From bogus@does.not.exist.com Sat Nov 23 22:07:52 2013 From: bogus@does.not.exist.com () Date: Sat, 23 Nov 2013 21:07:52 -0000 Subject: No subject Message-ID: new two-years Master of Science programmes in * Organisation Dynamics and Self Organisation * Knowledge Technology and Management * Intelligent Internet Applications These programmes have all been developed with the idea in mind of educating people to be knowledgeable in and sympathetic to a wide variety of fields and techniques within the different programme areas. The programmes emphasise the combination of developing theoretical insight, the ability to form a practical perspective on the learned theoretical techniques, and to consequently apply acquired theoretical insight in practice. Our Master programmes are open to people from a wide variety of disciplines, having minimally obtained an HBO or University Bacholor degree, or 'Drs' diploma. The programmes are full time studies, but it is possible for students to plan their studies in part time. == Overview =========================================== Currently, organisations become increasingly more dynamic, informational and knowledge intensive. The incorporation of the internet as to extending and replacing conventional organisational services with digital information services, is an important reason for the increase in these factors. Within our Master programmes * Organisation Dynamics and Self Organisation * Knowledge Technology and Management * Intelligent Internet Applications we offer the possibility to learn about novel developments in the multi-disciplinary information sciences that have recently had many important practical implications. As to the dynamics of organisations, we mention the management sciences that incorporate organisational concepts from the study of organisms, the brain, chaos and complexity. As to knowledge technology, this area has proven its successfulness by the deliverance of knowledge-based systems and, more recently, the "next-generation" semantic world wide web. For internet applications, the concepts of intelligent agents and multi-agent systems have contributed to the advancement of using artificial intelligence techniques in upcoming generations of the internet. == Programmes ========================================= Organisation Dynamics and Self Organisation ------------------------------------------- This multi-displinary Master programme focuses on the study of organisations, their dynamics, and the emergence of organisational structures. The curriculum contains courses taught in the Faculty of Social Sciences and the Department of Biology. The focus in the multi-disciplinary studies as contained in this programme, is on the analysis and modeling of, and simulating and experimenting with organised dynamic processes. The research disciplines as studied are from artificial intelligence, biology, social sciences, economics, and computer science. The curriculum includes lectures and practical work (some of which are subject to choice) in topics as datamining, modeling and simulation of organisations, organisation theory, economic models, evolution biology, evolutionairy genetics, neurobiology of behaviour and organisational behaviour. This programme is under responsibility of prof.dr. Jan Treur and prof.dr. Guszti Eiben. Knowledge Technology and Management ----------------------------------- This Master programme concentrates on knowledge, its structure and applications. It focuses on both the organisational aspects of knowledge management, as well as the technical aspects of designing and building knowledge-based systems. Companies that subscribe the significance of automating knowledge that is available within the organisation, often incorporate knowledge acquisition and modelling techniques from the research area of artificial intelligence to perform this automation. The management of knowledge in such an automated fashion is one of the key issues of this Master programme. As such, elements from economics and psychology (management and organisation, organisation psychology, knowledge models) are studied. A second issue of interest is knowledge technology, in which people are to be supported by automated knowledge-based systems. Techniques from knowledge acquisition, knowledge representation, software engineering and human computer interaction are taking part in this process. Finally, the world wide web is a development inherent related to the importance of knowledge as a production factor in companies. Incorporating knowledge in the world wide web requires the study of knowledge management and technology with respect to the development of the next web generations. This programme is under responsibility of prof.dr. Frank van Harmelen. Intelligent Internet Applications --------------------------------- In this Master programme, the focus is on the way that Artificial Intelligence techniques can play an important role in the context of the current and upcoming generations of the Internet. This programme contains elements so that the student has a good overview of the contemporary literature regarding applications of intelligent web-sites and intelligent agents on the Internet. The student learns techniques and methods from Artificial Intelligence that are used in Internet applications and is a capable designer of intelligent web-sites applications based on intelligent agents. Examples of such intelligent applications are knowledge-based advisory systems that are integrated within intelligent websites, intelligent agents that are active on the Internet (e.g., search-bots, personal assistants of e-shops), and various advancements of the Semantic Web. Subjects that characterise this Master programme are Intelligent Internet Applications, E-commerce, User Interface Design and Intelligent Interactive Distributed Systems. This Master programme is under responsibility of prof.dr. Frank van Harmelen, prof.dr. Jan Treur, and dr. Catholijn Jonker. Other programmes ---------------- Besides these Master programmes, the Department of Artificial Intelligence at the Vrije Universiteit offers a Master programme in cognitive science and interdisciplinary programmes with linguistics and law. The Cognitive Science programme is built around the study of behaviour and cognition and the curriculum is mainly provided by the Department of Cognitive Psychology, in cooperation with the Department of Artificial Intelligence. In the interdisciplinary programmes, courses are followed at the Faculty of Linguistics and the Faculty of Law, respectively. == Admission =========================================== For the Master programmes Organisation dynamics and self organisation Knowledge technology and management Intelligent internet applications Cognitive Science Artificial Intelligence and Linguistics Artificial Intelligence and Law students may enroll who have a Bachelor or Drs diploma in Artificial Intelligence obtained at a dutch institute (Utrecht, Nijmegen, Amsterdam (VU, UvA), Groningen, Maastricht). The programmes are also open to people with other diplomas, University or HBO, who are kindly invited to contact us if interested in following a Master programme at our Department. == Contact information ================================ For more information on the Master programmes, contact: dr. Martijn Schut Department of Artificial Intelligence Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam De Boelelaan 1081a 1081 HV Amsterdam The Netherlands tel: +31 20 44 47668 / +31 20 44 47700 fax: +31 20 44 47653 email: schut at cs.vu.nl == More information =================================== More detailed information on the Master AI Programmes can be found at the following website: http://www.cs.vu.nl/ai/masters/ More general information on our Department can be found at the departmental website: http://www.cs.vu.nl/ai/index-en.html From bogus@does.not.exist.com Sat Nov 23 22:07:52 2013 From: bogus@does.not.exist.com () Date: Sat, 23 Nov 2013 21:07:52 -0000 Subject: No subject Message-ID: of the interpretation function non-disjoint is not a problem (it does not make the definition of the semantics non-wellfounded, cyclic, or anything like that), and it is never explicitly required. By the way, I just wrote a paper where in some of the proofs I view a TBox as an interpretation of itself, and thus I I write things like $A \in A^I$ where $A$ is a concept name. On the other hand, this means that just making the domain and range of the interpretation function non-disjoint does not automatically yield meta-classes or such. Say we have concept names A, B, C and A, B are also elements of the interpretation domain (the range of the interpretation function). Then we may interpret A by the set {A,B}. No cyclicity arises since we don't apply the interpretation function again to the A or B in this set. However, this also means that the A in the set is viewed as an individual (that just happens to have the same name as the concept A). This does not make A a meta-class. Thus, if you want meta-classes, you may need to make the domain and range of the interpretation function non-disjoint, but this is not enough. You must also modify the definition of what an interpretation function does appropriately. And when you do this, then you must be careful not to produce a cyclic, non-wellfounded definition. Best regards, -Franz Baader ****************** baader at inf.tu-dresden.de ******************* Prof. Franz Baader Theoretical Computer Science TU Dresden phone: (+49 351) 463-39160 01062 Dresden fax: (+49 351) 463-37959 Germany www: http://lat.inf.tu-dresden.de/~baader/ *************************************************************** From ams at cwi.nl Wed Jan 2 18:55:40 2013 From: ams at cwi.nl (Alexandra Silva) Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2013 18:55:40 +0100 Subject: [DL] CALCO 2013: Second Call for Papers Message-ID: <20130102175540.GA18876@thistle> [Apologies for multiple copies] ========================================================================= SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS: CALCO 2013 5th International Conference on Algebra and Coalgebra in Computer Science September 3 - 6, 2013 Warsaw, Poland http://coalg.org/calco13/ ========================================================================= Abstract submission: February 22, 2013 Paper submission: March 1, 2013 Author notification: May 6, 2013 Final version due: June 3, 2013 ========================================================================= -- SCOPE -- CALCO aims to bring together researchers and practitioners with interests in foundational aspects, and both traditional and emerging uses of algebra and coalgebra in computer science. It is a high-level, bi-annual conference formed by joining the forces and reputations of CMCS (the International Workshop on Coalgebraic Methods in Computer Science), and WADT (the Workshop on Algebraic Development Techniques). Previous CALCO editions took place in Swansea (Wales, 2005), Bergen (Norway, 2007), Udine (Italy, 2009) and Winchester (UK, 2011). The fifth edition will be held in Warsaw, the capital of Poland. -- INVITED SPEAKERS -- Andrej Bauer - University of Lubljana, Sl Miko?aj Boja?czyk - Warsaw University, PL Neil Ghani - University of Strathclyde, UK Damien Pous - CNRS, ENS-Lyon, F -- TOPICS OF INTEREST -- We invite submissions of technical papers that report results of theoretical work on the mathematics of algebras and coalgebras, the way these results can support methods and techniques for software development, as well as experience with the transfer of the resulting technologies into industrial practice. We encourage submissions in topics included or related to those listed below. * Abstract models and logics - Automata and languages - Categorical semantics - Modal logics - Relational systems - Graph transformation - Term rewriting - Adhesive categories * Specialised models and calculi - Hybrid, probabilistic, and timed systems - Calculi and models of concurrent, distributed, mobile, and context-aware computing - General systems theory and computational models (chemical, biological, etc.) * Algebraic and coalgebraic semantics - Abstract data types - Inductive and coinductive methods - Re-engineering techniques (program transformation) - Semantics of conceptual modelling methods and techniques - Semantics of programming languages * System specification and verification - Algebraic and coalgebraic specification - Formal testing and quality assurance - Validation and verification - Generative programming and model-driven development - Models, correctness and (re)configuration of hardware/middleware/architectures, - Process algebra -- NEW TOPICS -- This edition of CALCO will feature two new topics, and submission of papers on these topics is especially encouraged. * Corecursion in Programming Languages - Corecursion in logic / constraint / functional / answer set programming - Corecursive type inference - Coinductive methods for proving program properties - Implementing corecursion - Applications * Algebra and Coalgebra in quantum computing - Categorical semantics for quantum computing - Quantum calculi and programming languages - Foundational structures for quantum computing - Applications of quantum algebra -- SUBMISSION GUIDELINES -- Prospective authors are invited to submit full papers in English presenting original research. Submitted papers must be unpublished and not submitted for publication elsewhere. Experience papers are welcome, but they must clearly present general lessons learned that would be of interest and benefit to a broad audience of both researchers and practitioners. As with previous editions, the proceedings will be published in the Springer LNCS series. Final papers should be no more than 15 pages long in the format specified by Springer (see http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html). It is recommended that submissions adhere to that format and length. Submissions that are clearly too long may be rejected immediately. Proofs omitted due to space limitations may be included in a clearly marked appendix. Both an abstract and the full paper must be submitted by their respective submission deadlines. A special issue of the open access journal Logical Methods in Computer Science (http://www.lmcs-online.org), containing extended versions of selected papers, is also being planned. Submissions will be handled via EasyChair https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=calco2013 -- BEST PAPER AND BEST PRESENTATION AWARDS -- For the first time, this edition of CALCO will feature two kinds of awards: a best paper award whose recipients will be selected by the PC before the conference and a best presentation award, elected by the participants. -- IMPORTANT DATES -- Abstract submission: February 22, 2013 Paper submission: March 1, 2013 Author notification: May 6, 2013 Final version due: June 3, 2013 -- PROGRAMME COMMITTEE -- Luca Aceto - Reykjavik University, Iceland Ji?? Ad?mek - TU Braunschweig, D Lars Birkedal - IT University of Copenhagen, DK Filippo Bonchi - CNRS, ENS-Lyon, F Corina Cirstea - University of Southhampton, UK Bob Coecke - University of Oxford, UK Andrea Corradini - University of Pisa, I Mai Gehrke - Universit? Paris Diderot - Paris 7, F H. Peter Gumm - Philipps University Marburg, D Gopal Gupta - University of Texas at Dallas, USA Ichiro Hasuo - Tokyo University, Japan Reiko Heckel - University of Leicester, UK (cochair) Bart Jacobs - Radboud University Nijmegen, NL Ekaterina Komendantskaya - University of Dundee, Scotland, UK Barbara K?nig - University of Duisburg-Essen, D Jos? Meseguer - University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA Marino Miculan - University of Udine, I Stefan Milius - Friedrich-Alexander Universit?t Erlangen-N?rnberg, D (cochair) Larry Moss - Indiana University, Bloomington, USA Till Mossakowski - DFKI Lab Bremen and University of Bremen, D Prakash Panangaden - McGill University, Montreal, Canada Dirk Pattinson - Imperial College London, UK Dusko Pavlovic - Royal Holloway, University of London, UK Daniela Petrisan - University of Leicester, UK John Power - University of Bath, UK Jan Rutten - CWI Amsterdam and Radboud University Nijmegen, NL Lutz Schr?der - Friedrich-Alexander Universit?t Erlangen-N?rnberg, D Monika Seisenberger - Swansea University, UK Sam Staton - University of Cambridge, UK Alexandra Silva - Radboud University Nijmegen and CWI Amsterdam, NL Pawel Sobocinski - University of Southampton, UK Yde Venema - University of Amsterdam, NL Uwe Wolter - University of Bergen, NO -- ORGANISING COMMITTEE -- Bartek Klin (University of Warsaw, Poland) Andrzej Tarlecki (University of Warsaw, Poland) -- LOCATION -- Warsaw, the capital of Poland, is a lively city with many historic monuments and sights, but also with a thriving business district. It is easily accessible via two airports: the main Chopin Airport, used by most international carriers, and the recently open Warsaw Modlin Airport (30 minutes away by rail), used by budget airlines. -- SATELLITE WORKSHOPS -- CALCO 2013 will be preceded by the CALCO Early Ideas Workshop, chaired by Monika Seisenberger (Swansea University). The workshop is dedicated to presentation of work in progress and original research proposals. PhD students and young researchers are particularly encouraged to contribute. Attendance at the workshop is open to all - it is anticipated that many CALCO conference participants will want to attend the CALCO Early Ideas workshop (and vice versa). A workshop dedicated to tools based on algebraic and/or coalgebraic principles, CALCO Tools, will be held alongside the main conference, chaired by Lutz Schr?der (Friedrich Alexander Universit?t Erlangen-N?rnberg). Papers of this workshop will be included in the CALCO proceedings. -- CALCO Early Ideas Overview -- The CALCO Early Ideas Workshop invites submissions on the same topics as the CALCO conference: reporting results of theoretical work on the mathematics of algebras and coalgebras, the way these results can support methods and techniques for software development, as well as experience with the transfer of the resulting technologies into industrial practice. The list of topics of particular interest is shown on the main CALCO 2013 page. CALCO Early Ideas presentations will be selected according to originality, significance, and general interest, on the basis of submitted 2-page short contributions. It can be work in progress, a summary of work submitted to a conference or workshop elsewhere, or work that in some other way might be interesting to the CALCO audience. A booklet with the accepted short contributions will be available at the workshop. Submissions will be handled via EasyChair https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=calcoearlyideas2013 The use of LNCS style is strongly encouraged. After the workshop, authors will have the opportunity to submit a full 10-15 page paper on the same topic. The reviewing will be carried out by the CALCO Early Ideas PC, with the support of the CALCO PC. The volume of selected papers will be available online. Authors will retain copyright, and are also encouraged to disseminate the results by subsequent publication elsewhere. http://coalg.org/calco13/workshops.html#ei -- CALCO Early Ideas Dates -- 2-page short contribution submission: May 27, 2013 Notification for short contribution: June 24, 2013 Final short contribution due: July 15, 2013 CALCO Early Idead Workshop: September 2, 2013 10-15 page paper submission: October 15, 2013 Notification for paper: December 15, 2013 Final paper version due: January 15, 2014 -- CALCO Early Ideas Program Committee -- Bartek Klin, University of Warsaw, Poland John Power, University of Bath, UK Monika Seisenberger, Swansea University, UK (chair) -- CALCO-Tools Overview -- CALCO-Tools will take place on the same dates as the main CALCO conference, with no overlap between the technical programmes of the two events. Topics of interest include systems, prototypes, and tools developed specifically for the design, checking, execution, and verification of (co)algebraic specifications, but also tools targeting different application domains while making core or interesting use of (co)algebraic techniques. Tool submissions should not exceed 5 pages in LNCS format. The accepted tool papers will be included in the final proceedings of the conference. The tools should be made available on the web at the time of submission. Each submission will be evaluated by at least three reviewers; one or more of the reviewers will be asked to download and use the tool. At least one of the authors of each tool paper must attend the conference to demo the tool. http://coalg.org/calco13/workshops.html#tools -- CALCO-Tools Dates -- Paper submission: April 8, 2013 Author notification: May 6, 2013 Final version due: June 3, 2013 -- CALCO-Tools Programme Committee -- Einar Broch Johnsen, University of Oslo, Norway Mark Hills, CWI Amsterdam, The Netherlands Barbara K?nig, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany Dorel Lucanu, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University, Romania Dominik Luecke, CWI Amsterdam, The Netherlands Till Mossakowski, DFKI, Germany Lutz Schr?der, Friedrich-Alexander Universit?t Erlangen-N?rnberg, Germany (chair) Alexandra Silva, Radboud University Nijmegen and CWI Amsterdam, The Netherlands -- FURTHER INFORMATION -- Queries related to submission, reviewing, and programme should be sent to the relevant conference or workshop chairs. Queries related to the organisation should be emailed to calco2013 at mimuw.edu.pl . From math.semantic.web at gmail.com Thu Jan 3 11:35:27 2013 From: math.semantic.web at gmail.com (Christoph LANGE) Date: Thu, 03 Jan 2013 11:35:27 +0100 Subject: [DL] 2nd CfP (deadline 14 Jan): Enabling Domain Experts to use Formalised Reasoning, Stage 2 (AISB 2013, Exeter, UK, 2-3 Apr 2013) Message-ID: <50E55EEF.3010802@gmail.com> Do-Form: Enabling Domain Experts to use Formalised Reasoning http://cs.bham.ac.uk/research/projects/formare/events/aisb2013 CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS Symposium at the annual convention of the AISB (Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and Simulation of Behaviour; http://www.aisb.org.uk) University of Exeter, UK 2-5 April 2013 http://emps.exeter.ac.uk/computer-science/research/aisb/ SPECIAL SESSIONS with * Utku ?nver (market design and matching problems) * Peter Cramton (auctions) * Neels Vosloo (finance markets regulation) SUBMISSION DEADLINE: 14 January This symposium is motivated by the long-term VISION of making information systems dependable. In the past even mis-represented units of measurements caused fatal ENGINEERING disasters. In ECONOMICS, the subtlety of issues involved in good auction design may have led to low revenues in auctions of public goods such as the 3G radio spectra. Similarly, banks' value-at-risk (VaR) models ? the leading method of financial risk measurement ? are too large and change too quickly to be thoroughly vetted by hand, the current state of the art; in the London Whale incident of 2012, JP Morgan claimed that its exposures were $67mn under one of its VaR models, and $129 under another one. Verifying a model's properties requires formally specifying them; for VaR models, any work would have to start with this most basic step, as regulators' current desiderata are subjective and ambiguous. We believe that these problems can be addressed by representing the knowledge underlying such models and mechanisms in a formal, explicit, machine-verifiable way. Contemporary computer science offers a wide choice of knowledge representation languages well supported by verification tools. Such tools have been successfully applied, e.g., for verifying software that controls commuter rail or payment systems (cf. the symposium homepage for further background). Still, DOMAIN EXPERTS without a strong computer science background find it challenging to choose the right tools and to use them. This symposium aims at investigating ways to support them. Some problems can be addressed now, others will bring new challenges to computer science. General TOPICS of interest include: * for DOMAIN EXPERTS: what problems in application domains could benefit from better verification and knowledge management facilities? Possible fields include: * Example 1 (economics): auctions, VaR, trading algorithms, market design * Example 2 (engineering): system interoperability, manufacturing processes, product classification * for COMPUTER SCIENTISTS: how to provide the right knowledge management and verification tools to domain experts without a computer science background? * wikis and blogs for informal, semantic, semiformal, and formal mathematical knowledge; * general techniques and tools for online collaborative mathematics; * tools for collaboratively producing, presenting, publishing, and interacting with online mathematics; * automation and computer-human interaction aspects of mathematical wikis; * ontologies and knowledge bases designed to support knowledge management and verification in application domains; * practical experiences, usability aspects, feasibility studies; * evaluation of existing tools and experiments; * requirements, user scenarios and goals. We particularly invite submissions that address the problems or that apply the tools presented in the papers submitted for stage 1 (see "submission" below). THE SYMPOSIUM is designed to bring domain experts and formalisers into close and fruitful contact with each other: domain experts will be able to present their fields and problems to formalisers; formalisers will be exposed to new and challenging problem areas. We will combine talks and hands-on sessions to ensure close interaction among participants from both sides. World-class economists will offer dedicated HANDS-ON SESSIONS on the following topics: * Market design and matching problems (Utku ?nver, Boston College): These include matching students to schools, interns to hospitals, and kidney donors to recipients. See the documentation for the 2012 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for more background information (http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/economics/laureates/2012/). * Auctions (Peter Cramton, University of Maryland): Peter works on auctions for ICANN (the ?knock out? domain name auctions), Ofcom UK (4G spectrum auction), the UK Department of the Environment and Climate Change, and others. * Finance (Neels Vosloo, Financial Services Authority UK): It is currently impossible for regulators to properly inspect either risk management models, or algorithmic trading platforms. To what extent can techniques from mechanised reasoning automate some of the inspection process? SUBMISSIONS We solicit submissions on any of the TOPICS outlined initially but prefer submissions that specifically address topics identified in the earlier submission Stage 1. In Stage 1 we had solicited * from DOMAIN EXPERTS descriptions of "nails": canonical models and problems in their domain that might benefit from better verification and knowledge management facilities. Descriptions should focus on aspects of these models that domain users find particularly problematic, and suspect might be aided by formalisation tools * from COMPUTER SCIENTISTS descriptions of "hammers": formalisation, verification and knowledge management tools, with an emphasis on how they could be applied in a concrete real-world setting, or tailored to such application domains. Commented versions of these submissions are now online at http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/projects/formare/events/aisb2013/stage1.php. A tool whose description is submitted to Stage 2 could, e.g., be motivated with a Stage 1 problem, and sketch how the tool could, or will, be applied in this domain. Each submission will be refereed by three PC members on average. Submissions will be judged based on the PC's views of the likelihood of contributing to a better matching of hammers (formalisation and verification tools) to nails (domain problems). At this stage we accept PDF submissions in any layout but count 1200 words as one page for fair comparison. We invite research and position papers, as well as tool and system descriptions, from 3 to 10 pages. Besides PDFs we invite the submission of formalised knowledge representations with human-readable annotations. To submit a paper, please go to the Do-Form EasyChair page (http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=doform2013) and follow the instructions for Stage 2 there. FINAL VERSIONS Final versions should be prepared in LaTeX according to the AISB formatting guidelines linked from the symposium homepage. For the final version, non-PDF submissions should be accompanied by a PDF abstract of 2 to 4 pages. Electronic proceedings (with an ISBN) will be made available to the convention delegates on a memory stick, and on the AISB website. Given a sufficient number of high-quality submissions, we will invite authors to submit revised and extended versions to a SPECIAL ISSUE of a relevant JOURNAL. (E.g., co-chair Manfred Kerber is on the editorial board of Mathematics in Computer Science.) IMPORTANT DATES * Submission (Stage 2): 14 January 2013 * Notification: 11 February 2013 * Final versions due: 4 March 2013 * Symposium: 2-3 April 2013 (most likely) * AISB Convention: 2-5 April 2013 PROGRAMME COMMITTEE 1. Bill Andersen, Highfleet, US 2. Rob Arthan, Lemma 1, Reading, UK 3. Christoph Benzm?ller, Free University of Berlin, Germany 4. Peter Cramton, University of Maryland, US 5. James Davenport, University of Bath, UK 6. Michael Gr?ninger, University of Toronto, Canada 7. Manfred Kerber, University of Birmingham, UK (co-chair) 8. Michael Kohlhase, Jacobs University Bremen, Germany 9. Christoph Lange, University of Birmingham, UK (co-chair) 10. Till Mossakowski, University of Bremen, Germany 11. Colin Rowat, University of Birmingham, UK (co-chair) 12. Todd Schneider, Raytheon, US 13. Richard Steinberg, London School of Economics, UK 14. Geoff Sutcliffe, University of Miami, US 15. Theodore L Turocy, Centre for Behavioural and Experimental Social Science, University of East Anglia, UK 16. Makarius Wenzel, University of Paris Sud, France 17. Wolfgang Windsteiger, RISC / JKU Linz, Austria COMMENTS/QUESTIONS/ENQUIRIES to be sent to DoForm2013 at easychair.org From tuzze81 at gmail.com Fri Jan 4 07:52:42 2013 From: tuzze81 at gmail.com (Pietro Sala) Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2013 07:52:42 +0100 Subject: [DL] GandALF 2013 - Preliminary Call for Papers Message-ID: [We apologize if you have received multiple copies of this message] ************************************************************************* ------ GandALF 2013 ----- PRELIMINARY CALL FOR PAPERS ----- ************************************************************************** 4th International Symposium on Games, Automata, Logics, and Formal Verification Borca di Cadore, Dolomites, Italy - August 29th - 31th, 2013 http://gandalf.di.univr.it/ OBJECTIVES The aim of the symposium is to bring together researchers from academia and industry which are actively working in the fields of Games, Automata, Logics, and Formal Verification. The idea is to cover an ample spectrum of themes, ranging from theory to applications, and stimulate cross-fertilization. Papers focused on formal methods are especially welcome. Authors are invited to submit original research or tool papers on all relevant topics in these areas. Papers discussing new ideas that are at an early stage of development are also welcome. LIST OF TOPICS The topics covered by the conference include, but are not limited to, the following: Automata Theory Automated Deduction Computational aspects of Game Theory Concurrency and Distributed computation Decision Procedures Deductive, Compositional, and Abstraction Techniques for Verification Finite Model Theory First-order and Higher-order Logics Formal Languages Formal Methods for Systems Biology, Hybrid, Embedded, and Mobile Systems Games and Automata for Verification Game Semantics Logical aspects of Computational Complexity Logics of Programs Modal and Temporal Logics Model Checking Models of Reactive and Real-Time Systems Program Analysis and Software Verification Run-time Verification and Testing Specification and Verification of Finite and Infinite-state Systems Synthesis INVITED SPEAKERS Alessandro Cimatti (ITC-IRST, Italy) Thomas Henzinger (IST, Austria) Christof Loeding (University of Aachen, Germany) PAPER SUBMISSION Submitted papers should not exceed fourteen (14) pages using EPTCS format, be unpublished and contain original research. For papers reporting experimental results, authors are encouraged to make their data available with their submission. Submissions must be in PDF or PS format and will be handled via EasyChair. IMPORTANT DATES Abstract submission: May 1, 2013 Paper submission: May 8, 2013 Acceptance notification: June 17, 2013 Final version: June 26, 2013 Conference: August 29-31, 2013 PROCEEDINGS The proceedings will be published by Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science. A special issue of a major international journal to publish an extended and revised version of the best symposium papers is also under consideration. Revised versions of the selected papers from the previous editions lead to one special issue of the International Journal of Foundation of Computer Science (GandALF 2010) and two special issues of Theoretical Computer Science (GandALF 2011 and 2012). PROGRAM CHAIRS Tiziano Villa (University of Verona, Italy) Gabriele Puppis (LaBRI, Bordeaux, France) PROGRAM COMMITTEE Luca Aceto (University of Reykjavik, Iceland) Rajeev Alur (University of Pennsylvania, United States) Roderick Bloem (University of Graz, Austria) Arnaud Carayol (IGM, Marne-la-Vallee, France) Anuj Dawar (University of Cambridge, United Kingdom) Stephane Demri (New York University, United States / CNRS) Volker Diekert (University of Stuttgart, Germany) Javier Esparza (University of Munchen, Germany) Valentin Goranko (Technical University of Denmark, Denmark) Bakhadyr Khoussainov (University of Auckland, New Zeland) Naoki Kobayashi (University of Tokyo, Japan) Stephan Kreutzer (University of Berlin, Germany) Marta Kwiatkowska (University of Oxford, United Kingdom) Martin Lange (University of Kassel, Germany) Angelo Montanari (University of Udine, Italy) Mimmo Parente (University of Salerno, Italy) Adriano Peron (University of Naples, Italy) Alexander Rabinovich (University of Tel Aviv, Israel) Ramaswamy Ramanujam (Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai, India) Jean Francois Raskin (University of Bruxelles, Belgium) Davide Sangiorgi (University of Bologna, Italy) Olivier Serre (LIAFA, Paris, France) Sharon Shoham (Academic College of Tel-Aviv Yaffo, Israel) Szymon Torunczyk (University of Warsaw, Poland) Zhilin Wu (State Key Laboratory of Computer Science, China) Hsu-Chun Yen (National Taiwan University, Taiwan) ORGANIZING CHAIR Pietro Sala (University of Verona, Italy) STEERING COMMITTEE Mikolaj Bojanczyk (University of Warsaw, Poland) Javier Esparza (University of Munich, Germany) Angelo Montanari (University of Udine, Italy) Margherita Napoli (University of Salerno, Italy) Mimmo Parente (University of Salerno, Italy) Wolfgang Thomas (RWTH Aachen University, Germany) Wieslaw Zielonka (University of Paris7, France) INFO Please visit the conference website http://gandalf.di.univr.it/ for more information. From markus.kroetzsch at cs.ox.ac.uk Fri Jan 4 10:55:37 2013 From: markus.kroetzsch at cs.ox.ac.uk (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Markus_Kr=F6tzsch?=) Date: Fri, 04 Jan 2013 09:55:37 +0000 Subject: [DL] CfP: DL 2013 - 26th Int Workshop on Description Logics Message-ID: <50E6A719.7040100@cs.ox.ac.uk> [Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message.] ============================================================================ CALL FOR PAPERS 26th International Workshop on Description Logics (DL 2013) Ulm, Germany, July 23--26, 2013 Co-located with ORE 2013 followed by RR 2013 and Reasoning Web 2013 www.uni-ulm.de/en/in/dl2013/ ============================================================================ The DL workshop is the major annual event of the description logic research community. It is the forum at which those interested in description logics, both from academia and industry, meet to discuss ideas, share information and compare experiences. The workshop will be held at the University of Ulm, Campus East, from July 23rd to July 26th, 2013. In this year, DL workshop will be collocated with the 2nd OWL Reasoner Evaluation Workshop (ORE), which will take place on July 22nd in Ulm, Germany. Furthermore, the International Conference on Web Reasoning and Rule Systems (RR), will take place in Mannheim (1:40 min by train from Ulm) directly subsequent to the DL workshop (July 27th - 29th), and the 9th Reasoning Web Summer School (July 30th - Aug 2nd) also in Mannheim. IMPORTANT DATES --------------- Abstract submission deadline: April 05, 2013 Paper submission deadline: April 12, 2013 Acceptance notification: May 27, 2013 Camera ready copies: June 09, 2013 Early registration: June 24, 2013 Workshop: July 23-26, 2013 WORKSHOP SCOPE -------------- We invite contributions on all aspects of description logics, including but not limited to: * Foundations of description logics: decidability and complexity of reasoning, expressive power, novel inference problems, inconsistency tolerance, reasoning techniques, and modularity aspects * Extensions of description logics: closed-world and nonmonotonic reasoning, defaults, epistemic reasoning, temporal and spatial reasoning, procedural knowledge, query languages * Integration of description logics with other formalisms: object-oriented representation languages, database query languages, constraint-based programming, logic programming, and rule-based systems * Applications and use areas of description logics: ontology engineering, ontology languages, databases, ontology-based data access, semi-structured data, document management, natural language, learning, planning, Semantic Web, and cloud computing * Systems and tools around description logics: reasoners, software tools for and using description logic reasoning (e.g. ontology editors, database schema design, query optimization, and data integration tools), implementation and optimization techniques, benchmarking, evaluation, modeling INVITED SPEAKERS ---------------- * Michel Dumontier, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada * Giuseppe De Giacomo, Sapienza Universita di Roma, Italy * Ian Pratt-Hartmann, University of Manchester, UK ORGANIZATION ------------ * Thomas Eiter, Vienna University of Technology (Program co-Chair) * Birte Glimm, University of Ulm, Germany (Workshop co-Chair) * Yevgeny Kazakov, University of Ulm, Germany (Workshop co-Chair) * Markus Kroetzsch, University of Oxford, U.K. (Program co-Chair) RESOURCES --------- * Information about submission, registration, travel information, etc., is available on the DL 2013 homepage: http://www.uni-ulm.de/en/in/dl2013/ * Enquiries about the DL 2013 workshop can be made by contacting the organizing committee * The official Description Logic home page is at http://dl.kr.org/ -- Dr. Markus Kroetzsch Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford Room 306, Parks Road, OX1 3QD Oxford, United Kingdom +44 (0)1865 283529 http://korrekt.org/ From mcsuarez at fi.upm.es Tue Jan 8 13:49:48 2013 From: mcsuarez at fi.upm.es (=?windows-1252?Q?Mari_Carmen_Su=E1rez_de_Figueroa_Baonza?=) Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2013 13:49:48 +0100 Subject: [DL] [Deadline Extension] [CFP] Special Session on Intelligent Components producing and consuming Knowledge and Data (SS4-ICP) at PAAMS 2013 In-Reply-To: <50C8A70D.3080300@fi.upm.es> References: <50C8A70D.3080300@fi.upm.es> Message-ID: <50EC15EC.80509@fi.upm.es> [Apologies if you received multiple copies because of cross-posting] =============================================================================================== Special Session on Intelligent Components producing and consuming Knowledge and Data (SS4-ICP) 11th Conference on Practical Applications of Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (PAAMS 2013) Salamanca, 22nd-24th May, 2013 http://www.paams.net/special-sessions/SS4-ICP =============================================================================================== * Motivation* Intelligent components, by which we mean agents, processes and services, are characterised by complex decision making in order to achieve some objectives. Usually this activity is based on knowledge about the agents themselves, the environment in which they are situated and on the communication patterns they engage in. Often the knowledge needed to make complex decisions is owned by the agent, however with novel models of interactions especially within open environments, this knowledge needs to be shared in order to support opportunistic collaboration between autonomous disparate entities. Ontologies play a pivotal role in enabling agents to share knowledge. The Linked Data initiative has spun a plethora of datasets that are published and accessed on the Web and whose content is formally captured by schemas and ontologies, thus promoting the ability to link data from diverse domains. The ability to integrate and perform some form of analysis over this data is becoming increasingly important in applications that make use of data and knowledge in order to achieve a given task. Open environments like the web require the ability to share data and knowledge in a seamless opportunistic fashion with very little or no assumption on the way the content is modelled and represented. The only assumption is that knowledge and data are represented according to some common format, but their content and the constraints on their use are not assumed to be known a priori. Two crucial questions arise given the context we outlined above: (1) ?How can semantics help to represent processes and data?? and (2) ?How can the use of semantics (knowledge and data) support intelligent decision making especially when little is known of the environment and/or other components??. This special session aims at discussing the synergy between semantic technologies, including linked data, and intelligent software components (agents and processes/services). * Topics* Topics of interest span a wide spectrum in both theory and practice of ontology development methodologies and guidelines, knowledge management, linked data creation, data validation, context-aware intelligent agents, mobile agents, multi-agent systems, collaboration and cooperation, information retrieval agent communities, knowledge enabled services, recommender systems, and so on. The topics of submissions to this special session are not strictly limited but should primarily focus on: - Agent-based Linked (Open) Data - Ontologies and agents for specific areas and domains - Ontology-based multi-agent systems - Ontology engineering for open agent environments - Ontology integration (mapping, matching, alignment, merging) - Ontology reuse methods and approaches - Ontology search and repositories - Crawling, caching and querying Linked Data - Evaluation of semantic technologies and agents - Languages, tools, and methodologies for representing and managing semantic data - Guidelines, methods, and tools for Linked Data engineering and their use in agent systems - Semantic-aware intelligent agents/processes/services - Technologies for the Semantic Web and for Linked Data, including languages, tools and infrastructures for knowledge representation and rational agents * Important dates * **Extended submission deadline: 20th January, 2013** Notification of acceptance: 10th February, 2013 Camera ready submission deadline: 20th February, 2013 * Contributions * All papers should be written in English and must be formatted according to the Advances in Intelligent and Soft Computing Series Springer template, with a maximum length of 8 pages in length, including figures and references for the PAAMS 2013 Special Sessions. This template can be downloaded here: - Microsoft Word Format (http://www.paams.net/sites/default/files/word.zip) - Latex Format (http://www.paams.net/sites/default/files/latex.zip) All proposed papers must be submitted in electronic form (PDF format) using the PAAMS 2013 conference management system for special sessions (https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=paams13ss). At least one of the authors will be required to register and attend the special session to present the paper in order to include the paper in the conference proceedings. All accepted papers will be published by Springer Verlag. * Chairs * - Mari Carmen Su?rez-Figueroa, Ontology Engineering Group (OEG), Universidad Polit?cnica de Madrid (UPM) - Valentina Tamma, University of Liverpool * Program Committee (to be completed) * - Sonia Bergamaschi, Universita' di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy - Stefan Decker, Digital Enterprise Research Institute, Ireland - Mariano Fern?ndez-L?pez, Universidad San Pablo CEU, Spain - Chiara Ghidini, Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK), Italy - Massimo Paolucci, DOCOMO Euro-Labs, Germany - Terry Payne, University of Liverpool, United Kingdom - Carlos Pedrinaci, Open University, United Kingdom - Murat Sensoy, University of Aberdeen, United Kingdom - Luciano Serafini, Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK), Italy - Serena Villata, INRIA Sophia Antipolis, France - Boris Villaz?n-Terrazas, iSOCO, Spain -- ---------------------------------------------- Dr. Mari Carmen Su?rez-Figueroa Assistant Professor Ontology Engineering Group (OEG) Departamento de Inteligencia Artificial Facultad de Inform?tica Universidad Polit?cnica de Madrid Campus de Montegancedo, s/n Boadilla del Monte - 28660 Madrid Phone: (+34) 91 336 36 72 Fax: (+34) 91 352 48 19 e-mail: mcsuarez at fi.upm.es Office: 3205 ---------------------------------------------- From michel.plantie at mines-ales.fr Mon Jan 7 10:26:27 2013 From: michel.plantie at mines-ales.fr (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Planti=E9_Michel?=) Date: Mon, 07 Jan 2013 10:26:27 +0100 Subject: [DL] WIMS'13 Call for Papers Message-ID: <50EA94C3.2050309@mines-ales.fr> *CALL FOR PAPERS/PROPOSALS International Conference on Web Intelligence, Mining and Semantics* (WIMS'13) June 12-14, 2013 Madrid, Spain http://aida.ii.uam.es/wims13/ *About WIMS'13*: The 3rd International Conference on Web Intelligence, Mining and Semantics (WIMS'13) will be organised under the auspices of Autonomous University of Madrid, Spain. The WIMS series of conferences concerned with intelligent approaches to transform the World Wide Web into a global reasoning and semantics-driven computing machine. The conference will provide an excellent international forum for sharing knowledge and results in theory, methodology and applications of Web intelligence, Web mining and Web semantics. */Selected extended papers presented at WIMS'13 will be invited to appear in a special issues of reputed journals ( indexed by ISI in Web Of Science and SCOPUS) in the field and also in a book published by Elsevier. /*The purpose of the WIMS'13 is: - To provide a forum for established researchers and practitioners to present past and current research contributing to the state of the art of Web technology research and applications. - To give doctoral students an opportunity to present their research to a friendly and knowledgeable audience and receive valuable feedback. - To provide an informal social event where Web technology researchers and practitioners can meet. *Conference Venue: * The conference will be hosted by Autonomous University of Madrid. *Confirmed Keynote Speakers: * - Prof. Amit Sheth (Physical Cyber Social Computing: An early 21st century approach to - Computing for Human Experience), - Dr. Jason J. Jung (Contextual Synchronization on Social Collaboration) - Prof. Asunci?n G?mez-P?rez (TBA). *Call for Papers/Tutorials/Posters/Industrial Track proposals*: http://aida .ii.uam.es/wims13/cfp.php *Publication*: Accepted papers/tutorials/posters will be published by ACM ICPS and disseminated through the ACM Digital Library. Selected extended papers will be invited to appear in a special issues of reputed journals *(indexed by ISI in Web Of Science and SCOPUS)* in the field and also in a book published by Elsevier. *Important Dates * Electronic submission of research papers - January 20, 2013 Electronic submission of poster papers - January 20, 2013 Notifications of tutorial acceptance - January 24, 2013 Notification of paper/poster acceptance - March 4, 2013 Registration opens - March 5, 2013 Camera-ready of accepted papers/tutorials - March 18, 2013 Deadline for paper submissions for workshops - February 7, 2013 Acceptance of papers for workshops - March 10, 2013 Camera ready workshop papers - March 30, 2013 Author registration deadline - March 30, 2013 Conference: 12-14 June,2013 *Contact: * David Camacho Escuela Polit?cnica Superior Universidad Aut?noma de Madrid Francisco Tom?s y Valiente, 11 , 28049, Madrid , Spain Tel/Fax: +34 91 497 51 00 E-mail: wims13 at uam.es __ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From cossentino at pa.icar.cnr.it Tue Jan 8 10:19:41 2013 From: cossentino at pa.icar.cnr.it (Massimo Cossentino) Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2013 10:19:41 +0100 Subject: [DL] 1st International Workshop on Engineering Multi-Agent Systems (EMAS) - 2nd Call for Papers Message-ID: * apologies for cross-postings * ************************************************************************ Call for Papers EMAS 2013 1st International Workshop on Engineering Multi-Agent Systems (EMAS) Held with AAMAS 2013, Saint Paul, Minnesota (USA), 6th-7th May 2013 http://emas2013.otago.ac.nz ************************************************************************ EMAS is the result of the merging of three "parent" workshops: AOSE, DALT and ProMAS. It looks at their communities as its natural reference audience. MOTIVATION Although much progress has been made, the design, implementation and deployment of multi-agent systems still poses many challenges. Some of these concern design and software engineering aspects, for example, how to effectively design agents and their interactions? Other challenges concern implementation, for instance, how to effectively implement multi-agent coordination or organisations? Further challenges concern use of logic-based techniques for verification of agent systems. It is increasingly apparent that there are benefits in considering design and implementation challenges together. For example, design artefacts can be used to support and assist with debugging and testing. Another example is the development of agent-oriented programming languages that result in programs that are more readily verifiable. A final example is the use of declarative techniques that span design and implementation. This unveils a tight interlacement among the different research issues in multi-agent systems engineering. This naturally results in a workshop that brings together the currently separate topics (but overlapping communities) that focus on software engineering aspects (AOSE), programming aspects (ProMAS), and the application of declarative techniques to design, programming and verification (DALT). Furthermore, EMAS is an ideal place for papers on innovative applications of agents. In particular, there is a great interest from the EMAS community in having people who have developed applications articulate the lessons learned and engineering challenges identified in building and deploying their applications. GOALS AND TOPICS The EMAS workshop explicitly pursues three goals: A. To progress and further develop the understanding of how to engineer multi-agent systems. B. To bring together the communities that are concerned with different aspects of engineering multi-agent systems, and by doing so, allow for better interchange of ideas between the communities, thus exploiting synergies discussed above. C. To attract workshop papers that describe innovative applications We thus call for research papers that are concerned with any aspect of the engineering of multi-agent systems. Specifically including any topics that would fall within the scope of one or more of the three parent workshops: a) Agent-Oriented Software Engineering, b) Declarative Agent Languages and Technologies, c) Programming Multi-Agent Systems. We also seek application papers that describe developed applications. Such papers should not just describe an application, but also the lessons learned and the engineering challenges identified in building and deploying the applications. AUTHOR GUIDELINES EMAS welcomes the submission of theoretical, experimental, methodological as well as application papers with a clear research focus on the topics outlined above. Each paper will be evaluated by three members of the PC. SUBMISSIONS Paper length should be at most 16 pages, including the text, figures, and references. The submissions must be formatted according to the Springer Verlag LNCS style. PDF format is required. Papers can be submitted via EasyChair 'EMAS2013', https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=emas2013 PROCEEDINGS Pre-proceedings containing all accepted papers are provided electronically on a USB stick as part of the AAMAS workshop registration package. The plan is to publish revised versions of accepted papers in a Lecture Notes in Computer Science volume. For this purpose, authors will be given the opportunity to revise and re-submit their contributions after the conference. IMPORTANT DATES Paper submission deadline: 30th January 2013 Paper notifications: 28th February 2013 Camera ready paper (pre-proceedings): 11th March 2013 Workshop: 6th-7th May 2013 COMMITTEES Organizing Committee Massimo Cossentino (National Research Council, Italy) Amal El Fallah Seghrouchni (University of Pierre and Marie Curie - Paris 6, France) Michael Winikoff (University of Otago, New Zealand) Steering Committee Matteo Baldoni (Italy), Rafael Bordini (Brazil), Mehdi Dastani (Netherlands), J?rgen Dix (Germany), Amal El Fallah Seghrouchni (France), Paolo Giorgini (Italy), J?rg M?ller (Germany), M. Birna Van Riemsdijk (Netherlands), Tran Cao Son (USA), Gerhard Weiss (Netherlands), Danny Weyns (Sweden), Michael Winikoff (New Zealand). Preliminary Program Committee Natasha Alechina (Nottingham, UK) Matteo Baldoni (Torino, Italy) Cristina Baroglio (Torino, Italy) Jeremy Baxter (QinetiQ, UK) Olivier Boissier (Saint-Etienne, France) Rafael Bordini (FACIN-PUCRS, Brazil) Lars Braubach (Hamburg, Germany) Rem Collier (Dublin, Ireland) Mehdi Dastani (Utrecht, Netherlands) Scott DeLoach (Kansas state, USA) Louise Dennis (Liverpool, UK) Virginia Dignum (Delft, Netherlands) J?rgen Dix (Clausthal, Germany) Aditya Ghose (Wollongong, Australia) Paolo Giorgini (Trento, Italy) Adriana Giret (Valencia, Spain) Marie-Pierre Gleizes (IRIT, Uni. Paul Sabatier, France) Jorge J. Gomez-Sanz (Madrid, Spain) Christian Guttmann (IBM, Australia) James Harland (RMIT, Australia) Vincent Hilaire (Belford-Montbelliard, France) Koen Hindriks (Delft, Netherlands) Benjamin Hirsch (Berlin, Germany) Tom Holvoet (KU Leuven, Belgium) Jomi H?bner (Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil) Michael Huhns (South Carolina, USA) Joao Leite (Lisboa, Portugal) Yves Lesperance (York, Canada) Brian Logan (University of Nottingham, UK) Viviana Mascardi (Genova, Italy) Philippe Mathieu (Lille 1, France) John-Jules Meyer (Utrecht, Netherlands) Fr?d?ric Migeon (IRIT, Uni. Paul Sabatier, France) Ambra Molesini (Bologna, Italy) Pavlos Moraitis (Paris Descartes, France) Haralambos Mouratidis (East London, UK) J?rg M?ller (Clausthal, Germany) Peter Nov?k (Czech TU, Czech Republic) Andrea Omicini (Bologna, Italy) Lin Padgham (RMIT, Australia) Van Parunak (Jacobs Technology, USA) Fabio Patrizi (Imperial college, UK) Juan Pavon (Madrid, Spain) Michal Pechoucek (Czech TU, Czech Republic) Alexander Pokahr (Hamburg, Germany) Enrico Pontelli (New Mexico state, USA) Alessandro Ricci (Bologna, Italy) Ralph R?nnquist (Intendico, Australia) Chiaki Sakama (Wakayama Uni., Japan) Sebastian Sardi?a (RMIT, Australia) Valeria Seidita (Palermo, Italy) Onn Shehory (IBM Haifa , Israel) Maarten Sierhuis (Ejenta, Inc., USA) Guillermo Ricardo Simari (Uni Nacional del Sur, Argentina) Munindar Singh (North Carolina, USA) Tran Cao Son (New Mexico state, USA) Bas Steunebrink (Lugano, Switzerland) Pankaj Telang (CISCO, USA) John Thangarajah (RMIT, Australia) Paolo Torroni (Bologna, Italy) M. Birna van Riemsdijk (Delft, Netherlands) Wamberto Vasconcelos (Aberdeen, UK) J?rgen Villadsen (DTU Informatics, Denmark) Gerhard Weiss (Maastricht, Netherlands) Danny Weyns (Linnaeus, Sweden) Wayne Wobcke (UNSW, Australia) Pinar Yolum (Bogazici, Turkey) Neil Yorke-Smith (American Uni Beirut / SRI, Lebanon / USA) ************************************************************************ From m.rowe at lancaster.ac.uk Wed Jan 9 17:23:55 2013 From: m.rowe at lancaster.ac.uk (Rowe, Matthew) Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2013 16:23:55 +0000 Subject: [DL] CFP: Seventh International Conference on Knowledge Capture (KCAP) 2013 - Deadline: 15th February 2013 Message-ID: <0F685D56FABF1A41A97A993C92477BB2A2C839@EX-0-MB0.lancs.local> ********************************************************************************* Call for Research and Application Papers : Seventh International Conference on Knowledge Capture (KCAP) 2013 23-26 June 2013. Banff Conference Centre, Banff, Canada Web site: http://kcap2013.org/ Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/KCap2013 Twitter: http://twitter.com/kcap2013 ********************************************************************************* In today's technology-driven society, effective access to and use of information is a key enabler for progress. Driven by the demands for knowledge-based applications and the unprecedented availability of information on the Web, the study of knowledge capture is of crucial importance. Knowledge capture involves the extraction of useful knowledge from vast and diverse online sources as well as its acquisition directly from human experts. Researchers and practitioners who work in the area of knowledge capture traditionally participate in several distinct communities, including knowledge engineering, machine learning, natural language processing, human-computer interaction, artificial intelligence, and the Semantic Web. K-CAP 2013 will provide a forum that brings together members of disparate research communities who are interested in efficiently capturing knowledge from a variety of sources and in creating representations that can be useful for automated reasoning, analysis, and other forms of machine processing, as well as to support users in knowledge-intensive collaborative tasks. In addition, the wealth of information available and generated on the Web, both in structured, linked data forms and in unstructured information sources, brings the need for new methods to make knowledge emerge from such sources, following the recent democratisation, and somehow industrialisation, of areas such as open data, linked data and the Semantic Web. Such new methods must draw both from the traditional knowledge acquisition techniques and from more computational approaches, from large-scale data-mining, statistical analysis, data analytics, etc. For this reason, we are making the special theme of the K-CAP 2013 conference: ***Knowledge Capture in the Age of Massive Web Data**** This will be reflected both through encouraging paper submissions showing works on the way to deal with the scale, but also the distribution, heterogeneity, incompleteness, inconsistency and variety of both sources and results when trying to make knowledge emerge from massive Web data, including data published on the Web, as well as generated through the Web. We will also, for the first time in the K-CAP conference series, introduce a special Application Track, where submissions are invited to present results tested and deployed in real-life settings. The application track will pay special attention to in-use applications for the generation, management, and reuse of large amounts of existing data and knowledge resources on the Web. Data and knowledge-intensive applications in a variety of domains are welcome, including the Web of Data, mobile and sensor networks, large-scale scientific data management and reuse, open government and e-participation, social networks, and enterprise data management and business intelligence. We encourage submissions in such domains, dealing with topics including: big data capture, representation and analytics, crowd-sourcing for data generation and problem-solving, hybrid approaches combining knowledge engineering and machine learning, data and service dynamicity, heterogeneity and decay, and innovative user interfaces. Especially interesting are applications with available datasets and in-place data-driven business models. K-CAP 2013 follows on the success of six previous conferences in 2011 (Banff, Canada), 2009 (California, USA), 2007 (Whistler, Canada), in 2005 (Banff, Canada), in 2003 (Florida, USA), and 2001 (Victoria, Canada), and of the series of Knowledge Acquisition Workshops (KAW), the first of which took place in the same location (Banff, Canada) in 1986, with the aim to promote multi-disciplinary research that could lead to a new generation of tools and methodologies for knowledge capture. ***Submissions*** The Seventh International Conference on Knowledge Capture, K-CAP 2013 will feature Invited Talks, Research Papers, Application Papers, Workshops, Posters and Demos on a range of topics. Due to the special theme of the conference this year, we especially encourage submissions of research and industry papers on the topics of: -Statistical analysis from Web data -Impact on data-mining of Web-scale linked data -Machine learning from multiple Web sources -Hybrid approaches for knowledge capture combining knowledge engineering and machine learning -Computational approaches to data management for knowledge capture -Data dynamicity, heterogeneity, and decay in knowledge intensive systems -Data provenance in knowledge capture Submissions on more general topics, traditionally covered by the conference, are highly encouraged, including but not restricting to: -Knowledge acquisition -Knowledge authoring -Knowledge extraction -Knowledge management -Knowledge capture for the Semantic Web and the Web of Linked Data -Knowledge publication -Collaborative and social approaches to knowledge management and acquisition -Crowdsourcing for knowledge capture and refinement -Knowledge Capture from Social Environments and Contexts -Mixed-initiative planning and decision-support -Problem-solving knowledge and methods -Knowledge-based markup techniques -Knowledge engineering and modelling methodologies -Narrative intelligence -Knowledge capture through storytelling -Learning by reading -Provenance and trust issues in knowledge intensive systems For the application track, we encourage submissions of concrete applications in all the topics of the conference, as mentioned above. Submissions to the application track should present applications, tools or environments which have been effectively deployed and used by their target audience. Accepted application papers will be presented at the conference and should also take part in the demo session. Both regular papers and application papers should be submitted through easychair (using https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=kcap2013 for research papers and https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=kcap2013applications for application papers) and be formatted according to the ACM format. Regular (research) papers should not be longer than 8 pages, including references. Applications papers are limited to 4 pages. ***Deadlines (for both the research and the application tracks) *** Abstract submission: February 8, 2013 Full paper submission: February 15, 2013 Author notification: March 29, 2013 Camera ready version due: April 24, 2013 Thanks Matthew From m.rowe at lancaster.ac.uk Wed Jan 9 17:32:46 2013 From: m.rowe at lancaster.ac.uk (Rowe, Matthew) Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2013 16:32:46 +0000 Subject: [DL] Call for Workshops and Tutorials: Seventh International Conference on Knowledge Capture (KCAP) 2013 - Deadline: 1st February 2013 Message-ID: <0F685D56FABF1A41A97A993C92477BB2A2C94F@EX-0-MB0.lancs.local> ********************************************************************************* Call for Workshops and Tutorials: Seventh International Conference on Knowledge Capture (KCAP) 2013 23-26 June 2013. Banff Conference Centre, Banff, Canada Web site: http://kcap2013.org/ Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/KCap2013? Twitter: http://twitter.com/kcap2013 ********************************************************************************* The International Conference on Knowledge Capture (K-CAP) provides a forum that brings together members of diverse research communities who are interested in efficiently capturing knowledge from a vast range of sources, including human experts, and in creating representations that can be useful for building knowledge-intensive services in a variety of fields, such as the semantic web, knowledge management, e-business, natural language processing, intelligent information integration, and so on. The focus of the 7th edition of K-CAP will be on ?Knowledge Capture in the Age of Massive Web Data?. Besides a research and an application track, K-CAP will host a number of workshops and tutorials on topics related to the theme of the conference. K-CAP workshops provide an informal setting where the participants have the opportunity to discuss specific technical topics in an atmosphere that fosters the active exchange of ideas. Our aim for the workshop program is to promote and collect multidisciplinary research directions that contribute to knowledge capture from a variety of sources. K-CAP Tutorials enable attendees to fully appreciate current issues, main schools of thought, and possible application areas. ***Topics of Interest*** We encourage the submission of workshops and tutorial proposals on all topics that falls in the general scope of K-CAP 2013, from traditional knowledge acquisition techniques to more computational approaches. In particular, we encourage the submission of workshop and tutorial proposals related to the special focus ?Knowledge Capture in the Age of Massive Web Data? *** Submission Guidelines for Workshops*** Workshop proposals should be submitted via EasyChair at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=kcap2013workshopstut as a single PDF file of no more than 5 pages, specifying ?Workshop Proposal? in the title of the PDF and selecting the ?workshop? category in EasyChair. Proposals should contain the following information: -Title. -Abstract (200 words). -Motivation on why the topic is of particular interest at this time. -Relation to the main conference topics. -Workshop format, discussing the mix of events such as paper presentations, invited talks, panels, and general discussion. Intended audience and expected number of participants. -List of (potential) members of the program committee (at least 50% have to be confirmed at the time of the proposal). -Indication of whether the workshop should be considered for a half-day or full-day. -Past versions of the workshop, including URLs as well as submission and acceptance counts. -Data of the organizers (name, affiliation, email address, homepage) and short CV. Additionally: -we strongly advise having more than one organizer, preferably from different institutions, bringing different perspectives to the workshop topic. -we welcome workshops with creative structures and organizations that attract various types of contributions and ensure rich interactions. ***Submission Guidelines for Tutorials*** Tutorial proposals should be submitted via EasyChair at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=kcap2013workshopstut as a single PDF file of no more than 5 pages, specifying ?Tutorial Proposal? in the title of the PDF and selecting the ?tutorial? category in EasyChair. Proposals should contain the following information: -Title. -Abstract (200 words) -Motivation on why the topic is of particular interest at this time. -Relation to the conference topics. -If the tutorial, or a very similar tutorial, has been given elsewhere, explanation of the benefit of presenting it again to the K-CAP community. -Overview of content, description of the aims, presentation style, potential/preferred prerequisite knowledge. -Indication on whether the tutorial should be considered for a half-day or full-day. -Intended audience and expected number of participants. -Audio-visual or technical requirements and any special room requirements (for hands-on sessions, any software needed and download sites must be provided by the tutorial presenters). -Data of the presenters (name, affiliation, email address, homepage) and short CV including also their expertise, experiences in teaching and in tutorial presentation. Additionally, tutorials should satisfy the following criteria: -there is a clear focus on a specific technology, problem or application, and; -there is a sufficiently large community interested in the topic. Tutorials can include practical parts in terms of examples or exercises to be carried out by the participants. ***Workshop Organizers Responsibilities*** The organizers of accepted workshops are expected to: -prepare a workshop webpage (linked to the official K-CAP website) containing the call for papers and detailed information about the workshop organization and timelines -be responsible for the workshop publicity -be responsible for their own reviewing process, decide upon the final program content and report the number of submissions and accepted papers to the workshop chair -be responsible for publishing electronic proceedings (e.g., on the CEUR-WS website) and make them available to participants -assure workshop participants are informed they have to register to the main conference and the workshop schedule, attend and coordinate their entire workshop K-CAP will be responsible for the following: -Providing publicity for the workshop series as a whole -Providing logistics support and a meeting place for the workshop ***Tutorial Organizers Responsibilities*** The proposers of accepted tutorials are expected to prepare a tutorial webpage (linked to the official K-CAP website) containing detailed information about the tutorial, and to distribute material to participants. K-CAP will be responsible for the following: -Providing publicity for the tutorials as a whole -Providing logistics support and a meeting place for the tutorial ***Submission Dates and Details*** Event: June 23, 2013 (Provisional) Proposal due: February 1, 2013 Notifications: February 28, 2013 ***Suggested Timeline for Workshops*** Workshop website up: March 15, 2013 Workshop Call for Papers out (suggested): March 15, 2013 Deadline to submit Papers to Workshops: Individual deadline Acceptance of Papers for Workshops: April 30, 2013 Publication of Workshop programme: May 15, 2013 Deadline for camera-ready workshop notes: May 15, 2013 Workshop day: June 23, 2013 ***Suggested Timeline for Tutorials*** Tutorial website up: April 30, 2013 Deadline for tutorial material: May 15, 2013 Tutorial day: June 23, 2013 Thanks Matthew From rodriguez at inf.unibz.it Thu Jan 10 13:46:25 2013 From: rodriguez at inf.unibz.it (Mariano Rodriguez) Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2013 13:46:25 +0100 Subject: [DL] CfP: 10th OWL: Experiences and Directions Workshop (OWLED 2013), Montpellier, France, May 26-27, 2013 Message-ID: Apologies for multiple postings. Please forward to interested parties. ============================================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS 10th OWL: Experiences and Directions Workshop (OWLED 2013) Montpellier, France. May 26-27, 2013 Co-located with ESWC 2013 http://www.webont.org/owled/2013/ =============================================================================== The aim of the OWL: Experiences and Directions Workshop (OWLED) is to establish an international forum for the OWL community, where practitioners in industry and academia, tool developers and others interested in OWL can describe real and potential applications, share experience and discuss requirements for language extensions/modifications. OWL is quickly becoming the representational model of choice for expressing semantics of BigData in many industries. This has been made possible thanks to the newly introduced support for tractable OWL fragments that allow inference at large scales over rapidly evolving data. OWLED will be celebrating its 10th year edition which provides an opportunity for an event focused on OWL in retrospective, OWL?s evolution, and future directions in a BigData world. This year, OWLED will be co-located with ESWC 2013 in Montpellier, France. As usual, the workshop will try to encourage participants to work together and will give space for discussions of various topics as well as having presentation of submissions. Papers about all aspects of OWL and extensions, applications, theory, methods and tools, are welcome. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, ? Application driven requirements for OWL ? Applications of OWL ? Experience of using OWL, in particular the OWL 2 Profiles ? Evaluation of OWL tools e.g. reasoners ? Benchmarks for OWL tools ? Performance and scalability issues and improvements ? Extensions to OWL ? OWL and Rules ? Implementation techniques and experience reports ? Non-standard reasoning service (implementation and requirements for) ? Explanation ? Ontology comprehension ? Tools, including editors, visualisation, parsers and syntax checkers ? Collaborative editing of ontologies ? Versioning of OWL ontologies ? Modularity ? Query answering with OWL ? SPARQL and OWL ? Linked Data and OWL Important Dates Titles and Abstract Due: 28th February Submissions due: 4th March Acceptance Notifications: 1st April Final papers due: 15th April OWLED Workshop: 26th - 27th May Submissions This year we would like to invite submissions of the following sorts: Technical papers (maximum 12 pages LNCS style). These papers should present research, implementation experience, and reports on the above topics and related topics. Space will be reserved for authors to present their work at the workshop. Short papers or System descriptions (maximum 4-6 pages LNCS style). These papers should present work that is in an early stage and/or publicize (novel) implemented systems that are of interest to OWLED attendees. We encourage authors of system descriptions to also submit a demonstration paper. Demonstrations (2 pages LNCS style). These papers should describe a demonstration of a system. The description should highlight why the system/service is of interest to the OWL community and should clearly state what will be demonstrated during the session. We encourage All submissions must be made online using the EasyChair conference system: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=owled2013 Best regards, Mariano Rodriguez-Muro, General Chair, OWLED 2013 Kavitha Srinivas, Program Chair, OWLED 2013 Simon Jupp, Program Chair, OWLED 2013 From ijswis-publicity at image.ntua.gr Wed Jan 9 12:39:45 2013 From: ijswis-publicity at image.ntua.gr (ijswis-publicity at image.ntua.gr) Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2013 13:39:45 +0200 Subject: [DL] Special Issue on "Semantic Social Media Dynamics" Message-ID: ======================================================================= CALL FOR PAPERS International Journal on Semantic Web and Information Systems (IJSWIS) Special Issue on "Semantic Social Media Dynamics" ======================================================================= Guest Editors: Phivos Mylonas, Ionian University, Greece Ioannis Anagnostopoulos, University of Central Greece, Greece Fernando Bobillo, University of Zaragoza, Spain Markus Strohmaier, Graz University of Technology, Austria Geert-Jan Houben, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands ----------------------------------------------------------------- URL: http://ijswis.knoesis.org/?q=node/45 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Important dates: Manuscript Submission Deadline: *February 15, 2013* Notification of Acceptance/Rejection: May 31, 2013 Final Accepted Manuscript Due: July 31, 2013 Estimated Publication Date: Vol. 9, Issue 3 or 4, 2013 -------------------- Submission Procedure -------------------- Submissions to this special issue should follow the journal's guidelines for submission (http://ijswis.knoesis.org/?q=node/36). Manuscripts should be submitted through the online EasyChair Submission Site: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ssmd13. After submitting a paper, please also inform guest editors by email to ijswis-ssmd13 at image.ntua.gr about the specific paper ID assigned by the submission system. If a submission is based on a prior publication in a workshop or conference, the journal submission must involve substantial advance (a minimum of 50%) in conceptual terms as well as in exposition (e.g., more comprehensive testing/evaluation/validation or additional applications/usage). More info on this Special Issue may be found at: http://ijswis.knoesis.org/?q=node/45. ------- Summary ------- The objective of this Special Issue is to collect and report on recent high quality research that addresses the problem of mass digital media content generation and sharing. As social media keep extending over the Web as we know it, new innovative dynamics are formed in the sense of media content acquiring and sharing trends. Research in this area is important to combine the fields of semantics and knowledge engineering within social media platforms, mainly because of the overwhelming amount of disseminated information and different contextualization types. High quality contributions addressing related theoretical and practical aspects are expected. ------ Topics ------ Topics of interest include, but are not limited to the following semantic media adaptation & personalization aspects in social media: # Content creation, annotation and modelling for semantic social web # Semantics-driven indexing and retrieval of multimedia contents # Semantics-based recommender systems: theory and applications # Semantic context modelling and extraction # Social and semantic media collaboration platforms (e.g. semantic wikis) # Social multimedia tagging and multimedia content communities # Content customization and adaptation # Context-aware multimedia applications # Social network aggregation # User modelling and dynamic profiling # Adaptive and personalized multimedia summaries # Intelligent personalized interfaces # Hybrid socio-semantic approaches to profiling, recommendation engines or adaptation systems -------- Contacts -------- Please address all correspondences regarding this Special Issue to the Guest Editors: Phivos Mylonas, Ioannis Anagnostopoulos, Fernando Bobillo, Markus Strohmaier, Geert-Jan Houben ijswis-ssmd13 at image.ntua.gr From g.grov at hw.ac.uk Fri Jan 11 09:59:23 2013 From: g.grov at hw.ac.uk (Gudmund Grov) Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2013 08:59:23 +0000 Subject: [DL] SCP Special Issue on Invariant Generation - Final Call for Papers [1 month to go] Message-ID: (Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this announcement) ------------------------------------------------------------ Science of Computer Programming Special Issue on Invariant Generation -- FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS [1 month to go] -- ------------------------------------------------------------ This special issue is devoted to the 4th international Workshop on Invariant Generation (WING 2012) http://cs.nyu.edu/acsys/wing2012/ which was held on June 30 2012 in Manchester as a satellite event of IJCAR 2012. The scope of the workshop is the automation of extracting and synthesising auxiliary properties of programs, in particular providing, debugging, and verifying auxiliary invariant annotations. This should be seen in a broad sense and relevant topics include (but are not limited to) the following: * Program analysis and verification * Inductive assertion generation * Inductive proofs for reasoning about loops * Applications to assertion generation using: - abstract interpretation, - static analysis, - model checking, - theorem proving, - theory formation, - algebraic techniques * Tools for inductive assertion generation and verification * Alternative techniques for reasoning about loops Submission to this special issue is completely open. We expect original articles (typically not more than 30 pages) that present high-quality contributions and must not be simultaneously submitted for publication elsewhere. Submission of extended versions of previously published papers is possible as long as the extension is significant, i.e., the submission can be considered a new paper, the previous paper is referenced, and the new material is clearly marked. Submissions must comply with SCP's author guidelines http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/505623/authorinstructions and be written in English. Submission is over the SCP website: http://ees.elsevier.com/scico/default.asp which you will have to register for if you do not have an account. When submitting your paper please choose the article type "Special issue: WING 2012". IMPORTANT DATES --------------- * Submission of papers: February 11, 2013. * Notification: April 26, 2013. GUEST EDITORS -------------- * Gudmund Grov (Heriot-Watt University, UK) * Thomas Wies (New York University, USA) CONTACT -------------- Please send any queries you may have to: wing2012 at easychair.org ----- Sunday Times Scottish University of the Year 2011-2013 Top in the UK for student experience Fourth university in the UK and top in Scotland (National Student Survey 2012) We invite research leaders and ambitious early career researchers to join us in leading and driving research in key inter-disciplinary themes. Please see www.hw.ac.uk/researchleaders for further information and how to apply. Heriot-Watt University is a Scottish charity registered under charity number SC000278. From calimeri at mat.unical.it Fri Jan 11 19:01:11 2013 From: calimeri at mat.unical.it (Francesco Calimeri) Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2013 19:01:11 +0100 Subject: [DL] [CfP] 4th *OPEN* Answer Set Programming Competition 2013 - CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS Message-ID: [apologies for any cross-posting] ........................................................................ 4th OPEN Answer Set Programming Competition 2013 Call for Participant Systems University of Calabria - Vienna University of Technology Fall/Winter 2012/2013 http://aspcomp2013.mat.unical.it/ aspcomp2013 at kr.tuwien.ac.at ........................................................................ The 4th Open Answer Set Programming (ASP) Competition is now in the Call for Participant Systems stage. +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ | The event is open to ASP systems and *any other* system based on a | | declarative specification paradigm. | +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ == Call for Participant Systems == Participants of the Answer Set Programming Competition will compete on a selected collection of benchmark problems, taken from a variety of benchmark problem domains as well as real world applications. These include, but are not limited to: * Classic and applicative graph problems * Scheduling, Timetabling, and other resource allocation problems * Sequential and Temporal Planning * Combinatorial Optimization Problems * Deductive database tasks on large data-sets * Puzzles and Combinatorics * Ontology reasoning * Automated Theorem Proving and Model Checking * Reasoning tasks over large propositional instances * Constraint Programming problems * Other AI problems The competition consists of two independent main tracks: * the Model & Solve Track invites any researcher and developer of declarative knowledge representation systems to participate in an open challenge for solving sophisticated AI problems with their tools of choice. Participants submit a solver based on an arbitrary input format and declarative specifications of the Competition's benchmark domains; * the System Track compares dedicated answer set solvers on ASP benchmarks. Participants compete with a solver for a standard ASP language. We encourage to submit parallel and portfolio systems exploiting multiple cores or multiple algorithms for solving the given instances. === About the Answer Set Programming Competition Series === Answer Set Programming is a well-established paradigm of declarative programming with close relationship to other declarative modelling paradigms and languages, such as SAT Modulo Theories, Constraint Handling Rules, FO(.), PDDL, CASC, and many others. The ASP Competition is a biannual event for evaluating declarative knowledge representation systems on hard and demanding AI problems. The 4th ASP Competition will be run in the first half of 2013 jointly at the University of Calabria (Italy) and the Vienna University of Technology (Austria). The event is the sequel to the ASP Competition series, held at the University of Potsdam (Germany) in 2006-2007, at the University of Leuven (Belgium) in 2009, and at University of Calabria (Italy) in 2011. The current competition takes place in cooperation with the 12th International Conference on Logic Programming and Nonmonotonic Reasoning (LPNMR 2013), where the results will be announced. The ASP competition is held as an open tournament. The "Model & Solve" competition track fosters the spirit of integration among communities, and is thus open to all types of solvers: ASP systems, SAT solvers, SMT solvers, CP systems, FOL theorem provers, Description Logics reasoners, planning reasoners, or any other. The "System" competition track is instead set up on a fixed language based on the answer set semantics. == Important Dates == * February 2nd, 2013: Participant registration deadline * March 1st, 2013: Participant system submission deadline * March 2nd, 2013: System freeze, the competition runs * September 15-19, 2013: Announcement of results and award presentation at LPNMR 2013 in Corunna, Spain For further information and submission instructions please visit the competition web site http://aspcomp2013.mat.unical.it/ or contact us by email: aspcomp2013 at kr.tuwien.ac.at From tompits at kr.tuwien.ac.at Fri Jan 11 19:31:52 2013 From: tompits at kr.tuwien.ac.at (Hans Tompits) Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2013 19:31:52 +0100 (CET) Subject: [DL] Call for Workshop Proposals: International Conference on Logic Programming (ICLP 2013) Message-ID: <20130111183152.33D8E744D0C@gluck.kr.tuwien.ac.at> (Apologies for cross posting.) --------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR WORKSHOP PROPOSALS 29th International Conference on Logic Programming (ICLP 2013) Istanbul, Turkey, August 24-29, 2013 http://www.iclp2013.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- ICLP 2013, the 29th International Conference on Logic Programming, will be held in Istanbul, Turkey, August 24-29, 2013. Workshops collocated with an international conference are one of the best venues for the presentation and discussion of preliminary work, novel ideas, and new open problems to a wide and interested audience. Collocated workshops also provide an opportunity for presenting specialised topics and opportunities for intensive discussions and project collaboration. The topics of the workshops collocated with ICLP 2013 may cover any area related to logic programming (e.g., theory, systems, environments, software-engineering aspects, extensions, alternative paradigms, applications), including cross- disciplinary areas. However, any workshop proposal will be taken under consideration. The format of the workshop will be decided by the workshop organisers, but ample time should be allowed for general discussions. Workshops can vary in length, but the optimal format are half-day workshops and full-day workshops. Workshop Proposal: ================== People interested in organising a workshop at ICLP 2013 are invited to submit a workshop proposal. Proposals should be written in English and about two pages in length. They should contain: * the title of the workshop; * a brief technical description of the topics covered by the workshop; * a discussion of the timeline and relevance of the workshop; * a list of some related workshops held in recent years; * the (preliminary) required number of half-days allotted to the workshop and an estimate of the number of expected attendees; * the names, affiliations, and contact details (email, web page, phone, fax) of the workshop organiser(s) together with a designated contact person; and * the previous experience of the workshop organising committee in workshop or conference organisation. Proposals should be in PDF format and submitted to the Workshop Chair (Hans Tompits) by email by March 11, 2013. Reviewing Process: ================== Each submitted proposal will be reviewed by the Workshop Chair and the Conference Program Chairs. Proposals that appear well-organised and that fit the goals and the scope of ICLP will be selected. The Chairs will notify the responsible organisers of their decision via email by April 4, 2013. The final length of each workshop will be planned according to the number of submissions each workshop receives. For each accepted workshop, the ICLP local organisers will prepare a meeting place and arrange the distribution of the workshop proceedings, which must be prepared by the workshop organisers. The workshop registration fees will be handled together with the conference fees. Workshop Organisers' Tasks: =========================== * Producing a "Call for Papers" for the workshop and posting it on the Internet and other means. A Web page URL which will be linked into the ICLP 2013 home page must be provided by April 29, 2013. * Providing a brief description of the workshop for the conference program. * Reviewing and deciding upon submitted papers. * Scheduling workshop activities in collaboration with the local organisers and the Workshop Chair. * Sending the workshop program and the workshop proceedings in pdf format to the Workshop Chair for distribution at the conference. * The use of the Computing Research Repository (CoRR) for the workshop proceedings is strongly recommended. Location: ========= All workshops will take place in the city of Istanbul at the site of the main conference. See the ICLP 2013 Web site for location details. Important Dates: ================ March 11, 2013: Proposal submission deadline April 4, 2013: Notification April 29, 2013: Deadline for receipt of CFP and workshop Web page URL July 19, 2013: Deadline for proceedings and workshop program August 24 and 25, 2013: ICLP 2013 workshops Workshop Chair: =============== Hans Tompits Knowledge-Based Systems Group E184/3 Institute of Information Systems Vienna University of Technology Favoritenstrasse 9-11 A-1040 Vienna Austria Email: tompits [at] kr [dot] tuwien [dot] ac [dot] at From math.semantic.web at gmail.com Sat Jan 12 00:16:29 2013 From: math.semantic.web at gmail.com (Christoph LANGE) Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2013 23:16:29 +0000 Subject: [DL] Deadline Extension (28 Jan): Enabling Domain Experts to use Formalised Reasoning, Stage 2 (AISB 2013, Exeter, UK, 2-5 Apr 2013) Message-ID: <50F09D4D.80803@gmail.com> Do-Form: Enabling Domain Experts to use Formalised Reasoning http://cs.bham.ac.uk/research/projects/formare/events/aisb2013 CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS Symposium at the annual convention of the AISB (Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and Simulation of Behaviour; http://www.aisb.org.uk) University of Exeter, UK 2-5 April 2013 http://emps.exeter.ac.uk/computer-science/research/aisb/ SPECIAL SESSIONS with * Utku ?nver (market design and matching problems) * Peter Cramton (auctions) * Neels Vosloo (finance markets regulation) SUBMISSION DEADLINE (extended): 28 January This symposium is motivated by the long-term VISION of making information systems dependable. In the past even mis-represented units of measurements caused fatal ENGINEERING disasters. In ECONOMICS, the subtlety of issues involved in good auction design may have led to low revenues in auctions of public goods such as the 3G radio spectra. Similarly, banks' value-at-risk (VaR) models ? the leading method of financial risk measurement ? are too large and change too quickly to be thoroughly vetted by hand, the current state of the art; in the London Whale incident of 2012, JP Morgan claimed that its exposures were $67mn under one of its VaR models, and $129 under another one. Verifying a model's properties requires formally specifying them; for VaR models, any work would have to start with this most basic step, as regulators' current desiderata are subjective and ambiguous. We believe that these problems can be addressed by representing the knowledge underlying such models and mechanisms in a formal, explicit, machine-verifiable way. Contemporary computer science offers a wide choice of knowledge representation languages well supported by verification tools. Such tools have been successfully applied, e.g., for verifying software that controls commuter rail or payment systems (cf. the symposium homepage for further background). Still, DOMAIN EXPERTS without a strong computer science background find it challenging to choose the right tools and to use them. This symposium aims at investigating ways to support them. Some problems can be addressed now, others will bring new challenges to computer science. General TOPICS of interest include: * for DOMAIN EXPERTS: what problems in application domains could benefit from better verification and knowledge management facilities? Possible fields include: * Example 1 (economics): auctions, VaR, trading algorithms, market design * Example 2 (engineering): system interoperability, manufacturing processes, product classification * for COMPUTER SCIENTISTS: how to provide the right knowledge management and verification tools to domain experts without a computer science background? * wikis and blogs for informal, semantic, semiformal, and formal mathematical knowledge; * general techniques and tools for online collaborative mathematics; * tools for collaboratively producing, presenting, publishing, and interacting with online mathematics; * automation and computer-human interaction aspects of mathematical wikis; * ontologies and knowledge bases designed to support knowledge management and verification in application domains; * practical experiences, usability aspects, feasibility studies; * evaluation of existing tools and experiments; * requirements, user scenarios and goals. We particularly invite submissions that address the problems or that apply the tools presented in the papers submitted for stage 1 (see "submission" below). THE SYMPOSIUM is designed to bring domain experts and formalisers into close and fruitful contact with each other: domain experts will be able to present their fields and problems to formalisers; formalisers will be exposed to new and challenging problem areas. We will combine talks and hands-on sessions to ensure close interaction among participants from both sides. World-class economists will offer dedicated HANDS-ON SESSIONS on the following topics: * Market design and matching problems (Utku ?nver, Boston College): These include matching students to schools, interns to hospitals, and kidney donors to recipients. See the documentation for the 2012 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for more background information (http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/economics/laureates/2012/). * Auctions (Peter Cramton, University of Maryland): Peter works on auctions for ICANN (the ?knock out? domain name auctions), Ofcom UK (4G spectrum auction), the UK Department of the Environment and Climate Change, and others. * Finance (Neels Vosloo, Financial Services Authority UK): It is currently impossible for regulators to properly inspect either risk management models, or algorithmic trading platforms. To what extent can techniques from mechanised reasoning automate some of the inspection process? SUBMISSIONS We solicit submissions on any of the TOPICS outlined initially but prefer submissions that specifically address topics identified in the earlier submission Stage 1. In Stage 1 we had solicited * from DOMAIN EXPERTS descriptions of "nails": canonical models and problems in their domain that might benefit from better verification and knowledge management facilities. Descriptions should focus on aspects of these models that domain users find particularly problematic, and suspect might be aided by formalisation tools * from COMPUTER SCIENTISTS descriptions of "hammers": formalisation, verification and knowledge management tools, with an emphasis on how they could be applied in a concrete real-world setting, or tailored to such application domains. Commented versions of these submissions are now online at http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/projects/formare/events/aisb2013/stage1.php. A tool whose description is submitted to Stage 2 could, e.g., be motivated with a Stage 1 problem, and sketch how the tool could, or will, be applied in this domain. Each submission will be refereed by three PC members on average. Submissions will be judged based on the PC's views of the likelihood of contributing to a better matching of hammers (formalisation and verification tools) to nails (domain problems). At this stage we accept PDF submissions in any layout but count 1200 words as one page for fair comparison. We invite research and position papers, as well as tool and system descriptions, from 3 to 10 pages. Besides PDFs we invite the submission of formalised knowledge representations with human-readable annotations. To submit a paper, please go to the Do-Form EasyChair page (http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=doform2013) and follow the instructions for Stage 2 there. FINAL VERSIONS Final versions should be prepared in LaTeX according to the AISB formatting guidelines linked from the symposium homepage. For the final version, non-PDF submissions should be accompanied by a PDF abstract of 2 to 4 pages. Electronic proceedings (with an ISBN) will be made available to the convention delegates on a memory stick, and on the AISB website. Given a sufficient number of high-quality submissions, we will invite authors to submit revised and extended versions to a SPECIAL ISSUE of a relevant JOURNAL. (E.g., co-chair Manfred Kerber is on the editorial board of Mathematics in Computer Science.) IMPORTANT DATES * Submission (Stage 2): 28 January 2013 * Notification: 18 February 2013 * Final versions due: 4 March 2013 * Symposium: 2-5 April 2013 (days to be fixed) * AISB Convention: 2-5 April 2013 PROGRAMME COMMITTEE 1. Bill Andersen, Highfleet, US 2. Rob Arthan, Lemma 1, Reading, UK 3. Christoph Benzm?ller, Free University of Berlin, Germany 4. Peter Cramton, University of Maryland, US 5. James Davenport, University of Bath, UK 6. Michael Gr?ninger, University of Toronto, Canada 7. Manfred Kerber, University of Birmingham, UK (co-chair) 8. Michael Kohlhase, Jacobs University Bremen, Germany 9. Christoph Lange, University of Birmingham, UK (co-chair) 10. Till Mossakowski, University of Bremen, Germany 11. Colin Rowat, University of Birmingham, UK (co-chair) 12. Todd Schneider, Raytheon, US 13. Richard Steinberg, London School of Economics, UK 14. Geoff Sutcliffe, University of Miami, US 15. Theodore L Turocy, Centre for Behavioural and Experimental Social Science, University of East Anglia, UK 16. Makarius Wenzel, University of Paris Sud, France 17. Wolfgang Windsteiger, RISC / JKU Linz, Austria COMMENTS/QUESTIONS/ENQUIRIES to be sent to DoForm2013 at easychair.org From paschke at inf.fu-berlin.de Fri Jan 11 20:58:13 2013 From: paschke at inf.fu-berlin.de (Adrian Paschke) Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2013 20:58:13 +0100 Subject: [DL] RuleML 2013: 7th International Web Rule Symposium References: <006b01cdddc1$95e7de80$c1b79b80$@inf.fu-berlin.de> Message-ID: <007701cdf035$fe629960$fb27cc20$@inf.fu-berlin.de> Call for Papers RuleML 2013: 7th International Web Rule Symposium Seattle Metropolitan Area, USA, July 11-13, 2013 http://2013.ruleml.org The annual International Web Rule Symposium (RuleML) is an international conference on research, applications, languages and standards for rule technologies. RuleML is the leading conference for building bridges between academia and industry in the field of rules and its applications, especially as part of the semantic technology stack. It is devoted to rule-based programming and rule-based systems including production rules systems, logic programming rule engines, and business rules engines/business rules management systems; Semantic Web rule languages and rule standards (e.g., RuleML, SWRL, RIF, PRR, SBVR); Legal RuleML; rule-based event processing languages (EPLs) and technologies; hybrid rule-based methods; and research on inference rules, transformation rules, decision rules, production rules, and ECA rules. The 7th International Symposium on Rules and the Web (RuleML 2013) will be held on July 11-13, 2013 just prior to the AAAI conference in the Seattle Metropolitan Area, Washington. Selected papers will be published in book form in the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series. Objectives ========== RuleML-2013 will stimulate cooperation and interoperability between research and business in a community of researchers and practitioners who are interested in the theory and applications of rules. The symposium's areas of research and development have helped drive the rapid progress in technologies for practical rule and event processing. As a result, RuleML-2013 promises to be an exciting venue for the exchange of new ideas and experiences on issues related to engineering, management, integration, interoperability of rule systems, and interchange of rules in distributed enterprise, intranets, and open distributed environments. Industry practitioners, rule-system providers, users of rules, technical experts and developers, and researchers who are exploring foundational issues, developing systems and applications, or using rule-based systems are invited to share ideas, results, and experiences. The RuleML2013 Conference is also hosting - The 7th Int. Rule Challenge: Further information and a separate call for papers and demos for the challenge will be forthcoming. - The 3rd Doctoral Consortium on Rules: Further information and a separate call for papers and demos for the challenge will be forthcoming - An OASIS Legal RuleML TC Meeting and Tutorial Topics ======= We invite high-quality submissions related (but not limited) to one or more of the following topics: * Rules and automated reasoning * Rule-based policies, reputation, and trust * Rule-based event processing and reaction rules * Rules and the web * Fuzzy rules and uncertainty * Logic programming and nonmonotonic reasoning * Non-classical logics and the web (e.g modal and epistemic logics) * Hybrid methods for combining rules and statistical machine learning techniques (e.g., conditional random fields, PSL) * Rule transformation, extraction, and learning * Vocabularies, ontologies, and business rules * Rule markup languages and rule interchange formats * Rule-based distributed/multi-agent systems * Rules, agents, and norms * Rule-based communication, dialogue, and argumentation models * Vocabularies and ontologies for pragmatic primitives (e.g. speech acts and deontic primitives) * Pragmatic web reasoning and distributed rule inference / rule execution * Rules in online market research and online marketing * Applications of rule technologies in health care and life sciences * Legal rules and legal reasoning * Industrial applications of rules * Controlled natural language for rule encoding (e.g. SBVR, ACE, CLCE) * Standards activities related to rules * General rule topics Conference Chairs ================= Adrian Paschke (Freie Universitaet Berlin, Germany) Program Chairs =============== Leora Morgenstern (Science Applications International Corporation, USA) Petros Stefaneas (NTUA, Greece) Important Dates =============== Abstract submission: Feb. 19, 2013 Paper submission: Feb. 20, 2013 Notification of acceptance/rejection: April 12, 2013 Camera-ready copy due: May 3, 2013 RuleML-2013 dates: July 11-13, 2013 Submission guidelines ===================== Papers must be original contributions written in English and must be submitted at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ruleml2013 as: * Full Papers (15 pages in the proceedings) * Short Papers (8 pages in the proceedings) Please upload all submissions in LNCS format (http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html). To ensure high quality, submitted papers will be carefully peer-reviewed by 3 PC members based on originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of exposition. Selected papers will be published in book form in the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series. From mpavone at dmi.unict.it Tue Jan 15 22:31:22 2013 From: mpavone at dmi.unict.it (Mario Pavone) Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2013 22:31:22 +0100 Subject: [DL] CfP ECAL 2013 - European Conference on Artificial Life - 2-6 September, 2013 Taormina, Italy Message-ID: <20130115223122.Horde.FKf8Guph4B9Q9cqqyd3X6fA@mbox.dmi.unict.it> [Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this announcement.] [Please kindly help forward it to potentially interested attendees.] ===================== First CALL FOR PAPERS: ECAL 2013 ECAL 2013, European Conference on Artificial Life, an International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems 2-6 September 2013, Taormina, Italy http://www.dmi.unict.it/ecal2013/ ===================== Artificial Life is an interdisciplinary undertaking that investigates the fundamental properties of living systems through the simulation and synthesis of biological entities and processes. It also attempts to design and build artificial systems that display properties of organisms, or societies of organisms, out of abiotic or virtual parts. Researchers are invited to submit original work in the field of artificial life, synthetic biology, living systems, and complex systems as papers of not more than 8 pages. Papers must be submitted as PDF files. The authors' names shall not be blinded for the reviewing process. Papers must be submitted in MIT Press style through the conference homepage: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ecal2013 ** You are invited to submit papers (full and abstract) to this exciting event! ** Important Dates Call for Workshop Submission: January 31, 2013 Workshop Acceptance: February 15, 2013 Call for Tutorial Submission: January 31, 2013 Tutorial Acceptance: February 15, 2013 Paper Submission: February 28, 2013 Author Notification: May 1, 2013 Camera Ready Paper Submission: June 1, 2013 Early registration: June 25, 2013 Late registration: June 26 - September 6, 2013 On-Site registration: September 2-6, 2013 Registration as Presenting Author: June 25, 2013 Conference: September 2-6, 2013 PAPER/ABSTRACT FORMAT --------------------- Detailed information concerning the formatting guidelines, templates, online submission process, and proceedings can be found at http://www.dmi.unict.it/ecal2013/callpapers.php There are two options for submission: either *full paper* or *abstract*. Note that the format is exactly the same for both options. The only difference resides in the number of pages and type of contents: 1. Full papers have an *8-page* maximum length and should report on new, unpublished work 2. Abstracts are limited to a *2-page* length and should discuss work previously published in a journal. It is therefore essential that a reference to the previous article is clearly cited in the abstract. All submissions will be subject to peer review, and all accepted submissions will be allocated either an oral presentation slot or a poster slot with no distinction being made between the two submission options (full paper or abstract). PUBLICATION --------------------- Every accepted full-paper and abstract, which was submitted to the main conference (not the satellite workshops), will be published by MIT Press in a single online open-access proceedings volume. The top 10 accepted publications will have the opportunity to publish a revised and expanded version of their conference paper in the Artificial Life journal (TBC). LOCATION --------------------- The conference will be held at the Taormina http://www.dmi.unict.it/ecal2013/location.php. We look forward to seeing you in Taormina! Best wishes, ?Pietro Lio', Orazio Miglino, Giuseppe Nicosia, Stefano Nolfi, and Mario Pavone - ECAL 2013 Chairs. -- Dr. Mario Pavone (PhD) Assistant Professor Department of Mathematics and Computer Science University of Catania V.le A. Doria 6 - 95125 Catania, Italy tel: 0039 095 7383038 fax: 0039 095 330094 Email: mpavone at dmi.unict.it http://www.dmi.unict.it/mpavone/ ------------------------------------------------ From Bertram.Fronhoefer at tu-dresden.de Thu Jan 17 11:58:34 2013 From: Bertram.Fronhoefer at tu-dresden.de (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Bertram_Fronh=F6fer?=) Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2013 11:58:34 +0100 Subject: [DL] European Master's Program in Computational Logic Message-ID: <50F7D95A.8060505@tu-dresden.de> Dear all, I'd like to draw your attention to the fact that fresh Erasmus Mundus scholarships are available for Non-European AND European students who enroll in our European Master's Program in Computational Logic in the fall of 2013. The deadline for application is 31 January, 2013. More details are given below. In particular, I'd like to draw your attention to the fact that we are able to provide grants to EU-students for doing their project at the National ICT of Australia (NICTA). Please spread this information as wide as possible among friends and colleagues, at your old universities and the places, where you currently live and work. Many thanks -- Steffen ******************************************************************************************************* The European Master's Program in Computational Logic We are glad to announce to you the possibility to join our European Master's Program of Computational Logic. This program is offered jointly at the Free-University of Bozen-Bolzano in Italy, the Technische Universit?t Dresden in Germany, the Universidade Nova de Lisboa in Portugal and the Technische Universit?t Wien in Austria. Within this program you have the choice to study at two /three of the four European universities. In addition, you can do your project work at the National ICT of Australia (NICTA). You will graduate with a MSc in Computer Science and obtain a joint degree. Information on the universities and the program including the application procedure is provided here: http://www.emcl-study.eu/home.html Language of instruction is English. Tuition fees are 3.000 EUR (for non-European students) and 1.000 (for European students) per year. We would like to draw your attention to the ERASMUS-MUNDUS scholarship program. The ERASMUS-MUNDUS consortium offers 2-year scholarships up to 48.000 EUR for non-EU students and up to 23.000 EUR for EU students of our European Master's Program in Computational Logic. More information on the scholarship program is available from: http://www.emcl-study.eu/fileadmin/emcl_booklet_tree/ma_em_grant.html Do not hesitate to contact us if you have any further questions. Kind regards -- Steffen H?lldobler Prof. Dr. Steffen Hoelldobler International Center for Computational Logic Technische Universit?t Dresden 01062 Dresden, Germany phone: [+49](351)46 33 83 40 fax: [+49](351)46 33 83 42 email: sh at iccl.tu-dresden.de -- Dr.rer.nat.habil. Bertram Fronh?fer TU Dresden Department of Computer Science International Center for Computational Logic 01062 Dresden, Germany Tel.: +49 (0)351 463 39095 From huang at cs.vu.nl Thu Jan 17 13:40:34 2013 From: huang at cs.vu.nl (Zhisheng Huang) Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2013 13:40:34 +0100 Subject: [DL] [Call for Workshop Proposals] 14th International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering (WISE 2013) In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <50F7F142.3030704@cs.vu.nl> *** Call for Workshop Proposals *** *** Deadline: 4th April 2013 *** 14th International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering (WISE 2013) http://www.wise2013.org October 13th-15th, 2013, Nanjing, China You are invited to submit a workshop proposal as part of the WISE 2013 conference. ************************************************************************ *** ABOUT WISE-2013 *** ************************************************************************ The aim of this fourteenth edition of the conference series on Web Information Systems Engineering (WISE) is to provide an international forum for researchers, professionals, and industrial practitioners to share their knowledge in the rapidly growing area of Web technologies, methodologies and applications. Previous WISE conferences were held in Hong Kong, China (2000), Kyoto, Japan (2001), Singapore (2002), Roma, Italy (2003), Brisbane, Australia (2004), New York, USA (2005), Wuhan, China (2006), Nancy, France (2007), Auckland, New Zealand (2008), Poznan, Poland (2009), Hong Kong, China (2010), and Sydney, Australia (2011), and Paphos, Cyprus (2012). ************************************************************************ *** TOPICS OF INTERESTS *** ************************************************************************ Topics of interests include but are not limited to: * Big Data * Cloud Computing * Discovering Social Web structures and models * Deep/Hidden Web; * Event Processing and Event-driven Systems; * Evolution and temporal analysis of the Social Web; * Integration of the Web and Internet-connected Objects / IoT; * Linked Open Data; * Peer-Computing; * Rich Web UI; * Search, Text and media extraction, clustering and classification of the Social Web * Semantic Web; * Social Networking * Web Agents and Web Intelligence; * Web-based Applications (e.g., Auction and Negotiation, e-Commerce, e-Government, e-Learning, etc.); * Web-based Business Processes and Web Services; * Web-based Enterprise Systems and Transactions; * Web Data Integration; * Web Data Mashup; * Web Data Models; * Web Information Retrieval; * Web Metrics and Performance; * Web Mining and Web Warehousing; * Web Monitoring and Management; * Web Security and Trust Management; * Web Tools and Languages; * Web Visualisation; and * XML and Semi-structured Data. ************************************************************************ *** IMPORTANT DATES *** ************************************************************************ 4th April, 2013, Workshop Proposal submission 25th April, 2013, Workshop Notification of Acceptance 13th October, 2013, Workshop ************************************************************************ *** SUBMISSION INSTRUCTION *** ************************************************************************ Proposals should include the following information: * the workshop (co-)chair(s) with a brief bio as well as key workshop officers * the goals and content of the workshop and the list of topics for which contributions are sought * proposed length of the workshop, its structure, and anticipated number of attendees WISE2013 will provide administrative support in the areas of registration, hotel meeting rooms, and publication of the workshop proceedings (in Springer). Workshop proposals should be e-mailed in a PDF to Zhisheng Huang (email: huang at cs.vu.nl ) and Chengfei Liu(email: cliu at swin.edu.au ) before 4th April, 2013. WISE2013 Workshop Co-chairs: Zhisheng Huang, Vrije University Amsterdam, the Netherlands Chengfei Liu, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From brucker at spamfence.net Fri Jan 18 06:51:40 2013 From: brucker at spamfence.net (Achim D. Brucker) Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2013 06:51:40 +0100 Subject: [DL] TAP 2013: Final Call for Papers Message-ID: <20130118055140.GA32421@shinanogawa.brucker.ch> (Apologies if you receive this announcement multiple times.) !LNCS publication is confirmed! **************************************************** *** *** *** TAP 2013 *** *** *** *** Abstract submission: January 25, 2013 *** *** Paper submission: February 1, 2013 *** **************************************************** *** TAP 2013 solicits both full papers and *** *** (industrial) experience/tool papers *** *** in combining proofs and (security) testing *** **************************************************** CALL FOR PAPERS 7th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON TESTS AND PROOFS (TAP 2013) http://www.spacios.eu/TAP2013 Budapest, Hungary, June 18-19, 2013 The TAP conference is devoted to the synergy of proofs and tests, to the application of techniques from both sides and their combination for the advancement of software quality. Testing and proving seem to be contradictory techniques: once you have proved your program to be correct then additional testing seems pointless; on the other hand, when such a proof in not feasible, then testing the program seems to be the only option. This view has dominated the research community since the dawn of computer science, and has resulted in distinct communities pursuing the seemingly orthogonal research areas. However, the development of both approaches has lead to the discovery of common issues and to the realization of potential synergy. Perhaps, use of model checking in testing was one of the first signs that a counterexample to a proof may be interpreted as a test case. Recent breakthroughs in deductive techniques such as satisfiability modulo theories, abstract interpretation, and interactive theorem proving, have paved the way for new and practically effective methods of powering testing techniques. Moreover, since formal, proof-based verification is costly, testing invariants and background theories can be helpful to detect errors early and to improve cost effectiveness. Summing up, in the past few years an increasing number of research efforts have encountered the need for combining proofs and tests, dropping earlier dogmatic views of incompatibility and taking instead the best of what each of these software engineering domains has to offer. The TAP conference aims to bring together researchers and practitioners working in the converging fields of testing and proving, and will offer a generous allocation of papers, panels and informal discussions. Topics of interest cover theory definitions, tool constructions and experimentations, and include (other topics related to TAP are welcome): - Bridging the gap between concrete and symbolic techniques, e.g. using proof search in satisfiability modulo theories solvers to enhance various testing techniques - Transfer of concepts from testing to proving (e.g., coverage criteria) and from proving to testing - Program proving with the aid of testing techniques - New problematics in automated reasoning emerging from specificities of test generation - Verification and testing techniques combining proofs and tests - Generation of test data, oracles, or preambles by deductive techniques such as: theorem proving, model checking, symbolic execution, constraint logic programming - Model-based testing and verification - Generation of specifications by deduction - Automatic bug finding - Debugging of programs combining static and dynamic analysis - Formal frameworks - Tool descriptions and experience reports - Case studies combining tests and proofs - Domain specific applications of testing and proving to new application domains such as validating security protocols, vulnerability detection of programs, security Important Dates: ================ Abstract submission: January 25, 2013 Paper submission: February 1, 2013 Notification: March 3, 2013 Camera ready version: April 5, 2013 TAP conference: June 17-21, 2013 Program Chairs: =============== Margus Veanes (Microsoft Research, USA) Luca Vigano` (University of Verona, Italy) Program Committee: ================== Paul Ammann Dirk Beyer Achim D. Brucker Robert Claris? Marco Comini Catherine Dubois Juhan Ernits Gordon Fraser Angelo Gargantini Christoph Gladisch Martin Gogolla Arnaud Gotlieb Wolfgang Grieskamp Reiner H?hnle Bart Jacobs Thi?rry Jeron Jacques Julliand Gregory Kapfhammer Nikolai Kosmatov Victor Kuliamin Michael Leuschel Karl Meinke Alexandre Petrenko Holger Schlingloff T.H. Tse Margus Veanes (co-chair) Luca Vigan? (co-chair) Burkhart Wolff Fatiha Zaidi Submission: =========== Please submit your papers via easychair https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=tap2013 TAP 2013 will accept two types of papers: - Research papers: full papers with at most 16 pages in LNCS format (pdf), which have to be original, unpublished and not submitted elsewhere. - Short contributions: work in progress, (industrial) experience reports or tool demonstrations, position statements; an extended abstract with at most 6 pages in LNCS format (pdf) is expected. Accepted papers will be published in the Springer LNCS series and will be available at the conference. The contents of previous TAP proceedings is available at: http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/conf/tap/ -- Dr. Achim D. Brucker, SAP AG, Vincenz-Priessnitz-Str. 1, D-76131 Karlsruhe Phone: +49 6227 7-52595, http://www.brucker.ch/ From cossentino at pa.icar.cnr.it Mon Jan 21 14:32:12 2013 From: cossentino at pa.icar.cnr.it (Massimo Cossentino) Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2013 14:32:12 +0100 Subject: [DL] 1st International Workshop on Engineering Multi-Agent Systems (EMAS) - Last Call for Papers Message-ID: ************************************************************************ Call for Papers EMAS 2013 1st International Workshop on Engineering Multi-Agent Systems (EMAS) Held with AAMAS 2013, Saint Paul, Minnesota (USA), 6th-7th May 2013 http://emas2013.otago.ac.nz ************************************************************************ EMAS is the result of the merging of three "parent" workshops: AOSE, DALT and ProMAS. It looks at their communities as its natural reference audience. MOTIVATION Although much progress has been made, the design, implementation and deployment of multi-agent systems still poses many challenges. Some of these concern design and software engineering aspects, for example, how to effectively design agents and their interactions? Other challenges concern implementation, for instance, how to effectively implement multi-agent coordination or organisations? Further challenges concern use of logic-based techniques for verification of agent systems. It is increasingly apparent that there are benefits in considering design and implementation challenges together. For example, design artefacts can be used to support and assist with debugging and testing. Another example is the development of agent-oriented programming languages that result in programs that are more readily verifiable. A final example is the use of declarative techniques that span design and implementation. This unveils a tight interlacement among the different research issues in multi-agent systems engineering. This naturally results in a workshop that brings together the currently separate topics (but overlapping communities) that focus on software engineering aspects (AOSE), programming aspects (ProMAS), and the application of declarative techniques to design, programming and verification (DALT). Furthermore, EMAS is an ideal place for papers on innovative applications of agents. In particular, there is a great interest from the EMAS community in having people who have developed applications articulate the lessons learned and engineering challenges identified in building and deploying their applications. GOALS AND TOPICS The EMAS workshop explicitly pursues three goals: A. To progress and further develop the understanding of how to engineer multi-agent systems. B. To bring together the communities that are concerned with different aspects of engineering multi-agent systems, and by doing so, allow for better interchange of ideas between the communities, thus exploiting synergies discussed above. C. To attract workshop papers that describe innovative applications We thus call for research papers that are concerned with any aspect of the engineering of multi-agent systems. Specifically including any topics that would fall within the scope of one or more of the three parent workshops: a) Agent-Oriented Software Engineering, b) Declarative Agent Languages and Technologies, c) Programming Multi-Agent Systems. We also seek application papers that describe developed applications. Such papers should not just describe an application, but also the lessons learned and the engineering challenges identified in building and deploying the applications. AUTHOR GUIDELINES EMAS welcomes the submission of theoretical, experimental, methodological as well as application papers with a clear research focus on the topics outlined above. Each paper will be evaluated by three members of the PC. SUBMISSIONS Paper length should be at most 16 pages, including the text, figures, and references. The submissions must be formatted according to the Springer Verlag LNCS style. PDF format is required. Papers can be submitted via EasyChair 'EMAS2013', https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=emas2013 PROCEEDINGS Pre-proceedings containing all accepted papers are provided electronically on a USB stick as part of the AAMAS workshop registration package. The plan is to publish revised versions of accepted papers in a Lecture Notes in Computer Science volume. For this purpose, authors will be given the opportunity to revise and re-submit their contributions after the conference. IMPORTANT DATES Paper submission deadline: 30th January 2013 Paper notifications: 28th February 2013 Camera ready paper (pre-proceedings): 11th March 2013 Workshop: 6th-7th May 2013 COMMITTEES Organizing Committee Massimo Cossentino (National Research Council, Italy) Amal El Fallah Seghrouchni (University of Pierre and Marie Curie - Paris 6, France) Michael Winikoff (University of Otago, New Zealand) Steering Committee Matteo Baldoni (DALT; Italy) Rafael Bordini (ProMAS; Brazil) Mehdi Dastani (ProMAS; Netherlands) J?rgen Dix (ProMAS; Germany) Amal El Fallah Seghrouchni* (ProMAS; France) Paolo Giorgini (AOSE; Italy) J?rg M?ller (AOSE; Germany) M. Birna Van Riemsdijk (DALT; Netherlands) Tran Cao Son (DALT; USA) Gerhard Weiss (AOSE; Netherlands) Danny Weyns (AOSE; Sweden) Michael Winikoff* (DALT & AOSE; New Zealand). Preliminary Program Committee Natasha Alechina (Nottingham, UK) Matteo Baldoni (Torino, Italy) Cristina Baroglio (Torino, Italy) Jeremy Baxter (QinetiQ, UK) Olivier Boissier (Saint-Etienne, France) Rafael Bordini (FACIN-PUCRS, Brazil) Lars Braubach (Hamburg, Germany) Rem Collier (Dublin, Ireland) Mehdi Dastani (Utrecht, Netherlands) Scott DeLoach (Kansas state, USA) Louise Dennis (Liverpool, UK) Virginia Dignum (Delft, Netherlands) J?rgen Dix (Clausthal, Germany) Giancarlo Fortino (Uni. Calabria, Italy) Aditya Ghose (Wollongong, Australia) Paolo Giorgini (Trento, Italy) Adriana Giret (Valencia, Spain) Marie-Pierre Gleizes (IRIT, Uni. Paul Sabatier, France) Jorge J. Gomez-Sanz (Madrid, Spain) Christian Guttmann (IBM, Australia) James Harland (RMIT, Australia) Vincent Hilaire (Belford-Montbelliard, France) Koen Hindriks (Delft, Netherlands) Benjamin Hirsch (Berlin, Germany) Tom Holvoet (KU Leuven, Belgium) Jomi H?bner (Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil) Michael Huhns (South Carolina, USA) Joao Leite (Lisboa, Portugal) Yves Lesperance (York, Canada) Brian Logan (University of Nottingham, UK) Viviana Mascardi (Genova, Italy) Philippe Mathieu (Lille 1, France) Felipe Meneguzzi (CMU, USA) John-Jules Meyer (Utrecht, Netherlands) Fr?d?ric Migeon (IRIT, Uni. Paul Sabatier, France) Ambra Molesini (Bologna, Italy) Pavlos Moraitis (Paris Descartes, France) Haralambos Mouratidis (East London, UK) J?rg M?ller (Clausthal, Germany) Peter Novak (Czech TU, Czech Republic) Andrea Omicini (Bologna, Italy) Julian Padget (Uni. Bath, UK) Lin Padgham (RMIT, Australia) Fabio Patrizi (Imperial college, UK) Juan Pavon (Madrid, Spain) Michal Pechoucek (Czech TU, Czech Republic) Alexander Pokahr (Hamburg, Germany) Enrico Pontelli (New Mexico state, USA) Alessandro Ricci (Bologna, Italy) Ralph R?nnquist (Intendico, Australia) Chiaki Sakama (Wakayama Uni., Japan) Valeria Seidita (Palermo, Italy) Onn Shehory (IBM Haifa , Israel) Guillermo Ricardo Simari (Uni Nacional del Sur, Argentina) Tran Cao Son (New Mexico state, USA) Nikolaos Spanoudakis (Tech. Uni. Crete, Greece) Pankaj Telang (CISCO, USA) Paolo Torroni (Bologna, Italy) M. Birna van Riemsdijk (Delft, Netherlands) Wamberto Vasconcelos (Aberdeen, UK) J?rgen Villadsen (DTU Informatics, Denmark) Gerhard Weiss (Maastricht, Netherlands) Danny Weyns (Linnaeus, Sweden) Wayne Wobcke (UNSW, Australia) Pinar Yolum (Bogazici, Turkey) Neil Yorke-Smith (American Uni Beirut / SRI, Lebanon / USA) ************************************************************************ From d.brown at i-society.eu Thu Jan 17 01:50:10 2013 From: d.brown at i-society.eu (David Brown) Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2013 00:50:10 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [DL] Call for Papers: International Conference on Information Society (i-Society 2013)! Message-ID: <154222354.1338783.1358383810920.JavaMail.open-xchange@email.1and1.co.uk> Apologies for cross-postings. Please send it to interested colleagues and students. Thanks! CALL FOR PAPERS ********************************************************************************** International Conference on Information Society (i-Society 2013), 24-26 June, 2013 University of Toronto, Hart House, Toronto, Canada www.i-society.eu ********************************************************************************* The i-Society is a global knowledge-enriched collaborative effort that has its roots from both academia and industry. The conference covers a wide spectrum of topics that relate to information society, which includes technical and non-technical research areas. The mission of i-Society 2013 conference is to provide opportunities for collaboration of professionals and researchers to share existing and generate new knowledge in the field of information society. The conference encapsulates the concept of interdisciplinary science that studies the societal and technological dimensions of knowledge evolution in digital society. The i-Society bridges the gap between academia and industry with regards to research collaboration and awareness of current development in secure information management in the digital society. The topics in i-Society 2013 include but are not confined to the following areas: *New enabling technologies - Internet technologies - Wireless applications - Mobile Applications - Multimedia Applications - Protocols and Standards - Ubiquitous Computing - Virtual Reality - Human Computer Interaction - Geographic information systems - e-Manufacturing *Intelligent data management - Intelligent Agents - Intelligent Systems - Intelligent Organisations - Content Development - Data Mining - e-Publishing and Digital Libraries - Information Search and Retrieval - Knowledge Management - e-Intelligence - Knowledge networks *Secure Technologies - Internet security - Web services and performance - Secure transactions - Cryptography - Payment systems - Secure Protocols - e-Privacy - e-Trust - e-Risk - Cyber law - Forensics - Information assurance - Mobile social networks - Peer-to-peer social networks - Sensor networks and social sensing *e-Learning - Collaborative Learning - Curriculum Content Design and Development - Delivery Systems and Environments - Educational Systems Design - e-Learning Organisational Issues - Evaluation and Assessment - Virtual Learning Environments and Issues - Web-based Learning Communities - e-Learning Tools - e-Education *e-Society - Global Trends - Social Inclusion - Intellectual Property Rights - Social Infonomics - Computer-Mediated Communication - Social and Organisational Aspects - Globalisation and developmental IT - Social Software *e-Health - Data Security Issues - e-Health Policy and Practice - e-Healthcare Strategies and Provision - Medical Research Ethics - Patient Privacy and Confidentiality - e-Medicine *e-Governance - Democracy and the Citizen - e-Administration - Policy Issues - Virtual Communities *e-Business - Digital Economies - Knowledge economy - eProcurement - National and International Economies - e-Business Ontologies and Models - Digital Goods and Services - e-Commerce Application Fields - e-Commerce Economics - e-Commerce Services - Electronic Service Delivery - e-Marketing - Online Auctions and Technologies - Virtual Organisations - Teleworking - Applied e-Business - Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) *e-Art - Legal Issues - Patents - Enabling technologies and tools *e-Science - Natural sciences in digital society - Biometrics - Bioinformatics - Collaborative research *Industrial developments - Trends in learning - Applied research - Cutting-edge technologies * Research in progress - Ongoing research from undergraduates, graduates/postgraduates and professionals Important Dates: Paper Submission Date: February 20, 2013 Short Paper (Extended Abstract or Work in Progress): February 01, 2013 Notification of Paper Acceptance /Rejection: March 15, 2013 Notification of Short Paper (Extended Abstract/Work in Progress) Acceptance /Rejection: February 20, 2013 Camera Ready Paper and Short Paper Due: March 31, 2013 Workshop/Tutorial Proposal Submission: February 15, 2013 Notification of Workshop/Tutorial Acceptance: March 01, 2013 Special Track Proposal Submission: February 05, 2013 Notification of Special Track Acceptance/Rejection: February 25, 2013 Poster/Demo Proposal Submission: March 31, 2013 Notification of Poster/Demo Acceptance: April 10, 2013 Participant(s) Registration (Open): January 01, 2013 to June 15, 2013 Early Bird Attendee Registration Deadline: January 01, 2013 to March 31, 2013 Late Bird Attendee Registration Deadline: April 01, 2013 to June 15, 2013 Conference Dates: June 24-26, 2013 For more details, please visit www.i-society.eu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Semantics for Biodiversity (S4BIODIV) http://semantic-biodiversity.mpl.ird.fr/ --------------------------------------------------------- Held in parallel with the 10th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2013) http://2013.eswc-conferences.org/ Montpellier, France, May 26/27, 2013 WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION -------------------------------------------------------- The semantic Web standards, tools, ontologies and related technologies have considerably grown in maturity in the recent years. Nowadays, accessing a wide catalog of biological, social, environmental, ecological data sources allows supporting the Biodiversity stakeholders to resolve their complex questions.? Will the real time access to web resources efficiently support the definition of strategies to conserve and manage biodiversity? How semantic web technologies could help handling the complex and heterogeneous big data related to Biodiversity? The workshop aims at indentifying the key challenges faced by the bioinformatics community, discuss the solutions and identify the opportunities emerging from the trans-disciplinary interactions (Plant Science ? Informatics). Therefore, we expect the bioinformatics experts to explain how they apply semantic web standards and tools to their scientific topic, from Biology, Agro-ecology, Genomics, Environment, to Social Sciences, Citizen Sciences. Research papers presenting various aspects of Semantic Web technologies applied to Biodiversity data, ranging from position papers to implemented systems description and their evaluation, will be selected. We are particularly interested by the use of the semantic technologies to design, develop systems that supports research on Biodiversity conservation and management for food security, (like the strategies for resilience to climate change pressure, sustainability of productive ecosystems, ecosystems services monitoring, territories management, etc.), rather than systems only supporting research on climate patterns, soil erosion, and the potential consequences on biodiversity. TOPICS ---------- ---------- Scientific themes of interest (include but are not limited to): * sustainable agriculture, * plant, * health and habitat, * relationship between plant-pests/pathogens, * usages of plants by community, * biodiversity conservation, * ecosystems services, * quality of biodiversity data. Informatics technologies of interest (include but are not limited to): * ontology applications, * knowledge engineering, * linked biodiversity data, * remote sensors, * mobile devices, * vizualization tools, * data mining. ABSTRACT & PAPER SUBMISSION DETAILS: ---------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------- Authors are invited to submit electronically original contributions in English. Authors must send a pre-submission abstract not exceeding 500 words at s4biodiv2013 at ird.fr . Authors will receive a mail indicating of their abstract has been selected by the Scientific Committee for a full paper submission. Submitted papers should not exceed 15 pages for long papers and 8 pages for short papers and must be formatted according to the LNCS guidelines. Submissions will only be accepted in the PDF format. Submissions must be realized through the easychair system at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=s4biodiv2013 IMPORTANT DATES: -------------------------- -------------------------- Pre-submission inquiry deadline: February 24, 2013 Submission Deadline:???????????? March 4, 2013. Notification:? ??????????????????April 1, 2013 Camera ready:??????????????????? April 15, 2013. Workshop day:??????????????????? May 26/27, 2013. PUBLICATION: ------------------- ------------------- Proceedings of the workshop will be published online at CEUR Workshop Proceedings (CEUR-WS.org). The 3 best papers presented at the workshop will be included in the supplementary Springer LNCS proceedings of the ESWC2013 conference. Furthermore all papers presented at the workshop will be invited to be revised and extended for a second peer-review process targeting publication in a reference journal. INFORMATION: ------------------- ------------------- The workshop will take place in Montpellier, May 26/27, 2013. Please visit the website for more information: http://semantic-biodiversity.mpl.ird.fr/ STEERING COMMITEE: ------------------------------ ------------------------------ Pierre Larmande (IRD - UMR DIADE, France), chair Isabelle Mougenot (UMII ? UMR Espace DEV, France) Th?r?se Libourel (UMII ? UMR Espace DEV, France) Cl?ment Jonquet (UMII ? LIRMM, France) SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE: --------------------------------- --------------------------------- Elizabeth Arnaud (Bioversity International, France), chair Manuel Ruiz (CIRAD - UMR AGAP, France) Pierre Bonnet (CIRAD - UMR AMAP, France) Richard Bruskiewich (Bioversity International, Italy) Pascal Neveu (INRA - UMR MISTEA, France) Joel Sachs (University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA) Julie Chabalier (Natural Solutions, France) Cyril Pommier (INRA - URgi ? Ephesis, France) Mark Wilkinson (Polytechnic University of Madrid, and University of British Columbia) Konstantin Todorov (UMII - UMR LIRMM, France) Pankaj Jaiswal (Oregon State University, USA) Xavier Sirault (CSIRO, Autralia) Caterina Caracciolo (FAO , Italy) Lieke Verhelst (Wageningen University, The Netherlands) Damian Gessler (Iplant collaborative, USA) Nikos Manouselis (Agro-Know, University of Alcala, Grece) ?amonn ? Tuama (GBIF, University of Copenhagen , Denmark) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------- Dr. Clement JONQUET? -? PhD in Informatics? -? Assistant Professor PI of the SIFR project: Semantic Indexing of French Biomedical Data Resources (ANR, UM2, CNRS) jonquet at lirmm.fr http://www.lirmm.fr/~jonquet ??????????????? University of Montpellier????????????????????????? Tel: ?????????????????????? +33/4 67 14 97 43 ??????????????? 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Google: ????????????? jonquet.lirmm at gmail.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------- From sreckojoksimovic at ymail.com Wed Jan 23 09:50:45 2013 From: sreckojoksimovic at ymail.com (Srecko Joksimovic) Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2013 00:50:45 -0800 (PST) Subject: [DL] Call for Papers - VORTE 2013 In-Reply-To: <1358931000.44509.YahooMailNeo@web163802.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> References: <1358928518.10171.YahooMailNeo@web163802.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> <1358930540.85886.YahooMailNeo@web163806.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> <1358930750.47167.YahooMailNeo@web163801.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> <1358930893.38612.YahooMailNeo@web163804.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> <1358931000.44509.YahooMailNeo@web163802.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <1358931045.44909.YahooMailNeo@web163802.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> CALL FOR PAPERS? The 8th International Workshop on Vocabularies, Ontologies and Rules for the Enterprise and Beyond (VORTE 2013)? Co-located with the 17th IEEE International EDOC Conference? Vancouver, BC, 9th-13th September, 2013 WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION? The VORTE series of workshops is traditionally devoted to the topics of vocabularies, ontologies and rules in the context of enterprise systems. This year, the workshop takes a broader view and does not target only enterprise systems, but also systems managing data on the Web. In fact, there is a need to exploit unstructured data in the enterprise, and on the Web in general, as the majority of Web content and enterprise content remains unstructured. Thus, the challenge of managing, extracting and structuring data is common to both worlds, and solutions in one community will benefit the other.? Examples of topics covered by traditional VORTE research contributions include the development and adaptation of foundational, business and domain ontologies for the enterprise, the use of ontologies and rules in all aspects of enterprise modeling such as business process management and services, the enhancement of rules and services with formal semantics, and the evaluation of such systems and approaches.? This year, the workshop is also a forum for the discussion of ontology-based knowledge management issues, interoperability issues and ontology engineering issues. The workshop also welcomes contributions on initiatives related to semantic annotation, open linked data, information extraction, ontology learning and update and ontology-based knowledge management as well as empirical studies on these areas. TOPICS? Knowledge management:? - Ontology and ontological methodologies in knowledge management and integration;? - Ontology engineering, learning and maintenance;? - Ontology integration and alignment; - Ontology effectiveness and evaluation;? Web of Data: - Ontology-based Semantic annotation - Linked data-based semantic annotation - Knowledge extraction including entity extraction and relationship extraction - Knowledge retrieval based on Open linked data Vocabularies and Ontologies for the enterprise:? - Ontology-driven representation of products, services, functionalities, design, processes; - Ontologies for the know-how;? - Ontologies for corporate knowledge;? - Upper-level ontologies in the enterprise; - Adaptation of ontologies for companies and organizations;? Conceptual and Enterprise Modeling: - Ontological Foundations for Conceptual Modeling and Meta-modeling? - Ontology Design and maintenance for Conceptual Model Integration; ? - Ontology-Based Conceptual Modeling Tools and Environments? - Ontologies and Enterprise Architecture Modeling - Ontologies and Business Process Modeling - Ontologies and Goal-Based Modeling? - Ontologies and Business Rules? Enterprise Semantic Interoperability: - Web services, Semantic services ? - Composition and Modularity - Merging, Mapping and Alignment? - Ontology Language Interoperability - Open linked data publishing and exploitation Case studies and Evaluation: - Practical issues in using ontologies in enterprises? - Real cases of successful/unsuccessful use of ontology in business? - From legacy systems to the new ontology-driven systems? - Practical issues in knowledge extraction and annotation - Semantic annotation evaluation - Ontology learning evaluation SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION? We solicit two types of papers:? - Short papers (4 pages) discussing controversial issues in the field or describing interesting or thought-provoking ideas that are not yet fully developed; and? - Full papers (8-10 pages) describing more mature results? All submissions MUST conform to the two-column format of IEEE Computer Society conference proceedings (http://www2.computer.org/portal/web/cscps/formatting) and include the author's name, affiliation, and contact details.? Papers must be submitted as PDF files using EasyChair at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=vorte2013? All papers must not have been previously published or submitted elsewhere.? The papers accepted for the EDOC 2013 Workshops will be published along with EDOC proceedings in the IEEE Xplore Digital Library. At least one of the authors for each accepted paper must register for the main conference (there will be no workshop-only registration at EDOC 2013) and present their papers at the workshop. ?? Post-conference Journal Publication? For previous editions of the workshop, special issues have been published in journals such as Applied Ontology (2007), IJBPIM (2007), Elsevier's Information Systems (2008, 2010), and Journal of Research Practice in Information Technology (2009).? This year, authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended versions of their papers for consideration for a special issue of a reputable journal. The journal is to be determined.? KEYNOTE? TBA? IMPORTANT DATES? Workshop paper submissions: April 15, 2013 Workshops paper acceptance notifications: May 31, 2013 Camera-ready papers due: June 21, 2013 Workshop: September 9, 10 or 11, 2013? COMMITTEES? Workshop Chairs:? Amal Zouaq, Royal Military College of Canada, Canada, amal.zouaq at rmc.ca Ebrahim Bagheri, Ryerson University, Canada, bagheri at ryerson.ca Renata Guizzardi, Federal University of Esp?rito Santo, Brazil, rguizzardi at inf.ufes.br Steering Committee:? - Giancarlo Guizzardi, Federal University of Esp?rito Santo (UFES), Vit?ria, Brazil? - Gerd Wagner, Institute of Informatics, Brandenburg University of Technology at Cottbus, Germany? - Dragan Gasevic, Athabasca University, Canada? Program Committee 2012 (Tentative 2013):? - Uwe Assmann, TU Dresden, Germany - Colin Atkinson, University of Mannheim, Germany? -?Ebrahim Bagheri, Ryerson University, Canada -?Marco Brambilla, Politecnico di Milano, Italy? -?Emanuele Bottazzi, Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies, CNR, Trento, Italy -?Christoph Bussler, Merced Systems, Inc., USA? -?Robert Colomb, The University of Queensland, Australia? -?Oscar Corcho, Universidad Polit?cnica de Madrid, Spain? -?Luiz Olavo Bonino da Silva, BiZZDesign, The Netherlands -?Jens Dietrich, Massey University, New Zealand? -?Faezeh Ensan, Athabasca University, Canada -?Sergio Espa?a, Polytechnic University of Valencia? -?Joerg Evermann, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada? -?Ricardo Falbo, Federal University of Espirito Santo, Brazil? -?Lu?s Ferreira Pires, University of Twente, The Netherlands? -?Adrian Giurca, Brandenburg University of Technology at Cottbus, Germany? -?Guido Governatori, NICTA, Australia? -?Pierre Grenon, European Bioinformatics Institute, Cambridge, UK -?Giancarlo Guizzardi, Federal University of Espirito Santo, Brazil -?Brian Henderson Sellers, University of Technology Sydney, Australia -?Heinrich Herre, University of Leipzig, Germany? -?Florian Matthes, University of Munich, Germany -?Alex Norta, University of Helsinki, Finland -?Andreas Opdahl, University of Bergen, Norway? -?Jeffrey Parsons, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada -?Adrian Paschke, Free University Berlin, Germany -?Florian Probst, SAP Research Darmstadt, Germany -?Christophe Roche, University of Savoie, France? -?Michael Rosemann, Queensland University of Technology, Australia? -?Csaba Veres, University of Bergen, Norway? -?Gerd Wagner, Brandenburg University of Technology at Cottbus, Germany -?Kewen Wang, Griffith University, Australia? -?Ron Weber, Monash University, Australia -?Hans Weigand, Faculty of Economics of Tilburg University, Netherlands -?Michel Gagnon, Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal, Canada LINKS? VORTE2013 web site: http://planet-sl.org/vorte2013/ EDOC2013 web site: http://edocconference.org ? EasyChair submissions: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=vorte2013 ? Formatting guidelines: http://www2.computer.org/portal/web/cscps/formatting -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ghidini at fbk.eu Fri Jan 25 15:01:45 2013 From: ghidini at fbk.eu (Chiara Ghidini) Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2013 14:01:45 +0000 Subject: [DL] Post-doc position in the "Shape and Evolve Living Knowledge (SHELL)" project at Trento RISE and FBK, Trento, Italy. Message-ID: <0D95A2FF-D196-4B9F-8260-5A43118E3CB7@fbk.eu> (apologies for cross-postings) POSITION ANNOUNCEMENT 3 years post-doc position in the ?New Talent Program? - ?Shape and Evolve Living Knowledge (SHELL)? project at Trento RISE and FBK, Trento, Italy. Application deadline: 21.02.2013 (by 12.00 p.m.) Official announcement: www.trentorise.eu/jobs/22-1-13/post-doc-position-new-talent-program-shape-and-evolve-living-knowledge-shell-project For more information about the position, please send inquiries to ghidini at fbk.eu The 'New Talent Program" of the Trento RISE Association is seeking candidates for a post-doc position to work in the newly started ?Shape and Evolve Living Knowledge (SHELL)? project at the Bruno Kessler Foundation, Center for Information Technology (FBK-ICT). The 'New Talent Program" is aimed at attracting new talents in the ICT and innovation field. The constant need for ICT experts in Europe gives good cause for investing more and more on pan-European information and communication technology. At the same time, the demand for ICT specialists is growing. Therefore Trento Rise and FBK-ICT intend to boost new young ICT talents engaged in projects addressing new scientific challenges, with clear experimental and practical demonstrations of the added value of the research. WORKPLACE The successful applicant will jointly work in Trento RISE and FBK-ICT. The aim of the Trento RISE Association (www.trentorise.eu) is to create an increasingly integrated system of research, innovation and higher education based on the principles of excellence and quality in the information and communication technology (ICT) sector in the Trento region. In particular, the Association aims at concurring in the success of the international non-profit organization EIT ICT Labs, of which it is a member, in order to make it become the new European system for research, innovation and higher education in ICT. It also intends to promote integration among the various players operating in the field of research in ICT in Trentino (Sistema Ricerca Trentino), especially universities and research centers; FBK-ICT (www.fbk.eu) conducts research in information technology and is launching new interdisciplinary research projects with the aim of addressing important research challenges by joining the different scientific competences that are at the base of its internationally well-known scientific excellence. Among these projects, the Shape and Evolve Living Knowledge (SHELL) project aims at joining different scientific competences in order to build an environment able to maintain a living inventory of knowledge of an organization. The environment must be able to shape the conceptual models of an organization from textual content and data, and support their co-evolution and adaptation w.r.t., content and data. Additional information about the SHELL project is available at http://shell.fbk.eu. POSITIONS: Within the scope of shaping conceptual models from textual data, the SHELL project is looking for a candidate to carry out research activities in the field of Natural Language Processing and Knowledge Engineering, and in particular on the usage and definition of information extraction algorithms, methodologies and tools for the semi-automatic construction of ontologies and workflow models. The activities will focus on the use of Natural language techniques to extract dynamic entities from text (e.g., activities) and their relations (e.g., causal or temporal relations), and on the development of NLP methodologies, techniques and tools for the construction of conceptual models in the form of ontologies and processes. The candidates are expected to work in collaboration with other researchers, programmers, and students involved in the project in an interdisciplinary team, and to collaborate with the research units involved in the project, in particular the Data and Knowledge Management (http://dkm.fbk.eu) and the Human Language Technology (http://hlt.fbk.eu) research units at FBK-ICT. JOB REQUIREMENTS: ? Ph.D. degree in computer science, mathematics or electronic engineering; ? Theoretical background in Natural Language Processing, particularly in information extraction; ? Experience with machine learning, knowledge representation and knowledge engineering; ? Skills in experimental work and software development; ? Ability to carry out an independent program of research; ? Ability to work in a collaborative environment and deliver in research projects; ? Oral and written proficiency in English. OPTIONAL REQUIREMENTS: ? Ph.D. related to the topic of the call; ? Experience with practical applications; ? Soft skill (e.g., communication, teambuilding, problem solving, etc.) EMPLOYMENT: Type of contract: Research position - Full time Number of positions: 1 Gross salary: from 35.000 to 38.000,00 Euro per year (depending on the candidate?s experience) The salary is paid in monthly deferred installments. Start date: from April 2013 Duration: up to 3 years Workplace: via Sommarive 18 - Povo, Trento (Italy) APPLICATION: To apply online, please send your detailed CV (pdf. format) including a statement of interest and the contacts of three reference persons. Please include in your CV your authorization for the handling of your personal information as per the Italian Personal data Protection Code, Legislative Decree 196/2003 and send a copy of your ID card. To the application, the applicant must also attach his/her Ph.D. Certificate and a list of any publications, certificates or other qualifications (if any) considered relevant for assessing the candidate?s abilities in relation to this Call. Please note that in the application the candidate must declare clearly, precisely and under his/her own responsibility, the following: ? Personal information: date and place of birth, nationality, residence and contact address during the selection procedure (i.e., specifying postal code, Italian Tax Identification Number and/or National Insurance Number and, if possible, telephone number); ? Citizenship: applicants who are citizens of a Country that is not a European Union Member State must have already possess or at least requested a Work Residence Permit. This requirement is not mandatory for the current application, but if the Residence Permit or related requests are not presented when the contract will be stipulated all the related rights will be forfeited; ? Post-graduate Degree: MSc, Laurea Quadriennale, Laurea Specialistica, or Laurea Magistrale; ? Doctoral Degree. Applications must be sent to ufficiorisorseumane at trentorise.eu. Emails should have the following reference code: NT_SHELL_PostDoc2012 Application deadline: 21.02.2013 (by 12.00 p.m.) Only applications received before the aforementioned deadline will be considered. For further information, please contact the Human Resources Service at the above-mentioned email address Trento RISE and FBK-ICT will not be held responsible for information dispersion due to inaccurate residence details or other personal details given by the candidate, or due to lack of or late communication of any changes to such details, nor will it be held responsible for any postal or telegraphic errors not attributable to the above-mentioned bodies. SELECTION PROCEDURE: The Selection Committee consists of three members of Trento RISE, FBK_ICT, and the University of Trento, chosen among senior researchers. The assessment of the Commission will be based on the value of the candidate?s scientific production (e.g., Doctoral thesis; Publications). Those candidates who will pass the preliminary curricula screening will be contacted shortly for an interview. Candidates invited to interview will be asked to arrange for their referees to provide a reference to us by the interview date. Those applicants, who will not be selected, will be notified of the exclusion at the end of the selection process. Due to Trento RISE and FBK-ICT attempt to promote equal opportunity and gender balance, in case of equal applications, female candidates will be given preference. Please note that Trento RISE and FBK-ICT may contact those candidates admitted to evaluation within a period of 6 months for selection of similar vacancies. The candidates, at their own expense and within six months of the completion of the selection, shall arrange for the collection of their certificates and any publications sent to the Trento Rise and FBK-ICT. Beyond the deadline above mentioned, the Association will not be responsible in any way for the candidate?s aforementioned documents. For transparency purposes, the names of the selected candidates, if they have accepted the position, will be published on the Trento Rise and FBK-ICT websites at the bottom of the selection notice. : The Selection Committee consists of three members of Trento RISE, FBK-ICT, and the University of Trento, chosen among senior researchers. The assessment of the Commission will be based on the value of the candidate?s scientific production (e.g., Doctoral thesis; Publications). Those candidates who will pass the preliminary curricula screening will be contacted shortly for an interview. Candidates invited to interview will be asked to arrange for their referees to provide a reference to us by the interview date. Those applicants, who will not be selected, will be notified of the exclusion at the end of the selection process. Due to Trento RISE and FBK-ICT attempt to promote equal opportunity and gender balance, in case of equal applications, female candidates will be given preference. Please note that Trento RISE and FBK-ICT may contact those candidates admitted to evaluation within a period of 6 months for selection of similar vacancies. The candidates, at their own expense and within six months of the completion of the selection, shall arrange for the collection of their certificates and any publications sent to the Trento Rise and FBK-ICT. Beyond the deadline above mentioned, the Association will not be responsible in any way for the candidate?s aforementioned documents. For transparency purposes, the names of the selected candidates, if they have accepted the position, will be published on the Trento Rise and FBK-ICT websites at the bottom of the selection notice. From cossentino at pa.icar.cnr.it Mon Jan 28 14:34:38 2013 From: cossentino at pa.icar.cnr.it (Massimo Cossentino) Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2013 14:34:38 +0100 Subject: [DL] 1st International Workshop on Engineering Multi-Agent Systems (EMAS) - Deadline Postponed Message-ID: Aplogies for multiple copies ******************** DEADLINE POSTPONED (see below) ******************** ************************************************************************ Call for Papers EMAS 2013 1st International Workshop on Engineering Multi-Agent Systems (EMAS) Held with AAMAS 2013, Saint Paul, Minnesota (USA), 6th-7th May 2013 http://emas2013.otago.ac.nz ************************************************************************ EMAS is the result of the merging of three "parent" workshops: AOSE, DALT and ProMAS. It looks at their communities as its natural reference audience. MOTIVATION Although much progress has been made, the design, implementation and deployment of multi-agent systems still poses many challenges. Some of these concern design and software engineering aspects, for example, how to effectively design agents and their interactions? Other challenges concern implementation, for instance, how to effectively implement multi-agent coordination or organisations? Further challenges concern use of logic-based techniques for verification of agent systems. It is increasingly apparent that there are benefits in considering design and implementation challenges together. For example, design artefacts can be used to support and assist with debugging and testing. Another example is the development of agent-oriented programming languages that result in programs that are more readily verifiable. A final example is the use of declarative techniques that span design and implementation. This unveils a tight interlacement among the different research issues in multi-agent systems engineering. This naturally results in a workshop that brings together the currently separate topics (but overlapping communities) that focus on software engineering aspects (AOSE), programming aspects (ProMAS), and the application of declarative techniques to design, programming and verification (DALT). Furthermore, EMAS is an ideal place for papers on innovative applications of agents. In particular, there is a great interest from the EMAS community in having people who have developed applications articulate the lessons learned and engineering challenges identified in building and deploying their applications. GOALS AND TOPICS The EMAS workshop explicitly pursues three goals: A. To progress and further develop the understanding of how to engineer multi-agent systems. B. To bring together the communities that are concerned with different aspects of engineering multi-agent systems, and by doing so, allow for better interchange of ideas between the communities, thus exploiting synergies discussed above. C. To attract workshop papers that describe innovative applications We thus call for research papers that are concerned with any aspect of the engineering of multi-agent systems. Specifically including any topics that would fall within the scope of one or more of the three parent workshops: a) Agent-Oriented Software Engineering, b) Declarative Agent Languages and Technologies, c) Programming Multi-Agent Systems. We also seek application papers that describe developed applications. Such papers should not just describe an application, but also the lessons learned and the engineering challenges identified in building and deploying the applications. AUTHOR GUIDELINES EMAS welcomes the submission of theoretical, experimental, methodological as well as application papers with a clear research focus on the topics outlined above. Each paper will be evaluated by three members of the PC. SUBMISSIONS Paper length should be at most 16 pages, including the text, figures, and references. The submissions must be formatted according to the Springer Verlag LNCS style. PDF format is required. Papers can be submitted via EasyChair 'EMAS2013', https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=emas2013 PROCEEDINGS Pre-proceedings containing all accepted papers are provided electronically on a USB stick as part of the AAMAS workshop registration package. The plan is to publish revised versions of accepted papers in a Lecture Notes in Computer Science volume. For this purpose, authors will be given the opportunity to revise and re-submit their contributions after the conference. IMPORTANT DATES Abstract Submission (optional but warmly suggested): 30th January 2013 Paper submission deadline: 07th February 2013 (**deadline postponed**) Paper notifications: 28th February 2013 Camera ready paper (pre-proceedings): 11th March 2013 Workshop: 6th-7th May 2013 COMMITTEES Organizing Committee Massimo Cossentino (National Research Council, Italy) Amal El Fallah Seghrouchni (University of Pierre and Marie Curie - Paris 6, France) Michael Winikoff (University of Otago, New Zealand) Steering Committee Matteo Baldoni (DALT; Italy) Rafael Bordini (ProMAS; Brazil) Mehdi Dastani (ProMAS; Netherlands) J?rgen Dix (ProMAS; Germany) Amal El Fallah Seghrouchni* (ProMAS; France) Paolo Giorgini (AOSE; Italy) J?rg M?ller (AOSE; Germany) M. Birna Van Riemsdijk (DALT; Netherlands) Tran Cao Son (DALT; USA) Gerhard Weiss (AOSE; Netherlands) Danny Weyns (AOSE; Sweden) Michael Winikoff* (DALT & AOSE; New Zealand). Program Committee Natasha Alechina (Nottingham, UK) Matteo Baldoni (Torino, Italy) Cristina Baroglio (Torino, Italy) Jeremy Baxter (QinetiQ, UK) Olivier Boissier (Saint-Etienne, France) Rafael Bordini (FACIN-PUCRS, Brazil) Lars Braubach (Hamburg, Germany) Rem Collier (Dublin, Ireland) Mehdi Dastani (Utrecht, Netherlands) Scott DeLoach (Kansas state, USA) Louise Dennis (Liverpool, UK) Virginia Dignum (Delft, Netherlands) J?rgen Dix (Clausthal, Germany) Giancarlo Fortino (Uni. Calabria, Italy) Aditya Ghose (Wollongong, Australia) Paolo Giorgini (Trento, Italy) Adriana Giret (Valencia, Spain) Marie-Pierre Gleizes (IRIT, Uni. Paul Sabatier, France) Jorge J. Gomez-Sanz (Madrid, Spain) Christian Guttmann (IBM, Australia) James Harland (RMIT, Australia) Vincent Hilaire (Belford-Montbelliard, France) Koen Hindriks (Delft, Netherlands) Benjamin Hirsch (Berlin, Germany) Tom Holvoet (KU Leuven, Belgium) Jomi H?bner (Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil) Michael Huhns (South Carolina, USA) Joao Leite (Lisboa, Portugal) Yves Lesperance (York, Canada) Brian Logan (University of Nottingham, UK) Viviana Mascardi (Genova, Italy) Philippe Mathieu (Lille 1, France) Felipe Meneguzzi (CMU, USA) John-Jules Meyer (Utrecht, Netherlands) Fr?d?ric Migeon (IRIT, Uni. Paul Sabatier, France) Ambra Molesini (Bologna, Italy) Pavlos Moraitis (Paris Descartes, France) Haralambos Mouratidis (East London, UK) J?rg M?ller (Clausthal, Germany) Peter Novak (Czech TU, Czech Republic) Andrea Omicini (Bologna, Italy) Julian Padget (Uni. Bath, UK) Lin Padgham (RMIT, Australia) Fabio Patrizi (Imperial college, UK) Juan Pavon (Madrid, Spain) Michal Pechoucek (Czech TU, Czech Republic) Alexander Pokahr (Hamburg, Germany) Enrico Pontelli (New Mexico state, USA) Alessandro Ricci (Bologna, Italy) Ralph R?nnquist (Intendico, Australia) Chiaki Sakama (Wakayama Uni., Japan) Valeria Seidita (Palermo, Italy) Onn Shehory (IBM Haifa , Israel) Guillermo Ricardo Simari (Uni Nacional del Sur, Argentina) Tran Cao Son (New Mexico state, USA) Nikolaos Spanoudakis (Tech. Uni. Crete, Greece) Pankaj Telang (CISCO, USA) Paolo Torroni (Bologna, Italy) M. Birna van Riemsdijk (Delft, Netherlands) Wamberto Vasconcelos (Aberdeen, UK) J?rgen Villadsen (DTU Informatics, Denmark) Gerhard Weiss (Maastricht, Netherlands) Danny Weyns (Linnaeus, Sweden) Wayne Wobcke (UNSW, Australia) Pinar Yolum (Bogazici, Turkey) Neil Yorke-Smith (American Uni Beirut / SRI, Lebanon / USA) ************************************************************************ From geoff at cs.miami.edu Tue Jan 29 16:21:09 2013 From: geoff at cs.miami.edu (Geoff Sutcliffe) Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2013 10:21:09 -0500 (EST) Subject: [DL] CADE-24 Workshop CFPs Message-ID: <20130129152109.6DB541216B2@mcclellan.cs.miami.edu> Call for Papers Workshops at CADE-24 -- Lake Placid, New York, 9-10 June, 2013 Short CFPs for the following CADE-24 workshops are attached: ADDCT - Automated Deduction: Decidability, Complexity, Tractability ARiSVe - Automated Reasoning in Software Verification ESARAI - Empirically Successful Automated Reasoning with AI KInAR - Knowledge Intensive Automated Reasoning PxTP - Proof Exchange for Theorem Proving StarExec For the following two CADE-24 workshops respective information will be distributed soon: Methods for Modalities (M4M), Automated Reasoning in Crypto-Protocol Analysis ===== ADDCT ========================================================== ADDCT - Automated Deduction: Decidability, Complexity, Tractability Decidability, and especially complexity and tractability of logical theories is extremely important for a large number of applications. Although general logical formalisms (such as predicate logic or number theory) are undecidable, decidable theories or decidable fragments thereof (sometimes even with low complexity) often occur in mathematics, in program verification, in the verification of reactive, real time or hybrid systems, as well as in databases and ontologies. It is therefore important to identify such decidable fragments and design efficient decision procedures for them. It is equally important to have uniform methods (such as resolution, rewriting, tableaux, sequent calculi, ...) which can be tuned to provide algorithms with optimal complexity. The goal of ADDCT is to bring together researchers interested in - identifying (fragments of) logical theories which are decidable, identifying fragments thereof which have low complexity, and analyzing possibilities of obtaining optimal complexity results with uniform tools; - analyzing decidability in combinations of theories and possibilities of combining decision procedures; - efficient implementations for decidable fragments; - application domains where decidability resp. tractability are crucial. Full Paper submission: March 26, 2013 Notification: April 26, 2013 Final versions: May 10, 2013 Workshop: June 10, 2013 More details: http://userpages.uni-koblenz.de/~sofronie/addct-2013/ ===== ARiSVe ========================================================= ARiSVe - Automated Reasoning in Software Verification The focus of the workshop is application of automated reasoning in the context of software verification, and, more generally, automation in software verification. Relevant topics include but are not limited to: - specifics of verification-related automated reasoning tasks; - efficient translation of high-level verification conditions to logical languages of automated reasoning tools; - handling of the prover's feedback: proofs, models, answer terms; - logical theories of interest for program verification, decision procedures, integration into existing ATP and SMT systems; - combination of automated and user-assisted verification; - tool presentations, tool comparisons, and benchmarks; - experience reports on verification of complex algorithms and real-life software with the use of automated reasoning tools. Invited speaker: K. Rustan M. Leino (Microsoft Research) Abstract submission deadline: March 8, 2013 Submission deadline: March 15, 2013 Notification: April 10, 2013 Camera ready versions due: May 10, 2013 Workshop: June 10, 2013 More details: http://arisve2013.lri.fr ===== ESARAI ========================================================= ESARAI - Empirically Successful Automated Reasoning with Artificial Intelligence The Empirically Successful Automated Reasoning with Artificial Intelligence (ESARAI) workshop will bring together two complementary groups of researchers: researchers in Automated Reasoning who employ Artificial Intelligence tools and techniques to support their automated reasoning research, and researchers in Artificial Intelligence who employ Automated Reasoning tools and techniques to support the artificial intelligence research. The workshop will offer mutually beneficial interactions, through the exposure of the two sides of the research to all. Additionally, the workshop will provide a focussed forum where the many interfaces between these two research fields can be presented and discussed. The workshop is soliciting research, position, applications and system description papers on combinations of AI and AR. Additionally, the workshop includes system and application demonstrations. Demonstrations of systems and applications described in paper presentations, and demonstrations of systems and applications without an accompanying paper, are both encouraged. Submission deadline - 22nd April Notification of acceptance - 13th May Final versions due - 20th May Workshop - 9th or 10th June More details: http://www.cs.miami.edu/~geoff/Conferences/ESARAI/ ===== KInAR ========================================================== KInAR - Knowledge Intensive Automated Reasoning Extensive digital sources of knowledge are becoming available, such as formal ontologies, databases, dictionaries and natural language reference works. Online sources like Wikipedia and IMDb, mathematical libraries like Mizar and various search engines and web services have gained widespread acceptance among the general population, but the sheer quantity of data can be an obstacle for human users. Automated reasoning (AR) systems have been advancing in their capabilities, and there is a growing interest in employing their deductive power to make digital knowledge more accessible. This poses challenges to AR research, but it is also a chance to bring AR into the public and to see large-scale usage of AR systems. In the KInAR workshop we aim to compile approaches to AR on large knowledge sources, and to aid the connections between researchers working on such projects. We invite submissions on any topics regarding KInAR, such as: - theoretical foundations: calculi for knowledge intensive reasoning, - knowledge corpora and their management, - extracting (semi-)formal knowledge from large informal corpora, - system descriptions of applications regarding the workshop topic, - benchmarking such systems, - robustness: reasoning despite flaws in digital knowledge, - combining knowledge from different sources. Submission deadline: 8 April 2013 Author notification: 2 May 2013 Camera-ready version: 9 May 2013 KInAR workshop: 10 June 2013 More details: http://userpages.uni-koblenz.de/~bpelzer/kinar2013 ===== PxTP =========================================================== PxTP - Proof Exchange for Theorem Proving The past decades have seen impressive advances in computer-aided reasoning, both in automated and interactive theorem proving. As shown by various system competitions, such as CASC, SMT-COMP, and the SAT competition, deduction tools are able to tackle larger problems progressively faster and are increasingly more applicable to a wider range of problems. In recent years, integration of such automated tools in larger verification environments has demonstrated the potential to reduce the amount of manual verification work. It is becoming clear that the success of deduction tools will not only depend on their power to solve large and difficult problems in an isolated manner, but it will also rely on their ability to cooperate, by exchanging problems, proofs, and models. The PxTP workshop aims at encouraging such cooperation by inviting contributions on various aspects of communication, integration, and cooperation between systems and formalisms. The workshop's mission is to facilitate building of complex reasoning applications and reuse of reasoning tools by developing and discussing suitable integration, translation and communication methods, standards, protocols, and application programming interfaces (APIs). The workshop would like to bring together the interested developers of automatic and interactive theorem proving tools, developers of combined systems, developers and users of translation tools and APIs, and producers of standards and protocols. Submission of papers: 11 April 2013 Notification: 2 May 2013 Camera-ready versions due: 9 May 2013 Workshop: 10 June 2013 More details: http://www.cs.ru.nl/pxtp13/cfp.txt ===== StarExec ======================================================= StarExec The StarExec project is an NSF funded project to design, implement, and operate StarExec, a web service designed for the comparative evaluation of logic solvers (automated theorem provers) on benchmark problems. The $1.85 million budget of the grant is mostly dedicated to purchasing and operating a medium-sized cluster of an anticipated 150 compute nodes, which will be used to run jobs submitted by users of the system. We anticipate users will be members of various logic-solving subcommunities of the broader automated theorem proving community The StarExec 2013 workshop will bring together logic-solving community leaders, logic solver competition organizers, StarExec power users, and the StarExec organizers, to discuss the current status of the StarExec project. The workshop will have four sessions: - A status report from the StarExec organizers, and a demonstration of StarExec as it has been developed by the time of the workshop. - Use of StarExec by the attendees, so they can get a feeling of how well the implementation will meet their solver evaluation needs. - A feedback session based on the use of StarExec. - A presentation by the StarExec organizers on the short and medium terms plans for development and use of StarExec. StarExec 2013 will not invite papers or general attendance. Rather, the workshop will be aimed specifically at the types of researchers described above, to maximize the positive impact on the development and use of StarExec. The NSF grant will provide travel, accomodation, and registration support for 20 participants, 10 from the USA and 10 from overseas. More details: http://clc.cs.uiowa.edu/starexec13/ From rseba at disi.unitn.it Tue Jan 29 19:11:39 2013 From: rseba at disi.unitn.it (Roberto Sebastiani) Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2013 19:11:39 +0100 Subject: [DL] Postdoc positions in SAT/SMT-based Verification available in Trento Message-ID: <20130129181139.GA17428@disi.unitn.it> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- [[[ We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this message ]]] --------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------- PLEASE FORWARD THIS EMAIL TO WHOEVER YOU MAY THINK INTERESTED. -------------------------------------------------------------- One post-doc position in ICT on the research project "Advanced SMT Techniques for Word-level Formal Verification - (WOLF)" is available in Trento, Italy, under the joint supervision of - Alessandro Cimatti, FBK, Trento, and - Roberto Sebastiani, DISI, University of Trento. The research activity will be carried out jointly within the Embedded Systems (ES) Research Unit of the Center for Scientific and Technological Research of the Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK), Trento, and the Software Engineering, Formal Methods & Security Research Program, at Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science (DISI) of University of Trento. Aim and Scope ============= The research activity will aim at investigating and developing novel techniques, methodologies and support tools for Satisfiability Modulo Theories (SMT) for the formal verification of systems. This work will be part of the "Advanced SMT Techniques for Word-level Formal Verification - (WOLF)" project, a three-year research project supported by SRC/GRC (http://www.src.org/compete/s201113/), in strict collaboration with the Formal Verification Group at Intel, Haifa, and other major HW companies. The ultimate goal of the WOLF project is to provide a comprehensive SMT package to support effective formal verification of systems ranging from RTL circuits all the way up to high-level hardware description languages (e.g. SystemC) and software. The package will be implemented on top of the MathSAT SMT platform (http://mathsat.fbk.eu/), and provided as an API. Candidate Profile ================= The ideal candidate should have an PhD in computer science or related discipline, and combine solid theoretical background and excellent software development skills (in particular C/C++). A solid background knowledge and/or previous experience on one of the following topics (in order of preference) is required: Satisfiability Modulo Theory (SMT), Propositional Satisfiability (SAT), Model Checking, Automated Reasoning. Previous experience in the following areas will also be considered favourably: Constraint Solving and Optimization, Embedded Systems Design Languages (e.g. Verilog, VHDL). The candidate should be able to work in a collaborative environment, with a strong committment to reaching research excellence and achieving assigned objectives. Terms and dates =============== The position will start as soon as possible, and will have to be renewed yearly, for a maximum of two years. The expected salary will range from about 2200 to 2400 euros net income, and the gross will include previdential (social security) contributions. Facilities for meals at the local canteen can be provided. Applications and Inquiries ========================== Interested candidates should inquire for further information and/or apply by sending email to wolf-recruit at disi.unitn.it, with subject 'POSTDOC ON WOLF PROJECT'. Applications should contain a statement of interest, with a Curriculum Vitae, and the names of reference persons. PDF format is strongly encouraged. It should also indicate an estimated starting date. Contact Persons =============== Dr. ALESSANDRO CIMATTI, Embedded Systems Research Unit, FBK-Irst, via Sommarive 18, I-38123 Povo, Trento, Italy http://sra.fbk.eu/people/cimatti/, Prof. ROBERTO SEBASTIANI Software Engineering, Formal Methods & Security Research Program DISI, University of Trento, via Sommarive 14, I-38123 Povo, Trento, Italy http://disi.unitn.it/~rseba/. ======================================================================= The Embedded Systems Research Unit at FBK ========================================= The Embedded Systems Unit consists of about 15 persons, including researchers, post-Doc, Ph.D. students, and programmers. The Unit carries out research, tool development and technology transfer in the fields of design and verification of embedded systems. Current research directions include: * Satisfiability Modulo Theory, and its application to the verification of hardware, embedded critical software, and hybrid systems (Verilog, SystemC, C/C++, StateFlow/Simulink). * Formal Requirements Analysis based on techniques for temporal logics (consistency checking, vacuity detection, input determinism, cause-effect analysis, realizability and synthesis). * Formal Safety Analysis, based on the integration of traditional techniques (e.g. Fault-tree analysis, FMEA) with symbolic verification techniques. The Embedded Systems Unit is part of Fondazione Bruno Kessler, formerly Istituto Trentino di Cultura, a public research institute of the Autonomous Province of Trento (Italy), founded in 1976. The institute, through its center for the scientific and technological research, is active in the areas of Information Technology, Microsystems, and Physical Chemistry of Surfaces and Interfaces. Today, FBK is an internationally recognized research institute, collaborating with industries, universities, and public and private laboratories in Italy and abroad. The institute's applied and basic research activities aim at resolving real-world problems, driven by the need for technological innovation in society and industry. The SW Engineering, Formal Methods & Security Research Program at DISI ====================================================================== The SW Engineering, Formal Methods & Security R. P. at DISI currently consists on 5 faculties, various post-docs and PhD students. The Unit carries out research, tool development and technology transfer in the fields of Goal-Oriented Requirements Engineering, Agent-oriented SW engineering, Security, and Formal Methods. Referring to formal methods, current research directions include: * Satisfiability Modulo Theory, and its application to the verification of hardware, embedded critical software, and hybrid systems. * Optimization in SMT and its applications. * Advanced Model Checking Techniques for Formal Verification of hardware, embedded critical software, and hybrid systems. The R.P. is part of the Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science, DISI (http://disi.unitn.it/) of University of Trento. University of Trento in the latest years has always been rated among the top-three small&medium-size universities in Italy. DISI currently consists of 50 faculties, 68 research staff and support people, 21 postdocs and 146 Doctoral students, plus administrative and technical staff. DISI covers all the different areas of information technology (computer science, telecommunications, and electronics) and their applications. These disciplines above are studied individually but also with a strong focus on their integration, Location ======== Trento is a lively town of about 100.000 inhabitants, located 130 km south of the border between Italy and Austria. It is well known for the beauty of its mountains and lakes, and it offers the possibility to practice a wide range of sports. Trento enjoys a rich cultural and historical heritage, and it is the ideal starting point for day trips to famous towns such as Venice or Verona, as well as to enjoy great naturalistic journeys. Detailed information about Trento and its region can be found at http://www.trentino.to/home/index.html?_lang=en. From schmidt at cs.man.ac.uk Wed Jan 30 16:14:59 2013 From: schmidt at cs.man.ac.uk (Renate Schmidt) Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2013 15:14:59 +0000 Subject: [DL] FroCoS 2013 Second Call for Papers Message-ID: <20130130151459.43D394D62A3@cspc036.cs.man.ac.uk> SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS FroCoS 2013 9th International Symposium on Frontiers of Combining Systems Nancy, France September 18-20, 2013 Submission Deadlines: 15 Apr 2013 (Abs.), 22 Apr 2013 (Paper) http://frocos2013.loria.fr/ GENERAL INFORMATION The 9th International Symposium on Frontiers of Combining Systems will be held in Nancy, France, from 18-20 September 2013. The aim of the conference is to publish and promote progress in research areas requiring the development of general techniques and methods for the combination and integration of special, formally defined systems, as well as for the analysis and modularization of complex systems. FroCos 2013 will be co-located with the 22nd International Conference on Automated Reasoning with Analytic Tableaux and Related Methods (TABLEAUX 2013) held 16-19 September 2013. A joint invited speaker and joint session is planned. SCOPE OF CONFERENCE: In various areas of computer science, such as logic, computation, program development and verification, artificial intelligence, knowledge representation, and automated reasoning, there is an obvious need for using specialized formalisms and inference mechanisms for special tasks. To be usable in practice, these specialized systems must be combined with each other, and must be integrated into general purpose systems. This has led in many research areas to the development of general techniques and methods for the combination and integration of special, formally defined systems, as well as for the analysis and modularization of complex systems. The International Symposium on Frontiers of Combining Systems (FroCoS) traditionally focusses on these types of research questions and activities. Like its predecessors, FroCoS 2013 seeks to offer a common forum for research in the general area of combination, modularization and integration of systems, with emphasis on logic-based ones, and of their practical use. Typical topics of interest include (but are not limited to): * combinations of logics such as combined higher-order, first-order, temporal, modal, or other non-classical logics; * combinations and modularity in ontologies; * combination of decision procedures, of satisfiability procedures, of constraint solving techniques or of logical frameworks; * combination and integration methods in SAT and SMT solving; * combinations and modularity in term rewriting; * integration of equational and other theories into deductive systems; * combination of deduction systems and computer algebra; * integration of data structures into constraint logic programming and deduction; * hybrid methods for deduction, resolution and constraint propagation; * hybrid systems in knowledge representation and natural language semantics; * combined logics for distributed and multi-agent systems; * logical aspects of combining and modularizing programs and specifications. INVITED SPEAKERS: Stephane Demri LSV, CNRS & ENS de Cachan (joint invited talk with TABLEAUX 2013) Konstantin Korovin The University of Manchester Joel Ouaknine Oxford University Larry Paulson University of Cambridge PUBLICATION DETAILS: The proceedings of the conference will be published in the Springer LNAI/LNCS series. PAPER SUBMISSIONS The program committee seeks high-quality submissions describing original work, written and to be presented in English, not substantially overlapping with published or simultaneously submitted work to a journal or conference with archival proceedings. Selection criteria include accuracy and originality of ideas, clarity and significance of results, and quality of presentation. The page limit in Springer LNCS style is 16 pages. Papers must be edited in LaTeX using the llncs style and must be submitted electronically as PDF files via the EasyChair system: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=frocos2013. For each accepted paper, at least one author is required to attend the symposium to present the work. Prospective authors must register a title and an abstract a week before the paper submission deadline. Further information about paper submissions will be available at the conference website. IMPORTANT DATES 15 Apr 2013 Abstract submission 22 Apr 2013 Paper submission 6 Jun 2013 Notification of paper decisions 4 Jul 2013 Camera-ready papers due 18-20 Sep 2013 FroCoS Conference PROGRAM COMMITTEE Carlos Areces, FaMAF - Universidad Nacional de Cordoba, Argentina Alessandro Artale, Free University of Bolzano-Bozen, Italy Franz Baader, TU Dresden, Germany Clark Barrett, New York University, USA Peter Baumgartner, National ICT Australia, Canberra, Australia Christoph Benzmueller, Free University Berlin, Germany Jasmin Christian Blanchette, TU Muenchen, Germany Thomas Bolander, Technical University of Denmark Clare Dixon, University of Liverpool, UK Francois Fages, INRIA Rocquencourt, France Pascal Fontaine, LORIA, INRIA, University of Lorraine, France Didier Galmiche, LORIA, University of Lorraine, France Vijay Ganesh, University of Waterloo, Canada Silvio Ghilardi, Universita degli Studi di Milano, Italy Guido Governatori, National ICT Australia, Queensland, Australia Bernhard Gramlich, Technische Universitaet Wien, Austria Katsumi Inoue, National Institute of Informatics, Japan Sava Krstic, Intel, USA Alessio Lomuscio, Imperial College London, UK Till Mossakowski, DFKI & University of Bremen, Germany Silvio Ranise, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy Christophe Ringeissen, LORIA, INRIA, France Philipp Ruemmer, Uppsala University, Sweden Renate Schmidt, The University of Manchester, UK Roberto Sebastiani, DISI, University of Trento, Italy Viorica Sofronie-Stokkermans, University Koblenz-Landau, Germany Andrzej Szalas, Linkoepings Universitet, Sweden & University of Warsaw, Poland Rene Thiemann, University of Innsbruck, Austria Ashish Tiwari, SRI, USA Josef Urban, Radboud University, The Netherlands Christoph Weidenbach, Max-Planck-Institut fuer Informatik, Germany Frank Wolter, University of Liverpool, UK CONFERENCE CHAIR Christophe Ringeissen, LORIA, INRIA, France PC CHAIRS Pascal Fontaine, LORIA, INRIA, University of Lorraine, France Renate A. Schmidt, The University of Manchester, UK From m.rowe at lancaster.ac.uk Fri Feb 1 10:52:20 2013 From: m.rowe at lancaster.ac.uk (Rowe, Matthew) Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2013 09:52:20 +0000 Subject: [DL] CFP: Seventh International Conference on Knowledge Capture (KCAP) 2013 - Abstract Deadline: 8th Feb, Full Paper: 15th Feb Message-ID: <0F685D56FABF1A41A97A993C92477BB2A3A3DC@EX-0-MB0.lancs.local> ********************************************************************************* Call for Research and Application Papers : Seventh International Conference on Knowledge Capture (KCAP) 2013 23-26 June 2013. Banff Conference Centre, Banff, Canada Web site: http://kcap2013.org/ Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/KCap2013 Twitter: http://twitter.com/kcap2013 ********************************************************************************* In today's technology-driven society, effective access to and use of information is a key enabler for progress. Driven by the demands for knowledge-based applications and the unprecedented availability of information on the Web, the study of knowledge capture is of crucial importance. Knowledge capture involves the extraction of useful knowledge from vast and diverse online sources as well as its acquisition directly from human experts. Researchers and practitioners who work in the area of knowledge capture traditionally participate in several distinct communities, including knowledge engineering, machine learning, natural language processing, human-computer interaction, artificial intelligence, and the Semantic Web. K-CAP 2013 will provide a forum that brings together members of disparate research communities who are interested in efficiently capturing knowledge from a variety of sources and in creating representations that can be useful for automated reasoning, analysis, and other forms of machine processing, as well as to support users in knowledge-intensive collaborative tasks. In addition, the wealth of information available and generated on the Web, both in structured, linked data forms and in unstructured information sources, brings the need for new methods to make knowledge emerge from such sources, following the recent democratisation, and somehow industrialisation, of areas such as open data, linked data and the Semantic Web. Such new methods must draw both from the traditional knowledge acquisition techniques and from more computational approaches, from large-scale data-mining, statistical analysis, data analytics, etc. For this reason, we are making the special theme of the K-CAP 2013 conference: ***Knowledge Capture in the Age of Massive Web Data**** This will be reflected both through encouraging paper submissions showing works on the way to deal with the scale, but also the distribution, heterogeneity, incompleteness, inconsistency and variety of both sources and results when trying to make knowledge emerge from massive Web data, including data published on the Web, as well as generated through the Web. We will also, for the first time in the K-CAP conference series, introduce a special Application Track, where submissions are invited to present results tested and deployed in real-life settings. The application track will pay special attention to in-use applications for the generation, management, and reuse of large amounts of existing data and knowledge resources on the Web. Data and knowledge-intensive applications in a variety of domains are welcome, including the Web of Data, mobile and sensor networks, large-scale scientific data management and reuse, open government and e-participation, social networks, and enterprise data management and business intelligence. We encourage submissions in such domains, dealing with topics including: big data capture, representation and analytics, crowd-sourcing for data generation and problem-solving, hybrid approaches combining knowledge engineering and machine learning, data and service dynamicity, heterogeneity and decay, and innovative user interfaces. Especially interesting are applications with available datasets and in-place data-driven business models. K-CAP 2013 follows on the success of six previous conferences in 2011 (Banff, Canada), 2009 (California, USA), 2007 (Whistler, Canada), in 2005 (Banff, Canada), in 2003 (Florida, USA), and 2001 (Victoria, Canada), and of the series of Knowledge Acquisition Workshops (KAW), the first of which took place in the same location (Banff, Canada) in 1986, with the aim to promote multi-disciplinary research that could lead to a new generation of tools and methodologies for knowledge capture. ***Submissions*** The Seventh International Conference on Knowledge Capture, K-CAP 2013 will feature Invited Talks, Research Papers, Application Papers, Workshops, Posters and Demos on a range of topics. Due to the special theme of the conference this year, we especially encourage submissions of research and industry papers on the topics of: -Statistical analysis from Web data -Impact on data-mining of Web-scale linked data -Machine learning from multiple Web sources -Hybrid approaches for knowledge capture combining knowledge engineering and machine learning -Computational approaches to data management for knowledge capture -Data dynamicity, heterogeneity, and decay in knowledge intensive systems -Data provenance in knowledge capture Submissions on more general topics, traditionally covered by the conference, are highly encouraged, including but not restricting to: -Knowledge acquisition -Knowledge authoring -Knowledge extraction -Knowledge management -Knowledge capture for the Semantic Web and the Web of Linked Data -Knowledge publication -Collaborative and social approaches to knowledge management and acquisition -Crowdsourcing for knowledge capture and refinement -Knowledge Capture from Social Environments and Contexts -Mixed-initiative planning and decision-support -Problem-solving knowledge and methods -Knowledge-based markup techniques -Knowledge engineering and modelling methodologies -Narrative intelligence -Knowledge capture through storytelling -Learning by reading -Provenance and trust issues in knowledge intensive systems For the application track, we encourage submissions of concrete applications in all the topics of the conference, as mentioned above. Submissions to the application track should present applications, tools or environments which have been effectively deployed and used by their target audience. Accepted application papers will be presented at the conference and should also take part in the demo session. Both regular papers and application papers should be submitted through easychair (using https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=kcap2013 for research papers and https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=kcap2013applications for application papers) and be formatted according to the ACM format. Regular (research) papers should not be longer than 8 pages, including references. Applications papers are limited to 4 pages. ***Deadlines (for both the research and the application tracks) *** Abstract submission: February 8, 2013 Full paper submission: February 15, 2013 Author notification: March 29, 2013 Camera ready version due: April 24, 2013 From pieter.de.leenheer at vu.nl Fri Feb 1 11:53:50 2013 From: pieter.de.leenheer at vu.nl (De Leenheer, P.G.M.) Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2013 10:53:50 +0000 Subject: [DL] CFP ODBASE 2013: 12th International Conference on Ontologies, DataBases, and Applications of Semantics Message-ID: <914F43A0-7739-45A1-B041-D9FF96C92945@vu.nl> CALL FOR PAPERS *The 12th International Conference on Ontologies, DataBases, and Applications of Semantics (ODBASE 2013)* (10-11 Sept 2013, Graz, Austria) http://www.onthemove-conferences.org/index.php/odbase13 **CHAIRS** Pieter De Leenheer -- VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands & Collibra NV, Belgium Dejing Dou -- University of Oregon, USA Haixun Wang -- Microsoft Research Asia, China **KEYNOTE** Prof. Dr. Manfred Hauswirth -- Vice-Director of the Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI), Ireland **ABOUT** The conference on Ontologies, DataBases, and Applications of Semantics for Large Scale Information Systems (ODBASE'13) provides a forum on the use of ontologies and data semantics in novel applications. Of particular relevance to ODBASE 2013 are papers that bridge traditional boundaries between disciplines such as databases, social networks, mobile systems, artificial intelligence, information retrieval, and computational linguistics. We also encourage the submission of research and practical experience papers concerning scale issues in ontology management, information integration, and information extraction, as well as papers that examine the information needs of various applications. This year, in addition to its traditional focus on the management of semantically rich information, ODBASE will have special themes on Semantic Data Mining and Information Governance. We encourage submissions in areas that connect semantics with the entire data flow cycle: data acquisition e.g. from social networks and mobile devices, data stream processing, e.g., filtering and event contextualization, data analysis,e.g., pattern and knowledge discovery, to dissemination, e.g., publish/subscribe. ODBASE'13 intends to draw a highly diverse body of researchers and practitioners by being part of the Federated conferences Event "On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems 2013 (OnTheMove'13)" that co-locates three conferences: ODBASE'13, DOA-SVI'13 (International Symposium on Secure Virtual Infrastructures), and CoopIS'13(International Conference on Cooperative Information Systems). *TOPICS OF INTEREST* Specific areas of interest to ODBASE'13 include but are not limited to: Management of Semantically Expressive Information - Semantic data modeling - Semantic integration, including ontology matching, merging, etc. - Ontology engineering and metadata management - Ontology-based data management - Governance aspects such as workflows, roles and responsibilities in semantic information management Large Scale and Complex Information Management and Analysis - Semantic indexing, search and query answering in large volumes of data - Annotation, extraction, summarization, and integration of heterogeneous data resources - Semantic data mining - Semantic social network analysis - Semantic services for big data Semantic Management of Complex Event Processing - Semantics in event-driven architectures - Event algebras, event schemas and type systems - Event-driven business process management - Events in social sensing&Collective Intelligence Applications, Evaluations, and Experiences in the following domains: - Web 2.0 and Semantic Web, - Linked Data Web - Online Social Networks - Hypertext, multimedia, and hypermedia - Enterprise-wide Information Systems - eCommerce, eScience, and Virtual Organizations - Ubiquitous and Mobile Information Systems - Information Governance *IMPORTANT DATES* Conference Abstract Submission Deadline: May 11, 2013 Conference Paper Submission Deadline: May 18, 2013 Acceptance Notification: June 25, 2013 Camera Ready Due: July 16, 2013 Author Registration Due: July 16, 2013 *SUBMISSION GUIDELINES* ODBASE 2013 will consider two categories of papers: research and experience. Research papers must contain novel, unpublished results. Experience papers must describe existing, real-world scale systems; preference will be given to papers that describe software products or systems that are in wide experimental and industry use. Papers submitted to ODBASE'13 must not have been accepted for publication elsewhere or be under review for another workshop or conference. All submitted papers will be carefully evaluated based on originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of expression. All papers will be refereed by at least three members of the program committee, and at least two will be experts from industry in the case of practice reports. All submissions must be in English. Submissions must not exceed 18 pages in the final camera-ready paper style. Submissions must be laid out according to the final camera-ready formatting instructions and must be submitted in PDF format. Paper submission site: http://www.onthemove-conferences.org/index.php/odbase13 The final proceedings will be published by Springer Verlag as LNCS (Lecture Notes in Computer Science). Author instructions can be found at:http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html *PROGRAMME COMMITTEE* Harith Alani (The Open University, UK) Yuan An (Drexel University) Soren Auer (University Leipzig) Marie-Aude Aufaure (Ecole Centrale de Paris) Payam Barnaghi (University of Surrey) John Bateman (University Bremen) Zohra Bellahsene (University of Montpellier II) Ladjel Bellatreche (ENSMA, France) Domenico Beneventano (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia) Sonia Bergamaschi (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia) Sourav S Bhowmick (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore) Omar Boucelma (Aix-Marseille University, LSIS, France) Nieves Brisaboa (University of A Coruna, Spain) Andrea Cali (University of Oxford) Delroy Cameron (Wright State University) Kit Yan Chan (Curtin University) Sunil Choenni (WODC and Rotterdam University) Francisco Couto (Technical University of Lisbon) Philippe Cudre-Mauroux (University of Fribourg) Sybren De Kinderen (Centre Henri Tudor) Roberto De Virgilio (Roma Tre University) Emanuele Della Valle (Politecnico di Milano) Prasad Deshpande (IBM - India) Alicia Diaz (La Plata University) Ying Ding (University of Indiana ) Tanveer Faruquie (IBM - India) Walid Gaaloul (TELECOM & Management SudParis) Aldo Gangemi (Italian National Research Council ) Mouzhi Ge (Bundeswehr University Munich) Michael Grueninger (University Toronto) Christophe Gueret (Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS)) Peter Haase (Fluid Operations) Mohand-Said Hacid (Universite Claude Bernard Lyon 1, France) Harry Halpin (World Wide Web Consortium) Takahiro Hara (Osaka University) Andreas Harth (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology) Fedja Hazic (Curtin University) Cornelia Hedeler (University of Manchester) Rinke Hoekstra (VU University Amsterdam) Prateek Jain (IBM TJ Watson Research Center, USA) Ruoming Jin (Kent State University ) Amit Joshi (Wright State University) Christian Kop (University of Klagenfurt) Manolis Koubarakis (University of Athens) Rajasekar Krishnamurthy (IBM Almaden Research Center) Steffen Lamparter (Siemens.com) Paea LePendu (Stanford University) Guoliang Li (Tsinghua University) Lior Limonad (IBM Research) Frederick Maier (University of Georgia) Massimo Mecella (Sapienza University of Rome) Davor Meersman (iMinds VUB) Eduardo Mena (University of Zaragoza) Paolo Missier (Newcaste University, UK) Anirban Mondal (Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology, Delhi) Sean O'Riain (DERI Galway) Matteo Palmonari (University of Milan - Bicocca) Jeff Z. Pan (University of Aberdeen) Maryam Panahiazar (Wright State University) Herve Panetto (University of Lorraine) Josiane Xavier Parreira (DERI Galway) Carlos Pedrinaci (The Open University, UK) Dimitris Plexousakis (Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas) Ivana Podnar Zarko (FER, University of Zagreb) Geert Poels (University Ghent) Guilin Qi (Southeast University, China) Christoph Quix (RWTH Aachen, Germany) Benedicto Rodriguez (Bundeswehr University Munich) Prasan Roy (IBM - India) Satya Sahoo (Case Western Reserve University) Claudio Sartori (University of Bologna) Kai-Uwe Sattler (The Ilmenau University of Technology) Christoph Schlieder (University of Bamberg) Michael Schrefl (Johannes Kepler University Linz) Nigam Shah (Stanford University) Amit Sheth (Wright State University) Srinath Srinivasa (International Institute of Information Technology - Bangalore) Yannis Stavrakas (Institute for the Management of Information Systems) Yizhou Sun (Northeastern Univeristy) Letizia Tanca (Politecnico di Milano) Kunal Verma (Accenture) Christian von der Weth (DERI Galway) Yanghua Xiao (Fudan University) Guo-Qiang Zhang (Case Western Reserve University) Kenny Zhu (Shanghai Jiaotong University) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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The 4th Open Answer Set Programming (ASP) Competition is now in the Call for Participant Systems stage. +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ | The event is open to ASP systems and *any other* system based on a | | declarative specification paradigm. | +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ == Call for Participant Systems == Participants of the Answer Set Programming Competition will compete on a selected collection of benchmark problems, taken from a variety of benchmark problem domains as well as real world applications. These include, but are not limited to: * Classic and applicative graph problems * Scheduling, Timetabling, and other resource allocation problems * Sequential and Temporal Planning * Combinatorial Optimization Problems * Deductive database tasks on large data-sets * Puzzles and Combinatorics * Ontology reasoning * Automated Theorem Proving and Model Checking * Reasoning tasks over large propositional instances * Constraint Programming problems * Other AI problems The competition consists of two independent main tracks: * the Model & Solve Track invites any researcher and developer of declarative knowledge representation systems to participate in an open challenge for solving sophisticated AI problems with their tools of choice. Participants submit a solver based on an arbitrary input format and declarative specifications of the Competition's benchmark domains; * the System Track compares dedicated answer set solvers on ASP benchmarks. Participants compete with a solver for a standard ASP language. We encourage to submit parallel and portfolio systems exploiting multiple cores or multiple algorithms for solving the given instances. === About the Answer Set Programming Competition Series === Answer Set Programming is a well-established paradigm of declarative programming with close relationship to other declarative modelling paradigms and languages, such as SAT Modulo Theories, Constraint Handling Rules, FO(.), PDDL, CASC, and many others. The ASP Competition is a biannual event for evaluating declarative knowledge representation systems on hard and demanding AI problems. The 4th ASP Competition will be run in the first half of 2013 jointly at the University of Calabria (Italy) and the Vienna University of Technology (Austria). The event is the sequel to the ASP Competition series, held at the University of Potsdam (Germany) in 2006-2007, at the University of Leuven (Belgium) in 2009, and at University of Calabria (Italy) in 2011. The current competition takes place in cooperation with the 12th International Conference on Logic Programming and Nonmonotonic Reasoning (LPNMR 2013), where the results will be announced. The ASP competition is held as an open tournament. The "Model & Solve" competition track fosters the spirit of integration among communities, and is thus open to all types of solvers: ASP systems, SAT solvers, SMT solvers, CP systems, FOL theorem provers, Description Logics reasoners, planning reasoners, or any other. The "System" competition track is instead set up on a fixed language based on the answer set semantics. == Important Dates == * February 2nd, 2013: Participant registration deadline * March 1st, 2013: Participant system submission deadline * March 2nd, 2013: System freeze, the competition runs * September 15-19, 2013: Announcement of results and award presentation at LPNMR 2013 in Corunna, Spain For further information and submission instructions please visit the competition web site http://aspcomp2013.mat.unical.it/ or contact us by email: aspcomp2013 at kr.tuwien.ac.at From ijswis-publicity at image.ntua.gr Thu Jan 31 10:29:42 2013 From: ijswis-publicity at image.ntua.gr (ijswis-publicity at image.ntua.gr) Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2013 11:29:42 +0200 Subject: [DL] Special Issue on "Semantic Social Media Dynamics" Message-ID: ======================================================================= CALL FOR PAPERS International Journal on Semantic Web and Information Systems (IJSWIS) Special Issue on "Semantic Social Media Dynamics" ======================================================================= Guest Editors: Phivos Mylonas, Ionian University, Greece Ioannis Anagnostopoulos, University of Central Greece, Greece Fernando Bobillo, University of Zaragoza, Spain Markus Strohmaier, Graz University of Technology, Austria Geert-Jan Houben, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands ----------------------------------------------------------------- URL: http://ijswis.knoesis.org/?q=node/45 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Important dates: Manuscript Submission Deadline: *February 15, 2013* Notification of Acceptance/Rejection: May 31, 2013 Final Accepted Manuscript Due: July 31, 2013 Estimated Publication Date: Vol. 9, Issue 3 or 4, 2013 -------------------- Submission Procedure -------------------- Submissions to this special issue should follow the journal's guidelines for submission (http://ijswis.knoesis.org/?q=node/36). Manuscripts should be submitted through the online EasyChair Submission Site: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ssmd13. After submitting a paper, please also inform guest editors by email to ijswis-ssmd13 at image.ntua.gr about the specific paper ID assigned by the submission system. If a submission is based on a prior publication in a workshop or conference, the journal submission must involve substantial advance (a minimum of 50%) in conceptual terms as well as in exposition (e.g., more comprehensive testing/evaluation/validation or additional applications/usage). More info on this Special Issue may be found at: http://ijswis.knoesis.org/?q=node/45. ------- Summary ------- The objective of this Special Issue is to collect and report on recent high quality research that addresses the problem of mass digital media content generation and sharing. As social media keep extending over the Web as we know it, new innovative dynamics are formed in the sense of media content acquiring and sharing trends. Research in this area is important to combine the fields of semantics and knowledge engineering within social media platforms, mainly because of the overwhelming amount of disseminated information and different contextualization types. High quality contributions addressing related theoretical and practical aspects are expected. ------ Topics ------ Topics of interest include, but are not limited to the following semantic media adaptation & personalization aspects in social media: # Content creation, annotation and modelling for semantic social web # Semantics-driven indexing and retrieval of multimedia contents # Semantics-based recommender systems: theory and applications # Semantic context modelling and extraction # Social and semantic media collaboration platforms (e.g. semantic wikis) # Social multimedia tagging and multimedia content communities # Content customization and adaptation # Context-aware multimedia applications # Social network aggregation # User modelling and dynamic profiling # Adaptive and personalized multimedia summaries # Intelligent personalized interfaces # Hybrid socio-semantic approaches to profiling, recommendation engines or adaptation systems -------- Contacts -------- Please address all correspondences regarding this Special Issue to the Guest Editors: Phivos Mylonas, Ioannis Anagnostopoulos, Fernando Bobillo, Markus Strohmaier, Geert-Jan Houben ijswis-ssmd13 at image.ntua.gr From stoitsis at ieee.org Wed Jan 30 16:54:17 2013 From: stoitsis at ieee.org (Giannis Stoitsis) Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2013 17:54:17 +0200 Subject: [DL] First CFP: LACRO Workshop - Learning Object Analytics for Collections, Repositories and Federations Message-ID: *++apologies for cross-posting++ ************************************************************** * FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS Workshop on Learning Objects Analytics for Collections, Repositories and Federations (LACRO 2013) Leuven, Belgium, 9 April 2013 http://www.ieru.org/lacro/2013/ Organised jointly with the International Learning Analytics & Knowledge Conference 2013, taking place in Leuven, between April 8 and April 12, 2013. (LAK 2013) http://lakconference2013.wordpress.com/ ************************************************************* AIM & TOPICS A large number of curated digital collections containing learning resources of a various kind has emerged in the last year. These include referatories containing descriptions for resources in the Web (as MERLOT), aggregated collections (as Organic.Edunet), concrete initiatives as Khan Academy, repositories hosting and versioning modular content (as Connexions) and meta-aggregators (as Globe and Learning Registry). Also, OpenCourseware and other OER initiatives have contributed to making this ecosystem of resources richer. Very interesting insights can be extracted when studying the usage and social data that are produced within the learning collections, repositories and federations. At the same time, concerns for the quality and sustainability of these collections have been raised, which has lead to research on quality measurement and metrics. The Workshop (http://www.ieru.org/lacro/2013/) aims to bring studies and demonstrations for any kind of analysis done on learning resource collections, from an interdisciplinary perspective. We consider digital collections not as merely IT deployments but as social systems with contributors, owners, evaluators and users forming patterns of interactions on top of portals or through search systems embedded in other learning technology components. This is in coherence of considering these social systems under a Web Science approach (http://webscience.org/). Topics include but are not limited to: * Requirements for the collection of analytics in Learning Repositories and Federations * Frameworks for the aggregation and sharing Learning Object (LO) Analytics * Metrics regarding LO analytics focused but not limited to social data, language, size, quality, growth, history and cultural awareness * Approaches to address big data problems in collecting analytics in Learning Repositories and Federations * Browsing and visualization tools for LO analytics * Transfer of successful algorithms and systems from other application areas * Innovative services and systems for learners and curators based on LO analytics * Models for the representation of LO analytics * Data mining methods to extract of meaningful information from data collected regarding LOs * Experiences from actual implementation of LO analytics in collections, repositories and federations IMPORTANT DATES 15 February 2013: Submissions 28 February 2013: Notifications 15 March 2013: Camera-ready of accepted papers 9 April 2013: LACRO Workshop in Leuven SUBMISSIONS **The Workshop accepts a variety of submission types:** * Full papers: 10 pages * Short papers: 5 pages * System/service demos: 2 pages * Tutorials: 2 pages * Learning Analytics Data sets: 2 pages (and if possible, data set file/URL) Papers should be original and not previously submitted to other venues. Submission will be available through the EasyChair submission system: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lacro2013 If you haven't an EasyChair account yet, you'll be asked to create it before you can access the LACRO'13 page. **PUBLICATION** Workshop proceedings will be published in a seperate volume by a publisher that will be announced soon. CO-CHAIRS * Miguel-Angel Sicilia, University of Alcala (Spain) * Xavier Ochoa, Escuela Superior Polit?cnica del Litoral, (Ecuador) * Giannis Stoitsis, Agro-Know Technologies (Greece) * Joris Klerkx, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium) ABOUT LAK 2013 The International Learning Analytics & Knowledge Conference, now in its third year, is a venue for reporting and advancing research at the nexus of two emerging societal phenomena. First we are witnessing the rapid expansion of the use of technologies in supporting learning, not only in established institutional contexts and platforms, but also in the emerging landscape of free, open, social learning online. Second, the unprecedented availability of data that learners generate in the process of accessing learning materials, interacting with educators and peers, and creating new content in these technological settings, coupled with advances in analytics and data mining, knowledge modeling and representation and open data offer great potential for research into how learning takes place in socio-technical settings and the development of new forms of analytics that can inform learners and educators. Learning Analytics research brings these technical, pedagogical, and social domains into dialogue with each other to ensure that interventions and organizational systems serve the needs of all stakeholders. 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It is now a well-established event within the research community and a role model for several other initiatives. In 2013, we will be celebrating the 10th anniversary of SSSW, with a set of tutors comprising leading researchers in the community, prestigious invited speakers, networking and mentoring sessions with research and industry leaders (including former students of the school), and of course, an exciting social programme in one of the most beautiful locations in Spain. To ensure a high ratio between tutors and students the school will be limited to 50 participants. Applications for the summer school will close on 05 April 2013. >From the very beginning the school pioneered an innovative pedagogical approach, combining the practical with the theoretical, and adding teamwork and a competitive element to the mix. Specifically, tutorial/lecture material is augmented with hands-on practical workshops and we ensure that the sessions complement each other by linking them to group projects. Work on developing and presenting a project in cooperation with other participants serves as a means of consolidating the knowledge and skills gained from lectures and practical sessions. It also introduces an element of competition among teams, as prizes are awarded to the best projects at the end of the week. Participants will be provided with electronic versions of all course lectures and all necessary tools and environments for the hands-on sessions. PC access with all tools pre-installed will be available on site as well. SSSW 2013 will provide a stimulating and enjoyable environment in which participants will benefit not only from the formal and practical sessions but also from informal and social interactions with established researchers and the other participants to the school. To further facilitate interaction and exchange of ideas, a poster session will also take place, which will provide an opportunity for attendees to present and obtain feedback on their research. TOPICS Linked Data / Web of Data Ontology Engineering Ontology Design Knowledge Representation Semantic Web Applications Ontology Matching and Alignment Semantic and Language Technologies Knowledge Management Semantic Search Recommender Systems Web Intelligence Multimedia Semantic Web Social Semantic Web and Sensor Web Semantic Web and Multimedia ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Mathieu d'Aquin (Director), m.daquin at open.ac.uk Oscar Corcho (Co-Director), ocorcho at fi.upm.es Enrico Motta (Founder), e.motta at open.ac.uk Asun Gomez-Perez (Co-Founder), asun at fi.upm.es TUTORS AND INVITED SPEAKERS Harith Alani (The Open University, UK) Mathieu d'Aquin (The Open University, UK) Sean Bechhofer (University of Manchester, UK) Fabio Ciravegna (University of Sheffield, UK) Oscar Corcho (UPM, Spain) Tommaso Di Noia (Technical University of Bari, Italy) J?r?me Euzenat (INRIA and LIG, France) Aldo Gangemi (ISTC-CNR, Italy) Asun Gomez-Perez (UPM, Spain) Lynda Hardman (Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica, The Netherlands) Frank van Harmelen (Free University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands) Manfred Hauswirth (DERI, Ireland) Peter Mika (Yahoo! Research Barcelona, Spain) Enrico Motta (The Open University, UK) Natasha Noy (Stanford University, US) Valentina Presutti (ISTC-CNR, Italy) Rapha?l Troncy (EURECOM, France) HOW TO APPLY We welcome applicants from anywhere in the world. Normally, but not exclusively, applicants will be postgraduate students in relevant disciplines with some knowledge of semantic and web technologies. Some basic acquaintance with knowledge representation languages for the Semantic Web (RDF, OWL, etc.) is required. Application should be sent by filling the application form, as well as sending a CV to application at sssw13.org (see http://sssw.org/2013/how-to-apply/). The deadline for applications will be 05 April 2013. Accepted candidates are expected to arrive on Sunday, July 7th, between 3pm and 6pm and to participate fully in the activities of the school until its conclusion, at 2pm on Saturday, July 13th. Applicants should keep in mind that we will not consider applications from students who cannot commit themselves to a full participation for the whole duration of the school. Students are also required to bring and present a poster at the summer school, describing their own research. Apart from activities directly related to lectures, the summer school schedule is rightly famous for its unrivalled social programme, which enables informal interaction between all participants to the school - i.e., students, tutors, invited speakers, school staff, etc. These events include a gala dinner, walks in the mountain, discos, and sport activities. STUDENT GRANTS We expect to provide a number of grants for students who would not otherwise be able to attend the school. More details about student grants will be published at a later date. VENUE AND ACCOMMODATION Cercedilla is a small village in the mountains near Madrid, located in a beautiful conservation area. The school will be held in the Residence of the Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, which provides comfortable accommodation in individual rooms with en suite bathrooms, as well as access to a range of nearby activities, including a fresh-water swimming pool. The nearest airport is Madrid-Barajas. Participants will be able to use local rail links from Madrid to Cercedilla. More information about how to reach Cercedilla can be found at http://sssw.org/2013/venue-details/ The cost of the summer school, including accommodation, meals and excursion will be 900?. -- The Open University is incorporated by Royal Charter (RC 000391), an exempt charity in England & Wales and a charity registered in Scotland (SC 038302). -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From m.rowe at lancaster.ac.uk Tue Feb 5 13:33:54 2013 From: m.rowe at lancaster.ac.uk (Rowe, Matthew) Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2013 12:33:54 +0000 Subject: [DL] Call for Workshops & Tutorials @ the Seventh International Conference on Knowledge Capture (KCAP) 2013 - Deadline Extended: 12th February 2013 Message-ID: <0F685D56FABF1A41A97A993C92477BB2A3E2BF@EX-0-MB0.lancs.local> ********************************************************************************* Call for Workshops and Tutorials: Seventh International Conference on Knowledge Capture (KCAP) 2013 23-26 June 2013. Banff Conference Centre, Banff, Canada Web site: http://kcap2013.org/ Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/KCap2013? Twitter: http://twitter.com/kcap2013 ********************************************************************************* The International Conference on Knowledge Capture (K-CAP) provides a forum that brings together members of diverse research communities who are interested in efficiently capturing knowledge from a vast range of sources, including human experts, and in creating representations that can be useful for building knowledge-intensive services in a variety of fields, such as the semantic web, knowledge management, e-business, natural language processing, intelligent information integration, and so on. The focus of the 7th edition of K-CAP will be on ?Knowledge Capture in the Age of Massive Web Data?. Besides a research and an application track, K-CAP will host a number of workshops and tutorials on topics related to the theme of the conference. K-CAP workshops provide an informal setting where the participants have the opportunity to discuss specific technical topics in an atmosphere that fosters the active exchange of ideas. Our aim for the workshop program is to promote and collect multidisciplinary research directions that contribute to knowledge capture from a variety of sources. K-CAP Tutorials enable attendees to fully appreciate current issues, main schools of thought, and possible application areas. ***Topics of Interest*** We encourage the submission of workshops and tutorial proposals on all topics that falls in the general scope of K-CAP 2013, from traditional knowledge acquisition techniques to more computational approaches. In particular, we encourage the submission of workshop and tutorial proposals related to the special focus ?Knowledge Capture in the Age of Massive Web Data? *** Submission Guidelines for Workshops*** Workshop proposals should be submitted via EasyChair at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=kcap2013workshopstut as a single PDF file of no more than 5 pages, specifying ?Workshop Proposal? in the title of the PDF and selecting the ?workshop? category in EasyChair. Proposals should contain the following information: -Title. -Abstract (200 words). -Motivation on why the topic is of particular interest at this time. -Relation to the main conference topics. -Workshop format, discussing the mix of events such as paper presentations, invited talks, panels, and general discussion. Intended audience and expected number of participants. -List of (potential) members of the program committee (at least 50% have to be confirmed at the time of the proposal). -Indication of whether the workshop should be considered for a half-day or full-day. -Past versions of the workshop, including URLs as well as submission and acceptance counts. -Data of the organizers (name, affiliation, email address, homepage) and short CV. Additionally: -we strongly advise having more than one organizer, preferably from different institutions, bringing different perspectives to the workshop topic. -we welcome workshops with creative structures and organizations that attract various types of contributions and ensure rich interactions. ***Submission Guidelines for Tutorials*** Tutorial proposals should be submitted via EasyChair at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=kcap2013workshopstut as a single PDF file of no more than 5 pages, specifying ?Tutorial Proposal? in the title of the PDF and selecting the ?tutorial? category in EasyChair. Proposals should contain the following information: -Title. -Abstract (200 words) -Motivation on why the topic is of particular interest at this time. -Relation to the conference topics. -If the tutorial, or a very similar tutorial, has been given elsewhere, explanation of the benefit of presenting it again to the K-CAP community. -Overview of content, description of the aims, presentation style, potential/preferred prerequisite knowledge. -Indication on whether the tutorial should be considered for a half-day or full-day. -Intended audience and expected number of participants. -Audio-visual or technical requirements and any special room requirements (for hands-on sessions, any software needed and download sites must be provided by the tutorial presenters). -Data of the presenters (name, affiliation, email address, homepage) and short CV including also their expertise, experiences in teaching and in tutorial presentation. Additionally, tutorials should satisfy the following criteria: -there is a clear focus on a specific technology, problem or application, and; -there is a sufficiently large community interested in the topic. Tutorials can include practical parts in terms of examples or exercises to be carried out by the participants. ***Workshop Organizers Responsibilities*** The organizers of accepted workshops are expected to: -prepare a workshop webpage (linked to the official K-CAP website) containing the call for papers and detailed information about the workshop organization and timelines -be responsible for the workshop publicity -be responsible for their own reviewing process, decide upon the final program content and report the number of submissions and accepted papers to the workshop chair -be responsible for publishing electronic proceedings (e.g., on the CEUR-WS website) and make them available to participants -assure workshop participants are informed they have to register to the main conference and the workshop schedule, attend and coordinate their entire workshop K-CAP will be responsible for the following: -Providing publicity for the workshop series as a whole -Providing logistics support and a meeting place for the workshop ***Tutorial Organizers Responsibilities*** The proposers of accepted tutorials are expected to prepare a tutorial webpage (linked to the official K-CAP website) containing detailed information about the tutorial, and to distribute material to participants. K-CAP will be responsible for the following: -Providing publicity for the tutorials as a whole -Providing logistics support and a meeting place for the tutorial ***Submission Dates and Details*** Event: June 23, 2013 (Provisional) ***Extended proposal due date: February 12, 2013*** Notifications: February 28, 2013 ***Suggested Timeline for Workshops*** Workshop website up: March 15, 2013 Workshop Call for Papers out (suggested): March 15, 2013 Deadline to submit Papers to Workshops: Individual deadline Acceptance of Papers for Workshops: April 30, 2013 Publication of Workshop programme: May 15, 2013 Deadline for camera-ready workshop notes: May 15, 2013 Workshop day: June 23, 2013 ***Suggested Timeline for Tutorials*** Tutorial website up: April 30, 2013 Deadline for tutorial material: May 15, 2013 Tutorial day: June 23, 2013 thanks Matthew From t.dinoia at poliba.it Tue Feb 5 19:31:05 2013 From: t.dinoia at poliba.it (Tommaso Di Noia) Date: Tue, 05 Feb 2013 19:31:05 +0100 Subject: [DL] CfP - I-SEMANTICS 2013 - 9th International Conference on Semantic Systems 2013 Message-ID: <51114FE9.8070009@poliba.it> Apologies for cross postings =====================Call for Papers============================ I-SEMANTICS 2013: 9th International Conference on Semantic Systems Graz, Austria, 4 - 6 September 2013 http://www.i-semantics.at including Announcement of 6th Linked Data Cup Latest News: ================================================================ ? We are happy to announce Yves Raimond from BBC as one of this year?s Key Note Speakers ? I-SEMANTICS proceedings published by ACM ICPS Important Dates (Research & Application & Challenge Papers) ? Abstract Submission Deadline: March 25, 2013 ? Paper Submission Deadline: April 1, 2013 ? Notification of Acceptance: May 3, 2013 ? Camera-Ready Paper: June 10, 2013 Important Dates (Posters & Demo Papers & PhD Track) ? Submission Deadline: May 10, 2013 ? Notification of Acceptance: June 17, 2013 ? Camera Ready Paper: July 18, 2013 ================================================================== Hashtag for I-SEMANTICS 2013: #isem2013 SCOPE I-SEMANTICS 2013 (www.i-semantics.at) is the 9th International Conference on Semantic Systems. The conference brings together both researchers and practitioners in the areas of Semantic Technologies, Linked Data and the Semantic Web in order to showcase cutting edge research, demonstrators and applications for the Corporate and Social Semantic Web. I-SEMANTICS 2013 will also hold the ?I-CHALLENGE?, which brings to you the 6th Linked Data Cup (formerly Triplification Challenge), the Best Paper Award and the Best Poster Award. In order to foster synergies among the research fields of knowledge discovery, social computing, and semantic technologies I-SEMANTICS Conference will be held together with the I-KNOW Conference, the 13th International Conference on Knowledge Technologies (www.i-know.at). TOPICS As a conference aiming to bring together science and industry, I-SEMANTICS encourages scientific research and application-oriented contributions in the field of Semantic Technologies, Semantic Web and Linked Data. The topics of interest for this year?s conference include but are not limited to: THE WEB OF DATA ? Large scale triplification and processing of data ? Vocabularies, taxonomies and schemas for the web of data ? Querying, searching and browsing over the web of data ? Data integration and interlinking for the web of data ? Location-based services and mobile semantic applications ? User interaction and innovative visualizations for the web of data ? Reasoning over the web of data ? (Mashup) applications utilizing (large scale) linked data resources ? Recommender systems making use of the web of data ? Integrating microposts into the web of data ? Linked enterprise data and (open) linked government data ? Linked sensor data and machine-to-machine communication QUALITY OF SEMANTIC DATA ON THE WEB ? Provenance information for the web of data ? Large scale ontology inspection, maintenance and repair ? Co-reference detection and dataset reconciliation ? Quality analysis and metrics for the web of data ? Trust, privacy and security in semantic web applications CORPORATE SEMANTIC WEB ? Corporate thesauri, business vocabularies, ontologies and rules ? Semantic business, e-commerce and m-commerce systems ? Semantic procurement for enterprises and governments ? Semantics, pragmatics and semiotics in organizations ? Enterprise trust and reputation management ? Organisational issues in the deployment and application of semantic technologies SOCIAL SEMANTIC WEB ? Enriching social web data and information with semantics and linked data ? Semantically-enabled social platforms and applications ? Users as virtual and physical sensors and devices for a ubiquitous social semantic web ? Semantic based personalization, as e.g. for recommendations, social navigation, collaborative search, social filtering, etc ? Reality augmented by the social semantic web ? Querying, mining and analysis of social semantic web data and dynamics ? Representing and reasoning with uncertainty, provenance, trust in social web data ? Ethical issues related to the use of user generated content & linked data SEMANTIC CONTENT ENGINEERING ? Collaborative ontology engineering ? Ontology modularity, alignment and merging ? Ontology design patterns and life cycle management ? Ontology learning and knowledge acquisition ? Semantic annotation and tagging ? Making sense of microposts ? Semantic content management systems SEMANTIC MULTIMEDIA ? Semantic-driven multimedia applications ? Multimedia ontologies and infrastructures ? Content-based semantic multimedia analysis and data mining ? Semantic-driven multimedia indexing and retrieval ? Named entity recognition and disambiguation in multimedia documents ? Human-computer interfaces and visualization for multimedia data access STUDIES, METRICS & BENCHMARKS ? Case studies of and benchmarks in semantic systems usage ? Evaluation perspectives, methods and semantic web research methodologies ? Technology assessment and acceptance/reactance research ? Usability and user interaction with semantic technologies ? Case studies with clear lessons learned or evaluations DATA ECOSYSTEMS & MARKETS ? Economic foundations of data assets, markets and data crowd sourcing ? Business and governance models for data commerce ? Production principles and measures of data creation, curation and utilization ? Business models and economic impacts of Linked (Enterprise) Data and/or large scale semantic systems ? Case studies for sector-specific data strategies I-SEMANTICS Submission Information All accepted full papers and short papers of I-SEMANTICS 2013 will be published in the digital library of the ACM ICP Series under the ISBN-No.: 978-1-4503-1972-0. Please note: Poster and Demo papers are planned to be published at CEUR-WS again. RESEARCH / APPLICATION PAPERS Research papers report on novel research and/or applications relevant to the topics of the conference. Submissions must be original and must not have been submitted for publication elsewhere. The number of pages of research papers is limited to 8 pages for full papers and 4 pages for short papers including references and an optional appendix. Full and short papers should follow the ACM ICPS guidelines for formatting (http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates) and must be submitted via the online submission system available at the conference website as PDF documents (other formats will not be accepted). For the camera-ready version, we will also need the source files (Latex, Word Perfect, Word). IMPORTANT DATES (Research & Application & Challenge Papers) ? Abstract Submission Deadline: March 25, 2013 ? Paper Submission Deadline: April 1, 2013 ? Notification of Acceptance: May 3, 2013 ? Camera-Ready Paper: June 10, 2013 POSTERS, DEMO & PdH TRACK The Posters & Demonstrations Track and the PhD Track offer an opportunity to present late-breaking research results, smaller contributions, and innovative work in progress. The informal setting of the Posters & Demonstrations Track encourages presenters and participants to engage in discussions about the presented work. Such discussions can be invaluable inputs for the future work of the presenters, while offering conference participants an effective way to broaden their knowledge of the emerging research trends and to network with other researchers. Poster and demo submissions should consist of a paper of 3-4 pages that describes the work and its contribution to the field. Submissions to this track must be in the Springer LNCS format (http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs/lncs+authors), i.e. please do NOT use the ACM template here. The objective of the PhD Track is to provide doctoral students with a forum to present and discuss their research projects with experienced researchers (?mentors?) and fellow students. It addresses PhD students at an early stage of their doctoral studies, who want to receive feedback from internationally recognized researchers. Ideally, participants will have a well-defined problem statement and precise questions to discuss with their mentor. Applicants should be PhD students (from any country), conducting ongoing research in the areas of semantic technologies, Linked Data and the Semantic Web. PhD Track submissions should consist of up to 1.500 words and contain the following: ? Name, affiliation and contact details of the PhD student ? Name(s) of the supervisor(s) ? Summary of the research project, including: ? Problem: research questions, motivation, state of the art and relevance for the fields of Semantic Technologies, Linked Data and Semantic Web ? Approach: (planned) approach and methodology ? Current status / timeline: current status of the work and any results that have already been reached plus outlook to future work ? A list of key questions that the PhD student wants to discuss during the event Submissions will be reviewed by experienced researchers; each submission will receive detailed feedback. The program committee will select participants who will give a short presentation about their research project during the I-SEMANTICS PhD Track. Main focus of the event is on discussion, support and solving open questions. IMPORTANT DATES (Posters & Demo Papers & PhD Track) ? Submission Deadline: May 10, 2013 ? Notification of Acceptance: June 17, 2013 ? Camera Ready Paper: July 18, 2013 I-CHALLENGE For the second time in 2013 we will bring to you the I-CHALLENGE, consisting of the Best Research/Application Paper Award, the Best Poster Award and the Linked Data Cup. While the best paper will be selected by the program committee, the Best Poster will be voted by the conference audience via online voting. (Please expect more details for all the Best Paper Awards in the weeks to come.) Information on the Linked Data Cup will be available soon. I-SEMANTICS Committee Scientific Chair ? Harald Sack (Hasso-Plattner-Institute for IT Systems Engineering, Germany) Program Chairs ? Eva Blomqvist (Link?ping University, Seden) ? Tommaso Di Noia (Technical University of Bari, Italy) ? Marta Sabou (MODUL University Vienna, Austria) Track Chairs ? I-CHALLENGE: ? J?rg Waitelonis (Hasso-Plattner-Institute for IT Systems Engineering) ? Thomas Thurner (Semantic Web Company, Austria) ? PhD Track Chair: to be announced ? Posters & Demos Chair: Steffen Lohmann (University of Stuttgart, Germany) Industry Chair ? Andreas Blumauer (Semantic Web Company, Austria) Conference Chair ? Tassilo Pellegrini (University of Applied Sciences St. P?lten, Austria) Program Committee Please go to: http://i-semantics.tugraz.at/scientific-track/program-committee/ ================================================================ From lembo at dis.uniroma1.it Thu Feb 7 14:07:10 2013 From: lembo at dis.uniroma1.it (Domenico Lembo) Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2013 14:07:10 +0100 Subject: [DL] Call for Papers: The 7th International Conference on Web Reasoning and Rule Systems (RR 2013) Message-ID: CALL FOR PAPERS The 7th International Conference on Web Reasoning and Rule Systems Mannheim, Germany, July 27-29, 2013 http://www.rr-conference.org/RR2013 == RR == The International Conference on Web Reasoning and Rule Systems (RR) is a major forum for discussion and dissemination of new results concerning Web Reasoning and Rule Systems. RR 2013 is associated with a number of interesting events: - 9th Reasoning Web Summer School (RW 2013) Mannheim, Germany, July 30 - August 2, 2013 http://rw2013.uni-mannheim.de/ - 26th International Workshop on Description Logics (DL 2013) Ulm, Germany, July 23-26, 2013 http://www.uni-ulm.de/en/in/dl2013.html - 2nd OWL Reasoner Evaluation Workshop (ORE 2013) Ulm, Germany, July 22, 2013 http://ore2013.cs.manchester.ac.uk/ The Reasoning Web Summer School is a great opportunity particularly for young researchers to combine with attendance of the conference. Submissions by summer school participants are particularly encouraged. == Important Dates == Abstract submission: March 25, 2013, before 23:59 UTC Full papers submission: March 30, 2013, before 23:59 UTC Notification of acceptance: May 7, 2013 Camera-ready submission: May 21, 2013 == Topics == RR welcomes original research from all areas of Web Reasoning. Topics of particular interest are: - Semantic Web, Rule and Ontology Languages, and related logics - Reasoning, Querying, Searching and Optimization - Incompleteness, Inconsistency and Uncertainty - Non-monotonic, Commonsense, and Closed-World Reasoning for the Web - Dynamic information, Stream Reasoning and Complex Event Processing - Decision Making, Planning, and Intelligent Agents - Reasoning, Machine Learning, Knowledge Extraction and IR Technologies - Large-scale data management and reasoning on the Web of Data - Data Integration, Dataspaces and Ontology-Based Data Access - Non-Standard Reasoning - Algorithms for distributed, parallelized, and scalable reasoning - System Descriptions and Experimentation - Application and Experience Papers == Invited Speakers == Thomas Eiter (Vienna University of Technology, Austria) Leonid Libkin (University of Edinburgh, UK) Nicola Leone (University of Calabria, Italy) == Doctoral Consortium == Following the success of its first edition at RR 2012, RR 2013 will also host a doctoral consortium, which will provide doctoral students in Web Reasoning and related areas with the unique opportunity to present and discuss their research directions, being involved into state-of-the-art research discussion and being supported in establishing fruitful collaborations with prominent researchers and pioneers in the field of Web Reasoning and Rules and related areas. == Publication == The conference proceedings will be published by Springer within the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series. After the conference, authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended versions of their papers to a special issue of a prestigious international journal. == Submissions == Submissions must be prepared in Springer's LaTeX style llncs (http://www.springer.com/comp/lncs/Authors.html). There are two submission formats: - Full papers (up to 15 pages) Original research works in the above areas - Technical Communications (up to 6 pages) Results and ideas of interest to the RR audience, including reports about recent own publications, position papers, system descriptions and application descriptions (accompanying a demo), and presentations of preliminary results All accepted works will be included in the proceedings, with Technical Communications clearly marked as such. All full papers and selected Technical Communications will be invited to give a talk at the conference. All accepted works will have the opportunity to present a poster and/or a system demo. Submissions can be made in EasyChair: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=rr-2013 Submission instructions for the RR 2013 Doctoral Consortium will be communicated by means of a separate Call for Papers. == Best Paper Award and Best Student Paper Award== Awards for Best Paper and Best Student Paper will be presented to the corresponding author(s) at the conference. The best student paper will be selected among the ones written mainly by students (i.e. persons not holding a PhD as of March 30, 2013), and the Best Student Paper award will be assigned only in case a student is not one of the main authors of the paper winning the Best Paper award. To qualify for the Best Student Paper award, the authors must indicate their eligibility upon submission at easychair. == Organization == General Chair: - Sebastian Rudolph (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany) Program Chairs: - Wolfgang Faber (University of Calabria, Italy) - Domenico Lembo (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy) Local Chair: - Heiner Stuckenschmidt (University of Mannheim, Germany) Doctoral Consortium Chair: - Alessandra Mileo (National University of Ireland Galway, Ireland) Sponsorship Chair: - Marco Maratea (University of Genoa, Italy) == Program Committee == Jos? J?lio Alferes (New University of Lisbon, Portugal) Darko Anicic (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany) Marcello Balduccini (Kodak Research Laboratories, USA) Leopoldo Bertossi (Carleton University, Canada) Meghyn Bienvenu (CNRS & University of Paris-Sud, France) Gerhard Brewka (Leipzig University, Germany) Francois Bry (University of Munich, Germany) Vinay Chaudhri (SRI International, USA) Bernardo Cuenca Grau (University of Oxford, UK) Claudia D'Amato (University of Bari, Italy) Agostino Dovier (University of Udine, Italy) Esra Erdem (Sabanci University, Turkey) Michael Fink (Vienna University of Technology, Austria) Sergio Flesca (University of Calabria, Italy) Gerhard Friedrich (University of Klagenfurt, Austria) Gianluigi Greco (University of Calabria, Italy) Stijn Heymans (SRI International, USA) Giovambattista Ianni (University of Calabria, Italy) Michael Kifer (Stony Brook University, USA) Roman Kontchakov (Birkbeck College, UK) Manolis Koubarakis (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece) Markus Kr?tzsch (University of Oxford, UK) Georg Lausen (University of Freiburg, Germany) Joohyung Lee (Arizona State University, USA) Francesca Alessandra Lisi (University of Bari, Italy) Jorge Lobo (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain) Thomas Lukasiewicz (University of Oxford, UK) Carsten Lutz (University of Bremen, Germany) Michael Maher (University of New South Wales, Australia) Alessandra Mileo (National University of Ireland Galway, Ireland) Leora Morgenstern (Science Applications International Corporation, USA) Boris Motik (University of Oxford, UK) Marie-Laure Mugnier (University of Montpellier 2, France) Giorgio Orsi (University of Oxford, UK) Magdalena Ortiz (Vienna University of Technology, Austria) Adrian Paschke (Free University of Berlin, Germany) David Pearce (Technical University of Madrid, Spain) Axel Polleres (National University of Ireland Galway, Ireland) Guilin Qi (Southeast University, China) Steven Schockaert (Cardiff University, UK) Steffen Staab (University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany) Umberto Straccia (ISTI-CNR, Italy) Heiner Stuckenschmidt (University of Mannheim, Germany) David Toman (University of Waterloo, Canada) Mirek Truszczynski (University of Kentucky, USA) Ivan Varzinczak (CSIR Meraka Institute, South Africa) -- Domenico Lembo Sapienza Universit? di Roma Dip. di Ingegneria Informatica, Automatica e Gestionale "A. 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The Summer School will also be open to senior researchers wishing to learn about Semantic Web issues related to their own fields of research. For further details please visit http://rw2013.uni-mannheim.de As in the previous years, we managed again to attract a distinguished group of expert lecturers, the majority of which will - apart from their lectures - also be present for the duration of the school to interact with students. Interaction with senior researchers and establishing contacts within young researchers is a main focus of the school, which will be supported through social activities and an interactive, amicable atmosphere. The summer school will be co-located with related events. This will be a great opportunity to attend major events in the area ahead of the school. As a further highlight, we want to point out the opportunity of PhD students to present their research at the RR 2013 Doctoral Consortium. Joint applications for the Reasoning Web Summer School 2013 and the RR 2013 Doctoral Consortium are explicitly encouraged. More details will be announced soon on the RR 2013 website. == IMPORTANT DATES == Application deadline: March 25, 2013 Notifications: April 1, 2013 Summer School Registration: May 15, 2013 == CONFIRMED LECTURES == * Anni-Yasmin Turhan (Technische Universit?t Dresden) Description Logic Ontologies * Ulrike Sattler (University of Manchester) Complexity and DL Reasoning * Chris Bizer (University of Mannheim) Linked Data on the Web * Krzysztof Janowicz (University of California, Santa Barbara) Geospatial Data on the Web * Axel Polleres (Siemens AG Corporate Technology) Aidan Hogan (DERI Galway) Reasoning with Linked Data * Wolfgang Faber (University of Calabria) Answer Set Programming * Diego Calvanese (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano) Ontology-based Data Access * Mathias Niepert (University of Washington, Seattle) Large-scale Reasoning for Information Extraction and Integration == APPLICATIONS == The number of attendees will be limited, applications for participation have to be submitted via Easychair using the "student application" category: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=rw2013 The program of the school will include a poster session, where students can present and discuss their ongoing research with lecturers and colleagues. Applicants who wish to participate in the poster session shall tick the "participation in poster session" group and include a poster title and abstract with their application submission. Applications must be submitted in PDF format not exceeding 2 pages (min. font size 11pt) and contain the following information: - Name, contact details - Affiliation - Motivation for participation - Summary of profile - Willing to present a poster? (if yes, add a poster title and abstract) - Supervisor (if applicable) - Publications (if applicable) == GRANTS == The organizing committee is considering to offer scholarships to summer school participants to partially cover registration and/or accommodation fees, depending on available sponsorships. There are further grants for students participating in the RR 2013 Doctoral Consortium who would like to extend their stay to also attend the summer school. == REGISTRATION == If your application has been accepted, you will be notified by email. Registration will be possible until May 15, 2013. The Summer School registration fee covers teaching, coffee breaks, social event, and a volume of the lecture notes. == LECTURE NOTES == The course material used during the summer school will be published with Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series. A copy of the proceedings will be included in the registration fees. == ORGANIZATION == * Program Chair Sebastian Rudolph (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology) * Scientific Advisory Board Georg Gottlob (University of Oxford) Ian Horrocks (University of Oxford) Frank van Harmelen (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) * Local Chair Heiner Stuckenschmidt (University of Mannheim) * Sponsorship Chair Marco Maratea (University of Genoa) == CONTACT == For further information including sponsorship opportunities, please contact the local organizer Heiner Stuckenschmidt or the sponsor chair Marco Maratea . -- Domenico Lembo Sapienza Universit? di Roma Dip. di Ingegneria Informatica, Automatica e Gestionale "A. Ruberti" Via Ariosto 25, 00185 Roma (stanza B209) Tel: +39 0677274027 Fax: +39 0677274002 email: lembo at dis.uniroma1.it home: http://www.dis.uniroma1.it/~lembo -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From rodriguez at inf.unibz.it Thu Feb 7 15:42:29 2013 From: rodriguez at inf.unibz.it (Rodriguez-Muro Mariano (A)) Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2013 14:42:29 +0000 Subject: [DL] -ontop- v1.7-alpha2 (build 2178) for RDF(S)/OWL/SPARQL and RDBs is now available Message-ID: We are happy to announce the availability of -ontop- v1.7-alpha2 build 2178 a Java framework to query ontologies with mappings to databases. If you are interested in virtual RDF graphs, R2RML mappings and/or RDFS/OWL2QL reasoning, then -ontop- is for you. Our latests benchmarks show that -ontop- is able to outperform similar systems (free or commercial) often by several orders of magnitude. This is due to the techniques for query rewriting, SPARQL-to-SQL and query optimization that the system implements, and that allow it to answer SPARQL queries by translating them into one single, lean an efficient SQL query that is executed in a single shot by your database, and whose structure is such that can be planned and executed efficiently even by open source databases. With -ontop-, you don't need to move your data from your already efficient database in order for you to enjoy the benefits of the RDF data model, the SPARQL query language or RDF/OWL2QL inference. And there is no need for expensive ETL or forward/backward chaining either. -ontop- is work in progress, and it is still in alpha stage and has several rough edges. However, given the number of currently stable features, and the latests benchmark results, we think it might be interesting for you to give it a test drive. The system is available for free at http://ontop.inf.unibz.it/ Please, try it out and help us improve it by sending us your feedback. Cheers, The -ontop- development team From markus.kroetzsch at cs.ox.ac.uk Fri Feb 8 17:41:11 2013 From: markus.kroetzsch at cs.ox.ac.uk (=?UTF-8?B?TWFya3VzIEtyw7Z0enNjaA==?=) Date: Fri, 08 Feb 2013 16:41:11 +0000 Subject: [DL] CfP: DL 2013 - 26th Int Workshop on Description Logics Message-ID: <51152AA7.1050403@cs.ox.ac.uk> [Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message.] ============================================================================= CALL FOR PAPERS 26th International Workshop on Description Logics (DL 2013) Ulm, Germany, July 23--26, 2013 Co-located with ORE 2013; followed by RR 2013, Reasoning Web 2013 http://dl.kr.org/dl2013 ============================================================================= The DL workshop is the major annual event of the description logic research community. It is the forum at which those interested in description logics, both from academia and industry, meet to discuss ideas, share information and compare experiences. The workshop will be held at the University of Ulm, Campus East, from July 23rd to July 26th, 2013. In this year, DL workshop will be collocated with the 2nd OWL Reasoner Evaluation Workshop (ORE), which will take place on July 22nd in Ulm, Germany. Furthermore, the International Conference on Web Reasoning and Rule Systems (RR), will take place in Mannheim (1:40 min by train from Ulm) directly subsequent to the DL workshop (July 27th - 29th), and the 9th Reasoning Web Summer School (July 30th - Aug 2nd) also in Mannheim. IMPORTANT DATES --------------- Abstract submission deadline: April 05, 2013 Paper submission deadline: April 12, 2013 Acceptance notification: May 27, 2013 Camera ready copies: June 09, 2013 Early registration: June 24, 2013 Workshop: July 23-26, 2013 WORKSHOP SCOPE -------------- We invite contributions on all aspects of description logics, including but not limited to: * Foundations of description logics: decidability and complexity of reasoning, expressive power, novel inference problems, inconsistency tolerance, reasoning techniques, and modularity aspects * Extensions of description logics: closed-world and nonmonotonic reasoning, defaults, epistemic reasoning, temporal and spatial reasoning, procedural knowledge, query languages * Integration of description logics with other formalisms: object-oriented representation languages, database query languages, constraint-based programming, logic programming, and rule-based systems * Applications and use areas of description logics: ontology engineering, ontology languages, databases, ontology-based data access, semi-structured data, document management, natural language, learning, planning, Semantic Web, and cloud computing * Systems and tools around description logics: reasoners, software tools for and using description logic reasoning (e.g. ontology editors, database schema design, query optimization, and data integration tools), implementation and optimization techniques, benchmarking, evaluation, modeling INVITED SPEAKERS ---------------- * Giuseppe De Giacomo, Sapienza Universita di Roma, Italy * Michel Dumontier, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada * Ian Pratt-Hartmann, University of Manchester, UK SUBMISSIONS ----------- * Submissions are limited to 11 pages, excluding references, and should follow the Springer LNCS style guide (http://bit.ly/oPRW8y). * There is no page limit on the list of references. * A clearly marked appendix with additional proofs or evaluation data can be appended; it will be read at the discretion of the reviewers. * Submission page: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dl2013 * Accepted papers will be made available electronically in the CEUR Workshop Proceedings series (http://www.CEUR-ws.org/). * Accepted submissions will be selected for either oral or poster presentation, which will be clearly distinguished in the proceedings; however, the length of all accepted papers can be the same. ORGANIZATION ------------ * Thomas Eiter, Vienna University of Technology (Program co-Chair) * Birte Glimm, University of Ulm, Germany (Workshop co-Chair) * Yevgeny Kazakov, University of Ulm, Germany (Workshop co-Chair) * Markus Kroetzsch, University of Oxford, U.K. (Program co-Chair) PROGRAMME COMMITTEE ------------------- * Alessandro Artale, Free University of Bolzano-Bozen * Franz Baader, TU Dresden * Meghyn Bienvenu, CNRS & Universit? Paris-Sud * Alex Borgida, Rutgers University * Diego Calvanese, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano * Bernardo Cuenca Grau, University of Oxford * Enrico Franconi, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano * Pascal Hitzler, Wright State University * Matthew Horridge, Stanford University * Ian Horrocks, University of Oxford * Pavel Klinov, University of Ulm * Boris Konev, University of Liverpool * Roman Kontchakov, Birkbeck College * Jens Lehmann, University of Leipzig * Thorsten Liebig, derivo GmbH * Carsten Lutz, University of Bremen * Deborah McGuinness, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute * Thomas Meyer, UKZN and CSIR Meraka * Ralf M?ller, Hamburg University of Technology * Linh Anh Nguyen, University of Warsaw * Magdalena Ortiz, Vienna University of Technology * Bijan Parsia, University of Manchester * Peter Patel-Schneider, Nuance Communications * Rafael Pe?aloza, TU Dresden * Guilin Qi, Southeast University * Riccardo Rosati, Sapienza Universita' di Roma * Sebastian Rudolph, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology * Renate A. Schmidt, University of Manchester * Ulrike Sattler, University of Manchester * Thomas Schneider, University of Bremen * Luciano Serafini, Fondazione Bruno Kessler * Bar?? Sertkaya, SAP Research Center Dresden * Inanc Seylan, Universty of Bremen * Mantas Simkus, Vienna University of Technology * Giorgos Stamou, National Technical University of Athens * Giorgos Stoilos, National Technical University of Athens * Umberto Straccia, Institute of Information Science and Technologies * David Toman, University of Waterloo * Dmitry Tsarkov, The University of Manchester * Anni-Yasmin Turhan, TU Dresden * Zhe Wang, University of Oxford * Kewen Wang, Griffith University * Grant Weddell, University of Waterloo * Frank Wolter, University of Liverpool * Michael Zakharyaschev, Birkbeck College RESOURCES --------- * Information about submission, registration, travel information, etc., is available on the DL 2013 homepage: http://dl.kr.org/dl2013 * Enquiries about the DL 2013 workshop can be made by contacting the organizing committee * The official Description Logic home page is at http://dl.kr.org/ -- Dr. Markus Kroetzsch Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford Room 306, Parks Road, OX1 3QD Oxford, United Kingdom +44 (0)1865 283529 http://korrekt.org/ From pascal.hitzler at wright.edu Sat Feb 9 20:25:15 2013 From: pascal.hitzler at wright.edu (Pascal Hitzler) Date: Sat, 9 Feb 2013 14:25:15 -0500 Subject: [DL] Semantic Web Journal: Call for Special Issue Proposals Message-ID: <5116A29B.2080208@wright.edu> Semantic Web Journal: Call for Special Issue Proposals http://www.semantic-web-journal.net Semantic Web research is interdisciplinary in nature. Indeed, progress towards the Semantic Web vision requires the incorporation of fundamental state-of-the-art and future developments from many domains including Computer & Information Science, Cognitive Science, Geographic Information Science, the life sciences, the social sciences, and many more. To establish bridges between these domains, it is thus important to demonstrate what and how they contribute to the Semantic Web vision, and what the Semantic Web can offer in return to these disciplines. Hence, the Semantic Web Journal calls for Special Issue proposals on topics which (a) are within the topical realm of a neighboring domain but (b) contribute directly or indirectly to Semantic Web research. Research published in such special issues should strengthen the in-depth information exchange between disciplines by providing novel and high-quality contributions and at the same time demonstrate the impact on foundational research questions relevant for Semantic Web. While such manuscripts can be written with a specific audience in mind, the key ideas and contributions should be accessible to the broader Semantic web community. Proposals for special issues shall be sent to the Editors-in-Chief (contact at semantic-web-journal.net) and contain the following information in a single PDF file: * Names and affiliations of all guest editors * Topic of the special issue * Tentative list of Guest Editorial Board members * A short description of the topic * Why the topic is currently of interest * Why the topic is relevant to this call * Credentials of the guest editors regarding their research impact and their community standing with respect to the topic * A draft call for papers, including a suggested time-line It will be assumed that all proposed guest editors are aware of the journal's open and transparent review policy described at http://www.semantic-web-journal.net/reviewers#review Proposals for more "traditional" special issues are certainly also welcome at any time. Submission deadline: 31st of March, 2013 Best Regards, Pascal Hitzler Krzysztof Janowicz Editors-in-Chief -- Prof. Dr. Pascal Hitzler Dept. of Computer Science, Wright State University, Dayton, OH pascal at pascal-hitzler.de http://www.knoesis.org/pascal/ Semantic Web Textbook: http://www.semantic-web-book.org Semantic Web Journal: http://www.semantic-web-journal.net From rudolph at kit.edu Fri Feb 8 17:18:26 2013 From: rudolph at kit.edu (Sebastian Rudolph) Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2013 17:18:26 +0100 Subject: [DL] GKR@IJCAI 2013 CALL FOR PAPERS Message-ID: <60BBD2DD-678B-4E34-BACD-416108D46F21@kit.edu> =======================CALL FOR PAPERS=================== THE THIRD IJCAI INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON GRAPH STRUCTURES FOR KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION AND REASONING ========================================================== Graph-based knowledge representation and reasoning is a growing area of research, with more and more important contributions appearing over the last few years. The workshop welcomes contributions that: -- address graph-based representation, query and reasoning paradigms (e.g. Baysian Networks (BNs), Semantic Networks (SNs), RDF/S, SPARQL & RIF, Conceptual Graphs (CGs), Formal Concept Analysis (FCA), Euler Diagrams, CP-Nets, GAI-Nets, abstract argumentation frameworks etc.) from a theoretical and application viewpoint or -- apply graph-theoretic results to existing KR formalisms for reasoning optimization purposes. Papers reporting on application experience will be expected to demonstrate the benefits of the proposed solutions. Examples of such domains include Semantic Web, Grid Computing, BioInformatics, Multi Agent Systems, Recommender Systems etc. The GKR 2013 opens a special graph database demonstration and application track. Papers submitted to this track should report on theory, implementation results and applications of graph databases. Short demo papers are also welcome. For more details please check: www.lirmm.fr/~croitoru/GKR ============================================================ Paper deadline: April 20th, 2013 Notification: May 20th, 2013 Workshop date: August 3rd - 5th, 2013 (one day workshop) Post Proceedings of the workshop will be published in a special issue of the Springer LNAI Series. ============================================================ Workshop organizing committee: --Madalina Croitoru (LIRMM, France) --Christophe Gonzales (LIP6, France) --Sebastian Rudolph (KIT, Germany) --Stefan Woltran (Tech. Univ. Vienna, Austria) ============================================================ Apologies if you received more than one copy of this CFP. ============================================================ _________________________________________________ PD Dr. Sebastian Rudolph senior researcher & project leader at AIFB Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) rudolph at kit.edu phone +49 721 608 - 47362 www.sebastian-rudolph.de fax +49 721 608 - 45998 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Jon.Sneyers at CS.KULEUVEN.BE Mon Feb 11 11:07:24 2013 From: Jon.Sneyers at CS.KULEUVEN.BE (Jon Sneyers) Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2013 11:07:24 +0100 Subject: [DL] Assistant Position at University of Ulm, Computer Science, Declarative Programming Message-ID: (apologies for multiple copies) Please pass this message on to whoever you think may be interested. DOCTORAL OR POSTDOCTORAL POSITION IN DECLARATIVE PROGRAMMING Institute of Software Engineering and Compiler Construction, Faculty of Engineering and Computer Science, University of Ulm, Germany Starting Date: October 1, 2013. A research/teaching position is available for Ph.D. students or postdocs in the area of Constraint Programming, in particular Constraint Handling Rules (CHR). For background information on the subject start at http://www.informatik.uni-ulm.de/pm/fileadmin/pm/home/fruehwirth/ The applicant should have prior knowledge in one or more of the following areas: Declarative Programming, Logic, Program Analysis, Artificial Intelligence, and be willing to work in the field of Constraint Handling Rules. The context of the position requires a basic command of German at the time of application. Applicants are expected to be fluent in English. Mandatory teaching responsibilities are four lecture hours per week (in German or English). At least a master or equivalent in computer science or strongly related area is required. The initial appointment will be for two years, with possible renewals for up to six years and more. The position is state-funded according to salary scheme E13 TV-L, which means a gross salary of about 60.000 Euro per year, resulting in a net income of about 1750 to 2000 Euro a month depending on qualification (after deduction of taxes and of mandatory health and social insurance). Rents for flats start at about 500 Euro a month. Ulm is a pleasant city of 150.000 on the Danube, close to Stuttgart, Munich, the Alps, and Lake Konstanz. Every day life requires a basic command of German. Prospective applicants should email their resume with two references, certificates, proof of German language skills, and links to homepage and publications together in a single pdf file to Prof. Dr. Thom Fruehwirth, c/o Ulrike Seiter (secretary) ulrike.seiter at uni-ulm.de by May 1, 2013. Also use above email address for questions concerning the position. The University of Ulm is committed to increase the share of women in research and teaching positions and therefore explicitly encourages female candidates to apply. Job sharing is always possible for full-time positions. Physically disabled applicants receive favourable consideration when equally qualified. The job appointment is made by the central university administration. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From geoff at cs.miami.edu Mon Feb 11 17:23:25 2013 From: geoff at cs.miami.edu (Geoff Sutcliffe) Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2013 11:23:25 -0500 (EST) Subject: [DL] CADE-24 Workshops Message-ID: <20130211162325.222A51214A6@mcclellan.cs.miami.edu> Call for Papers Workshops at CADE-24 -- Lake Placid, New York, 9-10 June, 2013 Short CFPs for the following CADE-24 workshops are attached: ADDCT - Automated Deduction: Decidability, Complexity, Tractability ARSEC - Automated Reasoning in Security ARiSVe - Automated Reasoning in Software Verification ESARAI - Empirically Successful Automated Reasoning with AI KInAR - Knowledge Intensive Automated Reasoning PxTP - Proof Exchange for Theorem Proving For the Workshop Methods for Modalities (M4M) respective Information will be distributed soon. Moreover, CADE-24 will host a StarExec meeting. ===== ADDCT ========================================================== ADDCT - Automated Deduction: Decidability, Complexity, Tractability Decidability, and especially complexity and tractability of logical theories is extremely important for a large number of applications. Although general logical formalisms (such as predicate logic or number theory) are undecidable, decidable theories or decidable fragments thereof (sometimes even with low complexity) often occur in mathematics, in program verification, in the verification of reactive, real time or hybrid systems, as well as in databases and ontologies. It is therefore important to identify such decidable fragments and design efficient decision procedures for them. It is equally important to have uniform methods (such as resolution, rewriting, tableaux, sequent calculi, ...) which can be tuned to provide algorithms with optimal complexity. The goal of ADDCT is to bring together researchers interested in - identifying (fragments of) logical theories which are decidable, identifying fragments thereof which have low complexity, and analyzing possibilities of obtaining optimal complexity results with uniform tools; - analyzing decidability in combinations of theories and possibilities of combining decision procedures; - efficient implementations for decidable fragments; - application domains where decidability resp. tractability are crucial. Full Paper submission: March 26, 2013 Notification: April 26, 2013 Final versions: May 10, 2013 Workshop: June 10, 2013 More details: http://userpages.uni-koblenz.de/~sofronie/addct-2013/ ===== ARSEC ========================================================== ARSEC - Automated Reasoning in Security Automated reasoning methods have become increasingly critical in many areas of security, from analyzing cryptographic protocols for flaws to analyzing access-control and privacy policies. This interaction is proving to be mutually beneficial: automated reasoning methods are finding new applications in security; and new automated reasoning methods, developed for security applications, are enriching the tools available to all areas of automated reasoning. ARSEC will bring together researchers interested in automated reasoning and security to present recent work (including work in progress) and to discuss new ideas and trends in the field. Possible topics include, but are not limited to: - Security Protocols - Security Policies - Privacy and Confidentiality - Intrusion Detection - Automated Reasoning techniques such as Paramodulation, Rewriting, Unification and Satisfiability Modulo Theories (SMT). Paper Submission: March 25th Workshop: June 9th 2013 More details: http://www.cs.albany.edu/~marshall/ARSEC/ ===== ARiSVe ========================================================= ARiSVe - Automated Reasoning in Software Verification The focus of the workshop is application of automated reasoning in the context of software verification, and, more generally, automation in software verification. Relevant topics include but are not limited to: - specifics of verification-related automated reasoning tasks; - efficient translation of high-level verification conditions to logical languages of automated reasoning tools; - handling of the prover's feedback: proofs, models, answer terms; - logical theories of interest for program verification, decision procedures, integration into existing ATP and SMT systems; - combination of automated and user-assisted verification; tool presentations, tool comparisons, and benchmarks; - experience reports on verification of complex algorithms and real-life software with the use of automated reasoning tools. Invited speaker: K. Rustan M. Leino (Microsoft Research) Abstract submission deadline: March 8, 2013 Submission deadline: March 15, 2013 Notification: April 10, 2013 Camera ready versions due: May 10, 2013 Workshop: June 10, 2013 More details: http://arisve2013.lri.fr ===== ESARAI ========================================================= ESARAI - Empirically Successful Automated Reasoning with Artificial Intelligence The Empirically Successful Automated Reasoning with Artificial Intelligence (ESARAI) workshop will bring together two complementary groups of researchers: researchers in Automated Reasoning who employ Artificial Intelligence tools and techniques to support their automated reasoning research, and researchers in Artificial Intelligence who employ Automated Reasoning tools and techniques to support the artificial intelligence research. The workshop will offer mutually beneficial interactions, through the exposure of the two sides of the research to all. Additionally, the workshop will provide a focussed forum where the many interfaces between these two research fields can be presented and discussed. The workshop is soliciting research, position, applications and system description papers on combinations of AI and AR. Additionally, the workshop includes system and application demonstrations. Demonstrations of systems and applications described in paper presentations, and demonstrations of systems and applications without an accompanying paper, are both encouraged. Submission deadline - 22nd April Notification of acceptance - 13th May Final versions due - 20th May Workshop - 9th or 10th June More details: http://www.cs.miami.edu/~geoff/Conferences/ESARAI/ ===== KInAR ========================================================== KInAR - Knowledge Intensive Automated Reasoning Extensive digital sources of knowledge are becoming available, such as formal ontologies, databases, dictionaries and natural language reference works. Online sources like Wikipedia and IMDb, mathematical libraries like Mizar and various search engines and web services have gained widespread acceptance among the general population, but the sheer quantity of data can be an obstacle for human users. Automated reasoning (AR) systems have been advancing in their capabilities, and there is a growing interest in employing their deductive power to make digital knowledge more accessible. This poses challenges to AR research, but it is also a chance to bring AR into the public and to see large-scale usage of AR systems. In the KInAR workshop we aim to compile approaches to AR on large knowledge sources, and to aid the connections between researchers working on such projects. We invite submissions on any topics regarding KInAR, such as: - theoretical foundations: calculi for knowledge intensive reasoning, - knowledge corpora and their management, - extracting (semi-)formal knowledge from large informal corpora, - system descriptions of applications regarding the workshop topic, - benchmarking such systems, - robustness: reasoning despite flaws in digital knowledge, - combining knowledge from different sources. Submission deadline: 8 April 2013 Author notification: 2 May 2013 Camera-ready version: 9 May 2013 KInAR workshop: 10 June 2013 More details: http://userpages.uni-koblenz.de/~bpelzer/kinar2013 ===== PxTP =========================================================== PxTP - Proof Exchange for Theorem Proving The past decades have seen impressive advances in computer-aided reasoning, both in automated and interactive theorem proving. As shown by various system competitions, such as CASC, SMT-COMP, and the SAT competition, deduction tools are able to tackle larger problems progressively faster and are increasingly more applicable to a wider range of problems. In recent years, integration of such automated tools in larger verification environments has demonstrated the potential to reduce the amount of manual verification work. It is becoming clear that the success of deduction tools will not only depend on their power to solve large and difficult problems in an isolated manner, but it will also rely on their ability to cooperate, by exchanging problems, proofs, and models. The PxTP workshop aims at encouraging such cooperation by inviting contributions on various aspects of communication, integration, and cooperation between systems and formalisms. The workshop's mission is to facilitate building of complex reasoning applications and reuse of reasoning tools by developing and discussing suitable integration, translation and communication methods, standards, protocols, and application programming interfaces (APIs). The workshop would like to bring together the interested developers of automatic and interactive theorem proving tools, developers of combined systems, developers and users of translation tools and APIs, and producers of standards and protocols. Submission of papers: 11 April 2013 Notification: 2 May 2013 Camera-ready versions due: 9 May 2013 Workshop: 10 June 2013 More details: http://www.cs.ru.nl/pxtp13/ ===== StarExec ======================================================= StarExec The StarExec project is an NSF funded project to design, implement, and operate StarExec, a web service designed for the comparative evaluation of logic solvers (automated theorem provers) on benchmark problems. The $1.85 million budget of the grant is mostly dedicated to purchasing and operating a medium-sized cluster of an anticipated 150 compute nodes, which will be used to run jobs submitted by users of the system. We anticipate users will be members of various logic-solving subcommunities of the broader automated theorem proving community The StarExec 2013 workshop will bring together logic-solving community leaders, logic solver competition organizers, StarExec power users, and the StarExec organizers, to discuss the current status of the StarExec project. The workshop will have four sessions: - A status report from the StarExec organizers, and a demonstration of StarExec as it has been developed by the time of the workshop. - Use of StarExec by the attendees, so they can get a feeling of how well the implementation will meet their solver evaluation needs. - A feedback session based on the use of StarExec. - A presentation by the StarExec organizers on the short and medium terms plans for development and use of StarExec. StarExec 2013 will not invite papers or general attendance. Rather, the workshop will be aimed specifically at the types of researchers described above, to maximize the positive impact on the development and use of StarExec. The NSF grant will provide travel, accomodation, and registration support for 20 participants, 10 from the USA and 10 from overseas. More details: http://clc.cs.uiowa.edu/starexec13/ From guilin_qi at yahoo.co.uk Wed Feb 13 15:56:15 2013 From: guilin_qi at yahoo.co.uk (guilin qi) Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2013 14:56:15 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [DL] 2nd CFP: Second International Workshop on Debugging Ontologies and Ontology Mappings (WoDOOM) Message-ID: <1360767375.69202.YahooMailNeo@web133005.mail.ir2.yahoo.com> [Apologies for cross-posting and re-posting] ------------------------------------------------------ ? CALL FOR PAPERS ? =================================================================== ????? Second International Workshop on? Debugging Ontologies and Ontology Mappings (WoDOOM) ????????????????????????????? Montpellier, France, May 2013 ?????????????????????? held in conjunction with ESWC 2013 (May 26-30) =================================================================== ???????????????????? Submission deadline: March 4,? 2013 =================================================================== ? http://www.ida.liu.se/~patla/conferences/WoDOOM13/ ? Developing ontologies is not an easy task and, as the ontologies grow in size, they are likely to show a number of defects.? Such ontologies, although often useful, also lead to problems when used in semantically-enabled applications. Wrong conclusions may be derived or valid conclusions may be missed.? Defects in ontologies can take different forms. Syntactic defects are usually easy to find and to resolve. Defects regarding style include such things as unintended redundancy. More interesting and severe defects are the modeling defects which require domain knowledge to detect and resolve such as defects in the structure, and semantic defects such as unsatisfiable concepts and inconsistent ontologies. Further, during the recent years more and more mappings between ontologies with overlapping information have been generated, e.g. using ontology alignment systems, thereby connecting the ontologies in ontology networks. This has led to a new opportunity to deal with defects as the mappings and other ontologies in the network may be used in the debugging of a particular ontology in the network. It also has introduced a new difficulty as the mappings may not always be correct and need to be debugged themselves. This workshop intends to be a forum where issues in debugging ontologies and mappings between ontologies are discussed. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - detecting and repairing semantic defects in ontologies - detecting and repairing modeling defects in ontologies - detecting and repairing defects in the structure of ontologies - detecting and repairing defects in mappings between ontologies - debugging ontology networks - debugging modular ontologies - debugging defects in linked data - justifications - belief revision for debugging - ontology patterns for debugging - interactive ontology debugging - visualization for ontology debugging - connection of ontology debugging with other ontology engineering tasks (e.g. ontology development, ontology alignment, ontology comprehension, ontology sense making, ontology evolution, ontology enrichment) - case studies ? IMPORTANT DATES Submission: March 4, 2013. Notification: April 1, 2013. Camera-ready: April 15, 2013. ? SUBMISSION GUIDELINES ? Paper submission and reviewing for this workshop will be electronic via http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wodoom13. The papers should be written in English, follow Springer LNCS format (see http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0), and be submitted in PDF. We invite the submission of Research papers (up to 12 pages), Experience papers (up to 12 pages), Poster papers (up to 8 pages) and? System/demonstration? papers (up to 8 pages). ? ATTENDANCE ? Note that workshop attendees cannot register for the workshop only, but need to register for the ESWC conference as well. ? WORKSHOP CHAIRS Patrick Lambrix, Link?ping University, Sweden Guilin Qi, Southeast University, China. Matthew Horridge, Stanford University, USA Bijan Parsia, University of Manchester, UK ? 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See http://tableaux13.loria.fr for more information on TABLEAUX 2013, and http://i12www.ira.uka.de/TABLEAUX for information about the TABLEAUX conference series. TABLEAUX 2013 will be co-located with the 9th International Symposium on Frontiers of Combining Systems (FroCos 2013) held September 18-20, 2013. INVITED SPEAKERS - St?phane Demri, LSV - ENS Cachan & CIMS New York - Sara Negri, University of Helsinki - Tobias Nipkow, Technische Universit?t M?nchen TOPICS Tableaux methods offer a convenient set of formalisms for automating deduction in various non-standard logics as well as in classical logic. Areas of application include verification of software and computer systems, data integration and data access, deductive databases, knowledge representation and its required inference engines, and system diagnosis. The conference intends to bring together researchers interested in all aspects - theoretical foundations, implementation techniques, system developments and applications - of the mechanization of reasoning with tableaux and related methods. Topics of interest include (but are not restricted to): * proof-theory in classical and non-classical logics (modal, temporal, description, intuitionistic, substructural, ...) * analytic tableaux for various logics (theory and applications) * related techniques and concepts, e.g., model checking and BDDs * related methods (model elimination, sequent calculi, connection method, resolution, ...) * new calculi and methods for theorem proving and verification in classical and non-classical logics * systems, tools, implementations and applications (provers, logical frameworks, model checkers, ...) * automated deduction and formal methods applied to logic, mathematics, software development, protocol verification, security, ... TABLEAUX 2013 also welcomes applications of formal methods with automated reasoning to real world examples. Papers including such applications of tableaux and related methods in areas such as, for example, hardware and software verification, knowledge engineering, semantic web, etc. are particularly invited. They should be tailored for the tableaux community and should hence focus on the role of reasoning and logical aspects of the solution. One or more tutorials will be part of the Conference program. PUBLICATION DETAILS The proceedings of TABLEAUX 2013 will be published in the Springer LNCS/LNAI Series. SUBMISSIONS The conference will include contributed papers, tutorials, system descriptions and invited lectures. Submissions are invited in three categories: A Research papers (reporting original theoretical and/or experimental research, up to 15 pages) B System descriptions (up to 7 pages) C Tutorials in all areas of analytic tableaux and related methods from academic research to applications (proposals up to 5 pages) Submissions in categories A and B will be reviewed by peers, typically members of the program committee. They must be unpublished and not submitted for publication elsewhere. Accepted papers in these categories will be published in the conference proceedings (within the LNAI series of Springer), which will be available at the conference. For category B submissions a working implementation must exist and be available to the referees. Tutorial submissions (Category C) may be at introductory, intermediate, or advanced levels. Novel topics and topics of broad interest are preferred. The submission should include the title, the author, the topic of the tutorial, its level, its relevance to conference topics, and a description of the interest and the scientific contents of the proposed tutorial, to be presented in a time frame of at most 3 hours. Tutorial proposals will be reviewed by members of the program committee. For each accepted paper, at least one author is required to attend the conference to present the paper. Prospective authors are required to register a title and an abstract a week before the paper submission deadline. Further information and instructions about submissions can be found on the conference website at http://tableaux13.loria.fr. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR WORKSHOPS ------------------ Workshop proposals on specialised subjects in the range of the conference topics are welcome. We can accept up to 3 proposals. They can focus on specialized or broader areas and also on theoretical and/or applied topics. The format of a workshop is left to the organizers but typically TABLEAUX workshops feature invited speakers and a number of contributed presentations and the intended schedule is for one-day workshops. The date for TABLEAUX workshops is Monday 16th September, 2013. Proposals should include: - Workshop title - Names and affiliations of the organizers - Brief scientific description of the aims and scopes of the workshop, with an emphasis on the relevance for the Tableaux community. - Presentation of the proposed format and agenda. - Procedure for selecting papers and possibly participants. . - Expected number of participants and the potential invited speakers. - Plans for dissemination (for example, special issues of journals). To submit a workshop proposal, please send a description (up to 3 pages) to the PC chairs by March 4, 2013. The proposals will be reviewed by the members of the PC committee. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- PROGRAM COMMITTEE Carlos Areces, National University of C?rdoba, Argentina Arnon Avron, Tel-Aviv University, Israel Matthias Baaz, University of Technology, Vienna, Austria Philippe Balbiani, IRIT - CNRS, Toulouse, France Marta Cialdea Mayer, University Roma Tre, Roma, Italy Amy Felty, University of Ottawa, Canada Ulrich Furbach, University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany Didier Galmiche, LORIA - Lorraine University, Nancy, France (Chair) Valentin Goranko, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark Rajeev Gore, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia Reiner H?hnle, Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany Dominique Larchey-Wendling, LORIA - CNRS, Nancy, France (Chair) George Metcalfe, University of Bern, Switzerland Dale Miller, INRIA Saclay - LIX, Palaiseau, France Neil Murray, State University of New York, United States of America Nicola Olivetti, University of Marseille, France Jens Otten, University of Potsdam, Germany Lawrence C Paulson, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom Nicolas Peltier, LIG - CNRS, Grenoble, France Renate Schmidt, University of Manchester, United Kingdom Alex Simpson, University of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom Viorica Sofronie-Stokkermans, University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany Luca Vigano, University of Verona, Italy Arild Waaler, University of Oslo, Norway CONFERENCE and PC CHAIRS Didier Galmiche, LORIA - Lorraine University, Nancy, France Dominique Larchey-Wendling, LORIA - CNRS, Nancy, France From Adrian.Paschke at gmx.de Thu Feb 14 19:58:40 2013 From: Adrian.Paschke at gmx.de (Adrian Paschke) Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2013 19:58:40 +0100 Subject: [DL] RuleML 2013: 7th International Web Rule Symposium - Extended Call for Papers, Demos and Phd Papers Message-ID: <20130214185840.308010@gmx.net> ++++ Abstract/Paper Deadline Extended to Feb. 21st/Feb. 28th ++++++ Call for Papers, Call for Demos, Call for PhD Papers RuleML 2013: 7th International Web Rule Symposium University of Washington, Seattle,USA, July 11-13, 2013 http://2013.ruleml.org The RuleML2013 Conference is also hosting: - The 7th International Rule Challenge - The 3rd Doctoral Consortium on Rules - The OASIS Legal RuleML TC Meeting and Tutorial ================================= The annual International Web Rule Symposium (RuleML) is an international conference on research, applications, languages and standards for rule technologies. RuleML is the leading conference for building bridges between academia and industry in the field of rules and its applications, especially as part of the semantic technology stack. It is devoted to rule-based programming and rule-based systems including production rules systems, logic programming rule engines, and business rules engines/business rules management systems; Semantic Web rule languages and rule standards (e.g., RuleML, SWRL, RIF, PRR, SBVR); Legal RuleML; rule-based event processing languages (EPLs) and technologies; hybrid rule-based methods; and research on inference rules, transformation rules, decision rules, production rules, and ECA rules. The 7th International Symposium on Rules and the Web (RuleML 2013) will be held on July 11-13, 2013 just prior to the AAAI conference at the University of Washington, Seattle, USA. Selected papers will be published in book form in the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series. Objectives ========== RuleML-2013 will stimulate cooperation and interoperability between research and business in a community of researchers and practitioners who are interested in the theory and applications of rules. The symposium's areas of research and development have helped drive the rapid progress in technologies for practical rule and event processing. As a result, RuleML-2013 promises to be an exciting venue for the exchange of new ideas and experiences on issues related to engineering, management, integration, interoperability of rule systems, and interchange of rules in distributed enterprise, intranets, and open distributed environments. Industry practitioners, rule-system providers, users of rules, technical experts and developers, and researchers who are exploring foundational issues, developing systems and applications, or using rule-based systems are invited to share ideas, results, and experiences. Topics ======= We invite high-quality submissions related (but not limited) to one or more of the following topics: * Rules and automated reasoning * Rule-based policies, reputation, and trust * Rule-based event processing and reaction rules * Rules and the web * Fuzzy rules and uncertainty * Logic programming and nonmonotonic reasoning * Non-classical logics and the web (e.g modal and epistemic logics) * Hybrid methods for combining rules and statistical machine learning techniques (e.g., conditional random fields, PSL) * Rule transformation, extraction, and learning * Vocabularies, ontologies, and business rules * Rule markup languages and rule interchange formats * Rule-based distributed/multi-agent systems * Rules, agents, and norms * Rule-based communication, dialogue, and argumentation models * Vocabularies and ontologies for pragmatic primitives (e.g. speech acts and deontic primitives) * Pragmatic web reasoning and distributed rule inference / rule execution * Rules in online market research and online marketing * Applications of rule technologies in health care and life sciences * Legal rules and legal reasoning * Industrial applications of rules * Controlled natural language for rule encoding (e.g. SBVR, ACE, CLCE) * Standards activities related to rules * General rule topics Conference Chair ================= Adrian Paschke (Freie Universitaet Berlin, Germany) Program Chairs =============== Leora Morgenstern (Science Applications International Corporation, USA) Petros Stefaneas (NTUA, Greece) Important Dates =============== Abstract submission (extended): Feb. 21, 2013 23:59 UTC-12 Paper submission (extended): Feb. 28, 2013, 23:59 UTC-12 Notification of acceptance/rejection: April 12, 2013 Camera-ready copy due: May 3, 2013 RuleML-2013 dates: July 11-13, 2013 Submission guidelines ===================== Papers must be original contributions written in English and must be submitted at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ruleml2013 as: * Full Papers (15 pages in the proceedings) * Short Papers (8 pages in the proceedings) Please upload all submissions in LNCS format (http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html). To ensure high quality, submitted papers will be carefully peer-reviewed by 3 PC members based on originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of exposition. Selected papers will be published in book form in the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series. 7th International Rule Challenge ========================== Open Call for Demos: http://www.csw.inf.fu-berlin.de/ruleml2013/content/7th-international-rule-challenge Submission deadlines - RuleML-2013 Challenge: Submission deadline for demo papers and demo systems: May 3rd, 2013 Notification of accepted demo papers and demo systems: June 7th, 2013 Camera-ready deadline: June 21st, 2013 3rd Doctoral Consortium ========================== Call for PhD Papers: http://www.csw.inf.fu-berlin.de/ruleml2013/content/3rd-ruleml-doctoral-consortium Submission deadlines - RuleML 2013 Doctoral Consortium: Submission deadline for demo papers and demo systems: May 3rd, 2013 Notification of accepted demo papers and demo systems: June 7th, 2013 Camera-ready deadline: June 21st, 2013 From carlos.areces at gmail.com Fri Feb 15 17:41:17 2013 From: carlos.areces at gmail.com (Carlos Areces) Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2013 13:41:17 -0300 Subject: [DL] CFP- Method for Modalities 8 Message-ID: ==================================================================== 8th Worskhop on "Methods for Modalities" (M4M-8) Lake Placid, New York, June 10, 2013 http://www.cs.famaf.unc.edu.ar/~careces/M4M/M4M8/ ==================================================================== Scope ----- The workshop ''Methods for Modalities'' (M4M) aims to bring together researchers interested in developing algorithms, verification methods and tools based on modal logics. Here the term ''modal logics'' is conceived broadly, including temporal logic, description logic, guarded fragments, conditional logic, temporal and hybrid logic, etc. To stimulate interaction and transfer of expertise, M4M will feature a number of invited talks by leading scientists, research presentations aimed at highlighting new developments, and submissions of system demonstrations. We strongly encourage young researchers and students to submit papers and posters, especially for experimental and prototypical software tools which are related to modal logics. More information about the previous editions can be found at http://www.cs.famaf.unc.edu.ar/~careces/M4M/M4M8/ Paper Submissions ------------------ Authors are invited to submit papers in the following three categories. In all cases the LNCS style should be used. - Regular papers up to 15 pages including bibliography, describing original research. - System descriptions of up to 12 pages including bibliography, describing new systems or significant upgrades of existing ones. - Presentation-only papers, describing work recently published or submitted (no page limit). These will not be included in the proceedings, but pre-prints or post-prints can be made available to participants. Submissions should be made via EasyChair at the following address: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=m4m8 The final versions of the selected contributions will be collected in a volume to be distributed at the workshop. These informal proceedings will also be made accessible on the web. We plan to publish selected papers in ENTCS or in a special journal issue on the topic of the M4M workshop after an extra refereeing round. Important dates --------------- Abstract submission deadline: April 12th, 2013 [firm] Paper submission deadline: April 15th, 2013 [firm] Notification of acceptance: May 19th, 2013 Camera ready versions due: May 26th, 2013 Workshop dates: June 10, 2013 Program Committee ----------------- The following researchers have agreed to be members of the program committee of M4M-8: Carlos Areces (chair), Conicet & Universidad Nacional de C?rdoba Thomas ?gotnes, University of Bergen Philippe Balbiani, Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse Thomas Bolander, Technical University of Denmark Patrick Blackburn, University of Roskilde Stephane Demri, ENS de Cachan Hans van Ditmarsch, LORIA Santiago Figueira, Conicet & Universidad de Buenos Aires Diego Figueira, University of Edinburgh Silvio Ghilardi, University of Milano Rajeev Gor?, The Australian National University Daniel Gor?n, FAU Erlangen-N?rnberg Guido Governatori, NICTA Queensland Research Laboratory Andreas Herzig, Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse Guillaume Hoffmann, Universidad de C?rdoba Barteld Kooi, University of Groningen Martin Lange, University of Kassel Tiago de Lima, University of Artois Alessio Lomuscio, Imperial College London Angelo Montanari, University of Udine Sergio Mera, Universidad de Buenos Aires Valeria de Paiva, Cuill Inc. Gert Smolka, Saarland University Heinrich Wansing, Ruhr University Bochum From ernesto.jimenez.ruiz at gmail.com Sat Feb 16 13:00:47 2013 From: ernesto.jimenez.ruiz at gmail.com (Ernesto Jimenez-Ruiz) Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2013 12:00:47 +0000 Subject: [DL] [CfP] 2nd OWL Reasoner Evaluation Workshop (with DL 2013) Message-ID: [Apologies for cross-posting] ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1st CALL FOR PAPERS & SYSTEMS 2nd OWL Reasoner Evaluation Workshop (ORE 2013) Collocated with DL 2013 Workshop July 22nd in Ulm, Germany http://ore2013.cs.manchester.ac.uk/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- OBJECTIVES -------------------------------------------------------------------------- The goal of this workshop is to bring together both the DEVELOPERS and END-USERS of reasoners for (subsets of) OWL, including systems focusing on both intensional (ontology) and extensional (data) query answering. The workshop will give developers a perfect opportunity to promote their systems and get feedback from end-users and real uses-cases. CALL FOR PAPERS -------------------------------------------------------------------------- We invite submission of papers describing: * System descriptions describing the architecture, implementation, and expected performance of the reasoner. * Reasoner implementation details, usage reports, implementation "tips and tricks". * Challenging ontologies and/or benchmark proposals for OWL reasoners. Papers should be formatted according to the Springer LNCS guidelines ( http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html) and should not be longer than 6 pages. Submissions must be in PDF through the EasyChair conference system: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ore2013. All submissions will be peer-reviewed by the program committee. Selected papers will be presented during the workshop and published as a volume of CEUR workshop proceedings (http://ceur-ws.org/). CALL FOR SYSTEMS (CHALLENGE) -------------------------------------------------------------------------- We invite reasoner developers to submit their reasoners for participation in the OWL reasoner performance competition. The outline for the competition is as follows: * The test sets will include OWL ontologies from all OWL 2 profiles and of varying sizes, randomly sampled from the NCBO BioPortal, a web crawl, and user-submitted hard ontologies. * The tested tasks will include consistency checking, classification, entailment checking, and query answering. * Developers should send a JAR file of their systems to the competition organizers who will then carry out the benchmarks. We also strongly encourage challenge participants to submit a system description paper (see instructions above), describing: * architecture * implementation * expected performance More information about the competition can be found on the ORE 2013 website: http://ore2013.cs.manchester.ac.uk/competition/ IMPORTANT DATES -------------------------------------------------------------------------- * Paper submission deadline: May 3rd, 2013 * Notification of acceptance: May 31st, 2013 * System submission deadline for competition: June 27th, 2013 * Workshop: July 22nd, 2013 * Competitions: July 22-26, 2013 ORGANISATION -------------------------------------------------------------------------- For enquiries, please contact the organisers at ore2013 at easychair.org Organisers * Ernesto Jim?nez-Ruiz, University of Oxford, UK * Samantha Bail, University of Manchester, UK Competition Organisers * Bijan Parsia, University of Manchester, UK * Rafael Goncalves, University of Manchester, UK Local Organisers * Birte Glimm, Ulm University, Germany * Yevgeny Kazakov, Ulm University, Germany Program committee * Ana Armas, University of Oxford, UK * Franz Baader, TU Dresden, Germany * Christine Golbreich, LIRMM, CNRS, Montpellier & University Versailles Saint-Quentin, France * Janna Hastings, European Bioinformatics Institute, UK * Pavel Klinov, Ulm University, Germany * Despoina Magka, University of Oxford, UK * Francisco Martin-Recuerda, Universidad Polit?cnica de Madrid, Spain * Julian Mendez, TU Dresden, Germany * Maria del Mar Rold?n Garc?a, Universidad de Malaga, Spain * Stefan Schlobach, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands * Kiril Simov, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria * Kavitha Srinivas, IBM Research, USA * Zhe Wang, University of Oxford, UK -- Ernesto Jim?nez-Ruiz Research Assistant Department of Computer Science University of Oxford Wolfson Building, Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3QD, UK http://krono.act.uji.es/people/Ernesto http://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/people/ernesto.jimenez-ruiz/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From asun at fi.upm.es Sun Feb 17 09:58:13 2013 From: asun at fi.upm.es (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Asunci=F3n_G=F3mez_P=E9rez?=) Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2013 09:58:13 +0100 Subject: [DL] First South-American Summer School on Ontology Engineering and the Semantic Web, (SSSW@Brazil 2013). Applications open. Feb. 25th In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <51209BA5.8050703@fi.upm.es> * First South-American Summer School on Ontology Engineering and the Semantic Web * ***(SSSW at Brazil 2013)* 5-11 May, 2013 Florianopolis, Brazil http://sssw.org/brazil/how-to-apply/. *http://sssw.org/brazil/programme/* _*Applications open until February 25th.*__* *__**_ We are delighted to announce the first South-American Summer School on Ontology Engineering and the Semantic Web (SSSW at Brazil 2013), which will take place on 5-11 May, 2013 at the Recanto Champagnat in Lagoa da Concei??o, Florianopolis, Brazil. SSSW at Brazil will be a spin-off of the groundbreaking SSSW series of summer schools, which started in 2003. Consistently with the ethos of the SSSW series of summer schools, SSSW at Brazil will also follow a "hands-on" pedagogical approach, combining the practical with the theoretical, and adding teamwork and a competitive element to the mix. Specifically, lecture materials will be augmented with hands-on practical workshops, while work on developing and presenting a project in cooperation with other participants will serve as a means to consolidate the knowledge and skills gained from lectures and practical sessions. Prizes will be awarded to the best projects at the end of the week. Participants will be provided with electronic versions of all course lectures and all necessary tools and environments for the hands-on sessions. PC access with all tools pre-installed will be available on site as well. SSSW at Brazil will provide a stimulating and enjoyable environment in which participants will benefit not only from the formal and practical sessions but also from informal and social interactions with established researchers and the other participants to the school. To further facilitate interaction and exchange of ideas, a poster session will also take place, which will provide an opportunity for attendees to present and obtain feedback on their research or professional work. The language used in the school will be English. To ensure a high ratio between tutors and students the school will be limited to 50 participants maximum. These will include PhD students, academics and professionals.__ *IMPORTANT DATES* Registration Opens: 21/01/2013 Registration Closes: 25/02/2013 Notification: 10/03/2013 Payment: 30/03/2013 *TOPICS __* Linked Data / Web of Data Ontology Engineering Ontology Design Knowledge Representation Semantic Web Applications Semantic and Language Technologies Knowledge Management Semantic Search Web Intelligence Social Semantic Web *ORGANIZING COMMITTEE* Asun Gomez-Perez (Director, UPM) > Enrico Motta (Co-Director, OU) > Mathieu d'Aquin (Mini-project coordinator, OU) > Oscar Corcho (Poster coordinator, UPM) > Jose Leomar Todesco (Local Organization Chair, UFSC) Fernando Ostuni-Gauthier (Local Organization Co-chair, UFSC) Jos? Angel Ramos (Administrator, UPM)*/__/* The local organization of SSSW at Brazil will be handled by the Postgraduate Programme in Knowledge Engineering and Management at the Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC). *TUTORS AND INVITED SPEAKERS (PROVISIONAL)* Mathieu d'Aquin (The Open University, UK) Fabio Ciravegna (University of Sheffield, UK) Oscar Corcho (UPM, Spain) Jerome Euzenat (INRIA, France) Aldo Gangemi (Universit? Paris Nord, France; ISTC-CNR, Italy) Asun G?mez-P?rez (UPM, Spain) Enrico Motta (The Open University, UK) Valentina Presutti (ISTC-CNR, Italy) *HOW TO APPLY* Although the school primarily targets South-American students, academics and professionals, we do welcome applicants from anywhere in the world. Some basic acquaintance with knowledge representation languages for the Semantic Web (RDF, OWL, etc.) is desirable Applications should be sent by filling the application form, as well as sending a CV (in English) to *application at ssswbrazil.org*-- see http://sssw.org/brazil/how-to-apply/. *The deadline for applications is 2**5**February, 2013.* Accepted candidates are expected to arrive on Sunday, May 5th, between 3pm and 6pm and to participate fully in the activities of the school until its conclusion, at 2pm on Saturday, May 11th. Applicants should keep in mind that we will not consider applications from participants who cannot commit themselves to a full participation for the whole duration of the school. Participants must stay for the whole week of the course and should not leave the hotel at night.Participants are also required to bring and present a poster at the summer school, describing their own research or professional work. *VENUE AND ACCOMMODATION * The school will take place at the Recanto Champagnat in Lagoa da Concei??o, Florianopolis, Brazil. Florian?polis is the capital city and the second largest city of the State of Santa Catarina in the Southern region of Brazil . The Recanto Champagnat occupies a prime location on the hill ofLagoa da Concei??o, just 15 minutes from downtown Florianopolis and 5 minutes from Lagoa. It is situated in a beautiful landscape, with easy access to the Joaquina beach. *GOING TO RECANTO CHAMPAGNAT FROM FLORIANOPOLIS AIRPORT* Once you are in Florianopolis, the best option to go to Recanto Champagnat is by taxi . The estimated time of the whole trip (from Florianopolis airport to Recanto Champagnat) is around half a hour. The cost will be about R$ 80 Reais. The cost of the summer school, including accommodation, meals and excursions will be: R$ 2,500 for students R$ 4,000 for academics R$12,000 for professionals All figures are in Reais, the Brazilian currency. For more information, please contact the local organization by phone, +55 48 321 2445,or by email, ssswbrazil at egc.ufsc.br -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From peterschueller at sabanciuniv.edu Mon Feb 18 08:18:53 2013 From: peterschueller at sabanciuniv.edu (peterschueller at sabanciuniv.edu) Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2013 09:18:53 +0200 Subject: [DL] CFP ICLP 2013: 29th International Conference on Logic Programming, Istanbul, Turkey, August 24-28 Message-ID: (Apologies for cross-posting.) CALL FOR PAPERS 29th International Conference on Logic Programming (ICLP 2013) Special Issue: Theory and Practice of Logic Programming Istanbul, Turkey, August 24-29, 2013 http://www.iclp2013.org CONFERENCE SCOPE Since the first conference held in Marseilles in 1982, ICLP has been the premier international conference for presenting research in logic programming. Contributions are sought in all areas of logic programming including but not restricted to: Theory: Semantic Foundations, Formalisms, Nonmonotonic Reasoning, Knowledge Representation. Implementation: Compilation, Virtual Machines, Parallelism, Constraint Handling Rules, Tabling. Environments: Program Analysis, Transformation, Validation, Verification, Debugging, Profiling, Testing. Language Issues: Concurrency, Objects, Coordination, Mobility, Higher Order, Types, Modes, Assertions, Programming Techniques. Related Paradigms: Inductive Logic Programming, Constraint Logic Programming, Answer-Set Programming, Co-inductive Logic Programming, SAT-Checking. Applications: Databases, Data Integration and Federation, Software Engineering, Natural Language Processing, Web and Semantic Web, Agents, Artificial Intelligence, Bioinformatics. In addition to the presentations of accepted papers, the technical program will include invited talks, advanced tutorials, the doctoral consortium, and several workshops. SUBMISSION DETAILS The four broad categories for submissions are as follows. Regular papers, including: (1) technical papers for describing technically sound, innovative ideas that can advance the state of logic programming; (2) application papers, where the emphasis will be on their impact on the application domain; (3) system and tool papers, where the emphasis will be on the novelty, practicality, usability and availability of the systems and tools described. Technical commu- nications (4) aimed at describing recent developments, new projects, and other materials that are not ready for publication as standard papers. All papers and technical communications will be presented during the conference. All submissions must describe original, previously unpublished research, and must not simultaneously be submitted for publication elsewhere. They must be written in English. Technical papers, application papers, and system and tool papers must not exceed 12 pages plus bibliography: however a new condensed TPLP format may be used and the papers may include appendices beyond 12 pages. The limit for technical communications is 10 pages. Submissions must be made in the condensed TPLP format (http://www.iclp2013.org) via the Easychair submission system, available at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iclp2013 IMPORTANT DATES Paper registration (abstract): April 3, 2013 Submission deadline: April 10, 2013 Notification to authors: May 21, 2013 Revision deadline (when needed): June 21, 2013 Camera-ready copy due: July 18, 2013 Conference: August 24-29, 2013 PAPER PUBLICATION All accepted papers will be published in the journal Theory and Practice of Logic Programming (TPLP), Cambridge University Press (CUP), in one or more special issues. In order to ensure the quality of the final version, papers may be subject to more than one round of refereeing (within the decision period). Accepted technical communications will be published in the on-line abstract of the special issue(s). The program committee may also recommend standard papers to be published as technical communications. At the time of the conference CUP will make the web page for this(ese) TPLP issue(s) available including volume and issue numbers, table of contents, page numbers, and the papers themselves. All registered attendants at the conference will get a password for on-line access to this web page during the conference and indefinitely from then on ("lifetime access"), which can be used to read papers on line, download them, or print them for personal use. Attendants will also receive all the papers in a memory stick at the conference. ICLP 2013 ORGANIZATION General Co-Chairs: Esra Erdem Sabanci University Joohyung Lee Arizona State University Program Co-chairs: Terrance Swift New University of Lisboa Evelina Lamma University of Ferrara Workshops Chair: Hans Tompits Vienna University of Technology Publicity Chair: Peter Schueller Sabanci University Doctoral Consortium: Marco Gavanelli University of Ferrara Martin Gebser University of Potsdam Prolog Programming Contest: Bart Demoen KU Leuven PROGRAM COMMITTEE Elvira Albert Complutense University of Madrid Roberto Bagnara University of Parma and BUGSENG Gerhard Brewka Leipzig University Mats Carlsson Swedish Institute of Computer Science Manuel Carro Technical University of Madrid Michael Codish Ben-Gurion University Hasan Davulcu Arizona State University James Delgrande Simon Fraser University Bart Demoen KU Leuven Marc Denecker KU Leuven Agostino Dovier University of Udine Gregory Duck NICTA Thomas Eiter Vienna University of Technology Esra Erdem Sabanci University Wolfgang Faber University of Calabria Francois Fages INRIA Rocquencourt Paul Fodor Stony Brook University Thom Fruehwirth University of Ulm John Gallagher Roskilde University Martin Gebser University of Potsdam Michael Gelfond Texas Tech University Carmen Gervet German University in Cairo Laura Giordano University of Piemonte Orientale Gopal Gupta University of Texas at Dallas Manuel Hermenegildo Technical University of Madrid Joohyung Lee Arizona State University Joao Leite New University of Lisboa Victor Marek University of Kentucky Steven Muggleton Imperial College London Antonio Porto University of Porto C. R. Ramakrishnan University at Stony Brook Fabrizio Riguzzi University of Ferrara Ricardo Rocha University of Porto Gianfranco Rossi University of Parma Chiaki Sakama Wakayama University Tom Schrijvers Ghent University Hans Tompits Vienna University of Technology Francesca Toni Imperial College London Paolo Torroni University of Bologna German Vidal Polytechnic University of Valencia David Warren University at Stony Brook Jan Wielemaker University of Amsterdam Roland Yap National University of Singapore Jia-Huai You University of Alberta SPONSOR The conference is sponsored by the Association for Logic Programming (ALP). FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE The Association for Logic Programming has funds to assist financially disadvantaged participants and, specially, students in order to be able to attend the conference. WORKSHOPS The ICLP 2013 program will include several workshops, held before and after the main conference. They are perhaps the best places for the presentation of preliminary work, undeveloped novel ideas, and new open problems to a wide and interested audience with opportunities for intensive discussions and project collaboration. DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM The 8th Doctoral Consortium (DC) on Logic Programming provides research students with the opportunity to present and discuss their research directions, and to obtain feedback from both peers and world-renown experts in the field. Accepted participants will receive partial financial support to attend the event and the main conference. The best paper and presentation from the DC will be given the opportunity to present in a special session of the main ICLP conference. CONFERENCE VENUE Istanbul is a city of unparalleled social and cultural richness. Serving as the capital of two mighty empires for sixteen centuries, Eastern Roman (or Byzantine) and Ottoman, and set squarely between two continents, Istanbul has cultures and traditions that blend East with West and Mediterranean with Anatolian. Each civilization that has made Istanbul its home has left its mark in sublime and splendid ways, and the result a city that gives one the feeling of universal history at every step. Istanbul has always been a meeting place, a crosspoint and a destination. With the Ataturk Istanbul International Airport, getting to and from Istanbul has never been easier. With a capacity of far over 25 million travelers per year Istanbul is less than a three-hour flight from most European cities. Istanbul has a second airport located on the Asian side of the city, Sabiha Gokcen International Airport, which is an important arrival point especially for low-cost airlines. Overall, Istanbul is served by more than 50 major airlines to hundreds of cities around the world. From serge.autexier at dfki.de Thu Feb 14 09:51:54 2013 From: serge.autexier at dfki.de (Serge Autexier) Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2013 09:51:54 +0100 (CET) Subject: [DL] Second Call For Papers: Conf. Intelligent Computer Mathematics (CICM 2013), July 8-12, 2013, Bath, UK Message-ID: <20130214085154.F2C7813EB6EF@mbp-autexier.informatik.uni-bremen.de> CICM 2013 - Conferences on Intelligent Computer Mathematics July 8-12, 2013 at University of Bath, Bath, UK http://www.cicm-conference.org/2013/cicm.php 2nd Call for Papers ---------------------------------------------------------------------- * Invited Talks by Patrick Ion (Mathematical Reviews, American Mathematical Society, USA) Assia Mahboubi (?cole Polytechnique and INRIA/Microsoft Research Joint Centre, France) Ursula Martin (Queen Mary, University of London, UK) * Co-Located Workshops: - MathUI'13: Mathematical User Interfaces - OpenMath Workshop 2013 - PLMMS'13: Programming Languages for Mechanized Mathematics Systems - THedu'13: TP Components for Educational Software ---------------------------------------------------------------------- As computers and communications technology advance, greater opportunities arise for intelligent mathematical computation. While computer algebra, automated deduction, mathematical publishing and novel user interfaces individually have long and successful histories, we are now seeing increasing opportunities for synergy among these areas. The Conferences on Intelligent Computer Mathematics offers a venue for discussing these areas and their synergy. The conference will take place at the University of Bath (www.bath.ac.uk), with James Davenport as the local organiser. It consists of four tracks: Calculemus Chair: Wolfgang Windsteiger Digital Mathematical Libraries (DML) Chair: Petr Sojka Mathematical Knowledge Management (MKM) Chair: David Aspinall Systems and Projects Chair: Christoph Lange As in previous years, there will be a Doctoral Programme for presentations by Doctoral students. The overall programme will be organised by the General Program Chair Jacques Carette. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Important dates ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Abstract submission: 1 March 2013 Submission deadline: 8 March 2013 Reviews sent to authors: 5 April 2013 Rebuttals due: 8 April 2013 Notification of acceptance: 14 April 2013 Camera ready copies due: 26 April 2013 Conference: 8-12 July 2013 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Tracks ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ========== Calculemus ========== Calculemus 2013 invites the submission of original research contributions to be considered for publication and presentation at the conference. Calculemus is a series of conferences dedicated to the integration of computer algebra systems (CAS) and systems for mechanised reasoning like interactive proof assistants (PA) or automated theorem provers (ATP). Currently, symbolic computation is divided into several (more or less) independent branches: traditional ones (e.g., computer algebra and mechanised reasoning) as well as newly emerging ones (on user interfaces, knowledge management, theory exploration, etc.) The main concern of the Calculemus community is to bring these developments together in order to facilitate the theory, design, and implementation of integrated mathematical assistant systems that will be used routinely by mathematicians, computer scientists and all others who need computer-supported mathematics in their every day business. All topics in the intersection of computer algebra systems and automated reasoning systems are of interest for Calculemus. These include but are not limited to: * Automated theorem proving in computer algebra systems. * Computer algebra in theorem proving systems. * Adding reasoning capabilities to computer algebra systems. * Adding computational capabilities to theorem proving systems. * Theory, design and implementation of interdisciplinary systems for computer mathematics. * Case studies and applications that involve a mix of computation and reasoning. * Case studies in formalization of mathematical theories. * Representation of mathematics in computer algebra systems. * Theory exploration techniques. * Combining methods of symbolic computation and formal deduction. * Input languages, programming languages, types and constraint languages, and modeling languages for mathematical assistant systems. * Homotopy type theory. * Infrastructure for mathematical services. === DML === Mathematicians dream of a digital archive containing all peer-reviewed mathematical literature ever published, properly linked, validated and verified. It is estimated that the entire corpus of mathematical knowledge published over the centuries does not exceed 100,000,000 pages, an amount easily manageable by current information technologies. Track objective is to provide a forum for development of math-aware technologies, standards, algorithms and formats towards fulfillment of the dream of global digital mathematical library (DML). Computer scientists (D) and librarians of digital age (L) are especially welcome to join mathematicians (M) and discuss many aspects of DML preparation. Track topics are all topics of mathematical knowledge management and digital libraries applicable in the context of DML building -- processing of math knowledge expressed in scientific papers in natural languages, namely: * Math-aware text mining (math mining) and MSC classification * Math-aware representations of mathematical knowledge * Math-aware computational linguistics and corpora * Math-aware tools for [meta]data and fulltext processing * Math-aware OCR and document analysis * Math-aware information retrieval * Math-aware indexing and search * Authoring languages and tools * MathML, OpenMath, TeX and other mathematical content standards * Web interfaces for DML content * Mathematics on the web, math crawling and indexing * Math-aware document processing workflows * Archives of written mathematics * DML management, business models * DML rights handling, funding, sustainability * DML content acquisition, validation and curation === MKM === Mathematical Knowledge Management is an interdisciplinary field of research in the intersection of mathematics, computer science, library science, and scientific publishing. The objective of MKM is to develop new and better ways of managing sophisticated mathematical knowledge, based on innovative technology of computer science, the Internet, and intelligent knowledge processing. MKM is expected to serve mathematicians, scientists, and engineers who produce and use mathematical knowledge; educators and students who teach and learn mathematics; publishers who offer mathematical textbooks and disseminate new mathematical results; and librarians and mathematicians who catalog and organize mathematical knowledge. The conference is concerned with all aspects of mathematical knowledge management. A non-exclusive list of important topics includes: * Representations of mathematical knowledge * Authoring languages and tools * Repositories of formalized mathematics * Deduction systems * Mathematical digital libraries * Diagrammatic representations * Mathematical OCR * Mathematical search and retrieval * Math assistants, tutoring and assessment systems * MathML, OpenMath, and other mathematical content standards * Web presentation of mathematics * Data mining, discovery, theory exploration * Computer algebra systems * Collaboration tools for mathematics * Challenges and solutions for mathematical workflows ==================== Systems and Projects ==================== The Systems and Projects track of the Conferences on Intelligent Computer Mathematics is a forum for presenting available systems and new and ongoing projects in all areas and topics related to the CICM conferences: * Deduction and Computer Algebra (Calculemus) * Digital Mathematical Libraries (DML) * Mathematical Knowledge Management (MKM) * Artificial Intelligence and Symbolic Computation (AISC) The track aims to provide an overview of the latest developments and trends within the CICM community as well as to exchange ideas between developers and introduce systems to an audience of potential users. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Submission Instructions ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Submissions to the research tracks must not exceed 15 pages and will be reviewed and evaluated with respect to relevance, clarity, quality, originality, and impact. Shorter papers, e.g., for system descriptions, are welcome. Authors will have an opportunity to respond to their papers' reviews before the programme committee makes a decision. System descriptions and projects descriptions should be 2-4 pages and should present * newly developed systems, * systems that have not previously been presented to the CICM community, or * significant updates to existing systems. Systems must be available for download. Project presentations should describe * projects that are new or about to start, * ongoing projects that have not yet been presented to the CICM community. * significant new developments in ongoing previously presented projects. Presentations of new projects should mention relevant previous work and include a roadmap that outlines concrete steps. All submissions should contain links to demos, downloadable systems, or project websites. Accepted conference submissions from all tracks is intended to be published as a volume in the series Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) by Springer. In addition to these formal proceedings, authors are permitted and encouraged to publish the final versions of their papers on arXiv.org. Work-in-progress submissions are intended to provide a forum for the presentation of original work that is not (yet) in a suitable form for submission as a full or system description paper. This includes work in progress and emerging trends. Their size is not limited, but we recommend 5-10 pages. The programme committee may offer authors of rejected formal submissions to publish their contributions as work-in-progress papers instead. Depending on the number of work-in-progress papers accepted, they will be presented at the conference either as short talks or as posters. The work-in-progress proceedings will be published as a technical report, as well as online with CEUR-WS.org. All papers should be prepared in LaTeX and formatted according to the requirements of Springer's LNCS series (the corresponding style files can be downloaded from http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html). By submitting a paper the authors agree that if it is accepted at least one of the authors will attend the conference to present it. Electronic submission is done through easychair http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cicm2013 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Programme Committee ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Akiko Aizawa, NII, The University of Tokyo, Japan Jesse Alama, CENTRIA, FCT, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal Rob Arthan, Queen Mary University of London, UK Andrea Asperti, University of Bologna, Italy David Aspinall, University of Edinburgh, UK Jeremy Avigad, Carnegie Mellon University, US Thierry Bouche, Universit? Joseph Fourier (Grenoble), France Jacques Carette, McMaster University, Canada John Charnley, Department of Computing, Imperial College London, UK Janka Chleb?kov?, School of Computing, University of Portsmouth, UK Simon Colton, Department of Computing, Imperial College, London, UK Leo Freitas, Newcastle University, UK Deyan Ginev, Jacobs University Bremen, Germany Gudmund Grov, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK Thomas Hales, University of Pittsburgh, US Yannis Haralambous, T?l?com Bretagne, France J?nathan Heras, University of Dundee, UK Hoon Hong, North Carolina State University, US Predrag Jani?i?, University of Belgrade, Serbia Cezary Kaliszyk, University of Innsbruck, Austria Manfred Kerber, University of Birmingham, UK Adam Kilgarriff, Lexical Computing Ltd, UK Andrea Kohlhase, Jacobs University Bremen, Germany Michael Kohlhase, Jacobs University Bremen, Germany Temur Kutsia, RISC Institute, JKU Linz, Austria Christoph Lange, University of Birmingham, UK Paul Libbrecht, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany Christoph L?th, DFKI Bremen, Germany Till Mossakowski, DFKI Bremen, Germany Magnus O. Myreen, University of Cambridge, UK Florian Rabe, Jacobs University Bremen, Germany Ji?? R?kosn?k, Institute of Mathematics, Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic Carsten Schuermann, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark Petr Sojka, Masaryk University, Faculty of Informatics, Czech Republic Hendrik Tews, TU Dresden, Germany Frank Tompa, University of Waterloo, Canada Josef Urban, Radboud University, Netherlands Stephen Watt, University of Western Ontario, Canada Makarius Wenzel, Universit? Paris-Sud 11, France Wolfgang Windsteiger, RISC Institute, JKU Linz, Austria Richard Zanibbi, Rochester Institute of Technology, US -- Dr. Serge Autexier, serge.autexier at dfki.de, http://www.dfki.de/~serge/ Research Department Cyber-Physical Systems MZH, Room 3120 Phone: +49 421 218 59834 Bibliothekstr.1, D-28359 Bremen Fax: +49 421 218 98 59834 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Deutsches Forschungszentrum fuer Kuenstliche Intelligenz GmbH principal office, *not* the address for mail etc.!!!: Trippstadter Str. 122, D-67663 Kaiserslautern management board: Prof. Wolfgang Wahlster (chair), Dr. Walter Olthoff supervisory board: Prof. Hans A. Aukes (chair) Amtsgericht Kaiserslautern, HRB 2313 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From rodriguez at inf.unibz.it Mon Feb 18 16:44:14 2013 From: rodriguez at inf.unibz.it (Rodriguez-Muro Mariano (A)) Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2013 15:44:14 +0000 Subject: [DL] Second Call for Papers: 10th OWL: Experiences and Directions Workshop (OWLED 2013), Montpellier, France, May 26-27, 2013 Message-ID: Apologies for multiple postings. Please forward to interested parties. ============================================================================== SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS 10th OWL: Experiences and Directions Workshop (OWLED 2013) Montpellier, France. May 26-27, 2013 Co-located with ESWC 2013 http://www.webont.org/owled/2013/ =============================================================================== The aim of the OWL: Experiences and Directions Workshop (OWLED) is to establish an international forum for the OWL community, where practitioners in industry and academia, tool developers and others interested in OWL can describe real and potential applications, share experience and discuss requirements for language extensions/modifications. OWL is quickly becoming the representational model of choice for expressing semantics of BigData in many industries. This has been made possible thanks to the newly introduced support for tractable OWL fragments that allow inference at large scales over rapidly evolving data. OWLED will be celebrating its 10th year edition which provides an opportunity for an event focused on OWL in retrospective, OWL's evolution, and future directions in a BigData world. This year, OWLED will be co-located with ESWC 2013 in Montpellier, France. As usual, the workshop will try to encourage participants to work together and will give space for discussions of various topics as well as having presentation of submissions. Papers about all aspects of OWL and extensions, applications, theory, methods and tools, are welcome. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, * Application driven requirements for OWL * Applications of OWL * Experience of using OWL, in particular the OWL 2 Profiles * Evaluation of OWL tools e.g. reasoners * Benchmarks for OWL tools * Performance and scalability issues and improvements * Extensions to OWL * OWL and Rules * Implementation techniques and experience reports * Non-standard reasoning service (implementation and requirements for) * Explanation * Ontology comprehension * Tools, including editors, visualisation, parsers and syntax checkers * Collaborative editing of ontologies * Versioning of OWL ontologies * Modularity * Query answering with OWL * SPARQL and OWL * Linked Data and OWL Important Dates Titles and Abstract Due: 28th February Submissions due: 4th March Acceptance Notifications: 1st April Final papers due: 15th April OWLED Workshop: 26th - 27th May Submissions This year we would like to invite submissions of the following sorts: Technical papers (maximum 12 pages LNCS style). These papers should present research, implementation experience, and reports on the above topics and related topics. Space will be reserved for authors to present their work at the workshop. Short papers or System descriptions (maximum 4-6 pages LNCS style). These papers should present work that is in an early stage and/or publicize (novel) implemented systems that are of interest to OWLED attendees. We encourage authors of system descriptions to also submit a demonstration paper. Demonstrations (2 pages LNCS style). These papers should describe a demonstration of a system. The description should highlight why the system/service is of interest to the OWL community and should clearly state what will be demonstrated during the session. We encourage All submissions must be made online using the EasyChair conference system: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=owled2013 Best regards, Mariano Rodriguez Muro, General Chair, OWLED 2013 Kavitha Srinivas, Program Chair, OWLED 2013 Simon Jupp, Program Chair, OWLED 2013 From klaus.havelund at jpl.nasa.gov Mon Feb 18 18:24:05 2013 From: klaus.havelund at jpl.nasa.gov (Klaus Havelund) Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2013 09:24:05 -0800 Subject: [DL] [fm-announcements] Call for Tutorials: RV'13 Message-ID: CALL FOR TUTORIALS RV'13 Fourth International Conference on Runtime Verification INRIA Rennes, France 24-27 September 2013 http://rv2013.gforge.inria.fr/ RV'13, the Fourth International Conference on Runtime Verification, will take place at INRIA Rennes, France, from 24 to 27 September 2013. CALL FOR TUTORIALS As with previous editions, RV'13 will host tutorials. These are three-hour presentations on a selected topic. Additionally, tutorial presenters will be offered to publish a paper of up to twenty pages in the LNCS conference proceedings. A proposal for a tutorial must contain the subject of the tutorial, a proposed timeline, a note on previous similar tutorials (if applicable) and the differences to this incarnation, and a biography of the presenter. It must be formatted according to the Springer LNCS guide- lines and not exceed 2 pages. IMPORTANT DATES Tutorial submission: 5 May 2013 Notification: 12 May 2013 Final version: 7 July 2013 SCOPE Runtime verification is concerned with monitoring and analysis of soft- ware and hardware system executions. Runtime verification techniques are crucial for system correctness and reliability; they are signif- icantly more powerful and versatile than conventional testing, and more practical than exhaustive formal verification. Runtime verification can be used prior to deployment, for verification and debugging purposes, and after deployment for ensuring reliability, safety and security, and for providing fault containment and recovery. TOPICS - specification languages and formalisms for traces - specification mining - program instrumentation - monitor construction techniques - logging, recording, and replay - fault detection, localization, recovery and repair - program steering and adaptation - metrics and statistical information gathering - combination of static and dynamic analyses - program execution visualization PUBLICATION The RV'13 proceedings will be published as a volume of the LNCS series at Springer. To submit a tutorial, send an email to rv2013-info at lists.gforge.inria.fr For more information, see http://rv2013.gforge.inria.fr/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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You can also make the request by contacting fm-announcements-owner at lists.nasa.gov From guilin_qi at yahoo.co.uk Tue Feb 19 15:21:51 2013 From: guilin_qi at yahoo.co.uk (guilin qi) Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2013 14:21:51 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [DL] 2nd CFP: IJCAI 2013 workshop on Weighted Logics for AI (WL4AI 2013) Message-ID: <1361283711.54273.YahooMailNeo@web133002.mail.ir2.yahoo.com> Apologies for Multiple Postings =============================================================== IJCAI 2013 Workshop WL4AI Weighted Logics for AI: logic, uncertain beliefs, preferences, partial truth =============================================================== (3-5 August, 2013, Beijng, China) * Web site: http://www.iiia.csic.es/wl4ai-2013/ * Second Call for Papers: ------------------------------- In the last decades there has been an explosion of logical formalisms capable of dealing with a variety of reasoning tasks that require an explicit representation of quantitative or qualitative weights associated with classical or modal logical formulas (in a form or another). The semantics of the weights refer to a large variety of intended meanings: belief degrees, preference degrees, truth degrees,trust degrees, etc. Examples of such weighted formalisms include probabilistic or possibilistic uncertainty logics, preference logics, fuzzy description logics, different forms of weighted or fuzzy logic programs under various semantics, weighted argumentation systems, logics handling inconsistency with weights, logics for graded BDI agents, logics of trust and reputation, logics for handling graded emotions, etc. The underlying logics range from fully compositional systems, like systems of many-valued or fuzzy logic, to non-compositional ones like modal-like epistemic logics for reasoning about uncertainty, as probabilistic or possibilistic logics, or even some combination of them. In this workshop, continuation of the successful workshop with the same name held at ECAI-2012, the aim is to bring together researchers to discuss about the different motivations for the use of weighted logics in AI, the different types of calculi that are appropriate for these needs, and the problems that arise when putting them at work. Any paper on a weighted logic in relation to any of the following topics (but not limited to) with an AI perspective is welcome: - argumentation systems - belief revision - description logic - graded BDI agents - graded emotions - graded truth - inconsistency handling - information fusion - logic programs - non monotonic reasoning - preference modeling - trust and reputation - uncertainty - applications of weighted logics (some discussion on the kind of weighted logic used should be included in the paper) Authors are especially encouraged to discuss the intended semantics of the weights they use in their paper. Papers can be submitted electronically via https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wl4ai. ? * Post-Workshop Special Issue ----------------------------------- Revised and extended workshop papers will be welcome for submission to a special issue of the Journal of Applied Logic (published by Elsevier) that will be prepared after the workshop (Journal of Applied Logic is a SCI-indexed journal with impact factor 0.574). ? * Important Dates: -------------------------- April 10, 2013 - Abstract deadline April 26, 2013 - Submission of contributions to the workshop May 25, 2013 - Workshop paper acceptance notification June 5, 2013 - Deadline for final camera ready copy to workshop organizer ? * Already confirmed Invited Speaker(s) ---------------------------------------------- Professor Mingsheng Ying, University of Technology Sidney, Australia ? * Workshop co-chairs: ------------------------------- Lluis Godo, IIIA-CSIC, Spain Henri Prade, IRIT-CNRS, France Guilin Qi, Southeast University, China -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From tompits at kr.tuwien.ac.at Fri Feb 22 08:13:32 2013 From: tompits at kr.tuwien.ac.at (Hans Tompits) Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2013 08:13:32 +0100 (CET) Subject: [DL] 2nd Call for Workshop Proposals ICLP 2013: 29th International Conference on Logic Programming, Istanbul, Turkey, August 24-29 Message-ID: <20130222071333.02C05744CB2@gluck.kr.tuwien.ac.at> (Apologies for cross-posting.) --------------------------------------------------------------------- SECOND CALL FOR WORKSHOP PROPOSALS 29th International Conference on Logic Programming (ICLP 2013) Istanbul, Turkey, August 24-29, 2013 http://www.iclp2013.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- ICLP 2013, the 29th International Conference on Logic Programming, will be held in Istanbul, Turkey, August 24-29, 2013. Workshops collocated with an international conference are one of the best venues for the presentation and discussion of preliminary work, novel ideas, and new open problems to a wide and interested audience. Collocated workshops also provide an opportunity for presenting specialised topics and opportunities for intensive discussions and project collaboration. The topics of the workshops collocated with ICLP 2013 may cover any area related to logic programming (e.g., theory, systems, environments, software-engineering aspects, extensions, alternative paradigms, applications), including cross-disciplinary areas. However, any workshop proposal will be taken under consideration. The format of the workshop will be decided by the workshop organisers, but ample time should be allowed for general discussions. Workshops can vary in length, but the optimal format are half-day workshops and full-day workshops. Workshop Proposal: ================== People interested in organising a workshop at ICLP 2013 are invited to submit a workshop proposal. Proposals should be written in English and about two pages in length. They should contain: * the title of the workshop; * a brief technical description of the topics covered by the workshop; * a discussion of the timeline and relevance of the workshop; * a list of some related workshops held in recent years; * the (preliminary) required number of half-days allotted to the workshop and an estimate of the number of expected attendees; * the names, affiliations, and contact details (email, web page, phone, fax) of the workshop organiser(s) together with a designated contact person; and * the previous experience of the workshop organising committee in workshop or conference organisation. Proposals should be in PDF format and submitted to the Workshop Chair (Hans Tompits) by email by March 11, 2013. Reviewing Process: ================== Each submitted proposal will be reviewed by the Workshop Chair and the Conference Program Chairs. Proposals that appear well-organised and that fit the goals and the scope of ICLP will be selected. The Chairs will notify the responsible organisers of their decision via email by March 18, 2013. The final length of each workshop will be planned according to the number of submissions each workshop receives. For each accepted workshop, the ICLP local organisers will prepare a meeting place and arrange the distribution of the workshop proceedings, which must be prepared by the workshop organisers. The workshop registration fees will be handled together with the conference fees. Workshop Organisers' Tasks: =========================== * Producing a "Call for Papers" for the workshop and posting it on the Internet and other means. A Web page URL which will be linked into the ICLP 2013 home page must be provided by April 8, 2013. * Providing a brief description of the workshop for the conference program. * Reviewing and deciding upon submitted papers. * Scheduling workshop activities in collaboration with the local organisers and the Workshop Chair. * Sending the workshop program and the workshop proceedings in pdf format to the Workshop Chair for distribution at the conference. * The use of the Computing Research Repository (CoRR) for the workshop proceedings is strongly recommended. Location: ========= All workshops will take place in the city of Istanbul at the site of the main conference. See the ICLP 2013 Web site for location details. Important Dates: ================ March 11, 2013: Proposal submission deadline March 18, 2013: Notification (NEW!) April 8, 2013: Deadline for receipt of CFP and workshop Web page URL (NEW!) July 22, 2013: Deadline for proceedings and workshop program (NEW!) August 24 and 25, 2013: ICLP 2013 workshops Workshop Chair: =============== Hans Tompits Knowledge-Based Systems Group E184/3 Institute of Information Systems Vienna University of Technology Favoritenstrasse 9-11 A-1040 Vienna Austria Email: tompits [at] kr [dot] tuwien [dot] ac [dot] at From iccabs at engr.uconn.edu Tue Feb 19 21:38:25 2013 From: iccabs at engr.uconn.edu (iccabs at engr.uconn.edu) Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2013 15:38:25 -0500 Subject: [DL] ICCABS 2013 - Call for Papers Message-ID: <20130219153825.7FC63C827F7A6D8A@engr.uconn.edu> An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Notification: April 1, 2013 Camera ready: April 15, 2013. Workshop day: May 26/27, 2013. TOPICS ------ ------ Scientific themes of interest (include but are not limited to): * sustainable agriculture, * plant, * health and habitat, * relationship between plant-pests/pathogens, * usages of plants by community, * biodiversity conservation, * ecosystems services, * quality of biodiversity data. Informatics technologies of interest (include but are not limited to): * ontology applications, * knowledge engineering, * linked biodiversity data, * remote sensors, * mobile devices, * vizualization tools, * data mining. ABSTRACT & PAPER SUBMISSION DETAILS: ------------------------------------ ------------------------------------ Authors are invited to submit electronically original contributions in English. Authors must send a pre-submission abstract not exceeding 500 words at s4biodiv2013 at ird.fr Authors will receive a mail indicating of their abstract has been selected by the Scientific Committee for a full paper submission. Submitted papers should not exceed 15 pages for long papers and 8 pages for short papers and must be formatted according to the LNCS guidelines. Submissions will only be accepted in the PDF format. Submissions must be realized through the easychair system at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=s4biodiv2013 PUBLICATION: ------------ ------------ Proceedings of the workshop will be published online at CEUR Workshop Proceedings (CEUR-WS.org). The best paper presented at the workshop will be included in the supplementary Springer LNCS proceedings of the ESWC2013 conference. Furthermore, a selection of papers presented at the workshop will be invited to be revised and extended version for a second peer-review process targeting publication in a referenced journal. INFORMATION: ------------ ------------ The workshop will take place in Montpellier, May 26/27, 2013. Please visit the website for more information: http://semantic-biodiversity.mpl.ird.fr/ STEERING COMMITEE: ------------------ ------------------ Pierre Larmande (IRD - UMR DIADE, France), chair Isabelle Mougenot (UMII ? UMR Espace DEV, France) Th?r?se Libourel (UMII ? UMR Espace DEV, France) Cl?ment Jonquet (UMII ? LIRMM, France) SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE: --------------------- --------------------- Elizabeth Arnaud (Bioversity International, France), chair Manuel Ruiz (CIRAD - UMR AGAP, France) Pierre Bonnet (CIRAD - UMR AMAP, France) Richard Bruskiewich (Bioversity International, Italy) Pascal Neveu (INRA - UMR MISTEA, France) Joel Sachs (University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA) Julie Chabalier (Natural Solutions, France) Cyril Pommier (INRA - URgi ? Ephesis, France) Mark Wilkinson (Polytechnic University of Madrid, and University of British Columbia) Konstantin Todorov (UMII - UMR LIRMM, France) Pankaj Jaiswal (Oregon State University, USA) Xavier Sirault (CSIRO, Autralia) Caterina Caracciolo (FAO , Italy) Lieke Verhelst (Wageningen University, The Netherlands) Damian Gessler (Iplant collaborative, USA) Nikos Manouselis (Agro-Know, University of Alcala, Grece) ?amonn ? Tuama (GBIF, University of Copenhagen , Denmark) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From math.semantic.web at gmail.com Tue Feb 19 21:29:10 2013 From: math.semantic.web at gmail.com (Christoph LANGE) Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2013 20:29:10 +0000 Subject: [DL] Participate: Enabling Domain Experts to use Formalised Reasoning (AISB 2013, Exeter, UK, 3-5 Apr 2013). Tutorials on Matching, Auctions, Finance. Message-ID: <5123E096.3050108@gmail.com> Do-Form: Enabling Domain Experts to use Formalised Reasoning http://cs.bham.ac.uk/research/projects/formare/events/aisb2013 CALL FOR PARTICIPATION Symposium at the annual convention of the AISB (Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and Simulation of Behaviour; http://www.aisb.org.uk) University of Exeter, UK 3-5 April 2013 http://emps.exeter.ac.uk/computer-science/research/aisb/ (early registration deadline 5 March) HANDS-ON TUTORIAL SESSIONS (details below) with * M. Utku ?nver (matching markets) * Peter Cramton (auctions) * Neels Vosloo (finance markets regulation) (http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/projects/formare/events/aisb2013/invited.php) PAPER and DEMO PRESENTATIONS on * environmental models * controlled natural languages * ontologies * auction theory * software verification * formal specification * autonomous systems * self-explaining systems (http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/projects/formare/events/aisb2013/proceedings.php) This symposium is motivated by the long-term VISION of making information systems dependable. In the past even mis-represented units of measurements caused fatal ENGINEERING disasters. In ECONOMICS, the subtlety of issues involved in good auction design may have led to low revenues in auctions of public goods such as the 3G radio spectra. Similarly, banks' value-at-risk (VaR) models ? the leading method of financial risk measurement ? are too large and change too quickly to be thoroughly vetted by hand, the current state of the art; in the London Whale incident of 2012, JP Morgan claimed that its exposures were $67mn under one of its VaR models, and $129 under another one. Verifying a model's properties requires formally specifying them; for VaR models, any work would have to start with this most basic step, as regulators' current desiderata are subjective and ambiguous. We believe that these problems can be addressed by representing the knowledge underlying such models and mechanisms in a formal, explicit, machine-verifiable way. Contemporary computer science offers a wide choice of knowledge representation languages well supported by verification tools. Such tools have been successfully applied, e.g., for verifying software that controls commuter rail or payment systems. Still, DOMAIN EXPERTS without a strong computer science background find it challenging to choose the right tools and to use them. This symposium aims at investigating ways to support them. Some problems can be addressed now, others will bring new challenges to computer science. THE SYMPOSIUM is designed to bring domain experts and formalisers into close and fruitful contact with each other: domain experts will be able to present their fields and problems to formalisers; formalisers will be exposed to new and challenging problem areas. We will combine talks and hands-on sessions to ensure close interaction among participants from both sides. World-class economists will offer HANDS-ON TUTORIAL SESSIONS on the following topics: * MATCHING MARKETS (M. Utku ?nver, Boston College): These include matching students to schools, interns to hospitals, and kidney donors to recipients. See the documentation for the 2012 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for more background information. * AUCTIONS (Peter Cramton, University of Maryland): Peter has been working on auctions for Ofcom UK (4G spectrum auction), the UK Department of the Environment and Climate Change, and others ? and most recently on the ?applicant auctions? for the new top-level Internet domains issued by the ICANN. * FINANCE MARKETS REGULATION (Neels Vosloo, Financial Services Authority, UK): It is currently impossible for regulators to properly inspect risk management models. Test portfolios are a promising tool for identifying problems with risk management models. To what extent can techniques from mechanised reasoning automate some of the inspection process? COMMENTS/QUESTIONS/ENQUIRIES to be sent to DoForm2013 at easychair.org -- Christoph Lange, School of Computer Science, University of Birmingham http://cs.bham.ac.uk/~langec/, Skype duke4701 ? SePublica Workshop @ ESWC 2013. Montpellier, France, 26-30 May. Deadline 4 Mar; http://sepublica.mywikipaper.org ? Intelligent Computer Mathematics, 7?12 Jul, Bath, UK; Deadline 8 Mar http://cicm-conference.org/2013/ ? Enabling Domain Experts to use Formalised Reasoning @ AISB 2013 3?5 April 2013, Exeter, UK. 3 Hands-on Tutorials on Economics http://cs.bham.ac.uk/research/projects/formare/events/aisb2013/ -- Christoph Lange, Universit?t Bremen (now: University of Birmingham) http://kwarc.info/clange, Skype duke4701 ? SePublica Workshop @ ESWC 2013. Montpellier, France, 26-30 May. Deadline 4 Mar; http://sepublica.mywikipaper.org ? Intelligent Computer Mathematics, 7?12 Jul, Bath, UK; Deadline 8 Mar http://cicm-conference.org/2013/ ? Enabling Domain Experts to use Formalised Reasoning @ AISB 2013 3?5 April 2013, Exeter, UK. 3 Hands-on Tutorials on Economics http://cs.bham.ac.uk/research/projects/formare/events/aisb2013/ -- Christoph Lange, School of Computer Science, University of Birmingham http://cs.bham.ac.uk/~langec/, Skype duke4701 ? SePublica Workshop @ ESWC 2013. Montpellier, France, 26-30 May. Deadline 4 Mar; http://sepublica.mywikipaper.org ? Intelligent Computer Mathematics, 7?12 Jul, Bath, UK; Deadline 8 Mar http://cicm-conference.org/2013/ ? Enabling Domain Experts to use Formalised Reasoning @ AISB 2013 3?5 April 2013, Exeter, UK. 3 Hands-on Tutorials on Economics http://cs.bham.ac.uk/research/projects/formare/events/aisb2013/ From rseba at disi.unitn.it Fri Feb 22 18:36:16 2013 From: rseba at disi.unitn.it (Roberto Sebastiani) Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2013 18:36:16 +0100 Subject: [DL] PHD positions in SAT/SMT-based Verification available in Trento Message-ID: <20130222173616.GA8894@disi.unitn.it> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- [[[ We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this message ]]] --------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------- PLEASE FORWARD THIS EMAIL TO WHOEVER YOU MAY THINK INTERESTED. -------------------------------------------------------------- Posted: February 22, 2013 Doctoral Student Positions in Information and Communication Technologies on the research project "Advanced SMT Techniques for Word-level Formal Verification - (WOLF)" are available at the International Doctorate School in Information and Communication Technologies (http://www.ict.unitn.it/) of the University of Trento, Italy, under the joint supervision of - Alessandro Cimatti, FBK, Trento, and - Roberto Sebastiani, DISI, University of Trento. The research activity will be carried out jointly within the Embedded Systems (ES) Research Unit of the Center for Scientific and Technological Research of the Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK), Trento, and the Software Engineering & Formal Methods (SE&FM) Research Program, at Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science (DISI) of University of Trento. The research activity will aim at investigating and developing novel techniques, methodologies and support tools for Satisfiability Modulo Theories (SMT) for the formal verification of systems. This work will be part of the "Advanced SMT Techniques for Word-level Formal Verification - (WOLF)" project, a three-year research project supported by SRC/GRC (http://www.src.org/compete/s201113/), in strict collaboration with the Formal Verification Group at Intel, Haifa, and other major HW companies. The goal of the WOLF project is to provide a comprehensive SMT package to support effective formal verification of systems ranging from RTL circuits all the way up to high-level hardware description languages (e.g. SystemC) and software. The package will be implemented on top of the MathSAT.5 SMT platform (http://mathsat.fbk.eu/), and provided as an API. Ph.D. courses will start in Autumn 2013, and the thesis must be completed in three or four years. People enrolled Ph.D. courses are expected to move to Trento, and will receive monetary support during phases of their activity. Candidate Profile ================= The ideal candidate should have an MS or equivalent degree in computer science, mathematics or electronic engineering, and combine solid theoretical background and excellent software development skills (in particular C/C++). The candidate should be able to work in a collaborative environment, with a strong commitment to reaching research excellence and achieving assigned objectives. Background knowledge and/or previous experience in the following areas (in order of preference), though not mandatory, will be considered very favorably: - Satisfiability Modulo Theory (SMT) - Propositional Satisfiability (SAT) - Model Checking - Automated Reasoning - Constraint Solving and Optimization - Embedded Systems Design Languages (e.g. Verilog, VHDL) Applications and Inquiries ========================== Interested candidates should inquire for further information and/or apply by sending email to wolf-recruit at disi.unitn.it Applications should contain a statement of interest, with a Curriculum Vitae, and three reference persons. PDF format is strongly encouraged. Emails will be automatically processed and should have 'PHD ON WOLF PROJECT' as subject. Contact Person ============== Prof. ROBERTO SEBASTIANI Software Engineering & Formal Methods Research Program DISI, University of Trento, via Sommarive 14, I-38100 Povo, Trento, Italy http://disi.unitn.it/~rseba/. mailto: rseba[at]disi[dot]unitn[dot]it The Embedded Systems Research Unit at FBK ========================================= The Embedded Systems Unit consists of about 15 persons, including researchers, post-Doc, Ph.D. students, and programmers. The Unit carries out research, tool development and technology transfer in the fields of design and verification of embedded systems. Current research directions include: * Satisfiability Modulo Theory, and its application to the verification of hardware, embedded critical software, and hybrid systems (Verilog, SystemC, C/C++, StateFlow/Simulink). * Formal Requirements Analysis based on techniques for temporal logics (consistency checking, vacuity detection, input determinism, cause-effect analysis, realizability and synthesis). * Formal Safety Analysis, based on the integration of traditional techniques (e.g. Fault-tree analysis, FMEA) with symbolic verification techniques. The Embedded Systems Unit is part of Fondazione Bruno Kessler, formerly Istituto Trentino di Cultura, a public research institute of the Autonomous Province of Trento (Italy), founded in 1976. The institute, through its center for the scientific and technological research, is active in the areas of Information Technology, Microsystems, and Physical Chemistry of Surfaces and Interfaces. Today, FBK is an internationally recognized research institute, collaborating with industries, universities, and public and private laboratories in Italy and abroad. The institute's applied and basic research activities aim at resolving real-world problems, driven by the need for technological innovation in society and industry. The SW Engineering & Formal Methods Research Program at DISI ============================================================ The SW Engineering & Formal Methods R. P. at DISI currently consists on 5 faculties, various post-docs and PhD students. The Unit carries out research, tool development and technology transfer in the fields of Goal-Oriented Requirements Engineering, Agent-oriented SW engineering, Security, and Formal Methods. Referring to formal methods, current research directions include: * Satisfiability Modulo Theory, and its application to the verification of hardware, embedded critical software, and hybrid systems. * Advanced Model Checking Techniques for Formal Verification of hardware, embedded critical software, and hybrid systems. * Applications of Propositional Satisfiability (SAT) to various domains. The R.P. is part of the Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science, DISI (http://disi.unitn.it/) of University of Trento. University of Trento in the latest years has always been rated among the top-three small&medium-size universities in Italy. DISI currently consists of 50 faculties, 68 research staff and support people, 21 postdocs and 146 Doctoral students, plus administrative and technical staff. DISI covers all the different areas of information technology (computer science, telecommunications, and electronics) and their applications. These disciplines above are studied individually but also with a strong focus on their integration, Location ======== Trento is a lively town of about 100.000 inhabitants, located 130 km south of the border between Italy and Austria. It is well known for the beauty of its mountains and lakes, and it offers the possibility to practice a wide range of sports. Trento enjoys a rich cultural and historical heritage, and it is the ideal starting point for day trips to famous towns such as Venice or Verona, as well as to enjoy great naturalistic journeys. Detailed information about Trento and its region can be found at http://www.trentino.to/home/index.html?_lang=en. From Bertram.Fronhoefer at tu-dresden.de Sun Feb 24 19:00:40 2013 From: Bertram.Fronhoefer at tu-dresden.de (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Bertram_Fronh=F6fer?=) Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2013 19:00:40 +0100 Subject: [DL] ICCL Summer School 2013 Message-ID: <512A5548.6080106@tu-dresden.de> ICCL Summer School 2013 As in the past summer schools at the Technische Universit?t Dresden, people from distinct, but communicating communities will gather in an informal and friendly atmosphere. This two-week event is aimed at graduate students, researchers and practitioners. The topic of this year's summer school is Semantic Web - Ontology Languages and Their Use The summer school is devoted to the Semantic Web, a very dynamic and current area of research and application which aims at making information on the World Wide Web fit for intelligent systems applications. One of the key ideas of the Semantic Web approach is to make use of methods from knowledge representation and of AI research in general in order to obtain seamless integration of information from diverse resources, interoperability of tools, enhance search functionalities, and the like. Central for this development is the design of knowledge representation languages for building so-called ontologies, which serve as a kind of metadata to describe the semantics or meaning of data on the Web. Of primary importance are ontology languages and related recommended standards by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), as well as methods and algorithm for their processing. The Semantic Web is now an advanced interdisciplinary field having its home in Computer Science. Third party funding for more than a decade, in particular from the European Union, has led to significant progress. Systems like Apple's Siri or IBM's Watson, adaptions of Semantic-Web-based technologies for e.g. schema.org, Facebook's Open Graph or Google's Knowledge Graph bring these technologies to widespread use and application. Through so-called Linked Data, high volumes of Semantic-Web-processable data is already available on the Web. The ICCL Summer School 2013 will introduce to Semantic Web Ontology Languages and some of their application areas, and highlight related research problems. Registration: If you want to attend the summer school, we would like you to register via the Online Registration Form preferably by April 11, 2013. This deadline is obligatory for all who want to apply for a grant. After April 11, 2013, registration will be possible as long as there are vacant places. (Since we intend to restrict participation to about 60 people, in case of excessive demand, we will have to close the registration to the summer school.) Please register at the latest by July 1, 2013, because - apart from the mentioned overall restriction of participation - we would need an early estimate of the number of participants. People applying until April 11, 2013, and applying for a grant will be informed about respective decisions on grants by end of April 2013. After April 11, 2013 applications for grants cannot be considered any more. An on-site check-in is on Sunday, August 18, 2013, at 4 - 7 pm in room E001 of the Computer Science building. It continues on Monday, August 19, 2013, 8 - 10 am. Fees: (A) We ask for a participation fee of 250 EUR for participants from the university sector (students, university employees, etc) (B) We ask for a participation fee of 1000 Euro for participants from industry. Please pay this summer school fee in cash at the day of your arrival. If belonging to the university sector you have to provide some respective evidence when paying the fees at the check-in (e.g. student card, web page at a university, etc). Grants: A limited number of grants for students and university employees will be available, which includes a waiver of the participation fee. Please indicate in your application, if the only possibility for you to participate is via a grant. Applications for grants must include an estimate of travel costs. (Such info shall be mentioned in the respective parts of the online registration form). Please consult our web pages for further details. http://www.computational-logic.org/content/events/iccl-ss-2013/index.php?id=24 From m.daquin at open.ac.uk Mon Feb 25 16:11:37 2013 From: m.daquin at open.ac.uk (Mathieu D'Aquin) Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2013 15:11:37 +0000 Subject: [DL] SSSW 2013 - The 10th Summer School on Ontology Engineering and the Semantic Web (preliminary programme available) Message-ID: <96C4F09D-E56D-443C-864E-4F0A20E95313@open.ac.uk> THE 10TH SUMMER SCHOOL ON ONTOLOGY ENGINEERING AND THE SEMANTIC WEB (SSSW 2013) Celebrating 10 years as the premier educational event on semantic web technologies. 7-13 July, 2013, Cercedilla, near Madrid, Spain. http://sssw.org/2013 The programme of the SSSW 2013 Semantic Web Summer School is now available at http://sssw.org/2013/programme/ Applications to attend SSSW 2013 will remain open until 05 April 2013. See http://sssw.org/2013/how-to-apply/ for details. The groundbreaking SSSW series of summer schools started in 2003. It is now a well-established event within the research community and a role model for several other initiatives. In 2013, we will be celebrating the 10th anniversary of SSSW, with a set of tutors comprising leading researchers in the community, prestigious invited speakers, networking and mentoring sessions with research and industry leaders (including former students of the school), and of course, an exciting social programme in one of the most beautiful locations in Spain. To ensure a high ratio between tutors and students the school will be limited to 50 participants. Applications for the summer school will close on 05 April 2013. >From the very beginning the school pioneered an innovative pedagogical approach, combining the practical with the theoretical, and adding teamwork and a competitive element to the mix. Specifically, tutorial/lecture material is augmented with hands-on practical workshops and we ensure that the sessions complement each other by linking them to group projects. Work on developing and presenting a project in cooperation with other participants serves as a means of consolidating the knowledge and skills gained from lectures and practical sessions. It also introduces an element of competition among teams, as prizes are awarded to the best projects at the end of the week. Participants will be provided with electronic versions of all course lectures and all necessary tools and environments for the hands-on sessions. PC access with all tools pre-installed will be available on site as well. SSSW 2013 will provide a stimulating and enjoyable environment in which participants will benefit not only from the formal and practical sessions but also from informal and social interactions with established researchers and the other participants to the school. To further facilitate interaction and exchange of ideas, a poster session will also take place, which will provide an opportunity for attendees to present and obtain feedback on their research. TOPICS Linked Data / Web of Data Ontology Engineering Ontology Design Knowledge Representation Semantic Web Applications Ontology Matching and Alignment Semantic and Language Technologies Knowledge Management Semantic Search Recommender Systems Web Intelligence Multimedia Semantic Web Social Semantic Web and Sensor Web Semantic Web and Multimedia ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Mathieu d'Aquin (Director), m.daquin at open.ac.uk Oscar Corcho (Co-Director), ocorcho at fi.upm.es Enrico Motta (Founder), e.motta at open.ac.uk Asun Gomez-Perez (Co-Founder), asun at fi.upm.es TUTORS AND INVITED SPEAKERS Harith Alani (The Open University, UK) Mathieu d'Aquin (The Open University, UK) Sean Bechhofer (University of Manchester, UK) Fabio Ciravegna (University of Sheffield, UK) Oscar Corcho (UPM, Spain) Tommaso Di Noia (Technical University of Bari, Italy) J?r?me Euzenat (INRIA and LIG, France) Aldo Gangemi (ISTC-CNR, Italy) Asun Gomez-Perez (UPM, Spain) Lynda Hardman (Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica, The Netherlands) Frank van Harmelen (Free University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands) Manfred Hauswirth (DERI, Ireland) Peter Mika (Yahoo! Research Barcelona, Spain) Enrico Motta (The Open University, UK) Natasha Noy (Stanford University, US) Valentina Presutti (ISTC-CNR, Italy) Rapha?l Troncy (EURECOM, France) HOW TO APPLY We welcome applicants from anywhere in the world. Normally, but not exclusively, applicants will be postgraduate students in relevant disciplines with some knowledge of semantic and web technologies. Some basic acquaintance with knowledge representation languages for the Semantic Web (RDF, OWL, etc.) is required. Application should be sent by filling the application form, as well as sending a CV to application at sssw13.org (see http://sssw.org/2013/how-to-apply/). The deadline for applications will be 05 April 2013. Accepted candidates are expected to arrive on Sunday, July 7th, between 3pm and 6pm and to participate fully in the activities of the school until its conclusion, at 2pm on Saturday, July 13th. Applicants should keep in mind that we will not consider applications from students who cannot commit themselves to a full participation for the whole duration of the school. Students are also required to bring and present a poster at the summer school, describing their own research. Apart from activities directly related to lectures, the summer school schedule is rightly famous for its unrivalled social programme, which enables informal interaction between all participants to the school - i.e., students, tutors, invited speakers, school staff, etc. These events include a gala dinner, walks in the mountain, discos, and sport activities. STUDENT GRANTS We expect to provide a number of grants for students who would not otherwise be able to attend the school. More details about student grants will be published at a later date. VENUE AND ACCOMMODATION Cercedilla is a small village in the mountains near Madrid, located in a beautiful conservation area. The school will be held in the Residence of the Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, which provides comfortable accommodation in individual rooms with en suite bathrooms, as well as access to a range of nearby activities, including a fresh-water swimming pool. The nearest airport is Madrid-Barajas. Participants will be able to use local rail links from Madrid to Cercedilla. More information about how to reach Cercedilla can be found at http://sssw.org/2013/venue-details/ The cost of the summer school, including accommodation, meals and excursion will be 900?. -- The Open University is incorporated by Royal Charter (RC 000391), an exempt charity in England & Wales and a charity registered in Scotland (SC 038302). -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ams at cwi.nl Mon Feb 25 18:45:35 2013 From: ams at cwi.nl (Alexandra Silva) Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2013 18:45:35 +0100 Subject: [DL] CALCO 2013: Deadline Extension Message-ID: <20130225174535.GA91736@n138150.science.ru.nl> [Apologies for multiple copies] *** -------------------- DEADLINE EXTENSION ------------------------- *** To allow for some delays in submission of papers to CALCO 2013, the deadline has been moved by one week. See the new dates in the call for papers below and at the CALCO'13 web page http://coalg.org/calco13/ ========================================================================= CALL FOR PAPERS: CALCO 2013 5th International Conference on Algebra and Coalgebra in Computer Science September 3 - 6, 2013 Warsaw, Poland http://coalg.org/calco13/ ========================================================================= Abstract submission: March 1, 2013 Paper submission: March 8, 2013 Author notification: May 6, 2013 Final version due: June 3, 2013 ========================================================================= -- SCOPE -- CALCO aims to bring together researchers and practitioners with interests in foundational aspects, and both traditional and emerging uses of algebra and coalgebra in computer science. It is a high-level, bi-annual conference formed by joining the forces and reputations of CMCS (the International Workshop on Coalgebraic Methods in Computer Science), and WADT (the Workshop on Algebraic Development Techniques). Previous CALCO editions took place in Swansea (Wales, 2005), Bergen (Norway, 2007), Udine (Italy, 2009) and Winchester (UK, 2011). The fifth edition will be held in Warsaw, the capital of Poland. -- INVITED SPEAKERS -- Andrej Bauer - University of Lubljana, Sl Miko?aj Boja?czyk - Warsaw University, PL Neil Ghani - University of Strathclyde, UK Damien Pous - CNRS, ENS-Lyon, F -- TOPICS OF INTEREST -- We invite submissions of technical papers that report results of theoretical work on the mathematics of algebras and coalgebras, the way these results can support methods and techniques for software development, as well as experience with the transfer of the resulting technologies into industrial practice. We encourage submissions in topics included or related to those listed below. * Abstract models and logics - Automata and languages - Categorical semantics - Modal logics - Relational systems - Graph transformation - Term rewriting - Adhesive categories * Specialised models and calculi - Hybrid, probabilistic, and timed systems - Calculi and models of concurrent, distributed, mobile, and context-aware computing - General systems theory and computational models (chemical, biological, etc.) * Algebraic and coalgebraic semantics - Abstract data types - Inductive and coinductive methods - Re-engineering techniques (program transformation) - Semantics of conceptual modelling methods and techniques - Semantics of programming languages * System specification and verification - Algebraic and coalgebraic specification - Formal testing and quality assurance - Validation and verification - Generative programming and model-driven development - Models, correctness and (re)configuration of hardware/middleware/architectures, - Process algebra -- NEW TOPICS -- This edition of CALCO will feature two new topics, and submission of papers on these topics is especially encouraged. * Corecursion in Programming Languages - Corecursion in logic / constraint / functional / answer set programming - Corecursive type inference - Coinductive methods for proving program properties - Implementing corecursion - Applications * Algebra and Coalgebra in quantum computing - Categorical semantics for quantum computing - Quantum calculi and programming languages - Foundational structures for quantum computing - Applications of quantum algebra -- SUBMISSION GUIDELINES -- Prospective authors are invited to submit full papers in English presenting original research. Submitted papers must be unpublished and not submitted for publication elsewhere. Experience papers are welcome, but they must clearly present general lessons learned that would be of interest and benefit to a broad audience of both researchers and practitioners. As with previous editions, the proceedings will be published in the Springer LNCS series. Final papers should be no more than 15 pages long in the format specified by Springer (see http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html). It is recommended that submissions adhere to that format and length. Submissions that are clearly too long may be rejected immediately. Proofs omitted due to space limitations may be included in a clearly marked appendix. Both an abstract and the full paper must be submitted by their respective submission deadlines. A special issue of the open access journal Logical Methods in Computer Science (http://www.lmcs-online.org), containing extended versions of selected papers, is also being planned. Submissions will be handled via EasyChair https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=calco2013 -- BEST PAPER AND BEST PRESENTATION AWARDS -- For the first time, this edition of CALCO will feature two kinds of awards: a best paper award whose recipients will be selected by the PC before the conference and a best presentation award, elected by the participants. -- IMPORTANT DATES -- Abstract submission: February 22, 2013 Paper submission: March 1, 2013 Author notification: May 6, 2013 Final version due: June 3, 2013 -- PROGRAMME COMMITTEE -- Luca Aceto - Reykjavik University, Iceland Ji?? Ad?mek - TU Braunschweig, D Lars Birkedal - IT University of Copenhagen, DK Filippo Bonchi - CNRS, ENS-Lyon, F Corina Cirstea - University of Southhampton, UK Bob Coecke - University of Oxford, UK Andrea Corradini - University of Pisa, I Mai Gehrke - Universit? Paris Diderot - Paris 7, F H. Peter Gumm - Philipps University Marburg, D Gopal Gupta - University of Texas at Dallas, USA Ichiro Hasuo - Tokyo University, Japan Reiko Heckel - University of Leicester, UK (cochair) Bart Jacobs - Radboud University Nijmegen, NL Ekaterina Komendantskaya - University of Dundee, Scotland, UK Barbara K?nig - University of Duisburg-Essen, D Jos? Meseguer - University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA Marino Miculan - University of Udine, I Stefan Milius - Friedrich-Alexander Universit?t Erlangen-N?rnberg, D (cochair) Larry Moss - Indiana University, Bloomington, USA Till Mossakowski - DFKI Lab Bremen and University of Bremen, D Prakash Panangaden - McGill University, Montreal, Canada Dirk Pattinson - Australian National University, AUS Dusko Pavlovic - Royal Holloway, University of London, UK Daniela Petrisan - University of Leicester, UK John Power - University of Bath, UK Jan Rutten - CWI Amsterdam and Radboud University Nijmegen, NL Lutz Schr?der - Friedrich-Alexander Universit?t Erlangen-N?rnberg, D Monika Seisenberger - Swansea University, UK Sam Staton - University of Cambridge, UK Alexandra Silva - Radboud University Nijmegen and CWI Amsterdam, NL Pawel Sobocinski - University of Southampton, UK Yde Venema - University of Amsterdam, NL Uwe Wolter - University of Bergen, NO -- ORGANISING COMMITTEE -- Bartek Klin (University of Warsaw, Poland) Andrzej Tarlecki (University of Warsaw, Poland) -- LOCATION -- Warsaw, the capital of Poland, is a lively city with many historic monuments and sights, but also with a thriving business district. It is easily accessible via two airports: the main Chopin Airport, used by most international carriers, and the recently open Warsaw Modlin Airport (30 minutes away by rail), used by budget airlines. -- SATELLITE WORKSHOPS -- CALCO 2013 will be preceded by the CALCO Early Ideas Workshop, chaired by Monika Seisenberger (Swansea University). The workshop is dedicated to presentation of work in progress and original research proposals. PhD students and young researchers are particularly encouraged to contribute. Attendance at the workshop is open to all - it is anticipated that many CALCO conference participants will want to attend the CALCO Early Ideas workshop (and vice versa). A workshop dedicated to tools based on algebraic and/or coalgebraic principles, CALCO Tools, will be held alongside the main conference, chaired by Lutz Schr?der (Friedrich Alexander Universit?t Erlangen-N?rnberg). Papers of this workshop will be included in the CALCO proceedings. -- CALCO Early Ideas Overview -- The CALCO Early Ideas Workshop invites submissions on the same topics as the CALCO conference: reporting results of theoretical work on the mathematics of algebras and coalgebras, the way these results can support methods and techniques for software development, as well as experience with the transfer of the resulting technologies into industrial practice. The list of topics of particular interest is shown on the main CALCO 2013 page. CALCO Early Ideas presentations will be selected according to originality, significance, and general interest, on the basis of submitted 2-page short contributions. It can be work in progress, a summary of work submitted to a conference or workshop elsewhere, or work that in some other way might be interesting to the CALCO audience. A booklet with the accepted short contributions will be available at the workshop. Submissions will be handled via EasyChair https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=calcoearlyideas2013 The use of LNCS style is strongly encouraged. After the workshop, authors will have the opportunity to submit a full 10-15 page paper on the same topic. The reviewing will be carried out by the CALCO Early Ideas PC, with the support of the CALCO PC. The volume of selected papers will be available online. Authors will retain copyright, and are also encouraged to disseminate the results by subsequent publication elsewhere. http://coalg.org/calco13/workshops.html#ei -- CALCO Early Ideas Dates -- 2-page short contribution submission: May 27, 2013 Notification for short contribution: June 24, 2013 Final short contribution due: July 15, 2013 CALCO Early Idead Workshop: September 2, 2013 10-15 page paper submission: October 15, 2013 Notification for paper: December 15, 2013 Final paper version due: January 15, 2014 -- CALCO Early Ideas Program Committee -- Bartek Klin, University of Warsaw, Poland John Power, University of Bath, UK Monika Seisenberger, Swansea University, UK (chair) -- CALCO-Tools Overview -- CALCO-Tools will take place on the same dates as the main CALCO conference, with no overlap between the technical programmes of the two events. Topics of interest include systems, prototypes, and tools developed specifically for the design, checking, execution, and verification of (co)algebraic specifications, but also tools targeting different application domains while making core or interesting use of (co)algebraic techniques. Tool submissions should not exceed 5 pages in LNCS format. The accepted tool papers will be included in the final proceedings of the conference. The tools should be made available on the web at the time of submission. Each submission will be evaluated by at least three reviewers; one or more of the reviewers will be asked to download and use the tool. At least one of the authors of each tool paper must attend the conference to demo the tool. http://coalg.org/calco13/workshops.html#tools -- CALCO-Tools Dates -- Paper submission: April 8, 2013 Author notification: May 6, 2013 Final version due: June 3, 2013 -- CALCO-Tools Programme Committee -- Einar Broch Johnsen, University of Oslo, Norway Mark Hills, CWI Amsterdam, The Netherlands Barbara K?nig, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany Dorel Lucanu, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University, Romania Dominik Luecke, CWI Amsterdam, The Netherlands Till Mossakowski, DFKI, Germany Lutz Schr?der, Friedrich-Alexander Universit?t Erlangen-N?rnberg, Germany (chair) Alexandra Silva, Radboud University Nijmegen and CWI Amsterdam, The Netherlands -- FURTHER INFORMATION -- Queries related to submission, reviewing, and programme should be sent to the relevant conference or workshop chairs. Queries related to the organisation should be emailed to calco2013 at mimuw.edu.pl . From rodriguez at inf.unibz.it Sat Mar 2 22:41:38 2013 From: rodriguez at inf.unibz.it (Rodriguez-Muro Mariano (A)) Date: Sat, 2 Mar 2013 21:41:38 +0000 Subject: [DL] Deadline extended - OWLED'13, May 26-27, 2013. Montpellier, France Message-ID: Apologies for multiple postings. Please forward to interested parties. Due to multiple requests, the deadline for paper submission has been extended to *** March 8, 2013 *** Abstracts can be submitted at any time before March 8. ============================================================================== DEADLINE EXTENDED 10th OWL: Experiences and Directions Workshop (OWLED 2013) Montpellier, France. May 26-27, 2013 Co-located with ESWC 2013 http://www.webont.org/owled/2013/ =============================================================================== The aim of the OWL: Experiences and Directions Workshop (OWLED) is to establish an international forum for the OWL community, where practitioners in industry and academia, tool developers and others interested in OWL can describe real and potential applications, share experience and discuss requirements for language extensions/modifications. OWL is quickly becoming the representational model of choice for expressing semantics of BigData in many industries. This has been made possible thanks to the newly introduced support for tractable OWL fragments that allow inference at large scales over rapidly evolving data. OWLED will be celebrating its 10th year edition which provides an opportunity for an event focused on OWL in retrospective, OWL's evolution, and future directions in a BigData world. This year, OWLED will be co-located with ESWC 2013 in Montpellier, France. As usual, the workshop will try to encourage participants to work together and will give space for discussions of various topics as well as having presentation of submissions. Papers about all aspects of OWL and extensions, applications, theory, methods and tools, are welcome. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, * Application driven requirements for OWL * Applications of OWL * Experience of using OWL, in particular the OWL 2 Profiles * Evaluation of OWL tools e.g. reasoners * Benchmarks for OWL tools * Performance and scalability issues and improvements * Extensions to OWL * OWL and Rules * Implementation techniques and experience reports * Non-standard reasoning service (implementation and requirements for) * Explanation * Ontology comprehension * Tools, including editors, visualisation, parsers and syntax checkers * Collaborative editing of ontologies * Versioning of OWL ontologies * Modularity * Query answering with OWL * SPARQL and OWL * Linked Data and OWL Important Dates Titles and Abstract Due: 28th February Submissions due: *** EXTENDED *** 8th March Acceptance Notifications: 1st April Final papers due: 15th April OWLED Workshop: 26th - 27th May Submissions This year we would like to invite submissions of the following sorts: Technical papers (maximum 12 pages LNCS style). These papers should present research, implementation experience, and reports on the above topics and related topics. Space will be reserved for authors to present their work at the workshop. Short papers or System descriptions (maximum 4-6 pages LNCS style). These papers should present work that is in an early stage and/or publicize (novel) implemented systems that are of interest to OWLED attendees. We encourage authors of system descriptions to also submit a demonstration paper. Demonstrations (2 pages LNCS style). These papers should describe a demonstration of a system. The description should highlight why the system/service is of interest to the OWL community and should clearly state what will be demonstrated during the session. We encourage All submissions must be made online using the EasyChair conference system: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=owled2013 Best regards, Mariano Rodriguez Muro, General Chair, OWLED 2013 Kavitha Srinivas, Program Chair, OWLED 2013 Simon Jupp, Program Chair, OWLED 2013 From universal.logic at ufc.br Sun Mar 3 10:10:33 2013 From: universal.logic at ufc.br (Universal Logic) Date: Sun, 3 Mar 2013 06:10:33 -0300 (BRT) Subject: [DL] 4th School on Universal Logic - Good Friday March 29, Rio de Janeiro Message-ID: <2c5bb007793e0d8e945c01526e6b8baf.squirrel@correio1.ufc.br> In 4 weeks - Good Friday March 29, 2013 will start the 4th School on Universal Logic, part of UNILOG'2013 http://www.uni-log.org/ This is an exclusive event with 28 courses on all aspects of logic ranging from erotetic logic to categorial logic through quantum cognition, logic for the blind, hybrid logic, hypersequents, indian logic, algebraic logic, ideospheres, etc. given by the best specialists from all around the world This school is open to anybody interested in logic students, pos-docs, researchers, professors It will happen in one of the most beautiful places on earth: the Sugar Loaf, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil http://ayrton.com/360/fs/pages/paoacucar1f.html >--------------------------------------------------------------------- World Congress and School on Universal Logic Montreux 2005 - Xi'an 2007 - Lisbon 2010 - Rio 2013 http://www.uni-log.org/ From synasc13 at synasc.ro Thu Feb 28 14:36:48 2013 From: synasc13 at synasc.ro (SYNASC 2013) Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2013 15:36:48 +0200 (EET) Subject: [DL] First CFP SYNASC 2013, Timisoara, Romania In-Reply-To: <2139975406.468558.1362058516830.JavaMail.root@mailz.info.uvt.ro> Message-ID: <686853168.468662.1362058608595.JavaMail.root@mailz.info.uvt.ro> [Please post - apologies for multiple copies.] First Call for Papers --------------------- SYNASC 2013 15th International Symposium on Symbolic and Numeric Algorithms for Scientific Computing September 23-26, 2013, Timisoara, Romania http://www.synasc.ro/ Aim --- SYNASC aims to stimulate the interaction between the two scientific communities of symbolic and numeric computing and to exhibit interesting applications of the areas both in theory and in practice. The choice of the topic is motivated by the belief of the organizers that the dialogue between the two communities is very necessary for accelerating the progress in making the computer a truly intelligent aid for mathematicians and engineers. Important Dates --------------- 07 April 2013 : Special sessions / Workshops / Tutorials proposals 19 May 2013 : Abstract submission 26 May 2013 : Paper submission 22 July 2013 : Notification of acceptance 01 September 2013 : Registration 08 September 2013 : Revised papers according to the reviews 23-26 September 2013 : Symposium 30 November 2013 : Final papers for post-proceedings Tracks ------ * Symbolic Computation + computer algebra + symbolic techniques applied to numerics + hybrid symbolic and numeric algorithms + numerics and symbolics for geometry + programming with constraints, narrowing * Logic and Programming + automatic reasoning + formal system verification + formal verification and synthesis + software quality assessment + static analysis + timing analysis * Artificial Intelligence + methods for hard computational problems + intelligent systems for scientific computing + agent-based complex systems modeling and development + scientific knowledge management + computational intelligence + machine learning + recommender and expert systems for scientific computing + data mining and web mining + natural language processing + uncertain reasoning in scientific computing + intelligent hybrid systems * Numerical Computing + iterative approximation of fixed points + solving systems of nonlinear equations + numerical and symbolic algorithms for differential equations + numerical and symbolic algorithms for optimization + parallel algorithms for numerical computing + scientific visualization and image processing * Distributed Computing + parallel and distributed algorithms for clouds, GPUs, HPC, P2P systems, autonomous systems. Work should focus on scheduling, scaling, load balancing, networks, fault-tolerance, gossip algorithms, energy saving + applications for parallel and distributed systems, including work on cross disciplinary (scientific) applications for grids/clouds, web applications, workflow platforms, network measurement tools, programming environments + architectures for parallel and distributed systems, including self-managing and autonomous systems, negotiation protocols, HPC on clouds, GPU processing, PaaS for (inter)cloud, brokering platforms, mobile computing + modelling of parallel and distributed systems including models on resources and networks, semantic representation, negotiation, social networks, trace management, simulators + any other topic deemed relevant to the field * Advances in the Theory of Computing + Data structures and algorithms + Combinatorial Optimization + Formal languages and Combinatorics on Words + Graph-theoretic and Combinatorial methods in Computer Science + Algorithmic paradigms, including distributed, online, approximation, probabilistic, game-theoretic algorithms + Computational Complexity Theory, including structural complexity, boolean complexity, communication complexity, average-case complexity, derandomization and property testing + Logical approaches to complexity, including finite model theory + Algorithmic and computational learning theory + Aspects of computability theory, including computability in analysis and algorithmic information theory + Proof complexity + Computational social choice and game theory + New computational paradigms: CNN computing, quantum, holographic and other non-standard approaches to Computability + Randomized methods, random graphs, threshold phenomena and typical-case complexity + Automata theory and other formal models, particularly in relation to formal verification methods such as model checking and runtime verification + Applications of theory, including wireless and sensor networks, computational biology and computational economics + Experimental algorithmics This list is not intended to be exhaustive. Publication ----------- Research papers that are accepted and presented at the symposium will be collected as post-proceedings published by Conference Publishing Service (CPS) (indexed in ISI Web of Science, DBLP, SCOPUS). Invited Speakers ---------------- * Ivona Brandic, Vienna University of Technology, Austria * Gabriel Ciobanu, Universitatea Alexandru Ioan Cuza, Romania * Leonardo de Moura, Microsoft Research, USA * Grigore Rosu, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA * Dan A. Simovici, University of Massachusetts Boston, USA Honorary Chairs --------------- * Bruno Buchberger, Johannes Kepler University, Austria * Stefan Maruster, West University of Timisoara, Romania Steering Committee ------------------ * Tetsuo Ida, University of Tsukuba, Japan * Tudor Jebelean, Johannes Kepler University, Austria * Viorel Negru, West University of Timisoara, Romania * Dana Petcu, West University of Timisoara, Romania * Stephen Watt, University of Western Ontario, Canada * Daniela Zaharie, West University of Timisoara, Romania General Chair ------------- * Viorel Negru, West University of Timisoara, Romania Program Chair ------------- * Nikolaj Bjorner, Microsoft Research, US Track Chairs ------------ * Symbolic Computation + Tetsuo Ida, University of Tsukuba, Japan + Stephen Watt, University of Western Ontario, Canada * Logic and Programming + Tudor Jebelean, Johannes Kepler University, Austria + Laura Kovacs, Vienna University of Technology, Austria * Artificial Intelligence + Andrei Petrovski, Robert Gordon University, UK + Daniela Zaharie, West University of Timisoara, Romania * Numerical Computing + Yonghong Yao, Tianjin Polytechnic University, China + Ioan A. Rus, "Babes-Bolyai" University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania * Distributed Computing + Marc Frincu, West University of Timisoara, Romania + Karoly Bosa, Johannes Kepler University, Austria * Advances in the Theory of Computing + Mircea Marin, West University of Timisoara, Romania + Gabriel Istrate, Research Institute e-Austria Timisoara, Romania Special sessions and workshops chair ------------------------------------ * Dana Petcu, West University of Timisoara, Romania Tutorial chair -------------- * Adrian Craciun, West University of Timisoara, Romania Proceedings Chairs ------------------ * Nikolaj Bjorner, Microsoft Research, US * Daniela Zaharie, West University of Timisoara, Romania Local Committee Chairs ---------------------- * Isabela Dramnesc, West University of Timisoara, Romania * Silviu Panica, Institute e-Austria Timisoara, Romania Submission ----------- Submissions of research papers are invited. The papers must contain original research results not submitted and not published elsewhere. The submission process consists of two steps. * In the first step the authors are invited to express their intention to participate at the conference by submitting a short abstract (1/2 page, at maximum) where it is clearly stated the main contribution(s) of the paper. * In the second step the authors should submit the full paper (up to 8 pages in the two-columns IEEE conference style). Both the abstract and the full paper should be submitted electronically through http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=synasc2013. Proposals are also invited for: * special sessions * satellite workshops * tutorials Special sessions ---------------- Proposals are invited for special sessions on any topic relevant to the conference. Special sessions are intended to stimulate in-depth discussions in special areas and they are fully integrated into the main conference. The research papers and the informal presentations submitted and accepted for the special sessions follow the same rules as the papers submitted to the regular sessions. It is expected that the organizers of the special sessions appoint their own chair and program committee, which will be integrated in the conference program committee and will be supervised by the conference programme chair and by the general chair. Workshops --------- Proposals for satellite workshops are also invited. The satellite workshops should have topics related to SYNASC but the scientific program of each satellite workshop is managed by the workshop organizers. Authors contributing to a workshop would be required to register for the symposium. Tutorials --------- Proposals for tutorials are also invited. Tutorials provide fundamental exposure to topics ranging from introductory through intermediate to advanced. The number and the duration of the tutorials will be decided by the tutorial chair under the supervision of the general chair. Depending on the number and the quality of the proposals for tutorials, they may be organized as a SYNASC Autumn School. ----------- SYNASC 2013 West University of Timisoara Department of Computer Science Bd. V. Parvan 4, 300223 Timisoara, Romania tel: + (40) 256 592155, +(40) 256 592195 fax: + (40) 256 592316, +(40) 256 592380 e-mail: synasc13 at synasc.ro From rudolph at kit.edu Tue Mar 5 14:04:01 2013 From: rudolph at kit.edu (Sebastian Rudolph) Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2013 14:04:01 +0100 Subject: [DL] GKR@IJCAI 2013 CALL FOR PAPERS In-Reply-To: <60BBD2DD-678B-4E34-BACD-416108D46F21@kit.edu> References: <60BBD2DD-678B-4E34-BACD-416108D46F21@kit.edu> Message-ID: ==============================GKR at IJCAI 2013 SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS=================================== THE THIRD IJCAI INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON GRAPH STRUCTURES FOR KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION AND REASONING ====================================================================================================== Graph-based knowledge representation and reasoning is a growing area of research, with more and more important contributions appearing over the last few years. The workshop welcomes contributions that: -- address graph-based representation, query and reasoning paradigms (e.g. Baysian Networks (BNs), Semantic Networks (SNs), RDF/S, SPARQL \& RIF, Conceptual Graphs (CGs), Formal Concept Analysis (FCA), Euler Diagrams, CP-Nets, GAI-Nets, abstract argumentation frameworks etc.) from a theoretical and application viewpoint or -- apply graph-theoretic results to existing KR formalisms for reasoning optimization purposes. Papers reporting on application experience will be expected to demonstrate the benefits of the proposed solutions. Examples of such domains include Semantic Web, Grid Computing, BioInformatics, Multi Agent Systems, Recommender Systems etc. The GKR 2013 opens a special graph database demonstration and application track. Papers submitted to this track should report on theory, implementation results and applications of graph databases. Short demo papers are also welcome. For more details please check: www.lirmm.fr/~croitoru/GKR ===================================================================================================== Paper deadline: April 20th, 2013 Notification: May 20th, 2013 Workshop date: August 3rd - 5th, 2013 (one day workshop) Post Proceedings of the workshop will be published in a special issue of the Springer LNAI Series. ===================================================================================================== Workshop organizing committee: --Madalina Croitoru (LIRMM, France) --Christophe Gonzales (LIP6, France) --Sebastian Rudolph (KIT, Germany) --Stefan Woltran (Tech. Univ. Vienna, Austria) ===================================================================================================== Apologies if you received more than one copy of this CFP. ===================================================================================================== _________________________________________________ PD Dr. Sebastian Rudolph senior researcher & project leader at AIFB Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) rudolph at kit.edu phone +49 721 608 - 47362 www.sebastian-rudolph.de fax +49 721 608 - 45998 From lsm at cs.indiana.edu Wed Mar 6 17:15:12 2013 From: lsm at cs.indiana.edu (larry moss) Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2013 11:15:12 -0500 (EST) Subject: [DL] Natural Logic and Computer Science, workshop 28 June Message-ID: [apologies for multiple postings] Workshop on Natural Language and Computer Science (NLCS '13) http://www.indiana.edu/~iulg/nlcs.html A workshop to be held at LiCS'13: June 28, 2013 New Orleans, Louisiana Endorsed by the Association for Computational Linguistics Special Interest Group on Computational Semantics. AIMS AND SCOPE Formal tools coming from logic and category theory are important in both natural language semantics and in computational semantics. Moreover, work on these tools borrows heavily from all areas of theoretical computer science. In the other direction, applications having to do with natural language has inspired developments on the formal side. The workshop invites papers on both topics. Specific topics include, but are not limited to: * logic for semantics of lexical items, sentences, discourse and dialog * continuations in natural language semantics * formal tools in textual inference, such as logics for natural language inference * applications of category theory in semantics * linear logic in semantics * formal approaches to unifying data-driven and declarative approaches to semantics IMPORTANT DATES Paper submission: May 1, 2013 Notification: May 15, 2013 Workshop Date: 28 June 2013 Possible Extension to: 29 June 2013 LICS'13 Dates: 25-28 June 2013 INVITED SPEAKERS Ian Pratt-Hartmann, University of Manchester, UK. Wlodek Zadrozny, UNC, Charlotte, North Carolina. LENGTH OF THE WORKSHOP We plan for a one-day workshop, but with sufficient interest we have the option to extend the workshop to a second day. SUBMISSIONS Please submit extended abstracts of up to 15 pages using EasyChair: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=nlcs13 ORGANIZERS Valeria de Paiva, Nuance Larry Moss, Indiana University PROGRAM COMMITTEE Valeria de Paiva, Nuance Bill MacCartney, Google and Stanford University Larry Moss, Indiana University Annie Zaenen, Stanford University From rudolph at kit.edu Sat Mar 9 18:00:04 2013 From: rudolph at kit.edu (Sebastian Rudolph) Date: Sat, 9 Mar 2013 18:00:04 +0100 Subject: [DL] New Deadline March 22nd: 6th Conference on Artificial General Intelligence (AGI-13), July 31- August 3 2013, Beijing, China Message-ID: <8BBEEE10-7EDF-4003-9E75-82019AC08DC0@kit.edu> The AGI conference series (http://www.agi-conf.org/) is the premier international forum for cutting-edge research focusing on the original goal of the AI field ? the creation of thinking machines with general intelligence at the human level and ultimately beyond. The AGI conference series is held in cooperation with AAAI, and AGI-13 will co-locate with IJCAI-13. Like its predecessors, AGI-13 will gather researchers in AGI and associated disciplines for wide-ranging presentation and discussion of approaches, architectures, algorithms and ideas relevant to the advancement of artificial general intelligence. ==Topics== As in prior AGI conferences, we welcome papers on all aspects of AGI R&D, with the key proviso that each paper should in some way contribute specifically to the development of Artificial General Intelligence. Appropriate topics for contributed papers include, but are not restricted to: Agent Architectures / Autonomy / Benchmarks and Evaluation / Cognitive Modeling / Collaborative Intelligence / Creativity / Distributed AI / Implications of AGI for Society, Economy and Ecology / Integration of Different Capabilities / Knowledge Representation for General Intelligence / Languages, Specification Approaches and Toolkits / Learning and Learning Theory / Motivation, Emotion, and Affect / Multi-Agent Interaction / Natural Language Understanding / Neural-Symbolic Processing / Perception and Perceptual Modeling / Philosophy of AI / Rationality / Reasoning, Inference, and Planning / Robotics and Virtual Embodiment / Simulation and Emergent Behavior / Panel Discussions The conference will be divided into themed sessions, determined based on the distribution of topics of the accepted papers; and each themed session will be concluded by a panel discussion. ==Special Session on Cognitive Robotics and AGI== In the spirit of similar Special Sessions at former AGI conferences, this Special Session will feature papers giving new AGI ideas inspired by current research in Cognitive Robotics. ==Workshops== AGI-13 will include the following workshops: * Formalizing Mechanisms for Artificial General Intelligence and Cognition (Formal MAGIC) * Probability Theory or Not? Practical and Theoretical Concerns on Uncertainty Handling in AGI Tutorials and demonstrations will be held alongside the conference. Please see the linked webpages for details. ==Keynotes== * Sam S. Adams, Distinguished Engineer, IBM Research and CTO, Contextual Computing * Thomas G. Dietterich, President-Elect of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, Oregon State University * Dileep George, Vicarious Systems, Inc. * Stuart C. Shapiro, Professor Emeritus of Computer Science and Engineering and Affiliated Professor Emeritus of Linguistics and of Philosophy at the University at Buffalo, The State University of New York ==Important Dates== Full paper submission: March 24, 2013, 11:59 p.m. Hawaii time. Acceptance Notification: April 30, 2013 Camera-ready copy: May 15, 2013 Conference: July 31, 2013 ? August 3, 2013 ==Submission Information== Main conference papers should be submitted via EasyChair ( https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=agi2013 ). The Special Session on Cognitive Robotics and AGI has its own submission procedure, as specified at its website. The conference papers will be published by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) series. Paper templates for both LaTeX (preferred) and Word may be found here: http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs/lncs+authors?SGWID=0-40209-0-0-0 . Use the templates for ?LNCS Proceedings and Other Multiauthor Volumes?. Papers must be in English, and submitted in PDF format. There are two types of submissions: Full papers (up to 10 pages): Original research in the above areas. Technical Communications (up to 4 pages): Results and ideas with interest to the AGI audience, including reports about recent own publications, position papers, and preliminary results. All accepted conference papers will be included in the proceedings, as well as presented at the conference as talks or as posters. At least one author of each accepted paper must register for the conference and present the paper there. _________________________________________________ PD Dr. Sebastian Rudolph senior researcher & project leader at AIFB Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) rudolph at kit.edu phone +49 721 608 - 47362 www.sebastian-rudolph.de fax +49 721 608 - 45998 From sreckojoksimovic at ymail.com Sat Mar 9 15:17:59 2013 From: sreckojoksimovic at ymail.com (Srecko Joksimovic) Date: Sat, 9 Mar 2013 06:17:59 -0800 (PST) Subject: [DL] 2nd Call for Papers - VORTE 2013 In-Reply-To: <1358931045.44909.YahooMailNeo@web163802.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> References: <1358928518.10171.YahooMailNeo@web163802.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> <1358930540.85886.YahooMailNeo@web163806.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> <1358930750.47167.YahooMailNeo@web163801.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> <1358930893.38612.YahooMailNeo@web163804.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> <1358931000.44509.YahooMailNeo@web163802.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> <1358931045.44909.YahooMailNeo@web163802.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <1362838679.81321.YahooMailNeo@web163806.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> (Apologies for cross-posting) ======================================================= 2nd CALL FOR PAPERS The 8th International Workshop on Vocabularies, Ontologies and Rules for the Enterprise and Beyond (VORTE 2013)? Co-located with the 17th IEEE International EDOC Conference? Vancouver, BC, 9th-13th September, 2013 WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION? The VORTE series of workshops is traditionally devoted to the topics of vocabularies, ontologies and rules in the context of enterprise systems. This year, the workshop takes a broader view and does not target only enterprise systems, but also systems managing data on the Web. In fact, there is a need to exploit unstructured data in the enterprise, and on the Web in general, as the majority of Web content and enterprise content remains unstructured. Thus, the challenge of managing, extracting and structuring data is common to both worlds, and solutions in one community will benefit the other.? Examples of topics covered by traditional VORTE research contributions include the development and adaptation of foundational, business and domain ontologies for the enterprise, the use of ontologies and rules in all aspects of enterprise modeling such as business process management and services, the enhancement of rules and services with formal semantics, and the evaluation of such systems and approaches.? This year, the workshop is also a forum for the discussion of ontology-based knowledge management issues, interoperability issues and ontology engineering issues. The workshop also welcomes contributions on initiatives related to semantic annotation, open linked data, information extraction, ontology learning and update and ontology-based knowledge management as well as empirical studies on these areas. TOPICS? Knowledge management:? - Ontology and ontological methodologies in knowledge management and integration;? - Ontology engineering, learning and maintenance;? - Ontology integration and alignment; - Ontology effectiveness and evaluation;? Web of Data: - Ontology-based Semantic annotation - Linked data-based semantic annotation - Knowledge extraction including entity extraction and relationship extraction - Knowledge retrieval based on Open linked data Vocabularies and Ontologies for the enterprise:? - Ontology-driven representation of products, services, functionalities, design, processes; - Ontologies for the know-how;? - Ontologies for corporate knowledge;? - Upper-level ontologies in the enterprise; - Adaptation of ontologies for companies and organizations;? Conceptual and Enterprise Modeling: - Ontological Foundations for Conceptual Modeling and Meta-modeling? - Ontology Design and maintenance for Conceptual Model Integration; ? - Ontology-Based Conceptual Modeling Tools and Environments? - Ontologies and Enterprise Architecture Modeling - Ontologies and Business Process Modeling - Ontologies and Goal-Based Modeling? - Ontologies and Business Rules? Enterprise Semantic Interoperability: - Web services, Semantic services ? - Composition and Modularity - Merging, Mapping and Alignment? - Ontology Language Interoperability - Open linked data publishing and exploitation Case studies and Evaluation: - Practical issues in using ontologies in enterprises? - Real cases of successful/unsuccessful use of ontology in business? - From legacy systems to the new ontology-driven systems? - Practical issues in knowledge extraction and annotation - Semantic annotation evaluation - Ontology learning evaluation SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION? We solicit two types of papers:? - Short papers (4 pages) discussing controversial issues in the field or describing interesting or thought-provoking ideas that are not yet fully developed; and? - Full papers (8-10 pages) describing more mature results? All submissions MUST conform to the two-column format of IEEE Computer Society conference proceedings (http://www2.computer.org/portal/web/cscps/formatting) and include the author's name, affiliation, and contact details.? Papers must be submitted as PDF files using EasyChair at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=vorte2013? All papers must not have been previously published or submitted elsewhere.? The papers accepted for the EDOC 2013 Workshops will be published along with EDOC proceedings in the IEEE Xplore Digital Library. At least one of the authors for each accepted paper must register for the main conference (there will be no workshop-only registration at EDOC 2013) and present their papers at the workshop. ?? Post-conference Journal Publication? For previous editions of the workshop, special issues have been published in journals such as Applied Ontology (2007), IJBPIM (2007), Elsevier's Information Systems (2008, 2010), and Journal of Research Practice in Information Technology (2009).? This year, authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended versions of their papers for consideration for a special issue of a reputable journal. The journal is to be determined.? KEYNOTE? TBA? IMPORTANT DATES? Workshop paper submissions: April 15, 2013 Workshops paper acceptance notifications: May 31, 2013 Camera-ready papers due: June 21, 2013 Workshop: September 9, 10 or 11, 2013? COMMITTEES? Workshop Chairs:? Amal Zouaq, Royal Military College of Canada, Canada, amal.zouaq at rmc.ca Ebrahim Bagheri, Ryerson University, Canada, bagheri at ryerson.ca Renata Guizzardi, Federal University of Esp?rito Santo, Brazil, rguizzardi at inf.ufes.br Steering Committee:? - Giancarlo Guizzardi, Federal University of Esp?rito Santo (UFES), Vit?ria, Brazil? - Gerd Wagner, Institute of Informatics, Brandenburg University of Technology at Cottbus, Germany? - Dragan Gasevic, Athabasca University, Canada? Program Committee 2012 (Tentative 2013):? - Uwe Assmann, TU Dresden, Germany - Colin Atkinson, University of Mannheim, Germany? -?Ebrahim Bagheri, Ryerson University, Canada -?Marco Brambilla, Politecnico di Milano, Italy? -?Emanuele Bottazzi, Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies, CNR, Trento, Italy -?Christoph Bussler, Merced Systems, Inc., USA? -?Robert Colomb, The University of Queensland, Australia? -?Oscar Corcho, Universidad Polit?cnica de Madrid, Spain? -?Luiz Olavo Bonino da Silva, BiZZDesign, The Netherlands -?Jens Dietrich, Massey University, New Zealand? -?Faezeh Ensan, Athabasca University, Canada -?Sergio Espa?a, Polytechnic University of Valencia? -?Joerg Evermann, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada? -?Ricardo Falbo, Federal University of Espirito Santo, Brazil? -?Lu?s Ferreira Pires, University of Twente, The Netherlands? -?Adrian Giurca, Brandenburg University of Technology at Cottbus, Germany? -?Guido Governatori, NICTA, Australia? -?Pierre Grenon, European Bioinformatics Institute, Cambridge, UK -?Giancarlo Guizzardi, Federal University of Espirito Santo, Brazil -?Brian Henderson Sellers, University of Technology Sydney, Australia -?Heinrich Herre, University of Leipzig, Germany? -?Florian Matthes, University of Munich, Germany -?Alex Norta, University of Helsinki, Finland -?Andreas Opdahl, University of Bergen, Norway? -?Jeffrey Parsons, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada -?Adrian Paschke, Free University Berlin, Germany -?Florian Probst, SAP Research Darmstadt, Germany -?Christophe Roche, University of Savoie, France? -?Michael Rosemann, Queensland University of Technology, Australia? -?Csaba Veres, University of Bergen, Norway? -?Gerd Wagner, Brandenburg University of Technology at Cottbus, Germany -?Kewen Wang, Griffith University, Australia? -?Ron Weber, Monash University, Australia -?Hans Weigand, Faculty of Economics of Tilburg University, Netherlands -?Michel Gagnon, Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal, Canada LINKS? VORTE2013 web site: http://planet-sl.org/vorte2013/ EDOC2013 web site: http://edocconference.org ? EasyChair submissions: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=vorte2013 ? Formatting guidelines: http://www2.computer.org/portal/web/cscps/formatting -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From baader at tcs.inf.tu-dresden.de Thu Mar 14 12:11:06 2013 From: baader at tcs.inf.tu-dresden.de (Franz Baader) Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2013 12:11:06 +0100 Subject: [DL] PhD/PostDoc position at TU Dresden Message-ID: Dear colleagues, please find below a call for applicants for a research position within my group. The main topic of the project is to use temporal variants of ontology-based data access (OBDA) to achieve situation awareness. f you are looking for a position and satisfy the requirements, please apply (see below for deadline and application procedure). Otherwise, please forward this call to possible candidates. If you have questions regarding the position, please do not hesitate to send me an Email. Best regards, -Franz Baader ------------------------------------- The Collaborative Research Center (CRC) 912 ?HAEC ? Highly Adaptive Energy-Efficient Computing? at Technische Universit?t Dresden (one of eleven German universities that have been identified as an "excellence university"), offers a position as a Postdoc / PhD student (TV-L E13) for the research project 'Semantic Technology for Context Awareness' (B02) to start on July 1, 2013. This full-time position is available for 24 months and may be extendable for further 48 months. The period of employment is governed by the Fixed Term Research Contracts Act (Wissenschafts-zeitvertragsgesetz - WissZeitVG). The successful candidate will be associated with the Chair of Automata Theory (headed by Prof. Baader), with her or his work focusing on logic-based knowledge representation, description-, modal- or temporal logics, ontological reasoning, query languages for ontology-based data access or related areas. For more information on the CRC and the project B02 see: http://tu-dresden.de/forschung/forschungskompetenz/sonderforschungsbereiche/sfb912/index_html Requirements: ? Candidates must have a degree in computer science, mathematics or a related field (diploma, MSc or Ph.D.) ? Ideally, candidates have a good understanding of logics, e.g., first-order, description-, modal- or temporal logics ? Very good knowledge of written and spoken English ? Programming experience, e.g., with Java, is an advantage As the Technische Universit?t Dresden intends to increase the proportion of female employees in science, women are particularly encouraged to apply. The same applies to disabled people. Complete applications (including a letter of motivation, Curriculum Vitae, and certificates) must be submitted by e-mail preferably as a single PDF document quoting the reference number PhD-HAEC-B02 in the subject header to sfb912 at tu-dresden.de (Please note: We are currently not able to receive electronically signed and encrypted data). The closing date for applications is 20 April 2013, but applications will be considered until the position is filled. -------------------------------- Prof. Dr.-Ing. Franz Baader Technische Universit?t Dresden Fakult?t Informatik Institut f?r Theoretische Informatik Lehrstuhl f?r Automatentheorie 01062 Dresden Tel.: +49 (351) 463-39160 Fax: +49 (351) 463-37959 E-Mail: baader at tcs.inf.tu-dresden.de -------------------------------- From lembo at dis.uniroma1.it Tue Mar 12 18:52:05 2013 From: lembo at dis.uniroma1.it (Domenico Lembo) Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2013 18:52:05 +0100 Subject: [DL] RR 2013 Deadline Extension (International Conference on Web Reasoning and Rule Systems) Message-ID: ======================== EXTENDED DEADLINES ======================== Abstract submission: April 3, 2013, before 23:59 UTC Full papers submission: April 7, 2013, before 23:59 UTC ==================================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS RR 2013 The 7th International Conference on Web Reasoning and Rule Systems Mannheim, Germany, July 27-29, 2013 http://www.rr-conference.org/RR2013 == RR == The International Conference on Web Reasoning and Rule Systems (RR) is a major forum for discussion and dissemination of new results concerning Web Reasoning and Rule Systems. RR 2013 is associated with a number of interesting events: - 9th Reasoning Web Summer School (RW 2013) Mannheim, Germany, July 30 - August 2, 2013 http://rw2013.uni-mannheim.de/ - 26th International Workshop on Description Logics (DL 2013) Ulm, Germany, July 23-26, 2013 http://www.uni-ulm.de/en/in/dl2013.html - 2nd OWL Reasoner Evaluation Workshop (ORE 2013) Ulm, Germany, July 22, 2013 http://ore2013.cs.manchester.ac.uk/ The Reasoning Web Summer School is a great opportunity particularly for young researchers to combine with attendance of the conference. Submissions by summer school participants are particularly encouraged. == Topics == RR welcomes original research from all areas of Web Reasoning. Topics of particular interest are: - Semantic Web, Rule and Ontology Languages, and related logics - Reasoning, Querying, Searching and Optimization - Incompleteness, Inconsistency and Uncertainty - Non-monotonic, Commonsense, and Closed-World Reasoning for the Web - Dynamic information, Stream Reasoning and Complex Event Processing - Decision Making, Planning, and Intelligent Agents - Reasoning, Machine Learning, Knowledge Extraction and IR Technologies - Large-scale data management and reasoning on the Web of Data - Data Integration, Dataspaces and Ontology-Based Data Access - Non-Standard Reasoning - Algorithms for distributed, parallelized, and scalable reasoning - System Descriptions and Experimentation - Application and Experience Papers == Invited Speakers == Thomas Eiter (Vienna University of Technology, Austria) Leonid Libkin (University of Edinburgh, UK) Nicola Leone (University of Calabria, Italy) == Doctoral Consortium == Following the success of its first edition at RR 2012, RR 2013 will also host a doctoral consortium, which will provide doctoral students in Web Reasoning and related areas with the unique opportunity to present and discuss their research directions, being involved into state-of-the-art research discussion and being supported in establishing fruitful collaborations with prominent researchers and pioneers in the field of Web Reasoning and Rules and related areas. == Publication == The conference proceedings will be published by Springer within the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series. After the conference, authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended versions of their papers to a special issue of a prestigious international journal. == Submissions == Submissions must be prepared in Springer's LaTeX style llncs (http://www.springer.com/comp/lncs/Authors.html). There are two submission formats: - Full papers (up to 15 pages) Original research works in the above areas - Technical Communications (up to 6 pages) Results and ideas of interest to the RR audience, including reports about recent own publications, position papers, system descriptions and application descriptions (accompanying a demo), and presentations of preliminary results All accepted works will be included in the proceedings, with Technical Communications clearly marked as such. All full papers and selected Technical Communications will be invited to give a talk at the conference. All accepted works will have the opportunity to present a poster and/or a system demo. Submissions can be made in EasyChair: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=rr-2013 SUBMISSION SITE IS NOW OPEN! Submission instructions for the RR 2013 Doctoral Consortium will be communicated by means of a separate Call for Papers. == Important Dates == (Deadlines have been extended!) Abstract submission: April 3, 2013, before 23:59 UTC Papers submission: April 7, 2013, before 23:59 UTC Notification of acceptance: May 10, 2013 Camera-ready submission: May 24, 2013 == Best Paper Award and Best Student Paper Award== Awards for Best Paper and Best Student Paper will be presented to the corresponding author(s) at the conference. The best student paper will be selected among the ones written mainly by students (i.e. persons not holding a PhD as of March 30, 2013), and the Best Student Paper award will be assigned only in case a student is not one of the main authors of the paper winning the Best Paper award. To qualify for the Best Student Paper award, the authors must indicate their eligibility upon submission at easychair. == Organization == General Chair: - Sebastian Rudolph (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany) Program Chairs: - Wolfgang Faber (University of Calabria, Italy) - Domenico Lembo (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy) Local Chair: - Heiner Stuckenschmidt (University of Mannheim, Germany) Doctoral Consortium Chair: - Alessandra Mileo (National University of Ireland Galway, Ireland) Sponsorship Chair: - Marco Maratea (University of Genoa, Italy) == Program Committee == Jos? 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URL: From schmidt at cs.man.ac.uk Tue Mar 12 19:56:38 2013 From: schmidt at cs.man.ac.uk (Renate Schmidt) Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2013 18:56:38 +0000 Subject: [DL] FroCoS 2013: FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS Message-ID: <20130312185638.504D34D62AE@cspc036.cs.man.ac.uk> FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS FroCoS 2013 9th International Symposium on Frontiers of Combining Systems Nancy, France September 18-20, 2013 Submission Deadlines: 15 Apr 2013 (Abs.), 22 Apr 2013 (Paper) http://frocos2013.loria.fr/ GENERAL INFORMATION The 9th International Symposium on Frontiers of Combining Systems will be held in Nancy, France, from 18-20 September 2013. The aim of the conference is to publish and promote progress in research areas requiring the development of general techniques and methods for the combination and integration of special, formally defined systems, as well as for the analysis and modularization of complex systems. FroCos 2013 will be co-located with the 22nd International Conference on Automated Reasoning with Analytic Tableaux and Related Methods (TABLEAUX 2013) held 16-19 September 2013. SCOPE OF CONFERENCE: In various areas of computer science, such as logic, computation, program development and verification, artificial intelligence, knowledge representation, and automated reasoning, there is an obvious need for using specialized formalisms and inference mechanisms for special tasks. To be usable in practice, these specialized systems must be combined with each other, and must be integrated into general purpose systems. This has led in many research areas to the development of general techniques and methods for the combination and integration of special, formally defined systems, as well as for the analysis and modularization of complex systems. The International Symposium on Frontiers of Combining Systems (FroCoS) traditionally focusses on these types of research questions and activities. Like its predecessors, FroCoS 2013 seeks to offer a common forum for research in the general area of combination, modularization and integration of systems, with emphasis on logic-based ones, and of their practical use. Typical topics of interest include (but are not limited to): * combinations of logics such as combined higher-order, first-order, temporal, modal, description or other non-classical logics; * combinations and modularity in ontologies; * combination of decision procedures, of satisfiability procedures, of constraint solving techniques or of logical frameworks; * combination and integration methods in SAT and SMT solving; * combinations and modularity in term rewriting; * integration of equational and other theories into deductive systems; * combination of deduction systems and computer algebra; * integration of data structures into constraint logic programming and deduction; * hybrid methods for deduction, resolution and constraint propagation; * hybrid systems in knowledge representation and natural language semantics; * combined logics for distributed and multi-agent systems; * logical aspects of combining and modularizing programs and specifications. INVITED SPEAKERS: Stephane Demri LSV, CNRS & ENS de Cachan (joint invited talk with TABLEAUX 2013) Konstantin Korovin The University of Manchester Joel Ouaknine Oxford University Larry Paulson University of Cambridge PUBLICATION DETAILS: The proceedings of the conference will be published in the Springer LNAI/LNCS series. PAPER SUBMISSIONS The program committee seeks high-quality submissions describing original work, written and to be presented in English, not substantially overlapping with published or simultaneously submitted work to a journal or conference with archival proceedings. Selection criteria include accuracy and originality of ideas, clarity and significance of results, and quality of presentation. The page limit in Springer LNCS style is 16 pages. Papers must be edited in LaTeX using the llncs style and must be submitted electronically as PDF files via the EasyChair system: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=frocos2013. For each accepted paper, at least one author is required to attend the symposium to present the work. Prospective authors must register a title and an abstract a week before the paper submission deadline. Further information about paper submissions is available at the conference website. IMPORTANT DATES 15 Apr 2013 Abstract submission 22 Apr 2013 Paper submission 6 Jun 2013 Notification of paper decisions 4 Jul 2013 Camera-ready papers due 18-20 Sep 2013 FroCoS Conference PROGRAM COMMITTEE Carlos Areces, FaMAF - Universidad Nacional de Cordoba, Argentina Alessandro Artale, Free University of Bolzano-Bozen, Italy Franz Baader, TU Dresden, Germany Clark Barrett, New York University, USA Peter Baumgartner, National ICT Australia, Canberra, Australia Christoph Benzmueller, Free University Berlin, Germany Jasmin Christian Blanchette, TU Muenchen, Germany Thomas Bolander, Technical University of Denmark Clare Dixon, University of Liverpool, UK Francois Fages, INRIA Rocquencourt, France Pascal Fontaine, LORIA, INRIA, University of Lorraine, France Didier Galmiche, LORIA, University of Lorraine, France Vijay Ganesh, University of Waterloo, Canada Silvio Ghilardi, Universita degli Studi di Milano, Italy Guido Governatori, National ICT Australia, Queensland, Australia Bernhard Gramlich, Technische Universitaet Wien, Austria Katsumi Inoue, National Institute of Informatics, Japan Sava Krstic, Intel, USA Alessio Lomuscio, Imperial College London, UK Till Mossakowski, DFKI & University of Bremen, Germany Silvio Ranise, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy Christophe Ringeissen, LORIA, INRIA, France Philipp Ruemmer, Uppsala University, Sweden Renate Schmidt, The University of Manchester, UK Roberto Sebastiani, DISI, University of Trento, Italy Viorica Sofronie-Stokkermans, University Koblenz-Landau, Germany Andrzej Szalas, Linkoepings Universitet, Sweden & University of Warsaw, Poland Rene Thiemann, University of Innsbruck, Austria Ashish Tiwari, SRI, USA Josef Urban, Radboud University, The Netherlands Christoph Weidenbach, Max-Planck-Institut fuer Informatik, Germany Frank Wolter, University of Liverpool, UK CONFERENCE CHAIR Christophe Ringeissen, LORIA, INRIA, France PC CHAIRS Pascal Fontaine, LORIA, INRIA, University of Lorraine, France Renate A. Schmidt, The University of Manchester, UK From ruy at cin.ufpe.br Tue Mar 12 22:51:51 2013 From: ruy at cin.ufpe.br (Ruy de Queiroz) Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2013 18:51:51 -0300 Subject: [DL] WoLLIC 2013 - CFP - DEADLINE APPROACHING In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: [Please circulate. Apologies for any cross-postings.] *WoLLIC 2013 * *20**th** Workshop on Logic, Language, Information and Computation * *August 20**th** to 23**rd**, 2013* *Technische Universit?t Darmstadt Darmstadt, Germany* *Scientific Sponsorship* *Interest Group in Pure and Applied Logics (**IGPL* *)* *The Association for Logic, Language and Information (**FoLLI* *)* *Association for Symbolic Logic (**ASL* *)* *European Association for Theoretical Computer Science (**EATCS* *)* *European Association for Computer Science Logic (**EACSL* *)* *Sociedade Brasileira de Computa??o (**SBC* *)* *Sociedade Brasileira de L?gica (**SBL* *)* *Organisation* *Fachbereich Mathematik* *, **Technische Universit?t Darmstadt* *, Germany **Centro de Inform?tica* *, **Universidade Federal de Pernambuco* *, Brazil * *Financial Support* *Deutsche Vereinigung f?r Mathematische Logik und f?r Grundlagenforschung der Exakten Wissenschaften (**DVMLG* ) *Call for Papers* WoLLIC is an annual international forum on inter-disciplinary research involving formal logic, computing and programming theory, and natural language and reasoning. Each meeting includes invited talks and tutorials as well as contributed papers. The twentieth WoLLIC will be held at the Technische Universit?t Darmstadt, Germany, from August 20th to 23rd, 2013. It is sponsored by the Association for Symbolic Logic (ASL), the Interest Group in Pure and Applied Logics (IGPL), the The Association for Logic, Language and Information (FoLLI), theEuropean Association for Theoretical Computer Science (EATCS), the European Association for Computer Science Logic (EACSL), the Sociedade Brasileira de Computa??o (SBC), and the Sociedade Brasileira de L?gica (SBL). *Paper submission* Contributions are invited on all pertinent subjects, with particular interest in cross-disciplinary topics. Typical but not exclusive areas of interest are: foundations of computing and programming; novel computation models and paradigms; broad notions of proof and belief; formal methods in software and hardware development; logical approach to natural language and reasoning; logics of programs, actions and resources; foundational aspects of information organization, search, flow, sharing, and protection. Proposed contributions should be in English, and consist of a scholarly exposition accessible to the non-specialist, including motivation, background, and comparison with related works. They must not exceed 10 pages (in font 10 or higher), with up to 5 additional pages for references and technical appendices. The paper's main results must not be published or submitted for publication in refereed venues, including journals and other scientific meetings. It is expected that each accepted paper be presented at the meeting by one of its authors. Papers must be submitted electronically at the WoLLIC 2012 EasyChair website. (Please go to http://wollic.org/wollic2013/instructions.html for instructions.) A title and single-paragraph abstract should be submitted by March 25th, and the full paper by March 29th (firm date). Notifications are expected by May 3rd, and final papers for the proceedings will be due by May 15th (firm date). *Proceedings* The proceedings of WoLLIC 2013, including both invited and contributed papers, will be published in advance of the meeting as a volume in Springer's LNCS series. In addition, abstracts will be published in the Conference Report section of the *Logic Journal of the IGPL*, and selected contributions will be published as a special post-conference WoLLIC 2013 issue of a scientific journal (to be confirmed). *Invited Speakers* - *Natasha Alechina* (University of Nottingham) - *Steve Awodey* (Carnegie Mellon University) - *Mikolaj Bojanczyk* (Warsaw University) - *Wim Martens* (Universit?t Bayreuth) - *Catuscia Palamidessi* (INRIA Saclay and LIX) - *Thomas Schwentick* (TU Dortmund) *Student Grants* ASL sponsorship of WoLLIC 2013 will permit ASL student members to apply for a modest travel grant (deadline: May 1st, 2013). See http://www.aslonline.org/studenttravelawards.html for details. *Important Dates* - *March 25th, 2013*: Paper title and abstract deadline* * - *March 29th, 2013*: Full paper deadline - May 3rd, 2013: Author notification - May 15th, 2013: Final version deadline (firm) *Programme Committee* - Albert Atserias (UPC Barcelona) - Alexandru Baltag (Univ Amsterdam) - Stephanie Delaune (ENS, CNRS) - Amy Felty (Univ Ottawa) - Santiago Figueira (Univ Buenos Aires) - Amelie Gheerbrant (Univ Edinburgh) - Radha Jagadeesan (DePaul Univ) - Delia Kesner (Univ Paris-Diderot) - Benoit Larose (Concordia Univ) - Leonid Libkin (Univ Edinburgh - CHAIR) - Fenrong Liu (Tsinghua Univ) - Jerzy Marcinkowski (Wroclaw Univ) - Peter O'Hearn (UCL) - Jo?l Ouaknine (Oxford Univ) - Gerald Penn (Univ Toronto) - Gabriele Puppis (CNRS/LaBRI - Univ Bordeaux) - R. Ramanujam (The Institute of Mathematical Sciences) - Peter Selinger (Dalhousie Univ) - Szymon Torunczyk (Warsaw Univ) - Anna Zamansky (TU Wien) *Steering Committee* - Samson Abramksy, Johan van Benthem, Anuj Dawar, Joe Halpern, Wilfrid Hodges, Daniel Leivant, Angus Macintyre, Grigori Mints, Luke Ong, Hiroakira Ono, Ruy de Queiroz. *Organising Committee* - Ulrich Kohlenbach (Tech U Darmstadt) (Local chair) - Anjolina G. de Oliveira (U Fed Pernambuco) - Martin Otto (Tech U Darmstadt) - Ruy de Queiroz (U Fed Pernambuco) (co-chair) - Thomas Streicher (Tech U Darmstadt) - Martin Ziegler (Tech U Darmstadt) *Further information* Contact one of the Co-Chairs of the Organising Committee. *Web page* http://wollic.org/wollic2013/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From lembo at dis.uniroma1.it Wed Mar 13 17:47:01 2013 From: lembo at dis.uniroma1.it (Domenico Lembo) Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2013 17:47:01 +0100 Subject: [DL] CFP: RR 2013 Doctoral Consortium Message-ID: ======================================================================== Doctoral Consortium, RR 2013 - CFP 27-29 July, Mannheim, Germany http://rr2013.uni-mannheim.de/en/doctoral-consortium/ ======================================================================== The Doctoral Consortium of the 7th International Conference on Web Reasoning and Rules Systems (RR 2013) will provide doctoral students in Web Reasoning and related areas with the unique opportunity to present and discuss their research directions, being involved into state-of-the-art research discussion and being supported in establishing fruitful collaborations with prominent researchers and pioneers the field of Web Reasoning and Rules and related areas. The co-location of RR 2013 with the Reasoning Web Summer School and with other relevant related events will provide multiple opportunities for participating students to enhance their education. The Consortium will allow participants to interact with established researchers through the following initiatives: - The poster presentation session accompanied by a written research summary, which will be distributed at the conference. The poster presentation session will be preceded by a spotlight presentations session where poster presenters give 5-minute teaser talks as advertisement for their posters. - The mentoring lunch will consist of a lunch break where a senior researcher shares a lunch table with 3-4 students. The researcher will be charged with initiating and driving a discussion on general topics concerning research, career, and Web Reasoning as a discipline. He will also be available for answering questions by the students. =============== Important Dates =============== - Application Deadline: April 15th, 2013 - Notification: May 1st, 2013 - Grant Application: May 6th, 2013 - Grant Notification: May 15th, 2013 - Camera Ready: May 20th, 2013 ============================== Submission Information ============================== To apply for participation to the RR 2013 Doctoral Consortium students are asked to submit 1. A research summary (max 6 pages) of their PhD research addressing the following aspects: - Applicant's complete name, address and affiliation as well as the title of the research - The main problem you are trying to tackle and why it is relevant - What is the state-of-the-art in relation to existing solutions to the problem - Advances beyond the state-of-the-art in terms of your specific contribution and research plan - Current status of the research plan - Expected achievements and possible evaluation metrics to establish the level of success of your results - References 2. A statement of interest in participating to the Doctoral Consortium (less than 1 page, uploaded as an attachment) Both the research summary and the attachment must be in PDF format and be formatted according to the Springer Publications format for Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). Submission will be managed via Easychair. Details coming soon. All the accepted contributions have to be presented. The best submissions will present their work as regular (15 min) presentation, and they will be given the option to have their research summaries included in the conference proceedings (Springer LNCS). All the other accepted submissions will be presented at the poster presentation session, preceded by the 5-min talk. Students whose work has been accepted at the poster presentation session should prepare a poster as well in A0 portrait format (more details provided soon). Students presenting a poster to the Reasoning Web Summer School can use the same poster for the DC if accepted as short presentations. ============================================== Grants & Awards for U.S. students attending RR ============================================== The organizing committee is considering the possibility of offering scholarships to participants from the U.S. to partially cover registration and/or accommodation fees, depending on available sponsorships. Details will be announced as soon as we have more information about the number and amount of scholarships. =============== Chair =============== Alessandra Mileo, Digital Enterprise Research Institute, NUIG =============== List of Mentors =============== The list of mentors will be communicated along with their area of expertise once the review process has been completed. =============== Program Committee =============== To be announced. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From m.daquin at open.ac.uk Thu Mar 14 09:48:42 2013 From: m.daquin at open.ac.uk (Mathieu D'Aquin) Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2013 08:48:42 +0000 Subject: [DL] SSSW 2013 - The 10th Summer School on Ontology Engineering and the Semantic Web (deadline approaching) Message-ID: <09430C7E-5837-45BF-A6A2-224D705FF3AA@open.ac.uk> THE 10TH SUMMER SCHOOL ON ONTOLOGY ENGINEERING AND THE SEMANTIC WEB (SSSW 2013) Celebrating 10 years as the premier educational event on semantic web technologies. 7-13 July, 2013, Cercedilla, near Madrid, Spain. http://sssw.org/2013 Applications to attend SSSW 2013 will remain open until 05 April 2013. See http://sssw.org/2013/how-to-apply/ for details. The groundbreaking SSSW series of summer schools started in 2003. It is now a well-established event within the research community and a role model for several other initiatives. In 2013, we will be celebrating the 10th anniversary of SSSW, with a set of tutors comprising leading researchers in the community, prestigious invited speakers, networking and mentoring sessions with research and industry leaders (including former students of the school), and of course, an exciting social programme in one of the most beautiful locations in Spain. To ensure a high ratio between tutors and students the school will be limited to 50 participants. Applications for the summer school will close on 05 April 2013. >From the very beginning the school pioneered an innovative pedagogical approach, combining the practical with the theoretical, and adding teamwork and a competitive element to the mix. Specifically, tutorial/lecture material is augmented with hands-on practical workshops and we ensure that the sessions complement each other by linking them to group projects. Work on developing and presenting a project in cooperation with other participants serves as a means of consolidating the knowledge and skills gained from lectures and practical sessions. It also introduces an element of competition among teams, as prizes are awarded to the best projects at the end of the week. Participants will be provided with electronic versions of all course lectures and all necessary tools and environments for the hands-on sessions. PC access with all tools pre-installed will be available on site as well. SSSW 2013 will provide a stimulating and enjoyable environment in which participants will benefit not only from the formal and practical sessions but also from informal and social interactions with established researchers and the other participants to the school. To further facilitate interaction and exchange of ideas, a poster session will also take place, which will provide an opportunity for attendees to present and obtain feedback on their research. TOPICS Linked Data / Web of Data Ontology Engineering Ontology Design Knowledge Representation Semantic Web Applications Ontology Matching and Alignment Semantic and Language Technologies Knowledge Management Semantic Search Recommender Systems Web Intelligence Multimedia Semantic Web Social Semantic Web and Sensor Web Semantic Web and Multimedia ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Mathieu d'Aquin (Director), m.daquin at open.ac.uk Oscar Corcho (Co-Director), ocorcho at fi.upm.es Enrico Motta (Founder), e.motta at open.ac.uk Asun Gomez-Perez (Co-Founder), asun at fi.upm.es TUTORS AND INVITED SPEAKERS Harith Alani (The Open University, UK) Mathieu d'Aquin (The Open University, UK) Sean Bechhofer (University of Manchester, UK) Fabio Ciravegna (University of Sheffield, UK) Oscar Corcho (UPM, Spain) Tommaso Di Noia (Technical University of Bari, Italy) J?r?me Euzenat (INRIA and LIG, France) Aldo Gangemi (ISTC-CNR, Italy) Asun Gomez-Perez (UPM, Spain) Lynda Hardman (Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica, The Netherlands) Frank van Harmelen (Free University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands) Manfred Hauswirth (DERI, Ireland) Peter Mika (Yahoo! Research Barcelona, Spain) Enrico Motta (The Open University, UK) Natasha Noy (Stanford University, US) Valentina Presutti (ISTC-CNR, Italy) Rapha?l Troncy (EURECOM, France) HOW TO APPLY We welcome applicants from anywhere in the world. Normally, but not exclusively, applicants will be postgraduate students in relevant disciplines with some knowledge of semantic and web technologies. Some basic acquaintance with knowledge representation languages for the Semantic Web (RDF, OWL, etc.) is required. Application should be sent by filling the application form, as well as sending a CV to application at sssw13.org (see http://sssw.org/2013/how-to-apply/). The deadline for applications will be 05 April 2013. Accepted candidates are expected to arrive on Sunday, July 7th, between 3pm and 6pm and to participate fully in the activities of the school until its conclusion, at 2pm on Saturday, July 13th. Applicants should keep in mind that we will not consider applications from students who cannot commit themselves to a full participation for the whole duration of the school. Students are also required to bring and present a poster at the summer school, describing their own research. Apart from activities directly related to lectures, the summer school schedule is rightly famous for its unrivalled social programme, which enables informal interaction between all participants to the school - i.e., students, tutors, invited speakers, school staff, etc. These events include a gala dinner, walks in the mountain, discos, and sport activities. STUDENT GRANTS We expect to provide a number of grants for students who would not otherwise be able to attend the school. More details about student grants will be published at a later date. VENUE AND ACCOMMODATION Cercedilla is a small village in the mountains near Madrid, located in a beautiful conservation area. The school will be held in the Residence of the Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, which provides comfortable accommodation in individual rooms with en suite bathrooms, as well as access to a range of nearby activities, including a fresh-water swimming pool. The nearest airport is Madrid-Barajas. Participants will be able to use local rail links from Madrid to Cercedilla. More information about how to reach Cercedilla can be found at http://sssw.org/2013/venue-details/ The cost of the summer school, including accommodation, meals and excursion will be 900?. -- The Open University is incorporated by Royal Charter (RC 000391), an exempt charity in England & Wales and a charity registered in Scotland (SC 038302). -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ernesto.jimenez.ruiz at gmail.com Thu Mar 14 13:06:20 2013 From: ernesto.jimenez.ruiz at gmail.com (Ernesto Jimenez-Ruiz) Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2013 12:06:20 +0000 Subject: [DL] [CfP] 2CfP: 2nd OWL Reasoner Evaluation Workshop (with DL 2013) Message-ID: [Apologies for cross-posting] ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2nd CALL FOR PAPERS & SYSTEMS 2nd OWL Reasoner Evaluation Workshop (ORE 2013) Collocated with DL 2013 Workshop July 22nd in Ulm, Germany http://ore2013.cs.manchester.ac.uk/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- OBJECTIVES -------------------------------------------------------------------------- The goal of this workshop is to bring together both the DEVELOPERS and END-USERS of reasoners for (subsets of) OWL, including systems focusing on both intensional (ontology) and extensional (data) query answering. The workshop will give developers a perfect opportunity to promote their systems and get feedback from end-users and real uses-cases. CALL FOR PAPERS -------------------------------------------------------------------------- We invite submission of papers describing: * System descriptions describing the architecture, implementation, and expected performance of the reasoner. * Reasoner implementation details, usage reports, implementation "tips and tricks". * Challenging ontologies and/or benchmark proposals for OWL reasoners. Papers should be formatted according to the Springer LNCS guidelines ( http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html) and should not be longer than 6 pages. Submissions must be in PDF through the EasyChair conference system: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ore2013. All submissions will be peer-reviewed by the program committee. Selected papers will be presented during the workshop and published as a volume of CEUR workshop proceedings (http://ceur-ws.org/). CALL FOR SYSTEMS (CHALLENGE) -------------------------------------------------------------------------- We invite reasoner developers to submit their reasoners for participation in the OWL reasoner performance competition. The outline for the competition is as follows: * The test sets will include OWL ontologies from all OWL 2 profiles and of varying sizes, randomly sampled from the NCBO BioPortal, a web crawl, and user-submitted hard ontologies. * The tested tasks will include consistency checking, classification, entailment checking, and query answering. * Developers should send a JAR file of their systems to the competition organizers who will then carry out the benchmarks. We also strongly encourage challenge participants to submit a system description paper (see instructions above), describing: * architecture * implementation * expected performance More information about the competition can be found on the ORE 2013 website: http://ore2013.cs.manchester.ac.uk/competition/ IMPORTANT DATES -------------------------------------------------------------------------- * Paper submission deadline: May 3rd, 2013 * Notification of acceptance: May 31st, 2013 * System submission deadline for competition: June 27th, 2013 * Workshop: July 22nd, 2013 * Competitions: July 22-26, 2013 ORGANISATION -------------------------------------------------------------------------- For enquiries, please contact the organisers at ore2013 at easychair.org Organisers * Ernesto Jim?nez-Ruiz, University of Oxford, UK * Samantha Bail, University of Manchester, UK Competition Organisers * Bijan Parsia, University of Manchester, UK * Rafael Goncalves, University of Manchester, UK Local Organisers * Birte Glimm, Ulm University, Germany * Yevgeny Kazakov, Ulm University, Germany Program committee * Ana Armas, University of Oxford, UK * Franz Baader, TU Dresden, Germany * Christine Golbreich, LIRMM, CNRS, Montpellier & University Versailles Saint-Quentin, France * Janna Hastings, European Bioinformatics Institute, UK * Pavel Klinov, Ulm University, Germany * Despoina Magka, University of Oxford, UK * Francisco Martin-Recuerda, Universidad Polit?cnica de Madrid, Spain * Christian Meilicke, University of Mannheim, Germany * Julian Mendez, TU Dresden, Germany * Maria del Mar Rold?n Garc?a, Universidad de Malaga, Spain * Stefan Schlobach, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands * Kiril Simov, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria * Kavitha Srinivas, IBM Research, USA * Zhe Wang, University of Oxford, UK -- Ernesto Jim?nez-Ruiz Research Assistant Department of Computer Science University of Oxford Wolfson Building, Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3QD, UK http://krono.act.uji.es/people/Ernesto http://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/people/ernesto.jimenez-ruiz/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From peterschueller at sabanciuniv.edu Thu Mar 14 14:31:50 2013 From: peterschueller at sabanciuniv.edu (peterschueller at sabanciuniv.edu) Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2013 15:31:50 +0200 Subject: [DL] Call for Applications: ICLP Doctoral Student Consortium, Istanbul, Turkey, August 24 Message-ID: (Apologies for cross-posting.) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ICLP-DC 2013 Ninth ICLP Doctoral Student Consortium to be held in Istanbul, Turkey, 24 August 2013 http://sites.unife.it/iclp-dc-13/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ** Introduction ** The ICLP 2013 Doctoral Consortium (DC) is the ninth doctoral consortium to be offered as part of the 29th International Conference on Logic Programming (ICLP). The DC follows the very positive experience of previous events held in Sitges (Spain) on October 3rd, 2005, in Seattle (WA, USA) on August 21st, 2006, in Porto (Portugal) on September 8th, 2007, in Udine (Italy) on December 10th, 2008, in Pasadena (CA, USA) on July 15th, 2009, in Edinburgh (Scotland) on July 20th, 2010, in Lexington (KY, USA) on July 6th, 2011, and in Budapest (Hungary) on September 4th, 2012. The DC will take place during ICLP 2013 in Istanbul, Turkey. It provides a forum for doctoral students working in areas related to logic and constraint programming, with a particular emphasis to students interested in pursuing a career in academia. The DC is also open to exceptional Master's students developing MS theses in areas of scope. The DC gives students the opportunity to present and discuss their research and to obtain feedback from peers as well as world-renowned experts. ** General Information ** The aims of the Doctoral Consortium are to: - provide doctoral students working in the fields of logic and constraint programming with a friendly and open forum to present their research ideas, listen to ongoing work from peer students, and receive constructive feedback, - provide students with relevant information about important issues for doctoral candidates and future academics, - develop a supportive community of scholars and a spirit of collaborative research, and - support a new generation of researchers with information and advice on academic, research, industrial, and non-traditional career paths. The DC is designed for students currently enrolled in a Ph.D. program, though we are also open to exceptions (e.g., students currently in a Master's program and aiming at doctoral studies). Students at any stage in their doctoral studies are encouraged to apply for participation in the DC. Applicants are expected to conduct research in areas related to logic and constraint programming; topics of interest include (but are not limited to): - Theoretical Foundations of Logic and Constraint (Logic) Programming; - Sequential and Parallel Implementation Technology; - Static and Dynamic Analysis, Abstract Interpretation, Compilation Technology, and Verification; - Logic-based Paradigms (e.g., Answer Set Programming, Concurrent Logic Programming, Inductive Logic Programming); - Innovative Applications of Logic Programming. Submissions by students who have presented their work at previous ICLP DC editions are allowed, but should occur only if there are substantial changes or improvements to the student's work. The DC allows participants to interact with established researchers and fellow students, through presentations, question-answer sessions, panel discussions, and invited talks. Each participant will give a short, critiqued, research presentation. Renowned experts in the field will evaluate submission packages and participate in the DC, providing valuable feedback to DC participants. ** Important Dates ** Submission Deadline: May 3rd, 2013 Acceptance Notification: May 24th, 2013 Camera-ready Version: July 18th, 2013 Doctoral Consortium: August 24th, 2013 ICLP 2013 Conference: August 24th-29th, 2013 ** Application Procedure ** To apply for participation in the ICLP 2013 DC, provide a submission package consisting of a cover letter, a research summary, and a letter of recommendation (e.g., from your supervisor). All material is to be submitted electronically, in PDF format, via EasyChair: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iclpdc13 All submissions must be in English. Submissions arriving after the deadline will not be considered. Your submission should not contain any proprietary or confidential material. * Cover Letter Please include the following information in the cover letter: - statement of interest in participating in the DC, - full name of school and department to which you are affiliated, - name(s) of your supervising professor(s), - title of your research work and keywords pertinent to your research, - current stage in your program of study (e.g. Ph.D./MS student, start date), - contact information (full name, address, telephone number, email address), and - the URL of your web page (if any). * Research Summary Prepare your research summary as a PDF document, using the TPLP template: http://www.iclp2013.org/files/downloads/TPLP_style_files.tar.gz Make sure to include your complete name, address, and affiliation. The body of the research summary (no more than 10 pages, but 5 is fine as well!) should provide a clear overview of your research, its potential impact, and its current status. You are encouraged to include sections like the following: - Introduction and problem description - Background and overview of the existing literature - Goal of the research - Current status of the research - Preliminary results accomplished (if any) - Open issues and expected achievements - Bibliographical references The (camera versions of) accepted applicants' research summaries will be published as on-line abstracts in the Theory and Practice of Logic Programming (TPLP) journal. * Letter of Recommendation Include a short letter of recommendation written by your graduate or thesis adviser(s). Please, invite your adviser(s) to give an indication of the current status of your research and of the expected deadline for thesis submission. In addition, your adviser(s) should briefly describe what she/he hopes you would gain from participation in the DC. ** Application Appraisement ** * Review Criteria The DC program committee will select participants based on their anticipated contribution to the DC objectives. Participants typically have settled on their thesis directions and have their research proposal accepted by their thesis committee. Students will be selected based on clarity and completeness of their submission package, relevance of their research area w.r.t. the focus of ICLP, stage of research, recommendation letter, and evidence of promise towards a successful career in research and academia, such as published papers or technical reports. * Best Contribution Award The DC program committee will review submission packages and judge DC presentations to assign the "Best ICLP 2013 DC Contribution" award among participants. We plan to reserve a presentation slot for the award-winning contributor in the ICLP 2013 main program. Updates follow as soon as we have more information regarding this. ** Participant Funding ** The Association for Logic Programming (ALP) supports ICLP 2013 DC participants by providing accommodation/travel grants and/or sponsoring ICLP 2013 main conference registration. Updates follow as soon as we have more information regarding this. ** Organizers ** * Chairs Marco Gavanelli Engineering Department Ferrara University, Italy Martin Gebser Institute for Informatics University of Potsdam, Germany * Email Address iclpdc13 at lists.cs.uni-potsdam.de * Program Committee Fabio Fioravanti, University of Chieti-Pescara Jose Francisco Morales, Technical University of Madrid Miguel Gomez-Zamalloa, Complutense University of Madrid Matti Jaervisalo, University of Helsinki Ekaterina Komendantskaya, University of Dundee Francesca Lisi, University of Bari C. R. Ramakrishnan, Stony Brook University Francesco Ricca, University of Calabria Gerardo Simari, University of Oxford Antoine Zimmermann, University of Grenoble From bock at fzi.de Tue Mar 12 17:52:40 2013 From: bock at fzi.de (=?UTF-8?B?SsO8cmdlbiBCb2Nr?=) Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2013 17:52:40 +0100 Subject: [DL] AST 2013: 1st Call for Papers (7th International Workshop on Applications of Semantic Technologies) Message-ID: <513F5D58.7070404@fzi.de> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA224 (apologies for cross-posting) ===================================================================== 7th International Workshop on Applications of Semantic Technologies (AST 2013) http://ast2013.fzi.de/ at INFORMATIK 2013 (16-20 September 2013, Koblenz, Germany) ===================================================================== <<< Discuss about application areas on our forum at >>> <<< http://ast2013.fzi.de/?page_id=33 >>> <<< as input to the OpenSpace session at the workshop >>> Aim, Scope, Goals: - ------------------ Semantic Web denotes a major international research effort with the goal to make Web content available for intelligent knowledge processing. The Semantic Web draws on standard and novel techniques from various disciplines related to Computer Science, including Artificial Intelligence, Databases, Internet Technology, Software Agents, Ontologies, Knowledge Management and eCommerce. The developed and integrated methods and tools ? often called Semantic Technologies ? are generic and have a very large application potential outside the domain of Semantic Web. Applications of Semantic Technologies are currently being investigated in various fields, including Ambient Intelligence, Software Engineering, Cognitive Systems, Corporate Intranets, Knowledge Management and Bioinformatics. In recent years, the amount of data published on the Semantic Web as so-called Linked Data has exploded. We believe that the methods and tools provided by Semantic Technologies will play a crucial role in these and other application areas for the foreseeable future, in particular for added-value services in organizations. The AST2013 workshop will bring together researchers and practitioners who work on applications of Semantic Technologies in order to foster cross-fertilisation between application areas and aid technology transfer from foundational research into practice. The workshop covers diverse application areas of Semantic Technologies, including, but not limited to, the following: * Ambient Intelligence * Cognitive Systems * Information Integration * Multimedia Data Management * Software Engineering * smartEnergy * Machine Learning * Service-Oriented Computing * Digital Libraries * Grid and Cloud Computing * Peer-to-Peer Systems * Technology-enhanced learning * eScience * eCommerce * eGovernment * Bioinformatics * Social Software * Automation The event will be organised as a full-day workshop with a keynote address and several contributed talks. There will be an additional slot reserved for an OpenSpace session to creatively explore new application areas. We believe that this will spark fruitful discussions among participants and initiate future collaborations and exploitation areas for Semantic Technologies. Important Dates: - ---------------- * Paper submission deadline: April 22, 2013 * Notification: May 20, 2013 * Registration for INFORMATIK 2013: June 30, 2013 * Camera ready version: July 1, 2013 * AST Workshop: September 17, 2013 Workshop Organisers: - -------------------- * J?rgen Bock (FZI Research Center for Information Technologies, Karlsruhe) * Catherina Burghart (Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences) * Sebastian Rudolph (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology ? KIT) Programme Committee: - -------------------- * Armin Haller, CSIRO ICT Centre, Canberra * Bernhard Bauer, University of Augsburg, Germany * Christoph Beierle, University of Hagen, Germany * Frithjof Dau, SAP AG, Dresden * Gabriele Kern-Isberner, University of Dortmund, Germany * Harald Kosch, University of Passau, Germany * Jens Hartmann, EnBW, EnSoC, Karlsruhe * Johannes Busse, Johannes Busse knowledge engineering * J?rgen Ziegler, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany * Mark Hefke, CAS Software AG * Markus Luczak-Roesch, FU Berlin, Germany * Robert Tolksdorf, FU Berlin, Germany * Simone Braun, CAS Software AG * S?ren Auer, University of Leipzig, Germany * Stefan Schlobach, VU Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Germany * Stefan Schulte, TU Wien, Austria * Stephan Bloehdorn, IBM, Berlin * Stephan Grimm, Siemens AG, M?nchen * Thomas Fuhr, Georg Simon Ohm University of Applied Sciences Nuremberg, Germany * Thorsten Liebig, derivo GmbH, Ulm * Ulrike Lucke, University of Potsdam * York Sure, gesis Leibnitz-Institut f?r Sozialwissenschaften -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iFYEARELAAYFAlE/XVgACgkQ+tI0eiw4GNlFzADeJ+fhFAHK39M7/j1DIHCuvHMx wSOKweisRXsrIwDdGtJUpYp/o+hM33phiH8+EmpUkEeAn5VdH7BKeQ== =zukr -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- From fabien.gandon at inria.fr Tue Mar 12 09:48:53 2013 From: fabien.gandon at inria.fr (Fabien Gandon) Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2013 09:48:53 +0100 (CET) Subject: [DL] ESWC 2013: Call for Participation In-Reply-To: <1941322996.1270346.1362403788707.JavaMail.root@inria.fr> Message-ID: <1117620232.3251631.1363078133842.JavaMail.root@inria.fr> ESWC 2013: Call for Participation Montpellier, May 26th - 30th http://2013.eswc-conferences.org ESWC 2013 is the major Europe-based conference on Semantic Technologies and the Semantic Web. It is the ideal venue for discussing the latest scientific results and technology innovations and is equally relevant to researchers, academics, developers and practitioners in the field of Semantic Technologies. The motto of this year?s edition is ?Semantics and Big Data?. Registration is open; early registration rates are available until March 17h! http://2013.eswc-conferences.org/registration We hope to see you at ESWC 2013 in Montpellier! === Program === == Keynote Speakers == ESWC 2013 will feature the following three keynote speakers: - Enrico Motta (Knowledge Media Institute, Open University) - David Karger (MIT) - Manfred Hauswirth (Digital Enterprise Research Institute, National University of Galway) == Accepted Papers == A list of accepted papers can be found here: http://2013.eswc-conferences.org/program/accepted-papers == Workshops and Tutorials == The main conference program will be complemented by 13 workshops and 7 tutorials: http://2013.eswc-conferences.org/program/workshops http://2013.eswc-conferences.org/program/tutorials == Demonstration and poster presentations == If you want to present a demo on your work or a poster at the conference, the call for posters and demonstrations is still open until March 7th: http://2013.eswc-conferences.org/important-dates/call-demos http://2013.eswc-conferences.org/important-dates/call-posters == Semantic Mashup Challenge == The AI mashup challenge accepts and awards mashups that use semantic web technology, including but not restricted to machine learning and data mining, machine vision, natural language processing, reasoning, ontologies in the context of the semantic web. Mashups will be presented in a special session during the ESWC 2013 Conference. The call is still open: http://2013.eswc-conferences.org/program/co-located-events === Registration === Early registration rates are available until March 17th http://2013.eswc-conferences.org/registration === Student Travel Support === Some travel support is available for undergraduate and graduate students; please contact the general chair to apply for this: http://2013.eswc-conferences.org/registration === Organizers === General Chair : Philipp Cimiano (Bielefeld University, DE) Program Chairs : Valentina Presutti (STLab, ISTC-CNR, IT) & Oscar Corcho (UPM, ES) Local Chairs : Clement Jonquet & Fran?ois Scharffe (LIRMM, Universit? Montpellier 2, FR) ESWC 2013 is brought to you by STI International in collaboration with University Montpellier -- fabien, inria, @fabien_gandon, http://fabien.info From margotcolinet at gmail.com Wed Mar 13 16:48:55 2013 From: margotcolinet at gmail.com (Margot Colinet) Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2013 16:48:55 +0100 Subject: [DL] LAST Call for Papers ESSLLI 2013 STUDENT SESSION Message-ID: *Please forward to students. * * * *LAST Call for Papers ESSLLI 2013 STUDENT SESSION* Held during The 25th European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information D?sseldorf, Germany, August 5-16, 2013 Deadline for submissions: April 1st, 2013 https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=essllistus2013 *A SEPARATE POSTER SESSION*: Note that this year there are two separate kinds of submissions, one for the oral presentations and one for the posters. This means that papers can be directly submitted as posters. Reviewing and ranking will be done separately. We particularly encourage submissions for posters. 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URL: From t.dinoia at poliba.it Tue Mar 12 20:22:19 2013 From: t.dinoia at poliba.it (Tommaso Di Noia) Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2013 20:22:19 +0100 Subject: [DL] CfP - I-SEMANTICS 2013 - 9th International Conference on Semantic Systems Message-ID: <513F806B.2050407@poliba.it> Apologies for cross postings =====================Call for Papers============================ I-SEMANTICS 2013 9th International Conference on Semantic Systems Graz, Austria, 4 - 6 September 2013 http://www.i-semantics.at including Announcement of 6th Linked Data Cup Latest News: ================================================================ We are happy to announce as this year?s Key Note Speakers Ed Chi, Google, USA Aldo Gangemi, Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies, Italy Tiit Paananen, Skype, USA Yves Raimond, BBC, UK I-SEMANTICS proceedings published by ACM ICPS Important Dates (Research & Application & Challenge Papers) - Abstract Submission Deadline: March 25, 2013 - Paper Submission Deadline: April 1, 2013 - Notification of Acceptance: May 01, 2013 - Camera-Ready Paper: June 10, 2013 Important Dates (Posters & Demo Papers & PhD Track) - Submission Deadline: May 10, 2013 - Notification of Acceptance: June 17, 2013 - Camera Ready Paper: July 18, 2013 ================================================================== Hashtag for I-SEMANTICS 2013: #isem2013Scope I-SEMANTICS 2013 (www.i-semantics.at) is the 9th International Conference on Semantic Systems. The conference brings together both researchers and practitioners in the areas of Semantic Technologies, Linked Data and the Semantic Web in order to showcase cutting edge research, demonstrators and applications for the Corporate and Social Semantic Web. I-SEMANTICS 2013 will also hold the ?I-CHALLENGE?, which brings to you the 6th Linked Data Cup (formerly Triplification Challenge), the Best Paper Award and the Best Poster Award. In order to foster synergies among the research fields of knowledge discovery, social computing, and semantic technologies I-SEMANTICS Conference will be held together with the I-KNOW Conference, the 13th International Conference on Knowledge Technologies (www.iknow.at). --- Topics --- As a conference aiming to bring together science and industry, I-SEMANTICS encourages scientific research and application-oriented contributions in the field of Semantic Technologies, Semantic Web and Linked Data. The topics of interest for this year?s conference include but are not limited to: The Web of Data - Large scale triplification and processing of data - Vocabularies, taxonomies and schemas for the web of data - Querying, searching and browsing over the web of data - Data integration and interlinking for the web of data - Location-based services and mobile semantic applications - User interaction and innovative visualizations for the web of data - Reasoning over the web of data - (Mashup) applications utilizing (large scale) linked data resources - Recommender systems making use of the web of data - Integrating microposts into the web of data - Linked enterprise data and (open) linked government data - Linked sensor data and machine-to-machine communication Quality of Semantic Data on the Web - Provenance information for the web of data - Large scale ontology inspection, maintenance and repair - Co-reference detection and dataset reconciliation - Quality analysis and metrics for the web of data - Trust, privacy and security in semantic web applications Corporate Semantic Web - Corporate thesauri, business vocabularies, ontologies and rules - Semantic business, e-commerce and m-commerce systems - Semantic procurement for enterprises and governments - Semantics, pragmatics and semiotics in organizations - Enterprise trust and reputation management - Organisational issues in the deployment and application of semantic technologies Social Semantic Web - Enriching social web data and information with semantics and linked data - Semantically-enabled social platforms and applications - Users as virtual and physical sensors and devices for a ubiquitous social semantic web - Semantic based personalization, as e.g. for recommendations, social navigation, Collaborative search, social filtering, etc - Reality augmented by the social semantic web - Querying, mining and analysis of social semantic web data and dynamics - Representing and reasoning with uncertainty, provenance, trust in social web data - Ethical issues related to the use of user generated content & linked data Semantic Content Engineering - Collaborative ontology engineering - Ontology modularity, alignment and merging - Ontology design patterns and life cycle management - Ontology learning and knowledge acquisition - Semantic annotation and tagging - Making sense of microposts - Semantic content management systems Semantic Multimedia - Semantic-driven multimedia applications - Multimedia ontologies and infrastructures - Content-based semantic multimedia analysis and data mining - Semantic-driven multimedia indexing and retrieval - Named entity recognition and disambiguation in multimedia documents - Human-computer interfaces and visualization for multimedia data access Studies, Metrics & Benchmarks - Case studies of and benchmarks in semantic systems usage - Evaluation perspectives, methods and semantic web research methodologies - Technology assessment and acceptance/reactance research - Usability and user interaction with semantic technologies - Case studies with clear lessons learned or evaluations Data Ecosystems & Markets - Economic foundations of data assets, markets and data crowd sourcing - Business and governance models for data commerce - Production principles and measures of data creation, curation and utilization - Business models and economic impacts of Linked (Enterprise) Data and/or large scale semantic systems - Case studies for sector-specific data strategies --- I-SEMANTICS Submission Information --- All accepted full papers and short papers of I-SEMANTICS 2013 will be published in the digital library of the ACM ICP Series under the ISBN-No.: 978-1-4503-1972-0. Please note: Poster and Demo papers are planned to be published at CEUR-WS again. Research/Application Papers Research papers report on novel research and/or applications relevant to the topics of the conference. Submissions must be original and must not have been submitted for publication elsewhere. The number of pages of research papers is limited to 8 pages for full papers and 4 pages for short papers including references and an optional appendix. Full and short papers should follow the ACM ICPS guidelines for formatting (http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates) and must be submitted via the online submission system available at the conference website as PDF documents (other formats will not be accepted). For the camera-ready version, we will also need the source files (Latex, Word Perfect, Word). --- Important Dates (Research & Application & Challenge Papers) --- - Abstract Submission Deadline: March 25, 2013 - Paper Submission Deadline: April 1, 2013 - Notification of Acceptance: May 3, 2013 - Camera-Ready Paper: June 10, 2013 Posters, Demos & PhD Track The Posters & Demonstrations Track and the PhD Track offer an opportunity to present latebreaking research results, smaller contributions, and innovative work in progress. The informal setting of the Posters & Demonstrations Track encourages presenters and participants to engage in discussions about the presented work. Such discussions can be invaluable inputs for the future work of the presenters, while offering conference participants an effective way to broaden their knowledge of the emerging research trends and to network with other researchers. Poster and demo submissions should consist of a paper of 3-4 pages that describes the work and its contribution to the field. Submissions to this track must be in the Springer LNCS format (http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs/lncs+authors), i.e. please do NOT use the ACM template here. The objective of the PhD Track is to provide doctoral students with a forum to present and discuss their research projects with experienced researchers (?mentors?) and fellow students. It addresses PhD students at an early stage of their doctoral studies, who want to receive feedback from internationally recognized researchers. Ideally, participants will have a welldefined problem statement and precise questions to discuss with their mentor. Applicants should be PhD students (from any country), conducting ongoing research in the areas of semantic technologies, Linked Data and the Semantic Web. PhD Track submissions should consist of up to 1.500 words and contain the following: - Name, affiliation and contact details of the PhD student - Name(s) of the supervisor(s) - Summary of the research project, including: -- Problem: research questions, motivation, state of the art and relevance for the fields of Semantic Technologies, Linked Data and Semantic Web -- Approach: (planned) approach and methodology -- Current status / timeline: current status of the work and any results that have already been reached plus outlook to future work - A list of key questions that the PhD student wants to discuss during the event Submissions will be reviewed by experienced researchers; each submission will receive detailed feedback. The program committee will select participants who will give a short presentation about their research project during the I-SEMANTICS PhD Track. Main focus of the event is on discussion, support and solving open questions. --- Important Dates (Posters & Demo Papers & PhD Track) --- - Submission Deadline: May 10, 2013 - Notification of Acceptance: June 17, 2013 - Camera Ready Paper: July 18, 2013 --- I-CHALLENGE --- For the second time in 2013 we will bring to you the I-CHALLENGE, consisting of the Best Research/Application Paper Award, the Best Poster Award and the Linked Data Cup. While the best paper will be selected by the program committee, the Best Poster will be voted by the conference audience via online voting. More details are available @ http://i-semantics.tugraz.at/i-challengeI-SEMANTICS Committee --- Scientific Chair --- - Harald Sack (Hasso-Plattner-Institute for IT Systems Engineering, Germany) --- Program Chairs --- - Eva Blomqvist (Link?ping University, Seden) - Tommaso Di Noia (Technical University of Bari, Italy) - Marta Sabou (MODUL University Vienna, Austria) --- Track Chairs --- - I-CHALLENGE: -- J?rg Waitelonis (Hasso-Plattner-Institute for IT Systems Engineering) -- Thomas Thurner (Semantic Web Company, Austria) - PhD Track Chair: to be announced - Posters & Demos Chair: Steffen Lohmann (University of Stuttgart, Germany) --- Industry Chair --- - Andreas Blumauer (Semantic Web Company, Austria) --- Conference Chair --- - Tassilo Pellegrini (University of Applied Sciences St. P?lten, Austria) --- Program Committee ---- Please go to: http://i-semantics.tugraz.at/scientific-track/program-committee/ From markus.kroetzsch at cs.ox.ac.uk Thu Mar 14 22:22:00 2013 From: markus.kroetzsch at cs.ox.ac.uk (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Markus_Kr=F6tzsch?=) Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2013 21:22:00 +0000 Subject: [DL] DL 2013 Distinguished Student Papers Message-ID: <51423F78.7010504@cs.ox.ac.uk> Dear all, as in previous years, the DL Workshop 2013 [1] will again consider to select one or more *Distinguished Student Papers* among the accepted entries. This distinction is meant to encourage independent work by young researchers in the field, for which DL Workshop is an ideal platform. The award is therefore limited to papers that are authored without the direct participation of senior researchers. The term "student" is meant in a wide sense. A paper is eligible as Distinguished Student Paper if *all* of its authors are undergraduate, graduate, or doctoral students at the time of the submission. This shall generally include anyone who has not yet received a doctoral degree in a related field yet. The selection committee might consider exceptions, e.g., if the work is based on a doctoral thesis that has been completed very recently. Student grants will be offered to support the participation of students who are co-authors of accepted submissions. We are therefore looking forward to receiving many student submissions. Detailed submission instructions and dates can be found online [2]. Best regards, Thomas and Markus DL 2013 PC Chairs [1] http://dl.kr.org/dl2013/ [2] http://www.uni-ulm.de/en/in/dl2013/call-for-papers.html -- Dr. Markus Kroetzsch Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford Room 306, Parks Road, OX1 3QD Oxford, United Kingdom +44 (0)1865 283529 http://korrekt.org/ From womo2013 at easychair.org Fri Mar 15 16:57:11 2013 From: womo2013 at easychair.org (Chiara Del Vescovo) Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2013 15:57:11 +0000 Subject: [DL] CfP: WoMO 2013 - 7th Int'l Workshop on Modular Ontologies Message-ID: ======================================================== 7th Int'l Workshop on Modular Ontologies (WoMO) Corunna, Spain, September, 2013 held in conjunction with LPNMR 2013 --- First Call for Papers --- ======================================================== Submission deadline: July 5, 2013 ======================================================== http://www.iaoa.org/womo/2013.html MODULARITY, studied for years in software engineering, allows mechanisms for easy and flexible reuse, generalization, structuring, maintenance, design patterns, and comprehension. In formal and applied ontology, modularity is central to reducing the complexity of designing and understanding ontologies, and to facilitating ontology verification, reasoning, development, maintenance and integration. Recent research on ontology modularity shows substantial progress in foundations of modularity, techniques of modularization and modular development, distributed reasoning and empirical evaluation. These results provide a solid foundation and exciting prospects for further research and development. The workshop continues a series of successful events that have been an excellent venue for practitioners and researchers to discuss latest and current work. The most recent WoMOs were held at ESSLLI 2011 and FOIS/ICBO 2012. This time WoMO is organised as a workshop of LPNMR 2013: the 12th International Conference on Logic Programming and Non-monotonic Reasoning. LPNMR is well-established as the main conference in the field. The workshop will be open to all attendants of LPMNR'13 and its workshops. Workshop speakers will be required to register for WoMO via the LPMNR'13 website. Registration for WoMO only will be possible. TOPICS include, but are not limited to: - What is modularity?: kinds of modules and their properties; modules vs. contexts; design patterns; granularity of representation; - Logical/foundational studies: modular ontology languages; reconciling inconsistencies across modules; formal structuring of modules; heterogeneity; hybrid theories; intertheory relations (conservativity, interpretability, strong equivalence, inseparability, etc.) - Algorithmic approaches: distributed and incremental reasoning; modularization and module extraction; sharing, linking, reuse; privacy; complexity of reasoning; implemented systems; - Evaluation of modularizations: case studies or other analyses of ontology modularizations (why it is modularized in a certain way, what does it address, how can it be improved); how to measure the adequacy of a modularization; comparison of modularizations with respect to philosophical, logical, reasoning, cognitive, or social aspects; - Applications: semantic web; life sciences; earth sciences; bio-ontologies; natural language processing; space and time; ambient intelligence; social intelligence; technology and engineering; collaborative ontology development and ontology versioning. IMPORTANT DATES Paper Submission: July 5, 2013 Notification: August 19, 2013 Camera ready: September 2, 2013 Workshop: September 15, 2013 SUBMISSION GUIDELINES: We welcome submissions on modularity in a broad sense. The workshop is open to papers of theoretical or practical nature from various disciplines. Submissions can be long papers (11 pages) or short papers (5 pages), formatted according to Springer LNCS style (see http://www.springer.com/comp/lncs/Authors.html), prepared in PDF format and submitted no later than the submission deadline, through the EasyChair Submission System (see http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=womo2013). Submitted papers will be peer-reviewed by members of the program committee. Accepted papers will be made available in the proceedings to be published electronically in the CEUR Workshop Proceedings series (see http://www.ceur-ws.org). Find proceedings of WoMO 2011 and 2012 at http://www.booksonline.iospress.nl/Content/View.aspx?piid=20369 and at http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-875/) WORKSHOP CHAIRS: Torsten Hahmann, University of Toronto, Canada David Pearce, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain Chiara Del Vescovo, University of Manchester, UK Dirk Walther, TU Dresden, Germany PROGRAM COMMITTEE: TBA INVITED SPEAKERS: TBA -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From pascal.hitzler at wright.edu Mon Mar 18 02:07:47 2013 From: pascal.hitzler at wright.edu (Pascal Hitzler) Date: Sun, 17 Mar 2013 21:07:47 -0400 Subject: [DL] Semantic Web Journal: Call for Special Issue Proposals Message-ID: <514668E3.4090402@wright.edu> Semantic Web Journal: Call for Special Issue Proposals http://www.semantic-web-journal.net Semantic Web research is interdisciplinary in nature. Indeed, progress towards the Semantic Web vision requires the incorporation of fundamental state-of-the-art and future developments from many domains including Computer & Information Science, Cognitive Science, Geographic Information Science, the life sciences, the social sciences, and many more. To establish bridges between these domains, it is thus important to demonstrate what and how they contribute to the Semantic Web vision, and what the Semantic Web can offer in return to these disciplines. Hence, the Semantic Web Journal calls for Special Issue proposals on topics which (a) are within the topical realm of a neighboring domain but (b) contribute directly or indirectly to Semantic Web research. Research published in such special issues should strengthen the in-depth information exchange between disciplines by providing novel and high-quality contributions and at the same time demonstrate the impact on foundational research questions relevant for Semantic Web. While such manuscripts can be written with a specific audience in mind, the key ideas and contributions should be accessible to the broader Semantic web community. Proposals for special issues shall be sent to the Editors-in-Chief (contact at semantic-web-journal.net) and contain the following information in a single PDF file: * Names and affiliations of all guest editors * Topic of the special issue * Tentative list of Guest Editorial Board members * A short description of the topic * Why the topic is currently of interest * Why the topic is relevant to this call * Credentials of the guest editors regarding their research impact and their community standing with respect to the topic * A draft call for papers, including a suggested time-line It will be assumed that all proposed guest editors are aware of the journal's open and transparent review policy described at http://www.semantic-web-journal.net/reviewers#review Proposals for more "traditional" special issues are certainly also welcome at any time. Submission deadline: 31st of March, 2013 Best Regards, Pascal Hitzler Krzysztof Janowicz Editors-in-Chief -- Prof. Dr. Pascal Hitzler Dept. of Computer Science, Wright State University, Dayton, OH pascal at pascal-hitzler.de http://www.knoesis.org/pascal/ Semantic Web Textbook: http://www.semantic-web-book.org Semantic Web Journal: http://www.semantic-web-journal.net From m.daquin at open.ac.uk Tue Mar 19 18:37:58 2013 From: m.daquin at open.ac.uk (Mathieu D'Aquin) Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2013 17:37:58 +0000 Subject: [DL] CFP - Privacy in Semantic Technologies (PriSeT 2013) workshop at K-CAP 2013 Message-ID: <266BBE02-BB25-484F-861B-A756AE85CF0B@open.ac.uk> CALL FOR PAPERS 1st International Workshop on Privacy in Semantic Technologies (PriSeT 2013) 23rd June, 2013 Banff, Canada (collocated with K-CAP 2013) http://events.kmi.open.ac.uk/priset-2013/ IMPORTANT DATES * Paper Submission: 15th April 2011 * Author Notification: 30th April, 2013 * Camera ready copy due: 15th May 2013 SCOPE In recent years, Web users have seen an exponential growth in the amount of data being generated and exchanged in form of blogs, tweets, social networking and mobile applications. In this respect, Semantic technologies have emerged as a potential candidate for building privacy enhancing solutions for Web users. On the other hand, recent linked-data initiatives from government, academia and industry are rapidly moving towards making the users? data available for distributed sharing and linking. However, the main concern is without sufficient privacy safeguards and controls, there is a high risk these linking of data and its exploitation will become a ?privacy nightmare? for the Web users. Semantic Web has been redefined in recent years but the privacy enhancing technologies specifically relating to the use of URI, RDF and SPARQL are still lagging behind. Therefore, this workshop aims at providing a forum for researchers and practitioners to exchange and disseminate their work to a wider audience and receive critical feedback on work primarily supporting privacy in and with semantic technologies. TOPICS We welcome high-quality papers about recent advancements in (a) how privacy is being supported in the Web of Data, especially through semantic technologies and (b) how Semantic Web principles are being applied in the context of privacy protection of Web users or end-users of software systems in general. We seek application-oriented, as well as more theoretical papers and position papers in the following, non-exhaustive list of topics: * Privacy in semantic technologies * Use of semantic technologies in privacy protection * Privacy implications of knowledge extraction * Privacy implications of data integration and data linking * Privacy in Big Data * Knowledge discovery and privacy * Inferring privacy consequences of online activities * User and knowledge modelling for privacy * Knowledge approaches to privacy requirements * Knowledge approaches to privacy assessment * Privacy policy modelling and interoperability * Modelling of private information propagation * Impact of semantic technologies on privacy in specific domains (healthcare, politics, etc.) SUBMISSIONS We seek short position papers (max. 5 pages) and longer technical papers not exceeding 10 pages. Both types of papers should be formatted according to the ACM format (2 column SIG Conference Proceedings template is available at http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates) and should be submitted through EasyChair (https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=priset2013). ORGANISATION Workshop Chairs * Keerthi Thomas, The Open University, UK * Inah Omoronyia, University of Glasgow, UK * Mathieu d?Aquin, The Open University, UK Programme Committee * Arosha Bandara, The Open University, UK * Luca Costabello, INRIA, France * Tim Finin, University of Maryland, BC, USA * Lalana Kagal, MIT, USA * Vanessa Lopez, IBM Research, Ireland * Alessandra Mileo, DERI, Ireland * Enrico Motta, The Open University, UK * Andriy Nikolov, Fluid Operations, Germany * Blaine Price, The Open University, UK * Daniel Alexander Smith, University of Southampton,UK * Thein Than Tun, The Open University, UK * Joss Wright, Oxford University, UK -- The Open University is incorporated by Royal Charter (RC 000391), an exempt charity in England & Wales and a charity registered in Scotland (SC 038302). From lembo at dis.uniroma1.it Tue Mar 19 19:13:38 2013 From: lembo at dis.uniroma1.it (Domenico Lembo) Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2013 19:13:38 +0100 Subject: [DL] Call for Applications: The 9th Reasoning Web Summer School (RW 2013) Message-ID: ============================================================== RW 2013 CALL FOR APPLICATIONS/PARTICIPATION Deadline for Applications: March 25, 2013! ============================================================== REASONING WEB 2013 The 9th Reasoning Web Summer School (RW 2013) Mannheim, Germany, July 30 - August 2, 2013 http://reasoningweb.org/2013/ co-located with the - 7th Internationall Conference on Web Reasoning and Rule Systems (RR 2013), Mannheim, Germany, July 27-29, 2013 http://www.rr-conference.org/RR2013 - 26th International Workshop on Description Logics (DL 2013) Ulm, Germany, July 23-26, 2013 http://www.uni-ulm.de/en/in/dl2013.html - 2nd OWL Reasoner Evaluation Workshop (ORE 2013) Ulm, Germany, July 22nd, 2013 http://ore2013.cs.manchester.ac.uk/ The Reasoning Web Summer School 2013 is primarily intended for postgraduate (PhD or MSc) students, postdocs, and other young researchers investigating aspects related to Reasoning on the Semantic Web and related issues. The Summer School will also be open to senior researchers wishing to learn about Semantic Web issues related to their own fields of research. For further details please visit http://rw2013.uni-mannheim.de As in the previous years, we managed again to attract a distinguished group of expert lecturers, the majority of which will - apart from their lectures - also be present for the duration of the school to interact with students. Interaction with senior researchers and establishing contacts within young researchers is a main focus of the school, which will be supported through social activities and an interactive, amicable atmosphere. The summer school will be co-located with related events. This will be a great opportunity to attend major events in the area ahead of the school. As a further highlight, we want to point out the opportunity of PhD students to present their research at the RR 2013 Doctoral Consortium. Joint applications for the Reasoning Web Summer School 2013 and the RR 2013 Doctoral Consortium are explicitly encouraged. More details will be announced soon on the RR 2013 website. == IMPORTANT DATES == Application deadline: March 25, 2013 Notifications: April 1, 2013 Summer School Registration: May 15, 2013 == CONFIRMED LECTURES == * Anni-Yasmin Turhan (Technische Universit?t Dresden) Description Logic Ontologies * Ulrike Sattler (University of Manchester) Complexity and DL Reasoning * Chris Bizer (University of Mannheim) Linked Data on the Web * Krzysztof Janowicz (University of California, Santa Barbara) Geospatial Data on the Web * Axel Polleres (Siemens AG Corporate Technology) Aidan Hogan (DERI Galway) Reasoning with Linked Data * Wolfgang Faber (University of Calabria) Answer Set Programming * Diego Calvanese (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano) Ontology-based Data Access * Mathias Niepert (University of Washington, Seattle) Large-scale Reasoning for Information Extraction and Integration == APPLICATIONS == The number of attendees will be limited, applications for participation have to be submitted via Easychair using the "student application" category: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=rw2013 The program of the school will include a poster session, where students can present and discuss their ongoing research with lecturers and colleagues. Applicants who wish to participate in the poster session shall tick the "participation in poster session" group and include a poster title and abstract with their application submission. Applications must be submitted in PDF format not exceeding 2 pages (min. font size 11pt) and contain the following information: - Name, contact details - Affiliation - Motivation for participation - Summary of profile - Willing to present a poster? (if yes, add a poster title and abstract) - Supervisor (if applicable) - Publications (if applicable) == GRANTS == The organizing committee is considering to offer scholarships to summer school participants to partially cover registration and/or accommodation fees, depending on available sponsorships. There are further grants for students participating in the RR 2013 Doctoral Consortium who would like to extend their stay to also attend the summer school. == REGISTRATION == If your application has been accepted, you will be notified by email. 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Preference will be given to candidates that hold (or that are about to finish) a Ph.D. in computer science, and have a background in OWL, ontology reasoning, RDF, and relational databases. Significant experience and skill in software development is a strict requirement for the position. The Optique project provides challenging industrial use cases involving big data: the position will give the candidate the possibility of applying her/his research within such use cases. Although design and implementation is the main focus of the position, the candidate will have the possibility to conduct resarch within the Database and Knowledge Representation research group of DIAG, which is one of the best known research groups in Description Logics (DLs), data integration, service/process composition and integration, and reasoning about actions. Furthermore, some of its members are considered among the founders of the research in the area of DLs, which is currently considered of crucial importance for the development of the Semantic Web and semantic-oriented technologies. The position will start in the second half of 2013, and has an initial duration of one year, with the possibility of extension up to two years. Interested applicants should contact Prof. Riccardo Rosati (rosati at dis.uniroma.it). Please attach a detailed CV including a list of publications, a statement of interest and up to 3 references (reference letters will be requested directly from the referees). The deadline for the application is April 20, 2013. -- Domenico Lembo Sapienza Universit? di Roma Dip. di Ingegneria Informatica, Automatica e Gestionale "A. Ruberti" Via Ariosto 25, 00185 Roma (stanza B209) Tel: +39 0677274027 Fax: +39 0677274002 email: lembo at dis.uniroma1.it home: http://www.dis.uniroma1.it/~lembo -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From elena.pribavkina at gmail.com Fri Mar 15 16:26:22 2013 From: elena.pribavkina at gmail.com (Elena Pribavkina) Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2013 21:26:22 +0600 Subject: [DL] CSR 2013 Call for Participation Message-ID: We apologize for possible multiple postings. ******************************************************************************* CALL FOR PARTICIPATION 8th INTERNATIONAL COMPUTER SCIENCE SYMPOSIUM IN RUSSIA (CSR 2013) June 25-29, 2013, Ekaterinburg, Russia http://csr2013.urfu.ru/ ******************************************************************************* CSR 2013 intends to reflect the broad scope of international cooperation in computer science. Topics include algorithms and data structures, automata and formal languages, combinatorial optimization, constraint solving, computational complexity, cryptography, combinatorics in computer science, computational models and concepts, algorithms for concurrent and distributed systems, networks, proof theory and applications of logic to computer science, model checking, automated reasoning, deductive methods. ************************************************************************* *** DEADLINE FOR EARLY REGISTRATION: May 15, 2013 *** ************************************************************************* INVITED SPEAKERS * Mario Szegedy (Rutgers) will give an opening lecture * Thomas Colcombet (CNRS) * Gilles Dowek (INRIA) * Alexandr Kostochka (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign / Novosibirsk State University) * Nicole Schweikardt (Goethe University) * Jeffrey Shallit (University of Waterloo) * Paul Spirakis (University of Patras) * Ryan Williams (Stanford University) SCHEDULE Preliminary schedule is available at http://csr2013.urfu.ru/wiki/index.php?title=Schedule REGISTRATION AND FEES For registration please fill in the registration form at http://csr2013.urfu.ru/wiki/index.php?title=Registration_and_Fees Early registration deadline is May, 15 Fees: Early Regular: 330 euro Student: 220 euro Russian participant: 10000 roubles Russian student: 6000 roubles Late Regular: 380 euro Student: 270 euro Russian participant: 12000 roubles Russian student: 8000 roubles The fees include lectures, bags, proceedings and other conference materials, coffee breaks, social program, reception and conference dinner A special local participant fee for participants from Ekaterinburg is 1000 roubles (includes lectures, coffee breaks, and conference materials except for the proceedings) Workshop fees will be announced later SATELLITE EVENTS The 2nd Workshop on Current Trends in Cryptology (June 23-24, 2013) https://www.tc26.ru/en/CTCryptEN/CTCrypt2013/ The 4th Workshop on Program Semantics, Specification and Verification: Theory and Applications (June 23-24, 2013) http://pssv-conf.ru/en/2013/call-for-papers The 6th School for students and young researchers "Computer Science Ekaterinburg Days" (June 29 - July 1, 2013) http://www.csedays.ru/ VENUE Ekaterinburg is a large city in the heart of Russia, 1600 km (2 hour flight) east from Moscow. It is the capital city as well as the main financial, cultural, and scientific centre of the Ural region. Ekaterinburg is accessible by multiple international airlines including direct regular flights from Frankfurt (Lufthansa), Helsinki (Finnair), and Prague (Czech Airlines). Ural Federal University is the largest Russian university outside Moscow. FURTHER INFORMATION AND CONTACTS Web: http://csr2013.urfu.ru/ Email: csr2013 at urfu.ru From levy at univ-paris13.fr Wed Mar 20 13:28:44 2013 From: levy at univ-paris13.fr (=?iso-8859-1?Q?Francois_L=E9vy?=) Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2013 13:28:44 +0100 Subject: [DL] Call for Papers for 'Human-Rules' Message-ID: <340CA1FD-D21F-4193-8DC8-D0EA6063E380@univ-paris13.fr> Here is a call for Papers, hoping it is of interest for people in your list. Appologies for cross-posting. Best Fran?ois L?vy, Pr LIPN Univ. Paris 13, France --------------------------------------- RuleML 2012 Special Track on "Translating between Human Language and Formal Rules: Business, Law, and Government" Over the last decade there has been enormous growth in unstructured and semi-structured textual material distributed on the web, for instance legal sources. Yet a substantial knowledge-acquisition bottleneck remains in using Human Language Technologies (HLT) to translate from this material to machine-readable, knowledge-based semantic representations. The 'Hu man-Rules' Special Track of RuleML 2013 has its focus on these issues, providing a forum for current work and a venue for the exchange of ideas. For details, important dates, and submission information please go to the link. Note the deadline for submissions is early April, 2013. http://wiki.ruleml.org/index.php/Human-Rules From morawska at tcs.inf.tu-dresden.de Fri Mar 22 14:05:04 2013 From: morawska at tcs.inf.tu-dresden.de (Barbara Morawska) Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2013 14:05:04 +0100 Subject: [DL] UNIF 2013 -- call for papers Message-ID: Call for Papers UNIF 2013 The 27th International Workshop on Unification http://lat.inf.tu-dresden.de/UNIF2013/ June 27th, 2013, Eindhoven, The Netherlands Satellite event of RTA-24, part of RDP 2013 UNIF 2013 is the 27th event in a series of international meetings devoted to unification theory and its applications. The aim of UNIF 2013, as that of the previous meetings, is to bring together researchers interested in unification theory and related topics, to present recent (even unfinished) work, and discuss new ideas and trends in this and related fields. A non-exhaustive list of topics of interest includes: * unification algorithms, calculi and implementations * equational unification and unification modulo theories * unification in modal, temporal and description logics * admissibility of inference rules * narrowing matching algorithms * constraint solving * combination problems * disunification * higher-order unification, * type checking and reconstruction * typed unification * complexity issues * query answering * implementation techniques * applications of unification Submission: ========== Submissions should not exceed 5 pages in LNCS style, as PDF files through the EasyChair submission site: https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=unif2013 Accepted abstracts will be presented at the workshop and included in the preliminary proceedings, available at the workshop and also in the electronic form at the UNIF web page: http://www.pps.jussieu.fr/~treinen/unif/ Important Dates: ================ Submission: April 14 Notification: May 25 Final version: June 8 Workshop: June 27 Programme Committee: =================== # Franz Baader, TU Dresden, Germany # Benzmueller, Free University Berlin, Germany # Santiago Escobar, Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, Spain # Silvio Ghilardi, Universita di Milano, Italy # Konstantin Korovin, University of Manchester, UK # Jordi Levy, IIIA - CSIC, Spain # Christopher Lynch, Clarkson University, USA # George Metcalfe, University of Bern, Switzerland # Barbara Morawska, TU Dresden, Germany # Paliath Narendran, University at Albany, USA # Christophe Ringeissen, LORIA-INRIA, France # Vladimir Rybakov, Manchester Metropolitan University # Laurent Vigneron, LORIA-Nancy University, France For more information, please contact any of the chairs: Barbara Morawska and Konstantin Korovin. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ghidini at fbk.eu Thu Mar 21 15:42:40 2013 From: ghidini at fbk.eu (Chiara Ghidini) Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2013 14:42:40 +0000 Subject: [DL] Post-doc position in the SHELL project at Trento RISE and FBK, Trento, Italy Message-ID: [apologies for cross-postings] POSITION ANNOUNCEMENT 3 years post-doc position in the SHELL project at Trento RISE and FBK, Trento, Italy. Application deadline: 30.04.2013 (by 12.00 p.m.) The 'New Talent Program" of the Trento RISE Association is seeking candidates for a post-doc position to work in the newly started ?Shape and Evolve Living Knowledge (SHELL)? project at the Bruno Kessler Foundation, Center for Information Technology (FBK-ICT). The successful applicant will jointly work in Trento RISE and FBK-ICT. POSITIONS: Within the scope of shaping conceptual models from textual data, the SHELL project (http://shell.fbk.eu) is looking for a candidate to carry out research activities in the field of Natural Language Processing and Knowledge Engineering, and in particular on the usage and definition of information extraction algorithms, methodologies and tools for the semi-automatic construction of ontologies and workflow models. The activities will focus on the use of Natural language techniques to extract dynamic entities from text (e.g., activities) and their relations (e.g., causal or temporal relations), and on the development of NLP methodologies, techniques and tools for the construction of conceptual models in the form of ontologies and processes. The candidates are expected to work in collaboration with other researchers, programmers, and students involved in the project in an interdisciplinary team, and to collaborate with the research units involved in the project, in particular the Data and Knowledge Management (http://dkm.fbk.eu) and the Human Language Technology (http://hlt.fbk.eu) research units at FBK-ICT. JOB REQUIREMENTS: ? Ph.D. degree in computer science, mathematics or electronic engineering; ? Theoretical background in Natural Language Processing, particularly in information extraction; ? Experience with machine learning, knowledge representation and knowledge engineering; ? Skills in experimental work and software development; ? Ability to carry out an independent program of research; ? Ability to work in a collaborative environment and deliver in research projects; ? Oral and written proficiency in English. OPTIONAL REQUIREMENTS: ? Ph.D. related to the topic of the call; ? Experience with practical applications; ? Soft skill (e.g., communication, teambuilding, problem solving, etc.) EMPLOYMENT: ? Type of contract: Research position - Full time ? Number of positions: 1 ? Gross salary: from 35.000 to 38.000,00 Euro per year (depending on the candidate?s experience) The salary is paid in monthly deferred installments. ? Start date: from May 2013 ? Duration: up to 3 years ? Workplace: via Sommarive 18 - Povo, Trento (Italy) APPLICATION: To apply online, please send your detailed CV (pdf. format) including a statement of interest and the contacts of three reference persons. Please include in your CV your authorization for the handling of your personal information as per the Italian Personal data Protection Code, Legislative Decree 196/2003 and send a copy of your ID card. To the application, the applicant must also attach his/her Ph.D. Certificate and a list of any publications, certificates or other qualifications (if any) considered relevant for assessing the candidate?s abilities in relation to this Call. Please note that in the application the candidate must declare clearly, precisely and under his/her own responsibility, the following: ? Personal information: date and place of birth, nationality, residence and contact address during the selection procedure (i.e., specifying postal code, Italian Tax Identification Number and/or National Insurance Number and, if possible, telephone number); ? Citizenship: applicants who are citizens of a Country that is not a European Union Member State must have already possess or at least requested a Work Residence Permit. This requirement is not mandatory for the current application, but if the Residence Permit or related requests are not presented when the contract will be stipulated all the related rights will be forfeited; ? Post-graduate Degree: MSc, Laurea Quadriennale, Laurea Specialistica, or Laurea Magistrale; ? Doctoral Degree. Applications must be sent to ufficiorisorseumane at trentorise.eu. Emails should have the following reference code: NT_SHELL_PostDoc2012 Application deadline: 30.04. 2013 (by 12.00 p.m.) Only applications received before the aforementioned deadline will be considered. For further information, please contact the Human Resources Service at the above-mentioned email address and refer to the official call at http://www.trentorise.eu/jobs/1-3-13/post-doc-position-new-talent-program-shape-and-evolve-living-knowledge-shell-project From neha.s.rungta at nasa.gov Fri Mar 22 05:40:24 2013 From: neha.s.rungta at nasa.gov (Rungta, Neha S. (ARC-TI)[Stinger Ghaffarian Technologies Inc. (SGT Inc.)]) Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2013 23:40:24 -0500 Subject: [DL] [fm-announcements] NFM 2013 Call for participation Message-ID: <8D7F3229-E1CE-4CB9-90FC-E31105C89971@nasa.gov> ================================================================== 5th NASA Formal Methods Symposium (NFM) 2013 NASA Ames Research Center Moffett Field, CA, USA May 14-16, 2013 http://ti.arc.nasa.gov/events/nfm-2013/ ================================================================== Theme of the Conference: The NASA Formal Methods Symposium is a forum for theoreticians and practitioners from academia, industry, and government, with the goals of identifying challenges and providing solutions to achieving assurance in mission- and safety-critical systems. Within NASA, for example, such systems include autonomous robots, separation assurance algorithms for aircraft, Next Generation Air Transportation (NextGen), and autonomous rendezvous and docking for spacecraft. Moreover, emerging paradigms such as code generation and safety cases are bringing with them new challenges and opportunities. The focus of the symposium will be on formal techniques, their theory, current capabilities, and limitations, as well as their application to aerospace, robotics, and other safety-critical systems. Topics of Interest: * Formal verification, including theorem proving, model checking, and static analysis * Techniques and algorithms for scaling formal methods, including but not restricted to abstraction and symbolic methods, compositional techniques, as well as parallel and distributed techniques * Use of formal methods in automated software engineering and testing Model-based development * Formal program synthesis * Runtime monitoring and verification * Formal approaches to fault tolerance * Formal analysis of cyber-physical systems, including hybrid and embedded systems * Formal methods in systems engineering, modeling, requirements and specifications * Applications of formal methods to aerospace systems * Use of formal methods in safety cases * Use of formal methods in human-machine interaction analysis * Formal methods for multi-core, GPU-based implementations * Application of formal methods to emerging technologies, e.g., mobile applications, autonomous systems, web-based application ================================================================== Chairs ================================================================== Guillaume Brat, CMU/NASA Ames Research Center, USA Neha Rungta, SGT Inc/NASA Ames Research Center, USA Arnaud Venet, CMU/NASA Ames Research Center, USA ================================================================== Registration ================================================================== NFM 2013 will be held at NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA on May 14 to 16, 2013. There will not be a registration fee charged to participants. All interested individuals, including non-US citizens, are welcome to attend, to listen to the talks, and to participate in discussions; however, all attendees must register. Note that the registration site will close on April 16th, 2013. This is a firm deadline. There will be no on-site registrations as a badge is required to access the conference site. http://ti.arc.nasa.gov/events/nfm-2013/registration/ ================================================================== Invited Speakers ================================================================== Alex Aiken, Stanford University, USA "Using Learning Techniques in Invariant Inference" John Rushby, SRI International, USA "The Challenge of High-Assurance Software" Ken McMillan, Microsoft Research, USA "The Importance of Generalization in Automated Proof" Rajeev Joshi, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA "Managing data for Curiosity, Fun and Profit" Michael DeWalt, Federal Aviation Administration, USA "Certification challenges when using formal methods, including needs and issues" ================================================================== Accepted Papers ================================================================== Regular: "Freshness and Reactivity Analysis in Globally Asynchronous Locally Time-Triggered Systems" Fr?d?ric Boniol, Micha?l Lauer, Claire Pagetti and J?r?me Ermont. "A Probabilistic Quantitative Analysis of Probabilistic-Write/Copy-Select" Christel Baier, Benjamin Engel, Sascha Kl?ppelholz, Steffen M?rcker, Hendrik Tews and Marcus V?lp. "Formal Stability Analysis of Optical Resonators" Umair Siddique, Vincent Aravantinos and Sofiene Tahar. "Enclosing Temporal Evolution of Dynamical Systems Using Numerical Methods" Olivier Bouissou, Alexandre Chapoutot and Adel Djoudi. "Automated Verification of Chapel Programs Using Model Checking and Symbolic Execution" Timothy K. Zirkel, Stephen F. Siegel and Timothy McClory. "Formal Analysis of GPU Programs with Atomics via Conflict-Directed Delay-Bounding" Wei-Fan Chiang, Ganesh Gopalakrishnan, Guodong Li and Zvonimir Rakamaric. "Statistical Model Checking of Wireless Mesh Routing Protocols" Peter H?fner Annabelle McIver. "From UML to Process Algebra and Back: An Automated Approach to Model-Checking Software Design Artifacts of Concurrent Systems" Daniela Remenska, Henri Bal, Jeff Templon, Kees Verstoep, Tim Willemse, Philip Homburg and Adri? Casaj?s. "Evaluating Human-human Communication Protocols with Miscommunication Generation and Model Checking" Matthew Bolton and Ellen Bass. "Incremental Invariant Generation using Logic-based Automatic Abstract Transformers" Pierre-Loic Garoche, Temesghen Kahsai and Cesare Tinelli. "Improved State Space Reductions for LTL Model Checking of C & C++ Programs" Petr Rockai, Jiri Barnat and Lubos Brim. "On-the-fly Confluence Detection for Statistical Model Checking" Arnd Hartmanns and Mark Timmer. "Optmizing Control Strategy using Statistical Model Checking" Alexandre David, Kim Guldstrand Larsen, Marius Miku?ionis, Axel Legay and Dehui Du. "Numerical Abstract Domain using Support Functions" Yassamine Seladji and Olivier Bouissou. "Widening as Abstract Domain" Bogdan Mihaila, Alexander Sepp and Axel Simon. "Using Model-Checking to Reveal a Vulnerability of Tamper-Evident Pairing" Rody Kersten, Bernard van Gastel, Manu Drijvers, Sjaak Smeters and Marko Van Eekelen. "Regular Model Checking Using Solver Technologies and Automata Learning" Daniel Neider and Nils Jansen. "Automatically Detecting Inconsistencies in Program Specifications" Aditi Tagore and Bruce Weide. "Inferring Automata with State-local Alphabet Abstractions" Malte Isberner, Falk Howar and Bernhard Steffen. "Verifying a Privacy CA Remote Attestation Protocol" Brigid Halling and Perry Alexander. "Improved On-The-Fly Livelock Detection: Combining Partial Order Reduction and Parallelism for DFS-FIFO" Alfons Laarman and David Farago. "LiquidPi: Inferrable Dependent Session Types" Dennis Griffith and Elsa Gunter. "SMT-based analysis of biological computation" Boyan Yordanov, Christoph M. Wintersteiger, Youssef Hamadi and Hillel Kugler. "Formalization of Infinite Dimension Linear Spaces with Application to Quantum Theory" Mohamed Yousri Mahmoud, Vincent Aravantinos and Sofienne Tahar. "BLESS: Formal Specification and Verification of Behaviors for Embedded Systems with Software" Brian Larson, Patrice Chalin and John Hatcliff. "Towards Complete Speci?cations with an Error Calculus" Quang Loc Le, Asankhaya Sharma, Florin Craciun and Wei-Ngan Chin. "Bounded Lazy Initialization" Jaco Geldenhuys, Nazareno Aguirre, Marcelo Frias and Willem Visser. Short: "Formal Verification of a Parameterized Data Aggregation Protocol" Sergio Feo-Arenis and Bernd Westphal. "OnTrack: An Open Tooling Environment For Railway Verification" Phillip James, Matthew Trumble, Helen Treharne, Markus Roggenbach and Steve Schneider. "Verification of Floating Point Programs:From Real Numbers to Floating Point Numbers" Alwyn Goodloe, Cesar Munoz, Florent Kirchner and Loic Correnson. "Extracting Hybrid Automata from Control Code" Steven Lyde and Matthew Might. "PyNuSMV: NuSMV as a Python Library" Simon Busard and Charles Pecheur. "jUnitRV - Adding Runtime Verification to jUnit" Normann Decker, Martin Leucker and Daniel Thoma. "Using Language Engineering to Lift Languages and Analyses at the Domain Level" Daniel Ratiu, Markus Voleter, Bernhard Schaetz and Bernd Kolb. "On Designing an ACL2 C Integer Type Safety Checking Tool" Kevin Krause and Jim Alves-Foss. "Hierarchical Safety Cases" Ewen Denney, Ganesh Pai and Iain Whiteside. --- To opt-out from this mailing list, send an email to fm-announcements-request at lists.nasa.gov with the word 'unsubscribe' as subject or in the body. You can also make the request by contacting fm-announcements-owner at lists.nasa.gov From liebig at derivo.de Fri Mar 22 18:26:33 2013 From: liebig at derivo.de (Thorsten Liebig) Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2013 18:26:33 +0100 Subject: [DL] Research Position in KR Message-ID: <514C9449.1040502@derivo.de> POSITION ANNOUNCEMENT Please pass this message on to whoever you think may be interested. *** Researcher and Software Engineer *** The position (m/w) is in Ulm, as of now and is initially limited for a period of 1 1/2 years (subsequent employment is pending project resources). You will be part of derivo?s team that develops next generation business solutions based on Semantic Technologies. The position is related to a BMBF research project on reasoning with graph DBs together with Ulm University as well as to customer projects. Work tasks include ontology modeling and analysis as well as the development and implementation of reasoning-aware software systems. Primary responsibilities include the design of ontologies, system components and interfaces creation and evaluation of algorithms for ontological reasoning documentation and communication of design concepts self-responsible implementation and testing of software modules Basic Requirements: - Degree (University/FH) in Informatics or related field - Skills in logical Knowledge Representation (esp. RDFS and OWL RL) - Excellent coding skills in Java or C# - Ability to achieve challenging goals in a fast paced R&D environment - Self-motivation, collaboration skills and fluency in German or English Optional Requirements: - Knowledge of NoSQL database systems and graph algorithms - Experience in professional software development Applicants should send inquiries or electronic application (cv, certifications, reference letter, availability, etc.) in German or English to info at derivo.de. -- Dr. Thorsten Liebig Phone +49 731 502 4207 mailto:liebig at derivo.de derivo GmbH James-Franck-Ring, 89081 Ulm, Germany Amtsgericht Ulm, HRB 725444 CEO: Dr. Thorsten Liebig From pavel.klinov at uni-ulm.de Sat Mar 23 14:39:50 2013 From: pavel.klinov at uni-ulm.de (Pavel Klinov) Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2013 14:39:50 +0100 Subject: [DL] 1st CfP: 4th Knowledge Engineering and Semantic Web Conference (KESW2013) Message-ID: 1st Call for Papers: 4th Knowledge Engineering and Semantic Web Conference (St. Petersburg, Russia, October 7-9, 2013) http://kesw.ifmo.ru/kesw2013/ KESW is a top Russian venue for discussing research issues related to knowledge representation, Semantic Web, and Linked Data. Its aim is to bring together researchers, practitioners, and educators, in particular from ex-USSR, Eastern and Northern Europe, to present and share ideas regarding Semantic Web, and popularize the area in these regions. Following the success in the previous years, we solicit original and substantial contributions for this year's technical program. The program will feature three tracks for research papers, industrial papers, and posters/demos. Additionally, we welcome position papers to discuss ideas on their early stages of development. The sole language for all kinds of submissions this year is English. RESEARCH TRACK For the research track we welcome novel papers addressing theoretical, analytic or empirical aspects of research related to KR and Semantic Web. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: Ontology management: * Logical and philosophical foundations * Merging and alignment, modularity * Collaborative engineering and exchange Knowledge Representation and Reasoning: * Knowledge acquisition and management * Theory of automated reasoning * Practical reasoning algorithms * Applications Linked Data: * Publishing and integration * Querying * Scalability aspects Semantic Databases: * RDF and other DBs for Linked Data * Ontologies and databases * Query answering Semantic Web Services Semantic Search Human Computer Interaction Semantic Social Web Trust, Security, and Privacy Knowledge Visualization Semantic Web in Education INDUSTRY TRACK For the industry track we solicit papers that describe practical experience of using Semantic Web or KR-related technologies in practical projects. Descriptions of industrial deployments and production usage are especially invited but papers with preliminary experience are also welcome (as long as the authors are able to demonstrate, preferably with some quantitative data, practical utility of Semantic Web technologies in a particular domain). Topics of interest include but are not limited to: * Applications of Semantic Web technologies in various industrial domains. * Applications of Semantic Web technologies in community, government and semantic smart city. * Industrial trends related to the usage of Linked Data and Semantic Web technologies. * Description and analysis of concrete problems and user requirements for applying Semantic Web technologies in specific industry domains. * Analysis and evaluation of usability, assessment of pros and cons of using Semantic Web technologies in real-world scenarios including models of investment justifications (ROI). POSTERS AND DEMOS P&D is an opportunity to present research through an informal discussion or presentation. We invite submissions relevant to the above topics. Both posters and demos may complement submissions to the research and industrial tracks. Furthermore, we explicitly invite you to submit a poster or a demo if your research or industry paper has been accepted. SUBMISSION All authors will be required to pre-submit abstracts of their papers. Both papers and abstracts should be submitted via Easychair at: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=kesw2013. Size restrictions are as follows: Research papers: no more than 15 pages Industrial papers: no more than 10 pages Demo descriptions: no more than 8 pages Posters and position papers: no more than 2 pages. Submissions must be prepared according to the Springer LNCS format. IMPORTANT DATES Research/industry track abstract submission: May 25th, 2013 Research/industry track paper submission: May 31st, 2013 Author notification: July 1st, 2013 Poster/demo/position paper submission: July 15th, 2013 PROCEEDINGS The proceedings will be published in the Springer's Communications in Computer and Information Science (CCIS) series. The papers will be abstracted/indexed by DBLP, Google Scholar, EI-Compendex, Mathematical Reviews, SCImago, and Scopus. ATTENDANCE At least one author of each accepted paper must register for the conference and present the paper there. SEMANTIC WEB SCHOOL Same as last year, the conference will be preceded by the Semantic Web and Linked Data school, for which the tentative dates are Oct 1-5. School-specific announcements will be made later. ORGANIZATION General Chair: Dmitry Mouromtsev, NRU ITMO, St. Petersburg, Russia Program Co-Chair (Research): Pavel Klinov, University of Ulm, Germany Program Co-Chair (Industry): Daniel Hladky, NRU HSE / W3C Russia Office From areces at famaf.unc.edu.ar Sun Mar 24 15:02:29 2013 From: areces at famaf.unc.edu.ar (Carlos Areces) Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2013 11:02:29 -0300 Subject: [DL] CFP: Methods for Modalities 2013 Message-ID: ==================================================================== 8th Worskhop on "Methods for Modalities" (M4M-8) Lake Placid, New York, June 9, 2013 http://www.cs.famaf.unc.edu.ar/~careces/M4M/M4M8/ ==================================================================== Scope The workshop ''Methods for Modalities'' (M4M) aims to bring together researchers interested in developing algorithms, verification methods and tools based on modal logics. Here the term ''modal logics'' is conceived broadly, including temporal logic, description logic, guarded fragments, conditional logic, temporal and hybrid logic, etc. To stimulate interaction and transfer of expertise, M4M will feature a number of invited talks by leading scientists, research presentations aimed at highlighting new developments, and submissions of system demonstrations. We strongly encourage young researchers and students to submit papers and posters, especially for experimental and prototypical software tools which are related to modal logics. More information about the previous editions can be found at http://www.cs.famaf.unc.edu.ar/~careces/M4M/M4M8/ Paper Submissions Authors are invited to submit papers in the following three categories. In all cases the LNCS style should be used. - Regular papers up to 15 pages including bibliography, describing original research. - System descriptions of up to 12 pages including bibliography, describing new systems or significant upgrades of existing ones. - Presentation-only papers, describing work recently published or submitted (no page limit). These will not be included in the proceedings, but pre-prints or post-prints can be made available to participants. Submissions should be made via EasyChair at the following address: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=m4m8 The final versions of the selected contributions will be collected in a volume to be distributed at the workshop. These informal proceedings will also be made accessible on the web. We plan to publish selected papers in ENTCS or in a special journal issue on the topic of the M4M workshop after an extra refereeing round. Important dates Abstract submission deadline: April 12th, 2013 [firm] Paper submission deadline: April 15th, 2013 [firm] Notification of acceptance: May 19th, 2013 Camera ready versions due: May 26th, 2013 Workshop dates: June 9, 2013 Program Committee The following researchers have agreed to be members of the program committee of M4M-8: Carlos Areces (chair), Conicet & Universidad Nacional de C?rdoba Thomas ?gotnes, University of Bergen Natasha Alechina, University of Nottingham Philippe Balbiani, Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse Thomas Bolander, Technical University of Denmark Patrick Blackburn, University of Roskilde Julian Bradfield, University of Edinburgh Stephane Demri, ENS de Cachan Hans van Ditmarsch, LORIA Santiago Figueira, Conicet & Universidad de Buenos Aires Diego Figueira, University of Edinburgh Silvio Ghilardi, University of Milano Rajeev Gor?, The Australian National University Daniel Gor?n, Friedrich-Alexander Universit?t Erlangen-N?rnberg Guido Governatori, NICTA Queensland Research Laboratory Andreas Herzig, Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse Guillaume Hoffmann, Universidad de C?rdoba Barteld Kooi, University of Groningen Martin Lange, University of Kassel Tiago de Lima, University of Artois Alessio Lomuscio, Imperial College London Carsten Lutz, Universit?t Bremen Angelo Montanari, University of Udine Sergio Mera, Universidad de Buenos Aires Valeria de Paiva, Nuance Communications, Inc. Carsten Sch?rmann, IT University of Copenhagen Gert Smolka, Saarland University Frank Wolter, University of Liverpool Heinrich Wansing, Ruhr University Bochum From Bertram.Fronhoefer at tu-dresden.de Sat Mar 23 19:48:38 2013 From: Bertram.Fronhoefer at tu-dresden.de (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Bertram_Fronh=F6fer?=) Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2013 19:48:38 +0100 Subject: [DL] European PhD Program in Computational Logic (EPCL): Call for Applications Message-ID: <514DF906.8060100@tu-dresden.de> ====================================================== European PhD Program in Computational Logic (EPCL) ====================================================== http://www.epcl-study.eu/ CALL FOR APPLICATIONS The European PhD Program in Computational Logic (EPCL) is run jointly by four of the leading European universities in the field: - Free University of Bozen-Bolzano (Italy), - Technische Universit?t Dresden (Germany), - Technische Universit?t Wien (Austria), and - Universidade Nova de Lisboa (Portugal). Further international universities, research organizations and enterprises that contribute to Computational Logic or apply results from it are involved as associated partners: The Simon Fraser University (Canada), the Universidad de Chile, the NICTA (National ICT Australia), as well as several companies. The program involves three years of PhD study in at least two of the European partner universities. It leads to a joint doctoral degree issued by the partner universities at which the studies have been physically performed. The language of the program is English. Financial support is available in the form of positions and scholarships. A foundation track and an application-oriented track match with career perspectives in university research as well as in industrial research. Necessary requirements for participation in EPCL are: A Master's degree in Computer Science or Mathematics, or an equivalent degree; the proof of adequate knowledge of English; and substantial knowledge in the areas Foundations of Logics, Foundations of Artificial Intelligence and Declarative Programming. The program starts annually in the winter term. Applications for 2013 have to be electronically submitted on the Webpage http://www.epcl-study.eu/ before the ========================================= Application Deadline on 30 April 2013 ========================================= If you have enquiries, please do not hesitate to contact the coordinator of the program Prof. Steffen H?lldobler Technische Universit?t Dresden Fakult?t Informatik International Center for Computational Logic Email: sh at iccl.tu-dresden.de Phone: +49 (351) 463 38340 EPCL is supported by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) within the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) program International Doctorates in Germany (IPID). From Bertram.Fronhoefer at tu-dresden.de Sat Mar 23 19:58:40 2013 From: Bertram.Fronhoefer at tu-dresden.de (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Bertram_Fronh=F6fer?=) Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2013 19:58:40 +0100 Subject: [DL] REMINDER: ICCL Summer School 2013 Message-ID: <514DFB60.9070507@tu-dresden.de> ====================================================== ICCL Summer School 2013 ====================================================== Technische Universit?t Dresden August 18 - 31, 2013 As in the past summer schools at the Technische Universit?t Dresden, people from distinct, but communicating communities will gather in an informal and friendly atmosphere. This two-week event is aimed at graduate students, researchers and practitioners. The topic of this year's summer school is Semantic Web - Ontology Languages and Their Use The summer school is devoted to the Semantic Web, a very dynamic and current area of research and application which aims at making information on the World Wide Web fit for intelligent systems applications. One of the key ideas of the Semantic Web approach is to make use of methods from knowledge representation and of AI research in general in order to obtain seamless integration of information from diverse resources, interoperability of tools, enhance search functionalities, and the like. Central for this development is the design of knowledge representation languages for building so-called ontologies, which serve as a kind of metadata to describe the semantics or meaning of data on the Web. Of primary importance are ontology languages and related recommended standards by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), as well as methods and algorithm for their processing. The Semantic Web is now an advanced interdisciplinary field having its home in Computer Science. Third party funding for more than a decade, in particular from the European Union, has led to significant progress. Systems like Apple's Siri or IBM's Watson, adaptions of Semantic-Web-based technologies for e.g. schema.org, Facebook's Open Graph or Google's Knowledge Graph bring these technologies to widespread use and application. Through so-called Linked Data, high volumes of Semantic-Web-processable data is already available on the Web. The ICCL Summer School 2013 will introduce to Semantic Web Ontology Languages and some of their application areas, and highlight related research problems. Registration: If you want to attend the summer school, we would like you to register via the Online Registration Form preferably by April 11, 2013. This deadline is obligatory for all who want to apply for a grant. After April 11, 2013, registration will be possible as long as there are vacant places. (Since we intend to restrict participation to about 60 people, in case of excessive demand, we will have to close the registration to the summer school.) Please register at the latest by July 1, 2013, because - apart from the mentioned overall restriction of participation - we would need an early estimate of the number of participants. People applying until April 11, 2013, and applying for a grant will be informed about respective decisions on grants by end of April 2013. After April 11, 2013 applications for grants cannot be considered any more. An on-site check-in is on Sunday, August 18, 2013, at 4 - 7 pm in room E001 of the Computer Science building. It continues on Monday, August 19, 2013, 8 - 10 am. Fees: (A) We ask for a participation fee of 250 EUR for participants from the university sector (students, university employees, etc) (B) We ask for a participation fee of 1000 Euro for participants from industry. Please pay this summer school fee in cash at the day of your arrival. If belonging to the university sector you have to provide some respective evidence when paying the fees at the check-in (e.g. student card, web page at a university, etc). Grants: A limited number of grants for students and university employees will be available, which includes a waiver of the participation fee. Please indicate in your application, if the only possibility for you to participate is via a grant. Applications for grants must include an estimate of travel costs. (Such info shall be mentioned in the respective parts of the online registration form). Please consult our web pages for further details. http://www.computational-logic.org/content/events/iccl-ss-2013/index.php?id=24 From mtsr2013 at teithe.gr Sat Mar 23 16:55:10 2013 From: mtsr2013 at teithe.gr (mtsr2013 at teithe.gr) Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2013 15:55:10 +0000 Subject: [DL] Call for Papers: MTSR 2013: 7th Metadata and Semantics Research Conference Message-ID: <20130323155510.Horde.xT9UjNjLmYs9lSXpQzIdlw6@webmail.teithe.gr> ********************Call for Papers******************** MTSR 2013: 7th Metadata and Semantics Research Conference November 19-22, 2013 Alexander Technological Educational Institute of Thessaloniki, Greece http://mtsr2013.teithe.gr/ ***Important Dates*** ===================== March 31st 2013: Title and abstract (500 words) submission ? not mandatory June 20th 2013: Paper submission July 31st 2013: Acceptance/rejection notification August 20th 2013: Camera-ready papers due November 19th ? 22nd 2013: Conference at Alexander Technological Educational Institute, Thessaloniki, Greece ***Motivation*** ================ Continuing the successful mission of previous MTSR Conferences (MTSR'05, MTSR'07, MTSR'09, MTSR'10, MTSR'11 and MTSR?12), the seventh International Conference on Metadata and Semantics Research (MTSR'13) aims to bring together scholars and practitioners that share a common interest in the interdisciplinary field of metadata, linked data and ontologies. Participants will share novel knowledge and best practice in the implementation of these semantic technologies across diverse types of Information Environments and applications. These include Cultural Informatics; Open Access Repositories & Digital Libraries; E-learning applications; Search Engine Optimisation & Information Retrieval; Research Information Systems and Infrastructures; e-Science and e-Social Science applications; Agriculture, Food and Environment; Bio-Health & Medical Information Systems. ***Scope and topics*** ====================== Contributions are welcome on every topic related to Metadata and their relationships with Ontologies, Semantic Web, Knowledge Management and Software Engineering, including but not limited to: I. Foundations ? Typology of metadata and metadata uses ? The value and cost of metadata ? Quality evaluation in the use of Metadata ? Metadata reusability ? New or revised metadata schemas or application profiles ? Metadata standardization ? Empirical studies on metadata and/or ontologies usage II. Languages and Frameworks for Metadata Management ? SGML, XML, UML in theory and practice ? Languages and Frameworks for Ontology Management ? Metadata and the Semantic Web ? Metadata and Knowledge Management ? Metadata and Software Engineering ? Metadata application of Semantic Web technologies ? Ontologies and Ontology-based Knowledge Management Systems III. Case Studies ? Metadata and ontologies for librarianship, management of historical archives and archeological research ? Metadata and ontologies for the design of innovative products and processes ? Metadata and ontologies for health, biological and clinical information management ? Metadata and ontologies in finance, tourism and public administrations ? Metadata and ontologies in industry ? Metadata and ontologies in education ? Metadata and ontologies in agriculture, food and environment IV. Technological Issues ? Technologies for Metadata and ontology storage ? Technologies for Metadata and ontology integration ? Technologies for Metadata extraction and navigation, querying and editing of ontologies ? Technologies for Learning Objects management ***Paper submission*** ====================== Interested authors can submit to EasyChair. The following types of presentation are invited: ? full papers (12 pages) reporting complete research ? short papers (6 pages) presenting ongoing or preliminary research ? posters (4 pages); ? demos (4 pages); ? European and National projects (6 pages). Papers should be original and not previously submitted to other Conferences or Journals. All submissions will be reviewed on the basis of relevance, originality, importance and clarity following a double-blind peer review process. Submitted papers have to follow the LNCS proceedings formatting style and guidelines. Authors of accepted papers will be asked to register to the Conference and present their work in the form of either oral presentation or poster presentation. The Conference welcomes Workshops and Tutorial on any issues concerning metadata, ontologies, semantic Web, knowledge management, software engineering and digital libraries. ***Revised and extended versions of best papers will be published in selected international journals, including the International Journal of Metadata, Semantics and Ontologies (Inderscience), and Program: Electronic library and information systems (Emerald) (list incomplete). ***Proceedings will be published by Springer in the CCIS book series. The proceedings will be abstracted/indexed in: Scopus, EI-Compendex, DBLP, Google Scholar, Mathematical Reviews, SCImago. CCIS volumes are also submitted for the inclusion in ISI Proceedings. ***Awards*** *Best paper award. This award will be presented to the authors of the best full paper submitted and presented to the conference. *Best student paper award. The 7th MTSR?13 conference sponsors a paper competition to recognize excellence in a conference paper contribution whose primary author is a student (normally at a PhD or MRes level). The student is required to present the paper at the MTSR2013 conference. Submissions are evaluated on their originality, scientific merits, structure, and clarity of composition. -We look forward to see you in Thessaloniki, one of the most beautiful and popular cities in Southeastern Europe. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Program Chairs ============== ? Emmanouel Garoufallou (Chair), Alexander Technological Educational Institute of Thessaloniki, Greece ? Jane Greenberg (Co-Chair), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA Organization Chairs =================== ? Rania Siatri, Alexander Technological Educational Institute of Thessaloniki, Greece ? Paolo Manghi, Institute of Information Science and Technologies (ISTI), National Research Council (CNR), Italy ? Nikos Houssos, National Documentation Centre (EKT), Greece ? R.J. Hartley, Manchester Metropolitan University, United Kingdom Special Tracks Chair ==================== ? Panos Balatsoukas, University of Manchester, UK Steering Committee ================== ? Miguel-Angel Sicilia, University of Alcala, Spain ? Nikos Manouselis, Agro-Know Technologies, Greece ? Fabio Sartori, Universita degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, Italy ? Juan Manuel Dodero, University of Cadiz, Spain Local Organizing Committee ========================== ? Dora Plakotari, Alexander Technological Educational Institute (TEI) of Thessaloniki (ATEI/Th), Greece ? Chrisanthi Theodoridou, Alexander TEI of Thessaloniki, Greece ? Margarita Hatzilia, Alexander TEI of Thessaloniki, Greece ? Niki Koemtzi, Alexander TEI of Thessaloniki, Greece ? Sissi Closs, Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences, Germany ? Damiana Koutsomiha, American Farm School, Greece ? Panorea Gaitanou, Ionian University, Greece ? Giannis Ioannidis, Alexander TEI of Thessaloniki, Greece ? Nikolaos Noulas, Alexander TEI of Thessaloniki, Greece ? Kostas Paraskeyopoulos, Alexander TEI of Thessaloniki, Greece Greece ? Dimitris Rousidis, Alexander TEI of Thessaloniki, Greece, Greece ? Elena Mouskeftaropoulou, Alexander TEI of Thessaloniki, Greece Greece Program Commitee Members ======================== ? Rajendra Akerkar, Western Norway Research Institute (NORWAY) ? Arif Altun, Hacettepe University (TURKEY) ? Ioannis N. Athanasiadis, Democritus University of Thrace (GREECE) ? Panos Balatsoukas, University of Manchester (UNITED KINGDOM) ? Tomaz Bartol, University of Ljubljana (SLOVENIA) ? Caterina Caracciolo, Food and Agric.Organiz. of the United Nations (ITALY) ? Christian Cechinel, Federal University of Pampa (BRAZIL) ? Artem Chebotko, University of Texas - Pan American (USA) ? Sissi Closs, Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences (GERMANY) ? Constantina Costopoulou, Agricultural University of Athens (GREECE) ? Sally Jo Cunningham, Waikato University (NEW ZEALAND) ? Erdogan Dogdu, TOBB Teknoloji ve Ekonomi University (TURKEY) ? Juan Manuel Dodero, University of Cadiz (SPAIN) ? Muriel Foulonneau, Tudor Public Research Centre (LUXEMBOURG) ? Panorea Gaitanou, Ionian University (GREECE) ? Emmanouel Garoufallou, ATEI of Thessaloniki (GREECE) ? Manolis Gergatsoulis, Ionian University (GREECE) ? Jane Greenberg, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (USA) ? R.J. Hartley, Manchester Metropolitan University (UNITED KINGDOM) ? Nikos Houssos, National Documentation Centre (GREECE) ? Carlos A. Iglesias, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid (SPAIN) ? Pankaj Jaiswal, Oregon State University (USA) ? Brigitte Jorg, UKOLN (UNITED KINGDOM) ? Dimitris Kanellopoulos, University of Patras (GREECE) ? Sarantos Kapidakis, Ionian University (GREECE) ? Christian Kop, University of Klangenfurt (AUSTRIA) ? Paolo Manghi, Institute of Information Science and Technologies (ISTI), National Research Council (CNR) (ITALY) ? Nikos Manouselis, Agro-Know Technologies (GREECE) ? William Moen, University of North Texas (USA) ? Xavier Ochoa, Centro de Tecnologias de Informacion Guayaquil (ECUADOR) ? Mehmet C. Okur, Yasar University (TURKEY) ? Ricardo Colomo-Palacios, Universidad Carlos III (SPAIN) ? Matteo Palmonari, University of Milano-Bicocca (ITALY) ? Laura Papaleo, University of Genova (ITALY) ? Christos Papatheodorou, Ionian University (GREECE) ? Marios Poulos, Ionian University (GREECE) ? T. V. Prabhakar, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (INDIA) ? Salvador Sanchez, University of Alcala (SPAIN) ? Fabio Sartori, Universita degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca (ITALY) ? Pinar Senkul, METU (TURKEY) ? Cleo Sgouropoulou, TEI Athens (GREECE) ? Miguel-Angel Sicilia, University of Alcala (SPAIN) ? Shigeo Sugimoto, University of Tsukuba (JAPAN) ? Stefaan Ternier, Open University of the Netherlands (NETHERLANDS) ? Emma Tonkin, University of Bath (UNITED KINGDOM) ? Thomas Zschocke, World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF) (KENYA) From sofronie at mpi-inf.mpg.de Mon Mar 25 00:35:13 2013 From: sofronie at mpi-inf.mpg.de (Viorica Sofronie-Stokkermans) Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2013 00:35:13 +0100 Subject: [DL] Call for papers: ADDCT 2013 Message-ID: =================================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS Automated Deduction: Decidability, Complexity, Tractability (ADDCT 2013) Workshop affiliated with CADE-24, Lake Placid, 10.06.2013 http://www.uni-koblenz.de/~sofronie/addct-2013/ =================================================================== Important Dates 8 April 2013: Paper submission (extended) 30 April 2013: Notification 10 May 2013: Final version 10 June 2013: Workshop =================================================================== Decidability, and especially complexity and tractability of logical theories is extremely important for a large number of applications. Although predicate logic and number theory are undecidable, decidable theories or decidable theory fragments often occur in mathematics, in program verification, in the verification of reactive, real time or hybrid systems, as well as in databases and ontologies. It is therefore important to identify such decidable fragments and to design efficient decision procedures for them. It is equally important to have uniform methods (e.g. resolution, rewriting, tableaux, sequent calculi) which can be tuned to provide algorithms with optimal complexity. GOAL ==== The goal of ADDCT is to bring together researchers interested in - identifying (fragments of) logical theories which are decidable, identifying fragments thereof which have low complexity, and analyzing possibilities of obtaining optimal complexity results with uniform tools; - analyzing decidability in combinations of theories and possibilities of combining decision procedures; - efficient implementations for decidable fragments; - application domains where decidability resp. tractability are crucial. TOPICS OF INTEREST ================== Topics of interest for ADDCT include (but are not restricted to): - Decidability: - decision procedures based on logical calculi such as: resolution, rewriting, tableaux, sequent calculi, or natural deduction - decidability in combinations of logical theories - Complexity: - complexity analysis for fragments of first- (or higher) order logic - complexity analysis for combinations of logical theories (including parameterized complexity results) - Tractability (in logic, automated reasoning, algebra, ...) - Application domains for which complexity issues are essential (verification, security, databases, ontologies, ...) The goal of ADDCT is to bring together researchers interested in exploring the topics above, both at a theoretical level and motivated by applications. SUBMISSION AND SELECTION PROCEDURE ================================== Submissions are encouraged in one of the following categories: - Original papers (up to 15 pages, LNCS style, including bibliography); should describe original research and contain sufficient detail to assess the merits and relevance of the contribution. Simultaneous submission of material is prohibited. - Work in progress (up to 6 pages, LNCS style, without bibliography). - Presentation-only papers: may describe work previously published, and will not be inserted in the proceedings. We are allowing the submission of previously published work in order to allow researchers to communicate good ideas that the attendees may not be aware of. Given the informal style of the workshop, the submission of papers presenting student's work and work in progress is encouraged. Submission of papers is via EasyChair at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=addct2013 The final versions of the selected contributions will be collected in a volume to be distributed at the workshop and made accessible on the web. PROGRAM COMMITTEE ================= Carlos Areces (U. Cordoba) Franz Baader (TU Dresden) Peter Baumgartner(NICTA, Canberra) Maria Paola Bonacina (U. Verona) Christian Fermueller (T.U. Wien) Silvio Ghilardi (U. Milano) (co-chair) Rajeev Gore (Australian National University) Ullrich Hustadt (U. Liverpool) Felix Klaedtke (ETH Zuerich) Carsten Lutz (U. Bremen) Christopher Lynch,(Clarkson U.) Silvio Ranise (FBK-Irst) Ulrike Sattler (U. Manchester) (co-chair) Renate Schmidt (U. Manchester) Viorica Sofronie-Stokkermans (MPI,Saarbruecken) (co-chair) Ashish Tiwari (SRI) (co-chair) Luca Vigano (U. Verona) For further informations please send an e-mail to Viorica Sofronie-Stokkermans (sofronie at uni-koblenz.de) From margotcolinet at gmail.com Mon Mar 25 13:53:02 2013 From: margotcolinet at gmail.com (Margot Colinet) Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2013 13:53:02 +0100 Subject: [DL] ESSLLI 2013 StuS Deadline Extension Message-ID: Dear friends and colleagues, Please forward to students. (Sorry for multiple messages) * * *Deadline Extension to April, 8th ESSLLI 2013 STUDENT SESSION* Held during The 25th European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information D?sseldorf, Germany, August 5-16, 2013 *Deadline for submissions extended*: from April 1st, 2013 to *April 8th, 2013* https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=essllistus2013 *A SEPARATE POSTER SESSION*: Note that this year there are two separate kinds of submissions, one for the oral presentations and one for the posters. This means that papers can be directly submitted as posters. Reviewing and ranking will be done separately. 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URL: From A.Silva at science.ru.nl Tue Mar 26 12:37:35 2013 From: A.Silva at science.ru.nl (Alexandra Silva) Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2013 12:37:35 +0100 Subject: [DL] CALL FOR PAPERS: CALCO Tools 2013 Message-ID: <20130326113735.GA9370@lilo2.science.ru.nl> CALL FOR PAPERS: CALCO Tools 2013 5th International Conference on Algebra and Coalgebra in Computer Science, Tools Workshop September 3 - 6, 2013 Warsaw, Poland http://coalg.org/calco13/workshops.html#tools ========================================================================= Paper submission: April 8, 2013 Author notification: May 6, 2013 Final version due: June 3, 2013 ========================================================================= -- SCOPE -- CALCO aims to bring together researchers and practitioners with interests in foundational aspects, and both traditional and emerging uses of algebra and coalgebra in computer science. It is a high-level, bi-annual conference formed by joining the forces and reputations of CMCS (the International Workshop on Coalgebraic Methods in Computer Science), and WADT (the Workshop on Algebraic Development Techniques). Previous CALCO editions took place in Swansea (Wales, 2005), Bergen (Norway, 2007), Udine (Italy, 2009) and Winchester (UK, 2011). The fifth edition will be held in Warsaw, the capital of Poland. As part of CALCO, a workshop dedicated to tools based on algebraic and/or coalgebraic principles, CALCO Tools, will be held alongside the main conference. Papers of this workshop will be included in the CALCO proceedings. CALCO-Tools will take place on the same dates as the main CALCO conference, with no overlap between the technical programmes of the two events. Topics of interest include systems, prototypes, and tools developed specifically for the design, checking, execution, and verification of (co)algebraic specifications, but also tools targeting different application domains while making core or interesting use of (co)algebraic techniques. Tool submissions should not exceed 5 pages in LNCS format. The accepted tool papers will be included in the final proceedings of the conference. The tools should be made available on the web at the time of submission. Each submission will be evaluated by at least three reviewers; one or more of the reviewers will be asked to download and use the tool. At least one of the authors of each tool paper must attend the conference to demo the tool. To submit a paper please visit our easychair submission site at https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=calcotools2013 -- CALCO 2013 ORGANISING COMMITTEE -- Bartek Klin (University of Warsaw, Poland) Andrzej Tarlecki (University of Warsaw, Poland) -- LOCATION -- Warsaw, the capital of Poland, is a lively city with many historic monuments and sights, but also with a thriving business district. It is easily accessible via two airports: the main Chopin Airport, used by most international carriers, and the recently open Warsaw Modlin Airport (30 minutes away by rail), used by budget airlines. -- CALCO Tools Dates -- Paper submission: April 8, 2013 Author notification: May 6, 2013 Final version due: June 3, 2013 -- CALCO Tools Programme Committee -- Einar Broch Johnsen, University of Oslo, Norway Mark Hills, CWI Amsterdam, The Netherlands Barbara K?nig, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany Dorel Lucanu, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University, Romania Dominik Luecke, CWI Amsterdam, The Netherlands Till Mossakowski, DFKI, Germany Lutz Schr?der, Friedrich-Alexander Universitat Erlangen-N?rnberg, Germany (chair) Alexandra Silva, Radboud University Nijmegen and CWI Amsterdam, The Netherlands -- FURTHER INFORMATION -- Queries related to submission, reviewing, and programme should be sent to the workshop chair. Queries related to the organisation should be emailed to calco2013 at mimuw.edu.pl . From scranefield at infoscience.otago.ac.nz Tue Mar 26 22:03:02 2013 From: scranefield at infoscience.otago.ac.nz (Stephen Cranefield) Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2013 21:03:02 +0000 Subject: [DL] CFP: 26th Australasian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 3-6 Dec., Dunedin, New Zealand Message-ID: <47167DDEB18C314398E777841B0CEC9308D07504@ITS-EXM-P08.registry.otago.ac.nz> Call for Papers 26th Australasian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AI 2013) 3-6 December, 2013 Dunedin, New Zealand http://ai2013.otago.ac.nz Since the first AI Conference took place in Sydney in 1987, the series of annual Australasian Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence has become the premier event for Artificial Intelligence researchers in Australasia and one of the major international forums on AI worldwide. In 2008 the AI conference was hosted in New Zealand for the first time, in Auckland. In 2013 the 26th Australasian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence returns to New Zealand, and will be held in Dunedin, hosted by the University of Otago. AI 2013 will be co-located with the 16th International Conference on Principles and Practice of Multi-Agent Systems (PRIMA 2013): http://prima2013.otago.ac.nz/ Prospective authors are invited to submit original research and application papers in any area of Artificial Intelligence, including but not limited to the following: * Agent-based and multiagent systems * AI applications and innovations * Cognitive modelling and computer human interaction * Commonsense reasoning * Computer vision * Constraint satisfaction, search, and optimisation * Evolutionary computation * Game playing and interactive entertainment * Information retrieval, integration, and extraction * Knowledge acquisition and ontologies * Knowledge representation and reasoning * Machine learning and data mining * Model-based systems * Multidisciplinary AI * Natural language processing * Planning and scheduling * Robotics * Social choice * Uncertainty in AI * Web and information systems All papers should be submitted electronically in PDF format and formatted using Springer's manuscript submission guidelines: http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html Submitted papers should not exceed 12 pages and should not be under review or submitted for publication elsewhere during the review period. All papers will be peer reviewed by at least three independent referees. Reviews will be double blind; authors must avoid including anything that can be used to identify them. Submission will be through the EasyChair conference management system at the following URL: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=26ai2013 All accepted papers submitted to the Conference will be published by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) series. At least one author of each accepted paper is required to register for the conference and to present the paper. Important Dates: Submissions Due: 1 July 2013 Notifications: 19 August 2013 Camera-Ready: 14 September 2013 Early Registration: 31 October 2013 Conference: 3-6 December 2013 From markus.kroetzsch at cs.ox.ac.uk Wed Mar 27 19:41:33 2013 From: markus.kroetzsch at cs.ox.ac.uk (=?UTF-8?B?TWFya3VzIEtyw7Z0enNjaA==?=) Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2013 18:41:33 +0000 Subject: [DL] CfP: [New Deadlines] DL 2013 - 26th Int Workshop on Description Logics Message-ID: <51533D5D.3080809@cs.ox.ac.uk> [Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message.] In response to multiple requests and in view of the upcoming holidays in many countries, we have decided to extend the submission deadlines for DL 2013 by one week: abstracts are now due Apr 12, papers Apr 19. Moreover, please take note of the Distinguished Student Paper awards that provide an additional incentive for independent works by young researchers. All details are given below. =============================================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS 26th International Workshop on Description Logics (DL 2013) Ulm, Germany, July 23--26, 2013 Co-located with ORE 2013; followed by RR 2013, Reasoning Web 2013 http://dl.kr.org/dl2013 =============================================================================== The DL workshop is the major annual event of the description logic research community. It is the forum at which those interested in description logics, both from academia and industry, meet to discuss ideas, share information and compare experiences. The workshop will be held at the University of Ulm, Campus East, from July 23rd to July 26th, 2013. In this year, DL workshop will be collocated with the 2nd OWL Reasoner Evaluation Workshop (ORE), which will take place on July 22nd in Ulm, Germany. Furthermore, the International Conference on Web Reasoning and Rule Systems (RR), will take place in Mannheim (1:40 min by train from Ulm) directly subsequent to the DL workshop (July 27th - 29th), and the 9th Reasoning Web Summer School (July 30th - Aug 2nd) also in Mannheim. IMPORTANT DATES --------------- Abstract submission deadline: April 12, 2013 (was April 5) Paper submission deadline: April 19, 2013 (was April 12) Acceptance notification: May 27, 2013 Camera ready copies: June 09, 2013 Early registration: June 24, 2013 Workshop: July 23-26, 2013 WORKSHOP SCOPE -------------- We invite contributions on all aspects of description logics, including but not limited to: * Foundations of description logics: decidability and complexity of reasoning, expressive power, novel inference problems, inconsistency tolerance, reasoning techniques, and modularity aspects * Extensions of description logics: closed-world and nonmonotonic reasoning, defaults, epistemic reasoning, temporal and spatial reasoning, procedural knowledge, query languages * Integration of description logics with other formalisms: object-oriented representation languages, database query languages, constraint-based programming, logic programming, and rule-based systems * Applications and use areas of description logics: ontology engineering, ontology languages, databases, ontology-based data access, semi-structured data, document management, natural language, learning, planning, Semantic Web, and cloud computing * Systems and tools around description logics: reasoners, software tools for and using description logic reasoning (e.g. ontology editors, database schema design, query optimization, and data integration tools), implementation and optimization techniques, benchmarking, evaluation, modeling INVITED SPEAKERS ---------------- * Giuseppe De Giacomo, Sapienza Universita di Roma, Italy * Michel Dumontier, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada * Ian Pratt-Hartmann, University of Manchester, UK DISTINGUISHED STUDENT PAPERS ---------------------------- As in previous years, the DL Workshop 2013 will again consider to select one or more *Distinguished Student Papers* among the accepted entries. This distinction is meant to encourage independent work by young researchers in the field, for which DL Workshop is an ideal platform. The award is therefore limited to papers that are authored without the direct participation of senior researchers. The term "student" is meant in a wide sense. A paper is eligible as Distinguished Student Paper if *all* of its authors are undergraduate, graduate, or doctoral students at the time of the submission. This shall generally include anyone who has not yet received a doctoral degree in a related field yet. The selection committee might consider exceptions, e.g., if the work is based on a doctoral thesis that has been completed very recently. SUBMISSIONS ----------- * Submissions are limited to 11 pages, excluding references, and should follow the Springer LNCS style guide (http://bit.ly/oPRW8y). * There is no page limit on the list of references. * A clearly marked appendix with additional proofs or evaluation data can be appended; it will be read at the discretion of the reviewers. * Please note the paragraph about Distinguished Student Papers above. * Submission page: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dl2013 * Accepted papers will be made available electronically in the CEUR Workshop Proceedings series (http://www.CEUR-ws.org/). * Accepted submissions will be selected for either oral or poster presentation, which will be clearly distinguished in the proceedings; however, the length of all accepted papers can be the same. ORGANIZATION ------------ * Thomas Eiter, Vienna University of Technology (Program co-Chair) * Birte Glimm, University of Ulm, Germany (Workshop co-Chair) * Yevgeny Kazakov, University of Ulm, Germany (Workshop co-Chair) * Markus Kroetzsch, University of Oxford, U.K. (Program co-Chair) PROGRAMME COMMITTEE ------------------- * Alessandro Artale, Free University of Bolzano-Bozen * Franz Baader, TU Dresden * Meghyn Bienvenu, CNRS & Universit? Paris-Sud * Alex Borgida, Rutgers University * Diego Calvanese, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano * Bernardo Cuenca Grau, University of Oxford * Enrico Franconi, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano * Pascal Hitzler, Wright State University * Matthew Horridge, Stanford University * Ian Horrocks, University of Oxford * Pavel Klinov, University of Ulm * Boris Konev, University of Liverpool * Roman Kontchakov, Birkbeck College * Jens Lehmann, University of Leipzig * Thorsten Liebig, derivo GmbH * Carsten Lutz, University of Bremen * Deborah McGuinness, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute * Thomas Meyer, UKZN and CSIR Meraka * Ralf M?ller, Hamburg University of Technology * Linh Anh Nguyen, University of Warsaw * Magdalena Ortiz, Vienna University of Technology * Bijan Parsia, University of Manchester * Peter Patel-Schneider, Nuance Communications * Rafael Pe?aloza, TU Dresden * Guilin Qi, Southeast University * Riccardo Rosati, Sapienza Universita' di Roma * Sebastian Rudolph, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology * Renate A. Schmidt, University of Manchester * Ulrike Sattler, University of Manchester * Thomas Schneider, University of Bremen * Luciano Serafini, Fondazione Bruno Kessler * Bar?? Sertkaya, SAP Research Center Dresden * Inanc Seylan, Universty of Bremen * Mantas Simkus, Vienna University of Technology * Giorgos Stamou, National Technical University of Athens * Giorgos Stoilos, National Technical University of Athens * Umberto Straccia, Institute of Information Science and Technologies * David Toman, University of Waterloo * Dmitry Tsarkov, The University of Manchester * Anni-Yasmin Turhan, TU Dresden * Zhe Wang, University of Oxford * Kewen Wang, Griffith University * Grant Weddell, University of Waterloo * Frank Wolter, University of Liverpool * Michael Zakharyaschev, Birkbeck College RESOURCES --------- * Information about submission, registration, travel information, etc., is available on the DL 2013 homepage: http://dl.kr.org/dl2013 * Enquiries about the DL 2013 workshop can be made by contacting the organizing committee * The official Description Logic home page is at http://dl.kr.org/ -- Dr. Markus Kroetzsch Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford Room 306, Parks Road, OX1 3QD Oxford, United Kingdom +44 (0)1865 283529 http://korrekt.org/ From acm.medes at gmail.com Wed Mar 27 20:20:47 2013 From: acm.medes at gmail.com (ACM MEDES) Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2013 20:20:47 +0100 Subject: [DL] ACM MEDES 2013: Call for Papers Message-ID: * Please distribute widely and accept our apologies for cross-posting * *************** CALL FOR PAPERS *************** International ACM Conference on Management of Emergent Digital EcoSystems (MEDES 2013) http://sigappfr.acm.org/MEDES/13/ October 29-31, 2013 Abbey of Neumunster, Luxembourg Description and Objectives --------------------------- In the world of the Internet, the rapid growth and exponential use of digital medias leads to the emergence of virtual environments namely digital ecosystems composed of multiple and independent entities such as individuals, organizations, services, software and applications sharing one or several missions and focusing on the interactions and inter-relationships among them. The digital ecosystem exhibits self-organizing environments, thanks to the re-combination and evolution of its "digital components", in which resources provided by each entity are properly conserved, managed and used. The underlying resources mainly comprehend data management, innovative services, computational intelligence and self-organizing platforms. Due to the multi-disciplinary nature of digital ecosystems and their characteristics, they are highly complex to study and design. This also leads to a poor understanding as to how managing resources will empower digital ecosystems to be innovative and value-creating. The application of Information Technologies has the potential to enable the understanding of how entities request resources and ultimately interact to create benefits and added-values, impacting business practices and knowledge. These technologies can be improved through novel techniques, models and methodologies for fields such as data management, web technologies, networking, security, human-computer interactions, artificial intelligence, e-services and self-organizing systems to support the establishment of digital ecosystems and manage their resources. The International ACM Conference on Management of Emergent Digital EcoSystems (MEDES) aims to develop and bring together a diverse community from academia, research laboratories and industry interested in exploring the manifold challenges and issues related to resource management of Digital Ecosystems and how current approaches and technologies can be evolved and adapted to this end. The conference seeks related original research papers, industrial papers and proposals for demonstrations. Topics ------- In this call, we solicit original research and technical papers not published elsewhere. The papers can be theoretical, practical and application oriented on the following themes (but not limited to): - Digital Ecosystem Infrastructure - Green computing - Emergent Intelligence - Services - Trust, Security & Privacy - Data & Knowledge Management - Web and Standards - Human-Computer Interaction - Networks and Protocols - Open Source - Miscellaneous Paper Submission ---------------- Submissions must be in an electronic form as PDF format and should be uploaded using the conference website. The submitted paper should be at most 8 ACM single-space printed pages. Papers that fail to comply with length limit will be rejected. Submissions will be peer-reviewed by at least 3 peer reviewers. After the preliminary notification date, authors rebut by evidence and arguments all reviewer inquiries and their comments. Based on the rebuttal feedback, reviewers notify authors with the final decision. Selection criteria will include: relevance, significance, impact, originality, technical soundness, and quality of presentation. Preference will be given to submissions that take strong or challenging positions on important emergent topics related to Digital Ecosystems. At least one author should attend the conference to present the paper. The conference Proceedings will be published by ACM and indexed by the ACM Digital Library and DBLP. Important Dates ---------------- - Submission Date: June 1st, 2013 - Preliminary Notification of Acceptance: September 1st, 2013 - Rebuttal Deadline: September 4th, 2013 - Final Notification of Acceptance: September 5th, 2012 - Camera Ready: September 20th, 2013 - Conference Dates: October 29-31, 2013 Call For Demonstration: Proposals Submission Deadline: July 1st, 2013 Call for Call for Special Track Proposals: Proposals Submission Deadline: April 15, 2013 Special issues and Journal Publication --------------------------------------- Extended versions of selected papers will be published in several peer reviewed journals. The list of journals will be announced later. General Chairs --------------- Latif Ladid,University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Peter A. Bruck, Research Studios Austria Forschungsgesellschaft mbH, Austria Dr. Antonio Montes, Centro de Tecnologia da Informa??o Renato Archer, Brazil Program Chairs -------------- Fernando Ferri, IRPPS-CNR, Italy Richard Chbeir, University of Pau and Adour Countries, France Local Organizing Chair ------------------------------- Frederic Andres, National Institute of Informatics, Japan Ingrid Zantis, Zantis-Consulting, Luxembourg Jean-Paul Hengen, ICT Sector Development, Luxembourg International Program Committee -------------------------------- (See website of the conference) From m.daquin at open.ac.uk Wed Mar 27 10:32:07 2013 From: m.daquin at open.ac.uk (Mathieu D'Aquin) Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2013 09:32:07 +0000 Subject: [DL] SSSW 2013 - The 10th Summer School on Ontology Engineering and the Semantic Web (deadline approaching) Message-ID: <57CEBF14-A50D-413A-8275-1F02FC867B9B@open.ac.uk> THE 10TH SUMMER SCHOOL ON ONTOLOGY ENGINEERING AND THE SEMANTIC WEB (SSSW 2013) Celebrating 10 years as the premier educational event on semantic web technologies. 7-13 July, 2013, Cercedilla, near Madrid, Spain. http://sssw.org/2013 Applications to attend SSSW 2013 will remain open until 05 April 2013. See http://sssw.org/2013/how-to-apply/ for details. The groundbreaking SSSW series of summer schools started in 2003. It is now a well-established event within the research community and a role model for several other initiatives. In 2013, we will be celebrating the 10th anniversary of SSSW, with a set of tutors comprising leading researchers in the community, prestigious invited speakers, networking and mentoring sessions with research and industry leaders (including former students of the school), and of course, an exciting social programme in one of the most beautiful locations in Spain. To ensure a high ratio between tutors and students the school will be limited to 50 participants. Applications for the summer school will close on 05 April 2013. >From the very beginning the school pioneered an innovative pedagogical approach, combining the practical with the theoretical, and adding teamwork and a competitive element to the mix. Specifically, tutorial/lecture material is augmented with hands-on practical workshops and we ensure that the sessions complement each other by linking them to group projects. Work on developing and presenting a project in cooperation with other participants serves as a means of consolidating the knowledge and skills gained from lectures and practical sessions. It also introduces an element of competition among teams, as prizes are awarded to the best projects at the end of the week. Participants will be provided with electronic versions of all course lectures and all necessary tools and environments for the hands-on sessions. PC access with all tools pre-installed will be available on site as well. SSSW 2013 will provide a stimulating and enjoyable environment in which participants will benefit not only from the formal and practical sessions but also from informal and social interactions with established researchers and the other participants to the school. To further facilitate interaction and exchange of ideas, a poster session will also take place, which will provide an opportunity for attendees to present and obtain feedback on their research. TOPICS Linked Data / Web of Data Ontology Engineering Ontology Design Knowledge Representation Semantic Web Applications Ontology Matching and Alignment Semantic and Language Technologies Knowledge Management Semantic Search Recommender Systems Web Intelligence Multimedia Semantic Web Social Semantic Web and Sensor Web Semantic Web and Multimedia ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Mathieu d'Aquin (Director), m.daquin at open.ac.uk Oscar Corcho (Co-Director), ocorcho at fi.upm.es Enrico Motta (Founder), e.motta at open.ac.uk Asun Gomez-Perez (Co-Founder), asun at fi.upm.es TUTORS AND INVITED SPEAKERS Harith Alani (The Open University, UK) Mathieu d'Aquin (The Open University, UK) Sean Bechhofer (University of Manchester, UK) Fabio Ciravegna (University of Sheffield, UK) Oscar Corcho (UPM, Spain) Tommaso Di Noia (Technical University of Bari, Italy) J?r?me Euzenat (INRIA and LIG, France) Aldo Gangemi (ISTC-CNR, Italy) Asun Gomez-Perez (UPM, Spain) Lynda Hardman (Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica, The Netherlands) Frank van Harmelen (Free University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands) Manfred Hauswirth (DERI, Ireland) Peter Mika (Yahoo! Research Barcelona, Spain) Enrico Motta (The Open University, UK) Natasha Noy (Stanford University, US) Valentina Presutti (ISTC-CNR, Italy) Rapha?l Troncy (EURECOM, France) HOW TO APPLY We welcome applicants from anywhere in the world. Normally, but not exclusively, applicants will be postgraduate students in relevant disciplines with some knowledge of semantic and web technologies. Some basic acquaintance with knowledge representation languages for the Semantic Web (RDF, OWL, etc.) is required. Application should be sent by filling the application form, as well as sending a CV to application at sssw13.org (see http://sssw.org/2013/how-to-apply/). The deadline for applications will be 05 April 2013. Accepted candidates are expected to arrive on Sunday, July 7th, between 3pm and 6pm and to participate fully in the activities of the school until its conclusion, at 2pm on Saturday, July 13th. Applicants should keep in mind that we will not consider applications from students who cannot commit themselves to a full participation for the whole duration of the school. Students are also required to bring and present a poster at the summer school, describing their own research. Apart from activities directly related to lectures, the summer school schedule is rightly famous for its unrivalled social programme, which enables informal interaction between all participants to the school - i.e., students, tutors, invited speakers, school staff, etc. These events include a gala dinner, walks in the mountain, discos, and sport activities. STUDENT GRANTS We expect to provide a number of grants for students who would not otherwise be able to attend the school. More details about student grants will be published at a later date. VENUE AND ACCOMMODATION Cercedilla is a small village in the mountains near Madrid, located in a beautiful conservation area. The school will be held in the Residence of the Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, which provides comfortable accommodation in individual rooms with en suite bathrooms, as well as access to a range of nearby activities, including a fresh-water swimming pool. The nearest airport is Madrid-Barajas. Participants will be able to use local rail links from Madrid to Cercedilla. More information about how to reach Cercedilla can be found at http://sssw.org/2013/venue-details/ The cost of the summer school, including accommodation, meals and excursion will be 900?. -- The Open University is incorporated by Royal Charter (RC 000391), an exempt charity in England & Wales and a charity registered in Scotland (SC 038302). -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From m.daquin at open.ac.uk Thu Mar 28 14:19:56 2013 From: m.daquin at open.ac.uk (Mathieu D'Aquin) Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2013 13:19:56 +0000 Subject: [DL] CFP - Privacy in Semantic Technologies (PriSeT 2013) workshop at K-CAP 2013 Message-ID: CALL FOR PAPERS 1st International Workshop on Privacy in Semantic Technologies (PriSeT 2013) 23rd June, 2013, Banff, Canada (collocated with K-CAP 2013) http://events.kmi.open.ac.uk/priset-2013/ IMPORTANT DATES * Paper Submission: 15th April 2011 * Author Notification: 30th April, 2013 * Camera ready copy due: 15th May 2013 SCOPE In recent years, Web users have seen an exponential growth in the amount of data being generated and exchanged in form of blogs, tweets, social networking and mobile applications. In this respect, Semantic technologies have emerged as a potential candidate for modelling and building of software systems that are privacy-aware. On the other hand, recent linked-data initiatives from government, academia and industry are rapidly moving towards making the users? data available for distributed sharing and linking. However, the main concern is with insufficient privacy safeguards and controls, there is a high risk these linking of data and its exploitation will become a ?privacy nightmare? for the Web users. Semantic Web has been redefined in recent years but the privacy enhancing technologies specifically relating to the use of URI, RDF and SPARQL are still lagging behind. Addressing such privacy challenges in the software engineering domain will entail eliciting user-centric requirements and modelling, knowledge discovery and representation, privacy policy modelling, privacy-by-design architectures and evaluation of privacy enhancing techniques and methods. Therefore, this workshop aims at providing a forum for researchers and practitioners to exchange and disseminate their work to a wider audience and receive critical feedback on work primarily supporting privacy in and with semantic technologies. TOPICS We welcome high-quality technical papers about recent advancements in (a) how privacy is being supported in the Web of Data, especially through semantic technologies and (b) how Semantic Web principles are being applied in the context of privacy protection of Web users or end-users of software systems in general. We seek application-oriented, as well as more theoretical papers and position papers in the following, non-exhaustive list of topics: * Privacy in semantic technologies * Use of semantic technologies in privacy protection * Privacy implications of knowledge extraction * Privacy implications of data integration and data linking * Privacy in Big Data * Knowledge discovery and privacy * Inferring privacy consequences of online activities * User and knowledge modelling for privacy * Knowledge approaches to privacy requirements * Knowledge approaches to privacy assessment * Privacy policy modelling and interoperability * Modelling of private information propagation * Impact of semantic technologies on privacy in specific domains (healthcare, politics, etc.) SUBMISSIONS We seek short position papers (max. 5 pages) and longer technical papers not exceeding 10 pages. Both types of papers should be formatted according to the ACM format (2 column SIG Conference Proceedings template is available at http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates) and should be submitted through EasyChair (https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=priset2013). Accepted papers will be published in online proceedings. The organisers of the workshop are also currently discussing a follow-up special issue of the Semantic Web Journal (http://www.semantic-web-journal.net/) on Privacy in Semantic Technologies. ORGANISATION Workshop Chairs * Keerthi Thomas, The Open University, UK * Inah Omoronyia, University of Glasgow, UK * Mathieu d?Aquin, The Open University, UK Programme Committee * Arosha Bandara, The Open University, UK * Luca Costabello, INRIA, France * Tim Finin, University of Maryland, BC, USA * Matthew Gamble, University of Manchester, UK * Kevin Hamlen, University of Texas, Dallas, USA * Nicolas Jay, LORIA, France * Cliff Joslyn, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA * Lalana Kagal, MIT, USA * Murat Kantarcioglu, University of Texas, Dallas, USA * Atif Latif, ZBW, Germany * Vanessa Lopez, IBM Research, Ireland * Alessandra Mileo, DERI, Ireland * Enrico Motta, The Open University, UK * Andriy Nikolov, Fluid Operations, Germany * Blaine Price, The Open University, UK * Daniel Alexander Smith, University of Southampton, UK * Mischa Tuffield, PeerIndex, UK * Thein Than Tun, The Open University, UK * Yijun Yu, The Open University, UK * Joss Wright, Oxford University, UK -- The Open University is incorporated by Royal Charter (RC 000391), an exempt charity in England & Wales and a charity registered in Scotland (SC 038302). -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From tarek.besold at googlemail.com Sat Mar 30 21:52:47 2013 From: tarek.besold at googlemail.com (Tarek R. Besold) Date: Sat, 30 Mar 2013 13:52:47 -0700 Subject: [DL] Final CfP: C3GI @ IJCAI-2013 - Computational Creativity, Concept Invention, and General Intelligence 2013 Message-ID: <5C7975FA-2704-4057-83D1-DA8413A3C4B1@googlemail.com> **************************************************** * Workshop on Computational Creativity, * * Concept Invention, and General Intelligence 2013 * * 3rd and 4th of August, 2013, Beijing/China * **************************************************** In conjunction with the 23rd International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) 2013 ******************** * Workshop Webpage * ******************** http://www.cogsci.uos.de/~c3gi ****************************** * Workshop Topics & Audience * ****************************** The targeted audience for the workshop are researchers associated with the fields working in the development of computational models for creativity, concept formation, concept discovery, idea generation, and their overall relation and role to general intelligence. Furthermore, researchers coming from application areas, like computer-aided innovation (CAI) are welcome to submit papers for this workshop. We invite papers that make a scientific contribution to the fields of computational creativity, idea generation and/or artificial general intelligence, with possible topics ranging from theoretical studies of human creativity, inventive capacities and intelligence (that in some way propose a computational model for the respective capability), through more practical contributions reporting on creative, inventive or generally intelligent computer systems (we particularly welcome implementations offering general or at least multiple sorts of results) and studies of systems and software supporting and/or guiding humans in the creative or inventive act, to application-based reports from fields like design, architecture or arts. Submissions connecting to several of the aforementioned topics are highly encouraged and welcome. Due to the open nature of the targeted topics, we hope for contributions from a broad variety of subdisciplines within AI. Relevant keywords include but are not limited to following high-level areas: - Computational Creativity & Creativity-Support Tools - Analogical Reasoning - Artificial General Intelligence - Automated Story Generation - Computer-Aided & Automated Mathematics - Computer-Aided Innovation - Computational Models for Conceptual Blending - Automated Poetry Generation - Automated Music Generation/Automated Composition - Automated Art Generation - Creativity in Problem Solving ******************* * Call for Papers * ******************* Anybody with an interest in the questions raised above is invited to submit a research or position paper as basis for discussions during the workshop. Submissions should be sent to Tarek R. Besold ( c3gi at cogsci.uos.de ). Accepted papers will be published online in the ''Publication Series of the Institute of Cognitive Science`` (PICS, ISSN 1610-5389), a scientific series from the Institute of Cognitive Science, University of Osnabrueck, unless the authors instruct us otherwise. Authors are invited to submit an expanded full paper version of their workshop submission to a post-workshop review process, leading to a reviewed book on future directions for creativity, idea generation, and general intelligence. ******************* * Important Dates * ******************* Paper submission deadline: 20th of April, 2013 Notification of acceptance: 20th of May, 2013 Camera ready versions: 30th of May, 2013 Workshop: 3rd and 4th of August, 2013 ************************ * Format of Submission * ************************ All papers should be submitted in accordance to the IJCAI formatting style. Submitted papers should not be longer than 6 pages. ********************* * Program Committee * ********************* Program Committee Co-Chairs: - T. R. Besold, University of Osnabrueck - K.-U. Kuehnberger, University of Osnabrueck - M. Schorlemmer, IIIA-CSIC, Barcelona - A. Smaill, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh Program Committee: - J. Barnden, University of Birmingham - M. Bhatt, University of Bremen - M. Bishop, University of London - S. Colton, Imperial College London - G. Cascini, Politecnico di Milano - J. Cassens, University of Luebeck - H. Ekbia, Indiana University Bloomington - M. Guhe, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh - H. Gust, University of Osnabrueck - I. Havel, Charles University Prague - B. Indurkhya, IIIT Hyderabad & AGH University of Science and Technology, Krakow - A. Kofod-Petersen, NTNU Trondheim - U. Krumnack, University of Osnabrueck - O. Kutz, University of Bremen - M. Martinez Baldares, Universidad de los Andes, Bogota - A. Pease, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh - F. Pereira, University of Coimbra - E. Plaza, IIIA-CSIC, Barcelona - T. Roth-Berghofer, University of West London - U. Schmid, University of Bamberg - P. Stefaneas, NTU Athens - T. Veale, University College, Dublin - P. Wang, Temple University Philadelphia ************************ * Organizing Committee * ************************ Tarek R. Besold, University of Osnabrueck Kai-Uwe Kuehnberger, University of Osnabrueck Alan Smaill, University of Edinburgh Marco Schorlemmer, IIIA-CSIC From pascal.hitzler at wright.edu Sat Mar 30 02:34:35 2013 From: pascal.hitzler at wright.edu (Pascal Hitzler) Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2013 21:34:35 -0400 Subject: [DL] CfP: Semantics for Big Data AAAI Fall Symposium 2013 Message-ID: <5156412B.50807@wright.edu> Semantics for Big Data AAAI 2013 Fall Symposium; Westin Arlington Gateway in Arlington, Virginia, November 15-17, 2013. http://stko.geog.ucsb.edu/s4bd2013/ Description and Scope One of the key challenges in making use of Big Data lies in finding ways of dealing with heterogeneity, diversity, and complexity of the data, while its volume and velocity forbid solutions available for smaller datasets as based, e.g., on manual curation or manual integration of data. Semantic Web Technologies are meant to deal with these issues, and indeed since the advent of Linked Data a few years ago, they have become central to mainstream Semantic Web research and development. We can easily understand Linked Data as being a part of the greater Big Data landscape, as many of the challenges are the same. The linking component of Linked Data, however, puts an additional focus on the integration and conflation of data across multiple sources. Workshop Topics In this symposium, we will explore the many opportunities and challenges arising from transferring and adapting Semantic Web Technologies to the Big Data quest. Topics of interest focus explicitly on the interplay of Semantics and Big Data, and include: the use of semantic metadata and ontologies for Big Data, the use of formal and informal semantics, the integration and interplay of deductive (semantic) and statistical methods, methods to establish semantic interoperability between data sources ways of dealing with semantic heterogeneity, scalability of Semantic Web methods and tools, and semantic approaches to the explication of requirements from eScience applications. Workshop Format, Submissions, and Proceedings The symposium will be highly interactive with spotlight presentations and small breakout groups interleaved with plenary sessions for reports on the breakout groups and for consolidation of results. To prime and channel discussions and group activities during the event, we call for the submission of position papers or extended abstracts of 2-4 pages, or of technical papers of 6-8 pages (in AAAI format). Please address questions to Pascal Hitzler at pascal.hitzler at wright.edu. Submissions shall be made through easychair at https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=s4bd13 by May 24th, 2013. Important Dates Submission due: May 24, 2013 Acceptance Notification: June 21, 2013 Camera-ready Copies: June 28, 2013 Symposium: November 15-17, 2013 Organizers (in alphabetic order) Frank van Harmelen, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands James A. Hendler, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, U.S.A. Pascal Hitzler, Kno.e.sis Center, Wright State University, U.S.A. Krzysztof Janowicz, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA Programme Committee (incomplete) Benjamin Adams, University of California, Santa Barbara Isabel Cruz, University of Illinois at Chicago Lise Getoor, University of Maryland, Baltimore County Prateek Jain, IBM Cliff Joslyn, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Curt Tilmes, NASA Chaowei Yang, George Mason University Thomas Wischgoll, Wright State University -- Prof. Dr. Pascal Hitzler Dept. of Computer Science, Wright State University, Dayton, OH pascal at pascal-hitzler.de http://www.knoesis.org/pascal/ Semantic Web Textbook: http://www.semantic-web-book.org Semantic Web Journal: http://www.semantic-web-journal.net From peterschueller at sabanciuniv.edu Mon Apr 1 09:01:18 2013 From: peterschueller at sabanciuniv.edu (peterschueller at sabanciuniv.edu) Date: Mon, 01 Apr 2013 10:01:18 +0300 Subject: [DL] Final CFP ICLP 2013: 29th International Conference on Logic Programming, Istanbul, August 24-29 Message-ID: (Apologies for cross-posting.) CALL FOR PAPERS 29th International Conference on Logic Programming (ICLP 2013) Special Issue: Theory and Practice of Logic Programming Istanbul, Turkey, August 24-29, 2013 http://www.iclp2013.org CONFERENCE SCOPE Since the first conference held in Marseilles in 1982, ICLP has been the premier international conference for presenting research in logic programming. Contributions are sought in all areas of logic programming including but not restricted to: Theory: Semantic Foundations, Formalisms, Nonmonotonic Reasoning, Knowledge Representation. Implementation: Compilation, Virtual Machines, Parallelism, Constraint Handling Rules, Tabling. Environments: Program Analysis, Transformation, Validation, Verification, Debugging, Profiling, Testing. Language Issues: Concurrency, Objects, Coordination, Mobility, Higher Order, Types, Modes, Assertions, Programming Techniques. Related Paradigms: Inductive Logic Programming, Constraint Logic Programming, Answer-Set Programming, Co-inductive Logic Programming, SAT-Checking. Applications: Databases, Data Integration and Federation, Software Engineering, Natural Language Processing, Web and Semantic Web, Agents, Artificial Intelligence, Bioinformatics. In addition to the presentations of accepted papers, the technical program will include invited talks, advanced tutorials, the doctoral consortium, and several workshops. SUBMISSION DETAILS The four broad categories for submissions are as follows. Regular papers, including: (1) technical papers for describing technically sound, innovative ideas that can advance the state of logic programming; (2) application papers, where the emphasis will be on their impact on the application domain; (3) system and tool papers, where the emphasis will be on the novelty, practicality, usability and availability of the systems and tools described. Technical communications (4) aimed at describing recent developments, new projects, and other materials that are not ready for publication as standard papers. All papers and technical communications will be presented during the conference. All submissions must describe original, previously unpublished research, and must not simultaneously be submitted for publication elsewhere. They must be written in English. Technical papers, application papers, and system and tool papers must not exceed 12 pages plus bibliography: however a new condensed TPLP format may be used and the papers may include appendices beyond 12 pages. The limit for technical communications is 10 pages. Submissions must be made in the condensed TPLP format (http://www.iclp2013.org) via the Easychair submission system, available at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iclp2013 IMPORTANT DATES Paper registration (abstract): April 3, 2013 Submission deadline: April 10, 2013 Notification to authors: May 21, 2013 Revision deadline (when needed): June 21, 2013 Camera-ready copy due: July 18, 2013 Conference: August 24-29, 2013 PAPER PUBLICATION All accepted papers will be published in the journal Theory and Practice of Logic Programming (TPLP), Cambridge University Press (CUP), in one or more special issues. In order to ensure the quality of the final version, papers may be subject to more than one round of refereeing (within the decision period). Accepted technical communications will be published in the on-line abstract of the special issue(s). The program committee may also recommend standard papers to be published as technical communications. At the time of the conference CUP will make the web page for this(ese) TPLP issue(s) available including volume and issue numbers, table of contents, page numbers, and the papers themselves. All registered attendants at the conference will get a password for on-line access to this web page during the conference and indefinitely from then on ("lifetime access"), which can be used to read papers on line, download them, or print them for personal use. Attendants will also receive all the papers in a memory stick at the conference. ICLP 2013 ORGANIZATION General Co-Chairs: Esra Erdem Sabanci University Joohyung Lee Arizona State University Program Co-chairs: Terrance Swift New University of Lisboa Evelina Lamma University of Ferrara Workshops Chair: Hans Tompits Vienna University of Technology Publicity Chair: Peter Schueller Sabanci University Doctoral Consortium: Marco Gavanelli University of Ferrara Martin Gebser University of Potsdam Prolog Programming Contest: Bart Demoen KU Leuven PROGRAM COMMITTEE Elvira Albert Complutense University of Madrid Roberto Bagnara University of Parma and BUGSENG Gerhard Brewka Leipzig University Mats Carlsson Swedish Institute of Computer Science Manuel Carro Technical University of Madrid Michael Codish Ben-Gurion University Hasan Davulcu Arizona State University James Delgrande Simon Fraser University Bart Demoen KU Leuven Marc Denecker KU Leuven Agostino Dovier University of Udine Gregory Duck NICTA Thomas Eiter Vienna University of Technology Esra Erdem Sabanci University Wolfgang Faber University of Calabria Francois Fages INRIA Rocquencourt Paul Fodor Stony Brook University Thom Fruehwirth University of Ulm John Gallagher Roskilde University Martin Gebser University of Potsdam Michael Gelfond Texas Tech University Carmen Gervet German University in Cairo Laura Giordano University of Piemonte Orientale Gopal Gupta University of Texas at Dallas Manuel Hermenegildo Technical University of Madrid Joohyung Lee Arizona State University Joao Leite New University of Lisboa Victor Marek University of Kentucky Steven Muggleton Imperial College London Antonio Porto University of Porto C. R. Ramakrishnan University at Stony Brook Fabrizio Riguzzi University of Ferrara Ricardo Rocha University of Porto Gianfranco Rossi University of Parma Chiaki Sakama Wakayama University Tom Schrijvers Ghent University Hans Tompits Vienna University of Technology Francesca Toni Imperial College London Paolo Torroni University of Bologna German Vidal Polytechnic University of Valencia David Warren University at Stony Brook Jan Wielemaker University of Amsterdam Roland Yap National University of Singapore Jia-Huai You University of Alberta SPONSOR The conference is sponsored by the Association for Logic Programming (ALP). FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE The Association for Logic Programming has funds to assist financially disadvantaged participants and, specially, students in order to be able to attend the conference. WORKSHOPS The ICLP 2013 program will include several workshops, held before and after the main conference. They are perhaps the best places for the presentation of preliminary work, undeveloped novel ideas, and new open problems to a wide and interested audience with opportunities for intensive discussions and project collaboration. DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM The 8th Doctoral Consortium (DC) on Logic Programming provides research students with the opportunity to present and discuss their research directions, and to obtain feedback from both peers and world-renown experts in the field. Accepted participants will receive partial financial support to attend the event and the main conference. The best paper and presentation from the DC will be given the opportunity to present in a special session of the main ICLP conference. CONFERENCE VENUE Istanbul is a city of unparalleled social and cultural richness. Serving as the capital of two mighty empires for sixteen centuries, Eastern Roman (or Byzantine) and Ottoman, and set squarely between two continents, Istanbul has cultures and traditions that blend East with West and Mediterranean with Anatolian. Each civilization that has made Istanbul its home has left its mark in sublime and splendid ways, and the result a city that gives one the feeling of universal history at every step. Istanbul has always been a meeting place, a crosspoint and a destination. With the Ataturk Istanbul International Airport, getting to and from Istanbul has never been easier. With a capacity of far over 25 million travelers per year Istanbul is less than a three-hour flight from most European cities. Istanbul has a second airport located on the Asian side of the city, Sabiha Gokcen International Airport, which is an important arrival point especially for low-cost airlines. Overall, Istanbul is served by more than 50 major airlines to hundreds of cities around the world. From peterschueller at sabanciuniv.edu Mon Apr 1 09:01:21 2013 From: peterschueller at sabanciuniv.edu (peterschueller at sabanciuniv.edu) Date: Mon, 01 Apr 2013 10:01:21 +0300 Subject: [DL] Call for Applications: ICLP 2013 Doctoral Student Consortium, Istanbul, Turkey, August 24 Message-ID: (Apologies for cross-posting.) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ICLP-DC 2013 Ninth ICLP Doctoral Student Consortium to be held in Istanbul, Turkey, 24 August 2013 http://www.unife.it/iclp-dc-13 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ** Introduction ** The ICLP 2013 Doctoral Consortium (DC) is the ninth doctoral consortium to be offered as part of the 29th International Conference on Logic Programming (ICLP). The DC follows the very positive experience of previous events held in Sitges (Spain) on October 3rd, 2005, in Seattle (WA, USA) on August 21st, 2006, in Porto (Portugal) on September 8th, 2007, in Udine (Italy) on December 10th, 2008, in Pasadena (CA, USA) on July 15th, 2009, in Edinburgh (Scotland) on July 20th, 2010, in Lexington (KY, USA) on July 6th, 2011, and in Budapest (Hungary) on September 4th, 2012. The DC will take place during ICLP 2013 in Istanbul, Turkey. It provides a forum for doctoral students working in areas related to logic and constraint programming, with a particular emphasis to students interested in pursuing a career in academia. The DC is also open to exceptional Master's students developing MS theses in areas of scope. The DC gives students the opportunity to present and discuss their research and to obtain feedback from peers as well as world-renowned experts. ** General Information ** The aims of the Doctoral Consortium are to: - provide doctoral students working in the fields of logic and constraint programming with a friendly and open forum to present their research ideas, listen to ongoing work from peer students, and receive constructive feedback, - provide students with relevant information about important issues for doctoral candidates and future academics, - develop a supportive community of scholars and a spirit of collaborative research, and - support a new generation of researchers with information and advice on academic, research, industrial, and non-traditional career paths. The DC is designed for students currently enrolled in a Ph.D. program, though we are also open to exceptions (e.g., students currently in a Master's program and aiming at doctoral studies). Students at any stage in their doctoral studies are encouraged to apply for participation in the DC. Applicants are expected to conduct research in areas related to logic and constraint programming; topics of interest include (but are not limited to): - Theoretical Foundations of Logic and Constraint (Logic) Programming; - Sequential and Parallel Implementation Technology; - Static and Dynamic Analysis, Abstract Interpretation, Compilation Technology, and Verification; - Logic-based Paradigms (e.g., Answer Set Programming, Concurrent Logic Programming, Inductive Logic Programming); - Innovative Applications of Logic Programming. Submissions by students who have presented their work at previous ICLP DC editions are allowed, but should occur only if there are substantial changes or improvements to the student's work. The DC allows participants to interact with established researchers and fellow students, through presentations, question-answer sessions, panel discussions, and invited talks. Each participant will give a short, critiqued, research presentation. Renowned experts in the field will evaluate submission packages and participate in the DC, providing valuable feedback to DC participants. ** Important Dates ** Submission Deadline: May 3rd, 2013 Acceptance Notification: May 24th, 2013 Camera-ready Version: July 18th, 2013 Doctoral Consortium: August 24th, 2013 ICLP 2013 Conference: August 24th-29th, 2013 ** Application Procedure ** To apply for participation in the ICLP 2013 DC, provide a submission package consisting of a cover letter, a research summary, and a letter of recommendation (e.g., from your supervisor). All material is to be submitted electronically, in PDF format, via EasyChair: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iclpdc13 All submissions must be in English. Submissions arriving after the deadline will not be considered. Your submission should not contain any proprietary or confidential material. * Cover Letter Please include the following information in the cover letter: - statement of interest in participating in the DC, - full name of school and department to which you are affiliated, - name(s) of your supervising professor(s), - title of your research work and keywords pertinent to your research, - current stage in your program of study (e.g. Ph.D./MS student, start date), - contact information (full name, address, telephone number, email address), and - the URL of your web page (if any). * Research Summary Prepare your research summary as a PDF document, using the TPLP template: http://www.iclp2013.org/files/downloads/TPLP_style_files.tar.gz Make sure to include your complete name, address, and affiliation. The body of the research summary (no more than 10 pages, but 5 is fine as well!) should provide a clear overview of your research, its potential impact, and its current status. You are encouraged to include sections like the following: - Introduction and problem description - Background and overview of the existing literature - Goal of the research - Current status of the research - Preliminary results accomplished (if any) - Open issues and expected achievements - Bibliographical references The (camera versions of) accepted applicants' research summaries will be published as on-line abstracts in the Theory and Practice of Logic Programming (TPLP) journal. * Letter of Recommendation Include a short letter of recommendation written by your graduate or thesis adviser(s). Please, invite your adviser(s) to give an indication of the current status of your research and of the expected deadline for thesis submission. In addition, your adviser(s) should briefly describe what she/he hopes you would gain from participation in the DC. ** Application Appraisement ** * Review Criteria The DC program committee will select participants based on their anticipated contribution to the DC objectives. Participants typically have settled on their thesis directions and have their research proposal accepted by their thesis committee. Students will be selected based on clarity and completeness of their submission package, relevance of their research area w.r.t. the focus of ICLP, stage of research, recommendation letter, and evidence of promise towards a successful career in research and academia, such as published papers or technical reports. * Best Contribution Award The DC program committee will review submission packages and judge DC presentations to assign the "Best ICLP 2013 DC Contribution" award among participants. We plan to reserve a presentation slot for the award-winning contributor in the ICLP 2013 main program. Updates follow as soon as we have more information regarding this. ** Participant Funding ** The Association for Logic Programming (ALP) supports ICLP 2013 DC participants by granting: - free registration to the conference, - free accommodation at the conference hotel (Armada Hotel), in a shared room with another student of the DC, and - a joint lunch with renowned researchers in the Logic Programming community. ** Organizers ** * Chairs Marco Gavanelli Engineering Department Ferrara University, Italy Martin Gebser Institute for Informatics University of Potsdam, Germany * Email Address iclpdc13 at lists.cs.uni-potsdam.de * Program Committee Fabio Fioravanti, University of Chieti-Pescara Miguel Gomez-Zamalloa, Complutense University of Madrid Matti Jarvisalo, University of Helsinki Ekaterina Komendantskaya, University of Dundee Francesca A. Lisi, University of Bari Jose Francisco Morales, Technical University of Madrid C. R. Ramakrishnan, Stony Brook University Francesco Ricca, University of Calabria Gerardo Simari, University of Oxford Antoine Zimmermann, University of Grenoble From A.Silva at science.ru.nl Fri Mar 29 17:13:13 2013 From: A.Silva at science.ru.nl (Alexandra Silva) Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2013 17:13:13 +0100 Subject: [DL] CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS: CALCO Early Ideas 2013 Message-ID: <20130329161313.GA27764@lilo2.science.ru.nl> ******************************************************************* CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS: CALCO Early Ideas 2013 ******************************************************************* 5th International Conference on Algebra and Coalgebra in Computer Science CALCO Early Ideas Workshop September 2, 2013 Warsaw, Poland http://coalg.org/calco13/workshops.html#ei Submission deadline for contributions: 27 May 2013 ******************************************************************* CALCO 2013 will be preceded by the CALCO Early Ideas Workshop, dedicated to presentation of work in progress and original research proposals. PhD students and young researchers are particularly encouraged to contribute. Attendance at the workshop is open to all - it is anticipated that many CALCO conference participants will want to attend the CALCO Early Ideas workshop (and vice versa). The CALCO Early Ideas Workshop invites submissions on the same topics as the CALCO conference: reporting results of theoretical work on the mathematics of algebras and coalgebras, the way these results can support methods and techniques for software development, as well as experience with the transfer of the resulting technologies into industrial practice. The list of topics of particular interest is shown on the main CALCO 2013 page: http://coalg.org/calco13/. CALCO Early Ideas presentations will be selected according to originality, significance, and general interest, on the basis of submitted 2-page short contributions. It can be work in progress, a summary of work submitted to a conference or workshop elsewhere, or work that in some other way might be interesting to the CALCO audience. A booklet with the accepted short contributions will be available at the workshop. Submissions will be handled via EasyChair https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=calcoearlyideas2013 The use of LNCS style is strongly encouraged. After the workshop, authors will have the opportunity to submit a full 10-15 page paper on the same topic. The reviewing will be carried out by the CALCO Early Ideas PC, with the support of the CALCO PC. The volume of selected papers will be made available in the arXiv and on the CALCO pages online. Authors will retain copyright, and are also encouraged to disseminate the results by subsequent publication elsewhere. http://coalg.org/calco13/workshops.html#ei There will be a number of student grants available for the CALCO conference - details shortly to be announced on the webpage. -- CALCO Early Ideas Dates -- 2-page short contribution submission: May 27, 2013 Notification for short contribution: June 24, 2013 Final short contribution due: July 15, 2013 CALCO Early Ideas Workshop: September 2, 2013 10-15 page paper submission: October 15, 2013 Notification for paper: December 15, 2013 Final paper version due: January 15, 2014 -- CALCO Early Ideas Programme Committee -- Bartek Klin, University of Warsaw, Poland Narciso Marti-Oliet, UCM, Spain Till Mossakowski, DFKI, Germany John Power, University of Bath, UK Monika Seisenberger, Swansea University, UK (Chair) . From bamasaba at gmail.com Fri Mar 29 12:53:24 2013 From: bamasaba at gmail.com (Saba Bama) Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2013 17:23:24 +0530 Subject: [DL] ICDIM 2013 Message-ID: Eighth International Conference on Digital Information Management (ICDIM 2013) September 10-12, 2013 Islamabad (Cosponsored technically by IEEE Technology Management Council) www.icdim.org http://www.icdim.org/submission.html Following the successful earlier conferences at Bangalore (2006), Lyon (2007), London (2008), Michigan (2009) , Thunder Bay (2010), Melbourne (2011), and Macau (2012) the eighth event is being organized at Islamabad, Pakistan in 2013. The International Conference on Digital Information Management is a multidisciplinary conference on digital information management, science and technology. The principal aim of this conference is to bring people in academia, research laboratories and industry together, and offer a collaborative platform to address the emerging issues and solutions in digital information science and technology. The ICDIM intends to bridge the gap between different areas of digital information management, science and technology. This forum will address a large number of themes and issues. The conference will feature original research and industrial papers on the theory, design and implementation of digital information systems, as well as demonstrations, tutorials, workshops and industrial presentations. The 8th International Conference on Digital Information Management will be held on September 10~12, 2013 at the Marriott Hotel Islamabad in Pakistan. The ICDIM intends to bridge the gap between different areas of digital information management, science and technology. This forum will address a large number of themes and issues. The conference will feature original research and industrial papers on the theory, design and implementation of digital information systems, as well as demonstrations, tutorials, workshops and industrial presentations. The topics in ICDIM 2013 include but are not confined to the following areas. Information Retrieval Data Grids, Data and Information Quality Temporal and Spatial Databases Data Warehouses and Data Mining Web Mining including Web Intelligence and Web 3.0 E-Learning, eCommerce, e-Business and e-Government Natural Language Processing XML and other extensible languages Web Metrics and its applications Enterprise Computing Semantic Web, Ontologies and Rules Human-Computer Interaction Artificial Intelligence and Decision Support Systems Knowledge Management Ubiquitous Systems Peer to Peer Data Management Interoperability Constraint Programming Mobile Data Management Data Models for Production Systems and Services Data Exchange issues and Supply Chain Data Life Cycle in Products and Processes Case Studies on Data Management, Monitoring and Analysis Security and Access Control Information Content Security Mobile, Ad Hoc and Sensor Network Security Distributed information systems Information visualization Web services Quality of Service Issues Multimedia and Interactive Multimedia Image Analysis and Image Processing Video Search and Video Mining All the accepted papers of ICDIM 2013 will appear in the proceedings published by IEEE. All paper of ICDIM 2013 will be fully indexed by IEEE Xplore. All the ICDIM 2013 papers will be indexed by DBLP. Modified version of the selected papers will appear in the special issues of the following peer reviewed journals. 1. Journal of Digital Information Management (JDIM) 2. International Journal of Web Applications (IJWA) 3. International Journal of Information Technology and Web Engineering (IJITWE) 4. International Journal of Emerging Sciences (IJES) SUBMISSIONS AT http://www.icdim.org/submission.html Program Committe Program Chairs Behzad Bordbar, University of Birmingham, UK Kozo Okano, Osaka University, Japan Sajjad Mohsin, COMSATS Institute of IT, Islamabad, Pakistan Program Co-Chairs M. Afzal Bhatti, Quid-e-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan Mark G. Lee, University of Birmingham, UK S. M. Aqil Burney, University of Karachi, Pakistan General Track Chairs Arshad Hussain, NU-FAST, Lahore, Pakistan Mohammed Alodib, Qassim University, Qassim, Saudi Arabia Mohammed Ariff, Universiti Malaysia Pahang, Malaysia Muhammad Asif Naeem, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand Industrial Track Chairs Ikram Ul Haq, Flying Technologies Pvt Ltd., Lahore, Pakistan Muhammad Saqlain Tahir, Microsoft, Maryland, USA Shahid Nawaz, AT&T Bell Labs, New Jersey, USA Workshop Chairs Syed Irfan Hyder, PAF-KIET, Karachi, Pakistan Imran Sarwar Bajwa, The Islamia University of Bahawlpur, Pakistan Important Dates Workshop proposals . Tutorial proposals March 20, 2013 Notification of workshop and Tutorial April 15, 2013 Paper Submission April 30, 2013 Notification of Authors June 15, 2013 Registration Due June 30, 2013 Camera Ready Due August 15, 2013 Workshops/Tutorials/Demos September 10, 2013 Main conference September 11~12, 2013 http://www.icdim.org/submission.html Email- conference at icdim.org ---------------------------------------------- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From intech at dirf.org Tue Apr 2 08:19:01 2013 From: intech at dirf.org (intech) Date: Tue, 02 Apr 2013 11:49:01 +0530 Subject: [DL] INTECH 2013 Message-ID: <20130402061901.11896.qmail@mail9.fastdnsnetwork.com> Call for Papers The Third International Conference on Innovative Computing Technology (INTECH 2013) August 29-31, 2013 British Computer Society, London, UK Technically co-sponsored by IEEE UK & RI Proceedings will be indexed in IEEE Xplore (Http://www.dirf.org/intech) The First international conference on Innovative Computing Technology (INTECH 2011) was held at Sao Carlos in Brazil followed by the Second International Conference on Innovative Computing Technology (INTECH 2012) at Casablanca in Morocco. The third conference will be held at British Computer Society during August 29-31, 2013. The INTECH 2013 offers the opportunity for institutes, research centers, engineers, scientists and industrial companies to share their latest investigations, researches, developments and ideas in area of Innovative Computing Technology, which covers huge topics. The INTECH intends to address various innovative computing techniques involving various applications. This forum will address a large number of themes and issues. The conference will feature original research and industrial papers on the theory, design and implementation of computing technologies, as well as demonstrations, tutorials, workshops and industrial presentations. This conference (INTECH 2013) will include presentations of contributed papers by invited keynote speakers. Conference papers will include innovative computing paradigms in the following topics: Network and Information Security Innovative Computing Systems and Applications in S & T domains such as - Algorithms Applied Information Systems Artificial Intelligence and Decision Support Systems Broadcasting Technology Cloud Computing Computational Intelligence Data and Network mining Data Stream Processing in Mobile/Sensor Networks Database Systems Digital Image/Video Processing E-Learning, e-Commerce, e-Business and e-Government Electronics Environmental modeling and precision agriculture Fault Classification and Pattern Recognition Green Computing Grid computing Human-Computer Interaction Intelligent Condition Monitoring Mobile network and systems Multimedia and Interactive Multimedia Payment Systems Peer-to-peer social networks Precision Farming Web Farming Signal Processing Soft Computing: Fuzzy and Neural Network Systems, optimization algorithms Software Engineering Intelligent Farming: Web farming, Web irrigation Ubiquitous Computing User Interfaces, Visualization and Modeling Virtual Reality Visualization Web services WWW Applications and Technologies XML and other Extensible Languages Submissions at http://www.dirf.org/intech/submission.asp The INTECH proceedings will also be indexed by dblp. All the papers will be reviewed and the accepted papers in the conference will be published in the IEEE Xplore, and will be indexed in many global databases..In addition, all the accepted papers (for Journals) will be published in the following special issues journals after substantial revision and modification. In addition, selected papers after complete modification and revision will be published in the following special issues of journals. 1. Information Journal (SCI/ISI index) 2. Journal of Digital Information Management (JDIM) (Scopus and EI Indexed) 3. International Journal of Enterprise Information Systems (Scopus and EI Indexed) 4. International Journal of Grid and High Performance Computing (IJGHPC) (Scopus and EI Indexed) 5. International Journal of Computational Science and Engineering (Scopus and EI Indexed) Students Poster Session Students are invited to submit an extended abstract of no more than 3 pages to be considered for a Poster session. Authors of accepted abstracts will be invited to prepare poster papers. Selected papers will be published as posters in the IEEE proceedings. Selected papers after modification, extension and review will be published in the DLINE journals (www.dline.info). Students can submit their full paper by email to intech at dirf.org Important Dates Paper submission May 20, 2013 Notification of acceptance June 30, 2013 Camera ready July 31, 2013 Registration August 01,, 2013 INTECH 2013 August 29-31, 2013 Program Committee General Chair Ezendu Ariwa, London Metropolitan University, UK Program Chairs Simon Fong, University of Macau, Macau Aziz El Janati El Idrissi, Mohammed V Agdal University, Morocco Program Co-chairs Nik Bessis, University of Derby, United Kingdom Robert C. Hsu, Chung Hua University, Taiwan Publication Chair Lei Li, Hosei University, Japan Tariq Shareef Yunis, Applied Science University, Bahrain Email: intech at dirf.org ----------------------- From ModBE13 at informatik.uni-hamburg.de Mon Apr 1 23:05:26 2013 From: ModBE13 at informatik.uni-hamburg.de (ModBE'13) Date: Mon, 01 Apr 2013 23:05:26 +0200 Subject: [DL] ModBE'13: Call for Contributions Message-ID: <5159F696.6010607@informatik.uni-hamburg.de> ModBE'13 International Workshop on Modeling and Business Environments Milano, Italy, June 24/25, 2013 a satellite event of Petri Nets 2013 33nd INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON APPLICATION AND THEORY OF PETRI NETS AND CONCURRENCY More information: http://www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/TGI/events/modbe13/ Contact e-mail: ModBE13 at Informatik.Uni-Hamburg.de __________________________________________________________________ Important Dates Deadline for full papers: April 10th, 2013 Deadline for short papers: April 12th, 2013 Notification of paper acceptance: May 2nd, 2013 Deadline for posters: May 6th, 2013 Notification of poster acceptance: May 10th, 2013 Deadline for final revisions: May 21st, 2013 Workshop: Monday/Tuesday, June 24/25, 2013 __________________________________________________________________ Scope Business environments are a central application domain for modeling approaches. Basic paradigms of these approaches correspond to their central concepts, such as processes, objects, components, agents, services or organizations. Their inherent properties allow an adequate Business/IT-Alignment. Within the models and systems of this alignment several principle notions need to be incorporated, such as distribution, concurrency, correctness and adaptability. In this workshop modeling approaches will be discussed from various perspectives with several means. While MODBE'13 (Modeling and Business Environments) will take place as a satellite event of Petri Nets 2013 other modeling techniques than Petri nets and their means are explicitly welcome. Furthermore, experts from the application domain will challenge the technical and conceptual solutions. MODBE'13 shall provide a forum for researchers from interested communities to investigate, experience, compare, contrast and discuss solutions for modeling in business environments. During the workshop a part of the available time is reserved for a group wise discussion of challenging questions. __________________________________________________________________ Topics We welcome contributions describing original research that addresses open problems or contributions presenting new ideas regarding modeling of, for and within business environments. Furthermore we also welcome surveys addressing open problems and new applications. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: * Modeling * formal methods * representation of formal models by intuitive modeling concepts * guidelines for the construction of system models * representative examples * process-, service-, state-, event-, component-, organization-, object- and agent-oriented approaches * adaption, integration, and enhancement of concepts from other disciplines * views and abstractions of systems * model-driven architecture, model-driven development * modeling software landscapes * web service-based software development * modeling paradigms and their implications * special modeling concepts, such for mobility, distribution, embedding, flexibility * social concepts, such as norms, rules, contracts, communication, co-ordination, co-operation * self-reflective models * meta-modeling * relations to other fields, such as artificial intelligence, human-computer-interaction, simulation, robotics, organizational theories, sociology, psychology * Petri nets for business environments * prototyping, simulation, animation, code generation, execution, testing, efficient implementation * verification based on dynamical and structural methods (e.g. model checking, invariants, reduction rules, model transformation) * use of theoretical results from Petri net theories * (semi-)formal methods * Petri net variants and their semantics * covering concepts such as concurrency, non-determinism, correctness, mobility, distribution etc. * Petri net concepts (dynamic net structures, extensions etc.) * Business processes and workflows * modeling notations, language, techniques (Petri nets, BPMN, BPEL, eEPCs, etc.) * complementary enterprise-, data-, role-, resource-, people-, contract-, application-centric modeling notations * process verification, validation, execution and simulation * formal semantics * theoretical foundations of processes * process management (systems) * adaptivity, exceptions, context-awareness * process ontologies * process mining * inter- and intra-organizational processes * human and social perspectives of process modeling * technological perspectives, such as Grid, Cloud, Web services * embedding of processes in organizations: governance, compliance, business strategies * formal methods * Web service technologies * usage of Web services for business environments * Web services, grid, cloud as technologies for business environments * Petri nets as underlying semantics for Web technology concepts * formal methods * Petri net methods, techniques and tools for designing social concepts, networks, media and infrastructures * standards for business environments * protocol specification * computing architectures * interoperability * service specification, composition, discovery, monitoring and control * Tools, case studies and applications in the fields mentioned above __________________________________________________________________ Submissions The programme committee invites submissions of full contributions (up to 20 pages) or short contributions (up to 5 pages). Ongoing work (up to 2 pages) can also be presented in a special poster session. Please note that for full contributions up to 15 pages are recommended. Papers should be submitted in electronic form (PDF) using the Springer LNCS-format (see http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html). Submissions should include title, authors' addresses, E-mail addresses, keywords and an abstract. For your submission in PDF format please use the online conference management system at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=modbe13 Just login or create a new account and then upload your paper. (Later you will be able to see your reviews there.) The papers will be peer reviewed by at least three members of the PC. Accepted contributions will be included in the workshop proceedings, which will be published online at CEUR-WS.org as one volume. __________________________________________________________________ Some of the best papers from the workshop will be invited for publication in a volume of the journal sub line of Lecture Notes in Computer Science entitled "Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency" (ToPNoC). The papers are expected to be thoroughly revised and they will go through a totally new round of reviewing as is standard practice for journal papers. Papers from previous instances of Petri Nets workshops made it into ToPNoC volumes in the Springer LNCS series (volumes 5100, 5460, 5800, 6550, 6900 and 7400). __________________________________________________________________ Chair * Daniel Moldt (University of Hamburg, Germany) More information: http://www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/TGI/events/modbe13/ Contact e-mail: modbe13 at informatik.uni-hamburg.de -- International Workshop: Modeling and Business Environments, Milano, Italy, June 24/25, 2013 To contact us, please use: mailto:ModBE13 at Informatik.Uni-Hamburg.de http://www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/TGI/events/modbe13 Department of Informatics, University of Hamburg, Vogt-Koelln-Str. 30, 22527 Hamburg, Tel: (+49) (0) 40 428 83 -2247 Secr: -2407 Fax: - 2246 see also: *** Event: Petri Nets and Software Engineering, June 24/25, 2013 *** *** visit: http://www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/TGI/events/pnse13 *** From m.daquin at open.ac.uk Tue Apr 2 10:11:49 2013 From: m.daquin at open.ac.uk (Mathieu D'Aquin) Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2013 09:11:49 +0100 Subject: [DL] SSSW 2013 Deadline Extended - The 10th Summer School on Ontology Engineering and the Semantic Web Message-ID: <1B9DB340-1330-49CE-8EFC-F91E93F39D30@open.ac.uk> THE 10TH SUMMER SCHOOL ON ONTOLOGY ENGINEERING AND THE SEMANTIC WEB (SSSW 2013) Celebrating 10 years as the premier educational event on semantic web technologies. 7-13 July, 2013, Cercedilla, near Madrid, Spain. http://sssw.org/2013 The applications deadline has been extended to 12 April 2013 See http://sssw.org/2013/how-to-apply/ for details. The groundbreaking SSSW series of summer schools started in 2003. It is now a well-established event within the research community and a role model for several other initiatives. In 2013, we will be celebrating the 10th anniversary of SSSW, with a set of tutors comprising leading researchers in the community, prestigious invited speakers, networking and mentoring sessions with research and industry leaders (including former students of the school), and of course, an exciting social programme in one of the most beautiful locations in Spain. To ensure a high ratio between tutors and students the school will be limited to 50 participants. Applications for the summer school will close on 12 April 2013. >From the very beginning the school pioneered an innovative pedagogical approach, combining the practical with the theoretical, and adding teamwork and a competitive element to the mix. Specifically, tutorial/lecture material is augmented with hands-on practical workshops and we ensure that the sessions complement each other by linking them to group projects. Work on developing and presenting a project in cooperation with other participants serves as a means of consolidating the knowledge and skills gained from lectures and practical sessions. It also introduces an element of competition among teams, as prizes are awarded to the best projects at the end of the week. Participants will be provided with electronic versions of all course lectures and all necessary tools and environments for the hands-on sessions. PC access with all tools pre-installed will be available on site as well. SSSW 2013 will provide a stimulating and enjoyable environment in which participants will benefit not only from the formal and practical sessions but also from informal and social interactions with established researchers and the other participants to the school. To further facilitate interaction and exchange of ideas, a poster session will also take place, which will provide an opportunity for attendees to present and obtain feedback on their research. TOPICS Linked Data / Web of Data Ontology Engineering Ontology Design Knowledge Representation Semantic Web Applications Ontology Matching and Alignment Semantic and Language Technologies Knowledge Management Semantic Search Recommender Systems Web Intelligence Multimedia Semantic Web Social Semantic Web and Sensor Web Semantic Web and Multimedia ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Mathieu d'Aquin (Director), m.daquin at open.ac.uk Oscar Corcho (Co-Director), ocorcho at fi.upm.es Enrico Motta (Founder), e.motta at open.ac.uk Asun Gomez-Perez (Co-Founder), asun at fi.upm.es TUTORS AND INVITED SPEAKERS Harith Alani (The Open University, UK) Mathieu d'Aquin (The Open University, UK) Sean Bechhofer (University of Manchester, UK) Fabio Ciravegna (University of Sheffield, UK) Oscar Corcho (UPM, Spain) Tommaso Di Noia (Technical University of Bari, Italy) J?r?me Euzenat (INRIA and LIG, France) Aldo Gangemi (ISTC-CNR, Italy) Asun Gomez-Perez (UPM, Spain) Lynda Hardman (Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica, The Netherlands) Frank van Harmelen (Free University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands) Manfred Hauswirth (DERI, Ireland) Peter Mika (Yahoo! Research Barcelona, Spain) Enrico Motta (The Open University, UK) Natasha Noy (Stanford University, US) Valentina Presutti (ISTC-CNR, Italy) Rapha?l Troncy (EURECOM, France) HOW TO APPLY We welcome applicants from anywhere in the world. Normally, but not exclusively, applicants will be postgraduate students in relevant disciplines with some knowledge of semantic and web technologies. Some basic acquaintance with knowledge representation languages for the Semantic Web (RDF, OWL, etc.) is required. Application should be sent by filling the application form, as well as sending a CV to application at sssw13.org (see http://sssw.org/2013/how-to-apply/). The deadline for applications will be 12 April 2013. Accepted candidates are expected to arrive on Sunday, July 7th, between 3pm and 6pm and to participate fully in the activities of the school until its conclusion, at 2pm on Saturday, July 13th. Applicants should keep in mind that we will not consider applications from students who cannot commit themselves to a full participation for the whole duration of the school. Students are also required to bring and present a poster at the summer school, describing their own research. Apart from activities directly related to lectures, the summer school schedule is rightly famous for its unrivalled social programme, which enables informal interaction between all participants to the school - i.e., students, tutors, invited speakers, school staff, etc. These events include a gala dinner, walks in the mountain, discos, and sport activities. STUDENT GRANTS We expect to provide a number of grants for students who would not otherwise be able to attend the school. More details about student grants will be published at a later date. VENUE AND ACCOMMODATION Cercedilla is a small village in the mountains near Madrid, located in a beautiful conservation area. The school will be held in the Residence of the Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, which provides comfortable accommodation in individual rooms with en suite bathrooms, as well as access to a range of nearby activities, including a fresh-water swimming pool. The nearest airport is Madrid-Barajas. Participants will be able to use local rail links from Madrid to Cercedilla. More information about how to reach Cercedilla can be found at http://sssw.org/2013/venue-details/ The cost of the summer school, including accommodation, meals and excursion will be 900?. -- The Open University is incorporated by Royal Charter (RC 000391), an exempt charity in England & Wales and a charity registered in Scotland (SC 038302). -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Vancouver, BC, 9th-13th September, 2013 WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION The VORTE series of workshops is traditionally devoted to the topics of vocabularies, ontologies and rules in the context of enterprise systems. This year, the workshop takes a broader view and does not target only enterprise systems, but also systems managing data on the Web. In fact, there is a need to exploit unstructured data in the enterprise, and on the Web in general, as the majority of Web content and enterprise content remains unstructured. Thus, the challenge of managing, extracting and structuring data is common to both worlds, and solutions in one community will benefit the other. Examples of topics covered by traditional VORTE research contributions include the development and adaptation of foundational, business and domain ontologies for the enterprise, the use of ontologies and rules in all aspects of enterprise modeling such as business process management and services, the enhancement of rules and services with formal semantics, and the evaluation of such systems and approaches. This year, the workshop is also a forum for the discussion of ontology-based knowledge management issues, interoperability issues and ontology engineering issues. The workshop also welcomes contributions on initiatives related to semantic annotation, open linked data, information extraction, ontology learning and update and ontology-based knowledge management as well as empirical studies on these areas. TOPICS Knowledge management: - Ontology and ontological methodologies in knowledge management and integration; - Ontology engineering, learning and maintenance; - Ontology integration and alignment; - Ontology effectiveness and evaluation; Web of Data: - Ontology-based Semantic annotation - Linked data-based semantic annotation - Knowledge extraction including entity extraction and relationship extraction - Knowledge retrieval based on Open linked data Vocabularies and Ontologies for the enterprise: - Ontology-driven representation of products, services, functionalities, design, processes; - Ontologies for the know-how; - Ontologies for corporate knowledge; - Upper-level ontologies in the enterprise; - Adaptation of ontologies for companies and organizations; Conceptual and Enterprise Modeling: - Ontological Foundations for Conceptual Modeling and Meta-modeling - Ontology Design and maintenance for Conceptual Model Integration; - Ontology-Based Conceptual Modeling Tools and Environments - Ontologies and Enterprise Architecture Modeling - Ontologies and Business Process Modeling - Ontologies and Goal-Based Modeling - Ontologies and Business Rules Enterprise Semantic Interoperability: - Web services, Semantic services - Composition and Modularity - Merging, Mapping and Alignment - Ontology Language Interoperability - Open linked data publishing and exploitation Case studies and Evaluation: - Practical issues in using ontologies in enterprises - Real cases of successful/unsuccessful use of ontology in business - From legacy systems to the new ontology-driven systems - Practical issues in knowledge extraction and annotation - Semantic annotation evaluation - Ontology learning evaluation SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION We solicit two types of papers: - Short papers (4 pages) discussing controversial issues in the field or describing interesting or thought-provoking ideas that are not yet fully developed; and - Full papers (8-10 pages) describing more mature results All submissions MUST conform to the two-column format of IEEE Computer Society conference proceedings (http://www2.computer.org/portal/web/cscps/formatting) and include the author's name, affiliation, and contact details. Papers must be submitted as PDF files using EasyChair at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=vorte2013 All papers must not have been previously published or submitted elsewhere. The papers accepted for the EDOC 2013 Workshops will be published along with EDOC proceedings in the IEEE Xplore Digital Library. At least one of the authors for each accepted paper must register for the main conference (there will be no workshop-only registration at EDOC 2013) and present their papers at the workshop. Post-conference Journal Publication For previous editions of the workshop, special issues have been published in journals such as Applied Ontology (2007), IJBPIM (2007), Elsevier's Information Systems (2008, 2010), and Journal of Research Practice in Information Technology (2009). This year, authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended versions of their papers for consideration for a special issue of a reputable journal. The journal is to be determined. KEYNOTE TBA IMPORTANT DATES Workshop paper submissions: April 22, 2013 Workshops paper acceptance notifications: May 31, 2013 Camera-ready papers due: June 21, 2013 Workshop: September 9, 10 or 11, 2013? COMMITTEES Workshop Chairs: Amal Zouaq, Royal Military College of Canada, Canada, amal.zouaq at rmc.ca Ebrahim Bagheri, Ryerson University, Canada, bagheri at ryerson.ca Renata Guizzardi, Federal University of Esp?rito Santo, Brazil, rguizzardi at inf.ufes.br Steering Committee: - Giancarlo Guizzardi, Federal University of Esp?rito Santo (UFES), Vit?ria, Brazil - Gerd Wagner, Institute of Informatics, Brandenburg University of Technology at Cottbus, Germany - Dragan Gasevic, Athabasca University, Canada Program Committee: - Emanuele Bottazzi, Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies, CNR, Trento, Italy - Marco Brambilla, Politecnico di Milano, Italy - Christoph Bussler, Merced Systems, Inc., USA - Oscar Corcho, Universidad Polit?cnica de Madrid, Spain - Faezeh Ensan, University of New Brunswick, Canada - Sergio Espa?a, Polytechnic University of Valencia - Joerg Evermann, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada - Ricardo Falbo, Universidade Federal do Esprito Santo, Brazil - Lu?s Ferreira Pires, University of Twente, The Netherlands - Michel Gagnon, Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal, Canada - Chiara Ghidini, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy - Adrian Giurca, Brandenburg University of Technology at Cottbus, Germany - Guido Governatori, NICTA, Australia - Peter Green, University of Queensland, Australia - Pierre Grenon, European Bioinformatics Institute, Cambridge, UK - Giancarlo Guizzardi, Ontology and Conceptual Modeling Research Group (NEMO)/Federal University of Espirito Santo, Brazil - Brian Henderson Sellers, University of Technology Sydney, Australia - Florian Matthes, University of Munich, Germany - Andreas L Opdahl, University of Bergen, Norway - Jeffrey Parsons, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada - Florian Probst, SAP Research Darmstadt, Germany - Christophe Roche, University of Savoie, France - Marco Rospocher, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy - Csaba Veres, University of Bergen, Norway - Hans Weigand, Faculty of Economics of Tilburg University, Netherlands LINKS VORTE2013 web site: http://planet-sl.org/vorte2013/ EDOC2013 web site: http://edocconference.org EasyChair submissions: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=vorte2013 Formatting guidelines: http://www2.computer.org/portal/web/cscps/formatting -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From synasc13 at synasc.ro Wed Apr 3 17:23:16 2013 From: synasc13 at synasc.ro (SYNASC 2013) Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2013 18:23:16 +0300 (EEST) Subject: [DL] 2nd CFP Synasc 2013, Timisoara, Romania In-Reply-To: <1443293768.109515.1365002557909.JavaMail.root@mailz.info.uvt.ro> Message-ID: <1906369459.109570.1365002596394.JavaMail.root@mailz.info.uvt.ro> [Please post - apologies for multiple copies.] Second Call for Papers --------------------- SYNASC 2013 15th International Symposium on Symbolic and Numeric Algorithms for Scientific Computing September 23-26, 2013, Timisoara, Romania http://www.synasc.ro/ Aim --- SYNASC aims to stimulate the interaction between the two scientific communities of symbolic and numeric computing and to exhibit interesting applications of the areas both in theory and in practice. The choice of the topic is motivated by the belief of the organizers that the dialogue between the two communities is very necessary for accelerating the progress in making the computer a truly intelligent aid for mathematicians and engineers. Important Dates --------------- 07 April 2013 : Special sessions / Workshops / Tutorials proposals 19 May 2013 : Abstract submission 26 May 2013 : Paper submission 22 July 2013 : Notification of acceptance 01 September 2013 : Registration 08 September 2013 : Revised papers according to the reviews 23-26 September 2013 : Symposium 30 November 2013 : Final papers for post-proceedings Tracks ------ * Symbolic Computation + computer algebra + symbolic techniques applied to numerics + hybrid symbolic and numeric algorithms + numerics and symbolics for geometry + programming with constraints, narrowing * Logic and Programming + automatic reasoning + formal system verification + formal verification and synthesis + software quality assessment + static analysis + timing analysis * Artificial Intelligence + methods for hard computational problems + intelligent systems for scientific computing + agent-based complex systems modeling and development + scientific knowledge management + computational intelligence + machine learning + recommender and expert systems for scientific computing + data mining and web mining + natural language processing + uncertain reasoning in scientific computing + intelligent hybrid systems * Numerical Computing + iterative approximation of fixed points + solving systems of nonlinear equations + numerical and symbolic algorithms for differential equations + numerical and symbolic algorithms for optimization + parallel algorithms for numerical computing + scientific visualization and image processing * Distributed Computing + parallel and distributed algorithms for clouds, GPUs, HPC, P2P systems, autonomous systems. Work should focus on scheduling, scaling, load balancing, networks, fault-tolerance, gossip algorithms, energy saving + applications for parallel and distributed systems, including work on cross disciplinary (scientific) applications for grids/clouds, web applications, workflow platforms, network measurement tools, programming environments + architectures for parallel and distributed systems, including self-managing and autonomous systems, negotiation protocols, HPC on clouds, GPU processing, PaaS for (inter)cloud, brokering platforms, mobile computing + modelling of parallel and distributed systems including models on resources and networks, semantic representation, negotiation, social networks, trace management, simulators + any other topic deemed relevant to the field * Advances in the Theory of Computing + Data structures and algorithms + Combinatorial Optimization + Formal languages and Combinatorics on Words + Graph-theoretic and Combinatorial methods in Computer Science + Algorithmic paradigms, including distributed, online, approximation, probabilistic, game-theoretic algorithms + Computational Complexity Theory, including structural complexity, boolean complexity, communication complexity, average-case complexity, derandomization and property testing + Logical approaches to complexity, including finite model theory + Algorithmic and computational learning theory + Aspects of computability theory, including computability in analysis and algorithmic information theory + Proof complexity + Computational social choice and game theory + New computational paradigms: CNN computing, quantum, holographic and other non-standard approaches to Computability + Randomized methods, random graphs, threshold phenomena and typical-case complexity + Automata theory and other formal models, particularly in relation to formal verification methods such as model checking and runtime verification + Applications of theory, including wireless and sensor networks, computational biology and computational economics + Experimental algorithmics This list is not intended to be exhaustive. Publication ----------- Research papers that are accepted and presented at the symposium will be collected as post-proceedings published by Conference Publishing Service (CPS) (indexed in ISI Web of Science, DBLP, SCOPUS). Invited Speakers ---------------- * Ivona Brandic, Vienna University of Technology, Austria * Gabriel Ciobanu, Romanian Academy, Institute of Computer Science, Iasi, Romania * Leonardo de Moura, Microsoft Research, USA * Grigore Rosu, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA * Dan A. Simovici, University of Massachusetts Boston, USA Honorary Chairs --------------- * Bruno Buchberger, Johannes Kepler University, Austria * Stefan Maruster, West University of Timisoara, Romania Steering Committee ------------------ * Tetsuo Ida, University of Tsukuba, Japan * Tudor Jebelean, Johannes Kepler University, Austria * Viorel Negru, West University of Timisoara, Romania * Dana Petcu, West University of Timisoara, Romania * Stephen Watt, University of Western Ontario, Canada * Daniela Zaharie, West University of Timisoara, Romania General Chair ------------- * Viorel Negru, West University of Timisoara, Romania Program Chair ------------- * Nikolaj Bjorner, Microsoft Research, US Track Chairs ------------ * Symbolic Computation + Tetsuo Ida, University of Tsukuba, Japan + Stephen Watt, University of Western Ontario, Canada * Logic and Programming + Tudor Jebelean, Johannes Kepler University, Austria + Laura Kovacs, Vienna University of Technology, Austria * Artificial Intelligence + Andrei Petrovski, Robert Gordon University, UK + Daniela Zaharie, West University of Timisoara, Romania * Numerical Computing + Yonghong Yao, Tianjin Polytechnic University, China + Ioan A. Rus, "Babes-Bolyai" University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania * Distributed Computing + Marc Frincu, West University of Timisoara, Romania + Karoly Bosa, Johannes Kepler University, Austria * Advances in the Theory of Computing + Mircea Marin, West University of Timisoara, Romania + Gabriel Istrate, Research Institute e-Austria Timisoara, Romania Special sessions and workshops chair ------------------------------------ * Dana Petcu, West University of Timisoara, Romania Tutorial chair -------------- * Adrian Craciun, West University of Timisoara, Romania Proceedings Chairs ------------------ * Nikolaj Bjorner, Microsoft Research, US * Daniela Zaharie, West University of Timisoara, Romania Local Committee Chairs ---------------------- * Isabela Dramnesc, West University of Timisoara, Romania * Silviu Panica, Institute e-Austria Timisoara, Romania Submission ----------- Submissions of research papers are invited. The papers must contain original research results not submitted and not published elsewhere. The submission process consists of two steps. * In the first step the authors are invited to express their intention to participate at the conference by submitting a short abstract (1/2 page, at maximum) where it is clearly stated the main contribution(s) of the paper. * In the second step the authors should submit the full paper (up to 8 pages in the two-columns IEEE conference style). Both the abstract and the full paper should be submitted electronically through http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=synasc2013. Proposals are also invited for: * special sessions * satellite workshops * tutorials Special sessions ---------------- Proposals are invited for special sessions on any topic relevant to the conference. Special sessions are intended to stimulate in-depth discussions in special areas and they are fully integrated into the main conference. The research papers and the informal presentations submitted and accepted for the special sessions follow the same rules as the papers submitted to the regular sessions. It is expected that the organizers of the special sessions appoint their own chair and program committee, which will be integrated in the conference program committee and will be supervised by the conference programme chair and by the general chair. Workshops --------- Proposals for satellite workshops are also invited. The satellite workshops should have topics related to SYNASC but the scientific program of each satellite workshop is managed by the workshop organizers. Authors contributing to a workshop would be required to register for the symposium. Tutorials --------- Proposals for tutorials are also invited. Tutorials provide fundamental exposure to topics ranging from introductory through intermediate to advanced. The number and the duration of the tutorials will be decided by the tutorial chair under the supervision of the general chair. Depending on the number and the quality of the proposals for tutorials, they may be organized as a SYNASC Autumn School. ----------- SYNASC 2013 West University of Timisoara Department of Computer Science Bd. V. Parvan 4, 300223 Timisoara, Romania tel: + (40) 256 592155, +(40) 256 592195 fax: + (40) 256 592316, +(40) 256 592380 e-mail: synasc13 at synasc.ro From lembo at dis.uniroma1.it Wed Apr 3 19:25:09 2013 From: lembo at dis.uniroma1.it (Domenico Lembo) Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2013 19:25:09 +0200 Subject: [DL] RR 2013: Last 4 days to submit your abstract and paper Message-ID: ======================== EXTENDED DEADLINE =================== Abstract submission deadline has been extended to April 7 (equal to the paper submission deadline). Earlier abstract submissions are encouraged. ============================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS RR 2013 The 7th International Conference on Web Reasoning and Rule Systems Mannheim, Germany, July 27-29, 2013 http://www.rr-conference.org/RR2013 == RR == The International Conference on Web Reasoning and Rule Systems (RR) is a major forum for discussion and dissemination of new results concerning Web Reasoning and Rule Systems. RR 2013 is associated with a number of interesting events: - 9th Reasoning Web Summer School (RW 2013) Mannheim, Germany, July 30 - August 2, 2013 http://rw2013.uni-mannheim.de/ - 26th International Workshop on Description Logics (DL 2013) Ulm, Germany, July 23-26, 2013 http://www.uni-ulm.de/en/in/dl2013.html - 2nd OWL Reasoner Evaluation Workshop (ORE 2013) Ulm, Germany, July 22, 2013 http://ore2013.cs.manchester.ac.uk/ The Reasoning Web Summer School is a great opportunity particularly for young researchers to combine with attendance of the conference. Submissions by summer school participants are particularly encouraged. == Topics == RR welcomes original research from all areas of Web Reasoning. Topics of particular interest are: - Semantic Web, Rule and Ontology Languages, and related logics - Reasoning, Querying, Searching and Optimization - Incompleteness, Inconsistency and Uncertainty - Non-monotonic, Commonsense, and Closed-World Reasoning for the Web - Dynamic information, Stream Reasoning and Complex Event Processing - Decision Making, Planning, and Intelligent Agents - Reasoning, Machine Learning, Knowledge Extraction and IR Technologies - Large-scale data management and reasoning on the Web of Data - Data Integration, Dataspaces and Ontology-Based Data Access - Non-Standard Reasoning - Algorithms for distributed, parallelized, and scalable reasoning - System Descriptions and Experimentation - Application and Experience Papers == Invited Speakers == Thomas Eiter (Vienna University of Technology, Austria) Leonid Libkin (University of Edinburgh, UK) Nicola Leone (University of Calabria, Italy) == Doctoral Consortium == Following the success of its first edition at RR 2012, RR 2013 will also host a doctoral consortium, which will provide doctoral students in Web Reasoning and related areas with the unique opportunity to present and discuss their research directions, being involved into state-of-the-art research discussion and being supported in establishing fruitful collaborations with prominent researchers and pioneers in the field of Web Reasoning and Rules and related areas. == Publication == The conference proceedings will be published by Springer within the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series. After the conference, authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended versions of their papers to a special issue of a prestigious international journal. == Submissions == Submissions must be prepared in Springer's LaTeX style llncs (http://www.springer.com/comp/lncs/Authors.html). There are two submission formats: - Full papers (up to 15 pages) Original research works in the above areas - Technical Communications (up to 6 pages) Results and ideas of interest to the RR audience, including reports about recent own publications, position papers, system descriptions and application descriptions (accompanying a demo), and presentations of preliminary results All accepted works will be included in the proceedings, with Technical Communications clearly marked as such. All full papers and selected Technical Communications will be invited to give a talk at the conference. All accepted works will have the opportunity to present a poster and/or a system demo. Submissions can be made in EasyChair: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=rr-2013 Submission instructions for the RR 2013 Doctoral Consortium will be communicated by means of a separate Call for Papers. == Important Dates == (Deadlines have been extended!) Abstract submission: April 7, 2013, before 23:59 UTC Papers submission: April 7, 2013, before 23:59 UTC Notification of acceptance: May 10, 2013 Camera-ready submission: May 24, 2013 == Best Paper Award and Best Student Paper Award== Awards for Best Paper and Best Student Paper will be presented to the corresponding author(s) at the conference. The best student paper will be selected among the ones written mainly by students (i.e. persons not holding a PhD as of March 30, 2013), and the Best Student Paper award will be assigned only in case a student is not one of the main authors of the paper winning the Best Paper award. To qualify for the Best Student Paper award, the authors must indicate their eligibility upon submission at easychair. == Organization == General Chair: - Sebastian Rudolph (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany) Program Chairs: - Wolfgang Faber (University of Calabria, Italy) - Domenico Lembo (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy) Local Chair: - Heiner Stuckenschmidt (University of Mannheim, Germany) Doctoral Consortium Chair: - Alessandra Mileo (National University of Ireland Galway, Ireland) Sponsorship Chair: - Marco Maratea (University of Genoa, Italy) == Program Committee == Jos? J?lio Alferes (New University of Lisbon, Portugal) Darko Anicic (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany) Marcello Balduccini (Kodak Research Laboratories, USA) Leopoldo Bertossi (Carleton University, Canada) Meghyn Bienvenu (CNRS & University of Paris-Sud, France) Gerhard Brewka (Leipzig University, Germany) Francois Bry (University of Munich, Germany) Vinay Chaudhri (SRI International, USA) Bernardo Cuenca Grau (University of Oxford, UK) Claudia D'Amato (University of Bari, Italy) Agostino Dovier (University of Udine, Italy) Esra Erdem (Sabanci University, Turkey) Michael Fink (Vienna University of Technology, Austria) Sergio Flesca (University of Calabria, Italy) Gerhard Friedrich (University of Klagenfurt, Austria) Gianluigi Greco (University of Calabria, Italy) Stijn Heymans (SRI International, USA) Giovambattista Ianni (University of Calabria, Italy) Michael Kifer (Stony Brook University, USA) Roman Kontchakov (Birkbeck College, UK) Manolis Koubarakis (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece) Markus Kr?tzsch (University of Oxford, UK) Georg Lausen (University of Freiburg, Germany) Joohyung Lee (Arizona State University, USA) Francesca Alessandra Lisi (University of Bari, Italy) Jorge Lobo (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain) Thomas Lukasiewicz (University of Oxford, UK) Carsten Lutz (University of Bremen, Germany) Michael Maher (University of New South Wales, Australia) Alessandra Mileo (National University of Ireland Galway, Ireland) Leora Morgenstern (Science Applications International Corporation, USA) Boris Motik (University of Oxford, UK) Marie-Laure Mugnier (University of Montpellier 2, France) Giorgio Orsi (University of Oxford, UK) Magdalena Ortiz (Vienna University of Technology, Austria) Adrian Paschke (Free University of Berlin, Germany) David Pearce (Technical University of Madrid, Spain) Axel Polleres (National University of Ireland Galway, Ireland) Guilin Qi (Southeast University, China) Steven Schockaert (Cardiff University, UK) Steffen Staab (University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany) Umberto Straccia (ISTI-CNR, Italy) Heiner Stuckenschmidt (University of Mannheim, Germany) David Toman (University of Waterloo, Canada) Mirek Truszczynski (University of Kentucky, USA) Ivan Varzinczak (CSIR Meraka Institute, South Africa) -- Domenico Lembo Sapienza Universit? di Roma Dip. di Ingegneria Informatica, Automatica e Gestionale "A. 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URL: From lpnmr2013 at gmail.com Wed Apr 3 22:53:51 2013 From: lpnmr2013 at gmail.com (Pedro Cabalar) Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2013 22:53:51 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [DL] LPNMR 2013: 2nd Call For Papers Message-ID: <20130403205351.164122AC4D7@sherlock-3.local> [Apologies for possible multiple posts] --------------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 12th International Conference on Logic Programming and Nonmonotonic Reasoning LPNMR 2013 http://lpnmr2013.udc.es Corunna, Spain September 15-19, 2013 co-located with CLIMA'13 and WoMO'13 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- AIMS AND SCOPE LPNMR 2013 is the twelfth in the series of international meetings on logic programming and nonmonotonic reasoning. LPNMR is a forum for exchanging ideas on declarative logic programming, nonmonotonic reasoning, and knowledge representation. The aim of the conference is to facilitate interactions between those researchers and practitioners interested in the design and implementation of logic-based programming languages and database systems, and those who work in the area of knowledge representation and nonmonotonic reasoning. LPNMR strives to encompass theoretical and experimental studies that have led or will lead to the construction of systems for declarative programming and knowledge representation, as well as their use in practical applications. Authors are invited to submit papers presenting original and unpublished research on all aspects of nonmonotonic approaches in logic programming and knowledge representation. We invite submissions of both long and short papers. TOPICS Conference topics include, but are not limited to: 1. Foundations of LPNMR Systems: * Semantics of new and existing languages; * Action languages, Causality; * Relationships among formalisms; * Complexity and expressive power; * Inference algorithms and heuristics for LPNMR systems; * Extensions of traditional LPNMR languages such as new logical connectives or new inference capabilities; * Updates, revision, and other operations on LPNMR systems; * Uncertainty in LPNMR systems. 2. Implementation of LPNMR systems: * System descriptions, comparisons, evaluations; * LPNMR benchmarks. 3. Applications of LPNMR: * Use of LPNMR in formalization of Commonsense Reasoning and other areas of KR; * LPNMR languages and algorithms in planning, diagnosis, argumentation, reasoning with preferences, decision making and policies; * Applications of LPNMR languages in data integration and exchange systems, software engineering and model checking; * Applications of LPNMR to linguistics, psychology, and other sciences; * Integration of LPNMR systems with other computational paradigms; * Embedded LPNMR: Systems using LPNMR subsystems. SUBMISSION LPNMR 2013 welcomes submissions of long papers (13 pages) or short papers (6 pages) in the following categories: * Technical papers * System descriptions * Application descriptions The indicated number of pages includes title page, references and figures. All submissions will be peer-reviewed and accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings published in the Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI/LNCS) series. At least one author of each accepted paper is expected to register for the conference to present the work. Submissions must be formatted according to the Springer LNCS author instructions, http://www.springer.com/comp/lncs/Authors.html must be written in English, and present original research. Paper submission will be electronic through https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lpnmr2013 The two best contributions will be offered a fast-track publication in the journal Theory and Practice of Logic Programming (TPLP). MULTIPLE SUBMISSION POLICY LPNMR 2013 will not accept any paper which, at the time of submission, is under review or has already been published or accepted for publication in a journal or another conference. Authors are also required not to submit their papers elsewhere during LPNMR's review period. However, these restrictions do not apply to previous workshops with a limited audience and without archival proceedings. WORKSHOPS LPNMR-13 will be co-located with two international workshops: * CLIMA'13 14th International Workshop on Computational Logic and Multi-Agent Systems (September 16-17, 2013). * WoMO'13 7th Workshop on Modular Ontologies As co-located events, it will be possible to register for CLIMA or WoMO independently from LPNMR, or in combination with the latter. LPNMR-13 will also include four specialized associated workshops: * ARCOE-LogIC'13 5th Intl. Workshop on Acquisition, Representation and Reasoning with Contextualized Knowledge * GTTV'13 2nd Workshop on Grounding and Transformations for Theories with Variables * LNMR'13 1st Workshop on Learning and Non-monotonic Reasoning * NLPAR'13 1st Workshop on Natural Language Processing and Automated Reasoning IMPORTANT DATES * Paper registration: April 17th, 2013 * Paper submission: April 24th, 2013 * Notification: June 5th, 2013 * Final versions due: June 19th, 2013 VENUE Corunna (A Coru??a) is a busy port located at the entrance of an estuary on the Atlantic coast of the north-western corner of Spain. The city features a complete offer of leisure activities ranging from beach sports along the seafront that surrounds it (surfing, sailing, biking, etc) to a complete program of cultural events, an active shopping area, restaurants, tapas bars and a crowded night life. The conference will be held at the hotel Melia Maria Pita. PROGRAM CHAIRS Pedro Cabalar, University of Corunna, Spain Tran Cao Son, New Mexico State University, NM, USA WORKSHOPS CHAIR Marcello Balduccini, Kodak Research Labs, USA PROGRAM COMMITTEE Jose Julio Alferes, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal Chitta Baral, Arizona State University, USA Leopoldo Bertossi, Carleton University, Canada Gerhard Brewka, University of Leipzig, Germany Stefania Costantini, University of L'Aquila, Italy Marina De Vos, University of Bath, UK James Delgrande, Simon Fraser University, Canada Marc Denecker, KU Leuven, Belgium Yannis Dimopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Jurgen Dix, Clausthal University of Technology, Germany Agostino Dovier, University of Udine, Italy Thomas Eiter, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Esra Erdem, Sabanci University, Turkey Wolfgang Faber, University of Calabria, Italy Michael Fink, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Andrea Formisano, University of Perugia, Italy Martin Gebser, University of Potsdam, Germany Michael Gelfond, Texas Tech University, USA Giovambattista Ianni, University of Calabria, Italy Tomi Janhunen, Aalto University, Finland Antonis Kakas, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Joohyung Lee, Arizona State University, USA Vladimir Lifschitz, University of Texas at Austin, USA Fangzhen Lin, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China Jorge Lobo, ICREA - Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain Robert Mercer, University of Western Ontario, Canada Alessandra Mileo, National University of Ireland, Ireland Mauricio Osorio, Universidad de las Americas Puebla, Mexico Ramon Otero, University of Corunna, Spain David Pearce, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain Axel Polleres, Siemens AG - Corporate Technology, Vienna, Austria Enrico Pontelli, New Mexico State University, USA Alessandro Provetti, University of Messina, Italy Chiaki Sakama, Wakayama University, Japan Torsten Schaub, University of Potsdam, Germany John Schlipf, University of Cincinnati, USA Terrance Swift, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal Evgenia Ternovska, Simon Fraser University, Canada Hans Tompits, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Mirek Truszczynski, University of Kentucky, USA Agustin Valverde, University of Malaga, Spain Kewen Wang, Griffith University, Australia Yisong Wang, Guizhou University, China Stefan Woltran, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Jia-Huai You, University of Alberta, Canada Yan Zhang, University of Western Sydney, Australia Yi Zhou, University of Western Sydney, Australia CONTACT e-mail to lpnmr2013 at gmail.com From ciucci at disco.unimib.it Tue Apr 2 22:04:54 2013 From: ciucci at disco.unimib.it (Ciucci Davide) Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2013 20:04:54 +0000 Subject: [DL] Rough Set Symposium - Call for Special Sessions Message-ID: <800089F5-C5D8-44B0-8C50-C8E98FDD5CD2@disco.unimib.it> A Special Session on DL extensions (fuzzy, rough, probabilistic, ...) or related topics is really welcome! Best regards, Davide Ciucci %---- * Apologies for cross-postings * JRS13 - Call for Special Sessions The 2013 Joint Rough Set Symposium (JRS 2013) is a joint conference of the RSFDGrC 2013 and RSKT 2013. It intends to provide a large forum for researchers and practitioners interested in rough set theory, computational intelligence, and knowledge technology. It will be held in Halifax, Canada, October, 11-14, 2013: http://cs.smu.ca/jrs2013/ The conference organizers of JRS 2013 especially encourage proposals on interdisciplinary topics and themes and those in new emerging areas of interest to the rough set community. Special sessions can not only be an opportunity to bring researchers in relevant fields, but also do much to the developments of rough set theory, granular computing, data mining, machine learning and related topics. The papers will go through the normal reviewing process and session chairs will be involved in the reviewing process. Each session should have at least four presentations. A brief summary and rationale of the session should be submitted to the PC Chairs, Davide Ciucci, ciucci at disco.unimib.it and Yuhua Qian, jinchengqyh at 126.com. Proposals should include: ? Special Session title; ? An overview of the envisioned special session stating the importance of the topic and the objectives of the proposed session, as well as any details/requirements that are needed to make the session successful; ? Names, affiliation and e-mail of organizers; ? Expected number of submissions or a tentative/confirmed list of papers. If accepted, your session description will be posted on the conference website and a summary sentence will appear in the printed program. The call for papers closes on April 21, 2013. Davide Ciucci On behalf of the Organizers and PC Chairs -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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The mentor will interact closely with the student, will provide feedback on research, help form new contacts, etc. * To allow students an opportunity to present their work to a friendly audience of other students as well as mentors. * To provide students with insights, contact and opportunities for their future career. * To foster interactions with mentors and other mentees. Applications In order to participate in the doctoral consortium, students are requested to submit 2 documents. (1) a 4 page abstract (using the same AI 2013 paper submission format) describing their research. (2) a separate document (maximum two pages) containing the following information: 1 Country of study 2 Area of study (1-3 keywords) 3 Expected time until graduation 4 A brief CV 5 A signed letter of support from their advisor. These documents should be submitted electronically via Easychair: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ai2013dc. In this submission system, please submit your two-page abstract under "Paper" and the other document as a single PDF under "Attachment". Successful applicants will be required to give a 3 minute thesis style presentation and present a poster where questions from other participants may be discussed. There will be a $50 iTunes voucher for the best 3 minute presentation as judged by the audience. Follow this link for more on the 3 minute thesis - http://www.uq.edu.au/grad-school/three-minute-thesis Important dates Submissions due: September 2 Acceptance Notification: October 14 Date of consortium: December 2 Chair - Dr. John Thangarajah, RMIT University, johnt at rmit.edu.au From d.brown at i-society.eu Mon Apr 8 02:33:35 2013 From: d.brown at i-society.eu (David Brown) Date: Mon, 8 Apr 2013 01:33:35 +0100 (BST) Subject: [DL] Final Call for Papers: International Conference on Information Society (i-Society 2013)! Message-ID: <724034861.393741.1365381215220.open-xchange@email.1and1.co.uk> Apologies for cross-postings. Please send it to interested colleagues and students. Thanks! CALL FOR PAPERS ********************************************************************************** International Conference on Information Society (i-Society 2013) 24-26 June, 2013 University of Toronto, Hart House, Toronto, Canada ********************************************************************************* The i-Society is a global knowledge-enriched collaborative effort that has its roots from both academia and industry. The conference covers a wide spectrum of topics that relate to information society, which includes technical and non-technical research areas. The mission of i-Society 2013 conference is to provide opportunities for collaboration of professionals and researchers to share existing and generate new knowledge in the field of information society. The conference encapsulates the concept of interdisciplinary science that studies the societal and technological dimensions of knowledge evolution in digital society. The i-Society bridges the gap between academia and industry with regards to research collaboration and awareness of current development in secure information management in the digital society. The topics in i-Society 2013 include but are not confined to the following areas: *New enabling technologies - Internet technologies - Wireless applications - Mobile Applications - Multimedia Applications - Protocols and Standards - Ubiquitous Computing - Virtual Reality - Human Computer Interaction - Geographic information systems - e-Manufacturing *Intelligent data management - Intelligent Agents - Intelligent Systems - Intelligent Organisations - Content Development - Data Mining - e-Publishing and Digital Libraries - Information Search and Retrieval - Knowledge Management - e-Intelligence - Knowledge networks *Secure Technologies - Internet security - Web services and performance - Secure transactions - Cryptography - Payment systems - Secure Protocols - e-Privacy - e-Trust - e-Risk - Cyber law - Forensics - Information assurance - Mobile social networks - Peer-to-peer social networks - Sensor networks and social sensing *e-Learning - Collaborative Learning - Curriculum Content Design and Development - Delivery Systems and Environments - Educational Systems Design - e-Learning Organisational Issues - Evaluation and Assessment - Virtual Learning Environments and Issues - Web-based Learning Communities - e-Learning Tools - e-Education *e-Society - Global Trends - Social Inclusion - Intellectual Property Rights - Social Infonomics - Computer-Mediated Communication - Social and Organisational Aspects - Globalisation and developmental IT - Social Software *e-Health - Data Security Issues - e-Health Policy and Practice - e-Healthcare Strategies and Provision - Medical Research Ethics - Patient Privacy and Confidentiality - e-Medicine *e-Governance - Democracy and the Citizen - e-Administration - Policy Issues - Virtual Communities *e-Business - Digital Economies - Knowledge economy - eProcurement - National and International Economies - e-Business Ontologies and Models - Digital Goods and Services - e-Commerce Application Fields - e-Commerce Economics - e-Commerce Services - Electronic Service Delivery - e-Marketing - Online Auctions and Technologies - Virtual Organisations - Teleworking - Applied e-Business - Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) *e-Art - Legal Issues - Patents - Enabling technologies and tools *e-Science - Natural sciences in digital society - Biometrics - Bioinformatics - Collaborative research *Industrial developments - Trends in learning - Applied research - Cutting-edge technologies * Research in progress - Ongoing research from undergraduates, graduates/postgraduates and professionals Important Dates: Paper Submission Date: April 10, 2013 Short Paper (Extended Abstract or Work in Progress): March 01, 2013 Notification of Paper Acceptance /Rejection: April 25, 2013 Notification of Short Paper (Extended Abstract/Work in Progress) Acceptance /Rejection: March 20, 2013 Camera Ready Paper and Short Paper Due: April 30, 2013 Workshop/Tutorial Proposal Submission: March 31, 2013 Notification of Workshop/Tutorial Acceptance: April 15, 2013 Special Track Proposal Submission: March 01, 2013 Notification of Special Track Acceptance/Rejection: March 20, 2013 Poster/Demo Proposal Submission: March 31, 2013 Notification of Poster/Demo Acceptance: April 10, 2013 Participant(s) Registration (Open): January 01, 2013 to June 15, 2013 Early Bird Attendee Registration Deadline: January 01, 2013 to March 31, 2013 Late Bird Attendee Registration Deadline: April 01, 2013 to June 15, 2013 Conference Dates: June 24-26, 2013 For more details, please visit -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From A.Silva at science.ru.nl Mon Apr 8 13:49:00 2013 From: A.Silva at science.ru.nl (Alexandra Silva) Date: Mon, 8 Apr 2013 13:49:00 +0200 Subject: [DL] CALCO Tools 2013: Deadline Extension Message-ID: <20130408114900.GA8855@lilo2.science.ru.nl> CALL FOR PAPERS: CALCO Tools 2013 --> DEADLINE EXTENSION 5th International Conference on Algebra and Coalgebra in Computer Science, Tools Workshop September 3 - 6, 2013 Warsaw, Poland http://coalg.org/calco13/workshops.html#tools ========================================================================= Paper submission (extended): April 15, 2013 Author notification: May 13, 2013 Final version due: June 3, 2013 ========================================================================= -- SCOPE -- CALCO aims to bring together researchers and practitioners with interests in foundational aspects, and both traditional and emerging uses of algebra and coalgebra in computer science. It is a high-level, bi-annual conference formed by joining the forces and reputations of CMCS (the International Workshop on Coalgebraic Methods in Computer Science), and WADT (the Workshop on Algebraic Development Techniques). Previous CALCO editions took place in Swansea (Wales, 2005), Bergen (Norway, 2007), Udine (Italy, 2009) and Winchester (UK, 2011). The fifth edition will be held in Warsaw, the capital of Poland. As part of CALCO, a workshop dedicated to tools based on algebraic and/or coalgebraic principles, CALCO Tools, will be held alongside the main conference. Papers of this workshop will be included in the CALCO proceedings. CALCO-Tools will take place on the same dates as the main CALCO conference, with no overlap between the technical programmes of the two events. Topics of interest include systems, prototypes, and tools developed specifically for the design, checking, execution, and verification of (co)algebraic specifications, but also tools targeting different application domains while making core or interesting use of (co)algebraic techniques. Tool submissions should not exceed 5 pages in LNCS format. The accepted tool papers will be included in the final proceedings of the conference. The tools should be made available on the web at the time of submission. Each submission will be evaluated by at least three reviewers; one or more of the reviewers will be asked to download and use the tool. At least one of the authors of each tool paper must attend the conference to demo the tool. To submit a paper please visit our easychair submission site at https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=calcotools2013 -- CALCO 2013 ORGANISING COMMITTEE -- Bartek Klin (University of Warsaw, Poland) Andrzej Tarlecki (University of Warsaw, Poland) -- LOCATION -- Warsaw, the capital of Poland, is a lively city with many historic monuments and sights, but also with a thriving business district. It is easily accessible via two airports: the main Chopin Airport, used by most international carriers, and the recently open Warsaw Modlin Airport (30 minutes away by rail), used by budget airlines. -- CALCO Tools Dates -- Paper submission: April 8, 2013 Author notification: May 6, 2013 Final version due: June 3, 2013 -- CALCO Tools Programme Committee -- Einar Broch Johnsen, University of Oslo, Norway Mark Hills, CWI Amsterdam, The Netherlands Barbara K?nig, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany Dorel Lucanu, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University, Romania Dominik Luecke, CWI Amsterdam, The Netherlands Till Mossakowski, DFKI, Germany Lutz Schr?der, Friedrich-Alexander Universitat Erlangen-N?rnberg, Germany (chair) Alexandra Silva, Radboud University Nijmegen and CWI Amsterdam, The Netherlands -- FURTHER INFORMATION -- Queries related to submission, reviewing, and programme should be sent to the workshop chair. Queries related to the organisation should be emailed to calco2013 at mimuw.edu.pl . From geoff at cs.miami.edu Wed Apr 10 14:32:59 2013 From: geoff at cs.miami.edu (Geoff Sutcliffe) Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2013 08:32:59 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [DL] LPAR-19 CFP and Workshops Message-ID: <20130410123259.EF596121635@mcclellan.cs.miami.edu> =========================== LPAR-19 1st CALL FOR PAPERS CALL FOR WORKSHOP PROPOSALS =========================== ============================================================ The 19th International Conference on Logic for Programming, Artificial Intelligence and Reasoning ============================================================ Stellenbosch, South Africa, 14-19 December 2013 www.LPAR-19.info This is the first call for papers for LPAR-19 and a call for workshop proposals. Information about workshop proposals is included at the end of this call. The series of International Conferences on Logic for Programming, Artificial Intelligence and Reasoning (LPAR) is a forum where, year after year, some of the most renowned researchers in the areas of logic, automated reasoning, computational logic, programming languages and their applications come to present cutting-edge results, to discuss advances in these fields, and to exchange ideas in a scientifically emerging part of the world. The 19th LPAR will be held in Stellenbosch, South Africa. Logic is a fundamental organizing principle in nearly all areas in Computer Science. It runs a multifaceted gamut from the foundational to the applied. At one extreme, it underlies computability and complexity theory and the formal semantics of programming languages. At the other extreme, it drives billions of gates every day in the digital circuits of processors of all kinds. Logic is in itself a powerful programming paradigm, but it is also the quintessential specification language for anything ranging from real-time critical systems to networked infrastructures. Logical techniques link implementation and specification through formal methods such as automated theorem proving and model checking. Logic is also the stuff of knowledge representation and artificial intelligence. Because of its ubiquity, logic has acquired a central role in Computer Science education. Topics ------ New results in the fields of computational logic and applications are welcome. Also welcome are more exploratory presentations, which may examine open questions and raise fundamental concerns about existing theories and practices. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Abduction and interpolation methods * Automated reasoning * Constraint programming * Decision procedures * Description logics * Foundations of security * Hardware verification * Implementations of logic * Interactive theorem proving * Knowledge representation and reasoning * Logic and computational complexity * Logic and databases * Logic and games * Logic and machine learning * Logic and the web * Logic and types * Logic in artificial intelligence * Logic of distributed systems * Logic programming * Logical aspects of concurrency * Logical foundations of programming * Modal and temporal logics * Model checking * Non-monotonic reasoning * Ontologies and large knowledge bases * Probabilistic and fuzzy reasoning * Program analysis * Rewriting * Satisfiability checking * Satisfiability modulo theories * Software verification * Specification using logic * Unification theory Programme Chairs ---------------- * Ken McMillan * Aart Middeldorp * Andrei Voronkov Conference Chairs ---------------- * Bernd Fischer * Geoff Sutcliffe Workshop Chair -------------- * Laura Kovacs Submission Details ------------------ Submissions of two kinds are welcome: * Regular papers that describe solid new research results. They can be up to 15 pages long in LNCS style, including figures and references, but excluding appendices (that reviewers are not required to read). * Experimental and tool papers that describe implementations of systems, report experiments with implemented systems, or compare implemented systems. They can be up to 8 pages long in the LNCS style. Both types of papers can be electronically submitted in PDF via EasyChar: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lpar19. Prospective authors are required to register a title and an abstract a week before the paper submission deadline (see below). Participation ------------- Authors of accepted papers are required to ensure that at least one of them will be present at the conference. Important Dates --------------- * Abstract submission: 22nd July * Paper submission: 2nd August * Notification of acceptance: 27th September * Camera-ready papers: 9th October * Conference: 14th-19th December Workshop Proposals ------------------ LPAR-19 workshops will be held on 14th December either as one-day or half-day events. If you would like to propose a workshop for LPAR-19, please contact the workshop chair via email (lkovacs at complang.tuwien.ac.at), by the proposal deadline. To help planning, workshop proposals should contain the following data: * Name of the workshop. * Brief description of the workshop, including workshop topics. * Valid web address of the workshop. * Contact information of the workshop organizers. * An estimate of the audience size. * Proposed format of the workshop (for example, regular talks, tool demos, poster presentations, etc.). * Duration of the workshop (one-day or half-day). * Potential invited speakers (if any). * Procedures for selecting papers and participants. * Special technical or AV needs. Important workshop dates ------------------------ * Workshop proposals: 15th July * Notification of workshops proposals: 29th July From m.daquin at open.ac.uk Thu Apr 11 09:05:06 2013 From: m.daquin at open.ac.uk (Mathieu d'Aquin) Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2013 08:05:06 +0100 Subject: [DL] Deadline Extended: PriSeT workshop on Privacy in Semantic Technologies at K-CAP 2013 Message-ID: <516660A2.6030903@open.ac.uk> ----------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS 1^st International Workshop on Privacy in Semantic Technologies (PriSeT 2013) 23^rd June, 2013 Banff, Canada (collocated with K-CAP 2013) _http://events.kmi.open.ac.uk/priset-2013/ _ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ IMPORTANT DATES * Paper Submission: 15th April 2011 (deadline extended to 22nd April) * Author Notification: 30th April, 2013 * Camera ready copy due: 15th May 2013 SCOPE In recent years, Web users have seen an exponential growth in the amount of data being generated and exchanged in form of blogs, tweets, social networking and mobile applications. In this respect, Semantic technologies have emerged as a potential candidate for modelling and building of software systems that are privacy-aware. On the other hand, recent linked-data initiatives from government, academia and industry are rapidly moving towards making the users' data available for distributed sharing and linking. However, the main concern is with insufficient privacy safeguards and controls, there is a high risk these linking of data and its exploitation will become a "privacy nightmare" for the Web users. Semantic Web has been redefined in recent years but the privacy enhancing technologies specifically relating to the use of URI, RDF and SPARQL are still lagging behind. Addressing such privacy challenges in the software engineering domain will entail eliciting user-centric requirements and modelling, knowledge discovery and representation, privacy policy modelling, privacy-by-design architectures and evaluation of privacy enhancing techniques and methods.Therefore, this workshop aims at providing a forum for researchers and practitioners to exchange and disseminate their work to a wider audience and receive critical feedback on work primarily supporting privacy in and with semantic technologies. TOPICS We welcome high-quality technical papers about recent advancements in (a) how privacy is being supported in the Web of Data, especially through semantic technologies and (b) how Semantic Web principles are being applied in the context of privacy protection of Web users or end-users of software systems in general. We seek application-oriented, as well as more theoretical papers and position papers in the following, non-exhaustive list of topics: *Privacy in semantic technologies *Use of semantic technologies in privacy protection * Privacy implications of knowledge extraction *Privacy implications of data integration and data linking *Privacy in Big Data *Knowledge discovery and privacy *Inferring privacy consequences of online activities *User and knowledge modelling for privacy *Knowledge approaches to privacy requirements *Knowledge approaches to privacy assessment *Privacy policy modelling and interoperability *Modelling of private information propagation *Impact of semantic technologies on privacy in specific domains (healthcare, politics, etc.) SUBMISSIONS We seek short position papers (max. 5 pages) and longer technical papers not exceeding 10 pages. Both types of papers should be formatted according to the ACM format (2 column SIG Conference Proceedings template is available at http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates) and should be submitted through EasyChair (https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=priset2013). /Accepted papers will be published in online proceedings. The organisers of the workshop are also currently discussing a follow-up special issue of the Semantic Web Journal (http://www.semantic-web-journal.net/) on Privacy in Semantic Technologies./ ORGANISATION Workshop Chairs *Keerthi Thomas, The Open University, UK *Inah Omoronyia,University of Glasgow, UK *Mathieu d'Aquin, The Open University, UK Programme Committee *Arosha Bandara, The Open University, UK *Luca Costabello, INRIA, France *Tim Finin, University of Maryland, BC, USA *Matthew Gamble, University of Manchester, UK *Kevin Hamlen, University of Texas, Dallas, USA *Nicolas Jay, LORIA, France *Cliff Joslyn, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA *Lalana Kagal, MIT, USA *Murat Kantarcioglu, University of Texas, Dallas, USA *Atif Latif, ZBW, Germany *Vanessa Lopez, IBM Research, Ireland *Alessandra Mileo, DERI, Ireland *Enrico Motta, The Open University, UK *Andriy Nikolov, Fluid Operations, Germany *Blaine Price, The Open University, UK *Daniel Alexander Smith, University of Southampton, UK *Mischa Tuffield, PeerIndex, UK *Thein Than Tun, The Open University, UK *Yijun Yu, The Open University, UK *Joss Wright, Oxford University, UK -- The Open University is incorporated by Royal Charter (RC 000391), an exempt charity in England & Wales and a charity registered in Scotland (SC 038302). -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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A non-exhaustive list of topics of interest includes: * unification algorithms, calculi and implementations * equational unification and unification modulo theories * unification in modal, temporal and description logics * admissibility of inference rules * narrowing matching algorithms * constraint solving * combination problems * disunification * higher-order unification, * type checking and reconstruction * typed unification * complexity issues * query answering * implementation techniques * applications of unification Submission: ========== Submissions should not exceed 5 pages in LNCS style, as PDF files through the EasyChair submission site: https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=unif2013 Accepted abstracts will be presented at the workshop and included in the preliminary proceedings, available at the workshop and also in the electronic form at the UNIF web page: http://www.pps.jussieu.fr/~treinen/unif/ Important Dates: ================ Submission: April 22 (extended) Notification: May 25 Final version: June 8 Workshop: June 27 Programme Committee: =================== # Franz Baader, TU Dresden, Germany # Benzmueller, Free University Berlin, Germany # Santiago Escobar, Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, Spain # Silvio Ghilardi, Universita di Milano, Italy # Konstantin Korovin, University of Manchester, UK # Jordi Levy, IIIA - CSIC, Spain # Christopher Lynch, Clarkson University, USA # George Metcalfe, University of Bern, Switzerland # Barbara Morawska, TU Dresden, Germany # Paliath Narendran, University at Albany, USA # Christophe Ringeissen, LORIA-INRIA, France # Vladimir Rybakov, Manchester Metropolitan University # Laurent Vigneron, LORIA-Nancy University, France For more information, please contact any of the chairs: Barbara Morawska and Konstantin Korovin. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From F.J.M.M.Veltman at uva.nl Sun Apr 14 14:05:06 2013 From: F.J.M.M.Veltman at uva.nl (Frank Veltman) Date: Sun, 14 Apr 2013 14:05:06 +0200 Subject: [DL] ESSLLI 2014 Call for Proposals Message-ID: <8433C108-93B7-485F-9D37-FC4C2F5A33E7@uva.nl> Call for Course and Workshop Proposals ESSLLI 2014 26th European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information Tuebingen, Germany August 11-22, 2014 www.esslli2014.de ------------------------------------------------------------------ IMPORTANT DATES =============== 15 June 2013: Proposal submission deadline 15 September 2013: Notification 1 June 2014: Course material due TOPICS AND FORMAT ================= Proposals for courses and workshops at ESSLLI'2014 are invited in all areas of Logic, Linguistics and Computing and Information Sciences. Cross-disciplinary and innovative topics are particularly encouraged. Each course and workshop will consist of five 90 minute sessions, offered daily (Monday-Friday) in a single week. Proposals for two-week courses should be structured and submitted as two independent one-week courses, e.g. as an introductory course followed by an advanced one. In such cases, the ESSLLI program committee reserves the right to accept just one of the two proposals. All instructional and organizational work at ESSLLI is performed completely on a voluntary basis, so as to keep participation fees to a minimum. However, organizers and instructors have their registration fees waved, and are reimbursed for travel and accommodation expenses up to a level to be determined and communicated with the proposal notification. ESSLLI can only guarantee reimbursement for at most one course/workshop organizer, and can not guarantee full reimbursement of travel costs for lecturers or organizers from outside of Europe. The ESSLLI organizers would appreciate any help in controlling the School's expenses by seeking complete coverage of travel and accommodation expenses from other sources. CATEGORIES ========== Each proposal should fall under one of the following categories. * FUNDAMENTAL COURSES * Such courses are designed to present the basics of a research area, to people with no prior knowledge in that area. They should be of elementary level, without prerequisites in the course's topic, though possibly assuming a level of general scientific maturity in the relevant discipline. They should enable researchers from related disciplines to develop a level of comfort with the fundamental concepts and techniques of the course's topic, thereby contributing to the interdisciplinary nature of our research community. * INTRODUCTORY COURSES * Introductory courses are central to ESSLLI's mission. They are intended to introduce a research field to students, young researchers, and other non-specialists, and to foster a sound understanding of its basic methods and techniques. Such courses should enable researchers from related disciplines to develop some comfort and competence in the topic considered. Introductory courses in a cross-disciplinary area may presuppose general knowledge of the related disciplines. * ADVANCED COURSES * Advanced courses are targeted primarily to graduate students who wish to acquire a level of comfort and understanding in the current research of a field. * WORKSHOPS * Workshops focus on specialized, usually topics of current interest. Workshops organizers are responsible for soliciting papers and selecting the workshop program. They are also responsible for publishing proceedings if they decide to have proceedings. PROPOSAL GUIDELINES =================== Course and workshop proposals should follow closely the following guidelines to ensure full consideration. Each course may have no more than two instructors, and each workshop no more than two organizers. All instructors and organizers must possess a PhD or equivalent degree by the submission deadline. Course proposals should mention explicitly the intended course category. Proposals for introductory courses should indicate the intended level, for example as it relates to standard textbooks and monographs in the area. Proposals for advanced courses should specify the prerequisites in detail. Proposals must be submitted in PDF format via: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=esslli2014 and include all of the following: o Personal information for each proposer: Name, affiliation, contact address, email, fax, homepage (optional) o General proposal information: Title, category o Contents information * Abstract of up to 150 words * Motivation and description (up to two pages) * Tentative outline * Expected level and prerequisites * Appropriate references (e.g. textbooks, monographs, proceedings, surveys) o Practical information: * Relevant preceding meetings and events, if applicable * Potential external funding for participants ------------------------------------------------------------------ =========================== Frank Veltman ILLC University of Amsterdam P.O. Box 94242 1090 GE Amsterdam The Netherlands e-mail: f.veltman at uva.nl homepage: http://staff.science.uva.nl/~veltman/ From lpnmr2013 at gmail.com Fri Apr 12 18:58:45 2013 From: lpnmr2013 at gmail.com (Pedro Cabalar) Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2013 18:58:45 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [DL] LPNMR 2013: 3rd Call For Papers Message-ID: <20130412165845.5B7842C01CD@sherlock-3.local> [Apologies for possible multiple posts] --------------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 12th International Conference on Logic Programming and Nonmonotonic Reasoning LPNMR 2013 http://lpnmr2013.udc.es Corunna, Spain September 15-19, 2013 co-located with CLIMA'13 and WoMO'13 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- AIMS AND SCOPE LPNMR 2013 is the twelfth in the series of international meetings on logic programming and nonmonotonic reasoning. LPNMR is a forum for exchanging ideas on declarative logic programming, nonmonotonic reasoning, and knowledge representation. The aim of the conference is to facilitate interactions between those researchers and practitioners interested in the design and implementation of logic-based programming languages and database systems, and those who work in the area of knowledge representation and nonmonotonic reasoning. LPNMR strives to encompass theoretical and experimental studies that have led or will lead to the construction of systems for declarative programming and knowledge representation, as well as their use in practical applications. Authors are invited to submit papers presenting original and unpublished research on all aspects of nonmonotonic approaches in logic programming and knowledge representation. We invite submissions of both long and short papers. TOPICS Conference topics include, but are not limited to: 1. Foundations of LPNMR Systems: * Semantics of new and existing languages; * Action languages, Causality; * Relationships among formalisms; * Complexity and expressive power; * Inference algorithms and heuristics for LPNMR systems; * Extensions of traditional LPNMR languages such as new logical connectives or new inference capabilities; * Updates, revision, and other operations on LPNMR systems; * Uncertainty in LPNMR systems. 2. Implementation of LPNMR systems: * System descriptions, comparisons, evaluations; * LPNMR benchmarks. 3. Applications of LPNMR: * Use of LPNMR in formalization of Commonsense Reasoning and other areas of KR; * LPNMR languages and algorithms in planning, diagnosis, argumentation, reasoning with preferences, decision making and policies; * Applications of LPNMR languages in data integration and exchange systems, software engineering and model checking; * Applications of LPNMR to linguistics, psychology, and other sciences; * Integration of LPNMR systems with other computational paradigms; * Embedded LPNMR: Systems using LPNMR subsystems. SUBMISSION LPNMR 2013 welcomes submissions of long papers (13 pages) or short papers (6 pages) in the following categories: * Technical papers * System descriptions * Application descriptions The indicated number of pages includes title page, references and figures. All submissions will be peer-reviewed and accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings published in the Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI/LNCS) series. At least one author of each accepted paper is expected to register for the conference to present the work. Submissions must be formatted according to the Springer LNCS author instructions, http://www.springer.com/comp/lncs/Authors.html must be written in English, and present original research. Paper submission will be electronic through https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lpnmr2013 The two best contributions will be offered a fast-track publication in the journal Theory and Practice of Logic Programming (TPLP). MULTIPLE SUBMISSION POLICY LPNMR 2013 will not accept any paper which, at the time of submission, is under review or has already been published or accepted for publication in a journal or another conference. Authors are also required not to submit their papers elsewhere during LPNMR's review period. However, these restrictions do not apply to previous workshops with a limited audience and without archival proceedings. WORKSHOPS LPNMR-13 will be co-located with two international workshops: * CLIMA'13 14th International Workshop on Computational Logic and Multi-Agent Systems (September 16-17, 2013). * WoMO'13 7th Workshop on Modular Ontologies As co-located events, it will be possible to register for CLIMA or WoMO independently from LPNMR, or in combination with the latter. LPNMR-13 will also include four specialized associated workshops: * ARCOE-LogIC'13 5th Intl. Workshop on Acquisition, Representation and Reasoning with Contextualized Knowledge * GTTV'13 2nd Workshop on Grounding and Transformations for Theories with Variables * LNMR'13 1st Workshop on Learning and Non-monotonic Reasoning * NLPAR'13 1st Workshop on Natural Language Processing and Automated Reasoning IMPORTANT DATES * Paper registration: April 17th, 2013 * Paper submission: April 24th, 2013 * Notification: June 5th, 2013 * Final versions due: June 19th, 2013 VENUE Corunna (A Coru??a) is a busy port located at the entrance of an estuary on the Atlantic coast of the north-western corner of Spain. The city features a complete offer of leisure activities ranging from beach sports along the seafront that surrounds it (surfing, sailing, biking, etc) to a complete program of cultural events, an active shopping area, restaurants, tapas bars and a crowded night life. The conference will be held at the hotel Melia Maria Pita. PROGRAM CHAIRS Pedro Cabalar, University of Corunna, Spain Tran Cao Son, New Mexico State University, NM, USA WORKSHOPS CHAIR Marcello Balduccini, Kodak Research Labs, USA PROGRAM COMMITTEE Jose Julio Alferes, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal Chitta Baral, Arizona State University, USA Leopoldo Bertossi, Carleton University, Canada Gerhard Brewka, University of Leipzig, Germany Stefania Costantini, University of L'Aquila, Italy Marina De Vos, University of Bath, UK James Delgrande, Simon Fraser University, Canada Marc Denecker, KU Leuven, Belgium Yannis Dimopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Jurgen Dix, Clausthal University of Technology, Germany Agostino Dovier, University of Udine, Italy Thomas Eiter, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Esra Erdem, Sabanci University, Turkey Wolfgang Faber, University of Calabria, Italy Michael Fink, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Andrea Formisano, University of Perugia, Italy Martin Gebser, University of Potsdam, Germany Michael Gelfond, Texas Tech University, USA Giovambattista Ianni, University of Calabria, Italy Tomi Janhunen, Aalto University, Finland Antonis Kakas, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Joohyung Lee, Arizona State University, USA Vladimir Lifschitz, University of Texas at Austin, USA Fangzhen Lin, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China Jorge Lobo, ICREA - Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain Robert Mercer, University of Western Ontario, Canada Alessandra Mileo, National University of Ireland, Ireland Mauricio Osorio, Universidad de las Americas Puebla, Mexico Ramon Otero, University of Corunna, Spain David Pearce, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain Axel Polleres, Siemens AG - Corporate Technology, Vienna, Austria Enrico Pontelli, New Mexico State University, USA Alessandro Provetti, University of Messina, Italy Chiaki Sakama, Wakayama University, Japan Torsten Schaub, University of Potsdam, Germany John Schlipf, University of Cincinnati, USA Terrance Swift, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal Evgenia Ternovska, Simon Fraser University, Canada Hans Tompits, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Mirek Truszczynski, University of Kentucky, USA Agustin Valverde, University of Malaga, Spain Kewen Wang, Griffith University, Australia Yisong Wang, Guizhou University, China Stefan Woltran, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Jia-Huai You, University of Alberta, Canada Yan Zhang, University of Western Sydney, Australia Yi Zhou, University of Western Sydney, Australia CONTACT e-mail to lpnmr2013 at gmail.com From sreckojoksimovic at ymail.com Sat Apr 13 01:21:37 2013 From: sreckojoksimovic at ymail.com (Srecko Joksimovic) Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2013 16:21:37 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [DL] Last Call for Papers - VORTE 2013 In-Reply-To: <1364945452.60393.YahooMailNeo@web163805.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> References: <1358928518.10171.YahooMailNeo@web163802.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> <1358930540.85886.YahooMailNeo@web163806.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> <1358930750.47167.YahooMailNeo@web163801.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> <1358930893.38612.YahooMailNeo@web163804.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> <1358931000.44509.YahooMailNeo@web163802.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> <1358931045.44909.YahooMailNeo@web163802.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> <1362838679.81321.YahooMailNeo@web163806.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> <1364945452.60393.YahooMailNeo@web163805.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <1365808897.45117.YahooMailNeo@web163801.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> LAST CALL FOR PAPERS The 8th International Workshop on Vocabularies, Ontologies and Rules for the Enterprise and Beyond (VORTE 2013) Co-located with the 17th IEEE International EDOC Conference? Vancouver, BC, 9th-13th September, 2013 WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION The VORTE series of workshops is traditionally devoted to the topics of vocabularies, ontologies and rules in the context of enterprise systems. This year, the workshop takes a broader view and does not target only enterprise systems, but also systems managing data on the Web. In fact, there is a need to exploit unstructured data in the enterprise, and on the Web in general, as the majority of Web content and enterprise content remains unstructured. Thus, the challenge of managing, extracting and structuring data is common to both worlds, and solutions in one community will benefit the other. Examples of topics covered by traditional VORTE research contributions include the development and adaptation of foundational, business and domain ontologies for the enterprise, the use of ontologies and rules in all aspects of enterprise modeling such as business process management and services, the enhancement of rules and services with formal semantics, and the evaluation of such systems and approaches. This year, the workshop is also a forum for the discussion of ontology-based knowledge management issues, interoperability issues and ontology engineering issues. The workshop also welcomes contributions on initiatives related to semantic annotation, open linked data, information extraction, ontology learning and update and ontology-based knowledge management as well as empirical studies on these areas. TOPICS Knowledge management: - Ontology and ontological methodologies in knowledge management and integration; - Ontology engineering, learning and maintenance; - Ontology integration and alignment; - Ontology effectiveness and evaluation; Web of Data: - Ontology-based Semantic annotation - Linked data-based semantic annotation - Knowledge extraction including entity extraction and relationship extraction - Knowledge retrieval based on Open linked data Vocabularies and Ontologies for the enterprise: - Ontology-driven representation of products, services, functionalities, design, processes; - Ontologies for the know-how; - Ontologies for corporate knowledge; - Upper-level ontologies in the enterprise; - Adaptation of ontologies for companies and organizations; Conceptual and Enterprise Modeling: - Ontological Foundations for Conceptual Modeling and Meta-modeling - Ontology Design and maintenance for Conceptual Model Integration; - Ontology-Based Conceptual Modeling Tools and Environments - Ontologies and Enterprise Architecture Modeling - Ontologies and Business Process Modeling - Ontologies and Goal-Based Modeling - Ontologies and Business Rules Enterprise Semantic Interoperability: - Web services, Semantic services - Composition and Modularity - Merging, Mapping and Alignment - Ontology Language Interoperability - Open linked data publishing and exploitation Case studies and Evaluation: - Practical issues in using ontologies in enterprises - Real cases of successful/unsuccessful use of ontology in business - From legacy systems to the new ontology-driven systems - Practical issues in knowledge extraction and annotation - Semantic annotation evaluation - Ontology learning evaluation SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION We solicit two types of papers: - Short papers (4 pages) discussing controversial issues in the field or describing interesting or thought-provoking ideas that are not yet fully developed; and - Full papers (8-10 pages) describing more mature results All submissions MUST conform to the two-column format of IEEE Computer Society conference proceedings (http://www2.computer.org/portal/web/cscps/formatting) and include the author's name, affiliation, and contact details. Papers must be submitted as PDF files using EasyChair at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=vorte2013 All papers must not have been previously published or submitted elsewhere. The papers accepted for the EDOC 2013 Workshops will be published along with EDOC proceedings in the IEEE Xplore Digital Library. At least one of the authors for each accepted paper must register for the main conference (there will be no workshop-only registration at EDOC 2013) and present their papers at the workshop. Post-conference Journal Publication For previous editions of the workshop, special issues have been published in journals such as Applied Ontology (2007), IJBPIM (2007), Elsevier's Information Systems (2008, 2010), and Journal of Research Practice in Information Technology (2009). This year, authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended versions of their papers for consideration for a special issue of a reputable journal. The journal is to be determined. KEYNOTE TBA IMPORTANT DATES Workshop paper submissions: April 22, 2013 Workshops paper acceptance notifications: May 31, 2013 Camera-ready papers due: June 21, 2013 Workshop: September 9, 10 or 11, 2013? COMMITTEES Workshop Chairs: Amal Zouaq, Royal Military College of Canada, Canada, amal.zouaq at rmc.ca Ebrahim Bagheri, Ryerson University, Canada, bagheri at ryerson.ca Renata Guizzardi, Federal University of Esp?rito Santo, Brazil, rguizzardi at inf.ufes.br Steering Committee: - Giancarlo Guizzardi, Federal University of Esp?rito Santo (UFES), Vit?ria, Brazil - Gerd Wagner, Institute of Informatics, Brandenburg University of Technology at Cottbus, Germany - Dragan Gasevic, Athabasca University, Canada Program Committee: - Emanuele Bottazzi, Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies, CNR, Trento, Italy - Marco Brambilla, Politecnico di Milano, Italy - Christoph Bussler, Merced Systems, Inc., USA - Oscar Corcho, Universidad Polit?cnica de Madrid, Spain - Faezeh Ensan, University of New Brunswick, Canada - Sergio Espa?a, Polytechnic University of Valencia - Joerg Evermann, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada - Ricardo Falbo, Universidade Federal do Esprito Santo, Brazil - Lu?s Ferreira Pires, University of Twente, The Netherlands - Michel Gagnon, Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal, Canada - Chiara Ghidini, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy - Adrian Giurca, Brandenburg University of Technology at Cottbus, Germany - Guido Governatori, NICTA, Australia - Peter Green, University of Queensland, Australia - Pierre Grenon, European Bioinformatics Institute, Cambridge, UK - Giancarlo Guizzardi, Ontology and Conceptual Modeling Research Group (NEMO)/Federal University of Espirito Santo, Brazil - Brian Henderson Sellers, University of Technology Sydney, Australia - Florian Matthes, University of Munich, Germany - Andreas L Opdahl, University of Bergen, Norway - Jeffrey Parsons, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada - Florian Probst, SAP Research Darmstadt, Germany - Christophe Roche, University of Savoie, France - Marco Rospocher, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy - Csaba Veres, University of Bergen, Norway - Hans Weigand, Faculty of Economics of Tilburg University, Netherlands LINKS VORTE2013 web site: http://planet-sl.org/vorte2013/ EDOC2013 web site: http://edocconference.org EasyChair submissions: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=vorte2013 Formatting guidelines: http://www2.computer.org/portal/web/cscps/formatting -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From schmidt at cs.man.ac.uk Sat Apr 13 12:11:31 2013 From: schmidt at cs.man.ac.uk (Renate Schmidt) Date: Sat, 13 Apr 2013 11:11:31 +0100 Subject: [DL] REMINDER FROCOS 2013 DEADLINE Message-ID: <20130413101131.214AB4D626B@cspc036.cs.man.ac.uk> FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS FroCoS 2013 9th International Symposium on Frontiers of Combining Systems Nancy, France September 18-20, 2013 http://frocos2013.loria.fr/ QUICK REMINDER: The deadline for papers is 22 April (9 days from today) and the deadline for abstracts is 15 April (Monday). GENERAL INFORMATION The 9th International Symposium on Frontiers of Combining Systems will be held in Nancy, France, from 18-20 September 2013. The aim of the conference is to publish and promote progress in research areas requiring the development of general techniques and methods for the combination and integration of special, formally defined systems, as well as for the analysis and modularization of complex systems. FroCoS 2013 will be co-located with the 22nd International Conference on Automated Reasoning with Analytic Tableaux and Related Methods (TABLEAUX 2013) held 16-19 September 2013. SCOPE OF CONFERENCE: In various areas of computer science, such as logic, computation, program development and verification, artificial intelligence, knowledge representation, and automated reasoning, there is an obvious need for using specialized formalisms and inference mechanisms for special tasks. To be usable in practice, these specialized systems must be combined with each other, and must be integrated into general purpose systems. This has led in many research areas to the development of general techniques and methods for the combination and integration of special, formally defined systems, as well as for the analysis and modularization of complex systems. The International Symposium on Frontiers of Combining Systems (FroCoS) traditionally focusses on these types of research questions and activities. Like its predecessors, FroCoS 2013 seeks to offer a common forum for research in the general area of combination, modularization and integration of systems, with emphasis on logic-based ones, and of their practical use. Typical topics of interest include (but are not limited to): * combinations of logics such as combined higher-order, first-order, temporal, modal, description or other non-classical logics; * combinations and modularity in ontologies; * combination of decision procedures, of satisfiability procedures, of constraint solving techniques or of logical frameworks; * combination and integration methods in SAT and SMT solving; * combinations and modularity in term rewriting; * integration of equational and other theories into deductive systems; * combination of deduction systems and computer algebra; * integration of data structures into constraint logic programming and deduction; * hybrid methods for deduction, resolution and constraint propagation; * hybrid systems in knowledge representation and natural language semantics; * combined logics for distributed and multi-agent systems; * logical aspects of combining and modularizing programs and specifications. INVITED SPEAKERS: Stephane Demri LSV, CNRS & ENS Cachan (joint invited talk with TABLEAUX 2013) Konstantin Korovin The University of Manchester Joel Ouaknine University of Oxford Lawrence C. Paulson University of Cambridge PUBLICATION DETAILS: The proceedings of the conference will be published in the Springer LNAI/LNCS series. PAPER SUBMISSIONS The program committee seeks high-quality submissions describing original work, written and to be presented in English, not substantially overlapping with published or simultaneously submitted work to a journal or conference with archival proceedings. Excluded from this restriction are papers previously presented at workshops without formal proceedings or papers submitted to workshops without formal proceedings. Papers that have been submitted to other workshops should be marked as such. Selection criteria include accuracy and originality of ideas, clarity and significance of results, and quality of presentation. The page limit in Springer LNCS style is 16 pages. Papers must be edited in LaTeX using the llncs style and must be submitted electronically as PDF files via the EasyChair system: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=frocos2013. For each accepted paper, at least one author is required to attend the symposium to present the work. Prospective authors must register a title and an abstract a week before the paper submission deadline. Further information about paper submissions is available at the conference website. Formatting instructions and the LNCS style files can be obtained via http://www.springer.com/lncs. IMPORTANT DATES 15 Apr 2013 Abstract submission 22 Apr 2013 Paper submission 6 Jun 2013 Notification of paper decisions 4 Jul 2013 Camera-ready papers due 18-20 Sep 2013 FroCoS Conference PROGRAM COMMITTEE Carlos Areces, FaMAF - Universidad Nacional de Cordoba, Argentina Alessandro Artale, Free University of Bolzano-Bozen, Italy Franz Baader, TU Dresden, Germany Clark Barrett, New York University, USA Peter Baumgartner, National ICT Australia, Canberra, Australia Christoph Benzmueller, Free University Berlin, Germany Jasmin Christian Blanchette, TU Muenchen, Germany Thomas Bolander, Technical University of Denmark Clare Dixon, University of Liverpool, UK Francois Fages, INRIA Rocquencourt, France Pascal Fontaine, LORIA, INRIA, University of Lorraine, France Didier Galmiche, LORIA, University of Lorraine, France Vijay Ganesh, University of Waterloo, Canada Silvio Ghilardi, Universita degli Studi di Milano, Italy Guido Governatori, National ICT Australia, Queensland, Australia Bernhard Gramlich, Technische Universitaet Wien, Austria Katsumi Inoue, National Institute of Informatics, Japan Sava Krstic, Intel, USA Alessio Lomuscio, Imperial College London, UK Till Mossakowski, DFKI & University of Bremen, Germany Silvio Ranise, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy Christophe Ringeissen, LORIA, INRIA, France Philipp Ruemmer, Uppsala University, Sweden Renate Schmidt, The University of Manchester, UK Roberto Sebastiani, DISI, University of Trento, Italy Viorica Sofronie-Stokkermans, University Koblenz-Landau, Germany Andrzej Szalas, Linkoepings Universitet, Sweden & University of Warsaw, Poland Rene Thiemann, University of Innsbruck, Austria Ashish Tiwari, SRI, USA Josef Urban, Radboud University, The Netherlands Christoph Weidenbach, Max-Planck-Institut fuer Informatik, Germany Frank Wolter, University of Liverpool, UK CONFERENCE CHAIR Christophe Ringeissen, LORIA, INRIA, France PC CHAIRS Pascal Fontaine, LORIA, INRIA, University of Lorraine, France Renate A. Schmidt, The University of Manchester, UK From chaoyan at cs.ubc.ca Sat Apr 13 22:37:16 2013 From: chaoyan at cs.ubc.ca (Chao Yan) Date: Sat, 13 Apr 2013 13:37:16 -0700 Subject: [DL] FMCAD 2013 Second Call for Papers Message-ID: <20130413203716.C603F591@mala.cs.ubc.ca> FMCAD 2013 - FORMAL METHODS IN COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN CALL FOR PAPERS International Conference on Formal Methods in Computer-Aided Design http://www.fmcad.org/FMCAD13 Portland, OR, USA October 20-23, 2013 IMPORTANT DATES Abstract Submission: May 8 Paper Submission: May 15 Author Notification: July 17 Final Version: August 14 Conference: October 20 - 23 Student Forum: (NEW! --- See below for details) Submission Deadline: June 2 Notification: August 4 KEYNOTE SPEAKERS - Pranav Ashar, Chief Technology Officer, Real Intent, "Static Verification Based Signoff - A Key Enabler for Managing Verification Complexity in the Modern SoC" - Lori A. Clarke, Professor, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, "Using Process Modeling and Analysis Techniques to Reduce Errors in Healthcare" CONFERENCE SCOPE FMCAD 2013 is the thirteenth in a series of conferences on the theory and application of formal methods in hardware and system design and verification. FMCAD provides a leading international forum to researchers and practitioners in academia and industry for presenting and discussing novel methods, technologies, theoretical results, and tools for formal reasoning about computing systems, as well as open challenges therein. FMCAD 2013 will be held in Portland, OR, USA, and co-located with MEMOCODE, the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Formal Methods and Models for Codesign, and DIFTS 2013, the International Workshop on Design and Implementation of Formal Tools and Systems. DIFTS will be held on October 19. MEMOCODE will take place from October 18 to 19, followed by a joint FMCAD/MEMOCODE tutorial day on October 20. FMCAD will continue from October 21 to 23, 2013. TOPICS OF INTEREST FMCAD welcomes submission of papers reporting original research on advances in all aspects of formal methods technology and its application to computer-aided design. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: - Advances in model checking, theorem proving, equivalence checking, abstraction and reduction techniques, compositional methods, automatic decision procedures at the bit- and word-level, probabilistic methods, and combinations of deductive methods and decision procedures. - Topics related to the application of formal and semi-formal methods to functional and non-functional specification and validation of hardware and software. This includes timing and power modeling, and verification of computing systems on all levels of abstraction. System-level design and verification, especially for embedded systems, HW/SW co-design and verification, and transaction-level verification. - Modeling and specification languages, formal semantics of known languages or their subsets, model-based design, design derivation and transformation, and correct-by-construction methods. - Experience with the application of formal and semi-formal methods to industrial-scale designs. Tools that represent formal verification enablement, new features, or a substantial improvement in the automation of formal methods. - Application of formal methods in new areas. SUBMISSIONS Submissions must be made electronically in PDF format via EasyChair. More details will be provided soon on the FMCAD web site. The proceedings will be freely available from the FMCAD Web site. We expect to have ACM In-Cooperation Status and IEEE Technical Co-Sponsorship, as has been the case with previous FMCAD conferences. FMCAD and authors will share the copyright for accepted papers and we plan on publishing the proceedings in the ACM Digital Library and in IEEE Xplore. Two categories of papers can be submitted: regular papers (8 pages), containing original research; and short papers (4 pages), containing emerging results, practical experiences or original ideas that can be described succinctly. Regular and short papers must use the IEEE Transactions format on letter-size paper with a 10-point font size, see http://www.ieee.org/portal/pages/pubs/transactions/stylesheets.html. We recommend that self-citations be written in the third person. Submissions must contain original research that has not been previously published, nor concurrently submitted for publication. Any partial overlap with any published or concurrently submitted paper must be clearly indicated. If experimental results are reported, authors are strongly encouraged to provide adequate access to their data so that results can be independently verified. A small number of accepted papers will be considered for a distinguished paper award. STUDENT FORUM FMCAD 2013 will host a Student Forum that provides a platform for graduate students at any career stage to introduce their research to the wider Formal Methods community, and solicit feedback. Submissions for the event must be short reports describing research ideas or ongoing work that the student is currently pursuing, and must be within the scope of FMCAD. Work, part of which has been previously published, will be considered; the novel aspect to be addressed in future work must be clearly described in such cases. The event will consist of short presentations by the student authors of each accepted submission, and of a poster that will be on display throughout the duration of the conference. Accepted submissions will be listed, with title and author name, in the event description in the conference proceedings. The authors will also have the option to upload their poster and presentation to the FMCAD webpage. Limited funds will be available for travel assistance for students with accepted contributions. CO-LOCATED EVENTS The following meetings will be co-located with this year's edition: - MEMOCODE 2013, the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Formal Methods and Models for Codesign (http://www.memocode-conference.com). - DIFTS 2013, International Workshop on Design and Implementation of Formal Tools and Systems We are also proud to host this year's Hardware Model Checking Competition (HWMCCC 2013). ORGANIZING COMMITTEE PROGRAM CHAIRS Barbara Jobstmann, Jasper Design Automation and CNRS-VERIMAG Sandip Ray, Intel Corporation LOCAL ARRANGEMENT CHAIR Joe Leslie-Hurd, Intel Corporation PUBLICATION CHAIR Julien Schmaltz, Open University of The Netherlands TUTORIAL CHAIR Malay Ganai, NEC Laboratories America STUDENT FORUM CHAIR Thomas Wahl, Northeastern University PUBLICITY CHAIR Chao Yan, Intel Corporation WEBMASTER Shilpi Goel, University of Texas at Austin PROGRAM COMMITTEE Jason Baumgartner, IBM Corporation Dirk Beyer, University of Passau Armin Biere, Johannes Kepler University Per Bjesse, Synopsys Nikolaj Bjorner, Microsoft Research Roderick Bloem, TU Graz Gianpiero Cabodi, Politecnico di Torino Hana Chockler, IBM Research Alessandro Cimatti, FBK-irst Koen Claessen, Chalmers University of Technology Malay Ganai, NEC Labs America Steven German, IBM Ganesh Gopalakrishnan, University of Utah Alberto Griggio, FBK-IRST Ziyad Hanna, University of Oxford Keijo Heljanko, Aalto University Alan Hu, University of British Columbia William Hung, Synopsys Inc Warren Hunt, University of Texas Susmit Jha, Strategic CAD Lab, Intel Shuvendu Lahiri, Microsoft Research Panagiotis Manolios, Northeastern University Tom Melham, University of Oxford John O'Leary, Intel Corporation Lee Pike, Galois, Inc. Ruzica Piskac, Max Planck Institute for Software Systems (MPI-SWS) Philipp Ruemmer, Uppsala University, Department of Information Technology Cesar Sanchez, IMDEA Software Institute Julien Schmaltz, Open University of The Netherlands Natasha Sharygina, University of Lugano, Switzerland Anna Slobodova, Centaur Technology Niklas Sorensson, Mentor Graphics Daryl Stewart, ARM Thomas Wahl, Northeastern University Georg Weissenbacher, Vienna University of Technology STEERING COMMITTEE Jason Baumgartner, IBM, USA Armin Biere, Johannes Kepler University in Linz, Austria Aarti Gupta, NEC Labs America, USA Warren Hunt, University of Texas at Austin, USA Panagiotis Manolios, Northeastern University, USA From pane at disi.unitn.it Fri Apr 12 19:31:35 2013 From: pane at disi.unitn.it (Juan Pane) Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2013 14:31:35 -0300 Subject: [DL] FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS: AgroSEM2013 Message-ID: <001b01ce37a3$a6800dd0$f3802970$@disi.unitn.it> ************************************************************* FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS: AgroSEM2013 Special Track on Metadata and Semantics for Agriculture, Food & Environment 7th International Conference on Metadata and Semantic Research (MTSR'13) Thessaloniki, Greece, November 19-22, 2013 http://mtsr2013.teithe.gr ************************************************************* *** Paper submission deadline: 20 June 2013*** AIM & TOPICS The 6th Edition of the Special Track on Metadata and Semantics for Agriculture, Food & Environment is hosted as part of MTSR 2013, and aims to bring together researchers and practitioners that are working on agricultural, food-related and environmental knowledge production, organization, and exchange from a Semantic Web perspective. It aims to serve as a discussion forum where interested experts will present the results of their work, and establish liaisons with other groups that are working on related subjects. In addition, it aims to outline the rich potential of these subjects as an application field for advanced metadata- and semantic-driven systems and services. Topics include but are not limited to contributions dealing with the following issues in the context of agriculture, food & environment: * Information standards and specifications * Metadata schemas and application profiles * Multilingual vocabularies, taxonomies, glossaries and thesauri * Metadata generation, harvesting, and exchange * Knowledge acquisition, elicitation and extraction * Infrastructures, systems and services for knowledge organization * Knowledge repositories and archives * Ontology approaches, models, theories, and languages * Ontology development, integration, lifecycle, and evaluation * Management of large ontology-driven knowledge bases SPECIAL SESSION CHAIRS * Nikos Manouselis. Agro-Know Technologies (Greece) * Ioannis Athanasiadis. Democritus University of Thrace (Greece) * Juan Pane. Universidad Nacional de Asunci?n (Paraguay) IMPORTANT DATES 20 June 2013: Paper submission (Springer LNCS style, PDF file submission) 31 July 2013: Acceptance notification 20 August 2013: Camera-ready, revised version of accepted papers 19-22 November 2013: MTSR'13 in Thessaloniki, Greece SUBMISSIONS Interested authors can submit either full papers (12 pages) or short papers (6 pages) about complete or ongoing research. Papers should be original and not previously submitted to other venues. PUBLICATION Springer will publish MTSR'13 accepted papers in the form a book in the CCIS Series. In addition, authors of papers in the Special Track will be invited to submit an extended version of their manuscripts to a Special Issue of Elsevier's forthcoming open access journal "Information Processing in Agriculture". The proceedings of the previous Special Track on Agricultural Metadata & Semantics for Agriculture, Food & Environment at MTSR'12 have been published in Vol.343 of the CCIS Series (http://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-642-35233-1/page/1) and MTSR'11 have been published in Vol.240 of the CCIS Series (http://www.springerlink.com/content/978-3-642-24731-6). A Special Issue of the International Journal of Metadata, Semantics and Ontologies has also resulted from this Track in the past: http://www.inderscience.com/info/inarticletoc.php?jcode=ijmso&year=2009&vol= 4&issue=1/2 ABOUT MTSR?13 The 7th International Conference on Metadata and Semantic Research (MTSR'13) will be hosted by the Alexander Technological Educational Institute of Thessaloniki, Greece from 19th to 22th of November 2013. It will take place at the Museum of Byzantine Culture,The Museum is located in the centre of Thessaloniki, in one of the most beautiful modern public buildings in Greece. The museum aims to present a w ide-ranging view of life in Byzantine and the post-Byzantine period including but not limited to art, ideology, social structure and religion. In addition is explains how historical changes and the political situation affected people's everyday life. MTSR'13 targets researchers and practitioners from the fields of metadata and semantics research as, well as applications of the Semantic Web and related technologies. See http://mtsr2013.teithe.gr for more details on travelling and accomodation. ************************************************************* -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From pavel at dit.unitn.it Mon Apr 15 22:36:27 2013 From: pavel at dit.unitn.it (Pavel Shvaiko) Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2013 22:36:27 +0200 Subject: [DL] 1st CFP: ISWC'13 workshop on Ontology Matching (OM-2013) Message-ID: <79C9124DF13F4F31BDF2B85026B9986D@ITN96946> Apologies for cross-postings -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1st CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS -------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Eighth International Workshop on ONTOLOGY MATCHING (OM-2013) http://om2013.ontologymatching.org/ October 21st or 22nd, 2013, ISWC Workshop Program, Sydney, Australia BRIEF DESCRIPTION AND OBJECTIVES Ontology matching is a key interoperability enabler for the Semantic Web, as well as a useful tactic in some classical data integration tasks dealing with the semantic heterogeneity problem. It takes the ontologies as input and determines as output an alignment, that is, a set of correspondences between the semantically related entities of those ontologies. These correspondences can be used for various tasks, such as ontology merging, data translation, query answering or navigation on the web of data. Thus, matching ontologies enables the knowledge and data expressed in the matched ontologies to interoperate. The workshop has three goals: 1. To bring together leaders from academia, industry and user institutions to assess how academic advances are addressing real-world requirements. The workshop will strive to improve academic awareness of industrial and final user needs, and therefore, direct research towards those needs. Simultaneously, the workshop will serve to inform industry and user representatives about existing research efforts that may meet their requirements. The workshop will also investigate how the ontology matching technology is going to evolve. 2. To conduct an extensive and rigorous evaluation of ontology matching approaches through the OAEI (Ontology Alignment Evaluation Initiative) 2013 campaign: http://oaei.ontologymatching.org/2013/. The particular focus of this year's OAEI campaign is on real-world specific matching tasks as well as on evaluation of interactive matchers. Therefore, the ontology matching evaluation initiative itself will provide a solid ground for discussion of how well the current approaches are meeting business needs. 3. To examine similarities and differences from database schema matching, which has received decades of attention but is just beginning to transition to mainstream tools. This year, in sync with the main conference, we encourage submissions specifically devoted to: (i) repeatable evaluations of the approaches proposed (not necessarily within OAEI) and (ii) application of the matching technology in real-life scenarios and assessment of its usefulness to the final users. TOPICS of interest include but are not limited to: Business and use cases for matching (e.g., open government data); Requirements to matching from specific domains (e.g., energy); Application of matching techniques in real-world scenarios (e.g., with mobile apps); Formal foundations and frameworks for matching; Matching patterns; Matching and big data; Entity matching; Instance matching and data interlinking; Large-scale matching evaluation; Performance of matching techniques; Matcher selection and self-configuration; User involvement (including both technical and organizational aspects); Explanations in matching; Social and collaborative matching; Alignment management; Reasoning with alignments; Matching for traditional applications (e.g., information integration); Matching for emerging applications (e.g., linked data, search). SUBMISSIONS Contributions to the workshop can be made in terms of technical papers and posters/statements of interest addressing different issues of ontology matching as well as participating in the OAEI 2013 campaign. Technical papers should be not longer than 12 pages using the LNCS Style: http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0 Posters/statements of interest should not exceed 2 pages and should be handled according to the guidelines for technical papers. All contributions should be prepared in PDF format and should be submitted through the workshop submission site at: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=om20130 Contributors to the OAEI 2013 campaign have to follow the campaign conditions and schedule at http://oaei.ontologymatching.org/2013/. TENTATIVE DATES FOR TECHNICAL PAPERS AND POSTERS: July 12, 2013: Deadline for the submission of papers. August 9, 2013:Deadline for the notification of acceptance/rejection. October 21th or 22nd, 2013: OM-2013, Sydney Convention & Exhibition Centre, Sydney, Australia. ORGANIZING COMMITTEE 1. Pavel Shvaiko (Main contact) TasLab, Informatica Trentina SpA, Italy 2. J?r?me Euzenat INRIA & LIG, France 3. Kavitha Srinivas IBM, USA 4. Ming Mao eBay, USA 5. Ernesto Jim?nez-Ruiz University of Oxford, UK PROGRAM COMMITTEE (to be completed) Manuel Atencia, INRIA &LIG, France Michele Barbera, SpazioDati, Italy Zohra Bellahsene, LRIMM, France Chris Bizer, University of Mannheim, Germany Olivier Bodenreider, National Library of Medicine, USA Marco Combetto, Informatica Trentina, Italy Gianluca Correndo, University of Southampton, UK J?r?me David, INRIA & LIG, France Alfio Ferrara, University of Milan, Italy Bin He, IBM, USA Wei Hu, Nanjing University, China Ryutaro Ichise, National Institute of Informatics, Japan Antoine Isaac, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam & Europeana, Netherlands Krzysztof Janowicz, University of California, USA Anja Jentzsch, Wikimedia Deutschland, Germany Yannis Kalfoglou, Ricoh Europe plc, UK Patrick Lambrix, Link?pings Universitet, Sweden Monika Lanzenberger, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Vincenzo Maltese, University of Trento, Italy Fiona McNeill, University of Edinburgh, UK Christian Meilicke, University of Mannheim, Germany Andriy Nikolov, Open University, UK Leo Obrst, The MITRE Corporation, USA Heiko Paulheim, University of Mannheim, Germany Yefei Peng, Google, USA Fran?ois Scharffe, LIRMM & University of Montpellier, France Luciano Serafini, Fondazione Bruno Kessler - IRST, Italy Umberto Straccia, ISTI-C.N.R., Italy Ondrej Svab-Zamazal, Prague University of Economics, Czech Republic C?ssia Trojahn, IRIT, France Rapha?l Troncy, EURECOM, France Giovanni Tummarello, Fondazione Bruno Kessler - IRST, Italy Lorenzino Vaccari, Autonomous Province of Trento, Italy Ludger van Elst, DFKI, Germany Shenghui Wang, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands Songmao Zhang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China ------------------------------------------------------- More about ontology matching: http://www.ontologymatching.org/ http://book.ontologymatching.org/ ------------------------------------------------------- Best Regards, Pavel ------------------------------------------------------- Pavel Shvaiko, PhD Innovation Program Manager TasLab, Informatica Trentina SpA, Italy http://www.ontologymatching.org/ http://www.taslab.eu/ http://www.infotn.it/ http://www.dit.unitn.it/~pavel/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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DEADLINE EXTENDED UNTIL April 28th The 8th International Workshop on Vocabularies, Ontologies and Rules for the Enterprise and Beyond (VORTE 2013)? Co-located with the 17th IEEE International EDOC Conference? Vancouver, BC, 9th-13th September, 2013 WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION? The VORTE series of workshops is traditionally devoted to the topics of vocabularies, ontologies and rules in the context of enterprise systems. This year, the workshop takes a broader view and does not target only enterprise systems, but also systems managing data on the Web. In fact, there is a need to exploit unstructured data in the enterprise, and on the Web in general, as the majority of Web content and enterprise content remains unstructured. Thus, the challenge of managing, extracting and structuring data is common to both worlds, and solutions in one community will benefit the other.? Examples of topics covered by traditional VORTE research contributions include the development and adaptation of foundational, business and domain ontologies for the enterprise, the use of ontologies and rules in all aspects of enterprise modeling such as business process management and services, the enhancement of rules and services with formal semantics, and the evaluation of such systems and approaches.? This year, the workshop is also a forum for the discussion of ontology-based knowledge management issues, interoperability issues and ontology engineering issues. The workshop also welcomes contributions on initiatives related to semantic annotation, open linked data, information extraction, ontology learning and update and ontology-based knowledge management as well as empirical studies on these areas. TOPICS? Knowledge management:? - Ontology and ontological methodologies in knowledge management and integration;? - Ontology engineering, learning and maintenance;? - Ontology integration and alignment; - Ontology effectiveness and evaluation;? Web of Data: - Ontology-based Semantic annotation - Linked data-based semantic annotation - Knowledge extraction including entity extraction and relationship extraction - Knowledge retrieval based on Open linked data Vocabularies and Ontologies for the enterprise:? - Ontology-driven representation of products, services, functionalities, design, processes; - Ontologies for the know-how;? - Ontologies for corporate knowledge;? - Upper-level ontologies in the enterprise; - Adaptation of ontologies for companies and organizations;? Conceptual and Enterprise Modeling: - Ontological Foundations for Conceptual Modeling and Meta-modeling? - Ontology Design and maintenance for Conceptual Model Integration; ? - Ontology-Based Conceptual Modeling Tools and Environments? - Ontologies and Enterprise Architecture Modeling - Ontologies and Business Process Modeling - Ontologies and Goal-Based Modeling? - Ontologies and Business Rules? Enterprise Semantic Interoperability: - Web services, Semantic services ? - Composition and Modularity - Merging, Mapping and Alignment? - Ontology Language Interoperability - Open linked data publishing and exploitation Case studies and Evaluation: - Practical issues in using ontologies in enterprises? - Real cases of successful/unsuccessful use of ontology in business? - From legacy systems to the new ontology-driven systems? - Practical issues in knowledge extraction and annotation - Semantic annotation evaluation - Ontology learning evaluation SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION? We solicit two types of papers:? - Short papers (4 pages) discussing controversial issues in the field or describing interesting or thought-provoking ideas that are not yet fully developed; and? - Full papers (8-10 pages) describing more mature results? All submissions MUST conform to the two-column format of IEEE Computer Society conference proceedings (http://www2.computer.org/portal/web/cscps/formatting) and include the author's name, affiliation, and contact details.? Papers must be submitted as PDF files using EasyChair at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=vorte2013? All papers must not have been previously published or submitted elsewhere.? The papers accepted for the EDOC 2013 Workshops will be published along with EDOC proceedings in the IEEE Xplore Digital Library. At least one of the authors for each accepted paper must register for the main conference (there will be no workshop-only registration at EDOC 2013) and present their papers at the workshop. ?? Post-conference Journal Publication? For previous editions of the workshop, special issues have been published in journals such as Applied Ontology (2007), IJBPIM (2007), Elsevier's Information Systems (2008, 2010), and Journal of Research Practice in Information Technology (2009).? This year, authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended versions of their papers for consideration for a special issue of a reputable journal. The journal is to be determined.? KEYNOTE? TBA? IMPORTANT DATES? Workshop paper submissions: April 28, 2013 Workshops paper acceptance notifications: May 31, 2013 Camera-ready papers due: June 21, 2013 Workshop: September 9, 10 or 11, 2013? COMMITTEES? Workshop Chairs:? Amal Zouaq, Royal Military College of Canada, Canada, amal.zouaq at rmc.ca Ebrahim Bagheri, Ryerson University, Canada, bagheri at ryerson.ca Renata Guizzardi, Federal University of Esp?rito Santo, Brazil, rguizzardi at inf.ufes.br Steering Committee:? - Giancarlo Guizzardi, Federal University of Esp?rito Santo (UFES), Vit?ria, Brazil? - Gerd Wagner, Institute of Informatics, Brandenburg University of Technology at Cottbus, Germany? - Dragan Gasevic, Athabasca University, Canada? Program Committee:? - Emanuele Bottazzi, Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies, CNR, Trento, Italy - Marco Brambilla, Politecnico di Milano, Italy? - Christoph Bussler, Merced Systems, Inc., USA? - Oscar Corcho, Universidad Polit?cnica de Madrid, Spain - Faezeh Ensan, University of New Brunswick, Canada - Sergio Espa?a, Polytechnic University of Valencia? - Joerg Evermann, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada? - Ricardo Falbo, Universidade Federal do Esprito Santo, Brazil - Lu?s Ferreira Pires, University of Twente, The Netherlands? - Michel Gagnon, Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal, Canada - Chiara Ghidini, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy - Adrian Giurca, Brandenburg University of Technology at Cottbus, Germany? - Guido Governatori, NICTA, Australia? - Peter Green, University of Queensland, Australia - Pierre Grenon, European Bioinformatics Institute, Cambridge, UK - Giancarlo Guizzardi, Ontology and Conceptual Modeling Research Group (NEMO)/Federal University of Espirito Santo, Brazil - Brian Henderson Sellers, University of Technology Sydney, Australia - Florian Matthes, University of Munich, Germany - Andreas L Opdahl, University of Bergen, Norway? - Jeffrey Parsons, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada - Florian Probst, SAP Research Darmstadt, Germany - Christophe Roche, University of Savoie, France? - Marco Rospocher, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy - Csaba Veres, University of Bergen, Norway? - Hans Weigand, Faculty of Economics of Tilburg University, Netherlands LINKS? 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URL: From noy at stanford.edu Thu Apr 18 01:49:40 2013 From: noy at stanford.edu (Natasha Noy) Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2013 16:49:40 -0700 Subject: [DL] Call for submissions: Doctoral Consortium at the International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2013) Message-ID: <74C0D55F-F2E2-41DF-A780-5D9BEAC4934E@stanford.edu> ======================================================== International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2013) Sydney, Australia October 21-25, 2013 Call for Doctoral Consortium Submissions http://iswc2013.semanticweb.org/content/call-doctoral-consortium-submissions ======================================================== The ISWC 2013 Doctoral Consortium will take place as part of the 12th International Semantic Web Conference in Sydney, Australia. This forum will provide PhD students an opportunity to share and develop their research ideas in a critical but supportive environment, to get feedback from mentors who are senior members of the Semantic Web research community, to explore issues related to academic and research careers, and ri build relationships with other Semantic Web PhD students from around the world. The Consortium aims to broaden the perspectives and to improve the research and communication skills of these students. The Doctoral Consortium is intended for students who have a specific research proposal and some preliminary results, but who have sufficient time prior to completing their dissertation to benefit from the consortium experience. In the Consortium, the students will present their proposals and get specific feedback and advice on how to improve their research plan. All proposals submitted to the Doctoral Consortium will undergo a thorough reviewing process with a view to providing detailed and constructive feedback. The international program committee will select the best submissions for presentation at the Doctoral Consortium and will be published in the conference proceedings. We anticipate that students with accepted submissions at the Doctoral Consortium will receive travel fellowships to offset some of the travel costs. Topics The Consortium has the same scope of technical topics as the main ISWC conference ? Management of Semantic Web data and Linked Data ? Languages, tools, and methodologies for representing and managing Semantic Web data ? Database, IR, NLP and AI technologies for the Semantic Web ? Search, query, integration, and analysis on the Semantic Web ? Robust and scalable knowledge management and reasoning on the Web ? Cleaning, assurance, and provenance of Semantic Web data, services, and processes ? Semantic Web Services ? Semantic Sensor Web ? Semantic technologies for mobile platforms ? Evaluation of semantic web technologies ? Ontology engineering and ontology patterns for the Semantic Web ? Ontology modularity, mapping, merging, and alignment ? Ontology Dynamics ? Social and Emergent Semantics ? Social networks and processes on the Semantic Web ? Representing and reasoning about trust, privacy, and security ? User Interfaces to the Semantic Web ? Interacting with Semantic Web data and Linked Data ? Information visualization of Semantic Web data and Linked Data ? Personalized access to Semantic Web data and applications ? Semantic Web technologies for eGovernment, eEnvironment, eMobility or eHealth ? Semantic Web and Linked Data for Cloud environments Submission Information We ask the PhD students to submit an 8 page description of their PhD research proposal. The proposal text must have at least 8 sections (some can be very short), addressing each of the following questions: 1. Problem Statement: What problem are you trying to solve? 2. Relevancy: Why is the problem relevant? 3. Related Work: How have others attempted to address this problem? 4. Research Questions: What are the research questions that you plan to address? 5. Hypotheses: What hypotheses are related to you research questions? 6. Approach: How are you planning to address your research questions and test your hypotheses? 7. Reflections: Why do you think you will succeed where others failed? 8. Evaluation plan: How will you measure your success - faster/more accurate/less failures/etc.? Submissions must be in pdf and be formatted according to the Springer Publications format for Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). Important Dates ? Paper Submission: June 8, 2013, 11:59pm Hawaii time ? Notifications: July 1, 2013 ? Camera-Ready Versions: August 5, 2013 ? Doctoral Consortium: October 22, 2013 ? Conference: October 21-25, 2013 From universal.logic at unine.ch Tue Apr 16 19:23:39 2013 From: universal.logic at unine.ch (universal logic) Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2013 17:23:39 +0000 Subject: [DL] Every spring people meet in Paris to talk about logic ... In-Reply-To: <011E451E66F47F4890878A246663E0EF545B13F9@mail-mbx-02.UNINE.CH> References: <011E451E66F47F4890878A246663E0EF545AE2EA@mail-mbx-02.UNINE.CH>, <011E451E66F47F4890878A246663E0EF545B0320@mail-mbx-02.UNINE.CH>, <011E451E66F47F4890878A246663E0EF545B032F@mail-mbx-02.UNINE.CH>, <011E451E66F47F4890878A246663E0EF545B13E0@mail-mbx-02.UNINE.CH>, <011E451E66F47F4890878A246663E0EF545B13F9@mail-mbx-02.UNINE.CH> Message-ID: <011E451E66F47F4890878A246663E0EF545B1434@mail-mbx-02.UNINE.CH> LOGIC IN QUESTION / LA LOGIQUE EN QUESTION International Logic Workshop - Atelier International de Logique Paris, Mai/ May 2-3, 2013 Every spring people meet in Paris to talk about logic ... Chaque printemps on se rencontre ? Paris pour discuter de logique ... http://www.logic-in-question.org/ From clu at informatik.uni-bremen.de Thu Apr 18 12:15:00 2013 From: clu at informatik.uni-bremen.de (Carsten Lutz) Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2013 12:15:00 +0200 Subject: [DL] ESSLLI 2014 Call for Course and Workshop Proposals Message-ID: <516FC7A4.3000108@informatik.uni-bremen.de> Call for Course and Workshop Proposals ESSLLI 2014 26th European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information Tuebingen, Germany August 11-22, 2014 www.esslli2014.de ------------------------------------------------------------------ IMPORTANT DATES =============== 15 June 2013: Proposal submission deadline 15 September 2013: Notification 1 June 2014: Course material due TOPICS AND FORMAT ================= Proposals for courses and workshops at ESSLLI'2014 are invited in all areas of Logic, Linguistics and Computing and Information Sciences. Cross-disciplinary and innovative topics are particularly encouraged. Each course and workshop will consist of five 90 minute sessions, offered daily (Monday-Friday) in a single week. Proposals for two-week courses should be structured and submitted as two independent one-week courses, e.g. as an introductory course followed by an advanced one. In such cases, the ESSLLI program committee reserves the right to accept just one of the two proposals. All instructional and organizational work at ESSLLI is performed completely on a voluntary basis, so as to keep participation fees to a minimum. However, organizers and instructors have their registration fees waved, and are reimbursed for travel and accommodation expenses up to a level to be determined and communicated with the proposal notification. ESSLLI can only guarantee reimbursement for at most one course/workshop organizer, and can not guarantee full reimbursement of travel costs for lecturers or organizers from outside of Europe. The ESSLLI organizers would appreciate any help in controlling the School's expenses by seeking complete coverage of travel and accommodation expenses from other sources. CATEGORIES ========== Each proposal should fall under one of the following categories. * FUNDAMENTAL COURSES * Such courses are designed to present the basics of a research area, to people with no prior knowledge in that area. They should be of elementary level, without prerequisites in the course's topic, though possibly assuming a level of general scientific maturity in the relevant discipline. They should enable researchers from related disciplines to develop a level of comfort with the fundamental concepts and techniques of the course's topic, thereby contributing to the interdisciplinary nature of our research community. * INTRODUCTORY COURSES * Introductory courses are central to ESSLLI's mission. They are intended to introduce a research field to students, young researchers, and other non-specialists, and to foster a sound understanding of its basic methods and techniques. Such courses should enable researchers from related disciplines to develop some comfort and competence in the topic considered. Introductory courses in a cross-disciplinary area may presuppose general knowledge of the related disciplines. * ADVANCED COURSES * Advanced courses are targeted primarily to graduate students who wish to acquire a level of comfort and understanding in the current research of a field. * WORKSHOPS * Workshops focus on specialized, usually topics of current interest. Workshops organizers are responsible for soliciting papers and selecting the workshop program. They are also responsible for publishing proceedings if they decide to have proceedings. PROPOSAL GUIDELINES =================== Course and workshop proposals should follow closely the following guidelines to ensure full consideration. Each course may have no more than two instructors, and each workshop no more than two organizers. All instructors and organizers must possess a PhD or equivalent degree by the submission deadline. Course proposals should mention explicitly the intended course category. Proposals for introductory courses should indicate the intended level, for example as it relates to standard textbooks and monographs in the area. Proposals for advanced courses should specify the prerequisites in detail. Proposals must be submitted in PDF format via: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=esslli2014 and include all of the following: o Personal information for each proposer: Name, affiliation, contact address, email, fax, homepage (optional) o General proposal information: Title, category o Contents information * Abstract of up to 150 words * Motivation and description (up to two pages) * Tentative outline * Expected level and prerequisites * Appropriate references (e.g. textbooks, monographs, proceedings, surveys) o Practical information: * Relevant preceding meetings and events, if applicable * Potential external funding for participants ------------------------------------------------------------------ From peterschueller at sabanciuniv.edu Mon Apr 22 08:16:40 2013 From: peterschueller at sabanciuniv.edu (peterschueller at sabanciuniv.edu) Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2013 09:16:40 +0300 Subject: [DL] 1st CFP: Workshop on Knowledge Representation and Reasoning in Robotics @ ICLP2013, Istanbul, Turkey Message-ID: (Apologies for cross-posting.) CALL FOR PAPERS Workshop on Knowledge Representation and Reasoning in Robotics at the International Conference on Logic Programming (ICLP). Location: Istanbul, Turkey. Date of Workshop: August 25, 2013. Workshop web site: http://www.cs.ttu.edu/~smohan/krr_iclp13/ Conference web site: http://www.iclp2013.org/en/default.asp WORKSHOP SCOPE Mobile robots (and agents) are increasingly being used in a range of application domains such as disaster rescue, surveillance, health care and navigation. A formidable challenge to the widespread deployment of robots in our homes, offices and other complex domains is the ability to represent, reason with and revise incomplete and inconsistent domain knowledge obtained from sensor inputs and high-level human feedback. Although many algorithms have been developed for representing and reasoning with domain knowledge, the research community is fragmented, with separate vocabularies that are increasingly (and ironically) making it difficult for these researchers to communicate with each other. As a result, the rich body of research in knowledge representation for cognitive agents is not fully exploited by robotics researchers. For instance, declarative programming paradigms provide non-monotonic reasoning capabilities essential for robotics, although they do not always consider the challenge of modeling the uncertainty in robot application domains. In parallel, many robotics researchers are developing probabilistic reasoning algorithms that elegantly model the uncertainty in sensing and navigation on robots, although it is a challenge to use such algorithms to represent and reason with commonsense knowledge. In recent years, algorithms have also been developed for combining logical and probabilistic reasoning, but these algorithms do not support the desired knowledge representation and reasoning capabilities, or fail to address problems (e.g., frame problem, ramification problem) that are well understood in the logic programming community. This workshop seeks to engage the logic programming community in robotics research challenges. The objective is to promote a deeper understanding of recent breakthroughs and tough challenges in the logical programming and probabilistic robotics communities, resulting in collaborative efforts towards addressing the knowledge representation and reasoning challenges in robotics. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): * Knowledge acquisition and representation. * Reasoning with incomplete and inconsistent knowledge. * Reasoning about actions and change. * Planning and scheduling. * Learning and symbol grounding. * Cognitive architectures. * Multiagent systems. We are especially interested in papers describing efforts to integrate knowledge representation, logical reasoning and/or probabilistic reasoning on robots and agents in different application domains. PAPER SUBMISSION Paper submissions can be in one of the following categories: * Regular paper: the length of regular papers (including figures and bibliography) should not exceed 12 pages. * Poster/summary paper: the length of poster/summary papers (including all figures and bibliography) should not exceed 4 pages. Easychair paper submission web site: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=krr2013 IMPORTANT DATES Submission deadline: May 25, 2013 Notifications: June 25, 2013 Camera-ready deadline: July 10, 2013 Workshop at ICLP: August 25, 2013 From tarek.besold at googlemail.com Sat Apr 20 20:40:37 2013 From: tarek.besold at googlemail.com (Tarek R. Besold) Date: Sat, 20 Apr 2013 11:40:37 -0700 Subject: [DL] Computational Creativity, Concept Invention, and General Intelligence (@ IJCAI 2013): Extended submission deadline Message-ID: <92045C2C-5E43-47D2-8199-528E49ED9D1D@googlemail.com> **************************************************** Workshop on Computational Creativity, Concept Invention, and General Intelligence 2013 3rd and 4th of August, 2013, Beijing/China **************************************************** In conjunction with the 23rd International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) 2013 **************************************** EXTENDED SUBMISSION DEADLINE **************************************** The deadline for submissions to C3GI at IJCAI 2013 has been extended: New (and final) deadline is UTC 23:59 on Friday, April 26, 2013! ******************** Workshop Webpage ******************** http://www.cogsci.uos.de/~c3gi ****************************** Workshop Topics & Audience ****************************** The targeted audience for the workshop are researchers associated with the fields working in the development of computational models for creativity, concept formation, concept discovery, idea generation, and their overall relation and role to general intelligence. Furthermore, researchers coming from application areas, like computer-aided innovation (CAI) are welcome to submit papers for this workshop. We invite papers that make a scientific contribution to the fields of computational creativity, idea generation and/or artificial general intelligence, with possible topics ranging from theoretical studies of human creativity, inventive capacities and intelligence (that in some way propose a computational model for the respective capability), through more practical contributions reporting on creative, inventive or generally intelligent computer systems (we particularly welcome implementations offering general or at least multiple sorts of results) and studies of systems and software supporting and/or guiding humans in the creative or inventive act, to application-based reports from fields like design, architecture or arts. Submissions connecting to several of the aforementioned topics are highly encouraged and welcome. Due to the open nature of the targeted topics, we hope for contributions from a broad variety of subdisciplines within AI. Relevant keywords include but are not limited to following high-level areas: - Computational Creativity & Creativity-Support Tools - Analogical Reasoning - Artificial General Intelligence - Automated Story Generation - Computer-Aided & Automated Mathematics - Computer-Aided Innovation - Computational Models for Conceptual Blending - Automated Poetry Generation - Automated Music Generation/Automated Composition - Automated Art Generation - Creativity in Problem Solving ******************* Call for Papers ******************* Anybody with an interest in the questions raised above is invited to submit a research or position paper as basis for discussions during the workshop. Submissions should be sent to Tarek R. Besold ( c3gi at cogsci.uos.de ). Accepted papers will be published online in the ''Publication Series of the Institute of Cognitive Science`` (PICS, ISSN 1610-5389), a scientific series from the Institute of Cognitive Science, University of Osnabrueck, unless the authors instruct us otherwise. Authors are invited to submit an expanded full paper version of their workshop submission to a post-workshop review process, leading to a reviewed book on future directions for creativity, idea generation, and general intelligence. ******************* Important Dates ******************* Extended paper submission deadline: UTC 23:59, 26th of April, 2013 Notification of acceptance: 20th of May, 2013 Camera ready versions: 30th of May, 2013 Workshop: 3rd and 4th of August, 2013 ************************ Format of Submission ************************ All papers should be submitted in accordance to the IJCAI formatting style. Submitted papers should not be longer than 6 pages. ********************* Program Committee ********************* Program Committee Co-Chairs: - T. R. Besold, University of Osnabrueck - K.-U. Kuehnberger, University of Osnabrueck - M. Schorlemmer, IIIA-CSIC, Barcelona - A. Smaill, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh Program Committee: - J. Barnden, University of Birmingham - M. Bhatt, University of Bremen - M. Bishop, University of London - S. Colton, Imperial College London - G. Cascini, Politecnico di Milano - J. Cassens, University of Luebeck - H. Ekbia, Indiana University Bloomington - M. Guhe, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh - H. Gust, University of Osnabrueck - I. Havel, Charles University Prague - B. Indurkhya, IIIT Hyderabad & AGH University of Science and Technology, Krakow - A. Kofod-Petersen, NTNU Trondheim - U. Krumnack, University of Osnabrueck - O. Kutz, University of Bremen - M. Martinez Baldares, Universidad de los Andes, Bogota - A. Pease, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh - F. Pereira, University of Coimbra - E. Plaza, IIIA-CSIC, Barcelona - T. Roth-Berghofer, University of West London - U. Schmid, University of Bamberg - P. Stefaneas, NTU Athens - T. Veale, University College, Dublin - P. Wang, Temple University Philadelphia ************************ Organizing Committee ************************ Tarek R. Besold, University of Osnabrueck Kai-Uwe Kuehnberger, University of Osnabrueck Alan Smaill, University of Edinburgh Marco Schorlemmer, IIIA-CSIC -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From bock at fzi.de Tue Apr 23 17:00:02 2013 From: bock at fzi.de (Juergen Bock) Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2013 17:00:02 +0200 Subject: [DL] AST 2013: 3rd Call for Papers (7th International Workshop on Applications of Semantic Technologies) Message-ID: <5176A1F2.7030403@fzi.de> (apologies for cross-posting) >>> NEW DEADLINE: May 12, 2013 ===================================================================== 7th International Workshop on Applications of Semantic Technologies (AST 2013) http://ast2013.fzi.de/ at INFORMATIK 2013 (16-20 September 2013, Koblenz, Germany) ===================================================================== <<< Discuss about application areas on our forum at >>> <<< http://ast2013.fzi.de/?page_id=33 >>> <<< as input to the OpenSpace session at the workshop >>> Aim, Scope, Goals: ------------------ Semantic Web denotes a major international research effort with the goal to make Web content available for intelligent knowledge processing. The Semantic Web draws on standard and novel techniques from various disciplines related to Computer Science, including Artificial Intelligence, Databases, Internet Technology, Software Agents, Ontologies, Knowledge Management and eCommerce. The developed and integrated methods and tools ? often called Semantic Technologies ? are generic and have a very large application potential outside the domain of Semantic Web. Applications of Semantic Technologies are currently being investigated in various fields, including Ambient Intelligence, Software Engineering, Cognitive Systems, Corporate Intranets, Knowledge Management and Bioinformatics. In recent years, the amount of data published on the Semantic Web as so-called Linked Data has exploded. We believe that the methods and tools provided by Semantic Technologies will play a crucial role in these and other application areas for the foreseeable future, in particular for added-value services in organizations. The AST2013 workshop will bring together researchers and practitioners who work on applications of Semantic Technologies in order to foster cross-fertilisation between application areas and aid technology transfer from foundational research into practice. The workshop covers diverse application areas of Semantic Technologies, including, but not limited to, the following: * Ambient Intelligence * Cognitive Systems * Information Integration * Multimedia Data Management * Software Engineering * smartEnergy * Machine Learning * Service-Oriented Computing * Digital Libraries * Grid and Cloud Computing * Peer-to-Peer Systems * Technology-enhanced learning * eScience * eCommerce * eGovernment * Bioinformatics * Social Software * Automation The event will be organised as a full-day workshop with a keynote address and several contributed talks. There will be an additional slot reserved for an OpenSpace session to creatively explore new application areas. We believe that this will spark fruitful discussions among participants and initiate future collaborations and exploitation areas for Semantic Technologies. Important Dates: ---------------- * Paper submission deadline: May 12, 2013 * Notification: May 20, 2013 * Registration for INFORMATIK 2013: June 30, 2013 * Camera ready version: July 1, 2013 * AST Workshop: September 17, 2013 Workshop Organisers: -------------------- * J?rgen Bock (FZI Research Center for Information Technologies, Karlsruhe) * Catherina Burghart (Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences) * Sebastian Rudolph (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology ? KIT) Programme Committee: -------------------- * Armin Haller, CSIRO ICT Centre, Canberra * Bernhard Bauer, University of Augsburg, Germany * Christoph Beierle, University of Hagen, Germany * Frithjof Dau, SAP AG, Dresden * Gabriele Kern-Isberner, University of Dortmund, Germany * Harald Kosch, University of Passau, Germany * Jens Hartmann, EnBW, EnSoC, Karlsruhe * Johannes Busse, Johannes Busse knowledge engineering * J?rgen Ziegler, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany * Mark Hefke, CAS Software AG * Markus Luczak-Roesch, FU Berlin, Germany * Robert Tolksdorf, FU Berlin, Germany * Simone Braun, CAS Software AG * S?ren Auer, University of Leipzig, Germany * Stefan Schlobach, VU Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Germany * Stefan Schulte, TU Wien, Austria * Stephan Bloehdorn, IBM, Berlin * Stephan Grimm, Siemens AG, M?nchen * Thomas Fuhr, Georg Simon Ohm University of Applied Sciences Nuremberg, Germany * Thorsten Liebig, derivo GmbH, Ulm * Ulrike Lucke, University of Potsdam * York Sure, gesis Leibnitz-Institut f?r Sozialwissenschaften -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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The idea is to cover an ample spectrum of themes, ranging from theory to applications, and stimulate cross-fertilization. Papers focused on formal methods are especially welcome. Authors are invited to submit original research or tool papers on all relevant topics in these areas. Papers discussing new ideas that are at an early stage of development are also welcome. LIST OF TOPICS The topics covered by the conference include, but are not limited to, the following: Automata Theory Automated Deduction Computational aspects of Game Theory Concurrency and Distributed computation Decision Procedures Deductive, Compositional, and Abstraction Techniques for Verification Finite Model Theory First-order and Higher-order Logics Formal Languages Formal Methods for Systems Biology, Hybrid, Embedded, and Mobile Systems Games and Automata for Verification Game Semantics Logical aspects of Computational Complexity Logics of Programs Modal and Temporal Logics Model Checking Models of Reactive and Real-Time Systems Program Analysis and Software Verification Run-time Verification and Testing Specification and Verification of Finite and Infinite-state Systems Synthesis INVITED SPEAKERS Alessandro Cimatti (ITC-IRST, Italy) Thomas Henzinger (IST, Austria) Christof Loeding (University of Aachen, Germany) PAPER SUBMISSION Submitted papers should not exceed fourteen (14) pages using EPTCS format, be unpublished and contain original research. For papers reporting experimental results, authors are encouraged to make their data available with their submission. Submissions must be in PDF or PS format and will be handled via EasyChair. IMPORTANT DATES Abstract submission: May 1, 2013 Paper submission: May 8, 2013 Acceptance notification: June 17, 2013 Final version: June 26, 2013 Conference: August 29-31, 2013 PROCEEDINGS The proceedings will be published by Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science. A special issue of a major international journal to publish an extended and revised version of the best symposium papers is also under consideration. Revised versions of the selected papers from the previous editions lead to one special issue of the International Journal of Foundation of Computer Science (GandALF 2010) and two special issues of Theoretical Computer Science (GandALF 2011 and 2012). PROGRAM CHAIRS Tiziano Villa (University of Verona, Italy) Gabriele Puppis (LaBRI, Bordeaux, France) PROGRAM COMMITTEE Luca Aceto (University of Reykjavik, Iceland) Rajeev Alur (University of Pennsylvania, United States) Roderick Bloem (University of Graz, Austria) Arnaud Carayol (IGM, Marne-la-Vallee, France) Anuj Dawar (University of Cambridge, United Kingdom) Stephane Demri (New York University, United States / CNRS) Volker Diekert (University of Stuttgart, Germany) Javier Esparza (University of Munchen, Germany) Valentin Goranko (Technical University of Denmark, Denmark) Bakhadyr Khoussainov (University of Auckland, New Zeland) Naoki Kobayashi (University of Tokyo, Japan) Stephan Kreutzer (University of Berlin, Germany) Marta Kwiatkowska (University of Oxford, United Kingdom) Martin Lange (University of Kassel, Germany) Angelo Montanari (University of Udine, Italy) Mimmo Parente (University of Salerno, Italy) Adriano Peron (University of Naples, Italy) Alexander Rabinovich (University of Tel Aviv, Israel) Ramaswamy Ramanujam (Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai, India) Jean Francois Raskin (University of Bruxelles, Belgium) Davide Sangiorgi (University of Bologna, Italy) Olivier Serre (LIAFA, Paris, France) Sharon Shoham (Academic College of Tel-Aviv Yaffo, Israel) Szymon Torunczyk (University of Warsaw, Poland) Zhilin Wu (State Key Laboratory of Computer Science, China) Hsu-Chun Yen (National Taiwan University, Taiwan) ORGANIZING CHAIR Pietro Sala (University of Verona, Italy) STEERING COMMITTEE Mikolaj Bojanczyk (University of Warsaw, Poland) Javier Esparza (University of Munich, Germany) Andrea Maggiolo-Schettini (University of Pisa, Italy) Angelo Montanari (University of Udine, Italy) Margherita Napoli (University of Salerno, Italy) Mimmo Parente (University of Salerno, Italy) Wolfgang Thomas (RWTH Aachen University, Germany) Wieslaw Zielonka (University of Paris7, France) INFO Please visit the conference website http://gandalf.di.univr.it/ for more information. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From womo2013 at easychair.org Tue Apr 23 17:55:16 2013 From: womo2013 at easychair.org (Chiara Del Vescovo) Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2013 16:55:16 +0100 Subject: [DL] Second CfP: WoMO 2013 - 7th Int'l Workshop on Modular Ontologies Message-ID: To whom it may concern: Apologies for cross-posting. Please consider the following Call for Papers for immediate release. Best regards, Chiara Del Vescovo ======================================================== 7th Int'l Workshop on Modular Ontologies (WoMO) Corunna, Spain, September, 2013 held in conjunction with LPNMR 2013 --- Second Call for Papers --- --- NEW: Student Travel Grants available --- ======================================================== Submission deadline: July 5, 2013 ======================================================== http://www.iaoa.org/womo/2013.html MODULARITY, studied for years in software engineering, allows mechanisms for easy and flexible reuse, generalization, structuring, maintenance, design patterns, and comprehension. In formal and applied ontology, modularity is central to reducing the complexity of designing and understanding ontologies, and to facilitating ontology verification, reasoning, development, maintenance and integration. Recent research on ontology modularity shows substantial progress in foundations of modularity, techniques of modularization and modular development, distributed reasoning and empirical evaluation. These results provide a solid foundation and exciting prospects for further research and development. The workshop continues a series of successful events that have been an excellent venue for practitioners and researchers to discuss latest and current work. The most recent WoMOs were held at ESSLLI 2011 and FOIS/ICBO 2012. This time WoMO is organised as a workshop of LPNMR 2013: the 12th International Conference on Logic Programming and Non-monotonic Reasoning. LPNMR is well-established as the main conference in the field. The workshop will be open to all attendants of LPMNR'13 and its workshops. Workshop speakers will be required to register for WoMO via the LPMNR'13 website. Registration for WoMO only will be possible. STUDENT TRAVEL GRANTS: With the generous support of the IAOA, we are happy to provide funding to students. Priority will be given to student presenters and authors of accepted papers. More details will be published at a later date. TOPICS include, but are not limited to: - What is modularity?: kinds of modules and their properties; modules vs. contexts; design patterns; granularity of representation; - Logical/foundational studies: modular ontology languages; reconciling inconsistencies across modules; formal structuring of modules; heterogeneity; hybrid theories; intertheory relations (conservativity, interpretability, strong equivalence, inseparability, etc.) - Algorithmic approaches: distributed and incremental reasoning; modularization and module extraction; sharing, linking, reuse; privacy; complexity of reasoning; implemented systems; - Evaluation of modularizations: case studies or other analyses of ontology modularizations (why it is modularized in a certain way, what does it address, how can it be improved); how to measure the adequacy of a modularization; comparison of modularizations with respect to philosophical, logical, reasoning, cognitive, or social aspects; - Applications: semantic web; life sciences; earth sciences; bio-ontologies; natural language processing; space and time; ambient intelligence; social intelligence; technology and engineering; collaborative ontology development and ontology versioning. IMPORTANT DATES Paper Submission: July 5, 2013 Notification: August 19, 2013 Camera ready: September 2, 2013 Workshop: September 15, 2013 SUBMISSION GUIDELINES: We welcome submissions on modularity in a broad sense. The workshop is open to papers of theoretical or practical nature from various disciplines. Submissions can be long papers (11 pages) or short papers (5 pages), formatted according to Springer LNCS style (see http://www.springer.com/comp/lncs/Authors.html), prepared in PDF format and submitted no later than the submission deadline, through the EasyChair Submission System (see http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=womo2013). Submitted papers will be peer-reviewed by members of the program committee. Accepted papers will be made available in the proceedings to be published electronically in the CEUR Workshop Proceedings series (see http://www.ceur-ws.org). Proceedings of WoMO 2011 and 2012 can be found at http://www.booksonline.iospress.nl/Content/View.aspx?piid=20369 and at http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-875/. WORKSHOP CHAIRS: Torsten Hahmann, University of Toronto, Canada David Pearce, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain Chiara Del Vescovo, University of Manchester, UK Dirk Walther, TU Dresden, Germany PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Kenneth Baclawski, VIStology, Inc. Eva Blomqvist, Link?ping University Alex Borgida, Rutgers University Stefano Borgo, Laboratory for Applied Ontology, ISTC-CNR, Trento Gerhard Brewka, University of Leipzig Mike Dean, Raytheon BBN Technologies Thomas Eiter, Technical University of Vienna Pawel Garbacz, The John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin Dagmar Gromann, Vienna University of Economics and Business Michael Gruninger, University of Toronto Robert Hoehndorf, University of Cambridge Dieter Hutter, DFKI GmbH Tomi Janhunen, Aalto University Pavel Klinov, University of Ulm Christoph Lange, University of Birmingham Thomas Meyer, Centre for Artificial Intelligence Research, UKZN and CSIR Meraka Leo Obrst, MITRE Marco Schorlemmer, Artificial Intelligence Research Institute, IIIA, CSIC Luciano Serafini, Fondazione Bruno Kessler Dmitry Tsarkov, The University of Manchester INVITED SPEAKERS: TBA -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From wolter at liverpool.ac.uk Fri Apr 26 09:58:57 2013 From: wolter at liverpool.ac.uk (Wolter, Frank) Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2013 07:58:57 +0000 Subject: [DL] PhD Studentships at University of Liverpool Message-ID: The Department of Computer Science, University of Liverpool, offers a significant number of PhD positions. Applications in the research fields Description Logic, Modal Logic, and Temporal Logic. are encouraged. The deadline for this application round is Monday, May 13. Please contact Frank Wolter (wolter at liverpool.ac.uk) or Boris Konev (konev at liverpool.ac.uk) for more information. From Bertram.Fronhoefer at tu-dresden.de Sun Apr 28 18:15:39 2013 From: Bertram.Fronhoefer at tu-dresden.de (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Bertram_Fronh=F6fer?=) Date: Sun, 28 Apr 2013 18:15:39 +0200 Subject: [DL] European Master's Program in Computational Logic Message-ID: <517D4B2B.6080905@tu-dresden.de> Dear all, Please spread this information as wide as possible among friends and colleagues, at your old universities and the places, where you currently live and work. Many thanks -- Steffen ******************************************************************************************************* The European Master's Program in Computational Logic We are glad to announce to you the possibility to join our European Master's Program of Computational Logic. This program is offered jointly at the Free-University of Bozen-Bolzano in Italy, the Technische Universit?t Dresden in Germany, the Universidade Nova de Lisboa in Portugal and the Technische Universit?t Wien in Austria. Within this program you have the choice to study at two /three of the four European universities. In addition you can do your project work at the National ICT of Australia (NICTA). You will graduate with a MSc in Computer Science and obtain a multiple degree. Information on the universities and the program is provided here: http://www.emcl-study.eu/home.html Language of instruction is English. Tuition fees are 3.000 EUR (for non-European students) and 1.000 (for European students) per year. The ERASMUS-MUNDUS consortium offers tuition fee waivers and small grants (http://www.emcl-study.eu/grants.html). More information on the application procedure is available from: http://www.emcl-study.eu/application.html Application deadline is 31 May, applicants must use our online application system. Do not hesitate to contact us again if you have any further questions. Kind regards -- Steffen H?lldobler Prof. Dr. Steffen Hoelldobler International Center for Computational Logic Technische Universit?t Dresden 01062 Dresden, Germany phone: [+49](351)46 33 83 40 fax: [+49](351)46 33 83 42 email: sh at iccl.tu-dresden.de From ernesto.jimenez.ruiz at gmail.com Sun Apr 28 19:46:50 2013 From: ernesto.jimenez.ruiz at gmail.com (Ernesto Jimenez-Ruiz) Date: Sun, 28 Apr 2013 18:46:50 +0100 Subject: [DL] [CfP] (Deadline approaching) 2nd OWL Reasoner Evaluation Workshop (with DL 2013) Message-ID: [Apologies for cross-posting] ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS & SYSTEMS 2nd OWL Reasoner Evaluation Workshop (ORE 2013) Collocated with DL 2013 Workshop July 22nd in Ulm, Germany http://ore2013.cs.manchester.ac.uk/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- OBJECTIVES -------------------------------------------------------------------------- The goal of this workshop is to bring together both the DEVELOPERS and END-USERS of reasoners for (subsets of) OWL, including systems focusing on both intensional (ontology) and extensional (data) query answering. The workshop will give developers a perfect opportunity to promote their systems and get feedback from end-users and real uses-cases. CALL FOR PAPERS -------------------------------------------------------------------------- We invite submission of papers describing: * System descriptions describing the architecture, implementation, and expected performance of the reasoner. * Reasoner implementation details, usage reports, implementation "tips and tricks". * Challenging ontologies and/or benchmark proposals for OWL reasoners. Papers should be formatted according to the Springer LNCS guidelines ( http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html) and should not be longer than 6 pages. Submissions must be in PDF through the EasyChair conference system: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ore2013. All submissions will be peer-reviewed by the program committee. Selected papers will be presented during the workshop and published as a volume of CEUR workshop proceedings (http://ceur-ws.org/). CALL FOR SYSTEMS (CHALLENGE) -------------------------------------------------------------------------- We invite reasoner developers to submit their reasoners for participation in the OWL reasoner performance competition. The outline for the competition is as follows: * The test sets will include OWL ontologies from all OWL 2 profiles and of varying sizes, randomly sampled from the NCBO BioPortal, a web crawl, and user-submitted hard ontologies. * The tested tasks will include consistency checking, classification, entailment checking, and query answering. * Developers should send a JAR file of their systems to the competition organizers who will then carry out the benchmarks (see https://bitbucket.org/spbail/ore-benchmark for details). We also strongly encourage challenge participants to submit a system description paper (see instructions above), describing: * architecture * implementation * expected performance More information about the competition can be found on the ORE 2013 website: http://ore2013.cs.manchester.ac.uk/competition/ IMPORTANT DATES -------------------------------------------------------------------------- * Paper submission deadline: May 3rd, 2013 * Notification of acceptance: May 31st, 2013 * System submission deadline for competition: June 27th, 2013 * Workshop: July 22nd, 2013 * Competitions: July 22-26, 2013 ORGANISATION -------------------------------------------------------------------------- For enquiries, please contact the organisers at ore2013 at easychair.org Organisers * Ernesto Jim?nez-Ruiz, University of Oxford, UK * Samantha Bail, University of Manchester, UK Competition Organisers * Bijan Parsia, University of Manchester, UK * Rafael Goncalves, University of Manchester, UK Local Organisers * Birte Glimm, Ulm University, Germany * Yevgeny Kazakov, Ulm University, Germany Program committee * Ana Armas, University of Oxford, UK * Franz Baader, TU Dresden, Germany * Christine Golbreich, LIRMM, CNRS, Montpellier & University Versailles Saint-Quentin, France * Janna Hastings, European Bioinformatics Institute, UK * Pavel Klinov, Ulm University, Germany * Despoina Magka, University of Oxford, UK * Francisco Martin-Recuerda, Universidad Polit?cnica de Madrid, Spain * Christian Meilicke, University of Mannheim, Germany * Julian Mendez, TU Dresden, Germany * Maria del Mar Rold?n Garc?a, Universidad de Malaga, Spain * Stefan Schlobach, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands * Kiril Simov, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria * Kavitha Srinivas, IBM Research, USA * Zhe Wang, University of Oxford, UK -- Ernesto Jim?nez-Ruiz Research Assistant Department of Computer Science University of Oxford Wolfson Building, Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3QD, UK http://krono.act.uji.es/people/Ernesto http://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/people/ernesto.jimenez-ruiz/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From aspocp at gmail.com Thu May 2 07:25:36 2013 From: aspocp at gmail.com (Yuliya Lierler) Date: Thu, 2 May 2013 00:25:36 -0500 (CDT) Subject: [DL] CfP ASPOCP 2013: 6th Workshop on Answer Set Programming and Other Computing Paradigms Message-ID: <20130502052536.DAC6E185D1C@linux-lab-13.localdomain> Apologies for cross-posting. =============================================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS ASPOCP 2013 6th Workshop on Answer Set Programming and Other Computing Paradigms http://www.kr.tuwien.ac.at/events/aspocp2013 August 25th, 2013 Collocated with the International Conference on Logic Programming 2013 Istanbul, Turkey August 24-29, 2013 =============================================================================== AIMS AND SCOPE Since its introduction in the late 1980s, answer set programming (ASP) has been widely applied to various knowledge-intensive tasks and combinatorial search problems. ASP was found to be closely related to SAT, which has led to a method of computing answer sets using SAT solvers and techniques adapted from SAT. While this has been the most studied relationship which is currently extended towards satisfiability modulo theories (SMT), the relationship of ASP to other computing paradigms, such as constraint satisfaction, quantified boolean formulas (QBF), first-order logic (FOL), or FO(ID) logic is also the subject of active research. New methods of computing answer sets are being developed based on the relation between ASP and other paradigms, such as the use of pseudo-Boolean solvers, QBF solvers, FOL theorem provers, and CLP systems. Furthermore, the practical applications of ASP also foster work on multi-paradigm problem-solving, and in particular language and solver integration. The most prominent examples in this area currently are the integration of ASP with description logics (in the realm of the Semantic Web), constraint satisfaction, and general means of external computation. This workshop will facilitate the discussion about crossing the boundaries of current ASP techniques in theory, solving, and applications, in combination with or inspired by other computing paradigms. TOPICS Topics of interests include (but are not limited to): - ASP and classical logic formalisms (SAT/FOL/QBF/SMT/DL). - ASP and constraint programming. - ASP and other logic programming paradigms, e.g., FO(ID). - ASP and other nonmonotonic languages, e.g., action languages. - ASP and external means of computation. - ASP and probabilistic reasoning. - ASP and machine learning. - New methods of computing answer sets using algorithms or systems of other paradigms. - Language extensions to ASP. - ASP and multi-agent systems. - ASP and multi-context systems. - Modularity and ASP. - ASP and argumentation. - Multi-paradigm problem solving involving ASP. - Evaluation and comparison of ASP to other paradigms. - ASP and related paradigms in applications. - Hybridizing ASP with procedural approaches. - Enhanced grounding or beyond grounding. SUBMISSIONS Papers must describe original research and should not exceed 15 pages in the Springer LNCS format . Paper submission will be handled electronically by means of the Easychair system. The submission page is available at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aspocp13 IMPORTANT DATES Abstract submission: June 11, 2013 Paper submission deadline: June 18, 2013 Notification: July 11, 2013 Camera-ready articles due: July 25, 2013 Workshop: August 25, 2013 PROCEEDINGS The workshop contributions will be published electronically, using the Computing Research Repository (CoRR). LOCATION The workshop will be held in Istanbul, Turkey, collocated with the International Conference on Logic Programming (ICLP) 2013. WORKSHOP CO-CHAIRS Michael Fink, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Yuliya Lierler, University of Nebraska at Omaha, USA PROGRAM COMMITTEE Marcello Balduccini, Kodak Research Labs, USA Pedro Cabalar, Corunna University, Spain Sandeep Chintabathina, University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff, USA Selim T. Erdogan, Independent Researcher, Turkey Wolfgang Faber, University of Calabria, Italy Cristina Feier, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Martin Gebser, University of Potsdam, Germany Gregory Gelfond, Arizona State University, USA Giovambattista Ianni, University of Calabria, Italy Daniela Inclezan, Miami University in Ohio, USA Joohyung Lee, Arizona State University, USA Joao Leite, New University of Lisbon, Portugal Vladimir Lifschitz, University of Texas at Austin, USA Marco Maratea, University of Genoa, Italy Alessandro Mosca, Free University of Bolzano, Italy Emilia Oikarinen, Aalto University, Finland David Pearce, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain Axel Polleres, Siemens AG Corporate Technology, Austria Guillermo R. Simari, Universidad Nacional del Sur, Argentina Evgenia Ternovska, Simon Fraser University, Canada Hans Tompits, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Miroslaw Truszczynski, University of Kentucky, USA Joost Vennekens, Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium Marina De Vos, University of Bath, UK Stefan Woltran, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Fangkai Yang, University of Texas at Austin, USA Jia-Huai You, University of Alberta, Canada From ftoumani at gmail.com Wed May 1 12:15:55 2013 From: ftoumani at gmail.com (Farouk Toumani) Date: Wed, 1 May 2013 12:15:55 +0200 Subject: [DL] =?windows-1252?q?CALL_FOR_PROFESSOR_POSITION_=A0_-__LIMOS-CN?= =?windows-1252?q?RS_=96_Universit=E9_d=92Auvergne?= Message-ID: <979BFD45-983D-4869-A270-9FEA2F2EA34A@gmail.com> ===================================== CALL FOR PROFESSOR POSITION LIMOS-CNRS ? Universit? d?Auvergne ===================================== This call for proposal derives from the CREATION OF AN INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH CHAIR entitled TRUSTED CLOUD COMPUTING by the company ALMERYS, major actor on the market of Telecommunications and I.T services in France, in partnership with LIMOS (Research and Development Laboratory for Modelling and Optimization of Information Systems) ? CNRS (National Centre of Scientific Research), ISIMA (Engineering School of Modelling of Information Systems and its Application), IUT (University Institute of Technology), and one of the major universities in the region where all the actors are located, called Auvergne University, in French ?Universit? d?Auvergne?. It comes so that the ?Universit? d?Auvergne?, through its foundation, is offering a fixed-term Full-Professor contractual job. This position is mainly a Research oriented one: the recruited Professor will be in charge of developing and managing, inside the LIMOS-CNRS laboratory, a research project about the concept of Trusted Cloud Computing, with the strong support and partnership from the company ALMERYS. The position is a three year position, starting in September/October 2013. The contents of this Professor Position. Research: The research activity will be centered on the security and reliability of systems and services. This research activity will be carried out at LIMOS-CNRS Laboratory. LIMOS Laboratory is a Computer Sciences oriented Laboratory whose activity focuses on Enterprise Informatics and Complex System Optimization, and which involves 75 permanent researchers, 7 technicians and 85 PHD students. LIMOS involves teams and researchers working in Algorithm Design, Wireless Sensor Networks, Web Services, Databasises, Datamining, Production Systems. It maintains a broad scope of international and industrial partnerships, and participates into two 10 years big Labex project about innovative mobility and seismic activity monitoring. The industrial chair Trusted Cloud Computing is related to a partnership between LIMOS and the ALMERYS Company. The ALMERYS Company, part of ORANGE Group, works on highly efficient and reliable intercommunication distributed software design. So, Research would here be carried on in strong interaction with the teams in LIMOS which work on wireless sensors networks, web services, and on database management (data mining, business intelligence, automated learning) and with the ALMERYS Company. It will not only involve the production of concepts and procedures, but also the management, inside LIMOS Lab. of the relationship with ALMERYS, the animation of the research which will be brought about the concept of Trusted Cloud Computing, and the reinforcement of the related network. The Key Words related to this Research activity are: Web Services, Wireless Sensors Networks, Big data, Security, Reliability, Automated Learning. Teaching: Though the position is mainly Research oriented, it includes a teaching duty of an average of 60 hours of classes per year, shared between the IUT and the Engineering School of ISIMA. The main goal will be to give a first approach to students about issues related to the implementation and design of data acquisition services and emerging Internet systems, to their security and reliability. Conditions: Salary, Duration. The position is a three year position, starting in September/October 2013. Salary: Euros 60,000 per year before tax. Besides, the position will be provisioned, which means that additional resources will allow the recruited professor to supervise Ph.D students and to carry on a team activity. Characteristics of the Candidates, Requirements. The following requirements are mandatory: a Master or an Engineering degree in a scientific field; a PhD in the Sciences and Information Technology area; Besides, the following items will be part of the evaluation criteria: a significant personnel scientific production record; a professional experience which will eventually include an international mobility and partnerships with companies. Though there is no restriction about age or nationality, it will be strongly appreciated that candidates may boast themselves with some kind of proficiency in both English and French languages. How to Apply: Contacts, Deadline. The SUBMISSION DEADLINE is May 31, 2013 CV and Motivation Letter should be sent to one of the following contacts, who will also answer the questions which may be raised by the candidates LIMOS-CNRS Laboratory: Professor Michel MISSON LIMOS Co-Director michel.misson at udamail.fr+33 (0) 473 177 140 ALMERYS Company : Emmanuelle DRAPEAU Director for Human Resources for ALMERYS In charge of recruitment and academic partnership management emmanuelle.drapeau at almerys.com +33 (0) 473 743 239 From koubarak at di.uoa.gr Wed May 1 21:30:04 2013 From: koubarak at di.uoa.gr (Manolis Koubarakis) Date: Wed, 01 May 2013 22:30:04 +0300 Subject: [DL] Special Issue of the Journal of Web Semantics on Ontology-Based Data Access Message-ID: <51816D3C.3070503@di.uoa.gr> Special Issue of the Journal of Web Semantics on Ontology-Based Data Access Introduction The competitiveness of many enterprises today relies on exploiting the wealth of information that is available in various distributed data sources or services. Thus, the problem of integrating data coming from many distributed and heterogeneous data sources has been a hot research topic for many years, and has received the attention of researchers in Databases, Knowledge Representation, and the Semantic Web. Furthermore, the recent utilization of ?big data? in the private sector, government, and science has not only reinforced the importance of this topic but added the challenge of scaling to huge datasets. The ontology-based data access (OBDA) paradigm was formulated a few years ago to tackle the problem of data integration, and more generally that of accessing data sources with a complex structure. The OBDA approach is based on three components: the data layer, the conceptual model of the application that is used for expressing user requests, and the mapping between the two. The data layer might consist of a single, possibly federated, database, or by a collection of possibly distributed and heterogeneous data sources (this case is also known as ontology-based data integration). The conceptual model is represented by an ontology, typically formalized in an appropriate description logic, and user requests are expressed as queries over the ontology. The mapping between the conceptual model and the data sources is formalized by mapping assertions, which are based on an appropriate logical language, but which may also incorporate extra-logical features for data manipulation. The aim of an OBDA system is to answer user queries by transforming them into appropriate queries to the data layer, using the ontology and the mapping. Traditionally, in OBDA, it has been assumed that data sources are relational, and that they are queried through SQL. However, the OBDA approach to data integration can also be used in the context of non-relational data sources e.g., XML, RDF etc. Given the recent proliferation of linked data sources and the importance of the linked paradigm for making data public, we expect to see a stronger convergence of work in these two areas. Data exchange is another interesting paradigm closely related to OBDA. In data exchange, data that is organized according to one schema (called the source schema) needs to be translated into an instance of a different schema (called the target schema), possibly equipped with constraints. The translation must respect certain dependencies that are again formalized as mappings among the two given schemas. While in OBDA the focus is on answering user queries over the conceptual model, in data exchange the aim is to understand how to materialize data in the target schema, respecting the mappings and the constraints, so as to answer queries directly using the materialized data. This special issue will cover recent advances of the OBDA approach and its relation to other promising paradigms such as data exchange and linked data integration. Although we are interested in all aspects of the OBDA approach, including foundational work, we are also keen to attract papers that present and evaluate analytically and/or experimentally implemented OBDA systems, as well as papers that demonstrate the applicability of the OBDA paradigm to real-world situations. Submission Guidelines The Journal of Web Semantics solicits original scientific contributions of high quality. Submission of your manuscript is welcome provided that it, or any translation of it, has not been copyrighted or published and is not being submitted for publication elsewhere. Upon acceptance of an article, the author(s) will be asked to transfer copyright of the article to the publisher. This transfer will ensure the widest possible dissemination of information. Manuscripts for this special issue should be prepared for publication in accordance to instructions given in the JWS Guide for Authors. The submission and review process will be carried out using Elsevier's Web-based EES system. See the site of the journal (http://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-web-semantics/) for more details. Final decisions for accepted papers will be approved by an editor in chief. Final copies of accepted publications will appear in print and on the archival online server http://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-web-semantics/. Author preprints of the articles will be made freely accessible on the preprint server of the journal: http://www.websemanticsjournal.org/ Important Submission Guideline To ensure that all manuscripts are correctly identified for inclusion into this special issue, authors should select ?Special issue: ontology-based data access? when they reach the ?Article Type? step in the submission process. Important Dates Paper submission deadline: July 31, 2013 Initial notification of acceptance (approximate): end of November 2013 Publication in middle 2014 Editors Diego Calvanese, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano Manolis Koubarakis, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens David Toman, University of Waterloo From malay at nec-labs.com Thu May 2 19:13:01 2013 From: malay at nec-labs.com (Malay Ganai) Date: Thu, 2 May 2013 13:13:01 -0400 Subject: [DL] DIFTS'13: First Call For Papers Message-ID: <077F749915FA6543940AC5EEA33ED51501BCD614@mailer.nec-labs.com> Apologies for multiple copies of this email. ************************************************************************ *** DIFTS'13 DESIGN and IMPLEMENTATION of FORMAL TOOLS and SYSTEMS CALL FOR PAPERS ************************************************************************ *** Second International Workshop on Design and Implementation of Formal Tools and Systems (co-located with FMCAD and MEMOCODE 2013) http://www.cmpe.boun.edu.tr/difts13/ Portland, OR, USA October 19, 2013 IMPORTANT DATES Paper submission: July 24, 2013 Author notification: August 24, 2014 WORKSHOP SCOPE DIFTS (Design and Implementation of Formal Tools and Systems) workshop emphasizes insightful experiences in formal tools and systems design. The first DIFTS workshop was held in 2011. It provides a forum for sharing challenges and solutions that are original with ground breaking results. Often the design and implementation of tools for formal analysis require non-trivial engineering decisions. Many challenges are faced, which often can only be met with ingenious implementation techniques. These techniques actually play a crucial role in making the idea work in practice. The workshop provides an opportunity for discussing engineering aspects and various design decisions required to put such formal tools and systems into practical use. TOPICS OF INTEREST DIFTS takes a broad view of the formal tools/systems area, and solicits contributions from domains including, but not restricted to, decision procedures, verification, testing, validation, diagnosis, debugging, and synthesis. This workshop encourages and appreciates system development activities, and facilitates transparency in the experimentation. It will also serve as a platform to discuss open problems and future challenges in practicing formal methods. SUBMISSION The workshop specifically solicits contributions with substantial engineering details that often do not get published but has significant practical impact. Papers in the following two categories are solicited: (a) system category (10 pages, double column, 11pt), and (b) tool category (8 pages, double column, 11pt). In the system category, we invite papers that have original ideas accompanied with novel integration techniques, adequate design/implementation details, important design choices made and explored, and good experimental results. In the tool category, we invite papers that focus primarily on the engineering aspects of some known/popular algorithm, with significant emphasis on the design/implementation details, and various design choices made to advance current state-of-the-art approaches. The page limit for submissions in the system category is 10 pages in double column format and for submissions in the tool category is 8 pages in double column format. Submission of papers should be made electronically in PDF format via EasyChair. More details will be provided on the DIFTS web site. EVALUATION To keep maintain uniformity and fairness in the reviewing process, the program committee will evaluate the technical contribution of each submission based on the following guidelines: the paper should provide enough details for others to reproduce the results; and should solve a clearly-stated problem that is significant and has wide interest; and the paper should provide enough motivation for the design choices made. Overall, the paper should also clearly identify what the main contributions of the work are. PUBLICATION All accepted contributions will be included in informal proceedings. High quality submissions will be considered for a special issue of journals such as FMSD (Formal Methods in System Design) or IEEE TC (Transactions on Computers). ORGANIZATION PROGRAM CHAIRS Malay K. Ganai, NEC Labs America, USA Alper Sen, Bogazici University, Turkey PROGRAM COMMITTEE Armin Biere, Johannes Kelpler University, Austria Gianpiero Cabodi, Politecnico di Torino, Italy Franco Fummi, University of Verona, Italy Malay K. Ganai, NEC Labs America, USA Daniel Grosse, University of Bremen, Germany William Hung, Synopsys Inc., USA Daniel Kroening, Oxford University, UK Alper Sen, Bogazici University, Turkey Ofer Strichman, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel Chao Wang, Virginia Tech, USA -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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(Second Edition) co-located with IJCAI 2013 August 3-5, 2013 Beijing, China http://www.fca4ai.hse.ru --------------------------------------------------------------------------- The first edition of the FCA4AI Workshop at ECAI 2012 in Montpellier showed that many researchers working in Artificial Intelligence are indeed interested by a powerful method for classification and mining such as Formal Concept Analysis (http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-939/). We have the chance to organize a new edition of the workshop in Beijing at the IJCAI 2013 Conference. Formal Concept Analysis (FCA) is a mathematically well-founded theory aimed at data analysis and classification. FCA allows one to build a concept lattice and a system of dependencies (implications) which can be used for many AI needs, e.g. knowledge processing involving learning, knowledge discovery, knowledge representation and reasoning, ontology engineering, and as well as information retrieval and text processing. Thus, there exist many ``natural links'' between FCA and AI. Recent years have been witnessing increased scientific activity around FCA, in particular a strand of work emerged that is aimed at extending the possibilities of FCA w.r.t. knowledge processing, such as work on pattern structures and relational context analysis. These extensions are aimed at allowing FCA to deal with more complex than just binary data, both from the data analysis and knowledge discovery point of view and from the knowledge representation point of view, including, e.g., ontology engineering. All these works extend the capabilities of FCA and offer new possibilities for AI activities in the framework of FCA. Accordingly, in this workshop, we will be interested in two main issues: - How can FCA support AI activities such as knowledge processing (knowledge discovery, knowledge representation and reasoning), learning (clustering, pattern and data mining), natural language processing, information retrieval. - How can FCA be extended in order to help AI researchers to solve new and complex problems in their domain. The workshop is dedicated to discuss such issues. INVITED SPEAKER TBA TOPICS OF INTEREST include but are not limited to: - Concept lattices and related structures: description logics, pattern structures, relational structures. - Knowledge discovery and data mining with FCA: association rules, itemsets and data dependencies, attribute implications, data pre-processing, redundancy and dimensionality reduction, classification and clustering. - Knowledge engineering and ontology engineering: knowledge representation and reasoning. - Scalable algorithms for concept lattices and artificial intelligence ``in the large'' (distributed aspects, big data). - Applications of concept lattices: semantic web, information retrieval, visualization and navigation, pattern recognition. The workshop will include time for audience discussion for having a better understanding of the issues, challenges, and ideas being presented. IMPORTANT DATES: Submission deadline: May 13, 2013 Notification to authors: June 17, 2013 Final version: July 08, 2013 Workshop: August 03-05, 2013 SUBMISSION DETAILS: The workshop welcomes submissions in pdf format in Springer's LNCS style. Submissions can be - technical papers not exceeding 8 pages, - system descriptions or position papers on work in progress not exceeding 4 pages Submissions are via EasyChair at https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fca4ai2013 The workshop proceedings will be published as CEUR proceedings. A selection of the best papers presented at the workshop will be considered for a special issue of a high-level journal. WORKSHOP CHAIRS: Sergei O. Kuznetsov Higher Schools of Economics, Moscow, Russia Amedeo Napoli LORIA-INRIA, Vandoeuvre les Nancy, France Sebastian Rudolph Technische Universitaet Dresden, Germany PROGRAM COMMITTEE (in constitution) Mathieu D'Aquin, Open University, Milton Keynes, UK Franz Baader, Technische Universitaet Dresden, Germany Radim Belohlavek, Palacky University, Olomouc, Czech Republic Karell Bertet, Universit? de La Rochelle, France Claudio Carpineto, Fondazione Ugo Bordoni, Roma, Italy Felix Distel, Technische Universitaet Dresden, Germany S?bastien Ferr?, IRISA Rennes, France Bernhard Ganter, Technische Universitaet Dresden, Germany Pascal Hitzler, Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio, USA Marianne Huchard, LIRMM Montpellier, France Dmitry I. Ignatov, Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia Mehdi Kaytoue, LIRIS-INSA, University of Lyon, France Markus Kr?tzsch, University of Oxford, UK Sergei A. Obiedkov, Higher Schools of Economics, Moscow, Russia Jan Outrata, Palacky University, Olomouc, Czech Republic Uta Priss, Ostfalia University of Applied Sciences, Wolfenb?ttel, Germany Baris Sertkaya, SAP Dresden, Germany, Henry Soldano, Universit? de Paris-Nord, France Gerd Stumme, Universitaet Kassel, Germany Petko Valtchev, Universit? du Qu?bec ? Montr?al, Montr?al, Canada --------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From francesco.tiezzi at imtlucca.it Mon May 6 12:53:32 2013 From: francesco.tiezzi at imtlucca.it (Francesco tiezzi) Date: Mon, 6 May 2013 12:53:32 +0200 Subject: [DL] PhD positions in Computer Science at IMT Lucca (Italy) - Deadline July 17, 2013 - Message-ID: ==============================**=========================== PhD positions in Computer Science at IMT Lucca (Italy) - Deadline July 17, 2013 - ==============================**=========================== The Institute for Advanced Studies IMT Lucca - Italy ( http://www.imtlucca.it/) announces 41 PhD scholarships providing about ?13,600 EUR gross yearly plus accommodation and full board. Deadline for application is July 17th, 2013 at 18:00 Italian time. IMT Lucca (Italy) is a research university within the Italian public higher education system. IMT's mission is to establish itself as a research center that promotes cutting-edge research in key areas, structuring its PhD program in close connection with research, to attract top students, researchers and scholars through competitive international selections, and to contribute to technological innovation, economic growth and social development. PhD programs are taught exclusively in English. The PhD Program includes a Track in Computer, Decision and Systems Science with a specific Curriculum in Computer Science. The track is coordinated by Rocco De Nicola and aims at preparing researchers and professionals with a wide knowledge of the theoretical foundations of computer science and informatics, control systems and optimization, image analysis, and management science. The curriculum in Computer Science aims at training a new generation of researchers in the theoretical and practical aspects of modern computing systems, including global, cloud, autonomic and service-oriented systems. The focus is on the development of models, algorithms, verification methods and software tools that can tackle the challenges of today e-society efficiently and effectively. The main aim is that of characterizing and guaranteeing essential features and desirable properties of these systems such as reliability, open-endedness, autonomicity, security, concurrency, scalability, cost-effectiveness, quality of service, and dependability. PhD students within the Computer Science curriculum will work in close collaboration with the SysMA research unit of IMT ( http://sysma.lab.imtlucca.it/**) or within research groups active in two institutes of the Italian National Research Council in Pisa, namely the Istituto di Informatica e Telematica (http://www.iit.cnr.it/en) and the Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie dell?Informazione (http://www.isti.cnr.it/). More details about possible PhD projects and topics can be found under http://sysma.lab.imtlucca.it/**phd/ PhD students, besides receiving the standard research scholarship of ?13,600/year (amount established by Italian law), are offered on-campus housing on a brand-new and fully integrated campus in the historical center of the beautiful Tuscan city of Lucca, and daily access to the canteen. Students also get the opportunity to spend research periods abroad during the program. 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Please forward to interested parties. *************************************************************** ************************** CALL FOR PAPERS ************************** --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3rd International Workshop on Semantic Digital Archives (SDA) in conjunction with the 17th Int. Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries (TPDL) 26th September 2013 in Valetta, Malta http://sda2013.dke-research.de --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- OBJECTIVES: The Semantic Digital Archives (SDA) workshop series fosters innovative discussion of knowledge representation and knowledge management solutions specifically designed for improving Archival Information Systems (AISs). Novel applications of semantic Web technologies and Linked Data offer possibilities to advance approaches to digital curation and preservation. During the last quarter of a century the explosion in digital content creation and use has transformed the relationship individuals and society have with information. Therefore, sustainable long-term curation approaches to our digital cultural heritage are essential. Handling digital content in secure ways poses many socio-cultural and technological challenges. Changing technologies and shifting user communities as well as the increasing complexity of digital content being enriched with software and multimedia attachments are a couple of examples. Addressing the obstacles to curation and preservation is the central theme of the workshop. This full day workshop is an exciting opportunity for collaboration and cross-fertilization between the Digital Libraries, the Digital Preservation and the Semantic Web community. A closer dialogue between the technical oriented communities and researchers from the (digital) humanities and social sciences as well as cultural heritage institutions is encouraged. TOPICS OF INTEREST: We intend to have an open discussion on topics related to the general subject of Semantic Digital Archives. Hence, we welcome contributions that focus on, but are not limited to: * Archival information systems (AIS) * AIS Architectures * Archival information infrastructure frameworks (AII) * Ontologies & linked data for AIS, AII and digital libraries * Logical theories for digital archives & digital preservation * Knowledge evolution * (Semantic) provenance models * Contextualization of archives * Semantic long-term storage & hardware organization for AIS & AII * Semantic extensions of emulation/virtualization methodologies tailored for AIS/AII * Semantic multimedia AIS, AII & multimedia libraries * Implementations & evaluations of (semantic) AIS, AII & semantic digital libraries * Preservation of scientific and research data * Preservation of work flow processes * Semantic search & semantic information retrieval in digital archives and digital libraries * Implementations and evaluations of semantic digital archives * User studies focusing on end-user needs and information seeking behavior of end-users (document triage) * Web Archives * (Semantic) Preservation Processes and Protocols * Semantic (Web) services implementing AIS & AII * Information integration/semantic ingest (e.g. from digital libraries) * Trust for ingest & data security/integrity check for long-term storage of archival records * Semantic extensions of emulation/virtualization methodologies for digital archives * Migration strategies based on Semantic Web technologies Submission Details SUBMISSION DETAILS: Authors are invited to submit original, unpublished research papers related to the aforementioned topics. We invite: * regular papers (8 to 12 pages) * short papers (2 to 6 pages) All submissions are required to be in PDF format. Long and short paper submissions must be formatted according to Springer?s LNCS format ( www.springer.com/computer/lncs). Please submit your manuscript using the EasyChair online submission system: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sda2013 All submissions will be reviewed by three members of the Program Committee. All papers accepted at the Semantic Digital Archives Workshop must be presented during the Workshop by a SDA Workshop registered participant. Papers presented at the Workshop will be published in the Workshop proceedings, which will be available as a separate publication after the Workshop. IMPORTANT DATES: * Deadline for submissions: June 23, 2013 * Acceptance Notification: July 28, 2013 * Camera-ready papers: August 25, 2013 * Workshop: September 26, 2013 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE & PROGRAM COMMITTEE: The Organizing Committee members and the Program Committee members are mentioned at http://sda2013.dke-research.de/index.php/committees Further Details: http://sda2013.dke-research.de -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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The idea is to cover an ample spectrum of themes, ranging from theory to applications, and stimulate cross-fertilization. Papers focused on formal methods are especially welcome. Authors are invited to submit original research or tool papers on all relevant topics in these areas. Papers discussing new ideas that are at an early stage of development are also welcome. LIST OF TOPICS The topics covered by the conference include, but are not limited to, the following: Automata Theory Automated Deduction Computational aspects of Game Theory Concurrency and Distributed computation Decision Procedures Deductive, Compositional, and Abstraction Techniques for Verification Finite Model Theory First-order and Higher-order Logics Formal Languages Formal Methods for Systems Biology, Hybrid, Embedded, and Mobile Systems Games and Automata for Verification Game Semantics Logical aspects of Computational Complexity Logics of Programs Modal and Temporal Logics Model Checking Models of Reactive and Real-Time Systems Program Analysis and Software Verification Run-time Verification and Testing Specification and Verification of Finite and Infinite-state Systems Synthesis INVITED SPEAKERS Alessandro Cimatti (ITC-IRST, Italy) Thomas Henzinger (IST, Austria) Christof Loeding (University of Aachen, Germany) PAPER SUBMISSION Submitted papers should not exceed fourteen (14) pages using EPTCS format, be unpublished and contain original research. For papers reporting experimental results, authors are encouraged to make their data available with their submission. Submissions must be in PDF or PS format and will be handled via EasyChair. IMPORTANT DATES ABSTRACT SUBMISSION: MAY 13, 2013 PAPER SUBMISSION: MAY 19, 2013 Acceptance notification: June 17, 2013 Final version: June 26, 2013 Conference: August 29-31, 2013 PROCEEDINGS The proceedings will be published by Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science. A special issue of a major international journal to publish an extended and revised version of the best symposium papers is also under consideration. Revised versions of the selected papers from the previous editions lead to one special issue of the International Journal of Foundation of Computer Science (GandALF 2010) and two special issues of Theoretical Computer Science (GandALF 2011 and 2012). PROGRAM CHAIRS Tiziano Villa (University of Verona, Italy) Gabriele Puppis (LaBRI, Bordeaux, France) PROGRAM COMMITTEE Luca Aceto (University of Reykjavik, Iceland) Rajeev Alur (University of Pennsylvania, United States) Roderick Bloem (University of Graz, Austria) Arnaud Carayol (IGM, Marne-la-Vallee, France) Anuj Dawar (University of Cambridge, United Kingdom) Stephane Demri (New York University, United States / CNRS) Volker Diekert (University of Stuttgart, Germany) Javier Esparza (University of Munchen, Germany) Valentin Goranko (Technical University of Denmark, Denmark) Bakhadyr Khoussainov (University of Auckland, New Zeland) Naoki Kobayashi (University of Tokyo, Japan) Stephan Kreutzer (University of Berlin, Germany) Marta Kwiatkowska (University of Oxford, United Kingdom) Martin Lange (University of Kassel, Germany) Angelo Montanari (University of Udine, Italy) Mimmo Parente (University of Salerno, Italy) Adriano Peron (University of Naples, Italy) Alexander Rabinovich (University of Tel Aviv, Israel) Ramaswamy Ramanujam (Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai, India) Jean Francois Raskin (University of Bruxelles, Belgium) Davide Sangiorgi (University of Bologna, Italy) Olivier Serre (LIAFA, Paris, France) Sharon Shoham (Academic College of Tel-Aviv Yaffo, Israel) Szymon Torunczyk (University of Warsaw, Poland) Zhilin Wu (State Key Laboratory of Computer Science, China) Hsu-Chun Yen (National Taiwan University, Taiwan) ORGANIZING CHAIR Pietro Sala (University of Verona, Italy) STEERING COMMITTEE Mikolaj Bojanczyk (University of Warsaw, Poland) Javier Esparza (University of Munich, Germany) Angelo Montanari (University of Udine, Italy) Margherita Napoli (University of Salerno, Italy) Mimmo Parente (University of Salerno, Italy) Wolfgang Thomas (RWTH Aachen University, Germany) Wieslaw Zielonka (University of Paris7, France) INFO Please visit the conference website http://gandalf.di.univr.it/ for more information. From irina.rychkova at univ-paris1.fr Fri May 10 22:43:26 2013 From: irina.rychkova at univ-paris1.fr (Irina Rychkova) Date: Fri, 10 May 2013 22:43:26 +0200 Subject: [DL] =?utf-8?q?PhD_position_at_Universit=C3=A9_Paris_1_Panth?= =?utf-8?q?=C3=A9on-Sorbonne_/_Centre_de_Recherche_en_Informatique?= In-Reply-To: <5176EFF8.4010709@univ-paris1.fr> References: <5176EFF8.4010709@univ-paris1.fr> Message-ID: <518D5BEE.7060300@univ-paris1.fr> Dear Colleagues, One PhD position opens at University Paris 1 Panth?on-Sorbonne / Centre de Recherche en Informatique. *Title:****Exploring Formal Methods and Formal Concept Analysis for Agile Business Process Management*** *Keywords*: Formal specification, model checking, Formal Concept Analysis, Business Process Modeling *Starting date: *between September and November 2013** *Full description**: *http://crinfo.univ-paris1.fr/thesisSorbonne2013.pdf** *Funding*: French Government Research Grant *(gross income: between 1850 ? and 2000 ? per month).* *Location*: Universit? Paris 1 Panth?on-Sorbonne, Centre de Recherche en Informatique, 90, rue de Tolbiac 75013 Paris, France *Directors*: Irina RYCHKOVA (irina.rychkova at univ-paris1.fr ) and B?n?dicte LE GRAND (Benedicte.Le-Grand at univ-paris1.fr ) * To apply:*send a detailed CV (in English), a motivation letter (in English), copy of official transcript of student record (B.Sc and M.Sc) and letters of reference to Irina Rychkova (irina.rychkova at univ-paris1.fr ) _*No application will be considered after 01/07/2013*_ Description The subject of this PhD thesis lies on *the intersection of the three research areas*: *business process modeling, formal methods and formal concept analysis*. We propose to explore formal methods and formal concept analysis (FCA) and to build a novel approach for agile process modelling, simulation and analysis. In particular we propose to apply these techniques for unstructured processes such as case management processes (CMP). Case management processes have multiple applications, including licensing and permitting in government, insurance application and claim processing in insurance, patient care and medical diagnosis in healthcare, etc. *The first challenge*related to this PhD thesis is to find an appropriate (mathematical) formalism for representation and reasoning about case management processes (CMP) while ensuring an appropriate level of agility. We suggest that, instead of following a predefined execution scenario, a process navigates in the process ?state space?, dynamically adjusting its path based on the current state, current situation and navigation rules. Initial navigation rules for process guidance based on Formal Concept Analysis and Galois lattices need to be defined. *The second challenge*related to this PhD thesis is to explore the opportunities provided by automated model checking, theorem proving and formal concept analysis for process model validation and for guided process execution. -- Ce message a ?t? v?rifi? par MailScanner pour des virus ou des polluriels et rien de suspect n'a ?t? trouv?. -- Ce message a ete verifie par MailScanner pour des virus ou des polluriels et rien de suspect n'a ete trouve. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Semantic Web Technologies are meant to deal with these issues, and indeed since the advent of Linked Data a few years ago, they have become central to mainstream Semantic Web research and development. We can easily understand Linked Data as being a part of the greater Big Data landscape, as many of the challenges are the same. The linking component of Linked Data, however, puts an additional focus on the integration and conflation of data across multiple sources. Workshop Topics In this symposium, we will explore the many opportunities and challenges arising from transferring and adapting Semantic Web Technologies to the Big Data quest. Topics of interest focus explicitly on the interplay of Semantics and Big Data, and include: the use of semantic metadata and ontologies for Big Data, the use of formal and informal semantics, the integration and interplay of deductive (semantic) and statistical methods, methods to establish semantic interoperability between data sources ways of dealing with semantic heterogeneity, scalability of Semantic Web methods and tools, and semantic approaches to the explication of requirements from eScience applications. Workshop Format, Submissions, and Proceedings The symposium will be highly interactive with spotlight presentations and small breakout groups interleaved with plenary sessions for reports on the breakout groups and for consolidation of results. To prime and channel discussions and group activities during the event, we call for the submission of position papers or extended abstracts of 2-4 pages, or of technical papers of 6-8 pages (in AAAI format). Please address questions to Pascal Hitzler at pascal.hitzler at wright.edu. Submissions shall be made through easychair at https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=s4bd13 by May 24th, 2013. Important Dates Submission due: May 24, 2013 Acceptance Notification: June 21, 2013 Camera-ready Copies: June 28, 2013 Symposium: November 15-17, 2013 Organizers (in alphabetic order) Frank van Harmelen, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands James A. Hendler, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, U.S.A. Pascal Hitzler, Kno.e.sis Center, Wright State University, U.S.A. Krzysztof Janowicz, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA Programme Committee (incomplete) Benjamin Adams, University of California, Santa Barbara Barry Bishop, Ontotext Isabel Cruz, University of Illinois at Chicago Michel Dumontier, Carleton University Mark Gahegan, University of Auckland Lise Getoor, University of Maryland, Baltimore County Peter Haase, FluidOps Prateek Jain, IBM Cliff Joslyn, PNNL Dan Tecuci, Siemens Curt Tilmes, NASA Thanh Tran, AIFB, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany Thomas Wischgoll, Wright State University Chaowei Yang, George Mason University -- Prof. Dr. Pascal Hitzler Dept. of Computer Science, Wright State University, Dayton, OH pascal at pascal-hitzler.de http://www.knoesis.org/pascal/ Semantic Web Textbook: http://www.semantic-web-book.org Semantic Web Journal: http://www.semantic-web-journal.net From synasc13 at synasc.ro Sun May 12 17:31:31 2013 From: synasc13 at synasc.ro (SYNASC 2013) Date: Sun, 12 May 2013 18:31:31 +0300 (EEST) Subject: [DL] CFP Synasc 2013, Timisoara, Romania [7 days left for abstract submission] Message-ID: <1350248846.47858.1368372691427.JavaMail.root@synasc.ro> [Please post - apologies for multiple copies.] Call for Papers --------------- SYNASC 2013 15th International Symposium on Symbolic and Numeric Algorithms for Scientific Computing September 23-26, 2013, Timisoara, Romania http://www.synasc.ro/ Aim --- SYNASC aims to stimulate the interaction between the two scientific communities of symbolic and numeric computing and to exhibit interesting applications of the areas both in theory and in practice. The choice of the topic is motivated by the belief of the organizers that the dialogue between the two communities is very necessary for accelerating the progress in making the computer a truly intelligent aid for mathematicians and engineers. Important Dates --------------- 19 May 2013 : Abstract submission 26 May 2013 : Paper submission 22 July 2013 : Notification of acceptance 01 September 2013 : Registration 08 September 2013 : Revised papers according to the reviews 23-26 September 2013 : Symposium 30 November 2013 : Final papers for post-proceedings Tracks ------ * Symbolic Computation + computer algebra + symbolic techniques applied to numerics + hybrid symbolic and numeric algorithms + numerics and symbolics for geometry + programming with constraints, narrowing * Logic and Programming + automatic reasoning + formal system verification + formal verification and synthesis + software quality assessment + static analysis + timing analysis * Artificial Intelligence + methods for hard computational problems + intelligent systems for scientific computing + agent-based complex systems modeling and development + scientific knowledge management + computational intelligence + machine learning + recommender and expert systems for scientific computing + data mining and web mining + natural language processing + uncertain reasoning in scientific computing + intelligent hybrid systems * Numerical Computing + iterative approximation of fixed points + solving systems of nonlinear equations + numerical and symbolic algorithms for differential equations + numerical and symbolic algorithms for optimization + parallel algorithms for numerical computing + scientific visualization and image processing * Distributed Computing + parallel and distributed algorithms for clouds, GPUs, HPC, P2P systems, autonomous systems. Work should focus on scheduling, scaling, load balancing, networks, fault-tolerance, gossip algorithms, energy saving + applications for parallel and distributed systems, including work on cross disciplinary (scientific) applications for grids/clouds, web applications, workflow platforms, network measurement tools, programming environments + architectures for parallel and distributed systems, including self-managing and autonomous systems, negotiation protocols, HPC on clouds, GPU processing, PaaS for (inter)cloud, brokering platforms, mobile computing + modelling of parallel and distributed systems including models on resources and networks, semantic representation, negotiation, social networks, trace management, simulators + any other topic deemed relevant to the field * Advances in the Theory of Computing + Data structures and algorithms + Combinatorial Optimization + Formal languages and Combinatorics on Words + Graph-theoretic and Combinatorial methods in Computer Science + Algorithmic paradigms, including distributed, online, approximation, probabilistic, game-theoretic algorithms + Computational Complexity Theory, including structural complexity, boolean complexity, communication complexity, average-case complexity, derandomization and property testing + Logical approaches to complexity, including finite model theory + Algorithmic and computational learning theory + Aspects of computability theory, including computability in analysis and algorithmic information theory + Proof complexity + Computational social choice and game theory + New computational paradigms: CNN computing, quantum, holographic and other non-standard approaches to Computability + Randomized methods, random graphs, threshold phenomena and typical-case complexity + Automata theory and other formal models, particularly in relation to formal verification methods such as model checking and runtime verification + Applications of theory, including wireless and sensor networks, computational biology and computational economics + Experimental algorithmics Workshops --------- * Workshop on Agents for Complex Systems (ACSys) http://www.synasc.ro/workshops/acsys-2013/ * Workshop of HPC for scientific problems (HPCS) http://host.hpc.uvt.ro/events/hpcs/ * Workshop on Iterative Approximation of Fixed Points (IAFP) http://www.synasc.ro/workshops/iafp-2013/ * Workshop on Management of Resources and Services in Cloud and Sky Computing (MICAS) http://amicas.hpc.uvt.ro/micas-2013/ * Workshop on Natural Computing and Applications (NCA) http://www.synasc.ro/workshops/nca-2013/ Workshops deadlines: please visit each workshop webpage Tutorials --------- * Tutorial HPC http://host.hpc.uvt.ro/hpcs#HPC-Tutorial * Tutorial Multi-Cloud http://amicas.hpc.uvt.ro/micas-2013#MultiCloud-Tutorial Publication ----------- Research papers that are accepted and presented at the symposium will be collected as post-proceedings published by Conference Publishing Service (CPS) (indexed in ISI Web of Science, DBLP, SCOPUS). Invited Speakers ---------------- * Ivona Brandic, Vienna University of Technology, Austria * Gabriel Ciobanu, Romanian Academy, Institute of Computer Science, Iasi, Romania * Leonardo de Moura, Microsoft Research, USA * Grigore Rosu, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA * Dan A. Simovici, University of Massachusetts Boston, USA Honorary Chairs --------------- * Bruno Buchberger, Johannes Kepler University, Austria * Stefan Maruster, West University of Timisoara, Romania Steering Committee ------------------ * Tetsuo Ida, University of Tsukuba, Japan * Tudor Jebelean, Johannes Kepler University, Austria * Viorel Negru, West University of Timisoara, Romania * Dana Petcu, West University of Timisoara, Romania * Stephen Watt, University of Western Ontario, Canada * Daniela Zaharie, West University of Timisoara, Romania General Chair ------------- * Viorel Negru, West University of Timisoara, Romania Program Chair ------------- * Nikolaj Bjorner, Microsoft Research, US Track Chairs ------------ * Symbolic Computation + Tetsuo Ida, University of Tsukuba, Japan + Stephen Watt, University of Western Ontario, Canada * Logic and Programming + Tudor Jebelean, Johannes Kepler University, Austria + Laura Kovacs, Vienna University of Technology, Austria * Artificial Intelligence + Andrei Petrovski, Robert Gordon University, UK + Daniela Zaharie, West University of Timisoara, Romania * Numerical Computing + Yonghong Yao, Tianjin Polytechnic University, China + Ioan A. Rus, "Babes-Bolyai" University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania * Distributed Computing + Marc Frincu, West University of Timisoara, Romania + Karoly Bosa, Johannes Kepler University, Austria * Advances in the Theory of Computing + Mircea Marin, West University of Timisoara, Romania + Gabriel Istrate, Research Institute e-Austria Timisoara, Romania Special sessions and workshops chair ------------------------------------ * Dana Petcu, West University of Timisoara, Romania Tutorial chair -------------- * Adrian Craciun, West University of Timisoara, Romania Proceedings Chairs ------------------ * Nikolaj Bjorner, Microsoft Research, US * Daniela Zaharie, West University of Timisoara, Romania Local Committee Chairs ---------------------- * Isabela Dramnesc, West University of Timisoara, Romania * Silviu Panica, Institute e-Austria Timisoara, Romania Submission ----------- Submissions of research papers are invited. The papers must contain original research results not submitted and not published elsewhere. The submission process consists of two steps. * In the first step the authors are invited to express their intention to participate at the conference by submitting a short abstract (1/2 page, at maximum) where it is clearly stated the main contribution(s) of the paper. * In the second step the authors should submit the full paper (up to 8 pages in the two-columns IEEE conference style). Both the abstract and the full paper should be submitted electronically through http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=synasc2013 (for the main tracks) and through http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=synasc2013workshops (for the workshops). Proposals are also invited for: * special sessions Special sessions ---------------- Proposals are invited for special sessions on any topic relevant to the conference. Special sessions are intended to stimulate in-depth discussions in special areas and they are fully integrated into the main conference. The research papers and the informal presentations submitted and accepted for the special sessions follow the same rules as the papers submitted to the regular sessions. It is expected that the organizers of the special sessions appoint their own chair and program committee, which will be integrated in the conference program committee and will be supervised by the conference programme chair and by the general chair. ----------- SYNASC 2013 West University of Timisoara Department of Computer Science Bd. V. Parvan 4, 300223 Timisoara, Romania tel: + (40) 256 592155, +(40) 256 592195 fax: + (40) 256 592316, +(40) 256 592380 e-mail: synasc13 at synasc.ro From ruy at cin.ufpe.br Tue May 14 13:38:17 2013 From: ruy at cin.ufpe.br (Ruy de Queiroz) Date: Tue, 14 May 2013 08:38:17 -0300 Subject: [DL] WoLLIC 2013 - Darmstadt, Germany, Aug 20-23 - Call for Participation Message-ID: *WoLLIC 2013* *Call for Participation* *WoLLIC* * *is an annual international forum on inter-disciplinary research involving formal logic, computing and programming theory, and natural language and reasoning. Each meeting includes invited talks and tutorials as well as contributed papers. The nineteenth WoLLIC will be held at the Fachbereich Mathematik, Technische Universit?t Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany, from August 20th to 23rd, 2013. *Invited Speakers* ** *Natasha Alechina (University of Nottingham) * *Steve Awodey (Carnegie Mellon University) * *Mikolaj Bojanczyk (Warsaw University) * *Wim Martens (Universit?t Bayreuth)* *Catuscia Palamidessi (INRIA Saclay and LIX)* *Thomas Schwentick (TU Dortmund)* *P**roceedings* of WoLLIC 2013, including both invited and contributed papers, will be published in advance of the meeting as a volume in Springer's LNCS series. The list of contributed papers is: ** In addition, abstracts will appear in the Conference Report section of the *Logic Journal of the IGPL*, and selected contributions will be published as a special post-conference WoLLIC 2013 issue of the *Journal of Computer System and Sciences*. *Registration* Early registration deadline is June 14, see * http://www3.mathematik.tu-darmstadt.de/wollic/registration.html* *Programme Committee* Albert Atserias (UPC Barcelona) Alexandru Baltag (Univ Amsterdam) Stephanie Delaune (ENS, CNRS) Amy Felty (Univ Ottawa) Santiago Figueira (Univ Buenos Aires) Amelie Gheerbrant (Univ Edinburgh) Radha Jagadeesan (DePaul Univ) Delia Kesner (Univ Paris-Diderot) Benoit Larose (Concordia Univ) Leonid Libkin (Univ Edinburgh - CHAIR) Fenrong Liu (Tsinghua Univ) Jerzy Marcinkowski (Wroclaw Univ) Peter O'Hearn (UCL) Jo?l Ouaknine (Oxford Univ) Gerald Penn (Univ Toronto) Gabriele Puppis (CNRS/LaBRI - Univ Bordeaux) R. Ramanujam (The Institute of Mathematical Sciences) Peter Selinger (Dalhousie Univ) Szymon Torunczyk (Warsaw Univ) Anna Zamansky (TU Wien) *Steering Committee* Samson Abramksy, Johan van Benthem, Anuj Dawar, Joe Halpern, Wilfrid Hodges, Daniel Leivant, Angus Macintyre, Grigori Mints, Luke Ong, Hiroakira Ono, Ruy de Queiroz. *Organising Committee* Ulrich Kohlenbach (Tech U Darmstadt) (Local chair) Anjolina G. de Oliveira (U Fed Pernambuco) Martin Otto (Tech U Darmstadt) Ruy de Queiroz (U Fed Pernambuco) (co-chair) Thomas Streicher (Tech U Darmstadt) Martin Ziegler (Tech U Darmstadt) *Further information* Contact one of the Co-Chairs of the Organising Committee. *Web page* http://wollic.org/wollic2013/ *S**ponsor**s* *Deutsche Vereinigung f?r Mathematische Logik und f?r Grundlagenforschung der Exakten Wissenschaften (DVMLG), *Association for Symbolic Logic (ASL), the Interest Group in Pure and Applied Logics (IGPL), The Association for Logic, Language and Information (FoLLI), the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science (EATCS), the European Association for Computer Science Logic (EACSL), the Sociedade Brasileira de Computa??o (SBC), and the Sociedade Brasileira de L?gica (SBL). -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From claudia.damato at uniba.it Thu May 9 10:54:32 2013 From: claudia.damato at uniba.it (Claudia d'Amato) Date: Thu, 09 May 2013 10:54:32 +0200 Subject: [DL] LD4IE 2013: CfP 1st international Workshop on Linked Data for Information Extraction @ ISWC 2013 Message-ID: <518B6448.7030104@uniba.it> *********************************************** Apologise for multiple posting. *********************************************** LD4IE 2013 The 1st international Workshop on Linked Data for Information Extraction Sydney, Australia, October 21 -22, 2013 Workshop website: http://oak.dcs.shef.ac.uk/ld4ie2013/index.html Twitter: @LD4IE2013 #LD4IE #LD4IE2013 Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/Ld4ie2013 in conjunction with ISWC 2013 The 12th International Semantic Web Conference Sydney, Australia, October 21 -25, 2013 http://iswc2013.semanticweb.org/ *************** Call for Papers *************** This workshop focuses on the exploitation of Linked Data for Web Scale Information Extraction (IE), which concerns extracting structured knowledge from unstructured/semi-structured documents on the Web. One of the major bottlenecks for the current state of the art in IE is the availability of learning materials (e.g., seed data, training corpora), which, typically are manually created and are expensive to build and maintain. Linked Data (LD) defines best practices for exposing, sharing, and connecting data, information, and knowledge on the Semantic Web using uniform means such as URIs and RDF. It has so far been created a gigantic knowledge source of Linked Open Data (LOD), which constitutes a mine of learning materials for IE. However, the massive quantity requires efficient learning algorithms and the not guaranteed quality of data requires robust methods to handle redundancy and noise. LD4IE intends to gather researchers and practitioners to address multiple challenges arising from the usage of LD as learning material for IE tasks, focusing on (i) modelling user defined extraction tasks using LD; (ii) gathering learning materials from LD assuring quality (training data selection, cleaning, feature selection etc.); (iii) robust learning algorithms for handling LD; (iv) publishing IE results to the LOD cloud. *************** Topics ************************ Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: *** Modelling Extraction Tasks * modelling extraction tasks (e.g. defining IE templates using LD ontologies) * extracting and building knowledge patterns based on LD * user friendly approaches for querying LD *** Information Extraction * selecting relevant portions of LD as training data * selecting relevant knowledge resources from LD * IE methods robust to noise in LD as training data * Information Extractions tasks/applications exploiting LD (Wrapper induction, Table interpretation, IE from unstructured data, Named Entity Recognition, Relation Extraction???) * linking extracted information to existing LD datasets *** Linked Data for Learning * assessing the quality of LD data for training * select optimal subset of LD to seed learning * managing heterogeneity, incompleteness, noise, and uncertainty of LD * scalable learning methods using LD * pattern extraction from LD *************** Important Dates *************** Abstract submission deadline: July 5, 2013 Paper submission deadline: July 12, 2013 Acceptance Notification: August 9, 2013 Camera-ready versions: to be announced Workshop date: to be announced (21-22 October 2013) *************** Submission ******************** We accept the following formats of submissions: Full paper with a maximum of 12 pages including references Short paper with a maximum of 6 pages including references Poster with a maximum of 4 pages including references All submissions must be written in English and must be formatted according to the information for LNCS Authors (http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0.). Please submit your contributions electronically in PDF format to EasyChair at https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ld4ie Accepted papers will be published online via CEUR-WS. *************** Workshop Chairs *************** Anna Lisa Gentile, University of Sheffield, UK Ziqi Zhang, University of Sheffield, UK Claudia d'Amato, University of Bari, Italy Heiko Paulheim, University of Mannheim, Germany -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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It provides a common framework that allows data to be shared and reused across application, enterprise, and community boundaries. Semantic Web technologies facilitate building a large-scale Web of machine-readable and machine-understandable knowledge, and thus facilitate data reuse and integration so that the new generation of the Web can provide better applications and services. Nowadays, many scholars and experts are devoting them to the work of applying the Semantic Web theories into specific practice, while in turn improving the Semantic Web standards and technologies according to the demand in practice. Web Science involves full scope of Web-related researches and applications, and it integrates the Web-related interdisciplinary researches into a new field of scientific research. This joint conference aims to promote expansions from the Semantic Web to Web Science, and then to discuss the core technologies of Next Generation Web, such as the Web and swarm intelligence, a new generation of semantic search, semantic and Web security and so on. ? 1. Scope and Interests The theme of CSWS 2013 is ``Linked Data & Knowledge Graph". CSWS 2013 invites submissions of original work. The topics of the symposium include, but are not limited to: - Languages, tools, and methodologies for ontology engineering - Ontology extraction/induction from data and the Web - Ontology engineering (including ontology matching, merging, evolution, versioning, ect.) - Ontology/knowledge patterns - Semantic search - Ontology management and maintenance - Ontology and data quality and evaluation - Ontologies for semantic technologies - Network analysis of the Web and human communities on the Web - Detailed studies of micro-level processes and interactions on the Web - Collective intelligence and social computing - The architecture and philosophy of the Web - The intersection of design and human interaction on the Web - Economics and social innovation on the Web - Governance, democracy, intellectual property, and the commons - Personal data, trust, and privacy - Social media mining and searching - Studies of Linked Data, the Cloud, and digital eco-systems. - Web access, literacy, and development - Knowledge, education, and scholarship on and through the Web - People-driven Web technologies, including crowd-sourcing, open data, and new interfaces ? 2. Instructions for Authors Submission is via EasyChair at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=csws-2013. Accepted papers written in English will be published by Springer in the Communications in Computer and Information Science (CCIS) series (http://www.springer.com/series/7899) and will be indexed by EI Compendex. Accepted papers written in Chinese will be published in a special issue of Journal of Southeast University (Chinese Edition), which is indexed by EI. At least one of the authors of an accepted paper must attend the conference and present their work to ensure publication of their paper. * Submissions should not have been previously accepted, published, presented, or be under review for another conference or journal. * Submissions should be written in either English or Chinese, and be no longer than 14 pages (research paper) or 4 pages (poster & demo paper), following the LNCS style. Accepted papers, before publication in journals, should be further revised following corresponding styles. ? 3. Dates * Abstract submission deadline: May 19, 2013 * Full paper submission deadline: May 24, 2013 * Notification: June 20, 2013 * Camera-ready: July 10, 2013 ? 4. Further Information For further information, please contact the PC co-chairs Guilin Qi, Southeast University, Email: gqi at seu.edu.cn Jie Tang, Tsinghua University, Email: jery.tang at gmail.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From liebig at derivo.de Fri May 17 12:44:31 2013 From: liebig at derivo.de (Thorsten Liebig) Date: Fri, 17 May 2013 12:44:31 +0200 Subject: [DL] CFP: 9th Int. WS on Scalable SW Knowledge Base Systems (SSWS 2013) Message-ID: <51960A0F.8050304@derivo.de> *************************************************************************** We apologize if you received multiple copies of this Call for Papers Please feel free to distribute it to those who might be interested *************************************************************************** CALL FOR PAPERS NINTH INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON SCALABLE SEMANTIC WEB KNOWLEDGE BASE SYSTEMS (SSWS2013) http://www.ssws-ws.org/SSWS2013/ At the 12th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC2013), Sydney, Australia, October 21-25, 2013 http://iswc2013.semanticweb.org/ *************************************************************************** WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION The series of SSWS workshops aim at creating a forum for discussing a critical issue for the Semantic Web, that is, scalability. As the Semantic Web evolves, scalability becomes increasingly important. This workshop will focus on addressing the scalability issue with respect to the development and deployment of knowledge base systems on the Semantic Web. Typically, such systems deal with information described in Semantic Web languages like OWL and RDF(S), and provide services such as storing, reasoning, querying and debugging. There are two basic requirements for these systems. First, they have to satisfy the application's semantic requirements by providing sufficient reasoning support. Second, they must scale well in order to be of practical use. Given the sheer size and distributed nature of the Semantic Web, these requirements impose additional challenges beyond those addressed by earlier knowledge base systems. This has been well recognized by the community as demonstrated by the excitement around the billion triples challenge. We expect that the above issue is going to challenge the Semantic Web for a long period of time and significant effort is needed in order to tackle the problem. This half day workshop seeks to bring together researchers and practitioners to share their recent ideas and progresses towards building scalable knowledge base systems for the Semantic Web. The workshop will be centered on the discussion of three major aspects: 1) foundations, methods and technologies for pushing forward the state-of-the-art; 2) performance evaluation and related principles, methodologies and tools; 3) identification of important issues and future research directions. Topics of interest for the workshop include, but are not limited to: * Semantic Web repositories * Reasoning mechanisms, techniques and systems * Query evaluation and optimization * Performance evaluation and benchmarks * Distributed knowledge base systems and P2P systems * Large scale knowledge base management * Semantic Web-based information integration We expect that the outcome of the workshop will benefit not only Semantic Web developers but also Semantic Web evaluators and end users. We also welcome participants from related disciplines such as Artificial Intelligence, Databases and Information Integration. IMPORTANT DATES Abstract Submission Deadline July 8, 2013 (11:59PM Hawaii Time) Paper Submission Deadline July 12, 2013 (11:59PM Hawaii Time) Acceptance Notification August 9, 2013 Workshop Day (full or half day) October 21 or 22, 2013 ORGANISATION COMMITTEE Thorsten Liebig (Contact Person) derivo GmbH, Germany Achille Fokoue IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, NY, USA PROGRAM COMMITTEE MEMBERS Mike Dean - BBN Technologies, USA Ra?l Garc?a Castro - Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain Anastasios Kementsietsidis - IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA Pavel Klinov - Ulm University, Germany Ralf M?ller - Hamburg University of Technology, Germany Jeff Z. Pan - University of Aberdeen, UK Padmashree Ravindra - North Carolina State University, USA Mihaela Bornea - IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA Spyros Kotoulas - IBM Research, Ireland Bijan Parsia - University of Manchester, UK Takahira Yamaguchi - Keio University, Japan Oscar Corcho - University of Manchester, UK Mariano Rodriguez-Muro - Free University of Bolzano, Italy Pascal Hitzler - Wright State University, Ohio, USA Volker Haarslev - Concordia University, Canada -- Dr. Thorsten Liebig Tel. +49 731 502 4207 mailto:liebig at derivo.de derivo GmbH James-Franck-Ring, D-89081 Ulm Amtsgericht Ulm, HRB 725444 Gesch?ftsf?hrer: Dr. Thorsten Liebig From synasc13 at synasc.ro Sun May 19 21:05:13 2013 From: synasc13 at synasc.ro (SYNASC 2013) Date: Sun, 19 May 2013 22:05:13 +0300 (EEST) Subject: [DL] Synasc 2013 CFP [Extended deadline] Message-ID: <792213964.230649.1368990313491.JavaMail.root@synasc.ro> [Please post - apologies for multiple copies.] Call for Papers --------------- SYNASC 2013 15th International Symposium on Symbolic and Numeric Algorithms for Scientific Computing September 23-26, 2013, Timisoara, Romania http://www.synasc.ro/ Aim --- SYNASC aims to stimulate the interaction between the two scientific communities of symbolic and numeric computing and to exhibit interesting applications of the areas both in theory and in practice. The choice of the topic is motivated by the belief of the organizers that the dialogue between the two communities is very necessary for accelerating the progress in making the computer a truly intelligent aid for mathematicians and engineers. Important Dates --------------- 23 June 2013 (EXTENDED) : Abstract submission 30 June 2013 (EXTENDED) : Paper submission 04 August 2013 : Notification of acceptance 01 September 2013 : Registration 08 September 2013 : Revised papers according to the reviews 23-26 September 2013 : Symposium 30 November 2013 : Final papers for post-proceedings Tracks ------ * Symbolic Computation + computer algebra + symbolic techniques applied to numerics + hybrid symbolic and numeric algorithms + numerics and symbolics for geometry + programming with constraints, narrowing * Logic and Programming + automatic reasoning + formal system verification + formal verification and synthesis + software quality assessment + static analysis + timing analysis * Artificial Intelligence + methods for hard computational problems + intelligent systems for scientific computing + agent-based complex systems modeling and development + scientific knowledge management + computational intelligence + machine learning + recommender and expert systems for scientific computing + data mining and web mining + natural language processing + uncertain reasoning in scientific computing + intelligent hybrid systems * Numerical Computing + iterative approximation of fixed points + solving systems of nonlinear equations + numerical and symbolic algorithms for differential equations + numerical and symbolic algorithms for optimization + parallel algorithms for numerical computing + scientific visualization and image processing * Distributed Computing + parallel and distributed algorithms for clouds, GPUs, HPC, P2P systems, autonomous systems. Work should focus on scheduling, scaling, load balancing, networks, fault-tolerance, gossip algorithms, energy saving + applications for parallel and distributed systems, including work on cross disciplinary (scientific) applications for grids/clouds, web applications, workflow platforms, network measurement tools, programming environments + architectures for parallel and distributed systems, including self-managing and autonomous systems, negotiation protocols, HPC on clouds, GPU processing, PaaS for (inter)cloud, brokering platforms, mobile computing + modelling of parallel and distributed systems including models on resources and networks, semantic representation, negotiation, social networks, trace management, simulators + any other topic deemed relevant to the field * Advances in the Theory of Computing + Data structures and algorithms + Combinatorial Optimization + Formal languages and Combinatorics on Words + Graph-theoretic and Combinatorial methods in Computer Science + Algorithmic paradigms, including distributed, online, approximation, probabilistic, game-theoretic algorithms + Computational Complexity Theory, including structural complexity, boolean complexity, communication complexity, average-case complexity, derandomization and property testing + Logical approaches to complexity, including finite model theory + Algorithmic and computational learning theory + Aspects of computability theory, including computability in analysis and algorithmic information theory + Proof complexity + Computational social choice and game theory + New computational paradigms: CNN computing, quantum, holographic and other non-standard approaches to Computability + Randomized methods, random graphs, threshold phenomena and typical-case complexity + Automata theory and other formal models, particularly in relation to formal verification methods such as model checking and runtime verification + Applications of theory, including wireless and sensor networks, computational biology and computational economics + Experimental algorithmics Workshops --------- * Workshop on Agents for Complex Systems (ACSys) http://www.synasc.ro/workshops/acsys-2013/ * Workshop of HPC for scientific problems (HPCS) http://host.hpc.uvt.ro/events/hpcs/ * Workshop on Iterative Approximation of Fixed Points (IAFP) http://www.synasc.ro/workshops/iafp-2013/ * Workshop on Management of Resources and Services in Cloud and Sky Computing (MICAS) http://amicas.hpc.uvt.ro/micas-2013/ * Workshop on Natural Computing and Applications (NCA) http://www.synasc.ro/workshops/nca-2013/ Workshops deadlines: please visit each workshop webpage Tutorials --------- * Tutorial HPC http://host.hpc.uvt.ro/hpcs#HPC-Tutorial * Tutorial Multi-Cloud http://amicas.hpc.uvt.ro/micas-2013#MultiCloud-Tutorial Publication ----------- Research papers that are accepted and presented at the symposium will be collected as post-proceedings published by Conference Publishing Service (CPS) (indexed in ISI Web of Science, DBLP, SCOPUS). Invited Speakers ---------------- * Ivona Brandic, Vienna University of Technology, Austria * Gabriel Ciobanu, Romanian Academy, Institute of Computer Science, Iasi, Romania * Leonardo de Moura, Microsoft Research, USA * Grigore Rosu, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA * Dan A. Simovici, University of Massachusetts Boston, USA Honorary Chairs --------------- * Bruno Buchberger, Johannes Kepler University, Austria * Stefan Maruster, West University of Timisoara, Romania Steering Committee ------------------ * Tetsuo Ida, University of Tsukuba, Japan * Tudor Jebelean, Johannes Kepler University, Austria * Viorel Negru, West University of Timisoara, Romania * Dana Petcu, West University of Timisoara, Romania * Stephen Watt, University of Western Ontario, Canada * Daniela Zaharie, West University of Timisoara, Romania General Chair ------------- * Viorel Negru, West University of Timisoara, Romania Program Chair ------------- * Nikolaj Bjorner, Microsoft Research, US Track Chairs ------------ * Symbolic Computation + Tetsuo Ida, University of Tsukuba, Japan + Stephen Watt, University of Western Ontario, Canada * Logic and Programming + Tudor Jebelean, Johannes Kepler University, Austria + Laura Kovacs, Vienna University of Technology, Austria * Artificial Intelligence + Andrei Petrovski, Robert Gordon University, UK + Daniela Zaharie, West University of Timisoara, Romania * Numerical Computing + Yonghong Yao, Tianjin Polytechnic University, China + Ioan A. Rus, "Babes-Bolyai" University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania * Distributed Computing + Marc Frincu, West University of Timisoara, Romania + Karoly Bosa, Johannes Kepler University, Austria * Advances in the Theory of Computing + Mircea Marin, West University of Timisoara, Romania + Gabriel Istrate, Research Institute e-Austria Timisoara, Romania Special sessions and workshops chair ------------------------------------ * Dana Petcu, West University of Timisoara, Romania Tutorial chair -------------- * Adrian Craciun, West University of Timisoara, Romania Proceedings Chairs ------------------ * Nikolaj Bjorner, Microsoft Research, US * Daniela Zaharie, West University of Timisoara, Romania Local Committee Chairs ---------------------- * Isabela Dramnesc, West University of Timisoara, Romania * Silviu Panica, Institute e-Austria Timisoara, Romania Submission ----------- Submissions of research papers are invited. The papers must contain original research results not submitted and not published elsewhere. The submission process consists of two steps. * In the first step the authors are invited to express their intention to participate at the conference by submitting a short abstract (1/2 page, at maximum) where it is clearly stated the main contribution(s) of the paper. * In the second step the authors should submit the full paper (up to 8 pages in the two-columns IEEE conference style). Both the abstract and the full paper should be submitted electronically through http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=synasc2013 (for the main tracks) and through http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=synasc2013workshops (for the workshops). Proposals are also invited for: * special sessions Special sessions ---------------- Proposals are invited for special sessions on any topic relevant to the conference. Special sessions are intended to stimulate in-depth discussions in special areas and they are fully integrated into the main conference. The research papers and the informal presentations submitted and accepted for the special sessions follow the same rules as the papers submitted to the regular sessions. It is expected that the organizers of the special sessions appoint their own chair and program committee, which will be integrated in the conference program committee and will be supervised by the conference programme chair and by the general chair. ----------- SYNASC 2013 West University of Timisoara Department of Computer Science Bd. V. Parvan 4, 300223 Timisoara, Romania tel: + (40) 256 592155, +(40) 256 592195 fax: + (40) 256 592316, +(40) 256 592380 e-mail: synasc13 at synasc.ro From pavel.klinov at uni-ulm.de Tue May 21 15:47:24 2013 From: pavel.klinov at uni-ulm.de (Pavel Klinov) Date: Tue, 21 May 2013 15:47:24 +0200 Subject: [DL] Final CfP: 4th Knowledge Engineering and Semantic Web Conference (KESW2013) Message-ID: Final Call for Papers: 4th Knowledge Engineering and Semantic Web Conference (St. Petersburg, Russia, October 7-9, 2013) http://kesw.ifmo.ru/kesw2013/ UPDATE: The paper deadline *might* be extended (as we've got requests to do so) but all abstracts *must* be in by May 25th, 23:59 Hawaii Time. Follow https://twitter.com/keswconference for updates. KESW is a top Russian venue for discussing research issues related to knowledge representation, Semantic Web, and Linked Data. Its aim is to bring together researchers, practitioners, and educators, in particular from ex-USSR, Eastern and Northern Europe, to present and share ideas regarding Semantic Web, and popularize the area in these regions. Following the success in the previous years, we solicit original and substantial contributions for this year's technical program. The program will feature three tracks for research papers, industrial papers, and posters/demos. Additionally, we welcome position papers to discuss ideas on their early stages of development. The sole language for all kinds of submissions this year is English. RESEARCH TRACK For the research track we welcome novel papers addressing theoretical, analytic or empirical aspects of research related to KR and Semantic Web. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: Ontology management: * Logical and philosophical foundations * Merging and alignment, modularity * Collaborative engineering and exchange Knowledge Representation and Reasoning: * Knowledge acquisition and management * Theory of automated reasoning * Practical reasoning algorithms * Applications Linked Data: * Publishing and integration * Querying * Scalability aspects Natural Language Processing for Semantic Web * Information extraction and content analysis * Document clustering and classification * Opinion mining and sentiment analysis * Semantic based information retrieval * Controlled natural languages Semantic Databases: * RDF and other DBs for Linked Data * Ontologies and databases * Query answering Semantic Web Services Semantic Search Human Computer Interaction Semantic Social Web Trust, Security, and Privacy Knowledge Visualization Semantic Web in Education INDUSTRY TRACK For the industry track we solicit papers that describe practical experience of using Semantic Web or KR-related technologies in practical projects. Descriptions of industrial deployments and production usage are especially invited but papers with preliminary experience are also welcome (as long as the authors are able to demonstrate, preferably with some quantitative data, practical utility of Semantic Web technologies in a particular domain). Topics of interest include but are not limited to: * Applications of Semantic Web technologies in various industrial domains. * Applications of Semantic Web technologies in community, government and semantic smart city. * Industrial trends related to the usage of Linked Data and Semantic Web technologies. * Description and analysis of concrete problems and user requirements for applying Semantic Web technologies in specific industry domains. * Analysis and evaluation of usability, assessment of pros and cons of using Semantic Web technologies in real-world scenarios including models of investment justifications (ROI). POSTERS AND DEMOS P&D is an opportunity to present research through an informal discussion or presentation. We invite submissions relevant to the above topics. Both posters and demos may complement submissions to the research and industrial tracks. Furthermore, we explicitly invite you to submit a poster or a demo if your research or industry paper has been accepted. SUBMISSION All authors will be required to pre-submit abstracts of their papers. Both papers and abstracts should be submitted via Easychair at: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=kesw2013. Size restrictions are as follows (including bibliography): Research papers: no more than 15 pages Industrial papers: no more than 10 pages Demo descriptions: no more than 8 pages Posters and position papers: no more than 2 pages. Submissions must be prepared according to the Springer LNCS format. IMPORTANT DATES Research/industry track abstract submission: May 25th, 2013 Research/industry track paper submission: May 31st, 2013 Author notification: July 1st, 2013 Poster/demo/position paper submission: July 15th, 2013 PROCEEDINGS The proceedings will be published in the Springer's Communications in Computer and Information Science (CCIS) series. The papers will be abstracted/indexed by DBLP, Google Scholar, EI-Compendex, Mathematical Reviews, SCImago, and Scopus. ATTENDANCE At least one author of each accepted paper must register for the conference and present the paper there. ORGANIZATION General Chair: Dmitry Mouromtsev, NRU ITMO, St. Petersburg, Russia Program Co-Chair (Research): Pavel Klinov, University of Ulm, Germany Program Co-Chair (Industry): Daniel Hladky, NRU HSE / W3C Russia Office -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From pavel at dit.unitn.it Tue May 21 08:52:04 2013 From: pavel at dit.unitn.it (Pavel) Date: Tue, 21 May 2013 08:52:04 +0200 Subject: [DL] 2nd CFP: ISWC'13 workshop on Ontology Matching (OM-2013) Message-ID: <07138E71C1F24735851E231DB50E1A81@itad.infotn.it> Apologies for cross-postings -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2nd CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS -------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Eighth International Workshop on ONTOLOGY MATCHING (OM-2013) http://om2013.ontologymatching.org/ October 21st or 22nd, 2013, ISWC Workshop Program, Sydney, Australia BRIEF DESCRIPTION AND OBJECTIVES Ontology matching is a key interoperability enabler for the Semantic Web, as well as a useful tactic in some classical data integration tasks dealing with the semantic heterogeneity problem. It takes the ontologies as input and determines as output an alignment, that is, a set of correspondences between the semantically related entities of those ontologies. These correspondences can be used for various tasks, such as ontology merging, data translation, query answering or navigation on the web of data. Thus, matching ontologies enables the knowledge and data expressed in the matched ontologies to interoperate. The workshop has three goals: 1. To bring together leaders from academia, industry and user institutions to assess how academic advances are addressing real-world requirements. The workshop will strive to improve academic awareness of industrial and final user needs, and therefore, direct research towards those needs. Simultaneously, the workshop will serve to inform industry and user representatives about existing research efforts that may meet their requirements. The workshop will also investigate how the ontology matching technology is going to evolve. 2. To conduct an extensive and rigorous evaluation of ontology matching approaches through the OAEI (Ontology Alignment Evaluation Initiative) 2013 campaign: http://oaei.ontologymatching.org/2013/. The particular focus of this year's OAEI campaign is on real-world specific matching tasks as well as on evaluation of interactive matchers. Therefore, the ontology matching evaluation initiative itself will provide a solid ground for discussion of how well the current approaches are meeting business needs. 3. To examine similarities and differences from database schema matching, which has received decades of attention but is just beginning to transition to mainstream tools. This year, in sync with the main conference, we encourage submissions specifically devoted to: (i) repeatable evaluations of the approaches proposed (not necessarily within OAEI) and (ii) application of the matching technology in real-life scenarios and assessment of its usefulness to the final users. TOPICS of interest include but are not limited to: Business and use cases for matching (e.g., open government data); Requirements to matching from specific domains (e.g., energy); Application of matching techniques in real-world scenarios (e.g., with mobile apps); Formal foundations and frameworks for matching; Matching patterns; Matching and big data; Entity matching; Instance matching and data interlinking; Large-scale matching evaluation; Performance of matching techniques; Matcher selection and self-configuration; User involvement (including both technical and organizational aspects); Explanations in matching; Social and collaborative matching; Alignment management; Reasoning with alignments; Matching for traditional applications (e.g., information integration); Matching for emerging applications (e.g., linked data, search). SUBMISSIONS Contributions to the workshop can be made in terms of technical papers and posters/statements of interest addressing different issues of ontology matching as well as participating in the OAEI 2013 campaign. Technical papers should be not longer than 12 pages using the LNCS Style: http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0 Posters/statements of interest should not exceed 2 pages and should be handled according to the guidelines for technical papers. All contributions should be prepared in PDF format and should be submitted through the workshop submission site at: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=om20130 Contributors to the OAEI 2013 campaign have to follow the campaign conditions and schedule at http://oaei.ontologymatching.org/2013/. TENTATIVE DATES FOR TECHNICAL PAPERS AND POSTERS: July 12, 2013: Deadline for the submission of papers. August 9, 2013:Deadline for the notification of acceptance/rejection. October 21th or 22nd, 2013: OM-2013, Sydney Convention & Exhibition Centre, Sydney, Australia. ORGANIZING COMMITTEE 1. Pavel Shvaiko (Main contact) TasLab, Informatica Trentina SpA, Italy 2. J?r?me Euzenat INRIA & LIG, France 3. Kavitha Srinivas IBM, USA 4. Ming Mao eBay, USA 5. Ernesto Jim?nez-Ruiz University of Oxford, UK PROGRAM COMMITTEE Manuel Atencia, INRIA &LIG, France Michele Barbera, SpazioDati, Italy Zohra Bellahsene, LRIMM, France Chris Bizer, University of Mannheim, Germany Olivier Bodenreider, National Library of Medicine, USA Marco Combetto, Informatica Trentina, Italy Gianluca Correndo, University of Southampton, UK Isabel Cruz, The University of Illinois at Chicago, USA J?r?me David, INRIA & LIG, France AnHai Doan, University of Wisconsin and Kosmix Corp., USA Alfio Ferrara, University of Milan, Italy Bin He, IBM, USA Wei Hu, Nanjing University, China Ryutaro Ichise, National Institute of Informatics, Japan Antoine Isaac, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam & Europeana, Netherlands Krzysztof Janowicz, University of California, USA Anja Jentzsch, Wikimedia Deutschland, Germany Yannis Kalfoglou, Ricoh Europe plc, UK Anastasios Kementsietsidis, IBM, USA Patrick Lambrix, Link?pings Universitet, Sweden Monika Lanzenberger, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Vincenzo Maltese, University of Trento, Italy Fiona McNeill, University of Edinburgh, UK Christian Meilicke, University of Mannheim, Germany Peter Mork, Noblis, USA Axel-Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo, University of Leipzig, Germany Andriy Nikolov, Open University, UK Leo Obrst, The MITRE Corporation, USA Heiko Paulheim, University of Mannheim, Germany Yefei Peng, Google, USA Andrea Perego, European Commission - Joint Research Centre, Italy Fran?ois Scharffe, LIRMM & University of Montpellier, France Luciano Serafini, Fondazione Bruno Kessler - IRST, Italy Umberto Straccia, ISTI-C.N.R., Italy Ondrej Svab-Zamazal, Prague University of Economics, Czech Republic C?ssia Trojahn, IRIT, France Rapha?l Troncy, EURECOM, France Giovanni Tummarello, Fondazione Bruno Kessler - IRST, Italy Lorenzino Vaccari, Autonomous Province of Trento, Italy Ludger van Elst, DFKI, Germany Shenghui Wang, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands Baoshi Yan, LinkedIn, USA Songmao Zhang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China ------------------------------------------------------- Download OM-2013 flyer: http://om2013.ontologymatching.org/Pictures/CfP_OM2013_flyer.pdf ------------------------------------------------------- More about ontology matching: http://www.ontologymatching.org/ http://book.ontologymatching.org/ ------------------------------------------------------- Best Regards, Pavel ------------------------------------------------------- Pavel Shvaiko, PhD Innovation Program Manager TasLab, Informatica Trentina SpA, Italy http://www.ontologymatching.org/ http://www.taslab.eu/ http://www.infotn.it/ http://www.dit.unitn.it/~pavel -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From aspocp at gmail.com Mon May 27 03:07:02 2013 From: aspocp at gmail.com (Yuliya Lierler) Date: Sun, 26 May 2013 20:07:02 -0500 (CDT) Subject: [DL] Second CfP ASPOCP 2013: 6th Workshop on Answer Set Programming and Other Computing Paradigms Message-ID: <20130527010702.321BA3226D9@yuliya.localdomain> Apologies for cross-posting. =============================================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS ASPOCP 2013 6th Workshop on Answer Set Programming and Other Computing Paradigms http://www.kr.tuwien.ac.at/events/aspocp2013 August 25th, 2013 Collocated with the International Conference on Logic Programming 2013 Istanbul, Turkey August 24-29, 2013 =============================================================================== AIMS AND SCOPE Since its introduction in the late 1980s, answer set programming (ASP) has been widely applied to various knowledge-intensive tasks and combinatorial search problems. ASP was found to be closely related to SAT, which has led to a method of computing answer sets using SAT solvers and techniques adapted from SAT. While this has been the most studied relationship which is currently extended towards satisfiability modulo theories (SMT), the relationship of ASP to other computing paradigms, such as constraint satisfaction, quantified boolean formulas (QBF), first-order logic (FOL), or FO(ID) logic is also the subject of active research. New methods of computing answer sets are being developed based on the relation between ASP and other paradigms, such as the use of pseudo-Boolean solvers, QBF solvers, FOL theorem provers, and CLP systems. Furthermore, the practical applications of ASP also foster work on multi-paradigm problem-solving, and in particular language and solver integration. The most prominent examples in this area currently are the integration of ASP with description logics (in the realm of the Semantic Web), constraint satisfaction, and general means of external computation. This workshop will facilitate the discussion about crossing the boundaries of current ASP techniques in theory, solving, and applications, in combination with or inspired by other computing paradigms. TOPICS Topics of interests include (but are not limited to): - ASP and classical logic formalisms (SAT/FOL/QBF/SMT/DL). - ASP and constraint programming. - ASP and other logic programming paradigms, e.g., FO(ID). - ASP and other nonmonotonic languages, e.g., action languages. - ASP and external means of computation. - ASP and probabilistic reasoning. - ASP and machine learning. - New methods of computing answer sets using algorithms or systems of other paradigms. - Language extensions to ASP. - ASP and multi-agent systems. - ASP and multi-context systems. - Modularity and ASP. - ASP and argumentation. - Multi-paradigm problem solving involving ASP. - Evaluation and comparison of ASP to other paradigms. - ASP and related paradigms in applications. - Hybridizing ASP with procedural approaches. - Enhanced grounding or beyond grounding. SUBMISSIONS Papers must describe original research and should not exceed 15 pages in the Springer LNCS format . Paper submission will be handled electronically by means of the Easychair system. The submission page is available at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aspocp13 IMPORTANT DATES Abstract submission: June 11, 2013 Paper submission deadline: June 18, 2013 Notification: July 11, 2013 Camera-ready articles due: July 25, 2013 Workshop: August 25, 2013 PROCEEDINGS The workshop contributions will be published electronically, using the Computing Research Repository (CoRR). LOCATION The workshop will be held in Istanbul, Turkey, collocated with the International Conference on Logic Programming (ICLP) 2013. WORKSHOP CO-CHAIRS Michael Fink, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Yuliya Lierler, University of Nebraska at Omaha, USA PROGRAM COMMITTEE Marcello Balduccini, Kodak Research Labs, USA Pedro Cabalar, Corunna University, Spain Sandeep Chintabathina, University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff, USA Selim T. Erdogan, Independent Researcher, Turkey Wolfgang Faber, University of Calabria, Italy Cristina Feier, University of Oxford, UK Martin Gebser, University of Potsdam, Germany Gregory Gelfond, Arizona State University, USA Giovambattista Ianni, University of Calabria, Italy Daniela Inclezan, Miami University in Ohio, USA Joohyung Lee, Arizona State University, USA Joao Leite, New University of Lisbon, Portugal Vladimir Lifschitz, University of Texas at Austin, USA Marco Maratea, University of Genoa, Italy Alessandro Mosca, Free University of Bolzano, Italy Emilia Oikarinen, Aalto University, Finland David Pearce, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain Axel Polleres, Siemens AG Corporate Technology, Austria Guillermo R. Simari, Universidad Nacional del Sur, Argentina Evgenia Ternovska, Simon Fraser University, Canada Hans Tompits, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Miroslaw Truszczynski, University of Kentucky, USA Joost Vennekens, Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium Marina De Vos, University of Bath, UK Stefan Woltran, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Fangkai Yang, University of Texas at Austin, USA Jia-Huai You, University of Alberta, Canada From cfp2013 at gelbukh.com Sun May 26 07:20:07 2013 From: cfp2013 at gelbukh.com (Alexander Gelbukh (CFP)) Date: Sun, 26 May 2013 00:20:07 -0500 Subject: [DL] CFP: MICAI 2013 - Artificial Intelligence - Springer LNAI - Mexico Message-ID: <8661FF264E4644C0B3B32CD562BE5ABE@Gelbukh> MICAI-2013 12th Mexican International Conference on ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE November 24 to 30, 2013 Publication: Springer LNAI (EI, ISI), IEEE, journals (ISI JCR) www.micai.org/2013 Submission: July 25 == GENERAL INFORMATION Topics: all areas of Artificial Intelligence, research or applications. Workshops. Tutorials. Doctoral Consortium. Best papers awards. Keynotes: - Erik Cambria, NUS: "SenticNet: Helping Machines to Learn, Leverage, Love" - Maria Vargas-Vera: "Multi-Agent Ontology Mapping for the Semantic Web" - Newton Howard, MIT, USA: "Rethinking Artificial Intelligence" - Amir Hussain, U. of Stirling, UK: "Towards Multi-modal Cognitive Systems" - Ildar Batyrshin, IMP, Mexico: "Time Series Shape Association Measures" == PROCEEDINGS Springer LNAI (EI, ISI); special issues of journals (including ISI JCR). Special session: IEEE CPS (anticipated). Workshops: see the respective calls for papers. == VENUE AND TOURS Venue: Mexico City. Cultural program and tours: Pre-Hispanic city of Teotihuacan, world's largest anthropology museum. == CALL FOR WORKSHOPS and TUTORIALS Submit your workshop or tutorial proposal, see the calls on the webpage. PLEASE CIRCULATE this CFP among your colleagues and students. We apologize if you receive multiple copies. From fbobillo at unizar.es Tue May 28 20:13:40 2013 From: fbobillo at unizar.es (Fernando Bobillo) Date: Tue, 28 May 2013 20:13:40 +0200 Subject: [DL] CFP URSW 2013 In-Reply-To: <51A4F1E5.8050702@unizar.es> References: <51A4F1E5.8050702@unizar.es> Message-ID: <51A4F3D4.2070101@unizar.es> CALL FOR PAPERS 9th International Workshop on Uncertainty Reasoning for the Semantic Web (http://c4i.gmu.edu/ursw/2013) In conjunction with the 12th International Semantic Web Conference Sydney, Australia October 21-22, 2013 You are invited to participate in the upcoming workshop on Uncertainty Reasoning for the Semantic Web (URSW), to be held as part of the 12th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC) in October of 2013 at the Sydney Convention & Exhibition Centre, Australia. ISWC is a major international forum for presenting visionary research on all aspects of the Semantic Web. The Uncertainty Reasoning Workshop is an exciting opportunity for collaboration and cross-fertilization between the uncertainty reasoning community and the Semantic Web / Linked Data community. Effective methods for reasoning under uncertainty are vital for realizing many aspects of the Semantic Web vision, but the ability of current-generation web technology to handle uncertainty remains extremely limited. Thus, there is a continuing demand for uncertainty reasoning technology among Semantic Web / Linked Data researchers and developers, and the URSW workshop creates a unique opening to bring together two communities with a clear commonality of interest but limited history of interaction. By capitalizing on this opportunity, URSW could spark dramatic progress toward realizing the Semantic Web vision. Audience The intended audience for this workshop includes the following * Researchers in uncertainty reasoning technologies with interest in Semantic Web and Web-related technologies; * Semantic web / Linked Data developers and researchers; * People in the knowledge representation community with interest in the Semantic Web / Linked Data. * Ontology researchers and ontological engineers; * Web services and cloud computing researchers and developers with interest in the Semantic Web / Linked Data; * Developers of tools designed to support Semantic Web / Linked Data implementation. Topic List We intend to have an open discussion on any topic relevant to the general subject of uncertainty in the Semantic Web and Linked Data (including fuzzy theory, probability theory, and other approaches). Therefore, the following list should be just an initial guide. * Syntax and semantics for extensions to Semantic Web / Linked Data languages to enable representation of uncertainty; * Logical formalisms to support uncertainty in Semantic Web / Linked Data languages; * Probability theory as a means of assessing the likelihood that terms in different ontologies refer to the same or similar concepts; * Architectures for applying plausible reasoning to the problem of ontology mapping; * Using fuzzy approaches to deal with imprecise concepts within ontologies; * The concept of a probabilistic ontology and its relevance to the Semantic Web; * Best practices for representing uncertain, incomplete, ambiguous, or controversial information in the Semantic Web and Linked Data; * The role of uncertainty as it relates to web services and cloud computing; * Interface protocols with support for uncertainty as a means to improve interoperability among web services; * Uncertainty reasoning techniques applied to trust issues in the Semantic Web and Linked Data; * Existing implementations of uncertainty reasoning tools in the context of the Semantic Web and Linked Data; * Issues and techniques for integrating tools for representing and reasoning with uncertainty; * The future of uncertainty reasoning for the Semantic Web / Linked Data. Important Dates * July 10 Paper submissions due * August 9 Paper acceptance notification * August 31 Camera-ready papers due * October 21-22 9th Workshop on Uncertainty Reasoning for the Semantic Web Submission Details The URSW will be accepting submissions of technical papers and position papers. Each submission will be evaluated for acceptability by at least three members of the Program Committee. Decisions about acceptance will be based on relevance to the above topic list, originality, potential significance, topicality and clarity. Since all accepted papers will be presented at the workshop, we require that at least one of the submitting authors must be a registered participant at the ISWC 2013 conference, and committed to attend the URSW workshop. Submissions to the workshop are only accepted in electronic format and should be sent via the workshop?s submission site: https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=ursw2013 . Papers must be formatted in the style of the Springer Publications format for Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). This is the very same format adopted by the ISWC 2013. For complete details, see Springer?s Author Instructions (http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0 ). Technical papers submitted to the URSW Workshop must not exceed 12 pages, including figures and references. Submissions exceeding this limit will not be reviewed. Position papers consist of a summary of ideas, projects, or any research efforts that are relevant to the URSW workshop and must not exceed 4 pages. Following the general acceptance rules of the ISWC 2013 conference, papers that, at the time of submission, are under review for or have already been published in or accepted for publication in a journal or another conference will not be accepted to the URSW workshop. Presentation and Publication URSW 2013 will be a half-day workshop. All papers accepted to the URSW will be presented during the workshop and published in the workshop proceedings. Authors of accepted technical papers will have 20 minutes to present their work, while authors of accepted position papers will have a 10-minute slot to share their ideas. After each presentation, 5 minutes will be allocated to questions from the audience. Both technical and position papers will be published in the URSW workshop proceedings, to be available after the ISWC 2013 Conference. In addition, selected extended and revised technical papers accepted for presentation at URSW 2013 will be eligible for participating in an international journal special issue or in a post-proceedings book. Organizing Committee * Fernando Bobillo - University of Zaragoza, Spain * Rommel N. Carvalho - George Mason University, USA * Paulo C. G. Costa - George Mason University, USA * Claudia d?Amato - University of Bari, Italy * Nicola Fanizzi - University of Bari, Italy * Kathryn Laskey - George Mason University, USA * Kenneth J. Laskey ? MITRE Corporation, USA * Thomas Lukasiewicz ? University of Oxford, UK * Trevor Martin - University of Bristol, UK * Matthias Nickles - DERI, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland * Michael Pool - Vertical Search Works, Inc., USA Program Committee * Fernando Bobillo ? University of Zaragoza, Spain * Silvia Calegari - University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy * Rommel N. Carvalho - George Mason University, USA * Davide Ceolin - VU University Amsterdam, Netherlands * Paulo C. G. Costa - George Mason University, USA * Fabio G. Cozman - Universidade de Sao Paulo, Brazil * Claudia d?Amato - University of Bari, Italy * Nicola Fanizzi - University of Bari, Italy * Marcelo Ladeira - University of Brasilia, Brazil * Kathryn B. Laskey - George Mason University, USA * Kenneth J. Laskey - MITRE Corporation, USA * Thomas Lukasiewicz - University of Oxford, UK * Trevor Martin - University of Bristol, UK * Alessandra Mileo - DERI, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland * Matthias Nickles - DERI, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland * Jeff Z. Pan - University of Aberdeen, UK * Rafael Pe?aloza, Technical University Dresden, Germany * Michael Pool -Vertical Search Works, Inc., USA * Livia Predoiu - University of Oxford, UK * Guilin Qi - Southeast University, China * C?lia Ralha - University of Brasilia, Brazil * Dave Robertson - University of Edinburgh, UK * Daniel S?nchez - University of Granada, Spain * Thomas Scharrenbach - Swiss Federal Institute WSL, Switzerland * Luciano Serafini - Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy * Sergej Sizov - University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany * Giorgos Stoilos - National and Technical University of Athens, Greece * Umberto Straccia - ISTI-CNR, Pisa, Italy * Andreas Tolk - Old Dominion University, USA * Matthias Thimm - Universit?t Koblenz, Germany * Peter Vojtas - Charles University, Czech Republic We are looking forward to seeing you in Sydney! From m.daquin at open.ac.uk Mon May 27 23:37:36 2013 From: m.daquin at open.ac.uk (Mathieu d'Aquin) Date: Mon, 27 May 2013 22:37:36 +0100 Subject: [DL] Call for Use Cases and Tools on Privacy in Semantic Technologies Message-ID: <51A3D220.7080305@open.ac.uk> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Help us collect use cases and tools tackling or raising issues around Privacy in Semantic Technologies PriSeT 2013 wokshop - http://events.kmi.open.ac.uk/priset-2013/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The recent success of Semantic technologies have triggered a new wave of interest in government and industry who aim to apply Linked Data principles to exploit the large datasets being made public. Since the data generated is from real users, the question of privacy is highly relevant to how knowledge is discovered, extracted, integrated and used. To this end, it is important for the Linked Data and Semantic Web communities to not only pay attention to privacy but also to proactively discover and address privacy related issues at every stage. Any failing in this area at this critical juncture could only jeopardise the many Open Data initiatives currently being pursued by government, academia and industry. We are organizing a workshop (PriSeT) collocated with the K-CAP 2013 conference which aim is to discuss these issues, cases where/when they are raised, and the tools that can help tackle them. Therefore, these discussions will be supported by responses to two forms to collect experiences from the community related to these two aspects: The form related to use cases is at: http://events.kmi.open.ac.uk/priset-2013/use-case-collection-form/ The form related to tools is at: http://events.kmi.open.ac.uk/priset-2013/tool-collection-form/ These forms are open to anybody, and we expect the answers to be widely varying in scope, specificity, granularity and maturity. It is possible and encouraged to fill the form more than once. So, if you have ever encountered the issue of privacy in your work on semantic technologies, just drop a couple of sentences in our forms! Many Thanks! Mathieu, Keerthi and Inah. -- The Open University is incorporated by Royal Charter (RC 000391), an exempt charity in England & Wales and a charity registered in Scotland (SC 038302). From pascal.hitzler at wright.edu Tue May 28 16:47:09 2013 From: pascal.hitzler at wright.edu (Pascal Hitzler) Date: Tue, 28 May 2013 10:47:09 -0400 Subject: [DL] RR2013 conference: TRAVEL GRANTS for US students available Message-ID: <51A4C36D.3060709@wright.edu> We are happy to inform that this year the NSF provides support to U.S. students for attending RR2013. In order to apply for a grant, students need to send an email to pascal at pascal-hitzler.de with subject "NSF GRANT RR2013" and attach a single PDF form with the following information: Section A: Applicant details, included name and affiliation, (preliminary) title of the PhD Thesis, year of PhD, title and authors (in the correct order) of paper accepted to RR2012 (if any), whether the applicant is attending the Reasoning Web Summer School as well. Section B: Minimum amount of support requested, with a brief justification. This amount indicates the minimum amount of support needed to attend the conference. We intend to give awards of at least $1,500 each. Section C: Short motivation statement (max 250 words) for applying. The deadline for applying to the student grants is June 5, 2013. Students applying for the grant can wait for a response and register when they know the result. The early registration period will be extended for all applicants. Notice that grants are not limited to students that have a paper or doctoral consortium poster accepted at the conference. Also, we encourage students from adjacent fields to apply for a grant to take part to RR, to foster interdisciplinary dialogue. We would appreciate it a lot, if you could forward the info on grant applications to those among your contacts who might be interested. Best regards, RR-13 chairs -- Prof. Dr. Pascal Hitzler Dept. of Computer Science, Wright State University, Dayton, OH pascal at pascal-hitzler.de http://www.knoesis.org/pascal/ Semantic Web Textbook: http://www.semantic-web-book.org Semantic Web Journal: http://www.semantic-web-journal.net From homola at fmph.uniba.sk Fri May 31 23:23:35 2013 From: homola at fmph.uniba.sk (Martin Homola) Date: Fri, 31 May 2013 23:23:35 +0200 Subject: [DL] CfP ARCOE-LogIC 2013: Acquisition, Representation and Reasoning with Contextualized Knowledge Message-ID: <20130531212335.GL11548@fmph.uniba.sk> === CALL FOR PAPERS === Acquisition, Representation and Reasoning with Contextualized Knowledge, 5th International Workshop (ARCOE-LogIC 2013) http://www.arcoe.org/2013 held in collocation with 12th International Conference on Logic Programming and Nonmonotonic Reasoning (LPNMR-2013), Corunna, Spain -- Important Dates -- Abstracts deadline: 5 Jul 2013 Paper deadline: 12 Jul 2013 Notification: 9 Aug 2013 Camera ready: 23 Aug 2013 Workshop dates: 15-19 Sep 2013 (tentative) -- Description of the Workshop -- Dealing with context is one of the most interesting and most important problems faced in Artificial Intelligence (AI). Traditional AI applications often require to model, store, retrieve and reason about knowledge that holds within certain circumstances - the context. Without considering this contextual information, reasoning can easily run into problems such as: inconsistency, when considering knowledge in the wrong context; inefficiency, by considering knowledge irrelevant for a certain context; incompleteness, since an inference may depend on knowledge assumed in the context and not explicitly stated. Contextual information is also relevant in many tasks in knowledge representation and reasoning such as common-sense reasoning, dealing with inconsistency, ambiguity and uncertainty, knowledge evolution, and others. In recent years, research in contextual knowledge representation and reasoning became more relevant in the areas of Semantic Web, Linked Open Data, and Ambient Intelligence, where knowledge is not considered a monolithic and static asset, but it is distributed in a network of interconnected heterogeneous and evolving knowledge resources. The ARCOE-LogIC workshop aims to provide a dedicated forum for researchers interested in these topics to discuss recent developments, important open issues, and future directions. -- Topics -- ARCOE-LogIC welcomes submissions on the topics below as well as on their intersection and other topics related to acquisition, representation, reasoning with context and its applications. Philosophical and theoretical foundations of context: * What is context and how should it be represented. * Relevant types of contextual information and their properties, and formalization. * Combining contextual information with object information for reasoning. * Context and common-sense reasoning. * Exploiting context in inconsistency and uncertainty handling, defeasible reasoning and argumentation. * Contextual logic programming. * Updating contextual knowledge and context-aware belief revision. Context modeling and contextual knowledge engineering: * Modeling of user's or agent's context. * Context driven organization of knowledge and modeling. * Ontologies for context modeling. * Context-aware modeling tools and methodology. * Comparisons to context-unaware modeling techniques. Reasoning with context: * Effective context-aware reasoning algorithms and frameworks. * Distributed reasoning with context. * Context-driven heuristics in classical reasoning systems. * Query answering and contextual data access. * Reasoning in uncertain and inconsistent contexts. * Reasoning in defeasible contexts. * Hybrid formalisms for reasoning with context, including sub-symbolic contexts. * Stream reasoning in dynamically changing contexts. Applications of context in areas such as: * Agent communication and coordination. * Semantic Web and Linked Open Data. * Knowledge modularization. * Ontology matching. * Ontology fault diagnosis and repair. * Ontology evolution and versioning. * Information integration. * Ambient intelligence and pervasive computing. * Exploiting context in Web 2.0 applications, e-commerce, and e-learning. -- Submission Requirements -- Submission of regular and position papers is possible. Regular papers are intended for research reports and surveys. ARCOE-LogIC also welcomes reports on significant work in progress which has already achieved some interesting partial results, as well as papers recently submitted or published elsewhere as long as their topic is in line with the workshop. Regular papers should not exceed 12 pages in length including references. Position papers are intended for presentation of interesting new open issues and challenges, and opinions on the status of the field. Position papers are limited to 6 pages including references. All papers must be formatted using the Springer LNCS style: http://www.springer.com/comp/lncs/Authors.html and submitted in PDF format via EasyChair using: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=arcoelogic2013 All submitted papers will be subject to blind (but not double-blind) peer-review process. Accepted papers will be presented either as oral presentations or as posters, depending on the choice of the program committee. However, all accepted papers will be included in the Working Notes in their full form and will be accessible via the Internet. -- Workshop Co-Chairs -- * Michael Fink, Vienna University of Technology, Austria * Martin Homola, Comenius University of Bratislava, Slovakia * Alessandra Mileo, DERI, National University of Ireland * Ivan Jose Varzinczak, Centre for Artificial Intelligence Research, South Africa -- Steering Committee -- * Alan Bundy, University of Edinburgh, UK * Thomas Eiter, Vienna University of Technology, Austria * Luciano Serafini, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Trento, Italy -- Resources -- ARCOE-LogIC 2013 website: http://www.arcoe.org/2013/ ARCOE workshop series: http://www.arcoe.org/ Submission site: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=arcoelogic2013 LPNMR 2013 website: http://lpnmr2013.udc.es/ Enquiries about the ARCOE workshop: arcoe [at] arcoe [dot] org From peterschueller at sabanciuniv.edu Mon Jun 3 16:02:35 2013 From: peterschueller at sabanciuniv.edu (peterschueller at sabanciuniv.edu) Date: Mon, 03 Jun 2013 17:02:35 +0300 Subject: [DL] [Deadline extended: June 15] CFP: Workshop on Knowledge Representation and Reasoning in Robotics @ ICLP2013, Istanbul, Turkey Message-ID: (Apologies for cross-posting.) CALL FOR PAPERS AND POSTER ABSTRACTS Workshop on Knowledge Representation and Reasoning in Robotics at the International Conference on Logic Programming (ICLP). Location: Istanbul, Turkey. Date of Workshop: August 25, 2013. Workshop web site: http://www.cs.ttu.edu/~smohan/krr_iclp13/ Conference web site: http://www.iclp2013.org/en/default.asp WORKSHOP SCOPE Mobile robots (and agents) are increasingly being used in a range of application domains such as disaster rescue, surveillance, health care and navigation. A formidable challenge to the widespread deployment of robots in our homes, offices and other complex domains is the ability to represent, reason with and revise incomplete and inconsistent domain knowledge obtained from sensor inputs and high-level human feedback. Although many algorithms have been developed for representing and reasoning with domain knowledge, the research community is fragmented, with separate vocabularies that are increasingly (and ironically) making it difficult for these researchers to communicate with each other. As a result, the rich body of research in knowledge representation for cognitive agents is not fully exploited by robotics researchers. For instance, declarative programming paradigms provide non-monotonic reasoning capabilities essential for robotics, although they do not always consider the challenge of modeling the uncertainty in robot application domains. In parallel, many robotics researchers are developing probabilistic reasoning algorithms that elegantly model the uncertainty in sensing and navigation on robots, although it is a challenge to use such algorithms to represent and reason with commonsense knowledge. In recent years, algorithms have also been developed for combining logical and probabilistic reasoning, but these algorithms do not support the desired knowledge representation and reasoning capabilities, or fail to address problems (e.g., frame problem, ramification problem) that are well understood in the logic programming community. This workshop seeks to engage the logic programming community in robotics research challenges. The objective is to promote a deeper understanding of recent breakthroughs and tough challenges in the logical programming and probabilistic robotics communities, resulting in collaborative efforts towards addressing the knowledge representation and reasoning challenges in robotics. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): * Knowledge acquisition and representation. * Reasoning with incomplete and inconsistent knowledge. * Reasoning about actions and change. * Planning and scheduling. * Learning and symbol grounding. * Cognitive architectures. * Multiagent systems. We are especially interested in papers describing efforts to integrate knowledge representation, logical reasoning and/or probabilistic reasoning on robots and agents in different application domains. PAPER SUBMISSION Paper submissions can be in one of the following categories: * Regular paper: the length of regular papers (including figures and bibliography) should not exceed 12 pages. * Poster/summary paper: the length of poster/summary papers (including all figures and bibliography) should not exceed 4 pages. Papers must be written in English using the same format used for ICLP submissions: http://www.iclp2013.org/en/Submissions.html Easychair paper submission web site: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=krr2013 IMPORTANT DATES Submission deadline: June 15, 2013 Notifications: June 30, 2013 Camera-ready deadline: July 10, 2013 Workshop at ICLP: August 25, 2013 ORGANIZERS Mohan Sridharan Department of Computer Science Texas Tech University, USA http://www.cs.ttu.edu/~smohan/ Fangkai Yang Department of Computer Sciences The University of Texas at Austin, USA http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~fkyang Volkan Patoglu Mechatronics Program Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences Sabanci University, Istanbul, Turkey http://myweb.sabanciuniv.edu/vpatoglu/ Peter Schueller Computer Science Program Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences Sabanci University, Istanbul, Turkey http://www.peterschueller.com/ From womo2013 at easychair.org Thu Jun 6 01:51:35 2013 From: womo2013 at easychair.org (Chiara Del Vescovo) Date: Thu, 6 Jun 2013 00:51:35 +0100 Subject: [DL] [WoMO13] 3rd CfP: 7th Int'l Workshop on Modular Ontologies (WoMO-13) Message-ID: ======================================================== 7th Int'l Workshop on Modular Ontologies (WoMO) Corunna, Spain, September, 2013 held in conjunction with LPNMR 2013 --- Third Call for Papers --- --- Student Travel Grants available --- ======================================================== Submission deadline: July 5, 2013 ======================================================== http://www.iaoa.org/womo/2013.html MODULARITY, studied for years in software engineering, allows mechanisms for easy and flexible reuse, generalization, structuring, maintenance, design patterns, and comprehension. In formal and applied ontology, modularity is central to reducing the complexity of designing and understanding ontologies, and to facilitating ontology verification, reasoning, development, maintenance and integration. Recent research on ontology modularity shows substantial progress in foundations of modularity, techniques of modularization and modular development, distributed reasoning and empirical evaluation. These results provide a solid foundation and exciting prospects for further research and development. The workshop continues a series of successful events that have been an excellent venue for practitioners and researchers to discuss latest and current work. The most recent WoMOs were held at ESSLLI 2011 and FOIS/ICBO 2012. This time WoMO is organised as a workshop of LPNMR 2013: the 12th International Conference on Logic Programming and Non-monotonic Reasoning. LPNMR is well-established as the main conference in the field. The workshop will be open to all attendants of LPMNR'13 and its workshops. Workshop speakers will be required to register for WoMO via the LPMNR'13 website. Registration for WoMO only will be possible. STUDENT TRAVEL GRANTS: With the generous support of the IAOA, we are happy to provide funding to students. Priority will be given to student presenters and authors of accepted papers. More details will be published at a later date. TOPICS include, but are not limited to: - What is modularity?: kinds of modules and their properties; modules vs. contexts; design patterns; granularity of representation; - Logical/foundational studies: modular ontology languages; reconciling inconsistencies across modules; formal structuring of modules; heterogeneity; hybrid theories; intertheory relations (conservativity, interpretability, strong equivalence, inseparability, etc.) - Algorithmic approaches: distributed and incremental reasoning; modularization and module extraction; sharing, linking, reuse; privacy; complexity of reasoning; implemented systems; - Evaluation of modularizations: case studies or other analyses of ontology modularizations (why it is modularized in a certain way, what does it address, how can it be improved); how to measure the adequacy of a modularization; comparison of modularizations with respect to philosophical, logical, reasoning, cognitive, or social aspects; - Applications: semantic web; life sciences; earth sciences; bio-ontologies; natural language processing; space and time; ambient intelligence; social intelligence; technology and engineering; collaborative ontology development and ontology versioning. IMPORTANT DATES Paper Submission: July 5, 2013 Notification: August 19, 2013 Camera ready: September 2, 2013 Workshop: September 15, 2013 SUBMISSION GUIDELINES: We welcome submissions on modularity in a broad sense. The workshop is open to papers of theoretical or practical nature from various disciplines. Submissions can be long papers (11 pages) or short papers (5 pages), formatted according to Springer LNCS style (see http://www.springer.com/comp/lncs/Authors.html), prepared in PDF format and submitted no later than the submission deadline, through the EasyChair Submission System (see http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=womo2013). Submitted papers will be peer-reviewed by members of the program committee. Accepted papers will be made available in the proceedings to be published electronically in the CEUR Workshop Proceedings series (see http://www.ceur-ws.org). Proceedings of WoMO 2011 and 2012 can be found at http://www.booksonline.iospress.nl/Content/View.aspx?piid=20369 and at http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-875/. WORKSHOP CHAIRS: Torsten Hahmann, University of Toronto, Canada David Pearce, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain Chiara Del Vescovo, University of Manchester, UK Dirk Walther, TU Dresden, Germany PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Kenneth Baclawski, VIStology, Inc. Eva Blomqvist, Link?ping University Alex Borgida, Rutgers University Stefano Borgo, Laboratory for Applied Ontology, ISTC-CNR, Trento Gerhard Brewka, University of Leipzig Mike Dean, Raytheon BBN Technologies Thomas Eiter, Technical University of Vienna Pawel Garbacz, The John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin Dagmar Gromann, Vienna University of Economics and Business Michael Gruninger, University of Toronto Robert Hoehndorf, University of Cambridge Dieter Hutter, DFKI GmbH Tomi Janhunen, Aalto University Pavel Klinov, University of Ulm Christoph Lange, University of Birmingham Thomas Meyer, Centre for Artificial Intelligence Research, UKZN and CSIR Meraka Leo Obrst, MITRE Marco Schorlemmer, Artificial Intelligence Research Institute, IIIA, CSIC Luciano Serafini, Fondazione Bruno Kessler Dmitry Tsarkov, The University of Manchester INVITED SPEAKERS: TBA -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From brendon.woodford at otago.ac.nz Thu Jun 6 04:33:05 2013 From: brendon.woodford at otago.ac.nz (Brendon Woodford) Date: Thu, 6 Jun 2013 02:33:05 +0000 Subject: [DL] Final CFP: 26th Australasian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 3-6 December, Dunedin, New Zealand Message-ID: <4E09E4C2A5ED7442A4F667D4D3394CE87837BC1C@ITS-EXM-P06.registry.otago.ac.nz> [Apologies for cross-postings] Final Call for Papers 26th Australasian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AI 2013) 3-6 December, 2013 Dunedin, New Zealand http://ai2013.otago.ac.nz Since the first AI Conference took place in Sydney in 1987, the series of annual Australasian Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence has become the premier event for Artificial Intelligence researchers in Australasia and one of the major international forums on AI worldwide. In 2008 the AI conference was hosted in New Zealand for the first time, in Auckland. In 2013 the 26th Australasian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence returns to New Zealand, and will be held in Dunedin, hosted by the University of Otago. AI 2013 will be co-located with the 16th International Conference on Principles and Practice of Multi-Agent Systems (PRIMA 2013): http://prima2013.otago.ac.nz/ Prospective authors are invited to submit original research and application papers in any area of Artificial Intelligence, including but not limited to the following: * Agent-based and multiagent systems * AI applications and innovations * Cognitive modelling and computer human interaction * Commonsense reasoning * Computer vision * Constraint satisfaction, search, and optimisation * Evolutionary computation * Game playing and interactive entertainment * Information retrieval, integration, and extraction * Knowledge acquisition and ontologies * Knowledge representation and reasoning * Machine learning and data mining * Model-based systems * Multidisciplinary AI * Natural language processing * Planning and scheduling * Robotics * Social choice * Uncertainty in AI * Web and information systems All papers should be submitted electronically in PDF format and formatted using Springer's manuscript submission guidelines: http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html Submitted papers should not exceed 12 pages and should not be under review or submitted for publication elsewhere during the review period. All papers will be peer reviewed by at least three independent referees. Reviews will be double blind; authors must avoid including anything that can be used to identify them. Submission will be through the EasyChair conference management system at the following URL: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=26ai2013 All accepted papers submitted to the Conference will be published by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) series. At least one author of each accepted paper is required to register for the conference and to present the paper. Important Dates: Submissions Due: 1 July 2013 Notifications: 19 August 2013 Camera-Ready: 14 September 2013 Early Registration: 31 October 2013 Conference: 3-6 December 2013 From tkren at kr.tuwien.ac.at Thu Jun 6 21:44:05 2013 From: tkren at kr.tuwien.ac.at (Thomas Krennwallner) Date: Thu, 6 Jun 2013 21:44:05 +0200 Subject: [DL] Call for Expression of Interest - WWTF Vienna Research Groups for Young Investigators Message-ID: [Apologies for cross-posting] WWTF Vienna Research Groups for Young Investigators Call 2013 - Cognitive Sciences Call for Expressions of Interest --------------------------------- The Faculty of Informatics at the Vienna University of Technology is looking for outstanding young researchers from abroad to set up and manage an independent research group as part of the Vienna Science and Technology Fund's (WWTF) VRGYI Call 2013 - Cognitive Sciences. Applications are sought from researchers who have recently completed their PhD (2-8 years ago) with an excellent research track record. Selected candidates will, together with an experienced researcher of the Faculty of Informatics as a proponent, prepare a proposal to be submitted to the WWTF VRSYI Call 2013 - Cognitive Sciences. This call focuses on cognitive processes in humans, animals and/or machines. Should this proposal be successful, the proposed project will be funded to the amount of 1.5 million EUR by the Vienna Science and Technology Fund (WWTF) for a period of 6 - 8 years. The Vienna University of Technology will also contribute to the funding of the project. During this time the successful candidate(s) will set up and manage his or her own research group as a group leader. He or she will receive a tenure-track position, which will be later transformed into a tenured position subject to a positive overall assessment, including - amongst other things - an interim evaluation of the project. Application procedure: ---------------------- Applications should be sent to the responsible contact person (proponent) of the respective host lab, institute or group. The application should consist of - CV (including a list of publications) - a brief outline of the intended research project *** Deadline: June 15, 2013 *** Unconventional research careers will also be taken into consideration. Female applicants are explicitly encouraged to apply. Among the possible hosting groups of the Faculty of Informatics at the Vienna University of Technology is the Knowledge Based Systems Group (Institute of Information Systems), which has research expertise in Knowledge Representation and Reasoning, Computational Logic and Complexity, Declarative Problem Solving, Intelligent Agents, and Mobile Robots. Intended research projects need to be a synergetic fit with these topics and research competence of the group. For more information, see http://www.informatik.tuwien.ac.at/aktuelles/736 http://www.wwtf.at/programmes/ci/index.php?lang=EN http://www.kr.tuwien.ac.at/research/index.html Contact: Prof. Gerald Steinhardt Dean of the Faculty of Informatics, Vienna University of Technology dekan at informatik.tuwien.ac.at phone: +43-1-58801-18001 Prof. Thomas Eiter Head of the Institute of Information Systems, Vienna University of Technology thomas.eiter at tuwien.ac.at phone: +43-1-58801-18460 From claudia.damato at uniba.it Mon Jun 10 16:24:08 2013 From: claudia.damato at uniba.it (Claudia d'Amato) Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2013 16:24:08 +0200 Subject: [DL] LD4IE Linked Data for Information Extraction - ISWC2013 workshop - 2nd CFP Message-ID: <51B5E188.8000204@uniba.it> Apologise for multiple posting. *********************************************** LD4IE 2013 The 1st international Workshop on Linked Data for Information Extraction Sydney, Australia, October 21 -22, 2013 Workshop website: http://oak.dcs.shef.ac.uk/ld4ie2013/index.html Twitter: @LD4IE2013 #LD4IE #LD4IE2013 Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/Ld4ie2013 in conjunction with ISWC 2013 The 12th International Semantic Web Conference Sydney, Australia, October 21 -25, 2013 http://iswc2013.semanticweb.org/ *************** Call for Papers *************** This workshop focuses on the exploitation of Linked Data for Web Scale Information Extraction (IE), which concerns extracting structured knowledge from unstructured/semi-structured documents on the Web. One of the major bottlenecks for the current state of the art in IE is the availability of learning materials (e.g., seed data, training corpora), which, typically are manually created and are expensive to build and maintain. Linked Data (LD) defines best practices for exposing, sharing, and connecting data, information, and knowledge on the Semantic Web using uniform means such as URIs and RDF. It has so far been created a gigantic knowledge source of Linked Open Data (LOD), which constitutes a mine of learning materials for IE. However, the massive quantity requires efficient learning algorithms and the not guaranteed quality of data requires robust methods to handle redundancy and noise. LD4IE intends to gather researchers and practitioners to address multiple challenges arising from the usage of LD as learning material for IE tasks, focusing on (i) modelling user defined extraction tasks using LD; (ii) gathering learning materials from LD assuring quality (training data selection, cleaning, feature selection etc.); (iii) robust learning algorithms for handling LD; (iv) publishing IE results to the LOD cloud. *************** Topics ************************ Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: *** Modelling Extraction Tasks * modelling extraction tasks (e.g. defining IE templates using LD ontologies) * extracting and building knowledge patterns based on LD * user friendly approaches for querying LD *** Information Extraction * selecting relevant portions of LD as training data * selecting relevant knowledge resources from LD * IE methods robust to noise in LD as training data * Information Extractions tasks/applications exploiting LD (Wrapper induction, Table interpretation, IE from unstructured data, Named Entity Recognition, Relation Extraction???) * linking extracted information to existing LD datasets *** Linked Data for Learning * assessing the quality of LD data for training * select optimal subset of LD to seed learning * managing heterogeneity, incompleteness, noise, and uncertainty of LD * scalable learning methods using LD * pattern extraction from LD *************** Important Dates *************** Abstract submission deadline: July 5, 2013 Paper submission deadline: July 12, 2013 Acceptance Notification: August 9, 2013 Camera-ready versions: to be announced Workshop date: to be announced (21-22 October 2013) *************** Submission ******************** We accept the following formats of submissions: Full paper with a maximum of 12 pages including references Short paper with a maximum of 6 pages including references Poster with a maximum of 4 pages including references All submissions must be written in English and must be formatted according to the information for LNCS Authors (http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0.). Please submit your contributions electronically in PDF format to EasyChair at https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ld4ie Accepted papers will be published online via CEUR-WS. *************** Workshop Chairs *************** Anna Lisa Gentile, University of Sheffield, UK Ziqi Zhang, University of Sheffield, UK Claudia d'Amato, University of Bari, Italy Heiko Paulheim, University of Mannheim, Germany -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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It takes the ontologies as input and determines as output an alignment, that is, a set of correspondences between the semantically related entities of those ontologies. These correspondences can be used for various tasks, such as ontology merging, data translation, query answering or navigation on the web of data. Thus, matching ontologies enables the knowledge and data expressed in the matched ontologies to interoperate. The workshop has three goals: 1. To bring together leaders from academia, industry and user institutions to assess how academic advances are addressing real-world requirements. The workshop will strive to improve academic awareness of industrial and final user needs, and therefore, direct research towards those needs. Simultaneously, the workshop will serve to inform industry and user representatives about existing research efforts that may meet their requirements. The workshop will also investigate how the ontology matching technology is going to evolve. 2. To conduct an extensive and rigorous evaluation of ontology matching approaches through the OAEI (Ontology Alignment Evaluation Initiative) 2013 campaign: http://oaei.ontologymatching.org/2013/. The particular focus of this year's OAEI campaign is on real-world specific matching tasks as well as on evaluation of interactive matchers. Therefore, the ontology matching evaluation initiative itself will provide a solid ground for discussion of how well the current approaches are meeting business needs. 3. To examine similarities and differences from database schema matching, which has received decades of attention but is just beginning to transition to mainstream tools. This year, in sync with the main conference, we encourage submissions specifically devoted to: (i) repeatable evaluations of the approaches proposed (not necessarily within OAEI) and (ii) application of the matching technology in real-life scenarios and assessment of its usefulness to the final users. TOPICS of interest include but are not limited to: Business and use cases for matching (e.g., open government data); Requirements to matching from specific domains (e.g., energy); Application of matching techniques in real-world scenarios (e.g., with mobile apps); Formal foundations and frameworks for matching; Matching patterns; Matching and big data; Entity matching; Instance matching and data interlinking; Large-scale matching evaluation; Performance of matching techniques; Matcher selection and self-configuration; User involvement (including both technical and organizational aspects); Explanations in matching; Social and collaborative matching; Alignment management; Reasoning with alignments; Matching for traditional applications (e.g., information integration); Matching for emerging applications (e.g., linked data, search). SUBMISSIONS Contributions to the workshop can be made in terms of technical papers and posters/statements of interest addressing different issues of ontology matching as well as participating in the OAEI 2013 campaign. Technical papers should be not longer than 12 pages using the LNCS Style: http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0 Posters/statements of interest should not exceed 2 pages and should be handled according to the guidelines for technical papers. All contributions should be prepared in PDF format and should be submitted through the workshop submission site at: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=om20130 Contributors to the OAEI 2013 campaign have to follow the campaign conditions and schedule at http://oaei.ontologymatching.org/2013/. TENTATIVE DATES FOR TECHNICAL PAPERS AND POSTERS: July 12, 2013: Deadline for the submission of papers. August 9, 2013:Deadline for the notification of acceptance/rejection. October 21th or 22nd, 2013: OM-2013, Sydney Masonic Conference & Function Centre, Sydney, Australia. ORGANIZING COMMITTEE 1. Pavel Shvaiko (Main contact) TasLab, Informatica Trentina SpA, Italy 2. J?r?me Euzenat INRIA & LIG, France 3. Kavitha Srinivas IBM, USA 4. Ming Mao eBay, USA 5. Ernesto Jim?nez-Ruiz University of Oxford, UK PROGRAM COMMITTEE Manuel Atencia, INRIA &LIG, France Michele Barbera, SpazioDati, Italy Zohra Bellahsene, LRIMM, France Chris Bizer, University of Mannheim, Germany Olivier Bodenreider, National Library of Medicine, USA Marco Combetto, Informatica Trentina, Italy Gianluca Correndo, University of Southampton, UK Isabel Cruz, The University of Illinois at Chicago, USA J?r?me David, INRIA & LIG, France AnHai Doan, University of Wisconsin, USA Alfio Ferrara, University of Milan, Italy Bin He, IBM, USA Wei Hu, Nanjing University, China Ryutaro Ichise, National Institute of Informatics, Japan Antoine Isaac, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam & Europeana, Netherlands Krzysztof Janowicz, University of California, USA Anja Jentzsch, Wikimedia Deutschland, Germany Yannis Kalfoglou, Ricoh Europe plc, UK Anastasios Kementsietsidis, IBM, USA Patrick Lambrix, Link?pings Universitet, Sweden Monika Lanzenberger, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Vincenzo Maltese, University of Trento, Italy Fiona McNeill, University of Edinburgh, UK Christian Meilicke, University of Mannheim, Germany Peter Mork, Noblis, USA Axel-Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo, University of Leipzig, Germany Andriy Nikolov, Open University, UK Leo Obrst, The MITRE Corporation, USA Heiko Paulheim, University of Mannheim, Germany Yefei Peng, Google, USA Andrea Perego, European Commission - Joint Research Centre, Italy Fran?ois Scharffe, LIRMM & University of Montpellier, France Luciano Serafini, Fondazione Bruno Kessler - IRST, Italy Umberto Straccia, ISTI-C.N.R., Italy Ondrej Svab-Zamazal, Prague University of Economics, Czech Republic C?ssia Trojahn, IRIT, France Rapha?l Troncy, EURECOM, France Giovanni Tummarello, Fondazione Bruno Kessler - IRST, Italy Lorenzino Vaccari, Autonomous Province of Trento, Italy Ludger van Elst, DFKI, Germany Shenghui Wang, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands Baoshi Yan, LinkedIn, USA Songmao Zhang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China ------------------------------------------------------- Download OM-2013 flyer: http://om2013.ontologymatching.org/Pictures/CfP_OM2013_flyer.pdf ------------------------------------------------------- More about ontology matching: http://www.ontologymatching.org/ http://book.ontologymatching.org/ ------------------------------------------------------- Best Regards, Pavel ------------------------------------------------------- Pavel Shvaiko, PhD Innovation Program Manager TasLab, Informatica Trentina SpA, Italy http://www.ontologymatching.org/ http://www.taslab.eu/ http://www.infotn.it/ http://www.dit.unitn.it/~pavel -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From synasc13 at synasc.ro Sun Jun 9 18:10:13 2013 From: synasc13 at synasc.ro (SYNASC 2013) Date: Sun, 9 Jun 2013 19:10:13 +0300 (EEST) Subject: [DL] CFP Synasc 2013, Timisoara, Romania Message-ID: <1375766108.853045.1370794213500.JavaMail.root@synasc.ro> [Please post - apologies for multiple copies.] Call for Papers --------------- SYNASC 2013 15th International Symposium on Symbolic and Numeric Algorithms for Scientific Computing September 23-26, 2013, Timisoara, Romania http://www.synasc.ro/ Aim --- SYNASC aims to stimulate the interaction between the two scientific communities of symbolic and numeric computing and to exhibit interesting applications of the areas both in theory and in practice. The choice of the topic is motivated by the belief of the organizers that the dialogue between the two communities is very necessary for accelerating the progress in making the computer a truly intelligent aid for mathematicians and engineers. Important Dates --------------- 23 June 2013 (EXTENDED) : Abstract submission 30 June 2013 (EXTENDED) : Paper submission 04 August 2013 : Notification of acceptance 01 September 2013 : Registration 08 September 2013 : Revised papers according to the reviews 23-26 September 2013 : Symposium 30 November 2013 : Final papers for post-proceedings Tracks ------ * Symbolic Computation + computer algebra + symbolic techniques applied to numerics + hybrid symbolic and numeric algorithms + numerics and symbolics for geometry + programming with constraints, narrowing * Logic and Programming + automatic reasoning + formal system verification + formal verification and synthesis + software quality assessment + static analysis + timing analysis * Artificial Intelligence + methods for hard computational problems + intelligent systems for scientific computing + agent-based complex systems modeling and development + scientific knowledge management + computational intelligence + machine learning + recommender and expert systems for scientific computing + data mining and web mining + natural language processing + uncertain reasoning in scientific computing + intelligent hybrid systems * Numerical Computing + iterative approximation of fixed points + solving systems of nonlinear equations + numerical and symbolic algorithms for differential equations + numerical and symbolic algorithms for optimization + parallel algorithms for numerical computing + scientific visualization and image processing * Distributed Computing + parallel and distributed algorithms for clouds, GPUs, HPC, P2P systems, autonomous systems. Work should focus on scheduling, scaling, load balancing, networks, fault-tolerance, gossip algorithms, energy saving + applications for parallel and distributed systems, including work on cross disciplinary (scientific) applications for grids/clouds, web applications, workflow platforms, network measurement tools, programming environments + architectures for parallel and distributed systems, including self-managing and autonomous systems, negotiation protocols, HPC on clouds, GPU processing, PaaS for (inter)cloud, brokering platforms, mobile computing + modelling of parallel and distributed systems including models on resources and networks, semantic representation, negotiation, social networks, trace management, simulators + any other topic deemed relevant to the field * Advances in the Theory of Computing + Data structures and algorithms + Combinatorial Optimization + Formal languages and Combinatorics on Words + Graph-theoretic and Combinatorial methods in Computer Science + Algorithmic paradigms, including distributed, online, approximation, probabilistic, game-theoretic algorithms + Computational Complexity Theory, including structural complexity, boolean complexity, communication complexity, average-case complexity, derandomization and property testing + Logical approaches to complexity, including finite model theory + Algorithmic and computational learning theory + Aspects of computability theory, including computability in analysis and algorithmic information theory + Proof complexity + Computational social choice and game theory + New computational paradigms: CNN computing, quantum, holographic and other non-standard approaches to Computability + Randomized methods, random graphs, threshold phenomena and typical-case complexity + Automata theory and other formal models, particularly in relation to formal verification methods such as model checking and runtime verification + Applications of theory, including wireless and sensor networks, computational biology and computational economics + Experimental algorithmics Workshops --------- * Workshop on Agents for Complex Systems (ACSys) http://www.synasc.ro/workshops/acsys-2013/ * Workshop of HPC for scientific problems (HPCSP) http://host.hpc.uvt.ro/events/hpcsp/ * Workshop on Iterative Approximation of Fixed Points (IAFP) http://www.synasc.ro/workshops/iafp-2013/ * Workshop on Management of Resources and Services in Cloud and Sky Computing (MICAS) http://amicas.hpc.uvt.ro/micas-2013/ * Workshop on Natural Computing and Applications (NCA) http://www.synasc.ro/workshops/nca-2013/ Workshops deadlines: please visit each workshop webpage Tutorials --------- * Tutorial HPC http://host.hpc.uvt.ro/hpcs#HPC-Tutorial * Tutorial Multi-Cloud http://amicas.hpc.uvt.ro/micas-2013#MultiCloud-Tutorial Publication ----------- Research papers that are accepted and presented at the symposium will be collected as post-proceedings published by Conference Publishing Service (CPS) (indexed in ISI Web of Science, DBLP, SCOPUS). Invited Speakers ---------------- * Ivona Brandic, Vienna University of Technology, Austria * Gabriel Ciobanu, Romanian Academy, Institute of Computer Science, Iasi, Romania * Leonardo de Moura, Microsoft Research, USA * Grigore Rosu, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA * Dan A. Simovici, University of Massachusetts Boston, USA Honorary Chairs --------------- * Bruno Buchberger, Johannes Kepler University, Austria * Stefan Maruster, West University of Timisoara, Romania Steering Committee ------------------ * Tetsuo Ida, University of Tsukuba, Japan * Tudor Jebelean, Johannes Kepler University, Austria * Viorel Negru, West University of Timisoara, Romania * Dana Petcu, West University of Timisoara, Romania * Stephen Watt, University of Western Ontario, Canada * Daniela Zaharie, West University of Timisoara, Romania General Chair ------------- * Viorel Negru, West University of Timisoara, Romania Program Chair ------------- * Nikolaj Bjorner, Microsoft Research, US Track Chairs ------------ * Symbolic Computation + Tetsuo Ida, University of Tsukuba, Japan + Stephen Watt, University of Western Ontario, Canada * Logic and Programming + Tudor Jebelean, Johannes Kepler University, Austria + Laura Kovacs, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden * Artificial Intelligence + Andrei Petrovski, Robert Gordon University, UK + Daniela Zaharie, West University of Timisoara, Romania * Numerical Computing + Yonghong Yao, Tianjin Polytechnic University, China + Ioan A. Rus, "Babes-Bolyai" University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania * Distributed Computing + Marc Frincu, West University of Timisoara, Romania + Karoly Bosa, Johannes Kepler University, Austria * Advances in the Theory of Computing + Mircea Marin, West University of Timisoara, Romania + Gabriel Istrate, Research Institute e-Austria Timisoara, Romania Special sessions and workshops chair ------------------------------------ * Dana Petcu, West University of Timisoara, Romania Tutorial chair -------------- * Adrian Craciun, West University of Timisoara, Romania Proceedings Chairs ------------------ * Nikolaj Bjorner, Microsoft Research, US * Daniela Zaharie, West University of Timisoara, Romania Local Committee Chairs ---------------------- * Isabela Dramnesc, West University of Timisoara, Romania * Silviu Panica, Institute e-Austria Timisoara, Romania Submission ----------- Submissions of research papers are invited. The papers must contain original research results not submitted and not published elsewhere. The submission process consists of two steps. * In the first step the authors are invited to express their intention to participate at the conference by submitting a short abstract (1/2 page, at maximum) where it is clearly stated the main contribution(s) of the paper. * In the second step the authors should submit the full paper (up to 8 pages in the two-columns IEEE conference style). Both the abstract and the full paper should be submitted electronically through http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=synasc2013 (for the main tracks) and through http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=synasc2013workshops (for the workshops). Proposals are also invited for: * special sessions Special sessions ---------------- Proposals are invited for special sessions on any topic relevant to the conference. Special sessions are intended to stimulate in-depth discussions in special areas and they are fully integrated into the main conference. The research papers and the informal presentations submitted and accepted for the special sessions follow the same rules as the papers submitted to the regular sessions. It is expected that the organizers of the special sessions appoint their own chair and program committee, which will be integrated in the conference program committee and will be supervised by the conference programme chair and by the general chair. ----------- SYNASC 2013 West University of Timisoara Department of Computer Science Bd. V. Parvan 4, 300223 Timisoara, Romania tel: + (40) 256 592155, +(40) 256 592195 fax: + (40) 256 592316, +(40) 256 592380 e-mail: synasc13 at synasc.ro From renata at ime.usp.br Wed Jun 12 14:11:00 2013 From: renata at ime.usp.br (Renata Wassermann) Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2013 09:11:00 -0300 Subject: [DL] CFP : ONTOBRAS - 6th Brazilian Conference on Ontologies Message-ID: CFP : ONTOBRAS - 6th Brazilian Conference on Ontologies With apologies for multiple posting. Please forward to interested parties. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Papers -------------------------------------------------------------------- ONTOBRAS 6th Brazilian Conference on Ontologies September 23 - 25, 2013 - Belo Horizonte / MG - Brasil Co-located event: 2nd Workshop on Semantic Web and Amazonian Biodiversity Ontology Ontology is a cross-disciplinary field concerning with the study of concepts and theories that support the building of shared conceptualizations of specific domains. In recent years, there has been a growing interest in the application of ontologies to solve modeling and classification problems in diverse areas such as Computer Science, Information Science, Philosophy, Artificial Intelligence, Linguistic, Knowledge Management and many others. The Brazilian Conference on Ontologies foresees an opportunity and scientific environment in which researchers and practitioners from Information Sciences and Computer Science can exchange the theories, methodologies, languages, tools and experience related to the ontology development and application. In particular, this Sixth Edition of the Conference is being held simultaneously with the Second Workshop on Semantic Web and Amazonian Biodiversity Ontology, putting forward the effort of the research community in integrating the previous events about Ontologies that has happened in Brazil in recent years, in order to create a unique highly scientifically qualified international forum for presenting and discussing the subject. Therefore, we provide a non-comprehensive list of areas and researchers? communities from which we expect to receive submissions: - Information Science, for instance working with ontologies, thesauri, knowledge management among other applications, - Databases, for instance working with semantic data integration, linked open data, among other applications, - Artificial Intelligence, for instance working with knowledge based systems, agents, ontology reasoning, among other applications - Software Engineering, for instance working with conceptual modeling, Business Process Models, among other applications, - Informatics in Education, for instance working with Educational Ontologies , Semantic Web-based Educational Standards, among other applications, - Linguistics and philosophy, working with natural language processing using ontologies, theories of representation, among other applications. Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit theoretical, technical and practical research contributions that directly or indirectly address the issues above. Particularly welcome are e-science, life-sciences, e-business and cultural applications. CALL FOR PAPERS We would like to invite you to participate in the 6th Brazilian Conference on Ontologies, which will be held this year in Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil, on September 23-24. ONTOBRAS is the Brazilian meeting for discussing Ontologies and this year will be sponsored by Federal University of Minas Gerais. We are interested in the various aspects of the field, from its philosophical and theoretical foundations to the new technologies and innovative applications. In this edition, the meeting is opened to submissions in two categories: - Full papers (maximum 12 pages) written in English and describing work with clear demonstrated results. Accepted full paper will be invited for oral presentation. The best full papers will be invited to be extended for publication in an influential international journal. - Short papers (maximum 6 pages) written in Portuguese, English, or Spanish and describing ongoing work. Accepted short papers will be invited for poster presentations. All submissions must be in Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) and must follow the article formatting rules provided by the Brazilian Computing Society (SBC). The models for Microsoft Office Word can be downloaded at this link: http://www.inf.ufrgs.br/ontobras-most2011/sites/default/files/sbc_template.doc; models for OpenOffice and Latex can be found at this link: http://www.inf.ufrgs.br/ontobras-most2011/sites/default/files/Template_SBC.zip. Submissions should be done via Easychair: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ontobras2013 The conference proceedings will be published in the online journal CEUR-WS ( http://www.ceur-ws.org). IMPORTANT DATES - Main track submission deadline: July 15, 2013 - Acceptance notification: August 15, 2013 - Final version: August 27, 2013 TOPICS Suggested areas include, but are not limited to: - Ontology and Conceptual Modeling: Ontological Foundations for Conceptual Modeling and Metamodeling Foundational ontologies Upper-level ontologies Semantic consistency Ontology-based conceptual modeling tools and environments - Ontologies and Knowledge Organization: Facets Theory Concept Theory Terminology Folksonomies Documentary languages. Thesaurus Taxonomies Metadata - Ontology Engineering: Methodology, languages and tools Composition and modularity Merging, mapping and alignment Ontology language interoperability Integration methods, problems and practice - Semantic Web: Modelling Information retrieval Ontology Search - Ontology and Natural Language Processing: Linguistic ontologies applied to text processing Patterns of ontologies for specific applications - Ontology applications: Domain ontologies in e-science, e-business, natural sciences and others Knowledge management Ontologies and semantic technologies in Education - Ontology Visualization KEYNOTE SPEAKERS / TUTORIALS To be announced. PANEL A panel on Brazilian federal e-government solutions, applications, success cases, standards, efforts and actions performed by the Brazilian W3C Office will be presented at the event. COMMITTEES General Chairs - ONTOBRAS - Marcello Peixoto Bax (UFMG, Brazil) - Fernando Silva Parreiras (FUMEC, Brazil) Chair - AMAZONIA SEMANTICA - Jos? Laurindo Campos dos Santos (INPA, Brazil) Program Chairs - ONTOBRAS - Maur?cio Almeida (ECI - UFMG) - Renata Wassermann (IME - USP) Steering Committee - Andreia Malucelli (PUCPR, Brazil) - Bernadette Loscio (UFPE, Brazil) - Fernando Gauthier (UFSC, Brazil) - Fred Freitas (UFPE, Brazil) - Giancarlo Guizzardi (UFES, Brazil) - Mara Abel (UFRGS, Brazil) - Marcello Bax (UFMG, Brazil) - Maria Claudia Cavalcanti (IME, Brazil) - Maria Luiza de Almeida Campos (UFF, Brazil) - Renata Vieira (PUCRS, Brazil) - Sonia Elisa Caregnato (UFRGS, Brazil) Program Committee Alan Pedro da Silva (UFAL, Brazil) Alcione Oliveira (UFV, Brazil) Alexandre Rademaker (FGV, Brazil) Alicia Diaz (UNLP, Argentina) Ana Maria de Carvalho Moura (LNCC/RJ, Brazil) Anarosa Alves Franco Brand?o (USP, Brazil) Andre Freitas (DERI, Ireland) Andreia Malucelli (PUCPR, Brazil) Cassia Trojahn (INRIA & LIG, France) Claudio Gutierrez (UCHILE, Chile) Emerson Paraiso (PUCPR, Brazil) Evandro de Barros Costa (UFAL, Brazil) Fabio Andre Porto (LNCC, Brazil) Fernanda Lima (UnB, Brazil) Fernando Naufel do Amaral (UFF, Brazil) Fernando Silva Parreiras (FUMEC, Brazil) Flavio S. Correa Da Silva (USP, Brazil) Fred Freitas (UFPE, Brazil) Frederico Durao (CESAR, Brazil) Gabriela Henning (UNL, Argentine) Gerd Wagner (BTU Cottbus, Germany) Ig Ibert Bittencourt (UFAL, Brazil) Jaime Sim?o Sichman (USP, Brazil) Jos? Parente de Oliveira (ITA, Brazil) Lucelene Lopes (PUCRS, Brazil) Mara Abel (UFRGS, Brazil) Marcela Vegetti (INGAR/UTN, Argentine) Marcelo Bax (UFMG, Brazil) Marcio Moretto Ribeiro (USP, Brazil) Maria Luiza Campos (UFRJ, Brazil) Mauricio Almeida (ECI-UFMG, Brazil) Monalessa Barcellos (UFES, Brazil) Oscar Corcho (UPM, Spain) Osvaldo Pessoa (USP, Brazil) Regina Braga (UFJF, Brazil) Renata Galante (UFRGS, Brazil) Renata Wassermann (IME-USP, Brazil) Ricardo Falbo (UFES, Brazil) Roberta Ferrario (LOA, Italy) Sandro Fiorini (UFRGS, Brazil) S?nia Elisa Caregnato (UFRGS, Brazil) Sean Siqueira (UNIRIO, Brazil) Seiji Isotani (USP, Brazil) Stefan Schulz (MUG, Austria) -- Renata Wassermann Associate Professor Computer Science Department University of S?o Paulo -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From math.semantic.web at gmail.com Wed Jun 12 16:17:19 2013 From: math.semantic.web at gmail.com (Christoph LANGE) Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2013 15:17:19 +0100 Subject: [DL] CfP for Math. in Computer Science Special Issue on 'Enabling Domain Experts to use Formalised Reasoning' (deadline 31 Oct) Message-ID: <51B882EF.6070301@gmail.com> Call for Papers for a Special Issue of MATHEMATICS IN COMPUTER SCIENCE ENABLING DOMAIN EXPERTS TO USE FORMALISED REASONING http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/projects/formare/pubs/mcs-doform/ Guest editors: Manfred Kerber, Christoph Lange, Colin Rowat We invite high-quality original research papers to a special issue of the Birkh?user/Springer journal Mathematics in Computer Science on the use of systems based on a formal, explicit, machine-verifiable representation of knowledge in application domains such as economics, engineering, health care, education. Examples include: * problems from application domains, which could benefit from better verification and knowledge management facilities, and * knowledge management and verification tools, which domain experts can use without a computer science background. (Read more about our topics of interest) For further examples, please see the Symposium on Enabling Domain Experts to use Formalised Reasoning (http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/projects/formare/events/aisb2013/) held at the annual convention of the AISB (Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and Simulation of Behaviour) in April 2013. Submission: 31 October 2013 Notification: 15 December 2013 Revised version due: 15 January 2014 Final version due: 15 February 2014 Publication (expected): April 2014 Topics of interest include but are not limited to: * for domain experts: what problems in application domains could benefit from better verification and knowledge management facilities? Possible fields include: - Example 1 (economics): auctions, value-at-risk models, trading algorithms, market design - Example 2 (engineering): system interoperability, manufacturing processes, product classification * for computer scientists: how to provide the right knowledge management and verification tools to domain experts without a computer science background? - wikis and blogs for informal, semantic, semiformal, and formal mathematical knowledge; - general techniques and tools for online collaborative mathematics; - tools for collaboratively producing, presenting, publishing, and interacting with online mathematics; - automation and human-computer interaction aspects of mathematical wikis; - ontologies and knowledge bases designed to support knowledge management and verification in application domains; - practical experiences, usability aspects, feasibility studies; - evaluation of existing tools and experiments; - requirements, user scenarios and goals. Submissions should be approximately 20 pages long, should follow publishers' instructions and should be submitted via EasyChair. Potential contributors may contact the guest editors (doformmcs2014 at easychair.org) to discuss the suitability of topics and papers. -- Christoph Lange, School of Computer Science, University of Birmingham http://cs.bham.ac.uk/~langec/, Skype duke4701 ? Intelligent Computer Mathematics, 8?12 July, Bath, UK. Early registration deadline 23 June; http://cicm-conference.org/2013/ ? Knowledge and Experience Management, 7-9 October, Bamberg, Germany. Submission until 1 July; http://minf.uni-bamberg.de/lwa2013/cfp/fgwm/ ? Modular Ontologies (WoMO), 15 September, Corunna, Spain. Submission until 5 July; http://www.iaoa.org/womo/2013.html From m.daquin at open.ac.uk Thu Jun 13 09:48:57 2013 From: m.daquin at open.ac.uk (Mathieu d'Aquin) Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2013 08:48:57 +0100 Subject: [DL] Privacy in Semantic Technologies: Still time to contribute to our survey! Message-ID: <51B97969.3070801@open.ac.uk> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Help us collect use cases and tools tackling or raising issues around Privacy in Semantic Technologies PriSeT 2013 wokshop - http://events.kmi.open.ac.uk/priset-2013/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The recent success of Semantic technologies have triggered a new wave of interest in government and industry who aim to apply Linked Data principles to exploit the large datasets being made public. Since the data generated is from real users, the question of privacy is highly relevant to how knowledge is discovered, extracted, integrated and used. To this end, it is important for the Linked Data and Semantic Web communities to not only pay attention to privacy but also to proactively discover and address privacy related issues at every stage. Any failing in this area at this critical juncture could only jeopardise the many Open Data initiatives currently being pursued by government, academia and industry. We are organizing a workshop (PriSeT) collocated with the K-CAP 2013 conference which aim is to discuss these issues, cases where/when they are raised, and the tools that can help tackle them. Therefore, these discussions will be supported by responses to two forms to collect experiences from the community related to these two aspects: The form related to use cases is at: http://events.kmi.open.ac.uk/priset-2013/use-case-collection-form/ The form related to tools is at: http://events.kmi.open.ac.uk/priset-2013/tool-collection-form/ These forms are open to anybody, and we expect the answers to be widely varying in scope, specificity, granularity and maturity. It is possible and encouraged to fill the form more than once. So, if you have ever encountered the issue of privacy in your work on semantic technologies, just drop a couple of sentences in our forms! Many Thanks! Mathieu, Keerthi and Inah. -- The Open University is incorporated by Royal Charter (RC 000391), an exempt charity in England & Wales and a charity registered in Scotland (SC 038302). From universal.logic at unine.ch Thu Jun 13 21:15:17 2013 From: universal.logic at unine.ch (universal logic) Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2013 19:15:17 +0000 Subject: [DL] Paraconsistency = 5th World Congress, 2014, Kolkata, India In-Reply-To: <011E451E66F47F4890878A246663E0EF5A388CBF@mail-mbx-02.UNINE.CH> References: <011E451E66F47F4890878A246663E0EF5A387C97@mail-mbx-02.UNINE.CH>, <011E451E66F47F4890878A246663E0EF5A388CBF@mail-mbx-02.UNINE.CH> Message-ID: <011E451E66F47F4890878A246663E0EF5A388CD2@mail-mbx-02.UNINE.CH> Call for Papers - WCP5 All talks related to paraconsistent logic are welcome. The deadline for submission is September 1st, 2013. 5th World Congress on Paraconsistency February 13-17, 2014, Kolkata, India http://www.paraconsistency.org/ From prich at andrew.cmu.edu Tue Jun 18 20:07:12 2013 From: prich at andrew.cmu.edu (Patricia Rich) Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2013 14:07:12 -0400 Subject: [DL] 1st Call for Proposals: NASSLLI 2014 / North American Summer School in Logic, Language and Information Message-ID: ************************* NASSLLI 2014 North American Summer School in Logic, Language and Information 2014http://nasslli2014.com/ June 23-27 2014, University of Maryland, College Park 1st CALL for COURSE and WORKSHOP PROPOSALS The sixth NASSLLI (after previous editions at UT Austin, Stanford University, Indiana University and UCLA) will be hosted at the University of Maryland, College Park, June 23-27 2014. The summer school, aimed at graduate students and advanced undergraduates in a wide variety of fields, is loosely modeled on the long-running ESSLLI series in Europe. It will consist of a number of courses and workshops, selected on the basis of proposals. By default, courses and workshops meet for 90 minutes on each of five days. Proposals are invited for courses or workshops that present interdisciplinary work between the areas of logic, linguistics, computer science, cognitive science, philosophy and artificial intelligence, though work in just one area is within the scope of the summer school if it can be applied in other fields. Examples of possible topics would include e.g. logics for communication, computational semantics, modal logics, game theory and decision theory, dynamic semantics, machine learning, Bayesian cognitive modeling, probabilistic models of language and communication, and automated theorem proving. We encourage potential course or workshop contributors to check out previous programs at: * http://nasslli2012.com/ * http://www.linguistics.ucla.edu/nasslli04/program.html * http://www.stanford.edu/group/nasslli/ * http://www.indiana.edu/~nasslli/2003/program.html * http://www.indiana.edu/~nasslli/ Courses and workshops should aim to be accessible to an interdisciplinary, graduate level audience. Courses may certainly focus on a single area, but lecturers should then include introductory background, try to avoid specialized notation that cannot be applied more widely, and spend time on the question of how the topic is relevant to other fields. A workshop can be more accessible if its program is bracketed by broader-audience talks that introduce and summarize the week's presentations. Associated Workshops/Conferences: In addition to courses and workshops taking place during the main NASSLLI five day session, NASSLLI welcomes proposals for 1-3 day workshops or conferences hosted on campus immediately before or after the summer school, thus on the weekends of June 15-17 and June 23-25 2012. Previous such associated meetings have included the Dynamic Epistemic Logic Workshop, the Mathematics of Language conference, and the Theoretical Aspects of Reasoning About Knowledge (TARK) conference. Submission Details: Submissions should be submitted using EasyChair (https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=nasslli2014), and should indicate 1) person(s) in charge of the course/workshop and affiliation(s) 2) type of event (one week course or workshop, 90 min a day) 3) course/workshop title 4) an outline of the course/workshop up to 500 words 5) Special equipment (if any) needed to teach the course (beamer, computer ...) 6) a statement about the instructor's experience in teaching in interdisciplinary settings 7) expected costs (whether you want to be paid hotel and/or travel, and descriptions of funding in hand or for which you will apply) Financial Details: A course may be taught by one or two persons. Conference fees are waived for all instructors. However, we can only guarantee paid accommodation for one instructor per course. Where need arises, we hope to be able to reimburse instructors for reasonable travel expenses. However, we encourage all lecturers to fund their own travel if this is feasible, since this will allow us to use our available funding for student scholarships. We must also stress that while proposals from all over the world are welcomed, the Summer School can in general expect only to reimburse travel costs for travel from destinations within North America to Maryland, although exceptions can be made depending on the financial situation. Workshops are more complicated financially than courses, and a proposal for a workshop should include a plan to obtain some outside funding for the speakers. Schedule:September 1 2013 - Review of course proposals will begin; we will continue to accept proposals until the schedule is filled;October 1 2013 - Course/workshop proposers notified of p.c. decisions;May 15, 2014 - Material for courses available for printing; Local Organizers and Program Committee: The local organizer for NASSLI 2014 is Eric Pacuit. 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The workshop will give developers a perfect opportunity to promote their systems and get feedback from end-users and real uses-cases. CALL FOR SYSTEMS AND ONTOLOGIES -------------------------------------------------------------------------- We invite both reasoner developers and developers of challenging ontologies to submit their systems for participation in the OWL reasoner competition. For more information, please see the pages for Reasoner submissions: http://ore2013.cs.manchester.ac.uk/competition/reasoner-submissions/ Ontology submissions: http://ore2013.cs.manchester.ac.uk/competition/ontology-submissions/ We will use our benchmarking framework to measure the reasoner performance on various tasks and test sets. Most of the measurements will be performed before the ORE workshop day. There will also be a live competition during the DL workshop, and the trophy-giving will take place during the DL social dinner on the 24th July. IMPORTANT DATES -------------------------------------------------------------------------- * Systems and ontologies submission deadline for competition: June 27th, 2013 * Workshop: July 22nd, 2013 * Competitions: July 22-26, 2013 ORGANISATION -------------------------------------------------------------------------- For enquiries, please contact the organisers at ore2013 at easychair.org Organisers * Ernesto Jim?nez-Ruiz, University of Oxford, UK * Samantha Bail, University of Manchester, UK Competition Organisers * Bijan Parsia, University of Manchester, UK * Rafael Goncalves, University of Manchester, UK Local Organisers * Birte Glimm, Ulm University, Germany * Yevgeny Kazakov, Ulm University, Germany Program committee * Ana Armas, University of Oxford, UK * Franz Baader, TU Dresden, Germany * Christine Golbreich, LIRMM, CNRS, Montpellier & University Versailles Saint-Quentin, France * Janna Hastings, European Bioinformatics Institute, UK * Pavel Klinov, Ulm University, Germany * Despoina Magka, University of Oxford, UK * Francisco Martin-Recuerda, Universidad Polit?cnica de Madrid, Spain * Christian Meilicke, University of Mannheim, Germany * Julian Mendez, TU Dresden, Germany * Maria del Mar Rold?n Garc?a, Universidad de Malaga, Spain * Stefan Schlobach, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands * Kiril Simov, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria * Kavitha Srinivas, IBM Research, USA * Dmitry Tsarkov, University of Manchester, UK * Zhe Wang, University of Oxford, UK -- Ernesto Jim?nez-Ruiz Research Assistant Department of Computer Science University of Oxford Wolfson Building, Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3QD, UK http://krono.act.uji.es/people/Ernesto http://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/people/ernesto.jimenez-ruiz/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ernesto.jimenez.ruiz at gmail.com Tue Jun 18 17:45:19 2013 From: ernesto.jimenez.ruiz at gmail.com (Ernesto Jimenez-Ruiz) Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2013 16:45:19 +0100 Subject: [DL] [CfP] Call for Participation ORE 2013: 2nd OWL Reasoner Evaluation Workshop (with DL) Message-ID: [Apologies for cross-posting] ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PARTICIPATION 2nd OWL Reasoner Evaluation Workshop (ORE 2013) Collocated with DL 2013 Workshop July 22nd in Ulm, Germany http://ore2013.cs.manchester.ac.uk/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- OBJECTIVES -------------------------------------------------------------------------- The goal of this workshop is to bring together both the DEVELOPERS and END-USERS of reasoners for (subsets of) OWL, including systems focusing on both intensional (ontology) and extensional (data) query answering. The workshop will give developers a perfect opportunity to promote their systems and get feedback from end-users and real uses-cases. REGISTRATION AND ATTENDING -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Registration for the Description Logic workshop is now open, and the same registration system is used to register for the OWL Reasoner Evaluation workshop. To register for ORE (or both DL and ORE): Visit https://www.conftool.net/dl2013/ and sign up for an account. Continue to the registration page ?Step 2 of 4: Event and Item Selection? and select the appropriate checkboxes. Complete the registration and payment. The registration fees for the ORE workshop day on the 22nd July are as follows: Early (before June 25th): 50 EUR regular / 30 EUR students Late (on or after 25th June): 70 EUR regular / 50 EUR students Registration fees include coffee breaks and lunch. If you would like to additionally register for the DL workshop, the early fees are 250 EUR regular / 150 EUR students, late fees 300 EUR regular / 200 EUR students. DL also has a limited number of student grants available for attending the DL workshop. Please check the DL website for details. ORE 2013 will be held at the University of Ulm, Germany. Information about travel to Ulm can be found on the DL workshop site: http://www.uni-ulm.de/en/in/dl2013/travel.html We're looking forward to seeing you in Ulm! ORE COMPETITION -------------------------------------------------------------------------- The call for systems and challenging ontologies is still open: June 27th, 2013 We will use our benchmarking framework ( https://bitbucket.org/spbail/ore-benchmark/overview) to measure the reasoner performance on various tasks and test sets. Most of the measurements will be performed before the ORE workshop day. There will also be a live competition during the DL workshop, and the trophy-giving will take place during the DL social dinner on the 24th July. More information about the competition can be found here: http://ore2013.cs.manchester.ac.uk/competition/ ACCEPTED PAPERS -------------------------------------------------------------------------- We had some great submissions to ORE 2013 covering a broad range of OWL reasoning related topics ? reasoner system descriptions, challenging ontologies, performance evaluations, OWL reasoners on mobile devices (!), and reasoner tips&tricks. We are very pleased to announce that we accepted nearly 20 papers to be presented at this year's workshop: System papers: ---------------------------------- 1. Joerg Schoenfisch and Jens Ortmann: YARR!: Yet Another Rewriting Reasoner 2. Alejandro Metke Jimenez and Michael Lawley: Snorocket 2.0: Concrete Domains and Concurrent Classification 3. Weihong Song, Bruce Spencer and Weichang Du: A Transformation Approach for Classifying ALCHI(D) Ontologies with a Consequence-based ALCH Reasoner 4. Roberto Yus, Carlos Bobed, Guillermo Esteban, Fernando Bobillo and Eduardo Mena: Android goes Semantic: DL Reasoners on Smartphones 5. Jean-R?mi Bourguet and Luca Pulina: FRaQuE: A Framework for Rapid Query Processing Evaluation 6. Ana Armas, Bernardo Cuenca Grau, Ian Horrocks and Ernesto Jimenez-Ruiz: MORe: a Modular OWL Reasoner for Ontology Classification 7. Yevgeny Kazakov and Pavel Klinov: Experimenting with ELK on an Android Phone 8. Oleksandr Pospishnyi: Extending Datatype Support for Tractable Reasoning with OWL 2 EL Ontologies 9. Chan Le Duc, Myriam Lamolle, Antoine Zimmermann and Olivier Cur?: DRAOn: A Distributed Reasoner for Aligned Ontologies 10. Bar?? Sertkaya: The ELepHant Reasoner System Description 11. Mariano Rodriguez-Muro, Martin Rezk, Josef Hardi, Mindaugas Slusnys, Timea Bagosi and Diego Calvanese: Evaluating SPARQL-to-SQL for R2RML in ontop 12. Mariano Rodriguez-Muro, Roman Kontchakov and Michael Zakharyaschev: OBDA with Ontop 13. Jeff Z. Pan, Yuan Ren, Nophadol Jekjantuk and Jhonatan Garcia: Reasoning the FMA Ontologies with TrOWL Ontology and benchmark papers: ---------------------------------- 1. Michael Wessel, Vinay Chaudhri and Stijn Heymans: KB_Bio_101: A Challenge for OWL Reasoners 2. Berkan Sesen, Ernesto Jimenez-Ruiz, Rene Banares-Alcantara and Michael Brady: Evaluating OWL 2 Reasoners in the context of Clinical Decision Support in Lung Cancer Treatment Selection 3. Matthias Samwald: Genomic CDS: an example of a complex ontology for pharmacogenetics and clinical decision support 4. Jose Cruz-Toledo, Alison Callahan and Michel Dumontier: A large-scale gene-centric semantic web knowledge base for molecular biology -- Ernesto Jim?nez-Ruiz Research Assistant Department of Computer Science University of Oxford Wolfson Building, Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3QD, UK http://krono.act.uji.es/people/Ernesto http://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/people/ernesto.jimenez-ruiz/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From pane at disi.unitn.it Wed Jun 19 22:15:44 2013 From: pane at disi.unitn.it (Pane) Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2013 16:15:44 -0400 Subject: [DL] AGROSEM 2013 Message-ID: <000001ce6d29$e5e5ea60$b1b1bf20$@disi.unitn.it> Apologies for cross-posting ************************************************************* SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS Special Track on Metadata and Semantics for Agriculture, Food & Environment 7th International Conference on Metadata and Semantic Research (MTSR'13) Thessaloniki, Greece, November 19-22, 2013 http://mtsr2013.teithe.gr ************************************************************* *** Paper submission deadline: 7th July 2013*** *** Journal post-publication at Elsevier's Information Processing in Agriculture*** AIM & TOPICS The 6th Edition of the Special Track on Metadata and Semantics for Agriculture, Food & Environment is hosted as part of MTSR 2013, and aims to bring together researchers and practitioners that are working on agricultural, food-related and environmental knowledge production, organization, and exchange from a Semantic Web perspective. It aims to serve as a discussion forum where interested experts will present the results of their work, and establish liaisons with other groups that are working on related subjects. In addition, it aims to outline the rich potential of these subjects as an application field for advanced metadata- and semantic-driven systems and services. Topics include but are not limited to contributions dealing with the following issues in the context of agriculture, food & environment: * Information standards and specifications * Metadata schemas and application profiles * Multilingual vocabularies, taxonomies, glossaries and thesauri * Metadata generation, harvesting, and exchange * Knowledge acquisition, elicitation and extraction * Infrastructures, systems and services for knowledge organization * Knowledge repositories and archives * Ontology approaches, models, theories, and languages * Ontology development, integration, lifecycle, and evaluation * Management of large ontology-driven knowledge bases IMPORTANT DATES 7th July 2013: Paper submission (Springer LNCS style, PDF file submission) 31 July 2013: Acceptance notification 20 August 2013: Camera-ready, revised version of accepted papers 19-22 November 2013: MTSR'13 in Thessaloniki, Greece SUBMISSIONS Interested authors can submit either full papers (12 pages) or short papers (6 pages) about complete or ongoing research. Papers should be original and not previously submitted to other venues. Authors should be special attention to the fact that the Track traditionally uses its own submission system: http://open.logismi.co/ocs/index.php/agrosem/2013/author/submit PUBLICATION Springer will publish MTSR'13 accepted papers in the form a book in the CCIS Series. The proceedings of the previous Special Track on Agricultural Metadata & Semantics for Agriculture, Food & Environment at MTSR'12 have been published in Vol.343 of the CCIS Series (http://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-642-35233-1/page/1) and MTSR'11 have been published in Vol.240 of the CCIS Series (http://www.springerlink.com/content/978-3-642-24731-6). Authors of papers in the Special Track will be invited to submit an extended version of their manuscripts to a Special Issue of Elsevier's journal "Information Processing in Agriculture" (http://www.elsevier.com/journals/information-processing-in-agriculture/2214 -3173). A Special Issue of the International Journal of Metadata, Semantics and Ontologies has also resulted from this Track in the past: http://www.inderscience.com/info/inarticletoc.php?jcode=ijmso&year=2009&vol= 4&issue=1/2 SPECIAL TRACK CHAIRS * Nikos Manouselis. Agro-Know Technologies (Greece) * Ioannis Athanasiadis. Democritus University of Thrace (Greece) * Juan Pane. Universidad Nacional de Asunci?n (Paraguay) ABOUT MTSR?13 The 7th International Conference on Metadata and Semantic Research (MTSR'13) will be hosted by the Alexander Technological Educational Institute of Thessaloniki, Greece from 19th to 22th of November 2013. It will take place at the Museum of Byzantine Culture,The Museum is located in the centre of Thessaloniki, in one of the most beautiful modern public buildings in Greece. The museum aims to present a w ide-ranging view of life in Byzantine and the post-Byzantine period including but not limited to art, ideology, social structure and religion. In addition is explains how historical changes and the political situation affected people's everyday life. MTSR'13 targets researchers and practitioners from the fields of metadata and semantics research as, well as applications of the Semantic Web and related technologies. See http://mtsr2013.teithe.gr for more details on travelling and accomodation. ************************************************************* -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From yevgeny.kazakov at uni-ulm.de Fri Jun 21 15:19:17 2013 From: yevgeny.kazakov at uni-ulm.de (Yevgeny Kazakov) Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2013 15:19:17 +0200 Subject: [DL] DL 2013 - Call for Participation (early registration ends soon!) Message-ID: Apologies for multiple postings ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 26th International Workshop on Description Logics (DL 2013) http://dl.kr.org/dl2013/ Ulm, Germany, July 23-26, 2013 Co-located with ORE 2013; followed by RR 2013, Reasoning Web 2013 Call for participation Early Registration deadline: 24 June 2013 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Overview The DL workshop is the major annual event of the description logic research community. It is the forum at which those interested in description logics, both from academia and industry, meet to discuss ideas, share information and compare experiences. Keynote speakers: - Giuseppe De Giacomo (Sapienza Universita di Roma, Italy): Actions, Processes, and Ontologies - Michel Dumontier (Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada) Drugs, Genetics and Phenotypes: an Admission of Formal Semantics in Biomedical Research - Ian Pratt-Hartmann (University of Manchester, UK): Transitivity and Equivalence in Decidable Fragments of First-Order Logic The programme of the Workshop is available at: http://dl.kr.org/dl2013/program.html Registration is online at: https://www.conftool.net/dl2013 Early Registration deadline: 24 June 2013 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Contacts for DL 2013 General and Local Chairs: * Birte Glimm, University of Ulm * Yevgeny Kazakov, University of Ulm Program Chairs: * Markus Kr?tzsch, The University of Oxford * Thomas Eiter, Vienna University of Technology From ernesto.jimenez.ruiz at gmail.com Sat Jun 22 13:26:50 2013 From: ernesto.jimenez.ruiz at gmail.com (Ernesto Jimenez-Ruiz) Date: Sat, 22 Jun 2013 12:26:50 +0100 Subject: [DL] [ANN] Release of HermiT 1.3.8 Message-ID: [Apologies for cross-posting] Dear all, We are happy to announce the new release 1.3.8 of the HermiT OWL Reasoner http://www.hermit-reasoner.com/. HermiT is a free and open source reasoner for ontologies written using the Web Ontology Language (OWL) [1], developed by the University of Oxford. Given an OWL ontology, HermiT can determine whether the ontology is consistent, build hierarchical relationship among classes, and much more. It is based on Java and can be used under the OWL API [2], Protege [3], or a command line interface. The new release contains several bug fixes (see readme file for more details). It is available from HermiT's homepage or download page [4]. The HermiT users' discussion group [5] is available for further discussion, questions and comments, and the HermiT issue tracker [6] is available for bug reports. 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URL: From t.dinoia at poliba.it Fri Jun 21 17:14:20 2013 From: t.dinoia at poliba.it (Tommaso Di Noia) Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2013 17:14:20 +0200 Subject: [DL] [CFP] SeRSy@ACM RecSys 2013 - 2nd International Workshop on Recommender Systems meet Big Data & Semantic Technologies Message-ID: <51C46DCC.70002@poliba.it> Apologies for possible multiple posts ============================ CALL FOR PAPERS ============================ 2nd International Workshop on Recommender Systems meet Big Data & Semantic Technologies - SeRSy 2013 in conjunction with RecSys 2013, Hong Kong, October 12-16, 2013 http://sisinflab.poliba.it/sersy2013/ http://recsys.acm.org/recsys13/sersy/ MOTIVATION ---------- Recommendation techniques generally rely on data referring to three kinds of objects: users, items and their relations. The widespread success of Semantic Web techniques, creating a Web of interoperable and machine readable data, offers novel strategies to represent data that might improve the current state of the art of recommender systems, in order to move towards a new generation of recommender systems which fully understand the items they deal with. Indeed, more and more semantic data are published following the Linked Data principles, that enable to set up links between objects in different data sources, by connecting information in a single global data space - the Web of Data. Today, Web of Data includes different types of knowledge represented in a homogeneous form - sedimentary one (encyclopedic, cultural, linguistic, common-sense and real-time one (news, data streams. This data might be useful to interlink diverse information about users, items, and their relations and implement reasoning mechanisms that can support and improve the recommendation process. The challenge is to investigate whether and how this large amount of wide-coverage and linked semantic knowledge can significantly improve complex search and filtering tasks that cannot be solved merely through a straightforward matching of queries (or user profiles) and items. Such tasks involve finding information from large document collections, categorizing and understanding that information, and producing some output, such as an actionable decision. Examples of such tasks include understanding a health problem in order to make a medical decision, or simply deciding which laptop to buy. Recommender systems support users exactly in those complex tasks. TOPICS ------- Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): - Recommendation approaches exploiting Big Data and Semantic technologies - Linked Data for Recommender Systems - Ontology-based recommendation algorithms - Reasoning with Big Data - Discovery of relevant Linked Data sources for recommendation algorithms - Linking, aggregating, intertwining and mining Linked Data for recommender systems - Linked Data in new Recommender Systems architectures - Semantic technologies for Cross-lingual and cross-domain recommender systems - Semantic technologies for improving transparency and explanations - Big datasets for the evaluation - Evaluation methodologies for real time personalization in big datasets - Semantic technologies for improving novelty, diversity and serendipity SUBMISSION ----------------------- We welcome work at all stages of development: papers can describe applied systems, empirical results or theoretically grounded positions. Accepted papers will be published as CEUR workshop proceedings (http://ceur-ws.org). Based on the quality of accepted papers we are planning to schedule a special issue of a top-level journal in 2013. * Full papers (5-6 pages) * Short papers (2-3 pages) * Demos (1-2 pages for description) Papers should be formatted according to the general RecSys2013 submission guidelines. Accepted format is PDF. Please submit your paper via EasyChair at the following URL: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sersy2013 You need to open a personal account upon the first login, if you do not have one. IMPORTANT DATES --------------- Submission due: July 22, 2013 Author notification: August 23, 2013 Camera-ready version due: TBA Workshop date: TBA ORGANIZING COMMITTEE -------------------- Marco de Gemmis - University of Bari Aldo Moro, Italy Tommaso Di Noia - Politecnico of Bari, Italy Ora Lassila - Nokia Research Center, Cambridge, U.S. Pasquale Lops - University of Bari Aldo Moro, Italy Thomas Lukasiewicz - University of Oxford, UK Giovanni Semeraro - University of Bari Aldo Moro, Italy PROGRAM COMMITTEE ----------------- TBA CONTACT ----------------- e-mail: sersy2013 at gmail.com Web page: http://sisinflab.poliba.it/sersy2013/ twitter: @sersy2013 linkedin: http://tinyurl.com/sersy2013 From jist2013 at yonsei.ac.kr Tue Jun 25 11:13:58 2013 From: jist2013 at yonsei.ac.kr (=?UTF-8?B?SklTVDIwMTM=?=) Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2013 18:13:58 +0900 (KST) Subject: [DL] =?utf-8?q?=5BJIST2013=5D_Call_For_Papers?= Message-ID: <51c960d13fe7_@_imoxion.com> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP - ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ***** PAPER SUBMISSION DEADLINE ***** 23:59 (Hawaii Time), August 20, 2013 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS JIST2013 The Joint International Semantic Technology Conference http://smartweb.yonsei.ac.kr/jist2013/ sponsored by Korea Intelligent Information System Society November 28-30, 2013 Seoul, Korea ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Joint International Semantic Technology Conference (JIST) is a regional federation of Semantic Technology related conferences. The mission of JIST is to bring together researchers in Semantic Technology research community and other areas of semantic related technologies to present their innovative research results or novel applications of semantic technologies. The JIST 2013solicits the submission of original research papers on Semantic Web and Data Science related technologies, as well as papers on applications of semantic technologies. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: l Ontology and Reasoning - Ontology modeling, reuse, extraction, and evolution - Ontology mapping, merging, and alignment - Ontology evaluation - Searching and ranking ontologies - Reasoning over Semantic Web data - New formalisms (such as probabilistic approaches) - Lightweight semantics (linked data, microformats, etc.) l Management of Semantic Web Data - Languages, tools, and methodologies for Semantic Web data - Database, IR, and AI technologies for Semantic Web data - Robust and scalable knowledge management and reasoning on the Web - Machine learning and information extraction on the Web - Cleaning, assurance, and provenance of Semantic Web data, services, and processes l Linked Data - Publication of Linked Data - Consumption of Linked Data - Reasoning with Linked Data - Search, query, integration, and analysis on Linked Data - Integration and mashup of Linked Data - Mining of Linked Data - Domain specific applications (eGovernment, disaster, life science etc.) l Social Semantic Web - Semantics for social media data - Social network analysis with Semantic Web Technologies - Querying, mining and analysis of social semantic data - Social Semantic Web applications - Semantic Web technologies for collaboration and cooperation - Representing and reasoning about trust, privacy, and security l Applications of the Semantic Web - Semantic Web for big data - Semantic Web for desktops or personal information management - Semantic Web for multimedia, sensors, and situational awareness - Semantic Web for P2P, services, agents, grids, and middleware - Semantic Web for software and systems engineering - Mobile Semantic Web - Interface for Semantic Web l Big Data and Data Science - Knowledge Graph and Entity Graph Generation - Graph Mining for Big Data - Data Journalism - Open Data Government - Advanced Data Analytics - Data Centric Science and Management - Data Art and Data Centric Humanities l Empirical Issues of Semantic Web Technology - Description of an implemented application of semantic technology in a specific domain - Analysis and evaluation of usability and uptake of semantic tools - Learned lessons and best practices from deploying and using an application or service based on semantic technology - Assessment of costs and benefits of implementing, deploying, using, and managing semantic technology - Pragmatics of using or deploying semantic technology in real-world scenarios - Comparison of semantic technology with alternative approaches that use conventional or competing technologies PAPER SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION Submissions to JIST 2013 should describe original, significant research on the semantic technologies. Submissions to JIST 2013 are expected to present their claimed contribution, with clear evidence to support their claims. All submissions will be critically reviewed by at least three members of the program committee. To assess submissions, reviewers will judge their relevance to semantic technologies and data science, their originality, the technical soundness of their proposed approach and the readability of the submission. Submissions must be in PDF format, using the style of the Springer Publications format for Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). Submissions must be no longer than 16 pages for REGULAR TECHNICAL SESSIONS and 6 pages for IN-USE TRACK and SPECIAL TRACK. Submissions that exceed this limit may be rejected without review. JIST 2013 will not accept submissions that are under review for or have already been published in or accepted for publication in a journal or another conference. The proceedings will be published as a book in Lecture Note for Computer Science (LNCS) by Springer. At least one author of each accepted paper must register for the conference and present the paper there. IMPORTANT DATES l Submissions due: 23:59 (Hawaii Time), August 20, 2013 l Notification of acceptance: October 10, 2013 l Camera ready: October 21, 2013 l Conference: November 28-30, 2013 ORGANIZATION l General Chair: Hong-Gee Kim, Seoul National University, Korea l Program Chairs: Wooju Kim, Yonsei University, Korea Ying Ding, Indiana University, USA l In-Use Track Chair: Jie Tang, Tsinghua University, China Younghwan Lee, Konkuk University, Korea l Poster and Demo Chairs: Guilin Qi, Southeastern University, China Kouji Kozaki, Osaka University, Japan l Workshop Chairs: Thepchai Supnithi, Thailand Jason Jung, Yeungnam Univeristy, Korea l Tutorial Chairs: Haklae Kim, Samsung Electronics, Korea Hanmin Jung, Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information, Korea l Industry Chair: Laurentiu Vasiliu, Peracton Co., Ireland Takahiro Kawamura, Toshiba, Japan l Publicity Chair: Myungdae Cho, Seoul National University, Korea l Local Organizing Chair: June Seok Hong, Kyonggi University, Korea for(i=0;i From jonquet at lirmm.fr Fri Jun 28 16:24:07 2013 From: jonquet at lirmm.fr (Clement Jonquet) Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2013 16:24:07 +0200 Subject: [DL] PhD position available in Montpellier/Rouen, France (semantic web, biomedical ontologies, multilingualism) - Fall 2013 Message-ID: <038c01ce740b$4039b8b0$c0ad2a10$@lirmm.fr> Bonjour, Hello, The LIRMM (University of Montpellier & CNRS) and CISMeF (LITIS, & Rouen School of Medicine) are currently offering 1 fully-funded PhD studentships commencing fall 2013 for 3 years. Applications are invited from France, EU and international students on the following PhD project. Sorry for multiple receptions. Thank you for transferring to your local students mailing lists. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------- Title: Semantic portals interoperability and multilingual data integration in biomedicine. Information: Institution: University of Montpellier, I2S doctoral school University of Rouen , SPMII doctoral school Supervisors: Clement Jonquet (LIRMM, UM2) ? jonquet at lirmm.fr Lina Soualmia (LITIS, CHU de Rouen) ? lina.soualmia at chu-rouen.fr Stefan J. Darmoni (LITIS, CHU de Rouen) ? stefan.darmoni at chu-rouen.fr Project: SIFR project (Semantic Indexing of French Biomedical Data Resources) When: Fall 2013 for 3 years Where: Laboratory of Informatics, Robotics, and Microelectronics of Montpellier (LIRMM) (2 first years) Catalogue et Index des Sites M?dicaux de langue Fran?aise (CISMeF) (last year) Collaborations: Stanford Center for Biomedical Informatics Research (BMIR), Stanford University (Pr. Mark Musen). Key-words: (biomedical)ontologies & terminologies, semantic web, multilingualism, knowledge representation, biomedical data integration, semantic interoperability, ontology alignment, linked data Context: The volume of data in biomedicine is constantly increasing. Despite a large adoption of English in science, a significant quantity of these data uses the French language. The community has turned toward terminologies and ontologies to design semantic indexes of data that leverage the medical knowledge for better information mining and retrieval. However, besides the existence of various English tools, there are considerably less ontologies available in French and there is a strong lack of related tools and services to exploit them. This lack does not match the huge amount of biomedical data produced in French, especially in the clinical world (e.g., electronic health records). Within the SIFR project, we will investigate the scientific and technical challenges in building ontology-based services to leverage biomedical ontologies and terminologies in indexing, mining and retrieval of French biomedical data. We will build an ontology-based indexing workflow similar to what exists for English resources (e.g., NCBO Annotator) but dedicated and specialized for French and make it available as a service for the community. We will use this workflow for semantic indexing of French biomedical data. We will investigate issues related to multilingual knowledge representation (complex alignments between multilingual ontologies) and maintenance/evolution of created annotations and mappings over time. Especially, the use of the multilingual (French-English) mappings will enable us to index French resources using English ontologies and to search English resources, already indexed with English ontologies. We envision potential interesting result in semantic search and automatic translation. We will also investigate the process of lifting the annotated data in the web of linked data. The project will partially reuse the work done by the NCBO project, led by Stanford BMIR. We will also capitalize upon existing tools developed by CISMeF. Methods will be generalizable to other languages and domains of application. Subject: The community has already invested efforts in developing ontology Web portals to assist health professionals and users in the use of biomedical ontologies and terminologies (e.g., browsing, visualizing, commenting and indexing). For instances, BioPortal ( http://bioportal.bioontology.org) & HeTOP (http://www.hetop.eu) developed respectively by Stanford University and CISMeF. The PhD project will consist in investigating the technological and scientific issues to enable semantic interoperability of BioPortal and HeTOP but also ontology portals in general. Also, the project will use semantic web methodologies and technologies to extract and represent multilingual mappings (i.e., alignments) between biomedical ontologies and use these mappings to enable multilingual indexing and search of biomedical data. Possible application to automated translation could be also considered. Detailed Description: http://www.lirmm.fr/sifr/positions/2013_SIFR_PhD_position.html Application: For more information about this position, please contact Clement Jonquet (jonquet at lirmm.fr ), Lina Soualmia ( lina.soualmia at chu-rouen.fr) and Stefan J. Darmoni ( stefan.darmoni at chu-rouen.fr). To apply, please e-mail the following: - an explanation of your interest in the proposed research field; - a curriculum vitae; - copies of diplomas and other relevant certificates; - a complete list of courses attended and corresponding grades; - names and contact details of referees. Master students in informatics/computer science. Experience in semantic web technologies and good software/web engineering capabilities are highly preferable. Motivation for the subject is mandatory and personal initiatives is a must have. You will be at the center of a 3-part collaboration with LIRMM-CISMeF-NCBO. We strongly recommend a perfect knowledge of English and a good knowledge of French. Best regards, CJ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------ Dr. Clement JONQUET - PhD in Informatics - Assistant Professor PI of the SIFR project: Semantic Indexing of French Biomedical Data Resources (ANR, UM2, CNRS) jonquet at lirmm.fr http://www.lirmm.fr/~jonquet University of Montpellier Tel: +33/4 67 14 97 43 LIRMM Fax: +33/4 67 41 85 00 161 rue Ada Skype: clementpro 34095 Montpellier Cdx 5 Twitter: @jonquet_lirmm France Google: jonquet.lirmm at gmail.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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He is a leading international figure in modular and heterogeneous specification of logical theories and ontologies. * George Vouros, University of Piraeus, Greece George Vouros is a professor in the Department of Digital Systems at the University of Piraeus. His research work spans from knowledge representation and reasoning, focusing on the engineering, acquisition, evolution, alignment, and coordination of ontologies, to multi-agent systems, focusing on agent organizations and their adaptation, agents' collaboration and coordination, and architectures of collaborative agents. http://www.iaoa.org/womo/2013.html MODULARITY, studied for years in software engineering, allows mechanisms for easy and flexible reuse, generalization, structuring, maintenance, design patterns, and comprehension. In formal and applied ontology, modularity is central to reducing the complexity of designing and understanding ontologies, and to facilitating ontology verification, reasoning, development, maintenance and integration. Recent research on ontology modularity shows substantial progress in foundations of modularity, techniques of modularization and modular development, distributed reasoning and empirical evaluation. These results provide a solid foundation and exciting prospects for further research and development. The workshop continues a series of successful events that have been an excellent venue for practitioners and researchers to discuss latest and current work. The most recent WoMOs were held at ESSLLI 2011 and FOIS/ICBO 2012. This time WoMO is organised as a workshop of LPNMR 2013: the 12th International Conference on Logic Programming and Non-monotonic Reasoning. LPNMR is well-established as the main conference in the field. The workshop will be open to all attendants of LPMNR'13 and its workshops. Workshop speakers will be required to register for WoMO via the LPMNR'13 website. Registration for WoMO only will be possible. STUDENT TRAVEL GRANTS: With the generous support of the IAOA, we are happy to provide funding to students. Priority will be given to student presenters and authors of accepted papers. More details will be published at a later date. TOPICS include, but are not limited to: - What is modularity?: kinds of modules and their properties; modules vs. contexts; design patterns; granularity of representation; - Logical/foundational studies: modular ontology languages; reconciling inconsistencies across modules; formal structuring of modules; heterogeneity; hybrid theories; intertheory relations (conservativity, interpretability, strong equivalence, inseparability, etc.) - Algorithmic approaches: distributed and incremental reasoning; modularization and module extraction; sharing, linking, reuse; privacy; complexity of reasoning; implemented systems; - Evaluation of modularizations: case studies or other analyses of ontology modularizations (why it is modularized in a certain way, what does it address, how can it be improved); how to measure the adequacy of a modularization; comparison of modularizations with respect to philosophical, logical, reasoning, cognitive, or social aspects; - Applications: semantic web; life sciences; earth sciences; bio-ontologies; natural language processing; space and time; ambient intelligence; social intelligence; technology and engineering; collaborative ontology development and ontology versioning. IMPORTANT DATES: Paper Submission: July 12, 2013 (extended) Notification: August 19, 2013 Camera ready: September 2, 2013 Workshop: September 15, 2013 SUBMISSION GUIDELINES: We welcome submissions on modularity in a broad sense. The workshop is open to papers of theoretical or practical nature from various disciplines. Submissions can be long papers (11 pages) or short papers (5 pages), formatted according to Springer LNCS style (see http://www.springer.com/comp/lncs/Authors.html), prepared in PDF format and submitted no later than the submission deadline, through the EasyChair Submission System (see http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=womo2013). Submitted papers will be peer-reviewed by members of the program committee. Accepted papers will be made available in the proceedings to be published electronically in the CEUR Workshop Proceedings series (see http://www.ceur-ws.org). Proceedings of WoMO 2011 and 2012 can be found at http://www.booksonline.iospress.nl/Content/View.aspx?piid=20369 and at http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-875/. 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URL: From brendon.woodford at otago.ac.nz Sat Jun 29 01:29:17 2013 From: brendon.woodford at otago.ac.nz (Brendon Woodford) Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2013 23:29:17 +0000 Subject: [DL] AI 2013 CFP: Due Date July 21, 2013 (Extended) Message-ID: <4E09E4C2A5ED7442A4F667D4D3394CE87837F1CD@ITS-EXM-P06.registry.otago.ac.nz> [Apologies for cross-posting] CALL FOR PAPERS *** Note extended submission deadline: now 21 July *** 26th Australasian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence AI 2013 3-6 December, 2013 Dunedin, New Zealand http://ai2013.otago.ac.nz/ Since the first AI Conference took place in Sydney in 1987, the series of annual Australasian Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence has become the premier event for Artificial Intelligence researchers in Australasia and one of the major international forums on AI worldwide. In 2008 the AI conference was hosted in New Zealand for the first time, in Auckland. In 2013 the 26th Australasian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence returns to New Zealand, and will be held in Dunedin, hosted by the University of Otago. AI 2013 will be co-located with the 16th International Conference on Principles and Practice in Multi-Agent Systems (PRIMA 2013, http://prima2013.otago.ac.nz/) and the 1st New Zealand Agent School (http://prima2013.otago.ac.nz/agent-school/). Prospective authors are invited to submit original research and application papers in any area of Artificial Intelligence, including but not limited to the following: * Agent-based and multiagent systems * AI applications and innovations * Cognitive modelling and computer human interaction * Commonsense reasoning * Computer vision * Constraint satisfaction, search, and optimisation * Evolutionary computation * Game playing and interactive entertainment * Information retrieval, integration, and extraction * Knowledge acquisition and ontologies * Knowledge representation and reasoning * Machine learning and data mining * Model-based systems * Multidisciplinary AI * Natural language processing * Planning and scheduling * Robotics * Social choice * Uncertainty in AI * Web and information systems All papers should be submitted electronically in PDF format and formatted using Springer's manuscript submission guidelines: http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html Submitted papers should not exceed 12 pages and should not be under review or be submitted for publication elsewhere during the review period. All papers will be peer reviewed by at least three independent referees. Reviews will be double blind; authors must avoid including anything that can be used to identify them. IN PARTICULAR, AUTHOR NAMES SHOULD NOT APPEAR IN THE TITLE BLOCK. Submission will be through the Easychair conference management system at the following URL: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=26ai2013 All accepted papers submitted to the Conference will be published by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) series. At least one author of each accepted paper is required to register for the conference and to present the paper. Important Dates: *** Note extended deadline and change to notification date *** Submissions due: 21 July (AWST: Australian Western Standard Time) Notifications: 4 September Camera-ready copy due: 18 September Early registration: 31 October 1st NZ Agent School: 1 December Doctoral consortium: 2 December Workshops and tutorials: 3 December Conference: 4-6 December From Mario.Frank at uni-potsdam.de Tue Jul 2 10:34:39 2013 From: Mario.Frank at uni-potsdam.de (Mario Frank) Date: Tue, 02 Jul 2013 10:34:39 +0200 Subject: [DL] Description Logic and Theorem Proving Message-ID: <51D2909F.5000200@uni-potsdam.de> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Dear list members, I am a (nearly graduate) CS student at University of Potsdam (Germany). Currently I am trying to focus my plans for my PhD. During the last years, I was researching in the field of theorem proving and attended the CADE ATP Systems Competition twice (IJCAR 2012 and CADE 24) . I learned on these conferences that theorem proving is also used for description logics. In order to focus my plans for my PhD, I am trying to get some impressions about the experiences of implementers and users of theorem provers (interactive and automated) and theorem proving assistents (e.g. preprocessors for theorem proving). The scope is to collect some information about the use of theorem provers and the strengths and weaknesses which are seen by users. Also, usually missing functionalities and gaps are in my scope. Thus, I created a small survey which I would like to distribute. Surely, all information given are treated as confidential and no informations about the people who filled-in the survey will be disclosed. The survey can be found at: http://apache.cs.uni-potsdam.de/de/profs/ifi/theorie/deduction/theorem-proving-survey Sincerly, Mario Frank Institute for Computer Science University of Potsdam -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with undefined - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJR0pCfAAoJEDnmHcItIfWEuPMIAKSjhjSn0CSk9zV+GrUsQZ4q xcbPDvgr7Kfi/ZGrt8E7OcBU+NV+MjyjcjJ6it86+XPH0qo8K2TgzDnRKSTLF1o8 Tx/WIZm3ec+Y85LOcKO7sgeK3+8pgtOxOVVSqS2tJS7GnesrxnlZBT2U7I8Ksc33 Ko7yX2r4xctVW8lRmcQd2c1gG9VEdIkZ3y45mnKyJiWznqTOhc4VPMZG/Sb8wYJX Y1z8lVNw1H+S83pm1rzoUhCYcCTpVUqydGKWdIsqndfBuq89Ajo+LEvQNIALqADh nuF9CcozMFiEa2x8K5CJMwOAgjYbWmhqtrSKstOGkFRmseI2ny1IWRAtTSTQJlo= =RRh+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- From claudia.damato at uniba.it Thu Jul 4 15:17:17 2013 From: claudia.damato at uniba.it (Claudia d'Amato) Date: Thu, 04 Jul 2013 15:17:17 +0200 Subject: [DL] Final CfP: LD4IE Linked Data for Information Extraction - ISWC2013 workshop Message-ID: <51D575DD.3080402@uniba.it> Apologise for multiple posting. *********************************************** LD4IE 2013 The 1st international Workshop on Linked Data for Information Extraction Sydney, Australia, October 21 -22, 2013 Workshop website: http://oak.dcs.shef.ac.uk/ld4ie2013/index.html Twitter: @LD4IE2013 #LD4IE #LD4IE2013 Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/Ld4ie2013 in conjunction with ISWC 2013 The 12th International Semantic Web Conference Sydney, Australia, October 21 -25, 2013 http://iswc2013.semanticweb.org/ *************** Call for Papers *************** This workshop focuses on the exploitation of Linked Data for Web Scale Information Extraction (IE), which concerns extracting structured knowledge from unstructured/semi-structured documents on the Web. One of the major bottlenecks for the current state of the art in IE is the availability of learning materials (e.g., seed data, training corpora), which, typically are manually created and are expensive to build and maintain. Linked Data (LD) defines best practices for exposing, sharing, and connecting data, information, and knowledge on the Semantic Web using uniform means such as URIs and RDF. It has so far been created a gigantic knowledge source of Linked Open Data (LOD), which constitutes a mine of learning materials for IE. However, the massive quantity requires efficient learning algorithms and the not guaranteed quality of data requires robust methods to handle redundancy and noise. LD4IE intends to gather researchers and practitioners to address multiple challenges arising from the usage of LD as learning material for IE tasks, focusing on (i) modelling user defined extraction tasks using LD; (ii) gathering learning materials from LD assuring quality (training data selection, cleaning, feature selection etc.); (iii) robust learning algorithms for handling LD; (iv) publishing IE results to the LOD cloud. *************** Topics ************************ Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: *** Modelling Extraction Tasks * modelling extraction tasks (e.g. defining IE templates using LD ontologies) * extracting and building knowledge patterns based on LD * user friendly approaches for querying LD *** Information Extraction * selecting relevant portions of LD as training data * selecting relevant knowledge resources from LD * IE methods robust to noise in LD as training data * Information Extractions tasks/applications exploiting LD (Wrapper induction, Table interpretation, IE from unstructured data, Named Entity Recognition, Relation Extraction?) * linking extracted information to existing LD datasets *** Linked Data for Learning * assessing the quality of LD data for training * select optimal subset of LD to seed learning * managing heterogeneity, incompleteness, noise, and uncertainty of LD * scalable learning methods using LD * pattern extraction from LD *************** Important Dates *************** Abstract submission deadline: July 5, 2013 (Submissions accepted until July 12) Paper submission deadline: July 12, 2013 Acceptance Notification: August 9, 2013 Camera-ready versions: to be announced Workshop date: to be announced (21-22 October 2013) *************** Submission ******************** We accept the following formats of submissions: Full paper with a maximum of 12 pages including references Short paper with a maximum of 6 pages including references Poster with a maximum of 4 pages including references All submissions must be written in English and must be formatted according to the information for LNCS Authors (http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0.). 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The workshop will give developers a perfect opportunity to promote their systems and get feedback from end-users and real uses-cases. REGISTRATION AND ATTENDING -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Registration for the Description Logic workshop is still open, and the same registration system is used to register for the OWL Reasoner Evaluation workshop: https://www.conftool.net/dl2013/ The current registration fees for the ORE workshop on the 22nd July are: 70 EUR regular / 50 EUR students. Registration fees include coffee breaks and lunch. If you would like to additionally register for the DL workshop, the fees are 300 EUR regular / 200 EUR students. ORE 2013 will be held at the University of Ulm, Germany. Information about travel to Ulm can be found on the DL workshop site: http://www.uni-ulm.de/en/in/dl2013/travel.html ORE PROGRAMME -------------------------------------------------------------------------- We had some great submissions to ORE 2013 covering a broad range of OWL reasoning related topics ? reasoner system descriptions, challenging ontologies, performance evaluations, OWL reasoners on mobile devices (!), and reasoner tips&tricks. We are very pleased to announce that we accepted nearly 20 papers to be presented at this year's workshop. Furthermore, 14 systems were submitted to the competition: http://ore2013.cs.manchester.ac.uk/workshop/programme-2/ Tentative programme (Monday, July 22) -------------------------------------- 8:30-9:00: Registration 9:00-9:15: Welcome 9:15-10:30: Session 1 (5 x 15min talks) - A Transformation Approach for Classifying ALCHI(D) Ontologies with a Consequence-based ALCH Reasoner - MORe: a Modular OWL Reasoner for Ontology Classification - Snorocket 2.0: Concrete Domains and Concurrent Classification - The ELepHant Reasoner System Description - Extending Datatype Support for Tractable Reasoning with OWL 2 EL Ontologies 10:30-11:00: Coffee break 11:00-12:30: Session 2 (6 x 15min talks) - DRAOn: A Distributed Reasoner for Aligned Ontologies - TReasoner: System Description - Evaluating SPARQL-to-SQL translation in ontop - OBDA with Ontop - YARR!: Yet Another Rewriting Reasoner - FRaQuE: A Framework for Rapid Query Processing Evaluation 12:30-14:00: Lunch 14:00-15:15: Session 3 (5 x 15min talks) - Reasoning the FMA Ontologies with TrOWL - Evaluating OWL 2 Reasoners in the context of Clinical Decision Support in Lung Cancer Treatment Selection - KB_Bio_101: A Challenge for OWL Reasoners - Genomic CDS: an example of a complex ontology for pharmacogenetics and clinical decision support - A large-scale gene-centric semantic web knowledge base for molecular biology 15:15-15:45: Coffee break 15:45-16:15: Session 4 (2 x 15min talks) - Android goes Semantic: DL Reasoners on Smartphones - Experimenting with ELK Reasoner on Android 16:15-17:00: Competition discussion and feedback 17:00-: Social event (TBC) - Nabada river festival - Social dinner ORE sessions at DL (Wednesday, July 24) -------------------------------------- - 17:20-17:40: ORE ?Live? Reasoner Competition - 19:30-22:00: DL Social Dinner and ORE Award Ceremony ORE COMPETITION -------------------------------------------------------------------------- We will use our benchmarking framework to measure the reasoner performance on various tasks and test sets. Most of the measurements will be performed before the ORE workshop day. There will also be a live competition during the DL workshop, and the trophy-giving will take place during the DL social dinner. 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URL: From pascal.hitzler at wright.edu Thu Jul 4 22:29:37 2013 From: pascal.hitzler at wright.edu (Pascal Hitzler) Date: Thu, 4 Jul 2013 16:29:37 -0400 Subject: [DL] CfP: Semantics For Big Data. Special issue of the Semantic Web journal Message-ID: <51D5DB31.8010908@wright.edu> Call for papers: Special issue of the Semantic Web journal on SEMANTICS FOR BIG DATA http://www.semantic-web-journal.net/blog/call-papers-special-issue-semantic-web-journal-semantics-big-data One of the key challenges in making use of Big Data lies in finding ways of dealing with heterogeneity, diversity, and complexity of the data, while its volume and velocity forbid solutions available for smaller datasets as based, e.g., on manual curation or manual integration of data. Semantic Web Technologies are meant to deal with these issues, and indeed since the advent of Linked Data a few years ago, they have become central to mainstream Semantic Web research and development. We can easily understand Linked Data as being a part of the greater Big Data landscape, as many of the challenges are the same. The linking component of Linked Data, however, puts an additional focus on the integration and conflation of data across multiple sources. Possible Topics Topics of interest focus explicitly on the interplay of Semantics and Big Data, and include the use of semantic metadata and ontologies for Big Data, the use of formal and informal semantics, the integration and interplay of deductive (semantic) and statistical methods, methods to establish semantic interoperability between data sources, ways of dealing with semantic heterogeneity, scalability of Semantic Web methods and tools, and semantic approaches to the explication of requirements from eScience applications. Submissions Deadline: December 20, 2013 - extensions are possible on request Submissions shall be made through the Semantic Web journal website at http://www.semantic-web-journal.net. Note that you need to request an account on the website for submitting a paper. Please indicate in the cover letter that it is for the "Semantics for Big Data" special issue. Submissions are possible in all standing paper type of the journal, see http://www.semantic-web-journal.net/authors for descriptions: full research papers, surveys, linked dataset descriptions, ontology descriptions, application reports, tool/systems reports. Guest Editors Frank van Harmelen, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands James A. Hendler, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA Pascal Hitzler, Kno.e.sis Center, Wright State University, USA Krzysztof Janowicz, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA The editors can be reached by email to contact at semantic-web-journal.net. Guest Editorial Board The guest editorial board will be recruited based on the topics of the submitted papers. -- Prof. Dr. Pascal Hitzler Dept. of Computer Science, Wright State University, Dayton, OH pascal at pascal-hitzler.de http://www.knoesis.org/pascal/ Semantic Web Textbook: http://www.semantic-web-book.org Semantic Web Journal: http://www.semantic-web-journal.net From schmidt at cs.man.ac.uk Sat Jul 6 09:31:11 2013 From: schmidt at cs.man.ac.uk (Renate Schmidt) Date: Sat, 06 Jul 2013 08:31:11 +0100 Subject: [DL] FroCoS 2013: CALL FOR PARTICIPATION Message-ID: <20130706073111.EE6F94D6270@cspc036.cs.man.ac.uk> CALL FOR PARTICIPATION FroCoS 2013 9th International Symposium on Frontiers of Combining Systems Nancy, France September 18-20, 2013 http://frocos2013.loria.fr/ Co-located with TABLEAUX 2013 NOTE: Early registration is until July 31. For online registration, visit http://frocos2013.loria.fr/registration.html Please note the reduced fees for the joint registration FroCoS+TABLEAUX. GENERAL INFORMATION The 9th International Symposium on Frontiers of Combining Systems will be held in Nancy, France, from 18-20 September 2013. The aim of the conference is to publish and promote progress in research areas requiring the development of general techniques and methods for the combination and integration of special, formally defined systems, as well as for the analysis and modularization of complex systems. PROGRAMME The conferences features 4 invited talks and 20 contributed papers. The full programme will be available soon at the conference website. INVITED TALKS - Stephane Demri, New York University & LSV, CNRS Counter Systems: The Quest for Pushing the Decidability Borders (joint invited talk with TABLEAUX 2013) - Konstantin Korovin, The University of Manchester From Resolution and DPLL to Solving Arithmetic Constraints - Joel Ouaknine, University of Oxford Specification and Verification of Linear Dynamical Systems: Advances and Challenges - Lawrence C. Paulson, University of Cambridge MetiTarski's Menagerie of Cooperating Systems CO-LOCATED EVENT FroCoS 2013 will be co-located with the 22nd International Conference on Automated Reasoning with Analytic Tableaux and Related Methods (TABLEAUX 2013) held 16-19 September 2013. Participation in the TABLEAUX sessions is open to FroCoS participants on the overlapping days. There is also an attractive option for joint registration to both FroCoS and TABLEAUX. IMPORTANT DATES 31 Jul 2013 Early registration deadline 16-19 Sep 2013 Tableaux Conference 18-20 Sep 2013 FroCoS Conference REGISTRATION For online registration, please visit: http://frocos2013.loria.fr/registration.html The early registration deadline is July 31. Please refer to the conference website for registration, accommodation and travel information. ORGANIZATION - Pascal Fontaine (PC Co-Chair), LORIA, INRIA, University of Lorraine, France - Christophe Ringeissen (Conference Chair), LORIA, INRIA, France - Renate Schmidt (PC Co-Chair), The University of Manchester, UK We look forward to seeing you in Nancy! From klin at duch.mimuw.edu.pl Thu Jul 4 23:43:19 2013 From: klin at duch.mimuw.edu.pl (Bartosz Klin) Date: Thu, 4 Jul 2013 23:43:19 +0200 Subject: [DL] CALCO 2013: call for participation Message-ID: <20130704214319.GA26273@duch.mimuw.edu.pl> [Apologies for multiple copies] ========================================================================= CALL FOR PARTICIPATION: CALCO 2013 5th International Conference on Algebra and Coalgebra in Computer Science September 3 - 6, 2013 Warsaw, Poland http://coalg.org/calco13/ ========================================================================= REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN! ========================================================================= -- IMPORTANT DATES -- * Early registration: until August 5th, 2013 * Late registration: until August 26th, 2013 -- SCOPE -- CALCO aims to bring together researchers and practitioners with interests in foundational aspects, and both traditional and emerging uses of algebra and coalgebra in computer science. -- INVITED SPEAKERS -- * Andrej Bauer (University of Ljubljana, SI) * Mikolaj Bojanczyk (University of Warsaw, PL) * Neil Ghani (University of Strathclyde, UK) * Damien Pous (CNRS, ENS-Lyon, F) -- ACCEPTED PAPERS -- Please see http://coalg.org/calco13/accepted-papers for a complete list. -- LOCATION -- Warsaw, the capital of Poland, is a lively city with many historic monuments and sights, but also with a thriving business district. It is easily accessible via two airports: the main Chopin Airport, used by most international carriers, and the recently open Warsaw Modlin Airport (30 minutes away by rail), used by budget airlines. -- SATELLITE WORKSHOPS -- CALCO 2013 will be preceded by the CALCO Early Ideas Workshop, chaired by Monika Seisenberger (Swansea University). The workshop is dedicated to presentation of work in progress and original research proposals. PhD students and young researchers are particularly encouraged to contribute. A workshop dedicated to tools based on algebraic and/or coalgebraic principles, CALCO Tools, will be held alongside the main conference, chaired by Lutz Schroeder (Friedrich Alexander Universitaet Erlangen-Nuernberg). Papers of this workshop will be included in the CALCO proceedings. -- PROGRAMME COMMITTEE -- Luca Aceto - Reykjavik University, Iceland Jiri Adamek - TU Braunschweig, D Lars Birkedal - IT University of Copenhagen, DK Filippo Bonchi - CNRS, ENS-Lyon, F Corina Cirstea - University of Southhampton, UK Bob Coecke - University of Oxford, UK Andrea Corradini - University of Pisa, I Mai Gehrke - Universite Paris Diderot - Paris 7, F H. Peter Gumm - Philipps University Marburg, D Gopal Gupta - University of Texas at Dallas, USA Ichiro Hasuo - Tokyo University, Japan Reiko Heckel - University of Leicester, UK (cochair) Bart Jacobs - Radboud University Nijmegen, NL Ekaterina Komendantskaya - University of Dundee, Scotland, UK Barbara Koenig - University of Duisburg-Essen, D Jose Meseguer - University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA Marino Miculan - University of Udine, I Stefan Milius - Friedrich-Alexander Universitaet Erlangen-Nuernberg, D (cochair) Larry Moss - Indiana University, Bloomington, USA Till Mossakowski - DFKI Lab Bremen and University of Bremen, D Prakash Panangaden - McGill University, Montreal, Canada Dirk Pattinson - Imperial College London, UK Dusko Pavlovic - Royal Holloway, University of London, UK Daniela Petrisan - University of Leicester, UK John Power - University of Bath, UK Jan Rutten - CWI Amsterdam and Radboud University Nijmegen, NL Lutz Schroeder - Friedrich-Alexander Universitaet Erlangen-Nuernberg, D Monika Seisenberger - Swansea University, UK Sam Staton - University of Cambridge, UK Alexandra Silva - Radboud University Nijmegen and CWI Amsterdam, NL Pawel Sobocinski - University of Southampton, UK Yde Venema - University of Amsterdam, NL Uwe Wolter - University of Bergen, NO -- ORGANISING COMMITTEE -- Bartek Klin (University of Warsaw, PL) Andrzej Tarlecki (University of Warsaw, PL) Joanna Ochremiak (University of Warsaw, PL) . From pavel at dit.unitn.it Wed Jul 3 17:36:39 2013 From: pavel at dit.unitn.it (Pavel) Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2013 17:36:39 +0200 Subject: [DL] Final CFP: ISWC'13 workshop on Ontology Matching (OM-2013): submission deadline is approaching on July 12th (10 days left) Message-ID: <0DBB7F677504430FADA169987D751E18@itad.infotn.it> Apologies for cross-postings -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Final CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS -------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Eighth International Workshop on ONTOLOGY MATCHING (OM-2013) http://om2013.ontologymatching.org/ October 21st or 22nd, 2013, ISWC Workshop Program, Sydney, Australia ******Submission deadline is on July 12th, 2013 (10 days left)****** BRIEF DESCRIPTION AND OBJECTIVES Ontology matching is a key interoperability enabler for the Semantic Web, as well as a useful tactic in some classical data integration tasks dealing with the semantic heterogeneity problem. It takes the ontologies as input and determines as output an alignment, that is, a set of correspondences between the semantically related entities of those ontologies. These correspondences can be used for various tasks, such as ontology merging, data translation, query answering or navigation on the web of data. Thus, matching ontologies enables the knowledge and data expressed in the matched ontologies to interoperate. The workshop has three goals: 1. To bring together leaders from academia, industry and user institutions to assess how academic advances are addressing real-world requirements. The workshop will strive to improve academic awareness of industrial and final user needs, and therefore, direct research towards those needs. Simultaneously, the workshop will serve to inform industry and user representatives about existing research efforts that may meet their requirements. The workshop will also investigate how the ontology matching technology is going to evolve. 2. To conduct an extensive and rigorous evaluation of ontology matching approaches through the OAEI (Ontology Alignment Evaluation Initiative) 2013 campaign: http://oaei.ontologymatching.org/2013/. The particular focus of this year's OAEI campaign is on real-world specific matching tasks as well as on evaluation of interactive matchers. Therefore, the ontology matching evaluation initiative itself will provide a solid ground for discussion of how well the current approaches are meeting business needs. 3. To examine similarities and differences from database schema matching, which has received decades of attention but is just beginning to transition to mainstream tools. This year, in sync with the main conference, we encourage submissions specifically devoted to: (i) repeatable evaluations of the approaches proposed (not necessarily within OAEI) and (ii) application of the matching technology in real-life scenarios and assessment of its usefulness to the final users. TOPICS of interest include but are not limited to: Business and use cases for matching (e.g., open government data); Requirements to matching from specific domains (e.g., energy); Application of matching techniques in real-world scenarios (e.g., with mobile apps); Formal foundations and frameworks for matching; Matching patterns; Matching and big data; Entity matching; Instance matching and data interlinking; Large-scale matching evaluation; Performance of matching techniques; Matcher selection and self-configuration; User involvement (including both technical and organizational aspects); Explanations in matching; Social and collaborative matching; Alignment management; Reasoning with alignments; Matching for traditional applications (e.g., information integration); Matching for emerging applications (e.g., linked data, search). SUBMISSIONS Contributions to the workshop can be made in terms of technical papers and posters/statements of interest addressing different issues of ontology matching as well as participating in the OAEI 2013 campaign. Technical papers should be not longer than 12 pages using the LNCS Style: http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0 Posters/statements of interest should not exceed 2 pages and should be handled according to the guidelines for technical papers. All contributions should be prepared in PDF format and should be submitted through the workshop submission site at: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=om20130 Contributors to the OAEI 2013 campaign have to follow the campaign conditions and schedule at http://oaei.ontologymatching.org/2013/. TENTATIVE DATES FOR TECHNICAL PAPERS AND POSTERS: July 12, 2013: Deadline for the submission of papers. August 9, 2013:Deadline for the notification of acceptance/rejection. October 21th or 22nd, 2013: OM-2013, Sydney Masonic Conference & Function Centre, Sydney, Australia. ORGANIZING COMMITTEE 1. Pavel Shvaiko (Main contact) TasLab, Informatica Trentina SpA, Italy 2. J?r?me Euzenat INRIA & LIG, France 3. Kavitha Srinivas IBM, USA 4. Ming Mao eBay, USA 5. Ernesto Jim?nez-Ruiz University of Oxford, UK PROGRAM COMMITTEE Manuel Atencia, INRIA &LIG, France Michele Barbera, SpazioDati, Italy Zohra Bellahsene, LRIMM, France Chris Bizer, University of Mannheim, Germany Olivier Bodenreider, National Library of Medicine, USA Marco Combetto, Informatica Trentina, Italy Gianluca Correndo, University of Southampton, UK Isabel Cruz, The University of Illinois at Chicago, USA J?r?me David, INRIA & LIG, France AnHai Doan, University of Wisconsin, USA Alfio Ferrara, University of Milan, Italy Bin He, IBM, USA Wei Hu, Nanjing University, China Ryutaro Ichise, National Institute of Informatics, Japan Antoine Isaac, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam & Europeana, Netherlands Krzysztof Janowicz, University of California, USA Anja Jentzsch, Wikimedia Deutschland, Germany Yannis Kalfoglou, Ricoh Europe plc, UK Anastasios Kementsietsidis, IBM, USA Patrick Lambrix, Link?pings Universitet, Sweden Monika Lanzenberger, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Vincenzo Maltese, University of Trento, Italy Fiona McNeill, University of Edinburgh, UK Christian Meilicke, University of Mannheim, Germany Peter Mork, Noblis, USA Axel-Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo, University of Leipzig, Germany Andriy Nikolov, Open University, UK Leo Obrst, The MITRE Corporation, USA Heiko Paulheim, University of Mannheim, Germany Yefei Peng, Google, USA Andrea Perego, European Commission - Joint Research Centre, Italy Fran?ois Scharffe, LIRMM & University of Montpellier, France Juan Sequeda, University of Texas at Austin, USA Luciano Serafini, Fondazione Bruno Kessler - IRST, Italy Umberto Straccia, ISTI-C.N.R., Italy Ondrej Svab-Zamazal, Prague University of Economics, Czech Republic C?ssia Trojahn, IRIT, France Rapha?l Troncy, EURECOM, France Giovanni Tummarello, Fondazione Bruno Kessler - IRST, Italy Lorenzino Vaccari, Autonomous Province of Trento, Italy Ludger van Elst, DFKI, Germany Shenghui Wang, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands Baoshi Yan, LinkedIn, USA Songmao Zhang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China ------------------------------------------------------- Download OM-2013 flyer: http://om2013.ontologymatching.org/Pictures/CfP_OM2013_flyer.pdf ------------------------------------------------------- More about ontology matching: http://www.ontologymatching.org/ http://book.ontologymatching.org/ ------------------------------------------------------- Best Regards, Pavel ------------------------------------------------------- Pavel Shvaiko, PhD Innovation Program Manager TasLab, Informatica Trentina SpA, Italy http://www.ontologymatching.org/ http://www.taslab.eu/ http://www.infotn.it/ http://www.dit.unitn.it/~pavel -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Franz Baader Technische Universit?t Dresden Fakult?t Informatik Institut f?r Theoretische Informatik Lehrstuhl f?r Automatentheorie 01062 Dresden Tel.: +49 (351) 463-39160 Fax: +49 (351) 463-37959 E-Mail: baader at tcs.inf.tu-dresden.de -------------------------------- -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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The widespread success of Semantic Web techniques, creating a Web of interoperable and machine readable data, offers novel strategies to represent data that might improve the current state of the art of recommender systems, in order to move towards a new generation of recommender systems which fully understand the items they deal with. Indeed, more and more semantic data are published following the Linked Data principles, that enable to set up links between objects in different data sources, by connecting information in a single global data space - the Web of Data. Today, the Web of Data includes different types of knowledge represented in a homogeneous form - sedimentary one (encyclopedic, cultural, linguistic, common-sense) and real-time one (news, data streams). This data might be useful to interlink diverse information about users, items, and their relations, as well as to implement reasoning mechanisms that can support and improve the recommendation process. The challenge is to investigate whether and how this large amount of wide-coverage and linked semantic knowledge can significantly improve complex search and filtering tasks that cannot be merely solved through a straightforward matching of queries (or user profiles) and items. Such tasks involve finding information from large document collections, categorizing and understanding that information, and producing some output, such as an actionable decision. Examples of such tasks include understanding a health problem in order to make a medical decision, or simply deciding which laptop to buy. Recommender systems support users exactly in those complex tasks. TOPICS ------- Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): - Recommendation approaches exploiting Big Data and Semantic technologies - Linked Data for Recommender Systems - Ontology-based recommendation algorithms - Reasoning with Big Data - Discovery of relevant Linked Data sources for recommendation algorithms - Linking, aggregating, intertwining and mining Linked Data for recommender systems - Linked Data in new Recommender Systems architectures - Semantic technologies for Cross-lingual and cross-domain recommender systems - Semantic technologies for improving transparency and explanations - Big datasets for the evaluation - Evaluation methodologies for real time personalization in big datasets - Semantic technologies for improving novelty, diversity and serendipity SUBMISSION ----------------------- We welcome work at all stages of development: papers can describe applied systems, empirical results or theoretically grounded positions. Accepted papers will be published as CEUR workshop proceedings (http://ceur-ws.org). Based on the quality of accepted papers we are planning to schedule a special issue of a top-level journal in 2013. * Full papers (5-6 pages) * Short papers (2-3 pages) * Demos (1-2 pages for description) Papers should be formatted according to the general RecSys2013 submission guidelines. Accepted format is PDF. Please submit your paper via EasyChair at the following URL: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sersy2013 You need to open a personal account upon the first login, if you do not have one. IMPORTANT DATES --------------- Submission due: July 22, 2013 Author notification: August 23, 2013 Camera-ready version due: August 30, 2013 Workshop date: October 13, 2013 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE -------------------- Marco de Gemmis - University of Bari Aldo Moro, Italy Tommaso Di Noia - Politecnico of Bari, Italy Ora Lassila - Nokia Research Center, Cambridge, U.S. Pasquale Lops - University of Bari Aldo Moro, Italy Thomas Lukasiewicz - University of Oxford, UK Giovanni Semeraro - University of Bari Aldo Moro, Italy PROGRAM COMMITTEE ----------------- Alejandro Bellogin, Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica, Netherlands Marco Brambilla, Politecnico di Milano Iv?n Cantador, Universidad Aut?noma de Madrid Bettina Fazzinga, DEIS - University of Calabria Conor Hayes, Digital Enterprise Research Institute Leo Iaquinta, University of Milano-Bicocca Hasan Jamil, University of Idaho Roberto Mirizzi, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories Cataldo Musto, University of Bari Fedelucio Narducci, University of Milano-Bicocca Vito Claudio Ostuni, Politecnico di Bari Alexandre Passant, seevl.net Gerardo Simari, University of Oxford Raphael Troncy, EURECOM Markus Zanker, Alpen-Adria-Universitaet Klagenfurt CONTACT ----------------- e-mail: sersy2013 at gmail.com Web page: http://sisinflab.poliba.it/sersy2013/ twitter: @sersy2013 linkedin: http://tinyurl.com/sersy2013 From geoff at cs.miami.edu Mon Jul 8 16:04:16 2013 From: geoff at cs.miami.edu (Geoff Sutcliffe) Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2013 10:04:16 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [DL] 10th IWIL Workshop, in South Africa Message-ID: <20130708140416.793461216D3@mcclellan.cs.miami.edu> 10th International Workshop on the Implementation of Logics http://www.eprover.org/EVENTS/IWIL-2013.html The 10th International Workshop on the Implementation of Logics will be held on December 14th, 2013, colocated with the 19th International Conference on Logic for Programming, Artificial Intelligence, and Reasoning in Stellenbosch, South Africa. We are looking for contributions describing implementation techniques for and implementations of automated reasoning programs, theorem provers for various logics, logic programming systems, and related technologies. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: + Propositional logic and decision procedures, including SMT + First-order and higher order logics + Non-classical logics, including modal, temporal, description, and non-monotonic logics + Formal foundations for efficient implementation of logics + Data structures and algorithms for the efficient representation and processing of logical concepts + Proof/model search organization and heuristics for logical reasoning systems + Data analysis and machine learning approaches to search control + Techniques for proof/model search visualization and analysis + Practical constraint handling + Reasoning with ontologies and other large theories + Implementation of efficient theorem provers and model finders for different logics + System descriptions of logical reasoning systems + Issues of reliability, witness generation, and witness verification + Evaluation and benchmarking of provers and other logic-based systems + I/O standards and communication between reasoning systems We are particularly interested in contributions that help the community to understand how to build useful and powerful reasoning systems, and how to apply them in practice. Researchers interested in participating are invited to submit a position statement (2 pages), a short paper (up to 5 pages), or a full papers (up to 15 pages). Submissions should be made via EasyChair at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iwil2012 Submissions will be refereed by the program committee, which will select a balanced program of high-quality contributions. Submissions should be in standard-conforming PDF. Final versions will be required to be submitted in LaTeX using the easychair.cls class file. Proceedings will be published as EasyChair Proceedings. If number and quality of the submissions warrant it, we plan to produce a special issue of a recognized journal on the topic of the workshop. Important Dates: Submission of papers/abstracts: October 14th, 2013 Notification of acceptance: November 11th, 2013 Camera ready versions due: December 2nd, 2013 Workshop: December 14th, 2013 Program committee: Stephan Schulz (Co-Chair) TU M??nchen Geoff Sutcliffe (Co-Chair) University of Miami Boris Konev (Co-Chair) University of Liverpool Leonardo de Moura Microsoft Research Peter Baumgartner NICTA/Australian National University Uwe Waldmann MPI f??r Informatik Guillaume Burel ENSIIE/Cedric Andrew Reynolds University of Iowa Tommi Junttila Aalto University Konstantin Korovin The University of Manchester Graham Steel INRIA From renata at ime.usp.br Thu Jul 11 23:23:09 2013 From: renata at ime.usp.br (Renata Wassermann) Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2013 18:23:09 -0300 Subject: [DL] 2nd CFP : ONTOBRAS - 6th Brazilian Conference on Ontologies Message-ID: With apologies for multiple posting. Please forward to interested parties. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Papers -------------------------------------------------------------------- ONTOBRAS 6th Brazilian Conference on Ontologies September 23 - 25, 2013 - Belo Horizonte / MG - Brasil Co-located event: 2nd Workshop on Semantic Web and Amazonian Biodiversity Ontology Ontology is a cross-disciplinary field concerning with the study of concepts and theories that support the building of shared conceptualizations of specific domains. In recent years, there has been a growing interest in the application of ontologies to solve modeling and classification problems in diverse areas such as Computer Science, Information Science, Philosophy, Artificial Intelligence, Linguistic, Knowledge Management and many others. The Brazilian Conference on Ontologies foresees an opportunity and scientific environment in which researchers and practitioners from Information Sciences and Computer Science can exchange the theories, methodologies, languages, tools and experience related to the ontology development and application. In particular, this Sixth Edition of the Conference is being held simultaneously with the Second Workshop on Semantic Web and Amazonian Biodiversity Ontology, putting forward the effort of the research community in integrating the previous events about Ontologies that has happened in Brazil in recent years, in order to create a unique highly scientifically qualified international forum for presenting and discussing the subject. Therefore, we provide a non-comprehensive list of areas and researchers? communities from which we expect to receive submissions: - Information Science, for instance working with ontologies, thesauri, knowledge management among other applications, - Databases, for instance working with semantic data integration, linked open data, among other applications, - Artificial Intelligence, for instance working with knowledge based systems, agents, ontology reasoning, among other applications - Software Engineering, for instance working with conceptual modeling, Business Process Models, among other applications, - Informatics in Education, for instance working with Educational Ontologies , Semantic Web-based Educational Standards, among other applications, - Linguistics and philosophy, working with natural language processing using ontologies, theories of representation, among other applications. Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit theoretical, technical and practical research contributions that directly or indirectly address the issues above. Particularly welcome are e-science, life-sciences, e-business and cultural applications. CALL FOR PAPERS We would like to invite you to participate in the 6th Brazilian Conference on Ontologies, which will be held this year in Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil, on September 23-24. ONTOBRAS is the Brazilian meeting for discussing Ontologies and this year will be sponsored by Federal University of Minas Gerais. We are interested in the various aspects of the field, from its philosophical and theoretical foundations to the new technologies and innovative applications. In this edition, the meeting is opened to submissions in two categories: - Full papers (maximum 12 pages) written in English and describing work with clear demonstrated results. Accepted full paper will be invited for oral presentation. The best full papers will be invited to be extended for publication in an influential international journal. - Short papers (maximum 6 pages) written in Portuguese, English, or Spanish and describing ongoing work. Accepted short papers will be invited for poster presentations. All submissions must be in Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) and must follow the article formatting rules provided by the Brazilian Computing Society (SBC). The models for Microsoft Office Word can be downloaded at this link: http://www.inf.ufrgs.br/ontobras-most2011/sites/default/files/sbc_template.doc; models for OpenOffice and Latex can be found at this link: http://www.inf.ufrgs.br/ontobras-most2011/sites/default/files/Template_SBC.zip. Submissions should be done via Easychair: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ontobras2013 The conference proceedings will be published in the online journal CEUR-WS ( http://www.ceur-ws.org). IMPORTANT DATES - Main track submission deadline: July 15, 2013 - Acceptance notification: August 15, 2013 - Final version: August 27, 2013 TOPICS Suggested areas include, but are not limited to: - Ontology and Conceptual Modeling: Ontological Foundations for Conceptual Modeling and Metamodeling Foundational ontologies Upper-level ontologies Semantic consistency Ontology-based conceptual modeling tools and environments - Ontologies and Knowledge Organization: Facets Theory Concept Theory Terminology Folksonomies Documentary languages. Thesaurus Taxonomies Metadata - Ontology Engineering: Methodology, languages and tools Composition and modularity Merging, mapping and alignment Ontology language interoperability Integration methods, problems and practice - Semantic Web: Modelling Information retrieval Ontology Search - Ontology and Natural Language Processing: Linguistic ontologies applied to text processing Patterns of ontologies for specific applications - Ontology applications: Domain ontologies in e-science, e-business, natural sciences and others Knowledge management Ontologies and semantic technologies in Education - Ontology Visualization KEYNOTE SPEAKERS / TUTORIALS To be announced. PANEL A panel on Brazilian federal e-government solutions, applications, success cases, standards, efforts and actions performed by the Brazilian W3C Office will be presented at the event. COMMITTEES General Chairs - ONTOBRAS - Marcello Peixoto Bax (UFMG, Brazil) - Fernando Silva Parreiras (FUMEC, Brazil) Chair - AMAZONIA SEMANTICA - Jos? Laurindo Campos dos Santos (INPA, Brazil) Program Chairs - ONTOBRAS - Maur?cio Almeida (ECI - UFMG) - Renata Wassermann (IME - USP) Steering Committee - Andreia Malucelli (PUCPR, Brazil) - Bernadette Loscio (UFPE, Brazil) - Fernando Gauthier (UFSC, Brazil) - Fred Freitas (UFPE, Brazil) - Giancarlo Guizzardi (UFES, Brazil) - Mara Abel (UFRGS, Brazil) - Marcello Bax (UFMG, Brazil) - Maria Claudia Cavalcanti (IME, Brazil) - Maria Luiza de Almeida Campos (UFF, Brazil) - Renata Vieira (PUCRS, Brazil) - Sonia Elisa Caregnato (UFRGS, Brazil) Program Committee Alan Pedro da Silva (UFAL, Brazil) Alcione Oliveira (UFV, Brazil) Alexandre Rademaker (FGV, Brazil) Alicia Diaz (UNLP, Argentina) Ana Maria de Carvalho Moura (LNCC/RJ, Brazil) Anarosa Alves Franco Brand?o (USP, Brazil) Andre Freitas (DERI, Ireland) Andreia Malucelli (PUCPR, Brazil) Cassia Trojahn (INRIA & LIG, France) Claudio Gutierrez (UCHILE, Chile) Emerson Paraiso (PUCPR, Brazil) Evandro de Barros Costa (UFAL, Brazil) Fabio Andre Porto (LNCC, Brazil) Fernanda Baiao (UNIRIO, Brazil) Fernanda Lima (UnB, Brazil) Fernando Naufel do Amaral (UFF, Brazil) Fernando Silva Parreiras (FUMEC, Brazil) Flavio S. Correa Da Silva (USP, Brazil) Fred Freitas (UFPE, Brazil) Frederico Durao (CESAR, Brazil) Gabriela Henning (UNL, Argentine) Gerd Wagner (BTU Cottbus, Germany) Gustavo Gim?nez-Lugo (UTFPR, Brazil) Ig Ibert Bittencourt (UFAL, Brazil) Jaime Sim?o Sichman (USP, Brazil) J?r?me Euzenat (INRIA & LIG, France) Jos? Palazzo Moreira de Oliveira (UFRGS, Brazil) Jos? Parente de Oliveira (ITA, Brazil) Jose Laurindo Campos Dos Santos (INPA/MCTI, Brazil) Lucelene Lopes (PUCRS, Brazil) Luis M?rcio Spinosa (PUCPR, Brazil) Mara Abel (UFRGS, Brazil) Marcela Vegetti (INGAR/UTN, Argentine) Marcelo Bax (UFMG, Brazil) Marcio Moretto Ribeiro (USP, Brazil) Maria Luiza Campos (UFRJ, Brazil) Mauricio Almeida (ECI-UFMG, Brazil) (co-chair) Monalessa Barcellos (UFES, Brazil) Oscar Corcho (UPM, Spain) Osvaldo Pessoa (USP, Brazil) Regina Braga (UFJF, Brazil) Renata Galante (UFRGS, Brazil) Renata Wassermann (IME-USP, Brazil) (co-chair) Renato Souza (FGV, Brazil) Ricardo Falbo (UFES, Brazil) Roberta Ferrario (LOA, Italy) Sandro Fiorini (UFRGS, Brazil) S?nia Elisa Caregnato (UFRGS, Brazil) Sean Siqueira (UNIRIO, Brazil) Seiji Isotani (USP, Brazil) Stefan Schulz (MUG, Austria) -- Renata Wassermann Associate Professor Computer Science Department University of S?o Paulo -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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INVITED TALKS * Pascal Hitzler (http://www.pascal-hitzler.de) Recent advances concerning OWL and Rules. * Torsten Schaub (http://www.cs.uni-potsdam.de/~torsten) Experiencing Answer Set Programming at Work, Today and Tomorrow. * Hans von Ditmarsch (http://personal.us.es/hvd) Dynamic Epistemic Logic and Lying. * C.R. Ramakrishnan (http://www.cs.sunysb.edu/~cram/) Probabilistic Tabled Logic Programming with Application to Model Checking. * Invited author(s) of the most influencial paper of ICLP/ILPS 1993. * Invited author(s) of the most influencial paper of ICLP 2003. WORKSHOPS, DC, AND CONTEST * 9th ICLP Doctoral Consortium, August 24. * 13th International Colloquium on Implementation of Constraint and LOgic Programming System (CICLOPS): August 24-25. * 23rd Workshop on Logic-based methods in Programming Environments (WPLE): August 24-25. * WG17: August 24-25. * 1st International Workshop on Knowledge Representation and Reasoning in Robotics (KRR): August 25. * 6th International Workshop on Answer Set Programming and Other Computing Paradigms (ASPOCP): August 25. * Prolog Programming Contest: August 27. See http://www.iclp2013.org/en/Workshops.html for further details. REGISTRATION AND ACCOMODATION Information about registration and accomodation is available at the conference web site: http://www.iclp2013.org. Early registration is until July 18, 2013. SPONSORS The conference is sponsored by the Association for Logic Programming (ALP), Sabanci University, and Artificial Intelligence: An International Journal. ICLP 2013 ORGANIZATION * General Chairs: Esra Erdem (Sabanci University), Joohyung Lee (Arizona State University). * Program Comittee Chairs: Evelina Lamma (University of Ferrara), Terrance Swift (New University of Lisboa). * Workshop Chair: Hans Tompits (Vienna University of Technology). * Doctoral Consortium Chairs: Marco Gavanelli (University of Ferrara), Martin Gebser (University of Potsdam). * Publicity Chair: Peter Schueller (Sabanci University). * Prolog Programming Contest Chair: Bart Demoen (KU Leuven). CONFERENCE VENUE Istanbul is a city of unparalleled social and cultural richness. It is as fascinating and historical as it is dynamic and modern. Serving as the capital of two mighty empires for sixteen centuries, Eastern Roman (or Byzantine) and Ottoman, and set squarely between two continents, Istanbul has cultures and traditions that blend East with West and Mediterranean with Anatolian. Each civilization that has made Istanbul its home has left its mark in sublime and splendid ways, and the result a city that gives one the feeling of universal history at every step. Istanbul has always been a meeting place, a crosspoint and a destination. With the Ataturk Istanbul International Airport, getting to and from Istanbul has never been easier. With a capacity of far over 25 million travelers per year Istanbul is less than a three-hour flight from most European cities. Istanbul has a second airport located on the Asian side of the city, Sabiha Gokcen International Airport, which is an important arrival point especially for low-cost airlines. Overall, Istanbul is served by more than 50 major airlines to hundreds of cities around the world. From ernesto.jimenez.ruiz at gmail.com Mon Jul 15 18:32:47 2013 From: ernesto.jimenez.ruiz at gmail.com (Ernesto Jimenez-Ruiz) Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2013 17:32:47 +0100 Subject: [DL] [ANN] MORe reasoner version 0.1.5 Message-ID: [Apologies for cross-posting] Dear all, We are happy to announce the new version 0.1.5 of MORe reasoner [1]. MORe is open-source and released under GNU Lesser GPL [5]. MORe is still under active development. The current distribution of MORe integrates HermiT [2] and JFact [3], as fully-fledged OWL 2 reasoners, with ELK [4] (a reasoner for the OWL 2 EL profile) in a modular way. In particular, MORe exploits module extraction techniques to identify a subset of the ontology that can be completely classified using ELK. MORe is designed in such a way that the fully-fledged (and slower) reasoner (i.e., HermiT or JFact) performs as few computations as possible, and the bulk of the computation is delegated to the more efficient, profile specific, ELK reasoner. MORe, with the standalone distribution, can be used from the command line or integrated in other OWL API based applications. Additionally, MORe is also distributed as a Protege plugin. Snow Owl also includes MORe as a reasoner option. See [1] for details. The new release added new functionalities and contains several bug fixes (see readme file for more details [6]). The MORe users' discussion group [7] is available for discussion, questions, comments, and bug reports. 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URL: From geoff at cs.miami.edu Tue Jul 16 16:30:39 2013 From: geoff at cs.miami.edu (Geoff Sutcliffe) Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2013 10:30:39 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [DL] LPAR-19 in South Africa - Paper Deadline Message-ID: <20130716143039.C53E9121506@mcclellan.cs.miami.edu> =========================== LPAR-19 CALL FOR PAPERS =========================== ============================================================ The 19th International Conference on Logic for Programming, Artificial Intelligence and Reasoning ============================================================ Stellenbosch, South Africa, 14-19 December 2013 www.LPAR-19.info The series of International Conferences on Logic for Programming, Artificial Intelligence and Reasoning (LPAR) is a forum where, year after year, some of the most renowned researchers in the areas of logic, automated reasoning, computational logic, programming languages and their applications come to present cutting-edge results, to discuss advances in these fields, and to exchange ideas in a scientifically emerging part of the world. The 19th LPAR will be held in Stellenbosch, South Africa. Logic is a fundamental organizing principle in nearly all areas in Computer Science. It runs a multifaceted gamut from the foundational to the applied. At one extreme, it underlies computability and complexity theory and the formal semantics of programming languages. At the other extreme, it drives billions of gates every day in the digital circuits of processors of all kinds. Logic is in itself a powerful programming paradigm, but it is also the quintessential specification language for anything ranging from real-time critical systems to networked infrastructures. Logical techniques link implementation and specification through formal methods such as automated theorem proving and model checking. Logic is also the stuff of knowledge representation and artificial intelligence. Because of its ubiquity, logic has acquired a central role in Computer Science education. Topics ------ New results in the fields of computational logic and applications are welcome. Also welcome are more exploratory presentations, which may examine open questions and raise fundamental concerns about existing theories and practices. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Abduction and interpolation methods * Automated reasoning * Constraint programming * Decision procedures * Description logics * Foundations of security * Hardware verification * Implementations of logic * Interactive theorem proving * Knowledge representation and reasoning * Logic and computational complexity * Logic and databases * Logic and games * Logic and machine learning * Logic and the web * Logic and types * Logic in artificial intelligence * Logic of distributed systems * Logic programming * Logical aspects of concurrency * Logical foundations of programming * Modal and temporal logics * Model checking * Non-monotonic reasoning * Ontologies and large knowledge bases * Probabilistic and fuzzy reasoning * Program analysis * Rewriting * Satisfiability checking * Satisfiability modulo theories * Software verification * Specification using logic * Unification theory Programme Chairs ---------------- * Ken McMillan * Aart Middeldorp * Andrei Voronkov Conference Chairs ---------------- * Bernd Fischer * Geoff Sutcliffe Workshop Chair -------------- * Laura Kovacs Submission Details ------------------ Submissions of two kinds are welcome: * Regular papers that describe solid new research results. They can be up to 15 pages long in LNCS style, including figures and references, but excluding appendices (that reviewers are not required to read). * Experimental and tool papers that describe implementations of systems, report experiments with implemented systems, or compare implemented systems. They can be up to 8 pages long in the LNCS style. Both types of papers can be electronically submitted in PDF via EasyChar: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lpar19. Prospective authors are required to register a title and an abstract a week before the paper submission deadline (see below). Participation ------------- Authors of accepted papers are required to ensure that at least one of them will be present at the conference. Important Dates --------------- * Abstract submission: 22nd July * Paper submission: 2nd August * Notification of acceptance: 27th September * Camera-ready papers: 9th October * Conference: 14th-19th December =========================== LPAR-19 WORKSHOPS =========================== LPAR-19 will be preceded by four workshops in specialised areas of logic: * The 10th International Workshop on the Implementation of Logics - IWIL http://www.eprover.org/EVENTS/IWIL-2013.html * The 7th International Workshop on Analytic Proof Systems - APS http://www.logic.at/staff/chrisf/ws/LPAR-APS-7.html * The 1st International Workshop on Algebraic Logic in Computer Science - ALCS http://www2.cs.cas.cz/~cintula/lpar-workshop-ALCS.html * The 1st International Workshop on Logics and Reasoning for Conceptual Models - LRCM See their individual web pages (linked from the LPAR-19.info page too) for further details. From brendon.woodford at otago.ac.nz Tue Jul 16 00:20:20 2013 From: brendon.woodford at otago.ac.nz (Brendon Woodford) Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2013 22:20:20 +0000 Subject: [DL] AI 2013 CFP: Due Date July 21, 2013 (Only one week to go) Message-ID: <4E09E4C2A5ED7442A4F667D4D3394CE87838147C@ITS-EXM-P06.registry.otago.ac.nz> FINAL INVITATION: ================= Please consider submitting a paper and/or forward to the appropriate groups the following opportunity to submit and publish original scientific results to AI 2013. The submission deadline is July 21, 2013. All accepted papers submitted to the Conference will be published by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) series ================= [Apologies for cross-posting] CALL FOR PAPERS *** Note extended submission deadline: now 21 July *** 26th Australasian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence AI 2013 3-6 December, 2013 Dunedin, New Zealand http://ai2013.otago.ac.nz/ Since the first AI Conference took place in Sydney in 1987, the series of annual Australasian Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence has become the premier event for Artificial Intelligence researchers in Australasia and one of the major international forums on AI worldwide. In 2008 the AI conference was hosted in New Zealand for the first time, in Auckland. In 2013 the 26th Australasian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence returns to New Zealand, and will be held in Dunedin, hosted by the University of Otago. AI 2013 will be co-located with the 16th International Conference on Principles and Practice in Multi-Agent Systems (PRIMA 2013, http://prima2013.otago.ac.nz/) and the 1st New Zealand Agent School (http://prima2013.otago.ac.nz/agent-school/). Prospective authors are invited to submit original research and application papers in any area of Artificial Intelligence, including but not limited to the following: * Agent-based and multiagent systems * AI applications and innovations * Cognitive modelling and computer human interaction * Commonsense reasoning * Computer vision * Constraint satisfaction, search, and optimisation * Evolutionary computation * Game playing and interactive entertainment * Information retrieval, integration, and extraction * Knowledge acquisition and ontologies * Knowledge representation and reasoning * Machine learning and data mining * Model-based systems * Multidisciplinary AI * Natural language processing * Planning and scheduling * Robotics * Social choice * Uncertainty in AI * Web and information systems All papers should be submitted electronically in PDF format and formatted using Springer's manuscript submission guidelines: http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html Submitted papers should not exceed 12 pages and should not be under review or be submitted for publication elsewhere during the review period. All papers will be peer reviewed by at least three independent referees. Reviews will be double blind; authors must avoid including anything that can be used to identify them. IN PARTICULAR, AUTHOR NAMES SHOULD NOT APPEAR IN THE TITLE BLOCK. Submission will be through the Easychair conference management system at the following URL: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=26ai2013 All accepted papers submitted to the Conference will be published by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) series. At least one author of each accepted paper is required to register for the conference and to present the paper. Important Dates: *** Note extended deadline and change to notification date *** Submissions due: 21 July (AWST: Australian Western Standard Time) Notifications: 4 September Camera-ready copy due: 18 September Early registration: 31 October 1st NZ Agent School: 1 December Doctoral consortium: 2 December Workshops and tutorials: 3 December Conference: 4-6 December From jonquet at lirmm.fr Wed Jul 17 11:34:49 2013 From: jonquet at lirmm.fr (Clement Jonquet) Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2013 11:34:49 +0200 Subject: [DL] Young investigator positions at the Institute for Computational Biology of Montpellier (France) Message-ID: <073c01ce82d1$34ced8f0$9e6c8ad0$@lirmm.fr> FYI: De : Pierre Larmande [mailto:pierre.larmande at ird.fr] Envoy? : lundi 1 juillet 2013 09:17 ? : Clement Jonquet Objet : Young investigator position at the Institute for Computational Biology of Montpellier (France) The Institute for Computational Biology (IBC) will hire five young investigators for each of the five work-packages, typically with a PhD plus 3-year post-doc and solid experience in international research, a high level of publishing, strong communication abilities, and a taste for multidisciplinary research. Working full-time at IBC, these young researchers will play a key role in Institute life. They will actively participate in receiving foreign researchers and organizing seminars and events (schools, conferences...). They will help coordinate work within the work-packages and will be at the forefront of producing deliverables. In exchange, these young researchers will benefit from an exceptional environment thanks to the presence of numerous leading international researchers, not to mention significant autonomy for their work. These positions are open for up to 4 years, with a net monthly salary of 2,350 Euros/month, which is approximately 300 Euros more than a standard post-doc salary in France, and clearly enough to live in the Montpellier area. Work-package Biological data and knowledge integration: This project aims at the design and implementation of a data management framework for plant genomics. Addressing the problem of data and knowledge integration at a large scale, with high numbers of distributed data sources and processes, is a major challenge. The project plans to address this challenge by pursuing two complementary research directions: (1) data integration using metadata and ontologies to merge data coming from different sources, with different formats and semantics. (2) distributed workflow execution involving distributed processes and large amounts of heterogeneous data, with support of data provenance (lineage) to understand data results. The basis for the project will be the BioSemantic (http://southgreen.cirad.fr/?q=content/BioSemantic) and WebSmatch (http://websmatch.gforge.inria.fr) prototypes. We are seeking a candidate with strong experience in distributed data management, in particular data integration, a good grasp on implementation aspects and interest for biology applications. Key-words: data integration, (bio) ontologies, semantic web, semantic indexing, linked data, plant genomics data For more information and to apply: http://www.ibc-montpellier.fr/ From renata at ime.usp.br Mon Jul 15 23:30:22 2013 From: renata at ime.usp.br (Renata Wassermann) Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2013 18:30:22 -0300 Subject: [DL] Extended Deadline: ONTOBRAS - 6th Brazilian Conference on Ontologies Message-ID: ***************************************************************** New deadline: 28/7 ***************************************************************** ONTOBRAS - 6th Brazilian Conference on Ontologies With apologies for multiple posting. Please forward to interested parties. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Papers -------------------------------------------------------------------- ONTOBRAS 6th Brazilian Conference on Ontologies E-mail: ontobras at eci.ufmg.br September 23 - 25, 2013 - Belo Horizonte / MG - Brasil Co-located event: 2nd Workshop on Semantic Web and Amazonian Biodiversity Ontology Ontology is a cross-disciplinary field concerning with the study of concepts and theories that support the building of shared conceptualizations of specific domains. In recent years, there has been a growing interest in the application of ontologies to solve modeling and classification problems in diverse areas such as Computer Science, Information Science, Philosophy, Artificial Intelligence, Linguistic, Knowledge Management and many others. The Brazilian Conference on Ontologies foresees an opportunity and scientific environment in which researchers and practitioners from Information Sciences and Computer Science can exchange the theories, methodologies, languages, tools and experience related to the ontology development and application. In particular, this Sixth Edition of the Conference is being held simultaneously with the Second Workshop on Semantic Web and Amazonian Biodiversity Ontology, putting forward the effort of the research community in integrating the previous events about Ontologies that has happened in Brazil in recent years, in order to create a unique highly scientifically qualified international forum for presenting and discussing the subject. Therefore, we provide a non-comprehensive list of areas and researchers? communities from which we expect to receive submissions: - Information Science, for instance working with ontologies, thesauri, knowledge management among other applications, - Databases, for instance working with semantic data integration, linked open data, among other applications, - Artificial Intelligence, for instance working with knowledge based systems, agents, ontology reasoning, among other applications - Software Engineering, for instance working with conceptual modeling, Business Process Models, among other applications, - Informatics in Education, for instance working with Educational Ontologies , Semantic Web-based Educational Standards, among other applications, - Linguistics and philosophy, working with natural language processing using ontologies, theories of representation, among other applications. Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit theoretical, technical and practical research contributions that directly or indirectly address the issues above. Particularly welcome are e-science, life-sciences, e-business and cultural applications. CALL FOR PAPERS We would like to invite you to participate in the 6th Brazilian Conference on Ontologies, which will be held this year in Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil, on September 23-24. ONTOBRAS is the Brazilian meeting for discussing Ontologies and this year will be sponsored by Federal University of Minas Gerais. We are interested in the various aspects of the field, from its philosophical and theoretical foundations to the new technologies and innovative applications. In this edition, the meeting is opened to submissions in two categories: - Full papers (maximum 12 pages) written in English and describing work with clear demonstrated results. Accepted full paper will be invited for oral presentation. The best full papers will be invited to be extended for publication in an influential international journal (still in negotiation). - Short papers (maximum 6 pages) written in Portuguese, English, or Spanish and describing ongoing work. Accepted short papers will be invited for poster presentations. All submissions must be in Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) and must follow the article formatting rules provided by the Brazilian Computing Society (SBC). The models for Microsoft Office Word can be downloaded at this link; models for OpenOffice and Latex can be found at this link. Submissions should be done via Easychair: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ontobras2013 The conference proceedings will be published in the online journal CEUR-WS ( http://www.ceur-ws.org). IMPORTANT DATES - Main track submission deadline: July 28, 2013 - Acceptance notification: August 26, 2013 - Final version: September 8, 2013 TOPICS Suggested areas include, but are not limited to: - Ontology and Conceptual Modeling: Ontological Foundations for Conceptual Modeling and Metamodeling Foundational ontologies Upper-level ontologies Semantic consistency Ontology-based conceptual modeling tools and environments - Ontologies and Knowledge Organization: Facets Theory Concept Theory Terminology Folksonomies Documentary languages. Thesaurus Taxonomies Metadata - Ontology Engineering: Methodology, languages and tools Composition and modularity Merging, mapping and alignment Ontology language interoperability Integration methods, problems and practice - Semantic Web: Modelling Information retrieval Ontology Search - Ontology and Natural Language Processing: Linguistic ontologies applied to text processing Patterns of ontologies for specific applications - Ontology applications: Domain ontologies in e-science, e-business, natural sciences and others Knowledge management Ontologies and semantic technologies in Education - Ontology Visualization KEYNOTE SPEAKERS / TUTORIALISTS - Dr Vinay K Chaudhri Program Director - Artificial Intelligence Center SRI International. Menlo Park, CA. USA. - Dr Chris Partridge Chief Ontologist at BORO Solutions. London, United Kingdom. PANEL A panel on Brazilian federal e-government solutions, applications, success cases, standards, efforts and actions performed by the Brazilian W3C Office will be presented at the event. COMMITTEES General Chairs - ONTOBRAS - Marcello Peixoto Bax (UFMG, Brazil) - Fernando Silva Parreiras (FUMEC, Brazil) Chair - AMAZONIA SEMANTICA - Jos? Laurindo Campos dos Santos (INPA, Brazil) - lcampos at inpa.gov.br Program Chairs - ONTOBRAS - Maur?cio Almeida (ECI - UFMG) - Renata Wassermann (IME - USP) Steering Committee - Andreia Malucelli (PUCPR, Brazil) - Bernadette Loscio (UFPE, Brazil) - Fernando Gauthier (UFSC, Brazil) - Fred Freitas (UFPE, Brazil) - Giancarlo Guizzardi (UFES, Brazil) - Mara Abel (UFRGS, Brazil) - Marcello Bax (UFMG, Brazil) - Maria Claudia Cavalcanti (IME, Brazil) - Maria Luiza de Almeida Campos (UFF, Brazil) - Renata Vieira (PUCRS, Brazil) - Sonia Elisa Caregnato (UFRGS, Brazil) Program Committee Alan Pedro da Silva (UFAL, Brazil) Alcione Oliveira (UFV, Brazil) Alexandre Rademaker (FGV, Brazil) Alicia Diaz (UNLP, Argentina) Ana Maria de Carvalho Moura (LNCC/RJ, Brazil) Anarosa Alves Franco Brand?o (USP, Brazil) Andre Freitas (DERI, Ireland) Andreia Malucelli (PUCPR, Brazil) Cassia Trojahn (INRIA & LIG, France) Claudio Gutierrez (UCHILE, Chile) Emerson Paraiso (PUCPR, Brazil) Evandro de Barros Costa (UFAL, Brazil) Fabio Andre Porto (LNCC, Brazil) Fernanda Baiao (UNIRIO, Brazil) Fernanda Lima (UnB, Brazil) Fernando Naufel do Amaral (UFF, Brazil) Fernando Silva Parreiras (FUMEC, Brazil) Flavio S. Correa Da Silva (USP, Brazil) Fred Freitas (UFPE, Brazil) Frederico Durao (CESAR, Brazil) Gabriela Henning (UNL, Argentine) Gerd Wagner (BTU Cottbus, Germany) Gustavo Gim?nez-Lugo (UTFPR, Brazil) Ig Ibert Bittencourt (UFAL, Brazil) Jaime Sim?o Sichman (USP, Brazil) J?r?me Euzenat (INRIA & LIG, France) Jos? Palazzo Moreira de Oliveira (UFRGS, Brazil) Jos? Parente de Oliveira (ITA, Brazil) Jose Laurindo Campos Dos Santos (INPA/MCTI, Brazil) Lucelene Lopes (PUCRS, Brazil) Luis M?rcio Spinosa (PUCPR, Brazil) Mara Abel (UFRGS, Brazil) Marcela Vegetti (INGAR/UTN, Argentine) Marcelo Bax (UFMG, Brazil) Marcio Moretto Ribeiro (USP, Brazil) Maria Luiza Campos (UFRJ, Brazil) Mauricio Almeida (ECI-UFMG, Brazil) Monalessa Barcellos (UFES, Brazil) Oscar Corcho (UPM, Spain) Osvaldo Pessoa (USP, Brazil) Regina Braga (UFJF, Brazil) Renata Galante (UFRGS, Brazil) Renata Wassermann (IME-USP, Brazil) Renato Souza (FGV, Brazil) Ricardo Falbo (UFES, Brazil) Roberta Ferrario (LOA, Italy) Sandro Fiorini (UFRGS, Brazil) S?nia Elisa Caregnato (UFRGS, Brazil) Sean Siqueira (UNIRIO, Brazil) Seiji Isotani (USP, Brazil) Stefan Schulz (MUG, Austria) -- Renata Wassermann Associate Professor Computer Science Department University of S?o Paulo -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From yevgeny.kazakov at uni-ulm.de Mon Jul 22 11:46:53 2013 From: yevgeny.kazakov at uni-ulm.de (Yevgeny Kazakov) Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2013 11:46:53 +0200 Subject: [DL] ELK 0.4.0 reasoner for OWL EL released Message-ID: We are happy to announce the release of the new ELK 0.4.0 Reasoner for OWL EL http://elk.semanticweb.org/ http://code.google.com/p/elk-reasoner/ ELK is a free and open source reasoner for the lightweight ontology language OWL 2 EL. It is based on Java and can be controlled using the OWL API [1], Prot?g? [2], the Snow Owl ontology editor [3], or a basic command line interface. ELK is available under the Apache License 2.0. This release features the new incremental reasoning support. If performing reasoning tasks after small ontology modifications, ELK 0.4.0 tries to reuse the result of the previous computations as much as possible. This makes reclassification of ontologies in editors like Protege almost instantaneous. Thanks to incremental reasoning, ELK 0.4.0 now also supports answering DL queries with complex class expressions, as well as finding explanations using the explanation workbench in Protege [4]. The algorithm for incremental reasoning implemented in ELK 0.4.0 is published in a technical report [5]. The full release notes are available at [6]. ELK is massively parallel and insanely fast. It can classify the SNOMED CT ontology with around 300,000 classes in a few seconds on a modern laptop [7]. It runs on all operating systems that support Java 1.6 or above, such as Android. For further details, please see the feature list [8] and the online discussion group [9]. Development of ELK is supported by EPSRC project "ConDOR" [10]. And DFG project "Live Ontologies" [11]. The project is developed at the University of Oxford and the University of Ulm. Best, Yevgeny, Markus, Franti?ek, and Pavel P.S. Apologies if you received multiple copies of this email. [1] http://owlapi.sourceforge.net/ [2] http://protege.stanford.edu/ [3] http://www.b2international.com/portal/snow-owl [4] http://owl.cs.manchester.ac.uk/explanation/ [5] Yevgeny Kazakov, Pavel Klinov. Incremental Reasoning in OWL EL without Bookkeeping. Technical Report. University of Ulm, May 2013. Available from http://code.google.com/p/elk-reasoner/ [6] http://elk.semanticweb.org/maven/0.4.0/elk-distribution/changes-report.html [7] ISWC 2011: http://korrekt.org/page/Concurrent_Classification_of_EL_Ontologies [8] http://code.google.com/p/elk-reasoner/wiki/OwlFeatures [9] http://groups.google.com/group/elk-reasoner-discussion [10] http://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/isg/projects/ConDOR/ [11] http://www.uni-ulm.de/en/in/ki/projekte/liveontologies.html From universal.logic at unine.ch Mon Jul 22 13:26:03 2013 From: universal.logic at unine.ch (universal logic) Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2013 11:26:03 +0000 Subject: [DL] Logic PhDs = New book series Message-ID: <011E451E66F47F4890878A246663E0EF5A3A8757@mail-mbx-01.UNINE.CH> We are launching the new book series "Logic PhDs" with College Publication There are already 7 volumes in preparation There is a triple objective: 1) to strengthen logic as a field of research 2) to develop history of logic 3) to promote new research in logic This objective is naturally linked to the notion of PhD in logic: a) the notion of PhD in logic reinforces logic as an academic field b) important work in logic were presented as PhDs c) to defend a good PhD thesis in logic is a way to develop logic More details on the webpage http://www.collegepublications.co.uk/lphd/ Comments and suggestions are welcome Jean-Yves Beziau http://www.jyb-logic.org/ From t.dinoia at poliba.it Mon Jul 22 17:41:54 2013 From: t.dinoia at poliba.it (Tommaso Di Noia) Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2013 17:41:54 +0200 Subject: [DL] [CFP]SeRSy@RecSys - DEADLINE EXTENSION Message-ID: <51ED52C2.5050709@poliba.it> Apologies for possible multiple posts --------------------------------------------- !!! SUBMISSION DEADLINE EXTENSION !!! NEW DATES Submission due: August 1, 2013 Author notification: September 10, 2013 Camera-ready version due: September 17, 2013 Workshop date: October 13, 2013 --------------------------------------------- ============================ CALL FOR PAPERS ============================ 2nd International Workshop on Recommender Systems meet Big Data & Semantic Technologies - SeRSy 2013 in conjunction with RecSys 2013, Hong Kong, October 12-16, 2013 http://recsys.acm.org/recsys13/sersy/ http://sisinflab.poliba.it/sersy2013/ MOTIVATION ---------- Recommendation techniques generally rely on data referring to three types of objects: users, items and their relations. The widespread success of Semantic Web techniques, creating a Web of interoperable and machine readable data, offers novel strategies to represent data that might improve the current state of the art of recommender systems, in order to move towards a new generation of recommender systems which fully understand the items they deal with. Indeed, more and more semantic data are published following the Linked Data principles, that enable to set up links between objects in different data sources, by connecting information in a single global data space - the Web of Data. Today, the Web of Data includes different types of knowledge represented in a homogeneous form - sedimentary one (encyclopedic, cultural, linguistic, common-sense) and real-time one (news, data streams). This data might be useful to interlink diverse information about users, items, and their relations, as well as to implement reasoning mechanisms that can support and improve the recommendation process. The challenge is to investigate whether and how this large amount of wide-coverage and linked semantic knowledge can significantly improve complex search and filtering tasks that cannot be merely solved through a straightforward matching of queries (or user profiles) and items. Such tasks involve finding information from large document collections, categorizing and understanding that information, and producing some output, such as an actionable decision. Examples of such tasks include understanding a health problem in order to make a medical decision, or simply deciding which laptop to buy. Recommender systems support users exactly in those complex tasks. TOPICS ------- Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): - Recommendation approaches exploiting Big Data and Semantic technologies - Linked Data for Recommender Systems - Ontology-based recommendation algorithms - Reasoning with Big Data - Discovery of relevant Linked Data sources for recommendation algorithms - Linking, aggregating, intertwining and mining Linked Data for recommender systems - Linked Data in new Recommender Systems architectures - Semantic technologies for Cross-lingual and cross-domain recommender systems - Semantic technologies for improving transparency and explanations - Big datasets for the evaluation - Evaluation methodologies for real time personalization in big datasets - Semantic technologies for improving novelty, diversity and serendipity SUBMISSION ----------------------- We welcome work at all stages of development: papers can describe applied systems, empirical results or theoretically grounded positions. Accepted papers will be published as CEUR workshop proceedings (http://ceur-ws.org). Based on the quality of accepted papers we are planning to schedule a special issue of a top-level journal in 2013. * Full papers (5-6 pages) * Short papers (2-3 pages) * Demos (1-2 pages for description) Papers should be formatted according to the general RecSys2013 submission guidelines. Accepted format is PDF. Please submit your paper via EasyChair at the following URL: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sersy2013 You need to open a personal account upon the first login, if you do not have one. IMPORTANT DATES --------------- Submission due: August 1, 2013 Author notification: September 10, 2013 Camera-ready version due: September 17, 2013 Workshop date: October 13, 2013 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE -------------------- Marco de Gemmis - University of Bari Aldo Moro, Italy Tommaso Di Noia - Polytechnic University of Bari, Italy Ora Lassila - Nokia Location & Commerce, Burlington, MA, US Pasquale Lops - University of Bari Aldo Moro, Italy Thomas Lukasiewicz - University of Oxford, UK Giovanni Semeraro - University of Bari Aldo Moro, Italy PROGRAM COMMITTEE ----------------- Alejandro Bellogin, Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica, Netherlands Marco Brambilla, Politecnico di Milano Iv?n Cantador, Universidad Aut?noma de Madrid Bettina Fazzinga, DEIS - University of Calabria Conor Hayes, Digital Enterprise Research Institute Leo Iaquinta, University of Milano-Bicocca Hasan Jamil, University of Idaho Roberto Mirizzi, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories Cataldo Musto, University of Bari Fedelucio Narducci, University of Milano-Bicocca Vito Claudio Ostuni, Politecnico di Bari Alexandre Passant, seevl.net Gerardo Simari, University of Oxford Raphael Troncy, EURECOM Markus Zanker, Alpen-Adria-Universitaet Klagenfurt CONTACT ----------------- e-mail: sersy2013 at gmail.com Web page: http://sisinflab.poliba.it/sersy2013/ twitter: @sersy2013 linkedin: http://tinyurl.com/sersy2013 From georg.moser at uibk.ac.at Fri Jul 26 00:20:59 2013 From: georg.moser at uibk.ac.at (Georg Moser) Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2013 00:20:59 +0200 Subject: [DL] FLoC Call for Workshops Message-ID: <51F1A4CB.5030707@uibk.ac.at> [apologies for cross posting] THE SIXTH FEDERATED LOGIC CONFERENCE (FLoC 2014) Part of VIENNA SUMMER OF LOGIC (VSL 2014) July 2014, Vienna, Austria SECOND CALL FOR WORKSHOPS The Sixth Federated Logic Conference (FLoC 2014) will be part of the Vienna Summer of Logic (VSL), the largest logic event in history, with over 2000 expected participants. FLoC 2014 will host eight conferences and many workshops. Each workshop will be affiliated with at least one of the eight conferences. 26th International Conference on Computer Aided Verification (CAV) Workshop Chair: Martina Seidl http://fmv.jku.at/seidl/ 27th IEEE Computer Security Foundations Symposium (CSF) Workshop Chair: Luca Vigano http://profs.sci.univr.it/~vigano/ 30th International Conference on Logic Programming (ICLP) Workshop Chair: Haifeng Guo http://faculty.ist.unomaha.edu/hguo/ 7th International Joint Conference on Automated Reasoning (IJCAR) Workshop Chair: Matthias Horbach http://www.mpi-inf.mpg.de/~horbach/ 5th Conference on Interactive Theorem Proving (ITP) Workshop Chair: David Pichardie http://www.irisa.fr/celtique/pichardie/ Joint meeting of the 23rd EACSL Annual Conference on Computer Science Logic (CSL) and the 29th ACM/IEEE Symposium on Logic in Computer Science (LICS) Workshop Chair: Georg Moser http://cl-informatik.uibk.ac.at/users/georg/ 25th International Conference on Rewriting Techniques and Applications (RTA) joined with the 12th International Conference on Typed Lambda Calculi and Applications (TLCA) Workshop Chair: Aleksy Schubert http://www.mimuw.edu.pl/~alx/ 17th International Conference on Theory and Applications of Satisfiability Testing (SAT) Workshop Chair: Ines Lynce http://sat.inesc-id.pt/~ines/ SUBMISSION OF WORKSHOP PROPOSALS Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit proposals for workshops on topics in the field of computer science, related to logic in the broad sense. Each workshop proposal must indicate at least one conference to be affiliated with, and among those exactly one primary hosting conference. It is suggested that prospective workshop organizers contact the relevant conference Workshop Chair(s) before submitting a proposal. Proposals should be submitted electronically to EasyChair at the following address: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=floc14cfw Proposals should consist of two parts. First, a short scientific justification of the proposed topic, its significance, and the particular benefits of the workshop to the community, as well as a list of previous or related workshops (if relevant). A second, organizational part should include: * contact information of the workshop organizers * proposed primary hosting conference (and possibly other affiliated conference(s)) * estimate of the audience size * proposed format and agenda (for example, paper presentations, tutorials, demo sessions, etc.) * potential invited speakers * procedures for selecting papers and participants * plans for dissemination, if any (for example, special issues of journals) * duration (which may vary from one day to two days) and preferred period The FLoC Organizing Committee will determine the final list of accepted workshops based on the recommendations from the Workshop Chairs of the hosting conferences and subject to the availability of space and facilities. Further information can be found at the FLoC 2014 Workshop Guide http://vsl2014.at/floc-ws/ IMPORTANT DATES Submission of workshop proposals: by September 30, 2013 Notification: by November, 2013 Pre-FLoC workshops: Saturday & Sunday, July 12-13 Mid-FLoC workshops: Thursday & Friday, July 17-18 Post-FLoC workshops: Wednesday & Thursday, July 23-24 CONTACT INFORMATION Questions regarding workshop proposals should be sent to the workshop chairs of conferences that are supposed to host the workshop (see above). General questions should be sent to floc14cfw at easychair.org Please consult the FLoC 2014 Workshop Guide http://vsl2014.at/floc-ws/ FLoC 2014 WORKSHOP CHAIR Stefan Szeider http://www.szeider.net Vienna University of Technology From cfp2013 at micai.org Fri Jul 26 10:28:18 2013 From: cfp2013 at micai.org (Alexander Gelbukh (CFP)) Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2013 03:28:18 -0500 Subject: [DL] CFP: MICAI 2013 - Artificial Intelligence - Springer LNAI + IEEE + journals - Mexico City: last reminder Message-ID: <13C820BE40724D689CFEE1A088CDE013@Gelbukh> MICAI-2013 12th Mexican International Conference on ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE November 24 to 30, 2013 Publication: Springer LNAI (EI, ISI), IEEE, journals (ISI JCR) www.micai.org/2013 Submission: Abstracts NOW! PDF August 1 (ask us for late submissions) ** LATE SUBMISSIONS ARE OK WHILE THE SYSTEM IS OPEN ** Please register NOW your abstract, and upload PDF later == GENERAL INFORMATION Topics: all areas of Artificial Intelligence, research or applications. Workshops: Opinion Mining / Sentiment Analysis; Hybrid Int. Systems, & more. Tutorials. Doctoral Consortium. Best papers awards. Keynotes: - Newton Howard, MIT, USA: "Rethinking Artificial Intelligence" - Erik Cambria, NUS: "SenticNet: Helping Machines to Learn, Leverage, Love" - Maria Vargas-Vera, Chile: "Multi-Agent Ontology Mapping for the Semantic Web" - Amir Hussain, U. of Stirling, UK: "Towards Multi-modal Cognitive Systems" - Ildar Batyrshin, IMP, Mexico: "Time Series Shape Association Measures" == PROCEEDINGS Springer LNAI (EI, ISI); special issues of journals (including ISI JCR). Special session: IEEE CPS (anticipated). Workshops: see the respective calls for papers. == VENUE AND TOURS Venue: Mexico City. Cultural program and tours (tentative): Pre-Hispanic city of Teotihuacan, world's largest anthropology museum. == CALL FOR WORKSHOPS and TUTORIALS Submit your workshop or tutorial proposal, see the calls on the webpage. PLEASE CIRCULATE this CFP among your colleagues and students. We apologize if you receive multiple copies. From calvanese at inf.unibz.it Mon Jul 29 14:54:50 2013 From: calvanese at inf.unibz.it (Diego Calvanese) Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2013 22:54:50 +1000 Subject: [DL] Special Issue of the J. of Web Semantics on Ontology-Based Data Access - New submission deadline 30 Sep., 2013 Message-ID: <7FE15D5B-0A1E-4551-80BA-F8991DA445C8@inf.unibz.it> ============================================= Journal of Web Semantics Special Issue on Ontology-Based Data Access New submission deadline: 30 Sep., 2013 ============================================= ------------ Introduction ------------ The competitiveness of many enterprises today relies on exploiting the wealth of information that is available in various distributed data sources or services. Thus, the problem of integrating data coming from many distributed and heterogeneous data sources has been a hot research topic for many years, and has received the attention of researchers in Databases, Knowledge Representation, and the Semantic Web. Furthermore, the recent utilization of ?big data? in the private sector, government, and science has not only reinforced the importance of this topic but added the challenge of scaling to huge datasets. The ontology-based data access (OBDA) paradigm was formulated a few years ago to tackle the problem of data integration, and more generally that of accessing data sources with a complex structure. The OBDA approach is based on three components: the data layer, the conceptual model of the application that is used for expressing user requests, and the mapping between the two. The data layer might consist of a single, possibly federated, database, or by a collection of possibly distributed and heterogeneous data sources (this case is also known as ontology-based data integration). The conceptual model is represented by an ontology, typically formalized in an appropriate description logic, and user requests are expressed as queries over the ontology. The mapping between the conceptual model and the data sources is formalized by mapping assertions, which are based on an appropriate logical language, but which may also incorporate extra-logical features for data manipulation. The aim of an OBDA system is to answer user queries by transforming them into appropriate queries to the data layer, using the ontology and the mapping. Traditionally, in OBDA, it has been assumed that data sources are relational, and that they are queried through SQL. However, the OBDA approach to data integration can also be used in the context of non-relational data sources e.g., XML, RDF etc. Given the recent proliferation of linked data sources and the importance of the linked paradigm for making data public, we expect to see a stronger convergence of work in these two areas. Data exchange is another interesting paradigm closely related to OBDA. In data exchange, data that is organized according to one schema (called the source schema) needs to be translated into an instance of a different schema (called the target schema), possibly equipped with constraints. The translation must respect certain dependencies that are again formalized as mappings among the two given schemas. While in OBDA the focus is on answering user queries over the conceptual model, in data exchange the aim is to understand how to materialize data in the target schema, respecting the mappings and the constraints, so as to answer queries directly using the materialized data. This special issue will cover recent advances of the OBDA approach and its relation to other promising paradigms such as data exchange and linked data integration. Although we are interested in all aspects of the OBDA approach, including foundational work, we are also keen to attract papers that present and evaluate analytically and/or experimentally implemented OBDA systems, as well as papers that demonstrate the applicability of the OBDA paradigm to real-world situations. --------------------- Submission Guidelines --------------------- The Journal of Web Semantics solicits original scientific contributions of high quality. Submission of your manuscript is welcome provided that it, or any translation of it, has not been copyrighted or published and is not being submitted for publication elsewhere. Upon acceptance of an article, the author(s) will be asked to transfer copyright of the article to the publisher. This transfer will ensure the widest possible dissemination of information. Manuscripts for this special issue should be prepared for publication in accordance to instructions given in the JWS Guide for Authors. The submission and review process will be carried out using Elsevier's Web-based EES system. For more details, see the site of the journal: http://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-web-semantics/ Final decisions for accepted papers will be approved by an editor in chief. Final copies of accepted publications will appear in print and on the archival online server http://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-web-semantics/. Author preprints of the articles will be made freely accessible on the preprint server of the journal: http://www.websemanticsjournal.org/ Important Submission Guideline To ensure that all manuscripts are correctly identified for inclusion into this special issue, authors should select "Special issue: ontology-based data access" when they reach the "Article Type" step in the submission process. --------------- Important Dates --------------- Paper submission deadline: September 30, 2013 (new) Initial notification of acceptance (approximate): January 2014 Publication towards the end of 2014 ------- Editors ------- Diego Calvanese, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano Manolis Koubarakis, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens David Toman, University of Waterloo From jist2013 at yonsei.ac.kr Tue Jul 30 05:27:48 2013 From: jist2013 at yonsei.ac.kr (=?UTF-8?B?SklTVDIwMTM=?=) Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2013 12:27:48 +0900 (KST) Subject: [DL] =?utf-8?q?=5BJIST2013=5D_The_2nd_Call_For_Paper?= Message-ID: <51f734d53fd8_@_imoxion.com> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP - ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ***** PAPER SUBMISSION DEADLINE ***** 23:59 (Hawaii Time), August 20, 2013 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- THE 2nd CALL FOR PAPERS JIST2013 The Joint International Semantic Technology Conference http://smartweb.yonsei.ac.kr/jist2013/ sponsored by Korea Intelligent Information System Society November 28-30, 2013 Seoul, Korea ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Joint International Semantic Technology Conference (JIST) is a regional federation of semantic technology related conferences. The mission of JIST is to bring together researchers from the semantic technology research community and other related areas to present their innovative research results or novel applications of semantic technologies. JIST 2013 invites submissions of original research on the semantic web and other semantic technologies, as well as, applications of semantic technologies. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: l Ontology and Reasoning - Ontology modeling, reuse, extraction, and evolution - Ontology mapping, merging, and alignment - Ontology evaluation - Searching and ranking ontologies - Reasoning over semantic web data - New formalisms (such as probabilistic approaches) - Lightweight semantics (linked data, microformats, etc.) l Management of Semantic Web Data - Languages, tools, and methodologies for semantic web data - Database, IR, and AI technologies for semantic web data - Robust and scalable knowledge management and reasoning on the web - Machine learning and information extraction on the web - Cleaning, assurance, and provenance of semantic web data, services, and processes l Linked Data - Publication of linked data - Consumption of linked data - Reasoning with linked data - Search, query, integration, and analysis on linked data - Integration and mashup of linked data - Mining of linked data - Domain specific applications (eGovernment, disaster, life science etc.) l Social Semantic Web - Semantics for social media data - Social network analysis using semantic web technologies - Querying, mining, and analysis of social semantic data - Social semantic web applications - Semantic web technologies for collaboration and cooperation - Representing and reasoning about trust, privacy, and security l Applications of the Semantic Web - Semantic web for large scale applications - Semantic web for desktops or personal information management - Semantic web for multimedia, sensors, and situational awareness - Semantic web for P2P, services, agents, grids, and middleware - Semantic web for software and systems engineering - Mobile semantic web - Interfaces for semantic web l Big Data and Data Science - Knowledge Graph and Entity Graph Generation - Graph Mining for Big Data - Data Journalism - Open Data Government - Advanced Data Analytics - Data Centric Science and Management - Data Art and Data Centric Humanities l Empirical Issues of Semantic Web Technology - Description of an implemented application of semantic technology in a specific domain - Analysis and evaluation of usability and uptake of semantic tools - Lessons and best practices for deploying and using an application or service based semantic technology - Assessment of costs and benefits of implementing, deploying, using, and managing semantic technology - Pragmatics of using or deploying semantic technology in real-world scenarios - Comparison of semantic technology with alternative approaches using conventional or competing technologies PAPER SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION Submissions to JIST 2013 should describe original and significant research based on semantic technologies and provide clear evidence to support their claims and contributions. All submissions will be critically reviewed by at least three members of the program committee. Reviewers will assess submissions based on their relevance to semantic technologies, their originality, the technical soundness of their proposed approach, and the readability of the submission. Submissions must be in PDF format, using the style of the Springer Publications format for Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). Submissions must be no longer than 16 pages for REGULAR TECHNICAL SESSIONS and 6 pages for IN-USE TRACK. Submissions that exceed this limit may be rejected without review. JIST 2013 will not accept submissions that are under review by, already been published in. or accepted for publication in a journal or other conference. The proceedings will be published as a book in Lecture Note for Computer Science (LNCS) by Springer. Accepted papers will be distributed to conference attendees and published in the printed conference proceedings. The proceedings will be published as a book in Lecture Note for Computer Science (LNCS) by Springer. All submissions should be submitted via EasyChair at https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=jist2013. At least one author of each accepted paper must register for the conference and present the paper in person. IMPORTANT DATES l Submissions due: 23:59 (Hawaii Time), August 20, 2013 l Notification of acceptance: October 10, 2013 l Camera ready: October 21, 2013 l Conference: November 28-30, 2013 ORGANIZATION l General Chair: Hong-Gee Kim, Seoul National University, Korea l Program Chairs: Wooju Kim, Yonsei University, Korea Ying Ding, Indiana University, USA l In-Use Track Chair: Jie Tang, Tsinghua University, China Younghwan Lee, Konkuk University, Korea l Poster and Demo Chairs: Guilin Qi, Southeastern University, China Kouji Kozaki, Osaka University, Japan l Workshop Chairs: Thepchai Supnithi, Thailand Jason Jung, Yeungnam Univeristy, Korea l Tutorial Chairs: Haklae Kim, Samsung Electronics, Korea Hanmin Jung, Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information, Korea l Industry Chair: Laurentiu Vasiliu, Peracton Co., Ireland Takahiro Kawamura, Toshiba, Japan l Publicity Chair: Myungdae Cho, Seoul National University, Korea l Local Organizing Chair: June Seok Hong, Kyonggi University, Korea -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From cbraga at ic.uff.br Thu Aug 1 01:09:20 2013 From: cbraga at ic.uff.br (Christiano Braga) Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2013 20:09:20 -0300 Subject: [DL] Fixpoint operator Message-ID: <8B4BAA3C-36E0-4810-A171-B33B3EAB227B@ic.uff.br> Hi, could anyone point me to a DL reasoner that handles fixpoints? Cheers, Christiano From rodriguez at inf.unibz.it Wed Jul 31 12:01:51 2013 From: rodriguez at inf.unibz.it (Rodriguez-Muro Mariano (A)) Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2013 10:01:51 +0000 Subject: [DL] [fix] ontop- v1.8 now available (Java framework for ontology based data access) Message-ID: <1DB09C84-4F2E-40A1-911E-2DA5F9D7F91D@inf.unibz.it> We are happy to announce the availability of -ontop- v1.8 a Java framework to query RDBMS using SPARQL over RDF(s) and OWL ontologies. Get it at: http://ontop.inf.unibz.it If you are interested in virtual RDF graphs, R2RML mappings and/or RDFS/OWL2QL reasoning and RDBMs, then -ontop- is for you. The system implements the cutting edge SPARQL-to-SQL and query optimisation techniques that allow it to answer SPARQL queries using SQL databases with great performance. With -ontop-, you don't need to move your data from your DB to enjoy the benefits of the RDF data model, the SPARQL query language or RDF/OWL2QL inference. There is no need for expensive ETL or forward/backward chaining either. The project went through a large refactoring (its still ongoing) and this is our most stable release to the date. Moreover, as always, we included many new features. The highlights of this new release include: * SOURCE CODE IS NOW AVAILABLE (See the new license terms) * Improved mapping syntax (see full changelog) * New command line tools to query, automatically generate mappings, generate RDF/OWL from mappings * Faster SQL translation * Improved the SQL queries generated by Quest by avoiding some operations when unnecessary (e.g., casting), and placing optimally the JOIN conditions in the SQL query. * Major restructuring of code for performance and clarity of the API (this is still ongoing) * Many important bugfixes for CONSTRUCT, ASK and DESCRIBE queries * -ontopPro- is now compatible with Protege 4.3 * Many bug fixes Cheers, The -ontop- development team From calvanese at inf.unibz.it Wed Aug 7 08:47:35 2013 From: calvanese at inf.unibz.it (Calvanese Diego) Date: Wed, 7 Aug 2013 06:47:35 +0000 Subject: [DL] Fixpoint operator In-Reply-To: <8B4BAA3C-36E0-4810-A171-B33B3EAB227B@ic.uff.br> References: <8B4BAA3C-36E0-4810-A171-B33B3EAB227B@ic.uff.br> Message-ID: <91E57147-F051-43A0-8938-BC7AF1EA6485@inf.unibz.it> As far as know there is none, not even for the simplest fixpoints, i.e., transitive closure. I'd be happy to be proved wrong. Cheers, - Diego Sent from my iPad On Aug 6, 2013, at 1:29, "Christiano Braga" wrote: > Hi, > > could anyone point me to a DL reasoner that handles fixpoints? > > Cheers, > > Christiano > > > --- > ** You received this mail via the description logic mailing list; for more ** > ** information, visit the description logic homepage at http://dl.kr.org/. ** From baader at tcs.inf.tu-dresden.de Mon Aug 12 17:29:14 2013 From: baader at tcs.inf.tu-dresden.de (Franz Baader) Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2013 17:29:14 +0200 Subject: [DL] Fixpoint operator In-Reply-To: <8B4BAA3C-36E0-4810-A171-B33B3EAB227B@ic.uff.br> References: <8B4BAA3C-36E0-4810-A171-B33B3EAB227B@ic.uff.br> Message-ID: There is a reasoner for EL with GCIs plus cylic concept definitions with gfp semantics. See http://lat.inf.tu-dresden.de/systems/hyb/ for the download page and http://lat.inf.tu-dresden.de/research/papers/2008/BaaNovSun-DL-08.pdf for a system description. Best regards, -Franz On Thu, Aug 1, 2013 at 1:09 AM, Christiano Braga wrote: > Hi, > > could anyone point me to a DL reasoner that handles fixpoints? > > Cheers, > > Christiano > > > --- > ** You received this mail via the description logic mailing list; for more ** > ** information, visit the description logic homepage at http://dl.kr.org/. ** -- -------------------------------- Prof. Dr.-Ing. Franz Baader Technische Universit?t Dresden Fakult?t Informatik Institut f?r Theoretische Informatik Lehrstuhl f?r Automatentheorie 01062 Dresden Tel.: +49 (351) 463-39160 Fax: +49 (351) 463-37959 E-Mail: baader at tcs.inf.tu-dresden.de -------------------------------- From tobo at dtu.dk Tue Aug 13 08:44:46 2013 From: tobo at dtu.dk (Thomas Bolander) Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2013 06:44:46 +0000 Subject: [DL] Open Position in Logic at ILLC, Amsterdam Message-ID: <435A31D6-9053-4655-B369-94EA4BFA6847@dtu.dk> Dear colleagues, This message is to bring to your attention that the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation at the University of Amsterdam currently has an open Assistant Professor (UD) Position in Logic, see http://www.uva.nl/over-de-uva/werken-bij-de-uva/vacatures/item/13-222.html for the details. Please note that the deadline for applications is September 10. As you can read in the job advertisement, we are looking for excellent candidates in mathematical logic, with a preference for a candidate with a proven record in modal logic or related areas of nonclassical logic. It is the explicit policy of the institute that (in principle) new staff are hired through open application procedures. I would therefore like to encourage you to bring this vacancy to the attention of as many colleagues as possible. Best wishes, Yde Venema Scientific Director, ILLC -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From olivier.austina at gmail.com Tue Aug 13 13:45:21 2013 From: olivier.austina at gmail.com (Olivier Austina) Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2013 13:45:21 +0200 Subject: [DL] Mapping words or utterances (in natural language) to ontology concepts Message-ID: Hi, My question is about mapping a word or an utterance (in natural language) to ontology for Natural Language Interface to DataBase (NLIDB). The database can be an RDF graph or traditional database. The problem is that the lexicon derived from the ontology is very limited to cover how the natural language can express the concepts of the ontology. It is possible to enriched labels of the ontology with synonymy or hypernymy/hyponymy but it is still insufficient to cover the way natural language can refer to ontology concepts. The first motivation is not reasoning but be able to map natural language to ontology. I think Description Logic is suitable for this task by providing a way a word or an utterance can be describe according a given ontology but I don't know how far it is possible to go with DL (strength and limitation of DL for this kind of task). This an example taken from the DL handbook 2003 (p. 93) : for a person having at least 2 sons and at most 5 daughters. Somtimes, it is possible to have an expression or function instead of integer like 2 or 5 in this example to quantify roles or concepts. For example : A person with more than a third of her children are males. The expression or th function can be provided by a formal query language such as SQL or SPARQL or a user defined functions. My questions are the following: Can DL support an arbitrary expression, function? What can be expressed using DL and cannot be expressed (the motivation s not reasoning but mapping natural language to ontology concept). Any suggestion is welcome. Thanks. Regards Olivier -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From olivier.austina at gmail.com Wed Aug 14 00:53:40 2013 From: olivier.austina at gmail.com (Olivier Austina) Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2013 00:53:40 +0200 Subject: [DL] Use of Semantic web reasoner in ontology based Question Answering Message-ID: Hi All, I would like to have a feedback about using a semantic web reasoner over OWL ontology of Question Answering System. The system use SPARQL as query language. Initially the reasoner is not supposed to be used. But it seems to enhance the system. How to put them together and which free reasoner is recommended? Thanks. Regards Olivier -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From olivier.austina at gmail.com Wed Aug 14 01:18:02 2013 From: olivier.austina at gmail.com (Olivier Austina) Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2013 01:18:02 +0200 Subject: [DL] Guideline to define new constructors in Description Logics Message-ID: Hi All, Is there a guideline to define new constructors (extension) in DL for specific domain? Any suggestion is welcome. Thanks. Regards Olivier -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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URL: From brendon.woodford at otago.ac.nz Fri Sep 6 01:14:07 2013 From: brendon.woodford at otago.ac.nz (Brendon Woodford) Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2013 23:14:07 +0000 Subject: [DL] Extended Deadline: AI/PRIMA 2013, Doctoral Consortium - Call for Participation Message-ID: <4E09E4C2A5ED7442A4F667D4D3394CE87839989A@ITS-EXM-P06.registry.otago.ac.nz> [Apologies for cross-posting] AI/PRIMA 2013, Doctoral Consortium - Call for Participation In 2013, the Australasian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (run jointly with the International Conference on Principles and Practice of Multi-Agent Systems) will introduce a doctoral doctoral mentoring consortium, intended for PhD students in advanced stages of their research. The aim is to provide an opportunity for students to interact closely with established researchers in their fields, to receive feedback on their work and to get advice on managing their careers. Specifically, the goals of the program are: * To match each student with an established researcher in the community (who will act as a mentor). The mentor will interact closely with the student, will provide feedback on research, help form new contacts, etc. * To allow students an opportunity to present their work to a friendly audience of other students as well as mentors. * To provide students with insights, contact and opportunities for their future career. * To foster interactions with mentors and other mentees. Applications In order to participate in the doctoral consortium, students are requested to submit 2 documents. (1) a 4 page abstract (using the same AI 2013 paper submission format) describing their research. (2) a separate document (maximum two pages) containing the following information: 1 Country of study 2 Area of study (1-3 keywords) 3 Expected time until graduation 4 A brief CV 5 A signed letter of support from their advisor. These documents should be submitted electronically via Easychair: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ai2013dc. In this submission system, please submit your two-page abstract under "Paper" and the other document as a single PDF under "Attachment". Successful applicants will be required to give a 3 minute thesis style presentation and present a poster where questions from other participants may be discussed. There will be a $50 iTunes voucher for the best 3 minute presentation as judged by the audience. Follow this link for more on the 3 minute thesis - http://www.uq.edu.au/grad-school/three-minute-thesis Important dates Submissions due: September 30 Acceptance Notification: October 14 Date of consortium: December 2 Chair - Dr. John Thangarajah, RMIT University, johnt at rmit.edu.au From calvanese at inf.unibz.it Fri Sep 6 07:41:29 2013 From: calvanese at inf.unibz.it (Calvanese Diego) Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2013 05:41:29 +0000 Subject: [DL] CFP: First Workshop on Logics and Reasoning for Conceptual Models (LRCM 2013) Message-ID: Call for Papers ==================================================== First Workshop on Logics and Reasoning for Conceptual Models (LRCM 2013) 14 December 2013, Stellenbosch, South Africa http://www.cair.za.net/LRCM2013/ ================== co-located with the 19th International Conference on Logic for Programming, Artificial Intelligence and Reasoning (LPAR-19), Stellenbosch, South Africa ==================================================== There is an increase in complexity of information systems due to, among others, company mergers with information system integration, upscaling of scientific collaborations, e-government etc., which push the necessity for good quality information systems. An information system's quality is largely determined in the conceptual modeling stage, and avoiding or fixing errors of the conceptual model saves resources during design, implementation, and maintenance. The size and high expressivity of conceptual models represented in languages such as EER, UML, and ORM require a logic-based approach in the representation of information and adoption of automated reasoning techniques to assist in the development of good quality conceptual models. The theory to achieve this is still in its infancy, however, with only a limited set of theories and tools that address subtopics in this area. This workshop aims at bringing together researchers working on the logic foundations of conceptual data modeling languages and the reasoning techniques that are being developed so as to discuss the latest results in the area. **** Topics **** Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Logics for temporal and spatial conceptual models and BPM - Deontic logics for SBVR - Other logic-based extensions to standard conceptual modeling languages - Unifying formalisms for conceptual schemas - Decidable reasoning over conceptual models - Dealing with finite and infinite satisfiability of a conceptual model - Reasoning over UML state and behaviour diagrams - Reasoning techniques for EER/UML/ORM - Interaction between ontology languages and conceptual data modeling languages - Tools for logic-based modeling and reasoning over conceptual models - Experience reports on logic-based modelling and reasoning over conceptual models To this end, we solicit mainly theoretical contributions with regular talks and implementation/system demonstrations and some modeling experience reports to facilitate cross-fertilization between theory and praxis. Selection of presentations is based on peer-review of submitted papers by at least 2 reviewers, with a separation between theory and implementation & experience-type of papers. **** Submissions **** We welcome submissions in LNCS style in the following two formats for oral presentation: - Extended abstracts of maximum 2 pages; - Research papers of maximum 10 pages. Both can be submitted in pdf format via the EasyChair website at https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lrcm13 **** Important dates **** Submission of papers/abstracts: 14 October 2013 Notification of acceptance: 14 November 2013 Camera-ready copies: 2 December 2013 Workshop: 14 December 2013 **** Organisation **** Maria Keet, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, keet at ukzn.ac.za Diego Calvanese, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy, calvanese at inf.unibz.it Szymon Klarman, CAIR, UKZN / CSIR-Meraka Institute, South Africa, szymon.klarman at gmail.com Arina Britz, CAIR, UKZN / CSIR-Meraka Institute, South Africa, abritz at csir.co.za **** Programme Committee **** Diego Calvanese, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy Szymon Klarman, CAIR, UKZN / CSIR-Meraka Institute, South Africa Maria Keet, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa Marco Montali, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy Mira Balaban, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel Meghyn Bienvenu, CNRS and Universite Paris-Sud, France Terry Halpin, INTI International University, Malaysia Anna Queralt, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain Vladislav Ryzhikov, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy Till Mossakowski, University of Bremen, Germany Alessandro Artale, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy Giovanni Casini, CAIR, UKZN / CSIR-Meraka Institute, South Africa Pablo Fillottrani, Universidad Nacional del Sur, Argentina Chiara Ghidini, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy Roman Kontchakov, Birkbeck, University of London, United Kingdom Oliver Kutz, University of Bremen, Germany Tommie Meyer, CAIR, UKZN / CSIR-Meraka Institute, South Africa Ernest Teniente, Polytechnic University of Catalunya, Spain David Toman, University of Waterloo, Canada From Cynthia-Vera.Glodeanu at tu-dresden.de Tue Sep 3 22:31:10 2013 From: Cynthia-Vera.Glodeanu at tu-dresden.de (Cynthia-Vera Glodeanu) Date: Tue, 03 Sep 2013 20:31:10 +0000 Subject: [DL] [ICFCA 2014] - First Call for Papers "12th International Conference on Formal Concept Analysis" Message-ID: <20130903203110.Horde.zNA-wcjvtCH2-lTX_bT7TQ1@mail.zih.tu-dresden.de> (with apologies for cross postings) Please consider to contribute to and/or forward to the appropriate groups. ================================================================================ ======================================================= ICFCA 2014 12th International Conference on Formal Concept Analysis June 10 - 13, 2014, Cluj-Napoca, Romania http://www.cs.ubbcluj.ro/icfca14/ ======================================================= ================================================================================ What is it? Formal Concept Analysis emerged in the 1980's from attempts to restructure lattice theory in order to promote better communication between lattice theorists and potential users of lattice theory. Since its early years, Formal Concept Analysis has developed into a research field in its own right with a thriving theoretical community and a rapidly expanding range of applications in information and knowledge processing including visualization, data analysis (mining) and knowledge management and discovery. The conference aims to bring together researchers and practitioners working on theoretical or applied aspects of Formal Concept Analysis within major related areas such as Mathematics and Computer and Information Sciences and their diverse applications to fields like Software Engineering, Linguistics, Life and Social Sciences, etc. Main topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Fundamental aspects of FCA - FCA theory - Lattice theory - Lattice drawing - Philosophical foundations - Algorithms and complexity theory Bridging FCA to information sciences and artificial intelligence - FCA and logic (semantic web, description logics, ...) - FCA and conceptual structures (concept graphs, knowledge space, ...) - FCA and data analysis (hierarchical classification, data organization, ...) - FCA and data mining (pattern mining) - FCA and machine learning (learning with hypothesis, feature selection, ...) - FCA and database theory (dependencies, rules, data cubes, ...) - FCA and software engineering - FCA and morphological mathematics Understanding, modelling real-world data and phenomena with FCA - Analysis of "big data" with FCA (sampling, parallel computing, ...) - Analysis of social networks and their dynamics - Applications for scientific data analysis (in biology, health, ...) - Applications for sensors data and user interactions traces - Other FCA applications Submission Details We invite scientific publications on theory and applications of Formal Concept Analysis. Papers of up to sixteen pages may be submitted in the PDF or Postscript format via the Easychair system https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icfca14. For each paper, an abstract must be submitted by December 10, 2013. Authors are requested to follow the formatting instructions for the Springer LNCS style, see http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html Accepted papers must be presented at the conference, therefore at least one author per paper has to register timely. All submissions will be refereed, and the conference proceedings will be published by Springer in the LNCS/LNAI series. Important Dates Submission of abstract: December 10 2013 Submission of full paper: December 17 2013 Notification of acceptance: February 15 2014 Camera ready due: March 8 2014 Conference: June 10-13 2014 Organization The conference will be hosted by the Babes-Bolyai University Cluj-Napoca, Romania. Conference Chair - Christian Sacarea, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania Program Chairs - Cynthia Vera Glodeanu, Technische Universit?t Dresden, Germany - Mehdi Kaytoue, INSA de Lyon ? LIRIS, France Local Organizers - Christian Sacarea, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania - Viorica Varga, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania Editorial Board (To be updated) - Baris Sertkaya, SAP Research Center, Dresden, Germany - Bernhard Ganter, Technische Universit?t Dresden, Germany - Felix Distel, Technische Universit?t Dresden, Germany - Gerd Stumme, University of Kassel, Germany - Karl Erich Wolff, University of Applied Sciences, Darmstadt, Germany - Leonard Kwuida, Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland - Peggy Cellier, IRISA lab, Rennes, France - Peter Eklund, University of Wollongong, Australia - Petko Valtchev, Universit? du Qu?bec ? Montr?al, Canada - Raoul Medina, LIMOS, Universit? Clermont-Ferrand 2, France - Robert Godin, Universit? du Qu?bec ? Montr?al (UQAM), Canada - Robert J?schke, Universit?t Kassel, Germany - Rokia Missaoui, Universit? du Qu?bec en Outaouais (UQO), Canada - Sebastian Rudolph, AIFB, University of Karlsruhe, Germany - Sebastien Ferr?, Universit? de Rennes 1, France - Sergei Kuznetsov, Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia - Sergei Obiedkov, Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia - Stefan E. Schmidt, Technische Universit?t Dresden, Germany - Uta Priss, Napier University, Edinburgh, United Kingdom Honorary Member - Rudolf Wille, Technische Universit?t Darmstadt, Germany Program Committee To be announced -- Dr. rer. nat. Cynthia Glodeanu wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin Technische Universit?t Dresden Fachrichtung Mathematik Institut f?r Algebra 01062 Dresden Tel: +49 (351) 463 34031 Fax: +49 (351) 463 34235 Cynthia-Vera.Glodeanu at tu-dresden.de http://tu-dresden.de/Members/cynthia_vera.glodeanu -------------- next part -------------- ?12th International Conference on Formal Concept Analysis (ICFCA2014) June 10 - 13, 2014, Cluj-Napoca, Romania http://www.cs.ubbcluj.ro/icfca14/ ----------- What is it? ----------- Formal Concept Analysis emerged in the 1980's from attempts to restructure lattice theory in order to promote better communication between lattice theorists and potential users of lattice theory. Since its early years, Formal Concept Analysis has developed into a research field in its own right with a thriving theoretical community and a rapidly expanding range of applications in information and knowledge processing including visualization, data analysis (mining) and knowledge management and discovery. The conference aims to bring together researchers and practitioners working on theoretical or applied aspects of Formal Concept Analysis within major related areas such as Mathematics and Computer and Information Sciences and their diverse applications to fields like Software Engineering, Linguistics, Life and Social Sciences, etc. -------------------------------------------------------- Main topics of interest include, but are not limited to: -------------------------------------------------------- Fundamental aspects of FCA - FCA theory - Lattice theory - Lattice drawing - Philosophical foundations - Algorithms and complexity theory Bridging FCA to information sciences and artificial intelligence - FCA and logic (semantic web, description logics, ...) - FCA and conceptual structures (concept graphs, knowledge space, ...) - FCA and data analysis (hierarchical classification, data organization, ...) - FCA and data mining (pattern mining) - FCA and machine learning (learning with hypothesis, feature selection, ...) - FCA and database theory (dependencies, rules, data cubes, ...) - FCA and software engineering - FCA and morphological mathematics Understanding, modelling real-world data and phenomena with FCA - Analysis of "big data" with FCA (sampling, parallel computing, ...) - Analysis of social networks and their dynamics - Applications for scientific data analysis (in biology, health, ...) - Applications for sensors data and user interactions traces - Other FCA applications ------------------ Submission Details ------------------ We invite scientific publications on theory and applications of Formal Concept Analysis. Papers of up to sixteen pages may be submitted in the PDF or Postscript format via the Easychair system https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icfca14. For each paper, an abstract must be submitted by December 10, 2013. Authors are requested to follow the formatting instructions for the Springer LNCS style, see http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html Accepted papers must be presented at the conference, therefore at least one author per paper has to register timely. All submissions will be refereed, and the conference proceedings will be published by Springer in the LNCS/LNAI series. --------------- Important Dates --------------- submission of abstract: December 10 2013 submission of full paper: December 17 2013 notification of acceptance: February 15 2014 camera ready due: March 8 2014 conference: June 10-13 2014 ------------ Organization ------------ The conference will be hosted by the Babes-Bolyai University Cluj-Napoca, Romania. ---------------- Conference Chair ---------------- - Christian Sacarea, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania -------------- Program Chairs -------------- - Cynthia Vera Glodeanu, Technische Universit?t Dresden, Germany - Mehdi Kaytoue, INSA de Lyon ? LIRIS, France ---------------- Local Organizers ---------------- - Christian Sacarea, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania - Viorica Varga, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania --------------- Editorial Board (To be updated) --------------- - Baris Sertkaya, SAP Research Center, Dresden, Germany - Bernhard Ganter, Technische Universit?t Dresden, Germany - Felix Distel, Technische Universit?t Dresden, Germany - Gerd Stumme, University of Kassel, Germany - Karl Erich Wolff, University of Applied Sciences, Darmstadt, Germany - Leonard Kwuida, Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland - Peggy Cellier, IRISA lab, Rennes, France - Peter Eklund, University of Wollongong, Australia - Petko Valtchev, Universit? du Qu?bec ? Montr?al, Canada - Raoul Medina, LIMOS, Universit? Clermont-Ferrand 2, France - Robert Godin, Universit? du Qu?bec ? Montr?al (UQAM), Canada - Robert J?schke, Universit?t Kassel, Germany - Rokia Missaoui, Universit? du Qu?bec en Outaouais (UQO), Canada - Sebastian Rudolph, AIFB, University of Karlsruhe, Germany - Sebastien Ferr?, Universit? de Rennes 1, France - Sergei Kuznetsov, Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia - Sergei Obiedkov, Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia - Stefan E. Schmidt, Technische Universit?t Dresden, Germany - Uta Priss, Napier University, Edinburgh, United Kingdom --------------- Honorary Member --------------- - Rudolf Wille, Technische Universit?t Darmstadt, Germany ----------------- Program Committee ----------------- To be announced From franconi at inf.unibz.it Tue Aug 27 03:36:05 2013 From: franconi at inf.unibz.it (Enrico Franconi) Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2013 11:36:05 +1000 Subject: [DL] PhD Programme in Computer Science at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano (Italy) - scholarships Message-ID: PhD Programme in Computer Science at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano The Free University of Bozen-Bolzano was founded in 1997 as a multilingual, internationally oriented institution. A public competition for the allocation of PhD positions in the Faculty of Computer Science is announced, for 10 places, of which 6 places will be covered by grants. The PhD Programme lasts three years and the official language of the programme is English. PhD students are expected to work full-time on their research. During the PhD, it is advisable to spend a period of 6-12 months at a national or international research center. Candidates are strongly advised to contact their desired research centers at the Faculty of Computer Science before applying. This way, they can obtain a clear idea of the specific research carried out at the Faculty. It is expected that students are able to write and speak fluently in English. The Selection Committee selects PhD students based on a comparative assessment of the qualification of applicants, taking into account also feedback from potential supervisors, especially those who have grants available to support the PhD students, and determines the winners based on the merits of each candidate. The Selection Committee also selects those candidates who are qualified to start a PhD program at the Free University of Bozen/Bolzano, but who cannot be admitted for lack of space. Should a selected winner not accept the position, such candidates will be next in line for the position. Instructions for application (pre-enrollment) can be found here: http://www.unibz.it/en/inf/progs/phdcs The application must be complete by 13 September 2013, 12:00 a.m. Research Areas Research in the Faculty of Computer Science is focused on three areas that are treated on a long-term basis by research groups whose members collectively examine topics related to each of the three research areas. The research areas, with a selection of their research topics, are: Knowledge Representation and Databases - web page: http://www.inf.unibz.it/krdb/ - contact person: Alessandro Artale artale at inf.unibz.it Logic based languages for knowledge representation Intelligent database access Foundations of controlled natural language Temporal aspects of data and knowledge representation Extending database technologies The research topics in knowledge representation are focused on foundational and practical aspects of knowledge representation technologies applied to information systems. The whole life cycle ranging from the design to the deployment of such technologies is covered: the conceptual modeling of various types of knowledge, the linguistic and logical aspects of knowledge, the integration of heterogeneous knowledge sources, including information coming from the Internet, the usage of knowledge to support the intelligent retrieval of information, and the usage of knowledge to create virtual services on the net. Databases and Information Systems Management and analysis of large data sets Temporal data models and databases Data evolution and integration Approximation techniques for large databases Machine learning techniques for searching and selecting information The research activities in the area of database and information systems focus on key aspects of applied computer science, including data warehousing and data mining, the integration of heterogeneous and distributed databases, time-varying information, data models, and query processing. The research approach is primarily constructive in its outset, and it includes substantial experimental and analytical elements. The development activities cover the design of data models and structures, and the development of algorithms, data structures, languages, and systems. The experimental activities verify real world artifacts with the help of prototypes and simulations. The analytic activities include the analysis of the algorithmic complexity and the evaluation of languages. The main goal is theoretically sound results that solve real world problems. Software Engineering Agile methodologies, lean management, and open source Measurement and assurance of software quality, reliability and development Distributed computing and distributed service-oriented architectures Information technology and business alignment Component-based development and reuse of software Cooperative systems and interoperability of software The research topics in software engineering are focused on the empirical and quantitative study of innovative models for software development. The target analysis techniques include both traditional statistics, and new approaches, such as computational intelligence, Bayesian models, and meta-analytical systems. The innovative software development techniques include (a) methods based on lean management, such as agile methods, with a specific interest for benchmarking and identification of defects, and (b) open source development models, with specific attention for self organizing systems and the analysis of the resulting qualit The doctoral works treat topics from the three research areas that develop from the ongoing work of the groups. The following list contains possible topics for doctoral work: Data-centric business processes Data Quality for Linked Open Data Process-Aware Business Intelligence Management of Business Processes and Data Graph-structured Data Management Knowledge driven information access Databases and Ontologies Game-based technology-enhanced learning Semantic interoperability in distributed environments Query processing in Ontology-based systems Knowledge discovery in bioinformatics Efficient querying of data under temporal constraints Conceptual modeling and reasoning with temporal information Optimizing a sequence of recommendations Lifestyle change enforcement and support Analysis and similarity search in time series data Efficient OLAP over very large temporal datasets Extending Database Systems with Similarity Operators Robust query optimization for database management systems Itinerary planning for tourist applications Methodologies in Computer Science Education Software Measurement Agile and lean software development methods Innovation in software business Software estimating and performance measurement Mobile Software Engineering Software measurement of open source systems Software Reliability Internet-based Software Engineering Energy-aware software systems Open source Software Engineering Doctoral candidates can furthermore specify their own topics together with their designated supervisor, as long as they remain related to the research areas outlined above. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From hastings at ebi.ac.uk Thu Aug 29 12:56:53 2013 From: hastings at ebi.ac.uk (Janna Hastings) Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2013 11:56:53 +0100 Subject: [DL] Call for Papers: Formal Ontology in Information Systems 2014, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Message-ID: <00b901cea4a6$7a175940$6e460bc0$@ebi.ac.uk> CALL FOR PAPERS 8th International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems FOIS 2014, September 22-25, 2014, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil http://fois2014.inf.ufes.br/p/home.html http://www.iaoa.org/fois/ Email: fois2014 at gmail.com ----------------------------------- DEFINITION AND SCOPE ----------------------------------- Ontology, originally a fundamental part of philosophical enquiry, is concerned with the analysis and categorization of what exists. In recent years, however, a complementary focus of ontological inquiry gained significant momentum fueled by the advent of complex information systems which rely on robust and coherent, formal representations of their subject matter. The systematic study of such representations, their axiomatics, their corresponding reasoning techniques and their relations to cognition and reality, are at the center of the modern discipline of formal ontology. Formal ontology in this modern sense is now a research focus in such diverse domains as conceptual modeling, database design, software engineering, organizational modeling, artificial intelligence, computational linguistics, the life sciences, bioinformatics, geographic information science, knowledge engineering, information retrieval, and the Semantic Web. Researchers in all these areas increasingly recognize the need for serious engagement with ontology to provide a serious foundation for their work, where ontology is understood as a general theory of the types of entities and relations making up their respective domains of enquiry. The FOIS conference is designed to provide a meeting point for researchers from all disciplines with an interest in formal ontology. The conference encourages submission of high quality articles on both theoretical issues and concrete applications. As in previous years, FOIS 2014 is intended as a nexus of interdisciplinary research and communication. FOIS is the flagship conference of the International Association for Ontology and its Applications (IAOA, website: http://iaoa.org/), which is a non-profit organization the purpose of which is to promote interdisciplinary research and international collaboration at the intersection of philosophical ontology, linguistics, logic, cognitive science, and computer science, as well as in the applications of ontological analysis to conceptual modeling, knowledge engineering, knowledge management, information-systems development, library and information science, scientific research, and semantic technologies in general. ------------------------------ FORMAT ------------------------------ FOIS is a growing conference, and the 2014 edition will add a number of new facets, including + a formal ontology competition, + an open call for workshops, and + a young researchers symposium. It will moreover be directly preceded by the Second Interdisciplinary Summer School on Ontological Analysis, to be held in Vitoria, Brazil, between September 15-19. ------------------------------ SCOPE OF FOIS - TOPICS OF INTEREST ------------------------------ We seek high-quality papers on a wide range of topics. Concerning scope, an ideal FOIS paper will address both content-related ontological issues and their formal modeling, as well as their impact and relevance for some aspects of information systems. Areas of particular interest to the conference include the following: Foundational Issues * Kinds of entities: particulars/universals, continuants/occurrents, abstracta/concreta, dependent entities/independent entities, natural objects/artifacts * Formal relations: parthood, identity, connection, dependence, constitution, causality, subsumption, instantiation * Vagueness and granularity * Space, time, and change Methodological issues * Role of reference ontologies * Top-level vs. domain-specific ontologies * Relationship with cognition, language and semantics * Formal comparison among ontologies * Ontology integration and alignment Domain-specific ontologies * Ontology of physical reality (matter, space, time, motion, etc.) * Ontology of biological reality (genes, proteins, cells, organisms, etc.) * Ontology of mental reality and agency (beliefs, intentions, emotions, percepts, etc.) * Ontology of artifacts, functions and roles * Ontology of social reality (institutions, organizations, norms, social relationships, artistic expressions, languages, etc.) Applications: * Ontology-driven information systems design * Ontological foundations for conceptual modeling * Knowledge management * Qualitative modeling * Computational linguistics * Information retrieval * Semantic Web, Web services * Business modeling * Ontologies for particular scientific disciplines (biology, chemistry, geography, physics, cognitive sciences, linguistics etc.) * Ontologies for engineering: shape, form and function, artifacts, manufacturing, design, architecture, etc. * Ontologies for the humanities: arts, cultural studies, history, law, literature, philosophy, etc. ----------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES ----------------------------- Paper Submission Deadline: March 3, 2014 Notification: May 5, 2014 Camera-ready papers: June 30, 2014 Conference Dates: September, 22-25, 2014 ----------------------------- SUBMISSION GUIDELINES ----------------------------- Submitted papers must not exceed 14 pages (including the bibliography) and include an abstract of no more than 300 words. Papers should be submitted non-anonymously and be prepared in PDF format in accordance with the IOS formatting guidelines found at http://www.iospress.nl/service/authors/latex-and-word-tools-for-book-authors / The Easychair submission page can be found at: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fois2014 (Select the track 'Research Paper') As with previous FOIS conferences, the proceedings will be published as a volume in the IOS Press series 'Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications'. -------------------------------------------- CONFERENCE ORGANISATION -------------------------------------------- General Chair: Laure Vieu (CNRS, France) Program Chairs: Pawel Garbacz (Catholic University of Lublin, Poland) Oliver Kutz (University of Bremen, Germany) Local Organization: Giancarlo Guizzardi (Federal University of Espirito Santo Brazil) Renato Rocha Souza (FGV, Brazil) Workshops: Robert Hoehndorf (University of Cambridge, UK) Ontology Competition: Till Mossakowski (DFKI Bremen and University of Bremen, Germany) Early Career Symposium: Marion Haemmerli (University of Lausanne, Switzerland) Torsten Hahmann (University of Toronto, Canada) Claudio Masolo (ISTC-CNR, Italy) Publicity: Janna Hastings (European Bioinformatics Institute, UK) Fernanda Baiao (Federal University of the State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------- Janna Hastings Email: hastings at ebi.ac.uk | Tel: +44 (0)1223 494411 | Fax: +44 (0)1223 494468 Twitter: @jannahastings | Web: www.ebi.ac.uk/~hastings | Blog: www.bioontology.ch Coordinator, Cheminformatics and Metabolism, European Bioinformatics Institute ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------- Visit ChEBI at www.ebi.ac.uk/chebi -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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The workshop organizers will be responsible for advertising the workshop and reviewing and selecting the contributions. Workshops can be events that provide a forum for the discussion of topics that may complement the main conference or focus on specialized sub-topics related to formal ontology and its application in information systems. We specifically invite proposals for workshops organized by IAOA Special Interest Groups and Technical Committees. ------------------------------ TOPICS OF INTEREST ------------------------------ Areas of interest to the conference include the following: - Specific Foundational Issues in Formal Ontology - Ontology Evaluation - Specific Issues in Ontology Methodologies - Scientific applications - Relations between Formal Ontology and the Semantic Web - Visualization and accessibility - Ontology Repositories A full list of topics can be found on the conference website: http://fois2014.inf.ufes.br/p/call-for-papers.html SUBMISSION Workshop proposals should be no more than 2 pages in length, and must contain the following information: - title of the workshop - names of the workshop organizers - brief description of experience in workshop organization - description of the workshop topic - brief statement on the relation and relevance of the workshop to FOIS - intended duration of the workshop (half-day, full-day) - timeline for the workshop (submission dates, notification dates) Please consider the notification date of FOIS and the proposed Workshop Submission Deadline. - plans for publishing workshop proceedings Workshop proposals should be submitted to the FOIS Workshop Track through Easychair: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fois2014 EVALUATION Submissions for workshop proposals will be evaluated by members of the FOIS organizing and program committee, using the following criteria: - Relevance and utility to attendees - Quality of the proposal - Likelihood of success of the workshop - Complementarity with FOIS and overlap with other workshop WORKSHOP PROCEEDINGS The proceedings of the FOIS workshops are usually published on-line by the respective organizers and are not included in the main conference proceeding volume published by IOS Press. CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION General Chair: Laure Vieu (CNRS, France) Program Chairs: Pawel Garbacz (Catholic University of Lublin, Poland) Oliver Kutz (University of Bremen, Germany) Local Organization: Giancarlo Guizzardi (Federal University of Espirito Santo Brazil) Renato Rocha Souza (FGV, Brazil) Workshops: Robert Hoehndorf (University of Cambridge, UK) Ontology Competition: Till Mossakowski (DFKI Bremen and University of Bremen, Germany) Early Career Symposium: Marion Haemmerli (University of Lausanne, Switzerland) Torsten Hahmann (University of Toronto, Canada) Claudio Masolo (ISTC-CNR, Italy) Publicity: Janna Hastings (European Bioinformatics Institute, UK) Fernanda Baiao (Federal University of the State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------- Janna Hastings Email: hastings at ebi.ac.uk | Tel: +44 (0)1223 494411 | Fax: +44 (0)1223 494468 Twitter: @jannahastings | Web: www.ebi.ac.uk/~hastings | Blog: www.bioontology.ch Coordinator, Cheminformatics and Metabolism, European Bioinformatics Institute ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------- Visit ChEBI at www.ebi.ac.uk/chebi -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From lembo at dis.uniroma1.it Mon Aug 19 16:12:53 2013 From: lembo at dis.uniroma1.it (Domenico Lembo) Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2013 14:12:53 -0000 Subject: [DL] CFP: Special issue of the Semantic Web Journal on Web Reasoning and Rule Systems Message-ID: Call for papers: Special issue of the Semantic Web Journal on WEB REASONING AND RULE SYSTEMS On the occasion of the 7th International Conference on Web Reasoning and Rule Systems (RR 2013), this special issue will collect contributions on the major topics that will be discussed at the conference, which include original research from all areas of Web Reasoning, with an emphasis on combinations with Rule Systems. Topics of particular interest are: * Semantic Web, Rule and Ontology Languages, and related logics * Reasoning, Querying, Searching and Optimization * Incompleteness, Inconsistency and Uncertainty * Non-monotonic, Commonsense, and Closed-World Reasoning for the Web * Dynamic information, Stream Reasoning and Complex Event Processing * Decision Making, Planning, and Intelligent Agents * Reasoning, Machine Learning, Knowledge Extraction and IR Technologies * Large-scale data management and reasoning on the Web of Data * Data Integration, Dataspaces and Ontology-Based Data Access * Non-Standard Reasoning * Algorithms for distributed, parallelized, and scalable reasoning * System Descriptions and Experimentation * Application and Experience Papers Submissions Deadline: November 1, 2013 Submissions shall be made through the Semantic Web journal website at http://www.semantic-web-journal.net. Note that you need to request an account on the website for submitting a paper. Please indicate in the cover letter that it is for the "Web Reasoning and Rule Systems" special issue. Submissions are possible in all standing paper type of the journal, see http://www.semantic-web-journal.net/authors for descriptions: full research papers, surveys, linked dataset descriptions, ontology descriptions, application reports, tool/systems reports. Guest Editors Wolfgang Faber, University of Calabria, Italy Domenico Lembo, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy The editors can be reached by emailing rr2013 at wfaber.com . Guest Editorial Board The following list is subject to extension. Leopoldo Bertossi, Carleton University, USA Francois Bry, University of Munich, Germany Claudia d'Amato, University of Bari, Italy Michael Fink, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Sergio Flesca, University of Calabria, Italy Gerhard Friedrich, Alpen-Adria-Universitaet Klagenfurt, Austria Stijn Heymans, SRI International, Menlo Park, USA Roman Kontchakov, Birkbeck College, UK Manolis Koubarakis, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece Marie-Laure Mugnier, LIRMM (CNRS - UM2), France Umberto Straccia, ISTI-CNR, Italy Ivan Varzinczak, CSIR Meraka Institute, South Africa -- Domenico Lembo Sapienza Universit? di Roma Dip. di Ingegneria Informatica, Automatica e Gestionale "A. Ruberti" Via Ariosto 25, 00185 Roma (stanza B209) Tel: +39 0677274027 Fax: +39 0677274002 email: lembo at dis.uniroma1.it home: http://www.dis.uniroma1.it/~lembo -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From pavel.klinov at uni-ulm.de Fri Aug 23 14:10:40 2013 From: pavel.klinov at uni-ulm.de (Pavel Klinov) Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2013 12:10:40 -0000 Subject: [DL] Call for Participation: 4th Knowledge Engineering and Semantic Web Conference (KESW 2013) Message-ID: KESW 2013: 4th Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Semantic Web October 7-9 St. Petersburg, Russia http://kesw.ifmo.ru/kesw2013/, https://twitter.com/keswconference Early registration deadline is September 5: http://kesw.ifmo.ru/kesw2013/attending -------------------------------------------- KESW is a top Russian venue for discussing research issues related to knowledge representation, Semantic Web, and Linked Data. Its aim is to bring together researchers, practitioners, and educators, in particular from the ex-USSR, Eastern and Northern Europe, to present and share ideas related to semantic technologies, and popularize the area in these regions. -------------------------------------------- The sole language of all technical sessions in English. KESW 2013 features a packed research program with the following keynote and guest speakers (see also http://kesw.ifmo.ru/kesw2013/keynotes): Birte Glimm (University of Ulm, Germany) Kendall Clark (Clark & Parsia, USA) Peter Haase (fluidOps, Germany) Evgeny Kharlamov (University of Oxford, UK) Yuliya Tikhokhod (Yandex, Russia) Tatiana Gavrilova (NRU ITMO, Russia) Dieter Fensel (STI Innsbruck, Austria) Students and early career researchers are encouraged to consider participation in the KESW School. The School runs from Sep 30 to Oct 4 and offers lectures in Ontology Engineering and Linked Data tracks. Invited lecturers include (see also http://kesw.ifmo.ru/kesw2013/school): Birte Glimm (University of Ulm, Germany) Frank Wolter (University of Liverpool, UK) Yevgeny Kazakov (University, Germany) Roman Kontchakov (Birkbeck College, London) Konrad H?ffner (University of Leipzig, Germany) Amrapali Zaveri (University of Leipzig, Germany) Ivan Ermilov (University of Leipzig, Germany) Student support is available for both the conference and the school, see http://kesw.ifmo.ru/kesw2013/attending for details. If visa is required for your travel to Russia, please consider using the visa support service provided by the local organizers: http://onlinereg.ru/kesw2013 Please ask your questions using the contact form at http://kesw.ifmo.ru/kesw2013/contact. Any questions regarding the conference's program can be addressed to Pavel Klinov (PC Chair, pavel.klinov at uni-ulm.de) directly. We look forward to seeing you in St. Petersburg! From rseba at disi.unitn.it Sun Aug 25 19:44:47 2013 From: rseba at disi.unitn.it (Roberto Sebastiani) Date: Sun, 25 Aug 2013 19:44:47 +0200 Subject: [DL] Postdoc positions in SAT/SMT-based Verification available in Trento Message-ID: <20130825174447.GA8096@disi.unitn.it> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- [[[ We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this message ]]] --------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------- PLEASE FORWARD THIS EMAIL TO WHOEVER YOU MAY THINK INTERESTED. -------------------------------------------------------------- One post-doc position in ICT on the research project "Advanced SMT Techniques for Word-level Formal Verification - (WOLF)" is available in Trento, Italy, under the joint supervision of - Alessandro Cimatti, FBK, Trento, and - Roberto Sebastiani, DISI, University of Trento. The research activity will be carried out jointly within the Embedded Systems (ES) Research Unit of the Center for Scientific and Technological Research of the Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK), Trento, and the Software Engineering, Formal Methods & Security Research Program, at Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science (DISI) of University of Trento. Aim and Scope ============= The research activity will aim at investigating and developing novel techniques, methodologies and support tools for Satisfiability Modulo Theories (SMT) for the formal verification of systems. This work will be part of the "Advanced SMT Techniques for Word-level Formal Verification - (WOLF)" project, a three-year research project supported by SRC/GRC (http://www.src.org/compete/s201113/), in collaboration with major HW companies. The ultimate goal of the WOLF project is to provide a comprehensive SMT package to support effective formal verification of systems ranging from RTL circuits all the way up to high-level hardware description languages (e.g. SystemC) and software. The package will be implemented on top of the MathSAT SMT platform (http://mathsat.fbk.eu/), and provided as an API. Candidate Profile ================= The ideal candidate should have an PhD in computer science or related discipline, and combine solid theoretical background and excellent software development skills (in particular C/C++). A solid background knowledge and/or previous experience on one of the following topics (in order of preference) is required: Satisfiability Modulo Theory (SMT), Propositional Satisfiability (SAT), Model Checking, Automated Reasoning. Previous experience in the following areas will also be considered favourably: Constraint Solving and Optimization, Embedded Systems Design Languages (e.g. Verilog, VHDL). The candidate should be able to work in a collaborative environment, with a strong committment to reaching research excellence and achieving assigned objectives. Early availability will be considered with much favour. Terms and dates =============== The position will start as soon as possible, and will have to be renewed yearly, for a maximum of two years. The expected salary will range from about 2200 to 2400 euros net income, and the gross will include previdential (social security) contributions. Facilities for meals at the local canteen can be provided. Applications and Inquiries ========================== Interested candidates should inquire for further information and/or apply by sending email to wolf-recruit at disi.unitn.it, with subject 'POSTDOC ON WOLF PROJECT'. Applications should contain a statement of interest, with a Curriculum Vitae, and the names of reference persons. PDF format is strongly encouraged. It should also indicate an estimated starting date. Contact Persons =============== Dr. ALESSANDRO CIMATTI, Embedded Systems Research Unit, FBK-Irst, via Sommarive 18, I-38123 Povo, Trento, Italy http://sra.fbk.eu/people/cimatti/, Prof. ROBERTO SEBASTIANI Software Engineering, Formal Methods & Security Research Program DISI, University of Trento, via Sommarive 14, I-38123 Povo, Trento, Italy http://disi.unitn.it/~rseba/. ======================================================================= The Embedded Systems Research Unit at FBK ========================================= The Embedded Systems Unit consists of about 15 persons, including researchers, post-Doc, Ph.D. students, and programmers. The Unit carries out research, tool development and technology transfer in the fields of design and verification of embedded systems. Current research directions include: * Satisfiability Modulo Theory, and its application to the verification of hardware, embedded critical software, and hybrid systems (Verilog, SystemC, C/C++, StateFlow/Simulink). * Formal Requirements Analysis based on techniques for temporal logics (consistency checking, vacuity detection, input determinism, cause-effect analysis, realizability and synthesis). * Formal Safety Analysis, based on the integration of traditional techniques (e.g. Fault-tree analysis, FMEA) with symbolic verification techniques. The Embedded Systems Unit is part of Fondazione Bruno Kessler, formerly Istituto Trentino di Cultura, a public research institute of the Autonomous Province of Trento (Italy), founded in 1976. The institute, through its center for the scientific and technological research, is active in the areas of Information Technology, Microsystems, and Physical Chemistry of Surfaces and Interfaces. Today, FBK is an internationally recognized research institute, collaborating with industries, universities, and public and private laboratories in Italy and abroad. The institute's applied and basic research activities aim at resolving real-world problems, driven by the need for technological innovation in society and industry. The SW Engineering, Formal Methods & Security Research Program at DISI ====================================================================== The SW Engineering, Formal Methods & Security R. P. at DISI currently consists on 5 faculties, various post-docs and PhD students. The Unit carries out research, tool development and technology transfer in the fields of Goal-Oriented Requirements Engineering, Agent-oriented SW engineering, Security, and Formal Methods. Referring to formal methods, current research directions include: * Satisfiability Modulo Theory, and its application to the verification of hardware, embedded critical software, and hybrid systems. * Optimization in SMT and its applications. * Advanced Model Checking Techniques for Formal Verification of hardware, embedded critical software, and hybrid systems. The R.P. is part of the Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science, DISI (http://disi.unitn.it/) of University of Trento. University of Trento in the latest years has always been rated among the top-three small&medium-size universities in Italy. DISI currently consists of 50 faculties, 68 research staff and support people, 21 postdocs and 146 Doctoral students, plus administrative and technical staff. DISI covers all the different areas of information technology (computer science, telecommunications, and electronics) and their applications. These disciplines above are studied individually but also with a strong focus on their integration, Location ======== Trento is a lively town of about 100.000 inhabitants, located 130 km south of the border between Italy and Austria. It is well known for the beauty of its mountains and lakes, and it offers the possibility to practice a wide range of sports. Trento enjoys a rich cultural and historical heritage, and it is the ideal starting point for day trips to famous towns such as Venice or Verona, as well as to enjoy great naturalistic journeys. Detailed information about Trento and its region can be found at http://www.trentino.to/home/index.html?_lang=en. From schmidt at cs.man.ac.uk Tue Aug 27 17:09:57 2013 From: schmidt at cs.man.ac.uk (Renate Schmidt) Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2013 16:09:57 +0100 Subject: [DL] FroCoS 2013 Last Call for Participation Message-ID: <20130827150957.5A9FB4D626B@cspc036.cs.man.ac.uk> LAST CALL FOR PARTICIPATION FroCoS 2013 9th International Symposium on Frontiers of Combining Systems Nancy, France September 18-20, 2013 http://frocos2013.loria.fr/ Co-located with TABLEAUX 2013 NOTE: For online registration, visit http://frocos2013.loria.fr/registration.html Please note the reduced fees for the joint registration FroCoS+TABLEAUX. GENERAL INFORMATION The 9th International Symposium on Frontiers of Combining Systems will be held in Nancy, France, from 18-20 September 2013. The aim of the conference is to publish and promote progress in research areas requiring the development of general techniques and methods for the combination and integration of special, formally defined systems, as well as for the analysis and modularization of complex systems. PROGRAMME The conferences features 4 invited talks and 20 contributed papers. The full programme is available at the conference website. INVITED TALKS - Stephane Demri, New York University & LSV, CNRS Counter Systems: The Quest for Pushing the Decidability Borders (joint invited talk with TABLEAUX 2013) - Konstantin Korovin, The University of Manchester From Resolution and DPLL to Solving Arithmetic Constraints - Joel Ouaknine, University of Oxford Specification and Verification of Linear Dynamical Systems: Advances and Challenges - Lawrence C. Paulson, University of Cambridge MetiTarski's Menagerie of Cooperating Systems CO-LOCATED EVENT FroCoS 2013 will be co-located with the 22nd International Conference on Automated Reasoning with Analytic Tableaux and Related Methods (TABLEAUX 2013) held 16-19 September 2013. Participation in the TABLEAUX sessions is open to FroCoS participants on the overlapping days. There is also an attractive option for joint registration to both FroCoS and TABLEAUX. IMPORTANT DATES 16-19 Sep 2013 Tableaux Conference 18-20 Sep 2013 FroCoS Conference REGISTRATION For online registration, please visit: http://frocos2013.loria.fr/registration.html Please refer to the conference website for registration, accommodation and travel information. ORGANIZATION - Pascal Fontaine (PC Co-Chair), LORIA, INRIA, University of Lorraine, France - Christophe Ringeissen (Conference Chair), LORIA, INRIA, France - Renate Schmidt (PC Co-Chair), The University of Manchester, UK We look forward to seeing you in Nancy! From yuting.zhao at gmail.com Tue Aug 27 12:31:47 2013 From: yuting.zhao at gmail.com (Yuting Zhao) Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2013 11:31:47 +0100 Subject: [DL] 2nd CFP: Workshop on Semantic Web Enabled Software Engineering (SWESE2013), Berlin, Dec 2-5 2013 Message-ID: <521c8023.e2c6b40a.307c.ffffa19e@mx.google.com> We apologize if you receive this message more than once. ----------------------------------------------------------- The 9th International Workshop on Semantic Web Enabled Software Engineering (SWESE) Held in conjunction with 11th International Conference on Service Oriented Computing (ICSOC) Berlin, Germany, December 2-5, 2013 http://swese.odsd.eu/swese2013 ----------------------------------------------------------- Important Dates ----------------------------------------------------------- Deadline for Paper Submission: 20 September 2013 (Extended) Paper Acceptance Notification: 14 October 2013 Camera Ready Paper & Copyright: 31 October 2013 ----------------------------------------------------------- About SWESE ----------------------------------------------------------- There has been more and more evidence that the usage of Semantic Web technologies leads to improvements in both the process and product of software and service development and management activities. The goal of the SWESE workshop is to advance research on this this important area. We believe that the informal nature of the workshop, located at one of the major events in service-oriented computing, will lead to further exchange between practitioners and researchers working on issues related to Semantic Web Enabled Software and Service Engineering by providing a forum for discussing the major challenges of the area and the different approaches being taken to resolve them. ----------------------------------------------------------- Workshop Scope ----------------------------------------------------------- During the last five years, a number of successful attempts showed the advantages of Semantic Web technologies in software and service engineering including reusability and extensibility of data models, improvements in data quality and data integration, and discovery and automated execution of workflows. The scope of the SWESE workshop is to investigate any potential benefits of using Semantic Web knowledge representations (ontologies) and reasoning technologies in service engineering, management, organization and implementation. Topics of interest to the workshop include (but are not restricted to): * Visions for Semantic Web driven software and service engineering * Tools developed or being developed for software and service engineering using SW languages * Integration or application development projects combining software engineering techniques and Semantic Web tools or languages * Shortcomings with the Semantic Web with respect to software and service engineering * Visions for SW driven software modernization * Integration of model-driven architectures, programming languages and Semantic Web languages * Integration of formal methods and Semantic Web languages * Software specification and Semantic Web languages * Software versioning control and Semantic Web * Software debugging and Semantic Web * Ontologies for software engineering * Ontologies for service engineering and service specifications * Ontologies for requirement engineering * Ontologies for software guidance, traceability and maintenance * Ontologies for service composition * Component discovery and ontologies * Feature modelling and ontologies * Metamodel engineering * Ontology reasoning for service engineering and management * Semantic annotations in service engineering * Transitioning legacy applications to ontologies * Semantic-based intelligent assistance tools for software developers * Lessons learnt and outstanding challenges for the usage of semantic technologies in service engineering and management * Ontology-Driven Architecture: How to introduce Semantic Web technology into mainstream development processes * Ontologies for supporting collaboration/coordination between developers * Semantic-based information push for service engineering and management process * Methods and tools for semantic-based event-driven interaction in service development * Semantic Web based service marketplaces ----------------------------------------------------------- Submissions ----------------------------------------------------------- Papers must be in English and may be submitted by Easychair Conference Management System https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=swese2013 as * Full Papers (15 pages in the proceedings) * Short Papers (5-8 pages in the proceedings) * Position Statements (2 pages in the proceedings) * Posters (to be presented during the workshop, with 2 page descriptions submitted via the conference site for review) Papers must be submitted using the ?Lecture Notes in Computer Science? (LNCS) style (Word or LaTex). See http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html for style files and details. Submissions will be peer- reviewed by at least 3 PC members based on originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of exposition. ----------------------------------------------------------- Program Committee (Tentative) ----------------------------------------------------------- Uwe Assman (DE), Technical University of Dresden Colin Atkinson (DE), University of Mannheim Kenneth Baclawski (US), VIStology, Inc. Bernhard Bauer (DE), University of Augsburg Marco Brambilla (IT), Politecnico di Milano Philippe Charland (CA), Defence R&D Canada ? Valcartier Emanuele Della Valle (IT), DEI, Politecnico di Milano J?rgen Ebert (DE), University of Koblenz Dragan Gasevic, (CA), Athabasca University Michael Goedicke (DE), University of Essen Michael K. Smith (US), Hewlett-Packard Mieczyslaw Kokar (US), Northeastern University Harald K?hn (AT), BOC Inc. Hareton Leung (HK), Hong Kong Polytechnic University Maria Maleshkova (UK), KMI, The Open University Krzysztof Miksa (PL), Comarch, Inc. Jishnu Mukerji (US), Hewlett-Packard Company Ioannis N. Athanasiadis (GR), Democritus University of Thrace Daniel Oberle (DE), SAP Research Yuan Ren (UK), University of Aberdeen Dave Reynolds (UK), Epimorphics Ltd Juergen Rilling (CA), Concordia University Fernando Silva Parreiras (BR), FUMEC University Jin Song Dong (NZ), National University of Singapore Steffen Staab (DE), University of Koblenz-Landau Jing Sun (NZ), The University of Auckland Hai Wang (UK), Aston University ----------------------------------------------------------- Workshop Organization Chairs ----------------------------------------------------------- Jeff Z. Pan, University of Aberdeen, UK (contact) Elisa F. Kendall, Thematix Partners LLC , USA Ljiljana Stojanovic, FZI, Germany Yuting Zhao, University of Aberdeen, UK Gerd Groener, University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From longo at dmi.unict.it Sat Aug 17 16:12:40 2013 From: longo at dmi.unict.it (Cristiano Longo) Date: Sat, 17 Aug 2013 14:12:40 -0000 Subject: [DL] Use of Semantic web reasoner in ontology based Question Answering In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <520F832A.1010706@dmi.unict.it> Dear Olivier, in general inferred statements are regarded as "native" ones, so that they partecipate in the executions of the query. I personally used just pellet as reasoning engine, and ARQ to provide the sparql endpoint. However, you may use a faster reasoner if the constructs in your ontology falls in some specific fragments (see EL++ for example). Hope it helps, Cristiano Longo On 14/08/2013 00:53, Olivier Austina wrote: > Hi All, > > I would like to have a feedback about using a semantic web reasoner > over OWL ontology of Question Answering System. The system use SPARQL > as query language. Initially the reasoner is not supposed to be used. > But it seems to enhance the system. > > How to put them together and which free reasoner is recommended? Thanks. > > Regards > Olivier > > > > --- > ** You received this mail via the description logic mailing list; for more ** > ** information, visit the description logic homepage at http://dl.kr.org/. ** -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From pfpschneider at gmail.com Sat Aug 17 18:46:19 2013 From: pfpschneider at gmail.com (Peter Patel-Schneider) Date: Sat, 17 Aug 2013 16:46:19 -0000 Subject: [DL] Guideline to define new constructors in Description Logics In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Well, there are quite a few defined description logics whose constructors are not in the mainstream DLs. This includes modals, time, space, and fuzzy. If you are interested in anything along these lines you should look in the DL literature. If you mean some specific construct for a particular domain (like, perhaps, you want to define a family all at once), then you are probably looking at a macro. Macros have usability issues but don't impact the underlying logic. Otherwise you probably need to say more about just want you want. Just remember that any new expressive power needs new reasoning power, and could easily impact the complexity or decidability of the DL. peter On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 4:18 PM, Olivier Austina wrote: > Hi All, > > Is there a guideline to define new constructors (extension) in DL for > specific domain? Any suggestion is welcome. Thanks. > > Regards > Olivier > > > --- > ** You received this mail via the description logic mailing list; for > more ** > ** information, visit the description logic homepage at http://dl.kr.org/. > ** > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From pfpschneider at gmail.com Sat Aug 17 18:51:30 2013 From: pfpschneider at gmail.com (Peter Patel-Schneider) Date: Sat, 17 Aug 2013 16:51:30 -0000 Subject: [DL] Mapping words or utterances (in natural language) to ontology concepts In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: There are entire lines of research on how to map NL constructs into domain vocabulary. In some sense, you are asking for complete natural language understanding. I believe that using an ontology as part of the bridge is a very good idea. However, there is much more to natural language than can be expressed in ontologies (unless you believe that all knowledge is just an ontology). Certainly current DLs don't express rules, or action, or .... You could think of DLs as providing some machinery to talk about static noun phrases that are not too complex. peter On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 4:45 AM, Olivier Austina wrote: > Hi, > My question is about mapping a word or an utterance (in natural language) > to ontology for Natural Language Interface to DataBase (NLIDB). The > database can be an RDF graph or traditional database. > The problem is that the lexicon derived from the ontology is very limited > to cover how the natural language can express the concepts of the ontology. > It is possible to enriched labels of the ontology with synonymy or > hypernymy/hyponymy but it is still insufficient to cover the way natural > language can refer to ontology concepts. > > The first motivation is not reasoning but be able to map natural language > to ontology. I think Description Logic is suitable for this task by > providing a way a word or an utterance can be describe according a given > ontology but I don't know how far it is possible to go with DL (strength > and limitation of DL for this kind of task). > > This an example taken from the DL handbook 2003 (p. 93) : > > > > for a person having at least 2 sons and at most 5 daughters. > > Somtimes, it is possible to have an expression or function instead of > integer like 2 or 5 in this example to quantify roles or concepts. For > example : A person with more than a third of her children are males. The > expression or th function can be provided by a formal query language such > as SQL or SPARQL or a user defined functions. > My questions are the following: > > Can DL support an arbitrary expression, function? > What can be expressed using DL and cannot be expressed (the motivation s > not reasoning but mapping natural language to ontology concept). > > Any suggestion is welcome. Thanks. > > Regards > Olivier > > > --- > ** You received this mail via the description logic mailing list; for > more ** > ** information, visit the description logic homepage at http://dl.kr.org/. > ** > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From sattler at cs.man.ac.uk Sun Aug 18 13:04:49 2013 From: sattler at cs.man.ac.uk (Uli Sattler) Date: Sun, 18 Aug 2013 11:04:49 -0000 Subject: [DL] Mapping words or utterances (in natural language) to ontology concepts In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <8ABF9513-72EF-4345-B0B1-AD9B31B7B268@cs.man.ac.uk> H Olivier, I know that Ian Pratt-Hartman has worked on related fragments of first order logic and their correspondence in English, and that Robert Stevens has some work on translating Owl into English. Cheers, Uli On 13 Aug 2013, at 12:45, Olivier Austina wrote: > Hi, > My question is about mapping a word or an utterance (in natural language) to ontology for Natural Language Interface to DataBase (NLIDB). The database can be an RDF graph or traditional database. > The problem is that the lexicon derived from the ontology is very limited to cover how the natural language can express the concepts of the ontology. It is possible to enriched labels of the ontology with synonymy or hypernymy/hyponymy but it is still insufficient to cover the way natural language can refer to ontology concepts. > > The first motivation is not reasoning but be able to map natural language to ontology. I think Description Logic is suitable for this task by providing a way a word or an utterance can be describe according a given ontology but I don't know how far it is possible to go with DL (strength and limitation of DL for this kind of task). > > This an example taken from the DL handbook 2003 (p. 93) : > > > > for a person having at least 2 sons and at most 5 daughters. > > Somtimes, it is possible to have an expression or function instead of integer like 2 or 5 in this example to quantify roles or concepts. For example : A person with more than a third of her children are males. The expression or th function can be provided by a formal query language such as SQL or SPARQL or a user defined functions. > My questions are the following: > > Can DL support an arbitrary expression, function? > What can be expressed using DL and cannot be expressed (the motivation s not reasoning but mapping natural language to ontology concept). > > Any suggestion is welcome. 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URL: From D.Diochnos at ed.ac.uk Mon Aug 26 22:16:47 2013 From: D.Diochnos at ed.ac.uk (Dimitris Diochnos) Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2013 21:16:47 +0100 Subject: [DL] ISAIM 2014: First Call for Papers Message-ID: FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS Thirteenth International Symposium on ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE and MATHEMATICS ISAIM 2014 http://www.cs.uic.edu/Isaim2014/ January 6-8, 2014 Fort Lauderdale, Florida PAPER SUBMISSION DEADLINE: October 15, 2013 The International Symposium on Artificial Intelligence and Mathematics (ISAIM) is a biennial meeting that fosters interactions between mathematics, theoretical computer science, and artificial intelligence. This is the thirteenth Symposium in the series, which is sponsored by the journal Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence and by Florida Atlantic University. We seek submissions of recent results, with a particular emphasis on the foundations of AI and mathematical methods used in AI. Papers describing applications are also encouraged, but the focus should be on principled lessons learned from the development of the application. Traditionally, the Symposium attracts participants from a variety of disciplines, thereby providing a unique forum for scientific exchange. The three-day Symposium includes invited speakers, presentations of technical papers, and special topic sessions. The Symposium takes place at the Embassy Suites Hotel in Fort Lauderdale. Please visit http://www.cs.uic.edu/Isaim2014/Venue for more information about the venue. SPECIAL TOPIC INVITED SESSIONS: o Boolean and pseudo-Boolean Functions -Organized by Endre Boros, Rutgers University, and Yves Crama, University of Li?ge o Mathematical Theories of Natural Language Processing -Organized by Andr?s Kornai, Hungarian Academy of Sciences o Theory of Machine Learning -Organized by Lev Reyzin, University of Illinois at Chicago o Proposals for organizing additional special sessions can be sent to the chairs for consideration by September 15, 2013. INVITED SPEAKERS: o Peter Stone, University of Texas at Austin o Csaba Szepesv?ri, University of Alberta PAPER SUBMISSION: Paper submission will be electronic via the submission link on the Paper Submission page of the Symposium website (/www.cs.uic.edu/Isaim2014/). Papers must be formatted in accordance with the guidelines given there. The submission deadline is October 15, 2013 (11:59 PM PDT). Papers will be reviewed by members of the Program Committee. Authors will be notified of acceptance or rejection by November 15, 2013. Final versions of accepted papers, for inclusion in the conference electronic proceedings, are due by December 15, 2013. Work that has already been published as of the ISAIM submission deadline should not be submitted to ISAIM unless it introduces a significant addition to the previously published work. However, the ISAIM web site proceedings are not archival, so papers submitted to ISAIM can be under review at the time of submission and can be submitted elsewhere after ISAIM. Authors of a selected set of papers from the Symposium will be invited to submit full versions of their papers for inclusion in a special volume of the Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence, published by Springer. Those invited submissions will be subject to refereeing at the usual standards of the journal, and authors will receive more details with the acceptance notice. Papers must of course be new and unpublished to be considered for the special volume. Any questions regarding paper submission should be sent to the program committee chairs at the email address . IMPORTANT DATES: Paper submission: October 15, 2013 Notification: November 15, 2013 Final version due: December 15, 2013 Workshop: January 6-8, 2014, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida ORGANIZERS: o General Chair: Martin Charles Golumbic, University of Haifa o Conference Chair: Frederick Hoffman, Florida Atlantic University o Program Committee Chairs: Lisa Hellerstein, Polytechnic Institute of NYU Gy?rgy Tur?n, University of Illinois at Chicago and University of Szeged o Publicity Chair: Dimitrios I. Diochnos, University of Edinburgh PROGRAM COMMITTEE: St?phane Airiau University of Amsterdam Endre Boros Rutgers University Arthur Choi University of California Los Angeles Berthe Choueiry University of Nebraska-Lincoln Yves Crama University of Li?ge Marek Druzdzel University of Pittsburgh Roni Khardon Tufts University Richard Korf University of California Los Angeles Loizos Michael Open University of Cyprus Maurice Pagnucco University of New South Wales Barnab?s P?czos Carnegie Mellon University Francesca Rossi University of Padova Bart Selman Cornell University Rocco Servedio Columbia University Hans-Ulrich Simon Ruhr-University Bochum Stefan Szeider Vienna University of Technology Bal?zs Sz?r?nyi University of Szeged Miros?aw (Mirek) Truszczy?ski University of Kentucky Frank Wolter University of Liverpool Stefan Woltran Vienna University of Technology Neil Yorke-Smith American University of Beirut Send inquiries and requests to isaim2014 at cs DOT uic DOT edu. Visit http://www.cs.uic.edu/Isaim2014/. Join isaim at googlegroups.com to receive announcements related to ISAIM. -- The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336. From Sebastien.Ferre at irisa.fr Mon Sep 9 18:31:28 2013 From: Sebastien.Ferre at irisa.fr (Sebastien Ferre) Date: Mon, 09 Sep 2013 18:31:28 +0200 Subject: [DL] Mapping words or utterances (in natural language) to ontology concepts In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <522DF7E0.2000303@irisa.fr> Hi, as your first motivation is not reasoning but mapping from natural language to a formal language, you might consider SPARQL as a target language. SPARQL 1.1 is very expressive and allows for the expression of factual statements (as updates), and all sorts of queries using expressions, aggregations, Boolean operators, etc. I work on a translator from controlled English (SQUALL) to SPARQL 1.1. Web forms for translation and direct querying of SPARQL endpoints are available from this page: http://www.irisa.fr/LIS/softwares/squall It might give you some idea of what is possible. It's only for controlled English and the online version uses no lexicon (qnames must be used for words), but I think it covers a pretty large fragment of NL. A future version will allow to improve naturalness by feeding in a lexicon (e.g., for DBpedia). Your first example can be turned into a SQUALL question: > Which person has at least 2 son-s and at most 5 daughter-s ? (assuming 'person' is a class, and 'son' and 'daughter' are properties) Your second example, assuming a small extension not yet available online, can be expressed as: > Which person has the number of son-s / the number of child-s greater than 1 / 3 ? (assuming 'child' is a super-property of 'son' and 'daughter') Using an ad-hoc lexicon would make it easy to translate the nouns 'son' and 'daughter' as a combination of the property 'child', and the classes 'male' and 'female', like in your example. Regards, S?bastien On 13/08/13 13:45, Olivier Austina wrote: > Hi, > My question is about mapping a word or an utterance (in natural > language) to ontology for Natural Language Interface to DataBase > (NLIDB). The database can be an RDF graph or traditional database. > The problem is that the lexicon derived from the ontology is very > limited to cover how the natural language can express the concepts of > the ontology. It is possible to enriched labels of the ontology with > synonymy or hypernymy/hyponymy but it is still insufficient to cover the > way natural language can refer to ontology concepts. > > The first motivation is not reasoning but be able to map natural > language to ontology. I think Description Logic is suitable for this > task by providing a way a word or an utterance can be describe > according a given ontology but I don't know how far it is possible to go > with DL (strength and limitation of DL for this kind of task). > > This an example taken from the DL handbook 2003 (p. 93) : > > > for a person having at least 2 sons and at most 5 daughters. > > Somtimes, it is possible to have an expression or function instead of > integer like 2 or 5 in this example to quantify roles or concepts. For > example : A person with more than a third of her children are males. The > expression or th function can be provided by a formal query language > such as SQL or SPARQL or a user defined functions. > My questions are the following: > > Can DL support an arbitrary expression, function? > What can be expressed using DL and cannot be expressed (the motivation s > not reasoning but mapping natural language to ontology concept). > > Any suggestion is welcome. Thanks. > > Regards > Olivier > > > > --- > ** You received this mail via the description logic mailing list; for more ** > ** information, visit the description logic homepage at http://dl.kr.org/. ** > From pascal.hitzler at wright.edu Sat Sep 14 05:29:20 2013 From: pascal.hitzler at wright.edu (Pascal Hitzler) Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2013 23:29:20 -0400 Subject: [DL] faculty position opening in "Big Data" at Wright State University Message-ID: <5233D810.3040609@wright.edu> We are seeking a faculty member in Big Data. Appointment at any rank is possible (Assistant, Associate, or Full Professor). Particular areas of interest include, but are not limited to, data management and lifecycle, data analytics, data visualization, data fusion and integration, semantics and ontologies, social and sensor Web, biomedical and health informatics. Outstanding applicants with a high potential for collaborations with existing strengths of the department and the Kno.e.sis Center are particularly welcome to apply. Outstanding applicants specializing in other emerging research areas are also welcome to apply. For more information: http://cse.wright.edu/opportunity/assistant-associate-or-professor-big-data - or email me (I'm the search committee chair). Best Regards, Pascal. -- Prof. Dr. Pascal Hitzler Dept. of Computer Science, Wright State University, Dayton, OH pascal at pascal-hitzler.de http://www.knoesis.org/pascal/ Semantic Web Textbook: http://www.semantic-web-book.org Semantic Web Journal: http://www.semantic-web-journal.net From fink at kr.tuwien.ac.at Sun Sep 15 14:41:54 2013 From: fink at kr.tuwien.ac.at (fink at kr.tuwien.ac.at) Date: Sun, 15 Sep 2013 14:41:54 +0200 Subject: [DL] Call for Papers KR 2014: 14th International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning Message-ID: <201309151241.r8FCfsAZ030689@mahler.kr.tuwien.ac.at> CALL FOR PAPERS *** KR 2014 *** 14th International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning Vienna, Austria July 20-24, 2014 http://kr.org/KR2014/ Co-located with DL 2014 [www.dl.kr.org], NMR 2014 [www.kr.org/NMR], FLoC 2014 (CAV, CSF, ICLP, IJCAR, ITP, LICS, RTA, SAT), and Logic Colloquium 2014. KR 2014 is part of Vienna Summer of Logic [http://vsl2014.at/] Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KR&R) is a well-established and vibrant field of research. KR&R techniques are key drivers of innovation in computer science, and they have led to significant advances in practical applications in a wide range of areas from Artificial Intelligence to Software Engineering. The underlying approach of explicitly representing knowledge in a tangible form, suitable for processing by dedicated reasoning engines, is a fundamental component of many modern intelligent systems. Foundational and applied research in KR&R contributes to the principles of artificial intelligence. It also contributes to the foundations of longstanding fields including automated planning, databases, and software engineering. In recent years KR&R has also derived challenges from new and emerging fields including the semantic web, computational biology, and the development of software agents. The KR conference series is a leading forum for timely in-depth presentation of progress in the theory and principles underlying the representation and computational management of knowledge. The 2014 edition will be held as part of the Vienna Summer of Logic together with the Federated Conference on Logic, Logic Colloquium and other related events. The Vienna Summer of Logic is expected to be the largest convention in the history of logic. We solicit papers presenting novel results on the principles of KR&R that clearly contribute to the formal foundations of relevant problems or show the applicability of results to implemented or implementable systems. We also encourage "reports from the field" of applications experiments, developments, and tests. Such papers should be explicitly identified as reports from the field by the authors, to ensure appropriate reviewing, and must include a section on evaluation. KR 2014 IMPORTANT DATES ----------------------- * Submission of title and abstract: November 28, 2013 * Paper submission deadline: December 5, 2013 * Author response period: January 11-12, 2014 * Notification of acceptance: January 27, 2014 * Camera-ready papers due: March 4, 2014 * Conference date: July 20-24, 2014 The reference time for all deadlines is 23:59 UTC-12. If you are "on time" anywhere in the world, you are "on time". TOPICS ------ Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Applications of KR * Argumentation * Belief revision and update, belief merging, information fusion * Computational aspects of knowledge representation * Concept formation, similarity-based reasoning * Contextual reasoning * Description logics * Explanation finding, diagnosis, causal reasoning, abduction * Inconsistency- and exception tolerant reasoning, paraconsistent logics * KR and autonomous agents, cognitive robotics, multi-agent systems, logical models of agency * KR and data management, ontology-based data access, queries and updates over incomplete data * KR and decision making, decision theory, game theory and economic models * KR and machine learning, inductive logic programming, knowledge discovery and acquisition * KR and the Web, Semantic Web, formal approaches to knowledge bases * KR in games, general game playing, reasoning in video games and virtual environments, believable agents * KR in natural language understanding and question answering * KR in image and video understanding * Logical approaches to planning and behavior synthesis * Logic programming, answer set programming, constraint logic programming * Nonmonotonic logics, default logics, conditional logics * Reasoning about norms and organizations, social knowledge and behavior * Philosophical foundations of KR * Ontology languages and modeling * Preference modeling and representation, reasoning about preferences, preference-based reasoning * Qualitative reasoning, reasoning about physical systems * Reasoning about actions and change, action languages, situation calculus, dynamic logic * Reasoning about knowledge and belief, epistemic and doxastic logics * Spatial reasoning and temporal reasoning * Uncertainty, representations of vagueness, many-valued and fuzzy logics, relational probability models SUBMISSION INFORMATION ---------------------- Papers must be submitted in AAAI style and PDF format. The maximum length of a submission is 9 pages including abstract, figures, and appendices (if any) but excluding references. Reviewing will be non-blind. AAAI author instructions: http://www.aaai.org/Publications/Author/author.php AAAI author kit: http://www.aaai.org/Publications/Templates/AuthorKit.zip Papers must be submitted via EASYCHAIR using the following URL: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=kr2014 The conference proceedings will be published by AAAI Press. For complete details, see the conference website: http://kr.org/KR2014/ [kr.org] CONFERENCE CHAIRS ----------------- General: Thomas Eiter (TU Vienna, Austria) Program: Chitta Baral (Arizona State U, USA), Giuseppe De Giacomo (U "La Sapienza", Italy) Local Organization: Michael Fink, Stefan Woltran (TU Vienna, Austria) Doctoral Consortium: Birte Glimm (U Ulm, Germany), Adrian Pearce (U Melbourne, Australia) Sponsorship Chair: Marco Maratea (U Genova, Italy) From ponom at iis.nsk.su Thu Sep 12 16:43:40 2013 From: ponom at iis.nsk.su (Denis Ponomaryov) Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2013 16:43:40 +0200 Subject: [DL] CfP: PSI'2014 Conference Message-ID: CALL FOR PAPERS THE ERSHOV INFORMATICS CONFERENCE - PSI'2014 ---------------------------------------------------------------- Peterhof, St. Petersburg, Russia, June 24 - 27, 2014 ---------------------------------------------------------------- http://psi.nsc.ru ---------------------------------------------------------------- January 13, 2014: abstract submission January 20, 2014: submission deadline ---------------------------------------------------------------- Programme Committee Chairs ---------------------------------------------------------------- Andrei Voronkov The University of Manchester, UK Irina Virbitskaite A.P. Ershov Institute of Informatics Systems & Novosibirsk State University, Russia ---------------------------------------------------------------- The Institute of Informatics Systems (Russian Academy of Sciences) and the Saint Petersburg State University are jointly organizing the Ershov Informatics Conference (the PSI Conference Series, the 9th edition) to be held in St. Petersburg, Russia, on June 24 - 27, 2014. The PSI Conference is the premier international forum for research and its applications in computer, software and information sciences. The conference brings together academic and industrial researchers, developers and users to present and discuss the most recent trends, experiences and concerns in the conference area. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Conference Topics: ---------------------------------------------------------------- ** Information Technologies data models, database and information systems, knowledge-based systems and knowledge engineering, bioinformatics engineering, ontologies and semantic Web, digital libraries, collections and archives, Web publishing, peer-to-peer data management. ** Foundations of Program and System Development and Analysis specification, validation, and verification techniques, program analysis, transformation and synthesis, semantics, logic and formal models of programs, partial evaluation, mixed computation, abstract interpretation, compiler construction, theorem proving and model checking, concurrency theory, modeling and analysis of real-time and hybrid systems, computer models and algorithms for bioinformatics. ** Programming Methodology and Software Engineering object-oriented, aspect-oriented, component-based and generic programming, programming by contract, program and system construction for parallel and distributed computing, constraint programming, multi-agent technology, system re-engineering and reuse, integrated programming environments, software architectures, software development and testing, model-driven system/software development, agile software development, software engineering methods and tools, program understanding and visualization ---------------------------------------------------------------- Program Committee ---------------------------------------------------------------- Samson Abramsky, Oxford Univ., UK Fr?d?ric Benhamou, Univ. Nantes, France Eike Best, Univ. Oldenburg, Germany Nikolaj Bj?rner, Microsoft Research, Redmond, USA Kim Bruce, Pomona College, California, USA Gabriel Ciobanu, Inst. Comp. Sc. RA, Iasi, Romania Dieter Fensel, STI Innsbruck, Austria Jan Friso Groote, Eindhoven Univ. Technology, The Netherlands Joost-Pieter Katoen, RWTH Aachen Univ., Germany Laura Kovacs, Chalmers Univ. Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden Gregory Kucherov, CNRS/LIGM, Marne-la-Vallee, France Kim Guldstrand Larsen, Aalborg University, Denmark Leonid Libkin, Univ. Edinburgh, UK Johan Lilius, ?bo Akademi Univ., Turku, Finland Pericles Loucopoulos, Loughborough Univ., UK Andrea Maggiolo-Schettini, Univ. Pisa, Italy Rupak Majumdar, MPI, Kaiserslautern, Germany Torben Mogensen, Univ. Copenhagen, Denmark Peter Mosses, Swansea Univ., Wales, UK Peter M?ller, ETH, Z?rich, Switzerland Jos? R. Param?, Univ. A Coru?a, Spain Wojciech Penczek, Inst. Comp. Sci., Warsaw, Poland Peter Pepper, Tech. Univ. Berlin, Germany Alexander Petrenko, ISP RAS, Moscow, Russia Andrey Rybalchenko, TUM, Munchen, Germany Wolfgang Reisig Humboldt Univ., Berlin, Germany Andrei Sabelfeld, Chalmers Univ. Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden Donald Sannella, Univ. Edinburgh, UK Klaus-Dieter Schewe, Software Competence Centre Hagenberg, Austria David Schmidt, Kansas State Univ., Manhattan, USA Natasha Sharygina, Univ. Lugano, Switzerland Val Tannen, Univ. Pennsylvania, USA Lothar Thiele, ETH Zurich, Switzerland Mark Trakhtenbrot, Holon Inst. of Technology, Israel Alexander L. Wolf, Imperial College London, UK From rodriguez at inf.unibz.it Thu Sep 19 13:50:08 2013 From: rodriguez at inf.unibz.it (Rodriguez-Muro Mariano (A)) Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2013 11:50:08 +0000 Subject: [DL] -ontop- v1.9 now available (OBDA, RDBMS, RDB2RDF mappings, RDF, OWL, RDFS, R2RML, SPARQL, SQL) Message-ID: We are happy to announce the availability of -ontop- v1.9 a Java framework to query RDBMS using SPARQL over RDF(s) and OWL ontologies. Get it at: http://ontop.inf.unibz.it If you are interested in virtual RDF graphs, RDB2RDF mappings (e.g., R2RML) and/or RDFS/OWL2QL reasoning and SQL, then -ontop- is for you. The system implements the cutting edge in SPARQL-to-SQL and query optimisation techniques, provides great performance and is packed with unique features. With -ontop-, you don't need to move your data from your DB to enjoy the benefits of the RDF data model, the SPARQL query language or RDFS/OWL 2 QL inference. There is no need for expensive ETL or forward/backward chaining either. HIGHLIGHT OF CHANGES in v1.9 ============================== This release continues with the project's refactoring, cleaning of code, dependencies and internal documentation. We also added two very exciting new features. And last, a bunch of implementation improvements related to, both, performance and bug fixing. Here goes a summary: * FEATURE: Hybrid RDF graphs! This is a unique new feature in ontop that no other R2RML system has (TTBOMK). Now you have combine data coming from mappings and still have some RDF triples. This lets you store most of the data on the DB, but keep some facts of knowledge in the ontology as triples (ABox facts) For more info see this post: http://ontop-obda.blogspot.it/2013/09/hybrid-rdf-graphs-or-hybrid-aboxes-as.html * FEATURE: Now ontop supports mappings with URI templates in Class or Properties! For more info check this link: http://ontop-obda.blogspot.it/2013/09/uri-templates-for-properties-and-classes.html * IMPROVEMENT: Upgraded libraries. Now we link to Sesame 2.7.6, OWLAPI 3.4.5 and Protege 4.3 * IMPROVEMENT: We cleaned a lot of dependencies in ontop, you will see that our package is now half the size as before. * BUF FIXES: Critical bug fixes in CONSTRUCT and DESCRIBE queries, as well as in the code that matches URI's to URI templates. Several bugfixes in ontopPro and the SPARQL end-point. NEW ONTOP TUTORIAL ======================== We also prepared a new tutorial that guides you through the first steps of using ontop and ontopPro (the Protege 4 plugin), and how it can be used for data access and data integration. Find it here: http://ontop-obda.blogspot.it/2013/09/new-ontop-tutorial.html Cheers, The -ontop- team Mariano Rodriguez Muro http://mariano.rodriguez-muro.com/ KRDB Research Center Faculty of Computer Science Free University of Bozen-Bolzano (FUB) Piazza Domenicani 3, I-39100 Bozen-Bolzano BZ, Italy ? ======================== PGP ======================== To send me encrypted email use my PGP key found at: http://keys.gnupg.net/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xAAC79582C4B77F31 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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The recruitment process is underway, and we encourage applications to be made as soon as possible, via: http://www.hendronwood.com/vacancy-details.php?ref=1642AG Thank you for time and we welcome your interest. *Andrew Gifford* Principal Consultant: IT | Digital | R&D | Commercial *Hendron Wood* Tel: 07710 794225 | Head office: 01284 700647 / 01359 258561 Email: andrew at hendronwood.co.uk *Senior Java Developer:** clinical terminology ontology*** * * *Your challenge:*** Like work that means something, while still enjoying complex programming challenges? *Your role (home based):*** This is about knowledge and data representation - redeveloping the technical business processes used to release and validate the world?s most comprehensive clinical terminology ? benefiting patient healthcare and clinical advancement worldwide. You can anticipate a high degree of knowledge transfer, a rich diversity of challenges, and opportunity to contribute to strategic and technical decisions. You will be joining a small expert team, guided by the Software Architect during a time of significant redevelopment - becoming an expert within clinical healthcare technology. *About you:*** ? You bring 5 years? high quality Java coding experience: core Java | J2SE | Enterprise Java | J2EE ? You may have aspirations of becoming a Lead Java Developer, Team Leader or Software Architect ? You are used to solving complex problems, not necessarily from the healthcare domain ? You are comfortable with high visibility deliverables, and you communicate inclusively ? You thrive on responsibility, autonomy and collaborating as a cohesive team * * *Example projects:* * * ? Refactoring | Redesigning | Redeveloping | Extending capabilities ? front and back end *The team is currently working with:* ? Core Java (J2SE) | XML | XSLT | Java XML Parsers | SQL | MySQL |Ontologies | Description logics | Continuous integration | Configuration management (Archiva| Continuum | Maestro | Maven | SVN) | Open source * * *Salary and benefits:* ? ?45,000 ? ?50,000 (negotiable) or equivalent ? 25 days paid holiday + bank holidays | Home Office setup assistance | Laptop | Mobile | Expenses * * *About the organisation:* IHTSDO is a non-profit clinical terminology standards organisation with 23 member countries worldwide. IHTSDO seeks to improve the health of humankind by fostering the development and use of suitable standardised clinical terminologies, notably the ?SNOMED CT? product, in order to support safe, accurate, and effective exchange of clinical and related health information. The focus is on enabling the implementation of semantically accurate health records that are interoperable. www.ihtsdo.org *Located:* home based, anywhere in UK / Europe (Software Architect is located in Bath, UK) *Actively interviewing and ready to hire immediately* * * (07710) 794225 | andrew at hendronwood.co.uk | @AndrewGiffordHW -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ghidini at fbk.eu Tue Oct 1 08:59:51 2013 From: ghidini at fbk.eu (Chiara Ghidini) Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2013 06:59:51 +0000 Subject: [DL] JOB: Post-doc position in process analysis, model and (re-)design from data Message-ID: <9C6C6BBD-EF3D-4956-9188-425A8B264DD2@fbk.eu> Position: Post-doctoral Researcher Reference #: NT_SHELL_PostDoc2013 Initial Close Date: October 20th, 2013. The 'New Talent Program" of the Trento RISE Association is seeking candidates for a post-doc position to work in the ?Shape and Evolve Living Knowledge (SHELL)? project at the Bruno Kessler Foundation, Trento, Italy. SHELL (shell.fbk.eu) aims at joining different scientific competences in order to build an environment able to maintain a living inventory of knowledge of an organization. The environment must be able to shape the conceptual models of an organization from textual content and data, and support their co-evolution and adaptation w.r.t., content and data. About Us FBK-ICT (www.fbk.eu) conducts research in information technology. Interdisciplinary research projects, such as SHELL, aim at addressing important research challenges by joining the different scientific competences that are at the base of the internationally well-known scientific excellence of FBK. Job description In this position, you will be working in collaboration with other scientists on the exploitation, adaptation and combination of techniques and approaches borrowed from different research fields, ranging from logic to artificial intelligence, from model checking to statistics, to advance the existing services for process analysis and process model (re-)design from monitoring data. To this purpose, several are the challenges to be faced in the work as, for example, (i) the capability to represent and reason about secondary aspects for business processes such as data, time, resources; (ii) the capability to align execution information with models, when they exist, or to discover models from traces, when they do not exist; (iii) the capability to manage and reason on extremely large quantity of data (big data); (iv) the capability to realise the abovementioned analyses at run-time. The work will put together theoretical and methodological aspects, including for example the problem conceptualization and representation, as well as implementation and optimization ones, aimed at the development of process analysis services and tools. Required skills/qualifications: - PhD degree in computer science, mathematics or electronic engineering (to be completed within 2013 or beginning 2014); - Solid theoretical background in logic and business process modeling; - Skills in experimental work and software development; - Ability to carry out an independent program of research; - Ability to work in a collaborative environment and deliver in research projects; - Oral and written proficiency in English. - Experience in machine learning, knowledge representation and knowledge engineering; - PhD related to the topic of the call; - Experience with practical applications; - Soft skill (communication, teambuilding, problem solving etc) Good to have: - Experience in machine learning, knowledge representation and knowledge engineering; - PhD related to the topic of the call; - Experience with practical applications; Employment: Type of contract: Research position - Full time (38h per week) Gross salary: from 36.000,00 to 38.000,00 Euro per year (depending on the candidate?s experience) Duration: up to 3 years How to apply: Informal enquiries can be sent to ghidini at fbk.eu Formal application at http://www.trentorise.eu/it/jobs/23-9-13/post-doc-position-new-talent-program-shape-and-evolve-living-knowledge-shell-project Dr. Chiara Ghidini Senior Research Scientist @ FBK-irst Phone: +39 0461 314395 +39 3666217500 Web: https://dkm.fbk.eu/ghidini/ From essepuntato at cs.unibo.it Tue Oct 1 15:04:00 2013 From: essepuntato at cs.unibo.it (essepuntato at cs.unibo.it) Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2013 15:04:00 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [DL] ESWC 2014 Call for Workshops Message-ID: <201310011304.r91D3po0002482@informatik.uni-bremen.de> ** apologies for cross-posting ** ==== Call for Workshops ==== http://2014.eswc-conferences.org/important-dates/call-workshops The organizers of the 11th ESWC 2014 cordially invite you to submit a workshop proposal. ESWC is a major venue for discussing the latest scientific results and innovations in the field of semantic technologies on the Web and Linked Data, attracting a high number of high quality submissions and participants from academia and industry alike. Co-located workshops at ESWC conferences are distinguished meeting points for discussing ongoing work and latest ideas related to semantic technologies and the Semantic Web. Of particular interest are workshop proposals with an interdisciplinary standpoint, proposals focusing on a specific technology of general interest, or gathering a sub-community. We encourage the submission of workshop proposals on: Fundamental problems of the Semantic Web / Linked Data such as ontology mining, heterogeneity, scalability and distribution, uncertainty, etc. Applications of Semantic Web technologies in specific domains, Important enabling technologies and their adaptation to the needs of the Semantic Web, and Aspects of Semantic Web research that have been neglected so far, Techniques from other research fields that are of relevance for Semantic Web research (e.g., machine learning, NLP, data mining) General Information and Criteria Each proposal will be reviewed by the members of the workshop programme committee, and ranked based on the overall quality of the proposal and the workshop's fit to the conference as detailed below. Their recommendation will determine the final decision on the acceptance/rejection of each proposal, which is to be taken by the workshop and tutorial chairs as well as by the local and the general chair of ESWC 2014. The criteria for judging the quality of workshop proposals are as follows: Co-located workshops cover topics falling in the general scope of the ESWC conference. Workshops are intended to be genuine interactive events and not mini-conferences. We welcome workshops with creative structures and organizations that attract various types of contributions and ensure rich interactions. Workshops should have a clear focus on a specific technology, problem or application. There is potentially a significant community interested in the workshop's topic. Workshop duration can be half a day or a full day. We strongly advise having more than one organizer and no more than four, preferably from different institutions, bringing different perspectives to the workshop topic. In case overlapping workshops are proposed, the workshop chair may contact the organisers to discuss the possibility of merging workshops. Please note that the duration of a workshop might need to be adjusted based on the overall number of submissions received. Further, workshops that receive less than 5 submissions or have less than 10 people registered at the early registration deadline might be canceled. The organizers of accepted workshops will be responsible for their own reviewing process, publicity (e.g., website, timelines and call for papers), and proceedings production. They will be required to closely cooperate with the Workshop Chair and the ESWC 2014 local organizers to finalize all organizational details. Workshop attendees must pay the ESWC 2014 workshop registration fee, as well as the conference registration fee. Organizers of workshops and tutorials will get a free registration for workshops and tutorials at the pre-conference days, i.e. they will only have to pay the main conference fee. Important Dates Workshop proposals due: Nov 22, 2013 - 23:59 Hawaii Time Notification of acceptance: Dec 6, 2013 - 23:59 Hawaii Time Workshop Web site due: Dec 16, 2013 - 23:59 Hawaii Time Workshop camera-ready proceedings due: Apr 25, 2014 - 23:59 Hawaii Time Workshop days: May 25 and May 26, 2014 Suggested Timeline for Workshops Submission deadline: March 6, 2014 Notifications: April 1, 2014 Camera ready version: April 15, 2014 Submission Guidelines Workshop proposals have to be submitted via Easychair. Each proposal must consist of a single PDF document written in English, not longer than 3 pages, which contains the following information: The title and brief technical description of the workshop, specifying its goals and motivation. A brief discussion of why the topic is of particular interest at this time. A brief description of why and to whom the workshop is of interest, the workshop audience, as well as the expected number of participants. A brief description (draft outline) of the proposed workshop format, discussing the mix of events and activities such as paper presentations, invited talks, panels, hacking session, or general discussion, and and an approximate timeline. A list of (potential) members of the program committee (at least 50% have to be known and confirmed at the time of the proposal). An indication of whether the workshop should be considered for a half-day or full-day event. Related Workshops and Conferences: Is this the continuation of a workshop series or a new workshop to address an emerging issue? Please provide information about past versions of this workshop and other related workshops (including URLs and submission/acceptance counts, if available). Names and contact information of the workshop organizers/chair(s) (name, affiliation, email address, homepage and short (one paragraph) biography of each chair, explaining the chair's expertise for the workshop including past experience in organizing/facilitating workshops). Preferably a single contact person per submission. The best papers of each workshop will be included in the supplementary proceedings of ESWC 2014, which will appear in the Springer LNCS series. Workshop Chair Harald Sack (Hasso-Plattner Institute for IT Systems Engineering, DE) email: harald.sack at hpi.uni-potsdam.de Programme Committee Abraham Bernstein (University of Z??rich, CH) Chris Bizer (University of Mannheim, DE) J??r??me Euzenat (INRIA Grenoble Rh??ne-Alpes, FR) Dieter Fensel (University of Innsbruck, AT) Aldo Gangemi (CNR Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technology, IT) Asuncion Gomez-Perez (Universidad Polit??cnica de Madrid, ES) Frank van Harmelen (VU University Amsterdam, NL) Manfred Hauswirth (DERI, National University of Ireland, Galway, IE) Pascal Hitzler (Kno.e.sis Center, Wright State University, Dayton, US) Enrico Motta (The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK) Rudi Studer (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, DE) From essepuntato at cs.unibo.it Tue Oct 1 18:40:13 2013 From: essepuntato at cs.unibo.it (essepuntato at cs.unibo.it) Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2013 18:40:13 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [DL] ESWC 2014 Call for Tutorials Message-ID: <201310011640.r91Ge3ib005114@informatik.uni-bremen.de> ** apologies for cross-posting ** ==== Call for Tutorials ==== http://2014.eswc-conferences.org/important-dates/call-tutorials ESWC 2014 invites tutorials that address the interests of its varied audience: people new to the Semantic Web, Semantic Web researchers and practitioners that wish to learn new technologies, users of Semantic Web technologies, and representatives of government and funding agencies as well as potential private investors in Semantic Web technologies. We welcome submissions of tutorial proposals on all major topics related to semantic technologies. We especially solicit proposals for tutorials of the following types: - Tutorials with a coherent theme providing an introduction to new semantic technologies and trends. - Tutorials describing the application of semantic technologies in specific domains (e.g., life-sciences, e-government, e-commerce, cultural heritage, etc.). - Tutorials presenting techniques from other research fields that are of relevance for Semantic Web research especially in relationship to the tracks of the conference (e.g., techniques from social science, database techniques, NLP techniques etc.). Tutorials can be half a day or a full day. We advise having more than one presenter and no more than three, preferably from different institutions, bringing different perspectives to the tutorial topic. Tutorials may focus entirely on theoretical aspects; however, we encourage organisers to incorporate hands-on sessions where appropriate. The tutorials should reach a good balance between the topic coverage and its relevance to the community. Timeline for Tutorials ----------- Proposals due: Nov 22, 2013 - 23:59 Hawaii Time Notification of acceptance: Dec 6, 2013 - 23:59 Hawaii Time Tutorial Web site due: Dec 16, 2013 - 23:59 Hawaii Time Camera-ready material due: Apr 25, 2014 - 23:59 Hawaii Time Tutorial days: May 25 and May 26, 2014 Responsibilities ----------- Organizers of accepted tutorials are responsible for preparing and maintaining a Web site that describes the tutorial and includes all relevant information. Organizers are also responsible for submitting the material for attendees (slide sets, additional teaching material, software installation and usage guides for practical hands-on sessions, etc.) to the Tutorial Chair. The ESWC 2014 Organizing Committee is responsible for providing publicity for the tutorials as part of the conference publicity activities, and on-site logistical support to the organizers and attendees. Tutorial attendees must pay the ESWC 2014 workshop registration fee, as well as the conference registration fee. General Information ----------- Each tutorial will have one reduced registration fee (pre-conference days registration will be free i.e. one of the chairs will only have to pay the main conference fees). In the interest of the overall quality of the conference, the Tutorial Chair reserves the right to merge tutorials and/or adjust the scope thereof in case a mimimum number of registrations is not reached by the early registration deadline. Submission details ----------- Tutorial proposals should not exceed 5 pages, using an 11 pt font for the body of the text of the proposal and should contain the following information: - Abstract (200 words maximum, for inclusion on the ESWC 2014 website). - Tutorial description: More specifically, it should specify the objectives of the tutorial and relevance to ESWC 2014, include enough details on the scope of the material to be covered and the depth to which it will be covered and specify the intended audience and any prerequisite knowledge. Appropriate references to the material to be covered by the tutorial must be included. - Tutorial length. The tutorial can be full or half day (if the tutorial can be either length, please be sure to identify which material is included for each length). - Specify other venues to which the tutorial or part thereof has or will be presented, in addition to explaining how the current tutorial differs from the other editions. Links to the slides of those tutorial editions should be included in the proposal. - Brief professional biography of the presenter(s) indicating previous training and speaking experience (such as teaching and tutorial presentation). Each proposal will be reviewed by the members of the tutorial programme committee, and ranked based on the overall quality of the proposal and the tutorial's fit to the conference. Their recommendation will determine the final decision on the acceptance/rejection of each proposal. Submission ----------- Submission will be through the Easychair system (please note that it is the same site to submit workshops and tutorials) https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=eswc2014workshops-tutorials Tutorials Chair Nathalie Aussenac-Gilles (IRIT-CNRS, Toulouse, Fr) email: aussenac at irit.fr From geoff at cs.miami.edu Wed Oct 2 20:03:01 2013 From: geoff at cs.miami.edu (Geoff Sutcliffe) Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2013 14:03:01 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [DL] LPAR-19 - Calls for Short Papers and Workshop Papers Message-ID: <20131002180301.F18A512169C@mcclellan.cs.miami.edu> ============================================================ The 19th International Conference on Logic for Programming, Artificial Intelligence and Reasoning CALL FOR SHORT PAPERS and WORKSHOP PAPERS ============================================================ Stellenbosch, South Africa, 14-19 December 2013 www.LPAR-19.info The series of International Conferences on Logic for Programming, Artificial Intelligence and Reasoning (LPAR) is a forum where, year after year, some of the most renowned researchers in the areas of logic, automated reasoning, computational logic, programming languages and their applications come to present cutting-edge results, to discuss advances in these fields, and to exchange ideas in a scientifically emerging part of the world. The 19th LPAR will be held in Stellenbosch, South Africa. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- * SHORT PAPERS In keeping with the tradition of LPAR, researchers and practitioners are invited to submit short papers reporting on interesting work in progress or providing system descriptions. They need not be original. Extended or revised versions of the short papers may be submitted concurrently with or after LPAR to another conference or a journal. Short papers are limited in length to 8 pages in the EasyChair format. Accepted papers will be published electronically as a volume in the EPiC series, see http://www.easychair.org/publications/?page=38379010. Authors of accepted papers are required to ensure that at least one of them will be present at the conference. Papers that do not adhere to this policy will not be published. The LaTeX, Microsoft Word and LibreOffice templates for the EPiC series may be downloaded from http://www.easychair.org/publications/?page=1594225690. Short papers must be submitted through the EasyChair system using the web page https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lpar19 Paper submission deadline: October 14th, 2013 Notification of acceptance: October 28th, 2013 Final version: November 11th, 2013 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- * WORKSHOP PAPERS LPAR-19 includes five associated workshops: + IWIL-10 - The 10th International Workshop on the Implementation of Logics Submission deadline: October 14, 2013 + APS-7 - The 7th International Workshop on Analytic Proof Systems Submission deadline: October 14, 2013 + ALCS - The 1st International Workshop on Algebraic Logic in Computer Science Submission deadline: passed + LRCM - The 1st Workshop on Logics and Reasoning for Conceptual Models Submission deadline: October 14, 2013 + ALFA-2 - The 2nd Workshop on Automata, Logic, Formal languages, and Algebra Submission deadline: passed Submissions are still being accepted for three of the workshops. For further details, please refer to the workshop web pages that are linked from the LPAR-19 web pages at www.LPAR-19.info . =============================================================================== From math.semantic.web at gmail.com Thu Oct 3 13:00:48 2013 From: math.semantic.web at gmail.com (Christoph LANGE) Date: Thu, 03 Oct 2013 12:00:48 +0100 Subject: [DL] 2nd CfP (deadline 31 Oct) Math. in Comp. Sci. Special Issue 'Enabling Domain Experts to use Formalised Reasoning' Message-ID: <524D4E60.2040203@gmail.com> Call for Papers for a Special Issue of MATHEMATICS IN COMPUTER SCIENCE ENABLING DOMAIN EXPERTS TO USE FORMALISED REASONING http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/projects/formare/pubs/mcs-doform/ Guest editors: Manfred Kerber, Christoph Lange, Colin Rowat We invite high-quality original research papers to a special issue of the Birkh?user/Springer journal Mathematics in Computer Science on the use of systems based on a formal, explicit, machine-verifiable representation of knowledge in application domains such as economics, engineering, health care, education. Examples include: * problems from application domains, which could benefit from better verification and knowledge management facilities, and * knowledge management and verification tools, which domain experts can use without a computer science background. (Read more about our topics of interest) For further examples, please see the Symposium on Enabling Domain Experts to use Formalised Reasoning (http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/projects/formare/events/aisb2013/) held at the annual convention of the AISB (Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and Simulation of Behaviour) in April 2013. Submission: 31 October 2013 Notification: 15 December 2013 Revised version due: 15 January 2014 Final version due: 15 February 2014 Publication (expected): April 2014 Topics of interest include but are not limited to: * for domain experts: what problems in application domains could benefit from better verification and knowledge management facilities? Possible fields include: - Example 1 (economics): auctions, value-at-risk models, trading algorithms, market design - Example 2 (engineering): system interoperability, manufacturing processes, product classification * for computer scientists: how to provide the right knowledge management and verification tools to domain experts without a computer science background? - wikis and blogs for informal, semantic, semiformal, and formal mathematical knowledge; - general techniques and tools for online collaborative mathematics; - tools for collaboratively producing, presenting, publishing, and interacting with online mathematics; - automation and human-computer interaction aspects of mathematical wikis; - ontologies and knowledge bases designed to support knowledge management and verification in application domains; - practical experiences, usability aspects, feasibility studies; - evaluation of existing tools and experiments; - requirements, user scenarios and goals. Submissions should be approximately 20 pages long, should follow publishers' instructions and should be submitted via EasyChair. Potential contributors may contact the guest editors (doformmcs2014 at easychair.org) to discuss the suitability of topics and papers. -- Christoph Lange, School of Computer Science, University of Birmingham http://cs.bham.ac.uk/~langec/, Skype duke4701 ? Intelligent Computer Mathematics, 8?12 July, Bath, UK. Early registration deadline 23 June; http://cicm-conference.org/2013/ ? Knowledge and Experience Management, 7-9 October, Bamberg, Germany. Submission until 1 July; http://minf.uni-bamberg.de/lwa2013/cfp/fgwm/ ? Modular Ontologies (WoMO), 15 September, Corunna, Spain. Submission until 5 July; http://www.iaoa.org/womo/2013.html From speroni at cs.unibo.it Thu Oct 3 19:51:00 2013 From: speroni at cs.unibo.it (speroni at cs.unibo.it) Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2013 19:51:00 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [DL] ESWC 2014 Call for Papers Message-ID: <201310031751.r93HotIg028162@informatik.uni-bremen.de> ** apologies for cross-posting ** ==== Call for Papers ==== CFP: 11th ESWC Conference 2014 Dates: May 25 - 29, 2014 Venue: Anissaras, Crete, Greece Hashtag: #eswc2014 Feed: @eswc_conf Site: http://2014.eswc-conferences.org General Chair: Valentina Presutti (STLab, ISTC-CNR, IT) Program Chairs: - Claudia d'Amato (Dipartimento di Informatica, Universita' degli Studi di Bari, IT) - Fabien Gandon (Wimmics, Inria, I3S, CNRS, Univ. Nice Sophia Antipolis, FR) ESWC is a major venue for discussing the latest scientific results and technology innovations related to the Semantic Web. The 11th edition of ESWC will take place from May 25th, 2014 to May 29th, 2014 in Anissaras, Crete, Greece. Besides a main focus on advances in Semantic Web research and technologies, ESWC 2014 is seeking to broaden its attention to span other relevant research areas in which Web semantics plays an important role. The goal of the Semantic Web is to create a Web of knowledge and services in which the semantics of content is made explicit and content is linked to both other content and services. This arrangement of knowledge-based functionalities is weaving together a large network of human knowledge, and making this knowledge machine-processable to support intelligent behaviour by machines. Additionally, it supports novel applications allowing content from heterogeneous sources to be combined in unforeseen ways and support enhanced matching between users needs, software functionalities and online content. Creating such an interlinked Web of knowledge which bridges between heterogeneous content and services requires collaboration between several computer science domains. Also, within this hybrid space that the Web has become, where humans and software interact in a complex manner, fundamentally requires an inter-disciplinary approach to find novel solutions to the problems generated. ESWC 2014 will feature twelve thematic research tracks (see below) and an in-use and industrial track. Submissions of interdisciplinary research papers, covering more than one thematic track, are also encouraged. In addition, the in-use and industrial track will provide an opportunity for dialogue and discussion on industrial applications, tools, deployment experiences, case studies and usage analysis. Submitted papers should describe original work, present significant results, and provide rigorous, principled, and repeatable evaluation. We strongly encourage and appreciate the submission of papers incorporating links to data sets and other material used for evaluation as well as to live demos and software source code. We therefore encourage submissions addressing several conference research topics. However, each paper should be associated with at least one of the topics of the conference. The main research topics this year are: Vocabularies, Schemas, Ontologies; Reasoning; Linked Open Data; Social Web; Web Science; Data Management, Big data, Scalability; Natural Language Processing; Information Retrieval; Machine Learning; Mobile Web; Sensors; Streams; Services, processes, and cloud computing. Additional special research topics this year are: Cognition and Semantic Web; Policies, Rights, Governance; Semantic multimedia web. *Important Dates* Abstract submission Wednesday 8th January 2014 Full-paper submission Monday 13th January 2014 Authors' Rebuttals Wednesday 19th-Friday 21 Feb 2014 Acceptance notifications Wednesday 26 February 2014 Camera-ready papers Monday 10th of March 2014 *Submission Information* ESWC2014 welcomes the submission of original research and application papers dealing with all aspects of representing and using semantics on the Web. We encourage theoretical, methodological, empirical, and applications papers. The proceedings of this conference will be published in Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. This year three of the best papers presented at the conference will have the opportunity to submit an extended version to a special issue of the journal "Semantic Web - Interoperability, Usability, Applicability" (IOS Press). Papers should not exceed fifteen (15) pages in length and must be formatted according to the information for LNCS authors. Papers must be submitted in PDF (Adobe's Portable Document Format) format. Papers that exceed 15 pages or do not follow the LNCS guidelines will be automatically rejected without a review. Authors of accepted papers will be required to provide semantic annotations for the abstract of their submission - details of this process will be given on the conference Web page at the time of acceptance. At least one author of each accepted paper must register for the conference. More information about the Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) are available on the Springer LNCS Web site (http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs/lncs+authors). Submissions and reviewing will be supported by the EasyChair system: https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=eswc2014 From murano at na.infn.it Thu Oct 3 19:13:35 2013 From: murano at na.infn.it (aniello murano) Date: Thu, 03 Oct 2013 19:13:35 +0200 Subject: [DL] SR 2014 - Preliminary call for contributions Message-ID: <524DA5BF.7030709@na.infn.it> [We apologize if you have received multiple copies of this message.] ***************************************************************** ------ SR 2014 ----- ***************************************************************** Second International Workshop on Strategic Reasoning Grenoble, France, 5-6 April 2014 http://www.etaps.org/index.php/2014/workshops ********************************************************** | CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS | ********************************************************** OBJECTIVES Strategic reasoning is one of the most active research area in multi-agent system domain. The literature in this field is extensive and provides a plethora of logics for modeling strategic ability. Theoretical results are now being used in many exciting fields, including software tools for information system security, robot teams with sophisticated adaptive strategies, and automatic players capable of beating expert human adversary, just to cite a few. All these examples share the challenge of developing novel theories and tools for agent strategies that take into account the likely behavior of adversaries. The SR international workshop aims to bring together researchers working on different aspects of strategic reasoning in computer science, both from a theoretical and a practical point of view. LIST OF TOPICS The topics covered by the conference include, but are not limited to, the following: - Logics for reasoning about strategic abilities - Logics for multi-agent mechanism design, verification, and synthesis - Logical foundations of decision theory for multi-agent systems - Strategic reasoning in formal verification - Automata theory for strategy synthesis - Strategic reasoning under perfect and imperfect information - Applications and tools for cooperative and adversarial reasoning - Robust planning and optimization in multi-agent systems - Risk and uncertainty in multi-agent systems - Quantitative aspects in strategic reasonings CO-LOCATED EVENT SR 2014 is an ETAPS 2014 workshop. ETAPS 2014 will be held on April 5th-13th, 2014. INVITED SPEAKERS - Thomas A. Henzinger, IST Austria - Wiebe van der Hoek, University of Liverpool - Alessio R. Lomuscio, Imperial College London - Wolfgang Thomas, RWTH Aachen PAPER SUBMISSION Submitted papers should not exceed five pages using EPTCS format (http://style.eptcs.org). If necessary, the paper may be supplemented with a clearly marked appendix, which will be consulted at the discretion of the programme committee. Submissions must be in PDF format and will be handled via EasyChair (https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sr2014) Two types of submission are invited: - Papers reporting on novel research, and - Expository papers reporting on published work. Each submission should be clearly identified as belonging to one category or the other. In both categories, strong preference will be given to papers whose topic is of interest to an interdisciplinary audience, and all papers should be written so that they are accessible to such an audience. Novel research abstracts will be held to the usual high standards of novel research publications. In particular, they should 1) contain enough information to enable the program committee to identify the main contribution of the work; 2) explain the significance of the work its novelty and its practical or theoretical implications; and 3) include comparisons with and references to relevant literature. Expository abstracts, which will be held to similarly high standards, may survey an area or report on a more specific previously published work; the submission should make clear the relevance to the strategic reasoning audience. Papers accepted for presentation (in both categories) will be collected as an EPTCS volume. Submissions from PC members are also allowed. Note that, as we accept short papers, extended versions of the accepted works could be also submitted elsewhere. IMPORTANT DATES Abstract submission: December 16, 2013 Contribution submission: December 23, 2013 Acceptance notification: January 30, 2014 Camera-ready version: February 10, 2014 SR 2014 Workshop: April 5-6, 2014 PROCEEDINGS The workshop proceedings will be published as a volume of the Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science (EPTCS). An extended and revised version of the best workshop contributions of last edition have been selected for a special issue to appear on the international journal of Information and Computation. For the current edition, we plan to do the same and anyway to have a special issue on one of the major international journals of the area. GENERAL CHAIR Moshe Y. Vardi, Rice University, Texas, USA PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS Fabio Mogavero, Universit? di Napoli Federico II, Italy Aniello Murano, Universit? di Napoli Federico II, Italy PROGRAM COMMITTEE - Natasha Alechina, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom - Thomas Agotnes, University of Bergen, Norway - Nils Bulling, Clausthal University of Technology, Germany - Krishnendu Chatterjee, IST Austria, Austria - Wojtek Jamroga, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg - Fran?ois Laroussinie, Universit? Paris Diderot, France - Christof Loding, RWTH Aachen, Germany - Emiliano Lorini, Universit? Paul Sabatier,France - John-Jules C. Meyer, Utrecht University, Netherlands - Eric Pacuit, University of Maryland,United States - Wojciech Penczek, University of Podlasie, Poland - Sophie Pinchinat, University of Rennes, France - Jean-Francois Raskin, Universit? Libre de Bruxelles,Belgium - Francesca Rossi, Universit? di Padova, Italy - Toby Walsh, University of New South Wales,Australia - Michael Wooldridge, University of Oxford, United Kingdom ORGANIZING COMMITTEE - Fabio Mogavero, Universit? di Napoli Federico II, Italy - Aniello Murano, Universit? di Napoli Federico II, Italy - Loredana Sorrentino, Universit? di Napoli Federico II, Italy INFO For more information about the workshop, you may take a look at the list of ETAPS 2014 workshop (http://www.etaps.org/2014/workshops). The SR 2014 website is under construction at http://www.strategicreasoning.net (where you will find information about last edition as well). In few days you will find there all main information about the new workshop edition. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From agi.kurucz at kcl.ac.uk Mon Oct 7 23:09:40 2013 From: agi.kurucz at kcl.ac.uk (Agi Kurucz) Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2013 22:09:40 +0100 Subject: [DL] AiML 2014: 1st Call for Papers Message-ID: <52532314.2060609@kcl.ac.uk> AiML-2014: 1ST CALL FOR PAPERS 10th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ADVANCES IN MODAL LOGIC, GRONINGEN, 5-8 AUGUST, 2012 http://www.philos.rug.nl/AiML2014/ Advances in Modal Logic is an initiative aimed at presenting the state of the art in modal logic and its various applications. The initiative consists of a conference series together with volumes based on the conferences. Information about the AiML series can be obtained at http://www.aiml.net. AiML-2014 is the tenth conference in the series. TOPICS We invite submission on all aspects of modal logic, including: - history of modal logic - philosophy of modal logic - applications of modal logic - computational aspects of modal logic (complexity and decidability of modal and temporal logics, modal and temporal logic programming, model checking, model generation, theorem proving for modal logics) - theoretical aspects of modal logic (algebraic/categorical perspectives on modal logic, coalgebraic modal logic, completeness and canonicity, correspondence and duality theory, many-dimensional modal logics, modal fixed point logics, model theory of modal logic, proof theory of modal logic) - specific instances and variations of modal logic (description logics, modal logics over non-boolean bases, dynamic logics and other process logics, epistemic and deontic logics, modal logics for agent-based systems, modal logic and game theory, modal logic and grammar formalisms, provability and interpretability logics, spatial and temporal logics, hybrid logic, intuitionistic logic, substructural logics, computationally light fragments of all such logics) Papers on related subjects will also be considered. PAPER SUBMISSIONS There will be two types of submissions to AiML-2014: (1) Full papers for publication in the proceedings and presentation at the conference. (2) Short presentations intended for presentation at the conference but not for the published proceedings. Both types of papers should be submitted electronically using the EasyChair submission page at https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=aiml2014 At least one author of each accepted paper or short presentation must register for and attend the conference. (1) FULL PAPERS Authors are invited to submit, for presentation at the conference and publication in the proceedings, full papers reporting on original research and not submitted elsewhere. The proceedings of AiML-2014 will be published by College Publications http://www.collegepublications.co.uk in a volume to be made available at the conference. The submissions should be at most 15 pages, with an optional technical appendix of up to 5 pages, together with a plain-text abstract of 100-200 words. The submissions must be typeset in LaTeX, using the style files and template that will be provided on the AiML-2014 website http://www.philos.rug.nl/AiML2014/ in due time. We also ask authors of full papers to submit the abstract in plain text via EasyChair by 14 March. (2) SHORT PRESENTATIONS. These should be at most 5 pages. They may describe preliminary results, work in progress etc., and will be subject to light reviewing. The accepted submissions will be made available at the conference, and the authors will have the opportunity to give short presentations (of up to 15 minutes) on them. INVITED SPEAKERS: TO BE ANNOUNCED LOCAL ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Dave Gilbert Barteld Kooi Bouke Kuijer Paolo Maffezioli Allard Tamminga PROGRAMME COMMITTEE Carlos Areces (FaMAF, Universitad Nacional de Cordoba, Argentina) Alexandru Baltag (ILLC, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands) Nick Bezhanishvili (Utrecht University, The Netherlands) Patrick Blackburn (Roskilde University, Denmark) Hans van Ditmarsch (LORIA, France) David Fern?ndez-Duque (ITAM, Mexico) Melvin Fitting (Lehman College, CUNY, USA) Silvio Ghilardi (Universit? degli Studi di Milano, Italy) Rob Goldblatt (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand) Valentin Goranko (Technical University of Denmark) Guido Governatori (NICTA Queensland, Australia) Andreas Herzig (IRIT, Toulouse, France) Rosalie Iemhoff (Utrecht University, The Netherlands) Roman Kontchakov (Birkbeck College London, UK) Barteld Kooi (University of Groningen) Marcus Kracht (Universit?t Bielefeld, Germany) Alexander Kurz (University of Leicester, UK) Carsten Lutz (Universit?t Bremen, Germany) Jakub Michaliszyn (Imperial College London, UK) Larry Moss (Indiana University, USA) Hiroakira Ono (Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology) Revantha Ramanayake (Technical University of Vienna) Mark Reynolds (University of Western Australia) Vladimir Rybakov (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK) Renate Schmidt (University of Manchester, UK) Jeremy Seligman (University of Auckland, New Zealand) Ilya Shapirovsky (Institute for Information Transmission Problems, Moscow, Russia) Valentin Shehtman (Moscow State University, Russia) Dimiter Vakarelov (Sofia University, Bulgaria) Yde Venema (ILLC, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands) Heinrich Wansing (Ruhr University Bochum, Germany) Michael Zakharyaschev (Birkbeck College London, UK) PROGRAMME COMMITTEE CO-CHAIRS Rajeev Gore (The Australian National University, Australia) Agi Kurucz (King's College London, UK) IMPORTANT DATES Abstracts of full papers submission deadline: 14 March 2014 Full papers submission deadline: 21 March 2014 Full papers acceptance notification: 2 May 2014 Short presentations submission deadline: 12 May 2014 Short presentations acceptance notification: 2 June 2014 Final version of full papers and short presentations due: 9 June 2014 Conference: 5-8 August, 2014. FURTHER INFORMATION. Please see http://www.philos.rug.nl/AiML2014 ENQUIRIES. E-mail enquiries should be directed to the PC co-chairs, sent to aiml2014 at easychair.org From golumbic at cs.haifa.ac.il Mon Oct 7 21:02:14 2013 From: golumbic at cs.haifa.ac.il (Prof. Martin Charles Golumbic) Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2013 22:02:14 +0300 (IDT) Subject: [DL] Call-for-Nominations: The 2014 Dan David Prize in Artificial Intelligence Message-ID: Call for Nominations and Scholarships The 2014 Dan David Prize Artificial Intelligence, the Digital Mind Three prizes are awarded annually in fields chosen within the three time dimensions -- Past, Present, and Future. The selected field for 2014 in the Future dimension is Artificial Intelligence, the Digital Mind. The Dan David Prize is awarded to individuals and institutions with proven, exceptional excellence and contribution to humanity in the sciences, arts, humanities, public service and business. *Nominations deadline: *November 30, 2013 For information regarding the Dan David Prize and nomination submission please consult the website: http://www.dandavidprize.org/prize-nominations Contact information: Ms. Smadar Fisher, Director Prof. Isaac P. Witz, Scientific Adviser Dan David Prize, Eitan Berglas Bldg./ l 19, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel Email: ddprize at post.tau.ac.il Tel: +972-3-6406614/5, Fax: +972-3-6406613 Each year the Dan David Prize awards 20 scholarships of US$ 15,000 each to outstanding doctoral students and postdoctoral researchers; 10 scholarships are awarded to students from universities all over the world and 10 scholarships to students from Tel Aviv University. Advanced doctoral and postdoctoral students of excellent achievement and promise studying topics related to the fields chosen for this year are invited to apply for the Dan David Prize Scholarships 2014. Applications deadline: February 28, 2014 For details regarding scholarships, please consult the website: http://www.dandavidprize.org From secretary.jist2013 at gmail.com Tue Oct 8 05:00:59 2013 From: secretary.jist2013 at gmail.com (=?euc-kr?B?SklTVDIwMTM=?=) Date: Tue, 08 Oct 2013 12:00:59 +0900 Subject: [DL] =?euc-kr?q?=5BJIST2013=5D_On-line_registration_is_available_?= =?euc-kr?q?now!?= Message-ID: <201310081200598886@send.postman.co.kr_Ems@send.postman.co.kr> An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ruy at cin.ufpe.br Sat Oct 12 12:05:50 2013 From: ruy at cin.ufpe.br (Ruy de Queiroz) Date: Sat, 12 Oct 2013 07:05:50 -0300 Subject: [DL] WoLLIC 2014 - 1st Call for Papers Message-ID: [Please circulate. Apologies for any cross-postings.] WoLLIC 2014 21st Workshop on Logic, Language, Information and Computation September 1st to 4th, 2014 Valparaiso, Chile SCIENTIFIC SPONSORSHIP Interest Group in Pure and Applied Logics (IGPL) The Association for Logic, Language and Information (FoLLI) Association for Symbolic Logic (ASL) European Association for Theoretical Computer Science (EATCS) European Association for Computer Science Logic (EACSL) Sociedade Brasileira de Computa??o (SBC) Sociedade Brasileira de L?gica (SBL) ORGANISATION Department of Computer Science, Universidad de Chile, Chile Department of Computer Science, Pontificia Universidad Cat?lica de Chile, Chile Centro de Inform?tica, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil HOSTED BY Department of Informatics, Universidad T?cnica Federico Santa Mar?a, Chile CALL FOR PAPERS WoLLIC is an annual international forum on inter-disciplinary research involving formal logic, computing and programming theory, and natural language and reasoning. Each meeting includes invited talks and tutorials as well as contributed papers. The twentieth WoLLIC will be held at the Universidad T?cnica Federico Santa Mar?a, from September 1st to 4th, 2014. It is sponsored by the Association for Symbolic Logic (ASL), the Interest Group in Pure and Applied Logics (IGPL), the The Association for Logic, Language and Information (FoLLI), the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science (EATCS), the European Association for Computer Science Logic (EACSL), the Sociedade Brasileira de Computa??o (SBC), and the Sociedade Brasileira de L?gica (SBL). PAPER SUBMISSION Contributions are invited on all pertinent subjects, with particular interest in cross-disciplinary topics. Typical but not exclusive areas of interest are: foundations of computing and programming; novel computation models and paradigms; broad notions of proof and belief; proof mining, type theory, effective learnability; formal methods in software and hardware development; logical approach to natural language and reasoning; logics of programs, actions and resources; foundational aspects of information organization, search, flow, sharing, and protection. Proposed contributions should be in English, and consist of a scholarly exposition accessible to the non-specialist, including motivation, background, and comparison with related works. They must not exceed 10 pages (in font 10 or higher), with up to 5 additional pages for references and technical appendices. The paper's main results must not be published or submitted for publication in refereed venues, including journals and other scientific meetings. It is expected that each accepted paper be presented at the meeting by one of its authors. Papers must be submitted electronically at the WoLLIC 2014 EasyChair website. (Please go to http://wollic.org/wollic2014/instructions.html for instructions.) A title and single-paragraph abstract should be submitted by Mar 24, 2014, and the full paper by Mar 28, 2014 (firm date). Notifications are expected by May 2, 2014, and final papers for the proceedings will be due by May 15, 2014 (firm date). PROCEEDINGS The proceedings of WoLLIC 2014, including both invited and contributed papers, will be published in advance of the meeting as a volume in Springer's LNCS series. In addition, abstracts will be published in the Conference Report section of the Logic Journal of the IGPL, and selected contributions will be published as a special post-conference WoLLIC 2014 issue of a scientific journal (to be confirmed). INVITED SPEAKERS (TBA) STUDENT GRANTS ASL sponsorship of WoLLIC 2014 will permit ASL student members to apply for a modest travel grant (deadline: May 1st, 2014). See http://www.aslonline.org/studenttravelawards.html for details. IMPORTANT DATES Mar 24, 2014: Paper title and abstract deadline Mar 28, 2014: Full paper deadline May 2, 2014: Author notification May 15, 2014: Final version deadline (firm) PROGRAMME COMMITTEE Natasha Alechina (U Nottingham) Eric Allender (Rutgers U) Marcelo Arenas (PUC Chile) Steve Awodey (CMU) Julian Bradfield (U Edinburgh) Xavier Caicedo (U de Los Andes) Olivier Danvy (Aarhus U) Ulrich Kohlenbach (Tech U Darmstadt) (CHAIR) Marcus Kracht (U Bielefeld) Michiel van Lambalgen (U Amsterdam) Klaus Meer (Tech U Cottbus) George Metcalfe (Bern U) Dale Miller (INRIA Saclay / LIX) Russell Miller (CUNY) Sara Negri (U Helsinki) Nicole Schweikardt (U Frankfurt) (more to come) STEERING COMMITTEE Samson Abramksy, Johan van Benthem, Anuj Dawar, Joe Halpern, Wilfrid Hodges, Daniel Leivant, Leonid Libkin, Angus Macintyre, Grigori Mints, Luke Ong, Hiroakira Ono, Ruy de Queiroz. ORGANISING COMMITTEE Pablo Barcel? (Universidad de Chile) (Local chair) Anjolina G. de Oliveira (U Fed Pernambuco) Ruy de Queiroz (U Fed Pernambuco) (co-chair) Juan Reutter (Pontificia Universidad Cat?lica de Chile) Cristi?n Riveros (Pontificia Universidad Cat?lica de Chile) FURTHER INFORMATION Contact one of the Co-Chairs of the Organising Committee. WEB PAGE http://wollic.org/wollic2014/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From D.Diochnos at ed.ac.uk Mon Oct 14 20:02:11 2013 From: D.Diochnos at ed.ac.uk (Dimitris Diochnos) Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2013 19:02:11 +0100 Subject: [DL] ISAIM 2014: Submission Deadline Extended Message-ID: <7891D209-D28E-4EBA-865D-87D726AA435B@ed.ac.uk> SUBMISSION DEADLINE EXTENDED Thirteenth International Symposium on ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE and MATHEMATICS ISAIM 2014 http://www.cs.uic.edu/Isaim2014/ January 6-8, 2014 Fort Lauderdale, Florida NEW PAPER SUBMISSION DEADLINE: October 22, 2013 The International Symposium on Artificial Intelligence and Mathematics (ISAIM) is a biennial meeting that fosters interactions between mathematics, theoretical computer science, and artificial intelligence. This is the thirteenth Symposium in the series, which is sponsored by the journal Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence and by Florida Atlantic University. We seek submissions of recent results, with a particular emphasis on the foundations of AI and mathematical methods used in AI. Papers describing applications are also encouraged, but the focus should be on principled lessons learned from the development of the application. Traditionally, the Symposium attracts participants from a variety of disciplines, thereby providing a unique forum for scientific exchange. The three-day Symposium includes invited speakers, presentations of technical papers, and special topic sessions. The Symposium takes place at the Embassy Suites Hotel in Fort Lauderdale. Please visit http://www.cs.uic.edu/Isaim2014/Venue for more information about the venue. SPECIAL TOPIC INVITED SESSIONS: o Boolean and pseudo-Boolean Functions -Organized by Endre Boros, Rutgers University, and Yves Crama, University of Li?ge o Computational Social Choice -Organized by Francesca Rossi, University of Padova, and Kristen Brent Venable, University of Padova o Mathematical Theories of Natural Language Processing -Organized by Andr?s Kornai, Hungarian Academy of Sciences o Theory of Machine Learning -Organized by Lev Reyzin, University of Illinois at Chicago INVITED SPEAKERS: o Peter Stone, University of Texas at Austin o Csaba Szepesv?ri, University of Alberta PAPER SUBMISSION: Paper submission will be electronic via the submission link on the Paper Submission page of the Symposium website (http://www.cs.uic.edu/Isaim2014/). Papers must be formatted in accordance with the guidelines given there. The submission deadline is October 22, 2013 (11:59 PM PDT). Papers will be reviewed by members of the Program Committee. Authors will be notified of acceptance or rejection by November 22, 2013. Final versions of accepted papers, for inclusion in the conference electronic proceedings, are due by December 15, 2013. Work that has already been published as of the ISAIM submission deadline should not be submitted to ISAIM unless it introduces a significant addition to the previously published work. However, the ISAIM web site proceedings are not archival, so papers submitted to ISAIM can be under review at the time of submission and can be submitted elsewhere after ISAIM. Authors of a selected set of papers from the Symposium will be invited to submit full versions of their papers for inclusion in a special volume of the Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence, published by Springer. Those invited submissions will be subject to refereeing at the usual standards of the journal, and authors will receive more details with the acceptance notice. Papers must of course be new and unpublished to be considered for the special volume. Any questions regarding paper submission should be sent to the program committee chairs at the email address . IMPORTANT DATES: Paper submission: October 22, 2013 Notification: November 22, 2013 Final version due: December 15, 2013 Workshop: January 6-8, 2014, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida ORGANIZERS: o General Chair: Martin Charles Golumbic, University of Haifa o Conference Chair: Frederick Hoffman, Florida Atlantic University o Program Committee Chairs: Lisa Hellerstein, Polytechnic Institute of NYU Gy?rgy Tur?n, University of Illinois at Chicago and University of Szeged o Publicity Chair: Dimitrios I. Diochnos, University of Edinburgh PROGRAM COMMITTEE: St?phane Airiau University of Amsterdam Endre Boros Rutgers University Arthur Choi University of California Los Angeles Berthe Choueiry University of Nebraska-Lincoln Yves Crama University of Li?ge Marek Druzdzel University of Pittsburgh Roni Khardon Tufts University Richard Korf University of California Los Angeles Loizos Michael Open University of Cyprus Maurice Pagnucco University of New South Wales Barnab?s P?czos Carnegie Mellon University Francesca Rossi University of Padova Bart Selman Cornell University Rocco Servedio Columbia University Hans-Ulrich Simon Ruhr-University Bochum Stefan Szeider Vienna University of Technology Bal?zs Sz?r?nyi University of Szeged Miros?aw (Mirek) Truszczy?ski University of Kentucky Frank Wolter University of Liverpool Stefan Woltran Vienna University of Technology Neil Yorke-Smith American University of Beirut Send inquiries and requests to isaim2014 at cs DOT uic DOT edu. Visit http://www.cs.uic.edu/Isaim2014/. Join isaim at googlegroups.com to receive announcements related to ISAIM. -- The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336. From pascal.hitzler at wright.edu Fri Oct 18 04:24:46 2013 From: pascal.hitzler at wright.edu (Pascal Hitzler) Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2013 22:24:46 -0400 Subject: [DL] faculty position opening in "Big Data" at Wright State University Message-ID: <52609BEE.7070904@wright.edu> We are seeking a faculty member in Big Data. Appointment at any rank is possible (Assistant, Associate, or Full Professor). Particular areas of interest include, but are not limited to, data management and lifecycle, data analytics, data visualization, data fusion and integration, semantics and ontologies, social and sensor Web, biomedical and health informatics. Outstanding applicants with a high potential for collaborations with existing strengths of the department and the Kno.e.sis Center are particularly welcome to apply. Outstanding applicants specializing in other emerging research areas are also welcome to apply. For more information: http://cse.wright.edu/opportunity/assistant-associate-or-professor-big-data - or email me (I'm the search committee chair). Best Regards, Pascal. -- Prof. Dr. Pascal Hitzler Dept. of Computer Science, Wright State University, Dayton, OH pascal at pascal-hitzler.de http://www.pascal-hitzler.de Semantic Web Textbook: http://www.semantic-web-book.org Semantic Web Journal: http://www.semantic-web-journal.net From michel.plantie at mines-ales.fr Mon Oct 21 15:55:36 2013 From: michel.plantie at mines-ales.fr (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Planti=E9_Michel?=) Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2013 15:55:36 +0200 Subject: [DL] WIMS'14: 1st Call for Papers In-Reply-To: <526531D7.3010300@mines-ales.fr> References: <526531D7.3010300@mines-ales.fr> Message-ID: <52653258.9060609@mines-ales.fr> CALL FOR PAPERS WIMS?14 4th International Conference on Web Intelligence, Mining and Semantics Thessaloniki, Greece, 2-4 June 2014 http://wims14.csd.auth.gr About WIMS?14 Conference -------------------------- WIMS is a series of peer-reviewed International Computer Science conferences. It is a forum for researchers and practitioners to present their state-of-the-art results in building Intelligent Web, to examine performance characteristics of various approaches in Web-based intelligent information technology, and to cross-fertilize their ideas on the development of Web-based intelligent information management solutions across different domains. Objectives ---------- The purpose of the WIMS series is: - To provide a forum for established researchers and practitioners to present their contributions to the state of the art research and development in Web technology and applications - To give doctoral students an opportunity to present their research to a friendly and knowledgeable audience and receive valuable feedback - To provide an informal social event where Web technology researchers and practitioners can meet WIMS traditionally hosts a small number of short tutorials on the topics related to the scope of the conference series. The role of a WIMS tutorial is to be a theme-oriented comprehensive survey. WIMS also offers its infrastructure and facilities for the organizers of satellite workshops that complement the scope of the conference. The calls for WIMS?14 Tutorials and Workshops are published separately. Conference Scope ------ WIMS solicits regular and work-in-progress research, discussion papers and industry experience report papers in related fields. Papers exploring new directions or areas are also welcome. In particular but not exclusively the submissions within the following major areas are relevant: - Scalable Web and Data Architectures and Infrastructures - Web Intelligence - Web Mining, Information and Knowledge Extraction - Web Semantics and Reasoning - WIMS Applications - Evaluation and Validation of WIMS Technologies and Applications More details about the conference scope and topics can be found at: http://wims14.csd.auth.gr/?page_id=146 Submission Guidelines --------------------- Five types of submissions are solicited for the main conference: i. Regular research papers (12 ACM pages) ii. Short research papers (6 ACM pages) iii. Discussion, survey, or problem analysis papers (12 ACM pages) iv. Posters (4 ACM pages) More details on the nature of the different submission types can be found at: http://wims14.csd.auth.gr/?page_id=23 The papers in all the categories should describe original results that have not been accepted or submitted for publication elsewhere. All submissions will be evaluated by at least three members of the international program committee. Submissions should be made electronically in PDF or DOC/DOCX (MS/Open Word) format via the electronic submission system of the WIMS?14 Conference Management system at https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wims14 The submissions should be typeset using the templates of the ACM International Conference Proceedings Series (ICPS). The templates could be retrieved fromhttp://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates Publications ------------ Accepted papers/tutorials/posters will be published by ACM and disseminated through the ACM Digital Library through the International Conference Proceedings Series (ICPS). A selection of the best WIMS'14 papers will be invited to be revised and extended for the post-conference publication in the Special Issue of the International Journal on Artificial Intelligence Tools (IJAIT). The proceedings of the previous WIMS conferences could be checked at: - WIMS?11:https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1988688 - WIMS?12:https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2254129 - WIMS?13:https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2479787 Important Dates --------------- 09.12.2013 ? submission of papers 13.12.2013 ? submission of tutorial and workshop proposals 20.12.2013 ? notification of acceptance for tutorials & workshops 24.01.2014 ? notification of acceptance for papers/posters 24.02.2014 ? camera ready versions of the accepted papers, posters, tutorial papers 07.04.2014 ? author registration deadline 02-04.06.2014 ? Conference Organization ----------------- WIMS'14 is organized under the auspices of the Dept. of Informatics at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. (http://www.csd.auth.gr/en/) WIMS Conferences Chair Rajendra Akerkar, Western Norway Research Institute, Norway General Chairs Ioannis Vlahavas, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece Takahira Yamaguchi, Keio University, Japan Program Committee Chairs Nick Bassiliades, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece Vadim Ermolayev, Zaporizhzhya National University, Ukraine Advisory Committee Grigoris Antoniou, University of Huddersfield, UK Harold Boley, Semantic Web Laboratory, Institute for Information Technology, NRC, Fredericton, Canada James Hendler, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, USA Guus Schreiber, VU University, Amsterdam, the Netherlands Amit Sheth, Ohio Center of Excellence on Knowledge-enabled Computing, Ohio, USA Workshops and Tutorials Chairs Costin Badica, University of Craiova, Romania Dimitris Vrakas, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece Industrial Track Chair John Davies, BT Research & Innovation, UK Publicity Chair Athena Vakali, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece Local Organization Chair Yannis Manolopoulos, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece Web Chairs Efstratios Kontopoulos, International Hellenic University, Greece Fotis Kokkoras, T.E.I. of Thessaly, Greece -- ===================================================== Dr. Michel Planti? - +33 466387035 Enseignant-Chercheur Laboratoire LGI2P Ecole des Mines d'Ales, Institut Mines-T?l?com Parc scientifique Georges Besse, 30035 N?mes Cedex 1 www.lgi2p.mines-ales.fr/plantie ===================================================== -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From geoff at cs.miami.edu Mon Oct 28 17:43:02 2013 From: geoff at cs.miami.edu (Geoff Sutcliffe) Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2013 12:43:02 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [DL] IJCAR 2014 Call for Papers Message-ID: <20131028164302.59076121533@mcclellan.cs.miami.edu> [Apologies for multiple copies of this announcement] IJCAR 2014 - The 7th International Joint Conference on Automated Reasoning Vienna, Austria, July 19-22, 2014 http://cs.nyu.edu/ijcar2014/ as part of FLoC 2014 - Federated Logic Conference http://www.floc-conference.org/ as part of VSL 2014 - Vienna Summer of Logic http://vsl2014.at/ Call for Papers --------------- IJCAR is the premier international joint conference on all topics in automated reasoning. The IJCAR technical program will consist of presentations of high-quality original research papers, system descriptions, and invited talks. IJCAR 2014 is a merger of leading events in automated reasoning: CADE (Conference on Automated Deduction), FroCoS (Workshop on Frontiers of Combining Systems) and TABLEAUX (Conference on Analytic Tableaux and Related Methods) IJCAR 2014 invites submissions related to all aspects of automated reasoning, including foundations, implementations, and applications. Original research papers and descriptions of working automated deduction systems are solicited. IJCAR topics include the following ones: - Logics of interest include: propositional, first-order, classical, equational, higher-order, non-classical, constructive, modal, temporal, many-valued, substructural, description, type theory, etc. - Methods of interest include: tableaux, sequent calculi, resolution, model-elimination, inverse method, paramodulation, term rewriting, induction, unification, constraint solving, decision procedures, model generation, model checking, semantic guidance, interactive theorem proving, logical frameworks, AI-related methods for deductive systems, proof presentation, automated theorem provers, etc. - Applications of interest include: verification, formal methods, program analysis and synthesis, computer mathematics, declarative programming, deductive databases, knowledge representation, etc. The proceedings of IJCAR 2014 will be published by Springer-Verlag in the LNAI/LNCS series. Submission details: Submission is electronic, through https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ijcar14 Authors are strongly encouraged to use LaTeX and the Springer "llncs" format, which can be obtained from http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html The page limit is 15 pages for full papers, and 7 pages for system descriptions. Program co-chairs: St??phane Demri (New York University & CNRS) Deepak Kapur (University of New Mexico, USA) Christoph Weidenbach (MPI-INF Saarbr??cken, Germany) Conference co-chairs: Christian Fermueller (TU Vienna, Austria) Stefan Hetzl (TU Vienna, Austria) Publicity chair: Morgan Deters (New York University) Workshop chair: Matthias Horbach (MPI-INF Saarbr??cken, Germany) Important dates: Abstract submission deadline: January 15, 2014 Paper submission deadline: January 22, 2014 Notification of paper decisions: March 31, 2014 Final version of papers due: April 19, 2014 Conference dates: July 19-22, 2014 Student travel awards: Travel awards will be available to enable selected students to attend the conference. Details will be published in March 2014. IJCAR 2014 invited speakers: To be announced Program Committee: Franz Baader (TU Dresden, Germany) Peter Baumgartner (NICTA Canberra, Australia) Bernhard Beckert (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany) Jasmin Blanchette (Technische Universit??t M??nchen, Germany) Bernard Boigelot (University of Liege, Belgium) Maria Paola Bonacina (Universit?? degli Studi di Verona, Italy) Agata Ciabattoni (TU Vienna, Austria) Koen Claessen (Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden) Leonardo de Moura (Microsoft Research) St??phanie Delaune (LSV, CNRS, Cachan, France) St??phane Demri (New York University & CNRS) Stephan Falke (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany) Christian Fermueller (TU Vienna, Austria) Pascal Fontaine (LORIA, University of Nancy, France) Silvio Ghilardi (University of Milano, Italy) Juergen Giesl (RWTH Aachen University, Germany) Valentin Goranko (TU Denmark, Copenhagen) Radu Iosif (VERIMAG, Grenoble, France) Deepak Kapur (University of New Mexico, USA) Boris Konev (University of Liverpool, UK) Konstantin Korovin (The University of Manchester, UK) Daniel Kroening (Oxford University, UK) Viktor Kuncak (EPFL Lausanne, Switzerland) Martin Lange (University of Kassel, Germany) Stephan Merz (LORIA, INRIA Lorraine, France) Aart Middeldorp (University of Innsbruck, Austria) Enric Rodr??guez-Carbonell (TU Catalonia, Spain) Renate Schmidt (The University of Manchester, UK) Carsten Sch??rmann (IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark) Roberto Sebastiani (University of Trento, Italy) Viorica Sofronie-Stokkermans (University Koblenz-Landau, Germany) Geoff Sutcliffe (University of Miami, USA) Cesare Tinelli (The University of Iowa, USA) Uwe Waldmann (MPI-INF, Saarbr??cken, Germany) Christoph Weidenbach (MPI-INF, Saarbr??cken, Germany) Jian Zhang (Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.R. China) From ecai2014 at guarant.cz Wed Oct 30 14:02:20 2013 From: ecai2014 at guarant.cz (ecai2014 at guarant.cz) Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2013 14:02:20 +0100 Subject: [DL] =?utf-8?q?ECAI_2014_call_for_papers?= Message-ID: <20131030130220.6BA091746F3@gds25d.active24.cz> ECAI 2014 call for papers Image: http://dev.topinfo.cz/guarant.mailing/img/_/mailing/2577/header.jpg ECAI'14 Call for Papers The Twenty-first European Conference on Artificial Intelligence 18???22 August 2014, Prague, Czech Republic www.ecai2014.org The biennial European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI) is Europe's premierarchival venue for presenting scientific results in AI. Organised by the EuropeanCoordinating Committee for AI (ECCAI), the ECAI conference provides an opportunity forresearchers to present and hear about the very best research in contemporary AI. As well as afull programme of technical papers, ECAI'14 will include the Prestigious Applications ofIntelligent Systems conference (PAIS), the Starting AI Researcher Symposium (STAIRS), theInternational Web Rule Symposium (RuleML), and an extensive programme of workshops,tutorials, and invited speakers. (Separate calls are issued for PAIS, STAIRS, RuleML,tutorials, and workshops.) ECAI'14 will be held in the beautiful and historic city of Prague, the capital of the CzechRepublic. With excellent opportunities for sightseeing and gastronomy, Prague promises tobe a wonderful venue for a memorable conference. This call invites the submission of papers and posters for the technical programme ofECAI'14. High-quality original submissions are welcome from all areas of AI; the following list oftopics is indicative only. ????Agent-based and Multi-agent Systems ??? Constraints, Satisfiability, and Search ??? Knowledge Representation, Reasoning, and Logic ??? Machine Learning and Data Mining ??? Natural Language Processing ??? Planning and Scheduling ??? Robotics, Sensing, and Vision ??? Uncertainty in AI ??? Web and Knowledge-based Information Systems ??? Multidisciplinary Topics Both long (6-page) and short (2-page) papers can be submitted. Whereas long papers shouldreport on substantial research results, short papers are intended for highly promising butpossibly more preliminary work. Short papers will be presented in poster form. Rejected longpapers will be considered for the short paper track. Submitted papers must be formatted according to ECAI'14 guidelines and submittedelectronically through the ECAI'14 paper submission site. Full instructions includingformatting guidelines and electronic templates are available on the ECAI'14 website. Paper submission: 1 March 2014 Author feedback: 14???18 April 2014 Notification of acceptance/rejection: 9 May 2014 Camera-ready copy due: 30 May 2014 The proceedings of ECAI'14 will be published by IOS Press. ? 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KR 2014 is part of Vienna Summer of Logic [http://vsl2014.at/] *** See submission information at the bottom of this message *** KR 2014 IMPORTANT DATES ----------------------- * Submission of title and abstract: November 28, 2013 * Paper submission deadline: December 5, 2013 * Author response period: January 11-12, 2014 * Notification of acceptance: January 27, 2014 * Camera-ready papers due: March 4, 2014 * Conference date: July 20-24, 2014 The reference time for all deadlines is 23:59 UTC-12. If you are "on time" anywhere in the world, you are "on time". KEYNOTE LECTURES: ----------------- - Franz Baader, TU Dresden, Germany - Georg Gottlob, University of Oxford, UK - Sheila McIlraith, University of Toronto, Canada - Anthony Cohn, University of Leeds, UK Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KR&R) is a well-established and vibrant field of research. KR&R techniques are key drivers of innovation in computer science, and they have led to significant advances in practical applications in a wide range of areas from Artificial Intelligence to Software Engineering. The underlying approach of explicitly representing knowledge in a tangible form, suitable for processing by dedicated reasoning engines, is a fundamental component of many modern intelligent systems. Foundational and applied research in KR&R contributes to the principles of artificial intelligence. It also contributes to the foundations of longstanding fields including automated planning, databases, and software engineering. In recent years KR&R has also derived challenges from new and emerging fields including the semantic web, computational biology, and the development of software agents. The KR conference series is a leading forum for timely in-depth presentation of progress in the theory and principles underlying the representation and computational management of knowledge. The 2014 edition will be held as part of the Vienna Summer of Logic together with the Federated Conference on Logic, Logic Colloquium and other related events. The Vienna Summer of Logic is expected to be the largest convention in the history of logic. We solicit papers presenting novel results on the principles of KR&R that clearly contribute to the formal foundations of relevant problems or show the applicability of results to implemented or implementable systems. We also encourage "reports from the field" of applications experiments, developments, and tests. Such papers should be explicitly identified as reports from the field by the authors, to ensure appropriate reviewing, and must include a section on evaluation. The best paper of the conference will receive the 2014 Ray Reiter Best Paper Prize, and the best student paper, whose main author is a student, will receive the 2014 Marco Cadoli Student Paper Prize. In addition, a few selected papers from KR 2014 will have the opportunity of fast-track publication in the AI Journal. TOPICS ------ Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Applications of KR * Argumentation * Belief revision and update, belief merging, information fusion * Computational aspects of knowledge representation * Concept formation, similarity-based reasoning * Contextual reasoning * Description logics * Explanation finding, diagnosis, causal reasoning, abduction * Inconsistency- and exception tolerant reasoning, paraconsistent logics * KR and autonomous agents, multi-agent systems, logical models of agency * KR and data management, ontology-based data access, queries and updates over incomplete data * KR and decision making, decision theory, game theory and economic models * KR and machine learning, inductive logic programming, knowledge discovery and acquisition * KR and robotics, cognitive robotics * KR and the Web, Semantic Web, formal approaches to knowledge bases * KR in games, general game playing, reasoning in video games and virtual environments, believable agents * KR in natural language understanding and question answering * KR in image and video understanding * Logical approaches to planning and behavior synthesis * Logic programming, answer set programming, constraint logic programming * Nonmonotonic logics, default logics, conditional logics * Reasoning about norms and organizations, social knowledge and behavior * Philosophical foundations of KR * Ontology languages and modeling * Preference modeling and representation, reasoning about preferences, preference-based reasoning * Qualitative reasoning, reasoning about physical systems * Reasoning about actions and change, action languages, situation calculus, dynamic logic * Reasoning about knowledge and belief, epistemic and doxastic logics * Spatial reasoning and temporal reasoning * Uncertainty, representations of vagueness, many-valued and fuzzy logics, relational probability models SUBMISSION INFORMATION ---------------------- Papers must be submitted in AAAI style and PDF format. The maximum length of a submission is 9 pages including abstract, figures, and appendices (if any) but excluding references. Reviewing will be non-blind. AAAI author instructions: http://www.aaai.org/Publications/Author/author.php AAAI author kit: http://www.aaai.org/Publications/Templates/AuthorKit.zip Papers must be submitted via EASYCHAIR using the following URL: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=kr2014 The conference proceedings will be published by AAAI Press. For complete details, see the conference website: http://kr.org/KR2014/ [kr.org] CONFERENCE CHAIRS ----------------- General Chair: Thomas Eiter (TU Vienna, Austria) Program Chairs: Chitta Baral (Arizona State U, USA), Giuseppe De Giacomo (U "La Sapienza", Italy) Local Organization: Michael Fink, Stefan Woltran (TU Vienna, Austria) Doctoral Consortium: Birte Glimm (U Ulm, Germany), Adrian Pearce (U Melbourne, Australia) Sponsorship: Marco Maratea (U Genova, Italy) From ernesto.jimenez.ruiz at gmail.com Thu Oct 31 10:39:12 2013 From: ernesto.jimenez.ruiz at gmail.com (Ernesto Jimenez-Ruiz) Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2013 09:39:12 +0000 Subject: [DL] [ANN] Release of LogMap 2.4: an ontology matching and mapping repair system Message-ID: [Apologies for cross-posting] We are happy to announce the release of LogMap v.2.4 (October 2013): http://code.google.com/p/logmap-matcher/ The new release of LogMap integrates the modular reasoner MORe (v0.1.6), uses the new versions of HermiT (v1.3.8) and the OWL API (v3.4.3), added new functionalities, and contains several bug fixes (see release notes for details http://code.google.com/p/logmap-matcher/wiki/ReleaseNotes). LogMap can operate as (1) an Ontology Matching System and as (2) a Mapping Repair System. LogMap can be used from the command line or integrated in Java applications (e.g. as a last, or intermediate, step in ontology matching systems). Additionally, LogMap can also be accessed from its web interface: http://csu6325.cs.ox.ac.uk/ The LogMap users' discussion group ( https://groups.google.com/group/logmap-matcher-discussion) is available for further discussion, questions and comments, and the LogMap issue tracker ( http://code.google.com/p/logmap-matcher/issues/list) is available for bug reports. LogMap is a free and open source software distributed under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License. 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URL: From ghidini at fbk.eu Fri Nov 1 08:58:32 2013 From: ghidini at fbk.eu (Chiara Ghidini) Date: Fri, 1 Nov 2013 07:58:32 +0000 Subject: [DL] 2 joint PhD Positions at the Fondazione Bruno Kessler and University of Brescia Message-ID: <9E79E646-E6E2-41AD-A145-1DE89A9A9A3C@fbk.eu> Apologies for cross-posting Position: 2 PhD positions Duration: 3 years Deadline: November 18, 2013 at 1.00 pm (italian time) Web site: http://www.unibs.it/node/7683 (follow Ph.D. in Information Engineering) Two PhD positions are open at the Department of Information Engineering, University of Brescia on (1) Natural Language Understanding and (2) Reasoning-aided Business Process Management. The research will be carried out jointly between the Department of Information Engineering, University of Brescia (www.unibs.it ) and the research groups of Human Language Technology (hlt.fbk.eu) and SHELL (shell.fbk.eu) of the Fondazione Bruno Kessler, where most of the research activities will be conducted. About Us ------------- FBK-ICT (www.fbk.eu) conducts research in information technology. Research units and interdisciplinary research projects, such as HLT (hlt.fbk.ru) and SHELL (shell.fbk.eu), aim at addressing important research challenges by exploiting and joining the different scientific competences that are at the base of the internationally well-known scientific excellence of FBK. The Department of Information Engineering conducts research in several areas of information and communication technologies, including computer science and engineering. In this area different groups work on various basic and applied research projects with strong scientific competences especially in the fields of artificial intelligence, information systems, robotics, and human-computer interaction. For further informations, and informal enquiries, please contact: Prof. Alfonso Gerevini, gerevini at ing.unibs.it Department of Information Engineering , University of Brescia, Dr. Bernardo Magnini, magnini at fbk.eu HLT, Fondazione Bruno Kessler Dr. Chiara Ghidini, ghidini at fbk.eu SHELL, Fondazione Bruno Kessler Topics Description ------------------------- Position 1 TITLE: Automatic reasoning for semantic analysis of text REF PERSON: Bernardo Magnini, Alfonso Gerevini ABSTRACT The automatic processing of large amount of unstructured data (e.g. texts) is crucial for a number of emerging applications, including media monitoring, customer interactions analytics and semantic search over big data. On such a large-scale, pure logic-based methods of natural language interpretation have shown drawbacks in scalability. On the other side, pure statistical methods, although well scalable, still do not provide enough accuracy. Particularly when semantic inferences on text are considered, the need to combine the two approaches is becoming an hot topic in several areas of Computational Linguistic. This PhD thesis addresses the study and the development of novel approaches for textual semantic inferences, with specific interest on Textual Entailment. The goal is to advance the state of the art in general entailment algorithms (e.g. graph transformations, tree edit distance), and to define a framework where both knowledge resources (e.g. WordNet, Wikipedia) and specific inference components (e.g. temporal, causal) interact each other while trying to establish an entailment relation between two portions of text. PREFERRED SKILLS: reasonable knowledge of logic and machine learning Position 2 TITLE: Reasoning-based Process Mining. REF PERSON: Chiara Ghidini, Alfonso Gerevini ABSTRACT: Process mining is a recent and rapidly emerging research field, aiming at discovering, monitoring and improving real processes by extracting knowledge from event logs readily available in today's (information) systems. However, despite the several enormous steps carried on in the last decade, as witnessed by the Process Mining Manifesto, still a number of open challenges waits to be addressed in this field, as for example, the run-time operational support for processes (i.e., the on-line detection and prediction of problems, and the run-time provision of recommendations towards their resolution), or the management of complex event logs with different characteristics (e.g., too many, too few or too abstract data). The aim of this thesis is investigating how to exploit, adapt and combine techniques and approaches borrowed from different research fields, ranging from logic to artificial intelligence, from model checking to statistics, to advance the existing services for process analysis and process model (re-)design from monitoring data. The reasoning-based services provided as output can be for example the verification of complex requirements, constraining the control flow or other dimensions as time or data, or the definition and provision of new metrics and key performance indicators (KPIs). To this purpose, several are the challenges to be faced in the work as, for example, (i) the capability to represent and reason about secondary aspects for business processes such as data, time, resources; (ii) the capability to align execution information with models, when they exist, or to discover models from traces, when they do not exist; (iii) the capability to manage and reason on extremely large quantity of data (big data); (iv) the capability to realize the abovementioned analyses at run-time. The work will put together theoretical and methodological aspects, including for example the problem conceptualization and representation, as well as implementation and optimization ones, aimed at the development of process analysis services and tools. PREFERRED SKILLS: good knowledge of logic and knowledge representation; reasonable knowledge of software engineering and conceptual modelling. From hastings at ebi.ac.uk Sun Nov 3 13:43:42 2013 From: hastings at ebi.ac.uk (Janna Hastings) Date: Sun, 3 Nov 2013 12:43:42 -0000 Subject: [DL] REMINDER: FOIS 2014: Call for Workshop Proposals, due 1 December In-Reply-To: <013101ced892$43cb12d0$cb613870$@ebi.ac.uk> References: <004101ced88e$f5472840$dfd578c0$@ebi.ac.uk> <005101ced88f$f4f9d620$deed8260$@ebi.ac.uk> <006101ced890$70dd61d0$52982570$@ebi.ac.uk> <007a01ced891$2009e520$601daf60$@ebi.ac.uk> <008a01ced891$4ae6cba0$e0b462e0$@ebi.ac.uk> <009a01ced891$6b7c2a40$42747ec0$@ebi.ac.uk> <00aa01ced891$7c58b950$750a2bf0$@ebi.ac.uk> <00c701ced891$ab7d0d80$02772880$@ebi.ac.uk> <00d701ced891$bff97fa0$3fec7ee0$@ebi.ac.uk> <00e701ced891$d3f269e0$7bd73da0$@ebi.ac.uk> <00f701ced891$efcc8a60$cf659f20$@ebi.ac.uk> <012101ced892$30486a00$90d93e00$@ebi.ac.uk> <013101ced892$43cb12d0$cb613870$@ebi.ac.uk> Message-ID: <013c01ced892$542af7d0$fc80e770$@ebi.ac.uk> (with apologies for cross-posting) CALL FOR WORKSHOP PROPOSALS 8th International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems (FOIS 2014) September 22-25, 2014, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil http://fois2014.inf.ufes.br/p/home.html Email: fois2014 at gmail.com Relevant dates 1 December 2013: Workshop proposal submission deadline 15 January 2014: Notification of acceptance of workshop proposals 22 May 2014: Recommended workshop paper submission deadline (after FOIS notification deadline) 22 September 2014: FOIS Workshops 23-25 September 2014: FOIS main conference CALL FOR WORKSHOP PROPOSALS Workshops at FOIS are scientific events that are independently organized by the workshop organizers. The workshop organizers will be responsible for advertising the workshop and reviewing and selecting the contributions. Workshops can be events that provide a forum for the discussion of topics that may complement the main conference or focus on specialized sub-topics related to formal ontology and its application in information systems. We specifically invite proposals for workshops organized by IAOA Special Interest Groups and Technical Committees. ------------------------------ TOPICS OF INTEREST ------------------------------ Areas of interest to the conference include the following: - Specific Foundational Issues in Formal Ontology - Ontology Evaluation - Specific Issues in Ontology Methodologies - Scientific applications - Relations between Formal Ontology and the Semantic Web - Visualization and accessibility - Ontology Repositories A full list of topics can be found on the conference website: http://fois2014.inf.ufes.br/p/call-for-papers.html SUBMISSION Workshop proposals should be no more than 2 pages in length, and must contain the following information: - title of the workshop - names of the workshop organizers - brief description of experience in workshop organization - description of the workshop topic - brief statement on the relation and relevance of the workshop to FOIS - intended duration of the workshop (half-day, full-day) - timeline for the workshop (submission dates, notification dates) Please consider the notification date of FOIS and the proposed Workshop Submission Deadline. - plans for publishing workshop proceedings Workshop proposals should be submitted to the FOIS Workshop Track through Easychair: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fois2014 EVALUATION Submissions for workshop proposals will be evaluated by members of the FOIS organizing and program committee, using the following criteria: - Relevance and utility to attendees - Quality of the proposal - Likelihood of success of the workshop - Complementarity with FOIS and overlap with other workshop WORKSHOP PROCEEDINGS The proceedings of the FOIS workshops are usually published on-line by the respective organizers and are not included in the main conference proceeding volume published by IOS Press. CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION General Chair: Laure Vieu (CNRS, France) Program Chairs: Pawel Garbacz (Catholic University of Lublin, Poland) Oliver Kutz (University of Bremen, Germany) Local Organization: Giancarlo Guizzardi (Federal University of Espirito Santo Brazil) Renato Rocha Souza (FGV, Brazil) Workshops: Robert Hoehndorf (University of Cambridge, UK) Ontology Competition: Till Mossakowski (DFKI Bremen and University of Bremen, Germany) Early Career Symposium: Marion Haemmerli (University of Lausanne, Switzerland) Torsten Hahmann (University of Toronto, Canada) Claudio Masolo (ISTC-CNR, Italy) Publicity: Janna Hastings (European Bioinformatics Institute, UK) Fernanda Baiao (Federal University of the State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------- Janna Hastings Email: hastings at ebi.ac.uk | Tel: +44 (0)1223 494411 | Fax: +44 (0)1223 494468 Twitter: @jannahastings | Web: www.ebi.ac.uk/~hastings | Blog: www.bioontology.ch Coordinator, Cheminformatics and Metabolism, European Bioinformatics Institute ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------- Visit ChEBI at www.ebi.ac.uk/chebi -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Most workshops will follow the classical format of presentations of peer-reviewed papers followed by discussion, but other formats (e.g., AI competitions) and entirely new ideas are also welcome. Whatever the format, all workshops should be interactive events and ample time should be allocated to discussion. The typical duration for a workshop is one full day, but two-day or shorter workshops can also be accommodated. If you are considering to propose a workshop or if you have any questions, please do not hesitate to get in touch with the ECAI-2014 Workshop Chairs, Marina De Vos (mdv at cs.bath.ac.uk) and Karl Tuyls (k.tuyls at liverpool.ac.uk). The deadline for submission of a workshop proposal is 12 January 2014. Detailed submission instructions and further information can be found on http://www.ecai2014.org/ ECAI Workshop Chairs Marina De Vos and Karl Tuyls -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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To this end, we wish to know your opinion: If you had a choice, *** which tutorial would you really like to attend? *** Is there a truly excellent tutorial you have attended at a recent AI conference (e.g., IJCAI, AAAI), and you suggest be proposed again with ECAI 2014? Or a topic that was missing and you really would have loved it to be there? If you wish to contribute to this poll, please drop us a line, preferably by November 22. You can point out a topic or an area, or even a specific speaker. We will take all your answers into account in the definition of the ECAI tutorial programme. Thank you and see you in Prague! ECAI Tutorial chairs Agostino Dovier (agostino.dovier at uniud.it) Paolo Torroni (paolo.torroni at unibo.it) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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All other details can be retrieved in http://www.ecai2014.org/ ECAI Tutorial chairs Agostino Dovier and Paolo Torroni -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From speroni at cs.unibo.it Tue Nov 5 17:37:29 2013 From: speroni at cs.unibo.it (speroni at cs.unibo.it) Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2013 17:37:29 +0100 (CET) Subject: ESWC 2014 Second Call for Workshops Message-ID: <201311051637.rA5GbNGd013059@informatik.uni-bremen.de> ** apologies for cross-posting ** ==== Second Call for Workshops ==== http://2014.eswc-conferences.org/important-dates/call-workshops The organizers of the 11th ESWC 2014 cordially invite you to submit a workshop proposal. ESWC is a major venue for discussing the latest scientific results and innovations in the field of semantic technologies on the Web and Linked Data, attracting a high number of high quality submissions and participants from academia and industry alike. Co-located workshops at ESWC conferences are distinguished meeting points for discussing ongoing work and latest ideas related to semantic technologies and the Semantic Web. Of particular interest are workshop proposals with an interdisciplinary standpoint, proposals focusing on a specific technology of general interest, or gathering a sub-community. We encourage the submission of workshop proposals on: * Fundamental problems of the Semantic Web / Linked Data such as ontology mining, heterogeneity, scalability and distribution, uncertainty, etc. * Applications of Semantic Web technologies in specific domains, * Important enabling technologies and their adaptation to the needs of the Semantic Web, and * Aspects of Semantic Web research that have been neglected so far, * Techniques from other research fields that are of relevance for Semantic Web research (e.g., machine learning, NLP, data mining) # General Information and Criteria Each proposal will be reviewed by the members of the workshop programme committee, and ranked based on the overall quality of the proposal and the workshop's fit to the conference as detailed below. Their recommendation will determine the final decision on the acceptance/rejection of each proposal, which is to be taken by the workshop and tutorial chairs as well as by the local and the general chair of ESWC 2014. The criteria for judging the quality of workshop proposals are as follows: * Co-located workshops cover topics falling in the general scope of the ESWC conference. * Workshops are intended to be genuine interactive events and not mini-conferences. * We welcome workshops with creative structures and organizations that attract various types of contributions and ensure rich interactions. * Workshops should have a clear focus on a specific technology, problem or application. * There is potentially a significant community interested in the workshop's topic. * Workshop duration can be half a day or a full day. * We strongly advise having more than one organizer and no more than four, preferably from different institutions, bringing different perspectives to the workshop topic. In case overlapping workshops are proposed, the workshop chair may contact the organisers to discuss the possibility of merging workshops. Please note that the duration of a workshop might need to be adjusted based on the overall number of submissions received. Further, workshops that receive less than 5 submissions or have less than 10 people registered at the early registration deadline might be canceled. The organizers of accepted workshops will be responsible for their own reviewing process, publicity (e.g., website, timelines and call for papers), and proceedings production. They will be required to closely cooperate with the Workshop Chair and the ESWC 2014 local organizers to finalize all organizational details. Workshop attendees must pay the ESWC 2014 workshop registration fee, as well as the conference registration fee. Organizers of workshops and tutorials will get a free registration for workshops and tutorials at the pre-conference days, i.e. they will only have to pay the main conference fee. # Important Dates Workshop proposals due: Nov 22, 2013 - 23:59 Hawaii Time Notification of acceptance: Dec 6, 2013 - 23:59 Hawaii Time Workshop Web site due: Dec 16, 2013 - 23:59 Hawaii Time Workshop camera-ready proceedings due: Apr 25, 2014 - 23:59 Hawaii Time Workshop days: May 25 and May 26, 2014 # Suggested Timeline for Workshops Submission deadline: March 6, 2014 Notifications: April 1, 2014 Camera ready version: April 15, 2014 # Submission Guidelines Workshop proposals have to be submitted via Easychair. Each proposal must consist of a single PDF document written in English, not longer than 3 pages, which contains the following information: 1. The title and brief technical description of the workshop, specifying its goals and motivation. 2. A brief discussion of why the topic is of particular interest at this time. 3. A brief description of why and to whom the workshop is of interest, the workshop audience, as well as the expected number of participants. 4. A brief description (draft outline) of the proposed workshop format, discussing the mix of events and activities such as paper presentations, invited talks, panels, hacking session, or general discussion, and and an approximate timeline. 5. A list of (potential) members of the program committee (at least 50% have to be known and confirmed at the time of the proposal). 6. An indication of whether the workshop should be considered for a half-day or full-day event. 7. Related Workshops and Conferences: Is this the continuation of a workshop series or a new workshop to address an emerging issue? Please provide information about past versions of this workshop and other related workshops (including URLs and submission/acceptance counts, if available). 8. Names and contact information of the workshop organizers/chair(s) (name, affiliation, email address, homepage and short (one paragraph) biography of each chair, explaining the chair's expertise for the workshop including past experience in organizing/facilitating workshops). Preferably a single contact person per submission. The best papers of each workshop will be included in the supplementary proceedings of ESWC 2014, which will appear in the Springer LNCS series. # Workshop Chair Harald Sack (Hasso-Plattner Institute for IT Systems Engineering, DE) email: harald.sack at hpi.uni-potsdam.de # Programme Committee Abraham Bernstein (University of Zuerich, CH) Chris Bizer (University of Mannheim, DE) Jerome Euzenat (INRIA Grenoble Rhone-Alpes, FR) Dieter Fensel (University of Innsbruck, AT) Aldo Gangemi (CNR Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technology, IT) Asuncion Gomez-Perez (Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, ES) Frank van Harmelen (VU University Amsterdam, NL) Manfred Hauswirth (DERI, National University of Ireland, Galway, IE) Pascal Hitzler (Kno.e.sis Center, Wright State University, Dayton, US) Enrico Motta (The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK) Rudi Studer (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, DE) From mehdi.kaytoue at insa-lyon.fr Wed Nov 6 08:02:23 2013 From: mehdi.kaytoue at insa-lyon.fr (Mehdi Kaytoue) Date: Wed, 06 Nov 2013 08:02:23 +0100 Subject: [DL] [ICFCA 2014] - Second Call for Papers "12th International Conference on Formal Concept Analysis" Message-ID: <5279E97F.5080907@insa-lyon.fr> (with apologies for cross postings) Please consider to contribute to and/or forward to the appropriate groups. ========================================================================= 12th International Conference on Formal Concept Analysis (ICFCA2014) June 10 - 13, 2014, Cluj-Napoca, Romania http://www.cs.ubbcluj.ro/icfca14/ ----------- What is it? ----------- Formal Concept Analysis emerged in the 1980's from attempts to restructure lattice theory in order to promote better communication between lattice theorists and potential users of lattice theory. Since its early years, Formal Concept Analysis has developed into a research field in its own right with a thriving theoretical community and a rapidly expanding range of applications in information and knowledge processing including visualization, data analysis (mining) and knowledge management and discovery. The conference aims to bring together researchers and practitioners working on theoretical or applied aspects of Formal Concept Analysis within major related areas such as Mathematics and Computer and Information Sciences and their diverse applications to fields like Software Engineering, Linguistics, Life and Social Sciences, etc. -------------------------------------------------------- Main topics of interest include, but are not limited to: -------------------------------------------------------- Fundamental aspects of FCA - FCA theory - Lattice theory - Lattice drawing - Philosophical foundations - Algorithms and complexity theory Bridging FCA to information sciences and artificial intelligence - FCA and logic (semantic web, description logics, ...) - FCA and conceptual structures (concept graphs, knowledge space, ...) - FCA and data analysis (hierarchical classification, data organization, ...) - FCA and data mining (pattern mining) - FCA and machine learning (learning with hypothesis, feature selection, ...) - FCA and database theory (dependencies, rules, data cubes, ...) - FCA and software engineering - FCA and morphological mathematics Understanding, modelling real-world data and phenomena with FCA - Analysis of "big data" with FCA (sampling, parallel computing, ...) - Analysis of social networks and their dynamics - Applications for scientific data analysis (in biology, health, ...) - Applications for sensors data and user interactions traces - Other FCA applications ------------------ Submission Details ------------------ We invite scientific publications on theory and applications of Formal Concept Analysis. Papers of up to sixteen pages may be submitted in the PDF or Postscript format via the Easychair system https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icfca14. For each paper, an abstract must be submitted by December 10, 2013. Authors are requested to follow the formatting instructions for the Springer LNCS style, see http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html Accepted papers must be presented at the conference, therefore at least one author per paper has to register timely. All submissions will be refereed, and the conference proceedings will be published by Springer in the LNCS/LNAI series. --------------- Important Dates --------------- submission of abstract: December 10 2013 submission of full paper: December 17 2013 notification of acceptance: February 15 2014 camera ready due: March 8 2014 conference: June 10-13 2014 ------------ Organization ------------ The conference will be hosted by the Babes-Bolyai University Cluj-Napoca, Romania. ---------------- Conference Chair ---------------- - Christian Sacarea, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania -------------- Program Chairs -------------- - Cynthia Vera Glodeanu, Technische Universit?t Dresden, Germany - Mehdi Kaytoue, INSA de Lyon ? LIRIS, France ---------------- Local Organizers ---------------- - Christian Sacarea, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania - Viorica Varga, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania --------------- Editorial Board (To be updated) --------------- - Peggy Cellier, IRISA lab, Rennes, France - Felix Distel, Technische Universit?t Dresden, Germany - Peter Eklund, University of Wollongong, Australia - S?bastien Ferr?, Universit? de Rennes 1, France - Bernhard Ganter, Technische Universit?t Dresden, Germany - Robert Godin, Universit? du Qu?bec ? Montr?al (UQAM), Canada - Robert J?schke, Leibniz Universit?t Hannover, Germany - Sergei Kuznetsov, Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia - Leonard Kwuida, Bern University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland - Raoul Medina, LIMOS, Universit? Clermont-Ferrand 2, France - Rokia Missaoui, Universit? du Qu?bec en Outaouais (UQO), Canada - Sergei Obiedkov, Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia - Uta Priss, Ostfalia University, Wolfenb?ttel, Germany - Sebastian Rudolph, Technische Universit?t Dresden, Germany - Stefan E. Schmidt, Technische Universit?t Dresden, Germany - Gerd Stumme, University of Kassel, Germany - Petko Valtchev, Universit? du Qu?bec ? Montr?al, Canada - Karl Erich Wolff, University of Applied Sciences, Darmstadt, Germany --------------- Honorary Member --------------- - Rudolf Wille, Technische Universit?t Darmstadt, Germany ----------------- Program Committee (To be confirmed) ----------------- - Simon Andrews, University of Sheffield, United Kingdom - Mike Bain, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia - Jaume Baixeries, Polytechnical University of Catalonia, Spain - Radim Belohl?vek, Palacky University, Olomouc, Czech Republic - Karell Bertet, L3I, Universit? de la Rochelle - Claudio Carpineto, Fondazione Ugo Bordoni, Italy - Lo?c Cerf, UFMG, Belo Horizonte, Brazil - Stephan Doerfel, KDE Group, University of Kassel, Germany - Vincent Duquenne, ECP6-CNRS, Universit? Paris 6, France - Alain G?ly, Universit? Paul Verlaine, Metz, France - Cynthia Vera Glodeanu, Technische Universit?t Dresden, Germany - Marianne Huchard, LIRMM, Universit? de Montpellier, France - Dmitry Ignatov, Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia - Tim Kaiser, SAP AG, Walldorf - Mehdi Kaytoue, LIRIS, INSA Lyon, France - Derrick G. Kourie, University of Pretoria, South Africa - Markus Kr?tzsch, Technische Universit?t Dresden, Germany - Michal Krupka, Palacky University, Olomouc, Czech Republic - Marzena Kryszkiewicz, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland - Lotfi Lakhal, Aix-Marseille Universit?, France - Wilfried Lex, Universit?t Clausthal, Germany - Engelbert Mephu Nguifo, LIMOS, Universit? de Clermont-Ferrand 2, France - Amedeo Napoli, LORIA, Nancy, France - Lhouari Nourine, LIMOS, Universit? de Clermont Ferrand 2, France - Jan Outrata, Palacky University of Olomouc, Czech Republic - Jean-Marc Petit, LIRIS, INSA Lyon, France - Jonas Poelmans, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium - Sandor Radeleczki, University of Miskolc, Hungary - Artem Revenko, Technische Universit?t Dresden, Germany - Camille Roth, CNRS/EHESS, Paris, France - Laszlo Szathmary, University of Debrecen, Hungary - Andreja Tepavcevic, University of Novi Sad, Serbia -------------- next part -------------- 12th International Conference on Formal Concept Analysis (ICFCA2014) June 10 - 13, 2014, Cluj-Napoca, Romania http://www.cs.ubbcluj.ro/icfca14/ ----------- What is it? ----------- Formal Concept Analysis emerged in the 1980's from attempts to restructure lattice theory in order to promote better communication between lattice theorists and potential users of lattice theory. Since its early years, Formal Concept Analysis has developed into a research field in its own right with a thriving theoretical community and a rapidly expanding range of applications in information and knowledge processing including visualization, data analysis (mining) and knowledge management and discovery. The conference aims to bring together researchers and practitioners working on theoretical or applied aspects of Formal Concept Analysis within major related areas such as Mathematics and Computer and Information Sciences and their diverse applications to fields like Software Engineering, Linguistics, Life and Social Sciences, etc. -------------------------------------------------------- Main topics of interest include, but are not limited to: -------------------------------------------------------- Fundamental aspects of FCA - FCA theory - Lattice theory - Lattice drawing - Philosophical foundations - Algorithms and complexity theory Bridging FCA to information sciences and artificial intelligence - FCA and logic (semantic web, description logics, ...) - FCA and conceptual structures (concept graphs, knowledge space, ...) - FCA and data analysis (hierarchical classification, data organization, ...) - FCA and data mining (pattern mining) - FCA and machine learning (learning with hypothesis, feature selection, ...) - FCA and database theory (dependencies, rules, data cubes, ...) - FCA and software engineering - FCA and morphological mathematics Understanding, modelling real-world data and phenomena with FCA - Analysis of "big data" with FCA (sampling, parallel computing, ...) - Analysis of social networks and their dynamics - Applications for scientific data analysis (in biology, health, ...) - Applications for sensors data and user interactions traces - Other FCA applications ------------------ Submission Details ------------------ We invite scientific publications on theory and applications of Formal Concept Analysis. Papers of up to sixteen pages may be submitted in the PDF or Postscript format via the Easychair system https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icfca14. For each paper, an abstract must be submitted by December 10, 2013. Authors are requested to follow the formatting instructions for the Springer LNCS style, see http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html Accepted papers must be presented at the conference, therefore at least one author per paper has to register timely. All submissions will be refereed, and the conference proceedings will be published by Springer in the LNCS/LNAI series. --------------- Important Dates --------------- submission of abstract: December 10 2013 submission of full paper: December 17 2013 notification of acceptance: February 15 2014 camera ready due: March 8 2014 conference: June 10-13 2014 ------------ Organization ------------ The conference will be hosted by the Babes-Bolyai University Cluj-Napoca, Romania. ---------------- Conference Chair ---------------- - Christian Sacarea, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania -------------- Program Chairs -------------- - Cynthia Vera Glodeanu, Technische Universit?t Dresden, Germany - Mehdi Kaytoue, INSA de Lyon ? LIRIS, France ---------------- Local Organizers ---------------- - Christian Sacarea, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania - Viorica Varga, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania --------------- Editorial Board (To be updated) --------------- - Peggy Cellier, IRISA lab, Rennes, France - Felix Distel, Technische Universit?t Dresden, Germany - Peter Eklund, University of Wollongong, Australia - S?bastien Ferr?, Universit? de Rennes 1, France - Bernhard Ganter, Technische Universit?t Dresden, Germany - Robert Godin, Universit? du Qu?bec ? Montr?al (UQAM), Canada - Robert J?schke, Leibniz Universit?t Hannover, Germany - Sergei Kuznetsov, Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia - Leonard Kwuida, Bern University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland - Raoul Medina, LIMOS, Universit? Clermont-Ferrand 2, France - Rokia Missaoui, Universit? du Qu?bec en Outaouais (UQO), Canada - Sergei Obiedkov, Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia - Uta Priss, Ostfalia University, Wolfenb?ttel, Germany - Sebastian Rudolph, Technische Universit?t Dresden, Germany - Stefan E. Schmidt, Technische Universit?t Dresden, Germany - Gerd Stumme, University of Kassel, Germany - Petko Valtchev, Universit? du Qu?bec ? Montr?al, Canada - Karl Erich Wolff, University of Applied Sciences, Darmstadt, Germany --------------- Honorary Member --------------- - Rudolf Wille, Technische Universit?t Darmstadt, Germany ----------------- Program Committee (To be confirmed) ----------------- - Simon Andrews, University of Sheffield, United Kingdom - Mike Bain, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia - Jaume Baixeries, Polytechnical University of Catalonia, Spain - Radim Belohl?vek, Palacky University, Olomouc, Czech Republic - Karell Bertet, L3I, Universit? de la Rochelle - Claudio Carpineto, Fondazione Ugo Bordoni, Italy - Lo?c Cerf, Belo Horizonte, Brazil - Stephan Doerfel, KDE Group, University of Kassel, Germany - Vincent Duquenne, ECP6-CNRS, Universit? Paris 6, France - Alain G?ly, Universit? Paul Verlaine, Metz, France - Cynthia Vera Glodeanu, Technische Universit?t Dresden, Germany - Marianne Huchard, LIRMM, Universit? Montpellier, France - Dmitry Ignatov, Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia - Tim Kaiser, SAP AG, Walldorf - Mehdi Kaytoue, LIRIS, INSA Lyon, France - Derrick G. Kourie, University of Pretoria, South Africa - Markus Kr?tzsch, Technische Universit?t Dresden, Germany - Michal Krupka, Palacky University, Olomouc, Czech Republic - Marzena Kryszkiewicz, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland - Lotfi Lakhal, Aix-Marseille Universit?, France - Wilfried Lex, Universit?t Clausthal, Germany - Engelbert Mephu Nguifo, LIMOS, Universit? de Clermont Ferrand 2, France - Amedeo Napoli, LORIA, Nancy, France - Lhouari Nourine, LIMOS, Universit? de Clermont Ferrand 2, France - Jan Outrata, Palacky University of Olomouc, Czech Republic - Jean-Marc Petit, LIRIS, INSA Lyon, France - Jonas Poelmans, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium - Sandor Radeleczki, University of Miskolc, Hungary - Artem Revenko, Technische Universit?t Dresden, Germany - Camille Roth, CNRS/EHESS, Paris, France - Laszlo Szathmary, University of Debrecen, Hungary - Andreja Tepavcevic, University of Novi Sad, Serbia From speroni at cs.unibo.it Mon Nov 11 19:43:17 2013 From: speroni at cs.unibo.it (speroni at cs.unibo.it) Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2013 19:43:17 +0100 (CET) Subject: [DL] ESWC 2014 Second Call for Tutorials Message-ID: <201311111843.rABIhC2h027616@informatik.uni-bremen.de> ** apologies for cross-posting ** ==== Second Call for Tutorials ==== http://2014.eswc-conferences.org/important-dates/call-tutorials ESWC 2014 invites tutorials that address the interests of its varied audience: people new to the Semantic Web, Semantic Web researchers and practitioners that wish to learn new technologies, users of Semantic Web technologies, and representatives of government and funding agencies as well as potential private investors in Semantic Web technologies. We welcome submissions of tutorial proposals on all major topics related to semantic technologies. We especially solicit proposals for tutorials of the following types: - Tutorials with a coherent theme providing an introduction to new semantic technologies and trends. - Tutorials describing the application of semantic technologies in specific domains (e.g., life-sciences, e-government, e-commerce, cultural heritage, etc.). - Tutorials presenting techniques from other research fields that are of relevance for Semantic Web research especially in relationship to the tracks of the conference (e.g., techniques from social science, database techniques, NLP techniques etc.). Tutorials can be half a day or a full day. We advise having more than one presenter and no more than three, preferably from different institutions, bringing different perspectives to the tutorial topic. Tutorials may focus entirely on theoretical aspects; however, we encourage organisers to incorporate hands-on sessions where appropriate. The tutorials should reach a good balance between the topic coverage and its relevance to the community. Timeline for Tutorials ----------- Proposals due: Nov 22, 2013 - 23:59 Hawaii Time Notification of acceptance: Dec 6, 2013 - 23:59 Hawaii Time Tutorial Web site due: Dec 16, 2013 - 23:59 Hawaii Time Camera-ready material due: Apr 25, 2014 - 23:59 Hawaii Time Tutorial days: May 25 and May 26, 2014 Responsibilities ----------- Organizers of accepted tutorials are responsible for preparing and maintaining a Web site that describes the tutorial and includes all relevant information. Organizers are also responsible for submitting the material for attendees (slide sets, additional teaching material, software installation and usage guides for practical hands-on sessions, etc.) to the Tutorial Chair. The ESWC 2014 Organizing Committee is responsible for providing publicity for the tutorials as part of the conference publicity activities, and on-site logistical support to the organizers and attendees. Tutorial attendees must pay the ESWC 2014 workshop registration fee, as well as the conference registration fee. General Information ----------- Each tutorial will have one reduced registration fee (pre-conference days registration will be free i.e. one of the chairs will only have to pay the main conference fees). In the interest of the overall quality of the conference, the Tutorial Chair reserves the right to merge tutorials and/or adjust the scope thereof in case a mimimum number of registrations is not reached by the early registration deadline. Submission details ----------- Tutorial proposals should not exceed 5 pages, using an 11 pt font for the body of the text of the proposal and should contain the following information: - Abstract (200 words maximum, for inclusion on the ESWC 2014 website). - Tutorial description: More specifically, it should specify the objectives of the tutorial and relevance to ESWC 2014, include enough details on the scope of the material to be covered and the depth to which it will be covered and specify the intended audience and any prerequisite knowledge. Appropriate references to the material to be covered by the tutorial must be included. - Tutorial length. The tutorial can be full or half day (if the tutorial can be either length, please be sure to identify which material is included for each length). - Specify other venues to which the tutorial or part thereof has or will be presented, in addition to explaining how the current tutorial differs from the other editions. Links to the slides of those tutorial editions should be included in the proposal. - Brief professional biography of the presenter(s) indicating previous training and speaking experience (such as teaching and tutorial presentation). Each proposal will be reviewed by the members of the tutorial programme committee, and ranked based on the overall quality of the proposal and the tutorial's fit to the conference. Their recommendation will determine the final decision on the acceptance/rejection of each proposal. Submission ----------- Submission will be through the Easychair system (please note that it is the same site to submit workshops and tutorials) https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=eswc2014workshops-tutorials Tutorials Chair Nathalie Aussenac-Gilles (IRIT-CNRS, Toulouse, Fr) email: aussenac at irit.fr From sgonzalezbailon at asc.upenn.edu Mon Nov 11 21:35:20 2013 From: sgonzalezbailon at asc.upenn.edu (Sandra Gonzalez Bailon) Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2013 20:35:20 +0000 Subject: [DL] ACM Web Science 2014 -- Call for Workshops References: Message-ID: ** apologies for cross-posting ** Dear Colleagues, Please, consider submitting your workshop proposals to the forthcoming Web Science 2014 conference. Details below! Sandra ***************************************************** ACM Web Science 2014 Conference Call for Workshops June 23-26, 2014 Bloomington, Indiana, USA websci14.org . @WebSciConf . #WebSci14 http://www.websci14.org/#call-for-workshop-proposals IMPORTANT DATES Deadline for workshops submission: January 17th, 2014 Notification of abstracts acceptance: January 31st, 2014 Workshops Date: June 23 2014 ***************************************************** ** Call for Workshops ** The Web is the largest information network ever devised. It opens a universally accessible space for communication and knowledge sharing, with vast effects on society that we are just starting to grasp. Web Science is the emerging field that studies the structure, function and evolution of the WWW to ultimately unravel the social potentials and consequences of this ubiquitous network. The Web Science conference will start with a number of workshops that will promote in-depth discussions with the goal of understanding how people, organizations, applications, and policies shape and are shaped by the Web. In agreement with the spirit of the conference, the workshops are intended to create opportunities for interdisciplinary discussion around themes that are central to the study of the Web.The list of themes includes, but are not restricted to, 1. Methods for data mining and network research; 2. The study of social dynamics (i.e. political campaigns, censorship) using Web data; 3. The relationship between technical design and individual behaviour (i.e. the impact of by-default design on privacy); 4. The future of the Web in an era of increasing mobile applications; 5. The incentives and limits of regulation; 6. Participatory systems and crowdsourcing; 7. The dynamics of information creation (supply) and consumption (demand) and its relation to real world events. We will give priority to proposals that approach their topic from the perspective of various disciplines, spanning the divide between the social and computer sciences. Workshops can be designed as half or full day events, and they can have a mixture of panel presentations and invited speakers, but presentations should reflect the diversity of approaches that characterize the multidisciplinary nature of Web Science. ** Submission ** Workshops proposals should contain the following information: 1. Title summarizing the theme of the workshop. 2. Details of the organizing committee, including names and institutional affiliations. 3. Max two-page description about the relevance, motivation and goals of the workshop. 4. Schedule of panels and talks (half or full day). 5. Names of potential invited speakers. 6. Selection criteria for papers to be presented. 7. Workshop website URL (advisable). It is the prerogative of workshop organizers to decide whether to have an open call for papers or arrange panels by invitation only, as well as deciding the duration (full or half-day event) of the workshop. Proposals should include as many details as possible about speakers and talks: they will be evaluated by their coherence and ability to address the stated goals. It is the organizers' responsibility to advertise their event, constitute a workshop program committee to review and select papers, manage the review process and possibly arrange for selected papers to be published in a special issue of a to-be-identified journal. We advise proposals to have, at the time of submission, a website describing the workshop and, if applicable, information about similar events held in the past. Selected workshops will be linked from the main conference site. Proposals should be submitted in pdf format through Easychair to:https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=websci2014ws. ** Review ** The Web Science workshop chairs will review each submission and select those with the higher scores on originality and relevance of the proposed topic, its interdisciplinarity, rigor of the review process, coherence with the conference aims, and potential to attract a large audience . ** Deadlines ** * January 17th 2013: Proposal Submissions * January 31st 2013: Notification of acceptance * February 15th 2013: final website due ** Workshop Chairs** . Sandra Gonz?lez-Bail?n, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia (PA), USA . Alessandro Flammini, Indiana University, Bloomington (IN), USA . Daniela Paolotti, ISI Foundation, Torino, Italy For information, please contact websci2014ws at easychair.org From autexier at informatik.uni-bremen.de Mon Nov 11 13:28:01 2013 From: autexier at informatik.uni-bremen.de (Serge Autexier) Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2013 13:28:01 +0100 (CET) Subject: [DL] Call for Workshops: Conf. Intelligent Computer Mathematics (CICM 2014) Message-ID: <20131111122801.07F9A1D0F68D@mbp-autexier.informatik.uni-bremen.de> CICM 2014 - Conferences on Intelligent Computer Mathematics July 7-11, 2014 at University of Coimbra, Portugal http://www.cicm-conference.org/2014 *** Call for Workshop Proposals *** ---------------------------------------------------------------------- As computers and communications technology advance, greater opportunities arise for intelligent mathematical computation. While computer algebra, automated deduction, mathematical publishing and novel user interfaces individually have long and successful histories, we are now seeing increasing opportunities for synergy among these areas. The Conferences on Intelligent Computer Mathematics (CICM) offer a venue for discussing these areas and their synergy. CICM has been held annually as a joint meeting since 2008, colocating related conferences and workshops to advance work in these subjects. Previous meetings have been held in Birmingham (U.K. 2008), Grand Bend (Canada 2009), Paris (France 2010), Bertinoro (Italy 2011), Bremen (Germany 2012) and Bath (U.K. 2013). This is a call for proposals for workshops to be held at CICM 2014, which will be held in Coimbra (Portugal), July 7-11 next year. The principal tracks of the 2014 meeting will be Calculemus (Symbolic Computation and Mechanised Reasoning) DML (Towards a Digital Mathematics Library) MKM (Mathematical Knowledge Management) Systems and Projects Some of the workshops that have been held at past CICM meetings are: Automated Reasoning: Bridging the Gap between Theory and Practice Compact Computer Algebra Empirically Successful Automated Reasoning for Mathematics Intelligent Proof Search Mathematical user Interfaces OpenMath Pen-Based Mathematical Computation Programming languages for Mechanized Mathematics Systems SCIEnce Proposals for workshops to be held at CICM 2014 are solicited. Both well-established workshops and newer or brand new ones are encouraged. Please provide the following information: + Workshop title. + Names and affiliations of organizers. + Brief description of workshop goals and/or topics. + Proposed workshop duration (half a day up to two days is possible). + If the workshop has met previously, please include the conference affiliation for the previous meeting. If the workshop is new, please indicate so. Fees for conference participants will be levied on a per-day basis, so workshop-only participation is possible. The CICM organizers plan to make available a small amount towards partial reimbursement for travel expenses of invited speakers. Also, CICM will take care of copying and distributing informal printed proceedings for workshops that would like this service, as well as permanently archived open access online proceedings with CEUR-WS.org. All proposals should be sent via email to cicm-organizers at lists.jacobs-university.de for consideration by the CICM 2014 organizers: Local Organization Chair: Pedro Quaresma (U. Coimbra, Portugal) General Program Chair: Stephen Watt (U. Western Ontario, Canada) Calculemus Track Chair: James Davenport (U. Bath, UK) DML Track Chair: Petr Sojka (Masaryk U., CZ) MKM Track Chair: Josef Urban (Radboud U., NL) System & Projects Track Chair: Alan Sexton (U. Birmingham, UK) Important dates: Deadline for proposal submissions: January 17, 2014 Acceptance/rejection notification: February 3, 2014 Workshop dates: July 7-11, 2014 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From ecai2014 at guarant.cz Mon Nov 11 12:52:51 2013 From: ecai2014 at guarant.cz (ecai2014) Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2013 11:52:51 +0000 Subject: [DL] PAIS'14 Call for Papers Message-ID: PAIS'14 Call for Papers Conference on Prestigious Applications of Intelligent Systems 20 - 21 August 2014, Prague, Czech Republic http://www.ecai2014.org The PAIS'14 Programme Committee invites papers describing innovative applications of AI techniques to real-world systems and problems to be submitted to the Technical Programme of the 8th International Conference on the Prestigious Applications of Intelligent Systems - a subconference of the 21st European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI'14). Papers highlighting all aspects of the application of intelligent systems technology are most welcome. Our aim is to provide a forum for academic and industrial researchers and practitioners to share experience and insight on the applicability, development and deployment of intelligent systems. PAIS is the largest showcase in Europe of real applications using AI technology and is the ideal place to meet developers of successful applications. Papers on all novel and significant applications of intelligent systems are welcome. We encourage submissions on deployed (in production use for some period) and emerging (in field testing) applications. Both long (6-page) and short (2-page) papers can be submitted. Whereas long papers should report on substantial results, short papers are intended for highly promising but possibly more preliminary work. Short papers will be presented in poster form. Rejected long papers will also be considered for the short paper track. Submitted papers must be formatted according to ECAI'14 guidelines and submitted electronically through the ECAI'14 paper submission site. Full instructions including formatting guidelines and electronic templates are available on the ECAI'14 website. End of submission period: 1 March 2014 Author feedback: 14-18 April 2014 Notification of acceptance/rejection: 9 May 2014 Camera-ready copy due: 30 May 2014 The proceedings of PAIS'14 will be included in ECAI'14 and will be published by IOS Press. PAIS'14/ECAI'14 will be held in the beautiful and historic city of Prague, the capital of the Czech Republic. With excellent opportunities for sightseeing and gastronomy, Prague promises to be a wonderful venue for a memorable conference. PAIS'14 Conference Chairs: Gerhard Friedrich, Universitaet Klagenfurt, Austria Barry O'Sullivan, University College Cork, Ireland -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jaeschke at l3s.de Mon Nov 11 14:22:58 2013 From: jaeschke at l3s.de (=?UTF-8?B?Um9iZXJ0IErDpHNjaGtl?=) Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2013 14:22:58 +0100 Subject: [DL] ICCS 2014 - Call for Papers Message-ID: <5280DA32.1010704@l3s.de> ICCS 2014 - Call for Papers 21st International Conference on Conceptual Structures -- Graph-based Representation and Reasoning -- 27 - 30 July 2014, Iasi, Romania http://iccs2014.info.uaic.ro/ # Scope and Significance The International Conferences on Conceptual Structures (ICCS) focus on the formal analysis and representation of conceptual knowledge with applications to artificial intelligence, computational linguistics, and related areas of computer science. The ICCS conferences evolved from a series of seven annual workshops on conceptual graphs, starting with an informal gathering hosted by John F. Sowa in 1986. Recently, graph-based knowledge representation and reasoning (KRR) paradigms are getting more and more attention. The aim of the ICCS 2014 conference is to build upon its long standing expertise in graph-based KRR and focus on providing modelling, formal and application results of graph-based systems. ICCS 2014 will be held in Iasi, Romania at the Al. I. Cuza University, the oldest higher education institution in Romania. The university was founded one year after the establishment of the Romanian state in 1860. Iasi has a long tradition in higher education and has traditionally been one of the leading centres of Romanian social, cultural, academic and artistic life. The conference welcomes contributions that address graph-based representation and reasoning paradigms (e.g. Bayesian Networks (BNs), Semantic Networks (SNs), RDF(S), Conceptual Graphs (CGs), Formal Concept Analysis (FCA), CP-Nets, GAI-Nets, Argumentation, Graph Databases, etc.) from a modelling, theoretical and application viewpoint: - *Modelling results* will investigate concrete real world needs for graph-based representation, how certain use cases are of interest to the graph community, how using graphs can bring added (business) value, what kind of graph representation is needed for a given case etc. - *Technical results* will include fundamental graph theory based results for novel structures for representation, extensions of existing structures for added expressivity, conciseness, optimisation algorithms for reasoning, reasoning explanation, etc. - Papers reporting on *application experience* will be expected to demonstrate the benefits of the graph-based proposed solutions in the context of the use case studied with respect to other possible solutions. The conference also welcomes papers on the following topics: Knowledge Management, Knowledge Architectures, Reasoning under Inconsistency, Knowledge Representation and Uncertainty, Contextual Logic, Metaphoric, Cultural or Semiotic Considerations, Ontologies, Semantic Web, Web of Data, Web 2.0, Conceptual Knowledge Acquisition, Data Mining, Text Mining, Natural Language Processing, Linguistics, Constraint Satisfaction, Decision Making, Resource Allocation and Agreement Technologies. # Submission and Publication We invite scientific publications of up to fourteen pages. For each paper, an abstract must be submitted by March 2nd, 2014. Papers must be formatted according to Springer?s LNCS style guidelines (http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0) and not exceed the page limit. The submission is to be done via EasyChair (https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iccs20141). All submissions will be refereed, and the conference proceedings will be published by Springer in the LNCS/LNAI series - both online and printed. At least one author of each accepted paper must register for the conference and present the paper there. # Important Dates - Abstract Submission: March 2nd, 2014 - Paper Submission: March 9th, 2014 - Notification of Acceptance: April 14th, 2014 - Camera Ready Paper: April 30th, 2014 - ICCS 2014 Conference Date: 27 - 30 July, 2014 The conference will be hosted by the Al. I. Cuza University, Iasi, Romania. Further information is available at http://iccs2014.info.uaic.ro/. # Organisation - General Chair: Madalina Croitoru, University of Montpellier 2, France http://www.lirmm.fr/~croitoru/ - Program Chairs: - Nathalie Hernandez, University of Toulouse, France http://www.irit.fr/~Nathalie.Hernandez/ - Robert J?schke, University of Hannover, Germany http://www.kbs.uni-hannover.de/~jaeschke/ - Local Chair: Cornelius Croitoru, Al. I. Cuza University, Iasi, Romania http://profs.info.uaic.ro/~croitoru/ - Local Co-Chair: Lenuta Alboaie, Al. I. Cuza University, Romania http://www.uaic.ro/uaic/bin/view/Main/WebHome # ICCS Steering Committee - Madalina Croitoru, University of Montpellier 2, France http://www.lirmm.fr/~croitoru/ - Frithjof Dau, SAP Research Dresden, Germany http://dr-dau.net/ - Ollivier Haemmerl?, University of Toulouse, France http://www.irit.fr/~Ollivier.Haemmerle/ - Uta Priss, Ostfalia University of Applied Sciences, Wolfenb?ttel, Germany http://www.upriss.org.uk/ - Sebastian Rudolph, Technical University Dresden, Germany http://www.inf.tu-dresden.de/?node_id=3383 # Program Committee - Simon Andrews, Sheffield Hallam University, UK - Galia Angelova, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria - Peggy Cellier, IRISA, Rennes, France - Dan Corbett, Optimodal Technologies, Washington DC, USA - Cornelius Croitoru, University Al. I. Cuza, Iasi, Romania - Juliette Dibie-Barthelemy, INRA-Met at risk, Paris, France - Pavlin Dobrev, ProSyst Labs EOOD, Sofia, Bulgaria - Florent Domenach, University of Nicosia, Cyprus - J?r?me Euzenat, INRIA Grenoble Rh?ne-Alpes, LIG, France - Catherine Faron Zucker, Universit? de Nice, France - Jerome Fortin, LIRMM, Montpellier, France - Cynthia-Vera Glodeanu, Technische Universit?t Dresden, Germany - Ollivier Haemmerl?, IRIT, Toulouse, France - Siegfried Handschuh, DERI Galway, Ireland - Jan Hladik, SAP Research Dresden, Germany - Rinke Hoekstra, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands - John Howse, University of Brighton, UK - Adil Kabbaj, INSEA, Rabat, Morocco - Hamamache Kheddouci, LIRIS, Lyon, France - Leonard Kwuida, Universit? du Quebec Outaouais, Canada - J?r?me Lang, Lamsade, Paris Dauphine, France - Dickson Lukose, MIMOS BHD, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia - Pierre Marquis, CRIL-CNRS, Lens, France - Philippe Martin, Universit? de La R?union, Saint Denis, R?union - Tomasz Michalak, University of Oxford, UK - Bernard Moulin, Universit? de Laval, Quebec, Canada - Sergei Obiedkov, Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia - Yoshiaki Okubo, Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan - Nir Oren, University of Aberdeen, UK - Nathalie Pernelle, LRI, Paris, France - Uta Priss, Ostfalia University of Applied Sciences, Wolfenb?ttel, Germany - Marie-Christine Rousset, IMAG, Grenoble, France - Sebastian Rudolph, Technische Universit?t Dresden, Germany - Fatiha Sais, LRI, Paris, France - Eric Salvat, IMERIR, Perpignan, France - Iain Stalker, University of Manchester, UK - Gem Stapleton, University of Brighton, UK - Heiner Stuckenschmidt, University of Mannheim, Germany - Annette ten Teije, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands - Michael Thomazo, LIRMM, Montpellier, France - Francisco Valverde-Albacete, Universidad Carlos III Madrid, Spain - Srdjan Vesic, CRIL, Lens, France - Martin Watmough, Sheffield Hallam University, UK - Karl Erich Wolff, Hochschule Darmstadt, Germany - Stefan Woltran, Technische Universit?t Wien, Austria - Pierre-Henri Wuillemin, LIP6, Paris, France - Gq Zhang, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, USA (to be extended) -- Jun.-Prof. Dr. Robert J?schke L3S Research Center/Leibniz University Hannover http://www.kbs.uni-hannover.de/~jaeschke/ +49-(0)511-762-17775 From valerio.senni at gmail.com Mon Nov 11 12:24:55 2013 From: valerio.senni at gmail.com (Valerio Senni) Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2013 12:24:55 +0100 Subject: [DL] Post Doc Positions @IMT Lucca (1) and @GSSI L'Aquila (3) Message-ID: Dear all, I'd like to bring to your attention the following advertisements: 1 post doc position is available at IMT Lucca to work on - Data mining with applications to Economics Deadline: November 29th, 2013, 12pm, midday, Rome time 3 post doc positions are available at GSSI l'Aquila to work on - Foundations of social and computer networks. - Software systems and services. - Specifications and analysis of concurrent reactive systems. Deadline: December 8, 2013 at 6:00 pm (Rome time) For information see https://www.imtlucca.it/faculty/positions/junior_ faculty_recruitment_program.php#data_mining_applications_economics and http://www.gssi.infn.it/ and the call http://www.gssi.infn.it/ images/bandi2013/bando_RG.pdf Apply on line by connecting to https://www.imtlucca.it/faculty/positions/junior_ faculty_recruitment_program.php#application and to http://www.gssi.infn.it/index.php/en/?option=com_rsform&formId=18 Best regards, Valerio Senni Assistant Professor, SysMA Research Unit IMT Institute for Advanced Studies Lucca Piazza San Ponziano, 6 55100 Lucca ? 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Konclude is implemented in C++/Qt and is designed for parallel and high-performance reasoning. The current distribution already supports all basic reasoning tasks such as consistency/satisfiability checking, classification, and realisation. Konclude can be used via OWLlink and Command Line; OWL API-based applications can link to Konclude via the OWLlink OWL API Adapter [3]. Please note that Konclude is still under development. We welcome any kind of feedback (e.g., questions, comments, bug reports) sent to support(at)konclude(dot)com. Best regards, Konclude Team [1] http://konclude.com/ [2] http://www.gnu.org/licenses/ [3] http://owllink-owlapi.sourceforge.net/index.html -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From geoff at cs.miami.edu Fri Nov 15 17:44:24 2013 From: geoff at cs.miami.edu (Geoff Sutcliffe) Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2013 11:44:24 -0500 (EST) Subject: [DL] ERSHOV INFORMATICS CONFERENCE (PSI'14) - Call for Papers Message-ID: <20131115164424.7E58F121489@mcclellan.cs.miami.edu> ************************************************************************** Call for Papers ERSHOV INFORMATICS CONFERENCE (PSI'14) 24 June - 27 June, 2014, Peterhof, St. Petersburg, Russia http://psi.nsc.ru/psi14 ************************************************************************** [AIMS AND SCOPE] The Ershov Informatics Conference (the PSI Conference Series, 9th edition) is the premier international forum in Russia for research and its applications in computer, software and information sciences. The conference brings together academic and industrial researchers, developers and users to present and discuss the most recent innovations, trends, experiences and concerns in the conference area. [ORGANIZERS] - A.P. Ershov Institute of Informatics Systems, Siberian Branch of RAS - Saint Petersburg State University [CONFERENCE CHAIRS] - Alexander Marchuk A.P. Ershov Institute of Informatics Systems, Novosibirsk, Russia - Andrey Terekhov Saint Petersburg State University, Saint Petersburg, Russia [STEERING COMMITTEE] Dines Bjorner Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark Manfred Broy Institut fuer Informatik, Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany Victor Ivannikov Institute for System Programming RAS, Moscow, Russia Ugo Montanari University of Pisa, Italy [PROGRAMME COMMITTEE CHAIRS] Irina Virbitskaite A.P. Ershov Institute of Informatics Systems, Novosibirsk, Russia Andrei Voronkov The University of Manchester, UK [CONFERENCE SECRETARY] Irina Adrianova A.P. Ershov Institute of Informatics Systems, Novosibirsk, Russia 6, Acad. Lavrentiev av. 630090 Novosibirsk, Russia tel.: +7 383 3307352 fax: +7 383 3323494 e-mail: psi2014 at iis.nsk.su, iadrianova at iis.nsk.su [CONFIRMED KEYNOTE SPEAKERS] - Edmund M. Clarke (USA) - Tony Hoare (UK) - Bertrand Meyer (Switzerland) - Vladimiro Sassone (UK) - Vadim E. Kotov (USA) [CONFERENCE TOPICS] 1. Foundations of Program and System Development and Analysis - specification, validation, and verification techniques, - program analysis, transformation and synthesis, - semantics, logic and formal models of programs, - partial evaluation, mixed computation, abstract interpretation, compiler construction, - theorem proving and model checking, - concurrency theory, - modeling and analysis of real-time and hybrid systems, - computer models and algorithms for bioinformatics. 2. Programming Methodology and Software Engineering - object-oriented, aspect-oriented, component-based and generic programming, - programming by contract, - program and system construction for parallel and distributed computing, - constraint programming, - multi-agent technology, - system re-engineering and reuse, - integrated programming environments, - software architectures, - software development and testing, - model-driven system/software development, - agile software development, - software engineering methods and tools, - program understanding and visualization. 3. Information Technologies - data models, - database and information systems, - knowledge-based systems and knowledge engineering, - bioinformatics engineering, - ontologies and semantic Web, - digital libraries, collections and archives, Web publishing, - peer-to-peer data management. In addition to papers in the above list of topics, papers both bridging the gap between different directions and promoting mutual understanding of researchers are welcome. Papers defining the general prospects in computer, software and information sciences are also encouraged. [PROGRAMME COMMITTEE] http://psi.nsc.ru/psi14/programme_committee [SUBMISSIONS] There are three categories of submissions: - regular papers describing fully developed work and complete results (12 pages / 30 minute talks); - short papers reporting on interesting work in progress and/or preliminary results (7 pages / 15 minute talks); - system and experimental papers describing implementation or evaluation of experimental systems and containing a link to a working system (4 pages / 10 minute presentation). Submissions should: - contain original contributions that have not been published or submitted to other conferences/journals in parallel with this conference; - clearly state the problem being addressed, the goal of the work, the results achieved, and the relation to other works; - be in PS or PDF and formatted according to Springer LNCS Instructions for authors: http://www.springeronline.com; - be in English and in a form that can be immediately included in the proceedings without major revision; - be attached (if necessary) by an appendix that contains proofs etc. However, the paper must be self-contained without the appendix in that reviewers may not read the appendix; - be sent electronically (as a PostScript or PDF file) through the submissions link to the conference website: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=psi2014 not later than January 20, 2014. Submitted regular papers that are judged to have limited merit may be accepted as short papers, with up to seven pages in the proceedings. At the time of submission, authors should indicate if they wish to have their submission considered as a short paper in the case it is not accepted as a regular one. At least one author of each accepted paper must register, attend the conference and present the paper. [CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS] A preliminary book of tutorial, invited and accepted contributions will be handed out at the conference. The final versions of the invited, regular and short papers presented at the conference will be published by Springer-Verlag in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series after the conference. One can find the proceedings of the previous seven conferences in LNCS, Vol. 1181, 1755, 2244, 2890, 4378, 5947, and 7162. [LOCATION] The conference will be held in Peterhof (also known as Petrodvorets), a suburb of St. Petersburg located on the southern shore of the Gulf of Finland. The town is one of St. Petersburg's most famous and popular visitor attractions thanks to its palaces, fountains and parks. Founded as a summer residence of Peter the Great, the area is recognized as a UNESCO World Heritage Site and is often referred to as "the Russian Versaille". For more information see http://www.saint-petersburg.com/peterhof. [TRAVELLING] You can fly directly to St Petersburg (Pulkovo Airport) or travel via Moscow. Going from Moscow, you can take take a train - the fastest takes about four hours and now costs EUR 117 one way. There are also quite a few overnight trains, which cost from EUR 71 to EUR 106 2nd class one way and take about 8 hours. All direct trains depart from Moskva Oktiabrskaya (October Station, the former Moscow Leningradsky Station) and arrive at Sankt-Peterburg Glavnyi (Main Station). For more details see http://www.russianrail.com. [SATELLITE WORKSHOPS] N.B. Three satellite workshops will be held in conjunction with PSI'14: - Program Understanding, - Educational Informatics, - Science Intensive Applied Software. [IMPORTANT DATES] January 13, 2014: abstract submission January 20, 2014: submission deadline April 1, 2014: notification of acceptance June 24 - 27, 2014: the conference dates September 1, 2014: camera ready papers due See for more information http://psi.nsc.ru/psi14 From lembo at dis.uniroma1.it Fri Nov 15 10:15:18 2013 From: lembo at dis.uniroma1.it (Domenico Lembo) Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2013 10:15:18 +0100 Subject: [DL] DEADLINE EXTENSION: Special issue of the Semantic Web Journal on Web Reasoning and Rule Systems Message-ID: ======================== EXTENDED DEADLINE ======================== Deadline for submissions has been extended to December 15, 2013 ==================================================================== Call for papers: Special issue of the Semantic Web Journal on WEB REASONING AND RULE SYSTEMS On the occasion of the 7th International Conference on Web Reasoning and Rule Systems (RR 2013), this special issue will collect contributions on the major topics that will be discussed at the conference, which include original research from all areas of Web Reasoning, with an emphasis on combinations with Rule Systems. Submissions may include, but are not restricted to, extended RR 2013 conference papers. Topics of particular interest are: * Semantic Web, Rule and Ontology Languages, and related logics * Reasoning, Querying, Searching and Optimization * Incompleteness, Inconsistency and Uncertainty * Non-monotonic, Commonsense, and Closed-World Reasoning for the Web * Dynamic information, Stream Reasoning and Complex Event Processing * Decision Making, Planning, and Intelligent Agents * Reasoning, Machine Learning, Knowledge Extraction and IR Technologies * Large-scale data management and reasoning on the Web of Data * Data Integration, Dataspaces and Ontology-Based Data Access * Non-Standard Reasoning * Algorithms for distributed, parallelized, and scalable reasoning * System Descriptions and Experimentation * Application and Experience Papers Submissions Deadline (Extended): December 15, 2013 Submissions shall be made through the Semantic Web journal website at http://www.semantic-web-journal.net. Note that you need to request an account on the website for submitting a paper. Please indicate in the cover letter that it is for the "Web Reasoning and Rule Systems" special issue. Submissions are possible in all standing paper type of the journal, see http://www.semantic-web-journal.net/authors for descriptions: full research papers, surveys, linked dataset descriptions, ontology descriptions, application reports, tool/systems reports. Guest Editors Wolfgang Faber, University of Calabria, Italy Domenico Lembo, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy The editors can be reached by emailing rr2013 at wfaber.com . Guest Editorial Board The following list is subject to extension. Leopoldo Bertossi, Carleton University, USA Francois Bry, University of Munich, Germany Claudia d'Amato, University of Bari, Italy Michael Fink, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Sergio Flesca, University of Calabria, Italy Gerhard Friedrich, Alpen-Adria-Universitaet Klagenfurt, Austria Stijn Heymans, SRI International, Menlo Park, USA Roman Kontchakov, Birkbeck College, UK Manolis Koubarakis, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece Marie-Laure Mugnier, LIRMM (CNRS - UM2), France Umberto Straccia, ISTI-CNR, Italy Ivan Varzinczak, CSIR Meraka Institute, South Africa -- Domenico Lembo Sapienza Universit? di Roma Dip. di Ingegneria Informatica, Automatica e Gestionale "A. Ruberti" Via Ariosto 25, 00185 Roma (stanza B209) Tel: +39 0677274027 Fax: +39 0677274002 email: lembo at dis.uniroma1.it home: http://www.dis.uniroma1.it/~lembo -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From markus.kroetzsch at tu-dresden.de Fri Nov 15 17:58:42 2013 From: markus.kroetzsch at tu-dresden.de (Markus Kroetzsch) Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2013 17:58:42 +0100 Subject: [DL] Postdoctoral researcher position in Dresden: logic & databases (fully funded, up to 5 years) Message-ID: <528652C2.6090208@tu-dresden.de> Dear all, TU Dresden has several positions to fill in the area of logic and databases (including ontology-based data access and "semantic" data management). Below is the detailed description of a postdoc position. Please forward to anyone who might be interested. There is also an option to create fully funded PhD positions in the same topic area; interested students are welcome to contact me. Best regards, Markus P.S. Apologies for posting this to several lists at once. I have tried to minimize the channels to directly relevant lists. """ At TU Dresden, the Department of Computer Science offers a full, fixed-term Postdoctoral researcher position (salary grade E 13 TV-L) in project ?Data Integration and Access by Merging Ontologies and Databases? (DIAMOND). *Topics:* How can modern data management take advantage of new developments in logic, AI, and the semantic web? Project DIAMOND tackles this question by exploring the use of knowledge representation technologies (e.g., ontologies) in data management (e.g., for querying graph data). Both areas have seen exciting developments recently: data management has grown beyond traditional database systems by considering new data models and application contexts, while knowledge representation has grown beyond traditional AI systems to address challenges in ontological modelling and data integration. The intersection of both areas offers a wide range of fascinating and highly relevant research topics. *Prerequisites:* We aim at attracting talented researchers both in logic and in data management, with a keen interest in bringing foundational and applied research together. We expect: a (soon to be) completed Ph.D. thesis in computer science, mathematics, or similar; strong academic performance, witnessed by publications or implementations; the ability to work independently; an integrative and cooperative personality with excellent communication and social skills; fluency in English, written and oral. German language skills are not required, as the research and teaching environment is international. *What we offer:* The position is offered for 36 months, 100% of full-time weekly hours. The total project duration is 60 months, pending mid-term evaluation. The DIAMOND group is embedded in an inspiring research environment that offers many exciting opportunities. The International Center of Computational Logic with its eight full professors and more than 50 researchers and Ph.D. students is one of the biggest research centres for formal methods, logic, and artificial intelligence. The DIAMOND group will closely co-operate with the research groups of Professors Baader (automata theory), Rudolph (computational logic), and Lehner (databases). TU Dresden is one of the leading universities in Germany, and one of the eleven German universities that have been awarded excellence status in the national Excellence Initiative. Dresden is a beautiful city with a very high standard of living. The city is exceptionally family friendly, with the highest birth rates of all big German cities in recent years. It is one of the top cultural centres in Germany, featuring fascinating museums, impressive historic buildings, and a rich event calendar throughout the year. *Application:* Informal enquiries can be submitted to Dr. Markus Kroetzsch (+49 351 463 38486; markus.kroetzsch at tu-dresden.de). Applications from women are particularly welcome. The same applies to disabled people. Complete applications should be submitted, preferably by e-mail as a single PDF document, to: markus.kroetzsch at tu-dresden.de or alternatively by post to: Dr. Markus Kroetzsch Technische Universit?t Dresden Faculty of Computer Science 01062 Dresden Germany Please only include copies of official documents, since application documents can not be returned. """ From speroni at cs.unibo.it Mon Nov 18 15:22:28 2013 From: speroni at cs.unibo.it (speroni at cs.unibo.it) Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2013 15:22:28 +0100 (CET) Subject: [DL] ESWC 2014 Second Call for Papers Message-ID: <201311181422.rAIEMMp5029043@informatik.uni-bremen.de> ** apologies for cross-posting ** ==== Second Call for Papers ==== http://2014.eswc-conferences.org/important-dates/call-papers CFP: 11th ESWC Conference 2014 Dates: May 25 - 29, 2014 Venue: Anissaras, Crete, Greece Hashtag: #eswc2014 Feed: @eswc_conf Site: http://2014.eswc-conferences.org General Chair: Valentina Presutti (STLab, ISTC-CNR, IT) Program Chairs: - Claudia d'Amato (Department of Computer Science, University of Bari, IT) - Fabien Gandon (Wimmics, Inria, I3S, CNRS, University of Nice Sophia Antipolis, FR) ESWC is a A rank conference according to CORE classificarion and a major venue for discussing the latest scientific results and technology innovations related to the Semantic Web. The 11th edition of ESWC will take place from May 25th, 2014 to May 29th, 2014 in Anissaras, Crete, Greece. Besides a main focus on advances in Semantic Web research and technologies, ESWC 2014 is seeking to broaden its attention to span other relevant research areas in which Web semantics plays an important role. The goal of the Semantic Web is to create a Web of knowledge and services in which the semantics of content is made explicit and content is linked to both other content and services. This arrangement of knowledge-based functionalities is weaving together a large network of human knowledge, and making this knowledge machine-processable to support intelligent behaviour by machines. Additionally, it supports novel applications allowing content from heterogeneous sources to be combined in unforeseen ways and support enhanced matching between users needs, software functionalities and online content. Creating such an interlinked Web of knowledge which bridges between heterogeneous content and services requires collaboration between several computer science domains. Also, within this hybrid space that the Web has become, where humans and software interact in a complex manner, fundamentally requires an inter-disciplinary approach to find novel solutions to the problems generated. ESWC 2014 will feature twelve thematic research tracks (see below) and an in-use and industrial track. Submissions of interdisciplinary research papers, covering more than one thematic track, are also encouraged. In addition, the in-use and industrial track will provide an opportunity for dialogue and discussion on industrial applications, tools, deployment experiences, case studies and usage analysis. Submitted papers should describe original work, present significant results, and provide rigorous, principled, and repeatable evaluation. We strongly encourage and appreciate the submission of papers incorporating links to data sets and other material used for evaluation as well as to live demos and software source code. We therefore encourage submissions addressing several conference research topics. However, each paper should be associated with at least one of the topics of the conference. The main research topics this year are: - Vocabularies, Schemas, Ontologies; - Reasoning; - Linked Open Data; - Social Web; - Web Science; - Data Management, Big data, Scalability; - Natural Language Processing; - Information Retrieval; - Machine Learning; - Mobile Web; - Sensors; - Streams; - Services, processes, and cloud computing. Additional special research topics this year are: - Cognition and Semantic Web; - Policies, Rights, Governance; - Semantic multimedia web. *Important Dates* Abstract submission: Wednesday 8th January 2014 (sharp) - 23:59 Hawaii Time Full-paper submission: Monday 13th January 2014 (sharp) - 23:59 Hawaii Time Authors' Rebuttals: Wednesday 19th-Friday 21 Feb 2014 Acceptance notifications: Wednesday 26 February 2014 Camera-ready papers: Monday 10th of March 2014 *Submission Information* ESWC2014 welcomes the submission of original research and application papers dealing with all aspects of representing and using semantics on the Web. We encourage theoretical, methodological, empirical, and applications papers. The proceedings of this conference will be published in Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. This year three of the best papers presented at the conference will have the opportunity to submit an extended version to a special issue of the journal "Semantic Web - Interoperability, Usability, Applicability" (IOS Press). Papers should not exceed fifteen (15) pages in length and must be formatted according to the information for LNCS authors. Papers must be submitted in PDF (Adobe's Portable Document Format) format. Papers that exceed 15 pages or do not follow the LNCS guidelines will be automatically rejected without a review. Authors of accepted papers will be required to provide semantic annotations for the abstract of their submission - details of this process will be given on the conference Web page at the time of acceptance. At least one author of each accepted paper must register for the conference. More information about the Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) are available on the Springer LNCS Web site (http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs/lncs+authors). Submissions and reviewing will be supported by the EasyChair system: https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=eswc2014 From speroni at cs.unibo.it Mon Nov 18 15:43:56 2013 From: speroni at cs.unibo.it (speroni at cs.unibo.it) Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2013 15:43:56 +0100 (CET) Subject: [DL] ESWC 2014 Call for PhD Symposium Message-ID: <201311181443.rAIEhoK5011053@informatik.uni-bremen.de> ** apologies for cross-posting ** ==== Call for PhD Symposium ==== http://2014.eswc-conferences.org/important-dates/phd-symposium The ESWC 2014 PhD Symposium is a chance for PhD students working in all areas of Semantic Web research to present their work, meet with peers and experienced researchers, obtain feedback and learn from each other's experiences. It aims at helping future researchers in building up the skills and confidence required to conduct and promote their research, as well as providing them with an opportunity to attend one of the most important research conferences on the Semantic Web. The ESWC PhD Symposium will give to students the opportunity to: 1. Learn from a mentor: Established researchers and PhD student advisors will provide direct feedback. Each selected student will be assigned a member of the programme committee with whom they will interact on the revision of the paper and the preparation of the presentation. 2. Learn about research in general: Doing good research goes beyond writing a good paper; it includes perspectives on research as an endeavour and a career. Besides the presentations, coffee breaks and the PhD Symposium lunch will be used to exchange ideas and ask questions about all aspects of conducting a PhD and a research career in general. 3. Learn by constructive criticism: Thinking and writing about strengths and weaknesses of other research contributions shapes your own research capabilities. As a participant to the PhD symposium, you will be expected to also review submissions from others, allowing you to juxtapose and learn from convergence and divergence of opinions. 4. Learn by presenting: Accepted contributions will be presented in the PhD symposium. All accepted contributions will also appear at the general poster session of ESWC. Students' posters will be presented alongside posters and demonstrations of the main conference. Submissions will be considered from two different categories depending on the advancement into the PhD: - Early Stage PhD: For students who may have identified the main research problem they want to address, the relevant literature, and are building their research methodology, but might not yet have obtained significant results, or only preliminary ones. - Late Stage PhD: For students who have already defined their approach (even if incompletely) and obtained significant results (e.g., that might already have been published). These categories do not affect the chances of being selected. They will however be taken into account by reviewers in their feedback, and in the length and format of the presentation. The organisers might decide to move a submission from one category to the other, if they think it is justified. *Submission Information* PhD students in all areas of Semantic Web research are invited to submit papers having 5 to 10 pages describing their PhD research, in the PDF format following the LNCS template. Submissions should be sent using the PhD Symposium submission system, through which participants will be also asked to decide on the category of their submission and to write a paragraph regarding their motivation for participating in the ESWC PhD Symposium. Submissions should follow the following template of sections: 1. Introduction/Motivation Give a general introduction to the domain/area/topic and indication of its importance/impact in Semantic Web research or other domains. 2. State of the Art Describe existing work in the area, work focusing on the same/similar problems or that might be useful to realising your PhD. 3. Problem Statement and Contributions Based on motivation and state of the art, formulate the problem you intend to solve, and how you intend to contribute to Semantic Web research. This section should include a clear formulation of one (or very few) research hypothesis (what you will validate through your methodology, approach and evaluation) and the research questions that need to be answered. Late Stage PhD submissions should focus on contributions to such a hypothesis. 4. Research Methodology and Approach Describe the research methodology you will apply in your research, including the different steps from the formulation of your research questions to answering them. Also describe the approach you are taking (or you intend to take for Early Stage PhD submissions) to instantiate the research methodology, hence contributing to solve the problem described in Section 3 and confirm or reject your hypothesis. Discuss how this approach is innovative and novel, and how it is (might be) implemented. 5. Preliminary or Intermediate Results In a full conference paper, the approach would be fully described (in section 4) and fully evaluated (in section 6). Being at an intermediate stage, you should report here about the results achieved up to now in applying your approach that might not yet be sufficient for a full evaluation. . 6. Evaluation Plan Describe your evaluation plan, which is the way you intend to validate your hypothesis, your results, and the value of your approach. For Early Stage PhD submissions, this might be only partially defined, and details might be ommited. For Late Stage PhD submissions, you might have partial evaluation results. 7.Conclusion Describe how your results will or might impact research or the world at large. *Important dates* Submission deadline: 13th January 2014 Notification: 10th February 2014 Revised version of submission to mentor: 24th February 2014 Final version: 10th March 2014 Draft presentation to mentor: 12th May 2014 *PhD Symposium Chairs* Steffen Staab (Institute for Web Science and Technologies - WeST, University of Koblenz-Landau, DE) Mathieu d'Aquin (Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University, UK) From universal.logic at unine.ch Sun Nov 17 18:54:13 2013 From: universal.logic at unine.ch (universal logic) Date: Sun, 17 Nov 2013 17:54:13 +0000 Subject: [DL] Encyclopedia of Logic Message-ID: <011E451E66F47F4890878A246663E0EF714F9747@mail-mbx-02.UNINE.CH> Your are welcome to submit an entry to the first ever Encyclopaedia of Logic - EOL a book to be published by College Publication http://www.collegepublications.co.uk/eol/ This is a joint project with the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy - IEP Entries will be published in-print in the EOL and on-line in the IEP Jean-Yves Beziau Editor Encyclopaedia of Logic - College Publication Area Editor of Logic - Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy From agi.kurucz at kcl.ac.uk Wed Nov 20 16:13:27 2013 From: agi.kurucz at kcl.ac.uk (Agi Kurucz) Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2013 15:13:27 +0000 Subject: [DL] AiML-2014: Call for Papers Message-ID: <528CD197.3050603@kcl.ac.uk> *** Apologies for cross-postings **** AiML-2014: CALL FOR PAPERS 10th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ADVANCES IN MODAL LOGIC, GRONINGEN, 5-8 AUGUST, 2014 http://www.philos.rug.nl/AiML2014/ Advances in Modal Logic is an initiative aimed at presenting the state of the art in modal logic and its various applications. The initiative consists of a conference series together with volumes based on the conferences. Information about the AiML series can be obtained at http://www.aiml.net. AiML-2014 is the tenth conference in the series. TOPICS We invite submission on all aspects of modal logic, including: - history of modal logic - philosophy of modal logic - applications of modal logic - computational aspects of modal logic (complexity and decidability of modal and temporal logics, modal and temporal logic programming, model checking, model generation, theorem proving for modal logics) - theoretical aspects of modal logic (algebraic/categorical perspectives on modal logic, coalgebraic modal logic, completeness and canonicity, correspondence and duality theory, many-dimensional modal logics, modal fixed point logics, model theory of modal logic, proof theory of modal logic) - specific instances and variations of modal logic (description logics, modal logics over non-boolean bases, dynamic logics and other process logics, epistemic and deontic logics, modal logics for agent-based systems, modal logic and game theory, modal logic and grammar formalisms, provability and interpretability logics, spatial and temporal logics, hybrid logic, intuitionistic logic, substructural logics, computationally light fragments of all such logics) Papers on related subjects will also be considered. INVITED SPEAKERS: Franz Baader (TU Dresden, Germany) Stephane Demri (New York University, US & CNRS, France) Joseph Halpern (Cornell University, US) Sara Negri (University of Helsinki, Finland) Frank Wolter (University of Liverpool, UK) PAPER SUBMISSIONS There will be two types of submissions to AiML-2014: (1) Full papers for publication in the proceedings and presentation at the conference. (2) Short presentations intended for presentation at the conference but not for the published proceedings. Both types of papers should be submitted electronically using the EasyChair submission page at https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=aiml2014 At least one author of each accepted paper or short presentation must register for and attend the conference. (1) FULL PAPERS Authors are invited to submit, for presentation at the conference and publication in the proceedings, full papers reporting on original research and not submitted elsewhere. The proceedings of AiML-2014 will be published by College Publications http://www.collegepublications.co.uk in a volume to be made available at the conference. The submissions should be at most 15 pages, with an optional technical appendix of up to 5 pages, together with a plain-text abstract of 100-200 words. The submissions must be typeset in LaTeX, using the style files and template that are provided on the AiML-2014 website http://www.philos.rug.nl/AiML2014/ We also ask authors of full papers to submit the abstract in plain text via EasyChair by 14 March. (2) SHORT PRESENTATIONS. These should be at most 5 pages. They may describe preliminary results, work in progress etc., and will be subject to light reviewing. The accepted submissions will be made available at the conference, and the authors will have the opportunity to give short presentations (of up to 15 minutes) on them. IMPORTANT DATES Abstracts of full papers submission deadline: 14 March 2014 Full papers submission deadline: 21 March 2014 Full papers acceptance notification: 2 May 2014 Short presentations submission deadline: 12 May 2014 Short presentations acceptance notification: 2 June 2014 Final version of full papers and short presentations due: 9 June 2014 Conference: 5-8 August, 2014. LOCAL ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Dave Gilbert Barteld Kooi Bouke Kuijer Paolo Maffezioli Allard Tamminga PROGRAMME COMMITTEE Carlos Areces (FaMAF, Universitad Nacional de Cordoba, Argentina) Alexandru Baltag (ILLC, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands) Nick Bezhanishvili (Utrecht University, The Netherlands) Patrick Blackburn (Roskilde University, Denmark) Hans van Ditmarsch (LORIA, France) David Fern?ndez-Duque (ITAM, Mexico) Melvin Fitting (Lehman College, CUNY, USA) Mai Gehrke (LIAFA, Universit? Paris Diderot, France) Silvio Ghilardi (Universit? degli Studi di Milano, Italy) Rob Goldblatt (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand) Valentin Goranko (Technical University of Denmark) Guido Governatori (NICTA Queensland, Australia) Andreas Herzig (IRIT, Toulouse, France) Rosalie Iemhoff (Utrecht University, The Netherlands) Roman Kontchakov (Birkbeck College London, UK) Barteld Kooi (University of Groningen) Marcus Kracht (Universit?t Bielefeld, Germany) Alexander Kurz (University of Leicester, UK) Carsten Lutz (Universit?t Bremen, Germany) Jakub Michaliszyn (Imperial College London, UK) Larry Moss (Indiana University, USA) Hiroakira Ono (Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology) Revantha Ramanayake (Technical University of Vienna) Mark Reynolds (University of Western Australia) Vladimir Rybakov (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK) Renate Schmidt (University of Manchester, UK) Jeremy Seligman (University of Auckland, New Zealand) Ilya Shapirovsky (Institute for Information Transmission Problems, Moscow, Russia) Valentin Shehtman (Moscow State University, Russia) Dimiter Vakarelov (Sofia University, Bulgaria) Yde Venema (ILLC, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands) Heinrich Wansing (Ruhr University Bochum, Germany) Michael Zakharyaschev (Birkbeck College London, UK) PROGRAMME COMMITTEE CO-CHAIRS Rajeev Gore (The Australian National University, Australia) Agi Kurucz (King's College London, UK) FURTHER INFORMATION. Please see http://www.philos.rug.nl/AiML2014 ENQUIRIES. E-mail enquiries should be directed to the PC co-chairs, sent to aiml2014 at easychair.org From fink at kr.tuwien.ac.at Thu Nov 21 21:26:25 2013 From: fink at kr.tuwien.ac.at (fink at kr.tuwien.ac.at) Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2013 21:26:25 +0100 Subject: [DL] Final Call for Papers KR 2014: 14th International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning Message-ID: <201311212026.rALKQP3L003676@mahler.kr.tuwien.ac.at> FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS *** KR 2014 *** 14th International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning Vienna, Austria July 20-24, 2014 http://kr.org/KR2014/ Co-located with DL 2014 [http://www.dbai.tuwien.ac.at/dl2014/], NMR 2014 [http://www.kr.tuwien.ac.at/nmr14], FLoC 2014 [http://vsl2014.at/logic-in-computer-science/] (CAV, CSF, ICLP, IJCAR, ITP, LICS, RTA, SAT), and Logic Colloquium 2014. KR 2014 is part of Vienna Summer of Logic [http://vsl2014.at/] *** See submission information at the bottom of this message *** KR 2014 IMPORTANT DATES ----------------------- * Submission of title and abstract: November 28, 2013 * Paper submission deadline: December 5, 2013 * Author response period: January 11-12, 2014 * Notification of acceptance: January 27, 2014 * Camera-ready papers due: March 4, 2014 * Conference date: July 20-24, 2014 The reference time for all deadlines is 23:59 UTC-12. If you are "on time" anywhere in the world, you are "on time". KEYNOTE LECTURES: ----------------- - Franz Baader, TU Dresden, Germany - Georg Gottlob, University of Oxford, UK - Sheila McIlraith, University of Toronto, Canada - Anthony Cohn, University of Leeds, UK Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KR&R) is a well-established and vibrant field of research. KR&R techniques are key drivers of innovation in computer science, and they have led to significant advances in practical applications in a wide range of areas from Artificial Intelligence to Software Engineering. The underlying approach of explicitly representing knowledge in a tangible form, suitable for processing by dedicated reasoning engines, is a fundamental component of many modern intelligent systems. Foundational and applied research in KR&R contributes to the principles of artificial intelligence. It also contributes to the foundations of longstanding fields including automated planning, databases, and software engineering. In recent years KR&R has also derived challenges from new and emerging fields including the semantic web, computational biology, and the development of software agents. The KR conference series is a leading forum for timely in-depth presentation of progress in the theory and principles underlying the representation and computational management of knowledge. The 2014 edition will be held as part of the Vienna Summer of Logic together with the Federated Conference on Logic, Logic Colloquium and other related events. The Vienna Summer of Logic is expected to be the largest convention in the history of logic. We solicit papers presenting novel results on the principles of KR&R that clearly contribute to the formal foundations of relevant problems or show the applicability of results to implemented or implementable systems. We also encourage "reports from the field" of applications experiments, developments, and tests. Such papers should be explicitly identified as reports from the field by the authors, to ensure appropriate reviewing, and must include a section on evaluation. The best paper of the conference will receive the 2014 Ray Reiter Best Paper Prize, and the best student paper, whose main author is a student, will receive the 2014 Marco Cadoli Student Paper Prize. In addition, a few selected papers from KR 2014 will have the opportunity of fast-track publication in the AI Journal. TOPICS ------ Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Applications of KR * Argumentation * Belief revision and update, belief merging, information fusion * Computational aspects of knowledge representation * Concept formation, similarity-based reasoning * Contextual reasoning * Description logics * Explanation finding, diagnosis, causal reasoning, abduction * Inconsistency- and exception tolerant reasoning, paraconsistent logics * KR and autonomous agents, multi-agent systems, logical models of agency * KR and data management, ontology-based data access, queries and updates over incomplete data * KR and decision making, decision theory, game theory and economic models * KR and machine learning, inductive logic programming, knowledge discovery and acquisition * KR and robotics, cognitive robotics * KR and the Web, Semantic Web, formal approaches to knowledge bases * KR in games, general game playing, reasoning in video games and virtual environments, believable agents * KR in natural language understanding and question answering * KR in image and video understanding * Logical approaches to planning and behavior synthesis * Logic programming, answer set programming, constraint logic programming * Nonmonotonic logics, default logics, conditional logics * Reasoning about norms and organizations, social knowledge and behavior * Philosophical foundations of KR * Ontology languages and modeling * Preference modeling and representation, reasoning about preferences, preference-based reasoning * Qualitative reasoning, reasoning about physical systems * Reasoning about actions and change, action languages, situation calculus, dynamic logic * Reasoning about knowledge and belief, epistemic and doxastic logics * Spatial reasoning and temporal reasoning * Uncertainty, representations of vagueness, many-valued and fuzzy logics, relational probability models SUBMISSION INFORMATION ---------------------- Papers must be submitted in AAAI style and PDF format. The maximum length of a submission is 9 pages including abstract, figures, and appendices (if any) but excluding references. Reviewing will be non-blind. AAAI author instructions: http://www.aaai.org/Publications/Author/author.php AAAI author kit: http://www.aaai.org/Publications/Templates/AuthorKit.zip Papers must be submitted via EASYCHAIR using the following URL: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=kr2014 The conference proceedings will be published by AAAI Press. For complete details, see the conference website: http://kr.org/KR2014/ [kr.org] CONFERENCE CHAIRS ----------------- General Chair: Thomas Eiter (TU Vienna, Austria) Program Chairs: Chitta Baral (Arizona State U, USA), Giuseppe De Giacomo (U "La Sapienza", Italy) Local Organization: Michael Fink, Stefan Woltran (TU Vienna, Austria) Doctoral Consortium: Birte Glimm (U Ulm, Germany), Adrian Pearce (U Melbourne, Australia) Sponsorship: Marco Maratea (U Genova, Italy) From michel.plantie at mines-ales.fr Thu Nov 21 17:34:23 2013 From: michel.plantie at mines-ales.fr (=?windows-1252?Q?Planti=E9_Michel?=) Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2013 17:34:23 +0100 Subject: [DL] WIMS'14: 2nd Batch of Calls In-Reply-To: <528E35BC.4090501@mines-ales.fr> References: <528E35BC.4090501@mines-ales.fr> Message-ID: <528E360F.8000708@mines-ales.fr> WIMS' 14 [multiple calls]: 4th International Conference on Web Intelligence, Mining and Semantics CALL FOR RESEARCH / APPLICATION & CASE STUDY PAPERS / POSTERS CALL FOR WORKSHOPS / TUTORIALS / DEMONSTRATIONS WIMS' 14: 4th International Conference on Web Intelligence, Mining and Semantics Thessaloniki, Greece, 2-4 June 2014 http://wims14.csd.auth.gr/ About WIMS?14 Conference ------------------------- WIMS is a series of peer-reviewed International Computer Science conferences. It is a forum for researchers and practitioners to present their state-of-the-art results in building Intelligent Web, to examine performance characteristics of various approaches in Web-based intelligent information technology, and to cross-fertilize their ideas on the development of Web-based intelligent information management solutions across different domains. Objectives ----------- The purpose of the WIMS series is: - To provide a forum for established researchers and practitioners to present their contributions to the state of the art research and development in Web technology and applications. - To give doctoral students an opportunity to present their research to a friendly and knowledgeable audience and receive valuable feedback. - To provide an informal social event where Web technology researchers and practitioners can meet. Call for Research Papers/Posters -------------------------------- WIMS?14 is intended to foster the dissemination of state-of-the-art research in the area of Web intelligence, Web mining, Web semantics and the fundamental interaction between them. Authors are invited to submit regular (12 pages) or short (6 pages) research papers or posters (4 pages) on all related areas. Papers exploring new directions or areas will receive a thorough and encouraging review. More details on the nature of the different submission types can be found at: http://wims14.csd.auth.gr/?page_id=23 The papers in all the categories should describe original results that have not been accepted or submitted for publication elsewhere. All submissions will be evaluated by at least three members of the international program committee. Submissions should be made electronically in PDF or DOC/DOCX (MS/Open Word) format via the electronic submission system of the WIMS?14 Conference Management system at https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wims14 The submissions should be typeset using the templates of the ACM International Conference Proceedings Series (ICPS). The templates could be retrieved fromhttp://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates Call for Application and Case Study Track Papers ------------------------------------------------- The goal of this track is to provide opportunities for researchers, innovators, industry leaders, and practitioners to present and exchange ideas, results, and experiences in the applications of Web Intelligence, Mining, and Semantics (WIMS). The Application & Case Studies Track invites submissions describing implementations of Web Intelligence, Mining, and Semantics in industrial or government or other ?real world? settings. Papers must include descriptions of how the applications have been conceived, developed, and (probably) deployed. Details about the submission types and the submission procedure of this track can be found at: http://wims14.csd.auth.gr/?page_id=154 Call for Tutorials/Demonstration Proposals ------------------------------------------- WIMS?14 also welcomes Tutorial and/or Demonstration proposals. WIMS?14 will include tutorials and/or demonstrations (on new applications) providing in-depth background on subjects that are of broad interest to the Web Mining and Web Semantics community. The tutorials will be part of the main conference technical program. Proposal papers must be no less than 5 pages and no more than 12 pages, and must provide a sense of both the scope of the tutorial and depth within the scope. Details about the submissions of the tutorial/demonstration proposals can be found at: http://wims14.csd.auth.gr/?page_id=148 Call for Workshop Proposals ---------------------------- WIMS?14 invites proposals for workshops to be held in conjunction with the conference. Organizers may structure workshops as they see fit, possibly including invited talks, panel discussions, presentations of work in progress, peer-reviewed papers, or some combination. A workshop could be scheduled for a half a day or a full day, depending on potential interest and organizers preference. The organizers of successful workshops will be responsible for their own reviewing process, website, and to co-ordinate the collection and delivery of camera ready material and ACM copyright transfer. Accepted papers in workshops will be published in the WIMS?14 proceedings and disseminated through the ACM Digital Library. Selected extended papers will be invited to appear in a special issue of a reputed journal in the field. Details about the submissions of the workshop proposals can be found at: http://wims14.csd.auth.gr/?page_id=150 Conference Scope ----------------- WIMS solicits regular and work-in-progress research, discussion papers and industry experience report papers in related fields. Papers exploring new directions or areas are also welcome. In particular but not exclusively the submissions within the following major areas are relevant: - Scalable Web and Data Architectures and Infrastructures - Web Intelligence - Web Mining, Information and Knowledge Extraction - Web Semantics and Reasoning - WIMS Applications - Evaluation and Validation of WIMS Technologies and Applications More details about the conference scope and topics can be found at: http://wims14.csd.auth.gr/?page_id=146 Publications ------------- Accepted papers/tutorials/posters will be published by ACM and disseminated through the ACM Digital Library through the International Conference Proceedings Series (ICPS). A selection of the best WIMS'14 papers will be invited to be revised and extended for the post-conference publication in the Special Issue of the International Journal on Artificial Intelligence Tools (IJAIT). The proceedings of the previous WIMS conferences could be checked at: - WIMS?11:https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1988688 - WIMS?12:https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2254129 - WIMS?13:https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2479787 Keynotes --------- WIMS?14 organizing committee is happy to announce the following significant keynote speakers for this year?s conference: - ?Large-Scale Reasoning with (Semantic) Data?: Grigoris Antoniou, Professor, University of Huddersfield. - ?Semantic Technology for online, broadcast and print media?: Jem Rayfield, Head Architect, Financial Times. - ?Big Data ? from Hype to Reality?: Richard Benjamins, Dr., Director of Business Intelligence, Telefonica. Important Dates ---------------- 25.11.2013 - submission of abstracts for Application and Case Study Track Papers 09.12.2013 - submission of Research Track papers & Application and Case Study Track papers & posters 13.12.2013 - submission of tutorial and workshop proposals 20.12.2013 - notification of acceptance for tutorials & workshops 24.01.2014 - notification of acceptance for (all tracks) papers/posters 24.02.2014 - camera ready versions of the accepted (all tracks) papers, posters, tutorial papers 07.04.2014 - author registration deadline 02-04.06.2014 - Conference Organization ------------- WIMS'14 is organized under the auspices of the Dept. of Informatics at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. (http://www.csd.auth.gr/en/) WIMS Conferences Chair ---------------------- Rajendra Akerkar, Western Norway Research Institute, Norway General Chairs --------------- Ioannis Vlahavas, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece Takahira Yamaguchi, Keio University, Japan Program Committee Chairs ------------------------- Nick Bassiliades, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece Vadim Ermolayev, Zaporizhzhya National University, Ukraine Advisory Committee ------------------- Grigoris Antoniou, University of Huddersfield, UK Harold Boley, Faculty of Computer Science, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, Canada James Hendler, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, USA Guus Schreiber, VU University, Amsterdam, the Netherlands Amit Sheth, Ohio Center of Excellence on Knowledge-enabled Computing, Ohio, USA Workshops and Tutorials Chairs ------------------------------- Costin Badica, University of Craiova, Romania Dimitris Vrakas, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece Industrial Track Chair ---------------------- John Davies, BT Research & Innovation, UK Publicity Chair ---------------- Athena Vakali, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece Local Organization Chair ------------------------ Yannis Manolopoulos, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece Web Chairs ----------- Efstratios Kontopoulos, International Hellenic University, Greece Fotis Kokkoras, T.E.I. of Thessaly, Greece -- ===================================================== Dr. Michel Planti? - +33 466387035 Enseignant-Chercheur Laboratoire LGI2P Ecole des Mines d'Ales, Institut Mines-T?l?com Parc scientifique Georges Besse, 30035 N?mes Cedex 1 www.lgi2p.mines-ales.fr/plantie ===================================================== WIMS-14 2nd Batch of CALLS.txt WIMS' 14 [multiple calls]: 4th International Conference on Web Intelligence, Mining and Semantics CALL FOR RESEARCH / APPLICATION & CASE STUDY PAPERS / POSTERS CALL FOR WORKSHOPS / TUTORIALS / DEMONSTRATIONS WIMS' 14: 4th International Conference on Web Intelligence, Mining and Semantics Thessaloniki, Greece, 2-4 June 2014 http://wims14.csd.auth.gr/ About WIMS?14 Conference ------------------------- WIMS is a series of peer-reviewed International Computer Science conferences. It is a forum for researchers and practitioners to present their state-of-the-art results in building Intelligent Web, to examine performance characteristics of various approaches in Web-based intelligent information technology, and to cross-fertilize their ideas on the development of Web-based intelligent information management solutions across different domains. Objectives ----------- The purpose of the WIMS series is: - To provide a forum for established researchers and practitioners to present their contributions to the state of the art research and development in Web technology and applications. - To give doctoral students an opportunity to present their research to a friendly and knowledgeable audience and receive valuable feedback. - To provide an informal social event where Web technology researchers and practitioners can meet. Call for Research Papers/Posters -------------------------------- WIMS?14 is intended to foster the dissemination of state-of-the-art research in the area of Web intelligence, Web mining, Web semantics and the fundamental interaction between them. Authors are invited to submit regular (12 pages) or short (6 pages) research papers or posters (4 pages) on all related areas. Papers exploring new directions or areas will receive a thorough and encouraging review. More details on the nature of the different submission types can be found at: http://wims14.csd.auth.gr/?page_id=23 The papers in all the categories should describe original results that have not been accepted or submitted for publication elsewhere. All submissions will be evaluated by at least three members of the international program committee. Submissions should be made electronically in PDF or DOC/DOCX (MS/Open Word) format via the electronic submission system of the WIMS?14 Conference Management system at https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wims14 The submissions should be typeset using the templates of the ACM International Conference Proceedings Series (ICPS). The templates could be retrieved fromhttp://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates Call for Application and Case Study Track Papers ------------------------------------------------- The goal of this track is to provide opportunities for researchers, innovators, industry leaders, and practitioners to present and exchange ideas, results, and experiences in the applications of Web Intelligence, Mining, and Semantics (WIMS). The Application & Case Studies Track invites submissions describing implementations of Web Intelligence, Mining, and Semantics in industrial or government or other ?real world? settings. Papers must include descriptions of how the applications have been conceived, developed, and (probably) deployed. Details about the submission types and the submission procedure of this track can be found at: http://wims14.csd.auth.gr/?page_id=154 Call for Tutorials/Demonstration Proposals ------------------------------------------- WIMS?14 also welcomes Tutorial and/or Demonstration proposals. WIMS?14 will include tutorials and/or demonstrations (on new applications) providing in-depth background on subjects that are of broad interest to the Web Mining and Web Semantics community. The tutorials will be part of the main conference technical program. Proposal papers must be no less than 5 pages and no more than 12 pages, and must provide a sense of both the scope of the tutorial and depth within the scope. Details about the submissions of the tutorial/demonstration proposals can be found at: http://wims14.csd.auth.gr/?page_id=148 Call for Workshop Proposals ---------------------------- WIMS?14 invites proposals for workshops to be held in conjunction with the conference. Organizers may structure workshops as they see fit, possibly including invited talks, panel discussions, presentations of work in progress, peer-reviewed papers, or some combination. A workshop could be scheduled for a half a day or a full day, depending on potential interest and organizers preference. The organizers of successful workshops will be responsible for their own reviewing process, website, and to co-ordinate the collection and delivery of camera ready material and ACM copyright transfer. Accepted papers in workshops will be published in the WIMS?14 proceedings and disseminated through the ACM Digital Library. Selected extended papers will be invited to appear in a special issue of a reputed journal in the field. Details about the submissions of the workshop proposals can be found at: http://wims14.csd.auth.gr/?page_id=150 Conference Scope ----------------- WIMS solicits regular and work-in-progress research, discussion papers and industry experience report papers in related fields. Papers exploring new directions or areas are also welcome. In particular but not exclusively the submissions within the following major areas are relevant: - Scalable Web and Data Architectures and Infrastructures - Web Intelligence - Web Mining, Information and Knowledge Extraction - Web Semantics and Reasoning - WIMS Applications - Evaluation and Validation of WIMS Technologies and Applications More details about the conference scope and topics can be found at: http://wims14.csd.auth.gr/?page_id=146 Publications ------------- Accepted papers/tutorials/posters will be published by ACM and disseminated through the ACM Digital Library through the International Conference Proceedings Series (ICPS). A selection of the best WIMS'14 papers will be invited to be revised and extended for the post-conference publication in the Special Issue of the International Journal on Artificial Intelligence Tools (IJAIT). The proceedings of the previous WIMS conferences could be checked at: - WIMS?11:https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1988688 - WIMS?12:https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2254129 - WIMS?13:https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2479787 Keynotes --------- WIMS?14 organizing committee is happy to announce the following significant keynote speakers for this year?s conference: - ?Large-Scale Reasoning with (Semantic) Data?: Grigoris Antoniou, Professor, University of Huddersfield. - ?Semantic Technology for online, broadcast and print media?: Jem Rayfield, Head Architect, Financial Times. - ?Big Data ? from Hype to Reality?: Richard Benjamins, Dr., Director of Business Intelligence, Telefonica. Important Dates ---------------- 25.11.2013 - submission of abstracts for Application and Case Study Track Papers 09.12.2013 - submission of Research Track papers & Application and Case Study Track papers & posters 13.12.2013 - submission of tutorial and workshop proposals 20.12.2013 - notification of acceptance for tutorials & workshops 24.01.2014 - notification of acceptance for (all tracks) papers/posters 24.02.2014 - camera ready versions of the accepted (all tracks) papers, posters, tutorial papers 07.04.2014 - author registration deadline 02-04.06.2014 - Conference Organization ------------- WIMS'14 is organized under the auspices of the Dept. of Informatics at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. (http://www.csd.auth.gr/en/) WIMS Conferences Chair ---------------------- Rajendra Akerkar, Western Norway Research Institute, Norway General Chairs --------------- Ioannis Vlahavas, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece Takahira Yamaguchi, Keio University, Japan Program Committee Chairs ------------------------- Nick Bassiliades, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece Vadim Ermolayev, Zaporizhzhya National University, Ukraine Advisory Committee ------------------- Grigoris Antoniou, University of Huddersfield, UK Harold Boley, Faculty of Computer Science, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, Canada James Hendler, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, USA Guus Schreiber, VU University, Amsterdam, the Netherlands Amit Sheth, Ohio Center of Excellence on Knowledge-enabled Computing, Ohio, USA Workshops and Tutorials Chairs ------------------------------- Costin Badica, University of Craiova, Romania Dimitris Vrakas, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece Industrial Track Chair ---------------------- John Davies, BT Research & Innovation, UK Publicity Chair ---------------- Athena Vakali, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece Local Organization Chair ------------------------ Yannis Manolopoulos, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece Web Chairs ----------- Efstratios Kontopoulos, International Hellenic University, Greece Fotis Kokkoras, T.E.I. of Thessaly, Greece -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- WIMS' 14 [multiple calls]: 4th International Conference on Web Intelligence, Mining and Semantics CALL FOR RESEARCH / APPLICATION & CASE STUDY PAPERS / POSTERS CALL FOR WORKSHOPS / TUTORIALS / DEMONSTRATIONS WIMS' 14: 4th International Conference on Web Intelligence, Mining and Semantics Thessaloniki, Greece, 2-4 June 2014 http://wims14.csd.auth.gr/ About WIMS?14 Conference ------------------------- WIMS is a series of peer-reviewed International Computer Science conferences. It is a forum for researchers and practitioners to present their state-of-the-art results in building Intelligent Web, to examine performance characteristics of various approaches in Web-based intelligent information technology, and to cross-fertilize their ideas on the development of Web-based intelligent information management solutions across different domains. Objectives ----------- The purpose of the WIMS series is: - To provide a forum for established researchers and practitioners to present their contributions to the state of the art research and development in Web technology and applications. - To give doctoral students an opportunity to present their research to a friendly and knowledgeable audience and receive valuable feedback. - To provide an informal social event where Web technology researchers and practitioners can meet. Call for Research Papers/Posters -------------------------------- WIMS?14 is intended to foster the dissemination of state-of-the-art research in the area of Web intelligence, Web mining, Web semantics and the fundamental interaction between them. Authors are invited to submit regular (12 pages) or short (6 pages) research papers or posters (4 pages) on all related areas. Papers exploring new directions or areas will receive a thorough and encouraging review. More details on the nature of the different submission types can be found at: http://wims14.csd.auth.gr/?page_id=23 The papers in all the categories should describe original results that have not been accepted or submitted for publication elsewhere. All submissions will be evaluated by at least three members of the international program committee. Submissions should be made electronically in PDF or DOC/DOCX (MS/Open Word) format via the electronic submission system of the WIMS?14 Conference Management system at https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wims14 The submissions should be typeset using the templates of the ACM International Conference Proceedings Series (ICPS). The templates could be retrieved from http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates Call for Application and Case Study Track Papers ------------------------------------------------- The goal of this track is to provide opportunities for researchers, innovators, industry leaders, and practitioners to present and exchange ideas, results, and experiences in the applications of Web Intelligence, Mining, and Semantics (WIMS). The Application & Case Studies Track invites submissions describing implementations of Web Intelligence, Mining, and Semantics in industrial or government or other ?real world? settings. Papers must include descriptions of how the applications have been conceived, developed, and (probably) deployed. Details about the submission types and the submission procedure of this track can be found at: http://wims14.csd.auth.gr/?page_id=154 Call for Tutorials/Demonstration Proposals ------------------------------------------- WIMS?14 also welcomes Tutorial and/or Demonstration proposals. WIMS?14 will include tutorials and/or demonstrations (on new applications) providing in-depth background on subjects that are of broad interest to the Web Mining and Web Semantics community. The tutorials will be part of the main conference technical program. Proposal papers must be no less than 5 pages and no more than 12 pages, and must provide a sense of both the scope of the tutorial and depth within the scope. Details about the submissions of the tutorial/demonstration proposals can be found at: http://wims14.csd.auth.gr/?page_id=148 Call for Workshop Proposals ---------------------------- WIMS?14 invites proposals for workshops to be held in conjunction with the conference. Organizers may structure workshops as they see fit, possibly including invited talks, panel discussions, presentations of work in progress, peer-reviewed papers, or some combination. A workshop could be scheduled for a half a day or a full day, depending on potential interest and organizers preference. The organizers of successful workshops will be responsible for their own reviewing process, website, and to co-ordinate the collection and delivery of camera ready material and ACM copyright transfer. Accepted papers in workshops will be published in the WIMS?14 proceedings and disseminated through the ACM Digital Library. Selected extended papers will be invited to appear in a special issue of a reputed journal in the field. Details about the submissions of the workshop proposals can be found at: http://wims14.csd.auth.gr/?page_id=150 Conference Scope ----------------- WIMS solicits regular and work-in-progress research, discussion papers and industry experience report papers in related fields. Papers exploring new directions or areas are also welcome. In particular but not exclusively the submissions within the following major areas are relevant: - Scalable Web and Data Architectures and Infrastructures - Web Intelligence - Web Mining, Information and Knowledge Extraction - Web Semantics and Reasoning - WIMS Applications - Evaluation and Validation of WIMS Technologies and Applications More details about the conference scope and topics can be found at: http://wims14.csd.auth.gr/?page_id=146 Publications ------------- Accepted papers/tutorials/posters will be published by ACM and disseminated through the ACM Digital Library through the International Conference Proceedings Series (ICPS). A selection of the best WIMS'14 papers will be invited to be revised and extended for the post-conference publication in the Special Issue of the International Journal on Artificial Intelligence Tools (IJAIT). The proceedings of the previous WIMS conferences could be checked at: - WIMS?11: https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1988688 - WIMS?12: https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2254129 - WIMS?13: https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2479787 Keynotes --------- WIMS?14 organizing committee is happy to announce the following significant keynote speakers for this year?s conference: - ?Large-Scale Reasoning with (Semantic) Data?: Grigoris Antoniou, Professor, University of Huddersfield. - ?Semantic Technology for online, broadcast and print media?: Jem Rayfield, Head Architect, Financial Times. - ?Big Data ? from Hype to Reality?: Richard Benjamins, Dr., Director of Business Intelligence, Telefonica. Important Dates ---------------- 25.11.2013 - submission of abstracts for Application and Case Study Track Papers 09.12.2013 - submission of Research Track papers & Application and Case Study Track papers & posters 13.12.2013 - submission of tutorial and workshop proposals 20.12.2013 - notification of acceptance for tutorials & workshops 24.01.2014 - notification of acceptance for (all tracks) papers/posters 24.02.2014 - camera ready versions of the accepted (all tracks) papers, posters, tutorial papers 07.04.2014 - author registration deadline 02-04.06.2014 - Conference Organization ------------- WIMS'14 is organized under the auspices of the Dept. of Informatics at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. (http://www.csd.auth.gr/en/) WIMS Conferences Chair ---------------------- Rajendra Akerkar, Western Norway Research Institute, Norway General Chairs --------------- Ioannis Vlahavas, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece Takahira Yamaguchi, Keio University, Japan Program Committee Chairs ------------------------- Nick Bassiliades, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece Vadim Ermolayev, Zaporizhzhya National University, Ukraine Advisory Committee ------------------- Grigoris Antoniou, University of Huddersfield, UK Harold Boley, Faculty of Computer Science, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, Canada James Hendler, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, USA Guus Schreiber, VU University, Amsterdam, the Netherlands Amit Sheth, Ohio Center of Excellence on Knowledge-enabled Computing, Ohio, USA Workshops and Tutorials Chairs ------------------------------- Costin Badica, University of Craiova, Romania Dimitris Vrakas, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece Industrial Track Chair ---------------------- John Davies, BT Research & Innovation, UK Publicity Chair ---------------- Athena Vakali, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece Local Organization Chair ------------------------ Yannis Manolopoulos, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece Web Chairs ----------- Efstratios Kontopoulos, International Hellenic University, Greece Fotis Kokkoras, T.E.I. of Thessaly, Greece From serge.autexier at dfki.de Fri Nov 22 16:41:10 2013 From: serge.autexier at dfki.de (Serge Autexier) Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2013 16:41:10 +0100 (CET) Subject: [DL] First Call for Papers: Conf. Intelligent Computer Mathematics (CICM 2014) Message-ID: <20131122154110.0C00C1D9394B@mbp-autexier.informatik.uni-bremen.de> ?[Apologies for multiple copies] CICM 2014 - Conferences on Intelligent Computer Mathematics July 7-11, 2014 at University of Coimbra, Portugal http://www.cicm-conference.org/2014 First Call for Papers ------------------------------------------------------------------- As computers and communications technology advance, greater opportunities arise for intelligent mathematical computation. While computer algebra, automated deduction, mathematical publishing and novel user interfaces individually have long and successful histories, we are now seeing increasing opportunities for synergy among these areas. The Conferences on Intelligent Computer Mathematics (CICM) offer a venue for discussing these areas and their synergy. CICM has been held annually as a joint meeting since 2008, colocating related conferences and workshops to advance work in these subjects. Previous meetings have been held in Birmingham (U.K. 2008), Grand Bend (Canada 2009), Paris (France 2010), Bertinoro (Italy 2011), Bremen (Germany 2012) and Bath (U.K. 2013). This is a call for papers for CICM 2014, which will be held at the University of Coimbra, 7-11 July 2014, following the 10th International Workshop on Automated Deduction in Geometry. The principal tracks of the conference will be: Calculemus (Symbolic Computation and Mechanised Reasoning) Chair: James Davenport DML (Digital Mathematical Libraries) Chair: Petr Sojka MKM (Mathematical Knowledge Management) Chair: Josef Urban Systems and Projects Chair: Alan Sexton The local arrangements will be coordinated by the Local Arrangements Chair, Paedro Quaresma (U. Coimbra, Portugal), and the overall programme will be organised by the General Program Chair, Stephen Watt (U. Western Ontario, Canada). The proceedings of the conference will be published by Springer Verlag as a volume in Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI). As in previous years, it is anticipated that there will be a number co-located workshops, including one to mentor doctoral students giving presentations. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Important dates ---------------------------------------------------------------- Conference submissions: Abstract submission: 28 February 2014 Submission deadline: 7 March 2014 Reviews sent to authors: 4 April 2014 Rebuttals due: 8 April 2014 Notification of acceptance: 14 April 2014 Camera ready copies due: 25 April 2014 Work in progress and Doctoral Programme submissions: Submission deadline: 28 April 2014 (Doctoral: Abstract+CV) Notification of acceptance: 19 May 2014 Camera ready copies due: 26 May 2014 Conference: 7-11 July 2014 ---------------------------------------------------------------- Tracks ---------------------------------------------------------------- ================================================================ Track Calculemus: Symbolic Computation and Mechanised Reasoning ================================================================ Calculemus 2014 invites the submission of original research contributions to be considered for publication and presentation at the conference. Calculemus is a series of conferences dedicated to the integration of computer algebra systems (CAS) and systems for mechanised reasoning like interactive proof assistants (PA) or automated theorem provers (ATP). Currently, symbolic computation is divided into several (more or less) independent branches: traditional ones (e.g., computer algebra and mechanised reasoning) as well as newly emerging ones (on user interfaces, knowledge management, theory exploration, etc.) The main concern of the Calculemus community is to bring these developments together in order to facilitate the theory, design, and implementation of integrated mathematical assistant systems that will be used routinely by mathematicians, computer scientists and all others who need computer-supported mathematics in their every day business. All topics in the intersection of computer algebra systems and automated reasoning systems are of interest for Calculemus. These include but are not limited to: * Automated theorem proving in computer algebra systems. * Computer algebra in theorem proving systems. * Adding reasoning capabilities to computer algebra systems. * Adding computational capabilities to theorem proving systems. * Theory, design and implementation of interdisciplinary systems for computer mathematics. * Case studies and applications that involve a mix of computation and reasoning. * Case studies in formalization of mathematical theories. * Representation of mathematics in computer algebra systems. * Theory exploration techniques. * Combining methods of symbolic computation and formal deduction. * Input languages, programming languages, types and constraint languages, and modeling languages for mathematical assistant systems. * Homotopy type theory. * Infrastructure for mathematical services. ================================================================ Track DML: Digital Mathematical Libraries ================================================================ Mathematicians dream of a digital archive containing all validated mathematical literature ever published, reviewed, properly linked, and verified. It is estimated that the entire corpus of mathematical knowledge published over the centuries does not exceed 100,000,000 pages, an amount easily manageable by current information technologies. The track objective is to provide a forum for the development of math-aware technologies, standards, algorithms and formats for the fulfillment of the dream of a global digital mathematical library (DML). Computer scientists (D) and librarians of the digital age (L) are especially welcome to join mathematicians (M) and discuss many aspects of DML preparation. Track topics are all topics of mathematical knowledge management and digital libraries applicable in the context of DML building, including the processing of mathematical knowledge expressed in scientific papers in natural languages: * Math-aware text mining (math mining) and MSC classification * Math-aware representations of mathematical knowledge * Math-aware computational linguistics and corpora * Math-aware tools for [meta]data and fulltext processing * Math-aware OCR and document analysis * Math-aware information retrieval * Math-aware indexing and search * Authoring languages and tools * MathML, OpenMath, TeX and other mathematical content markup languages * Web interfaces for DML content * Mathematics on the web, math crawling and indexing * Math-aware document processing workflows * Archives of written mathematics * DML management, business models * DML rights handling, funding, sustainability * DML content acquisition, validation and curation * Reports and experience from running existing DMLs ================================================================ Track MKM: Mathematical Knowledge Management ================================================================ Mathematical Knowledge Management is an interdisciplinary field of research in the intersection of mathematics, computer science, library science, and scientific publishing. The objective of MKM is to develop new and better ways of managing sophisticated mathematical knowledge, based on innovative technology of computer science, the Internet, and intelligent knowledge processing. MKM is expected to serve mathematicians, scientists, and engineers who produce and use mathematical knowledge; educators and students who teach and learn mathematics; publishers who offer mathematical textbooks and disseminate new mathematical results; and librarians and mathematicians who catalog and organize mathematical knowledge. The track is concerned with all aspects of mathematical knowledge management. A non-exclusive list of important topics includes: * Representations of mathematical knowledge * Authoring languages and tools * Repositories of formalized mathematics * Deduction systems * Mathematical digital libraries * Diagrammatic representations * Mathematical OCR * Mathematical search and retrieval * Math assistants, tutoring and assessment systems * MathML, OpenMath, and other mathematical content standards * Web presentation of mathematics * Data mining, discovery, theory exploration * Computer algebra systems * Collaboration tools for mathematics * Challenges and solutions for mathematical workflows ================================================================ Track Systems and Projects ================================================================ The Systems and Projects track of the Conferences on Intelligent Computer Mathematics is a forum for presenting available systems and new and ongoing projects in all areas and topics related to the CICM conferences: * Deduction and Computer Algebra (Calculemus) * Digital Mathematical Libraries (DML) * Mathematical Knowledge Management (MKM) The track aims to provide an overview of the latest developments and trends within the CICM community as well as to exchange ideas between developers and introduce systems to an audience of potential users. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Submission Instructions ---------------------------------------------------------------- Electronic submission is done through Easychair http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cicm2014 All papers should be prepared in LaTeX and formatted according to the requirements of Springer's LNCS series (the corresponding style files can be downloaded from http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html). By submitting a paper the authors agree that if it is accepted at least one of the authors will attend the conference to present it. Submissions to the research tracks (Calculemus, DML, MKM) must not exceed 15 pages in the LNCS style and will be reviewed and evaluated with respect to relevance, clarity, quality, originality, and impact. Shorter papers, e.g., for system descriptions, are welcome. Authors will have an opportunity to respond to their papers' reviews before the programme committee makes a decision. System descriptions and projects descriptions should be 2-4 pages in the LNCS style and should present * newly developed systems, * systems not previously been presented to the CICM community, or * significant updates to existing systems. Systems must either be available for download or currently executable by the general public as a web application. Project presentations should describe * projects that are new or about to start, * ongoing projects that have not yet been presented to the CICM community or * significant new developments in ongoing previously presented projects. Presentations of new projects should mention relevant previous work and include a roadmap that outlines concrete steps. All project submissions must have a live project website and should contain links to demos, videos, downloadable systems or downloadable datasets. Accepted conference submissions from all tracks will be published as a volume in the series Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) by Springer. In addition to these formal proceedings, authors are permitted and encouraged to publish the final versions of their papers on arXiv.org. Work-in-progress submissions are intended to provide a forum for the presentation of original work that is not yet in a suitable form for submission as a full paper for a research track or system description. This includes work in progress and emerging trends. Their size is not limited, but we recommend 5-10 pages. The programme committee may offer authors of rejected formal submissions the opportunity to publish their contributions as work-in-progress papers instead. Depending on the number of work-in-progress papers accepted, they will be presented at the conference either as short talks or as posters. The work-in-progress proceedings will be published as a technical report, as well as online with CEUR-WS.org. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Doctoral Programme ---------------------------------------------------------------- Chair: David Wilson (University of Bath, UK) CICM is an excellent opportunity for graduate students to meet established researchers from the areas of computer algebra, automated deduction, and mathematical publishing. The Doctoral Programme provides a dedicated forum for PhD students to present and discuss their ideas, ongoing or planned research, and achieved results in an open atmosphere. It will consist of presentations by the PhD students to get constructive feedback, advice, and suggestions from the research advisory board, researchers, and other PhD students. Each PhD student will be assigned to an experienced researcher from the research advisory board who will act as a mentor and who will provide detailed feedback and advice on their intended and ongoing research. Students at any stage of their PhD can apply and should submit the following documents through EasyChair: * A two-page abstract of your thesis describing your research questions, research plans, completed and remaining research, evaluation plans and publication plans; * A two-page CV that includes background information (name, university, supervisor), education (degree sought, year/status of degree, previous degrees), employments, relevant research experience (publications, presentations, attended conferences or workshops, etc.) Submission Deadline: 28 April 2014. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Programme Committee ---------------------------------------------------------------- General chair: Stephen Watt (University of Western Ontario, Canada) Calculemus track James Davenport, University of Bath, UK (Chair) Matthew England, University Of Bath, UK, Dejan Jovanovi?, SRI, USA Laura Kov?cs, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden Assia Mahboubi, INRIA, France Adam Naumowicz, Institute of Informatics, U. Bialystok, Poland Grant Passmore, U. Cambridge and U. Edinburgh, UK Florian Rabe, Jacobs University Bremen. Germany Claudio Sacerdoti Coen, University of Bologna, Italy Freek Wiedijk, Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands (Other invitations pending) DML track Petr Sojka, Masaryk University, Brno, CZ (Chair) Akiko Aizawa, NII, University of Tokyo, Japan ?ukasz Bolikowski, ICM, University of Warsaw, Poland Thierry Bouche, Universit? Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, france Yannis Haralambous, Inst Mines-T?l?com - T?l?com Bretagne, France Janka Chleb?kov?, School of Computing, University of Portsmouth, UK Michael Kohlhase, Jacobs University Bremen, Germany Ji?? R?kosn?k, Institute of Mathematics AS CR, CZ David Ruddy, Cornell University, USA Volker Sorge, University of Birmingham, UK Frank Tompa, University of Waterloo, Canada Richard Zanibbi, Rochester Institute of Technology, USA MKM track Josef Urban, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands (Chair) Rob Arthan, Queen Mary University of London, UK David Aspinall, Univerity of Edinburgh, UK Michael Beeson, San Jose State University, USA Claudio Sacerdoti Coen, University of Bologna, Italy Thomas Hales, University of Pittsburgh, USA Johan Jeuring, Open Universiteit Nederland and Universiteit Utrecht, NL Peter Jipsen, Chapman University, USA Cezary Kaliszyk, University of Innsbruck, Austria Michael Kohlhase, Jacobs University Bremen, Germany Christoph Lange, University of Birmingham, UK Paul Libbrecht, Weingarten University of Education, Germany Ursula Martin, Queen Mary University of London, UK Bruce Miller, NIST, USA Adam Naumowicz, University of Bialystok, Poland Florian Rabe, Jacobs University Bremen, Germany Alan Sexton, University of Birmingham, UK Enrico Tassi, INRIA, France Stephen Watt, University of Western Ontario, Canada Makarius Wenzel, Universit? Paris-Sud 11, France Freek Wiedijk, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands Systems & Projects track Alan Sexton, University of Birmingham, UK (Chair) Christoph Lange, University of Bonn, Germany Jesse Alama, Technical University of Vienna, Austria Rob Arthan, Queen Mary University of London, UK Deyan Ginev, Jacobs University Bremen, Germany J?nathan Heras, University of Dundee, Scotland Mateja Jamnik, University of Cambridge, UK Predrag Jani?i?, University of Belgrade, Serbia Christoph L?th, DFKI and University of Bremen, Germany Bruce Miller, NIST, Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA Hendrik Tews, TU Dresden, Germany From birte.glimm at uni-ulm.de Tue Nov 26 18:05:44 2013 From: birte.glimm at uni-ulm.de (Birte Glimm) Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2013 18:05:44 +0100 Subject: [DL] Call for Applications: KR2014 Doctoral Consortium Message-ID: CALL FOR APPLICATIONS *** KR 2014 Doctoral Consortium *** July 20-24, 2014 Vienna, Austria http://kr.org/KR2014/ The 14th International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KR 2014) invites PhD students to apply for the Doctoral Consortium program. 1) AIMS AND SCOPE ----------------------- The Doctoral Consortium is a student mentoring program that introduces students to senior researchers with similar research interests. The aims of the consortium are: * to provide a forum for students to present their current research, and receive feedback from other students and senior researchers; * to promote contacts among PhD students working in similar areas; * to support students with information and advice on academic, research and industrial careers. The Doctoral Consortium is intended for students who have a specific research proposal and some preliminary results, but who have sufficient time prior to completing their dissertation to benefit from the consortium experience. We encourage submissions from PhD students at any level, and from any topic area within Knowledge Representation and Reasoning. A number of student grants will be available to support student participation. 2) APPLICATION SUBMISSION ----------------------- Applications must be submitted via our online submission site (see below). Each application must contain the following materials: * Thesis summary: A description of the problem being addressed, your motivation for addressing the problem, proposed plan of research, the progress to date (what you have already achieved and what remains to be done), and related work. It must be four pages maximum in AAAI style (http://www.aaai.org/Publications/Author/author.php). * Curriculum Vitae: A description of your background and relevant experience (research, education, employment). * Letter of recommendation: A letter from your thesis advisor that states that he/she supports your participation in the DC. * (Optional) You can suggest 3-5 potential mentors with similar research interests as you, who could give you good advice on technical aspects of your work, and/or your career. * (Optional) Specify 3 to 5 questions you would like to ask your mentor and give some keywords that describe you research interests The most preferred way of submission is to combine the thesis summary and the letter of recommendation (and, optionally, the list of suggested mentors) into a single PDF document. If you cannot do that, archive the documents into a single zip file. In either case, the resulting single file has to be submitted via the EasyChair system at https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=kr2014dc 3) IMPORTANT DATES ----------------------- Feb 21, 2014 : Deadline for application March 28, 2014 : Acceptance notification July 20-24, 2014 : Doctoral Consortium For further information, please contact the Doctoral Consortium chairs: Birte Glimm, University of Ulm (birte.glimm at uni-ulm.de) Adrian Pearce, University of Melbourne (adrianrp at unimelb.edu.au) CONFERENCE CHAIRS ----------------------- General Chair: Thomas Eiter (TU Vienna, Austria) Program Chairs: Chitta Baral (Arizona State U, USA), Giuseppe De Giacomo (U "La Sapienza", Italy) Local Organization: Michael Fink, Stefan Woltran (TU Vienna, Austria) Doctoral Consortium: Birte Glimm (U Ulm, Germany), Adrian Pearce (U Melbourne, Australia) Sponsorship: Marco Maratea (U Genova, Italy) From ulle.endriss at uva.nl Thu Nov 28 23:30:31 2013 From: ulle.endriss at uva.nl (Ulle Endriss) Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2013 23:30:31 +0100 Subject: [DL] MSc Logic Programme at the ILLC, University of Amsterdam Message-ID: <5297C407.5020202@uva.nl> [Apologies if you receive this more than once. Please forward to potentially interested students and appropriate mailing lists.] ************************************************************************* The MSc Logic Programme at the ILLC, University of Amsterdam URL: http://www.illc.uva.nl/MScLogic/ ************************************************************************* The MSc Logic, offered by the the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC) at the University of Amsterdam, is a two-year Master's programme providing intensive interdisciplinary research training for excellent students with a first degree in Mathematics, Computer Science, Philosophy, Linguistics, or a related discipline. *Courses*: We offer a unique combination of over 40 courses in Mathematical Logic, Theoretical Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Philosophical Logic, Formal Semantics and Pragmatics, Philosophy of Language, Computational Linguistics, Cognitive Science, and Mathematical Economics. You will be guided by an academic mentor to design your own personal programme of study out of this pool of courses, supplemented with a number of small individual research projects. The final semester is devoted to the writing of a Master's thesis, which in the past has often led to scholarly publications. *Language*: All courses are taught in English. At any given time, the programme hosts students from at least 25 different countries. *Career opportunities*: Most of our graduates embark on an academic career and continue with a PhD, often at top universities all over the world. Other career opportunities include the software industry and management consulting. *Application*: The application deadlines for September 2014 entry are 1 April 2014 for students from European countries and 1 February 2014 for all others. Please visit http://www.illc.uva.nl/MScLogic/ to find out more. ************************************************************************* -- Ulle Endriss http://www.illc.uva.nl/~ulle/ Institute for Logic, Language & Computation (ILLC) University of Amsterdam Tel: +31 (0)20 525 6511 Postbus 94242 Fax: +31 (0)20 525 5206 1090 GE Amsterdam (NL) Email: u.endriss at uva.nl From konieczny at cril.fr Wed Nov 27 19:21:14 2013 From: konieczny at cril.fr (=?windows-1252?Q?S=E9bastien_Konieczny?=) Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2013 19:21:14 +0100 Subject: [DL] CFP 15th International Workshop on Non-Monotonic Reasoning (NMR 2014) Message-ID: <869625ED-545A-4E90-A38A-80F190FBC028@cril.fr> ______________________________________________________________________ CALL FOR PAPERS 15th International Workshop on Non-Monotonic Reasoning (NMR 2014) http://www.kr.tuwien.ac.at/nmr14/ Vienna, Austria, July 17?19, 2014 Co-located with KR 2014 [http://kr.org/KR2014/], DL 2014 [http://www.dbai.tuwien.ac.at/dl2014/], FLoC 2014, and Logic Colloquium 2014. KR 2014 is part of the Vienna Summer of Logic [http://vsl2014.at/] ______________________________________________________________________ * Aims and Scope * The NMR workshop series is the premier specialized forum for researchers in non-monotonic reasoning and related areas. This will be the 15th workshop in this series. Its aim is to bring together active researchers in the broad area of non-monotonic reasoning, including belief revision, reasoning about actions, argumentation, declarative programming, preferences, non-monotonic reasoning for ontologies, uncertainty, and other related topics. NMR will share a joint session with the 27th International Workshop on Description Logics (DL 2014). * Topics * NMR 2014 welcomes the submission of papers broadly centered on issues and research in non-monotonic reasoning. We welcome papers of either theoretical or practical nature. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): - abductive reasoning and diagnosis, - algorithms and complexity analysis, - argumentation and dialog, - answer-set programming, - belief revision, belief update, and belief merging, - benchmarks for non-monotonic reasoning, - declarative programming for non-monotonic reasoning, - default reasoning, - empirical studies of reasoning strategies, - foundations of non-monotonic reasoning, - hybrid approaches (non-monotonic reasoning combined with other computing paradigms), - inconsistency handling, - implementations and systems, - non-monotonic logics in multi-agent interaction, including negotiation and dispute resolution, - non-monotonic reasoning for ontologies, - reasoning and decision making under uncertainty, - reasoning with preferences, - representing actions and planning, - causal reasoning, and - similarity based-reasoning. * Tracks * To focus the different topics of submissions, the workshop comprises the following thematic tracks: 1. Actions, Causality, and Belief Change; 2. Declarative Programming; 3. Argumentation and Dialog; 4. Preferences, Norms, and Trust; 5. NMR and Uncertainty; 6. Commonsense and NMR for Ontologies; as well as the following special tracks: 7. Systems and Applications; 8. Benchmarks for NMR. * Systems and Applications Track * Recent years witnessed the development of mature solver technology for some NMR based formalisms and, accordingly, successful real-world applications. This track welcomes papers on describing implemented NMR systems as well as papers presenting applications of NMR formalisms and systems. Topics of interest include pure system descriptions (providing information on the basic functionality and usability of the respective systems), the comparison and evaluation of NMR systems, NMR applications in industry and academia, software engineering and modeling methodology aspects, and reports from the field. * Benchmarks for NMR special track * The aim of the Benchmarks for NMR special track is to discuss the construction of benchmarks for NMR. Benchmarks proved useful in a variety of domains in order to develop efficient algorithms and methods. They are for the moment insufficiently developed for main NMR areas. We want to discuss this issue in NMR 2014. Typical questions of interested could be: - How to obtain benchmarks from real application cases? - How to build sensible random benchmarks? - How to export existing benchmarks in some formalism into other domains formalisms? - Etc. Papers related to these issues, description of existing systems of benchmarks, etc., are welcome. * Submissions * Papers should be between 4 and 10 pages in AAAI style (http://www.aaai.org/Publications/Author/author.php) including references, figures, and appendixes if any. System descriptions can typically be on the lower bound of the page range. Papers submission will be handled electronically by means of the easychair system. Papers must be submitted in PDF only. The submission page is available at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=nmr2014 Papers already published at other conferences and that can be of interest for an NMR audience are welcomed to NMR 2014, provided that the initial publication is mentioned in a footnote on the first page. Submissions will have to indicate to which of the above listed tracks it is intended to belong to, as well as whether it constitutes new research or recently published research. * Proceedings * There are no formal proceedings for NMR. The accepted papers will be published as a technical report and will be made available in the CoRR Computing Research Repository, see http://arxiv.org/corr/home. The copyright of the papers lies with the authors, and as far as NMR is concerned, they are free to submit to other conferences and workshops as well. Similarly, papers already published can be submitted (but this has to be indicated in the submission). * Important Dates * Submission deadline: February 14, 2014 Notification: April 2, 2014 Camera-ready articles due: April 25, 2014 NMR 2014: July 17-19, 2014 * Location * NMR 2014 will be held at the Vienna University of Technology and is part of the Vienna Summer of Logic, http://vsl2014.at/, which will probably be the largest scientific logic event in known history. * Workshop Chairs * S?bastien Konieczny (CNRS, Universit? d'Artois, France) Hans Tompits (Vienna University of Technology, Austria) Email: nmr14 [at] kr [dot] tuwien [dot] ac [dot] at * Homepage * http://www.kr.tuwien.ac.at/nmr14/ From franconi at inf.unibz.it Thu Dec 5 16:00:42 2013 From: franconi at inf.unibz.it (Enrico Franconi) Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2013 16:00:42 +0100 Subject: [DL] [Call] PhD/PostDoc school on "Change in Ontologies and Databases" (29-31 January 2014) in Bozen-Bolzano, Italy Message-ID: <05122013160042303GGh77pfXqRRd0181@webmail.unibz.it> Research School on the? Foundations and Challenges of Change in Ontologies and Databases 29-31 January 2014?- Bozen-Bolzano, Italy http://www.inf.unibz.it/krdb/events/school-2014/ PhD students and PostDoc fellows are invited to apply to the research school on the "Foundations and Challenges of Change in Ontologies and Databases", to be held on?29-31 January 2014?in Bozen-Bolzano, Italy. This is the follow-up of a successful Dagstuhl seminar held last year .?This year the event will be oriented towards students and postdocs.?There will be five half-day sessions (listed below).?The students/postdocs will be split in small groups, and each group will be responsible to organise a survey talk within a specific session; each group will be given appropriate reading material in advance. In the rest of each session there will be survey/tutorial/advanced presentations by some of the seniors and many discussions. The five sessions are: ? Ontology revisions, versioning, diffs, and non-monotonic aspects; ? The logic of updates, active rules, and triggers in databases; ? Foundations and challenges in temporal and stream data; ? Modelling and reasoning with business processes and workflows; ? Actions representation and reasoning in ontology languages. Please apply by submitting a short statement (as an abstract with a title), your CV (in PDF), and the chosen topic(s) via EasyChair at by?24 December 2013; late applications may be considered subject to the availability of space. The acceptance to the research school will be notified shortly after, together with the composition of the groups and the preparation material (consisting of few papers).? Before the beginning of the school, each group is required to develop a presentation using the preparation material. During the preparation phase, groups will be supported by high-quality mentors from the committee of the school: each mentor will advise the groups she/he is assigned to about the quality of their presentation while they prepare it before coming to the school. The list of mentors is growing; by now we have: ? Carlo Zaniolo,?zaniolo at cs.ucla.edu ? Laura Giordano,?laura.giordano at mfn.unipmn.it ? Misha Zakharyaschev,?michael at dcs.bbk.ac.uk ? Bernardo Cuenca Grau,?Bernardo.Cuenca.Grau at comlab.ox.ac.uk ? Bijan Parsia,?bparsia at cs.man.ac.uk ? Emanuele Della Valle,?emanuele.dellavalle at polimi.it ? Diego Calvanese,?calvanese at inf.unibz.it ? Michael Kifer,?michael.kifer at stonybrook.edu ? Katia Sycara,?katia at cs.cmu.edu ? Ivan Varzinczak,?ijv at acm.org ? Renata Wassermann, ?renata at ime.usp.br ? Stefano Ceri,?ceri at elet.polimi.it? There will be no registration fee to the research school; coffee breaks and lunches are included. 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More than a dozen artificial intelligence researchers at ISI hold research faculty appointments in these departments, where they teach classes, advise PhD students, and found spin-offs. ISI scientists have the opportunity to spend the vast majority of their time doing the research they love. Projects are critically accelerated by research programmers and students at all levels, and USC operates one of the world's largest high-performance computing clusters. * * * Computer Scientist and Postdoc Positions ISI welcomes applications for Computer Scientist and Postdoc positions in any of the following areas: - Biomedical data integration and knowledge engineering - Information integration - Interactive knowledge capture - Semantic Web - Semantic eScience - Machine translation - Natural language processing - Robotics - Social networks Computer Scientist positions are permanent positions, subject to available funding. 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URL: From gstoil at image.ece.ntua.gr Sat Dec 7 09:22:58 2013 From: gstoil at image.ece.ntua.gr (Giorgos Stoilos) Date: Sat, 07 Dec 2013 10:22:58 +0200 Subject: [DL] Call for Papers: The 8th International Conference on Web Reasoning and Rule Systems (RR 2014) Message-ID: <52A2DAE2.7020307@image.ece.ntua.gr> ****************************************************************** CALL FOR PAPERS The 8th International Conference on Web Reasoning and Rule Systems Athens, Greece, September 15-17, 2014 http://www.rr-conference.org/RR2014 ****************************************************************** == RR == The International Conference on Web Reasoning and Rule Systems (RR) is a major forum for discussion and dissemination of new results concerning Web Reasoning and Rule Systems. RR 2014 is associated with the following interesting event: - 10th Reasoning Web Summer School (RW 2014) Athens, Greece, September 8-13, 2014 http://reasoningweb.org/2014/ The Reasoning Web Summer School (RW) is a great opportunity particularly for young researchers to combine with attendance of the conference. Submissions by summer school participants are particularly encouraged. == IMPORTANT DATES == * Main Event Dates * - Title and Abstract submission: April 13, 2014, before 23:59 UTC - Full papers submission: April 20, 2014, before 23:59 UTC - Notification of acceptance: May 30, 2014 - Camera-ready submission: June 13, 2014 * Doctoral Consortium Dates * - Abstract submission: April 27, 2014 - Notification of acceptance: May 18, 2014 - Camera-Ready: June 6, 2014 == TOPICS == RR welcomes original research from all areas of Web Reasoning. Topics of particular interest are: - Semantic Web, rule and ontology languages, and related logics - Reasoning, querying, searching and optimization - Incompleteness, inconsistency, and uncertainty - Non-monotonic, commonsense, and closed-world reasoning for the Web - Dynamic information, stream reasoning and complex event processing - Decision making, planning, and intelligent agents - Machine learning, knowledge extraction, and information retrieval - Data management, data integration, and reasoning on the Web of data - Ontology-based data access - System descriptions, application, and experiences == INVITED SPEAKERS == Frank van Harmelen (VU University Amsterdam, Netherlands) Markus Kr?tzsch (Technical University of Dresden, Germany) == DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM == Following the success the RR DC in 2012 and 2013, RR 2014 will also host a doctoral consortium, which will provide doctoral students in Web Reasoning and related areas with a unique opportunity to present and discuss their research directions, be involved into state-of-the-art research discussion and supported in establishing fruitful collaborations with prominent researchers and pioneers in the field of Web Reasoning and Rules and related areas. The RR-DC will also provide a forum where PhD students can share ideas, and receive constructive feedback on ongoing work from peer students. More details about the DC, student application procedure, and student grants can be found at http://sextant.di.uoa.gr/rr2014/?q=node/24 Further details will also be communicated by means of a separate Call for Papers. == PUBLICATION & JOURNAL == The conference proceedings will be published by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series (LNCS). After the conference, authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended versions of their papers to a special issue of a prestigious international journal. == SUBMISSIONS == Submissions must be prepared in Springer's LaTeX style llncs (http://www.springer.com/comp/lncs/Authors.html). There are two submission formats: - Full papers (up to 15 pages) - Technical Communications (up to 6 pages) Submitted full papers should present original and significant research results. They must not substantially overlap with papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference/workshop with formal proceedings. Double submission to a workshop with informal proceedings is allowed, like for instance the DL 2014 workshop. Technical communications are intended for promising but possibly preliminary work, position papers, system descriptions, and applications descriptions (which may be accompanied by a demo). Submissions will be made via EasyChair: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=rr2014 == BEST PAPER AND BEST STUDENT PAPER AWARDS == Awards for Best Paper and Best Student Paper will be presented to the corresponding author(s) at the conference. The best student paper will be selected among the ones written mainly by students (i.e., persons not holding a PhD as of March 30, 2014), and the Best Student Paper award will be assigned only in case a student is not one of the main authors of the paper winning the Best Paper award. To qualify for the Best Student Paper award, the authors must indicate their eligibility upon submission at easychair. == ORGANIZATION == General Chair: - Axel Polleres (Institute for Information Business, WU Vienna, Austria) Program Chairs: - Roman Kontchakov (Birkbeck College, UK) - Marie-Laure Mugnier (University of Montpellier 2, France) Doctoral Consortium Chair: - Francesco Ricca (University of Calabria, Italy) Local Chair: - Manolis Koubarakis (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece) Sponsorship Chair: - Giorgos Stamou (National Technical University of Athens, Greece) Publicity Chair: - Giorgos Stoilos (National Technical University of Athens, Greece) == PROGRAM COMMITTEE == Jos? 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Paris Sud, France) Fernando Bobillo (University of Zaragoza, Spain) Fran?ois Bry (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universit?t M?nchen, Germany) Bernardo Cuenca Grau (University of Oxford, UK) Agostino Dovier (Universit? degli Studi di Udine, Italy) Thomas Eiter (TU Vienna, Austria) Wolfgang Faber (University of Huddersfield, UK) Sergio Flesca (University of Calabria, Italy) Paul Fodor (Stony Brook University, USA) Andreas Harth (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany) Stijn Heymans (SRI International, USA) Pascal Hitzler (Wright State University, USA) Aidan Hogan (National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland) Georg Lausen (Universit?t Freiburg, Germany) Joohyung Lee (Arizona State University, USA) Domenico Lembo (Sapienza Universit? di Roma, Italy) Carsten Lutz (Universit?t Bremen, Germany) Thomas Meyer (CSIR Meraka Institute, South Africa) Alessandra Mileo (DERI, Ireland) Marco Montali (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy) Boris Motik (University of Oxford, UK) Magdalena Ortiz (TU Vienna, Austria) Giorgio Orsi (University of Oxford, UK) Adrian Paschke (Freie Universit?t Berlin, Germany) Andreas Pieris (University of Oxford, UK) Andrea Pugliese (University of Calabria, Italy) Guilin Qi (Southeast University, China) Francesco Ricca (University of Calabria, Italy) Riccardo Rosati (Sapienza Universit? di Roma, Italy) Sebastian Rudolph (TU Dresden, Germany) Steven Schockaert (Cardiff University, UK) Steffen Staab (University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany) Giorgos Stamou (National Technical University of Athens, Greece) Giorgos Stoilos (National Technical University of Athens, Greece) Umberto Straccia (ISTI-CNR, Italy) David Toman (University of Waterloo, Canada) Martin Theobald (University of Antwerp, Belgium) Micha?l Thomazo (TU Dresden, Germany) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Cynthia-Vera.Glodeanu at tu-dresden.de Mon Dec 9 11:38:38 2013 From: Cynthia-Vera.Glodeanu at tu-dresden.de (Cynthia-Vera Glodeanu) Date: Mon, 09 Dec 2013 10:38:38 +0000 Subject: [DL] Third Call for Papers "12th International Conference on Formal Concept Analysis" and deadline extension Message-ID: <20131209103838.Horde.hhG8FmPupi72xiHrg_TS2Q8@mail.zih.tu-dresden.de> (with apologies for cross postings) Please consider to contribute to and/or forward to the appropriate groups. Please notice the deadline extensions. ================================================================================ ======================================================= ICFCA 2014 12th International Conference on Formal Concept Analysis June 10 - 13, 2014, Cluj-Napoca, Romania http://www.cs.ubbcluj.ro/icfca14/ ======================================================= ================================================================================ What is it? Formal Concept Analysis emerged in the 1980's from attempts to restructure lattice theory in order to promote better communication between lattice theorists and potential users of lattice theory. Since its early years, Formal Concept Analysis has developed into a research field in its own right with a thriving theoretical community and a rapidly expanding range of applications in information and knowledge processing including visualization, data analysis (mining) and knowledge management and discovery. The conference aims to bring together researchers and practitioners working on theoretical or applied aspects of Formal Concept Analysis within major related areas such as Mathematics and Computer and Information Sciences and their diverse applications to fields like Software Engineering, Linguistics, Life and Social Sciences, etc. Main topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Fundamental aspects of FCA - FCA theory - Lattice theory - Lattice drawing - Philosophical foundations - Algorithms and complexity theory Bridging FCA to information sciences and artificial intelligence - FCA and logic (semantic web, description logics, ...) - FCA and conceptual structures (concept graphs, knowledge space, ...) - FCA and data analysis (hierarchical classification, data organization, ...) - FCA and data mining (pattern mining) - FCA and machine learning (learning with hypothesis, feature selection, ...) - FCA and database theory (dependencies, rules, data cubes, ...) - FCA and software engineering - FCA and morphological mathematics Understanding, modelling real-world data and phenomena with FCA - Analysis of "big data" with FCA (sampling, parallel computing, ...) - Analysis of social networks and their dynamics - Applications for scientific data analysis (in biology, health, ...) - Applications for sensors data and user interactions traces - Other FCA applications Submission Details We invite scientific publications on theory and applications of Formal Concept Analysis. Papers of up to sixteen pages may be submitted in the PDF or Postscript format via the Easychair system https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icfca14. For each paper, an abstract must be submitted by December 20, 2013. Authors are requested to follow the formatting instructions for the Springer LNCS style, see http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html Accepted papers must be presented at the conference, therefore at least one author per paper has to register timely. All submissions will be refereed, and the conference proceedings will be published by Springer in the LNCS/LNAI series. Important Dates Submission of abstract: December 20 2013 Submission of full paper: January 10 2014 Notification of acceptance: March 1 2014 Camera ready due: March 15 2014 Conference: June 10-13 2014 Organization The conference will be hosted by the Babes-Bolyai University Cluj-Napoca, Romania. Conference Chair - Christian Sacarea, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania Program Chairs - Cynthia Vera Glodeanu, Technische Universit?t Dresden, Germany - Mehdi Kaytoue, INSA de Lyon ? LIRIS, France Local Organizers - Christian Sacarea, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania - Viorica Varga, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania Editorial Board (To be updated) - Bernhard Ganter, Technische Universit??t Dresden, Germany - Felix Distel, Technische Universit??t Dresden, Germany - Florent Domenach, University of Nicosia, Cyprus - Gerd Stumme, University of Kassel, Germany - Karl Erich Wolff, University of Applied Sciences, Darmstadt, Germany - Leonard Kwuida, Bern University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland - Peggy Cellier, IRISA lab, Rennes, France - Peter Eklund, University of Wollongong, Australia - Petko Valtchev, Universit?? du Qu??bec ? Montr??al, Canada - Raoul Medina, LIMOS, Universit?? Clermont-Ferrand 2, France - Robert Godin, Universit?? du Qu??bec ? Montr??al (UQAM), Canada - Robert J??schke, Leibniz Universit??t Hannover, Germany - Rokia Missaoui, Universit?? du Qu??bec en Outaouais (UQO), Canada - Sebastian Rudolph, Technische Universit??t Dresden, Germany - Sebastien Ferr??, Universit?? de Rennes 1, France - Sergei Kuznetsov, Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia - Sergei Obiedkov, Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia - Stefan E. Schmidt, Technische Universit??t Dresden, Germany - Uta Priss, Ostfalia University of Applied Sciences, Wolfenb??ttel, Germany Honorary Member - Rudolf Wille, Technische Universit?t Darmstadt, Germany Program Committee - Alain G??ly, Universit?? Paul Verlaine, Metz, France - Amedeo Napoli, LORIA, Nancy, France - Andreja Tepav??evi??, University of Novi Sad, Serbia - Camille Roth, CNRS/EHESS, Paris, France - Claudio Carpineto, Fondazione Ugo Bordoni, Italy - Cynthia Vera Glodeanu, Technische Universit??t Dresden, Germany - Dmitry Ignatov, Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia - Engelbert Mephu Nguifo, LIMOS, Universit?? de Clermont Ferrand 2, France - Fran??ois Brucker, Centrale Marseille, France - Jan Outrata, Palacky University of Olomouc, Czech Republic - Jaume Baixeries, Polytechnical University of Catalonia, Spain - Jean-Marc Petit, LIRIS, INSA Lyon, France - Jonas Poelmans, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium - Karell Bertet, L3I, Universit?? de La Rochelle, France - Laszlo Szathmary, University of Debrecen, Hungary - Lhouari Nourine, LIMOS, Universit?? de Clermont Ferrand 2, France - Marianne Huchard, LIRMM, Universit?? Montpellier, France - Markus Kr??tzsch, Technische Universit??t Dresden, Germany - Marzena Kryszkiewicz, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland - Mehdi Kaytoue, LIRIS, INSA Lyon, France - Michal Krupka, Palacky University, Olomouc, Czech Republic - Mike Bain, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia - Radim B??lohl??vek, Palacky University, Olomouc, Czech Republic - Sandor Radeleczki, University of Miskolc, Hungary - Simon Andrews, University of Sheffield, United Kingdom - Stephan Doerfel, KDE Group, University of Kassel, Germany - Tim Kaiser, SAP AG, Walldorf - Vincent Duquenne, ECP6-CNRS, Universit?? Paris 6, France - Wilfried Lex, Universit??t Clausthal, Germany -- Dr. rer. nat. Cynthia Glodeanu wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin Technische Universit?t Dresden Fachrichtung Mathematik Institut f?r Algebra 01062 Dresden Tel: +49 (351) 463 34031 Fax: +49 (351) 463 34235 Cynthia-Vera.Glodeanu at tu-dresden.de http://tu-dresden.de/Members/cynthia_vera.glodeanu -------------- next part -------------- (with apologies for cross postings) Please consider to contribute to and/or forward to the appropriate groups. Please notice the deadline extensions. ================================================================================ ======================================================= ICFCA 2014 12th International Conference on Formal Concept Analysis June 10 - 13, 2014, Cluj-Napoca, Romania http://www.cs.ubbcluj.ro/icfca14/ ======================================================= ================================================================================ What is it? Formal Concept Analysis emerged in the 1980's from attempts to restructure lattice theory in order to promote better communication between lattice theorists and potential users of lattice theory. Since its early years, Formal Concept Analysis has developed into a research field in its own right with a thriving theoretical community and a rapidly expanding range of applications in information and knowledge processing including visualization, data analysis (mining) and knowledge management and discovery. The conference aims to bring together researchers and practitioners working on theoretical or applied aspects of Formal Concept Analysis within major related areas such as Mathematics and Computer and Information Sciences and their diverse applications to fields like Software Engineering, Linguistics, Life and Social Sciences, etc. Main topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Fundamental aspects of FCA - FCA theory - Lattice theory - Lattice drawing - Philosophical foundations - Algorithms and complexity theory Bridging FCA to information sciences and artificial intelligence - FCA and logic (semantic web, description logics, ...) - FCA and conceptual structures (concept graphs, knowledge space, ...) - FCA and data analysis (hierarchical classification, data organization, ...) - FCA and data mining (pattern mining) - FCA and machine learning (learning with hypothesis, feature selection, ...) - FCA and database theory (dependencies, rules, data cubes, ...) - FCA and software engineering - FCA and morphological mathematics Understanding, modelling real-world data and phenomena with FCA - Analysis of "big data" with FCA (sampling, parallel computing, ...) - Analysis of social networks and their dynamics - Applications for scientific data analysis (in biology, health, ...) - Applications for sensors data and user interactions traces - Other FCA applications Submission Details We invite scientific publications on theory and applications of Formal Concept Analysis. Papers of up to sixteen pages may be submitted in the PDF or Postscript format via the Easychair system https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icfca14. For each paper, an abstract must be submitted by December 20, 2013. Authors are requested to follow the formatting instructions for the Springer LNCS style, see http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html Accepted papers must be presented at the conference, therefore at least one author per paper has to register timely. All submissions will be refereed, and the conference proceedings will be published by Springer in the LNCS/LNAI series. Important Dates Submission of abstract: December 20 2013 Submission of full paper: January 10 2014 Notification of acceptance: March 1 2014 Camera ready due: March 15 2014 Conference: June 10-13 2014 Organization The conference will be hosted by the Babes-Bolyai University Cluj-Napoca, Romania. Conference Chair - Christian Sacarea, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania Program Chairs - Cynthia Vera Glodeanu, Technische Universit?t Dresden, Germany - Mehdi Kaytoue, INSA de Lyon ? LIRIS, France Local Organizers - Christian Sacarea, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania - Viorica Varga, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania Editorial Board (To be updated) - Bernhard Ganter, Technische Universit??t Dresden, Germany - Felix Distel, Technische Universit??t Dresden, Germany - Florent Domenach, University of Nicosia, Cyprus - Gerd Stumme, University of Kassel, Germany - Karl Erich Wolff, University of Applied Sciences, Darmstadt, Germany - Leonard Kwuida, Bern University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland - Peggy Cellier, IRISA lab, Rennes, France - Peter Eklund, University of Wollongong, Australia - Petko Valtchev, Universit?? du Qu??bec ? Montr??al, Canada - Raoul Medina, LIMOS, Universit?? Clermont-Ferrand 2, France - Robert Godin, Universit?? du Qu??bec ? Montr??al (UQAM), Canada - Robert J??schke, Leibniz Universit??t Hannover, Germany - Rokia Missaoui, Universit?? du Qu??bec en Outaouais (UQO), Canada - Sebastian Rudolph, Technische Universit??t Dresden, Germany - Sebastien Ferr??, Universit?? de Rennes 1, France - Sergei Kuznetsov, Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia - Sergei Obiedkov, Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia - Stefan E. Schmidt, Technische Universit??t Dresden, Germany - Uta Priss, Ostfalia University of Applied Sciences, Wolfenb??ttel, Germany Honorary Member - Rudolf Wille, Technische Universit?t Darmstadt, Germany Program Committee - Alain G??ly, Universit?? Paul Verlaine, Metz, France - Amedeo Napoli, LORIA, Nancy, France - Andreja Tepav??evi??, University of Novi Sad, Serbia - Camille Roth, CNRS/EHESS, Paris, France - Claudio Carpineto, Fondazione Ugo Bordoni, Italy - Cynthia Vera Glodeanu, Technische Universit??t Dresden, Germany - Dmitry Ignatov, Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia - Engelbert Mephu Nguifo, LIMOS, Universit?? de Clermont Ferrand 2, France - Fran??ois Brucker, Centrale Marseille, France - Jan Outrata, Palacky University of Olomouc, Czech Republic - Jaume Baixeries, Polytechnical University of Catalonia, Spain - Jean-Marc Petit, LIRIS, INSA Lyon, France - Jonas Poelmans, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium - Karell Bertet, L3I, Universit?? de La Rochelle, France - Laszlo Szathmary, University of Debrecen, Hungary - Lhouari Nourine, LIMOS, Universit?? de Clermont Ferrand 2, France - Marianne Huchard, LIRMM, Universit?? Montpellier, France - Markus Kr??tzsch, Technische Universit??t Dresden, Germany - Marzena Kryszkiewicz, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland - Mehdi Kaytoue, LIRIS, INSA Lyon, France - Michal Krupka, Palacky University, Olomouc, Czech Republic - Mike Bain, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia - Radim B??lohl??vek, Palacky University, Olomouc, Czech Republic - Sandor Radeleczki, University of Miskolc, Hungary - Simon Andrews, University of Sheffield, United Kingdom - Stephan Doerfel, KDE Group, University of Kassel, Germany - Tim Kaiser, SAP AG, Walldorf - Vincent Duquenne, ECP6-CNRS, Universit?? Paris 6, France - Wilfried Lex, Universit??t Clausthal, Germany From ernesto.jimenez.ruiz at gmail.com Tue Dec 10 11:17:02 2013 From: ernesto.jimenez.ruiz at gmail.com (Ernesto Jimenez-Ruiz) Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2013 10:17:02 +0000 Subject: [DL] [CfP] 3rd OWL Reasoner Evaluation Workshop (with VSL 2014) Message-ID: [Apologies for cross-posting] ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS, SYSTEMS & ONTOLOGIES 3rd OWL Reasoner Evaluation Workshop (ORE 2014) Collocated with the Vienna Summer of Logic (VSL) July 13, 2014 (TBC) - Vienna, Austria http://vsl2014.at/pages/ORE-index.html ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- OBJECTIVES -------------------------------------------------------------------------- The goal of this workshop is to bring together both the DEVELOPERS and END-USERS of reasoners for (subsets of) OWL, including systems focusing on both intensional (ontology) and extensional (data) query answering. The workshop will give developers a perfect opportunity to promote their systems. CALL FOR PAPERS -------------------------------------------------------------------------- We invite submission of papers describing: * System descriptions describing the architecture, implementation, and expected performance of the reasoner. * Reasoner implementation details, usage reports, implementation "tips and tricks". * Challenging ontologies and/or benchmark proposals for OWL reasoners. Papers should be formatted according to the Springer LNCS guidelines ( http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html) and should not be longer than 6 pages (excluding references). Submissions must be in PDF through the EasyChair conference system: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ore2014. All submissions will be peer-reviewed by the program committee. Selected papers will be presented during the workshop and published as a volume of CEUR workshop proceedings (http://ceur-ws.org/). CALL FOR SYSTEMS AND ONTOLOGIES(COMPETITION) -------------------------------------------------------------------------- In parallel with the workshop we will run an OWL Reasoner Competition. We invite both reasoner developers and developers of challenging ontologies to submit their systems/ontologies for participation in the OWL reasoner competition. The preliminary outline for the competition is as follows: * The test sets will include OWL ontologies from all OWL 2 profiles and of varying sizes, from a large corpus of ontologies (including ontologies from the NCBO BioPortal, a web crawl, and user-submitted ontologies). * The tested tasks will include consistency checking, classification, entailment checking, and query answering. * Developers will send a JAR file of their systems to the competition organizers who will then carry out the benchmarks. More details will be published soon. Information about last year's competition can be found on the ORE 2013 website: http://ore2013.cs.manchester.ac.uk/competition/ In addition to the system submissions, both reasoner and ontology developers are invited to submit a short paper describing their system. See the above instructions for paper submissions. IMPORTANT DATES -------------------------------------------------------------------------- * Paper submission deadline: April 1, 2014 * Notification of acceptance: May 16, 2014 * System submission (for competition): May 16, 2014 * Workshop: July 13, 2014 (TBC) * Competition: July 13, 2014 (TBC) ORGANISATION -------------------------------------------------------------------------- For enquiries, please contact the organisers at ore2014 at easychair.org Organisers, PC chairs * Ernesto Jim?nez-Ruiz, University of Oxford, UK * Samantha Bail, University of Manchester, UK Competition Organisers * Birte Glimm, Ulm University, Germany * Nicolas Matentzoglu, University of Manchester, UK * Bijan Parsia, University of Manchester, UK * Andreas Steigmiller, Ulm University, Germany Program committee * Ana Armas, University of Oxford, UK * Franz Baader, TU Dresden, Germany * Michel Dumontier, Stanford University, USA * Christine Golbreich, LIRMM, CNRS, Montpellier & University Versailles Saint-Quentin, France * Janna Hastings, European Bioinformatics Institute, UK * Yevgeny Kazakov, Ulm University, Germany * Pavel Klinov, Ulm University, Germany * Ilianna Kollia, National Technical University of Athens, Greece * Francisco Martin-Recuerda, Universidad Polit?cnica de Madrid, Spain * Christian Meilicke, University of Mannheim, Germany * Julian Mendez, TU Dresden, Germany * Maria del Mar Rold?n Garc?a, Universidad de Malaga, Spain * Stefan Schlobach, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands * J?rg Sch?nfisch, Softplant GmbH, Germany * Weihong Song, University of New Brunswick, Canada * Kavitha Srinivas, IBM Research, USA * Dmitry Tsarkov, University of Manchester, UK * Zhe Wang, University of Oxford, UK -- Ernesto Jim?nez-Ruiz Research Assistant Department of Computer Science University of Oxford Wolfson Building, Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3QD, UK http://krono.act.uji.es/people/Ernesto http://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/people/ernesto.jimenez-ruiz/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Submissions may be in any of the fields related to the school (logic and language, logic and computation, or language and computation) and should represent original, unpublished work by individuals who will not yet have received their Ph.D. by the time of the conference. The Student Session will co-occur with NASSLLI and provides students an excellent opportunity to present their work to experts in their field as well as to a broader, well-informed interdisciplinary audience. All submissions will be reviewed by at least three specialists who will provide commentary on the paper regardless of its acceptance status. Submissions should be prepared for blind review (i.e., should not contain any information identifying the author) and should be uploaded as a .pdf file to the Student Session?s EasyChair site. Submissions should not exceed 10 pages and should be formatted standardly (11 or 12 point font, 1 inch margins). No more than one-single authored and one co-authored paper should be submitted by an individual. (All co-authors should also be students.) Authors whose submissions have been accepted and who intend to present will be required to register for NASSLLI. IMPORTANT DATES: Submissions due: February 28, 2014 (by midnight) Notifications: April 14, 2014 WEBSITES: Submissions: https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=stusnasslli14 NASSLLI 2014: http://www.nasslli2014.com/ CONTACT Quinn Harr at qharr at umd.edu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Most workshops will follow the classical format of presentations of peer-reviewed papers followed by discussion, but other formats (e.g., AI competitions) and entirely new ideas are also welcome. Whatever the format, all workshops should be interactive events and ample time should be allocated to discussion. The typical duration for a workshop is one full day, but two-day or shorter workshops can also be accommodated. If you are considering to propose a workshop or if you have any questions, please do not hesitate to get in touch with the ECAI-2014 Workshop Chairs, Marina De Vos (mdv at cs.bath.ac.uk) and Karl Tuyls (k.tuyls at liverpool.ac.uk). The deadline for submission of a workshop proposal is 12 January 2014. Detailed submission instructions and further information can be found on http://www.ecai2014.org/ ECAI Workshop Chairs Marina De Vos and Karl Tuyls -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Submissions will be reviewed by several experts in the field, and accepted papers will be presented orally or as posters and will appear in the student session proceedings. This is an excellent opportunity to receive valuable feedback from expert readers and to present your work to a diverse audience. *SEPARATE POSTER SESSION:* Note that there are two separate kinds of submissions, one for the oral presentations and one for the posters. This means that papers can be directly submitted as posters. Reviewing and ranking will be done separately. We particularly encourage submissions for posters, as they offer an excellent opportunity to present research in progress. More detailed guidelines and policies regarding submission can be found on the Student Session website: http://www.kr.tuwien.ac.at/drm/dehaan/stus2014/ . Please direct inquiries about submission procedures or other matters relating to the Student Session to: dehaan at kr.tuwien.ac.at. 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URL: From speroni at cs.unibo.it Fri Dec 13 15:29:37 2013 From: speroni at cs.unibo.it (speroni at cs.unibo.it) Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2013 15:29:37 +0100 (CET) Subject: [DL] ESWC 2014 Call for Demos Message-ID: <201312131429.rBDETWP2022588@informatik.uni-bremen.de> ** apologies for cross-posting ** ==== Call for Demos ==== http://2014.eswc-conferences.org/important-dates/call-demos The demonstrations track of the ESWC 2014 complements the overall program of the conference with demonstrations of real-world, applied-and-tested advances of semantic technologies. In addition to papers and posters presenting latest theoretical achievements, the ESWC 2014 is seeking demonstrations of novel applications of semantics in various sectors, including: eGovernment, eEnvironment, eMobility and smart cities, eHealth, Life Sciences, Sensor networks and RDF Stream Processing, Linked Science, Media and entertainment, Telecommunications, Cultural heritage, Financial services, Energy and utilities, Manufacturing, Digital libraries, Cloud applications, Personal Information Management, Decision support, Emergency and crisis management etc. The demonstrations track is an opportunity for researchers and practitioners to present their innovative prototypes, practical developments, on-going projects, lessons learned and late-breaking results, relevant for the topics of interest of the main conference and the research and poster tracks. Submissions to the demonstrations track should make clear what will be demonstrated, and in particular point out what makes the demonstration a novel showcase. A video of the demo should be provided if a link to the demonstrator is not available. Submission should also specify: * What is the research background and application context of the demonstration, and what makes this a novel showcase for semantic technologies. * What is the key technology used, and how does the demonstrated system, application or infrastructure relate to pre-existing work. * What exactly will be demonstrated? What exactly will a visitor of the demonstration learn? * Submission Guidelines * Submissions to the demonstrations track must be in the form of a textual description of the demonstration to be given at the conference (which may include screenshots and must include either a link to the online demo or a video presenting it). The submissions must be at most 5 pages long including reference list (Springer LNCS style) and submitted as PDF. Decisions about acceptance will be based on relevance to the Semantic Web area, originality, potential significance, topicality and clarity. Papers that exceed the given page length or do not follow the LNCS guidelines will be rejected without a review. Submissions should be uploaded using the Easychair system: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=eswc2014pd * Important Dates * Submission Deadline: March 16, 2014 Notification of Acceptance: April 10, 2014 Camera-Ready Paper: April 25, 2014 * Important Notice * Demonstrator papers will appear in supplementary post-conference proceedings to be published by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. Participants with an accepted demo paper must register for the conference and present their system during the Demo Session. A space for demonstration will be allocated for each participant. Participants should use their own laptop for the demos. The organizers should be contacted well in advance of the conference in case of any special requirement. * Poster and Demo Chairs * Raphael Troncy (Multimedia Department, EURECOM, FR) Eva Blomqvist (Department of Computer and Information Science, Linkoping University, SE) From speroni at cs.unibo.it Fri Dec 13 15:55:04 2013 From: speroni at cs.unibo.it (speroni at cs.unibo.it) Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2013 15:55:04 +0100 (CET) Subject: [DL] ESWC 2014 Call for Posters Message-ID: <201312131455.rBDEsx01014754@informatik.uni-bremen.de> ** apologies for cross-posting ** ==== Call for Posters ==== http://2014.eswc-conferences.org/important-dates/call-posters 11th ESWC Conference 2014 Dates: May 25 - 29, 2014 Venue: Anissaras, Crete, Greece Hashtag: #eswc2014 Feed: @eswc_conf Site: http://2014.eswc-conferences.org General Chair: Valentina Presutti (STLab, ISTC-CNR, IT) Poster and Demo Chairs: - Raphael Troncy (Multimedia Department, EURECOM, FR) - Eva Blomqvist (Department of Computer and Information Science, Linkoping University, SE) The poster track of ESWC 2014 will provide an opportunity for presenting late-breaking results, on-going research projects, and speculative or innovative work in progress. Posters are intended to provide authors and participants with the ability to connect with each other and to engage in discussions about the work. We invite submissions relevant to the area of the Semantic Web that address, but are not limited to, the topics of the Research Track. Theoretical or technical posters, reports on semantic systems (however, demonstrations of such systems should be submitted in the demo track), descriptions of completed work, and work in progress are equally welcome. Papers submitted to the research track will NOT automatically be considered for the poster track. A separate poster submission must be made. For example, a poster can be used to present work that was insufficiently mature for the research track. * Submission Guidelines * Authors must submit a 4-page paper (PDF, Springer LNCS style) with a short abstract for evaluation. The paper must clearly demonstrate relevance to the Semantic Web and the topics of interest of ESWC 2014. Decisions about acceptance will be based on relevance to the Semantic Web, originality, potential significance, topicality and clarity. Papers that exceed the given page length or do not follow the LNCS guidelines will be rejected without a review. Submissions should be uploaded using the Easychair system: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=eswc2014pd * Important Dates * Submission Deadline: March 16, 2014 Notification of Acceptance: April 10, 2014 Camera-Ready Paper: April 25, 2014 * Important Notes * Poster papers will appear in supplementary post-conference proceedings to be published by Springer in the series Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). Participants with an accepted poster must register for the conference and present their work during the Poster Session. A space will be allocated for each participant. The organizers should be contacted well in advance of the conference in case of any special requirement. From Bertram.Fronhoefer at tu-dresden.de Mon Dec 16 16:48:15 2013 From: Bertram.Fronhoefer at tu-dresden.de (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Bertram_Fronh=F6fer?=) Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2013 16:48:15 +0100 Subject: [DL] EMCL Study grants Message-ID: <52AF20BF.8060201@tu-dresden.de> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dear all, I'd like to draw your attention to the fact that fresh Erasmus Mundus scholarships are available for Non-European AND European students who enrol in our European Master's Program in Computational Logic in the fall of 2014. The deadline for application is 31 January, 2014. More details are given below. In particular, I'd like to draw your attention to the fact that we are able to provide grants to EU-students for doing their project at the National ICT of Australia (NICTA). Please spread this information as wide as possible among friends and colleagues, at your old universities and the places, where you currently live and work. Many thanks -- Steffen ******************************************************************************************************* The European Master's Program in Computational Logic We are glad to announce to you the possibility to join our European Master's Program of Computational Logic. This program is offered jointly at the Free-University of Bozen-Bolzano in Italy, the Technische Universit?t Dresden in Germany, the Universidade Nova de Lisboa in Portugal and the Technische Universit?t Wien in Austria. Within this program you have the choice to study at two /three of the four European universities. In addition, you can do your project work at the National ICT of Australia (NICTA). You will graduate with a MSc in Computer Science and obtain a joint degree. Information on the universities and the program including the application procedure is provided here: http://www.emcl-study.eu/home.html Language of instruction is English. Tuition fees are 3.000 EUR (for non-European students) and 1.000 (for European students) per year. We would like to draw your attention to the ERASMUS-MUNDUS scholarship program. The ERASMUS-MUNDUS consortium offers 2-year scholarships up to 48.000 EUR for non-EU students and up to 23.000 EUR for EU students of our European Master's Program in Computational Logic. More information on the scholarship program is available from: http://www.emcl-study.eu/fileadmin/emcl_booklet_tree/ma_em_grant.html Do not hesitate to contact us if you have any further questions. Kind regards -- Steffen H?lldobler Prof. Dr. Steffen Hoelldobler International Center for Computational Logic Technische Universit?t Dresden 01062 Dresden, Germany phone: [+49](351)46 33 83 40 fax: [+49](351)46 33 83 42 email: sh at iccl.tu-dresden.de From ruy at cin.ufpe.br Mon Dec 16 11:09:25 2013 From: ruy at cin.ufpe.br (Ruy de Queiroz) Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2013 08:09:25 -0200 Subject: [DL] WoLLIC 2014 - 2nd Call for Papers Message-ID: [Please circulate. Apologies for any cross-postings.] WoLLIC 2014 21st Workshop on Logic, Language, Information and Computation September 1st to 4th, 2014 Valparaiso, Chile SCIENTIFIC SPONSORSHIP Interest Group in Pure and Applied Logics (IGPL) The Association for Logic, Language and Information (FoLLI) Association for Symbolic Logic (ASL) European Association for Theoretical Computer Science (EATCS) European Association for Computer Science Logic (EACSL) Sociedade Brasileira de Computa??o (SBC) Sociedade Brasileira de L?gica (SBL) ORGANISATION Department of Computer Science, Universidad de Chile, Chile Department of Computer Science, Pontificia Universidad Cat?lica de Chile, Chile Centro de Inform?tica, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil HOSTED BY Department of Informatics, Universidad T?cnica Federico Santa Mar?a, Chile CALL FOR PAPERS WoLLIC is an annual international forum on inter-disciplinary research involving formal logic, computing and programming theory, and natural language and reasoning. Each meeting includes invited talks and tutorials as well as contributed papers. The twentieth WoLLIC will be held at the Universidad T?cnica Federico Santa Mar?a, from September 1st to 4th, 2014. It is sponsored by the Association for Symbolic Logic (ASL), the Interest Group in Pure and Applied Logics (IGPL), the The Association for Logic, Language and Information (FoLLI), the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science (EATCS), the European Association for Computer Science Logic (EACSL), the Sociedade Brasileira de Computa??o (SBC), and the Sociedade Brasileira de L?gica (SBL). PAPER SUBMISSION Contributions are invited on all pertinent subjects, with particular interest in cross-disciplinary topics. Typical but not exclusive areas of interest are: foundations of computing and programming; novel computation models and paradigms; broad notions of proof and belief; proof mining, type theory, effective learnability; formal methods in software and hardware development; logical approach to natural language and reasoning; logics of programs, actions and resources; foundational aspects of information organization, search, flow, sharing, and protection. Proposed contributions should be in English, and consist of a scholarly exposition accessible to the non-specialist, including motivation, background, and comparison with related works. They must not exceed 10 pages (in font 10 or higher), with up to 5 additional pages for references and technical appendices. The paper's main results must not be published or submitted for publication in refereed venues, including journals and other scientific meetings. It is expected that each accepted paper be presented at the meeting by one of its authors. Papers must be submitted electronically at the WoLLIC 2014 EasyChair website. (Please go to http://wollic.org/wollic2014/instructions.html for instructions.) A title and single-paragraph abstract should be submitted by Mar 24, 2014, and the full paper by Mar 28, 2014 (firm date). Notifications are expected by May 2, 2014, and final papers for the proceedings will be due by May 15, 2014 (firm date). PROCEEDINGS The proceedings of WoLLIC 2014, including both invited and contributed papers, will be published in advance of the meeting as a volume in Springer's LNCS series. In addition, abstracts will be published in the Conference Report section of the Logic Journal of the IGPL, and selected contributions will be published as a special post-conference WoLLIC 2014 issue of a scientific journal (to be confirmed). INVITED SPEAKERS Ver?nica Becher (U Buenos Aires) Juha Kontinen (U Helsinki) Aarne Ranta (U Gothenburg) Kazushige Terui (U Kyoto) Luca Vigan? (King?s College London) Thomas Wilke (U Kiel) STUDENT GRANTS ASL sponsorship of WoLLIC 2014 will permit ASL student members to apply for a modest travel grant (deadline: May 1st, 2014). See http://www.aslonline.org/studenttravelawards.html for details. IMPORTANT DATES Mar 24, 2014: Paper title and abstract deadline Mar 28, 2014: Full paper deadline May 2, 2014: Author notification May 15, 2014: Final version deadline (firm) PROGRAMME COMMITTEE Natasha Alechina (U Nottingham) Eric Allender (Rutgers U) Marcelo Arenas (PUC Chile) Steve Awodey (CMU) Julian Bradfield (U Edinburgh) Xavier Caicedo (U de Los Andes) Olivier Danvy (Aarhus U) Ulrich Kohlenbach (Tech U Darmstadt) (CHAIR) Marcus Kracht (U Bielefeld) Michiel van Lambalgen (U Amsterdam) Klaus Meer (Tech U Cottbus) George Metcalfe (Bern U) Dale Miller (INRIA Saclay / LIX) Russell Miller (CUNY) Sara Negri (U Helsinki) Nicole Schweikardt (U Frankfurt) (more to come) STEERING COMMITTEE Samson Abramksy, Johan van Benthem, Anuj Dawar, Joe Halpern, Wilfrid Hodges, Daniel Leivant, Leonid Libkin, Angus Macintyre, Grigori Mints, Luke Ong, Hiroakira Ono, Ruy de Queiroz. ORGANISING COMMITTEE Pablo Barcel? (Universidad de Chile) (Local chair) Anjolina G. de Oliveira (U Fed Pernambuco) Ruy de Queiroz (U Fed Pernambuco) (co-chair) Juan Reutter (Pontificia Universidad Cat?lica de Chile) Cristi?n Riveros (Pontificia Universidad Cat?lica de Chile) FURTHER INFORMATION Contact one of the Co-Chairs of the Organising Committee. WEB PAGE http://wollic.org/wollic2014/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From franconi at inf.unibz.it Fri Dec 20 03:22:48 2013 From: franconi at inf.unibz.it (Enrico Franconi) Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2013 03:22:48 +0100 Subject: [DL] [Last Call] PhD/PostDoc school on "Change in Ontologies and Databases" (29-31 January 2014) in Bozen-Bolzano, Italy Message-ID: <20122013032248634GGh77pfXqRRd0178@webmail.unibz.it> Research School on the? Foundations and Challenges of Change in Ontologies and Databases 29-31 January 2014?- Bozen-Bolzano, Italy http://www.inf.unibz.it/krdb/events/school-2014/ PhD students and PostDoc fellows are invited to apply to the research school on the "Foundations and Challenges of Change in Ontologies and Databases", to be held on?29-31 January 2014?in Bozen-Bolzano, Italy. This is the follow-up of a successful Dagstuhl seminar held last year .?This year the event will be oriented towards students and postdocs.?There will be five half-day sessions (listed below).?The students/postdocs will be split in small groups, and each group will be responsible to organise a survey talk within a specific session; each group will be given appropriate reading material in advance. In the rest of each session there will be survey/tutorial/advanced presentations by some of the seniors and many discussions. The five sessions are: ? Ontology revisions, versioning, diffs, and non-monotonic aspects; ? The logic of updates, active rules, and triggers in databases; ? Foundations and challenges in temporal and stream data; ? Modelling and reasoning with business processes and workflows; ? Actions representation and reasoning in ontology languages. Please apply by submitting (i) a short statement (as an abstract with a title, showing how your research matches the topics of the school), (ii) your CV (in PDF), and (iii) the chosen topic(s), via EasyChair at by 24 December 2013; late applications may be considered subject to the availability of space. The acceptance to the research school will be notified shortly after, together with the composition of the groups and the preparation material (consisting of few papers).? Before the beginning of the school, each group is required to develop a presentation using the preparation material. During the preparation phase, groups will be supported by high-quality mentors from the committee of the school: each mentor will advise the groups she/he is assigned to about the quality of their presentation while they prepare it before coming to the school. The list of mentors is growing; by now we have: ? Carlo Zaniolo, zaniolo at cs.ucla.edu ? Laura Giordano, laura.giordano at mfn.unipmn.it ? Misha Zakharyaschev, michael at dcs.bbk.ac.uk ? Bernardo Cuenca Grau, Bernardo.Cuenca.Grau at comlab.ox.ac.uk ? Bijan Parsia, bparsia at cs.man.ac.uk ? Emanuele Della Valle, emanuele.dellavalle at polimi.it ? Diego Calvanese, calvanese at inf.unibz.it ? Michael Kifer, michael.kifer at stonybrook.edu ? Katia Sycara, katia at cs.cmu.edu ? Stefano Ceri, ceri at elet.polimi.it ? Ivan Varzinczak, ijv at acm.org ? Renata Wassermann, renata at ime.usp.br ? Liang Chang, changl.guet at gmail.com ? Matthias Thimm, thimm at uni-koblenz.de ? Valentina Gliozzi, gliozzi at di.unito.it There will be no registration fee to the research school; coffee breaks and lunches are included. Information about the school location in Bolzano and how to book online the accommodation is available at . cheers by the organisers ? Jim Delgrande, Enrico Franconi, Tommie Meyer, Uli Sattler -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From gstoil at image.ece.ntua.gr Thu Dec 19 13:18:35 2013 From: gstoil at image.ece.ntua.gr (Giorgos Stoilos) Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2013 14:18:35 +0200 Subject: [DL] Call for Applications: The 10th Reasoning Web Summer School (RW 2014) Message-ID: <52B2E41B.7050002@image.ece.ntua.gr> ********************************************** CALL FOR APPLICATIONS The 10th Reasoning Web Summer School (RW 2014) Athens, Greece, September 8-13, 2014 http://reasoningweb.org/2014/ ********************************************** co-located with the: - 8th International Conference on Web Reasoning and Rule Systems (RR 2014), Athens, Greece, September 15-17, 2014 http://www.rr-conference.org/RR2014 The purpose of the Reasoning Web Summer School is to disseminate recent advances on reasoning techniques which are of particular interest to Semantic Web and Linked Data applications. It is primarily intended for postgraduate (PhD or MSc) students, postdocs, young researchers, and senior researchers wishing to learn about Reasoning on the Semantic Web and related issues. In 2014, the theme of the school is: "Reasoning on the Web in the Big Data Era" As in the previous years, lectures in the summer school will be given by a distinguished group of expert lecturers. Apart from their lectures, lecturers will also be present for the duration of the school to interact and establish contacts with the students. The summer school is co-located with RR2014, hence, there will be a great opportunity for students to also attend a major event in the area after the school. In addition, RR will also include a Doctoral Consortium and students of RW are particularly encouraged to also apply to the Doctoral consortium of RR - joint applications are explicitly encouraged. == IMPORTANT DATES == Application deadline: June 6, 2014 Notifications: June 15, 2014 Summer School Registration: June 28, 2014 == CONFIRMED LECTURES == * Philipp Cimiano (Bielefeld University) Question answering over linked data * Tasos Kementsietsidis (IBM Research New York) Query Processing for RDF databases * Josep Llu?s Larriba Pey and Norbert Mart?nez Baz?n (Polytechnic University of Catalonia) Graph databases and their applications * Roman Kontchakov (Birkbeck College) An introduction to description logics * Marie-Laure Mugnier (University of Montpellier 2, France) Rules and Ontology-Based Data Access * ?zg?r L. ?z?ep and Ralf M?ller (Hamburg University of Technology) Ontology based data access on temporal and streaming data * Spyros Kotoulas (IBM Research Ireland) Large-scale semantic and reasoning systems for cities * Martin Theobald (University of Antwerp) Probabilistic Databases and Reasoning == APPLICATIONS == The number of attendees will be limited and participation will depend on submitting an application which will undergo a reviewing process. Applications have to be submitted via Easychair using the following URL and by selecting the "RW2014" track: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=rw2014 The program of the school will include a poster session, where students can present and discuss their ongoing research with lecturers and colleagues. Applicants who wish to participate in the poster session shall tick the "participation in poster session" group and include a poster title and abstract with their application submission. A selection of students attending RW will have the possibility to also attend the RR Doctoral Consortium with the opportunity to present their poster in a regular session of RR 2014. Students interested to be considered in this selection process should indicate it in their application. Applications must be submitted in PDF format not exceeding 2 pages (min. font size 11pt) and contain the following information: - Name, contact details - Affiliation - Motivation for participation - Summary of profile - Willing to present a poster? (if yes, add a poster title and abstract) - Willing to be considered for RR2014 Doctoral Consortium? - Supervisor (if applicable) - Publications (if applicable) == LECTURE NOTES == The course material used during the summer school will be published with Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series. A copy of the proceedings will be included in the registration fees. == GRANTS == The organizing committee will offer a limited number of student grants to summer school and to the co-located RR2014 conference participants to partially cover registration and/or accommodation fees, depending on available sponsorships. == ORGANIZATION == * Organizing Chairs Manolis Koubarakis (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece) Giorgos Stamou (National Technical University of Athens, Greece) Giorgos Stoilos (National Technical University of Athens, Greece) * Scientific Advisory Board Ian Horrocks (University of Oxford, UK) Phokion Kolaitis (University of California, Santa Cruz, USA) Georg Lausen (University of Freiburg, Germany) Gerhard Weikum (Max-Planck Institute for Informatics, Germany) == CONTACT == For further information including sponsorship opportunities, please contact the organizing chairs. From guilin_qi at yahoo.co.uk Mon Dec 23 15:41:50 2013 From: guilin_qi at yahoo.co.uk (guilin qi) Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2013 14:41:50 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [DL] First CFP: 3rd International Workshop on Debugging Ontologies and Ontology Mappings collocated at ESWC2014 Message-ID: <1387809710.36048.YahooMailNeo@web133204.mail.ir2.yahoo.com> [Apologies for cross-posting and re-posting] ------------------------------ ------------------------ CALL FOR PAPERS =================================================================== Third International Workshop on Debugging Ontologies and Ontology Mappings (WoDOOM) Anissaras/Hersonissou, Greece , May 26, 2014 held in conjunction with ESWC 2014 (May 25-29) =================================================================== Submission deadline: March 6, 2014 =================================================================== http://www.ida.liu.se/~patla/conferences/WoDOOM14/ Developing ontologies is not an easy task and, as the ontologies grow in size, they are likely to show a number of defects. Such ontologies, although often useful, also lead to problems when used in semantically-enabled applications. Wrong conclusions may be derived or valid conclusions may be missed. Defects in ontologies can take different forms. Syntactic defects are usually easy to find and to resolve. Defects regarding style include such things as unintended redundancy. More interesting and severe defects are the modeling defects which require domain knowledge to detect and resolve such as defects in the structure, and semantic defects such as unsatisfiable concepts and inconsistent ontologies. Further, during the recent years more and more mappings between ontologies with overlapping information have been generated, e.g. using ontology alignment systems, thereby connecting the ontologies in ontology networks. This has led to a new opportunity to deal with defects as the mappings and other ontologies in the network may be used in the debugging of a particular ontology in the network. It also has introduced a new difficulty as the mappings may not always be correct and need to be debugged themselves. This workshop intends to be a forum where issues in debugging ontologies and mappings between ontologies are discussed. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - detecting and repairing semantic defects in ontologies - detecting and repairing modeling defects in ontologies - detecting and repairing defects in the structure of ontologies - detecting and repairing defects in mappings between ontologies - debugging ontology networks - debugging modular ontologies - debugging defects in linked data - justifications - belief revision for debugging - ontology patterns for debugging - interactive ontology debugging - visualization for ontology debugging - connection of ontology debugging with other ontology engineering tasks (e.g. ontology development, ontology alignment, ontology comprehension, ontology sense making, ontology evolution, ontology enrichment) - case studies IMPORTANT DATES Submission: March 6, 2014. Notification: April 1, 2014. Camera-ready: April 15, 2014. SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Paper submission and reviewing for this workshop will be electronic via http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wodoom14. The papers should be written in English, follow Springer LNCS format (see http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0), and be submitted in PDF. We invite the submission of Research papers (up to 12 pages), Experience papers (up to 12 pages), Poster papers (up to 8 pages) and System/demonstration papers (up to 8 pages). ATTENDANCE Note that workshop attendees cannot register for the workshop only, but need to register for the ESWC conference as well. WORKSHOP CHAIRS Patrick Lambrix, Link?ping University, Sweden Guilin Qi, Southeast University, China. Matthew Horridge, Stanford University, USA Bijan Parsia, University of Manchester, UK PROGRAM COMMITTEE Grigoris Antoniou, University of Huddersfield, UK Samantha Bail, University of Manchester, UK Oscar Corcho, Universidad Polit?cnica de Madrid, Spain Ronald Cornet, Universiteit van Amsterdam, The Netherlands and Link?ping University, Sweden Bernardo Cuenca-Grau, University of Oxford, UK Jerome Euzenat, INRIA, France Peter Haase, fluid Operations, Germany Matthew Horridge, Stanford University, USA Maria Keet, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa Patrick Lambrix, Link?ping University, Sweden Yue Ma, TU Dresden, Germany Christian Meilicke, Mannheim University, Germany Tu Anh T. 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URL: From mossakow at iws.cs.uni-magdeburg.de Fri Dec 20 12:57:24 2013 From: mossakow at iws.cs.uni-magdeburg.de (Till Mossakowski) Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2013 12:57:24 +0100 Subject: [DL] CfP: Ontology competition at FOIS 2014 (Formal Ontology in Information Systems) Message-ID: <52B430A4.9060206@iws.cs.uni-magdeburg.de> CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS Ontology competition at the 8th International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems FOIS 2014, September 22-25, 2014, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil http://fois2014.inf.ufes.br/p/all.html http://www.iaoa.org/fois/ ----------------------------------- DEFINITION AND SCOPE ----------------------------------- FOIS papers often refer to ontologies which are not publicly available, or to ontologies whose relations to other ontologies are not clearly specified. The aim of the FOIS 2014 ontology competition is (1) to encourage ontology authors to make their ontologies publicly available and (2) to subject them to evaluation according to a set of pre-determined criteria. Submission is not restricted to ontologies accompanying FOIS research papers. The criteria to be used in the competition were identified at the Ontology Summit 2013 and summarized at http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?OntologySummit2013_Communique): Informal Criteria 1. Can ontologically naive speakers understand the ontology and agree with one another as well as with the ontology engineers about its design and the meaning of its terms? (Intelligibility) 2. Does the ontology accurately represent its domain? (Fidelity) 3. Is the ontology well-built and are design decisions followed consistently? (Craftsmanship) 4. Does the representation of the domain fit the requirements for its intended use? (Fitness) 5. Does the deployed ontology meet the requirements of the information system of which it is part? (Deployability) Logically formalizable criteria 6. Is the ontology consistent? 7. Does the ontology satisfy its intended consequences? 8. Do intended models satisfy the ontology? 9. Has the ontology been aligned/linked with other ontologies? 10. Has an OWL version of the ontology been (formally) linked to a FOL version? Criteria for links 11. Do links represent an interesting logical relationship between ontologies? 12. Do links relate domain and foundational ontologies? 13. Do links provide a logical relation between different versions of one ontology formulated in different languages? 14. Do links provide the basis for an interesting combination of ontologies? Each paper should a non-empty subset of these criteria. Papers suggesting ways to detail these criteria are welcome as well, as long as they are accompanied by some sample ontology submitted for evaluation. ------------------------------ FORMAT ------------------------------ Each submission should consist of A: 1. one or more ontologies, and possibly links between these, and 2. a paper describing the ontologies, addressing at least some of the above criteria. or B: 1. one or more links between existing ontologies, and 2. a paper describing the links, addressing at least some of the above questions. The paper can either be a regular FOIS paper (that then will be reviewed both within the main FOIS conference and in the competition track, with independent acceptance decision), or a short paper focusing on the description of the ontology/ontologies (and possibly links) that is reviewed only in the competition track. Note that links may be formulated as alignments in the ontology alignment format, see http://alignapi.gforge.inria.fr/format.html. However, the focus of the competition will not be on mapping individual terms, but on links carrying also some logical relation between the axioms of the involved ontologies, like e.g. theory interpretations. Logical links between versions in different languages (e.g. OWL and FOL) are of particular interest. Submissions may have been published previously, but any prior publication must be cited in the paper. However, the verbatim reproduction of previous work is not encouraged - and submissions should explicitly address as many of the fourteen above-mentioned criteria as possible. At the conference, the best submission(s) will be rewarded a prize. ----------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES ----------------------------- Paper Submission Deadline: March 3, 2014 Ontology/Link Submission Deadline: March 10, 2014 Notification: May 5, 2014 Ontology and Paper Final Version Due: June 30, 2014 Conference Dates: September, 22-26, 2014 ----------------------------- SUBMISSION GUIDELINES ----------------------------- Ontologies, links and the paper should be submitted simultaneously. Ontologies and links should be uploaded to some repository of the Open Ontology Repository initiative, see http://www.oor.net Whilst these repositories share common goals, they have different specialisations: some support exclusively OWL and related languages, whilst the COLORE repository focuses on Common Logic, and the Ontohub.org repository specialises on supporting a variety of languages. Moreover, some repositories are more domain-specific, e.g. Bioportal focuses on biomedical ontologies, etc. In any case, all submissions will be mirrored at one site in order to give reviewers (and later FOIS participants) a compact access to the ontologies and links. Submitters should contact mossakow at iws.cs.uni-magdeburg.de for details about how to add their ontologies and links to some repository. Submitted short papers must not exceed 6 pages (including the bibliography). Papers should be submitted electronically in PDF format. Submission should be prepared in accordance with the IOS ormatting guidelines found at http://www.iospress.nl/service/authors/latex-and-word-tools-for-book-authors/ The Easychair submission page can be found at (please select the competition track): https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fois2014 Short papers will be published within the FOIS proceedings volume in the IOS Press series 'Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications'. -------------------------------------------- COMPETITION ORGANISATION -------------------------------------------- Competition committee: Aldo Gangemi (Universit? Paris 13 & CNR-ISTC, France) Barry Smith (The State University of New York, Buffalo, USA) Christiane Fellbaum (Princeton University, USA) Christoph Benzm?ller (FU Berlin, Germany) Fabian Neuhaus (University of Magdeburg, Germany) Florian Probst (SAP Research, Germany) J?r?me Euzenat (INRIA & LIG, France) Matthew Horridge (Stanford University, USA) Michael Gruninger (University of Toronto, Canada) Oliver Kutz (University of Bremen, Germany) Robert Hoehndorf (University of Cambridge, UK) Till Mossakowski (University of Magdeburg, Germany) (chair) Vinay Chaudhri (SRI International, Menlo Park, USA) From pascal.hitzler at wright.edu Sat Dec 21 04:42:06 2013 From: pascal.hitzler at wright.edu (Pascal Hitzler) Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2013 22:42:06 -0500 Subject: [DL] CfP: Semantics For Big Data. Special issue of the Semantic Web journal Message-ID: <52B50E0E.3010501@wright.edu> Call for papers: Special issue of the Semantic Web journal on SEMANTICS FOR BIG DATA http://www.semantic-web-journal.net/blog/call-papers-special-issue-semantic-web-journal-semantics-big-data One of the key challenges in making use of Big Data lies in finding ways of dealing with heterogeneity, diversity, and complexity of the data, while its volume and velocity forbid solutions available for smaller datasets as based, e.g., on manual curation or manual integration of data. Semantic Web Technologies are meant to deal with these issues, and indeed since the advent of Linked Data a few years ago, they have become central to mainstream Semantic Web research and development. We can easily understand Linked Data as being a part of the greater Big Data landscape, as many of the challenges are the same. The linking component of Linked Data, however, puts an additional focus on the integration and conflation of data across multiple sources. Possible Topics Topics of interest focus explicitly on the interplay of Semantics and Big Data, and include the use of semantic metadata and ontologies for Big Data, the use of formal and informal semantics, the integration and interplay of deductive (semantic) and statistical methods, methods to establish semantic interoperability between data sources, ways of dealing with semantic heterogeneity, scalability of Semantic Web methods and tools, and semantic approaches to the explication of requirements from eScience applications. Submissions Deadline: January 20, 2014 - extensions are possible on request Submissions shall be made through the Semantic Web journal website at http://www.semantic-web-journal.net. Note that you need to request an account on the website for submitting a paper. Please indicate in the cover letter that it is for the "Semantics for Big Data" special issue. Submissions are possible in all standing paper type of the journal, see http://www.semantic-web-journal.net/authors for descriptions: full research papers, surveys, linked dataset descriptions, ontology descriptions, application reports, tool/systems reports. Guest Editors Frank van Harmelen, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands James A. Hendler, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA Pascal Hitzler, Kno.e.sis Center, Wright State University, USA Krzysztof Janowicz, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA The editors can be reached by email to contact at semantic-web-journal.net. Guest Editorial Board The guest editorial board will be recruited based on the topics of the submitted papers. -- Prof. Dr. Pascal Hitzler Dept. of Computer Science, Wright State University, Dayton, OH pascal at pascal-hitzler.de http://www.knoesis.org/pascal/ Semantic Web Textbook: http://www.semantic-web-book.org Semantic Web Journal: http://www.semantic-web-journal.net