interested parties.) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ICLP DC 2016 Twelfth ICLP Doctoral Student Consortium to be held in New York City, USA, 18 October 2016 http://dc-iclp16.cs.bath.ac.uk/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The ICLP Doctoral Consortium (DC) is the twelfth doctoral consortium to be held as part of the 32nd International Conference on Logic Programming (ICLP 2016). The DC will take place during ICLP 2016 in New York City, USA. It provides a forum for doctoral students working in areas related to logic and constraint programming, with a particular emphasis to students interested in pursuing a career in academia. The DC gives students the opportunity to present and discuss their research and to obtain feedback from peers as well as world-renowned experts. ** Target Audience ** The DC is designed for students currently enrolled in a Ph.D. program, though we are also open to exceptions (e.g., students currently in a Master's program and interested in doctoral studies). Students at any stage in their doctoral studies are encouraged to apply for participation in the DC. Applicants are expected to conduct research in areas related to logic and constraint programming; topics of interest include (but are not limited to): - Theoretical Foundations of Logic and Constraint Logic Programming - Sequential and Parallel Implementation Technology - Static and Dynamic Analysis, Abstract Interpretation, Compilation Technology, Verification - Logic-based Paradigms (e.g., Answer Set Programming, Concurrent Logic Programming, Inductive Logic Programming) - Innovative Applications of Logic Programming - Logic Programming and Nonmonotonic Reasoning - Logic Programming and Causality - Logic Programming Systems Submissions by students who have presented their work at previous ICLP DC editions are allowed, but should occur only if there are substantial changes or improvements to the student's work. The DC allows participants to interact with established researchers and fellow students, through presentations, question-answer sessions, panel discussions, and invited presentations. The Doctoral Consortium will provide the possibility to reflect - through short activities, information sessions, and discussions - on the process and lessons of research and life in academia. Each participant will give a short, critiqued, research presentation. ** Application Process ** An application for participation in the ICLP DC 2016 consists of a cover letter, a research summary, and a letter of recommendation (e.g., from your supervisor). All applications must be in English and submitted electronically via EasyChair by 17 July 2016. Detailed submission instructions are provided at the ICLP DC 2016 website: http://dc-iclp16.cs.bath.ac.uk/ The DC program committee will select participants based on their anticipated contribution to the DC objectives. Students will be selected based on clarity and completeness of their submission package, relevance of their research area w.r.t. the focus of ICLP, stage of research, recommendation letter, and evidence of promise towards a successful career in research and academia, such as published papers or technical reports. The works accepted for presentation at the DC will be published in conjunction with the ICLP proceedings. Updates follow as soon as we have more information regarding this. There will be some financial support available to students who attend the DC. The details will be announced soon. ** Important Dates ** Application Submission: 17 July 2016 Acceptance Notification: 1 August 2016 Camera-ready Version: 14 August 2016 Doctoral Consortium: 18 October 2016 ** Organization ** - Program Committee: Martin Gebser, Aalto Jose F. Morales, IMDEA Software Research Institute Ekaterina Komendantskaya, School of Computing, University of Dundee Fabio Fioravanti, University of Chieti-Pescara Francesco Ricca, Department of Mathematics University of Calabria Frank Valencia, LIX, Ecole Polytechnique Takehide Soh, Information Science and Technology Center, Kobe University - Program Chairs: Marina De Vos, University of Bath (M.D.Vos at bath.ac.uk) Neda Saeedloei, University of Minnesota Duluth (nsaeedlo at d.umn.edu) Website: http://dc-iclp16.cs.bath.ac.uk/ From grlmc at grlmc.com Sun Jul 17 18:23:08 2016 From: grlmc at grlmc.com (GRLMC) Date: Sun, 17 Jul 2016 18:23:08 +0200 Subject: [fg-arc] SLSP 2016: call for posters Message-ID: <545102060a010b0202545004020b5a0401560c5851085755015509540205020753005600005d550b530450020f5053@grlmc_ip-zone_com-6> SLSP 2016: call for postersThe 4th International Conference on Statistical Language and Speech Processing (SLSP 2016) invites researchers to submit poster presentations. SLSP 2016 will be held in Pilsen (Czech Republic) on October 11-12, 2016. See  http://grammars.grlmc.com/SLSP2016/ Poster presentations are intended to enhance informal interactions with the conference participants, at the same time allowing for in-depth discussion. TOPICS Presentations displaying novel work in progress on the employment of statistical models (including machine learning) in language and speech processing are invited. Posters do not need to show final research results. Work that might lead to new interesting developments is welcome. KEY DATES Poster submission deadline: September 4, 2016 Notification of poster acceptance or rejection: September 11, 2016 SUBMISSION Please submit a .pdf abstract through: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=slsp2016 It should contain the title, author(s) and affiliation, and should not exceed 500 words. PRESENTATION Posters will be allocated 10 minutes each in the programme for oral presentation. Moreover, they will remain hanging out during the whole conference for discussion. PUBLICATION Posters will not appear in the LNCS/LNAI proceedings volume of SLSP 2016. However, they will be eligible for submission to the post-conference journal special issue in Computer Speech and Language (Elsevier, JCR 2014 impact factor: 1.753). REGISTRATION At least one author of each accepted poster must register to the conference by September 27, 2016. The registration fare is reduced: 240 Euro. It gives the same rights all other conference participants have (attendance, copy of the proceedings volume, lunches...). Contributors of regular papers who in addition get a poster accepted must register for the latter independently.   -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From andrea.rosa at usi.ch Tue Jul 19 11:23:41 2016 From: andrea.rosa at usi.ch (Andrea Rosa) Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2016 09:23:41 +0000 Subject: [fg-arc] ACM/SPEC ICPE 2017 - 1st Call for Papers Message-ID: ICPE 2017 8th ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering Sponsored by ACM SIGMETRICS, SIGSOFT, and SPEC RG L'Aquila, Italy April 22-26, 2017 https://icpe2017.spec.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ IMPORTANT DATES Research and Industrial / Experience Abstracts: Sep 23, 2016 Research and Industrial / Experience Papers: Sep 30, 2016 Research and Industrial / Experience Paper Notification: Nov 18, 2016 Work-in-Progress/Vision Papers: Nov 25, 2016 Workshop Proposals: Nov 05, 2016 Workshop Proposal Notification: Nov 19, 2016 Dates for tutorials, posters and demos will be announced. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ SCOPE AND TOPICS The goal of the International Conference on Performance Engineering (ICPE) is to integrate theory and practice in the field of performance engineering by providing a forum for sharing ideas and experiences between industry and academia. Nowadays, complex systems of all types, like Web-based systems, data centers and cloud infrastructures, social networks, peer-to-peer, mobile and wireless systems, cyber-physical systems, the Internet of Things, real-time and embedded systems, have increasingly distributed and dynamic system architectures that provide high flexibility, however, also increase the complexity of managing end-to-end application performance. ICPE brings together researchers and industry practitioners to share and present their experiences, discuss challenges, and report state-of-the-art and in-progress research on performance engineering of software and systems, including performance measurement, modeling, benchmark design, and run-time performance management. The focus is both on classical metrics such as response time, throughput, resource utilization, and (energy) efficiency, as well as on the relationship of such metrics to other system properties including but not limited to scalability, elasticity, availability, reliability, and security. This year's main theme is cost-effective performance engineering, where cost has a wide interpretation including measures such as effort and energy in addition to traditional performance measures. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Performance modeling of software * Languages and ontologies * Methods and tools * Relationship/integration/tradeoffs with other QoS attributes * Analytical, simulation and statistical modeling methodologies * Model validation and calibration techniques * Automatic model extraction * Performance modeling and analysis tools Performance and software development processes/paradigms * Software performance patterns and anti-patterns * Software/performance tool interoperability (models and data interchange formats) * Performance-oriented design, implementation and configuration management * Software Performance Engineering and Model-Driven Development * Gathering, interpreting and exploiting software performance annotations and data * System sizing and capacity planning techniques * (Model-driven) Performance requirements engineering * Relationship between performance and architecture * Collaboration of development and operation (DevOps) for performance * Performance and agile methods * Performance in Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA) * Performance of micro-service architectures and containers Performance measurement, monitoring and analysis * Performance measurement and monitoring techniques * Analysis of measured application performance data * Application tracing and profiling * Workload characterization techniques * Experimental design * Tools for performance testing, measurement, profiling and tuning Benchmarking * Performance metrics and benchmark suites * Benchmarking methodologies * Development of parameterizable, flexible benchmarks * Benchmark workloads and scenarios * Use of benchmarks in industry and academia Run-time performance management * Use of models at run-time * Online performance prediction * Autonomic resource management * Utility-based optimization * Capacity management Power and performance, energy efficiency * Power consumption models and management techniques * Tradeoffs between performance and energy efficiency * Performance-driven resource and power management Performance modeling and evaluation in different environments and application domains * Web-based systems, e-business, Web services * Big data systems, data analytics systems, and other data analysis systems * Internet of Things * Social networks * Cyber-physical systems * Industrial Internet (Industry 4.0) * Virtualization and cloud computing * Autonomous/adaptive systems * Transaction-oriented systems * Communication networks * Parallel and distributed systems * Embedded systems * Multi-core systems * Cluster and grid computing environments * High performance computing * Event-based systems * Real-time and multimedia systems * Peer-to-peer, mobile and wireless systems All other topics related to performance of software and systems. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Authors are invited to submit original, unpublished papers that are not being considered in another forum. A variety of contribution styles for papers are solicited including: basic and applied research papers for novel scientific insights, industrial and experience papers reporting on applying performance engineering or benchmarks in practice, and work-in-progress/vision papers for ongoing but yet interesting work. Different acceptance criteria apply based on the expected content of the individual contribution types. Authors will be requested to self-classify their papers according to topic and contribution style when submitting their papers. Submissions to all tracks need to be uploaded to ICPE's submission system and conform to the ACM submission format. For detailed submission instructions, please visit: https://icpe2017.spec.org/submissions.html. At least one author of each accepted paper is required to register at the full rate, attend the conference and present the paper. Presented papers will be published in the ICPE 2017 conference proceedings that will be published by ACM and included in the ACM Digital Library. After the conference, there will be a call for a special issue of a journal. AUTHORS TAKE NOTE: The official publication date is the date the proceedings are made available in the ACM Digital Library. This date may be up to two weeks prior to the first day of your conference. The official publication date affects the deadline for any patent filings related to published work. (For those rare conferences whose proceedings are published in the ACM Digital Library after the conference is over, the official publication date remains the first day of the conference.) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ PROGRAM COMMITTEE (RESEARCH PAPERS) Amy Apon, Clemson University Martin Arlitt, HP Labs and University of Calgary Alberto Avritzer, Performance Engineering Consultant Steffen Becker, University of Technology Chemnitz Robert Birke, IBM Zurich Research Laboratory Andre B. Bondi, Software Performance and Scalability Consulting LLC Niklas Carlsson, Linkoping University Lydia Y. Chen, IBM Zurich Research Laboratory Lucy Cherkasova, HP Labs Antinisca Di Marco, Università dell'Aquila Wilhelm Hasselbring, Kiel University Alexandru Iosup, Delft University of Technology Evangelia Kalyvianaki, City University London Samuel Kounev, University of Wuerzburg Heiko Koziolek, ABB Corporate Research Diwakar Krishnamurthy, University of Calgary Patrick Lee, The Chinese University of Hong Kong Catalina M. Lladó, Universitat Illes Balears Lei Lu, VMware Andrea Marin, University of Venice Daniel Menasce, George Mason University Daniel S. Menasché, Federal Univ. of Rio de Janeiro José Merseguer, Universidad de Zaragoza Ningfang Mi, Northeastern University Raffaela Mirandola, Politecnico di Milano Manoj Nambiar, Tata Consultancy Services Dorina Petriu, Carleton University Denys Poshyvanyk, College of William and Mary Ralf Reussner, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology Alma Riska, Network Appliances Jerry Rolia, HP Labs Rekha Singhal, Tata Consultancy Services Mirco Tribastone, IMT Institute for Advanced Studies Catia Trubiani, Gran Sasso Science Institute Petr Tuma, Charles University Ana Lucia Varbanescu, University of Amsterdam Enrico Vicario, University of Florence Katinka Wolter, Freie Universitaet zu Berlin Murray Woodside, Carleton University Feng Yan, University of Nevada-Reno Xiaoyun Zhu, Futurewei Technologies Inc ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ORGANIZING COMMITTEE General Chairs * Walter Binder, Università della Svizzera italiana (USI), Switzerland * Vittorio Cortellessa, Università dell'Aquila, Italy Research Program Chairs * Anne Koziolek, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany * Evgenia Smirni, College of William and Mary, USA Industry Program Chairs * Meikel Poess, Oracle, USA Tutorials Chair * Valeria Cardellini, Università di Roma Torvergata, Italy Workshops Chairs * Hanspeter Mössenböck, Johannes Kepler Universität Linz, Austria * Catia Trubiani, Gran Sasso Science Institute, Italy Posters and Demos Chair * Lubomir Bulej, Charles University, Czech Republic Awards Chairs * Petr Tuma, Charles University, Czech Republic * Murray Woodside, Carleton University, Canada Local Organization Chair * Antinisca Di Marco, Università dell'Aquila, Italy Publicity Chairs * Andrea Rosà, Università della Svizzera italiana (USI), Switzerland * Diego Perez, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Finance Chair * André van Hoorn, University of Stuttgart Publication and Registration Chair * Davide Arcelli, Università dell'Aquila, Italy Web Site Chair * Cathy Sandifer, SPEC, USA ------------ Andrea Rosà PhD student - Teaching assistant Faculty of Informatics - 2nd floor Università della Svizzera italiana (USI) Via G. Buffi 13 CH-6904 Lugano Switzerland (e) andrea.rosa at usi.ch (p) +41 58 666 4455 ext. 2183 (w) http://www.inf.usi.ch/phd/rosaa/ From announce at cs.ucy.ac.cy Mon Jul 18 15:18:49 2016 From: announce at cs.ucy.ac.cy (Announce Announcements) Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2016 16:18:49 +0300 Subject: [fg-arc] 22nd ACM International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2017): Second Call for Student Travelling Support Message-ID: *** Second Call for Student Travelling Support *** 22nd ACM International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces IUI 2017 St. Raphael Resort, Limassol, Cyprus March 13-16, 2017 http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=c2NlLmNhcmxldG9uLmNhICwJCQlmZy1hcmNAbGlzdHMudW5pLXBhZGVyYm9ybi5kZQkyMm5kIEFDTSBJbnRlcm5hdGlvbmFsIENvbmZlcmVuY2Ugb24gSW50ZWxsaWdlbnQgVXNlciBJbnRlcmZhY2VzIChJVUkgMjAxNyk6IFNlY29uZCBDYWxsIGZvciBTdHVkZW50IFRyYXZlbGxpbmcgU3VwcG9ydAk0MglMaXN0cwkyNDUJY2xpY2sJeWVzCW5v&url=http%3A%2F%2Fiui.acm.org%2F2017 Following the tradition of previous years, we will offer student participation support provided by SIGCHI to attend the IUI Conference. This support is in the form of a small stipend to cover the registration fee and partially cover the costs of travel and living expenses while attending the conference. The students will be reimbursed for their expenses after the conference. All students who get travel grants from SIGCHI must send us a paragraph about their experience and a headshot before they will be reimbursed. You must be a member of SIGCHI before you apply ($19 dues). The objective of IUI's student support is to encourage students interested in subjects related to Intelligent User Interfaces to become active members of the IUI community. To apply, the student should be actively enrolled as a student in an academic institution. Priority will be given to students who are first authors of accepted papers and to participants in the doctoral consortium. Recipients of the stipend are also expected to help the conference organization as student volunteers. The level of support will be determined by the availability of funds and the number of eligible applications. The application should include: 1. Full name 2. Email address 3. The school you are attending, your major, and the country in which the school resides 4. If you will present at the conference, please provide the title of the submission and its type (e.g., research paper, student consortium, demo). Please note if you have submitted but have not found out if your submission has been accepted 5. A short statement describing your research interests and how you wish to benefit from attending this conference 6. The location you are flying from and the cost for your airfare, as determined by the availability of low-cost economy fares for travel to the conference. Please describe any other expenses you expect to accrue, but do not include registration and housing costs, as they are similar for all students 7. A letter of recommendation from your thesis or doctoral advisor (or supervising faculty member) sent separately by email to the Student Consortium Co-Chairs. If you are also applying to the Student Consortium, one appropriately worded recommendation letter can be used for both applications, or you may submit a slightly different letter for each application 8. You must be a member of SIGCHI before you apply The application The SSTG application has two parts: an application form that is submitted by the student; and a letter of support from the student's advisor that the student will attach to his or her application. More information and a link for submitting an application (available a month before the deadline, early July 2016) can be found on the SIGCHI website (http://www.sigchi.org/conferences/funding/student-travel-grant). Submit your single, combined PDF (except letter of recommendation, must be a separate PDF to attach to the application) to: PCS by the deadline! 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URL: From sujata at isichennai.res.in Wed Jul 20 12:08:11 2016 From: sujata at isichennai.res.in (sujata) Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2016 15:38:11 +0530 Subject: [fg-arc] Call for papers: 9th Methods for Modalities Workshop (M4M-9), January 8-11, 2017, IIT Kanpur, India Message-ID: <057d82b602e7548ac7e0c685786cd080@isichennai.res.in> 9th METHODS FOR MODALITIES WORKSHOP January 8-10, 2017 IIT Kanpur, India https://www.cse.iitk.ac.in/users/icla/M4M/ FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS Methods for Modalities Workshop Series will have its ninth edition of Methods for Modalities Workshop (M4M-9) jointly organised by ALI, the Association for Logic in India, to be held at the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, from January 8 to 10, 2017. M4M-9 will be co-located with the Indian Conference on Logic and its Applications (ICLA) to be held during January 5-7, 2017. The workshop "Methods for Modalities" (M4M) aims to bring together researchers interested in developing proof methods, verification methods, algorithms and tools based on modal logic. Here the term "modal logics" is conceived broadly, including description logic, guarded fragments, conditional logic, temporal and hybrid logic, dynamic logic, etc. M4M resumes after a short break, but will continue to be an important avenue for discussions of research in modal logics, especially on proof methods and decision procedures, and linkages of modal formalisms to computer science. Please visit: https://cs.famaf.unc.edu.ar/~careces/M4M/ for details of M4M workshops in the past. In M4M-9 we hope to have a substantial part of the meeting devoted to tutorial lectures to increase the instructional content of the event. Submission ---------- Authors are invited to submit papers presenting original and unpublished research in proof methods, verification methods, algorithms and tools based on modal logics. We strongly encourage young researchers and students to submit papers, especially for experimental and prototypical software tools which are related to modal logics. Submissions must be in English and should provide sufficient detail to allow the programme committee to assess the merits of the paper. The submission may not exceed 15 pages in the LIPIcs style (http://www.dagstuhl.de/en/publications/lipics/instructions-for-authors/). All submissions will be in electronic form and submitted via the easychair conference management system. Simultaneous submission to journals or to other conferences with proceedings is not allowed. Submitted papers will be peer-reviewed and accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings, which will be made available at the time of the conference. We hope to have electronic proceedings for M4M-9 in the LIPIcs series (https://www.dagstuhl.de/en/publications/lipics). 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The 22nd edition of the conference will be held in Limassol, Cyprus. Limassol (or Lemesos) is a multicultural bustling town, flanked by two ancient cities, Amathus and Kourion, and guarded by the Amathusian Aphrodite and Appolo Hylates. It is a town of great visual diversity and contrast from spectacular seafront views, historic places like the mediaeval Castle, and Byzantine churches. Along the 17 km long sandy beaches, two Marinas, world renowned 5 star hotels, and a most exciting dining, shopping, nightlife and yachting scene create a year-round vibrant lifestyle well beyond the expectations of a Mediterranean island. ACM IUI is where the Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) community meets the Artificial Intelligence (AI), with contributions from related fields such as psychology, behavioral science, cognitive science, computer graphics, design or the arts. Our focus is to improve the interaction between humans and machines, by leveraging both more traditional HCI approaches, as well as solutions that involve state-of-the art AI techniques such as machine learning, natural language processing, data mining, knowledge representation and reasoning. ACM IUI welcomes contribution from any relevant arena: academia, business, or non-profit organizations. Why you should submit to ACM IUI: At ACM IUI, we focus on the interaction between machine intelligence and human intelligence. While other conferences focus on one side or the other, we address the complex interaction between the two. We welcome research that explores how to make the interaction between computers and people smarter, which may leverage solutions from data mining, knowledge representation, novel interaction paradigms, and emerging technologies. We strongly encourage submissions that discuss research from both HCI and AI simultaneously, but also welcome works that focus more on one side or the other. The conference brings together people from academia, industry and non-profit organizations and gives its participants the opportunity to present and see cutting-edge IUI work in a focused and interactive setting. It is large enough to be diverse and lively, but small enough to allow for extensive interaction among attendees and easy attendance to the events that the conference offers, ranging from oral paper presentations, poster sessions, workshops, panels and doctoral consortium for graduate students. Submission Full and Short Papers We invite original paper submissions that describe novel user interfaces, applications, interactive and intelligent technologies, empirical studies, or design techniques. IUI 2017 especially encourages submissions on innovative and visionary new concepts or directions for the design of intelligent interfaces. We do not require evaluations with users, but we do expect papers to include an appropriate evaluation for their stated contribution. Accepted papers will appear in the ACM Digital Library and citation indices. A selected set of accepted top quality full papers will be invited to submit their extended versions for publication in an ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems (TiiS, http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=c2NlLmNhcmxldG9uLmNhICwJCQlmZy1hcmNAbGlzdHMudW5pLXBhZGVyYm9ybi5kZQkyMm5kIEFDTSBJbnRlcm5hdGlvbmFsIENvbmZlcmVuY2Ugb24gSW50ZWxsaWdlbnQgVXNlciBJbnRlcmZhY2VzIChJVUkgMjAxNyk6IEZvdXJ0aCBDYWxsIGZvciBQYXBlcnMJNDQJTGlzdHMJMjQ1CWNsaWNrCXllcwlubw==&url=http%3A%2F%2Ftiis.acm.org%29 special issue titled "Highlights of IUI 2017". Examples of ACM IUI topics of interest include, but are not limited to: · Intelligent visualization tools · User-Adaptive interaction and personalization · Recommender systems · Intelligent wearable, mobile and ubiquitous interfaces · Modeling and prediction of user behavior · Information retrieval and search · Education and learning-related technologies · Social media analysis · Multi-modal interfaces (speech, gestures, eye gaze, face, physiological information etc.) · Natural language and speech processing · Generation of multimodal content · Big Data and analytics · Smart environments and tangible computing · Intelligent assistants for complex tasks · Collaborative interfaces · Persuasive and assistive technologies in IUI · Affective and aesthetic interfaces · Interactive machine learning · Planning and plan recognition for IUI · Knowledge-based approaches to user interface design and generation · Proactive and agent-based user interaction · Example-and demonstration-based interfaces · Evaluations of intelligent user interfaces Submission Guidelines · Full paper (anonymized 10 pages, references do not count toward the page limit) should make substantial, novel, and relevant contribution to the field. · Short paper (anonymized 4 pages, references do not count toward the page limit) is a much more focused and succinct contribution to the field. Short papers are not expected to include a discussion of related work that is as broad and complete as that of full papers. · Anonymization: ACM IUI uses a double-blind review process. All submissions must be appropriately anonymized according to the following guidelines: 1. Author's names and affiliations are not visible anywhere in the paper. 2. Acknowledgements should be anonymized or removed during the review process. 3. Self-citations should be included where necessary, but must use the third person. For example, "... as shown in our previous user study [2] ..." is not allowed, whereas "... as shown in Smith et al. [2] " is acceptable (because in this case the citation [2] will NOT be perceived as self-citation). Failure to follow these guidelines may results in submissions being rejected without review. Submissions should follow the standard SigCHI format available here: http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=c2NlLmNhcmxldG9uLmNhICwJCQlmZy1hcmNAbGlzdHMudW5pLXBhZGVyYm9ybi5kZQkyMm5kIEFDTSBJbnRlcm5hdGlvbmFsIENvbmZlcmVuY2Ugb24gSW50ZWxsaWdlbnQgVXNlciBJbnRlcmZhY2VzIChJVUkgMjAxNyk6IEZvdXJ0aCBDYWxsIGZvciBQYXBlcnMJNDQJTGlzdHMJMjQ1CWNsaWNrCXllcwlubw==&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sigchi.org%2Fpublications%2Fchipubform%2F . You may use either the Microsoft Word template or the LaTeX template. Accepted full papers will be invited for oral presentation. Accepted short papers will be invited either as oral or poster presentation, depending on the quality of the papers. AUTHORS TAKE NOTE: The official publication date is the date the proceedings are made available in the ACM Digital Library. This date may be up to two weeks prior to the first day of your conference. The official publication date affects the deadline for any patent filings related to published work. (For those rare conferences whose proceedings are published in the ACM Digital Library after the conference is over, the official publication date remains the first day of the conference.) Important Dates · Abstracts: October 9, 2016 · Full and Short Papers: October 14, 2016 · Reviews to Authors: November 21, 2016 · Rebuttals: November 25, 2016 · Notification of Decisions: December 9, 2016 Committees General Chairs · Tsvika Kuflik, University of Haifa, Israel · George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Program Committee Chairs · Fang Chen, NICTA, Australia · Carlos Duarte, University of Lisbon, Portugal · Wai-Tat Fu, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA Posters/Demos Chairs · Andrina Granic, University of Split, Croatia · Denis Parra. 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TPNC 2016 will reserve significant room for young scholars at the beginning of their career and particular focus will be put on methodology. The conference aims at attracting contributions to nature-inspired models of computation, synthesizing nature by means of computation, nature-inspired materials, and information processing in nature.   VENUE:   TPNC 2016 will take place in Sendai, in the northeast (Tohoku) region of Japan. The city was founded in 1600 and is nicknamed the "city of trees". It is the second largest city north of Tokyo. It takes about 100 minutes to reach Sendai from Tokyo by bullet train (Shinkansen). The venue will be the Cyberscience Center, Aobayama Campus, Tohoku University:   http://www.cc.tohoku.ac.jp/HTML/   SCOPE:   Topics include, but are not limited to:   - Theoretical contributions to:   amorphous computing ant colonies artificial chemistry artificial immune systems artificial life bacterial foraging cellular automata chaos computing collision-based computing complex adaptive systems computing with DNA computing with words and perceptions developmental systems evolutionary computing fractal geometry fuzzy logic gene assembly in ciliates granular computing intelligent systems in-vivo computing membrane computing nanocomputing neural computing optical computing physarum machines quantum computing quantum information reaction-diffusion systems rough sets self-organizing systems swarm intelligence synthetic biology   - Applications of natural computing to:   algorithmics bioinformatics control cryptography design economics graphics hardware human-computer interaction knowledge discovery learning logistics medicine natural language processing optimization pattern recognition planning and scheduling programming robotics telecommunications web intelligence   A flexible "theory to/from practice" approach would be the perfect focus for the expected contributions.   STRUCTURE:   TPNC 2016 will consist of:   - invited talks - peer-reviewed contributions - posters   INVITED SPEAKERS:   Eric Bonabeau (Icosystem), The Interface: Thinking Differently about How Humans and Algorithms Connect   Luis Martínez López (University of Jaén), Managing Natural Noise in Recommender Systems   Qingfu Zhang (City University of Hong Kong), Decomposition Multiobjective Evolutionary Computation   PROGRAMME COMMITTEE:   Andrew Adamatzky (University of the West of England, UK) Zixing Cai (Central South University, China) Óscar Castillo (Tijuana Institute of Technology, Mexico) Óscar Cordón (University of Granada, Spain) Gianni Di Caro (Dalle Molle Institute for Artificial Intelligence Research, Switzerland) Marco Dorigo (Free University of Brussels – ULB, Belgium) Austin G. Fowler (Google, USA) Michel Gendreau (Montreal Polytechnic, Canada) Debasish Ghose (Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India) Jin-Kao Hao (University of Angers, France) Inman Harvey (University of Sussex, UK) Wei-Chiang Hong (Nanjing Tech University, China) Amir Hussain (University of Stirling, UK) Robert John (University of Nottingham, UK) Joshua Knowles (University of Birmingham, UK) Kwong-Sak Leung (Chinese University of Hong Kong, China) Seth Lloyd (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA) José A. Lozano (University of the Basque Country, Spain) Vittorio Maniezzo (University of Bologna, Italy) Carlos Martín-Vide (Rovira i Virgili University, Spain, chair) Philip K. McKinley (Michigan State University, USA) Jerry M. Mendel (University of Southern California, USA) Marjan Mernik (University of Maribor, Slovenia) Radko Mesiar (Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava, Slovakia) Chrystopher Nehaniv (University of Hertfordshire, UK) Vilém Novák (University of Ostrava, Czech Republic) Linqiang Pan (Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China) Frederick E. Petry (Naval Research Laboratory, USA) Dan Ralescu (University of Cincinnati, USA) Francisco C. Santos (University of Lisbon, Portugal) Friedrich Simmel (Technical University of Munich, Germany) Andrzej Skowron (University of Warsaw, Poland) John A. Smolin (IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, USA) Ying Tan (Peking University, China) Guy Theraulaz (Paul Sabatier University, France) Tommaso Toffoli (Boston University, USA) Vicenç Torra (University of Skövde, Sweden) Edward Tsang (University of Essex, UK) Sergi Valverde (Pompeu Fabra University, Spain) José Luis Verdegay (University of Granada, Spain) Fernando J. Von Zuben (University of Campinas, Brazil) K. Birgitta Whaley (University of California, Berkeley, USA) Darrell Whitley (Colorado State University, USA) Xin‐She Yang (Middlesex University, UK) Hao Ying (Wayne State University, USA) Mengjie Zhang (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand) Zhi-Hua Zhou (Nanjing University, China)   ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:   Masayuki Fukumitsu (Ebetsu) Carlos Martín-Vide (Tarragona, co-chair) Takaaki Mizuki (Sendai, co-chair) Hideaki Sone (Sendai) Miguel A. Vega-Rodríguez (Cáceres) Florentina Lilica Voicu (Tarragona)   SUBMISSIONS:   Authors are invited to submit non-anonymized papers in English presenting original and unpublished research. Papers should not exceed 12 single-spaced pages (including eventual appendices, references, proofs, etc.) and should be prepared according to the standard format for Springer Verlag's LNCS series (see http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0).   Submissions have to be uploaded to:   https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=tpnc2016   PUBLICATIONS:   A volume of proceedings published by Springer in the LNCS series will be available by the time of the conference.   A special issue of the journal Soft Computing (Springer, 2014 JCR impact factor: 1.304) will be later published containing peer-reviewed substantially extended versions of some of the papers contributed to the conference. Submissions to it will be by invitation.   REGISTRATION:   The registration form can be found at:   http://grammars.grlmc.com/TPNC2016/Registration.php   DEADLINES:   Paper submission: August 8, 2016 (23:59h, CET) – EXTENDED – Notification of paper acceptance or rejection: September 2, 2016 Final version of the paper for the LNCS proceedings: September 9, 2016 Early registration: September 9, 2016 Late registration: November 28, 2016 Submission to the post-conference journal special issue: March 14, 2017   QUESTIONS AND FURTHER INFORMATION:   florentinalilica.voicu (at) urv.cat   POSTAL ADDRESS:   TPNC 2016 Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics (GRLMC) Rovira i Virgili University Av. Catalunya, 35 43002 Tarragona, Spain   Phone: +34 977 559 543 Fax: +34 977 558 386   ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS:   Tohoku University Universitat Rovira i Virgili -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From announce at cs.ucy.ac.cy Sun Jul 24 13:28:47 2016 From: announce at cs.ucy.ac.cy (Announce Announcements) Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2016 14:28:47 +0300 Subject: [fg-arc] 22nd ACM International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2017): First Call for Tutorial Proposals Message-ID: *** First Call for Tutorial Proposals *** 22nd ACM International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces IUI 2017 St. Raphael Resort, Limassol, Cyprus March 13-16, 2017 http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=c2NlLmNhcmxldG9uLmNhICwJCQlmZy1hcmNAbGlzdHMudW5pLXBhZGVyYm9ybi5kZQkyMm5kIEFDTSBJbnRlcm5hdGlvbmFsIENvbmZlcmVuY2Ugb24gSW50ZWxsaWdlbnQgVXNlciBJbnRlcmZhY2VzIChJVUkgMjAxNyk6IEZpcnN0IENhbGwgZm9yIFR1dG9yaWFsIFByb3Bvc2Fscwk0NglMaXN0cwkyNDcJY2xpY2sJeWVzCW5v&url=http%3A%2F%2Fiui.acm.org%2F2017 Overview ACM IUI 2017 is the 22nd annual meeting of the intelligent interfaces community and serves as a premier international forum for reporting outstanding research and development on intelligent user interfaces. The 22nd edition of the conference will be held in Limassol, Cyprus. Limassol (or Lemesos) is a multicultural bustling town, flanked by two ancient cities, Amathus and Kourion, and guarded by the Amathusian Aphrodite and Appolo Hylates. It is a town of great visual diversity and contrast from spectacular seafront views, historic places like the mediaeval Castle, and Byzantine churches. Along the 17 km long sandy beaches, two Marinas, world renowned 5 star hotels, and a most exciting dining, shopping, nightlife and yachting scene create a year-round vibrant lifestyle well beyond the expectations of a Mediterranean island. ACM IUI is where the Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) community meets the Artificial Intelligence (AI), with contributions from related fields such as psychology, behavioral science, cognitive science, computer graphics, design or the arts. Our focus is to improve the interaction between humans and machines, by leveraging both more traditional HCI approaches, as well as solutions that involve state-of-the art AI techniques such as machine learning, natural language processing, data mining, knowledge representation and reasoning. ACM IUI welcomes contribution from any relevant arena: academia, business, or non-profit organizations. IUI 2017 is pleased to invite tutorial proposals. Tutorials offer the community an opportunity to learn about the state-of-the-art concepts and techniques and allow the presenters to share their expertise. We invite proposals from active researchers and experienced presenters. Ideally, a tutorial will cover the state-of-the-art research and development in a specific area strongly related to IUI. Tutorials on interdisciplinary areas, novel or fast growing directions, and significant practical applications are also encouraged. Each accepted tutorial will receive one free IUI 2017 registration. Submission Guidelines The proposals should be PDF documents not exceeding 3 pages, submitted by e-mail to the tutorial chairs at: workshop2017 at iui.acm.org. We encourage prospective presenters to contact the tutorial chairs in advance and discuss their tutorial ideas. Each tutorial proposal should provide the following information: · Name and title: Your name, the tutorial title and the expected length of your tutorial (up to half a day). · Description of tutorial topic and goal: Detailed outline of the tutorial, along with descriptions of the objectives, its relevance to IUI, benefits to the attendees, and course materials/handouts (links to online materials encouraged). · Organizers: Name, email address, and affiliation of each presenter. 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This support is in the form of a small stipend to cover the registration fee and partially cover the costs of travel and living expenses while attending the conference. The students will be reimbursed for their expenses after the conference. All students who get travel grants from SIGCHI must send us a paragraph about their experience and a headshot before they will be reimbursed. You must be a member of SIGCHI before you apply ($19 dues). The objective of IUI's student support is to encourage students interested in subjects related to Intelligent User Interfaces to become active members of the IUI community. To apply, the student should be actively enrolled as a student in an academic institution. Priority will be given to students who are first authors of accepted papers and to participants in the doctoral consortium. Recipients of the stipend are also expected to help the conference organization as student volunteers. The level of support will be determined by the availability of funds and the number of eligible applications. The application should include: 1. Full name 2. Email address 3. The school you are attending, your major, and the country in which the school resides 4. If you will present at the conference, please provide the title of the submission and its type (e.g., research paper, student consortium, demo). Please note if you have submitted but have not found out if your submission has been accepted 5. A short statement describing your research interests and how you wish to benefit from attending this conference 6. The location you are flying from and the cost for your airfare, as determined by the availability of low-cost economy fares for travel to the conference. Please describe any other expenses you expect to accrue, but do not include registration and housing costs, as they are similar for all students 7. A letter of recommendation from your thesis or doctoral advisor (or supervising faculty member) sent separately by email to the Student Consortium Co-Chairs. If you are also applying to the Student Consortium, one appropriately worded recommendation letter can be used for both applications, or you may submit a slightly different letter for each application 8. You must be a member of SIGCHI before you apply The application The SSTG application has two parts: an application form that is submitted by the student; and a letter of support from the student's advisor that the student will attach to his or her application. More information and a link for submitting an application (available a month before the deadline, early July 2016) can be found on the SIGCHI website (http://www.sigchi.org/conferences/funding/student-travel-grant). Submit your single, combined PDF (except letter of recommendation, must be a separate PDF to attach to the application) to PCS by the deadline! 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The symposia have been notably successful in bringing together innovators and practitioners in precise mathematical methods for software and systems development, industrial users, as well as researchers. The industry track of FM 2016 welcomes short papers and extended abstracts describing industrial applications of formal methods, experience with introducing formal methods in industry, tool usage reports, experiments with challenge problems. Authors are encouraged to explain how the use of formal methods has overcome engineering and qualification problems, led to improvements in design or provided new insights. A survey of industrial applications of formal methods has been conducted and is continuously being extended (now with more than 100 entries). It would be welcome if submissions to the industrial track also would take the time to supply an entry to this survey (http://fm2016.cs.ucy.ac.cy/img/EntryTemplate.xlsx). We hope during the industry track of FM 2016 to provide a new status of this survey so you will be able to see how your findings compare to others. PAPER SUBMISSION Industry track papers should not exceed 6 pages (including appendices and references) for short papers. Accepted short papers will be published in the Symposium Proceedings, to appear in Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Extended abstracts of 2-4 pages are also welcome and will be added in a conference report. Submitted papers (written in English) should not have been published or submitted elsewhere concurrently for publication, shall not contain any proprietary information that might hamper publication (to be checked and confirmed by author prior to submission) and should be in Springer's LNCS format. All submissions will be evaluated by at least three members of the industry track program committee. Accepted papers shall be presented at the conference in person by at least one of the authors of the paper. Papers should be submitted through the FM 2016 Industry Track EasyChair web site. http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=c2NlLmNhcmxldG9uLmNhICwJCQlmZy1hcmNAbGlzdHMudW5pLXBhZGVyYm9ybi5kZQkyMXN0IEludGVybmF0aW9uYWwgU3ltcG9zaXVtIG9uIEZvcm1hbCBNZXRob2RzIChGTSAyMDE2KTogQ2FsbCBmb3IgSW5kdXN0cnkgVHJhY2sgUGFwZXJzCTUxCUxpc3RzCTI0NwljbGljawl5ZXMJbm8=&url=https%3A%2F%2Feasychair.org%2Fconferences%2F%3Fconf%3Dfm2016 (select "FM Industry Track" when adding a new submission) A number of invited papers from the industry are also expected for presentation in the Industry track of FM 2016. INDUSTRY TRACK PROGRAM COMMITTEE Ewen Denney, NASA, US Thai-Son Hoang, University of Southampton, UK Ralf Huuck, NICTA, AU Georgia Kapitsaki, University of Cyprus, CY (co-chair) Thomas Kropf, Bosch, DE Thierry Lecomte, ClearSy, FR Tiziana Margaria, University of Limerick and Lero, IE (co-chair) Nico Plat, West Consulting BV, NL Judi Romijn, Movares, NL Andreas Roth, SAP, DE Marcel Verhoef, European Space Agency, NL (co-chair) Aneta Vulgarakis, Ericsson Research, SE -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From peter.schuller at marmara.edu.tr Wed Jul 27 14:39:15 2016 From: peter.schuller at marmara.edu.tr (Peter Schueller) Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2016 15:39:15 +0300 (EEST) Subject: [fg-arc] Call for Participation: ICLP, New York City: International Conference on Logic Programming, Oct 17-21, 2016 Message-ID: <20160727123915.B07692C0275@omsievews> (Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this email. Please distribute to interested parties.) Call For Participation 32nd International Conference on Logic Programming New York City, USA October 17-21, 2016 http://software.imdea.org/Conferences/ICLP2016/ List of Accepted Papers The list of accepted papers to appear in the TPLP special issue, and the list of papers to appear as Technical Communications is now available online: http://software.imdea.org/Conferences/ICLP2016/accepted.html Conference Scope Since the first conference held in Marseille in 1982, ICLP has been the pre- mier international conference for presenting research in logic programming. Contributions are sought in all areas of logic programming, including but not restricted to: - Theory: Semantic Foundations, Formalisms, Nonmonotonic Reasoning, Knowledge Representation. - Implementation: Compilation, Virtual Machines, Parallelism, Constraint Han- dling Rules, Tabling. - Environments: Program Analysis, Transformation, Validation, Verification, Debugging, Profiling, Testing. - Language Issues: Concurrency, Objects, Coordination, Mobility, Higher Order, Types, Modes, Assertions, Programming Techniques. - Related Paradigms: Inductive and Co-inductive Logic Programming, Constraint Logic Programming, Answer-Set Programming, SAT-Checking. - Applications: Databases, Big Data, Data Integration and Federation, Soft- ware Engineering, Natural Language Processing, Web and Semantic Web, Agents, Artificial Intelligence, Bioinformatics, and Education. In addition to the presentations of accepted papers, the technical program will include invited talks, advanced tutorials, the doctoral consortium, and several workshops. Important Dates Camera-ready copy due: 5 Aug, 2016 Conference: 17-21 Oct, 2016 Conference Organization General Chairs: Michael Kifer Stony Brook University, USA Neng-Fa Zhou City University of New York, USA Program Chairs: Manuel Carro UPM and IMDEA Software Institute, Spain Andy King University of Kent, UK Workshop Chair: Marcello Balduccini Drexel University, USA Publicity Chair: Peter Schueller Marmara University, Turkey Doctoral Consortium Chairs: Marina De Vos University of Bath, UK Neda Saeedloei University of Minnesota Duluth, USA Programming Contest Chair: Paul Fodor Stony Brook University, USA Web Presence: Joaquin Arias IMDEA Software Institute, Spain Program Committee: Marcello Balduccini Drexel University, USA Mutsunori Banbara Kobe University, Japan Roman Bartak Charles University, Czech Republic Pedro Cabalar University of Corunna, Spain Mats Carlsson SICS, Sweden Manuel Carro UPM and IMDEA Software Institute, Spain Michael Codish Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel Marina De Vos University of Bath, UK Agostino Dovier Universita degli Studi di Udine, Italy Gregory Duck National University of Singapore, Singapore Esra Erdem Sabanci University, Turkey Wolfgang Faber University of Huddersfield, UK Thom Fruehwirth University of Ulm, Germany John Gallagher Roskilde University, Denmark, and IMDEA Software Institute, Spain Marco Gavanelli Universita degli Studi di Ferrara, Italy Martin Gebser University of Potsdam, Germany Michael Hanus CAU Kiel, Germany Katsumi Inoue NII, Japan Gerda Janssens KU Leuven - University of Leuven, Belgium Andy King University of Kent, UK Ekaterina Komendantskaya Heriot-Watt University, UK Michael Leuschel University of Dusseldorf, Germany Vladimir Lifschitz University of Texas, USA Jose F. Morales IMDEA Software Institute, Spain Enrico Pontelli New Mexico State University, USA Jorg Puhrer Leipzig University, Germany Ricardo Rocha University of Porto, Portugal Zoltan Somogyi Independent Researcher, Australia Harald Sondergaard University of Melbourne, Australia Theresa Swift NOVALINKS, US, and UNL, Portugal Francesca Toni Imperial College London, UK Irina Trubitsyna University of Calabria, Italy Mirek Truszczynski University of Kentucky, USA Alicia Villanueva Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, Spain Jan Wielemaker VU University Amsterdam, Netherlands Stefan Woltran TU Wien, Austria Fangkai Yang Schlumberger Inc., USA Jia-Huai You University of Alberta, Canada Workshops The ICLP 2016 program will include several workshops. They are perhaps the best places for the presentation of preliminary work, underdeveloped novel ideas, and new open problems to a wide and interested audience with opportuni- ties for intensive discussions and project collaboration. Autumn School on Computational Logic A school on computational logic is planned. More up to date information will be available at the conference Web page. Doctoral Consortium The Twelfth Doctoral Consortium (DC) on Logic Programming provides research students with the opportunity to present and discuss their research direc- tions, and to obtain feedback from both peers and experts in the field. Accepted participants will receive partial financial support to attend the event and the main conference. The best paper from the DC will be given the opportunity to present in a session of the main ICLP conference. Conference Venue The venue will be the Sheraton LaGuardia East Hotel in Flushing, New York City. New York City is an international tourist destination, receiving 56 million tourists in 2014 alone. Several sources have ranked New York the most photographed city in the world. Times square, known as the city's heart, is the brightly illuminated hub of the Broadway theatre district. The Statue of Liberty greets new arrivals to the Americas by ship in the late 19th and early 20th century, and is a globally recognized symbol of the United States. Flush- ing is associated by many with the National Tennis Centre, since Flushing Meadows has been the home of the US Open Grand Slam tennis tournament every year since 1978. New York is the most populous city in the United States and one of the most populous urban agglomerations in the world. Situated in one of the world's largest natural harbours, New York City consists of five boroughs, each of which is a separate county of New York State. The conference hotel is situated in the Queens borough, just a two-minute walk from the Flushing-Main Street rail station. Direct train lines take you directly from there to Times Square in just over 45 minutes, which is fast for New York City. The Museum of Modern Art can be reached in under 40 mins, Grand Central Terminal in 40 mins, the Empire State Building under 50 mins, and The High Line Park in 50 minutes. The hotel is also close to LaGuardia Airports and JFK. LaGuardia is just 3 miles away and the hotel offers a complementary shuttle service. John F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK) is 10 miles away and can be reached within 30 minutes by taxi. The hotel is situated in a vibrant Asian district that offers a variety of Eastern cuisine, as well as many stores and shops. Sponsor The conference is sponsored by the Association for Logic Programming (ALP). Financial Assistance The Association for Logic Programming has funds to assist financially disad- vantaged participants and, especially, students to enable them to attend the conference. Inquiries should be made to the general chairs. From grlmc at grlmc.com Fri Jul 29 10:12:16 2016 From: grlmc at grlmc.com (GRLMC) Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2016 10:12:16 +0200 Subject: [fg-arc] BigDat 2017: early registration 26 August Message-ID: <545102060a010b0203545000010a5a535752055903570f505604015704575a5454040001510b0955010059060e0502@grlmc_ip-zone_com-6> BigDat 2017: early registration 26 August********************************************************   3rdINTERNATIONAL WINTER SCHOOL ON BIG DATA   BigDat 2017   Bari, Italy   February 13-17, 2017   Organized by: University of Bari "Aldo Moro" Rovira i Virgili University   http://grammars.grlmc.com/BigDat2017/   ********************************************************   --- Early registration deadline: August 26, 2016 ---   ********************************************************   AIM:   BigDat 2017 will be a research training event with a global scope aiming at updating participants about the most recent advances in the critical and fast developing area of big data, which covers a large spectrum of current exciting research and industrial innovation with an extraordinary potential for a huge impact on scientific discoveries, medicine, engineering, business models, and society itself. Renowned academics and industry pioneers will lecture and share their views with the audience.   Most big data subareas will be displayed, namely foundations, infrastructure, management, search and mining, security and privacy, and applications (to biological and health sciences, to business, finance and transportation, to online social networks, etc.). Main challenges of analytics, management and storage of big data will be identified through 4 keynote lectures, 20 six-hour courses, and 1 round table, which will tackle the most active and promising topics. The organizers are convinced that outstanding speakers will attract the brightest and most motivated students. Interaction will be a main component of the event. An open session will give participants the opportunity to present their own work in progress in 5 minutes.   ADDRESSED TO:   In principle, graduate students, PhD students and postdocs from around the world will be the most typical profiles. However, there are no formal pre-requisites for participation in terms of academic degrees. Since there will be differences in level, specific knowledge background may be assumed for some of the courses. BigDat 2017 is also appropriate for more senior people who want to keep themselves updated on recent developments and future trends. All will surely find it fruitful to listen and discuss with major researchers, industry leaders and innovators.   REGIME:   In addition to keynotes, 2-3 courses will run in parallel during the whole event. Participants will be able to freely choose the courses they wish to attend as well as to move from one to another.   VENUE:   BigDat 2017 will take place in Bari, a lively university city on the Adriatic Sea in Southern Italy. The venue will be:   Department of Computer Science University of Bari "Aldo Moro" via Orabona, 4 70125 Bari, Italy   KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:   tba   PROFESSORS AND COURSES: (to be completed)   Thomas Bäck (Leiden University), [introductory/intermediate] Data Analytics and Optimization for Industrial Applications: Introduction, Algorithms, and Examples   Hendrik Blockeel (KU Leuven), [intermediate] Decision Trees for Big Data Analytics   Diego Calvanese (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano), [advanced] Data-aware Processes: Modeling and Verification   Amr El Abbadi (University of California, Santa Barbara), tba   Geoffrey C. Fox (Indiana University), tba   Minos Garofalakis (Technical University of Crete), tba   David W. Gerbing (Portland State University), [introductory] Data Visualization with R   Joydeep Ghosh (University of Texas, Austin), [intermediate/advanced] Multi-learner Systems for Big Data   Georgios B. Giannakis (University of Minnesota), [advanced] Signal Processing Tools for Big Data Analytics   Sander Klous (University of Amsterdam), [introductory] We Are Big Data   Jiebo Luo (University of Rochester), [introductory/advanced] Big Data. Strong Health. Better Life   Soumya D. Mohanty (University of Texas Rio Grande Valley), [introductory/intermediate] Swarm Intelligence Methods and Optimization Problems in Big Data Analytics   Bernhard Pfahringer (University of Waikato), [introductory] Introduction to Data Stream Mining for Big Data   Krithi Ramamritham (Indian Institute of Technology Bombay), [introductory/intermediate] Harnessing Big Data for Building Smart Things   Michael Rosenblum (University of Potsdam), tba   Pierangela Samarati (University of Milan), [intermediate] Data Protection in the Cloud   Jeffrey Ullman (Stanford University), [introductory] Big Data Algorithms that Aren't Machine Learning   John Wright (Columbia University), [intermediate/advanced] Sparse and Low-Dimensional Models for High-Dimensional Data: Theory, Algorithms and Applications   Zhongfei Zhang (Binghamton University), [introductory/advanced] Knowledge Discovery from Relational and Multimedia Data   OPEN SESSION   An open session will collect 5-minute presentations of work in progress by participants. They should submit a half-page abstract containing title, authors, and summary of the research to florentinalilica.voicu (at) urv.cat by February 10, 2017.   ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:   Annalisa Apice Michelangelo Ceci (co-chair) Corrado Loglisci Donato Malerba (co-chair) Carlos Martín-Vide (co-chair) Manuel Jesús Parra Royón Gianvito Pio Florentina Lilica Voicu   REGISTRATION:   It has to be done at   http://grammars.grlmc.com/BigDat2017/registration.php   The selection of up to 8 courses requested in the registration template is only tentative and non-binding. For the sake of organization, it will be helpful to have an approximation of the respective demand for each course.   Since the capacity of the venue is limited, registration requests will be processed on a first come first served basis. The registration period will be closed and the on-line registration facility disabled when the capacity of the venue will be complete. 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URL: From announce at cs.ucy.ac.cy Sat Jul 30 13:44:11 2016 From: announce at cs.ucy.ac.cy (Announce Announcements) Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2016 14:44:11 +0300 Subject: [fg-arc] The 16th IEEE International Symposium on Signal Processing and Information Technology (ISSPIT 2016): Third Call for Papers, Special Sessions and Tutorials Message-ID: *** Third Call for Papers, Special Sessions and Tutorials *** The 16th IEEE International Symposium on Signal Processing and Information Technology (ISSPIT 2016) December 12-14, 2016, St. Raphael Resort, Limassol, Cyprus http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=c2NlLmNhcmxldG9uLmNhICwJCQlmZy1hcmNAbGlzdHMudW5pLXBhZGVyYm9ybi5kZQlUaGUgMTZ0aCBJRUVFIEludGVybmF0aW9uYWwgU3ltcG9zaXVtIG9uIFNpZ25hbCBQcm9jZXNzaW5nIGFuZCBJbmZvcm1hdGlvbiBUZWNobm9sb2d5IChJU1NQSVQgMjAxNik6IFRoaXJkIENhbGwgZm9yIFBhcGVycywgU3BlY2lhbCBTZXNzaW9ucyBhbmQgVHV0b3JpYWxzCTUzCUxpc3RzCTI0NwljbGljawl5ZXMJbm8=&url=http%3A%2F%2Fcyprusconferences.org%2Fisspit2016%2F IEEE ISSPIT 2016 is the sixteenth in a series of international symposia that aims to cover a wide range of topics in the intersection of signal processing and information technology and to become a fertile ground for discussions between the two research and development communities. Apart from sessions that will present new research results, tutorials and special sessions will be offered as well. Papers describing original work are invited in the general fields covered by ISSPIT, with an emphasis on the topics listed below. Accepted papers will be published in the Proceedings of IEEE ISSPIT 2016 and will be available via IEEE Xplore. Acceptance will be based on quality, relevance, and originality. A contest for Best Paper Awards (senior and student) will be held. Papers are invited in the following (non exclusive) topics: · Signal Processing Theory and Methods · Signal Processing for Communications and Networking · Design & Implementation of Signal Processing Systems · Image, Video & Multidimensional Signal Processing · Multimedia Signal Processing · Biological Image and signal processing · Audio and Acoustic signal Processing · Health Informatics and e-Health · Sensor Arrays · Big Data Analytics in Signal Processing and IT · Radar Signal Processing · Internet Software Architectures · Multimedia and Image Based Systems · Mobile Information Systems · E-Commerce · Bioinformatics and Bioengineering · Information Processing · Geographical Information Systems · Object Based Software Engineering · Speech Processing · Computer Networks · Neural Networks · Social Networks Analysis · Internet of Things · Engineering Systems of Systems Prospective authors are invited to submit full-length, 6-page (max) papers in two-column formats including diagrams and references. Authors can submit their papers as PDF files through the online submission system to be found on the ISSPIT 2016 website: http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=c2NlLmNhcmxldG9uLmNhICwJCQlmZy1hcmNAbGlzdHMudW5pLXBhZGVyYm9ybi5kZQlUaGUgMTZ0aCBJRUVFIEludGVybmF0aW9uYWwgU3ltcG9zaXVtIG9uIFNpZ25hbCBQcm9jZXNzaW5nIGFuZCBJbmZvcm1hdGlvbiBUZWNobm9sb2d5IChJU1NQSVQgMjAxNik6IFRoaXJkIENhbGwgZm9yIFBhcGVycywgU3BlY2lhbCBTZXNzaW9ucyBhbmQgVHV0b3JpYWxzCTUzCUxpc3RzCTI0NwljbGljawl5ZXMJbm8=&url=http%3A%2F%2Fcyprusconferences.org%2Fisspit2016%2F. The title page should include author(s) name(s), affiliation, mailing address, telephone, fax, and e-mail address. The author should indicate one or two of the above categories that best describe the topic of the paper. IMPORTANT DATES · Proposals for Tutorials & Special Sessions: August 15th, 2016 · Regular paper submission: September 15th, 2016 · Notification of acceptance: October 26th, 2016 · Camera-ready version with registration: November 15th , 2016 GENERAL CHAIRS · Christos Douligeris, University of Piraeus, Greece · Andreas Pitsillides, University of Cyprus, Cyprus · Andreas Spanias, Arizona State University, USA TECHNICAL PROGRAM CHAIRS · Ioannis Kyriakides, University of Nicosia, Cyprus · Veselin Rakocevic, City University, UK · Thanos Stouraitis, Khalifa University, UAE REGISTRATION & FINANCE CHAIR · Reda Ammar, University of Connecticut, USA PUBLICATION CO-CHAIRS · Josephine Antoniou, University of Central Lancanshire, Cyprus · Christophoros Christophorou, University of Cyprus, Cyprus · Angeliki Tsioliaridou, Foundation of Research and Technology, Greece TUTORIALS CO-CHAIRS · Marios Lestas, Frederick University, Cyprus (eng.lm at frederick.ac.cy) · Vasos Vassiliou, University of Cyprus, Cyprus (vasosv at cs.ucy.ac.cy) PLENARY & SPECIAL SESSIONS CO-CHAIRS · Christos Liaskos, Foundation of Research and Technology, Greece (cliaskos at ics.forth.gr) · Vicky Lesta Papadopoulou, European University Cyprus (V.Papadopoulou at euc.ac.cy) PUBLICITY CO-CHAIRS · Suvendi Rimer, University of Johannesburg, South Africa · Cristiano Silva, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais ñ UFMG, Brazil LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS CHAIR · George A. 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URL: From announce at cs.ucy.ac.cy Sun Jul 31 10:53:06 2016 From: announce at cs.ucy.ac.cy (Announce Announcements) Date: Sun, 31 Jul 2016 11:53:06 +0300 Subject: [fg-arc] 22nd ACM International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2017): Fourth Call for Workshop Proposals Message-ID: ** Fourth Call for Workshop Proposals *** 22nd ACM International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces IUI 2017 St. Raphael Resort, Limassol, Cyprus March 13-16, 2017 http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=c2NlLmNhcmxldG9uLmNhICwJCQlmZy1hcmNAbGlzdHMudW5pLXBhZGVyYm9ybi5kZQkyMm5kIEFDTSBJbnRlcm5hdGlvbmFsIENvbmZlcmVuY2Ugb24gSW50ZWxsaWdlbnQgVXNlciBJbnRlcmZhY2VzIChJVUkgMjAxNyk6IEZvdXJ0aCBDYWxsIGZvciBXb3Jrc2hvcCBQcm9wb3NhbHMJNTUJTGlzdHMJMjQ3CWNsaWNrCXllcwlubw==&url=http%3A%2F%2Fiui.acm.org%2F2017 Overview ACM IUI 2017 is the 22nd annual meeting of the intelligent interfaces community and serves as a premier international forum for reporting outstanding research and development on intelligent user interfaces. The 22nd edition of the conference will be held in Limassol, Cyprus. Limassol (or Lemesos) is a multicultural bustling town, flanked by two ancient cities, Amathus and Kourion, and guarded by the Amathusian Aphrodite and Appolo Hylates. It is a town of great visual diversity and contrast from spectacular seafront views, historic places like the mediaeval Castle, and Byzantine churches. Along the 17 km long sandy beaches, two Marinas, world renowned 5 star hotels, and a most exciting dining, shopping, nightlife and yachting scene create a year-round vibrant lifestyle well beyond the expectations of a Mediterranean island. ACM IUI is where the Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) community meets the Artificial Intelligence (AI), with contributions from related fields such as psychology, behavioral science, cognitive science, computer graphics, design or the arts. Our focus is to improve the interaction between humans and machines, by leveraging both more traditional HCI approaches, as well as solutions that involve state-of-the art AI techniques such as machine learning, natural language processing, data mining, knowledge representation and reasoning. ACM IUI welcomes contribution from any relevant arena: academia, business, or non-profit organizations. IUI 2017 is pleased to invite proposals for workshops to be held in conjunction with the conference. The goal of the workshops is to provide a venue for presenting research on focused topics of interest and an informal forum to discuss research questions and challenges. Workshops will be held on the first day of the conference. We invite submissions of full-day (6 hours) and half-day (3 hours) workshop proposals on any of the conference topics. We encourage proposals for a wide range of workshops, including but not limited to: · "Mini-conferences" on specialized topics; such workshops may have their own paper submission and review processes. · "Late breaking work" meetings; such workshops usually have a lighter review process (e.g. based on abstracts only). · "Hands-on" workshops around a specific problem or topic that may wish to ask participants to submit a position statement. · "Project centric" workshops that may be closely related to the scope of an existing large scale (e.g. EU funded) project. · "Mini-competitions", challenges, or hack-a-thons around selected topics with individual or team participation. Proposal Format Note: The key to a successful workshop submission is to CONTACT THE CHAIRS WITH YOUR IDEAS (workshop2017 at iui.acm.org), and work together to prepare an exciting proposal! Workshop proposals should be maximum 2 pages long and follow the formatting instructions from SIGCHI Paper Format, http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=c2NlLmNhcmxldG9uLmNhICwJCQlmZy1hcmNAbGlzdHMudW5pLXBhZGVyYm9ybi5kZQkyMm5kIEFDTSBJbnRlcm5hdGlvbmFsIENvbmZlcmVuY2Ugb24gSW50ZWxsaWdlbnQgVXNlciBJbnRlcmZhY2VzIChJVUkgMjAxNyk6IEZvdXJ0aCBDYWxsIGZvciBXb3Jrc2hvcCBQcm9wb3NhbHMJNTUJTGlzdHMJMjQ3CWNsaWNrCXllcwlubw==&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sigchi.org%2Fpublications%2Fchipubform . Please submit your proposal by e-mail to the workshop chairs at workshop2017 at iui.acm.org. The proposals should be organized as follows: · Name and title: A one-word workshop acronym and a full title. · Description of workshop topic and goal: This description should discuss the relevance of the suggested topic to IUI and its interest for the IUI 2017 audience. Include a brief discussion of why and for which audience the workshop is of particular interest. · Organizers: Names, affiliations, emails, and web pages of the workshop organizers. This can be a single person or a group of people. Strong proposals normally include organizers who bring differing perspectives on the topic and are actively connected to the communities of potential participants. Please indicate the primary contact person and the organizers who plan to attend the workshop. · Previous history: List of previous workshops that were held on the topic including the conferences that hosted past workshops and the number of participants. Also please provide the list of other workshops organized by workshop organizers in the past. · Workshop program committee: Names and affiliation of the members of the workshop program committee that will evaluate the workshop submissions. · Participants: A statement saying how many participants you expect and how you plan to invite participants for the workshop. We recommend the proposal to include the names of at least 10 people who have expressed interest to participate in the workshop. · Workshop format: A brief description of the workshop format regarding the mix of events such as paper presentations, invited talks, panels, demonstrations, and general discussion. · Length: Full-day or half-day. · Proposal format: Workshop proposals should be maximum 2 pages long and follow the formatting instructions from SIGCHI: http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=c2NlLmNhcmxldG9uLmNhICwJCQlmZy1hcmNAbGlzdHMudW5pLXBhZGVyYm9ybi5kZQkyMm5kIEFDTSBJbnRlcm5hdGlvbmFsIENvbmZlcmVuY2Ugb24gSW50ZWxsaWdlbnQgVXNlciBJbnRlcmZhY2VzIChJVUkgMjAxNyk6IEZvdXJ0aCBDYWxsIGZvciBXb3Jrc2hvcCBQcm9wb3NhbHMJNTUJTGlzdHMJMjQ3CWNsaWNrCXllcwlubw==&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sigchi.org%2Fpublications%2Fchipubform . Additional Guidelines · Workshop proposals will be reviewed and evaluated by the workshop chairs and the IUI 2017 program committee chairs. · Organizers: We strongly encourage the workshop organizers to attend IUI and take part in their workshop. This can make the workshops more appealing for the participants and strengthen the discussion part. · Workshop summary: An extended abstract (max. 3 pages) with a summary of the workshop goals and an overview of the workshop topics will be included in the ACM Digital Library for IUI 2017. · Workshop proceedings: At the convenience of the workshop organizers, we will arrange a joint volume of online proceedings for the workshop papers. Workshops should request the authors to submit papers in the ACM SIGCHI Paper Format. · Cancellation: Workshops with fewer than 10 submissions by December 23, 2016 may be cancelled. This will be done in consultation between the workshop chairs of IUI 2017 and the workshop organizers. Additionally, we strongly encourage to have workshop organizers from different institutions and research communities, bringing different perspectives to the workshop topic. We welcome workshops with a creative structure that attracts various types of contributions and ensures rich interactions. The organizers of accepted workshops are responsible for producing a call for participation and publicizing it, such as distributing the call to relevant newsgroups and electronic mailing lists, and especially to potential audiences from outside the IUI conference community. Workshop organizers will maintain their own web site with updated information about the workshop and the IUI 2017 web site will refer to the workshop site. The workshop organizers will coordinate the paper sollicitation, collection, and review process, and coordinate the production of the joint online proceedings with IUI 2017 workshop chairs. Important Dates Discuss your topic with the workshop chairs: ASAP (workshop2017 at iui.acm.org) · Workshop Proposals: September 16, 2016 · Decisions Sent: October 7, 2016 ** TENTATIVE dates of the review cycle ** · Submission Deadline: December 16, 2016 · Final go/no-go Decision: December 23, 2016 · Camera-Ready of Workshop Summary: January 5, 2017 · Notifications to Authors: January 23, 2017 · Camera-Ready of Accepted Papers: February 6, 2017 · Workshop Date: March 13, 2017 Workshops Co-Chairs · Shlomo Berkovsky, CSIRO, Australia · Bart Kninijnburg, Clemson University, USA -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: