From announce at cs.ucy.ac.cy Tue Dec 1 14:54:13 2020 From: announce at cs.ucy.ac.cy (Announce Announcements) Date: Tue, 1 Dec 2020 15:54:13 +0200 Subject: [fg-arc] 15th International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science (RCIS 2021): Second Joint Call for Doctoral Consortium, Posters & Demos, Research Projects and Tutorials Message-ID: *** Second Joint Call for Doctoral Consortium, Posters & Demos, Research Projects and Tutorials *** 15th International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science (RCIS 2021) May 12-14, 2021, Royal Apollonia Beach Hotel 5*, Limassol, Cyprus http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=c2NlLmNhcmxldG9uLmNhICwJCQlmZy1hcmNAbGlzdHMudW5pLXBhZGVyYm9ybi5kZQkxNXRoIEludGVybmF0aW9uYWwgQ29uZmVyZW5jZSBvbiBSZXNlYXJjaCBDaGFsbGVuZ2VzIGluIEluZm9ybWF0aW9uIFNjaWVuY2UgKFJDSVMgMjAyMSk6IFNlY29uZCBKb2ludCBDYWxsIGZvciBEb2N0b3JhbCBDb25zb3J0aXVtLCBQb3N0ZXJzICYgRGVtb3MsIFJlc2VhcmNoIFByb2plY3RzIGFuZCBUdXRvcmlhbHMJNTE0CUxpc3RzCTEyOAljbGljawl5ZXMJbm8=&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.rcis-conf.com%2Frcis2021%2F Submission deadline (except tutorials): February 9, 2021 (AoE) Submission deadline only for tutorials: March 19, 2021 (AoE) (Proceedings to be published by Springer) RCIS has become a recognized conference on research challenges in Information Science. Organized for the 15th time in a row, RCIS 2021 will be held from May 12-14, 2021, in Limassol, Cyprus. The topics of interest are organized into some major categories (more details in the call for papers http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=c2NlLmNhcmxldG9uLmNhICwJCQlmZy1hcmNAbGlzdHMudW5pLXBhZGVyYm9ybi5kZQkxNXRoIEludGVybmF0aW9uYWwgQ29uZmVyZW5jZSBvbiBSZXNlYXJjaCBDaGFsbGVuZ2VzIGluIEluZm9ybWF0aW9uIFNjaWVuY2UgKFJDSVMgMjAyMSk6IFNlY29uZCBKb2ludCBDYWxsIGZvciBEb2N0b3JhbCBDb25zb3J0aXVtLCBQb3N0ZXJzICYgRGVtb3MsIFJlc2VhcmNoIFByb2plY3RzIGFuZCBUdXRvcmlhbHMJNTE0CUxpc3RzCTEyOAljbGljawl5ZXMJbm8=&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.rcis-conf.com%2Frcis2021%2FcallPapers.php): · Information Systems and their Engineering · User-Oriented Approaches · Data and Information Management · Business Process Management · Domain-specific IS Engineering · Data Science · Information Infrastructures · Reflective Research and Practice IMPORTANT DATES FOR ALL SATELLITE EVENTS · Submission deadline (except tutorials): February 9, 2021 (AoE) · Submission deadline for tutorial proposals: March 19, 2021 (AoE) · Notification to authors and registration opening: March 12, 2021 · Notification for tutorial proposals: March 22, 2021 · Author registration deadline for all paper types: March 29, 2021 · Camera-ready copy deadline for all paper types: March 29, 2021 · Conference: May 12-14, 2021 DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM The RCIS 2021 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 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. Interested PhD students are invited to submit papers, in agreement with their supervisors, addressing the instructions that are provided on the online call: http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=c2NlLmNhcmxldG9uLmNhICwJCQlmZy1hcmNAbGlzdHMudW5pLXBhZGVyYm9ybi5kZQkxNXRoIEludGVybmF0aW9uYWwgQ29uZmVyZW5jZSBvbiBSZXNlYXJjaCBDaGFsbGVuZ2VzIGluIEluZm9ybWF0aW9uIFNjaWVuY2UgKFJDSVMgMjAyMSk6IFNlY29uZCBKb2ludCBDYWxsIGZvciBEb2N0b3JhbCBDb25zb3J0aXVtLCBQb3N0ZXJzICYgRGVtb3MsIFJlc2VhcmNoIFByb2plY3RzIGFuZCBUdXRvcmlhbHMJNTE0CUxpc3RzCTEyOAljbGljawl5ZXMJbm8=&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.rcis-conf.com%2Frcis2021%2FcallDoctoral.php . 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=c2NlLmNhcmxldG9uLmNhICwJCQlmZy1hcmNAbGlzdHMudW5pLXBhZGVyYm9ybi5kZQkxNXRoIEludGVybmF0aW9uYWwgQ29uZmVyZW5jZSBvbiBSZXNlYXJjaCBDaGFsbGVuZ2VzIGluIEluZm9ybWF0aW9uIFNjaWVuY2UgKFJDSVMgMjAyMSk6IFNlY29uZCBKb2ludCBDYWxsIGZvciBEb2N0b3JhbCBDb25zb3J0aXVtLCBQb3N0ZXJzICYgRGVtb3MsIFJlc2VhcmNoIFByb2plY3RzIGFuZCBUdXRvcmlhbHMJNTE0CUxpc3RzCTEyOAljbGljawl5ZXMJbm8=&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. The submission site address is http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=c2NlLmNhcmxldG9uLmNhICwJCQlmZy1hcmNAbGlzdHMudW5pLXBhZGVyYm9ybi5kZQkxNXRoIEludGVybmF0aW9uYWwgQ29uZmVyZW5jZSBvbiBSZXNlYXJjaCBDaGFsbGVuZ2VzIGluIEluZm9ybWF0aW9uIFNjaWVuY2UgKFJDSVMgMjAyMSk6IFNlY29uZCBKb2ludCBDYWxsIGZvciBEb2N0b3JhbCBDb25zb3J0aXVtLCBQb3N0ZXJzICYgRGVtb3MsIFJlc2VhcmNoIFByb2plY3RzIGFuZCBUdXRvcmlhbHMJNTE0CUxpc3RzCTEyOAljbGljawl5ZXMJbm8=&url=https%3A%2F%2Feasychair.org%2Fmy%2Fconference%3Fconf%3Drcis2021 where you can choose the "RCIS2021_Doctoral_Consortium" track. Doctoral Consortium Chairs · Xavier Franch, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain · Renata Guizzardi, University of Twente, The Netherlands Doctoral Consortium Student Co-Chair · Blagovesta Kostova, EPFL, Switzerland POSTERS AND DEMOS The posters & demos track will 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. Posters and demonstrations proposals must be submitted as a single PDF file with no more than 6 pages in Springer LNCS/LNBIP format (http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=c2NlLmNhcmxldG9uLmNhICwJCQlmZy1hcmNAbGlzdHMudW5pLXBhZGVyYm9ybi5kZQkxNXRoIEludGVybmF0aW9uYWwgQ29uZmVyZW5jZSBvbiBSZXNlYXJjaCBDaGFsbGVuZ2VzIGluIEluZm9ybWF0aW9uIFNjaWVuY2UgKFJDSVMgMjAyMSk6IFNlY29uZCBKb2ludCBDYWxsIGZvciBEb2N0b3JhbCBDb25zb3J0aXVtLCBQb3N0ZXJzICYgRGVtb3MsIFJlc2VhcmNoIFByb2plY3RzIGFuZCBUdXRvcmlhbHMJNTE0CUxpc3RzCTEyOAljbGljawl5ZXMJbm8=&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.springer.com%2Fgp%2Fcomputer-science%2Flncs%2Fconference-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 2021. The submission site address is http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=c2NlLmNhcmxldG9uLmNhICwJCQlmZy1hcmNAbGlzdHMudW5pLXBhZGVyYm9ybi5kZQkxNXRoIEludGVybmF0aW9uYWwgQ29uZmVyZW5jZSBvbiBSZXNlYXJjaCBDaGFsbGVuZ2VzIGluIEluZm9ybWF0aW9uIFNjaWVuY2UgKFJDSVMgMjAyMSk6IFNlY29uZCBKb2ludCBDYWxsIGZvciBEb2N0b3JhbCBDb25zb3J0aXVtLCBQb3N0ZXJzICYgRGVtb3MsIFJlc2VhcmNoIFByb2plY3RzIGFuZCBUdXRvcmlhbHMJNTE0CUxpc3RzCTEyOAljbGljawl5ZXMJbm8=&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.rcis-conf.com%2Frcis2021%2F where you can choose the "RCIS2021 Posters & Demos" track. More details on the submission and presentation format is online: http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=c2NlLmNhcmxldG9uLmNhICwJCQlmZy1hcmNAbGlzdHMudW5pLXBhZGVyYm9ybi5kZQkxNXRoIEludGVybmF0aW9uYWwgQ29uZmVyZW5jZSBvbiBSZXNlYXJjaCBDaGFsbGVuZ2VzIGluIEluZm9ybWF0aW9uIFNjaWVuY2UgKFJDSVMgMjAyMSk6IFNlY29uZCBKb2ludCBDYWxsIGZvciBEb2N0b3JhbCBDb25zb3J0aXVtLCBQb3N0ZXJzICYgRGVtb3MsIFJlc2VhcmNoIFByb2plY3RzIGFuZCBUdXRvcmlhbHMJNTE0CUxpc3RzCTEyOAljbGljawl5ZXMJbm8=&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.rcis-conf.com%2Frcis2021%2FcallPostersDemo.php . Posters & Demos Chairs · Dominik Bork, TU Wien, Austria · Giovanni Meroni, Politecnico di Milano, Italy RESEARCH PROJECTS @RCIS RCIS 2021 features a track entirely devoted to presenting future or ongoing research projects (e.g., H2020 or ERC projects, national grants) in the context of information science. This track features a good opportunity for presenters to get feedback before submitting research project or to disseminate the intermediate results of their projects, and for participants to get an updated view of innovative ongoing research while getting in touch with potential research partners. The Research Projects @RCIS Track follows a two-step publication process. Firstly, the authors should submit a 2 pages paper summarizing the objectives of the project and relevant results. Each submission will be peer reviewed on the relevance of the submitted paper in the context of RCIS. If the paper is accepted, the authors will have to register to the conference in order to present their work as a poster at the "Research Projects @ RCIS" session at RCIS. A discussant system will be organized to ensure proper feedback and discussions about the projects. Furthermore, the accepted 2 pages paper will be published in the conference proceedings to be published by Springer in the LNBIP series. Beyond the special topic for RCIS 2021, the conference welcomes Research Projects submissions from any domain of Information Science. More information about the special topic and the range of topics that RCIS traditionally addresses can be found in: http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=c2NlLmNhcmxldG9uLmNhICwJCQlmZy1hcmNAbGlzdHMudW5pLXBhZGVyYm9ybi5kZQkxNXRoIEludGVybmF0aW9uYWwgQ29uZmVyZW5jZSBvbiBSZXNlYXJjaCBDaGFsbGVuZ2VzIGluIEluZm9ybWF0aW9uIFNjaWVuY2UgKFJDSVMgMjAyMSk6IFNlY29uZCBKb2ludCBDYWxsIGZvciBEb2N0b3JhbCBDb25zb3J0aXVtLCBQb3N0ZXJzICYgRGVtb3MsIFJlc2VhcmNoIFByb2plY3RzIGFuZCBUdXRvcmlhbHMJNTE0CUxpc3RzCTEyOAljbGljawl5ZXMJbm8=&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.rcis-conf.com%2Frcis2021%2FcallPapers.php . The submission site address is http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=c2NlLmNhcmxldG9uLmNhICwJCQlmZy1hcmNAbGlzdHMudW5pLXBhZGVyYm9ybi5kZQkxNXRoIEludGVybmF0aW9uYWwgQ29uZmVyZW5jZSBvbiBSZXNlYXJjaCBDaGFsbGVuZ2VzIGluIEluZm9ybWF0aW9uIFNjaWVuY2UgKFJDSVMgMjAyMSk6IFNlY29uZCBKb2ludCBDYWxsIGZvciBEb2N0b3JhbCBDb25zb3J0aXVtLCBQb3N0ZXJzICYgRGVtb3MsIFJlc2VhcmNoIFByb2plY3RzIGFuZCBUdXRvcmlhbHMJNTE0CUxpc3RzCTEyOAljbGljawl5ZXMJbm8=&url=https%3A%2F%2Feasychair.org%2Fmy%2Fconference%3Fconf%3Drcis2021 where you can choose the "ResearchProjects at RCIS2021" track. More information about preparing and submitting contributions related to this track can be found here: http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=c2NlLmNhcmxldG9uLmNhICwJCQlmZy1hcmNAbGlzdHMudW5pLXBhZGVyYm9ybi5kZQkxNXRoIEludGVybmF0aW9uYWwgQ29uZmVyZW5jZSBvbiBSZXNlYXJjaCBDaGFsbGVuZ2VzIGluIEluZm9ybWF0aW9uIFNjaWVuY2UgKFJDSVMgMjAyMSk6IFNlY29uZCBKb2ludCBDYWxsIGZvciBEb2N0b3JhbCBDb25zb3J0aXVtLCBQb3N0ZXJzICYgRGVtb3MsIFJlc2VhcmNoIFByb2plY3RzIGFuZCBUdXRvcmlhbHMJNTE0CUxpc3RzCTEyOAljbGljawl5ZXMJbm8=&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.rcis-conf.com%2Frcis2021%2FresearchProjects.php . Research Projects @RCIS Chairs · Denisse Muñante, Télécom SudParis, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, France · Anthony Simonofski, UNamur and KU Leuven, Belgium TUTORIALS Tutorials are intended to provide independent instruction (know-how) on a topic of relevance for the RCIS academic and practitioner community. However, we discourage commercial or sales-oriented tutorials. Potential presenters should keep in mind that there might be a varied audience, including novice graduate students, seasoned practitioners, and specialised researchers. Tutorial speakers should be prepared to cope with this diversity. The conference has specific slots for tutorials. They will be organised in sessions of 90 minutes with a free format. Tutorials run in parallel with other conference tracks, and participation in the tutorials 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. A 2-page summary of the tutorials that end up being accepted and delivered will be published in the conference proceedings, which will be published by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing series. Furthermore, a free registration for the conference will be offered to the main presenter (i.e. to one speaker), unless they are the only paying author of a paper presented at the conference. Beyond the special topic for RCIS 2021, the conference welcomes tutorial proposals from any domain of Information Science. More information about the special topic and the range of topics that RCIS traditionally addresses can be found in: http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=c2NlLmNhcmxldG9uLmNhICwJCQlmZy1hcmNAbGlzdHMudW5pLXBhZGVyYm9ybi5kZQkxNXRoIEludGVybmF0aW9uYWwgQ29uZmVyZW5jZSBvbiBSZXNlYXJjaCBDaGFsbGVuZ2VzIGluIEluZm9ybWF0aW9uIFNjaWVuY2UgKFJDSVMgMjAyMSk6IFNlY29uZCBKb2ludCBDYWxsIGZvciBEb2N0b3JhbCBDb25zb3J0aXVtLCBQb3N0ZXJzICYgRGVtb3MsIFJlc2VhcmNoIFByb2plY3RzIGFuZCBUdXRvcmlhbHMJNTE0CUxpc3RzCTEyOAljbGljawl5ZXMJbm8=&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.rcis-conf.com%2Frcis2021%2FcallPapers.php . Tutorial proposals are limited to 5 pages in Springer LNCS/LNBIP format and should 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=c2NlLmNhcmxldG9uLmNhICwJCQlmZy1hcmNAbGlzdHMudW5pLXBhZGVyYm9ybi5kZQkxNXRoIEludGVybmF0aW9uYWwgQ29uZmVyZW5jZSBvbiBSZXNlYXJjaCBDaGFsbGVuZ2VzIGluIEluZm9ybWF0aW9uIFNjaWVuY2UgKFJDSVMgMjAyMSk6IFNlY29uZCBKb2ludCBDYWxsIGZvciBEb2N0b3JhbCBDb25zb3J0aXVtLCBQb3N0ZXJzICYgRGVtb3MsIFJlc2VhcmNoIFByb2plY3RzIGFuZCBUdXRvcmlhbHMJNTE0CUxpc3RzCTEyOAljbGljawl5ZXMJbm8=&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.springer.com%2Fgp%2Fcomputer-science%2Flncs%2Fconference-proceedings-guidelines . The submission site address is http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=c2NlLmNhcmxldG9uLmNhICwJCQlmZy1hcmNAbGlzdHMudW5pLXBhZGVyYm9ybi5kZQkxNXRoIEludGVybmF0aW9uYWwgQ29uZmVyZW5jZSBvbiBSZXNlYXJjaCBDaGFsbGVuZ2VzIGluIEluZm9ybWF0aW9uIFNjaWVuY2UgKFJDSVMgMjAyMSk6IFNlY29uZCBKb2ludCBDYWxsIGZvciBEb2N0b3JhbCBDb25zb3J0aXVtLCBQb3N0ZXJzICYgRGVtb3MsIFJlc2VhcmNoIFByb2plY3RzIGFuZCBUdXRvcmlhbHMJNTE0CUxpc3RzCTEyOAljbGljawl5ZXMJbm8=&url=https%3A%2F%2Feasychair.org%2Fmy%2Fconference%3Fconf%3Drcis2021 where you can choose the "RCIS2021_Tutorials" track. More information about preparing and submitting contributions related to this track can be found here: http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=c2NlLmNhcmxldG9uLmNhICwJCQlmZy1hcmNAbGlzdHMudW5pLXBhZGVyYm9ybi5kZQkxNXRoIEludGVybmF0aW9uYWwgQ29uZmVyZW5jZSBvbiBSZXNlYXJjaCBDaGFsbGVuZ2VzIGluIEluZm9ybWF0aW9uIFNjaWVuY2UgKFJDSVMgMjAyMSk6IFNlY29uZCBKb2ludCBDYWxsIGZvciBEb2N0b3JhbCBDb25zb3J0aXVtLCBQb3N0ZXJzICYgRGVtb3MsIFJlc2VhcmNoIFByb2plY3RzIGFuZCBUdXRvcmlhbHMJNTE0CUxpc3RzCTEyOAljbGljawl5ZXMJbm8=&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.rcis-conf.com%2Frcis2021%2Ftutorials.php . Tutorial Chairs · Sergio España, Utrecht University, The Netherlands · Patricia Martín-Rodilla, University of A Coruna, Spain CONFERENCE COMMITTEES General Chairs · George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus · Selmin Nurcan, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France Organising Chair · Petros Stratis, Easy Conferences LTD., Cyprus Program Chairs · Samira Cherfi, CNAM, France · Anna Perini, FBK, Italy Proceedings Chair · Raihana Ferdous, FBK, Italy -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From sauer at uni-paderborn.de Mon Dec 7 09:54:42 2020 From: sauer at uni-paderborn.de (Stefan Sauer) Date: Mon, 7 Dec 2020 09:54:42 +0100 Subject: [fg-arc] ICSSP/ICGSE 2021 - Call for Papers Message-ID: ICSSP/ICGSE 2021 Joint 15th International Conference on Software and System Processes (ICSSP) and 16th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Global Software Engineering (ICGSE) To be held online, May 17-19, 2021 https://conf.researchr.org/home/icssp-icgse-2021 Co-located with ICSE 2021. "New work styles require new ideas: Adapting software processes and human behaviors" In March 2020, the world was brought to a halt caused by the pandemic. As highlighted by the UN, the COVID-19 pandemic is far more than a health crisis, it is affecting societies and economies at their core. Most countries are in recession, leading not only to just temporarily postponed recruitments and growth, but also to drastic job cuts. Large number of companies in different sectors have sent their employees to work from home, with the effects of the forced remote work yet to be understood. The pandemic has also created the largest disruption of education systems in history. Immediate development responses in this crisis must be undertaken with an eye to the future and development trajectories in the long-term have to be considered. In response, a rapidly growing body of research is exploring and overcoming many of these challenges. ============================================================ CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS ============================================================ Submissions are invited for unpublished original work in the following categories: * Research papers - full papers (10 pages) and short papers (5 pages). Two more pages containing only references are permitted. * Experience reports - by industry (5 pages) * Industry talks - by industry (2 slides summary) * Doctoral track- please see Doctoral CFP * Journal first - original works published only on Journal, but never presented in a conference. Further information on the requirements for submissions in the respective categories can be found on the conference website. Topics of interest: ICSSP/ICGSE 2021 welcomes submissions addressing the yearly theme and beyond. Our topics of interest include: Methods and Processes o Emerging processes supporting remote work (e.g. remote pair and mob programming) o Agile methods in co-located and distributed companies, projects and teams o Large-scale agile o Lean development o DevOps o Hybrid processes o Open source software development o Crowdsourcing o AI for supporting software and systems processes o Software and systems processes for developing AI-based systems o Software representation and design (architectures, components and services) o General software process related studies and research projects o Empirical studies and experiences Human Aspects of Distributed Development o Human-centered and participatory processes o Diversity and inclusion o Communication, coordination, and collaboration o Team building o Trust and social relationships o Newcomers' onboarding and socialization Business Strategy o Business models o Economics o Hiring in global settings o Strategic issues o Supplier management o Evolution or transformation of organizations o Business continuity Emerging Technologies for Supporting Software Process and Collaboration o Collaboration tools and platforms o ALM/PLM for distributed teams o Infrastructure for remote work o Social media support o Remote working in teams o Augmented, virtual, and extended reality (AR/VR/XR) o Low-code development practices o Quantum programming and software engineering Education and Training o Educational studies o Software process management (SPM) or GSE curricula o Lessons learned on SPM or GSE courses ============================================================ IMPORTANT DATES ============================================================ Abstract Submission (Research Papers, Experience Reports): Jan 05, 2021 Paper Submission (Research Papers, Experience Reports, Extended Abstracts for Industry Talks): Jan 12, 2021 Research-Plan Submission (Doctoral Consortium): Jan 29, 2021 Journal-First Submission: Jan 31, 2021 Notification (all tracks except Doctoral Consortium): Feb 22, 2021 Notification for Doctoral Consortium: Mar 5, 2021 Camera Ready (all tracks): Mar 22, 2021 For more information on dates regarding Journal First, Experience Reports, and Industry Talks, visit our website. =================================================== PROCEEDINGS =================================================== The proceedings will be published as part of the ICSE 2021 proceedings by IEEE Conference Publishing Services (IEEE CPS) under the copyright of IEEE. 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Name: OpenPGP_signature Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 840 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: From announce at cs.ucy.ac.cy Sat Dec 5 13:47:46 2020 From: announce at cs.ucy.ac.cy (Announce Announcements) Date: Sat, 5 Dec 2020 14:47:46 +0200 Subject: [fg-arc] First International Conference on ICT for Health, Accessibility and Wellbeing (IHAW 2021): First Call for Papers Message-ID: *** First Call for Papers *** First International Conference on ICT for Health, Accessibility and Wellbeing (IHAW 2021) November 8-10, 2021, Golden Bay Hotel 5*, Larnaca, Cyprus http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=c2NlLmNhcmxldG9uLmNhICwJCQlmZy1hcmNAbGlzdHMudW5pLXBhZGVyYm9ybi5kZQlGaXJzdCBJbnRlcm5hdGlvbmFsIENvbmZlcmVuY2Ugb24gSUNUIGZvciBIZWFsdGgsIEFjY2Vzc2liaWxpdHkgYW5kIFdlbGxiZWluZyAoSUhBVyAyMDIxKTogRmlyc3QgQ2FsbCBmb3IgUGFwZXJzCTUxOAlMaXN0cwkxMjcJY2xpY2sJeWVzCW5v&url=http%3A%2F%2Fcyprusconferences.org%2Fihaw2021%2F (Proceedings to be published by Springer) ICT for Health, Accessibility and Wellbeing (IHAW 2021) is the first of the series of International Conferences on "ICT for Societal Challenges". It is a showcase for high quality oral and poster presentations and demonstrations sessions. This conference aims to be a platform for multi and interdisciplinary research at the interplay between Information and Communication Technologies, Biomedical, Neuro-cognitive, and Experimental research. This research includes the design, experimental evaluation and standardization of new ICT scalable systems and in-silico systems for new and future inclusive and sustainable technologies that benefit all: healthy people, people with disabilities or other impairments, people having chronic diseases, etc. User-centered design and innovation, new intuitive ways of human -computer interaction, and user acceptance are the topics of particular interest. Conference Topics Relevant topics include (but are not limited to) the following: · AI and Cognition, Cognitive Mechatronics, Human-Machine Interaction, Cobotics, Model-based design and configuration tools for healthcare and well-being, AI methods for medical device testing · Systems for management of health and care (mental health, pain, neurological disorders, sight, hearing, balance, space awareness; sensory based physiological and psychological non-invasive measurements, preventive healthcare, m-healthcare, e-healthcare, integrated care, serious games, electronic health record, self-management, patient-centered systems for survivorship, palliation and/or end-of-life care) · Precision medicine · ICT for in-silico trials · Implantable medical devices · Computational methods for medical device · Models for human-device interaction for medicine · Systems promoting access to the socio-economical and cultural environment · Age-friendly systems for active and healthy aging (telepresence, robotics solutions, innovative solutions for independent living, innovative elderly care, integrated care, age-related risks prevention/detection) · Multimodal assistive ICT devices to empower people with sensory, cognitive, motor, balance and spatial impairments · ICT systems to improve the quality of life and for daily life activities assistance (education, recreation, and nutrition) · Smart living homes and wearables (Intelligent and personalized digital solutions for sustaining and extending healthy and independent living; personalized early risk detection and intervention) · New experimental validation methods with end-users · Standardization, certification, labeling, privacy, security and communication issues (related to aging well, to sensory impairment) High-quality original submissions that address such future issues, show the design and evaluation in (near-) real scenarios, explain how to benchmark systems, and outline the education and training procedures for acquiring new perceptual skills while using such systems are welcome. Research and technical papers are expected to present significant and original contributions validated with the targeted end-users. Early works and works- in-progress are invited to submit a short or demo paper. Submissions should clearly state the progress beyond the existing state-of- the-art and the expected societal benefits of the developed technology. When possible, validate scenarios with the target user groups and well-identified technology readiness levels (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technology_readiness_level) should be at least outlined. Submissions We invite three types of paper submissions: 1. Research and Technical papers, up to 15 pages, describing original unpublished research, making a substantial contribution to the research field 2. Short papers, up to 6 pages, describing original unpublished research, making a small but solid contribution to the field 3. Demos, up to 4 pages, describing innovative tools that address topics relevant to the conference All submissions will be reviewed by the Program Committee. Accepted contributions will appear in the archival proceedings of IHAW 2021, published by Springer in the Communications in Computer and Information Science (CCIS) series (https://www.springer.com/series/7899), and will be presented in plenary sessions of the conference. The authors of the best papers accepted for IHAW2021 will be invited to submit extended versions for a journal special issue (currently under negotiation). Submissions of all types should be carefully formatted according to the Springer format for conference proceedings: http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=c2NlLmNhcmxldG9uLmNhICwJCQlmZy1hcmNAbGlzdHMudW5pLXBhZGVyYm9ybi5kZQlGaXJzdCBJbnRlcm5hdGlvbmFsIENvbmZlcmVuY2Ugb24gSUNUIGZvciBIZWFsdGgsIEFjY2Vzc2liaWxpdHkgYW5kIFdlbGxiZWluZyAoSUhBVyAyMDIxKTogRmlyc3QgQ2FsbCBmb3IgUGFwZXJzCTUxOAlMaXN0cwkxMjcJY2xpY2sJeWVzCW5v&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.springer.com%2Fgp%2Fcomputer-science%2Flncs%2Fconference-proceedings-guidelines and should specify on the first page the type of submission ("R&T", "Short", "Demo"). The submission process will be handled through Easy Chair and the submission link is: http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=c2NlLmNhcmxldG9uLmNhICwJCQlmZy1hcmNAbGlzdHMudW5pLXBhZGVyYm9ybi5kZQlGaXJzdCBJbnRlcm5hdGlvbmFsIENvbmZlcmVuY2Ugb24gSUNUIGZvciBIZWFsdGgsIEFjY2Vzc2liaWxpdHkgYW5kIFdlbGxiZWluZyAoSUhBVyAyMDIxKTogRmlyc3QgQ2FsbCBmb3IgUGFwZXJzCTUxOAlMaXN0cwkxMjcJY2xpY2sJeWVzCW5v&url=https%3A%2F%2Feasychair.org%2Fconferences%2F%3Fconf%3Dicihaw2021 . Important Dates · Submission Deadline: June 7, 2021 (AoE) · Notification: August 23, 2021 · Camera-Ready Submission Deadline: September 6, 2021 · Author Registration Deadline: September 6, 2021 Organizers Honorary General Chair · Edwige Pissaloux, University of Rouen Normandy, France General Chair · George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Scientific Chair · Salim Bouhlel, University of Sfax, Tunisia Scientific Vice-Chair · Achilleas Achilleos, Frederick University, Cyprus Publicity Chair · Ramiro Velazquez, Universidad Panamericana, Mexico Finance Chair · Petros Stratis, Easy Conferences LTD., Cyprus -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From irdta at irdta.eu Mon Dec 7 21:49:00 2020 From: irdta at irdta.eu (IRDTA) Date: Mon, 07 Dec 2020 21:49:00 +0100 Subject: [fg-arc] BigDat 2021 Spring: early registration December 16 Message-ID: <545102060a010b020552520b0106565e545056500408550406050e07535557025054000355015201565752570f045353@grlmc_ip-zone_com-6> BigDat 2021 Spring: early registration December 16*To be removed from our mailing list, please respond to this message with UNSUBSCRIBE in the subject line*   **********************************************   7th INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL ON BIG DATA   BigDat 2021 Spring   Beersheba, Israel   April 18-22, 2021   Co-organized by:   Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Department of Software and Information Systems Engineering Data Science Research Center   Institute for Research Development, Training and Advice (IRDTA) Brussels/London   https://irdta.eu/bigdat2021s/   **********************************************   --- Early registration deadline: December 16, 2020 ---   ***********************************************   SCOPE:   BigDat 2021 Spring 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. Previous events were held in Tarragona, Bilbao, Bari, Timișoara, Cambridge and Ancona.   Big data is a broad field covering 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 24 four-hour and a half courses and 2 keynote lectures, 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 2021 Spring 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.   VENUE:   BigDat 2021 Spring will take place in Beersheba, the largest city in the Negev desert of southern Israel and an important technology center. The venue will be:   Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Marcus Family Campus   https://in.bgu.ac.il/en/Pages/interactive.aspx   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.   KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:   Maria Girone (European Organization for Nuclear Research), Big Data Challenges at the CERN HL-LHC   Lisa Schurer Lambert (Oklahoma State University), Research Methods as a Lens: How We Know What We Know   PROFESSORS AND COURSES:   Thomas Bäck & Hao Wang (Leiden University), [introductory/intermediate] Data Driven Modeling and Optimization for Industrial Applications   Paul Bliese (University of South Carolina), [introductory/intermediate] Using R for Mixed-effects (Multilevel) Models   Gianluca Bontempi (Université Libre de Bruxelles), [intermediate/advanced] Machine Learning against Credit-card Fraud: Lessons Learned from a Real Case   Altan Cakir (Istanbul Technical University), [intermediate] Big Data Analytics with Apache Spark   Michael X. Cohen (Radboud University Nijmegen), [introductory] Dimension Explosion and Dimension Reduction in Brain Electrical Activity   Ramez Elmasri (University of Texas, Arlington), [intermediate] Spatial, Temporal, and Spatio-Temporal Data   Ian Fisk (Flatiron Institute), [introductory] The Infrastructure to Support Data Science   Michael Freeman (University of Washington), [intermediate] Interactive Data Visualization Using D3 + Observable   David Gerbing (Portland State University), [introductory] Derive Meaning from Data with R Visualizations   Christopher W.V. Hogue (Ericsson Inc.), [introductory] Applied Information Theory for Scalable Database Schema and Query Templates   Ravi Kumar (Google), [intermediate/advanced] Clustering for Big Data   Victor O.K. Li (University of Hong Kong), [intermediate] Deep Learning and Applications   B.S. Manjunath (University of California, Santa Barbara), [introductory] Digital Media Forensics   Wladek Minor (University of Virginia), [introductory/advanced] Big Data in Biomedical Sciences   José M.F. Moura (Carnegie Mellon University), [introductory] Graph Signal Processing   Panos Pardalos (University of Florida), [intermediate/advanced] Optimization and Data Sciences Techniques for Large Networks   Valeriu Predoi (University of Reading), [introductory] A Beginner's Guide to Big Data Analysis: How to Connect Scientific Software Development with Real World Problem   Karsten Reuter (Max Planck Society), [introductory/intermediate] Machine Learning for Materials and Energy Applications   Ramesh Sharda (Oklahoma State University), [introductory/intermediate] Network-based Health Analytics   Steven Skiena (Stony Brook University), [introductory/intermediate] Word and Graph Embeddings for Machine Learning   Alexandre Vaniachine (VirtualHealth), [intermediate] Open-source Columnar Databases   Sebastián Ventura (University of Córdoba), [intermediate/advanced] Supervised Descriptive Pattern Mining   Xiaowei Xu (University of Arkansas, Little Rock), [introductory/advanced] Language Models and Applications   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 the title, authors, and summary of the research to david at irdta.eu by April 10, 2021.   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 April 10, 2021.   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 April 10, 2021.   ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:   Stavi Baram (Beersheba) Mark Last (Beersheba) Carlos Martín-Vide (Tarragona, program chair) Sara Morales (Brussels) Manuel J. Parra-Royón (Granada) Lior Rokach (Beersheba, co-chair) Bracha Shapira (Beersheba, co-chair) David Silva (London, co-chair)   REGISTRATION:   It has to be done at   https://irdta.eu/bigdat2021s/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 tool 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 will be available in due time.   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:   Ben-Gurion University of the Negev   Institute for Research Development, Training and Advice (IRDTA) – Brussels/London   -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From kirstin.peters at tps.tu-darmstadt.de Tue Dec 8 17:23:09 2020 From: kirstin.peters at tps.tu-darmstadt.de (Kirstin Peters) Date: Tue, 8 Dec 2020 17:23:09 +0100 Subject: [fg-arc] FORTE 2021: First CFP Message-ID: <9a6cb899-fb9f-1330-69a7-a31db1f3b1ba@tps.tu-darmstadt.de> ******************************************************************************************** *FORTE 2021* > - 41st International Conference on Formal Techniques for Distributed Objects, Components, and Systems June 14-18, 2021, Valletta, Malta FORTE 2021 is one of the three conferences of DisCoTec 2021 >, the 16th International Federated Conference on Distributed Computing Techniques ****************************************************************************************** *Important dates* January 29, 2021 - abstract submission February 5, 2021 - paper submission April 2, 2021 - notification April 23, 2021 - camera ready *Keynote Speakers* Gilles Fedak , iExec, FR Mira Mezini , Technical University of Darmstadt, DE Alexandra Silva , University College London, UK *Scope* FORTE 2021 is a forum for fundamental research on theory, models, tools, and applications for distributed systems. The conference solicits original contributions that advance the science and technology for distributed systems, with special interest in:    - Software quality, reliability, availability, and safety    - Security, privacy, and trust in distributed and/or communicating    systems    - Service-oriented, ubiquitous, and cloud computing systems    - Component- and model-based design    - Object technology, modularity, software adaptation    - Self-stabilization and self-healing/organizing    - Verification, validation, formal analysis, and testing of the above. Aligned with the above, FORTE covers *models and formal specification*, *testing* and *verification methods* for distributed computing. Application domains are multiple, and include all kinds of application-level distributed systems, telecommunication services, Internet, embedded and real-time systems, as well as networking and communication security and reliability. Contributions that *combine theory and practice* and that exploit formal methods and theoretical foundations to present novel solutions to problems arising from the development of distributed systems are very much encouraged. *Main Topics of Interest* Topics of interest include but are not limited to:    - *Languages and semantic foundations*    New modeling and language concepts for distribution and concurrency;    semantics for different types of languages, including programming    languages, modeling languages, and domain-specific languages; real-time and    probability aspects    - *Formal methods and techniques*    Design, specification, analysis, verification, validation, testing and    runtime verification of various types of distributed systems, including    communications and network protocols, service-oriented systems, adaptive    distributed systems, cyber-physical systems and sensor networks    - *Foundations of security*    New principles for qualitative and quantitative security analysis of    distributed systems, including formal models based on probabilistic concepts    - *Applications of formal methods*    Applying formal methods and techniques for studying quality,    reliability, availability, and safety of distributed systems    - *Practical experience with formal methods*    Industrial applications, case studies and software tools for applying    formal methods and description techniques to the development and analysis    of real distributed systems.    - *Emerging challenges and hot topics in distributed systems* (broadly    construed)    Formal specification, verification and analysis of emerging systems and    applications, such as, for instance, software-defined networks, distributed    ledgers, smart contracts, and blockchain technologies. *Submission Guidelines* Contributions must be written in English according to one of the three categories described below. They should report on original, unpublished work, not submitted for publication elsewhere (cf. IFIP codes of conduct , under Links). Submissions must be prepared as a PDF using Springer’s LNCS style. Submissions not adhering to the specified constraints of their respective category may be rejected without review. *Submission Categories* FORTE accepts contributions in three categories: *full papers*, *short papers*, and *journal-first papers*. These categories and their associated criteria are described in detail below. Notice that *short* and *journal-first* papers must be explicitly marked as such in the submission’s title. *Full papers* (page limit: up to 15 pages + 2 pages references) A full paper submission describes thorough and complete research results in the scope of the conference. *Short papers* (page limit: up to 6 pages + 2 pages references) A short paper submission can be one of the following:    - *Rough diamonds*: Extended abstracts presenting innovative and       promising ideas, possibly in an early form and without supporting evidence.       - *Tool (demonstration) papers*: Extended abstracts describing (or       demonstrating) new tools (or tool components) that implement (or build       upon) theoretical foundations.       - *Position papers* : Extended abstracts describing (i) calls to       action, or (ii) substantiated reflections on current and/or future research       perspectives related to FORTE. Short paper submissions must be marked as such in the submission’s title. *“Journal First” papers* (page limit: up to 4 pages, including references) This category aims at including published journal papers in the FORTE 2020 program. The objective is to offer FORTE attendees a richer program and further opportunities for interaction. Authors of published papers in high-quality journals can submit a proposal to present their journal paper in FORTE. The journal paper must adhere to the following four criteria:    - It should be clearly in the scope of the conference.    - It should be recent: only journal papers available after January 1,       2019 (online or paper) can be presented.    - It reports new research results that significantly extend prior       work. As such, the journal paper does not simply extend prior work with       material presented for completeness only (such as omitted proofs,       algorithms, minor enhancements, or empirical results).    - It has not been presented at, and is not under consideration for,       journal-first programs of other similar conferences or workshops. A journal-first submission is a concise but compelling summary of the published journal paper, which makes it clear why a related presentation would enrich the program of FORTE. Journal-first submissions must be marked as such in the submission’s title, and must explicitly include pointers to the journal publication (such as a DOI) but also to related conference and workshop papers, as appropriate. They will be judged on the basis of the above criteria, but also considering relevance and the potential of enriching and complementing the conference program. *Publication* All accepted papers, including short papers and journal-first submissions, will be published in the FORTE 2021 formal proceedings, which will appear in Springer’s LNCS-IFIP volume series. *Special Issue* Selected papers will be invited to a special issue of *Logical Methods in Computer Science* . *Submission Link* https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=forte21 *Program committee chairs*    - Kirstin Peters (TU Darmstadt, DE)    - Tim Willemse       (Eindhoven University of Technology, NL) *Program committee members*    -  Luís Soares Barbosa (University of Minho)    - Jiri Barnat (Masaryk University)    - Pedro R.D'Argenio (Universidad Nacional de Córdoba)    - Mila Dalla Preda (University of Verona)    - Wan Fokkink (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)    - Daniele Gorla (University of Rome "La Sapienza")    - Artem Khyzha (Tel Aviv University)    - Barbara König (University of Duisburg-Essen)    - Bas Luttik (Eindhoven University of Technology)    - Stephan Merz (Inria Nancy)    - Roland Meyer (TU Braunschweig)    - Mohammadreza Mousavi (University of Leicester)    - Thomas Neele (Royal Holloway, University of London)    - Ana-Maria Oprescu (University of Amsterdam)    - Catuscia Palamidessi (INRIA)    - Anna Philippou (University of Cyprus)    - Jorge A.Pérez (University of Groningen)    - Anne Remke (WWU Münster)    - Kristin Yvonne Rozier (Iowa State University)    - Cristina Seceleanu (Mälardalen University)    - Maurice H. ter Beek (ISTI-CNR, Pisa)    - Simone Tini (University of Insubria)    - Rob van Glabbeek (Data61 - CSIRO)    - Björn Victor (Uppsala University)    - Georg Weissenbacher (Vienna University of Technology) *Steering committee*    - Ahmed Bouajjani (University Paris Diderot, France)    - Christel Baier (University Dresden, Germany)    - Frank de Boer (CWI, Netherlands)    - Luís Caires (Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal)    - Einar Broch Johnsen (University of Oslo, Norway)    - Ivan Lanese (University of Bologna/INRIA, Italy – Chair)    - Jorge A. Pérez (University of Groningen, The Netherlands)    - Alexandra Silva (University College London, UK)    - Ana Sokolova (University of Salzburg, Austria)    - Jean-Bernard Stefani (INRIA, France)    - Nobuko Yoshida (Imperial College London, UK)    - Heike Wehrheim (Paderborn University, Germany) *More Information* For additional information, please contact the Program Committee Co-chairs: forte21 at easychair dot org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From thanh.dinh at eaut.edu.vn Wed Dec 9 02:29:01 2020 From: thanh.dinh at eaut.edu.vn (Thanh Dinh) Date: Wed, 9 Dec 2020 08:29:01 +0700 Subject: [fg-arc] 18th Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KR2021) Message-ID: <067fbc32-0966-128f-7d45-b64f261457d8@eaut.edu.vn> CALL FOR PAPERS 18th Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KR2021) November 6-12, 2021, Hanoi, Vietnam https://kr2021.kbsg.rwth-aachen.de Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KR) is a well-established and lively field of research. In KR a fundamental assumption is that an agent's knowledge is explicitly represented in a declarative form, suitable for processing by dedicated reasoning engines. This assumption, that much of what an agent deals with is knowledge-based, is common in many modern intelligent systems. Consequently, KR has contributed to the theory and practice of various areas in AI, including automated planning and natural language understanding, and to fields beyond AI, including databases, verification, software engineering, and robotics. In recent years, KR has contributed also to new and emerging fields, including the semantic web, computational biology, cyber security, and the development of software agents. The KR conference series is the leading forum for timely in-depth presentation of progress in the theory and principles underlying the representation and computational management of knowledge. SCOPE We solicit papers presenting novel results on the principles of KR that clearly contribute to the formal foundations of relevant problems or show the applicability of results to implemented or implementable systems. We also welcome papers from other areas that show clear use of, or contributions to, the principles or practice of KR. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Applications of KR - Argumentation - Belief revision and update, belief merging, information fusion - Commonsense reasoning - Computational aspects of knowledge representation - Concept formation, similarity-based reasoning - Contextual reasoning - Decision making - Description logics - Explanation finding, diagnosis, causal reasoning, abduction - Geometric, spatial, and temporal reasoning - Inconsistency- and exception-tolerant reasoning, paraconsistent logics - KR and autonomous agents and multi-agent systems - KR and cognitive robotics - KR and cyber security - KR and education - KR and game theory - KR and machine learning, inductive logic programming, knowledge acquisition - KR and natural language processing and understanding - KR and the Web, Semantic Web - Knowledge graphs and open linked data - Knowledge representation languages - Logic programming, answer set programming - Modeling and reasoning about preferences - Multi- and order-sorted representations and reasoning - Nonmonotonic logics, default logics, conditional logics - Ontology formalisms and models - Ontology-based data access, integration, and exchange - Philosophical foundations of KR - Qualitative reasoning, reasoning about physical systems - Reasoning about actions and change, action languages - Reasoning about constraints, constraint programming - Reasoning about knowledge, beliefs, and other mental attitudes - Uncertainty, vagueness, many-valued and fuzzy logics The KR2021 program will also feature workshops and tutorials, solicited by means of an open call, as well as a doctoral consortium. TRACKS In addition to the main conference track, KR2021 will host the following tracks and sessions: * Applications and Systems Track * Recently Published Research Track * Special Session on KR and Machine Learning * Special Session on KR and Robotics IMPORTANT DATES Submission of title and abstract:     March 24, 2021 Paper submission deadline:          March 31, 2021 Author response period:         May 24-26, 2021 Notification:                 June 15, 2021 Camera-ready papers:             July 14, 2021 Conference dates:             November 6-12, 2021 The Recently Published Research track, workshops, tutorials, and the doctoral consortium will have different submission and notification dates, which will be announced separately. AUTHOR GUIDELINES All submissions must be written in English and in AAAI style. Papers must be submitted in PDF format, through the EasyChair conference system: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=kr2021 For the main conference track and additional tracks/sessions (except for the Recently Published Research track), we invite - Full papers of up to 9 pages, including abstract, figures, and appendices   (if any), but excluding references and acknowledgements. - Short papers of up to 4 pages, excluding references and acknowledgements. Both full and short papers must describe original, previously unpublished research, and must not simultaneously be submitted for publication elsewhere. These restrictions do not apply to previously accepted workshop papers with a limited audience and/or without archival proceedings, and to papers uploaded at public repositories (e.g., arXiv). Accepted full papers and short papers will be published in the KR2021 proceedings. Authors may optionally submit a separate PDF containing additional information that substantiates the claims made in their paper, such as proof details, additional experimental results, further details on experimental design, etc. If authors wish to make such material available to reviewers, they should do so by submitting a file through EasyChair, rather than by including links or references in their paper. Please note that the main paper must be self contained, as the supplementary material will not be published.  Moreover, reviewers will have the option but not the obligation to consult the supplementary material. The preceding submission guidelines apply to the main track, as well as to the Applications and Systems track, the KR & Machine Learning special session, and the KR & Robotics special session. By contrast, different submission guidelines apply to the Recently Published Research track, workshops, tutorials, and the doctoral consortium, which will be announced separately. CONFERENCE CHAIRS: General:    Esra Erdem (Sabanci University, Turkey) Program:    Meghyn Bienvenu (CNRS & University of Bordeaux, France)    Gerhard Lakemeyer (RWTH Aachen University, Germany) Applications and Systems Track:    Martin Gebser (University of Klagenfurt, Austria)    Ulrike Sattler (University of Manchester, UK) Recently Published Research Track:    Vladimir Lifschitz (University of Texas at Austin, USA)    Pierre Marquis (Artois University & Institut Universitaire de France, France) Special Session on KR & Machine Learning:    Vaishak Belle (University of Edinburgh, UK)    Luc de Raedt (KU Leuven, Belgium) Special Session on KR & Robotics:    Alessandro Saffioti (University of Örebro, Sweden)    Mary-Anne Williams (University of Technology Sydney, Australia) Workshop and Tutorials:    Markus Kroetzsch (TU Dresden, Germany)    Yongmei Liu (Sun Yat-sen University, China) Doctoral Consortium:    Jens Classen (Simon Fraser University)    Magdalena Ortiz (TU Vienna, Austria) Local Organization:    Giuseppe De Giacomo (Sapienza University, Italy)    Son Tran (New Mexico State University, USA)    Long Tran-Thanh (University of Warwick, UK)    Thanh Van Dinh (East Asia University of Technology, Vietnam) Virtual Conference Arrangements:    Stefan Borgwardt (TU Dresden, Germany)    Marco Console (Sapienza University Italy)    Long Tran-Thanh (University of Warwick, UK) Sponsorship:    Kuldeep S. Meel (NUS, Singapore)    Zeynep G. Saribatur (TU Wien, Austria) Publicity:    Thanh Van Dinh (East Asia University of Technology, Vietnam)    Paolo Felli (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy) ------------ Dr Thanh Van Dinh Vice Chancellor, PHT EAST ASIA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY (EAUT) ĐH Công Nghệ Đông Á W: eaut.edu.vn M: 0966639899 From mb at petanux.com Fri Dec 11 23:19:51 2020 From: mb at petanux.com (Mahdi Bohlouli) Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2020 23:19:51 +0100 Subject: [fg-arc] Discovering job Knowledge through Web Analytics Message-ID: We hope that you all are doing well and healthy in these hard days. In the frame of our European funded project, entitled DISKOW, we will have a scientific discussion, networking and dissemination event on 16th December 2020, between 13:00-15:30 CET. The main focus of the event will be on research works carried out during the project life in the fields of labour market data collection and analysis from the web, its current and future impacts on the career development, professionalsÕ integration in the job market as well as the Vocational and Education Training (VET) sector. There will be a chance to meet all our project team members as well as other scientists, panelists and invited speakers in the event. Furthermore, there will be interesting startup pitches and stakeholder presentations. The event will involve external stakeholders, potentially interested in collaboration for further collaboration and networking. It will be hosted by Petanux GmbH from Bonn on 16th December at 13:00-15:30 as an online event due to the current pandemic situation. The event will be in English and free of charge for participation. The DISKOW project is about discovering job Knowledge through Web Analytics towards facilitating mobility of Professionals. It is coordinated by the Leibniz University of Hannover (Germany) and aims to create an integrated database to collect information on labour demand and supply at European level for different target groups, taking into account the different characteristics of the labour market and vocational training. We hereby kindly invite you to participate in this interesting event. Please kindly register for the event through the following link before 14th December. The registration is mandatory for participation. Link to the Registration Page: https://cutt.ly/RegDISKOW20 For further information and registration, please visit https://cutt.ly/DISKOW2020 . Best regards, Mahdi Bohlouli On behalf of the DISKOW Project -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From schmid at sse.uni-hildesheim.de Thu Dec 17 18:32:21 2020 From: schmid at sse.uni-hildesheim.de (Klaus Schmid) Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2020 17:32:21 +0000 Subject: [fg-arc] Full Professorship at University of Hildesheim Message-ID: <42824DC7-87F0-4C0B-A472-C156E14EDBE1@contoso.com> The following professorship is also open to formal methods, software/system verification, etc. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Institute of Computer Science (IFI) of Faculty 4 - Mathematics, Natural Sciences, Economics and Computer Science at University of Hildesheim offers a position as University Professor (m/f/d) in Computer Science (W3) The new professorship is established to strengthen the research profile and current range of courses in computer science at the University of Hildesheim. Tasks: The applicant should represent at least one current area of computer science in research in depth, such as computer networks, distributed systems, IT security, formal methods or algorithm engineering (e.g., formal specification and verification of software systems is in scope). The research tasks include high-profile publications and the active acquisition of third-party funds. The professorship mainly contributes to the different computer science study programs. The willingness to contribute to compulsory teaching in the computer science as well as to the development of the study programs is expected. Prerequisites: • Very good doctorate and a habilitation or habilitation-equivalent achievements in computer science • Outstanding research and publication track record in computer science • Significant experience in raising third-party funds • Willingness and ability to teach in English and German Ideally, but not necessarily, the research focus has relations to existing research areas, especially in computer science. Participation in existing cooperation and transfer networks is desired, especially in the Center for Digital Change and the Working Group on Information Technology. Further information on formal requirements can be found at: https://www.uni-hildesheim.de/stellenmarkt/stellenanzeige/artikel/202114-univ/ Address any questions to the dean of Department 4, Prof. Dr. Klaus Schmid, Tel.: +49 (0)5121/883 40332, E-Mail: schmid(at)uni-hildesheim.de. Please send your application, including attachments (CV, Certificates, list of courses given, list of publications, research and teaching concept, list of acquired third-party funds, including a short project description) by mail until 04.01.2021 with number 2021/14 to Präsident der Universität Hildesheim, Dezernat für Personal- und Rechtsangelegenheiten, Universitätsplatz 1, 31141 Hildesheim. Please send your application also via email (PDF) to dgf4 at uni-hildesheim.de. ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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 31141 Hildesheim ----------------------------------------------------------------- From irdta at irdta.eu Mon Dec 14 20:10:53 2020 From: irdta at irdta.eu (IRDTA) Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2020 20:10:53 +0100 Subject: [fg-arc] DeepLearn 2021 Summer: early registration December 26 Message-ID: <545102060a010b02055350030302545e535002540304520052510f090257505552550505550803050251585701045350@grlmc_ip-zone_com-6> DeepLearn 2021 Summer: early registration December 26*To be removed from our mailing list, please respond to this message with UNSUBSCRIBE in the subject line*   ******************************************************************   4th INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL ON DEEP LEARNING   DeepLearn 2021 Summer   Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain   July 26-30, 2021   Co-organized by:   Department of Information Engineering Marche Polytechnic University   Institute for Research Development, Training and Advice – IRDTA Brussels/London   https://irdta.eu/deeplearn2021s/   ******************************************************************   --- Early registration deadline: December 26, 2020 ---   ************************************************   SCOPE:   DeepLearn 2021 Summer 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 deep learning. Previous events were held in Bilbao, Genova and Warsaw.   Deep learning is a branch of artificial intelligence covering a spectrum of current exciting research and industrial innovation that provides more efficient algorithms to deal with large-scale data in neurosciences, computer vision, speech recognition, language processing, human-computer interaction, drug discovery, biomedical informatics, healthcare, recommender systems, learning theory, robotics, games, etc. Renowned academics and industry pioneers will lecture and share their views with the audience.   Most deep learning subareas will be displayed, and main challenges identified through 24 four-hour and a half courses and 3 keynote lectures, 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, DeepLearn 2021 Summer 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.   VENUE:   DeepLearn 2021 Summer will take place in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, on the Atlantic Ocean, with a mild climate throughout the year, sandy beaches and a renowned carnival. The venue will be:   Palacio de Congresos Gran Canaria Institución Ferial de Canarias Avenida de la Feria, 1 35012 Las Palmas de Gran Canaria   https://www.infecar.es/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&layout=item&id=360&Itemid=896   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.   KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:   Nello Cristianini (University of Bristol), Data, Intelligence and Shortcuts   Petia Radeva (University of Barcelona), Uncertainty Modeling and Deep Learning in Food Analysis   Indrė Žliobaitė (University of Helsinki), Any Hope for Deep Learning in Deep Time?   PROFESSORS AND COURSES: (to be completed)   Ignacio Arganda-Carreras (University of the Basque Country), [introductory/intermediate] Deep Learning for Bioimage Analysis   Thomas G. Dietterich (Oregon State University), [introductory] Machine Learning Methods for Robust Artificial Intelligence   Georgios Giannakis (University of Minnesota), [advanced] Ensembles for Online, Interactive and Deep Learning Machines with Scalability, and Adaptivity   Sergei V. Gleyzer (University of Alabama), [introductory/intermediate] Machine Learning Fundamentals and Their Applications to Very Large Scientific Data: Rare Signal and Feature Extraction, End-to-end Deep Learning, Uncertainty Estimation and Realtime Machine Learning Applications in Software and Hardware   Çağlar Gülçehre (DeepMind), [intermediate/advanced] Deep Reinforcement Learning   Balázs Kégl (Huawei Technologies), [introductory] Deep Model-based Reinforcement Learning   Vincent Lepetit (ENPC ParisTech), [intermediate] Deep Learning and 3D Geometry   Geert Leus (Delft University of Technology), [introductory/intermediate] Graph Signal Processing: Introduction and Connections to Distributed Optimization and Deep Learning   Andy Liaw (Merck Research Labs), [introductory] Machine Learning and Statistics: Better together   Abdelrahman Mohamed (Facebook AI Research), [introductory/advanced] Recent Advances in Automatic Speech Recognition   Hermann Ney (RWTH Aachen University), [intermediate/advanced] Speech Recognition and Machine Translation: From Statistical Decision Theory to Machine Learning and Deep Neural Networks   Lyle John Palmer (University of Adelaide), [introductory/advanced] Epidemiology for Machine Learning Investigators   Jan Peters (Technical University of Darmstadt), [intermediate] Robot Learning   José C. Príncipe (University of Florida), [intermediate/advanced] Cognitive Architectures for Object Recognition in Video   Björn W. Schuller (Imperial College London), [introductory/intermediate] Deep Signal Processing   Sargur N. Srihari (University at Buffalo), [introductory] Generative Models in Deep Learning   Johan Suykens (KU Leuven), [introductory/intermediate] Deep Learning, Neural Networks and Kernel Machines   Gaël Varoquaux (INRIA), [intermediate] Representation Learning in Limited Data Settings   René Vidal (Johns Hopkins University), [intermediate/advanced] Mathematics of Deep Learning   Haixun Wang (Instacart), [introductory/intermediate] Abstractions, Concepts, and Machine Learning   Ming-Hsuan Yang (University of California, Merced), [intermediate/advanced] Learning to Track Objects   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 the title, authors, and summary of the research to david at irdta.eu by July 18, 2021.   INDUSTRIAL SESSION:   A session will be devoted to 10-minute demonstrations of practical applications of deep learning 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 July 18, 2021.   EMPLOYER SESSION:   Firms searching for personnel well skilled in deep learning 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 July 18, 2021.   ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:   Emanuele Frontoni (Ancona, co-chair) Carlos Martín-Vide (Tarragona, program chair) Sara Moccia (Ancona) Sara Morales (Brussels) Marina Paolanti (Ancona) Manuel J. Parra-Royón (Granada) Luca Romeo (Ancona) David Silva (London, co-chair)   REGISTRATION:   It has to be done at   https://irdta.eu/deeplearn2021s/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 tool disabled when the capacity of the venue will get 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 will be available in due time at   https://irdta.eu/deeplearn2021s/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   Institución Ferial de Canarias   -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From george at cs.ucy.ac.cy Sun Dec 13 12:03:45 2020 From: george at cs.ucy.ac.cy (George A. Papadopoulos) Date: Sun, 13 Dec 2020 13:03:45 +0200 Subject: [fg-arc] 15th International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science (RCIS 2021): Third Call for Papers Message-ID: <666M1MDF-TW2W-2C88-14N2-SV2BJKG36DVJ@cs.ucy.ac.cy> *** Third Call for Papers *** 15th International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science (RCIS 2021) May 12-14, 2021, Royal Apollonia Beach Hotel 5*, Limassol, Cyprus http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=c2NlLmNhcmxldG9uLmNhICwJCQlmZy1hcmNAbGlzdHMudW5pLXBhZGVyYm9ybi5kZQkxNXRoIEludGVybmF0aW9uYWwgQ29uZmVyZW5jZSBvbiBSZXNlYXJjaCBDaGFsbGVuZ2VzIGluIEluZm9ybWF0aW9uIFNjaWVuY2UgKFJDSVMgMjAyMSk6IFRoaXJkIENhbGwgZm9yIFBhcGVycwk1MjMJTGlzdHMJMTI5CWNsaWNrCXllcwlubw==&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.rcis-conf.com%2Frcis2021%2F Abstract submission deadline (recommended): January 15, 2021 (AoE) Paper submission deadline: January 22, 2021 (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 2021 will continue paying attention to traditional topics at the conference; in addition, we solicit submissions aligned with the special theme "Information Science and global crisis". Global crisis, as the pandemic we are experiencing in these days, natural disasters, wars and international political crisis, are challenging Information Science to help building effective management solutions, to learn from previous experience how to prevent them, and to support Humans keep on performing core activities, as education, and communication. The diversity of crises' causes, the quality of the collected data as well as the complexity of the underlying mechanisms are among the relevant research challenges. 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, ... · Web-Based Applications and Services · Industry 4.0 · Web-Based Applications and Services · Smart Cities · Educational Technologies · Digital Humanities 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 and Research Projects @RCIS tracks 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=c2NlLmNhcmxldG9uLmNhICwJCQlmZy1hcmNAbGlzdHMudW5pLXBhZGVyYm9ybi5kZQkxNXRoIEludGVybmF0aW9uYWwgQ29uZmVyZW5jZSBvbiBSZXNlYXJjaCBDaGFsbGVuZ2VzIGluIEluZm9ybWF0aW9uIFNjaWVuY2UgKFJDSVMgMjAyMSk6IFRoaXJkIENhbGwgZm9yIFBhcGVycwk1MjMJTGlzdHMJMTI5CWNsaWNrCXllcwlubw==&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 2021. 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=c2NlLmNhcmxldG9uLmNhICwJCQlmZy1hcmNAbGlzdHMudW5pLXBhZGVyYm9ybi5kZQkxNXRoIEludGVybmF0aW9uYWwgQ29uZmVyZW5jZSBvbiBSZXNlYXJjaCBDaGFsbGVuZ2VzIGluIEluZm9ybWF0aW9uIFNjaWVuY2UgKFJDSVMgMjAyMSk6IFRoaXJkIENhbGwgZm9yIFBhcGVycwk1MjMJTGlzdHMJMTI5CWNsaWNrCXllcwlubw==&url=https%3A%2F%2Feasychair.org%2Fmy%2Fconference%3Fconf%3Drcis2021 . 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 29, 2021. We adopt a single-blind review format, meaning that the author names are included in the paper itself under the paper title. JOURNAL 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 · Abstract submission deadline for regular papers: January 15, 2021 (AoE) · Regular paper submission deadline: January 22, 2021 (AoE) · Notification to authors and registration opening: March 12, 2021 · Author registration deadline for all paper types: March 29, 2021 · Camera-ready copy deadline for all paper types: March 29, 2021 · Conference: May 12-14, 2021 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 · Jelena Zdravkovic, Stockholm University, Sweden General Chairs · George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus · Selmin Nurcan, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France Organising Chair · Petros Stratis, Easy Conferences LTD., Cyprus Program Chairs · Samira Cherfi, CNAM, France · Anna Perini, FBK, Italy Social Media Chairs · Itzel Morales Ramirez, Instituto de Ingeniería de la UNAM, Mexico · Vítor E. Silva Souza, UFES, Brasil Proceedings Chair · Raihana Ferdous, FBK, Italy -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From irdta at irdta.eu Mon Dec 21 21:23:38 2020 From: irdta at irdta.eu (IRDTA) Date: Mon, 21 Dec 2020 21:23:38 +0100 Subject: [fg-arc] AlCoB 2020 & 2021: 3rd call for papers Message-ID: <545102060a010b02055359070604545e040257550100530552520d060e025151510205510b0e52005250545605005455@grlmc_ip-zone_com-6> AlCoB 2020 & 2021: 3rd call for papers*To be removed from our mailing list, please respond to this message with UNSUBSCRIBE in the subject line*   **********************************************************************************   7th-8th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ALGORITHMS FOR COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY   AlCoB 2020 & 2021   Missoula, Montana, USA   June 7-11, 2021   Co-organized by:   Department of Computer Science University of Montana   and   Institute for Research Development, Training and Advice – IRDTA Brussels/London   https://irdta.eu/alcob2020-2021/   **********************************************************************************   AIMS:   AlCoB aims at promoting and displaying excellent research using string and graph algorithms and combinatorial optimization to deal with problems in biological sequence analysis, genome rearrangement, phylogeny reconstruction, and structure prediction.   AlCoB 2020 & 2021 will merge the scheduled program for AlCoB 2020, which could not take place because of the Covid-19 crisis, with a new series of papers submitted on this occasion.   Previous events were held in Tarragona, Mexico City, Trujillo (Spain), Aveiro, Hong Kong and Berkeley.   The conference will address several of the current challenges in computational biology, with topics including:   1) assembling sequence reads into a complete genome, 2) identifying gene structures in the genome, 3) recognizing regulatory motifs, 4) aligning nucleotides and comparing genomes, 5) reconstructing regulatory networks of genes, and 6) inferring the evolutionary phylogeny of species.   Special focus will be put on methodology and significant room will be reserved for scholars at the beginning of their career.   VENUE:   AlCoB 2020 & 2021 will take place in Missoula, Montana, a college town located in the heart of the Rocky Mountains, near Glacier National Park and Yellowstone National Park. The meeting will be hosted in the University Center, a few hundred feet from the base of Mount Sentinel.   SCOPE:   Topics of either theoretical or applied interest include, but are not limited to:   Sequence analysis Sequence alignment Sequence assembly Genome rearrangement Regulatory motif finding Phylogeny reconstruction Phylogeny comparison Structure prediction Compressive genomics Proteomics: molecular pathways, interaction networks, mass spectrometry analysis Transcriptomics: splicing variants, isoform inference and quantification, differential analysis Next-generation sequencing: population genomics, metagenomics, metatranscriptomics, epigenomics Genome CD architecture Microbiome analysis Cancer computational biology Systems biology   STRUCTURE:   AlCoB 2020 & 2021 will consist of:   invited lectures peer-reviewed contributions posters   KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:   Terry Gaasterland (University of California, San Diego), Genetic Risk of Disease through Genome Variation and Regulation of Transcription   Christine Orengo (University College London), Algorithms for Mining Massive Metagenome Repositories to Detect Novel Enzymes   Tamar Schlick (New York University), Folding Genes at Nucleosome Resolution   PROGRAM COMMITTEE:   Ludmil Alexandrov (University of California, San Diego, US) Can Alkan (Bilkent University, TR) Mani Arumugam (University of Copenhagen, DK) Bonnie Berger (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, US) Sanchita Bhattacharya (University of California, San Francisco, US) Chao Cheng (Baylor College of Medicine, US) Keith Crandall (George Washington University, US) Colin Dewey (University of Wisconsin, Madison, US) Ian Dunham (European Bioinformatics Institute, UK) Anton Enright (University of Cambridge, UK) Joe Felsenstein (University of Washington, US) Pedro G. Ferreira (University of Porto, PT) Martin Frith (University of Tokyo, JP) Debashis Ghosh (University of Colorado, US) Michael Gribskov (Purdue University, US) Michael Hawrylycz (Allen Institute for Brain Science, US) Daniel Huson (University of Tübingen, DE) Kazutaka Katoh (Osaka University, JP) Miriam Konkel (Clemson University, US) Maria-Jesus Martin (European Bioinformatics Institute, UK) Carlos Martín-Vide (Rovira i Virgili University, ES, chair) David H. Mathews (University of Rochester, US) Aaron McKenna (Dartmouth College, US) Ryan E. Mills (University of Michigan, US) Burkhard Morgenstern (University of Göttingen, DE) Zemin Ning (Wellcome Sanger Institute, UK) Joel S. Parker (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, US) Kay Prüfer (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, DE) Knut Reinert (Free University of Berlin, DE) Walter L. Ruzzo (University of Washington, US) Russell Schwartz (Carnegie Mellon University, US) Gordon Smyth (Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, AU) Peter F. Stadler (Leipzig University, DE) Alfonso Valencia (Barcelona Supercomputing Center, ES) Fabio Vandin (University of Padua, IT) Kai Wang (Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, US) Matthew T. Weirauch (Cincinnati Children's Hospital, US) Travis Wheeler (University of Montana, US) Zohar Yakhini (Interdisciplinary Center, Herzliya, IL) Shibu Yooseph (University of Central Florida, US)   ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:   Sara Morales (Brussels) Manuel Parra-Royón (Granada) David Silva (London, co-chair) Miguel A. Vega-Rodríguez (Cáceres) Travis Wheeler (Missoula, 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).   Upload submissions to:   https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=alcob20202021   PUBLICATIONS:   A volume of proceedings published by Springer in the LNCS/LNBI series will be available by the time of the conference.   A special issue of IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics (2019 JCR impact factor: 2.85) 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://irdta.eu/alcob2020-2021/registration/   DEADLINES (all at 23:59 CET):   Paper submission: January 18, 2021 Notification of paper acceptance or rejection: February 15, 2021 Final version of the paper for the LNCS/LNBI proceedings: March 1st, 2021 Early registration: March 1st, 2021 Late registration: May 24, 2021 Submission to the journal special issue: September 11, 2021   QUESTIONS AND FURTHER INFORMATION:   david (at) irdta.eu   ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS:   University of Montana   IRDTA – Institute for Research Development, Training and Advice, Brussels/London   -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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CPP spans areas of computer science, mathematics, logic, and education. CPP is sponsored by ACM SIGPLAN, in cooperation with ACM SIGLOG. For more information please visit https://popl21.sigplan.org/home/CPP-2021 CPP 2021 will be co-located with POPL 2021 and will take place on 17-19 January 2021, as a virtual meeting, where all papers are presented online. For more information about virtual conference organization have a look here: https://popl21.sigplan.org/venue/POPL-2021-venue CPP will also have both long and short versions of presentations, just that for us the short versions are 10 minutes long (not 5). #### Call for Lightning Talks CPP 2021 will include a session of 5-minute talks where attendees can present work-in-progress, preliminary research results, and emerging topics. Submission of such lightning talks proposals is lightweight: all we need is a title, an abstract, and the author names, affiliations, and contact information. - Lightning talks submission deadline: 8 January 2021 (AoE) - Lightning talks session: 18 January 2021 at 20:00 CET - Submission information coming up in the next couple of days at: https://popl21.sigplan.org/home/CPP-2021#Call-for-Participation-and-Lightning-Talks #### Discounted Registration We offer a $10 alternative registration fee for anyone for whom the normal registration fees could be an impediment to participation. #### Industrial Supporters Warm thanks to our generous industrial supporters: - Gold supporter: JetBrains - Silver supporters: Algorand, IOHK, and Nomadic Labs - Bronze supporters: Arm, BedRock Systems Inc, Digital Asset, Galois, Informal Systems Inc, and Zilliqa #### Invited Talks - Tobias Nipkow (Technische Universität München): Teaching Algorithms and Data Structures with a Proof Assistant - Peter Sewell (University of Cambridge): Underpinning the foundations: Sail-based semantics, testing, and reasoning, for production and CHERI-enabled architectures #### Accepted Papers, Program, and Distinguished Paper Awards The list of papers accepted at CPP 2021 is available at https://popl21.sigplan.org/home/CPP-2021#event-overview A preliminary program is also available: https://popl21.sigplan.org/home/CPP-2021#program Starting with this edition we introduced the CPP Distinguished Paper Awards, aimed at accepted submissions that stand out with respect to originality, significance, and clarity. The three Distinguished Papers selected for CPP 2021 are: - A Minimalistic Verified Bootstrapped Compiler (Proof Pearl) by Magnus O. Myreen - Formalizing the Ring of Witt Vectors by Johan Commelin and Robert Y. Lewis - Machine-Checked Semantic Session Typing by Jonas Kastberg Hinrichsen, Daniel Louwrink, Robbert Krebbers and Jesper Bengtson #### Contact For any questions please contact the chairs: Catalin Hritcu >, Andrei Popescu >, Lennart Beringer > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- --- To opt-out from this mailing list, send an email to fm-announcements-request at lists.nasa.gov with the word 'unsubscribe' as subject or in the body. You can also make the request by contacting fm-announcements-owner at lists.nasa.gov From irdta at irdta.eu Mon Dec 28 21:03:54 2020 From: irdta at irdta.eu (IRDTA) Date: Mon, 28 Dec 2020 21:03:54 +0100 Subject: [fg-arc] BigDat 2021 Spring: early registration January 15 Message-ID: <545102060a010b02055054050207555e54515756565552070b5601555757545807505355510d54500707540657545057@grlmc_ip-zone_com-6> BigDat 2021 Spring: early registration January 15*To be removed from our mailing list, please respond to this message with UNSUBSCRIBE in the subject line*   **********************************************   7th INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL ON BIG DATA   BigDat 2021 Spring   Beersheba, Israel   April 18-22, 2021   Co-organized by:   Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Department of Software and Information Systems Engineering Data Science Research Center   Institute for Research Development, Training and Advice (IRDTA) Brussels/London   https://irdta.eu/bigdat2021s/   **********************************************   --- Early registration deadline: January 15, 2021 ---   ***********************************************   SCOPE:   BigDat 2021 Spring 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. Previous events were held in Tarragona, Bilbao, Bari, Timișoara, Cambridge and Ancona.   Big data is a broad field covering 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 23 four-hour and a half courses and 2 keynote lectures, 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 2021 Spring 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.   VENUE:   BigDat 2021 Spring will take place in Beersheba, the largest city in the Negev desert of southern Israel and an important technology center. The venue will be:   Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Marcus Family Campus   https://in.bgu.ac.il/en/Pages/interactive.aspx   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.   KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:   Maria Girone (European Organization for Nuclear Research), Big Data Challenges at the CERN HL-LHC   Lisa Schurer Lambert (Oklahoma State University), Research Methods as a Lens: How We Know What We Know   PROFESSORS AND COURSES:   Thomas Bäck & Hao Wang (Leiden University), [introductory/intermediate] Data Driven Modeling and Optimization for Industrial Applications   Paul Bliese (University of South Carolina), [introductory/intermediate] Using R for Mixed-effects (Multilevel) Models   Gianluca Bontempi (Université Libre de Bruxelles), [intermediate/advanced] Machine Learning against Credit-card Fraud: Lessons Learned from a Real Case   Altan Cakir (Istanbul Technical University), [intermediate] Big Data Analytics with Apache Spark   Michael X. Cohen (Radboud University Nijmegen), [introductory] Dimension Explosion and Dimension Reduction in Brain Electrical Activity   Ramez Elmasri (University of Texas, Arlington), [intermediate] Spatial, Temporal, and Spatio-Temporal Data   Ian Fisk (Flatiron Institute), [introductory] The Infrastructure to Support Data Science   Michael Freeman (University of Washington), [intermediate] Interactive Data Visualization Using D3 + Observable   David Gerbing (Portland State University), [introductory] Derive Meaning from Data with R Visualizations   Christopher W.V. Hogue (Ericsson Inc.), [introductory] Applied Information Theory for Scalable Database Schema and Query Templates   Ravi Kumar (Google), [intermediate/advanced] Clustering for Big Data   Victor O.K. Li (University of Hong Kong), [intermediate] Deep Learning and Applications   B.S. Manjunath (University of California, Santa Barbara), [introductory] Digital Media Forensics   Wladek Minor (University of Virginia), [introductory/advanced] Big Data in Biomedical Sciences   José M.F. Moura (Carnegie Mellon University), [introductory] Graph Signal Processing   Panos Pardalos (University of Florida), [intermediate/advanced] Optimization and Data Sciences Techniques for Large Networks   Valeriu Predoi (University of Reading), [introductory] A Beginner's Guide to Big Data Analysis: How to Connect Scientific Software Development with Real World Problem   Karsten Reuter (Max Planck Society), [introductory/intermediate] Machine Learning for Materials and Energy Applications   Ramesh Sharda (Oklahoma State University), [introductory/intermediate] Network-based Health Analytics   Steven Skiena (Stony Brook University), [introductory/intermediate] Word and Graph Embeddings for Machine Learning   Alexandre Vaniachine (VirtualHealth), [intermediate] Open-source Columnar Databases   Sebastián Ventura (University of Córdoba), [intermediate/advanced] Supervised Descriptive Pattern Mining   Xiaowei Xu (University of Arkansas, Little Rock), [introductory/advanced] Language Models and Applications   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 the title, authors, and summary of the research to david at irdta.eu by April 10, 2021.   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 April 10, 2021.   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 April 10, 2021.   ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:   Stavi Baram (Beersheba) Mark Last (Beersheba) Carlos Martín-Vide (Tarragona, program chair) Sara Morales (Brussels) Manuel J. Parra-Royón (Granada) Lior Rokach (Beersheba, co-chair) Bracha Shapira (Beersheba, co-chair) David Silva (London, co-chair)   REGISTRATION:   It has to be done at   https://irdta.eu/bigdat2021s/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 tool 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 will be available in due time.   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:   Ben-Gurion University of the Negev   Institute for Research Development, Training and Advice (IRDTA) – Brussels/London   -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From announce at cs.ucy.ac.cy Wed Dec 30 15:37:54 2020 From: announce at cs.ucy.ac.cy (Announce Announcements) Date: Wed, 30 Dec 2020 16:37:54 +0200 Subject: [fg-arc] 8th International Symposium on End-User Development (IS-EUD 2021): First Call for Papers Message-ID: *** First Call for Papers *** 8th International Symposium on End-User Development (IS-EUD 2021): "Democratizing AI Development" July 6-8, 2021, Atlantica Miramare Beach Hotel 4*, Limassol, Cyprus http://cyprusconferences.org/iseud2021/ End-user development (EUD) aims at empowering end users to develop and adapt systems at a level of complexity that is adequate to their expertise, practices, and skills. EUD may occur along the entire software lifecycle, with the purpose of making users able to participate in their artifact development, not only at design time, but also during actual use. Originally, EUD was conceived as a more general concept than end-user programming; thus, scholars proposed methods, techniques and tools that allow end users to modify or extend software artifacts, such as spreadsheets, web applications, video games, and mobile applications. In the co-called Internet of Things era, end-user development moved on to address the problem of defining and modifying the behavior of smart environments, including smart objects, pervasive displays, smart homes, smart cities, and so on. Therefore, the term "end-user development" acquired a broader meaning covering approaches, frameworks and socio-technical environments that allow end users to express themselves in crafting digital artifacts that encompass both software and hardware technology. Recent research and technological trends like Artificial Intelligence (AI), Big Data, Cyber-Security, Robotics, and Industry 4.0, have contributed to renew the vision of end-user development, by providing tools and platforms that allow end users to harness the power of AI to create solutions involving Computer Vision, Image Processing, Conversational User Interfaces, as well as solutions for smart environments. Such developments lower the threshold for creating AI solutions, and expand the programmer base for such solutions, by extending AI application both for professional and discretionary use. IS-EUD is a bi-annual event for researchers and practitioners with an interdisciplinary approach to EUD, including: Human-Computer Interaction, Software Engineering, Computer Supported Cooperative Work, Human-Work Interaction Design, and related areas. IS-EUD 2021 Theme: Democratizing AI Development The 2021 edition of IS-EUD focuses on EUD for AI-based systems, where end users are called on to become end-user developers of intelligent agents, digital twins, collaborative and social robots. This edition would like to discuss the adoption of EUD in new fields, the proposal of novel EUD paradigms, and the impact of AI-based EUD in terms of user acceptability and appropriation. One of the most interesting topics in human-AI interaction is explainability of AI-based systems: research submissions presenting end- user oriented solutions to this problem will be particularly welcome. Theoretical and empirical work analyzing pros and cons of this new EUD wave, identifying requirements for end-user development of AI and acceptance of related solutions is invited. Software infrastructures and eco- systems supporting the reuse of solutions and the emergence of meta- design practices are of particular interest to this community, linking the challenges relating AI to topics central to the IS-EUD community. Conference Topics The conference welcomes contributions that: · describe new, simple and efficient environments for end-user development · describe new processes, methods and techniques for empowering users to create, modify and tailor digital artifacts · present case studies and design implications on challenges and practices of end-user development · develop theoretical concepts and foundations for the field of end-user development Specific topics include (but are not limited to) the following ones: · User-oriented orchestration of AI-based devices · Conversational interfaces for end-user development · End-user development for big data visualization and exploration · End-user development for collaborative robotics · End-user development for social robotics · End-user development in Industry 4.0 · End-user development and explainable AI-based systems · Cybersecurity and end-user development · End-user development in daily life · Technologies and infrastructures for end-user development · Empirical studies of end-user development · Recommender systems to support end-user development · Cultures of participation and meta-design approaches · Technology acceptance and adoption studies of end-user development technologies · Evaluation of end-user development technologies · Supporting creative work through end-user development Submissions We invite two types of paper submissions: 1. Regular papers, up to 16 pages, describing original unpublished research making a substantial contribution to the research field 2. Short papers, up to 8 pages, describing original unpublished research, making a small but solid contribution to the field All submissions will be reviewed by the Program Committee. The review process for this category is double-blind, thus submissions must be anonymized. Accepted papers (both regular and short) will appear in the archival proceedings of IS-EUD 2021, published by Springer in the Lecture Notes on Computer Science (LNCS) series, and will be presented in plenary sessions of the conference. Workshop proposals are invited (max 6 pages) aligned to the themes of the conference. Workshops provide an informal setting where participants have the opportunity to discuss specific topics in an atmosphere that fosters the active exchange of ideas. Workshops can be half day or one-day long and will be held on July 6, 2021. Accepted workshop proposals will be included in the IS-EUD 2021 adjunct proceedings, which will be submitted to CEUR-WS.org for online publication. Submissions of regular papers, short papers and workshop proposals should indicate in the title page "Regular", "Short" or "Workshop" respectively. Demonstration and Work in Progress papers are also welcomed. A Demonstration paper (max 6 pages) should be structured according to the following: · Abstract (150 words maximum) · Topics to be covered and their relevance to the EUD community · Detailed description of the planned demonstration activity · Diagrams or screenshots (if relevant) · Supporting documentation (e.g., project website) · References Work in Progress submissions (max 6 pages) are intended for presenting preliminary results or tentative findings and position papers. The authors of accepted contributions will have the opportunity to give an oral presentation during parallel sessions. Finally, the IS-EUD Doctoral Consortium is intended to bring together PhD students working on theory and application of EUD. We particularly encourage students that are about half-way through their doctoral research to submit doctoral consortium contributions (max 6 pages) describing the topic of their PhD, their approach and a summary of their progress. Demonstration, Work in Progress and Doctoral Consortium submissions should indicate in the title page "Demo", "WiP" or "DC" respectively. Accepted submissions will be included in IS-EUD 2021 adjunct proceedings, which will be submitted to CEUR-WS.org for online publication. Submissions of all types should be carefully formatted according to the Springer LNCS format: https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines and should be submitted through the Easy Chair system at: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iseud2021 Important Dates · Regular and Short papers submission: March 8, 2021 · Notification: March 30, 2021 · Camera-ready: April 30, 2021 · Workshop proposal submission: March 8, 2021 · Notification: March 15, 2021 · Camera-ready: April 30, 2021 · Demonstration and Work in Progress submission: April 7, 2021 · Notification: April 21, 2021 · Camera-ready: April 30, 2021 · Doctoral Consortium submission: April 7, 2021 · Notification: April 30, 2021 · Camera-ready: May 15, 2021 Organizers General Chairs · Panos Markopoulos (Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands) · George A. Papadopoulos (University of Cyprus, Cyprus) Program Chairs · Daniela Fogli (University of Brescia, Italy) · Daniel Tetteroo (Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands) Short papers Chairs · Barbara Rita Barricelli (University of Brescia, Italy) · Simone Borsci (University of Twente, The Netherlands) Work in Progress Chairs · Jelle Van Dijk (University of Twente, The Netherlands) · Carmen Santoro (ISTI-CNR, Italy) Demonstration Chair · Stefano Valtolina (University of Milan, Italy) Workshop Chairs · Styliani Kleanthous (Open University of Cyprus, Cyprus) · Simone Stumpf (City University London, UK) Doctoral Consortium Chairs · Monica Maceli (Pratt Institute, USA) · Antonio Piccinno (University of Bari, Italy) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: