July 2015 - SIPTA News - lists.sipta.org

Re: [SIPTA] The New VV&UQ Journal

by Kreinovich

July 23, 2015

Re: [SIPTA] SSCI'2016

by Kreinovich

July 22, 2015

Re: [SIPTA] interesting discussion on use of imprecisely known probabilities in earthquake prediction

by Vladimir KOSSOBOKOV

July 20, 2015

[SIPTA] TPNC 2015: extended submission deadline 27 July

by GRLMC - URV

*To be removed from our mailing list, please respond to this message with UNSUBSCRIBE in the subject line* ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ***** SUBMISSION DEADLINE EXTENDED: July 27 ***** ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- **************************************************************************** ************ 4th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF NATURAL COMPUTING TPNC 2015 Mieres, Spain December 15-17, 2015 Organized by: European Centre for Soft Computing Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics (GRLMC) Rovira i Virgili University http://grammars.grlmc.com/TPNC2015/ **************************************************************************** ************ AIMS: TPNC is a conference series intending to cover the wide spectrum of computational principles, models and techniques inspired by information processing in nature. TPNC 2015 will reserve significant room for young scholars at the beginning of their career and particular focus will be put on methodology. The conference aims at attracting contributions to nature-inspired models of computation, synthesizing nature by means of computation, nature-inspired materials, and information processing in nature. VENUE: TPNC 2015 will take place in Mieres, in the north of Spain. The city is the heart of the coal mining industry in the country, today declining. The venue will be the European Centre for Soft Computing: http://www.softcomputing.es/ SCOPE: Topics include, but are not limited to: - Theoretical contributions to: amorphous computing bacterial foraging cellular automata chaos and dynamical systems based computing evolutionary computing membrane computing neural computing optical computing swarm intelligence artificial chemistry artificial immune systems artificial life complex adaptive systems self-organizing systems computing with DNA nanocomputing physarum computing quantum computing and quantum information reaction-diffusion computing computing with words developmental systems fractal geometry gene assembly in unicellular organisms granular computation intelligent systems rough/fuzzy computing in nature synthetic biology - Applications of natural computing to: algorithms bioinformatics control cryptography design economics graphics hardware human-computer interaction knowledge discovery learning logistics medicine natural language processing optimization pattern recognition planning and scheduling programming robotics telecommunications web intelligence A flexible "theory to/from practice" approach would be the perfect focus for the expected contributions. STRUCTURE: TPNC 2015 will consist of: - invited talks - invited tutorials - peer-reviewed contributions INVITED SPEAKERS: (to be completed) John A. Smolin (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights), tba Guy Theraulaz (Paul Sabatier University, Toulouse), Stigmergic Interactions and 3D Nest Construction in Ant Colonies PROGRAMME COMMITTEE: Hussein Abbass (University of New South Wales, Canberra, Australia) Andrew Adamatzky (University of the West of England, Bristol, UK) Humberto Bustince (Public University of Navarra, Pamplona, Spain) Pei-Chann Chang (Yuan Ze University, Taoyuan, Taiwan) Shyi-Ming Chen (National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taipei, Taiwan) Óscar Cordón (University of Granada, Spain) Swagatam Das (Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India) Gianni Di Caro (Dalle Molle Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Lugano, Switzerland) Tharam Dillon (La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia) Agoston E. Eiben (VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands) János Fodor (Óbuda University, Budapest, Hungary) Fernando Gomide (University of Campinas, Brazil) Maoguo Gong (Xidian University, Xi'an, China) Salvatore Greco (Universiy of Catania, Italy) Jin-Kao Hao (University of Angers, France) Francisco Herrera (University of Granada, Spain) Robert John (University of Nottingham, UK) Fakhri Karray (University of Waterloo, Canada) László T. Kóczy (Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary) Rudolf Kruse (University of Magdeburg, Germany) José A. Lozano (University of the Basque Country, Donostia, Spain) Jianquan Lu (Southeast University, Nanjing, China) Vittorio Maniezzo (University of Bologna, Italy) Carlos Martín-Vide (Rovira i Virgili University, Tarragona, Spain, chair) Ujjwal Maulik (Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India) Marjan Mernik (University of Maribor, Slovenia) Radko Mesiar (Slovak University of Technology, Bratislava, Slovakia) Risto Miikkulainen (University of Texas, Austin, USA) Tal Mor (Technion, Haifa, Israel) Vilém Novák (University of Ostrava, Czech Republic) Sankar K. Pal (Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India) Günther Palm (Ulm University, Germany) Linqiang Pan (Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China) Lech Polkowski (Polish-Japanese Academy of Information Technology, Warsaw, Poland) Dan Ralescu (University of Cincinnati, USA) Friedrich Simmel (Technical University of Munich, Germany) Guy Theraulaz (Paul Sabatier University, Toulouse, France) Vicenç Torra (University of Skövde, Sweden) José Luis Verdegay (University of Granada, Spain) David Wolpert (Santa Fe Institute, USA) Ronald R. Yager (Iona College, New Rochelle, USA) Shengxiang Yang (De Montfort University, Leicester, UK) Xin-She Yang (Middlesex University, London, UK) Hao Ying (Wayne State University, Detroit, USA) Mingsheng Ying (University of Technology, Sydney, Australia) Mengjie Zhang (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand) Qingfu Zhang (City University of Hong Kong, China) William Zhu (Minnan Normal University, Zhangzhou, China) Marek Żukowski (University of Gdansk, Poland) ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: Adrian Horia Dediu (Tarragona) Luis Magdalena (Mieres, co-chair) Carlos Martín-Vide (Tarragona, co-chair) Florentina Lilica Voicu (Tarragona) SUBMISSIONS: Authors are invited to submit non-anonymized papers in English presenting original and unpublished research. Papers should not exceed 12 single-spaced pages (including eventual appendices, references, proofs, etc.) and should be prepared according to the standard format for Springer Verlag's LNCS series (see http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0) Submissions have to be uploaded to: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=tpnc2015 PUBLICATIONS: A volume of proceedings published by Springer in the LNCS series will be available by the time of the conference. A special issue of a major journal will be later published containing peer-reviewed substantially extended versions of some of the papers contributed to the conference. Submissions to it will be by invitation. REGISTRATION: The registration form can be found at: http://grammars.grlmc.com/TPNC2015/Registration.php DEADLINES: Paper submission: July 27, 2015 (23:59h, CET) - EXTENDED - Notification of paper acceptance or rejection: August 28, 2015 Final version of the paper for the LNCS proceedings: September 4, 2015 Early registration: September 4, 2015 Late registration: December 1, 2015 Submission to the post-conference journal special issue: March 17, 2016 QUESTIONS AND FURTHER INFORMATION: florentinalilica.voicu(a)urv.cat POSTAL ADDRESS: TPNC 2015 Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics (GRLMC) Rovira i Virgili University Av. Catalunya, 35 43002 Tarragona, Spain Phone: +34 977 559 543 Fax: +34 977 558 386 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS: European Centre for Soft Computing Universitat Rovira i Virgili

July 19, 2015

Re: [SIPTA] IEEE SSCI 2105 submission still open

by Kreinovich

Dear Friends, If you had trouble submitting your papers for the IEEE Series of Symposia on Computational Intelligence (Cape Town, South Africa, December 7-10, 2015, http://ieee-ssci.org.za:8080/) by the July 14 deadline, you can still do it until Monday July 20! Several symposia, such as Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Engineering Solutions, explicitly welcome papers dealing with imprecise probability approach -----Original Message----- From: engel(a)cs.up.ac.za Sent: Friday, July 17, 2015 2:39 AM Though the deadline for submissions for IEEE SSCI 2015 has come and gone, please note that the submission link will remain open until July 20th, 14:00 SAT. Kind regards Andries Engelbrecht General Chair: IEEE SSCI 2015

July 17, 2015

[SIPTA] interesting discussion on use of imprecisely known probabilities in earthquake prediction

by Kreinovich

July 17, 2015

[SIPTA] honors to Maria Gil

by Kreinovich

Dear Friends, At the World Congress of the International Fuzzy Systems Association (IFSA), it was announced that Maria Angeles Gil has been selected as new IFSA Fellow. She also received a medal from the European Center for Soft Computing. Congratulations!!!

July 3, 2015

[SIPTA] Deadline Extension: International Workshop on Uncertainty Reasoning for the Semantic Web (URSW 2015) at ISWC 2015

by Thomas Lukasiewicz

Apologies for cross posting -------------------------------------------- URSW 2015 CALL FOR PAPERS -------------------------------------------- ********************************************** DEADLINE EXTENSION: Submissions due on July 15 ********************************************** 11th International Workshop on Uncertainty Reasoning for the Semantic Web http://c4i.gmu.edu/ursw/2015 In conjunction with the 14th International Semantic Web Conference Bethlehem, PA - US October 11 or 12, 2015 You are invited to participate in the upcoming workshop on Uncertainty Reasoning for the Semantic Web (URSW), to be held as part of the 14th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC) in October 11-15, 2015 Bethlehem, PA - US . ISWC is a major international forum for presenting visionary research on all aspects of the Semantic Web. The Uncertainty Reasoning workshop is an exciting opportunity for collaboration and cross-fertilization between the uncertainty reasoning community and the Semantic Web / Linked Data community. Effective methods for reasoning under uncertainty are vital for realizing many aspects of the Semantic Web vision, but the ability of current-generation web technology to handle uncertainty remains extremely limited. Thus, there is a continuing demand for uncertainty reasoning technology among Semantic Web researchers and developers, and the URSW workshop creates a unique opening to bring together two communities with a clear commonality of interest but limited history of interaction. By capitalizing on this opportunity, URSW could spark dramatic progress toward realizing the Semantic Web vision. AUDIENCE The intended audience for this workshop includes the following Researchers in uncertain reasoning technologies with interest in the Semantic Web and Linked Data Semantic Web and Linked Data developers and researchers People in the knowledge representation community with interest in the Semantic Web and Linked Data Ontology researchers and ontological engineers Web services researchers and developers with interest in the Semantic Web Developers of tools designed to support semantic web implementation, e.g., Jena developers, Protégé developers, OWL-API developers... TOPIC LIST We intend to have an open discussion on any topic relevant to the general subject of uncertainty in the Semantic Web and Linked Data (including fuzzy theory, probability theory, and other approaches). Therefore, the following list should be just an initial guide. Syntax and semantics for extensions to Semantic Web / Linked Data languages to enable representation of uncertainty Logical formalisms to support uncertainty in Semantic Web / Linked Data languages Probability theory as a means of assessing the likelihood that terms in different ontologies refer to the same or similar concepts Architectures for applying plausible reasoning to the problem of ontology mapping Using fuzzy approaches to deal with imprecise concepts within ontologies The concept of a probabilistic ontology and its relevance to the Semantic Web Best practices for representing uncertain, incomplete, ambiguous, or controversial information in the Semantic Web / Linked Data The role of uncertainty as it relates to web services and cloud computing Interface protocols with support for uncertainty as a means to improve interoperability among web services Uncertainty reasoning techniques applied to trust issues in the Semantic Web and Linked Data Existing implementations of uncertainty reasoning tools in the context of the Semantic Web and Linked Data Issues and techniques for integrating tools for representing and reasoning with uncertainty; The future of uncertainty reasoning for the Semantic Web and Linked Data IMPORTANT DATES July 1 EXTENDED TO July 15: Paper submissions due July 30: Paper acceptance notification August 16: Camera-ready papers due Oct 11 or 12: 11th Workshop on Uncertainty Reasoning for the Semantic Web SUBMISSION DETAILS The URSW will be accepting submissions of technical papers and position papers. Each submission will be evaluated for acceptability by at least three members of the Program Committee. Decisions about acceptance will be based on relevance to the above topic list, originality, potential significance, topicality and clarity. Since all accepted papers will be presented at the workshop, we require that at least one of the submitting authors must be a registered participant at the ISWC 2015 Conference, and committed to attend the URSW Workshop. Submissions to the workshop are only accepted in electronic format and should be sent via the workshop’s EasyChair submission site: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ursw2015 Papers must be formatted in the style of the Springer Publications format for Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). This is the very same format adopted by the ISWC 2015. For complete details, see Springer’s Author Instructions (http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0) Technical papers submitted to the URSW Workshop must not exceed 12 pages, including figures and references. Submissions exceeding this limit will not be reviewed. Position papers consist of a summary of ideas, projects, or any research efforts that are relevant to the URSW Workshop and must not exceed 4 pages. Following the general acceptance rules of the ISWC 2015 conference, papers that, at the time of submission, are under review for or have already been published in or accepted for publication in a journal or another conference will not be accepted to the URSW workshop. PRESENTATION AND PUBLICATION URSW 2015 will be a half-day workshop. All papers accepted to the URSW will be presented during the workshop and published in the workshop proceedings. Authors of accepted technical papers will have 20 minutes to present their work, while authors of accepted position papers will have a 10-minute slot to share their ideas. After each presentation, 5 minutes will be allocated to questions from the audience. Both technical and position papers will be published in the URSW workshop proceedings, to be available after the ISWC 2015 conference. ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Fernando Bobillo - University of Zaragoza, Spain Rommel N. Carvalho - Brazil's Office of the Comptroller General / University of Brasília, Brazil Davide Ceolin - VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands Paulo C. G. Costa - George Mason University, USA Claudia d’Amato - University of Bari, Italy Nicola Fanizzi - University of Bari, Italy Kathryn Laskey - George Mason University, USA Kenneth J. Laskey – MITRE Corporation, USA Thomas Lukasiewicz – University of Oxford, UK Trevor Martin - University of Bristol, UK Matthias Nickles – INSIGHT Centre for Data Analytics, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland Michael Pool - Goldman Sachs, USA PROGRAM COMMITTEE Fernando Bobillo - University of Zaragoza, Spain Rommel N. Carvalho - Brazil's Office of the Comptroller General / University of Brasília, Brazil Davide Ceolin - VU University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands Paulo C. G. Costa - George Mason University, USA Fabio G. Cozman - Universidade de Sao Paulo, Brazil Claudia d’Amato - University of Bari, Italy Nicola Fanizzi - University of Bari, Italy Marcelo Ladeira - University of Brasilia, Brazil Kathryn B. Laskey - George Mason University, USA Kenneth J. Laskey - MITRE Corporation, USA Thomas Lukasiewicz - Oxford University, UK Trevor Martin - University of Bristol, UK Alessandra Mileo - INSIGHT Galway, Ireland Matthias Nickles - INSIGHT Galway, Ireland Jeff Z. Pan - University of Aberdeen, UK Rafael Peñaloza, Technical University Dresden, Germany Michael Pool - Goldman Sachs, USA Livia Predoiu - University of Oxford, UK Guilin Qi - Southeast University, China Dave Robertson - University of Edinburgh, UK Daniel Sánchez - University of Granada, Spain Giorgos Stoilos - National and Technical University of Athens, Greece Umberto Straccia – ISTI-CNR, Pisa, Italy Matthias Thimm - University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany Peter Vojtas – Charles University, Czech Republic We are looking forward to seeing you in Bethlehem, PA - US!

July 1, 2015