From smap-publicity at image.ntua.gr Mon Jan 2 10:27:22 2017 From: smap-publicity at image.ntua.gr (smap-publicity at image.ntua.gr) Date: Mon, 2 Jan 2017 11:27:22 +0200 Subject: [DL] SMAP 2017 - Call for Papers Message-ID: 12th International Workshop on Semantic and Social Media Adaptation and Personalization SMAP 2017 - http://www.smap2017.org July 9-10, 2017, Bratislava, Slovakia Collocated with UMAP 2017 ---------------------- Important dates: ----------------------- Special Session proposals: January 20, 2017 Special Session approval: January 27, 2017 Submission of full papers: February 26, 2017 Notification of acceptance: April 27, 2017 Submission of camera ready: May 18, 2017 SMAP 2017 Workshop: July 9-10, 2017 Aim and topics ----------------------- SMAP 2017 aims to address several issues of semantic and social multimedia technologies and their use in content creation, media adaptation and user profiling. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: - Content creation, annotation and modelling for semantic and social web - Computational intelligence for media adaptation and personalization - Semantics-driven indexing and retrieval of multimedia contents - User modelling and dynamic profiling - Ontologies and reasoning - Multimedia standards - Semantics-based recommender systems: theory and applications - Web adaptation methods and techniques - Hybrid social and semantic approaches to profiling, recommendation engines or adaptation systems - Social multimedia applications (livecasting, audio-video sharing) - Social multimedia tagging and multimedia content communities - User-generated content mechanisms - Privacy/Security issues in Social and Personalized Media Applications - Privacy preserving data mining and social networks - Content customization and adaptation - Semantic context modelling and extraction - Context-aware multimedia applications - Adaptive and personalized multimedia summaries - Multilingual content navigation - Intelligent personalized interfaces - Social and semantic media collaboration platforms (e.g. semantic wikis) - Social web economics and business - Social network aggregation - Social data analytics - Social data mining - Adaptive/Personalized conversational media In addition, SMAP 2017 seeks special sessions proposals addressing emerging issues in all above aspects that will complement the regular program. Authors will have the opportunity to present their work in short papers that will appear in the official SMAP 2017 workshop proceedings. Proceedings/Publications ----------------------------------- As with all previous editions of SMAP, all accepted papers will be published by IEEE in IEEEXplore. Based on the quality of the work presented and its estimated potential selected papers will be invited for consideration, in a revised and extended form, for inclusion in an additional journal publication. Submission guidelines ---------------------------------- Each submitted paper will be refereed by at least three members of the SMAP 2017 Program Committee, based on its relevance, originality, significance, technical soundness and clarity of expression. Submissions must be in English, and can present mature research or experimental results as well as promising work in progress. Papers must be formatted according to the IEEE 2-column conference article style, with a limit of 6 pages, including all figures, tables and references. A minimum paper length of 4 pages is also imposed. GENERAL CHAIRS Maria Bielikova, Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava Marian Simko, Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava SPECIAL SESSIONS CHAIRS Ioannis Anagnostopoulos, University of Thessaly Iraklis Paraskakis, The University of Sheffield, International Faculty CITY College, Greece PUBLICITY CHAIR Sebastien Laborie, University of Pau LOCAL ORGANIZING CHAIR Milena Zeithamlova, Action M Agency WEB CHAIR Patrik Hlavac, Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava STEERING COMMITTEE Ioannis Anagnostopoulos, University of Thessaly Maria Bielikova, Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava S??bastien Laborie, University of Pau Martin Lopez-Nores, University of Vigo Phivos Mylonas, Ionian University Yannick Naudet, Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology Nicolas Tsapatsoulis, Cyprus University of Technology Manolis Wallace, University of the Peloponnese From geoff at cs.miami.edu Tue Jan 3 15:29:17 2017 From: geoff at cs.miami.edu (Geoff Sutcliffe) Date: Tue, 3 Jan 2017 09:29:17 -0500 (EST) Subject: [DL] Special issue of AI Communications on Automated Reasoning Message-ID: <20170103142917.49D591214BC@mcclellan.cs.miami.edu> --------------------------------- Special issue of AI Communications on Automated Reasoning CALL FOR PAPERS --------------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES --------------- Abstract submission: January 8, 2017 Paper submission: January 15, 2017 Notification of acceptance: April 15, 2017 Final versions: June 15, 2017 BACKGROUND ---------- This special issue follows two successful 2016 events in Automated Reasoning: Artificial Intelligence and Theorem Proving (AITP 2016) (http://aitp-conference.org/) Practical Aspects of Automated Reasoning (PAAR 2016) (http://cs.ru.nl/paar16/). About PAAR: PAAR provides a forum for developers of automated reasoning tools to discuss and compare different implementation techniques, and for users to discuss and communicate their applications and requirements. PAAR brings together different groups to concentrate on practical aspects of the implementation and application of automated reasoning tools. About AITP: Large-scale semantic processing and strong computer assistance of mathematics and science is our inevitable future. New combinations of AI and reasoning methods and tools deployed over large mathematical and scientific corpora will be instrumental to this task. AITP is the forum for discussing how to get there as soon as possible, and the force driving the progress towards that. SCOPE AND TOPICS ---------------- The focus of the special issue will be on new combination of AI and Automated Reasoning, and on practical applications of Automated Reasoning. The topics of interest include: * Automated reasoning in propositional, first-order, higher-order and non-classical logics * AI and big-data methods in theorem proving and mathematics * Collaboration between automated and interactive theorem proving * Alignment and joint processing of formal, semi-formal, and informal libraries * Implementation of provers (SAT, SMT, resolution, tableau, instantiation- based, rewriting, logical frameworks, etc) * Automated reasoning tools for all kinds of practical problems and applications * Methods for large-scale computer understanding of mathematics and science * Common-sense reasoning and reasoning in science * Combinations of linguistic/learning-based and semantic/reasoning methods * Pragmatics of automated reasoning within proof assistants * Practical experiences, usability aspects, feasibility studies * Evaluation of implementation techniques and automated reasoning tools * Performance aspects, benchmarking approaches * Non-standard approaches to automated reasoning, non-standard forms of automated reasoning, new applications * Implementation techniques, optimizations techniques, strategies and heuristics, fairness Participants of AITP 2016 and PAAR 2016, as well as other authors are invited to submit contributions. SUBMISSION GUIDELINES --------------------- This special issue welcomes original high-quality contributions that have been neither published in nor simultaneously submitted to other venues. Submissions will be peer-reviewed using the standard refereeing procedure of the AI Communications. Full papers of a maximum extension of 15 pages should be prepared according to the AIComm style guidelines described at the following link: http://www.iospress.nl/journal/ai-communications/ Papers should be submitted through the AIComm mstracker: http://mstracker.com/submit1.php?jc=aic GUEST EDITORS ------------- Pascal Fontaine Cezary Kaliszyk Stephan Schulz Josef Urban From shabannejad at yahoo.com Wed Jan 4 04:58:33 2017 From: shabannejad at yahoo.com (Arash Shabannejad) Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2017 03:58:33 +0000 (UTC) Subject: [DL] PostDoctoral Position in Knowledge Representation, Web Services, Semantic Web, ontologies, Reasoning References: <152541241.7216354.1483502313523.ref@mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <152541241.7216354.1483502313523@mail.yahoo.com> **** Postdoctoral Fellow: Knowledge Representation, Web Services, Semantic Web, Reasoning and Inference A postdoctoral position is available immidiately in Population Health Intelligence Lab at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center?Oak Ridge National Lab (UTHSC-ORNL), Center for Biomedical Informatics. The successful candidate will work with Dr. Arash Shaban-Nejad on utilizing knowledge representation, semantic web, web services, ontologies, rule languages, logical reasoning and inference to develop novel algorithms, tools and methods for knowledge and data integration, filtering and visualization, and interoperability and change management. Familiarity with Rule Languages and Graph Theoretical approaches will be considered as assets. A successful applicant must have a Ph.D. in a relevant discipline (e.g. Computer Science, Medical Informatics, Mathematics, etc.) and a strong research track record. Strong programming and communication skills are required. Interested applicants please send CV and the names and the contact information for at least two references to Dr. Arash Shaban-Nejad (ashabann at uthsc.edu). Review of applications starts *immediately* and will continue until the position is filled. This appointment will initially be for 12 months with a possibility of an extension subject to performance and availability of funding. Applicants are ** not required ** to be US citizens or permanent residents. *** Salary will be commensurate with relevant experience and based on the prevailing wage for postdoctoral research trainees set by the U.S. Department of Labor. The position includes an excellent benefits package (http://www.uthsc.edu/postdoc/benefits.php). Located in Memphis, a dynamic Mid-South city rich in culture, history, diversity, music and cuisine, the University of Tennessee Health Science Center is one of the largest, most comprehensive academic health centers in the United States with a solid commitment to postdoctoral training. UTHSC is an Equal Employment/Affirmative Action Title VI/IX/ Section 504/ ADA/ADEA Employer. *** How to apply: All candidates must apply online at https://ut.taleo.net/careersection/ut_system/jobdetail.ftl?job=16000000QA Salary will be commensurate with relevant experience and based on the prevailing wage for postdoctoral research trainees set by the U.S. Department of Labor. The position includes an excellent benefits package (http://www.uthsc.edu/postdoc/benefits.php). Located in Memphis, a dynamic Mid-South city rich in culture, history, diversity, music and cuisine, the University of Tennessee Health Science Center is one of the largest, most comprehensive academic health centers in the United States with a solid commitment to postdoctoral training. UTHSC is an Equal Employment/Affirmative Action Title VI/IX/ Section 504/ ADA/ADEA Employer -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From franconi at inf.unibz.it Fri Jan 6 20:03:24 2017 From: franconi at inf.unibz.it (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Enrico_Franconi?=) Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2017 20:03:24 +0100 Subject: [DL] RuleML+RR 2017 Call for Tutorials Message-ID: <06012017200324341GGh77pfXqRRd0205@smtp.office365.com> INTERNATIONAL JOINT CONFERENCE ON RULES AND REASONING RuleML+RR 2017 http://2017.ruleml-rr.org CALL FOR TUTORIALS The first edition of the International Joint Conference on Rules and Reasoning RuleML+RR 2017 (London, 15-17 July 2017) focuses on theoretical advances, novel technologies, as well as innovative applications concerning knowledge representation and reasoning with rules. Stemming from the synergy between the well-known premier RuleML and RR events, the conference will provide a forum for stimulating cooperation and cross-fertilisation between the many different communities focused on the research, development and applications of rule-based systems. We solicit proposals for tutorials to be presented at the RuleML+RR 2017 conference. Tutorials should concern research or application areas fitting the conference scope, and may introduce novices to major topics in the area, introduce experts to a special subarea, motivate and explain a topic of emerging importance, survey a mature area of research and/or practice, present a novel synthesis combining distinct lines of work, introduce the audience to an external topic that can relate to research in the area, mentor researchers (particularly, junior researchers) on a relevant topic. Tutorial attendance is complimentary for all RuleML+RR 2017 conference registrants. SUBMISSIONS Tutorial proposals should be submitted via easychair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ruleml-rr-2017-tutorials Each submission (up to two pages) should include the following information: ? A title. ? An abstract. ? The preferred duration (up to half-day). ? A description that outlines which topics would be covered, and the depth to which they would be covered. If different length options are possible, the proposal should identify which parts would be included for each length. ? A short description of the intended audience and any prerequisite knowledge for attendees. ? A brief biography of the proposed presenter(s), along with contact information. ? If (part of) the tutorial material or an earlier version of it has been presented elsewhere, the proposal should indicate those respective events (and dates), and describe how the current proposal differs from the previous ones. A two-page extended abstract of the tutorial will be included in the conference proceedings. Tutorial slides are expected to be made available online to conference participants. IMPORTANT DATES Proposal submission: 20 January 2017 Notification: 6 February 2017 Camera-ready due: 24 April 2017 Possible tutorial dates: 12, 13, 14, 15 July 2017 The RuleML+RR 2017 program chairs: Stefania Costantini (University of L?Aquila, Italy), Enrico Franconi (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy), William Van Woensel (Dalhousie University, Canada); and the RuleML+RR 2017 General Chairs: Roman Kontchakov (Birkbeck, University of London, UK), Fariba Sadri (Imperial College London, UK). -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ruy at cin.ufpe.br Thu Jan 5 16:10:45 2017 From: ruy at cin.ufpe.br (Ruy de Queiroz) Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2017 12:10:45 -0300 Subject: [DL] 24th WoLLIC 2017 - Second Call for Papers Message-ID: [Please circulate. Apologies for multiple copies.] WoLLIC 2017 24th Workshop on Logic, Language, Information and Computation July 18-21, 2017 University College London (UCL), London, UK 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) ACM Special Interest Group on Logic and Computation (ACM-SIGLOG) (TBC) Sociedade Brasileira de Computa??o (SBC) Sociedade Brasileira de L?gica (SBL) ORGANISATION Department of Computer Science, University College London, London, UK School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science, Queen Mary College, London, UK Centro de Inform?tica, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil HOSTED BY Department of Computer Science, University College London, London, UK 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 twenty-fourth WoLLIC will be held at the School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science, Queen Mary College, London, UK, from July 18th to 21st, 2017. 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; foundations of mathematics; philosophy of mathematics; philosophical logic. 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. Articles should be written in the LaTeX format of LNCS by Springer (see authors instructions at http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0). They must not exceed 12 pages, 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 2017 EasyChair website. (Please go to http://wollic.org/wollic2017/instructions.html for instructions.) A title and single-paragraph abstract should be submitted by Mar 14, 2017, and the full paper by Mar 21, 2017 (firm date). Notifications are expected by Apr 22, 2017, and final papers for the proceedings will be due by May 6, 2017 (firm date). PROCEEDINGS The proceedings of WoLLIC 2017, 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 2017 issue of a scientific journal (to be confirmed). INVITED SPEAKERS Hazel Brickhill (Bristol) (University of Bristol) Michael Detlefsen (University of Notre Dame) Alexander Kurz (University of Leicester) Frederike Moltmann (New York University) David Pym (University College London) Nicole Schweikardt (Humboldt Universitat) Fan Yang (Delft University) Boris Zilber (University of Oxford), STUDENT GRANTS ASL sponsorship of WoLLIC 2017 will permit ASL student members to apply for a modest travel grant (deadline: May 1st, 2017). See http://www.aslonline.org/studenttravelawards.html for details. IMPORTANT DATES Mar 14, 2017: Paper title and abstract deadline Mar 21, 2017: Full paper deadline Apr 22, 2017: Author notification May 6, 2017: Final version deadline (firm) PROGRAMME COMMITTEE Matthias Baaz (University of Technology, Vienna, Austria) John Baldwin (University of Illinois at Chicago, USA) Dana Bartozov? (Universidade de S?o Paulo, Brazil) Agata Ciabattoni (University of Technology, Vienna, Austria) Walter Dean (University of Warwick, UK) Erich Gr?del (RWTH Aachen, Germany) Volker Halbach (University of Oxford, UK) Juliette Kennedy (Helsinki University, Finland) (Chair) Dexter Kozen (Cornell University, USA) Janos Makowsky (Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel) Larry Moss (indiana University, USA) Alessandra Palmigiano (Delft University, The Netherlands) Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh (Queen Mary, UK) Sonja Smets (Amsterdam University, The Netherlands) Asger T?rnquist (K?benhavns Universitet, Denmark) Rineke Verbrugge (University of Groningen, The Netherlands) Andr?s Villaveces (Universidad Nacional, Colombia) Philip Welch (University of Bristol, UK) STEERING COMMITTEE Samson Abramksy, Johan van Benthem, Anuj Dawar, Joe Halpern, Wilfrid Hodges, Ulrich Kohlenbach, Daniel Leivant, Leonid Libkin, Angus Macintyre, Luke Ong, Hiroakira Ono, Valeria de Paiva, Ruy de Queiroz, Jouko V??n?nen. ORGANISING COMMITTEE Alexandra Silva (Univ College London, UK) (Local co-chair) Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh (Queen Mary, UK) (Local co-chair) Paulo Oliva (Queen Mary, UK) James Brotherston (Univ College London, UK) Anjolina G. de Oliveira (U Fed Pernambuco) Ruy de Queiroz (U Fed Pernambuco) (co-chair) FURTHER INFORMATION Contact one of the Co-Chairs of the Organising Committee. WEB PAGE http://wollic.org/wollic2017/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From savesd.workshop at gmail.com Sat Jan 7 12:27:58 2017 From: savesd.workshop at gmail.com (savesd.workshop at gmail.com) Date: Sat, 07 Jan 2017 03:27:58 -0800 (PST) Subject: [DL] CFP - SAVE-SD 2017 Second Call - Extended Deadline Message-ID: <5870d0be.6737c20a.6877a.ac7f@mx.google.com> ==== Second Call for Papers ==== 2017 Workshop on Semantics, Analytics, Visualisation: Enhancing Scholarly Data (SAVE-SD 2017) Date: April 3 or 4, 2017 Venue: Perth, Western Australia (co-located with WWW 2017) Twitter: @savesdworkshop Twitter Hashtag: #savesd2017 Website: http://cs.unibo.it/save-sd/2017/index.html Workshop chairs: - Alejandra Gonzalez-Beltran (University of Oxford, UK) - Francesco Osborne (The Open University, UK) - Silvio Peroni (University of Bologna, Italy) - Sahar Vahdati (University of Bonn, Germany) # HIGHLIGHTS - Submission deadline extended: January 31, 2017 - Four formats for submissions: HTML, ODT, DOCX, and PDF - LNCS Proceedings and Data Science Journal Special Issue # IMPORTANT DATES - Submission deadline: January 31, 2017 (23:59 Hawaii Standard Time) - Acceptance notification: February 9, 2017 (23:59 Hawaii Standard Time) - Camera ready deadline: March 15, 2017 - Post-proceedings deadline: April 30, 2017 # DESCRIPTION After the great success of the past two editions, we are pleased to announce SAVE-SD 2017, which wants to bring together publishers, companies and researchers from different fields (including Document and Knowledge Engineering, Semantic Web, Natural Language Processing, Scholarly Communication, Bibliometrics, Human-Computer Interaction, Information Visualisation, Bioinformatics, and Life Sciences) in order to bridge the gap between the theoretical/academic and practical/industrial aspects in regards to scholarly data. The following topics will be addressed: - semantics of scholarly data, i.e. representing in a semantic way, categorising, connecting and integrating scholarly data, in order to foster reusability and knowledge sharing; - analytics on scholarly data, i.e. designing and implementing novel and scalable algorithms for knowledge extraction with the aim of understanding research dynamics, forecasting research trends, fostering connections between groups of researchers, informing research policies, analysing and interlinking experiments and deriving new knowledge; - visualisation of and interaction with scholarly data, i.e. providing novel user interfaces and applications for navigating and making sense of scholarly data and highlighting their patterns and peculiarities. # TOPICS OF INTEREST We would encourage submission of papers covering, but not limited to, one or more of the following topics: Semantics: - Data models (e.g., ontologies, vocabularies, schemas) for the description of scholarly data and the linking between scholarly data and academic papers that report or cite them - Description of citations and citation networks - Theoretical models describing the rhetorical and argumentative structure of scholarly papers and their application in practice - Description and use of provenance information of scholarly data - From digital libraries of scholarly papers to Linked Open Datasets: models, applicability and challenges - Definition and description of scholarly publishing processes - Modelling licences for scholarly documents and data Analytics: - Assessing the quality and/or trust of scholarly data - Pattern discovery of scholarly data - Citation analysis and prediction - Scientific claims identification from textual contents - New indicators for measuring the quality and relevance of research - Comparison between standard metrics (e.g., h-index, impact factor, citation counting) and alternative metrics in real-case scenarios - Automatic or semi-automatic approaches to making sense of research dynamics - Content- and data-based semantic similarity of scholarly papers - Citation generation - Automatic semantic enhancement of existing scholarly libraries and papers - Reconstruction, forecasting and monitoring of scholarly data Visualisation & Interaction: - Novel user interfaces for interaction with paper, metadata, content, and data - Visualisation of citation networks according to multiple dimensions (e.g., citation counting, citation functions, kinds of citing/cited entities) - Visualisation of related papers or data according to multiple dimensions (semantic similarity of abstracts, keywords, etc.) - Applications for making sense of scholarly data - Usability studies on existing interfaces (e.g., Web sites, Web applications, smartphone apps) for browsing scholarly data - Scholarly data and ubiquity: accessing scholarly information from multiple devices (PC, tablet, smartphones) - Applications for the (semi-)automatic annotation of scholarly papers # SUBMISSIONS SAVE-SD welcomes the submission of original research and application papers dealing with the three aforementioned fields. We encourage theoretical, methodological, empirical and applications papers. We appreciate the submission of papers incorporating links to datasets and other material used for evaluation as well as to live demos and software source code. All submissions must be written in English. Several formats are possible for the submission: HTML (which is strongly encouraged), DOCX, ODT, and PDF. For details: http://cs.unibo.it/save-sd/2017/submission.html. We invite four kinds of submissions: - full research papers (max. 8300 words) - position papers (max. 5500 words) - demo papers (max. 2800 words) - poster papers (max. 2800 words) All the aforementioned limits include metadata (title, authors, keywords, abstract), acknowledgements, references and the whole content of the paper. Figures, tables, and listings count 300 words each. Papers have to be submitted through Springer Nature Online Conference Service: https://ocs.springer.com/ocs/home/SAVE-SD2017 # EVALUATION OF SUBMISSIONS In order to evaluate the submitted papers, we have three different programme committees (PCs), i.e.: - the Senior PC, whose members will act as meta-reviewers and have the crucial role of balancing the scores provided by the reviews from the other two PCs (see below); - the Industrial PC, who will evaluate the submissions from an industrial perspective mainly ??? by assessing how much the theories/applications described in the papers do/may influence (positively or negatively) the publishing domain and whether they could be concretely adopted by publishers and scholarly data providers; - the Academic PC, who will evaluate the papers from an academic perspective mainly ??? by assessing the quality of the research described in such papers. All submissions will be reviewed (at least) by one Senior PC member, one Industrial PC member and two Academic PC members. The final decision of acceptance/rejection will be made in consensus by the chairs. # PUBLICATION VENUES All the papers of SAVE-SD will be made available on the workshop website and published in a Lecture Notes in Computer Science volume by Springer Nature (http://www.springer.com/lncs). The LNCS volume will be published after the workshop in order to give the authors an opportunity to revise their papers in the light of the discussions of their works at the workshop. Note that the WWW 2017 organisers will require that at least one of the authors of the papers accepted to be registered at the workshop. We are also pleased to announce that the authors of selected papers (of any type) of the workshop will be invited to submit an extended version of their works to a special issue that will be published on the Data Science Journal by IOS Press (http://datasciencehub.net/). From claudia.damato at uniba.it Tue Jan 10 10:15:46 2017 From: claudia.damato at uniba.it (Claudia d'Amato) Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2017 10:15:46 +0100 Subject: [DL] Last CFP: Semantic Web Journal - Special Issue on Machine Learning for Knowledge Base Generation and Population Message-ID: <9509cdc0-1cc8-3cdf-4231-d123bfbb0455@uniba.it> ***** NEW SUBMISSION DEADLINE: January 16, 2017 Hawaii-Time -------------------- Apologies for cross posting --------------------------- SEMANTIC WEB JOURNAL - Call for papers: SPECIAL ISSUE ON Machine Learning for Knowledge Base Generation and Population --------------------------- In the last decade, in the Semantic Web field, knowledge bases have attracted tremendous interest from both academia and industry and many large knowledge bases are now available. However, both generation of new knowledge and population of already existing knowledge bases with new facts face several challenges. Most of the time knowledge bases have been manually built, resulting in a highly specialistic and time consuming activity. Nevertheless, sources of unstructured and semi-structured data are still growing at a much faster rate than structured ones, as such it could be desirable to exploit such a large non-structured sources to populate structured knowledge bases. In the Semantic Web, a major cornerstone of knowledge bases are ontologies and schemas that play a key role for providing common vocabularies and for describing and constructing the Web of Data. However, nowadays, schema level and instance level data are often decoupled and as such can be out of sync, e.g., schema level knowledge may be inconsistent with the actual usage of its conceptual vocabulary in the assertions. In order to cope with this issue, the availability of automatic methods for schema aware generation and population of knowledge bases results fundamental. Furthermore, even in the cases of largely populated knowledge bases, they still often result incomplete and/or noisy with respect to the domain of reference. Automatic methods for dealing with such problems, namely for enriching and completing knowledge bases, both at schema and instance level are needed. In this scenario, by exploiting evidence derived from the data, new machine learning and data mining methods, that are able to deal with the heterogeneity, the intrinsic uncertainty and complexity of Semantic Web data, can be used for: learning new concept definitions, capturing emerging concepts (only extensionally defined) and/or concepts drift, predicting new links among resources and new assertions, discovering matches among resources and many others, with the final goal of constructing new knowledge bases, enriching existing ones, supporting their continuous evolution. The primary goal of the special issue is to provide novel machine learning/data mining methods for knowledge base generation, population, enrichment, evolution showing advances in the Semantic Web field. Topics of Interest ------------------------------ We welcome original high quality submissions on (but are not restricted to) the following topics: - Machine Learning for constructing, enriching, refining, maintaining, interlinking Semantic Web Knowledge Bases - (Statistical) relational learning for the Web of Data - Semi-supervised, unbalanced, inductive learning for mining and maintaining Semantic Web Knowledge Bases - Data mining and knowledge discovery in Semantic Web Knowledge Bases - Population of Knowledge Bases from unstructured and semi-structured sources - Feature extraction, pre-processing and transformation of Semantic Web Knowledge Bases - Machine Learning for ontology/instance matching - Deep Learning for Semantic Web Knowledge Bases - Scalable Machine Learning algorithms for the Web of Data - Machine Learning methods for handling uncertain knowledge - Combination of logic reasoning and machine learning for Knowledge Base construction, population and enrichment - OWA vs. CWA in Knowledge Base generation, population and enrichment - Link Prediction in the Linked Data Cloud - Evaluation and benchmarking of machine learning models for Knowledge Base generation and population Submission Instructions ----------------------------- Submission deadline: January 16, 2017 Hawaii-Time -------------------- Submissions shall be made through the Semantic Web journal website at http://www.semantic-web-journal.net. Prospective authors must take notice of the submission guidelines posted at http://www.semantic-web-journal.net/authors. 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 Special Issue on Machine Learning for Knowledge Base Generation and Population. Submissions are possible in the full research papers category. Papers describing application reports, tools and systems are also welcome, provided that the main contribution still remains an advance of the state of the art with respect to the research perspective. While there is no upper limit, paper length must be justified by content. Guest editors -------------------- Claudia d?Amato, University of Bari, Italy Agnieszka Lawrynowicz, Poznan University of Technology, Poland Jens Lehmann, University of Bonn and Fraunhofer IAIS, Germany The call is also available at the official journal website: http://www.semantic-web-journal.net/blog/call-papers-special-issue-machine-learning-knowledge-base-generation-and-population -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: claudia_damato.vcf Type: text/x-vcard Size: 310 bytes Desc: not available URL: From geoff at cs.miami.edu Tue Jan 10 18:35:28 2017 From: geoff at cs.miami.edu (Geoff Sutcliffe) Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2017 12:35:28 -0500 (EST) Subject: [DL] LPAR-21 extended deadlines Message-ID: <20170110173528.4BEAC1214E2@mcclellan.cs.miami.edu> **************************************************************************** EXTENDED DEADLINES!! EXTENDED DEADLINES!! The 21st International Conference on Logic for Programming, Artificial Intelligence and Reasoning LPAR-21 Cresta Riley's Hotel, Maun, Botswana http://www.LPAR-21.info CALL FOR PAPERS 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 21st LPAR will be held will be held in Maun, Botswana, at Cresta Riley's Hotel, 7-12th May 2017. The proceedings will be published by EasyChair Publications, in the EPiC Series in Computing. The volume will be open access and the authors will retain copyright. ==Important Dates Abstract submission: 18 January 2017 Paper submission: 22 January 2017 Notification: 1 March 2017 Camera ready: 1 April 2017 Workshops: 7 May 2017 Conference: 8-12 May 2017 ==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 + Answer set programming + Automated reasoning + Constraint programming + Contextual reasoning + Decision procedures + Description logics + Foundations of security + Hardware verification + Implementations of logic + Inconsistency- and exception tolerant reasoning + 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 of knowledge and belief + Logic programming + Logical aspects of concurrency + Logical foundations of programming + Modal and temporal logics + Model checking + Non-monotonic reasoning + Ontologies and large knowledge bases + Paraconsistent logics + Probabilistic and fuzzy reasoning + Program analysis + Rewriting + Satisfiability checking + Satisfiability modulo theories + Software verification + Specification using logic + Unification theory ==Organization Program Chairs: David Sands (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden) Thomas Eiter (Technische Universitaet Wien, Austria) Conference Chair: Geoff Sutcliffe (University of Miami, USA) ==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 EasyChair style, including figures but excluding references and 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 EasyChair style. Both types of papers must be electronically submitted in PDF via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lpar21 Authors must register a title and an abstract by the abstract submission deadline. ==Participation Authors of accepted papers are required to ensure that at least one of them will be present at the conference. For more details about the venue and organization, see the conference webpage http://www.LPAR-21.info **************************************************************************** From phdsinlogic at gmail.com Wed Jan 11 15:40:16 2017 From: phdsinlogic at gmail.com (PhDs in Logic Graduate Conference) Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2017 15:40:16 +0100 Subject: [DL] Second Call for submissions: PhDs in Logic IX, Bochum, 2nd - 4th May 2017 Message-ID: Second Call for submissions: PhDs in Logic IX, Bochum, 2nd - 4th May 2017 PhDs in Logic is an annual graduate conference organised by local graduate students. This interdisciplinary conference welcomes contributions to various topics in mathematical logic, philosophical logic, and logic in computer science. It involves tutorials by established researchers as well as short (20 minutes) presentations by PhD students, master students and first-year postdocs on their research. We are happy to announce that the ninth edition of PhDs in Logic will take place at the Ruhr University Bochum, Germany, during 2nd - 4th May 2017. Confirmed tutorial speakers are: Petr Cintula (Czech Academy of Sciences) Mar?a Manzano (University of Salamanca) Jo?o Marcos (Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte) Gabriella Pigozzi (Paris Dauphine University) Christian Stra?er (Ruhr-University Bochum) Heinrich Wansing (Ruhr-University Bochum) Abstract submission: PhD students, master students and first-year postdocs in logic from disciplines, that include but are not limited to philosophy, mathematics and computer science are invited to submit an extended abstract on their research. Submitted abstracts should be between 2 and 3 pages, including the relevant references. Each abstract will be anonymously reviewed by the scientific committee. Accepted abstracts will be presented by their authors in a 20-minute presentation during the conference. The deadline for abstract submission is 2nd February 2017. Please submit your blinded abstract via: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=phdsinlogic9 For more information please see: http://www.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/phdsinlogicix Local organisers: Christopher Badura, AnneMarie Borg, Jesse Heyninck and Daniel Skurt -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From alexandra.silva at ucl.ac.uk Thu Jan 12 12:35:14 2017 From: alexandra.silva at ucl.ac.uk (Alexandra Silva) Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2017 12:35:14 +0100 (CET) Subject: [DL] MFPS 33: first call for papers Message-ID: <201701121135.v0CBZ8ra003867@mailhost.informatik.uni-bremen.de> The 33rd Conference on the Mathematical Foundations of Programming Semantics (MFPS XXXIII) will take place on the campus of Ljubljana University, Slovenia, between 12 and 15 June 2017. MFPS conferences are dedicated to the areas of mathematics, logic, and computer science that are related to models of computation in general, and to semantics of programming languages in particular. This is a forum where researchers in mathematics and computer science can meet and exchange ideas. The participation of researchers in neighbouring areas is strongly encouraged. Topics include, but are not limited to, the following: bio-computation; concurrent qualitative and quantitative distributed systems; process calculi; probabilistic systems; constructive mathematics; domain theory and categorical models; formal languages; formal methods; game semantics; lambda calculus; programming-language theory; quantum computation; security; topological models; logic; type systems; type theory. We also welcome contributions that address applications of semantics to novel areas such as complex systems, markets, and networks, for example. Conference home page: http://coalg.org/mfps-calco2017 ## INVITED SPEAKERS * Rehana Patel, Olin College * Laura Kovacs, TU Wien * Dexter Kozen, Cornell University * Amr Sabry, Indiana University ## TUTORIAL SPEAKERS AND SPECIAL SESSIONS * Laure Daviaud, Warsaw - Algebraic automata theory * Nate Foster, Cornell - Foundations of Network Programming, special session in honour of Dexter Kozen???s 65th Birthday * Ben Worrell, Oxford - Metrics and Privacy (Joint MPFS & CALCO) * Derek Dreyer, MPI-SWS - Formal Verification ## SUBMISSION ### Important dates: * Submission Deadline: March 10 * Notification: April 28 * Proceedings: May 19 * Conference: June 12-15 ### Submitting Submissions should be prepared using the [ENTCS Macros](http://www.entcs.org/), in the form of a PDF file not exceeding 15 pages. Submissions are open on [EasyChair] (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mfps33). ### Proceedings A preliminary version will be distributed at the meeting. Final proceedings will appear in ENTCS after the meeting. ## PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Gilles Barthe, Madrid, Spain Andrej Bauer, Ljubljana, Slovenia Steve Brookes, Pittsburgh, PA, USA Carla Ferreira, Lisbon, Portugal Nate Foster, Ithaca, NY, USA Chris Heunen, Edinburgh, UK Justin Hsu, Philadelphia, PA, USA Achim Jung, Birmingham, UK Elham Kashefi, Edinburgh, UK Clemens Kupke, Glasgow, UK Barbara Koenig, Duisburg, Germany Catherine Meadows, NRL , USA Andrzej Murawski, Warwick, UK, Bart Jacobs, Radboud U, Netherlands Bob Coecke, Oxford, UK Cameron Freer, Cambridge MA, USA Catherine Meadows, Washington, DC, USA Michael Mislove, New Orleans, LA, USA Joel Ouaknine, Saarbrucken, Germany Alessandra Palmigiano, Delft, The Netherlands Prakash Panangaden, Montreal, Canada Daniela Petrisan, Paris, France Brigitte Pientka, Montreal, Canada Jurriaan Rot, Nijmegen, The Netherlands Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh, London, UK Alexandra Silva (Chair), London, UK Ana Sokolova, Salzburg, Austria Valeria Vignudelli, Bologna, Italy ## LOCAL ORGANISERS: * Matja Pretnar * Andrej Bauer From giovanni.degasperis at aixia.it Thu Jan 12 13:40:21 2017 From: giovanni.degasperis at aixia.it (Giovanni De Gasperis) Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2017 13:40:21 +0100 Subject: [DL] [CfP] RuleML+RR 2017 Call for Papers Message-ID: RuleML+RR 2017: International Joint Conference on Rules and Reasoning http://2017.ruleml-rr.org This leading international joint conference in the field of rule-based reasoning calls for high-quality papers related to theoretical advances, novel technologies, and innovative applications concerning knowledge representation and reasoning with rules. Stemming from the synergy between the well-known high-impact RuleML and RR events, one of the main goals of this conference is to build bridges between academia and industry. RuleML+RR 2017 aims to bring together rigorous researchers and inventive practitioners, interested in the foundations and applications of rules and reasoning in academia, industry, engineering, business, finance, healthcare and other application areas. It will provide a forum for stimulating cooperation and cross-fertilization between the many different communities focused on the research, development and applications of rule-based systems. In addition to regular submissions, RuleML+RR 2017 will host an Industry Track(1), a Doctoral Consortium(2), the DecisionCAMP(3), the 11th International Rule Challenge(4), and the 13th Reasoning Web Summer School(4). RuleML+RR 2017 will be collocated with the 32nd British International Conference on Databases (BICOD 2017(5)). Links: (1) http://2017.ruleml-rr.org/calls/industry-track (2) http://2017.ruleml-rr.org/doctoral-consortium (3) http://2017.ruleml-rr.org/decisioncamp-2017 (4) http://2017.ruleml-rr.org/calls/international-rule-challenge (5) http://www.dcs.bbk.ac.uk/bicod17 Venue: the conference will take place at Birkbeck, University of London (London, UK) http://www.bbk.ac.uk . Topics include, but are not limited to: * Production rules systems * Logic programming engines and applications * Business rules engines and management systems * Logic-based reasoning for rules * Inductive and abductive logic programming * Rule markup languages and rule interchange formats * Rule-based policies, reputation, and trust * Pragmatic web reasoning and distributed rule inference / rule execution * Reaction and ECA rules * Constraint programming * Rule-based languages for intelligent information access and the Semantic Web * Vocabularies, ontologies, and business rules * Bridge rules in multi-context systems * Rule discovery, extraction and transformation * Rule-based data management, data integration, and data interoperability * Scalability and expressive power of logics for rules * Mapping rules for ontology-based data access * Rule-based dynamic data, stream, and complex event processing * Reasoning with incomplete, inconsistent and uncertain data * Non-monotonic, common-sense, and closed-world reasoning * Non-classical logics and the Web * Combining rules with knowledge extraction and information retrieval * Rules, agents, and norms * Rule-based distributed / multi-agent systems * Rule-based communication/dialogue * Argumentation models * Rules and human language technology * Rules in online market research and online marketing * Applications of rule technologies in healthcare and life sciences * Industrial applications of rules * Rules and business process compliance checking * Standards activities related to rules * Rules and social media Submissions Papers must be original contributions written in English and must be submitted at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=rulemlrr2017 as: * Full Paper (15 pages in the proceedings) * Short Paper (8 pages in the proceedings) Please upload all submissions in LNCS format(6). To ensure high quality, submitted papers will be carefully peer-reviewed by at least 3 PC members based on originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of exposition. 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. The accepted papers will be published in book form in the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series. Short papers may contain 1 extra page (max.) for which there is a charge of US$200. Long papers are allowed 2 extra pages (max.), with a charge of US$200 for EACH extra page. Authors of a selection of the best papers from all tracks will be invited to revise and extend their work for publication in the journal TPLP (Theory and Practice of Logic Programming). Links: (6) http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html Student Travel Support Some financial support will be available to enable student authors to travel to the conference. These will be awarded on a case-by-case basis. Proof of studentship will be required at time of registration. Keynotes and speeches * Stephen Muggleton (Imperial College London) http://wp.doc.ic.ac.uk/shm * Elena Baralis (Politecnico di Torino) * Jordi Cabot (IN3-UOC, Barcelona) * Bob Kowalski will present an after-dinner speech entitled ?Logic and AI ? The last 50 years?. .. more to follow! ======================================================================= Important dates Title and abstract registration: 15 February 2017 Paper submission: 22 February 2017 Author feedback on initial reviews: 30 March - 3 April 2017 Author notification: 10 April 2017 Camera ready: 24 April 2017 Conference: 12-15 July 2017 ======================================================================= # 11th International Rule Challenge The RuleML+RR 2017 Challenge is one of the highlights of the conference, and seeks to provide competition among innovative rule-oriented applications, aimed at both the research and industrial side. Submissions may present demos related to the RuleML+RR 2017 track topics (see above), supply benchmarks and comparison results for rule engines, illustrate rule- and model-driven engineering, report on industrial experience, present real cases and practical experiences, and realize mobile deployment of rule-based reasoning. # Doctoral Consortium We welcome submissions from PhD students whose research activity is closely related to rule and reasoning systems. The Doctoral Consortium is an excellent opportunity for students to interact with leading experts in the field, and to present and discuss their ideas in a dynamic and friendly setting. # Industry Track The Industry Track targets businesses and the private sector interested in sharing, exploring, and learning about the use of rule technologies for solving real-life business problems, for instance in the field of logistics, planning, domotics, healthcare, big data and high- scalability reasoning, and financial applications including high-frequency trading. # 13th Reasoning Web Summer School (RW 2017) The purpose of the Reasoning Web Summer School is to disseminate recent advances on reasoning techniques which are of particular interest to Semantic Web, Linked Data, Ontologies, Rules, Logic, and Knowledge Graph applications. It is primarily intended for postgraduate (PhD or MSc) students, postdoctoral researchers, young researchers, and senior researchers wishing to learn about Reasoning on the Semantic Web and related issues. The Reasoning Web series of annual Summer Schools was started in 2005 by the European Network of Excellence REWERSE. With kind regards, RuleML+RR 2017 Program Chairs: Stefania Costantini, University of L?Aquila, Italy Enrico Franconi, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy William Van Woensel, Dalhousie University, Canada RuleML+RR 2017 General Chairs: Roman Kontchakov, Birkbeck, University of London, UK Fariba Sadri, Imperial College London, UK RuleML+RR 2017 Publicity Chair: Giovanni De Gasperis, University of L'Aquila, Italy -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From marco at dibris.unige.it Wed Jan 11 22:13:40 2017 From: marco at dibris.unige.it (Marco Maratea) Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2017 22:13:40 +0100 Subject: [DL] ASPCOMP 2017: First Call for Benchmarks Message-ID: <1484169220.5876a0040677c@webmail.unige.it> [apologies for any cross-posting] ======================================================================== 7th Answer Set Programming Competition 2017 (ASPCOMP 2017) Call for Benchmarks University of Potsdam and University of Calabria and University of Genoa Problem Submission Deadline: February 19th, 2017 ======================================================================== Answer Set Programming is a well-established paradigm of declarative programming with close relationships to other declarative modeling paradigms and languages, such as SAT Modulo Theories, Constraint Programming, 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 7th ASP Competition will be run in 2017. The event is affiliated with the 14th International Conference on Logic Programming and Non-Monotonic Reasoning (LPNMR 2017), where the results will be announced. The event is the sequel to the ASP Competition editions held in 2007, 2009, 2011, 2013, 2014, and 2015. The 7th ASP Competition is now in the Call for Benchmark Problems stage. == Call for Benchmarks == Participants of the Answer Set Programming Competition will compete on a selected collection of benchmarks, taken from a variety of problem domains as well as real-world applications. These include, but are not limited to: * Classic and Application-oriented 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 * Constraint Satisfaction Problems * Other AI Problems To this end, we encourage the submission of new challenging benchmark problems. Based on the experience from past editions, we particularly invite the submission of problems * arising from applications of practical impact, * being ASP focused, i.e. whose encodings are non-tight, and/or * being challenging for current ASP systems. Initially, benchmark authors are expected to provide by email a problem description in natural language to: aspcomp2017 at dibris.unige.it Subsequently they will be contacted by the organizing committee to finalize the submission. All submitted benchmarks will be made available to the community, and a selection of them will be used for evaluating participant systems in the 7th ASP Competition. The organizers reserve the right of this selection. == Further Information == For further information and submission instructions, please contact us (Martin Gebser, Marco Maratea, and Francesco Ricca) by email to: aspcomp2017 at dibris.unige.it From marco at dist.unige.it Wed Jan 11 22:22:07 2017 From: marco at dist.unige.it (Marco Maratea) Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2017 22:22:07 +0100 Subject: [DL] ASPCOMP 2017: First Call for Participation Message-ID: <1484169727.5876a1ff5707d@webmail.unige.it> [apologies for any cross-posting] ======================================================================== 7th Answer Set Programming Competition 2017 (ASPCOMP 2017) Call for Participant Systems University of Potsdam and University of Calabria and University of Genoa == Important Dates (TENTATIVE) == * January 29th, 2017: Expression of interest and preliminary registration * February 28th, 2017: Full team registration * April 3rd, 2017: The competition starts * July 3-7th, 2017: Awards are presented at LPNMR 2017 ======================================================================== Answer Set Programming is a well-established paradigm of declarative programming with close relationships to other declarative modeling paradigms and languages, such as SAT Modulo Theories, Constraint Programming, 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 7th ASP Competition will be run in 2017. The event is affiliated with the 14th International Conference on Logic Programming and Non-Monotonic Reasoning (LPNMR 2017), where the results will be announced. The event is the sequel to the ASP Competition editions held in 2007, 2009, 2011, 2013, 2014, and 2015. The 7th ASP Competition is now in the Call for Participant Systems stage. == Call for Participant Systems == Participants of the Answer Set Programming Competition will compete on a selected collection of benchmarks, taken from a variety of problem domains as well as real-world applications. These include, but are not limited to: * Classic and Application-oriented 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 * Constraint Satisfaction Problems * Other AI Problems The ASP System Competition compares dedicated solvers on benchmarks formulated in the ASP-Core-2 language. It will also include sub-tracks based on language features, aiming to indicate what (combinations of) techniques work for particular problem characteristics, and also widening the participation to systems that may not (yet) support the full ASP-Core-2 language. We welcome the submission of parallel and portfolio systems exploiting multiple cores or multiple solving algorithms. == TPLP Special Issue == All participants will be invited to submit a paper to the new LPNMR workshop on "Practical Aspects of Answer Set Programming (PAoASP)". The best submissions will be invited to a TPLP special issue of PAoASP that we are setting up. == Further Information == For further information and submission instructions, please contact us (Martin Gebser, Marco Maratea, and Francesco Ricca) by email to: aspcomp2017 at dibris.unige.it From walk at stanford.edu Thu Jan 12 22:31:32 2017 From: walk at stanford.edu (Simon Walk) Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2017 21:31:32 +0000 Subject: [DL] [CfP] 28th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media 2017 (HT2017) - Second Call for Papers In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <06453376-F0C8-43BF-9E8B-48EC6A5E8696@stanford.edu> [CfP] 28th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media 2017 (HT2017) - Second Call for Papers * Apologies if you received multiple copies of this e-mail. * Please kindly forward to those who may be interested. ================================================ SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS 28th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media 2017 (HT2017) July 4 - 7, 2017, Prague, Czech Republic Web: https://ht.acm.org/ht2017/ ================================================ The ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media (HT) (https://ht.acm.org/ht2017/) is a premium venue for high quality peer-reviewed research on theory, systems and applications for hypertext and social media. It is concerned with all aspects of modern hypertext research, including social media, adaptation, personalization, recommendations, user modeling, linked data and semantic web, dynamic and computed hypertext, and its application in digital humanities, as well as with interplay between those aspects such as linking stories with data or linking people with resources. HT2017 will focus on the role of links, linking, hypertext and hyperlink theory on the web and beyond, as a foundation for approaches and practices in the wider community. Therefore, HT2017 has the following tracks: * Social Networks and Digital Humanities (Linking people) * Semantic Web and Linked Data (Linking data) * Adaptive Hypertext and Recommendations (Linking resources) * News and Storytelling (Linking stories) * Demonstrations Submission Instructions ----------------------- Main Proceedings ----------------------- Papers must report new results substantiated by experimentation, simulation, analysis, or application. Authors are invited to submit papers presenting original, not previously published works. Submission categories include: * Regular research papers (max 10 pages including references) discussing mature research results. * Demo papers (max 2 pages including references) presenting ongoing and preliminary results, system prototypes or industry showcases. All submissions should be formatted according to the official ACM SIG proceedings template and submitted in PDF format via EasyChair (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=acmhypertext2017). The review process will not be blind, therefore it is not necessary for submissions to be anonymized. Please be sure to submit keywords via EasyChair. Accepted papers will appear in the Hypertext 2017 Conference Proceedings that will be published by ACM and additionally be made available through the ACM Digital Library. Acceptance of the papers will be either as full (regular) or short papers with the corresponding presentation slots. In addition, all authors of accepted papers are invited to prepare a poster that they can present together with accepted demos at Poster and Demos reception. Demo submissions will be reviewed by experienced and knowledgeable researchers and practitioners; each submission will receive a detailed feedback. It would be beneficial to include links enabling the reviewers testing the application or reviewing the component. Accepted demos will have a space to demonstrate the system to conference attendees during the poster and demo session. Please indicate the category of your submission (regular or demo) and provide at least three keywords that describe your submission. Also select the track(s) - named 'groups' in EasyChair - and the topics relevant to your submission. Note that you can select more than one track (select at least one) and topics belonging to any of the three conference tracks. This information will be used for the review assignment. Award winning papers will be considered for a fast track publication in ACM Transactions on the Web. Selected papers will be invited for special issue in NRHM journal. ----------------------- Extended Proceedings ----------------------- Submission categories include: * Workshop papers * Doctoral consortium papers You can find the requirements in terms of length and content for these papers in the respective calls. All submissions should be formatted according to the official ACM SIG proceedings template. Doctoral consortium papers should be submitted in PDF format via EasyChair (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=acmhypertext2017): DC. Accepted papers in the above-mentioned categories will appear in the Hypertext 2017 http://ceur-ws.org/ Proceedings. ----------------------- Important Dates ----------------------- January 13, 2017 Workshop proposals February 3, 2017 Abstract submission February 10, 2017 Paper submission March 20, 2017 Doctoral Consortium paper submission March 31, 2017 Notification of acceptance April 15, 2017 Doctoral Consortium notification of acceptance April 21, 2017 Camera ready due May 2, 2017 Doctoral Consortium camera ready due Deadlines are at 23:59 Hawaii Standard Time on the specified date. From gabriele.kern-isberner at cs.uni-dortmund.de Fri Jan 13 08:50:11 2017 From: gabriele.kern-isberner at cs.uni-dortmund.de (Gabriele Kern-Isberner) Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2017 08:50:11 +0100 Subject: [DL] KI 2017: Call for Papers, Workshops & Tutorials Message-ID: <587886B3.6000703@cs.uni-dortmund.de> ============== KI 2017: Call for Papers, Workshops & Tutorials ============== 40th German Conference on Artificial Intelligence September 25-29, 2017 Dortmund, Germany http://ki2017.tu-dortmund.de ============================================================= KI 2017 is the 40th edition of the German Conference on Artificial Intelligence organized by the Fachbereich K?nstliche Intelligenz der Gesellschaft f?r Informatik. KI traditionally brings together academic and industrial researchers from all areas of AI, providing an ideal place for exchanging news and research results of intelligent system technology. The technical program of KI 2017 will comprise paper and poster presentations and a variety of workshops and tutorials. KI 2017 will take place in Dortmund, Germany, September 25th-29th, 2017, and is a premier forum for exchanging news and research results on theory and applications of intelligent system technology. You are invited to submit original research and application papers on all aspects of AI research, including but not limited to the following: - Agent-based and multi-agent systems - AI applications and innovations - Belief change - Cognitive modelling, AI and psychology - Commonsense reasoning - Computer vision - Constraint satisfaction, search, and optimization - Diagnosis and configuration - Evolutionary computation - Game playing and interactive entertainment - Information retrieval, integration, and extraction - Knowledge engineering and ontologies - Knowledge representation and reasoning - Knowledge discovery and data mining - Machine learning - Multidisciplinary AI - Natural language processing - Nonmonotonic reasoning and default logics - Philosophical foundations of AI - Planning and scheduling - Recommender systems - Robotics - Uncertainty in AI - Web and information systems We especially welcome application papers that provide novel insights on the interplay of AI and the real world, as well as papers that bring useful computational technologies from other areas of computer science into AI. ======== Workshops and Tutorials ======== Together with the main conference, we plan to organize a small number of high-quality workshops and tutorials. We especially encourage events organized by AI Special Interest Groups (GI-Fachgruppen), events that bring together researchers from different disciplines, and events that highlight emerging topics of AI research. Tutorials should target a wide audience, including graduate students as well as experienced researchers, and practitioners. For details on submitting workshop and tutorial proposals, please see the KI2017 webpage (http://ki2017.tu-dortmund.de). ======== Paper Submission ======== We invite papers, which have to be in English and formatted according to the Springer LNCS style, in the following two categories * Full technical papers (12 pages max., excluding references) are expected to report on new research that makes a substantial technical contribution to the field. Additional details may be included in an appendix, which, however, will be read at the discretion of the PC. * Technical communications (6 pages max., excluding references) can report on research in progress, research already published elsewhere, or other issues of interest to the AI community. Examples of work suitable for technical communication paper submissions include: novel ideas whose scope is not large enough for a full paper: important implementation techniques; novel interesting benchmark problems; short experimental studies; interesting applications that are not yet completely solved or analysed; position or challenge papers; etc. Technical communication submissions are especially invited for software demonstration or PhD work in progress. Submission will be through the EasyChair conference management system: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ki2017 All papers will be subject to blind peer review based on the standard criteria of relevance, significance of results, originality of ideas, soundness, and quality of the presentation. All accepted papers will be published in the main conference proceedings, and will be presented at the conference. At least one author of each accepted paper must register for the conference and present the contribution. The KI 2017 proceedings will be published by Springer as a volume of the LNAI (Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence) series. ======== Important Dates ======== Workshop/Tutorial proposals: Jan 30th, 2017 Workshop/Tutorial notification: Feb 6th, 2017 Full/Short Paper submission: May 5th, 2017 Acceptance notification: June 16th, 2017 Final version due: July 1st, 2017 KI Workshops and Conference: September 25th-29th, 2017 ======== Main Organizers ======== General Chair * Gabriele Kern-Isberner (TU Dortmund) Program Chairs * Johannes F?rnkranz (TU Darmstadt) * Matthias Thimm (Universit?t Koblenz-Landau) Workshop and Tutorial Chair * Christoph Beierle (FernUniversit?t in Hagen) Local Organizers * Christian Eichhorn (TU Dortmund) * Steffen Schieweck (TU Dortmund) * Marco Wilhelm (TU Dortmund) -- *************************************************** * Prof. Dr. Gabriele Kern-Isberner * Technische Universitaet Dortmund * Dept. of Computer Science * Chair I - Information Engineering * 44221 Dortmund, Germany * Phone: +49-231-755-2045 * Fax: +49-231-755 6555 * email: gabriele.kern-isberner at cs.uni-dortmund.de *************************************************** From gabriele.kern-isberner at cs.uni-dortmund.de Fri Jan 13 08:51:17 2017 From: gabriele.kern-isberner at cs.uni-dortmund.de (Gabriele Kern-Isberner) Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2017 08:51:17 +0100 Subject: [DL] KI 2017: Call for Workshops & Tutorials - Deadline Jan 30, 2017 Message-ID: <587886F5.4010407@cs.uni-dortmund.de> ============== KI 2017: Call for Workshops & Tutorials - Deadline Jan 30, 2017 ============== 40th German Conference on Artificial Intelligence September 25-29, 2017 Dortmund, Germany http://ki2017.tu-dortmund.de ============================================================= KI 2017 is the 40th edition of the German Conference on Artificial Intelligence organized by the Fachbereich K?nstliche Intelligenz der Gesellschaft f?r Informatik. KI traditionally brings together academic and industrial researchers from all areas of AI, providing an ideal place for exchanging news and research results of intelligent system technology. The technical program of KI 2017 will comprise paper and poster presentations and a variety of workshops and tutorials. KI 2017 will take place in Dortmund, Germany, September 25th-29th, 2017, and is a premier forum for exchanging news and research results on theory and applications of intelligent system technology. Together with the main conference, we plan to organize a small number of high-quality workshops and tutorials. We especially encourage events organized by AI Special Interest Groups (GI-Fachgruppen), events that bring together researchers from different disciplines, and events that highlight emerging topics of AI research. Tutorials should target a wide audience, including graduate students as well as experienced researchers, and practitioners. For workshops, we are interested in submissions of full-day (6 hours) and half-day (3 hours) workshops. For tutorials, we are soliciting proposals for full-day (6 hours) and half-day (3 hours) tutorials as well as mini-tutorials (1.5 hours). ======== How to Propose a Workshop ======== Proposals should be sent by email to the KI 2017 Workshop and Tutorial Chair (christoph.beierle at fernuni-hagen.de). Each workshop proposal should provide the following information: - Title and acronym - Short description of workshop topic and goal - Names, affiliations, and contact details of all the workshop organizer(s). Please include one paragraph about each organizer (scientific profile, previous events you have organized) and indicate the primary contact person to whom correspondence should be directed. - For which areas of AI do you expect to draw participants for your workshop and how many participants do you expect? How do you plan to invite participants for the workshop? - A brief description of the workshop format and duration, tentative call for papers, tentative invited speakers and members of the program committee ======== How to Propose a Tutorial ======== Tutorials should give a comprehensive, in-depth perspective on innovative AI methods or technologies that have an obvious potential for research and/or application and are not covered by typical AI textbooks. Proposals for tutorials should be submitted by e-mail to the Workshop and Tutorial Chair (christoph.beierle at fernuni-hagen.de). Each tutorial proposal should provide the following information: - Descriptions of the tutorial topic, goals, the intended audience, an outline of the contents - Brief CVs of the tutor(s), including their expertise and teaching experience in the field and the intended length of the tutorial (half-day, full-day, or mini-tutorial). Proposers are encouraged to include excerpts of material from recent teaching about the proposed topic as an annex of their submission, if available. ======== Important Dates ======== Workshop/Tutorial proposals: Jan 30th, 2017 Workshop/Tutorial notification: Feb 6th, 2017 Full/Short Paper submission: May 5th, 2017 Acceptance notification: June 16th, 2017 Final version due: July 1st, 2017 KI Workshops and Conference: September 25th-29th, 2017 ======== Main Organizers ======== General Chair * Gabriele Kern-Isberner (TU Dortmund) Program Chairs * Johannes F?rnkranz (TU Darmstadt) * Matthias Thimm (Universit?t Koblenz-Landau) Workshop and Tutorial Chair * Christoph Beierle (FernUniversit?t in Hagen) Local Organizers * Christian Eichhorn (TU Dortmund) * Steffen Schieweck (TU Dortmund) * Marco Wilhelm (TU Dortmund) -- *************************************************** * Prof. Dr. Gabriele Kern-Isberner * Technische Universitaet Dortmund * Dept. of Computer Science * Chair I - Information Engineering * 44221 Dortmund, Germany * Phone: +49-231-755-2045 * Fax: +49-231-755 6555 * email: gabriele.kern-isberner at cs.uni-dortmund.de *************************************************** From geoff at cs.miami.edu Fri Jan 13 14:35:25 2017 From: geoff at cs.miami.edu (Geoff Sutcliffe) Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2017 08:35:25 -0500 (EST) Subject: [DL] CADE-26 Call for Papers Message-ID: <20170113133525.B3981121469@mcclellan.cs.miami.edu> The 26th International Conference on Automated Deduction (CADE-26) Gothenburg, Sweden 6-11 August 2017 http://www.cade-26.info CALL FOR PAPERS CADE is the major international forum at which research on all aspects of automated deduction is presented. High-quality submissions on the general topic of automated deduction, including foundations, applications, implementations, theoretical results, practical experiences and user studies are solicited. Key dates: Abstract deadline: 11 February 2017 Submission deadline: 18 February 2017 * Logics of interest include propositional, first-order, equational, higher-order, classical, description, modal, temporal, many-valued, constructive, other non-classical, meta-logics, logical frameworks, type theory, set theory, as well as any combination thereof. * Paradigms of interest include theorem proving, model building, constraint solving, computer algebra, model checking, proof checking, and their integration. * Methods of interest include resolution, superposition, completion, saturation, term rewriting, decision procedures, model elimination, connection methods, tableaux, sequent calculi, natural deduction, as well as their supporting algorithms and data structures, including matching, unification, orderings, induction, indexing techniques, proof presentation and explanation, proof planning. * Applications of interest include program analysis, verification and synthesis of software and hardware, formal methods, computational logic, computer mathematics, natural language processing, computational linguistics, knowledge representation, ontology reasoning, deductive databases, declarative programming, robotics, planning, and other areas of artificial intelligence. Submissions can be made in two categories: regular papers and system descriptions. The page limit in Springer LNCS style is 15 pages excluding references for regular papers and 10 pages excluding references for system descriptions. Submissions must be unpublished and not submitted for publication elsewhere. They will be judged on relevance, originality, significance, correctness, and readability. System descriptions must contain a link to a working system and will also be judged on usefulness and design. Proofs of theoretical results that do not fit in the page limit, executables of systems, and input data of experiments should be made available, via a reference to a website or in an appendix of the paper. For papers containing experimental evaluations, all data needed to rerun the experiments must be available. Reviewers will be encouraged to consider this additional material, but submissions must be self-contained within the respective page limit; considering the additional material should not be necessary to assess the merits of a submission. The review process will include a feedback/rebuttal period where authors will have the option to respond to reviewer comments. The PC chairs may solicit further reviews after the rebuttal period. The proceedings of the conference will be published in the Springer LNCS/LNAI series. Formatting instructions and the LNCS style files can be obtained at http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html At every CADE conference the Program Committee selects one of the accepted papers to receive the CADE Best Paper Award. The award recognizes a paper that the Program Committee collegially evaluates as the best in terms of originality and significance, having substantial confidence in its correctness. Overall technical quality, completeness, scholarly accuracy, and readability are also considered. Characteristics associated with a best paper include, for instance, introduction of a strong new technique or approach, solution of a long-standing open problem, introduction and solution of an interesting and important new problem, highly innovative application of known ideas or existing techniques, and presentation of a new system of outstanding power. Under exceptional circumstances, the Program Committee may give two awards (ex aequo) or give no award. IMPORTANT DATES Abstract deadline: 11 February 2017 Submission deadline: 18 February 2017 Rebuttal phase: 8 April 2017 Notification: 22 April 2017 Final version: 27 May 2017 SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS Papers should be submitted via https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cade26 CADE-26 ORGANIZERS Conference Chairs: Wolfgang Ahrendt Chalmers University of Technology Moa Johansson Chalmers University of Technology Program Committee Chair: Leonardo de Moura Microsoft Research Workshop, Tutorial, and Competition Chair: Philipp Ruemmer Uppsala University Publicity Chair: Magnus Myreen Chalmers University of Technology Program Committee: Clark Barrett Stanford University Christoph Benzmueller Freie Universitaet Berlin Jasmin Christian Blanchette Inria Nancy & LORIA Nikolaj Bjorner Microsoft Research Maria Paola Bonacina Universita degli Studi di Verona Leonardo de Moura Microsoft Research Hans de Nivelle University of Wroclaw Stephanie Delaune CNRS, IRISA Gilles Dowek Inria & ENS Paris-Saclay Amy Felty University of Ottawa Silvio Ghilardi Universita degli Studi di Milano Reiner Haehnle Technical University of Darmstadt Marijn Heule The University of Texas at Austin Moa Johansson Chalmers University of Technology Dejan Jovanovic SRI International Deepak Kapur University of New Mexico Konstantin Korovin The Manchester University Laura Kovacs Vienna University of Technology Christopher Lynch Clarkson University Assia Mahboubi INRIA Aart Middeldorp University of Innsbruck Dale Miller INRIA and LIX/Ecole Polytechnique Albert Oliveras Technical University of Catalonia Lawrence Paulson University of Cambridge Ruzica Piskac Yale University Philipp Ruemmer Uppsala University Renate Schmidt The University of Manchester Stephan Schulz DHBW Stuttgart Roberto Sebastiani University of Trento Viorica Sofronie-Stokkermans University Koblenz-Landau Geoff Sutcliffe University of Miami Cesare Tinelli The University of Iowa Ashish Tiwari SRI International Andrei Voronkov The University of Manchester Christoph Weidenbach Max Planck Institute for Informatics Freek Wiedijk Radboud University Nijmegen From tson at cs.nmsu.edu Sat Jan 14 04:21:22 2017 From: tson at cs.nmsu.edu (Son Cao Tran) Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2017 20:21:22 -0700 (MST) Subject: [DL] ICLP 2017 - Call for Papers Message-ID: <20170114032122.6F2ABC4A38@trannew.cs.nmsu.edu> Call for Papers 33rd International Conference on Logic Programming (co-located with CP and SAT and following IJCAI) Melbourne, Australia August 28 - September 1, 2017 http://iclp17.a4lp.org Conference Scope ---------------- Since the first conference held in Marseille 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 and Co-inductive Logic Programming, Constraint Logic Programming, Answer-Set Programming, SAT-Checking. - Applications: Databases, Big Data, Data Integration and Federation, Software Engineering, Natural Language Processing, Web and Semantic Web, Agents, Artificial Intelligence, Bioinformatics, and Education. In addition to the presentations of accepted papers, the technical program will include invited talks, advanced tutorials, the doctoral consortium, and several workshops. Important Dates (RP: Regular Paper / TC: Technical Communication) ----------------------------------------------------------------- RP registration (abstract): 6 March, 2017 RP submission: 13 March, 2017 First notification (RPs): 24 April, 2017 TC submission (extra round): 1 May, 2017 Revision submission (RPs): 15 May, 2017 Final notifications (RPs + TCs): 29 May, 2017 Camera-ready copy (RPs + TCs): 19 June, 2017 Conference: 28 Aug / 1 Sep, 2017 Submission Details ------------------ All submissions must be made via the EasyChair conference system (http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iclp2017). Submissions of regular papers (RPs) must follow the condensed TPLP format (template available from ICLP???s web page) and not exceed 14 pages including bibliography. RPs may be supplemented with appendices for proofs and details of datasets which do not count towards the page limit and which will be available as appendices to the published paper. Three kinds of RPs will be accepted: * Technical papers for technically sound, innovative ideas that can advance the state of logic programming; * Application papers that impact interesting application domains; * System and tool papers which emphasize novelty, practicality, usability, and availability of the systems and tools described. Application, system, and tool papers need to be clearly marked in their title. All submissions must be written in English and describe original, previously unpublished research, and must not simultaneously be submitted for publication elsewhere. These restrictions do not apply to previously accepted workshop papers with a limited audience and/or without archival proceedings. Papers of the highest quality will be selected to be published in the journal of Theory and Practice of Logic Programming (TPLP), Cambridge University Press (CUP). 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). The program committee may recommend some RPs to be published as Technical Communications (TCs). TCs will be published by Dagstuhl Publishing in the OpenAccess Series in Informatics (OASIcs). TCs must follow the OASIcs format (template available from ICLP???s web page) and not exceed 14 pages excluding the bibliography and a short appendix (up to 5 more pages). TC???s authors can also elect to convert their submissions into extended abstracts, of 2 or 3 pages, for inclusion in the OASIcs proceedings. This should allow authors to submit a long version elsewhere. There is also a second submission round only for TCs. Submissions to this extra round must also follow the OASIcs format indicated above. RPs accepted as TCs do not need to be resubmitted to the TC extra round. Rejected RPs cannot be resubmitted as TCs. All RPs and TCs will be presented during the conference. Authors of accepted papers will, by default, be automatically included in the list of ALP members, who will receive quarterly updates from the Logic Programming Newsletter at no cost. Conference Organization ----------------------- General Chairs: Maria Garcia de la Banda Monash University, Australia Guido Tack Monash University, Australia Program Chairs: Ricardo Rocha University of Porto, Portugal Tran Cao Son New Mexico State University, USA Workshop Chair: Enrico Pontelli New Mexico State University, USA Publicity Chair: Tommaso Urli Australian National University, Australia Sponsorship Chair: Maria Garcia de la Banda Monash University, Australia Doctoral Consortium Chair (joint event with CP and SAT): Neda Saeedloei University of Minnesota Duluth, USA Christopher Mears Monash University, Australia Programming Contest Chairs: Paul Fodor Stony Brook University, USA Graeme Gange University of Melbourne, Australia Web Presence: Tommaso Urli Australian National University, Australia Program Committee ----------------- TBA Workshops --------- The ICLP 2017 program will include several workshops. They are perhaps the best places for the presentation of preliminary work, underdeveloped novel ideas, and new open problems to a wide and interested audience with opportunities for intensive discussions and project collaboration. Doctoral Consortium ------------------- The Thirteen Doctoral Consortium (DC) on Logic Programming [this year being co-organized and taking place together with CP 2017 and SAT 2017] provides research students with the opportunity to present and discuss their research directions, and to obtain feedback from both peers and experts in the field. Accepted participants will receive partial financial support to attend the event and the main conference. The best paper from the DC will be given the opportunity to present in a session of the main ICLP conference. Doctoral consortium position papers, of between 10 and 14 pages, will also be published as TCs. Conference Venue ---------------- The venue will be the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre. Melbourne is the second most populous city in Australia and the coastal capital of the south-eastern Australian state of Victoria. Set on the shores of beautiful Port Phillip Bay, Melbourne has been named the World???s Most Liveable City for six years running and it is widely recognised as the cultural and culinary capital of Australia. It is a safe, creative and multi-cultural city full of exciting places to see, delicious foods to eat, and excellent events to experience; from the Arts precinct to the river bank parks and gardens to the buzzing city centre and the hidden thrills of Melbourne???s laneways. It is also an air-hop away from breathtaking destinations like The Great Barrier Reef, Sydney and Uluru. The Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre (MCEC) is located on the banks of the iconic Yarra River in Melbourne's South Wharf. Given its central location, it has a huge variety of accommodation close-by, with more than 6000 rooms within walking distance. MCEC is easily accessible by public transport, particularly as the Melbourne's city centre has a free tram zone that makes it easier for tourists to move around the city. Related Events -------------- Several other AI events will be held in Melbourne and other parts of Australia close to these dates, offering attendees a variety of choices for an extended itinerary. These events will include the International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming (CP 2017) and the International Conference on Theory and Applications of Satisfiability Testing (SAT 2017), both co-located with ICLP 2017. The International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2017), the Australasian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AusAI 2017), the Australasian Conference on Data Mining (AusDM 2017), and the International Conference on Knowledge Science, Engineering, and Management (KSEM 2017) will all to be held in Melbourne one week before ICLP. The International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2017) will also be held in Sydney Australia shortly before ICLP 2017. 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, especially, students to enable them to attend the conference. Inquiries should be made to the general chairs. From elmroth at cs.umu.se Wed Jan 18 16:53:38 2017 From: elmroth at cs.umu.se (Erik Elmroth) Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2017 16:53:38 +0100 Subject: [DL] Postdoc stipends In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <7E585F54-59A5-481A-910A-AA44B6191BAE@cs.umu.se> Dear all, I kindly ask for your help in distributing the following information to anyone potentially interested. ?? Ume? University, Sweden, announces 8 postdoc stipends (2 years) in autonomous systems, including two topics in Cloud Management: * Postdoc on Anomaly Detection in Future Cloud Computing Infrastructures: http://www.umu.se/english/about-umu/news-events/grants/6-2279-16 * Postdoc on Autonomous Resource Allocation for Rack-Scale Systems: http://www.umu.se/english/about-umu/news-events/grants/6-2286-16) * All 8 postdoc stipends in autonomous systems: http://www.umu.se/english/about-umu/news-events/grants/6-2279--2286-16 Application deadline is February 1, 2017 ?? With kind regards, Erik Elmroth From geoff at cs.miami.edu Tue Jan 17 15:50:13 2017 From: geoff at cs.miami.edu (Geoff Sutcliffe) Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2017 09:50:13 -0500 (EST) Subject: [DL] TABLEAUX 2017 - 2nd Call for Papers Message-ID: <20170117145013.A7E3012144D@mcclellan.cs.miami.edu> SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS TABLEAUX 2017 26th International Conference on Automated Reasoning with Analytic Tableaux and Related Methods University of Brasilia, Brazil September 25-28, 2017 Submission Deadline: 25 Apr 2017 http://tableaux2017.cic.unb.br/ GENERAL INFORMATION TABLEAUX is the main international conference at which research on all aspects, theoretical foundations, implementation techniques, systems development and applications, of the mechanization of tableau-based reasoning and related methods is presented. As the first TABLEAUX workshop was held in Lautenbach in 1992, this year's conference will include special events celebrating 25 years of TABLEAUX. The conference will be held in Brasilia from 25-28 September 2017. It will be co-located with both the 11th International Symposium on Frontiers of Combining Systems (FroCoS 2017) and the 8th International Conference on Interactive Theorem Proving (ITP 2017). TOPICS Tableau methods offer a convenient and flexible set of tools for automated reasoning in classical logic, extensions of classical logic, and a large number of non-classical logics. For large groups of logics, tableau methods can be generated automatically. Areas of application include verification of software and computer systems, deductive databases, knowledge representation and its required inference engines, teaching, and system diagnosis. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: * tableau methods for classical and non-classical logics (including first-order, higher-order, modal, temporal, description, hybrid, intuitionistic, substructural, relevance, non-monotonic logics) and their proof-theoretic foundations; * related methods (SMT, model elimination, model checking, connection methods, resolution, BDDs, translation approaches); * sequent calculi and natural deduction calculi for classical and non-classical logics, as tools for proof search and proof representation; * flexible, easily extendable, light weight methods for theorem proving; * novel types of calculi for theorem proving and verification in classical and non-classical logics; * systems, tools, implementations, empirical evaluations and applications (provers, logical frameworks, model checkers, ...); * implementation techniques (data structures, efficient algorithms, performance measurement, extensibility, ...); * extensions of tableau procedures with conflict-driven learning, generation of proofs; compact (or humanly readable) representation of proofs; * decision procedures, theoretically optimal procedures; * applications of automated deduction to mathematics, software development, verification, deductive and temporal databases, knowledge representation, ontologies, fault diagnosis or teaching. We also welcome papers describing applications of tableau procedures to real world examples. Such papers should be tailored to the tableau community and should focus on the role of reasoning, and logical aspects of the solution. CELEBRATING 25 YEARS To celebrate 25 years TABLEAUX the conference will include a special session of invited talks by: Reiner Haehnle Technische Universitaet Darmstadt, Germany Wolfgang Bibel Technische Universitaet Darmstadt, Germany INVITED SPEAKERS: Carlos Areces FaMAF - Universidad Nacional de Cordoba, Argentina Katalin Bimbo University of Alberta, Canada (joint with FroCoS and ITP) Jasmin Blanchette Inria and LORIA, Nancy, France (joint with FroCoS and ITP) Cesary Kaliszyk Universitaet Innsbruck, Austria (joint with FroCoS and ITP) WORKSHOPS AND TUTORIALS There will be a three-day programme of four workshops and four tutorials from 23-25 September. Workshops: 12th Logical and Semantic Frameworks with Applications (LSFA 2017) Sandra Alves, Renata Wassermann, Flavio L. C. de Moura 23 and 24 September 2017 Proof eXchange for Theorem Proving (PxTP) Catherine Dubois, Bruno Woltzenlogel Paleo 23 and 24 September 2017 EPS - Encyclopedia of Proof Systems Giselle Reis, Bruno Woltzenlogel Paleo 24 and 25 September 2017 DaLi - Dynamic Logic: new trends and applications Mario Benevides, Alexandre Madeira 24 September 2017 Tutorials: General methods in proof theory for modal and substructural logics Bjoern Lellmann, Revantha Ramanayake 23 September 2017 From proof systems to complexity bounds Anupam Das 24 September 2017 Proof Compressions and the conjecture NP =3D PSPACE Lew Gordeev, Edward Hermann Haeusler 25 September 2017 PVS for Computer Scientists Cesar Munoz, Mauricio Ayala-Rincon, Mariano Moscato 25 September 2017 Details will be published in separate calls and on the conference website. PUBLICATION DETAILS The conference proceedings will published in the Springer LNAI/LNCS series, as in previous editions. SUBMISSIONS Submissions are invited in two categories: A Research papers, which describe original theoretical research, original algorithms, or applications, with length up to 15 pages. B System descriptions, with length up to 9 pages. Submissions will be reviewed by the PC, possibly with the help of external reviewers, taking into account readability, relevance and originality. For category A, theoretical results and algorithms must be original, and not submitted for publication elsewhere. Submissions will be reviewed taking into account correctness, theoretical elegance, and possible implementability. For category B submissions, a working implementation must be accessible via the internet, which includes sources. The aim of a system description is to make the system available in such a way that users can use it, understand it, and build on it. Accepted papers in both categories will be published in the conference proceedings. Papers must be edited in LaTeX using the llncs style and must be submitted electronically as PDF files via the EasyChair system: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=3Dtableaux2017. For all accepted papers at least one author is required to attend the conference and present the paper. A paper title and a short abstract of about 100 words must be submitted before the paper submission deadline. Further information about paper submissions will be made available at the conference website. Be aware that neither plagiarism, nor self-plagiarism, nor duplicate publication is acceptable. Formatting instructions and the LNCS style files can be obtained via http://www.springer.com/br/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gui= delines BEST PAPER AWARD The TABLEAUX 2017 Best Paper Award will be presented to the best submission nominated and chosen by the Program Committee among the accepted papers. The eligibility criteria will place emphasis on the originality and significance of the contribution, but readability and the overall technical quality, including correctness and completeness of results, will also be considered. The TABLEAUX Best Paper Award was established in 2015 and is a permanent initiative of TABLEAUX. IMPORTANT DATES 18 Apr 2017 Abstract submission 25 Apr 2017 Paper submission 8 Jun 2017 Notification of paper decisions 3 Jul 2017 Camera-ready papers due 23-25 Sep 2017 Workshops & Tutorials 25-28 Sep 2017 TABLEAUX Conference PROGRAM COMMITTEE Peter Baumgartner National ICT Australia, Canberra Maria Paola Bonacina Universita degli Studi di Verona Laura Bozzelli Universidad Politecnica de Madrid Torben Brauener Roskilde University Serenella Cerrito Ibisc, Universite d'Evry Val d'Essonne Agata Ciabattoni Technische Universitaet Wien Clare Dixon University of Liverpool Pascal Fontaine LORIA, INRIA, Universite de Lorraine Didier Galmiche LORIA, Universite de Lorraine Martin Giese Universitetet i Oslo Laura Giordano DISIT, Universita del Piemonte Orientale Rajeev Gore The Australian National University Volker Haarslev Concordia University George Metcalfe Universitaet Bern Angelo Montanari Universita degli Studi di Udine Barbara Morawska Technische Universitaet Dresden Boris Motik University of Oxford Leonardo de Moura Microsoft Research Neil Murray SUNY at Albany Claudia Nalon Universidade de Brasilia Linh Anh Nguyen Uniwersytet Warszawski Hans de Nivelle Uniwersytet Wroclawski Nicola Olivetti LSIS, Aix-Marseille Universite Jens Otten Universitetet i Oslo Valeria de Paiva Nuance Communications Nicolas Peltier Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Laboratoire d'Informatique de Grenoble Elaine Pimentel Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte Giselle Reis Carnegie Mellon University-Qatar Philipp Ruemmer Uppsala Universitet Katsuhiko Sano Hokkaido University Renate Schmidt The University of Manchester Cesare Tinelli The University of Iowa Alwen Tiu Nanyang Technological University David Toman University of Waterloo Josef Urban Ceske vysoke uceni technicke v Praze LOCAL CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION COMMITTEE Claudia Nalon, Universidade de Brasilia, Brazil Daniele Nantes Sobrinho, Universidade de Brasilia, Brazil Elaine Pimentel, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil Joao Marcos, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil CONFERENCE CHAIR Claudia Nalon, University of Brasilia, Brazil PC CHAIRS Claudia Nalon, University of Brasilia, Brazil Renate Schmidt, The University of Manchester, UK From geoff at cs.miami.edu Wed Jan 18 18:15:43 2017 From: geoff at cs.miami.edu (Geoff Sutcliffe) Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2017 12:15:43 -0500 (EST) Subject: [DL] DL 2017, Call for Papers Message-ID: <20170118171543.ED693121528@mcclellan.cs.miami.edu> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS 30th International Workshop on Description Logics, DL 2017 July 18th to July 21st, 2017 - Montpellier, France http://dl.kr.org/dl2017/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Papers ==================== DL 2017: the 30th International Workshop on Description Logics 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 in Montpellier, France from July 18th to July 21st, 2017. Important Dates (Firm Deadlines) ============ Paper registration deadline: April 28, 2017 Paper submission deadline: May 8, 2017 Notification of acceptance: June 12, 2017 Camera-ready copies: July 3, 2017 Workshop: July 18-21, 2017 Since we want the DL submission deadlines to be after the IJCAI notification date, the schedule is tight and NO DEADLINE EXTENSIONS will be possible. Invited Speakers ============= * Markus Kr??tzsch, Technical University of Dresden * Andreas Pieris, University of Edinburgh * Uli Sattler, University of Manchester 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 management, reasoning techniques, and modularity aspects * Extensions of description logics: closed-world and nonmonotonic reasoning, epistemic reasoning, temporal and spatial reasoning, procedural knowledge, query answering, reasoning over dynamic information * 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, graph structured data, linked data, document management, natural language, learning, planning, Semantic Web, cloud computing, conceptual modelling, web services, business processes * Systems and tools around description logics: reasoners, software tools for and using description logic reasoning (e.g. ontology editors, database schema design, query optimisation, and data integration tools), implementation and optimisation techniques, benchmarking, evaluation, modelling Submissions ========== * Submissions may be of two types: (1) Papers accepted at some conference can be submitted as accepted elsewhere together with a 1-page abstract that also specifies where the paper has been accepted. (2) Other submissions consist of 11 pages LNCS plus references. There is no page limit on the list of references. If the paper should not appear in the proceedings, an additional 1-page abstract has to be submitted. * For submissions with an additional 1-page abstract, only the abstract is published in the proceedings. The abstracts might not be indexed in dblp. This option is designed for authors who wish to announce results that have been published elsewhere, or which the authors intend to submit or have already submitted to a venue with an incompatible prior / concurrent publication policy. * All submissions may optionally include a clearly marked appendix (e.g., with additional proofs or evaluation data). The appendix will be read at the discretion of the reviewers and not included in the proceedings. The appendix does not need to be in LNCS format. * Submission page: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dl2017 * Accepted papers and 1-page abstracts will be made available electronically in the CEUR Workshop Proceedings series (http://www.CEUR-ws.org/). * Accepted submissions, be they full papers or 1-page abstracts, will be selected for either oral or poster presentation at the workshop. Submissions will be judged solely based upon their content, and the type of submission will have no bearing on the decision between oral and poster presentation. Organisation ========== * Alessandro Artale, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano (Programme co-Chair) * Birte Glimm, University of Ulm (Programme co-Chair) * Meghyn Bienvenu, University of Montpellier (Workshop co-Chair) * Marie-Laure Mugnier, University of Montpellier (Workshop co-Chair) Resources ======== * Information about submission, registration, travel information, etc., is available on the DL 2017 homepage: http://dl.kr.org/dl2017/ * The official description logic homepage is at http://dl.kr.org/ From pr-aksw at informatik.uni-leipzig.de Wed Jan 18 09:49:00 2017 From: pr-aksw at informatik.uni-leipzig.de (Sebastian Hellmann) Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2017 09:49:00 +0100 Subject: [DL] SEMANTiCS 2017, Amsterdam, Sep 11-14, 2nd Call for Research & Innovation Papers Message-ID: Apologies for cross-posting 2nd Call for Research & Innovation Papers SEMANTiCS 2017 - The Linked Data Conference 13th International Conference on Semantic Systems Amsterdam, Netherlands September 11 -14, 2017 http://2017.semantics.cc The Research & Innovation track at SEMANTiCS welcomes the submission of papers on novel scientific research and/or innovations relevant to the topics of the conference. Submissions must be original and must not have been submitted for publication elsewhere. Papers should follow the ACM ICPS guidelines for formatting (http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates) and must not exceed 8 pages in lenght for full papers and 4 pages for short papers, including references and optional appendices. Research & Innovation Papers are published within ACM ICP Series. Important Dates (Research & Innovation) Abstract Submission Deadline: May 17, 2017 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time) Paper Submission Deadline: May 24, 2017 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time) Notification of Acceptance: July 3, 2017 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time) Camera-Ready Paper: August 14, 2017 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time) For details please go to: https://2017.semantics.cc/calls or contact the Research and Innovation Chairs: Catherine Faron Zucker, faron [@] i3s.unice.fr, Universit? Nice Sophia Antipolis Rinke Hoekstra, rinke.hoekstra [@] vu.nl, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam/University of Amsterdam As in the previous years, SEMANTiCS?17 proceedings will be published by ACM ICP (pending). SEMANTiCS 2017 will especially welcome submissions for the following hot topics: *Data Science (special track, see below) *Web Semantics, Linked (Open) Data & schema.org *Corporate Knowledge Graphs *Knowledge Integration and Language Technologies *Data Quality Management *Economics of Data, Data Services and Data Ecosystems Following the success of previous years, the ?horizontals? (research) and ?verticals? (industries) below are of interest for the conference: Horizontals *Enterprise Linked Data & Data Integration *Knowledge Discovery & Intelligent Search *Business Models, Governance & Data Strategies *Semantics in Big Data *Text Analytics *Data Portals & Knowledge Visualization *Semantic Information Management *Document Management & Content Management *Terminology, Thesaurus & Ontology Management *Smart Connectivity, Networking & Interlinking *Smart Data & Semantics in IoT *Semantics for IT Safety & Security *Semantic Rules, Policies & Licensing *Community, Social & Societal Aspects Data Science Special Track Horizontals *arge-Scale Data Processing (stream processing, handling large-scale graphs) *Data Analytics (Machine Learning, Predictive Analytics, Network Analytics) *Communicating Data (Data Visualization, UX & Interaction Design, Crowdsourcing) *Cross-cutting Issues (Ethics, Privacy, Security, Provenance) Verticals *Industry & Engineering *Life Sciences & Health Care *Public Administration *e-Science *Digital Humanities *Galleries, Libraries, Archives & Museums (GLAM) *Education & eLearning *Media & Data Journalism *Publishing, Marketing & Advertising *Tourism & Recreation *Financial & Insurance Industry *Telecommunication & Mobile Services *Sustainable Development: Climate, Water, Air, Ecology *Energy, Smart Homes & Smart Grids *Food, Agriculture & Farming *Safety, Security & Privacy *Transport, Environment & Geospatial For details please go to: https://2017.semantics.cc/calls From valentina.ivanova at liu.se Mon Jan 16 18:38:09 2017 From: valentina.ivanova at liu.se (Valentina Ivanova) Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2017 17:38:09 +0000 Subject: [DL] [CfP] Extended Deadline: JWS Special Issue on Visualization and Interaction for Ontologies and Linked Data Message-ID: [CfP] Extended Submission Deadline for JWS Special Issue on Visualization and Interaction for Ontologies and Linked Data --------------------------------------------------- Extended Submission Deadline: February 15, 2017 (23:59 Hawaii Standard Time) --------------------------------------------------- http://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-web-semantics/call-for-papers/special-issue-on-visualization-and-interaction-for-ontologie (page update pending) --------------------------------------------------- Topics of interest include: --------------------------------------------------- * Visualizations and user interfaces for ontologies and Linked Data (overview, exploration, analysis, visual analytics, querying, etc.) * Visualizations and user interfaces for ontology engineering (ontology development, alignment, debugging, evolution, provenance, collaboration, etc.) * Case studies of applying visualizations in ontology engineering and Linked Data consumption * User evaluations of visual interfaces for Linked Data and ontologies * Analyses of different user types and needs * Cognitive aspects of interaction and visualization * Context-aware visualization and interaction techniques * Applications of novel interaction techniques (e.g., touch and gesture interaction) * Mobile user interfaces for ontology engineering and Linked Data exploration We are looking forward to your submissions! Valentina Ivanova Patrick Lambrix Steffen Lohmann Catia Pesquita Guest Editors From epontell at cs.nmsu.edu Fri Jan 20 04:36:57 2017 From: epontell at cs.nmsu.edu (Enrico Pontelli) Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2017 20:36:57 -0700 Subject: [DL] ICLP 2017 - Call for Workshop Proposals Message-ID: <1EE1A813-ED11-43DF-9261-53716BA486B5@cs.nmsu.edu> *** CALL FOR WORKSHOP PROPOSALS *** ICLP 2017 33rd International Conference on Logic Programming August 29 - September 1, 2017 Melbourne, Australia http://iclp17.a4lp.org ICLP 2017, the 33rd International Conference on Logic Programming, will be held in Melbourne, Australia, from August 29 to September 1, 2017. The ICLP conference series has a long standing tradition of hosting a rich set of co-located workshops. ICLP workshops provide a unique opportunity for the presentation and discussion of work that can be preliminary in nature, novel ideas, and new open problems to a wide and interested audience. Co-located workshops also provide an opportunity for presenting specialized topics and opportunities for intensive discussions and project collaboration. The topics of the workshops co-located with ICLP 2017 can cover any areas related to logic programming, (e.g., theory, implementation, environments, language issues, alternative paradigms, applications), including cross-disciplinary areas. However, any relevant workshop proposal will be considered. The format of the workshop will be decided by the workshop organizers, but ample time should be allowed for general discussion. Workshops can vary in length, but the optimal duration will be half a day or a full day. Workshop Proposal: ================== Those interested in organizing a workshop at ICLP 2017 are invited to submit a workshop proposal. Proposals should be 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 timeliness and relevance of the workshop. * A list of some related workshops held in the last years * The estimated length of the workshop and an estimate of the number of expected attendees. * The names, affiliation and contact details (email, web page, phone) of the workshop organizers together with a designated contact person. * Previous experience of the workshop organizers in workshop/conference organization. Proposals are expected in text or PDF format. All proposals should be submitted to the Workshop Chair by email by March 27, 2017. Reviewing Process: ================== Each submitted proposal will be reviewed by the Workshop, Program and General Chairs. Proposals that appear well-organized and that fit the goals and scope of ICLP will be selected. The decision will be notified by email to the responsible organizer by April 10, 2017. The definitive length of the workshop will be planned according to the number of submissions received by the different workshops. For every accepted workshop, the ICLP local organizers will prepare a meeting room. The workshops and the conference organizers will collaborate in establishing a uniform approach to produce uniform and accessible proceedings for the workshops. Workshop Organizers' Tasks: =========================== * Producing a "Call for Papers" for the workshop and posting it on the Internet and other means. A web page URL should be provided by May 1, 2017, and will be published on the ICLP 2017 home page. * Providing a brief description of the workshop for the conference program. * Reviewing/accepting submitted papers. * Scheduling workshop activities in collaboration with the local organizers and the Workshop Chair. * Providing a workshop program in a format specified by the conference organizers for posting by August 15, 2017. * Coordinating the preparation of the workshop proceedings according to the specifications provided by the Workshop chair. Location: ========= Workshops be collocated with ICLP 2017, in Melbourne, Australia. See the ICLP 2017 web site (http://iclp17.a4lp.org) for location details. Important Dates: ================ March 27, 2017: Proposal submission deadline April 10, 2017: Notification May 1, 2017: Deadline for receipt of CfP and workshop web page URL August 15, 2017: Deadline for workshop program TBA: ICLP workshops Submissions: ============ Please submit your workshop proposals by email to the Workshop Chair. Workshop Chair: =============== Enrico Pontelli epontell at cs.nmsu.edu From geoff at cs.miami.edu Thu Jan 19 15:14:23 2017 From: geoff at cs.miami.edu (Geoff Sutcliffe) Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2017 09:14:23 -0500 (EST) Subject: [DL] JAR Special Issue on Automated Reasoning Systems Message-ID: <20170119141423.988E3121480@mcclellan.cs.miami.edu> =============================================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS Journal of Automated Reasoning Special Issue On Automated Reasoning Systems The past few decades have seen major developments and practical achievements in automated reasoning systems. For example, SAT solving has become an inherent part of the standard hardware production process; SMT solvers are now the backbone of most software verification techniques; first-order theorem provers have pushed the productivity of interactive theorem proving to a new level; computer algebra systems have solved difficult problems in mathematics and biology; knowledge representation systems have become indispensable for reasoning in the world wide web; automatic termination checkers routinely prove the termination of complex programs. This special issue is dedicated to automated reasoning systems in their full variety along the following dimensions: 1) considered logic: propositional (including (D)QBF), first-order modulo theories, modal, temporal, decidable fragments of larger logics, FOL, and HOL, ...; 2) considered problem: satisfiability, interpolation, quantifier elimination, consequence finding, model building, reachability, termination, ...; 3) application area: formal methods, artificial intelligence, mathematics, biology, product development, security, ...; 4) user base: academic, educational, or industrial. In particular, we welcome papers emphasizing engineering aspects because, while often crucial for the success of automated reasoning tools, they are typically not given a sufficiently detailed treatment in theory papers or system description papers published at conferences or workshops. We welcome full-length papers describing past work not previously published in a journal as well as papers of any length describing new developments. Revised and enhanced versions of papers published in conference proceedings that have not appeared in archival journals are also eligible for submission. All submissions will be reviewed according to the usual standards of scholarship and originality. We encourage submissions that include most, if not all, of the following: (i) theory details (ii) implementation details (iii) applications, and (iv) experiments. Papers should be in PDF format, following the JAR guidelines for authors, http://www.springer.com/computer/theoretical+computer+science/journal/10817 and be submitted using EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=jars2017 To encourage a speedy review cycle, we will expect authors of submissions to serve as referees for other submissions as needed. Important Dates 3 Apr 2017 Submission deadline 1 Nov 2017 Notification of acceptance/rejection 1 Mar 2018 Final version For more information, please see https://www.mpi-inf.mpg.de/JARS17/ Guest Editors Armin Biere, Johannes Kepler University, Linz, Austria Cesare Tinelli, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, USA Christoph Weidenbach, Max Planck Institute for Informatics, Saarbruecken, Germany From info at ecmlpkdd2017.org Thu Jan 19 17:10:52 2017 From: info at ecmlpkdd2017.org (ECML-PKDD 2017) Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2017 17:10:52 +0100 Subject: [DL] ECML-PKDD 2017 - CALL FOR PAPERS - [Conference Research Track] Message-ID: ############################################################ European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECML-PKDD) Skopje, Macedonia, September 18-22, 2017 (http://www.ecmlpkdd2017.org). ############################################################ Submissions are solicited for the 2017 edition of the European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECML-PKDD 2017). The conference provides an international forum for the discussion of the latest high-quality research results in all areas related to machine learning and knowledge discovery in databases and other innovative application domains. The 2017 conference will take place in Skopje, Macedonia, 18?22 September 2017. Submissions are invited on all aspects of machine learning, knowledge discovery and data mining, including real-world applications. Following the tradition of ECML-PKDD, we expect high-quality papers in terms of their scientific contribution, rigor, correctness, quality of presentation and reproducibility of experiments. Submission process Electronic submissions will be handled via CMT at the following address: https://cmt.research.microsoft.com/ECMLPKDD2017/. Please note that user accounts in each CMT conference are independent of other conferences, so you will need to create a new account. Abstracts need to be registered by Thursday April 13, 2017 and full submissions will be accepted until Thursday April 20, 2017. Papers must be written in English and formatted according to the Springer LNAI guidelines. Author instructions, style files and copyright form can be downloaded at: http://www.springer.de/comp/ lncs/authors.html. The maximum length of papers is 16 pages in this format. Overlength papers will be rejected without review (papers with smaller page margins and font sizes than specified in the author instructions and set in the style files will also be treated as overlength). Up to 10 MB of additional materials (e.g. proofs, audio, images, video, data or source code) can be attached to the submission. Note that the reviewers and the program committee reserve the right to judge the paper solely on the basis of the 16 pages of the paper; looking at any additional material is up to the discretion of the reviewers and is not required. Reviewing process The review process is single-blind (authors identities known to reviewers). Submissions will be evaluated on the basis of technical quality, novelty, potential impact, and clarity. Authors will have the opportunity to point out factual errors, obvious mistakes, or misconceptions by reviewers during a rebuttal phase following the release of initial reviews. Dual submissions policy Papers submitted should report original work. ECML-PKDD 2017 will not accept any paper that, at the time of submission, is under review or has already been accepted for publication in a journal or another conference. Authors are also expected not to submit their papers elsewhere during the review period. The dual submissions policy applies during the whole ECML-PKDD 2017 reviewing period from April 20 to June 22, 2017. Reproducible research papers Authors are encouraged to adhere to the best practices of Reproducible Research (RR), by making available data and software tools for reproducing the results reported in their papers. Authors may flag their submissions as RR and make software and data accessible to reviewers and to the program committee who will verify the accessibility of software and data. Links to data and code will then be inserted in the final version of RR papers. For the sake of persistence and proper authorship attribution, we require the use of standard repository hosting services such as Dataverse, mldata.org, OpenML, etc. for data sets, and mloss.org, Bitbucket, GitHub, etc. for source code. If data or code gets updated after the paper is published, it is important to enable researchers to access the versions that were used to produce the results reported in the paper. Proceedings The conference proceedings will be published by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence series (LNAI). In addition to normal conference submissions, papers can be submitted to other tracks: Industrial, Governmental and NGO; Demo; Ph.D.; Nectar; journal track. Accepted papers in all the tracks, including journal track, will be presented at the conference. For information about other tracks, please see the separate call for papers. Important dates Abstract submission deadline: *Thursday April 13, 2017* Paper submission deadline: *Thursday April 20, 2017* Author notification: *Thursday June 22, 2017* Camera ready submission: *Thursday July 6, 2017* Contact For any additional questions you can contact the Program Chairs (Michelangelo Ceci, Jaakko Hollm?n, Ljup?o Todorovski, Celine Vens) at *pc_chairs at ecmlpkdd2017.org * -- Nikola Simidjievski & Dragi Kocev Publicity Chairs of ECML-PKDD 2017 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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The goal of the Nectar Track, started in 2012, is to offer conference attendees a compact overview of recent scientific advances at the frontier of machine learning and data mining with other disciplines, as published in related conferences and journals. For researchers from the other disciplines, the Nectar Track offers a place to present their work to the ECMLPKDD community and to raise the community's awareness of data analysis results and open problems in their field. We invite senior and junior researchers to submit summaries of their own work published in neighbouring fields, such as (but not limited to) artificial intelligence, big data analytics, bioinformatics, cyber security, games, computational linguistics, natural language processing, information retrieval, computer vision and image analysis, geoinformatics, health informatics, database theory, human computer interaction, information and knowledge management, robotics, pattern recognition, statistics, social network analysis, theoretical computer science, uncertainty in AI, network science, complex systems science, and computationally oriented sociology, economy and biology, as well as critical data science/studies. Particularly welcome is work that summarizes a line of work that comprises older and more recent papers. The described work should be relevant to a broad audience within ECMLPKDD, and (a) illustrate the pervasiveness of data-driven exploration and modelling in science, technology, and the public, as well as innovative applications, and/or (b) focus on theoretical results. Note that papers focusing only on software implementations rather than on the interdisciplinary use of ML/DM should rather be submitted to the demo track. Work at the core of ML/DM should target the main tracks of ECMLPKDD rather than the Nectar Track. Submission guidelines Papers must be 4 pages and should be formatted according to the Author instructions, style files and copyright form that can be found at http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html. Submissions must clearly indicate which corresponding original publication(s) are presented, and must clearly motivate the relevance of the work in the context of machine learning and data mining. Papers should be submitted through the conference CMT submission system (select from the menu the Nectar track). Accepted Nectar contributions will be presented as oral presentations and included in the conference proceedings. Important dates ? Submission deadline: *Thursday, May 18, 2017* ? Notifications of acceptance: *Thursday, June 22, 2017* ? Submission of camera ready copies: *Thursday, July 6, 2017* Contacts In case you have any question, please do not hesitate to contact the Nectar Track Chairs (Donato Malerba, Jerzy Stefanowski) at nectar_chairs at ecmlpkdd2017.org. We are looking forward to your proposals. -- Nikola Simidjievski & Dragi Kocev Publicity Chairs of ECML-PKDD 2017 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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The 2017 edition of ECML-PKDD will take place in Skopje, Macedonia, September 18-22. The APPLIED DATA SCIENCE Track of ECML-PKDD 2017 follows the success of the previous years with a separate Program Committee and a separate Proceedings volume. The track aims to bring together participants from academia, industry, governments and NGOs (non-governmental organizations) in a venue that highlights practical and real-world studies of machine learning, knowledge discovery and data mining. This track wants to encourage mutually beneficial interactions between those engaged in scientific research and practitioners working to improve big data mining and large-scale machine learning analytics. Novel and practical ideas, open problems in applied data science, description of application?specific challenges and unique solutions adopted in bridging the gap between research and practice are some of the relevant topics for this track. Submissions are invited on innovative real-world data systems and applications, state-of-the-art practices, identification of unsolved challenges in deploying research ideas in practical data science applications, surveys from real-world projects and industrial experiences that advance the understanding of the contributions and limitations of machine learning and data mining technologies in real-world applications. The APPLIED DATA SCIENCE Track is distinct from the Research Track in that submissions solve real-world problems and focus on applications and challenges. Submissions must clearly identify one of the following three areas they fall into: "Engineering Systems", "Data Analytics", or "Challenges". The criteria for submissions are the following: ? Engineering Systems: presents non-trivial systems or infrastructure designed to solve real-world big data problems, where the main novelty is the approach to design, deploy and manage the system. ? Data Analytics: presents new practical data science studies that provide value to the community of practitioners, and researchers in industry, governments and NGOs. These studies should be useful, non-trivial, and externally validated. ? Challenges: presents novel ideas, current data analytic challenges, controversial issues, open problems and comparisons of competing approaches. Proceedings The APPLIED DATA SCIENCE Track proceedings of ECML-PKDD 2017 will be published by Springer in a separate volume of the Proceedings of ECML-PKDD 2017, in the Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence series (LNAI). At least one of the authors of each accepted paper must register for the conference to present the paper on site. Submissions The papers must be written in English and formatted according to the Springer LNAI guidelines. Author's instructions and style files can be downloaded at: http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html The maximum length of papers is 12 pages in this format. Longer papers will be rejected without review (papers with smaller page margins and font sizes than specified in the author instructions and set in the style files will also be treated as over length). Papers submitted should report original work; ECML-PKDD 2017 will not accept any paper, which, at the time of submission, is under review or has already been accepted for publication in a journal or another conference. Authors are also expected not to submit their papers elsewhere during the review period. To submit a paper: ? Create an account and log into the conference CMT submission site for ECML-PKDD 2017. Please note that user accounts for different CMT conferences are independent of each other. Thus, any credentials you might have for previous CMT conferences will not work for ECML-PKDD 2017. ? Specify your conflict domains. ? Create a New Paper submission. ? Select the Industrial Track. ? Complete the submission form by providing title, authors, one primary subject area, any number of secondary subject areas and a short abstract. The manuscript must be uploaded in pdf format. You will also need to answer the questions at the site. Evaluation and Decision Criteria Submissions will be evaluated on the basis of relevance, novelty, originality, technical soundness, clarity, empirical and/or practical validation, external significance and validity, quality and consistency of presentation, and appropriate comparison to related work. Special emphasis will be placed on the relevance of the proposed contribution to practitioners. Authors are strongly encouraged to make data and code publicly available whenever possible. Authors of papers submitted to the APPLIED DATA SCIENCE Track of ECML-PKDD 2017 must identify the application domain that is the subject of their paper. Application domains include, but are not limited to the following: finance, government, e-commerce, retail, mobile, medicine, healthcare, security, public policy, science, engineering, law, manufacturing, and communications. Reviewing process The APPLIED DATA SCIENCE Track of ECML-PKDD 2017 has a separate Program Committee from the Research Track. Papers submitted to the APPLIED DATA SCIENCE Track of ECML-PKDD 2017 will be reviewed by at least three referees. The review process is single-blind (reviewer identities unknown to authors) and there will be no opportunity for author rebuttal. This decision was made to minimize reviewer workload and to concentrate it in time, which may ultimately result in better quality reviews and decisions. If necessary, a discussion will take place among the reviewers of a paper until a decision is reached. Important Dates ? Abstract submission deadline: Thursday, April 13, 2017 ? Paper submission deadline: Thursday, April 20, 2017 ? Author notification: Thursday, June 22, 2017 ? Camera ready submission: Thursday, July 6, 2017 Contact You can contact the Industrial Track Chairs (Yasemin Altun, Kamalika Das, Taneli Mielik?inen) at mailto:industrial_chairs at ecmlpkdd2017.org. -- Nikola Simidjievski & Dragi Kocev Publicity Chairs of ECML-PKDD 2017 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From info at ecmlpkdd2017.org Thu Jan 19 17:19:26 2017 From: info at ecmlpkdd2017.org (ECML-PKDD 2017) Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2017 17:19:26 +0100 Subject: [DL] ECML-PKDD 2017 - CALL FOR PAPERS - [Demo Track] Message-ID: ############################################################ European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECML-PKDD) Skopje, Macedonia, September 18-22, 2017 (http://www.ecmlpkdd2017.org). ############################################################ We solicit submissions for demos for ECML PKDD 2017 in Skopje, Macedonia. Submissions must describe working systems and be based on state-of-the-art machine learning and data mining technology. These systems may be innovative prototype implementations or mature systems that use machine learning techniques and knowledge discovery processes in a real setting. Systems that use basic statistics are not acceptable. Commercial software systems are not acceptable. The accepted papers for demos will be included in the conference proceedings, to be published by Springer Verlag in the "Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence" (LNAI) Series(http://www.springer.com/lncs). The demos will be presented in a special demonstration session. At least one of the demo submitters must register for the conference, and perform the demo on site. ### Submission Guidelines All aspects of the submission and notification process will be handled online via the conference CMT submission site( https://cmt.research.microsoft.com/ECMLPKDD2017). Please choose the right track during the submission. Instructions concerning the submission (except for the "reproducible research" part which is not relevant for a demo paper), camera-ready formatting and copyright transfer for conference papers also hold for demo papers, unless otherwise specified. A demonstration submission must be up to 4 pages long. It must provide adequate information on the system's components and the way the system is operated, including e.g. screenshots. Submitters should keep in mind that the description of a demo has inherently different content than a research paper submitted to the main conference. A successful demonstration paper provides satisfactory answers to the following questions: * What are the innovative aspects or in what way/area does it represent the state of the art? * Who are the target users and why is the system interesting/useful for them? * If there are similar/related pieces of software, what are the advantages and disadvantages of the presented one? The formatting guidelines of Springer Verlag for the LNAI series apply, and the author instructions and style files under http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html must be used. For inquiries concerning submissions please contact the Demo Track Chairs. ### Important Dates - Demo submission deadline: **Thursday, May 11, 2017** - Notification of acceptance: **Thursday, June 22, 2017** - Camera-ready paper due: **Thursday, July 6, 2017** - Presentation of the live demos: **Tuesday September 19, 2017** and **Thursday September 21, 2017** ### Contacts For further information please contact the Demo Track Chairs (Marinka Zitnik, Jesse Read) at [demo_chairs at ecmlpkdd2017.org] -- Nikola Simidjievski & Dragi Kocev Publicity Chairs of ECML-PKDD 2017 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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These topics include related research fields or applications but also well-developed tools and suites that support ML/DM research. The ideal tutorial should attract a wide audience. It should be broad enough to provide a basic introduction to the chosen area, but it should also cover the most important topics in depth. Each tutorial should be well-focused so that its content can be covered in a half-day slot. Proposals that exclusively focus on the presenter?s own work or commercial demonstrations are strongly discouraged. Tutorial slides will be made available online at the ECML-PKDD website, although authors can provide them on additional websites as well. Depending on the budget, we expect to offer a waived registration fee for attendance on the workshop day to one speaker of each accepted tutorial (i.e., no guarantee). Guidelines for proposals Tutorial proposals should contain at least the following: ? A title and an abstract of the tutorial. ? A brief description of the tutorial content and its relevance to the ECML-PKDD community (no more than 2 pages). ? A brief outline of the tutorial structure showing that the tutorial?s core content can be covered in a 4 hours slot (including a 30 minutes break). ? The names and contact information of the tutorial instructors, including one-paragraph statements of their research interests and areas of expertise; it is required to indicate in the proposal who is planning to attend the conference and present which part. ? A list of previous venues and approximate audience sizes, if the same or a similar tutorial has been given elsewhere; otherwise an estimate of the audience size. ? A description of special requirements for technical equipment (e.g., audio equipment). Combined Tutorial & Workshop Especially for a relatively novel but rapidly maturing topic, a half day tutorial (4h incl. one 30 minute break) followed by a half day workshop (4h incl. one 30 minute break) could be a good format. We kindly ask you to write a single proposal for the tutorial and workshop that covers the different guidelines and requirements for tutorials and workshops. In addition, the links should be clearly described and the proposal should be submitted to the workshop and tutorial chairs (select both 'Workshop' and 'Tutorial' as topics). For workshop guidelines, please see the separate Call For Workshop Proposals. Proposal reviewing process The proposal will be reviewed by the workshop and tutorial co-chairs, who may use the help of external reviewers, and experts on the submission topics. The features that will be evaluated are: ? The interestingness for the ECML-PKDD areas, which should result in a large audience. ? The clarity of the tutorial, which should emerge from its description. ? Good organization as appearing from the outline. ? The adequacy of the speakers, i.e., her/his background/experience in teaching the target topics. ? The ability to explain the topics to a large audience with heterogeneous background. Submission Please submit your tutorial proposals in PDF format using EasyChair. The submitted proposals will be reviewed in a close collaboration with the conference chairs and the program committee. Important dates The following deadlines are important for the tutorial organizers: ? Tutorial proposal deadline Monday, April 17, 2017 ? Tutorial acceptance notification Monday, May 1, 2017 ? Tutorial final abstract submission Monday, May 15, 2017 ? Tutorial course material (slides, bibliography) online Monday, September 4, 2017 Contact In case you have further questions, please do not hesitate to contact the Workshop and Tutorial Chairs (Pan?e Panov and Nathalie Japkowicz) at wt_chairs at ecmlpkdd2017.org. We are looking forward to your proposals. -- Nikola Simidjievski & Dragi Kocev Publicity Chairs of ECML-PKDD 2017 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From info at ecmlpkdd2017.org Thu Jan 19 17:22:47 2017 From: info at ecmlpkdd2017.org (ECML-PKDD 2017) Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2017 17:22:47 +0100 Subject: [DL] ECML-PKDD 2017 - CALL FOR WORKSHOPS Message-ID: ############################################################ European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECML-PKDD) Skopje, Macedonia, September 18-22, 2017 (http://www.ecmlpkdd2017.org). ############################################################ The ECML-PKDD 2017 Organizing Committee invites proposals for workshops to be held on the first and last days of the conference (September 18 and 22, 2017), which will take place in Skopje, Macedonia. We invite proposals for both full- and half-day workshops in current and emerging topics in machine learning and data mining. Workshops provide an opportunity to discuss novel topics in a small and interactive atmosphere. They can concentrate in-depth on research topics, but can also be devoted to application issues, or to questions concerning the economic and social aspects of machine learning and data mining. Multidisciplinary workshops that bring together researchers and practitioners from different communities are particularly welcome. If the budget permits, one organizer or invited speaker of an accepted workshop will be offered the possibility of waived registration fee for attendance on the workshop day (only). *Duration & format* We welcome both full- and half-day workshop proposals. Full-day workshops will have a program of typically 8 hours including two 30-minute coffee breaks and a 90-minute lunch break. Half-day workshops will have a 4 hours program with a 30-minute coffee break. We would like to encourage proposers to aim for a program that is both varied and interesting. Especially where the format of the workshop is concerned, we would like you to think about ways of going beyond the usual list of presentations of accepted papers. Keep in mind that the main conference is necessarily more time-constrained and workshops therefore allow for group explorations of interesting topics, for example by means of discussions, demo sessions, invited talks, and panels. Another way of extending the usual format is to include a specific challenge problem that can be addressed by the workshop participants, with a dedicated challenge session in the workshop program. Note, however, that the challenge should be only one of the components of the workshop, targeting a problem which is specific to the workshop topic(s). For some workshops, it may be useful to first present an introduction to the state-of-the-art in the field given by experienced invited presenters, and afterwards discuss more technical or novel work in a standard (or non-standard!) workshop setting. *Combined Tutorial & Workshop* Especially for a relatively novel but rapidly maturing topic, giving the aforementioned introduction of the state-of-the-art may go beyond the scope of an invited presentation. In this case, a half day tutorial (4h incl. one 30 minute break) followed by a half day workshop (4h incl. one 30 minute break) could be a good format. We kindly ask you to write a single proposal for the tutorial and workshop that covers the different guidelines and requirements for tutorials and workshops. In addition, the links should be clearly described and the proposal should be submitted to the workshop and tutorial chairs (select both 'Workshop' and 'Tutorial' as topics). For tutorial guidelines, please see the separate Call For Tutorial Proposals . *Guidelines for proposals* Workshop proposals should contain the necessary information for the workshop chairs and reviewers to judge the importance, quality, and community interest in the proposed topic (a minimum of 15-20 expected participants is required). Each workshop should have one or more designated organisers and a program. When proposing a workshop, please provide (at least) the following information: ? A *brief description of the specific issues that the workshop will address*, the *reasons why the workshop is of interest*, the *main research areas involved*, and *what the workshop will add to the conference* (e.g., do you expect papers of a theme that would not fit the main conference?). ? *Contact information of the workshop chairs*, their competence in the proposed topic(s), and previous experience in chairing scientific events. ? A *tentative list of Program Committee members* and *potential invited speakers.* ? A *draft of the Call for Papers*, including information on accepted formats (e.g., regular papers, extended abstracts, oral-only presentations of relevant recently published or submitted contributions, etc.) and expected format of the workshop (e.g., invited talks, presentations, poster sessions, panel discussions, challenge sessions, or other ideas for ensuring an interactive atmosphere). In the case of a combined tutorial-workshop, please clearly indicate the format. ? *Any special requirements regarding logistics* (e.g., poster stands, audio equipment), if applicable. ? An *estimate of the number of expected submissions*, and an *estimate of the number of expected workshop participants* at the conference. *Submission* Please submit your workshop proposals in PDF format using EasyChair . The submitted proposals will be reviewed in a close collaboration with the conference chairs and the program committee. Important dates The following deadlines are important for the workshop organizers: ? Workshop proposal deadline *Monday, April 17, 2017* ? Workshop acceptance notification *Monday, May 1, 2017* ? Workshop websites and call for papers online *Monday, May 15, 2017* ? Workshop program and proceedings online *Monday, September 4, 2017* For paper submission, reviewing and final revisions, please consider the following deadlines: ? Workshop paper submission deadline *Monday, July 3, 2017* ? Workshop paper acceptance notification *Monday, July 24, 2017* ? Workshop paper camera-ready deadline *Monday, August 7, 2017* These deadlines are somewhat flexible, but consider as constraints that the paper submission deadline should be after conference author notification (June 19) and acceptance notification should be before the conference early registration deadline (July 31). *Contact* In case you have further questions, please do not hesitate to contact the Workshop and Tutorial Chairs (Pan?e Panov and Nathalie Japkowicz) at wt_chairs at ecmlpkdd2017.org. We are looking forward to your proposals. -- Nikola Simidjievski & Dragi Kocev Publicity Chairs of ECML-PKDD 2017 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From geoff at cs.miami.edu Mon Jan 23 18:56:57 2017 From: geoff at cs.miami.edu (Geoff Sutcliffe) Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2017 12:56:57 -0500 (EST) Subject: [DL] ITP 2017 - 2nd Call for Papers Message-ID: <20170123175657.94B2D12148F@mcclellan.cs.miami.edu> SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS ITP 2017 8th International Conference on Interactive Theorem Proving Brasilia, Brazil September 26-29, 2017 http://itp2017.cic.unb.br SUBMISSION DEADLINES * April 3, 2017 (abstracts) * April 10, 2017 (full papers) GENERAL INFORMATION The ITP conference series is concerned with all topics related to interactive theorem proving, ranging from theoretical foundations to implementation aspects and applications in program verification, security, and formalization of mathematics. ITP is the evolution of the TPHOLs conference series to the broad field of interactive theorem proving. TPHOLs meetings took place every year from 1988 until 2009. The eighth ITP conference, ITP 2017, will be held at Universidade de Brasilia, September 26-29, 2017. SCOPE OF CONFERENCE ITP welcomes submissions describing original research on all aspects of interactive theorem proving and its applications. Suggested topics include but are not limited to the following: * formal aspects of hardware and software * formalizations of mathematics * improvements in theorem prover technology * user interfaces for interactive theorem provers * formalizations of computational models * verification of security algorithms * use of theorem provers in education * industrial applications of interactive theorem provers * concise and elegant worked examples of formalizations (proof pearls) PUBLICATION DETAILS The proceedings of the symposium will be published in the Springer's LNCS series. PAPER SUBMISSIONS All submissions must be original, unpublished, and not submitted concurrently for publication elsewhere. Furthermore, when appropriate, submissions are expected to be accompanied by verifiable evidence of a suitable implementation, such as the source files of a formalization for the proof assistant used. Submissions should be no more than 16 pages in length and are to be submitted in PDF via EasyChair at the following address: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=itp2017 Submissions must conform to the LNCS style in LaTeX. Authors of accepted papers are expected to present their paper at the conference and will be required to a sign copyright release form. In addition to regular papers, described above, there will be a rough diamond section. Rough diamond submissions are limited to 6 pages and may consist of an extended abstract. They will be refereed and be expected to present innovative and promising ideas, possibly in an early form and without supporting evidence. Accepted diamonds will be published in the main proceedings and will be presented as short talks. After the conference the authors of selected papers will be invited to submit revised papers for a special issue of the Journal of Automated Reasoning. IMPORTANT DATES Abstract submission deadline: April 3, 2017 Full paper submission deadline: April 10, 2017 Author notification: June 2, 2017 Camera-ready papers: June 30, 2017 Workshops & Tutorials: September 23-25, 2017 Conference: September 26-29, 2017 INVITED SPEAKERS Moa Johansson, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden Leonardo de Moura, Microsoft Research Katalin Bimbo, University of Alberta, Canada (joint with TABLEAUX and FroCos) Jasmin Blanchette Inria and LORIA, Nancy, France (joint with TABLEAUX and FroCos) Cesary Kaliszyk Universitaet Innsbruck, Austria (joint with TABLEAUX and FroCos) WORKSHOPS AND TUTORIALS There will be a three-day programme of four workshops and four tutorials from 23-25 September. Workshops: 12th Logical and Semantic Frameworks with Applications (LSFA 2017) Sandra Alves, Renata Wassermann, Flavio L. C. de Moura 23 and 24 September 2017 Proof eXchange for Theorem Proving (PxTP) Catherine Dubois, Bruno Woltzenlogel Paleo 23 and 24 September 2017 EPS - Encyclopedia of Proof Systems Giselle Reis, Bruno Woltzenlogel Paleo 24 and 25 September 2017 DaLi - Dynamic Logic: new trends and applications Mario Benevides, Alexandre Madeira 24 September 2017 Tutorials: General methods in proof theory for modal and substructural logics Bjoern Lellmann, Revantha Ramanayake 23 September 2017 From proof systems to complexity bounds Anupam Das 24 September 2017 Proof Compressions and the conjecture NP =3D PSPACE Lew Gordeev, Edward Hermann Haeusler 25 September 2017 PVS for Computer Scientists Cesar Munoz, Mauricio Ayala-Rincon, Mariano Moscato 25 September 2017 Details will be published in separate calls and on the conference website. PROGRAM COMMITTEE CHAIRS Mauricio Ayala-Rincon, U. Brasilia Cesar Munoz, NASA PROGRAM COMMITTEE CHAIRS Maria Alpuente, T.U. Valencia Vander Alves, U. Brasilia June Andronick, Data61, CSIRO, UNSW Jeremy Avigad, Carnegie Mellon U. Sylvie Boldo, INRIA LRI Ana Bove, Chalmers & Gothenburg U. Adam Chlipala, MIT Gilles Dowek, INRIA, ENS Cachan Aaron Dutle, NASA Amy Felty, U. Ottawa Marcelo Frias, I.T. Buenos Aires Ruben Gamboa, U. Wyoming Herman Geuvers, Radboud U. Elsa Gunter, U. Illinois U.C. John Harrison, Intel Corporation Nao Hirokawa, JAIST Matt Kaufmann, U. Texas Austin Mark Lawford, McMaster U. Andreas Lochbihler, ETH Zurich Assia Mahboubi, INRIA Panagiotis Manolios, Northeastern U. Gopalan Nadathur, U. Minnesota Keiko Nakata, SAP Potsdam Adam Naumowicz, U. Bialystok Tobias Nipkow, T.U. Munich Scott Owens, U. Kent Sam Owre, SRI Lawrence Paulson, U. Cambridge Leila Ribeiro, U.F. Rio Grande do Sul Claudio Sacerdoti Coen, U. Bologna Augusto Sampaio, U.F. Pernambuco Monika Seisenberger, Swansea U. Christian Sternagel, U. Innsbruck Sofiene Tahar, Concordia U. Christian Urban, King's College London Josef Urban, Czech T.U. 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Submission Deadlines: 24th April 2017 (abstracts) 28th April 2017 (full papers) GENERAL INFORMATION The 11th International Symposium on Frontiers of Combining Systems (FroCoS 2017) will be held in Brasilia, Brazil, between September 25 to September 29, 2017. Its main goal is to disseminate and promote progress in research areas related to the development of techniques for the integration, combination, and modularization of formal systems together with their analysis. FroCoS 2017 will be co-located with the 26th International Conference on Automated Reasoning with Analytic Tableaux and Related Methods (TABLEAUX 2017) and the 8th International Conference on Interactive Theorem?Proving (ITP 2017). The local organization of all events will be organised by Claudia Nalon (USB, Brazil), Daniele Nantes (UnB, Brazil), Elaine Pimentel (UFRN, Brazil) and Joa?o Marcos (UFRN, Brazil). 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 systems for selected tasks. To be usable in practice, these specialized systems must be combined with each other and integrated into general purpose systems. This has led---in many research areas---to the development of techniques and methods for the combination and integration of dedicated formal systems, as well as for their modularization and analysis. The International Symposium on Frontiers of Combining Systems (FroCoS) traditionally focusses on these types of research questions and activities. Like its predecessors, FroCoS 2017 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 higher-order, first-order, temporal, modal, description or other non-classical logics); * combination and integration methods in SAT and SMT solving; * combination of decision procedures, satisfiability procedures, constraint solving techniques, or logical frameworks; * combinations and modularity in ontologies; * integration of equational and other theories into deductive systems; * 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; * integration of data structures into constraint logic programming and deduction; * combinations and modularity in term rewriting; * applications of methods and techniques to the verification and analysis of information systems. INVITED SPEAKERS - Katalin Bimb? (University of Alberta, Canada) (joint with TABLEAUX and ITP) - Jasmin Blanchette (Inria and LORIA, Nancy, France) (joint with TABLEAUX and ITP) - Cezary Kaliszyk (University of Innsbruck, Austria) (joint with TABLEAUX and ITP) - Cesare Tinelli (University of Iowa, USA) - Renata Wassermann (University of S?o Paulo, Brazil) PUBLICATION DETAILS The proceedings of the symposium will be published in the Springer LNAI/LNCS series. PAPER SUBMISSIONS The program committee seeks high-quality submissions describing original work, written in English, not 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 at the following address: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=frocos2017 For each accepted paper, at least one of the authors is required to attend the symposium and present the work. Prospective authors must register a title and an abstract five days before the paper submission deadline. Further information about paper submissions is available at the conference website that can be found at the beginning of this call for papers. WORKSHOPS AND TUTORIALS Proposals for Workshops and Tutorial sessions have been solicited in a separate call, which can be found at http://frocos2017.cic.unb.br/#cfw. IMPORTANT DATES 24th April 2017: Abstract submission deadline 28th April 2017: Full paper submission deadline 9th June 2017: Author notification 23rd June 2017: Camera-ready version due September 25-29, 2017: FroCoS Conference PROGRAM COMMITTEE Carlos Areces, FaMAF - Universidad Nacional de C?rdoba Alessandro Artale, Free University of Bolzano-Bozen Mauricio Ayala-Rincon, Universidade de Brasilia Franz Baader, TU Dresden Peter Baumgartner, National ICT Australia Christoph Benzm?ller, Freie Universit?t Berlin Thomas Bolander, Technical University of Denmark Marcelo Coniglio, State University of Campinas Clare Dixon, University of Liverpool [co-chair] Fran?ois Fages, Inria Paris-Rocquencourt Marcelo Finger, Universidade de Sao Paulo [co-chair] Pascal Fontaine, LORIA, INRIA, University of Lorraine Didier Galmiche, LORIA, University of Lorraine Vijay Ganesh, University of Waterloo Silvio Ghilardi, Universit? degli Studi di Milano J?rgen Giesl, RWTH Aachen Laura Giordano, Universit? del Piemonte Orientale Agi Kurucz, Kings College, London Till Mossakowski, Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg Cl?udia Nalon, University of Bras?lia Elaine Pimentel, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte Silvio Ranise, Fondazione Bruno Kessler-Irst Christophe Ringeissen, LORIA-INRIA Uli Sattler, University of Manchester Roberto Sebastiani, University of Trento Guillermo Simari, Universidad Nacional del Sur in Bahia Blanca Viorica Sofronie-Stokkermans, University Koblenz-Landau Andrzej Szalas, University of Warsaw Ren? Thiemann, University of Innsbruck Ashish Tiwari, SRI International Christoph Weidenbach, Max Planck Institute for Informatics -- Marcelo Finger Departament of Computer Science, IME University of Sao Paulo http://www.ime.usp.br/~mfinger -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From peter.schuller at marmara.edu.tr Mon Jan 23 09:17:46 2017 From: peter.schuller at marmara.edu.tr (Peter Schüller) Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2017 11:17:46 +0300 (+03) Subject: [DL] CFP International Conference on Logic Programming and Non-monotonic Reasoning, Finland, 3-6 July 2017 Message-ID: <20170123081746.E452F2C00D0@omsievews> Call for Papers --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 14th International Conference on Logic Programming and Non-monotonic Reasoning LPNMR 2017 http://lpnmr2017.aalto.fi/ Hanasaari, Espoo, Finland July 3-6, 2017 !!! Submissions enabled !!! AIJ&TPLP Fast Tracks !!! Springer PB Prize !!! --------------------------------------------------------------------------- AIMS AND SCOPE LPNMR 2017 is the fourteenth in the series of international meetings on logic programming and non-monotonic reasoning. LPNMR is a forum for exchanging ideas on declarative logic programming, non-monotonic reasoning, and knowledge representation. The aim of the conference is to facilitate interactions between researchers and practitioners interested in the design and implementation of logic-based programming languages and database systems, and those working in knowledge representation and nonmonotonic reasoning. LPNMR strives to encompass theoretical and experimental studies that have led or will lead to advances in declarative programming and knowledge representation, as well as their use in practical applications. This edition of LPNMR will feature several workshops and a special session dedicated to the 7th ASP Competition. A Doctoral Consortium will also be a part of the program. INVITED SPEAKERS Joao Leite, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal Tran Cao Son, New Mexico State University, Las Cruses, New Mexico, USA Francesca Toni, Imperial College, London, UK TOPICS Authors are invited to submit papers presenting original and unpublished research on all aspects of non-monotonic approaches in logic programming and knowledge representation. We invite submissions of both long and short papers on topics detailed below. Conference topics include, but are not limited to: 1. Foundations of LPNMR Systems: * Semantics of new and existing languages; * Action languages, causality; * Formalization of Commonsense Reasoning and understanding its laws and nature; * 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; * Algorithms and novel techniques for efficient evaluation; * LPNMR benchmarks. 3. Applications of LPNMR: * Use of LPNMR in 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 bioinformatics, linguistics, psychology, and other sciences; * Integration of LPNMR systems with other computational paradigms; * Embedded LPNMR: Systems using LPNMR subsystems. SUBMISSION LPNMR 2017 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's 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 written in English, present original research, and be formatted according to Springer's guidelines and technical instructions available at: https://www.springer.com/gp/authors-editors/conference-proceedings/conference-proceedings-guidelines Paper submission is now enabled via the LPNMR-17 Easychair site: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lpnmr2017 Two best papers of general AI interest will be invited for a rapid publication in the Artificial Intelligence Journal (AIJ). Two best papers with narrower logic programming focus will be invited for a rapid publication in Theory and Practice of Logic Programming (TPLP). An additional prize of 1000 EUR, sponsored by Springer, will be shared out among the best papers of the conference. MULTIPLE SUBMISSION POLICY LPNMR 2017 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. ASSOCIATED EVENTS WORKSHOPS - LPNMR 2017 will include specialized workshops to be held on July 3 prior to the main conference. Currently planned workshops include: - Answer Set Programming and Other Computing Paradigms (ASPOCP) Organizers: Bart Bogaerts and Amelia Harrison - Defeasible and Ampliative Reasoning (DARe) Organizers: Richard Booth, Giovanni Casini, and Ivan Varzinczak - Grounding and Transformations for Theories with Variables (GTTV) Organizers: Simona Perri and Shahab Tasharrofi - Knowledge Representation and Planning for Robotics and Autonomous Systems (KPRAS) Organizers: Fangkai Yang and Shiqi Zhang - Practical Aspects of Answer Set Programming (PAoASP) Organizers: Martin Gebser, Marco Maratea, and Francesco Ricca - User-Oriented Logic Paradigms (IULP) Organizers: Stefan Ellmauthaler and Claudia Schulz ASP COMPETITION - A special session dedicated to a discussion of the 7th ASP System Competition, including the methodology of the competition, benchmarks used, lessons learned and, most importantly, the results and the announcement of the winners. DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM - A mentoring event where PhD students have a change to present their current research, get feedback from peers and senior researchers, and establish contacts for the future. FURTHER INFORMATION WWW: lpnmr2017.aalto.fi/ email: lpnmr2017 at list dot aalto dot fi IMPORTANT DATES * Paper registration: January 27th, 2017 * Paper submission: February 3rd, 2017 * Notification: March 3rd, 2017 * Final versions due: March 17th, 2017 VENUE Espoo, the second largest and the fastest growing city in Finland, is located right next to the capital Helsinki in the coastal Finland. Espoo is Northern Europe's largest high-tech and innovation hub where science, business and culture meet the wilderness of Nuuksio National Park and stunning seaside environment. Espoo's location offers excellent traffic connections: only half an hour from the international airport and harbors. The main campus of Aalto University is situated in Espoo. The LPNMR 2017 conference will be held in the Hanasaari Conference center that is located on an island of its own and is only 15 minutes away from Helsinki center by public transport. PROGRAM CHAIRS Marcello Balduccini, Drexel University, USA Tomi Janhunen, Aalto University, Finland PUBLICITY CHAIR Peter Sch??ller, Marmara University, Turkey WORKSHOPS CHAIR Joohyung Lee, Arizona State University, USA DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM CHAIR Marina De Vos, University of Bath, UK 7TH ASP COMPETITION ORGANIZERS Martin Gebser, University of Potsdam, Germany Marco Maratea, University of Genoa, Italy Francesco Ricca, University of Calabria, Italy PROGRAM COMMITTEE Jose Julio Alferes, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal Marcello Balduccini, Drexel University, USA Chitta Baral, Arizona State University, USA Bart Bogaerts, KU Leuven, Belgium Gerhard Brewka, Leipzig University, Germany Pedro Cabalar, University of Corunna, Spain Francesco Calimeri, University of Calabria, Italy Stefania Costantini, University of L'Aquila, Italy James Delgrande, Simon Fraser University, Canada Marc Denecker, K.U.Leuven, Belgium Marina De Vos, University of Bath, UK Agostino Dovier, University of Udine, Italy Thomas Eiter, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Wolfgang Faber, University of Huddersfield, UK Paul Fodor, Stony Brook University, USA Alfredo Gabaldon, GE Global Research, USA Martin Gebser, University of Potsdam, Germany Michael Gelfond, Texas Tech University, USA Giovanni Grasso, Oxford University, UK Giovambattista Ianni, University of Calabria, Italy Daniela Inclezan, Miami University, USA Tomi Janhunen, Aalto University, Finland Matthias Knorr, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal Joohyung Lee, Arizona State University, USA Yuliya Lierler, University of Nebraska at Omaha, USA Vladimir Lifschitz, University of Texas at Austin, USA Fangzhen Lin, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong Marco Maratea, University of Genoa, Italy Alessandra Mileo, National University of Ireland, Ireland Emilia Oikarinen, Finnish Institute of Occupational Health, Finland Mauricio Osorio, Universidad de las Americas Puebla, Mexico Ravi Palla, GE Global Research, USA David Pearce, Universidad Polit??cnica de Madrid, Spain Axel Polleres, Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria Enrico Pontelli, New Mexico State University, USA Christoph Redl, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Alessandra Russo, Imperial College, United Kingdom Orkunt Sabuncu, University of Potsdam, Germany Chiaki Sakama, Wakayama University, Japan Torsten Schaub, University of Potsdam, Germany Peter Sch??ller, Marmara University, Turkey Tran Cao Son, New Mexico State University, USA Hannes Strass, Leipzig University, Germany Theresa Swift, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal Shahab Tasharrofi, Aalto University, Finland Eugenia Ternovska, Simon Fraser University, Canada Hans Tompits, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Mirek Truszczynski, University of Kentucky, USA Agustin Valverde, Universidad de M??laga, 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 Yi Zhou, University of Western Sydney, Australia (Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this email. Please distribute to interested parties.) From Ruben.Verborgh at UGent.be Thu Jan 26 13:36:23 2017 From: Ruben.Verborgh at UGent.be (Ruben Verborgh) Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2017 12:36:23 +0000 Subject: [DL] [CfP] ESWC2017 Posters and Demos Message-ID: <23300BE9-5940-4635-813C-5F6C501343E3@ugent.be> ESWC2017 ? CALL FOR POSTERS & DEMOS submission: 13 March 2017 conference: 28 May to 1 June 2017 in Portoro?, Slovenia details: http://2017.eswc-conferences.org/Posters-and-Demos ESWC is a major venue for discussing scientific results and innovations around semantic technologies. The posters and demos track provides a forum for late-breaking results, on-going research projects, innovative ideas, as well as prototypes and their applications in various domains. TOPICS Submissions may cover all areas of Semantic Web research and applications, such as Linked Data and Knowledge Graphs, Ontologies, Reasoning, Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning, Information Retrieval, Data Quality and Data Integration, and Semantic Data Management, as well as applications from Life Sciences, eGovernment, Business, Manufacturing, eScience, Emergency and Crisis Management, etc. SUBMISSION ? maximum 4 pages (poster) or 5 pages (demo) ? PDF in LNCS style ? submit at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=eswc2017pd PUBLICATION AND ATTENDANCE ? Poster papers will appear in supplementary post-conference proceedings to be published by Springer as Lecture Notes in Computer Science. ? Participants with an accepted poster or demonstration must register for the conference and present their work during the Poster and Demos Session. CHAIRS ? Katja Hose (University of Aalborg, Denmark) ? Heiko Paulheim (University of Mannheim, Germany) From serge.autexier at dfki.de Tue Jan 24 11:23:28 2017 From: serge.autexier at dfki.de (Serge Autexier) Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2017 11:23:28 +0100 (CET) Subject: [DL] First Call for Papers - 10th Conference on Intelligent Computer Mathematics - CICM 2017 - Abstract Submission Deadline 15. March 2017 Message-ID: <20170124102328.54863E90218@mbp-autexier.informatik.uni-bremen.de> Call for Papers 10th Conference on Intelligent Computer Mathematics - CICM 2017 - July 17-21, 2016 University of Edinburgh, Scotland http://www.cicm-conference.org/2017 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Digital and computational solutions are becoming the prevalent means for the generation, communication, processing, storage and curation of mathematical information. Separate communities have developed to investigate and build computer based systems for computer algebra, automated deduction, and mathematical publishing as well as novel user interfaces. While all of these systems excel in their own right, their integration can lead to synergies offering significant added value. The Conference on Intelligent Computer Mathematics (CICM) offers a venue for discussing and developing solutions to the great challenges posed by the integration of these diverse areas. CICM has been held annually as a joint meeting since 2008, co-locating related conferences and workshops to advance work in these subjects. Previous meetings have been held in Birmingham (UK 2008), Grand Bend (Canada 2009), Paris (France 2010), Bertinoro (Italy 2011), Bremen (Germany 2012), Bath (UK 2013), Coimbra (Portugal 2014), Washington DC (USA 2015) and Bialystok (Poland 2016). This is a call for papers for CICM 2017, which will be held in Edinburgh, Scotland, July 17-21, 2016. CICM 2017 also invites work-in- progress papers. The principal tracks of the conference will be: * Track: Calculemus (chair: Matthew England) All topics in the intersection of computer algebra systems and automated reasoning systems including: - Automated theorem proving in computer algebra systems. - Computer algebra and symbolic computation in 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 that include non-trivial computations. - Representation of mathematics in computer algebra systems. - Input languages, programming languages, types and constraint languages, and modeling languages for mathematical assistant systems. * Track: Digital Mathematical Libraries (DML) (chair: Olaf Teschke) All topics related to the formation of a Global Digital Mathematics Library (GDML) network, ranging from experiences from existing DMLs, policies and standards facilitating interoperability, to development and integration of new techniques for content creation, preservation, enhancement and retrieval of the corpus, including: - DML creation and maintenance (content aggregation, validation, curation, enhancement). - DML architecture and representations (organization, workflows, policies, standards). - DML access and applications (retrieval, interfaces, interoperability). - DML collections and systems (experiences from various existing DMLs). * Track: Mathematical Knowledge Management (MKM) (chair: Florian Rabe) - Knowledge representation using, e.g., formal logics, computational systems, narrative document formats, or databases - Solutions to create, store, disseminate, discover, or manipulate mathematical knowledge - Corpora of knowledge inlcuding documents, theories, theorems, proofs, models, algorithms, exercises, or examples - Methods, systems, frameworks, case studies, challenges, benchmarks, or applications for mathematical knowledge - Comparisons, evaluations, or integrations of MKM solutions * Track: Systems & Projects (chair: Osman Hasan) - Systems: Stand-alone; plugins, libraries, or extensions of existing systems; or integrations of existing systems - Data: Formalizations; harvests or new processing of existing data; or case studies, test cases, or benchmark suites for systems - Projects: finished, ongoing or new - Survey papers * Track: Doctoral Programme (chair: TBD) The overall programme is organized by the General Program Chair Herman Geuvers. The local arrangements will be coordinated by Jacques Fleuriot. The publicity chair is Serge Autexier. We plan to have proceedings of the conference as in previous years with Springer Verlag as a volume in Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI). *Important Dates* Conference submissions - Abstract submission deadline: 15. March 2017 - Submission deadline: 22. March 2017 - Reviews sent to authors: 26. April 2017 - Rebuttals due: 30. April 2017 - Notification of acceptance: 12. May 2017 - Camera ready copies due: 26. May 2017 - Conference: 17.-21. July 2017 Workshop Proposals - Submission deadline: 10. February 2017 - Notification of acceptance: 15. February 2017 More details on the conference are available from http://www.cicm-conference.org/2017 From tarek.besold at googlemail.com Mon Jan 23 10:05:38 2017 From: tarek.besold at googlemail.com (Tarek R. Besold) Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2017 10:05:38 +0100 Subject: [DL] 2nd CfP - CAOS: Cognition and ontologies 2017, at AISB, UK - Deadline February 15, 2017 Message-ID: <001501d27557$df2da200$9d88e600$@gmail.com> Below you find the call for papers. Please check out or webpage and also join our Facebook page: Webpage: http:// caos.inf.unibz.it Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CognitionAndOntologieS/ We apologise for any cross-posting. ----- 2ndCALL FOR PAPERS ----- AISB CAOS 2017: Cognition And OntologieS 18-21 April, University of Bath, UK *** DEADLINE Monday 15 February 2017 ALL submissions*** Accepted Submissions: Short papers: max. 6 pages, 15 minutes presentation Position papers: max. 6 pages, 15 minutes presentations Full research papers: max. 12 pages, 30 minutes presentation (Page number includes references, presentations include Q&A.) Submission Procedure: All submissions are to be made via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=caos20170 CAOS 2017 welcomes researchers from all career stages to participate. Work in progress and student projects are also welcome for submission as the primary goal of the workshop is discussion. All paper must be original and not submitted to or accepted by any other workshop, conference or journal and should follow the template provided by AISB. All accepted papers will be part of the AISB 2017 convention proceedings. All contributions will be peer-reviewed, and the review process will be managed in a collaborative and transparent manner using the EasyChair System. The interdisciplinary nature necessitates an equally mixed program committee. Important dates: Submission deadline: 15th February Notification of acceptance: 1st March Camera-ready version: 7th March Scope: CAOS addresses the difficult and topical question how key cognitive phenomena and concepts (and the involved terminology) that can be found across language, psychology and reasoning, can be formally and ontologically understood, analysed and represented. It moreover seeks answers to ways such formalisations and ontological analysis can be exploited in Artificial Intelligence and information systems in general. The notion of embodied experience has become increasingly influential in terms of how concepts are thought to develop from a cognitive perspective and also on how concept invention could be formally modelled. In this perspective, several key notions from cognitive science are seen to be important. For example, image schemas are suggested to be conceptual building blocks deriving from the embodied experience, and in turn, in essence they are often seen to model object affordances in the environment. The theory of image schemas has been an influential theory in linguistics (not the least in metaphor research) and in developmental psychology for over twenty years, and has recently been looked at from research in artificial intelligence as a means to approach the symbol grounding problem and natural language understanding. On the other hand, criticism towards the embodied perspective has been brought forward by many proponents of more classical approaches to AI and cognitive modelling, with the discussion still ongoing and the outcome uncertain. The goal of this workshop is to provide a forum for researchers from a range of perspectives and disciplines who are interested in discussing these questions further. We welcome submissions on topics related to the ontology of hypothesised building blocks of cognition (such as, for instance, image schemas, affordances, and related notions) and of cognitive capacities (such as, for instance, concept invention), as well as system-demonstrations modelling these capacities in application settings. The topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: Cognitive knowledge representation: - Modelling cognitive phenomena - Computational language acquisition - Formalisation of language, image schemas and/or affordance Cognition and language: - Embodied cognition - Concept invention - Cognitive development from an ontological perspective - Image schemas / affordances in natural language Artificial intelligence and applications: - AI for language understanding - Image schemas / affordances in artificial intelligence - Natural language applications / system-demonstrations - Embodied approaches to knowledge acquisition in AI and Robotics - Concept invention and concept-based computational creativity Symposium Organisers: - Maria M. Hedblom: Otto-von-Guericke University, Magdeburg, Germany. - Tarek R. Besold: University of Bremen, Germany - Oliver Kutz: Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy. Programme Committee: - Mihailo Antovi?: Faculty of Philosophy, University of Ni?, Serbia - John Bateman: Faculty of Linguistics and Literary Studies, University of Bremen, Germany - Brandon Bennett: School of computing, University of Leeds, UK - Stephano Borgo: Laboratory for Applied Ontology, ISTC-CNR, Trento, Italy - Cem Bozsahin: Cognitive Science Department, Informatics Institute, METU, Turkey - Roberta Ferrario: Laboratory for Applied Ontology, ISTC-CNR, Italy - Bipin Indurkhya: Computer Science Department at AGH University, Krakow, Poland - Alessandro Oltramari: Bosch Research and Technology Center, Pittsburgh, US - Rafael Penaloza Nyssen: KRDB Research Centre for Knowledge and Data, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy - Sebastian Rudolph: Faculty of computer science, Technische Universit?t Dresden, Germany - Marco Schorlemmer: IIIA-CSIC, Bellaterra, Spain - Gem Stapleton: Computer Science Faculty, University of Brighton, UK -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From xrambous at aurora.fi.muni.cz Thu Jan 26 09:28:32 2017 From: xrambous at aurora.fi.muni.cz (TSD 2017) Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2017 09:28:32 +0100 Subject: [DL] TSD 2017 - First Call for Papers Message-ID: ************************************************************************** TSD 2017 - FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS ************************************************************************** The twentieth anniversary International Conference on TEXT, SPEECH and DIALOGUE (TSD 2017) Praha (Prague), Czech Republic August 27-31, 2017 http://www.tsdconference.org TSD HIGHLIGHTS * Invited speakers: Tomas Mikolov (Facebook AI Research Group, USA), Lucia Specia (The University of Sheffield, UK), Rico Sennrich (The University of Edinburgh, UK) and other eminent personages with various expertise related to the topics of the conference have been asked to give their respective pieces of speech. * TSD is traditionally published by Springer-Verlag and regularly listed in all major citation databases: Thomson Reuters Conference Proceedings Citation Index, DBLP, SCOPUS, EI, INSPEC, COMPENDEX, etc. * TSD offers high-standard transparent review process - double blind, final reviewers discussion. * The TSD2017 conference is supported by the International Speech Communication Association (ISCA). It holds the status of an ISCA Supported Event. * TSD is officially recognized as an INTERSPEECH 2017 satellite event. * TSD will take place in the historical centre of Prague, the Capital of the Czech Republic. * The conference is organized in co-operation with the Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics of the Charles University. * TSD provides an all-service package (conference access and material, all meals, one social event, etc.) for an easily affordable fee starting at 290 EUR for students and 360 EUR for full participants. * Moreover, we succeeded in our effort to provide students with an accommodation option for an affordable price of 20 EUR/night (+ 5 EUR for the breakfast) in the nearby dormitories. IMPORTANT DATES March 31, 2017 ......... Deadline for submission of contributions May 10, 2017 ........... Notification of acceptance or rejection May 31, 2017 ........... Deadline for submission of camera-ready papers August 27-31, 2017 ..... TSD2017 conference date The proceedings will be provided on flash drives in form of navigable content. Printed books will be available for extra fee. TSD SERIES TSD series have evolved as a prime forum for interaction between researchers in both spoken and written language processing from all over the world. Proceedings of the TSD conference form a book published by Springer-Verlag in their Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) series. The TSD proceedings are regularly indexed by Thomson Reuters Conference Proceedings Citation Index. LNAI series are listed in all major citation databases such as DBLP, SCOPUS, EI, INSPEC, or COMPENDEX. TOPICS Topics of the 20th anniversary conference will include (but are not limited to): Speech Recognition (multilingual, continuous, emotional speech, handicapped speaker, out-of-vocabulary words, alternative way of feature extraction, new models for acoustic and language modelling). Corpora and Language Resources (monolingual, multilingual, text, and spoken corpora, large web corpora, disambiguation, specialized lexicons, dictionaries). Speech and Spoken Language Generation (multilingual, high fidelity speech synthesis, computer singing). Tagging, Classification and Parsing of Text and Speech (multilingual processing, sentiment analysis, credibility analysis, automatic text labeling, summarization, authorship attribution). Semantic Processing of Text and Speech (information extraction, information retrieval, data mining, semantic web, knowledge representation, inference, ontologies, sense disambiguation, plagiarism detection). Integrating Applications of Text and Speech Processing (machine translation, natural language understanding, question-answering strategies, assistive technologies). Automatic Dialogue Systems (self-learning, multilingual, question-answering systems, dialogue strategies, prosody in dialogues). Multimodal Techniques and Modelling (video processing, facial animation, visual speech synthesis, user modelling, emotion and personality modelling). PROGRAMME COMMITTEE All programme committee members are listed on the conference web pages: http://www.tsdconference.org/tsd2017/index.php?page=committees OFFICIAL LANGUAGE The official language of the event is English, however, papers on issues related to text and speech processing in languages other than English are strongly encouraged. CONFERENCE FEES The conference fee depends on the date of payment and on the participant's status (full or student). It includes one copy of the conference proceedings (on a USB flash drive), refreshments/coffee breaks, lunches and dinners, opening dinner, welcome party, mid-conference social event admissions, and organizing costs. In order to lower the fee as much as possible, the accommodation and the conference trip are not included in it this time. Full participant: early registration by May 31, 2017 - CZK 10 000 (approx. 360 EUR) late registration by August 1, 2017 - CZK 11 000 (approx. 400 EUR) on-site registration - CZK 12 000 (approx. 444 EUR) Student (reduced): early registration by May 31, 2017 - CZK 8 000 (approx. 290 EUR) late registration by August 1, 2017 - CZK 8 700 (approx. 322 EUR) on-site registration - CZK 10 000 (approx. 360 EUR) Dormitory accommodation 20 EUR/night (+ 5 EUR for the breakfast) Please, keep in mind that the fees are preliminary and they may slightly change in the future. LOCATION Praha (Prague)--also called The City of a Hundred Spires or The Heart of Europe--is situated in the very centre of Bohemia on the banks of the river Vltava. There live more than 1.2 million people in the metropolitan area. Thus, Praha is considered the centre of science, higher education, culture, economy and authorities. The city is divided into ten districts. Each of them offers its own charming atmosphere predicated upon its rich history. A good example can be the Jewish Quarter (Josefov) known especially for the legend of Golem and famous writer Franz Kafka. Then, walking the Parizska street (said to be the most luxurious street in the city), there is the Old Town Square. One of the most important squares of the city renowned for the rare Prague Astronomical Clock (Orloj), number of galleries, Bethlehem Chapel and a monument of religious reformer Jan Hus. The next place of interest can be found in the area of the New Town. The Wenceslas square with the monument of St. Wenceslas, the patron saint of the Czech state, is the longest square of the republic. Its capacity is fully used by various shops, restaurants, clubs and street artists. Also the renaissance revival-styled building of National Museum, which is now under reconstruction, is situated on the upper end of the square. Modern art and architecture together with technical mastery demonstration are represented by the Zizkov Television Tower, the Dancing House (Fred and Ginger Building) or the Stefanik's Observatory on the Petrin hill located in the neighbourhood of the quarter Hradcany. Also Krizik's light fountain or Industrial Palace in the area of the Holesovice Showground are worth seeing. However, the dominant feature of the skyline is still created by the Prague Castle and the Gothic St. Vitus Cathedral spires. The Golden Lane heading down to the Lesser Town shows the tiny and colorful medieval houses. There are many bridges connecting the banks of the Vltava River. However, only one of them is well known in the whole world--the Charles bridge. Czech King and Holy Roman Emperor Charles IV promoted its construction in the 14th century. The bridge is 520 metres long and stands for a connection between the Lesser Town and the Old Town. It was built in the Gothic style as well as the St. Vitus Cathedral. Charles IV was also the founder of the University, which now proudly bears his name--The Charles University. It is one the world's oldest universities and with 17 faculties, 3 institutes, 6 centres of teaching, research and development it is also the largest and best rated university in the Czech Republic. The students can choose some of the 642 courses within 300 of accredited degree programmes in the field of medicine, law, theology, pharmacy, arts, science, mathematics and physics, education, social sciences, physical education and sports, and humanities. We are justifiably very proud of the fact that the campus of the Charles University is going to host the TSD2017 conference. ABOUT CONFERENCE The conference is organized by the Faculty of Applied Sciences, University of West Bohemia, Pilsen, the Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University, Brno, and the Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics of the Charles University. The TSD2017 conference is officially recognized as an INTERSPEECH 2017 satellite event and it holds the status of an ISCA Supported Event as well. Venue: Faculty of Mathematics and Physics of the Charles University Mala Strana Campus - "S" Building Malostranske nam. 2/25 CZ-118 00 Praha 1 Accommodation: Orea Hotel Pyramida **** Belohorska 24 CZ-169 00 Praha 6 CONTACT The preferred way of contacting the conference organizing committee is writing an e-mail to: Mrs Romana Strapkova, TSD2017 Conference Secretary E-mail: tsd2017 at tsdconference.org Phone: (+420) 736 664 500 All paper correspondence regarding the conference should be addressed to: TSD2017 - KIV Fakulta aplikovanych ved Zapadoceska univerzita v Plzni Univerzitni 8 CZ-306 14 Plzen Czech Republic Fax: (+420) 377 632 402 -- Please, mark the faxed material with large capitals 'TSD' on top. TSD 2017 conference web site: http://www.tsdconference.org/tsd2017 From grlmc at grlmc.com Sun Jan 29 07:13:46 2017 From: grlmc at grlmc.com (GRLMC) Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2017 07:13:46 +0100 Subject: [DL] BigDat 2017: works in progress February 10 Message-ID: <545102060a010b010555590a0f005a075254055301050204500108050f5451505d00540f005d090351530453070658@grlmc_ip-zone_com-6> BigDat 2017: works in progress February 10*To be removed from our mailing list, please respond to this message with UNSUBSCRIBE in the subject line* ? ******************************************************** ? 3rd INTERNATIONAL WINTER SCHOOL ON BIG DATA ? BigDat 2017 ? Bari, Italy ? February 13-17, 2017 ? Organized by: University of Bari "Aldo Moro" Rovira i Virgili University ? http://grammars.grlmc.com/BigDat2017/ ? ******************************************************** ? --- Regular registration deadline: February 10, 2017 --- ? ******************************************************** ? AIM: ? BigDat 2017 will be a research training event with a global scope aiming at updating participants about the most recent advances in the critical and fast developing area of big data, which covers a large spectrum of current exciting research and industrial innovation with an extraordinary potential for a huge impact on scientific discoveries, medicine, engineering, business models, and society itself. Renowned academics and industry pioneers will lecture and share their views with the audience. ? Most big data subareas will be displayed, namely foundations, infrastructure, management, search and mining, security and privacy, and applications (to biological and health sciences, to business, finance and transportation, to online social networks, etc.). Main challenges of analytics, management and storage of big data will be identified through 4 keynote lectures, 23 six-hour courses, and 1 round table, which will tackle the most active and promising topics. The organizers are convinced that outstanding speakers will attract the brightest and most motivated students. Interaction will be a main component of the event. An open session will give participants the opportunity to present their own work in progress in 5 minutes. ? ADDRESSED TO: ? In principle, graduate students, PhD students and postdocs from around the world will be the most typical profiles. However, there are no formal pre-requisites for participation in terms of academic degrees. Since there will be differences in level, specific knowledge background may be assumed for some of the courses. BigDat 2017 is also appropriate for more senior people who want to keep themselves updated on recent developments and future trends. All will surely find it fruitful to listen and discuss with major researchers, industry leaders and innovators. ? REGIME: ? In addition to keynotes, 2-3 courses will run in parallel during the whole event. Participants will be able to freely choose the courses they wish to attend as well as to move from one to another. ? VENUE: ? BigDat 2017 will take place in Bari, a lively university city on the Adriatic Sea in Southern Italy. The venue will be: ? Department of Computer Science University of Bari "Aldo Moro" via Orabona, 4 70125 Bari, Italy ? KEYNOTE SPEAKERS: ? Ernesto Damiani (EBTIC, Khalifa University, Abu Dhabi & University of Milan), Model-driven Development of Big Data Applications ? Daniele Quercia (Bell Labs), Good City Life ? PROFESSORS AND COURSES: ? Paul Bliese (University of South Carolina), [introductory/intermediate] Using R for Mixed-effects (Multilevel) Models ? Hendrik Blockeel (KU Leuven), [intermediate] Decision Trees for Big Data Analytics ? Tam?s Budav?ri (Johns Hopkins University), [introductory] Big Data Approaches in Astronomy ? Diego Calvanese (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano), [advanced] Data-aware Processes: Modeling and Verification ? Amr El Abbadi (University of California, Santa Barbara), [introductory/intermediate] Managing Big Data in the Cloud ? Geoffrey C. Fox (Indiana University), [intermediate] Using High Performance Computing for Big Data Analytics ? Minos Garofalakis (Technical University of Crete), [intermediate/advanced] Streaming Big Data Analytics ? David W. Gerbing (Portland State University), [introductory] Data Visualization with R ? Georgios B. Giannakis (University of Minnesota), [advanced] Signal Processing Tools for Big Network Data Analytics ? Sander Klous (University of Amsterdam), [introductory] We Are Big Data ? Laks V.S. Lakshmanan (University of British Columbia), [introductory] Analysis of Large Social Networks ? Maurizio Lenzerini (Sapienza University of Rome), [intermediate/advanced] Ontology-based Data Management ? Soumya D. Mohanty (University of Texas Rio Grande Valley), [introductory/intermediate] Swarm Intelligence Methods and Optimization Problems in Big Data Analytics ? Bernhard Pfahringer (University of Waikato), [introductory] Introduction to Data Stream Mining for Big Data ? Krithi Ramamritham (Indian Institute of Technology Bombay), [introductory/intermediate] Harnessing Big Data for Building Smart Things ? Michael Rosenblum (University of Potsdam), [introductory/intermediate] Coupled Oscillators Approach in Time Series Analysis ? Pierangela Samarati (University of Milan), [intermediate] Data Security and Privacy in the Cloud ? V.S. Subrahmanian (University of Maryland), [introductory/intermediate] Big Data and Cybersecurity ? Alexander S. Tuzhilin (New York University), [introductory/intermediate] Recommender Systems and Big Data ? Jeffrey Ullman (Stanford University), [introductory] Big Data Algorithms that Aren't Machine Learning ? Lyle Ungar (University of Pennsylvania), [introductory] Sentiment Mining from User Generated Content ? John Wright (Columbia University), [intermediate/advanced] Sparse and Low-Dimensional Models for High-Dimensional Data: Theory, Algorithms and Applications ? Zhongfei Zhang (Binghamton University), [introductory/advanced] Knowledge Discovery from Relational and Multimedia Data ? OPEN SESSION ? An open session will collect 5-minute presentations of work in progress by participants. They should submit a half-page abstract containing title, authors, and summary of the research to david.silva409 (at) yahoo.com by February 10, 2017. ? ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: ? Annalisa Appice Michelangelo Ceci (co-chair) Stefano Franco Corrado Loglisci Donato Malerba (co-chair) Carlos Mart?n-Vide (co-chair) Manuel Jes?s Parra Roy?n Gianvito Pio David Silva ? REGISTRATION: ? It has to be done at ? http://grammars.grlmc.com/BigDat2017/registration.php ? The selection of up to 8 courses requested in the registration template is only tentative and non-binding. For the sake of organization, it will be helpful to have an approximation of the respective demand for each course. ? Since the capacity of the venue is limited, registration requests will be processed on a first come first served basis. The registration period will be closed and the on-line registration facility disabled when the capacity of the venue will be complete. It is much recommended to register prior to the event. ? FEES: ? Fees comprise access to all courses and lunches. There are several early registration deadlines. Fees depend on the registration deadline. ? ACCOMMODATION: ? Suggestions for accommodation are available on the website. ? CERTIFICATE: ? Participants will be delivered a certificate of attendance. ? QUESTIONS AND FURTHER INFORMATION: ? david.silva409 (at) yahoo.com ? ACKNOWLEDGMENTS: ? Universit? degli Studi di?Bari?Aldo Moro Universitat Rovira i Virgili -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From peter.schuller at marmara.edu.tr Mon Jan 30 11:42:53 2017 From: peter.schuller at marmara.edu.tr (Peter Schüller) Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2017 13:42:53 +0300 (+03) Subject: [DL] Final CFP with Deadline Extension: LPNMR - International Conference on Logic Programming and Non-monotonic Reasoning, Finland, 3-6 July 2017 Message-ID: <20170130104253.80CFD2C00D8@omsievews> Call for Papers --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 14th International Conference on Logic Programming and Non-monotonic Reasoning LPNMR 2017 http://lpnmr2017.aalto.fi/ Hanasaari, Espoo, Finland July 3-6, 2017 !!! Deadline Extension !!! AIJ&TPLP Fast Tracks !!! Springer BP Prize !!! --------------------------------------------------------------------------- AIMS AND SCOPE LPNMR 2017 is the fourteenth in the series of international meetings on logic programming and non-monotonic reasoning. LPNMR is a forum for exchanging ideas on declarative logic programming, non-monotonic reasoning, and knowledge representation. The aim of the conference is to facilitate interactions between researchers and practitioners interested in the design and implementation of logic-based programming languages and database systems, and those working in knowledge representation and nonmonotonic reasoning. LPNMR strives to encompass theoretical and experimental studies that have led or will lead to advances in declarative programming and knowledge representation, as well as their use in practical applications. This edition of LPNMR will feature several workshops and a special session dedicated to the 7th ASP Competition. A Doctoral Consortium will also be a part of the program. INVITED SPEAKERS Joao Leite, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal Tran Cao Son, New Mexico State University, Las Cruses, New Mexico, USA Francesca Toni, Imperial College, London, UK TOPICS Authors are invited to submit papers presenting original and unpublished research on all aspects of non-monotonic approaches in logic programming and knowledge representation. We invite submissions of both long and short papers on topics detailed below. Conference topics include, but are not limited to: 1. Foundations of LPNMR Systems: * Semantics of new and existing languages; * Action languages, causality; * Formalization of Commonsense Reasoning and understanding its laws and nature; * 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; * Algorithms and novel techniques for efficient evaluation; * LPNMR benchmarks. 3. Applications of LPNMR: * Use of LPNMR in 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 bioinformatics, linguistics, psychology, and other sciences; * Integration of LPNMR systems with other computational paradigms; * Embedded LPNMR: Systems using LPNMR subsystems. SUBMISSION LPNMR 2017 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's 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 written in English, present original research, and be formatted according to Springer's guidelines and technical instructions available at: https://www.springer.com/gp/authors-editors/conference-proceedings/conference-proceedings-guidelines Paper submission is now enabled via the LPNMR-17 Easychair site: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lpnmr2017 Two best papers of general AI interest will be invited for a rapid publication in the Artificial Intelligence Journal (AIJ). Two best papers with narrower logic programming focus will be invited for a rapid publication in Theory and Practice of Logic Programming (TPLP). An additional prize of 1000 EUR, sponsored by Springer, will be shared out among the best papers of the conference. MULTIPLE SUBMISSION POLICY LPNMR 2017 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. ASSOCIATED EVENTS WORKSHOPS - LPNMR 2017 will include specialized workshops to be held on July 3 prior to the main conference. Currently planned workshops include: - Answer Set Programming and Other Computing Paradigms (ASPOCP) Organizers: Bart Bogaerts and Amelia Harrison - Defeasible and Ampliative Reasoning (DARe) Organizers: Richard Booth, Giovanni Casini, and Ivan Varzinczak - Grounding and Transformations for Theories with Variables (GTTV) Organizers: Simona Perri and Shahab Tasharrofi - Knowledge Representation and Planning for Robotics and Autonomous Systems (KPRAS) Organizers: Fangkai Yang and Shiqi Zhang - Practical Aspects of Answer Set Programming (PAoASP) Organizers: Martin Gebser, Marco Maratea, and Francesco Ricca - User-Oriented Logic Paradigms (IULP) Organizers: Stefan Ellmauthaler and Claudia Schulz ASP COMPETITION - A special session dedicated to a discussion of the 7th ASP System Competition, including the methodology of the competition, benchmarks used, lessons learned and, most importantly, the results and the announcement of the winners. DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM - A mentoring event where PhD students have a change to present their current research, get feedback from peers and senior researchers, and establish contacts for the future. FURTHER INFORMATION WWW: lpnmr2017.aalto.fi/ email: lpnmr2017 at list dot aalto dot fi IMPORTANT DATES * Paper registration: February 5th, 2017, 23:59 PDT (EXTENDED) * Paper submission: February 9th, 2017, 23:59 PDT (EXTENDED) * Notification: March 7th, 2017 (EXTENDED) * Final versions due: March 17th, 2017 VENUE Espoo, the second largest and the fastest growing city in Finland, is located right next to the capital Helsinki in the coastal Finland. Espoo is Northern Europe's largest high-tech and innovation hub where science, business and culture meet the wilderness of Nuuksio National Park and stunning seaside environment. Espoo's location offers excellent traffic connections: only half an hour from the international airport and harbors. The main campus of Aalto University is situated in Espoo. The LPNMR 2017 conference will be held in the Hanasaari Conference center that is located on an island of its own and is only 15 minutes away from Helsinki center by public transport. PROGRAM CHAIRS Marcello Balduccini, Drexel University, USA Tomi Janhunen, Aalto University, Finland PUBLICITY CHAIR Peter Sch??ller, Marmara University, Turkey WORKSHOPS CHAIR Joohyung Lee, Arizona State University, USA DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM CHAIR Marina De Vos, University of Bath, UK 7TH ASP COMPETITION ORGANIZERS Martin Gebser, University of Potsdam, Germany Marco Maratea, University of Genoa, Italy Francesco Ricca, University of Calabria, Italy PROGRAM COMMITTEE Jose Julio Alferes, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal Marcello Balduccini, Drexel University, USA Chitta Baral, Arizona State University, USA Bart Bogaerts, KU Leuven, Belgium Gerhard Brewka, Leipzig University, Germany Pedro Cabalar, University of Corunna, Spain Francesco Calimeri, University of Calabria, Italy Stefania Costantini, University of L'Aquila, Italy James Delgrande, Simon Fraser University, Canada Marc Denecker, K.U.Leuven, Belgium Marina De Vos, University of Bath, UK Agostino Dovier, University of Udine, Italy Thomas Eiter, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Wolfgang Faber, University of Huddersfield, UK Paul Fodor, Stony Brook University, USA Alfredo Gabaldon, GE Global Research, USA Martin Gebser, University of Potsdam, Germany Michael Gelfond, Texas Tech University, USA Giovanni Grasso, Oxford University, UK Giovambattista Ianni, University of Calabria, Italy Daniela Inclezan, Miami University, USA Tomi Janhunen, Aalto University, Finland Matthias Knorr, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal Joohyung Lee, Arizona State University, USA Yuliya Lierler, University of Nebraska at Omaha, USA Vladimir Lifschitz, University of Texas at Austin, USA Fangzhen Lin, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong Marco Maratea, University of Genoa, Italy Alessandra Mileo, National University of Ireland, Ireland Emilia Oikarinen, Finnish Institute of Occupational Health, Finland Mauricio Osorio, Universidad de las Americas Puebla, Mexico Ravi Palla, GE Global Research, USA David Pearce, Universidad Polit??cnica de Madrid, Spain Axel Polleres, Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria Enrico Pontelli, New Mexico State University, USA Christoph Redl, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Alessandra Russo, Imperial College, United Kingdom Orkunt Sabuncu, University of Potsdam, Germany Chiaki Sakama, Wakayama University, Japan Torsten Schaub, University of Potsdam, Germany Peter Sch??ller, Marmara University, Turkey Tran Cao Son, New Mexico State University, USA Hannes Strass, Leipzig University, Germany Theresa Swift, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal Shahab Tasharrofi, Aalto University, Finland Eugenia Ternovska, Simon Fraser University, Canada Hans Tompits, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Mirek Truszczynski, University of Kentucky, USA Agustin Valverde, Universidad de M??laga, 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 Yi Zhou, University of Western Sydney, Australia (Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this email. Please distribute to interested parties.) From cfp.conference2016 at GMAIL.COM Wed Feb 1 20:44:23 2017 From: cfp.conference2016 at GMAIL.COM (CFP Conference) Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2017 14:44:23 -0500 Subject: [DL] Data Scientist at Drexel University Center for Visual and Decision Informatics (CVDI) Message-ID: The Center for Visual and Decision Informatics (CVDI) is a multi-university industry research center established as an Industry/University Cooperative Research Center (I/UCRC) under the National Science Foundation (NSF). We are currently looking for a Data Scientist to market and recruit industry partners, provide technical leadership, manage day-to-day operations at the Drexel site, and communications and outreach. Qualification * PhD in computer science, or statistics or a Masters in the same with a minimum of 4 years' postgraduate experience, with a focus on data mining, data visualization, machine learning. * Demonstrated expertise in developing and using data mining, machine learning and predictive modeling methods. Experience in hands-on processing, representation, and transformation of information datasets using commercial tools and/or domain-specific tools. * Demonstrated ability to work in multi-disciplinary teams, displaying excellent interpersonal skills. * Strong organizational and communication skills (both written and oral), with the ability to liaise with scientists and external collaborators at all levels, especially with industry partners. * Works effectively with peers, management, operations groups, and outside organizations. Job duty 1. Marketing and Recruiting Industry Partners. Candidate will assist the CVDI director to manage and grow the Drexel CVDI site, develop plan to maintain existing CVDI members, recruit new members, engage and communicate with other CVDI sites and industry members, 2. Technical Leadership. As part of the core big data group/CVDI leadership team at Drexel, the candidate will develop innovative, reusable, and scalable solutions and have a part in identifying applications across the industry sections, Develop analytics solutions aligned with business focus and priorities, by leveraging standard tools and domain experts. Candidate will generate innovative ideas, establish new research directions, and define and execute on technical projects. Specifically, candidate will develop, propose and lead CVDI projects as a PI for Drexel. Candidate will work effectively with cross-functional teams and technical leads to determine, define, and deploy analytics solutions to meet business goals. Evaluate business objectives, determine stakeholder needs, and identify requirements. Choose best fit methods, define algorithms, validate, and deploy models to achieve business results. Perform necessary data preparation and enhancements to models 3. Business Growth. Candidate will have the opportunity to contribute to advanced analytics projects across business units including healthcare; digital publication; medicine; e-business and security; supply chain & operations; engineering, test, and technology; information technology. Example project areas include social media in big data, anomaly detection, computer animation, and data visualization. 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The 12th International Workshop on the Implementation of Logics will be held on 7th May 2017, in conjunction with the 21th International Conference on Logic for Programming, Artificial Intelligence, and Reasoning, at Cresta Riley's Hotel in Maun, Botswana. 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, non-monotonic reasoning + 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 + 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 paper (up to 15 pages) via the EasyChair page for IWIL-2017. https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iwil2017 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. The proceedings will be published as a volume of EPiC Computing. Important Dates: + Submission of papers/abstracts: March 20th, 2017 + Notification of acceptance: April 10th, 2017 + Camera ready versions due: April 21st, 2017 + Workshop: May 7th, 2017 Program committee (so far - more coming): Stephan Schulz (Co-Chair) DHBW Stuttgart Geoff Sutcliffe (Co-Chair) University of Miami Josef Urban (Co-Chair) Czech Technical University Armin Biere Johannes-Kepler Universit??t Linz Jasmin Blanchette INRIA Nancy/MPI f??r Informatik Guillaume Burel ENSIIE/CEDRIC Stefan Hetzl Vienna University of Technology Jan Hladik DHBW Stuttgart Tommi Junttila Aalto University Boris Konev University of Liverpool Jens Otten Universit??t Potsdam Giles Reger The University of Manchester Andrew Reynolds University of Iowa Peter Schneider-Kamp University of Southern Denmark Laurent Simon University of Bordeaux Martin Suda Vienna University of Technology Bob Veroff University of New Mexico Uwe Waldmann Max-Planck-Institut f??r Informatik Bruno Woltzenlogel Paleo Australian National University From phdsinlogic at gmail.com Tue Jan 31 17:07:39 2017 From: phdsinlogic at gmail.com (PhDs in Logic Graduate Conference) Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2017 17:07:39 +0100 Subject: [DL] PhDs in Logic IX, Bochum, 2nd - 4th May 2017: Extended Submission Deadline Message-ID: *Extended deadline* for submissions: PhDs in Logic IX, Bochum, 2nd - 4th May 2017 PhDs in Logic is an annual graduate conference organised by local graduate students. This interdisciplinary conference welcomes contributions to various topics in mathematical logic, philosophical logic, and logic in computer science. It involves tutorials by established researchers as well as short (20 minutes) presentations by PhD students, master students and first-year postdocs on their research. We are happy to announce that the ninth edition of PhDs in Logic will take place at the Ruhr University Bochum, Germany, during 2nd - 4th May 2017. Confirmed tutorial speakers are: Petr Cintula (Czech Academy of Sciences) Mar?a Manzano (University of Salamanca) Jo?o Marcos (Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte) Gabriella Pigozzi (Paris Dauphine University) Christian Stra?er (Ruhr-University Bochum) Heinrich Wansing (Ruhr-University Bochum) Abstract submission: PhD students, master students and first-year postdocs in logic from disciplines, that include but are not limited to philosophy, mathematics and computer science are invited to submit an extended abstract on their research. Submitted abstracts should be between 2 and 3 pages, including the relevant references. Each abstract will be anonymously reviewed by the scientific committee. Accepted abstracts will be presented by their authors in a 20-minute presentation during the conference. The *EXTENDED* deadline for abstract submission is 2nd *9th* *February 2017*. 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URL: From alexandra.silva at ucl.ac.uk Thu Feb 2 18:38:58 2017 From: alexandra.silva at ucl.ac.uk (Alexandra Silva) Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2017 18:38:58 +0100 (CET) Subject: [DL] TbILLC 2017: 1st Call for Papers Message-ID: <201702021738.v12Hcrlc013387@mailhost.informatik.uni-bremen.de> 1st Call for Papers THE TWELFTH INTERNATIONAL TBILISI SYMPOSIUM ON LANGUAGE, LOGIC AND COMPUTATION 18-22 September, 2017 Kakheti, Georgia http://events.illc.uva.nl/Tbilisi/Tbilisi2017/ *********************************************************************** CALL FOR PAPERS The Twelfth International Tbilisi Symposium on Language, Logic and Computation will be held on 18-22 September 2017 in Kakheti, Georgia. The Programme Committee invites submissions for contributions on all aspects of language, logic and computation. Work of an interdisciplinary nature is particularly welcome. Areas of interest include, but are not limited to: * Natural language syntax, semantics, and pragmatics * Linguistic typology and semantic universals * Language evolution and learnability * Historical linguistics, history of logic * Natural logic, inference and entailment in natural language * Logic, games, and formal pragmatics * Logics for artificial intelligence * Constructive, modal and algebraic logic * Algorithmic game theory * Computational social choice * Formal models of multiagent systems * Information retrieval, query answer systems * Distributional and probabilistic models of information and meaning Authors can submit an abstract of three pages (including references) at the EasyChair conference system here: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=tbillc2017 PROGRAMME The programme will include the following tutorials and a series of invited lecturers. Tutorials: Language: Jakub Szymanik (University of Amsterdam) Logic: Sam van Gool (City College of New York) Computation: TBA Invited speakers: Language: Gemma Boleda (Universitat Pompeu Fabra) Ruth Kempson (King's College, London) Logic: Alexander Kurz (University of Leicester) Eric Pacuit (University of Maryland, tbc) Computation: Dexter Kozen (Cornell University) Alex Simpson (University of Ljubljana) Workshops There will also be a workshop on "Language entitled Signs and gestures -- exploring the divide between sign language and speech-accompanying gestures" organised by by Daniel Hole (University of Stuttgart). More information will be available on the TbiLLC website: http://events.illc.uva.nl/Tbilisi/Tbilisi2017/ Programme Committee Samson Abramsky (Oxford University) Kata Balogh (University of Duesseldorf) Guram Bezhanishvili (New Mexico State University) Nick Bezhanishvili (ILLC, University of Amsterdam) Rajesh Bhatt (UMass Amherst) Filippo Bonchi (University of Pisa) Valeria De Paiva (University of Birmingham) David Gabelaia (TSU, Razmadze Mathematical Institute) Brunella Gerla (University of Insubria) Nina Gierasimczuk (ILLC, University of Amsterdam) Helle Hvid Hansen (Delft University of Technology) Daniel Hole (University of Stuttgart) George Metcalfe (University of Bern) Alessandra Palmigiano (Delft University of Technology) Wiebke Petersen (Chair, University of Duesseldorf) Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh (Queen Mary University of London) Alexandra Silva (Chair, University College London) Sonja Smets (ILLC, University of Amsterdam) Rui Soares Barbosa (University of Oxford) Luca Spada (University of Salerno) Carla Umbach (Zentrum f??r Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, ZAS, Berlin) Galit W. Sassoon (Bar Ilan University) Henk Zeevat (ILLC, University of Amsterdam) PUBLICATION INFORMATION Post-proceedings of the symposium will be published in the LNCS series of Springer. IMPORTANT DATES Submission deadline: 15 March 2017 Notification: 15 May 2017 Final abstracts due: 15 June 2017 Registration deadline: 1 August 2017 Symposium: September 18-22, 2017 Programme and submission details can be found at: http://events.illc.uva.nl/Tbilisi/Tbilisi2017/ From d.brown at i-society.eu Fri Feb 3 14:04:29 2017 From: d.brown at i-society.eu (David Brown, i-Society 2016) Date: Fri, 3 Feb 2017 13:04:29 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [DL] Call for Submissions: International Conference on Information Society (i-Society 2017) || July 17-19, 2017, Dublin, Ireland Message-ID: <1203705256.152913.1486127069633@email.1and1.co.uk> An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From f.zanasi at ucl.ac.uk Fri Feb 3 16:30:06 2017 From: f.zanasi at ucl.ac.uk (Fabio Zanasi) Date: Fri, 3 Feb 2017 16:30:06 +0100 (CET) Subject: [DL] CALCO 2017: Second Call for Papers Message-ID: <201702031530.v13FU0lC019467@mailhost.informatik.uni-bremen.de> ========================================================= CALL FOR PAPERS: CALCO 2017 7th International Conference on Algebra and Coalgebra in Computer Science June 13 - 16, 2017 Ljubljana, Slovenia http://coalg.org/mfps-calco2017/ ========================================================== Abstract submission: April 3, 2017 Paper submission: April 7, 2017 Author notification: May 15, 2017 Final version due: May 31, 2017 ========================================================== -- 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), Winchester (UK, 2011), Warsaw (Poland, 2013) and Nijmegen (the Netherlands, 2015). The seventh edition will be held in Ljubljana, Slovenia, colocated with MFPS XXXIII. -- INVITED SPEAKERS -- Nicoletta Sabadini - University of Insubria, IT Alex Simpson - University of Ljubljana, SL *Joint Session with MFPS on Metrics, Privacy and Learning:* James Worrell - University of Oxford, UK (Tutorial) *Further Invited Speakers:* Catuscia Palamidessi - Ecole polytechnique, FR Vincent Danos - Ecole normale superieure, FR Marco Gaboardi - University at Buffalo, USA -- 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 * 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 * 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 * String Diagrams and Network Theory - Combinatorial approaches - Theory of PROPs and operads - Rewriting problems and higher-dimensional approaches - Automated reasoning with string diagrams - Applications of string diagrams - Connections with Control Theory, Engineering and Concurrency -- 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. Proceedings will be published in the Dagstuhl LIPIcs???Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics series. Final papers should be no more than 15 pages long in the format specified by LIPIcs (http://www.dagstuhl.de/publikationen/lipics/anleitung-fuer-autoren/). 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=calco2017 -- BEST PAPER AND BEST PRESENTATION AWARDS -- This edition of CALCO will feature two 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: April 3, 2017 Paper submission: April 7, 2017 Author notification: May 15, 2017 Final version due: May 31, 2017 -- PROGRAMME COMMITTEE -- Andrej Bauer (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia) Filippo Bonchi (ENS Lyon, France, co-chair) Marcello Bonsangue (University of Leiden, Netherlands) Corina Cirstea (University of Southampton, UK) Robin Cockett (University of Calgary, Canada) Andrea Corradini (University of Pisa, Italy) Sergey Goncharov (Universitaet Erlangen-Nuernberg, Germany) Helle Hvid Hansen (Delft University of Technology, Netherlands) Ichiro Hasuo (University of Tokyo, Japan) Tobias Heindel (University of Copenhagen, Denmark) Tom Hirschowitz (Savoie Mont Blanc University, France) Bart Jacobs (University of Nijmegen, Netherlands) Bartek Klin (Warsaw University, Poland) Barbara Koenig (University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany, co-chair) Alexander Kurz (University of Leicester, UK) Paul Levy (University of Birmingham, UK) Radu Mardare (Aalborg University, Denmark) Stefan Milius (Universitaet Erlangen-Nuernberg, Germany) Samuel Mimram (Ecole Polytechnique, France) Till Mossakowski (Universitaet Magdeburg, Germany) Larry Moss (Indiana University, US) Daniela Petrisan (Universite Paris-Diderot, France) John Power (University of Bath, UK) Grigore Rosu (University of Illinois, US) Jan Rutten (CWI, University of Nijmegen, Netherlands) Peter Selinger (Dalhousie University, Canada) Alexandra Silva (University College London, UK) Pawel Sobocinski (University of Southampton, UK) Ana Sokolova (University of Salzburg, Austria) -- ORGANISING COMMITTEE -- Andrej Bauer (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia) Matija Pretnar (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia) -- PUBLICITY CHAIR -- Fabio Zanasi (University College London, UK) -- SATELLITE WORKSHOPS: CALCO EARLY IDEAS AND CALCO TOOLS -- The CALCO Early Ideas Workshop is intended to enable presentation of work in progress and original research proposals. PhD students and young researchers are particularly encouraged to contribute. The CALCO Tools Workshop is dedicated to tools based on algebraic and/or coalgebraic principles. CALCO 2017 will run together with the CALCO Early Ideas Workshop, with dedicated sessions at the end of each conference day. CALCO Tools will take place on June 13. From ijv at acm.org Sat Feb 4 13:15:17 2017 From: ijv at acm.org (=?utf-8?Q?Ivan_Jos=C3=A9_Varzinczak?=) Date: Sat, 4 Feb 2017 13:15:17 +0100 Subject: [DL] First call for papers: DARe at LPNMR'17 Message-ID: <485163D4-11F0-492C-834E-6D49DF61300E@acm.org> * Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this call * ============================== Call for Papers DARe at LPNMR 2017 Date: 3 July 2017 Espoo, Finland *** Deadline: 3 April 2017 *** ============================== The Fourth International Workshop on "Defeasible and Ampliative Reasoning" (DARe) https://sites.google.com/view/dare-17 held at the International Conference on Logic Programming and Nonmonotonic Reasoning (LPNMR 2017) -- Workshop Description and Aims -- Classical reasoning is not flexible enough when directly applied to the formalization of certain nuances of human quotidian decision making. These involve different kinds of reasoning such as reasoning with uncertainty, exceptions, similarity, vagueness, incomplete or contradictory information and many others. It turns out that everyday reasoning usually shows the two salient intertwined aspects below: * Ampliative aspect: augmenting the underlying reasoning by allowing more conclusions. In practical contexts, this amounts to the ability to make inferences that venture beyond the scope of the premises, somehow in an unsound but justifiable way. Prominent examples are (i) default reasoning: jumping to conclusions deemed as plausible 'by default', i.e., in the absence of information to the contrary, like applying negation as failure or adopting the closed-world assumption; (ii) inductive and abductive reasoning: taking chances in drawing conclusions that implicitly call for further scrutiny or tests by empirical observations, like in making inductive hypotheses in scientific theories or finding abductive explanations in forensics, and (iii) analogical reasoning: extrapolating from very few examples (in the worst case only one) on the basis of observable similarities or dissimilarities. * Defeasible aspect: curtailing the underlying reasoning by either disregarding or disallowing some conclusions that somehow ought not to be sanctioned. In practice, this amounts to the ability to backtrack one's conclusions or to admit exceptions in reasoning. Some examples of this are (i) retractive reasoning: withdrawing conclusions that have already been derived, like in belief contraction or in negotiation, and (ii) preemptive reasoning: preventing or blocking the inference of some conclusions by disallowing their derivation in the first place, like in dealing with exceptional cases in multiple inheritance networks and in regulatory systems. Several efforts have been put into the study and definition of formalisms within which the aforementioned aspects of everyday reasoning could adequately be captured at different levels. Despite the progress that has been achieved, a large avenue remains open for exploration. Indeed, the literature on non-monotonic reasoning has focused almost exclusively on defeasibility of argument forms, whereas belief revision paradigms are restricted to an underlying classical (Tarskian) consequence relation. Moreover, even if some of the issues related to uncertainty in reasoning have been studied using probabilistic approaches and statistical methods, their integration with qualitative frameworks remain a challenge. Finally, well-established approaches are largely based on propositional languages or haunted by the undecidability of full first-order logic. Modern applications require formalisms with a good balance between expressive power and computational complexity. DARe aims at bringing together researchers and practitioners from core areas of artificial intelligence, cognitive sciences, philosophy and related disciplines to discuss these kinds of problems and relevant results in a multi-disciplinary forum. The goal of the workshop is to present latest research developments, to discuss current directions in the field, and to collect first-hand feedback from the community. -- Scope of the Workshop -- DARe welcomes contributions on all aspects of defeasible and ampliative reasoning such as (but not limited to): - Abductive and inductive reasoning - Explanation finding, diagnosis and causal reasoning - Inconsistency handling and exception-tolerant reasoning - Decision-making under uncertainty and incomplete information - Default reasoning, non-monotonic reasoning, non-monotonic logics, conditional logics - Specific instances and variations of ampliative and defeasible reasoning - Probabilistic and statistical approaches to reasoning - Vagueness, rough sets, granularity and fuzzy-logics - Philosophical foundations of defeasibility - Empirical studies of reasoning - Relationship with cognition and language - Contextual reasoning - Preference-based reasoning - Analogical reasoning - Similarity-based reasoning - Belief dynamics and merging - Argumentation theory, negotiation and conflict resolution - Heuristic and approximate reasoning - Defeasible normative systems - Reasoning about actions and change - Reasoning about knowledge and belief, epistemic and doxastic logics - Ampliative and defeasible temporal and spatial reasoning - Computational aspects of reasoning with uncertainty - Implementations and systems - Applications of uncertainty in reasoning -- Submission Requirements -- We invite submissions of papers presenting original research results or position statements. Submissions must be prepared using the Springer LNAI/LNCS format (which can be found at http://lpnmr2017.aalto.fi/submission.html) and should be no longer than 13 pages. Please submit to: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dare17 -- Workshop Proceedings/Notes -- Accepted papers will be made available electronically in the CEUR Workshop Proceedings series (http://ceur-ws.org). Copyright of papers remain with the authors. The 2014 proceedings are available at http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1212/ The 2015 proceedings are available at http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1423/ The 2016 proceedings are available at http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1626/ -- Attendance -- The selection of accepted contributions will be based on relevance, significance and the work's potential to foster discussions and cross-pollination. Therefore submissions of ongoing work are also strongly encouraged. At least one co-author of each accepted paper must register for the workshop. Please check the LPNMR 2017 website for registration procedure, fees as well as cancellation policies. -- Important Dates -- - Submission deadline: 3 April 2017 - Notification: 1 May 2017 - Camera ready: 22 May 2017 - Workshop date: 3 July 2017 -- Invited Speaker -- [TBA] -- Workshop Co-Chairs -- - Richard Booth, Cardiff University, UK - Giovanni Casini, University of Luxembourg - Ivan Varzinczak, CRIL, Univ. Artois & CNRS, France -- Program Committee -- - Natasha Alechina, University of Nottingham, UK - Grigoris Antoniou, University of Huddersfield, UK - Ofer Arieli, Academic College of Tel-Aviv, Israel - Guillaume Aucher, University of Rennes 1 - INRIA, France - Christoph Beierle, FernUniversitaet Hagen, Germany - Mario Benevides, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - Antonis Bikakis, University College London, UK - Alexander Bochman, Holon Institute of Technology, Israel - Katarina Britz, Stellenbosch University, South Africa - James Delgrande, Simon Fraser University, Canada - Marcelo Finger, Universidade de S?o Paulo, Brazil - Nina Gierasimczuk, Danish Technical University, Denmark - Patrick Girard, University of Auckland, New Zealand - Sven Ove Hansson, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden - Andreas Herzig, IRIT CNRS, France - Aaron Hunter, British Columbia Institute of Technology, Canada - Souhila Kaci, Universit? Montpellier 2, France - Gabriele Kern-Isberner, TU Dortmund, Germany - Simon Kramer, SK-R&D, Switzerland - Michael Maher, University of New South Wales, Australia - Jo?o Marcos, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil - Thomas Meyer, University of Cape Town, South Africa - Gilles Richard, Universit? Paul Sabatier, France - Francois Schwarzentruber, ENS Rennes/IRISA, France - Umberto Straccia, CNR, Italy - Joost Vennekens, K.U. Leuven, Belgium - Peter Verd?e, Universiteit Gent, Belgium - Heinrich Wansing, Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum, Germany - Renata Wassermann, Universidade de S?o Paulo, Brazil - Anna Zamansky, University of Haifa, Israel -- Further Information -- Please visit the workshop website (https://sites.google.com/view/dare-17) for further information and regular updates. Enquiries should be sent to dare.to.contact.us at gmail.com -- Ivan Varzinczak CRIL, Univ. Artois & CNRS, France http://member.acm.org/~ijv From a.bikakis at ucl.ac.uk Sat Feb 4 16:38:11 2017 From: a.bikakis at ucl.ac.uk (Antonis Bikakis) Date: Sat, 04 Feb 2017 15:38:11 +0000 Subject: [DL] RuleML+RR 2017 Doctoral Consortium 2nd CfP In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: *** Paper submission deadline: 1 March 2017 *** NEWS! The PC and a tentative list of mentors are now available! ************************************************* Call for Papers RuleML+RR 2017 Doctoral Consortium at the International Joint Conference on Rules and Reasoning RuleML+RR 2017 London, UK, 12-15 July 2017 http://2017.ruleml-rr.org/doctoral-consortium/ ************************************************** The RuleML+RR Doctoral Consortium is an initiative of the RuleML and RR communities to attract and promote student research in rules and reasoning. It offers students a close contact with leading experts on the field, as well as the opportunity to present and discuss their ideas in a dynamic and friendly setting. We invite PhD students at an early or intermediate stage of their PhD studies as well as exceptional Master?s students who are interested in pursuing a PhD to submit papers describing their research on any of the topics of interest of RuleML+RR 2017, available at the conference website: http://2017.ruleml-rr.org/ The submissions should cover the following aspects: * A clear formulation of the research question and the motivation. * An identification of the significant problems in the field of research. * An outline of the current knowledge of the problem domain, as well as the state of existing solutions. * A presentation of any preliminary ideas, the proposed approach and the results achieved so far. * A sketch of the applied research methodology and its positioning in the field. * A description of the student project's contribution to the problem solution. * A discussion of how the suggested solution is different, new, or better as compared to existing approaches to the problem. * A research plan and the potential achievements. The accepted DC papers will be presented to an interested audience and will be discussed with a panel of senior researchers from academia and the industry. Students will present their work through brief oral presentations during a dedicated session of the RuleML+RR main track, but also in the form of posters. Proceedings ----------------- Accepted papers will be published online as part of CEUR-WS Proceedings, which are broadly indexed, e.g., by SCOPUS and listed in standard bibliographic databases such as DBLP. * This year, a selection of the best Doctoral Consortium papers will also be included as short papers in the main track Springer LNCS proceedings. * Important Dates ---------------------- * Paper submission: 1 March 2017 * Author notification: 10 April 2017 * Camera-ready submission: 24 April 2017 Submission guidelines ------------------------------ DC papers are limited to 8 pages written in English following the LNCS ( http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html) format and submitted electronically in PDF format jointly with a maximum 2 page CV. Please submit your paper and CV to: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=rulemlrr2017dc If you do not have an EasyChair account, please sign up at: http://www.easychair.org Each submission will be reviewed by at least two members of the PC. The names of the PC members are available on the DC web site: http://2017.ruleml-rr.org/doctoral-consortium/ Mentoring -------------- Each student with an accepted DC paper will be assigned a mentor with similar research interests from the RuleML+RR community, with whom they will discuss the student?s research during a mentoring session of the conference. The following researchers have tentatively accepted our invitation for the list of mentors (keep an eye on the DC site, as the list is expected to grow): * Harold Boley * Diego Calvanese * Simona Colucci * Stefania Costantini * Giovanni De Gaspaeris * Enrico Franconi * Guido Governatori * Roman Kontchakov * Domenico Lembo * Rafael Penaloza * Francesco Ricca * Dumitru Roman * Omair Shafiq * Giorgos Stamou * Kia Teymourian Registration & Student Travel Support --------------------------------------------------- Registration information will soon become available at the main conference web site (http://2017.ruleml-rr.org/). Reduced registration fees will be offered to all student participants of the conference. Financial support is available to enable student authors to travel to the Symposium. These are awarded on a case-by-case basis. Proof of studentship will be required at time of registration. Other collocated events -------------------------------- Students participating in the Doctoral Consortium will also have access to all the sessions of the main RuleML+RR track as well as to its collocated events: * The 11th International Rule Challenge * The RuleML+RR 2017 Industry Track * Decision Camp 2017 More information about the conference and the collocated events is available at: http://2017.ruleml-rr.org/ We would also like to invite students to the collocated 13th Reasoning Web Summer School (RW 2017), which will take place at the same venue prior to RuleML+RR 2017: 7-11 July, 2017 ( http://2017.ruleml-rr.org/13th-reasoning-web-summer-school-rw-2017/). Students registered for the Doctoral Consortium will be offered a discount for the registration to RW 2017, and vice versa. 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URL: From aspocp at gmail.com Tue Feb 7 10:56:18 2017 From: aspocp at gmail.com (Organizers Aspocp) Date: Tue, 7 Feb 2017 10:56:18 +0100 Subject: [DL] ASPOCP 2017 (Espoo, Finland - Colocated with LPNMR 2017) -- First call for papers Message-ID: [Apologies for multiple postings.] [html version on https://easychair.org/cfp/ASPOCP2017] =============================================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS ASPOCP 2017 10th Workshop on Answer Set Programming and Other Computing Paradigms https://sites.google.com/site/aspocp2017 July 3, 2017 Affiliated with the 14th International Conference on Logic Programming and Nonmonotonic Reasoning Espoo, Finland July 3 - 6, 2017 =============================================================================== 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 led to a new method of computing answer sets using SAT solvers and techniques adapted from SAT. This has been a much studied relationship, and is currently extended towards satisfiability modulo theories (SMT). The relationship of ASP to other computing paradigms, such as constraint satisfaction, quantified Boolean formulas (QBF), Constraint Logic Programming (CLP), first-order logic (FOL), and FO(ID) is also the subject of active research. Consequently, new methods of computing answer sets are being developed based on relationships to these formalisms. 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) and constraint satisfaction (which recently led to the Constraint Answer Set Programming (CASP) research direction). A large body of general results regarding ASP is available and several efficient ASP solvers have been implemented. However, there are still significant challenges in applying ASP to real life applications, and more interest in relating ASP to other computing paradigms is emerging. This workshop will provide opportunities for researchers to identify these challenges and to exchange ideas for overcoming them. 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 knowledge compilation. - 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 13 pages in the Springer LNAI/LNCS format . Paper submission will be handled electronically by means of the Easychair system. The submission page is available at . IMPORTANT DATES (tentative) Abstract and paper submission deadline: April 3, 2017 LPNMR Notification: March 7, 2017 ASPOCP Notification: May 1, 2017 Camera-ready articles due: May 22, 2017 Workshop: July 3, 2017 PROCEEDINGS Accepted papers will be made available online. At least one author of each accepted paper needs to register for the workshop. We aim at selecting extended and revised versions of accepted papers to appear in a special issue of an international journal (provided that a sufficient amount of high quality papers is collected). Such papers will go through a second formal selection process to meet the high quality standard of the journal. LOCATION AND REGISTRATION The workshop will be held in Espoo, Finland, collocated with the International Conference on Logic Programming and Nonmonotonic Reasoning (LPNMR) 2017. Please note that at least one co-author of each accepted paper will be required to register for the workshop. WORKSHOP CO-CHAIRS Bart Bogaerts, KU Leuven, Belgium Amelia Harrison, University of Texas at Austin, USA PROGRAM COMMITTEE (to be completed) Marcello Balduccini, Drexel University Bart Bogaerts (chair), KU Leuven Pedro Cabalar, University of Corunna Sandeep Chintabathina, Hawaii Pacific University Stefania Costantini, Dipartimento di Ingegneria e Scienze dell'Informazione e Matematica Univ. dell'Aquila Marc Denecker, KU Leuven Marina De Vos, University of Bath Esra Erdem, Sabanci University Wolfgang Faber, University of Huddersfield Cristina Feier, University of Bremen Johannes Klaus Fichte, Institute of Information Systems Vienna University of Technology Enrico Giunchiglia, DIST - Univ. Genova Amelia Harrison (chair), University of Texas Daniela Inclezan, Miami University Tomi Janhunen, Aalto University Joohyung Lee, Arizona State University Nicola Leone, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science - University of Calabria Vladimir Lifschitz, University of Texas Marco Maratea, DIBRIS University of Genova Alessandro Mosca, SIRIS Lab - Research division of SIRIS Academic SL Max Ostrowski, University of Potsdam David Pearce, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid Axel Polleres, Vienna University of Economics and Business Guillermo Simari, Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering Universidad Nacional del Sur in Bahia Blanca Mirek Truszczynski, Computer Science Department University of Kentucky Richard Watson, Texas Tech University Department of Computer Science Stefan Woltran, TU Wien Jia-Huai You, Department of Computing Science University of Alberta Edmonton Alberta Canada -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From geoff at cs.miami.edu Tue Feb 7 18:05:06 2017 From: geoff at cs.miami.edu (Geoff Sutcliffe) Date: Tue, 7 Feb 2017 12:05:06 -0500 (EST) Subject: [DL] ARCADE Call for Papers Message-ID: <20170207170506.6AA9012146B@mcclellan.cs.miami.edu> (Apologies for multiple copies. Please redistribute) **************************************************************** *** CALL FOR PAPERS *** ARCADE http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~regerg/arcade/ Automated Reasoning: Challenges, Applications, Directions, Exemplary achievements 6 August 2017, Gothenburg, Sweden (co-located with CADE-26) DESCRIPTION: The main goal of this workshop is to bring together key people from various subcommunities of automated reasoning---such as SAT/SMT, resolution, tableaux, theory-specific calculi (e.g. for description logic, arithmetic, set theory), interactive theorem proving---to discuss the present, past, and future of the field. The intention is to provide an opportunity to discuss broad issues facing the community. The structure of the workshop will be informal. We invite extended abstracts (2-4 pages, using the EasyChair class style http://www.easychair.org/publications/for_authors) in the form of non-technical position statements aimed at prompting lively discussion. The title of the workshop is indicative of the kind of discussions we would like to encourage: Challenges: What are the next grand challenges for research on automated reasoning? Thereby, we refer to problems, solving which would imply a significant impact (e.g., shift of focus) on the CADE community and beyond. Roughly ten years ago SMT was one such challenge. Applications: Is automated reasoning applicable in real-world (industrial) scenarios? Should reports on such applications be encouraged at a venue like CADE, perhaps by means of a special case study paper category? Directions: Based on the grand challenges and requirements from real-world applications, what are the research directions the community should promote? What bridges between the different subcommunities of automated reasoning need to be strengthened? What new communities should be included (if at all)? For example, following Reiner H??hnle's question in the AAR Newsletter, is there a place at CADE for research on usable automated reasoning (in resemblance to the flourishing topic of usable security)? Exemplary achievements: What are the landmark achievements of automated reasoning whose influence reached far beyond the CADE community itself? What can we learn from those successes when shaping our future research? Contributions will be grouped into similar themes and authors will be invited to make their case within discussion panels. Authors will then be invited to extend their abstracts (e.g., by transcripts of the discussion and a summary of the discussion's outcomes) for inclusion in an EPiC post-proceedings. IMPORTANT DATES (Anywhere on Earth): Submission deadline: 12 May 2017 Notification: 23 June 2017 Workshop: 6 August 2017 Post-proceedings deadline: 29 September 2017 PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Franz Baader, TU Dresden Christoph Benzm??ller, Freie Universit??t Berlin Armin Biere, Johannes Kepler University Linz Nikolaj Bj??rner, Microsoft Research Jasmin Christian Blanchette, Inria Nancy & Loria Maria Paola Bonacina, Universite degli Studi di Verona Pascal Fontaine, Loria, Inria, University of Lorraine Silvio Ghilardi, Universite degli Studi di Milano Martin Giese, University of Oslo J??rgen Giesl, RWTH Aachen Alberto Griggio, FBK-IRST Reiner H??hnle, TU Darmstadt Marijn Heule, The University of Texas at Austin Laura Kov??cs, Vienna University of Technology Aart Middeldorp, University of Innsbruck Neil Murray, SUNY at Albany David Plaisted, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Andrei Popescu, Middlesex University London Giles Reger, University of Manchester (co-chair) Renate Schmidt, The University of Manchester Stephan Schulz, DHBW Stuttgart Geoff Sutcliffe, University of Miami Cesare Tinelli, The University of Iowa Dmitriy Traytel, ETH Z??rich (co-chair) Andrei Voronkov, The University of Manchester Christoph Weidenbach, Max Planck Institute for Informatics From tschneider at informatik.uni-bremen.de Wed Feb 8 09:38:55 2017 From: tschneider at informatik.uni-bremen.de (Thomas Schneider) Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2017 09:38:55 +0100 Subject: [DL] TIME 2017 1st Call for Papers Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------- TIME 2017 24th International Symposium on Temporal Representation and Reasoning Mons (Belgium), 16-18 October 2017 First Call for Papers http://informatique.umons.ac.be/time2017/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Aims and scope -------------- TIME 2017 aims to bring together researchers interested in reasoning about temporal aspects of information in any area of Computer Science. The symposium, currently in its 24th edition, has a wide remit and intends to cater to both theoretical aspects and well-founded applications. One of the key aspects of the symposium is its interdisciplinarity, with attendees from distinct areas such as artificial intelligence, database management, logic and verification, and beyond. The symposium will encompass three tracks on temporal representation and reasoning in (1) Artificial Intelligence, (2) Databases and (3) Logic and Verification. The Artificial Intelligence track includes, but is not limited to: - temporal aspects of agent- and policy-based systems - spatial and temporal reasoning - reasoning about actions and change - planning and planning languages - ontologies of time and space-time - belief and uncertainty in temporal knowledge - temporal learning and discovery - time in problem solving (e.g. diagnosis, scheduling) - time in human-machine interaction - temporal information extraction - time in natural language processing - spatio-temporal knowledge representation systems - spatio-temporal ontologies for the semantic web - constraint-based temporal reasoning - temporal preferences The Database track includes, but is not limited to: - temporal data models and query languages - temporal query processing and indexing - temporal data mining - time series data management - stream data management - spatio-temporal data management, including moving objects - data currency and expiration - indeterminate and imprecise temporal data - temporal constraints - temporal aspects of business processes and ECA systems - real-time databases - time-dependent security policies - privacy in temporal and spatio-temporal data - temporal aspects of multimedia databases - temporal aspects of e-services and web applications - temporal aspects of distributed systems - temporal aspects and big data - temporal aspects in NoSQL databases - temporal data warehouses - temporal healthcare databases and warehouses - time series analysis and mining - semistructured temporal data - novel applications of temporal database management - novel visualizations and interfaces for temporal data - experiences with real applications The Logic and Verification track includes, but is not limited to: - specification and verification of systems - verification of web applications - synthesis and execution - model-checking algorithms and implementations - verification of infinite-state systems - reasoning about transition systems - temporal architectures - temporal logics for distributed systems - temporal logics for games and open systems - temporal logics of knowledge - hybrid systems and real-time logics - cyber-physical systems - tools and practical systems - temporal issues in security Submission and publication -------------------------- Submissions of high-quality papers describing research results are solicited. Submitted papers should contain original, previously unpublished content, should be written in English, and must not be simultaneously submitted for publication elsewhere. Submitted papers will be refereed for quality, correctness, originality, and relevance. Detailed submission instructions can be found on the website of TIME 2017: http://informatique.umons.ac.be/time2017/ Accepted papers will be presented at the symposium and included in the proceedings, which will be published by LIPIcs-Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics, which is a series of high-quality peer-reviewed conference proceedings, published according to the principle of OpenAccess. At least one author of each accepted paper must register at the conference and present the paper. Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit an extended version of their contribution to a special issue of the journal Theoretical Computer Science. Important Dates --------------- Abstracts due: May 8, 2017 Full papers due: May 12, 2017 Notification: June 27, 2017 Final version due: July 14, 2017 Symposium: October 16-18, 2017 Program Committee Chairs ------------------------ Sven Schewe, University of Liverpool, UK Thomas Schneider, University of Bremen, Germany Jef Wijsen, University of Mons, Belgium Program Committee ----------------- TBA Invited Speakers ---------------- Alessandro Artale, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy Javier Esparza, Technical University of Munich, Germany Sheila McIlraith, University of Toronto, Canada Venue ----- TIME 2017 will take place in Mons, a beautiful city in the French-speaking part of Belgium, and a former European Capital of Culture. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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The notification will be sent to authors June 30th. Proceedings of this session will not be published. Formatting instructions for posters will be made available soon. For more information please contact the local organisers: Elaine Pimentel (elaine.pimentel at gmail.com) Daniele Nantes (daniele.nantes at gmail.com) http://tableaux2017.cic.unb.br http://frocos2017.cic.unb.br http://itp2017.cic.unb.br From ian.pratt at manchester.ac.uk Wed Feb 8 14:36:33 2017 From: ian.pratt at manchester.ac.uk (Ian Pratt-Hartmann) Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2017 13:36:33 +0000 Subject: [DL] Item for KR list: Beth Prize, call for nominations 2017 Message-ID: Dear DL list moderator, Please can you post the attached call for nominations for the 2017 Beth Thesis Prize on the DL maining list. Many thanks in anticipation. Sincerely, Ian Pratt-Hartmann -------------- next part -------------- E. W. Beth Dissertation Prize, 2017: call for nominations Since 2002, FoLLI (the Association for Logic, Language, and Information, http://www.folli.info) has awarded the E.W. Beth Dissertation Prize to outstanding dissertations in the fields of Logic, Language, and Information. We invite submissions for the best dissertation which resulted in a Ph.D. degree awarded in 2016. Who qualifies. Nominations of candidates are admitted who were awarded a Ph.D. degree in the areas of Logic, Language, or Information between January 1st, 2016 and December 31st, 2016. Theses must be written in English; however, the Committee accepts submissions of English translations of theses originally written in other languages, and for which a PhD was awarded in the preceding two years (i.e. between January 1st, 2014 and December 31st, 2015). There is no restriction on the nationality of the candidate or on the university where the Ph.D. was granted. Prize. The prize consists of: -a certificate -a donation of 2500 euros provided by the E.W. Beth Foundation -an invitation to submit the thesis (or a revised version of it) to the FoLLI Publications on Logic, Language and Information (Springer). How to submit Only electronic submissions are accepted. The following documents are required: The thesis in pdf format (ps/doc/rtf not accepted). A ten-page abstract of the dissertation in pdf format. A letter of nomination from the thesis supervisor (see below). Two additional letters of support, including at least one from a referee not affiliated with the academic institution that awarded the Ph.D. degree. Self-nominations are not admitted: each nomination must be sponsored by the thesis supervisor. The letter of nomination should concisely describe the scope and significance of the dissertation and state when the degree was officially awarded. Nominations should contain the email contact details of the nominator. All documents must be submitted electronically (preferably as a zip file) to Ian Pratt-Hartmann (ipratt at cs.man.ac.uk). Hard copy submissions are not allowed. In case of any problems with the email submission or a lack of notification within three working days, nominators should write to Ian Pratt-Hartmann. The prize will be awarded at the ESSLLI summer school in Toulouse. The current (tentative) date for the presentation ceremony is July 26th, 2017. Queries: Ian Pratt-Hartmann (ipratt at cs.man.ac.uk) Important dates: Deadline for Submissions: April 21st, 2017. Notification of Decision: June 19th, 2017. ESSLLI summer school: July 17th--28th, 2017. Committee Raffaella Bernardi (University of Trento) Julian Bradfield (University of Edinburgh) Ernie Davis (New York University) Sujata Ghosh (Indian Statistical Institute, Chennai) Nina Gierasimczuk (Technical University of Denmark, Copenhagen) Thomas Icard (Stanford University) Carsten Lutz (University of Bremen) Andreas Maletti (Leipzig University) Sanjian Li (University of Technology Sydney) Larry Moss (Indiana University Bloomington) Ian Pratt-Hartmann (University of Manchester) Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh (Queen Mary University of London) Yoad Winter (Utrecht University) From Renate.Schmidt at manchester.ac.uk Thu Feb 9 19:02:44 2017 From: Renate.Schmidt at manchester.ac.uk (Renate Schmidt) Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2017 18:02:44 +0000 Subject: [DL] PhD Studentships in Artificial Intelligence Message-ID: <20170209164309.3006e873@renate-vb.localnet> PHD STUDENTSHIPS IN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE University of Manchester, UK Available for 2017 entry Application deadline: 17 March 2017 The University of Manchester boasts one of the most innovative and successful schools of computer science in the world. Manchester saw the birth of computer science, with the creation of the world's first stored-program computer. We continue to work on pioneering research including cutting-edge image processing software, new technologies to exploit the power of the web, medical imaging software and low-power chip design. In REF2014, the most recent research assessment, we were ranked in the top 5% in the UK (4th out of 89 submissions) based on GPA for Computer Science and Informatics. REF2014 also assessed that The University of Manchester is the best environment in the UK for computer science and informatics research, and 94% of our research was classed as "world-leading" (4*) or "internationally excellent" (3*). All of our impact case studies were ranked 3* and 4*, which puts us joint-top for research impact. The School of Computer Science is pleased to announce the following fully-funded studentships for September 2017 entry: THE JAMES ELSON STUDENTSHIP The James Elson Studentship Award in Artificial Intelligence will provide an outstanding candidate with fees and an enhanced stipend to carry out a 3-year PhD research project relating to Artificial Intelligence, for September 2017 entry. This studentship has been established as a result of a bequest from James Elson, who passed away in 2012 after a long battle with cancer. Last year we awarded a James Elson Studentship in Cancer Research due to the nature of James' illness; this year the studentship focus is on Artificial Intelligence - the area of James' MEng dissertation whilst here at Manchester. The James Elson studentships are available for UK and EU nationals eligible to pay 'Home' fees. A list of eligible projects and further information about this studentship can be found on the School of Computer Science website: http://www.cs.manchester.ac.uk/study/postgraduate-research/programmes/phd/funding/james-elson/. The deadline for this studentship is Friday 17th March. SCHOOL STUDENTSHIPS A number of School studentships are available for UK and EU nationals for both 3-year PhD and the 4-year CDT PhD programmes in Computer Science. The 3-year PhD studentships pay all tuition fees and a stipend award for 3 years. Applicants must be eligible to pay 'home' fees. There will normally be opportunities to undertake some teaching, in the form of laboratory demonstration. A number of fees-only studentships are also available for international students. The School supports mid-year as well as the standard September entry point. The 4-year CDT PhD studentships are offered through our Centre for Doctoral Training, and are available for applicants eligible to pay 'home' fees. The programme consists of an initial 'foundation period' of six months of taught components, followed by a 3.5 year period of focused PhD level research, carried out under the supervision of a PhD supervisor or team of supervisors. FURTHER INFORMATION Further information about these studentships can be found on the Funding section of the School of Computer Science website http://www.cs.manchester.ac.uk/study/postgraduate-research/programmes/phd/funding/school-studentships/. For further information about PhD study, funding and admissions, please contact our Postgraduate Research admissions team: pgr-compsci at manchester.ac.uk or +44(0)161 275 0699. From daniel.borchmann at tu-dresden.de Mon Feb 13 10:12:37 2017 From: daniel.borchmann at tu-dresden.de (Daniel Borchmann) Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2017 10:12:37 +0100 Subject: [DL] =?utf-8?q?Call_for_Posters/Software_Demonstrations_at_ICFCA?= =?utf-8?q?=2717_=E2=80=93_14th_International_Conference_on_Formal_Concept?= =?utf-8?q?_Analysis?= Message-ID: <87zihq4fp6.fsf@tu-dresden.de> ================================================================================ ICFCA 2017 14th International Conference on Formal Concept Analysis June 12?16, 2017, Rennes, France Web: Mail: icfca2017 at inria.fr ================================================================================ * Call for Posters and Software Demonstrations The International Conference on Formal Concept Analysis welcomes submissions of posters on relevant topics around FCA research. Posters should be of size not larger than A0, and will be presented at the conference venue in a dedicated poster session. We also invite submission of proposals for demonstrations of software implementing or making use of algorithms and approach from formal concept analysis. Proposals for posters and software demonstrations should be described in an extended abstract of at most 4 pages. Accepted proposals will also be included in the supplementary proceedings of ICFCA, published by the University of Rennes. The supplementary proceedings of ICFCA will receive an ISBN. Submission deadline is *March?24th, 2017*. Abstracts should be send to icfca2017 at inria.fr. * About the Conference 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 ICFCA conference series aims at bringing 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. ** Topics 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, e.g., semantic web, description logics - FCA and conceptual structures, e.g., concept graphs, knowledge spaces - FCA and data analysis, e.g., hierarchical classification, data organization - FCA and data mining, e.g., pattern mining - FCA and information retrieval, e.g. exploratory search, navigation, querying - FCA and machine learning, e.g., learning with hypothesis, feature selection - FCA and database theory, e.g., 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, e.g., sampling, parallel computing - Analysis of social networks and their dynamics - Applications for scientific data analysis, e.g., in biology or health care - Applications for sensors data and user interactions traces - Other FCA applications ** Organization The conference will be hosted by IRISA[3] and Centre de Recherche Inria Bretagne Atlantique[4]. [3]: https://www.irisa.fr/en [4]: https://www.inria.fr/centre/rennes *** Conference Chairs Peggy Cellier, IRISA, INSA Rennes, France S?bastien Ferr?, IRISA, University Rennes 1, France *** Program Chairs Karell Bertet, L3I, Universit? de La Rochelle, France Daniel Borchmann, Technische Universit?t Dresden, Germany *** Editorial Board Jaume Baixeries, Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Catalonia Peggy Cellier, IRISA lab, Rennes, France Florent Domenach, Akita International University, Japan Peter Eklund, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark Sebastien Ferr?, Universit? de Rennes 1, France Bernhard Ganter, Technische Universit?t Dresden, Germany Cynthia Vera Glodeanu Mehdi Kaytoue, INSA-Lyon, LIRIS, France Sergei Kuznetsov, Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia Leonard Kwuida, Bern University of Applied Sciences Rokia Missaoui, Universit? du Qu?bec en Outaouais (UQO), Canada Amedeo Napoli, LORIA, Nancy, France Sergei Obiedkov, Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia Manuel Ojeda-Aciego, University of Malaga, Spain Uta Priss, Ostfalia University of Applied Sciences, Wolfenb?ttel, Germany Sebastian Rudolph, Technische Universit?t Dresden, Germany Christian Sacarea, Babes-Bolyai University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania Stefan E. Schmidt, Technische Universit?t Dresden, Germany Gerd Stumme, Universit?t Kassel, Germany Petko Valtchev, Universit? du Qu?bec ? Montr?al, Canada Karl Erich Wolff, University of Applied Sciences, Darmstadt, Germany *** Honorary Members Vincent Duquenne, ECP6-CNRS, Universit? Paris 6, France Rudolf Wille, Technische Universit?t Darmstadt, Germany? *** Program Committee Simon Andrews, Sheffield Hallam University, United Kingdom Fran?ois Brucker, Centrale Marseille, France Claudio Carpineto, Fondazione Ugo Bordoni, Italy Pablo Cordero, University of M?laga, Spain Jean Diatta, Universit? de la R?union, France Felix Distel, d-fine GmbH, Germany Christophe Demko, L3I lab, Universit? de La Rochelle, France Stephan Doerfel, MICROMATA GmbH, Germany Alain G?ly, Universit? Paul Verlaine, Metz, France Robert Godin, Universit? du Qu?bec ? Montr?al, Canada Marianne Huchard, LIRMM, Universit? Montpellier, France Dmitry Ignatov, Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia Robert J?schke, University of Sheffield, England Michal Krupka, Palacky University, Olomouc, Czech Republic Marzena Kryszkiewicz, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland Wilfried Lex, Universit?t Clausthal, Germany Jes?s Medina, Cadiz University, Spain Engelbert Mephu Nguifo, LIMOS, Universit? de Clermont Ferrand 2, 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 Sandor Radeleczki, University of Miskolc, Hungary Bar?? Sertkaya, Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences Laszlo Szathmary, University of Debrecen, Hungary Andreja Tepav?evi?, University of Novi Sad, Serbia Jean-Fran?ois Viaud, L3I lab, Universit? de La Rochelle, France ? deceased -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Dr. rer. nat. 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In recent years, this collective intelligence has spread to many different areas, with particular focus on fields related to everyday life such as commerce, tourism, education, and health, causing the size of the social Web to expand exponentially. To identify the emotions (e.g. sentiment polarity, sadness, happiness, anger, irony, sarcasm, etc.) and the modality (e.g. doubt, certainty, obligation, liability, desire, etc.) expressed in this continuously growing content is critical to enable the correct interpretation of the opinions expressed or reported about social events, political movements, company strategies, marketing campaigns, product preferences, etc. This has raised growing interest both within the scientific community, by providing it with new research challenges, as well as in the business world, as applications such as marketing and financial prediction would gain remarkable benefits. One of the main application tasks in this context is opinion mining [1], which is addressed by a significant number of Natural Language Processing techniques, e.g. for distinguishing objective from subjective statements [2], as well as for more fine-grained analysis of sentiment, such as polarity and emotions [8]. Recently, this has been extended to the detection of irony, humor, and other forms of figurative language [3]. In practice, this has led to the organisation of a series of shared tasks on sentiment analysis, including irony and figurative language detection (SemEval 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016), with the production of annotated data and development of running systems. However, existing solutions still have many limitations leaving the challenge of emotions and modality analysis still open. For example, there is the need for building/enriching semantic/cognitive resources for supporting emotion and modality recognition and analysis. Additionally, the joint treatment of modality and emotion is, computationally, trailing behind, and therefore the focus of ongoing, current research. Also, while we can produce rather robust deep semantic analysis of natural language, we still need to tune this analysis towards the processing of sentiment and modalities, which cannot be addressed by means of statistical models only, currently the prevailing approaches to sentiment analysis in NLP. The hybridization of NLP techniques with Semantic Web technologies is therefore a direction worth exploring, as recently shown in [4, 5, 6, 7]. Based on the lessons learnt from the first edition, this year the scope of the workshop is a bit broader (although still focusing on a very specific domain) and accepted submissions will include abstracts and position papers in addition to full papers. The workshops main focus will be discussion rather than presentations, which are seen as seeds for boosting discussion topics, and an expected result will be a joint manifesto and a research roadmap that will provide the Semantic Web community with inspiring research challenges. The Workshop will be connected to the ESWC 2017 Semantic Sentiment Analysis Challenge at ESWC2017 (https://github.com/diegoref/SSAC2017). Both the Workshop and the Challenge can benefit from a Google Group, called Semantic Sentiment Analysis Initiative. Please post messages related to the Workshop under the discussion ?ESWC 2017 Workshop on Emotions, Modality, Sentiment Analysis and the Semantic Web.? *** Topics of interest *** Includes but not limited to: * Ontologies and knowledge bases for emotion recognition * Topic and entity based emotion recognition * Semantics in the evolution of emotions within and across social media systems and topics * Semantic processing of social media for emotion recognition * Contextualised emotion recognition * Comparison of semantic approaches for emotion recognition * Personalised semantic emotion recognition and monitoring * Using semantics for prediction of emotions towards events, people, organisations, etc. * Baselines and datasets for semantic emotion recognition * Semantics in stream-based emotion recognition * Comparison between semantic and non-semantic approaches for emotion recognition * Multimodal emotion recognition * Multilingual sentiment analysis * Challenges in using semantics for emotion recognition * Retrieval of emotion-based documents from repositories * Deep learning and knowledge-enabled approaches for sentiment analysis *** Submissions *** Submission criteria are the following: * Papers must comply with the LNCS style * Full research papers (up to 8-10 pages) * Short research papers (up to 4-6 pages) * Position papers (2 pages) Papers are submitted in PDF format via the workshop?s EasyChair submission pages (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=emsasw2017 remember to select the topic Workshop) Accepted papers will be published by CEUR?WS. The best paper (according to the reviewers? rate) will be published within the main conference proceedings. We already sent a form request to Springer to include Workshop papers in a Springer book. If the answer is positive (we should know this by mid March 2016) then the accepted papers will be published within the Springer book and not CEUR-WS. At least one of the authors of the accepted papers must register for the workshop (pre-conference only option) to be included into the workshop proceedings. *** Important dates *** March 3, 2017, 23:59 CET: Full, Short, and Position papers submission deadline March 31, 2017, 23:59 CET: Notification of acceptance April 13, 2017, 23:59 CET: Camera-ready paper due ESWC 2017 Workshop day: May 28, 2017 the whole day *** Workshop Chairs *** Mauro Dragoni Diego Reforgiato Recupero *** References *** [1] Bo, P., and Lee, L. (2008). Opinion mining and sentiment analysis. Foundations and Trends in Information Retrieval , 2 (1-2), 1-135. [2] Wiebe, J., and Ellen, R. (2005). Creating Subjective and Objective Sentence Classifiers from Unannotated Texts. Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing 6th International Conference, CICLing (pp. 486-497). Mexico City: Springer. [3] Paula, C., Sarmento, L., Silva, M. J., and de Oliveira, E. (2009). Clues for detecting irony in user-generated contents: oh?!! it?s so easy;-). Proceedings of the 1st international CIKM workshop on Topic-sentiment analysis for mass opinion (pp. 53-56). ACM. [4] Reforgiato Recupero, D., Presutti, V., Consoli, S., and Gangemi, A. (2014). Sentilo: Frame-Based Sentiment Analysis. Cognitive Computation , 1-15. [5] Saif, H., He, Y., and Alani, H. (2012). Semantic sentiment analysis of Twitter. 11th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2012) (pp. 508-524). Springer. [6] Gangemi, A., Presutti, V., and Reforgiato Recupero, D. (2014). Frame- based detection of opinion holders and topics: a model and a tool. IEEE Computational Intelligence , 9 (1), 20-30. [7] Cambria, E., and Hussain, A. (2012). Sentic Computing: Techniques, Tools, and Applications. Springer. [8] Liu, B. (2012). Sentiment Analysis and Opinion Mining. Synthesis Lectures on Human Language Technologies. Chicago: Morgan & Claypool Publishers. -- Dr. Mauro Dragoni Researcher at Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK-IRST) Via Sommarive 18, 38123, Povo, Trento, Italy Tel. 0461-314053 ######################################## Consider attending Cognitive Computing track @ ACM SAC 2017 https://saccoco.fbk.eu/ Marrakech, Morocco, April 3-7, 2017 ######################################## -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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URL: From georgis at ics.forth.gr Tue Feb 14 19:47:13 2017 From: georgis at ics.forth.gr (Christos Georgis) Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2017 20:47:13 +0200 Subject: [DL] C A L L - F O R - P A P E R S - QALD 2017 - 7th Question Answering over Linked Data Challenge Message-ID: C A L L F O R P A P E R S QALD 2017 - 7th Question Answering over Linked Data Challenge https://project-hobbit.eu/challenges/qald2017/ qald-contact at googlegroups.com May 28th to June 1st 2017, Portoroz, Slovenia in conjunction with the 14th European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2017) http://2017.eswc-conferences.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The key challenge for Question Answering over Linked Data is to translate a user?s information need into a form such that it can be evaluated using standard Semantic Web query processing and inferencing techniques. The main task of QALD therefore is the following: Given one or several RDF dataset(s) as well as additional knowledge sources and natural language questions or keywords, return the correct answers or a SPARQL query that retrieves these answers. This year, the challenge comprises the following tasks: -Task 1: Multilingual question answering over DBpedia -Task 2: Hybrid question answering -Task 3: Large-Scale Question answering over RDF -Task 4: English question answering over Wikidata We expect participants to describe their approach over a 5 page paper, including advantages and disadvantages as well as a first evaluation of the system with the respective task training data or an in-depth analysis of errors. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Important Dates -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Paper submission deadline (5 pages document): March 10th, 2017, 23:59 Hawaii Time* Notification of acceptance: April 7th, 2017 Camera ready papers (5 pages document): April 23rd, 2017 Deadline for submission of system answers/instructions for evaluation: TBA Release of evaluation results: TBA Proclamation of winners: During ESWC 2017 closing ceremony *Eligible to submit papers are only authors participating in the challenge. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Organization -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ricardo Usbeck, University of Leipzig, Germany Axel-Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo, Institute for Applied Informatics, Germany Bastian Haarmann, Fraunhofer-Institute IAIS, Germany Anastasia Krithara, NCSR ?Demokritos?, Greece For the complete list of organizers and program committee members, please visit the challenge website. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Further Information and Contact -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- For detailed information, including datasets and submission guidelines, please visit the challenge website: https://project-hobbit.eu/challenges/qald2017/ Contact Email: qald-contact at googlegroups.com -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- ======================================================================== Christos Georgis Phone: +30 2810 391622 MSc Computer Science Fax: +30 2810 391638 Senior Software Engineer Mobile: +30 6946 687898 ISL Development Coordinator E-mail:georgis at ics.forth.gr SkypeID: christos.georgis Information Systems Laboratory (ISL) Institute of Computer Science Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas (FORTH) N. 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We herewith invite system developers to participate in the aforementioned tasks. The system developers are invited to write papers (5 page documents) presenting their results on the training data (see important dates below). To ensure that the system results are comparable, we will provide the HOBBIT benchmarking platform for the generation of the final results to be included into the system publications. A specification of the hardware on which the benchmarks will be ran will be released in due course. This year, the challenge comprises the following tasks: -Task 1: Focused Named Entity Identification and Linking -Task 2: Broader Named Entity Identification and Linking -Task 3: Focused Musical Named Entity Recognition and Linking -Task 4: Knowledge Extraction -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Important Dates -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Paper submission deadline (5 pages document): March 10th, 2017, 23:59 Hawaii Time* Notification of acceptance: April 7th, 2017 Camera ready papers (5 pages document): April 23rd, 2017 Deadline for submission of system answers/instructions for evaluation: TBA Release of evaluation results: TBA Proclamation of winners: During ESWC 2017 closing ceremony *Eligible to submit papers are only authors participating in the challenge. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Organization -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ren? Speck, University of Leipzig, Germany Michael R?der, University of Leipzig, Germany Ricardo Usbeck, University of Leipzig, Germany Axel-Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo, Institute for Applied Informatics, Germany Horacio Saggion, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain Luis Espinosa-Anke, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain Sergio Oramas, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain For the complete list of organizers and program committee members, visit the challenge website. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Further Information and Contact -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- For detailed information, including datasets and submission guidelines, please visit the challenge website: https://project-hobbit.eu/challenges/oke2017-challenge-eswc-2017/ Contact Email: OKE-contact at googlegroups.com -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- ======================================================================== Christos Georgis Phone: +30 2810 391622 MSc Computer Science Fax: +30 2810 391638 Senior Software Engineer Mobile: +30 6946 687898 ISL Development Coordinator E-mail:georgis at ics.forth.gr SkypeID: christos.georgis Information Systems Laboratory (ISL) Institute of Computer Science Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas (FORTH) N. 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URL: From georgis at ics.forth.gr Tue Feb 14 19:48:38 2017 From: georgis at ics.forth.gr (Christos Georgis) Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2017 20:48:38 +0200 Subject: [DL] C A L L - F O R - P A P E R S - MOCHA 2017 - Mighty Storage Challenge Message-ID: <082678c3-8294-54d2-4e6a-154bf674cb61@ics.forth.gr> C A L L F O R P A P E R S MOCHA 2017 - Mighty Storage Challenge May 28th to June 1st 2017, Portoroz, Slovenia in conjunction with the 14th European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2017) http://2017.eswc-conferences.org/ https://project-hobbit.eu/challenges/mighty-storage-challenge/ email: mightystoragechallenge-contact at googlegroups.com -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The aim of this challenge is to test the performance of solutions for SPARQL processing in aspects that are relevant for modern applications. These include ingesting data, answering queries on large datasets, versioning data, browsing and serving as backend for applications using Linked Data. The MOCHA challenge will test the systems against data derived from real applications and with realistic loads. This year, the challenge comprises the following tasks: -Task 1 (Data Ingestion) will measure how well systems can ingest streams of RDF data. -Task 2 (Data Storage) will measure how well data stores perform for different types of queries. -Task 3 (Versioning) will measure how well versioning and archiving systems for Linked Data perform when they manage multiple versions of large data sets. -Task 4 (Browsing) will check if existing solutions perform adequately for applications that address browsing through large data sets. Participants will be expected to describe their solution and results on the training datasets over a 5 page paper. In particular, a short summary of the approach chosen, a link to the experimental results and an analysis of the strengths and weaknesses of the approach are expected. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Important Dates -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Paper submission deadline (5 pages document): March 10th, 2017, 23:59 Hawaii Time* Notification of acceptance: April 7th, 2017 Camera ready papers (5 pages document): April 23rd, 2017 Deadline for submission of system answers/instructions for evaluation: TBA Release of evaluation results: TBA Proclamation of winners: During ESWC 2017 closing ceremony *Eligible to submit papers are only authors participating in the challenge. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Organization -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Axel-Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo, Institute for Applied Informatics, Germany Irini Fundulaki, Foundation for Research and Technology ? Hellas (FORTH), Greece Mirko Spasic, OpenLink, UK Henning Petzka, Fraunhofer IAIS, Germany Vassiliki Rentoumi, NCSR "Demokritos", Greece For the complete list of organizers and program committee members, visit the challenge website. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Further Information and Contact -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- For detailed information, including datasets and submission guidelines, please visit the challenge website: https://project-hobbit.eu/challenges/mighty-storage-challenge/ Contact Email: mightystoragechallenge-contact at googlegroups.com -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- ======================================================================== Christos Georgis Phone: +30 2810 391622 MSc Computer Science Fax: +30 2810 391638 Senior Software Engineer Mobile: +30 6946 687898 ISL Development Coordinator E-mail:georgis at ics.forth.gr SkypeID: christos.georgis Information Systems Laboratory (ISL) Institute of Computer Science Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas (FORTH) N. 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Stemming from the synergy between the well-known high-impact RuleML and RR events, one of the main goals of this conference is to build bridges between academia and industry. RuleML+RR 2017 aims to bring together rigorous researchers and inventive practitioners, interested in the foundations and applications of rules and reasoning in academia, industry, engineering, business, finance, healthcare and other application areas. It will provide a forum for stimulating cooperation and cross-fertilization between the many different communities focused on the research, development and applications of rule-based systems. In addition to regular submissions, RuleML+RR 2017 will host an Industry Track(1), a Doctoral Consortium(2), the DecisionCAMP(3), the 11th International Rule Challenge(4), and the 13th Reasoning Web Summer School(4). RuleML+RR 2017 will be collocated with the 32nd British International Conference on Databases (BICOD 2017(5)). Links: (1) http://2017.ruleml-rr.org/calls/industry-track (2) http://2017.ruleml-rr.org/doctoral-consortium (3) http://2017.ruleml-rr.org/decisioncamp-2017 (4) http://2017.ruleml-rr.org/calls/international-rule-challenge (5) http://www.dcs.bbk.ac.uk/bicod17 Venue: the conference will take place at Birkbeck, University of London (London, UK) http://www.bbk.ac.uk . ======================================================================= Important dates Title and abstract registration: 15 February 2017 Paper submission: 22 February 2017 Author feedback on initial reviews: 30 March - 3 April 2017 Author notification: 10 April 2017 Camera ready: 24 April 2017 Conference: 12-15 July 2017 ======================================================================= Topics include, but are not limited to: * Production rules systems * Logic programming engines and applications * Business rules engines and management systems * Logic-based reasoning for rules * Inductive and abductive logic programming * Rule markup languages and rule interchange formats * Rule-based policies, reputation, and trust * Pragmatic web reasoning and distributed rule inference / rule execution * Reaction and ECA rules * Constraint programming * Rule-based languages for intelligent information access and the Semantic Web * Vocabularies, ontologies, and business rules * Bridge rules in multi-context systems * Rule discovery, extraction and transformation * Rule-based data management, data integration, and data interoperability * Scalability and expressive power of logics for rules * Mapping rules for ontology-based data access * Rule-based dynamic data, stream, and complex event processing * Reasoning with incomplete, inconsistent and uncertain data * Non-monotonic, common-sense, and closed-world reasoning * Non-classical logics and the Web * Combining rules with knowledge extraction and information retrieval * Rules, agents, and norms * Rule-based distributed / multi-agent systems * Rule-based communication/dialogue * Argumentation models * Rules and human language technology * Rules in online market research and online marketing * Applications of rule technologies in healthcare and life sciences * Industrial applications of rules * Rules and business process compliance checking * Standards activities related to rules * Rules and social media Submissions Papers must be original contributions written in English and must be submitted at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=rulemlrr2017 as: * Full Paper (15 pages in the proceedings) * Short Paper (8 pages in the proceedings) Please upload all submissions in LNCS format(6). To ensure high quality, submitted papers will be carefully peer-reviewed by at least 3 PC members based on originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of exposition. 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. The accepted papers will be published in book form in the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series. Short papers may contain 1 extra page (max.) for which there is a charge of US$200. Long papers are allowed 2 extra pages (max.), with a charge of US$200 for EACH extra page. Authors of a selection of the best papers from all tracks will be invited to revise and extend their work for publication in the journal TPLP (Theory and Practice of Logic Programming). Links: (6) http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html Student Travel Support Some financial support will be available to enable student authors to travel to the conference. These will be awarded on a case-by-case basis. Proof of studentship will be required at time of registration. Keynotes and speeches * Stephen Muggleton (Imperial College London) http://wp.doc.ic.ac.uk/shm * Elena Baralis (Politecnico di Torino) http://dbdmg.polito.it/wordpress/people/elena-baralis * Jordi Cabot (IN3-UOC, Barcelona) http://jordicabot.com * Jean-Francois Puget (IBM) http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/profiles/html/profileView.do?userid=2700028FGP * Bob Kowalski will present an after-dinner speech entitled ?Logic and AI ? The last 50 years?. .. more to follow! # 11th International Rule Challenge The RuleML+RR 2017 Challenge is one of the highlights of the conference, and seeks to provide competition among innovative rule-oriented applications, aimed at both the research and industrial side. Submissions may present demos related to the RuleML+RR 2017 track topics (see above), supply benchmarks and comparison results for rule engines, illustrate rule- and model-driven engineering, report on industrial experience, present real cases and practical experiences, and realize mobile deployment of rule-based reasoning. # Doctoral Consortium We welcome submissions from PhD students whose research activity is closely related to rule and reasoning systems. The Doctoral Consortium is an excellent opportunity for students to interact with leading experts in the field, and to present and discuss their ideas in a dynamic and friendly setting. # Industry Track The Industry Track targets businesses and the private sector interested in sharing, exploring, and learning about the use of rule technologies for solving real-life business problems, for instance in the field of logistics, planning, domotics, healthcare, big data and high- scalability reasoning, and financial applications including high-frequency trading. # 13th Reasoning Web Summer School (RW 2017) The purpose of the Reasoning Web Summer School is to disseminate recent advances on reasoning techniques which are of particular interest to Semantic Web, Linked Data, Ontologies, Rules, Logic, and Knowledge Graph applications. It is primarily intended for postgraduate (PhD or MSc) students, postdoctoral researchers, young researchers, and senior researchers wishing to learn about Reasoning on the Semantic Web and related issues. The Reasoning Web series of annual Summer Schools was started in 2005 by the European Network of Excellence REWERSE. With kind regards, RuleML+RR 2017 Program Chairs: Stefania Costantini, University of L?Aquila, Italy Enrico Franconi, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy William Van Woensel, Dalhousie University, Canada RuleML+RR 2017 General Chairs: Roman Kontchakov, Birkbeck, University of London, UK Fariba Sadri, Imperial College London, UK RuleML+RR 2017 Publicity Chair: Giovanni De Gasperis, University of L'Aquila, Italy -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Please distribute to interested parties.) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- LPNMR DC 2017 LPNMR Doctoral Student Consortium to be held at Hanasaari Conference Center, Espoo, Finland, Extact date to be confirmed July 3-6, 2017 http://lpnmr-dc.cs.bath.ac.uk/ https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lpnmrdc2017 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The LPNMR Doctoral Consortium (DC) is to be held as part of the 14th International Conference on Logic Programming and Non-monotonic Reasoning (LPNMR 2017) in the Hanasaari Conference Center, Espoo, Finland,July 3-6, 2017. The DC will take place during LPNMR 2017 on a date to be determined. The DC provides a forum for doctoral students working in all areas related to logic programming and non monotonic reasoning. The DC gives students the opportunity to present and discuss their research and to obtain feedback from peers as well as world-renowned experts a supportive environment. The 14th International Conference on Logic Programming and Non-monotonic Reasoning (LPNMR) is a forum for exchanging ideas on declarative logic programming, non-monotonic reasoning, and knowledge representation. The aim of the conference is to facilitate interactions between researchers and practitioners interested in the design, implementation and application of logic-based programming languages and database systems, and those who work in the area of knowledge representation and non-monotonic reasoning. LPNMR and its programmatic expression, Answer Set Programming, have roots in the famous special issue of AIJ in 1980, devoted to Nonmonotonic Reasoning. During the DC, there will be significant time for students to present their work, and meet mentors from their own and closely related fields. ** Target Audience ** 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 interested in doctoral studies). Students at any stage in their doctoral studies are encouraged to apply for participation in the DC, but preference will be given to students who have settled on a research topic or direction but still have some way to go in their studies. 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 LPNMR systems, including semantics of new or existing languages, new language extensions, and computational complexity - Implementation of LPNMR systems, including new systems and algorithms - Applications of LPNMR The DC allows participants to interact with established researchers and fellow students, through presentations, a poster session, question-answer sessions and social interactions. The Doctoral Consortium will provide the possibility to reflect - through short activities, information sessions, and discussions - on the process and lessons of research and life in academia. Each participant will give a short, critiqued, research presentation, present a poster at the main event and attend a lunch in small groups with their mentor/senior researcher. ** Application Process ** An application for participation in the LPNMR DC 2017 consists of a cover sheet, an extended abstract of your (intended) research, a vita, a personal statement and a letter of recommendation (e.g., from your supervisor). All applications must be in English and submitted electronically via EasyChair (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lpnmrdc2017) by 4 April 2017. Detailed submission instructions are provided at the LPNMR DC 2017 website: http://lpnmr-dc.cs.bath.ac.uk/ Applications will be reviewed based on several factors including the quality of the work submitted, stage of research, evidence of research progress, the committee's assessment of the student's contribution to and benefit from participating in the DC, and input from the student's advisor. Details regarding publication of extended abstracts and financial support will follow at a later date. ** Important Dates ** Application Submission: 4 April 2017 Notification: 1 May 2017 Camera-ready Version: 22 May 2017 Doctoral Consortium: During LPNMR, exact date to be confirmed. LPNMR: 3-6 July 2017 ** Organization ** - Program Committee: - Pedro Cabalar University of Corunna - Esra Erdem Sabanci University - Yuliya Lierler University of Nebraska at Omaha - Alessandra Mileo Dublin City University - Alessandra Russo Imperial College London - Hans Tompits Vienna University of Technology - Stefan Woltran Vienna University of Technology - Program Chair: Marina De Vos, University of Bath (M.D.Vos at bath.ac.uk) Website: http://lpnmr-dc.cs.bath.ac.uk/ (Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this email. Please distribute to interested parties.) From andrea.orlandini at istc.cnr.it Fri Feb 24 11:03:43 2017 From: andrea.orlandini at istc.cnr.it (AndreA Orlandini) Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2017 11:03:43 +0100 Subject: [DL] Call for Papers - GandALF 2017 - International Symposium on Games, Automata, Logics, and Formal Verification - Rome - 20-22 September 2017 Message-ID: <7b2e2459-3f57-8edb-5cbe-ae66cd4a0c50@istc.cnr.it> **** Apologies for multiple postings **************************************** ***************************************************************************** PRELIMINARY CALL FOR PAPERS - GandALF 2017 ***************************************************************************** The Eighth International Symposium on Games, Automata, Logics, and Formal Verification will be held in Rome (Italy) on 20-21-22 September 2017. ****http://gandalf2017.istc.cnr.it ***************************************** The aim of GandALF 2017 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. 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 IMPORTANT DATES ****************** ? Abstract submission: May 19, 2017 ? Paper submission: May 26, 2017 ? Notification: July 7, 2017 ? Camera-ready: July 31, 2017 - Conference: Sept. 20-22, 2017 PUBLICATIONS ****************** The proceedings will be published by Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science. Authors of the best papers will be invited to submit a revised version of their work to a special issue of a journal (in progress). The previous editions of GandALF already led to special issues of the International Journal of Foundations of Computer Science (GandALF 2010), Theoretical Computer Science (GandALF 2011 and 2012), Information and Computation (GandALF 2013, 2014, and 2016, the latter one still in progress), and Acta Informatica (GandALF 2015). SUBMISSIONS ****************** Submitted papers should not exceed fourteen (14) pages using EPTCS format (please use the LaTeX style provided athttp://style.eptcs.org), 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 the EasyChair Conference system at the following address:https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=gandalf2017 Program Chairs ****************** Patricia Bouyer-Decitre LSV, CNRS & ENS de Cachan, France Pierluigi San Pietro, Politecnico di Milano, Italy General Chair ****************** Amedeo Cesta, ISTC-CNR, Italy Conference Chair ****************** Andrea Orlandini, ISTC-CNR, Italy Programme Committee ****************** Parosh A. Abdulla (Uppsala University, Sweden) Benedikt Bollig (LSV, Cachan, France) Patricia Bouyer (LSV, Cachan, France) Tomas Brazdil (Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic) Marta Cialdea Mayer (University of Roma, Italy) Thomas Colcombet (IRIF, Paris, France) Bernd Finkbeiner (Saarland University, Germany) Hugo Gimbert (LaBRI, Bordeaux, France) Rasmus Ibsen-Jensen (IST, Vienna, Austria) Angelo Montanari (University of Udine, Italy) Andrea Orlandini (CNR Roma, Italy) Doron Peled (Bar Ilan University, Israel) R. Ramanujam (IMSc, Chennai, India) Mickael Randour (ULB, Brussels, Belgium) Matteo Rossi (Politecnico di Milano, Italy) Pierluigi San Pietro (Politecnico di Milano, Italy) Steering Committee ****************** Luca Aceto, School of Computer Science, Reykjavik University, Iceland Javier Esparza, University of Munich, Germany Salvatore La Torre, University of Salerno, Italy Angelo Montanari, University of Udine, Italy Mimmo Parente, University of Salerno, Italy Wolfgang Thomas, Aachen University, Germany -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- AndreA Orlandini PhD National Research Council of Italy Institute for Cognitive Science and Technology Phone: +39-06-44595-223 E-mail:andrea.orlandini at istc.cnr.it Fax: +39-06-44595-243 Url:http://www.istc.cnr.it/group/pst --------------------------------------------------------------------- Me, the one and only person that never leaves me alone! -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From annalisa at informatik.uni-mannheim.de Wed Feb 22 11:06:57 2017 From: annalisa at informatik.uni-mannheim.de (Anna Lisa Gentile) Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2017 11:06:57 +0100 Subject: [DL] [CFP] ISWC 2017 - call for papers and proposals Message-ID: * First Call for papers & proposals ** 16th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2017) Vienna, Austria, October 21-25, 2017 Website: http://iswc2017.semanticweb.org Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/113652365383847 Twitter: @iswc2017 (https://twitter.com/ISWC2017) Overview calls: http://iswc2017.semanticweb.org/calls/ In this announcement: 1. Call for Papers 2. HTML Submission Guide 3. Call for Workshop and Tutorial proposals 4. Important dates 1. Call for Papers ========================================== -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Research Track Papers -------------------------------------------------------------------------- The International Semantic Web Conference is the premier venue for presenting fundamental research, innovative technology, and applications concerning semantics, data, and the Web. In this track of ISWC 2017, we are looking for novel and significant research contributions addressing theoretical, analytical and empirical aspects of the Semantic Web. While we welcome work that relates to the W3C Semantic Web recommendations (e.g., RDF, OWL, SPARQL, etc.), we also encourage contributions to research at the intersection of Semantic Web and other scientific disciplines. Submissions to the research track should describe original, significant research on the Semantic Web, and are expected to provide some principled means of evaluation. Specifically, all papers should include evaluations of the approaches described in the paper. We strongly encourage evaluations that are repeatable. We also strongly encourage papers that provide links to: the data sets, source code, queries used to evaluate their approach, live deployment.All papers will be assessed by a program committee. Each paper will be reviewed by at least four committee members, including one senior member. The review criteria is specified in the call. Before submitting, authors are asked to consult the calls of the other tracks featured at ISWC 2017 and to choose the track that best suits their contribution. The submission of the same work to multiple tracks is not allowed and may result in a rejection of the work across all tracks without a review. Detailed info: http://iswc2017.semanticweb.org/calls/call-for-research-track-papers/ Program Chairs * Claudia d?Amato, University of Bari, Bari, Italy * Miriam Fernandez, KMi, The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for In-Use Track Papers -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Semantic technologies are reaching maturity on and off the web, through ontology based data integration, the increase in their use to publish, structure, store and make sense of web data, whether they are in the form of linked data, through schema.org, or even with semantics included in other data formats than RDF (CSV, JSON, etc). The In-Use track at ISWC 2017 provides a forum for the community to explore the benefits and challenges of applying semantic technologies in concrete, practical applications, in contexts ranging from industry to government and science. We are especially interested in applications that use the emerging knowledge graphs or semantic annotations on the web together with data mining, machine learning, or natural language processing techniques to the benefit of concrete, real-life scenarios. We are also looking for descriptions of applied and validated industry solutions as software tools, systems or architecture that benefit from the adoption of semantic technologies. Importantly, papers presenting applications in use of semantic technologies should provide evidence that there is use of the proposed application or tool by the target user group, preferably outside the group that conducted the development. A main focus of the submission should be on the way semantics and semantic technologies are impacting this development, through benefiting the intended use case, as well as, if relevant, through the added challenges they introduce. Detailed info: http://iswc2017.semanticweb.org/calls/call-for-in-use-track-papers/ Program Chairs * Philippe Cudre-Maroux, University of Fribourg, Fribourg, Switzerland * Juan Sequeda, Capsenta, Austin, TX, USA -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Resources Track Papers -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Many of the research efforts in in the areas of the Semantic Web and Linked Data focus on publishing scientific papers that prove a hypothesis. However, scientific advancement is often reliant good quality resources, that are the necessary scaffolding to support the scientific publications, even though these are not usually equally recognised. Sharing these resources and the best practices that have lead to their development with the research community is crucial to consolidate research material, ensure reproducibility of results and in general gain new scientific insights.The ISWC 2017 Resources Track aims to promote the sharing of resources including, but not restricted to, datasets, ontologies, vocabularies, workflows, evaluation benchmarks or methods, replication studies, services, APIs and software that have contributed to the generation of novel scientific work. In particular, we encourage the sharing of such resources following best and well established practices within the Semantic Web community. This track calls for contributions that provide a concise and clear description of a resource and its usage. We also encourage submissions that illustrate new types of resources such as ontology design patterns, crowdsourcing task designs, workflows, methodologies, protocols and measures, etc. Detailed info: http://iswc2017.semanticweb.org/calls/call-for-resources-track-papers/ Program Chairs * Valentina Tamma, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK * Freddy Lecue, Accenture/INRIA, Dublin, Ireland, Sophia Antipolis, France -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Posters and Demos Papers -------------------------------------------------------------------------- The ISWC 2017 Posters and Demonstrations complement the paper tracks of the conference and offer an opportunity for presenting late-breaking research results, on-going research projects, and speculative or innovative work in progress. The informal setting of the Posters and Demonstrations encourages presenters and participants to engage in discussions about the work. Such discussions can be invaluable inputs for the future work of the presenters, while offering participants an effective way to broaden their knowledge of the emerging research trends and to network with other researchers. We invite submissions relevant to the area of the Semantic Web and which address, but are not limited to, the topics of the Research Track; the In-Use Track; and the Resources Track. Technical posters, reports on Semantic Web software systems (free or commercial), descriptions of completed work, and work in progress are all welcome. Demonstrations are intended to showcase innovative Semantic Web related implementations and technologies, both in academia and in industry. We explicitly welcome entries from the industry. However, submissions for posters and demos should go beyond pure advertisements of commercial software packages and convey a minimal scientific contribution. Authors of full papers accepted for the Research Track; the In-Use Track; and the Resources Track are explicitly invited to submit a demonstration. Detailed info: http://iswc2017.semanticweb.org/calls/call-for-posters-and-demos/ Program Chairs * Nadeschda Nikitina, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK * Dezhao Song, Thomson Reuters, Eagan, MN, USA -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Industry Track Papers -------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Industry Track seeks to present the state of adoption of semantic technologies in industrial applications. These technologies may be used in specific industries (e.g., media, financials, telecommunications, healthcare, life sciences, government, intelligence, etc.) or as a horizontal technology, and in different application areas (e.g., business intelligence, analytics, search, content management, knowledge management, recommendation systems, data integration, etc.). We welcome contributions about success stories as well as experiences and discussions of obstacles that stand in the way of large scale adoption of certain technologies. Particular emphasis should be put on the demonstration of business value created by using the semantic technologies. Come and join us at the ISWC 2017 industry track to share your experience! Detailed info: http://iswc2017.semanticweb.org/calls/call-for-contributions-industry-track-iswc-2017/ Program Chairs * Achille Fokoue, IBM Yorktown, NY, USA * Peter Haase, metaphacts, Walldorf, Germany -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Doctoral Consortium papers -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. Generally, students at the end of their first year, in their second or at the beginning of their third year of PhD will benefit the most from the Doctoral Consortium. In the Consortium, the students will present their proposals, get specific feedback and advice on how to improve their research plan and discuss other students? proposals. 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. We anticipate that students with accepted submissions at the Doctoral Consortium will receive travel fellowships to offset some of the travel costs but they will be asked to attend the whole day of the Doctoral Consortium. Detailed info: http://iswc2017.semanticweb.org/calls/doctoral-consortium/ Program Chairs * Lora Aroyo, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands * Fabien Gandon, INRIA Sophia-Antipolis, France 2. HTML Submission Guide ========================================== As for the previous ISWC edition, we allow for the submission of articles formatted using HTML. Authors choosing to submit using HTML still need to comply with the page limit and layout requirements of the conference. It?s the author?s responsibility to ensure that reviewers can easily access their submission. Detailed info on HTML submission and link to helpful tools can be found at: http://iswc2017.semanticweb.org/calls/html-submission-guide/ 3. Call for Workshop and Tutorial proposals ========================================== In addition to the regular research program, ISWC 2017 will feature a workshop and tutorial program addressing the diverse interests of its audience. We hereby invite you to submit a tutorial proposal on a topic relevant to the ISWC 2017 audience. Detailed info: http://iswc2017.semanticweb.org/calls/call-for-tutorial-proposals/ Besides tutorials, ISWC will host a number of workshops on topics related to the general theme of the conference. The role of the workshops is to provide a context for a focused and intensive scientific exchange among researchers interested in a particular topic. As such, workshops are the primary venues for the exploration of emerging ideas as well as for the discussion of novel aspects of established research topics. We invite you to submit a proposal for workshops on a topic of interest to ISWC attendees. Detailed info: http://iswc2017.semanticweb.org/calls/call-for-workshop-proposals/ Workshops & Tutorials Chairs * Aidan Hogan, Universidad de Chile Santiago, Santiago, Chile * Valentina Presutti, Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies, CNR, Rome, Italy 4. Important Dates ========================================== Workshop & Tutorial proposals dueMarch 17, 2017 Workshop & Tutorial proposals notifications sentApril 7, 2017 Abstracts due (Research, In-Use, Resources tracks)May 8, 2017 Submissions due (Research, In-Use, Resources tracks)May 15, 2017 Doctoral Consortium submissions dueMay 25, 2017 Registration startsJune 1, 2017 Doctoral Consortium notifications sentJune 30, 2017 Author rebuttal period (Research, In-Use, Resources tracks)June 23-27, 2017 Submissions due (Industry track)July 10, 2017 Notifications sent (Research, In-Use, Resources tracks)July 14, 2017 Camera-ready papers for Doctoral Consortium dueJuly 18, 2017 Workshop paper submissions dueJuly 21, 2017 Poster & Demo submissions dueJuly 27, 2017 Camera-ready papers due (Research, In-Use, Resources tracks)July 28, 2017 Notifications sent (Industry track)July 31, 3017 Workshop paper notifications sentAugust 24, 2017 Poster & Demo notifications sentAugust 24, 2017 Student activity applications dueAugust 31, 2017 Final version industry track papers due August 31, 2017 Camera-ready copies for Poster & Demo dueSeptember 4, 2017 The last day for early registrationsSeptember 8, 2017 Workshops & TutorialsOctober 21 & 22, 2017 ConferenceOctober 23, 24 & 25, 2017 The ISWC Organising Committee (http://iswc2017.semanticweb.org/organization/) * -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From geoff at cs.miami.edu Wed Feb 22 14:14:31 2017 From: geoff at cs.miami.edu (Geoff Sutcliffe) Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2017 08:14:31 -0500 (EST) Subject: [DL] Formalization of Geometry, Automated and Interactive Geometric Reasoning Message-ID: <20170222131431.6F7A7121551@mcclellan.cs.miami.edu> Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence special issue on Formalization of Geometry, Automated and Interactive Geometric Reasoning Call-for-Papers For this special issue of AMAI, we are seeking original contributions on various aspects of formalization of geometry having in view computational applications mainly oriented to proof but also to modeling in geometry. Relevant topics include (but are not limited to): * Polynomial algebra, invariant and coordinate-free methods, probabilistic, synthetic, and logical approaches, techniques for automated geometric reasoning from discrete mathematics, combinatorics, and numerics; * Symbolic and numeric methods for geometric computation, geometric constraint solving, automated generation/reasoning and manipulation with diagrams; * Design and implementation of geometry software, special-purpose tools, automated theorem provers, experimental studies; * Applications of formalization of geometry to mechanics, geometric modeling, CAGD/CAD, computer vision, robotics, and education. Important dates: September 1, 2017: paper submission via http://www.editorialmanager.com/amai/ selecting the issue: S688 Formalization of Geometry and Reasoning January 1, 2018: author notification March 1, 2018: revisions and camera-ready paper submission Guest Editors: Pascal Schreck , Tetsuo Ida , Laura Kovacs From grbacci at cs.aau.dk Fri Feb 24 13:25:23 2017 From: grbacci at cs.aau.dk (Giorgio Bacci) Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2017 12:25:23 +0000 Subject: [DL] MFCS 2017: First Call for Papers Message-ID: <68EA9748-6D25-4FBF-BE54-0510516129AD@cs.aau.dk> --------------------------------------------------------------- MFCS 2017 42nd International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science Aalborg, Denmark, August 21-25, 2017 http://mfcs2017.cs.aau.dk/ --------------------------------------------------------------- BACKGROUND: MFCS conference series is organized since 1972. Traditionally, the conference moved between the Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Poland, while since a few years ago, the conference travels around Europe (in 2013 it was held in Austria, then in 2014 in Hungary, in 2015, in Italy). In 2016 the conference returned to Poland and in 2017 it will be held in Denmark. MFCS is a high-quality venue for original research in all branches of theoretical computer science. The broad scope of the conference encourages interactions between researchers who might not meet at more specialized venues. MFCS 2017 consists of invited lectures and contributed talks, selected by an international program committee of researchers focusing on diverse areas of theoretical computer science. The conference will be accompanied by workshops. We encourage submission of original research papers in all areas of theoretical computer science, including (but not limited to) the following (alphabetically ordered): - algebraic and co-algebraic methods in computer science - algorithms and data structures - automata and formal languages - bioinformatics - combinatorics on words, trees, and other structures - computational complexity (structural and model-related) - computational geometry - computer-assisted reasoning - concurrency theory - cryptography and security - databases and knowledge-based systems - formal specifications and program development - foundations of computing - logics in computer science - mobile computing - models of computation - networks (incl. wireless, sensor, ad-hoc networks) - parallel and distributed computing - quantum computing - semantics and verification of programs - theoretical issues in artificial intelligence - types in computer science All submitted papers will be reviewed by the program committee. Accepted papers will be collected into the conference proceedings. IMPORTANT DATES: Abstract submission deadline: April 20th, 2017 (AoE) Paper submission deadline: April 24th, 2017 (AoE) Notification of authors: June 12th, 2017 (AoE) Camera-ready copies due: June 22nd, 2017 (AoE) Early registration deadline: June 23rd, 2017 (AoE) Late registration deadline: August 7th, 2017 (AoE; afterward, only on-site registration) Conference dates: August 21?25, 2017 PAPER SUBMISSION: Papers should be submitted electronically through EasyChair at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mfcs17 Submissions should be prepared according to the following instructions: Papers should be formatted using the LIPIcs style. Length: up to 12 pages (excluding references and an optional appendix) References and an optional appendix can go beyond the 12 pages (the appendix will be consulted at the discretion of the program committee). It is mandatory to use pdflatex No prior publication or simultaneous submission to other conferences or journals are allowed (but submissions to preprint repositories such as arXiv or workshops without formal published proceedings are allowed) PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Kim G. Larsen ? PC chair (Aalborg University, Denmark) Hans L. Bodlaender ? co-chair (Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands) Jean-Francois Raskin ?co-chair (Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium) Alexander Kurz (University of Leicester) Aniello Murano (Universit? degli Studi di Napoli Federico II) Arno Pauly (Universite Libre de Bruxelles) Axel Legay (IRISA/INRIA, Rennes) Bartek Klin (University of Warsaw) Bettina Speckmann (TU Eindhoven) Christof L?ding (RWTH Aachen) Damien Pous (CNRS - ENS Lyon) Dana Pardubska (Comenius University) Dexter Kozen (Cornell University) Doron Peled (Bar Ilan University) Franck Cassez (Macquarie University) Hans Raj Tiwary (Charles University) Jiri Wiedermann (Academy of Sciences) J?rg Rothe (Universit?t D?sseldorf) Kasper Green Larsen (MADALGO, Department of Computer Science, Aarhus University) Lars Birkedal (Dept. of Computer Science, Aarhus University) Luca Moscardelli (University of Chieti-Pescara) Manfred Droste (Leipzig University, Institute of Computer Science) Manuel Bodirsky (TU Dresden) Martin Lange (University of Kassel) Matteo Mio (CNRS/ENS-Lyon) Patricia Bouyer (LSV, CNRS & ENS Cachan, Universit? Paris Saclay) Pawel Gawrychowski (University of Haifa) Peter Van Emde Boas (ILLC-FNWI-Universiteit van Amsterdam (emeritus) Petteri Kaski (Helsinki Institute for Information Technology HIIT, Department of Computer Science, Aalto University) Pierre-Yves Schobbens (University of Namur) Prakash Panangaden (McGill University) Radu Mardare (Aalborg University) Raffaella Gentilini (University of Perugia) Ramamohan Paturi (University of California, San Diego) Rocco De Nicola (IMT - School for Advanced Studies Lucca) Rod Downey (Victoria University) Roland Meyer (TU Braunschweig) Sagi Snir (Univ. of Haifa) Sam Staton (Oxford University) S?awomir Lasota (Warsaw University) Stephan Kreutzer (Technical University Berlin) Tarmo Uustalu (Institute of Cybernetics, Tallinn University of Technology) Udi Boker (Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) Herzliya) Vojtech Forejt (Oxford University) LOCAL ORGANIZERS, Aalborg University Giorgio Bacci Giovanni Bacci Radu Mardare Jiri Srba Rikke W. 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The call for this special issue is planned for late 2017. More information to follow. -- Workshop Description and Aims -- Classical reasoning is not flexible enough when directly applied to the formalization of certain nuances of human quotidian decision making. These involve different kinds of reasoning such as reasoning with uncertainty, exceptions, similarity, vagueness, incomplete or contradictory information and many others. It turns out that everyday reasoning usually shows the two salient intertwined aspects below: * Ampliative aspect: augmenting the underlying reasoning by allowing more conclusions. In practical contexts, this amounts to the ability to make inferences that venture beyond the scope of the premises, somehow in an unsound but justifiable way. Prominent examples are (i) default reasoning: jumping to conclusions deemed as plausible 'by default', i.e., in the absence of information to the contrary, like applying negation as failure or adopting the closed-world assumption; (ii) inductive and abductive reasoning: taking chances in drawing conclusions that implicitly call for further scrutiny or tests by empirical observations, like in making inductive hypotheses in scientific theories or finding abductive explanations in forensics, and (iii) analogical reasoning: extrapolating from very few examples (in the worst case only one) on the basis of observable similarities or dissimilarities. * Defeasible aspect: curtailing the underlying reasoning by either disregarding or disallowing some conclusions that somehow ought not to be sanctioned. In practice, this amounts to the ability to backtrack one's conclusions or to admit exceptions in reasoning. Some examples of this are (i) retractive reasoning: withdrawing conclusions that have already been derived, like in belief contraction or in negotiation, and (ii) preemptive reasoning: preventing or blocking the inference of some conclusions by disallowing their derivation in the first place, like in dealing with exceptional cases in multiple inheritance networks and in regulatory systems. Several efforts have been put into the study and definition of formalisms within which the aforementioned aspects of everyday reasoning could adequately be captured at different levels. Despite the progress that has been achieved, a large avenue remains open for exploration. Indeed, the literature on non-monotonic reasoning has focused almost exclusively on defeasibility of argument forms, whereas belief revision paradigms are restricted to an underlying classical (Tarskian) consequence relation. Moreover, even if some of the issues related to uncertainty in reasoning have been studied using probabilistic approaches and statistical methods, their integration with qualitative frameworks remain a challenge. Finally, well-established approaches are largely based on propositional languages or haunted by the undecidability of full first-order logic. Modern applications require formalisms with a good balance between expressive power and computational complexity. DARe aims at bringing together researchers and practitioners from core areas of artificial intelligence, cognitive sciences, philosophy and related disciplines to discuss these kinds of problems and relevant results in a multi-disciplinary forum. The goal of the workshop is to present latest research developments, to discuss current directions in the field, and to collect first-hand feedback from the community. -- Scope of the Workshop -- DARe welcomes contributions on all aspects of defeasible and ampliative reasoning such as (but not limited to): - Abductive and inductive reasoning - Explanation finding, diagnosis and causal reasoning - Inconsistency handling and exception-tolerant reasoning - Decision-making under uncertainty and incomplete information - Default reasoning, non-monotonic reasoning, non-monotonic logics, conditional logics - Specific instances and variations of ampliative and defeasible reasoning - Probabilistic and statistical approaches to reasoning - Vagueness, rough sets, granularity and fuzzy-logics - Philosophical foundations of defeasibility - Empirical studies of reasoning - Relationship with cognition and language - Contextual reasoning - Preference-based reasoning - Analogical reasoning - Similarity-based reasoning - Belief dynamics and merging - Argumentation theory, negotiation and conflict resolution - Heuristic and approximate reasoning - Defeasible normative systems - Reasoning about actions and change - Reasoning about knowledge and belief, epistemic and doxastic logics - Ampliative and defeasible temporal and spatial reasoning - Computational aspects of reasoning with uncertainty - Implementations and systems - Applications of uncertainty in reasoning -- Submission Requirements -- We invite submissions of papers presenting original research results or position statements. Submissions must be prepared using the Springer LNAI/LNCS format (which can be found at http://lpnmr2017.aalto.fi/submission.html) and should be no longer than 13 pages. Please submit to: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dare17 -- Workshop Proceedings/Notes -- Accepted papers will be made available electronically in the CEUR Workshop Proceedings series (http://ceur-ws.org). Copyright of papers remain with the authors. The 2014 proceedings are available at http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1212/ The 2015 proceedings are available at http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1423/ The 2016 proceedings are available at http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1626/ -- Attendance -- The selection of accepted contributions will be based on relevance, significance and the work's potential to foster discussions and cross-pollination. Therefore submissions of ongoing work are also strongly encouraged. At least one co-author of each accepted paper must register for the workshop. Please check the LPNMR 2017 website for registration procedure, fees as well as cancellation policies. -- Important Dates -- - Submission deadline: 3 April 2017 - Notification: 1 May 2017 - Camera ready: 22 May 2017 - Workshop date: 3 July 2017 -- Invited Speaker -- [TBA] -- Workshop Co-Chairs -- - Richard Booth, Cardiff University, UK - Giovanni Casini, University of Luxembourg - Ivan Varzinczak, CRIL, Univ. Artois & CNRS, France -- Program Committee -- - Natasha Alechina, University of Nottingham, UK - Grigoris Antoniou, University of Huddersfield, UK - Ofer Arieli, Academic College of Tel-Aviv, Israel - Guillaume Aucher, University of Rennes 1 - INRIA, France - Christoph Beierle, FernUniversitaet Hagen, Germany - Mario Benevides, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - Antonis Bikakis, University College London, UK - Alexander Bochman, Holon Institute of Technology, Israel - Katarina Britz, Stellenbosch University, South Africa - James Delgrande, Simon Fraser University, Canada - Marcelo Finger, Universidade de S?o Paulo, Brazil - Nina Gierasimczuk, Danish Technical University, Denmark - Patrick Girard, University of Auckland, New Zealand - Sven Ove Hansson, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden - Andreas Herzig, IRIT CNRS, France - Aaron Hunter, British Columbia Institute of Technology, Canada - Souhila Kaci, Universit? Montpellier 2, France - Gabriele Kern-Isberner, TU Dortmund, Germany - Simon Kramer, SK-R&D, Switzerland - Michael Maher, University of New South Wales, Australia - Jo?o Marcos, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil - Thomas Meyer, University of Cape Town, South Africa - Gilles Richard, Universit? Paul Sabatier, France - Francois Schwarzentruber, ENS Rennes/IRISA, France - Umberto Straccia, CNR, Italy - Joost Vennekens, K.U. Leuven, Belgium - Peter Verd?e, Universiteit Gent, Belgium - Heinrich Wansing, Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum, Germany - Renata Wassermann, Universidade de S?o Paulo, Brazil - Anna Zamansky, University of Haifa, Israel -- Further Information -- Please visit the workshop website (https://sites.google.com/view/dare-17) for further information and regular updates. Enquiries should be sent to dare.to.contact.us at gmail.com -- Ivan Varzinczak CRIL, Univ. Artois & CNRS, France http://member.acm.org/~ijv From listbox at inf.upol.cz Wed Feb 22 14:03:46 2017 From: listbox at inf.upol.cz (Mailing Lists Box) Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2017 14:03:46 +0100 Subject: [DL] CLA 2018 CALL FOR PROPOSALS TO ORGANIZE Message-ID: <20170222130346.GA16616@pharaoh.inf.upol.cz> Dear Colleagues, Please find enclosed a Call For Proposals to Organize CLA 2018: The Fourteenth International Conference on Concept Lattices and Their Applications. The CFPO is also available at http://cla.inf.upol.cz/. Sincerely, Radim Belohlavek CLA Steering Committee -------------- next part -------------- Call For Proposals to Organize CLA 2018 --------------------------------------- The Fourteenth International Conferences on Concept Lattices and Their Applications Proposals to organize CLA 2018, The Fourteenth International Conference on Concept Lattices and Their Applications, are to be sent to the Steering Committee of CLA (radim.belohlavek at acm.org) by March 31, 2017. Web page of CLA http://cla.inf.upol.cz What is CLA? CLA is an international conference dedicated to formal concept analysis (FCA, http://www.fcahome.org.uk/) and closely related areas. Formal concept analysis was invented in the early 1980s as a method of data analysis with solid mathematical foundations. A key idea is to base the analysis of data on the notion of a formal concept?a formal counterpart to the intuitive notion of a human-like concept found in data. Directly related to formal concept analysis are areas such as data mining, information retrieval, knowledge management, data and knowledge engineering, logic, algebra and lattice theory. The conference provides a forum for researchers, practitioners, and students. The program of the conference consists of invited plenary talks, regular talks, and poster sessions. Papers in all areas relevant to theory and applications of formal concept analysis are solicited. Those areas include but are not restricted to: * foundations, * concept lattices and related structures, * attribute implications and data dependencies, * algorithms and complexity, * visualization, * data preprocessing, * redundancy and dimensionality reduction, * information retrieval, * classification, * clustering, * association rules and other data dependencies, * ontologies, * applications. Steering Committee of CLA Radim Belohlavek Palack? University, Olomouc, Czech Republic Sadok Ben Yahia Facult? des Sciences de Tunis, Tunisia Jean Diatta Universit? de la R?union, France Peter Eklund IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark Sergei O. Kuznetsov State University Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia Engelbert Mephu Nguifo LIMOS, CNRS UMR 6158, University Blaise Pascal, Clermont Ferrand, France Amedeo Napoli INRIA NGE/LORIA, Nancy, France Manuel Ojeda-Aciego Universidad de M?laga, Spain Jan Outrata Palack? 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You can find details at https://github.com/kbss-cvut/jopa Main Features * Object-ontological mapping based on integrity constraints, * Explicit access to inferred knowledge, * Access to unmapped properties and individual's types * Transactions * Separate storage access layer Bests, Petr Kremen on behalf of the JOPA team Knowledge-based Software Systems Group Czech Technical University in Prague -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From pr-aksw at informatik.uni-leipzig.de Wed Feb 22 18:30:51 2017 From: pr-aksw at informatik.uni-leipzig.de (Sebastian Hellmann) Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2017 18:30:51 +0100 Subject: [DL] SEMANTiCS 2017, Amsterdam, Sep 11-14, Open Calls Message-ID: <16580cc7-4408-4a13-b41d-b878b4fb5c32@informatik.uni-leipzig.de> Apologies for cross-posting Call for Papers, Posters & Workshops SEMANTiCS 2017 - The Linked Data Conference 13th International Conference on Semantic Systems Amsterdam, Netherlands September 11 -14, 2017 http://2017.semantics.cc For details please go to: https://2017.semantics.cc/calls Important Dates (Research & Innovation): *Abstract Submission Deadline: May 17, 2017 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time) *Paper Submission Deadline: May 24, 2017 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time) *Notification of Acceptance: July 3, 2017 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time) *Camera-Ready Paper: August 14, 2017 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time) Important Dates (Workshops & Tutorials): *Submission of Proposals for Workshops with Call for Papers: March 31, 2017 (23:59 Hawaii Time) *Submission of Proposals for Tutorials and Workshops without Call for Papers: June 30, 2017 (23:59 Hawaii Time) *Workshop Proposals Notification of Acceptance: April 13, 2017 (23:59 Hawaii Time) *Workshop Website/Call for Papers Online: April 30, 2017 (23:59 Hawaii Time) *Workshop Camera-Ready Proceedings: September 4, 2017 (23:59 Hawaii Time) *SEMANTiCS 2017 Workshop & Tutorial Days: September 11 and 14, 2017 As in the previous years, SEMANTiCS?17 proceedings will be published by ACM ICPS (pending) and CEUR WS proceedings. SEMANTiCS 2017 will especially welcome submissions for the following hot topics: *Data Science (special track, see below) *Web Semantics, Linked (Open) Data & schema.org *Corporate Knowledge Graphs *Knowledge Integration and Language Technologies *Data Quality Management *Economics of Data, Data Services and Data Ecosystems Following the success of previous years, the ?horizontals? (research) and ?verticals? (industries) below are of interest for the conference: Horizontals: *Enterprise Linked Data & Data Integration *Knowledge Discovery & Intelligent Search *Business Models, Governance & Data Strategies *Semantics in Big Data *Text Analytics *Data Portals & Knowledge Visualization *Semantic Information Management *Document Management & Content Management *Terminology, Thesaurus & Ontology Management *Smart Connectivity, Networking & Interlinking *Smart Data & Semantics in IoT *Semantics for IT Safety & Security *Semantic Rules, Policies & Licensing *Community, Social & Societal Aspects Data Science Special Track Horizontals: *Large-Scale Data Processing (stream processing, handling large-scale graphs) *Data Analytics (Machine Learning, Predictive Analytics, Network Analytics) *Communicating Data (Data Visualization, UX & Interaction Design, Crowdsourcing) *Cross-cutting Issues (Ethics, Privacy, Security, Provenance) Verticals: *Industry & Engineering *Life Sciences & Health Care *Public Administration *e-Science *Digital Humanities *Galleries, Libraries, Archives & Museums (GLAM) *Education & eLearning *Media & Data Journalism *Publishing, Marketing & Advertising *Tourism & Recreation *Financial & Insurance Industry *Telecommunication & Mobile Services *Sustainable Development: Climate, Water, Air, Ecology *Energy, Smart Homes & Smart Grids *Food, Agriculture & Farming *Safety, Security & Privacy *Transport, Environment & Geospatial For call details please go to: https://2017.semantics.cc/calls From raffaella.bernardi at unitn.it Fri Feb 24 10:55:34 2017 From: raffaella.bernardi at unitn.it (Raffaella Bernardi) Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2017 10:55:34 +0100 Subject: [DL] Tenure Track Assistant Professor or Associate Professor, University of Trento (Italy) Message-ID: <405A9E20-3020-434A-BECF-142C7C50CDE9@disi.unitn.it> Call for Expression of Interest for Tenure Track Assistant Professor or Associate Professor Computational Linguistics Principal Investigator, University of Trento, Center for Mind-Brain Sciences (CIMeC), CIMeC Language, Interaction and Computation (CLIC) lab, Trento, Italy The Center for Mind-Brain Sciences (CIMeC) at the University of Trento, Italy, invites expressions of interest from highly motivated scholars in view of the opening of a principal investigator position at the level of Tenure Track Assistant Professor (if after 3 years the tenure track AP will have obtained the Italian Scientific Habilitation for Associate Professor, she/he will be evaluated to obtain the Associate Professor Position at CIMeC). Candidates who have already a tenured position elsewhere or holders of prestigious fellowships with duration of at least three years (e.g. ERC Grants) may be considered directly for a Tenured Associate Professor position. Profile The ideal candidate would have a good research record in computational linguistics, plus possibly a good knowledge of theoretical linguistics and, ideally, the ability to carry out experimental work on human subjects. The successful candidate will work in the CIMeC Language, Interaction and Computation Lab (CLIC: http://clic.cimec.unitn.it/) at the Center for Mind-Brain Sciences (CIMeC: http://web.unitn.it/en/cimec). He/she is expected to be interested in interacting with the rest of CIMeC faculty on general cognitive and neurocognitive issues, and help developing cutting-edge research at the intersection between computational linguistics, theoretical linguistics and general cognition. Knowledge of Italian is appreciated but not required. The University of Trento particularly welcomes applications from women candidates. Teaching The candidate is also expected to contribute to the Center?s overall goal of delivering high-quality teaching in English at PhD and MSc level. The research group will negotiate the possibility of supervising PhD students who are fully funded by the University. The position holder will have a personal grant for research/travel expenses. The teaching duties at MSc level vary depending on the position. Assistant professors are expected to teach 90 hrs/year. Associate professors are expected to teach 120 hrs/year; UniTN and CIMeC The University of Trento has systematically ranked in the top tier positions in Italy in the past 10 years in both national Research Assessment Evaluations (RAE) and University Surveys. In the latest RAE the University of Trento as a whole ranks 1st among medium universities. The CIMeC's goal is to foster cutting-edge research on cognition and its neural underpinnings and to support the dissemination of these findings internationally and within the local community. As an interdisciplinary research and teaching center, it draws on faculty from several departments, including Psychology and Cognitive Science, Humanities and Philosophy, Physics, Mathematics, and Information Engineering and Computer Science. Its faculty originates from Italy, Germany, The Netherlands, Belgium, USA, Canada, Argentina, Israel and beyond. In the last 5 years CIMeC faculty have won many competitive national and international grants, including 1 European Research Council (ERC) advanced grant, 1 ERC consolidator grant, 6 ERC starting grants, other European Framework grants and highly competitive grants awarded by the local province. The center has recently been ranked the leading cognitive neuroscience research unit in Italy. It is part of the Erasmus Mundus European Master Program in Language and Communication Technologies. Application: Expressions of interest in English should include a brief motivation letter and CV (including a list of publications and brief description highlighting the three most significant publications), a research statement and a teaching statement (up to two pages each). Informal inquiries for further information regarding the position can be addressed to clic.eoi17 at gmail.com. Alternatively, you could contact Raffaella Bernardi (raffaella.bernardi at unitn.it). Expressions of interest should be addressed to: Prof. Carlo Miniussi Director of the Center for Mind-Brain Sciences Corso Bettini 31, 38068 Rovereto Italy Email applications are welcomed and should be sent to clic.eoi17 at gmail.com before the 30th of March, 2017. ============================================================== University of Trento DISI and CIMeC, http://disi.unitn.it/~bernardi/ Postal Address: Corso Bettini, 31, 38068 Rovereto (TN) Tel. +39 0461 28 3969 (DISI) Tel. +39 0461 28 8704 (CIMeC) Fax. +39 0461 28 2093 ============================================================== From rainer.unland at icb.uni-due.de Wed Feb 22 17:17:56 2017 From: rainer.unland at icb.uni-due.de (Rainer Unland) Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2017 17:17:56 +0100 Subject: [DL] Cf Proposals for workshops and special sessions - deadline extension till 12.3. - IEEE/WIC/ACM Int. Conf. on Web Intelligence 2017 (WI'17), 23-26 Aug. 2017, Leipzig, Germany In-Reply-To: <600e5989-2a38-967c-ea7b-046d7bba4df5@icb.uni-due.de> References: <600e5989-2a38-967c-ea7b-046d7bba4df5@icb.uni-due.de> Message-ID: [Apologies if you receive this more than once] Please forward this CFP to anyone who might be interested. ####################################################################### Call for Proposals for Special Sessions and Workshops **************extended, firm Deadline till 12.3.2017**************** IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence 2017 (WI'17) August 23-26, 2017, Leipzig, Germany Conference Website: http://webintelligence2017.com/ ####################################################################### ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ SPONSORS ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) IEEE Computer Society Web Intelligence Consortium (WIC) ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ IMPORTANT DATES +++++++++++++++ ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Workshop and Special session proposal submission:Mar. 12, 2017 Notification of Workshop/Special session acceptance:Mar. 15, 2017 Submission of Workshop/Special session papers:May 22, 2017 Notification of Workshop/Special session paper acceptance: June 29, 2017 Camera-Ready Papers (Workshops and Special sessions)Jul. 17, 2017 Main conference:Aug. 23-26, 2017 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ AIMS AND SCOPE ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Special session and Workshop proposals are invited to the 2017 Web Intelligence conference to be held in Leipzig, Germany, on August 23-26, 2018. Their objective is to complement the regular program with specific or emerging topics that are of particular interest to the Web Intelligence community and, in case of Workshops, to provide a forum for intense and deep-going discussions. Special Session and Workshop proposals need to address topics that do not pertain to well-established tracks of WI. They may, however, cut across and beyond disciplines traditionally represented at WI conferences. Special Sessions ---------------- Typically, each Special Session comprises at least 3 regular presentations, or 5 short ones, or an adequate mixture of these. The first paper in a Special Session may serve as an introduction to the field, aimed at listeners, who are not experts in the field yet and, therefore, could also be an overview paper. An organizer should not contribute with more than one paper. Workshops --------- The purpose of the CP workshops is to provide a more informal venue in which participants can: * explore specific research areas in depth, * discuss new research directions, * study specific application areas of Web Intelligence, or * bring together researchers from different areas with shared interests. How is a proposal meant to look like? ------------------------------------- Prospective organizers of Special Sessions or Workshops (called events in the following) should submit proposals indicating: 1. Title and acronym of the event 2. Duration (in half-day steps) -for Workshops only 3. Description of the event topic, and a draft version of CFP (not exceeding 500 words) 4. Short description on how the organizers plan to attract quality submissions (CfP spreading?) 5. Preliminary list of invited speakers (if already available) 6. Past records (if any) 7. Short bio of the organizers 8. Tentative program committee (if already available) 9. Contact information of the organizers (including name, affiliation, mailing address, and e-mail address) Evaluation of Proposals: ------------------------ Special session and Workshop proposals will be evaluated based on the timeliness of the topic, its uniqueness, the qualifications of the proposers and their experience. The proposers are expected to have at least a PhD degree and a good publication track record in the proposed area. A tentative accept/reject decision on the proposal will be sent to the proposers within a short period after its receipt by the Special Sessions and Workshop Chairs. Accepted special sessions and Workshops will be listed on the website. However, it may be that we suggest that an accepted proposal shall be combined with a similar proposal to avoid multiple Special Sessions or Workshops on a similar topic. A final decision will be made two weeks after the special session proposal deadline. High quality outcomes (papers) of these events may be considered for publication in a journal (e.g., Web Intelligence journal (IOS Press, www.iospress.nl/journal/web-intelligence-and-agent-systems/), or the Multiagent and Grid Systems journal (IOS Press, http://www.iospress.nl/journal/multiagent-and-grid-systems/). ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ PROPOSAL SUBMISSION ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Proposals are to be send by Email to: WSChair at webintelligence2017.com For further information either visit the WI 2017 homepage (see above) or contact any of the Special session and Workshop chairs (see below). ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Workshop and Special Session Chairs: ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Agata Filipowska, Poznan University of Economics, Poland, Agata.Filipowska at ue.poznan.pl Omar Hussain, UNSW Canberra, Australia, o.hussain at adfa.edu.au Juan D. Velasquez, University of Chile, Chile, jvelasqu at dii.uchile.cl Yiqiang Chen, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, yqchen at ict.ac.cn Olaf Reinhold, Leipzig University, Germany, reinhold at wifa.uni-leipzig.de -- ?Experience is this valuable asset which allows us to identify the mistake immediately when we are doing it again and again!? ?Erfahrung ist jener kostbare Besitz, der uns bef?higt, einen Fehler sofort zu erkennen, wenn wir ihn immer wieder machen.? ************************************************************************** Prof. Dr. Rainer Unland University of Duisburg-Essen Institute for Computer Science and Business Information Systems (ICB) Practical Computer Science, especially Data Management Systems and Knowledge Representation Schuetzenbahn 70 45117 Essen, Germany Tel.: (+49) 201-183 3421 IP-Tel. 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Murray Shanahan, Imperial College London. = INDUSTRY TRACK ADDED = For the first time, the 2017 edition of NeSy will feature an industry track on the second day of the workshop, July 18, 2017. The track will cover industry applications of neural-symbolic methods (including knowledge extraction from statistical data, neural-symbolic methods integrating data and knowledge for the semantic web, etc.), with the program featuring contributions from industry and academia alike. Also, there will be time to mix and mingle, exchange experiences from practitioners on both sides, and develop joint ideas and projects for the future. = REGISTRATION = The registration for NeSy'17 has become available from the City, University of London eStore: http://estore.city.ac.uk/product-catalogue/conference-events/school-specific -events/12th-international-workshop-on-neuralsymbolic-learning-and-reasoning -nesy17 = CALL FOR PAPERS = Artificial Intelligence researchers continue to face huge challenges in their quest to develop truly intelligent systems. The recent developments in the field of neural-symbolic integration bring an opportunity to integrate well-founded symbolic artificial intelligence with robust neural computing machinery to help tackle some of these challenges. The Workshop on Neural-Symbolic Learning and Reasoning is intended to create an atmosphere of exchange of ideas, providing a forum for the presentation and discussion of the key topics related to neural-symbolic integration. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: - The representation of symbolic knowledge by connectionist systems; - Neural Learning theory; - Integration of logic and probabilities, e.g., in neural networks, but also more generally; - Structured learning and relational learning in neural networks; - Logical reasoning carried out by neural networks; - Integrated neural-symbolic approaches; - Extraction of symbolic knowledge from trained neural networks; - Integrated neural-symbolic reasoning; - Neural-symbolic cognitive models; - Biologically-inspired neural-symbolic integration; - Applications in robotics, simulation, fraud prevention, natural language processing, semantic web, software engineering, fault diagnosis, bioinformatics, visual intelligence, etc. ** Submission ** Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit original papers that have not been submitted for review or published elsewhere: - Submitted papers must be written in English, must be formatted according to the Springer LNCS style (templates and sample files are available from https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gui delines), and should not exceed 10 pages (excluding references/bibliography) in the case of research and experience papers, and 6 pages (excluding references/bibliography) in the case of position papers or technical notes. - All submitted papers will be judged based on their relevance, originality, significance, technical quality, and organisation. - Papers must be submitted through EasyChair at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=nesy17. - Additionally, presentations based on extended abstracts will be considered. These shall allow to report on latest results which had not been available at the time of paper submission. Therefore, the abstract deadline is significantly closer to the workshop date. Extended abstracts may not exceed 3 pages (including references/bibliography) and should aim to give a good impression of the type of work conducted, the achieved results and their importance for the field. ** Presentation ** Selected papers will be presented during the workshop. The workshop will include extra time for discussion of the presentations allowing the group to have a better understanding of the issues, challenges, and ideas being presented. ** Publication ** Accepted papers will be published in official workshop proceedings within the CEUR-WS.org series. Accepted abstracts will also be included in the official workshop proceedings. = IMPORTANT DATES = Deadline for paper submission: May 7, 2017 Notification of paper acceptance/rejection: June 4, 2017 Deadline for abstract submission: June 18, 2017 Notification of abstract acceptance/rejection: June 25, 2017 Camera-ready paper due: July 2, 2017 Workshop date: July 17-18, 2017 = WORKSHOP ORGANISERS = General Chairs: - Tarek R. Besold (University of Bremen, Germany) - Artur d'Avila Garcez (City, University of London, UK) - Isaac Noble (Playground Global, U.S.A.) Local Chair at City, University of London: Simon Odense = PROGRAMME COMMITTEE = - Raquel Alhama, University of Amsterdam - James Davidson, Google Brain - Richard Evans, Google DeepMind - Barbara Hammer, Bielefeld University - Thomas Icard, Stanford University - Kai-Uwe Kuehnberger, University of Osnabrueck - Luis Lamb, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul - Thomas Lukasiewicz, University of Oxford - Edjard Mota, Federal University of Amazonas - Terrence C. Stewart, University of Waterloo - Serge Thill, University of Skoevde - Son Tran, CSIRO Australia - Stefan Wermter, University of Hamburg -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Read more about it at: http://protege.stanford.edu/shortcourse/201703/ If you have any questions about the Protege Short Course, please email: protege-shortcourse at lists.stanford.edu Please feel free to forward this announcement to anyone who might be interested in the course. Thank you! We look forward to seeing you in March! Best regards, The Protege Team -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From giovanni.degasperis at aixia.it Sun Feb 26 22:27:47 2017 From: giovanni.degasperis at aixia.it (Giovanni De Gasperis) Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2017 22:27:47 +0100 Subject: [DL] [CfP] RuleML+RR 2017 International Joint Conference on Rules and Reasoning - EXTENDED Message-ID: RuleML+RR 2017 International Joint Conference on Rules and Reasoning London 12-15 July 2017 http://2017.ruleml-rr.org/ There is still time to submit your papers to RuleML+RR 2017. Due to multiple requests and to avoid clash of deadlines with related conferences, we have extended the submission deadline to 6 March. Both long and short papers can be submitted until this date. ************************* RuleML+RR 2017 News: ** Tutorials announced today - see http://2017.ruleml-rr.org/tutorials/ ** Keynotes and speeches: Stephen Muggleton (Imperial College London) (http://wp.doc.ic.ac.uk/shm) Elena Baralis (Politecnico di Torino) ( http://dbdmg.polito.it/wordpress/people/elena-baralis ) Jordi Cabot (IN3-UOC, Barcelona) (http://jordicabot.com ) Jean-Francois Puget (IBM) ( http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/profiles/html/profileView.do?userid=2700028FGP&lang=en ) Bob Kowalski, founder of Logic Programming, will present an after-dinner speech entitled ?Logic and AI ? The last 50 years?. 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Within these fields, workshops at Big Data form crucial focal points for emerging communities and forums for the examination of new ideas. Here are a summary of the conferences in the previous years: The IEEE Big Data conference series started in 2013 has established itself as the top tier research conference in Big Data. 1. The first conference IEEE Big Data 2013 ( http://cci.drexel.edu/bigdata/bigdata2013/ regular paper acceptance rate: 17.0%) was held in Santa Clara, CA from Oct 6-9, 2013 with more than 400 registered participants from 40 countries. 2. The IEEE Big Data 2014 ( http://cci.drexel.edu/bigdata/bigdata2014/index.htm, regular paper acceptance rate: 18.5.0%) was held in Washington DC, Oct 27-30, 2014 with more than 600 registered participants from 45 countries. 3. The IEEE Big Data 2015 ( http://cci.drexel.edu/bigdata/bigdata2015/ , regular paper acceptance rate: 16.8%) was held in Santa Clara, Oct 29-Nov 1, 2015 with more than 780 registered participants from 49 countries. 4. The IEEE Big Data 2016 ( http://cci.drexel.edu/bigdata/bigdata2016/ , regular paper acceptance rate: 18.7%) was held in Washington DC, Dec 5-8, 2016 with close to 900 registered participants from 43 countries. The 2017 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (IEEE Big Data 2017) will continue the success of the previous IEEE Big Data conferences. It will provide a leading forum for disseminating the latest research in Big Data Research, Development, and Applications. Workshop organizers will be responsible for advertising the workshop, forming the program committees, reviewing and selecting the papers, and guaranteeing a high quality worthy of the prestige and breadth of the Conference. All papers accepted for workshops will be included in the Workshop Proceedings published by the IEEE Computer Society Press, made available at the Conference. The workshop organizers will also have the discretion of editing selected papers (after their expansion and revision) into books or special journal issues. Workshops should cover at least a single session (6 regular papers). The workshop organizers should ensure registration and presence of authors of accepted papers. *Workshop Topics* Each workshop subject will focus on new research challenges and initiatives in Big Data. The workshops should provide an informal and vibrant forum for researchers and industry practitioners to share their research results and practical development experiences in Big Data research, development and practice. Workshop topics may be narrow, e.g., Clouding Computing/Grid Computing/Stream Computing for Big Data; Big Data stream Mining, Big Graph Data Mining, or broad, e.g., Big Data Foundations , Big Data management, Big Data Mining and Searching, Big Data Privacy and Security, Big Data Application, etc (Pls refer to the IEEE Big Data 2017 http://cci.drexel.edu/bigdata/bigdata2017/ for more possible workshop topics). Prospective workshop organizers are encouraged to contact workshop chairs for feedback. *Important Dates* May 20, 2017 Workshop proposal submission due: a proposed workshop announcement is sent by e-mail to any of the Workshop Chairs June 5, 2017: Notification to workshop proposers June 20 , 2017: Each workshop organizer sends out Call for Workshops Papers *Guidelines for Workshop Proposals* Proposals for 2017 IEEE Big Data Workshops should contain the following components. 1. Workshop Title (e.g., Visualization and Analytics for Big Data) 2. 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Newsletter sign up form:_http://eepurl.com/crrrkz_ Thank you very much, Sebastian *(Belated) Happy New Year to all DBpedians!* We are a proud to look retrospectively at a successful year 2016 and would like to welcome 2017 with our new newsletter (~4 times per year), which will allow you to stay up to date and provide feedback, e.g. via the included survey and the planned events in 2017. *New members *- We kickstarted the_DBpedia Association_ with a first wave of new members: OpenLink Software, Semantic Web Company, Ontotext, FIZ Karlsruhe, Mannheim University, Pozna? University of Economics and Business, the Business Information Systems Institute Ltd and the Open Knowledge Foundation Greece joined the DBpedia Association in 2016. We created two web pages that summarize reasons to_support DBpedia via donations_ and_become a member_ . *DBpedia in Dutch* (_http://nl.dbpedia.org_ ) is the first chapter which formalized an official DBpedia Chapter consortium. The cooperation was initiated by Koninklijke Bibliotheek (National Library of the Netherlands) and Huygens ING (research institute of History and Culture). Other partners like imec/Ghent University, the Netherlands Institute of Sound and Vision and the Network Institute (Vrije Universiteit) joined as well. This cooperation will strengthen the DBpedia Dutch chapter and community of contributors as well improve the cooperation with the Dutch research infrastructure and the Dutch Digital Heritage. We are in intensive contact with the Japanese, the German and the Italian chapters to form official chapters and gain institutional support for DBpedia. You would like to know how to start a DBpedia chapter? Please check here:_http://wiki.dbpedia.org/about/language-chapters_ *DBpedia Releases *- Since 2015 we provide bi-annual DBpedia releases. The latest one,_2016-04_ , featured a new Wikipedia references & citation dataset for the English Wikipedia. In addition, we separated the data which we received from heuristic-based infobox extractors from the already mapped and quality-controlled data to remove low quality data and avoid duplicates & low quality information. We improved on our_Wikidata extraction_ and mapped all our data to Wikidata-based DBpedia IRIs. Wikidata will become more and more the core of future extractions. *Consortium partners for EU and national projects - *Since its conception DBpedia has never been funded directly, but was supported only by individual tasks in different projects and by the spirit of volunteers. With the establishment of the DBpedia Association, we are now in a position to receive direct funding and are eligible as a full consortium partner for EU and International projects. Furthermore, we are able to mediate trusted partners - who have worked with us in the past and contributed greatly to DBpedia - for national proposals in over 30 countries worldwide (contact via reply to this email.) *Events - *In addition to our participation in the 12th edition of the SEMANTiCS, in the 19th International Conference on Business Information Systems and in the Google Summer of Code project, we arranged three DBpedia community meetings, in The Hague, Leipzig and Sunnyvale, California. In order to get updates on our events and projects, stay tuned and check the_DBpedia blog_ . Please check out the dates to the two new DBpedia meetings below. *Links - *We have revived the portal, that allows the LOD community to contribute their links, so we can include them in DBpedia Releases. If your database links to DBpedia, you can submit your links here:_https://github.com/dbpedia/links_ . We provide additional support for this and also provide a service, that - once you have contributed your links - will tell you which data is linking to your knowledge base via DBpedia_http://downloads.dbpedia.org/links/backlinks/_, available only for Association members. /We would like to thank again all people who were involved to enable this!/ *2017 - New Year - New Opportunities* To make 2017 as great as 2016 we have already reviewed community feedback and worked out some plans to bring the DBpedia community closer together whereas we attain our goals and follow our visions. Below are the most important points for 2017. *User Survey - *S?ren Auer and the DBpedia Board prepared a survey to assess the direction of DBpedia and the DBpedia Association. We would like to know what you think should be our priorities. Please take a minute and vote here:_https://goo.gl/forms/NQxrMWskcKlZJAU63_ *User support *- We set up a new portal to streamline support requests for DBpedia. We would encourage you to submit all questions to_http://wiki.dbpedia.org/support_. And ? if you are already an experienced DBpedia user, you can sign up and answer questions and get kudos. Upon request, we can issue a certificate for your CV. During the course of 2017 we will also provide a priority support channel for members and Chapters. *Save the Date* *- Galway 21 Jun and Amsterdam 14 Sep*. DBpedia will be part of the_Language, Data and Knowledge (LDK) conference_ in Galway, Ireland (*Submission open until Feb 16th*). This new biennial conference series aims at bringing together researchers from across disciplines. The DBpedia community will have a full day event on 21th of June 2017. Also during the_SEMANTiCS 2017 in Amsterdam_ , Sep 11-14 (*Submission open until May 17th or June 23rd*), the DBpedia community will get together on the 14th of September for a DBpedia community meeting. Updates will be posted in the respective_events section_ and the_blog_ . *TextExt: DBpedia?s Open Text Extraction Challenge -* (_http://wiki.dbpedia.org/textext_) As DBpedia and Wikidata currently focus primarily on representing factual knowledge as contained in Wikipedia infoboxes, we created the DBpedia Open Text Extraction Challenge. Participants are asked to submit their engines that extract facts and knowledge from Wikipedia article texts to dramatically broaden and deepen the amount of structured DBpedia/Wikipedia data. *Community coordination* - *You'd like to get involved in DBpedia? *We set up a new Get Involved section. If you are interested in details or would like to get in touch with the DBpedia community, please read here:_http://wiki.dbpedia.org/get-involved_ *Community chairs *- The active community of developers and engineers comes together in the DBpedia community committee. 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URL: From Tommaso.Urli at data61.csiro.au Tue Feb 28 06:19:11 2017 From: Tommaso.Urli at data61.csiro.au (Tommaso.Urli at data61.csiro.au) Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2017 05:19:11 +0000 Subject: [DL] [ICLP 2017] Second Call for Papers Message-ID: <1488259149012.35866@data61.csiro.au> ICLP 2017 Call for Papers ------------------------- The 33rd International Conference on Logic Programming (ICLP 2017) will take place in Melbourne, Australia alongside SAT 2017 and CP 2017, from August 28th to September 1st, 2017 which is the week immediately following IJCAI 2017. Full information at http://iclp17.a4lp.org Call for Papers at http://iclp17.a4lp.org/call_for_papers.html Conference Scope ---------------- Since the first conference held in Marseille 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 and Co-inductive Logic Programming, Constraint Logic Programming, Answer-Set Programming, SAT-Checking. - Applications: Databases, Big Data, Data Integration and Federation, Software Engineering, Natural Language Processing, Web and Semantic Web, Agents, Artificial Intelligence, Bioinformatics, and Education. In addition to the presentations of accepted papers, the technical program will include invited talks, advanced tutorials, the doctoral consortium, and several workshops. Important Dates (RP: Regular Paper / TC: Technical Communication) ----------------------------------------------------------------- - RP registration (abstract): 10 March, 2017 - RP submission: 17 March, 2017 - First notification (RPs): 24 April, 2017 - TC submission (extra round): 1 May, 2017 - Revision submission (RPs): 15 May, 2017 - Final notifications (RPs + TCs): 29 May, 2017 - Camera-ready copy (RPs + TCs): 19 June, 2017 - Conference: 28 Aug / 1 Sep, 2017 Submission Details ------------------ All submissions must be made via the EasyChair conference system (http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iclp2017). Submissions of regular papers (RPs) must follow the condensed TPLP format (template available from ICLP?s web page) and not exceed 14 pages including bibliography. RPs may be supplemented with appendices for proofs and details of datasets which do not count towards the page limit and which will be available as appendices to the published paper. Three kinds of RPs will be accepted: * Technical papers for technically sound, innovative ideas that can advance the state of logic programming; * Application papers that impact interesting application domains; * System and tool papers which emphasize novelty, practicality, usability, and availability of the systems and tools described. Application, system, and tool papers need to be clearly marked in their title. All submissions must be written in English and describe original, previously unpublished research, and must not simultaneously be submitted for publication elsewhere. These restrictions do not apply to previously accepted workshop papers with a limited audience and/or without archival proceedings. Papers of the highest quality will be selected to be published in the journal of Theory and Practice of Logic Programming (TPLP), Cambridge University Press (CUP). 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). The program committee may recommend some RPs to be published as Technical Communications (TCs). TCs will be published by Dagstuhl Publishing in the OpenAccess Series in Informatics (OASIcs). TCs must follow the OASIcs format (template available from ICLP?s web page) and not exceed 14 pages excluding the bibliography and a short appendix (up to 5 more pages). TC?s authors can also elect to convert their submissions into extended abstracts, of 2 or 3 pages, for inclusion in the OASIcs proceedings. This should allow authors to submit a long version elsewhere. There is also a second submission round only for TCs. Submissions to this extra round must also follow the OASIcs format indicated above. RPs accepted as TCs do not need to be resubmitted to the TC extra round. Rejected RPs cannot be resubmitted as TCs. All RPs and TCs will be presented during the conference. Authors of accepted papers will, by default, be automatically included in the list of ALP members, who will receive quarterly updates from the Logic Programming Newsletter at no cost. Conference Organization ----------------------- General Chairs: - Maria Garcia de la Banda Monash University, Australia - Guido Tack Monash University, Australia Program Chairs: - Ricardo Rocha University of Porto, Portugal - Tran Cao Son New Mexico State University, USA Workshop Chair: - Enrico Pontelli New Mexico State University, USA Publicity Chair: - Tommaso Urli Australian National University, Australia Sponsorship Chair: - Maria Garcia de la Banda Monash University, Australia Doctoral Consortium Chair (joint event with CP and SAT): - Neda Saeedloei University of Minnesota Duluth, USA - Christopher Mears Monash University, Australia Programming Contest Chairs:? - Paul Fodor Stony Brook University, USA - Graeme Gange University of Melbourne, Australia Web Presence: - Tommaso Urli Australian National University, Australia Program Committee ----------------- See full program committee at http://iclp17.a4lp.org/program_committee.html Workshops --------- The ICLP 2017 program will include several workshops. They are perhaps the best places for the presentation of preliminary work, underdeveloped novel ideas, and new open problems to a wide and interested audience with opportunities for intensive discussions and project collaboration. See call for workshop proposals at http://iclp17.a4lp.org/call_for_workshop_proposals Doctoral Consortium ------------------- The Thirteen Doctoral Consortium (DC) on Logic Programming [this year being co-organized and taking place together with CP 2017 and SAT 2017] provides research students with the opportunity to present and discuss their research directions, and to obtain feedback from both peers and experts in the field. Accepted participants will receive partial financial support to attend the event and the main conference. The best paper from the DC will be given the opportunity to present in a session of the main ICLP conference. Doctoral consortium position papers, of between 10 and 14 pages, will also be published as TCs. Conference Venue ---------------- The venue will be the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre. Melbourne is the second most populous city in Australia and the coastal capital of the south-eastern Australian state of Victoria. Set on the shores of beautiful Port Phillip Bay, Melbourne has been named the World?s Most Liveable City for six years running and it is widely recognised as the cultural and culinary capital of Australia. It is a safe, creative and multi-cultural city full of exciting places to see, delicious foods to eat, and excellent events to experience; from the Arts precinct to the river bank parks and gardens to the buzzing city centre and the hidden thrills of Melbourne?s laneways. It is also an air-hop away from breathtaking destinations like The Great Barrier Reef, Sydney and Uluru. The Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre (MCEC) is located on the banks of the iconic Yarra River in Melbourne's South Wharf. Given its central location, it has a huge variety of accommodation close-by, with more than 6000 rooms within walking distance. MCEC is easily accessible by public transport, particularly as the Melbourne's city centre has a free tram zone that makes it easier for tourists to move around the city. Related Events -------------- Several other AI events will be held in Melbourne and other parts of Australia close to these dates, offering attendees a variety of choices for an extended itinerary. These events will include the International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming (CP 2017) and the International Conference on Theory and Applications of Satisfiability Testing (SAT 2017), both co-located with ICLP 2017. The International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2017), the Australasian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AusAI 2017), the Australasian Conference on Data Mining (AusDM 2017), and the International Conference on Knowledge Science, Engineering, and Management (KSEM 2017) will all to be held in Melbourne one week before ICLP. The International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2017) will also be held in Sydney Australia shortly before ICLP 2017. Sponsors -------- The conference is sponsored by the Association for Logic Programming (ALP), the Association for Constraint Programming (ACP), Monash University, and CSIRO Data61. See the sponsor information at http://iclp17.a4lp.org/sponsors.html Financial Assistance -------------------- The Association for Logic Programming has funds to assist financially disadvantaged participants and, especially, students to enable them to attend the conference. 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URL: From dragoni at fbk.eu Wed Mar 1 17:21:13 2017 From: dragoni at fbk.eu (Mauro Dragoni) Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2017 17:21:13 +0100 Subject: [DL] [CFP] 4th Semantic Sentiment Analysis Workshop @ ESWC2017 Message-ID: Call For Paper: Semantic Sentiment Analysis Workshop @ESWC2017. ============================================================ ======================================== Dates: May 28th 2017 Venue: Portoroz, Slovenia Hashtag: #SentimentAnalysis Conference Site: http://2017.eswc-conferences.org/ Workshop Site: http://www.maurodragoni.com/research/opinionmining/events/ ============================================================ ======================================== As the Web rapidly evolves, people are becoming increasingly enthusiastic about interacting, sharing, and collaborating through social networks, online communities, blogs, wikis, and the like. In recent years, this collective intelligence has spread to many different areas, with particular focus on fields related to everyday life such as commerce, tourism, education, and health, causing the size of the social Web to expand exponentially. To identify the emotions (e.g. sentiment polarity, sadness, happiness, anger, irony, sarcasm, etc.) and the modality (e.g. doubt, certainty, obligation, liability, desire, etc.) expressed in this continuously growing content is critical to enable the correct interpretation of the opinions expressed or reported about social events, political movements, company strategies, marketing campaigns, product preferences, etc. This has raised growing interest both within the scientific community, by providing it with new research challenges, as well as in the business world, as applications such as marketing and financial prediction would gain remarkable benefits. One of the main application tasks in this context is opinion mining [1], which is addressed by a significant number of Natural Language Processing techniques, e.g. for distinguishing objective from subjective statements [2], as well as for more fine-grained analysis of sentiment, such as polarity and emotions [8]. Recently, this has been extended to the detection of irony, humor, and other forms of figurative language [3]. In practice, this has led to the organisation of a series of shared tasks on sentiment analysis, including irony and figurative language detection (SemEval 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016), with the production of annotated data and development of running systems. However, existing solutions still have many limitations leaving the challenge of emotions and modality analysis still open. For example, there is the need for building/enriching semantic/cognitive resources for supporting emotion and modality recognition and analysis. Additionally, the joint treatment of modality and emotion is, computationally, trailing behind, and therefore the focus of ongoing, current research. Also, while we can produce rather robust deep semantic analysis of natural language, we still need to tune this analysis towards the processing of sentiment and modalities, which cannot be addressed by means of statistical models only, currently the prevailing approaches to sentiment analysis in NLP. The hybridization of NLP techniques with Semantic Web technologies is therefore a direction worth exploring, as recently shown in [4, 5, 6, 7]. Based on the lessons learnt from the first edition, this year the scope of the workshop is a bit broader (although still focusing on a very specific domain) and accepted submissions will include abstracts and position papers in addition to full papers. The workshops main focus will be discussion rather than presentations, which are seen as seeds for boosting discussion topics, and an expected result will be a joint manifesto and a research roadmap that will provide the Semantic Web community with inspiring research challenges. The Workshop will be connected to the ESWC 2017 Semantic Sentiment Analysis Challenge at ESWC2017 (https://github.com/diegoref/SSAC2017). Both the Workshop and the Challenge can benefit from a Google Group, called Semantic Sentiment Analysis Initiative. Please post messages related to the Workshop under the discussion ?ESWC 2017 Workshop on Emotions, Modality, Sentiment Analysis and the Semantic Web.? *** Topics of interest *** Includes but not limited to: * Ontologies and knowledge bases for emotion recognition * Topic and entity based emotion recognition * Semantics in the evolution of emotions within and across social media systems and topics * Semantic processing of social media for emotion recognition * Contextualised emotion recognition * Comparison of semantic approaches for emotion recognition * Personalised semantic emotion recognition and monitoring * Using semantics for prediction of emotions towards events, people, organisations, etc. * Baselines and datasets for semantic emotion recognition * Semantics in stream-based emotion recognition * Comparison between semantic and non-semantic approaches for emotion recognition * Multimodal emotion recognition * Multilingual sentiment analysis * Challenges in using semantics for emotion recognition * Retrieval of emotion-based documents from repositories * Deep learning and knowledge-enabled approaches for sentiment analysis *** Submissions *** Submission criteria are the following: * Papers must comply with the LNCS style * Full research papers (up to 8-10 pages) * Short research papers (up to 4-6 pages) * Position papers (2 pages) Papers are submitted in PDF format via the workshop?s EasyChair submission pages (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=emsasw2017 remember to select the topic Workshop) Accepted papers will be published by CEUR?WS. The best paper (according to the reviewers? rate) will be published within the main conference proceedings. We already sent a form request to Springer to include Workshop papers in a Springer book. If the answer is positive (we should know this by mid March 2016) then the accepted papers will be published within the Springer book and not CEUR-WS. At least one of the authors of the accepted papers must register for the workshop (pre-conference only option) to be included into the workshop proceedings. *** Important dates *** March 3, 2017, 23:59 CET: Full, Short, and Position papers submission deadline March 31, 2017, 23:59 CET: Notification of acceptance April 13, 2017, 23:59 CET: Camera-ready paper due ESWC 2017 Workshop day: May 28, 2017 the whole day *** Workshop Chairs *** Mauro Dragoni Diego Reforgiato Recupero *** References *** [1] Bo, P., and Lee, L. (2008). Opinion mining and sentiment analysis. Foundations and Trends in Information Retrieval , 2 (1-2), 1-135. [2] Wiebe, J., and Ellen, R. (2005). Creating Subjective and Objective Sentence Classifiers from Unannotated Texts. Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing 6th International Conference, CICLing (pp. 486-497). Mexico City: Springer. [3] Paula, C., Sarmento, L., Silva, M. J., and de Oliveira, E. (2009). Clues for detecting irony in user-generated contents: oh?!! it?s so easy;-). Proceedings of the 1st international CIKM workshop on Topic-sentiment analysis for mass opinion (pp. 53-56). ACM. [4] Reforgiato Recupero, D., Presutti, V., Consoli, S., and Gangemi, A. (2014). Sentilo: Frame-Based Sentiment Analysis. Cognitive Computation , 1-15. [5] Saif, H., He, Y., and Alani, H. (2012). Semantic sentiment analysis of Twitter. 11th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2012) (pp. 508-524). Springer. [6] Gangemi, A., Presutti, V., and Reforgiato Recupero, D. (2014). Frame- based detection of opinion holders and topics: a model and a tool. IEEE Computational Intelligence , 9 (1), 20-30. [7] Cambria, E., and Hussain, A. (2012). Sentic Computing: Techniques, Tools, and Applications. Springer. [8] Liu, B. (2012). Sentiment Analysis and Opinion Mining. Synthesis Lectures on Human Language Technologies. Chicago: Morgan & Claypool Publishers. -- Dr. Mauro Dragoni Researcher at Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK-IRST) Via Sommarive 18, 38123, Povo, Trento, Italy Tel. 0461-314053 ######################################## Consider attending Cognitive Computing track @ ACM SAC 2017 https://saccoco.fbk.eu/ Marrakech, Morocco, April 3-7, 2017 ######################################## -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Ruben.Verborgh at UGent.be Wed Mar 1 18:03:09 2017 From: Ruben.Verborgh at UGent.be (Ruben Verborgh) Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2017 17:03:09 +0000 Subject: [DL] [CfP] ESWC2017 Posters/Demos (12 days left) & Project Networking In-Reply-To: <23300BE9-5940-4635-813C-5F6C501343E3@ugent.be> References: <23300BE9-5940-4635-813C-5F6C501343E3@ugent.be> Message-ID: <727AB79E-67DA-4ACF-B78C-8B66C001ED21@ugent.be> ESWC2017: 28 May to 1 June 2017 in Portoro?, Slovenia Late-breaking research results? News ideas you want to try? Project results you want to disseminate? ESWC is the perfect venue! CALL FOR PROJECT NETWORKING submission: April 22th, 2017 details: http://2017.eswc-conferences.org/call-project-networking ? 2-page extended abstract ? knowledge sharing among EU and national projects ? data and technology transfer between projects ? presentation and discussion of project requirements and results with ESWC participants ? discussion about funding opportunities such as H2020 and ERC Chairs ? Maria Maleshkova, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany ? Lyndon Nixon, MODUL University Vienna, Austria CALL FOR POSTERS & DEMOS submission: 13 March 2017 (only 12 days left!) details: http://2017.eswc-conferences.org/Posters-and-Demos Topics Submissions may cover all areas of Semantic Web research and applications, such as Linked Data and Knowledge Graphs, Ontologies, Reasoning, Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning, Information Retrieval, Data Quality and Data Integration, and Semantic Data Management, as well as applications from Life Sciences, eGovernment, Business, Manufacturing, eScience, Emergency and Crisis Management, etc. Submission ? maximum 4 pages (poster) or 5 pages (demo) ? PDF in LNCS style ? submit at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=eswc2017pd Publication and attendance ? Poster papers will appear in supplementary post-conference proceedings to be published by Springer as Lecture Notes in Computer Science. ? Participants with an accepted poster or demonstration must register for the conference and present their work during the Poster and Demos Session. Chairs ? Katja Hose (University of Aalborg, Denmark) ? Heiko Paulheim (University of Mannheim, Germany) From geoff at cs.miami.edu Mon Mar 6 15:10:25 2017 From: geoff at cs.miami.edu (Geoff Sutcliffe) Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2017 09:10:25 -0500 (EST) Subject: [DL] TABLEAUX 2017 - Final Call for Papers Message-ID: <20170306141025.AA44E121547@mcclellan.cs.miami.edu> ************************************************************************ FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS TABLEAUX 2017 26th International Conference on Automated Reasoning with Analytic Tableaux and Related Methods University of Brasilia, Brazil September 25-28, 2017 Deadlines: 18 Apr 2017 (abstract), 25 Apr 2017 (paper) http://tableaux2017.cic.unb.br/ GENERAL INFORMATION TABLEAUX is the main international conference at which research on all aspects, theoretical foundations, implementation techniques, systems development and applications, of the mechanization of tableau-based reasoning and related methods is presented. As the first TABLEAUX workshop was held in Lautenbach in 1992, this year's conference will include special events celebrating 25 years of TABLEAUX. The conference will be held in Brasilia from 25-28 September 2017. It will be co-located with both the 11th International Symposium on Frontiers of Combining Systems (FroCoS 2017) and the 8th International Conference on Interactive Theorem Proving (ITP 2017). TOPICS Tableau methods offer a convenient and flexible set of tools for automated reasoning in classical logic, extensions of classical logic, and a large number of non-classical logics. For large groups of logics, tableau methods can be generated automatically. Areas of application include verification of software and computer systems, deductive databases, knowledge representation and its required inference engines, teaching, and system diagnosis. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: * tableau methods for classical and non-classical logics (including first-order, higher-order, modal, temporal, description, hybrid, intuitionistic, substructural, relevance, non-monotonic logics) and their proof-theoretic foundations; * related methods (SMT, model elimination, model checking, connection methods, resolution, BDDs, translation approaches); * sequent calculi and natural deduction calculi for classical and non-classical logics, as tools for proof search and proof representation; * flexible, easily extendable, light weight methods for theorem proving; * novel types of calculi for theorem proving and verification in classical and non-classical logics; * systems, tools, implementations, empirical evaluations and applications (provers, logical frameworks, model checkers, ...); * implementation techniques (data structures, efficient algorithms, performance measurement, extensibility, ...); * extensions of tableau procedures with conflict-driven learning, generation of proofs; compact (or humanly readable) representation of proofs; * decision procedures, theoretically optimal procedures; * applications of automated deduction to mathematics, software development, verification, deductive and temporal databases, knowledge representation, ontologies, fault diagnosis or teaching. We also welcome papers describing applications of tableau procedures to real world examples. Such papers should be tailored to the tableau community and should focus on the role of reasoning, and logical aspects of the solution. CELEBRATING 25 YEARS To celebrate 25 years TABLEAUX the conference will include a special session of invited talks by: Reiner Haehnle Technische Universitaet Darmstadt, Germany Wolfgang Bibel Technische Universitaet Darmstadt, Germany INVITED SPEAKERS: Carlos Areces FaMAF - Universidad Nacional de Cordoba, Argentina Katalin Bimbo University of Alberta, Canada (with FroCoS and ITP) Jasmin Blanchette Inria and LORIA, Nancy, France (with FroCoS and ITP) Cezary Kaliszyk Universitaet Innsbruck, Austria (with FroCoS and ITP) WORKSHOPS AND TUTORIALS There will be a three-day programme of four workshops and four tutorials from 23-25 September. Workshops: 12th Logical and Semantic Frameworks with Applications (LSFA 2017) Sandra Alves, Renata Wassermann, Flavio L. C. de Moura 23 and 24 September 2017 Proof eXchange for Theorem Proving (PxTP) Catherine Dubois, Bruno Woltzenlogel Paleo 23 and 24 September 2017 EPS - Encyclopedia of Proof Systems Giselle Reis, Bruno Woltzenlogel Paleo 24 and 25 September 2017 DaLi - Dynamic Logic: new trends and applications Mario Benevides, Alexandre Madeira 24 September 2017 Tutorials: General methods in proof theory for modal and substructural logics Bjoern Lellmann, Revantha Ramanayake 23 September 2017 From proof systems to complexity bounds Anupam Das 24 September 2017 Proof Compressions and the conjecture NP = PSPACE Lew Gordeev, Edward Hermann Haeusler 25 September 2017 PVS for Computer Scientists Cesar Munoz, Mauricio Ayala-Rincon, Mariano Moscato 25 September 2017 Details will be published in separate calls and on the conference website. POSTER SESSION There will be a joint poster session for TABLEAUX 2017, FroCos 2017, and ITP 2017. The session is intended for descriptions of work in progress, student projects and relevant research being published elsewhere. The deadline for posters submission is June 15, 2017. More details can be found at http://tableaux2017.cic.unb.br/#postersession. PUBLICATION DETAILS The conference proceedings will published in the Springer LNAI/LNCS series, as in previous editions. SUBMISSIONS Submissions are invited in two categories: A Research papers, which describe original theoretical research, original algorithms, or applications, with length up to 15 pages. B System descriptions, with length up to 9 pages. Submissions will be reviewed by the PC, possibly with the help of external reviewers, taking into account readability, relevance and originality. For category A, theoretical results and algorithms must be original, and not submitted for publication elsewhere. Submissions will be reviewed taking into account correctness, theoretical elegance, and possible implementability. For category B submissions, a working implementation must be accessible via the internet, which includes sources. The aim of a system description is to make the system available in such a way that users can use it, understand it, and build on it. Accepted papers in both categories will be published in the conference proceedings. Papers must be edited in LaTeX using the llncs style and must be submitted electronically as PDF files via the EasyChair system: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=tableaux2017. For all accepted papers at least one author is required to attend the conference and present the paper. A paper title and a short abstract of about 100 words must be submitted before the paper submission deadline. Further information about paper submissions will be made available at the conference website. Be aware that neither plagiarism, nor self-plagiarism, nor duplicate publication is acceptable. Formatting instructions and the LNCS style files can be obtained via http://www.springer.com/br/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines BEST PAPER AWARD The TABLEAUX 2017 Best Paper Award will be presented to the best submission nominated and chosen by the Program Committee among the accepted papers. The eligibility criteria will place emphasis on the originality and significance of the contribution, but readability and the overall technical quality, including correctness and completeness of results, will also be considered. The TABLEAUX Best Paper Award was established in 2015 and is a permanent initiative of TABLEAUX. IMPORTANT DATES 18 Apr 2017 Abstract submission 25 Apr 2017 Paper submission 8 Jun 2017 Notification of paper decisions 3 Jul 2017 Camera-ready papers due 23-25 Sep 2017 Workshops & Tutorials 25-28 Sep 2017 TABLEAUX Conference PROGRAM COMMITTEE Peter Baumgartner National ICT Australia, Canberra Maria Paola Bonacina Universita degli Studi di Verona Laura Bozzelli Universidad Politecnica de Madrid Torben Brauener Roskilde University Serenella Cerrito Ibisc, Universite d'Evry Val d'Essonne Agata Ciabattoni Technische Universitaet Wien Clare Dixon University of Liverpool Pascal Fontaine LORIA, INRIA, Universite de Lorraine Didier Galmiche LORIA, Universite de Lorraine Martin Giese Universitetet i Oslo Laura Giordano DISIT, Universita del Piemonte Orientale Rajeev Gore The Australian National University Volker Haarslev Concordia University George Metcalfe Universitaet Bern Angelo Montanari Universita degli Studi di Udine Barbara Morawska Technische Universitaet Dresden Boris Motik University of Oxford Leonardo de Moura Microsoft Research Neil Murray SUNY at Albany Claudia Nalon Universidade de Brasilia Linh Anh Nguyen Uniwersytet Warszawski Hans de Nivelle Uniwersytet Wroclawski Nicola Olivetti LSIS, Aix-Marseille Universite Jens Otten Universitetet i Oslo Valeria de Paiva Nuance Communications Nicolas Peltier Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Laboratoire d'Informatique de Grenoble Elaine Pimentel Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte Giselle Reis Carnegie Mellon University-Qatar Philipp Ruemmer Uppsala Universitet Katsuhiko Sano Hokkaido University Renate Schmidt The University of Manchester Cesare Tinelli The University of Iowa Alwen Tiu Nanyang Technological University David Toman University of Waterloo Josef Urban Ceske vysoke uceni technicke v Praze LOCAL CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION COMMITTEE Claudia Nalon, Universidade de Brasilia, Brazil Daniele Nantes Sobrinho, Universidade de Brasilia, Brazil Elaine Pimentel, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil Joao Marcos, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil CONFERENCE CHAIR Claudia Nalon, University of Brasilia, Brazil PC CHAIRS Claudia Nalon, University of Brasilia, Brazil Renate Schmidt, The University of Manchester, UK From geoff at cs.miami.edu Mon Mar 6 21:10:11 2017 From: geoff at cs.miami.edu (Geoff Sutcliffe) Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2017 15:10:11 -0500 (EST) Subject: [DL] LPAR-21 Short Presentation Papers - Call for Papers Message-ID: <20170306201011.C777112146D@mcclellan.cs.miami.edu> ****************************************************************************** The 21st International Conference on Logic for Programming, Artificial Intelligence and Reasoning LPAR-21 Cresta Riley's Hotel, Maun, Botswana http://www.LPAR-21.info CALL FOR SHORT PRESENTATION PAPERS In keeping with the tradition of LPAR, researchers and practitioners are invited to submit short presentation papers (the papers can be full length, the presentation slots will be short), reporting on interesting work in progress, system and tool descriptions, experimental results, etc. They need not be original, and extended or revised versions of the papers may be submitted concurrently with or after LPAR to another conference or a journal. 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 short presentation papers will be published electronically as a volume in the Kalpa series, see http://www.easychair.org/publications/Kalpa. The LaTeX and Microsoft Word templates for the Kalpa series can be downloaded from http://www.easychair.org/publications/for_authors. Papers may be up to 15 pages long, and must be submitted through the EasyChair system using the web page https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lpar21. Paper submission deadline: 18th March 2017 Notification of acceptance: 1st April 2017 Final version: 8th April 2017 ... however, in order to facilitate authors making travel arrangements, papers submitted before the deadline will be reviewed immediately, and a decision made in approximately one week. Submit early, and submit often! ****************************************************************************** From lpulina at uniss.it Mon Mar 6 11:01:55 2017 From: lpulina at uniss.it (Luca Pulina) Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2017 11:01:55 +0100 Subject: [DL] QBFEVAL'17 - First Call for Participation Message-ID: <85b04357-cac8-ecbd-aeaf-833e4695f95e@uniss.it> [apologies for any cross-posting] ****************************************************************** QBFEVAL'17 - Competitive Evaluation of QBF Solvers First Call for Participation A joint event with SAT 2017 - The 20th International Conference on Theory and Applications of Satisfiability Testing, 28 August - 1 September, Melbourne, Australia (2017) ****************************************************************** QBFEVAL'17 will be the 2017 competitive evaluation of QBF solvers, and the twelfth evaluation of QBF solvers and instances ever. QBFEVAL'17 will award solvers that stand out as being particularly effective on specific categories of QBF instances. The evaluation will run using the computing infrastructure made available by StarExec. We warmly encourage developers of QBF solvers to submit their work, even at early stages of development, as long as it fulfills some very simple requirements. We also welcome the submission of QBF formulas to be used for the evaluation. Researchers thinking about using QBF-based techniques in their area (e.g., formal verification, planning, knowledge reasoning) are invited to contribute to the evaluation by submitting QBF instances of their research problems (see the requirements for instances). The results of the evaluation will be a good indicator of the current feasibility of QBF-based approaches and a stimulus for people working on QBF solvers to further enhance their tools. Details about solvers and benchmarks submission, tracks, and related rules, are available at http://www.qbflib.org/qbfeval17.php For questions, comments and any other issue regarding QBFEVAL'17, please get in touch with qbf17 at qbflib.org. Important Dates Registration open: April 1st 2017 Registration close: May 22nd 2017 Solvers and Benchmarks due: May 30th 2017 Final results: presented at SAT'17 Organizing committee Organization Luca Pulina, University of Sassari Martina Seidl, Johannes Kepler Universit?t Linz Judges Olaf Beyersdorff, University of Leeds Daniel Le Berre, Universit? d'Artois Martin Suda, Technische Universit?t Wien Christoph Wintersteiger, Microsoft Research Limited -- Luca Pulina, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Computer Science POLCOMING - Department of Political Science, Communication, Engineering and Information Technologies University of Sassari e-mail lpulina at uniss.it http://sites.google.com/site/lpulina From pr-aksw at informatik.uni-leipzig.de Fri Mar 3 15:10:07 2017 From: pr-aksw at informatik.uni-leipzig.de (Sebastian Hellmann) Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2017 15:10:07 +0100 Subject: [DL] DBpedia Open Text Extraction Challenge - TextExt Message-ID: <56d91f74-4d7b-8555-ef9e-6ebe8b6f6d71@informatik.uni-leipzig.de> *DBpedia Open Text Extraction Challenge - TextExt* Website: http://wiki.dbpedia.org/textext *_Disclaimer: The call is under constant development, please refer to the news section. We also acknowledge the initial engineering effort and will be lenient on technical requirements for the first submissions and will focus evaluation on the extracted triples and allow late submissions, if they are coordinated with us_*. Background DBpedia and Wikidata currently focus primarily on representing factual knowledge as contained in Wikipedia infoboxes. A vast amount of information, however, is contained in the unstructured Wikipedia article texts. With the DBpedia Open Text Extraction Challenge, we aim to spur knowledge extraction from Wikipedia article texts in order to dramatically broaden and deepen the amount of structured DBpedia/Wikipedia data and provide a platform for benchmarking various extraction tools. Mission Wikipedia has become the ubiquitous source of knowledge for the world enabling humans to lookup definitions, quickly become familiar with new topics, read up background infos for news event and many more - even settling coffee house arguments via a quick mobile research. The mission of DBpedia in general is to harvest Wikipedia?s knowledge, refine and structure it and then disseminate it on the web - in a free and open manner - for IT users and businesses. News and next events Twitter: Follow @dbpedia , Hashtag: #dbpedianlp * LDK conference joined the challenge (Deadline March 19th and April 24th) * SEMANTiCS joined the challenge (Deadline June 11th and July 17th) * Feb 20th, 2017: Full example added to this website * March 1st, 2017: Docker image (beta) https://github.com/NLP2RDF/DBpediaOpenDBpediaTextExtractionChallenge Coming soon: * beginning of March: full example within the docker image * beginning of March: DBpedia full article text and tables (currently only abstracts) http://downloads.dbpedia.org/2016-10/core-i18n/ Methodology The DBpedia Open Text Extraction Challenge differs significantly from other challenges in the language technology and other areas in that it is not a one time call, but a continuous growing and expanding challenge with the focus to *sustainably* advance the state of the art and transcend boundaries in a *systematic* way. The DBpedia Association and the people behind this challenge are committed to provide the necessary infrastructure and drive the challenge for an indefinite time as well as potentially extend the challenge beyond Wikipedia. We provide the extracted and cleaned full text for all Wikipedia articles from 9 different languages in regular intervals for download and as Docker in the machine readable NIF-RDF format (Example for Barrack Obama in English ). Challenge participants are asked to wrap their NLP and extraction engines in Docker images and submit them to us. We will run participants? tools in regular intervals in order to extract: 1. Facts, relations, events, terminology, ontologies as RDF triples (Triple track) 2. Useful NLP annotations such as pos-tags, dependencies, co-reference (Annotation track) We allow submissions 2 months prior to selected conferences (currently _http://ldk2017.org/_ and _http://2017.semantics.cc/_ ). Participants that fulfil the technical requirements and provide a sufficient description will be able to present at the conference and be included in the yearly proceedings. *Each conference, the challenge committee will select a winner among challenge participants, which will receive 1000?. * Results Every December, we will publish a summary article and proceedings of participants? submissions at _http://ceur-ws.org/_ . The first proceedings are planned to be published in Dec 2017. We will try to briefly summarize any intermediate progress online in this section. Acknowledgements We would like to thank the Computer Center of Leipzig University to give us access to their 6TB RAM server Sirius to run all extraction tools. The project was created with the support of the H2020 EU project HOBBIT (GA-688227) and ALIGNED (GA-644055) as well as the BMWi project Smart Data Web (GA-01MD15010B). Challenge Committee * Sebastian Hellmann, AKSW, DBpedia Association, KILT Competence Center, InfAI, Leipzig * S?ren Auer, Fraunhofer IAIS, University of Bonn * Ricardo Usbeck, AKSW, Simba Competence Center, Leipzig University * Dimitris Kontokostas, AKSW, DBpedia Association, KILT Competence Center, InfAI, Leipzig * Sandro Coelho, AKSW, DBpedia Association, KILT Competence Center, InfAI, Leipzig Contact Email: _dbpedia-textext-challenge at infai.org_ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ruy at cin.ufpe.br Sat Mar 4 16:20:38 2017 From: ruy at cin.ufpe.br (Ruy de Queiroz) Date: Sat, 4 Mar 2017 12:20:38 -0300 Subject: [DL] 24th WoLLIC 2017 - DEADLINE APPROACHING Message-ID: [Please circulate. Apologies for multiple copies] WoLLIC 2017 24th Workshop on Logic, Language, Information and Computation July 18-21, 2017 University College London (UCL), London, UK SPECIAL SESSION: Screening of Navajo Math Circles (Directed by George Paul Csicsery, 2016, 58min) 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) IN COOPERATION WITH ACM Special Interest Group on Logic and Computation (ACM-SIGLOG) ORGANISATION Department of Computer Science, University College London, London, UK School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science, Queen Mary College, London, UK Centro de Inform?tica, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil HOSTED BY Department of Computer Science, University College London, London, UK 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 twenty-fourth WoLLIC will be held at the School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science, Queen Mary College, London, UK, from July 18th to 21st, 2017. 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). The workshop is held in cooperation with ACM Special Interest in Computational Logic (SIGLOG). 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; foundations of mathematics; philosophy of mathematics; philosophical logic. 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. Articles should be written in the LaTeX format of LNCS by Springer (see authors instructions at http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0). They must not exceed 12 pages, 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 2017 EasyChair website. (Please go to http://wollic.org/wollic2017/instructions.html for instructions.) A title and single-paragraph abstract should be submitted by Mar 14, 2017, and the full paper by Mar 21, 2017 (firm date). Notifications are expected by Apr 22, 2017, and final papers for the proceedings will be due by May 6, 2017 (firm date). PROCEEDINGS The proceedings of WoLLIC 2017, 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 2017 issue of a scientific journal (to be confirmed). INVITED SPEAKERS Hazel Brickhill (Bristol) (University of Bristol) Michael Detlefsen (University of Notre Dame) Alexander Kurz (University of Leicester) Frederike Moltmann (New York University) David Pym (University College London) Nicole Schweikardt (Humboldt Universit?t) Fan Yang (Delft University) Boris Zilber (University of Oxford) STUDENT GRANTS ASL sponsorship of WoLLIC 2017 will permit ASL student members to apply for a modest travel grant (deadline: May 1st, 2017). See http://www.aslonline.org/studenttravelawards.html for details. IMPORTANT DATES Mar 14, 2017: Paper title and abstract deadline Mar 21, 2017: Full paper deadline Apr 22, 2017: Author notification May 6, 2017: Final version deadline (firm) PROGRAMME COMMITTEE Matthias Baaz (University of Technology, Vienna, Austria) John Baldwin (University of Illinois at Chicago, USA) Dana Bartozov? (Universidade de S?o Paulo, Brazil) Agata Ciabattoni (University of Technology, Vienna, Austria) Walter Dean (University of Warwick, UK) Erich Gr?del (RWTH Aachen, Germany) Volker Halbach (University of Oxford, UK) Juliette Kennedy (Helsinki University, Finland) (Chair) Dexter Kozen (Cornell University, USA) Janos Makowsky (Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel) Larry Moss (indiana University, USA) Alessandra Palmigiano (Delft University, The Netherlands) Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh (Queen Mary, UK) Sonja Smets (Amsterdam University, The Netherlands) Asger T?rnquist (K?benhavns Universitet, Denmark) Rineke Verbrugge (University of Groningen, The Netherlands) Andr?s Villaveces (Universidad Nacional, Colombia) Philip Welch (University of Bristol, UK) STEERING COMMITTEE Samson Abramsky, Johan van Benthem, Anuj Dawar, Joe Halpern, Wilfrid Hodges, Ulrich Kohlenbach, Daniel Leivant, Leonid Libkin, Angus Macintyre, Luke Ong, Hiroakira Ono, Valeria de Paiva, Ruy de Queiroz, Jouko V??n?nen. ORGANISING COMMITTEE Alexandra Silva (Univ College London, UK) (Local co-chair) Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh (Queen Mary, UK) (Local co-chair) Paulo Oliva (Queen Mary, UK) James Brotherston (Univ College London, UK) Anjolina G. de Oliveira (U Fed Pernambuco) Ruy de Queiroz (U Fed Pernambuco) (co-chair) FURTHER INFORMATION Contact one of the Co-Chairs of the Organising Committee. WEB PAGE http://wollic.org/wollic2017/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From icsc at uci.edu Wed Mar 8 20:08:23 2017 From: icsc at uci.edu (IEEE ICSC) Date: Wed, 08 Mar 2017 11:08:23 -0800 Subject: [DL] CFP - 12th IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing (ICSC2018) In-Reply-To: <9cfd6d4276a28a4b77e8acc8f5720b2c@uci.edu> References: <62290b87166367fbdf3cf38c9fc05c4f@uci.edu> <592ff51ad73b4c2ed4a9227518e62fa4@uci.edu> <7b166ab174194cf09cd7543db69a162e@uci.edu> <63f2582e44acca707913370f93734d46@uci.edu> <9cfd6d4276a28a4b77e8acc8f5720b2c@uci.edu> Message-ID: -------------------------------------------------- IEEE ICSC2018 CALL FOR PAPERS -------------------------------------------------- 12th IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing (ICSC2018) February 5-7, 2018 Newport Beach Marriott Hotel & Spa http://www.ieee-icsc.org Semantic Computing (SC) addresses the derivation, description, integration, and use of semantics (?meaning?, "context", ?intention?) for all types of resource including data, document, tool, device, process and people. The scope of SC includes, but is not limited to, analytics, semantics description languages and integration (of data and services), interfaces, and applications including biomed, IoT, cloud computing, SDN, wearable computing, context awareness, mobile computing, search engines, question answering, big data, multimedia, and services. The technical program of the 12th IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing (ICSC 2018) will include workshops, invited keynotes, paper presentations, panel discussions, poster sessions, and more. Submissions of high-quality papers describing mature results or ongoing work are invited. TOPICS OF INTEREST include, but are not limited to: * Analytics (from contents to semantics): Structured data, image and video, audio and speech, big data, natural language, deep learning * Description and Integration: Semantics description language, ontology integration, interoperability * Use of Semantics in IT Applications: Multimedia, IoT, cloud computing, SDN, wearable computing, mobile computing, search engine, question answering, robotics, web service, security and privacy * Use of Semantics in Interdisciplinary Applications such as biomedicine, healthcare, manufacturing, engineering, education, finance, entertainment, business, science, humanity * Interface: Natural language, multi-modal SUBMISSIONS Authors are invited to submit an 8-page (regular), 4-page (short), or 6-page (industry) technical paper manuscript in double-column IEEE format following the guidelines available on the ICSC2018 web page. All papers will be double blind reviewed. The conference proceedings will be published by IEEE Computer Society Press. Distinguished quality papers presented at the conference will be selected for the best paper/poster awards and for publication in internationally renowned journals. IMPORTANT DATES Workshop Proposals Deadline: September 24, 2017 (Regular, Short, Demo, Poster, Industry) Paper Submission Deadline: October 1, 2017 CONTACT: icsc at uci.edu -- Phillip Sheu General Co-Chair IEEE ICSC2017 Professor EECS, CS, BME University of California, Irvine Irvine, CA 92697 949.824.2660 icsc at uci.edu From tschneider at informatik.uni-bremen.de Thu Mar 9 08:10:56 2017 From: tschneider at informatik.uni-bremen.de (Thomas Schneider) Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2017 08:10:56 +0100 Subject: [DL] TIME 2017 2nd Call for Papers Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------- TIME 2017 24th International Symposium on Temporal Representation and Reasoning Mons (Belgium), 16-18 October 2017 Second Call for Papers http://informatique.umons.ac.be/time2017/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Aims and scope -------------- TIME 2017 aims to bring together researchers interested in reasoning about temporal aspects of information in any area of Computer Science. The symposium, currently in its 24th edition, has a wide remit and intends to cater to both theoretical aspects and well-founded applications. One of the key aspects of the symposium is its interdisciplinarity, with attendees from distinct areas such as artificial intelligence, database management, logic and verification, and beyond. The symposium will encompass three tracks on temporal representation and reasoning in (1) Artificial Intelligence, (2) Databases and (3) Logic and Verification. The Artificial Intelligence track includes, but is not limited to: - temporal aspects of agent- and policy-based systems - spatial and temporal reasoning - reasoning about actions and change - planning and planning languages - ontologies of time and space-time - belief and uncertainty in temporal knowledge - temporal learning and discovery - time in problem solving (e.g. diagnosis, scheduling) - time in human-machine interaction - temporal information extraction - time in natural language processing - spatio-temporal knowledge representation systems - spatio-temporal ontologies for the semantic web - constraint-based temporal reasoning - temporal preferences The Database track includes, but is not limited to: - temporal data models and query languages - temporal query processing and indexing - temporal data mining - time series data management - stream data management - spatio-temporal data management, including moving objects - data currency and expiration - indeterminate and imprecise temporal data - temporal constraints - temporal aspects of business processes and ECA systems - real-time databases - time-dependent security policies - privacy in temporal and spatio-temporal data - temporal aspects of multimedia databases - temporal aspects of e-services and web applications - temporal aspects of distributed systems - temporal aspects and big data - temporal aspects in NoSQL databases - temporal data warehouses - temporal healthcare databases and warehouses - time series analysis and mining - semistructured temporal data - novel applications of temporal database management - novel visualizations and interfaces for temporal data - experiences with real applications The Logic and Verification track includes, but is not limited to: - specification and verification of systems - verification of web applications - synthesis and execution - model-checking algorithms and implementations - verification of infinite-state systems - reasoning about transition systems - temporal architectures - temporal logics for distributed systems - temporal logics for games and open systems - temporal logics of knowledge - hybrid systems and real-time logics - cyber-physical systems - tools and practical systems - temporal issues in security Submission and publication -------------------------- Submissions of high-quality papers describing research results are solicited. Submitted papers should contain original, previously unpublished content, should be written in English, and must not be simultaneously submitted for publication elsewhere. Submitted papers will be refereed for quality, correctness, originality, and relevance. Detailed submission instructions can be found on the website of TIME 2017: http://informatique.umons.ac.be/time2017/ Accepted papers will be presented at the symposium and included in the proceedings, which will be published by LIPIcs-Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics, which is a series of high-quality peer-reviewed conference proceedings, published according to the principle of OpenAccess. At least one author of each accepted paper must register at the conference and present the paper. Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit an extended version of their contribution to a special issue of the journal Theoretical Computer Science. Important Dates --------------- Abstracts due: May 8, 2017 Full papers due: May 12, 2017 Notification: June 27, 2017 Final version due: July 14, 2017 Symposium: October 16-18, 2017 Program Committee Chairs ------------------------ Sven Schewe, University of Liverpool, UK Thomas Schneider, University of Bremen, Germany Jef Wijsen, University of Mons, Belgium Program Committee ----------------- - Johann Eder (Alpen Adria Universit?t Klagenfurt, Austria) - Fabio Grandi (University of Bologna, Italy) - Ernst Moritz Hahn (State Key Laboratory of Computer Science, Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China) - Michael R. Hansen (Technical University of Denmark, Denmark) - Fredrik Heintz (Link?ping University, Sweden) - Marcin Jurdzinski (University of Warwick, UK) - Roman Kontchakov (Birkbeck, University of London, UK) - Jan Kret?nsk? (Technical University of Munich, Germany) - Bart Kuijpers (Hasselt University, Belgium) - Martin Lange (University of Kassel, Germany) - Martin Leucker (University of L?beck, Germany) - Cl?udia Nalon (University of Bras?lia, Brazil) - Andrea Orlandini (National Research Council of Italy ISTC-CNR, Italy) - Doron Peled (Bar Ilan University, Israel) - Roberto Posenato (Universit? degli Studi di Verona, Italy) - Jean-Fran?ois Raskin (Universit? Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium) - Peter Z. Revesz (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA) - Mark Reynolds (The Univeristy of Western Australia, Australia) - Sven Schewe (University of Liverpool, UK) - Renate A. Schmidt (University of Manchester, UK) - Thomas Schneider (University of Bremen, Germany) - Paolo Terenziani (University Piemonte Orientale, Italy) - David Toman (University of Waterloo, Canada) - Kristian Torp (Aalborg University, Denmark) - Alejandro A. Vaisman (Instituto Tecnol?gico de Buenos Aires, Argentina) - Kristen B. Venable (Tulane University, USA) - Jef Wijsen (University of Mons, Belgium) - Stefan W?lfl (University of Freiburg, Germany) - Martin Zimmermann (Saarland University, Germany) Invited Speakers ---------------- Alessandro Artale, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy Javier Esparza, Technical University of Munich, Germany Sheila McIlraith, University of Toronto, Canada Venue ----- TIME 2017 will take place in Mons, a beautiful city in the French-speaking part of Belgium, and a former European Capital of Culture. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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The participation of researchers in neighbouring areas is strongly encouraged. Topics include, but are not limited to, the following: bio-computation; concurrent qualitative and quantitative distributed systems; process calculi; probabilistic systems; constructive mathematics; domain theory and categorical models; formal languages; formal methods; game semantics; lambda calculus; programming-language theory; quantum computation; security; topological models; logic; type systems; type theory. We also welcome contributions that address applications of semantics to novel areas such as complex systems, markets, and networks, for example. Conference home page: http://coalg.org/mfps-calco2017 ## INVITED SPEAKERS * Rehana Patel, Olin College * Laura Kovacs, TU Wien * Dexter Kozen, Cornell University * Amr Sabry, Indiana University ## TUTORIAL SPEAKERS AND SPECIAL SESSIONS * Laure Daviaud, Warsaw - Algebraic automata theory * Nate Foster, Cornell - Foundations of Network Programming, special session in honour of Dexter Kozen???s 65th Birthday * Ben Worrell, Oxford - Metrics and Privacy (Joint MPFS & CALCO) * Derek Dreyer, MPI-SWS - Formal Verification ## SUBMISSION ### Important dates: * Submission Deadline: March 17 (extended) * Notification: April 28 * Proceedings: May 19 * Conference: June 12-15 ### Submitting Submissions should be prepared using the [ENTCS Macros](http://www.entcs.org/), in the form of a PDF file not exceeding 15 pages. Submissions are open on [EasyChair] (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mfps33). ### Proceedings A preliminary version will be distributed at the meeting. Final proceedings will appear in ENTCS after the meeting. ## PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Gilles Barthe, Madrid, Spain Andrej Bauer, Ljubljana, Slovenia Steve Brookes, Pittsburgh, PA, USA Carla Ferreira, Lisbon, Portugal Nate Foster, Ithaca, NY, USA Chris Heunen, Edinburgh, UK Justin Hsu, Philadelphia, PA, USA Achim Jung, Birmingham, UK Elham Kashefi, Edinburgh, UK Clemens Kupke, Glasgow, UK Barbara Koenig, Duisburg, Germany Catherine Meadows, NRL , USA Andrzej Murawski, Warwick, UK, Bart Jacobs, Radboud U, Netherlands Bob Coecke, Oxford, UK Cameron Freer, Cambridge MA, USA Catherine Meadows, Washington, DC, USA Michael Mislove, New Orleans, LA, USA Joel Ouaknine, Saarbrucken, Germany Alessandra Palmigiano, Delft, The Netherlands Prakash Panangaden, Montreal, Canada Daniela Petrisan, Paris, France Brigitte Pientka, Montreal, Canada Jurriaan Rot, Nijmegen, The Netherlands Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh, London, UK Alexandra Silva (Chair), London, UK Ana Sokolova, Salzburg, Austria Valeria Vignudelli, Bologna, Italy ## LOCAL ORGANISERS: * Matja Pretnar * Andrej Baue From clu at informatik.uni-bremen.de Mon Mar 13 18:09:00 2017 From: clu at informatik.uni-bremen.de (Carsten Lutz) Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2017 18:09:00 +0100 Subject: [DL] Postdoc / PhD position at University of Bremen Message-ID: <93e643fb-00b2-c76d-c3c0-e23207d23a67@informatik.uni-bremen.de> The University of Bremen, Department 3 (Mathematics and Computer Science), invites applications for one Research Assistant / Postdoc / PhD Student position in Computer Science - Salary Scale TV-L 13 (100%) Under the usual reserve of the formal approval of the vacancy by the University of Bremen, the position is to be filled as soon as possible. The position is associated with the research group "theory of artificial intelligence", led by Carsten Lutz, which carries out research on description logic, ontology languages, database theory, and logic in computer science. The position is funded by the University of Bremen (Landesstelle) and is associated with teaching duties of 4h per week (SWS); teaching is mostly in German language. The position is suited for Postdocs as well as for PhD students and can be used for scientific qualification (PhD, habilitiation). The successful candidate will reinforce the research group both in teaching and research. (S)he is expected to support the introductory lectures on theoretical computer science given by the group. Depending on qualification, it is also possible to offer own lectures. The position requires a PhD in computer science, logic, or mathematics or a comparable qualification. Good knowledge of at least one of the relevant research areas is mandatory. The University of Bremen aims to increase the proportion of female employees in science. Therefore women are particularly encouraged to apply. Priority will be given to disabled persons in case of equal professional and personal qualification. Please send your application by March 31st, 2017, quoting the vacancy ID A42/17 to Prof. Dr. Carsten Lutz Fachbereich 3 Universit?t Bremen Postfach 33 04 40 28334 Bremen Germany or in electronic form (preferred) to hederich at uni-bremen.de. Applications will be considered until the position is filled. We kindly ask you to send us only copies of your application documents (no folders) because they will not be returned for economic reasons. For further information, please contact Carsten Lutz, +49 (0)421 218-64431, clu at uni-bremen.de. From annalisa at informatik.uni-mannheim.de Tue Mar 14 14:17:20 2017 From: annalisa at informatik.uni-mannheim.de (Anna Lisa Gentile) Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2017 14:17:20 +0100 Subject: [DL] [CfP] ISWC 2017 - workshop and tutorial proposals: deadline approaching Message-ID: <33305545-1800-f473-824b-e30f93090f3b@informatik.uni-mannheim.de> * 16th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2017) Vienna, Austria, October 21-25, 2017 This is a reminder about the ISWC2017 call for Workshop and Tutorial proposals. The deadline for submission is this Friday **17th March** We are looking forward very much from innovative ideas from the subscribers of this list. Website: http://iswc2017.semanticweb.org Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/113652365383847 Twitter: @iswc2017 (https://twitter.com/ISWC2017) Overview calls: http://iswc2017.semanticweb.org/calls/ In this announcement: Workshop and Tutorial proposals: **deadline reminder** Call for Workshop and Tutorial proposals ========================================== In addition to the regular research program, ISWC 2017 will feature a workshop and tutorial program addressing the diverse interests of its audience.**We hereby invite you to submit a tutorial proposal on a topic relevant to the ISWC 2017 audience. Detailed info: http://iswc2017.semanticweb.org/calls/call-for-tutorial-proposals/ Besides tutorials, ISWC will host a number of workshops on topics related to the general theme of the conference. The role of the workshops is to provide a context for a focused and intensive scientific exchange among researchers interested in a particular topic. As such, workshops are the primary venues for the exploration of emerging ideas as well as for the discussion of novel aspects of established research topics. We invite you to submit a proposal for workshops on a topic of interest to ISWC attendees. 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URL: From aspocp at gmail.com Tue Mar 14 11:24:04 2017 From: aspocp at gmail.com (Organizers Aspocp) Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2017 11:24:04 +0100 Subject: [DL] ASPOCP 2017 (Espoo, Finland - Colocated with LPNMR 2017) -- Second call for papers Message-ID: [Apologies for multiple postings.] [html version on https://easychair.org/cfp/ASPOCP2017] [*NEW* We have reached an agreement with Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence (http://www.springer.com/computer/ai/journal/10472) to publish a special issue with extended versions of selected papers (see below).] =============================================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS ASPOCP 2017 10th Workshop on Answer Set Programming and Other Computing Paradigms https://sites.google.com/site/aspocp2017 July 3, 2017 Affiliated with the 14th International Conference on Logic Programming and Nonmonotonic Reasoning Espoo, Finland July 3 - 6, 2017 =============================================================================== 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 led to a new method of computing answer sets using SAT solvers and techniques adapted from SAT. This has been a much studied relationship, and is currently extended towards satisfiability modulo theories (SMT). The relationship of ASP to other computing paradigms, such as constraint satisfaction, quantified Boolean formulas (QBF), Constraint Logic Programming (CLP), first-order logic (FOL), and FO(ID) is also the subject of active research. Consequently, new methods of computing answer sets are being developed based on relationships to these formalisms.\\ 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) and constraint satisfaction (which recently led to the Constraint Answer Set Programming (CASP) research direction).\\ A large body of general results regarding ASP is available and several efficient ASP solvers have been implemented. However, there are still significant challenges in applying ASP to real life applications, and more interest in relating ASP to other computing paradigms is emerging. This workshop will provide opportunities for researchers to identify these challenges and to exchange ideas for overcoming them. 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 knowledge compilation. - 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 13 pages in the Springer LNAI/LNCS format . Paper submission will be handled electronically by means of the Easychair system. The submission page is available here . IMPORTANT DATES (tentative) Abstract and paper submission deadline: April 3, 2017 Notification: May 1, 2017 Camera-ready articles due: May 22, 2017 Workshop: July 3, 2017 PROCEEDINGS Accepted papers will be made available online. A selection of extended and revised versions of accepted papers will appear in a special issue of Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence (http://www.springer.com/computer/ai/journal/10472), provided that a sufficient amount of high quality papers is collected. Such papers will go through a second formal selection process to meet the high quality standard of the journal. LOCATION The workshop will be held in Espoo, Finland, collocated with the International Conference on Logic Programming and Nonmonotonic Reasoning (LPNMR) 2017. WORKSHOP CO-CHAIRS Bart Bogaerts, KU Leuven, Flanders, Belgium Amelia Harrison, University of Texas at Austin, USA PROGRAM COMMITTEE (to be completed) Marcello Balduccini, Drexel University Bart Bogaerts (chair), KU Leuven Pedro Cabalar, University of Corunna Sandeep Chintabathina, Hawaii Pacific University Stefania Costantini, Dipartimento di Ingegneria e Scienze dell'Informazione e Matematica Univ. dell'Aquila Marc Denecker, KU Leuven Marina De Vos, University of Bath Esra Erdem, Sabanci University Wolfgang Faber, University of Huddersfield Cristina Feier, University of Bremen Johannes Klaus Fichte, Institute of Information Systems Vienna University of Technology Enrico Giunchiglia, DIST - Univ. Genova Amelia Harrison (chair), University of Texas Daniela Inclezan, Miami University Tomi Janhunen, Aalto University Joohyung Lee, Arizona State University Nicola Leone, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science - University of Calabria Vladimir Lifschitz, University of Texas Marco Maratea, DIBRIS University of Genova Alessandro Mosca, SIRIS Lab - Research division of SIRIS Academic SL Max Ostrowski, University of Potsdam David Pearce, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid Axel Polleres, Vienna University of Economics and Business Guillermo Simari, Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering Universidad Nacional del Sur in Bahia Blanca Mirek Truszczynski, Computer Science Department University of Kentucky Richard Watson, Texas Tech University Department of Computer Science Stefan Woltran, TU Wien Jia-Huai You, Department of Computing Science University of Alberta Edmonton Alberta Canada -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ijv at acm.org Mon Mar 13 17:36:50 2017 From: ijv at acm.org (=?utf-8?Q?Ivan_Jos=C3=A9_Varzinczak?=) Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2017 17:36:50 +0100 Subject: [DL] Third call for papers: DARe at LPNMR'17 Message-ID: * Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this call * ============================== Call for Papers DARe at LPNMR 2017 Date: 3 July 2017 Espoo, Finland *** Deadline: 3 April 2017 *** ============================== The Fourth International Workshop on "Defeasible and Ampliative Reasoning" (DARe) https://sites.google.com/view/dare-17 held at the International Conference on Logic Programming and Nonmonotonic Reasoning (LPNMR 2017) -- Latest News -- There will be a special issue of the International Journal of Approximate Reasoning (IJAR) containing selected extended versions of papers that have been accepted at DARe. The call for this special issue is planned for late 2017. More information to follow. -- Workshop Description and Aims -- Classical reasoning is not flexible enough when directly applied to the formalization of certain nuances of human quotidian decision making. These involve different kinds of reasoning such as reasoning with uncertainty, exceptions, similarity, vagueness, incomplete or contradictory information and many others. It turns out that everyday reasoning usually shows the two salient intertwined aspects below: * Ampliative aspect: augmenting the underlying reasoning by allowing more conclusions. In practical contexts, this amounts to the ability to make inferences that venture beyond the scope of the premises, somehow in an unsound but justifiable way. Prominent examples are (i) default reasoning: jumping to conclusions deemed as plausible 'by default', i.e., in the absence of information to the contrary, like applying negation as failure or adopting the closed-world assumption; (ii) inductive and abductive reasoning: taking chances in drawing conclusions that implicitly call for further scrutiny or tests by empirical observations, like in making inductive hypotheses in scientific theories or finding abductive explanations in forensics, and (iii) analogical reasoning: extrapolating from very few examples (in the worst case only one) on the basis of observable similarities or dissimilarities. * Defeasible aspect: curtailing the underlying reasoning by either disregarding or disallowing some conclusions that somehow ought not to be sanctioned. In practice, this amounts to the ability to backtrack one's conclusions or to admit exceptions in reasoning. Some examples of this are (i) retractive reasoning: withdrawing conclusions that have already been derived, like in belief contraction or in negotiation, and (ii) preemptive reasoning: preventing or blocking the inference of some conclusions by disallowing their derivation in the first place, like in dealing with exceptional cases in multiple inheritance networks and in regulatory systems. Several efforts have been put into the study and definition of formalisms within which the aforementioned aspects of everyday reasoning could adequately be captured at different levels. Despite the progress that has been achieved, a large avenue remains open for exploration. Indeed, the literature on non-monotonic reasoning has focused almost exclusively on defeasibility of argument forms, whereas belief revision paradigms are restricted to an underlying classical (Tarskian) consequence relation. Moreover, even if some of the issues related to uncertainty in reasoning have been studied using probabilistic approaches and statistical methods, their integration with qualitative frameworks remain a challenge. Finally, well-established approaches are largely based on propositional languages or haunted by the undecidability of full first-order logic. Modern applications require formalisms with a good balance between expressive power and computational complexity. DARe aims at bringing together researchers and practitioners from core areas of artificial intelligence, cognitive sciences, philosophy and related disciplines to discuss these kinds of problems and relevant results in a multi-disciplinary forum. The goal of the workshop is to present latest research developments, to discuss current directions in the field, and to collect first-hand feedback from the community. -- Scope of the Workshop -- DARe welcomes contributions on all aspects of defeasible and ampliative reasoning such as (but not limited to): - Abductive and inductive reasoning - Explanation finding, diagnosis and causal reasoning - Inconsistency handling and exception-tolerant reasoning - Decision-making under uncertainty and incomplete information - Default reasoning, non-monotonic reasoning, non-monotonic logics, conditional logics - Specific instances and variations of ampliative and defeasible reasoning - Probabilistic and statistical approaches to reasoning - Vagueness, rough sets, granularity and fuzzy-logics - Philosophical foundations of defeasibility - Empirical studies of reasoning - Relationship with cognition and language - Contextual reasoning - Preference-based reasoning - Analogical reasoning - Similarity-based reasoning - Belief dynamics and merging - Argumentation theory, negotiation and conflict resolution - Heuristic and approximate reasoning - Defeasible normative systems - Reasoning about actions and change - Reasoning about knowledge and belief, epistemic and doxastic logics - Ampliative and defeasible temporal and spatial reasoning - Computational aspects of reasoning with uncertainty - Implementations and systems - Applications of uncertainty in reasoning -- Submission Requirements -- We invite submissions of papers presenting original research results or position statements. Submissions must be prepared using the Springer LNAI/LNCS format (which can be found at http://lpnmr2017.aalto.fi/submission.html) and should be no longer than 13 pages. Please submit to: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dare17 -- Workshop Proceedings/Notes -- Accepted papers will be made available electronically in the CEUR Workshop Proceedings series (http://ceur-ws.org). Copyright of papers remain with the authors. The 2014 proceedings are available at http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1212/ The 2015 proceedings are available at http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1423/ The 2016 proceedings are available at http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1626/ -- Attendance -- The selection of accepted contributions will be based on relevance, significance and the work's potential to foster discussions and cross-pollination. Therefore submissions of ongoing work are also strongly encouraged. At least one co-author of each accepted paper must register for the workshop. Please check the LPNMR 2017 website for registration procedure, fees as well as cancellation policies. -- Important Dates -- - Submission deadline: 3 April 2017 - Notification: 1 May 2017 - Camera ready: 22 May 2017 - Workshop date: 3 July 2017 -- Invited Speaker -- [TBA] -- Workshop Co-Chairs -- - Richard Booth, Cardiff University, UK - Giovanni Casini, University of Luxembourg - Ivan Varzinczak, CRIL, Univ. Artois & CNRS, France -- Program Committee -- - Natasha Alechina, University of Nottingham, UK - Grigoris Antoniou, University of Huddersfield, UK - Ofer Arieli, Academic College of Tel-Aviv, Israel - Guillaume Aucher, University of Rennes 1 - INRIA, France - Christoph Beierle, FernUniversitaet Hagen, Germany - Mario Benevides, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - Antonis Bikakis, University College London, UK - Alexander Bochman, Holon Institute of Technology, Israel - Katarina Britz, Stellenbosch University, South Africa - James Delgrande, Simon Fraser University, Canada - Marcelo Finger, Universidade de S?o Paulo, Brazil - Nina Gierasimczuk, Danish Technical University, Denmark - Patrick Girard, University of Auckland, New Zealand - Sven Ove Hansson, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden - Andreas Herzig, IRIT CNRS, France - Aaron Hunter, British Columbia Institute of Technology, Canada - Souhila Kaci, Universit? Montpellier 2, France - Gabriele Kern-Isberner, TU Dortmund, Germany - Simon Kramer, SK-R&D, Switzerland - Michael Maher, University of New South Wales, Australia - Jo?o Marcos, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil - Thomas Meyer, University of Cape Town, South Africa - Gilles Richard, Universit? Paul Sabatier, France - Francois Schwarzentruber, ENS Rennes/IRISA, France - Umberto Straccia, CNR, Italy - Joost Vennekens, K.U. Leuven, Belgium - Peter Verd?e, Universiteit Gent, Belgium - Heinrich Wansing, Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum, Germany - Renata Wassermann, Universidade de S?o Paulo, Brazil - Anna Zamansky, University of Haifa, Israel -- Further Information -- Please visit the workshop website (https://sites.google.com/view/dare-17) for further information and regular updates. Enquiries should be sent to dare.to.contact.us at gmail.com -- Ivan Varzinczak CRIL, Univ. Artois & CNRS, France http://member.acm.org/~ijv From pr-aksw at informatik.uni-leipzig.de Mon Mar 13 09:17:04 2017 From: pr-aksw at informatik.uni-leipzig.de (Sebastian Hellmann) Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2017 09:17:04 +0100 Subject: [DL] SEMANTiCS 2017, Amsterdam, Sep 11-14, Open Calls Message-ID: Apologies for cross-posting Call for Papers, Posters & Workshops and Tutorials SEMANTiCS 2017 - The Linked Data Conference 13th International Conference on Semantic Systems Amsterdam, Netherlands September 11 -14, 2017 http://2017.semantics.cc For details please go to: https://2017.semantics.cc/calls Important Dates (Research & Innovation Track): *Abstract Submission Deadline: May 17, 2017 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time) *Paper Submission Deadline: May 24, 2017 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time) *Notification of Acceptance: July 3, 2017 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time) *Camera-Ready Paper: August 14, 2017 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time) Important Dates (Posters & Demos Track): *Submission Deadline: July 10, 2017 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time) *Notification of Acceptance: August 10, 2017 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time) *Camera-Ready Paper: August 18, 2017 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time) Important Dates (Workshops & Tutorials): *Proposals for Workshops with Call for Papers: March 31, 2017 (23:59 Hawaii Time) *Proposals for Tutorials and Workshops without Call for Papers: June 30, 2017 (23:59 Hawaii Time) *Notification of Acceptance: April 13, 2017 (23:59 Hawaii Time) *Workshop Website/Call for Papers Online: April 30, 2017 (23:59 Hawaii Time) *Camera-Ready Proceedings: September 4, 2017 (23:59 Hawaii Time) *SEMANTiCS 2017 Workshop & Tutorial Days: September 11 and 14, 2017 Important Dates (Industry & Use Case Presentations): *Submission Deadline: June 23, 2017 *Notification of Acceptance: July 4, 2017 *Presentation Ready: August 15, 2017 As in the previous years, SEMANTiCS?17 proceedings will be published by ACM ICPS (pending) and CEUR WS proceedings. SEMANTiCS 2017 will especially welcome submissions for the following hot topics: *Data Science (special track, see below) *Web Semantics, Linked (Open) Data & schema.org *Corporate Knowledge Graphs *Knowledge Integration and Language Technologies *Data Quality Management *Economics of Data, Data Services and Data Ecosystems Following the success of previous years, the ?horizontals? (research) and ?verticals? (industries) below are of interest for the conference: Horizontals: *Enterprise Linked Data & Data Integration *Knowledge Discovery & Intelligent Search *Business Models, Governance & Data Strategies *Semantics in Big Data *Text Analytics *Data Portals & Knowledge Visualization *Semantic Information Management *Document Management & Content Management *Terminology, Thesaurus & Ontology Management *Smart Connectivity, Networking & Interlinking *Smart Data & Semantics in IoT *Semantics for IT Safety & Security *Semantic Rules, Policies & Licensing *Community, Social & Societal Aspects Data Science Special Track Horizontals: *Large-Scale Data Processing (stream processing, handling large-scale graphs) *Data Analytics (Machine Learning, Predictive Analytics, Network Analytics) *Communicating Data (Data Visualization, UX & Interaction Design, Crowdsourcing) *Cross-cutting Issues (Ethics, Privacy, Security, Provenance) Verticals: *Industry & Engineering *Life Sciences & Health Care *Public Administration *e-Science *Digital Humanities *Galleries, Libraries, Archives & Museums (GLAM) *Education & eLearning *Media & Data Journalism *Publishing, Marketing & Advertising *Tourism & Recreation *Financial & Insurance Industry *Telecommunication & Mobile Services *Sustainable Development: Climate, Water, Air, Ecology *Energy, Smart Homes & Smart Grids *Food, Agriculture & Farming *Safety, Security & Privacy *Transport, Environment & Geospatial From Tommaso.Urli at data61.csiro.au Wed Mar 15 00:03:35 2017 From: Tommaso.Urli at data61.csiro.au (Tommaso.Urli at data61.csiro.au) Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2017 23:03:35 +0000 Subject: [DL] [ICLP 2017] Extended deadline Message-ID: <1489532613221.85466@data61.csiro.au> ************ DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACT EXTENDED TO March 17 *********** ************ SAME DAY AS PAPER SUBMISSION DEADLINE *********** ICLP 2017 Call for Papers ------------------------- The 33rd International Conference on Logic Programming (ICLP 2017) will take place in Melbourne, Australia alongside SAT 2017 and CP 2017, from August 28th to September 1st, 2017 which is the week immediately following IJCAI 2017. Full information at http://iclp17.a4lp.org Call for Papers at http://iclp17.a4lp.org/call_for_papers.html Conference Scope ---------------- Since the first conference held in Marseille 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 and Co-inductive Logic Programming, Constraint Logic Programming, Answer-Set Programming, SAT-Checking. - Applications: Databases, Big Data, Data Integration and Federation, Software Engineering, Natural Language Processing, Web and Semantic Web, Agents, Artificial Intelligence, Bioinformatics, and Education. In addition to the presentations of accepted papers, the technical program will include invited talks, advanced tutorials, the doctoral consortium, and several workshops. Important Dates (RP: Regular Paper / TC: Technical Communication) ----------------------------------------------------------------- - RP registration (abstract): 17 March, 2017 - RP submission: 17 March, 2017 - First notification (RPs): 24 April, 2017 - TC submission (extra round): 1 May, 2017 - Revision submission (RPs): 15 May, 2017 - Final notifications (RPs + TCs): 29 May, 2017 - Camera-ready copy (RPs + TCs): 19 June, 2017 - Conference: 28 Aug / 1 Sep, 2017 Submission Details ------------------ All submissions must be made via the EasyChair conference system (http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iclp2017). Submissions of regular papers (RPs) must follow the condensed TPLP format (template available from ICLP?s web page) and not exceed 14 pages including bibliography. RPs may be supplemented with appendices for proofs and details of datasets which do not count towards the page limit and which will be available as appendices to the published paper. Three kinds of RPs will be accepted: * Technical papers for technically sound, innovative ideas that can advance the state of logic programming; * Application papers that impact interesting application domains; * System and tool papers which emphasize novelty, practicality, usability, and availability of the systems and tools described. Application, system, and tool papers need to be clearly marked in their title. All submissions must be written in English and describe original, previously unpublished research, and must not simultaneously be submitted for publication elsewhere. These restrictions do not apply to previously accepted workshop papers with a limited audience and/or without archival proceedings. Papers of the highest quality will be selected to be published in the journal of Theory and Practice of Logic Programming (TPLP), Cambridge University Press (CUP). 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). The program committee may recommend some RPs to be published as Technical Communications (TCs). TCs will be published by Dagstuhl Publishing in the OpenAccess Series in Informatics (OASIcs). TCs must follow the OASIcs format (template available from ICLP?s web page) and not exceed 14 pages excluding the bibliography and a short appendix (up to 5 more pages). TC?s authors can also elect to convert their submissions into extended abstracts, of 2 or 3 pages, for inclusion in the OASIcs proceedings. This should allow authors to submit a long version elsewhere. There is also a second submission round only for TCs. Submissions to this extra round must also follow the OASIcs format indicated above. RPs accepted as TCs do not need to be resubmitted to the TC extra round. Rejected RPs cannot be resubmitted as TCs. All RPs and TCs will be presented during the conference. Authors of accepted papers will, by default, be automatically included in the list of ALP members, who will receive quarterly updates from the Logic Programming Newsletter at no cost. Conference Organization ----------------------- General Chairs: - Maria Garcia de la Banda Monash University, Australia - Guido Tack Monash University, Australia Program Chairs: - Ricardo Rocha University of Porto, Portugal - Tran Cao Son New Mexico State University, USA Workshop Chair: - Enrico Pontelli New Mexico State University, USA Publicity Chair: - Tommaso Urli Australian National University, Australia Sponsorship Chair: - Maria Garcia de la Banda Monash University, Australia Doctoral Consortium Chair (joint event with CP and SAT): - Neda Saeedloei University of Minnesota Duluth, USA - Christopher Mears Monash University, Australia Programming Contest Chairs: - Paul Fodor Stony Brook University, USA - Graeme Gange University of Melbourne, Australia Web Presence: - Tommaso Urli Australian National University, Australia Program Committee ----------------- See full program committee at http://iclp17.a4lp.org/program_committee.html Workshops --------- The ICLP 2017 program will include several workshops. They are perhaps the best places for the presentation of preliminary work, underdeveloped novel ideas, and new open problems to a wide and interested audience with opportunities for intensive discussions and project collaboration. See call for workshop proposals at http://iclp17.a4lp.org/call_for_workshop_proposals Doctoral Consortium ------------------- The Thirteen Doctoral Consortium (DC) on Logic Programming [this year being co-organized and taking place together with CP 2017 and SAT 2017] provides research students with the opportunity to present and discuss their research directions, and to obtain feedback from both peers and experts in the field. Accepted participants will receive partial financial support to attend the event and the main conference. The best paper from the DC will be given the opportunity to present in a session of the main ICLP conference. Doctoral consortium position papers, of between 10 and 14 pages, will also be published as TCs. Conference Venue ---------------- The venue will be the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre. Melbourne is the second most populous city in Australia and the coastal capital of the south-eastern Australian state of Victoria. Set on the shores of beautiful Port Phillip Bay, Melbourne has been named the World?s Most Liveable City for six years running and it is widely recognised as the cultural and culinary capital of Australia. It is a safe, creative and multi-cultural city full of exciting places to see, delicious foods to eat, and excellent events to experience; from the Arts precinct to the river bank parks and gardens to the buzzing city centre and the hidden thrills of Melbourne?s laneways. It is also an air-hop away from breathtaking destinations like The Great Barrier Reef, Sydney and Uluru. The Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre (MCEC) is located on the banks of the iconic Yarra River in Melbourne's South Wharf. Given its central location, it has a huge variety of accommodation close-by, with more than 6000 rooms within walking distance. MCEC is easily accessible by public transport, particularly as the Melbourne's city centre has a free tram zone that makes it easier for tourists to move around the city. Related Events -------------- Several other AI events will be held in Melbourne and other parts of Australia close to these dates, offering attendees a variety of choices for an extended itinerary. These events will include the International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming (CP 2017) and the International Conference on Theory and Applications of Satisfiability Testing (SAT 2017), both co-located with ICLP 2017. The International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2017), the Australasian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AusAI 2017), the Australasian Conference on Data Mining (AusDM 2017), and the International Conference on Knowledge Science, Engineering, and Management (KSEM 2017) will all to be held in Melbourne one week before ICLP. The International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2017) will also be held in Sydney Australia shortly before ICLP 2017. Sponsors -------- The conference is sponsored by the Association for Logic Programming (ALP), the Association for Constraint Programming (ACP), Monash University, and CSIRO Data61. See the sponsor information at http://iclp17.a4lp.org/sponsors.html Financial Assistance -------------------- The Association for Logic Programming has funds to assist financially disadvantaged participants and, especially, students to enable them to attend the conference. Inquiries should be made to the general chairs. ? 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URL: From dario.dellamonica at unina.it Wed Mar 15 18:29:52 2017 From: dario.dellamonica at unina.it (Dario Della Monica) Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2017 18:29:52 +0100 Subject: [DL] CILC 2017: Preliminary Call For Papers Message-ID: <838b2c12-ec0a-051f-735f-4ce7bd144bd4@unina.it> We are happy to announce the following event. ********************************************************************** CALL FOR PAPERS 32nd Italian Conference on Computational Logic (CILC 2017) -- http://cilc2017.unina.it/ Naples, Italy, September 26-29, 2017 ********************************************************************** CILC (Italian Conference on Computational Logic) is the annual conference organized by GULP (Group of researchers and Users of Logic Programming, www.programmazionelogica.it). Its 32nd edition will be held in Naples (Italy) on September 26-29, 2017. Since the first event of the series, which took place in Genoa in 1986, the annual GULP conference represents the main opportunity for users, researchers and developers working in the field of computational logic to meet and exchange ideas. Over the years the conference broadened its horizons from the specific field of logic programming to include declarative programming and applications in neighboring areas such as artificial intelligence and deductive databases. CILC 2017 is co-located with the 18th Italian Conference on Theoretical Computer Science ICTCS 2017 (http://ictcs2017.unina.it/) with which it will share part of the program. The two events will feature plenary events, on September 29, to be specified later. Contributions: -------------- The conference will feature presentations of refereed contributions, including the demonstration of software prototypes, concerning all aspects of computational logic. The conference invites two types of submissions: full papers, possibly already submitted to other conferences or journals, and short papers, which are particularly suitable for presenting work in progress, software prototypes, extended abstracts of doctoral theses, or general overviews of research projects. The topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: Logic Programming, Constraint Programming and other paradigms of declarative programming Extensions and integrations of declarative programming paradigms Analysis, transformation, validation, and verification of programs Instruments and environments for program development Implementations and benchmarking Model Checking Temporal logics Automated Theorem Proving Non-Monotonic Reasoning Answer Set Programming Knowledge representation and extraction Treatment of uncertain and incomplete knowledge Approximate Reasoning Abductive Logic Programming Model-based Reasoning Inductive Logic Programming Deductive Databases Data Mining and Data Integration Multi-agent systems Logics for strategic reasoning Semantic Web Natural Language Processing Computational logic for concurrency, coordination, mobility and objects Planning and scheduling Probabilistic Logic Programming Computational Logic and formal methods in Artificial Intelligence Applications of Computational Logic Pedagogy of Computational Logic Important dates: ---------------- Abstract, paper, and demo submission deadline: 25 May 2017 Notification of acceptance: 30 June 2017 Final version and early registration deadline: 24 July 2017 Conference: 26-29 September 2017 Submission instructions: ------------------------ Authors are invited to submit their manuscripts in PDF via the EasyChair system at the link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cilc2017 Articles must not exceed 15 pages for full papers and 5 pages for short papers, respectively. Manuscripts should be formatted using the Springer LNCS style. To ease the reviewing process, the authors of regular papers may add an appendix (although reviewers are not required to consider it in their evaluation). All contributions must be written in English. We invite submissions of system or prototype software descriptions which use techniques or tools of computational logic, or which themselves aid the development of applications based on computational logic. Systems of both research and industrial character are welcome. Submissions must include a brief description, prepared according to the guidelines given for short papers, and a specification of the required hardware and software equipment. For each accepted contribution, at least one of the authors is required to attend the conference and present the paper. The event is organized by GULP. Therefore, Italian attendants are required to be members of GULP (it is possible to join GULP at the conference). Proceedings: ------------ Papers accepted for presentation at the conference (both full and short) will be published on CEUR-WS.org. As in previous years, we plan to publish a selection of the best papers in a special issue of an international journal (to be determined). General chair: -------------- Aniello Murano (University of Naples "Federico II") Program co-chairs: ------------------ Dario Della Monica (Universidad Complutense de Madrid) Luigi Sauro (University of Naples "Federico II") Venue: ------ The conference will take place at the "Complesso di San Giovanni a Teduccio---Complesso Napoli Est", in Corso Nicolangelo Protopisani, 70, 80146 Napoli. -------------- For more information email cilc2017 at easychair.org. -- Dario Della Monica, Postdoctoral Researcher Dipartimento di Ingegneria Elettrica e Tecnologie dell'Informazione (DIETI) University of Naples "Federico II" via Claudio, 21, 80125 Naples, Italy cell: (+39) 328 2477327 email: dario.dellamonica [at] unina.it skype: dariodellamonica web site: http://wpage.unina.it/dario.dellamonica/ From ernesto.jimenez.ruiz at gmail.com Wed Mar 15 12:53:14 2017 From: ernesto.jimenez.ruiz at gmail.com (Ernesto Jimenez-Ruiz) Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2017 12:53:14 +0100 Subject: [DL] PhD Studentships in Semantic Web (University of Oslo) Message-ID: [Apologies for cross-posting] Hi We have several openings for Ph.D. students in the Department of Informatics (IFI) at the University of Oslo (UiO). The Department of Informatics seeks well qualified applicants for PhD research fellowship positions. Application deadline is April 18th. Salary: NOK 432,700 - 489,300 per year (around 47,000 - 53,000 euros), depending on qualifications and seniority. More details here: http://www.mn.uio.no/ifi/english/people/aca/ernestoj Projects proposals covering Semantic Web topics: - Ontology learning and text mining for Healthcare: http://www.mn.uio.no/ifi/english/research/doctoral-degree/seven-phd-research-fellowships-in-informatics/projects/p11-logid-ltg-ontologiesinhealthcare.pdf - Ontology templates: Design pattern macros for large scale ontology development: http://www.mn.uio.no/ifi/english/research/doctoral-degree/seven-phd-research-fellowships-in-informatics/projects/p9-logid-ontologytemplates.pdf Please send an email to 'ernesto.jimenez.ruiz at gmail.com' or ' ernestoj at ifi.uio.no' if you are interested in applying. -- Ernesto Jim?nez-Ruiz Research Assistant Department of Informatics University of Oslo http://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/people/ernesto.jimenez-ruiz/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From f.zanasi at ucl.ac.uk Fri Mar 24 15:06:49 2017 From: f.zanasi at ucl.ac.uk (Fabio Zanasi) Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2017 15:06:49 +0100 (CET) Subject: [DL] CALCO 2017: Last Call for Papers | CALCO Tools & CALCO Early Ideas: Call for Contributions Message-ID: <201703241406.v2OE6iZf003938@mailhost.informatik.uni-bremen.de> ========================================================= CALL FOR PAPERS: CALCO 2017 7th International Conference on Algebra and Coalgebra in Computer Science June 13 - 16, 2017 Ljubljana, Slovenia http://coalg.org/mfps-calco2017/ ========================================================== Abstract submission: April 3, 2017 Paper submission: April 7, 2017 Author notification: May 15, 2017 Final version due: May 31, 2017 ========================================================== -- 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), Winchester (UK, 2011), Warsaw (Poland, 2013) and Nijmegen (the Netherlands, 2015). The seventh edition will be held in Ljubljana, Slovenia, colocated with MFPS XXXIII. -- INVITED SPEAKERS -- Nicoletta Sabadini - University of Insubria, IT Alex Simpson - University of Ljubljana, SL *Joint Session with MFPS on Metrics, Privacy and Learning:* James Worrell - University of Oxford, UK (Tutorial) *Further Invited Speakers:* Catuscia Palamidessi - Ecole polytechnique, FR Vincent Danos - Ecole normale superieure, FR Marco Gaboardi - University at Buffalo, USA -- 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 * 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 * 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 * String Diagrams and Network Theory - Combinatorial approaches - Theory of PROPs and operads - Rewriting problems and higher-dimensional approaches - Automated reasoning with string diagrams - Applications of string diagrams - Connections with Control Theory, Engineering and Concurrency -- 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. Proceedings will be published in the Dagstuhl LIPIcs???Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics series. Final papers should be no more than 15 pages long in the format specified by LIPIcs (http://www.dagstuhl.de/publikationen/lipics/anleitung-fuer-autoren/). 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=calco2017 -- BEST PAPER AND BEST PRESENTATION AWARDS -- This edition of CALCO will feature two 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: April 3, 2017 Paper submission: April 7, 2017 Author notification: May 15, 2017 Final version due: May 31, 2017 -- PROGRAMME COMMITTEE -- Andrej Bauer (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia) Filippo Bonchi (ENS Lyon, France, co-chair) Marcello Bonsangue (University of Leiden, Netherlands) Corina Cirstea (University of Southampton, UK) Robin Cockett (University of Calgary, Canada) Andrea Corradini (University of Pisa, Italy) Sergey Goncharov (Universitaet Erlangen-Nuernberg, Germany) Helle Hvid Hansen (Delft University of Technology, Netherlands) Ichiro Hasuo (University of Tokyo, Japan) Tobias Heindel (University of Copenhagen, Denmark) Tom Hirschowitz (Savoie Mont Blanc University, France) Bart Jacobs (University of Nijmegen, Netherlands) Bartek Klin (Warsaw University, Poland) Barbara Koenig (University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany, co-chair) Alexander Kurz (University of Leicester, UK) Paul Levy (University of Birmingham, UK) Radu Mardare (Aalborg University, Denmark) Stefan Milius (Universitaet Erlangen-Nuernberg, Germany) Samuel Mimram (Ecole Polytechnique, France) Till Mossakowski (Universitaet Magdeburg, Germany) Larry Moss (Indiana University, US) Daniela Petrisan (Universite Paris-Diderot, France) John Power (University of Bath, UK) Grigore Rosu (University of Illinois, US) Jan Rutten (CWI, University of Nijmegen, Netherlands) Peter Selinger (Dalhousie University, Canada) Alexandra Silva (University College London, UK) Pawel Sobocinski (University of Southampton, UK) Ana Sokolova (University of Salzburg, Austria) -- ORGANISING COMMITTEE -- Andrej Bauer (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia) Matija Pretnar (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia) -- PUBLICITY CHAIR -- Fabio Zanasi (University College London, UK) ********************************************************************** CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS: CALCO Tools 2017 ********************************************************************** A satellite event of CALCO 2017 June 13, 2017 http://coalg.org/calco17/tools.html ========================================================== Abstract submission: April 3, 2017 Paper submission: April 7, 2017 Author notification: May 15, 2017 Final version: May 31, 2017 ========================================================== -- SCOPE AND SUBMISSION GUIDELINES -- A special workshop at CALCO 2017 is dedicated to tools based on algebraic and/or coalgebraic principles or that are emerging from the intersection of the two approaches, such as graph grammars or coinductive proof techniques. These include systems/prototypes/tools developed specifically for 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. 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. Tool submissions should not exceed 5 pages in LiPiCS 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, for download and evaluation. 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. Submissions will be handled via the CALCO 2017 Tools EasyChair site https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=calco2017tools -- INVITED SPEAKER -- Nate Foster - Cornell University, USA ******************************************************************* CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS: CALCO Early Ideas 2017 ******************************************************************** A satellite event of CALCO 2017 June 13-16, 2017 http://coalg.org/calco17/ei.html ========================================================== Submission: May 1, 2017 Author notification: May 19, 2017 Final version: May 31, 2017 ========================================================== -- SCOPE AND SUBMISSION GUIDELINES -- The programme of CALCO 2017 will include special sessions reserved for the CALCO Early Ideas Workshop, featuring presentations 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 conference participants. The CALCO Early Ideas Workshop invites submissions on the same topics as the CALCO conference: reporting results of theoretical work, 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. 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 the CALCO 2017 Early Ideas EasyChair site https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=calco2017ei From geoff at cs.miami.edu Fri Mar 24 13:46:29 2017 From: geoff at cs.miami.edu (Geoff Sutcliffe) Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2017 08:46:29 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [DL] 30th International Workshop on Description Logics - Call for Papers Message-ID: <20170324124629.0FDB61214CD@mcclellan.cs.miami.edu> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS 30th International Workshop on Description Logics, DL 2017 July 18th to July 21st, 2017 - Montpellier, France http://dl.kr.org/dl2017/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Papers ==================== DL 2017: the 30th International Workshop on Description Logics 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 in Montpellier, France from July 18th to July 21st, 2017. Important Dates (Firm Deadlines) ============ Paper registration deadline: April 28, 2017 Paper submission deadline: May 8, 2017 Notification of acceptance: June 12, 2017 Camera-ready copies: July 3, 2017 Workshop: July 18-21, 2017 Since we wanted the DL submission deadlines to be after the IJCAI notification date, the schedule is tight and NO DEADLINE EXTENSIONS will be possible. Invited Speakers ============= * Markus Kr??tzsch, Technical University of Dresden * Andreas Pieris, University of Edinburgh * Uli Sattler, University of Manchester 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 management, reasoning techniques, and modularity aspects * Extensions of description logics: closed-world and nonmonotonic reasoning, epistemic reasoning, temporal and spatial reasoning, procedural knowledge, query answering, reasoning over dynamic information * 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, graph structured data, linked data, document management, natural language, learning, planning, Semantic Web, cloud computing, conceptual modelling, web services, business processes * Systems and tools around description logics: reasoners, software tools for and using description logic reasoning (e.g. ontology editors, database schema design, query optimisation, and data integration tools), implementation and optimisation techniques, benchmarking, evaluation, modelling Submissions ========== * Submissions may be of two types: (1) Papers accepted at some conference can be submitted as accepted elsewhere together with a 1-page abstract that also specifies where the paper has been accepted. (2) Other submissions consist of 11 pages LNCS plus references. There is no page limit on the list of references. If the paper should not appear in the proceedings, an additional 1-page abstract has to be submitted. * For submissions with an additional 1-page abstract, only the abstract is published in the proceedings. The abstracts might not be indexed in dblp. This option is designed for authors who wish to announce results that have been published elsewhere, or which the authors intend to submit or have already submitted to a venue with an incompatible prior / concurrent publication policy. * All submissions may optionally include a clearly marked appendix (e.g., with additional proofs or evaluation data). The appendix will be read at the discretion of the reviewers and not included in the proceedings. The appendix does not need to be in LNCS format. * Submission page: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dl2017 * Accepted papers and 1-page abstracts will be made available electronically in the CEUR Workshop Proceedings series (http://www.CEUR-ws.org/). * Accepted submissions, be they full papers or 1-page abstracts, will be selected for either oral or poster presentation at the workshop. Submissions will be judged solely based upon their content, and the type of submission will have no bearing on the decision between oral and poster presentation. Distinguished Student Paper Award ========== As in recent years, the program committee may choose to award a Distinguished Student Paper Award to the authors of a student paper, i.e., a paper that was authored independently by researchers who have not received a doctoral degree yet. Student Grants ========== A limited number of student grants will be available for participation in DL 2017. Each grant will cover the student registration fee and may additionally include a contribution towards travel costs. For details please check https://project.inria.fr/dl2017/students/ Accommodation ========== There are many tourists visiting Montpellier in July, so please make sure to book your accommodation well in advance to ensure the best choice of options. Even if you are not sure to attend the workshop, you may nonetheless want to book a room in a hotel offering free cancellation. Organisation ========== * Alessandro Artale, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano (Programme co-Chair) * Birte Glimm, University of Ulm (Programme co-Chair) * Meghyn Bienvenu, University of Montpellier (Workshop co-Chair) * Marie-Laure Mugnier, University of Montpellier (Workshop co-Chair) Resources ======== * Information about submission, registration, travel information, etc., is available on the DL 2017 homepage: http://dl.kr.org/dl2017/ * The official description logic homepage is at http://dl.kr.org/ From geoff at cs.miami.edu Fri Mar 24 16:40:50 2017 From: geoff at cs.miami.edu (Geoff Sutcliffe) Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2017 11:40:50 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [DL] LPAR-21 in Botswana - Come join us! Message-ID: <20170324154050.412251214E6@mcclellan.cs.miami.edu> **************************************************************************** The 21st International Conference on Logic for Programming, Artificial Intelligence and Reasoning LPAR-21 Cresta Riley's Hotel, Maun, Botswana http://www.LPAR-21.info CALL FOR PARTICIPATION 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 21st LPAR will be held will be held in Maun, Botswana, at Cresta Riley's Hotel, 7-12th May 2017. The conference features: + Over 30 high quality technical papers + Three invited talks: - Rupak Majumdar, Max Planck Institute for Software Systems, Germany - Stephen Muggleton, Imperial College London, United Kingdom - Willem Visser, Stellenbosch University, South Africa + An LPAR quality social program - Reception braai - Full day excursion for game viewing - African theme farewell dinner + The 12th International Workshop on the Implementation of Logics Come join us in Africa! **************************************************************************** From geoff at cs.miami.edu Mon Mar 20 17:56:09 2017 From: geoff at cs.miami.edu (Geoff Sutcliffe) Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2017 12:56:09 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [DL] IWIL workshop at LPAR-21 in Botswana Message-ID: <20170320165609.9221012143E@mcclellan.cs.miami.edu> 12th International Workshop on the Implementation of Logics http://www.eprover.org/EVENTS/IWIL-2017.html CALL FOR PAPERS ===============>>>>>>>> Extended Deadline: March 27, 2017. The 12th International Workshop on the Implementation of Logics will be held on 7th May 2017, in conjunction with the 21th International Conference on Logic for Programming, Artificial Intelligence, and Reasoning, at Cresta Riley's Hotel in Maun, Botswana. 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, non-monotonic reasoning + 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 + 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 paper (up to 15 pages) via the EasyChair page for IWIL-2017. https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iwil2017 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. The proceedings will be published as a volume of EPiC Computing. Important Dates: + Submission of papers/abstracts: March 27th, 2017 + Notification of acceptance: April 10th, 2017 + Camera ready versions due: April 21st, 2017 + Workshop: May 7th, 2017 Program committee Stephan Schulz (Co-Chair) DHBW Stuttgart Geoff Sutcliffe (Co-Chair) University of Miami Josef Urban (Co-Chair) Czech Technical University Armin Biere Johannes-Kepler Universit??t Linz Jasmin Blanchette INRIA Nancy/MPI f??r Informatik Guillaume Burel ENSIIE/CEDRIC Stefan Hetzl Vienna University of Technology Jan Hladik DHBW Stuttgart Tommi Junttila Aalto University Boris Konev University of Liverpool Jens Otten Universit??t Potsdam Giles Reger The University of Manchester Andrew Reynolds University of Iowa Peter Schneider-Kamp University of Southern Denmark Laurent Simon University of Bordeaux Martin Suda Vienna University of Technology Bob Veroff University of New Mexico Uwe Waldmann Max-Planck-Institut f??r Informatik Bruno Woltzenlogel Paleo Australian National University From ijv at acm.org Fri Mar 24 14:06:02 2017 From: ijv at acm.org (=?utf-8?Q?Ivan_Jos=C3=A9_Varzinczak?=) Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2017 14:06:02 +0100 Subject: [DL] DARe'17: New Deadline is 10 April Message-ID: <1AE20140-1673-4A1C-B069-EE787C0F872A@acm.org> * Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this call * ============================== Call for Papers DARe at LPNMR 2017 Date: 3 July 2017 Espoo, Finland *** Deadline: 10 April 2017 *** ============================== The Fourth International Workshop on "Defeasible and Ampliative Reasoning" (DARe) https://sites.google.com/view/dare-17 held at the International Conference on Logic Programming and Nonmonotonic Reasoning (LPNMR 2017) -- Latest News -- There will be a special issue of the International Journal of Approximate Reasoning (IJAR) containing selected extended versions of papers that have been accepted at DARe. The call for this special issue is planned for late 2017. More information to follow. -- Workshop Description and Aims -- Classical reasoning is not flexible enough when directly applied to the formalization of certain nuances of human quotidian decision making. These involve different kinds of reasoning such as reasoning with uncertainty, exceptions, similarity, vagueness, incomplete or contradictory information and many others. It turns out that everyday reasoning usually shows the two salient intertwined aspects below: * Ampliative aspect: augmenting the underlying reasoning by allowing more conclusions. In practical contexts, this amounts to the ability to make inferences that venture beyond the scope of the premises, somehow in an unsound but justifiable way. Prominent examples are (i) default reasoning: jumping to conclusions deemed as plausible 'by default', i.e., in the absence of information to the contrary, like applying negation as failure or adopting the closed-world assumption; (ii) inductive and abductive reasoning: taking chances in drawing conclusions that implicitly call for further scrutiny or tests by empirical observations, like in making inductive hypotheses in scientific theories or finding abductive explanations in forensics, and (iii) analogical reasoning: extrapolating from very few examples (in the worst case only one) on the basis of observable similarities or dissimilarities. * Defeasible aspect: curtailing the underlying reasoning by either disregarding or disallowing some conclusions that somehow ought not to be sanctioned. In practice, this amounts to the ability to backtrack one's conclusions or to admit exceptions in reasoning. Some examples of this are (i) retractive reasoning: withdrawing conclusions that have already been derived, like in belief contraction or in negotiation, and (ii) preemptive reasoning: preventing or blocking the inference of some conclusions by disallowing their derivation in the first place, like in dealing with exceptional cases in multiple inheritance networks and in regulatory systems. Several efforts have been put into the study and definition of formalisms within which the aforementioned aspects of everyday reasoning could adequately be captured at different levels. Despite the progress that has been achieved, a large avenue remains open for exploration. Indeed, the literature on non-monotonic reasoning has focused almost exclusively on defeasibility of argument forms, whereas belief revision paradigms are restricted to an underlying classical (Tarskian) consequence relation. Moreover, even if some of the issues related to uncertainty in reasoning have been studied using probabilistic approaches and statistical methods, their integration with qualitative frameworks remain a challenge. Finally, well-established approaches are largely based on propositional languages or haunted by the undecidability of full first-order logic. Modern applications require formalisms with a good balance between expressive power and computational complexity. DARe aims at bringing together researchers and practitioners from core areas of artificial intelligence, cognitive sciences, philosophy and related disciplines to discuss these kinds of problems and relevant results in a multi-disciplinary forum. The goal of the workshop is to present latest research developments, to discuss current directions in the field, and to collect first-hand feedback from the community. -- Scope of the Workshop -- DARe welcomes contributions on all aspects of defeasible and ampliative reasoning such as (but not limited to): - Abductive and inductive reasoning - Explanation finding, diagnosis and causal reasoning - Inconsistency handling and exception-tolerant reasoning - Decision-making under uncertainty and incomplete information - Default reasoning, non-monotonic reasoning, non-monotonic logics, conditional logics - Specific instances and variations of ampliative and defeasible reasoning - Probabilistic and statistical approaches to reasoning - Vagueness, rough sets, granularity and fuzzy-logics - Philosophical foundations of defeasibility - Empirical studies of reasoning - Relationship with cognition and language - Contextual reasoning - Preference-based reasoning - Analogical reasoning - Similarity-based reasoning - Belief dynamics and merging - Argumentation theory, negotiation and conflict resolution - Heuristic and approximate reasoning - Defeasible normative systems - Reasoning about actions and change - Reasoning about knowledge and belief, epistemic and doxastic logics - Ampliative and defeasible temporal and spatial reasoning - Computational aspects of reasoning with uncertainty - Implementations and systems - Applications of uncertainty in reasoning -- Submission Requirements -- We invite submissions of papers presenting original research results or position statements. Submissions must be prepared using the Springer LNAI/LNCS format (which can be found at http://lpnmr2017.aalto.fi/submission.html) and should be no longer than 13 pages. Please submit to: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dare17 -- Workshop Proceedings/Notes -- Accepted papers will be made available electronically in the CEUR Workshop Proceedings series (http://ceur-ws.org). Copyright of papers remain with the authors. The 2014 proceedings are available at http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1212/ The 2015 proceedings are available at http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1423/ The 2016 proceedings are available at http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1626/ -- Attendance -- The selection of accepted contributions will be based on relevance, significance and the work's potential to foster discussions and cross-pollination. Therefore submissions of ongoing work are also strongly encouraged. At least one co-author of each accepted paper must register for the workshop. Please check the LPNMR 2017 website for registration procedure, fees as well as cancellation policies. -- Important Dates -- - Submission deadline: 10 April 2017 - Notification: 1 May 2017 - Camera ready: 22 May 2017 - Workshop date: 3 July 2017 -- Invited Speaker -- [TBA] -- Workshop Co-Chairs -- - Richard Booth, Cardiff University, UK - Giovanni Casini, University of Luxembourg - Ivan Varzinczak, CRIL, Univ. Artois & CNRS, France -- Program Committee -- - Natasha Alechina, University of Nottingham, UK - Grigoris Antoniou, University of Huddersfield, UK - Ofer Arieli, Academic College of Tel-Aviv, Israel - Guillaume Aucher, University of Rennes 1 - INRIA, France - Christoph Beierle, FernUniversitaet Hagen, Germany - Mario Benevides, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - Antonis Bikakis, University College London, UK - Alexander Bochman, Holon Institute of Technology, Israel - Katarina Britz, Stellenbosch University, South Africa - James Delgrande, Simon Fraser University, Canada - Marcelo Finger, Universidade de S?o Paulo, Brazil - Nina Gierasimczuk, Danish Technical University, Denmark - Patrick Girard, University of Auckland, New Zealand - Sven Ove Hansson, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden - Andreas Herzig, IRIT CNRS, France - Aaron Hunter, British Columbia Institute of Technology, Canada - Souhila Kaci, Universit? Montpellier 2, France - Gabriele Kern-Isberner, TU Dortmund, Germany - Simon Kramer, SK-R&D, Switzerland - Michael Maher, University of New South Wales, Australia - Jo?o Marcos, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil - Thomas Meyer, University of Cape Town, South Africa - Gilles Richard, Universit? Paul Sabatier, France - Francois Schwarzentruber, ENS Rennes/IRISA, France - Umberto Straccia, CNR, Italy - Joost Vennekens, K.U. Leuven, Belgium - Peter Verd?e, Universiteit Gent, Belgium - Heinrich Wansing, Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum, Germany - Renata Wassermann, Universidade de S?o Paulo, Brazil - Anna Zamansky, University of Haifa, Israel -- Further Information -- Please visit the workshop website (https://sites.google.com/view/dare-17) for further information and regular updates. Enquiries should be sent to dare.to.contact.us at gmail.com -- Ivan Varzinczak CRIL, Univ. 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Kuznetsov > D?but du message r?exp?di? : > > De: Jaume Baixeries > Objet: [fca-list] Call for papers > Date: 19 f?vrier 2017 ? 16:13:11 UTC+1 > ?: fca-list at cs.uni-kassel.de > > Call For Papers > > Special Session on Formal Concept Analysis, Rough Set Theory and Their > Applications > > > Objectives > Formal Concept Analysis (FCA) is a mathematically well-founded theory > aimed at applications in data analysis and knowledge discovery. FCA > allows one to build a concept lattice and dependencies of different > kinds (rules, implications, etc.) for input data in both supervised > and unsupervised forms. This machinery can be be used for many > purposes, e.g. learning from data, biclustering, knowledge > representation, reasoning, ontology engineering, information > retrieval, recommendation, and text processing. > > On the one hand FCA provides operationalisation of objects similarity > in terms of their common attributes (or common descriptions), on the > other hand Rough Set Theory studies their discernibility and provides > convenient means for approximation, which are complementary, in a > certain sense, to fuzzy concepts. Accordingly, there are many links > between FCA and Rough Set Theory that can be found in data analysis, > pattern mining, fuzzy sets theory, database theory, algebraic > representation, logic systems, reasoning systems, etc. > > Recent years have shown an increased activity in FCA, in particular in > extending FCA to different formalisms: pattern > structures, database representation, fuzzy FCA, relational FCA, > polyadic concepts, etc. These extensions allow FCA to deal with more > complex than just binary object-attribute data (e.g. RDF data, rating > matrices, sequences and graphs), for data analysis, knowledge > discovery and knowledge engineering. > Therefore, this special session will be interested in issues such as: > > - Relationship between FCA and Rough Set Theory, fuzzy closure > systems, fuzzy orders. > - RS/FCA algorithms for Big Data > - RS/FCA algorithms for complex data > - How can existing FCA algorithms help RS and vice versa? - RS/FCA for > Knowledge Discovery and Pattern Mining > - RS/FCA for Knowledge Engineering and Representation > - Bireducts and biclusters > - Rule-based approaches in RS/FCA > - Multi-way extensions of RS/FCA > > Topics of interest. > > The main topics include, but not limited to: > > - Foundations of FCA and RS > - Scalable algorithms in FCA and RS for Big Data. > - Applications of FCA and RS in complex data: text mining, > classification and mining in web of data, information retrieval, > recommendation, visualization and navigation. > > Organizers & Session Chairs: > ? 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URL: From mkn at fct.unl.pt Thu Mar 16 11:24:09 2017 From: mkn at fct.unl.pt (Matthias Knorr) Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2017 10:24:09 +0000 Subject: [DL] Call for papers - KRR track at EPIA 2017 Message-ID: <2EADF608-75C5-46E0-BD56-A411C5C9B7E1@fct.unl.pt> ----------------------------------------------------------------- *** Apologies for multiple copies *** CALL FOR PAPERS Knowledge Representation and Reasoning 18th EPIA Conference on Artificial Intelligence Porto, Portugal September, 5-8, 2017 Submission Deadline: April 15, 2017 The aim of this track is to gather and discuss novel research in the area of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning, both for theoretical results as well as implemented systems and applications. EPIA is a well-established international conference on Artificial Intelligence, this year to be held in the beautiful city of Porto. The scientific program is composed of thematic tracks. Submitted papers will be subject to a rigorous revision process and accepted papers will be published in Springer's Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI). Awards for the best paper and the best application paper will be granted. Topics of interest for the KRR track include, but are not limited to: ? Action, change, causality and causal reasoning ? Argumentation ? Belief revision and update, belief merging ? Commonsense reasoning ? Constraint programming and KRR ? Contextual reasoning ? Description logics ? Diagnosis, abduction, explanation finding ? Inconsistency- and exception tolerant reasoning, paraconsistent logics ? KR and autonomous agents: intelligent agents, cognitive robotics, multi-agent systems ? KR and decision making, game theory, social choice ? KR and machine learning, inductive logic programming, knowledge discovery and acquisition ? KR and stream reasoning ? KR and the Web, Semantic Web ? Logic programming, answer set programming, constraint logic programming ? Non-monotonic logics, default logics, conditional logics ? Ontology formalisms and models ? Preferences: modeling and representation, preference-based reasoning ? Reasoners and solvers: SAT solvers, theorem provers, QBF solvers, and others ? Reasoning about knowledge and belief, dynamic epistemic logic, epistemic and doxastic logics ? Spatial reasoning and temporal reasoning, qualitative reasoning ? Uncertainty, representations of vagueness, many-valued and fuzzy logics Organizing Committee Ricardo Gon?alves, NOVA LINCS, Lisbon, Portugal Minh Dao-Tran, KBS, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Matthias Knorr, NOVA LINCS, Lisbon, Portugal J?rg P?hrer, ISG-CSI, Leipzig University, Germany Program Committee Slim Abdennadher, German University in Cairo, Egypt Salvador Abreu, University of Evora, Portugal Gerhard Brewka, Leipzig University, Germany Pedro Cabalar, Corunna University, Spain Esra Erdem, Sabanci University, Turkey Cristina Feier, University of Bremen, Germany Sarah Alice Gaggl, Technische Universit?t Dresden, Germany Martin Homola, Comenius University, Slovakia Daniela Inclezan, Miami University, USA Adila A. Krisnadhi, Wright State University & Universitas Indonesia, USA/Indonesia Joao Leite, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal Francesca Alessandra Lisi, Universit? degli Studi di Bari ?Aldo Moro?, Italy Ines Lynce, University of Lisbon, Portugal Joao Marques-Silva, University of Lisbon, Portugal Loizos Michael, Open University of Cyprus, Cyprus David Rajaratnam, University of New South Wales, Australia Orkunt Sabuncu, TED University, Ankara, Turkey Peter Sch?ller, Marmara University, Turkey Mantas Simkus, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Daria Stepanova, Max Planck Institute for Informatics, Germany Hannes Strass, Leipzig University, Germany Matthias Thimm, Universit?t Koblenz-Landau, Germany Ivan Varzinczak, Universit? d?Artois, France Carlos Viegas Dam?sio, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal Antonius Weinzierl, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Stefan Woltran, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Guohui Xiao, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy ?zg?r L?tf? ?zcep, University of L?beck, Germany For more info on the track: https://web.fe.up.pt/~epia2017/thematic-tracks/krr/ Regarding the submission: https://web.fe.up.pt/~epia2017/call-for-papers/ For more info on EPIA itself, such as the program, invited speakers and registration, please refer to: https://web.fe.up.pt/~epia2017/ ----------------------------------------------------------------- From ruy at cin.ufpe.br Sun Mar 19 15:28:56 2017 From: ruy at cin.ufpe.br (Ruy de Queiroz) Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2017 11:28:56 -0300 Subject: [DL] 24th WoLLIC 2017 - DEADLINE EXTENDED Message-ID: *DEADLINE EXTENDED* [Please circulate. Apologies for multiple copies] WoLLIC 2017 24th Workshop on Logic, Language, Information and Computation July 18-21, 2017 University College London (UCL), London, UK *DEADLINE EXTENDED* SPECIAL SESSION: Screening of Navajo Math Circles (Directed by George Paul Csicsery, 2016, 58min) 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) IN COOPERATION WITH ACM Special Interest Group on Logic and Computation (ACM-SIGLOG) ORGANISATION Department of Computer Science, University College London, London, UK School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science, Queen Mary College, London, UK Centro de Inform?tica, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil HOSTED BY Department of Computer Science, University College London, London, UK 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 twenty-fourth WoLLIC will be held at the School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science, Queen Mary College, London, UK, from July 18th to 21st, 2017. 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). The workshop is held in cooperation with ACM Special Interest in Computational Logic (SIGLOG). 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; foundations of mathematics; philosophy of mathematics; philosophical logic. 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. Articles should be written in the LaTeX format of LNCS by Springer (see authors instructions at http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0). They must not exceed 12 pages, 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 2017 EasyChair website. (Please go to http://wollic.org/wollic2017/instructions.html for instructions.) A title and single-paragraph abstract should be submitted by *Mar 28, 2017 (NEW)* and the full paper by *Mar 28, 2017 (NEW)* Notifications are expected by Apr 22, 2017, and final papers for the proceedings will be due by May 6, 2017 (firm date). PROCEEDINGS The proceedings of WoLLIC 2017, 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 2017 issue of a scientific journal (to be confirmed). INVITED SPEAKERS Hazel Brickhill (Bristol) (University of Bristol) Michael Detlefsen (University of Notre Dame) Alexander Kurz (University of Leicester) Frederike Moltmann (New York University) David Pym (University College London) Nicole Schweikardt (Humboldt Universit?t) Fan Yang (Delft University) Boris Zilber (University of Oxford) STUDENT GRANTS ASL sponsorship of WoLLIC 2017 will permit ASL student members to apply for a modest travel grant (deadline: May 1st, 2017). See http://www.aslonline.org/studenttravelawards.html for details. IMPORTANT DATES *Mar 28, 2017 (NEW)*: Paper title and abstract deadline *Mar 28, 2017 (NEW)*: Full paper deadline Apr 22, 2017: Author notification May 6, 2017: Final version deadline (firm) PROGRAMME COMMITTEE Matthias Baaz (University of Technology, Vienna, Austria) John Baldwin (University of Illinois at Chicago, USA) Dana Bartozov? (Universidade de S?o Paulo, Brazil) Agata Ciabattoni (University of Technology, Vienna, Austria) Walter Dean (University of Warwick, UK) Erich Gr?del (RWTH Aachen, Germany) Volker Halbach (University of Oxford, UK) Juliette Kennedy (Helsinki University, Finland) (Chair) Dexter Kozen (Cornell University, USA) Janos Makowsky (Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel) Larry Moss (indiana University, USA) Alessandra Palmigiano (Delft University, The Netherlands) Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh (Queen Mary, UK) Sonja Smets (Amsterdam University, The Netherlands) Asger T?rnquist (K?benhavns Universitet, Denmark) Rineke Verbrugge (University of Groningen, The Netherlands) Andr?s Villaveces (Universidad Nacional, Colombia) Philip Welch (University of Bristol, UK) STEERING COMMITTEE Samson Abramsky, Johan van Benthem, Anuj Dawar, Joe Halpern, Wilfrid Hodges, Ulrich Kohlenbach, Daniel Leivant, Leonid Libkin, Angus Macintyre, Luke Ong, Hiroakira Ono, Valeria de Paiva, Ruy de Queiroz, Jouko V??n?nen. ORGANISING COMMITTEE Alexandra Silva (Univ College London, UK) (Local co-chair) Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh (Queen Mary, UK) (Local co-chair) Paulo Oliva (Queen Mary, UK) James Brotherston (Univ College London, UK) Anjolina G. de Oliveira (U Fed Pernambuco) Ruy de Queiroz (U Fed Pernambuco) (co-chair) FURTHER INFORMATION Contact one of the Co-Chairs of the Organising Committee. WEB PAGE http://wollic.org/wollic2017/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From peter.schuller at marmara.edu.tr Fri Mar 24 13:55:02 2017 From: peter.schuller at marmara.edu.tr (Peter =?iso-8859-1?q?Sch=FCller?=) Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2017 15:55:02 +0300 (+03) Subject: [DL] Final CFP LPNMR Doctoral Student Consortium, Espoo, Finland, 3-6 July, 2017 Message-ID: <20170324125502.5CEA42C01A4@omsievews> (Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this email. Please distribute to interested parties.) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- LPNMR DC 2017 LPNMR Doctoral Student Consortium to be held at Hanasaari Conference Center, Espoo, Finland, Extact date to be confirmed July 3-6, 2017 http://lpnmr-dc.cs.bath.ac.uk/ https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lpnmrdc2017 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The LPNMR Doctoral Consortium (DC) is to be held as part of the 14th International Conference on Logic Programming and Non-monotonic Reasoning (LPNMR 2017) in the Hanasaari Conference Center, Espoo, Finland,July 3-6, 2017. The DC will take place during LPNMR 2017 on a date to be determined. The DC provides a forum for doctoral students working in all areas related to logic programming and non monotonic reasoning. The DC gives students the opportunity to present and discuss their research and to obtain feedback from peers as well as world-renowned experts a supportive environment. The 14th International Conference on Logic Programming and Non-monotonic Reasoning (LPNMR) is a forum for exchanging ideas on declarative logic programming, non-monotonic reasoning, and knowledge representation. The aim of the conference is to facilitate interactions between researchers and practitioners interested in the design, implementation and application of logic-based programming languages and database systems, and those who work in the area of knowledge representation and non-monotonic reasoning. LPNMR and its programmatic expression, Answer Set Programming, have roots in the famous special issue of AIJ in 1980, devoted to Nonmonotonic Reasoning. During the DC, there will be significant time for students to present their work, and meet mentors from their own and closely related fields. ** Target Audience ** 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 interested in doctoral studies). Students at any stage in their doctoral studies are encouraged to apply for participation in the DC, but preference will be given to students who have settled on a research topic or direction but still have some way to go in their studies. 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 LPNMR systems, including semantics of new or existing languages, new language extensions, and computational complexity - Implementation of LPNMR systems, including new systems and algorithms - Applications of LPNMR The DC allows participants to interact with established researchers and fellow students, through presentations, a poster session, question-answer sessions and social interactions. The Doctoral Consortium will provide the possibility to reflect - through short activities, information sessions, and discussions - on the process and lessons of research and life in academia. Each participant will give a short, critiqued, research presentation, present a poster at the main event and attend a lunch in small groups with their mentor/senior researcher. ** Application Process ** An application for participation in the LPNMR DC 2017 consists of a cover sheet, an extended abstract of your (intended) research, a vita, a personal statement and a letter of recommendation (e.g., from your supervisor). All applications must be in English and submitted electronically via EasyChair (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lpnmrdc2017) by 4 April 2017. Detailed submission instructions are provided at the LPNMR DC 2017 website: http://lpnmr-dc.cs.bath.ac.uk/ Applications will be reviewed based on several factors including the quality of the work submitted, stage of research, evidence of research progress, the committee's assessment of the student's contribution to and benefit from participating in the DC, and input from the student's advisor. Details regarding publication of extended abstracts and financial support will follow at a later date. ** Important Dates ** Application Submission: 4 April 2017 Notification: 1 May 2017 Camera-ready Version: 22 May 2017 Doctoral Consortium: During LPNMR, exact date to be confirmed. LPNMR: 3-6 July 2017 ** Organization ** - Program Committee: - Pedro Cabalar University of Corunna - Esra Erdem Sabanci University - Yuliya Lierler University of Nebraska at Omaha - Alessandra Mileo Dublin City University - Alessandra Russo Imperial College London - Hans Tompits Vienna University of Technology - Stefan Woltran Vienna University of Technology - Program Chair: Marina De Vos, University of Bath (M.D.Vos at bath.ac.uk) Website: http://lpnmr-dc.cs.bath.ac.uk/ (Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this email. Please distribute to interested parties.) From Tommaso.Urli at data61.csiro.au Mon Mar 20 00:18:17 2017 From: Tommaso.Urli at data61.csiro.au (Tommaso.Urli at data61.csiro.au) Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2017 23:18:17 +0000 Subject: [DL] [ICLP 2017] Deadline extended to May 2, 2017 Message-ID: <1489965503115.80936@data61.csiro.au> ?************ ABSTRACT REGISTRATION DEADLINE EXTENDED TO April 26 *********** **************** PAPER SUBMISSION DEADLINE EXTENDED TO May 2 *************** ICLP 2017 Call for Papers ------------------------- The 33rd International Conference on Logic Programming (ICLP 2017) will take place in Melbourne, Australia alongside SAT 2017 and CP 2017, from August 28th to September 1st, 2017 which is the week immediately following IJCAI 2017. Full information at http://iclp17.a4lp.org Call for Papers at http://iclp17.a4lp.org/call_for_papers.html Conference Scope ---------------- Since the first conference held in Marseille 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 and Co-inductive Logic Programming, Constraint Logic Programming, Answer-Set Programming, SAT-Checking. - Applications: Databases, Big Data, Data Integration and Federation, Software Engineering, Natural Language Processing, Web and Semantic Web, Agents, Artificial Intelligence, Bioinformatics, and Education. In addition to the presentations of accepted papers, the technical program will include invited talks, advanced tutorials, the doctoral consortium, and several workshops. Important Dates ----------------------------------------------------------------- - Abstract registration: April 26, 2017 - Paper submission: May 2, 2017 - Notification: June 6, 2017 - Revision submission (TPLP papers): June 20, 2017 - Final notifications (TPLP papers): July 4, 2017 - Camera-ready copy: July 18, 2017 - Conference: Aug 28 / Sep 1, 2017 Submission Details ------------------ All submissions must be made via the EasyChair conference system (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iclp2017). Submissions of regular papers (RPs) must follow the condensed TPLP format (template available from ICLP?s web page) and not exceed 14 pages including bibliography. RPs may be supplemented with appendices for proofs and details of datasets which do not count towards the page limit and which will be available as appendices to the published paper. Three kinds of RPs will be accepted: * Technical papers for technically sound, innovative ideas that can advance the state of logic programming; * Application papers that impact interesting application domains; * System and tool papers which emphasize novelty, practicality, usability, and availability of the systems and tools described. Application, system, and tool papers need to be clearly marked in their title. All submissions must be written in English and describe original, previously unpublished research, and must not simultaneously be submitted for publication elsewhere. These restrictions do not apply to previously accepted workshop papers with a limited audience and/or without archival proceedings. Papers of the highest quality will be selected to be published in the journal of Theory and Practice of Logic Programming (TPLP), Cambridge University Press (CUP). 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). The program committee may recommend some RPs to be published as Technical Communications (TCs). TCs will be published by Dagstuhl Publishing in the OpenAccess Series in Informatics (OASIcs). TCs must follow the OASIcs format (template available from ICLP?s web page) and not exceed 14 pages excluding the bibliography and a short appendix (up to 5 more pages). TC?s authors can also elect to convert their submissions into extended abstracts, of 2 or 3 pages, for inclusion in the OASIcs proceedings. This should allow authors to submit a long version elsewhere. All RPs and TCs will be presented during the conference. Authors of accepted papers will, by default, be automatically included in the list of ALP members, who will receive quarterly updates from the Logic Programming Newsletter at no cost. Conference Organization ----------------------- General Chairs: - Maria Garcia de la Banda Monash University, Australia - Guido Tack Monash University, Australia Program Chairs: - Ricardo Rocha University of Porto, Portugal - Tran Cao Son New Mexico State University, USA Workshop Chair: - Enrico Pontelli New Mexico State University, USA Publicity Chair: - Tommaso Urli Australian National University, Australia Sponsorship Chair: - Maria Garcia de la Banda Monash University, Australia Doctoral Consortium Chair (joint event with CP and SAT): - Neda Saeedloei University of Minnesota Duluth, USA - Christopher Mears Monash University, Australia Programming Contest Chairs: - Paul Fodor Stony Brook University, USA - Graeme Gange University of Melbourne, Australia Web Presence: - Tommaso Urli Australian National University, Australia Program Committee ----------------- See full program committee at http://iclp17.a4lp.org/program_committee.html Workshops --------- The ICLP 2017 program will include several workshops. They are perhaps the best places for the presentation of preliminary work, underdeveloped novel ideas, and new open problems to a wide and interested audience with opportunities for intensive discussions and project collaboration. See call for workshop proposals at http://iclp17.a4lp.org/call_for_workshop_proposals Doctoral Consortium ------------------- The Thirteen Doctoral Consortium (DC) on Logic Programming [this year being co-organized and taking place together with CP 2017 and SAT 2017] provides research students with the opportunity to present and discuss their research directions, and to obtain feedback from both peers and experts in the field. Accepted participants will receive partial financial support to attend the event and the main conference. The best paper from the DC will be given the opportunity to present in a session of the main ICLP conference. Doctoral consortium position papers, of between 10 and 14 pages, will also be published as TCs. Conference Venue ---------------- The venue will be the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre. Melbourne is the second most populous city in Australia and the coastal capital of the south-eastern Australian state of Victoria. Set on the shores of beautiful Port Phillip Bay, Melbourne has been named the World?s Most Liveable City for six years running and it is widely recognised as the cultural and culinary capital of Australia. It is a safe, creative and multi-cultural city full of exciting places to see, delicious foods to eat, and excellent events to experience; from the Arts precinct to the river bank parks and gardens to the buzzing city centre and the hidden thrills of Melbourne?s laneways. It is also an air-hop away from breathtaking destinations like The Great Barrier Reef, Sydney and Uluru. The Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre (MCEC) is located on the banks of the iconic Yarra River in Melbourne's South Wharf. Given its central location, it has a huge variety of accommodation close-by, with more than 6000 rooms within walking distance. MCEC is easily accessible by public transport, particularly as the Melbourne's city centre has a free tram zone that makes it easier for tourists to move around the city. Related Events -------------- Several other AI events will be held in Melbourne and other parts of Australia close to these dates, offering attendees a variety of choices for an extended itinerary. These events will include the International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming (CP 2017) and the International Conference on Theory and Applications of Satisfiability Testing (SAT 2017), both co-located with ICLP 2017. The International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2017), the Australasian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AusAI 2017), the Australasian Conference on Data Mining (AusDM 2017), and the International Conference on Knowledge Science, Engineering, and Management (KSEM 2017) will all to be held in Melbourne one week before ICLP. The International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2017) will also be held in Sydney Australia shortly before ICLP 2017. Sponsors -------- The conference is sponsored by the Association for Logic Programming (ALP), the Association for Constraint Programming (ACP), Monash University, and CSIRO Data61. See the sponsor information at http://iclp17.a4lp.org/sponsors.html Financial Assistance -------------------- The Association for Logic Programming has funds to assist financially disadvantaged participants and, especially, students to enable them to attend the conference. Inquiries should be made to the general chairs. 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URL: From mfinger at ime.usp.br Wed Mar 15 13:26:21 2017 From: mfinger at ime.usp.br (Marcelo Finger) Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2017 09:26:21 -0300 Subject: [DL] FroCos 2017: Third Call for Papers Message-ID: *** Apologies for multiple copies, please redistribute *** THIRD CALL FOR PAPERS FroCoS 2017 11th International Symposium on Frontiers of Combining Systems Brasilia, Brazil September 27-29th, 2017 http://frocos2017.cic.unb.br Submission Deadlines: 24th April 2017 (abstracts) 28th April 2017 (full papers) GENERAL INFORMATION The 11th International Symposium on Frontiers of Combining Systems (FroCoS 2017) will be held in Brasilia, Brazil, between September 27 to September 29, 2017. Its main goal is to disseminate and promote progress in research areas related to the development of techniques for the integration, combination, and modularization of formal systems together with their analysis. FroCoS 2017 will be co-located with the 26th International Conference on Automated Reasoning with Analytic Tableaux and Related Methods (TABLEAUX 2017) and the 8th International Conference on Interactive Theorem?Proving (ITP 2017). The local organization of all events will be organised by Claudia Nalon (USB, Brazil), Daniele Nantes (UnB, Brazil), Elaine Pimentel (UFRN, Brazil) and Joa?o Marcos (UFRN, Brazil). 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 systems for selected tasks. To be usable in practice, these specialized systems must be combined with each other and integrated into general purpose systems. This has led---in many research areas---to the development of techniques and methods for the combination and integration of dedicated formal systems, as well as for their modularization and analysis. The International Symposium on Frontiers of Combining Systems (FroCoS) traditionally focusses on these types of research questions and activities. Like its predecessors, FroCoS 2017 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 higher-order, first-order, temporal, modal, description or other non-classical logics); * combination and integration methods in SAT and SMT solving; * combination of decision procedures, satisfiability procedures, constraint solving techniques, or logical frameworks; * combinations and modularity in ontologies; * integration of equational and other theories into deductive systems; * 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; * integration of data structures into constraint logic programming and deduction; * combinations and modularity in term rewriting; * applications of methods and techniques to the verification and analysis of information systems. INVITED SPEAKERS - Katalin Bimb? (University of Alberta, Canada) (joint with TABLEAUX and ITP) - Jasmin Blanchette (Inria and LORIA, Nancy, France) (joint with TABLEAUX and ITP) - Cezary Kaliszyk (University of Innsbruck, Austria) (joint with TABLEAUX and ITP) - Cesare Tinelli (University of Iowa, USA) - Renata Wassermann (University of S?o Paulo, Brazil) PUBLICATION DETAILS The proceedings of the symposium will be published in the Springer LNAI/LNCS series. PAPER SUBMISSIONS The program committee seeks high-quality submissions describing original work, written in English, not 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 in total, including references and figures. Papers must be edited in LaTeX using the llncs style and must be submitted electronically as PDF files via the EasyChair system at the following address: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=frocos2017 For each accepted paper, at least one of the authors is required to attend the symposium and present the work. Prospective authors must register a title and an abstract five days before the paper submission deadline. Further information about paper submissions is available at the conference website that can be found at the beginning of this call for papers. WORKSHOPS AND TUTORIALS Proposals for Workshops and Tutorial sessions have been solicited in a separate call, which can be found at http://frocos2017.cic.unb.br/#cfw. There are co-located events, described at http://frocos2017.cic.unb.br/#colocated . IMPORTANT DATES 24th April 2017: Abstract submission deadline 28th April 2017: Full paper submission deadline 9th June 2017: Author notification 23rd June 2017: Camera-ready version due September 27-29, 2017: FroCoS Conference PROGRAM COMMITTEE Carlos Areces, FaMAF - Universidad Nacional de C?rdoba Alessandro Artale, Free University of Bolzano-Bozen Mauricio Ayala-Rincon, Universidade de Brasilia Franz Baader, TU Dresden Peter Baumgartner, National ICT Australia Christoph Benzm?ller, Freie Universit?t Berlin Thomas Bolander, Technical University of Denmark Marcelo Coniglio, State University of Campinas Clare Dixon, University of Liverpool [co-chair] Fran?ois Fages, Inria Paris-Rocquencourt Marcelo Finger, Universidade de Sao Paulo [co-chair] Pascal Fontaine, LORIA, INRIA, University of Lorraine Didier Galmiche, LORIA, University of Lorraine Vijay Ganesh, University of Waterloo Silvio Ghilardi, Universit? degli Studi di Milano J?rgen Giesl, RWTH Aachen Laura Giordano, Universit? del Piemonte Orientale Agi Kurucz, Kings College, London Till Mossakowski, Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg Cl?udia Nalon, University of Bras?lia Elaine Pimentel, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte Silvio Ranise, Fondazione Bruno Kessler-Irst Christophe Ringeissen, LORIA-INRIA Uli Sattler, University of Manchester Roberto Sebastiani, University of Trento Guillermo Simari, Universidad Nacional del Sur in Bahia Blanca Viorica Sofronie-Stokkermans, University Koblenz-Landau Andrzej Szalas, University of Warsaw Ren? Thiemann, University of Innsbruck Ashish Tiwari, SRI International Christoph Weidenbach, Max Planck Institute for Informatics -- Marcelo Finger Departament of Computer Science, IME University of Sao Paulo http://www.ime.usp.br/~mfinger From giovanni.degasperis at aixia.it Sun Mar 26 23:19:36 2017 From: giovanni.degasperis at aixia.it (Giovanni De Gasperis) Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2017 23:19:36 +0200 Subject: [DL] [CfA] The 13th Reasoning Web Summer School (RW 2017) Message-ID: ********************************************** CALL FOR APPLICATIONS The 13th Reasoning Web Summer School (RW 2017) London, U.K., July 7-11, 2017 http://reasoningweb.org/2017 ********************************************** co-located with: - RuleML+RR: International Joint Conference on Rules and Reasoning, London, U.K., July 12-15, 2017 http://2017.ruleml-rr.org - RuleML+RR Doctoral Consortium (submission deadline: March 1, 2017) http://2017.ruleml-rr.org/doctoral-consortium/ - DecisionCAMP 2017, London, U.K., July 13-14, 2017 http://2017.ruleml-rr.org/decisioncamp-2017 - 11th International Rule Challenge London, U.K., July 12-15, 2017 http://reasoningweb.org/2017 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. The school 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 2017, the theme of the school is: "Semantic Interoperability on the Web" As in the previous years, lectures in the summer school will be given by a distinguished group of expert lecturers. Most 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 RuleML+RR, a conference that joins the well-known RuleML and RR event series, DecisionCAMP 2017, and the 11th International Rule Challenge, hence, there will be a great opportunity for students to also attend some major events in the area. In addition, RuleML+RR will also include a Doctoral Consortium and students of RW are particularly encouraged to also apply to the Doctoral consortium of RuleML+RR. Joint applications are explicitly encouraged. == IMPORTANT DATES == Application deadline: May 10, 2017 Notifications: May 20, 2017 Registration deadline: May 31, 2017 == CONFIRMED LECTURES (to be completed) == The following lecturers are confirmed. - Andrea Cal? (Birkbeck University of London, U.K.) "Ontology querying: Datalog strikes back" - Thomas Eiter (Technical University of Wien, Austria) "Answer Set Programming with External Source Access" - Thomas Lukasiewicz (University of Oxford, U.K.) "Uncertainty Reasoning for the Semantic Web" - Marco Montali (Free University of Bolzano/Bozen, Italy) "Ontology-based Data Access for Log Extraction in Process Mining" - Axel Polleres (Vienna University of Economics & Business, Austria) "Challenges for Semantic Data Integration on the Web of Open Data" - Marie-Christine Rousset (University Grenoble-Alpes, Institut Universitaire de France) "Datalog revisited for reasoning in Linked Data" - Torsten Schaub (University of Potsdam, Germany and Inria, Bretagne Atlantique, Rennes, France) "A Tutorial on Hybrid Answer Set Solving" - Juan Sequeda (Capsenta, USA) "Integrating Relational Databases with the Semantic Web" - Giorgos Stamou (National Technical University of Athens, Greece) "Ontological query answering over semantic data" == LECTURE NOTES == The course material used during the summer school will be published within Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series. A copy of the proceedings will be included in the registration fees. == 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: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=rw2017 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 - Supervisor (if applicable) - Publications (if applicable) == SCHOOL FEES == The fee for attending the school is 370 GBPs (for registered RuleML+RR participants, it is 485 GBPs). == SCHOOL VENUE == Birkbeck, University of London, Malet St, London WC1E 7HX, UK == ACCOMMODATION == The registration fee does not cover accommodation, but there will be special offers at hostels and hotels available when the registration opens. == GRANTS == There will be a limited number of student grants available for the summer school and for the co-located RuleML+RR conference. == COMMITTEE == *Chairs Giovambattista Ianni, Universit? della Calabria Domenico Lembo, Sapienza Universit? di Roma *Scientific Advisory Board Leopoldo Bertossi, Carleton University Wolfgang Faber, University of Huddersfield Birte Glimm, Universit?t Ulm Georg Gottlob, Oxford University Steffen Staab, University of Koblenz-Landau == CONTACT == For further information including sponsorship opportunities, please contact the organizing chairs. http://reasoningweb.org/2017 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From aspocp at gmail.com Tue Mar 28 17:35:49 2017 From: aspocp at gmail.com (Organizers Aspocp) Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2017 10:35:49 -0500 Subject: [DL] ASPOCP (Espoo, Finland - Colocated with LPNMR 2017) -- Final call for papers Message-ID: [Apologies for multiple postings.] [html version on https://easychair.org/cfp/ASPOCP2017] [We have reached an agreement with Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence (http://www.springer.com/computer/ai/journal/10472) to publish a special issue with extended versions of selected papers (see below).] ============================================================ =================== CALL FOR PAPERS ASPOCP 2017 10th Workshop on Answer Set Programming and Other Computing Paradigms https://sites.google.com/site/aspocp2017 July 3, 2017 Affiliated with the 14th International Conference on Logic Programming and Nonmonotonic Reasoning Espoo, Finland July 3 - 6, 2017 ============================================================ =================== 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 led to a new method of computing answer sets using SAT solvers and techniques adapted from SAT. This has been a much studied relationship, and is currently extended towards satisfiability modulo theories (SMT). The relationship of ASP to other computing paradigms, such as constraint satisfaction, quantified Boolean formulas (QBF), Constraint Logic Programming (CLP), first-order logic (FOL), and FO(ID) is also the subject of active research. Consequently, new methods of computing answer sets are being developed based on relationships to these formalisms.\\ 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) and constraint satisfaction (which recently led to the Constraint Answer Set Programming (CASP) research direction).\\ A large body of general results regarding ASP is available and several efficient ASP solvers have been implemented. However, there are still significant challenges in applying ASP to real life applications, and more interest in relating ASP to other computing paradigms is emerging. This workshop will provide opportunities for researchers to identify these challenges and to exchange ideas for overcoming them. 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 knowledge compilation. - 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 13 pages in the Springer LNAI/LNCS format . Paper submission will be handled electronically by means of the Easychair system. The submission page is available here . IMPORTANT DATES (tentative) Abstract and paper submission deadline: April 3, 2017 Notification: May 1, 2017 Camera-ready articles due: May 22, 2017 Workshop: July 3, 2017 PROCEEDINGS Accepted papers will be made available online. A selection of extended and revised versions of accepted papers will appear in a special issue of Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence (http://www.springer.com/computer/ai/journal/10472), provided that a sufficient amount of high quality papers is collected. Such papers will go through a second formal selection process to meet the high quality standard of the journal. LOCATION The workshop will be held in Espoo, Finland, collocated with the International Conference on Logic Programming and Nonmonotonic Reasoning (LPNMR) 2017. WORKSHOP CO-CHAIRS Bart Bogaerts, KU Leuven, Flanders, Belgium Amelia Harrison, University of Texas at Austin, USA PROGRAM COMMITTEE (to be completed) Marcello Balduccini, Drexel University Bart Bogaerts (chair), KU Leuven Pedro Cabalar, University of Corunna Sandeep Chintabathina, Hawaii Pacific University Stefania Costantini, Dipartimento di Ingegneria e Scienze dell'Informazione e Matematica Univ. dell'Aquila Marc Denecker, KU Leuven Marina De Vos, University of Bath Esra Erdem, Sabanci University Wolfgang Faber, University of Huddersfield Cristina Feier, University of Bremen Johannes Klaus Fichte, Institute of Information Systems Vienna University of Technology Enrico Giunchiglia, DIST - Univ. Genova Amelia Harrison (chair), University of Texas Daniela Inclezan, Miami University Tomi Janhunen, Aalto University Joohyung Lee, Arizona State University Nicola Leone, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science - University of Calabria Vladimir Lifschitz, University of Texas Marco Maratea, DIBRIS University of Genova Alessandro Mosca, SIRIS Lab - Research division of SIRIS Academic SL Max Ostrowski, University of Potsdam David Pearce, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid Axel Polleres, Vienna University of Economics and Business Guillermo Simari, Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering Universidad Nacional del Sur in Bahia Blanca Mirek Truszczynski, Computer Science Department University of Kentucky Richard Watson, Texas Tech University Department of Computer Science Stefan Woltran, TU Wien Jia-Huai You, Department of Computing Science University of Alberta Edmonton Alberta Canada -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From geoff at cs.miami.edu Tue Mar 28 15:34:03 2017 From: geoff at cs.miami.edu (Geoff Sutcliffe) Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2017 09:34:03 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [DL] JAR Special Issue on Automated Reasoning Systems Message-ID: <20170328133403.701A11214D1@mcclellan.cs.miami.edu> =============================================================================== Due to several requests, the deadline is extendended to May 1st: CALL FOR PAPERS: DEADLINE EXTENSION Special Issue On Automated Reasoning Systems Journal of Automated Reasoning The past few decades have seen major developments and practical achievements in automated reasoning systems. For example, SAT solving has become an inherent part of the standard hardware production process; SMT solvers are now the backbone of most software verification techniques; first-order theorem provers have pushed the productivity of interactive theorem proving to a new level; computer algebra systems have solved difficult problems in mathematics and biology; knowledge representation systems have become indispensable for reasoning in the world wide web; automatic termination checkers routinely prove the termination of complex programs. This special issue is dedicated to automated reasoning systems in their full variety along the following dimensions: 1) considered logic: propositional (including (D)QBF), first-order modulo theories, modal, temporal, decidable fragments of larger logics, FOL, and HOL, ...; 2) considered problem: satisfiability, interpolation, quantifier elimination, consequence finding, model building, reachability, termination, ...; 3) application area: formal methods, artificial intelligence, mathematics, biology, product development, security, ...; 4) user base: academic, educational, or industrial. In particular, we welcome papers emphasizing engineering aspects because, while often crucial for the success of automated reasoning tools, they are typically not given a sufficiently detailed treatment in theory papers or system description papers published at conferences or workshops. We welcome full-length papers describing past work not previously published in a journal as well as papers of any length describing new developments. Revised and enhanced versions of papers published in conference proceedings that have not appeared in archival journals are also eligible for submission. All submissions will be reviewed according to the usual standards of scholarship and originality. We encourage submissions that include most, if not all, of the following: (i) theory details (ii) implementation details (iii) applications, and (iv) experiments. Papers should be in PDF format, following the JAR guidelines for authors, http://www.springer.com/computer/theoretical+computer+science/journal/10817 and be submitted using easy chair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=jars2017 To encourage a speedy review cycle, we will expect authors of submissions to serve as referees for other submissions as needed. Important Dates 1 May 2017 Submission deadline 15 Nov 2017 Notification of acceptance/rejection 1 Mar 2018 Final version For more information, please see https://www.mpi-inf.mpg.de/JARS17/ Guest Editors Armin Biere, Johannes Kepler University, Linz, Austria Cesare Tinelli, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, USA Christoph Weidenbach, Max Planck Institute for Informatics, Saarbruecken, Germany From geoff at cs.miami.edu Tue Mar 28 23:23:29 2017 From: geoff at cs.miami.edu (Geoff Sutcliffe) Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2017 17:23:29 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [DL] Encyclopedia of Proof Systems - Call for Contributions Message-ID: <20170328212329.5A11C121489@mcclellan.cs.miami.edu> == EPS == Encyclopedia of Proof Systems --- call for contributions --- September 24-25, 2017, Brasilia, Brazil Affiliated to: TABLEAUX, FroCoS and ITP 2017 http://tableaux2017.cic.unb.br/ http://frocos2017.cic.unb.br/ http://itp2017.cic.unb.br/ Aims and Scope ============== The Encyclopedia of Proof Systems was created in 2014 with the goal of being a quick reference for the various proof systems used by logicians. Since then, it has collected 64 entries on the most various logics and calculi. This was only possible due to the collaboration of many members of the logic community. This event aims to promote the encyclopedia and attract more contributions and collaborators. It consists of: - a poster session in the afternoon of September 24th, 2017, during which submitted entries will be displayed as posters; - an interactive hands-on meeting in the morning of September 25th, 2017, for those who would like to contribute to the continuous improvement of the encyclopedia. The activities planned for this meeting will be announced closer to the event. Submission Instructions ======================= Please visit the task-force's website for instructions: http://proofsystem.github.io/Encyclopedia Participation in TABLEAUX, FroCoS or ITP is not required for submission, but is strongly encouraged. Important Dates =============== - Submission Deadline: 1st of August 2017 - Notification: 15th of August 2017 Publication Plans ================= We have an agreement with College Publications to publish the encyclopedia as a book. The first edition, containing the entries submitted until 2016, was published on January 2017 (http://www.collegepublications.co.uk/other/?00028). Future editions will contain the entries submitted for this EPS event. The encyclopedia is also available in Github (https://github.com/ProofSystem/Encyclopedia). Organization ============ Bruno Woltzenlogel Paleo (bruno.wp at gmail.com) Giselle Reis (giselle at cmu.edu) From issinfo at mailbox.tu-dresden.de Mon Mar 27 17:20:08 2017 From: issinfo at mailbox.tu-dresden.de (ICCL summer school) Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2017 17:20:08 +0200 Subject: [DL] ICCL Summer school 2017 Message-ID: Ladies and Gentlemen, The summer school "Bridging the Gap between Human and Automated Reasoning" is a platform for knowledge transfer within the rapidly increasing research communities in the field of "Computational Logic", i.e. logic based Artificial Intelligence, and "Human Reasoning", i.e. Cognitive Science. We will offer introductory courses covering the fundamentals of cognitive science, logic and reasoning, courses at advanced levels, as well as applied courses and workshops dedicated to specialized topics and the state of the art. Among others, the lecturers will be Ruth Byrne, Emmanuelle-Anna Dietz Saldanha, Ulrich Furbach, Sarah Gaggl, Steffen H?lldobler und Marco Ragni. Furthermore, there will be a social program, which includes a Dresden city tour, an excursion to Pirna and to the saxon switzerland, a visit to the green vault in the Dresden Royal Palace and a gala dinner. The summer school is supported by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) and therefore, a limited number of grants for students and university employees will be available, which includes a waiver for the participation fee. The deadline for applications is April 30, 2017. Note that the 10. ICCL summer school has won the Dresden Congress Award in 2016 - for the activities in 2015 and 2014. You can find more information about the summer school here: https://iccl.inf.tu-dresden.de/web/SummerSchool2017 and register here: http://www.computational-logic.org/content/events/iccl-ss-2017/register/general.php with best regards, the organizers of the summer school From aspocp at gmail.com Mon Apr 3 21:32:47 2017 From: aspocp at gmail.com (Organizers Aspocp) Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2017 21:32:47 +0200 Subject: [DL] ASPOCP 2017 -- Deadline Extension -- April 10 submission deadline Message-ID: [Apologies for multiple postings.] =============================================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS ASPOCP 2017 10th Workshop on Answer Set Programming and Other Computing Paradigms https://sites.google.com/site/aspocp2017 July 3, 2017 Affiliated with the 14th International Conference on Logic Programming and Nonmonotonic Reasoning Espoo, Finland July 3 - 6, 2017 =============================================================================== 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 led to a new method of computing answer sets using SAT solvers and techniques adapted from SAT. This has been a much studied relationship, and is currently extended towards satisfiability modulo theories (SMT). The relationship of ASP to other computing paradigms, such as constraint satisfaction, quantified Boolean formulas (QBF), Constraint Logic Programming (CLP), first-order logic (FOL), and FO(ID) is also the subject of active research. Consequently, new methods of computing answer sets are being developed based on relationships to these formalisms. 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) and constraint satisfaction (which recently led to the Constraint Answer Set Programming (CASP) research direction). A large body of general results regarding ASP is available and several efficient ASP solvers have been implemented. However, there are still significant challenges in applying ASP to real life applications, and more interest in relating ASP to other computing paradigms is emerging. This workshop will provide opportunities for researchers to identify these challenges and to exchange ideas for overcoming them. 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 knowledge compilation. - 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 13 pages in the Springer LNAI/LNCS format (excluding references). Paper submission will be handled electronically by means of the Easychair system. The submission page is available at . IMPORTANT DATES (tentative) Abstract and paper submission deadline: April 10, 2017 ASPOCP Notification: May 1, 2017 Camera-ready articles due: May 22, 2017 Workshop: July 3, 2017 PROCEEDINGS Accepted papers will be made available online. At least one author of each accepted paper needs to register for the workshop. A selection of extended and revised versions of accepted papers will appear in a special issue of Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence (http://www.springer.com/computer/ai/journal/10472), provided that a sufficient amount of high quality papers is collected. Such papers will go through a second formal selection process to meet the high quality standard of the journal. LOCATION AND REGISTRATION The workshop will be held in Espoo, Finland, collocated with the International Conference on Logic Programming and Nonmonotonic Reasoning (LPNMR) 2017. Please note that at least one co-author of each accepted paper will be required to register for the workshop. WORKSHOP CO-CHAIRS Bart Bogaerts, KU Leuven, Belgium Amelia Harrison, University of Texas at Austin, USA PROGRAM COMMITTEE (to be completed) Marcello Balduccini, Drexel University Bart Bogaerts (chair), KU Leuven Pedro Cabalar, University of Corunna Sandeep Chintabathina, Hawaii Pacific University Stefania Costantini, Dipartimento di Ingegneria e Scienze dell'Informazione e Matematica Univ. dell'Aquila Marc Denecker, KU Leuven Marina De Vos, University of Bath Esra Erdem, Sabanci University Wolfgang Faber, University of Huddersfield Cristina Feier, University of Bremen Johannes Klaus Fichte, Institute of Information Systems Vienna University of Technology Enrico Giunchiglia, DIST - Univ. Genova Amelia Harrison (chair), University of Texas Daniela Inclezan, Miami University Tomi Janhunen, Aalto University Joohyung Lee, Arizona State University Nicola Leone, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science - University of Calabria Vladimir Lifschitz, University of Texas Marco Maratea, DIBRIS University of Genova Alessandro Mosca, SIRIS Lab - Research division of SIRIS Academic SL Max Ostrowski, University of Potsdam David Pearce, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid Axel Polleres, Vienna University of Economics and Business Guillermo Simari, Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering Universidad Nacional del Sur in Bahia Blanca Mirek Truszczynski, Computer Science Department University of Kentucky Richard Watson, Texas Tech University Department of Computer Science Stefan Woltran, TU Wien Jia-Huai You, Department of Computing Science University of Alberta Edmonton Alberta Canada -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ijv at acm.org Mon Apr 3 18:02:29 2017 From: ijv at acm.org (=?utf-8?Q?Ivan_Jos=C3=A9_Varzinczak?=) Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2017 18:02:29 +0200 Subject: [DL] Last call for papers: DARe at LPNMR'17 Message-ID: <7358E994-FB2A-4173-A18D-FF96B0C61648@acm.org> * Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this call * ============================== Call for Papers DARe at LPNMR 2017 Date: 3 July 2017 Espoo, Finland *** Deadline: 10 April 2017 *** ============================== The Fourth International Workshop on "Defeasible and Ampliative Reasoning" (DARe) https://sites.google.com/view/dare-17 held at the International Conference on Logic Programming and Nonmonotonic Reasoning (LPNMR 2017) -- Latest News -- There will be a special issue of the International Journal of Approximate Reasoning (IJAR) containing selected extended versions of papers that have been accepted at DARe. The call for this special issue is planned for late 2017. More information to follow. -- Workshop Description and Aims -- Classical reasoning is not flexible enough when directly applied to the formalization of certain nuances of human quotidian decision making. These involve different kinds of reasoning such as reasoning with uncertainty, exceptions, similarity, vagueness, incomplete or contradictory information and many others. It turns out that everyday reasoning usually shows the two salient intertwined aspects below: * Ampliative aspect: augmenting the underlying reasoning by allowing more conclusions. In practical contexts, this amounts to the ability to make inferences that venture beyond the scope of the premises, somehow in an unsound but justifiable way. Prominent examples are (i) default reasoning: jumping to conclusions deemed as plausible 'by default', i.e., in the absence of information to the contrary, like applying negation as failure or adopting the closed-world assumption; (ii) inductive and abductive reasoning: taking chances in drawing conclusions that implicitly call for further scrutiny or tests by empirical observations, like in making inductive hypotheses in scientific theories or finding abductive explanations in forensics, and (iii) analogical reasoning: extrapolating from very few examples (in the worst case only one) on the basis of observable similarities or dissimilarities. * Defeasible aspect: curtailing the underlying reasoning by either disregarding or disallowing some conclusions that somehow ought not to be sanctioned. In practice, this amounts to the ability to backtrack one's conclusions or to admit exceptions in reasoning. Some examples of this are (i) retractive reasoning: withdrawing conclusions that have already been derived, like in belief contraction or in negotiation, and (ii) preemptive reasoning: preventing or blocking the inference of some conclusions by disallowing their derivation in the first place, like in dealing with exceptional cases in multiple inheritance networks and in regulatory systems. Several efforts have been put into the study and definition of formalisms within which the aforementioned aspects of everyday reasoning could adequately be captured at different levels. Despite the progress that has been achieved, a large avenue remains open for exploration. Indeed, the literature on non-monotonic reasoning has focused almost exclusively on defeasibility of argument forms, whereas belief revision paradigms are restricted to an underlying classical (Tarskian) consequence relation. Moreover, even if some of the issues related to uncertainty in reasoning have been studied using probabilistic approaches and statistical methods, their integration with qualitative frameworks remain a challenge. Finally, well-established approaches are largely based on propositional languages or haunted by the undecidability of full first-order logic. Modern applications require formalisms with a good balance between expressive power and computational complexity. DARe aims at bringing together researchers and practitioners from core areas of artificial intelligence, cognitive sciences, philosophy and related disciplines to discuss these kinds of problems and relevant results in a multi-disciplinary forum. The goal of the workshop is to present latest research developments, to discuss current directions in the field, and to collect first-hand feedback from the community. -- Scope of the Workshop -- DARe welcomes contributions on all aspects of defeasible and ampliative reasoning such as (but not limited to): - Abductive and inductive reasoning - Explanation finding, diagnosis and causal reasoning - Inconsistency handling and exception-tolerant reasoning - Decision-making under uncertainty and incomplete information - Default reasoning, non-monotonic reasoning, non-monotonic logics, conditional logics - Specific instances and variations of ampliative and defeasible reasoning - Probabilistic and statistical approaches to reasoning - Vagueness, rough sets, granularity and fuzzy-logics - Philosophical foundations of defeasibility - Empirical studies of reasoning - Relationship with cognition and language - Contextual reasoning - Preference-based reasoning - Analogical reasoning - Similarity-based reasoning - Belief dynamics and merging - Argumentation theory, negotiation and conflict resolution - Heuristic and approximate reasoning - Defeasible normative systems - Reasoning about actions and change - Reasoning about knowledge and belief, epistemic and doxastic logics - Ampliative and defeasible temporal and spatial reasoning - Computational aspects of reasoning with uncertainty - Implementations and systems - Applications of uncertainty in reasoning -- Submission Requirements -- We invite submissions of papers presenting original research results or position statements. Submissions must be prepared using the Springer LNAI/LNCS format (which can be found at http://lpnmr2017.aalto.fi/submission.html) and should be no longer than 13 pages. Please submit to: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dare17 -- Workshop Proceedings/Notes -- Accepted papers will be made available electronically in the CEUR Workshop Proceedings series (http://ceur-ws.org). Copyright of papers remain with the authors. The 2014 proceedings are available at http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1212/ The 2015 proceedings are available at http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1423/ The 2016 proceedings are available at http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1626/ -- Attendance -- The selection of accepted contributions will be based on relevance, significance and the work's potential to foster discussions and cross-pollination. Therefore submissions of ongoing work are also strongly encouraged. At least one co-author of each accepted paper must register for the workshop. Please check the LPNMR 2017 website for registration procedure, fees as well as cancellation policies. -- Important Dates -- - Submission deadline: 10 April 2017 - Notification: 1 May 2017 - Camera ready: 22 May 2017 - Workshop date: 3 July 2017 -- Invited Speaker -- [TBA] -- Workshop Co-Chairs -- - Richard Booth, Cardiff University, UK - Giovanni Casini, University of Luxembourg - Ivan Varzinczak, CRIL, Univ. Artois & CNRS, France -- Program Committee -- - Natasha Alechina, University of Nottingham, UK - Grigoris Antoniou, University of Huddersfield, UK - Ofer Arieli, Academic College of Tel-Aviv, Israel - Guillaume Aucher, University of Rennes 1 - INRIA, France - Christoph Beierle, FernUniversitaet Hagen, Germany - Mario Benevides, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - Antonis Bikakis, University College London, UK - Alexander Bochman, Holon Institute of Technology, Israel - Katarina Britz, Stellenbosch University, South Africa - James Delgrande, Simon Fraser University, Canada - Marcelo Finger, Universidade de S?o Paulo, Brazil - Nina Gierasimczuk, Danish Technical University, Denmark - Patrick Girard, University of Auckland, New Zealand - Sven Ove Hansson, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden - Andreas Herzig, IRIT CNRS, France - Aaron Hunter, British Columbia Institute of Technology, Canada - Souhila Kaci, Universit? Montpellier 2, France - Gabriele Kern-Isberner, TU Dortmund, Germany - Simon Kramer, SK-R&D, Switzerland - Michael Maher, University of New South Wales, Australia - Jo?o Marcos, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil - Thomas Meyer, University of Cape Town, South Africa - Gilles Richard, Universit? Paul Sabatier, France - Francois Schwarzentruber, ENS Rennes/IRISA, France - Umberto Straccia, CNR, Italy - Joost Vennekens, K.U. Leuven, Belgium - Peter Verd?e, Universiteit Gent, Belgium - Heinrich Wansing, Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum, Germany - Renata Wassermann, Universidade de S?o Paulo, Brazil - Anna Zamansky, University of Haifa, Israel -- Further Information -- Please visit the workshop website (https://sites.google.com/view/dare-17) for further information and regular updates. Enquiries should be sent to dare.to.contact.us at gmail.com -- Ivan Varzinczak CRIL, Univ. 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QBFEVAL'17 will award solvers that stand out as being particularly effective on specific categories of QBF instances. The evaluation will run using the computing infrastructure made available by StarExec. We warmly encourage developers of QBF solvers to submit their work, even at early stages of development, as long as it fulfills some very simple requirements. We also welcome the submission of QBF formulas to be used for the evaluation. Researchers thinking about using QBF-based techniques in their area (e.g., formal verification, planning, knowledge reasoning) are invited to contribute to the evaluation by submitting QBF instances of their research problems (see the requirements for instances). The results of the evaluation will be a good indicator of the current feasibility of QBF-based approaches and a stimulus for people working on QBF solvers to further enhance their tools. Details about solvers and benchmarks submission, tracks, and related rules, are available at http://www.qbflib.org/qbfeval17.php For questions, comments and any other issue regarding QBFEVAL'17, please get in touch with qbf17 at qbflib.org. Important Dates Registration open: April 1st 2017 Registration close: May 22nd 2017 Solvers and Benchmarks due: May 30th 2017 Final results: presented at SAT'17 Organizing committee Organization Luca Pulina, University of Sassari Martina Seidl, Johannes Kepler Universit?t Linz Judges Olaf Beyersdorff, University of Leeds Daniel Le Berre, Universit? d'Artois Martin Suda, Technische Universit?t Wien Christoph Wintersteiger, Microsoft Research Limited -- Luca Pulina, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Computer Science POLCOMING - Department of Political Science, Communication, Engineering and Information Technologies University of Sassari e-mail lpulina at uniss.it http://sites.google.com/site/lpulina From rainer.unland at icb.uni-due.de Sun Apr 2 19:28:28 2017 From: rainer.unland at icb.uni-due.de (Rainer Unland) Date: Sun, 2 Apr 2017 19:28:28 +0200 Subject: [DL] Deadline extension 23 Apr. 17: IEEE/WIC/ACM Web Intelligence 2017 (WI'17), 23-26 Aug. 2017, Leipzig, Germany In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: [Apologies if you receive this more than once] Please forward this CFP to anyone who might be interested. ####################################################################### CALL FOR PAPERS IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence 2017 (WI'17) (former Web Intelligence / Intelligent Agent Conference (WI/IAT)) August 23-26, 2017, Leipzig, Germany Conference Website: http://webintelligence2017.com/ (*/Extended FULL PAPER SUBMISSION DEADLINE: Apr. 23, 2017/*) *** CONFIRMED KEYNOTE SPEAKERS *** Raj Reddy (Turing Award Winner 1994): The Ultimate Web Intelligence: Computational Social Science Amit Sheth: Semantic, Cognitive, and Perceptual Computing ? three intertwined strands of a golden braid of intelligent computing Cristiano Castelfranchi: Cognition & Self-Organization in a Hybrid Society & Coupled Reality: The role of AI Frank Leymann: Loose Coupling and Architectural Implications Matthias Klusch: Intelligent Agents and Semantic Technologies for Industry 4.0:Showcases and Challenges ####################################################################### ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ SPONSORS ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) IEEE Computer Society Web Intelligence Consortium (WIC) ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ AIMS AND SCOPE ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ The topics of Web Intelligence (WI) have received increasing interest in the past years. They comprise many fields, such as collective intelligence, data science, human-centric computing, knowledge management, and network science. WI'17 aims to cover leading research that both deepens the understanding of computational, logical, cognitive, physical as well as business and social foundations of the future Web, and enables the development and application of intelligent technologies. The research track of WI'17 invites original high-quality papers. WI'17 is methodologically open, i.e. conceptual, empirical as well as theoretical and technical papers are welcome. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ TOPICS AND AREAS RESEARCH PAPERS ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Track-1: Collective Intelligence Track-2: Data Science Track-3: Human-Centric Computing Track-4: Knowledge Management Track-5: Network Science ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ CALL FOR Proposals for TUTORIALS/WORKSHOPS/SPECIAL-SESSIONS Call for Industry and PhD symposium Papers ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ In addition to the research track, WI'17 comprises special sessions and workshops as well as tutorials and a PhD mentoring session. Moreover, industry papers and demo proposals can be submitted to WI'17 and will be dealt with by a special PC for industrial papers which will apply industry-compliant assessment criteria.In all cases please refer to the individual call for papers on webintelligence2017.com ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ PAPER SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ WI'17 solicits original work limited to 6-8 pages in ACM 2-column format. Each paper will be peer-reviewed by at least three PC members on the basis of technical quality, relevance, originality, significance and clarity. Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings by ACM and indexed by EI. Furthermore, selected WI'17 papers will be invited to submit extended versions for publication in Web Intelligence journal and other international journals. Papers have to be submitted via the Cyberchair submission page and according to the rules specified on this page: ..https://wi-lab.com/cyberchair/2017/wi17/scripts/submit.php?subarea=Wr ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ AWARDS ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Best Paper awards will be conferred at the conference on the authors of (1) the best research paper, (2) the best student paper. Application-oriented submissions will be considered for the best application paper award. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ IMPORTANT DATES +++++++++++++++ ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Submission of regular papers:Apr. 23, 2017 Notification of regular paper acceptance:May29, 2017 Camera-Ready regular papers (Main Conference)Jun19, 2017 Submission of Industry track papers:Apr. 30, 2017 Notification of Industry track paper acceptance:May29, 2017 Camera-Ready Papers (Industry Track)Jun19, 2017 Submission of Workshop/Special session papers:May. 01, 2017 Notification of Workshop/Special session paper acceptance: May29, 2017 Camera-Ready Papers (Workshops and Special sessions)Jun19, 2017 Tutorial proposal submission:May01, 2017 Notification of Tutorial acceptance:May15, 2017 Submission of PhD Mentoring Papers:May21, 2017 Notification of PhD Mentoring Papers acceptance:Jun. 02, 2017 Camera-Ready Papers (PhD Mentoring):Jun. 19, 2017 Author Registration (Main Conference)Jun. 26, 2017 Main conference:Aug. 23-26, 2017 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ORGANIZING COMMITTEE +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ General Chairs (Regions): ------------------------- Axel Ngonga, currently Leipzig University, Germany (Africa) Amit Sheth, Wright State University, US (North-America) Guoyin Wang, Chongqing Univ. of Posts and Telecommunications, China (Asia) Elizabeth Chang, The University of New South Wales, Australia (Australia) Dominik Slezak, Infobright Inc. & Univ. of Warsaw, Poland (East Europe) Bogdan Franczyk, Leipzig University, Germany (West Europe) PC Co-Chairs: ------------- Rainer Alt (Leipzig University, Germany) Xiaohui Tao (University of Southern Queensland, Australia) Organizing Chairs: ------------------ Bjoern Schwarzbach, Leipzig University, Germany Rainer Unland, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany Steering Committee Co-chairs: ----------------------------- Ning Zhong (Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan) Jiming Liu (Hong Kong Baptist University, HK SAR, China) Organizing Committee -------------------- Wilfried R?der, Leipzig University, Germany Sandra Bartsch, Institute of Applied Informatics, Germany Publicity Chairs: ---------------- Guadalupe Ortiz Bellot, University of C?diz, Spain Haoran Xie, The Education University of Hong Kong, China Yue Xu, Queensland University of Technology, Australia Roland Fassauer, Institute of Applied Informatics, Germany Workshop and Special Session Chairs: ------------------------------------ Agata Filipowska, Poznan University of Economics, Poland Omar Hussain, UNSW Canberra, Australia Juan D. Velasquez, University of Chile, Chile Yiqiang Chen, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Olaf Reinhold, Leipzig University, Germany Doctoral Consortium Chairs: --------------------------- Alexander Pokahr, University of Hamburg, Germany Ren? Schumann, University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland Tutorial Chairs: --------------- Christian Derksen, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany Jacek Kucharski, Lodz University of Technology, Poland Industry Track Chairs: ---------------------- Hanno Hildmann, UC3M Robotics Lab, Spain & NEC Research Europe, Germany Fabrice Saffre, British Telecom & EBTIC, UK & UAE Webmaster: ----------- Christian Franck, Leipzig University, Germany Registrations, enquiries & special requests: -------------------------------------------- Sandra Bartsch, Institute of Applied Informatics, Germany Finance Chair and CyberChair-Master: ------------------------------------ Sebastian Fu?, Institute of Applied Informatics, Germany Industry and Sponsorship Chairs: -------------------------------- Wilfried R?der, Leipzig University, Germany Roland Fassauer, Institute of Applied Informatics, Germany +++++++++++++++++++++++++ Contact Information: rainer.alt at uni-leipzig.de xtao at usq.edu.au +++++++++++++++++++++++++ -- ?Experience is this valuable asset which allows us to identify the mistake immediately when we are doing it again and again!? ?Erfahrung ist jener kostbare Besitz, der uns bef?higt, einen Fehler sofort zu erkennen, wenn wir ihn immer wieder machen.? ************************************************************************** Prof. Dr. Rainer Unland University of Duisburg-Essen Institute for Computer Science and Business Information Systems (ICB) Practical Computer Science, especially Data Management Systems and Knowledge Representation Schuetzenbahn 70 45117 Essen, Germany Tel.: (+49) 201-183 3421 IP-Tel. 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The EU project networking track of ESWC2017 is an unique opportunity for * Knowledge sharing among research and innovation projects * Data and technology transfer between collaborators * Presentation and discussion of project results with ESWC participants * Discussion about future funding opportunities such as H2020 and ERC Also, it will include a presentation by a representative of the European Commission on the European Research Council (ERC) and ERC funding schemes. The project networking track is intended to provide collaborative projects with the ability to connect with each other and engage in discussions about their respective research and development, establish opportunities for knowledge and technology sharing, and identify complementary activities and goals which can form the basis for future collaborations, research proposals, researcher exchange or joint participation at events or in initiatives. We equally welcome submissions from recently finished projects which have results to transfer and recently started projects which are seeking datasets and tools to perform their work, regardless of whether they are EU, national or regionally funded. SUBMISSION Projects willing to participate at the session must submit a 2-page extended abstract (PDF, Springer LNCS style). The abstract should introduce the project, briefly describe its R&D activities and goals and outline what the project would show / demonstrate in the session, focused specifically on what the project plans to offer to other projects and/or wishes to request from other projects. This should be backed up by links to online datasets, tools or use cases where requirements are identified. Submissions will be evaluated by the Organising Committee. There will be a limited number of places for the best evaluated projects in the networking space. Decisions about acceptance will be based on relevance to ESWC2017, tangible innovation and uniqueness in the R&D activities and a clear goal to benefit from networking with other projects. Submission link will be announced shortly at http://2017.eswc-conferences.org/call-project-networking DEADLINE ? Abstract submission deadline: April 22th, 2017, 23:59 ? Notification of acceptance/rejection: April 29th, 2017, 23:59 ? EU Project Networking Session: May 31st, 2017 ORGANISING COMMITTEE ? Maria Maleshkova, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany ? Lyndon Nixon, MODUL University Vienna, Austria From ernesto.jimenez.ruiz at gmail.com Tue Apr 4 11:57:36 2017 From: ernesto.jimenez.ruiz at gmail.com (Ernesto Jimenez-Ruiz) Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2017 11:57:36 +0200 Subject: [DL] PhD Studentships in Semantic Web (University of Oslo) Message-ID: [Apologies for cross-posting] Hi We have several openings for Ph.D. students in the Department of Informatics (IFI) at the University of Oslo (UiO). The Department of Informatics seeks well qualified applicants for PhD research fellowship positions. Application deadline is April 18th. Salary: NOK 432,700 - 489,300 per year (around 47,000 - 53,000 euros), depending on qualifications and seniority. More details here: http://www.mn.uio.no/ifi/english/people/aca/ernestoj Projects proposals covering Semantic Web topics: - Ontology learning and text mining for Healthcare: http://www.mn.uio.no/ifi/english/research/doctoral-degree/seven-phd-research-fellowships-in-informatics/projects/p11-logid-ltg-ontologiesinhealthcare.pdf - Ontology templates: Design pattern macros for large scale ontology development: http://www.mn.uio.no/ifi/english/research/doctoral-degree/seven-phd-research-fellowships-in-informatics/projects/p9-logid-ontologytemplates.pdf Please send an email to 'ernesto.jimenez.ruiz at gmail.com' or ' ernestoj at ifi.uio.no' if you are interested in applying. -- Ernesto Jim?nez-Ruiz Research Assistant Department of Informatics University of Oslo http://www.mn.uio.no/ifi/english/people/aca/ernestoj/ http://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/people/ernesto.jimenez-ruiz/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From gabriele.kern-isberner at cs.tu-dortmund.de Wed Apr 5 14:10:11 2017 From: gabriele.kern-isberner at cs.tu-dortmund.de (Gabriele Kern-Isberner) Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2017 14:10:11 +0200 Subject: [DL] 2nd Call for Papers: The 40th German Conference on Artificial Intelligence (KI'17) Message-ID: <60c8792c-a971-d1af-f846-67208099e307@cs.tu-dortmund.de> [Apologies for receiving multiple copies of this] ============== KI 2017: 2nd Call for Papers ============== 40th German Conference on Artificial Intelligence September 25-29, 2017 Dortmund, Germany http://ki2017.tu-dortmund.de ============================================================= KI 2017 is the 40th edition of the German Conference on Artificial Intelligence organized by the Fachbereich K?nstliche Intelligenz der Gesellschaft f?r Informatik. KI traditionally brings together academic and industrial researchers from all areas of AI, providing an ideal place for exchanging news and research results of intelligent system technology. The technical program of KI 2017 will comprise paper and poster presentations and a variety of workshops and tutorials. KI 2017 will take place in Dortmund, Germany, September 25th-29th, 2017, and is a premier forum for exchanging news and research results on theory and applications of intelligent system technology. You are invited to submit original research and application papers on all aspects of AI research, including but not limited to the following: - Agent-based and multi-agent systems - AI applications and innovations - Belief change - Cognitive modelling, AI and psychology - Commonsense reasoning - Computer vision - Constraint satisfaction, search, and optimization - Diagnosis and configuration - Evolutionary computation - Game playing and interactive entertainment - Information retrieval, integration, and extraction - Knowledge engineering and ontologies - Knowledge representation and reasoning - Knowledge discovery and data mining - Machine learning - Multidisciplinary AI - Natural language processing - Nonmonotonic reasoning and default logics - Philosophical foundations of AI - Planning and scheduling - Recommender systems - Robotics - Uncertainty in AI - Web and information systems We especially welcome application papers that provide novel insights on the interplay of AI and the real world, as well as papers that bring useful computational technologies from other areas of computer science into AI. ======== Invited Speakers and Historical Session ======== We are proud to announce keynote speeches by the following invited speakers: * Gerhard Brewka (Universit?t Leipzig) * Luc De Raedt (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven) Being the 40th anniversary of the German Conference on Artificial Intelligence we are also planning a special "Historical Session" with a podium discussion and several short talks by further invited speakers on the history of AI in general and in Germany. More details on this session will be made available soon. ======== Workshops and Tutorials ======== The main program of the conference is complemented by a workshop and tutorial program: * Workshop: Planen und Konfigurieren * Workshop: AI challenges for humanoid soccer-playing robots * Workshop: Forgetting in Artificial Intelligence * Workshop: ZooOperation Competition * Workshop: Intelligent Systems for Industry 4.0 * Workshop: Deduktionstreffen * Workshop: Formal and Cognitive Reasoning * Tutorial: Defeasible Reasoning for Description Logics * Tutorial: Knowledge Representation and Reasoning with Nilsson-style Probabilistic Logics * Tutorial: Unification in Description and Modal Logics For details on submitting workshop papers see the individual workshop webpages linked from the conference webpage (http://ki2017.tu-dortmund.de). ======== Paper Submission ======== We invite papers, which have to be in English and formatted according to the Springer LNCS style, in the following two categories: * Full technical papers (12 pages max., excluding references) are expected to report on novel research that makes a substantial technical contribution to the field. Additional details may be included in an appendix, which, however, will be read at the discretion of the PC. * Technical communications (6 pages max., excluding references) can report on research in progress, or other issues of interest to the AI community. Examples of work suitable for technical communication paper submissions include: novel ideas whose scope is not large enough for a full paper: important implementation techniques; novel interesting benchmark problems; short experimental studies; interesting applications that are not yet completely solved or analysed; position or challenge papers; etc. Technical communication submissions are especially invited for software demonstration or PhD work in progress. Submission will be through the EasyChair conference management system: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ki2017 All papers will be subject to blind peer review based on the standard criteria of relevance, significance of results, originality of ideas, soundness, and quality of the presentation. All accepted papers will be published in the main conference proceedings, and will be presented at the conference. At least one author of each accepted paper must register for the conference and present the contribution. The KI 2017 proceedings will be published by Springer as a volume of the LNAI (Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence) series. ======== Important Dates ======== Workshop/Tutorial proposals: Jan 30th, 2017 Workshop/Tutorial notification: Feb 6th, 2017 Full/Short Paper submission: May 5th, 2017 Acceptance notification: June 16th, 2017 Final version due: July 1st, 2017 KI Workshops and Conference: September 25th-29th, 2017 ======== Main Organizers ======== General Chair * Gabriele Kern-Isberner (TU Dortmund) Program Chairs * Johannes F?rnkranz (TU Darmstadt) * Matthias Thimm (Universit?t Koblenz-Landau) Workshop and Tutorial Chair * Christoph Beierle (FernUniversit?t in Hagen) Historial Session Chair * Ulrich Furbach (Universit?t Koblenz-Landau) Local Organizers * Christian Eichhorn (TU Dortmund) * Steffen Schieweck (TU Dortmund) * Marco Wilhelm (TU Dortmund) -- *************************************************** * Prof. Dr. Gabriele Kern-Isberner * Technische Universitaet Dortmund * Dept. of Computer Science * Chair I - Information Engineering * 44221 Dortmund, Germany * Phone: +49-231-755-2045 * Fax: +49-231-755 6555 * email: gabriele.kern-isberner at cs.uni-dortmund.de *************************************************** From ian.pratt at manchester.ac.uk Thu Apr 6 11:12:21 2017 From: ian.pratt at manchester.ac.uk (Ian Pratt-Hartmann) Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2017 10:12:21 +0100 Subject: [DL] E. W. Beth Dissertation Prize, 2017: final call for nominations Message-ID: E. W. Beth Dissertation Prize, 2017: call for nominations Since 2002, FoLLI (the Association for Logic, Language, and Information, http://www.folli.info) has awarded the E.W. Beth Dissertation Prize to outstanding dissertations in the fields of Logic, Language, and Information. We invite submissions for the best dissertation which resulted in a Ph.D. degree awarded in 2016. Who qualifies. Nominations of candidates are admitted who were awarded a Ph.D. degree in the areas of Logic, Language, or Information between January 1st, 2016 and December 31st, 2016. Theses must be written in English; however, the Committee accepts submissions of English translations of theses originally written in other languages, and for which a PhD was awarded in the preceding two years (i.e. between January 1st, 2014 and December 31st, 2015). There is no restriction on the nationality of the candidate or on the university where the Ph.D. was granted. Prize. The prize consists of: -a certificate -a donation of 2500 euros provided by the E.W. Beth Foundation -an invitation to submit the thesis (or a revised version of it) to the FoLLI Publications on Logic, Language and Information (Springer). How to submit Only electronic submissions are accepted. The following documents are required: The thesis in pdf format (ps/doc/rtf not accepted). A ten-page abstract of the dissertation in pdf format. A letter of nomination from the thesis supervisor (see below). Two additional letters of support, including at least one from a referee not affiliated with the academic institution that awarded the Ph.D. degree. Self-nominations are not admitted: each nomination must be sponsored by the thesis supervisor. The letter of nomination should concisely describe the scope and significance of the dissertation and state when the degree was officially awarded. Nominations should contain the email contact details of the nominator. All documents must be submitted electronically (preferably as a zip file) to Ian Pratt-Hartmann (ipratt at cs.man.ac.uk). Hard copy submissions are not allowed. In case of any problems with the email submission or a lack of notification within three working days, nominators should write to Ian Pratt-Hartmann. The prize will be awarded at the ESSLLI summer school in Toulouse. The current (tentative) date for the presentation ceremony is July 26th, 2017. Queries: Ian Pratt-Hartmann (ipratt at cs.man.ac.uk) Important dates: Deadline for Submissions: April 21st, 2017. Notification of Decision: June 19th, 2017. ESSLLI summer school: July 17th--28th, 2017. Committee Raffaella Bernardi (University of Trento) Julian Bradfield (University of Edinburgh) Ernie Davis (New York University) Sujata Ghosh (Indian Statistical Institute, Chennai) Nina Gierasimczuk (Technical University of Denmark, Copenhagen) Thomas Icard (Stanford University) Carsten Lutz (University of Bremen) Andreas Maletti (Leipzig University) Sanjian Li (University of Technology Sydney) Larry Moss (Indiana University Bloomington) Ian Pratt-Hartmann (University of Manchester) Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh (Queen Mary University of London) Yoad Winter (Utrecht University) From no-reply-synasc-cfp2 at spgo.io Thu Apr 6 12:45:31 2017 From: no-reply-synasc-cfp2 at spgo.io (SYNASC 2017) Date: Thu, 06 Apr 2017 10:45:31 +0000 Subject: [DL] SYNASC 2017 - Second Call for Papers Message-ID: <18.6D.64544.B4C16E85@f.mta1vrest.cc.prd.sparkpost> --- Second Call for Papers -------------------------- SYNASC 2017 19th International Symposium on Symbolic and Numeric Algorithms for Scientific Computing September 21-24, 2017, Timisoara, Romania http://go.sparkpostmail1.com/f/a/mhBOQ-6Pp6anJWE1ZnC8xg~~/AAIhsgA~/RgRayKFLP0EIAaxyqLqcsBhXA3NwY1gEAAAAAFkGc2hhcmVkYQNuZXdgDTUyLjM4LjE5MS4yMTlIG3N5bmFzY18ybmRfY2FsbDRwYXBlcnNfdGVzdEIKAAZPHOZYIPyi21IMZGxAZGwua3Iub3JnUBNzeW5hc2MtY2ZwLTJuZC1jYWxsUQQAAAADRBVodHRwOi8vc3luYXNjLnJvLzIwMTdHAnt9 In honor of the anniversaries of Stefan Maruster (80) Bruno Buchberger (75) Tetsuo Ida (70) 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 --------------- 15 March 2017 : Proposals for workshops, special sessions, tutorials 15 April 2017 : Abstract submission 15 May 2017 : Paper submission 15 July 2017 : Notification of acceptance 01 September 2017 : Registration 01 September 2017 : Revised papers according to the reviews 21-24 September 2017 : Symposium 30 November 2017 : Final papers for post-proceedings Invited Speakers ---------------- * Plenary talks Armin Biere, Johannes Kepler University, Linz, Austria Bruno Buchberger, Johannes Kepler University, Austria Panagiota Fatourou, University of Crete Tetsuo Ida, University of Tsukuba, Japan Gheorghe Paun, Romanian Academy, Romania Klaus-Dieter Schewe, Software Competence Center Hagenberg, Linz, Austria * Tutorials Erika Abraham, RWTH Aachen University, Germany Tracks ------ * Symbolic Computation + computer algebra + symbolic techniques applied to numerics + hybrid symbolic and numeric algorithms + numerics and symbolics for geometry + programming with constraints, narrowing * 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 * Logic and Programming + automatic reasoning + formal system verification + formal verification and synthesis + software quality assessment + static analysis + timing analysis * Artificial Intelligence + intelligent systems for scientific computing + recommender and expert systems for scientific computing + scientific knowledge management + agent-based complex systems modeling and development + uncertain reasoning in scientific computing + computational intelligence + soft computing + machine learning + data mining, text mining and web mining + natural language processing + computer vision + intelligent hybrid systems * 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) (included in IEEE Xplore) and will be submitted for indexing in ISI Web of Science, DBLP, SCOPUS. Extended versions of the selected papers published in post-proceedings will be considered to be published as special issues in international journals (e.g. Scalable Computing: Practice and Experience, Soft Computing Journal etc.) 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 Chairs ------------- * Viorel Negru, West University of Timisoara, Romania * Dana Petcu, West University of Timisoara, Romania Program Chairs ------------- * Tudor Jebelean, Johannes Kepler University, Austria * Daniela Zaharie, West University of Timisoara, Romania Track Chairs ------------ * Symbolic Computation + James Davenport, University of Bath, UK + Stephen Watt, University of Western Ontario, Canada * Numerical Computing + Stephen Takacs, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria + Eva Kaslik, West University of Timisoara, Romania * Logic and Programming + Nikolaj Bjorner, Microsoft Research, USA + Laura Kovacs, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden * Artificial Intelligence + Andrei Petrovski, Robert Gordon University, UK + Daniela Zaharie, West University of Timisoara, Romania * Distributed Computing + Marc Frincu, West University of Timisoara, Romania + Karoly Bosa, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria * Advances in the Theory of Computing + Mircea Marin, West University of Timisoara, Romania + Gabriel Istrate, Institute e-Austria Timisoara, Romania Special sessions and workshops chair ------------------------------------ * Daniel Pop, West University of Timisoara, Romania Tutorial chair -------------- * Florin Fortis, West University of Timisoara, Romania Proceedings Chairs ------------------ * Tudor Jebelean, Johannes Kepler University, Austria * Daniela Zaharie, West University of Timisoara, Romania Local Committee Chairs ---------------------- * Isabela Dramnesc, West University of Timisoara, Romania * Silviu Panica, Institute e-Austria Timisoara, Romania * Monica Tirea, West University of Timisoara, Romania * Mihail Gaianu, West University of 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 registering the title and a tentative abstract (1/2 page, at maximum) of their paper. * In the second step the authors should submit the full paper. There are four categories of submissions: * Regular papers describing fully completed research results (up to 8 pages in the two-columns paper style). * System descriptions and experimental papers describing implementation results of experimental data, with a link to the reported results (up to 4 pages in the two-columns paper style). * Short papers, describing work in progress and/or preliminary results (up to 4 pages in the two-columns paper style). * Posters, describing ongoing work and research challenges of PhD students (up to 2 pages in the two-columns paper style). Both the abstract and the full paper should be submitted electronically through http://go.sparkpostmail1.com/f/a/J7qNc77g9LYeZ3hSOdWxdw~~/AAIhsgA~/RgRayKFLP0EIAaxyqLqcsBhXA3NwY1gEAAAAAFkGc2hhcmVkYQNuZXdgDTUyLjM4LjE5MS4yMTlIG3N5bmFzY18ybmRfY2FsbDRwYXBlcnNfdGVzdEIKAAZPHOZYIPyi21IMZGxAZGwua3Iub3JnUBNzeW5hc2MtY2ZwLTJuZC1jYWxsUQQAAAADRDVodHRwOi8vd3d3LmVhc3ljaGFpci5vcmcvY29uZmVyZW5jZXMvP2NvbmY9c3luYXNjMjAxN0cCe30~. Workshops --------- * Agents for Complex Systems (ACSys) * Data Representation for Learning, Living-systems and Signals (DRILLS) * Days of Computer Science (DACS) * Digital Image Processing for Medical and Automotive Industry (DIPMAI) * Geoinformatics (GeoInfo) * HPC for Science and Technology (HPC-ST) * Iterative Approximation of Fixed Points (IAFP) * Natural Computing and Applications (NCA) The papers for the above workshops should be submitted through http://go.sparkpostmail1.com/f/a/tJZUfA1c2PGgvCl3u_-pKA~~/AAIhsgA~/RgRayKFLP0EIAaxyqLqcsBhXA3NwY1gEAAAAAFkGc2hhcmVkYQNuZXdgDTUyLjM4LjE5MS4yMTlIG3N5bmFzY18ybmRfY2FsbDRwYXBlcnNfdGVzdEIKAAZPHOZYIPyi21IMZGxAZGwua3Iub3JnUBNzeW5hc2MtY2ZwLTJuZC1jYWxsUQQAAAADRDtodHRwczovL2Vhc3ljaGFpci5vcmcvY29uZmVyZW5jZXMvP2NvbmY9c3luYXNjMjAxN3dvcmtzaG9wc0cCe30~ All papers accepted at workshops will be included in the local electronic proceedings and the best presented papers will be included in the post proceedings published by Conference Publishing Services. ----------- SYNASC 2017 West University of Timisoara Department of Computer Science Bd. V. Parvan 4, 300223 Timisoara, Romania tel: + (40) 256 592195, +(40) 256 592389 fax: + (40) 256 592316, +(40) 256 592380 e-mail: synasc17 at synasc.ro From serge.autexier at dfki.de Tue Apr 4 11:40:00 2017 From: serge.autexier at dfki.de (Serge Autexier) Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2017 11:40:00 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [DL] Call for Workshops - 10th Conference on Intelligent Computer Mathematics - CICM 2017 - Deadline: April 17th, 2017 Message-ID: <20170404094000.BBD1E119C9D2@mbp-autexier.informatik.uni-bremen.de> Call for Workshop Proposals 10th Conference on Intelligent Computer Mathematics - CICM 2017 - July 17-21, 2017 University of Edinburgh, Scotland http://www.cicm-conference.org/2017 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Digital and computational solutions are becoming the prevalent means for the generation, communication, processing, storage and curation of mathematical information. Separate communities have developed to investigate and build computer based systems for computer algebra, automated deduction, and mathematical publishing as well as novel user interfaces. While all of these systems excel in their own right, their integration can lead to synergies offering significant added value. The Conference on Intelligent Computer Mathematics (CICM) offers a venue for discussing and developing solutions to the great challenges posed by the integration of these diverse areas. CICM has been held annually as a joint meeting since 2008, co-locating related conferences and workshops to advance work in these subjects. Previous meetings have been held in Birmingham (UK 2008), Grand Bend (Canada 2009), Paris (France 2010), Bertinoro (Italy 2011), Bremen (Germany 2012), Bath (UK 2013), Coimbra (Portugal 2014), Washington DC (USA 2015) and Bialystok (Poland 2016). This is the call for proposals for workshops to be held at CICM 2017 Edinburgh, Scotland, July 17-21, 2017. 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 Formal Mathematics for Mathematicians Intelligent Proof Search Mathematical user Interfaces Mathematics Information Retrieval OpenMath Pen-Based Mathematical Computation Programming languages for Mechanized Mathematics Systems Proof Engineering SCIEnce The Notion of Proof User Interfaces for Theorem Provers Proposals for workshops to be held at CICM 2017 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. 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 the CICM workshop chair Petros Papapanagiotou (pe.p at ed.ac.uk). Important dates: Deadline for proposal submissions: 17. April 2017 Workshop dates: 17-21. July 2017 More details on the conference are available from http://www.cicm-conference.org/2017 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From tarek.besold at googlemail.com Fri Apr 7 07:23:36 2017 From: tarek.besold at googlemail.com (Tarek R. Besold) Date: Fri, 7 Apr 2017 07:23:36 +0200 Subject: [DL] Call for Workshop Proposals: 3rd Joint Ontology Workshops (JOWO 2017), Bozen-Bolzano, Italy, September 21-23, 2017 Message-ID: <004501d2af5f$21ef4ad0$65cde070$@gmail.com> *********************************************************** JOWO 2017 - Call for Workshop Proposals http://iaoa.org/jowo/ *** Submission deadline: April 24, 2017 *** The International Association for Ontology and its Applications, IAOA, invites proposals for workshops to participate in the 3rd Joint Ontology Workshops, JOWO 2017, to be held in Bozen-Bolzano, Italy, on September 21-23, 2017. This year's JOWO so far includes ODLS (Ontologies and Data in Life Sciences), FOMI (Formal Ontology Meets Industry), SHAPES 4.0 (The Shape of Things), and the 3rd Image Schema Day. In addition to workshops, JOWO will be hosting meetings of IAOA Special Interest Groups and Technical Committees. Previous JOWO editions were held at FOIS 2016, Annecy, France, and at IJCAI 2015, Buenos Aires, Argentina. As in earlier years, all contributions to JOWO workshops will be published in a joint CEUR proceedings volume, compare http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1517/ for 2015, http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1660/ for 2016. Together, the JOWO workshops address a wide spectrum of topics related to ontology research, ranging from Cognitive Science to Knowledge Representation and Artificial Intelligence, Logic, Philosophy, and Linguistics. JOWO is especially suitable for interdisciplinary and innovative formats. Researchers and practitioners interested in the theory, practice, development and/or application of ontologies are invited to submit workshop proposals for review. We encourage several forms and length of workshops (the list is non-exhaustive): - workshops that focus on an established research area, including continuations of workshops that were already held in the past; - workshops that focus on emerging topics and applications, or on open research questions and challenges; - workshops that aim to create cross-disciplinary research fostering exchange of ideas between groups otherwise mostly disconnected. Important Dates - April 24, 2017 - Proposal submission deadline - May 2, 2017 - Acceptance notification - May 10, 2017 - JOWO workshops and events announced - Sept 21-23, 2017 - JOWO For those who wish to coordinate their dates with the other workshops, we suggest the following dates: - May 15, 2017 - Post the first call for participation - July 17, 2017 - Submission of contributions to workshops (in the form of abstract, short or long papers depending on the organisers' decision; this will be handled via a joint multi-track Easychair installation) - Sept 1, 2017 - Workshop paper acceptance notification - Sept 15, 2017 - Deadline for final camera ready copy to workshop organizer JOWO Workshops Requirements for Proposal Submission The workshop proposals should be submitted electronically as a single PDF by email to the JOWO Steering Committee ( jowo.steering at gmail.com). Each proposal should contain the following information: - A brief description of the scope and purpose of the workshop in relation to JOWO. - A preliminary workshop format and a proposed schedule for organising the workshop, including desired length for the workshop (0.5-day, 1-day, 1.5-day or 2-day) or a time slot specification (e.g. 4-6pm daily). Please indicate if you intend to have any activities other than contributed talks (e.g., invited talks, panels, or posters). - A list of related workshops held within the last few years, if any, and their relationship to the proposed workshop. - The names, email addresses, and URLs of the organising committee members, pointing out the primary contact for the proposed workshop. Selection process The selection of workshops for the final program will be based on the scientific/technical interest in the topics in relation to the expected JOWO audience, the quality of the proposal, and the balance and distinctness of topics across all workshops. Similar or overlapping proposals may be suggested to be merged with the organisers' consent. For all accepted proposals, JOWO will be responsible for providing publicity for the workshop series as a whole, for providing logistic support (including the EasyChair installation) and a meeting place for the workshop. Please send all inquiries to the JOWO Steering Committee ( jowo.steering at gmail.com). For the IAOA and JOWO: Stefano Borgo | Oliver Kutz | Frank Loebe | Fabian Neuhaus ************************************************************ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From aspocp at gmail.com Tue Apr 11 00:41:25 2017 From: aspocp at gmail.com (Organizers Aspocp) Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2017 17:41:25 -0500 Subject: [DL] ASPOCP 2017 -- Deadline Extension -- May 1 submission deadline Message-ID: [Apologies for multiple postings.] ============================================================ =================== CALL FOR PAPERS ASPOCP 2017 10th Workshop on Answer Set Programming and Other Computing Paradigms https://sites.google.com/site/aspocp2017 July 3, 2017 Affiliated with the 14th International Conference on Logic Programming and Nonmonotonic Reasoning Espoo, Finland July 3 - 6, 2017 ============================================================ =================== 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 led to a new method of computing answer sets using SAT solvers and techniques adapted from SAT. This has been a much studied relationship, and is currently extended towards satisfiability modulo theories (SMT). The relationship of ASP to other computing paradigms, such as constraint satisfaction, quantified Boolean formulas (QBF), Constraint Logic Programming (CLP), first-order logic (FOL), and FO(ID) is also the subject of active research. Consequently, new methods of computing answer sets are being developed based on relationships to these formalisms. 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) and constraint satisfaction (which recently led to the Constraint Answer Set Programming (CASP) research direction). A large body of general results regarding ASP is available and several efficient ASP solvers have been implemented. However, there are still significant challenges in applying ASP to real life applications, and more interest in relating ASP to other computing paradigms is emerging. This workshop will provide opportunities for researchers to identify these challenges and to exchange ideas for overcoming them. 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 knowledge compilation. - 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 13 pages in the Springer LNAI/LNCS format (excluding references). Paper submission will be handled electronically by means of the Easychair system. The submission page is available at . IMPORTANT DATES (tentative) Abstract and paper submission deadline: April 10, 2017 ASPOCP Notification: May 1, 2017 Camera-ready articles due: May 22, 2017 Workshop: July 3, 2017 PROCEEDINGS Accepted papers will be made available online. At least one author of each accepted paper needs to register for the workshop. A selection of extended and revised versions of accepted papers will appear in a special issue of Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence (http://www.springer.com/computer/ai/journal/10472), provided that a sufficient amount of high quality papers is collected. Such papers will go through a second formal selection process to meet the high quality standard of the journal. LOCATION AND REGISTRATION The workshop will be held in Espoo, Finland, collocated with the International Conference on Logic Programming and Nonmonotonic Reasoning (LPNMR) 2017. Please note that at least one co-author of each accepted paper will be required to register for the workshop. WORKSHOP CO-CHAIRS Bart Bogaerts, KU Leuven, Belgium Amelia Harrison, University of Texas at Austin, USA PROGRAM COMMITTEE (to be completed) Marcello Balduccini, Drexel University Bart Bogaerts (chair), KU Leuven Pedro Cabalar, University of Corunna Sandeep Chintabathina, Hawaii Pacific University Stefania Costantini, Dipartimento di Ingegneria e Scienze dell'Informazione e Matematica Univ. dell'Aquila Marc Denecker, KU Leuven Marina De Vos, University of Bath Esra Erdem, Sabanci University Wolfgang Faber, University of Huddersfield Cristina Feier, University of Bremen Johannes Klaus Fichte, Institute of Information Systems Vienna University of Technology Enrico Giunchiglia, DIST - Univ. Genova Amelia Harrison (chair), University of Texas Daniela Inclezan, Miami University Tomi Janhunen, Aalto University Joohyung Lee, Arizona State University Nicola Leone, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science - University of Calabria Vladimir Lifschitz, University of Texas Marco Maratea, DIBRIS University of Genova Alessandro Mosca, SIRIS Lab - Research division of SIRIS Academic SL Max Ostrowski, University of Potsdam David Pearce, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid Axel Polleres, Vienna University of Economics and Business Guillermo Simari, Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering Universidad Nacional del Sur in Bahia Blanca Mirek Truszczynski, Computer Science Department University of Kentucky Richard Watson, Texas Tech University Department of Computer Science Stefan Woltran, TU Wien Jia-Huai You, Department of Computing Science University of Alberta Edmonton Alberta Canada -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From geoff at cs.miami.edu Mon Apr 10 19:20:26 2017 From: geoff at cs.miami.edu (Geoff Sutcliffe) Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2017 13:20:26 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [DL] Summer School on Verification Technology Message-ID: <20170410172026.26B8B1214D1@mcclellan.cs.miami.edu> =============================================================================== First Call for Participation 10th International Summer School on Verification Technology, Systems & Applications http://www.mpi-inf.mpg.de/vtsa17/ The 10th edition of the Summer School on Verification Technology, Systems and Applications (VTSA) will be organized by the Max-Planck-Institut f??r Informatik Saarbr??cken in cooperation with the University of Li??ge, Inria Nancy - Grand Est, and the Universit?? du Luxembourg. The school will take place from July 31st to August 4th, 2017 on Saarland Informatics Campus, Saarbr??cken, Germany. The following speakers have accepted to give courses at VTSA 2017: - Rajeev Alur: Syntax-Guided Synthesis & Quantitative Policies over Streaming Data - Christel Baier: Probabilistic Model Checking - Hoon Hong: Symbolic Computation (Quantifier Elimination) - Andrew Reynolds: SMT Solvers for Verification and Synthesis - Thomas Wies: Introduction to Permission-Based Program Logics Participation is free (except for travel and accommodation costs) and open to anybody holding at least a bachelor degree or equivalent in computer science; it includes the lectures, daily coffee and lunchbreaks, and a school dinner. There is a limited number of free shared rooms on campus available for distribution by the selection committee. Please express your interest with your application. Attendance is limited to 40 participants. Please apply electronically by sending to fkunze at mpi-inf.mpg.de: - a one-page CV, - an application letter explaining your interest in the school and your experience in the area, - a copy of your bachelor certificate (or equivalent or a more significant certificate), - a short statement if you want to contribute to the student sessions. The deadline for application is June 1st, 2017. Notification of acceptance will be given by June 15th, 2017. Full details are available at http://www.mpi-inf.mpg.de/vtsa17/ The school is synchronized with the SC2 Summer School 2017, happening at the same time in the same place: http://www.sc-square.org/CSA/school/index.html From grbacci at cs.aau.dk Fri Apr 7 15:50:14 2017 From: grbacci at cs.aau.dk (Giorgio Bacci) Date: Fri, 7 Apr 2017 13:50:14 +0000 Subject: [DL] MFCS 2017: Second Call for Papers Message-ID: --------------------------------------------------------------- MFCS 2017 42nd International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science Aalborg, Denmark, August 21-25, 2017 http://mfcs2017.cs.aau.dk/ --------------------------------------------------------------- BACKGROUND: MFCS conference series is organized since 1972. Traditionally, the conference moved between the Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Poland, while since a few years ago, the conference travels around Europe (in 2013 it was held in Austria, then in 2014 in Hungary, in 2015, in Italy). In 2016 the conference returned to Poland and in 2017 it will be held in Denmark. MFCS is a high-quality venue for original research in all branches of theoretical computer science. The broad scope of the conference encourages interactions between researchers who might not meet at more specialized venues. MFCS 2017 consists of invited lectures and contributed talks, selected by an international program committee of researchers focusing on diverse areas of theoretical computer science. The conference will be accompanied by workshops. We encourage submission of original research papers in all areas of theoretical computer science, including (but not limited to) the following (alphabetically ordered): - algebraic and co-algebraic methods in computer science - algorithms and data structures - automata and formal languages - bioinformatics - combinatorics on words, trees, and other structures - computational complexity (structural and model-related) - computational geometry - computer-assisted reasoning - concurrency theory - cryptography and security - databases and knowledge-based systems - formal specifications and program development - foundations of computing - logics in computer science - mobile computing - models of computation - networks (incl. wireless, sensor, ad-hoc networks) - parallel and distributed computing - quantum computing - semantics and verification of programs - theoretical issues in artificial intelligence - types in computer science All submitted papers will be reviewed by the program committee. Accepted papers will be collected into the conference proceedings. IMPORTANT DATES: Abstract submission deadline: April 20th, 2017 (AoE) Paper submission deadline: April 24th, 2017 (AoE) Notification of authors: June 12th, 2017 (AoE) Camera-ready copies due: June 22nd, 2017 (AoE) Early registration deadline: June 23rd, 2017 (AoE) Late registration deadline: August 7th, 2017 (AoE; afterward, only on-site registration) Conference dates: August 21?25, 2017 PAPER SUBMISSION: Papers should be submitted electronically through EasyChair at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mfcs17 Submissions should be prepared according to the following instructions: Papers should be formatted using the LIPIcs style. Length: up to 12 pages (excluding references and an optional appendix) References and an optional appendix can go beyond the 12 pages (the appendix will be consulted at the discretion of the program committee). It is mandatory to use pdflatex No prior publication or simultaneous submission to other conferences or journals are allowed (but submissions to preprint repositories such as arXiv or workshops without formal published proceedings are allowed) PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Kim G. Larsen ? PC chair (Aalborg University, Denmark) Hans L. Bodlaender ? co-chair (Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands) Jean-Francois Raskin ?co-chair (Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium) Alexander Kurz (University of Leicester) Aniello Murano (Universit? degli Studi di Napoli Federico II) Arno Pauly (Universite Libre de Bruxelles) Axel Legay (IRISA/INRIA, Rennes) Bartek Klin (University of Warsaw) Bettina Speckmann (TU Eindhoven) Christof L?ding (RWTH Aachen) Damien Pous (CNRS - ENS Lyon) Dana Pardubska (Comenius University) Dexter Kozen (Cornell University) Doron Peled (Bar Ilan University) Franck Cassez (Macquarie University) Hans Raj Tiwary (Charles University) Jiri Wiedermann (Academy of Sciences) J?rg Rothe (Universit?t D?sseldorf) Kasper Green Larsen (MADALGO, Department of Computer Science, Aarhus University) Lars Birkedal (Dept. of Computer Science, Aarhus University) Luca Moscardelli (University of Chieti-Pescara) Manfred Droste (Leipzig University, Institute of Computer Science) Manuel Bodirsky (TU Dresden) Martin Lange (University of Kassel) Matteo Mio (CNRS/ENS-Lyon) Patricia Bouyer (LSV, CNRS & ENS Cachan, Universit? Paris Saclay) Pawel Gawrychowski (University of Haifa) Peter Van Emde Boas (ILLC-FNWI-Universiteit van Amsterdam (emeritus) Petteri Kaski (Helsinki Institute for Information Technology HIIT, Department of Computer Science, Aalto University) Pierre-Yves Schobbens (University of Namur) Prakash Panangaden (McGill University) Radu Mardare (Aalborg University) Raffaella Gentilini (University of Perugia) Ramamohan Paturi (University of California, San Diego) Rocco De Nicola (IMT - School for Advanced Studies Lucca) Rod Downey (Victoria University) Roland Meyer (TU Braunschweig) Sagi Snir (Univ. of Haifa) Sam Staton (Oxford University) S?awomir Lasota (Warsaw University) Stephan Kreutzer (Technical University Berlin) Tarmo Uustalu (Institute of Cybernetics, Tallinn University of Technology) Udi Boker (Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) Herzliya) Vojtech Forejt (Oxford University) LOCAL ORGANIZERS, Aalborg University Giorgio Bacci Giovanni Bacci Radu Mardare Jiri Srba Rikke W. 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Analogy research often focuses on modeling human cognitive processes, the structural alignment between a case/source and target, and adaptation/abstraction of the analogical source content. While CBR research also deals with alignment and adaptation, the field tends to focus more on retrieval, case-base maintenance, and pragmatic solutions to real-world problems. However, despite their obvious overlap in research goals and approaches, cross communication and collaboration between these areas has been progressively diminishing. CBR and Analogy researchers stand to benefit greatly from increased exposure to each other?s work and greater cross-pollination of ideas. The objective of this workshop is to promote such communication by bringing together researchers from the two areas, to foster new collaborative endeavors, to stimulate new ideas and avoid reinventing old ones. == Topics of interest == Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: + General analogical reasoning techniques --- Adaptation --- Alignment-based explanation/evaluation --- Analogical distance --- Analogical proportions in formal concept analysis --- Analogical proportions in mathematical structures --- Analogy in numerical settings --- Compound analogy --- Constructing alignments and mappings --- Feature-based models of analogy and analogical reasoning --- Logic-based models of analogy and analogical reasoning --- Modality of representation of case/analogical source --- The role of expertise in analogical reasoning --- Segmenting and constructing cases for alignment --- Solution-based vs. Problem-based approaches --- Structural models of analogy and analogical reasoning --- Types of analogical transfer/mapping --- Analogical retrieval + Analogical retrieval --- Data mining techniques --- Data sources for cases/analogies --- Feature-based vs. structural retrieval --- Indexing --- Repository-based approaches + Analogical generalization --- Analogical abstraction --- CBR and Analogy using generalizations or schemas --- Constructing generalizations --- Cross-discipline translation of concepts/vocabulary + Applications: Computational Analogy for --- Cognitive Modeling --- Computational Creativity --- Computational Design --- Decision-making for robotics or virtual agents --- Knowledge capture + Frontiers in Computational Analogy --- Assessing models of Computational Analogy --- Connections to Professional Practice in Engineering and Design --- Hybrid models --- Theoretical foundations of Computational Analogy == Organizing Committee == - Fadi Badra (badra at univ-paris13.fr), Universit? Paris 13, Paris (France) (Co-chair) - Tarek Besold (Tarek.Besold at uni-bremen.de), University of Bremen (Germany) (Co-chair) - Joseph Blass (joeblass at u.northwestern.edu), Northwestern University (USA) - Tesca Fitzgerald (tesca.fitzgerald at cc.gatech.edu), Georgia Institute of Technology (USA) - Vincent Letard (vincent.letard at limsi.fr), LIMSI (France) == Participation == The workshop will be held as part of the ICCBR 2017 conference in Trondheim, Norway (June 26-28th, 2017). The workshop is open to all interested conference participants. We welcome longer submissions (up to 10 pages), as well as shorter submissions for work in progress or position papers. Papers will be reviewed by qualified reviewers drawn from the workshop?s Program Committee, and the Program Committee will select amongst the submitted papers for oral presentation. We also encourage those who do not want to submit a paper to attend, as one of the primary goals of the workshop is to foster greater communication and cross-pollination of ideas amongst Computational Analogy and CBR researchers. == Submissions == Paper submissions should be formatted using the ICCBR Conference format, but with a maximum of 10 pages in length (including references). Shorter submissions (max 5 pages), such as work in progress or position papers, are also welcome. Authors will be required to submit their papers through the workshop submission website. Workshop submission website : https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cawiccbr17 == Important dates == Submission deadline?: April 24th, 2017 Notification of acceptance?: May 8th, 2017 Camera-ready paper?: May 29th, 2017 From peter.schuller at marmara.edu.tr Tue Apr 11 13:38:42 2017 From: peter.schuller at marmara.edu.tr (Peter =?iso-8859-1?q?Sch=FCller?=) Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2017 14:38:42 +0300 (+03) Subject: [DL] [LPNMR 2017 Workshops] Extended Deadline Message-ID: <20170411113842.732152C01CB@omsievews> *** DEADLINE FOR WORKSHOP PAPER SUBMISSION EXTENDED TO May 1 *** Joint Call for LPNMR Workshop Papers --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 14th International Conference on Logic Programming and Non-monotonic Reasoning LPNMR 2017 http://lpnmr2017.aalto.fi/ Hanasaari, Espoo, Finland July 3-6, 2017 All workshops co-located with LPNMR 2017 have a new submission deadline, May 1st, 2017. - Answer Set Programming and Other Computing Paradigms (ASPOCP) Organizers: Bart Bogaerts and Amelia Harrison - Defeasible and Ampliative Reasoning (DARe) Organizers: Richard Booth, Giovanni Casini, and Ivan Varzinczak - Grounding and Transformations for Theories with Variables (GTTV) Organizers: Simona Perri and Shahab Tasharrofi - Knowledge Representation and Planning for Robotics and Autonomous Systems (KPRAS) Organizers: Fangkai Yang and Shiqi Zhang - Practical Aspects of Answer Set Programming (PAoASP) Organizers: Martin Gebser, Marco Maratea, and Francesco Ricca - User-Oriented Logic Paradigms (IULP) Organizers: Stefan Ellmauthaler and Claudia Schulz Please refer to each workshop homepage for the specific details about the submission. The links are available at http://lpnmr2017.aalto.fi/workshops.html For questions, please contact individual workshop organizers or the workshop chair, Joohyung Lee (joolee at asu.edu). (Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this email. Please distribute to interested parties.) From pr-aksw at informatik.uni-leipzig.de Thu Apr 13 09:34:59 2017 From: pr-aksw at informatik.uni-leipzig.de (Sebastian Hellmann) Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2017 09:34:59 +0200 Subject: [DL] SEMANTiCS 2017, Amsterdam, Sep 11-14, open Calls Message-ID: <18554806-1a23-57ce-78df-3ad86997200c@informatik.uni-leipzig.de> Apologies for cross-posting Call for Papers, Posters & Workshops and Tutorials SEMANTiCS 2017 - The Linked Data Conference 13th International Conference on Semantic Systems Amsterdam, Netherlands September 11 -14, 2017 http://2017.semantics.cc For details please go to: https://2017.semantics.cc/calls Important Dates (Research & Innovation Track): *Abstract Submission Deadline:May 17, 2017 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time) *Paper Submission Deadline: May 24, 2017 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time) *Notification of Acceptance: July 3, 2017 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time) *Camera-Ready Paper: August 14, 2017 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time) Important Dates (Posters & Demos Track): *Submission Deadline: July 10, 2017 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time) *Notification of Acceptance: August 10, 2017 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time) *Camera-Ready Paper: August 18, 2017 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time) Important Dates (Workshops & Tutorials): *Proposals for Tutorials and Workshops without Call for Papers: June 30, 2017 (23:59 Hawaii Time) *Notification of Acceptance: April 13, 2017 (23:59 Hawaii Time) *Workshop Website/Call for Papers Online: April 30, 2017 (23:59 Hawaii Time) *Camera-Ready Proceedings: September 4, 2017 (23:59 Hawaii Time) *SEMANTiCS 2017 Workshop & Tutorial Days: September 11 and 14, 2017 Important Dates (Industry & Use Case Presentations): *Submission Deadline June 23, 2017 *Notification of Acceptance July 4, 2017 *Presentation Ready August 15, 2017 As in the previous years, SEMANTiCS?17 proceedings will be published by ACM ICPS (pending) and CEUR WS proceedings. SEMANTiCS 2017 will especially welcome submissions for the following hot topics: *Data Science (special track, see below) *Web Semantics, Linked (Open) Data & schema.org *Corporate Knowledge Graphs *Knowledge Integration and Language Technologies *Data Quality Management *Economics of Data, Data Services and Data Ecosystems Following the success of previous years, the ?horizontals? (research) and ?verticals? (industries) below are of interest for the conference: Horizontals: *Enterprise Linked Data & Data Integration *Knowledge Discovery & Intelligent Search *Business Models, Governance & Data Strategies *Semantics in Big Data *Text Analytics *Data Portals & Knowledge Visualization *Semantic Information Management *Document Management & Content Management *Terminology, Thesaurus & Ontology Management *Smart Connectivity, Networking & Interlinking *Smart Data & Semantics in IoT *Semantics for IT Safety & Security *Semantic Rules, Policies & Licensing *Community, Social & Societal Aspects Data Science Special Track Horizontals: *Large-Scale Data Processing (stream processing, handling large-scale graphs) *Data Analytics (Machine Learning, Predictive Analytics, Network Analytics) *Communicating Data (Data Visualization, UX & Interaction Design, Crowdsourcing) *Cross-cutting Issues (Ethics, Privacy, Security, Provenance) Verticals: *Industry & Engineering *Life Sciences & Health Care *Public Administration *e-Science *Digital Humanities *Galleries, Libraries, Archives & Museums (GLAM) *Education & eLearning *Media & Data Journalism *Publishing, Marketing & Advertising *Tourism & Recreation *Financial & Insurance Industry *Telecommunication & Mobile Services *Sustainable Development: Climate, Water, Air, Ecology *Energy, Smart Homes & Smart Grids *Food, Agriculture & Farming *Safety, Security & Privacy *Transport, Environment & Geospatial From tschneider at informatik.uni-bremen.de Thu Apr 13 16:44:13 2017 From: tschneider at informatik.uni-bremen.de (Thomas Schneider) Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2017 16:44:13 +0200 Subject: [DL] TIME 2017 Final Call for Papers Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------- TIME 2017 24th International Symposium on Temporal Representation and Reasoning Mons (Belgium), 16-18 October 2017 Final Call for Papers http://informatique.umons.ac.be/time2017/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Aims and scope -------------- TIME 2017 aims to bring together researchers interested in reasoning about temporal aspects of information in any area of Computer Science. The symposium, currently in its 24th edition, has a wide remit and intends to cater to both theoretical aspects and well-founded applications. One of the key aspects of the symposium is its interdisciplinarity, with attendees from distinct areas such as artificial intelligence, database management, logic and verification, and beyond. The symposium will encompass three tracks on temporal representation and reasoning in (1) Artificial Intelligence, (2) Databases and (3) Logic and Verification. The Artificial Intelligence track includes, but is not limited to: - temporal aspects of agent- and policy-based systems - spatial and temporal reasoning - reasoning about actions and change - planning and planning languages - ontologies of time and space-time - belief and uncertainty in temporal knowledge - temporal learning and discovery - time in problem solving (e.g. diagnosis, scheduling) - time in human-machine interaction - temporal information extraction - time in natural language processing - spatio-temporal knowledge representation systems - spatio-temporal ontologies for the semantic web - constraint-based temporal reasoning - temporal preferences The Database track includes, but is not limited to: - temporal data models and query languages - temporal query processing and indexing - temporal data mining - time series data management - stream data management - spatio-temporal data management, including moving objects - data currency and expiration - indeterminate and imprecise temporal data - temporal constraints - temporal aspects of business processes and ECA systems - real-time databases - time-dependent security policies - privacy in temporal and spatio-temporal data - temporal aspects of multimedia databases - temporal aspects of e-services and web applications - temporal aspects of distributed systems - temporal aspects and big data - temporal aspects in NoSQL databases - temporal data warehouses - temporal healthcare databases and warehouses - time series analysis and mining - semistructured temporal data - novel applications of temporal database management - novel visualizations and interfaces for temporal data - experiences with real applications The Logic and Verification track includes, but is not limited to: - specification and verification of systems - verification of web applications - synthesis and execution - model-checking algorithms and implementations - verification of infinite-state systems - reasoning about transition systems - temporal architectures - temporal logics for distributed systems - temporal logics for games and open systems - temporal logics of knowledge - hybrid systems and real-time logics - cyber-physical systems - tools and practical systems - temporal issues in security Submission and publication -------------------------- Submissions of high-quality papers describing research results are solicited. Submitted papers should contain original, previously unpublished content, should be written in English, and must not be simultaneously submitted for publication elsewhere. Submitted papers will be refereed for quality, correctness, originality, and relevance. Detailed submission instructions can be found on the website of TIME 2017: http://informatique.umons.ac.be/time2017/ Accepted papers will be presented at the symposium and included in the proceedings, which will be published by LIPIcs-Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics, which is a series of high-quality peer-reviewed conference proceedings, published according to the principle of OpenAccess. At least one author of each accepted paper must register at the conference and present the paper. Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit an extended version of their contribution to a special issue of the journal Theoretical Computer Science. Important Dates --------------- Abstracts due: May 8, 2017 Full papers due: May 12, 2017 Notification: June 27, 2017 Final version due: July 14, 2017 Symposium: October 16-18, 2017 Program Committee Chairs ------------------------ Sven Schewe, University of Liverpool, UK Thomas Schneider, University of Bremen, Germany Jef Wijsen, University of Mons, Belgium Program Committee ----------------- - Johann Eder (Alpen Adria Universit?t Klagenfurt, Austria) - Fabio Grandi (University of Bologna, Italy) - Ernst Moritz Hahn (State Key Laboratory of Computer Science, Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China) - Michael R. Hansen (Technical University of Denmark, Denmark) - Fredrik Heintz (Link?ping University, Sweden) - Marcin Jurdzinski (University of Warwick, UK) - Roman Kontchakov (Birkbeck, University of London, UK) - Jan Kret?nsk? (Technical University of Munich, Germany) - Bart Kuijpers (Hasselt University, Belgium) - Martin Lange (University of Kassel, Germany) - Martin Leucker (University of L?beck, Germany) - Cl?udia Nalon (University of Bras?lia, Brazil) - Andrea Orlandini (National Research Council of Italy ISTC-CNR, Italy) - Doron Peled (Bar Ilan University, Israel) - Roberto Posenato (Universit? degli Studi di Verona, Italy) - Jean-Fran?ois Raskin (Universit? Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium) - Peter Z. Revesz (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA) - Mark Reynolds (The Univeristy of Western Australia, Australia) - Sven Schewe (University of Liverpool, UK) - Renate A. Schmidt (University of Manchester, UK) - Thomas Schneider (University of Bremen, Germany) - Paolo Terenziani (University Piemonte Orientale, Italy) - David Toman (University of Waterloo, Canada) - Kristian Torp (Aalborg University, Denmark) - Alejandro A. Vaisman (Instituto Tecnol?gico de Buenos Aires, Argentina) - Kristen B. Venable (Tulane University, USA) - Jef Wijsen (University of Mons, Belgium) - Stefan W?lfl (University of Freiburg, Germany) - Martin Zimmermann (Saarland University, Germany) Invited Speakers ---------------- Alessandro Artale, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy Javier Esparza, Technical University of Munich, Germany Sheila McIlraith, University of Toronto, Canada Venue ----- TIME 2017 will take place in Mons, a beautiful city in the French-speaking part of Belgium, and a former European Capital of Culture. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 455 bytes Desc: Message signed with OpenPGP using GPGMail URL: From annalisa.gentile at ibm.com Tue Apr 18 07:58:01 2017 From: annalisa.gentile at ibm.com (annalisa gentile) Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2017 05:58:01 +0000 Subject: [DL] [CfP] ISWC 2017 - call for contributions In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From mfinger at ime.usp.br Tue Apr 18 13:40:55 2017 From: mfinger at ime.usp.br (Marcelo Finger) Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2017 08:40:55 -0300 Subject: [DL] FroCoS 2017: Final Call For Papers Message-ID: *** Apologies for multiple copies, please redistribute *** FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS FroCoS 2017 11th International Symposium on Frontiers of Combining Systems Brasilia, Brazil September 27-29th, 2017 http://frocos2017.cic.unb.br Submission Deadlines: 24th April 2017 (abstracts) 28th April 2017 (full papers) GENERAL INFORMATION The 11th International Symposium on Frontiers of Combining Systems (FroCoS 2017) will be held in Brasilia, Brazil, between September 27 to September 29, 2017. Its main goal is to disseminate and promote progress in research areas related to the development of techniques for the integration, combination, and modularization of formal systems together with their analysis. FroCoS 2017 will be co-located with the 26th International Conference on Automated Reasoning with Analytic Tableaux and Related Methods (TABLEAUX 2017) and the 8th International Conference on Interactive Theorem?Proving (ITP 2017). The local organization of all events will be organised by Claudia Nalon (USB, Brazil), Daniele Nantes (UnB, Brazil), Elaine Pimentel (UFRN, Brazil) and Joa?o Marcos (UFRN, Brazil). 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 systems for selected tasks. To be usable in practice, these specialized systems must be combined with each other and integrated into general purpose systems. This has led---in many research areas---to the development of techniques and methods for the combination and integration of dedicated formal systems, as well as for their modularization and analysis. The International Symposium on Frontiers of Combining Systems (FroCoS) traditionally focusses on these types of research questions and activities. Like its predecessors, FroCoS 2017 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 higher-order, first-order, temporal, modal, description or other non-classical logics); * combination and integration methods in SAT and SMT solving; * combination of decision procedures, satisfiability procedures, constraint solving techniques, or logical frameworks; * combinations and modularity in ontologies; * integration of equational and other theories into deductive systems; * 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; * integration of data structures into constraint logic programming and deduction; * combinations and modularity in term rewriting; * applications of methods and techniques to the verification and analysis of information systems. INVITED SPEAKERS - Katalin Bimb? (University of Alberta, Canada) (joint with TABLEAUX and ITP) - Jasmin Blanchette (Inria and LORIA, Nancy, France) (joint with TABLEAUX and ITP) - Cezary Kaliszyk (University of Innsbruck, Austria) (joint with TABLEAUX and ITP) - Cesare Tinelli (University of Iowa, USA) - Renata Wassermann (University of S?o Paulo, Brazil) PUBLICATION DETAILS The proceedings of the symposium will be published in the Springer LNAI/LNCS series. PAPER SUBMISSIONS The program committee seeks high-quality submissions describing original work, written in English, not 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 in total, including references and figures. Papers must be edited in LaTeX using the llncs style and must be submitted electronically as PDF files via the EasyChair system at the following address: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=frocos2017 For each accepted paper, at least one of the authors is required to attend the symposium and present the work. Prospective authors must register a title and an abstract five days before the paper submission deadline. Further information about paper submissions is available at the conference website that can be found at the beginning of this call for papers. WORKSHOPS AND TUTORIALS Proposals for Workshops and Tutorial sessions have been solicited in a separate call, which can be found at http://frocos2017.cic.unb.br/#cfw. There are co-located events, described at http://frocos2017.cic.unb.br/#colocated . IMPORTANT DATES 24th April 2017: Abstract submission deadline 28th April 2017: Full paper submission deadline 9th June 2017: Author notification 23rd June 2017: Camera-ready version due September 27-29, 2017: FroCoS Conference PROGRAM COMMITTEE Carlos Areces, FaMAF - Universidad Nacional de C?rdoba Alessandro Artale, Free University of Bolzano-Bozen Mauricio Ayala-Rincon, Universidade de Brasilia Franz Baader, TU Dresden Peter Baumgartner, National ICT Australia Christoph Benzm?ller, Freie Universit?t Berlin Thomas Bolander, Technical University of Denmark Marcelo Coniglio, State University of Campinas Clare Dixon, University of Liverpool [co-chair] Fran?ois Fages, Inria Paris-Rocquencourt Marcelo Finger, Universidade de Sao Paulo [co-chair] Pascal Fontaine, LORIA, INRIA, University of Lorraine Didier Galmiche, LORIA, University of Lorraine Vijay Ganesh, University of Waterloo Silvio Ghilardi, Universit? degli Studi di Milano J?rgen Giesl, RWTH Aachen Laura Giordano, Universit? del Piemonte Orientale Agi Kurucz, Kings College, London Till Mossakowski, Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg Cl?udia Nalon, University of Bras?lia Elaine Pimentel, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte Silvio Ranise, Fondazione Bruno Kessler-Irst Christophe Ringeissen, LORIA-INRIA Uli Sattler, University of Manchester Roberto Sebastiani, University of Trento Guillermo Simari, Universidad Nacional del Sur in Bahia Blanca Viorica Sofronie-Stokkermans, University Koblenz-Landau Andrzej Szalas, University of Warsaw Ren? Thiemann, University of Innsbruck Ashish Tiwari, SRI International Christoph Weidenbach, Max Planck Institute for Informatics https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?zx=7uehayvbn76z#inbox -- Marcelo Finger Departament of Computer Science, IME University of Sao Paulo http://www.ime.usp.br/~mfinger From mkn at fct.unl.pt Thu Apr 13 23:04:29 2017 From: mkn at fct.unl.pt (Matthias Knorr) Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2017 22:04:29 +0100 Subject: [DL] KRR@EPIA17 -- Call for Papers -- Extended Deadline Message-ID: *** Apologies for multiple copies *** CALL FOR PAPERS Knowledge Representation and Reasoning 18th EPIA Conference on Artificial Intelligence Porto, Portugal September, 5-8, 2017 New Submission Deadline: May 1, 2017 The aim of this track is to gather and discuss novel research in the area of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning, both for theoretical results as well as implemented systems and applications. EPIA is a well-established international conference on Artificial Intelligence, this year to be held in the beautiful city of Porto. The scientific program is composed of thematic tracks. Submitted papers will be subject to a rigorous revision process and accepted papers will be published in Springer's Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI). Awards for the best paper and the best application paper will be granted. Topics of interest for the KRR track include, but are not limited to: ? Action, change, causality and causal reasoning ? Argumentation ? Belief revision and update, belief merging ? Commonsense reasoning ? Constraint programming and KRR ? Contextual reasoning ? Description logics ? Diagnosis, abduction, explanation finding ? Inconsistency- and exception tolerant reasoning, paraconsistent logics ? KR and autonomous agents: intelligent agents, cognitive robotics, multi-agent systems ? KR and decision making, game theory, social choice ? KR and machine learning, inductive logic programming, knowledge discovery and acquisition ? KR and stream reasoning ? KR and the Web, Semantic Web ? Logic programming, answer set programming, constraint logic programming ? Non-monotonic logics, default logics, conditional logics ? Ontology formalisms and models ? Preferences: modeling and representation, preference-based reasoning ? Reasoners and solvers: SAT solvers, theorem provers, QBF solvers, and others ? Reasoning about knowledge and belief, dynamic epistemic logic, epistemic and doxastic logics ? Spatial reasoning and temporal reasoning, qualitative reasoning ? Uncertainty, representations of vagueness, many-valued and fuzzy logics Organizing Committee Ricardo Gon?alves, NOVA LINCS, Lisbon, Portugal Minh Dao-Tran, KBS, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Matthias Knorr, NOVA LINCS, Lisbon, Portugal J?rg P?hrer, ISG-CSI, Leipzig University, Germany Program Committee Slim Abdennadher, German University in Cairo, Egypt Salvador Abreu, University of Evora, Portugal Gerhard Brewka, Leipzig University, Germany Pedro Cabalar, Corunna University, Spain Esra Erdem, Sabanci University, Turkey Cristina Feier, University of Bremen, Germany Sarah Alice Gaggl, Technische Universit?t Dresden, Germany Martin Homola, Comenius University, Slovakia Daniela Inclezan, Miami University, USA Adila A. Krisnadhi, Wright State University & Universitas Indonesia, USA/Indonesia Joao Leite, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal Francesca Alessandra Lisi, Universit? degli Studi di Bari ?Aldo Moro?, Italy Ines Lynce, University of Lisbon, Portugal Joao Marques-Silva, University of Lisbon, Portugal Loizos Michael, Open University of Cyprus, Cyprus David Rajaratnam, University of New South Wales, Australia Orkunt Sabuncu, TED University, Ankara, Turkey Peter Sch?ller, Marmara University, Turkey Mantas Simkus, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Daria Stepanova, Max Planck Institute for Informatics, Germany Hannes Strass, Leipzig University, Germany Matthias Thimm, Universit?t Koblenz-Landau, Germany Ivan Varzinczak, Universit? d?Artois, France Carlos Viegas Dam?sio, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal Antonius Weinzierl, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Stefan Woltran, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Guohui Xiao, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy ?zg?r L?tf? ?zcep, University of L?beck, Germany For more info on the track: https://web.fe.up.pt/~epia2017/thematic-tracks/krr/ Regarding the submission: https://web.fe.up.pt/~epia2017/call-for-papers/ For more info on EPIA itself, such as the program, invited speakers and registration, please refer to: https://web.fe.up.pt/~epia2017/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Renate.Schmidt at manchester.ac.uk Thu Apr 13 23:33:16 2017 From: Renate.Schmidt at manchester.ac.uk (Renate Schmidt) Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2017 22:33:16 +0100 Subject: [DL] TABLEAUX 2017 DEADLINE REMINDER Message-ID: <20170413100851.587b4c35@renate-vb.localnet> FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS TABLEAUX 2017 26th International Conference on Automated Reasoning with Analytic Tableaux and Related Methods University of Brasilia, Brazil September 25-28, 2017 http://tableaux2017.cic.unb.br/ QUICK REMINDER: The deadline for papers is 25 April (12 days from today) and the deadline for abstract is 18 April (next Tuesday). GENERAL INFORMATION TABLEAUX is the main international conference at which research on all aspects, theoretical foundations, implementation techniques, systems development and applications, of the mechanization of tableau-based reasoning and related methods is presented. As the first TABLEAUX workshop was held in Lautenbach in 1992, this year's conference will include special events celebrating 25 years of TABLEAUX. The conference will be held in Brasilia from 25-28 September 2017. It will be co-located with both the 11th International Symposium on Frontiers of Combining Systems (FroCoS 2017) and the 8th International Conference on Interactive Theorem Proving (ITP 2017). TOPICS Tableau methods offer a convenient and flexible set of tools for automated reasoning in classical logic, extensions of classical logic, and a large number of non-classical logics. For large groups of logics, tableau methods can be generated automatically. Areas of application include verification of software and computer systems, deductive databases, knowledge representation and its required inference engines, teaching, and system diagnosis. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: * tableau methods for classical and non-classical logics (including first-order, higher-order, modal, temporal, description, hybrid, intuitionistic, substructural, relevance, non-monotonic logics) and their proof-theoretic foundations; * related methods (SMT, model elimination, model checking, connection methods, resolution, BDDs, translation approaches); * sequent calculi and natural deduction calculi for classical and non-classical logics, as tools for proof search and proof representation; * flexible, easily extendable, light weight methods for theorem proving; * novel types of calculi for theorem proving and verification in classical and non-classical logics; * systems, tools, implementations, empirical evaluations and applications (provers, logical frameworks, model checkers, ...); * implementation techniques (data structures, efficient algorithms, performance measurement, extensibility, ...); * extensions of tableau procedures with conflict-driven learning, generation of proofs; compact (or humanly readable) representation of proofs; * decision procedures, theoretically optimal procedures; * applications of automated deduction to mathematics, software development, verification, deductive and temporal databases, knowledge representation, ontologies, fault diagnosis or teaching. We also welcome papers describing applications of tableau procedures to real world examples. Such papers should be tailored to the tableau community and should focus on the role of reasoning, and logical aspects of the solution. CELEBRATING 25 YEARS To celebrate 25 years TABLEAUX the conference will include a special session of invited talks by Wolfgang Bibel and Reiner Haehnle. INVITED SPEAKERS: Wolfgang Bibel Technische Universitaet Darmstadt, Germany (anniversary session) Carlos Areces FaMAF - Universidad Nacional de Cordoba, Argentina Katalin Bimbo University of Alberta, Canada (with FroCoS and ITP) Jasmin Blanchette Inria and LORIA, Nancy, France (with FroCoS and ITP) Reiner Haehnle Technische Universitaet Darmstadt, Germany (anniversary session) Cezary Kaliszyk Universitaet Innsbruck, Austria (with FroCoS and ITP) WORKSHOPS AND TUTORIALS There will be a three-day programme of four workshops and four tutorials from 23-25 September. Workshops: 12th Logical and Semantic Frameworks with Applications (LSFA 2017) Sandra Alves, Renata Wassermann, Flavio L. C. de Moura 23 and 24 September 2017 Proof eXchange for Theorem Proving (PxTP) Catherine Dubois, Bruno Woltzenlogel Paleo 23 and 24 September 2017 EPS - Encyclopedia of Proof Systems Giselle Reis, Bruno Woltzenlogel Paleo 24 and 25 September 2017 DaLi - Dynamic Logic: new trends and applications Mario Benevides, Alexandre Madeira 24 September 2017 Tutorials: Proof Compressions and the conjecture NP = PSPACE Lew Gordeev, Edward Hermann Haeusler 23 September 2017 General methods in proof theory for modal and substructural logics Bjoern Lellmann, Revantha Ramanayake 24 September 2017 From proof systems to complexity bounds Anupam Das 25 September 2017 PVS for Computer Scientists Cesar Munoz, Mauricio Ayala-Rincon, Mariano Moscato 25 September 2017 Details are published in separate calls and on the conference website. POSTER SESSION There will be a joint poster session for TABLEAUX 2017, FroCos 2017, and ITP 2017. The session is intended for descriptions of work in progress, student projects and relevant research being published elsewhere. The deadline for posters submission is June 15, 2017. More details can be found at http://tableaux2017.cic.unb.br/#postersession. PUBLICATION DETAILS The conference proceedings will published in the Springer LNAI/LNCS series, as in previous editions. SUBMISSIONS Submissions are invited in two categories: A Research papers, which describe original theoretical research, original algorithms, or applications, with length up to 15 pages. B System descriptions, with length up to 9 pages. Submissions will be reviewed by the PC, possibly with the help of external reviewers, taking into account readability, relevance and originality. For category A, theoretical results and algorithms must be original, and not submitted for publication elsewhere. Submissions will be reviewed taking into account correctness, theoretical elegance, and possible implementability. For category B submissions, a working implementation must be accessible via the internet, which includes sources. The aim of a system description is to make the system available in such a way that users can use it, understand it, and build on it. Accepted papers in both categories will be published in the conference proceedings. Papers must be edited in LaTeX using the llncs style and must be submitted electronically as PDF files via the EasyChair system: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=tableaux2017. For all accepted papers at least one author is required to attend the conference and present the paper. A paper title and a short abstract of about 100 words must be submitted before the paper submission deadline. Further information about paper submissions will be made available at the conference website. Be aware that neither plagiarism, nor self-plagiarism, nor duplicate publication is acceptable. Formatting instructions and the LNCS style files can be obtained via http://www.springer.com/br/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines BEST PAPER AWARD The TABLEAUX 2017 Best Paper Award will be presented to the best submission nominated and chosen by the Program Committee among the accepted papers. The eligibility criteria will place emphasis on the originality and significance of the contribution, but readability and the overall technical quality, including correctness and completeness of results, will also be considered. The TABLEAUX Best Paper Award was established in 2015 and is a permanent initiative of TABLEAUX. IMPORTANT DATES 18 Apr 2017 Abstract submission 25 Apr 2017 Paper submission 8 Jun 2017 Notification of paper decisions 3 Jul 2017 Camera-ready papers due 23-25 Sep 2017 Workshops & Tutorials 25-28 Sep 2017 TABLEAUX Conference PROGRAM COMMITTEE Peter Baumgartner National ICT Australia, Canberra Maria Paola Bonacina Universita degli Studi di Verona Laura Bozzelli Universidad Politecnica de Madrid Torben Brauener Roskilde University Serenella Cerrito Ibisc, Universite d'Evry Val d'Essonne Agata Ciabattoni Technische Universitaet Wien Clare Dixon University of Liverpool Pascal Fontaine LORIA, INRIA, Universite de Lorraine Didier Galmiche LORIA, Universite de Lorraine Martin Giese Universitetet i Oslo Laura Giordano DISIT, Universita del Piemonte Orientale Rajeev Gore The Australian National University Volker Haarslev Concordia University George Metcalfe Universitaet Bern Angelo Montanari Universita degli Studi di Udine Barbara Morawska Technische Universitaet Dresden Boris Motik University of Oxford Leonardo de Moura Microsoft Research Neil Murray SUNY at Albany Claudia Nalon Universidade de Brasilia Linh Anh Nguyen Uniwersytet Warszawski Hans de Nivelle Uniwersytet Wroclawski Nicola Olivetti LSIS, Aix-Marseille Universite Jens Otten Universitetet i Oslo Valeria de Paiva Nuance Communications Nicolas Peltier Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Laboratoire d'Informatique de Grenoble Elaine Pimentel Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte Giselle Reis Carnegie Mellon University-Qatar Philipp Ruemmer Uppsala Universitet Katsuhiko Sano Hokkaido University Renate Schmidt The University of Manchester Cesare Tinelli The University of Iowa Alwen Tiu Nanyang Technological University David Toman University of Waterloo Josef Urban Ceske vysoke uceni technicke v Praze LOCAL CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION COMMITTEE Claudia Nalon, Universidade de Brasilia, Brazil Daniele Nantes Sobrinho, Universidade de Brasilia, Brazil Elaine Pimentel, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil Joao Marcos, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil CONFERENCE CHAIR Claudia Nalon, University of Brasilia, Brazil PC CHAIRS Claudia Nalon, University of Brasilia, Brazil Renate Schmidt, The University of Manchester, UK From tarek.besold at googlemail.com Sun Apr 16 14:34:35 2017 From: tarek.besold at googlemail.com (Tarek R. Besold) Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2017 14:34:35 +0200 Subject: [DL] 2nd CfP: Neural-Symbolic Learning and Reasoning Workshop (NeSy) 2017 -- July 17&18, 2017 -- City, University of London (UK) Message-ID: <007d01d2b6ad$cefa6700$6cef3500$@gmail.com> === NeSy'17: 12th International Workshop on Neural-Symbolic Learning and Reasoning === Date: July 17 & 18, 2017. Venue: City, University of London, UK. = WEBSITE = http://www.neural-symbolic.org/NeSy17/ = KEYNOTE SPEAKERS = Mauro Ferreira, Trinity College Dublin. Zoubin Ghahramani, University of Cambridge & Uber AI Labs. Alex Graves, Google DeepMind. Pascal Hitzler, Wrights State University. Murray Shanahan, Imperial College London. = INDUSTRY TRACK ADDED = For the first time, the 2017 edition of NeSy will feature an industry track on the second day of the workshop, July 18, 2017. The track will cover industry applications of neural-symbolic methods (including knowledge extraction from statistical data, neural-symbolic methods integrating data and knowledge for the semantic web, etc.), with the program featuring contributions from industry and academia alike. Also, there will be time to mix and mingle, exchange experiences from practitioners on both sides, and develop joint ideas and projects for the future. = REGISTRATION = The registration for NeSy'17 has become available from the City, University of London eStore: http://estore.city.ac.uk/product-catalogue/conference-events/school-specific -events/12th-international-workshop-on-neuralsymbolic-learning-and-reasoning -nesy17 = CALL FOR PAPERS = Artificial Intelligence researchers continue to face huge challenges in their quest to develop truly intelligent systems. The recent developments in the field of neural-symbolic integration bring an opportunity to integrate well-founded symbolic artificial intelligence with robust neural computing machinery to help tackle some of these challenges. The Workshop on Neural-Symbolic Learning and Reasoning is intended to create an atmosphere of exchange of ideas, providing a forum for the presentation and discussion of the key topics related to neural-symbolic integration. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: - The representation of symbolic knowledge by connectionist systems; - Neural Learning theory; - Integration of logic and probabilities, e.g., in neural networks, but also more generally; - Structured learning and relational learning in neural networks; - Logical reasoning carried out by neural networks; - Integrated neural-symbolic approaches; - Extraction of symbolic knowledge from trained neural networks; - Integrated neural-symbolic reasoning; - Neural-symbolic cognitive models; - Biologically-inspired neural-symbolic integration; - Applications in robotics, simulation, fraud prevention, natural language processing, semantic web, software engineering, fault diagnosis, bioinformatics, visual intelligence, etc. ** Submission ** Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit original papers that have not been submitted for review or published elsewhere: - Submitted papers must be written in English, must be formatted according to the Springer LNCS style (templates and sample files are available from https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gui delines), and should not exceed 10 pages (excluding references/bibliography) in the case of research and experience papers, and 6 pages (excluding references/bibliography) in the case of position papers or technical notes. - All submitted papers will be judged based on their relevance, originality, significance, technical quality, and organisation. - Papers must be submitted through EasyChair at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=nesy17. - Additionally, presentations based on extended abstracts will be considered. These shall allow to report on latest results which had not been available at the time of paper submission. Therefore, the abstract deadline is significantly closer to the workshop date. Extended abstracts may not exceed 3 pages (including references/bibliography) and should aim to give a good impression of the type of work conducted, the achieved results and their importance for the field. ** Presentation ** Selected papers will be presented during the workshop. The workshop will include extra time for discussion of the presentations allowing the group to have a better understanding of the issues, challenges, and ideas being presented. ** Publication ** Accepted papers will be published in official workshop proceedings within the CEUR-WS.org series. Accepted abstracts will also be included in the official workshop proceedings. = IMPORTANT DATES = Deadline for paper submission: May 7, 2017 Notification of paper acceptance/rejection: June 4, 2017 Deadline for abstract submission: June 18, 2017 Notification of abstract acceptance/rejection: June 25, 2017 Camera-ready paper due: July 2, 2017 Workshop date: July 17-18, 2017 = WORKSHOP ORGANISERS = General Chairs: - Tarek R. Besold (University of Bremen, Germany) - Artur d'Avila Garcez (City, University of London, UK) - Isaac Noble (Playground Global, U.S.A.) Local Chair at City, University of London: Simon Odense = PROGRAMME COMMITTEE = - Raquel Alhama, University of Amsterdam - James Davidson, Google Brain - Richard Evans, Google DeepMind - Barbara Hammer, Bielefeld University - Thomas Icard, Stanford University - Kai-Uwe Kuehnberger, University of Osnabrueck - Luis Lamb, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul - Thomas Lukasiewicz, University of Oxford - Edjard Mota, Federal University of Amazonas - Terrence C. Stewart, University of Waterloo - Serge Thill, University of Skoevde - Son Tran, CSIRO Australia - Stefan Wermter, University of Hamburg -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From berndt at uni-trier.de Wed Apr 19 11:55:15 2017 From: berndt at uni-trier.de (Berndt, Jan Ole, Dr.-Ing.) Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2017 09:55:15 +0000 Subject: [DL] CfP: MATES 2017 - Extended deadline: May 7, 2017 Message-ID: [Apologies if you receive this more than once] Please forward this CfP to anyone who might be interested. ####################################################################### == CALL FOR PAPERS == == == SUBMISSION DEADLINE EXTENDED: Sun, May 7, 2017 == == == MATES 2017 == 15th German Conference on Multiagent System Technologies == Wed-Sat, August 23 - 26, 2017 == Leipzig, Germany == == http://mates2017.uni-trier.de == == MATES is the second best CORE ranked agent technology conference worldwide. == == == Co-located with the 2017 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on == Web Intelligence (WI 2017) == http://webintelligence2017.com/ == == *** CONFIRMED COMMON KEYNOTE SPEAKERS *** == Raj Reddy (Turing Award Winner 1994): The Ultimate Web Intelligence: == Computational Social Science == Amit Sheth: Semantic, Cognitive, and Perceptual Computing - three == intertwined strands of a golden braid of intelligent computing == Cristiano Castelfranchi: Cognition & Self-Organization in a Hybrid == Society & Coupled Reality: The role of AI == Frank Leymann: Loose Coupling and Architectural Implications == Matthias Klusch: Intelligent Agents and Semantic Technologies for == Industry 4.0: Showcases and Challenges ==================================================================== == Extended submission deadline regular papers: Sun, May 7, 2017 == at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mates2017 ==================================================================== Aims and Scope ============== The MATES conference aims at the promotion of and the cross-fertilization between theory and application of intelligent agents and multiagent systems (MAS). It provides an interdisciplinary forum for researchers and members of business and industry to present and discuss latest advances in agent-based computing with prototyped or fielded systems in various application domains. MATES 2017 will offer a competitive set of special topical sessions, PhD mentoring track, invited keynotes by distinguished experts, and issues a Best Paper Award. The proceedings are published by Springer in its LNAI (Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence) subseries of the LNCS (Lecture Notes in Computer Science) series. Topics of Interest ================== MATES 2017 covers all areas of intelligent agents and multiagent system technologies. The topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Multiagent platforms and tools - Agent communication languages - Validation and verification of (multi)agent technologies - Agent-oriented software engineering, model-driven design of MAS - Standards for agents and MAS - MAS: Conventions, norms, institutions, trust and reputation - Advanced theories of collaboration: Modelling and formation of agent teams, groups, coalitions, and organizations - Adaptive agents and multiagent learning - Agent-based simulation of complex systems and applications - Agent-based modeling and social simulation - Mobile agents - Autonomous robots and robot teams - Human-agent teamwork (Humans, software agents, robots, animals, animoids) - Embodied conversational actors and believable agents, and user modelling - Recommender agents - Agent-based planning and scheduling - Agent-based information retrieval - Agent-based distributed data mining - Agent-based service discovery, composition, negotiation - Agents for the semantic Web - Agents for the social Web - Agents for the Internet of Services - Agents for the Internet of Things, pervasive computing - Agents for cloud computing - Ethical aspects of (multi)agent systems design and deployment - Prototyped or fielded agent-based applications in various domains (e.g. e-business, e-health, e-government, automotive, smart city, smart grids, renewable energy). MATES PhD mentoring track ========================= The MATES PhD mentoring (doctoral consortium) is meant to support PhD students working in the area of web intelligence. It offers a platform to researchers in all stages of their PhD studies to present and discuss their ideas in a professional academic environment. The program provides an opportunity to PhD students to interact with their peers as well as with experienced researchers in the field, and to receive valuable feedback on their work and advice for their future careers. In particular, each student will be assigned a member of the WI doctoral consortium committee, who is an experienced researcher in the relevant field and will be available for personal interactions during the day of the MATES PhD mentoring track. More information is to be found on the MATES homepage. The main goals of the PhD mentoring session are - to give PhD researchers an opportunity to get feedback and suggestion on their work from experienced researchers and their peers. - to interact with other PhD researchers and to get an overview of the field of multi-agent systems. - to get advice for their (academic) career. - to provide networking opportunities. PhD-Paper Submission: ---------------------- Submissions to the PhD mentoring session (PhD short papers) should provide information on the following aspects of the PhD work: - Motivation - State of the Art - Methodical approach - Preliminary results/findings (optional - Affiliation and contact details of the PhD supervisor PhD papers can be up to 6 pages long, written in English and formatted according to the Springer LNCS style (see below). The selection process takes into account the quality of the submitted PhD short paper which will be peer-reviewed by members of the MATES PhD mentoring program committee. The PhD short papers must be submitted electronically via e-mail to Alexander Pokahr: pokahr at informatik.uni-hamburg.de Rene Schumann: rene.schumann at hevs.ch Presentation and Publication: ----------------------------- All accepted PhD short papers will be assigned a slot for oral presentation during the MATES PhD mentoring session. In addition, a selected set of these accepted papers describing original, unpublished work mature enough for publication will be included in the MATES proceedings. Invited Speakers ================ Together with Web Intelligence 2017 MATES 2017 provides keynotes from renowned experts on up-to-date topics: * Raj Reddy (Turing Award Winner 1994): The Ultimate Web Intelligence: Computational Social Science * Amit Sheth: Semantic, Cognitive, and Perceptual Computing - three intertwined strands of a golden braid of intelligent computing * Cristiano Castelfranchi: Cognition & Self-Organization in a Hybrid Society & Coupled Reality: The role of AI * Frank Leymann: Loose Coupling and Architectural Implications * Matthias Klusch: Intelligent Agents and Semantic Technologies for Industry 4.0: Showcases and Challenges Regular Paper Submission and Publication ================================ The MATES proceedings are published by Springer as a volume of the LNAI (Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence) subseries of the LNCS (Lecture Notes in Computer Science) series. http://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines Submitted papers, which have to be in English, must not exceed 16 pages (full) or 8 pages (short) in Springer LNCS style, PDF. Over-length submissions will be rejected without review. Submissions are expected to report on novel research that makes a substantial technical contribution to the field. In particular, submitted research must be unpublished and not under review in any other conference or journal. Please submit your contribution using EasyChair via the following link and follow the submission guidelines on the conference website. https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mates2017 For an accepted paper to be published in the proceedings, at least one of the authors will be required to register for the conference. Important Dates =============== Deadline for Submission: Sun, May 7, 2017 (Regular Papers, EXTENDED) Deadline for Submission: Sun, May 14, 2017 (PhD-Track Papers) Notification of Authors: Fri, June 2, 2017 Camera-Ready Papers: Sun, June 18, 2017 Conference: Wed-Sat, August 23-26, 2017 Conference Organisation ======================= General Chairs: Jan Ole Berndt (Trier University, Germany) Paolo Petta (OFAI and University of Vienna, Austria) Rainer Unland (University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany) Honorary Chairs: Ana L. C. Bazzan (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil) Maria L. Gini (University of Minnesota, USA) Andrea Omicini (University of Bologna, Italy) Doctoral Consortium Chairs: Alexander Pokahr (University of Hamburg, Germany) Rene? Schumann (HES-SO Valais-Wallis, Switzerland) Program Committee: Karl Aberer (EPF Lausanne, Switzerland) Thomas Agotnes (University of Bergen, Norway) Sebastian Ahrndt (DAI Lab, Berlin University of Technology, Germany) Matteo Baldoni (University of Turin, Italy) Bernhard Bauer (University of Augsburg, Germany) Federico Bergenti (University of Parma, Italy) Olivier Boissier (ENSM de Saint-Etienne, France) Vicent Botti (Polytechnical University of Valencia, Spain) Cristiano Castelfranchi (National Research Council, Italy) Liana Cipcigan (Cardiff University, UK) Massimo Cossentino (National Research Council, Italy) Paul Davidsson (University of Malmoe, Sweden) Joerg Denzinger (University of Calgary, Canada) Frank Dignum (University of Utrecht, The Netherlands) Virginia Dignum (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands) Juergen Dix (Clausthal University of Technology, Germany) Johannes Faehndrich (DAI Lab, Berlin University of Technology, Germany) Klaus Fischer (DFKI, Germany) Giancarlo Fortino (University of Calabria, Italy) Maria Ganzha (University of Gdansk, Poland) Paolo Giorgini (University of Trento, Italy) Vladimir Gorodetsky (Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia) Axel Hahn (Carl-von-Ossietzky University of Oldenburg, Germany) Koen Hindriks (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands) Stamatis Karnouskos (SAP, Germany) Takahiro Kawamura (Japan Science and Technology Agency, Japan) Wolfgang Ketter (Rotterdam School of Management, The Netherlands) Yasuhiko Kitamura (Kwansei Gakuin University, Japan) Franziska Kluegl (University of Oerebro, Sweden) Matthias Klusch (DFKI, Germany) Ryszard Kowalczyk (Swinburn University of Technology, Australia) Winfried Lamersdorf (University of Hamburg, Germany) Jiming Liu (Hong Kong Baptist University, China) Arndt Lueder (Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg, Germany) John-Jules Meyer (University of Utrecht, The Netherlands) Lars Moench (Fernuniversitaet Hagen, Germany) Joerg P. Mueller (Clausthal University of Technology, Germany) Ingrid Nunes (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil) Eugenio Oliveira (University of Porto, Portugal) Nir Oren (University of Aberdeen, UK) Sascha Ossowski (University Rey Juan Carlos, Spain) Peter Palensky (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands) Marcin Paprzycki (IBS PAN and WSM, Poland) Terry Payne (University of Liverpool, UK) Alessandro Ricci (University of Bologna, Italy) Jordi Sabater Mir (IIIA-CSIC, Spain) David Sarne (Bar Ilan University, Israel) David Sislak (Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic) Michael Sonnenschein (Carl-von-Ossietzky University Oldenburg, Germany) Andreas Symeonidis (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece) Huaglory Tianfield (Glasgow Caledonian University, UK) Ingo J. Timm (Trier University, Germany) Adelinde Uhrmacher (University of Rostock, Germany) Giuseppe Vizzari (University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy) George Vouros (University of Piraeus, Greece) Georg Weichhart (PROFACTOR GmbH, Austria) Gerhard Weiss (University of Maastricht, The Netherlands) Michael Weyrich (University of Stuttgart, Germany) Michael Winikoff (University of Otago, New Zealand) Franco Zambonelli (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy) Ingo Zinnikus (DFKI, Germany) Ning Zhong (Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan) MATES Steering Committee ======================== Matthias Klusch (DFKI, Germany) Winfried Lamersdorf (University of Hamburg, Germany) J?rg P. M?ller (Clausthal University of Technology, Germany) Sascha Ossowski (University Rey Juan Carlos, Spain) Paolo Petta (OFAI and University of Vienna, Austria) Ingo J. Timm (Trier University, Germany) Rainer Unland (University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany) For more information on the MATES conference series,please visit: http://www.dfki.de/~klusch/mates-series ========================================================================= From franconi at inf.unibz.it Wed Apr 19 16:18:12 2017 From: franconi at inf.unibz.it (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Enrico_Franconi?=) Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2017 16:18:12 +0200 Subject: [DL] European MSc in Computational Logic: Scholarships available Message-ID: <19042017161726194GGh77pfXqRRd0583@smtp.office365.com> European Master?s Programme in Computational Logic (EMCL) http://www.computational-logic.eu EMCL provides the theoretical and practical knowledge required for professional practice in the wide interdisciplinary field having its roots in artificial intelligence, computer science, logic, linguistics and cognitive science. You will learn how to develop programs that enable computers to display behaviour that can be characterised as intelligent. EMCL is an international 2-years study program completely in English offering a joint MSc degree within a consortium composed by four universities and a research centre: ? Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy ? Technische Universit?t Dresden, Germany ? Technische Universit?t Wien, Austria ? Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal ? Data61, Australia Tuition fees amount to ?450 per semester; there are several scholarships from 1,840? to 2,840? available, depending on the choice of the second year specialisation. The EMCL online application system will be open from 1 April until 31 May 2017. The Computer Science Degree Hub characterises a career in computational logic and artificial intelligence as involving automation, robotics, advanced knowledge representation systems, and the use of sophisticated computer software and programs. Candidates interested in pursuing jobs in this field require specific education based on foundations of formal methods, information technology, logic, and computer engineering perspectives. Written and verbal communication skills are also important to convey how artificial intelligence tools and services are effectively applied within industry settings. From its inception in the 1950?s through the present day, computational logic and artificial intelligence continues to advance and improve the quality of life across multiple application areas. As a result, professionals with the right skills to translate digital bits of information into meaningful human experiences will find a career in computational logic and artificial intelligence to be sustaining and rewarding. The EMCL programme is designed to let graduates acquire these skills. 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GENERAL INFORMATION TABLEAUX is the main international conference at which research on all aspects, theoretical foundations, implementation techniques, systems development and applications, of the mechanization of tableau-based reasoning and related methods is presented. As the first TABLEAUX workshop was held in Lautenbach in 1992, this year's conference will include special events celebrating 25 years of TABLEAUX. The conference will be held in Brasilia from 25-28 September 2017. It will be co-located with both the 11th International Symposium on Frontiers of Combining Systems (FroCoS 2017) and the 8th International Conference on Interactive Theorem Proving (ITP 2017). TOPICS Tableau methods offer a convenient and flexible set of tools for automated reasoning in classical logic, extensions of classical logic, and a large number of non-classical logics. For large groups of logics, tableau methods can be generated automatically. Areas of application include verification of software and computer systems, deductive databases, knowledge representation and its required inference engines, teaching, and system diagnosis. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: * tableau methods for classical and non-classical logics (including first-order, higher-order, modal, temporal, description, hybrid, intuitionistic, substructural, relevance, non-monotonic logics) and their proof-theoretic foundations; * related methods (SMT, model elimination, model checking, connection methods, resolution, BDDs, translation approaches); * sequent calculi and natural deduction calculi for classical and non-classical logics, as tools for proof search and proof representation; * flexible, easily extendable, light weight methods for theorem proving; * novel types of calculi for theorem proving and verification in classical and non-classical logics; * systems, tools, implementations, empirical evaluations and applications (provers, logical frameworks, model checkers, ...); * implementation techniques (data structures, efficient algorithms, performance measurement, extensibility, ...); * extensions of tableau procedures with conflict-driven learning, generation of proofs; compact (or humanly readable) representation of proofs; * decision procedures, theoretically optimal procedures; * applications of automated deduction to mathematics, software development, verification, deductive and temporal databases, knowledge representation, ontologies, fault diagnosis or teaching. We also welcome papers describing applications of tableau procedures to real world examples. Such papers should be tailored to the tableau community and should focus on the role of reasoning, and logical aspects of the solution. CELEBRATING 25 YEARS To celebrate 25 years TABLEAUX the conference will include a special session of invited talks by Wolfgang Bibel and Reiner Haehnle. INVITED SPEAKERS: Wolfgang Bibel Technische Universitaet Darmstadt, Germany (anniversary session) Carlos Areces FaMAF - Universidad Nacional de Cordoba, Argentina Katalin Bimbo University of Alberta, Canada (with FroCoS and ITP) Jasmin Blanchette Inria and LORIA, Nancy, France (with FroCoS and ITP) Reiner Haehnle Technische Universitaet Darmstadt, Germany (anniversary session) Cezary Kaliszyk Universitaet Innsbruck, Austria (with FroCoS and ITP) WORKSHOPS AND TUTORIALS There will be a three-day programme of four workshops and four tutorials from 23-25 September. Workshops: 12th Logical and Semantic Frameworks with Applications (LSFA 2017) Sandra Alves, Renata Wassermann, Flavio L. C. de Moura 23 and 24 September 2017 Proof eXchange for Theorem Proving (PxTP) Catherine Dubois, Bruno Woltzenlogel Paleo 23 and 24 September 2017 EPS - Encyclopedia of Proof Systems Giselle Reis, Bruno Woltzenlogel Paleo 24 and 25 September 2017 DaLi - Dynamic Logic: new trends and applications Mario Benevides, Alexandre Madeira 24 September 2017 Tutorials: Proof Compressions and the conjecture NP = PSPACE Lew Gordeev, Edward Hermann Haeusler 23 September 2017 General methods in proof theory for modal and substructural logics Bjoern Lellmann, Revantha Ramanayake 24 September 2017 From proof systems to complexity bounds Anupam Das 25 September 2017 PVS for Computer Scientists Cesar Munoz, Mauricio Ayala-Rincon, Mariano Moscato 25 September 2017 Details are published in separate calls and on the conference website. POSTER SESSION There will be a joint poster session for TABLEAUX 2017, FroCos 2017, and ITP 2017. The session is intended for descriptions of work in progress, student projects and relevant research being published elsewhere. The deadline for posters submission is June 15, 2017. More details can be found at http://tableaux2017.cic.unb.br/#postersession. PUBLICATION DETAILS The conference proceedings will published in the Springer LNAI/LNCS series, as in previous editions. SUBMISSIONS Submissions are invited in two categories: A Research papers, which describe original theoretical research, original algorithms, or applications, with length up to 15 pages. B System descriptions, with length up to 9 pages. Submissions will be reviewed by the PC, possibly with the help of external reviewers, taking into account readability, relevance and originality. For category A, theoretical results and algorithms must be original, and not submitted for publication elsewhere. Submissions will be reviewed taking into account correctness, theoretical elegance, and possible implementability. For category B submissions, a working implementation must be accessible via the internet, which includes sources. The aim of a system description is to make the system available in such a way that users can use it, understand it, and build on it. Accepted papers in both categories will be published in the conference proceedings. Papers must be edited in LaTeX using the llncs style and must be submitted electronically as PDF files via the EasyChair system: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=tableaux2017. For all accepted papers at least one author is required to attend the conference and present the paper. A paper title and a short abstract of about 100 words must be submitted before the paper submission deadline. Further information about paper submissions will be made available at the conference website. Be aware that neither plagiarism, nor self-plagiarism, nor duplicate publication is acceptable. Formatting instructions and the LNCS style files can be obtained via http://www.springer.com/br/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines BEST PAPER AWARD The TABLEAUX 2017 Best Paper Award will be presented to the best submission nominated and chosen by the Program Committee among the accepted papers. The eligibility criteria will place emphasis on the originality and significance of the contribution, but readability and the overall technical quality, including correctness and completeness of results, will also be considered. The TABLEAUX Best Paper Award was established in 2015 and is a permanent initiative of TABLEAUX. IMPORTANT DATES 28 Apr 2017 Abstract submission (extended) 28 Apr 2017 Paper submission (extended) 8 Jun 2017 Notification of paper decisions 3 Jul 2017 Camera-ready papers due 23-25 Sep 2017 Workshops & Tutorials 25-28 Sep 2017 TABLEAUX Conference PROGRAM COMMITTEE Peter Baumgartner National ICT Australia, Canberra Maria Paola Bonacina Universita degli Studi di Verona Laura Bozzelli Universidad Politecnica de Madrid Torben Brauener Roskilde University Serenella Cerrito Ibisc, Universite d'Evry Val d'Essonne Agata Ciabattoni Technische Universitaet Wien Clare Dixon University of Liverpool Pascal Fontaine LORIA, INRIA, Universite de Lorraine Didier Galmiche LORIA, Universite de Lorraine Martin Giese Universitetet i Oslo Laura Giordano DISIT, Universita del Piemonte Orientale Rajeev Gore The Australian National University Volker Haarslev Concordia University George Metcalfe Universitaet Bern Angelo Montanari Universita degli Studi di Udine Barbara Morawska Technische Universitaet Dresden Boris Motik University of Oxford Leonardo de Moura Microsoft Research Neil Murray SUNY at Albany Claudia Nalon Universidade de Brasilia Linh Anh Nguyen Uniwersytet Warszawski Hans de Nivelle Uniwersytet Wroclawski Nicola Olivetti LSIS, Aix-Marseille Universite Jens Otten Universitetet i Oslo Valeria de Paiva Nuance Communications Nicolas Peltier Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Laboratoire d'Informatique de Grenoble Elaine Pimentel Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte Giselle Reis Carnegie Mellon University-Qatar Philipp Ruemmer Uppsala Universitet Katsuhiko Sano Hokkaido University Renate Schmidt The University of Manchester Cesare Tinelli The University of Iowa Alwen Tiu Nanyang Technological University David Toman University of Waterloo Josef Urban Ceske vysoke uceni technicke v Praze LOCAL CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION COMMITTEE Claudia Nalon, Universidade de Brasilia, Brazil Daniele Nantes Sobrinho, Universidade de Brasilia, Brazil Elaine Pimentel, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil Joao Marcos, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil CONFERENCE CHAIR Claudia Nalon, University of Brasilia, Brazil PC CHAIRS Claudia Nalon, University of Brasilia, Brazil Renate Schmidt, The University of Manchester, UK From adrian.paschke at gmx.de Sat Apr 22 15:42:32 2017 From: adrian.paschke at gmx.de (Adrian Paschke) Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2017 15:42:32 +0200 Subject: [DL] ODBASE 2017 - The 16th International Conference on Ontologies, DataBases, and Applications of Semantics Message-ID: <007901d2bb6e$4cc8f240$e65ad6c0$@gmx.de> CALL FOR PAPERS ODBASE 2017 - The 16th International Conference on Ontologies, DataBases, and Applications of Semantics 24-25 October 2017, Rhodes, Greece http://www.otmconferences.org/index.php/conferences/odbase-2017 The conference on Ontologies, DataBases, and Applications of Semantics for Large Scale Information Systems (ODBASE'17) provides a forum on the use of ontologies, rules and data semantics in novel applications. Of particular relevance to ODBASE are papers that bridge traditional boundaries between disciplines such as artificial intelligence and Semantic Web, databases, data analytics and machine learning, social networks, distributed and mobile systems, information retrieval, knowledge discovery, and computational linguistics. This year, we emphasis the special topics of smart data analytics, Corporate Semantic Web, and Pragmatic Web. The Corporate Semantic Web focuses on the application of semantic methods and technologies in corporate environments and enterprise information systems. The Pragmatic Web consists of the tools, practices and theories describing why and how people use information. In contrast to the Syntactic Web and Semantic Web the Pragmatic Web is not only about form or meaning of information, but also about interaction which brings about e.g. understanding or commitments. Under the Pragmatic Web label we subsume both the pragmatics of ontologies (e.g. ontology development in communities) and the ontology of pragmatics (e.g. semantics of communicative action and context). Pragmatic Web technologies include e.g., distributed ontology- and rule-based systems, tools for knowledge interchange and social interaction, semantic agent technologies with communication (e.g. speech acts), coordination, and negotiation protocols. We also encourage the submission of research and practical experience papers concerning software (e.g. scalability) and knowledge engineering issues in semantic ontology and rule management, information/knowledge integration, and extraction, as well as papers that examine the information and knowledge needs of various applications. ODBASE'17 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 2017 (OnTheMove'17)" that co-locates three conferences: ODBASE'17, C&TC'17 (International Symposium on Secure Virtual Infrastructures), and CoopIS'17 (International Conference on Cooperative Information Systems). ODBASE 2017 will consider two categories of papers: research and experience. Research papers must contain novel, unpublished research results. Experience papers must describe performance or usability of existing real-world systems, empirical studies, business / industry cases with (proven) solutions / systems for applied technological challenges, and concrete results demonstrating real-world importance and impact; preference will be given to papers that describe software products or systems that are in use in the community and/or the industry. TOPICS OF INTEREST Specific areas of interest to ODBASE'17 include but are not limited to: Management of Semantically Expressive Information and Knowledge . Knowledge representation and semantic knowledge management . Semantic data modeling . Semantic integration, including transformation rules, ontology matching, merging, etc. . Ontology and rule engineering and metadata management . Ontology-based data management, linked data management, semantic big data management . Governance aspects such as workflows, roles and responsibilities in semantic information and knowledge management Large Scale and Complex Information Management and Analysis . Semantic indexing, search and query answering in large volumes of data . Semantic digital curation, semantic annotation, extraction, enrichment, summarization, and integration . Semantic (smart/big) data analytics, data mining, and machine learning (incl. semantic deep learning) . Semantic social network analysis . Semantic information extraction and text mining . Semantics in event-driven architectures, streaming analytics, and semantic complex event processing (SCEP) Applications, Evaluations, and Experiences of applying ontology, rule, and database techniques, standards, and tools including but not limited to the following domains: . Semantic technology standards and tools . Semantic Web and Linked Data . Corporate Semantic Web (CSW) . Semantic enterprise information systems and knowledge management . Semantic business process management (SBPM) and decision models . Semantic Web and the Internet of Things (IoT) . Crowdsourcing, human computation, and the People Web . Pragmatic Web . Semantic services and semantic Multi Agent Systems (MAS) . Online social networks and social Semantic Web . Personalisation and digital content interaction . Hypertext, multimedia, and hypermedia . Semantic story telling and corporate smart content . Ubiquitous and mobile information systems . Information/data governance, information assurance, security, compliance . Semantic cloud computing, edge computing, fog computing . Semantic Web applications and tools for, e.g., biomedical and healthcare domain, eCommerce, eScience, virtual organizations, Industrie 4.0 . Legal ontologies, rules, and reasoning . Distributed ledger / blockchain databases, e.g. for rule-based smart contracts IMPORTANT DATES Conference Abstract Submission Deadline: July 17, 2017 (recommended) Conference Paper Submission Deadline: July 24, 2017 Acceptance Notification: Aug 28, 2017 Camera Ready Due: Sept 4, 2017 Author Registration Due: Sept 4, 2017 CHAIRS Adrian Paschke Freie Universitaet Berlin and Fraunhofer FOKUS, Germany Nick Bassiliades Aristotele University of Thessaloniki, Greece Hans Weigand Tilburg School of Economics and Management, Netherlands From geoff at cs.miami.edu Fri Apr 21 21:48:31 2017 From: geoff at cs.miami.edu (Geoff Sutcliffe) Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2017 15:48:31 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [DL] DL 2017 - Last Call for Papers Message-ID: <20170421194831.267BF121445@mcclellan.cs.miami.edu> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- LAST CALL FOR PAPERS 30th International Workshop on Description Logics, DL 2017 July 18th to July 21st, 2017 - Montpellier, France http://dl.kr.org/dl2017/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Important Dates *** NO EXTENSIONS POSSIBLE *** ============ Paper registration deadline: April 28, 2017 Paper submission deadline: May 8, 2017 Notification of acceptance: June 12, 2017 Camera-ready copies: July 3, 2017 Workshop: July 18-21, 2017 *** NO DEADLINE EXTENSIONS POSSIBLE *** Due to the IJCAI notification and the approaching of the DL workshop extensions will not be granted. Submissions ========== * Submissions may be of two types: (1) Papers accepted at some conference can be submitted as accepted elsewhere together with a 1-page abstract that also specifies where the paper has been accepted. (2) Other submissions consist of 11 pages LNCS plus references. There is no page limit on the list of references. If the paper should not appear in the proceedings, an additional 1-page abstract has to be submitted. * For submissions with an additional 1-page abstract, only the abstract is published in the proceedings. The abstracts might not be indexed in dblp. This option is designed for authors who wish to announce results that have been published elsewhere, or which the authors intend to submit or have already submitted to a venue with an incompatible prior / concurrent publication policy. * All submissions may optionally include a clearly marked appendix (e.g., with additional proofs or evaluation data). The appendix will be read at the discretion of the reviewers and not included in the proceedings. The appendix does not need to be in LNCS format. * Submission page: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dl2017 * Accepted papers and 1-page abstracts will be made available electronically in the CEUR Workshop Proceedings series (http://www.CEUR-ws.org/). * Accepted submissions, be they full papers or 1-page abstracts, will be selected for either oral or poster presentation at the workshop. Submissions will be judged solely based upon their content, and the type of submission will have no bearing on the decision between oral and poster presentation. Further Details ============ http://dl.kr.org/dl2017/ From giovanni.degasperis at aixia.it Sun Apr 23 22:29:11 2017 From: giovanni.degasperis at aixia.it (Giovanni De Gasperis) Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2017 22:29:11 +0200 Subject: [DL] RuleML+RR 2017: International Joint Conference on Rules and Reasoning, London 12-15 July 2017 Message-ID: RuleML+RR 2017: International Joint Conference on Rules and Reasoning London 12-15 July 2017 # Registration is now open: ***Early Bird Registration until _April 30th_*** Go to http://www2.bbk.ac.uk/ruleml-rr2017 . This leading international joint conference in the field of rule-based reasoning has open calls for a number of its events. # Call for Posters http://2017.ruleml-rr.org/call-for-posters For additional short poster papers related to theoretical advances, novel technologies, and innovative applications concerning knowledge representation and reasoning with rules. Deadline May 26th Notification June 2nd Accepted poster papers will be published as CEUR Proceedings and indexed by SCOPUS. # Call for Papers and Demos for the 11th International Rule Challenge http://2017.ruleml-rr.org/calls/international-rule-challenge The best paper/presentation in the Challenge will receive the RuleML Challenge Award (USD 500)! Abstract May 1st Papers May 8th Notification May 15th Accepted poster papers will be published as CEUR Proceedings and indexed by SCOPUS. # Call for Business Cases and Technologies for the Industry Track: State of Practice, Challenges and Opportunities http://2017.ruleml-rr.org/calls/industry-track Papers May 8th Notification May 15th The best papers will be recommended with the permission of the authors for publication in the CEUR proceedings of the conference. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From lembo at dis.uniroma1.it Mon Apr 24 15:05:32 2017 From: lembo at dis.uniroma1.it (Domenico Lembo) Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2017 15:05:32 +0200 Subject: [DL] Call for Applications: The 13th Reasoning Web Summer School (RW 2017) Message-ID: Apologies for multiple postings ********************************************** CALL FOR APPLICATIONS The 13th Reasoning Web Summer School (RW 2017) London, U.K., July 7-11, 2017 http://reasoningweb.org/2017 ********************************************** co-located with: - RuleML+RR: International Joint Conference on Rules and Reasoning London, U.K., July 12-15, 2017 http://2017.ruleml-rr.org - RuleML+RR Doctoral Consortium http://2017.ruleml-rr.org/doctoral-consortium/ - DecisionCAMP 2017 London, U.K., July 13-14, 2017 http://2017.ruleml-rr.org/decisioncamp-2017 - 11th International Rule Challenge London, U.K., July 12-15, 2017 http://2017.ruleml-rr.org/calls/international-rule-challenge/ 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. The school 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 2017, the theme of the school is: "Semantic Interoperability on the Web" As in the previous years, lectures in the summer school will be given by a distinguished group of expert lecturers. Most 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 RuleML+RR, a conference that joins the well-known RuleML and RR event series, DecisionCAMP 2017, and the 11th International Rule Challenge, hence, there will be a great opportunity for students to also attend some major events in the area. In addition, RuleML+RR will also include a Doctoral Consortium and students of RW are particularly encouraged to also apply to the Doctoral consortium of RuleML+RR. Participants to the school will be delivered on request a certificate of attendance indicating the number of hours of lectures. With this certificate, some institutions may assign official credits for the PhD program. == IMPORTANT DATES == Application deadline: May 20, 2017 (extended) Notifications: May 25, 2017 Registration deadline: May 31, 2017 == LECTURES == - Andrea Cal? (Birkbeck University of London, U.K.) "Ontology querying: Datalog strikes back" - Thomas Eiter (Technical University of Wien, Austria) "Answer Set Programming with External Source Access" - Thomas Lukasiewicz (University of Oxford, U.K.) "Uncertainty Reasoning for the Semantic Web" - Marco Montali (Free University of Bolzano/Bozen, Italy) "Ontology-based Data Access for Log Extraction in Process Mining" - Axel Polleres (Vienna University of Economics & Business, Austria) "Challenges for Semantic Data Integration on the Web of Open Data" - Marie-Christine Rousset (University Grenoble-Alpes, Institut Universitaire de France) "Datalog revisited for reasoning in Linked Data" - Torsten Schaub (University of Potsdam, Germany and Inria, Bretagne Atlantique, Rennes, France) "A Tutorial on Hybrid Answer Set Solving" - Juan Sequeda (Capsenta, USA) "Integrating Relational Databases with the Semantic Web" - Giorgos Stamou (National Technical University of Athens, Greece) "Ontological query answering over semantic data" == LECTURE NOTES == The course material used during the summer school will be published within Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series. A copy of the proceedings will be included in the registration fees. == 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: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=rw2017 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 - Supervisor (if applicable) - Publications (if applicable) == SCHOOL FEES == The fee for attending the school is 370 GBPs. The fee covers school registration, coffee breaks, and a copy of the school volume published as Springer LNCS proceedings. Joint Registration to RW and RuleML+RR is also possible, with a fee of 485 GBPs. Students that plan to participate to both RW and RuleML+RR have to indicate it in their application. Registrations will open after notifications are sent out and will be possible until May 31, 2017. == STUDENT GRANTS == There is a limited number of student grants available for the summer school. Each grant will cover the school registration fee. Further grants are available for students participating in the RuleML+RR Doctoral Consortium who would like to extend their stay to also attend the summer school. Students that are interested in applying for this grant, besides submitting their application to the school, must write an email to the school chairs (lembo at diag.uniroma1.it and ianni at mat.unical.it) declaring their interest in the student grant, and providing a proof of full-time student status (copy of valid student ID card or letter from their institution or program director) and a short justification confirming that the attendance to RW 2017 could not be financed by other means such as project funds. The deadline for applying to the student grants is May 20, 2017 (the same as the school application deadline). == SCHOOL VENUE == Birkbeck, University of London, Malet St, London WC1E 7HX, UK == STUDENT ACCOMMODATIONS == University of London offers accommodations in its student residences. Prices start from 47 GPBs per night. 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URL: From mfinger at ime.usp.br Mon Apr 24 20:29:21 2017 From: mfinger at ime.usp.br (Marcelo Finger) Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2017 15:29:21 -0300 Subject: [DL] FroCos 2017: Deadline extension Message-ID: *** Apologies for multiple copies, please redistribute *** *** DEADLINE EXTENSION *** FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS FroCoS 2017 11th International Symposium on Frontiers of Combining Systems Brasilia, Brazil September 27-29th, 2017 http://frocos2017.cic.unb.br New Submission Deadlines: 1st May (abstracts), 5th May (full papers) Due to several requests, we are extending the deadline. These dates are final. GENERAL INFORMATION The 11th International Symposium on Frontiers of Combining Systems (FroCoS 2017) will be held in Brasilia, Brazil, between September 27 to September 29, 2017. Its main goal is to disseminate and promote progress in research areas related to the development of techniques for the integration, combination, and modularization of formal systems together with their analysis. FroCoS 2017 will be co-located with the 26th International Conference on Automated Reasoning with Analytic Tableaux and Related Methods (TABLEAUX 2017) and the 8th International Conference on Interactive Theorem?Proving (ITP 2017). The local organization of all events will be organised by Claudia Nalon (USB, Brazil), Daniele Nantes (UnB, Brazil), Elaine Pimentel (UFRN, Brazil) and Joa?o Marcos (UFRN, Brazil). 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 systems for selected tasks. To be usable in practice, these specialized systems must be combined with each other and integrated into general purpose systems. This has led---in many research areas---to the development of techniques and methods for the combination and integration of dedicated formal systems, as well as for their modularization and analysis. The International Symposium on Frontiers of Combining Systems (FroCoS) traditionally focusses on these types of research questions and activities. Like its predecessors, FroCoS 2017 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 higher-order, first-order, temporal, modal, description or other non-classical logics); * combination and integration methods in SAT and SMT solving; * combination of decision procedures, satisfiability procedures, constraint solving techniques, or logical frameworks; * combinations and modularity in ontologies; * integration of equational and other theories into deductive systems; * 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; * integration of data structures into constraint logic programming and deduction; * combinations and modularity in term rewriting; * applications of methods and techniques to the verification and analysis of information systems. INVITED SPEAKERS - Katalin Bimb? (University of Alberta, Canada) (joint with TABLEAUX and ITP) - Jasmin Blanchette (Inria and LORIA, Nancy, France) (joint with TABLEAUX and ITP) - Cezary Kaliszyk (University of Innsbruck, Austria) (joint with TABLEAUX and ITP) - Cesare Tinelli (University of Iowa, USA) - Renata Wassermann (University of S?o Paulo, Brazil) PUBLICATION DETAILS The proceedings of the symposium will be published in the Springer LNAI/LNCS series. PAPER SUBMISSIONS The program committee seeks high-quality submissions describing original work, written in English, not 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 in total, including references and figures. Papers must be edited in LaTeX using the llncs style and must be submitted electronically as PDF files via the EasyChair system at the following address: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=frocos2017 For each accepted paper, at least one of the authors is required to attend the symposium and present the work. Prospective authors must register a title and an abstract five days before the paper submission deadline. Further information about paper submissions is available at the conference website that can be found at the beginning of this call for papers. WORKSHOPS AND TUTORIALS Proposals for Workshops and Tutorial sessions have been solicited in a separate call, which can be found at http://frocos2017.cic.unb.br/#cfw. There are co-located events, described at http://frocos2017.cic.unb.br/#colocated . IMPORTANT DATES (*Extended*) 1st May 2017: Abstract submission deadline 5th May 2017: Full paper submission deadline 16th June 2017: Author notification 26th June 2017: Camera-ready version due September 27-29, 2017: FroCoS Conference PROGRAM COMMITTEE Carlos Areces, FaMAF - Universidad Nacional de C?rdoba Alessandro Artale, Free University of Bolzano-Bozen Mauricio Ayala-Rincon, Universidade de Brasilia Franz Baader, TU Dresden Peter Baumgartner, National ICT Australia Christoph Benzm?ller, Freie Universit?t Berlin Thomas Bolander, Technical University of Denmark Marcelo Coniglio, State University of Campinas Clare Dixon, University of Liverpool [co-chair] Fran?ois Fages, Inria Paris-Rocquencourt Marcelo Finger, Universidade de Sao Paulo [co-chair] Pascal Fontaine, LORIA, INRIA, University of Lorraine Didier Galmiche, LORIA, University of Lorraine Vijay Ganesh, University of Waterloo Silvio Ghilardi, Universit? degli Studi di Milano J?rgen Giesl, RWTH Aachen Laura Giordano, Universit? del Piemonte Orientale Agi Kurucz, Kings College, London Till Mossakowski, Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg Cl?udia Nalon, University of Bras?lia Elaine Pimentel, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte Silvio Ranise, Fondazione Bruno Kessler-Irst Christophe Ringeissen, LORIA-INRIA Uli Sattler, University of Manchester Roberto Sebastiani, University of Trento Guillermo Simari, Universidad Nacional del Sur in Bahia Blanca Viorica Sofronie-Stokkermans, University Koblenz-Landau Andrzej Szalas, University of Warsaw Ren? Thiemann, University of Innsbruck Ashish Tiwari, SRI International Christoph Weidenbach, Max Planck Institute for Informatics -- Marcelo Finger Departament of Computer Science, IME University of Sao Paulo http://www.ime.usp.br/~mfinger From tarek.besold at googlemail.com Wed Apr 26 10:53:49 2017 From: tarek.besold at googlemail.com (Tarek R. Besold) Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2017 10:53:49 +0200 Subject: [DL] CfP: Modelling and Reasoning in Context (MRC) @ IJCAI-2017 // Submission deadline: May 16, 2017 Message-ID: <002801d2be6a$9f7fcf50$de7f6df0$@gmail.com> ======================================================================= Call for Papers: MRC 2017 The 9th International Workshop on Modelling and Reasoning in Context In conjunction with IJCAI 2017 The International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence Melbourne, Australia August 19-25, 2017 Submission deadline: May 16, 2017 Information: http://mrc.kriwi.de/ Submissions: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mrc2017 ======================================================================= Join us in Melbourne ======================================================================= Context plays an increasingly important role in modern IT applications. Context sensitivity and awareness is becoming essential, not only for mobile systems, ambient computing and the internet of things, but also for a wide range of other areas, such as learning and teaching solutions, collaborative software, web engineering, mobility logistics and health care work-flow. Advancing the use and understanding of context beyond stimuli-response systems suggests a knowledge perspective on modelling and reasoning. For autonomous systems, recognising contextual information is vital if the system is to exhibit behaviour that is appropriate for the situation at hand. At the same time, such systems might change contextual parameters that are relevant for human and non-human agents present. Therefore, it is important to be able to predict changes in context that are due to the actions of intelligent systems to avoid clashing with user needs and expectations. >From a general AI perspective, one of the challenges is to integrate context with other types of knowledge as a major additional source for reasoning, decision-making, and adaptation and to form a coherent and versatile architecture. There is a common understanding that achieving desired behaviour from intelligent systems will depend on the ability to represent and manipulate information about a rich range of contextual factors. These factors may include not only physical characteristics of the task environment, but, possibly more importantly, many other aspects including cognitive factors such as the knowledge states (of both the application and user) or emotions, and social factors such as networks, relations, roles, and hierarchies. This representation and reasoning problem presents research challenges to which methodologies derived from areas such as artificial intelligence, knowledge management, human-computer interaction, semiotics and psychology can contribute solutions. ======================================================================= Workshop Objectives ======================================================================= MRC aims to bring together researchers and practitioners from different communities, both in industry and academia, to study, understand, and explore issues surrounding context and to share their problems, techniques and success stories across different areas. By considering modelling and reasoning approaches for contextualised systems from a broad range of areas, the workshop will facilitate the sharing of problems, techniques, and solutions. The workshop covers different understandings of what context is, different approaches to modelling context, mechanisms and techniques for (structured) storage of contextual information, effective ways to retrieve it, and methods for enabling integration of context and application knowledge. MRC invites papers on different aspects of context, on theory as well as on applications. We particularly invite contributions on topics of autonomy and context. We also explicitly invite contributions from other fields of study in order to further trans- and interdisciplinary approaches. MRC provides a forum to exchange and discuss issues and ideas in a friendly, cooperative environment. Areas of interest include, but are not limited to: * Context and autonomy * Context and smart data * Generic and specific context models * Explicit representations of context * Context and visualisation * Trans- and interdisciplinary issues of context * Representation of and reasoning with uncertainty * Retrieval of context and context information * Socio-technical issues * Evaluation of contextualised applications * Explanation and context * Information ageing * Context focusing and context switching * Context management * Context awareness and context-sensitivity ======================================================================= Submissions ======================================================================= Submitted papers must be prepared according to the formatting guidelines, LaTeX Styles and Word template for IJCAI 2017, and submitted electronically in PDF format only through the EasyChair pages for MRC 2017. Authorship does not need to be anonymous, but you are free to submit papers with identifying information removed. Submissions must be original, and should not have been formally published or accepted for publication elsewhere. We also invite longer versions of papers published in short form elsewhere. Papers have to be submitted on the 16th of May, 2017 at the latest. Long papers are allowed eight (8) pages. An additional page containing the list of references is allowed, as long as this ninth page contains only references. Short papers, not exceeding three (3) pages, may be submitted for short oral presentation. Three members of the program committee will review each submission. A review form will direct committee members to evaluate submissions for appropriateness, technical strength, originality, presentation, and overall evaluation, as well as recording the reviewer's confidence in the topic. Author notification will be sent out on the 6th of June, 2017. The proceedings of the workshop will be published electronically and made freely available. Depending on the nature of submissions, the proceedings will be published through a suitable channel such as the CEUR Workshop Proceedings. Authors of accepted papers might be invited to submit extended versions for inclusion in a special journal issue on contextualised systems, if justified by the quantity and quality of submissions. The authors will be responsible for producing camera-ready copies of papers in PDF format, conforming to the formatting guidelines, for inclusion in the published proceedings. At least one author of each accepted paper is required to attend the workshop to present the contribution. ======================================================================= Important Dates ======================================================================= Papers due: May 16 Notification: June 6 Camera-ready: June 20 MRC Workshop: August 19.-21. (one day, exact date tbd) ======================================================================= Websites ======================================================================= More information about MRC and the paper submission process as well as paper templates can be found on the workshop website at: http://mrc.kriwi.de/ Submission System: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mrc2017 The IJCAI 2017 main conference website has more information about the location and registration process: http://ijcai-17.org/ ======================================================================= Organisation ======================================================================= Chairs J?rg Cassens Institute for Mathematics and Applied Informatics University of Hildesheim, Germany Rebekah Wegener Institute for English and American Studies RWTH Aachen University, Germany Audaxi - Discover a better way to learn. Sydney, Australia Anders Kofod-Petersen Alexandra Institute Copenhagen, Denmark Department of Computer and Information Sciences Norwegian University of Science and Technology Trondheim, Norway Contact all chairs at: mrc2017 at kriwi.de Program Committee (subject to amendments) Juan Carlos Augusto Middlesex University, UK Tarek Richard Besold University of Bremen, Germany Henning Christiansen Roskilde University, Denmark Adrian Clear Northumbria University, Newcastle University, UK Bozidara Cvetkovic Jozef Stefan Institute, Slovenia Martin Christof Kindsm?ller University of Applied Sciences Brandenburg, Germany Christian Kohlschein RWTH Aachen University, Germany David Leake Indiana University, USA Ana Gabriela Maguitman Universidad Nacional del Sur, Argentina Tobias Meisen RWTH Aachen University, Germany Stella Neumann RWTH Aachen University, Germany Maite Taboada Simon Fraser University Vancouver, Canada ======================================================================= Background to MRC ======================================================================= MRC is an interdisciplinary workshop with a focus on applications within computer science. Because of this focus the workshop primarily attracts participants from within the computer science community and specifically within artificial intelligence. However, MRC has always had a strong interdisciplinary appeal and does draw from fields such as linguistics, semiotics, philosophy, mathematics, cognitive science, social sciences and psychology as well as various sub-fields within computer science. MRC has traditionally been held at either the bi-annual International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Modeling and Using Context (CONTEXT) or AI-related conferences such as ECAI, IJCAI and AAAI. These workshops have been successful in raising awareness about the importance of context as a major issue for future intelligent systems, especially for the use of mobile devices and current research on ubiquitous computing. At the same time, advances in methodologies for modelling and retrieving context have been made and MRC continues to provide a venue for the discussion and furthering of research into issues surrounding context. MRC 2017 will be held at the the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2017) in Melbourne, Australia. The main conference website has more information about the location and the registration process as well as other workshops. Participants for MRC will have to register for IJCAI. In particular, at least one author of any paper accepted for presentation at MRC will have to register for the workshop at IJCAI. ======================================================================== Agenda ======================================================================== The workshop will last one full day and will have three main types of interaction. The first type will consist of short presentations of the accepted papers. The goal of these sessions is to introduce the work of all the participants. The second type will consist of two panel discussion sessions, each dedicated to one specific issue. The suggested issues are "Recognising Context in Autonomous Systems" and "Changing Context with Autonomous Systems", but are subject to change dependent on the interests of the attendees and the nature of submissions. The goal of these panels is to discuss the various approaches to each of these basic issues and to identify the critical problems in need of attention and the most promising research directions. The workshop will be concluded with the last type, an open, but guided discussion summarising the most important lessons learned. Industry representatives are invited to display context related demonstrations during the workshop. A detailed agenda will be published on our website before the workshop. -- Digital Media Lab Center for Computing and Communication Technologies (TZI) University of Bremen Email: Tarek.Besold at uni-bremen.de Web: http://www.cat-ai.org From Tommaso.Urli at data61.csiro.au Wed Apr 26 09:32:27 2017 From: Tommaso.Urli at data61.csiro.au (Tommaso.Urli at data61.csiro.au) Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2017 07:32:27 +0000 Subject: [DL] [ICLP 2017] Final Call for Papers Message-ID: <1493191945394.94388@data61.csiro.au> Apologies for double-posting. ************ DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACT EXTENDED TO April 26 *********** ************ PAPER SUBMISSION DEADLINE May 2 *********** ICLP 2017 Call for Papers ------------------------- The 33rd International Conference on Logic Programming (ICLP 2017) will take place in Melbourne, Australia alongside SAT 2017 and CP 2017, from August 28th to September 1st, 2017 which is the week immediately following IJCAI 2017. Full information at http://iclp17.a4lp.org Call for Papers at http://iclp17.a4lp.org/call_for_papers.html Conference Scope ---------------- Since the first conference held in Marseille 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 and Co-inductive Logic Programming, Constraint Logic Programming, Answer-Set Programming, SAT-Checking. - Applications: Databases, Big Data, Data Integration and Federation, Software Engineering, Natural Language Processing, Web and Semantic Web, Agents, Artificial Intelligence, Bioinformatics, and Education. In addition to the presentations of accepted papers, the technical program will include invited talks, advanced tutorials, the doctoral consortium, and several workshops. Important Dates ----------------------------------------------------------------- - Registration (abstract): 26 April, 2017 - Paper submission: 2 May, 2017 - Notification: 6 June, 2017 - Revision submission (TPLP only): 20 June, 2017 - Final notifications: 4 July, 2017 - Camera-ready copy: 18 July, 2017 - Conference: 28 Aug / 1 Sep, 2017 Submission Details ------------------ All submissions must be made via the EasyChair conference system (http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iclp2017). Submissions of regular papers (RPs) must follow the condensed TPLP format (template available from ICLP?s web page) and not exceed 14 pages including bibliography. RPs may be supplemented with appendices for proofs and details of datasets which do not count towards the page limit and which will be available as appendices to the published paper. Three kinds of RPs will be accepted: * Technical papers for technically sound, innovative ideas that can advance the state of logic programming; * Application papers that impact interesting application domains; * System and tool papers which emphasize novelty, practicality, usability, and availability of the systems and tools described. Application, system, and tool papers need to be clearly marked in their title. All submissions must be written in English and describe original, previously unpublished research, and must not simultaneously be submitted for publication elsewhere. These restrictions do not apply to previously accepted workshop papers with a limited audience and/or without archival proceedings. Papers of the highest quality will be selected to be published in the journal of Theory and Practice of Logic Programming (TPLP), Cambridge University Press (CUP). 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). The program committee may recommend some RPs to be published as Technical Communications (TCs). TCs will be published by Dagstuhl Publishing in the OpenAccess Series in Informatics (OASIcs). TCs must follow the OASIcs format (template available from ICLP?s web page) and not exceed 14 pages excluding the bibliography and a short appendix (up to 5 more pages). TC?s authors can also elect to convert their submissions into extended abstracts, of 2 or 3 pages, for inclusion in the OASIcs proceedings. This should allow authors to submit a long version elsewhere. All RPs and TCs will be presented during the conference. Authors of accepted papers will, by default, be automatically included in the list of ALP members, who will receive quarterly updates from the Logic Programming Newsletter at no cost. Conference Organization ----------------------- General Chairs: - Maria Garcia de la Banda Monash University, Australia - Guido Tack Monash University, Australia Program Chairs: - Ricardo Rocha University of Porto, Portugal - Tran Cao Son New Mexico State University, USA Workshop Chair: - Enrico Pontelli New Mexico State University, USA Publicity Chair: - Tommaso Urli Australian National University, Australia Sponsorship Chair: - Maria Garcia de la Banda Monash University, Australia Doctoral Consortium Chair (joint event with CP and SAT): - Neda Saeedloei University of Minnesota Duluth, USA - Christopher Mears Monash University, Australia Programming Contest Chairs: - Paul Fodor Stony Brook University, USA - Graeme Gange University of Melbourne, Australia Web Presence: - Tommaso Urli Australian National University, Australia Program Committee ----------------- See full program committee at http://iclp17.a4lp.org/program_committee.html Workshops --------- The ICLP 2017 program will include several workshops. They are perhaps the best places for the presentation of preliminary work, underdeveloped novel ideas, and new open problems to a wide and interested audience with opportunities for intensive discussions and project collaboration. See call for workshop proposals at http://iclp17.a4lp.org/call_for_workshop_proposals Doctoral Consortium ------------------- The Thirteen Doctoral Consortium (DC) on Logic Programming [this year being co-organized and taking place together with CP 2017 and SAT 2017] provides research students with the opportunity to present and discuss their research directions, and to obtain feedback from both peers and experts in the field. Accepted participants will receive partial financial support to attend the event and the main conference. The best paper from the DC will be given the opportunity to present in a session of the main ICLP conference. Doctoral consortium position papers, of between 10 and 14 pages, will also be published as TCs. Conference Venue ---------------- The venue will be the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre. Melbourne is the second most populous city in Australia and the coastal capital of the south-eastern Australian state of Victoria. Set on the shores of beautiful Port Phillip Bay, Melbourne has been named the World?s Most Liveable City for six years running and it is widely recognised as the cultural and culinary capital of Australia. It is a safe, creative and multi-cultural city full of exciting places to see, delicious foods to eat, and excellent events to experience; from the Arts precinct to the river bank parks and gardens to the buzzing city centre and the hidden thrills of Melbourne?s laneways. It is also an air-hop away from breathtaking destinations like The Great Barrier Reef, Sydney and Uluru. The Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre (MCEC) is located on the banks of the iconic Yarra River in Melbourne's South Wharf. Given its central location, it has a huge variety of accommodation close-by, with more than 6000 rooms within walking distance. MCEC is easily accessible by public transport, particularly as the Melbourne's city centre has a free tram zone that makes it easier for tourists to move around the city. Related Events -------------- Several other AI events will be held in Melbourne and other parts of Australia close to these dates, offering attendees a variety of choices for an extended itinerary. These events will include the International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming (CP 2017) and the International Conference on Theory and Applications of Satisfiability Testing (SAT 2017), both co-located with ICLP 2017. The International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2017), the Australasian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AusAI 2017), the Australasian Conference on Data Mining (AusDM 2017), and the International Conference on Knowledge Science, Engineering, and Management (KSEM 2017) will all to be held in Melbourne one week before ICLP. The International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2017) will also be held in Sydney Australia shortly before ICLP 2017. Sponsors -------- The conference is sponsored by the Association for Logic Programming (ALP), the Association for Constraint Programming (ACP), Monash University, and CSIRO Data61. See the sponsor information at http://iclp17.a4lp.org/sponsors.html Financial Assistance -------------------- The Association for Logic Programming has funds to assist financially disadvantaged participants and, especially, students to enable them to attend the conference. Inquiries should be made to the general chairs. 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URL: From peter.schuller at marmara.edu.tr Thu Apr 27 10:51:34 2017 From: peter.schuller at marmara.edu.tr (Peter =?iso-8859-1?q?Sch=FCller?=) Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2017 11:51:34 +0300 (+03) Subject: [DL] Call for Participation: International Conference on Logic Programming and Non-monotonic Reasoning, Finland, 3-6 July 2017 Message-ID: <20170427085134.63AD82C01F2@omsievews> Call for Participation --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 14th International Conference on Logic Programming and Non-monotonic Reasoning LPNMR 2017 http://lpnmr2017.aalto.fi/ Hanasaari, Espoo, Finland July 3-6, 2017 !!! Early registration deadline is May 26, 2017 !!! !!! All LPNMR workshops are accepting submissions until May 1, 2017 !!! --------------------------------------------------------------------------- REGISTRATION Early registration deadline is May 26, 2017. For more information, visit: http://lpnmr2017.aalto.fi/registration.html ACCEPTED PAPERS, PROGRAM, INVITED SPEAKERS The conference program, including accepted papers and invited speaker information can be found at http://lpnmr2017.aalto.fi/program.html All LPNMR workshops are accepting submissions until May 1, 2017!! For details, see: http://lpnmr2017.aalto.fi/workshops.html AIMS AND SCOPE LPNMR 2017 is the fourteenth in the series of international meetings on logic programming and non-monotonic reasoning. LPNMR is a forum for exchanging ideas on declarative logic programming, non-monotonic reasoning, and knowledge representation. The aim of the conference is to facilitate interactions between researchers and practitioners interested in the design and implementation of logic-based programming languages and database systems, and those working in knowledge representation and nonmonotonic reasoning. LPNMR strives to encompass theoretical and experimental studies that have led or will lead to advances in declarative programming and knowledge representation, as well as their use in practical applications. This edition of LPNMR will feature several workshops and a special session dedicated to the 7th ASP Competition. A Doctoral Consortium will also be a part of the program. INVITED SPEAKERS Joao Leite, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal Tran Cao Son, New Mexico State University, Las Cruses, New Mexico, USA Francesca Toni, Imperial College, London, UK ASSOCIATED EVENTS WORKSHOPS - LPNMR 2017 will include specialized workshops to be held on July 3 prior to the main conference. Currently planned workshops include: - Answer Set Programming and Other Computing Paradigms (ASPOCP) Organizers: Bart Bogaerts and Amelia Harrison - Defeasible and Ampliative Reasoning (DARe) Organizers: Richard Booth, Giovanni Casini, and Ivan Varzinczak - Grounding and Transformations for Theories with Variables (GTTV) Organizers: Simona Perri and Shahab Tasharrofi - Knowledge Representation and Planning for Robotics and Autonomous Systems (KPRAS) Organizers: Fangkai Yang and Shiqi Zhang - Practical Aspects of Answer Set Programming (PAoASP) Organizers: Martin Gebser, Marco Maratea, and Francesco Ricca - User-Oriented Logic Paradigms (IULP) Organizers: Stefan Ellmauthaler and Claudia Schulz ASP COMPETITION - A special session dedicated to a discussion of the 7th ASP System Competition, including the methodology of the competition, benchmarks used, lessons learned and, most importantly, the results and the announcement of the winners. DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM - A mentoring event where PhD students have a change to present their current research, get feedback from peers and senior researchers, and establish contacts for the future. FURTHER INFORMATION WWW: lpnmr2017.aalto.fi/ email: lpnmr2017 at list dot aalto dot fi VENUE Espoo, the second largest and the fastest growing city in Finland, is located right next to the capital Helsinki in the coastal Finland. Espoo is Northern Europe's largest high-tech and innovation hub where science, business and culture meet the wilderness of Nuuksio National Park and stunning seaside environment. Espoo's location offers excellent traffic connections: only half an hour from the international airport and harbors. The main campus of Aalto University is situated in Espoo. The LPNMR 2017 conference will be held in the Hanasaari Conference center that is located on an island of its own and is only 15 minutes away from Helsinki center by public transport. For travel & lodging information, visit: http://lpnmr2017.aalto.fi/travel.html PROGRAM CHAIRS Marcello Balduccini, Drexel University, USA Tomi Janhunen, Aalto University, Finland PUBLICITY CHAIR Peter Sch?ller, Marmara University, Turkey WORKSHOPS CHAIR Joohyung Lee, Arizona State University, USA DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM CHAIR Marina De Vos, University of Bath, UK 7TH ASP COMPETITION ORGANIZERS Martin Gebser, University of Potsdam, Germany Marco Maratea, University of Genoa, Italy Francesco Ricca, University of Calabria, Italy PROGRAM COMMITTEE Jose Julio Alferes, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal Marcello Balduccini, Drexel University, USA Chitta Baral, Arizona State University, USA Bart Bogaerts, KU Leuven, Belgium Gerhard Brewka, Leipzig University, Germany Pedro Cabalar, University of Corunna, Spain Francesco Calimeri, University of Calabria, Italy Stefania Costantini, University of L'Aquila, Italy James Delgrande, Simon Fraser University, Canada Marc Denecker, K.U.Leuven, Belgium Marina De Vos, University of Bath, UK Agostino Dovier, University of Udine, Italy Thomas Eiter, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Wolfgang Faber, University of Huddersfield, UK Paul Fodor, Stony Brook University, USA Alfredo Gabaldon, GE Global Research, USA Martin Gebser, University of Potsdam, Germany Michael Gelfond, Texas Tech University, USA Giovanni Grasso, Oxford University, UK Giovambattista Ianni, University of Calabria, Italy Daniela Inclezan, Miami University, USA Tomi Janhunen, Aalto University, Finland Matthias Knorr, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal Joohyung Lee, Arizona State University, USA Yuliya Lierler, University of Nebraska at Omaha, USA Vladimir Lifschitz, University of Texas at Austin, USA Fangzhen Lin, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong Marco Maratea, University of Genoa, Italy Alessandra Mileo, National University of Ireland, Ireland Emilia Oikarinen, Finnish Institute of Occupational Health, Finland Mauricio Osorio, Universidad de las Americas Puebla, Mexico Ravi Palla, GE Global Research, USA David Pearce, Universidad Polit?cnica de Madrid, Spain Axel Polleres, Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria Enrico Pontelli, New Mexico State University, USA Christoph Redl, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Alessandra Russo, Imperial College, United Kingdom Orkunt Sabuncu, University of Potsdam, Germany Chiaki Sakama, Wakayama University, Japan Torsten Schaub, University of Potsdam, Germany Peter Sch?ller, Marmara University, Turkey Tran Cao Son, New Mexico State University, USA Hannes Strass, Leipzig University, Germany Theresa Swift, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal Shahab Tasharrofi, Aalto University, Finland Eugenia Ternovska, Simon Fraser University, Canada Hans Tompits, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Mirek Truszczynski, University of Kentucky, USA Agustin Valverde, Universidad de M?laga, 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 Yi Zhou, University of Western Sydney, Australia (Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this email. Please distribute to interested parties.) From truewz at gmail.com Fri Apr 28 08:09:31 2017 From: truewz at gmail.com (Wang Zhe) Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2017 16:09:31 +1000 Subject: [DL] [CFP] The 7th Joint International Semantic Technology Conference (JIST 2017) Message-ID: Apologies for cross-posting ********** FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS The 7th Joint International Semantic Technology Conference (JIST 2017) http://ict.griffith.edu.au/aist/jist2017 November 10-12, 2017 (Fri - Sun) Gold Coast, Australia The mission of the Joint International Semantic Technology Conference (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. In this announcement: 1. Important Dates 2. Recommendation to SCI Journals 3. Call for Papers 4. Submission Guide 5. Organization ============================================================= 1. Important Dates - Abstract submission: 23:59 (Hawaii Time), August 1, 2017 - Full paper submission: 23:59 (Hawaii Time), August 8, 2017 - Notification of Acceptance: September 8, 2017 - Camera-ready Deadline: September 25, 2017 - Conference: November 10-12, 2017 ============================================================= 2. Recommendation to SCI Journals A number of best papers accepted at JIST 2017 will be invited to present at the Meet the Editor session of SCI indexed journals, including International Journal on Semantic Web and Information Systems (IJSWIS), for fast-track publication in a special issue in these journals. Up to five papers will be selected and published. An indicative timeline is given below: - Manuscript revision proposal: mid November 2017 - Submission of revised manuscript: mid January 2018 - Notification of acceptance: mid March 2018 - Publication: second half 2018 ============================================================= 3. Call for Papers -------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Research Track Papers -------------------------------------------------------------- JIST 2017 research track solicits submissions of original research work on semantic technologies. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Ontology and reasoning - Knowledge Graph - Linked Data - Big Data and semantics, exchange and integration - Data streams and the Internet of Things - Machine learning and information extraction on the Semantic Web - Semantic Web services and processes - Trust, privacy, and security on the Semantic Web - Social Semantic Web - Natural language processing and semantics - Semantic multimedia - Novel applications of semantic technologies -------------------------------------------------------------- Call for In-Use Track Papers -------------------------------------------------------------- Quality shared resources such as public ontologies, datasets and software are highly valuable to the research community, hence, JIST 2017 in-use track also calls for submissions of public, shared resources of interest to the Semantic Web community. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Description of an implemented application - Description of concrete problems - Analysis and evaluation of semantic tools - Lessons learned and best practices - Linked Data, open data and vocabularies in production use - Semantic resources - Semantic technology in new application domains -------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Special Track Papers -------------------------------------------------------------- The philosophy behind Special Tracks is to facilitate the proactive participation of researchers from certain fields or communities who have linked the semantic technology with their research fields. Special Tracks accept 8-page short papers that will be reviewed in the same way as the Research Track papers and will be included in the Proceedings if accepted. In JIST2017, we have a special track on Semantic Processing for Knowledge Graphs Semantic technologies such as Linked Data promote publication of various data and knowledge on the web with semantic links among them. They form huge sized knowledge bases called Knowledge Graphs in a large variety of domains. An important technical feature of Knowledge Graphs is their rich semantics. This special track focuses on semantics of Knowledge Graphs, especially on how to use their semantics towards practical applications. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: - Semantic processing and reasoning for Knowledge Graph - Application using semantics of Knowledge Graph - Modelling of semantics for Knowledge Graph - Development of Knowledge Graph (Ontology, Linked Data) -------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Poster & Demo Papers and Workshop Proposals -------------------------------------------------------------- JIST 2017 cordially invites you to submit Poster and Demo papers as well as workshop proposals. For details please check our website: http://ict.griffith.edu.au/aist/jist2017 ============================================================= 4. Submission Submissions to JIST 2017 should describe original, significant research on semantic technologies. JIST 2017 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. Submissions to JIST 2017 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, their originality, the technical soundness of their proposed approach and the readability of the submission. JIST 2017 submissions are not anonymous. 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 the Research and In-Use Tracks, and no longer than *8* pages for the Special Tracks. Submissions that exceed these limits may be rejected without review. Submissions to the In-Use Track that are less than 16 pages can be considered. Accepted papers will be published in an LNCS proceedings. At least one author of each accepted paper must register for the conference and present the paper there. Papers can be submitted electronically via https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=jist2017. Please select the corresponding tracks when you submit your paper(s). ============================================================= 5. Organization General Chairs - Thepchai Supnithi, National Electronics and Computer Technology Center, Thailand - Kewen Wang, Griffith University, Australia Program Chairs - Anni-Yasmin Turhan, University of Dresden, Germany - Zhe Wang, Griffith University, Australia Organized by: JIST Steering Committee -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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These concepts are organized in conceptual structures that may range from partial orders to lattices of special types and that comprise data dependencies. Due to the richness of its structures, FCA contributes to several domains including artificial intelligence, data mining, information retrieval, knowledge management, data and knowledge engineering, logic, algebra, and lattice theory. The research in the domain is very active and many applications are proposed in such various fields as natural language processing, life and social sciences, image processing, and software engineering, where large datasets are present. The International Conference on Concept Lattices and Their Applications (CLA) is one of the most important events of the FCA community (http://cla.inf.upol.cz/). It aims to provide a forum for researchers involved in all aspects of the study of FCA, from theory and methodology to tools and practical applications. In 2016, the event was organized and hosted by the National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia. We hereby cordially invite authors of CLA 2016 publications as well as other FCA researchers to contribute to this special issue of /Discrete Applied Mathematics/. Submissions should relate to the themes of the conference, including but not restricted to: - foundations - concept lattices and related structures - attribute implications and data dependencies - algorithms - visualization - data preprocessing - redundancy and dimensionality reduction - information retrieval - classification - clustering - association rules and other data dependencies - ontologies - applications This is an open call; submissions of contributions not presented at CLA 2016 are also welcome. Contributions arising from papers given at the conference should be substantially extended, and should cite the conference paper where appropriate. All articles will be thoroughly refereed according to the high standards of /Discrete Applied Mathematics/. The full papers must be submitted through the Elsevier Editorial System (*http://ees.elsevier.com/dam*). When submitting your paper, be sure to specify that the paper is a contribution for the Special Issue of *CLA 2016*, so that your paper is assigned to the guest editors. Please see the Author Instructions on the site if you have not yet submitted a paper through this web-based system. Be sure to select the article type *S.I.: CLA 2016.* The deadline for submission is *September 15, 2017*. Accepted papers will be published online individually, before print publication. 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URL: From andrea.orlandini at istc.cnr.it Tue May 2 10:45:56 2017 From: andrea.orlandini at istc.cnr.it (AndreA Orlandini) Date: Tue, 2 May 2017 10:45:56 +0200 Subject: [DL] Call for Papers - GandALF 2017 - International Symposium on Games, Automata, Logics, and Formal Verification - Rome - 20-22 September 2017 Message-ID: **** Apologies for multiple postings **************************************** ***************************************************************************** CALL FOR PAPERS - GandALF 2017 ***************************************************************************** The Eighth International Symposium on Games, Automata, Logics, and Formal Verification will be held in Rome (Italy) on 20-21-22 September 2017. ****http://gandalf2017.istc.cnr.it ***************************************** The aim of GandALF 2017 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. 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 IMPORTANT DATES ****************** ? Abstract submission: May 19, 2017 ? Paper submission: May 26, 2017 ? Notification: July 7, 2017 ? Camera-ready: July 31, 2017 - Conference: Sept. 20-22, 2017 PUBLICATIONS ****************** The proceedings will be published by Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science. Authors of the best papers will be invited to submit a revised version of their work to a special issue of a journal (in progress). The previous editions of GandALF already led to special issues of the International Journal of Foundations of Computer Science (GandALF 2010), Theoretical Computer Science (GandALF 2011 and 2012), Information and Computation (GandALF 2013, 2014, and 2016, the latter one still in progress), and Acta Informatica (GandALF 2015). SUBMISSIONS ****************** Submitted papers should not exceed fourteen (14) pages using EPTCS format (please use the LaTeX style provided athttp://style.eptcs.org), 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 the EasyChair Conference system at the following address:https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=gandalf2017 INVITED SPEAKERS ****************** - Ranko Lazic, Department of Computer Science, University of Warwick, U.K. - Michael Wooldridge, Head of Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford, U.K. AIxIA CALL FOR SCHOLARSHIP ****************** The Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence offers travel grants, which partially support the registration fees, travel, accommodation and meal expenses, for the participation of students in GandALF 2017. The candidates should send the travel grant application to Andrea Orlandini (by email gandalf.2017 at istc.cnr.it) by 30/07/2017 More info here: http://gandalf2017.istc.cnr.it/aixia-call-for-scholarships/ PROGRAM CHAIRS ****************** Patricia Bouyer-Decitre LSV, CNRS & ENS de Cachan, France Pierluigi San Pietro, Politecnico di Milano, Italy GENERAL CHAIR ****************** Amedeo Cesta, ISTC-CNR, Italy CONFERENCE CHAIR ****************** Andrea Orlandini, ISTC-CNR, Italy PROGRAMME COMMITTEE ****************** Parosh A. Abdulla (Uppsala University, Sweden) Benedikt Bollig (LSV, Cachan, France) Patricia Bouyer (LSV, Cachan, France) Tomas Brazdil (Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic) Marta Cialdea Mayer (University of Roma, Italy) Thomas Colcombet (IRIF, Paris, France) Bernd Finkbeiner (Saarland University, Germany) Hugo Gimbert (LaBRI, Bordeaux, France) Rasmus Ibsen-Jensen (IST, Vienna, Austria) Angelo Montanari (University of Udine, Italy) Andrea Orlandini (CNR Roma, Italy) Doron Peled (Bar Ilan University, Israel) R. Ramanujam (IMSc, Chennai, India) Mickael Randour (ULB, Brussels, Belgium) Matteo Rossi (Politecnico di Milano, Italy) Pierluigi San Pietro (Politecnico di Milano, Italy) STEERING COMMITTEE ****************** Luca Aceto, School of Computer Science, Reykjavik University, Iceland Javier Esparza, University of Munich, Germany Salvatore La Torre, University of Salerno, Italy Angelo Montanari, University of Udine, Italy Mimmo Parente, University of Salerno, Italy Wolfgang Thomas, Aachen University, Germany -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- AndreA Orlandini PhD National Research Council of Italy Institute for Cognitive Science and Technology Phone: +39-06-44595-223 E-mail:andrea.orlandini at istc.cnr.it Fax: +39-06-44595-243 Url:http://www.istc.cnr.it/group/pst --------------------------------------------------------------------- Me, the one and only person that never leaves me alone! -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From annalisa.gentile at ibm.com Wed May 3 13:28:57 2017 From: annalisa.gentile at ibm.com (annalisa gentile) Date: Wed, 3 May 2017 04:28:57 -0700 Subject: [DL] [CfP] ISWC 2017 - final call for contributions Message-ID: 16th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2017) Vienna, Austria, October 21-25, 2017 ******************************************* *** Deadlines reminder highlight - May 2017 *** Less than two weeks left for Research, In-Use, Resources tracks: *** Abstract May 8 *** Full paper May 15 *** Doctoral Consortium: May 25 ******************************************* Website: http://iswc2017.semanticweb.org Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/113652365383847 Twitter: @iswc2017 (https://twitter.com/ISWC2017) Overview calls: http://iswc2017.semanticweb.org/calls/ In this announcement: 1. Call for Papers 2. HTML Submission Guide 3. Accepted Workshops and Tutorials 4. Student Grants 5. Important dates 1. Call for Papers ========================================== -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Research Track Papers -------------------------------------------------------------------------- The International Semantic Web Conference is the premier venue for presenting fundamental research, innovative technology, and applications concerning semantics, data, and the Web. In this track of ISWC 2017, we are looking for novel and significant research contributions addressing theoretical, analytical and empirical aspects of the Semantic Web. While we welcome work that relates to the W3C Semantic Web recommendations (e.g., RDF, OWL, SPARQL, etc.), we also encourage contributions to research at the intersection of Semantic Web and other scientific disciplines. Submissions to the research track should describe original, significant research on the Semantic Web, and are expected to provide some principled means of evaluation. Specifically, all papers should include evaluations of the approaches described in the paper. We strongly encourage evaluations that are repeatable. We also strongly encourage papers that provide links to: the data sets, source code, queries used to evaluate their approach, live deployment. All papers will be assessed by a program committee. Each paper will be reviewed by at least four committee members, including one senior member. The review criteria is specified in the call. Before submitting, authors are asked to consult the calls of the other tracks featured at ISWC 2017 and to choose the track that best suits their contribution. The submission of the same work to multiple tracks is not allowed and may result in a rejection of the work across all tracks without a review. Detailed info: http://iswc2017.semanticweb.org/calls/call-for-research-track-papers/ Program Chairs * Claudia d?Amato, University of Bari, Bari, Italy * Miriam Fernandez, KMi, The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for In-Use Track Papers -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Semantic technologies are reaching maturity on and off the web, through ontology based data integration, the increase in their use to publish, structure, store and make sense of web data, whether they are in the form of linked data, through schema.org, or even with semantics included in other data formats than RDF (CSV, JSON, etc). The In-Use track at ISWC 2017 provides a forum for the community to explore the benefits and challenges of applying semantic technologies in concrete, practical applications, in contexts ranging from industry to government and science. We are especially interested in applications that use the emerging knowledge graphs or semantic annotations on the web together with data mining, machine learning, or natural language processing techniques to the benefit of concrete, real-life scenarios. We are also looking for descriptions of applied and validated industry solutions as software tools, systems or architecture that benefit from the adoption of semantic technologies. Importantly, papers presenting applications in use of semantic technologies should provide evidence that there is use of the proposed application or tool by the target user group, preferably outside the group that conducted the development. A main focus of the submission should be on the way semantics and semantic technologies are impacting this development, through benefiting the intended use case, as well as, if relevant, through the added challenges they introduce. Detailed info: http://iswc2017.semanticweb.org/calls/call-for-in-use-track-papers/ Program Chairs * Philippe Cudre-Maroux, University of Fribourg, Fribourg, Switzerland * Juan Sequeda, Capsenta, Austin, TX, USA -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Resources Track Papers -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Many of the research efforts in in the areas of the Semantic Web and Linked Data focus on publishing scientific papers that prove a hypothesis. However, scientific advancement is often reliant good quality resources, that are the necessary scaffolding to support the scientific publications, even though these are not usually equally recognised. Sharing these resources and the best practices that have lead to their development with the research community is crucial to consolidate research material, ensure reproducibility of results and in general gain new scientific insights. The ISWC 2017 Resources Track aims to promote the sharing of resources including, but not restricted to, datasets, ontologies, vocabularies, workflows, evaluation benchmarks or methods, replication studies, services, APIs and software that have contributed to the generation of novel scientific work. In particular, we encourage the sharing of such resources following best and well established practices within the Semantic Web community. This track calls for contributions that provide a concise and clear description of a resource and its usage. We also encourage submissions that illustrate new types of resources such as ontology design patterns, crowdsourcing task designs, workflows, methodologies, protocols and measures, etc. Detailed info: http://iswc2017.semanticweb.org/calls/call-for-resources-track-papers/ Program Chairs * Valentina Tamma, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK * Freddy Lecue, Accenture/INRIA, Dublin, Ireland, Sophia Antipolis, France -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Posters and Demos Papers -------------------------------------------------------------------------- The ISWC 2017 Posters and Demonstrations complement the paper tracks of the conference and offer an opportunity for presenting late-breaking research results, on-going research projects, and speculative or innovative work in progress. The informal setting of the Posters and Demonstrations encourages presenters and participants to engage in discussions about the work. Such discussions can be invaluable inputs for the future work of the presenters, while offering participants an effective way to broaden their knowledge of the emerging research trends and to network with other researchers. We invite submissions relevant to the area of the Semantic Web and which address, but are not limited to, the topics of the Research Track; the In-Use Track; and the Resources Track. Technical posters, reports on Semantic Web software systems (free or commercial), descriptions of completed work, and work in progress are all welcome. Demonstrations are intended to showcase innovative Semantic Web related implementations and technologies, both in academia and in industry. We explicitly welcome entries from the industry. However, submissions for posters and demos should go beyond pure advertisements of commercial software packages and convey a minimal scientific contribution. Authors of full papers accepted for the Research Track; the In-Use Track; and the Resources Track are explicitly invited to submit a demonstration. Detailed info: http://iswc2017.semanticweb.org/calls/call-for-posters-and-demos/ Program Chairs * Nadeschda Nikitina, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK * Dezhao Song, Thomson Reuters, Eagan, MN, USA -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Industry Track Contributions -------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Industry Track seeks to present the state of adoption of semantic technologies in industrial applications. These technologies may be used in specific industries (e.g., media, financials, telecommunications, healthcare, life sciences, government, intelligence, etc.) or as a horizontal technology, and in different application areas (e.g., business intelligence, analytics, search, content management, knowledge management, recommendation systems, data integration, etc.). We welcome contributions about success stories as well as experiences and discussions of obstacles that stand in the way of large scale adoption of certain technologies. Particular emphasis should be put on the demonstration of business value created by using the semantic technologies. Come and join us at the ISWC 2017 industry track to share your experience! Detailed info: http://iswc2017.semanticweb.org/calls/call-for-contributions-industry-track-iswc-2017/ Program Chairs * Achille Fokoue, IBM Yorktown, NY, USA * Peter Haase, metaphacts, Walldorf, Germany -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Doctoral Consortium papers -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. Generally, students at the end of their first year, in their second or at the beginning of their third year of PhD will benefit the most from the Doctoral Consortium. In the Consortium, the students will present their proposals, get specific feedback and advice on how to improve their research plan and discuss other students? proposals. 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. We anticipate that students with accepted submissions at the Doctoral Consortium will receive travel fellowships to offset some of the travel costs but they will be asked to attend the whole day of the Doctoral Consortium. Detailed info: http://iswc2017.semanticweb.org/calls/doctoral-consortium/ Program Chairs * Lora Aroyo, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands * Fabien Gandon, INRIA Sophia-Antipolis, France 2. HTML Submission Guide ========================================== As for the previous ISWC edition, we allow for the submission of articles formatted using HTML. Authors choosing to submit using HTML still need to comply with the page limit and layout requirements of the conference. It?s the author?s responsibility to ensure that reviewers can easily access their submission. Detailed info on HTML submission and link to helpful tools can be found at: http://iswc2017.semanticweb.org/calls/html-submission-guide/ 3. Student Grants ========================================== If you are a student interested in attending ISWC 2017 you may be eligible to apply for a grant to support the costs of travel and lodging. This year, travel grants are funded by the Semantic Web Science Association (SWSA) and the US National Science Foundation (NSF). The deadline for applying for an ISWC 2017 travel award is August 31st, 2017. Further info on the application process at: https://iswc2017.semanticweb.org/attending/student-travel-grants/ Student Coordinators * Lalana Kagal, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, MA, USA * Gianluca Demartini, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK 4. Accepted Workshops and Tutorials ========================================== Tutorials (https://iswc2017.semanticweb.org/program/tutorials/): [KGC] Constructing Domain-specific Knowledge Graphs [StreamApp] How to Build a Stream Reasoning Application [HDT] HDT: Queryable Compression Format for Linked Data [MT4OBDA] Methods and Tools for Developing Ontology-Based Data Access Solutions [SemDaPra] Semantic Data Management in Practice [SWoTIoT] Semantic Web meets Internet of Things (IoT) and Web of Things (WoT) [RegLGD] Representation and Querying for Linked Geospatial Data Workshops (https://iswc2017.semanticweb.org/program/workshops/): [HSSUE] Hybrid Statistical Semantic Understanding and Emerging Semantics [VOILA] Visualization and Interaction for Ontologies and Linked Data [WOP] Ontology Design and Patterns [S4BioDiv] Semantics for Biodiversity [OM] Ontology Matching [WHiSe] Humanities in the Semantic Web [SemSci] Enabling Open Semantic Science [SemStats] Semantic Statistics [PROFILES] Dataset PROFlLing and fEderated Search for Web Data [DeSemWeb] Decentralizing the Semantic Web [MaCSeW] Managing Changes in the Semantic Web [BlkMirror] Re-coding Black Mirror [PrivOn] Society, Privacy and the Semantic Web - Policy and Technology [SWIT] Semantic Web Technologies for the IoT [LD4IE] Linked Data for Information Extraction [WOMoCoE] Ontology Modularity, Contextuality, and Evolution [BLINK] Benchmarking Linked Data [NLIWOD] Natural Language Interfaces for the Web of Data [WSP] Web Stream Processing Workshops & Tutorials Chairs * Aidan Hogan, Universidad de Chile Santiago, Santiago, Chile * Valentina Presutti, Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies, CNR, Rome, Italy 5. Important Dates ========================================== Abstracts due (Research, In-Use, Resources tracks) May 8, 2017 Submissions due (Research, In-Use, Resources tracks) May 15, 2017 Doctoral Consortium submissions due May 25, 2017 Registration starts June 1, 2017 Doctoral Consortium notifications sent June 30, 2017 Author rebuttal period (Research, In-Use, Resources tracks) June 23-27, 2017 Submissions due (Industry track) July 10, 2017 Notifications sent (Research, In-Use, Resources tracks) July 14, 2017 Camera-ready papers for Doctoral Consortium due July 18, 2017 Workshop paper submissions due July 21, 2017 Poster & Demo submissions due July 27, 2017 Camera-ready papers due (Research, In-Use, Resources tracks) July 28, 2017 Notifications sent (Industry track) July 31, 3017 Workshop paper notifications sent August 24, 2017 Poster & Demo notifications sent August 24, 2017 Student activity applications due August 31, 2017 Final version industry track papers due August 31, 2017 Camera-ready copies for Poster & Demo due September 4, 2017 The last day for early registrations September 8, 2017 Workshops & Tutorials October 21 & 22, 2017 Conference October 23, 24 & 25, 2017 We thank our generous gold sponsors Siemens, Thomson Reuters and Semantic Web Company for their support. 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The conference, which addresses all aspects of artificial intelligence, is being organized by LRG (http://www.lrg.global) and the University of Miami. The program chairs are Christoph Benzmueller, Christine Lisetti and Martin Theobald. The conference chair is Geoff Sutcliffe. SUBMISSION Submissions in all areas of artifical intelligence are welcome. Suggested topics include, but are not limited to: Foundations + Knowledge representation + Cognitive modeling + Perception + Search + Reasoning and programming + Machine learning + Constraints and uncertainty Architectures + Agents and distributed AI + Intelligent user interfaces + Natural language systems and linguistics + Information retrieval + Case-based reasoning + Affective computing + Robotics Applications + Aviation and aerospace + Education and tutoring systems + Games and entertainment + Law and Machine Ethics + Mathematics and the Sciences + Medicine and healthcare + Management and manufacturing + World Wide Web + Security Implications + Philosophical foundations + Social impact and ethics + Evaluation of AI systems + AI education DATES + Abstract registration: 30 June, 2017 + Submission: 7 July, 2017 + Notification: 11 August, 2017 + Final version: 25 August, 2017 + Early registration deadline: tab + Workshops: 18 October 2017 + Conference: 19-22 October, 2016 SUBMISSION and PUBLICATION Submission is via EasyChair at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=gcai2017 The proceedings will be published by EasyChair Publications in the EPiC Series in Computing. The volume will be open access and authors will retain copyright. INVITED SPEAKERS + Guy van den Broeck, UCLA, USA + Marijn Heule, University of Texas at Austin, USA + tba PROGRAMME COMMITTEE Jose Julio Alferes (Universidade NOVA de Lisboa) Serge Autexier (DFKI) Peter Baumgartner (National ICT Australia) Christoph Benzmueller (Freie Universitaet Berlin) - chair Philippe Besnard (CNRS / IRIT) Richard Booth (Cardiff University) James Delgrande (Simon Fraser University) Wolfgang Faber (University of Huddersfield) Gerhard Friedrich (Alpen-Adria-Universitaet Klagenfurt) Thom Fruehwirth (University of Ulm) Daniel Garijo (UCLA) Ernesto Jimenez-Ruiz (University of Oxford) Gabriele Kern-Isberner (Technische Universitaet Dortmund) Roman Kontchakov (Birkbeck, University of London) Tim Landgraf (Freie Universitaet Berlin) Jerome Lang (CNRS, LAMSADE, Universite Paris-Dauphine) Sanjiang Li (University of Technology Sydney) Christine Lisetti (Florida International University) - chair Ana Gabriela Maguitman (Universidad Nacional del Sur) George Metcalfe (University of Bern) Angelo Montanari (University of Udine) Till Mossakowski (University of Magdeburg) Xavier Parent (University of Luxembourg) Radu-Emil Precup (Politehnica University of Timisoara) Dumitru Roman (SINTEF / University of Oslo) Marco Roveri (FBK-irst) Steven Schockaert (Cardiff University) Magy Seif El-Nasr (Northeastern University) Thomas Stuetzle (Universite Libre de Bruxelles (ULB)) Martin Theobald (Universite du Luxembourg) - chair Juergen Umbrich (Vienna University of Economy and Business (WU)) *** further PC members will be added *** From mfinger at ime.usp.br Tue May 2 17:05:46 2017 From: mfinger at ime.usp.br (Marcelo Finger) Date: Tue, 2 May 2017 12:05:46 -0300 Subject: [DL] IJCAI 2017 Workshop on Logical Foundations for Uncertainty and Learning Message-ID: IJCAI 2017 Workshop on Logical Foundations for Uncertainty and Learning http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/vbelle/workshops/lfu17/ Overview The purpose of this workshop is to promote logical foundations for reasoning and learning under uncertainty. Uncertainty is inherent in many AI applications, and coping with this uncertainty, in terms of preferences, probabilities and weights, is essential for the system to operate purposefully. In the same vein, expecting a domain modeler to completely characterize a system is often unrealistic, and so enabling mechanisms by means of which the system can infer and learn about the environment is needed. While probabilistic reasoning and Bayesian learning has enjoyed many successes and is central to our current understanding of the data revolution, a deeper investigation on the underlying semantical issues as well as principled ways of extending the frameworks to richer settings is what this workshop strives for. Broadly speaking, we aim to bring together the many communities focused on uncertainty reasoning and learning -- including knowledge representation, machine learning, logic programming and databases -- by focusing on the logical underpinnings of the approaches and techniques. Given the intent of the workshop, we encourage two categories of submissions: On the practical side, we solicit papers that propose ways to bridge conventional learning and inference techniques with deductive and inductive reasoning. Driven by the successes of relational graphical models and statistical relational learning, we especially encourage papers that emphasize or demonstrate non-standard logical features in systems, e.g. the ability to handle infinite domains, existential uncertainty and/or function symbols. On the foundations side, we solicit papers that explicate the use of weights in reasoning and learning, e.g. the use of weight functions such as degrees of belief, preferences, and truth degrees. We especially encourage papers that demonstrate how non-standard weight functions for reasoning and learning can be better integrated with existing probabilistic methods. The idea, then, is to foster collaboration between machine learning practitioners and the weighted logic community. For example, we encourage papers that revisit the learning objectives and inference methodologies of existing systems, and propose novel semantical frameworks to understand them. In essence, this workshop builds on and extends the scope of the successful series WL4AI (Weighted Logics for Artificial Intelligence: ECAI-2012, IJCAI-2013, IJCAI-2015) in additionally looking at the semantical foundations of machine learning and exploring practical issues. Topics include (but are not limited to): Probabilistic and weighted databases and knowledge bases Integration of deductive and inductive reasoning with Bayesian inference and learning Semantical foundations for machine learning Logics for data-intensive information processing, such as data fusion Extension of statistical relational learning with generic weight functions Declarative methods for inference and learning Paper Format and Submission We invite technical papers (up to 6 pages), position papers (up to 2 pages). We invite submissions describing either work in progress or mature work that has already been published at other research venues and would be of interest to researchers working on the themes above. Submission of previously published work in whole or in part may be in the form of a resubmission of a previous paper, or in the form of a position paper that overviews and cites a body of work. All papers should be typeset in the IJCAI style, described at http://ijcai-17.org/FormattingGuidelinesIJCAI-17.zip Papers should be submitted via EasyChair at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lfu17 Please see the website for up to date information (including submission procedure): http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/vbelle/workshops/lfu17/ Important Dates Paper Submission: May 15 Author Notification: June 8 Camera ready: July 15 Workshop Date: August 19 Organizing Committee Vaishak Belle, University of Edinburgh, vaishak(at)ed.ac.uk Marcelo Finger, University of Sao Paulo, mfinger(at)ime.usp.br James Cussens, University of York, james.cussens(at)york.ac.uk Guilin Qi, Southeast University, China, gqi(at)seu.edu.cn Henri Prade, Universite Paul Sabatier, France, prade(at)irit.fr Lluis Godo, IIIA CSIC, Spain, godo(at)iiia.csic.es Program Committee Fabio Cozman, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil Jesse Davies, KU Leuven, Belgium Adnan Darwiche, UCLA, USA Didier Dubois, IRIT, France Esra Erdem, Sabanci University, Turkey Linda van der Gaag, Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands Tommaso Flaminio, University of Insubria, Italy Vibhav Gogate, University of Texas at Dallas, USA Joe Halpern, Cornell University, USA Manfred Jaeger, Aalborg University, Denmark Souhila Kaci, University Montpellier, France Gabriele Kern-Isberner, Technical University of Dortmund, Germany Gerhard Lakemeyer, RWTH Aachen University, Germany Churn-Jung Liau, Academia Sinica, Taiwan Emiliano Lorini, IRIT, France Thomas Lukasiewicz, University of Oxford, UK Carsten Lutz, University of Bremen, Germany Denis Maua, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil Vanina Martinez, Universidad Nacional del Sur, Argentina Zoran Ognjanovic, Mathematical Institute SANU, Serbia Ron Petrick, Edinburgh, UK Rodrigo De Salvo Braz, SRI, USA Giuseppe Sanfilippo, Univ. Catania, Italy Steven Schockaert, Cardiff University, UK Guillermo Simari, Universidad Nacional del Sur, Argentina Umberto Straccia, CNR, Italy -- Marcelo Finger Departament of Computer Science, IME University of Sao Paulo http://www.ime.usp.br/~mfinger From pavel.shvaiko at unitn.it Tue May 2 16:31:36 2017 From: pavel.shvaiko at unitn.it (Pavel Shvaiko) Date: Tue, 2 May 2017 16:31:36 +0200 Subject: [DL] 1st CFP: ISWC'17 workshop on Ontology Matching (OM-2017) Message-ID: Apologies for cross-postings ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ FIRST CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Twelfth International Workshop on ONTOLOGY MATCHING (OM-2017) http://om2017.ontologymatching.org/ October 21st or 22nd, 2017, ISWC Workshop Program, Vienna, Austria BRIEF DESCRIPTION AND OBJECTIVES Ontology matching is a key interoperability enabler for the Semantic Web, as well as a useful technique in some classical data integration tasks dealing with the semantic heterogeneity problem. It takes 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 interlinking, query answering or process mapping. 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, especially with respect to data interlinking, process mapping and web table matching tasks. 2. To conduct an extensive and rigorous evaluation of ontology matching and instance matching (link discovery) approaches through the OAEI (Ontology Alignment Evaluation Initiative) 2017 campaign. 3. To examine new uses, 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) datasets, benchmarks and replication studies, services, software, methodologies, protocols and measures (not necessarily related to 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; Requirements to matching from specific application scenarios; Application of matching techniques in real-world scenarios; Formal foundations and frameworks for matching; Matching and big data; Matching and linked data; Instance matching, data interlinking and relations between them; Process model matching; Large-scale and efficient matching techniques; Matcher selection, combination and tuning; User involvement (including both technical and organizational aspects); Explanations in matching; Social and collaborative matching; Uncertainty in matching; Reasoning with alignments; Alignment coherence and debugging; Alignment management; Matching for traditional applications (e.g., information integration); Matching for emerging applications (e.g., search, web-services). 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 2017 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=om2017 Contributors to the OAEI 2017 campaign have to follow the campaign conditions and schedule at http://oaei.ontologymatching.org/2017. DATES FOR TECHNICAL PAPERS AND POSTERS: July 28, 2017: Deadline for the submission of papers. August 24, 2017: Deadline for the notification of acceptance/rejection. September 15, 2017: Workshop camera ready copy submission. October 21st or 22nd, 2017: OM-2017, Vienna, Austria. ORGANIZING COMMITTEE 1. Pavel Shvaiko (main contact) Informatica Trentina, Italy 2. J?r?me Euzenat INRIA & Univ. Grenoble Alpes, France 3. Ernesto Jim?nez-Ruiz University of of Oslo, Norway 4. Michelle Cheatham Wright State University, USA 5. Oktie Hassanzadeh IBM Research, USA PROGRAM COMMITTEE (to be completed): Alsayed Algergawy, Jena University, Germany Manuel Atencia, INRIA & Univ. Grenoble Alpes, France Zohra Bellahsene, LRIMM, France Olivier Bodenreider, National Library of Medicine, USA Marco Combetto, Informatica Trentina, Italy Valerie Cross, Miami University, USA Warith Eddine Djeddi, LIPAH & LABGED, Tunisia J?r?me David, University Grenoble Alpes & INRIA, France Gayo Diallo, University of Bordeaux, France Zlatan Dragisic, Link?pings Universitet, Sweden Alfio Ferrara, University of Milan, Italy Wei Hu, Nanjing University, China Valentina Ivanova, Link?pings Universitet, Sweden Antoine Isaac, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam & Europeana, Netherlands Valentina Ivanova, Link?pings Universitet, Sweden Ryutaro Ichise, National Institute of Informatics, Japan Daniel Faria, Instituto Gulbenkian de Ci?ncia, Portugal Patrick Lambrix, Link?pings Universitet, Sweden Juanzi Li, Tsinghua University, China Vincenzo Maltese, University of Trento, Italy Fiona McNeill, University of Edinburgh, UK Peter Mork, Noblis, USA Andriy Nikolov, Open University, UK Axel Ngonga, University of Leipzig, Germany Catia Pesquita, University of Lisbon, Portugal Dominique Ritze, University of Mannheim, Germany Umberto Straccia, ISTI-C.N.R., Italy Ondrej Svab-Zamazal, Prague University of Economics, Czech Republic C?ssia Trojahn, IRIT, France Ludger van Elst, DFKI, Germany ------------------------------------------------------- More about ontology matching: http://www.ontologymatching.org/ http://book.ontologymatching.org/ ------------------------------------------------------- Best Regards, Pavel ------------------------------------------------------- Pavel Shvaiko, PhD Informatica Trentina, Italy http://www.ontologymatching.org/ http://www.infotn.it/ http://www.dit.unitn.it/~pavel -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From tarek.besold at googlemail.com Wed May 3 10:32:45 2017 From: tarek.besold at googlemail.com (Tarek R. Besold) Date: Wed, 3 May 2017 10:32:45 +0200 Subject: [DL] Neural-Symbolic Learning and Reasoning Workshop 2017 -- Extended submission deadline: May 10, 2017 Message-ID: <002701d2c3e7$d6e8d310$84ba7930$@gmail.com> === NeSy'17: 12th International Workshop on Neural-Symbolic Learning and Reasoning === Date: July 17 & 18, 2017. Venue: City, University of London, UK. *** SUBMISSION DEADLINE EXTENDED: MAY 10, 2017 *** = WEBSITE = http://www.neural-symbolic.org/NeSy17/ = KEYNOTE SPEAKERS = Mauro Ferreira, Trinity College Dublin. Zoubin Ghahramani, University of Cambridge & Uber AI Labs. Alex Graves, Google DeepMind. Pascal Hitzler, Wrights State University. Chris Percy, BetBuddy Ltd. Murray Shanahan, Imperial College London. = INDUSTRY PANEL = Simo Dragicevic, CEO, BetBuddy Ltd. (moderator). John McNamara, Senior Inventor, IBM. James Davidson, Software Engineer, Google Brain. Jamie Woodhouse, Managing Director and Head of Financial Services Management Consulting and Finance and Risk, Accenture. Lonnie Hamm, Head of Data Science, Kindred Group Plc. Amir Saffari, Director of Applied AI, BenevolentAI. = INDUSTRY TRACK ADDED = For the first time, the 2017 edition of NeSy will feature an industry track on the second day of the workshop, July 18, 2017. The track will cover industry applications of neural-symbolic methods (including knowledge extraction from statistical data, neural-symbolic methods integrating data and knowledge for the semantic web, etc.), with the program featuring contributions from industry and academia alike. Also, there will be time to mix and mingle, exchange experiences from practitioners on both sides, and develop joint ideas and projects for the future. = REGISTRATION = The registration for NeSy'17 is available from the City, University of London eStore: http://estore.city.ac.uk/product-catalogue/conference-events/school-specific -events/12th-international-workshop-on-neuralsymbolic-learning-and-reasoning -nesy17 = CALL FOR PAPERS = Artificial Intelligence researchers continue to face huge challenges in their quest to develop truly intelligent systems. The recent developments in the field of neural-symbolic integration bring an opportunity to integrate well-founded symbolic artificial intelligence with robust neural computing machinery to help tackle some of these challenges. The Workshop on Neural-Symbolic Learning and Reasoning is intended to create an atmosphere of exchange of ideas, providing a forum for the presentation and discussion of the key topics related to neural-symbolic integration. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: - The representation of symbolic knowledge by connectionist systems; - Neural Learning theory; - Integration of logic and probabilities, e.g., in neural networks, but also more generally; - Structured learning and relational learning in neural networks; - Logical reasoning carried out by neural networks; - Integrated neural-symbolic approaches; - Extraction of symbolic knowledge from trained neural networks; - Integrated neural-symbolic reasoning; - Neural-symbolic cognitive models; - Biologically-inspired neural-symbolic integration; - Applications in robotics, simulation, fraud prevention, natural language processing, semantic web, software engineering, fault diagnosis, bioinformatics, visual intelligence, etc. ** Submission ** Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit original papers that have not been submitted for review or published elsewhere: - Submitted papers must be written in English, must be formatted according to the Springer LNCS style (templates and sample files are available from https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gui delines), and should not exceed 10 pages (excluding references/bibliography) in the case of research and experience papers, and 6 pages (excluding references/bibliography) in the case of position papers or technical notes. - All submitted papers will be judged based on their relevance, originality, significance, technical quality, and organisation. - Papers must be submitted through EasyChair at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=nesy17. - Additionally, presentations based on extended abstracts will be considered. These shall allow to report on latest results which had not been available at the time of paper submission. Therefore, the abstract deadline is significantly closer to the workshop date. Extended abstracts may not exceed 3 pages (including references/bibliography) and should aim to give a good impression of the type of work conducted, the achieved results and their importance for the field. ** Presentation ** Selected papers will be presented during the workshop. The workshop will include extra time for discussion of the presentations allowing the group to have a better understanding of the issues, challenges, and ideas being presented. ** Publication ** Accepted papers will be published in official workshop proceedings within the CEUR-WS.org series. Accepted abstracts will also be included in the official workshop proceedings. = IMPORTANT DATES = Deadline for paper submission (EXTENDED): May 10, 2017 Notification of paper acceptance/rejection: June 4, 2017 Deadline for abstract submission: June 18, 2017 Notification of abstract acceptance/rejection: June 25, 2017 Camera-ready paper due: July 2, 2017 Workshop date: July 17-18, 2017 = WORKSHOP ORGANISERS = General Chairs: - Tarek R. Besold (University of Bremen, Germany) - Artur d'Avila Garcez (City, University of London, UK) - Isaac Noble (Playground Global, U.S.A.) Local Chair at City, University of London: Simon Odense = PROGRAMME COMMITTEE = - Raquel Alhama, University of Amsterdam - James Davidson, Google Brain - Richard Evans, Google DeepMind - Barbara Hammer, Bielefeld University - Thomas Icard, Stanford University - Kai-Uwe Kuehnberger, University of Osnabrueck - Luis Lamb, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul - Thomas Lukasiewicz, University of Oxford - Edjard Mota, Federal University of Amazonas - Terrence C. Stewart, University of Waterloo - Serge Thill, University of Skoevde - Son Tran, CSIRO Australia - Stefan Wermter, University of Hamburg -- Digital Media Lab Center for Computing and Communication Technologies (TZI) University of Bremen Email: Tarek.Besold at uni-bremen.de Web: http://www.cat-ai.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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For the 37th edition, PODS continues to aim to broaden its scope, and calls for research papers providing original, substantial contributions along one or more of the following aspects: - deep theoretical exploration of topical areas central to data management; - new formal frameworks that aim at providing the basis for deeper theoretical investigation of important emerging issues in data management; - validation of established theoretical approaches from the lens of practical applicability in data management. Papers in this track should provide an experimental evaluation that gives new insight in established theories. Besides, they should provide a clear message to the database theory community as to which aspects need further (theoretical) investigation, based on the experimental findings. TOPICS that fit the interests of the symposium include, but are not limited to: - concurrency & recovery, distributed/parallel databases, cloud computing - data and knowledge integration and exchange, data provenance, views and data warehouses, metadata management - data-centric (business) process management, workflows, web services - data management and machine learning - data mining, information extraction, search - data models, data structures, algorithms for data management - data privacy and security, human-related data and ethics - data streams - design, semantics, query languages - domain-specific databases (multi-media, scientific, spatial, temporal, text) - graph databases and (semantic) Web data - incompleteness, inconsistency, uncertainty in data management - knowledge-enriched data management - model theory, logics, algebras, computational complexity ORGANIZATION Program Chair: Marcelo Arenas Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile Program Committee: Marcelo Arenas (Chair, Pontificia Univ. Catolica) Edith Cohen (Google & Tel Aviv Univ.) Sara Cohen (The Hebrew Univ. of Jerusalem) Graham Cormode (Univ. of Warwick) Arnaud Durand (Universite Paris-Diderot) Ronald Fagin (IBM Research - Almaden) Francois Goasdoue (Univ. Rennes) Sudipto Guha (Univ. of Pennsylvania) Daniel Kifer (Pennsylvania State Univ.) Paris Koutris (Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison) Domenico Lembo (Sapienza Univ. of Rome) Nicola Leone (Univ. of Calabria) Carsten Lutz (Universitat Bremen) Wim Martens (Universitat Bayreuth) Marco Montali (Free Univ. of Bozen - Bolzano) Hung Q. Ngo (LogicBlox) Magdalena Ortiz (Vienna Univ. of Technology) Rasmus Pagh (IT Univ. of Copenhagen) Andreas Pieris (Univ. of Edinburgh) Sudeepa Roy (Duke Univ.) Francesco Scarcello (Univ. of Calabria) Srikanta Tirthapura (Iowa State Univ.) Domagoj Vrgoc (Pontificia Univ. Catolica) Ke Yi (Hong Kong Univ. of Science and Tech.) PODS General Chair: Jan Van den Bussche (Univ. of Hasselt) Proceedings & Publicity Chair: Adrian Soto (Pontificia Univ. Catolica) SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Submitted papers must be formatted using the designated style file (sig-alternate-10.cls) which uses 10pt font size and line spacing of 11pt using the "\documentclass{sig-alternate-10}" command in your LaTeX document. Submitted papers should be at most twelve pages, excluding bibliography. Additional details may be included in an appendix that should be incorporated at the submission time (online appendices are not allowed). However, such appendices will be read at the discretion of the program committee. Papers that are longer than twelve pages (excluding bibliography and the appendix) or in font size smaller than 10pt or with line spacing less than 11pt risk rejection without consideration of their merits. The submission process is online, using https://easychair.org/ conferences/?conf=pods2018. Notice that PODS does not use double-blind reviewing, and therefore PODS submissions should have the names and affiliations of authors listed on the paper. The results of submitted paper must be unpublished and not submitted elsewhere, including the formal proceedings of other symposia or workshops. Authors of an accepted paper will be expected to sign copyright release forms, and one author is expected to present it at the conference. IMPORTANT DATES First Submission Cycle: Abstract submission: Jun 15, 2017 Paper submission: Jun 22, 2017 First notification: Aug 31, 2017 Revision deadline: Sep 28, 2017 Final notification: Nov 02, 2017 Second Submission Cycle: Abstract submission: Dec 12, 2017 Paper submission: Dec 19, 2017 Final notification: Feb 27, 2018 All deadlines end at 11:59pm AoE. AWARDS Best Paper Award: An award will be given to the best submission, as judged by the program committee. Best Student Paper Award: There will also be an award for the best submission, as judged by the program committee, written by a student or exclusively by students. An author is considered as a student if at the time of submission, the author is enrolled in a program at a university or institution leading to a doctoral/master's/bachelor's degree. The program committee reserves the right to give both awards to the same paper, not to give an award, or to split an award among several papers. Papers authored or co-authored by program committee members are not eligible for an award. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From gabriele.kern-isberner at cs.tu-dortmund.de Sat May 6 13:47:41 2017 From: gabriele.kern-isberner at cs.tu-dortmund.de (Gabriele Kern-Isberner) Date: Sat, 6 May 2017 13:47:41 +0200 Subject: [DL] Final CfP KI 2017 - extended deadline May 15 Message-ID: <108f39e5-0043-f512-96b2-0cd2228d0313@cs.tu-dortmund.de> [Apologies if you receive multiple copies. Please forward this call to interested parties.] ============== KI 2017: Final Call for Papers ============== 40th German Conference on Artificial Intelligence September 25-29, 2017 Dortmund, Germany http://ki2017.tu-dortmund.de ============================================================= ************* PAPER DEADLINE EXTENSION: MAY 15 ************** ============================================================= KI 2017 is the 40th edition of the German Conference on Artificial Intelligence organized by the Fachbereich K?nstliche Intelligenz der Gesellschaft f?r Informatik. KI traditionally brings together academic and industrial researchers from all areas of AI, providing an ideal place for exchanging news and research results of intelligent system technology. The technical program of KI 2017 will comprise paper and poster presentations and a variety of workshops and tutorials. KI 2017 will take place in Dortmund, Germany, September 25th-29th, 2017, and is a premier forum for exchanging news and research results on theory and applications of intelligent system technology. You are invited to submit original research and application papers on all aspects of AI research, including but not limited to the following: - Agent-based and multi-agent systems - AI applications and innovations - Belief change - Cognitive modelling, AI and psychology - Commonsense reasoning - Computer vision - Constraint satisfaction, search, and optimization - Diagnosis and configuration - Evolutionary computation - Game playing and interactive entertainment - Information retrieval, integration, and extraction - Knowledge engineering and ontologies - Knowledge representation and reasoning - Knowledge discovery and data mining - Machine learning - Multidisciplinary AI - Natural language processing - Nonmonotonic reasoning and default logics - Philosophical foundations of AI - Planning and scheduling - Recommender systems - Robotics - Uncertainty in AI - Web and information systems We especially welcome application papers that provide novel insights on the interplay of AI and the real world, as well as papers that bring useful computational technologies from other areas of computer science into AI. ======== Invited Speakers and Historical Session ======== We are proud to announce keynote speeches by the following invited speakers: * Gerhard Brewka (Universit?t Leipzig) * Luc De Raedt (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven) * Pierre Baldi (University of California in Irvine) Being the 40th anniversary of the German Conference on Artificial Intelligence we are also planning a special "Historical Session" with a podium discussion and several short talks by further invited speakers on the history of AI in general and in Germany. More details on this session will be made available soon. ======== Workshops and Tutorials ======== The main program of the conference is complemented by a workshop and tutorial program: * Workshop: Planen und Konfigurieren * Workshop: AI challenges for humanoid soccer-playing robots * Workshop: Forgetting in Artificial Intelligence * Workshop: ZooOperation Competition * Workshop: Intelligent Systems for Industry 4.0 * Workshop: Deduktionstreffen * Workshop: Formal and Cognitive Reasoning * Tutorial: Defeasible Reasoning for Description Logics * Tutorial: Knowledge Representation and Reasoning with Nilsson-style Probabilistic Logics For details on submitting workshop papers see the individual workshop webpages linked from the conference webpage (http://ki2017.tu-dortmund.de). ======== Paper Submission ======== We invite papers, which have to be in English and formatted according to the Springer LNCS style, in the following two categories * Full technical papers (12 pages max., excluding references) are expected to report on novel research that makes a substantial technical contribution to the field. Additional details may be included in an appendix, which, however, will be read at the discretion of the PC. * Technical communications (6 pages max., excluding references) can report on research in progress, or other issues of interest to the AI community. Examples of work suitable for technical communication paper submissions include: novel ideas whose scope is not large enough for a full paper: important implementation techniques; novel interesting benchmark problems; short experimental studies; interesting applications that are not yet completely solved or analysed; position or challenge papers; etc. Technical communication submissions are especially invited for software demonstration or PhD work in progress. Submission will be through the EasyChair conference management system: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ki2017 All papers will be subject to blind peer review based on the standard criteria of relevance, significance of results, originality of ideas, soundness, and quality of the presentation. All accepted papers will be published in the main conference proceedings, and will be presented at the conference. At least one author of each accepted paper must register for the conference and present the contribution. The KI 2017 proceedings will be published by Springer as a volume of the LNAI (Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence) series. ======== Important Dates ======== Workshop/Tutorial proposals: Jan 30th, 2017 Workshop/Tutorial notification: Feb 6th, 2017 Full/Short Paper submission: May 15th, 2017 ** extended deadline ** Acceptance notification: June 16th, 2017 Final version due: July 1st, 2017 KI Workshops and Conference: September 25th-29th, 2017 ======== Main Organizers ======== General Chair * Gabriele Kern-Isberner (TU Dortmund) Program Chairs * Johannes F?rnkranz (TU Darmstadt) * Matthias Thimm (Universit?t Koblenz-Landau) Workshop and Tutorial Chair * Christoph Beierle (FernUniversit?t in Hagen) Historial Session Chair * Ulrich Furbach (Universit?t Koblenz-Landau) Local Organizers * Christian Eichhorn (TU Dortmund) * Steffen Schieweck (TU Dortmund) * Marco Wilhelm (TU Dortmund) -- *************************************************** * Prof. Dr. Gabriele Kern-Isberner * Technische Universitaet Dortmund * Dept. of Computer Science * Chair I - Information Engineering * 44221 Dortmund, Germany * Phone: +49-231-755-2045 * Fax: +49-231-755 6555 * email: gabriele.kern-isberner at cs.uni-dortmund.de *************************************************** From schon at uni-koblenz.de Sat May 6 11:22:47 2017 From: schon at uni-koblenz.de (Claudia Schon) Date: Sat, 6 May 2017 11:22:47 +0200 Subject: [DL] Cfp Workshop on Managing Changes in the Semantic Web Message-ID: <1B3CC16E-6205-40DB-8FC5-BA0C7E9B5969@uni-koblenz.de> Dear all, I am one of the organizers of the Workshop on Managing Changes in the Semantic Web which will be located at the ISWC 2017. 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Name: cfp.txt URL: -------------- next part -------------- --- Dr. Claudia Schon Institute for Web Science and Technologies (WeST) Universit?t Koblenz-Landau, Germany Universit?tsstr. 1, 56070 Koblenz Tel: +49 261 287 2773 http://www.uni-koblenz.de/~obermaie From Steffen.Lohmann at iais.fraunhofer.de Tue May 9 11:40:19 2017 From: Steffen.Lohmann at iais.fraunhofer.de (Lohmann, Steffen) Date: Tue, 9 May 2017 09:40:19 +0000 Subject: [DL] [CfP] VOILA 2017 @ ISWC 2017 - 3rd Workshop on Visualization and Interaction for Ontologies and Linked Data In-Reply-To: <063ccb3f-9956-3e1b-671d-eeefe2eaee77@csarven.ca> References: <063ccb3f-9956-3e1b-671d-eeefe2eaee77@csarven.ca> Message-ID: Hi Sarven, we had good experiences with these submission guidelines in the past editions of VOILA, and there has been no single request for changing them so far. However, I agree HTML-based formats have certainly benefits over PDF (if produced properly), and we generally support them in our group at Uni Bonn as you know. We therefore already discussed this issue among us VOILA organizers and will likely go for a similar model as this year's ISWC, i.e., allow for submissions either in PDF or HTML, whatever authors prefer - see https://iswc2017.semanticweb.org/calls/html-submission-guide/ Thanks for giving some supportive comments on that! Best, Steffen > -----Urspr?ngliche Nachricht----- > Von: Sarven Capadisli [mailto:info at csarven.ca] > Gesendet: Montag, 8. Mai 2017 11:46 > An: Valentina Ivanova ; semantic-web at w3.org; > public-semweb-ui at w3.org; sais-members at lists.lysator.liu.se; dl at dl.kr.org > Betreff: Re: [CfP] VOILA 2017 @ ISWC 2017 - 3rd Workshop on Visualization > and Interaction for Ontologies and Linked Data > > On 2017-05-05 22:04, Valentina Ivanova wrote: > > Paper submission and reviewing for this workshop will be electronic > > via EasyChair. The papers should be written in English, following the > > Springer LNCS format, and be submitted in PDF on or before July 21, > > 2017. > > Hi Valentina, > > I find the submission guidelines of this workshop to be super awkward. > Has the organising committee considered to pay-it-forward by making it > possible for its *clientele* to make their contributions via formats that are > native to the Web? In contrast to what the workshop is currently promoting and > setting constraints with desktop/print centric formats like PDF. Certainly > Springer LNCS's view is inappropriate to box all content into one size fits all. Do > we use a single visualisation method for all data? > > Is the workshop's clientele not up to par to represent, publish and disseminate > their knowledge via native Web standards? Would you consider the possibility > that perhaps this workshop should take the responsibility to enable and > encourage such behaviour? Is there anything the workshop requires to make > this a reality? Are you open to it? > > Imagine what type of visualisations would be possible based on its own > academic output. Here are some basic examples for whatever it is worth: > > An article with accompanying citations, annotations, arguments etc: > https://twitter.com/csarven/status/844507280330641408 > > Complete output of statements and interlinks among different types of articles > (spec, test report, academic article, implementation). See thread: > https://twitter.com/csarven/status/834730892027424768 > > hasPart/citations among three articles from different domains: > https://twitter.com/csarven/status/831181624310132736 > > reply_of/has_reply at csarven.ca: > https://twitter.com/csarven/status/828767664831098880 > ... > > > Contrast that with how far dead-weight PDFs gets us. > > Care to help make this happen? > > https://twitter.com/csarven/status/861507593260457984 > > :) > > Would you consider thinking in terms of *articles* instead of *papers*? > > http://csarven.ca/web-science-from-404-to-200#s-paper-article > > -Sarven > http://csarven.ca/#i From ziqizhang.email at gmail.com Mon May 8 20:54:33 2017 From: ziqizhang.email at gmail.com (ziqi zhang) Date: Mon, 8 May 2017 19:54:33 +0100 Subject: [DL] Fwd: Call for Paper In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Apologies for the blanket email. --------------------------------------------- LD4IE 2017 The 5th international Workshop on Linked Data for Information Extraction in conjunction with the 16th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2017) Vienna, Austria, October 21-25, 2017 http://iswc2017.semanticweb.org/ Workshop website: http://w3id.org/ld4ie Twitter: @LD4IE #LD4IE #LD4IE2017 Facebook page: Ld4ie2017 (at https://www.facebook.com/Ld4ie) *************** Important Dates *************** Abstract submission deadline: July 14, 2017 Paper submission deadline: July 21, 2017 Acceptance Notification: August 24, 2017 Camera-ready versions: September 1, 2017 Workshop date: to be announced (October 21-22, 2017) *************** 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 unguaranteed 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.); (ii) robust learning algorithms for handling LD; (iv) publishing IE results to the LOD cloud. *************** Research Topics *************** Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Topics * Modelling Extraction Tasks ** extracting knowledge patterns for task modelling ** user friendly approaches for querying linked data * Information Extraction ** selecting relevant portions of LOD as training data ** selecting relevant knowledge resources from linked data ** IE methods robust to noise in training data ** Information Extractions tasks/applications exploiting LOD (Wrapper induction, Table interpretation, IE from unstructured data, Named Entity Recognition, ?) ** Domain specific IE consuming and producing LOD (social data, scholarly data, health data, ...) ** publishing information extraction results as Linked Data ** linking extracted information to existing LOD datasets * Linked Data for Learning ** assessing the quality of LOD data for training ** select optimal subset of LOD to seed learning ** managing incompleteness, noise, and uncertainty of LOD ** scalable learning methods ** pattern extraction from LOD *************** Submission ******************** All submissions must be written in English. 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. Two formats are possible for the submission: PDF and HTML. PDF submissions must be formatted according to the information for LNCS Authors (http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0.). We would like to encourage you to submit your paper as HTML, in which case you need to submit a zip archive containing an HTML file and all used resources. If you are new to HTML submission these are good places to start: * dokieli (https://github.com/linkeddata/dokieli) is a clientside editor for decentralised article publishing, annotations and social interactions. It is compliant with the Linked Research (https://linkedresearch.org/) initiative. Example papers using LNCS and ACM: http://csarven.ca/dokieli-rww and on website https://dokie.li/. * Research Articles in Simplified HTML (RASH) format: documentation and stylesheets at https://github.com/essepuntato/rash In order to check if your HTML submission is compliant with the page limit constraint, please use one of the LNCS layouts and printing/storing it as PDF. Please submit your contributions electronically in PDF or HTML format to EasyChair at https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ld4ie2017 When submitting your paper, select the appropriate topic between: * Research - long paper * Research - short paper Accepted papers will be published online via CEUR-WS. *************** Workshop Chairs *************** Anna Lisa Gentile, IBM Research Almaden, US Andrea Giovanni Nuzzolese, STLab, ISTC-CNR, Italy Ziqi Zhang, Nottingham Trent University, UK -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From icsc at uci.edu Mon May 15 02:25:03 2017 From: icsc at uci.edu (IEEE ICSC) Date: Sun, 14 May 2017 17:25:03 -0700 Subject: [DL] CFP (revised) - 12th IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing (ICSC2018) In-Reply-To: References: <62290b87166367fbdf3cf38c9fc05c4f@uci.edu> <592ff51ad73b4c2ed4a9227518e62fa4@uci.edu> <7b166ab174194cf09cd7543db69a162e@uci.edu> <63f2582e44acca707913370f93734d46@uci.edu> <9cfd6d4276a28a4b77e8acc8f5720b2c@uci.edu> Message-ID: -------------------------------------------------- IEEE ICSC2018 CALL FOR PAPERS -------------------------------------------------- 12th IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing (ICSC2018) January 31-February 2, 2018 (revised) Laguna Hills, California (revised) http://www.ieee-icsc.org Semantic Computing (SC) addresses the derivation, description, integration, and use of semantics (?meaning?, "context", ?intention?) for all types of resource including data, document, tool, device, process and people. The scope of SC includes, but is not limited to, analytics, semantics description languages and integration (of data and services), interfaces, and applications including biomed, IoT, cloud computing, SDN, wearable computing, context awareness, mobile computing, search engines, question answering, big data, multimedia, and services. The technical program of the 12th IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing (ICSC 2018) will include workshops, invited keynotes, paper presentations, panel discussions, poster sessions, and more. Submissions of high-quality papers describing mature results or ongoing work are invited. TOPICS OF INTEREST include, but are not limited to: * Analytics (from contents to semantics): Structured data, image and video, audio and speech, big data, natural language, deep learning * Description and Integration: Semantics description language, ontology integration, interoperability * Use of Semantics in IT Applications: Multimedia, IoT, cloud computing, SDN, wearable computing, mobile computing, search engine, question answering, robotics, web service, security and privacy * Use of Semantics in Interdisciplinary Applications such as biomedicine, healthcare, manufacturing, engineering, education, finance, entertainment, business, science, humanity * Interface: Natural language, multi-modal SUBMISSIONS Authors are invited to submit an 8-page (regular), 4-page (short), or 6-page (industry) technical paper manuscript in double-column IEEE format following the guidelines available on the ICSC2018 web page. All papers will be double blind reviewed. The conference proceedings will be published by IEEE Computer Society Press. Distinguished quality papers presented at the conference will be selected for the best paper/poster awards and for publication in internationally renowned journals. IMPORTANT DATES Workshop Proposals Deadline: September 24, 2017 (Regular, Short, Demo, Poster, Industry) Paper Submission Deadline: October 1, 2017 CONTACT: icsc at uci.edu From tarek.besold at googlemail.com Fri May 12 22:47:21 2017 From: tarek.besold at googlemail.com (Tarek R. Besold) Date: Fri, 12 May 2017 22:47:21 +0200 Subject: [DL] FINAL EXTENSION: 12th Int. Workshop on Neural-Symbolic Learning and Reasoning (NeSy) -- Full paper submission: May 24, 2017 Message-ID: <003601d2cb60$f4a70090$ddf501b0$@gmail.com> === NeSy'17: 12th International Workshop on Neural-Symbolic Learning and Reasoning === Date: July 17 & 18, 2017. Venue: City, University of London, UK. *** SUBMISSION DEADLINE EXTENDED: MAY 24, 2017 *** = WEBSITE = http://www.neural-symbolic.org/NeSy17/ = KEYNOTE SPEAKERS = Mauro Ferreira, Trinity College Dublin. Zoubin Ghahramani, University of Cambridge & Uber AI Labs. Alex Graves, Google DeepMind. Pascal Hitzler, Wrights State University. Chris Percy, BetBuddy Ltd. Murray Shanahan, Imperial College London. = INDUSTRY PANEL = Simo Dragicevic, CEO, BetBuddy Ltd. (moderator). John McNamara, Senior Inventor, IBM. James Davidson, Software Engineer, Google Brain. Jamie Woodhouse, Managing Director and Head of Financial Services Management Consulting and Finance and Risk, Accenture. Lonnie Hamm, Head of Data Science, Kindred Group Plc. Amir Saffari, Director of Applied AI, BenevolentAI. = INDUSTRY TRACK ADDED = For the first time, the 2017 edition of NeSy will feature an industry track on the second day of the workshop, July 18, 2017. The track will cover industry applications of neural-symbolic methods (including knowledge extraction from statistical data, neural-symbolic methods integrating data and knowledge for the semantic web, etc.), with the program featuring contributions from industry and academia alike. Also, there will be time to mix and mingle, exchange experiences from practitioners on both sides, and develop joint ideas and projects for the future. = REGISTRATION = The registration for NeSy'17 has become available from the City, University of London eStore: http://estore.city.ac.uk/product-catalogue/conference-events/school-specific -events/12th-international-workshop-on-neuralsymbolic-learning-and-reasoning -nesy17 = CALL FOR PAPERS = Artificial Intelligence researchers continue to face huge challenges in their quest to develop truly intelligent systems. The recent developments in the field of neural-symbolic integration bring an opportunity to integrate well-founded symbolic artificial intelligence with robust neural computing machinery to help tackle some of these challenges. The Workshop on Neural-Symbolic Learning and Reasoning is intended to create an atmosphere of exchange of ideas, providing a forum for the presentation and discussion of the key topics related to neural-symbolic integration. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: - The representation of symbolic knowledge by connectionist systems; - Neural Learning theory; - Integration of logic and probabilities, e.g., in neural networks, but also more generally; - Structured learning and relational learning in neural networks; - Logical reasoning carried out by neural networks; - Integrated neural-symbolic approaches; - Extraction of symbolic knowledge from trained neural networks; - Integrated neural-symbolic reasoning; - Neural-symbolic cognitive models; - Biologically-inspired neural-symbolic integration; - Applications in robotics, simulation, fraud prevention, natural language processing, semantic web, software engineering, fault diagnosis, bioinformatics, visual intelligence, etc. ** Submission ** Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit original papers that have not been submitted for review or published elsewhere: - Submitted papers must be written in English, must be formatted according to the Springer LNCS style (templates and sample files are available from https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gui delines), and should not exceed 10 pages (excluding references/bibliography) in the case of research and experience papers, and 6 pages (excluding references/bibliography) in the case of position papers or technical notes. - All submitted papers will be judged based on their relevance, originality, significance, technical quality, and organisation. - Papers must be submitted through EasyChair at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=nesy17. - Additionally, presentations based on extended abstracts will be considered. These shall allow to report on latest results which had not been available at the time of paper submission. Therefore, the abstract deadline is significantly closer to the workshop date. Extended abstracts may not exceed 3 pages (including references/bibliography) and should aim to give a good impression of the type of work conducted, the achieved results and their importance for the field. ** Presentation ** Selected papers will be presented during the workshop. The workshop will include extra time for discussion of the presentations allowing the group to have a better understanding of the issues, challenges, and ideas being presented. ** Publication ** Accepted papers will be published in official workshop proceedings within the CEUR-WS.org series. Accepted abstracts will also be included in the official workshop proceedings. = IMPORTANT DATES = Deadline for paper submission (EXTENDED): May 24, 2017 Notification of paper acceptance/rejection: June 14, 2017 Deadline for abstract submission: June 18, 2017 Notification of abstract acceptance/rejection: June 25, 2017 Camera-ready paper due: July 2, 2017 Workshop date: July 17-18, 2017 = WORKSHOP ORGANISERS = General Chairs: - Tarek R. Besold (University of Bremen, Germany) - Artur d'Avila Garcez (City, University of London, UK) - Isaac Noble (Playground Global, U.S.A.) Local Chair at City, University of London: Simon Odense = PROGRAMME COMMITTEE = - Raquel Alhama, University of Amsterdam - James Davidson, Google Brain - Richard Evans, Google DeepMind - Barbara Hammer, Bielefeld University - Thomas Icard, Stanford University - Kai-Uwe Kuehnberger, University of Osnabrueck - Luis Lamb, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul - Thomas Lukasiewicz, University of Oxford - Edjard Mota, Federal University of Amazonas - Terrence C. Stewart, University of Waterloo - Serge Thill, University of Skoevde - Son Tran, CSIRO Australia - Stefan Wermter, University of Hamburg -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From lpulina at uniss.it Fri May 19 13:08:38 2017 From: lpulina at uniss.it (Luca Pulina) Date: Fri, 19 May 2017 13:08:38 +0200 Subject: [DL] CPS Summer School 2017 - Call for participation Message-ID: <9e1bdde2-727c-c0d1-4c97-398568bf61d4@uniss.it> [apologies for any cross-posting] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ CPS Summer School 2017 "Designing Cyber-Physical Systems ? From concepts to implementation" Multi-objective Methodologies and Tools for Self-healing and Adaptive Systems Porto Conte Ricerche, Alghero (Italy) September 25-30, 2017 http://www.cpsschool.eu ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Cyber-physical systems (CPS) are complex and autonomous ensembles of different components that interact to offer smart and adaptive functionalities. These systems are increasingly used in a variety of applications with a growing market, potentially bringing about significant social benefits. However, there is no such thing as a free lunch, and there area several new challenges and trade-offs to face when designing CPS, especially since they should be able to adapt to the changing environments, or heal themselves. Uncertain operation environments and interactions with humans as users and/or as operators complicate the scenarios of these ever increasingly pervasive systems. The CPS summer school is targeted at students, research scientists, and R&D experts from academia and industry, who want to learn about CPS engineering and applications. The program is composed of both lectures and practical sessions, covering all the design phases of CPS (i.e., from concept to the definition of the final system and the discussion of the key challenges). * Topics Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: - Market trends for CPS - Applications of CPS, including wearable, biomedical, Industry 4.0, cognitive, and automotive systems - Hardware/software co-design, adaptivity, and multi-view modeling - Low power design of heterogeneous systems - Tools for dataflow design, high-level synthesis, hardware/software co-design, and coarse/fine reconfiguration - Security in adaptive and interconnected systems For applications and details on the registration fees, please visit: http://www.cpsschool.eu/application/ * Confirmed Speakers (http://www.cpsschool.eu/confirmed-speakers/): -Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli, University of California, Berkeley (USA) -Armando Tacchella, Universit? degli Studi di Genova (ITA) -Christian Pilato, University of Lugano (CH) -Eduardo de la Torre, Universidad Polit?cnica de Madrid (ES) -Francesca Palumbo, Universit? degli Studi di Sassari (ITA) -Francesco Regazzoni, University of Lugano (CH) -Hironori Kasahara, Waseda University and IEEE Computer Society (JP) -Jocelyn Serot, Institut Pascal (FR) -Julio De Oliveira Filho, TNO (NL) -Karol Desnos, INSA de Rennes (FR) -Michael Masin, IBM Research - Haifa (IL) -Muhammad Shafique, Vienna University of Technology (AT) -Ugo della Croce, Universit? degli Studi di Sassari (ITA) and Embassy of Italy Washington DC (USA) * Organization --School Director Francesca Palumbo, Universit? degli Studi di Sassari (ITA), fpalumbo at uniss.it --Organizing Committee Luca Pulina, Universit? degli Studi di Sassari (ITA) Andrea Cereatti, Universit? degli Studi di Sassari (ITA) Michael Masin, IBM Research Haifa (IL) Christian Pilato, University of Lugano (CH) Francesco Regazzoni, University of Lugano (CH) -- Luca Pulina, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Computer Science POLCOMING - Department of Political Science, Communication, Engineering and Information Technologies University of Sassari e-mail lpulina at uniss.it http://sites.google.com/site/lpulina From pr-aksw at informatik.uni-leipzig.de Thu May 18 09:23:18 2017 From: pr-aksw at informatik.uni-leipzig.de (Sebastian Hellmann) Date: Thu, 18 May 2017 09:23:18 +0200 Subject: [DL] SEMANTiCS 2017, Amsterdam, Sep 11-14, Extended Submission Deadline May 31, 2017 Message-ID: <50e60b90-4e9f-7f1e-9f14-ef22e22c0eb8@informatik.uni-leipzig.de> **** DEADLINE EXTENSION**** Due to several requests the SEMANTiCS 2017 conference extends its submission deadlines. 3rd Call for Research & Innovation Papers SEMANTiCS 2017 - The Linked Data Conference 13th International Conference on Semantic Systems Amsterdam, Netherlands September 11 -14, 2017 http://2017.semantics.cc The Research & Innovation track at SEMANTiCS welcomes the submission of papers on novel scientific research and/or innovations relevant to the topics of the conference. Submissions must be original and must not have been submitted for publication elsewhere. Papers should follow the ACM ICPS guidelines for formatting (http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates) and must not exceed 8 pages in lenght for full papers and 4 pages for short papers, including references and optional appendices. Research & Innovation Papers are published within ACM ICP Series. Important Dates (Research & Innovation) * Abstract Submission Deadline: extended: May 31, 2017 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time) * Paper Submission Deadline: extended: June 7, 2017 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time) * Notification of Acceptance: July 3, 2017 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time) * Camera-Ready Paper: August 14, 2017 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time) For details please go to: https://2017.semantics.cc/calls or contact the Research and Innovation Chairs: Catherine Faron Zucker, faron [@] i3s.unice.fr, Universit? Nice Sophia Antipolis Rinke Hoekstra, rinke.hoekstra [@] vu.nl, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam/University of Amsterdam As in the previous years, SEMANTiCS?17 proceedings will be published by ACM ICP (pending). SEMANTiCS 2017 will especially welcome submissions for the following hot topics: * Data Science (special track, see below) * Web Semantics, Linked (Open) Data & schema.org * Corporate Knowledge Graphs * Knowledge Integration and Language Technologies * Data Quality Management * Economics of Data, Data Services and Data Ecosystems Following the success of previous years, the ?horizontals? (research) and ?verticals? (industries) below are of interest for the conference: Horizontals * Enterprise Linked Data & Data Integration * Knowledge Discovery & Intelligent Search * Business Models, Governance & Data Strategies * Semantics in Big Data * Text Analytics * Data Portals & Knowledge Visualization * Semantic Information Management * Document Management & Content Management * Terminology, Thesaurus & Ontology Management * Smart Connectivity, Networking & Interlinking * Smart Data & Semantics in IoT * Semantics for IT Safety & Security * Semantic Rules, Policies & Licensing * Community, Social & Societal Aspects Data Science Special Track Horizontals * Large-Scale Data Processing (stream processing, handling large-scale graphs) * Data Analytics (Machine Learning, Predictive Analytics, Network Analytics) * Communicating Data (Data Visualization, UX & Interaction Design, Crowdsourcing) * Cross-cutting Issues (Ethics, Privacy, Security, Provenance) Verticals * Industry & Engineering * Life Sciences & Health Care * Public Administration * e-Science * Digital Humanities * Galleries, Libraries, Archives & Museums (GLAM) * Education & eLearning * Media & Data Journalism * Publishing, Marketing & Advertising * Tourism & Recreation * Financial & Insurance Industry * Telecommunication & Mobile Services * Sustainable Development: Climate, Water, Air, Ecology * Energy, Smart Homes & Smart Grids * Food, Agriculture & Farming * Safety, Security & Privacy * Transport, Environment & Geospatial For details please go to: https://2017.semantics.cc/calls From andrea.orlandini at istc.cnr.it Mon May 22 10:19:38 2017 From: andrea.orlandini at istc.cnr.it (AndreA Orlandini) Date: Mon, 22 May 2017 10:19:38 +0200 Subject: [DL] Call for Papers - Deadline Extension - GandALF 2017 - International Symposium on Games, Automata, Logics, and Formal Verification - Rome - 20-22 September 2017 Message-ID: **** Apologies for multiple postings **************************************** After many requests DEADLINES EXTENDED ? Abstract submission: June 13, 2017 ? Paper submission: June 15, 2017 ***************************************************************************** CALL FOR PAPERS - GandALF 2017 ***************************************************************************** The Eighth International Symposium on Games, Automata, Logics, and Formal Verification will be held in Rome (Italy) on 20-21-22 September 2017. ****http://gandalf2017.istc.cnr.it ***************************************** The aim of GandALF 2017 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. 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 IMPORTANT DATES - EXTENDED ****************** ? Abstract submission: June 13, 2017 ? Paper submission: June 15, 2017 (strict) ? Notification: July 21, 2017 ? Camera-ready: August 18, 2017 - Conference: Sept. 20-22, 2017 PUBLICATIONS ****************** The proceedings will be published by Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science. Authors of the best papers will be invited to submit a revised version of their work to a special issue of a journal (in progress). The previous editions of GandALF already led to special issues of the International Journal of Foundations of Computer Science (GandALF 2010), Theoretical Computer Science (GandALF 2011 and 2012), Information and Computation (GandALF 2013, 2014, and 2016, the latter one still in progress), and Acta Informatica (GandALF 2015). SUBMISSIONS ****************** Submitted papers should not exceed fourteen (14) pages using EPTCS format (please use the LaTeX style provided athttp://style.eptcs.org), 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 the EasyChair Conference system at the following address:https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=gandalf2017 INVITED SPEAKERS ****************** - Ranko Lazic, Department of Computer Science, University of Warwick, U.K. - Michael Wooldridge, Head of Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford, U.K. AIxIA CALL FOR SCHOLARSHIP ****************** The Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence offers travel grants, which partially support the registration fees, travel, accommodation and meal expenses, for the participation of students in GandALF 2017. The candidates should send the travel grant application to Andrea Orlandini (by emailgandalf.2017 at istc.cnr.it) by 30/07/2017 More info here:http://gandalf2017.istc.cnr.it/aixia-call-for-scholarships/ PROGRAM CHAIRS ****************** Patricia Bouyer-Decitre LSV, CNRS & ENS de Cachan, France Pierluigi San Pietro, Politecnico di Milano, Italy GENERAL CHAIR ****************** Amedeo Cesta, ISTC-CNR, Italy CONFERENCE CHAIR ****************** Andrea Orlandini, ISTC-CNR, Italy PROGRAMME COMMITTEE ****************** Parosh A. Abdulla (Uppsala University, Sweden) Benedikt Bollig (LSV, Cachan, France) Patricia Bouyer (LSV, Cachan, France) Tomas Brazdil (Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic) Marta Cialdea Mayer (University of Roma, Italy) Thomas Colcombet (IRIF, Paris, France) Bernd Finkbeiner (Saarland University, Germany) Hugo Gimbert (LaBRI, Bordeaux, France) Rasmus Ibsen-Jensen (IST, Vienna, Austria) Angelo Montanari (University of Udine, Italy) Andrea Orlandini (CNR Roma, Italy) Doron Peled (Bar Ilan University, Israel) R. Ramanujam (IMSc, Chennai, India) Mickael Randour (ULB, Brussels, Belgium) Matteo Rossi (Politecnico di Milano, Italy) Pierluigi San Pietro (Politecnico di Milano, Italy) STEERING COMMITTEE ****************** Luca Aceto, School of Computer Science, Reykjavik University, Iceland Javier Esparza, University of Munich, Germany Salvatore La Torre, University of Salerno, Italy Angelo Montanari, University of Udine, Italy Mimmo Parente, University of Salerno, Italy Wolfgang Thomas, Aachen University, Germany -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- AndreA Orlandini PhD National Research Council of Italy Institute for Cognitive Science and Technology Phone: +39-06-44595-223 E-mail:andrea.orlandini at istc.cnr.it Fax: +39-06-44595-243 Url:http://www.istc.cnr.it/group/pst --------------------------------------------------------------------- Me, the one and only person that never leaves me alone! -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From annalisa.gentile at ibm.com Mon May 22 10:20:55 2017 From: annalisa.gentile at ibm.com (annalisa gentile) Date: Mon, 22 May 2017 01:20:55 -0700 Subject: [DL] [CfP] ISWC 2017 - keynote speakers and next deadlines Message-ID: 16th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2017) Vienna, Austria, October 21-25, 2017 ******************************************* *** Deadlines reminder highlight - Doctoral Consortium: 25th May 2017 ******************************************* Website: http://iswc2017.semanticweb.org Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/113652365383847 Twitter: @iswc2017 (https://twitter.com/ISWC2017) Overview calls: http://iswc2017.semanticweb.org/calls/ In this announcement: 1. Keynote speakers 2. Call for contributions: Doctoral Consortium, Poster&Demo, Industry Track 3. Student Grants 4. Accepted Workshops and Tutorials 5. Important dates 1. Keynote speakers ========================================== We are delighted to announce the keynote speakers for this year edition of ISWC. Deborah McGuinness (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute) https://tw.rpi.edu/web/person/Deborah_L_McGuinness Prof. McGuinness is a leading authority on the semantic web and has been working in knowledge representation and reasoning environments for over 25 years. Deborah's primary research thrusts include work on explanation, trust, ontologies, escience, open data, and semantically-enabled schema and data integration. Nada Lavrac (Jozef Stefan Institute) http://kt.ijs.si/nada_lavrac/ Prof. Lavrac is Head of the Department of Knowledge Technologies at Jozef Stefan Institute (JSI). She is an expert on machine learning and data mining, in particular inductive logic programming and intelligent data analysis in medicine. Jamie Taylor (Google) https://www.linkedin.com/in/jamie-taylor-853953/ Dr. Taylor has been deeply involved with Google's knowledge graph efforts. Prior to Google, he worked on Freebase at Metaweb. Details about the talks will be announced soon at https://iswc2017.semanticweb.org/ 2. Call for Contributions ========================================== -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Doctoral Consortium papers -------------------------------------------------------------------------- **deadline** May 25, 2017 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. Generally, students at the end of their first year, in their second or at the beginning of their third year of PhD will benefit the most from the Doctoral Consortium. In the Consortium, the students will present their proposals, get specific feedback and advice on how to improve their research plan and discuss other students? proposals. 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. We anticipate that students with accepted submissions at the Doctoral Consortium will receive travel fellowships to offset some of the travel costs but they will be asked to attend the whole day of the Doctoral Consortium. Detailed info: http://iswc2017.semanticweb.org/calls/doctoral-consortium/ Program Chairs * Lora Aroyo, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands * Fabien Gandon, INRIA Sophia-Antipolis, France -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Posters and Demos -------------------------------------------------------------------------- **deadline** July 27, 2017 The ISWC 2017 Posters and Demonstrations complement the paper tracks of the conference and offer an opportunity for presenting late-breaking research results, on-going research projects, and speculative or innovative work in progress. The informal setting of the Posters and Demonstrations encourages presenters and participants to engage in discussions about the work. Such discussions can be invaluable inputs for the future work of the presenters, while offering participants an effective way to broaden their knowledge of the emerging research trends and to network with other researchers. We invite submissions relevant to the area of the Semantic Web and which address, but are not limited to, the topics of the Research Track; the In-Use Track; and the Resources Track. Technical posters, reports on Semantic Web software systems (free or commercial), descriptions of completed work, and work in progress are all welcome. Demonstrations are intended to showcase innovative Semantic Web related implementations and technologies, both in academia and in industry. We explicitly welcome entries from the industry. However, submissions for posters and demos should go beyond pure advertisements of commercial software packages and convey a minimal scientific contribution. Authors of full papers accepted for the Research Track; the In-Use Track; and the Resources Track are explicitly invited to submit a demonstration. Detailed info: http://iswc2017.semanticweb.org/calls/call-for-posters-and-demos/ Program Chairs * Nadeschda Nikitina, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK * Dezhao Song, Thomson Reuters, Eagan, MN, USA -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Industry Track Contributions -------------------------------------------------------------------------- **deadline** July 10, 2017 The Industry Track seeks to present the state of adoption of semantic technologies in industrial applications. These technologies may be used in specific industries (e.g., media, financials, telecommunications, healthcare, life sciences, government, intelligence, etc.) or as a horizontal technology, and in different application areas (e.g., business intelligence, analytics, search, content management, knowledge management, recommendation systems, data integration, etc.). We welcome contributions about success stories as well as experiences and discussions of obstacles that stand in the way of large scale adoption of certain technologies. Particular emphasis should be put on the demonstration of business value created by using the semantic technologies. We encourage the following two categories of submissions: - Success stories of business-relevant, industrial deployments of Semantic Web technologies - Position statements that outline potential strategic applications and use cases of semantic technologies Come and join us at the ISWC 2017 industry track to share your experience! Detailed info: http://iswc2017.semanticweb.org/calls/call-for-contributions-industry-track-iswc-2017/ Program Chairs * Achille Fokoue, IBM Yorktown, NY, USA * Peter Haase, metaphacts, Walldorf, Germany 3. Student Grants ========================================== If you are a student interested in attending ISWC 2017 you may be eligible to apply for a grant to support the costs of travel and lodging. This year, travel grants are funded by the Semantic Web Science Association (SWSA) and the US National Science Foundation (NSF). The deadline for applying for an ISWC 2017 travel award is August 31st, 2017. Further info on the application process at: https://iswc2017.semanticweb.org/attending/student-travel-grants/ Student Coordinators * Lalana Kagal, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, MA, USA * Gianluca Demartini, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK 4. Accepted Workshops and Tutorials ========================================== Tutorials (https://iswc2017.semanticweb.org/program/tutorials/): [KGC] Constructing Domain-specific Knowledge Graphs [StreamApp] How to Build a Stream Reasoning Application [HDT] HDT: Queryable Compression Format for Linked Data [MT4OBDA] Methods and Tools for Developing Ontology-Based Data Access Solutions [SemDaPra] Semantic Data Management in Practice [SWoTIoT] Semantic Web meets Internet of Things (IoT) and Web of Things (WoT) [RegLGD] Representation and Querying for Linked Geospatial Data Workshops (https://iswc2017.semanticweb.org/program/workshops/): [HSSUE] Hybrid Statistical Semantic Understanding and Emerging Semantics [VOILA] Visualization and Interaction for Ontologies and Linked Data [WOP] Ontology Design and Patterns [S4BioDiv] Semantics for Biodiversity [OM] Ontology Matching [WHiSe] Humanities in the Semantic Web [SemSci] Enabling Open Semantic Science [SemStats] Semantic Statistics [PROFILES] Dataset PROFlLing and fEderated Search for Web Data [DeSemWeb] Decentralizing the Semantic Web [MaCSeW] Managing Changes in the Semantic Web [BlkMirror] Re-coding Black Mirror [PrivOn] Society, Privacy and the Semantic Web - Policy and Technology [SWIT] Semantic Web Technologies for the IoT [LD4IE] Linked Data for Information Extraction [WOMoCoE] Ontology Modularity, Contextuality, and Evolution [BLINK] Benchmarking Linked Data [NLIWOD] Natural Language Interfaces for the Web of Data [WSP] Web Stream Processing Workshops & Tutorials Chairs * Aidan Hogan, Universidad de Chile Santiago, Santiago, Chile * Valentina Presutti, Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies, CNR, Rome, Italy 5. Important Dates ========================================== Doctoral Consortium submissions due May 25, 2017 Registration starts June 1, 2017 Doctoral Consortium notifications sent June 30, 2017 Author rebuttal period (Research, In-Use, Resources tracks) June 23-27, 2017 Submissions due (Industry track) July 10, 2017 Notifications sent (Research, In-Use, Resources tracks) July 14, 2017 Camera-ready papers for Doctoral Consortium due July 18, 2017 Workshop paper submissions due July 21, 2017 Poster & Demo submissions due July 27, 2017 Camera-ready papers due (Research, In-Use, Resources tracks) July 28, 2017 Notifications sent (Industry track) July 31, 3017 Workshop paper notifications sent August 24, 2017 Poster & Demo notifications sent August 24, 2017 Student activity applications due August 31, 2017 Final version industry track papers due August 31, 2017 Camera-ready copies for Poster & Demo due September 4, 2017 The last day for early registrations September 8, 2017 Workshops & Tutorials October 21 & 22, 2017 Conference October 23, 24 & 25, 2017 We thank our generous gold sponsors Siemens, Thomson Reuters, Semantic Web Company and data.world for their support. 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The first conference IEEE Big Data 2013 had more than 400 registered participants from 40 countries ( http://cci.drexel.edu/bigdata/bigdata2013/) and the regular paper acceptance rate is 17.0%. ? The IEEE Big Data 2016 ( http://cci.drexel.edu/bigdata/bigdata2016/ , regular paper acceptance rate: 18.7%) was held in Washington DC, Dec 5-8, 2016 with close to 900 registered participants from 43 countries. The 2017 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (IEEE Big Data 2017) will continue the success of the previous IEEE Big Data conferences. It will provide a leading forum for disseminating the latest results in Big Data Research, Development, and Applications. We solicit high-quality original research papers (and significant work-in-progress papers) in any aspect of Big Data with emphasis on 5Vs (Volume, Velocity, Variety, Value and Veracity), including the Big Data challenges in scientific and engineering, social, sensor/IoT/IoE, and multimedia (audio, video, image, etc.) big data systems and applications. *Example topics of interest includes but is not limited to the following*: 1. Big Data Science and Foundations a. Novel Theoretical Models for Big Data b. New Computational Models for Big Data c. Data and Information Quality for Big Data d. New Data Standards 2. Big Data Infrastructure a. Cloud/Grid/Stream Computing for Big Data b. High Performance/Parallel Computing Platforms for Big Data c. Autonomic Computing and Cyber-infrastructure, System Architectures, Design and Deployment d. Energy-efficient Computing for Big Data e. Programming Models and Environments for Cluster, Cloud, and Grid Computing to Support Big Data f. Software Techniques and Architectures in Cloud/Grid/Stream Computing g. Big Data Open Platforms h. New Programming Models for Big Data beyond Hadoop/MapReduce, STORM i. Software Systems to Support Big Data Computing 3. Big Data Management a. Search and Mining of variety of data including scientific and engineering, social, sensor/IoT/IoE, and multimedia data b. Algorithms and Systems for Big DataSearch c. Distributed, and Peer-to-peer Search d. Big Data Search Architectures, Scalability and Efficiency e. Data Acquisition, Integration, Cleaning, and Best Practices f. Visualization Analytics for Big Data g. Computational Modeling and Data Integration h. Large-scale Recommendation Systems and Social Media Systems i. Cloud/Grid/Stream Data Mining- Big Velocity Data j. Link and Graph Mining k. Semantic-based Data Mining and Data Pre-processing l. Mobility and Big Data m. Multimedia and Multi-structured Data- Big Variety Data 4. Big Data Search and Mining a. Social Web Search and Mining b. Web Search c. Algorithms and Systems for Big Data Search d. Distributed, and Peer-to-peer Search e. Big Data Search Architectures, Scalability and Efficiency f. Data Acquisition, Integration, Cleaning, and Best Practices g. Visualization Analytics for Big Data h. Computational Modeling and Data Integration i. Large-scale Recommendation Systems and Social Media Systems j. Cloud/Grid/StreamData Mining- Big Velocity Data k. Link and Graph Mining l. Semantic-based Data Mining and Data Pre-processing m. Mobility and Big Data n. Multimedia and Multi-structured Data- Big Variety Data 5. Big Data Security, Privacy and Trust a. Intrusion Detection for Gigabit Networks b. Anomaly and APT Detection in Very Large Scale Systems c. High Performance Cryptography d. Visualizing Large Scale Security Data e. Threat Detection using Big Data Analytics f. Privacy Threats of Big Data g. Privacy Preserving Big Data Collection/Analytics h. HCI Challenges for Big Data Security & Privacy i. User Studies for any of the above j. Sociological Aspects of Big Data Privacy k. Trust management in IoT and other Big Data Systems 6. Big Data Applications a. Complex Big Data Applications in Science, Engineering, Medicine, Healthcare, Finance, Business, Law, Education, Transportation, Retailing, Telecommunication b. Big Data Analytics in Small Business Enterprises (SMEs), c. Big Data Analytics in Government, Public Sector and Society in General d. Real-life Case Studies of Value Creation through Big Data Analytics e. Big Data as a Service f. Big Data Industry Standards g. Experiences with Big Data Project Deployments *INDUSTRIAL Track* The Industrial Track solicits papers describing implementations of Big Data solutions relevant to industrial settings. The focus of industry track is on papers that address the practical, applied, or pragmatic or new research challenge issues related to the use of Big Data in industry. 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URL: From mfinger at ime.usp.br Fri May 19 21:32:37 2017 From: mfinger at ime.usp.br (Marcelo Finger) Date: Fri, 19 May 2017 16:32:37 -0300 Subject: [DL] IJCAI 2017 Workshop on Logical Foundations for Uncertainty and Learning Message-ID: Dear colleagues, please note that we also invite previously published work that is relevant to the theme of the workshop. (The deadline has been extended.) *** Call for Papers IJCAI 2017 Workshop on Logical Foundations for Uncertainty and Learning http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/vbelle/workshops/lfu17/ Overview The purpose of this workshop is to promote logical foundations for reasoning and learning under uncertainty. Uncertainty is inherent in many AI applications, and coping with this uncertainty, in terms of preferences, probabilities and weights, is essential for the system to operate purposefully. In the same vein, expecting a domain modeler to completely characterize a system is often unrealistic, and so enabling mechanisms by means of which the system can infer and learn about the environment is needed. While probabilistic reasoning and Bayesian learning has enjoyed many successes and is central to our current understanding of the data revolution, a deeper investigation on the underlying semantical issues as well as principled ways of extending the frameworks to richer settings is what this workshop strives for. Broadly speaking, we aim to bring together the many communities focused on uncertainty reasoning and learning -- including knowledge representation, machine learning, logic programming and databases -- by focusing on the logical underpinnings of the approaches and techniques. Given the intent of the workshop, we encourage two categories of submissions: On the practical side, we solicit papers that propose ways to bridge conventional learning and inference techniques with deductive and inductive reasoning. Driven by the successes of relational graphical models and statistical relational learning, we especially encourage papers that emphasize or demonstrate non-standard logical features in systems, e.g. the ability to handle infinite domains, existential uncertainty and/or function symbols. On the foundations side, we solicit papers that explicate the use of weights in reasoning and learning, e.g. the use of weight functions such as degrees of belief, preferences, and truth degrees. We especially encourage papers that demonstrate how non-standard weight functions for reasoning and learning can be better integrated with existing probabilistic methods. The idea, then, is to foster collaboration between machine learning practitioners and the weighted logic community. For example, we encourage papers that revisit the learning objectives and inference methodologies of existing systems, and propose novel semantical frameworks to understand them. In essence, this workshop builds on and extends the scope of the successful series WL4AI (Weighted Logics for Artificial Intelligence: ECAI-2012, IJCAI-2013, IJCAI-2015) in additionally looking at the semantical foundations of machine learning and exploring practical issues. Topics include (but are not limited to): Probabilistic and weighted databases and knowledge bases Integration of deductive and inductive reasoning with Bayesian inference and learning Semantical foundations for machine learning Logics for data-intensive information processing, such as data fusion Extension of statistical relational learning with generic weight functions Declarative methods for inference and learning Paper Format and Submission We invite technical papers (up to 6 pages), position papers (up to 2 pages). We invite submissions describing either work in progress or mature work that has already been published at other research venues and would be of interest to researchers working on the themes above. Submission of previously published work in whole or in part may be in the form of a resubmission of a previous paper, or in the form of a position paper that overviews and cites a body of work. All papers should be typeset in the IJCAI style, described at http://ijcai-17.org/FormattingGuidelinesIJCAI-17.zip Papers should be submitted via EasyChair at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lfu17 Please see the website for up to date information (including submission procedure): http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/vbelle/workshops/lfu17/ Important Dates Paper Submission: May 28 (extended from May 15) Author Notification: June 8 Camera ready: July 15 Workshop Date: August 19 Organizing Committee Vaishak Belle, University of Edinburgh, vaishak(at)ed.ac.uk Marcelo Finger, University of Sao Paulo, mfinger(at)ime.usp.br James Cussens, University of York, james.cussens(at)york.ac.uk Guilin Qi, Southeast University, China, gqi(at)seu.edu.cn Henri Prade, Universite Paul Sabatier, France, prade(at)irit.fr Lluis Godo, IIIA CSIC, Spain, godo(at)iiia.csic.es Program Committee Fabio Cozman, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil Jesse Davies, KU Leuven, Belgium Adnan Darwiche, UCLA, USA Didier Dubois, IRIT, France Esra Erdem, Sabanci University, Turkey Linda van der Gaag, Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands Tommaso Flaminio, University of Insubria, Italy Vibhav Gogate, University of Texas at Dallas, USA Joe Halpern, Cornell University, USA Manfred Jaeger, Aalborg University, Denmark Souhila Kaci, University Montpellier, France Gabriele Kern-Isberner, Technical University of Dortmund, Germany Gerhard Lakemeyer, RWTH Aachen University, Germany Churn-Jung Liau, Academia Sinica, Taiwan Emiliano Lorini, IRIT, France Thomas Lukasiewicz, University of Oxford, UK Carsten Lutz, University of Bremen, Germany Denis Maua, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil Vanina Martinez, Universidad Nacional del Sur, Argentina Zoran Ognjanovic, Mathematical Institute SANU, Serbia Ron Petrick, Edinburgh, UK Rodrigo De Salvo Braz, SRI, USA Giuseppe Sanfilippo, Univ. Catania, Italy Steven Schockaert, Cardiff University, UK Guillermo Simari, Universidad Nacional del Sur, Argentina Umberto Straccia, CNR, Italy -- Marcelo Finger Departament of Computer Science, IME University of Sao Paulo http://www.ime.usp.br/~mfinger From r.s.miller at ucl.ac.uk Fri May 19 19:15:46 2017 From: r.s.miller at ucl.ac.uk (Miller, Rob) Date: Fri, 19 May 2017 17:15:46 +0000 Subject: [DL] 13th International Symposium on Commonsense Reasoning: Call For Papers Message-ID: <539B0D98-1724-43E1-8147-A3848626EE2E@ucl.ac.uk> ****************************************************************************** Thirteenth International Symposium on Commonsense Reasoning (Commonsense-2017) Preliminary Call for Papers ****************************************************************************** We invite submissions to Commonsense-2017, to be held in London, November 6-8, 2017. Endowing computers with common sense is one of the major long-term goals of Artificial Intelligence research. Commonsense knowledge and reasoning are relevant for many applications of current interest. Examples include robot and human collaboration, transparent machine-learning systems that can explain their conclusions, social media and story understanding software, and dialogue systems. The recent resurgence of interest in commonsense reasoning reflects a wider societal reaction to current technological advances, such as the fact that ?next year a law will come into operation in [EU] member states which gives everyone a right to an explanation of any decision affecting them that has been reached algorithmically? [Guardian newspaper, 14 April 2017]. Approaches to acquiring commonsense knowledge and performing commonsense reasoning may incorporate semantics-based representation and inference, machine learning, natural language processing, computer vision, and/or cognitive science. The symposium aims to encourage cross-fertilization between these and other techniques. The synthesis of multiple approaches is challenging, but could jump-start progress on many outstanding problems of commonsense reasoning. We welcome a wide variety of submissions, including formal results, experimental results, demos, surveys, evaluations and comparisons of different approaches, and papers on methodological issues. While mathematical logic has traditionally been the primary lingua franca of the Symposium, we welcome all relevant and rigorous approaches to automating commonsense knowledge and reasoning. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Semantics-based representations for specific commonsense domains, such as: - Time, change, action, causality - Commonsense physical and spatial reasoning - Legal, biological, medical, and other scientific reasoning incorporating elements of common sense - Mental states such as beliefs, intentions, and emotions - Social activities and relationships * Inference methods for commonsense reasoning, such as: - Logic programming - Probabilistic, heuristic, and approximate reasoning - Nonmonotonic reasoning, belief revision and argumentation - Abductive and inductive reasoning - Textual Entailment * Methods for creating commonsense knowledge bases, such as: - Statistical and corpus-based techniques, including both traditional machine learning and deep learning - Crowdsourcing - Hand-crafting domain theories - Hybrid methods * Applications of commonsense reasoning, especially interdisciplinary research in the following areas: - Natural language understanding (understanding discourse, question answering, semantic parsing) - Image understanding - Cognitive robotics and planning - Web-based applications (search, internet of things) - Support technologies (computer-aided instruction, home automation) * Discussions of the science of commonsense reasoning research, including: - Meta-theorems about commonsense theories and techniques - Relation to other fields, such as philosophy, linguistics, cognitive psychology, game theory, and economics - Challenge problem sets and benchmarking By default accepted papers will be published shortly after the symposium in the CEUR Workshop Proceedings series. Authors may however opt out of publishing in CEUR, e.g. if they wish to publish their paper at another venue. All accepted papers will be made available on the commonsensereasoning.org website for the duration of the symposium. The publication of a journal special issue which would include selected and extended papers from Commonsense-2017 is currently under consideration; later versions of this call for papers will have more information on this subject. Important Dates - Submissions due: August 4, 2017 - Submission notification date: September 8, 2017 - Camera-ready versions due: September 22, 2017 - Symposium: November 6-8, 2017 Submissions - Submissions will be made through EasyChair, at: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=commonsense2017 - Papers are limited to 6 pages, prepared in IJCAI or AAAI format, using Letter or A4 sized paper, plus one additional page for references. Review Process Each paper will receive three blind peer reviews. Selection criteria include novelty, technical accuracy and rigor, significance and generalizability, relevance, and quality of writing. Program Chairs - Andrew S. Gordon, University of Southern California - Rob Miller, University College London - Gyorgy Turan, University of Illinois at Chicago and University of Szeged Program Committee - To be announced Website: http://commonsensereasoning.org From Rafael.Penaloza at unibz.it Tue May 23 07:51:30 2017 From: Rafael.Penaloza at unibz.it (Penaloza Nyssen Rafael) Date: Tue, 23 May 2017 05:51:30 +0000 Subject: [DL] CfP: Debugging and Evaluation of Ontologies @ JOWO Message-ID: First Call for Papers DEW at JOWO 2017: Debugging and Evaluation Workshop - DEW http://iaoa.org/jowo/dew2017 To be held as part of the 3rd Joint Ontology Workshops, September 21-23, 2017, Bozen-Bolzano, Italy (see http://iaoa.org/jowo/JOWO-2017/ for the full JOWO program) The ontology Debugging and Evaluation Workshop (DEW) invites submission of original papers for potential inclusion in DEW 2017. DEW aims to advance ontology evaluation and the detection, understanding, and correction of errors in ontologies and ontological knowledge bases. Potential topics include methods, tools, and challenges in ontology debugging and evaluation, as well as quality criteria, metrics, experimental results, and lessons learned. Submissions may range in emphasis, focusing more on experience or on theory, for example. A diversity of perspectives is also hoped for, including those of ontology (re)users, ontology developers, and those responsible for quality assurance of ontologies incorporated into larger systems. ***Important Dates (tentative)*** Submission deadline: July 17, 2017 Notifications: August 14, 2017 ***What to Submit*** Short papers: maximum 6 pages (including references) Full papers: maximum 14 pages (including references) Papers must have not been previously published or be under review at another workshop. However, we encourage submissions that present summaries or highlights of work appearing elsewhere in longer form. ***How to Submit*** All papers should be submitted via EasyChair. See the bottom of this announcement for further details. ******************** Organization: Co-Chairs: Rafael Pe?aloza Amanda Vizedom Program Committee: Uli Sattler (University of Manchester) Yevgeny Kazakov (Ulm University) Carlos Menc?a (University of Oviedo) Francesco Corcoglioniti (Fondazione Bruno Kessler) (more members to be confirmed) ***Submission Guidelines*** Submitted papers must not exceed 6 or 14 pages (including bibliography, according to the submission type) and must include an abstract of no more than 300 words. Papers should be submitted in PDF format, non-anonymously, via EasyChair at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=jowo2017, *specifying DEW as the track.* Papers presented at DEW will be published in a joint JOWO CEUR proceedings volume. Papers should adhere to IOS Press formatting guidelines. IOS Press offers formatting tools for authors working in MS Word or in LaTeX: http://www.iospress.nl/service/authors/. From simona.colucci at poliba.it Mon May 22 12:28:01 2017 From: simona.colucci at poliba.it (Simona Colucci) Date: Mon, 22 May 2017 12:28:01 +0200 Subject: [DL] [CfP] GenSW2017: 1st Workshop on "Generalizing knowledge: from Machine Learning and Knowledge Representation to the Semantic Web" Message-ID: [Apologies for cross-posting.] ***First International Workshop on "Generalizing knowledge: from Machine Learning and Knowledge Representation to the Semantic Web" (GenSW2017)*** In conjunction with with "The 16th International Conference of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence" (AI*IA 2017), Bari, Italy, November 14 - 17 2017. Website: https://sites.google.com/site/gensw2017/ ***Important Dates*** Abstract submission: 13 July 2017 Paper submission: 18 July 2017 Notification to authors: 8 September 2017 Camera-ready copies: 29 September 2017 ***Call for Papers*** Generalizing descriptions is a problem traditionally investigated in at least two different fields of Artificial Intelligence: Machine Learning (ML) and Knowledge Representation (KR). Both research fields have played an important role in the development of the Semantic Web (SW). KR provided the theoretical basis for formalizing shared knowledge bases, a.k.a. ontologies, and for deductively reasoning over them. ML methods have been used for enriching ontologies, both at schema and instance level, by exploiting inductive reasoning, while still benefiting from deductive reasoning, when possible. In the Web of Data, the availability of generalization mechanisms could be crucial for performing several knowledge management tasks, such as data summarization, data indexing, cluster discovery and many others. However, performing generalization in such a context cannot be done by just revisiting traditional generalization services, because some issues and peculiarities need to be carefully taken into account. One of these peculiarities is the data size, which requires new scalable techniques. The second one is the data quality, which is affected by the endemic redundancy, noise, frequent irrelevance and possible inconsistency of theavailable information. A third one is data interdependencies stemming from RDFS statements. Despite some preliminary research efforts, very few solutions and methods can be found at the state of the art for coping with this urgent problem. The maturity of solutions coming from the ML and KR fields may certainly provide a reasonable starting point. However, methods mixing or stacking solutions coming from both fields may result more promising to address all raised issues. Therefore, the main goal of the workshop is to foster solutions cross-fertilizing both ML and KR fields, focusing on generalizing SW knowledge descriptions and, possibly taking into account scalability issues. Solutions of interest should cope with descriptions formalized, primarily, in RDF/RDFS, but also in more expressive representation languages, like Description Logics/OWL. The workshop aims at gathering solutions for the generalization of knowledge descriptions formalized in standard representation languages for the Semantic Web (primarily, but not only, RDF/RDFS). Solutions of interest should focus (primarily, but not only) on methods mixing and/or stacking solutions coming from Machine Learning and Knowledge Representation fields and applicable to standard Semantic Web representation languages. The developments of scalable solutions for this purpose will be particularly appreciated. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: ? KR and/or ML methods (possibly in combination) for generalizing in the Semantic Web ? Semi-supervised, unbalanced, inductive learning for generalizing in the Semantic Web ? Reasoning services for generalization in the Semantic Web 1. Generalization methods for finding commonalities and differences in the Semantic Web 2. Generalization methods for enrichment Semantic Web knowledge bases 3. Generalization methods for indexing in the Linked Data Cloud ? Evaluation and benchmarking of generalization approaches in the Semantic Web ? Scalable algorithms for generalizing the Web of Data ? Generalization in presence of uncertain/inconsistent/noisy knowledge Papers should be written in English, formatted according to the Springer LNCS style , and not exceed 12 pages (full papers) or 4 pages (position papers) plus bibliography. Papers must be submitted via easychair: https://easychair.o rg/conferences/?conf=gensw2017. All accepted papers will be scheduled for oral presentations and will be published in CEUR Workshop Proceedings AI*IA Series. *Authors of selected papers accepted to the workshop will be invited to submit an extended version for publication on the journal ?Semantic Web ? Interoperability, Usability, Applicability" (http://www.semantic-web-journal.net/ ). Papers selected for the special issue have to go through a full review process before acceptance.* ***Organizing Committee*** Simona Colucci, Politecnico di Bari Claudia d'Amato, Universit? degli Studi di Bari Francesco M. Donini, Universit? della Tuscia, Viterbo Simona Colucci, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Politecnico di Bari Department of Electrical and Information Engineering Information Systems Research Group *Address*: via E. 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Hosted at: AI*IA 2017, the 16th International Conference of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence (http://aiia2017.di.uniba.it/). == WORKSHOP WEBSITE == http://cex.inf.unibz.it == INVITED SPEAKERS == Barbara Hammer, University of Bielefeld ...more to come... == REGISTRATION == Registration for the workshop is handled via the main conference website. Please consult http://aiia2017.di.uniba.it/ for details. == CALL FOR PAPERS == ** Mission Statement ** CEx addresses fundamental questions for the nature of "comprehensibility" and "explanation" in an AI and ML context from a theoretical and an applied perspective. Research into philosophical approximations to what an explanation in AI and ML is (or can be) or how the comprehensibility of an intelligent system can formally be defined will be presented next to work addressing practical questions of how to assess a systems comprehensibility from a psychological perspective, or how to design and build better explainable AI and ML systems. ** Fields of Interest ** The workshop brings together a diverse audience, including... - ...participants from core areas of AI and ML,... - ...ontologists,... - ...cognitive scientists,... - ...psychologists,... - ...HCI researchers,... - ...and practitioners from industry and business contexts. ** Accepted Submission Formats ** Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit original papers that have not been submitted for review or published elsewhere: - Submitted papers must be written in English, must be formatted according to the Springer LNCS style (templates and sample files are available from https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gui delines). - FULL PAPERS: Research and experience papers should not exceed 10 pages (excluding references/bibliography). - SHORT PAPERS: Position papers or technical notes should not exceed 6 pages (excluding references/bibliography). - All submitted papers will be judged based on their relevance, originality, significance, technical quality, and organization. ** Submission Website ** Submissions to CEx @ AI*IA 2017 should be made via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cexaiia2017 ** Presentation ** Selected papers will be presented during the workshop. The workshop will include extra time for discussion of the presentations allowing the group to have a better understanding of the issues, challenges, and ideas being presented. ** Publication ** Accepted papers will be published in official workshop proceedings within the CEUR-WS.org series. Depending on the number and quality of accepted papers, the organizers will consider organizing a special issue of a journal as follow-up publication. == IMPORTANT DATES == Deadline for paper submission: July 27, 2017 (anywhere on this planet) Notification of paper acceptance/rejection: September 10, 2017 Camera-ready paper due: September 30, 2017 Workshop date: Nov. 14 & 15 XOR Nov. 16 & 17, 2017 == WORKSHOP ORGANISERS == - Tarek R. Besold (University of Bremen, Germany) - Oliver Kutz (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy) == PROGRAMME COMMITTEE == - John Bateman, University of Bremen - Joanna Bryson, University of Bath - Derek Doran, Wright State University - Artur Garcez, City, University of London - Barbara Hammer, University of Bielefeld - Caroline Jay, University of Manchester - Kristian Kersting, Technical University Darmstadt - Antonio Lieto, University of Turin - Rafael Penaloza, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano - Sarah Schulz, University of Stuttgart - Gem Stapleton, University of Brighton - Serge Thill, University of Sk?vde - Leon van der Torre, University of Luxembourg - Rebekah Wegener, RWTH Aachen University - Christina Zeller, University of Bamberg ...more to come... -- Digital Media Lab Center for Computing and Communication Technologies (TZI) University of Bremen Email: Tarek.Besold at uni-bremen.de Web: http://www.cat-ai.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jonquet at lirmm.fr Wed May 24 17:55:00 2017 From: jonquet at lirmm.fr (Clement Jonquet) Date: Wed, 24 May 2017 08:55:00 -0700 Subject: [DL] TR: Postdoc position on AgroPortal, GACS and ontology alignment in Montpellier, France Message-ID: <071301d2d4a6$5c4b8b00$14e2a100$@lirmm.fr> (sorry for multiple receptions) The NUMEV Labex (http://www.lirmm.fr/numev) and AgroPortal project ( http://agroportal.lirmm.fr) which builds an ontology repository for agronomy are offering a 1-year postdoc position for 2017-2018 in Montpellier, to work on agronomical ontologies and their alignments as well as take part in the international GACS initiative (http://www.agrisemantics.org/gacs/). Abstract: Standards vocabularies and ontologies are key elements to achieve data interoperability. The AgroPortal project (http://agroportal.lirmm.fr) develops and supports a reference ontology repository for agronomy, plant sciences, biodiversity and nutrition. We have already designed and implemented an advanced prototype offering ontology-based services that hosts 64 ontologies or vocabularies including some reference resources in the domain: Agrovoc, NAL thesaurus, Crop Ontology, etc. One of the challenges when dealing with multiple ontologies is to determine their overlap and align them. We are offering a postdoc position to develop ontology mapping capabilities to align AgroPortal ontologies and participate into the international Global Agricultural Concept Scheme (GACS) project. With the experience and technology developed with the YAM++ application (LIRMM's ontology alignment matcher), we will make AgroPortal a state-of-the-art platform for mapping extraction, generation, validation, evaluation, storage and retrieval by adopting a complete semantic web and linked open data approach and engaging the community for curation. We will first focus on the ontologies of the Montpellier community (agronomy, food, biodiversity) and then join the GACS project (integration of Agrovoc, NALt & CABt) in partnership with RDA AgriSemantics working group. More detail here: http://www.lirmm.fr/sifr/positions/2017_NUMEV-Lingua_postdoc_position.pdf or http://www.lirmm.fr/sifr/positions/2017_NUMEV-Lingua_postdoc_position.html Please, consider transferring the job description in your labs and networks. Best regards Clement Dr. Clement JONQUET - PhD in Informatics - Assistant Professor University of Montpellier Coordinator of the SIFR and AgroPortal projects Visiting scholar, Stanford University (EU Marie Curie fellow) jonquet at lirmm.fr http://www.lirmm.fr/~jonquet @Montpellier : +33/4 67 14 97 43 @Stanford : +1 650 723 6725 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From assoto at uc.cl Mon May 29 01:38:05 2017 From: assoto at uc.cl (ADRIAN ANDRES SOTO SUAREZ) Date: Sun, 28 May 2017 19:38:05 -0400 Subject: [DL] Second PODS 2018 Call for Papers Message-ID: 37th ACM SIGMOD-SIGACT-SIGAI Symposium on PRINCIPLES OF DATABASE SYSTEMS (PODS 2018) June 11 - June 13, 2018, Houston, Texas, USA SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS ** PODS has two rounds of submissions (see dates below). ** The PODS symposium series, held in conjunction with the SIGMOD conference series, provides a premier annual forum for the communication of new advances in the theoretical foundations of data management, traditional or non-traditional (see http://www.sigmod.org/the-pods-pages/the-pods-pages). For the 37th edition, PODS continues to aim to broaden its scope, and calls for research papers providing original, substantial contributions along one or more of the following aspects: - deep theoretical exploration of topical areas central to data management; - new formal frameworks that aim at providing the basis for deeper theoretical investigation of important emerging issues in data management; - validation of established theoretical approaches from the lens of practical applicability in data management. Papers in this track should provide an experimental evaluation that gives new insight in established theories. Besides, they should provide a clear message to the database theory community as to which aspects need further (theoretical) investigation, based on the experimental findings. TOPICS that fit the interests of the symposium include, but are not limited to: - concurrency & recovery, distributed/parallel databases, cloud computing - data and knowledge integration and exchange, data provenance, views and data warehouses, metadata management - data-centric (business) process management, workflows, web services - data management and machine learning - data mining, information extraction, search - data models, data structures, algorithms for data management - data privacy and security, human-related data and ethics - data streams - design, semantics, query languages - domain-specific databases (multi-media, scientific, spatial, temporal, text) - graph databases and (semantic) Web data - incompleteness, inconsistency, uncertainty in data management - knowledge-enriched data management - model theory, logics, algebras, computational complexity ORGANIZATION Program Chair: Marcelo Arenas Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile Program Committee: Marcelo Arenas (Chair, Pontificia Univ. Catolica) Edith Cohen (Google & Tel Aviv Univ.) Sara Cohen (The Hebrew Univ. of Jerusalem) Graham Cormode (Univ. of Warwick) Arnaud Durand (Universite Paris-Diderot) Ronald Fagin (IBM Research - Almaden) Francois Goasdoue (Univ. Rennes) Sudipto Guha (Univ. of Pennsylvania) Daniel Kifer (Pennsylvania State Univ.) Paris Koutris (Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison) Domenico Lembo (Sapienza Univ. of Rome) Nicola Leone (Univ. of Calabria) Carsten Lutz (Universitat Bremen) Wim Martens (Universitat Bayreuth) Marco Montali (Free Univ. of Bozen - Bolzano) Hung Q. Ngo (LogicBlox) Magdalena Ortiz (Vienna Univ. of Technology) Rasmus Pagh (IT Univ. of Copenhagen) Andreas Pieris (Univ. of Edinburgh) Sudeepa Roy (Duke Univ.) Francesco Scarcello (Univ. of Calabria) Srikanta Tirthapura (Iowa State Univ.) Domagoj Vrgoc (Pontificia Univ. Catolica) Ke Yi (Hong Kong Univ. of Science and Tech.) PODS General Chair: Jan Van den Bussche (Univ. of Hasselt) Proceedings Chair: Martin Ugarte ( Universite Libre de Bruxelles) Publicity Chair: Adrian Soto (Pontificia Univ. Catolica) SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Submitted papers must be formatted using the designated style file (sig-alternate-10.cls) which uses 10pt font size and line spacing of 11pt using the "\documentclass{sig-alternate-10}" command in your LaTeX document. Submitted papers should be at most twelve pages, excluding bibliography. Additional details may be included in an appendix that should be incorporated at the submission time (online appendices are not allowed). However, such appendices will be read at the discretion of the program committee. Papers that are longer than twelve pages (excluding bibliography and the appendix) or in font size smaller than 10pt or with line spacing less than 11pt risk rejection without consideration of their merits. The submission process is online, using https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=pods2018. Notice that PODS does not use double-blind reviewing, and therefore PODS submissions should have the names and affiliations of authors listed on the paper. The results of submitted paper must be unpublished and not submitted elsewhere, including the formal proceedings of other symposia or workshops. Authors of an accepted paper will be expected to sign copyright release forms, and one author is expected to present it at the conference. IMPORTANT DATES First Submission Cycle: Abstract submission: Jun 15, 2017 Paper submission: Jun 22, 2017 First notification: Aug 31, 2017 Revision deadline: Sep 28, 2017 Final notification: Nov 02, 2017 Second Submission Cycle: Abstract submission: Dec 12, 2017 Paper submission: Dec 19, 2017 Final notification: Feb 27, 2018 All deadlines end at 11:59pm AoE. AWARDS Best Paper Award: An award will be given to the best submission, as judged by the program committee. 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URL: From dario.dellamonica at uniud.it Fri May 26 09:54:14 2017 From: dario.dellamonica at uniud.it (Dario Della Monica) Date: Fri, 26 May 2017 09:54:14 +0200 Subject: [DL] CILC 2017: call for papers---extended deadlines Message-ID: <5e88067b-ac9c-6109-425e-48d3eaa06bb7@uniud.it> We are happy to announce extended deadlines for the following event. Feel free to forward this message to whom it might interest. ********************************************************************** CALL FOR PAPERS 32nd Italian Conference on Computational Logic (CILC 2017) -- http://cilc2017.unina.it/ Naples, Italy, September 26-29, 2017 ********************************************************************** CILC (Italian Conference on Computational Logic) is the annual conference organized by GULP (Group of researchers and Users of Logic Programming, www.programmazionelogica.it). Its 32nd edition will be held in Naples (Italy) on September 26-29, 2017. Since the first event of the series, which took place in Genoa in 1986, the annual GULP conference represents the main opportunity for users, researchers and developers working in the field of computational logic to meet and exchange ideas. Over the years the conference broadened its horizons from the specific field of logic programming to include declarative programming and applications in neighboring areas such as artificial intelligence and deductive databases. CILC 2017 is co-located with the 18th Italian Conference on Theoretical Computer Science ICTCS 2017 (http://ictcs2017.unina.it/) with which it will share part of the program. The two events will feature plenary events, on September 29, to be specified later. Contributions: -------------- The conference will feature presentations of refereed contributions, including the demonstration of software prototypes, concerning all aspects of computational logic. The conference invites two types of submissions: full papers, possibly already submitted to other conferences or journals, and short papers, which are particularly suitable for presenting work in progress, software prototypes, extended abstracts of doctoral theses, or general overviews of research projects. The topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: Logic Programming, Constraint Programming and other paradigms of declarative programming Extensions and integrations of declarative programming paradigms Analysis, transformation, validation, and verification of programs Instruments and environments for program development Implementations and benchmarking Model Checking Temporal logics Automated Theorem Proving Non-Monotonic Reasoning Answer Set Programming Knowledge representation and extraction Treatment of uncertain and incomplete knowledge Approximate Reasoning Abductive Logic Programming Model-based Reasoning Inductive Logic Programming Deductive Databases Data Mining and Data Integration Multi-agent systems Logics for strategic reasoning Semantic Web Natural Language Processing Computational logic for concurrency, coordination, mobility and objects Planning and scheduling Probabilistic Logic Programming Computational Logic and formal methods in Artificial Intelligence Applications of Computational Logic Pedagogy of Computational Logic Invited Speakers: ----------------- The invited speakers for this joint CILC/ICTCS event are: Mario Alviano, University of Calabria Laura Giordano, Universit? del Piemonte Orientale Alessio Lomuscio, Imperial College London Important dates: ---------------- Abstract, paper, and demo submission deadline: 7 June 2017 Notification of acceptance: 7 July 2017 Final version and early registration deadline: 24 July 2017 Conference: 26-29 September 2017 Submission instructions: ------------------------ Authors are invited to submit their manuscripts in PDF via the EasyChair system at the link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cilc2017 Articles must not exceed 15 pages for full papers and 5 pages for short papers, respectively. Manuscripts should be formatted using the Springer LNCS style. To ease the reviewing process, the authors of regular papers may add an appendix (although reviewers are not required to consider it in their evaluation). All contributions must be written in English. In particular, we invite submissions of system or prototype software descriptions which use techniques or tools of computational logic, or which themselves aid the development of applications based on computational logic. Systems of both research and industrial character are welcome. Submissions must include a brief description, prepared according to the guidelines given for short papers, and a specification of the required hardware and software equipment. For each accepted contribution, at least one of the authors is required to attend the conference and present the paper. The event is organized by GULP. Therefore, Italian attendants are required to be members of GULP (it is possible to join GULP at the conference). Proceedings: ------------ All accepted original contributions (both full and short) will be published on CEUR-WS.org. Non-original communications will be given visibility on the conference web site including a link to the original publication if already published. As in previous years, we plan to publish a selection of the best papers in a special issue of an international journal (to be determined). This is open to full and short papers that have not been published in a journal. General chair: -------------- Aniello Murano (University of Naples "Federico II") Program co-chairs: ------------------ Dario Della Monica (Universidad Complutense de Madrid) Luigi Sauro (University of Naples "Federico II") Program Committee: ------------------ Davide Ancona, University of Genova, Italy Paolo Baldan, University of Padova, Italy Ezio Bartocci, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Massimo Bartoletti, University of Cagliari, Italy Vittorio Bil?, University of Salento, Italy Stefania Costantini, University of L'Aquila, Italy Ugo Dal Lago, University of Bologna, Italy Pierpaolo Degano, University of Pisa, Italy Stefano Ferilli, University of Bari, Italy Fabio Fioravanti, University of Chieti-Pescara, Italy Ferdinando Fioretto, University of Michigan, USA Andrea Formisano, University of Perugia, Italy Raffaella Gentilini, University of Perugia, Italy Laura Giordano, DISIT, University of Piemonte Orientale, Italy Marco Manna, University of Calabria, Italy Marco Maratea, DIBRIS, University of Genova, Italy Viviana Mascardi, DIBRIS University of Genova, Italy Barbara Masucci, University of Salerno, Italy Paola Mello, University of Bologna, Italy Matteo Mio, CNRS/ENS-Lyon, France Fabio Mogavero, University of Oxford, UK Marco Montali, Free University of Bolzano, Italy Manuela Montangero, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy Laura Nenzi, IMT, Lucca, Italy Eugenio Omodeo, University of Trieste, Italy Fabio Patrizi, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy Giuseppe Perelli, University of Oxford, UK Adriano Peron, University of Napoli "Federico II", Italy Alberto Pettorossi, University of Roma Tor Vergata, Italy Carla Piazza, University of Udine, Italy Luca Pulina, POLCOMING, University of Sassari, Italy Fabrizio Riguzzi, University of Ferrara, Italy Gianfranco Rossi, University of Parma, Italy Guido Sciavicco, University of Ferrara, Italy Jeremy Sproston, University of Torino , Italy Tiziano Villa, University of Verona, Italy Venue: ------ The conference will take place at the "Complesso di San Giovanni a Teduccio---Complesso Napoli Est", in Corso Nicolangelo Protopisani, 70, 80146 Napoli. -------------- For more information email cilc2017 at easychair.org. -- Dario Della Monica, Postdoctoral Researcher Dipartimento di Ingegneria Elettrica e Tecnologie dell'Informazione (DIETI) University of Naples "Federico II" via Claudio, 21, 80125 Naples, Italy cell: (+39) 328 2477327 email: dario.dellamonica [at] unina.it skype: dariodellamonica web site: http://wpage.unina.it/dario.dellamonica/ From demri at lsv.ens-cachan.fr Fri May 26 13:01:28 2017 From: demri at lsv.ens-cachan.fr (=?utf-8?Q?St=C3=A9phane_DEMRI?=) Date: Fri, 26 May 2017 13:01:28 +0200 Subject: [DL] DaLi'17 -- Deadline extension Message-ID: (sorry for multiple copies) ==== DEADLINE EXTENSION==== Workshop DaLi? Dynamic Logic: new trends and applications Bras?lia, 24 September, 2017 (co-located with FROCOS TABLEAUX and ITP 2017) workshop.dali.di.uminho.pt Building on the pioneer intuitions of Floyd-Hoare logic, Dynamic Logic was introduced in the 70?s by Pratt as a suitable logic to reason about, and verify, classic imperative programs. Since then, the original intuitions grew to an entire family of logics, which became increasingly popular for assertional reasoning about a wide range of computational systems. Simultaneously, their object (i.e. the very notion of a program) evolved in unexpected ways. This leads to dynamic logics tailored to specific programming paradigms and extended to new computing domains, including probabilistic, continuous and quantum computation. Both its theoretical relevance and practical potential make Dynamic Logic a topic of interest in a number of scientific venues, from wide-scope software engineering conferences to modal logic specific events. However, no specific event is exclusively dedicated to it. This workshop aims at filling fill such a gap, joining an heterogeneous community of colleagues, from Academia to Industry, from Mathematics to Computer Science. forum for disseminating and sharing new trends and applications of Dynamic Logic. The event is promoted by the project DaL? - Dynamic logics for cyber-physical systems: towards contract based design (POCI-01-0145-FEDER-016692), a R&D project supported by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (http: //dali.di.uminho.pt ). ***** Topics ***** We invite submissions on the general field of Dynamic Logic, its variants and applications, including, but not restricted to: - Dynamic logic,foundations and applications - Logics with regular modalities - Modal/temporal/epistemic logics - Kleene and action algebras and their variants - Quantum dynamic logic - Coalgebraic modal/dynamic logics - Graded and fuzzy dynamic logics - Dynamic logics for cyber-physical systems - Dynamic epistemic logic - Complexity and decidability of variants of dynamic logics and temporal logics - Model checking, model generation and theorem proving for dynamic logics ***** Submissions and publications **** Authors are invited to submit original papers (un-published and not submitted for publication elsewhere) up to 15 pages in lncs style. Accepted papers will be published in a Springer?s Lecture Notes of Computer Science volume. Submissions with work in progress (abstracts with 2-5 pag) are also welcomed for short presentations. They are subject of a light reviewing and will be available at conference in a informal booklet. Both kind of submissions should be done via the EasyChair link https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dali17 . Extended versions of the DaL? contributions will be invited to a special issue in the Journal of Logical and Algebraic Methods in Programming, Elsevier. ***** Important Dates **** - NEW DEADLINE - June 18, 2017: Abstract deadline - NEW DEADLINE - June 18, 2017: Full paper deadline - July 14, 2017: Author notification **** Invited Speakers **** - Alexandru Baltag, UVA, NL - Edward Hermann Haeusler, PUC-Rio, BR **** PC Chairs **** - Alexandre Madeira (UM & UA, PT) - M?rio Benevides (UFRJ, BR) **** Program Committee: **** - Carlos Areces (U. Cordoba, AR) - Phillippe Balbiani (U. 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This young university has already established itself as an important research institution, both in Italy and abroad. According to the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2017, the university is the tenth world?s best small university, is the fifth best among all the Italian Universities with computer science departments, and it is the second best young Italian University. The KRDB Research Centre of the faculty (www.inf.unibz.it/krdb) is widely recognised as one of the internationally leading groups in knowledge representation research, with a synergy between foundational and application-oriented research. Among the various available PhD topics described in the call, the KRDB Research Centre is looking for PhD students interested in Conceptual Data Modelling and Ontology Design, Intelligent Information Access and Query processing, Information Integration, Semantic Technologies, Knowledge Representation, Computational Logic, Artificial Intelligence, foundations of Process-aware Information Systems. To get in contact with the KRDB Research Centre and discuss about the opportunities of this call contact prof. Alessandro Artale at artale at inf.unibz.it. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From frank.loebe at informatik.uni-leipzig.de Tue May 30 14:46:39 2017 From: frank.loebe at informatik.uni-leipzig.de (Frank Loebe) Date: Tue, 30 May 2017 14:46:39 +0200 Subject: [DL] JOWO 2017: 1st Call for Papers (Joint Ontology Workshops, Sep 21-23, Bolzano, Italy) Message-ID: <201705301246.v4UCkhh9020278@isun.informatik.uni-leipzig.de> ---------------------------------- First Call for Papers ---------------------------------- Joint Ontology Workshops (JOWO 2017) --- Episode 3: The Tyrolean Autumn --- Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy, September 21-23, 2017 ---------------------------------- 10 Workshops on Ontology and its Applications http://www.iaoa.org/jowo/2017/ Submission deadlines are around July 15. See the individual workshop pages for precise dates. ---------------------------------- The Joint Ontology Workshops' (JOWO) mission is to join forces of the diverse communities interested in building, reasoning with, and applying formalised ontologies in the wide spectrum of information sciences, artificial intelligence theory and applications, philosophy and cognitive science, and beyond. This third edition of the Joint Ontology Workshops (JOWO 2017) combines ten ontology-centered workshops covering a multitude of disciplines into an exciting joint event. ---------------------------------- WORKSHOPS - CREOL: Contextual Representation of Objects and Events in Language - DAO: Data meets Applied Ontology - DEW: Ontology Debugging & Evaluation Workshop - EPINON: Epistemology in Ontologies - FOMI: Formal Ontologies Meet Industry - FOUST II: 2nd Workshop on Foundational Ontology - ISD3: The 3rd Image Schema Day - ODLS: Ontologies and Data in Life Sciences - SHAPES 4.0: The Shape of Things - WINKS: Workshop on Interaction-Based Knowledge Sharing See below for a description of the workshops and http://www.iaoa.org/jowo/2017/workshops.html for links to detailed calls for papers. ---------------------------------- KEYNOTES * Todd Oakley (Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, USA) "What We Think About When We Talk About Money: Social Ontology and the Amalgamated Mind" (further invitations pending) JOWO 2017 is supported by the International Association for Ontology and its Applications - IAOA (http://iaoa.org). It features a series of (shared) invited talks, paper presentations, tutorials, demo sessions, and discussions spread across ten workshops. ---------------------------------- SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Please refer to the individual workshops for detailed lists of topics appropriate for each workshop and submission modalities. All submissions will be peer-reviewed by members of the program committees of the individual workshops. Accepted papers will be made available in the form of a single joint workshop proceedings volume published open-access at CEUR. For additional publication plans, check the individual workshops. For previous proceedings, compare: http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1517/ for JOWO 2015, http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1660/ for JOWO 2016. ---------------------------------- WORKSHOP DETAILS ================================== CREOL Website: http://creol2017.di.unito.it/ Contextual Representation of Objects and Events in Language ================================== Organisers: Valerio Basile, Tommaso Caselli, Daniele P. Radicioni The CREOL workshop is focused on investigating the relationship between representations of objects and events in ontological and linguistic resources, and their interpretation in the context of occurrence. Different properties of objects and events are activated depending on context, thus determining access to partial, salient, information rather than to all. Hence, dealing with context is a key factor in the conceptualization of human experience, and a major challenge for understanding natural language. ================================== DAO Website: https://smart.inf.unibz.it/index.php/2017/05/15/dao2017/ Data meets Applied Ontology ================================== Organisers: Roberto Confalonieri, Andrea Janes, Diego Calvanese The goal of the DAO workshop is to provide opportunities for participants from academia and industry to present their latest developments in ontology-mediated data integration and analysis techniques, and data-driven industrial applications. The workshop will be a great opportunity to synthesize new insights, and disseminate knowledge across field boundaries to promote the interaction between these two different communities. ================================== DEW Website: http://iaoa.org/jowo/dew2017/ Ontology Debugging & Evaluation Workshop ================================== Organisers: Rafael Penaloza, Amanda Vizedom DEW (the Debugging and Evaluation Workshop @ JOWO) aims to advance ontology evaluation and the detection, understanding, and correction of errors in ontologies and ontological knowledge bases. We encourage submissions from all areas dealing with ontological knowledge, and hope to gain a broad perspective on evaluation methods, and debugging techniques over different formalisms. ================================== EPINON Website: http://www.loa.istc.cnr.it/workshops/epinon2017/home.html Epistemology in Ontologies ================================== Organisers: Daniele Porello, Antonio Lieto, Claudio Masolo Formal ontologies and knowledge representation mainly focus on characterising how a given domain is structured, i.e., they identify a set of concepts, entities, and relations together with the constraints that hold for this domain. The characterisation is usually intended to reflect the point of view of significant experts or a realist view of how things about a particular domain are in reality. The aim of this workshop is to explore an epistemological stance and focus on the assessment of the modelling provided by the ontology designer. We aim to address to an interdisciplinary audience, by inviting scholars in philosophy, computer science, logic, conceptual modelling, knowledge representation, and cognitive science to contribute to the discussion. ================================== FOMI Website: http://www.loa.istc.cnr.it/workshops/FOMI2017/home.html 8th International Workshop on Formal Ontologies meet Industry ================================== Organisers: Emilio M. Sanfilippo, Laura Daniele, Giorgio Colombo FOMI is an international forum where academic researchers and practitioners meet to analyse and discuss theoretical and application issues related to the use of formal ontologies in industry. The Workshop aims to collect lessons learned by the presentation of (1) experience with problems in ontology application, (2) new insights on problematic issues, (3) new results, successes and observations in ontology implementation, (4) lessons learned on the best way to apply ontological methodologies to real-world situations. ================================== FOUST II Website: http://foust.inf.unibz.it/foust2/ 2nd Workshop on Foundational Ontology ================================== Organisers: Antony Galton, Fabian Neuhaus Foundational ontologies are attempts to systematise those categories of thought or reality which are common to all or almost all subject-matters. Commonly considered examples of such categories include 'object', 'quality', 'function', 'role', 'process', 'event', 'time', and 'place'. Amongst existing foundational ontologies, there is both a substantial measure of agreement and some dramatic disagreements. There is currently no uniform consensus concerning how a foundational ontology should be organised, how far its 'reach' should be (e.g., is the distinction between physical and non-physical entities sufficiently fundamental to be included here?), and even what role it should play in relation to more specialised domain ontologies. The purpose of this workshop is to provide a forum for researchers to present work on specific foundational ontologies as well as foundational ontologies in general and their relations to each other and to the wider ontological enterprise. ================================== ISD3 Website: http://isd.inf.unibz.it The 3rd Image Schema Day ================================== Organisers: Maria M. Hedblom, Mihailo Antovic, Oliver Kutz The Image Schema Day III (ISD3) is intended as an interdisciplinary meeting place for researchers interested in image schemas and similar conceptual primitives. Originating in cognitive linguistics, image schemas are thought to be the conceptual building blocks learned from the body's sensorimotor processes in early infancy that come to shape adult language and thought. Today, image schemas are becoming increasingly influential in artificial intelligence, knowledge representation, and qualitative reasoning. At ISD3 we welcome researchers from all disciplines interested in pushing the boundaries of understanding, formalising, and reasoning with image schemas. ================================== ODLS Website: https://wiki.imise.uni-leipzig.de/Gruppen/OBML/Workshops/2017-ODLS Ontologies and Data in Life Sciences ================================== Organisers: Martin Boeker, Heinrich Herre, Ludger Jansen, Frank Loebe, Daniel Schober Medicine, biology and life sciences produce hardly manageable and comprehensible amounts of data, information, and knowledge, thereby challenging existing methods of knowledge representation, data bases, and data analysis. This interdisciplinary workshop covers the overall spectrum of biomedical information processing, from experimental data acquisition and data management, across analysis, structuring and interpretation of data, up to the development of ontologies with their various applications. The workshop aims at gathering scientists that work in these fields in order to exchange ideas, to discuss new results and to inspire collaborations. ================================== SHAPES 4.0 Website: http://www.loa.istc.cnr.it/workshops/SHAPES4/ The Shape of Things ================================== Organisers: Rossella Stufano Melone, Inge Hinterwaldner, Stefano Borgo, Oliver Kutz, Kris Krois The SHAPES 4.0 workshop is an interdisciplinary event for the discussion of all topics connected to shape and pattern (broadly understood). We seek to facilitate an interdisciplinary discussion between researchers, practitioners and artists from all disciplines interested in representing shape, form, structure and pattern, and reasoning about them. ================================== WINKS Website: http://www.iiia.csic.es/winks/ Workshop on Interaction-Based Knowledge Sharing ================================== Organisers: Jerome Euzenat, Dagmar Gromann, Kemo Adrian WINKS is a workshop that is fully dedicated to challenges and solutions to knowledge sharing in interaction-based environments, ranging from the Internet of Things to multi-agent systems. Gradually expanding, distributed systems heighten the need of a dynamic interactive knowledge sharing process, while at the same time an increasing heterogeneity of resources renders this process more complex. As a highly interdisciplinary workshop, discussions will center on requirements and suggestions to endow computational models with knowledge sharing capabilities in interactive scenarios. ================================== ---------------------------------- JOWO General Chairs | Contact Stefano Borgo (LOA ISTC CNR, Trento, Italy) Oliver Kutz (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy) Frank Loebe (University of Leipzig, Germany) Fabian Neuhaus (Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg, Germany) Contact: jowo.steering at gmail.com From geoff at cs.miami.edu Tue May 30 13:33:25 2017 From: geoff at cs.miami.edu (Geoff Sutcliffe) Date: Tue, 30 May 2017 07:33:25 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [DL] CADE-26 - Call for Participation Message-ID: <20170530113325.DF970121502@mcclellan.cs.miami.edu> CADE-26 CALL FOR PARTICIPATION ============================== The 26th International Conference on Automated Deduction Gothenburg, Sweden 6-11 August 2017 www.cade-26.info *** KEYNOTE SPEAKERS *** June Andronick - Data61 Philippa Gardner - Imperial College London Grant Passmore - Aesthetic Integration *** RESEARCH PROGRAM *** see www.cade-26.info *** SOCIAL EVENT *** Boat trip to the picturesque island of Marstrand (www.marstrand.se/en/) Dinner in the dramatic Marstrand castle *** WORKSHOPS *** ARCADE: Automated Reasoning: Challenges, Applications, Directions, Exemplary Achievements HCVS: Horn Clauses for Verification and Synthesis PCR'17: Parallel Constraint Reasoning ThEdu'17: Theorem Prover Components for Educational Software Vampire 2017: The 4th Vampire Workshop *** TUTORIAL *** Certified Functional (Co)programming with Isabelle/HOL *** SYSTEM COMPETITION *** CASC (CADE System Competition) www.tptp.org/CASC/26/ *** REGISTRATION *** Early registration until 6 July 2017 Late registration until 2 August 2017 see www.cade-26.info *** VENUE *** Lindholmen Conference Centre, Gothenburg and Chalmers University of Technology, Lindholmen Campus, Gothenburg *** CADE-26 ORGANIZERS *** Conference Chairs: Wolfgang Ahrendt Chalmers University of Technology Moa Johansson Chalmers University of Technology Program Committee Chair: Leonardo de Moura Microsoft Research Publicity Chair: Magnus Myreen Chalmers University of Technology Workshop and Tutorial Chair: Philipp Ruemmer Uppsala University From giovanni.degasperis at aixia.it Tue May 30 12:25:22 2017 From: giovanni.degasperis at aixia.it (Giovanni De Gasperis) Date: Tue, 30 May 2017 12:25:22 +0200 Subject: [DL] [CfP] Call for Posters EXTENDED : RuleML+RR 2017: International Joint Conference on Rules and Reasoning, London 12-15 July 2017 Message-ID: Call for Posters The leading international joint conference in the field of rule-based reasoning calls for additional short poster papers related to theoretical advances, novel technologies, and innovative applications concerning knowledge representation and reasoning with rules. In addition to the main conference, RuleML+RR 2017 will host an Industry Track , a Doctoral Consortium , DecisionCAMP , the 11th International Rule Challenge , and the 13th Reasoning Web Summer School . RuleML+RR 2017 will be collocated with the 32nd British International Conference on Databases (BICOD 2017 ). *Topics include, but are not limited to:* ? Production rules systems ? Logic programming engines and applications ? Business rules engines and management systems ? Logic-based reasoning for rules ? Inductive and abductive logic programming ? Rule markup languages and rule interchange formats ? Rule-based policies, reputation, and trust ? Pragmatic web reasoning and distributed rule inference / rule execution ? Reaction and ECA rules ? Constraint programming ? Rule-based languages for intelligent information access and the Semantic Web ? Vocabularies, ontologies, and business rules ? Bridge rules in multi-context systems ? Rule discovery, extraction and transformation ? Rule-based data management, data integration, and data interoperability ? Scalability and expressive power of logics for rules ? Mapping rules for ontology-based data access ? Rule-based dynamic data, stream, and complex event processing ? Reasoning with incomplete, inconsistent and uncertain data ? Non-monotonic, common-sense, and closed-world reasoning ? Non-classical logics and the Web ? Combining rules with knowledge extraction and information retrieval ? Rules, agents, and norms ? Rule-based distributed / multi-agent systems ? Rule-based communication/dialogue ? Argumentation models ? Rules and human language technology ? Rules in online market research and online marketing ? Applications of rule technologies in healthcare and life sciences ? Industrial applications of rules ? Rules and business process compliance checking ? Standards activities related to rules ? Rules and social media Best Poster Award A Best Poster Award will be given to the best poster presentation. Two evaluation criteria will be taken into account: - *Research quality*: originality and technical quality of the work, as well as the methodology, execution and evaluation of the results. - *Presentation*: the extent to which the poster is able to effectively convey the research to an audience (e.g., consider clarity, self-explanatory nature and layout). Poster Paper Submission Poster papers describing a poster for the poster session and ranging between 2-5 pages can be submitted at EasyChair for the Poster Session track . Please upload all submissions in LNCS format . To ensure high quality, submitted poster papers will be carefully peer-reviewed by the PC members based on significance and relevance for the community. Accepted poster papers will be published as CEUR Proceedings and indexed by SCOPUS . 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URL: From annalisa.gentile at ibm.com Tue Jun 6 08:30:56 2017 From: annalisa.gentile at ibm.com (annalisa gentile) Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2017 23:30:56 -0700 Subject: [DL] [CfP] ISWC 2017 - Industry Track, Poster&Demo, Semantic Web Challenge Message-ID: 16th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2017) Vienna, Austria, October 21-25, 2017 ******************************************* *** Still lots of opportunities to get involved in ISWC 2017 *** you can submit your contributions to: *** Industry Track: until July 10, 2017 *** Poster and Demo session: until July 27, 2017 *** One of the Workshops: until July 21, 2017 *** Semantic Web Challenge: submissions open until October 7th, 2017 *** New this year: the ISWC Job Fair!! ******************************************* Website: http://iswc2017.semanticweb.org Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/113652365383847 Twitter: @iswc2017 (https://twitter.com/ISWC2017) Overview calls: http://iswc2017.semanticweb.org/calls/ In this announcement: 1. Call for contributions: Poster&Demo, Industry Track 2. Call for contributions: Workshops 3. Semantic Web Challenge 4. ISWC Job Fair 5. Keynote speakers 6. Student Grants 7. Registration 8. Important dates 1. Call for Contributions ========================================== -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Posters and Demos -------------------------------------------------------------------------- **deadline** July 27, 2017 The ISWC 2017 Posters and Demonstrations complement the paper tracks of the conference and offer an opportunity for presenting late-breaking research results, on-going research projects, and speculative or innovative work in progress. The informal setting of the Posters and Demonstrations encourages presenters and participants to engage in discussions about the work. Such discussions can be invaluable inputs for the future work of the presenters, while offering participants an effective way to broaden their knowledge of the emerging research trends and to network with other researchers. We invite submissions relevant to the area of the Semantic Web and which address, but are not limited to, the topics of the Research Track; the In-Use Track; and the Resources Track. Technical posters, reports on Semantic Web software systems (free or commercial), descriptions of completed work, and work in progress are all welcome. Demonstrations are intended to showcase innovative Semantic Web related implementations and technologies, both in academia and in industry. We explicitly welcome entries from the industry. However, submissions for posters and demos should go beyond pure advertisements of commercial software packages and convey a minimal scientific contribution. Authors of full papers accepted for the Research Track; the In-Use Track; and the Resources Track are explicitly invited to submit a demonstration. Detailed info: http://iswc2017.semanticweb.org/calls/call-for-posters-and-demos/ Program Chairs * Nadeschda Nikitina, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK * Dezhao Song, Thomson Reuters, Eagan, MN, USA -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Industry Track Contributions -------------------------------------------------------------------------- **deadline** July 10, 2017 The Industry Track seeks to present the state of adoption of semantic technologies in industrial applications. These technologies may be used in specific industries (e.g., media, financials, telecommunications, healthcare, life sciences, government, intelligence, etc.) or as a horizontal technology, and in different application areas (e.g., business intelligence, analytics, search, content management, knowledge management, recommendation systems, data integration, etc.). We welcome contributions about success stories as well as experiences and discussions of obstacles that stand in the way of large scale adoption of certain technologies. Particular emphasis should be put on the demonstration of business value created by using the semantic technologies. We encourage the following two categories of submissions: - Success stories of business-relevant, industrial deployments of Semantic Web technologies - Position statements that outline potential strategic applications and use cases of semantic technologies Come and join us at the ISWC 2017 industry track to share your experience! Detailed info: http://iswc2017.semanticweb.org/calls/call-for-contributions-industry-track-iswc-2017/ Program Chairs * Achille Fokoue, IBM Yorktown, NY, USA * Peter Haase, metaphacts, Walldorf, Germany 2. Call for contributions: Workshops ========================================== The full list of accepted workshops can be found at https://iswc2017.semanticweb.org/program/workshops/ Please check their individual websites for the specific calls. The general deadline for workshop is **July 21, 2017** but can be subject to minor variations among different workshops. Full list of accepted workshops: [BLINK] Benchmarking Linked Data [BlkMirror] Re-coding Black Mirror [DeSemWeb] Decentralizing the Semantic Web [HSSUE] Hybrid Statistical Semantic Understanding and Emerging Semantics [LD4IE] Linked Data for Information Extraction [MaCSeW] Managing Changes in the Semantic Web [NLIWOD] Natural Language Interfaces for the Web of Data [OM] Ontology Matching [PrivOn] Society, Privacy and the Semantic Web - Policy and Technology [PROFILES] Dataset PROFlLing and fEderated Search for Web Data [SemSci] Enabling Open Semantic Science [SemStats] Semantic Statistics [SWIT] Semantic Web Technologies for the IoT [S4BioDiv] Semantics for Biodiversity [VOILA] Visualization and Interaction for Ontologies and Linked Data [WHiSe] Humanities in the Semantic Web [WOMoCoE] Ontology Modularity, Contextuality, and Evolution [WOP] Ontology Design and Patterns [WSP] Web Stream Processing Workshops & Tutorials Chairs * Aidan Hogan, Universidad de Chile Santiago, Santiago, Chile * Valentina Presutti, Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies, CNR, Rome, Italy 3. Semantic Web Challenge ========================================== This year?s challenge will be about knowledge graphs, which are currently among the most prominent implementations of Semantic Web technologies. It will be centered around two important tasks for building large-scale knowledge graphs: Knowledge graph population. Given a portion of ton he concise bound description of a resource (e.g., label and type of a company), and a relation (e.g., CEO), participants are expected to provide the value(s) for the relation. Knowledge graph validation. Given a statement (i.e., a triple) about an entity, e.g., the phone number of a company, participants are expected to provide an assessment about the correctness of the statement. For both tasks, users may use a portion of the knowledge graph for training. Furthermore, arbitrary sources (e.g., external datasets, Web pages, etc.) may be used as input. Participants may choose to to participate in one or both tasks. Further details will be announced shortly. Program Chairs * Axel-Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo, University of Paderborn, Germany * Heiko Paulheim, University of Mannheim, Germany * Dan Bennett, Thomson Reuters, USA 4. ISWC Job Fair ========================================== Participate on the first edition of ISWC Job Fair! Job Fairs are a brilliant way to bring together job candidates with open positions in both, industry and academia, increasing the chances of finding the perfect job to advance your career or find your ideal future employee. If you are an organisation that wants to advertise positions or if you are looking for career opportunities don?t miss your chance to participate! You can register your organisation (company, academic institution, NGO, etc.) for the job fair for a small fee of ? 50 (on top of the regular registration). This can be done by one member of your organisation at the time of registration. Organisations that have purchased a regular sponsorship package (which includes other additional benefits!) are exempt from this extra fee. Further details at https://iswc2017.semanticweb.org/program/job-fair/ 5. Keynote speakers ========================================== We are delighted to announce the keynote speakers for this year edition of ISWC. Deborah McGuinness (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute) https://tw.rpi.edu/web/person/Deborah_L_McGuinness Prof. McGuinness is a leading authority on the semantic web and has been working in knowledge representation and reasoning environments for over 25 years. Deborah's primary research thrusts include work on explanation, trust, ontologies, escience, open data, and semantically-enabled schema and data integration. Nada Lavrac (Jozef Stefan Institute) http://kt.ijs.si/nada_lavrac/ Prof. Lavrac is Head of the Department of Knowledge Technologies at Jozef Stefan Institute (JSI). She is an expert on machine learning and data mining, in particular inductive logic programming and intelligent data analysis in medicine. Jamie Taylor (Google) https://www.linkedin.com/in/jamie-taylor-853953/ Dr. Taylor has been deeply involved with Google's knowledge graph efforts. Prior to Google, he worked on Freebase at Metaweb. Further details about the talks will be announced at https://iswc2017.semanticweb.org/ 6. Student Grants ========================================== If you are a student interested in attending ISWC 2017 you may be eligible to apply for a grant to support the costs of travel and lodging. This year, travel grants are funded by the Semantic Web Science Association (SWSA) and the US National Science Foundation (NSF). The deadline for applying for an ISWC 2017 travel award is August 31st, 2017. Further info on the application process at: https://iswc2017.semanticweb.org/attending/student-travel-grants/ Student Coordinators * Lalana Kagal, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, MA, USA * Gianluca Demartini, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK 7. Registration ========================================== Early registration will open on June 15th, 2017. All details on registration fee can be found at https://iswc2017.semanticweb.org/attending/registration/ 8. Important Dates ========================================== Registration starts June 15, 2017 Doctoral Consortium notifications sent June 30, 2017 Author rebuttal period (Research, In-Use, Resources tracks) June 23-27, 2017 Submissions due (Industry track) July 10, 2017 Notifications sent (Research, In-Use, Resources tracks) July 14, 2017 Camera-ready papers for Doctoral Consortium due July 18, 2017 Workshop paper submissions due July 21, 2017 Poster & Demo submissions due July 27, 2017 Camera-ready papers due (Research, In-Use, Resources tracks) July 28, 2017 Notifications sent (Industry track) July 31, 3017 Workshop paper notifications sent August 24, 2017 Poster & Demo notifications sent August 24, 2017 Student activity applications due August 31, 2017 Final version industry track papers due August 31, 2017 Camera-ready copies for Poster & Demo due September 4, 2017 The last day for early registrations September 8, 2017 Workshops & Tutorials October 21 & 22, 2017 Conference October 23, 24 & 25, 2017 We thank our platinum sponsor IBM Research and our gold sponsors Siemens, Thomson Reuters, Semantic Web Company and data.world for their support. 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URL: From frank.loebe at informatik.uni-leipzig.de Fri Jun 2 10:18:13 2017 From: frank.loebe at informatik.uni-leipzig.de (Frank Loebe) Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2017 10:18:13 +0200 Subject: [DL] IAOA Summer Institute on Upper Ontologies: Call for Participation (Aug 8-11, 2017, Toronto, Canada) Message-ID: <201706020818.v528IJut000226@isun.informatik.uni-leipzig.de> The International Association for Ontology and its Applications (IAOA) is announcing the 2017 Summer Institute: Upper Ontologies August 8-11, 2017 Toronto, Ontario, Canada http://ontologforum.org/index.php/SummerInstitute2017 Programme: Within the Applied Ontology community, upper ontologies are widely recognized as tools to support the tasks of ontology design and semantic integration. At the first Ontology Summit in 2006, the designers of several prominent upper ontologies were joined by key ontology technology participants, with the purpose of finding a means to relate the different ontologies to each other. In the decade since that meeting, the development and application of upper ontologies has continued, yet many challenges remain. The 2017 IAOA Summer Institute will explore the following topics: - What are the foundational choices and the practical motivations of present upper ontologies? - What is the range of concepts that should be covered in an upper ontology? - What are the relationships among upper ontologies? - How do we evaluate upper ontologies? - Using upper ontologies for semantic integration - Using upper ontologies for ontology design - Discussion of proposals for ISO 21838 (Top-Level Ontologies): content and consensus-building methodology Facilitators Nicola Guarino (Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies) Barry Smith (University at Buffalo) Michael Gruninger (University of Toronto) Participants from all sectors of applied ontology are invited to interact from August 8 to 11, in Toronto, Canada. As always, the Summer Institute will challenge the state of the art through lively discussions and hands-on problem solving rather than lengthy presentations. The registration fee will be 500 CAD (350 Euros). A limited number travel and attendance grants are available for students. Registration page: http://www.mie.utoronto.ca/events/iaoa-summer-institute-2017/ Contact: Michael Gruninger http://stl.mie.utoronto.ca/gruninger.html From geoff at cs.miami.edu Thu Jun 1 15:02:28 2017 From: geoff at cs.miami.edu (Geoff Sutcliffe) Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2017 09:02:28 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [DL] TABLEAUX/FroCoS/ITP - Call for Posters Message-ID: <20170601130228.B814F121446@mcclellan.cs.miami.edu> TABLEAUX/FroCoS/ITP 25-29 SEPTEMBER 2017 BRASILIA BRASIL **Call for Posters** TABLEAUX/FroCoS/ITP 2017 will have a poster session, which is intended for descriptions of works in progress, student projects and relevant research being published elsewhere. Submissions should be in English, in the form of at most one page abstract, ENTCS format containing title and authors name with affiliation. The files should be sent directly to Elaine Pimentel (elaine.pimentel at gmail.com). The deadline for posters submission is June 15, 2017. The notification will be sent to authors June 30th. Proceedings of this session will not be published. Formatting instructions for posters will be made available soon. For more information please contact the local organizers: Elaine Pimentel (elaine.pimentel at gmail.com) Daniele Nantes (daniele.nantes at gmail.com) http://tableaux2017.cic.unb.br http://frocos2017.cic.unb.br http://itp2017.cic.unb.br From serge.autexier at dfki.de Wed Jun 7 06:11:52 2017 From: serge.autexier at dfki.de (Serge Autexier) Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2017 06:11:52 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [DL] CICM 2017, Doctoral Programme, Extended Submission Deadline 9. June 2017 Message-ID: <20170607041152.07FB513FD9DB@gigondas-5.fritz.box> [Apologies if you receive multiple copies] Extended Deadline for Submissions to the Doctoral Programme 10th Conference on Intelligent Computer Mathematics - CICM 2017 - July 17-21, 2017 University of Edinburgh, Scotland http://www.cicm-conference.org/2017 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- * Submission deadline (Abstract + CV): 9. June 2017 (extended) * Notification of acceptance: 12. June 2017 (extended) Further information see below Invited Speakers at CICM 2017 - Alan Bundy (University of Edinburgh) - Przemys?aw Chojecki (Polish Academy of Sciences) - Grant Olney Passmore (University of Cambridge) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Digital and computational solutions are becoming the prevalent means for the generation, communication, processing, storage and curation of mathematical information. Separate communities have developed to investigate and build computer based systems for computer algebra, automated deduction, and mathematical publishing as well as novel user interfaces. While all of these systems excel in their own right, their integration can lead to synergies offering significant added value. The Conference on Intelligent Computer Mathematics (CICM) offers a venue for discussing and developing solutions to the great challenges posed by the integration of these diverse areas. CICM has been held annually as a joint meeting since 2008, co-locating related conferences and workshops to advance work in these subjects. Previous meetings have been held in Birmingham (UK 2008), Grand Bend (Canada 2009), Paris (France 2010), Bertinoro (Italy 2011), Bremen (Germany 2012), Bath (UK 2013), Coimbra (Portugal 2014), Washington DC (USA 2015) and Bialystok (Poland 2016). This is a call for papers for CICM 2017, which will be held in Edinburgh, Scotland, July 17-21, 2017. CICM 2017 also invites work-in- progress papers. The principal tracks of the conference are: * Track: Calculemus (chair: Matthew England) * Track: Digital Mathematical Libraries (DML) (chair: Olaf Teschke) * Track: Mathematical Knowledge Management (MKM) (chair: Florian Rabe) * Track: Systems & Data (chair: Osman Hasan) * Track: Doctoral Programme (chair: Adnan Rashid) The overall programme is organized by the General Program Chair Herman Geuvers. The local arrangements are coordinated by Jacques Fleuriot. The publicity chair is Serge Autexier. CICM is also 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. Submission to the doctoral programs are possible until 9. June, details of the submission process are given below. *Important Dates* - Submission deadline (Abstract + CV): 9. June 2017 (extended) - Notification of acceptance: 12. June 2017 (extended) *Submission* - Submission by e-mail to the DP chair Adnan Rashid Email: adnan.rashid at seecs.edu.pk Web: http://save.seecs.nust.edu.pk/adnanrashid/ More details on the conference are available from http://www.cicm-conference.org/2017 From tarek.besold at googlemail.com Thu Jun 1 14:29:51 2017 From: tarek.besold at googlemail.com (Tarek R. Besold) Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2017 14:29:51 +0200 Subject: [DL] NeSy'17, the 12th International Workshop on Neural-Symbolic Learning and Reasoning: Call for submissions of late abstracts (deadline: June 18, 2017) Message-ID: <001201d2dad2$c522df70$4f689e50$@gmail.com> === NeSy'17: 12th International Workshop on Neural-Symbolic Learning and Reasoning === Date: July 17 & 18, 2017. Venue: City, University of London, UK. *** DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION OF LATE ABSTRACTS: June 18, 2017 *** = WEBSITE = http://www.neural-symbolic.org/NeSy17/ = KEYNOTE SPEAKERS = Mauro Ferreira, Trinity College Dublin. Zoubin Ghahramani, University of Cambridge & Uber AI Labs. Alex Graves, Google DeepMind. Pascal Hitzler, Wrights State University. Chris Percy, BetBuddy Ltd. Murray Shanahan, Imperial College London. = INDUSTRY PANEL = Simo Dragicevic, CEO, BetBuddy Ltd. (moderator). John McNamara, Senior Inventor, IBM. James Davidson, Software Engineer, Google Brain. Jamie Woodhouse, Managing Director and Head of Financial Services Management Consulting and Finance and Risk, Accenture. Lonnie Hamm, Head of Data Science, Kindred Group Plc. Amir Saffari, Director of Applied AI, BenevolentAI. = INDUSTRY TRACK ADDED = For the first time, the 2017 edition of NeSy will feature an industry track on the second day of the workshop, July 18, 2017. The track will cover industry applications of neural-symbolic methods (including knowledge extraction from statistical data, neural-symbolic methods integrating data and knowledge for the semantic web, etc.), with the program featuring contributions from industry and academia alike. Also, there will be time to mix and mingle, exchange experiences from practitioners on both sides, and develop joint ideas and projects for the future. = REGISTRATION = The registration for NeSy'17 has become available from the City, University of London eStore: http://estore.city.ac.uk/product-catalogue/conference-events/school-specific -events/12th-international-workshop-on-neuralsymbolic-learning-and-reasoning -nesy17 = CALL FOR PAPERS = Artificial Intelligence researchers continue to face huge challenges in their quest to develop truly intelligent systems. The recent developments in the field of neural-symbolic integration bring an opportunity to integrate well-founded symbolic artificial intelligence with robust neural computing machinery to help tackle some of these challenges. The Workshop on Neural-Symbolic Learning and Reasoning is intended to create an atmosphere of exchange of ideas, providing a forum for the presentation and discussion of the key topics related to neural-symbolic integration. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: - The representation of symbolic knowledge by connectionist systems; - Neural Learning theory; - Integration of logic and probabilities, e.g., in neural networks, but also more generally; - Structured learning and relational learning in neural networks; - Logical reasoning carried out by neural networks; - Integrated neural-symbolic approaches; - Extraction of symbolic knowledge from trained neural networks; - Integrated neural-symbolic reasoning; - Neural-symbolic cognitive models; - Biologically-inspired neural-symbolic integration; - Applications in robotics, simulation, fraud prevention, natural language processing, semantic web, software engineering, fault diagnosis, bioinformatics, visual intelligence, etc. ** Submission ** Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit original papers that have not been submitted for review or published elsewhere: - Submitted papers must be written in English, must be formatted according to the Springer LNCS style (templates and sample files are available from https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gui delines), and should not exceed 10 pages (excluding references/bibliography) in the case of research and experience papers, and 6 pages (excluding references/bibliography) in the case of position papers or technical notes. - All submitted papers will be judged based on their relevance, originality, significance, technical quality, and organisation. - Papers must be submitted through EasyChair at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=nesy17. - Additionally, presentations based on extended abstracts will be considered. These shall allow to report on latest results which had not been available at the time of paper submission. Therefore, the abstract deadline is significantly closer to the workshop date. Extended abstracts may not exceed 3 pages (including references/bibliography) and should aim to give a good impression of the type of work conducted, the achieved results and their importance for the field. ** Presentation ** Selected papers and abstracts will be presented during the workshop. The workshop will include extra time for discussion of the presentations allowing the group to have a better understanding of the issues, challenges, and ideas being presented. ** Publication ** Accepted papers and abstracts will be published in official workshop proceedings within the CEUR-WS.org series. Accepted abstracts will also be included in the official workshop proceedings. = IMPORTANT DATES = Notification of full paper acceptance/rejection: June 14, 2017 Deadline for submission of late abstracts: June 18, 2017 Notification of abstract acceptance/rejection: June 25, 2017 Camera-ready paper due: July 2, 2017 Workshop date: July 17-18, 2017 = WORKSHOP ORGANISERS = General Chairs: - Tarek R. Besold (University of Bremen, Germany) - Artur d'Avila Garcez (City, University of London, UK) - Isaac Noble (Playground Global, U.S.A.) Local Chair at City, University of London: Simon Odense On-Site Organisation Support: Yihan Wu (University of Minnesota, U.S.A.) = PROGRAMME COMMITTEE = - Raquel Alhama, University of Amsterdam - James Davidson, Google Brain - Richard Evans, Google DeepMind - Barbara Hammer, Bielefeld University - Thomas Icard, Stanford University - Kai-Uwe Kuehnberger, University of Osnabrueck - Luis Lamb, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul - Thomas Lukasiewicz, University of Oxford - Edjard Mota, Federal University of Amazonas - Terrence C. Stewart, University of Waterloo - Serge Thill, University of Skoevde - Son Tran, CSIRO Australia - Stefan Wermter, University of Hamburg -- Digital Media Lab Center for Computing and Communication Technologies (TZI) University of Bremen Email: Tarek.Besold at uni-bremen.de Web: http://www.cat-ai.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From sertkaya at fb2.fra-uas.de Wed Jun 7 09:43:14 2017 From: sertkaya at fb2.fra-uas.de (Baris Sertkaya) Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2017 09:43:14 +0200 Subject: [DL] Fwd: researcher position at TU Dresden -- call for applications Message-ID: On behalf of Anni-Yasmin Turhan: --------------------------------------- Dear all, at the Institute for Theoretical Computer Science of TU Dresden, we are looking for a Postdoc or PhD student in a project on Semantic Technologies for Context Awareness within the DFG Collaborative Research Center HAEC. Application deadline is June 13, 2017 (though later applications will be taken into account until the position is filled). From a technical point of view, this project extends ontology-based data access in several directions, such as treating temporal data, treating probabilistic data, and treating inconsistent data. Candidates should have expertise in Description Logics or ontologies as well as good programming skills. The position (full-time, Salary Scale TV-L 13) requires a Master's degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, or a related area. It is to be filled as soon and possible, and will end on 30.06.2019 (with a possible extension by 4 more years if an extension proposal is accepted by DFG). For more details, see the formal call for applications (in German) at https://lat.inf.tu-dresden.de/haec-ausschreibung.pdf or simply contact Franz Baader or Anni-Yasmin Turhan (firstname.lastename at tu-dresden.de). Kind regards, Anni-Yasmin Turhan --------------------------------------------- From cjcrey at gmail.com Tue Jun 13 09:52:23 2017 From: cjcrey at gmail.com (Christophe REY) Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2017 09:52:23 +0200 Subject: [DL] UNILOG'2018 in Vichy - Call for Papers Message-ID: <39f9300e-a94b-9b63-f9b2-7b5aebe14858@gmail.com> The 6th UNILOG - WORLD CONGRESS AND SCHOOL ON UNIVERSAL LOGIC will take place in Vichy, France, June 16-26, 2018 after previous editions in Montreux 2005, Xi'an 2007, Lisbon 2010, Rio 2013 and Istanbul 2015: http://www.uni-log.org/vichy2018 Along these years UNILOG has been a leading international logical event with the participation of many famous logicians such as Wilfrid Hodges, Daniele Mundici, Saul Kripke, Jaakko Hintikka, Dov Gabbay, Arnon Avron, Benedikt L?we, David Makinson, Yde Venema, Newton da Costa, Mike Dunn, Val Goranko, Yuri Gurevich, Janusz Czelakowski, Stephen Read, Sara Negri, Arnold Koslow, Peter Schr?der-Heister, Gila Sher, Hiroakira Ono, John Corcoran, Hartry Field, Gerhard Jaeger, Ernest Lepore, Marcus Kracht, Melvin Fitting, Luciano Floridi, Patrick Blackburn, Jan Wolenski, Krister Segerberg, Dale Jacquette, Sun-Joo Shin, Jouko V??n?nen, John Woods and many more. UNILOG is a logic event in a broad sense. It gathers people from many horizons (philosophy, mathematics, linguistics, computer science, semiotics, cognitive science ...) and the idea is to promote interaction between all these people. The previous edition in Istanbul gathered more than 400 logicians from about 50 different countries. For the 6th edition we will follow the same format: - A school of logic of 5 days with 30 tutorials - A congress of 6 days with about 30 sessions/workshops - A contest (the topic will be announced soon) - A secret speaker (speaker whose identity is revealed only at the time of her / its / his speech). Vichy is a charming relaxing thermal city at the middle of France, developed by Napoleon III in the second half of the 19th century, who in particular created beautiful parks with species of trees from all over the world. Vichy, in the Duchy of Bourbon, a region full of castles, is a small city, where it is possible to go everywhere just by walking. The event will take place at the university campus nearby the Celestins spring, the banks of the Allier river (where it is possible to swim) and the city center. June is a very nice time to be in Vichy with lots of animations, including on June 21 a very lively musical day celebrating summertime. Deadline to submit an abstract: September 15, 2017 Looking forward to seeing you in Vichy in June 2018 Jean-Yves Beziau (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro and CNPq) Christophe Rey (University Clermont Auvergne, CNRS, LIMOS) Organizers of UNILOG'2018 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- U N I L O G - World Congress and School on Universal Logic - U N I L O G Montreux 2005, Xi'an 2007, Lisbon 2010, Rio 2013, Istanbul 2015, Vichy 2018 http://www.uni-log.org/ From ernesto.jimenez.ruiz at gmail.com Wed Jun 7 15:53:27 2017 From: ernesto.jimenez.ruiz at gmail.com (Ernesto Jimenez-Ruiz) Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2017 15:53:27 +0200 Subject: [DL] 1st Call for Systems - OAEI 2017: Ontology Alignment Evaluation Initiative Message-ID: --Apologies for cross-posting-- This is the first call for systems for the 2017 edition of the Ontology Alignment Evaluation Initiative (OAEI): http://oaei.ontologymatching.org/2017/ Since 2004, OAEI has been supporting the extensive and rigorous evaluation of ontology matching and instance matching techniques. If you would like to be up-to-date with OAEI 2017 news, please register to our mailing list: https://goo.gl/zMmBfo As last year, system developers must register their interest in participating in the OAEI 2017: https://goo.gl/qMiH6x CONFIRMED TRACKS ------------------ Anatomy Conference Multifarm Interactive Matching Large Biomedical Ontologies Disease and Phenotype (New track) Instance Matching (New datasets) IMPORTANT DATES ------------------ June 1st: (preliminary) datasets available. June 30th: datasets are frozen. June 30th: participants register their tools: https://goo.gl/qMiH6x July 15th: submission instructions sent to participants. July 31st: participants submit preliminary wrapped versions (zip file) of their tools (mandatory). August 31st: participants submit final versions of their tools (zip file). September 20th: evaluation is executed and results are analyzed. September 30th: preliminary version of system papers due. October 21st or 22nd: Ontology matching workshop: http://om2017.ontologymatching.org/ November 15th: final version of system papers due. -- Ernesto Jim?nez-Ruiz Research Assistant Department of Informatics University of Oslo http://www.mn.uio.no/ifi/english/people/aca/ernestoj/ http://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/people/ernesto.jimenez-ruiz/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From franz.baader at tu-dresden.de Fri Jun 9 11:34:30 2017 From: franz.baader at tu-dresden.de (Franz Baader) Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2017 11:34:30 +0200 Subject: [DL] DL textbook Message-ID: <18CD5C8D-50E0-4062-A19A-115961C4BCA0@tu-dresden.de> Dear colleagues, it is our pleasure to announce that our textbook on Description Logic has finally been finished and published by Cambridge University Press. The book has the title "An Introduction to Description Logic" and can be used both as a textbook by lecturers and as a source for self study. More information on the book can be found at the Web page http://dltextbook.org In particular, though the book does not contain exercises, a list of exercises is available on this page and will be extended over time. The book can be ordered through the publisher's Web page http://www.cambridge.org/gb/academic/subjects/computer-science/knowledge-management-databases-and-data-mining/introduction-description-logic?format=PB&isbn=9780521695428 In case you intend to buy he book, you can use the promotion code on the attached flier to receive a 20% discount. Franz Baader Ian Horrocks Carsten Lutz Uli Sattler -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: An Introduction to Description Logic_Flyer.pdf Type: application/pdf Size: 554214 bytes Desc: not available URL: -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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The deadline for applications is 3 July 2017. For more info, the call, and applications look at: www.unibz.it/en/faculties/computer-science/phd-computer-science The language of the PhD program is English. Topic description: Process discovery techniques return process models that are either formal (precisely describing the possible behaviors) or informal (merely a ?picture? not allowing for any form of formal reasoning). Formal models are able to classify traces (i.e., sequences of events) as fitting or non-fitting. Most process mining approaches described in the literature produce such models. This is in stark contrast with the over 25 available commercial process mining tools that only discover informal process models that remain deliberately vague on the precise set of possible traces. There are two main reasons why vendors resort to such models: scalability and simplicity. Within this PhD program, the candidate will have the chance to combine the best of both worlds: discovering hybrid process models that have formal and informal elements. Achieving this task requires dealing with several fascinating challenges as, for example, (i) the capability to work with formal and informal representations; (ii) the capability to envision new alignment strategies between execution traces and hybrid models; (iii) the capability to implement scalable solutions. 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 mining and alignment tools. About us: The Free University of Bozen-Bolzano and Fondazione Bruno Kessler are located 50 KM apart in one of the most fascinating European regions, the Dolomites. The young Free University of Bozen-Bolzano has already established itself as an important research institution, both in Italy and abroad. According to the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2017, the university is the tenth world?s best small university, is the fifth best among all the Italian Universities with computer science departments, and it is the second best young Italian University. Fondazione Bruno Kessler is an internationally well-known research center, whose information technology department ranks first among the Engineering and Information Science research centers in Italy. The Process & Data Intelligence research unit (http://pdi.fbk.eu ) is a young and internationally well known research group focused on the interplay between formal (and especially logic-based) representations of knowledge and data driven representations of knowledge, with particular emphasis on Process-aware systems and semantic web based systems. 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URL: From ianni at mat.unical.it Fri Jun 9 19:34:16 2017 From: ianni at mat.unical.it (Giovambattista Ianni) Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2017 19:34:16 +0200 Subject: [DL] 13th Reasoning Web Summer School (RW 2017): PARTICIPATION STILL OPEN Message-ID: <476033f1-c295-15a8-0f03-392694ed4b22@mat.unical.it> ************************************************************ CALL FOR APPLICATIONS - PARTICIPATION TOKENS STILL AVAILABLE The 13th Reasoning Web Summer School (RW 2017) London, U.K., July 7-11, 2017 http://reasoningweb.org/2017 ************************************************************ co-located with: - RuleML+RR: International Joint Conference on Rules and Reasoning London, U.K., July 12-15, 2017 http://2017.ruleml-rr.org - RuleML+RR Doctoral Consortium http://2017.ruleml-rr.org/doctoral-consortium/ - DecisionCAMP 2017 London, U.K., July 13-14, 2017 http://2017.ruleml-rr.org/decisioncamp-2017 - 11th International Rule Challenge London, U.K., July 12-15, 2017 http://2017.ruleml-rr.org/calls/international-rule-challenge/ 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. The school 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 2017, the theme of the school is: "Semantic Interoperability on the Web" As in the previous years, lectures in the summer school will be given by a distinguished group of expert lecturers. Most 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 RuleML+RR, a conference that joins the well-known RuleML and RR event series, DecisionCAMP 2017, and the 11th International Rule Challenge, hence, there will be a great opportunity for students to also attend some major events in the area. In addition, RuleML+RR will also include a Doctoral Consortium and students of RW are particularly encouraged to also apply to the Doctoral consortium of RuleML+RR. Participants to the school will be delivered on request a certificate of attendance indicating the number of hours of lectures. With this certificate, some institutions may assign official credits for the PhD program. == LECTURES == - Andrea Cal? (Birkbeck University of London, U.K.) "Ontology querying: Datalog strikes back" - Thomas Eiter (Technical University of Wien, Austria) "Answer Set Programming with External Source Access" - Thomas Lukasiewicz (University of Oxford, U.K.) "Uncertainty Reasoning for the Semantic Web" - Marco Montali (Free University of Bolzano/Bozen, Italy) "Ontology-based Data Access for Log Extraction in Process Mining" - Axel Polleres (Vienna University of Economics & Business, Austria) "Challenges for Semantic Data Integration on the Web of Open Data" - Marie-Christine Rousset (University Grenoble-Alpes, Institut Universitaire de France) "Datalog revisited for reasoning in Linked Data" - Torsten Schaub (University of Potsdam, Germany and Inria, Bretagne Atlantique, Rennes, France) "A Tutorial on Hybrid Answer Set Solving" - Juan Sequeda (Capsenta, USA) "Integrating Relational Databases with the Semantic Web" - Giorgos Stamou (National Technical University of Athens, Greece) "Ontological query answering over semantic data" == LECTURE NOTES == The course material used during the summer school will be published within Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series. A copy of the proceedings will be included in the registration fees. == HOW TO APPLY == A limited number of participation tokens is still available and will be assigned on a first come, first served basis. The attendees can ask to participate by submitting a brief statement of interest to rw2017 at easychair.org Approval and instructions on how to complete registration will follow. == SCHOOL FEES == The fee for attending the school is 370 GBPs. The fee covers school registration, coffee breaks, and a copy of the school volume published as Springer LNCS proceedings. Joint Registration to RW and RuleML+RR is also possible, with a fee of 485 GBPs. Students that plan to participate to both RW and RuleML+RR have to indicate it in their application. == SCHOOL VENUE == Birkbeck, University of London, Malet St, London WC1E 7HX, UK == STUDENT ACCOMMODATIONS == University of London offers accommodations in its student residences. Prices start from 47 GPBs per night. For details visit http://staycentral.london.ac.uk/accommodation/ All listed locations are within a walking distance of 15-20 minutes from the school venue. == COMMITTEE == *Chairs Giovambattista Ianni, Universit? della Calabria Domenico Lembo, Sapienza Universit? di Roma *Scientific Advisory Board Leopoldo Bertossi, Carleton University Wolfgang Faber, University of Huddersfield Birte Glimm, Universit?t Ulm Georg Gottlob, Oxford University Steffen Staab, University of Koblenz-Landau == CONTACT == For further information, contact the school chairs (rw2017 at easychair.org) -- Prof. Giovambattista Ianni, DeMaCS - UNICAL, Rende, Italy From nasslli2018 at gmail.com Sat Jun 10 01:55:54 2017 From: nasslli2018 at gmail.com (Will Nalls) Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2017 19:55:54 -0400 Subject: [DL] NASSLLI 2018 - Announcement and call for course proposals Message-ID: ********************************************************************* North American Summer School in Logic, Language and Information NASSLLI 2018 June 23 - 29 2018 Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh PA ********************************************************************* The eighth North American Summer School for Logic, Language, and Information (NASSLLI) will be hosted by Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, PA, from June 23 - June 29, 2018. The summer school is aimed at graduate students and advanced undergraduates in the fields of Linguistics, Computer Science, Cognitive Science, Logic, Philosophy, and other related areas. NASSLLI brings these disciplines together with the goal of producing excellence in the study of how minds and machines represent, communicate, manipulate and reason with information. The NASSLLI community recognizes that advances in modeling and analyzing these processes requires the contributions of multiple inter-related disciplines. NASSLLI provides a venue where students and researchers from one discipline can learn approaches, frameworks and tools from related disciplines to apply to their own work. Courses offered at NASSLLI range from intensive, graduate level introductory courses to inter-disciplinary workshops featuring prominent researchers presenting their work in progress. NASSLLI 2018 will consist of a series of courses and workshops, most running daily from Monday June 25 - Friday June 29. In addition, there will be intensive training in a small set of foundational topics the weekend prior to the start of courses (Saturday June 23 - Sunday June 24). Students will have the opportunity to present work at student sessions throughout the event; the call for student submissions will be circulated in early 2018. *********************************************************** CALL FOR COURSE & WORKSHOP PROPOSALS *********************************************************** We invite proposals for courses and workshops that address topics of relevance to NASSLLI's central goal. We particularly encourage submissions which illustrate cross-disciplinary approaches, especially courses showing the applicability of computational methods to theoretical work, and the use of theoretical work in practical applications. Courses involving a hands-on component (e.g. actual experience with NLP tools, coding, or machine learning algorithms) will be very welcome. We also welcome proposals from researchers and practitioners working on relevant areas in the technology industries. NASSLLI welcomes a variety of approaches and methodologies (logics, cognitive and computational modeling, machine learning, experimental approaches) as long as the material is relevant to language, information or communication. All courses should be accessible to a heterogeneous audience of motivated graduate students. By default, courses and workshops meet for 90 minutes on each of five days. Classes may be co-taught by up to two people. (See below for more information on workshop organization.) We encourage potential attendees and instructors to check out previous NASSLLI programs at: - Rutgers University, New Brunswick 2016 - University of Maryland, College Park 2014 - University of Texas, Austin 2012 - Indiana University, 2010 - UCLA 2004 - Indiana University 2003 - Stanford University 2002 Courses and workshops should aim to be accessible to an interdisciplinary, graduate level audience. Courses may bridge multiple areas, or focus on a single area, in which case instructors should include introductory background, try to avoid specialized notation that cannot be applied more widely, and spend some time discussing how the topic is relevant to other fields. Workshop schedules are identical to course schedules, but usually consist of a series of presentations by different researchers; they may also include panel discussions. A workshop will be more accessible if its program is bracketed by broader-audience talks that introduce and summarize the week's presentations. Please note that NASSLLI cannot provide reimbursement for travel and accommodation for workshop presenters. Workshop proposals must include information about how the organizers expect these expenses to be covered. Course and workshop proposals from women and underrepresented minorities are particularly encouraged. ********************************************************************* SUBMISSION DETAILS ********************************************************************* Submissions should be submitted using EasyChair and should indicate: 1. Person in charge of the workshop/course and affiliation(s). 2. Type of event (one week course or workshop). 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. 6. A statement about the instructor's experience in teaching (including in interdisciplinary settings). 7. Anticipated travel costs. Workshop proposals *must* include (a) acknowledgement of the organizers' understanding that NASSLLI will not provide reimbursement for invited participants and (b) an explanation of how these costs will be covered. ********************************************************************* IMPORTANT DATES ********************************************************************* September 30, 2017: Course and Workshop Proposals are Due October 1, 2017: Review of Course and Workshop Proposals Begins December 1, 2017: Decision Notifications are Sent The final program will be circulated in December 2017. ********************************************************************* FINANCIAL AND PRACTICAL DETAILS ********************************************************************* Course instructors and workshop organizers All instructors and workshop organizers will receive a reduced rate for registration. We will aim to reimburse reasonable travel expenses for *at most two* instructors per course, and *at most two* organizers per workshop. In addition, we will make available appropriate accommodation for participating faculty, and will aim to cover the accommodation costs for instructors/organizers utilizing this accommodation, subject to the two-person per course/workshop limit. The availability of reimbursement will depend on available funding, which is still uncertain. We encourage all instructors/workshop organizers to fund their own travel and accommodation if this is feasible, since this will allow us to use more of our funding for students scholarships and for reimbursement for instructors without funding sources. Please note that reimbursable travel is restricted to direct travel to and from Pittsburgh. (Instructors with more complex travel plans must contact the organizing committee before booking.) Due to federal mandates, we can only reimburse air travel booked on US-based airlines. Additional information for workshop organizers NASSLLI2018 cannot reimburse travel, accommodation or registration expenses for lecturers/speakers invited by workshop organizers. Registration for these invitees will be at reduced cost. Workshop proposals should include a plan to obtain funding for reimbursement of invitees, or should state that all invitees will fund their own travel and accommodation. ******************************************************************** CONTACT INFORMATION ******************************************************************** For questions relating to proposals and proposal submission, please email* nasslli2018 at easychair.org *. For questions relating to local organization, please email *nasslli2018 at gmail.com *. 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URL: From pavel.shvaiko at unitn.it Wed Jun 7 23:01:41 2017 From: pavel.shvaiko at unitn.it (Pavel Shvaiko) Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2017 23:01:41 +0200 Subject: [DL] 2nd CFP: ISWC'17 workshop on Ontology Matching (OM-2017) Message-ID: Apologies for cross-postings ------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------ SECOND CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS ------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------ The Twelfth International Workshop on ONTOLOGY MATCHING (OM-2017) http://om2017.ontologymatching.org/ October 21st or 22nd, 2017, ISWC Workshop Program, Vienna, Austria BRIEF DESCRIPTION AND OBJECTIVES Ontology matching is a key interoperability enabler for the Semantic Web, as well as a useful technique in some classical data integration tasks dealing with the semantic heterogeneity problem. It takes 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 interlinking, query answering or process mapping. 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, especially with respect to data interlinking, process mapping and web table matching tasks. 2. To conduct an extensive and rigorous evaluation of ontology matching and instance matching (link discovery) approaches through the OAEI (Ontology Alignment Evaluation Initiative) 2017 campaign. 3. To examine new uses, 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) datasets, benchmarks and replication studies, services, software, methodologies, protocols and measures (not necessarily related to 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; Requirements to matching from specific application scenarios; Application of matching techniques in real-world scenarios; Formal foundations and frameworks for matching; Matching and big data; Matching and linked data; Instance matching, data interlinking and relations between them; Process model matching; Large-scale and efficient matching techniques; Matcher selection, combination and tuning; User involvement (including both technical and organizational aspects); Explanations in matching; Social and collaborative matching; Uncertainty in matching; Reasoning with alignments; Alignment coherence and debugging; Alignment management; Matching for traditional applications (e.g., information integration); Matching for emerging applications (e.g., search, web-services). 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 2017 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=om2017 Contributors to the OAEI 2017 campaign have to follow the campaign conditions and schedule at http://oaei.ontologymatching.org/2017. DATES FOR TECHNICAL PAPERS AND POSTERS: July 28, 2017: Deadline for the submission of papers. August 24, 2017: Deadline for the notification of acceptance/rejection. September 15, 2017: Workshop camera ready copy submission. October 21st or 22nd, 2017: OM-2017, Vienna, Austria. ORGANIZING COMMITTEE 1. Pavel Shvaiko (main contact) Informatica Trentina, Italy 2. J?r?me Euzenat INRIA & Univ. Grenoble Alpes, France 3. Ernesto Jim?nez-Ruiz University of of Oslo, Norway 4. Michelle Cheatham Wright State University, USA 5. Oktie Hassanzadeh IBM Research, USA PROGRAM COMMITTEE (to be completed): Alsayed Algergawy, Jena University, Germany Manuel Atencia, INRIA & Univ. Grenoble Alpes, France Zohra Bellahsene, LRIMM, France Olivier Bodenreider, National Library of Medicine, USA Marco Combetto, Informatica Trentina, Italy Valerie Cross, Miami University, USA Warith Eddine Djeddi, LIPAH & LABGED, Tunisia J?r?me David, University Grenoble Alpes & INRIA, France Gayo Diallo, University of Bordeaux, France Zlatan Dragisic, Link?pings Universitet, Sweden Alfio Ferrara, University of Milan, Italy Wei Hu, Nanjing University, China Valentina Ivanova, Link?pings Universitet, Sweden Antoine Isaac, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam & Europeana, Netherlands Valentina Ivanova, Link?pings Universitet, Sweden Ryutaro Ichise, National Institute of Informatics, Japan Daniel Faria, Instituto Gulbenkian de Ci?ncia, Portugal Patrick Lambrix, Link?pings Universitet, Sweden Juanzi Li, Tsinghua University, China Vincenzo Maltese, University of Trento, Italy Fiona McNeill, University of Edinburgh, UK Peter Mork, Noblis, USA Andriy Nikolov, Open University, UK Axel Ngonga, University of Leipzig, Germany Catia Pesquita, University of Lisbon, Portugal Dominique Ritze, University of Mannheim, Germany Umberto Straccia, ISTI-C.N.R., Italy Ondrej Svab-Zamazal, Prague University of Economics, Czech Republic C?ssia Trojahn, IRIT, France Ludger van Elst, DFKI, Germany ------------------------------------------------------- More about ontology matching: http://www.ontologymatching.org/ http://book.ontologymatching.org/ ------------------------------------------------------- Best Regards, Pavel ------------------------------------------------------- Pavel Shvaiko, PhD Informatica Trentina, Italy http://www.ontologymatching.org/ http://www.infotn.it/ http://www.dit.unitn.it/~pavel -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Apologies for multiple copies] Call for Participation WoLLIC 2017 24th Workshop on Logic, Language, Information and Computation July 18-21, 2017 University College London (UCL), London, UK SPECIAL SESSION: Screening of Navajo Math Circles (Directed by George Paul Csicsery, 2016, 58min) 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) IN COOPERATION WITH ACM Special Interest Group on Logic and Computation (ACM-SIGLOG) ORGANISATION Department of Computer Science, University College London, London, UK School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science, Queen Mary College, London, UK Centro de Inform?tica, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil HOSTED BY Department of Computer Science, University College London, London, UK INVITED SPEAKERS Hazel Brickhill (Bristol) (University of Bristol) Michael Detlefsen (University of Notre Dame) Alexander Kurz (University of Leicester) Frederike Moltmann (New York University) David Pym (University College London) Nicole Schweikardt (Humboldt Universit?t) Fan Yang (Delft University) Boris Zilber (University of Oxford) STUDENT GRANTS ASL sponsorship of WoLLIC 2017 will permit ASL student members to apply for a modest travel grant (deadline: May 1st, 2017). See http://www.aslonline.org/studenttravelawards.html for details. PROGRAMME COMMITTEE Matthias Baaz (University of Technology, Vienna, Austria) John Baldwin (University of Illinois at Chicago, USA) Dana Bartozov? (Universidade de S?o Paulo, Brazil) Agata Ciabattoni (University of Technology, Vienna, Austria) Walter Dean (University of Warwick, UK) Erich Gr?del (RWTH Aachen, Germany) Volker Halbach (University of Oxford, UK) Juliette Kennedy (Helsinki University, Finland) (Chair) Dexter Kozen (Cornell University, USA) Janos Makowsky (Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel) Larry Moss (indiana University, USA) Alessandra Palmigiano (Delft University, The Netherlands) Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh (Queen Mary, UK) Sonja Smets (Amsterdam University, The Netherlands) Asger T?rnquist (K?benhavns Universitet, Denmark) Rineke Verbrugge (University of Groningen, The Netherlands) Andr?s Villaveces (Universidad Nacional, Colombia) Philip Welch (University of Bristol, UK) STEERING COMMITTEE Samson Abramsky, Johan van Benthem, Anuj Dawar, Joe Halpern, Wilfrid Hodges, Ulrich Kohlenbach, Daniel Leivant, Leonid Libkin, Angus Macintyre, Luke Ong, Hiroakira Ono, Valeria de Paiva, Ruy de Queiroz, Jouko V??n?nen. ORGANISING COMMITTEE Alexandra Silva (Univ College London, UK) (Local co-chair) Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh (Queen Mary, UK) (Local co-chair) Paulo Oliva (Queen Mary, UK) James Brotherston (Univ College London, UK) Anjolina G. de Oliveira (U Fed Pernambuco) Ruy de Queiroz (U Fed Pernambuco) (co-chair) FURTHER INFORMATION Contact one of the Co-Chairs of the Organising Committee. WEB PAGE http://wollic.org/wollic2017/ ACCEPTED PAPERS Fausto Barbero, Lauri Hella and Raine R?nnholm. Independence-Friendly logic without Henkin quantification. Fedor Pakhomov. Solovay completeness without fixed points. Paola Bruscoli and Lutz Strassburger. On the length of Medial-Switch-Mix derivations. Almudena Colacito and George Metcalfe. Proof Theory and Ordered Groups. Rohit Parikh. An Epistemic Generalization of Rationalizability. Lev Beklemishev. On the reflection calculus with partial conservativity operators. Arnold Beckmann and Jean Jose Razafindrakoto. Total Search Problems in Bounded Arithmetic and Improved Witnessing. Flavio Ferrarotti, Sen?n Gonz?lez and Jose Turull-Torres. On Fragments of Higher Order Logics that on Finite Structures Collapse to Second Order. Micha? Tomasz Godziszewski and Joel David Hamkins. Computable quotient presentations of models of arithmetic and set theory. Nathanael L. Ackerman and Cameron E. Freer. On the Computability of Graph Turing Machines. Ian Mackie. A Geometry of Interaction Machine for G?del's System T. Zhaohui Luo and Serguei Soloviev. Dependent Event Types. Igor Sedlar. Substructural logics with a reflexive transitive closure modality. Stepan Kuznetsov. The Lambek calculus with iteration: two variants. Willem Conradie, Andrew Craig, Alessandra Palmigiano and Zhiguang Zhao. Constructive canonicity for lattice-based fixed point logics. Karin Cvetko Vah, Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh, Dimitri Kartsaklis and Benjamin Blundell. Non-commutative logic for compositional distributional semantics. Daniyar Shamkanov. Global Neighbourhood Completeness of the G?del-L?b Provability Logic. V?t Pun?och??. Knowledge is a Diamond. Gijs Wijnholds. Coherent Diagrammatic Reasoning in Compositional Distributional Semantics. Zhiguang Zhao. Algorithmic Sahlqvist Preservation for Modal Compact Hausdorff Spaces. Marcin Mostowski and Marek Czarnecki. Concrete mathematics. Finitistic approach to foundations. Denis I. Saveliev and Nikolai L. Poliakov. On two concepts of ultrafilter extensions of first-order models and their generalizations. Yury Savateev and Daniyar Shamkanov. Cut-elimination for the modal Grzegorczyk logic via non-well-founded proofs. S?rgio Marcelino and Carlos Caleiro. Disjoint fibring of non-deterministic matrices. Fei Liang, Giuseppe Greco, Andrew Moshier and Alessandra Palmigiano. Multi-type display caculus for Semi De Morgan Logic. Dan Marsden, Fabrizio Genovese, Bob Coecke and Martha Lewis. Applications of Generalized Relations in Linguistics and Cognition. 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Submit your paper by 23 June 2017 in the "Work in Progress? track via Easychair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cicm2017 Please add a keyword for the intended topical track MKM, DML, Calculemus or Systems and Projects. Author notification will be sent by 27 June. *** Posters Submissions *** In addition, we solicit for posters that will not be peer reviewed, but will be screened for relevance to the conference. You can submit an abstract for a poster by 23 June 2017 via EasyChair at: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cicm2017. Author notification will be sent by 27 June. *** Invited Speakers *** - Alan Bundy (University of Edinburgh) - Przemys?aw Chojecki (Polish Academy of Sciences) - Grant Olney Passmore (Aesthetic Integration) **** Conference Tracks *** * Calculemus (Chair: Matthew England, University of Coventry) * Digital Mathematical Libraries (DML) (Chair: Olaf Teschke, Humboldt University of Berlin) * Mathematical Knowledge Management (MKM) (Chair: Florian Rabe, Jacobs University Bremen) * Systems & Projects (Chair: Osman Hasan, NUST Pakistan) * Doctoral Programme (Chair: Adnan Rashid, NUST Pakistan) *** Co-located Workshops *** * 12th Workshop on Mathematical User Interface (MathUI 2017) http://www.cicm-conference.org/2017/cicm.php?event=mathui * 28th OpenMath Workshop http://www.cicm-conference.org/2017/cicm.php?event=openmath *** Registration *** Early Registration: Until 30 June 2017 For more details, see: http://www.cicm-conference.org/2017/cicm.php?event=&menu=registration *** Local Information *** Information about the venue, accommodation, travel, visa requirements, etc. can be found at: http://dream.inf.ed.ac.uk/events/cicm2017 *** CICM 2017 Organisers *** * General Program Chair: Herman Geuvers (Radboud University) * Workshops Chair: Petros Papapanagiotou (University of Edinburgh) * Publicity Chair: Serge Autexier (DFKI Bremen) * Local arrangements: Jacques Fleuriot and Suzanne Perry (University of Edinburgh) From frank.loebe at informatik.uni-leipzig.de Sun Jun 18 13:04:08 2017 From: frank.loebe at informatik.uni-leipzig.de (Frank Loebe) Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2017 13:04:08 +0200 Subject: [DL] IAOA Summer Institute on Upper Ontologies: Call for Participation (Aug 8-11, 2017, Toronto, Canada) Message-ID: <201706181104.v5IB4CKN010691@isun.informatik.uni-leipzig.de> The International Association for Ontology and its Applications (IAOA) is announcing the 2017 Summer Institute: UPPER ONTOLOGIES --> !! REGISTER by July 17, 2017 !! August 8-11, 2017 Toronto, Ontario, Canada Website: http://ontologforum.org/index.php/SummerInstitute2017 Updates in this call: + preliminary programme + 1 facilitator + registration deadline: July 17, 2017 == Scope == Within the Applied Ontology community, upper ontologies are widely recognized as tools to support the tasks of ontology design and semantic integration. At the first Ontology Summit in 2006, the designers of several prominent upper ontologies were joined by key ontology technology participants, with the purpose of finding a means to relate the different ontologies to each other. In the decade since that meeting, the development and application of upper ontologies has continued, yet many challenges remain. The 2017 IAOA Summer Institute will explore the following topics: - What are the foundational choices and the practical motivations of present upper ontologies? - What is the range of concepts that should be covered in an upper ontology? - What are the relationships among upper ontologies? - How do we evaluate upper ontologies? - Using upper ontologies for semantic integration - Using upper ontologies for ontology design - Discussion of proposals for ISO 21838 (Top-Level Ontologies): content and consensus-building methodology == Preliminary Programme == DAY 1: Conceptual Underpinnings of Upper Ontologies Discussions will focus on the foundational choices of present upper ontologies, as well as the range of concepts that should be covered in an upper ontology. DAY 2: Applications of Upper Ontologies The second day will look at applications of upper ontologies, such as semantic integration and ontology design. We will also consider whether upper ontologies deliver on their purported benefits. DAY 3: Relationships among Upper Ontologies In light of the discussions about the applications of upper ontologies, the third day will identify limitations of existing upper ontologies and explore possible extensions. We will also discuss the relationships among the different upper ontologies. DAY 4: Synthesis The last day will look at what's in the future for upper ontologies. Further details and updates at http://ontologforum.org/index.php/SummerInstitute2017#Programme == Facilitators == * Stefano Borgo Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies, Trento, Italy * Michael Gruninger University of Toronto, Canada * Nicola Guarino Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies, Trento, Italy * Barry Smith University at Buffalo, New York, USA == Participation == Participants from all sectors of applied ontology are invited to interact from August 8 to 11, in Toronto, Canada. As always, the Summer Institute will challenge the state of the art through lively discussions and hands-on problem solving rather than lengthy presentations. --> REGISTER BY July 17, 2017 in order to participate. Registration page: http://www.mie.utoronto.ca/events/iaoa-summer-institute-2017/ The registration fee is 500 CAD, which in USD or EUR likely amounts to a value in the range of 350-400 USD or 325-350 EUR, respectively. == Contact == Michael Gruninger http://stl.mie.utoronto.ca/gruninger.html From rafael.goncalves at stanford.edu Tue Jun 13 23:52:54 2017 From: rafael.goncalves at stanford.edu (=?utf-8?Q?Rafael_Gon=C3=A7alves?=) Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2017 14:52:54 -0700 Subject: [DL] =?utf-8?q?Join_us_for_the_next_Protege_Short_Course_at_Stanf?= =?utf-8?q?ord_University=2C_October_9_=E2=80=93_11=2C_2017!?= References: <9EAF8008-F0CF-4667-A074-01469E37AE17@stanford.edu> Message-ID: <879F9E1B-0B65-4168-BADA-66D783E0CBD3@stanford.edu> Dear all, We are excited to announce the next Prot?g? Short Course, to be held at Stanford University, California, between October 9?11, 2017! The Prot?g? Short Course is a 3-day intensive training, which provides an in-depth introduction to ontology engineering in the Web Ontology Language (OWL). We cover best practices in ontology building and the latest Semantic Web technologies, including OWL 2, RDF and SPARQL. We also cover topics such as collaborative development, and data access and import from different data sources. Read more about it at: http://protege.stanford.edu/shortcourse/201710/ If you have any questions about the Prot?g? Short Course, please email us at: protege-shortcourse at lists.stanford.edu Please feel free to forward this announcement to anyone who might be interested in the course. Thank you! We look forward to seeing you in October! Best regards, The Prot?g? Team -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Message-ID: <1497791957.59467dd566d26@webmail.unige.it> [APOLOGIES FOR MULTIPLE POSTINGS] * ______________________________________________________________________ * The RCRA group (Knowledge Representation & Automated Reasoning) of the AI*IA (Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence) organizes the 24th RCRA workshop: Experimental evaluation of algorithms for solving problems with combinatorial explosion (RCRA 2017) workshop of the 16th International Conference of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence http://aiia2017.di.uniba.it/ Bari, November 14th - November 15th, 2017 RCRA group web site: http://rcra.aixia.it/ Workshop web site: http://rcra.aixia.it/rcra2017 e-mail: rcra2017[AT]easychair[DOT]org * ______________________________________________________________________ * This event follows the series of the RCRA (Knowledge Representation and Automated Reasoning) annual meetings, held since 1994. The success of the previous events shows that RCRA is becoming a major forum for exchanging ideas and proposing experimentation methodologies for algorithms in Artificial Intelligence. * ______________________________________________________________________ * IMPORTANT DATES Paper submission deadline: July 31st, 2017 Notification of acceptance: September 8th, 2017 Final version of accepted original papers: September 30th, 2017 Workshop day: November 14th-15th, 2017 AIMS AND SCOPE Many problems in Artificial Intelligence show an exponential explosion of the search space. Although stemming from different research areas in AI, such problems are often addressed with algorithms that have a common goal: the effective exploration of huge state spaces. Many algorithms developed in one research area are applicable to other problems, or can be hybridized with techniques in other areas. Artificial Intelligence tools often exploit or hybridize techniques developed by other research communities, such as Operations Research. In recent years, research in Artificial Intelligence has more and more focused on experimental evaluation of algorithms, the development of suitable methodologies for experimentation and analysis, the study of languages and the implementation of systems for the definition and solution of problems. Scope of the workshop is fostering the cross-fertilization of ideas stemming from different areas, proposing benchmarks for new challenging problems, comparing models and algorithms from an experimental viewpoint, and, in general, comparing different approaches with respect to efficiency, problem modeling, and ease of development. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Experimental evaluation of algorithms for o knowledge representation o automated reasoning o planning o scheduling o machine learning o model checking o boolean satisfiability (SAT) o constraint programming o argumentation o temporal reasoning o combinatorial optimization o quantified boolean formulae and quantified constraints o modal logics o logic programming o answer set programming o ontological reasoning * Definition and construction of benchmarks * Experimentation methodologies * Metaheuristics * Algorithm hybridization * Static analysis of combinatorial problems * Languages and systems for definition and solution of problems * Comparisons between systems and algorithms * Application experiences (visualization, graphics, security, transports,...) WORKSHOP CHAIRS Marco Maratea University of Genova, Italy Ivan Serina University of Brescia, Italy HOST ORGANIZATION University of Bari, Italy SUBMISSIONS Authors are invited to submit either original (full or short) papers, or papers that appear on conference proceedings. Publications showing negative results are welcome, provided that the approach was original and very promising in principle, the experimentation was well-conducted, the results obtained were unforeseeable and gave important hints in the comprehension of the target problem, helping other researchers to avoid unsuccessful paths. The authors are requested to clearly specify whether their submission is original or already published. A footnote in the first page would suffice. Workshop submissions must be in PDF format, do not exceed 15 (for full papers) or 8 (for short papers) pages, and should be written in LaTeX, using the LNCS style. RCRA 2017 uses EasyChair for the submission of contributions. Contributions must be submitted through this page: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=rcra2017 All submissions will be reviewed by at least three members of the program committee. CONTACT In case of need, the workshop co-chairs can be contacted by sending an email to: rcra2017[AT]easychair[DOT]org PROCEEDINGS Accepted original papers will be published online, as an issue of the CEUR-WS workshop proceeding series, AI*IA sub-series. Moreover, as in previous editions (http://rcra.aixia.it/publications), we are considering the possibility of having workshop post-proceedings appearing in a special issue of an international journal, provided that a sufficient amount of high quality papers is collected. HISTORY OF THE RECENT WORKSHOP SERIES * RCRA 2016 as a workshop of AI*IA 2016, Genova, Italy http://rcra.aixia.it/rcra2016 Extended versions of the best papers will appear in a special issue of JETAI * RCRA 2015 as a workshop of AI*IA 2015, Ferrara, Italy http://rcra.aixia.it/rcra2015 Extended versions of the best papers will appear in a special issue of Fundamenta Informaticae * RCRA 2014 as a workshop of SAT 2014, IJCAR 2014 and ICLP 2014, Vienna, Austria - http://rcra.aixia.it/rcra2014 Extended versions of the best papers will appear in a special issue of AI Communications * RCRA 2013, Rome, Italy - http://rcra.aixia.it/rcra2013 Extended versions of the best papers will appear in a special issue of JETAI * Previous editions: http://rcra.aixia.it/workshops From calimeri at mat.unical.it Mon Jun 19 21:09:34 2017 From: calimeri at mat.unical.it (Francesco Calimeri) Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2017 21:09:34 +0200 Subject: [DL] CALL FOR APPLICATIONS - PARTICIPATION TOKENS STILL AVAILABLE Message-ID: ************************************************************ CALL FOR APPLICATIONS - PARTICIPATION TOKENS STILL AVAILABLE The 13th Reasoning Web Summer School (RW 2017) London, U.K., July 7-11, 2017 http://reasoningweb.org/2017 ************************************************************ co-located with: - RuleML+RR: International Joint Conference on Rules and Reasoning London, U.K., July 12-15, 2017 http://2017.ruleml-rr.org - RuleML+RR Doctoral Consortium http://2017.ruleml-rr.org/doctoral-consortium/ - DecisionCAMP 2017 London, U.K., July 13-14, 2017 http://2017.ruleml-rr.org/decisioncamp-2017 - 11th International Rule Challenge London, U.K., July 12-15, 2017 http://2017.ruleml-rr.org/calls/international-rule-challenge/ 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. The school 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 2017, the theme of the school is: "Semantic Interoperability on the Web" As in the previous years, lectures in the summer school will be given by a distinguished group of expert lecturers. Most 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 RuleML+RR, a conference that joins the well-known RuleML and RR event series, DecisionCAMP 2017, and the 11th International Rule Challenge, hence, there will be a great opportunity for students to also attend some major events in the area. In addition, RuleML+RR will also include a Doctoral Consortium and students of RW are particularly encouraged to also apply to the Doctoral consortium of RuleML+RR. Participants to the school will be delivered on request a certificate of attendance indicating the number of hours of lectures. With this certificate, some institutions may assign official credits for the PhD program. == LECTURES == - Andrea Cal? (Birkbeck University of London, U.K.) "Ontology querying: Datalog strikes back" - Thomas Eiter (Technical University of Wien, Austria) "Answer Set Programming with External Source Access" - Thomas Lukasiewicz (University of Oxford, U.K.) "Uncertainty Reasoning for the Semantic Web" - Marco Montali (Free University of Bolzano/Bozen, Italy) "Ontology-based Data Access for Log Extraction in Process Mining" - Axel Polleres (Vienna University of Economics & Business, Austria) "Challenges for Semantic Data Integration on the Web of Open Data" - Marie-Christine Rousset (University Grenoble-Alpes, Institut Universitaire de France) "Datalog revisited for reasoning in Linked Data" - Torsten Schaub (University of Potsdam, Germany and Inria, Bretagne Atlantique, Rennes, France) "A Tutorial on Hybrid Answer Set Solving" - Juan Sequeda (Capsenta, USA) "Integrating Relational Databases with the Semantic Web" - Giorgos Stamou (National Technical University of Athens, Greece) "Ontological query answering over semantic data" == LECTURE NOTES == The course material used during the summer school will be published within Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series. A copy of the proceedings will be included in the registration fees. == HOW TO APPLY == A limited number of participation tokens is still available and will be assigned on a first come, first served basis. The attendees can ask to participate by submitting a brief statement of interest to rw2017 at easychair.org Approval and instructions on how to complete registration will follow. == SCHOOL FEES == The fee for attending the school is 370 GBPs. The fee covers school registration, coffee breaks, and a copy of the school volume published as Springer LNCS proceedings. Joint Registration to RW and RuleML+RR is also possible, with a fee of 485 GBPs. Students that plan to participate to both RW and RuleML+RR have to indicate it in their application. == SCHOOL VENUE == Birkbeck, University of London, Malet St, London WC1E 7HX, UK == STUDENT ACCOMMODATIONS == University of London offers accommodations in its student residences. Prices start from 47 GPBs per night. For details visit http://staycentral.london.ac.uk/accommodation/ All listed locations are within a walking distance of 15-20 minutes from the school venue. == COMMITTEE == *Chairs Giovambattista Ianni, Universit? della Calabria Domenico Lembo, Sapienza Universit? di Roma *Scientific Advisory Board Leopoldo Bertossi, Carleton University Wolfgang Faber, University of Huddersfield Birte Glimm, Universit?t Ulm Georg Gottlob, Oxford University Steffen Staab, University of Koblenz-Landau == CONTACT == For further information, contact the school chairs (rw2017 at easychair.org) -- Prof. Giovambattista Ianni, DeMaCS - UNICAL, Rende, Italy From dragoni at fbk.eu Wed Jun 21 13:59:24 2017 From: dragoni at fbk.eu (Mauro Dragoni) Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2017 13:59:24 +0200 Subject: [DL] Cognitive Computing Track @ The 33nd ACM Symposium on Applied Computing - ACM SAC 2018 - Call for Paper Message-ID: ==== Cognitive Computing Track @ The 33nd ACM Symposium on Applied Computing - ACM SAC 2018 - Call for Paper ==== Cognitive Computing Track website: https://coco.fbk.eu/sac2018 ACM SAC 2018 website: http://www.sigapp.org/sac/sac2018/ Dates: April 9-13, 2018 Venue: Pau, France *** Aim & Scope *** The SAC2018 special track on Cognitive Computing (http://coco.fbk.eu/sac2018) aims to promote a forum for scientists, engineers and practitioners, in academia and industry, to share and discuss latest advances, breakthrough results, and real-world experiences in the Cognitive Computing area. This is an interdisciplinary emerging research area, at the core of Artificial Intelligence, investigating the development of self-learning systems, that naturally interact with humans in complex environments, and are capable to adapt to context and changes in language and meaning. Original and unpublished papers dealing with all facets of the Cognitive Computing area --- such as Natural Language Processing, Knowledge Representation and Reasoning, Audio and Video Analysis, Computer-Human Interaction, Neuroscience and Cognition --- are invited. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Cognitive Knowledge Acquisition ---- Frameworks for acquiring Cognitive Knowledge ---- Tools and Methodologies for Cognitive Knowledge acquisition ---- Natural Language Processing for Cognitive Knowledge acquisition ---- Sentiment Analysis and Opinion Mining ---- Linguistic Resources and Cognitive Knowledge Acquisition ---- Machine Learning techniques (e.g., Deep Learning) for Cognitive Knowledge acquisition ---- Acquisition from media other than text (e.g., audio, video, images) ---- Linked Data and Cognitive Knowledge Acquisition ---- Emerging approaches for Cognitive Knowledge acquisition (e.g., crowd?based approaches). ---- Principled evaluation of acquired Cognitive Knowledge - Representing, Formalizing and Reasoning with Cognitive Knowledge ---- Ontologies for Cognitive Systems ---- Representation languages for Cognitive Knowledge ---- Reasoning about Cognitive Knowledge - Development of Cognitive Systems ---- Architectures for Cognitive Systems ---- Scalability of Cognitive Systems ---- Complex Cognitive Systems ---- Fuzzy Cognitive Systems - Applications ---- Real?world applications that exploit Cognitive Knowledge ---- Cognitive Systems for Big Data scenarios ---- Cognitive Techniques for Deep Learning ---- Cognitive Techniques for Persuasion and Recommender Systems ---- Cognitive Robotics ---- Cognitive Techniques for Information Retrieval ---- Deployment of Cognitive Systems in specific domains. For example: ------- Digital Humanities and Social Sciences ------- eGovernment and public administration ------- Life sciences, health and medicine ------- Social Media, News, and Data Streams *** Paper Submission *** Research papers and experience reports related to the above topics are solicited. Submissions must not have been published or be concurrently considered for publication elsewhere. Papers should be submitted in PDF using the ACM-SAC proceedings format via the SAC 2018 website. Authors' names and affiliations should be entered separately at the submission site and not appear in the submitted papers. Each submission will be reviewed in a DOUBLE-BLIND process according to the ACM-SAC Regulations. Student Research Competition submissions are welcome (see www.sigapp.org/sac/sac2018/pdf/SAC2018-CFSRC.pdf for details). *** Submission sites: *** (for regular papers) TBA (for SRC papers) TBA Paper selection is based on the originality, technical contribution, presentation quality, and relevance to the Cognitive Computing Track. Some papers may be accepted as posters. Authors of selected papers of the Cognitive Computing track will be invited to submit an extended version of their work to a forthcoming Special Issue in Progress in Artificial Intelligence (Springer journal). *** Important Dates *** September 15, 2017: Regular Paper & SRC Abstract Submission Due - EXTENDED November 10, 2017: Author Notification November 25, 2017: Camera? ready copies of accepted papers/SRC December 10, 2017: Author Registration Due *** Track Co?Chairs *** Mauro Dragoni, Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK) ? dragoni at fbk.eu Marco Rospocher, Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK) ? rospocher at fbk.eu *** Programme Committee *** TBA *** General Inquiries *** For further information, please visit SAC Cognitive Computing Track and SAC 2017 conference websites (http://www.sigapp.org/sac/sac2018/) or feel free to contact the Track Co?Chairs. -- Dr. Mauro Dragoni Researcher at Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK-IRST) Via Sommarive 18, 38123, Povo, Trento, Italy Tel. 0461-314053 ######################################## Consider attending Cognitive Computing track @ ACM SAC 2017 https://saccoco.fbk.eu/ Marrakech, Morocco, April 3-7, 2017 ######################################## -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From geoff at cs.miami.edu Tue Jun 20 14:19:07 2017 From: geoff at cs.miami.edu (Geoff Sutcliffe) Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2017 08:19:07 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [DL] GCAI 2017 in Miami - Call for Papers Message-ID: <20170620121908.04E4612152D@mcclellan.cs.miami.edu> The 3rd Global Conference on Artificial Intelligence (GCAI 2017) Miami, USA, 18-22 October 2017 http://easychair.org/smart-program/GCAI2017/ (Abstracts: 30 June, Papers: 7 July) The 3rd Global Conference on Artificial Intelligence (GCAI 2017) will be held in Miami, USA, at the Courtyard Marriott hotel in Coconut Grove, 18-22 October 2017. The conference, which addresses all aspects of artificial intelligence, is being organized by LRG (http://www.lrg.global) and the University of Miami. The program chairs are Christoph Benzmueller, Christine Lisetti and Martin Theobald. The conference chair is Geoff Sutcliffe. SUBMISSION Submissions in all areas of artifical intelligence are welcome. Suggested topics include, but are not limited to: Foundations + Knowledge representation + Cognitive modeling + Perception + Search + Reasoning and programming + Machine learning + Constraints and uncertainty Architectures + Agents and distributed AI + Intelligent user interfaces + Natural language systems and linguistics + Information retrieval + Case-based reasoning + Affective computing + Robotics Applications + Aviation and aerospace + Education and tutoring systems + Games and entertainment + Law and Machine Ethics + Mathematics and the Sciences + Medicine and healthcare + Management and manufacturing + World Wide Web + Security Implications + Philosophical foundations + Social impact and ethics + Evaluation of AI systems + AI education DATES + Abstract registration: 30 June, 2017 + Submission: 7 July, 2017 + Notification: 11 August, 2017 + Final version: 25 August, 2017 + Early registration deadline: tba + Workshops: 18 October 2017 + Conference: 19-22 October, 2016 SUBMISSION and PUBLICATION Submission is via EasyChair at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=gcai2017 The proceedings will be published by EasyChair Publications in the EPiC Series in Computing. The volume will be open access and authors will retain copyright. INVITED SPEAKERS + Catherine Pelachaud, Telecom-ParisTech, France + Marijn Heule, University of Texas at Austin, USA + Guy van den Broeck, UCLA, USA PROGRAMME COMMITTEE Jose Julio Alferes (Universidade NOVA de Lisboa) Elisabeth Andre (Augsburg University) Serge Autexier (DFKI) Peter Baumgartner (National ICT Australia) Christoph Benzm??ller (Freie Universit??t Berlin) - chair Philippe Besnard (CNRS / IRIT) Richard Booth (Cardiff University) Krysia Broda (Imperial College) Walter Carnielli (Centre for Logic, Epistemology and the History of Science - CLE) Amedeo Cesta (CNR - National Research Council of Italy) Gabriella Cortellessa (CNR-ISTC, National Research Council of Italy) Mehdi Dastani (Utrecht University) James Delgrande (Simon Fraser University) Wolfgang Faber (University of Huddersfield) Germain Forestier (Universit?? de Haute Alsace) Gerhard Friedrich (Alpen-Adria-Universit??t Klagenfurt) Thom Fruehwirth (University of Ulm) Daniel Garijo (UCLA) Marco Gavanelli (University of Ferrara) Gianluigi Greco (University of Calabria) Ian Horswill (Northwestern University) Katsumi Inoue (NII) Mateja Jamnik (University of Cambridge) Ernesto Jimenez-Ruiz (University of Oxford) Tommi Junttila (Aalto University) Panagiotis Kanellopoulos (University of Patras and CTI "Diophantus") Gabriele Kern-Isberner (Technische Universitaet Dortmund) Roman Kontchakov (Birkbeck, University of London) Tim Landgraf (Freie Universit??t Berlin) J??r??me Lang (CNRS, LAMSADE, Universit?? Paris-Dauphine) Gang Li (School of Information Technology, Deakin University) Sanjiang Li (University of Technology Sydney) Christine Lisetti (Florida International University) - chair Xudong Luo (Guangxi Normal University) Ines Lynce (INESC-ID/IST, Universidade de Lisboa) Ana Gabriela Maguitman (Universidad Nacional del Sur) George Metcalfe (University of Bern) Angelo Montanari (University of Udine) Till Mossakowski (University of Magdeburg) Xavier Parent (University of Luxembourg) Radu-Emil Precup (Politehnica University of Timisoara) Dumitru Roman (SINTEF / University of Oslo) Marco Roveri (FBK-irst) Steven Schockaert (Cardiff University) Magy Seif El-Nasr (Northeastern University) Christine Solnon (LIRIS CNRS UMR 5205 / INSA Lyon) Daria Stepanova (Max Planck Institute for Informatics) Thomas St??tzle (Universit?? Libre de Bruxelles (ULB)) Martin Theobald (Universit?? du Luxembourg) - chair J??rgen Umbrich (Vienna University of Economy and Business (WU)) Maria Esther Vidal (Universidad Simon Bolivar, Dept. Computer Science) Inon Zuckerman (Ariel University) From giovanni.degasperis at aixia.it Tue Jun 20 17:23:19 2017 From: giovanni.degasperis at aixia.it (Giovanni De Gasperis) Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2017 17:23:19 +0200 Subject: [DL] [CfP] Call for Participation - RuleML+RR 2017: International Joint Conference on Rules and Reasoning London 12-15 July 2017 Message-ID: RuleML+RR 2017: International Joint Conference on Rules and Reasoning London 12-15 July 2017 http://2017.ruleml-rr.org This is the leading international joint conference in the field of rule-based reasoning, from foundations to technologies to applications. The full program can be seen at http://2017.ruleml-rr.org/schedule Register at http://2017.ruleml-rr.org FINAL DISCOUNTED RATE FINISHES ON 28 JUNE 2017. The program includes: Keynotes and speeches * Elena Baralis (Politecnico di Torino): Opening the Black Box: Deriving Rules from Data ( http://2017.ruleml-rr.org/program/#elena_baralis ) * Jordi Cabot (IN3-UOC, Barcelona): The Secret Life of Rules in Software Engineering ( http://2017.ruleml-rr.org/program/#jordi_cabot ) (sponsored by EurAI) * Bob Kowalski (Imperial College London): Logic and AI ? The Last 50 Years ( http://2017.ruleml-rr.org/program/#bob_kowalski ) * Stephen Muggleton (Imperial College London): Meta-Interpretive Learning: Achievements and Challenges ( http://2017.ruleml-rr.org/program/#stephen_muggleton ) * Jean-Francois Puget (IBM): Machine Learning and Decision Optimization ( http://2017.ruleml-rr.org/program/#puget ) Invited demo: * Keith L. Clark (Imperial College London): Concurrent Multi-tasking Robotic Agent Programming in TeleoR Tutorials: * Jacob Feldman: Decision Modeling with DMN and OpenRules * Benjamin Grosof, Michael Kifer, Paul Fodor: Rulelog: Highly Expressive Semantic Rules with Scalable Deep Reasoning * Robert Kowalski, Fariba Sadri, Miguel Calejo: How to do it with LPS (Logic-Based Production System) * Francesca A. Lisi: Logic-based Rule Learning for the Web of Data RuleML+RR 2017 will also host: * Industry Track http://2017.ruleml-rr.org/calls/industry-track * Doctoral Consortium http://2017.ruleml-rr.org/calls/call-for-doctoral-consortium * DecisionCAMP http://2017.ruleml-rr.org/decisioncamp-2017 * 11th Intern. Rule Challenge http://2017.ruleml-rr.org/calls/international-rule-challenge * 13th Reasoning Web Summer School http://2017.ruleml-rr.org/reasoning-web-summer-school-rw-2017/ NEW: Work-in-Progress POSTERS: Delegates, e.g. from industry, have the opportunity of presenting related Work-in-Progress Posters, optionally coming with demos, during the poster session, by sending PDFized poster files to Fariba Sadri ( f DOT sadri AT imperial DOT ac DOT uk) by July 3rd, 2017, 3PM UK Time. From valentina.ivanova at liu.se Thu Jun 22 16:40:02 2017 From: valentina.ivanova at liu.se (Valentina Ivanova) Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2017 14:40:02 +0000 Subject: [DL] [CfP] VOILA 2017 @ ISWC 2017 - 3rd Workshop on Visualization and Interaction for Ontologies and Linked Data Message-ID: CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS VOILA 2017 - Visualization and Interaction for Ontologies and Linked Data 3rd International Workshop at ISWC 2017, 16th International Semantic Web Conference October 22, 2017, Vienna, Austria http://voila2017.visualdataweb.org -------------------------------------------------- Abstracts Deadline: July 14, 2017 Submission Deadline: July 21, 2017 -------------------------------------------------- Topics of Interest ========== Topics, subjects, and contexts of interest include (but are not limited to): * Topics: - visualizations - user interfaces - visual analytics - requirements analysis - case studies - user evaluations - cognitive aspects * Subjects: - ontologies - linked data - ontology engineering (development, collaboration, ontology design patterns, alignment, debugging, evolution, provenance, etc.) * Contexts: - classical interaction contexts (desktop, keyboard, mouse, etc.) - novel interaction contexts (mobile, touch, gesture, etc.) - special settings (large, high-resolution, and multiple displays, etc.) - specific user groups and needs (people with disabilities, domain experts, etc.) Submission Guidelines ========== Paper submission and reviewing for this workshop will be electronic via EasyChair. The papers should be written in English, following the Springer LNCS format, and be submitted in either PDF or in HTML on or before July 21, 2017. Paper abstracts are due by July 14, 2017. The following types of contributions are welcome. The recommended page length is given in brackets. There is no strict page limit but the length of a paper should be commensurate with its contribution. Full research papers (8-12 pages); Experience papers (8-12 pages); Position papers (6-8 pages); Short research papers (4-6 pages); System papers (4-6 pages). It is recommended to include a (persistent) URL to a working implementation or an (annotated) screencast for submissions presenting interactive visualizations, user interfaces, tools, etc. Accepted papers will be published as a volume in the CEUR Workshop Proceedings series. Important Dates ========== Abstracts: July 14, 2017 Submission: July 21, 2017 Notification: August 24, 2017 Camera-ready: September 13, 2017 Workshop: October 22, 2017 Looking forward to your submissions & meeting you in Vienna! Catia, Patrick, Steffen, Valentina From annalisa.gentile at ibm.com Mon Jun 26 20:59:38 2017 From: annalisa.gentile at ibm.com (annalisa gentile) Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2017 11:59:38 -0700 Subject: [DL] [CfP] ISWC 2017 - Industry Track, Poster&Demo, Semantic Web Challenge Message-ID: 16th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2017) Vienna, Austria, October 21-25, 2017 ******************************************* *** Still lots of opportunities to get involved in ISWC 2017 *** you can submit your contributions to: *** Industry Track: until July 10, 2017 *** Poster and Demo session: until July 27, 2017 *** One of the Workshops: until July 21, 2017 *** Semantic Web Challenge: submissions open until October 7th, 2017 *** New this year: the ISWC Job Fair!! ******************************************* Website: http://iswc2017.semanticweb.org Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/113652365383847 Twitter: @iswc2017 (https://twitter.com/ISWC2017) Overview calls: http://iswc2017.semanticweb.org/calls/ In this announcement: 1. Call for contributions: Poster&Demo, Industry Track 2. Call for contributions: Workshops 3. Semantic Web Challenge 4. ISWC Job Fair 5. Keynote speakers 6. Student Grants 7. Registration 8. Important dates 1. Call for Contributions ========================================== -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Posters and Demos -------------------------------------------------------------------------- **deadline** July 27, 2017 The ISWC 2017 Posters and Demonstrations complement the paper tracks of the conference and offer an opportunity for presenting late-breaking research results, on-going research projects, and speculative or innovative work in progress. The informal setting of the Posters and Demonstrations encourages presenters and participants to engage in discussions about the work. Such discussions can be invaluable inputs for the future work of the presenters, while offering participants an effective way to broaden their knowledge of the emerging research trends and to network with other researchers. We invite submissions relevant to the area of the Semantic Web and which address, but are not limited to, the topics of the Research Track; the In-Use Track; and the Resources Track. Technical posters, reports on Semantic Web software systems (free or commercial), descriptions of completed work, and work in progress are all welcome. Demonstrations are intended to showcase innovative Semantic Web related implementations and technologies, both in academia and in industry. We explicitly welcome entries from the industry. However, submissions for posters and demos should go beyond pure advertisements of commercial software packages and convey a minimal scientific contribution. Authors of full papers accepted for the Research Track; the In-Use Track; and the Resources Track are explicitly invited to submit a demonstration. Detailed info: http://iswc2017.semanticweb.org/calls/call-for-posters-and-demos/ Program Chairs * Nadeschda Nikitina, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK * Dezhao Song, Thomson Reuters, Eagan, MN, USA -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Industry Track Contributions -------------------------------------------------------------------------- **deadline** July 10, 2017 The Industry Track seeks to present the state of adoption of semantic technologies in industrial applications. These technologies may be used in specific industries (e.g., media, financials, telecommunications, healthcare, life sciences, government, intelligence, etc.) or as a horizontal technology, and in different application areas (e.g., business intelligence, analytics, search, content management, knowledge management, recommendation systems, data integration, etc.). We welcome contributions about success stories as well as experiences and discussions of obstacles that stand in the way of large scale adoption of certain technologies. Particular emphasis should be put on the demonstration of business value created by using the semantic technologies. We encourage the following two categories of submissions: - Success stories of business-relevant, industrial deployments of Semantic Web technologies - Position statements that outline potential strategic applications and use cases of semantic technologies Come and join us at the ISWC 2017 industry track to share your experience! Detailed info: http://iswc2017.semanticweb.org/calls/call-for-contributions-industry-track-iswc-2017/ Program Chairs * Achille Fokoue, IBM Yorktown, NY, USA * Peter Haase, metaphacts, Walldorf, Germany 2. Call for contributions: Workshops ========================================== The full list of accepted workshops can be found at https://iswc2017.semanticweb.org/program/workshops/ Please check their individual websites for the specific calls. The general deadline for workshop is **July 21, 2017** but can be subject to minor variations among different workshops. Full list of accepted workshops: [BLINK] Benchmarking Linked Data [BlkMirror] Re-coding Black Mirror [DeSemWeb] Decentralizing the Semantic Web [HSSUE] Hybrid Statistical Semantic Understanding and Emerging Semantics [LD4IE] Linked Data for Information Extraction [MaCSeW] Managing Changes in the Semantic Web [NLIWOD] Natural Language Interfaces for the Web of Data [OM] Ontology Matching [PrivOn] Society, Privacy and the Semantic Web - Policy and Technology [PROFILES] Dataset PROFlLing and fEderated Search for Web Data [SemSci] Enabling Open Semantic Science [SemStats] Semantic Statistics [SWIT] Semantic Web Technologies for the IoT [S4BioDiv] Semantics for Biodiversity [VOILA] Visualization and Interaction for Ontologies and Linked Data [WHiSe] Humanities in the Semantic Web [WOMoCoE] Ontology Modularity, Contextuality, and Evolution [WOP] Ontology Design and Patterns [WSP] Web Stream Processing Workshops & Tutorials Chairs * Aidan Hogan, Universidad de Chile Santiago, Santiago, Chile * Valentina Presutti, Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies, CNR, Rome, Italy 3. Semantic Web Challenge ========================================== This year?s challenge will be about knowledge graphs, which are currently among the most prominent implementations of Semantic Web technologies. It will be centered around two important tasks for building large-scale knowledge graphs: Knowledge graph population. Given a portion of ton he concise bound description of a resource (e.g., label and type of a company), and a relation (e.g., CEO), participants are expected to provide the value(s) for the relation. Knowledge graph validation. Given a statement (i.e., a triple) about an entity, e.g., the phone number of a company, participants are expected to provide an assessment about the correctness of the statement. For both tasks, users may use a portion of the knowledge graph for training. Furthermore, arbitrary sources (e.g., external datasets, Web pages, etc.) may be used as input. Participants may choose to to participate in one or both tasks. Further details will be announced shortly. Program Chairs * Axel-Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo, University of Paderborn, Germany * Heiko Paulheim, University of Mannheim, Germany * Dan Bennett, Thomson Reuters, USA 4. ISWC Job Fair ========================================== Participate on the first edition of ISWC Job Fair! Job Fairs are a brilliant way to bring together job candidates with open positions in both, industry and academia, increasing the chances of finding the perfect job to advance your career or find your ideal future employee. If you are an organisation that wants to advertise positions or if you are looking for career opportunities don?t miss your chance to participate! You can register your organisation (company, academic institution, NGO, etc.) for the job fair for a small fee of ? 50 (on top of the regular registration). This can be done by one member of your organisation at the time of registration. Organisations that have purchased a regular sponsorship package (which includes other additional benefits!) are exempt from this extra fee. Further details at https://iswc2017.semanticweb.org/program/job-fair/ 5. Keynote speakers ========================================== We are delighted to announce the keynote speakers for this year edition of ISWC. Deborah McGuinness (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute) https://tw.rpi.edu/web/person/Deborah_L_McGuinness Prof. McGuinness is a leading authority on the semantic web and has been working in knowledge representation and reasoning environments for over 25 years. Deborah's primary research thrusts include work on explanation, trust, ontologies, escience, open data, and semantically-enabled schema and data integration. Nada Lavrac (Jozef Stefan Institute) http://kt.ijs.si/nada_lavrac/ Prof. Lavrac is Head of the Department of Knowledge Technologies at Jozef Stefan Institute (JSI). She is an expert on machine learning and data mining, in particular inductive logic programming and intelligent data analysis in medicine. Jamie Taylor (Google) https://www.linkedin.com/in/jamie-taylor-853953/ Dr. Taylor has been deeply involved with Google's knowledge graph efforts. Prior to Google, he worked on Freebase at Metaweb. Further details about the talks will be announced at https://iswc2017.semanticweb.org/ 6. Student Grants ========================================== If you are a student interested in attending ISWC 2017 you may be eligible to apply for a grant to support the costs of travel and lodging. This year, travel grants are funded by the Semantic Web Science Association (SWSA) and the US National Science Foundation (NSF). The deadline for applying for an ISWC 2017 travel award is August 31st, 2017. Further info on the application process at: https://iswc2017.semanticweb.org/attending/student-travel-grants/ Student Coordinators * Lalana Kagal, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, MA, USA * Gianluca Demartini, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK 7. Registration ========================================== Early registration will open on June 15th, 2017. All details on registration fee can be found at https://iswc2017.semanticweb.org/attending/registration/ 8. Important Dates ========================================== Registration starts June 15, 2017 Doctoral Consortium notifications sent June 30, 2017 Author rebuttal period (Research, In-Use, Resources tracks) June 23-27, 2017 Submissions due (Industry track) July 10, 2017 Notifications sent (Research, In-Use, Resources tracks) July 14, 2017 Camera-ready papers for Doctoral Consortium due July 18, 2017 Workshop paper submissions due July 21, 2017 Poster & Demo submissions due July 27, 2017 Camera-ready papers due (Research, In-Use, Resources tracks) July 28, 2017 Notifications sent (Industry track) July 31, 3017 Workshop paper notifications sent August 24, 2017 Poster & Demo notifications sent August 24, 2017 Student activity applications due August 31, 2017 Final version industry track papers due August 31, 2017 Camera-ready copies for Poster & Demo due September 4, 2017 The last day for early registrations September 8, 2017 Workshops & Tutorials October 21 & 22, 2017 Conference October 23, 24 & 25, 2017 We thank our platinum sponsor IBM Research and our gold sponsors Siemens, Thomson Reuters, Semantic Web Company and data.world for their support. 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Message-ID: 16th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2017) Vienna, Austria, October 21-25, 2017 ******************************************* *** Still lots of opportunities to get involved in ISWC 2017 *** you can submit your contributions to: *** Industry Track: until July 20, 2017 (**extended!!**) *** Poster and Demo session: until July 27, 2017 *** One of the Workshops: until July 21, 2017 *** Semantic Web Challenge: until September 10, 2017 ******************************************* Website: http://iswc2017.semanticweb.org Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/113652365383847 Twitter: @iswc2017 (https://twitter.com/ISWC2017) Overview calls: http://iswc2017.semanticweb.org/calls/ In this announcement: 1. ISWC2017 Jam Session 2. Call for Posters and Demos 3. Call for Industry Track Contributions 4. Call for contributions: Workshops 5. Semantic Web Challenge 6. Registration 7. Important dates 1. ISWC Jam Session ========================================== The ISWC jam session officially returns! The Semantic Web community is crowded with music lovers and several of our fine researchers are also excellent music players! After the great success of the Sydney-Jam-Session at ISWC2013 we launch the Vienna-Jam-Session at ISWC2017. This is a call for musicians in the Semantic Web community that want to share their musical skills and contribute to a very fun night after the ISWC 2017 poster and demo session. We will try and cater for all music tastes: blues, funk, soul jazz, latin? feel free to suggest anything interesting! If you want to get involved (sharing tunes, ideas, music sheets) request access to the shared drive https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B29uZ3ZR9sx4OGtqdlI2NHlJeTQ and join the facebook group https://www.facebook.com/groups/420886798297740 , where we can all contribute with links, videos, suggestions etc. There will be some time to rehearse a bit before the jam, all details will be announced. Jam Session Chairs * Aldo Gangemi, Universit? Paris 13, Paris, France * Anna Lisa Gentile, IBM Research Almaden, US 2. Call for Posters and Demos ========================================== **deadline** July 27, 2017 The ISWC 2017 Posters and Demonstrations complement the paper tracks of the conference and offer an opportunity for presenting late-breaking research results, on-going research projects, and speculative or innovative work in progress. The informal setting of the Posters and Demonstrations encourages presenters and participants to engage in discussions about the work. Such discussions can be invaluable inputs for the future work of the presenters, while offering participants an effective way to broaden their knowledge of the emerging research trends and to network with other researchers. We invite submissions relevant to the area of the Semantic Web and which address, but are not limited to, the topics of the Research Track; the In-Use Track; and the Resources Track. Technical posters, reports on Semantic Web software systems (free or commercial), descriptions of completed work, and work in progress are all welcome. Demonstrations are intended to showcase innovative Semantic Web related implementations and technologies, both in academia and in industry. We explicitly welcome entries from the industry. However, submissions for posters and demos should go beyond pure advertisements of commercial software packages and convey a minimal scientific contribution. Authors of full papers accepted for the Research Track; the In-Use Track; and the Resources Track are explicitly invited to submit a demonstration. Detailed info: http://iswc2017.semanticweb.org/calls/call-for-posters-and-demos/ Program Chairs * Nadeschda Nikitina, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK * Dezhao Song, Thomson Reuters, Eagan, MN, USA 3. Call for Industry Track Contributions ========================================== **deadline** July 20, 2017 (extended!!) The Industry Track seeks to present the state of adoption of semantic technologies in industrial applications. These technologies may be used in specific industries (e.g., media, financials, telecommunications, healthcare, life sciences, government, intelligence, etc.) or as a horizontal technology, and in different application areas (e.g., business intelligence, analytics, search, content management, knowledge management, recommendation systems, data integration, etc.). We welcome contributions about success stories as well as experiences and discussions of obstacles that stand in the way of large scale adoption of certain technologies. Particular emphasis should be put on the demonstration of business value created by using the semantic technologies. We encourage the following two categories of submissions: - Success stories of business-relevant, industrial deployments of Semantic Web technologies - Position statements that outline potential strategic applications and use cases of semantic technologies Come and join us at the ISWC 2017 industry track to share your experience! Detailed info: http://iswc2017.semanticweb.org/calls/call-for-contributions-industry-track-iswc-2017/ Program Chairs * Achille Fokoue, IBM Yorktown, NY, USA * Peter Haase, metaphacts, Walldorf, Germany 4. Call for contributions: Workshops ========================================== The full list of accepted workshops can be found at https://iswc2017.semanticweb.org/program/workshops/ Please check their individual websites for the specific calls. The general deadline for workshop is **July 21, 2017** but can be subject to minor variations among different workshops. Full list of accepted workshops: [BLINK] Benchmarking Linked Data [BlkMirror] Re-coding Black Mirror [DeSemWeb] Decentralizing the Semantic Web [HSSUE] Hybrid Statistical Semantic Understanding and Emerging Semantics [LD4IE] Linked Data for Information Extraction [MaCSeW] Managing Changes in the Semantic Web [NLIWOD] Natural Language Interfaces for the Web of Data [OM] Ontology Matching [PrivOn] Society, Privacy and the Semantic Web - Policy and Technology [PROFILES] Dataset PROFlLing and fEderated Search for Web Data [SemSci] Enabling Open Semantic Science [SemStats] Semantic Statistics [SWIT] Semantic Web Technologies for the IoT [S4BioDiv] Semantics for Biodiversity [VOILA] Visualization and Interaction for Ontologies and Linked Data [WHiSe] Humanities in the Semantic Web [WOMoCoE] Ontology Modularity, Contextuality, and Evolution [WOP] Ontology Design and Patterns [WSP] Web Stream Processing Workshops & Tutorials Chairs * Aidan Hogan, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile * Valentina Presutti, Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies, CNR, Rome, Italy 5. Semantic Web Challenge ========================================== This year?s challenge will be about knowledge graphs, which are currently among the most prominent implementations of Semantic Web technologies. It will be centered around two important tasks for building large-scale knowledge graphs: Knowledge graph population. Given the name and type of a subject entity, (e.g., a company) and a relation, (e.g., CEO) participants are expected to provide the value(s) for the relation. Knowledge graph validation. Given a statement about an entity, e.g., the CEO of a company, participants are expected to provide an assessment about the correctness of the statement. For both tasks, users may use a portion of the knowledge graph for training. Furthermore, arbitrary sources (e.g., external datasets, Web pages, etc.) may be used as input. For both tasks, users may use a portion of the knowledge graph for training. Furthermore, arbitrary sources (e.g., external datasets, Web pages, etc.) may be used as input. Participants may choose to participate in one or both tasks. The evaluation of challenge participants will be carried out on the Knowledge Graph owned by Thomson Reuters (TR). The KG has a public and a private part; the public part can be used for building and training the candidate systems, the private part will be used for evaluation. Training data is already available at http://permid.org Test data will be released on August 13th, 2017 The submission deadline for all the tasks is September 10th, 2017 Finalists will be announced on September 15th, 2017 The winning team of each task will receive 1000?. The sum will be shared amongst the winning teams if several teams are declared the winners. Further details available at https://iswc2017.semanticweb.org/calls/iswc-semantic-web-challenge-2017/ Program Chairs * Axel-Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo, University of Paderborn, Germany * Heiko Paulheim, University of Mannheim, Germany * Dan Bennett, Thomson Reuters, USA 6. Registration ========================================== Early registration is now open! You can find all details and register at https://iswc2017.semanticweb.org/attending/registration/ 7. Important Dates ========================================== Registration starts Open now!! Doctoral Consortium notifications sent June 30, 2017 Author rebuttal period (Research, In-Use, Resources tracks) June 23-27, 2017 Submissions due (Industry track) July 20, 2017 Notifications sent (Research, In-Use, Resources tracks) July 14, 2017 Camera-ready papers for Doctoral Consortium due July 18, 2017 Workshop paper submissions due July 21, 2017 Poster & Demo submissions due July 27, 2017 Camera-ready papers due (Research, In-Use, Resources tracks) July 28, 2017 Notifications sent (Industry track) August 9, 3017 Workshop paper notifications sent August 24, 2017 Poster & Demo notifications sent August 24, 2017 Student activity applications due August 31, 2017 Final version industry track papers due August 31, 2017 Camera-ready copies for Poster & Demo due September 4, 2017 The last day for early registrations September 8, 2017 Workshops & Tutorials October 21 & 22, 2017 Conference October 23, 24 & 25, 2017 We thank our platinum sponsor IBM Research and our gold sponsors Siemens, Thomson Reuters, Semantic Web Company, data.world and Big Data Europe for their support. 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Systems are constantly being developed in order to support the booming exchange of data (existing in numerous formats) in the Web and the Enterprise. Big Linked Data standards and benchmarks can function as valuable tools to objectively depict and illustrate the level of adequacy and thus performance provided of the existing Linked Data tools. BLINK 2017 is bringing together a broad range of attendants interested in benchmarking Big Linked Data tools and technologies and aims at identifying the specific needs and challenges of the domain in order to foster interdisciplinary collaborations towards attaining these challenges. More specifically the objectives of this workshop are to: * create a discussion forum where researchers and industrials can meet and discuss topics related to the performance of Linked Data systems and * expose and initiate discussions on best practices, different application needs and scenarios related to Linked Data management. Topics of Interest We welcome contributions presenting experiences with benchmarking Linked Data technologies as well as technical contributions regarding the development of benchmarks for all aspects of the Linked Data/Big Data lifecycle. All domains such as life science, social networks, cultural heritage, smart cities, news, digital forensics, e-science and geospatial data management are welcome . Topics of interest include but are not limited to: * Linked Data benchmarks * Linked Data benchmark evaluation * Linked Data processing chain * Tools and methodologies for the Big Linked Data Value Chain: * generation and acquisition * analytics and processing * storage and curation * link discovery and instance matching * archiving and versioning * visualization and data access This series of workshops are supported by H2020 European Project HOBBIT (Holistic Benchmarking of Big Linked Data), see http://project-hobbit.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=00d040a1bedee64c86d8911b0&id=597da48e05&e=cca9c21644. Paper Submissions: The workshop will accept two types of submissions: short papers (8 pages) will be either position papers or describe early works in the area of benchmarking. Long papers (up to 16 pages) will describe benchmarks, benchmarking techniques or benchmarking results as well as systems and benchmark surveys along the linked data lifecycle. This year we invite interested parties to submit papers where they describe 5 queries/tasks for the HOBBIT benchmarks of their choice that would stress existing Linked Data technologies. The interested parties will be able to run those additional queries using the HOBBIT platform and the results of these experiments will be presented at a special session of the BLINK workshop during which authors will be able to discuss with the workshop organisers their experience with the results of the HOBBIT benchmarks. The authors of the accepted papers will be able to publish an extended version of their papers at a Special Issue on Benchmarking Big Linked Data at the Semantic Web Journal (SWJ). Submissions must be in PDF, formatted in the style of the Springer Publications format for Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). For details on the LNCS style, see Springer?s Author Instructions. Papers should be submitted through the EasyChair system http://project-hobbit.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=00d040a1bedee64c86d8911b0&id=10d63b362e&e=cca9c21644 no later than midnight Hawaii time July 21st, 2017. Submissions will be reviewed by members of the workshop program committee. Accepted papers will be included in the ISWC 2017 Workshop on Benchmarking Linked Data (BLINK) proceedings. 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URL: From francesco.santini at dmi.unipg.it Sun Jul 2 12:53:40 2017 From: francesco.santini at dmi.unipg.it (Francesco Santini) Date: Sun, 2 Jul 2017 12:53:40 +0200 Subject: [DL] [CfP] Knowledge Representation and Recognition (KRR) @SAC18 References: <8C2A8732-18B9-4B79-B299-63EF987B3919@dmi.unipg.it> Message-ID: <93D75EEC-9593-4E40-87D7-1198A6403F91@dmi.unipg.it> ############################################################## The 33rd ACM SIGAPP Symposium On Applied Computing Pau, France April, 2018 Track on Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KRR) Website: http://www.dmi.unipg.it/bista/organizing/KRR at sac2018/ SUBMISSION DEADLINE: September 15, 2017 ############################################################### Overview: The topic of the track covers an important field of research in Artificial Intelligence: Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KRR) is dedicated to representing information about the world in a form that a computer system can utilise to solve complex tasks. Examples of knowledge representation formalisms include semantic nets, systems architecture, frames, rules, and ontologies. Examples of automated reasoning engines include inference engines, theorem provers, and classifiers. KRR track will be a venue for all the researchers and practitioners working on the fundaments and applications of reasoning, and cross-fertilisation among different areas (e.g., Argumentation and Belief Revision). ACM SAC is ranked CORE:B, MAS:A-, SHINE:A. The average acceptance rate per track is under 25%. KRR track is organised for the second year after the success achieved in 2017; it follows previous tracks still organised within SAC, as ?Constraint Solving and Programming and Knowledge Representation and Reasoning? (held in 2015), ?Constraint Solving and Programming? (held from 2005 to 2014), and ?A.I. Computational Logic, and Image Analysis? (held from 1999 until 2004). Call for paper: Knowledge-representation is the field of artificial intelligence that focuses on designing computer representations that capture information about the world that can be used to solve complex problems. Its goal is to understand and build intelligent behavior from the top down, focusing on what an agent needs to know with the purpose to behave intelligently, how this knowledge can be represented symbolically, and how automated reasoning procedures can make this knowledge available as needed. In KRR a fundamental assumption is that an agent's knowledge is explicitly represented in a declarative form, suitable for processing by dedicated reasoning engines. Topics of interest include: ? Argumentation. ? Belief revision and update, belief merging. ? Commonsense reasoning. ? Contextual reasoning. ? Description logics. ? Diagnosis, abduction, explanation. ? Inconsistency and exception tolerant reasoning, paraconsistent logics. ? KR and autonomous agents: intelligent agents, cognitive robotics, multi-agent systems. ? KR and decision making, game theory, social choice. ? KR and machine learning, inductive logic programming, knowledge discovery and acquisition. ? Logic programming, answer set programming, constraint (logic) programming. ? Non-monotonic logics, default logics, conditional logics. ? Preferences: modeling and representation, preference-based reasoning. ? Reasoning about knowledge and belief, dynamic epistemic logic, epistemic and doxastic logics. ? Reasoning systems and solvers, knowledge compilation. ? Spatial reasoning and temporal reasoning, qualitative reasoning. ? Uncertainty, representations of vagueness, many-valued and fuzzy logics. We would like to invite authors to submit papers on research on KRR area, with particular emphasis on assessing the current state of the art and identifying future directions. Submissions fall into the following categories: ? Original and unpublished research work. ? Reports of innovative computing applications in the arts, sciences, engineering, and business areas. ? Reports of successful technology transfer to new problem domains. ? Reports of industrial experience and demos of new innovative systems. Deadlines and Important Dates: September 15, 2017: Submission of regular papers and SRC abstracts. November 10, 2017: Notification of papers and posters and SRC acceptance/rejection. November 25, 2017: Camera-ready copies of accepted papers. Submissions Instructions for Regular Papers and SRC Abstracts: Original papers addressing any of the listed topics of interest (or related topics) will be considered. Each submitted paper will be fully refereed and undergo a double-blind review process by at least three referees. Accepted papers will be included in the ACM SAC 2018 proceedings and published in the ACM digital library, being indexed by Thomson ISI Web of Knowledge and Scopus. Submissions should be properly anonymised to facilitate blind reviewing: the author(s) name(s) and address(es) must NOT appear in the body of the paper, and self-reference should be in the third person. Paper size is *strictly* limited to 6 pages in the SAC style; a maximum of 2 additional pages may be included for an additional fee, extending the final version of the accepted paper. Please check the author kit latex style on the main SAC website: https://www.sigapp.org/sac/sac2018/ (the format is usually the format used in the ACM templates). Papers failing to comply with length limitations risk immediate rejection. Submissions will be in electronic format, via the website: https://www.sigapp.org/sac/sac2018/submission.html BE CAREFUL TO SELECT THE KRR TRACK BY CHECKING THE KRR TRACK RADIO BUTTON!! After completing the submission, please send also an email to: bista at dmi.unipg.it . The body of the email should include the title of the paper, the author(s) name(s) and affiliation(s), and the address (including e-mail, telephone, and fax) to which correspondence should be sent. The subject of the email should be ?SAC2018 KRR track submission?. Graduate students are suggested to submit both a regular paper to the KRR track and a 2 page abstract with the same title at the Student Research Competition (SRC) Program, following the instructions published at SAC 2017 website. Authors of selected abstracts will have the opportunity to give poster presentations of their work and compete for three top-winning places. The winners will receive cash awards and SIGAPP recognition certificates during the conference banquet. The winners will also receive SRC travel support (US$500) and are eligible to apply to the SIGAPP Student Travel Award Program (STAP) for additional travel support. Papers that received high reviews (that is acceptable by reviewer standards) but were not accepted due to space limitation can be invited for the poster session. Chairs: Stefano Bistarelli, University of Perugia, Italy Martine Ceberio, University of Texas at El Paso, USA Eric Monfroy, University of Nantes, France Francesco Santini, University of Perugia, Italy Program Committee: Leila Amgoud, IRIT - UPS Toulouse, France Ofer Arieli, The Academic College of Tel-Aviv, Israel Guillaume Aucher, IRISA/INRIA Rennes, France Franz Baader, TU Dresden, Germany Pietro Baroni, University of Brescia, Italy Roman Bartak, Charles University, Czech Republic Francesco Belardinelli, University of Evry, France Martin Caminada, Cardiff University, UK Tran Cao Son, New Mexico State University, USA Claudia D?Amato, University of Bari Wolfgang Dvorak, University of Vienna, Austria Wolfgang Faber, University of Huddersfield, UK Aditya K. Ghose, University of Wollongong, Australia Lluis Godo, Artificial Intelligence Research Institute (IIIA), Spain Matti Jarvisalo, University of Helsinki, Finland Gabriele Kern-Isberner, TU Dortmund, Germany Boris Konev, University of Liverpool, UK Sebastien Konieczny, CRIL-CNRS University of Artois, France Costas Koutras, University of Peloponnese, Greece Joao Leite, New University of Lisbon, Portugal Beishui Liao, Zhejiang University, China Jean-Guy Mailly, Paris Descartes University (Paris), France Loizos Michael, Open University of Cyprus, Cyprus Guillermo R. Simari, Universidad Nacional del Sur, Argentina Matthias Thimm, University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany Paolo Torroni, University of Bologna, Italy Nicolas Troquard, KRDB University of Bolzano, Italy Serena Villata, Universite Cote d'Azur, Sophia Antipolis, France Stefan Woltran, TU Wien, Austria Roland Yap, University of Singapore, Republic of Singapore SAC No-Show Policy: Paper registration is required, allowing the inclusion of the paper/poster in the conference proceedings. An author or a proxy attending SAC MUST present the paper. This is a requirement for the paper/poster to be included in the ACM digital library. 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URL: From frank.loebe at informatik.uni-leipzig.de Fri Jun 23 14:34:46 2017 From: frank.loebe at informatik.uni-leipzig.de (Frank Loebe) Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2017 14:34:46 +0200 Subject: [DL] JOWO 2017: 2nd Call for Papers (Joint Ontology Workshops, Sep 21-23, Bolzano, Italy) Message-ID: <201706231234.v5NCYnev022976@isun.informatik.uni-leipzig.de> ---------------------------------- Second Call for Papers ---------------------------------- Joint Ontology Workshops (JOWO 2017) --- Episode 3: The Tyrolean Autumn --- Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy, September 21-23, 2017 ---------------------------------- 10 Workshops on Ontology and its Applications http://www.iaoa.org/jowo/2017/ Submission deadlines are around July 15. See the individual workshop pages for precise dates. ---------------------------------- The Joint Ontology Workshops' (JOWO) mission is to join forces of the diverse communities interested in building, reasoning with, and applying formalised ontologies in the wide spectrum of information sciences, artificial intelligence theory and applications, philosophy and cognitive science, and beyond. This third edition of the Joint Ontology Workshops (JOWO 2017) combines ten ontology-centered workshops covering a multitude of disciplines into an exciting joint event. JOWO 2017 is supported by the International Association for Ontology and its Applications - IAOA (http://iaoa.org). It features a series of (shared) invited talks, paper presentations, demo sessions, and discussions spread across ten workshops. Participation in a JOWO workshop includes access to all other events. ---------------------------------- WORKSHOPS - CREOL: Contextual Representation of Objects and Events in Language - DAO: Data meets Applied Ontology - DEW: Ontology Debugging & Evaluation Workshop - EPINON: Epistemology in Ontologies - FOMI: Formal Ontologies Meet Industry - FOUST II: 2nd Workshop on Foundational Ontology - ISD3: The 3rd Image Schema Day - ODLS: Ontologies and Data in Life Sciences - SHAPES 4.0: The Shape of Things - WINKS: Workshop on Interaction-Based Knowledge Sharing See below for a description of the workshops and http://www.iaoa.org/jowo/2017/workshops.html for links to detailed calls for papers. ---------------------------------- KEYNOTES | SOCIAL PROGRAM * Todd Oakley (Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, USA) "What We Think About When We Talk About Money: Social Ontology and the Amalgamated Mind" * Giancarlo Guizzardi (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy) "'It's Patterns all the way down': Patterns, Anti-Patterns and Pattern-Languages for Next-Generation Ontology Engineering" (further invitations pending) The Social Program will include musical performances featuring the Hyperinstruments ensemble of the music conservatory 'Claudio Monteverdi' led by Nicola Baroni, as well as an Ontology Hike, a Frozen Mummy, a Pink Aperitivo, a Banquet Dinner, and an Ontology Pub Quiz. ---------------------------------- SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Please refer to the individual workshops for detailed lists of topics appropriate for each workshop and submission modalities. All submissions will be peer-reviewed by members of the program committees of the individual workshops. Accepted papers will be made available in the form of a single joint workshop proceedings volume published open-access at CEUR. For additional publication plans, check the individual workshops. For previous proceedings, compare: http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1517/ for JOWO 2015, http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1660/ for JOWO 2016. ---------------------------------- WORKSHOP DETAILS ================================== CREOL Website: http://creol2017.di.unito.it/ Contextual Representation of Objects and Events in Language ================================== Organisers: Valerio Basile, Tommaso Caselli, Daniele P. Radicioni The CREOL workshop is focused on investigating the relationship between representations of objects and events in ontological and linguistic resources, and their interpretation in the context of occurrence. Different properties of objects and events are activated depending on context, thus determining access to partial, salient, information rather than to all. Hence, dealing with context is a key factor in the conceptualization of human experience, and a major challenge for understanding natural language. ================================== DAO Website: https://smart.inf.unibz.it/index.php/2017/05/15/dao2017/ Data meets Applied Ontology ================================== Organisers: Roberto Confalonieri, Andrea Janes, Diego Calvanese The goal of the DAO workshop is to provide opportunities for participants from academia and industry to present their latest developments in ontology-mediated data integration and analysis techniques, and data-driven industrial applications. The workshop will be a great opportunity to synthesize new insights, and disseminate knowledge across field boundaries to promote the interaction between these two different communities. ================================== DEW Website: http://iaoa.org/jowo/dew2017/ Ontology Debugging & Evaluation Workshop ================================== Organisers: Rafael Penaloza, Amanda Vizedom DEW (the Debugging and Evaluation Workshop @ JOWO) aims to advance ontology evaluation and the detection, understanding, and correction of errors in ontologies and ontological knowledge bases. We encourage submissions from all areas dealing with ontological knowledge, and hope to gain a broad perspective on evaluation methods, and debugging techniques over different formalisms. ================================== EPINON Website: http://www.loa.istc.cnr.it/workshops/epinon2017/home.html Epistemology in Ontologies ================================== Organisers: Daniele Porello, Antonio Lieto, Claudio Masolo Formal ontologies and knowledge representation mainly focus on characterising how a given domain is structured, i.e., they identify a set of concepts, entities, and relations together with the constraints that hold for this domain. The characterisation is usually intended to reflect the point of view of significant experts or a realist view of how things about a particular domain are in reality. The aim of this workshop is to explore an epistemological stance and focus on the assessment of the modelling provided by the ontology designer. We aim to address to an interdisciplinary audience, by inviting scholars in philosophy, computer science, logic, conceptual modelling, knowledge representation, and cognitive science to contribute to the discussion. ================================== FOMI Website: http://www.loa.istc.cnr.it/workshops/FOMI2017/home.html 8th International Workshop on Formal Ontologies meet Industry ================================== Organisers: Emilio M. Sanfilippo, Laura Daniele, Giorgio Colombo FOMI is an international forum where academic researchers and practitioners meet to analyse and discuss theoretical and application issues related to the use of formal ontologies in industry. The Workshop aims to collect lessons learned by the presentation of (1) experience with problems in ontology application, (2) new insights on problematic issues, (3) new results, successes and observations in ontology implementation, (4) lessons learned on the best way to apply ontological methodologies to real-world situations. ================================== FOUST II Website: http://foust.inf.unibz.it/foust2/ 2nd Workshop on Foundational Ontology ================================== Organisers: Antony Galton, Fabian Neuhaus Foundational ontologies are attempts to systematise those categories of thought or reality which are common to all or almost all subject-matters. Commonly considered examples of such categories include 'object', 'quality', 'function', 'role', 'process', 'event', 'time', and 'place'. Amongst existing foundational ontologies, there is both a substantial measure of agreement and some dramatic disagreements. There is currently no uniform consensus concerning how a foundational ontology should be organised, how far its 'reach' should be (e.g., is the distinction between physical and non-physical entities sufficiently fundamental to be included here?), and even what role it should play in relation to more specialised domain ontologies. The purpose of this workshop is to provide a forum for researchers to present work on specific foundational ontologies as well as foundational ontologies in general and their relations to each other and to the wider ontological enterprise. ================================== ISD3 Website: http://isd.inf.unibz.it The 3rd Image Schema Day ================================== Organisers: Maria M. Hedblom, Mihailo Antovic, Oliver Kutz The Image Schema Day III (ISD3) is intended as an interdisciplinary meeting place for researchers interested in image schemas and similar conceptual primitives. Originating in cognitive linguistics, image schemas are thought to be the conceptual building blocks learned from the body's sensorimotor processes in early infancy that come to shape adult language and thought. Today, image schemas are becoming increasingly influential in artificial intelligence, knowledge representation, and qualitative reasoning. At ISD3 we welcome researchers from all disciplines interested in pushing the boundaries of understanding, formalising, and reasoning with image schemas. ================================== ODLS Website: https://wiki.imise.uni-leipzig.de/Gruppen/OBML/Workshops/2017-ODLS Ontologies and Data in Life Sciences ================================== Organisers: Martin Boeker, Heinrich Herre, Ludger Jansen, Frank Loebe, Daniel Schober Medicine, biology and life sciences produce hardly manageable and comprehensible amounts of data, information, and knowledge, thereby challenging existing methods of knowledge representation, data bases, and data analysis. This interdisciplinary workshop covers the overall spectrum of biomedical information processing, from experimental data acquisition and data management, across analysis, structuring and interpretation of data, up to the development of ontologies with their various applications. The workshop aims at gathering scientists that work in these fields in order to exchange ideas, to discuss new results and to inspire collaborations. ================================== SHAPES 4.0 Website: http://www.loa.istc.cnr.it/workshops/SHAPES4/ The Shape of Things ================================== Organisers: Rossella Stufano Melone, Inge Hinterwaldner, Stefano Borgo, Oliver Kutz, Kris Krois The SHAPES 4.0 workshop is an interdisciplinary event for the discussion of all topics connected to shape and pattern (broadly understood). We seek to facilitate an interdisciplinary discussion between researchers, practitioners and artists from all disciplines interested in representing shape, form, structure and pattern, and reasoning about them. ================================== WINKS Website: http://www.iiia.csic.es/winks/ Workshop on Interaction-Based Knowledge Sharing ================================== Organisers: Jerome Euzenat, Dagmar Gromann, Kemo Adrian WINKS is a workshop that is fully dedicated to challenges and solutions to knowledge sharing in interaction-based environments, ranging from the Internet of Things to multi-agent systems. Gradually expanding, distributed systems heighten the need of a dynamic interactive knowledge sharing process, while at the same time an increasing heterogeneity of resources renders this process more complex. As a highly interdisciplinary workshop, discussions will center on requirements and suggestions to endow computational models with knowledge sharing capabilities in interactive scenarios. ================================== ---------------------------------- JOWO General Chairs | Contact Stefano Borgo (LOA ISTC CNR, Trento, Italy) Oliver Kutz (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy) Frank Loebe (University of Leipzig, Germany) Fabian Neuhaus (Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg, Germany) Contact: jowo.steering at gmail.com From geoff at cs.miami.edu Sun Jul 2 14:37:15 2017 From: geoff at cs.miami.edu (Geoff Sutcliffe) Date: Sun, 2 Jul 2017 08:37:15 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [DL] Deduktionstreffen 2017 - Call for Abstracts Message-ID: <20170702123715.647A71214F0@mcclellan.cs.miami.edu> Deduktionstreffen 2017, September 25-26, 2017, TU Dortmund, Germany http://fg-dedsys.gi.de/dt2017 Call for Abstracts: OVERVIEW The annual meeting Deduktionstreffen is the prime activity of the Interest Group for Deduction Systems (FGDedSys) of the German Informatics Society. It is a meeting with a familiar, friendly atmosphere, where everyone (not only the German community) interested in deduction can report on their work in an informal setting. A particular focus of the Deduktionstreffen is on young researchers and students, who are particularly encouraged to present their ongoing research projects to a wider audience. Another goal of the meeting is to stimulate networking effects and to foster collaborative research projects. ORGANIZATION We welcome contributions on all theoretical, experimental and application aspects of deduction. Accepted abstracts are first presented in a five minute teaser talk and then discussed next to a poster (maximal size: A0 portrait). The Deduktionstreffen will also host the annual general meeting of the members of FGDedSys. Deduktionstreffen 2017 is associated with KI 2017. SUBMISSION Submission is open to everybody interested in deduction systems. Please submit a one-page abstract of your contribution on easychair: https://easychair.org/my/conference.cgi?conf=deduktionstreffen20170; welcome=1;a=12759188 Early bird submission: July 15 (Notification: July 25) Standard submission: August 15 (Notification: August 25) Early bird submission is meant to grant planning reliability to interested students and researchers, e.g. if they would like to apply for travel grants. PROGRAM COMMITTEE Serge Autexier Bernhard Beckert Christoph Benzm??ller (co-chair) Jasmin Blanchette J??rgen Giesl Matthias Horbach (co-chair) Dieter Hutter Manfred Kerber Christoph Kreitz Jens Otten Florian Rabe Stephan Schulz Viorica Sofronie-Stokkermans Volker Sorge Christoph Weidenbach ORGANIZERS Christoph Benzm??ller Matthias Horbach From geoff at cs.miami.edu Mon Jul 3 14:15:45 2017 From: geoff at cs.miami.edu (Geoff Sutcliffe) Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2017 08:15:45 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [DL] CADE-26 - Call for Participation Message-ID: <20170703121546.036F81214E0@mcclellan.cs.miami.edu> CADE-26 CALL FOR PARTICIPATION ============================== The 26th International Conference on Automated Deduction Gothenburg, Sweden 6-11 August 2017 www.cade-26.info *** KEYNOTE SPEAKERS *** June Andronick - Data61 Philippa Gardner - Imperial College London Grant Passmore - Aesthetic Integration *** RESEARCH PROGRAM *** see www.cade-26.info *** SOCIAL EVENT *** Boat trip to the picturesque island of Marstrand (www.marstrand.se/en/) Dinner in the dramatic Marstrand castle *** WORKSHOPS *** ARCADE: Automated Reasoning: Challenges, Applications, Directions, Exemplary Achievements HCVS: Horn Clauses for Verification and Synthesis PCR'17: Parallel Constraint Reasoning ThEdu'17: Theorem Prover Components for Educational Software Vampire 2017: The 4th Vampire Workshop *** TUTORIAL *** Certified Functional (Co)programming with Isabelle/HOL *** SYSTEM COMPETITION *** CASC (CADE System Competition) www.tptp.org/CASC/26/ *** REGISTRATION *** Early registration until 6 July 2017 Late registration until 2 August 2017 see www.cade-26.info *** VENUE *** Lindholmen Conference Centre, Gothenburg and Chalmers University of Technology, Lindholmen Campus, Gothenburg *** CADE-26 ORGANIZERS *** Conference Chairs: Wolfgang Ahrendt Chalmers University of Technology Moa Johansson Chalmers University of Technology Program Committee Chair: Leonardo de Moura Microsoft Research Publicity Chair: Magnus Myreen Chalmers University of Technology Workshop and Tutorial Chair: Philipp Ruemmer Uppsala University From geoff at cs.miami.edu Mon Jul 3 16:05:26 2017 From: geoff at cs.miami.edu (Geoff Sutcliffe) Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2017 10:05:26 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [DL] GCAI 2017 in Miami - Deadline extension Message-ID: <20170703140526.F2E5A1214CD@mcclellan.cs.miami.edu> ---------- deadline extension due to multiple request -------------- The 3rd Global Conference on Artificial Intelligence (GCAI 2017) Miami, USA, 18-22 October 2017 http://easychair.org/smart-program/GCAI2017/ *New*: (Abstracts: 14 July, Papers: 21 July) The 3rd Global Conference on Artificial Intelligence (GCAI 2017) will be held in Miami, USA, at the Courtyard Marriott hotel in Coconut Grove, 18-22 October 2017. The conference, which addresses all aspects of artificial intelligence, is being organized by LRG (http://www.lrg.global) and the University of Miami. The program chairs are Christoph Benzmueller, Christine Lisetti and Martin Theobald. The conference chair is Geoff Sutcliffe. SUBMISSION Submissions in all areas of artifical intelligence are welcome. Suggested topics include, but are not limited to: Foundations + Knowledge representation + Cognitive modeling + Perception + Search + Reasoning and programming + Machine learning + Constraints and uncertainty Architectures + Agents and distributed AI + Intelligent user interfaces + Natural language systems and linguistics + Information retrieval + Case-based reasoning + Affective computing + Robotics Applications + Aviation and aerospace + Education and tutoring systems + Games and entertainment + Law and Machine Ethics + Mathematics and the Sciences + Medicine and healthcare + Management and manufacturing + World Wide Web + Security Implications + Philosophical foundations + Social impact and ethics + Evaluation of AI systems + AI education DATES + Abstract registration: 14 July, 2017 + Submission: 21 July, 2017 + Notification: 18 August, 2017 + Final version: 25 August, 2017 + Early registration deadline: tba + Conference: 19-22 October, 2016 SUBMISSION and PUBLICATION Submission is via EasyChair at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=gcai2017 The proceedings will be published by EasyChair Publications in the EPiC Series in Computing. The volume will be open access and authors will retain copyright. INVITED SPEAKERS + Catherine Pelachaud, Telecom-ParisTech, France + Marijn Heule, University of Texas at Austin, USA + Guy van den Broeck, UCLA, USA PROGRAMME COMMITTEE Jose Julio Alferes (Universidade NOVA de Lisboa) Elisabeth Andre (Augsburg University) Serge Autexier (DFKI) Peter Baumgartner (National ICT Australia) Christoph Benzmueller (Freie Universitaet Berlin) - chair Philippe Besnard (CNRS / IRIT) Richard Booth (Cardiff University) Krysia Broda (Imperial College) Walter Carnielli (Centre for Logic, Epistemology and the History of Science - CLE) Amedeo Cesta (CNR - National Research Council of Italy) Gabriella Cortellessa (CNR-ISTC, National Research Council of Italy) Mehdi Dastani (Utrecht University) James Delgrande (Simon Fraser University) Wolfgang Faber (University of Huddersfield) Germain Forestier (Universite de Haute Alsace) Gerhard Friedrich (Alpen-Adria-Universitaet Klagenfurt) Thom Fruehwirth (University of Ulm) Daniel Garijo (UCLA) Marco Gavanelli (University of Ferrara) Gianluigi Greco (University of Calabria) Ian Horswill (Northwestern University) Katsumi Inoue (NII) Mateja Jamnik (University of Cambridge) Ernesto Jimenez-Ruiz (University of Oxford) Tommi Junttila (Aalto University) Panagiotis Kanellopoulos (University of Patras and CTI "Diophantus") Gabriele Kern-Isberner (Technische Universitaet Dortmund) Roman Kontchakov (Birkbeck, University of London) Tim Landgraf (Freie Universitaet Berlin) Jerome Lang (CNRS, LAMSADE, Universite Paris-Dauphine) Gang Li (School of Information Technology, Deakin University) Sanjiang Li (University of Technology Sydney) Christine Lisetti (Florida International University) - chair Xudong Luo (Guangxi Normal University) Ines Lynce (INESC-ID/IST, Universidade de Lisboa) Ana Gabriela Maguitman (Universidad Nacional del Sur) George Metcalfe (University of Bern) Angelo Montanari (University of Udine) Till Mossakowski (University of Magdeburg) Xavier Parent (University of Luxembourg) Radu-Emil Precup (Politehnica University of Timisoara) Dumitru Roman (SINTEF / University of Oslo) Marco Roveri (FBK-irst) Steven Schockaert (Cardiff University) Magy Seif El-Nasr (Northeastern University) Christine Solnon (LIRIS CNRS UMR 5205 / INSA Lyon) Daria Stepanova (Max Planck Institute for Informatics) Thomas Stuetzle (Universite Libre de Bruxelles (ULB)) Martin Theobald (Universite du Luxembourg) - chair Juergen Umbrich (Vienna University of Economy and Business (WU)) Maria Esther Vidal (Universidad Simon Bolivar, Dept. Computer Science) Inon Zuckerman (Ariel University) From geoff at ewell.cs.miami.edu Wed Jul 5 22:50:05 2017 From: geoff at ewell.cs.miami.edu (geoff at ewell.cs.miami.edu) Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2017 16:50:05 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [DL] Commonsense-2017 - Call for Papers Message-ID: <20170705205005.646A61700A74@ewell.cs.miami.edu> Thirteenth International Symposium on Commonsense Reasoning (Commonsense-2017): Second Call for Papers We invite submissions to Commonsense-2017, to be held in London at University College London, November 6-8, 2017. PAPER SUBMISSION DEADLINE: August 4, 2017 (see below) Endowing computers with common sense is one of the major long-term goals of Artificial Intelligence research. Commonsense knowledge and reasoning are relevant for many applications of current interest. Examples include robot and human collaboration, transparent machine-learning systems that can explain their conclusions, social media and story understanding software, and dialogue systems. The recent resurgence of interest in commonsense reasoning reflects a wider societal reaction to current technological advances, such as the fact that "next year a law will come into operation in [EU] member states which gives everyone a right to an explanation of any decision affecting them that has been reached algorithmically" [Guardian newspaper, 14 April 2017]. Approaches to acquiring commonsense knowledge and performing commonsense reasoning may incorporate semantics-based representation and inference, machine learning, natural language processing, computer vision, and/or cognitive science. The symposium aims to encourage cross-fertilization between these and other techniques. The synthesis of multiple approaches is challenging, but could jump-start progress on many outstanding problems of commonsense reasoning. We welcome a wide variety of submissions, including formal results, experimental results, demos, surveys, evaluations and comparisons of different approaches, and papers on methodological issues. While mathematical logic has traditionally been the primary lingua franca of the Symposium, we welcome all relevant and rigorous approaches to automating commonsense knowledge and reasoning. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Semantics-based representations for specific commonsense domains, such as: - Time, change, action, causality - Commonsense physical and spatial reasoning - Legal, biological, medical, and other scientific reasoning incorporating elements of common sense - Mental states such as beliefs, intentions, and emotions - Social activities and relationships * Inference methods for commonsense reasoning, such as: - Logic programming - Probabilistic, heuristic, and approximate reasoning - Nonmonotonic reasoning, belief revision and argumentation - Abductive and inductive reasoning - Textual Entailment * Methods for creating commonsense knowledge bases, such as: - Statistical and corpus-based techniques, including both traditional machine learning and deep learning - Crowdsourcing - Hand-crafting domain theories - Hybrid methods * Applications of commonsense reasoning, especially interdisciplinary research in the following areas: - Natural language understanding (understanding discourse, question answering, semantic parsing) - Image understanding - Cognitive robotics and planning - Web-based applications (search, internet of things) - Support technologies (computer-aided instruction, home automation) * Discussions of the science of commonsense reasoning research, including: - Meta-theorems about commonsense theories and techniques - Relation to other fields, such as philosophy, linguistics, cognitive psychology, game theory, and economics - Challenge problem sets and benchmarking By default accepted papers will be published shortly after the symposium in the CEUR Workshop Proceedings series. Authors may however opt out of publishing in CEUR, e.g. if they wish to publish their paper at another venue. All accepted papers will be made available on the commonsensereasoning.org website for the duration of the symposium. A special issue of Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence, which will include selected and extended papers from Commonsense-2017, is currently planned; journal submissions will be due in winter 2018. Important Dates - Submissions due: August 4, 2017 - Submission notification date: September 8, 2017 - Camera-ready versions due: September 22, 2017 - Symposium: November 6-8, 2017 Submissions - Submissions will be made through EasyChair, at: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=commonsense2017 - Papers are limited to 6 pages, prepared in IJCAI or AAAI format, using Letter or A4 sized paper, plus one additional page for references. Review Process Each paper will receive three blind peer reviews. Selection criteria include novelty, technical accuracy and rigor, significance and generalizability, relevance, and quality of writing. Invited Speakers We are happy to announce two invited speakers for Commonsense 2017: Murray Shanahan, Imperial College London Sebastian Riedel, University College London Conference Chairs Andrew S. Gordon, University of Southern California Rob Miller, University College London Gyorgy Turan, University of Illinois at Chicago and University of Szeged Program Committee Eyal Amir, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Chitta Baral, Arizona State University Vaishak Belle, University of Edinburgh Brandon Bennett, University of Leeds Gabor Berend, University of Szeged Nicola Bicocchi, Unversity of New Brunswick Antonis Bikakis, University College London Bert Bredeweg, University of Amsterdam Erik Cambria, Nanyang Technological University Cun-Gen Cao, Chinese Academy of Sciences Nathanael Chambers, United States Naval Academy William Cohen, Carnegie Mellon University Tony Cohn, University of Leeds Ernest Davis, New York University Gerard de Melo, Rutgers University Valeria De Paiva, University of Birmingham Luke Dickens, University College London Esra Erdem, Sabanci University Nina Gierasimczuk, Technical University of Denmark Andrew Gordon, University of Southern California Jonathan Gordon, USC Information Sciences Institute Catherine Havasi, Luminoso Technologies Jose Hernandez-Orallo, Universitat Politecnica de Valencia Jeff Horty, University of Maryland Daniela Inclezan, Miami University Naoya Inoue, Tohoku University Benjamin Johnston, University of Technology Sydney Antonis Kakas, University of Cyprus Gerhard Lakemeyer, RWTH Aachen University Henry Lieberman, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Vladimir Lifschitz, University of Texas Fangzhen Lin, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Quan Liu, University of Science and Technology of China Loizos Michael, Open University of Cyprus Niloofar Montazeri, University of California Riverside Leora Morgenstern, Leidos Charlie Ortiz, Nuance Communications Sebastian Pado, Stuttgart University Theodore Patkos, Institute of Computer Science, FORTH Pavlos Peppas, University of Patras Dimitris Plexousakis, Institute of Computer Science, FORTH Alan Ritter, Ohio State University Chiaki Sakama, Wakayama University Steven Schockaert, Cardiff University Bob Sloan, University of Illinois at Chicago Mark Steedman, University of Edinburgh Michael Thielscher, University of New South Wales Richmond Thomason, University of Michigan Lucy Vanderwende, Microsoft Research Laure Vieu, Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse Stefan Woltran, Technische Universitat Wien Website: http://commonsensereasoning.org From homola at fmph.uniba.sk Mon Jul 3 14:36:43 2017 From: homola at fmph.uniba.sk (Martin Homola) Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2017 14:36:43 +0200 Subject: [DL] CfP: WOMoCoE 2017 - 2nd International Workshop on Ontology Modularity, Contextuality, and Evolution Message-ID: <20170703123643.GB27473@rt.sk> =============================================================== Second Call for Papers 2nd International Workshop on Ontology Modularity, Contextuality, and Evolution (WoMoCoE 2017) http://dai.fmph.uniba.sk/events/womocoe2017/ Co-located with: 16th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2017), October 21-25, 2017, Vienna, Austria =============================================================== In the Semantic Web and Linked Data community, knowledge is rarely considered a monolithic and static unit. Instead, partitioning knowledge into distinct modular structures is central to organize knowledge bases. Moreover, representing and reasoning about context is essential for correct exploitation of modules and reasoning in changing situations. Finally, evolution of knowledge resources is an important factor influencing the meaningfulness of stored knowledge over time. Considering these emerging needs, the 2nd International Workshop on Ontology Modularity, Contextuality, and Evolution (WOMoCoE 2017) offers the ground to discuss current work on practical and theoretical aspects of modularity, contextuality and evolution of knowledge resources. The workshop aims to bring together an interdisciplinary audience interested in its topics both from a theoretical and formal point of view and from an applicational perspective. --------------------------------------------------------------- INVITED SPEAKER: Pascal Hitzler, NCR Distinguished Professor and Director of Data Science, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio, USA --------------------------------------------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES (tentative): Abstracts deadline: 17 July 2017 Paper deadline: 21 July 2017 Notification: 24 August 2017 Camera ready: 14 September 2017 Workshop dates: 22 October 2017 --------------------------------------------------------------- TOPICS: The workshop comprises, but is not strictly limited to, the following topics: = Modularity in the Semantic Web and Linked Data resources = - Modular ontology and knowledge representation languages - Modularity in reasoning: incremental and distributed reasoning - Modularity in ontology engineering: ontology modules reuse and publishing - Algorithms and implementations for module extraction - Ontology design patterns for modularity - Modularity in ontology and data visualization - Modularity in SW/LD applications - Theoretical and cognitive aspects of modularity = Representing and facilitating context in the Semantic Web and Linked Data resources = - Representing context in SW/LD resources - Ontologies for modelling contextual information - Capturing contextuality in SW/LD standards - Reasoning with contextual information and metadata - Matching, combining and disambiguating knowledge resources with contexts - Contextuality in SW/LD applications - Formal aspects of context acquisition, representation and interpretation. = Evolution of the Semantic Web and Linked Data resources = - Definitions and algorithms for belief change in ontologies, and SW/LD resources - Reasoning and planning with evolving ontologies and data sources - Evolution in ontology management: merging, versioning, alignment, integration - Fault diagnosis and repair in ontologies and data sources - LD archiving and versioning - Ontology transformation and ontology transformation patterns - Evolution of SW/LD in applications --------------------------------------------------------------- SUBMISSION: Submission of regular and position papers is possible: - Regular papers (12 pages in length including references) include research reports and surveys. - Position papers (6 pages in length including references) are intended for presentation of interesting new open issues and challenges, and opinions on the status of the field. WOMoCoE 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. An extended abstract will be required and included in the proceedings for papers presented elsewhere. All papers must be formatted using the Springer LNCS style and submitted in PDF via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=womocoe2017 Further information about paper submission at: http://dai.fmph.uniba.sk/events/womocoe2017/submission --------------------------------------------------------------- ORGANIZERS: - Loris Bozzato, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Trento, Italy - Thomas Eiter, Vienna University of Technology, Austria - Martin Homola, Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia - Daniele Porello, Free University of Bolzano-Bozen, Italy --------------------------------------------------------------- PROGRAM COMMITTEE (tentative): - Grigoris Antoniou, University of Huddersfield - Stefano Borgo, ISTC-CNR, Trento - Eva Blomqvist, Link?ping University - Valeria De Paiva, University of Birmingham - Chiara Del Vescovo, British Broadcasting Corporation - Javier D. Fern?ndez, Vienna University of Economics and Business - Adila A. Krisnadhi, Wright State University & Universitas Indonesia - Oliver Kutz, Free University of Bozen/Bolzano - Vincenzo Maltese, University of Trento - Francisco Martin-Recuerda, UPM, Madrid - Till Mossakowski, University of Magdeburg - Thomas Schneider, University of Bremen - Luciano Serafini, Fondazione Bruno Kessler - Vojtech Sv?tek, Prague University of Economics - J?rgen Umbrich, Vienna University of Economics and Business - George Vouros, University of Piraeus --------------------------------------------------------------- CONTACT INFO: - Web: http://dai.fmph.uniba.sk/events/womocoe2017/ - Mail: womocoe2017 at easychair.org =============================================================== -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Applications are invited from suitably qualified candidates for 3 full-time, fixed term positions as Research Fellows at the Insight Centre for Data Analytics, National University of Ireland, Galway. These positions are available for an initial two year period and may be extended depending on project success and future funding acquisition. At Insight we offer a stimulating, dynamic, multi-cultural research environment and a great research infrastructure, with excellent ties to both leading research groups and industries worldwide. The successful candidates will be expected to integrate one of the existing research units on Linked Data Infrastructures (possibly as PI), Knowledge and Data Management or Information Mining and Retrieval. They will be working in collaboration with researchers and PhD students at the leading edge of those fields, and will be expected to progressively develop their own research trajectory as contribution to the strategic research direction of the centre, in particular through establishing both academic and industrial collaborations. Job Description: The successful candidate will be expected to perform a leading role in research, supervision and research group management. They will work with the unit head in supervising a team focusing on key research challenges in one of the following (overlapping) areas: - Network data analytics, including network science, graph/network analytics and graph databases, web-mining, web-science, machine learning and knowledge discovery, adaptive/explorative search and recommender systems. - Linked data infrastructures, including semantic web, distributed data processing and integration, large graph analysis, open and public data, semantic web applications, large-scale data solutions delivered through international collaborative networks. - Knowledge and data management, including knowledge graphs, data discoverability, data traceability, data profiling, semantics-based data management and distribution, autonomous production and consumption of data and knowledge, ontology engineering, responsible use of data. These positions are funded by the Insight Centre SFI Grant initially for 2 years. The Insight Centre at NUI Galway is part of the broader Insight Centre network, comprising more than 400 researchers in Data Science and Analytics. The successful candidate(s) will have the opportunity to supervise and co-supervise Master and PhD students, as well as to possibly contribute to teaching in the College of Engineering?s MSc in Computer Science (Data Analytics). The candidate(s) will contribute to ongoing research on a collaborative basis with other research units within the Insight Centre. Duties: The successful candidate is expected to: - Carry out their own research, demonstrate leadership through collaboration with junior researchers, and develop their own academic career. - Assist the head of unit in the supervision and development of the research group - Actively support the acquisition of additional funding for the group and the institute - Contribute to the dissemination of the group?s and centre?s research activities - Make significant contribution to the on-going initiatives within the Insight centre and the College of - Engineering and Informatics - Collaborate extensively with relevant units and projects within Insight - Collaborate with industry as part of industry research partnerships and with international networks - Participate as a member of the Insight Centre for Data Analytics Galway team in a collegial way, assisting in the definition and realisation of the scientific goals and vision of the institute. - When required, support technology transfer into the community and businesses through demonstrators and international co-operations - Support the unit leadership and institute directorship with administrative and unit/institute development tasks. Essential Skills: - A PhD in Computer Science with postdoctoral experience in topics relevant to the position(s) - A track record of internationally leading research in at least one of the three topics mentioned above - Demonstrated ability to express a clear research vision on one of those topics - Proven technical ability to realise/develop/implement such a vision - Demonstrated understanding and initial track record of raising research funding - Excellent verbal, written and presentation communication skills - Willingness and ability to supervise students and junior researchers - Excellent skills in problem-solving, data analytics and programming. Desirable Requirements: - Demonstrated organisational skills, especially through contribution to the organisation of scientific events such as workshops and tutorials - Experience and understanding in external, non-expert communication, including through media and social media - Strong technical expertise in large scale data processing platform. Contact: Informal enquiries concerning the post may be made to: - For Network data analytics, Dr Conor Hayes at conor.hayes at insight-centre.org - For Linked data infrastructures, Professor Dietrich Rebholz-Schuhmann at rebholz at insight-centre.org - For Knowledge and data management, Professor Mathieu d?Aquin at mathieu.daquin at insight-centre.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From pr-aksw at informatik.uni-leipzig.de Thu Jun 29 11:24:27 2017 From: pr-aksw at informatik.uni-leipzig.de (Sebastian Hellmann) Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2017 11:24:27 +0200 Subject: [DL] SEMANTiCS 2017, Amsterdam, Sep 11-14, Call for Posters & Demos Message-ID: <68fe8b2d-bd7b-a99a-f05e-20f4406955fc@informatik.uni-leipzig.de> Apologies for cross-posting Call for Posters & Demos SEMANTiCS 2017 - The Linked Data Conference 13th International Conference on Semantic Systems Amsterdam, Netherlands September 11 -14, 2017 http://2017.semantics.cc For details please go to: https://2017.semantics.cc/calls Important Dates (Posters & Demos Track): *Submission Deadline: July 10, 2017 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time) *Notification of Acceptance: August 10, 2017 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time) *Camera-Ready Paper: August 18, 2017 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time) As in the previous years, SEMANTiCS?17 proceedings will be published by ACM ICPS (pending) and CEUR WS proceedings. This year, SEMANTiCS features a special Data Science track, which is an opportunity to bring together researchers and practitioners interested in data science and its intersection with Linked Data to present their ideas and discuss the most important scientific, technical and socio-economical challenges of this emerging field. SEMANTiCS 2017 will especially welcome submissions for the following hot topics: *Metadata, Versioning and Data Quality Management *Semantics for Safety, Security & Privacy *Web Semantics, Linked (Open) Data & schema.org *Corporate Knowledge Graphs *Knowledge Integration and Language Technologies *Economics of Data, Data Services and Data Ecosystems Special Track (please check appropriate topic in submission system) *Data Science Following the success of previous years, we welcome any submissions related but not limited to the following ?horizontal? (research) and ?vertical? (industries) topics: Horizontals: *Enterprise Linked Data & Data Integration *Knowledge Discovery & Intelligent Search *Business Models, Governance & Data Strategies *Semantics in Big Data *Text Analytics *Data Portals & Knowledge Visualization *Semantic Information Management *Document Management & Content Management *Terminology, Thesaurus & Ontology Management *Smart Connectivity, Networking & Interlinking *Smart Data & Semantics in IoT *Semantics for IT Safety & Security *Semantic Rules, Policies & Licensing *Community, Social & Societal Aspects Data Science Special Track Horizontals: *Large-Scale Data Processing (stream processing, handling large-scale graphs) *Data Analytics (Machine Learning, Predictive Analytics, Network Analytics) *Communicating Data (Data Visualization, UX & Interaction Design, Crowdsourcing) *Cross-cutting Issues (Ethics, Privacy, Security, Provenance) Verticals: *Industry & Engineering *Life Sciences & Health Care *Public Administration *e-Science *Digital Humanities *Galleries, Libraries, Archives & Museums (GLAM) *Education & eLearning *Media & Data Journalism *Publishing, Marketing & Advertising *Tourism & Recreation *Financial & Insurance Industry *Telecommunication & Mobile Services *Sustainable Development: Climate, Water, Air, Ecology *Energy, Smart Homes & Smart Grids *Food, Agriculture & Farming *Safety, Security & Privacy *Transport, Environment & Geospatial Posters & Demos Track The Posters & Demonstrations Track invites innovative work in progress, late-breaking research and innovation results, and smaller contributions in all fields related to the broadly understood Semantic Web. These include submissions on innovative applications with impact on end users such as demos of solutions that users may test or that are yet in the conceptual phase, but are worth discussing, and also applications, use cases or pieces of code that may attract developers and potential research or business partners. This also concerns new data sets made publicly available. The informal setting of the Posters & Demonstrations Track encourages participants to present innovations to the research community, business users and find new partners or clients and 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 that describe the work, its contribution to the field or novelty aspects. Submissions must be original and must not have been submitted for publication elsewhere. Accepted papers will be published in HTML (RASH) in CEUR and, as such, the camera-ready version of the papers will be required in HTML, following the poster and demo guidelines (https://goo.gl/3BEpV7). Papers should be submitted through EasyChair (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=semantics2017 and should be less than 2200 words in length (equivalent to 4 pages), including the whole content of the paper. For the initial reviewing phase, authors may submit a PDF version of the paper following any layout. After acceptance, authors are required to submit the camera-ready in HTML (RASH). Submissions will be reviewed by experienced and knowledgeable researchers and practitioners; each submission will receive detailed feedback. For demos, we encourage authors to include links enabling the reviewers to test the application or review the component. For details please go to: https://2017.semantics.cc/calls From Rafael.Penaloza at unibz.it Tue Jul 4 11:31:22 2017 From: Rafael.Penaloza at unibz.it (Penaloza Nyssen Rafael) Date: Tue, 4 Jul 2017 09:31:22 +0000 Subject: [DL] [CfP] Ontology Debugging and Evaluation Workshop (2nd Call for Papers) Message-ID: -- Second Call for Papers -- ***Submission deadline: July 17, 2017*** -- DEW: The Ontology Debugging and Evaluation Workshop @ JOWO 2017 September 21-23, Bolzano, Italy DEW: http://www.inf.unibz.it/~penaloza/DEW/ JOWO: http://www.iaoa.org/jowo/2017/ ** Description and Scope ** The Ontology Debugging and Evaluation Workshop (DEW) aims to advance ontology evaluation and the detection, understanding, and correction of errors in ontologies and ontological knowledge bases. The scope of submissions sought includes, but is not limited to, such topics as formal methods, tools, and identification of particular challenges. Papers discussing ontology quality criteria, metrics, experimental results, particular cases, and lessons learned are encouraged. The DEW organizers encourage variety in emphasis in perspective. Submissions may emphasize more or less formal, experiential, practical, or theoretical aspects of debugging and evaluation. Similarly, papers may arise, for example, from the perspectives of ontology (re)users, ontology developers, or those responsible for the quality assurance of ontologies incorporated into larger systems. ** Relationship to JOWO ** DEW is part of JOWO 2017: The 3rd Joint Ontology Workshops. JOWO 2017 will be held September 21-23, 2017, in Bozen-Bolzano, Italy. Registration for JOWO 2017 grants attendees access to all ten workshops, plus invited speakers, joint panels sessions, and other collegial events. JOWO registration fees range between 90? and 190?, depending on student status, IAOA membership, and date of registration. See http://www.iaoa.org/jowo/2017/ for the details about the workshops, keynotes, social events, venue, and logistics. ** Important Dates ** Submission deadline: July 17, 2017 Notifications: August 14, 2017 Workshop: September 21-23, 2017 ** Submission Guidelines ** DEW submissions must be in either short paper or full paper format: Short papers: maximum 6 pages (including references) Full papers: maximum 14 pages (including references) Papers must have not been previously published or be under review at another workshop. However, we encourage submissions that present summaries or highlights of work appearing elsewhere in longer form. DEW submissions must also adhere to these guidelines, shared across all JOWO workshops: Submitted papers must not exceed 14 pages (including bibliography) and must include an abstract of no more than 300 words. Papers should adhere to IOS Press formatting guidelines. IOS Press offers formatting tools for authors working in MS Word or in LaTeX: http://www.iospress.nl/service/authors/. Papers should be submitted in PDF format, non-anonymously, via EasyChair at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=jowo2017, specifying DEW as the track. Accepted papers will be published open-access in the joint JOWO proceedings (a CEUR volume). ** Organization ** Co-Chairs: Rafael Pe?aloza (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano) Amanda Vizedom (Criticollab) Program Committee: Alan Belasco (Securboration) Francesco Corcoglioniti (Fondazione Bruno Kessler) Michael Gr?ninger (University of Toronto) Yevgeny Kazakov (Ulm University) Carlos Menc?a (University of Oviedo) Peter F. Patel-Schneider (Nuance Communications) Lydia Pintscher (Wikimedia Germany) Mar?a Poveda Villal?n (Polit?cnica de Madrid) Uli Sattler (University of Manchester) Jodi Schneider (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) Renata Wassermann (University of Sao Paulo) ---------------------------------------------------- Dr. Rafael Pe?aloza Assistant Professor KRDB - Faculty of Computer Science Free University of Bozen-Bolzano I-39100 Bolzano, Italy e-mail: penaloza at inf.unibz.it home: http://www.inf.unibz.it/~penaloza/ From schon at uni-koblenz.de Wed Jun 28 09:32:01 2017 From: schon at uni-koblenz.de (Claudia Schon) Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2017 09:32:01 +0200 Subject: [DL] ISWC Workshop on Managing Changes in the Semantic Web: 2nd Call for Papers Message-ID: 2nd Call for Papers Workshop on Managing Changes in the Semantic Web in conjunction with ISWC 2017 Vienna, Austria, October 21st, 2017 http://macsew2017.west.uni-koblenz.de The Web is primary a communication platform where knowledge is produced, shared, and consumed by a diversity of stakeholders. As communication is a dynamic process, the data on Web is subject to changes. These dynamics evoke the need for versatile methods and algorithms to represent data changes and provide Web agents with a suitable world view at any time. Changing data on the Web has a great impact on the way we live and do business as we rely on insights from such information to make (future) decisions. Managing changing datasets is important for many purposes and applications involving Web Data, and it raises a variety of research challenges, such as (1) how to facilitate integration of dynamic sources and ontologies, (2) when to notify changes and perform updates on local caches or indexes, and thus ensure the delivery of up-to-date and valid information, (3) how to validate and evaluate the impact of the changes, (4) how to keep track of changes in distributed data sources, and (5) how to represent and query for change. When keeping track of the evolution of data, knowledge representation methods have to deal with the evolution of knowledge at both schema and data level i.e. schema information need to be updated due to changes in the world or the acquisition of new knowledge whereas data sets need to take into account the evolution of the data and links from the different Web sources e.g. from sensor data streams, financial transactions, news feeds, etc. There is a plethora of work on different aspects of managing changes of semantic web data: keeping track of certain aspects of the performed modifications like trustworthiness or timestamps became an important line of research. For this task provenance management frameworks have proven to be very helpful. Likewise, different methods in the field of belief revision and uniform interpolation have become very active fields of research addressing the problem of performing changes to description logic knowledge bases. In the field of Semantic Web, recent research studies the development of different SPARQL Update semantics dealing with dynamic RDF data at both instance-level and schema-level; addressing the issue of inconsistencies introduced by updates, and capturing RDFS entailments within updates. The MaCSeW workshop aims to bring together researchers addressing the problem of managing changes in Semantic Web data from different areas like linked data, Semantic Web, knowledge and belief change and description logic in order provide an overview of the existing approaches as well as to advance cooperation of the different areas. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: ? Integration of dynamic sources ? Handling changes in Linked Open Data Cloud ? Concept drift in the Semantic Web ? Tracking provenance of Web data ? Evolution of description logic TBoxes and/or ABoxes ? Dealing with inconsistencies in ontologies ? Uniform interpolation ? Different aspects of forgetting ? Foundations of belief change in ontologies ? Maintaining Links on the Web of Data ? SPARQL Update The workshop will be held in conjunction with ISWC 2017. IMPORTANT DATES Full Paper submission deadline: July 21st, 2017 Notification: August 24th, 2017 Final submission: September 7th, 2017 Workshop: October 21st SUBMISSION AND CONTRIBUTION FORMAT Papers, including the description of work in progress are welcome and should be formatted according to the Springer LNCS guidelines. The length should not exceed 15 pages. All papers must be submitted in PDF. Formatting instructions and the LNCS style files can be obtained at http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.htm. The EasyChair submission site is available at: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=macsew2017 PROCEEDINGS Proceedings of the workshop will be published as CEUR workshop proceedings. ORGANIZERS Renata Dividino, Dalhouise University Claudia Schon,Universit?t Koblenz-Landau Nadeschda Nikitina, University of Oxford J?rgen Umbrich, Vienna University of Economics and Business PROGRAM COMMITTEE - Carlos Buil-Aranda, Universidad T?cnica Federico Santa Maria,Chile - Javier D. Fernandez, WU Vienna - Ernesto Jimenez-Ruiz, University of Oslo - Evgeny Kharlamov, University of Oxford - Boris Konev, University of Liverpool - Patrick Koopmann, TU Dresden - Rafael Pe?aloza Nyssen, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano - Sebastian Rudolph, TU Dresden - Cristina Sarasua, University of Koblenz-Landau - Vadim Savenkov, WU Vienna - Renate Schmidt, University of Manchester - Steffen Staab, University of Koblenz-Landau CONTACT Claudia Schon, schon at uni-koblenz.de Renata Dividino, dividino at dal.ca From simona.colucci at poliba.it Tue Jul 4 10:42:50 2017 From: simona.colucci at poliba.it (Simona Colucci) Date: Tue, 4 Jul 2017 10:42:50 +0200 Subject: [DL] [GenSW 2017] CfP: 1st International Workshop on "Generalizing knowledge: from Machine Learning and Knowledge Representation to the Semantic Web" at AIxIA 2017 Message-ID: ---------------------------------------------- Apologies for cross-posting ---------------------------------------------- ************************************************************ ******************************* GenSW2017: 1st International Workshop on "Generalizing knowledge: from Machine Learning and Knowledge Representation to the Semantic Web" Website: https://sites.google.com/site/gensw2017/ In conjunction with with "The 16th International Conference of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence" (AI*IA 2017), Bari, Italy, November 14 - 17 2017. ************************************************************ ******************************* IMPORTANT DATES ----------------------- Abstract submission: 13 July 2017 Paper submission: 18 July 2017 Notification to authors: 8 September 2017 Camera-ready copies: 29 September 2017 FOCUS ----------------------- Generalizing descriptions is a problem traditionally investigated in at least two different fields of Artificial Intelligence: Machine Learning (ML) and Knowledge Representation (KR). Both research fields have played an important role in the development of the Semantic Web (SW). KR provided the theoretical basis for formalizing shared knowledge bases, a.k.a. ontologies, and for deductively reasoning over them. ML methods have been used for enriching ontologies, both at schema and instance level, by exploiting inductive reasoning, while still benefiting from deductive reasoning, when possible. In the Web of Data, the availability of generalization mechanisms could be crucial for performing several knowledge management tasks, such as data summarization, data indexing, cluster discovery and many others. However, performing generalization in such a context cannot be done by just revisiting traditional generalization services, because some issues and peculiarities need to be carefully taken into account. One of these peculiarities is the data size, which requires new scalable techniques. The second one is the data quality, which is affected by the endemic redundancy, noise, frequent irrelevance and possible inconsistency of the available information. A third one is data interdependency stemming from RDFS statements. Despite some preliminary research efforts, very few solutions and methods can be found at the state of the art for coping with this urgent problem. The maturity of solutions coming from the ML and KR fields may certainly provide a reasonable starting point. However, methods mixing or stacking solutions coming from both fields may result more promising to address all raised issues. Therefore, the main goal of the workshop is to foster solutions cross-fertilizing both ML and KR fields, focusing on generalizing SW knowledge descriptions and, possibly taking into account scalability issues. Solutions of interest should cope with descriptions formalized, primarily, in RDF/RDFS, but also in more expressive representation languages, like Description Logics/OWL. The workshop aims at gathering solutions for the generalization of knowledge descriptions formalized in standard representation languages for the Semantic Web (primarily, but not only, RDF/RDFS). Solutions of interest should focus (primarily, but not only) on methods mixing and/or stacking solutions coming from Machine Learning and Knowledge Representation fields and applicable to standard Semantic Web representation languages. The developments of scalable solutions for this purpose will be particularly appreciated. TOPICS -------------------------------------------------- Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: ? KR and/or ML methods (possibly in combination) for generalizing in the Semantic Web ? Semi-supervised, unbalanced, inductive learning for generalizing in the Semantic Web ? Reasoning services for generalization in the Semantic Web - Generalization methods for finding commonalities and differences in the Semantic Web - Generalization methods for enrichment Semantic Web knowledge bases - Generalization methods for indexing in the Linked Data Cloud ? Evaluation and benchmarking of generalization approaches in the Semantic Web ? Scalable algorithms for generalizing the Web of Data ? Generalization in presence of uncertain/inconsistent/noisy knowledge Papers should be written in English, formatted according to the Springer LNCS style, and not exceed 12 pages (full papers) or 4 pages (position papers) plus bibliography. Papers must be submitted via easychair: https://easychair. org/conferences/?conf=gensw2017. All accepted papers will be scheduled for oral presentations and will be published in CEUR Workshop Proceedings AI*IA Series. ************************************************************ *************************************** Authors of selected papers accepted to the workshop will be invited to submit an extended version for publication on a SPECIAL ISSUE for the journal ?Semantic Web ? Interoperability, Usability, Applicability" (http://www.semantic-web-journal.net/). Papers selected for the special issue have to go through a full review process before acceptance. ************************************************************ *************************************** ORGANIZING COMMITTEE ----------------------------- Simona Colucci, Politecnico di Bari Claudia d'Amato, Universit? degli Studi di Bari Francesco M. Donini, Universit? della Tuscia, Viterbo Simona Colucci, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Politecnico di Bari Department of Electrical and Information Engineering Information Systems Research Group *Address*: via E. Orabona, 4 - 70125 Bari *Tel:* + 39 080 596 3222 <+39%20080%20596%203222> *Fax*: + 39 080 596 3410 <+39%20080%20596%203410> -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From tarek.besold at googlemail.com Wed Jul 5 16:40:26 2017 From: tarek.besold at googlemail.com (Tarek R. Besold) Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2017 16:40:26 +0200 Subject: [DL] Call for Participation: Neural-Symbolic Learning and Reasoning (NeSy) 2017 -- London, UK -- July 17&18, 2017 Message-ID: <00b801d2f59c$abde1f90$039a5eb0$@gmail.com> === NeSy'17: 12th International Workshop on Neural-Symbolic Learning and Reasoning === Date: July 17 & 18, 2017. Venue: City, University of London, UK. = WEBSITE = http://www.neural-symbolic.org/NeSy17/ = KEYNOTE SPEAKERS = Mauro Ferreira, Trinity College Dublin. Zoubin Ghahramani, University of Cambridge & Uber AI Labs. Alex Graves, Google DeepMind. Pascal Hitzler, Wrights State University. Chris Percy, BetBuddy Ltd. Murray Shanahan, Imperial College London. = INDUSTRY PANEL = Simo Dragicevic, CEO, BetBuddy Ltd. (moderator). John McNamara, Senior Inventor, IBM. James Davidson, Software Engineer, Google Brain. Jamie Woodhouse, Managing Director and Head of Financial Services Management Consulting and Finance and Risk, Accenture. Lonnie Hamm, Head of Data Science, Kindred Group Plc. Amir Saffari, Director of Applied AI, BenevolentAI. = INDUSTRY TRACK ADDED = For the first time, the 2017 edition of NeSy will feature an industry track on the second day of the workshop, July 18, 2017. The track will cover industry applications of neural-symbolic methods (including knowledge extraction from statistical data, neural-symbolic methods integrating data and knowledge for the semantic web, etc.), with the program featuring contributions from industry and academia alike. Also, there will be time to mix and mingle, exchange experiences from practitioners on both sides, and develop joint ideas and projects for the future. = REGISTRATION = The registration for NeSy'17 is available from the City, University of London eStore: http://estore.city.ac.uk/product-catalogue/conference-events/school-specific -events/12th-international-workshop-on-neuralsymbolic-learning-and-reasoning -nesy17 = TOPICS = Artificial Intelligence researchers continue to face huge challenges in their quest to develop truly intelligent systems. The recent developments in the field of neural-symbolic integration bring an opportunity to integrate well-founded symbolic artificial intelligence with robust neural computing machinery to help tackle some of these challenges. The Workshop on Neural-Symbolic Learning and Reasoning is intended to create an atmosphere of exchange of ideas, providing a forum for the presentation and discussion of the key topics related to neural-symbolic integration. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: - The representation of symbolic knowledge by connectionist systems; - Neural Learning theory; - Integration of logic and probabilities, e.g., in neural networks, but also more generally; - Structured learning and relational learning in neural networks; - Logical reasoning carried out by neural networks; - Integrated neural-symbolic approaches; - Extraction of symbolic knowledge from trained neural networks; - Integrated neural-symbolic reasoning; - Neural-symbolic cognitive models; - Biologically-inspired neural-symbolic integration; - Applications in robotics, simulation, fraud prevention, natural language processing, semantic web, software engineering, fault diagnosis, bioinformatics, visual intelligence, etc. = WORKSHOP ORGANISERS = General Chairs: - Tarek R. Besold (University of Bremen, Germany) - Artur d'Avila Garcez (City, University of London, UK) - Isaac Noble (Playground Global, U.S.A.) 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URL: From tstuder at inf.unibe.ch Mon Jul 3 14:55:32 2017 From: tstuder at inf.unibe.ch (Thomas Studer) Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2017 14:55:32 +0200 Subject: [DL] AiML 2018: FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS Message-ID: [ Please distribute, apologies for multiple postings. ] AiML 2018: FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS 12TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ADVANCES IN MODAL LOGIC BERN, 27 AUGUST -- 31 AUGUST 2018 http://www.aiml2018.unibe.ch 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 2018 is the 12th conference in the series. AiML 2018 will be co-located with the sixth edition of the conference "Logic, Algebra and Truth Degrees" (LATD 2018) http://www.latd2018.unibe.ch/. TOPICS We invite submissions 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 (topological/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 for AiML 2018: (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://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aiml2018 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 2018 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 2018 website http://www.aiml2018.unibe.ch in due time. Authors must submit an abstract in plain text via EasyChair by the abstract deadline prior to full submission of their paper. The presentations of accepted full papers will be 30 minutes long. (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 Agata Ciabattoni (TU Wien, Austria) Rob Goldblatt (Victoria University, New Zealand) Rosalie Iemhoff (Utrecht University, The Netherlands) -- joint AiML-LATD invited speaker Stanislav Kikot (Birkbeck College London and Institute for Information Transmission Problems, Moscow) Dana Scott (University of California, Berkeley) LOCAL ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Bettina Choffat Almudena Colacito Jos? Gil-Ferez Eveline Lehmann George Metcalfe (chair) Nenad Savi? Silvia Steila Thomas Studer (chair) PROGRAMME COMMITTEE Natasha Alechina (University of Nottingham) Lev Beklemishev (Steklov Mathematical Institute of Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow) Guram Bezhanishvili (New Mexico State University) Marta B?lkov? (Charles University) Patrick Blackburn (University of Roskilde) Giovanna D'Agostino (University of Udine) St?phane Demri (CNRS, LSV, ENS Paris-Saclay) David Fern?ndez-Duque (Institute de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse) David Gabelaia (TSU Razmadze Mathematical Institute) Mai Gehrke (CNRS Paris Diderot) Silvio Ghilardi (Universit? degli Studi di Milano) Nina Gierasimczuk (Danish Technical University) Valentin Goranko (Stockholm University) Rajeev Gor? (The Australian National University) Helle Hvid Hansen (Delft University of Technology) Ian Hodkinson (Imperial College) Wesley Holliday (UC Berkeley) Emil Je??bek (Czech Academy of Sciences) Marcus Kracht (Bielefeld University) Clemens Kupke (University of Strathclyde) Agi Kurucz (King's College London) Roman Kuznets (TU Wien) Tamar Lando (Columbia University) Carsten Lutz (Universit?t Bremen) Larry Moss (Indiana University) Sara Negri (University of Helsinki) Eric Pacuit (University of Maryland) Valeria de Paiva (Nuance Communications, USA) Mark Reynolds (The University of Western Australia) Ilya Shapirovsky (Institute for the Information Transmission Problems) Valentin Shehtman (Institute for the Information Transmission Problems) Sonja Smets (Institute of Logic, Language and Computation) Viorica Sofronie-Stokkermans (Universit?t Koblenz-Landau) Thomas Studer (Universit?t Bern) Heinrich Wansing (Ruhr University Bochum) Frank Wolter (University of Liverpool) Michael Zakharyaschev (Birkbeck College London) PROGRAMME COMMITTEE CHAIRS Guram Bezhanishvili (New Mexico State University) Giovanna D'Agostino (University of Udine) IMPORTANT DATES Abstracts of full papers submission deadline: 11 March 2018 Full papers submission deadline: 18 March 2018 Full papers acceptance notification: 18 May 2018 Short presentations submission deadline: 20 May 2018 Short presentations acceptance notification: 8 June 2018 Final version of full papers and short presentations due: 17 June 2018 Conference: 27 August -- 31 August 2018 FURTHER INFORMATION Please see http://www.aiml2018.unibe.ch ENQUIRIES E-mail enquiries should be directed to the PC chairs, sent to aiml2018 at easychair.org From woltran at dbai.tuwien.ac.at Mon Jun 26 08:01:15 2017 From: woltran at dbai.tuwien.ac.at (Stefan Woltran) Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2017 08:01:15 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [DL] FoIKS 2018 -- Call for Papers Message-ID: **Apologies for cross-postings*** Please consider to contribute to and/or forward to the appropriate groups the following opportunity to submit and publish original scientific results to FoIKS 2018. Abstract submission deadline is November 24, 2017. ===================== FoIKS 2018 | Call for Papers ======================== CALL FOR PAPERS 10th Int'l. Symposium on Foundations of Information and Knowledge Systems May 14-18, 2018 Alfred Renyi Institute of Mathematics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary http://2018.foiks.org/ The FoIKS symposia provide a biennial forum for presenting and discussing theoretical and applied research on information and knowledge systems. The goal is to bring together researchers with an interest in this subject, share research experiences, promote collaboration and identify new issues and directions for future research. FoIKS 2018 solicits original contributions dealing with any foundational aspect of information and knowledge systems. This includes submissions that apply ideas, theories or methods from specific disciplines to information and knowledge systems. Examples of such disciplines are discrete mathematics, logic and algebra, model theory, information theory, complexity theory, algorithmics and computation, statistics and optimization. The FoIKS symposia are a forum for intense discussions. Speakers will be given sufficient time to present their ideas and results within the larger context of their research; furthermore, participants will be asked to prepare a first response to another contribution in order to initiate discussion. Previous FoIKS symposia were held in Linz (Austria) in 2016, Bordeaux (France) in 2014, Kiel (Germany) in 2012, Sofia (Bulgaria) in 2010, Pisa (Italy) in 2008, Budapest (Hungary) in 2006, Vienna (Austria) in 2004, Schloss Salzau near Kiel (Germany) in 2002, and Burg/Spreewald near Berlin (Germany) in 2000. FoIKS took up the tradition of the conference series Mathematical Fundamentals of Database Systems (MFDBS), which initiated East-West collaboration in the field of database theory. Former MFDBS conferences were held in Rostock (Germany) in 1991, Visegrad (Hungary) in 1989, and Dresden (Germany) in 1987. Submission Guidelines ===================== All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. Papers must be typeset using the Springer LaTeX2e style llncs for Lecture Notes in Computer Science. The suggested number of pages is 16, and the maximum number of pages is 18. Submissions which deviate substantially from these guidelines may be rejected without review. Initial submissions must be in PDF format, but authors should keep in mind that the LaTeX2e source must be submitted for the final versions of accepted papers. Submissions in alternate formats, such as Microsoft Word, cannot be accepted for either initial or final versions. The submissions will be judged for scientific quality and for suitability as a basis for broader discussion. Submission is via EasyChair at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=foiks2018 Suggested Topics ================ The suggested topics include, but are not limited to: Database Design: formal models, dependencies and independencies; Big Data: models for data in the Cloud, programming languages for big data, query processing; Dynamics of Information: models of transactions, concurrency control, updates, consistency preservation, belief revision; Information Fusion: heterogeneity, views, schema dominance, multiple source information merging, reasoning under inconsistency; Integrity and Constraint Management: verification, validation, consistent query answering, information cleaning; Intelligent Agents: multi-agent systems, autonomous agents, foundations of software agents, cooperative agents, formal models of interactions, negotiations and dialogue, logical models of emotions; Knowledge Discovery and Information Retrieval: machine learning, mining, formal concept analysis and association rules, text mining, information extraction; Knowledge Representation, Reasoning and Planning: non-monotonic formalisms, probabilistic and non-probabilistic models of uncertainty, graphical models and independence, similarity-based reasoning, preference modeling and handling, computation models of argument, argumentation systems; Logics in Databases and AI: classical and non-classical logics, logic programming, description logics, spatial and temporal logics, probability logic, fuzzy logic; Mathematical Foundations: discrete structures and algorithms, graphs, grammars, automata, abstract machines, finite model theory, information theory, coding theory, complexity theory, randomness; Security in Information and Knowledge Systems: identity theft, privacy, trust, intrusion detection, access control, inference control, secure Web services, secure Semantic Web, risk management; Semi-Structured Data and XML: data modelling, data processing, data compression, data exchange; Social Computing: collective intelligence and self-organizing knowledge, collaborative filtering, computational social choice, Boolean games, coalition formation, reputation systems; The Semantic Web and Knowledge Management: languages, ontologies, agents, adaption, intelligent algorithms, ontology-based data access; and The WWW: models of Web databases, Web dynamics, Web services, Web transactions and negotiations, Social Networks, Web Mining. Program Committee ================= Yamine Ait Ameur, France Pablo Barcelo, Chile Kim Bauters, Northern Ireland, UK Christoph Beierle, Germany Leopoldo Bertossi, Canada Philippe Besnard, France Nicole Bidoit, France Meghyn Bienvenu, France Joachim Biskup, Germany Marina De Vos, UK Michael Dekhtyar, Russia Dragan Doder, Serbia Thomas Eiter, Austria Christian Fermueller, Austria Marc Gyssens, Belgium Edward Hermann Haeusler, Brazil Martin Homola, Slovakia Anthony Hunter, England Gabriel Istrate, Romania Gyula Y. Katona, Hungary Gabriele Kern-Isberner, Germany Attila Kiss, Hungary Ioannis Kokkinis, France Sebastien Konieczny, France Juha Kontinen, Finland Nicola Leone, Italy Sebastian Link, New Zealand Thomas Lukasiewicz, UK Sofian Maabout, France Jorge Martinez-Gil, Austria Henri Prade, France Elena Ravve, Israel Sebastian Rudolph, Germany Attila Sali, Hungary Vadim Savenkov, Austria Klaus-Dieter Schewe, Austria Thomas Schwentick, Germany Kostyantyn Shchekotykhin, Austria Csaba Istvan Sidlo, Hungary Guillermo Ricardo Simari, Argentina Mantas Simkus, Austria Bernhard Thalheim, Germany Alex Thomo, Canada Mirek Truszczynski, USA Gyorgy Turan, USA Jose Turull-Torres, Argentina/New Zealand Dirk Van Gucht, USA Jonni Virtema, Finland Qing Wang, Australia Program Chairs ============== Flavio Ferrarotti, Software Competence Center Hagenberg, Austria. Stefan Woltran, TU Wien, Austria. Local Organization Chair ======================== Attila Sali, Alfred Renyi Institute of Mathematics, Hungary. Invited Speakers ================ Laura Kovacs, TU Wien, Austria. Sebastian Link, University of Auckland, New Zealand. David Pearce, Technical University of Madrid, Spain (supported by ALP). Bernhard Thalheim, Christian-Albrechts-University at Kiel, Germany. Publication =========== The proceedings will be published by Springer-Verlag in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science. After the symposium, authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended journal versions of their papers for a FoIKS 2018 special issue of the Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence. Venue ===== The conference venue will be the renowned Alfred Renyi Institute of Mathematics at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (for more information on the venue, see http://www.renyi.hu/contact.html Important Dates =============== Abstract submission deadline: November 24, 2017 Paper submission deadline: December 01, 2017 Author notification: February 02, 2018 Camera-ready paper due: February 16, 2018 FoIKS 2018 Symposium: May 14-18, 2018 Scientific Sponsorship ====================== Association for Logic Programming (ALP) European Association for Theoretical Computer Science Vienna Center for Logic and Algorithms Student Grants ============== Students of accepted papers on logic programming related topics can apply to the student travel grant of ALP to attend FoIKS 2018. Contact ======= All questions about submissions should be emailed to woltran at dbai.tuwien.ac.at and flavio.ferrarotti at scch.at Web page: http://2018.foiks.org/ From geoff at cs.miami.edu Mon Jul 10 16:51:32 2017 From: geoff at cs.miami.edu (geoff at cs.miami.edu) Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2017 10:51:32 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [DL] DL 2017 - Call for Participation Message-ID: <20170710145132.DC8BB1700A6A@cs.miami.edu> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PARTICIPATION 30th International Workshop on Description Logics, DL 2017 18 - 21 July 2017 - Montpellier, France http://dl.kr.org/dl2017/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 in Montpellier, France from 18 to 21 July 2017. ** Registration is now open ** ============================== Registration website: http://dl.kr.org/dl2017/registration/ Invited Talks ============= * Markus Kr??tzsch, Technical University of Dresden: Ontologies for Knowledge Graphs? * Andreas Pieris, University of Edinburgh: Query Rewriting under Existential Rules * Uli Sattler, University of Manchester: From Reasoning Problems to Non-standard Reasoning Problems and One Step Further Programme Details ================= * 30 long presentations, 14 short presentations and 18 posters * The complete list of accepted papers is available at http://dl.kr.org/dl2017/accepted-papers/ Student Grants ============== A limited number of student grants will be available for participation in DL 2017. Each grant will cover the student registration fee and may additionally include a contribution towards travel costs. For details please check https://project.inria.fr/dl2017/students/ Accommodation ============= There are many tourists visiting Montpellier in July, so please make sure to book your accommodation well in advance to ensure the best choice of options. Even if you are not sure to attend the workshop, you may nonetheless want to book a room in a hotel offering free cancellation. Organisation ============ * Alessandro Artale, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano (Programme co-Chair) * Birte Glimm, University of Ulm (Programme co-Chair) * Roman Kontchakov, Birkbeck, University of London (Programme co-Chair) * Meghyn Bienvenu, University of Montpellier (Workshop co-Chair) * Marie-Laure Mugnier, University of Montpellier (Workshop co-Chair) Resources ========= * Information about registration, travel information, etc., is available on the DL 2017 homepage: http://dl.kr.org/dl2017/ * The official description logic homepage is at http://dl.kr.org/ From ernesto.jimenez.ruiz at gmail.com Wed Jul 12 12:33:51 2017 From: ernesto.jimenez.ruiz at gmail.com (Ernesto Jimenez-Ruiz) Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2017 12:33:51 +0200 Subject: [DL] 2nd Call for Systems - OAEI 2017: Ontology Alignment Evaluation Initiative Message-ID: --Apologies for cross-posting-- This is the second call for systems for the 2017 edition of the Ontology Alignment Evaluation Initiative (OAEI): http://oaei.ontologymatching.org/2017/ Since 2004, OAEI has been supporting the extensive and rigorous evaluation of ontology matching and instance matching techniques. As last year, system developers must register their interest in participating in the OAEI 2017: https://goo.gl/qMiH6x NEWS ------------------ - Please check the new datasets and instructions of the "Disease and Phenotype" and "Process Model Matching" tracks: http://oaei.ontologymatching.org/2017/ - We have added the details for the HOBBIT Link Discovery track. This year we will start adopting the HOBBIT platform to conduct the evaluation of the HOBBIT Link Discovery track. Systems willing to participate in this track need to follow different instructions from the SEALS ones: https://project-hobbit.eu/challenges/om2017/om2017-tasks/ - Submission of systems is open. Please submit the zipped SEALS package (e.g., LogMap.zip) using this form https://goo.gl/xEwpiq (requires a google account and a valid email). - Registration of (new) systems is still open (https://goo.gl/qMiH6x). 23 systems have been registered so far! CONFIRMED TRACKS ------------------ Anatomy Conference Multifarm Interactive Matching (New datasets) Large Biomedical Ontologies Disease and Phenotype (New datasets) Process Model Matching (New datasets) Instance Matching (New datasets) HOBBIT Link Discovery (New track with new evaluation environment) IMPORTANT DATES ------------------ June 1st: (preliminary) datasets available. July 15th: datasets are frozen. July 15th: participants register their tools: https://goo.gl/qMiH6x July 15th: submission is open, zipped SEALS packages (e.g., LogMap.zip) can be submitted using this form https://goo.gl/xEwpiq (requires a google account and a valid email). July 31st: participants submit preliminary wrapped versions (zip file) of their tools (mandatory). August 31st: participants submit final versions of their tools (zip file). September 20th: evaluation is executed and results are analyzed. September 30th: preliminary version of system papers due (Submission: https://goo.gl/aKtaHc). October 21st: Ontology matching workshop: http://om2017.ontologymatching.org/ November 15th: final version of system papers due (Submission: https://goo.gl/aKtaHc). -- Ernesto Jim?nez-Ruiz Research Assistant Department of Informatics University of Oslo http://www.mn.uio.no/ifi/english/people/aca/ernestoj/ 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 Wed Jul 12 14:27:49 2017 From: ernesto.jimenez.ruiz at gmail.com (Ernesto Jimenez-Ruiz) Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2017 14:27:49 +0200 Subject: [DL] Three year PhD position - Environmental data science - University of Oslo Message-ID: NIVA, The Norwegian Institute for Water Research, has advertised a 3-year Ph.D. fellowship in Environmental Data Science. This project will be jointly supervised by NIVA and SIRIUS (Department of Informatics, University of Oslo). Find out more on http://www.niva.no/phd-position-environmental-data-science. Deadline for applications is *15th August 2017. * -- Ernesto Jim?nez-Ruiz Research Assistant Department of Informatics University of Oslo http://www.mn.uio.no/ifi/english/people/aca/ernestoj/ http://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/people/ernesto.jimenez-ruiz/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From marcello.balduccini at gmail.com Fri Jul 14 23:11:54 2017 From: marcello.balduccini at gmail.com (Marcello Balduccini) Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2017 17:11:54 -0400 Subject: [DL] KR 2018 Preliminary Call for Papers Message-ID: <201707142111.v6ELBs7W012647@coSAT.msgn> [Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this email. Please distribute to interested parties.] PRELIMINARY CALL FOR PAPERS *** KR 2018 *** 16th International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning Tempe, Arizona (USA) October 30-November 2, 2018 reasoning.eas.asu.edu/kr2018/ Co-located with DL 2018 [dl.kr.org/] and NMR 2018 [www.kr.org/NMR], KR 2018 IMPORTANT DATES (Tentative) ----------------------- * Submission of title and abstract: 13 May 2018 * Paper submission deadline: 20 May 2018 * Author response period: 25-27 June 2018 * Notification: 11 July 2018 * Camera-ready papers due: 3-10 August 2018 * Conference date: 30 October-2 November 2018 ------------------------ Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KRR) is an exciting, well-established field of research. In KRR a fundamental assumption is that an agent's knowledge is explicitly represented in a declarative form, suitable for processing by dedicated reasoning engines. This assumption, that much of what an agent deals with is knowledge-based, is common in many modern intelligent systems. Consequently, KRR has contributed to the theory and practice of various areas in AI, such as automated planning, natural language understanding, among others, as well as to fields beyond AI, including databases, verification, and software engineering. In recent years KRR has contributed to new and emerging fields including the semantic web, computational biology, and the development of software agents. The KR conference series is the leading forum for timely in-depth presentation of progress in the theory and principles underlying the representation and computational management of knowledge. Contrary to previous editions, KR 2018 will also feature an open call for workshop and tutorial proposals. The tentative deadline for submissions is 21 February 2018. Workshops and tutorials will precede the KR technical program and will run on 27-29 October 2018. Please check the KR 2018 website for further information and updates. We solicit papers presenting novel results on the principles of KRR that clearly contribute to the formal foundations of relevant problems or show the applicability of results to implemented or implementable systems. We also welcome papers from other areas that show clear use of, or contributions to, the principles or practice of KRR. We also encourage "reports from the field" of applications, experiments, developments, and tests. Papers must be submitted in AAAI style and PDF format. We invite two kinds of submissions: * full papers of up to 9 pages including abstract, figures, and appendices (if any) but excluding references and acknowledgements, which may take up to one additional page; submission of additional material (e.g. proofs) as separate documents is allowed, but this material should not form an integral part of the submission and will only be consulted at the discretion of reviewers, PC members and (area and program) chairs, as appropriate; * short papers describing applications, systems and/or demos, of up to 4 pages including abstract, figures, and appendices (if any) but excluding references and acknowledgements, which may take up to one additional page. TOPICS ------ Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Argumentation * Belief revision and update, belief merging, information fusion * Computational aspects of knowledge representation * Concept formation, similarity-based reasoning * Contextual reasoning * Description logics * Decision making * Explanation finding, diagnosis, causal reasoning, abduction * Inconsistency- and exception tolerant reasoning, paraconsistent logics * KR and autonomous agents: intelligent agents, cognitive robotics, multi-agent systems * KR and game theory * KR and machine learning, inductive logic programming, knowledge discovery and acquisition * KR and natural language processing * KR and the Web, Semantic Web * Logic programming, answer set programming, constraint logic programming * Multi- and order-sorted representations and reasoning * Nonmonotonic logics, default logics, conditional logics * Philosophical foundations of KR * Ontology formalisms and models * 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 CONFERENCE CHAIRS ----------------- General: Frank Wolter (University of Liverpool, UK) Program: Michael Thielscher (The University of New South Wales, Australia) Francesca Toni (Imperial College London, UK) Local Organization: Joohyung Lee (Arizona State University, USA) Tran Cao Son (New Mexico State University, USA) Doctoral Consortium: Sebastian Rudolph (Technische Universit?t Dresden, Germany) Madalina Croitoru (University Montpellier II and INRIA, France) Workshop/tutorial Chairs: Sebastian Sardina (RMIT Melbourne, Australia) Ivan Varzinczak (Univ. Artois & CNRS, France) Sponsorship and Publicity: Marcello Balduccini (Saint Joseph's University, USA) Marco Maratea (University of Genova, Italy) From rospocher at fbk.eu Wed Jul 12 11:35:54 2017 From: rospocher at fbk.eu (Marco Rospocher) Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2017 11:35:54 +0200 Subject: [DL] [PhD Scolarship] "Building Quality Event-centric Knowledge Graphs from Text" @ FBK (Trento, Italy) Message-ID: Three-year PhD Grant on "Building Quality Event-centric Knowledge Graphs from Text" offered as part of the Joint PhD Programme in Smart Computing (Universities of Florence, Pisa, and Siena). The grant is financed by the Data and Knowledge Management (DKM) research unit at Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK), Trento, Italy, where most of the research activities will be conducted under the supervision of Dr. Marco Rospocher. PhD Call: http://www.unifi.it/cmpro-v-p-11202.html Deadline: 10th August 2017 ? at 12.00 p.m (midday) Italian time Prospective students are strongly encouraged to get in touch with Dr. Marco Rospocher before applying. *** Description *** Aim of this PhD Studentship is to undertake research in the area of knowledge extraction from text. This is a challenging interdisciplinary research area at the crossroad of Natural Language Processing (NLP), Knowledge Representation and reasoning (KRR), and Semantic Web (SW). Recent approaches for knowledge extraction from text (e.g., [1], [2]) have focused on the extraction of event knowledge from resources such as news articles, Wikipedia pages, blog posts, etc. These approaches build on NLP pipelines consisting of tools performing several tasks (e.g,, Named Entity Recognition and Classification, Entity Linking, Semantic Role Labeling). The output of these NLP tools is then processed to distill the event knowledge which is represented in a graph, where nodes uniquely identify entities, events, and situations of the world, and arcs represent semantic relations between them (e.g., the participation of an entity in an event with its role). Events play a central role in the resulting knowledge graph: beside enabling to relate entities, they capture changes in the world as reported in news articles, blog posts, etc, a complementary information to the static encyclopedic content typically covered by traditional knowledge bases. While achieving increasingly good performances, state-of-the-art approaches suffer of some limitations. - First, as the various modules composing the NLP pipelines works independently and returns (only) the best solution for their task, combining their output may produce contradictory information for the same piece of text: for instance, for the same textual span, a tool may extract reference to an entity of the 21st century, but another may ground the content in the first century B.C.. - Second, these approaches usually translate the natural language sentences into an event-centric representation (explicit knowledge), but they usually fall short in distilling the (implicit) knowledge following from what written in those sentences, a cognitive process that humans typically perform when interpreting a text: for instance, if the text says that someone was released from jail, we can infer that the person was sentenced to imprisonment beforehand. The PhD project will focus on developing and implementing techniques to distill quality, i.e. complete and coherent, event-centric knowledge graphs from large collections of texts, and to infer consequences of what explicitly mentioned in them. More precisely, the work will address two complementary aspects: (1) on the one side, to develop advanced techniques to distill knowledge from the output of the NLP tools used, considering -globally- the results of all the processing performed on a single sentence or document, so to improve the quality and coherence of the resulting event-centric knowledge graph; (2) on the other side, to develop novel techniques that use the extracted knowledge to derive additional facts and consequences, not explicitly mentioned in the source text (e.g., events that should have occurred because of other events, but are not mentioned in the source text). The developed techniques will be based on background knowledge models, built either as the result of the ontological analysis of the content produced by knowledge extraction frameworks (e.g., compatibility between complementary annotations such as entity linking and semantic role labelling, consequences / prerequisites / correlations between event types) or learned from available annotated resources. Alternative approaches (e.g., combinatorial optimization techniques, logical reasoning, machine learning) will be investigated. Candidates should have a high-score MSc Degree in Computer Science, ICT or Mathematics. Previous (basic) knowledge of Semantic Web, Knowledge Representation and Natural Language Processing is required. Candidates should have solid programming skills, in particular of JAVA language. Candidates should be willing to study new, challenging research topics and technologies, be committed to work in a research-driven environment, and have a problem solving attitude. The position will be supervised in Trento (Italy) by Dr. Marco Rospocher. *** References *** [1] Building Event-Centric Knowledge Graphs from News (Marco Rospocher, Marieke van Erp, Piek Vossen, Antske Fokkens, Itziar Aldabe, German Rigau, Aitor Soroa, Thomas Ploeger, Tessel Bogaard), In Web Semantics: Science, Services and Agents on the World Wide Web, volume 37--38, 2016. [2] Frame-Based Ontology Population with PIKES (Francesco Corcoglioniti, Marco Rospocher, Alessio Palmero Aprosio), In IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, volume 28, 2016. -- Dr. Marco Rospocher Research Scientist @ FBK #web http://dkm.fbk.eu/rospocher #email rospocher at fbk.eu #phone +39.0461.314342 #fax +39.0461.302040 #skype spunky78 #address Via Sommarive 18, Trento, ITALY -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From frank.loebe at informatik.uni-leipzig.de Tue Jul 18 01:59:14 2017 From: frank.loebe at informatik.uni-leipzig.de (Frank Loebe) Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2017 01:59:14 +0200 Subject: [DL] IAOA Summer Institute on Upper Ontologies: Final Call for Participation (Aug 8-11, 2017, Toronto, Canada) Message-ID: <201707172359.v6HNxJaB022908@isun.informatik.uni-leipzig.de> The International Association for Ontology and its Applications (IAOA) is announcing the 2017 Summer Institute: UPPER ONTOLOGIES August 8-11, 2017 Toronto, Ontario, Canada Website: http://ontologforum.org/index.php/SummerInstitute2017 == Final Call for Participation == While registrations for the Summer Institute were requested for July 17, 2017, we still have some seats left and invite further interested persons to participate. Please note that all registrations need to be made online via the registration page PRIOR TO ARRIVAL at the Summer Institute. There will be no option for late registrations on site. We will be very grateful if you register as early as possible, as this affects our preparations. Registration page: http://www.mie.utoronto.ca/events/iaoa-summer-institute-2017/ == Scope == Within the Applied Ontology community, upper ontologies are widely recognized as tools to support the tasks of ontology design and semantic integration. At the first Ontology Summit in 2006, the designers of several prominent upper ontologies were joined by key ontology technology participants, with the purpose of finding a means to relate the different ontologies to each other. In the decade since that meeting, the development and application of upper ontologies has continued, yet many challenges remain. The 2017 IAOA Summer Institute will explore the following topics: - What are the foundational choices and the practical motivations of present upper ontologies? - What is the range of concepts that should be covered in an upper ontology? - What are the relationships among upper ontologies? - How do we evaluate upper ontologies? - Using upper ontologies for semantic integration - Using upper ontologies for ontology design - Discussion of proposals for ISO 21838 (Top-Level Ontologies): content and consensus-building methodology == Preliminary Programme == DAY 1: Conceptual Underpinnings of Upper Ontologies Discussions will focus on the foundational choices of present upper ontologies, as well as the range of concepts that should be covered in an upper ontology. DAY 2: Applications of Upper Ontologies The second day will look at applications of upper ontologies, such as semantic integration and ontology design. We will also consider whether upper ontologies deliver on their purported benefits. DAY 3: Relationships among Upper Ontologies In light of the discussions about the applications of upper ontologies, the third day will identify limitations of existing upper ontologies and explore possible extensions. We will also discuss the relationships among the different upper ontologies. DAY 4: Synthesis The last day will look at what's in the future for upper ontologies. Further details and updates at http://ontologforum.org/index.php/SummerInstitute2017#Programme == Facilitators == * Stefano Borgo Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies, Trento, Italy * Michael Gruninger University of Toronto, Canada * Nicola Guarino Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies, Trento, Italy * Barry Smith University at Buffalo, New York, USA == Participation == Participants from all sectors of applied ontology are invited to interact from August 8 to 11, in Toronto, Canada. As always, the Summer Institute will challenge the state of the art through lively discussions and hands-on problem solving rather than lengthy presentations. --> Please REGISTER ONLINE and PRIOR TO ARRIVAL in order to participate. There will be no on-site registration. The earlier the registrations are received, the better we can prepare the event. Registration page: http://www.mie.utoronto.ca/events/iaoa-summer-institute-2017/ The registration fee is 500 CAD, which in USD or EUR likely amounts to a value in the range of 350-400 USD or 325-350 EUR, respectively. == Contact == Michael Gruninger http://stl.mie.utoronto.ca/gruninger.html From homola at fmph.uniba.sk Wed Jul 19 12:45:12 2017 From: homola at fmph.uniba.sk (Martin Homola) Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2017 12:45:12 +0200 Subject: [DL] WOMoCoE 2017: Deadlines extended Message-ID: <20170719104512.GB6285@fmph.uniba.sk> =============================================================== Last Call for Papers *** UPDATED DEADLINES *** 2nd International Workshop on Ontology Modularity, Contextuality, and Evolution (WoMoCoE 2017) http://dai.fmph.uniba.sk/events/womocoe2017/ Co-located with: 16th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2017), October 21-25, 2017, Vienna, Austria =============================================================== In the Semantic Web and Linked Data community, knowledge is rarely considered a monolithic and static unit. Instead, partitioning knowledge into distinct modular structures is central to organize knowledge bases. Moreover, representing and reasoning about context is essential for correct exploitation of modules and reasoning in changing situations. Finally, evolution of knowledge resources is an important factor influencing the meaningfulness of stored knowledge over time. Considering these emerging needs, the 2nd International Workshop on Ontology Modularity, Contextuality, and Evolution (WOMoCoE 2017) offers the ground to discuss current work on practical and theoretical aspects of modularity, contextuality and evolution of knowledge resources. The workshop aims to bring together an interdisciplinary audience interested in its topics both from a theoretical and formal point of view and from an applicational perspective. --------------------------------------------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES: *** UPDATED *** Abstracts deadline: 25 July 2017 Paper deadline: 28 July 2017 Notification: 24 August 2017 Camera ready: 14 September 2017 Workshop dates: 22 October 2017 --------------------------------------------------------------- INVITED SPEAKER: Pascal Hitzler, NCR Distinguished Professor and Director of Data Science, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio, USA --------------------------------------------------------------- TOPICS: The workshop comprises, but is not strictly limited to, the following topics: = Modularity in the Semantic Web and Linked Data resources = - Modular ontology and knowledge representation languages - Modularity in reasoning: incremental and distributed reasoning - Modularity in ontology engineering: ontology modules reuse and publishing - Algorithms and implementations for module extraction - Ontology design patterns for modularity - Modularity in ontology and data visualization - Modularity in SW/LD applications - Theoretical and cognitive aspects of modularity = Representing and facilitating context in the Semantic Web and Linked Data resources = - Representing context in SW/LD resources - Ontologies for modelling contextual information - Capturing contextuality in SW/LD standards - Reasoning with contextual information and metadata - Matching, combining and disambiguating knowledge resources with contexts - Contextuality in SW/LD applications - Formal aspects of context acquisition, representation and interpretation. = Evolution of the Semantic Web and Linked Data resources = - Definitions and algorithms for belief change in ontologies, and SW/LD resources - Reasoning and planning with evolving ontologies and data sources - Evolution in ontology management: merging, versioning, alignment, integration - Fault diagnosis and repair in ontologies and data sources - LD archiving and versioning - Ontology transformation and ontology transformation patterns - Evolution of SW/LD in applications --------------------------------------------------------------- SUBMISSION: Submission of regular and position papers is possible: - Regular papers (12 pages in length including references) include research reports and surveys. - Position papers (6 pages in length including references) are intended for presentation of interesting new open issues and challenges, and opinions on the status of the field. WOMoCoE 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. An extended abstract will be required and included in the proceedings for papers presented elsewhere. All papers must be formatted using the Springer LNCS style and submitted in PDF via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=womocoe2017 Further information about paper submission at: http://dai.fmph.uniba.sk/events/womocoe2017/submission --------------------------------------------------------------- ORGANIZERS: - Loris Bozzato, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Trento, Italy - Thomas Eiter, Vienna University of Technology, Austria - Martin Homola, Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia - Daniele Porello, Free University of Bolzano-Bozen, Italy --------------------------------------------------------------- PROGRAM COMMITTEE (tentative): - Grigoris Antoniou, University of Huddersfield - Stefano Borgo, ISTC-CNR, Trento - Eva Blomqvist, Link?ping University - Valeria De Paiva, University of Birmingham - Chiara Del Vescovo, British Broadcasting Corporation - Javier D. Fern?ndez, Vienna University of Economics and Business - Adila A. Krisnadhi, Wright State University & Universitas Indonesia - Oliver Kutz, Free University of Bozen/Bolzano - Vincenzo Maltese, University of Trento - Francisco Martin-Recuerda, UPM, Madrid - Till Mossakowski, University of Magdeburg - Thomas Schneider, University of Bremen - Luciano Serafini, Fondazione Bruno Kessler - Vojtech Sv?tek, Prague University of Economics - J?rgen Umbrich, Vienna University of Economics and Business - George Vouros, University of Piraeus --------------------------------------------------------------- CONTACT INFO: - Web: http://dai.fmph.uniba.sk/events/womocoe2017/ - Mail: womocoe2017 at easychair.org =============================================================== From matthew.horridge at stanford.edu Sun Jul 16 00:07:37 2017 From: matthew.horridge at stanford.edu (Matthew Horridge) Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2017 22:07:37 +0000 Subject: [DL] [Call for Papers] 8th Workshop on Ontology Design and Patterns - WOP2017 Message-ID: <18256290-5769-4176-BC5A-2EA6EB85F120@stanford.edu> Call for Papers: 8th Workshop on Ontology Design and Patterns - WOP2017. To be held at ISWC 2017 in Vienna, Austria. Saturday 21st October 2017. Submission deadline: July 21st. (Please submit abstracts by July 18th). The Workshop on Ontology Design and Patterns targets topics relating to high quality ontology design as well as ontology design patterns (ODP) in Semantic Web data and ontology engineering. This year we particularly welcome contributions considering how one can develop high-quality ontologies in general, with or without the help of ODPs. As usual, we also welcome pattern descriptions of all sorts, including patterns geared towards applications in specific domains, such as geosciences, biomedical science, as well as digital humanities. We invite the submission of original research results related to the focus areas of the workshop. There are three types of submissions: - Research papers (maximum 15 pages LNCS style) should present mature work and document established results. - Short papers (maximum 5 pages LNCS style) may present proposed research directions, novel ideas, or more general positions or discussions. - Ontology Design Pattern Descriptions (between 5 and 12 pages LNCS style) may present new ontology design patterns. Detailed submission instructions can be found at: http://ontologydesignpatterns.org/wiki/WOP:2017/Submission Topics of interest: - Methods and tools for developing high-quality ontologies, including ontology engineering by domain experts (*new*) - Analyses of quality attributes in ontologies and ontology engineering, and quality assurance approaches for ontology engineering (*new*) - Quality assurance for Linked Data vocabularies (*new*) - Ontology design patterns, analyses of ODP use, and analyses of pattern-based ontologies - Correspondence patterns for ontology matching and integration - Knowledge patterns and knowledge reengineering based on patterns - Antipatterns and their relations to ODPs - Pattern-based ontology design and knowledge engineering - Pattern-based methods and methodologies for development of semantic applications - Ontology pattern extraction - Pattern-based information extraction, ontology learning, and relation to NLP - Pattern-based ontology evaluation and selection - Patterns and Linked data (usage, emerging patterns, pattern-driven data publishing, etc.) - Patterns for streaming data and evolving knowledge, as well as processes and services - Data mining patterns and Semantic Web design - Web semantics from a pattern perspective - Reasoning with, or using, patterns - Patterns in semantic social networks, semantic wikis, semantic blogs, as well as in related fields such as business intelligence and conceptual modelling - ODPs development and use in specific domains including geosciences, life sciences, digital humanities, cultural heritage, e-history, etc. Important Dates: - Abstract submission (required): July 18th, 2017 - Submission date: July 21st, 2017 - Author notifications: August 24th, 2017 - Camera-ready papers: September 11th, 2017 - Workshops will be held on: 21st or 22nd of October, 2017 (TBD) Submission guidelines: Paper submission is via EasyChair. 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URL: From Pavel.Shvaiko at infotn.it Thu Jul 20 10:17:33 2017 From: Pavel.Shvaiko at infotn.it (Pavel Shvaiko) Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2017 10:17:33 +0200 Subject: [DL] Final CFP: ISWC'17 workshop on Ontology Matching (OM-2017): submission deadline is approaching next week, on July 28th Message-ID: Apologies for cross-postings ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ FINAL CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS THE SUBMISSION DEADLINE IS APPROACHING NEXT WEEK, ON JULY 28TH, 2017 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Twelfth International Workshop on ONTOLOGY MATCHING (OM-2017) http://om2017.ontologymatching.org/ October 21st, 2017, ISWC Workshop Program, Vienna, Austria BRIEF DESCRIPTION AND OBJECTIVES Ontology matching is a key interoperability enabler for the Semantic Web, as well as a useful technique in some classical data integration tasks dealing with the semantic heterogeneity problem. It takes 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 interlinking, query answering or process mapping. 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, especially with respect to data interlinking, process mapping and web table matching tasks. 2. To conduct an extensive and rigorous evaluation of ontology matching and instance matching (link discovery) approaches through the OAEI (Ontology Alignment Evaluation Initiative) 2017 campaign. 3. To examine new uses, 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) datasets, benchmarks and replication studies, services, software, methodologies, protocols and measures (not necessarily related to 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; Requirements to matching from specific application scenarios; Application of matching techniques in real-world scenarios; Formal foundations and frameworks for matching; Matching and big data; Matching and linked data; Instance matching, data interlinking and relations between them; Process model matching; Large-scale and efficient matching techniques; Matcher selection, combination and tuning; User involvement (including both technical and organizational aspects); Explanations in matching; Social and collaborative matching; Uncertainty in matching; Reasoning with alignments; Alignment coherence and debugging; Alignment management; Matching for traditional applications (e.g., information integration); Matching for emerging applications (e.g., search, web-services). 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 2017 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=om2017 Contributors to the OAEI 2017 campaign have to follow the campaign conditions and schedule at http://oaei.ontologymatching.org/2017. DATES FOR TECHNICAL PAPERS AND POSTERS: July 28, 2017: Deadline for the submission of papers. August 24, 2017: Deadline for the notification of acceptance/rejection. September 15, 2017: Workshop camera ready copy submission. October 21st, 2017: OM-2017, Vienna, Austria. ORGANIZING COMMITTEE 1. Pavel Shvaiko (main contact) Informatica Trentina, Italy 2. J?r?me Euzenat INRIA & Univ. Grenoble Alpes, France 3. Ernesto Jim?nez-Ruiz University of of Oslo, Norway 4. Michelle Cheatham Wright State University, USA 5. Oktie Hassanzadeh IBM Research, USA PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Alsayed Algergawy, Jena University, Germany Manuel Atencia, INRIA & Univ. Grenoble Alpes, France Zohra Bellahsene, LRIMM, France Olivier Bodenreider, National Library of Medicine, USA Marco Combetto, Informatica Trentina, Italy Valerie Cross, Miami University, USA Warith Eddine Djeddi, LIPAH & LABGED, Tunisia J?r?me David, University Grenoble Alpes & INRIA, France Gayo Diallo, University of Bordeaux, France Zlatan Dragisic, Link?pings Universitet, Sweden Alfio Ferrara, University of Milan, Italy Wei Hu, Nanjing University, China Valentina Ivanova, Link?pings Universitet, Sweden Antoine Isaac, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam & Europeana, Netherlands Valentina Ivanova, Link?pings Universitet, Sweden Ryutaro Ichise, National Institute of Informatics, Japan Daniel Faria, Instituto Gulbenkian de Ci?ncia, Portugal Patrick Lambrix, Link?pings Universitet, Sweden Juanzi Li, Tsinghua University, China Vincenzo Maltese, University of Trento, Italy Fiona McNeill, University of Edinburgh, UK Peter Mork, Noblis, USA Andriy Nikolov, Open University, UK Axel Ngonga, University of Leipzig, Germany Catia Pesquita, University of Lisbon, Portugal Dominique Ritze, University of Mannheim, Germany Umberto Straccia, ISTI-C.N.R., Italy Ondrej Svab-Zamazal, Prague University of Economics, Czech Republic C?ssia Trojahn, IRIT, France Ludger van Elst, DFKI, Germany ------------------------------------------------------- More about ontology matching: http://www.ontologymatching.org/ http://book.ontologymatching.org/ ------------------------------------------------------- Best Regards, Pavel ------------------------------------------------------- Pavel Shvaiko, PhD Informatica Trentina, Italy http://www.ontologymatching.org/ http://www.infotn.it/ ____________________________________________ Cap. 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URL: From pr-aksw at informatik.uni-leipzig.de Thu Jul 20 10:22:32 2017 From: pr-aksw at informatik.uni-leipzig.de (Sebastian Hellmann) Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2017 10:22:32 +0200 Subject: [DL] SEMANTiCS 2017, Amsterdam, Sep 11-14, Extended Submission Deadline July 25, 2017 Message-ID: ***DEADLINE EXTENSION*** 2nd Call for Posters & Demos SEMANTiCS 2017 - The Linked Data Conference 13th International Conference on Semantic Systems Amsterdam, Netherlands September 11 -14, 2017 http://2017.semantics.cc For details please go to: https://2017.semantics.cc/calls Important Dates (Posters & Demos Track): *Submission Deadline: extended: July 25, 2017 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time) *Notification of Acceptance: August 10, 2017 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time) *Camera-Ready Paper: August 18, 2017 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time) As in the previous years, SEMANTiCS?17 proceedings will be published by ACM ICPS (pending) and CEUR WS proceedings. This year, SEMANTiCS features a special Data Science track, which is an opportunity to bring together researchers and practitioners interested in data science and its intersection with Linked Data to present their ideas and discuss the most important scientific, technical and socio-economical challenges of this emerging field. SEMANTiCS 2017 will especially welcome submissions for the following hot topics: *Metadata, Versioning and Data Quality Management *Semantics for Safety, Security & Privacy *Web Semantics, Linked (Open) Data & schema.org *Corporate Knowledge Graphs *Knowledge Integration and Language Technologies *Economics of Data, Data Services and Data Ecosystems Special Track (please check appropriate topic in submission system) *Data Science Following the success of previous years, we welcome any submissions related but not limited to the following ?horizontal? (research) and ?vertical? (industries) topics: Horizontals: *Enterprise Linked Data & Data Integration *Knowledge Discovery & Intelligent Search *Business Models, Governance & Data Strategies *Semantics in Big Data *Text Analytics *Data Portals & Knowledge Visualization *Semantic Information Management *Document Management & Content Management *Terminology, Thesaurus & Ontology Management *Smart Connectivity, Networking & Interlinking *Smart Data & Semantics in IoT *Semantics for IT Safety & Security *Semantic Rules, Policies & Licensing *Community, Social & Societal Aspects Data Science Special Track Horizontals: *Large-Scale Data Processing (stream processing, handling large-scale graphs) *Data Analytics (Machine Learning, Predictive Analytics, Network Analytics) *Communicating Data (Data Visualization, UX & Interaction Design, Crowdsourcing) *Cross-cutting Issues (Ethics, Privacy, Security, Provenance) Verticals: *Industry & Engineering *Life Sciences & Health Care *Public Administration *e-Science *Digital Humanities *Galleries, Libraries, Archives & Museums (GLAM) *Education & eLearning *Media & Data Journalism *Publishing, Marketing & Advertising *Tourism & Recreation *Financial & Insurance Industry *Telecommunication & Mobile Services *Sustainable Development: Climate, Water, Air, Ecology *Energy, Smart Homes & Smart Grids *Food, Agriculture & Farming *Safety, Security & Privacy *Transport, Environment & Geospatial Posters & Demos Track The Posters & Demonstrations Track invites innovative work in progress, late-breaking research and innovation results, and smaller contributions in all fields related to the broadly understood Semantic Web. These include submissions on innovative applications with impact on end users such as demos of solutions that users may test or that are yet in the conceptual phase, but are worth discussing, and also applications, use cases or pieces of code that may attract developers and potential research or business partners. This also concerns new data sets made publicly available. The informal setting of the Posters & Demonstrations Track encourages participants to present innovations to the research community, business users and find new partners or clients and 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 that describe the work, its contribution to the field or novelty aspects. Submissions must be original and must not have been submitted for publication elsewhere. Accepted papers will be published in HTML (RASH) in CEUR and, as such, the camera-ready version of the papers will be required in HTML, following the poster and demo guidelines (https://goo.gl/3BEpV7). Papers should be submitted through EasyChair (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=semantics2017 and should be less than 2200 words in length (equivalent to 4 pages), including the whole content of the paper. For the initial reviewing phase, authors may submit a PDF version of the paper following any layout. After acceptance, authors are required to submit the camera-ready in HTML (RASH). Submissions will be reviewed by experienced and knowledgeable researchers and practitioners; each submission will receive detailed feedback. For demos, we encourage authors to include links enabling the reviewers to test the application or review the component. For details please go to: https://2017.semantics.cc/calls From Rafael.Penaloza at unibz.it Wed Jul 19 15:04:33 2017 From: Rafael.Penaloza at unibz.it (Penaloza Nyssen Rafael) Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2017 13:04:33 +0000 Subject: [DL] [CfP] Ontology Debugging and Evaluation Workshop (DEW @ JOWO) - Deadline: July 28 Message-ID: -- Last Call for Papers -- ***Submission deadline: July 28, 2017*** -- DEW: The Ontology Debugging and Evaluation Workshop @ JOWO 2017 September 21-23, Bolzano, Italy DEW: http://www.inf.unibz.it/~penaloza/DEW/ JOWO: http://www.iaoa.org/jowo/2017/ ** Description and Scope ** The Ontology Debugging and Evaluation Workshop (DEW) aims to advance ontology evaluation and the detection, understanding, and correction of errors in ontologies and ontological knowledge bases. The scope of submissions sought includes, but is not limited to, such topics as formal methods, tools, and identification of particular challenges. Papers discussing ontology quality criteria, metrics, experimental results, particular cases, and lessons learned are encouraged. The DEW organizers encourage variety in emphasis in perspective. Submissions may emphasize more or less formal, experiential, practical, or theoretical aspects of debugging and evaluation. Similarly, papers may arise, for example, from the perspectives of ontology (re)users, ontology developers, or those responsible for the quality assurance of ontologies incorporated into larger systems. ** Relationship to JOWO ** DEW is part of JOWO 2017: The 3rd Joint Ontology Workshops. JOWO 2017 will be held September 21-23, 2017, in Bozen-Bolzano, Italy. Registration for JOWO 2017 grants attendees access to all ten workshops, plus invited speakers, joint panels sessions, and other collegial events. JOWO registration fees range between 90? and 190?, depending on student status, IAOA membership, and date of registration. See http://www.iaoa.org/jowo/2017/ for the details about the workshops, keynotes, social events, venue, and logistics. ** Important Dates ** Submission deadline: July 28, 2017 Notifications: September 1, 2017 Workshop: September 21-23, 2017 ** Submission Guidelines ** DEW submissions must be in either short paper or full paper format: Short papers: maximum 6 pages (including references) Full papers: maximum 14 pages (including references) Papers must have not been previously published or be under review at another workshop. However, we encourage submissions that present summaries or highlights of work appearing elsewhere in longer form. DEW submissions must also adhere to these guidelines, shared across all JOWO workshops: Submitted papers must not exceed 14 pages (including bibliography) and must include an abstract of no more than 300 words. Papers should adhere to IOS Press formatting guidelines. IOS Press offers formatting tools for authors working in MS Word or in LaTeX: http://www.iospress.nl/service/authors/. Papers should be submitted in PDF format, non-anonymously, via EasyChair at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=jowo2017, specifying DEW as the track. Accepted papers will be published open-access in the joint JOWO proceedings (a CEUR volume). ** Organization ** Co-Chairs: Rafael Pe?aloza (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano) Amanda Vizedom (Criticollab) Program Committee: Alan Belasco (Securboration) Francesco Corcoglioniti (Fondazione Bruno Kessler) Michael Gr?ninger (University of Toronto) Yevgeny Kazakov (Ulm University) Carlos Menc?a (University of Oviedo) Peter F. Patel-Schneider (Nuance Communications) Lydia Pintscher (Wikimedia Germany) Mar?a Poveda Villal?n (Polit?cnica de Madrid) Uli Sattler (University of Manchester) Jodi Schneider (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) Renata Wassermann (University of Sao Paulo) ---------------------------------------------------- Dr. Rafael Pe?aloza Assistant Professor KRDB - Faculty of Computer Science Free University of Bozen-Bolzano I-39100 Bolzano, Italy e-mail: penaloza at inf.unibz.it home: http://www.inf.unibz.it/~penaloza/ From schon at uni-koblenz.de Tue Jul 18 08:45:45 2017 From: schon at uni-koblenz.de (Claudia Schon) Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2017 08:45:45 +0200 Subject: [DL] ISWC Workshop on Managing Changes in the Semantic Web (Deadline Extension) Message-ID: Deadline extended to July 28th! Workshop on Managing Changes in the Semantic Web in conjunction with ISWC 2017 Vienna, Austria, October 21st, 2017 http://macsew2017.west.uni-koblenz.de The Web is primary a communication platform where knowledge is produced, shared, and consumed by a diversity of stakeholders. As communication is a dynamic process, the data on Web is subject to changes. These dynamics evoke the need for versatile methods and algorithms to represent data changes and provide Web agents with a suitable world view at any time. Changing data on the Web has a great impact on the way we live and do business as we rely on insights from such information to make (future) decisions. Managing changing datasets is important for many purposes and applications involving Web Data, and it raises a variety of research challenges, such as (1) how to facilitate integration of dynamic sources and ontologies, (2) when to notify changes and perform updates on local caches or indexes, and thus ensure the delivery of up-to-date and valid information, (3) how to validate and evaluate the impact of the changes, (4) how to keep track of changes in distributed data sources, and (5) how to represent and query for change. When keeping track of the evolution of data, knowledge representation methods have to deal with the evolution of knowledge at both schema and data level i.e. schema information need to be updated due to changes in the world or the acquisition of new knowledge whereas data sets need to take into account the evolution of the data and links from the different Web sources e.g. from sensor data streams, financial transactions, news feeds, etc. There is a plethora of work on different aspects of managing changes of semantic web data: keeping track of certain aspects of the performed modifications like trustworthiness or timestamps became an important line of research. For this task provenance management frameworks have proven to be very helpful. Likewise, different methods in the field of belief revision and uniform interpolation have become very active fields of research addressing the problem of performing changes to description logic knowledge bases. In the field of Semantic Web, recent research studies the development of different SPARQL Update semantics dealing with dynamic RDF data at both instance-level and schema-level; addressing the issue of inconsistencies introduced by updates, and capturing RDFS entailments within updates. The MaCSeW workshop aims to bring together researchers addressing the problem of managing changes in Semantic Web data from different areas like linked data, Semantic Web, knowledge and belief change and description logic in order provide an overview of the existing approaches as well as to advance cooperation of the different areas. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: ? Integration of dynamic sources ? Handling changes in Linked Open Data Cloud ? Concept drift in the Semantic Web ? Tracking provenance of Web data ? Evolution of description logic TBoxes and/or ABoxes ? Dealing with inconsistencies in ontologies ? Uniform interpolation ? Different aspects of forgetting ? Foundations of belief change in ontologies ? Maintaining Links on the Web of Data ? SPARQL Update The workshop will be held in conjunction with ISWC 2017. IMPORTANT DATES Full Paper submission deadline: July 28th, 2017 Notification: August 24th, 2017 Final submission: September 7th, 2017 Workshop: October 21st SUBMISSION AND CONTRIBUTION FORMAT Papers, including the description of work in progress are welcome and should be formatted according to the Springer LNCS guidelines. The length should not exceed 15 pages. All papers must be submitted in PDF. Formatting instructions and the LNCS style files can be obtained at http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.htm. The EasyChair submission site is available at: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=macsew2017 PROCEEDINGS Proceedings of the workshop will be published as CEUR workshop proceedings. ORGANIZERS Renata Dividino, Dalhouise University Claudia Schon,Universit?t Koblenz-Landau Nadeschda Nikitina, University of Oxford J?rgen Umbrich, Vienna University of Economics and Business PROGRAM COMMITTEE - Carlos Buil-Aranda, Universidad T?cnica Federico Santa Maria,Chile - Javier D. Fernandez, WU Vienna - Ernesto Jimenez-Ruiz, University of Oslo - Evgeny Kharlamov, University of Oxford - Boris Konev, University of Liverpool - Patrick Koopmann, TU Dresden - Rafael Pe?aloza Nyssen, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano - Sebastian Rudolph, TU Dresden - Cristina Sarasua, University of Koblenz-Landau - Vadim Savenkov, WU Vienna - Renate Schmidt, University of Manchester - Steffen Staab, University of Koblenz-Landau CONTACT Claudia Schon, schon at uni-koblenz.de Renata Dividino, dividino at dal.ca From davy.monticolo at univ-lorraine.fr Mon Jul 24 11:53:57 2017 From: davy.monticolo at univ-lorraine.fr (Davy Monticolo) Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2017 11:53:57 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [DL] CALL FOR PAPERS - KARE 2017 - The 9th International Workshop on Knowledge Acquisition Reuse & Evaluation Message-ID: <1652100832.6536626.1500890037770.JavaMail.zimbra@univ-lorraine.fr> CALL FOR PAPERS KARE 2017 - The 9th International Workshop on Knowledge Acquisition Reuse & Evaluation Collocated with: SITIS 2017 - The 13th International Conference on SIGNAL IMAGE TECHNOLOGY & INTERNET BASED SYSTEMS December 4-7, 2016 - Jaipur, India Scope of the Workshop The International Workshop on Knowledge Acquisition, Reuse and Evaluation aims to bring together researchers, scientists, engineers, and scholar students to exchange and share their experiences, new ideas, and research results about all aspects of Knowledge, Ontology, Sermantic Web or Knowledge Engineering. We will discuss the practical challenges encountered and the solutions adopted. This workshop will focus on the theoreticians and practitioners concerned with developing methods and systems that assist the knowledge management process and assessing the suitability of such methods. Thus, the workshop includes all aspects of acquiring, modelling and managing knowledge, and their role in the construction of knowledge-based systems. Knowledge acquisition still remains the bottleneck for building a knowledge based system. Reuse and sharing of knowledge bases are major issues and no satisfactory solutions have been agreed upon yet. There is a wide range of research. Much of the work in this field has been knowledge acquisition. The advent of the age of digital information has brought the problem of knowledge reuse and knowledge evaluation. Our ability to analyze, evaluate and assist user in reusing knowledge present a great challenge of the next years. A new generation of computational techniques and tools is required to support the acquisition, the reuse and the evaluation of useful knowledge from the rapidly growing volume of information. All of these are to be discussed in this workshop. Topics for the workshop include, but are not limited to: ? Tools and techniques for knowledge acquisition, knowledge update and knowledge validation ? knowledge portals ? Web-based approaches for knowledge management ? Agent-based approaches for knowledge management ? Software agents for semantic web ? Semantic web-based knowledge management ? Tools, languages, and techniques for semantic annotation ? Semantic searching ? Semantic brokering ? CSCW and cooperative approaches for knowledge management ? Agent-based approaches for knowledge management ? Evaluation of knowledge acquisition techniques ? Information and knowledge structures ? Languages and frameworks for knowledge and knowledge modelling ? Ontology creation, evolution, reconciliation, and mediation ? Ontology-based approaches for knowledge management ? Knowledge delivery methods ? Knowledge life cycle ? Knowledge and information extraction and discovery techniques ? Corporate Semantic Webs for knowledge management ? Peer-to-peer approaches for knowledge management ? Knowledge extraction from images/pictures ? Intelligent knowledge-based systems ? Decision support and expert systems ? Re-usability of software/knowledge/information ? Semantic web inference methodologies Important dates Submission deadline: August 27, 2017 Acceptance/Reject notification: October 3, 2017 Camera-ready: October 17, 2017 Author Registration: October 19, 2017 Submission Each submission should be at most 8 pages in total including bibliography and well-marked appendices, and must follow the IEEE double columns publication format available at: * Microsoft Word DOC * LaTex Formatting Macros Paper submission will only be online via: Easy Chair (https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sitis2017) Only pdf files will be accepted. Submissions not meeting these guidelines risk rejection without consideration of their merits. All submitted papers will be carefully evaluated based on originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of expression by at least two reviewers. The organizers will examine the reviews and make final paper selections. Publication All the papers accepted for the workshop will be included in the conference proceedings and submitted for inclusion to IEEE Xplore and major indexes. They will be available at the conference. Registration At least one author of each accepted paper must register for the workshop. Workshop registration fee is determined by SITIS. A single registration for the workshop or the conference allows attending both events. Journal Special Issues Publication Chair: Davy Monticolo Selected high-quality papers in the area of the Knowledge engineering domain will be selected to submit an extended version on the special issue: " Knowledge Management and Organizations ", International Journal of Knowledge Based System , Impact Factor : 4,59 Elsevier Edition. Workshop Co-Chairs: Davy Monticolo, Universit? de Lorraine, France Alex Gabriel, ?cole nationale sup?rieure d?arts et m?tiers, Paris, France Program Committee: ? Ezendu Ariwa, London Metropolitan University ? Dickson K.W.Chiu, The University of Hong Kong ? Andrew Kusiak, University of Iowa ? Lenka Lhotska, Czech Technical University in Prague, Dept. of Cybernetics ? Yishuai Lin, Xidian University ? Gaelle Lortal, THALES R&D ? Matta Nada, University of Technology of Troyes ? Jose M Parente De Oliveira, Aeronautics Institute of Technology ? Jan Martijn Van Der Werf, Department of Information and Computing Sciences, Utrecht University ? Ernesto Exposito, LAAS-CNRS, INSA Toulouse, University of Toulouse ? Inaya Lahoud, Galatasaray University ? Rahma Dhaouadi, SOIE LI3 ? Uwe Riss SAP (Switzerland) AG Contact Davy MONTICOLO, davy.monticolo at univ-lorraine.fr -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dragoni at fbk.eu Sat Jul 22 10:27:25 2017 From: dragoni at fbk.eu (Mauro Dragoni) Date: Sat, 22 Jul 2017 10:27:25 +0200 Subject: [DL] Cognitive Computing Track @ The 33rd ACM Symposium on Applied Computing - ACM SAC 2018 - Call for Paper Message-ID: ==== Cognitive Computing Track @ The 33rd ACM Symposium on Applied Computing - ACM SAC 2018 - Call for Paper ==== Cognitive Computing Track website: https://coco.fbk.eu/sac2018 ACM SAC 2018 website: http://www.sigapp.org/sac/sac2018/ Dates: April 9-13, 2018 Venue: Pau, France *** Aim & Scope *** The SAC2018 special track on Cognitive Computing (http://coco.fbk.eu/sac2018) aims to promote a forum for scientists, engineers and practitioners, in academia and industry, to share and discuss latest advances, breakthrough results, and real-world experiences in the Cognitive Computing area. This is an interdisciplinary emerging research area, at the core of Artificial Intelligence, investigating the development of self-learning systems, that naturally interact with humans in complex environments, and are capable to adapt to context and changes in language and meaning. Original and unpublished papers dealing with all facets of the Cognitive Computing area --- such as Natural Language Processing, Knowledge Representation and Reasoning, Audio and Video Analysis, Computer-Human Interaction, Neuroscience and Cognition --- are invited. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Cognitive Knowledge Acquisition ---- Frameworks for acquiring Cognitive Knowledge ---- Tools and Methodologies for Cognitive Knowledge acquisition ---- Natural Language Processing for Cognitive Knowledge acquisition ---- Sentiment Analysis and Opinion Mining ---- Linguistic Resources and Cognitive Knowledge Acquisition ---- Machine Learning techniques (e.g., Deep Learning) for Cognitive Knowledge acquisition ---- Acquisition from media other than text (e.g., audio, video, images) ---- Linked Data and Cognitive Knowledge Acquisition ---- Emerging approaches for Cognitive Knowledge acquisition (e.g., crowd?based approaches). ---- Principled evaluation of acquired Cognitive Knowledge - Representing, Formalizing and Reasoning with Cognitive Knowledge ---- Ontologies for Cognitive Systems ---- Representation languages for Cognitive Knowledge ---- Reasoning about Cognitive Knowledge - Development of Cognitive Systems ---- Architectures for Cognitive Systems ---- Scalability of Cognitive Systems ---- Complex Cognitive Systems ---- Fuzzy Cognitive Systems - Applications ---- Real?world applications that exploit Cognitive Knowledge ---- Cognitive Systems for Big Data scenarios ---- Cognitive Techniques for Deep Learning ---- Cognitive Techniques for Persuasion and Recommender Systems ---- Cognitive Robotics ---- Cognitive Techniques for Information Retrieval ---- Deployment of Cognitive Systems in specific domains. For example: ------- Digital Humanities and Social Sciences ------- eGovernment and public administration ------- Life sciences, health and medicine ------- Social Media, News, and Data Streams *** Paper Submission *** Research papers and experience reports related to the above topics are solicited. Submissions must not have been published or be concurrently considered for publication elsewhere. Papers should be submitted in PDF using the ACM-SAC proceedings format via the SAC 2018 website. Authors' names and affiliations should be entered separately at the submission site and not appear in the submitted papers. Each submission will be reviewed in a DOUBLE-BLIND process according to the ACM-SAC Regulations. Student Research Competition submissions are welcome (see www.sigapp.org/sac /sac2018/pdf/SAC2018-CFSRC.pdf for details). *** Submission sites: *** (for regular papers) TBA (for SRC papers) TBA Paper selection is based on the originality, technical contribution, presentation quality, and relevance to the Cognitive Computing Track. Some papers may be accepted as posters. Authors of selected papers of the Cognitive Computing track will be invited to submit an extended version of their work to a forthcoming Special Issue in Progress in Artificial Intelligence (Springer journal). *** Important Dates *** September 15, 2017: Regular Paper & SRC Abstract Submission Due - EXTENDED November 10, 2017: Author Notification November 25, 2017: Camera? ready copies of accepted papers/SRC December 10, 2017: Author Registration Due *** Track Co?Chairs *** Mauro Dragoni, Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK) ? dragoni at fbk.eu Marco Rospocher, Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK) ? rospocher at fbk.eu *** Programme Committee *** TBA *** General Inquiries *** For further information, please visit SAC Cognitive Computing Track and SAC 2017 conference websites (http://www.sigapp.org/sac/sac2018/) or feel free to contact the Track Co?Chairs. -- Dr. Mauro Dragoni Researcher at Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK-IRST) Via Sommarive 18, 38123, Povo, Trento, Italy Tel. 0461-314053 ######################################## Consider submitting your contribution to the Cognitive Computing track @ ACM SAC 2018 https://coco.fbk.eu/sac2018/ Pau, France, April 9-13, 2018 ######################################## -- Dr. Mauro Dragoni Researcher at Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK-IRST) Via Sommarive 18, 38123, Povo, Trento, Italy Tel. 0461-314053 ######################################## Consider submitting your contribution to the Cognitive Computing track @ ACM SAC 2018 https://coco.fbk.eu/sac2018/ Pau, France, April 9-13, 2018 ######################################## -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Message-ID: <1500643881.597202290e0bf@webmail.unige.it> Abstract by 27 July Paper by 31 July [APOLOGIES FOR MULTIPLE POSTINGS] * ______________________________________________________________________ * The RCRA group (Knowledge Representation & Automated Reasoning) of the AI*IA (Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence) organizes the 24th RCRA workshop: Experimental evaluation of algorithms for solving problems with combinatorial explosion (RCRA 2017) workshop of the 16th International Conference of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence http://aiia2017.di.uniba.it/ Bari, November 14th - November 15th, 2017 RCRA group web site: http://rcra.aixia.it/ Workshop web site: http://rcra.aixia.it/rcra2017 e-mail: rcra2017[AT]easychair[DOT]org * ______________________________________________________________________ * This event follows the series of the RCRA (Knowledge Representation and Automated Reasoning) annual meetings, held since 1994. The success of the previous events shows that RCRA is becoming a major forum for exchanging ideas and proposing experimentation methodologies for algorithms in Artificial Intelligence. * ______________________________________________________________________ * IMPORTANT DATES Abstract submission deadline: July 27th, 2017 Paper submission deadline: July 31st, 2017 Notification of acceptance: September 10th, 2017 Final version of accepted original papers: September 30th, 2017 Workshop day: November 14th-15th, 2017 AIMS AND SCOPE Many problems in Artificial Intelligence show an exponential explosion of the search space. Although stemming from different research areas in AI, such problems are often addressed with algorithms that have a common goal: the effective exploration of huge state spaces. Many algorithms developed in one research area are applicable to other problems, or can be hybridized with techniques in other areas. Artificial Intelligence tools often exploit or hybridize techniques developed by other research communities, such as Operations Research. In recent years, research in Artificial Intelligence has more and more focused on experimental evaluation of algorithms, the development of suitable methodologies for experimentation and analysis, the study of languages and the implementation of systems for the definition and solution of problems. Scope of the workshop is fostering the cross-fertilization of ideas stemming from different areas, proposing benchmarks for new challenging problems, comparing models and algorithms from an experimental viewpoint, and, in general, comparing different approaches with respect to efficiency, problem modeling, and ease of development. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Experimental evaluation of algorithms for o knowledge representation o automated reasoning o planning o scheduling o machine learning o model checking o boolean satisfiability (SAT) o constraint programming o argumentation o temporal reasoning o combinatorial optimization o quantified boolean formulae and quantified constraints o modal logics o logic programming o answer set programming o ontological reasoning * Definition and construction of benchmarks * Experimentation methodologies * Metaheuristics * Algorithm hybridization * Static analysis of combinatorial problems * Languages and systems for definition and solution of problems * Comparisons between systems and algorithms * Application experiences (visualization, graphics, security, transports,...) WORKSHOP CHAIRS Marco Maratea University of Genova, Italy Ivan Serina University of Brescia, Italy Workshop program committee Mario Alviano (University of Calabria) Stefano Bistarelli (Universit? di Perugia) Pedro Cabalar (University of Corunna Martine Ceberio (University of Texas at El Paso) Federico Chesani (University of Bologna) Stefania Costantini (University of L'Aquila) Luca Di Gaspero (University of Udine) Carmine Dodaro (University of Genova) Wolfgang Faber (University of Huddersfield) Jorge Fandinno (Coru?a University) Andrea Formisano (University of Perugia) Fabio Gadducci (University of Pisa) Marco Gavanelli (University of Ferrara) Matti J?rvisalo (University of Helsinki) Zeynep Kiziltan (University of Bologna) Toni Mancini (Sapienza University) Joao Marques-Silva (University of Lisbon) Angelo Oddi (ISTC-CNR) Gian Luca Pozzato (University of Torino) Luca Pulina (University of Sassari) Francesco Ricca (University of Calabria) Francesco Santini (University of Perugia) Torsten Schaub (University of Potsdam) Claudia Schulz (TU Darmstadt) Peter Sch?ller (Marmara University) Thomas St?tzle (Universit? Libre de Bruxelles) Paolo Torroni (University of Bologna) Mirek Truszczynski (University of Kentucky) Mauro Vallati (University of Huddersfield) Richard Wallace (University College Cork) ;; Johannes P. Wallner (TU Wien) Stefan Woltran (TU Wien) Neng-Fa Zhou (CUNY Brooklyn College and Graduate Center) HOST ORGANIZATION University of Bari, Italy SUBMISSIONS Authors are invited to submit either original (full or short) papers, or papers that appear on conference proceedings. Publications showing negative results are welcome, provided that the approach was original and very promising in principle, the experimentation was well-conducted, the results obtained were unforeseeable and gave important hints in the comprehension of the target problem, helping other researchers to avoid unsuccessful paths. The authors are requested to clearly specify whether their submission is original or already published. A footnote in the first page would suffice. Workshop submissions must be in PDF format, do not exceed 15 (for full papers) or 8 (for short papers) pages, and should be written in LaTeX, using the LNCS style. RCRA 2017 uses EasyChair for the submission of contributions. Contributions must be submitted through this page: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=rcra2017 All submissions will be reviewed by at least three members of the program committee. CONTACT In case of need, the workshop co-chairs can be contacted by sending an email to: rcra2017[AT]easychair[DOT]org PROCEEDINGS Accepted original papers will be published online, as an issue of the CEUR-WS workshop proceeding series, AI*IA sub-series. Moreover, as in previous editions (http://rcra.aixia.it/publications), we are considering the possibility of having workshop post-proceedings appearing in a special issue of an international journal, provided that a sufficient amount of high quality papers is collected. HISTORY OF THE RECENT WORKSHOP SERIES * RCRA 2016 as a workshop of AI*IA 2016, Genova, Italy http://rcra.aixia.it/rcra2016 Extended versions of the best papers will appear in a special issue of JETAI * RCRA 2015 as a workshop of AI*IA 2015, Ferrara, Italy http://rcra.aixia.it/rcra2015 Extended versions of the best papers will appear in a special issue of Fundamenta Informaticae * RCRA 2014 as a workshop of SAT 2014, IJCAR 2014 and ICLP 2014, Vienna, Austria - http://rcra.aixia.it/rcra2014 Extended versions of the best papers will appear in a special issue of AI Communications * RCRA 2013, Rome, Italy - http://rcra.aixia.it/rcra2013 Extended versions of the best papers will appear in a special issue of JETAI * Previous editions: http://rcra.aixia.it/workshops From marianne.huchard at lirmm.fr Fri Jul 21 18:10:22 2017 From: marianne.huchard at lirmm.fr (Marianne Huchard) Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2017 18:10:22 +0200 Subject: [DL] Sept 15 - 2nd CFP Special Issue Discrete Applied Mathematics/CLA 2016 Message-ID: ================================================================================ SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS Discrete Applied Mathematics Special Issue: Concept Lattices and Their Applications ================================================================================ Formal Concept Analysis (FCA) is a general-scope method for data analysis and classification with mathematical roots in order and lattice theory. Its originality lies in the extraction of concepts in data, which have a dual definition with a set of properties/predicates and a set of objects that satisfy the properties. These concepts are organized in conceptual structures that may range from partial orders to lattices of special types and that comprise data dependencies. Due to the richness of its structures, FCA contributes to several domains including artificial intelligence, data mining, information retrieval, knowledge management, data and knowledge engineering, logic, algebra, and lattice theory. The research in the domain is very active and many applications are proposed in such various fields as natural language processing, life and social sciences, image processing, and software engineering, where large datasets are present. The International Conference on Concept Lattices and Their Applications (CLA) is one of the most important events of the FCA community (http://cla.inf.upol.cz/). It aims to provide a forum for researchers involved in all aspects of the study of FCA, from theory and methodology to tools and practical applications. In 2016, the event was organized and hosted by the National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia. We hereby cordially invite authors of CLA 2016 publications as well as other FCA researchers to contribute to this special issue of /Discrete Applied Mathematics/. Submissions should relate to the themes of the conference, including but not restricted to: - foundations - concept lattices and related structures - attribute implications and data dependencies - algorithms - visualization - data preprocessing - redundancy and dimensionality reduction - information retrieval - classification - clustering - association rules and other data dependencies - ontologies - applications This is an open call; submissions of contributions not presented at CLA 2016 are also welcome. Contributions arising from papers given at the conference should be substantially extended, and should cite the conference paper where appropriate. All articles will be thoroughly refereed according to the high standards of /Discrete Applied Mathematics/. The full papers must be submitted through the Elsevier Editorial System (*http://ees.elsevier.com/dam*). When submitting your paper, be sure to specify that the paper is a contribution for the Special Issue of *CLA 2016*, so that your paper is assigned to the guest editors. Please see the Author Instructions on the site if you have not yet submitted a paper through this web-based system. Be sure to select the article type *S.I.: CLA 2016.* The deadline for submission is *September 15, 2017*. Accepted papers will be published online individually, before print publication. 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Conf. on Web Intelligence 2017 (WI'17), 23-26 Aug. 2017, Leipzig, Germany In-Reply-To: <0a665c18-e266-f2b4-da66-f3669538aeb3@icb.uni-due.de> References: <0a665c18-e266-f2b4-da66-f3669538aeb3@icb.uni-due.de> Message-ID: <35756df8-29bc-c722-d1f9-fdad37fa0bfc@icb.uni-due.de> [Apologies if you receive this more than once] Please forward this CFP to anyone who might be interested. ####################################################################### CALL FOR PARTICIPATION with Voucher IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence 2017 (WI'17) August 23-26, 2017, Leipzig, Germany Conference Website: http://webintelligence2017.com/ in conjunction with 15th German International Conference on Multiagent Systems Technologies (MATES 2017) Conference Website: http://mates2017.uni-trier.de/ ##################################### VOUCHER ################################### Voucher (only for Online registration) worth 50,- ?: Please enter wi2017voucher50 on the registration page in the appriate box ##################################### VOUCHER ################################### *** CONFIRMED KEYNOTE SPEAKERS *** * Raj Reddy (Turing Award Winner 1994), Carnegie Mellon University, US: The Ultimate Web Intelligence: Computational Social Science * Cristiano Castelfranchi, Director Institute for Cognitive Sciences and Technologies, University of Siena, Italy Cognition & Self-Organization in a Hybrid Society & Coupled Reality: The role of AI * Amit Sheth, Executive Director Kno.e.sis Center & Prof. Wright State University, US: Semantic, Cognitive, and Perceptual Computing ? three intertwined strands of a golden braid of intelligent computing * Frank Leymann, Professor University of Stuttgart, Germany Loose Coupling and Architectural Implications * Christine Preisach, Vice President of Data Science in IoT and Digital Connected Assets, SAP, Germany AI and Machine Learning in IoT * Matthias Klusch, German Research Center for AI (DFKI), Germany Intelligent Agents and Semantic Technologies for Industry 4.0: Showcases and Challenges ++++++++++++++++++++++++++ HIGHLIGHTS +++++++++++++++++++++ 6 high-profile keynotes, including one Turing Award Winner Raj Reddy (Turing Award Winner 1994) Cristiano Castelfranchi Amit Sheth Frank Leymann Christine Preisach (Industry Track) Matthias Klusch (Industry Track) 6 Tutorials Brain Big Data Based Wisdom Service (Ning Zhong) Efficient Index Maintenance and Edge Influence Computation for Dynamic Graphs (Yongrui Qin) Nature-inspired Coordination: Current Status and Research Trends (Andrea Omicini) Predictive Analytics using Structured and Unstructured Data (Lipika Dey) Social CRM Analytics (Rainer Alt, Olaf Reinhold, Frank Stumpf) User Friendly Net Promoter Score Based Recommender System for Boosting Business Revenue (Zbigniew Ras) 9 Workshops 2 Special Sessions 3 days of packed academic program with five parallel sessions The lively and historic city of Leipzig is not only an attractive conference venue (in the pure center of Leipzig), but is also a city full of history, nightlife, culture, nature and sports. Accommodation close to the conference venue for all budget levels. +++++++++++++++++++++ REGISTRATRION +++++++++++++++++++++ On-line registration (and more information - see also VOUCHER above) at http://webintelligence2017.com/attending-conference/fees-registration/ Regular registration (Member and Non-Member) covers everything: all four days technical programs (invited talks, tutorials, workshops, parallel sessions for accepted papers presentation, industry/demo session, etc.), social program (welcome reception, banquet), coffee breaks, as well as access to the Online proceedings (WI and Workshop proceedings). Student registration does not cover the Pre-Conference Reception, the Welcome Reception, and the Conference Gala. +++++++++++++++++++++ ACCOMMODATION +++++++++++++++++++++ On-line booking (and more information) at http://webintelligence2017.com/attending-conference/hotel-accomodation/ ++++++++++++++++++++++ SPONSORS ++++++++++++++++++++++ Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) IEEE Computer Society Web Intelligence Consortium (WIC) University of Leipzig ++++++++++++++++++++++ AIMS AND SCOPE ++++++++++++++++ Web Intelligence (WI) aims to achieve a multi-disciplinary balance between research advances in theories and methods usually associated with Collective Intelligence, Data Science, Human-Centric Computing, Knowledge Management, and Network Science. It is committed to addressing research that both deepen the understanding of computational, logical, cognitive, physical, and social foundations of the future Web, and enable the development and application of technologies based on Web intelligence. +++++++++ TOPICS AND AREAS RESEARCH PAPERS +++++++++++ Track-1: Collective Intelligence Track-2: Data Science Track-3: Human-Centric Computing Track-4: Knowledge Management Track-5: Network Science ++++++++++++++++ ORGANIZING COMMITTEE ++++++++++++++++ General Chairs (Regions): ------------------------- Axel Ngonga, currently Leipzig University, Germany (Africa) Amit Sheth, Wright State University, US (North-America) Guoyin Wang, Chongqing Univ. of Posts and Telecommunications, China (Asia) Elizabeth Chang, The University of New South Wales, Australia (Australia) Dominik Slezak, Infobright Inc. & Univ. of Warsaw, Poland (East Europe) Bogdan Franczyk, Leipzig University, Germany (West Europe) PC Co-Chairs: ------------- Rainer Alt (Leipzig University, Germany) Xiaohui Tao (University of Southern Queensland, Australia) Organizing Chairs: ------------- Bjoern Schwarzbach, Leipzig University, Germany Rainer Unland, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany Steering Committee Co-chairs: ----------------------------- Ning Zhong (Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan) Jiming Liu (Hong Kong Baptist University, HK SAR, China) Organizing Committee -------------------- Wilfried R?der, Leipzig University, Germany Sandra Bartsch, Institute of Applied Informatics, Germany +++++++++++++++++++++++++ Contact Information: rainer.alt at uni-leipzig.de xtao at usq.edu.au +++++++++++++++++++++++++ -- > ?Experience is this valuable asset which allows us to identify the > mistake immediately when we are doing it again and again!? > > ?Erfahrung ist jener kostbare Besitz, der uns bef?higt, einen Fehler > sofort zu erkennen, wenn wir ihn immer wieder machen.? > > > ************************************************************************** > Prof. Dr. Rainer Unland > University of Duisburg-Essen > Institute for Computer Science and Business Information Systems (ICB) > Practical Computer Science, especially Data Management Systems and > Knowledge Representation > Schuetzenbahn 70 > 45117 Essen, Germany > Tel.: (+49) 201-183 3421 > IP-Tel. Skype: unlandr Fax: (+49) 201-183 4460 > Email: Rainer.Unland at icb.uni-due.de > WWW:http://www.dawis.wiwi.uni-due.de/ > *************************************************************************** From simona.colucci at poliba.it Fri Jul 21 11:13:37 2017 From: simona.colucci at poliba.it (Simona Colucci) Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2017 11:13:37 +0200 Subject: [DL] [GenSW 2017] CfP (DEADLINE EXTENSION): 1st International Workshop on "Generalizing knowledge: from Machine Learning and Knowledge Representation to the Semantic Web" at AIxIA 2017 Message-ID: ---------------------------------------------- Apologies for cross-posting ---------------------------------------------- ************************************************************ ******************************* GenSW2017: 1st International Workshop on "Generalizing knowledge: from Machine Learning and Knowledge Representation to the Semantic Web" Website: https://sites.google.com/site/gensw2017/ In conjunction with with "The 16th International Conference of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence" (AI*IA 2017), Bari, Italy, November 14 - 17 2017. ************************************************************ ******************************* IMPORTANT DATES ----------------------- Paper submission: 31 July 2017 (EXTENDED DEADLINE) Notification to authors: 8 September 2017 Camera-ready copies: 29 September 2017 FOCUS ----------------------- Generalizing descriptions is a problem traditionally investigated in at least two different fields of Artificial Intelligence: Machine Learning (ML) and Knowledge Representation (KR). Both research fields have played an important role in the development of the Semantic Web (SW). KR provided the theoretical basis for formalizing shared knowledge bases, a.k.a. ontologies, and for deductively reasoning over them. ML methods have been used for enriching ontologies, both at schema and instance level, by exploiting inductive reasoning, while still benefiting from deductive reasoning, when possible. In the Web of Data, the availability of generalization mechanisms could be crucial for performing several knowledge management tasks, such as data summarization, data indexing, cluster discovery and many others. However, performing generalization in such a context cannot be done by just revisiting traditional generalization services, because some issues and peculiarities need to be carefully taken into account. One of these peculiarities is the data size, which requires new scalable techniques. The second one is the data quality, which is affected by the endemic redundancy, noise, frequent irrelevance and possible inconsistency of the available information. A third one is data interdependency stemming from RDFS statements. Despite some preliminary research efforts, very few solutions and methods can be found at the state of the art for coping with this urgent problem. The maturity of solutions coming from the ML and KR fields may certainly provide a reasonable starting point. However, methods mixing or stacking solutions coming from both fields may result more promising to address all raised issues. Therefore, the main goal of the workshop is to foster solutions cross-fertilizing both ML and KR fields, focusing on generalizing SW knowledge descriptions and, possibly taking into account scalability issues. Solutions of interest should cope with descriptions formalized, primarily, in RDF/RDFS, but also in more expressive representation languages, like Description Logics/OWL. The workshop aims at gathering solutions for the generalization of knowledge descriptions formalized in standard representation languages for the Semantic Web (primarily, but not only, RDF/RDFS). Solutions of interest should focus (primarily, but not only) on methods mixing and/or stacking solutions coming from Machine Learning and Knowledge Representation fields and applicable to standard Semantic Web representation languages. The developments of scalable solutions for this purpose will be particularly appreciated. TOPICS -------------------------------------------------- Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: ? KR and/or ML methods (possibly in combination) for generalizing in the Semantic Web ? Semi-supervised, unbalanced, inductive learning for generalizing in the Semantic Web ? Reasoning services for generalization in the Semantic Web - Generalization methods for finding commonalities and differences in the Semantic Web - Generalization methods for enrichment Semantic Web knowledge bases - Generalization methods for indexing in the Linked Data Cloud ? Evaluation and benchmarking of generalization approaches in the Semantic Web ? Scalable algorithms for generalizing the Web of Data ? Generalization in presence of uncertain/inconsistent/noisy knowledge Papers should be written in English, formatted according to the Springer LNCS style, and not exceed 12 pages (full papers) or 4 pages (position papers) plus bibliography. Papers must be submitted via easychair: https://easychair.o rg/conferences/?conf=gensw2017. All accepted papers will be scheduled for oral presentations and will be published in CEUR Workshop Proceedings AI*IA Series. ************************************************************ *************************************** Authors of selected papers accepted to the workshop will be invited to submit an extended version for publication on a SPECIAL ISSUE for the journal ?Semantic Web ? Interoperability, Usability, Applicability" (http://www.semantic-web-journal.net/). Papers selected for the special issue have to go through a full review process before acceptance. ************************************************************ *************************************** ORGANIZING COMMITTEE ----------------------------- Simona Colucci, Politecnico di Bari Claudia d'Amato, Universit? degli Studi di Bari Francesco M. Donini, Universit? della Tuscia, Viterbo Simona Colucci, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Politecnico di Bari Department of Electrical and Information Engineering Information Systems Research Group *Address*: via E. Orabona, 4 - 70125 Bari *Tel:* + 39 080 596 3222 <+39%20080%20596%203222> *Fax*: + 39 080 596 3410 <+39%20080%20596%203410> -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From tarek.besold at googlemail.com Mon Jul 24 10:29:22 2017 From: tarek.besold at googlemail.com (Tarek R. Besold) Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2017 10:29:22 +0200 Subject: [DL] Comprehensibility & Explanation in AI and ML (CEx) @ AI*IA 2017: DEADLINE EXTENSION (August 01, 2017) Message-ID: <000201d30456$f42c5140$dc84f3c0$@gmail.com> === Comprehensibility and Explanation in AI and ML (CEx) @ AI*IA 2017 === Location: University of Bari (Bari, Italy). Date: Nov. 14 & 15 XOR Nov. 16 & 17, 2017. Hosted at: AI*IA 2017, the 16th International Conference of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence (http://aiia2017.di.uniba.it/). == WORKSHOP WEBSITE == http://cex.inf.unibz.it == INVITED SPEAKERS == Barbara Hammer, University of Bielefeld Luc Steels, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona == REGISTRATION == Registration for the workshop is handled via the main conference website. Please consult http://aiia2017.di.uniba.it/ for details. == CALL FOR PAPERS == ** Mission Statement ** CEx addresses fundamental questions for the nature of "comprehensibility" and "explanation" in an AI and ML context from a theoretical and an applied perspective. Research into philosophical approximations to what an explanation in AI and ML is (or can be) or how the comprehensibility of an intelligent system can formally be defined will be presented next to work addressing practical questions of how to assess a systems comprehensibility from a psychological perspective, or how to design and build better explainable AI and ML systems. ** Fields of Interest ** The workshop brings together a diverse audience, including... - ...participants from core areas of AI and ML,... - ...ontologists,... - ...cognitive scientists,... - ...psychologists,... - ...HCI researchers,... - ...and practitioners from industry and business contexts. ** Accepted Submission Formats ** Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit original papers that have not been submitted for review or published elsewhere: - Submitted papers must be written in English, must be formatted according to the Springer LNCS style (templates and sample files are available from https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gui delines). - FULL PAPERS: Research and experience papers should not exceed 10 pages (excluding references/bibliography). - SHORT PAPERS: Position papers or technical notes should not exceed 6 pages (excluding references/bibliography). - All submitted papers will be judged based on their relevance, originality, significance, technical quality, and organisation. ** Submission Website ** Submissions to CEx @ AI*IA 2017 should be made via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cexaiia2017 ** Presentation ** Selected papers will be presented during the workshop. The workshop will include extra time for discussion of the presentations allowing the group to have a better understanding of the issues, challenges, and ideas being presented. ** Publication ** Accepted papers will be published in official workshop proceedings within the CEUR-WS.org series. Depending on the number and quality of accepted papers, the organizers will consider organizing a special issue of a journal as follow-up publication. == IMPORTANT DATES == Deadline for paper submission: August 01, 2017 (anywhere on this planet) Notification of paper acceptance/rejection: September 10, 2017 Camera-ready paper due: September 30, 2017 Workshop date: Nov. 14 & 15 XOR Nov. 16 & 17, 2017 == WORKSHOP ORGANISERS == - Tarek R. 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URL: From andrea.orlandini at istc.cnr.it Thu Jul 27 11:10:36 2017 From: andrea.orlandini at istc.cnr.it (AndreA Orlandini) Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2017 11:10:36 +0200 Subject: [DL] Call for Participation - GandALF 2017 - International Symposium on Games, Automata, Logics, and Formal Verification - Rome - 20-22 September 2017 Message-ID: Apologies for multiple postings ***************************************************************************** CALL FOR PARTICIPATION - GandALF 2017 ***************************************************************************** The Eighth International Symposium on Games, Automata, Logics, and Formal Verification will be held in Rome (Italy) on 20-21-22 September 2017. ****http://gandalf2017.istc.cnr.it ***************************************** REGISTRATION NOW OPEN : http://gandalf2017.istc.cnr.it/registration/ The aim of GandALF 2017 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. The list of accepted papers can be found here: http://gandalf2017.istc.cnr.it/accepted-papers/ INVITED SPEAKERS ****************** - Luca Aceto, School of Computer Science, Reykjavik University, Iceland/Gran Sasso Science Institute, L?Aquila, Italy - Ranko Lazic, Department of Computer Science, University of Warwick, U.K. - Michael Wooldridge, Head of Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford, U.K. AIxIA CALL FOR SCHOLARSHIP ****************** The Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence offers travel grants, which partially support the registration fees, travel, accommodation and meal expenses, for the participation of students in GandALF 2017. The candidates should send the travel grant application to Andrea Orlandini (by emailgandalf.2017 at istc.cnr.it) by 30/07/2017 More info here:http://gandalf2017.istc.cnr.it/aixia-call-for-scholarships/ PROGRAM CHAIRS ****************** Patricia Bouyer-Decitre LSV, CNRS & ENS de Cachan, France Pierluigi San Pietro, Politecnico di Milano, Italy GENERAL CHAIR ****************** Amedeo Cesta, ISTC-CNR, Italy CONFERENCE CHAIR ****************** Andrea Orlandini, ISTC-CNR, Italy PROGRAMME COMMITTEE ****************** Parosh A. Abdulla (Uppsala University, Sweden) Benedikt Bollig (LSV, Cachan, France) Patricia Bouyer (LSV, Cachan, France) Tomas Brazdil (Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic) Marta Cialdea Mayer (University of Roma, Italy) Thomas Colcombet (IRIF, Paris, France) Bernd Finkbeiner (Saarland University, Germany) Hugo Gimbert (LaBRI, Bordeaux, France) Rasmus Ibsen-Jensen (IST, Vienna, Austria) Angelo Montanari (University of Udine, Italy) Andrea Orlandini (CNR Roma, Italy) Doron Peled (Bar Ilan University, Israel) R. Ramanujam (IMSc, Chennai, India) Mickael Randour (ULB, Brussels, Belgium) Matteo Rossi (Politecnico di Milano, Italy) Pierluigi San Pietro (Politecnico di Milano, Italy) STEERING COMMITTEE ****************** Luca Aceto, School of Computer Science, Reykjavik University, Iceland Javier Esparza, University of Munich, Germany Salvatore La Torre, University of Salerno, Italy Angelo Montanari, University of Udine, Italy Mimmo Parente, University of Salerno, Italy Wolfgang Thomas, Aachen University, Germany -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- AndreA Orlandini PhD National Research Council of Italy Institute for Cognitive Science and Technology Phone: +39-06-44595-223 E-mail:andrea.orlandini at istc.cnr.it Fax: +39-06-44595-243 Url:http://www.istc.cnr.it/group/pst --------------------------------------------------------------------- Me, the one and only person that never leaves me alone! -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From anni-yasmin.turhan at tu-dresden.de Fri Jul 28 12:41:04 2017 From: anni-yasmin.turhan at tu-dresden.de (Anni-Yasmin Turhan) Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2017 12:41:04 +0200 Subject: [DL] CFP: Joint International Semantic Technology Conference (JIST 2017) -- deadline extension! Message-ID: <597B14C0.4060802@tu-dresden.de> FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS The 7th Joint International Semantic Technology Conference (JIST 2017) http://www.ict.griffith.edu.au/aist/jist2017 November 10-12, 2017 (Fri - Sun) Gold Coast, Australia The mission of the Joint International Semantic Technology Conference (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. In this announcement: 1. Important Dates (deadlines extended) 2. Recommendation to SCI Journals 3. Call for Papers (including a new special track) 4. Submission Guide 5. Organization ============================================================= 1. Important Dates - Abstract submission: 23:59 (Hawaii Time), August 8, 2017 - Full paper submission: 23:59 (Hawaii Time), August 15, 2017 - Notification of Acceptance: September 15, 2017 - Camera-ready Deadline: September 30, 2017 - Conference: November 10-12, 2017 ============================================================= 2. Recommendation to SCI Journals A number of best papers accepted at JIST 2017 will be invited to present at the Meet the Editor session of SCI indexed journals, including International Journal on Semantic Web and Information Systems (IJSWIS), for fast-track publication in a special issue in these journals. Up to five papers will be selected and published. An indicative timeline is given below: - Manuscript revision proposal: mid November 2017 - Submission of revised manuscript: mid January 2018 - Notification of acceptance: mid March 2018 - Publication: second half 2018 ============================================================= 3. Call for Papers -------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Research Track Papers -------------------------------------------------------------- JIST 2017 research track solicits submissions of original research work on semantic technologies. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Ontology and reasoning - Knowledge Graph - Linked Data - Big Data and semantics, exchange and integration - Data streams and the Internet of Things - Machine learning and information extraction on the Semantic Web - Semantic Web services and processes - Trust, privacy, and security on the Semantic Web - Social Semantic Web - Natural language processing and semantics - Semantic multimedia - Novel applications of semantic technologies -------------------------------------------------------------- Call for In-Use Track Papers -------------------------------------------------------------- Quality shared resources such as public ontologies, datasets and software are highly valuable to the research community, hence, JIST 2017 in-use track also calls for submissions of public, shared resources of interest to the Semantic Web community. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Description of an implemented application - Description of concrete problems - Analysis and evaluation of semantic tools - Lessons learned and best practices - Linked Data, open data and vocabularies in production use - Semantic resources - Semantic technology in new application domains -------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Special Track Papers -------------------------------------------------------------- The philosophy behind Special Tracks is to facilitate the proactive participation of researchers from certain fields or communities who have linked the semantic technology with their research fields. Special Tracks accept 8-page short papers that will be reviewed in the same way as the Research Track papers and will be included in the Proceedings if accepted. In JIST 2017, we have two special tracks. Special Track on Energy-awareness & Semantic Technologies: As semantic technologies gain momentum, their impact on resources and society increases. Energy-consumption is one of the main challenges of 21st century. The potential contribution of semantic technologies towards this problem is twofold. On the one hand semantic technologies can assist in energy management as they are often the core of context-aware, self-adaptive applications. For instance, ontologies are used to integrate heterogeneous sources such as sensors or reasoners are employed in grid management applications. On the other hand, the efficiency of semantic technologies is still mainly assessed by running times. While computational and cognitive complexity are investigated, work on their energy-consumption is still in its infancy. However, assessing and managing their energy-consumption is a vital prerequisite for for their usefulness on mobile devices, for instance. The special track calls for contributions regarding, but not limited to: - energy-adaptive semantic technologies - measurement frameworks for energy consumption of semantic technologies - application of semantic technologies for energy management - ontologies for energy management - semantic technologies for power or grid management Special Track on Semantic Processing for Knowledge Graphs: Semantic technologies such as Linked Data promote publication of various data and knowledge on the web with semantic links among them. They form huge sized knowledge bases called Knowledge Graphs in a large variety of domains. An important technical feature of Knowledge Graphs is their rich semantics. This special track focuses on semantics of Knowledge Graphs, especially on how to use their semantics towards practical applications. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: - Semantic processing and reasoning for Knowledge Graph - Application using semantics of Knowledge Graph - Modelling of semantics for Knowledge Graph - Development of Knowledge Graph (Ontology, Linked Data) -------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Poster & Demo Papers -------------------------------------------------------------- JIST 2017 cordially invites you to submit Poster and Demo papers. For details please check our website: http://www.ict.griffith.edu.au/aist/jist2017 ============================================================= 4. Submission Submissions to JIST 2017 should describe original, significant research on semantic technologies. JIST 2017 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. Submissions to JIST 2017 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, their originality, the technical soundness of their proposed approach and the readability of the submission. JIST 2017 submissions are not anonymous. 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 the Research and In-Use Tracks, and no longer than *8* pages for the Special Tracks. Submissions that exceed these limits may be rejected without review. Submissions to the In-Use Track that are less than 16 pages can be considered. Accepted papers will be published in an LNCS proceedings. At least one author of each accepted paper must register for the conference and present the paper there. Papers can be submitted electronically via https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=jist2017. Please select the corresponding tracks when you submit your paper(s). ============================================================= 5. Organization General Chairs - Thepchai Supnithi, National Electronics and Computer Technology Center, Thailand - Kewen Wang, Griffith University, Australia Program Chairs - Anni-Yasmin Turhan, Dresden University of Technology, Germany - Zhe Wang, Griffith University, Australia Organized by: JIST Steering Committee Program Committee: Fernando Bobillo, University of Zaragoza, Spain Chantana Chantrapornchai, Kasetsart University, Thailand Huajun Chen, Zhejiang University, China Gong Cheng, Nanjing University, China Stefan Dietze, L3S Research Center, Germany Dejing Dou, University of Oregon, USA Jianfeng Du, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, China Alessandro Faraotti, IBM, Italy Zhiyong Feng, Tianjin University, China Marcelo Finger, Universidade de Sao Paulo, Brazil Naoki Fukuta, Shizuoka University, Japan Volker Haarslev, Concordia University, Canada Armin Haller, Australian National University, Australia Wei Hu, Nanjing University, China Eero Hyv?nen, Aalto University, Finland Ryutaro Ichise, National Institute of Informatics, Japan Ernesto Jimenez-Ruiz, University of Oxford, UK Takahiro Kawamura, Japan Science and Technology Agency, Japan Evgeny Kharlamov, University of Oxford, UK Martin Kollingbaum, University of Aberdeen, UK Kouji Kozaki, Osaka University, Japan Adila A. Krisnadhi, Wright State University & Universitas Indonesia, Indonesia Michael John Lawley, CSIRO Australian E-Health Research Centre, Australia Yuan-Fang Li, Monash University, Australia Juanzi Li, Tsinghua University, China Yuefeng Li, Queensland University of Technology, Australia Wei Liu, The University of Western Australia, Australia Yinglong Ma, North China Electric Power University, China Yue Ma, Universit? Paris Sud, France Theofilos Mailis, National Technical University of Athens, Greece Maria Vanina Martinez, Universidad Nacional del Sur in Bahia Blanca, Argentina Eduardo Mena, University of Zaragoza, Spain Riichiro Mizoguchi, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Japan Trina Myers, James Cook University, Australia Jeff Z. Pan, University of Aberdeen, UK Guilin Qi, Southeast University, China Edelweis Rohrer, Universidad de la Rep?blica, Uruguay Tong Ruan, ECUST, China Jun Shen, University of Wollongong, Australia Sa-Kwang Song, KISTI, Korea Giorgos Stoilos, Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece Umberto Straccia, ISTI-CNR, Italy Jing Sun, The University of Auckland, New Zealand Kerry Taylor, Australian Bureau of Statistics & Australian National University, Australia Anni-Yasmin Turhan, Dresden University of Technology, Germany Zhe Wang, Griffith University, Australia Xin Wang, Tianjin University, China Haofen Wang, Shenzhen Gowild Robotics Co. Ltd, China Shenghui Wang, OCLC Research, Netherlands Guohui Xiao, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy Bin Xu, Tsinghua University, China Xiaowang Zhang, Tianjin University, China Amal Zouaq, University of Ottawa, Canada From community at project-hobbit.eu Fri Jul 28 14:15:44 2017 From: community at project-hobbit.eu (=?utf-8?Q?Hobbit=20Team?=) Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2017 12:15:44 +0000 Subject: [DL] =?utf-8?q?Deadline_extension_NLIWoD-3_workshop_and_QALD-8_Ch?= =?utf-8?q?allenge_=40_ISWC2017_to_August_6th?= Message-ID: <00d040a1bedee64c86d8911b0.cca9c21644.20170728121537.d29cc75cbb.2025e3fe@mail70.atl31.mcdlv.net> ***** PAPER SUBMISSION DEADLINE EXTENDED TO AUGUST 6th, 2017 ***** CALL FOR PAPERS The 3rd International Workshop on Natural Language Interfaces for Web of Data (NLIWoD) And the 8th Question Answering over Linked Data (QALD) Challenge October 21 (Saturday) or 22 (Sunday), Vienna, Austria http://project-hobbit.us12.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=00d040a1bedee64c86d8911b0&id=5150faf9f3&e=cca9c21644 While the amount of Linked Open Data (LOD) increases rapidly, it is still used mostly by Semantic Web experts. There are two main obstacles to making the billions of RDF triples already available accessible for common Web users: (1) the need to learn the query language SPARQL, and (2) the need to know the schemas underlying the datasets. Approaches to ease the access to the Web of Data include graphical query interfaces, agent-based systems, and natural language interfaces. Amongst them, natural language interfaces are receiving an increasing interest due to its high expressive power and low cost for educational purposes. Recent progresses in speech recognition technologies (e.g., Siri and Google Voice) also demonstrate the usefulness of a natural language interface. The goal of this workshop is to bring together experts on the use of natural-language interfaces (NLI) for accessing the Web of Data. NLIWoD 2017?s goal is to bring together experts on the use of natural-language interfaces (NLI) for answering questions especially over the Web of Data. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: - NEW! Dialogue systems - NEW! Personal assistants - NEW! Chatbots - Question answering over Linked Data - Benchmarking natural language interfaces - Term matching and entity disambiguation - Browsing Linked Data - Indexing for question answering - Deep Learning for Natural Language Interaction - SPARQL query pattern generation - Schema-agnostic query generation - Discovery of Linked Data sources - Endpoint profiling - Dealing with data and schema heterogeneity - Providing justifications of answers and conveying trust - Knowledge base design for question answering - Language resources and NLP software for question answering - Reasoning for question answering - Natural language querying of RDF exposed as Linked Data - Natural language querying of Web services - User feedback and interaction ## Important Dates Paper submission due: July 21th (Friday), 2017 (Anywhere on Earth) Extended paper submission due: August 6th (Sunday), 2017 Author notification: August 24th (Thursday), 2017 Workshop: October 21st (Saturday) or 22nd (Sunday), 2017 ## Submission Instructions NLIWoD 2017 solicits the submission of original research papers in two types: - Full paper submissions (up to 16 pages) must describe substantial and original work. - Short paper submissions (up to 8 pages) must describe an original work which may present - A small, focused contribution, - A work in progress, or - An interesting application case. - Demos and posters presentations (up to 4 pages) All submissions must be in English and in PDF formatted the style of the Springer Publications format for Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). For details on the LNCS style, see Springer's Author Instructions. All papers are to be submitted via EasyChair http://project-hobbit.us12.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=00d040a1bedee64c86d8911b0&id=637449cc5b&e=cca9c21644 . All submissions will be peer-reviewed by the Program Committee of the workshop. Submissions do not need to be anonymous. ## Challenge In addition to participating with innovative research, participants are cordially invited to participate with tools. NLIWOD incorporates the 8th Question Answering over Linked Data (QALD) where users can display the capabilities of their systems using the provided online benchmarking platform GERBIL QA support by the H2020 project HOBBIT. More information at http://project-hobbit.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=00d040a1bedee64c86d8911b0&id=d97a6826c4&e=cca9c21644. The timeline is as follows: - System integration with HOBBIT done: September 1st, 2017 - Integration testing data will be added to the platform by July 31st, 2017 - Training data available September 2nd, 2017 - System submission due: October 1st, 2017 - Results on test data: October 15th, 2017 ## Organizers Key-Sun Choi (KAIST) Jin-Dong Kim (Database Center for Life Science, ROIS, JP) Axel-Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo (University of Paderborn, DE) Ricardo Usbeck (University of Paderborn, DE) ## Contact Information For further information about the workshop, please contact at: ricardo . usbeck @ upb . de ============================================== Holistic Benchmarking of Big Linked Data - HOBBIT EU Project https://project-hobbit.eu Unsubscribe dl at dl.kr.org from this list: http://project-hobbit.us12.list-manage.com/unsubscribe?u=00d040a1bedee64c86d8911b0&id=1e33221579&e=cca9c21644&c=d29cc75cbb Forward this email to a friend: http://us12.forward-to-friend.com/forward?u=00d040a1bedee64c86d8911b0&id=d29cc75cbb&e=cca9c21644 Update your profile: http://project-hobbit.us12.list-manage1.com/profile?u=00d040a1bedee64c86d8911b0&id=1e33221579&e=cca9c21644 From dd7rq at eservices.virginia.edu Tue Jul 25 11:35:04 2017 From: dd7rq at eservices.virginia.edu (Diochnos, Dimitrios (Dimitris) (dd7rq)) Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2017 09:35:04 +0000 Subject: [DL] ISAIM 2018: First Call for Papers Message-ID: FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS Fifteenth International Symposium on ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE and MATHEMATICS ISAIM 2018 http://isaim2018.cs.virginia.edu/ January 3-5, 2018 Fort Lauderdale, Florida PAPER SUBMISSION DEADLINE: Tuesday, October 3, 2017 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 fifteenth Symposium in the series, which is sponsored by Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence. 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. SPECIAL TOPIC INVITED SESSIONS: o Boolean and pseudo-Boolean Functions -Organized by Endre Boros, Rutgers University, and Yves Crama, University of Liege o Formalising Robot Ethics -Organized by Michael Fisher, University of Liverpool, and Marija Slavkovik, University of Bergen o Topological Reasoning and Data Analyses -Organized by Debasis Mitra, Florida Istitute of Technology o Theory of Machine Learning -Organized by Lev Reyzin, University of Illinois at Chicago PAPER SUBMISSION: Paper submission will be electronic via the submission link to EasyChair on the Paper Submission page of the Symposium website (/isaim2018.cs.virginia.edu/). Papers must be formatted in accordance with the guidelines given there. The submission deadline is Tuesday, October 3, 2017 (11:59PM PDT). Papers will be reviewed by members of the Program Committee. Authors will be notified of acceptance or rejection by Tuesday, October 31, 2017. Final versions of accepted papers, for inclusion in the conference electronic proceedings, are due by Monday, November 27, 2017. 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 chair at the email address . IMPORTANT DATES: Paper submission: Tuesday, October 3, 2017 Notification: Tuesday, October 31, 2017 Final version due: Monday, November 27, 2017 Workshop: January 3-5, 2018, 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: Juergen Dix, TU Clausthal Guillermo R. Simari, Universidad Nacional del Sur o Publicity Chair: Dimitrios I. Diochnos, University of Virginia PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Franz Baader TU Dresden Salem Benferhat Universite d'Artois Endre Boros Rutgers University Gerhard Brewka Leipzig University Yixin Chen Washington University in St. Louis Berthe Choueiry University of Nebraska-Lincoln Yves Crama University of Liege Dimitrios I. Diochnos University of Virginia Agostino Dovier Universit? degli Studi di Udine Michael Fisher University of Liverpool Georg Gottlob University of Oxford Warren Hunt The University of Texas at Austin Anthony Hunter University College London Vladimir Lifschitz The University of Texas at Austin Gerhard Lakemeyer Aachen University of Technology Hector Levesque University of Toronto Vladimir Lifschitz University of Texas at Austin Larry M. Manevitz University of Haifa Debasis Mitra Florida Institute of Technology Leora Morgenstern Leidos, Inc., Reston Maurice Pagnucco University of New South Wales Francesca Rossi IBM Research and University of Padova David Sarne Bar-Ilan University Marija Slavkovik University of Bergen Christine Solnon INSA Lyon Miroslaw (Mirek) Truszczynski University of Kentucky Gyorgy Turan University of Illinois at Chicago and University of Szeged Miroslav N. Velev Aries Design Automation Kristen Brent Venable Tulane University and IHMC Toby Walsh NICTA and University of New South Wales Neil Yorke-Smith American University of Beirut Send inquiries and requests to isaim2018 at mail DOT cs DOT virginia DOT edu. Visit http://isaim2018.cs.virginia.edu/. Join isaim at googlegroups.com to receive announcements related to ISAIM. From geoff at ewell.cs.miami.edu Thu Jul 27 21:00:35 2017 From: geoff at ewell.cs.miami.edu (geoff at ewell.cs.miami.edu) Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2017 15:00:35 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [DL] TABLEAUX 2017, FroCoS 2017, ITP 2017 - Call for Participation Message-ID: <20170727190035.A2EF0170059C@cs.miami.edu> CALL FOR PARTICIPATION TABLEAUX 2017, FroCoS 2017, ITP 2017 Brasilia, Brazil 25-29 September 2017 http://tableaux2017.cic.unb.br http://frocos2017.cic.unb.br http://itp2017.cic.unb.br *** Registration is now open *** Registration website: https://registration2017.cic.unb.br Early registration until 4th August Late registration until 2nd September More information can be found at the conferences websites: http://tableaux2017.cic.unb.br/#registration http://frocos2017.cic.unb.br/#registration http://itp2017.cic.unb.br/#registration *** Student Grants *** A limited number of travel grants is available for students who would not otherwise have resources to attend TABLEAUX/FroCoS/ITP, and whose attendance would benefit both the applicant and the event. Although priority is given to students with active role in the conferences/workshops, students in other situations are very much encouraged to apply. The grants are offered by Springer and by the organisation of the conferences. For details, see the full call at the conferences websites: http://tableaux2017.cic.unb.br/#grants http://frocos2017.cic.unb.br/#grants http://itp2017.cic.unb.br/#grants *** Invited Speakers *** - Carlos Areces (FaMAF-Cordoba/Argentina) - Wolfgang Bibel (Technische Universitaet Darmstadt, Germany) - Katalin Bimbo (University of Alberta, Edmonton, Germany) - Jasmin Blanchette (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands) - Reiner Haehnle (Technische Universitaet Darmstadt, Germany) - Moa Johansson (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden) - Cezary Kaliszyk (Universitaet Innsbruck, Austria) - Leonardo Moura (RiSE, Microsoft, USA) - Cesare Tinelli (The University of Iowa, USA) - Renata Wasserman (IME/USP) *** Programme *** See: http://tableaux2017.cic.unb.br/#programme http://frocos2017.cic.unb.br/#programme http://itp2017.cic.unb.br/#programme *** Social Events *** Excursion to visit the Itamaraty Palace (Foreign Affairs Ministry). The building was designed by Oscar Niemeyer, the gardens by Burle Marx, and inside we can find the works by Athos Bulcao and Alfredo Volpi, among others. Conference dinner will take place in a location by the Paranoa Lake. *** Workshops *** - 12th Logical and Semantic Frameworks with Applications (LSFA 2017) http://lsfa2017.cic.unb.br/ 23 and 24 September - Fifth Workshop on Proof eXchange for Theorem Proving (PxTP) http://pxtp.github.io/2017/ 23 and 24 September - EPS - Encyclopedia of Proof Systems http://proofsystem.github.io/Encyclopedia/ 24 and 25 September - DaL? - Dynamic Logic: new trends and applications http://workshop.dali.di.uminho.pt/ 23 and 24 September *** Tutorials *** - Proof compressions and the conjecture NP = PSPACE Lew Gordeev, Edward Hermann Haeusler 23 September 2017 - General methods in proof theory for modal and substructural logics Bjoern Lellmann, Revantha Ramanayake 24 September 2017 - From proof systems to complexity bounds Anupam Das 25 September 2017 - PVS for Computer Scientists Cesar Munoz, Mauricio Ayala-Rincon, Mariano Moscato 25 September 2017 *** Poster Session *** The joint poster session will be held on the 28th September. *** Venue *** All the events will be held at the Finatec building located within the University of Brasilia. Finatec - Fundacao de Empreendimentos Cientificos e Tecnologicos Campus Universitario Darcy Ribeiro Av. L3 Norte, Ed. Finatec Asa Norte, Brasilia - DF CEP 70910-900 *** Organisation *** TABLEAUX Programme Chairs: Renate A. Schmidt The University of Manchester, UK Claudia Nalon University of Brasilia, Brazil FroCoS Conference Chairs Clare Dixon University of Liverpool, UK Marcelo Finger University of Sao Paulo, Brazil ITP Conference Chairs Cesar Munoz NASA, USA Mauricio Ayala-Rincon University of Brasilia, Brazil Organising Committee Claudia Nalon University of Brasilia, Brazil Daniele Nantes Sobrinho University of Brasilia, Brazil Elaine Pimentel Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil Joao Marcos Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil From unilog2018 at vichy-universite.com Fri Jul 28 12:32:46 2017 From: unilog2018 at vichy-universite.com (UNILOG2018) Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2017 10:32:46 +0000 Subject: [DL] VICHY JUNE 2018 - UNIVERSAL LOGIC - WORLD CONGRESS AND SCHOOL In-Reply-To: References: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , Message-ID: The 6th UNILOG - WORLD CONGRESS AND SCHOOL ON UNIVERSAL LOGIC will take place in Vichy, France, June 16-26, 2018 after previous editions in Montreux 2005, Xi'an 2007, Lisbon 2010, Rio 2013 and Istanbul 2015: http://www.uni-log.org/vichy2018 Along these years UNILOG has been a leading international logical event with the participation of many famous logicians such as Wilfrid Hodges, Daniele Mundici, Saul Kripke, Jaakko Hintikka, Dov Gabbay, Arnon Avron, Benedikt L?we, David Makinson, Yde Venema, Newton da Costa, Mike Dunn, Val Goranko, Yuri Gurevich, Janusz Czelakowski, Stephen Read, Sara Negri, Arnold Koslow, Peter Schr?der-Heister, Gila Sher, Hiroakira Ono, John Corcoran, Hartry Field, Gerhard Jaeger, Ernest Lepore, Marcus Kracht, Melvin Fitting, Luciano Floridi, Patrick Blackburn, Jan Wolenski, Krister Segerberg, Dale Jacquette, Sun-Joo Shin, Jouko V??n?nen, John Woods and many more. UNILOG is a logic event in a broad sense. It gathers people from many horizons (philosophy, mathematics, linguistics, computer science, semiotics, cognitive science ...) and the idea is to promote interaction between all these people. The previous edition in Istanbul gathered more than 400 logicians from about 50 different countries. For the 6th edition we will follow a similar format: - A school of logic of 5 days with 30 tutorials - A congress of 6 days with about 30 sessions/workshops - Award of Logic Prizes from about 10 countries - A secret speaker (speaker whose identity is revealed only at the time of her / its / his speech). Vichy is a charming relaxing thermal city at the middle of France, developed by Napoleon III in the second half of the 19th century, who in particular created beautiful parks with species of trees from all over the world. Vichy, in the Duchy of Bourbon, a region full of castles, is a small city, where it is possible to go everywhere just by walking. The event will take place at the university campus nearby the Celestins spring, the banks of the Allier river (where it is possible to swim) and the city center. June is a very nice time to be in Vichy with lots of animations, including on June 21 a very lively musical day celebrating summertime. Deadline to submit an abstract: September 15, 2017 Looking forward to seeing you in Vichy in June 2018 Jean-Yves Beziau (University of Brazil, Rio de Janeiro and Ecole Normale Sup?rieure, Paris) Christophe Rey (University Clermont Auvergne, CNRS, LIMOS) Organizers of UNILOG'2018 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- U N I L O G - World Congress and School on Universal Logic - U N I LO G Montreux 2005, Xi'an 2007, Lisbon 2010, Rio 2013, Istanbul 2015, Vichy 2018 http://www.uni-log.org/vichy2018 [http://www.uni-log.org/unilog-2018-im/unilog-2018.jpg] UNILOG 2018 Vichy www.uni-log.org The event will take place at Vichy University Campus - 1 Avenue des C?lestins - 03200 Vichy, France -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From francesco.santini at dmi.unipg.it Mon Jul 31 16:27:14 2017 From: francesco.santini at dmi.unipg.it (Francesco Santini) Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2017 16:27:14 +0200 Subject: [DL] [2nd CfP] Knowledge Representation and Recognition (KRR) @SAC18 References: <93D75EEC-9593-4E40-87D7-1198A6403F91@dmi.unipg.it> Message-ID: ############################################################## The 33rd ACM SIGAPP Symposium On Applied Computing Pau, France April, 2018 Track on Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KRR) Website: http://www.dmi.unipg.it/bista/organizing/KRR at sac2018/ SUBMISSION DEADLINE: September 15, 2017 THE PAGE LIMIT HAS BEEN EXTENDED TO 8 PAGES ############################################################### Overview: The topic of the track covers an important field of research in Artificial Intelligence: Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KRR) is dedicated to representing information about the world in a form that a computer system can utilise to solve complex tasks. Examples of knowledge representation formalisms include semantic nets, systems architecture, frames, rules, and ontologies. Examples of automated reasoning engines include inference engines, theorem provers, and classifiers. KRR track will be a venue for all the researchers and practitioners working on the fundaments and applications of reasoning, and cross-fertilisation among different areas (e.g., Argumentation and Belief Revision). ACM SAC is ranked CORE:B, MAS:A-, SHINE:A. The average acceptance rate per track is under 25%. KRR track is organised for the second year after the success achieved in 2017; it follows previous tracks still organised within SAC, as ?Constraint Solving and Programming and Knowledge Representation and Reasoning? (held in 2015), ?Constraint Solving and Programming? (held from 2005 to 2014), and ?A.I. Computational Logic, and Image Analysis? (held from 1999 until 2004). Call for paper: Knowledge-representation is the field of artificial intelligence that focuses on designing computer representations that capture information about the world that can be used to solve complex problems. Its goal is to understand and build intelligent behavior from the top down, focusing on what an agent needs to know with the purpose to behave intelligently, how this knowledge can be represented symbolically, and how automated reasoning procedures can make this knowledge available as needed. In KRR a fundamental assumption is that an agent's knowledge is explicitly represented in a declarative form, suitable for processing by dedicated reasoning engines. Topics of interest include: ? Argumentation. ? Belief revision and update, belief merging. ? Commonsense reasoning. ? Contextual reasoning. ? Description logics. ? Diagnosis, abduction, explanation. ? Inconsistency and exception tolerant reasoning, paraconsistent logics. ? KR and autonomous agents: intelligent agents, cognitive robotics, multi-agent systems. ? KR and decision making, game theory, social choice. ? KR and machine learning, inductive logic programming, knowledge discovery and acquisition. ? Logic programming, answer set programming, constraint (logic) programming. ? Non-monotonic logics, default logics, conditional logics. ? Preferences: modeling and representation, preference-based reasoning. ? Reasoning about knowledge and belief, dynamic epistemic logic, epistemic and doxastic logics. ? Reasoning systems and solvers, knowledge compilation. ? Spatial reasoning and temporal reasoning, qualitative reasoning. ? Uncertainty, representations of vagueness, many-valued and fuzzy logics. We would like to invite authors to submit papers on research on KRR area, with particular emphasis on assessing the current state of the art and identifying future directions. Submissions fall into the following categories: ? Original and unpublished research work. ? Reports of innovative computing applications in the arts, sciences, engineering, and business areas. ? Reports of successful technology transfer to new problem domains. ? Reports of industrial experience and demos of new innovative systems. Deadlines and Important Dates: September 15, 2017: Submission of regular papers and SRC abstracts. November 10, 2017: Notification of papers and posters and SRC acceptance/rejection. November 25, 2017: Camera-ready copies of accepted papers. Submissions Instructions for Regular Papers and SRC Abstracts: Original papers addressing any of the listed topics of interest (or related topics) will be considered. Each submitted paper will be fully refereed and undergo a double-blind review process by at least three referees. Accepted papers will be included in the ACM SAC 2018 proceedings and published in the ACM digital library, being indexed by Thomson ISI Web of Knowledge and Scopus. Submissions should be properly anonymised to facilitate blind reviewing: the author(s) name(s) and address(es) must NOT appear in the body of the paper, and self-reference should be in the third person. Paper size is *strictly* limited to 6 pages in the SAC style; a maximum of 2 additional pages may be included for an additional fee, extending the final version of the accepted paper. Please check the author kit latex style on the main SAC website: https://www.sigapp.org/sac/sac2018/ (the format is usually the format used in the ACM templates). Papers failing to comply with length limitations risk immediate rejection. Submissions will be in electronic format, via the website: https://www.sigapp.org/sac/sac2018/submission.html BE CAREFUL TO SELECT THE KRR TRACK BY CHECKING THE KRR TRACK RADIO BUTTON!! After completing the submission, please send also an email to: bista at dmi.unipg.it . The body of the email should include the title of the paper, the author(s) name(s) and affiliation(s), and the address (including e-mail, telephone, and fax) to which correspondence should be sent. The subject of the email should be ?SAC2018 KRR track submission?. Graduate students are suggested to submit both a regular paper to the KRR track and a 2 page abstract with the same title at the Student Research Competition (SRC) Program, following the instructions published at SAC 2017 website. Authors of selected abstracts will have the opportunity to give poster presentations of their work and compete for three top-winning places. The winners will receive cash awards and SIGAPP recognition certificates during the conference banquet. The winners will also receive SRC travel support (US$500) and are eligible to apply to the SIGAPP Student Travel Award Program (STAP) for additional travel support. Papers that received high reviews (that is acceptable by reviewer standards) but were not accepted due to space limitation can be invited for the poster session. Chairs: Stefano Bistarelli, University of Perugia, Italy Martine Ceberio, University of Texas at El Paso, USA Eric Monfroy, University of Nantes, France Francesco Santini, University of Perugia, Italy Program Committee: Leila Amgoud, IRIT - UPS Toulouse, France Ofer Arieli, The Academic College of Tel-Aviv, Israel Guillaume Aucher, IRISA/INRIA Rennes, France Franz Baader, TU Dresden, Germany Pietro Baroni, University of Brescia, Italy Roman Bartak, Charles University, Czech Republic Francesco Belardinelli, University of Evry, France Martin Caminada, Cardiff University, UK Tran Cao Son, New Mexico State University, USA Claudia D?Amato, University of Bari Wolfgang Dvorak, University of Vienna, Austria Wolfgang Faber, University of Huddersfield, UK Aditya K. Ghose, University of Wollongong, Australia Lluis Godo, Artificial Intelligence Research Institute (IIIA), Spain Matti Jarvisalo, University of Helsinki, Finland Gabriele Kern-Isberner, TU Dortmund, Germany Boris Konev, University of Liverpool, UK Sebastien Konieczny, CRIL-CNRS University of Artois, France Costas Koutras, University of Peloponnese, Greece Joao Leite, New University of Lisbon, Portugal Beishui Liao, Zhejiang University, China Jean-Guy Mailly, Paris Descartes University (Paris), France Loizos Michael, Open University of Cyprus, Cyprus Guillermo R. Simari, Universidad Nacional del Sur, Argentina Matthias Thimm, University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany Paolo Torroni, University of Bologna, Italy Nicolas Troquard, KRDB University of Bolzano, Italy Serena Villata, Universite Cote d'Azur, Sophia Antipolis, France Stefan Woltran, TU Wien, Austria Roland Yap, University of Singapore, Republic of Singapore SAC No-Show Policy: Paper registration is required, allowing the inclusion of the paper/poster in the conference proceedings. An author or a proxy attending SAC MUST present the paper. This is a requirement for the paper/poster to be included in the ACM digital library. 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Big Data is transforming science, engineering, medicine, healthcare, finance, business, and ultimately our society itself. The IEEE Big Data conference series started in 2013 has established itself as the top tier research conference in Big Data. ? The first conference IEEE Big Data 2013 had more than 400 registered participants from 40 countries ( http://cci.drexel.edu/bigdata/bigdata2013/) and the regular paper acceptance rate is 17.0%. ? The IEEE Big Data 2016 ( http://cci.drexel.edu/bigdata/bigdata2016/ , regular paper acceptance rate: 18.7%) was held in Washington DC, Dec 5-8, 2016 with close to 900 registered participants from 43 countries. The 2017 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (IEEE Big Data 2017) will continue the success of the previous IEEE Big Data conferences. It will provide a leading forum for disseminating the latest results in Big Data Research, Development, and Applications. We solicit high-quality original research papers (and significant work-in-progress papers) in any aspect of Big Data with emphasis on 5Vs (Volume, Velocity, Variety, Value and Veracity), including the Big Data challenges in scientific and engineering, social, sensor/IoT/IoE, and multimedia (audio, video, image, etc.) big data systems and applications. *Example topics of interest includes but is not limited to the following*: 1. Big Data Science and Foundations a. Novel Theoretical Models for Big Data b. New Computational Models for Big Data c. Data and Information Quality for Big Data d. New Data Standards 2. Big Data Infrastructure a. Cloud/Grid/Stream Computing for Big Data b. High Performance/Parallel Computing Platforms for Big Data c. Autonomic Computing and Cyber-infrastructure, System Architectures, Design and Deployment d. Energy-efficient Computing for Big Data e. Programming Models and Environments for Cluster, Cloud, and Grid Computing to Support Big Data f. Software Techniques and Architectures in Cloud/Grid/Stream Computing g. Big Data Open Platforms h. New Programming Models for Big Data beyond Hadoop/MapReduce, STORM i. Software Systems to Support Big Data Computing 3. Big Data Management a. Search and Mining of variety of data including scientific and engineering, social, sensor/IoT/IoE, and multimedia data b. Algorithms and Systems for Big DataSearch c. Distributed, and Peer-to-peer Search d. Big Data Search Architectures, Scalability and Efficiency e. Data Acquisition, Integration, Cleaning, and Best Practices f. Visualization Analytics for Big Data g. Computational Modeling and Data Integration h. Large-scale Recommendation Systems and Social Media Systems i. Cloud/Grid/Stream Data Mining- Big Velocity Data j. Link and Graph Mining k. Semantic-based Data Mining and Data Pre-processing l. Mobility and Big Data m. Multimedia and Multi-structured Data- Big Variety Data 4. Big Data Search and Mining a. Social Web Search and Mining b. Web Search c. Algorithms and Systems for Big Data Search d. Distributed, and Peer-to-peer Search e. Big Data Search Architectures, Scalability and Efficiency f. Data Acquisition, Integration, Cleaning, and Best Practices g. Visualization Analytics for Big Data h. Computational Modeling and Data Integration i. Large-scale Recommendation Systems and Social Media Systems j. Cloud/Grid/StreamData Mining- Big Velocity Data k. Link and Graph Mining l. Semantic-based Data Mining and Data Pre-processing m. Mobility and Big Data n. Multimedia and Multi-structured Data- Big Variety Data 5. Big Data Security, Privacy and Trust a. Intrusion Detection for Gigabit Networks b. Anomaly and APT Detection in Very Large Scale Systems c. High Performance Cryptography d. Visualizing Large Scale Security Data e. Threat Detection using Big Data Analytics f. Privacy Threats of Big Data g. Privacy Preserving Big Data Collection/Analytics h. HCI Challenges for Big Data Security & Privacy i. User Studies for any of the above j. Sociological Aspects of Big Data Privacy k. Trust management in IoT and other Big Data Systems 6. Big Data Applications a. Complex Big Data Applications in Science, Engineering, Medicine, Healthcare, Finance, Business, Law, Education, Transportation, Retailing, Telecommunication b. Big Data Analytics in Small Business Enterprises (SMEs), c. Big Data Analytics in Government, Public Sector and Society in General d. Real-life Case Studies of Value Creation through Big Data Analytics e. Big Data as a Service f. Big Data Industry Standards g. Experiences with Big Data Project Deployments *INDUSTRIAL Track* The Industrial Track solicits papers describing implementations of Big Data solutions relevant to industrial settings. The focus of industry track is on papers that address the practical, applied, or pragmatic or new research challenge issues related to the use of Big Data in industry. We accept full papers (up to 10 pages) and extended abstracts (2-4 pages). *Student Travel Award* IEEE Big Data 2017 will offer* student travel *to student authors (including post-docs) *Journal Publication * A set of about 10 papers will be selected for a fast-track review and then published at the IEEE Transactions on Big Data. *Paper Submission:* Please submit a full-length paper (up to *10 page IEEE 2-column format*) through the online submission system. https://wi-lab.com/cyberchair/2017/bigdata17/scripts/submit.php?subarea=BigD Papers should be formatted to IEEE Computer Society Proceedings Manuscript Formatting Guidelines (see link to "formatting instructions" below). *Formatting Instructions* 8.5" x 11" (DOC , PDF ) *LaTex Formatting Macros* *Important Dates:* Electronic submission of full papers: August 20, 2017 Notification of paper acceptance: Oct 9, 2016 Camera-ready of accepted papers: Nov 10, 2017 Conference: Dec 11-14, 2017 Conference Co-Chairs *Dr. Ricardo Baeza-Yates* : NTENT, USA *Prof. Xiaohua Tony Hu* : Drexel University, USA *Dr. Jeremy Kepner* : MIT Lincoln Laboratory, USA *PC Co-Chairs* Prof. Jian-Yun Nie, University of Montreal, Canada Prof. Zoran Obradovic, Temple University, USA Prof. Toyotaro Suzumura, IBM Research, USA *Industry and Government Co-Chairs:* Dr. Raghunath Nambiar, CISCO, USA Dr. Sudarsan Rachuri, Dept of Energy, USA Dr. Ghosh Rumi, BOSCH, USA Dr. Chonggang Wang, InterDigital, IncUSA Dr. Hui Zang, Huawei Research, USA ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the BIGDATA list, click the following link: http://lists.drexel.edu/cgi-bin/wa?TICKET=NzM2NTc0IGRsQERMLktSLk9SRyBCSUdEQVRBIMr9WGQ%2Bn7YJ&c=SIGNOFF -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Day passes include lunch and coffee and can be purchased _here_ . *Have a closer look at the *_*programme*_ *and do not forget to register in advance for the workshops and tutorials you are planning to attend!*To register, select your workshop of choice _here_ and once in the workshop page click on the registration link at the bottom. *# DBpedia Day - Call for Participation* During the SEMANTiCS 2017 the DBpedia Community will get together on the**14th of September for the DBpedia Day. * Highlights * - Keynote session - DBpedia Association hour & Dutch DBpedia hour - A _session on DBpedia ontology_ by members of the DBpedia ontology committee. - Tell us what cool things you do with DBpedia: _https://goo.gl/forms/0mAMVEMLxiICB5bF3_ - As always, there will be tutorials to learn about DBpedia and a DBpedia showcase session * Quick Facts * - Web URL & Tickets: _http://wiki.dbpedia.org/meetings/Amsterdam2017_ - When: September 14th, 2017 - Where: Meervaart Theatre, Meer en Vaart 300, 1068 LE Amsterdam, Netherlands - Call for Contribution: _https://goo.gl/forms/0mAMVEMLxiICB5bF3_ - Attending the DBpedia Community Meeting costs ?40 (excl. registration fee and VAT). 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URL: From davy.monticolo at univ-lorraine.fr Fri Aug 11 14:56:10 2017 From: davy.monticolo at univ-lorraine.fr (Davy Monticolo) Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2017 14:56:10 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [DL] CALL FOR PAPERS - KARE 2017 - The 9th International Workshop on Knowledge Acquisition Reuse & Evaluation In-Reply-To: <1652100832.6536626.1500890037770.JavaMail.zimbra@univ-lorraine.fr> References: <1652100832.6536626.1500890037770.JavaMail.zimbra@univ-lorraine.fr> Message-ID: <1233460909.901645.1502456170055.JavaMail.zimbra@univ-lorraine.fr> CALL FOR PAPERS KARE 2017 - The 9th International Workshop on Knowledge Acquisition Reuse & Evaluation Collocated with: SITIS 2017 - The 13th International Conference on SIGNAL IMAGE TECHNOLOGY & INTERNET BASED SYSTEMS December 4-7, 2016 - Jaipur, India Scope of the Workshop The International Workshop on Knowledge Acquisition, Reuse and Evaluation aims to bring together researchers, scientists, engineers, and scholar students to exchange and share their experiences, new ideas, and research results about all aspects of Knowledge, Ontology, Sermantic Web or Knowledge Engineering. We will discuss the practical challenges encountered and the solutions adopted. This workshop will focus on the theoreticians and practitioners concerned with developing methods and systems that assist the knowledge management process and assessing the suitability of such methods. Thus, the workshop includes all aspects of acquiring, modelling and managing knowledge, and their role in the construction of knowledge-based systems. Knowledge acquisition still remains the bottleneck for building a knowledge based system. Reuse and sharing of knowledge bases are major issues and no satisfactory solutions have been agreed upon yet. There is a wide range of research. Much of the work in this field has been knowledge acquisition. The advent of the age of digital information has brought the problem of knowledge reuse and knowledge evaluation. Our ability to analyze, evaluate and assist user in reusing knowledge present a great challenge of the next years. A new generation of computational techniques and tools is required to support the acquisition, the reuse and the evaluation of useful knowledge from the rapidly growing volume of information. All of these are to be discussed in this workshop. Topics for the workshop include, but are not limited to: ? Tools and techniques for knowledge acquisition, knowledge update and knowledge validation ? knowledge portals ? Web-based approaches for knowledge management ? Agent-based approaches for knowledge management ? Software agents for semantic web ? Semantic web-based knowledge management ? Tools, languages, and techniques for semantic annotation ? Semantic searching ? Semantic brokering ? CSCW and cooperative approaches for knowledge management ? Agent-based approaches for knowledge management ? Evaluation of knowledge acquisition techniques ? Information and knowledge structures ? Languages and frameworks for knowledge and knowledge modelling ? Ontology creation, evolution, reconciliation, and mediation ? Ontology-based approaches for knowledge management ? Knowledge delivery methods ? Knowledge life cycle ? Knowledge and information extraction and discovery techniques ? Corporate Semantic Webs for knowledge management ? Peer-to-peer approaches for knowledge management ? Knowledge extraction from images/pictures ? Intelligent knowledge-based systems ? Decision support and expert systems ? Re-usability of software/knowledge/information ? Semantic web inference methodologies Important dates Submission deadline: August 27, 2017 Acceptance/Reject notification: October 3, 2017 Camera-ready: October 17, 2017 Author Registration: October 19, 2017 Submission Each submission should be at most 8 pages in total including bibliography and well-marked appendices, and must follow the IEEE double columns publication format available at: * Microsoft Word DOC * LaTex Formatting Macros Paper submission will only be online via: Easy Chair (https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sitis2017) Only pdf files will be accepted. Submissions not meeting these guidelines risk rejection without consideration of their merits. All submitted papers will be carefully evaluated based on originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of expression by at least two reviewers. The organizers will examine the reviews and make final paper selections. Publication All the papers accepted for the workshop will be included in the conference proceedings and submitted for inclusion to IEEE Xplore and major indexes. They will be available at the conference. Registration At least one author of each accepted paper must register for the workshop. Workshop registration fee is determined by SITIS. A single registration for the workshop or the conference allows attending both events. Journal Special Issues Publication Chair: Davy Monticolo Selected high-quality papers in the area of the Knowledge engineering domain will be selected to submit an extended version on the special issue: " Knowledge Management and Organizations ", International Journal of Knowledge Based System , Impact Factor : 4,59 Elsevier Edition. Workshop Co-Chairs: Davy Monticolo, Universit? de Lorraine, France Alex Gabriel, ?cole nationale sup?rieure d?arts et m?tiers, Paris, France Program Committee: ? Ezendu Ariwa, London Metropolitan University ? Dickson K.W.Chiu, The University of Hong Kong ? Andrew Kusiak, University of Iowa ? Lenka Lhotska, Czech Technical University in Prague, Dept. of Cybernetics ? Yishuai Lin, Xidian University ? Gaelle Lortal, THALES R&D ? Matta Nada, University of Technology of Troyes ? Jose M Parente De Oliveira, Aeronautics Institute of Technology ? Jan Martijn Van Der Werf, Department of Information and Computing Sciences, Utrecht University ? Ernesto Exposito, LAAS-CNRS, INSA Toulouse, University of Toulouse ? Inaya Lahoud, Galatasaray University ? Rahma Dhaouadi, SOIE LI3 ? Uwe Riss SAP (Switzerland) AG Contact Davy MONTICOLO, davy.monticolo at univ-lorraine.fr -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Please distribute to interested parties.] KR18 - Preliminary Call for Tutorial and Workshop Proposals ** Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this call ** ** Please distribute to interested parties ** ======================================== Call for Tutorial and Workshop Proposals 16th International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KR 2018) Tempe, Arizona (USA) Workshop/Tutorial dates: 27-29 October 2018 KR main program: 30 October to 1 November 2018 http://reasoning.eas.asu.edu/kr2018 *** Deadline (for proposal submissions): 21 February 2018 *** For its 2018 edition, KR will solicit proposals for both the Tutorial and Workshop tracks. Tutorials and workshops will be held from 27 to 29 October 2018, prior to the KR main technical program, which will run from 30 October to 1 November 2018. The attendance of tutorials is complimentary to all KR registered participants. Workshop attendance will be subject to payment of a workshop fee, which is separate from that of the main conference. ** SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS ** Each proposal (tutorial or workshop) should be in English and must be submitted electronically using the following submission forms: Tutorial proposal: http://tinyurl.com/kr18tute Workshop proposal: http://tinyurl.com/kr18workshop For all accepted proposals, KR will take care of all local arrangements. * SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS FOR TUTORIAL PROPOSALS * Each tutorial proposal should contain the following information: - A short title of the tutorial. - A two-paragraph description of the tutorial. - Proposed length of the tutorial (half day is the default and recommended length, but an argument can be made for a full day tutorial). - A detailed outline of the tutorial. - The potential target audience for the tutorial and prerequisite knowledge. - A brief resume of the presenter(s) including: . Name,affiliation, and email address. . Evidence of scholarship in the area, including a list of publications. . Evidence of teaching experience. The main duties of the tutorial organizers are: - Setup a web-site for the tutorial, which should include, at least, title and abstract of the tutorial, presenters? details, outline, tutorial notes and related reading material. - Deliver the tutorial at KR 2018. * SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS FOR WORKSHOP PROPOSALS * Each workshop proposal should contain the following information: - Title of the workshop and acronym. - Names, affiliations, and contact details of the organisers. - Short description and format. - History of the workshop (if applicable) and related events. - Size of the workshop and duration. - Tentative list of PC members with their respective affiliations. - Experience of the organisers. - Tentative call for papers. The main duties of the workshop chairs are: - Set up a website for the workshop. - Advertise the workshop and distribute its call for papers. - Coordinate the peer-reviewing of submitted contributions. - Organise a schedule for the workshop in collaboration with the local organisers and the Workshop Co-Chairs. - Coordinate and moderate the workshop participation and content. Each accepted proposal will be waived two workshop registrations to be used at the discretion of the organisers (e.g., to cover the registration of an invited speaker). KR reserves the right to cancel a workshop if it does not have enough participants to cover its running costs. ** IMPORTANT DATES ** - Proposal submission deadline: 21 February 2018. - Notification: 31 March 2018. - Workshops paper submission deadline: 21 July 2018. - Workshops paper notification: 25 August 2018. - Workshops registration deadline: TBD. - Tutorial and workshop dates: 27-29 October 2018. ** SUBMISSIONS AND INQUIRIES ** Those interested in presenting a tutorial or workshop should register their interest and proposal in the following forms: Tutorial proposals: http://tinyurl.com/kr18tute Workshop proposals: http://tinyurl.com/kr18workshop Inquiries should be sent by email to the tutorials/workshop chairs: Sebastian Sardina School of Computer Science and Information Technology RMIT University sebastian.sardina at rmit.edu.au Ivan Varzinczak CRIL, Univ. Artois & CNRS, France varzinczak at cril.fr From gabriele.kern-isberner at cs.tu-dortmund.de Thu Aug 17 15:36:15 2017 From: gabriele.kern-isberner at cs.tu-dortmund.de (Gabriele Kern-Isberner) Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2017 23:36:15 +1000 Subject: [DL] KI 2017: Call for Participation Message-ID: <59959BCF.6000109@cs.tu-dortmund.de> ============== KI 2017: Call for Participation ============== 40th German Conference on Artificial Intelligence September 25-29, 2017 Dortmund, Germany http://ki2017.tu-dortmund.de ============================================================= ********************* Registration site ********************* ****** https://ki2017.tu-dortmund.de/registration.html ****** ******** Early Bird Registration closes on Aug 27, 2017 ******* ============================================================= KI 2017 is the 40th edition of the German Conference on Artificial Intelligence organized in cooperation with the Fachbereich K?nstliche Intelligenz der Gesellschaft f?r Informatik. KI traditionally brings together academic and industrial researchers from all areas of AI, providing an ideal place for exchanging news and research results of intelligent system technology. The technical program of KI 2017 will comprise invited talks, paper presentations, a Historical Session on 40 years of AI in Germany, and a variety of workshops and tutorials. ======== Keynote Speeches ======= * Pierre Baldi (University of California in Irvine): Deep Learning: Theory, Algorithms, and Applications in the Natural Sciences * Gerhard Brewka (Universit?t Leipzig): Computational Models of Argument: A Fresh View on Old AI Problems * Luc De Raedt (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven): Probabilistic Programming and its Applications * Wolfgang Wahlster (German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI)): Artificial Intelligence for Industrie 4.0 We would be happy to welcome you at KI 2017! Gabriele Kern-Isberner, on behalf of all KI 2017 organizers ======== KI 2017 Organizers ======== General Chair * Gabriele Kern-Isberner (TU Dortmund) Program Chairs * Johannes F?rnkranz (TU Darmstadt) * Matthias Thimm (Universit?t Koblenz-Landau) Workshop and Tutorial Chair * Christoph Beierle (FernUniversit?t in Hagen) Historial Session Chair * Ulrich Furbach (Universit?t Koblenz-Landau) Local Organizers * Christian Eichhorn (TU Dortmund) * Steffen Schieweck (TU Dortmund) * Marco Wilhelm (TU Dortmund) ============================================================= -- *************************************************** * Prof. Dr. Gabriele Kern-Isberner * Technische Universitaet Dortmund * Dept. of Computer Science * Chair I - Information Engineering * 44221 Dortmund, Germany * Phone: +49-231-755-2045 * Fax: +49-231-755 6555 * email: gabriele.kern-isberner at cs.uni-dortmund.de *************************************************** From annalisa.gentile at ibm.com Thu Aug 24 01:17:11 2017 From: annalisa.gentile at ibm.com (annalisa gentile) Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2017 16:17:11 -0700 Subject: [DL] [CfP] ISWC2017 - Register while early bird rate is still available! Message-ID: 16th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2017) Vienna, Austria, October 21-25, 2017 ******************************************* *** Early registration available until September 8, 2017 *** Student travel grant - apply by August 31, 2017 *** Semantic Web Challenge: until September 10, 2017 ******************************************* Website: http://iswc2017.semanticweb.org Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/113652365383847 Twitter: @iswc2017 (https://twitter.com/ISWC2017) Overview calls: http://iswc2017.semanticweb.org/calls/ In this announcement: 1. Semantic Web Challenge 2. Student travel fellowship 3. Job Fair 4. ISWC2017 Metadata - Call for Data Visualization 5. Call for Business Ideas and Startup pitches 6. Mentoring Lunch 7. ISWC Jam Session 8. Registration 9. Important dates 1. Semantic Web Challenge ========================================== This year?s Semantic Web Challenge is centered around two important tasks for building large-scale knowledge graphs: * Knowledge graph population. Given the name and type of a subject entity, (e.g., a company) and a relation, (e.g., CEO) participants are expected to provide the value(s) for the relation. * Knowledge graph validation. Given a statement about an entity, e.g., the CEO of a company, participants are expected to provide an assessment about the correctness of the statement. For both tasks, users may use a portion of the knowledge graph for training. Furthermore, arbitrary sources (e.g., external datasets, Web pages, etc.) may be used as input. A full description of all tasks and all the data are available at the link below. The submission deadline for all the tasks is September 10th, 2017 Finalists will be announced on September 15th, 2017 Detailed info: https://iswc2017.semanticweb.org/calls/iswc-semantic-web-challenge-2017/ Program Chairs * Axel-Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo, University of Paderborn, Germany * Heiko Paulheim, University of Mannheim, Germany * Dan Bennett, Thomson Reuters, USA 2. Student travel grants deadline ========================================== If you are a student interested in attending ISWC 2017, you may be eligible to apply for a grant to support the costs of travel and lodging. This year, travel grants are funded by the Semantic Web Science Association (SWSA) and the US National Science Foundation (NSF). The deadline for applying for an ISWC 2017 travel award is **August 31st, 2017**. Please make sure that you have submitted your application and that your supervisor has sent us a confirmation email by this date. Although students presenting at the conference (paper, workshop, doctoral consortium, poster, demo, etc.) will be given priority for funding, there may be limited funding for students who are not presenting at the conference. Detailed info: https://iswc2017.semanticweb.org/attending/student-travel-grants/ 3. Job Fair ========================================== ISWC 2017 will host the first edition of the Job Fair! We hope that this initiative will help organisations in both industry and academia to find great candidates and to present new career opportunities to conference attendees. When registering to the conference ( https://iswc2017.semanticweb.org/registration-page/) you can tick the option to register your organisation for the job fair. This will provide your organisation with: A table (with a sign showing your organisation name and three seats) close to the permanently open coffee corner (in the seated lunch/coffee area) for a 1.5 hour slot in parallel to one of the conference sessions A special identification sticker on the badge of each member in charge of recruiting for your organisation. That will allow conference attendees to approach you and your colleagues at any time during the days of the conference to learn about the job opportunities offered by your organisation. This option is only additional 50 euros on the registration fee. Organisations that have purchased a regular sponsorship package (which includes other additional benefits!) are **exempt from this extra fee**. If you are a student, post-doc or simply someone looking for a career opportunity you can get a special identification sticker on your badge for free. This will allow recruiters to approach you at any time during the conference days and explain you the opportunities that they offer. Detailed info: https://iswc2017.semanticweb.org/program/job-fair/ 4. ISWC2017 Metadata - Call for Visualisations ========================================== As it has been tradition in the previous years, all metadata of the conference will be made publicly available. This is both an announcement of a *preliminary* release of the ISWC2017 metadata and a call for action to apply your own tools for visualising or exploring the ISWC2017 conference data. A preliminary dump is already available at the link below. In order to put this data to use, we invite submissions of apps/tools which visualise and/or support exploration of the data. The ISWC2017 organisation team intends to link to your applications from the ISWC2017 Website and provide some publicity, so this provides an opportunity to showcase your RDF/Linked Data visualization tool to the ISWC2017 audience. Should you intend to submit or have any questions, please get in touch with the ISWC2017 metadata chairs (contact info below). Note: the current data is a preliminary release only, with the aim to facilitate the test of exploration tools. It will be completed and further polished throughout the next weeks. The finalised metadata will be published closer to the conference and integrated in scholarlydata.org Detailed info and data download: https://iswc2017.semanticweb.org/calls/iswc2017-metadata-call-for-visualisations/ Metadata Chairs * Stefan Dietze, L3S Research Center, Germany (dietze at l3s.de) * Davide Taibi, CNR-ITD, Italy (davide.taibi at itd.cnr.it) 5. Call for Business Ideas and Startup pitches ========================================== If you attend ISWC 2017 and have an innovative ?semantic? business idea, don?t miss out on the unique opportunity to pitch it at the business event ?Semantics in the Field?. This event will showcase innovative applications and solutions and bring together semantic web researchers and the business community - from local entrepreneurs to large multi-national enterprises. You will get insight into the work of successful companies in the field and be able to pitch your ideas to a diverse and highly competent target audience. The event will provide ample opportunity for networking. Make sure to submit your pitch deck until September 30 to linkedstartup at googlegroups.com (see the CfP for details)! Information on the event: https://wirtschaftsagentur.at/veranstaltungen/business-treff-semantics-in-the-field-524/ Call for pitches: https://iswc2017.semanticweb.org/call-for-startup-pitches/ 6. Mentoring Lunch ========================================== The Mentoring Lunch at the International Semantic Web Conference brings together graduate students and early-career researchers with experienced researchers from both, industry and academia for a lively discussion and question-answering session on a variety of topics. If you are a PhD student, a postdoc, or have just started an independent research career and would like to get advice on any of the round-table topics listed below, please join us at the specially designated tables during a lunch break on October 24th, 2017. The last date to register is September 22nd, 2017. Detailed info and registration: https://iswc2017.semanticweb.org/iswc-mentoring-lunch/ 7. ISWC Jam Session ========================================== The ISWC Jam Session officially returns! The Semantic Web community is crowded with music lovers and several of our fine researchers are also excellent music players! After the great success of the Sydney-Jam-Session at ISWC2013 we launch the Vienna-Jam-Session at ISWC2017, sponsored by data.world! (https://data.world). This is a call for musicians in the Semantic Web community that want to share their musical skills and contribute to a very fun night after the ISWC 2017 poster and demo session. We will try and cater for all music tastes: blues, funk, soul jazz, rock, latin? feel free to suggest anything interesting! If you want to get involved (sharing tunes, ideas, music sheets) request access to the shared drive https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B29uZ3ZR9sx4OGtqdlI2NHlJeTQ and join the facebook group https://www.facebook.com/groups/420886798297740 , where we can all contribute with links, videos, suggestions, etc. There will be time to rehearse before the jam. We have a studio reserved at "Studio 5" (http://rehearsal.at) on 21st October between 19:00-22:00, with standard equipment. At the jam venue there will equally be mics, guitar- and bass-amps,, a drum set, and a keyboard. Jam Session Chairs * Aldo Gangemi, Universit? Paris 13, Paris, France and ISTC-CNR, Rome, Italy * Anna Lisa Gentile, IBM Research Almaden, US 8. Registration ========================================== Early registration is available until ** September 8th 2017** Register early to get the cheapest rate! You can find all details and register at: https://iswc2017.semanticweb.org/attending/registration/ 9. Important Dates ========================================== Notifications sent (Industry track) August 9, 3017 Workshop paper notifications sent August 24, 2017 Poster & Demo notifications sent August 24, 2017 Student activity applications due August 31, 2017 Final version industry track papers due August 31, 2017 Camera-ready for Poster & Demo due September 4, 2017 The last day for early registrations September 8, 2017 Semantic Web Challenge September 10, 2017 Startup pitch submissions due September 30 Workshops & Tutorials October 21 & 22, 2017 Conference October 23, 24 & 25, 2017 We thank our platinum sponsor IBM Research and our gold sponsors Big Data Europe, data.world, metaphacts, Ontotext, Oracle, Semantic Web Company, Siemens and Thomson Reuters for their support. 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URL: From dragoni at fbk.eu Wed Aug 23 10:19:33 2017 From: dragoni at fbk.eu (Mauro Dragoni) Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2017 10:19:33 +0200 Subject: [DL] [CFP] Cognitive Computing Track @ The 33rd ACM Symposium on Applied Computing - ACM SAC 2018 Message-ID: ==== Cognitive Computing Track @ The 33rd ACM Symposium on Applied Computing - ACM SAC 2018 - Call for Paper ==== Cognitive Computing Track website: https://coco.fbk.eu/sac2018 ACM SAC 2018 website: http://www.sigapp.org/sac/sac2018/ Dates: April 9-13, 2018 Venue: Pau, France *** Aim & Scope *** The SAC2018 special track on Cognitive Computing (http://coco.fbk.eu/sac2018) aims to promote a forum for scientists, engineers and practitioners, in academia and industry, to share and discuss latest advances, breakthrough results, and real-world experiences in the Cognitive Computing area. This is an interdisciplinary emerging research area, at the core of Artificial Intelligence, investigating the development of self-learning systems, that naturally interact with humans in complex environments, and are capable to adapt to context and changes in language and meaning. Original and unpublished papers dealing with all facets of the Cognitive Computing area --- such as Natural Language Processing, Knowledge Representation and Reasoning, Audio and Video Analysis, Computer-Human Interaction, Neuroscience and Cognition --- are invited. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Cognitive Knowledge Acquisition ---- Frameworks for acquiring Cognitive Knowledge ---- Tools and Methodologies for Cognitive Knowledge acquisition ---- Natural Language Processing for Cognitive Knowledge acquisition ---- Sentiment Analysis and Opinion Mining ---- Linguistic Resources and Cognitive Knowledge Acquisition ---- Machine Learning techniques (e.g., Deep Learning) for Cognitive Knowledge acquisition ---- Acquisition from media other than text (e.g., audio, video, images) ---- Linked Data and Cognitive Knowledge Acquisition ---- Emerging approaches for Cognitive Knowledge acquisition (e.g., crowd?based approaches). ---- Principled evaluation of acquired Cognitive Knowledge - Representing, Formalizing and Reasoning with Cognitive Knowledge ---- Ontologies for Cognitive Systems ---- Representation languages for Cognitive Knowledge ---- Reasoning about Cognitive Knowledge - Development of Cognitive Systems ---- Architectures for Cognitive Systems ---- Scalability of Cognitive Systems ---- Complex Cognitive Systems ---- Fuzzy Cognitive Systems - Applications ---- Real?world applications that exploit Cognitive Knowledge ---- Cognitive Systems for Big Data scenarios ---- Cognitive Techniques for Deep Learning ---- Cognitive Techniques for Persuasion and Recommender Systems ---- Cognitive Robotics ---- Cognitive Techniques for Information Retrieval ---- Deployment of Cognitive Systems in specific domains. For example: ------- Digital Humanities and Social Sciences ------- eGovernment and public administration ------- Life sciences, health and medicine ------- Social Media, News, and Data Streams *** Paper Submission *** Research papers and experience reports related to the above topics are solicited. Submissions must not have been published or be concurrently considered for publication elsewhere. Papers should be submitted in PDF using the ACM-SAC proceedings format via the SAC 2018 website. Authors' names and affiliations should be entered separately at the submission site and not appear in the submitted papers. Each submission will be reviewed in a DOUBLE-BLIND process according to the ACM-SAC Regulations. Student Research Competition submissions are welcome (see www.sigapp.org/sac/sac2018/pdf/SAC2018-CFSRC.pdf for details). Full papers are limited to 8 pages, in camera-ready format, included in the registration fee. Authors have the option to include up to two (2) extrapages at additional fee of US$80 per page. Posters are limited to 3 pages, in camera-ready format, included in the registration fee. Authors have the option to include only one (1) extra page at additional fee of US$80. SRC Abstracts are limited to 2 pages, in camera-ready format, included in the registration fee. No extra pages allowed. *** Submission sites: *** (for regular papers) https://www.softconf.com/i/sac2018/ (for SRC papers) https://www.softconf.com/i/sac-src2018/ Paper selection is based on the originality, technical contribution, presentation quality, and relevance to the Cognitive Computing Track. Some papers may be accepted as posters. Authors of selected papers of the Cognitive Computing track will be invited to submit an extended version of their work to a forthcoming Special Issue in Progress in Artificial Intelligence (Springer journal). *** Important Dates *** September 15, 2017: Regular Paper & SRC Abstract Submission Due - EXTENDED November 10, 2017: Author Notification November 25, 2017: Camera? ready copies of accepted papers/SRC December 10, 2017: Author Registration Due *** Track Co?Chairs *** Mauro Dragoni, Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK) ? dragoni at fbk.eu Marco Rospocher, Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK) ? rospocher at fbk.eu *** Programme Committee *** Tanvi Banerjee, Kno.e.sis (Wright State University), USA Valerio Basile, INRIA, Sophia Antipolis, France Loris Bozzato, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy Elena Cabrio, INRIA, Sophia Antipolis, France Gerard Casamayor, Pompeu Fabra University, Spain Philipp Cimiano, University of Bielefeld, Germany Francesco Corcoglioniti, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy Chiara Di Francescomarino, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy Antske Fokkens, VU Amsterdam, Netherlands Ilias Gialampoukidis, CERTH, Greece Marco Guerini, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy Antonio Lieto, University of Turin, Italy Dimitrios Liparas, CERTH, Greece Vasileios Mezaris, CERTH, Greece Lyndon Nixon, University of Modul, Austria Alessandro Oltramari, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Matteo Palmonari, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy Simone Paolo Ponzetto, Universit?t Mannheim, Germany Giuseppe Rizzo, Istituto Superiore Mario Boella, Italy Kamal Rossi, Kyung Hee University, South Korea Silvia Rossi, University of Naples "Federico II", Italy Rafal Rzepka, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan Sara Tonelli, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy Marieke van Erp, VU Amsterdam, Netherlands Jacco van Ossenbruggen, CWI Amsterdam, Netherlands Piek Vossen, VU Amsterdam, Netherlands ... more to come. *** General Inquiries *** For further information, please visit SAC Cognitive Computing Track and SAC 2017 conference websites (http://www.sigapp.org/sac/sac2018/) or feel free to contact the Track Co?Chairs. -- Dr. Mauro Dragoni Researcher at Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK-IRST) Via Sommarive 18, 38123, Povo, Trento, Italy Tel. 0461-314053 ######################################## Consider submitting your contribution to the Cognitive Computing track @ ACM SAC 2018 https://coco.fbk.eu/sac2018/ Pau, France, April 9-13, 2018 ######################################## -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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The posters will be presented in a poster session at the conference, and the extended abstracts will be published in the conference proceedings. Dates + Submission: 18 September, 2017 + Notification: 25 September, 2017 + Final version: 2 October, 2017 Suggested topics include, but are not limited to: Foundations + Knowledge representation + Cognitive modeling + Perception + Search + Reasoning and programming + Machine learning + Constraints and uncertainty Architectures + Agents and distributed AI + Intelligent user interfaces + Natural language systems and linguistics + Information retrieval + Case-based reasoning + Affective computing + Robotics Applications + Aviation and aerospace + Education and tutoring systems + Games and entertainment + Law and Machine Ethics + Mathematics and the Sciences + Medicine and healthcare + Management and manufacturing + World Wide Web + Security Implications + Philosophical foundations + Social impact and ethics + Evaluation of AI systems + AI education SUBMISSION and PUBLICATION Submission is via EasyChair at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=gcai2017 The proceedings will be published by EasyChair Publications in the EPiC Series in Computing. The volume will be open access and authors will retain copyright. From cfp.conference2016 at GMAIL.COM Fri Aug 25 17:50:46 2017 From: cfp.conference2016 at GMAIL.COM (CFP Conference) Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2017 11:50:46 -0400 Subject: [DL] IEEE Big Data 2017 Call for Workshop Papers and Posters Message-ID: *IEEE Big Data 2017 Call for Workshop Papers & Posters* 2017 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (Big Data 2017) http://cci.drexel.edu/bigdata/bigdata2017/ Dec 11-14 2017, Boston, MA, USA The IEEE Big Data 2017 received more than 500 full papers in the main conference and industry and government program. If you miss the submission deadline, there are still chances for you to submit your research work to the IEEE Big Data 2017 workshops and Posters. (1) * 40 Workshops *(most of the workshop paper submission deadlines are in middle or late October) *1.* Computational Archival Science *2.* 3rd International Workshop on Methodologies to Improve Big Data projects *3.* Second workshop on Real-time and stream processing in Big Data *4.* 6th Workshop on Scalable Cloud Data Management *5.* Solar &amp; Stellar Astronomy Big Data (SABiD) 4th Workshop on Management, Search and Mining of Massive Repositories of Solar and Stellar Astronomy Data (SABiD) *6.* Data Quality Issues in Big Data and Machine Learning Applications: Going Beyond Data Cleaning and Transformations *7.* 5th International Workshop on Distributed Storage Systems and Coding for Big Data *8.* Big Data for Cloud Operations Management: Problems, Approaches, Tools, and Best Practices *9.* Big Social Media Data Management and Analysis *10.* Benchmarking, Performance Tuning and Optimization for Big Data Applications (BPOD) *11.* The 1st IEEE Big Data International Workshop on Policy-based Autonomic Data Governance (PADG) *12.* The 2nd IEEE Workshop on Big Data Metadata and Management (BDMM 2017) *13.* 2nd International Workshop on Application of Big Data for computational social science *14.* 2nd International Workshop on Methods to Manage Heterogeneous Big Data and Polystore Databases *15.* IEEE Workshop on Big Data Analytics in Manufacturing and Supply Chains *16.* Fourth International Workshop on High Performance Big Graph Data Management, Analysis, and Mining (BigGraphs 2017) *17.* The 2nd IEEE International Workshop on Big Spatial Data (BSD 2017) *18.* 4th Workshop on Advances in Software and Hardware for Big Data Science (ASH 2017) *19.* 2nd International Workshop on Enterprise Big Data Semantic and Analytics Modeling *20.* International Workshop on Big Data Analytic for Cyber Crime Investigation and Prevention *21.* Data Science for Emergency Management *22.* Applications of Big Data Technology in the Transport Industry *23.* Big Data Analytics in the Legal Industry *24.* First International Workshop on Big Data in Smart Cities and Smart Buildings *25.* Big Data Analytic Technology for Bioinformatics and Health Informatics (KDDBHI) *26.* Big Data Technology and Ethics Considerations in Customer Behavior and Customer Feedback Mining *27.* 2nd Workshop on Open Science in Big Data (OSBD 2017) *28.* IEEE Workshop Data Science for Networking (DS4N 2017) *29.* 2nd International Workshop on Big Data Transfer Learning (BDTL) -- Automatic Knowledge Mining and Transfer for Digital Healthcare *30.* International Workshop on Smart Cities: People, Technology, and Data (IWSC17) *31.* Big Data for Economic and Business Forecasting *32.* 3rd International Workshop on Big Data for Sustainable Development *33.* The 4th Workshop on Pattern Mining and Application of Big Data (BigPMA 2017) *34.* Fifth International Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Social Media (SocialNLP 2017) *35.* First IEEE Workshop on Human-Machine Collaboration in BigData (HMData2017) *36.* 4th International Workshop on Privacy and Security of Big Data (PSBD 2017) *37.* 3rd Workshop on Advances in High Dimensional (AdHD) Big Data (AdHD 2017) *38.* Big Data Analytics for Internet of Things *39.* International Workshop on Big Data Analytics for Cyber Intelligence and Defense (BDA4CID 2017) *40.* International Workshop on Big Data for Financial News and Data (2) *Poster *(Submission deadline: Nov 10) Poster abstracts are limited to one page, must be camera-ready, and must follow the same formatting requirements as specified in the online submission. 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Short Course, to be held at Stanford University, California, between October 9 - 11, 2017. There are less than two weeks left until the "early bird" deadline! Register here: https://protege.stanford.edu/shortcourse/201710/registration.html . The Prot?g? Short Course offers a 3-day intensive training in the use of the Prot?g? toolset, ontology development, and OWL. We cover best practices in ontology building and the latest Semantic Web technologies, including OWL 2, RDF, and SPARQL. We also cover topics such as real-world applications with ontologies, and data access and import from different data sources. The course is hands-on and is taught by the members of the Prot?g? team. Read more about it at: https://protege.stanford.edu/shortcourse/201710/ . If you have any questions about the Prot?g? Short Course, please email: protege-shortcourse at lists.stanford.edu . Please feel free to forward this announcement to anyone who might be interested in the course. Thank you! 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Its originality lies in the extraction of concepts in data, which have a dual definition with a set of properties/predicates and a set of objects that satisfy the properties. These concepts are organized in conceptual structures that may range from partial orders to lattices of special types and that comprise data dependencies. Due to the richness of its structures, FCA contributes to several domains including artificial intelligence, data mining, information retrieval, knowledge management, data and knowledge engineering, logic, algebra, and lattice theory. The research in the domain is very active and many applications are proposed in such various fields as natural language processing, life and social sciences, image processing, and software engineering, where large datasets are present. The International Conference on Concept Lattices and Their Applications (CLA) is one of the most important events of the FCA community (http://cla.inf.upol.cz/). It aims to provide a forum for researchers involved in all aspects of the study of FCA, from theory and methodology to tools and practical applications. In 2016, the event was organized and hosted by the National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia. We hereby cordially invite authors of CLA 2016 publications as well as other FCA researchers to contribute to this special issue of /Discrete Applied Mathematics/. Submissions should relate to the themes of the conference, including but not restricted to: - foundations - concept lattices and related structures - attribute implications and data dependencies - algorithms - visualization - data preprocessing - redundancy and dimensionality reduction - information retrieval - classification - clustering - association rules and other data dependencies - ontologies - applications This is an open call; submissions of contributions not presented at CLA 2016 are also welcome. Contributions arising from papers given at the conference should be substantially extended, and should cite the conference paper where appropriate. All articles will be thoroughly refereed according to the high standards of /Discrete Applied Mathematics/. The full papers must be submitted through the Elsevier Editorial System (*http://ees.elsevier.com/dam*). When submitting your paper, be sure to specify that the paper is a contribution for the Special Issue of *CLA 2016*, so that your paper is assigned to the guest editors. Please see the Author Instructions on the site if you have not yet submitted a paper through this web-based system. Be sure to select the article type *S.I.: CLA 2016.* The deadline for submission is *September 15, 2017*. Accepted papers will be published online individually, before print publication. 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URL: From geoff at cs.miami.edu Mon Aug 28 15:42:14 2017 From: geoff at cs.miami.edu (geoff at cs.miami.edu) Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2017 09:42:14 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [DL] FMCAD 2017: CALL FOR PARTICIPATION Message-ID: <20170828134214.A439F1700BDF@cs.miami.edu> FMCAD 2017: CALL FOR PARTICIPATION International Conference on Formal Methods in Computer-Aided Design (FMCAD) TU Wien, Vienna, Austria, October 2-6, 2017 http://www.fmcad.org/FMCAD17 FMCAD Tutorial Day: October 2, 2017 FMCAD Regular Program: October 3-6, 2017 Part of the FMCAD 2017 program: - FMCAD Student Forum - Hardware Model Checking Competition 2017 - Symposium in memoriam of Helmut Veith Co-located event: MEMOCODE 2017 (http://memocode.irisa.fr/2017/) CONFERENCE SCOPE FMCAD 2017 is the seventeenth in a series of conferences on the theory and applications of formal methods in hardware and system verification. FMCAD provides a leading forum to researchers in academia and industry for presenting and discussing ground-breaking methods, technologies, theoretical results, and tools for reasoning formally about computing systems. FMCAD covers formal aspects of computer-aided system design including verification, specification, synthesis, and testing. REGISTRATION Early Registration Deadline: September 02, 2017 Registration Deadline: September 29, 2017 Registration details are available on http://fmcad.org/FMCAD17/registration TECHNICAL PROGRAM The program comprises presentations of 25 regular papers and 4 tool papers, 3 tutorials and 2 keynotes, a student forum, the Hardware Model Checking Competition, and a symposium in memoriam Helmut Veith. Details are available on the web-site: http://fmcad.org/FMCAD17 KEYNOTES - Byron Cook (Amazon, University College London) "Formal Verification, Model Checking, and Constraints for Security of the Cloud" - Wilfried Steiner (TTTech) "Formal Methods in Industrial Dependable Systems Design" TUTORIALS - Shin'ichiro Matsuo (MIT Media Lab/CELLOS Consortium/BSafe.network) "How Formal Methods and Analysis Helps Security of Entire Blockchain-based Systems" - Cas Cremers (Oxford University) "Symbolic Security Analysis using the Tamarin Prover" - Jade Alglave (Microsoft Research, University College London) "Consistency Properties of Parallel/Distributed Programs in cat" STUDENT FORUM AND HELMUT VEITH SYMPOSIUM The FMCAD student forum consists of short presentations and posters of doctoral students presenting their work-in-progress. The Symposium in memoriam Helmut Veith features talks on model checking, synthesis, distributed algorithms, and security, as well as a LogicLounge on Teaching Logic in Computer Science. SPONSORS - Sponsored by FMCAD, Inc. - Technical Co-sponsor: IEEE - In-cooperation with: ACM SIGPLAN/SIGSOFT - Financial support: Amazon, ARM, BMVIT, Centaur Technology, DiffBlue, Galois, Microsoft, NSF, Oski Technology, Real Intent, Synopsys, TTTech, WWTF From cfp.conference2016 at GMAIL.COM Sun Sep 3 16:12:14 2017 From: cfp.conference2016 at GMAIL.COM (CFP Conference) Date: Sun, 3 Sep 2017 10:12:14 -0400 Subject: [DL] IEEE Big Data 2017 Call for Workshop Papers and Posters Message-ID: *IEEE Big Data 2017 Call for Workshop Papers & Posters* 2017 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (Big Data 2017) http://cci.drexel.edu/bigdata/bigdata2017/ Dec 11-14 2017, Boston, MA, USA The IEEE Big Data 2017 received more than 500 full papers in the main conference and industry and government program. If you miss the submission deadline, there are still chances for you to submit your research work to the IEEE Big Data 2017 workshops and Posters. (1) * 40 Workshops *(most of the workshop paper submission deadlines are in middle or late October) *1.* Computational Archival Science *2.* 3rd International Workshop on Methodologies to Improve Big Data projects *3.* Second workshop on Real-time and stream processing in Big Data *4.* 6th Workshop on Scalable Cloud Data Management *5.* Solar &amp; Stellar Astronomy Big Data (SABiD) 4th Workshop on Management, Search and Mining of Massive Repositories of Solar and Stellar Astronomy Data (SABiD) *6.* Data Quality Issues in Big Data and Machine Learning Applications: Going Beyond Data Cleaning and Transformations *7.* 5th International Workshop on Distributed Storage Systems and Coding for Big Data *8.* Big Data for Cloud Operations Management: Problems, Approaches, Tools, and Best Practices *9.* Big Social Media Data Management and Analysis *10.* Benchmarking, Performance Tuning and Optimization for Big Data Applications (BPOD) *11.* The 1st IEEE Big Data International Workshop on Policy-based Autonomic Data Governance (PADG) *12.* The 2nd IEEE Workshop on Big Data Metadata and Management (BDMM 2017) *13.* 2nd International Workshop on Application of Big Data for computational social science *14.* 2nd International Workshop on Methods to Manage Heterogeneous Big Data and Polystore Databases *15.* IEEE Workshop on Big Data Analytics in Manufacturing and Supply Chains *16.* Fourth International Workshop on High Performance Big Graph Data Management, Analysis, and Mining (BigGraphs 2017) *17.* The 2nd IEEE International Workshop on Big Spatial Data (BSD 2017) *18.* 4th Workshop on Advances in Software and Hardware for Big Data Science (ASH 2017) *19.* 2nd International Workshop on Enterprise Big Data Semantic and Analytics Modeling *20.* International Workshop on Big Data Analytic for Cyber Crime Investigation and Prevention *21.* Data Science for Emergency Management *22.* Applications of Big Data Technology in the Transport Industry *23.* Big Data Analytics in the Legal Industry *24.* First International Workshop on Big Data in Smart Cities and Smart Buildings *25.* Big Data Analytic Technology for Bioinformatics and Health Informatics (KDDBHI) *26.* Big Data Technology and Ethics Considerations in Customer Behavior and Customer Feedback Mining *27.* 2nd Workshop on Open Science in Big Data (OSBD 2017) *28.* IEEE Workshop Data Science for Networking (DS4N 2017) *29.* 2nd International Workshop on Big Data Transfer Learning (BDTL) -- Automatic Knowledge Mining and Transfer for Digital Healthcare *30.* International Workshop on Smart Cities: People, Technology, and Data (IWSC17) *31.* Big Data for Economic and Business Forecasting *32.* 3rd International Workshop on Big Data for Sustainable Development *33.* The 4th Workshop on Pattern Mining and Application of Big Data (BigPMA 2017) *34.* Fifth International Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Social Media (SocialNLP 2017) *35.* First IEEE Workshop on Human-Machine Collaboration in BigData (HMData2017) *36.* 4th International Workshop on Privacy and Security of Big Data (PSBD 2017) *37.* 3rd Workshop on Advances in High Dimensional (AdHD) Big Data (AdHD 2017) *38.* Big Data Analytics for Internet of Things *39.* International Workshop on Big Data Analytics for Cyber Intelligence and Defense (BDA4CID 2017) *40.* International Workshop on Big Data for Financial News and Data (2) *Poster *(Submission deadline: Nov 10) Poster abstracts are limited to one page, must be camera-ready, and must follow the same formatting requirements as specified in the online submission. 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URL: From unilog2018 at uca.fr Mon Sep 4 16:54:01 2017 From: unilog2018 at uca.fr (Unilog 2018) Date: Mon, 4 Sep 2017 16:54:01 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [DL] CFP - 6th WORLD CONGRESS ON UNIVERSAL LOGIC - Vichy, June 2018 In-Reply-To: <997849476.3218574.1504536212694.JavaMail.zimbra@uca.fr> References: <33712787.3212926.1504535478829.JavaMail.zimbra@uca.fr> <834379739.3214021.1504535658148.JavaMail.zimbra@uca.fr> <2006752365.3216908.1504535981541.JavaMail.zimbra@uca.fr> <997849476.3218574.1504536212694.JavaMail.zimbra@uca.fr> Message-ID: <292792029.3223501.1504536841084.JavaMail.zimbra@uca.fr> The 6th WORLD CONGRESS ON UNIVERSAL LOGIC will take place in Vichy, France, June 21-26, 2018 after previous editions in Montreux 2005, Xi'an 2007, Lisbon 2010, Rio 2013 and Istanbul 2015: http://www.uni-log.org/vichy2018 Deadline to submit a one page abstract is September 15, 2017 You can either submit an abstract to the general organization at unilog2018 at yandex.com or to a specific workshop, see details in the website. There will be about 15 workshops within UNILOG'2018: - Proof Theory - The Logic of Social Practices - Around Peirce - Logical Geometry - Logic and Music - The Logic of Social Practices - Reflections on Paraconsistency - Naming Logic(s) II - The Lvov-Warsaw School: Past, Present and Future - The Relevance of Non-classical Logic for Semantic Technologies - Logics and Metalogics - Logic and Categories - Around Hintikka - Practices of Writing and Reading in Logic - Logic, Probability and Credence - Logic for Children UNILOG is a logic event in a broad sense. It gathers people from many horizons (philosophy, mathematics, linguistics, computer science, semiotics, cognitive science ...) and the idea is to promote interaction between all these people. For this edition there will be the award of of Logic Prizes from about 10 countries: http://www.uni-log.org/logic-prize-world Before the congress, June 16-20, 2018, there will be a school with 30 tutorials. Vichy is a charming relaxing thermal city at the middle of France, developed by Napoleon III in the second half of the 19th century, who in particular created beautiful parks with species of trees from all over the world. Vichy, in the Duchy of Bourbon, a region full of castles, is a small city, where it is possible to go everywhere just by walking. The event will take place at the university campus nearby the Celestins spring, the banks of the Allier river (where it is possible to swim) and the city center. June is a very nice time to be in Vichy with lots of animations, including on June 21 a very lively musical day celebrating summertime. Looking forward to seeing you in Vichy in June 2018 Jean-Yves Beziau (University of Brazil, Rio de Janeiro and Ecole Normale Sup?rieure, Paris) Christophe Rey (University Clermont Auvergne, CNRS, LIMOS) Organizers of UNILOG'2018 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- U N I L O G - World Congress and School on Universal Logic - U N I LO G Montreux 2005, Xi'an 2007, Lisbon 2010, Rio 2013, Istanbul 2015, Vichy 2018 http://www.uni-log.org/vichy2018 -------------------------- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From geoff at cs.miami.edu Tue Sep 5 16:07:43 2017 From: geoff at cs.miami.edu (geoff at cs.miami.edu) Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2017 10:07:43 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [DL] IJCAR 2018 - Calll for Papers Message-ID: <20170905140743.7276C1700C6E@cs.miami.edu> CALL FOR PAPERS The 9th International Joint Conference on Automated Reasoning, IJCAR 2018 Oxford, UK, July 14-17, 2018. http://www.ijcar2018.org Part of The Federated Logic Conference, FLoC 2018, Oxford, UK, July 6-19, 2018. http://www.floc2018.org 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 2018 takes place as part of FLoC 2018 and is the merger of leading events in automated reasoning: CADE (Conference on Automated Deduction), FroCoS (Symposium on Frontiers of Combining Systems) and TABLEAUX (Conference on Analytic Tableaux and Related Methods) Topics: ------- IJCAR 2018 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, combination of decision procedures, SAT and SMT solving, etc. - Applications of interest include: verification, formal methods, program analysis and synthesis, computer mathematics, declarative programming, deductive databases, knowledge representation, etc. We welcome papers combining automated-reasoning formalisms & techniques and with those from other areas of CS and mathematics, including, e.g., computer algebra, machine learning, formal languages, formal verification, termination. In particular, high-quality conference papers on the topics of the IJCAR 2018 affiliated workshops are welcome. The proceedings of IJCAR 2018 will be published by Springer in the LNAI/LNCS series (www.springer.com/lncs). Submission details: ------------------- Submission is electronic, through https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ijcar2018. 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 We solicit two categories of submissions: REGULAR PAPERS. Submissions, not exceeding sixteen (16) pages including bibliography, should contain original research, and sufficient detail to assess the merits and relevance of the contribution. For papers reporting experimental results, authors are strongly encouraged to make their data and software available with their submission for reproducibility. The PC will take availability of software and data into account when evaluating submissions. Submissions reporting on case studies in an industrial context are strongly invited, and should describe details, weaknesses and strength in sufficient depth. Simultaneous submission to other conferences with proceedings or submission of material that has already been published elsewhere is not allowed. SYSTEM DESCRIPTIONS. Submissions, not exceeding eight (8) pages including bibliography, should describe the implemented tool and its novel features. One author is expected to be able to perform a demonstration on demand to accompany a tool presentation. Papers describing tools that have already been presented in other conferences before will be accepted only if significant and clear enhancements to the tool are reported and implemented. Best paper award: ----------------- IJCAR 2018 will recognize the most outstanding submission with a best paper award at the conference. Invited speakers: ----------------- Invited Speakers will be announced later on. Important dates (provisional): ------------------------------ Abstract submission: January 22nd 2018 Paper submission: January 29th 2018 Notification: March 29th, 2018 Final version of papers due: April 23rd, 2018 IJCAR Conference: July 14-17th, 2018 FLoC Conference: July 6-19th, 2018 IMPORTANT NOTICE: due to very strict FLoC constraints, deadlines are SHARP! Student travel awards: ---------------------- Woody Bledsoe Travel Awards will be available to support selected students in attending the conference. Organization: ------------- Conference Chair: Ian Horrocks, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK Program Chairs: Didier Galmiche, LORIA, Universite de Lorraine, Nancy, France Stephan Schulz, DHBW Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany Roberto Sebastiani, DISI, University of Trento, Trento, Italy Local Arrangements Chairs: Daniel Kroening, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK Marta Kwiatkowska, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK Workshop Chair: Alberto Griggio, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Trento, Italy Publicity Chair: Geoff Sutcliffe, University of Miami Program Committee: Carlos Areces FaMAF - Universidad Nacional de Cordoba Alessandro Artale Free University of Bolzano-Bozen Arnon Avron Tel-Aviv University Franz Baader TU Dresden Clark Barrett Stanford University Peter Baumgartner Data 61 and CSIRO Christoph Benzmueller Freie Universitaet Berlin Armin Biere Johannes Kepler University Linz Nikolaj Bjorner Microsoft Research Jasmin Christian Blanchette Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Maria Paola Bonacina Universita degli Studi di Verona Torben Brauener Roskilde University Agata Ciabattoni TU Wien Leonardo de Moura Microsoft Research Hans De Nivelle University of Wroclaw Stephane Demri CNRS, LSV, ENS Paris-Saclay Clare Dixon University of Liverpool Francois Fages Inria Universite Paris-Saclay Pascal Fontaine Universite de Lorraine - LORIA Didier Galmiche (Chair) Universite de Lorraine - LORIA Vijay Ganesh Waterloo Silvio Ghilardi Universite degli Studi di Milano Juergen Giesl RWTH Aachen Laura Giordano DISIT Universite del Piemonte Orientale Valentin Goranko Stockholm University Rajeev Gore The Australian National University Alberto Griggio FBK-IRST John Harrison Intel Corporation Ian Horrocks University of Oxford Moa Johansson Chalmers Tekniska Hogskola Cezary Kaliszyk University of Innsbruck Deepak Kapur University of New Mexico Konstantin Korovin The University of Manchester Laura Kovacs Vienna University of Technology George Metcalfe University of Bern Dale Miller INRIA and LIX/Ecole Polytechnique Claudia Nalon University of Brasilia Albert Oliveras Technical University of Catalonia Nicola Olivetti LSIS Aix-Marseille University Jens Otten University of Oslo Lawrence Paulson University of Cambridge Nicolas Peltier CNRS - LIG Frank Pfenning Carnegie Mellon University Silvio Ranise FBK-Irst Christophe Ringeissen LORIA-INRIA Philipp Ruemmer Uppsala University Katsuhiko Sano Hokkaido University Uli Sattler The University of Manchester Renate A. Schmidt The University of Manchester Stephan Schulz (Chair) DHBW Stuttgart Roberto Sebastiani (Chair) DISI University of Trento Viorica Sofronie-Stokkermans University Koblenz-Landau Thomas Sturm CNRS Geoff Sutcliffe University of Miami Cesare Tinelli The University of Iowa Alwen Tiu Nanyang Technological University Ashish Tiwari SRI International Josef Urban Czech Technical University in Prague Luca Vigano King's College London Andrei Voronkov The University of Manchester Uwe Waldmann Max Planck Institute for Informatics Christoph Weidenbach Max Planck Institute for Informatics From bozzano at fbk.eu Fri Sep 8 13:23:00 2017 From: bozzano at fbk.eu (Marco Bozzano) Date: Fri, 8 Sep 2017 13:23:00 +0200 Subject: [DL] PhD Position on Requirements Validation in Trento - 19 Sept. Deadline for Application Message-ID: <20170908112300.GA22298@mason.fbk.eu> >>> Apologies for multiple postings <<< A PhD position in the area of "Formal Methods for Requirements Validation of Resilient Systems" is available in the Embedded Systems Research Unit (ES) at Bruno Kessler Foundation (FBK), Center for Information Technology. FBK is a private research institution based in Trento (Italy) and operating in different scientific fields and disciplines. The PhD program is carried out in collaboration with the University of Genova. The place of study is Trento, Italy. =============================================== Deadline for application: 19 September 2017 =============================================== For information about how to apply, please visit: https://www.studenti.unige.it/postlaurea/dottorati/graduatoriexxxiiiciclo/reopsecuita/ https://www.studenti.unige.it/postlaurea/dottorati/graduatoriexxxiiiciclo/reopsecueng/ For more information about FBK and the ES research unit, please visit: https://www.fbk.eu/ http://es.fbk.eu/ For more information about Trento and the FBK PhD program, please visit: http://phd.fbk.eu/ ============= PhD topic ============= Title: Formal Methods for Requirements Validation of Resilient Systems Research areas: Formal Methods, Requirements Engineering, Safety and Security, Temporal Logic, Formal Verification, Model Checking Description: In the last decade, an increasing number of applications needs software systems that are open and interconnected and, at the same time, require a high level of assurance of critical mission, safety, or security requirements. New formal methods must be developed to ensure the system resilience to internal and external factors. The study will focus on the formalization and validation of requirements for resilient systems. The objective is to investigate new formal languages that are able to capture the resilience of systems to internal faults or external attacks and new methods to analyze these properties solving problems such as satisfiability, realizability, and diagnosability. The study will build on existing model checking techniques for transition systems with first-order constraints and temporal properties and on the results of past and current projects such as EURAILCHECK and CITADEL. Link to the group or personal webpages: http://es.fbk.eu https://es.fbk.eu/projects/eurailcheck http://citadel-project.eu From coco at fbk.eu Tue Sep 12 10:08:20 2017 From: coco at fbk.eu (coco) Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2017 10:08:20 +0200 Subject: [DL] [CFP] DEADLINE EXTENSION 25/09 - Cognitive Computing Track @ The 33rd ACM Symposium on Applied Computing - ACM SAC 2018 Message-ID: ==== Cognitive Computing Track @ The 33rd ACM Symposium on Applied Computing - ACM SAC 2018 - Call for Paper ==== Cognitive Computing Track website: https://coco.fbk.eu/sac2018 ACM SAC 2018 website: http://www.sigapp.org/sac/sac2018/ Dates: April 9-13, 2018 Venue: Pau, France *** Aim & Scope *** The SAC2018 special track on Cognitive Computing (http://coco.fbk.eu/sac2018) aims to promote a forum for scientists, engineers and practitioners, in academia and industry, to share and discuss latest advances, breakthrough results, and real-world experiences in the Cognitive Computing area. This is an interdisciplinary emerging research area, at the core of Artificial Intelligence, investigating the development of self-learning systems, that naturally interact with humans in complex environments, and are capable to adapt to context and changes in language and meaning. Original and unpublished papers dealing with all facets of the Cognitive Computing area --- such as Natural Language Processing, Knowledge Representation and Reasoning, Audio and Video Analysis, Computer-Human Interaction, Neuroscience and Cognition --- are invited. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Cognitive Knowledge Acquisition ---- Frameworks for acquiring Cognitive Knowledge ---- Tools and Methodologies for Cognitive Knowledge acquisition ---- Natural Language Processing for Cognitive Knowledge acquisition ---- Sentiment Analysis and Opinion Mining ---- Linguistic Resources and Cognitive Knowledge Acquisition ---- Machine Learning techniques (e.g., Deep Learning) for Cognitive Knowledge acquisition ---- Acquisition from media other than text (e.g., audio, video, images) ---- Linked Data and Cognitive Knowledge Acquisition ---- Emerging approaches for Cognitive Knowledge acquisition (e.g., crowd?based approaches). ---- Principled evaluation of acquired Cognitive Knowledge - Representing, Formalizing and Reasoning with Cognitive Knowledge ---- Ontologies for Cognitive Systems ---- Representation languages for Cognitive Knowledge ---- Reasoning about Cognitive Knowledge - Development of Cognitive Systems ---- Architectures for Cognitive Systems ---- Scalability of Cognitive Systems ---- Complex Cognitive Systems ---- Fuzzy Cognitive Systems - Applications ---- Real?world applications that exploit Cognitive Knowledge ---- Cognitive Systems for Big Data scenarios ---- Cognitive Techniques for Deep Learning ---- Cognitive Techniques for Persuasion and Recommender Systems ---- Cognitive Robotics ---- Cognitive Techniques for Information Retrieval ---- Deployment of Cognitive Systems in specific domains. For example: ------- Digital Humanities and Social Sciences ------- eGovernment and public administration ------- Life sciences, health and medicine ------- Social Media, News, and Data Streams *** Paper Submission *** Research papers and experience reports related to the above topics are solicited. Submissions must not have been published or be concurrently considered for publication elsewhere. Papers should be submitted in PDF using the ACM-SAC proceedings format via the SAC 2018 website. Authors' names and affiliations should be entered separately at the submission site and not appear in the submitted papers. Each submission will be reviewed in a DOUBLE-BLIND process according to the ACM-SAC Regulations. Student Research Competition submissions are welcome (see www.sigapp.org/sac/sac2018/pdf/SAC2018-CFSRC.pdf for details). Full papers are limited to 8 pages, in camera-ready format, included in the registration fee. Authors have the option to include up to two (2) extrapages at additional fee of US$80 per page. Posters are limited to 3 pages, in camera-ready format, included in the registration fee. Authors have the option to include only one (1) extra page at additional fee of US$80. SRC Abstracts are limited to 2 pages, in camera-ready format, included in the registration fee. No extra pages allowed. *** Submission sites: *** (for regular papers) https://www.softconf.com/i/sac2018/ (for SRC papers) https://www.softconf.com/i/sac-src2018/ Paper selection is based on the originality, technical contribution, presentation quality, and relevance to the Cognitive Computing Track. Some papers may be accepted as posters. Authors of selected papers of the Cognitive Computing track will be invited to submit an extended version of their work to a forthcoming Special Issue in Progress in Artificial Intelligence (Springer journal). *** Important Dates *** September 25, 2017: Regular Paper & SRC Abstract Submission Due - EXTENDED November 10, 2017: Author Notification November 25, 2017: Camera? ready copies of accepted papers/SRC December 10, 2017: Author Registration Due *** Track Co?Chairs *** Mauro Dragoni, Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK) ? dragoni at fbk.eu Marco Rospocher, Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK) ? rospocher at fbk.eu *** Programme Committee *** Tanvi Banerjee, Kno.e.sis (Wright State University), USA Valerio Basile, INRIA, Sophia Antipolis, France Loris Bozzato, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy Elena Cabrio, INRIA, Sophia Antipolis, France Gerard Casamayor, Pompeu Fabra University, Spain Philipp Cimiano, University of Bielefeld, Germany Francesco Corcoglioniti, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy Chiara Di Francescomarino, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy Antske Fokkens, VU Amsterdam, Netherlands Ilias Gialampoukidis, CERTH, Greece Marco Guerini, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy Antonio Lieto, University of Turin, Italy Dimitrios Liparas, CERTH, Greece Vasileios Mezaris, CERTH, Greece Lyndon Nixon, University of Modul, Austria Alessandro Oltramari, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Matteo Palmonari, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy Simone Paolo Ponzetto, Universit?t Mannheim, Germany Giuseppe Rizzo, Istituto Superiore Mario Boella, Italy Kamal Rossi, Kyung Hee University, South Korea Silvia Rossi, University of Naples "Federico II", Italy Rafal Rzepka, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan Sara Tonelli, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy Marieke van Erp, VU Amsterdam, Netherlands Jacco van Ossenbruggen, CWI Amsterdam, Netherlands Piek Vossen, VU Amsterdam, Netherlands ... more to come. *** General Inquiries *** For further information, please visit SAC Cognitive Computing Track and SAC 2017 conference websites (http://www.sigapp.org/sac/sac2018/) or feel free to contact the Track Co?Chairs. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From davy.monticolo at univ-lorraine.fr Mon Sep 11 09:13:53 2017 From: davy.monticolo at univ-lorraine.fr (Davy Monticolo) Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2017 09:13:53 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [DL] CALL FOR PAPERS - KARE 2017 - The 9th International Workshop on Knowledge Acquisition Reuse & Evaluation In-Reply-To: <9066232.4132646.1504075030691.JavaMail.zimbra@univ-lorraine.fr> References: <1652100832.6536626.1500890037770.JavaMail.zimbra@univ-lorraine.fr> <48311956.1093625.1502711878089.JavaMail.zimbra@univ-lorraine.fr> <643109923.1094705.1502712707527.JavaMail.zimbra@univ-lorraine.fr> <1702801588.1854787.1503563474897.JavaMail.zimbra@univ-lorraine.fr> <1038498887.3384108.1503935050819.JavaMail.zimbra@univ-lorraine.fr> <833659117.3385236.1503935245618.JavaMail.zimbra@univ-lorraine.fr> <771148024.3388925.1503935715085.JavaMail.zimbra@univ-lorraine.fr> <9066232.4132646.1504075030691.JavaMail.zimbra@univ-lorraine.fr> Message-ID: <1255568718.1911355.1505114033686.JavaMail.zimbra@univ-lorraine.fr> CALL FOR PAPERS NEW PAPER SUBMISSION DEADLINE SEPTEMBER 23, 2017 !!!!! KARE 2017 - The 9th International Workshop on Knowledge Acquisition Reuse & Evaluation Collocated with: SITIS 2017 - The 13th International Conference on SIGNAL IMAGE TECHNOLOGY & INTERNET BASED SYSTEMS December 4-7, 2017 - Jaipur, India Scope of the Workshop The International Workshop on Knowledge Acquisition, Reuse and Evaluation aims to bring together researchers, scientists, engineers, and scholar students to exchange and share their experiences, new ideas, and research results about all aspects of Knowledge, Ontology, Sermantic Web or Knowledge Engineering. We will discuss the practical challenges encountered and the solutions adopted. This workshop will focus on the theoreticians and practitioners concerned with developing methods and systems that assist the knowledge management process and assessing the suitability of such methods. Thus, the workshop includes all aspects of acquiring, modelling and managing knowledge, and their role in the construction of knowledge-based systems. Knowledge acquisition still remains the bottleneck for building a knowledge based system. Reuse and sharing of knowledge bases are major issues and no satisfactory solutions have been agreed upon yet. There is a wide range of research. Much of the work in this field has been knowledge acquisition. The advent of the age of digital information has brought the problem of knowledge reuse and knowledge evaluation. Our ability to analyze, evaluate and assist user in reusing knowledge present a great challenge of the next years. A new generation of computational techniques and tools is required to support the acquisition, the reuse and the evaluation of useful knowledge from the rapidly growing volume of information. All of these are to be discussed in this workshop. Topics for the workshop include, but are not limited to: ? Tools and techniques for knowledge acquisition, knowledge update and knowledge validation ? knowledge portals ? Web-based approaches for knowledge management ? Agent-based approaches for knowledge management ? Software agents for semantic web ? Semantic web-based knowledge management ? Tools, languages, and techniques for semantic annotation ? Semantic searching ? Semantic brokering ? CSCW and cooperative approaches for knowledge management ? Agent-based approaches for knowledge management ? Evaluation of knowledge acquisition techniques ? Information and knowledge structures ? Languages and frameworks for knowledge and knowledge modelling ? Ontology creation, evolution, reconciliation, and mediation ? Ontology-based approaches for knowledge management ? Knowledge delivery methods ? Knowledge life cycle ? Knowledge and information extraction and discovery techniques ? Corporate Semantic Webs for knowledge management ? Peer-to-peer approaches for knowledge management ? Knowledge extraction from images/pictures ? Intelligent knowledge-based systems ? Decision support and expert systems ? Re-usability of software/knowledge/information ? Semantic web inference methodologies Important dates Submission deadline: September 23, 2017 Acceptance/Reject notification: October 21, 2017 Camera-ready: October 30, 2017 Author Registration: October 31, 2017 Submission Each submission should be at most 8 pages in total including bibliography and well-marked appendices, and must follow the IEEE double columns publication format available at: * Microsoft Word DOC * LaTex Formatting Macros Paper submission will only be online via: Easy Chair (https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sitis2017) Only pdf files will be accepted. Submissions not meeting these guidelines risk rejection without consideration of their merits. All submitted papers will be carefully evaluated based on originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of expression by at least two reviewers. The organizers will examine the reviews and make final paper selections. Publication All the papers accepted for the workshop will be included in the conference proceedings and submitted for inclusion to IEEE Xplore and major indexes. They will be available at the conference. Registration At least one author of each accepted paper must register for the workshop. Workshop registration fee is determined by SITIS. A single registration for the workshop or the conference allows attending both events. Journal Special Issues Publication Chair: Davy Monticolo Selected high-quality papers in the area of the Knowledge engineering domain will be selected to submit an extended version on the special issue: " Knowledge Management and Organizations ", International Journal of Knowledge Based System , Impact Factor : 4,59 Elsevier Edition. Workshop Co-Chairs: Davy Monticolo, Universit? de Lorraine, France Alex Gabriel, ?cole nationale sup?rieure d?arts et m?tiers, Paris, France Program Committee: ? Ezendu Ariwa, London Metropolitan University ? Dickson K.W.Chiu, The University of Hong Kong ? Andrew Kusiak, University of Iowa ? Lenka Lhotska, Czech Technical University in Prague, Dept. of Cybernetics ? Yishuai Lin, Xidian University ? Gaelle Lortal, THALES R&D ? Matta Nada, University of Technology of Troyes ? Jose M Parente De Oliveira, Aeronautics Institute of Technology ? Jan Martijn Van Der Werf, Department of Information and Computing Sciences, Utrecht University ? Ernesto Exposito, LAAS-CNRS, INSA Toulouse, University of Toulouse ? Inaya Lahoud, Galatasaray University ? Rahma Dhaouadi, SOIE LI3 ? Uwe Riss SAP (Switzerland) AG Contact Davy MONTICOLO, davy.monticolo at univ-lorraine.fr -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From francesco.santini at dmi.unipg.it Wed Sep 6 11:40:37 2017 From: francesco.santini at dmi.unipg.it (Francesco Santini) Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2017 11:40:37 +0200 Subject: [DL] [Last CfP] Knowledge Representation and Recognition (KRR) @SAC18 References: <72B85EEC-7763-492B-BBBD-FE2F6FF9AF96@dmi.unipg.it> Message-ID: <4DAECEB7-1FA0-4C85-90FB-31CB0200E6C3@dmi.unipg.it> ############################################################## The 33rd ACM SIGAPP Symposium On Applied Computing Pau, France April, 2018 Track on Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KRR) Website: http://www.dmi.unipg.it/bista/organizing/KRR at sac2018/ SUBMISSION DEADLINE: September 15, 2017 THE PAGE LIMIT HAS BEEN EXTENDED TO 8 PAGES ############################################################### Overview: The topic of the track covers an important field of research in Artificial Intelligence: Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KRR) is dedicated to representing information about the world in a form that a computer system can utilise to solve complex tasks. Examples of knowledge representation formalisms include semantic nets, systems architecture, frames, rules, and ontologies. Examples of automated reasoning engines include inference engines, theorem provers, and classifiers. KRR track will be a venue for all the researchers and practitioners working on the fundaments and applications of reasoning, and cross-fertilisation among different areas (e.g., Argumentation and Belief Revision). ACM SAC is ranked CORE:B, MAS:A-, SHINE:A. The average acceptance rate per track is under 25%. KRR track is organised for the second year after the success achieved in 2017; it follows previous tracks still organised within SAC, as ?Constraint Solving and Programming and Knowledge Representation and Reasoning? (held in 2015), ?Constraint Solving and Programming? (held from 2005 to 2014), and ?A.I. Computational Logic, and Image Analysis? (held from 1999 until 2004). Call for paper: Knowledge-representation is the field of artificial intelligence that focuses on designing computer representations that capture information about the world that can be used to solve complex problems. Its goal is to understand and build intelligent behavior from the top down, focusing on what an agent needs to know with the purpose to behave intelligently, how this knowledge can be represented symbolically, and how automated reasoning procedures can make this knowledge available as needed. In KRR a fundamental assumption is that an agent's knowledge is explicitly represented in a declarative form, suitable for processing by dedicated reasoning engines. Topics of interest include: ? Argumentation. ? Belief revision and update, belief merging. ? Commonsense reasoning. ? Contextual reasoning. ? Description logics. ? Diagnosis, abduction, explanation. ? Inconsistency and exception tolerant reasoning, paraconsistent logics. ? KR and autonomous agents: intelligent agents, cognitive robotics, multi-agent systems. ? KR and decision making, game theory, social choice. ? KR and machine learning, inductive logic programming, knowledge discovery and acquisition. ? Logic programming, answer set programming, constraint (logic) programming. ? Non-monotonic logics, default logics, conditional logics. ? Preferences: modeling and representation, preference-based reasoning. ? Reasoning about knowledge and belief, dynamic epistemic logic, epistemic and doxastic logics. ? Reasoning systems and solvers, knowledge compilation. ? Spatial reasoning and temporal reasoning, qualitative reasoning. ? Uncertainty, representations of vagueness, many-valued and fuzzy logics. We would like to invite authors to submit papers on research on KRR area, with particular emphasis on assessing the current state of the art and identifying future directions. Submissions fall into the following categories: ? Original and unpublished research work. ? Reports of innovative computing applications in the arts, sciences, engineering, and business areas. ? Reports of successful technology transfer to new problem domains. ? Reports of industrial experience and demos of new innovative systems. Deadlines and Important Dates: September 15, 2017: Submission of regular papers and SRC abstracts. November 10, 2017: Notification of papers and posters and SRC acceptance/rejection. November 25, 2017: Camera-ready copies of accepted papers. Submissions Instructions for Regular Papers and SRC Abstracts: Original papers addressing any of the listed topics of interest (or related topics) will be considered. Each submitted paper will be fully refereed and undergo a double-blind review process by at least three referees. Accepted papers will be included in the ACM SAC 2018 proceedings and published in the ACM digital library, being indexed by Thomson ISI Web of Knowledge and Scopus. Submissions should be properly anonymised to facilitate blind reviewing: the author(s) name(s) and address(es) must NOT appear in the body of the paper, and self-reference should be in the third person. Paper size is *strictly* limited to 6 pages in the SAC style; a maximum of 2 additional pages may be included for an additional fee, extending the final version of the accepted paper. Please check the author kit latex style on the main SAC website: https://www.sigapp.org/sac/sac2018/ (the format is usually the format used in the ACM templates). Papers failing to comply with length limitations risk immediate rejection. Submissions will be in electronic format, via the website: https://www.sigapp.org/sac/sac2018/submission.html BE CAREFUL TO SELECT THE KRR TRACK BY CHECKING THE KRR TRACK RADIO BUTTON!! After completing the submission, please send also an email to: bista at dmi.unipg.it . The body of the email should include the title of the paper, the author(s) name(s) and affiliation(s), and the address (including e-mail, telephone, and fax) to which correspondence should be sent. The subject of the email should be ?SAC2018 KRR track submission?. Graduate students are suggested to submit both a regular paper to the KRR track and a 2 page abstract with the same title at the Student Research Competition (SRC) Program, following the instructions published at SAC 2017 website. Authors of selected abstracts will have the opportunity to give poster presentations of their work and compete for three top-winning places. The winners will receive cash awards and SIGAPP recognition certificates during the conference banquet. The winners will also receive SRC travel support (US$500) and are eligible to apply to the SIGAPP Student Travel Award Program (STAP) for additional travel support. Papers that received high reviews (that is acceptable by reviewer standards) but were not accepted due to space limitation can be invited for the poster session. Chairs: Stefano Bistarelli, University of Perugia, Italy Martine Ceberio, University of Texas at El Paso, USA Eric Monfroy, University of Nantes, France Francesco Santini, University of Perugia, Italy Program Committee: Leila Amgoud, IRIT Toulouse, France Ofer Arieli, Academic College of Tel Aviv, Israel Guillaume Aucher, IRISA/INRIA Rennes, France Franz Baader, TU Dresden, Germany Pietro Baroni, University of Brescia, Italy Roman Bartak, Charles University, Czech Republic Francesco Belardinelli, Unversity of Evry, France Martin Caminada, Cardiff University, UK Claudia d'Amato, University of Bari, Italy Wolfgang Dvorak, TU Wien, Austria Wolfgang Faber, Huddersfield School of computing, UK Aditya K. Ghose, University of Wollongong, Australia Lluis Godo, Artificial Intelligence Research Institute (IIIA), Spain Matti Jarvisalo, University of Kelsinki, Finland Gabriele Kern-Isberner, TU Dortmund, Germany Boris Konev, University of Liverpool, UK Sebastien Konieczny, University of Artois, France Costas Koutras, University of Peloponnese, Greece Joao Leite, New University of Lisbon, Portugal Beishui Liao, Zhejiang University, China Jean-Guy Mailly, University of Paris Descartes Paris, France Loizos Michael, Open University of Cyprus, Cyprus Aniello Murano, University of Naples Federico II, Italy Guillermo R. Simari, Nacional University of Sur, Argentina Tran Cao Son, New Mexico State University, USA Matthias Thimm, University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany Paolo Torroni, University of Bologna, Italy Nicolas Troquard, University of Bozen, Italy Serena Villata, CNR Sophia-Antipolis, France Stefan Woltran, TU Vienna, Austria Roland Yap, National University of Singapore, Singapore SAC No-Show Policy: Paper registration is required, allowing the inclusion of the paper/poster in the conference proceedings. An author or a proxy attending SAC MUST present the paper. This is a requirement for the paper/poster to be included in the ACM digital library. 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URL: From frank.loebe at informatik.uni-leipzig.de Wed Sep 6 16:29:30 2017 From: frank.loebe at informatik.uni-leipzig.de (Frank Loebe) Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2017 16:29:30 +0200 Subject: [DL] JOWO 2017: Call for Participation (Joint Ontology Workshops, Sep 21-23, Bolzano, Italy) Message-ID: <201709061429.v86ETZGw009568@isun.informatik.uni-leipzig.de> ---------------------------------- Call for Participation ---------------------------------- Joint Ontology Workshops (JOWO 2017) --- Episode 3: The Tyrolean Autumn --- Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy, September 21-23, 2017 Early Registration Deadline: September 11, 2017 ---------------------------------- 10 Workshops on Ontology and its Applications http://www.iaoa.org/jowo/2017/ Preliminary Program and Accepted Papers http://iaoa.org/jowo/2017/program.html ---------------------------------- The Joint Ontology Workshops' (JOWO) mission is to join forces of the diverse communities interested in building, reasoning with, and applying formalised ontologies in the wide spectrum of information sciences, artificial intelligence theory and applications, philosophy and cognitive science, and beyond. This third edition of the Joint Ontology Workshops (JOWO 2017) combines ten ontology-centered workshops covering a multitude of disciplines into an exciting joint event featuring 63 accepted papers, 4 keynotes, and a concert by the Hyperinstruments Ensemble of the Music Conservatory of Bozen-Bolzano, led by Nicola Baroni. ---------------------------------- WORKSHOPS - CREOL: Contextual Representation of Objects and Events in Language - DAO: Data meets Applied Ontology - DEW: Ontology Debugging & Evaluation Workshop - EPINON: Epistemology in Ontologies - FOMI: Formal Ontologies Meet Industry - FOUST II: 2nd Workshop on Foundational Ontology - ISD3: The 3rd Image Schema Day - ODLS: Ontologies and Data in Life Sciences - SHAPES 4.0: The Shape of Things - WINKS: Workshop on Interaction-Based Knowledge Sharing ---------------------------------- KEYNOTES * Antonio Chella (University of Palermo, Italy): "Grounding ontologies in the external world" * Giancarlo Guizzardi (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy): "'It's Patterns all the way down': Patterns, Anti-Patterns and Pattern-Languages for Next-Generation Ontology Engineering" * Alessandro Mosca (SIRIS Lab, Barcelona, Spain): "Ontology-Mediated Data Integration and Access in Research and Innovation Policy Making" * Todd Oakley (Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, USA): "What We Think About When We Talk About Money: Social Ontology and the Amalgamated Mind" JOWO 2017 is supported by the International Association for Ontology and its Applications - IAOA (http://iaoa.org). ---------------------------------- JOWO General Chairs | Contact Stefano Borgo (LOA ISTC CNR, Trento, Italy) Oliver Kutz (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy) Frank Loebe (University of Leipzig, Germany) Fabian Neuhaus (Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg, Germany) Contact: jowo.steering at gmail.com From tschneider at informatik.uni-bremen.de Tue Sep 12 18:48:29 2017 From: tschneider at informatik.uni-bremen.de (Thomas Schneider) Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2017 18:48:29 +0200 Subject: [DL] TIME 2017 - Call for participation Message-ID: <1776421D-541C-4F2F-8E02-917193954899@informatik.uni-bremen.de> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- TIME 2017 24th International Symposium on Temporal Representation and Reasoning Mons (Belgium), 16-18 October 2017 Call for Participation http://informatique.umons.ac.be/time2017/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- The International Symposium on Temporal Representation and Reasoning (TIME) is a well-established symposium series which brings together researchers interested in reasoning about temporal aspects of information in all areas of computer science. The symposium has a wide remit and is devoted to both theoretical aspects and well-founded applications. One of the key aspects of the symposium is its interdisciplinarity, with attendees from different areas such as artificial intelligence, database management, logic and verification, and beyond. The 24th edition of the symposium (TIME 2017) will be held from 16 to 18 October 2017 in the city of Mons, Belgium, hosted by the University of Mons. Detailed information about program and participation can be found on the website of TIME 2017: http://informatique.umons.ac.be/time2017/ Early-bird registration fees apply until, and including, 14 September 2017. The organizers are looking forward to welcoming you in Mons. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Examples of knowledge representation formalisms include semantic nets, systems architecture, frames, rules, and ontologies. Examples of automated reasoning engines include inference engines, theorem provers, and classifiers. KRR track will be a venue for all the researchers and practitioners working on the fundaments and applications of reasoning, and cross-fertilisation among different areas (e.g., Argumentation and Belief Revision). ACM SAC is ranked CORE:B, MAS:A-, SHINE:A. The average acceptance rate per track is under 25%. KRR track is organised for the second year after the success achieved in 2017; it follows previous tracks still organised within SAC, as ?Constraint Solving and Programming and Knowledge Representation and Reasoning? (held in 2015), ?Constraint Solving and Programming? (held from 2005 to 2014), and ?A.I. Computational Logic, and Image Analysis? (held from 1999 until 2004). Call for paper: Knowledge-representation is the field of artificial intelligence that focuses on designing computer representations that capture information about the world that can be used to solve complex problems. Its goal is to understand and build intelligent behavior from the top down, focusing on what an agent needs to know with the purpose to behave intelligently, how this knowledge can be represented symbolically, and how automated reasoning procedures can make this knowledge available as needed. In KRR a fundamental assumption is that an agent's knowledge is explicitly represented in a declarative form, suitable for processing by dedicated reasoning engines. Topics of interest include: ? Argumentation. ? Belief revision and update, belief merging. ? Commonsense reasoning. ? Contextual reasoning. ? Description logics. ? Diagnosis, abduction, explanation. ? Inconsistency and exception tolerant reasoning, paraconsistent logics. ? KR and autonomous agents: intelligent agents, cognitive robotics, multi-agent systems. ? KR and decision making, game theory, social choice. ? KR and machine learning, inductive logic programming, knowledge discovery and acquisition. ? Logic programming, answer set programming, constraint (logic) programming. ? Non-monotonic logics, default logics, conditional logics. ? Preferences: modeling and representation, preference-based reasoning. ? Reasoning about knowledge and belief, dynamic epistemic logic, epistemic and doxastic logics. ? Reasoning systems and solvers, knowledge compilation. ? Spatial reasoning and temporal reasoning, qualitative reasoning. ? Uncertainty, representations of vagueness, many-valued and fuzzy logics. We would like to invite authors to submit papers on research on KRR area, with particular emphasis on assessing the current state of the art and identifying future directions. Submissions fall into the following categories: ? Original and unpublished research work. ? Reports of innovative computing applications in the arts, sciences, engineering, and business areas. ? Reports of successful technology transfer to new problem domains. ? Reports of industrial experience and demos of new innovative systems. Deadlines and Important Dates: September 15, 2017: Submission of regular papers and SRC abstracts. November 10, 2017: Notification of papers and posters and SRC acceptance/rejection. November 25, 2017: Camera-ready copies of accepted papers. Submissions Instructions for Regular Papers and SRC Abstracts: Original papers addressing any of the listed topics of interest (or related topics) will be considered. Each submitted paper will be fully refereed and undergo a double-blind review process by at least three referees. Accepted papers will be included in the ACM SAC 2018 proceedings and published in the ACM digital library, being indexed by Thomson ISI Web of Knowledge and Scopus. Submissions should be properly anonymised to facilitate blind reviewing: the author(s) name(s) and address(es) must NOT appear in the body of the paper, and self-reference should be in the third person. Paper size is *strictly* limited to 6 pages in the SAC style; a maximum of 2 additional pages may be included for an additional fee, extending the final version of the accepted paper. Please check the author kit latex style on the main SAC website: https://www.sigapp.org/sac/sac2018/ (the format is usually the format used in the ACM templates). Papers failing to comply with length limitations risk immediate rejection. Submissions will be in electronic format, via the website: https://www.sigapp.org/sac/sac2018/submission.html BE CAREFUL TO SELECT THE KRR TRACK BY CHECKING THE KRR TRACK RADIO BUTTON!! After completing the submission, please send also an email to: bista at dmi.unipg.it . The body of the email should include the title of the paper, the author(s) name(s) and affiliation(s), and the address (including e-mail, telephone, and fax) to which correspondence should be sent. The subject of the email should be ?SAC2018 KRR track submission?. Graduate students are suggested to submit both a regular paper to the KRR track and a 2 page abstract with the same title at the Student Research Competition (SRC) Program, following the instructions published at SAC 2017 website. Authors of selected abstracts will have the opportunity to give poster presentations of their work and compete for three top-winning places. The winners will receive cash awards and SIGAPP recognition certificates during the conference banquet. The winners will also receive SRC travel support (US$500) and are eligible to apply to the SIGAPP Student Travel Award Program (STAP) for additional travel support. Papers that received high reviews (that is acceptable by reviewer standards) but were not accepted due to space limitation can be invited for the poster session. Chairs: Stefano Bistarelli, University of Perugia, Italy Martine Ceberio, University of Texas at El Paso, USA Eric Monfroy, University of Nantes, France Francesco Santini, University of Perugia, Italy Program Committee: Leila Amgoud, IRIT Toulouse, France Ofer Arieli, Academic College of Tel Aviv, Israel Guillaume Aucher, IRISA/INRIA Rennes, France Franz Baader, TU Dresden, Germany Pietro Baroni, University of Brescia, Italy Roman Bartak, Charles University, Czech Republic Francesco Belardinelli, Unversity of Evry, France Martin Caminada, Cardiff University, UK Claudia d'Amato, University of Bari, Italy Wolfgang Dvorak, TU Wien, Austria Wolfgang Faber, Huddersfield School of computing, UK Aditya K. Ghose, University of Wollongong, Australia Lluis Godo, Artificial Intelligence Research Institute (IIIA), Spain Matti Jarvisalo, University of Kelsinki, Finland Gabriele Kern-Isberner, TU Dortmund, Germany Boris Konev, University of Liverpool, UK Sebastien Konieczny, University of Artois, France Costas Koutras, University of Peloponnese, Greece Joao Leite, New University of Lisbon, Portugal Beishui Liao, Zhejiang University, China Jean-Guy Mailly, University of Paris Descartes Paris, France Loizos Michael, Open University of Cyprus, Cyprus Aniello Murano, University of Naples Federico II, Italy Guillermo R. Simari, Nacional University of Sur, Argentina Tran Cao Son, New Mexico State University, USA Matthias Thimm, University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany Paolo Torroni, University of Bologna, Italy Nicolas Troquard, University of Bozen, Italy Serena Villata, CNR Sophia-Antipolis, France Stefan Woltran, TU Vienna, Austria Roland Yap, National University of Singapore, Singapore SAC No-Show Policy: Paper registration is required, allowing the inclusion of the paper/poster in the conference proceedings. An author or a proxy attending SAC MUST present the paper. This is a requirement for the paper/poster to be included in the ACM digital library. 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URL: From unilog2018 at uca.fr Wed Sep 20 10:35:20 2017 From: unilog2018 at uca.fr (Unilog 2018) Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2017 10:35:20 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [DL] UNIVERSAL LOGIC Vichy, 2018 DEADLINE EXTENSION: OCT 5, 2017 Message-ID: <179538739.4426171.1505896520452.JavaMail.zimbra@uca.fr> The 6th WORLD CONGRESS ON UNIVERSAL LOGIC will take place in Vichy, France, June 21-26, 2018 after previous editions in Montreux 2005, Xi'an 2007, Lisbon 2010, Rio 2013 and Istanbul 2015: http://www.uni-log.org/vichy2018 Extended deadline to submit an abstract is October 5, 2017 You can either submit an abstract to the general organization at unilog2018 at yandex.com or to the organizers of a specific workshop, see details in the website. There will be about 20 workshops within UNILOG'2018: - Proof Theory - Model Theory - The Logic of Social Practices - Around Peirce - Logical Geometry - Logic and Music - Logical Correctness - Reflections on Paraconsistency - Naming Logic(s) II - The Lvov-Warsaw School: Past, Present and Future - Logics and Metalogics - Categories and Logics - Hintikka?s Logical Thought - Homo Logicus III - Practices of Writing and Reading in Logic - Logic, Probability and their Generalizations - Logic for Children - Logic for Dynamic Real-World Information UNILOG is a logic event in a broad sense. It gathers people from many horizons (philosophy, mathematics, linguistics, computer science, semiotics, cognitive science ...) and the idea is to promote interaction between all these people. For this edition there will be the award of Logic Prizes from more than 10 countries: http://www.uni-log.org/logic-prize-world Before the congress, June 16-20, 2018, there will be a school with 30 tutorials. Vichy is a charming relaxing thermal city at the middle of France, developed by Napoleon III in the second half of the 19th century, who in particular created beautiful parks with species of trees from all over the world. Vichy, in the Duchy of Bourbon, a region full of castles, is a small city, where it is possible to go everywhere just by walking. The event will take place at the university campus nearby the Celestins spring, the banks of the Allier river (where it is possible to swim) and the city center. June is a very nice time to be in Vichy, there are lots of animations, including on June 21 a very lively musical day celebrating summertime. https://www.vichy-destinations.fr/la-destination/ Looking forward to seeing you in Vichy in June 2018 Jean-Yves Beziau (University of Brazil, Rio de Janeiro and Ecole Normale Sup?rieure, Paris) Christophe Rey (University Clermont Auvergne, CNRS, LIMOS) Organizers of UNILOG'2018 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- U N I L O G - World Congress and School on Universal Logic - U N I LO G Montreux 2005, Xi'an 2007, Lisbon 2010, Rio 2013, Istanbul 2015, Vichy 2018 http://www.uni-log.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From marcello.balduccini at gmail.com Tue Sep 19 02:06:45 2017 From: marcello.balduccini at gmail.com (Marcello Balduccini) Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2017 20:06:45 -0400 Subject: [DL] KR 2018 Call for Papers Message-ID: <201709190006.v8J06jKi016300@coSAT.msgn> [Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this email. Please distribute to interested parties.] CALL FOR PAPERS *** KR 2018 *** 16th International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning Tempe, Arizona (USA) October 30-November 2, 2018 kr2018.org/ Co-located with DL 2018 [dl.kr.org/] and NMR 2018 [www.kr.org/NMR] KR 2018 IMPORTANT DATES ----------------------- * Submission of title and abstract: 13 May 2018 * Paper submission deadline: 20 May 2018 * Author response period: 25-27 June 2018 * Notification: 11 July 2018 * Camera-ready papers due: 3-10 August 2018 * Conference date: 30 October-2 November 2018 ------------------------ Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KRR) is an exciting, well-established field of research. In KRR a fundamental assumption is that an agent's knowledge is explicitly represented in a declarative form, suitable for processing by dedicated reasoning engines. This assumption, that much of what an agent deals with is knowledge-based, is common in many modern intelligent systems. Consequently, KRR has contributed to the theory and practice of various areas in AI, such as automated planning, natural language understanding, among others, as well as to fields beyond AI, including databases, verification, and software engineering. In recent years KRR has contributed to new and emerging fields including the semantic web, computational biology, and the development of software agents. The KR conference series is the leading forum for timely in-depth presentation of progress in the theory and principles underlying the representation and computational management of knowledge. Contrary to previous editions, KR 2018 will also feature an open call for workshop and tutorial proposals. The deadline for submissions is 21 February 2018. Workshops and tutorials will precede the KR technical program and will run on 27-29 October 2018. Please check the KR 2018 website for further information and updates. We solicit papers presenting novel results on the principles of KRR that clearly contribute to the formal foundations of relevant problems or show the applicability of results to implemented or implementable systems. We also welcome papers from other areas that show clear use of, or contributions to, the principles or practice of KRR. We also encourage "reports from the field" of applications, experiments, developments, and tests. Papers must be submitted in AAAI style and PDF format. We invite two kinds of submissions: * full papers of up to 9 pages including abstract, figures, and appendices (if any) but excluding references and acknowledgements, which may take up to one additional page; submission of additional material (e.g. proofs) as separate documents is allowed, but this material should not form an integral part of the submission and will only be consulted at the discretion of reviewers, PC members and (area and program) chairs, as appropriate; * short papers describing applications, systems and/or demos, of up to 4 pages including abstract, figures, and appendices (if any) but excluding references and acknowledgements, which may take up to one additional page. TOPICS ------ Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Argumentation * Belief revision and update, belief merging, information fusion * Computational aspects of knowledge representation * Concept formation, similarity-based reasoning * Contextual reasoning * Description logics * Decision making * Explanation finding, diagnosis, causal reasoning, abduction * Inconsistency- and exception tolerant reasoning, paraconsistent logics * KR and autonomous agents: intelligent agents, cognitive robotics, multi-agent systems * KR and game theory * KR and machine learning, inductive logic programming, knowledge discovery and acquisition * KR and natural language processing * KR and the Web, Semantic Web * Logic programming, answer set programming, constraint logic programming * Multi- and order-sorted representations and reasoning * Nonmonotonic logics, default logics, conditional logics * Philosophical foundations of KR * Ontology formalisms and models * 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 CONFERENCE CHAIRS ----------------- General: Frank Wolter (University of Liverpool, UK) Program: Michael Thielscher (The University of New South Wales, Australia) Francesca Toni (Imperial College London, UK) Local Organization: Joohyung Lee (Arizona State University, USA) Tran Cao Son (New Mexico State University, USA) Doctoral Consortium: Sebastian Rudolph (Technische Universit?t Dresden, Germany) Madalina Croitoru (University Montpellier II and INRIA, France) Workshop/tutorial Chairs: Sebastian Sardina (RMIT Melbourne, Australia) Ivan Varzinczak (Univ. Artois & CNRS, France) Sponsorship and Publicity: Marcello Balduccini (Saint Joseph's University, USA) Marco Maratea (University of Genova, Italy) From marcello.balduccini at gmail.com Tue Sep 19 02:40:10 2017 From: marcello.balduccini at gmail.com (Marcello Balduccini) Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2017 20:40:10 -0400 Subject: [DL] KR 2018 Doctoral Consortium Call for Papers Message-ID: <201709190040.v8J0eAA7018018@coSAT.msgn> [Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this email. Please distribute to interested parties.] KR Doctoral Consortium Call for Applications October 30 - November 2, 2018 Tempe, Arizona, US http://kr2018.org/ The 16th International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KR 2018) invites PhD students to apply for the Doctoral Consortium program. 1) AIMS AND SCOPE The Doctoral Consortium (DC) is a student mentoring program bringing together PhD students and senior researchers from the area of KR. 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 DC is intended for PhD 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. Preference will be given to students satisfying these criteria, but well-motivated applications from students who are at earlier or later stages of their doctoral studies will still be considered. For accepted students there will be a row of dedicated events, including DC invited talks on research practice, a lightning talk session, a poster session, and a mentoring lunch. Each student will be given ample time to present their work and therefore be able to fully benefit from direct feedback from the assigned senior researcher mentor and the wider KR conference audience. 2) APPLICATION SUBMISSION Applications must be submitted by email. Each application must contain the following elements combined into a single PDF document.: (1) 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). (2) Curriculum Vitae. A description of your background and relevant experience (research, education, employment), of two pages maximum. (3) Letter of recommendation. A letter from your thesis advisor that states that he/she supports your participation in the DC. (4) Indication of whether a sponsored studentship is requested, and if so, whether the student volunteers to help with local organization during KR, DL, and NMR. (5) Optionally, a suggestion of up to 5 potential mentors with similar research interests, who could give good advice on technical aspects related to the work, and/or career opportunities. The selection process will consider the quality of the submitted proposal and the stage of the student's PhD project. Doctoral students who submit to the DC are permitted to have previously published on their research, and are encouraged to submit papers to KR 2018 and associated conferences and workshops. 3) IMPORTANT DATES Application deadline: June 24, 2018 Acceptance notification: July 11, 2018 Doctoral Consortium: October 30 - November 2, 2018 For further information, please contact the DC chairs: Madalina Croitoru, University Montpellier (croitoru at lirmm.fr) Sebastian Rudolph, TU Dresden (sebastian.rudolph at tu-dresden.de) From marcello.balduccini at gmail.com Tue Sep 19 03:14:40 2017 From: marcello.balduccini at gmail.com (Marcello Balduccini) Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2017 21:14:40 -0400 Subject: [DL] KR18 - Preliminary Call for Tutorial and Workshop Proposals Message-ID: <201709190114.v8J1EeBA019774@coSAT.msgn> [Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this email. Please distribute to interested parties.] KR18 - Preliminary Call for Tutorial and Workshop Proposals ** Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this call ** ** Please distribute to interested parties ** ======================================== Call for Tutorial and Workshop Proposals 16th International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KR 2018) Tempe, Arizona (USA) Workshop/Tutorial dates: 27-29 October 2018 KR main program: 30 October to 2 November 2018 http://kr2018.org/ *** Deadline (for proposal submissions): 21 February 2018 *** For its 2018 edition, KR will solicit proposals for both the Tutorial and Workshop tracks. Tutorials and workshops will be held from 27 to 29 October 2018, prior to the KR main technical program, which will run from 30 October to 1 November 2018. The attendance of tutorials is complimentary to all KR registered participants. Workshop attendance will be subject to payment of a workshop fee, which is separate from that of the main conference. ** SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS ** Each proposal (tutorial or workshop) should be in English and must be submitted electronically using the following submission forms: Tutorial proposal: http://tinyurl.com/kr18tute Workshop proposal: http://tinyurl.com/kr18workshop For all accepted proposals, KR will take care of all local arrangements. * SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS FOR TUTORIAL PROPOSALS * Each tutorial proposal should contain the following information: - A short title of the tutorial. - A two-paragraph description of the tutorial. - Proposed length of the tutorial (half day is the default and recommended length, but an argument can be made for a full day tutorial). - A detailed outline of the tutorial. - The potential target audience for the tutorial and prerequisite knowledge. - A brief resume of the presenter(s) including: . Name,affiliation, and email address. . Evidence of scholarship in the area, including a list of publications. . Evidence of teaching experience. The main duties of the tutorial organizers are: - Setup a web-site for the tutorial, which should include, at least, title and abstract of the tutorial, presenters? details, outline, tutorial notes and related reading material. - Deliver the tutorial at KR 2018. * SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS FOR WORKSHOP PROPOSALS * Each workshop proposal should contain the following information: - Title of the workshop and acronym. - Names, affiliations, and contact details of the organisers. - Short description and format. - History of the workshop (if applicable) and related events. - Size of the workshop and duration. - Tentative list of PC members with their respective affiliations. - Experience of the organisers. - Tentative call for papers. The main duties of the workshop chairs are: - Set up a website for the workshop. - Advertise the workshop and distribute its call for papers. - Coordinate the peer-reviewing of submitted contributions. - Organise a schedule for the workshop in collaboration with the local organisers and the Workshop Co-Chairs. - Coordinate and moderate the workshop participation and content. Each accepted proposal will be waived two workshop registrations to be used at the discretion of the organisers (e.g., to cover the registration of an invited speaker). KR reserves the right to cancel a workshop if it does not have enough participants to cover its running costs. ** IMPORTANT DATES ** - Proposal submission deadline: 21 February 2018. - Notification: 31 March 2018. - Workshops paper submission deadline: 21 July 2018. - Workshops paper notification: 25 August 2018. - Workshops registration deadline: TBD. - Tutorial and workshop dates: 27-29 October 2018. ** SUBMISSIONS AND INQUIRIES ** Those interested in presenting a tutorial or workshop should register their interest and proposal in the following forms: 1) Tutorial proposals: http://tinyurl.com/kr18tute 2) Workshop proposals: http://tinyurl.com/kr18workshop Inquiries should be sent by email to the tutorials/workshop chairs: Sebastian Sardina School of Computer Science and Information Technology RMIT University sebastian.sardina at rmit.edu.au Ivan Varzinczak CRIL, Univ. Artois & CNRS, France varzinczak at cril.fr From torben at ruc.dk Tue Sep 19 19:31:58 2017 From: torben at ruc.dk (=?Windows-1252?Q?Torben_Bra=FCner?=) Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2017 17:31:58 +0000 Subject: [DL] Logic and Philosophy of Time In-Reply-To: <739FECF42B949044B6DDCDDF197FF8ADB38096FA@MBX4.ad.ruc.dk> References: <739FECF42B949044B6DDCDDF197FF8ADB38096FA@MBX4.ad.ruc.dk> Message-ID: <739FECF42B949044B6DDCDDF197FF8ADB380971C@MBX4.ad.ruc.dk> Dear all, The workshop Logic and Philosophy of Time: Themes from Prior, to be held in Copenhagen, 22 ? 24 November 2017, is now accepting two page abstracts. The deadline is October 1st. Please find a call for papers here: http://www.prior.aau.dk/digitalAssets/316/316354_call-for-papers---branching-time-the-true-future.pdf Best regards, Torben Bra?ner (on behalf of Patrick Blackburn) -- Associate Professor, Ph.D., dr.scient. Torben Bra?ner Programming, Logic and Intelligent Systems Research Group Department of People and Technology Roskilde University, Denmark http://www.ruc.dk/~torben -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dd7rq at eservices.virginia.edu Sun Sep 24 19:36:28 2017 From: dd7rq at eservices.virginia.edu (Dimitris Diochnos) Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2017 13:36:28 -0400 Subject: [DL] ISAIM 2018: Final Call for Papers Message-ID: <09B9B968-2045-40CF-A487-B36FB7EE695A@eservices.virginia.edu> FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS Fifteenth International Symposium on ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE and MATHEMATICS ISAIM 2018 http://isaim2018.cs.virginia.edu/ January 3-5, 2018 Fort Lauderdale, Florida PAPER SUBMISSION DEADLINE: Tuesday, October 3, 2017 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 fifteenth Symposium in the series, which is sponsored by Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence. 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. KEYNOTE SPEAKERS: o Craig Boutilier, University of Toronto o Cynthia Rudin, Duke University SPECIAL TOPIC INVITED SESSIONS: o Flow Optimization in Traffic Networks -Organized by Michael Albert, Duke University, and Guni Sharon, The University of Texas at Austin o Boolean and pseudo-Boolean Functions -Organized by Endre Boros, Rutgers University, and Yves Crama, University of Liege o Formalising Robot Ethics -Organized by Michael Fisher, University of Liverpool, and Marija Slavkovik, University of Bergen o Topological Reasoning and Data Analyses -Organized by Debasis Mitra, Florida Istitute of Technology o Theory of Machine Learning -Organized by Lev Reyzin, University of Illinois at Chicago PAPER SUBMISSION: Paper submission will be electronic via the submission link to EasyChair on the Paper Submission page of the Symposium website (/isaim2018.cs.virginia.edu/). Papers must be formatted in accordance with the guidelines given there. The submission deadline is Tuesday, October 3, 2017 (11:59PM PDT). Papers will be reviewed by members of the Program Committee. Authors will be notified of acceptance or rejection by Tuesday, October 31, 2017. Final versions of accepted papers, for inclusion in the conference electronic proceedings, are due by Monday, November 27, 2017. 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 chair at the email address . IMPORTANT DATES: Paper submission: Tuesday, October 3, 2017 Notification: Tuesday, October 31, 2017 Final version due: Monday, November 27, 2017 Workshop: January 3-5, 2018, 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: Juergen Dix, TU Clausthal Guillermo R. Simari, Universidad Nacional del Sur o Publicity Chair: Dimitrios I. Diochnos, University of Virginia PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Franz Baader TU Dresden Salem Benferhat Universite d'Artois Endre Boros Rutgers University Gerhard Brewka Leipzig University Yixin Chen Washington University in St. Louis Berthe Choueiry University of Nebraska-Lincoln Yves Crama University of Liege Dimitrios I. Diochnos University of Virginia Agostino Dovier Universita degli Studi di Udine Michael Fisher University of Liverpool Georg Gottlob University of Oxford Warren Hunt The University of Texas at Austin Anthony Hunter University College London Vladimir Lifschitz The University of Texas at Austin Gerhard Lakemeyer Aachen University of Technology Hector Levesque University of Toronto Vladimir Lifschitz University of Texas at Austin Larry M. Manevitz University of Haifa Debasis Mitra Florida Institute of Technology Leora Morgenstern Leidos, Inc., Reston Maurice Pagnucco University of New South Wales Francesca Rossi IBM Research and University of Padova David Sarne Bar-Ilan University Marija Slavkovik University of Bergen Christine Solnon INSA Lyon Miroslaw (Mirek) Truszczynski University of Kentucky Gyorgy Turan University of Illinois at Chicago and University of Szeged Miroslav N. Velev Aries Design Automation Kristen Brent Venable Tulane University and IHMC Toby Walsh NICTA and University of New South Wales Neil Yorke-Smith TU Delft and American University of Beirut Send inquiries and requests to isaim2018 at mail DOT cs DOT virginia DOT edu. Visit http://isaim2018.cs.virginia.edu/. Join isaim at googlegroups.com to receive announcements related to ISAIM. From geoff at cs.miami.edu Tue Sep 26 22:19:06 2017 From: geoff at cs.miami.edu (geoff at cs.miami.edu) Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2017 16:19:06 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [DL] Commonsense-2017 - Call for Participation Message-ID: <20170926201906.3B0041700996@cs.miami.edu> Thirteenth International Symposium on Commonsense Reasoning (Commonsense-2017): Call for Participation You are invited to participate in Commonsense-2017, to be held at the University College London, November 6-8, 2017. The biennial Commonsense Symposia series provides a forum for exploring one of the long-term goals of Artificial Intelligence, endowing computers with common sense. Commonsense knowledge and reasoning are relevant for many applications of current interest, such as robot and human collaboration, transparent machine-learning systems that can explain their conclusions, social media and story understanding software, and dialogue systems. Dates November 6-8, 2017. Location Commonsense-2017 will take place on the campus of University College London: Haldane Room Wilkins Building, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT Map: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/maps/haldane-room Registration Registration costs for this symposium are 25.00, and must be made via the UCL online store: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/infostudies/commonsense-2017/registration/ Local accommodation Numerous hotels are within walking distance of UCL. Please see the following suggestions, and contact hotels directly for booking: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/infostudies/commonsense-2017/hotels/ Invited speakers: Sebastian Riedel, University College London Murray Shanahan, Imperial College London Conference Chairs Andrew S. Gordon, University of Southern California Rob Miller, University College London Gyorgy Turan, University of Illinois at Chicago and University of Szeged Program Committee Eyal Amir, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Chitta Baral, Arizona State University Vaishak Belle, University of Edinburgh Brandon Bennett, University of Leeds Gbor Berend, University of Szeged Nicola Bicocchi, Unversity of New Brunswick Antonis Bikakis, University College London Bert Bredeweg, University of Amsterdam Erik Cambria, Nanyang Technological University Cungen Cao, Chinese Academy of Sciences Nathanael Chambers, United States Naval Academy William Cohen, Carnegie Mellon University Tony Cohn, University of Leeds Ernest Davis, New York University Gerard de Melo, Rutgers University Valeria De Paiva, University of Birmingham Luke Dickens, University College London Esra Erdem, Sabanci University Nina Gierasimczuk, Technical University of Denmark Jonathan Gordon, USC Information Sciences Institute Catherine Havasi, Luminoso Technologies Jose Hernandez-Orallo, Universitat Politecnica de Valencia Jeff Horty, University of Maryland Daniela Inclezan, Miami University Naoya Inoue, Tohoku University Benjamin Johnston, University of Technology Sydney Antonis Kakas, University of Cyprus Gerhard Lakemeyer, RWTH Aachen University Henry Lieberman, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Vladimir Lifschitz, University of Texas Fangzhen Lin, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Quan Liu, University of Science and Technology of China Loizos Michael, Open University of Cyprus Niloofar Montazeri, University of California Riverside Leora Morgenstern, Leidos Charlie Ortiz, Nuance Communications Sebastian Pado, Stuttgart University Theodore Patkos, Institute of Computer Science, FORTH Pavlos Peppas, University of Patras Dimitris Plexousakis, Institute of Computer Science, FORTH Alan Ritter, Ohio State University Chiaki Sakama, Wakayama University Steven Schockaert, Cardiff University Bob Sloan, University of Illinois at Chicago Mark Steedman, University of Edinburgh Michael Thielscher, University of New South Wales Richmond Thomason, University of Michigan Lucy Vanderwende, Microsoft Research Laure Vieu, Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse Stefan Woltran, Technische Universitt Wien Website: http://commonsensereasoning.org From dd7rq at eservices.virginia.edu Tue Oct 3 16:45:01 2017 From: dd7rq at eservices.virginia.edu (Diochnos, Dimitrios (dd7rq)) Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2017 14:45:01 +0000 Subject: [DL] ISAIM 2018: Submission Deadline Extended Message-ID: SUBMISSION DEADLINE EXTENDED Fifteenth International Symposium on ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE and MATHEMATICS ISAIM 2018 http://isaim2018.cs.virginia.edu/ January 3-5, 2018 Fort Lauderdale, Florida NEW PAPER SUBMISSION DEADLINE: Tuesday, October 17, 2017 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 fifteenth Symposium in the series, which is sponsored by Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence. 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. KEYNOTE SPEAKERS: o Craig Boutilier, University of Toronto o Cynthia Rudin, Duke University SPECIAL TOPIC INVITED SESSIONS: o Flow Optimization in Traffic Networks -Organized by Michael Albert, Duke University, and Guni Sharon, The University of Texas at Austin o Boolean and pseudo-Boolean Functions -Organized by Endre Boros, Rutgers University, and Yves Crama, University of Liege o Formalising Robot Ethics -Organized by Michael Fisher, University of Liverpool, and Marija Slavkovik, University of Bergen o Topological Reasoning and Data Analyses -Organized by Debasis Mitra, Florida Istitute of Technology o Theory of Machine Learning -Organized by Lev Reyzin, University of Illinois at Chicago PAPER SUBMISSION: Paper submission will be electronic via the submission link to EasyChair on the Paper Submission page of the Symposium website (/isaim2018.cs.virginia.edu/). Papers must be formatted in accordance with the guidelines given there. The submission deadline is extended to Tuesday, October 17, 2017 (11:59PM PDT). Papers will be reviewed by members of the Program Committee. Authors will be notified of acceptance or rejection by Tuesday, November 7, 2017. Final versions of accepted papers, for inclusion in the conference electronic proceedings, are due by Monday, November 27, 2017. 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 chair at the email address . IMPORTANT DATES: Paper submission: Tuesday, October 17, 2017 Notification: Tuesday, November 7, 2017 Final version due: Monday, November 27, 2017 Workshop: January 3-5, 2018, 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: Juergen Dix, TU Clausthal Guillermo R. Simari, Universidad Nacional del Sur o Publicity Chair: Dimitrios I. Diochnos, University of Virginia PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Franz Baader TU Dresden Salem Benferhat Universite d'Artois Endre Boros Rutgers University Gerhard Brewka Leipzig University Yixin Chen Washington University in St. Louis Berthe Choueiry University of Nebraska-Lincoln Yves Crama University of Liege Dimitrios I. Diochnos University of Virginia Agostino Dovier Universita degli Studi di Udine Michael Fisher University of Liverpool Georg Gottlob University of Oxford Warren Hunt The University of Texas at Austin Anthony Hunter University College London Vladimir Lifschitz The University of Texas at Austin Gerhard Lakemeyer Aachen University of Technology Hector Levesque University of Toronto Vladimir Lifschitz University of Texas at Austin Larry M. Manevitz University of Haifa Debasis Mitra Florida Institute of Technology Leora Morgenstern Leidos, Inc., Reston Maurice Pagnucco University of New South Wales Francesca Rossi IBM Research and University of Padova David Sarne Bar-Ilan University Marija Slavkovik University of Bergen Christine Solnon INSA Lyon Miroslaw (Mirek) Truszczynski University of Kentucky Gyorgy Turan University of Illinois at Chicago and University of Szeged Miroslav N. Velev Aries Design Automation Kristen Brent Venable Tulane University and IHMC Toby Walsh NICTA and University of New South Wales Neil Yorke-Smith TU Delft and American University of Beirut Send inquiries and requests to isaim2018 at mail DOT cs DOT virginia DOT edu. Visit http://isaim2018.cs.virginia.edu/. Join isaim at googlegroups.com to receive announcements related to ISAIM. From geoff at cs.miami.edu Mon Oct 2 23:07:39 2017 From: geoff at cs.miami.edu (geoff at cs.miami.edu) Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2017 17:07:39 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [DL] IJCAR 2018 - Call for Papers Message-ID: <20171002210739.2A3EF1700F62@cs.miami.edu> CALL FOR PAPERS The 9th International Joint Conference on Automated Reasoning, IJCAR 2018 Oxford, UK, July 14-17, 2018. http://www.ijcar2018.org Part of The Federated Logic Conference, FLoC 2018, Oxford, UK, July 6-19, 2018. http://www.floc2018.org 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 2018 takes place as part of FLoC 2018 and is the merger of leading events in automated reasoning: CADE (Conference on Automated Deduction), FroCoS (Symposium on Frontiers of Combining Systems) and TABLEAUX (Conference on Analytic Tableaux and Related Methods) Topics: ------- IJCAR 2018 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, combination of decision procedures, SAT and SMT solving, etc. - Applications of interest include: verification, formal methods, program analysis and synthesis, computer mathematics, declarative programming, deductive databases, knowledge representation, etc. We welcome papers combining automated-reasoning formalisms & techniques and with those from other areas of CS and mathematics, including, e.g., computer algebra, machine learning, formal languages, formal verification, termination. In particular, high-quality conference papers on the topics of the IJCAR 2018 affiliated workshops (http://ijcar2018.org/#assocev) are welcome. The proceedings of IJCAR 2018 will be published by Springer in the LNAI/LNCS series (www.springer.com/lncs). Submission details: ------------------- Submission is electronic, through https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ijcar2018. 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 We solicit two categories of submissions: REGULAR PAPERS. Submissions, not exceeding sixteen (16) pages including bibliography, should contain original research, and sufficient detail to assess the merits and relevance of the contribution. For papers reporting experimental results, authors are strongly encouraged to make their data and software available with their submission for reproducibility. The PC will take availability of software and data into account when evaluating submissions. Submissions reporting on case studies in an industrial context are strongly invited, and should describe details, weaknesses and strength in sufficient depth. Simultaneous submission to other conferences with proceedings or submission of material that has already been published elsewhere is not allowed. SYSTEM DESCRIPTIONS. Submissions, not exceeding eight (8) pages including bibliography, should describe the implemented tool and its novel features. One author is expected to be able to perform a demonstration on demand to accompany a tool presentation. Papers describing tools that have already been presented in other conferences before will be accepted only if significant and clear enhancements to the tool are reported and implemented. Best paper award: ----------------- IJCAR 2018 will recognize the most outstanding submission with a best paper award at the conference. Invited speakers: ----------------- Invited Speakers will be announced later on. Important dates (provisional): ------------------------------ Abstract submission: January 22nd 2018 Paper submission: January 29th 2018 Notification: March 29th, 2018 Final version of papers due: April 23rd, 2018 IJCAR Conference: July 14-17th, 2018 FLoC Conference: July 6-19th, 2018 IMPORTANT NOTICE: due to very strict FLoC constraints, deadlines are SHARP! Student travel awards: ---------------------- Woody Bledsoe Travel Awards will be available to support selected students in attending the conference. Organization: ------------- Conference Chair: Ian Horrocks, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK Program Chairs: Didier Galmiche, LORIA, Universite de Lorraine, Nancy, France Stephan Schulz, DHBW Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany Roberto Sebastiani, DISI, University of Trento, Trento, Italy Local Arrangements Chairs: Daniel Kroening, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK Marta Kwiatkowska, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK Workshop Chair: Alberto Griggio, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Trento, Italy Publicity Chair: Geoff Sutcliffe, University of Miami Program Committee: Carlos Areces, FaMAFUniversidad Nacional de Cordoba Alessandro Artale, Free University of Bolzano-Bozen Arnon Avron, Tel-Aviv University Franz Baader, TU Dresden Clark Barrett, Stanford University Peter Baumgartner, Data 61 and CSIRO Christoph Benzmueller, Freie Universitaet Berlin Armin Biere, Johannes Kepler University Linz Nikolaj Bjorner, Microsoft Research Jasmin Christian Blanchette, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Maria Paola Bonacina, Universita degli Studi di Verona Torben Brauener, Roskilde University Agata Ciabattoni, TU Wien Leonardo de Moura, Microsoft Research Hans De Nivelle, University of Wroclaw Stephane Demri, CNRS, LSV, ENS Paris-Saclay Clare Dixon, University of Liverpool Francois Fages, Inria Universite Paris-Saclay Pascal Fontaine, Universite de Lorraine - LORIA Didier Galmiche (Chair), Universite de Lorraine - LORIA Vijay Ganesh, University of Waterloo Silvio Ghilardi, Universite degli Studi di Milano Juergen Giesl, RWTH Aachen Laura Giordano, DISIT Universite del Piemonte Orientale Valentin Goranko, Stockholm University Rajeev Gore, The Australian National University Alberto Griggio, FBK-IRST John Harrison, Intel Corporation Ian Horrocks, University of Oxford Moa Johansson, Chalmers Tekniska Hogskola Cezary Kaliszyk, University of Innsbruck Deepak Kapur, University of New Mexico Konstantin Korovin, The University of Manchester Laura Kovacs Vienna, University of Technology George Metcalfe, University of Bern Dale Miller, INRIA and LIX/Ecole Polytechnique Claudia Nalon, University of Brasilia Albert Oliveras, - Technical University of Catalonia Nicola Olivetti, LSIS Aix-Marseille University Jens Otten, University of Oslo Lawrence Paulson, University of Cambridge Nicolas Peltier, CNRS, LIG Frank Pfenning, Carnegie Mellon University Silvio Ranise, FBK-Irst Christophe Ringeissen, LORIA-INRIA Philipp Ruemmer, Uppsala University Katsuhiko Sano, Hokkaido University Uli Sattler, The University of Manchester Renate A. Schmidt, The University of Manchester Stephan Schulz (Chair), DHBW Stuttgart Roberto Sebastiani (Chair), DISI University of Trento Viorica Sofronie-Stokkermans, University Koblenz-Landau Thomas Sturm, CNRS Geoff Sutcliffe, University of Miami Cesare Tinelli, The University of Iowa Alwen Tiu, Nanyang Technological University Ashish Tiwari, SRI International Josef Urban, Czech Technical University in Prague Luca Vigan??, King's College London Andrei Voronkov, The University of Manchester Uwe Waldmann, Max Planck Institute for Informatics Christoph Weidenbach, Max Planck Institute for Informatics From geoff at cs.miami.edu Tue Oct 3 19:56:39 2017 From: geoff at cs.miami.edu (geoff at cs.miami.edu) Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2017 13:56:39 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [DL] Artificial Intelligence and Theorem Proving - Call for Papers Message-ID: <20171003175639.E65E31700F8F@cs.miami.edu> CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS Artificial Intelligence and Theorem Proving, AITP 2018 March 25-30, 2018, Aussois, France http://aitp-conference.org/2018 Deadline: December 3, 2017 https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aitp2018 BACKGROUND Large-scale semantic processing and strong computer assistance of mathematics and science is our inevitable future. New combinations of AI and reasoning methods and tools deployed over large mathematical and scientific corpora will be instrumental to this task. The AITP conference is the forum for discussing how to get there as soon as possible, and the force driving the progress towards that. TOPICS - AI, machine learning and big-data methods in theorem proving and mathematics. - Collaboration between automated and interactive theorem proving. - Common-sense reasoning and reasoning in science. - Alignment and joint processing of formal, semi-formal, and informal libraries. - Methods for large-scale computer understanding of mathematics and science. - Combinations of linguistic/learning-based and semantic/reasoning methods - Formal verification of AI and machine learning algorithms, explainable AI . SESSIONS There will be several focused sessions on AI for ATP, ITP and mathematics, modern AI and big-data methods, and several sessions with contributed talks. The focused sessions will be based on invited talks and discussion oriented. CONTRIBUTED TALKS We solicit contributed talks. Selection of those will be based on extended abstracts/short papers of 2 pages formatted with easychair.cls. Submission is via EasyChair (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aitp2018). DATES Submission deadline: December 3, 2017 Author notification: January 10, 2018 Conference registration: January 24, 2018 Camera-ready versions: January 31, 2018 Conference: March 25-30, 2018 POST-PROCEEDINGS We will consider an open call for post-proceedings in an established series of conference proceedings (LIPIcs, EPiC, JMLR) or a journal (AICom, JAR, JAIR). PROGRAM COMMITTEE (to be completed) David Aspinall, University of Edinburgh Jasmin Christian Blanchette, INRIA Nancy Cameron Freer, Remine Ulrich Furbach, University of Koblenz Thomas C. Hales (co-chair), University of Pittsburgh Sean Holden, University of Cambridge Geoffrey Irving, OpenAI Moa Johansson, Chalmers University Cezary Kaliszyk (co-chair), University of Innsbruck Michael Kohlhase, FAU Erlangen-N??rnberg Ramana Kumar, Data61 & UNSW Jens Otten, University of Oslo Stephan Schulz (co-chair), DHBW Stuttgart Dawn Song, University of California, Berkeley Martin Suda, Technische Universit??t Wien Geoff Sutcliffe, University of Miami Christian Szegedy, Google Research Josef Urban (co-chair), Czech Technical University in Prague LOCATION AND PRICE The conference will take place from March 25 to March 30 2018 in the CNRS Paul-Langevin Conference Center (https://www.caes.cnrs.fr/sejours/centre-paul-langevin/) located in the mountain village of Aussois in Savoy. Dominated by the "Dent Parrach??e", one of the highest peaks of La Vanoise, Aussois is located on a sunny plateau at 1500 m altitude, offering a magnificent panorama of the surrounding mountains and a direct access to the downhill ski slopes or cross country slopes in winter. The total price for accommodation, food and registration for the five days will be around 600 EUR. ORGANIZERS Cezary Kaliszyk and Josef Urban From info at christophwernhard.com Sat Oct 7 09:32:08 2017 From: info at christophwernhard.com (Christoph Wernhard) Date: Sat, 7 Oct 2017 09:32:08 +0200 Subject: [DL] SOQE 2017: Workshop on Second-Order Quantifier Elimination and Related Topics - Call for Papers and Tutorials Message-ID: <3f0cf630-6602-547c-4da6-7d467445bf1c@christophwernhard.com> [Apologies if you receive multiple copies. Please forward this call to interested parties.] CALL FOR PAPERS AND TUTORIALS SOQE 2017 WORKSHOP ON SECOND-ORDER QUANTIFIER ELIMINATION AND RELATED TOPICS TU Dresden, Germany 6-8 December 2017 Deadline: 29 October 2017 http://2017.soqe.org/ AIMS AND TOPICS Second-order quantifier elimination (SOQE) means to compute from a given logic formula with quantifiers upon second-order objects such as predicates an equivalent first-order formula, or, in other words, an equivalent formula in which these quantified second-order objects do no longer occur. It can be combined with various underlying logics, including classical propositional and first-order logic as well as modal and description logics. In slight variations it is also known as forgetting, projection, predicate elimination and uniform interpolation. SOQE bears strong relationships to Craig interpolation, definability and computation of definientia, the notion of conservative theory extension, abduction and notions of weakest sufficient and strongest necessary condition, as well as to generalizations of Boolean unification to predicate logic. It is particularly attractive as a logic-based approach to various computational tasks, for example, the computation of circumscription, the computation of modal correspondences, forgetting in knowledge bases, knowledge-base modularization, computing abductive explanations, the specification of non-monotonic logic programming semantics, view-based query processing, and the characterization of formula simplifications in reasoner preprocessing. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Abduction * Access interpolation * Algorithms for SOQE and related tasks * Applications of SOQE and related techniques * Automation and tools * Boolean equation solving / Boolean unification and SOQE * Characterizations of formula classes on which SOQE succeeds * Circumscription * Conservative theory extensions * Craig interpolation * Definability and computation of definienda * Elimination in formula simplifications * Elimination methods and calculi for theorem proving * Forgetting and projection in answer set programming * Forgetting and uniform interpolation in description logics * Historical aspects of SOQE * Ontology modularization * Relationships between elimination and decidability * View-based query rewriting on the basis of definability The workshop aims at bringing together researchers working on SOQE and related topics. The hope is that issues shared by problems emerging from different special contexts will become apparent, interesting open research problems will be identified, and potential new applications as well as demands on implementations will become visible. Tutorials aim to make foundations, methods and applications of SOQE and related techniques accessible to young researchers and to researchers with different specialist backgrounds. SUBMISSION We invite submissions of: * Works with original research, adaptions of relevant research published elsewhere, and discussions of research in progress. It is expected that submissions are presented at the workshop by at least one of the authors. * Suggestions for tutorials on topics of interest. In general, the tutorials should take between 60 and 120 minutes. Submissions should be written in English, formatted according to the Springer LNCS style, and match one of the following formats: * Full research paper: up to 15 pages + bibliography * Extended abstract: 5-8 pages + bibliography * Abstract: 1-4 pages * Tutorial abstract: 1-5 pages. Submissions must be uploaded via EasyChair at: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=soqe2017 Submissions will be reviewed by the PC, taking into account relevance, technical quality, quality of the presentation, and, as far as applicable, originality. PROCEEDINGS Proceedings of the workshop will be published as CEUR workshop proceedings. REGISTRATION Details will be announced on the workshop webpage. No fee will be charged for attending the workshop. IMPORTANT DATES 29 October 2017: Abstract / Paper Submission 8 November 2017: Author Notification 22 November 2017: Registration 22 November 2017: Camera-Ready Version for CEUR 6-8 December 2017: Workshop in Dresden PROGRAM COMMITTEE CHAIRS Patrick Koopmann TU Dresden, Germany Sebastian Rudolph TU Dresden, Germany Renate Schmidt The University of Manchester, UK Christoph Wernhard TU Dresden, Germany ORGANIZATION Christoph Wernhard, TU Dresden - International Center for Computational Logic info at christophwernhard.com FUNDING The workshop is supported by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) with grant WE 5641/1-1. From V.Tamma at liverpool.ac.uk Mon Oct 9 09:54:13 2017 From: V.Tamma at liverpool.ac.uk (Tamma, Valentina) Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2017 07:54:13 +0000 Subject: [DL] [CfP] Journal of Web Semantics (JWS) - Special Issue on Ontology Engineering Message-ID: The Journal of Web Semantics invites submissions for a special issue on Ontology Engineering to be edited by Valentina Tamma, Matthew Horridge, and Bijan Parsia. Submissions are due by 13 November, 2017. https://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-web-semantics/call-for-papers/special-issue-on-ontology-engineering The Web Ontology Language (OWL) became a World Wide Web Consortium standard in 2004. It has since been used in many diverse domains from geography to medicine where many people, groups, and consortia build, maintain and regularly publish high-quality, production-level ontologies. In this time ontology engineering has evolved considerably with the development of new methodologies, techniques, tools, and processes for ontology creation and maintenance. The actual process of creating ontologies has begun to shift from being a small scale, completely manual process to a combination of manual, semi-automated, and programmatic techniques and from single-person or small-group efforts to large-scale collaborative efforts. Concurrently, ontology engineering research, often drawing inspiration from the increasing empirical rigor of the software engineering community, has grown more sophisticated. The goal for this special issue is to provide a venue to showcase the breadth and depth of ontology engineering and ontology engineering research. We are particularly interested in empirical papers which aim to explore or demonstrate the benefits of ontologies to larger efforts or of some technique or tooling on the development of ontologies. We encourage principled methodological diversity and welcome papers with significant methodological interest even if the results are null or negative. In addition to standard research papers, we welcome submission of short case studies or system/ontology/method/application descriptions, though we would encourage more general reviews where possible, reserving short papers for cases with some special focus, novelty, or clear interest. We recommend consulting with the Guest Editors before submission of such papers. We are happy to receive pre-submission of an experimental plan especially if the risk of null results is high and will provide feedback. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): Ontology Engineering Research Methodology Ontology Engineering Methodologies Ontology Learning (from text, data, or other sources) Ontology Visualisation Quality Assurance Ontology Debugging Collaborative Ontology Engineering practices Ontology Engineering workflows Document based ontology engineering Continuous Integration for Ontology Engineering Ontology Testing Explanation of Entailments in Ontologies Ontology Comprehension Ontology Design Patterns Ontology Versioning, Change, and Evolution Ontology Engineering Case Studies Agile Practices in Ontology Engineering User Studies on Ontology Engineering Ontology Modularisation Programmatic Approaches to Ontology Engineering Problems and Challenges of Reusing Ontologies Ontology Publishing Strategies Application of Software Engineering Techniques to Ontology Engineering Metrics for Ontology Engineering Guest Editors Valentina Tamma, University of Liverpool, v.tamma at liverpool.ac.uk Matthew Horridge, Stanford University, matthew.horridge at stanford.edu Bijan Parsia, University of Manchester, bijan.parsia at manchester.ac.uk Important Dates Submission deadline: 13 November 2017 Author notification: 5 February 2017 Final version: 16 April 2018 Final notification: 14 May 2018 Publication: 3rd Quarter 2018 From woltran at dbai.tuwien.ac.at Fri Oct 6 10:10:41 2017 From: woltran at dbai.tuwien.ac.at (Stefan Woltran) Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2017 10:10:41 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [DL] FoIKS 2018 -- 2nd Call for Papers Message-ID: **Apologies for cross-postings*** Please consider to contribute to and/or forward to the appropriate groups the following opportunity to submit and publish original scientific results to FoIKS 2018. Abstract submission deadline is November 24, 2017. ===================== FoIKS 2018 | Call for Papers ======================== CALL FOR PAPERS 10th Int'l. Symposium on Foundations of Information and Knowledge Systems May 14-18, 2018 Alfred Renyi Institute of Mathematics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary http://2018.foiks.org/ The FoIKS symposia provide a biennial forum for presenting and discussing theoretical and applied research on information and knowledge systems. The goal is to bring together researchers with an interest in this subject, share research experiences, promote collaboration and identify new issues and directions for future research. FoIKS 2018 solicits original contributions dealing with any foundational aspect of information and knowledge systems. This includes submissions that apply ideas, theories or methods from specific disciplines to information and knowledge systems. Examples of such disciplines are discrete mathematics, logic and algebra, model theory, information theory, complexity theory, algorithmics and computation, statistics and optimization. The FoIKS symposia are a forum for intense discussions. Speakers will be given sufficient time to present their ideas and results within the larger context of their research; furthermore, participants will be asked to prepare a first response to another contribution in order to initiate discussion. Previous FoIKS symposia were held in Linz (Austria) in 2016, Bordeaux (France) in 2014, Kiel (Germany) in 2012, Sofia (Bulgaria) in 2010, Pisa (Italy) in 2008, Budapest (Hungary) in 2006, Vienna (Austria) in 2004, Schloss Salzau near Kiel (Germany) in 2002, and Burg/Spreewald near Berlin (Germany) in 2000. FoIKS took up the tradition of the conference series Mathematical Fundamentals of Database Systems (MFDBS), which initiated East-West collaboration in the field of database theory. Former MFDBS conferences were held in Rostock (Germany) in 1991, Visegrad (Hungary) in 1989, and Dresden (Germany) in 1987. Submission Guidelines ===================== All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. Papers must be typeset using the Springer LaTeX2e style llncs for Lecture Notes in Computer Science. The suggested number of pages is 16, and the maximum number of pages is 18. Submissions which deviate substantially from these guidelines may be rejected without review. Initial submissions must be in PDF format, but authors should keep in mind that the LaTeX2e source must be submitted for the final versions of accepted papers. Submissions in alternate formats, such as Microsoft Word, cannot be accepted for either initial or final versions. The submissions will be judged for scientific quality and for suitability as a basis for broader discussion. Submission is via EasyChair at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=foiks2018 Suggested Topics ================ The suggested topics include, but are not limited to: Database Design: formal models, dependencies and independencies; Big Data: models for data in the Cloud, programming languages for big data, query processing; Dynamics of Information: models of transactions, concurrency control, updates, consistency preservation, belief revision; Information Fusion: heterogeneity, views, schema dominance, multiple source information merging, reasoning under inconsistency; Integrity and Constraint Management: verification, validation, consistent query answering, information cleaning; Intelligent Agents: multi-agent systems, autonomous agents, foundations of software agents, cooperative agents, formal models of interactions, negotiations and dialogue, logical models of emotions; Knowledge Discovery and Information Retrieval: machine learning, mining, formal concept analysis and association rules, text mining, information extraction; Knowledge Representation, Reasoning and Planning: non-monotonic formalisms, probabilistic and non-probabilistic models of uncertainty, graphical models and independence, similarity-based reasoning, preference modeling and handling, computation models of argument, argumentation systems; Logics in Databases and AI: classical and non-classical logics, logic programming, description logics, spatial and temporal logics, probability logic, fuzzy logic; Mathematical Foundations: discrete structures and algorithms, graphs, grammars, automata, abstract machines, finite model theory, information theory, coding theory, complexity theory, randomness; Security in Information and Knowledge Systems: identity theft, privacy, trust, intrusion detection, access control, inference control, secure Web services, secure Semantic Web, risk management; Semi-Structured Data and XML: data modelling, data processing, data compression, data exchange; Social Computing: collective intelligence and self-organizing knowledge, collaborative filtering, computational social choice, Boolean games, coalition formation, reputation systems; The Semantic Web and Knowledge Management: languages, ontologies, agents, adaption, intelligent algorithms, ontology-based data access; and The WWW: models of Web databases, Web dynamics, Web services, Web transactions and negotiations, Social Networks, Web Mining. Program Committee ================= Yamine Ait Ameur, France Pablo Barcelo, Chile Kim Bauters, Northern Ireland, UK Christoph Beierle, Germany Leopoldo Bertossi, Canada Philippe Besnard, France Nicole Bidoit, France Meghyn Bienvenu, France Joachim Biskup, Germany Marina De Vos, UK Michael Dekhtyar, Russia Dragan Doder, Serbia Thomas Eiter, Austria Christian Fermueller, Austria Marc Gyssens, Belgium Edward Hermann Haeusler, Brazil Martin Homola, Slovakia Anthony Hunter, England Gabriel Istrate, Romania Gyula Y. Katona, Hungary Gabriele Kern-Isberner, Germany Attila Kiss, Hungary Ioannis Kokkinis, France Sebastien Konieczny, France Juha Kontinen, Finland Nicola Leone, Italy Sebastian Link, New Zealand Thomas Lukasiewicz, UK Sofian Maabout, France Andrea Marino, Italy Jorge Martinez-Gil, Austria Henri Prade, France Elena Ravve, Israel Sebastian Rudolph, Germany Attila Sali, Hungary Vadim Savenkov, Austria Klaus-Dieter Schewe, Austria Thomas Schwentick, Germany Kostyantyn Shchekotykhin, Austria Csaba Istvan Sidlo, Hungary Guillermo Ricardo Simari, Argentina Mantas Simkus, Austria Bernhard Thalheim, Germany Alex Thomo, Canada Mirek Truszczynski, USA Gyorgy Turan, USA Jose Turull-Torres, Argentina/New Zealand Dirk Van Gucht, USA Jonni Virtema, Finland Qing Wang, Australia Program Chairs ============== Stefan Woltran, TU Wien, Austria. Flavio Ferrarotti, Software Competence Center Hagenberg, Austria. Local Organization Chair ======================== Attila Sali, Alfred Renyi Institute of Mathematics, Hungary. Invited Speakers ================ Laura Kovacs, TU Wien, Austria. Sebastian Link, University of Auckland, New Zealand. David Pearce, Technical University of Madrid, Spain (supported by ALP). Bernhard Thalheim, Christian-Albrechts-University at Kiel, Germany. Publication =========== The proceedings will be published by Springer-Verlag in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science. After the symposium, authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended journal versions of their papers for a FoIKS 2018 special issue of the Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence. Venue ===== The conference venue will be the renowned Alfred Renyi Institute of Mathematics at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (for more information on the venue, see http://www.renyi.hu/contact.html Important Dates =============== Abstract submission deadline: November 24, 2017 Paper submission deadline: December 01, 2017 Author notification: February 02, 2018 Camera-ready paper due: February 16, 2018 FoIKS 2018 Symposium: May 14-18, 2018 Scientific Sponsorship ====================== Association for Logic Programming (ALP) European Association for Theoretical Computer Science Vienna Center for Logic and Algorithms Student Grants ============== Students of accepted papers on logic programming related topics can apply to the student travel grant of ALP to attend FoIKS 2018. Contact ======= All questions about submissions should be emailed to flavio.ferrarotti at scch.at and woltran at dbai.tuwien.ac.at Web page: http://2018.foiks.org/ From ruy at cin.ufpe.br Tue Oct 10 04:07:05 2017 From: ruy at cin.ufpe.br (Ruy de Queiroz) Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2017 23:07:05 -0300 Subject: [DL] =?utf-8?q?25th_WoLLIC_2018_=28Bogot=C3=A1=2C_Colombia=29_-_C?= =?utf-8?q?all_for_Papers?= Message-ID: [Please circulate. Apologies for multiple copies.] WoLLIC 2018 25th Workshop on Logic, Language, Information and Computation July 24th to 27th, 2018 Bogot?, Colombia 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) ACM Special Interest Group on Logic and Computation (ACM-SIGLOG) (TBC) Sociedade Brasileira de Computa??o (SBC) Sociedade Brasileira de L?gica (SBL) ORGANISATION Departamento de Matem?ticas, Universidad de los Andes, Colombia Centro de Inform?tica, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil HOSTED BY Departamento de Matem?ticas, Universidad de los Andes, Colombia 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 twenty-fifth WoLLIC will be held at the Departamento de Matem?ticas of the Universidad de los Andes, Bogot?, Colombia, from July 24th to 27th, 2018. 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), ACM Special Interest Group on Logic and Computation (ACM-SIGLOG) (TBC), 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; foundations of mathematics; philosophy of mathematics; philosophical logic; philosophy of language. 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. Articles should be written in the LaTeX format of LNCS by Springer (see authors instructions at http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0). They must not exceed 12 pages, 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. (At least one author is required to pay the registration fee before granting that the paper will be published in the proceedings.) Papers must be submitted electronically at the WoLLIC 2018 EasyChair website. (Please go to http://wollic.org/wollic2018/ instructions.html for instructions.) A title and single-paragraph abstract should be submitted by Mar 11, 2018, and the full paper by Mar 18, 2018 (firm date). Notifications are expected by Apr 15, 2018, and final papers for the proceedings will be due by Apr 22, 2018 (firm date). PROCEEDINGS The proceedings of WoLLIC 2018, 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 (after a new round of reviewing) as a special post-conference WoLLIC 2018 issue of a scientific journal (to be confirmed). INVITED SPEAKERS (TBA) STUDENT GRANTS ASL sponsorship of WoLLIC 2018 will permit ASL student members to apply for a modest travel grant (deadline: May 1st, 2018). See http://www.aslonline.org/studenttravelawards.html for details. IMPORTANT DATES Mar 11, 2018: Paper title and abstract deadline Mar 18, 2018: Full paper deadline Apr 15, 2018: Author notification Apr 22, 2018: Final version deadline (firm) PROGRAMME COMMITTEE Siddharth Bhaskar (Haverford College, USA) Torben Bra?ner (Roskilde University, Denmark) Hazel Brickhill (University of Bristol, UK) Michael Detlefsen (University of Notre Dame, USA) Juliette Kennedy (University of Helsinki, Finland) Sophia Knight (Uppsala University, Sweden) Alex Kruckman (Indiana University, USA) Maricarmen Martinez Baldares (Universidad de los Andes, Colombia) Frederike Moltmann (CNRS, France) Lawrence Moss (Indiana University, USA) (CHAIR) Cl?udia Nalon (University of Bras?lia, Brazil) Valeria de Paiva (Nuance Comms, USA, and University of Birmingham, UK) Sophie Pinchinat (IRISA Rennes, France) David Pym (University College London, UK) Ruy de Queiroz (Univ Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil) Revantha Ramanayake (Vienna University of Technology, Austria) Giselle Reis (Carnegie Mellon University, Qatar) Jeremy Seligman (The University of Auckland, New Zealand) Yanjing Wang (Peking University, China) Fan Yang (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands) STEERING COMMITTEE Samson Abramsky, Johan van Benthem, Anuj Dawar, Joe Halpern, Wilfrid Hodges, Juliette Kennedy, Ulrich Kohlenbach, Daniel Leivant, Leonid Libkin, Angus Macintyre, Luke Ong, Hiroakira Ono, Valeria de Paiva, Ruy de Queiroz, Jouko V??n?nen. (Former Member: Grigori Mints (deceased).) ORGANISING COMMITTEE Jaime A. Boh?rquez (Escuela Colombiana de Ingenier?a, Bogot?, Colombia) Xavier Caicedo (Universidad de los Andes, Colombia) (Local co-chair) Nicol?s Cardozo (Universidad de los Andes, Bogot?, Colombia) Maricarmen Mart?nez (Universidad de los Andes, Colombia) (Local co-chair) Anjolina G. de Oliveira (Univ Federal de Pernambuco, Brasil) Ruy de Queiroz (Univ Federal de Pernambuco, Brasil) (co-chair) Camilo Rocha (Universidad Javeriana, Cali, Colombia) FURTHER INFORMATION Contact one of the Co-Chairs of the Organising Committee. WEB PAGE http://wollic.org/wollic2018/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ijv at acm.org Thu Oct 12 10:19:48 2017 From: ijv at acm.org (=?utf-8?Q?Ivan_Jos=C3=A9_Varzinczak?=) Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2017 10:19:48 +0200 Subject: [DL] Special issue of IJAR on Defeasible and Ampliative Reasoning Message-ID: <0CED36BF-5231-4BAD-8CC0-F870BBCC1AC2@acm.org> * Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this call * Call for Papers: ====================================================================== Special Issue of the International Journal of Approximate Reasoning on "Defeasible and Ampliative Reasoning" ====================================================================== Classical reasoning is not flexible enough when directly applied to the formalization of certain nuances of decision making as done by humans. These involve different kinds of reasoning such as reasoning with uncertainty, exceptions, similarity, vagueness, incomplete or contradictory information and many others. It turns out that everyday reasoning usually shows the two salient intertwined aspects below: * Ampliative aspect: augmenting the underlying reasoning by allowing more conclusions. In practical contexts, this amounts to the ability to make inferences that venture beyond the scope of the premises, somehow in an unsound but justifiable way. Prominent examples are (i) default reasoning: jumping to conclusions deemed as plausible 'by default', i.e., in the absence of information to the contrary, like applying negation as failure or adopting the closed-world assumption; (ii) inductive and abductive reasoning: taking chances in drawing conclusions that implicitly call for further scrutiny or tests by empirical observations, like in making inductive hypotheses in scientific theories or finding abductive explanations in forensics, and (iii) analogical reasoning: extrapolating from very few examples (in the worst case only one) on the basis of observable similarities or dissimilarities. * Defeasible aspect: curtailing the underlying reasoning by either disregarding or disallowing some conclusions that somehow ought not to be sanctioned. In practice, this amounts to the ability to backtrack one's conclusions or to admit exceptions in reasoning. Some examples of this are (i) retractive reasoning: withdrawing conclusions that have already been derived, like in belief contraction or in negotiation, and (ii) preemptive reasoning: preventing or blocking the inference of some conclusions by disallowing their derivation in the first place, like in dealing with exceptional cases in multiple inheritance networks and in regulatory systems. Several efforts have been put into the study and definition of formalisms within which the aforementioned aspects of everyday reasoning could adequately be captured at different levels. Despite the progress that has been achieved, a large avenue remains open for exploration. Indeed, the literature on non-monotonic reasoning has focused almost exclusively on defeasibility of argument forms, whereas belief revision paradigms are restricted to an underlying classical (Tarskian) consequence relation. Moreover, even if some of the issues related to uncertainty in reasoning have been studied using probabilistic approaches and statistical methods, their integration with qualitative frameworks remain a challenge. Finally, well-established approaches are largely based on propositional languages (poor expressiveness) or haunted by the undecidability of full first-order logic. Modern applications require formalisms with a good balance between expressive power and computational complexity in order to be also considered as good candidates for eXplainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI). This special issue aims at bringing together work on defeasible and ampliative reasoning from the perspective of artificial intelligence, cognitive sciences, philosophy and related disciplines in a multi-disciplinary way, thereby consolidating the mission of the DARe workshop series. -- Topics of interest -- Submissions are welcome on topics relevant to defeasible and ampliative reasoning and that include but are not limited to: - Abductive and inductive reasoning - Explanation finding, diagnosis and causal reasoning - Inconsistency handling and exception-tolerant reasoning - Decision-making under uncertainty and incomplete information - Default reasoning, non-monotonic reasoning, non-monotonic logics, conditional logics - Specific instances and variations of ampliative and defeasible reasoning - Probabilistic and statistical approaches to reasoning - Vagueness, rough sets, granularity and fuzzy-logics - Philosophical foundations of defeasibility - Empirical studies of reasoning - Relationship with cognition and language - Contextual reasoning - Preference-based reasoning - Analogical reasoning - Similarity-based reasoning - Belief dynamics and merging - Argumentation theory, negotiation and conflict resolution - Heuristic and approximate reasoning - Defeasible normative systems - Reasoning about actions and change - Reasoning about knowledge and belief, epistemic and doxastic logics - Ampliative and defeasible temporal and spatial reasoning - Computational aspects of reasoning with uncertainty - Implementations and systems - Applications of uncertainty in reasoning -- How to submit -- The submission url is: http://www.evise.com/evise/jrnl/IJA When submitting your manuscript, please select ?VSI:DARe special issue? as the article type. Check the ?Help? link on the above url for instructions. If you have any enquiries, please feel free to contact us at dare.to.contact.us at gmail.com -- Important Dates -- - Submission deadline: 15 February 2018 - Notification: 1 November 2018 - Publication date: 1 January 2019 -- Guest editors -- - Richard Booth, Cardiff University, UK - Giovanni Casini, University of Luxembourg - Szymon Klarman, Semantic Integration Ltd., UK - Gilles Richard, Universit? Paul Sabatier, France - Ivan Varzinczak, CRIL, Univ. Artois & CNRS, France -- Ivan Varzinczak CRIL, Univ. Artois & CNRS, France http://member.acm.org/~ijv From markus.kroetzsch at tu-dresden.de Wed Oct 18 16:09:47 2017 From: markus.kroetzsch at tu-dresden.de (Markus Kroetzsch) Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2017 16:09:47 +0200 Subject: [DL] Open position in Dresden, deadline approaching Message-ID: <78847951-9526-cee0-a6d2-aa5a4081a57c@tu-dresden.de> Dear DListas, The Knowledge-Based Systems group at TU Dresden is currently looking for a new group member to join in an already running project (100% research assistant contract, for PhD students or postdocs). For details, please see the full ad online: https://iccl.inf.tu-dresden.de/web/Stellenausschreibung5/en or simply contact me directly. The application deadline is 27 Oct 2017: if you are interested but are not sure if you can make this, please feel free to contact me for discussing further details. Best regards, Markus -- Prof. Dr. Markus Kroetzsch Knowledge-Based Systems Group Center for Advancing Electronics Dresden (cfaed) Faculty of Computer Science TU Dresden +49 351 463 38486 https://iccl.inf.tu-dresden.de/web/KBS/en -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Scope: ------ ICLP is the premier conference on foundations and applications of logic programming, including but not restricted to answer-set programming, non-monotonic reasoning, unification and constraints based logic languages, constraint handling rules, argumentation logics, deductive databases, description logics, inductive and co-inductive logic programming. Papers are solicited on: * Foundations: semantics, execution algorithms, formal models * Implementation: virtual machines, compilation, memory management, parallel execution, foreign interfaces * Language Design: inference engines, type systems, concurrency and distribution, modules, metaprogramming, relations to object-oriented and functional programming, logic-based domain-specific languages * Software-Development Techniques: declarative algorithms and data structures, design patterns, debugging, testing, profiling, execution visualization * Transformation and Analysis: assertions, type and mode inference, partial evaluation, abstract interpretation, program transformations * Applications and Synergies: interaction with SAT, SMT and CSP solvers, logic programming techniques for type inference and theorem proving, Horn-clause analysis, knowledge representation, cognitive computing, artificial intelligence, natural language processing, information retrieval, web programming, education, computational life sciences, computational mathematics. Submission Details: ------------------- Submissions of regular papers must be made in the condensed TPLP format via EasyChair. A regular paper must not exceed 14 pages including the bibliography, but the paper may be supplemented with appendices for proofs and details of datasets. These will not not count towards this limit and will be available as supplementary material to the published paper in the TPLP website. We accept three kinds of papers: - Technical papers for technically sound, innovative ideas that can advance the state of logic programming; - Application papers that impact interesting application domains; - System and tool papers which emphasize novelty, practicality, usability, and availability of the systems and tools described. Application, system, and tool papers need to be clearly marked in their title. All submissions must be written in English and describe original, previously unpublished research, and must not simultaneously be submitted for publication elsewhere. Papers of the highest quality will be selected to be published in the journal of Theory and Practice of Logic Programming (TPLP), Cambridge University Press (CUP). 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). The program committee may recommend some papers to be published as Technical Communications (TCs). TCs will be published by Dagstuhl Publishing in the OpenAccess Series in Informatics (OASIcs). TCs must follow the OASIcs format (template available here) and not exceed 14 pages excluding the bibliography and a short appendix (up to 5 more pages). TC?s authors can also elect to convert their submissions into extended abstracts, of 2 or 3 pages, for inclusion in the OASIcs proceedings. This should allow authors to submit a long version elsewhere. Doctoral consortium position papers, of between 10 and 14 pages, will also be published as TCs. Authors of accepted papers will, by default, be automatically included in the list of ALP members, who will receive quarterly updates from the Logic Programming Newsletter at no cost. Important Dates: ---------------- Abstract registration January 22, 2018 Paper submission January 29, 2018 Notification March 15 Revision submission (TPLP papers) April 1 Final notifications (TPLP papers) April 15 Camera-ready copy May 1 Conference July 14 / July 17, 2018 General Chair: Marco Gavanelli Program Chairs: Alessandro Dal Pal? University of Parma Paul Tarau University of North Texas Program Committee: Mario Alviano University of Calabria Hassan Ait-Kaci Marcello Balduccini St. John's University Mutsunori Banbara Kobe University Pedro Cabalar University of Corunna Mats Carlsson SICS Manuel Carro UPM and IMDEA Software Institute Michael Codish Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Marina De Vos University of Bath Thomas Eiter TU Wien Esra Erdem Sabanci University Thom Fruehwirth University of Ulm Marco Gavanelli University of Ferrara Martin Gebser University of Potsdam Gopal Gupta University of Texas at Dallas Michael Hanus CAU Kiel Amelia Harrison University of Texas at Austin Manuel Hermenegildo UPM Angelica Kimmig Cardiff University Ekaterina Komendantskaya Heriot-Watt University Nicola Leone University of Calabria Michael Leuschel University of Dusseldorf Yuliya Lierler University of Nebraska at Omaha Vladimir Lifschitz University of Texas at Austin David Pearce Technical University of Madrid (UPM) Enrico Pontelli New Mexico State University Ricardo Rocha University of Porto Chiaki Sakama Wakayama University Vitor Santos Costa University of Porto Tom Schrijvers KU Leuven Tran Cao Son New Mexico State University Theresa Swift Universidade Nova de Lisboa Mirek Truszczynski University of Kentucky German Vidal Universitat Polit?cnica de Val?ncia Jan Wielemaker VU University of Amsterdam Stefan Woltran TU Wien Jia-Huai You University of Alberta Neng-Fa Zhou CUNY Brooklyn College and Graduate Center From tarek.besold at googlemail.com Tue Oct 17 00:59:37 2017 From: tarek.besold at googlemail.com (tarek.besold at googlemail.com) Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2017 23:59:37 +0100 Subject: [DL] 2nd CfP: Int. Workshop on Computational Creativity, Concept Invention, and General Intelligence 2017 (December 15, 2017 // Madrid, Spain) Message-ID: <00ee01d346d2$71dc8430$55958c90$@gmail.com> **************************************************** * 6h International * * Workshop on Computational Creativity, * * Concept Invention, and General Intelligence 2017 * * December 15, 2017, Madrid/Spain * **************************************************** SUBMISSION DEADLINE (EXTENDED): November 6, 2017 ******************** * Workshop Webpage * ******************** https://c3gi.inf.unibz.it/ ****************************** * Workshop Topics & Audience * ****************************** The targeted audience for the workshop are researchers associated with fields working in the development of computational models for creativity, concept formation, concept discovery, idea generation, and their overall relation 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 and related areas. Relevant keywords include: - 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 made via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=c3gi2017 Accepted papers will be published online CEUR-WS.org, unless the authors instruct us otherwise. ******************* * Important Dates * ******************* Paper submission deadline (EXTENDED): November 6, 2017 Notification of acceptance: November 22, 2017 Camera ready versions: December 1, 2017 Workshop: December 15, 2017 ************************ * Format of Submission * ************************ All papers should be submitted in accordance to the Springer LNCS formatting style (available from the Springer webpage). Submitted papers should not be longer than 13 pages (with the last page exclusively reserved for bibliographic references). ********************* * Program Committee * ********************* Program Committee Co-Chairs: - C. Leon, Complutense University of Madrid - O. Kutz, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano - T. R. Besold, City, University of London Program Committee: - Mohammad Majid Al-Rifaie, Goldsmiths, University of London - Hugo Goncalo Oliveira, University of Coimbra - Kazjon Grace, University of North Carolina - Charlotte - Pablo Gervas, Complutense University of Madrid - Raquel Hervas, Complutense University of Madrid - Bipin Indurkhya, AGH University of Science and Technology - Krakow - Anna Jordanous, University of Kent - Maximos Kaliakatsos-Papakostas, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki - Kai-Uwe Kuehnberger, University of Osnabrueck - Stephen McGregor, Queen Mary University of London - Gonzalo Mendez, Complutense University of Madrid - Alison Pease, University of Dundee - Federico Peinado, Complutense University of Madrid - Enric Plaza, IIIA-CSIC, Barcelona - Tony Veale, University College Dublin - Geraint Wiggins, Queen Mary University of London - Frank van der Velde, University of Twente ************************ * Organizing Committee * ************************ Carlos Leon (chair), Complutense University of Madrid Alberto Diaz, Complutense University of Madrid Federico Peinado, Complutense University of Madrid Gonzalo Mendez, Complutense University of Madrid Javier Gomez, Complutense University of Madrid Pablo Gervas, Complutense University of Madrid Raquel Hervas, Complutense University of Madrid Susana Bautista, Complutense University of Madrid ************************ * Steering Committee * ************************ Tarek R. Besold, City, University of London Oliver Kutz, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano --- Tarek R. Besold, PhD WWW: http://www.cat-ai.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From alam at lipn.univ-paris13.fr Thu Oct 19 17:32:38 2017 From: alam at lipn.univ-paris13.fr (Mehwish Alam) Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2017 17:32:38 +0200 Subject: [DL] [CFP] First call for papers: The Fifteenth Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2018) Message-ID: <2342C8AC-E297-4429-89A1-1C63E99C793D@lipn.univ-paris13.fr> [Apologies for multiple postings.] * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS This is a joint call for the Research, In-Use, and Resources tracks. The Fifteenth Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2018) June 3rd - June 7th, 2018, Heraklion, Crete, Greece. Web Page: https://2018.eswc-conferences.org Twitter: @eswc_conf Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ESWCCONF * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Important Dates Abstract submission: Wednesday 27th December 2017 Paper submission: Friday 5th January 2018 Opening of rebuttal period: Friday 9th February Closing of rebuttal period: Wednesday 14th February Notification to authors: Friday 23rd February Camera ready papers due: Friday 16th March * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * ESWC Conference: ESWC is one of the key academic conferences to present research results and new developments in the area of the Semantic Web. For its 15th edition, ESWC will be back in Heraklion (Crete, Greece) from Sunday 3rd June to Thursday 7th June 2018. ESWC2018 features three main tracks (Research, Resources, In-Use), introduces a novel fully open review policy, as well as alternative publishing and decentralisation measures. This is the first call for papers for each of the main tracks. General Chair: Aldo Gangemi * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Call for Research Track Papers * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Scope and Topics The goal of the Semantic Web is to create a network of data and knowledge that interconnect across the Web, and where both content and its meaning are manipulated by processes, services and applications. This endeavour naturally draws from and impacts on many disciplines of computing (and connected areas), related to data and information management, knowledge engineering, machine intelligence, human knowledge and languages, software services and applications. We are therefore seeking contribution to research at the intersection of the Semantic Web and these areas, as described in the 9 research tracks of the conferences. In addition to the main focus on advances in Semantic Web research and technologies, ESWC 2018 is looking to broaden the Semantic Web research community?s understanding and focus on problems and areas that directly impact the development of the Semantic Web. Thus, the 15th edition of ESWC 2018 includes 2 additional research tracks: the Benchmarking and Empirical Evaluations track, and the Semantic Web for Science track. The aim of the Benchmarking and Empirical Evaluations track is to encourage the community to submit papers on results of empirical evaluations of state-of-the-art Semantic Web methods; extensive evaluation using existing benchmarks are expected. The papers of this track should follow the scientific method and ensure reproducibility of the reported results by using analytical modelling and statistical methods. Submissions could report on the verification or refutation of already published results, as well as the empirical comparison of state-of-the-art methods. Moreover, in the Semantic Web for Science track, submissions presenting domain specific problems that require the use of Semantic Web technologies to be solved are expected. Biomedicine, pharmacogenomic, sociology, scholarly, maritime, or journalism are examples of scientific domains. The introduction of this theme integrates well with and builds upon tracks of Semantic Data Management and Machine Learning, and allows for the submission of research papers where novel solutions for the management and analytics of scientific data are required. Research Subtracks: Vocabularies, Schemas, Ontologies. Chairs: Sofia Pinto, Christoph Lange Reasoning. Chairs: Jeff Pan, Diego Calvanese Linked Data. Chairs: Hala Skaf-Molli, Jorge Gracia Social Web and Web Science. Chairs: Stefan Dietze, Harald Sack Semantic Data Management, Big data, Scalability. Chairs: Maribel Acosta, Olaf Hartig Natural Language Processing and Information Retrieval. Chairs: John McCrae, Valentina Presutti Machine Learning - Chairs: Andreas Hotho, Achim Rettinger Mobile Web, Sensors and Semantic Streams. Chairs: Themis Palpanas, Intizar Ali Services, APIs, Processes and Cloud Computing. Chairs: Amrapali Zaveri, Ruben Verborgh Special Subtracks: Benchmarking and Empirical Evaluations. Chairs: Oscar Corcho, Emanuele Della Valle Semantic Web for Science. Chairs: Catia Pesquita, Adrian Paschke Research Track chairs Maria-Esther Vidal, Leibniz Information Centre For Science and Technology University Library, Germany, and Universidad Simon Bolivar, Venezuela Roberto Navigli, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Call for In-Use & Industrial Track Papers * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * The Semantic Web In-Use and Industry track provides a forum for researchers and industry to discuss novel research taken to the market, or on any other relevant uptake of semantic technologies outside the lab. Submissions to the track will provide a deeper insight on the exploitation of Semantic Web technologies in different sectors. The track takes a broad view of semantic technologies including natural language processing and machine learning techniques. Papers will be evaluated on the basis of measurable impact of semantic technologies, and on the extent to which they address real-life problems. In addition, papers will be assessed on the novelty of the techniques applied in practice, and should include an evaluation of the technology or reflect on the pros and cons of the approach. Topics: Best practices and lessons learnt from the use of semantic technologies in real-world settings Comparison of semantic technologies with alternative or conventional approaches Industry and business trends regarding the use of semantic technologies Ontology-based data access in large-scale and industrial systems Cloud Computing and Mobile apps based on semantic technologies Knowledge Graphs in real-world settings Semantic technologies and Machine Learning Natural Language Processing and machine reading techniques applied in practice Sentiment Analysis and Social Networks in action Intelligent User Interfaces and Interaction paradigms for semantic applications Corporate Data and Knowledge Management over large, heterogeneous and diverse data; Semantic Big Data Semantic technologies and corporate data governance The use of Schema.org , microformats and other open markup languages and standards Security and Privacy issues in semantic applications Collaborative Content Management Systems, including Wikis Industry and Business Analytics solutions using semantic technology Internet of Things, sensor networks Applications in domain-specific areas such as Health & Life Sciences, Digital Libraries & Cultural Heritage, Media & Entertainment, Smart Cities, and Open Government In-use Track chairs: Anna Tordai, Elsevier Laura Hollink, Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI), NL * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Call for Resources Track Papers * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Scope and Topics Many of the research efforts in the areas of the Semantic Web and Linked Data focus on publishing scientific papers that prove a hypothesis. However, scientific advancement is often reliant on good quality resources, that provide the necessary scaffolding to support the scientific publications; yet the resources themselves rarely get the same recognition as the advances they facilitate. Sharing these resources and the best practices that have lead to their development with the research community is crucial, to consolidate research material, ensure reproducibility of results and in general gain new scientific insights. The ESWC 2018 Resources Track aims to promote the sharing of resources including, but not restricted to: datasets, evaluation benchmarks and annotated corpora, ontologies and vocabularies, knowledge graphs of remarkable interest, machine learning models (e.g. embeddings) that are not trivial to (re-)train, software frameworks, tools, libraries and APIs attached to an open license, etc. In particular, we encourage the sharing of such resources following best and well established practices within the Semantic Web community, including the provision of an open license and a permalink identifying the resource. This track calls for contributions that provide a concise and clear description of a resource and its usage. A typical Resource track paper may reporting on one of the following categories, though the list is not exhaustive: Ontologies developed for an application, with a focus on describing the modelling process underlying their creation and their usage; Datasets and annotated corpora produced to support specific evaluation tasks; Knowledge graphs or remarkable interest that comprehensively cover new vertical domains; Machine learning models that would impact the knowledge engineering community. Examples include comprehensive word embeddings trained on large corpora, models for computer vision such as Inception v3 or ResNet50, CRNN for music, etc. See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_datasets_for_machine_learning_research Description of a reusable research prototype / service supporting research or applications; Description of community shared software frameworks that can be extended or adapted. Specific Review Criteria for Resource Papers The program committee will consider the quality of both the resource and the paper in its review process. Therefore, authors must ensure unfettered access to the resource during the review process, ideally by the resource being cited at a permanent location specific for the resource. For example, data available in a repository such as FigShare, Zenodo, or a domain specific repository; or software code being available in public code repository such as GitHub or BitBucket. The resource MUST be publicly available. We welcome the description of well established as well as emerging resources. Resources will be evaluated along the following generic review criteria that should be carefully considered both by authors and reviewers: Potential impact: Does the resource break new ground? Does the resource plug an important gap? How does the resource advance the state of the art? Has the resource been compared to other existing resources (if any) of similar scope? Is the resource of interest to the Semantic Web community? Is the resource of interest to society in general? Will the resource have an impact, especially in supporting the adoption of Semantic Web technologies? Is the resource relevant and sufficiently general, does it measure some significant aspect? Reusability: Is there evidence of usage by a wider community beyond the resource creators or their project? Alternatively, what is the resource?s potential for being (re)used; for example, based on the activity volume on discussion forums, mailing list, issue tracker, support portal, etc? Is the resource easy to (re)use? For example, does it have good quality documentation? Are there tutorials availability? etc. Is the resource general enough to be applied in a wider set of scenarios, not just for the originally designed use? Is there potential for extensibility to meet future requirements? Does the resource clearly explain how others use the data and software? Does the resource description clearly state what the resource can and cannot do, and the rationale for the exclusion of some functionality? Design & Technical quality: Does the design of the resource follow resource specific best practices? Did the authors perform an appropriate re-use or extension of suitable high-quality resources? For example, in the case of ontologies, authors might extend upper ontologies and/or reuse ontology design patterns. Is the resource suitable to solve the task at hand? Does the resource provide an appropriate description (both human and machine readable), thus encouraging the adoption of FAIR principles? Is there a schema diagram? For datasets, is the description available in terms of VoID/DCAT/DublinCore? If the resource proposes performance metrics, are such metrics sufficiently broad and relevant? If the resource is a comparative analysis or replication study, was the coverage of systems reasonable, or were any obvious choices missing? Availability: Is the resource (and related results) published at a persistent URI (PURL, DOI, w3id)? Does the resource provide a licence specification? (See creativecommons.org , opensource.org for more information) How is the resource publicly available? For example as API, Linked Open Data, Download, Open Code Repository. Is the resource publicly findable? Is it registered in (community) registries (e.g. Linked Open Vocabularies, BioPortal, or DataHub)? Is it registered in generic repositories such as FigShare, Zenodo or GitHub? Is there a sustainability plan specified for the resource? Is there a plan for the maintenance of the resource? Does it use open standards, when applicable, or have good reason not to? Resource Track Chairs Pascal Hitzler, Wright State University, USA Rapha?l Troncy, EURECOM, France The chairs can be contacted at eswc2018-resource-track-chairs at googlegroups.com * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Submission Information, Reviewing * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * ESWC 2018 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. 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. ESWC will not accept papers that, at the time of submission, are under review for or have already been published in or accepted for publication in a journal, another conference, or another ESWC track. The conference organizers may share information on submissions with other venues to ensure that this rule is not violated. The proceedings of this conference will be published in Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. Decentralised publishing of pre- and post-prints e.g. along the lines of LORC and Linked Data Notifications (see https://linkedresearch.org/cloud ) is strongly encouraged, and will be supported by a dedicated team. Rules include: Pre-submission of abstracts is a strict requirement. All papers and abstracts have to be submitted electronically via the EasyChair conference submission system. Abstracts alone will not be reviewed. Papers describing a resource must not exceed 15 pages (including references). Papers that exceed the page limit will be rejected without review. All research submissions must be in English. Submissions must be either in PDF or in HTML, formatted in the style of the Springer Publications format for Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). For details on the LNCS style, see Springer?s Author Instructions. For HTML submission guidance, see below, and the website. We encourage embedding metadata in the PDF/HTML to provide a machine readable link from the paper to the resource. Authors will have the opportunity to submit a rebuttal to the reviews to clarify questions posed by program committee members. Authors of accepted papers will be required to provide semantic annotations for the abstract of their submission, which will be made available on the conference web site. Details will be provided at the time of acceptance. Accepted papers will be distributed to conference attendees and also published by Springer in the printed conference proceedings, as part of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. At least one author of each accepted paper must register for the conference and present the paper there. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Useful tips for HTML submissions * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * The Research Articles in Simplified HTML (RASH) Framework provides a terse markup language for writing scientific articles in (X)HTML. It is possible to include also RDF statements as RDFa annotations and/or as Turtle, JSON-LD and RDF/XML triples by using the tag "script". Tools exist for converting RASH-compliant ODT or DOCX to LaTeX (see http://dasplab.cs.unibo.it/rocs ). Dokieli is a client-side editor for decentralized article publishing in HTML+RDFa, annotations and social interactions, compliant with the Linked Research initiative. There are a variety of examples available online https://github.com/linkeddata/dokieli/wiki#examples-in-the-wild , where the LNCS author guidelines as a template may be particularly useful. Accepted papers for which there is an HTML version will be made available online through the ESWC website. For HTML submission, please submit a ZIP archive containing an HTML file with all the additional stylesheets and scripts for guaranteeing a correct visualization of the document in browsers. For references, e.g. see the "Reference" section in https://datasciencehub.net/content/guidelines-authors . Please note that independent of the format used, we require submissions to abide by the permitted number of pages, font sizes, font selection, margins, etc. This is to ensure visual consistency of the proceedings as well as to have comparative page limits. Submissions and reviewing will be supported by the EasyChair system: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=eswc2018 * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * A Fully Open Review Policy * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * This year, the ESWC 2018 review process will be fully open. The basic principles are: The submitted papers will be publicly posted on the ESWC 2018 web site upon submission The authors will be known to reviewers (i.e., submissions are NOT anonymous) The reviewers will be known to authors by default. However, reviewers can also explicitly opt-out. The reviews and the rebuttal will be made publicly available upon final notification (post-rebuttal), including reviewer identity (unless they have opted out), both for the PC members (unless they have opted out) and the senior PC members (which cannot opt out). On explicit request made by the authors, the rejected papers and their reviews will be removed from the Web after the conference. For accepted papers, the reviews will stay online at least 12 months. They will be removed at the author?s requests after this embargo period. Upon posting submissions on the ESWC 2018 web site (point 1 above), any researcher can also contribute open reviews. Decentralisation will be handy here e.g. with openreview.org (for PDF) or hypothes.is or dokieli (for HTML), plus Linked Data Notifications. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From marcello.balduccini at gmail.com Tue Oct 24 05:19:08 2017 From: marcello.balduccini at gmail.com (Marcello Balduccini) Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2017 23:19:08 -0400 Subject: [DL] KR18 - Call for Tutorial and Workshop Proposals Message-ID: <201710240319.v9O3J8eZ002987@coSAT.msgn> [Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this email. Please distribute to interested parties.] KR18 - Call for Tutorial and Workshop Proposals ** Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this call ** ** Please distribute to interested parties ** ======================================== Call for Tutorial and Workshop Proposals 16th International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KR 2018) Tempe, Arizona (USA) Workshop/Tutorial dates: 27-29 October 2018 KR main program: 30 October to 2 November 2018 http://kr2018.org/ *** Deadline (for proposal submissions): 21 February 2018 *** For its 2018 edition, KR will solicit proposals for both the Tutorial and Workshop tracks. Tutorials and workshops will be held from 27 to 29 October 2018, prior to the KR main technical program, which will run from 30 October to 1 November 2018. The attendance of tutorials is complimentary to all KR registered participants. Workshop attendance will be subject to payment of a workshop fee, which is separate from that of the main conference. ** SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS ** Each proposal (tutorial or workshop) should be in English and must be submitted electronically using the following submission forms: Tutorial proposal: http://tinyurl.com/kr18tute Workshop proposal: http://tinyurl.com/kr18workshop For all accepted proposals, KR will take care of all local arrangements. * SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS FOR TUTORIAL PROPOSALS * Each tutorial proposal should contain the following information: - A short title of the tutorial. - A two-paragraph description of the tutorial. - Proposed length of the tutorial (half day is the default and recommended length, but an argument can be made for a full day tutorial). - A detailed outline of the tutorial. - The potential target audience for the tutorial and prerequisite knowledge. - A brief resume of the presenter(s) including: . Name,affiliation, and email address. . Evidence of scholarship in the area, including a list of publications. . Evidence of teaching experience. The main duties of the tutorial organizers are: - Setup a web-site for the tutorial, which should include, at least, title and abstract of the tutorial, presenters? details, outline, tutorial notes and related reading material. - Deliver the tutorial at KR 2018. * SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS FOR WORKSHOP PROPOSALS * Each workshop proposal should contain the following information: - Title of the workshop and acronym. - Names, affiliations, and contact details of the organisers. - Short description and format. - History of the workshop (if applicable) and related events. - Size of the workshop and duration. - Tentative list of PC members with their respective affiliations. - Experience of the organisers. - Tentative call for papers. The main duties of the workshop chairs are: - Set up a website for the workshop. - Advertise the workshop and distribute its call for papers. - Coordinate the peer-reviewing of submitted contributions. - Organise a schedule for the workshop in collaboration with the local organisers and the Workshop Co-Chairs. - Coordinate and moderate the workshop participation and content. Each accepted proposal will be waived two workshop registrations to be used at the discretion of the organisers (e.g., to cover the registration of an invited speaker). KR reserves the right to cancel a workshop if it does not have enough participants to cover its running costs. ** IMPORTANT DATES ** - Proposal submission deadline: 21 February 2018. - Notification: 31 March 2018. - Workshops paper submission deadline: 21 July 2018. - Workshops paper notification: 25 August 2018. - Workshops registration deadline: TBD. - Tutorial and workshop dates: 27-29 October 2018. ** SUBMISSIONS AND INQUIRIES ** Those interested in presenting a tutorial or workshop should register their interest and proposal in the following forms: 1) Tutorial proposals: http://tinyurl.com/kr18tute 2) Workshop proposals: http://tinyurl.com/kr18workshop Inquiries should be sent by email to the tutorials/workshop chairs: Sebastian Sardina School of Computer Science and Information Technology RMIT University sebastian.sardina at rmit.edu.au Ivan Varzinczak CRIL, Univ. Artois & CNRS, France varzinczak at cril.fr From V.Tamma at liverpool.ac.uk Fri Oct 27 15:19:22 2017 From: V.Tamma at liverpool.ac.uk (Tamma, Valentina) Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2017 13:19:22 +0000 Subject: [DL] [CfP] Journal of Web Semantics (JWS) - Special Issue on Ontology Engineering, Deadline approaching! In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <1E2C1C29-6911-4748-A711-64ADD279C61F@liverpool.ac.uk> The Journal of Web Semantics invites submissions for a special issue on Ontology Engineering to be edited by Valentina Tamma, Matthew Horridge, and Bijan Parsia. Submissions are due by 13 November, 2017. https://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-web-semantics/call-for-papers/special-issue-on-ontology-engineering The Web Ontology Language (OWL) became a World Wide Web Consortium standard in 2004. It has since been used in many diverse domains from geography to medicine where many people, groups, and consortia build, maintain and regularly publish high-quality, production-level ontologies. In this time ontology engineering has evolved considerably with the development of new methodologies, techniques, tools, and processes for ontology creation and maintenance. The actual process of creating ontologies has begun to shift from being a small scale, completely manual process to a combination of manual, semi-automated, and programmatic techniques and from single-person or small-group efforts to large-scale collaborative efforts. Concurrently, ontology engineering research, often drawing inspiration from the increasing empirical rigor of the software engineering community, has grown more sophisticated. The goal for this special issue is to provide a venue to showcase the breadth and depth of ontology engineering and ontology engineering research. We are particularly interested in empirical papers which aim to explore or demonstrate the benefits of ontologies to larger efforts or of some technique or tooling on the development of ontologies. We encourage principled methodological diversity and welcome papers with significant methodological interest even if the results are null or negative. In addition to standard research papers, we welcome submission of short case studies or system/ontology/method/application descriptions, though we would encourage more general reviews where possible, reserving short papers for cases with some special focus, novelty, or clear interest. We recommend consulting with the Guest Editors before submission of such papers. We are happy to receive pre-submission of an experimental plan especially if the risk of null results is high and will provide feedback. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): Ontology Engineering Research Methodology Ontology Engineering Methodologies Ontology Learning (from text, data, or other sources) Ontology Visualisation Quality Assurance Ontology Debugging Collaborative Ontology Engineering practices Ontology Engineering workflows Document based ontology engineering Continuous Integration for Ontology Engineering Ontology Testing Explanation of Entailments in Ontologies Ontology Comprehension Ontology Design Patterns Ontology Versioning, Change, and Evolution Ontology Engineering Case Studies Agile Practices in Ontology Engineering User Studies on Ontology Engineering Ontology Modularisation Programmatic Approaches to Ontology Engineering Problems and Challenges of Reusing Ontologies Ontology Publishing Strategies Application of Software Engineering Techniques to Ontology Engineering Metrics for Ontology Engineering Guest Editors Valentina Tamma, University of Liverpool, v.tamma at liverpool.ac.uk Matthew Horridge, Stanford University, matthew.horridge at stanford.edu Bijan Parsia, University of Manchester, bijan.parsia at manchester.ac.uk Important Dates Submission deadline: 13 November 2017 Author notification: 5 February 2017 Final version: 16 April 2018 Final notification: 14 May 2018 Publication: 3rd Quarter 2018 _______________________________________________________ Dr Valentina Tamma Department of Computer Science | http://www.csc.liv.ac.uk/~valli University of Liverpool | tel. +44-151-795 4246 Ashton Building | fax +44-151-795 4235 Liverpool, L69 3BX, UK | email: V.Tamma at liverpool.ac.uk | skype: valentinatamma -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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CLA provides a forum for researchers, practitioners, and students. The program of CLA consists of invited plenary talks, regular talks, workshops, tutorials, and poster sessions. Papers in all areas relevant to theory and applications of FCA are solicited. Those areas include but are not restricted to: * foundations, * concept lattices and related structures, * attribute implications and data dependencies, * algorithms, * visualization, * data preprocessing, * redundancy and dimensionality reduction, * information retrieval, * classification, * clustering, * association rules and other data dependencies, * ontologies, * applications to software engineering, programming languages, data mining, machine learning, linguistics ... # Important Dates Abstract submission: January 17, 2018 Paper submission: January 31, 2018 Notification of acceptance/rejection: March 31, 2018 Camera-ready papers due: April 30, 2018 Conference date: June 12?14, 2018 # Paper Submission and Publication Papers of up to 12 pages may be submitted in PDF or Postscript format. Papers need to be formatted using the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science style (http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html). The submission is to be done via https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cla2018 All papers will be judged based on their technical merits, originality, relevance to areas of interest, and presentation clarity. Papers should describe original work that has not been published before, is not under review elsewhere, and will not be submitted elsewhere during CLA 2018's review period. Accepted papers will be published in conference proceedings (with ISBN), available at the conference (printed) and at CEUR Workshop Proceedings and CLA Homepage (online). Selected papers accepted to CLA 2018 will be invited to further revise and extend their work in a special issue of a well-established journal (name will come). # Program co-chairs Dmitry I. Ignatov, National Research University Higher School of Economics (Moscow, Russia) Lhouari Nourine, LIMOS, Clermont Auvergne University (Clermont Ferrand, France) # Organization Committee Chair Radim Belohlavek, Palack? University (Olomouc, Czech Republic) # Program Committee Cristina Alcalde, Universidad Del Pais Vasco, UPV/EHU, Spain Simon Andrews, Sheffield Hallam University, United Kingdom Gabriela Arevalo, Facultad de Ingenieria - Universidad Austral, Argentina Jaume Baixeries, Ci?ncies de la Computaci?, Catalonia Radim Belohlavek, Palack? University, Olomouc, Czech Republic Karell Bertet, Laboratory L3I, University of La Rochelle, France Fran?ois Brucker, Ecole Centrale Marseille, France Ana Burusco, Universidad Publica De Navarra, Spain Aleksey Buzmakov, INRIA-LORIA(CNRS-Universit? de Lorraine), Nancy, France Peggy Cellier, IRISA/INSA Rennes, France Pablo Cordero, Universidad de M?laga, France Jean Diatta, Universit? de la R?union, France Stephan Doerfel, University of Kassel, Germany Xavier Dolques, ICube, Universit? de Strasbourg/ENGEES, Strasbourg, France Florent Domenach, University of Nicosia, Cyprus Vincent Duquenne, CNRS, Paris, France Sebastien Ferre, Universite de Rennes 1, France Alain G?ly, LITA, Universit? Lorraine, Metz, France Robert Godin, Universit? du Qu?bec ? Montr?al, Canada Dmitry Ignatov, National Research University Higher School of Economics, Russia Mehdi Kaytoue, LIRIS - INSA de Lyon, France Stanislav Krajci, P. J. Safarik University, Slovak Republic Francesco Kriegel, Technische Universit?t Dresden, Germany Jan Konecny, Palack? University, Olomouc, Czech Republic Michal Krupka, Palack? University, Olomouc, Czech Republic Marzena Kryszkiewicz, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland Leonard Kwuida, Bern University of Applied Sciences, switzerland Florence Le Ber, ICube, Universit? de Strasbourg/ENGEES, Strasbourg, France Rokia Missaoui, Universit? du Qu?bec en Outaouais, LARIM, Canada Jes?s Medina Moreno, University of C?diz, Spain Engelbert Mephu Nguifo, LIMOS - Blaise Pascal University ? CNRS, France Amedeo Napoli, LORIA Nancy, France Sergei Obiedkov, National Research University Higher School of Economics, Russia Manuel Ojeda-Aciego, Dept. of Applied Mathematics, University of Malaga, Spain Petr Osi?ka, Palack? University in Olomouc, Czech Republic Jan Outrata, Palack? University, Olomouc, Czech Republic Jean-Marc Petit, Universit? de Lyon, INSA Lyon, France Uta Priss, Ostfalia University, Germany Olivier Raynaud, LIMOS - Blaise Pascal University ? CNRS, France S?ndor Radeleczki, Department of Analysis, University of Miskolc, Hungary Fran?ois Rioult, GREYC CNRS UMR6072 - Universit? de Caen, France Camille, Roth, CNRS, France Sebastian Rudolph, Technische Universit?t Dresden, Germany Christian Sacarea, Babes-Bolyai University, Romania Bar?? Sertkaya, Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences, Germany Gerd Stumme, University of Kassel, Germany Laszlo Szathmary, University of Debrecen, Hungary Andreja Tepavcevic, University of Novi Sad, Serbia Petko Valtchev, Universit? du Qu?bec ? Montr?al, Canada Francisco Jos? Valverde Albacete, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain # Steering Committee Radim Belohlavek, Palack? University, Olomouc, Czech Republic Sadok Ben Yahia, Facult? des Sciences de Tunis, Tunisia Jean Diatta, Universit? de la R?union, France Peter Eklund, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark Sergei O. Kuznetsov, National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia Engelbert Mephu Nguifo, LIMOS, CNRS UMR 6158, University Blaise Pascal, Clermont Ferrand, France Amedeo Napoli, INRIA NGE/LORIA, Nancy, France Manuel Ojeda-Aciego, Universidad de M?laga, Spain Jan Outrata, Palack? University, Olomouc, Czech Republic ------------------------------------------------------------------------ CLA Homepage http://cla.inf.upol.cz ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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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 is now a research focus in such diverse domains as conceptual modeling, database design, knowledge engineering, software engineering, organizational modeling, artificial intelligence, robotics, computational linguistics, the life sciences, bioinformatics, geographic information science, information retrieval, and the Semantic Web. Researchers in all these areas increasingly recognize the need for serious engagement with ontology, understood as a general theory of the types of entities and relations making up their respective domains of enquiry, to provide a solid foundation for their work. The FOIS conference is a meeting point for researchers from all disciplines with an interest in formal ontology. The conference encourages submission of new and high quality articles on both theoretical issues and concrete applications. As in previous years, FOIS 2018 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 aiming 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 2018 includes a number of additional facets: + an open call for workshops, + an open call for tutorials, + a young researchers symposium, + a demo and industry track + an ontology competition ------------------------------ 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 * Top-level vs. domain-specific ontologies * Role of reference ontologies * Ontology integration and alignment * Formal comparison among ontologies * Relationship with cognition, language, semantics, context Domain-specific ontologies * Ontology of physical reality (matter, space, time, motion etc.) * Ontology of biological reality (organisms, genes, proteins, cells etc.) * Ontology of mental reality and agency (beliefs, intentions, emotions, perceptions etc.) * Ontology of artifacts, functions, capacities and roles * Ontology of social reality (institutions, organizations, norms, social relationships, artistic expressions 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 ----------------------------- *Call for papers Paper Submission Deadline: 13 April 2018 Notification: 30 May 2018 Camera-ready papers: 24 June 2018 Conference Dates: 17-21 September 2018 *Call for workshop/tutorial Proposal Submission: 2 March 2018 Notification: 15 March 2018 As usual, the FOIS proceedings will be published in book form by a prominent publisher. 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URL: From alammehw at gmail.com Mon Nov 6 10:55:44 2017 From: alammehw at gmail.com (Mehwish Alam) Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2017 10:55:44 +0100 Subject: [DL] ESWC 2018: Call for Workshops & Tutorials Message-ID: <3E3C104A-6BC9-4DEA-82A7-C23BC965C28B@gmail.com> [Apologies for multiple postings.] * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * CALL FOR WORKSHOPS AND TUTORIALS The Fifteenth Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2018) June 3rd - June 7th, 2018, Heraklion, Crete, Greece. Web Page: https://2018.eswc-conferences.org Twitter: @eswc_conf Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ESWCCONF * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Call for Workshops * * * * * * * * * * * * * * ESWC is a premier 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 participants from academia and industry alike. Co-located workshops at ESWC conferences are essential meeting points for discussing ongoing work and late-breaking results, as well as shaping new ideas and research fields. We particularly invite workshop proposals looking at Semantic Web related topics from an interdisciplinary standpoint, proposals focussing on novel aspects of the Semantic Web and Web of Data, and proposals aiming at gathering existing and forming new sub-communities. We encourage the submission of workshop proposals on: - Fundamental technical and theoretical problems of the Semantic Web / Linked Data and Knowledge Graph, - Applications of Semantic Web technologies in domains such as Mobility and Smart Cities, Life Sciences, Industry 4.0, Earth Science, Digital Humanities, Law, Media, etc., - Key enabling technologies and their adaptation to the needs of the Semantic Web, - Aspects of Semantic Web research that have been neglected or underrepresented so far, - Techniques and methods from other research fields that are of relevance for Semantic Web research (e.g., artificial intelligence, databases, NLP, big data analytics, machine learning, human computer interaction, information retrieval, web science, etc.), and - New emerging topics and areas In particular, we also encourage the submission of workshops that do not follow the format of a mini-conference. Preference will be given to workshops fostering alternative formats, e.g., hackathons, demo jams, or breakout sessions. 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 recommendations will determine the final decision on the acceptance / rejection of each proposal, which is to be taken by the Workshop Chairs as well as by the General Chair of ESWC 2017. The criteria for judging the quality of workshop proposals are as follows: - 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 organisations 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 a community interested in the workshop's topic. - Workshop duration is normally expected to be half a day or a full day. - We strongly advise having more than one organiser and no more than four, preferably from different institutions, bringing different perspectives to the workshop topic.? In case overlapping workshops are proposed, the Workshop Chairs 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 workshop submissions received. Furthermore, workshops that have less than 10 people registered at the early registration deadline might be canceled. The organisers of accepted workshops will be responsible for their own reviewing process, publicity (e.g., website, timelines and call for papers), and proceedings production, if required. The organisers will also be required to closely cooperate with the Workshop Chairs and the ESWC 2018 Local Chairs to finalise all organisational details. Workshop attendees must pay the ESWC 2018 workshop registration fee, as well as the conference registration fee. * * * * * * * * * * * * Important Dates * * * * * * * * * * * * Workshop proposals due: December 6th, 2017 - 23:59 Hawaii Time Notification of acceptance: December 31st, 2017 - 23:59 Hawaii Time Workshop website due: January 19th, 2018 - 23:59 Hawaii Time Workshop camera-ready proceedings due: May 1st, 2018 - 23:59 Hawaii Time Workshop days: June 3rd and 4th, 2018 Suggested Timeline for Workshop Papers Submission deadline: Friday March 2, 2018 Notifications: Friday March 30, 2018 Camera-ready version: Friday April 13, 2018 * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Submission Guidelines * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Workshop proposals have to be submitted via EasyChair at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=eswc2018wt. Each proposal must consist of a single PDF document written in English, not longer than four 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 sessions, breakout sessions, or general discussion slots, 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, i.e. specify if this is the continuation of a workshop series or is 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 organisers/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 organising / facilitating workshops). Preferably provide a single contact person per submission. The best papers from each workshop may be included in the supplementary proceedings of ESWC 2018, which will appear in the Springer LNCS series. * * * * * * * * * * * * Call for Tutorials * * * * * * * * * * * * ESWC is a premier 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 participants from academia and industry alike. ESWC 2018 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, methods, techniques, and trends (e.g. Linked Open Data, Knowledge Graph, semantic data integration, reasoning,question answering, ontology-based data access, ontology design principles, provenance and trust, etc.). - Tutorials describing the application of semantic technologies in specific domains (e.g., life-sciences, e-government, e-commerce, cultural heritage, educations, mobile, music, etc.). - Tutorials presenting techniques from other fields that are of relevance for Semantic Web research, including social sciences, digital humanities, biomedical research, HCI, Information Retrieval, databases, NLP, Internet of Things, data visualization, etc. Tutorials may focus on theoretical topics, however, we encourage organizers to incorporate hands-on sessions where appropriate. The tutorial should reach a good balance between the topic coverage and its relevance to the community. Tutorials can be half a day or a full day. We suggest having up to two presenters for half day tutorials and up to four presenters for full day ones, preferably from different institutions, contributing different perspectives to the tutorial topic. * * * * * * * * * * * Important Dates * * * * * * * * * * * Tutorial proposals due: December 6th, 2017 - 23:59 Hawaii Time Notification of acceptance: December 31st, 2017 - 23:59 Hawaii Time Tutorial website due: January 19th, 2018 - 23:59 Hawaii Time Tutorial material due: May 1st, 2018 - 23:59 Hawaii Time Tutorial days: June 3rd and 4th, 2018 * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Terms and Conditions * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * All organizers (presenters) of accepted tutorials are expected to: - register for and participate in ESWC 2018 and have an active role in the tutorial; - prepare and maintain a website that describes the tutorial and includes all relevant information; - submit the material for attendees (slide sets, additional teaching material, software installation and usage guides for practical hands-on sessions, etc.) to the Tutorial Chairs and making it available on the tutorial website. The ESWC 2018 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. In the interest of the overall quality of the conference, the tutorial chairs reserve the right to merge tutorials and/or adjust their scope in case a minimum number of registrations is not reached by the early registration deadline. Tutorial attendees must pay the ESWC 2018 tutorial registration fee, as well as the conference registration fee. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Submission Details * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Proposals have to be submitted via EasyChair at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=eswc2018wt. Each proposal must consist of a single PDF document written in English, not longer than four pages, which contains the following information: - Abstract. 200 words maximum, for inclusion on the ESWC 2018 website. - Tutorial description. It should contain the following information: objectives of the tutorial and relevance to ESWC 2018; scope and level of detail of the material to be covered; intended audiences; learning objectives; practical sessions; references. - 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). - Other occurrences. Specify other venues at which the tutorial or part thereof has or will be presented, in addition to explaining if/how the current tutorial differs from the other editions. Links to the slides of those tutorial editions should be included in the proposal. - Presenter information. Brief professional biography of the presenter(s) documenting their expertise as well as previous training and speaking experience (such as teaching and tutorial presentation). All proposals will be reviewed by the Tutorial Chairs as well as a committee of senior Semantic Web representatives and discussed within the organization committee of the ESWC 2018. From geoff at cs.miami.edu Mon Nov 6 14:23:37 2017 From: geoff at cs.miami.edu (geoff at cs.miami.edu) Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2017 08:23:37 -0500 (EST) Subject: [DL] IJCAR 2018 - Call for Papers Message-ID: <20171106132337.5EF9D1700D46@cs.miami.edu> CALL FOR PAPERS The 9th International Joint Conference on Automated Reasoning, IJCAR 2018 Oxford, UK, July 14-17, 2018. http://www.ijcar2018.org Part of The Federated Logic Conference, FLoC 2018, Oxford, UK, July 6-19, 2018. http://www.floc2018.org 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 2018 takes place as part of FLoC 2018 and is the merger of leading events in automated reasoning: CADE (Conference on Automated Deduction), FroCoS (Symposium on Frontiers of Combining Systems) and TABLEAUX (Conference on Analytic Tableaux and Related Methods) Topics: ------- IJCAR 2018 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, combination of decision procedures, SAT and SMT solving, etc. - Applications of interest include: verification, formal methods, program analysis and synthesis, computer mathematics, declarative programming, deductive databases, knowledge representation, etc. We welcome papers combining automated-reasoning formalisms & techniques and with those from other areas of CS and mathematics, including, e.g., computer algebra, machine learning, formal languages, formal verification, termination. In particular, high-quality conference papers on the topics of the IJCAR 2018 affiliated workshops (http://ijcar2018.org/#assocev) are welcome. The proceedings of IJCAR 2018 will be published by Springer in the LNAI/LNCS series (www.springer.com/lncs). Submission details: ------------------- Submission is electronic, through https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ijcar2018. 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 We solicit two categories of submissions: REGULAR PAPERS. Submissions, not exceeding sixteen (16) pages including bibliography, should contain original research, and sufficient detail to assess the merits and relevance of the contribution. For papers reporting experimental results, authors are strongly encouraged to make their data and software available with their submission for reproducibility. The PC will take availability of software and data into account when evaluating submissions. Submissions reporting on case studies in an industrial context are strongly invited, and should describe details, weaknesses and strength in sufficient depth. Simultaneous submission to other conferences with proceedings or submission of material that has already been published elsewhere is not allowed. SYSTEM DESCRIPTIONS. Submissions, not exceeding eight (8) pages including bibliography, should describe the implemented tool and its novel features. One author is expected to be able to perform a demonstration on demand to accompany a tool presentation. Papers describing tools that have already been presented in other conferences before will be accepted only if significant and clear enhancements to the tool are reported and implemented. Best paper award: ----------------- IJCAR 2018 will recognize the most outstanding submission with a best paper award at the conference. Invited speakers: ----------------- Invited Speakers will be announced later on. Important dates (provisional): ------------------------------ Abstract submission: January 22nd 2018 Paper submission: January 29th 2018 Notification: March 29th, 2018 Final version of papers due: April 23rd, 2018 IJCAR Conference: July 14-17th, 2018 FLoC Conference: July 6-19th, 2018 IMPORTANT NOTICE: due to very strict FLoC constraints, deadlines are SHARP! Student travel awards: ---------------------- Woody Bledsoe Travel Awards will be available to support selected students in attending the conference. Organization: ------------- Conference Chair: Ian Horrocks, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK Program Chairs: Didier Galmiche, LORIA, Universite de Lorraine, Nancy, France Stephan Schulz, DHBW Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany Roberto Sebastiani, DISI, University of Trento, Trento, Italy Local Arrangements Chairs: Daniel Kroening, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK Marta Kwiatkowska, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK Workshop Chair: Alberto Griggio, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Trento, Italy Publicity Chair: Geoff Sutcliffe, University of Miami Program Committee: Carlos Areces, FaMAFUniversidad Nacional de Cordoba Alessandro Artale, Free University of Bolzano-Bozen Arnon Avron, Tel-Aviv University Franz Baader, TU Dresden Clark Barrett, Stanford University Peter Baumgartner, Data 61 and CSIRO Christoph Benzmueller, Freie Universitaet Berlin Armin Biere, Johannes Kepler University Linz Nikolaj Bjorner, Microsoft Research Jasmin Christian Blanchette, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Maria Paola Bonacina, Universita degli Studi di Verona Torben Brauener, Roskilde University Agata Ciabattoni, TU Wien Leonardo de Moura, Microsoft Research Hans De Nivelle, University of Wroclaw Stephane Demri, CNRS, LSV, ENS Paris-Saclay Clare Dixon, University of Liverpool Francois Fages, Inria Universite Paris-Saclay Pascal Fontaine, Universite de Lorraine - LORIA Didier Galmiche (Chair), Universite de Lorraine - LORIA Vijay Ganesh, University of Waterloo Silvio Ghilardi, Universite degli Studi di Milano Juergen Giesl, RWTH Aachen Laura Giordano, DISIT Universite del Piemonte Orientale Valentin Goranko, Stockholm University Rajeev Gore, The Australian National University Alberto Griggio, FBK-IRST John Harrison, Intel Corporation Ian Horrocks, University of Oxford Moa Johansson, Chalmers Tekniska Hogskola Cezary Kaliszyk, University of Innsbruck Deepak Kapur, University of New Mexico Konstantin Korovin, The University of Manchester Laura Kovacs Vienna, University of Technology George Metcalfe, University of Bern Dale Miller, INRIA and LIX/Ecole Polytechnique Claudia Nalon, University of Brasilia Albert Oliveras, - Technical University of Catalonia Nicola Olivetti, LSIS Aix-Marseille University Jens Otten, University of Oslo Lawrence Paulson, University of Cambridge Nicolas Peltier, CNRS, LIG Frank Pfenning, Carnegie Mellon University Silvio Ranise, FBK-Irst Christophe Ringeissen, LORIA-INRIA Philipp Ruemmer, Uppsala University Katsuhiko Sano, Hokkaido University Uli Sattler, The University of Manchester Renate A. Schmidt, The University of Manchester Stephan Schulz (Chair), DHBW Stuttgart Roberto Sebastiani (Chair), DISI University of Trento Viorica Sofronie-Stokkermans, University Koblenz-Landau Thomas Sturm, CNRS Geoff Sutcliffe, University of Miami Cesare Tinelli, The University of Iowa Alwen Tiu, Nanyang Technological University Ashish Tiwari, SRI International Josef Urban, Czech Technical University in Prague Luca Vigan??, King's College London Andrei Voronkov, The University of Manchester Uwe Waldmann, Max Planck Institute for Informatics Christoph Weidenbach, Max Planck Institute for Informatics From marcello.balduccini at gmail.com Sat Nov 11 00:38:49 2017 From: marcello.balduccini at gmail.com (Marcello Balduccini) Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2017 18:38:49 -0500 Subject: [DL] KR 2018 Call for Papers Message-ID: <201711102338.vAANcnFt015358@coSAT.msgn> [Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this email. Please distribute to interested parties.] CALL FOR PAPERS *** KR 2018 *** 16th International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning Tempe, Arizona (USA) October 30-November 2, 2018 kr2018.org/ Co-located with DL 2018 [dl.kr.org/] and NMR 2018 [www.kr.org/NMR] KR 2018 IMPORTANT DATES ----------------------- * Submission of title and abstract: 13 May 2018 * Paper submission deadline: 20 May 2018 * Author response period: 25-27 June 2018 * Notification: 11 July 2018 * Camera-ready papers due: 3-10 August 2018 * Conference date: 30 October-2 November 2018 ------------------------ Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KRR) is an exciting, well-established field of research. In KRR a fundamental assumption is that an agent's knowledge is explicitly represented in a declarative form, suitable for processing by dedicated reasoning engines. This assumption, that much of what an agent deals with is knowledge-based, is common in many modern intelligent systems. Consequently, KRR has contributed to the theory and practice of various areas in AI, such as automated planning, natural language understanding, among others, as well as to fields beyond AI, including databases, verification, and software engineering. In recent years KRR has contributed to new and emerging fields including the semantic web, computational biology, and the development of software agents. The KR conference series is the leading forum for timely in-depth presentation of progress in the theory and principles underlying the representation and computational management of knowledge. Contrary to previous editions, KR 2018 will also feature an open call for workshop and tutorial proposals. The deadline for submissions is 21 February 2018. Workshops and tutorials will precede the KR technical program and will run on 27-29 October 2018. Please check the KR 2018 website for further information and updates. We solicit papers presenting novel results on the principles of KRR that clearly contribute to the formal foundations of relevant problems or show the applicability of results to implemented or implementable systems. We also welcome papers from other areas that show clear use of, or contributions to, the principles or practice of KRR. We also encourage "reports from the field" of applications, experiments, developments, and tests. Papers must be submitted in AAAI style and PDF format. We invite two kinds of submissions: * full papers of up to 9 pages including abstract, figures, and appendices (if any) but excluding references and acknowledgements, which may take up to one additional page; submission of additional material (e.g. proofs) as separate documents is allowed, but this material should not form an integral part of the submission and will only be consulted at the discretion of reviewers, PC members and (area and program) chairs, as appropriate; * short papers describing applications, systems and/or demos, of up to 4 pages including abstract, figures, and appendices (if any) but excluding references and acknowledgements, which may take up to one additional page. TOPICS ------ Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Argumentation * Belief revision and update, belief merging, information fusion * Computational aspects of knowledge representation * Concept formation, similarity-based reasoning * Contextual reasoning * Description logics * Decision making * Explanation finding, diagnosis, causal reasoning, abduction * Inconsistency- and exception tolerant reasoning, paraconsistent logics * KR and autonomous agents: intelligent agents, cognitive robotics, multi-agent systems * KR and game theory * KR and machine learning, inductive logic programming, knowledge discovery and acquisition * KR and natural language processing * KR and the Web, Semantic Web * Logic programming, answer set programming, constraint logic programming * Multi- and order-sorted representations and reasoning * Nonmonotonic logics, default logics, conditional logics * Philosophical foundations of KR * Ontology formalisms and models * 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 CONFERENCE CHAIRS ----------------- General: Frank Wolter (University of Liverpool, UK) Program: Michael Thielscher (The University of New South Wales, Australia) Francesca Toni (Imperial College London, UK) Local Organization: Joohyung Lee (Arizona State University, USA) Tran Cao Son (New Mexico State University, USA) Doctoral Consortium: Sebastian Rudolph (Technische Universit?t Dresden, Germany) Madalina Croitoru (University Montpellier II and INRIA, France) Workshop/tutorial Chairs: Sebastian Sardina (RMIT Melbourne, Australia) Ivan Varzinczak (Univ. Artois & CNRS, France) Sponsorship and Publicity: Marcello Balduccini (Saint Joseph's University, USA) Marco Maratea (University of Genova, Italy) From phdsinlogic at gmail.com Sun Nov 12 00:10:52 2017 From: phdsinlogic at gmail.com (PhDs in Logic Graduate Conference) Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2017 00:10:52 +0100 Subject: [DL] Call for submissions: PhDs in Logic X, Prague, Czech Republic, 1st - 4th May 2018 Message-ID: Call for submissions: PhDs in Logic X, Prague, Czech Republic, 1st - 4th May 2018 "PhDs in Logic" is an annual graduate conference organised by local graduate students. This interdisciplinary conference welcomes contributions to various topics in mathematical logic, philosophical logic, and logic in computer science. It involves tutorials by established researchers as well as short (20 minute) presentations by PhD students, master students and first-year postdocs on their research. We are happy to announce that the tenth edition of "PhDs in Logic" will take place in Prague, Czech Republic during 1st - 4th May 2018 at the Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences. The tutorial speakers are: Chris Ferm?ller (TU Wien) Radek Honz?k (Charles University) Jan Kraj??ek (Czech Academy of Sciences) Roman Kuznets (TU Wien) Francesca Poggiolesi (Universit? Paris 1 Panth?on-Sorbonne) Abstract submission: PhD students, master students, and first-year postdocs in logic from disciplines that include but are not limited to philosophy, mathematics, and computer science are invited to submit an extended abstract on their research. Submitted abstracts should be about 2 pages long (not including references). Each abstract will be anonymously reviewed by the scientific committee. The accepted abstracts will be presented by their authors in a 20 minute presentation during the conference. The deadline for abstract submission is 19th January 2018. Please submit your blinded abstract via: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=phdlx2018. For more information please see: https://logic.ff.cuni.cz/research/conferences/phd-logic/ Local organisers: Tom?? L?vi?ka, Adam P?enosil, and Petr ?varn? (Department of Logic, Charles University, Prague) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From V.Tamma at liverpool.ac.uk Sat Nov 11 10:42:46 2017 From: V.Tamma at liverpool.ac.uk (Tamma, Valentina) Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2017 09:42:46 +0000 Subject: [DL] [CfP] Journal of Web Semantics (JWS) - Special Issue on Ontology Engineering Message-ID: <3B3FD7C2-CE52-4335-8F07-0C47442B2049@liverpool.ac.uk> ***** Due to the numerous requests received, we extended the deadline to December 18th (firm deadline) ***** The Journal of Web Semantics invites submissions for a special issue on Ontology Engineering to be edited by Valentina Tamma, Matthew Horridge, and Bijan Parsia. Submissions are due by 18 December, 2017. https://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-web-semantics/call-for-papers/special-issue-on-ontology-engineering The Web Ontology Language (OWL) became a World Wide Web Consortium standard in 2004. It has since been used in many diverse domains from geography to medicine where many people, groups, and consortia build, maintain and regularly publish high-quality, production-level ontologies. In this time ontology engineering has evolved considerably with the development of new methodologies, techniques, tools, and processes for ontology creation and maintenance. The actual process of creating ontologies has begun to shift from being a small scale, completely manual process to a combination of manual, semi-automated, and programmatic techniques and from single-person or small-group efforts to large-scale collaborative efforts. Concurrently, ontology engineering research, often drawing inspiration from the increasing empirical rigor of the software engineering community, has grown more sophisticated. The goal for this special issue is to provide a venue to showcase the breadth and depth of ontology engineering and ontology engineering research. We are particularly interested in empirical papers which aim to explore or demonstrate the benefits of ontologies to larger efforts or of some technique or tooling on the development of ontologies. We encourage principled methodological diversity and welcome papers with significant methodological interest even if the results are null or negative. In addition to standard research papers, we welcome submission of short case studies or system/ontology/method/application descriptions, though we would encourage more general reviews where possible, reserving short papers for cases with some special focus, novelty, or clear interest. We recommend consulting with the Guest Editors before submission of such papers. We are happy to receive pre-submission of an experimental plan especially if the risk of null results is high and will provide feedback. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): Ontology Engineering Research Methodology Ontology Engineering Methodologies Ontology Learning (from text, data, or other sources) Ontology Visualisation Quality Assurance Ontology Debugging Collaborative Ontology Engineering practices Ontology Engineering workflows Document based ontology engineering Continuous Integration for Ontology Engineering Ontology Testing Explanation of Entailments in Ontologies Ontology Comprehension Ontology Design Patterns Ontology Versioning, Change, and Evolution Ontology Engineering Case Studies Agile Practices in Ontology Engineering User Studies on Ontology Engineering Ontology Modularisation Programmatic Approaches to Ontology Engineering Problems and Challenges of Reusing Ontologies Ontology Publishing Strategies Application of Software Engineering Techniques to Ontology Engineering Metrics for Ontology Engineering Guest Editors Valentina Tamma, University of Liverpool, v.tamma at liverpool.ac.uk Matthew Horridge, Stanford University, matthew.horridge at stanford.edu Bijan Parsia, University of Manchester, bijan.parsia at manchester.ac.uk Important Dates Submission deadline: 18 December 2017 (firm deadline) Author notification: 12 March 2018 Final version: 14 May 2018 Final notification: 18 June 2018 Publication: 3rd Quarter 2018 From dgromann at iiia.csic.es Mon Nov 13 18:00:23 2017 From: dgromann at iiia.csic.es (Dagmar Gromann) Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2017 18:00:23 +0100 (CET) Subject: [DL] Call for Papers: Special Issue of the Semantic Web Journal on Semantic Deep Learning In-Reply-To: <1993742758.24680.1510592411324.JavaMail.root@iiia.csic.es> Message-ID: <26314461.24687.1510592423733.JavaMail.root@iiia.csic.es> Dear colleagues, Please find attached the Call for Papers of the Special Issue on Semantic Deep Learning at the Semantic Web Journal. Please do not hesitate to contact us with any questions or requests for further information. Kind regards, Dagmar, Thierry, Luis -------------------------------- http://www.semantic-web-journal.net/blog/call-papers-special-issue-semantic-deep-learning Call for Papers: Special Issue of the Semantic Web Journal on Semantic Deep Learning Semantic Web technologies and deep learning share the goal of creating intelligent artifacts that emulate human capacities such as reasoning, validating, and predicting. Both fields have been impacting data and knowledge analysis considerably as well as their associated abstract representations. Deep learning is a term used to refer to deep neural network algorithms that learn data representations by means of transformations with multiple processing layers. These architectures have frequently been applied in NLP to feature learning from raw data, such as part-of-speech-tagging, morphological tagging, language modeling, and so forth. Semantic Web technologies and knowledge representation, on the other hand, boost the re-use and sharing of knowledge in a structured and machine readable fashion. Semantic resources such as WikiData, Yago, BabelNet or DBpedia, as well as knowledge base construction and completion methods have been successfully applied to improved systems addressing semantically intensive tasks (e.g. Question Answering). There are notable examples of contributions leveraging either deep neural architectures or distributed representations learned via deep neural networks in the broad area of Semantic Web technologies. These include, among others: (lightweight) ontology learning, ontology alignment, ontology annotation, joined relational and multi-modal knowledge representations, and ontology prediction. Ontologies, on the other hand, have been repeatedly utilized as background knowledge for machine learning tasks. As an example, there is a myriad of hybrid approaches for learning embeddings by jointly incorporating corpus-based evidence and semantic resources. This interplay between structured knowledge and corpus-based approaches has given way to knowledge-rich embeddings, which in turn have proven useful for tasks such as hypernym discovery, collocation discovery and classification, word sense disambiguation, joined relational and multi-modal knowledge representations and many others. In this special issue, we invite submissions that illustrate how Semantic Web resources and technologies can benefit from an interaction with deep learning. At the same time, we are interested in submissions that show how knowledge representation can assist in deep learning tasks deployed in the field of NLP and how knowledge representation systems can build on top of deep learning results. Topics include, but are not limited to: * Structured knowledge in deep learning * learning and applying knowledge graph embeddings * applications of knowledge-rich embeddings * neural networks and logic rules * learning semantic similarity and encoding distances as knowledge graph * ontology-based text classification * multilingual resources for neural representations of linguistics * semantic role labeling * Deep reasoning and inferences * commonsense reasoning and vector space models * reasoning with deep learning methods * Learning knowledge representations with deep learning * word embeddings for ontology matching and alignment * deep learning and semantic web technologies for specialized domains * deep learning ontologies * deep learning models for learning knowledge representations from text * deep learning ontological annotations * Joint tasks * mining multilingual natural language for SPARQL queries * information retrieval and extraction with knowledge graphs and deep learning models * knowledge-based deep word sense disambiguation and entity linking * investigation of compatibilities and incompatibilities between deep learning and Semantic Web approaches * neural networks for learning Linked Data Deadline * Submission deadline: 28 February 2017 . Papers submitted before the deadline will be reviewed upon receipt. Submission Instructions Submissions shall be made through the Semantic Web journal website at http://www.semantic-web-journal.net . Prospective authors must take notice of the submission guidelines posted at http://www.semantic-web-journal.net/authors . We welcome four main types of submissions: (i) full research papers, (ii) reports on tools and systems, (iii) application reports, and (iv) survey articles. The description of the submission types is posted at http://www.semantic-web-journal.net/authors#types . While there is no upper limit, paper length must be justified by content. Note that you need to request an account on the website for submitting a paper. When submitting, please indicate in the cover letter that it is for the Special Issue on Semantic Deep Learning and the chosen submission type. All manuscripts will be reviewed based on the SWJ open and transparent review policy and will be made available online during the review process Guest editors The guest editors can be reached at semdeep at googlegroups.com . Luis Espinosa Anke, Cardiff University, UK Thierry Declerck, DFKI GmbH, Germany Dagmar Gromann, Technical University Dresden, Germany Guest editorial board (to be completed) Kemo Adrian, Artificial Intelligence Research Institute (IIIA-CSIC), Bellaterra, Spain Luu Ahn Tuan, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore Miguel Ballesteros, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY, USA Peter Bloem, VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands Jose Camacho-Collados, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy Stamatia Dasiopoulou, Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona, Spain Derek Doran, Kno.e.sis Research Center, Wright State University, Ohio, USA Maarten Grachten, Austrian Research Institute for AI, Vienna, Austria Dario Garcia-Casulla, Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC), Barcelona, Spain Jorge Gracia Del R?o, Ontology Engineering Group, UPM, Madrid, Spain Jindrich Helcl, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic Dirk Hovy, Computer Science Department of the University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark Mayank Kejriwal, University of Southern California, California, USA Freddy Lecue, Accenture Technology Labs, Dublin, Ireland Alessandro Lenci, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy Antonio Lieto, University of Turin, Turin, Italy Alessandra Mileo, INSIGHT Center for Data Analytics, Dublin City University, Ireland Sergio Oramas, Music Technology Group, Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona, Spain Petya Osenova, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, So?a, Bulgaria Simone Paolo Ponzetto, University of Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany Martin Riedel, University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany Francesco Ronzano, Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona, Spain Enrico Santus, Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore Francois Scharffe, Axon Research, New York, USA Vered Shwartz, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Isreal Kiril Simov, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, So?a, Bulgaria Michael Spranger, Sony Computer Science Laboratories Inc., Tokyo, Japan Armand Vilalta, Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC), Barcelona, Spain Piek Vossen, VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands Arkaitz Zubiaga, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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More information on QuantLA can be found at https://lat.inf.tu-dresden.de/quantla/ and more information on how to apply in the call for applications https://lat.inf.tu-dresden.de/quantla/index.php/open-position Please help us advertise this position by directly telling your advanced Master students who are interested in becoming PhD students about QuantLA and by publishing the call for applications on your bulletin board. Thank you in advance, -Franz Baader 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: franz.baader at tu-dresden.de -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Their design, implementation and their use in reasoning tasks, ranging from the correctness of software to the properties of formal systems, have been the focus of considerable research over the last two decades. This workshop will bring together designers, implementors and practitioners to discuss various aspects impinging on the structure and utility of logical frameworks, including the treatment of variable binding, inductive and co-inductive reasoning techniques and the expressiveness and lucidity of the reasoning process. LFMTP 2018 will provide researchers a forum to present state-of-the-art techniques and discuss progress in areas such as the following: * Encoding and reasoning about the meta-theory of programming languages, logical systems and related formally specified systems. * Theoretical and practical issues concerning the treatment of variable binding, especially the representation of, and reasoning about, datatypes defined from binding signatures. * Logical treatments of inductive and co-inductive definitions and associated reasoning techniques, including inductive types of higher dimension in homotopy type theory. * Graphical languages for building proofs, applications in geometry, equational reasoning and category theory. * New theory contributions: canonical and substructural frameworks, contextual frameworks, proof-theoretic foundations supporting binders, functional programming over logical frameworks, homotopy and cubical type theory. * Applications of logical frameworks: proof-carrying architectures, proof exchange and transformation, program refactoring, etc. * Techniques for programming with binders in functional programming languages such as Haskell, OCaml or Agda, and logic programming languages such as lambda Prolog or Alpha-Prolog. Invited Speakers TBA Important Dates Abstract submission deadline: Monday April 9th Submission deadline: Monday April 16th Notification to authors: Monday May 14th Final version due: Monday June 4th Workshop date: Saturday July 7th Submission In addition to regular papers, we accept the submission of "work in progress" reports, in a broad sense. Those do not need to report fully polished research results, but should be of interest for the community at large. Submitted papers should be in PDF, formatted using the EPTCS style guidelines. The length is restricted to 15 pages for regular papers and 8 pages for "Work in Progress" papers. Submission is via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lfmtp18. Proceedings Accepted regular papers will be included in the proceedings of LMFTP 2018, whose mode of publication will be determined shortly. Program Committee * Mar??a Alpuente (Universitat Polit??cnica de Val??ncia, Spain) * Andrej Bauer (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia) * Fr??d??ric Blanqui (Inria, France), co-chair * Ana Bove (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden) * St??phane Graham-Lengrand (CNRS, France) * Makoto Hamana (Gunma University, Japan) * Chantal Keller (Universit?? Paris-Sud, France) * Carlos Olarte (Universidade Federal do Rio grande do Norte, Brazil) * Giselle Reis (CMU Qatar), co-chair * Aaron Stump (University of Iowa, USA) * Yuting Wang (Yale University, USA) From ijv at acm.org Tue Nov 14 22:05:01 2017 From: ijv at acm.org (=?utf-8?Q?Ivan_Jos=C3=A9_Varzinczak?=) Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2017 22:05:01 +0100 Subject: [DL] Special issue of IJAR on Defeasible and Ampliative Reasoning Message-ID: <7871B62C-8C8B-47EA-A1B4-9DBBC02A0248@acm.org> * Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this call * Call for Papers: ====================================================================== Special Issue of the International Journal of Approximate Reasoning on "Defeasible and Ampliative Reasoning" ====================================================================== Classical reasoning is not flexible enough when directly applied to the formalization of certain nuances of decision making as done by humans. These involve different kinds of reasoning such as reasoning with uncertainty, exceptions, similarity, vagueness, incomplete or contradictory information and many others. It turns out that everyday reasoning usually shows the two salient intertwined aspects below: * Ampliative aspect: augmenting the underlying reasoning by allowing more conclusions. In practical contexts, this amounts to the ability to make inferences that venture beyond the scope of the premises, somehow in an unsound but justifiable way. Prominent examples are (i) default reasoning: jumping to conclusions deemed as plausible 'by default', i.e., in the absence of information to the contrary, like applying negation as failure or adopting the closed-world assumption; (ii) inductive and abductive reasoning: taking chances in drawing conclusions that implicitly call for further scrutiny or tests by empirical observations, like in making inductive hypotheses in scientific theories or finding abductive explanations in forensics, and (iii) analogical reasoning: extrapolating from very few examples (in the worst case only one) on the basis of observable similarities or dissimilarities. * Defeasible aspect: curtailing the underlying reasoning by either disregarding or disallowing some conclusions that somehow ought not to be sanctioned. In practice, this amounts to the ability to backtrack one's conclusions or to admit exceptions in reasoning. Some examples of this are (i) retractive reasoning: withdrawing conclusions that have already been derived, like in belief contraction or in negotiation, and (ii) preemptive reasoning: preventing or blocking the inference of some conclusions by disallowing their derivation in the first place, like in dealing with exceptional cases in multiple inheritance networks and in regulatory systems. Several efforts have been put into the study and definition of formalisms within which the aforementioned aspects of everyday reasoning could adequately be captured at different levels. Despite the progress that has been achieved, a large avenue remains open for exploration. Indeed, the literature on non-monotonic reasoning has focused almost exclusively on defeasibility of argument forms, whereas belief revision paradigms are restricted to an underlying classical (Tarskian) consequence relation. Moreover, even if some of the issues related to uncertainty in reasoning have been studied using probabilistic approaches and statistical methods, their integration with qualitative frameworks remain a challenge. Finally, well-established approaches are largely based on propositional languages (poor expressiveness) or haunted by the undecidability of full first-order logic. Modern applications require formalisms with a good balance between expressive power and computational complexity in order to be also considered as good candidates for eXplainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI). This special issue aims at bringing together work on defeasible and ampliative reasoning from the perspective of artificial intelligence, cognitive sciences, philosophy and related disciplines in a multi-disciplinary way, thereby consolidating the mission of the DARe workshop series. -- Topics of interest -- Submissions are welcome on topics relevant to defeasible and ampliative reasoning and that include but are not limited to: - Abductive and inductive reasoning - Explanation finding, diagnosis and causal reasoning - Inconsistency handling and exception-tolerant reasoning - Decision-making under uncertainty and incomplete information - Default reasoning, non-monotonic reasoning, non-monotonic logics, conditional logics - Specific instances and variations of ampliative and defeasible reasoning - Probabilistic and statistical approaches to reasoning - Vagueness, rough sets, granularity and fuzzy-logics - Philosophical foundations of defeasibility - Empirical studies of reasoning - Relationship with cognition and language - Contextual reasoning - Preference-based reasoning - Analogical reasoning - Similarity-based reasoning - Belief dynamics and merging - Argumentation theory, negotiation and conflict resolution - Heuristic and approximate reasoning - Defeasible normative systems - Reasoning about actions and change - Reasoning about knowledge and belief, epistemic and doxastic logics - Ampliative and defeasible temporal and spatial reasoning - Computational aspects of reasoning with uncertainty - Implementations and systems - Applications of uncertainty in reasoning -- How to submit -- The submission url is: http://www.evise.com/evise/jrnl/IJA When submitting your manuscript, please select ?VSI:DARe special issue? as the article type. Check the ?Help? link on the above url for instructions. If you have any enquiries, please feel free to contact us at dare.to.contact.us at gmail.com -- Important Dates -- - Submission deadline: 15 February 2018 - Notification: 1 November 2018 - Publication date: 1 January 2019 -- Guest editors -- - Richard Booth, Cardiff University, UK - Giovanni Casini, University of Luxembourg - Szymon Klarman, Semantic Integration Ltd., UK - Gilles Richard, Universit? Paul Sabatier, France - Ivan Varzinczak, CRIL, Univ. Artois & CNRS, France -- Ivan Varzinczak CRIL, Univ. Artois & CNRS, France http://member.acm.org/~ijv -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ijwa at dline.info Wed Nov 15 13:30:06 2017 From: ijwa at dline.info (ijwa at dline.info) Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2017 05:30:06 -0700 Subject: [DL] ICADIWT 2018 Message-ID: <4448429ed8ac0d8e1ab656a807bf5302@dline.info> CALL FOR PAPERS The Ninth International Conference on the Applications of Digital Information and Web Technologies (ICADIWT 2018) June 25-27, 2018 Porto, Portugal http://www.socio.org.uk/icadiwt The Ninth International Conference on the Applications of Digital Information and Web Technologies (ICADIWT 2018) is a forum for researchers to present the intensive and innovative research, ideas, developments and applications in the areas of Computer Communications, Communication networks, Communication Software Communication Technologies and Applications, and other related themes. This conference (ICADIWT Edition IX) will include presentations of contributed papers and state-of-the-art lectures by invited keynote speakers. Digital Technologies is embeeded in the research activiites of large number of people and it ensures the Ubiquitous reaching of more number of people in the recent years. Research in digital technologies has been carried out in many directions using various resources and tools and on the other side, the application issues are addressed by more volume of researchers not necessarily limited to information and computing technology. Thus the proposed conference series realize its value and potential and manifest the requirements in the form of the international conference. This edition will address the following outlined themes (but not limited to) Internet Communication Internet Technologies Web Applications Internet Software Data Access and Transmission Digital Communication Software Digital Networks Web Communication Interfaces Adaptive Systems Internet of Things Internet of breath Augmented Reality Databases and applications Web Systems Engineering Design Intelligent Agent systems/ Semantic Web Studies Adaptive Web applications and personalization Actuators and sensors Robotics and Machine Vision Smart cities and structures Control Automation Human-machine interfaces Real-time simulation Digital Technologies for Mechanical and other designs Publication and Indexing The accepted full papers will be published in the IOS series (Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications (FAIA))and submitted for inclusion in many indexes. Accepted full papers will be submitted for indexing to multiple abstract and indexing partners. The papers will be indexed in many databases as given at http://www.frontiersinai.com/?q=indexing The accepted papers will be published as a post-conference publication. During the conference, the pre-conference volume will be distributed. Important Dates Submission of papers- April 01, 2018 Notification-May 10, 2018 Camera ready-June 10, 2018 Registration-June 15, 2018 Conference Dates-June 25-27, 2018 PROGRAM COMMITTEES Honorary Chair Jolanta Mizera-Pietraszko, (Opole University, Poland) General Chairs Ramiro Smano Robles, Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto Rua, Portugal Pit Pichappan, Digital Information Research Labs, India Program Chairs Yao-Liang Chung, National Taiwan Ocean University, Taiwan Ricardo Rodriguez Jorge, Autonomous University of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico Submissions at http://www.socio.org.uk/icadiwt/paper-submission/ Contact diwt at dirf.org or icadiwt at socio.org.uk --------------------------------------------------------------- From info at christophwernhard.com Fri Nov 17 08:10:41 2017 From: info at christophwernhard.com (Christoph Wernhard) Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2017 08:10:41 +0100 Subject: [DL] SOQE 2017: Workshop on Second-Order Quantifier Elimination and Related Topics - Call for Participation Message-ID: CALL FOR PARTICIPATION SOQE 2017 WORKSHOP ON SECOND-ORDER QUANTIFIER ELIMINATION AND RELATED TOPICS TU Dresden, Germany 6-8 December 2017 http://2017.soqe.org/ REGISTRATION Please register until 22 November 2017 http://2017.soqe.org/#registration INVITED SPEAKERS Michael Benedikt University of Oxford, UK Willem Conradie University of Johannesburg, South Africa Boris Konev University of Liverpool, UK Carsten Lutz Universit?t Bremen, Germany Andrzej Sza?as Uniwersytet Warzawski, Poland and Link?pings Universitet, Sweden Kewen Wang Griffith University, Australia Yizheng Zhao The University of Manchester, UK PROGRAM COMMITTEE CHAIRS Patrick Koopmann TU Dresden, Germany Sebastian Rudolph TU Dresden, Germany Renate Schmidt The University of Manchester, UK Christoph Wernhard TU Dresden, Germany ORGANIZATION Christoph Wernhard, TU Dresden - International Center for Computational Logic info at christophwernhard.com FUNDING The workshop is supported by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) with grant WE 5641/1-1. From camilo.thorne at gmail.com Sat Nov 18 21:39:06 2017 From: camilo.thorne at gmail.com (Camilo Thorne) Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2017 21:39:06 +0100 Subject: [DL] Fwd: [LOGIC] Helmut Veith Stipend for Female Master's Students, Vienna (Austria), Deadline: 30 Nov 2017 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Camilo Thorne Mannheim, Germany mobile: +49(0)15202380352 http://camilothorne.com "Exegi monumentum aere perennius" (Horatius, Ode III-30) ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: [LOGIC] Mailing List Date: Fri, Nov 17, 2017 at 9:42 AM Subject: [LOGIC] Helmut Veith Stipend for Female Master's Students, Vienna (Austria), Deadline: 30 Nov 2017 To: Dear community, Annually awarded Helmut Veith Stipend for Female Master?s Students at TU Wien, Austria, is accepting online applications. The deadline to apply is Thursday, November 30, 2017. If you know of any master students interested in the bellow given fields, please could you inform them about this call? How to apply: http://www.vcla.at/2017/09/extended-deadline-helmut-veith- stipend-for-female -masters-students/ Many thanks! ********************** The Helmut Veith Stipend is dedicated to the memory of an outstanding scientist and advocate for women in computer science who worked in the FIELDS of logic in computer science, computer-aided verification, software engineering, and computer security. AWARD: 6000 EUR annually (up to 2 years) and waiver of all tuition fees at TU Wien ELIGIBILITY: Female master?s students pursuing one of the following master programmes at TU Wien: Logic & Computation * Business Informatics * Computational Logic for the duration of the recipient?s studies at TU Wien * (Computer Engineering starting in 2018) DONORS: In honor of Helmut Veith?s efforts the stipend was established with support of TU Wien, the Wolfgang Pauli Institute, and generous donations of friends and colleagues of Prof. Veith. 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These systems mimic the human mind processes, elaborating huge amounts of data, finding correlations, testing hypotheses, making predictions and inferences, drawing conclusions, and so on. This is an extremely interdisciplinary emerging research area, at the core of Artificial Intelligence, combining and complementing the scientific results from various disciplines, such as Natural Language Processing, Knowledge Representation and Reasoning, Audio and Video Analysis, Computer-Human Interaction, Neuroscience, and so on. In this Special Issue we aim to attract research contributions describing uses of cognitive computing techniques in concrete scenarios, by highlighting why these techniques demonstrated their suitability and which are the challenges they solved. Topics of interest include Cognitive Knowledge Acquisition, Representing, Formalizing and Reasoning with Cognitive Knowledge, Development of Cognitive Systems, Real-world applications that exploit Cognitive Knowledge, with a particular attention on the Deployment of Cognitive Systems in challenging domains. The content of the Special Issue aims to provide the reader with a comprehensive, up-to-date overview of the challenges, approaches and applications of cognitive techniques in concrete, real-world settings. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Frameworks, Tools and Methodologies for acquiring Cognitive Knowledge - Natural Language Processing for Cognitive Knowledge acquisition - Multimodal (e.g., text, audio, video, images) Cognitive Systems - Machine Learning techniques (e.g., Deep Learning) for Cognitive Systems - Representing, Formalizing and Reasoning with Cognitive Knowledge (e.g., Ontologies for Cognitive Systems) - Architectures for Cognitive Systems and their Scalability - Real-world applications that exploit Cognitive Knowledge - Deployment of Cognitive Systems in specific domains (e.g., Humanities, Health, Social Media, Life Sciences) *** Submission sites: *** Submissions are available at PRAI Editorial Manager website. ( https://www.editorialmanager.com/prai/) Please select "S.I. : Applied Cognitive Computing" during the submission procedure. Follow the "Instructions for authors" on the journal web-site for preparing your submission. This special issue welcomes original high-quality contributions that have been neither published in nor submitted to any journals or refereed conferences. Extended versions of conference papers should include at least 30% of new material. *** Important Dates *** January 31, 2018: Submissions Deadline April 15, 2018: First notification of acceptance May 31, 2018: Submission of revised papers June 30, 2018: Final notification to the authors July 15, 2018: Submission of final/camera-ready papers Autumn 2018: Publication of special issue *** Guest Editors *** Mauro Dragoni, Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK) ? dragoni at fbk.eu Marco Rospocher, Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK) ? rospocher at fbk.eu *** General Inquiries *** For further information, please feel free to contact the Guest Editors. -- Dr. Mauro Dragoni Researcher at Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK-IRST) Via Sommarive 18, 38123, Povo, Trento, Italy Tel. 0461-314053 ######################################## Consider attending the Cognitive Computing track @ ACM SAC 2018 https://coco.fbk.eu/sac2018/ Pau, France, April 9-13, 2018 ######################################## -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From geoff at cs.miami.edu Wed Nov 22 14:33:17 2017 From: geoff at cs.miami.edu (geoff at cs.miami.edu) Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2017 08:33:17 -0500 (EST) Subject: [DL] Artificial Intelligence and Theorem Proving 2018 - Call for Papers Message-ID: <20171122133317.90AF51700F5B@cs.miami.edu> SECOND CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS Artificial Intelligence and Theorem Proving, AITP 2018 March 25-30, 2018, Aussois, France http://aitp-conference.org/2018 Deadline: December 3, 2017 https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aitp2018 BACKGROUND Large-scale semantic processing and strong computer assistance of mathematics and science is our inevitable future. New combinations of AI and reasoning methods and tools deployed over large mathematical and scientific corpora will be instrumental to this task. The AITP conference is the forum for discussing how to get there as soon as possible, and the force driving the progress towards that. TOPICS - AI, machine learning and big-data methods in theorem proving and mathematics. - Collaboration between automated and interactive theorem proving. - Common-sense reasoning and reasoning in science. - Alignment and joint processing of formal, semi-formal, and informal libraries. - Methods for large-scale computer understanding of mathematics and science. - Combinations of linguistic/learning-based and semantic/reasoning methods. - Formal verification of AI and machine learning algorithms, explainable AI. SESSIONS There will be several focused sessions on AI and machine learning for ATP, SMT, ITP and mathematics, a session on ATP/ITP Hammers, session on Formal Abstracts and natural language processing of mathematics, and several sessions with contributed talks. The focused sessions will be based on invited talks and discussion oriented. CONFIRMED PARTICIPANTS/SPEAKERS (to be completed) Noriko Arai, National Institute of Informatics Henk Barendregt, Radboud University Nijmegen Michael R. Douglas, Stony Brook University Cameron Freer, Remine Georges Gonthier, INRIA Thomas C. Hales, University of Pittsburgh John Harrison, Intel Sean Holden, University of Cambridge Mikol???? Janota, University of Lisbon Ramana Kumar, Data61 & UNSW Takuya Matsuzaki, Nagoya University David McAllester, Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago Christian Szegedy, Google Research Cesare Tinelli, University of Iowa INVITED TALKS (to be completed) Henk Barendregt, Axiomatizing consciousness, with applications John Harrison, Manifesto for type-free foundations based on set theory CONTRIBUTED TALKS We solicit contributed talks. Selection of those will be based on extended abstracts/short papers of 2 pages formatted with easychair.cls. Submission is via EasyChair (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aitp2018). DATES Submission deadline: December 3, 2017 Author notification: January 10, 2018 Conference registration: January 24, 2018 Camera-ready versions: January 31, 2018 Conference: March 25-30, 2018 POST-PROCEEDINGS We will consider an open call for post-proceedings in an established series of conference proceedings (LIPIcs, EPiC, JMLR) or a journal (AICom, JAR, JAIR). PROGRAM COMMITTEE (to be completed) David Aspinall, University of Edinburgh Jasmin Christian Blanchette, INRIA Nancy Joseph Corneli, University of Edinburgh Cameron Freer, Remine Ulrich Furbach, University of Koblenz Thomas C. Hales (co-chair), University of Pittsburgh Sean Holden, University of Cambridge Geoffrey Irving, OpenAI Moa Johansson, Chalmers University Cezary Kaliszyk (co-chair), University of Innsbruck Michael Kohlhase, FAU Erlangen-N??rnberg Ramana Kumar, Data61 & UNSW Jens Otten, University of Oslo Stephan Schulz (co-chair), DHBW Stuttgart Dawn Song, University of California, Berkeley Martin Suda, Technische Universit??t Wien Geoff Sutcliffe, University of Miami Christian Szegedy, Google Research Josef Urban (co-chair), Czech Technical University in Prague LOCATION AND PRICE The conference will take place from March 25 to March 30 2018 in the CNRS Paul-Langevin Conference Center (https://www.caes.cnrs.fr/sejours/centre-paul-langevin/) located in the mountain village of Aussois in Savoy. Dominated by the "Dent Parrach??e", one of the highest peaks of La Vanoise, Aussois is located on a sunny plateau at 1500m altitude, offering a magnificent panorama of the surrounding mountains and a direct access to the downhill ski slopes or cross country slopes in winter. The total price for accommodation, food and registration for the five days will be around 600 EUR. ORGANIZERS Cezary Kaliszyk and Josef Urban From woltran at dbai.tuwien.ac.at Mon Nov 20 13:39:18 2017 From: woltran at dbai.tuwien.ac.at (Stefan Woltran) Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2017 13:39:18 +0100 (CET) Subject: [DL] FoIKS 2018 -- Final Call for Papers Message-ID: **Apologies for cross-postings*** Please consider to contribute to and/or forward to the appropriate groups the following opportunity to submit and publish original scientific results to FoIKS 2018. Abstract submission deadline is November 24, 2017. ===================== FoIKS 2018 | Call for Papers ======================== CALL FOR PAPERS 10th Int'l. Symposium on Foundations of Information and Knowledge Systems May 14-18, 2018 Alfred Renyi Institute of Mathematics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary http://2018.foiks.org/ The FoIKS symposia provide a biennial forum for presenting and discussing theoretical and applied research on information and knowledge systems. The goal is to bring together researchers with an interest in this subject, share research experiences, promote collaboration and identify new issues and directions for future research. FoIKS 2018 solicits original contributions dealing with any foundational aspect of information and knowledge systems. This includes submissions that apply ideas, theories or methods from specific disciplines to information and knowledge systems. Examples of such disciplines are discrete mathematics, logic and algebra, model theory, information theory, complexity theory, algorithmics and computation, statistics and optimization. The FoIKS symposia are a forum for intense discussions. Speakers will be given sufficient time to present their ideas and results within the larger context of their research; furthermore, participants will be asked to prepare a first response to another contribution in order to initiate discussion. Previous FoIKS symposia were held in Linz (Austria) in 2016, Bordeaux (France) in 2014, Kiel (Germany) in 2012, Sofia (Bulgaria) in 2010, Pisa (Italy) in 2008, Budapest (Hungary) in 2006, Vienna (Austria) in 2004, Schloss Salzau near Kiel (Germany) in 2002, and Burg/Spreewald near Berlin (Germany) in 2000. FoIKS took up the tradition of the conference series Mathematical Fundamentals of Database Systems (MFDBS), which initiated East-West collaboration in the field of database theory. Former MFDBS conferences were held in Rostock (Germany) in 1991, Visegrad (Hungary) in 1989, and Dresden (Germany) in 1987. Submission Guidelines ===================== All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. Papers must be typeset using the Springer LaTeX2e style llncs for Lecture Notes in Computer Science. The suggested number of pages is 16, and the maximum number of pages is 18. Submissions which deviate substantially from these guidelines may be rejected without review. Initial submissions must be in PDF format, but authors should keep in mind that the LaTeX2e source must be submitted for the final versions of accepted papers. Submissions in alternate formats, such as Microsoft Word, cannot be accepted for either initial or final versions. The submissions will be judged for scientific quality and for suitability as a basis for broader discussion. Submission is via EasyChair at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=foiks2018 Suggested Topics ================ The suggested topics include, but are not limited to: Database Design: formal models, dependencies and independencies; Big Data: models for data in the Cloud, programming languages for big data, query processing; Dynamics of Information: models of transactions, concurrency control, updates, consistency preservation, belief revision; Information Fusion: heterogeneity, views, schema dominance, multiple source information merging, reasoning under inconsistency; Integrity and Constraint Management: verification, validation, consistent query answering, information cleaning; Intelligent Agents: multi-agent systems, autonomous agents, foundations of software agents, cooperative agents, formal models of interactions, negotiations and dialogue, logical models of emotions; Knowledge Discovery and Information Retrieval: machine learning, mining, formal concept analysis and association rules, text mining, information extraction; Knowledge Representation, Reasoning and Planning: non-monotonic formalisms, probabilistic and non-probabilistic models of uncertainty, graphical models and independence, similarity-based reasoning, preference modeling and handling, computation models of argument, argumentation systems; Logics in Databases and AI: classical and non-classical logics, logic programming, description logics, spatial and temporal logics, probability logic, fuzzy logic; Mathematical Foundations: discrete structures and algorithms, graphs, grammars, automata, abstract machines, finite model theory, information theory, coding theory, complexity theory, randomness; Security in Information and Knowledge Systems: identity theft, privacy, trust, intrusion detection, access control, inference control, secure Web services, secure Semantic Web, risk management; Semi-Structured Data and XML: data modelling, data processing, data compression, data exchange; Social Computing: collective intelligence and self-organizing knowledge, collaborative filtering, computational social choice, Boolean games, coalition formation, reputation systems; The Semantic Web and Knowledge Management: languages, ontologies, agents, adaption, intelligent algorithms, ontology-based data access; and The WWW: models of Web databases, Web dynamics, Web services, Web transactions and negotiations, Social Networks, Web Mining. Program Committee ================= Yamine Ait Ameur, France Pablo Barcelo, Chile Kim Bauters, Northern Ireland, UK Christoph Beierle, Germany Leopoldo Bertossi, Canada Philippe Besnard, France Nicole Bidoit, France Meghyn Bienvenu, France Joachim Biskup, Germany Marina De Vos, UK Michael Dekhtyar, Russia Dragan Doder, Serbia Thomas Eiter, Austria Christian Fermueller, Austria Marc Gyssens, Belgium Edward Hermann Haeusler, Brazil Martin Homola, Slovakia Anthony Hunter, England Gabriel Istrate, Romania Gyula Y. Katona, Hungary Gabriele Kern-Isberner, Germany Attila Kiss, Hungary Ioannis Kokkinis, France Sebastien Konieczny, France Juha Kontinen, Finland Nicola Leone, Italy Sebastian Link, New Zealand Thomas Lukasiewicz, UK Sofian Maabout, France Andrea Marino, Italy Jorge Martinez-Gil, Austria Henri Prade, France Elena Ravve, Israel Sebastian Rudolph, Germany Attila Sali, Hungary Vadim Savenkov, Austria Klaus-Dieter Schewe, Austria Thomas Schwentick, Germany Kostyantyn Shchekotykhin, Austria Csaba Istvan Sidlo, Hungary Guillermo Ricardo Simari, Argentina Mantas Simkus, Austria Bernhard Thalheim, Germany Alex Thomo, Canada Mirek Truszczynski, USA Gyorgy Turan, USA Jose Turull-Torres, Argentina/New Zealand Dirk Van Gucht, USA Jonni Virtema, Finland Qing Wang, Australia Program Chairs ============== Stefan Woltran, TU Wien, Austria. Flavio Ferrarotti, Software Competence Center Hagenberg, Austria. Local Organization Chair ======================== Attila Sali, Alfred Renyi Institute of Mathematics, Hungary. Invited Speakers ================ Gerhard Brewka, University of Leipzig. Laura Kovacs, TU Wien, Austria. Sebastian Link, University of Auckland, New Zealand. David Pearce, Technical University of Madrid, Spain (supported by ALP). Bernhard Thalheim, Christian-Albrechts-University at Kiel, Germany. Publication =========== The proceedings will be published by Springer-Verlag in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science. After the symposium, authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended journal versions of their papers for a FoIKS 2018 special issue of the Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence. Venue ===== The conference venue will be the renowned Alfred Renyi Institute of Mathematics at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (for more information on the venue, see http://www.renyi.hu/contact.html Important Dates =============== Abstract submission deadline: November 24, 2017 Paper submission deadline: December 01, 2017 Author notification: February 02, 2018 Camera-ready paper due: February 16, 2018 FoIKS 2018 Symposium: May 14-18, 2018 Scientific Sponsorship ====================== Artificial Intelligence Journal (AIJ) Association for Logic Programming (ALP) European Association for Theoretical Computer Science (EATCS) Vienna Center for Logic and Algorithms (VCLA) Student Grants ============== Students of accepted papers on logic programming related topics can apply to the student travel grant of ALP to attend FoIKS 2018. Contact ======= All questions about submissions should be emailed to woltran at dbai.tuwien.ac.at and flavio.ferrarotti at scch.at Web page: http://2018.foiks.org/ From assoto at uc.cl Mon Nov 27 20:00:54 2017 From: assoto at uc.cl (ADRIAN ANDRES SOTO SUAREZ) Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2017 16:00:54 -0300 Subject: [DL] PODS 2018: Call for papers - Second Submission Cycle Message-ID: 37th ACM SIGMOD-SIGACT-SIGAI Symposium on PRINCIPLES OF DATABASE SYSTEMS (PODS 2018) June 11 - June 13, 2018, Houston, Texas, USA http://sigmod2018.org CALL FOR PAPERS ** Second Submission Cycle ** The PODS symposium series, held in conjunction with the SIGMOD conference series, provides a premier annual forum for the communication of new advances in the theoretical foundations of data management, traditional or non-traditional (see http://www.sigmod.org/the-pods-pages/the-pods-pages). For the 37th edition, PODS continues to aim to broaden its scope, and calls for research papers providing original, substantial contributions along one or more of the following aspects: - deep theoretical exploration of topical areas central to data management; - new formal frameworks that aim at providing the basis for deeper theoretical investigation of important emerging issues in data management; - validation of established theoretical approaches from the lens of practical applicability in data management. Papers in this track should provide an experimental evaluation that gives new insight in established theories. Besides, they should provide a clear message to the database theory community as to which aspects need further (theoretical) investigation, based on the experimental findings. TOPICS that fit the interests of the symposium include, but are not limited to: - concurrency & recovery, distributed/parallel databases, cloud computing - data and knowledge integration and exchange, data provenance, views and data warehouses, metadata management - data-centric (business) process management, workflows, web services - data management and machine learning - data mining, information extraction, search - data models, data structures, algorithms for data management - data privacy and security, human-related data and ethics - data streams - design, semantics, query languages - domain-specific databases (multi-media, scientific, spatial, temporal, text) - graph databases and (semantic) Web data - incompleteness, inconsistency, uncertainty in data management - knowledge-enriched data management - model theory, logics, algebras, computational complexity ORGANIZATION Program Chair: Marcelo Arenas Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile Program Committee: Marcelo Arenas (Chair, Pontificia Univ. Catolica) Edith Cohen (Google & Tel Aviv Univ.) Sara Cohen (The Hebrew Univ. of Jerusalem) Graham Cormode (Univ. of Warwick) Arnaud Durand (Universite Paris-Diderot) Ronald Fagin (IBM Research - Almaden) Francois Goasdoue (Univ. Rennes) Sudipto Guha (Univ. of Pennsylvania) Daniel Kifer (Pennsylvania State Univ.) Paris Koutris (Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison) Domenico Lembo (Sapienza Univ. of Rome) Nicola Leone (Univ. of Calabria) Carsten Lutz (Universitat Bremen) Wim Martens (Universitat Bayreuth) Marco Montali (Free Univ. of Bozen - Bolzano) Hung Q. Ngo (LogicBlox) Magdalena Ortiz (Vienna Univ. of Technology) Rasmus Pagh (IT Univ. of Copenhagen) Andreas Pieris (Univ. of Edinburgh) Sudeepa Roy (Duke Univ.) Francesco Scarcello (Univ. of Calabria) Srikanta Tirthapura (Iowa State Univ.) Domagoj Vrgoc (Pontificia Univ. Catolica) Ke Yi (Hong Kong Univ. of Science and Tech.) PODS General Chair: Jan Van den Bussche (Univ. of Hasselt) Proceedings Chair: Martin Ugarte (Universite Libre de Bruxelles) Publicity Chair: Adrian Soto (Pontificia Univ. Catolica) SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Submitted papers must be formatted using the designated style file (sig-alternate-10.cls) which uses 10pt font size and line spacing of 11pt using the "\documentclass{sig-alternate-10}" command in your LaTeX document. Submitted papers should be at most twelve pages, excluding bibliography. Additional details may be included in an appendix that should be incorporated at the submission time (online appendices are not allowed). However, such appendices will be read at the discretion of the program committee. Papers that are longer than twelve pages (excluding bibliography and the appendix) or in font size smaller than 10pt or with line spacing less than 11pt risk rejection without consideration of their merits. The submission process is online, using https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=pods2018. Notice that PODS does not use double-blind reviewing, and therefore PODS submissions should have the names and affiliations of authors listed on the paper. The results of submitted paper must be unpublished and not submitted elsewhere, including the formal proceedings of other symposia or workshops. Authors of an accepted paper will be expected to sign copyright release forms, and one author is expected to present it at the conference. IMPORTANT DATES Second Submission Cycle: Abstract submission: Dec 12, 2017 Paper submission: Dec 19, 2017 Final notification: Feb 27, 2018 All deadlines end at 11:59pm AoE. AWARDS Best Paper Award: An award will be given to the best submission, as judged by the program committee. Best Student Paper Award: There will also be an award for the best submission, as judged by the program committee, written by a student or exclusively by students. An author is considered as a student if at the time of submission, the author is enrolled in a program at a university or institution leading to a doctoral/master's/bachelor's degree. The program committee reserves the right to give both awards to the same paper, not to give an award, or to split an award among several papers. Papers authored or co-authored by program committee members are not eligible for an award. -- Adri?n Soto Su?rez Egresado Ingenier?a Civil Industrial Computaci?n UC Alumno de Doctorado ?rea Ciencia de la Computaci?n UC -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From marcello.balduccini at gmail.com Mon Nov 27 15:00:15 2017 From: marcello.balduccini at gmail.com (Marcello Balduccini) Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2017 09:00:15 -0500 Subject: [DL] KR18 - Call for Tutorial and Workshop Proposals Message-ID: <201711271400.vARE0FQO006210@coSAT.msgn> [Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this email. Please distribute to interested parties.] KR18 - Call for Tutorial and Workshop Proposals ** Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this call ** ** Please distribute to interested parties ** ======================================== Call for Tutorial and Workshop Proposals 16th International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KR 2018) Tempe, Arizona (USA) Workshop/Tutorial dates: 27-29 October 2018 KR main program: 30 October to 2 November 2018 http://kr2018.org/ *** Deadline (for proposal submissions): 21 February 2018 *** For its 2018 edition, KR will solicit proposals for both the Tutorial and Workshop tracks. Tutorials and workshops will be held from 27 to 29 October 2018, prior to the KR main technical program, which will run from 30 October to 1 November 2018. The attendance of tutorials is complimentary to all KR registered participants. Workshop attendance will be subject to payment of a workshop fee, which is separate from that of the main conference. ** SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS ** Each proposal (tutorial or workshop) should be in English and must be submitted electronically using the following submission forms: Tutorial proposal: http://tinyurl.com/kr18tute Workshop proposal: http://tinyurl.com/kr18workshop For all accepted proposals, KR will take care of all local arrangements. * SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS FOR TUTORIAL PROPOSALS * Each tutorial proposal should contain the following information: - A short title of the tutorial. - A two-paragraph description of the tutorial. - Proposed length of the tutorial (half day is the default and recommended length, but an argument can be made for a full day tutorial). - A detailed outline of the tutorial. - The potential target audience for the tutorial and prerequisite knowledge. - A brief resume of the presenter(s) including: . Name,affiliation, and email address. . Evidence of scholarship in the area, including a list of publications. . Evidence of teaching experience. The main duties of the tutorial organizers are: - Setup a web-site for the tutorial, which should include, at least, title and abstract of the tutorial, presenters? details, outline, tutorial notes and related reading material. - Deliver the tutorial at KR 2018. * SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS FOR WORKSHOP PROPOSALS * Each workshop proposal should contain the following information: - Title of the workshop and acronym. - Names, affiliations, and contact details of the organisers. - Short description and format. - History of the workshop (if applicable) and related events. - Size of the workshop and duration. - Tentative list of PC members with their respective affiliations. - Experience of the organisers. - Tentative call for papers. The main duties of the workshop chairs are: - Set up a website for the workshop. - Advertise the workshop and distribute its call for papers. - Coordinate the peer-reviewing of submitted contributions. - Organise a schedule for the workshop in collaboration with the local organisers and the Workshop Co-Chairs. - Coordinate and moderate the workshop participation and content. Each accepted proposal will be waived two workshop registrations to be used at the discretion of the organisers (e.g., to cover the registration of an invited speaker). KR reserves the right to cancel a workshop if it does not have enough participants to cover its running costs. ** IMPORTANT DATES ** - Proposal submission deadline: 21 February 2018. - Notification: 31 March 2018. - Workshops paper submission deadline: 21 July 2018. - Workshops paper notification: 25 August 2018. - Workshops registration deadline: TBD. - Tutorial and workshop dates: 27-29 October 2018. ** SUBMISSIONS AND INQUIRIES ** Those interested in presenting a tutorial or workshop should register their interest and proposal in the following forms: 1) Tutorial proposals: http://tinyurl.com/kr18tute 2) Workshop proposals: http://tinyurl.com/kr18workshop Inquiries should be sent by email to the tutorials/workshop chairs: Sebastian Sardina School of Computer Science and Information Technology RMIT University sebastian.sardina at rmit.edu.au Ivan Varzinczak CRIL, Univ. Artois & CNRS, France varzinczak at cril.fr From rafael.goncalves at stanford.edu Tue Nov 28 01:04:32 2017 From: rafael.goncalves at stanford.edu (=?utf-8?Q?Rafael_Gon=C3=A7alves?=) Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2017 16:04:32 -0800 Subject: [DL] =?utf-8?q?Join_us_for_the_next_Prot=C3=A9g=C3=A9_Short_Cours?= =?utf-8?q?e_at_Stanford_University=2C_March_28_=E2=80=93_30=2C_2018?= References: Message-ID: <21D1EB8E-95AD-4A25-9270-1CEDDE064B21@stanford.edu> Dear all, We are excited to announce the next Prot?g? Short Course, to be held at Stanford University, California, between March 28?30, 2018! The Prot?g? Short Course is a 3-day intensive training, which provides an in-depth introduction to ontology engineering using the Web Ontology Language (OWL). We cover best practices in ontology building and the latest Semantic Web technologies, including OWL 2, RDF and SPARQL. We also cover topics such as collaborative development, and data access and import from different data sources. Read more about the course at: http://protege.stanford.edu/shortcourse/201803/ If you have any questions about the Prot?g? Short Course, email us at: protege-shortcourse at lists.stanford.edu Feel free to forward this announcement to anyone who might be interested. Thank you! We look forward to seeing you at the course! Best regards, The Prot?g? Team From schon at uni-koblenz.de Mon Nov 27 08:34:13 2017 From: schon at uni-koblenz.de (Claudia Schon) Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2017 08:34:13 +0100 Subject: [DL] PhD position on changes in description logic knowledge bases available in Koblenz. Message-ID: PhD position on changes in description logic knowledge bases available in Koblenz. The position is part of the interdisciplinary DFG-funded project "EVOWIPE - Explicit Forgetting of Ontology-based Knowledge in Product Development" (http://west.uni-koblenz.de/en/research/evowipe) which belongs to the DFG priority programme "Intentional Forgetting in Organisations". The aim of the project is to develop methods for the implementation of changes on ontology-based knowledge bases and the application of these methods in product development in mechanical engineering. The position is available as of now and time-limited to two years. The possibility of acquiring a PhD is given. We are looking for researchers with a very good master's degree or doctorate from a University (or equivalent). Eligible applicants are interested in many scientific domains, gladly collaborate with colleagues from other scientific disciplines, and can precisely identify and carefully solve computer science-related issues with their well-grounded programming capabilities. In addition, applicants for this position should have interest and initial experience in the field of formal logic. Ideally, you have experience in the creation and use of ontologies as well as knowledge of different description logics. The position is situated at the Institute for Web Science and Technologies (WeST) (https://west.uni-koblenz.de/en) at the University of Koblenz. Web Science investigates how the technical structure of the Web affects the activities of its 3.5 billion users and how their manifold interactions stimulate the Web?s technical advancement in return. Founded in 2009, the Institute for Web Science and Technologies combines expertise in research and development in computer science, the social sciences, and economy. The institute is part of the computer science faculty, located at the campus in Koblenz at the University of Koblenz-Landau. We offer a creative, versatile, internationally renowned research environment. We support your scientific curiosity and your doctorate. We offer a new campus with an excellent IT infrastructure in one of the most livable cities in Germany. See position 2 at https://west.uni-koblenz.de/en/jobs for further information. --- Dr. Claudia Schon Institute for Web Science and Technologies (WeST) Universit?t Koblenz-Landau, Germany Universit?tsstr. 1, 56070 Koblenz Tel: +49 261 287 2773 http://www.uni-koblenz.de/~obermaie From woltran at dbai.tuwien.ac.at Tue Nov 28 11:44:57 2017 From: woltran at dbai.tuwien.ac.at (Stefan Woltran) Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2017 11:44:57 +0100 (CET) Subject: [DL] FoIKS 2018 -- FINAL Call for Papers [***extended deadline December 18***] Message-ID: **Apologies for cross-postings*** Please consider to contribute to and/or forward to the appropriate groups the following opportunity to submit and publish original scientific results to FoIKS 2018. Abstract submission deadline: December 11, 2017 (EXTENDED). Paper submission deadline: December 18, 2017 (EXTENDED). ================== FoIKS 2018 | FINAL Call for Papers ===================== CALL FOR PAPERS 10th Int'l. Symposium on Foundations of Information and Knowledge Systems May 14-18, 2018 Alfred Renyi Institute of Mathematics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary http://2018.foiks.org/ The FoIKS symposia provide a biennial forum for presenting and discussing theoretical and applied research on information and knowledge systems. The goal is to bring together researchers with an interest in this subject, share research experiences, promote collaboration and identify new issues and directions for future research. FoIKS 2018 solicits original contributions dealing with any foundational aspect of information and knowledge systems. This includes submissions that apply ideas, theories or methods from specific disciplines to information and knowledge systems. Examples of such disciplines are discrete mathematics, logic and algebra, model theory, information theory, complexity theory, algorithmics and computation, statistics and optimization. The FoIKS symposia are a forum for intense discussions. Speakers will be given sufficient time to present their ideas and results within the larger context of their research; furthermore, participants will be asked to prepare a first response to another contribution in order to initiate discussion. Previous FoIKS symposia were held in Linz (Austria) in 2016, Bordeaux (France) in 2014, Kiel (Germany) in 2012, Sofia (Bulgaria) in 2010, Pisa (Italy) in 2008, Budapest (Hungary) in 2006, Vienna (Austria) in 2004, Schloss Salzau near Kiel (Germany) in 2002, and Burg/Spreewald near Berlin (Germany) in 2000. FoIKS took up the tradition of the conference series Mathematical Fundamentals of Database Systems (MFDBS), which initiated East-West collaboration in the field of database theory. Former MFDBS conferences were held in Rostock (Germany) in 1991, Visegrad (Hungary) in 1989, and Dresden (Germany) in 1987. Submission Guidelines ===================== All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. Papers must be typeset using the Springer LaTeX2e style llncs for Lecture Notes in Computer Science. The suggested number of pages is 16, and the maximum number of pages is 18. Submissions which deviate substantially from these guidelines may be rejected without review. Initial submissions must be in PDF format, but authors should keep in mind that the LaTeX2e source must be submitted for the final versions of accepted papers. Submissions in alternate formats, such as Microsoft Word, cannot be accepted for either initial or final versions. The submissions will be judged for scientific quality and for suitability as a basis for broader discussion. Submission is via EasyChair at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=foiks2018 Suggested Topics ================ The suggested topics include, but are not limited to: Database Design: formal models, dependencies and independencies; Big Data: models for data in the Cloud, programming languages for big data, query processing; Dynamics of Information: models of transactions, concurrency control, updates, consistency preservation, belief revision; Information Fusion: heterogeneity, views, schema dominance, multiple source information merging, reasoning under inconsistency; Integrity and Constraint Management: verification, validation, consistent query answering, information cleaning; Intelligent Agents: multi-agent systems, autonomous agents, foundations of software agents, cooperative agents, formal models of interactions, negotiations and dialogue, logical models of emotions; Knowledge Discovery and Information Retrieval: machine learning, mining, formal concept analysis and association rules, text mining, information extraction; Knowledge Representation, Reasoning and Planning: non-monotonic formalisms, probabilistic and non-probabilistic models of uncertainty, graphical models and independence, similarity-based reasoning, preference modeling and handling, computation models of argument, argumentation systems; Logics in Databases and AI: classical and non-classical logics, logic programming, description logics, spatial and temporal logics, probability logic, fuzzy logic; Mathematical Foundations: discrete structures and algorithms, graphs, grammars, automata, abstract machines, finite model theory, information theory, coding theory, complexity theory, randomness; Security in Information and Knowledge Systems: identity theft, privacy, trust, intrusion detection, access control, inference control, secure Web services, secure Semantic Web, risk management; Semi-Structured Data and XML: data modelling, data processing, data compression, data exchange; Social Computing: collective intelligence and self-organizing knowledge, collaborative filtering, computational social choice, Boolean games, coalition formation, reputation systems; The Semantic Web and Knowledge Management: languages, ontologies, agents, adaption, intelligent algorithms, ontology-based data access; and The WWW: models of Web databases, Web dynamics, Web services, Web transactions and negotiations, Social Networks, Web Mining. Program Committee ================= Yamine Ait Ameur, France Pablo Barcelo, Chile Kim Bauters, Northern Ireland, UK Christoph Beierle, Germany Leopoldo Bertossi, Canada Philippe Besnard, France Nicole Bidoit, France Meghyn Bienvenu, France Joachim Biskup, Germany Marina De Vos, UK Michael Dekhtyar, Russia Dragan Doder, Serbia Thomas Eiter, Austria Christian Fermueller, Austria Marc Gyssens, Belgium Edward Hermann Haeusler, Brazil Martin Homola, Slovakia Anthony Hunter, England Gabriel Istrate, Romania Gyula Y. Katona, Hungary Gabriele Kern-Isberner, Germany Attila Kiss, Hungary Ioannis Kokkinis, France Sebastien Konieczny, France Juha Kontinen, Finland Nicola Leone, Italy Sebastian Link, New Zealand Thomas Lukasiewicz, UK Sofian Maabout, France Andrea Marino, Italy Jorge Martinez-Gil, Austria Henri Prade, France Elena Ravve, Israel Sebastian Rudolph, Germany Attila Sali, Hungary Vadim Savenkov, Austria Klaus-Dieter Schewe, Austria Thomas Schwentick, Germany Kostyantyn Shchekotykhin, Austria Csaba Istvan Sidlo, Hungary Guillermo Ricardo Simari, Argentina Mantas Simkus, Austria Bernhard Thalheim, Germany Alex Thomo, Canada Mirek Truszczynski, USA Gyorgy Turan, USA Jose Turull-Torres, Argentina/New Zealand Dirk Van Gucht, USA Jonni Virtema, Finland Qing Wang, Australia Program Chairs ============== Stefan Woltran, TU Wien, Austria. Flavio Ferrarotti, Software Competence Center Hagenberg, Austria. Local Organization Chair ======================== Attila Sali, Alfred Renyi Institute of Mathematics, Hungary. Invited Speakers ================ Gerhard Brewka, University of Leipzig, Germany. Laura Kovacs, TU Wien, Austria. Sebastian Link, University of Auckland, New Zealand. David Pearce, Technical University of Madrid, Spain (supported by ALP). Bernhard Thalheim, Christian-Albrechts-University at Kiel, Germany. Publication =========== The proceedings will be published by Springer-Verlag in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science. After the symposium, authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended journal versions of their papers for a FoIKS 2018 special issue of the Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence. Venue ===== The conference venue will be the renowned Alfred Renyi Institute of Mathematics at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (for more information on the venue, see http://www.renyi.hu/contact.html Important Dates =============== Abstract submission deadline (EXTENDED): December 11, 2017 Paper submission deadline (EXTENDED): December 18, 2017 Author notification (EXTENDED): February 19, 2018 Camera-ready paper due (EXTENDED): March 5, 2018 FoIKS 2018 Symposium: May 14-18, 2018 Scientific Sponsorship ====================== Artificial Intelligence Journal (AIJ) Association for Logic Programming (ALP) European Association for Theoretical Computer Science (EATCS) Vienna Center for Logic and Algorithms (VCLA) Student Grants ============== Students of accepted papers on logic programming related topics can apply to the student travel grant of ALP to attend FoIKS 2018. Contact ======= All questions about submissions should be emailed to woltran at dbai.tuwien.ac.at and flavio.ferrarotti at scch.at Web page: http://2018.foiks.org/ From christophe.rey at uca.fr Thu Nov 30 10:41:44 2017 From: christophe.rey at uca.fr (Christophe REY) Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2017 10:41:44 +0100 Subject: [DL] UNILOG'2018 - World Congress and School on Universal Logic - Vichy, France - December 1st, deadline for early registration Message-ID: December 1st, i.e this coming Friday, is the deadline for early registration at UNILOG'2018 the 6th World Congress and School on Universal Logic that will take place in Vichy, June 16-26, 2018 http://www.uni-log.org/vichy2018 https://www.facebook.com/UniversalLogicVichy/ June 16-20 will be the school with 30 tutorials on all aspects of logic: - Aristotle and the Principle of Contradiction - Stoic Logic - Dialectics - Mathematics and Logic in Ancient Greece - C.S. Peirce?s Logic of Relations - Medieval Logic - Louis Couturat: Early symbolic logic and the dream of a characteristica universalis - Lesniewski's Evolutional Logic - Wittgenstein's Logic - Tractarian Logic and Semantic Technologies - Logic of Desires - Analogical Reasoning - Logic of Lying - Logic in the Brain - The Adventures of the Turnstile - Logic, Argument and Agreement - Lindenbaum Method - Logic and Religion - Unified Logics - The Inconsistency Theory of Truth? and Nominalistic Mathematics - On Logical Modeling of the Information Fusion - The Theory of Topos-Theoretic ?bridges?: an Introduction - MTT: A Framework for Defining and Implementing Logics - Logic and Computer Programming - Weak Arithmetics and Applications - Logic-Based Reasoning for Information Integration and Data Linkage - Complexity of Model Checking for Fragments of First-Order Logic - Reasoning on data: the ontology-mediated query answering problem - Sign, Meaning, Reference: A Semiotic Epistemology for Conceptual Engineering June 21-26 there will be the congress with 20 workshops - Logical Geometry - Practices of Writing and Reading in Logic - Proof Theory - Logic and Music - The Logic of Social Practices - Model Theory - Logical Correctness - Around Peirce - The Lvov-Warsaw School: Past, Present and Future - Reflections on Paraconsistency - Logic, Probability, and their Generalizations - Logic for Dynamic Real-World Information - Naming Logic(s) - Logics and Metalogics - Sociology and Anthropology of Logic: Past and Present - Hintikka?s Logical Thought - Logic for Children - Categories and Logic - Logic, Law and Legal Reasoning - Logic and Physics There will be 45 keynote speakers from all over the world. See the complete list here http://www.uni-log.org/invited6 For this edition we will have a special session of LOGIC PRIZES http://www.uni-log.org/logic-prize-world We have now a facebook page with a welcoming video https://www.facebook.com/UniversalLogicVichy/ This page will regularly be updated with additional videos: about Vichy, special features of the event, interviews, etc It is produced by Marion, Zakaria and Yanis students of the Multimedia and Internet Program, of? UCA - University? Clermont Auvergne, at Vichy campus of Allier Technological Institute. You are welcome to join us in Vichy ! Jean-Yves Beziau and Christophe Rey Organizers of UNILOG'2018 Vichy, France, June 16-26-2018 http://www.uni-log.org/vichy2018 From michael.benedikt at gmail.com Sun Dec 3 13:57:02 2017 From: michael.benedikt at gmail.com (Michael Benedikt) Date: Sun, 3 Dec 2017 12:57:02 +0000 Subject: [DL] Multiple computational-logic-related postdoctoral positions at Oxford Message-ID: 2 POSTDOCTORAL POSITIONS IN COMPUTATIONAL LOGIC AT OXFORD * Oxford University, UK * Duration 1-3 years, * Multiple postdoctoral positions are available in Oxford in the project Proof-Driven Query Planning. Topics of interest include model theory and proof theory for guarded logics, interpolation, proof search and automata-to-logic translation. Starting time and duration are flexible, with the latest starting time being fall of 2018. Both applied and theoretically-oriented candidates will be considered. The position has no teaching or administration duties. * Deadline, December 13, 2017 * Contact for application and position details: further details: michael.benedikt at cs.ox.ac.uk application link: http://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/news/1410-full.html -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From kotsomit at hpclab.ceid.upatras.gr Fri Dec 1 18:06:25 2017 From: kotsomit at hpclab.ceid.upatras.gr (kotsomit at hpclab.ceid.upatras.gr) Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2017 19:06:25 +0200 (EET) Subject: [DL] CFP - Int. Workshop on Semantics in the Deep: Semantic Analytics for Big Data (SEDSEAL 2018) Message-ID: <50448.150.140.142.244.1512147985.squirrel@webmail.hpclab.ceid.upatras.gr> (apologies for cross-postings) ============================================================================ * International Workshop on * * Semantics in the Deep: Semantic Analytics for Big Data * * (SEDSEAL 2018) * * * * URL: https://sedseal2018.ceid.upatras.gr * * * * * * in conjunction with the * * * * 14th International Conference on * * Artificial Intelligence Applications and Innovations * * (AIAI 2018) * * * * May 25-27, 2018, Rhodes, Greece * * * ============================================================================ **************************************************************************** CALL FOR PAPERS **************************************************************************** ============== AIMS AND SCOPE ============== Recent advances in availability of information on the Internet, storage space and web generated content have paved the way for the advent of Big Data. The well-known 4 Vs (Velocity, Variety, Volume, Value) that characterize Big Data can find a match in intelligent ways for management, manipulation and value- extraction. It is widely acknowledged that the recent surge in AI and especially machine learning is exactly due to these advancements. The Semantic Web can offer a well-studied, although ever advancing, toolbox that can address Big Data requirements and contribute towards their meaningful analysis. Still, there are often issues that need to be tackled with like bootstrapping, efficiency and standardized business processes for semantic analytics to achieve satisfactory results. To this end, machine- and deep-learning techniques, while being shunned in the past, have been shown to have considerable contributions towards Big Data analytics and to overcome Semantic Web inherent limitations. Therefore, the aim of this workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners to look deeper into how Semantic Web technologies can contribute towards Big Data analytics. This can be achieved either by extracting value out of these data (through reasoning), creating sustainable ontology models, offering a solid foundation for deploying learning techniques or anything in between. ================== TOPICS OF INTEREST ================== Indicative topics of interest for the workshop include, but are not limited to: - Ontologies for big data - Semantic applications in big data domains including open datasets, linked data, scholarly information, e-learning, economics, insurance, sensors, bioinformatics - Reasoning approaches for knowledge extraction - Ontology learning - Topic modeling - Linked Data - NLP and word embedding - Semantic deep learning - Semantic lakes - OBDA approaches for big data access - Evaluation techniques - Ontologies as training sets - Ontology evolution and learning feedback - Scalability issues ================ PAPER SUBMISSION ================ Papers reporting original and unpublished research results on the above and related topics are solicited. Authors should submit a paper with up to 10 pages (in English) in single-column Springer format following the Springer IFIP AICT format guidelines. Submissions must be in electronic form as PDF files and should be uploaded at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sedseal2018. Submitted papers will be peer-reviewed by at least 2 independent members of the program committee. At least one author of each accepted paper must be registered and present the paper at the workshop. All accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings and published in the Springer IFIP AICT (Advances in Information and Communication Technology series). Extended versions of selected workshop papers will be considered for publication in international journals. =============== IMPORTANT DATES =============== Paper submission: 3/2/2018 Author notification: 28/2/2018 Camera-ready submission: 9/3/2018 Workshop Dates: 25-27/5/2018 ============ ORGANIZATION ============ Dr. Dimitrios A. Koutsomitropoulos, University of Patras, Greece Prof. Spiridon D. Likothanassis, University of Patras, Greece ============================ PROGRAM COMMITEE (tentative) ============================ Andreas Andreou, Cyprus University of Technology, Cyprus Christos Alexakos, University of Patras, Greece Dimitrios Koutsomitropoulos, University of Patras, Greece Dimitrios Tsolis, University of Patras, Greece Dimitrios Tzovaras, CERTH/ITI, Greece Efstratios Georgopoulos, Technological Institute of Kalamata, Greece Filipe Portela, University of Minho, Spain Jouni Tuominen, University of Helsinki, Finland Konstantinos Votis, CERTH/ITI, Greece Miguel-Angel Sicilia, University of Alcala, Spain Minjuan Wang, San Diego State University, US Spiridon Likothanassis, University of Patras, Greece Vassilis Plagianakos, University of Thessaly, Greece ======= CONTACT ======= For additional information, please contact: Dr. Dimitrios A. Koutsomitropoulos, kotsomit at ceid.upatras.gr Prof. Spiridon D. Likothanassis, likothan at ceid.upatras.gr From geoff at cs.miami.edu Mon Dec 4 16:09:51 2017 From: geoff at cs.miami.edu (geoff at cs.miami.edu) Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2017 10:09:51 -0500 (EST) Subject: [DL] IJCAR 2018 - Call for Papers Message-ID: <20171204150951.8ECDD1700FE8@cs.miami.edu> CALL FOR PAPERS The 9th International Joint Conference on Automated Reasoning, IJCAR 2018 Oxford, UK, July 14-17, 2018. http://www.ijcar2018.org Part of The Federated Logic Conference, FLoC 2018, Oxford, UK, July 6-19, 2018. http://www.floc2018.org 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 2018 takes place as part of FLoC 2018 and is the merger of leading events in automated reasoning: CADE (Conference on Automated Deduction), FroCoS (Symposium on Frontiers of Combining Systems) and TABLEAUX (Conference on Analytic Tableaux and Related Methods) Topics: ------- IJCAR 2018 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, combination of decision procedures, SAT and SMT solving, etc. - Applications of interest include: verification, formal methods, program analysis and synthesis, computer mathematics, declarative programming, deductive databases, knowledge representation, etc. We welcome papers combining automated-reasoning formalisms & techniques and with those from other areas of CS and mathematics, including, e.g., computer algebra, machine learning, formal languages, formal verification, termination. In particular, high-quality conference papers on the topics of the IJCAR 2018 affiliated workshops (http://ijcar2018.org/#assocev) are welcome. The proceedings of IJCAR 2018 will be published by Springer in the LNAI/LNCS series (www.springer.com/lncs). Submission details: ------------------- Submission is electronic, through https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ijcar2018. 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 We solicit two categories of submissions: REGULAR PAPERS. Submissions, not exceeding sixteen (16) pages including bibliography, should contain original research, and sufficient detail to assess the merits and relevance of the contribution. For papers reporting experimental results, authors are strongly encouraged to make their data and software available with their submission for reproducibility. The PC will take availability of software and data into account when evaluating submissions. Submissions reporting on case studies in an industrial context are strongly invited, and should describe details, weaknesses and strength in sufficient depth. Simultaneous submission to other conferences with proceedings or submission of material that has already been published elsewhere is not allowed. SYSTEM DESCRIPTIONS. Submissions, not exceeding eight (8) pages including bibliography, should describe the implemented tool and its novel features. One author is expected to be able to perform a demonstration on demand to accompany a tool presentation. Papers describing tools that have already been presented in other conferences before will be accepted only if significant and clear enhancements to the tool are reported and implemented. Best paper award: ----------------- IJCAR 2018 will recognize the most outstanding submission with a best paper award at the conference. IJCAR'18 Special Issue of the Journal of Automated Reasoning: ------------------------------------------------------------- The authors of a selection of the best IJCAR'18 papers will be invited to produce an extended version of their paper for a special issue of the Journal of Automated Reasoning. Invited speakers: ----------------- Invited Speakers will be announced later on. Important dates (provisional): ------------------------------ Abstract submission: January 22nd 2018 Paper submission: January 29th 2018 Notification: March 29th, 2018 Final version of papers due: April 23rd, 2018 IJCAR Conference: July 14-17th, 2018 FLoC Conference: July 6-19th, 2018 IMPORTANT NOTICE: due to very strict FLoC constraints, deadlines are SHARP! Student travel awards: ---------------------- Woody Bledsoe Travel Awards will be available to support selected students in attending the conference. Organization: ------------- Conference Chair: Ian Horrocks, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK Program Chairs: Didier Galmiche, LORIA, Universite de Lorraine, Nancy, France Stephan Schulz, DHBW Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany Roberto Sebastiani, DISI, University of Trento, Trento, Italy Local Arrangements Chairs: Daniel Kroening, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK Marta Kwiatkowska, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK Workshop Chair: Alberto Griggio, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Trento, Italy Publicity Chair: Geoff Sutcliffe, University of Miami Program Committee: Carlos Areces, FaMA FUniversidad Nacional de Cordoba Alessandro Artale, Free University of Bolzano-Bozen Arnon Avron, Tel-Aviv University Franz Baader, TU Dresden Clark Barrett, Stanford University Peter Baumgartner, Data 61 and CSIRO Christoph Benzmueller, Freie Universitaet Berlin Armin Biere, Johannes Kepler University Linz Nikolaj Bjorner, Microsoft Research Jasmin Christian Blanchette, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Maria Paola Bonacina, Universita degli Studi di Verona Torben Brauener, Roskilde University Agata Ciabattoni, TU Wien Leonardo de Moura, Microsoft Research Hans De Nivelle, University of Wroclaw Stephane Demri, CNRS, LSV, ENS Paris-Saclay Clare Dixon, University of Liverpool Francois Fages, Inria Universite Paris-Saclay Pascal Fontaine, Universite de Lorraine - LORIA Didier Galmiche (Chair), Universite de Lorraine - LORIA Vijay Ganesh, University of Waterloo Silvio Ghilardi, Universite degli Studi di Milano Juergen Giesl, RWTH Aachen Laura Giordano, DISIT Universite del Piemonte Orientale Valentin Goranko, Stockholm University Rajeev Gore, The Australian National University Alberto Griggio, FBK-IRST John Harrison, Intel Corporation Ian Horrocks, University of Oxford Moa Johansson, Chalmers Tekniska Hogskola Cezary Kaliszyk, University of Innsbruck Deepak Kapur, University of New Mexico Konstantin Korovin, The University of Manchester Laura Kovacs Vienna, University of Technology George Metcalfe, University of Bern Dale Miller, INRIA and LIX/Ecole Polytechnique Claudia Nalon, University of Brasilia Albert Oliveras, - Technical University of Catalonia Nicola Olivetti, LSIS Aix-Marseille University Jens Otten, University of Oslo Lawrence Paulson, University of Cambridge Nicolas Peltier, CNRS, LIG Frank Pfenning, Carnegie Mellon University Silvio Ranise, FBK-Irst Christophe Ringeissen, LORIA-INRIA Philipp Ruemmer, Uppsala University Katsuhiko Sano, Hokkaido University Uli Sattler, The University of Manchester Renate A. Schmidt, The University of Manchester Stephan Schulz (Chair), DHBW Stuttgart Roberto Sebastiani (Chair), DISI University of Trento Viorica Sofronie-Stokkermans, University Koblenz-Landau Thomas Sturm, CNRS Geoff Sutcliffe, University of Miami Cesare Tinelli, The University of Iowa Alwen Tiu, Nanyang Technological University Ashish Tiwari, SRI International Josef Urban, Czech Technical University in Prague Luca Vigan??, King's College London Andrei Voronkov, The University of Manchester Uwe Waldmann, Max Planck Institute for Informatics Christoph Weidenbach, Max Planck Institute for Informatics From ijv at acm.org Tue Dec 5 22:00:43 2017 From: ijv at acm.org (=?utf-8?Q?Ivan_Jos=C3=A9_Varzinczak?=) Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2017 22:00:43 +0100 Subject: [DL] Special issue of IJAR on Defeasible and Ampliative Reasoning Message-ID: <998CA3D3-5D16-4EAF-BF30-9B161E93D4DE@acm.org> * Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this call * Call for Papers: ====================================================================== Special Issue of the International Journal of Approximate Reasoning on "Defeasible and Ampliative Reasoning" ====================================================================== Classical reasoning is not flexible enough when directly applied to the formalisation of certain nuances of decision making as done by humans. These involve different kinds of reasoning such as reasoning with uncertainty, exceptions, similarity, vagueness, incomplete or contradictory information and many others. It turns out that everyday reasoning usually shows the two salient intertwined aspects below: * Ampliative aspect: augmenting the underlying reasoning by allowing more conclusions. In practical contexts, this amounts to the ability to make inferences that venture beyond the scope of the premises, somehow in an unsound but justifiable way. Prominent examples are (i) default reasoning: jumping to conclusions deemed as plausible 'by default', i.e., in the absence of information to the contrary, like applying negation as failure or adopting the closed-world assumption; (ii) inductive and abductive reasoning: taking chances in drawing conclusions that implicitly call for further scrutiny or tests by empirical observations, like in making inductive hypotheses in scientific theories or finding abductive explanations in forensics, and (iii) analogical reasoning: extrapolating from very few examples (in the worst case only one) on the basis of observable similarities or dissimilarities. * Defeasible aspect: curtailing the underlying reasoning by either disregarding or disallowing some conclusions that somehow ought not to be sanctioned. In practice, this amounts to the ability to backtrack one's conclusions or to admit exceptions in reasoning. Some examples of this are (i) retractive reasoning: withdrawing conclusions that have already been derived, like in belief contraction or in negotiation, and (ii) preemptive reasoning: preventing or blocking the inference of some conclusions by disallowing their derivation in the first place, like in dealing with exceptional cases in multiple inheritance networks and in regulatory systems. Several efforts have been put into the study and definition of formalisms within which the aforementioned aspects of everyday reasoning could adequately be captured at different levels. Despite the progress that has been achieved, a large avenue remains open for exploration. Indeed, the literature on non-monotonic reasoning has focused almost exclusively on defeasibility of argument forms, whereas belief revision paradigms are restricted to an underlying classical (Tarskian) consequence relation. Moreover, even if some of the issues related to uncertainty in reasoning have been studied using probabilistic approaches and statistical methods, their integration with qualitative frameworks remain a challenge. Finally, well-established approaches are largely based on propositional languages (poor expressiveness) or haunted by the undecidability of full first-order logic. Modern applications require formalisms with a good balance between expressive power and computational complexity in order to be also considered as good candidates for eXplainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI). This special issue aims at bringing together work on defeasible and ampliative reasoning from the perspective of artificial intelligence, cognitive sciences, philosophy and related disciplines in a multi-disciplinary way, thereby consolidating the mission of the DARe workshop series. -- Topics of interest -- Submissions are welcome on topics relevant to defeasible and ampliative reasoning and that include but are not limited to: - Abductive and inductive reasoning - Explanation finding, diagnosis and causal reasoning - Inconsistency handling and exception-tolerant reasoning - Decision-making under uncertainty and incomplete information - Default reasoning, non-monotonic reasoning, non-monotonic logics, conditional logics - Specific instances and variations of ampliative and defeasible reasoning - Probabilistic and statistical approaches to reasoning - Vagueness, rough sets, granularity and fuzzy-logics - Philosophical foundations of defeasibility - Empirical studies of reasoning - Relationship with cognition and language - Contextual reasoning - Preference-based reasoning - Analogical reasoning - Similarity-based reasoning - Belief dynamics and merging - Argumentation theory, negotiation and conflict resolution - Heuristic and approximate reasoning - Defeasible normative systems - Reasoning about actions and change - Reasoning about knowledge and belief, epistemic and doxastic logics - Ampliative and defeasible temporal and spatial reasoning - Computational aspects of reasoning with uncertainty - Implementations and systems - Applications of uncertainty in reasoning -- How to submit -- The submission url is: http://www.evise.com/evise/jrnl/IJA When submitting your manuscript, please select ?VSI:DARe special issue? as the article type. Check the ?Help? link on the above url for instructions. If you have any enquiries, please feel free to contact us at dare.to.contact.us at gmail.com -- Important Dates -- - Submission deadline: 15 February 2018 - Notification: 1 November 2018 - Publication date: 1 January 2019 -- Guest editors -- - Richard Booth, Cardiff University, UK - Giovanni Casini, University of Luxembourg - Szymon Klarman, Semantic Integration Ltd., UK - Gilles Richard, Universit? Paul Sabatier, France - Ivan Varzinczak, CRIL, Univ. Artois & CNRS, France -- Ivan Varzinczak CRIL, Univ. Artois & CNRS, France http://member.acm.org/~ijv From epontell at cs.nmsu.edu Fri Dec 8 08:29:53 2017 From: epontell at cs.nmsu.edu (Enrico Pontelli) Date: Fri, 08 Dec 2017 00:29:53 -0700 Subject: [DL] CFP: International Conference on Logic Programming 2018 Message-ID: <2BED3E73-F764-4732-9EBE-C3B4A61CE606@cs.nmsu.edu> APOLOGIES if you receive multiple copies of this message 34th International Conference on Logic Programming (ICLP 2018) Call for Papers ===================== July 14-17, 2018 Oxford, UK http://www.logicprogramming.org/iclp2018 The 34th International Conference on Logic Programming (ICLP 2018) will take place in Oxford, U.K. as part of FLOC'2018 (http://www.floc2018.org/) from July 14 to July 17, 2018. Scope: ------ ICLP is the premier conference on foundations and applications of logic programming, including but not restricted to answer-set programming, non-monotonic reasoning, unification and constraints based logic languages, constraint handling rules, argumentation logics, deductive databases, description logics, inductive and co-inductive logic programming. Papers are solicited on: * Foundations: semantics, execution algorithms, formal models * Implementation: virtual machines, compilation, memory management, ??parallel execution, foreign interfaces * Language Design: inference engines, type systems, concurrency and ??distribution, modules, metaprogramming, relations to object-oriented ??and functional programming, logic-based domain-specific languages * Software-Development Techniques: declarative algorithms and data ??structures, design patterns, debugging, testing, profiling, execution ??visualization * Transformation and Analysis:? assertions, type and mode inference, ??partial evaluation, abstract interpretation, program transformations * Applications and Synergies:? interaction with SAT, SMT and CSP solvers, ??logic programming techniques for type inference and theorem proving, ??Horn-clause analysis, knowledge representation, cognitive computing, ??artificial intelligence, natural language processing, information ??retrieval, web programming, education, computational life sciences, ??computational mathematics. Submission Details: ------------------- Submissions of regular papers must be made in the condensed TPLP format via EasyChair. A regular paper must not exceed 14 pages including the bibliography, but the paper may be supplemented with appendices for proofs and details of datasets. These will not not count towards this limit and will be available as supplementary material to the published paper in the TPLP website. We accept three kinds of papers: - Technical papers for technically sound, innovative ideas that can ??advance the state of logic programming; - Application papers that impact interesting application domains; - System and tool papers which emphasize novelty, practicality, usability, ??and availability of the systems and tools described. Application, system, and tool papers need to be clearly marked in their title. All submissions must be written in English and describe original, previously unpublished research, and must not simultaneously be submitted for publication elsewhere. Papers of the highest quality will be selected to be published in the journal of Theory and Practice of Logic Programming (TPLP), Cambridge University Press (CUP). 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). The program committee may recommend some papers to be published as Technical Communications (TCs). TCs will be published by Dagstuhl Publishing in the OpenAccess Series in Informatics (OASIcs). TCs must follow the OASIcs format (template available here) and not exceed 14 pages excluding the bibliography and a short appendix (up to 5 more pages). TC?s authors can also elect to convert their submissions into extended abstracts, of 2 or 3 pages, for inclusion in the OASIcs proceedings. This should allow authors to submit a long version elsewhere. Doctoral consortium position papers, of between 10 and 14 pages, will also be published as TCs. Authors of accepted papers will, by default, be automatically included in the list of ALP members, who will receive quarterly updates from the Logic Programming Newsletter at no cost. Important Dates: ---------------- Abstract registration February 5, 2018 Paper submission February 12, 2018 Notification March 20, 2018 Revision submission (TPLP papers) April 5, 2018 Final notifications (TPLP papers) April 15, 2018 Camera-ready copy May 1, 2018 Conference July 14 / July 17, 2018 General Chair: Marco Gavanelli Program Chairs: ???Alessandro Dal Pal???? University of Parma ?? Paul Tarau???????????? University of North Texas Program Committee: Mario Alviano???????????? University of Calabria Hassan Ait-Kaci?? Marcello Balduccini?????? St. John's University Mutsunori Banbara???????? Kobe University Pedro Cabalar???????????? University of Corunna Mats Carlsson???????????? SICS Manuel Carro????????????? UPM and IMDEA Software Institute Michael Codish??????????? Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Marina De Vos???????????? University of Bath Thomas Eiter????????????? TU Wien Esra Erdem??????????????? Sabanci University Thom Fruehwirth?????????? University of Ulm Marco Gavanelli?????????? University of Ferrara Martin Gebser???????????? University of Potsdam Gopal Gupta?????????????? University of Texas at Dallas Michael Hanus???????????? CAU Kiel Amelia Harrison?????????? University of Texas at Austin Manuel Hermenegildo?????? UPM Tomi Janhunen???????????? Aalto University Angelica Kimmig?????????? Cardiff University Ekaterina Komendantskaya? Heriot-Watt University Nicola Leone????????????? University of Calabria Michael Leuschel????????? University of Dusseldorf Yuliya Lierler??????????? University of Nebraska at Omaha Vladimir Lifschitz??????? University of Texas at Austin Barry O'Sullivan????????? 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Please check the preliminary instructions: http://oaei.ontologymatching.org/2017.5/ In case you have participate din the past, note that the wrapping instructions are different from SEALS so do not hesitate to contact relevant organisers if you have any doubts. - We will most probably have a special issue for the OAEI 2017.5 systems and evaluation in a journal with impact factor. Details will be available soon. IMPORTANT DATES ------------------ December Preliminary datasets are available. January 31 Final datasets available in HOBBIT. March 1 Deadline for tool submission using HOBBIT instructions. March 30 Evaluation completed. -- Ernesto Jim?nez-Ruiz Research Assistant Department of Informatics University of Oslo http://www.mn.uio.no/ifi/english/people/aca/ernestoj/ http://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/people/ernesto.jimenez-ruiz/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Website: http://iswc2018.semanticweb.org Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/InternationalSemanticWebConference Twitter: @iswc2018 (https://twitter.com/iswc2018) Important dates: http://iswc2018.semanticweb.org/important-dates/ In this announcement: Workshop and Tutorial proposals: **first call** Call for Workshop and Tutorial Proposals =============================== In addition to the regular research program, ISWC 2018 will feature a workshop and tutorial program addressing the diverse interests of its audience. We hereby invite you to submit a tutorial proposal on a topic relevant to the ISWC 2018 audience. Detailed info: http://iswc2018.semanticweb.org/call-for-tutorial-proposals/ Besides tutorials, ISWC will host a number of workshops on topics related to the general theme of the conference. The role of the workshops is to provide a context for a focused and intensive scientific exchange among researchers interested in a particular topic. As such, workshops are the primary venues for the exploration of emerging ideas as well as for the discussion of novel aspects of established research topics. We invite you to submit a proposal for workshops on a topic of interest to ISWC attendees. Detailed info: http://iswc2018.semanticweb.org/call-for-workshop-proposals/ Workshops & Tutorials Chairs * Amrapali Zaveri, Maastricht University, Maastricht, Netherlands * Elena Demidova, L3S Research Center, Leibniz Universit?t Hannover, Hannover, Germany Important Dates for Workshops and Tutorials ================================== Workshop & Tutorial proposals January 21, 2018 Workshop & Tutorial proposals notifications February 15, 2018 Workshop paper submissions due June 1, 2018 Workshop paper notifications sent July 13, 2018 Workshops & Tutorials October 8-9, 2018 Conference October 10-12, 2018 The ISWC Organising Committee (http://iswc2018.semanticweb.org/organization/) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dario.dellamonica at unina.it Sun Dec 10 13:40:00 2017 From: dario.dellamonica at unina.it (Dario Della Monica) Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2017 13:40:00 +0100 Subject: [DL] =?utf-8?b?TG9naWMgQ29swq1sb8KtcXVpdW0gMjAxOCAoTEMxOCk6IDFz?= =?utf-8?q?t_call_for_contributions?= Message-ID: <28346b5e-8929-5ac3-9fc9-f4984d7deb08@unina.it> We are happy to announce the following event and we would be glad if you could forward this message to whom it might interest. LC 2018 Udine, Italy July 23-28, 2018 https://lc18.uniud.it ________________________________________________________________________ LOGIC COLLOQUIUM 2018 https://lc18.uniud.it The Logic Colloquium 2018 is the annual European summer meeting of the Association of Symbolic Logic (ASL) (http://www.aslonline.org/index.htm). It will be held during July 23-28, 2018, at the University of Udine, Italy, and is organized by the Department of Mathematics, Computer Science, and Physics of the University of Udine. The latest meetings took place in Paris (2010), Barcelona (2011), Manchester (2012), Evora (2013), Vienna (2014), Helsinki (2015), Leeds (2016) and Stockholm (2017). The Association for Symbolic Logic (ASL) is an international organization supporting research and critical studies in logic. Its primary function is to provide an effective forum for the presentation, publication, and discussion of scholarly work in this area of inquiry. The Association holds two major annual meetings to present current research in all aspects of logic in a way that is accessible to all logicians. IMPORTANT DATES: ============================ Deadline for abstract submission: April 27, 2018 Deadline for travel grant applications: May 4, 2018 Deadline for early registration: May 23, 2018 Main event: July 23 (9am)- July 28 (1pm) TUTORIAL SPEAKERS: ================== K. Tent (WWU M?nster) U. Sattler (University of Manchester) INVITED SPEAKERS: ================= M. Antonutti Marfori (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universit?t M?nchen) A. Atserias (Universitat Polit?cnica de Catalunya) V. Brattka (Universit?t der Bundeswehr M?nchen) A. Ciabattoni (TU Wien) P. D?Aquino (Universit? degli Studi della Campania) P. Oliva (Queen Mary University of London) L. Patey (Institut Camille Jordan, Lyon) A. Tserunyan (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) S. Unger(Tel Aviv University) M. Viale (Universit? degli studi di Torino) D. Westerstahl (Stockholm University) GOEDEL SPEAKER: ================ R. Downey (Victoria University of Wellington) SPECIAL SESSIONS: ================= 6 special sessions with topics: * Descriptive set theory and dynamical systems: ??? Chairs: ??? B. Miller (Universit?t Wien), ??? ??? ??? ??? A. T?rnquist (K?benhavn Universitet) * Model theory: ??? Chairs: ??? F. Wagner (Universit? Lyon I), ??? ??? ??? ??? E. Casanovas (Universitat de Barcelona) * Proof theory and constructivism: ??? Chairs: ??? S. Ghilardi (Universit? degli Studi di Milano), ??? ??? ??? ??? G. Sambin (Universit? degli Studi di Padova) * Temporal and multivalued logics: ??? Chairs: ??? M. Lange (Universit?t Kassel), ??? ??? ??? ??? B. Gerla (Universit? dell'Insubria) * Computability theory: ??? Chairs: ??? A. Sorbi (Universit? di Siena 1240), ??? ??? ??? ??? P. Shafer (University of Leeds) * Philosophy of Logic and Mathematics: ??? Chairs: ??? J. Kennedy (University of Helsinki), ??? ??? ??? ??? G. Sagi (University of Haifa) PROGRAM COMMITTEE: ============= D. Macpherson (Chair) (University of Leeds) S. Demri (CNRS) A. Kechris (California Institute of Technology) C. Laskowski (University of Maryland) A. Marcone (Universit? degli Studi di Udine) A. Montalban (UC Berkeley) P. Pudl?k (Czech Academy of Sciences) G. Sher (UC San Diego) D. Sinapova (University of Illinois at Chicago) LOCAL ORGANIZATION COMMITTEE: ============= Department of Mathematics, Computer Science and Physics, University of Udine, Italy G. D'Agostino (Co-Chair) A. Montanari (Co-Chair) V. Dimonte G. Gherardi A. Marcone F. Parlamento C. Piazza D. Della Monica M. Fiori Carones N. Gigante A. Molinari M. Valenti For questions please contact lc18 at uniud.it SUBMISSIONS: =================== Abstracts of contributed papers must be submitted as pdf file via EasyChair at the URL: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lc18. If you do not have an EasyChair account yet, you can create one at https://easychair.org/ Abstract should be prepared according to the ASL instructions http://www.aslonline.org/rules_abstracts.html using? the ASL abstract style (available at http://aslonline.org/abstractresources.html). For submission instructions see https://lc18.uniud.it starting from January 2018. The deadline for submissions is April 27, 2018. If electronic submission is not possible, abstracts should be mailed to: Prof. H. Dugald Macpherson, PC chair of Logic Colloquium 2018, School of Mathematics, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK. Upon notification of acceptance, authors will be requested to submit the TeX source files. Abstracts are published as part of the meeting report in The Bulletin of Symbolic Logic? only if at least one author is a member of the ASL at the time the report is sent for publication. Abstracts of contributed papers submitted by ASL members will be published in The Bulletin of Symbolic Logic, provided that they satisfy the Rules for Abstracts (see above). APPLICATIONS FOR STUDENT TRAVEL GRANTS: ======================= The ASL, the NSF, and the local organizing committee will make available modest travel awards to graduate students in logic and to recent PhDs to attend the meeting. For more details on the grants, see: http://www.aslonline.org/studenttravelawards.html . Applications for student travel grants and recommendations should be received between January 1 and May 4, 2018. They should be submitted electronically, by email to LC18grant at uniud.it If electronic submission is not possible, applications and recommendations should be mailed to: Prof. H. Dugald Macpherson, PC chair of Logic Colloquium 2018, School of Mathematics, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK. 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URL: From alammehw at gmail.com Thu Dec 14 10:59:59 2017 From: alammehw at gmail.com (Mehwish Alam) Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2017 10:59:59 +0100 Subject: [DL] ESWC 2018: Call for Challenges Message-ID: <15C71070-A0CA-481B-B70A-341EA6D9228B@gmail.com> [Apologies for multiple postings.] * * * * * * * Overview * * * * * * * The ESWC organizers are glad to announce that the Challenges Track will be included again in the program of ESWC 2018. Five challenges were held last year [1] and allowed the ESWC2017 conference to attract a broader audience beyond the Semantic Web community, also spanning across disciplines such as Recommender Systems or Knowledge Extraction. For the 2018 edition, a call for challenges is open in order to allow the selection of challenges to be held at the conference. The purpose of challenges is to showcase the maturity of state of the art methods and tools on tasks common to the Semantic Web community and adjacent disciplines, in a controlled setting involving rigorous evaluation. Semantic Web Challenges are an official track of the conference, ensuring significant visibility for the challenges as well as participants. Challenge participants are asked to present their submissions as well as provide a paper describing their work. These papers must undergo a peer-review by experts relevant to the challenge task, and will be published in the challenge proceedings. Next to the publication of proceedings, challenges at ESWC2018 will benefit from high visibility and direct access to the ESWC audience and community. [1] https://2017.eswc-conferences.org/call-challenges * * * * * * * * * * * Challenge Proposals * * * * * * * * * * * Challenge organizers are encouraged to submit proposals adhering to the following criteria: - At least one task involving semantics in data. The task(s) should be well defined and related to the Semantic Web but not necessarily confined to it. It is highly encouraged to consider tasks which involve other, highly related communities, such as NLP, Recommender Systems, Machine Learning or Information Retrieval. If multiple tasks are provided the tasks should be independent so that participants may choose which to participate in. - Task descriptions are likely to be interesting to a wider audience. We encourage the challenge organizers to propose at least one basic task that can be addressed by a larger audience from their community. Engaging with your challenge audience and obtaining feedback from your target group on the task design might be helpful for shaping the task and ensuring sufficient number of participants. - Clear and rigorous definition of the tasks. For each task, you should define a deterministic and objective way to verify if the goal of the task has been achieved, and to which extent it has been achieved (if applicable). The best way is usually to provide detailed examples of input data and expected output. The examples must cover all the possible situations that can occur while performing the task, and should leave no place to ambiguity about whether in a particular case the task is done or not. - Valid dataset (if applicable). If accepted, you should find or create a dataset that will be used for the challenge. In any case, you must specify the provenance of the dataset (if it contains human annotation ? how were those obtained). You must make sure you have the right to use/publish this dataset and clearly state the license for its use within the challenge. The dataset should be split at least in two parts ? the training part, and the evaluation part. The training part contains the data, and the results that should be obtained when performing the task. As for the evaluation part, you should only publish the data, and make sure that the correct results have not previously been available to the participants. When proposing the challenge you must provide details on the dataset and on the way it is/will be created ? the dataset can be made available later. - Challenge Committee. Composed of at least 3 respected researchers with experience in the tasks of the challenge. They help evaluate the papers submitted by the participants, and also validate the evaluation procedure. - Evaluation metrics and procedure. For each task there must be at least two objective criteria (metrics) (e.g. precision and recall). The evaluation procedure and the way in which the metrics will be calculated must be clearly specified and made transparent to participants (having in the website of the challenge evaluation scripts available for participants would be a good practice to use). Among the selection criteria for choosing the supported challenges are: -- Potential number to interested participants -- Rigor and transparency of the evaluation procedure -- Relevance for the Semantic Web community -- Endorsements (from researchers working on the task, from industry players interested in results, from future participants) * * * * * * * * * Important Dates * * * * * * * * * - Challenges proposals due: Friday December 22th, 2017 - 23:59 Hawaii Time - Challenges chosen/merged ? notification to organizers sent: Friday December 29th, 2017 - Training data ready and challenges Calls for Papers: Friday January 12th, 2018 - Challenge papers submission deadline (5 pages document): Friday March 9th, 2018 - Challenge paper reviews: Thursday April 5th, 2018 - Notifications sent to participants and invitations to submit task results: Monday April 9th, 2018 - Test data (and other participation tools) published: Monday 16 April 7th, 2018 - Camera ready papers for the conference (5 pages document): Monday April 23rd, 2018 - Submission of challenge results: free choice of organizers - Proclamation of winners: During ESWC2018 closing ceremony - Camera ready paper for the challenge post proceedings (15 pages document): Friday July 6th, 2018 (tentative deadline) * * * * * * * * * * Submission Details * * * * * * * * * * The challenges proposals should contain at least the following elements: - A summary description of the challenge and tasks - How the training/testing data will be built and/or procured - The evaluation methodology to be used, including clear evaluation criteria and the exact way in which they will be measured. Who will perform the evaluation and how will transparency be assured? - The anticipated availability of the necessary resources to the participants - The resources required to prepare the tasks (computation and annotation time, costs of annotations, etc.) - The list of challenge committee members who will evaluate the challenge papers (please indicate which of the listed members already accepted the role) In case of doubt, feel free to send us your challenge proposal drafts as early as possible ? the challenges chairs will provide you with feedback and answers to questions you may have. Please submit proposals via Easychair at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=challengeeswc2018 as soon as possible and no later than *22 December 2017*. From meghyn.bienvenu at gmail.com Tue Dec 12 04:49:45 2017 From: meghyn.bienvenu at gmail.com (Meghyn Bienvenu) Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2017 22:49:45 -0500 Subject: [DL] IJCAI-ECAI 2018 - Call for Tutorials Message-ID: IJCAI-ECAI-2018 CALL FOR TUTORIALS http://www.ijcai-18.org/cft/ IJCAI-ECAI-18 invites proposals for the Tutorial Track. Tutorials will be held on July 13-15, 2018, immediately prior to the technical conference. Tutorial attendance is complimentary for all IJCAI-ECAI-18 conference registrants. //// OBJECTIVES //// Tutorials should serve one or more of the following objectives: * Introduce novices to major topics within Artificial Intelligence. * Introduce expert non-specialists to an AI subarea. * Motivate and explain a topic of emerging importance for AI. * Survey a mature area of AI research and/or practice. * Provide instruction in established but specialized AI methodologies. * Present a novel synthesis combining distinct lines of AI work. * Introduce AI audiences to an external topic that can motivate or use AI research. * Mentor AI researchers (particularly, junior researchers) on a broad AI-relevant non-technical topic (examples could be AI jobs, or ethical issues in AI). Tutorials are intended to cover reasonably well-established information in a balanced way. Tutorials should not be used to advocate a single avenue of research, nor should they promote a product. We encourage tutorials with a hands-on component or other interactive element. We also welcome tutorials with explicit ties to IJCAI-ECAI-18?s theme of the Evolution of the Contours of AI. //// KEY DATES //// * Proposal Submission Deadline: January 10, 2018 (tentative) * Acceptance Notification: February 10, 2018 (tentative) * Title, Abstract, and Speaker Biography Deadline: March 6, 2018 * Syllabus and Course Handouts Posted: June 12, 2018 * IJCAI-18 Tutorials: July 13-15, 2018 //// SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS //// Tutorial proposals should be submitted to: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ijcai18tutorialtrack Proposals must be submitted as a single PDF file containing the following information: * A two-sentence description of the tutorial, suitable for inclusion in the conference registration brochure. * A two-paragraph description of the tutorial, suitable for a web page overview. * Proposed length of the tutorial: 1/4 or 1/2 day (one or two 1:45h slots respectively) * A detailed, point-form outline of the tutorial. * A brief characterization of the potential target audience for the tutorial, including prerequisite knowledge. * A brief description of why the tutorial topic would be of interest to a substantial part of the IJCAI audience, and which of the above objectives are best served by the tutorial. * A brief resume of the presenter(s), which should include: * Name, postal address, phone number, e-mail address * Background in the tutorial area, including a list of publications/presentations * Citation to an available example of work in the area (ideally, a published tutorial-level article or presentation materials on the subject) * Evidence of teaching experience (courses taught or references) * Evidence of scholarship in AI or Computer Science //// CONTACT //// Any questions about the tutorial program should be directed to the tutorial chairs: * Bo An (boan at ntu.edu.sg ) * Meghyn Bienvenu (meghyn at lirmm.fr ) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Confirmed speakers include: - Eduardo Alonso (City, University of London) - Antoine Bordes (Facebook AI Research) - Edward Grefenstette (DeepMind) - Barbara Hammer (Bielefeld University) - Kristian Kersting (TU Darmstadt) - Alessio Lomuscio (Imperial College London) - Stephen Muggleton (Imperial College London) - Alessandra Russo (Imperial College London) - Luciano Serafini (Fondazione Bruno Kessler) - Frank van Harmelen (VU Amsterdam) - Geraint Wiggins (Queen Mary, University of London) - Michael Wooldridge (University of Oxford) - Willem Zuidema (University of Amsterdam). --- Tarek R. Besold, PhD WWW: http://www.cat-ai.org Twitter: @jeublanc LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/tarekbesold/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From alammehw at gmail.com Thu Dec 14 12:20:20 2017 From: alammehw at gmail.com (Mehwish Alam) Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2017 12:20:20 +0100 Subject: [DL] [CFP] Second Call for Papers: ESWC 2018 with New Deadlines!! Message-ID: [Apologies for multiple postings.] * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS This is a joint call for the Research, In-Use, and Resources tracks. The Fifteenth Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2018) June 3rd - June 7th, 2018, Heraklion, Crete, Greece. Web Page: https://2018.eswc-conferences.org Twitter: @eswc_conf Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ESWCCONF * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Important Dates (Changed from previous calls) Abstract submission: Friday 5th January 2018 Paper submission: Friday 12th January 2018 Opening of rebuttal period: Friday 16th February Closing of rebuttal period: Wednesday 21st February Notification to authors: Friday 2nd March Camera ready papers due: Friday 23rd March * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * ESWC Conference: ESWC is one of the key academic conferences to present research results and new developments in the area of the Semantic Web. For its 15th edition, ESWC will be back in Heraklion (Crete, Greece) from Sunday 3rd June to Thursday 7th June 2018. ESWC2018 features three main tracks (Research, Resources, In-Use), introduces a novel fully open review policy, as well as alternative publishing and decentralisation measures. This is the first call for papers for each of the main tracks. General Chair: Aldo Gangemi * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Call for Research Track Papers * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Scope and Topics The goal of the Semantic Web is to create a network of data and knowledge that interconnect across the Web, and where both content and its meaning are manipulated by processes, services and applications. This endeavour naturally draws from and impacts on many disciplines of computing (and connected areas), related to data and information management, knowledge engineering, machine intelligence, human knowledge and languages, software services and applications. We are therefore seeking contribution to research at the intersection of the Semantic Web and these areas, as described in the 9 research tracks of the conferences. In addition to the main focus on advances in Semantic Web research and technologies, ESWC 2018 is looking to broaden the Semantic Web research community?s understanding and focus on problems and areas that directly impact the development of the Semantic Web. Thus, the 15th edition of ESWC 2018 includes 2 additional research tracks: the Benchmarking and Empirical Evaluations track, and the Semantic Web for Science track. The aim of the Benchmarking and Empirical Evaluations track is to encourage the community to submit papers on results of empirical evaluations of state-of-the-art Semantic Web methods; extensive evaluation using existing benchmarks are expected. The papers of this track should follow the scientific method and ensure reproducibility of the reported results by using analytical modelling and statistical methods. Submissions could report on the verification or refutation of already published results, as well as the empirical comparison of state-of-the-art methods. Moreover, in the Semantic Web for Science track, submissions presenting domain specific problems that require the use of Semantic Web technologies to be solved are expected. Biomedicine, pharmacogenomic, sociology, scholarly, maritime, or journalism are examples of scientific domains. The introduction of this theme integrates well with and builds upon tracks of Semantic Data Management and Machine Learning, and allows for the submission of research papers where novel solutions for the management and analytics of scientific data are required. Research Subtracks: - Vocabularies, Schemas, Ontologies. Chairs: Sofia Pinto, Christoph Lange - Reasoning. Chairs: Jeff Pan, Diego Calvanese - Linked Data. Chairs: Hala Skaf-Molli, Jorge Gracia - Social Web and Web Science. Chairs: Stefan Dietze, Harald Sack - Semantic Data Management, Big data, Scalability. Chairs: Maribel Acosta, Olaf Hartig - Natural Language Processing and Information Retrieval. Chairs: John McCrae, Valentina Presutti - Machine Learning - Chairs: Andreas Hotho, Achim Rettinger - Mobile Web, Sensors and Semantic Streams. Chairs: Themis Palpanas, Intizar Ali - Services, APIs, Processes and Cloud Computing. Chairs: Amrapali Zaveri, Ruben Verborgh Special Subtracks: - Benchmarking and Empirical Evaluations. Chairs: Oscar Corcho, Emanuele Della Valle - Semantic Web for Science. Chairs: Catia Pesquita, Adrian Paschke Research Track chairs - Maria-Esther Vidal, Leibniz Information Centre For Science and Technology University Library, Germany, and Universidad Simon Bolivar, Venezuela - Roberto Navigli, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Call for In-Use & Industrial Track Papers * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * The Semantic Web In-Use and Industry track provides a forum for researchers and industry to discuss novel research taken to the market, or on any other relevant uptake of semantic technologies outside the lab. Submissions to the track will provide a deeper insight on the exploitation of Semantic Web technologies in different sectors. The track takes a broad view of semantic technologies including natural language processing and machine learning techniques. Papers will be evaluated on the basis of measurable impact of semantic technologies, and on the extent to which they address real-life problems. In addition, papers will be assessed on the novelty of the techniques applied in practice, and should include an evaluation of the technology or reflect on the pros and cons of the approach. Topics: - Best practices and lessons learnt from the use of semantic technologies in real-world settings - Comparison of semantic technologies with alternative or conventional approaches - Industry and business trends regarding the use of semantic technologies - Ontology-based data access in large-scale and industrial systems - Cloud Computing and Mobile apps based on semantic technologies - Knowledge Graphs in real-world settings - Semantic technologies and Machine Learning - Natural Language Processing and machine reading techniques applied in practice - Sentiment Analysis and Social Networks in action - Intelligent User Interfaces and Interaction paradigms for semantic applications - Corporate Data and Knowledge Management over large, heterogeneous and diverse data; Semantic Big Data - Semantic technologies and corporate data governance - The use of Schema.org, microformats and other open markup languages and standards - Security and Privacy issues in semantic applications - Collaborative Content Management Systems, including Wikis - Industry and Business Analytics solutions using semantic technology - Internet of Things, sensor networks - Applications in domain-specific areas such as Health & Life Sciences, Digital Libraries & Cultural Heritage, Media & Entertainment, Smart Cities, and Open Government In-use Track chairs: - Anna Tordai, Elsevier - Laura Hollink, Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI), NL * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Call for Resources Track Papers * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Scope and Topics Many of the research efforts in the areas of the Semantic Web and Linked Data focus on publishing scientific papers that prove a hypothesis. However, scientific advancement is often reliant on good quality resources, that provide the necessary scaffolding to support the scientific publications; yet the resources themselves rarely get the same recognition as the advances they facilitate. Sharing these resources and the best practices that have lead to their development with the research community is crucial, to consolidate research material, ensure reproducibility of results and in general gain new scientific insights. The ESWC 2018 Resources Track aims to promote the sharing of resources including, but not restricted to: datasets, evaluation benchmarks and annotated corpora, ontologies and vocabularies, knowledge graphs of remarkable interest, machine learning models (e.g. embeddings) that are not trivial to (re-)train, software frameworks, tools, libraries and APIs attached to an open license, etc. In particular, we encourage the sharing of such resources following best and well established practices within the Semantic Web community, including the provision of an open license and a permalink identifying the resource. This track calls for contributions that provide a concise and clear description of a resource and its usage. A typical Resource track paper may reporting on one of the following categories, though the list is not exhaustive: - Ontologies developed for an application, with a focus on describing the modelling process underlying their creation and their usage; - Datasets and annotated corpora produced to support specific evaluation tasks; - Knowledge graphs or remarkable interest that comprehensively cover new vertical domains; - Machine learning models that would impact the knowledge engineering community. Examples include comprehensive word embeddings trained on large corpora, models for computer vision such as Inception v3 or ResNet50, CRNN for music, etc. See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_datasets_for_machine_learning_research - Description of a reusable research prototype / service supporting research or applications; - Description of community shared software frameworks that can be extended or adapted. Specific Review Criteria for Resource Papers The program committee will consider the quality of both the resource and the paper in its review process. Therefore, authors must ensure unfettered access to the resource during the review process, ideally by the resource being cited at a permanent location specific for the resource. For example, data available in a repository such as FigShare, Zenodo, or a domain specific repository; or software code being available in public code repository such as GitHub or BitBucket. The resource MUST be publicly available. We welcome the description of well established as well as emerging resources. Resources will be evaluated along the following generic review criteria that should be carefully considered both by authors and reviewers: Potential impact: - Does the resource break new ground? - Does the resource plug an important gap? - How does the resource advance the state of the art? - Has the resource been compared to other existing resources (if any) of similar scope? - Is the resource of interest to the Semantic Web community? - Is the resource of interest to society in general? - Will the resource have an impact, especially in supporting the adoption of Semantic Web technologies? - Is the resource relevant and sufficiently general, does it measure some significant aspect? Reusability: - Is there evidence of usage by a wider community beyond the resource creators or their project? Alternatively, what is the resource?s potential for being (re)used; for example, based on the activity volume on discussion forums, mailing list, issue tracker, support portal, etc? - Is the resource easy to (re)use? For example, does it have good quality documentation? Are there tutorials availability? etc. - Is the resource general enough to be applied in a wider set of scenarios, not just for the originally designed use? - Is there potential for extensibility to meet future requirements? - Does the resource clearly explain how others use the data and software? - Does the resource description clearly state what the resource can and cannot do, and the rationale for the exclusion of some functionality? Design & Technical quality: - Does the design of the resource follow resource specific best practices? - Did the authors perform an appropriate re-use or extension of suitable high-quality resources? For example, in the case of ontologies, authors might extend upper ontologies and/or reuse ontology design patterns. - Is the resource suitable to solve the task at hand? - Does the resource provide an appropriate description (both human and machine readable), thus encouraging the adoption of FAIR principles? Is there a schema diagram? For datasets, is the description available in terms of VoID/DCAT/DublinCore? - If the resource proposes performance metrics, are such metrics sufficiently broad and relevant? - If the resource is a comparative analysis or replication study, was the coverage of systems reasonable, or were any obvious choices missing? Availability: - Is the resource (and related results) published at a persistent URI (PURL, DOI, w3id)? - Does the resource provide a licence specification? (See creativecommons.org, opensource.org for more information) - How is the resource publicly available? For example as API, Linked Open Data, Download, Open Code Repository. - Is the resource publicly findable? Is it registered in (community) registries (e.g. Linked Open Vocabularies, BioPortal, or DataHub)? Is it registered in generic repositories such as FigShare, Zenodo or GitHub? - Is there a sustainability plan specified for the resource? Is there a plan for the maintenance of the resource? - Does it use open standards, when applicable, or have good reason not to? Resource Track Chairs Pascal Hitzler, Wright State University, USA Rapha?l Troncy, EURECOM, France The chairs can be contacted at eswc2018-resource-track-chairs at googlegroups.com * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Submission Information, Reviewing * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * ESWC 2018 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. 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. ESWC will not accept papers that, at the time of submission, are under review for or have already been published in or accepted for publication in a journal, another conference, or another ESWC track. The conference organizers may share information on submissions with other venues to ensure that this rule is not violated. The proceedings of this conference will be published in Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. Decentralised publishing of pre- and post-prints e.g. along the lines of LORC and Linked Data Notifications (see https://linkedresearch.org/cloud) is strongly encouraged, and will be supported by a dedicated team. Rules include: - Pre-submission of abstracts is a strict requirement. All papers and abstracts have to be submitted electronically via the EasyChair conference submission system. Abstracts alone will not be reviewed. - Papers describing a resource must not exceed 15 pages (including references). Papers that exceed the page limit will be rejected without review. - All research submissions must be in English. - Submissions must be either in PDF or in HTML, formatted in the style of the Springer Publications format for Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). For details on the LNCS style, see Springer?s Author Instructions. For HTML submission guidance, see below, and the website. - We encourage embedding metadata in the PDF/HTML to provide a machine readable link from the paper to the resource. - Authors will have the opportunity to submit a rebuttal to the reviews to clarify questions posed by program committee members. - Authors of accepted papers will be required to provide semantic annotations for the abstract of their submission, which will be made available on the conference web site. Details will be provided at the time of acceptance. - Accepted papers will be distributed to conference attendees and also published by Springer in the printed conference proceedings, as part of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. - At least one author of each accepted paper must register for the conference and present the paper there. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Useful tips for HTML submissions * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * The Research Articles in Simplified HTML (RASH) Framework provides a terse markup language for writing scientific articles in (X)HTML. It is possible to include also RDF statements as RDFa annotations and/or as Turtle, JSON-LD and RDF/XML triples by using the tag "script". Tools exist for converting RASH-compliant ODT or DOCX to LaTeX (see http://dasplab.cs.unibo.it/rocs). Dokieli is a client-side editor for decentralized article publishing in HTML+RDFa, annotations and social interactions, compliant with the Linked Research initiative. There are a variety of examples available online https://github.com/linkeddata/dokieli/wiki#examples-in-the-wild, where the LNCS author guidelines as a template may be particularly useful. Accepted papers for which there is an HTML version will be made available online through the ESWC website. For HTML submission, please submit a ZIP archive containing an HTML file with all the additional stylesheets and scripts for guaranteeing a correct visualization of the document in browsers. For references, e.g. see the "Reference" section in https://datasciencehub.net/content/guidelines-authors. Please note that independent of the format used, we require submissions to abide by the permitted number of pages, font sizes, font selection, margins, etc. This is to ensure visual consistency of the proceedings as well as to have comparative page limits. Submissions and reviewing will be supported by the EasyChair system: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=eswc2018 * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * A Fully Open Review Policy * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * This year, the ESWC 2018 review process will be fully open. The basic principles are: - The submitted papers will be publicly posted on the ESWC 2018 web site upon submission - The authors will be known to reviewers (i.e., submissions are NOT anonymous) - The reviewers will be known to authors by default. However, reviewers can also explicitly opt-out. - The reviews and the rebuttal will be made publicly available upon final notification (post-rebuttal), including reviewer identity (unless they have opted out), both for the PC members (unless they have opted out) and the senior PC members (which cannot opt out). - On explicit request made by the authors, the rejected papers and their reviews will be removed from the Web after the conference. - For accepted papers, the reviews will stay online at least 12 months. They will be removed at the author?s requests after this embargo period. - Upon posting submissions on the ESWC 2018 web site (point 1 above), any researcher can also contribute open reviews. Decentralisation will be handy here e.g. with openreview.org (for PDF) or hypothes.is or dokieli (for HTML), plus Linked Data Notifications. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From alammehw at gmail.com Fri Dec 15 10:59:09 2017 From: alammehw at gmail.com (Mehwish Alam) Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2017 10:59:09 +0100 Subject: [DL] ESWC 2018: Call for Posters and Demos Message-ID: <24DF7049-916D-4983-A04E-EA22D28ECDE5@gmail.com> [Apologies for multiple postings.] ======================================================== CALL FOR POSTERS AND DEMOS 15th ESWC 2018 Conference days: June 3rd-7th, 2018, Heraklion, Crete, Greece Poster and demo submission: March 13th, 2018 Web site: https://2018.eswc-conferences.org ======================================================== The posters and demos track of ESWC provides a forum for late-breaking results, on-going research projects, and innovative ideas, as well as prototypes of semantic technologies and their applications in various domains. Submissions to the posters and demos track may cover all areas of Semantic Web research and applications, such as Linked Data and Knowledge Graphs, Ontologies, Reasoning, Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning, Information Retrieval, Data Quality and Data Integration, and Semantic Data Management, as well as applications from Life Sciences, eGovernment, Business, Manufacturing, eScience, Emergency and Crisis Management, etc. Posters and demos will be presented in a separate, interactive session, providing the opportunity for engaging in discussions and direct exchange. == BEST POSTER AND DEMO AWARDS == Candidates for the best poster and demo, which will be selected during the conference, will be invited to give a short presentation during the conference. The winners will be announced during the closing ceremony. == SUBMISSION GUIDELINES == Authors must submit a short paper (Springer LNCS style, https://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0). Poster submissions are at most four pages long, demo submissions are at most five pages long. Poster submissions are expected to contain a short abstract for evaluation, while demonstration track submissions must additionally provide 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 clearly demonstrate relevance to the Semantic Web and the topics of interest of ESWC 2018. 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 review. Furthermore, double submissions to other any conferences, workshops, or tracks of ESWC will be rejected. Posters and demonstrations accompanying an accepted research or in-use/industrial track paper must be marked as such and provide an explanation of the additional value of the P&D submission. Submissions must be uploaded on Easychair selecting the ESWC 2018 Posters and Demos Track at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=eswc2018. == IMPORTANT DATES == Submission Deadline: March 13, 2018 Notification of Acceptance: April 10, 2018 Camera-Ready Paper: May 2, 2018 All deadlines are intended to be 23:59 HST (Hawaii Time). == 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 or demonstration must register for the conference and present their work during the Poster and Demos Session. Space will be allocated for each participant. In case of any special requirements, the organizers should be contacted well in advance of the conference. == POSTER AND DEMO CHAIRS == Anna Lisa Gentile (IBM Research Almaden, US) Andrea Nuzzolese (STLab, ISTC-CNR, Italy) From mugnier at lirmm.fr Sun Dec 17 23:31:39 2017 From: mugnier at lirmm.fr (Marie-Laure Mugnier) Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2017 23:31:39 +0100 Subject: [DL] CFP Reasoning on Data (RoD) - Workshop at The Web Conference 2018 Message-ID: <5A36F04B.70307@lirmm.fr> ========================================================================= Reasoning on Data (RoD) Workshop at The Web Conference 2018 Lyon, France, April 24, 2018 https://sites.google.com/site/2018rod/ ========================================================================= The workshop RoD, collocated with The Web Conference 2018 in Lyon, France, on April 24, 2018, will gather people on a timely issue at the crossroad on knowledge representation and reasoning, data management, and the Semantic Web: How to use knowledge to make better use of data? The workshop will more precisely focus on reasoning techniques that allow to exploit domain knowledge in data access. By data we mean here structured or semi-structured data, stored in data management systems provided with a query language, rather than unstructured contents. Domain knowledge can be encoded in ontologies, rules, or constraints. An emblematic task is query answering, but knowledge can be exploited within the whole data lifecycle. The goal of RoD is to bring together the developers and users of reasoners whatever the knowledge representation language used, including systems focusing on both intensional (ontology) and extensional (data) query answering. The workshop will give developers a perfect opportunity to promote their systems. We call for papers of different nature: theoretical, system and applicative. Topics ------ The RoD Workshop at The Web Conference 2018 welcomes submissions on all topics related to reasoning on data, from researchers and practitioners from all relevant fields: artificial intelligence, data management, data science, knowledge representation, the Semantic Web, etc. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: advanced data querying data exchange and integration dimension-dependent data mediation and federation of databases imperfect, contradictory, incomplete, uncertain data and trust in data information extraction reasoning on linked open data ontology-based data access reasoning techniques and tools semantic heterogeneity reasoning services reasoning on data streams structural heterogeneity of data Important Dates --------------- Submission deadline: 17 January 2018 Acceptance notification: 14 February 2018 Final version due: 04 March 2018 Workshop date: 24 April 2018 Submission instructions ----------------------- Three categories of papers will be considered, with different page limits: Long papers (8 pages): traditional research articles describing novel, innovative, research Short papers (4 pages) describing work in progress, presenting a system, or proposing a vision Previously published articles in major venues (no limit) for oral presentation at the workshop (not included in proceedings). These works should be submitted as is, and the venue where they were published in should be indicated on the submission form. Papers must be submitted in PDF. For long and short papers, they should be formatted according to the new ACM format published in ACM guidelines (http://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template), selecting the generic ?sigconf? sample and should not exceed four or eight pages depending on paper category, including any diagrams, references, and appendices. The PDF files must have all non-standard fonts embedded. Submissions must be self-contained and in English. Submissions that do not follow these guidelines, or do not view or print properly, may be rejected without review. Submissions need not be double-blind. Submissions should be done through the conference management system, https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=www2018satellitesby selecting the ?Reasoning on Data Workshop? track. All accepted papers will be presented orally at the workshop. Long and short papers will be included in the proceedings of the workshop, in a companion volume to the proceedings of The Web Conference 2018. Previously published articles will not be republished. Concurrent submissions are not allowed. Papers that have been published in or accepted to any peer-reviewed journal or conference/workshop with published proceedings, are currently under review, or will be submitted to other meetings or publications while under review may not be submitted as long or short papers. Additionally, the ACM has a strict policy against plagiarism and self-plagiarism (http://www.acm.org/publications/policies/plagiarism). All prior work must be appropriately cited. Organizers ---------- Marie-Laure Mugnier, University of Montpellier, France mugnier at lirmm.frhttp://www.lirmm.fr/~mugnier/ Catherine Roussey, Irstea Clermont Ferrand, France catherine.roussey at irstea.frhttp://www.irstea.fr/roussey Pierre Senellart, ENS, PSL Research University, France pierre at senellart.comhttp://pierre.senellart.com/ Program Committee ----------------- Elena Botoeva, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy Alain Bouju, Universit? de La Rochelle, France Zied Bouraoui, Universit? d?Artois, France Pierre-Antoine Champin, Universit? Claude Bernard Lyon 1, France Jean-Paul Calbimonte, University of Applied Sciences and Arts Western Switzerland, Switzerland David Carral, TU Dresden, Germany Catherine Faron-Zucker, Universit? de Nice Sophia Antipolis, France Raul Garcia-Castro, Universidad Polit?cnica de Madrid, Spain Matthew Horridge, Stanford University, USA Markus Kr?tzsch, TU Dresden, Germany Frederique Laforest, T?l?com Saint-?tienne, France Freddy Lecu?, Accenture, Ireland Odile Papini, Universit? d?Aix-Marseille, France Fran?ois Pinet, Irstea, France Simon Razniewski, Max-Planck Institute for Informatics, Germany Federico Ulliana, Universit? de Montpellier, France From savesd.workshop at gmail.com Mon Dec 18 23:38:27 2017 From: savesd.workshop at gmail.com (savesd.workshop at gmail.com) Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2017 14:38:27 -0800 (PST) Subject: [DL] [CfP] SAVE-SD 2018 First Call for Papers Message-ID: <5a384363.50b0df0a.90669.ed0d@mx.google.com> ==== First Call for Papers ==== 2018 Workshop of The Web Conference (formerly WWW conference) entitled Semantics, Analytics and Visualisation: Enhancing Scholarly Dissemination SAVE-SD 2018 Date: 24 April 2018 Venue: Lyon, France Twitter: @savesdworkshop Twitter Hashtag: #savesd2018 Website: https://save-sd.github.io/2018/index.html Workshop chairs: - Alejandra Gonzalez-Beltran (University of Oxford, UK) - Francesco Osborne (The Open University, UK) - Silvio Peroni (University of Bologna, Italy) - Sahar Vahdati (University of Bonn, Germany) # HIGHLIGHTS - Workshop papers and reviews published in the workshop's website - Workshop proceedings in the renowned Springer Nature LNCS (final confirmation pending) - Four formats for submissions: HTML, ODT, DOCX, and PDF - Best paper award sponsored by Springer Nature - Special issue of SAVE-SD 2017 and SAVE-SD 2018 selected extended papers on the Data Science Journal by IOS Press (http://datasciencehub.net/) # IMPORTANT DATES - Preliminary abstract submission: 26 January 2018, 23:59 Hawaii Time (sharp) - Workshops papers submission deadline: 2 February 2018, 23:59 Hawaii Time (sharp) - Workshops papers acceptance notification: 19 February 2018, 23:59 Hawaii Time (sharp) - Early-bird registrations deadline: 21 February 2018, 23:59 Hawaii Time (sharp) - Workshops papers final version due: 04 March 2018, 23:59 Hawaii Time (sharp) # DESCRIPTION After the great success of the past three editions, we are pleased to announce SAVE-SD 2018, which wants to bring together publishers, companies and researchers from different fields (including Document and Knowledge Engineering, Semantic Web, Natural Language Processing, Scholarly Communication, Bibliometrics, Human-Computer Interaction, Information Visualisation, Bioinformatics, and Life Sciences) in order to bridge the gap between the theoretical/academic and practical/industrial aspects in regards to scholarly data. The following topics will be addressed: - semantics of scholarly data, i.e. how to semantically represent, categorise, connect and integrate scholarly data, in order to foster reusability and knowledge sharing; - analytics on scholarly data, i.e. designing and implementing novel and scalable algorithms for knowledge extraction with the aim of understanding research dynamics, forecasting research trends, fostering connections between groups of researchers, informing research policies, analysing and interlinking experiments and deriving new knowledge; - visualisation of and interaction with scholarly data, i.e. providing novel user interfaces and applications for navigating and making sense of scholarly data and highlighting their patterns and peculiarities. # TOPICS OF INTEREST We would encourage submission of papers covering, but not limited to, one or more of the following topics, where we consider scholarly data in the broad sense (from bibliographic data, to experimental data and software): **Semantics** - Data models (e.g., ontologies, vocabularies, schemas) for the description of scholarly data and the linking between scholarly data/software and academic papers that report or cite them - Description of citations and citation networks for scholarly articles, data and software and their interrelationships - Theoretical models describing the rhetorical and argumentative structure of scholarly papers and their application in practice - Description and use of provenance information of scholarly data - From digital libraries of scholarly papers to Linked Open Datasets: models, applicability and challenges - Definition and description of scholarly publishing processes - Modelling licences for scholarly documents and data **Analytics** - Assessing the quality and/or trust of scholarly data - Pattern discovery of scholarly data - Citation analysis and prediction - Scientific claims identification from textual contents - New indicators for measuring the quality and relevance of research - Comparison between standard metrics (e.g., h-index, impact factor, citation counting) and alternative metrics in real-case scenarios - Automatic or semi-automatic approaches to making sense of research dynamics - Content- and data-based semantic similarity of scholarly papers - Citation generation - Automatic semantic enhancement of existing scholarly libraries and papers - Reconstruction, forecasting and monitoring of scholarly data **Visualisation & Interaction** - Novel user interfaces for interaction with paper, metadata, content, software and data - Visualisation of citation networks according to multiple dimensions (e.g., citation counting, citation functions, kinds of citing/cited entities) - Visualisation of related papers or data according to multiple dimensions (semantic similarity of abstracts, keywords, etc.) - Applications for making sense of scholarly data - Usability studies on existing interfaces (e.g., Web sites, Web applications, smartphone apps) for browsing scholarly data - Scholarly data and ubiquity: accessing scholarly information from multiple devices (PC, tablet, smartphones) - Applications for the (semi-)automatic annotation of scholarly papers # SUBMISSIONS SAVE-SD welcomes the submission of original research and application papers dealing with the three aforementioned fields. We encourage theoretical, methodological, empirical and applications papers. We appreciate the submission of papers incorporating links to datasets and other material used for evaluation as well as to live demos and software source code. All submissions must be written in English. Several formats are possible for the submission: HTML (which is strongly encouraged), DOCX, ODT, and PDF. Additional details at https://save-sd.github.io/2018/submission.html. We invite four kinds of submissions: - full research papers (max. 8300 words) - position papers (max. 5500 words) - demo papers (max. 2800 words) - poster papers (max. 2800 words) All the aforementioned limits include metadata (title, authors, keywords, abstract), acknowledgements, references and the whole content of the paper. Figures, tables, and listings count 300 words each. Papers have to be submitted through EasyChair (select as track "2018 Workshop on Semantics, Analytics and Visualisation: Enhancing Scholarly Dissemination"): https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=www2018satellites While we need that the authors submit through that submission system in order to proceed with the reviews, SAVE-SD also supports the Linked Research principles (https://linkedresearch.org/calls#how-to-lr) and warmly suggest authors to consider them when preparing their papers. # REGISTRATION Early-bird registrations deadline of the workshop is aligned with the conference registration. If an article is approved, at least one author must register for the conference and present it during the SAVE-SD workshop. # REVIEW PROCESS AND EVALUATION OF SUBMISSIONS The submitted papers will be publicly posted on the SAVE-SD 2018 web site upon submission. The authors will be known to reviewers (i.e., submissions are NOT anonymous). SAVE-SD 2018 will encourage reviewers to sign their reviewers. However, reviewers can decide not to sign them, and thus the review will be anonymous. The reviews will be made publicly available on the SAVE-SD 2018 website in CC-BY upon final notification, including reviewer identity if they had signed the reviews. On explicit request made by the authors, the rejected papers and/or their reviews will be removed from the SAVE-SD 2018 website. In order to evaluate the submitted papers, we have three different programme committees (PCs), i.e.: - the Senior PC, whose members will act as meta-reviewers and have the crucial role of balancing the scores provided by the reviews from the other two PCs (see below); - the Industrial PC, who will evaluate the submissions from an industrial perspective mainly ??? by assessing how much the theories/applications described in the papers do/may influence (positively or negatively) the publishing domain and whether they could be concretely adopted by publishers and scholarly data providers; - the Academic PC, who will evaluate the papers from an academic perspective mainly ??? by assessing the quality of the research described in such papers. All submissions will be reviewed (at least) by one Senior PC member, one Industrial PC member and two Academic PC members. The final decision of acceptance/rejection will be made in consensus by the chairs. # PUBLICATION VENUES All the papers of SAVE-SD will be made available on the workshop website and published in a Lecture Notes in Computer Science (http://www.springer.com/lncs) volume by Springer Nature (final confirmation pending). The LNCS volume will be published after the workshop in order to give the authors an opportunity to revise their papers in the light of the discussions of their works at the workshop, and it will include the papers accepted in SAVE-SD 2017 and SAVE-SD 2018. Please note that at least one author is required to register for the conference and to present their work at the workshop, in order for the paper to be included in the proceedings. We are also pleased to announce that the authors of selected papers (of any type) of the workshop will be invited to submit an extended version of their works to a special issue that will be published on the Data Science Journal by IOS Press (http://datasciencehub.net/). # AWARDS An award of 250 euros as a voucher for buying Springer Nature's products, kindly sponsored by Springer Nature, will be assigned to the best workshop paper. The decision will be taken by considering the feedback provided by the reviewers as well as the quality of the presentation at the workshop. From tschneider at informatik.uni-bremen.de Wed Dec 20 11:21:04 2017 From: tschneider at informatik.uni-bremen.de (Thomas Schneider) Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2017 11:21:04 +0100 Subject: [DL] DL 2018 Preliminary Announcement Message-ID: <92FA3198-1D3E-4882-BC1E-AF61BE452CFC@informatik.uni-bremen.de> Dear DLers, the 31st International Workshop on Description Logics will be held in autumn 2018, collocated with the 16th International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KR), at Tempe, Arizona, US; the conference dates are 30 Oct ? 2 Nov 2018. We expect to distribute the workshop dates and the first call for papers in February. The tentative submission deadline is in early July. Best regards Magdalena Ortiz (PC co-chair) Michael Zakharyaschev (general chair) Thomas Schneider (PC co-chair) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thomas Schneider Universit?t Bremen, FB 03 Postfach 330440 28334 Bremen Germany +49 421 218-64432 http://www.informatik.uni-bremen.de/~ts/ For visits: Cartesium, Room 2.56 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From geoff at cs.miami.edu Tue Dec 19 14:29:49 2017 From: geoff at cs.miami.edu (geoff at cs.miami.edu) Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2017 08:29:49 -0500 (EST) Subject: [DL] RuleML+RR 2018 - Call for Papers Message-ID: <20171219132949.7F2651700BA2@cs.miami.edu> ================================================================== RuleML+RR 2018 FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS RuleML+RR 2018: International Joint Conference on Rules and Reasoning http://2018.ruleml-rr.org Part of Luxembourg Logic for AI Summit (LuxLogAI, https://luxlogai.uni.lu) ================================================================== The International Joint Conference on Rules and Reasoning (RuleML+RR), the leading international joint conference in the field of rule-based reasoning, calls for high-quality papers related to theoretical advances, novel technologies, and innovative applications concerning knowledge representation and reasoning with rules. Stemming from the synergy between the well-known RuleML and RR events, one of the main goals of this conference is to build bridges between academia and industry. RuleML+RR 2018 aims to bring together rigorous researchers and inventive practitioners, interested in the foundations and applications of rules and reasoning in academia, industry, engineering, business, finance, healthcare and other application areas. It will provide a forum for stimulating cooperation and cross-fertilization between the many different communities focused on the research, development and applications of rule-based systems. RuleML+RR 2018 will take place in Luxembourg on September 18th-21th 2018 and will be part of the Luxembourg Logic for AI Summit (LuxLogAI) "Methods and Tools for Responsible AI", bringing together RuleML+RR 2018, DecisionCAMP 2018, the Reasoning Web Summer School (RW 2018), and the Global Conference on Artificial Intelligence (GCAI 2018). == TOPICS == RuleML+RR welcomes original research from all areas of Rules and Reasoning. Topics of particular interest include: * Rule-based languages for intelligent information access and for the semantic web * Vocabularies, ontologies, and business rules * Ontology-based data access * Data management, and data interoperability for web data * Distributed agent-based systems for the web * Scalability and expressive power of logics for the semantic web * Reasoning with incomplete, inconsistent and uncertain data * Non-monotonic, common-sense, and closed-world reasoning for web data * Non-classical logics and the Web * Constraint programming * Logic programming * Production & business rules systems * Streaming data and complex event processing * Rules for machine learning, knowledge extraction and information retrieval * Rule-based approaches to natural language processing * Rule discovery, extraction and transformation * Rules and ontology learning * Deep Learning for rules and ontologies * Neural Networks and logic rules * Neural Networks and ontologies * Rule-based approaches to agents * Higher-order and modal rules * Rules for knowledge graphs * Pragmatic web reasoning and distributed rule inference / rule execution * Big data reasoning with rules * Rule markup languages and rule interchange formats * Rule-based policies, reputation, and trust * Scalability and expressive power of logics for rules * System descriptions, applications and experiences * Rules and human language technology * Rules in online market research and online marketing * Applications of rule technologies in healthcare and life sciences * Applications of rule technologies in law, regulation and finance * Industrial applications of rules * Rules and social media * Rules of ethics, laws, policies, and regulations Particularly encouraged are submissions that combine one or several of the above topics with the overall focus theme of the LuxLogAI Summit: Methods and Tools for Responsible AI == SUBMISSIONS == We accept the following submission formats for papers: * Full papers (up to 15 pages in LNCS style) * Technical Communications (up to 8 pages in LNCS style) 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. 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: via EasyChair https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=rulemlrr2018 The RuleML+RR 2018 best papers will be invited for rapid publication in the Journal of Theory and Practice of Logic Programming (TPLP). In addition to regular submissions, RuleML+RR 2018 will host an Industry Track, a Doctoral Consortium, the 12th International Rule Challenge. == PUBLICATION == The conference proceedings will be published by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series (LNCS). All submissions must be prepared in Springer's LaTeX style llncs (http://www.springer.com/comp/lncs/authors.html). == IMPORTANT DATES == Title and Abstract submission: 20 Apr 2018 Full papers submission: 27 Apr 2018 Notification of acceptance: 1 June 2018 Camera-ready submission: 15 June 2018 Conference: 18-21 Sept 2018 For each of these deadlines, a cut-off point of 23:59 AOE (anywhere on earth) applies. == ORGANISATION == Summit Chairs (LuxLogAI): Leon van der Torre, Martin Theobald (U Luxembourg) General Chair (RuleML+RR): Xavier Parent (U Luxembourg) Program Chairs: Christoph Benzmueller (U Luxembourg & FU Berlin) Francesco Ricca (U Calabria) Proceedings Chair: Dumitru Roman (SINTEF/U Oslo) Industry Track Chair: Silvie Spreeuwenberg (LibRT Amsterdam) Int'l Rule Challenge Chairs: Giovanni De Gasperis (U L'Aquila) Adrian Giurca (BTU Cottbus- Senftenberg) Reasoning Web (RW) Summer School to be announced Publicity Chairs: Frank Olken, Frank Olken Consulting == PROGRAM COMMITTEE == Full list available at: http://2018.ruleml-rr.org From ulle.endriss at uva.nl Thu Dec 21 20:23:30 2017 From: ulle.endriss at uva.nl (Ulle Endriss) Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2017 20:23:30 +0100 Subject: [DL] [JOB] Tenure-Track Position for Women at ILLC, University of Amsterdam Message-ID: The Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC) at the University of Amsterdam invites applications from excellent female researchers for a tenure-track position in the broad area spanning mathematical logic, theoretical computer science, and AI. Topics of interest include algorithmic game theory, computational social choice, multiagent systems, and knowledge representation. http://www.illc.uva.nl/NewsandEvents/News/Positions/newsitem/9569/ Deadline: 19 March 2018 If you are interested and are working in AGT, COMSOC, MAS, or KR, please feel free to get in touch with me before applying. All the best, Ulle -- Ulle Endriss ILLC, University of Amsterdam http://www.illc.uva.nl/~ulle/ From Stefan.Borgwardt at tu-dresden.de Fri Dec 22 13:46:51 2017 From: Stefan.Borgwardt at tu-dresden.de (Stefan Borgwardt) Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2017 13:46:51 +0100 Subject: [DL] CFP: Hybrid Question Answering with Structured and Unstructured Knowledge (HQA) Workshop at The Web Conference 2018 Message-ID: <81c03ad6-9d99-d956-8d16-87a6e6867140@tu-dresden.de> [Apologies for multiple postings.] Call for Papers: First International Workshop on Hybrid Question Answering with Structured and Unstructured Knowledge (HQA'18) Part of The Web Conference 2018 April 23, 2018 Lyon, France HQA 2018: https://goasq.lri.fr/workshop/hqa18.html TheWebConf 2018: https://www2018.thewebconf.org/ Important Dates ? Title and abstract submission: February 1, 2018 ? Paper submission: February 5, 2018 ? Notification: February 15, 2018 ? Early-bird registration deadline: February 21, 2018 ? Final version due: March 4, 2018 ? Workshop: April 23, 2018 Objectives More and more knowledge is available electronically in a structured or unstructured form over the World Wide Web (WWW).? Such knowledge has become a rich resource to answer our daily life questions and even scientific questions posed by domain experts. Accordingly, it becomes a necessity to develop tools that can (semi-)automatically answer questions based on the large amount of available data. Such challenges have been targeted separately over the last years by different communities, including query answering in the Semantic Web based on structured semantic data and question answering in Natural Language Processing based on unstructured textual data. While the former is powerful in representing complex questions and exploring background knowledge (e.g., large biomedical ontologies), it is often difficult to master, and such an advanced answering system cannot be used without a specialized user interface. In contrast, the latter can handle natural questions directly but can formulate constraints that cannot be represented formally by query answering approaches due to the limited expressiveness of formal languages. Besides it is not obvious how to take into account the background and common sense knowledge needed to obtain precise answers over structured data. The objective of this workshop is to bring together researchers and developers working on question/query answering systems over structured or unstructured knowledge, and create a platform to grow potential collaborations in this multidisciplinary task. Topics of submissions include, but are not limited to: ? Text-based question answering ? Ontology-based query answering ? Hybrid reasoning based on both text and structured knowledge ? Information extraction over (un-)structured data ? Applications of question answering ? Domain-specific question answering ? Temporal event extraction from text ? Temporal reasoning for query answering ? Ontologies and knowledge graphs for question/query answering ? Biomedical text analysis for question/query answering ? Datasets combining structured and unstructured knowledge Submissions Papers for the workshop should be submitted in PDF format via EasyChair at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=www2018satellites , selecting the track ?First International Workshop on Hybrid Question Answering with Structured and Unstructured Knowledge?.? Submitted papers must use the new ACM format published in ACM guidelines (http://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template), selecting the generic ?sigconf? sample. Submissions must not exceed 4-6 pages in length. Papers must not have been previously published or be under review at another workshop. However, we encourage submissions that present summaries or highlights of work appearing elsewhere in longer form. Accepted papers will be published in a companion volume of the main proceedings of The Web Conference 2018. Attending For details about traveling to Lyon (https://www2018.thewebconf.org/participate/coming-to-lyon/), accommodation, and registration, please see the Web pages of The Web Conference 2018: https://www2018.thewebconf.org/ Organization PC Chairs: ? Franz Baader, TU Dresden, Germany ? Brigitte Grau, LIMSI, CNRS, Universit? Paris-Saclay, France ? Yue Ma, LRI, CNRS, Universit? Paris-Sud, France Organizing Committee: ? Stefan Borgwardt, TU Dresden, Germany ? Sanjay Kamath, LRI/LIMSI, CNRS, Universit? Paris-Sud, France ? Pierre Zweigenbaum, LIMSI, CNRS, Universit? Paris-Saclay, France Program Committee (to be extended): ? Meghyn Bienvenu, LIRMM, CNRS, France ? Elena Cabrio, Inria, CNRS, I3S, Universit? C?te d'Azur, France ? Francesco Donini, Universit? della Tuscia, Italy ? Walter Forkel, TU Dresden, Germany ? Zhisheng Huang, Vrije University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands ? 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Call for Papers ========================================== -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Research Track Papers -------------------------------------------------------------------------- The International Semantic Web Conference is the premier venue for presenting fundamental research, innovative technology, and applications concerning semantics, data, and the Web. In this track of ISWC 2018, we are looking for novel and significant research contributions addressing theoretical, analytical and empirical aspects of the Semantic Web. While we welcome work that relates to the W3C Semantic Web recommendations (e.g., RDF, OWL, SPARQL, etc.), we also encourage contributions to research at the intersection of Semantic Web and other scientific disciplines. Submissions to the research track should describe original, significant, and replicable research on the Semantic Web. All papers must include method evaluations that are rigorous, repeatable and reproducible. This will be one of the key paper reviewing criteria. We also strongly encourage papers that provide links to the data sets, source code, queries used to evaluate their approach, and/or live deployments. All papers will be assessed by a program committee. Each paper will be reviewed by at least four committee members, including one senior member. The review criteria used are outlined below. Before submitting, authors are asked to consult the calls of the other tracks featured at ISWC 2018 and to choose the track that best suits their contribution. The submission of the same work to multiple tracks is not allowed and may result in a rejection of the work across all tracks without a review. Detailed info: http://iswc2018.semanticweb.org/call-for-research-track-papers/ Program Chairs * Denny Vrandecic, Google, USA * Kalina Bontcheva, University of Sheffield, UK -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for In-Use Track Papers -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Since their debut in the scientific community at the break of the millennium, Semantic Web technologies have moved from being adopted in small-scale academic prototypes to being employed in real-world settings in industry and governments at different scales. The ?In Use? Track at ISWC?18 continues the tradition of demonstrating and learning from the increasing adoption of Semantic Web technologies outside the boundaries of research institutions, by providing a forum for the community to explore the benefits and challenges of applying these technologies in concrete, practical applications, in contexts ranging from industry to government and science. Therefore, we are looking for descriptions of applied and validated solutions such as software tools, systems or architectures that benefit from the use of Semantic Web technologies (including, but not limited to, ontologies, Linked Data, knowledge representation languages). Importantly, submitted papers should provide convincing evidence that there is use of the proposed application or tool by the target user group, preferably outside the group that conducted the development. A main focus of the submissions should be on the benefits of Semantics Web technologies for the intended use case, as well as, if relevant, on the added challenges they introduce. Before submitting to the In-Use Track, authors are asked to consult the calls of the other tracks featured at ISWC 2018 and to choose the track that best suits their contribution. The submission of the same work to multiple tracks is not allowed and may result in a rejection of the work across all tracks without a review. Detailed info: http://iswc2018.semanticweb.org/call-for-in-use-track-papers/ Program Chairs * Irene Celino, Cefriel, Italy * Marta Sabou, Technical University of Vienna, Austria -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Resources Track Papers -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Resources are of paramount importance as they foster scientific advancement. For example, the DBpedia resource had a major influence on the Semantic Web community by enabling the Linked (Open) Data movement. Validating a research hypothesis or providing answers to a research question often goes together with developing new resources that support these achievements. These resources include, among others, datasets, benchmarks, workflows, and software. Sharing them is key to allow other researchers to compare new results, reproduce experimental settings and explore new lines of research, in accordance with the FAIR principles for scientific data management. Yet, resources themselves rarely get the same recognition as the scientific advances they facilitate. The ISWC 2018 Resources Track aims to promote the sharing of resources including, but not restricted to: datasets, ontologies, vocabularies, ontology design patterns, evaluation benchmarks or methods, services, APIs and software frameworks, workflows, crowdsourcing task designs, protocols and metrics, that have contributed to the generation of novel scientific work. In particular, we encourage the sharing of such resources following best and well established practices within the Semantic Web community. This track calls for contributions that provide a concise and clear description of a resource and its usage. A typical Resource track paper has its focus set on reporting on one of the following categories of resources: * Datasets produced: to support specific evaluation tasks; to support novel research methods; by novel algorithms; * Ontologies, vocabularies and ontology design patterns, with a focus on describing the modelling process underlying their creation; * Benchmarking activities focusing on datasets and algorithms for comprehensible and systematic evaluation of existing and future systems; * Reusable research prototypes / services supporting a given research hypothesis; * Community shared software frameworks that can be extended or adapted to support scientific study and experimentation; * Scientific and experimental workflows used and reused in practical studies; * Crowdsourcing task designs that have been used and can be (re)used for building resources such as gold standards and the like; * Protocols for conducting experiments and studies; * Novel evaluation methodologies and metrics, and their demonstration in an experimental study. Detailed info: http://iswc2018.semanticweb.org/call-for-resources-track-papers/ Program Chairs * Valentina Presutti, STLab-ISTC, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche ? Rome, Italy * Mari Carmen Su?rez-Figueroa, OEG (Ontology Engineering Group), Universidad Polit?cnica de Madrid (UPM), Spain -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Important Dates for Paper Submissions -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Abstracts due March 30, 2018 Full papers due April 6, 2018 Author rebuttals May 7-11, 2018 Notifications May 25, 2018 Camera-ready papers due June 15, 2018 Conference October 10-12, 2018 All deadlines are midnight Hawaii time. 2. Call for Workshop and Tutorial Proposals ================================= In addition to the regular research program, ISWC 2018 will feature a workshop and tutorial program addressing the diverse interests of its audience. We hereby invite you to submit a tutorial proposal on a topic relevant to the ISWC 2018 audience. Detailed info: http://iswc2018.semanticweb.org/call-for-tutorial-proposals/ Besides tutorials, ISWC will host a number of workshops on topics related to the general theme of the conference. The role of the workshops is to provide a context for a focused and intensive scientific exchange among researchers interested in a particular topic. As such, workshops are the primary venues for the exploration of emerging ideas as well as for the discussion of novel aspects of established research topics. We invite you to submit a proposal for workshops on a topic of interest to ISWC attendees. Detailed info: http://iswc2018.semanticweb.org/call-for-workshop-proposals/ Workshops & Tutorials Chairs * Amrapali Zaveri, Maastricht University, Maastricht, Netherlands * Elena Demidova, L3S Research Center, Leibniz Universit?t Hannover, Hannover, Germany -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Important Dates for Workshops and Tutorials -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Workshop & Tutorial proposals January 21, 2018 Workshop & Tutorial proposals notifications February 15, 2018 Workshop paper submissions due June 1, 2018 Workshop paper notifications sent July 13, 2018 Workshops & Tutorials October 8-9, 2018 Conference October 10-12, 2018 All deadlines are midnight Hawaii time. The ISWC Organising Committee (http://iswc2018.semanticweb.org/organization/ ) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From iswc2018 at gmail.com Sat Dec 30 17:20:22 2017 From: iswc2018 at gmail.com (Maribel Acosta) Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2017 17:20:22 +0100 Subject: [DL] ISWC 2018 - Important Dates and Keynote Speakers Message-ID: While wishing you a happy and prosperous new year, we would like to add some important dates to your calendar for the new year. Get ready for the 17th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2018)! Monterey, California (USA), from October 8-12, 2018 ISWC is the premier venue for presenting innovative systems and research results related to the Semantic Web and Linked Data, attracting a large number of high quality submissions every year and participants from both industry and academia. ISWC brings together researchers from different areas, such as artificial intelligence, databases, natural language processing, information systems, human computer interaction, information retrieval, web science, etc., who investigate, develop and use novel methods and technologies for accessing, interpreting and using information on the Web in a more effective way. Website: http://iswc2018.semanticweb.org Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/InternationalSemanticWebConference Twitter: @iswc2018 (https://twitter.com/iswc2018) In this announcement: 1. Keynote Speakers 2. Important Dates 1.Keynote Speakers ========================================== ISWC 2018 is delighted to confirm the following keynote speakers: * Jennifer Golbeck (University of Maryland, USA) * Natasha Noy (Google, USA) * Vanessa Evers (University of Twente, Netherlands) More information coming soon: http://iswc2018.semanticweb.org/speakers/ 2. Important Dates ========================================== Workshop & Tutorial proposals January 21, 2018 Workshop & Tutorial proposals notifications February 15, 2018 Abstracts (Research, In-use, Resource tracks) March 30, 2018 Papers (Research, In-use, Resource tracks) April 6, 2018 Doctoral Consortium submissions April 13, 2018 Author rebuttal phase (Research, In-use, Resource tracks) May 7-11, 2018 Doctoral Consortium notifications May 14, 2018 Paper notifications (Research, In-use, Resource tracks) May 25, 2018 Doctoral Consortium camera-ready submissions May 28, 2018 Industry papers June 1, 2018 Workshop papers June 1, 2018 End of Early Registration period June 1, 2018 Poster & Demo submissions June 8, 2018 Camera-ready papers (Research, In-use, Resource tracks) June 15, 2018 Industry papers notifications June 22, 2018 Poster & Demo notifications sent July 13, 2018 Workshop papers notifications July 13, 2018 End of Standard Registration period July 15, 2018 Industry camera-ready papers July 20, 2018 Poster & Demo camera-ready submissions July 24, 2018 Workshops & Tutorials October 8-9, 2018 Conference October 10-12, 2018 Happy holidays! 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