[UAI] 21st European Conference on Advances in Databases and Information Systems (ADBIS 2017): Last Call for Workshop Proposals

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*** Last Call for Workshop Proposals ***

21st European Conference on Advances in Databases
and Information Systems

ADBIS 2017

Hilton Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus

24 - 27 September, 2017

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The internationally recognized ADBIS conference already for 21 years is
gathering researchers and practitioners around topics related to databases,
data processing, and information systems, in general. The conference is run
in Europe but attracts researchers from all over the world. The 21st ADBIS
conference will be held in Nicosia, Cyprus. The conference is accompanied
by satellite events, including PhD consortia and workshops.


WORKSHOPS

Typically, workshops focus on multiple topics related to data storage and
processing. This year we would encourage also workshops focusing on
practical applications of research in business/industry and on joint projects
run by industry and research entitites.

The list of workshop topics is not limited to the aforementioned and we
encourage representatives of research and business to submit workshop
proposals promoting their achievements.


SUBMITTING WORKSHOP PROPOSALS

Workshop proposals should be emailed to the workshop chairs:

· Johann Gamper (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano) gam...@inf.unibz.it
· Robert Wrembel (Poznan Univ. of Technology) robert.wrem...@cs.put.poznan.pl

The proposal should include:

· a workshop title
· estimated length (1 day or 1/2 day)
· names, affiliations, and e-mails of PC chairs
· short bio of the workshop PC chairs, including previous experience in
organizing workshops or conferences (if applicable)
· a (tentative) list of PC (if possible)
· a workshop main goals
· the list of a workshop topics
· preliminary CFP
· how information about a workshop will be disseminated and how papers
will be solicited

The organizers of accepted workshops are expected to:

· organize the workshop's program committee
· disseminate the workshop call for papers
· solicit submissions
· conduct the reviewing process
· prepare the final workshop program

The official language of workshops is English.


ORGANIZATIONAL SUPPORT

Workshops will benefit from the ADBIS 2017 organizational infrastructure
and receive support w.r.t. registration, badges, lunches, coffee breaks,
and publication of the workshop proceedings.


PUBLICATION

Workshops papers will be published by Springer in 'Communications in
Computer and Information Science'.

We plan to invite selected workshop papers for publication in a journal.


IMPORTANT DATES

· Submission of Workshop Proposals: January 15, 2017
· Workshop acceptance/rejection Notification: January 21, 2017
· Camera-ready Submission of Papers: June 25, 2017
· Workshops held: September 24, 2017

A detailed workshop timeline, i.e., deadlines for submissions, reviews,
camera-ready due, are proposed by the workshop PC chairs, in agreement
with the ADBIS 2017 workshop chairs.


COMMITTEES

Steering Committee Chair
· Leonid Kalinichenko, Russian Academy of Science, Russia

General Chair
· George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus

Program Chairs
· Marite Kirikova, Riga Technical University, Latvia
· Kjetil Norvag, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway

Proceedings Chair
· Christos Mettouris, University of Cyprus, Cyprus

Workshops Chairs
· Johann Gamper, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
· Robert Wrembel, Poznan University of Technology, Poland

Doctoral Consortium Chairs
· Jerome Darmont, Universite Lyon 2, France
· Stefano Rizzi, University of Bologna, Italy

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[UAI] IEEE CEC-2017, San Sebastian CFP. Deadline extended: January 30

[Roberto Santana]

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We are pleased to announce that the 2017 IEEE Conference on Evolutionary 
Computation (www.cec2017.org) will be held in San Sebastian, Spain, in 
June 5-8, 2017.



IEEE CEC  is a world-class conference that aims to bring together 
researchers and practitioners in the field of evolutionary computation 
and computational intelligence from all around the globe. Technical 
exchanges within the research community will encompass keynote lectures, 
regular and special sessions, tutorials, and competitions as well as 
poster presentations. In addition, participants will be treated to a 
series of social functions, receptions, and networking to establish new 
connections and foster everlasting friendship among fellow counterparts.


Donostia/San Sebastian is a coastal medium-size city located in northern 
Spain, 20km from the border with France. It stands as an amphitheatre 
over-looking the sea. It is known the world over for its spectacular bay 
and is referred to as the Pearl of the Cantabrian Sea. It is also 
internationally renowned for being a culinary haven where visitors will 
find more Michelin stars per square meter than in any other city in the 
world. The conference will take place at the Kursaal Convention Center 
and Auditorium. Kursaal is located in the city center, overlooking the 
seafront. This avant-garde architectural showpiece was designed by 
Rafael Moneo  and won the Mies van der Rohe prize for the best building 
in Europe in 2001. The main hotels, restaurants and shopping areas are 
within walking distance.



CEC 2017 covers all topics in the field of Evolutionary Computation 
including the following non-exhaustive list:



 *  Genetic algorithms
 *  Genetic programming
 *  Estimation of distribution algorithms
 *  Evolutionary programming
 *  Evolution strategies
 *  Bioinformatics and bioengineering
 *  Coevolution and collective behavior
 *  Combinatorial and numerical optimization
 *  Constraint and uncertainty handling
 *  Evolutionary data mining
 *  Evolutionary learning systems
 *  Evolvable/adaptive hardware and systems
 *  Evolving neural networks and fuzzy systems
 *  Evolutionary multi-objective optimization
 *  Ant colony optimization
 *  Artificial life
 *  Agent-based systems
 *  Molecular and quantum computing
 *  Particle Swarm Optimization
 *  Artificial immune systems
 *  Representation and operators
 *  Industrial applications of EC
 *  Evolutionary game theory
 *  Cognitive systems and applications
 *  Computational finance and economics
 *  Estimation of distribution algorithms
 *  Evolutionary design
 *  Evolutionary scheduling

The complete list of special sessions is complete: 
http://www.cec2017.org/#special_session_sessions



Important Dates:

Deadline for the submission of tutorials and competitions proposals:

January  9, 2017

Paper submission deadline:

January 30, 2017

Paper Decision notification:

February 26, 2017


All the papers have to be submitted electronically through the congress 
application.


For Program inquiries please contact the Program Chair, Carlos Coello at 
ccoe...@cs.cinvestav.mx.


General inquiries for IEEE CEC 2017 should be sent to the General Chair, 
Jose A. Lozano at  i...@cec2017.org


You can also follow CEC 2017 on Twitter: https://twitter.com/cec2017


We are looking forward to seeing you in San Sebastian!



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[UAI] SUM 2017 Call for Papers

[Serafin Moral]

11th International Conference on Scalable Uncertainty Management (SUM 
2017) Call for papers


For updated information, please visit the conference web page at: 
http://idbis.ugr.es/sum2017/


The 11th International Conference on Scalable Uncertainty Management 
(SUM) will be held in Granada, Spain on October 4-6, 2017. The 
conference will bring together researchers who are working with 
imperfect information in fields such as artificial intelligence, 
databases, data mining, information retrieval, and risk analysis with 
the aim of fostering collaboration and cross-fertilization of ideas from 
different communities.


An originality of SUM is that it gives a large space to tutorials about 
a large range of topics related to uncertainty management. Each tutorial 
provides a 45 minute survey of one of the research areas in the scope of 
the conference.


Topics of interest

We solicit papers on the management of large amounts or complex kinds of 
uncertain, incomplete, or inconsistent information. We are particularly 
interested in papers that focus on bridging gaps, for instance between 
different communities, between numerical and symbolic approaches, or 
between theory and practice. Topics of interest include (but are not 
limited to):


   - Imperfect information in databases
   - Methods for modeling, indexing, and querying uncertain databases
   - Top-k queries, skyline query processing, and ranking
   - Approximate, fuzzy query processing
   - Uncertainty in data integration and exchange
   - Uncertainty and imprecision in geographic information systems
   - Probabilistic databases and possibilistic databases?
   - Data provenance and trust
   - Data summarization
   - Very large datasets
   - Imperfect information in information retrieval and semantic web 
applications

   - Approximate schema and ontology matching
   - Uncertainty in description logics and logic programming
   - Learning to rank, personalization, and user preferences
   - Probabilistic language models
   - Combining vector-space models with symbolic representations
   - Inductive reasoning for the semantic web
   - Imperfect information in artificial intelligence
   - Statistical relational learning, graphical models, 
probabilistic inference

   - Argumentation, defeasible reasoning, belief revision
   - Weighted logics for managing uncertainty
   - Reasoning with imprecise probability, Dempster-Shafer theory, 
possibility theory
   - Approximate reasoning, similarity-based reasoning, analogical 
reasoning
   - Planning under uncertainty, reasoning about actions, spatial 
and temporal reasoning

   - Incomplete preference specifications
   - Learning from data
   - Risk analysis
   - Aleatory vs. epistemic uncertainty
   - Uncertainty elicitation methods
   - Uncertainty propagation methods
   - Decision analysis methods
   - Tools for synthesizing results

Submission guidelines

SUM 2017 solicits papers in the following three categories:

   - Long papers: technical papers reporting original research or 
survey papers
   - Short papers: papers reporting promising work-in-progress, system 
descriptions, position papers on controversial issues, or survey papers 
providing a synthesis of some current research trends
   - Extended abstracts of recently published work in a relevant 
journal or top-tier conference


Accepted long and short papers will be published by Springer in the 
Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence series. Authors of an accepted 
long or short paper will be expected to sign copyright release forms, 
and one author is expected to give a presentation at the conference. 
Authors of accepted abstracts will be expected to present their work 
during the conference, but the extended abstracts will not be published 
in the LNCS/LNAI proceedings (they will be made available in a separate 
booklet).


Regular research papers should be at most 14 pages (including 
references, figures and tables). Short papers should be at most 7 pages. 
Extended abstracts should be at most 2 pages and should reference the 
originally published work.


Submissions must be formatted according to Springer's guidelines for 
LNCS authors, which can be found at 
http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html. Each paper is to be 
submitted electronically as a single PDF file through EasyChair. Papers 
not respecting the formatting instructions or page limits may be 
rejected without review.


With the exception of extended abstracts, submissions must be 
unpublished and must not be under submission elsewhere. All submitted 
papers will be reviewed by the Program Committee on the basis of 
technical quality, relevance, significance, and clarity.


IMPORTANT DATES

   - Deadline for submissions: April 3, 2017
   - Notification: May 22, 2017
   - Camera-ready copies: June 12, 2017
   - Conference: October 4-6, 2017

[UAI] [ICCMA'17] Last Call for Solvers

[Stefan Woltran]

==
 Second International Competition on Computational Models of Argumentation 
(ICCMA'17)


  Call for Solvers

http://www.dbai.tuwien.ac.at/iccma17
==

Argumentation is a major topic in the study of artificial intelligence. In 
particular, the problem of solving certain reasoning tasks on Dung's abstract 
argumentation frameworks is central to many advanced argumentation systems. The 
fact that problems to be solved are intractable requires efficient algorithms 
and solvers.


The objectives of the competition are to provide a forum for empirical 
comparison of solvers, to highlight challenges to the community, to propose new 
directions for research and to provide a core of common benchmark instances and 
a representation formalism that can aid in the comparison and evaluation of 
solvers.


The Second International Competition on Computational Models of Argumentation 
(ICCMA'17) will be conducted in the first half of 2017. ICCMA'17 will focus on 
reasoning tasks in abstract argumentation frameworks. Submitted solvers will be 
tested on a selected collection of benchmark instances (see Call for 
Benchmarks: http://www.dbai.tuwien.ac.at/iccma17/calls/benchmarks.txt).


Solvers will be evaluated based on their performance in solving the following 
problems:


(SE) Given an abstract argumentation framework, determine some extension
(EE) Given an abstract argumentation framework, determine all extensions
(DC) Given an abstract argumentation framework and some argument, decide 
whether the given argument is credulously inferred
(DS) Given an abstract argumentation framework and some argument, decide 
whether the given argument is skeptically inferred


The above computational problems are to be solved with respect to the following 
standard semantics:


(CO)  Complete Semantics
(PR)  Preferred Semantics
(ST)  Stable Semantics
(SST) Semi-stable Semantics
(STG) Stage Semantics
(GR)  Grounded Semantics (only (SE) and (DC))
(ID)  Ideal Semantics (only (SE) and (DC))

A task is a problem under a semantics. The tasks of a particular semantics 
constitute a track. In addition to these seven main tracks, a special track 
will be conducted:


Dung's Triathlon: Given an abstract argumentation framework, determine all 
extensions under grounded, stable, and preferred semantics, respectively, at 
once.


Developers of solvers may decide to only provide support for a subset of the 
above computational tasks and/or tracks. For each task and each (special) track 
we will provide a ranking of the performance of the submitted solvers. Awards 
go to the winners of tracks. Detailed evaluation and ranking rules can be found 
at http://www.dbai.tuwien.ac.at/iccma17/rules.html.


Input and output format are adapted from the last edition and detailed at 
http://www.dbai.tuwien.ac.at/iccma17/SolverRequirements.pdf.


The evaluation process will consist of two phases: Initially, the competitors 
will be given a set of representative AFs to test their solvers on their own 
machines. Then, they will submit a final version of the source code of their 
solvers that will be run by the organizers on the actual competition benchmarks 
(unknown to the competitors until this time). This way no fine-tuning of the 
solvers will be possible.


All competitors must submit a 2-page paper describing their solvers. The system 
descriptions will be published on the competition web site.


Registration

Potential participants are invited to send a mail to iccm...@dbai.tuwien.ac.at. 
The mail should indicate name and affiliations of each team member, name of the 
solver and the tasks that the solver will be able to handle (a complete list 
can be found at http://www.dbai.tuwien.ac.at/iccma17/participation.html).


Schedule

The preliminary schedule of the competition activities goes as follows:

- Jan 15, 2017: Declaration of intent by participants
- Mar 15, 2017: Submission of solvers
- Apr 15, 2017: Submission of system descriptions
- Aug, 2017:Presentation of results at TAFA'17

Possible additional (intermediate) deadlines will be communicated to the 
registered participants by the organizers.



We are looking forward to an exciting competition!

Contact
---
iccm...@dbai.tuwien.ac.at

Organizers
--
Sarah A. Gaggl, Computational Logic Group, TU Dresden, Germany
Thomas Linsbichler, Institute of Information Systems, TU Wien, Austria
Marco Maratea, DIBRIS, University of Genoa, Italy
Stefan Woltran, Institute of Information Systems, TU Wien, Austria

The ICCMA steering committee

Federico Cerutti, School of Computer Science & Informatics, Cardiff University, 
UK

Sarah A. Gaggl, Computational Logic Group, TU Dresden, Germany
Nir Oren, Department of Computing Science, 

[UAI] Call for papers: Special Session on Computational Intelligence and Games (CIG) at IEEE CEC2017

[Jialin Liu]

** Apologies for multiple postings **
** Please kindly forward to those who may be interested **
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CALL FOR PAPERS
*Special Session on Computational Intelligence and Games (CIG) at IEEE
Congress on Evolutionary Computation (IEEE CEC) 2017*

*IEEE CEC 2017 - Special Session*
Donostia - San Sebasti*á*n, Spa*i*n
June 5-8, 2017

*Special Session Website: http://www.liujialin.tech/sscig.html
*

SPECIAL SESSION
Games are an ideal domain to study computational intelligence (CI) methods
because they provide affordable, competitive, dynamic, reproducible
environments suitable for testing new search algorithms, pattern-based
evaluation methods, or learning concepts. They are also interesting to
observe, fun to play, and very attractive to students. Additionally, there
is great potential for CI methods to improve the design and development of
both computer games and non-digital games such as board games. This special
session aims at gathering not only leading researchers, but also young
researchers as well as practitioners in this field who research
applications of computational intelligence methods to computer games.

TOPICS OF INTEREST
In general, papers are welcome that consider all kinds of applications of
CI methods (evolutionary computation, supervised learning, unsupervised
learning, fuzzy systems, game-tree search, rolling horizon algorithms,
MCTS, etc.) to games (card games, board games, mathematical games, action
games, strategy games, role-playing games, arcade games, serious games,
etc.). Examples include
Adaptation in games
Automatic game testing
Coevolution in games
Comparative studies (e.g. CI versus human-designed players)
Dynamic difficulty in games
Games as test-beds for CI algorithms
Imitating human players
Learning to play games
Multi-agent and multi-strategy learning
Player/opponent modelling
Procedural content generation
Results of game-based CI competitions
Results of open competitions

IMPORTANT DATES
Paper Submission : January 16, 2017
Notification : February 26, 2017
Final Paper Submission : March 12, 2017
Special Session : June 5-8, 2017

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

*Manuscripts should be prepared according to the standard format and page
limit of regular papers specified in CEC'2017.*
Special session papers should be uploaded online through the paper
submission website of IEEE CEC 2017 by January 16, 2017.
Please select the corresponding special session name ("Computational
Intelligence and Games") as the “main research topic” in submission.
*Special session papers will be treated in the same way as regular papers
and included in the conference proceedings.*
For the latest information on important dates, the template and details,
please visit http://www.cec2017.org.

ORGANIZERS

Daniel Ashlock, dashl...@uoguelph.ca
Dept. of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Guelph, Canada

Antonio J. Fernández-Leiva, af...@lcc.uma.es
School of Computer Studies, University of Málaga, Span

Jialin Liu, jialin@essex.ac.uk
 School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering, University of
Essex, UK



Dr Jialin Liu PhD
Senior Research Officer
CSEE, University of Essex, UK

E jialin@essex.ac.uk
► http://www.liujialin.tech/

"Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and
confusion of things.” — Isaac Newton
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