[UAI] CFP: 9th IEEE Workshop on Parallel / Distributed Combinatorics and Optimization (PDCO) in conjunction with IEEE IPDPS 2019

[Grégoire DANOY]

Please, accept our apologies in case of multiple copies of this CFP.


**
 The 9th IEEE Workshop on Parallel / Distributed
  Combinatorics and Optimization (PDCO 2019)

https://pdco2019.sciencesconf.org/

  held in conjunction with
   the 33rd IEEE International
  Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS'2019)
 May 20-24, 2019

  Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
  http://www.ipdps.org
**



Scope:
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The IEEE Workshop on Parallel / Distributed Combinatorics and Optimization aims 
at providing a forum for scientific researchers and engineers on recent 
advances in the field of parallel or distributed combinatorics as well as 
parallel or distributed algorithms for difficult optimization problems, ranging 
from theoretical to applied problems. The latter include for instance 0-1 
multidimensional knapsack problems and cutting stock problems, large scale 
linear programming problems, nonlinear optimization problems, global 
optimization and scheduling problems.

Emphasis will be placed on new techniques for solving difficult optimization 
problems, like cooperative methods for integer programming problems, 
nature-inspired techniques and hybrid methods. Aspects related to Combinatorial 
Scientific Computing (CSC) will also be treated. We solicit submissions of 
original manuscripts on sparse matrix computations and related topics 
(including graph algorithms); and related methods and tools for their 
efficiency on different parallel systems. Applications combining traditional 
parallel and distributed combinatorics and optimization techniques as well as 
theoretical issues (convergence, complexity, etc.) are welcome.

Application domains of interest include (but are not limited to) cloud 
computing, planning, logistics, AI, manufacturing, finance, telecommunications 
and computational biology.


Topics:
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* Exact methods, heuristics, metaheuristics, hybrid methods;
* Parallel / distributed metaheuristics;
* Nature inspired parallel / distributed computing;
* Parallel / distributed algorithms for combinatorial optimization;
* Integer programming, linear programming, nonlinear programming;
* Global optimization, polynomial optimization;
* Cooperative methods, hybrid methods;
* Parallel sparse matrix computations, graph algorithms, load balancing;
* Applications: cloud computing, planning, logistics, manufacturing, finance, 
telecommunications, computational biology, combinatorial algorithms in high 
performance computing.


Steering Committee:
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Pascal Bouvry, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg (co-chair)
Didier El Baz, team CDA, LAAS-CNRS, France (co-chair)
El-Ghazali Talbi, University of Lille, INRIA, CNRS, France
Albert Y. Zomaya, The University of Sydney, Australia


General Chairs:
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Grégoire Danoy, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Didier El Baz, team CDA, LAAS-CNRS, France


Program Chairs:
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Vincent Boyer, University of Nuevo Leon, Mexico
Bernabe Dorronsoro, Universidad de Cádiz, Spain


Publicity Chairs:
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Keqin Li, State University of New York at New Paltz, USA
Laurence T. Yang, St Francis Xavier University, Canada


Program Committee (to be completed):

A. Bendjoudi, CERIST, Algiers, Algeria
J.-N. Cao, Hong-Kong Polytechnic University, China
J. J. Durillo, Leibniz Supercomputer Center, Munich, Germany
S. Fujita, Hiroshima University, Japan
M. Halappanavar, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA
K. Li, State University of New York, USA
N. Melab, University of Lille, France
M. Menai, King Saud University, Saudi Arabia
A. Nakib, University Paris 12, France
S. Nesmachnow, Universidad de la República, Uruguay
S. Nikoletseas, University of Patras and CTI, Greece
C. Phillips, Sandia National Laboratories, USA
T. Saadi, University of Picardie, France
M. Seredynski, Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology, Luxembourg
G. Ch. Sirakoulis, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece
G. Spezzano, University of Calabria, Italy
A. Tchernykh, CICESE Research Center, Mexico
S. Varrette, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
F. Xhafa, Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Spain
L.T. Yang, St Francis Xavier University, Canada


Submission :

Papers in the Proceedings of the workshops will be indexed in the IEEE Xplore 
Digital Library after the conference.
Prospective authors should submit their papers through Workshop PDCO 2019 
submission system (EasyChair): https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=pdco2019

Abstract and paper can be uploaded until December 21, 2018. Authors should 
preferably follow the manuscript specifications  of IEEE IPDPS, i.e. submitted 
manuscripts may not exceed 10 

[UAI] [CfP] IJAR Special issue on Probabilistic Logic Programming

[Elena Bellodi]

--
CALL FOR PAPERS
International Journal of Approximate Reasoning
http://www.journals.elsevier.com/international-journal-of-approximate-reasoning

Special issue on Probabilistic Logic Programming

The 5th Workshop on Probabilistic Logic Programming (
http://stoics.org.uk/plp/plp2018) was held on September 1st 2018 in
Ferrara, Italy, co-located with the 28th International Conference on
Inductive Logic Programming (ILP 2018).
We welcome submissions of (improved/extended versions of) papers that were
presented at the workshop, as well as new submissions on all topics of the
workshop.
--

Topics include but are not limited to:
--

   * probabilistic logic programming formalisms
   * parameter estimation
   * statistical inference
   * implementations
   * structure learning
   * reasoning with uncertainty
   * constraint store approaches
   * stochastic and randomised algorithms
   * probabilistic knowledge representation and reasoning
   * constraints in statistical inference
   * applications, such as
   * * bioinformatics
   * * semantic web
   * * robotics
   * probabilistic graphical models
   * answer set programming
   * Bayesian learning
   * tabling for learning and stochastic inference
   * MCMC
   * stochastic search
   * labelled logic programs
   * integration of statistical software

Important dates
---

Submission of manuscripts: before March 1st, 2019 (papers will be sent to
reviewers as soon as we receive them)
Publication of the special issue: January 2020 (tentative)

Submissions
---

All submitted papers under this call will undergo the standard review
process of the journal.
All papers should be submitted to IJAR website
http://www.evise.com/evise/jrnl/IJA by choosing the Special Issue “VSI:
PLP2018”.
All online submissions should follow the “Guide for Authors” of the journal.

Guest Editors:
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Elena Bellodi (University of Ferrara, Italy) -  elena.bell...@unife.it
Tom Schrijvers (KU Leuven, Belgium) - tom.schrijv...@cs.kuleuven.be


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Elena Bellodi, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
University of Ferrara, Italy
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[UAI] [online workgroup] Call for participation in the development of an evaluation Instrument for social agents

[Mojgan Hashemian]

[Apologies for cross-posting]


Dear colleagues,

Our vision is to create a validated standardised questionnaire instrument
to evaluate human interaction with a social agent. This instrument will
help researchers to make claims about people’s perceptions, attitude and
beliefs towards their agent. It will allow agents to be compared across
user studies, and importantly, it helps in replicating our scientific
findings. This is essential for the community if we want to make valid
claims about the impact that our social agents can have in domains such as
health, entertainment, and education.

We have set up an online project at Open Science Framework (OSF), and we
are now looking for more researchers interested in participating in the
developing this instrument. We are explicitly looking for researchers with
a background in conducting user studies with social agents such as
intelligent virtual agents, social robots, and conversational agents.

As we all have busy schedules, individual participation can vary, including
providing comments and advise about setting up the instrument, what
constructs should be measures, which items to include, pilot testing the
instrument, creating a norm database of evaluated agents, and also
participating in the writing of scientific papers about the instruments.

What is in it for you? You will end up with a standardised questionnaire to
evaluate your social agent and compare it with other agents.

Interested?

   1.

   Join the Open Science Framework: go to https://osf.io/6duf7/ (optionally
   sign in to the OSF and click ‘request access’. We have developed an OSF
   project under title: Workgroup on Evaluation Instrument or once register
   click again on the link in this email).
   2.

   Method of Communication. As soon as you are assigned to be one of the
   contributors, you will have the ‘read and write’ right on the OSF project.
   Please feel free to add and update the Wikis, the components and the tags,
   and give a lot of ‘Comments’ to each of them.
   3.

   Contact Information. Please make sure that you fill in your profile
   especially your affiliation (you can always edit it later).

Already participating…

Catholijn Jonker, Delft University of Technology

Deborah Richards, Macquarie University: Sydney, New South Wales

Ding Ding, Delft University of Technology

Evalien Heyselaar, Behavioral Science Institute, Radboud University

Felix Lindner, University of Freiburg

Frances Brazier, Delft University of Technology

Franziska Burger, Delft University of Technology

Gale Lucas, USC Institute for Creative Technology

Kangsoo Kim, University of Central Florida

Kim Baraka, Carnegie Mellon University

Leigh Clark, University College Dublin

Merijn Bruijnes, University of Twente

Mojgan Hashemian, INESC-ID, Lisbon

Myrthe Tielman, Delft University of Technology

Salam Daher, University of Central Florida

Nahal Norouzi, University of Central Florida

Catharine Oertel Genannt Bierbach, KTH Royal Institute of Technology,
Stockholm

Rianne van den Berghe, Utrecht University

Siska Fitrianie, Delft University of Technology

Tibor Bosse, Radboud University Nijmegen

Ulysses Bernardet, Aston University, Birmingham

Willem-Paul Brinkman, Delft University of Technology


Kind regards
--
Mojgan Hashemian
Ph.D. Student, Researcher
Group of Artificial Intelligence for People and Society (GAIPS),
INESC-ID/IST (Lisbon, Portugal)
mojgan-hashemian.com 
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[UAI] [2nd CFP] 17th Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (AIME 2019)

[David Riaño]

AIME 2019: 17th Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine - 2nd Call 
for Submissions


http://aime19.aimedicine.info

Call for Main Conference Papers

The AIME 2019 conference invites all interested researchers to submit original 
contributions regarding the development of theory, methods, systems, and 
applications of AI in biomedicine, including the application of AI approaches 
in biomedical informatics, healthcare organization and molecular medicine.

Scope

Contributions to theory and methods should present or analyze novel AI theories 
or methodologies for solving problems in the biomedical field. They may propose 
new theories and methods or extensions of existing ones. In both cases, the 
work should demonstrate its utility for solving biomedical problems and 
highlight its contribution to the underlying theoretical basis. In addition, it 
should discuss assumptions, limitations and novelty with respect to the state 
of the art.

Contributions addressing systems and applications should describe the 
development, implementation or evaluation of innovative, AI-based tools and 
systems in the biomedical application domain. These papers should both link the 
work to underlying theory, and either analyse the potential benefits to solve 
biomedical problems or present empirical evidence of benefits in clinical 
practice.

The scope of the conference includes the following areas:

  *   Big data analytics,

  *   Machine learning, knowledge discovery and data mining,

  *   Biomedical ontologies and terminologies,

  *   Biomedical knowledge acquisition and management,

  *   Knowledge-based reasoning in biomedicine,

  *   Natural language processing,

  *   Document classification and information retrieval,

  *   Bayesian networks, fuzzy logic and reasoning under uncertainty,

  *   Temporal and spatial representation and reasoning,

  *   Healthcare processes and workflow management,

  *   Computerized clinical practice guidelines (CPGs) and protocols,

  *   Biomedical imaging and signal processing,

  *   Visual analytics in biomedicine,

  *   Clinical decision support systems (CDSSs),

  *   Patient engagement support (personal healthcare record),

  *   AI solutions for ambient assisted living, telemedicine and e-health.

Submission

Papers should be submitted to the AIME 2019 Easy Chair website 
(https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aime2019). Authors are asked first to 
submit an abstract (maximum 250 words), the full paper may be uploaded up to 
two weeks later (please see Important Dates below).

The conference features regular papers in two categories (please note if you 
submit a paper as a student):

  1.  Full research papers (up to 10 pages)

  2.  Short papers (up to 5 pages) and Demo papers (1 page) describing either

  *   a short research project,

  *   a demonstration of implemented systems, or

  *   late-breaking results (work-in-progress).

Papers should be formatted according to Springer's LNCS format (see  
http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html).

All accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings which will be 
published as part of Springer's Lecture Notes in AI series. In addition, the 
authors of the best submissions will be invited to expand and refine their 
papers for possible publication in the Artificial Intelligence in Medicine 
journal (Elsevier).

Presentations will include long (25 minutes: 20 minutes presentation, 5 minutes 
discussion) and short presentations (5 minutes: 3 minutes presentation, 2 
minutes discussion).

Posters (A1 size, 594mm x 841mm) will be displayed in two series, a poster walk 
(2 minute local presentation) will be organized.

Demos of applications are welcome, there will be opportunities for presenting 
software to individuals and small groups of participants.

Mario Stefanelli and Marco Ramoni Best Paper Awards

The best student paper will receive an award honoring Mario Stefanelli from the 
University of Pavia and his accomplishments. Mario Stefanelli was one of the 
founders of the AIME community, an inspiration to us all, and actively helped 
in advancing young researchers in our field. The best student paper will be 
valued by the Program Committee based on the quality of both, the paper and the 
oral presentation at the conference.

The best paper in bioinformatics will receive an award honoring Marco Ramoni. 
Marco Ramoni was an outstandingly respected faculty member at Harvard, USA, and 
contributed to significant advances in the biomedical informatics field. The 
best paper in bioinformatics will be valued by the Program Committee based on 
the scientific quality of the paper.

Important Dates

  *   Abstract submission deadline: January 15, 2019

  *   Paper submission deadline: February 1, 2019

  *   Notification of acceptance: March 13, 2019

  *   Camera-ready submission deadline: April 5, 2019

  *   Main conference: June 27-28, 2019

Invited Speakers

Anthony Chang 

[UAI] Postdoc position in Applied Machine Learning at Frederick Research Center, Cyprus

[Harris Papadopoulos]

[ please distribute - apologies for multiple postings ]

The Frederick Research Center invites applications for one (1) 
postdoctoral position within the research topics of machine learning 
applied to web & mobile computing challenges. This position is part of 
the project “EnterCY: Enhancing Tourist Experience in Cyprus” funded by 
the national Research Promotion Foundation (RPF).


The EnterCY project aims at developing an integrated web and mobile 
platform for enhancing the experience of tourists in Cyprus by utilizing 
cutting-edge technologies including machine learning, virtual and 
augmented reality, big data management and mobile computing. Its 
consortium is composed of nine (9) partners from different sectors 
(i.e., academia, government, industry and tourism-related associations).


The successful applicant will perform research on intelligent data 
analysis and the development of machine learning techniques for applied 
problems in the area of web and mobile computing, under the supervision 
of Dr. Harris Papadopoulos (http://staff.frederick.ac.cy/com.ph/) and 
Dr. Andreas Konstantinidis (http://mdl.frederick.ac.cy/Profile/akonst/). 
As part of this multi-disciplinary project, the successful applicant 
will have the opportunity to closely collaborate with researchers from a 
multitude of ICT-related domains, as well as various other domains 
including cultural heritage, tourism, cognitive psychology, 3D modeling 
and virtualization.


This is a three (3) year postdoc position (renewable) starting around 
January 2019 with an entry-level salary of 1800-2500 EUR depending on 
experience and qualifications.


Applications should include:
- a short (up to one page) research statement;
- current extended Curriculum Vitae;
- the candidate’s top 3 publications;
- a list of publications and
- the names and contact details for two (2) referees.

The applications and any inquiries should be sent to: 
com...@frederick.ac.cy, with subject "Post-doc application".


Applications will be continuously evaluated upon reception.
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[UAI] Call for Papers: Special Issue on Autonomous Agents Modelling Other Agents

[Stefano V. Albrecht]

*Special Issue on Autonomous Agents Modelling Other Agents*

To be published in Artificial Intelligence

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


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 
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 (including problems 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 are open until *December 31, 2018* and can be made 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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The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in
Scotland, with registration number SC005336.

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