From announce at cs.ucy.ac.cy Thu Oct 3 15:08:31 2019 From: announce at cs.ucy.ac.cy (Announce Announcements) Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2019 16:08:31 +0300 Subject: [fg-arc] 14th International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science (RCIS 2020): First Call for Doctoral Consortium Message-ID: *** First Call for Doctoral Consortium *** 14th International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science (RCIS 2020) Royal Apollonia Beach Hotel 5*, Limassol, Cyprus May 20-22, 2020, Limassol, Cyprus http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=c2NlLmNhcmxldG9uLmNhICwJCQlmZy1hcmNAbGlzdHMudW5pLXBhZGVyYm9ybi5kZQkxNHRoIEludGVybmF0aW9uYWwgQ29uZmVyZW5jZSBvbiBSZXNlYXJjaCBDaGFsbGVuZ2VzIGluIEluZm9ybWF0aW9uIFNjaWVuY2UgKFJDSVMgMjAyMCk6IEZpcnN0IENhbGwgZm9yIERvY3RvcmFsIENvbnNvcnRpdW0JNDI5CUxpc3RzCTE0NAljbGljawl5ZXMJbm8=&url=http%3A%2F%2Frcis-conf.com%2F Submission deadline: February 14, 2020 (AoE) (Proceedings to be published by Springer) RCIS aims to bring together scientists, researchers, engineers and practitioners from a wide range of information science fields and to provide opportunities for knowledge sharing and dissemination. RCIS 2020 will continue paying attention to traditional topics at the conference; in addition, we solicit submissions aligned the special theme of Information Science in the Days of Artificial Intelligence. We understand AI in a broad sense, including machine learning, self-adaptation, logic-based reasoning, automation, agents and multiagent systems, natural language processing, user modelling, behavioural analytics, etc. The RCIS 2020 Doctoral Consortium is an opportunity for doctoral students to present, discuss and develop their research project in an interdisciplinary workshop, under the guidance of a panel of senior researchers. The Doctoral Consortium offers nice opportunities for PhD students. Firstly, the feedback received during the Doctoral Consortium will really benefit students who have defined their topic, research plan and have obtained early results, but who still have room for improving their longer-term plan. Secondly, students at all stages of their doctoral project can meet the welcoming RCIS community and widen their network of contacts. The main scope and topics of the Doctoral Consortium are the same as those of the main conference. RCIS welcomes submissions from the whole spectrum of the Information Science field. The list of themes and topics includes, but is not limited to, Information Systems and their Engineering, Data and Information Management, Domain-specific IS Engineering, Information Infrastructures, User-Oriented Approaches, Business Process Management, Data Science, Reflective Research and Practice (see the call for papers of RCIS 2020 for more detail). OBJECTIVES The Doctoral Consortium has the following objectives: · Provide a platform for students to present their work and to meet other peers and be familiar with different research topics and methods. · Provide feedback on students' current research and guidance on future research directions. · Promote the development of a supportive community of scholars and a spirit of collaborative research and networking. · Contribute to the conference goals through interaction with other researchers. The Doctoral Consortium is organised in sessions that are part of the RCIS 2020 conference programme. SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Interested PhD students are invited to submit papers, in agreement with their supervisors, addressing the following instructions. Please bear in mind that we are not prescribing a specific structure of sections; we just expect that you cover these topics in the paper: · Introduce the field of research and identify the main challenges. · Formulate the research questions and objectives, justifying why they were chosen. · Outline the current knowledge of the problem domain, as well as the state of existing solutions. · Sketch the research methodology that is being applied. · Describe the proposed solution and the results achieved so far. · State how the suggested solution is different from or better than existing approaches. · Indicate the issues still to be resolved and describe the next steps that are planned. Papers shall be formatted according to the Springer LNCS/LNBIP conference proceedings template (for LaTeX and Word): http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=c2NlLmNhcmxldG9uLmNhICwJCQlmZy1hcmNAbGlzdHMudW5pLXBhZGVyYm9ybi5kZQkxNHRoIEludGVybmF0aW9uYWwgQ29uZmVyZW5jZSBvbiBSZXNlYXJjaCBDaGFsbGVuZ2VzIGluIEluZm9ybWF0aW9uIFNjaWVuY2UgKFJDSVMgMjAyMCk6IEZpcnN0IENhbGwgZm9yIERvY3RvcmFsIENvbnNvcnRpdW0JNDI5CUxpc3RzCTE0NAljbGljawl5ZXMJbm8=&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.springer.com%2Fgp%2Fcomputer-science%2Flncs%2Fconference-proceedings-guidelines Submissions must be written in English, and must be authored by the student only. The maximum length of the paper should be eight (8) pages, including references, appendices, etc. Papers that have already been accepted or are currently under review for other conferences, workshops or journals will not be considered for publication at the RCIS 2020 Doctoral Consortium. So, while we can accept certain overlap with other papers, we discourage re- submissions and double submissions. Authors of accepted submissions will submit the camera-ready version using the same format as the initial submission (some additional instructions might be issued at this stage). The reviewers' comments shall be taken into account in the camera-ready paper. Only papers that have been presented by their author will be published in the conference proceedings. Authors will receive information on the presentation, and how to register for the conference. There will be a discounted registration fee for Doctoral Consortium students. The accepted papers will be published in a Springer LNBIP volume, along with the other papers accepted for RCIS 2020. This will give visibility to the work of the doctoral student and contribute to building their CV. The submission site is http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=c2NlLmNhcmxldG9uLmNhICwJCQlmZy1hcmNAbGlzdHMudW5pLXBhZGVyYm9ybi5kZQkxNHRoIEludGVybmF0aW9uYWwgQ29uZmVyZW5jZSBvbiBSZXNlYXJjaCBDaGFsbGVuZ2VzIGluIEluZm9ybWF0aW9uIFNjaWVuY2UgKFJDSVMgMjAyMCk6IEZpcnN0IENhbGwgZm9yIERvY3RvcmFsIENvbnNvcnRpdW0JNDI5CUxpc3RzCTE0NAljbGljawl5ZXMJbm8=&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.easychair.org%2Fconferences%2F%3Fconf%3Drcis2020 Please choose "Doctoral Consortium" as a submission type. By submitting a Doctoral Consortium paper, doctoral students commit that they will attend the conference to present their research. The appearance of a paper in the Springer proceedings is dependent on the registration of the author within the early registration deadline on March 31, 2020. REVIEW PROCESS The review and decision of acceptance will be based on the opinions of at least two reviewers. Several factors will be considered, including the quality of the proposal, the clarity of the paper, and the stage within the doctoral education program. The selection process will, when possible, maximise a good coverage of the topics of the conference and diversity of participants' background, research objectives, and research methods. AT THE CONFERENCE Each student will present his or her work to the participants with substantial time allowed for discussion and questions by participating researchers and other students. The discussion will be guided by a member of the committee of expert mentors, who will play the role of proposal discussant together with another PhD student that has been accepted at the Doctoral Consortium. Each student will be invited to review another accepted Doctoral Consortium paper and prepare a few questions to be discussed during the consortium day. The papers will be assigned in advance such that the students will have sufficient time to review the paper and prepare their questions. The consortium sessions will have an informal and friendly atmosphere where every participant is encouraged to be actively involved in the discussion, the core objective being to learn how to conduct excellent research, as well as provide and receive useful feedback to improve one's work. IMPORTANT DATES · Papers submission deadline: February 14, 2020 (AoE) · Notification to authors and registration opening: March 15, 2020 · Author registration deadline for all paper types: March 31, 2020 · Camera-ready copy deadline for all paper types: March 31, 2020 · Conference: May 20-22, 2020 CONFERENCE COMMITTEES Steering Committee · Saïd Assar, Institut Mines-Telecom Business School, France · Marko Bajec,University of Ljubljana, Slovenia · Pericles Loucopoulos, Manchester University, University Kingdom · Haralambos Moratidis, University of Brighton, United Kingdom · Selmin Nurcan, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France · Oscar Pastor, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain · Jolita Ralyté, CUI, University of Geneva, Suisse · Colette Rolland, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France General Chairs · George A. 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URL: From announce at cs.ucy.ac.cy Fri Oct 4 09:27:54 2019 From: announce at cs.ucy.ac.cy (Announce Announcements) Date: Fri, 4 Oct 2019 10:27:54 +0300 Subject: [fg-arc] 14th International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science (RCIS 2020): First Call for Tutorials Message-ID: *** First Call for Tutorials *** 14th International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science (RCIS 2020) Royal Apollonia Beach Hotel 5*, Limassol, Cyprus May 20-22, 2020, Limassol, Cyprus http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=c2NlLmNhcmxldG9uLmNhICwJCQlmZy1hcmNAbGlzdHMudW5pLXBhZGVyYm9ybi5kZQkxNHRoIEludGVybmF0aW9uYWwgQ29uZmVyZW5jZSBvbiBSZXNlYXJjaCBDaGFsbGVuZ2VzIGluIEluZm9ybWF0aW9uIFNjaWVuY2UgKFJDSVMgMjAyMCk6IEZpcnN0IENhbGwgZm9yIFR1dG9yaWFscwk0MzIJTGlzdHMJMTQ0CWNsaWNrCXllcwlubw==&url=http%3A%2F%2Frcis-conf.com%2F Tutorial submission deadline: February 14, 2020 (AoE) RCIS has become a well-recognised conference on research challenges in Information Science. Organised for the fourteenth time in a row, RCIS 2020 will be held from May 20-22, 2020, in Limassol, Cyprus. Tutorials are intended to provide independent instruction (know-how) on a topic of relevance, no commercial or sales-oriented. Potential presenters should keep in mind that there might be a varied audience, including novice graduate students, seasoned practitioners, and specialized researchers. Tutorial speakers should be prepared to cope with this diversity. The conference has specific slots for tutorials. They will be organized in sessions of 90 minutes with a free format. Tutorials run in parallel with other conference tracks, and participation is included in the attendees' conference fee. We invite proposals for tutorials that may address one or more of the listed topics below, although authors should not feel limited by them. TOPICS OF INTEREST RCIS 2020 is focused on Information Science in the Days of Artificial Intelligence. This topic aims to study Artificial Intelligence in a broad sense, including machine learning, self-adaptation, logic-based reasoning, automation, agents and multiagent systems, natural language processing, etc. Beyond the special topic for RCIS 2020, the conference welcomes tutorial submissions from any domain of Information Science. The list of interested topics includes, but is not limited to: Information Systems and their Engineering · Requirements Engineering · Software Testing · Information Security and Risk · Method Engineering User-Oriented Approaches · Social Computing and Social Network Analysis · User-Centred Design · Collaborative Computing · Human Factors in Information Systems Data and Information Management · Databases and Information · Information Search and Discovery · Conceptual Modelling and Ontologies Business Process Management · Business Process Engineering and Reengineering · Process Mining · Enterprise Engineering Domain-specific IS Engineering · E-Health, e-Government, e-Commerce, ... · Industry 4.0 · Web-Based Applications and Services · Smart Cities Data Science · Big Data & Business Analytics · Decision Information Systems · Knowledge Management · Knowledge Discovery from Data Information Infrastructures · Cyber-Physical Systems · Web Information Systems · Grid Computing and Cloud Computing · Internet of Things · Pervasive and Mobile Computing Reflective Research and Practice · Research Methodologies in Information Science · Impact of Information on the Enterprise and the Individual · Lifecycle Models · Design Science and Rationale INSTRUCTIONS FOR TUTORIAL PROPOSALS Tutorial proposals are limited to 5 pages. They must include: 1. A title; 2. A 150 words abstract. 3. Expected background of the attendees. 4. Learning objectives. 5. Structure of Contents/activities, description of how they support the learning objectives, and how they will be presented to the attendees including a timetable that clearly indicates how the interaction with the audience will develop over time (tutorials should be of 90 minutes). 6. A concise description of material(s) that will be provided to attendees. Special requirement/equipment you may request for the presentation of the tutorial (subject to approval of the organizers). Additional materials relevant to the tutorial that you would like to share prior to the conference. 7. Value of the tutorial for the attendees. 8. A short bio of the presenter(s). 9. A history of the tutorial: has this tutorial (or any derived version of it) already been given? If so, detail where and when, and how it was received. Proven track record has to be balanced with the innovative aspect of the tutorial. In preparing your proposal, you are encouraged to include some creative techniques for teaching and learning. Any teaching approach that ensures active interaction would be greatly appreciated by the RCIS audience. We encourage you to craft a tutorial that can deliver high quality content in an enjoyable way. Please also consider including printed or online take away material for attendees. For example, templates, checklists, frameworks, etc. that attendees can employ in their own settings. We finally encourage authors to optionally include a 1 or 2 minutes video of the speakers, or a few example slides, teasing their tutorial. By submitting a tutorial proposal, authors implicitly agree that they will indeed attend the conference to deliver the tutorial. Proposals must be submitted using the conference submission site (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=rcis2020), where you choose "Tutorial paper". IMPORTANT DATES · Tutorial submission deadline: February 14, 2020 (AoE) · Tutorial notification: March 15, 2020 · Conference: May 20-22, 2020 CONFERENCE COMMITTEES Steering Committee · Saïd Assar, Institut Mines-Telecom Business School, France · Marko Bajec,University of Ljubljana, Slovenia · Pericles Loucopoulos, Manchester University, University Kingdom · Haralambos Moratidis, University of Brighton, United Kingdom · Selmin Nurcan, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France · Oscar Pastor, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain · Jolita Ralyté, CUI, University of Geneva, Suisse · Colette Rolland, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France General Chairs · George A. 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URL: From irdta at irdta.eu Sat Oct 5 01:17:09 2019 From: irdta at irdta.eu (IRDTA) Date: Sat, 05 Oct 2019 01:17:09 +0200 Subject: [fg-arc] LATA 2020: 3rd call for papers Message-ID: <545102060a010b02005f56040402535e065f060456530058030058550054015956510202070053040103040000560501@grlmc_ip-zone_com-6> LATA 2020: 3rd call for papers*To be removed from our mailing list, please respond to this message with UNSUBSCRIBE in the subject line*   ************************************************************************* 14th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE AND AUTOMATA THEORY AND APPLICATIONS   LATA 2020   Milan, Italy   March 2-6, 2020   Co-organized by:             Department of Informatics, Systems and Communication University of Milano-Bicocca   and   Institute for Research Development, Training and Advice Brussels/London   https://lata2020.irdta.eu *************************************************************************   AIMS:   LATA is a conference series on theoretical computer science and its applications. LATA 2020 will reserve significant room for young scholars at the beginning of their career. It will aim at attracting contributions from classical theory fields as well as application areas.   VENUE:   LATA 2020 will take place in Milan, the third largest economy among European cities and one of the Four Motors for Europe. The venue will be:   University of Milano-Bicocca Viale Piero e Alberto Pirelli 22 Building U6 Aula Mario Martini (Aula U6-04) Milan   SCOPE:   Topics of either theoretical or applied interest include, but are not limited to:   algebraic language theory algorithms for semi-structured data mining algorithms on automata and words automata and logic automata for system analysis and programme verification automata networks automatic structures codes combinatorics on words computational complexity concurrency and Petri nets data and image compression descriptional complexity foundations of finite state technology foundations of XML grammars (Chomsky hierarchy, contextual, unification, categorial, etc.) grammatical inference, inductive inference and algorithmic learning graphs and graph transformation language varieties and semigroups language-based cryptography mathematical and logical foundations of programming methodologies parallel and regulated rewriting parsing patterns power series string processing algorithms symbolic dynamics term rewriting transducers trees, tree languages and tree automata weighted automata   STRUCTURE:   LATA 2020 will consist of:   invited talks peer-reviewed contributions   INVITED SPEAKERS:   Eric Allender (Rutgers University), The New Complexity Landscape around Circuit Minimization   Christoph Haase (University College London), Approaching Arithmetic Theories with Finite-state Automata   Artur Jeż (University of Wrocław), Recompression: Technique for Word Equations and Compressed Data   Jean-Éric Pin (CNRS), How to Prove that a Language Is Regular or Star-free?   Thomas Place (University of Bordeaux), Deciding Classes of Regular Languages: A Language Theoretic Point of View   PROGRAMME COMMITTEE:   Jorge Almeida (University of Porto, PT) Franz Baader (Technical University of Dresden, DE) Alessandro Barenghi (Polytechnic University of Milan, IT) Djamal Belazzougui (CERIST, DZ) Marcello Bonsangue (Leiden University, NL) Flavio Corradini (University of Camerino, IT) Bruno Courcelle (University of Bordeaux, FR) Laurent Doyen (ENS Paris-Saclay, FR) Manfred Droste (Leipzig University, DE) Rudolf Freund (Technical University of Vienna, AT) Paweł Gawrychowski (University of Wrocław, PL) Tero Harju (University of Turku, FI) Jeffrey Heinz (Stony Brook University, US) Lane A. Hemaspaandra (University of Rochester, US) Marcin Jurdziński (University of Warwick, UK) Juhani Karhumäki (University of Turku, FI) Jarkko Kari (University of Turku, FI) Dexter Kozen (Cornell University, US) François Le Gall (Kyoto University, JP) Markus Lohrey (University of Siegen, DE) Parthasarathy Madhusudan (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, US) Sebastian Maneth (University of Bremen, DE) Nicolas Markey (IRISA, Rennes, FR) Carlos Martín-Vide (Rovira i Virgili University, ES, chair) Giancarlo Mauri (University of Milano-Bicocca, IT) Victor Mitrana (University of Bucharest, RO) Paliath Narendran (University at Albany, US) Gennaro Parlato (University of Molise, IT) Dominique Perrin (University of Paris-Est, FR) Nir Piterman (Chalmers University of Technology, SE) Sanguthevar Rajasekaran (University of Connecticut, US) Antonio Restivo (University of Palermo, IT) Wojciech Rytter (University of Warsaw, PL) Kai Salomaa (Queen’s University, CA) Helmut Seidl (Technical University of Munich, DE) William F. Smyth (McMaster University, CA) Jiří Srba (Aalborg University, DK) Edward Stabler (University of California, Los Angeles, US) Benjamin Steinberg (City University of New York, US) Frank Stephan (National University of Singapore, SG) Jan van Leeuwen (Utrecht University, NL) Margus Veanes (Microsoft Research, US) Tomáš Vojnar (Brno University of Technology, CZ) Mikhail Volkov (Ural Federal University, RU) James Worrell (University of Oxford, UK)   ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:   Alberto Leporati (Milan, co-chair) Sara Morales (Brussels) Manuel Parra-Royón (Granada) Rafael Peñaloza Nyssen (Milan) Dana Shapira (Ariel) David Silva (London, co-chair) Bianca Truthe (Giessen) Claudio Zandron (Milan, co-chair)   SUBMISSIONS:   Authors are invited to submit non-anonymized papers in English presenting original and unpublished research. Papers should not exceed 12 single-spaced pages (all included) 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). If necessary, exceptionally authors are allowed to provide missing proofs in a clearly marked appendix.   Submissions have to be uploaded to:   https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lata2020   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 Information and Computation (Elsevier, 2018 JCR impact factor: 1.077) 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:   https://lata2020.irdta.eu/registration   DEADLINES (all at 23:59 CET):   Paper submission: October 18, 2019 Notification of paper acceptance or rejection: November 25, 2019 Final version of the paper for the LNCS proceedings: December 2, 2019 Early registration: December 2, 2019 Late registration: February 17, 2020 Submission to the journal special issue: June 6, 2020   QUESTIONS AND FURTHER INFORMATION:   david (at) irdta.eu   ACKNOWLEDGMENTS:   Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca   IRDTA – Institute for Research Development, Training and Advice, Brussels/London   -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From announce at cs.ucy.ac.cy Tue Oct 1 12:26:55 2019 From: announce at cs.ucy.ac.cy (Announce Announcements) Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2019 13:26:55 +0300 Subject: [fg-arc] 14th International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science (RCIS 2020): First Call for Posters and Demos Message-ID: *** First Call for Posters and Demos *** 14th International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science (RCIS 2020) Royal Apollonia Beach Hotel 5*, Limassol, Cyprus May 20-22, 2020, Limassol, Cyprus http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=c2NlLmNhcmxldG9uLmNhICwJCQlmZy1hcmNAbGlzdHMudW5pLXBhZGVyYm9ybi5kZQkxNHRoIEludGVybmF0aW9uYWwgQ29uZmVyZW5jZSBvbiBSZXNlYXJjaCBDaGFsbGVuZ2VzIGluIEluZm9ybWF0aW9uIFNjaWVuY2UgKFJDSVMgMjAyMCk6IEZpcnN0IENhbGwgZm9yIFBvc3RlcnMgYW5kIERlbW9zCTQyNglMaXN0cwkxNDQJY2xpY2sJeWVzCW5v&url=http%3A%2F%2Frcis-conf.com%2F Submission deadline: February 14, 2020 (AoE) (Proceedings to be published by Springer) RCIS has become a recognized conference on research challenges in Information Science. Organized for the 14th time in a row, RCIS 2020 will be held from May 20-22, 2020, in Limassol, Cyprus. RCIS 2020 features a posters & demos track to showcase prototypes and new research ideas in Information Science. This track provides a forum for researchers and practitioners to present their work, interact with conference participants, and obtain feedback on on-going research. We invite two types of submissions: · Posters are intended to convey a research result and are not advertisements for commercial software packages. While posters need not describe completed work, they should report on research for which at least some preliminary results are available. · Demonstrations should directly and actively involve the exhibition and display of tools/prototypes and associated materials that illustrate research work in progress and serve as ground for discussion of research ideas. TOPICS OF INTEREST RCIS aims to bring together scientists, researchers, engineers and practitioners from a wide range of information science fields and to provide opportunities for knowledge sharing and dissemination. RCIS 2020 will continue paying attention to traditional topics at the conference; in addition, we solicit submissions aligned the special theme of Information Science in the Days of Artificial Intelligence. We understand AI in a broad sense, including machine learning, self-adaptation, logic-based reasoning, automation, agents and multiagent systems, natural language processing, etc. RCIS welcomes posters and demos submissions from any domain of Information Science. The list of interested topics includes, but is not limited to: Information Systems and their Engineering · Requirements Engineering · Software Testing · Information Security and Risk · Method Engineering User-Oriented Approaches · Social Computing and Social Network Analysis · User-Centred Design · Collaborative Computing · Human Factors in Information Systems Data and Information Management · Databases and Information · Information Search and Discovery · Conceptual Modelling and Ontologies Business Process Management · Business Process Engineering and Reengineering · Process Mining · Enterprise Engineering Domain-specific IS Engineering · E-Health, e-Government, e-Commerce, ... · Industry 4.0 · Web-Based Applications and Services · Smart Cities Data Science · Big Data & Business Analytics · Decision Information Systems · Knowledge Management · Knowledge Discovery from Data Information Infrastructures · Cyber-Physical Systems · Web Information Systems · Grid Computing and Cloud Computing · Internet of Things · Pervasive and Mobile Computing Reflective Research and Practice · Research Methodologies in Information Science · Impact of Information on the Enterprise and the Individual · Lifecycle Models · Design Science and Rationale RCIS STEERING COMMITTEE Saïd Assar; Marco Bajec; Pericles Loucopoulos; Haralambos Moratidis; Selmin Nurcan; Oscar Pastor; Jolita Ralyté; Colette Rolland. SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Posters and demonstrations proposals must be submitted as a single PDF file with no more than 6 pages in Springer LNCS/LNBIP format (https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines) including references and appendices. Proposals that exceed the limit of 6 pages will be rejected without review. Proposals that have already been accepted or are currently under review for other conferences or journals will not be considered for publication at RCIS 2020. Authors are invited to submit their proposal in English. The submission site address is http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=c2NlLmNhcmxldG9uLmNhICwJCQlmZy1hcmNAbGlzdHMudW5pLXBhZGVyYm9ybi5kZQkxNHRoIEludGVybmF0aW9uYWwgQ29uZmVyZW5jZSBvbiBSZXNlYXJjaCBDaGFsbGVuZ2VzIGluIEluZm9ybWF0aW9uIFNjaWVuY2UgKFJDSVMgMjAyMCk6IEZpcnN0IENhbGwgZm9yIFBvc3RlcnMgYW5kIERlbW9zCTQyNglMaXN0cwkxNDQJY2xpY2sJeWVzCW5v&url=https%3A%2F%2Feasychair.org%2Fconferences%2F%3Fconf%3Drcis2020 where you can choose " RCIS2020 Posters & Demos ". Poster Presentation Authors of accepted posters will receive an opportunity to complete a short oral presentation during the posters and demos session. Well-crafted posters will tell the story well by themselves, but authors of posters are expected to be available to describe and discuss the work presented in the poster during the session. The poster dimensions will be of A0 type, that is 84 cm by 119 cm (33" by 47"), with poster content mounted on rectangular poster board we will provide. The layout may consist of several individual sheets of paper or a monolithic large sheet. Demos Presentation Authors of accepted demos will have a chance to present their material to conference attendees during the posters and demos session. Authors of demonstrations are expected to be available to present, describe and discuss the work behind the tool/prototype during the session. Authors should bring to the session the material they need to present the demo. Any special request should be communicated sufficiently in advance and agreed with the conference local organizing committee. By submitting a poster or demo paper, authors implicitly agree that at least one of them register to the conference and present the poster or the demo (at least one separate registration for each accepted paper, poster or demo). IMPORTANT DATES · Posters and Demos submission deadline: February 14, 2020 (AoE) · Notification to authors and registration opening: March 15, 2020 · Author registration deadline for all paper types: March 31, 2020 · Camera-ready copy deadline for all paper types: March 31, 2020 · Conference: May 20-22, 2020 CONFERENCE COMMITTEES General Chairs · George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus · Pericles Loucopoulos, Harokopio University of Athens, Greece Organising Chair · Petros Stratis, Easy Conferences LTD., Cyprus Program Chairs · Jelena Zdravkovic, Stockholm University, Sweden · Fabiano Dalpiaz, Utrecht University, Netherlands Doctoral Consortium Chairs · Raian Ali, Bournemouth University, United Kingdom · Sergio España, Utrecht University, Netherlands Tutorial Chairs · Estefania Serral Asensio, KU Leuven, Belgium · Ignacio Panach, University of Valencia, Spain Posters & Demos Chairs · Elena Kornyshova, Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers, France · Marcela Ruiz, Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From irdta at irdta.eu Wed Oct 2 23:14:17 2019 From: irdta at irdta.eu (IRDTA) Date: Wed, 02 Oct 2019 23:14:17 +0200 Subject: [fg-arc] SLSP 2019: call for participation Message-ID: <545102060a010b02005f50020302525e540550040054555606560c535302525603005051025b07525404560306065756@grlmc_ip-zone_com-6> SLSP 2019: call for participation*To be removed from our mailing list, please respond to this message with UNSUBSCRIBE in the subject line* ********************************************************************************** 7th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON STATISTICAL LANGUAGE AND SPEECH PROCESSING SLSP 2019 Ljubljana, Slovenia October 14-16, 2019 Co-organized by: Jožef Stefan Institute Institute for Research Development, Training and Advice (IRDTA), Brussels/London http://slsp2019.irdta.eu/ ********************************************************************************** PROGRAM Monday, October 14 09:00 - 09:30    Registration 09:30 - 09:40    Opening 09:40 - 10:30    Jure Leskovec. Learning and Reasoning with Knowledge Graphs - Invited lecture 10:30 - 11:00    Break 11:00 - 12:40 Izidor Mlakar, Darinka Verdonik, Simona Majhenic and Matej Rojc. Towards Pragmatic Understanding of Conversational Intent: A Multimodal Annotation Approach to Multiparty Informal Interaction – the EVA Corpus Matthieu Riou, Bassam Jabaian, Stéphane Huet and Fabrice Lefèvre. Lilia, a Showcase for Fast Bootstrap of Conversation-like Dialogues Based on a Goal-oriented System Natalia Tomashenko, Antoine Caubrière, Yannick Estève, Antoine Laurent and Emmanuel Morin. Recent Advances in End-to-end Spoken Language Understanding Adrien Bardet, Fethi Bougares and Loïc Barrault. A Study on Multilingual Transfer Learning in Neural Machine Translation: Finding the Balance between Languages 12:40 - 14:10    Lunch 14:10 - 15:25 Daphné Chopard and Irena Spasic. A Deep Learning Approach to Self-expansion of Abbreviations Based on Morphology and Context Distance Ondrej Herman, Miloš Jakubícek, Vojtech Kovár and Pavel Rychlý. Word Sense Induction Using Word Sketches Tatiana Kachkovskaia. Temporal "Declination" in Different Types of IPs in Russian: Preliminary Results 15:25 - 15:55    Break 15:55 - 16:45 Sammy Khalife, Leo Liberti and Michalis Vazirgiannis. Geometry and Analogies: A Study and Propagation Method for Word Representations Blaž Škrlj and Senja Pollak. Language Comparison via Network Topology 16:45 - 17:00    Break 17:00 - 17:40    Poster session I Abdulrahman Alqarafi and Kevin Swingler. Arabic Multi-dialects Multi-modal Sentiment Analysis Andrejaana Andova and Mitja Luštrek. Four Attempts at Cross-dataset Speech Emotion Recognition Leila Ben Letaifa, Mikel de Velasco, Raquel Justo and M. Inés Torres. First Steps to Develop a Corpus of Interactions between Elderly and Virtual Agents in Spanish with Emotion Labels Fuad Mire Hassan and Mark Lee. Multi-stage Stance Detection using Classical and Deep Learning Approaches --- Tuesday, October 15 09:00 - 09:50    Alexandros Potamianos. Emotion and Behavioral Tracking in the Lab and in the Wild - Invited lecture 09:50 - 10:20    Break 10:20 - 11:35 Rimah Amami, Hassan Eraky and Rim Amami. An Incremental System for Voice Pathology Detection Combining Possibilistic SVM and HMM Ascensión Gallardo-Antolín and Juan Montero. External Attention LSTM Models for Cognitive Load Classification from Speech Dominik Machácek, Jonáš Kratochvíl, Tereza Vojtechová and Ondrej Bojar. A Speech Test Set of Practice Business Presentations with Additional Relevant Texts 11:35 - 12:05    Break 12:05 - 12:55 Meysam Shamsi, Damien Lolive, Nelly Barbot and Jonathan Chevelu. Investigating the Relation between Voice Corpus Design and Hybrid Synthesis under Reduction Constraint Nirayo Hailu Gebreegziabher and Andreas Nuernberger. An Amharic Syllable-based Speech Corpus for Continuous Speech Recognition 12:55 - 14:25    Group photo and Lunch 14:25 - 15:40 Diana Geneva, Georgi Shopov and Stoyan Mihov. Building an ASR Corpus Based on Bulgarian Parliament Speeches Jens Heitkaemper, Thomas Feher, Michael Freitag and Reinhold Haeb-Umbach. A Study on Online Source Extraction in the Presence of Changing Speaker Positions Sean Robertson, Gerald Penn and Yingxue Wang. Improving Speech Recognition with Drop-in Replacements for f-bank Features 15:40 - 16:10    Break 16:10 - 17:00 Balázs Tarján, György Szaszák, Tibor Fegyó and Péter Mihajlik. Investigation on N-gram Approximated RNNLMs for Recognition of Morphologically Rich Speech Jan Vanek, Josef Michalek and Josef Psutka. Tuning of Acoustic Modeling and Adaptation Technique for a Real Speech Recognition Task 17:00 - 17:15    Break 17:15 - 17:55    Poster session II Denis Memmesheimer and Karin Harbusch. Analytical and Visual Support Choosing the Optimal k for Top k Parse Reordering in Natural Language Ambiguity Resolution Shamila Nasreen and Matthew Purver. Interaction Patterns in Conversations with Alzheimer's Patients Rémi Uro, Marc Evrard, Nicolas Hervé and Béatrice Mazoyer. The Constitution of a French Tweet Corpus for Automatic Stance Detection Olga Yakovenko and Ivan Bondarenko. Convolutional Variational Autoencoders for Audio Feature Representation in Speech Recognition Systems 18:00 - 20:00    Touristic visit --- Wednesday, October 16 09:00 - 09:50    Odette Scharenborg. The Representation and Processing of Speech in Human Listeners and Deep Neural Network-based Automatic Speech Recognition Systems - Invited lecture 09:50 - 10:20    Break 10:20 - 11:35 Luís Barbosa, João Filgueiras, Gil Rocha, Henrique Lopes Cardoso, Luis Paulo Reis, João Pedro Machado, Ana Cristina Caldeira and Ana Maria Oliveira. Automatic Identification of Economic Activities in Complaints Rajarshi Biswas, Michael Barz, Aditya Mogadala, Dietrich Klakow and Daniel Sonntag. Automatic Judgement of Neural Network-Generated Image Captions Fuad Mire Hassan and Mark Lee. Imbalanced Stance Detection by Combining Deep Learning and External Features 11:35 - 11:50    Break 11:50 - 13:05 Kristian Miok, Dong Nguyen-Doan, Blaž Škrlj, Daniela Zaharie and Marko Robnik-Šikonja. Prediction Uncertainty Estimation for Hate Speech Classification Polina Panicheva and Tatiana Litvinova. Authorship Attribution in Russian in Real-World Forensics Scenario Blaž Škrlj, Andraž Repar and Senja Pollak. 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Indeed, much scientific and technological growth in recent years, including in computer vision, natural language processing, transportation, and health, has been driven by large-scale data sets which provide a strong basis to improve existing algorithms and develop new ones. However, due to their large-scale and longitudinal collection, archiving these data sets raise significant privacy concerns. They often reveal sensitive personal information that can be exploited, without the knowledge and/or consent of the involved individuals, for various purposes including monitoring, discrimination, and illegal activities. The goal of the AAAI-20 Workshop on Privacy-Preserving Artificial Intelligence is to provide a platform for researchers to discuss problems and present solutions related to privacy issues arising within AI applications. The workshop will focus on both theoretical and practical challenges arising in the design of privacy-preserving AI systems and algorithms. It will place particular emphasis on algorithmic approaches to protect data privacy in the context of learning, optimization, and decision making that raise fundamental challenges for existing technologies. Additionally, it will welcome algorithms and frameworks to release privacy-preserving benchmarks and datasets. Topics We invite paper submissions on the following (and related) topics: • Applications of privacy-preserving AI systems • Architectures and privacy-preserving learning protocols • Constrained-based approaches to privacy • Differential privacy: theory and applications • Distributed privacy-preserving algorithms • Human-aware private algorithms • Incentive mechanisms and game theory • Privacy-preserving machine learning • Privacy-preserving algorithms for medical applications • Privacy-preserving algorithms for temporal data • Privacy-preserving test cases and benchmarks • Privacy and policy-making • Secure multi-party computation • Secret sharing techniques • Trade-offs between privacy and utility Position, perspective, and vision papers are also welcome. Finally, the workshop will welcome papers that describe the release of privacy-preserving benchmarks and datasets that can be used by the community to solve fundamental problems of interest, including in machine learning and optimization for health systems and urban networks, to mention but a few examples. Format The workshop will be a full-day and will include a mix of invited speakers, peer-reviewed papers (talks and poster sessions) and will conclude with a panel discussion. Attendance Attendance is open to all. At least one author of each accepted submission must be present at the workshop. Submission Submission URL: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ppai20 Submissions of technical papers can be up to 7 pages excluding references and appendices. Short or position papers of up to 4 pages are also welcome. All papers must be submitted in PDF format, using the AAAI-20 author kit. Papers will be peer-reviewed and selected for oral and/or poster presentation at the workshop. Workshop Chairs - Ferdinando Fioretto (Georgia Institute of Technology) email: fioretto at gatech.edu Web: http://nandofioretto.com - Pascal Van Hentenryck (Georgia Institute of Technology) email: pascal.vanhentenryck at isye.gatech.edu web: http://pwp.gatech.edu/pascal-van-hentenryck/ - Rachel Cummings (Georgia Institute of Technology) email: rachelc at gatech.edu web: https://pwp.gatech.edu/rachel-cummings/ Workshop Committee • Aws Albarghouthi - University of Wisconsin-Madison • Carsten Baum - Bar Ilan University • Aurélien Bellet - INRIA • Elette Boyle - Technion • Mark Bun - Boston University • Kamalika Chaudhuri - University of California San Diego • Graham Cormode - The University of Warwick • Marco Gaboardi - Boston University • Antti Honkela - University of Helsinki • Peter Kairouz - Google AI • Kim Laine - Microsoft • Audra McMillan - Northeastern University • Sebastian Meiser - University College London • Ilya Mironov - Google • Aleksandar Nikolov - University of Toronto • Kobbi Nissim - Georgetown University • Catuscia Palamidessi - INRIA • Reza Shokri - National University of Singapore • Jonathan Ullman - Northeastern University • Xiao Wang - Northwestern University Workshop URL: https://www2.isye.gatech.edu/~fferdinando3/cfp/PPAI20 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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These users are exposed to increasing risks regarding security and privacy, due to the development of more and more sophisticated online attacks, the growth of Cyber Crime, etc. Attackers nowadays do not lack motivation and they are more and more experienced. To make matters worse, for performing attacks have become easily accessible. Moreover, the increasing complexity as well as the immaturity of new technologies such as pervasive, mobile and wireless devices and networks, raise new security challenges. In this context, new security mechanisms and techniques should be deployed to achieve an assurance level acceptable for critical domains such as energy, transportation, health, defence, banking, critical infrastructures, embedded systems and networks, avionics systems, etc. The CRiSIS conference offers a remarkable forum for computer and network security actors from industry, academia and government to meet, exchange ideas and present recent advances on Internet-related security threats and vulnerabilities, and on the solutions that are needed to counter them. ------- Registration is open as follows: • Early – Before 20 September • Late – Before 5 October • On site – After 29 October Registration is via the CRiSIS2019 website: http://crisis2019.redcad.org/Website/Registration.html ------- Program Information The conference will feature invited speakers and presentations of accepted papers. More details on the program: http://crisis2019.redcad.org/Website/Program.html ------- Keynote Speakers Lotfi ben Othmane, *Iowa State University, USA* Takoua Abdellatif, *University of Carthage, Tunisia* ------- Chairs General chairs: Nora Cuppens, IMT Atlantique, France Ahmed Hadj Kacem, University of Sfax, Tunisia Programme chairs: Frédéric Cupens, University of Bretagne Loire, France Slim Kallel, University of Sfax, Tunisia -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From luis.magdalena at upm.es Sat Oct 12 18:06:41 2019 From: luis.magdalena at upm.es (LUIS MAGDALENA) Date: Sat, 12 Oct 2019 18:06:41 +0200 Subject: [fg-arc] Third CFP: 24th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI 2020) Message-ID: ** Please accept our apologies for cross-posting ** ** It would be highly appreciated if you could disseminate this CFP among your colleagues ** ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Some DEADLINES of the 24th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI 2020) are APPROACHING. Please find below the overall Call for Papers, but particularly consider these deadlines: + WORKSHOP Proposal submission will close by October 30, 2019 + ECAI2020 Abstract submission will close by November 15, 2019 + PAIS Abstract submission will close by November 21, 2019 ECAI 2020 will take place in Santiago de Compostela from June 8 to 12, 2020. For additional information visitwww.ecai2020.eu. ECAI 2020 has coordinated with AAAI 2020, IJCAI 2020, AAMAS 2020 and ICAPS 2020 for deadlines and synergies. CALL FOR PAPERS =============== The biennial European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI) is Europe's premier venue for presenting scientific results in AI. Under the general theme "Paving the way towards Human-Centric AI", the 24th edition of ECAI will be held in Santiago de Compostela, a UNESCO's World Heritage City which is the destination of unique Routes that cross all Europe since the Middle Ages. The conference dates are 10-12 June 2020, with the workshops taking place on 8-9 June. Save these dates! The Program Committee of the 24th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI 2020) invites the submission of papers for the technical programme of the Conference. High-quality original submissions are welcome from research results and applications of all areas of AI including the following ones: - Agent-based and Multi-agent Systems (MAS) - Computational Intelligence (CI) - Constraints and Satisfiability (CS) - Games and Virtual Environments (GAME) - Heuristic Search (HEU) - Human Aspects in AI (HAI) - Information Retrieval and Filtering (IRF) - Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KRR) - Machine Learning (ML) - Multidisciplinary Topics and Applications (MULT) - Natural Language Processing (NLP) - Planning and Scheduling (PLAN) - Robotics (ROB) - Safe, Explainable, and Trustworthy AI (XAI) - Semantic Technologies (SEM) - Uncertainty in AI (UAI) - Vision (VIS) The Call for Papers is available athttp://ecai2020.eu/call-for-papers/mainconference/ WORKSHOPS, TUTORIALS AND OTHER EVENTS ------------------------------------- In addition to its full programme of technical papers, ECAI2020 will feature many AI-related events for researchers, students and all attendants who are interested on contemporary AI. Separate calls have been issued for: - Workshop proposals, CFP available athttp://ecai2020.eu/call-for-papers/workshops/ - Tutorial proposals, CFP available athttp://ecai2020.eu/call-for-papers/tutorials/ - PAIS 2020, the Prestigious Applications of Intelligent Systems conference, CFP available athttp://ecai2020.eu/call-for-papers/pais/ - STAIRS 2020, the Starting AI Researcher Symposium, CFP available athttp://ecai2020.eu/call-for-papers/stairs/ In addition, other AI-related events will be announced, specially addressing the role of AI in Europe (and vice-versa) with special focus on the Conference general theme. Among these, The Frontiers in AI track sessions, the Lab To Market event, the Women in AI Breakfast and the EU Challenges forum. Futhermore, ECAI2020 will have a special focus on Starting Researchers, who will be able to participate in an specific program including the Doctoral Consortium, the Three Minutes Thesis Competition, the Lunch with an EurAI Fellow and the Job Fair. SOME IMPORTANT DATES -------------------- ECAI2020 Abstract submission: November 15, 2019 ECAI2020 Paper submission: November 19, 2019 ECAI2020 Notification of acceptance/rejection: January 15, 2020 WORKSHOP Proposal submission: October 30, 2019 WORKSHOP Proposal notification: November 28, 2019 TUTORIAL Proposal Submission: February 20, 2020 TUTORIAL Acceptance Notification: March 20, 2020 PAIS Abstract submission: November 21, 2019 PAIS Paper submission: November 26, 2019 PAIS Notification of acceptance/rejection: January 20, 2020 ORGANIZATION ------------ The Conference is hosted by the European Association for Artificial Intelligence (EurAI) and the Spanish AI Society (AEPIA). ECAI 2020 is organized by the Intelligent Systems Group (GSI) and the Research Centre in Intelligent Technologies (CiTIUS), University of Santiago de Compostela. SYNERGIES WITH OTHER CONFERENCES -------------------------------- ECAI 2020 has coordinated with AAAI 2020, IJCAI 2020, AAMAS 2020 and ICAPS 2020 for deadlines and synergies. In particular, ECAI 2020 and ICAPS 2020 have an agreement so that in specific cases the ECAI 2020 PC may decide to transfer a paper on Planning and Scheduling to ICAPS 2020 (provided that the permission to do so has been given by the authors in the submission form), and viceversa. CONTACT AND UPDATES ------------------- Updates will be regularly published at the Conference Website:www.ecai2020.eu Follow us in Twitter @ECAI2020 -- Luis Magdalena ECAI2020 Publicity Chair www.ecai2020.eu From juerjens at uni-koblenz.de Mon Oct 14 12:15:48 2019 From: juerjens at uni-koblenz.de (Jan Juerjens) Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2019 12:15:48 +0200 Subject: [fg-arc] =?utf-8?q?Ausschreibung=3A_Doktoranden_E13_und_PostDocs?= =?utf-8?q?_E14_f=C3=BCr_Software_Engineering_=28Universit=C3=A4t_Koblenz?= =?utf-8?q?=29?= Message-ID: <7a79d042-8dc7-de03-93cb-577816840272@uni-koblenz.de> Liebe Kolleginnen und Kollegen, im Rahmen des neugegründeten Forschungsschwerpunktes "Engineering Trustworthy Data-intensive Systems" arbeiten wir innerhalb mehrerer Forschungs-Projekte (finanziert u.a. durch das BMWi im Rahmen des KI-Wettbewerbs, der EU im Rahmen von Horizon 2020 und das BMBF) daran, Machine-Learning-basierte Softwaresysteme mit Methoden des Software Engineerings vertrauenswürdig zu entwickeln. Als Sprecher des Schwerpunktes kann ich nun mehrere Stellen für wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiter vergeben, die bei gegebener Qualifizierung (Promotion) auch als EG14 und mit entsprechenden Leitungsaufgaben vergeben werden können. Es gibt bereits Informationen zu einigen dieser Projekte hier: https://rgse.uni-koblenz.de/web/pages/research/index_de.shtml Da noch weitere Ausschreibungen in Vorbereitung sind, wäre es sinnvoll, mich vor der Bewerbung zu kontaktieren, um die Ausschreibung zu identifizieren, die am geeignetsten ist. Über eine Weiterleitung dieser Informationen an potentielle Interessierte würde ich mich sehr freuen ! Herzlichen Dank & Beste Grüße Jan Jürjens -- Prof. Dr. Jan Jürjens Direktor, Institute for Software Technology (IST), University of Koblenz-Landau http://jan.jurjens.de Director Research Projects, Fraunhofer-Institute for Software and Systems Engineering ISST http://isst.fraunhofer.de From irdta at irdta.eu Tue Oct 15 02:57:20 2019 From: irdta at irdta.eu (IRDTA) Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2019 02:57:20 +0200 Subject: [fg-arc] LATA 2020: extended submission deadline October 26 Message-ID: <545102060a010b02015751050307585e54500c045450055000045a050103535957055352520056025455540a50505755@grlmc_ip-zone_com-6> LATA 2020: extended submission deadline October 26*To be removed from our mailing list, please respond to this message with UNSUBSCRIBE in the subject line*   ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ***** SUBMISSION DEADLINE EXTENDED: October 26 ***** ------------------------------------------------------------------------------   ************************************************************************* 14th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE AND AUTOMATA THEORY AND APPLICATIONS   LATA 2020   Milan, Italy   March 2-6, 2020   Co-organized by:             Department of Informatics, Systems and Communication University of Milano-Bicocca   and   Institute for Research Development, Training and Advice Brussels/London   https://lata2020.irdta.eu *************************************************************************   AIMS:   LATA is a conference series on theoretical computer science and its applications. LATA 2020 will reserve significant room for young scholars at the beginning of their career. It will aim at attracting contributions from classical theory fields as well as application areas.   VENUE:   LATA 2020 will take place in Milan, the third largest economy among European cities and one of the Four Motors for Europe. The venue will be:   University of Milano-Bicocca Viale Piero e Alberto Pirelli 22 Building U6 Aula Mario Martini (Aula U6-04) Milan   SCOPE:   Topics of either theoretical or applied interest include, but are not limited to:   algebraic language theory algorithms for semi-structured data mining algorithms on automata and words automata and logic automata for system analysis and programme verification automata networks automatic structures codes combinatorics on words computational complexity concurrency and Petri nets data and image compression descriptional complexity foundations of finite state technology foundations of XML grammars (Chomsky hierarchy, contextual, unification, categorial, etc.) grammatical inference, inductive inference and algorithmic learning graphs and graph transformation language varieties and semigroups language-based cryptography mathematical and logical foundations of programming methodologies parallel and regulated rewriting parsing patterns power series string processing algorithms symbolic dynamics term rewriting transducers trees, tree languages and tree automata weighted automata   STRUCTURE:   LATA 2020 will consist of:   invited talks peer-reviewed contributions   INVITED SPEAKERS:   Eric Allender (Rutgers University), The New Complexity Landscape around Circuit Minimization   Laure Daviaud (City, University of London), About Decision Problems for Weighted Automata   Christoph Haase (University College London), Approaching Arithmetic Theories with Finite-state Automata   Artur Jeż (University of Wrocław), Recompression: Technique for Word Equations and Compressed Data   Jean-Éric Pin (CNRS), How to Prove that a Language Is Regular or Star-free?   Thomas Place (University of Bordeaux), Deciding Classes of Regular Languages: A Language Theoretic Point of View   PROGRAMME COMMITTEE:   Jorge Almeida (University of Porto, PT) Franz Baader (Technical University of Dresden, DE) Alessandro Barenghi (Polytechnic University of Milan, IT) Marie-Pierre Béal (University of Paris-Est, FR) Djamal Belazzougui (CERIST, DZ) Marcello Bonsangue (Leiden University, NL) Flavio Corradini (University of Camerino, IT) Bruno Courcelle (University of Bordeaux, FR) Laurent Doyen (ENS Paris-Saclay, FR) Manfred Droste (Leipzig University, DE) Rudolf Freund (Technical University of Vienna, AT) Paweł Gawrychowski (University of Wrocław, PL) Amélie Gheerbrant (Paris Diderot University, FR) Tero Harju (University of Turku, FI) Jeffrey Heinz (Stony Brook University, US) Lane A. Hemaspaandra (University of Rochester, US) Marcin Jurdziński (University of Warwick, UK) Juhani Karhumäki (University of Turku, FI) Jarkko Kari (University of Turku, FI) Dexter Kozen (Cornell University, US) François Le Gall (Kyoto University, JP) Markus Lohrey (University of Siegen, DE) Parthasarathy Madhusudan (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, US) Sebastian Maneth (University of Bremen, DE) Nicolas Markey (IRISA, Rennes, FR) Carlos Martín-Vide (Rovira i Virgili University, ES, chair) Giancarlo Mauri (University of Milano-Bicocca, IT) Victor Mitrana (University of Bucharest, RO) Paliath Narendran (University at Albany, US) Gennaro Parlato (University of Molise, IT) Dominique Perrin (University of Paris-Est, FR) Nir Piterman (Chalmers University of Technology, SE) Sanguthevar Rajasekaran (University of Connecticut, US) Antonio Restivo (University of Palermo, IT) Wojciech Rytter (University of Warsaw, PL) Kai Salomaa (Queen’s University, CA) Helmut Seidl (Technical University of Munich, DE) William F. Smyth (McMaster University, CA) Jiří Srba (Aalborg University, DK) Edward Stabler (University of California, Los Angeles, US) Benjamin Steinberg (City University of New York, US) Frank Stephan (National University of Singapore, SG) Jan van Leeuwen (Utrecht University, NL) Margus Veanes (Microsoft Research, US) Tomáš Vojnar (Brno University of Technology, CZ) Mikhail Volkov (Ural Federal University, RU) James Worrell (University of Oxford, UK)   ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:   Alberto Leporati (Milan, co-chair) Sara Morales (Brussels) Manuel Parra-Royón (Granada) Rafael Peñaloza Nyssen (Milan) Dana Shapira (Ariel) David Silva (London, co-chair) Bianca Truthe (Giessen) Claudio Zandron (Milan, co-chair)   SUBMISSIONS:   Authors are invited to submit non-anonymized papers in English presenting original and unpublished research. Papers should not exceed 12 single-spaced pages (all included) 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). If necessary, exceptionally authors are allowed to provide missing proofs in a clearly marked appendix.   Submissions have to be uploaded to:   https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lata2020   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 Information and Computation (Elsevier, 2018 JCR impact factor: 1.077) 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:   https://lata2020.irdta.eu/registration   DEADLINES (all at 23:59 CET):   Paper submission: October 26, 2019 – EXTENDED Notification of paper acceptance or rejection: November 25, 2019 Final version of the paper for the LNCS proceedings: December 2, 2019 Early registration: December 2, 2019 Late registration: February 17, 2020 Submission to the journal special issue: June 6, 2020   QUESTIONS AND FURTHER INFORMATION:   david (at) irdta.eu   ACKNOWLEDGMENTS:   Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca   IRDTA – Institute for Research Development, Training and Advice, Brussels/London   -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From fioretto.ferdinando at isye.gatech.edu Sat Oct 19 22:59:49 2019 From: fioretto.ferdinando at isye.gatech.edu (Fioretto, Ferdinando) Date: Sat, 19 Oct 2019 20:59:49 +0000 Subject: [fg-arc] CFP: The AAAI-20 Workshop on Privacy-Preserving Artificial Intelligence Message-ID: <3876D1DF-17ED-4B37-B996-A77D69F3CFE0@gatech.edu> Apologies for cross-posting - Please forward to anybody who might be interested The AAAI-20 Workshop on Privacy-Preserving Artificial Intelligence The availability of massive amounts of data, coupled with high-performance cloud computing platforms, has driven significant progress in artificial intelligence and, in particular, machine learning and optimization. Indeed, much scientific and technological growth in recent years, including in computer vision, natural language processing, transportation, and health, has been driven by large-scale data sets which provide a strong basis to improve existing algorithms and develop new ones. However, due to their large-scale and longitudinal collection, archiving these data sets raise significant privacy concerns. They often reveal sensitive personal information that can be exploited, without the knowledge and/or consent of the involved individuals, for various purposes including monitoring, discrimination, and illegal activities. The goal of the AAAI-20 Workshop on Privacy-Preserving Artificial Intelligence is to provide a platform for researchers to discuss problems and present solutions related to privacy issues arising within AI applications. The workshop will focus on both theoretical and practical challenges arising in the design of privacy-preserving AI systems and algorithms. It will place particular emphasis on algorithmic approaches to protect data privacy in the context of learning, optimization, and decision making that raise fundamental challenges for existing technologies. Additionally, it will welcome algorithms and frameworks to release privacy-preserving benchmarks and datasets. Topics We invite paper submissions on the following (and related) topics: • Applications of privacy-preserving AI systems • Architectures and privacy-preserving learning protocols • Constrained-based approaches to privacy • Differential privacy: theory and applications • Distributed privacy-preserving algorithms • Human-aware private algorithms • Incentive mechanisms and game theory • Privacy-preserving machine learning • Privacy-preserving algorithms for medical applications • Privacy-preserving algorithms for temporal data • Privacy-preserving test cases and benchmarks • Privacy and policy-making • Secure multi-party computation • Secret sharing techniques • Trade-offs between privacy and utility Position, perspective, and vision papers are also welcome. Finally, the workshop will welcome papers that describe the release of privacy-preserving benchmarks and datasets that can be used by the community to solve fundamental problems of interest, including in machine learning and optimization for health systems and urban networks, to mention but a few examples. Important Dates • November 15, 2019 – Submission Deadline • December 4, 2019 – Acceptance Notification • February 7 or 8, 2020 – Workshop Date (Full day) Format The workshop will be a full-day and will include a mix of invited speakers, peer-reviewed papers (talks and poster sessions) and will conclude with a panel discussion. Attendance Attendance is open to all. At least one author of each accepted submission must be present at the workshop. Submission Submission URL: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ppai20 Submissions of technical papers can be up to 7 pages excluding references and appendices. Short or position papers of up to 4 pages are also welcome. All papers must be submitted in PDF format, using the AAAI-20 author kit. Papers will be peer-reviewed and selected for oral and/or poster presentation at the workshop. Workshop Chairs - Ferdinando Fioretto (Georgia Institute of Technology) email: fioretto at gatech.edu Web: http://nandofioretto.com - Pascal Van Hentenryck (Georgia Institute of Technology) email: pascal.vanhentenryck at isye.gatech.edu web: http://pwp.gatech.edu/pascal-van-hentenryck/ - Rachel Cummings (Georgia Institute of Technology) email: rachelc at gatech.edu web: https://pwp.gatech.edu/rachel-cummings/ Workshop Committee • Aws Albarghouthi - University of Wisconsin-Madison • Carsten Baum - Bar Ilan University • Aurélien Bellet - INRIA • Elette Boyle - Technion • Mark Bun - Boston University • Kamalika Chaudhuri - University of California San Diego • Graham Cormode - The University of Warwick • Marco Gaboardi - Boston University • Antti Honkela - University of Helsinki • Peter Kairouz - Google AI • Kim Laine - Microsoft • Audra McMillan - Northeastern University • Sebastian Meiser - University College London • Ilya Mironov - Google • Aleksandar Nikolov - University of Toronto • Kobbi Nissim - Georgetown University • Catuscia Palamidessi - INRIA • Reza Shokri - National University of Singapore • Jonathan Ullman - Northeastern University • Xiao Wang - Northwestern University Workshop URL: https://www2.isye.gatech.edu/~fferdinando3/cfp/PPAI20 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From stefano.forti at di.unipi.it Thu Oct 24 17:22:05 2019 From: stefano.forti at di.unipi.it (Stefano Forti) Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2019 17:22:05 +0200 Subject: [fg-arc] Deadline Extended - International Conference on Fog Computing (ICFC 2020) Message-ID: <000401d58a7e$cccf55b0$666e0110$@di.unipi.it> ========================================================================= 2020 IEEE International Conference on Fog Computing (ICFC 2020) April 21-24, 2020 - Sydney, Australia Website: https://sites.google.com/view/icfc2020/ Submission: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icfc2020 Co-located with CPS-IoT Week (https://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~cpsiot/cpsweek2020/) ========================================================================= Important Dates * Submission registration and abstract: November 15, 2019 AoE (extended) * Full paper submission: November 22, 2019 AoE (extended) * Acceptance notification: January 15, 2020 * Camera-ready papers due: February 7, 2020 * Conference: April 21-24, 2020 Context and Scope Fog computing is the extension of cloud computing into its edge and the physical world to meet the data volume and decision velocity requirements in many emerging applications, such as augmented and virtual realities (AR/VR), cyber-physical systems (CPS), intelligent and autonomous systems, and mission-critical systems. The boundary between powerful centralized cloud and massively distributed, Internet connected sensors, actuators, and "things" is blurred in this new computing paradigm. The 2020 IEEE International Conference on Fog Computing (ICFC 2020), colocated with the CPS-IoT Week 2020 in Sydney, April 21-24, 2020, brings together researchers and practitioners across academia, industry, and governments to exchange visions, technical challenges, and research outcomes in a single forum. ICFC takes a broad view of Fog Computing, including computation, connectivity, mobility, sensing and actuation, theories, and systems. ICFC topics of interest include but are not limited to: * System architecture for fog computing * Coordination between cloud, fog, and sensing/actuation endpoints * Connectivity, storage, and computation in the edge * Data processing and management for fog computing * Efficient and embedded AI in the fog * System and network manageability * Middleware and coordination platforms * Power, energy, and resource management * Device and hardware support for fog computing * Programming models, abstractions, and software engineering for fog computing * Security, privacy, and ethics issues related to fog computing * Theoretical foundations and formal methods for fog computing systems * Applications and practical experiences Special Issue Authors of accepted papers can submit an extended version of their papers to a Special Issue on "Cloud and Fog Computing" of the journal Springer-Nature Computer Science (https://www.springer.com/journal/42979). Manuscript Guidelines and Submission Authors are invited to submit original unpublished research manuscripts that demonstrate current research in all areas of fog computing. Manuscripts are submitted in PDF format and are limited to 6 single-spaced double-column pages (plus at most 2 extra pages) using 10-point size font on 8.5x11 inch pages, including figures, tables, and references. Please refer to IEEE proceedings templates (https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html) for templates and complete formatting instructions. Manuscripts are submitted via the Easychair Conference Management System: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icfc2020 All manuscripts will be reviewed and judged on correctness, originality, technical strength, rigour in analysis, quality of results, quality of presentation, and interest and relevance to the conference attendees. Accepted papers will included in the conference proceedings that will be published through the IEEE Computer Society Conference Publishing Services. Please visit ICFC website at https://sites.google.com/view/icfc2020/call-for-papers for more information. Organization General Chairs: Erol Gelenbe, IITIS, Polish Academy of Science, Poland Jie Liu, Microsoft Research Program Chairs: Valeria Cardellini, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy Song Guo, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong Workshop Chair: David Bermbach, TU Berlin, Germany Publication Chairs: Vincenzo De Maio, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Javid Taheri, Karlstad University, Sweden Publicity Chairs: Valeria Cardellini, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy Stefano Forti, University of Pisa, Italy Technical Program Committee The international programme committee is listed on https://sites.google.com/view/icfc2020/program-commitee ============================================= Follow ICFC 2020 on: Twitter: https://twitter.com/icfc2020/ Facebook: https://m.facebook.com/icfc2020/ ============================================= -- Questa e-mail è stata controllata per individuare virus con Avast antivirus. https://www.avast.com/antivirus -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From irdta at irdta.eu Mon Oct 28 23:55:47 2019 From: irdta at irdta.eu (IRDTA) Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2019 23:55:47 +0100 Subject: [fg-arc] TPNC 2019: call for posters Message-ID: <545102060a010b020154520b0402545e515153510204535355000f570406510707525453005b560a0656540a00560304@grlmc_ip-zone_com-6> TPNC 2019: call for posters*To be removed from our mailing list, please respond to this message with UNSUBSCRIBE in the subject line* ----------------- The 6th International Conference on the Theory and Practice of Natural Computing (TPNC 2019) invites researchers to submit poster presentations. TPNC 2019 will be held in Kingston, Ontario on December 9-11, 2019. See  https://tpnc2019.irdta.eu/ Poster presentations are intended to enhance informal interactions with conference participants, at the same time allowing for in-depth discussion. TOPICS Presentations displaying novel work in progress on computational principles, models and techniques inspired by information processing in nature 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: November 2, 2019 Notification of poster acceptance or rejection: November 9, 2019 SUBMISSION Please submit a .pdf abstract through: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=tpnc2019 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 proceedings volume of TPNC 2019. However, they will be eligible for submission to the post-conference journal special issue in Natural Computing (Springer, 2018 JCR impact factor: 0.860). REGISTRATION At least one author of each accepted poster must register to the conference by November 25, 2019. The registration fare is reduced: 285 Euros. It gives the same rights all other conference participants will have (attendance, copy of the proceedings volume, coffee breaks, 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 irdta at irdta.eu Tue Oct 22 00:53:34 2019 From: irdta at irdta.eu (IRDTA) Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2019 22:53:34 -0000 Subject: [fg-arc] BigDat 2020: early registration October 27 Message-ID: <545102060a010b020157570b040a565e5100015256075702560b08055700015257575652040801575150520005000404@grlmc_ip-zone_com-6> BigDat 2020: early registration October 27*To be removed from our mailing list, please respond to this message with UNSUBSCRIBE in the subject line*   ********************************************************   6th INTERNATIONAL WINTER SCHOOL ON BIG DATA   BigDat 2020   Ancona, Italy   January 13-17, 2020   Co-organized by:   Department of Information Engineering, Marche Polytechnic University   Institute for Research Development, Training and Advice (IRDTA) Brussels / London   https://bigdat2020.irdta.eu/   ********************************************************   --- Early registration deadline: October 27, 2019 ---   ********************************************************   SCOPE:   BigDat 2020 will be a research training event with a global scope aiming at updating participants on 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.). Major challenges of analytics, management and storage of big data will be identified through 1 keynote lecture and 22 four-hour and a half courses, 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. Moreover, there will be two special sessions with industrial and recruitment profiles.   ADDRESSED TO:   Master's students, PhD students, postdocs, and industry practitioners will be typical profiles of participants. However, there are no formal pre-requisites for attendance in terms of academic degrees. Since there will be a variety of levels, specific knowledge background may be assumed for some of the courses. Overall, BigDat 2020 is addressed to students, researchers and practitioners who want to keep themselves updated about recent developments and future trends. All will surely find it fruitful to listen and discuss with major researchers, industry leaders and innovators.   STRUCTURE:   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 2020 will take place in Ancona, a city founded by Greek settlers and today one of the main ports on the Adriatic Sea. The venue will be:   Department of Information Engineering Marche Polytechnic University Via Brecce Bianche 12 60131 Ancona   KEYNOTE SPEAKER: (to be completed)   PROFESSORS AND COURSES:   Sanchita Bhattacharya (University of California, San Francisco), [introductory/advanced] Big Data in Immunology: Sharing, Dissemination, and Repurposing   Diego Calvanese (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano), [introductory] Virtual Knowledge Graphs for Data Integration   Sheelagh Carpendale (University of Calgary), [introductory] Data Visualization   Nitesh V. Chawla (University of Notre Dame), [intermediate/advanced] Learning from Imbalanced Data   Amr El Abbadi (University of California, Santa Barbara), [introductory/intermediate] An Introduction to Blockchain   Charles Elkan (University of California, San Diego), [intermediate] A Rapid Introduction to Modern Deep Learning   Minos Garofalakis (Technical University of Crete), [intermediate/advanced] Private Data Analytics at Scale   Jiawei Han (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), [intermediate/advanced] From Unstructured Text to TextCube: Automated Construction and Multidimensional Exploration   Xiaohua Tony Hu (Drexel University), [introductory/advanced] Machine Learning Methods for Big Microbiome Data Analysis   Craig Knoblock (University of Southern California), [intermediate/advanced] Building Knowledge Graphs   Wladek Minor (University of Virginia), [introductory/advanced] Big Data in Biomedical Sciences   Bamshad Mobasher (DePaul University), [intermediate] Context-aware Recommender Systems   Jayanti Prasad (Embold Technologies), [introductory/intermediate] Big Code   Lior Rokach and Bracha Shapira (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev), [introductory/intermediate] Recommender Systems   Peter Rousseeuw (KU Leuven), [introductory] Anomaly Detection by Robust Methods   Asim Roy (Arizona State University), [intermediate] Hardware-based (GPU, FPGA based) Machine Learning That Exploits Massively Parallel Computing – An Overview of Concepts, Architectures and Neural Network Algorithm Implementation   Hanan Samet (University of Maryland), [introductory/intermediate] Sorting in Space: Multidimensional, Spatial, and Metric Data Structures for Applications in Spatial and Spatio-textual Databases, Geographic Information Systems (GIS), and Location-based Services   Rory Smith (Monash University), [introductory/intermediate] Learning from Data, the Bayesian Way   Jaideep Srivastava (University of Minnesota), [introductory/intermediate] Social Computing   Mayte Suárez-Fariñas (Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai), [intermediate/advanced] Meta-analysis Methods for High-dimensional Data   Jeffrey Ullman (Stanford University), [introductory] Big-data Algorithms That Aren't Machine Learning   Wil van der Aalst (RWTH Aachen University), [introductory/intermediate] Process Mining: A Very Different Kind of Machine Learning That Can Be Applied in Any Organization   OPEN SESSION   An open session will collect 5-minute voluntary presentations of work in progress by participants. They should submit a half-page abstract containing title, authors, and summary of the research to david at irdta.eu by January 5, 2020.   INDUSTRIAL SESSION:   A session will be devoted to 10-minute demonstrations of practical applications of big data in industry. Companies interested in contributing are welcome to submit a 1-page abstract containing the program of the demonstration and the logistics needed. People participating in the demonstration must register for the event. Expressions of interest have to be submitted to david at irdta.eu by January 5, 2020.   EMPLOYER SESSION:   Firms searching for personnel well skilled in big data will have a space reserved for one-to-one contacts. It is recommended to produce a 1-page .pdf leaflet with a brief description of the company and the profiles looked for, to be circulated among the participants prior to the event. People in charge of the search must register for the event. Expressions of interest have to be submitted to david at irdta.eu by January 5, 2020.   ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:   Emanuele Frontoni (Ancona, co-chair) Sara Morales (Brussels) Manuel J. Parra-Royón (Granada) David Silva (London, co-chair) Flavio Tonetto (Ancona, industrial chair) Domenico Ursino (Ancona, co-chair)   REGISTRATION:   It has to be done at   https://bigdat2020.irdta.eu/registration/   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 estimation of the respective demand for each course. During the event, participants will be free to attend the courses they wish.   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 is exhausted. It is highly recommended to register prior to the event.   FEES:   Fees comprise access to all courses and lunches. There are several early registration deadlines. Fees depend on the registration deadline.   ACCOMMODATION:   Suggestions for accommodation are available at   https://bigdat2020.irdta.eu/accommodation/   CERTIFICATE:   A certificate of successful participation in the event will be delivered indicating the number of hours of lectures.   QUESTIONS AND FURTHER INFORMATION:   david at irdta.eu   ACKNOWLEDGMENTS:   Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell'Informazione, Università Politecnica delle Marche   Institute for Research Development, Training and Advice (IRDTA) – Brussels/London   CONFINDUSTRIA Marche Nord   CINI AIIS National Lab   -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From announce at cs.ucy.ac.cy Thu Oct 24 11:11:34 2019 From: announce at cs.ucy.ac.cy (Announce Announcements) Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2019 12:11:34 +0300 Subject: [fg-arc] 14th International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science (RCIS 2020): Fourth Call for Papers Message-ID: *** Fourth Call for Papers *** 14th International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science (RCIS 2020) Royal Apollonia Beach Hotel 5*, Limassol, Cyprus May 20-22, 2020, Limassol, Cyprus http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=c2NlLmNhcmxldG9uLmNhICwJCQlmZy1hcmNAbGlzdHMudW5pLXBhZGVyYm9ybi5kZQkxNHRoIEludGVybmF0aW9uYWwgQ29uZmVyZW5jZSBvbiBSZXNlYXJjaCBDaGFsbGVuZ2VzIGluIEluZm9ybWF0aW9uIFNjaWVuY2UgKFJDSVMgMjAyMCk6IEZvdXJ0aCBDYWxsIGZvciBQYXBlcnMJNDM1CUxpc3RzCTE0MQljbGljawl5ZXMJbm8=&url=http%3A%2F%2Frcis-conf.com%2F Abstract submission deadline: January 20, 2020 Paper submission deadline: January 27, 2020 (AoE) (Proceedings to be published by Springer; Special Issue in DKE, Elsevier) SCOPE AND TOPICS RCIS aims to bring together scientists, researchers, engineers and practitioners from a wide range of information science fields and to provide opportunities for knowledge sharing and dissemination. RCIS 2020 will continue paying attention to traditional topics at the conference; in addition, we solicit submissions aligned the special theme of Information Science in the Days of Artificial Intelligence. We understand AI in a broad sense, including machine learning, self-adaptation, logic-based reasoning, automation, agents and multiagent systems, natural language processing, etc. RCIS welcomes submissions from the whole spectrum of the information science field. The list of themes and topics includes, but is not limited to: Information Systems and their Engineering · Requirements Engineering · Software Testing · Information Security and Risk · Method Engineering User-Oriented Approaches · Social Computing and Social Network Analysis · User-Centred Design · Collaborative Computing · Human Factors in Information Systems Data and Information Management · Databases and Information · Information Search and Discovery · Conceptual Modelling and Ontologies Business Process Management · Business Process Engineering and Reengineering · Process Mining · Enterprise Engineering Domain-specific IS Engineering · E-Health, e-Government, e-Commerce, ... · Industry 4.0 · Web-Based Applications and Services · Smart Cities Data Science · Big Data & Business Analytics · Decision Information Systems · Knowledge Management · Knowledge Discovery from Data Information Infrastructures · Cyber-Physical Systems · Web Information Systems · Grid Computing and Cloud Computing · Internet of Things · Pervasive and Mobile Computing Reflective Research and Practice · Research Methodologies in Information Science · Impact of Information on the Enterprise and the Individual · Lifecycle Models · Design Science and Rationale Tutorials, Doctoral Consortium, Posters & Demos will complement the main conference. SUBMISSION PROCESS Papers shall be formatted according to the Springer LNCS/LNBIP conference proceedings template (for LaTeX and Word): http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=c2NlLmNhcmxldG9uLmNhICwJCQlmZy1hcmNAbGlzdHMudW5pLXBhZGVyYm9ybi5kZQkxNHRoIEludGVybmF0aW9uYWwgQ29uZmVyZW5jZSBvbiBSZXNlYXJjaCBDaGFsbGVuZ2VzIGluIEluZm9ybWF0aW9uIFNjaWVuY2UgKFJDSVMgMjAyMCk6IEZvdXJ0aCBDYWxsIGZvciBQYXBlcnMJNDM1CUxpc3RzCTE0MQljbGljawl5ZXMJbm8=&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.springer.com%2Fgp%2Fcomputer-science%2Flncs%2Fconference-proceedings-guidelines . Papers that have already been accepted or are currently under review for other conferences or journals will not be considered for publication at RCIS 2020. Papers should be in English and must be associated to one of the following categories: Technical solution papers (max 16 pages Springer) present solutions that are novel or significantly improve existing approaches. A technical solution paper must include a preliminary validation of the proposed solution, and results must be stated clearly enough so that it is possible to validate them in follow-up research. Evaluation papers (max 16 pages Springer) evaluate existing problem situations or validate proposed solutions through scientific means, i.e., by empirical studies, experiments, case studies, simulations, mathematical proofs, etc. The research method must be sound and appropriate. Industrial practice and experience papers (max 16 pages Springer) thoroughly present problems or challenges encountered in practice, elaborate on success or failure with existing approaches, or report on industrial practice (e.g., methods and tools). A paper in this category shall provide a clear context, detail the problem or the industrial practice, and explain the lessons learned. Work in progress papers (max 8 pages Springer) present relevant preliminary results across the spectrum of information science. These papers can either present a novel technical solution, or report on a preliminary evaluation of a technique. Please note that the maximum length of the paper includes references, appendices, etc. The submission site is http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=c2NlLmNhcmxldG9uLmNhICwJCQlmZy1hcmNAbGlzdHMudW5pLXBhZGVyYm9ybi5kZQkxNHRoIEludGVybmF0aW9uYWwgQ29uZmVyZW5jZSBvbiBSZXNlYXJjaCBDaGFsbGVuZ2VzIGluIEluZm9ybWF0aW9uIFNjaWVuY2UgKFJDSVMgMjAyMCk6IEZvdXJ0aCBDYWxsIGZvciBQYXBlcnMJNDM1CUxpc3RzCTE0MQljbGljawl5ZXMJbm8=&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.easychair.org%2Fconferences%2F%3Fconf%3Drcis2020 . By submitting a paper, the authors agree that at least one of them will register to the conference and present the paper. The appearance of a paper in the Springer proceedings is dependent on the registration of one author within the early registration deadline on March 31, 2020. SPECIAL ISSUE A selection of the best accepted papers of RCIS'20, chosen by a dedicated committee, will be invited to submit an extended version of the RCIS paper to the Data & Knowledge Engineering (DKE) journal published by Elsevier (https://www.journals.elsevier.com/data-and-knowledge-engineering). The selection of the papers to invite will be based on the review scores and arguments, and the potential for extension. IMPORTANT DATES · Regular paper submission deadline: January 27, 2020 (AoE) · Notification to authors and registration opening: March 15, 2020 · Author registration deadline for all paper types: March 31, 2020 · Camera-ready copy deadline for all paper types: March 31, 2020 · Conference: May 20-22, 2020 CONFERENCE COMMITTEES Steering Committee · Saïd Assar, Institut Mines-Telecom Business School, France · Marko Bajec,University of Ljubljana, Slovenia · Pericles Loucopoulos, Manchester University, University Kingdom · Haralambos Moratidis, University of Brighton, United Kingdom · Selmin Nurcan, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France · Oscar Pastor, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain · Jolita Ralyté, CUI, University of Geneva, Suisse · Colette Rolland, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France General Chairs · George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus · Pericles Loucopoulos, Harokopio University of Athens, Greece Organising Chair · Petros Stratis, Easy Conferences LTD., Cyprus Program Chairs · Jelena Zdravkovic, Stockholm University, Sweden · Fabiano Dalpiaz, Utrecht University, Netherlands Doctoral Consortium Chairs · Raian Ali, Bournemouth University, United Kingdom · Sergio España, Utrecht University, Netherlands Tutorial Chairs · Estefania Serral Asensio, KU Leuven, Belgium · Ignacio Panach, University of Valencia, Spain Posters & Demos Chairs · Elena Kornyshova, Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers, France · Marcela Ruiz, Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From fioretto.ferdinando at isye.gatech.edu Thu Oct 31 21:30:16 2019 From: fioretto.ferdinando at isye.gatech.edu (Fioretto, Ferdinando) Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2019 20:30:16 +0000 Subject: [fg-arc] CFP: The AAAI-20 Workshop on Privacy-Preserving Artificial Intelligence Message-ID: <99B80A60-59E5-40D2-B379-BF51A096E651@gatech.edu> Apologies for cross-posting - Please forward to anybody who might be interested The AAAI-20 Workshop on Privacy-Preserving Artificial Intelligence The availability of massive amounts of data, coupled with high-performance cloud computing platforms, has driven significant progress in artificial intelligence and, in particular, machine learning and optimization. Indeed, much scientific and technological growth in recent years, including in computer vision, natural language processing, transportation, and health, has been driven by large-scale data sets which provide a strong basis to improve existing algorithms and develop new ones. However, due to their large-scale and longitudinal collection, archiving these data sets raise significant privacy concerns. They often reveal sensitive personal information that can be exploited, without the knowledge and/or consent of the involved individuals, for various purposes including monitoring, discrimination, and illegal activities. The goal of the AAAI-20 Workshop on Privacy-Preserving Artificial Intelligence is to provide a platform for researchers to discuss problems and present solutions related to privacy issues arising within AI applications. The workshop will focus on both theoretical and practical challenges arising in the design of privacy-preserving AI systems and algorithms. It will place particular emphasis on algorithmic approaches to protect data privacy in the context of learning, optimization, and decision making that raise fundamental challenges for existing technologies. Additionally, it will welcome algorithms and frameworks to release privacy-preserving benchmarks and datasets. Topics We invite paper submissions on the following (and related) topics: • Applications of privacy-preserving AI systems • Architectures and privacy-preserving learning protocols • Constrained-based approaches to privacy • Differential privacy: theory and applications • Distributed privacy-preserving algorithms • Human-aware private algorithms • Incentive mechanisms and game theory • Privacy-preserving machine learning • Privacy-preserving algorithms for medical applications • Privacy-preserving algorithms for temporal data • Privacy-preserving test cases and benchmarks • Privacy and policy-making • Secure multi-party computation • Secret sharing techniques • Trade-offs between privacy and utility Position, perspective, and vision papers are also welcome. Finally, the workshop will welcome papers that describe the release of privacy-preserving benchmarks and datasets that can be used by the community to solve fundamental problems of interest, including in machine learning and optimization for health systems and urban networks, to mention but a few examples. Important Dates • November 15, 2019 – Submission Deadline • December 4, 2019 – Acceptance Notification • February 7 or 8, 2020 – Workshop Date (Full day) Format The workshop will be a full-day and will include a mix of invited speakers, peer-reviewed papers (talks and poster sessions) and will conclude with a panel discussion. Attendance Attendance is open to all. At least one author of each accepted submission must be present at the workshop. Submission Submission URL: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ppai20 Submissions of technical papers can be up to 7 pages excluding references and appendices. Short or position papers of up to 4 pages are also welcome. All papers must be submitted in PDF format, using the AAAI-20 author kit. Papers will be peer-reviewed and selected for oral and/or poster presentation at the workshop. Workshop Chairs • Ferdinando Fioretto (Georgia Institute of Technology) • Pascal Van Hentenryck (Georgia Institute of Technology) • Rachel Cummings (Georgia Institute of Technology) Workshop Committee • Aws Albarghouthi - University of Wisconsin-Madison • Carsten Baum - Bar Ilan University • Aurélien Bellet - INRIA • Elette Boyle - Technion • Mark Bun - Boston University • Kamalika Chaudhuri - University of California San Diego • Graham Cormode - The University of Warwick • Marco Gaboardi - Boston University • Antti Honkela - University of Helsinki • Peter Kairouz - Google AI • Kim Laine - Microsoft • Audra McMillan - Northeastern University • Sebastian Meiser - University College London • Ilya Mironov - Google • Aleksandar Nikolov - University of Toronto • Kobbi Nissim - Georgetown University • Catuscia Palamidessi - INRIA • Reza Shokri - National University of Singapore • Jonathan Ullman - Northeastern University • Xiao Wang - Northwestern University Workshop URL: https://www2.isye.gatech.edu/~fferdinando3/cfp/PPAI20 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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