From brian.c.kempa at nasa.gov Wed Dec 4 02:36:58 2024 From: brian.c.kempa at nasa.gov (Kempa, Brian C. (ARC-TI)) Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2024 01:36:58 +0000 Subject: [fg-arc] IEEE SMC-IT/SCC 2025 Call for Workshop Proposals Message-ID: <2996DAAF-BDC3-46A4-88A4-5E63215E90EA@nasa.gov> CALL FOR IEEE SMC-IT/SCC 2025 WORKSHOP PROPOSALS 11th International Conference on Space Mission Challenges for Information Technology (SMC-IT) 16th International Conference on Space Computing (SCC) California Science Center - Los Angeles, California July 28 – August 1, 2025 Important Dates: Workshop proposal submission deadline: Dec 13, 2024 Workshop proposal feedback response: Dec 31, 2024 Workshop agenda deadline: Mar 8, 2025 Workshop paper submission deadline: Apr 4, 2025 Registration site open: Apr 4, 2025 Workshop paper acceptance notification deadline: May 2, 2025 Final camera-ready workshop papers deadline: May 30, 2025 Conference: July 28 – August 1, 2025 Sponsored by: IEEE Computer Society - Technical Committee on Software Engineering and Technical Committee on Computer Architecture We invite workshop proposal submissions for the IEEE International Conference on Space Mission Challenges for Information Technology (SMC-IT) and the IEEE Space Computing Conference (SCC). These events seek to gather professionals, such as system designers, engineers, computer architects, scientists, practitioners, and space explorers, who are committed to advancing information technology and improving the computational capabilities and dependability of space missions. This forum provides a valuable opportunity for in-depth technical dialogues covering various aspects of space mission hardware and software. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to) space applications of the following: SMC-IT: Robotics; Flight Software; Cybersecurity; Networking; Memory and Storage; Advanced Ground Control; Data Analytics and Big Data; Fault-Tolerant Processing; Intelligent and Autonomous Systems; Augmented Reality/Virtual Reality and Human-Computer Interaction; Technology for Accessibility in Space; Manufacturing and Assembly of Large Structures; Advanced Computing for Novel Instruments and Improved Operations; Software Reliability for Mission-Critical Applications and Safety of Life; Open-Source for Space Systems. SCC: High-Performance Onboard Computing; Computing Architectures; Flight Data Processing; Avionics Systems; Machine Learning/Neural Computing; Crew Interfaces; Extreme Environments Computing; Distributed Computing Infusion and Adoption of Industry Standards for Space Applications; Components, Radiation, and Packaging; Overcoming Barriers to Infusing Multicore Systems in Flight. To submit a workshop proposal, kindly provide a 1-2 page abstract outlining the theme, scope, and objectives of your workshop, along with any prospective speakers you’ve already identified. Also, please ensure that your proposal clearly defines the intended format of the proposed workshop. You should specify whether the workshop format includes presentations only, papers, posters, working sessions or a combination of them. Additionally, please specify your preference for a full-day workshop or one/two half-day time slots. You can access a workshop proposal template at: https://2025.smcit-scc.space/getImage/orig/2025+WorkshopProposalTemplate.docx Proposals can be submitted through EasyChair at: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=smcitscc2025 CONFERENCE CHAIRS: Workshop Chair: Meera Towler (Southwest Research Institute (SwRI)) Workshop Co-chair: Wesley Powell (NASA) General Chair: Ivan Perez (KBR @ NASA ARC) General Co-chair: TBD Program Chair (SMC-IT): Lukas Mandrake (JPL) Program Co-chair (SMC-IT): Jack Lightholder (JPL) Program Chair (SCC): David Rutishauser (NASA JSC) Program Co-chair (SCC): Christopher Green (NASA GSFC) SMC-IT/SCC Program Committee Members From fm-announcements at lists.nasa.gov Fri Dec 6 17:31:36 2024 From: fm-announcements at lists.nasa.gov (Dutle, Aaron M. (LARC-D320) via fm-announcements) Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2024 16:31:36 +0000 Subject: [fg-arc] [fm-announcements] NFM 2025 *deadline extended* Message-ID: 17th NASA Formal Methods Symposium (NFM’25) 11-13 June 2025 Williamsburg, VA Call for Papers Submission Deadline Extended! Symposium Theme The widespread use and increasing complexity of mission-critical and safety-critical systems at NASA and in the aerospace industry requires advanced technologies to address their specification, design, verification, validation, and certification. The NASA Formal Methods Symposium is a forum to foster collaboration between theoreticians and practitioners from NASA, other government agencies, academia, and industry, with the goal of identifying challenges and providing solutions towards achieving assurance for such critical systems. The focus of this symposium is on formal techniques for software and system assurance for applications in space, aviation, robotics, and other NASA-relevant critical systems. Topics of Interest · Advances in Formal Methods – Formal verification, model checking, and static analysis; interactive and automated theorem proving; program and specification synthesis, code transformation and generation; run-time verification and test case generation; techniques and algorithms for scaling formal methods; design for verification and correct-by-design techniques; requirements generation, specification, and validation. · Integration of Formal Methods – Use of ML techniques in formal methods; integration of formal methods and software engineering; integration of diverse formal methods techniques; integration of formal methods with simulation, analysis, and test approaches. · Formal Methods in Practice – Experience reports on applications of formal methods in industry; use of formal methods in education; applications of formal methods to concurrent and distributed systems, human-machine systems, autonomous systems, and fault-detection, diagnostics, and prognostics systems. Submission There are two categories of submissions: · Regular papers – Up to 15 pages plus references. Regular papers describe fully developed work and complete results. · Short papers — Up to 6 pages plus references. Short papers describe either novel and publicly available tools, case studies detailing applications of formal methods, or new emerging ideas in the topics of interest. All papers should be in English and describe original work that has not been published or submitted elsewhere. Authors of accepted papers must present their work in person at the conference. NFM prohibits the use of generative AI to create the textual narrative of the paper. However, the use of generative AI to create examples (such as text, tables, graphics, and code) that support the paper is permitted, but this must be disclosed in the paper. Basic word processing systems that recommend and insert replacement text, perform spelling or grammar checks and corrections, or systems that do language translations need not be disclosed in the paper. All submissions will be fully reviewed by members of the Program Committee. NFM is currently arranging to publish accepted regular and short papers in the Formal Methods subline of Springer’s Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). Authors should therefore use the LNCS style formatting described at https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines. Papers must be submitted in PDF format through the EasyChair submission site, https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=nfm2025. Important Dates Abstract submission December 13, 2024 Paper submission December 22, 2024 Author notification February 14, 2025 Camera ready deadline March 14, 2025 Symposium June 11-13, 2025 Note: An abstract must be submitted by December 13 for the paper to be considered. Location and Cost The symposium will be hosted by the Computer Science Department at the College of William & Mary, in historic Williamsburg, VA. Williamsburg is located about 150 miles south of Washington, D.C., and midway between Richmond and Norfolk on Interstate 64. It is home to an award-winning theme park, several recreation opportunities and the world's largest living history museum. For information about visiting the William & Mary campus, including lodging options, see www.wm.edu/about/visiting/ There will be no registration fee charged to participants. All interested individuals, including non-US citizens, are welcome to attend, listen to the talks, and participate in discussions. However, all attendees must register. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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You can also make the request by contacting fm-announcements-owner at lists.nasa.gov From koubarak at di.uoa.gr Thu Dec 12 10:40:03 2024 From: koubarak at di.uoa.gr (Manolis Koubarakis) Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2024 11:40:03 +0200 Subject: [fg-arc] ESSAI 2025 CALL FOR COURSE PROPOSALS - extended deadline Message-ID: <6fbf52e4-45ff-4752-9ccc-9f1f69794e8b@di.uoa.gr> (apologies for multiple postings) ESSAI 2025 CALL FOR COURSE PROPOSALS - extended deadline The 3rd European Summer School on Artificial Intelligence - ESSAI 2025 June 30 to July 4, 2025 Bratislava, Slovakia https://essai2025.eu/ IMPORTANT DATES: January 8, 2025 (AoE): Full course proposal submission January 31, 2025: Notification of acceptance or rejection ESSAI SUMMER SCHOOLS ESSAI 2025 is the third edition of the annual summer school on AI held under the auspices of the European Association for Artificial Intelligence (EurAI). ESSAI 2025 will provide an interdisciplinary setting in which courses are offered in all areas of Artificial Intelligence and also from wider scientific, historical, and philosophical perspectives. ESSAI is a central meeting place for students and young researchers in Artificial Intelligence to discuss current research and share knowledge. The first edition of  ESSAI was held in Ljubljana, Slovenia, and the second one in Athens, Greece. Both editions were very successful and received excellent feedback from the student and lecturer participants. We look forward to a third edition of ESSAI, which we believe will be  very successful as well. TOPICS AND FORMAT OF COURSES ESSAI aims to cover subdisciplines of AI and the interactions between them. Proposals for courses at ESSAI 2024 are invited in all areas of Artificial Intelligence, including but not limited to the following: * Autonomous Agents  and Multi-agent Systems (MAS) * Causality and Causal Learning (CL) * Ethical, Legal and Social Aspects of AI (ELS) * Foundation Models (FM) * Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KR) * Learning Theory (LT) * Natural Language Processing (NLP) * Neuro-Symbolic Learning and Reasoning (NSLR) * Planning & Strategic Reasoning (PLAN) * Reinforcement Learning (RL) * Robotics (ROB) * Safe, Explainable and Trustworthy AI (SET) * Search & Optimization (SO) * Supervised and Unsupervised Learning (ML) * Vision (VIS) * Human-In-The-Loop AI  (HLAI) * AI for Social Good (A4SG) * Quantum Machine Learning (QML) Each course will consist of five 90-minute lectures offered daily (Monday-Friday) in the week the school takes place. COURSE CATEGORIES Each proposal should fall under one of the following two categories. *Introductory Courses* Introductory courses are intended to introduce a research area of AI to students, young researchers, and other non-specialists and to foster a sound understanding of its basic methods and techniques. Such courses should enable researchers from related disciplines to develop some comfort and competence in the topic considered. Introductory courses in a cross-disciplinary area may presuppose general knowledge of the related disciplines. *Advanced Courses* Advanced courses are targeted primarily to graduate students who wish to acquire a level of comfort and understanding of current research in an area of AI. While introductory courses will typically focus on one subarea of  AI only, advanced courses are encouraged to present a broader perspective on AI, and they should be of interest beyond a single specific area. COURSE PROPOSAL GUIDELINES To be considered, course proposals should closely adhere to the following guidelines. Courses must be presented by lecturers who submitted the proposal. For courses with more than two lecturers, the role of each lecturer should be clearly explained and justified in the proposal. Course proposals should explicitly state the intended course category. Proposals for introductory courses should indicate the intended level, for example, as it relates to standard textbooks and monographs in the area. Proposals for advanced courses should specify the prerequisites in detail. Submitted proposals should include all of the following: a. Contact information for each proposer: Name, affiliation, address, email, web page b. General proposal information: Title, category c. Information about the course content: * Abstract of up to 150 words *  Motivation and description (up to two pages) * Tentative outline * Expected level and prerequisites * Appropriate references (e.g., textbooks, monographs, proceedings, surveys) * Whether the course will appeal to students outside of the main area of the course. d. Information about the proposer(s): * Short CVs of the proposer(s) * Evidence that the proposer(s) are excellent lecturers with relevant teaching experience, particularly in delivering intensive interdisciplinary courses. The course proposals will be reviewed by a Program Committee covering all the research areas presented above. PARTICIPATION To keep registration fees to a minimum, all ESSAI's instructional and organizational work is performed completely voluntarily. However, the registration fees of organizers and instructors will be waived. In addition and where appropriate and possible, ESSAI will seek to partially reimburse travel and accommodation expenses associated with delivering a course. If lecturers can cover their travel and accommodation expenses from other sources, this is greatly appreciated. SUBMISSION INFORMATION By January 8, 2025 (AoE): Proposer(s) should upload a PDF with the full course proposal as detailed above. By January 31, 2025, Proposer(s) will be notified whether their proposal has been accepted or not. 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URL: From Cassia.Trojahn at irit.fr Thu Dec 12 08:50:34 2024 From: Cassia.Trojahn at irit.fr (Cassia TROJAHN) Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2024 08:50:34 +0100 Subject: [fg-arc] =?utf-8?q?ESAO_Webinar_n=2E14_on_Tuesday_December_17th?= =?utf-8?q?=2C_2024_16=3A00_CET_=E2=80=93-_Call_for_Participation?= Message-ID: <1232c-675a9600-23-72328400@53282163> Dear all, The Educational Series on Applied Ontology (ESAO) [1] is open for everyone and welcomes students, researchers and practitioners alike. The 14h ESAO webinar will be held on Tuesday December 17th, 2024 at 16:00 CET. --------------------------- When and how to connect Tuesday December 17th, 2024 15:00 UTC / 16:00 CET / 17:00 SAST Duration: 90 minutes Video conference (via Zoom) : https://univ-tlse2.zoom.us/j/92895546685?pwd=DQD7Wzf3ZJw02LJ2hHmrVDwdN474PZ.1 --------------------------- Program 15:00 - 16:30 UTC / 16:00 - 17:30 CET / 17:00 - 18:30 SAST / 12:00 - 13:30 UTC-3 ********************************************************* Chris Partridge, BORO Solutions Limited and University of Westminster, UK Ontology-driven conceptual modelling: a 4D perspective (30 minutes + Q&A) Abstract: Conceptual modelling underpins all activities related to information systems development, integration and evolution. As digitalisation increases within and across organisations, significant problems arise when developing or changing business requirements, maintaining existing systems and exchanging data between them. Many of the problems that arise are due to the semantic inconsistencies in the underlying models of such systems. This seminar will discuss how a 4D foundational ontology (BORO) and its method for semantic improvement (bCLEARer) can provide the basis for increased ontological clarity and consistency of conceptual models by working on and semantically reengineering data from existing information systems. The seminar will explain BORO’s top-level ontology, its criteria of identity and its meta-ontological choices. It will then present examples of how the method helps to semantically re-engineer and improve models/data from existing systems. ********************************************************* Maria Keet, University of Cape Town, South Africa Competency questions (30 minutes + Q&A) Abstract: Competency Questions (CQs) for ontologies were initially proposed as a way to assist with scoping of an ontology's content requirements for ontology development, but gradually have been taking up more diverse uses, including ontology validation and reuse, and as part of test-driven development of ontologies. Since authoring CQs is perceived as an arduous and error-prone task, research efforts have gone into automated writing assistance, the notion of what good and bad CQs are, and their formalisation into OWL and SPARQL queries. This ESAO webinar will cover CQ foundations and recent advances in research on CQs for ontologies. Best regards Cassia Trojahn, Frank Loebe, Laure Vieu On behalf of the IAOA Education Committee [1] https://wiki.iaoa.org/index.php/Edu:ESAO From Cassia.Trojahn at irit.fr Thu Dec 12 14:11:08 2024 From: Cassia.Trojahn at irit.fr (Cassia TROJAHN) Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2024 14:11:08 +0100 Subject: [fg-arc] =?utf-8?q?ERRATUM=3A_ESAO_Webinar_n=2E14_on_Tuesday_Dec?= =?utf-8?q?ember_17th=2C_2024_16=3A00_CET_=E2=80=93-__Call_for_Participati?= =?utf-8?q?on?= Message-ID: <3ea95c-675ae100-65-59766680@110069112> (NEW title and abstract of Chris Partridge's presentation) Dear all, The Educational Series on Applied Ontology (ESAO) [1] is open for everyone and welcomes students, researchers and practitioners alike. The 14h ESAO webinar will be held on Tuesday December 17th, 2024 at 16:00 CET. --------------------------- When and how to connect Tuesday December 17th, 2024 15:00 UTC / 16:00 CET / 17:00 SAST Duration: 90 minutes Video conference (via Zoom) : https://univ-tlse2.zoom.us/j/92895546685?pwd=DQD7Wzf3ZJw02LJ2hHmrVDwdN474PZ.1 --------------------------- Program 15:00 - 16:30 UTC / 16:00 - 17:30 CET / 17:00 - 18:30 SAST / 12:00 - 13:30 UTC-3 ********************************************************* Chris Partridge, BORO Solutions Limited and University of Westminster, UK Extending the design space of ontologization practices: Using bCLEARer as an example Abstract: The aim of this seminar is to suggest that the design space for the ontologization process is richer than current practice would suggest. That it is possible to open the space up to a range of radically new practices. This consciously builds upon the notion that engineering processes as well as products need to be designed. We provide evidence for the new practices from our work over the last three decades with an outlier methodology, bCLEARer. We also provide some contextual scaffolding for a perspective that we have found we needed to better understand the nature of these new practices. This is an evolutionary perspective which sees digitalization (the evolutionary emergence of computing technologies) as part of the latest step in a long evolutionary trail of information transitions. And sees ontologization as a tool for exploiting the emerging opportunities offered by digitalization. ********************************************************* Maria Keet, University of Cape Town, South Africa Competency questions (30 minutes + Q&A) Abstract: Competency Questions (CQs) for ontologies were initially proposed as a way to assist with scoping of an ontology's content requirements for ontology development, but gradually have been taking up more diverse uses, including ontology validation and reuse, and as part of test-driven development of ontologies. Since authoring CQs is perceived as an arduous and error-prone task, research efforts have gone into automated writing assistance, the notion of what good and bad CQs are, and their formalisation into OWL and SPARQL queries. This ESAO webinar will cover CQ foundations and recent advances in research on CQs for ontologies. Best regards Cassia Trojahn, Frank Loebe, Laure Vieu On behalf of the IAOA Education Committee [1] https://wiki.iaoa.org/index.php/Edu:ESAO