[UAI] Deadline Extension: Narrative Extraction from Texts (Text2Story'19@ECIR'19). Second International Workshop

[Vitor Mangaravite]

*** Apologies for cross-posting ***



++ CALL FOR PAPERS ++



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Second International Workshop on Narrative Extraction from Texts
(Text2Story'19@ECIR'19)

held in conjunction with the 41st European Conference on Information
Retrieval

Cologne, Germany, April 14th, 2019

Website: http://bit.ly/text2story19

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++ Important Dates ++

*- Submission deadline: February 4th, 2019*

- Acceptance Notification Date: March 4th, 2019

- Camera-ready copies: March 22nd, 2019

- Workshop: April 14th, 2019


++ Overview ++

The increasing availability of text information in the form of news
articles, comments or posts in social networks poses new challenges for
those who aim to understand the storyline of an event. Although
understanding natural language text has improved over the last couple of
years with several research works emerging on the grounds of information
extraction and text mining, the problem of constructing consistent
narrative structures is yet to be solved. It is not only the algorithms
that need to be improved, but also the state-of-the-art that needs to
advance in order to provide methods that automatically identify, interpret
and relate the different elements of a narrative which will be likely
spread from different sources. In this workshop we aim to foster the
discussion of recent advances in the link between Information Retrieval
(IR) and formal narrative representations from texts. More specifically, we
aim to capture a wide range of multidisciplinary issues related to the
text-to-narrative-structure and to its various related tasks. This is a
very rich line of research that poses many challenging problems in
information retrieval, text mining, information extraction, computational
linguistics and automatic production of media content.


++ List of Topics ++

Research works submitted to the workshop should foster the scientific
advance on all aspects of storyline generation from texts including but not
limited to narrative and content generation, formal representation, and
visualization of narratives. This includes the following topics (not
limited):


-  Event Identification

-  Narrative Representation Language

-  Sentiment and Opinion Detection

-  Argumentation Mining

-  Narrative Summarization

-  Multi-modal Summarization

-  Storyline Visualization

-  Temporal Aspects of Storylines

-  Story Evolution and Shift Detection

-  Causal Relation Extraction and Arrangement

-  Evaluation Methodologies for Narrative Extraction

-  Big data applied to Narrative Extraction

-  Resources and Dataset showcase

-  Personalization and Recommendation

-  User Profiling and User Behavior Modeling

-  Credibility

-  Models for detection and removal of bias in generated stories

-  Ethical and fair narrative generation

-  Fact Checking

-  Bots Influence

-  Bias in Text Documents

-  Automatic Timeline Generation



++ Submission Guidelines ++

We invite two kinds of submissions:


-  Research papers (max 7 pages + references)

-  Demos and position papers (max 5 pages + references)


Papers must be submitted electronically in PDF format through Easy Chair (
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=text2story2019). All submissions
must be in English and formatted according to LNCS style (
http://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines
)


Submissions will be peer-reviewed by at least three members of the
programme committee. The accepted papers will appear in the proceedings
published at CEUR workshop proceedings (usually indexed on DBLP).


++ Workshop Format ++

Participants of accepted papers will be given 15 minutes for oral
presentations. All papers will also be also presented in an interactive
poster session.


++ Invited Speakers ++

TBA


++ Organizing committee ++

Alípio M. Jorge (INESC TEC; University of Porto, Portugal)

Ricardo Campos (INESC TEC; Polytechnic Institute of Tomar, Tomar, Portugal)

Adam Jatowt (Kyoto University, Japan)

Sumit Bhatia (IBM Research AI, India)


++ Proceedings Chair ++

− Conceição Rocha (LIAAD INESC TEC)

− João Paulo Cordeiro (INESC TEC; University of Beira Interior)


++ Web Chair ++

− Arian Pasquali (INESC TEC)


++ Dissemination Chair ++

− Vitor Mangaravite (UFMG; INESC TEC)


++ Program Committee ++

Nicola Ferro (University of Padova)

Miguel Martinez-Alvarez (Signal)

João Magalhães (New University of Lisbon)

Federico Nanni (University of Mannheim)

Dhruv Gupta (Max Planck Institute for Informatics)

Yihong Zhang (Kyoto University)

Nuno Moniz (LIAAD/INESC TEC)

Bruno Martins (IST and INESC-ID - Instituto Superior Técnico, University of
Lisbon)

Mark Finlayson (Florida International University)

Marc Spaniol (Université de Caen Normandie)

Nina Tahmasebi (University of Gothenburg)

Florian Boudin (Université de Nantes)

Henrique Lopes 

[UAI] 2nd CfP: BEA2019 GEC Shared Task – Training data released!

[Ekaterina Kochmar]

Building Educational Applications 2019 Shared Task:
Grammatical Error Correction

NEW! 25/01/2019: Training data released!

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION



Building Educational Applications 2019 Shared Task:
Grammatical Error Correction
Florence, Italy
August 2, 2019

https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/research/nl/bea2019st/


Call for Participation


Grammatical error correction (GEC) is the task of automatically 
correcting grammatical errors in text; e.g. [I follows his advices -> I 
followed his advice]. It can be used to not only help language learners 
improve their writing skills, but also alert native speakers to 
accidental mistakes or typos.


GEC gained significant attention in the Helping Our Own (HOO) and CoNLL 
shared tasks between 2011 and 2014, but has since become more difficult 
to evaluate given a lack of standardised experimental settings. In 
particular, recent systems have been trained, tuned and tested on 
different combinations of corpora using different metrics. One of the 
aims of this shared task is hence to once again provide a platform where 
different approaches can be trained and tested under the same 
conditions.


Another significant problem facing the field is that system performance 
is still primarily benchmarked against the CoNLL-2014 test set, even 
though this 5-year-old dataset only contains 50 essays on 2 different 
topics written by 25 South-East Asian undergraduates in Singapore. This 
means that systems have increasingly overfit to a very specific genre of 
English and so do not generalise well to other domains. As a result, 
this shared task introduces the Cambridge English Write & Improve (W) 
corpus, a new error-annotated dataset that represents a much more 
diverse cross-section of English language levels and domains. Write & 
Improve is an online web platform that assists non-native English 
students with their writing (https://writeandimprove.com/).


Participating teams will be provided with training and development data 
from the W corpus to build their systems. Depending on the chosen 
track, supplementary data may also be used. System output will be 
evaluated on a blind test set using ERRANT 
(https://github.com/chrisjbryant/errant).


In addition to learner data, we will provide an annotated development 
and test set extracted from the LOCNESS corpus, a collection of essays 
written by native English students compiled by the Centre for English 
Corpus Linguistics at the University of Louvain.


Tracks
--
There are 3 tracks in the BEA 2019 shared task. Each track controls the 
amount of annotated data that can be used in a system. We place no 
restrictions on the amount of unannotated data that can be used (e.g. 
for language modelling).


* Restricted
  In the restricted setting, participants may only use the following 
annotated datasets: FCE, Lang-8 Corpus of Learner English, NUCLE, W 
and LOCNESS.
  Note that we restrict participants to the preprocessed Lang-8 Corpus 
of Learner English rather than the raw, multilingual Lang-8 Learner 
Corpus because participants would otherwise need to filter the raw 
corpus themselves.


* Unrestricted
  In the unrestricted setting, participants may use any and all 
datasets, including those in the restricted setting.


* Unsupervised (or minimally supervised)
  In the unsupervised setting, participants may not use any annotated 
training data. Since current state-of-the-art systems rely on as much 
training data as possible to reach the best performance, the goal of the 
unsupervised track is to encourage research into systems that do not 
rely on annotated training data. This track should be of particular 
interest to researchers working with low-resource languages. Since we 
also expect this to be a challenging track however, we will allow 
participants to use the W+LOCNESS development set to develop their 
systems.


Participation
-
In order to participate in the BEA 2019 Shared Task, teams are required 
to submit their system output any time between March 25-29, 2019 at 
23:59 GMT. There is no explicit registration procedure. Further details 
about the submission process will be provided soon.


Important Dates
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Friday, Jan 25, 2019: New training data released
Monday, March 25, 2019: New test data released
Friday, March 29, 2019: System output submission deadline
Friday, April 12, 2019: System results announced
Friday, May 3, 2019: System paper submission deadline
Friday, May 17, 2019: Review deadline
Friday, May 24, 2019: Notification of acceptance
Friday, June 7, 2019: Camera-ready submission deadline
Friday, August 2, 2019: BEA-2019 Workshop (Florence, Italy)

Organisers
--
Christopher Bryant, University of Cambridge
Mariano Felice, University 

[UAI] [CFP] IEEE Workshop on Unsupervised Learning for Automated Driving (ULAD)

[Julian Kooij]

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Call for papers

Workshop on Unsupervised Learning for Automated Driving (ULAD)
IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium
June, 9th 2019 - Paris
www.ulad-workshop.com

Contact: i...@ulad-workshop.com
This workshop is supported by the IEEE ITS Technical Committee Self Driving 
Automobiles
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Manual data annotation for supervised learning is increasingly becoming a 
bottleneck in the Intelligent Vehicles (IV) domain. However, unlabeled data is 
easily collected, increasing traction in IV to explore unsupervised learning, 
its semi-, weakly-, and self-supervised variants, transfer learning, and 
inferring probabilistic latent representations. The ULAD workshop explores 
methods and practices from these growing research areas, and their application 
to IV.

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Topics of Interest
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As part of the IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium, the workshop explores the 
following topics in the context of automated driving and related applications:

1. unsupervised, semi-supervised, and weakly-supervised learning
2. self-supervised learning
3. domain adaptation
4. representation learning
5. density estimation
6. anomaly detection
7. clustering and data analysis
8. generative graphical models
9. latent variable models
10. non-parametric models
11. artificial data generation and simulation


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Important Dates
--
1. Workshop paper submission deadline: February 7th, 2019 (extended)
2. Notification of workshop paper acceptance: March 29, 2019
3. Final Workshop paper submission: April 22, 2019

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Organizing Committee
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1. Dr. Julian Kooij, Intelligent Vehicles group, TU Delft, The Netherlands
2. Dr. Fabian Flohr, Environment Perception, Daimler AG, Ulm, Germany
3. Prof. Dr.-Ing. Christoph Stiller, Institute of Measurement and Control 
Engineering, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany


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Guide for Authors
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1. Authors of accepted workshop papers will have their paper published in the 
conference proceeding.
2. At least one author needs to be registered for the workshop and the 
conference.
3. Paper submission site is open: 
https://its.papercept.net/conferences/scripts/start.pl
4. The paper submission page asks for a workshop code, please use our acronym 
"ULAD".
5. Information on paper and submissions available at 
http://iv2019.org/information-for-authors/


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[UAI] CFP MDAI 2019: Deadline March 7th

[Vicenc Torra]

Hi,

  I send enclosed the CFP of MDAI 2019 (sorry for multiple copies), best 
regards,


vicenc

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Hamilton Institute, Maynooth University, IRELAND http://www.mdai.cat/vtorra
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CALL FOR PAPER

16th International Conference on Modeling Decisions for Artificial Intelligence
MDAI 2019, September 4 - 6, 2019, Milan, Italy
http://www.mdai.cat/mdai2019


In MDAI we are particularly interested in the different facets of decision 
processes in a broad sense. This includes model building and all kind of 
mathematical tools for data aggregation, information fusion, and decision 
making; tools to help decision in data science problems (including e.g., 
statistical and machine learning algorithms as well as data visualization 
tools); and algorithms for data privacy and transparency-aware methods so that 
data processing processes and decisions made from them are fair, transparent 
and avoid unnecessary disclosure of sensitive information.


The MDAI conference includes tracks on the topics of (i) data science, (ii) 
data privacy, (iii) aggregation funcions, (iv) human decision making, (v) 
graphs and (social) networks, and (vi) recommendation and search.


MDAI 2019 is the 16th MDAI conference. Previous conferences were celebrated in 
Barcelona (2004), Tsukuba (2005), Tarragona (2006), Kitakyushu (2007), Sabadell 
(2008), Awaji Island (2009), Perpiny (2010), Changsha (2011), Girona (2012), 
Barcelona (2013), Tokyo (2014), Skovde (2015), St Julia de Loria (2016), 
Kitakyushu (2017), Mallorca (2018).


MDAI is rated as a CORE B conference by the Computing Research and Education 
Association of Australasia - CORE.


*Important Dates*
LNAI Submission deadline: March 7th, 2019
LNAI Acceptance notification: May,2nd, 2019
Final version of LNAI accepted papers: May 22nd, 2019
Early registration: May 22nd, 2019
Conference: September 4 - 6, 2019

*Submission and Publication*

Original technical contributions are sought. Contributions will be selected on 
the basis of their quality. Papers should not exceed 12 pages in total (using 
LNCS/LNAI style). Proceedings with accepted papers will be published in the 
LNAI/LNCS series (Springer-Verlag).


We will also publish additional proceedings in a USB memory with a later 
deadline.


*Tracks*

- DS track. Data science is the science of data. Its goal is to explain 
processes and objects through the available data. The explanation is expected 
to be objective and suitable to make predictions. The ultimate goal of the 
explanations is to make informed decisions based on the knowledge extracted 
from the data. Original contributions on methods, models, and tools for data 
science are sought.
- DP Track. Data privacy track. Privacy-preserving data mining, privacy 
enhancing technologies, and statistical disclosure control provide tools to 
avoid disclosure, and/or have a good balance between disclosure risk and data 
utility and security. Original contributions on aspects related to data privacy 
are sought.
- AGOP Track. Aggregation functions. Functions to aggregate data appear in 
several contexts. They are used for decision making and information fusion. 
Data science and artificial intelligence systems need these functions to 
summarize information, improve data quality and help in decision processes. 
Original contributions on aggregation functions and their applications are 
sought.
- DM Track.	Human decision making. Decision making is a pervasive problem 
in intelligent systems, and decisions are to be made in scenarios where 
uncertainty is common. Most mathematical models for decision making under risk 
and uncertainty provide optimal decisions under certain constraints. Experience 
and studies show that these rational decision making models diverge from the 
typical approach human use to make decisions.
- GSN Track. Graphs and (social) networks track. Graphs are often a convenient 
way to represent data. Social networks is a paradigmatic case. Algorithms and 
functions to process graphs and to extract information and knowledge from them 
are of high relevance in data science. Original contributions on graph analysis 
are sought.
- RS Track. Recommendation and search track. Searching and recommending online 
information/items to users deals with both the subjectivity related to the 
user's needs and the uncertainty and vagueness that characterize the retrieval 
process, in particular on the Web and on social media where huge amounts of new 
contents are generated every day. For these reasons, original contributions on 
search and recommendation algorithms and applications are sought


*MDAI 2019 Organization*

General chairs:
Gabriella Pasi (University of Milano-Bicocca)
Marco Viviani (University of Milano-Bicocca)

Program co-chairs:
 

[UAI] CFP - Final submissions deadline: 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
***


FINAL DEADLINE: February 10, 2019

Journal Special Issue invitation for selected best papers



Scope:
==
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 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 also 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, manufacturing, finance, telecommunications and 
computational biology.


Topics:
===
* Exact methods, heuristics, metaheuristics, hybrid methods;
* Parallel / distributed algorithms for combinatorial optimization;
* Parallel / distributed  metaheuristics;
* Nature inspired parallel / distributed computing;
* 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:
===
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:
===
Grégoire Danoy, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Didier El Baz, team CDA, LAAS-CNRS, France


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


Publicity Chairs:
=
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 

[UAI] ICADIWT 2019

[conference]

The Tenth International Conference on the Applications of Digital 
Information and Web Technologies (ICADIWT 2019)

May 20-22, 2019, Casablanca, Morocco

July 07-09, 2019
Luton, UK
(www.socio.org.uk/icadiwt)

The Tenth International Conference on the Applications of Digital 
Information and Web Technologies (ICADIWT 2019) is a forum for 
researchers to present the intensive and innovative research, ideas, 
developments and applications in the areas of Computer Communications, 
Communication networks, Communication Software Communication 
Technologies and Applications, and other related themes.


This conference (ICADIWT Edition IX) will include presentations of 
contributed papers and state-of-the-art lectures by invited keynote 
speakers. Digital Technologies is embeeded in the research activiites of 
large number of people and it ensures the Ubiquitous reaching of more 
number of people in the recent years. Research in digital technologies 
has been carried out in many directions using various resources and 
tools and on the other side, the application issues are addressed by 
more volume of researchers not necessarily limited to information and 
computing technology. Thus the proposed conference series realize its 
value and potential and manifest the requirements in the form of the 
international conference. This edition will address the following 
outlined themes (but not limited to)


Internet Communication
Internet Technologies
Web Applications
Internet Software
Data Access and Transmission
Digital Communication Software
Digital Networks
Web Communication Interfaces
Adaptive Systems
Internet of Things
Internet of breath
Augmented Reality
Databases and applications
Web Systems Engineering Design
Intelligent Agent systems
Semantic Web Studies
Adaptive Web applications and personalization
Actuators and sensors
Robotics and Machine Vision
Vibration and noise control
Smart cities and structures
Control
Automation
Human-machine interfaces
Real-time simulation
Digital Technologies for Mechanical and other designs


Publication and Indexing

The accepted full papers will be published in the IOS series (Frontiers 
in Artificial Intelligence and Applications (FAIA))and submitted for 
inclusion in many indexes. Accepted full papers will be submitted for 
indexing to multiple abstract and indexing partners. The papers will be 
indexed in many databases as given at 
http://www.frontiersinai.com/?q=indexing
The accepted papers will be published as a post-conference publication. 
During the conference, the pre-conference volume will be distributed.


The previous ICADIWT proceedings ars indexed in Web of Science


Honorary Chairs
Jolanta Mizera-Pietraszko, (Opole University, Poland)
Co-Chair
Chafik Okar, ENSA, Hassan 1st University, Berrechid, Morocco.
General Chairs
Abdelali El Bouchti, Institute for Forecasting and Futuristics (I2F), 
FS, Hassan 2nd University, Casablanca, Morocco


Program Chairs
Yao-Liang Chung, National Taiwan Ocean University, Taiwan
Ricardo Rodriguez Jorge, (Autonomous University of Ciudad Juarez, 
Mexico)


Important Dates

Submission of papers (Morocco/UK)   March 01, 2019/April 01, 2019
Notification (Morocco/UK)   April 01, 2019/May 01, 2019
Camera ready (Morocco/UK)   May 01, 2019/June 01, 2019
Registration(Morocco/UK)May 01, 2019/June 01, 2019
Conference Dates (Morocco/UK)   May 20-22, 2019/July 07-09, 2019

Paper Submission at http://www.socio.org.uk/icadiwt/paper-submission/
Contact: icad...@socio.org.uk   or d...@dirf.org

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[UAI] EuroCogSci 2019 Call for Papers, Posters and Contributed Symposia

[Dorothea Kolossa]

Dear all,

please let me invite you to EuroCogSci 2019, a conference that will take
place in Bochum, Germany - a city you may never have visited before,
although it is easily reachable from Düsseldorf Airport and well
connected within Germany :o)

While EuroCogSci is, at its core, oriented towards the philosphy of
mind, there are many cross-sectional and interdisciplinary topics that
may be of interest to readers of this list, such as:

- Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Systems
- Cognitive Robotics
- Computational Modeling
- Decision Making

Please have a look at the CfP below - this is a nice opportunity to
start new and continue ongoing dialogs between AI, cognitive science and
philosophy at one of the largest - and youngest - German Universities,
which is known for its strong interdisciplinarity, spanning the full
breadth and width of disciplines on one integrated campus.

With best wishes,
Dorothea Kolosssa



*EuroCogSci 2019*
*SITUATED MINDS AND FLEXIBLE COGNITION*
*Call for Papers, Posters and Contributed Symposia*

The conference EuroCogSci 2019 aims at providing a platform for
discussing the most recent developments in Cognitive Science. It will
feature contributed papers, symposia, and posters covering all subfields
of cognitive science, bringing together a large number of experts from
Europe and overseas.

 
*Venue:*Ruhr-Universität Bochum
*Start: *Monday, September 2nd, 2019
*End:*Wednesday, September 4th, 2019

 
*Keynote Speaker: *
Lawrence Barsalou (University of Glasgow)
Julia Fischer (Universität Göttingen)
Patrick Haggard (UCL, London)
Asifa Majid (Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics)
Brian McLaughlin (Rutgers University)
Natalie Sebanz (CEU, Hungary)
John Spencer (University of East Anglia)
 

*Invited Symposium I:*Situated Robotics and its Applications
Minoru Asada (Osaka University) and Etienne Burdet (Imperial College London)

*Invited Symposium II:*Evolutionary Robotics
Dario Floreano (EPFL) and Partica A. Vargas (Heriot-Watt University)

*Local organizing team: *
Albert Newen (main organizer), Sabrina Coninx, Onur Güntürkün, Dorothea
Kolossa, Beate Krickel, Jonas Rose, Tobias Schlicht, Gregor Schöner,
Alfredo Vernazzani, Markus Werning, Pascale Willemsen

 
*Call for Contributed Symposia*
We encourage the joint submission of thematically related papers of a
key research topic as symposia. More information at:
https://www.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/philosophy/EuroCogSci2019/call-for-contributed-symposia
 *The deadline for submission of symposia proposals: 31 January 2019*

 
*Call for Papers and Posters*
We invite contributions on recent research in any subfield of cognitive
science. More information at:
https://www.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/philosophy/EuroCogSci2019/call-for-papers-and-posters
 

*The deadline for submission of papers & posters: 31 March 2019*


*Contact information:*eurocogsci2...@rub.de 

Tetiana Adler
Sekretariat Prof. Dr. A. Newen
Institut für Philosophie II
GA 3/151
Ruhr-Universität Bochum
Universitätsstr. 150
44801 Bochum
Tel.: (0049) 234-32 28139
Tel.: (0049) 234-32 22711
Fax:  (0049) 234-32 14963

sekretariat-ne...@ruhr-uni-bochum.de

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[UAI] IEEE VIS 2019 - Call for Participation: Papers; Workshops; Doctoral Colloquium; VIS Restructuring News

[Call for Papers - VGTC]

IEEE VIS 2019



http://ieeevis.org/

Oct 20-25 2019, Vancouver, Canada


IEEE VIS 2019 is the premier forum for advances in visualization. The
event-packed week brings together researchers and practitioners from
academia, government, and industry to explore their shared interests in
visualization tools, techniques, and technology. We invite you to
participate in IEEE Visual Analytics Science and Technology (VAST), IEEE
Information Visualization (InfoVis), IEEE Scientific Visualization
(SciVis), as well as a wide range of associated events.  Join us this
October in stunning Vancouver, British Columbia to share your research,
insights, experience, and enthusiasm and be part of the visualization
movement!




FULL PAPERS



Paper abstracts submission (mandatory): March 21, 2019

Paper submission: March 31, 2019


We solicit high quality papers in all areas of visualization including
visual analytics, information visualization, and scientific visualization
in three tracks. For more information, visit:


Overall papers CFP:

http://ieeevis.org/year/2019/info/call-participation/call-for-participation


Topics and paper types for each individual track:

14th IEEE Visual Analytics Science & Technology Conference (VAST):
http://ieeevis.org/year/2019/info/call-participation/vast-paper-types

25th IEEE Information Visualization Conference (InfoVis):
http://ieeevis.org/year/2019/info/call-participation/infovis-paper-types

30th IEEE Scientific Visualization Conference (SciVis):
http://ieeevis.org/year/2019/info/call-participation/scivis-paper-types





WORKSHOPS



Submission deadline: Feb 15, 2019


We solicit workshops related to all areas of visualization including visual
analytics, information visualization, and scientific visualization. The
workshops venue at IEEE VIS provides an informal and interactive setting
for participants to come together and discuss advanced technical topics in
visualization, involve experts in the field, disseminate work in progress,
and promote new ideas. Submissions consist of a four-page outline of your
proposed workshop.


For details, visit
http://ieeevis.org/year/2019/info/call-participation/workshops

Contact: worksh...@ieeevis.org


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Doctoral Colloquium

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Submission deadline: May 22, 2019


The doctoral colloquium is a forum for PhD Students to present their
proposed dissertation work and receive feedback from leading senior
visualization researchers. We invite contributions from the visual
analytics, information visualization, and scientific visualization student
communities. The DC call is open to all Ph.D. students — regardless of
whether they are presenting research work at the main conference or not.
Preference will be given to students who will gain most from the
experience, meaning students who are in the process of formulating their
dissertation topic or who have just formulated a dissertation topic.


For details, visit
http://ieeevis.org/year/2019/info/call-participation/doctoral-colloquium

Contact: doctoral_c...@ieeevis.org


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VIS Restructuring News: Today's Topic: “Revamped Call-for-Participation”

===

For new members of the IEEE VIS community, the differences between the
three main conferences (IEEE VAST, IEEE InfoVis, and IEEE SciVis) can be a
bit overwhelming. With that in mind, this year's Papers Chairs have been
hard at work aligning the calls for participation for the three conferences
and making it easier to choose where to submit your work.


A few big changes for 2019 include:

   1.

   We have added more standardized language across all three conference
   calls, making it easier for authors to compare the calls and decide where
   to submit their work.
   2.

   All three conference calls will include new and consistent guidelines
   for open-publication and open-data practices.
   3.

   Authors who are uncertain about which conference to submit to will now
   have the option of deferring that choice to the conference papers chairs,
   who can direct the paper to the pool of reviewers who are best-suited to
   evaluate it.


This year, we will also debut a new unified VIS Short Papers track which
will accept late-breaking and smaller-scale contributions from across the
visualization spectrum (no need to specify VAST, InfoVis, or SciVis).





LOCATION



The conference will be held in the Vancouver Convention Centre
 at Canada Place in Vancouver,
British Columbia, Canada.



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COMMITTEE

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VIS 2019 GENERAL CHAIR

Alex Endert, Georgia Institute of Technology
Brian Fisher, Simon Fraser University
Wesley Willett, University of Calgary


VIS 2019 PROGRAM CHAIR

Gautam Chaudhary, Alcon


VIS 2019 PAPER CHAIRS

Remco Chang, Tufts University (VAST)

Daniel Keim, University of Konstanz (VAST)

Ross Maciejewski, Arizona State University (VAST)

Petra 

[UAI] Victor Lesser Distinguished Dissertation award - 2018

[aamas2019org]

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Victor Lesser Distinguished Dissertation award - 2018


- Call for nominations -

***


Nominations are invited for the 2018 Victor Lesser Distinguished

Dissertation Award sponsored by IFAAMAS, the International Foundation for

Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (http://www.ifaamas.org) and to be

presented at AAMAS-2019 (http://aamas2019.encs.concordia.ca).


Eligible doctoral dissertations are those defended between January 1, 2018

and December 31, 2018 in the area of Autonomous Agents or Multiagent

Systems.


This award includes a certificate and a 1500EUR payment.


The selection of the dissertation will be based on the originality,

significance, and impact of the work. Evidence of such impact include

publications at highly selective conferences and journals in the field, with

due importance given to the AAMAS conference series and JAAMAS. Research

output that resulted primarily from the student's initiative will be

considered more favorably. The selection committee will be the final

arbiter in the decision process. The selection committee might decide to

consult external assessors and reserves the right to not award the prize if

the nominations do not meet the expected quality level.


The dissertation must be nominated by the thesis supervisor and must be

supported by the following documents (the documents must be placed on a web

page and only a link to this page e-mailed to Nicola Gatti, 
nicola.ga...@polimi.it,

on or before February 26, 2019):


1. A PDF file of the dissertation. If the dissertation is not written in

English, the nomination must include a substantial manuscript in English,

with the nominee as the first author, published in a journal or a

prestigious conference.


2. A list of citations to published papers based primarily on this

dissertation with links to corresponding PDF files.


3. A recommendation from the dissertation supervisor, on departmental

letterhead, nominating the dissertation for the IFAAMAS-18 Victor Lesser

Distinguished Dissertation Award. The recommendation should argue the merit

of the dissertation and highlight, where relevant, how the work resulted

from the initiative of the student. This document, not to exceed 500 words,

should also certify the eligibility of the PhD by asserting that the PhD

was defended in calendar year 2018.


4. The names, email addresses, and affiliations of at most three

referees, familiar with the research of the candidate and experts in the

pertinent research area, who will directly email their recommendations for

the candidate to the chair of the selection committee. It is the

responsibility of the dissertation supervisor to contact the referees and

ensure that the letters are submitted by the deadline. A reference letter

should be no more than 500 words in length and should be on official

letterhead, signed and emailed as scanned PDF file.



NOTE: IT IS THE RESPONSIBILITY OF THE DISSERTATION SUPERVISOR TO

CONTACT THE REFEREES AND ENSURE THAT LETTERS (max 500 words, signed,

and on letterhead) ARE SUBMITTED BY THE DEADLINE.


Though the nomination is to be submitted by the nominee's dissertation

supervisor, it is required that the nominee has consented that the

dissertation be considered for this award and, if selected for the award,

commits to attend the AAMAS-2019 conference, where she/he will receive the

award, and will give an hour-long presentation in a special session of the

conference on the work contained in the dissertation. The cost of attending

the conference is not covered by the award.
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[UAI] Call for Proposals: Conference 'Mathematical Ability', Utrecht (The Netherlands), 15-17 Apr 2019

[Alexandra Kuncova]

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Call for Proposals

Conference ‘Mathematical Ability’

Date: April 15 - 17, 2019
Location: Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands (exact location TBD)

*** Deadline: February 12, 2019 ***


Conference ‘Mathematical Ability’

https://digtep.sites.uu.nl/2018/10/24/conference-on-mathematical-ability/

In most scientific disciplines, inquiries into mathematical cognition have
focused on the end product of mathematical activity: what makes a
mathematical statement true, and how do we acquire the knowledge that a
mathematical statement is true? However, with recent E-approaches to
cognition (Extended, Embodied, Embedded, Enactive, Enculturated cognition)
on the rise, this focus is shifting towards the process of mathematical
activity: what is it to have mathematical ability, and how do we acquire
the knowledge how to do mathematics? These questions are informed by the
various E-approaches to cognition: our bodies, our technology, our
environment – both offline and online – our practices, our culture, our
education, and our interactional history might all have some role to play
in our mathematical ability and the development thereof. How mathematical
cognition is shaped by these factors is a broad question that warrants an
interdisciplinary approach.

For this conference, we invite scholars from various fields, including but
not limited to philosophy, logic, AI, cognitive (neuro)science, and
education studies, to submit proposals (of 250 words) for short talks (30
minutes, plus 10 minutes Q) on the following questions:

- What is it to do mathematics; what is it to have a mathematical ability;
what is mathematical know-how?
- How do children learn mathematics; how do they acquire mathematical
know-how?
- How can we capture, in a logical formalism, the ability to do mathematics?
- What role does our body play in our mathematical ability and the
development thereof?
- How can we improve the methods by which embodied and embedded
mathematical know-how is acquired, and can we design (digital) tools for
this purpose?
- How can interaction with digital tools improve mathematical abilities?

Confirmed keynote speakers:
- Dor Abrahamson, University of California, Berkeley, USA
- Elizabeth de Freitas, Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, UK
- Karim Zahidi, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium
- Luis Radford, School of Education Sciences at Laurentian University in
Ontario, Canada
- Alfred Nordmann, Institut für Philosophie, Technische Universität
Darmstadt, Germany
- Valentin Goranko, Department of Philosophy, Stockholm University, Sweden

To submit your proposal or to register for the conference, please go
to the conference
form

.

- The DigTEp team
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[UAI] Call for participation: ACM Intelligent User Interfaces - IUI 2019

[Axel Soto]

ACM IUI 2019 (https://iui.acm.org/2019/index.html) is the 24th annual  
meeting of the intelligent interfaces community and serves as a premier  
international forum for reporting outstanding research and development on  
intelligent user interfaces. ACM IUI is where the Human-Computer  
Interaction (HCI) community meets the Artificial Intelligence (AI)  
community.


Registration is now open, please register and book your hotel room as soon  
as possible (last year, registration was sold out one month in advance!).


This year we decided to offer two registration options.

Main conference+workshop:
Main conference+workshop registration includes the main conference from  
March 16 to March 20, 2019, with keynotes, paper presentations, posters,  
demos, workshops, a reception, and a banquet.


Workshop only:
Workshops will be on March 20, 2019.

Registration dates:
- Early registration (until Feb 8th)
- Late registration  (until March 15)
- Onsite (after March 15)

Please visit https://iui.acm.org/2019/registration.html for more details.

Also information on accommodation can be found at:  
https://iui.acm.org/2019/accomodation.html

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[UAI] [jobs] Assistant professor Computational Intelligence @VU Amsterdam

[Diederik Roijers]

Are you a knowledgeable expert in the area of Computational Intelligence
with a PhD degree? Would you like to shape the future of AI and teach
students about the state-of-the art techniques? Please apply at Vrije
Universiteit Amsterdam.

*Job description*
The position is within the Computational Intelligence Group that has a
special focus on adaptivity and personalization in (groups of) devices that
collaborate with each other and humans. In short, we are researching
“learning machines” with applications ranging from robotics to health care.
Techniques we use and develop include machine learning, reinforcement
learning, evolutionary computing, neuro-computing, as well as swarms and
collective intelligence. We are looking for a colleague with a fitting
expertise to maintain a stream of high quality publications, acquire
external research grants, conduct excellent teaching, and show Departmental
citizenship.

*Your duties*

   - strengthen and extend the CI research programme, seek collaborations
   and synergies
   - acquire and manage research grants, supervise project staff, incl. PhD
   students
   - teach 2-3 courses a year from our portfolio embedded in the Artificial
   Intelligence and Business Analytics program
   - supervise Bachelor and Master students of the Artificial Intelligence
   and the Business Analytics programs
   - participate in departmental committee

*Requirements*

   - research profile (PhD-thesis) in a relevant area
   - articles in peer-reviewed international journals and proceedings of
   major international conferences
   - teaching skills, experience with supervising Bachelor, Master, and
   preferably PhD students
   - experience in acquisition of external research funding
   - experience in business practice in the area of Business Analytics is
   considered an advantage

*What are we offering?*
A challenging position in a socially involved organization. On full-time
basis the remuneration amounts to a minimum gross monthly salary of €3,545
and a maximum €5,513 in accordance with salary scale 11 or 12, depending on
your education and experience. The job profile (assistant professor) is
based on the university job ranking system and is vacant for at least 1 FTE.

This is a tenure track position; the initial appointment will be for a
period of five years. Based on performance indicators agreed at the start
of the appointment, a tenure track position will lead to a tenured position
in a period of maximally 5 years. In the fifth year of the appointment the
tenure decision will be taken.

Additionally, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam offers excellent fringe benefits
and various schemes and regulations to promote a good work/life balance,
such as:

   - a maximum of 41 days of annual leave based on full-time employment
   - 8% holiday allowance and 8.3% end-of-year bonus
   - considerable employer’s contribution to the ABP pension scheme
   - contribution to commuting expenses
   - optional model for designing a personalized benefits package

*About Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam*
The ambition of Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam is clear: to contribute to a
better world through outstanding education and ground-breaking research.
And to be a university where personal education and societal involvement
play a leading role. Where people from different disciplines and
backgrounds work together on innovations and on generating new knowledge.
Our teaching and research embrace the whole spectrum of science – from the
humanities, the social sciences and the pure sciences through to the life
sciences and the medical sciences.

Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam is home to more than 23,000 students. We
employ more than 4,500 individuals. The VU campus is easily accessible,
located in the heart of Amsterdam’s Zuidas district, a truly inspiring
environment for teaching and research.

*The Faculty of Science*
The Faculty of Science inspires researchers and students to find
sustainable solutions for complex societal issues. From forest fires to big
data, from obesity to medicines and from molecules to the moon: our
teaching and research programmes cover the full spectrum of the natural
sciences. We share knowledge and experience with leading research
institutes and industries, both here in the Netherlands and abroad.

Working at the Faculty of Science means working with students, PhD
candidates and researchers, all with a clear focus on their field and a
broad view of the world. We employ more than 1,250 staff members, and we
are home to around 6,000 students.

*About the department, institute, project*
The Department of Computer Science has approximately 200 members, including
35 tenured staff members and 50-60 PhD students. The tenured staff members
form the essential basis for the functioning of the department. A tenured
staff member is required to make significant contributions to the research
and education programs, and to spend effort on administrative tasks at the
department level. The Computational