[UAI] 2nd CFP: CAEPIA 2013
Second Call for Papers CAEPIA'13 XV Conference of the Spanish Association for Artificial Intelligence (CAEPIA) September 17-20, 2013 MADRID, SPAIN http://caepia13.aepia.org/ PRESENTATION The Conference of the Spanish Association for Artificial Intelligence (CAEPIA) is a biennial forum open to worldwide researchers to present and discuss their last scientific and technological advances in Artificial Intelligence. The 15th edition, CAEPIA'13, will be held in Madrid, Spain, from the 17th to the 20th of September, 2013, within the Spanish Congress on Informatics (CEDI 2013). As in previous editions, the objectives are: to facilitate the dissemination of new ideas and experiences, to strengthen the links among the different research groups involved, to promote knowledge transfer between recent researchers and consolidated groups, and to help spread new developments to society. To achieve the proposed objectives, authors are requested to send original unpublished works, which describe relevant research about topics related to Artificial Intelligence from all points of view: formal, methodological, technical or applied. Works can be submitted in Spanish or English in LNCS format (Springer). CAEPIA'13 will use a double blind-review process. The authors will remove their names from the submitted papers and must take responsibility for the originality of the work and send it in the proper format. CAEPIA will also be open to pre-doctoral work, and there will be a special call for this type of work through the Doctoral Consortium. This event is specially designed for the interaction between PhD students and senior researchers. Besides original and pre-doctoral papers, this edition of CAEPIA will include, for the first time, a special session on outstanding papers (key works) already published in journals or forums of renowned reputation. Finally, various independent conferences will take place under the scope of CAEPIA. Such conferences (ASMas, FINO, LFSCI, MAEB, SICO, TAMIDA) will keep their own program committee and will distribute their respective CFPs. TYPES OF CONTRIBUTIONS - CAEPIA papers (Main track): Submitted technical papers must be no longer than 10 pages and must be formatted according to LNCS guidelines. The submitted paper will represent original research, with solid, well-founded or demonstrable results on any of the conference topics. Accepted papers will be assigned a 15- or 20-minutes slot for oral presentation at the conference. - Pre-doctoral papers: We encourage the submissions of preliminary works from PhD students. These works will be presented in special sessions at the conference. The objective is to foster a fruitful debate between the candidate and the audience. The length of these papers should not exceed 4 pages and will be orally presented during 15 minutes. The authors of accepted papers as pre-doctoral work will enjoy special benefits to attend the conference. - Already published outstanding papers (Key works): Recent works published in journals or forums of renowned reputation, during the period 2011-2013. The aim is to spread them among a wide audience from the AI community, giving the members of the community a chance to be exposed to works with which they are not familiarized and to foster interdisciplinarity. Papers must be submitted in a one-page format, with a clear reference to the previous published paper. Accepted contributions will be assigned a 15-minutes slot in a joint session of all the conferences conforming this edition of CAEPIA. IMPORTANT DATES (a) CAEPIA Papers (Main track): *Submission of papers: April 15, 2013 *Notification of acceptance/rejection: May 20, 2013 *Camera-ready copy due: June 15, 2013 *Technical sessions: September 17-20, 2013 CAEPIA'13 papers will be reviewed by at least three members of the Program Committee which will be supervised by an area chair. (b) Pre-doctoral papers (Doctoral Consortium): *Submission of papers: June 30, 2013 *Notification of acceptance/rejection: July 31, 2013 *Camera-ready copy due: September 1, 2013 (c) Already published outstanding papers (Key works): *Submission of papers: May 1, 2013 *Notification of acceptance/rejection: May 31, 2013 *Camera-ready copy due: June 15, 2013 PLENARY TALKS CAEPIA'13 will offer plenary talks given by outstanding researchers in different areas. They will be scheduled in a joint session with all the conferences participating in the CAEPIA multiconference. SUBMISSION Submission of papers to CAEPIA'13 requires a previous registration in: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=caepia2013 PROCEEDINGS Accepted papers will be published in the two volumes of CAEPIA proceedings that will be given to all CAEPIA attendees. The two volumes will be as follows: - One volume published by Springer-Verlag in its Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence series (LNAI), which will contain a
[UAI] Fwd: Computer Science Faculty positions at University of Buenos Aires
-- Forwarded message -- The Computer Science Department at the School of Sciences of the University of Buenos Aires invites applications for faculty positions at the Assistant Professor level. We expect candidates with a strong potential for research and teaching ability. The candidates should have a PhD in Computer Science or a related field. The selected candidate will be responsible for developing a research program and for teaching at the undergraduate and graduate level. Deadlines and documents required for the application are specified at http://www.dc.uba.ar/aca/concursos/faculty_positions. We have three open positions. One in the area of Modeling and Simulation and two positions in any area of Computer Science. The University of Buenos Aires is one of the most prestigious educational institutions in South America, and its School of Sciences is one of the main research institutes in Argentina, responsible for 10% of the country's publications. Buenos Aires is a vibrant, cosmopolitan city. We offer great benefits, an excellent work environment. The position is open to English speakers, with the expectation that you will learn Spanish during the first few years in this position. For more information visit http://www.dc.uba.ar/aca/concursos/faculty_positions or contact hir...@dc.uba.ar. ___ uai mailing list uai@ENGR.ORST.EDU https://secure.engr.oregonstate.edu/mailman/listinfo/uai
[UAI] CFP: The First UK-Ireland IEEE-SMC-Celebration Lecture Series Strategy Workshop 2013
Dear Colleague, Could you please help to post the CFP message below to all the UAI list members? Many thanks in advance. Best regards Jun Dr. Jun Liu School of Computing and Mathematics Computer Science Research Institute (CSRI) Faculty of Computing and Engineering University of Ulster (Jordanstown Campus) Shore Road, Newtownabbey, Co. Antrim BT37 0QB, Northern Ireland, UK Email: j@ulster.ac.ukmailto:j@ulster.ac.uk Tel: +44 (0)28 9036 8919 (Direct line) Tel: +44 (0)28 9036 6129 (School Office) Fax: +44 (0)28 9036 6216 (School Fax) == Call for Participation The First UK-Ireland IEEE-SMC-Celebration Lecture Series 2013 The First UK-Ireland IEEE-SMC 2013 Strategic Workshop Date: 25-26 March, 2013 Host: School of Computing and Mathematics, University of Ulster, Northern Ireland, UK Venue: Room 82B01, University of Ulster at Belfast Campus, Northern Ireland, UK Website: http://scm.ulster.ac.uk/IEEESMC-CLS2013 Registration: no registration charge to the participants Proceeding: no proceeding published == Following the success of IEEE SMC (Systems, Man and Cybernetics) Celebration Lecture Series (IEEE-SMC-CLS 2009 and 2010 in China), the first UK-Ireland IEEE-SMC-CLS 2013 will be held on 25 March 2013, at University of Ulster Belfast Campus, Northern Ireland, UK, which will be co-located with the UK-Ireland IEEE-SMC 2013 Strategic Workshop on Understanding the Cyber World: A Rendez-Vous for Machine Learning, Pattern Recognition, and Cybernetics on 26 March 2013. We would like to invite you, your colleagues and research students to participate in this two-day event free of charge. Places are limited and will be allocated on a first-come, first-served basis. And there will be no proceeding published. This two-day event will feature key lectures delivered by distinguished scholars who are active in or closely affiliated with the IEEE SMC Society or by other academics who have achieved a high level of recognition from the IEEE. --- Celebration Lecture Series (CLS): 25th of March, 2013 Theme - The Making of an Academic --- A number of keynote lectures will be delivered on different topics central to the CLS theme of The Making of an Academic: Creative Research; Excellence and Innovation in Teaching; Effective Manuscript Preparation; Personal and Time Management for Young Scientists; Effective Research Presentation; Building Your Professional Network; and An Overview of Research Funding for Achievement and Impact; together with an update on The State of the IEEE and the Systems, Man and Cybernetics Society. The CLS aims to provide expert insight, advice and professional training, as well as an academic forum and networking opportunity to PhD students and early career researchers in their future academic career. Strategic Workshop: 26th of March, 2013 Theme - Understanding the Cyber World: A Rendez-Vous for Machine Learning, Pattern Recognition, and Cybernetics Keynote lectures will be delivered on different topics central to the workshop theme of Understanding the Cyber World: a Rendez-vous for Machine Learning, Pattern Recognition, and Cybernetics: Towards a New Science of Big Data Analytics, based on the Geometry and the Topology of Complex, Hierarchic Systems; Big Data: From 'Firehoses' to 'Deluges' and 'Avalanches'; Grid Analytics; Combining Compositional and Distributional Semantics; The Adversarial Relationship between Classifier and Patterns in the Cyber-World; Towards a Holistic Theory of Pattern Recognition? Ample time will be set aside for a panel discussion involving both the speakers and the audience in the pursuit to identify major challenges to future research problems in the related areas. Please see the attached Call for Participation and the workshop web page (http://scm.ulster.ac.uk/IEEESMC-CLS2013) for further details. Further inquiries and Contact: Dr Jun Liu (email: cls2...@ulster.ac.ukmailto:cls2...@ulster.ac.uk ) Artificial Intelligence with Application Grouphttp://scm.ulster.ac.uk/~scmresearch/AIARG/ | School of Computing and Mathematics http://scm.ulster.ac.uk/ | Computer Science Research Institute http://compeng.ulster.ac.uk/csri.php | Faculty of Computing and Engineering http://compeng.ulster.ac.uk/ | University of Ulster at Jordanstown http://www.ulster.ac.uk/ | Shore Road, Newtownabbey
[UAI] IEEE ICDM '13: Call for Papers
=== ICDM '13: The 13th IEEE International Conference on Data Mining Sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society Dallas, Texas, US 8-11 December 2013. http://icdm2013.rutgers.edu/ === The IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM) has established itself as the world's premier research conference in data mining. The 13th ICDM conference (ICDM '13) provides a premier forum for the dissemination of innovative, practical development experiences as well as original research results in data mining, spanning applications, algorithms, software and systems. The conference draws researchers and application developers from a wide range of data mining related areas such as statistics, machine learning, pattern recognition, databases and data warehousing, data visualization, knowledge-based systems and high performance computing. By promoting high quality and novel research findings, and innovative solutions to challenging data mining problems, the conference seeks to continuously advance the state of the art in data mining. As an important part of the conference, the workshops program will focus on new research challenges and initiatives, and the tutorials program will cover emerging data mining technologies and the latest developments in data mining. +++ Topics of Interest +++ Topics related to the design, analysis and implementation of data mining theory, systems and applications are of interest. These include, but are not limited to the following areas: * Foundations of data mining * Data mining and machine learning algorithms and methods in traditional areas (such as classification, regression, clustering, probabilistic modeling, and association analysis), and in new areas * Mining text and semi-structured data, and mining temporal, spatial and multimedia data * Mining data streams * Mining spatio-temporal data * Mining with data clouds and Big Data * Link and graph mining * Pattern recognition and trend analysis * Collaborative filtering/personalization * Data and knowledge representation for data mining * Query languages and user interfaces for mining * Complexity, efficiency, and scalability issues in data mining * Data pre-processing, data reduction, feature selection and feature transformation * Post-processing of data mining results * Statistics and probability in large-scale data mining * Soft computing (including neural networks, fuzzy logic, evolutionary computation, and rough sets) and uncertainty management for data mining * Integration of data warehousing, OLAP and data mining * Human-machine interaction and visual data mining * High performance and parallel/distributed data mining * Quality assessment and interestingness metrics of data mining results * Visual Analytics * Security, privacy and social impact of data mining * Data mining applications in bioinformatics, electronic commerce, Web, intrusion detection, finance, marketing, healthcare, telecommunications and other fields +++ Conference Publications and ICDM Best Paper Awards +++ High quality papers in all data mining areas are solicited. Original papers exploring new directions will receive especially careful and supportive reviews. Papers that have already been accepted or are currently under review for other conferences or journals will not be considered for publication at ICDM '13. Paper submissions should be limited to a maximum of 10 pages in the IEEE 2-column format (see the IEEE Computer Society Press Proceedings Author Guidelines at http://www.computer.org/portal/web/cscps/formatting), and will be triple-blind reviewed by the Program Committee on the basis of technical quality, relevance to data mining, originality, significance, and clarity. Please use the Submission Form on the ICDM '13 website to submit your paper. Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings by the IEEE Computer Society Press. A selected number of IEEE ICDM '13 accepted papers will be invited for possible inclusion, in an expanded and revised form, in the Knowledge and Information Systems journal (http://www.cs.uvm.edu/~kais/) published by Springer-Verlag. IEEE ICDM Best Paper Awards will be conferred at the conference on the authors of (1) the best research paper, (2) the best application paper, and (3) the best student paper. Strong, foundational results will be considered for the best research paper award and application-oriented submissions will be considered for the best application paper award. A best student paper award will also be given. Important Dates * Workshop proposals: April 2 * Workshop notification: April 30 * ICDM contest proposals: April 30 * Full paper submissions:
[UAI] CFP (New Deadline): AIIM Special Issue on Intelligent Biomedical Data, Signal and Image Analysis
CALL FOR PAPERS * Manuscript submission deadline: May 10 * Special Issue on Intelligent Biomedical Data, Signal and Image Analysis Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (http://www.aiimjournal.com/) Aim: A substantial body of work from researchers around the globe has been devoted to the development of intelligent techniques that can analyze biomedical data and extract useful medical knowledge. Applications stemming from such research have had a considerable impact in healthcare. However, still several open problems remain in analyzing biomedical data which existing approaches cannot yet sufficiently tackle. The aim of this special issue is to present novel techniques and introduce new research directions in biomedical data analysis that can help address the key open issues in the field. Important dates: Manuscript submission deadline: May 10, 2013 Notification of initial decisions: August 10, 2013 Revised submission deadline: October 20, 2013 Notification of final decisions: December 20, 2013 Final manuscripts: January 31, 2014 Rationale Recently, a sharp increase in capacity for collecting medical data has become possible with the availability of modern biomedical instrumentation. However, these data should undergo appropriate analysis in order to extract meaningful information that could be of use to medical practitioners. Unfortunately, in most cases traditional data analysis techniques are unable to handle the high dimensionality and sheer volume of such data. This has led to the development of novel data mining techniques that can identify patterns and generate useful medical knowledge. Such techniques, originating from diverse fields such as machine learning, statistics, and signal processing, have received considerable attention during the last decade and are increasingly being adopted in healthcare. Prominent examples include the application of data mining techniques for analyzing data generated by high-throughput 'omic' technologies with the purpose of identifying candidate biomarkers, and the extraction of meaningful features form analyzing data obtained by medical imaging technologies (e.g. MRI, CT). Despite this encouraging progress there are still many challenging issues that have not yet been adequately addressed. Examples include the high-dimensionality of data with an inordinate number of features compared to the limited number of cases, datasets suffering from strong class imbalance, violation of the i.i.d. assumption (which is adopted by most techniques), limited availability of labeled data, and several more. Topics The topics of this special issue include, but are not limited to: * Biomedical data mining * Combination of structured and unstructured data * Intelligent data analysis in bio- and clinical medicine * Intelligent analysis and fusion of genomic and proteomic data * Intelligent medical image analysis * Intelligent medical signal processing * Disease progression prediction * Data and knowledge representation / aquisition * Intelligent Mining of Biomedical Streaming Data Paper submission and review: We invite authors to submit original research articles, as well as comprehensive reviews, which contribute towards the aim of the special issue. Submitted articles should report on significant previously unpublished work. Revised and substantially extended workshop and conference papers in the field will also be considered. In these cases the journal paper submission should contain at least 30% of new, previously unpublished material. Authors should indicate in the cover letter whether the submission is based on, or extends substantially, a previously published conference or workshop paper, in which case a description of what is new must also be included. Manuscripts must follow the AIIM guidelines. The submission format and other relevant details can be found at the journal submission site http://ees.elsevier.com/aiim/. *All manuscripts should indicate in the comments page of the submission process that they are being submitted for the Special Issue on Intelligent Biomedical Data, Signal and Image Analysis.* Each submission will be peer-reviewed by at least three reviewers. Guest editors will screen the submissions for eligibility and quality. All papers accepted to the special issue are subject to final approval by the Editor-in-Chief of the AIIM journal. It is planned that the articles will appear in one of the issues of the Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Journal, edited and published by Elsevier, in 2014. AIIM typically has 9 issues per year. Guest editors: Harris Papadopoulos Frederick University, Cyprus harris.papadopoulos[at]gmail.com Efthyvoulos Kyriacou Frederick University, Cyprus e.kyriacou[at]frederick.ac.cy Ilias Maglogiannis University of Central Greece, Greece imaglo[at]ucg.gr George Anastassopoulos Democritus University of Thrase, Greece anasta[at]med.duth.gr
[UAI] Reminder IJCAI 2013 Doctoral Consortium -- applications due Feb 18
Students are invited to apply for admission to the doctoral consortium to be held at the IJCAI conference, Bejing, China, August 3-9, 2013. The doctoral consortium provides an opportunity for Ph.D. students to discuss their research interests and career objectives with established researchers in AI. == Deadline for applications: February 18, 2013 == Notification of acceptance: March 28, 2013 Details at http://ijcai13.org/students_mentoring/doctoral_consortium Submissions to https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ijcai2013dc Accepted extended abstracts of thesis research will be published in the conference proceedings. For questions contact: Maria Gini (Univ. of Minnesota, USA) Jimmy Lee (Chinese University of Hong Kong, China) Michela Milano (Univ. of Bologna, Italy) Co-chairs, Doctoral Consortium, IJCAI 2013 email: ijcai201...@easychair.org ___ uai mailing list uai@ENGR.ORST.EDU https://secure.engr.oregonstate.edu/mailman/listinfo/uai
[UAI] Summer internship at Siemens Healthcare USA
--Apologies for cross-postings— We are looking for interns (research as well as development). The student should be comfortable with state of art machine learning and Statistical NLP. The student should have some experience with developing information extraction and text mining systems and be proficient in Java. The student should be familiar with most standard text representation, feature extraction and classification techniques. We are looking for students that have published at or target one or more venues like NIPS, ICML, ACL, HLT, KDD, SIGIR, AMIA etc. The positions (3-6) months are to be filled immediately (preferred) or over Summer 2013. The position is with Innovation Center in Siemens Medical Solutions in Malvern, PA and the candidate should be willing to relocate to greater Philadelphia area for the duration of the internship. Note that this position is only open to students enrolled in or recently graduated from a university in the USA. No visa sponsorship, should have a work permit (CPT, OPT are okay). Open to Masters as well as PhD Candidates. PhD candidates shall receive preference. For PhD candidates, please mention your advisor’s name. Interested candidates, please send your resume to f.far...@siemens.com. ___ uai mailing list uai@ENGR.ORST.EDU https://secure.engr.oregonstate.edu/mailman/listinfo/uai
[UAI] ComCom SI on Opportunistic Networking: Deadline Extended to Feb 26, 2013
*** Our Sincere Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message *** = PAPER SUBMISSION DEADLINE HAS BEEN EXTENDED TO = FEBRUARY 26, 2013 (11:59pm PST) CALL FOR PAPERS Elsevier - Computer Communications Journal Special Issue on Opportunistic Networking Submission Deadline (extended): February 26, 2013 The widespread availability of mobile portable devices enriched with a variety of sensing capabilities, coupled with the impelling need of communication anytime and anywhere, has rapidly raised the interest towards new approaches to communications between users. Opportunistic networks are an instance of the delay tolerant paradigm applied to networks made up of users' portable devices (such as smartphones and tablets). As such, they are able to cope with challenged network conditions that are often present in real life, such as high node mobility, variable connectivity, and disconnections, which would impair communications in traditional Mobile Ad Hoc Networks. In this scenario, user mobility becomes one of the main drivers to enable message delivery. In fact, according to the store-carry-and-forward paradigm, user devices store messages and carry them around while they move in the network, exchanging them upon encounter with other nodes, and eventually delivering them to the ir destination or to interested users. This new communication paradigm enables legacy applications in challenged scenarios, as well as it paves the way to innovative solutions. While opportunistic networks initially received attention to support communication where an infrastructure is not available (for disaster recovery or in rural areas), nowadays a number of applications can be envisaged ranging from content sharing, through mobile social networking, to participatory and urban sensing. All these applications rely on data forwarding amongst devices. As a consequence, two aspects become relevant, that is, the need for mechanisms guaranteeing trusted and secure communications while preserving users' privacy (in the absence of infrastructure and sometimes even end-to-end connectivity), and incentive mechanisms able to boost the participation in the network. This Special Issue of Computer Communications seeks contributions pushing the state of the art in Opportunistic Networking. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to) the following: - Mobility measurements and models, mobility trace analysis - Measurements, models, and analysis for user behaviors on mobile devices - Unicast and multicast routing - Transport, congestion control, and reliability issues - Content dissemination, content caching, service composition, opportunistic computing - Trust, security privacy in opportunistic forwarding, incentive mechanisms, reputation systems, and key management - Application support and middleware for opportunistic networks - New applications and services relying on opportunistic networking - Systems and experience for real-world deployments Schedule Submission deadline (extended): February 26, 2013 Author notification: May 24, 2013 Revised paper due: June 30, 2013 Final author notification: September 16, 2013 Publication: TBD Guest Editors - Chiara Boldrini, IIT-CNR, Italy Kyunghan Lee, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), Korea Melek Onen, EURECOM, France Joerg Ott, Aalto University, Finland Elena Pagani, Universita' degli Studi di Milano, Italy Instructions for submission --- Manuscripts must not have been previously published nor currently under review by other journals or conferences. If the paper was published in a conference, the submitted manuscript should be a substantial extension of the conference paper. In this case, authors are also required to submit their published conference articles and a summary document explaining the enhancements made in the journal version. Papers must be submitted through the Computer Communications website at http://ees.elsevier.com/comcom, where guidelines for manuscript preparation can also be found. To ensure that all manuscripts are correctly identified for consideration by the Special Issue, the authors should select Special Issue: Opp-Net when they reach the Article Type step in the submission process. For further information, please contact the guest editors at comcomsi_opp...@iit.cnr.it ___ uai mailing list uai@ENGR.ORST.EDU https://secure.engr.oregonstate.edu/mailman/listinfo/uai
[UAI] Funded scholarship in sequential multi-agent decision making, Digital Futures Institute, Teesside University, UK
http://www.tees.ac.uk/sections/research/digital_futures/dfi_scholarship2.cfm Research Doctoral Scholarship - Digital Futures Institute Project title: Sequential multi-agent decision making. An enhanced stipend of £15,000 per annum is offered to a strong candidate for a full time PhD scholarship within the Digital Futures Institute, Teesside University. The scholarship is funded by Teesside University, and will be for three years, subject to satisfactory progress. Supervisory team Director of Studies: Dr Yifeng Zeng | supervisory team: Professor Marc Cavazza. Location: Based at Teesside University. Entry requirements Applicants should hold or expect to obtain a good honours degree (2.1 or above) and/or master's level qualification in a relevant discipline. The successful applicant will have strong programming skills, knowledge of classical AI planning and a good mathematical background. It is desirable that the applicant has knowledge of constraint programming or Operations Research optimisation techniques. Applications are sought from outstanding graduates. Application forms and further details on the project can be obtained from the Graduate Research School: T: 01642 738033 | E:pgradmissi...@tees.ac.uk For informal enquiries, please contact Dr Yifeng Zeng y.z...@tees.ac.uk. Closing date: 11 March 2013, 4.30pm Interviews will take place week commencing, 8 April 2013. The Scholarship is expected to start in May 2013, but for a strong candidate could be deferred until October 2013. It is important to state your preferred start date at interview. ___ uai mailing list uai@ENGR.ORST.EDU https://secure.engr.oregonstate.edu/mailman/listinfo/uai
