From sauer at uni-paderborn.de Fri May 6 07:40:37 2022 From: sauer at uni-paderborn.de (Stefan Sauer) Date: Fri, 6 May 2022 07:40:37 +0200 Subject: [fg-arc] HCSE 2022 - Extended submission period until May 23 - 9th International Working Conference on Human-Centered Software Engineering - Call for Papers Message-ID: <4afbb4a9-3acf-3d49-188f-99b85f7ea061@uni-paderborn.de> ***Extended Submission Period for Technical Full Papers and Late Breaking Results until May 23, 2022!*** *We have added an extended submission period and for Technical Full Papers and Late Breaking Results and aligned the further review and publication process for all types of submissions:* **** *** Submission: Friday,May 23th, 2022 (*NEW!*)** ** * Notification to authors: Monday, June 13th, 2022*(*NEW!*)* * Camera-ready due: Monday, June 27th, 2022 *(*NEW!*)* ** **** Apologies for cross postings **** * *************************************************************************** HCSE 2022 9th International Working Conference on Human-Centered Software Engineering 24th to 26th of August, 2022, Eindhoven, The Netherlands http://www.hcse-conference.org *************************************************************************** CALL FOR PAPERS HCSE is a bi-annual, single-track, working conference organized by the IFIP Working Group 13.2 on Methodology for User-Centred System Design (http://ifip-tc13.org/working-groups/working-group-13-2/). We aim at bringing together researchers and practitioners interested in strengthening the scientific foundations of user interface design, examining the relationship between software engineering and human-computer interaction and on how to strengthen human-centered design as an essential part of software engineering processes. Other topics of interest include: * contributions to the theory and best practices of user-centered design * involvement of end-users, clients and stakeholders in the design and development process of interactive systems * innovative methods for identifying end-user requirements for interactive systems * integration of user experience (and any other user interface property) in development processes * methods for designing, building and assessing interactive systems beyond the desktop (e.g. the living room, ubiquitous and multi-display, cockpits, etc.) * models and model-based approaches for building interactive systems * methods and tools for low-code and no-code development paradigms * integration of multiple properties (e.g. usability, (cyber)security, reliability, user experience, privacy, accessibility, etc.) in software development and making them more accessible to developers and users * context-aware and adaptive interactive systems (e.g. in areas such as digital collaboration, digital and worker assistance) * design and integration of novel interaction techniques such as augmented, virtual, and mixed reality * support for new kinds of human-machine interaction (HMI) for increasingly autonomous systems and systems that use or provide artificial intelligence (e.g. autonomous driving or human-robot collaboration) * socio-technical aspects of interactive software development * artificial intelligence and machine learning to support the development of interactive systems * software architectures and architectural patterns for interactive systems * rational design, design patterns and traceability of design choices. HCSE 2022 welcomes contributions as technical full papers, late breaking results, demonstrations and posters. All papers are peer-reviewed and selected contributions will appear in the proceedings published by Springer in the LNCS series. In the present edition of HCSE 2022 we are particularly interested in studies focused on multi-stakeholder concepts and how to cope with multi-stakeholders taking into account not only micro perspective, but on the systemic change level. This research area is central to the host of the current edition of the conference, the Eindhoven University of Technology, Industrial Design, Systemic Change group. In addition, building on the activities carried out by the WG13.2 during the workshop held at the INTERACT 2021 IFIP TC-13 conference, special consideration will be given to issues related to “changing the context of use”, which has significant impact on how to design and develop with a user-centered perspective and how usage of these systems changed for example in the current pandemic situation. As in past editions, the focus of the working group is on user interface properties (such as usability, ux, privacy, trust, security, reliability, adaptability, among others) and how to design, develop and evaluate based on a user-centered development process. We are interested in understanding how different stakeholders and developers value diverse user interface properties and how they manage conflicts between them (when one property might degrade the value of another) on a systemic change level. Our aim is to cover a large set of user interface properties and try to reveal their inner dependencies. We are particularly interested in the development of theories, methods, tools and approaches for dealing with multiple properties that should be taken into account when developing interactive systems. HCSE welcomes the following types of contributions: * Technical full papers (up to 20 pages) should describe substantial research contributions of novel work that has produced advanced results including validation of results. * Late-breaking results (up to 12 pages) are short papers that present work in progress, new practice and experience reports containing good (and bad) practices and/or recent practical evaluations of methods, techniques and tools. * Demonstrations and posters (5–8 pages, plus poster design draft) should present ongoing work and/or late-breaking results related to the use of innovative tools and cutting-edge systems not described in other paper submissions. Demonstration papers should provide description of tools including user tasks and evidence of use to end-users. Demo submissions should summarize the system’s significance and its performance and should either include screenshots or link to an online-accessible resource. The poster design draft should show the planned design and content of the poster that will be presented at the conference. Industry contributions to demos and posters are particularly welcome and highly encouraged. SUBMISSIONS AND REVIEWING PROCESS All contributions should be submitted via the EasyChair system (https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=hcse2022conference). All submissions will be peer-reviewed for their topical relevance, originality, technical contribution, and presentation quality by the members of the international program committee. Technical full papers and late-breaking results short papers will be reviewed double-blind, demonstrations and posters single-blind. Authors must prepare their submission files accordingly! For poster submissions, both paper and poster design draft will be assessed for review. It will be possible for the program committee to suggest accepting submissions in other than their original submission categories. PRESENTATIONS If we hold a physical conference, under the current circumstances, all accepted submissions will be presented at the conference in technical sessions. It will be possible for authors of accepted technical full papers and late-breaking results short papers to give tool demos as well without submitting additional demo papers. The conference will NOT enable hybrid participation. PROCEEDINGS Accepted contributions must be formatted according to the guidelines of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series of Springer (http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-12-73062-0). Authors are requested to prepare submissions as close as possible to final camera-ready versions. 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CAUSAL 2022 IMPORTANT DATES ----------------------- * Paper submission: May 22nd 2022 * Notification: June 5th 2022 * Final Versions: June 20th 2022 * Workshop Date: July 31 2022 ------------------------ Sophisticated causal reasoning has long been prevalent in human society and continues to have an undeniable impact on the advancement of science, technology, medicine, and other significant fields. From the development of ancient tools to modern roots of causal analysis in business and industry, reasoning about causality and having the ability to explain causal mechanisms enables us to identify how an outcome of interest came to be and gives insight into how to bring about, or even prevent, similar outcomes in future scenarios. This workshop aims to bring together researchers and practitioners of logic programming with a dedicated focus on methods and trends emerging from the study of causality and explanation. We welcome the submission of papers on systems, tools, and applications of logic programming methods for causal reasoning and explanation. In particular, we encourage submissions presenting recent developments, including works in progress. The workshop will present the latest research and application developments in these areas and provide opportunities to discuss current and future research directions and relationships to other fields (e.g. Machine Learning, Diagnosis, Natural Language Processing and Understanding, Philosophy of Science). An important expected outcome of this workshop is to collect first-hand feedback from the ICLP community about the role and placement of causal reasoning and explanation in the landscape of modern computer theory as well as in the software industry. TOPICS ------ Topics of interests include (but are not limited to): * Modeling causal theories in logic programming * Formalization of types of causes: sufficient, necessary, actual, etc * Causality, temporal reasoning and action theories * Causality and counterfactual reasoning * Causality, learning and experimental design * Causality and probability * Causality and equivalence * Causality and ontology * Relating LP based causality and Causal Networks * Challenging problems and benchmark examples * Justifications and argumentation * Explanations for diagnosis and debugging * Tools, systems and applications Submissions must describe original research and be prepared using the Springer LNAI/LNCS format and should be no longer than 13 pages. https://www.springer.com/gp/authors-editors/conference-proceedings/conference-proceedings-guidelines Please submit your paper via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=causal2022 At least one co-author of each accepted paper must register for and attend the workshop. 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The aims of the consortium are: - to provide a forum for students to present their current research, and receive feedback from other students and senior researchers; - to promote contacts among PhD students working in similar areas; - to support students with information and advice on academic, research, and industrial careers. The DC is intended for PhD students who have a specific research proposal and some preliminary results, but who have sufficient time prior to completing their dissertation to benefit from the consortium experience. Preference will be given to students satisfying these criteria, but we also encourage students to apply who are at an earlier or more advanced stage of the completion of their thesis. Accepted students will participate in several dedicated DC events, which will likely consist of a lightning talk session, a poster session, and a mentoring lunch (the precise format of the DC will be finalized closer to the conference). Each student will be given ample time to present their work and therefore be able to fully benefit from direct feedback from the assigned senior researcher mentor and the wider KR conference audience. * Application Submission * Applications must be submitted through the EasyChair conference system: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=kr2022 Each application must contain the following elements combined into a single PDF document: 1. Thesis summary. A description of the problem being addressed, your motivation for addressing the problem, proposed plan of research, the progress to date (what you have already achieved and what remains to be done), and related work. It must be four pages maximum and use the same style as for KR paper submissions (see submission page, https://kr2022.cs.tu-dortmund.de/submission.php). 2. Curriculum Vitae. A description of your background and relevant experience (research, education, employment), of two pages maximum. 3. Letter of recommendation. A letter from your thesis advisor supporting your participation in the DC. 4. Optionally, a suggestion of up to 5 potential mentors with similar research interests, who could give good advice on technical aspects related to the work, and/or career opportunities. The selection process will consider the quality of the submitted proposal and the stage of the student's PhD project. Doctoral students who submit to the DC are permitted to have previously published on their research, and are encouraged to submit papers to KR 2022 and associated conferences and workshops. * Important Dates * • Application deadline: May 15, 2022 (EXTENDED) • Acceptance notification: May 30, 2022 (EXTENDED) • Conference: July 31 - August 5, 2022 * Student Grants * A limited number of student grants will be made available, to support the students participating in the Doctoral Consortium. Preference will be given to students with limited access to funding. 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ACM UMAP is the successor to the biennial User Modeling (UM) and Adaptive Hypermedia and Adaptive Web-based Systems (AH) conferences that were merged in 2009. For the first time in the history of the conference, UMAP ’22 will be run in a hybrid mode between **July 4-7, 2022**, with the opportunity for speakers and attendees to participate onsite or online. IMPORTANT DATES === * **Early-bird registration: May 27, 2022** * Regular registration: May 28 – June 24, 2022 * On-site registration: from June 28, 2022 * Conference: July 4-7, 2022 REGISTRATION === Registration is open at https://www.um.org/umap2022/registration. Register on or before **May 27** to benefit from an early-bird discount! To celebrate the co-location of 3 ACM conferences in Barcelona (ACM Hypertext, ACM UMAP, and ACM WebSci), UMAP supports a joint registration discount. We also are making UMAP more equitable this year. In striving for a conference cost that is affordable for all, we also have deeply discounted rates available for those registering in countries designated by ACM as “economically developing”. These tickets are supported by SIGWEB to provide fair access. Know more about joint registration, grants and support at https://www.um.org/umap2022/grants-and-support/ PRELIMINARY PROGRAM === **Keynotes** * **Nuria Oliver**, ELLIS Unit Alicante Foundation, Alicante, Spain * **Ben Shneiderman**, Dept of Computer Science & Human-Computer Interaction Lab, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA * More keynotes will be announced soon **Paper sessions** * Research papers: https://www.um.org/umap2022/accepted-papers/ * Theory, Opinion, and Reflection papers: https://www.um.org/umap2022/accepted-theory-opinion-and-reflection-papers/ **Other Sessions** * Late-breaking results: https://www.um.org/umap2022/late-breaking-results-and-demos/#lbr * Demonstrations: https://www.um.org/umap2022/late-breaking-results-and-demos/#demo * Doctoral symposium: https://www.um.org/umap2022/accepted-doctoral-consortium-papers/ **Tutorials**: https://www.um.org/umap2022/accepted-tutorials/ * Ethical Considerations in User Modeling and Personalization (ECUMAP) * Semantics-aware Content Representations for Reproducible Recommender Systems (SCoRe) * User Control in Adaptive Information Access (UCAIA) **Workshops**: https://www.um.org/umap2022/accepted-workshops/ * Adaptive and Personalized Privacy and Security (APPS) * Third International Workshop on Adapted intEraction with SociAl Robots (cAESAR) * Explainable User Modeling and Personalized Systems (ExUM 2022) * Fairness in User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (FairUMAP 2022) * Workshop on Group Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (GMAP) * 7th International Workshop on Human Aspects in Adaptive and Personalized Interactive Environments (HAAPIE 2022) * The 13th International Workshop on Personalized Access to Cultural Heritage (PATCH 2022) – Towards Hybrid CH Experience ORGANIZATION === **General Chairs** * Alejandro Bellogín, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain * Ludovico Boratto, University of Cagliari, Italy * Olga C. 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URL: From announce at cs.ucy.ac.cy Thu May 19 12:53:41 2022 From: announce at cs.ucy.ac.cy (Announce Announcements) Date: Thu, 19 May 2022 13:53:41 +0300 Subject: [fg-arc] Second International Conference on ICT for Health, Accessibility and Wellbeing (IHAW 2022): Fourth Call for Papers Message-ID: *** Fourth Call for Papers *** Second International Conference on ICT for Health, Accessibility and Wellbeing (IHAW 2022) December 5-7, 2022, Golden Bay Beach Hotel 5*, Larnaca, Cyprus https://cyprusconferences.org/ihaw2022 (Proceedings to be published by Springer in CCIS; Journal Special Issues with SN Computer Science (Springer) and Smart Health (Elsevier); Best Paper Award sponsored by MDPI "Sensors" with 300 CHF) ICT for Health, Accessibility and Wellbeing (IHAW 2022) is the second 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: Artificial Intelligence, Computation and Data Analytics • Artificial Intelligence methods for medical device testing. • Algorithms, methods and services for condition-specific intervention (e.g., diabetes, obesity, dementia, post cancer treatment, allergies, mental health). • Algorithms, methods and services for predicting and monitoring infectious disease. • Crowd-sourcing and social media analysis for predicting and monitoring infectious disease. • Medical Data and/or Medical Image Analysis. • Electronic Medical Records Analysis. • Computational methods for medical devices. Human Computer Interaction and Cognition • Human-Machine Interaction for healthcare and well-being. • Cognitive Mechatronics for healthcare and well-being. • Models for human-device interaction for medicine. • Cobotics for healthcare and well-being. • Model-based design and configuration tools for healthcare and well-being. Assistive Devices • Precision medicine. • ICT for in-silicon trials. • Implantable medical devices. • Multimodal assistive ICT devices to empower people with sensory, cognitive, motor, balance and spatial impairments. ICT & Wellbeing • Age-friendly systems for active and healthy ageing (telepresence, robotics solutions, innovative solutions for independent living, innovative elderly care, integrated care, age-related risks prevention/detection). • 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). • Smart Systems and services promoting access to the socio-economical and cultural environment. • IoT and smart real-time surveillance systems for monitoring, auditing and control to prevent the spread of the pandemic. • eHealth smart solutions in the fight against a COVID-19 like pandemic. • IoT and Smart Healthcare systems with an environmentally friendly and sustainable footprint. Health Infrastructure and Healthcare Operation Services • Distributed and connected digital healthcare services. • IoT services for real-time monitoring of health data and status of patients and/or older adults. • Wearable devices and IoT systems for remote monitoring of health data and status of patients and/or older adults. • mHealth services and applications using mobile and wearable devices to collect community and clinical health data, and deliver healthcare information to practitioners, researchers and patients. • Sustainable city environments for emergency health management. • 5G and beyond for healthcare in sustainable smart cities. • Wireless Sensor Networks for advanced smart healthcare in sustainable cities. Quality in Healthcare Systems • New experimental validation methods with end-users. • Systems and services for ensuring patient’s commitment to the medication schedule. • Digital health systems and tools for health care professional training and workforce development. • Communication systems and services improving the quality of patient and healthcare provider contact before, during and after admission. • Methods and Technology for Improving the quality of services-oriented care delivery systems. • Methods, Digital Tools and/or Services for inclusive-for-all healthcare systems. • Co-Creation of healthcare systems for social well being of people with special needs, older adults and/or deprivileged or disadvantaged people. • 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). Privacy, Security & Standardization • Standardization, certification, labelling, and communication issues (related to ageing well, to sensory impairment). • Privacy and Security/Regulation compliant services in health care systems (e.g., HIPAA). • Security and privacy of digital health systems and service. • Socio-economic issues of smart healthcare in sustainable societies. • Privacy, security and ethics in eHealth smart solutions and surveillance at scale in the fight against a COVID-19 pandemic. 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. 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 Research and Technical papers, up to 15 pages, describing original unpublished research, making a substantial contribution to the research field. All submissions will be reviewed by the Program Committee. As was the case for IHAW 2021, the proceedings of IHAW 2022 will be published by Springer in the Communications in Computer and Information Science (CCIS) series (https://www.springer.com/series/7899) and will be presented in the technical sessions of the conference. The Best Paper Award is sponsored by MDPI "Sensors" with 300 CHF. The authors of the best papers accepted and presented at IHAW2022 will be invited to submit extended versions of their papers for further review and possible inclusion in either of two Journal Special Issues that will be organised with SN Computer Science (Springer) and Smart Health (Elsevier). Submissions of all types should be carefully formatted according to the Springer format for conference proceedings: https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines . The submission process will be handled through Easy Chair and the submission link is: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=icihaw2022 . Important Dates • Submission Deadline: July 18, 2022 (AoE) • Notification: September 26, 2022 • Camera-Ready Submission Deadline: October 10, 2022 • Author Registration Deadline: October 10, 2022 Organizers Honorary General Chair • Edwige Pissaloux, University of Rouen Normandy, France General Chair • George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Scientific Chair • Achilleas Achilleos, Frederick University, Cyprus Scientific Vice-Chair • Ramiro Velazquez, Universidad Panamericana, Mexico Publicity Chair • Jessica Allingham, Lakehead University, Canada Finance Chair • Petros Stratis, Easy Conferences LTD, Cyprus -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Cassia.Trojahn at irit.fr Fri May 20 13:26:43 2022 From: Cassia.Trojahn at irit.fr (Cassia TROJAHN) Date: Fri, 20 May 2022 13:26:43 +0200 Subject: [fg-arc] =?utf-8?q?=5BOM-2022=5D_1st_CFP=3A_17th_workshop_on_Ont?= =?utf-8?q?ology_Matching_collocated_with_ISWC?= Message-ID: <4ff0-62877b00-1b-e5144d0@189364743> ** With apologies for multiple posting ** The Seventeenth International Workshop on ONTOLOGY MATCHING (OM-2022) http://om2022.ontologymatching.org/ October 23rd or 24th, 2022, International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC) Workshop Program, Hybrid conference, Hangzhou, China BRIEF DESCRIPTION AND OBJECTIVES Ontology matching is a key interoperability enabler for the Semantic Web, as well as a useful technique in some classical data integration tasks dealing with the semantic heterogeneity problem. It takes ontologies as input and determines as output an alignment, that is, a set of correspondences between the semantically related entities of those ontologies. These correspondences can be used for various tasks, such as ontology merging, data interlinking, query answering or navigation over knowledge graphs. Thus, matching ontologies enables the knowledge and data expressed with the matched ontologies to interoperate. The workshop has three goals: 1. To bring together leaders from academia, industry and user institutions to assess how academic advances are addressing real-world requirements. The workshop will strive to improve academic awareness of industrial and final user needs, and therefore, direct research towards those needs. Simultaneously, the workshop will serve to inform industry and user representatives about existing research efforts that may meet their requirements. The workshop will also investigate how the ontology matching technology is going to evolve, especially with respect to data interlinking, knowledge graph and web table matching tasks. 2. To conduct an extensive and rigorous evaluation of ontology matching and instance matching (link discovery) approaches through the OAEI (Ontology Alignment Evaluation Initiative) 2022 campaign: http://oaei.ontologymatching.org/2022/ 3. To examine similarities and differences from other, old, new and emerging, techniques and usages, such as web table matching or knowledge embeddings. TOPICS of interest include but are not limited to: Business and use cases for matching (e.g., big, open, closed data); Requirements to matching from specific application scenarios (e.g., public sector); Application of matching techniques in real-world scenarios (e.g., in cloud, with mobile apps); Formal foundations and frameworks for matching; Novel matching methods, including link prediction, ontology-based access; Matching and knowledge graphs; Matching and deep learning; Matching and embeddings; Matching and big data; Matching and linked data; Instance matching, data interlinking and relations between them; Privacy-aware matching; Process model matching; Large-scale and efficient matching techniques; Matcher selection, combination and tuning; User involvement (including both technical and organizational aspects); Explanations in matching; Social and collaborative matching; Uncertainty in matching; Expressive alignments; Reasoning with alignments; Alignment coherence and debugging; Alignment management; Matching for traditional applications (e.g., data science); Matching for emerging applications (e.g., web tables, knowledge graphs). SUBMISSIONS Contributions to the workshop can be made in terms of technical papers and posters/statements of interest addressing different issues of ontology matching as well as participating in the OAEI 2022 campaign. Long technical papers should be of max. 12 pages. Short technical papers should be of max. 5 pages. Posters/statements of interest should not exceed 2 pages. All contributions have to be prepared using the LNCS Style: http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0 and should be submitted in PDF format (no later than August 9th, 2022) through the workshop submission site at: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=om2022 Contributors to the OAEI 2022 campaign have to follow the campaign conditions and schedule at http://oaei.ontologymatching.org/2022/. DATES FOR TECHNICAL PAPERS AND POSTERS: August 9th, 2022: Deadline for the submission of papers. September 6th, 2022: Deadline for the notification of acceptance/rejection. September 20th, 2022: Workshop camera ready copy submission. October 23rd or 24th, 2022: OM-2022, hybrid conference, Hangzhou, China. Contributions will be refereed by the Program Committee. Accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings as a volume of CEUR-WS as well as indexed on DBLP. ORGANIZING COMMITTEE 1. Pavel Shvaiko (main contact) Trentino Digitale, Italy 2. Jérôme Euzenat INRIA & Univ. Grenoble Alpes, France 3. Ernesto Jiménez-Ruiz City, University of London, UK & SIRIUS, University of Oslo, Norway 4. Oktie Hassanzadeh IBM Research, USA 5. Cássia Trojahn IRIT, France PROGRAM COMMITTEE (to be completed): Alsayed Algergawy, Jena University, Germany Manuel Atencia, Universidad de Málaga, Spain Jiaoyan Chen, University of Oxford, UK Jérôme David, University Grenoble Alpes & INRIA, France Gayo Diallo, University of Bordeaux, France Daniel Faria, Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciéncia, Portugal Alfio Ferrara, University of Milan, Italy Marko Gulic, University of Rijeka, Croatia Wei Hu, Nanjing University, China Ryutaro Ichise, National Institute of Informatics, Japan Antoine Isaac, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam & Europeana, Netherlands Naouel Karam, Fraunhofer, Germany Prodromos Kolyvakis, EPFL, Switzerland Patrick Lambrix, Linköpings Universitet, Sweden Oliver Lehmberg, University of Mannheim, Germany Fiona McNeill, University of Edinburgh, UK Majid Mohammadi, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands Hoa Ngo, CSIRO, Australia George Papadakis, University of Athens, Greece Henry Rosales-Méndez, University of Chile, Chile Booma Sowkarthiga, Microsoft, USA Kavitha Srinivas, IBM, USA Ludger van Elst, DFKI, Germany Xingsi Xue, Fujian University of Technology, China Ondrej Zamazal, Prague University of Economics, Czech Republic Songmao Zhang, Chinese Academy of Science, China ------------------------------------------------------- More about ontology matching: http://www.ontologymatching.org/ http://book.ontologymatching.org/ ------------------------------------------------------- Best regards, Cassia From announce at cs.ucy.ac.cy Mon May 23 12:47:32 2022 From: announce at cs.ucy.ac.cy (Announce Announcements) Date: Mon, 23 May 2022 13:47:32 +0300 Subject: [fg-arc] ACM International Conference on Information Technology for Social Good (GoodIT 2022): Last Call for Contributions Message-ID: *** Last Call for Contributions *** ACM International Conference on Information Technology for Social Good (GoodIT 2022) 7–9 September, 2022, 5* St. Raphael Resort & Marina, Limassol, Cyprus https://cyprusconferences.org/goodit2022/ (*** Submission Deadline Extension (firm!): 6 June, 2022 ***) Scope The ACM GoodIT conference seeks papers describing significant research contributions related to the application of information technologies (IT) to social good. Social good is typically defined as something that provides a benefit to the general public. In this context, clean air and water, Internet connection, education, and healthcare are all good examples of social goods. However, new media innovations and the explosion of online communities have added new meaning to the term. Social good is now about global citizens uniting to unlock the potential of individuals, technology, and collaboration to create a positive societal impact. GoodIT solicits papers that address important research challenges related to, but not limited to: • Citizen science • Civic intelligence • Decentralized approaches to IT • Digital solutions for Cultural Heritage • Environmental monitoring • Ethical computing • Frugal solutions for IT • Game, entertainment, and multimedia applications • Health and social care • IT for automotive • IT for development • IT for education • IT for smart living • Privacy, trust and ethical issues in ICT solutions • Smart governance and e-administration • Social informatics • Socially responsible IT solutions • Sustainable cities and transportation • Sustainable IT • Technology addressing the digital divide Paper Submission The papers should not exceed eleven (11) pages single-column, including figures, tables, and references in the new ACM format (https://cyprusconferences.org/goodit2022/index.php/authors/ ). They must be original works and must not have been previously published. At least one of the authors of all accepted papers must register and present the work at the conference; otherwise, the paper will not be published in the proceedings. All accepted and presented papers will be included in the conference proceedings published in the ACM Digital Library. In addition to a Main Track, the conference features 9 additional Special Tracks. More information on these tracks is available on the conference web site. Journal Special Issues and Best Paper Award Selected papers will be invited to submit an extended version to two special journal issues: • FGCS, Elsevier (https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/future-generation-computer-systems) • MDPI Sensors, where the theme of the special issue will be "Application of Information Technology (IT) to Social Good" (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/sensors/special_issues/topical_collection_goodit ). Specifically 5 papers will be invited free of charge and another 5 papers will get a 20% discount on the publication fees. Furthermore, MDPI Sensors will sponsor a Best Paper Award with the amount of 400 CHF. Work-in-Progress and PhD Track Inside ACM GoodIT, the Work-in-Progress and PhD Track provides an opportunity to showcase interesting new work that is still at an early stage. We encourage practitioners and researchers to submit to the Work-in-Progress venue as it provides a unique opportunity for sharing valuable ideas, eliciting feedback on early-stage work, and fostering discussions and collaborations among colleagues. Moreover, this track provides a platform for PhD students to present and receive feedback on their ongoing research. Students at different stages of their research will have the opportunity to present and discuss their research questions, goals, methods and results. This is an opportunity to obtain guidance on various aspects of their research from established researchers and other PhD students working in research areas related to technologies for social good. 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Again, we have the chance to organize the 10th edition of the workshop in Vienna, co-located with the IJCAI-ECAI 2022 Conference. Formal Concept Analysis (FCA) is a mathematically well-founded theory aimed at data analysis and classification. FCA allows one to build a concept lattice and a system of dependencies (implications and association rules) which can be used for many AI needs, e.g. knowledge processing, knowledge discovery, knowledge representation and reasoning, ontology engineering as well as information retrieval, recommendation, social network analysis and text processing. Thus, there are many ``natural links'' between FCA and AI. Recent years have been witnessing increased scientific activity around FCA, in particular a strand of work emerged that is aimed at extending the possibilities of plain FCA w.r.t. knowledge processing, such as work on pattern structures and relational context analysis, as well as on hybridization with other formalisms. These extensions are aimed at allowing FCA to deal with more complex than just binary data, for solving complex problems in data analysis, classification, knowledge processing... While the capabilities of FCA are extended, new possibilities are arising in the framework of FCA. As usual, the FCA4AI workshop is dedicated to the discussion of such issues, and in particular: - How can FCA support AI activities in knowledge discovery, knowledge representation and reasoning, machine learning, natural language processing... - By contrast, how the current developments in AI can be integrated within FCA to help AI researchers solve complex problems in their domain, - Which role can be played by FCA in the new trends in AI, especially in ML, XAI, fairness of algorithms, and ``hybrid systems'' combining symbolic and subsymbolic approaches. TOPICS OF INTEREST include but are not limited to: - Concept lattices and related structures: pattern structures, relational structures, distributive lattices. - Knowledge discovery and data mining: pattern mining, association rules, attribute implications, subgroup discovery, exceptional model mining, data dependencies, attribute exploration, stability, projections, interestingness measures, MDL principle, mining of complex data, triadic and polyadic analysis. - Knowledge and data engineering: knowledge representation, reasoning, ontology engineering, mining the web of data, text mining, data quality checking. - Analyzing the potential of FCA in supporting hybrid systems: how to combine FCA and data mining algorithms, such as deep learning for building hybrid knowledge discovery systems, producing explanations, and assessing system fairness. - Analyzing the potential of FCA in AI tasks such as classification, clustering, biclustering, information retrieval, navigation, recommendation, text processing, visualization, pattern recognition, analysis of social networks. - Practical applications in agronomy, astronomy, biology, chemistry, finance, manufacturing, medicine... The workshop will include time for audience discussion aimed at better understanding of of the issues, challenges, and ideas being presented. IMPORTANT DATES: Submission deadline: June 06 2022 Notification to authors: July 04 2022 Final version: July 14 2022 Workshop: July 23 or 24 2022 SUBMISSION DETAILS: The workshop welcomes submissions in pdf format in Springer's LNCS style. Submissions can be: - technical papers not exceeding 12 pages, - system descriptions or position papers on work in progress not exceeding 6 pages. Submissions are via EasyChair at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fca4ai2022 The workshop proceedings will be published as CEUR proceedings (see preceding editions in CEUR Proceedings Vol-2972, Vol-2729, Vol-2529, Vol-2149, Vol-1703, Vol-1430, Vol-1257, Vol-1058, and Vol-939). WORKSHOP CHAIRS: Sergei O. 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Originally born as a formal method for reasoning about abstract data types, it now covers new specification frameworks and programming paradigms (such as object-oriented, aspect oriented, agent-oriented, logic and higher-order functional programming) as well as a wide range of application areas (including information systems, concurrent, distributed and mobile systems). The workshop will provide an opportunity to present recent and ongoing work, to meet colleagues, and to discuss new ideas and future trends. In 2020 WADT features additionally two special thematic tracks: one in *Algebra for timed and hybrid systems* and another in *Algebraic approaches to quantum computation*. ** Main track ** Typical, but not exclusive topics of interest for the main track are: - Foundations of algebraic specification - Other approaches to formal specification, including process calculi and models of concurrent and distributed systems - Specification languages, methods, and environments - Semantics of conceptual modelling methods and techniques - Integration of formal specification techniques - Formal testing and quality assurance, validation, and verification ** Algebra for timed and hybrid systems ** Track Chair: Renato Neves (UM, PT) The track 'Algebra for timed and hybrid systems' seeks algebraic contributions towards a better understanding of timed and hybrid systems, including their design and verification. A non-exhaustive list of topics includes: - (co)algebraic syntax and semantics, - observational notions of equivalence, - equational reasoning and variants thereof, - distributed and/or concurrent computing; - modal and temporal logic, - (co)algebraic verification tools, - experience reports on the use of (co)algebraic tools. ** Algebraic approaches to quantum computation ** Track Chair: Rui Soares Barbosa (INL, PT) This track seeks contributions on algebraic methods in the context of quantum computing, broadly understood, ranging from foundations to applications and tools. A non-exhaustive list of topics includes: - foundational structures for quantum computing - quantum calculi and logics - quantum programming languages - algebraic and categorical semantics for quantum computing - algebraic approaches to verification of quantum programs - rewriting and automated reasoning with applications to quantum compilation and optimisation - tool support - application of quantum algebra to quantum computing and beyond ** Invited Speakers ** - Radu Mardare University of Strathclyde, UK - José Meseguer University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, US - José Nuno Oliveira Universidade do Minho, PT - Peter Selinger Dalhousie University, CA ** Contributed talks ** see http://wadt2022.web.ua.pt ** Workshop format and location ** WADT'22 is planned to be realised in a family-owned guesthouse with panoramic views to lagoon Pateira de Fermentelos, 20 minutes from the centre of Aveiro. The registration fees, that includes the event registration, accommodations and meals, will be around EUR 500 for standard and EUR 300 for student participants. Instructions will be available soon in http://wadt2022.web.ua.pt. Being planned as a physical, in-person event, due the COVID19 current situation, we will provide certain support for remote presence, both for speakers and for other participants who are unable or unwilling to come, depending on the pandemic situation. ** Organisation ** * Steering Committee * Andrea Corradini (IT) José Fiadeiro (UK) Rolf Hennicker (GE) Alexander Knapp (GE) Hans-Jörg Kreowski (GE) Till Mossakowski (GE) Fernando Orejas (SP) Leila Ribeiro (BR) Markus Roggenbach (UK) Grigore Roșu (US) * Program Committee * Erika Abraham (RWTH Aachen, NL) Luis S. Barbosa (U. Minho, PT) Rui S. Barbosa (INL, PT) [Track Chair] Carlos Caleiro (U. Lisboa, PT) Andrea Corradini (U. Pisa, IT) José Luiz Fiadeiro (U. Dundee, UK) Ichiro Hasuo (National Institute of Informatics, JP) Rolf Hennicker (LMU, DE) Marieke Huisman (U. Twente, NL) Martti Karvonen (U. Ottawa, CN) Aleks Kissinger (U. Oxford, UK) Alexander Knapp (U. Augsburg, DE) Alexandre Madeira (U. Aveiro, PT) [Co-chair] Manuel A. Martins (U. Aveiro, PT) [Co-chair] Narciso Marti-Oliet (U. Complutense de Madrid, SP) Dominique Mery (LORIA, FR) Till Mossakowski (U. Magdeburg, DE) Renato Neves (U. Minho, PT) [Track Chair] Peter Ölveczky (U. Oslo, NR) Fernando Orejas (U. Politècnica Catalunya, SP) Markus Roggenbach (Swansea University, UK) Georg Struth (U. Sheffield, UK) Ionut Tutu (Simion Stoilow Institute of Mathematics, RO) Benoît Valiron (Univ. Paris Saclay, FR) Vladimir Zamdzhiev (Inria, FR) ** Contacts ** For any information, please contact us to dmat-wadt2022 at ua.pt From announce at cs.ucy.ac.cy Fri May 13 14:03:23 2022 From: announce at cs.ucy.ac.cy (Announce Announcements) Date: Fri, 13 May 2022 15:03:23 +0300 Subject: [fg-arc] ACM International Conference on Information Technology for Social Good (GoodIT 2022): Sixth Call for Contributions Message-ID: *** Sixth Call for Contributions *** ACM International Conference on Information Technology for Social Good (GoodIT 2022) 7–9 September, 2022, 5* St. Raphael Resort & Marina, Limassol, Cyprus https://cyprusconferences.org/goodit2022/ Scope The ACM GoodIT conference seeks papers describing significant research contributions related to the application of information technologies (IT) to social good. Social good is typically defined as something that provides a benefit to the general public. In this context, clean air and water, Internet connection, education, and healthcare are all good examples of social goods. However, new media innovations and the explosion of online communities have added new meaning to the term. Social good is now about global citizens uniting to unlock the potential of individuals, technology, and collaboration to create a positive societal impact. GoodIT solicits papers that address important research challenges related to, but not limited to: • Citizen science • Civic intelligence • Decentralized approaches to IT • Digital solutions for Cultural Heritage • Environmental monitoring • Ethical computing • Frugal solutions for IT • Game, entertainment, and multimedia applications • Health and social care • IT for automotive • IT for development • IT for education • IT for smart living • Privacy, trust and ethical issues in ICT solutions • Smart governance and e-administration • Social informatics • Socially responsible IT solutions • Sustainable cities and transportation • Sustainable IT • Technology addressing the digital divide Paper Submission The papers should not exceed eleven (11) pages single-column, including figures, tables, and references in the new ACM format (https://cyprusconferences.org/goodit2022/index.php/authors/ ). They must be original works and must not have been previously published. At least one of the authors of all accepted papers must register and present the work at the conference; otherwise, the paper will not be published in the proceedings. All accepted and presented papers will be included in the conference proceedings published in the ACM Digital Library. In addition to a Main Track, the conference features 9 additional Special Tracks. More information on these tracks is available on the conference web site. Journal Special Issues and Best Paper Award Selected papers will be invited to submit an extended version to two special journal issues: • FGCS, Elsevier (https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/future-generation-computer-systems) • MDPI Sensors, where the theme of the special issue will be "Application of Information Technology (IT) to Social Good" (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/sensors/special_issues/topical_collection_goodit ). Specifically 5 papers will be invited free of charge and another 5 papers will get a 20% discount on the publication fees. Furthermore, MDPI Sensors will sponsor a Best Paper Award with the amount of 400 CHF. Work-in-Progress and PhD Track Inside ACM GoodIT, the Work-in-Progress and PhD Track provides an opportunity to showcase interesting new work that is still at an early stage. We encourage practitioners and researchers to submit to the Work-in-Progress venue as it provides a unique opportunity for sharing valuable ideas, eliciting feedback on early-stage work, and fostering discussions and collaborations among colleagues. Moreover, this track provides a platform for PhD students to present and receive feedback on their ongoing research. Students at different stages of their research will have the opportunity to present and discuss their research questions, goals, methods and results. This is an opportunity to obtain guidance on various aspects of their research from established researchers and other PhD students working in research areas related to technologies for social good. Important: For this specific track, papers must not exceed nine (9) pages single column, including figures, tables, and references in the new ACM format (https://cyprusconferences.org/goodit2022/index.php/authors/ ). Submission Instructions All papers must be submitted electronically via the hotcrp web site (https://goodit2022.hotcrp.com ). Once on the submission page, you will be able to select the track where to submit your paper. Important Dates • Submission deadline for all types of contributions: 23 May 2022 • Notification of acceptance: 20 June 2022 • Camera-ready submission and author registration: 11 July 2022 Conference Committees https://cyprusconferences.org/goodit2022/committees/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From announce at cs.ucy.ac.cy Sat May 14 11:31:23 2022 From: announce at cs.ucy.ac.cy (Announce Announcements) Date: Sat, 14 May 2022 12:31:23 +0300 Subject: [fg-arc] 8th IEEE International Smart Cities Conference (ISC2 2022): Fifth Call for Papers Message-ID: <36CE5DP-GNPL-JER6-BNMN-GYW2W1KFG0H2@cs.ucy.ac.cy> *** Fifth Call for Papers *** 8th IEEE International Smart Cities Conference (ISC2 2022) "Community Smartification and towards ZERO emission Smart Cities for a Green New Era" September 26-29, 2022, Aliathon Resort, Paphos, Cyprus https://attend.ieee.org/isc2-2022  The IEEE ISC2 2022 Organizing Committee is glad to announce that it is currently accepting papers for the 8th edition of the IEEE International Smart Cities Conference.  This year, the IEEE ISC2 will be held in-person on September 26-29, 2022, in Paphos, Cyprus and the theme of the conference is “Community Smartification and towards ZERO emission Smart Cities for a Green New Era.” The IEEE ISC2 is the flagship conference sponsored by the IEEE Smart Cities Technical Community, a coalition of eight IEEE technical societies and organizations. Besides contributions addressing the conference theme, authors are welcome to submit their original research results in traditional topics across broad application and functional domains, within the context of smart urban infrastructure systems. The technical areas include, but are not limited to:   • Smart city theory, modelling and simulation 
• Intelligent infrastructure
• Sensors and actuators
• Open data and big data analytics
• AI powered smart cities services
• Safety and security systems
• Smart healthcare
• Smart emergency management
• IoT and Smart X services • Data security and privacy
• Connected Vehicle (CV) technologies
• Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs)
• Smart mobility and transportation
• Smart energy systems
• Smart buildings and Smart grid
• Digital city and smart growth
• Smart traffic system operations
• Environmental monitoring technologies The complete list of technical areas can be found here: https://attend.ieee.org/isc2-2022/call-for-papers/ . Should you need further clarifications or have any inquiries, please do not hesitate to contact us at: isc22022 at easychair.org . Paper Submission Guidelines Prospective authors are invited to submit high quality original (Full or Short) papers via the EasyChair submission site at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=isc22022 . Full papers should describe novel research contributions with evaluation results and are limited to seven (7) pages. Short papers, limited in length to four (4) pages, should be more visionary in nature and are meant to discuss new challenges and visions, highlight early research results, and explore novel research directions. All submitted papers must be unpublished and not considered elsewhere for publication, should be written in English and formatted according to the IEEE Template ( https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html ). Each submitted paper will pass through the standard IEEE peer-review process. If accepted and presented at the conference, it will appear in the conference proceedings and be submitted for inclusion in the IEEE Xplore Digital Library. The conference organisers are currently negotiating a number of special issues with high quality journals. More information is available on the conference web site (https://attend.ieee.org/isc2-2022/journal-special-issues/ ). The best papers will be awarded in the conference Best Paper Award and a Best Student Paper Award contests.  For more information, please visit the conference website: https://attend.ieee.org/isc2-2022 . 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URL: From Cassia.Trojahn at irit.fr Thu May 19 11:28:51 2022 From: Cassia.Trojahn at irit.fr (Cassia TROJAHN) Date: Thu, 19 May 2022 11:28:51 +0200 Subject: [fg-arc] =?utf-8?q?1st_CfP=3A_Onto4FAIR_Workshop_at_SEMANTICS_20?= =?utf-8?q?22?= Message-ID: <77d5-62860e00-23-216a2fc0@140016232> ** With apologies for multiple posting ** -------------- Onto4FAIR Workshop at SEMANTICS 2022 -------------- 1st Workshop on Ontologies for FAIR and FAIR Ontologies (Onto4FAIR) in conjunction with SEMANTiCS 2022, Vienna, Austria Website: https://onto4fair.github.io -------------- Important dates -------------- - June 27, 2022 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time): Submission deadline - July 30, 2022 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time): Notification of acceptance - August 15, 2022 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time): Camera-ready version - September 13, 2022: Workshop The workshop is planned to take place physically in Vienna, Austria. https://2022-eu.semantics.cc/venue -------------- Presentation -------------- Making the huge and diverse kinds of data produced by researchers, data stewards, and service providers, fully reusable and understood requires specific efforts. The Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable (FAIR) principles were elaborated to address these issues, describing a set of requirements for data reusability and interoperability. These principles have been gaining increasing attention in a range of different areas and applications, including in the industrial area. A key aspect in making data FAIR is the ability of machines to automatically find, access, interoperate, and reuse data with none or minimal human intervention. For that, the ability of properly and semantically describing data is essential. The workshop has the following main goals: - to bring together leaders from academia, industry and user institutions to discuss the adoption of FAIR principles in real-world requirements. - to serve to inform industry and user representatives about existing research efforts that may meet their requirements. - to investigate how the FAIR principles are supported by the use of schemes, vocabulaires, and ontologies that ideally are themselves FAIR.%, including creation, reuse and alignment of schemas, vocabularies and ontologies, to support the FAIR principles and their adoption in diverse areas of application. - to discuss the challenges and perspectives in adopting FAIR principles. -------------- Workshop topics -------------- The topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: - schemes, ontologies and vocabulaires for FAIR data and metadata; - domain and cross-domain ontologies for FAIR data; - making vocabularies and ontologies FAIR; - alignment of schemes, vocabulaires and ontologies for FAIR; - data management for FAIR data; - best practices for implementing the FAIR principles; - FAIRification process and use cases; - metrics for FAIRness assessment; - provenance in FAIR environments; - FAIR principles and open science; - FAIR principles and linked open data; - FAIR in industry, scientific communities (life science, digital humanities, health, smart cities, etc.). -------------- Submissions -------------- - Full research papers: 12 pages (including references). - Short papers: 6 pages (including references). Please submit your contribution on EasyChair (https://easychair.org/conferences/submissions?a=28690100). Submissions must be in PDF, formatted in the style of LNCS conference proceedings. The workshop proceedings will be published in the CEUR-WS.org online proceedings. -------------- Registration -------------- More information will follow in the next few weeks. -------------- Workshop Chairs -------------- - Luiz Olavo Bonino da Silva Santos, University of Twente and Leiden University Medical Center, the Netherlands - Giancarlo Guizzardi, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy & University of Twente, the Netherlands - Clement Jonquet, French National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and Environment, Mathematics, Informatics and STatistics for Environment and Agronomy research unit, Montpellier, France - Cassia Trojahn, Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse, France -------------- Program Committee -------------- (to be confirmed) From ecl.drexel at gmail.com Mon May 23 00:01:42 2022 From: ecl.drexel at gmail.com (Emily LeBlanc) Date: Sun, 22 May 2022 18:01:42 -0400 Subject: [fg-arc] [Deadline Extension] CAUSAL 2022: Workshop on Causal Reasoning and Explanation (co-located with ICLP 2022) Message-ID: [Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this email. Please distribute to interested parties.] Fourth Workshop on Causal Reasoning and Explanation in Logic Programming CALL FOR PAPERS *** CAUSAL 2022 *** The Fourth Workshop on Causal Reasoning and Explanation in Logic Programming (CAUSAL 2022) is a workshop of ICLP 2022 to be held in Haifa, Israel, July 31, 2022. CAUSAL 2022 IMPORTANT DATES ----------------------- * Paper submission: May 25th 2022 * Notification: June 5th 2022 * Final Versions: June 20th 2022 * Workshop Date: July 31st 2022 ------------------------ Sophisticated causal reasoning has long been prevalent in human society and continues to have an undeniable impact on the advancement of science, technology, medicine, and other significant fields. From the development of ancient tools to modern roots of causal analysis in business and industry, reasoning about causality and having the ability to explain causal mechanisms enables us to identify how an outcome of interest came to be and gives insight into how to bring about, or even prevent, similar outcomes in future scenarios. This workshop aims to bring together researchers and practitioners of logic programming with a dedicated focus on methods and trends emerging from the study of causality and explanation. We welcome the submission of papers on systems, tools, and applications of logic programming methods for causal reasoning and explanation. In particular, we encourage submissions presenting recent developments, including works in progress. The workshop will present the latest research and application developments in these areas and provide opportunities to discuss current and future research directions and relationships to other fields (e.g. Machine Learning, Diagnosis, Natural Language Processing and Understanding, Philosophy of Science). An important expected outcome of this workshop is to collect first-hand feedback from the ICLP community about the role and placement of causal reasoning and explanation in the landscape of modern computer theory as well as in the software industry. TOPICS ------ Topics of interests include (but are not limited to): * Modeling causal theories in logic programming * Formalization of types of causes: sufficient, necessary, actual, etc * Causality, temporal reasoning and action theories * Causality and counterfactual reasoning * Causality, learning and experimental design * Causality and probability * Causality and equivalence * Causality and ontology * Relating LP based causality and Causal Networks * Challenging problems and benchmark examples * Justifications and argumentation * Explanations for diagnosis and debugging * Tools, systems and applications Submissions must describe original research and be prepared using the Springer LNAI/LNCS format and should be no longer than 13 pages. https://www.springer.com/gp/authors-editors/conference-proceedings/conference-proceedings-guidelines Please submit your paper via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=causal2022 At least one co-author of each accepted paper must register for and attend the workshop. Please check the ICLP 2022 website for registration procedure and fees: https://software.imdea.org/Conferences/ICLP2022/ ORGANIZERS ---------- Emily LeBlanc, USA, ecl.drexel at gmail.com Joost Vennekens, KU Leuven, Belgium Tran Cao Son, New Mexico State University, USA Pedro Cabalar, Corunna University, Spain Jorge Fandiño, University of Potsdam, Germany Marcello Balduccini, Saint Joseph's University, USA -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From cfp at mat.unical.it Wed May 25 17:58:03 2022 From: cfp at mat.unical.it (cfp) Date: Wed, 25 May 2022 17:58:03 +0200 Subject: [fg-arc] RCRA 2022 - 1st call for papers In-Reply-To: <95b98e0b-92e7-1d72-000e-e7aed38e86b3@mat.unical.it> References: <95b98e0b-92e7-1d72-000e-e7aed38e86b3@mat.unical.it> Message-ID: <863bfb0e-49a0-189d-5a5a-3621f1c94380@mat.unical.it> [APOLOGIES FOR MULTIPLE POSTINGS] * ______________________________________________________________________ * The RCRA group (Knowledge Representation & Automated Reasoning) of the AI*IA (Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence) organizes the 29th RCRA workshop on Experimental evaluation of algorithms for solving problems with combinatorial explosion (RCRA 2022) affiliated to the 16th International Conference on Logic Programming and Non-monotonic Reasoning (LPNMR 2022) https://sites.google.com/view/lpnmr2022 September, 5th, 2022; Genova, Italy RCRA group web site:http://rcra.aixia.it/ Workshop web site: TBA e-mail:marco at dibris.unige.it,M.Vallati at hud.ac.uk * ______________________________________________________________________ * This event follows the series of the RCRA (Knowledge Representation and Automated Reasoning) annual meetings, held since 1994. The success of the previous events shows that RCRA is becoming a major forum for exchanging ideas and proposing experimentation methodologies for algorithms in Artificial Intelligence. * ______________________________________________________________________ * IMPORTANT DATES Paper submission deadline: July 10th, 2022 Notification of acceptance: August 1st, 2022 Final version of accepted original papers: August 22nd, 2022 RCRA workshop: September 5th, 2022 AIMS AND SCOPE Many problems in Artificial Intelligence show an exponential explosion of the search space. Although stemming from different research areas in AI, such problems are often addressed with algorithms that have a common goal: the effective exploration of huge state spaces. Many algorithms developed in one research area are applicable to other problems, or can be hybridized with techniques in other areas. Artificial Intelligence tools often exploit or hybridize techniques developed by other research communities, such as Operations Research. In recent years, research in Artificial Intelligence has more and more focused on experimental evaluation of algorithms, the development of suitable methodologies for experimentation and analysis, the study of languages and the implementation of systems for the definition and solution of problems. Scope of the workshop is fostering the cross-fertilization of ideas stemming from different areas, proposing benchmarks for new challenging problems, comparing models and algorithms from an experimental viewpoint, and, in general, comparing different approaches with respect to efficiency, problem modeling, and ease of development. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Experimental evaluation of algorithms for o knowledge representation o automated reasoning o planning o scheduling o machine learning o model checking o boolean satisfiability (SAT) o constraint programming o argumentation o temporal reasoning o combinatorial optimization o quantified boolean formulae and quantified constraints o modal logics o logic programming o answer set programming o ontological reasoning * Definition and construction of benchmarks * Experimentation methodologies * Metaheuristics * Algorithm hybridization * Static analysis of combinatorial problems * Languages and systems for definition and solution of problems * Comparisons between systems and algorithms * Application experiences (visualization, graphics, security, transports,...) WORKSHOP CHAIRS Marco Maratea University of Genova, Italy Mauro Vallati University of Huddersfield, UK HOST ORGANIZATION AND VENUE University of Genova, Italy The workshop will take place in Genova Nervi, Italy, in the Collegio Emiliani (http://www.collegioemiliani.it/), which is a college directly situated on the see. Of course, we will continuously monitor the pandemic situation in order to evaluate whether the conference can be indeed held as an in-person event, or we will need to switch to a hybrid event, if not completely on-line. SUBMISSIONS Authors are invited to submit either original and non-original papers. Publications showing negative results are welcome, provided that the approach was original and very promising in principle, the experimentation was well-conducted, the results obtained were unforeseeable and gave important hints in the comprehension of the target problem, helping other researchers to avoid unsuccessful paths. Workshop submissions must be in PDF format, do not exceed 15 (for full papers) or 8 (for short papers) pages, and should be written in LaTeX, using the LNCS style. RCRA 2022 uses EasyChair for the submission of contributions. Contributions must be submitted through this page: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=rcra2022 All submissions will be reviewed by at least three members of the program committee (TBD). CONTACT In case of need, the workshop co-chairs can be contacted by sending an email to: marco at dibris.unige.it,M.Vallati at hud.ac.uk PROCEEDINGS CEUR-WS Proceedings: Accepted original papers will be published in the AIxIA series of CEUR-WS AI*IA Series on CEUR-WS.org (upon authors confirmation) Moreover, as in some previous editions (http://rcra.aixia.it/publications), we are considering the possibility of having a special issue of an international journal, provided that a sufficient amount of high quality papers is collected. All technical papers, original and non-original, will be eligible. HISTORY OF THE RECENT WORKSHOP SERIES * RCRA 2021 as a workshop of AI*IA 2021, Virtual https://rcra2020.wordpress.com/ * RCRA 2020 as a workshop of AI*IA 2020, Virtual https://rcra2020.wordpress.com/ * RCRA 2018 as a workshop of FLoC 2018, Oxford, UK http://rcra.aixia.it/rcra~2018 Extended versions of the best papers will appear in a special issue of Fundamenta Informaticae * RCRA 2017 as a workshop of AI*IA 2017, Bari, Italy http://rcra.aixia.it/rcra2017 Extended versions of the best papers will appear in a special issue of Fundamenta Informaticae * RCRA 2016 as a workshop of AI*IA 2016, Genova, Italy http://rcra.aixia.it/rcra2016 Extended versions of the best papers will appear in a special issue of JETAI * RCRA 2015 as a workshop of AI*IA 2015, Ferrara, Italy http://rcra.aixia.it/rcra2015 Extended versions of the best papers will appear in a special issue of Fundamenta Informaticae * RCRA 2014 as a workshop of SAT 2014, IJCAR 2014 and ICLP 2014, Vienna, Austria -http://rcra.aixia.it/rcra2014 Extended versions of the best papers will appear in a special issue of AI Communications * Previous editions:http://rcra.aixia.it/workshops -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From announce at cs.ucy.ac.cy Tue May 31 16:52:24 2022 From: announce at cs.ucy.ac.cy (Announce Announcements) Date: Tue, 31 May 2022 17:52:24 +0300 Subject: [fg-arc] ACM International Conference on Information Technology for Social Good (GoodIT 2022): Last Mile for Paper Submission Message-ID: *** Last Mile for Paper Submission *** ACM International Conference on Information Technology for Social Good (GoodIT 2022) 7–9 September, 2022, 5* St. Raphael Resort & Marina, Limassol, Cyprus https://cyprusconferences.org/goodit2022/ (*** Submission Deadline Extension (firm!): 6 June, 2022 ***) Scope The ACM GoodIT conference seeks papers describing significant research contributions related to the application of information technologies (IT) to social good. Social good is typically defined as something that provides a benefit to the general public. In this context, clean air and water, Internet connection, education, and healthcare are all good examples of social goods. However, new media innovations and the explosion of online communities have added new meaning to the term. Social good is now about global citizens uniting to unlock the potential of individuals, technology, and collaboration to create a positive societal impact. GoodIT solicits papers that address important research challenges related to, but not limited to: • Citizen science • Civic intelligence • Decentralized approaches to IT • Digital solutions for Cultural Heritage • Environmental monitoring • Ethical computing • Frugal solutions for IT • Game, entertainment, and multimedia applications • Health and social care • IT for automotive • IT for development • IT for education • IT for smart living • Privacy, trust and ethical issues in ICT solutions • Smart governance and e-administration • Social informatics • Socially responsible IT solutions • Sustainable cities and transportation • Sustainable IT • Technology addressing the digital divide Paper Submission The papers should not exceed eleven (11) pages single-column, including figures, tables, and references in the new ACM format (https://cyprusconferences.org/goodit2022/index.php/authors/ ). They must be original works and must not have been previously published. At least one of the authors of all accepted papers must register and present the work at the conference; otherwise, the paper will not be published in the proceedings. All accepted and presented papers will be included in the conference proceedings published in the ACM Digital Library. In addition to a Main Track, the conference features 9 additional Special Tracks. More information on these tracks is available on the conference web site. Journal Special Issues and Best Paper Award Selected papers will be invited to submit an extended version to two special journal issues: • FGCS, Elsevier (https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/future-generation-computer-systems) • MDPI Sensors, where the theme of the special issue will be "Application of Information Technology (IT) to Social Good" (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/sensors/special_issues/topical_collection_goodit ). Specifically 5 papers will be invited free of charge and another 5 papers will get a 20% discount on the publication fees. Furthermore, MDPI Sensors will sponsor a Best Paper Award with the amount of 400 CHF. Work-in-Progress and PhD Track Inside ACM GoodIT, the Work-in-Progress and PhD Track provides an opportunity to showcase interesting new work that is still at an early stage. We encourage practitioners and researchers to submit to the Work-in-Progress venue as it provides a unique opportunity for sharing valuable ideas, eliciting feedback on early-stage work, and fostering discussions and collaborations among colleagues. Moreover, this track provides a platform for PhD students to present and receive feedback on their ongoing research. Students at different stages of their research will have the opportunity to present and discuss their research questions, goals, methods and results. This is an opportunity to obtain guidance on various aspects of their research from established researchers and other PhD students working in research areas related to technologies for social good. Important: For this specific track, papers must not exceed nine (9) pages single column, including figures, tables, and references in the new ACM format (https://cyprusconferences.org/goodit2022/index.php/authors/ ). Submission Instructions All papers must be submitted electronically via the hotcrp web site (https://goodit2022.hotcrp.com ). Once on the submission page, you will be able to select the track where to submit your paper. Important Dates • Submission deadline for all types of contributions: 6 June 2022 CEST (***extended and firm!***) • Notification of acceptance: 30 June 2022 • Camera-ready submission and author registration: 15 July 2022 Conference Committees https://cyprusconferences.org/goodit2022/committees/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: