[UAI] Call for Papers: Special Issue on Autonomous Agents Modelling Other Agents

2018-10-02 Thread s . albrecht 
Special Issue on Autonomous Agents Modelling Other Agents

Published in Artificial Intelligence

Call for Papers: 
https://www.journals.elsevier.com/artificial-intelligence/call-for-papers/special-issue-on-autonomous-agents-modelling-other-agents


Dear Colleagues,

We invite you to contribute to a new special issue on the topic of Autonomous 
Agents Modelling Other Agents, to be published in the journal Artificial 
Intelligence.

Much research in artificial intelligence (AI) is concerned with enabling 
autonomous agents to model various aspects of other agents, such as their 
beliefs, intentions, plans, goals, and decision making. A recent survey on the 
topic, published in AIJ (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.artint.2018.01.002), 
discusses the major modelling methods that have been developed in AI research 
and highlights open problems. The survey shows that this is a large area of 
research with a history going back several decades. However, it also shows that 
the area is fractured into many sub-communities with little interaction, 
including work in game playing, computer poker, automated negotiation, 
simulated robot soccer, human user modelling, human-robot interaction, 
commercial video games, trust and reputation, and multi-agent learning. The 
purpose of this special issue is to provide a venue for new technical 
contributions addressing open problems in this area of research (including 
those highlighted in !
 the survey), as well as to complement the survey via research perspectives 
which may include historical accounts, a description of recent developments and 
applications, and personal views about current limitations and future 
directions.

The following is a non-exclusive list of topics relevant to the special issue:

Learning and using models of other agents' decision making processes
Opponent modelling in games
Methods for goal/intent/plan recognition
Theory of mind, recursive reasoning, epistemic planning
Implicit agent modelling
Modelling humans
Modelling other agents under partial observability
Modelling teams/groups of agents
Teammate modelling for ad hoc teamwork
Robust decision making with agent models
Reasoning about utilities and preferences of other agents
Modelling other agents in open multi-agent systems
Modelling changing behaviours of other agents
Safe exploration of agent model spaces
Misspecified agent models and model revision
Graphical representations of agent models
Innovative applications of agents modelling other agents
Historical accounts, current limitations, and future directions of agent 
modelling


Submissions can be made until December 31, 2018 using the EVISE system: 
http://www.evise.com/evise/faces/pages/navigation/NavController.jspx?JRNL_ACR=ARTINT.
 Authors should select  when they reach the 
“Article Type” step in the submission process. All submitted articles will 
go through a peer-review process. Reviewing of submitted articles begins 
immediately after submission, with first decisions (accept, reject, revisions) 
made within three months. Accepted articles will be published immediately 
online on the AIJ website and will also be included in the special issue.


Guest editors:

Stefano Albrecht, University of Edinburgh

Peter Stone, University of Texas at Austin

Michael Wellman, University of Michigan


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[UAI] U. of Toronto Faculty Opening in Industrial Engineering: Machine Learning/AI/OR

2018-10-02 Thread Scott Sanner 
We are excited to announce a tenure stream faculty opening in Industrial
Engineering at the U. of Toronto.

Specifically, we seek candidates who demonstrate research excellence in the
development and application of Machine Learning (ML) and Artificial
Intelligence (AI) methodologies for Operations Research (OR).

The full job postings are here (there is one position with applications
accepted at either level):

* Assistant Professor: https://tinyurl.com/ydbk5en5
* Associate Professor: https://tinyurl.com/yacw66yo

Applications close Nov 20, 2018.  Please forward to interested colleagues.

Regards,
Scott

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Scott Sanner, PhD | Assistant Professor, Industrial Engineering

Department of Mechanical & Industrial Engineering
Faculty of Applied Science & Engineering | University of Toronto
5 King’s College Rd.| Toronto | Ontario | M5S 3G8 | Office: BA8104
ssan...@mie.utoronto.ca | http://d3m.mie.utoronto.ca
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[UAI] CFP ICAART 2019 - 11th Int.l Conf. on Agents and Artificial Intelligence (Prague/Czech Republic)

2018-10-02 Thread ica...@insticc.info 
SUBMISSION DEADLINE 

11th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence

Submission Deadline: October 22, 2018

http://www.icaart.org/

February 19 - 21, 2019
Prague, Czech Republic.

 ICAART is organized in 2 major tracks:

 - Agents
 - Artificial Intelligence


In Cooperation with: ACM SIGCHI, ACM SIGGRAPH, EUROGRAPHICS and AFIG. 
Proceedings will be submitted for indexation by: DBLP, DBLP, Thomson Reuters, 
EI, SCOPUS and Semantic Scholar. 
 
With the presence of internationally distinguished keynote speakers:
Penousal Machado, University of Coimbra, Portugal
Carla Gomes, Cornell University, United States
Michal Pechoucek, Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic
Lambert Schomaker, University of Groningen, Netherlands


A short list of presented papers will be selected so that revised and extended 
versions of these papers will be published by Springer.
 
All papers presented at the congress venue will also be available at the 
SCITEPRESS Digital Library (http://www.scitepress.org/DigitalLibrary/).
  
Should you have any question please don't hesitate contacting me.
 

Kind regards,
ICAART Secretariat

Address: Av. D. Manuel I, 27A, 2º esq.
2910-595 Setubal, Portugal
Tel: +351 265 520 185
Fax: +351 265 520 186
Web: http://www.icaart.org/
e-mail: icaart.secretar...@insticc.org


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[UAI] Research Fellow in AI for Autonomous Driving @ Oxford Brookes

2018-10-02 Thread Fabio Cuzzolin 
The School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics at Oxford Brookes
University is seeking a Research Fellow in Artificial Intelligence for
Autonomous Driving, to be appointed as soon as possible, for a duration of
2 years. The Fellow will be appointed at Grade 8, with a starting salary of
£30,688 per annum.

The successful candidate will lead the School's effort towards the
development of human-aware AI for autonomous driving.

The project concerns the design and development of novel ways for robots
and autonomous machines to interact with humans in a variety of emerging
scenarios, with a focus on autonomous driving. We believe novel, disruptive
applications of AI require neuroscience-inspired forms of communication
between humans and machines much beyond the current level of
sophistication. Smart cars need to understand that children and
construction workers have different reasoning processes that lead to very
different observable behaviour, in order to blend in with the road as a
human-centred environment. Morally and socially appropriate behaviour is
key to build trust and lead to acceptance from the public.

The Fellow will work to design and implement a prototype but complete
pipeline in a simulated scenario, including: (i) the design of theory of
mind simulations allowing smart cars to understand the reasoning and
intention of other drivers and pedestrians; (ii) the making of decisions
based on the results of these simulations; (iii) the actual control and
path planning required to pursue the best course of action, with
demonstration in a simulated environment.

They will also coordinate the effort of the three groups in the area by
supervising MSc and final year students working on the subject, and
liaising with our partners in Oxford, Cambridge and elsewhere.

As the project concerns artificial intelligence, mobile robotics and
engineering aspects, the Fellow will work jointly with the Visual
Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive Robotics and Autonomous Driving research
groups, led by Prof Fabio Cuzzolin, Dr Matthias Rolf and Dr Andrew Bradley.

The Visual Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (
http://cms.brookes.ac.uk/staff/FabioCuzzolin/) is a thriving unit projected
to comprise 20 members in 2019, which has established itself as one of the
top research groups in the world in deep learning for action detection,
conducting work at the current boundaries of human action recognition.

The Engineering section has a strong reputation in motorsports and
engagement with F1 teams, as demonstrated by Oxford Brookes Racing having
been crowned Class 1 Runner Up in the 2018 Formula Student competition (
https://www.imeche.org/events/formula-student/previous-events#results). The
three groups can provide equipment including various multiple-GPU
workstations, a significant number of humanoid robots (NAO, Baxter,
Robothespian) as well as autonomous driving equipment and software.

A new dataset in Road Event and Activity Detection (READ), the first of its
kind, is in the process of being released (https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.11332
).

You are encouraged to contact Prof Cuzzolin at fabio.cuzzo...@brookes.ac.uk
for more information and an informal feedback on your application.

The School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics at Oxford Brookes
University is seeking a Research Fellow in Artificial Intelligence for
Autonomous Driving, to be appointed as soon as possible, for a duration of
2 years. The Fellow will be appointed at Grade 8, with a starting salary of
£30,688 per annum.

The deadline for application is October 21 2018.

The successful candidate will lead the School’s effort towards the
development of human-aware AI for autonomous driving.

The project concerns the design and development of novel ways for robots
and autonomous machines to interact with humans in a variety of emerging
scenarios, with a focus on autonomous driving. We believe novel, disruptive
applications of AI require neuroscience-inspired forms of communication
between humans and machines much beyond the current level of
sophistication. Smart cars need to understand that children and
construction workers have different reasoning processes that lead to very
different observable behaviour, in order to blend in with the road as a
human-centred environment. Morally and socially appropriate behaviour is
key to build trust and lead to acceptance from the public.

The Fellow will work to design and implement a prototype but complete
pipeline in a simulated scenario, including: (i) the design of theory of
mind simulations allowing smart cars to understand the reasoning and
intention of other drivers and pedestrians; (ii) the making of decisions
based on the results of these simulations; (iii) the actual control and
path planning required to pursue the best course of action, with
demonstration in a simulated environment.

They will also coordinate the effort of the three groups in the area by
supervising MSc and final year students working on

[UAI] [ACM UbiComp/ISWC 2018] Becoming a Volunteer at ACM SIGCHI and SIGMOBILE

2018-10-02 Thread UbiComp '18 Publicity Chairs 

[Apologies if you got multiple copies of this email.]
UbiComp/ISWC 2018
The 2018 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous 
Computing

The 2018 International Symposium on Wearable Computers

October 8-12, 2018
Singapore

Webpages:
http://ubicomp.org/ubicomp2018/ 
http://iswc.net/iswc18/


We wanted to offer you the opportunity to sign up for a free lunch time 
event on Thursday Oct 11th during UbiComp 2018 starting at 12.45


Register here -> https://goo.gl/forms/nvMCpwK0OH0TbMlZ2

Chaired by the ACM SIGCHI Vice President for Conferences and 
the SIGMOBILE Student Engagement Director, Rajesh Krishna Balan this 
event will introduce you to ways of becoming a volunteer at ACM 
SIGMOBILE and SIGCHI events. The ACM has 100,000 members around the 
world. ACM SIGCHI (http://www.sigchi.org/) and SIGMOBILE 
(https://www.sigmobile.org) sponsors conferences from leading events 
such as UbiComp. SIGCHI sponsors 24 conferences including CHI while 
SIGMOBILE sponsors 6 including MobiSys etc.


How does all this happen? Well come along to this event and learn more 
and how to become a volunteer.


You will also learn about a myriad of funding SIGCHI and SIGMOBILE 
provides and why people love being volunteers.


sent on behalf of your hosts at this event, the ACM SIGCHI VP for 
Conferences, Aaron Quigley and SIGMOBILE Student Engagement 
Director, Rajesh Krishna Balan



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[UAI] 3 PhD Student Positions in Computer Science open at Mälardalen University, Sweden

2018-10-02 Thread Thomas Nolte 
3 PhD Student Positions in Computer Science open at Mälardalen University 
(MDH), Sweden. 

The positions are hosted by Embedded Systems (ES) - the most research-intensive 
research environment at MDH and a national leader in embedded-systems research. 
ES is organized in 15 mutually supportive and cooperating research groups, and 
includes 38 professors, 75 additional senior researchers and more than 80 
PhD-students. 

Two positions are offered by the Knowledge Foundation (KKS) funded industrial 
PhD programme ARRAY - Automation Region Research Academy, which aims at via 15 
PhD students advancing the state of the art and practice in several topics 
related to automation, and one PhD position is sponsored by the Swedish 
Research Council (VR), targeting real-time systems focusing on probabilistic 
timing analysis. 

PhD position 1) Ref.nr: 2018/2292 " Robots for Automated Construction"
PhD position 2) Ref.nr: 2018/2290 " Autonomous and Automated Road Construction"
PhD position 3) Ref.nr: 2018/2295 " Probabilistic Timing Analysis of Real-Time 
Systems"

For more information about these PhD positions, and how to apply, please follow 
the pointers here:
http://www.es.mdh.se/research-groups/44-Complex_Real_Time_Embedded_Systems 

More information about ARRAY - Automation Region Research Academy:
http://www.es.mdh.se/projects/497-ARRAY___Automation_Region_Research_Academy 

General information about the research environment at Mälardalen University is 
available at http://www.es.mdh.se/ 

Closing date for applications: October 31, 2018. Please do not hesitate to 
apply or redistribute this announcement to those that could be interested.

Best regards,
Thomas 

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Thomas Nolte, Professor of Computer Science MRTC/Mälardalen University, 
Västerås, SWEDEN
Cell: +46 73 6620583
Mail: thomas.no...@mdh.se
More: http://www.es.mdh.se/staff/48-Thomas_Nolte


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[UAI] CFP ICPRAM 2019 - 8th Int.l Conf. on Pattern Recognition Applications and Methods (Prague/Czech Republic)

2018-10-02 Thread icp...@insticc.info 
SUBMISSION DEADLINE 

8th International Conference on Pattern Recognition Applications and Methods

Submission Deadline: October 22, 2018

http://www.icpram.org/

February 19 - 21, 2019
Prague, Czech Republic.

 ICPRAM is organized in 2 major tracks:

 - Theory and Methods
 - Applications


In Cooperation with: ACM SIGCHI, ACM SIGGRAPH, EUROGRAPHICS and AFIG. 
Proceedings will be submitted for indexation by: DBLP, DBLP, Thomson Reuters, 
EI, SCOPUS and Semantic Scholar. 
 
With the presence of internationally distinguished keynote speakers:
Linda Shapiro, University of Washington, United States
Bram van Ginneken, Radboud University Medical Center, Netherlands
Michal Irani, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
Davide Maltoni, University of Bologna, Italy


A short list of presented papers will be selected so that revised and extended 
versions of these papers will be published by Springer.
 
All papers presented at the congress venue will also be available at the 
SCITEPRESS Digital Library (http://www.scitepress.org/DigitalLibrary/).
  
Should you have any question please don't hesitate contacting me.
 

Kind regards,
ICPRAM Secretariat

Address: Av. D. Manuel I, 27A, 2º esq.
2910-595 Setubal, Portugal
Tel: +351 265 520 185
Fax: +351 265 520 186
Web: http://www.icpram.org/
e-mail: icpram.secretar...@insticc.org


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[UAI] Call for Paper: PerPersuasion - 1st International Workshop on Pervasive Persuasive Systems for Behavior Change

2018-10-02 Thread Yukitoshi Kashimoto 

Dear Sir/Madam,

We are immensely proud to call 1st International Workshop on Pervasive 
Persuasive Systems for Behavior Change (PerPersuasion 2019) is the 
workshop held in Percom 2019, and we are happy to announce accepting 
your paper until: November 10, 2018.


Recently, the technologies for changing people’s attitudes or behaviors 
through persuasion and social influence are focused. It is called 
persuasive technology or persuasive system and is expected to contribute 
supporting productivity, well-being, and efficiency.
To realize an effective and appropriate intervention to the human 
behavior, various pervasive computing technologies such as a mobile 
sensing, activity recognition & prediction, and attention sensing have a 
quite important role.
In this workshop, we would like to have a deep and wide discussion with 
various researchers both from industry and academia. Especially, we 
would like to focus on the technological aspect as follows.


*Mobile sensing technologies for persuasive system
*Sensing technologies for internal states (emotion, stress)
*Socially influencing persuasive systems
*Supplemental system for persuasion
*Experimental supplements
*Computer-supported influence
*Context-aware interrupting mechanism
*Multimodal interaction
*Persuasive dialog system
*Just-in-time intervention/notification technologies
*Gamification for enhancing the effect
*Personalized persuasion
*Design of unconscious persuasion
*Design of feedback
*Case studies in the real environment


Important dates

Submission deadline: November 10, 2018
Notification: December 22, 2018
Camera-ready deadline: January 11, 2019


Submission guidelines

Paper Template ：IEEE Manuscript Templates for Conference Proceedings
Paper format：double-column, 10-pt font, A4-size paper
Page limitation：6 pages
Submission page：https://edas.info/index.php?c=25229


Organizers

Co-chairs:
Mani Srivastava (UCLA, U.S.A.)
Yutaka Arakawa (Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan)


Program committee:

Akane Sano (MIT Media Lab, U.S.A.)
Bharathan Balaji (Amazon, U.S.A.)
Bo-Jhang Ho (UCLA, U.S.A.)
Hiroki Ishizuka (KDDI Research, Japan)
Kai Kunze (Keio University, Japan)
Koichi Kise (Osaka Prefecture University, Japan)
Shoya Ishimaru (DFKI, Germany)
Tadashi Okoshi (Keio University, Japan)
Wolfgang Minker (Ulm University, Germany)
Yoshito Tobe (Aoyama Gakuin University, Japan)

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Yukitoshi Kashimoto, Ph.D. (柏本 幸俊)
member of PerPersuasion 2019 Program committee
KDDI Research, Inc.
E-mail:yu-kashim...@kddi-research.jp
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