[UAI] CFP Learning Monotone Models From Data
Dear Colleagues, I thought the members of this list might be interested in the following Call for Papers: We are pleased to announce the workshop Learning Monotone Models From Data (MoMo 2009). MoMo 2009 is a full-day workshop organized at ECML PKDD 2009 in Bled, Slovenia. It will take place on Monday September 7, the first day of the conference. The workshop is part of the main conference, and is free of charge for attendees of the conference. The deadline for paper submission is June, 10 2009. Please visit the workshop website http://www.cs.uu.nl/events/MoMo2009/ for detailed information. Ad Feelders and Rob Potharst Workshop Organizers -- Ad Feelders Department of Information and Computing Sciences Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands http://www.cs.uu.nl/people/ad/ email: a...@cs.uu.nl -- Rob Potharst, Econometric Institute Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands email: potha...@few.eur.nl http://people.few.eur.nl/potharst/ ___ uai mailing list uai@ENGR.ORST.EDU https://secure.engr.oregonstate.edu/mailman/listinfo/uai
[UAI] AIStats 2009 Art Exhibition
Dear machine learning artists, this is a reminder that you now have about a week to submit your works of art to the AISTATS Art Exhibition, and and about 1.5 weeks until the Exhibition itself. The submission site will not be closed, but your entries should be in by April 12 if you want to be sure they will be considered. Marina Meila and the team of AISTATS 2009 Art Expo Curators http://www.ics.uci.edu/~aistats/artexpo.htm - Announcement: Exhibition of AISTATS ART - You are invited to visualize your favorite algorithm, by using it to create an attractive image. The input data can be eiter: an image provided by us (see the web url below) or an image of your choice. You will * run your favourite algorithm on this data, with any preprocessing/postprocessing you want * display the algorithm's output as an image * give it a neat title (optional) * send us the image + title + a one page description of how the image was obtained The goal is to produce both an artistic effect and, more importantly, an interesting and surprising visualization of an algorithm. Think of what would be catching in the eyes of your fellows AISTATS participants. Do the unexpected! Avertise your own work! Anybody can create a pretty image with Photoshop, but can you produce a neat result with a causal discovery/preference elicitation/manifold learning/reiforcement learning/fraud detection/information retrieval algoritmm? Can you use this picture to highlight something about your algorithm? Be creative, be as original as you can! Entry is open to anyone somehow connected with AISTATS or with the AISTATS topics of interest. The curator reserves the right to reject entries they consider irrelevant or inappropriate. Please send your entry in a widely used format that we can display easily (pdf, ps, jpeg,..). By submitting an entry, you are giving the AISTATS chairs the implicit permission to display your submission in connection with AISTATS. Our intention is to exhibit all the submissions at the AISTATS 2009 conference and to let the participants judge their merits. After the conference, the Exhibition will be hosted on the AISTATS web site. It is NOT necessary to participate in the AISTATS conference in order to submit an entry. Marina Meila AISATS 2009 Art Expo Curator URL http://www.ics.uci.edu/~aistats/artexpo.htm Email: aistatsartexp...@stat.washington.edu ___ uai mailing list uai@ENGR.ORST.EDU https://secure.engr.oregonstate.edu/mailman/listinfo/uai
[UAI] NIPS 2009 Call For Mini-Symposia
CALL FOR MINI-SYMPOSIUM PROPOSALS Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) -- Natural and Synthetic NIPS*2009 Mini-symposia December 10, 2009 Hyatt Regency Hotel, Vancouver, BC, CANADA http://nips.cc/ Following the regular program of the Neural Information Processing Systems 2009 conference in Vancouver, BC, Canada, up to four mini-symposia will be held in parallel during the afternoon of December 10, 2009, in the Hyatt Regency, Vancouver, BC, Canada. We invite researchers interested in chairing a mini-symposium to submit proposals. The goal of the mini-symposia is to present topical material on a single theme, well suited to the main conference audience. Controversial issues, emerging topics, open problems, and comparisons of competing approaches are not only encouraged but preferred as symposium topics. Representation of alternative viewpoints are also particularly encouraged. Possible topics for symposia include, but are not limited to: Active Learning, Attention, Audition, Bayesian Networks, Bayesian Statistics, Benchmarking, Biophysics, Brain-Machine Interfaces, Brain Imaging, Cognitive Neuroscience, Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Computational Complexity, Control and Reinforcement Learning, Data Mining, Game Theory, Graphical Models, Hippocampus and Memory, Human-Computer Interfaces, Independent Component Analysis, Information Theory, Kernel Methods, Large Scale Implementations and Software, Learning Theory, Mean-Field Methods, Mechanism Design, Music, Network Dynamics, Neural Coding, Neural Plasticity, Neuromorphic Systems, Nonparametric Models, On-Line Learning, Optimization, Randomized Algorithms, Robotics, Rule Extraction, Self-Organization, Signal Processing, Spike Timing, Speech, Statistical Inference, Unsupervised Learning and Information Extraction, Time Series, Vision and Scene Understanding. Each of the four mini-symposia will run for three hours in the afternoon of December 10 after the end of the main conference. Organizers may consider proposing a mini-symposium in conjunction with a one- or two- day workshop proposed to be held subsequently in Whistler. In such a case proposers should take into account the more polished nature of the symposium, and, as the attendees might differ, should ensure that each stands alone programmatically. Detailed descriptions of previous symposia and workshops can be found at http://nips.cc/Conferences/2008/. We encourage neuroscience-related proposals, and are especially interested in those bridging areas of neuroscience and machine learning. Selected mini-symposia may be invited to submit proceedings for publication in the post-NIPS workshops monographs series published by the MIT Press. More details and instructions for submission of proposals may be found online at http://nips.cc/Conferences/2009/CallForMiniSymposia. Proposals must be received by August 28, 2009. Richard Zemel (University of Toronto) Dale Schuurmans (University of Alberta) Yoshua Bengio (University of Montreal) NIPS*2009 Symposia Co-Chairs PROPOSALS MUST BE RECEIVED BY AUGUST 28, 2009 smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ uai mailing list uai@ENGR.ORST.EDU https://secure.engr.oregonstate.edu/mailman/listinfo/uai
[UAI] ISKE2009 CFP (Deadline is extended to 30 April, 2009)
* I apologize if you received multiple copies. Due to numerous requests, the ISKE2009 paper submission deadline has been extended to 30 April, 2009. CALL FOR PAPERS The 4th International Conference on Intelligent Systems Knowledge Engineering (ISKE2009) Theme: Intelligent Decision Making Systems November 27-28, 2009, Hasselt, Belgium http://iske2009.uhasselt.be/ Special Issues of International Journals for ISKE2009: (1) International Journal of Intelligent Systems (http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/36062/home) (2) International Journal of Information Theories Applications (http://www.foibg.com/ijita/ijita-finfo.htm) (3) International Journal of Information Technologies Knowledge (http://www.foibg.com/ijitk/ijitk-finfo.htm) (4) International Journal of Innovation and Learning (www.inderscience.com/ijil) (5) Journal of Global Optimization (http://www.springeronline.com/journal/10898) Scope of Conference 2009 International Conference on Intelligent Systems and Knowledge Engineering (ISKE2009) is the fourth in a series of conferences on ISKE. It follows the successful ISKE2006 in Shanghai, ISKE2007 in Chengdu, and ISKE2008 in Xiamen, China. ISKE2009 in Hasselt, Belgium, once again provides a forum for researchers and practitioners involved in different but related domains to confront research results and discuss key issues in Intelligent Systems and Knowledge Engineering. The major topics include, but not limited to: · AI and expert systems · Decision support systems · Cognitive science · Data mining and data analysis · E-service intelligence · Soft computing techniques · Computational intelligence · Intelligent information processing · Machine learning and natural language processing · Web intelligence · E-business information management · Transportation modelling and intelligent transportation systems · Intelligent logistics · Ubiquitous and intelligent systems · Policy and decision support …... Submission of Papers Papers reporting original research results and experience are solicited. Each paper, written in English, should be no more than 6 pages in a book form titled Intelligent Decision Making Systems of World Scientific Proceedings Series, including references and Illustrations. E-submissions in PDF format are strongly recommended. Submission of a paper should be regarded as an undertaking that, should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will attend the conference to present the paper. (1) Web Submission: http://iske2009.uhasselt.be/ (2) Email Submission: iske2...@uhasselt.be Publications All submitted papers will be reviewed by program committee members and selected based on their originality, significance, relevance, and clarity of presentations. Accepted papers will be published in the World Scientific Proceedings Series on Computer Engineering and Information Science submitted for the ISI proceedings index and EI index by the publisher. Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit revised and expanded version of their papers to be considered for publication in international journals. Contacts Ms. Tamara Dewalque Dept. of Applied Economics Hasselt U, Belgium Phone: +32.11.26.91.01, Fax: +32.11.26.91.11 E-mail: iske2...@uhasselt.be Important Dates Paper submissions extended to: April 30, 2009 Acceptance letter: June 15, 2009 Final papers submissions: July 15, 2009 Author registration: July 15, 2009 Conference registration fees: regular author 345 Euro, student author 295 Euro. Both regular and student author registration fees include: Publication of the accepted paper with a copy of the World Scientific proceedings book (to be in the ISI proceedings) All conference sessions' attendances with conference program and other conference facilities Welcome reception, 2-day lunches, all coffee breaks with refreshments, and conference dinner 2-day Hasselt transport pass and related social activities Invited plenary speakers: H.-J. Zimmermann (INFORM, Aachen, Germany) J. Kacprzyk (Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland) L.A. Zadeh (UC Berkeley, CA, USA）___ uai mailing list uai@ENGR.ORST.EDU https://secure.engr.oregonstate.edu/mailman/listinfo/uai
[UAI] Call for Papers: 11th Int'l Symp. on AI and Math (Jan 6-8, 2010, Ft. Lauderdale)
ISIAM 2010 Call for Papers 11th International Symposium on Artificial Intelligence and Mathematics January 6-8, 2010 Ft. Lauderdale, Florida John Franco and Raj Bhatnagar, Program Co-chairs Fred Hoffman, Symposium Chair http://gauss.ececs.uc.edu/Conferences/isaim2010 (periodically updated) in parallel with Workshop on Boolean and Pseudo-Boolean Functions Endre Boros and Yves Crama, co-chairs The International Symposium on Artificial Intelligence and Mathematics (ISAIM) is a biennial meeting that fosters interactions between mathematics, theoretical computer science, and artificial intelligence. This is the eleventh Symposium in the series, which is sponsored by the Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence. We seek submissions of recent results with a particular emphasis on the foundations of AI and mathematical methods used in AI. Papers describing applications are also encouraged, but the focus should be on principled lessons learned from the development of the application. Traditionally, the Symposium attracts participants from a variety of disciplines, thereby providing a unique forum for scientific exchange. The three-day Symposium includes invited speakers, presentations of technical papers, and special topic sessions. INVITED SPEAKERS * Larry Manevitz (University of Haifa, Israel) * Warren Hunt (University of Texas, Austin, USA) * Georg Gottlob, (Oxford University, UK) SPECIAL TOPIC INVITED SESSIONS Three sessions will be organized in the comming months. To suggest a special session please contact isaim2...@gauss.ececs.uc.edu and specify the nature of the session and who might lead it (you can nominate yourself). PAPER SUBMISSION Paper submission will be electronic via the following submission link http://gauss.ececs.uc.edu/Conferences/isaim2010/submissions.html Papers must be formatted in accordance with the guidelines linked from the above page. The submission deadline is Thursday, October 1, 2009 (11:59PM EDT). Papers will be reviewed by members of the Program Committee. Authors will be notified of acceptance or rejection by Saturday, October 31, 2009. Final versions of accepted papers, for inclusion in the conference electronic proceedings, are due by Saturday, November 21, 2009. **Note that papers may be submitted to the Symposium even if submitted to other conferences or journals, because the Symposium web site is not archival. Authors of a selected set of papers from the Symposium will be invited to submit full versions of their papers for inclusion in a special volume of the Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence, published by Springer. Those invited submissions will be subject to refereeing at the usual standards of the journal, and authors will receive more details with the acceptance notice. Any questions regarding paper submission should be sent to the program co-chairs to the email address isaim2...@gauss.ececs.uc.edu. IMPORTANT DATES Paper submission:Thursday, October 1, 2009 Notification:Saturday, October 31, 2009 Final version due: Saturday, November 21, 2009 TRAVEL SUPPORT FOR STUDENTS Limited travel support may be available for students. Please contact isaim2...@gauss.ececs.uc.edu after October for information. Send inquiries and requests: isaim2...@gauss.ececs.uc.edu. Join is...@googlegroups.com to receive announcements related to ISAIM. ___ uai mailing list uai@ENGR.ORST.EDU https://secure.engr.oregonstate.edu/mailman/listinfo/uai
[UAI] Postdoc positions in Machine Learning/Bioinformatics: Applications of dynamic graphical models to proteomics
Postdoc positions in Machine Learning/Bioinformatics: Applications of dynamic graphical models to proteomics Keywords: graphical models, dynamic graphical models, bioinformatics, proteomics, dynamic Bayesian networks, sequence modeling, machine learning, pattern recognition The University of Washington, Seattle, department of Electrical Engineering has available a post-doctoral position in the area of statistical machine learning and bioinformatics, and in particular in the application of dynamic graphical models (such as dynamic Bayesian networks and conditional random fields) to the problem of tandem mass spectrometry (MS/MS) with the goal of the identification of proteins from complex mixtures. Other problems in proteomics are also being pursued. We are looking for a post-doctoral researcher to join a research group working on machine learning and probabilistic modeling for a diversity of scientific areas including speech and language processing, biological sequence modeling, dynamic graphical models (including DBNs, HMMs, and CRFs), polyhedral combinatorics, active and semi-supervised learning, and a variety of other applications and areas. The position will be within the research group of Prof. Jeff Bilmes (http://ssli.ee.washington.edu/~bilmes) but will also have close collaboration and regular interaction with Prof. Bill Noble (http://www.gs.washington.edu/faculty/noble.htm) and his group. The postdoc position is for one year, but with the option for renewal for an additional year. Salary range is commensurate with other such positions and salary range is available upon request. Applicants should send a letter explaining your research interests and experience, a complete curriculum vitae, and three letters of reference to Prof. Jeff A. Bilmes (see http://ssli.ee.washington.edu/~bilmes for email address). Letter writers should also send their recommendation letters directly to this address (email delivery is preferred). Please use a descriptive subject line in all emails. Review of applications will start as soon as they are received and will continue until the position is filled. The position is available immediately. Please direct questions to the above email address. The University is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. ___ uai mailing list uai@ENGR.ORST.EDU https://secure.engr.oregonstate.edu/mailman/listinfo/uai
[UAI] CfP: ECAI-2010
## ## ECAI-2010 ## Preliminary Call for Papers ## ECAI-2010 ## ## The Nineteenth European Conference on Artificial Intelligence 16-20 August 2010 ## Lisbon, Portugal http://ecai2010.appia.pt/ Deadline for submission of abstracts: 15 February 2010 Deadline for submission of full papers: 22 February 2010 ## ## INTRODUCTION ## ## The ECAI-2010 Programme Committee invites the submission of papers and posters for the technical programme of the nineteenth biennial European Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a central topic in contemporary computer science and informatics. The fruits of fifty years of AI research have benefited application domains as disparate as industrial systems control and medicine. The milestone events in AI research are increasingly regarded as milestones in human scientific and technological development: from the first chess playing program to defeat a reigning world champion under standard chess tournament rules, to the first robot to autonomously traverse 150 miles of rough terrain. Techniques, results, and concepts developed under the banner of AI research have proved to be of fundamental importance in areas such as economics, philosophy, linguistics, psychology, and logical analysis. And of course, AI remains a topic of perennial fascination in popular culture. Initiated in 1974, the biennial European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI) is Europe's premier archival venue for presenting scientific results in AI. Organised by the European Coordinating Committee for AI (ECCAI), the ECAI conference provides an opportunity for researchers to present and hear about the very best research in contemporary AI. As well as a full programme of technical papers, ECAI-2010 will include the Prestigious Applications of Intelligent Systems conference (PAIS), the Starting AI Researcher Symposium (STAIRS), and an extensive programme of workshops, tutorials, and invited speakers. (Separate calls are issued for PAIS, STAIRS, and workshops.) ECAI-2010 will be held in the beautiful and historic city of Lisbon, Portugal. With excellent opportunities for sightseeing and gastronomy, Lisbon promises to be a wonderful venue for a memorable conference. ## ## TOPICS OF INTEREST ## ## High-quality original submissions are welcome from all areas of contemporary AI; the following list of topics is indicative only. * Agents Multiagent Systems * Case-Based Reasoning * Cognitive Modeling Interaction * Constraints Search * Knowledge Representation Reasoning * Machine Learning * Model-Based Reasoning * Natural Language Processing * Perception Sensing * Planning Scheduling * Robotics * Uncertainty in AI * Applications of AI An extensive list of subtopics is soon going to be available at the conference website. ## ## IMPORTANT DATES ## ## Deadline for electronic abstracts: Monday, 15 February 2010 Paper submission deadline: Monday, 22 February 2010 Author response period: 15-16 April 2010 Notification of acceptance/rejection: Friday, 30 April 2010 Conference: 16-20 August 2010 ## ## SUBMISSION INFORMATION ## ## Submissions must not exceed *SIX* (6) pages in camera-ready format. Over-lengthsubmissions will berejected without review. Papers should be submitted using the ECAI formatting style, to be available soon on the conference website (this will be very close to previous ECAI styles). Each accepted paper will be allocated six pages in the proceedings. ECAI-2010 also accepts posters. Each poster will have *TWO* (2) pages allocated in the proceedings. Posters must follow the same formatting guidelines as full papers. Authors may indicate whether they want a submitted full paper to be considered as well as a submitted poster in case of non-acceptance of the full paper. All submissions will be subject to peer review by the ECAI-2010 Programme Committee, and evaluated on
[UAI] Call for submissions for the ISBA 2010 World Meeting
(apologies for cross-posting) The ISBA 2010 World Meeting will be held in conjunction with the Ninth Valencia International Meeting on Bayesian Statistics, June 3-8 2010 in Benidorm, Spain. There will be tutorials on the first day, contributed talks in the late afternoons, and poster sessions in the evenings. For consideration for a contributed talk, abstracts will be due December 1, 2009 and the program committee will select among those. All others are encouraged to present their research in the poster sessions. Contributed papers (whether oral or poster) are encouraged to be submitted for publication in Bayesian Analysis, and if published they are eligible for the Lindley Prize. Details are also available at the ISBA 10 web site http://www.bayesian.org/events/isba2010/ All presenters are required to be current members of ISBA at the time of the meeting, and memberships are available through the ISBA website (http://www.bayesian.org/membership/join) or at the time of registration for the conference. Each person may be lead presenter for only one paper, but there is no limit on co-authorships. Submissions should be sent to isb...@soe.ucsc.edu, are due December 1, 2009 and should consist of a one-page abstract of the paper (in plain text or PDF), which should also specify the names and affiliations of all co-authors, and when there are multiple co-authors, it should clearly specify who the presenter is. If the presenter is a new researcher (student or within 5 years of PhD), then a statement affirming this should be attached. -- ___ uai mailing list uai@ENGR.ORST.EDU https://secure.engr.oregonstate.edu/mailman/listinfo/uai
[UAI] [CfP] AAMAS 2010
We /apologize/ for /multiple postings / Call for Papers-AAMAS 2010 The 9th International Conference on Agents and Multi Agent Systems Toronto, Canada Important dates: Conference: May 10 - 14, 2010 Electronic Abstract Submission: October 8, 2009 Full Paper Submission: October 13, 2009 Author Notification:December 18, 2009 Collocated with KR2, NMR, ICAPS, FOIS, (all in Toronto) and DL 2010 (in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada) Expanded and latest information: http://www.cse.yorku.ca/AAMAS2010/ INTRODUCTION AAMAS is the leading scientific conference for research in autonomous agents and multiagent systems. The AAMAS conference series was initiated in 2002 by merging three highly-respected meetings: International Conference on Multi-Agent Systems (ICMAS); International Workshop on Agent Theories, Architectures, and Languages (ATAL); and International Conference on Autonomous Agents (AA). The aim of the joint conference is to provide a single, high-profile, internationally-respected archival forum for scientific research in the theory and practice of autonomous agents and multiagent systems. AAMAS-2010 is the Ninth conference in the AAMAS series, following enormously successful previous conferences, and will be held at the Sheraton Centre Toronto Hotel in downtown Toronto. See http://www.ifaamas.org for more information on the AAMAS conference series. SUBMISSION DETAILS AAMAS-2010 seeks high-quality submissions of full papers, limited to 8 pages in length. Submissions will be rigorously peer reviewed and evaluated on the basis of originality, soundness, significance, presentation, understanding of the state of the art, and overall quality of their technical contribution. Reviews will be double blind; authors must avoid including anything that can be used to identify them. Where submission is for full (8 page) papers only, in some cases they may be accepted as 2 page extended abstracts For formatting instructions, please refer to the conference page. In addition to submissions in the main track, AAMAS is soliciting papers in two special tracks on robotics, and on virtual agents (see below). The review process for the special tracks will be the same as for the main track, but with specially-selected program committee members. Special Track on Robotics (Chair: Michael Beetz): Papers on theory and applications concerning single and multiple robots will be welcome, namely those focusing on real robots interacting with their surrounding environments. The goal is to foster interaction between researchers on agent and robotics systems, so as to provide a cradle for cross-fertilization of concepts from both fields. Special Track on Virtual Agents (Chair: Stacy Marsella): Virtual agents are embodied agents in interactive virtual or physical environments that emulate human-like behavior. We encourage papers on the design, implementation, and evaluation of virtual agents as well as challenging applications featuring them. The goal is to provide an opportunity for interaction and cross-fertilization between the AAMAS community and researchers working on virtual agents and to strengthen links between the two communities. In addition to the conference papers, presented in parallel technical sessions, AAMAS-2010 will include: o Industry and Applications track o Demonstrations o Posters presentations for full papers and extended abstracts o Invited talks and panel discussions The submission processes for the demonstration and industry tracks are separate from the main paper submission process. ORGANIZING COMMITTEE General Chairs: Michael Luck and Sandip Sen Program Chairs: Wiebe van der Hoek and Gal A. Kaminka Local Organization Chair: Yves Lesperance A list of the other members of the AAMAS-2010 Organizing Committee may be found at http://www.cse.yorku.ca/AAMAS2010/ ___ uai mailing list uai@ENGR.ORST.EDU https://secure.engr.oregonstate.edu/mailman/listinfo/uai
[UAI] Second Call for Papers: PADL'10, Madrid, January 2010
[We apologize in advance for duplicate reception] [Please redistribute as appropriate] --- CALL FOR PAPERS Twelfth International Symposium on Practical Aspects of Declarative Languages 2010 (PADL'10) http://clip.dia.fi.upm.es/Conferences/PADL-2010 Madrid, Spain January 18-19, 2010 Co-located with ACM POPL'10 Declarative languages build on sound theoretical bases to provide attractive frameworks for application development. These languages have been successfully applied to many different real-world situations, ranging from data base management to active networks to software engineering to decision support systems. New developments in theory and implementation have opened up new application areas. At the same time, applications of declarative languages to novel problems raise numerous interesting research issues. Well-known questions include designing for scalability, language extensions for application deployment, and programming environments. Thus, applications drive the progress in the theory and implementation of declarative systems, and benefit from this progress as well. PADL is a forum for researchers and practitioners to present original work emphasizing novel applications and implementation techniques for all forms of declarative concepts, including, functional, logic, constraints, etc. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Innovative applications of declarative languages. * Declarative domain-specific languages and applications. * Practical applications of theoretical results. * New language developments and their impact on applications. * Declarative languages and Software Engineering. * Evaluation of implementation techniques on practical applications. * Practical experiences and industrial applications. * Novel uses of declarative languages in the classroom. PADL'10 welcomes new ideas and approaches pertaining to applications and implementation of declarative languages.PADL'10 will be co-located with POPL 2010. IMPORTANT DATES Abstract submission: August 31, 2009 Paper Submission:September 4, 2009 Notification:October 5, 2009 Camera-ready:October 26, 2009 Symposium: January 18-19, 2010 SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Authors should submit an electronic copy of the full paper (written in English)in PDF,inthe SpringerLNCS format(see http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-7-72376-0). The submission willbe done through EasyChairat the URL http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=padl10 . PADL'10 will accept both technical and application papers. Technical Papers Technical papers must describe original, previously unpublished research results, and must not be simultaneously submitted for publication elsewhere. Each submission must be written in English, and include three to four keywords, which will be used to assist us in selecting appropriate reviewers for the paper. Submissions must not exceed 15 pages in Springer LNCS format. Application Papers Application papers are a mechanism to present important practical applications of declarative languages that occur in industry or in areas of research other than computer science. Application papers will be published in the Springer-Verlag conference proceedings, and will be presented in a separate session. Application papers are expected to describe complex and/or real-world applications that rely on an innovative use of declarative languages. Application descriptions, engineering solutions and real-world experiences (both positive and negative) are solicited. The limit for application papers is 3 pages in Springer LNCS format. Most Practical Paper Award The Most Practical Paper award will be given to the technical submission that is judged by the program committee to be the best in terms of practicality, originality, and clarity of presentation. The program committee may choose not to make an award, or to make multiple awards. PROGRAM COMMITTEE Program Committee Chairs Manuel Carro (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain) Ricardo Peña (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain) Program Committee María Alpuente (Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain) Lennart Augustson (Standard Chartered Bank and Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden) Olaf Chitil (University of Kent, UK) María García de la Banda (Monash University, Australia) Andy Gill (The University of Kansas, USA) Haifeng Guo (University of Nebraska at Omaha, USA) Martin
[UAI] Final CFP: ISWC'09 workshop on Ontology Matching (OM-2009)
Apologies for cross-postings FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS: submission deadline is approaching: 15 days left The Fourth International Workshop on ONTOLOGY MATCHING (OM-2009) http://om2009.ontologymatching.org/ October 25, 2009, ISWC'09 Workshop Program, Chantilly, near Washington DC., USA BRIEF DESCRIPTION AND OBJECTIVES Ontology matching is a key interoperability enabler for the Semantic Web, as well as a useful tactic in some classical data integration tasks. It takes the 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 and data translation. Thus, matching ontologies enables the knowledge and data expressed in 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. 2. To conduct an extensive and rigorous evaluation of ontology matching approaches through the OAEI (Ontology Alignment Evaluation Initiative) 2009 campaign: http://oaei.ontologymatching.org/2009/ This year's OAEI campaign introduces two new tracks about oriented alignments and about instance matching (a timely topic for the linked data community). Therefore, the ontology matching evaluation initiative itself will provide a solid ground for discussion of how well the current approaches are meeting business needs. 3. To examine similarities and differences from database schema matching, which has received decades of attention but is just beginning to transition to mainstream tools. TOPICS of interest include but are not limited to: Business cases for matching; Requirements to matching from specific domains; Application of matching techniques in real-world scenarios; Formal foundations and frameworks for ontology matching; Large-scale ontology matching evaluation; Performance of matching techniques; Matcher selection and self-configuration; Uncertainty in ontology matching; User involvement (including both technical and organizational aspects); Explanations in matching; Social and collaborative matching; Alignment management; Reasoning with alignments; Matching for traditional applications (e.g., information integration); Matching for dynamic applications (e.g., peer-to-peer, web-services). 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 2009 campaign. Technical papers should be not longer than 12 pages using the LNCS Style: http://www.springeronline.com/sgw/cda/frontpage/0,11855,5-164-2-72376-0,00.html Posters/statements of interest should not exceed 2 pages and should be handled according to the guidelines for technical papers. All contributions should be prepared in PDF format and should be submitted through the workshop submission site at: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=om20090 Contributors to the OAEI 2009 campaign have to follow the campaign conditions and schedule at http://oaei.ontologymatching.org/2009/. IMPORTANT DATES FOR TECHNICAL PAPERS: August 11, 2009: Deadline for the submission of papers. September 6, 2009: Deadline for the notification of acceptance/rejection. October 2, 2009: Workshop camera ready copy submission. October 25, 2009: OM-2009, Westfields Conference Center, Chantilly, near Washington DC., USA. ORGANIZING COMMITTEE 1. Pavel Shvaiko (Main contact) TasLab, Informatica Trentina SpA, Italy 2. Jérôme Euzenat INRIA LIG, France 3. Fausto Giunchiglia University of Trento, Italy 4. Heiner Stuckenschmidt University of Mannheim, Germany 5. Natasha Noy Stanford Center for Biomedical Informatics Research, USA 6. Arnon Rosenthal The MITRE Corporation, USA PROGRAM COMMITTEE Yuan An, Drexel University, USA Zohra Bellahsene, LIRMM, France Paolo Besana, University of Edinburgh, UK Olivier Bodenreider, National Library of Medicine, USA Isabel Cruz, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA Jérôme David, INRIA LIG,
[UAI] ECAI-2010: 1st Call for Workshop Proposals (deadline: 11 December 2009)
[Please distribute widely and accept our apologies for cross-posting.] ## ## ECAI-2010 ##1st Call for Workshop Proposals ## ECAI-2010 ## ## The Nineteenth European Conference on Artificial Intelligence 16-20 August 2010 ## Lisbon, Portugal http://ecai2010.appia.pt/ Deadline for workshop proposals: 11 December 2009 ## ## INTRODUCTION ## ## The nineteenth biennial European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI-2010) will take place on 16-10 August 2010 in Lisbon, Portugal. We invite proposals for workshops to be held during the first two days of the conference. Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a central topic in contemporary computer science and informatics. The fruits of fifty years of AI research have benefited application domains as disparate as industrial systems control and medicine. The milestone events in AI research are increasingly regarded as milestones in human scientific and technological development: from the first chess playing program to defeat a reigning world champion under standard chess tournament rules, to the first robot to autonomously traverse 150 miles of rough terrain. Techniques, results, and concepts developed under the banner of AI research have proved to be of fundamental importance in areas such as economics, philosophy, linguistics, psychology, and logical analysis. And of course, AI remains a topic of perennial fascination in popular culture. Initiated in 1974, the biennial European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI) is Europe's premier archival venue for presenting scientific results in AI. Organised by the European Coordinating Committee for AI (ECCAI), the ECAI conference provides an opportunity for researchers to present and hear about the very best research in contemporary AI. As well as a full programme of technical papers, ECAI-2010 will include the Prestigious Applications of Intelligent Systems conference (PAIS), the Starting AI Researcher Symposium (STAIRS), and an extensive programme of workshops, tutorials, and invited speakers. ECAI-2010 will be held in the beautiful and historic city of Lisbon, Portugal. With excellent opportunities for sightseeing and gastronomy, Lisbon promises to be a wonderful venue for a memorable conference. ## ## WORKSHOPS @ ECAI-2010## ## Workshop proposals by all members of the international AI community are welcome. There is no restriction regarding topics, as long as there is clear relevance to ECAI. Most workshops will follow the classical format of presentations of peer-reviewed papers followed by discussion, but other formats (e.g., AI competitions) and entirely new ideas are also welcome. Whatever the format, all workshops should be interactive events and ample time should be allocated to discussion. The typical duration for a workshop is one full day, but two-day workshops can also be accommodated. If you are considering to propose a workshop or if you have any questions, please do not hesitate to get in touch with the ECAI-2010 Workshop Chair, Ulle Endriss (ulle.endr...@uva.nl). ## ## IMPORTANT DATES ## ## 11 Dec 2009: workshop proposals due (early submissions are welcome!) 15 Jan 2010: workshop proposal notifications sent 29 Jan 2010: all workshop websites to be operational 29 Jan 2010: 1st call for papers to be posted for all workshops 1 Feb 2010: announcement of ECAI-2010 workshop programme 7 May 2010: workshop paper submission deadline (suggestion) 7 Jun 2010: notifications on workshop paper submissions (suggestion) 1 Jul 2010: workshop proceedings to be sent to workshop chair The paper submission and notification deadlines are suggestions only. However, the paper deadline must be after the ECAI notification date (30 April 2010) and the notifications must be sent before the ECAI early registration deadline (15 June 2010). ## ## HOW TO PROPOSE A WORKSHOP## ## Please submit your proposal as a single PDF file via Easychair: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ecai2010ws Each proposal should
[UAI] ICLP'10, FLoC'10: Call for Workshops Deadline Extension to Sept. 1rst
Dear all, FLoC 2010: Call For Workshops Deadline Extension: Workshop proposals can now be submitted up to Sept. 1, 2009. The original Call for Workshops is at http://www.floc-conference.org/cfw.html . Organizers will be notified by October 15, 2009. Proposals should be submitted electronically to EasyChair at the following address: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=floc10cfw (Clearly indicate at the top of the proposal the relevant conference) For further enquiries or information, please contact: Philip Scott (FLoC Workshop Chair) Department of Mathematics and Statistics University of Ottawa Ottawa, Ont. Canada K1N 6N5 email: p...@site.uottawa.ca ___ uai mailing list uai@ENGR.ORST.EDU https://secure.engr.oregonstate.edu/mailman/listinfo/uai
