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[SIPTA] URGENT - PhD Scholarship in Real-time Action Recognition for Human-Robot Interaction
by Fabio Cuzzolin 12 Dec '14

12 Dec '14

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[SIPTA] FW: an interesting mini-symposium
by Kreinovich 06 Dec '14

06 Dec '14

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[SIPTA] Deep Learning and Representation Learning Workshop: NIPS 2014
by Adam Coates 02 Dec '14

02 Dec '14

Call for participation: Deep Learning and Representation Learning Workshop http://www.dlworkshop.org/ Friday, December 12, 2014 Palais des Congrès de Montréal/Convention and Exhibition Center, Montreal, Canada Held in conjunction with Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) 2014. Please see the tentative schedule here: http://www.dlworkshop.org/schedule Scheduled location: Level 5; room 511 a,b, d,e ---- Deep Learning algorithms attempt to discover good representations, at multiple levels of abstraction. There has been rapid progress in this area in recent years, both in terms of algorithms and in terms of applications, but many challenges remain. The workshop aims at bringing together researchers in that field and discussing these challenges, brainstorming about new solutions. The workshop will present paper submissions in 2 poster sessions with several papers selected for oral presentation. Topics include: * deep learning algorithms and models (supervised or unsupervised, including about building blocks of deep nets, like RBMs and auto-encoders, etc.) * inference and optimization algorithms * semi-supervised, transfer learning, and multi-modal algorithms * theoretical foundations of deep learning (both supervised and unsupervised) * applications of deep learning (convolutional networks, word and sentence representation models, etc.) Through invited talks and presentations by the participants, this workshop will showcase the latest advances in deep learning and address questions that are at the center of current deep learning research. INVITED SPEAKERS: Phil Blunsom (Oxford U.) Herbert Jaeger (Jacobs U. Bremen) Rich Schwartz (BBN) Vlad Mnih (Google DeepMind) Surya Ganguli (Stanford U.) Leon Bottou (Microsoft) ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: Yoshua Bengio Adam Coates Roland Memisevic Andrew Ng Daan Wierstra

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Re: [SIPTA] ESREL2015 - European Safety and Reliability Conference in Zürich, 7-10 September 2015
by Kreinovich 01 Dec '14

01 Dec '14

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[SIPTA] automatically (?) updated online bibliographies on different topics
by Kreinovich 30 Nov '14

30 Nov '14

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[SIPTA] Paper Announcement: Symmetric coherent upper conditional prevision defined by the Choquet integral with respect to Hausdorff outer measure
by Serena Doria 26 Nov '14

26 Nov '14

The article "Symmetric coherent upper conditional prevision defined by the Choquet integral with respect to Hausdorff outer measure" has just been published and is available as 'Online First' on SpringerLink: http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10479-014-1752-x Abstract In a metric space symmetric fuzzy measures defined on the class of all subsets are introduced. Coherent upper conditional probabilities defined by Hausdorff outer measures are symmetric and distorted coherent upper con- ditional probabilities defined by Hausdorff outer measures with concave dis- tortion are proven to be symmetric. Null events and symmetric events with respect to coherent upper conditional probabilities defined by Hausdorff outer measures are characterized. Coherent upper conditional prevision defined as Choquet integral with respect to Hausdorff outer measure is symmetric be- cause it is invariant with respect to equimeasurable random variables. Author Serena Doria Department of Engineering and Geology University G. d'Annunzio, Chieti, Italy Tel.: +0039-0871-3555364 E-mail: s.doria(a)dst.unich.it ----- Fine messaggio inoltrato. -----

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Re: [SIPTA] IUKM 2015 -- Call for Papers
by Kreinovich 21 Nov '14

21 Nov '14

FYI, organizers made a minor change of dates, to avoid conflict with IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics IEEE SMC'2015, Hong Kong, October 10-13, 2015, and to have these two conferences back-to-back ________________________________________ [Please help in distributing the following CFP. Sorry for multiple postings] ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Fourth International Symposium on INTEGRATED UNCERTAINTY in KNOWLEDGE MODELLING and DECISION MAKING http://www.jaist.ac.jp/IUKM/IUKM2015/ OCTOBER 15-17, 2015, Nha Trang, VIETNAM ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Proposals for special sessions are encouraged and welcome. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The International Symposium on Integrated Uncertainty in Knowledge Modelling and Decision Making (IUKM) aims to provide a forum for exchanges of research results, ideas for and experience of application among researchers and practitioners involved with all aspects of uncertainty management and application. Previous symposia have been successfully held in Ishikawa, Japan (IUM 2010 - AISC 68), Hangzhou, China (IUKM 2011 - LNAI 7027) and Beijing, China (IUKM 2013 - LNAI 8032). The fourth IUKM (2015) will take place in the beautiful coastal city of Nha Trang, Vietnam, during 15th-17th October, 2015. Relevant topics for the IUKM 2015 Symposium include, but are not limited to, the following: + Theory and Methodology - Uncertainty formalisms: Bayesian probability, Dempster-Shafer theory, imprecise probability, random sets, rough sets, fuzzy sets and interval-based models - logics for reasoning under uncertainty - Information fusion and knowledge integration in uncertain environments - Decision making under various types of uncertainty - Aggregation operators - Copulas for dependence modelling - Granular and soft computing + Application - Data mining and knowledge discovery - Ontology engineering and Semantic Web - Intelligent data analysis and modelling - Medical informatics and bioinformatics - Ranking and recommendation systems - Kansei/affective engineering - Engineering management - Supply chain management - Environmental management - Service science - Economics and econometrics - Social network analysis and mining PUBLICATION The authors are invited to submit their full papers by May 11, 2015. The submissions will be peer-reviewed for originality and scientific quality. As done in previous editions, the proceedings of IUKM 2015 will be published by Springer-Verlag in the Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence series, and be available at the Symposium. Authors are requested to prepare their papers in the Springer LNAI format. Submissions should not exceed 12 pages and must be submitted electronically through the conference's Easychair submission page (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iukm2015) In addition, after the Symposium, the authors of selected papers from IUKM 2015 will be invited to submit substantially extended and updated version of their work for possible inclusion in special issues of Annals of Operations Research and International Journal of Approximate Reasoning. IMPORTANT DATES Deadline for paper submission: 11 May 2015 Notification of acceptance/rejection: 15 July 2015 Final camera-ready: 10 August 2015 Author registration: 10 August 2015 Early registration: 7 September 2015 Symposium dates: 15 - 17 October 2015 -------------------------- PC Co-Chairs Van-Nam Huynh (JAIST, Japan) Thierry Denoeux (University of Technology of Compiègne, France) Masahiro Inuiguchi (University of Osaka, Japan)

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[SIPTA] FW: A Conference on Integrated Uncertainty in Knowledge Modeling and Decision Making Oct. 2015
by Kreinovich 20 Nov '14

20 Nov '14

Forwarding, FYI Papers related to imprecise probabilities and their integration with other types of uncertainty are very welcome at this series of conferences ________________________________________ Please mark your calendars: The Fourth International Conference on Integrated Uncertainty in Knowledge Modeling and Decision Making (IUKM) will be held in Nha Trang, Vietnam, on October 12-14, 2015, see conference website http://www.jaist.ac.jp/IUKM/IUKM2015/ for more details. Papers are due on May 11, 2015. Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended versions of their papers to special issues of International Journal of Approximate Reasoning and of Annals of Operations Research.

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[SIPTA] [jobs] PhD Scholarship in Real-time Action Recognition for Human-Robot Interaction
by Fabio Cuzzolin 19 Nov '14

19 Nov '14

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[SIPTA] University of Oxford, Department of Computer Science: up to 15 fully funded doctoral studentships
by Thomas Lukasiewicz 17 Nov '14

17 Nov '14

[Apologies if you receive this more than once.] UP TO 15 FULLY FUNDED DOCTORAL STUDENTSHIPS UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD, DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE http://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/files/6952/studentshipad.pdf Following a generous donation by Google, the Department of Computer Science at the University of Oxford is delighted to invite applications for up to 15 fully-funded DPhil (Oxford’s PhD) studentships tenable from 1st October 2015. The University of Oxford is consistently ranked amongst the very best Computer Science departments in the world, for both teaching and research. We are committed to attracting the world’s most talented students and working with them to continue the success of the department. The topics for the studentships are open, but should relate to the interests of one of the Department’s research areas: Algorithms, Artificial Intelligence, Automated Verification, Computational Biology, Foundations, Logic & Structures, Information Systems, Machine Learning, Multi-Agent Systems, Programming Languages, Security, Semantics and Software Engineering. We also encourage applications in cross disciplinary areas such as Linguistics, Biology, Medicine and Quantum Foundations & Quantum Computation. The studentships are for three years and are open to students of any nationality. Each studentship will cover university and college fees with a stipend of at least £13,863 per year. Applicants are normally expected to have, or be predicted to achieve, a first-class or a strong upper second-class grade in either (i) a four-year undergraduate degree (with integrated masters) in a relevant subject (or equivalent international qualifications), or (ii) a three-year BSc/BA degree followed by excellent (distinction) performance in a master's degree in a relevant subject. Applicants must obtain the support of a potential supervisor in the Department prior to submitting their application. Initial contact with supervisors should be made at least two weeks prior to the closing date for applications. Informal enquiries may be addressed to Julie.sheppard(a)cs.ox.ac.uk and for more information please see our webpages: http://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/ Please apply online here quoting 15-STUD-CS-01 in the studentship reference box: https://apply.graduate.ox.ac.uk/urd/sits.urd/run/siw_ipp_lgn.login?process=… Closing date for applications: 9th January 2015

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[SIPTA] FW: an interesting challenge related to imprecise probabilities
by Kreinovich 07 Nov '14

07 Nov '14

FYI -----Original Message----- Dear Sir, dear Madam, dear Colleagues, Our 6th Competitive Game, organized jointly with the French Federation of Mathematical Games, has started. The game is endowed with 2 000 Euros for prizes. The topic for this year is "Uncertainties in GPS Positioning", in partnership with: The French Institute for Transportation Science and Technology, Geolocalisation Team (IFSTTAR/CoSys/Geoloc) and: The French Ministry of Transportation, Mission for Tarification Pricing (MEDDTL/DIGITIM/SAGS/MT) Please see: http://scmsa.eu/archives/SCM_FFJM_Competitive_Game_2014_2015.pdf (in English) All data are included in the above file. The deadline for answers is April 30th, 2015. Answers may be sent in English or in French, pdf format. Please inform your colleagues, students, friends, about this game. Best regards, Prof. Bernard Beauzamy Chairman and CEO Societe de Calcul Mathematique SA 111 Faubourg Saint Honore, 75008 Paris, France Faubourg Saint Honore, 75008 Paris, France

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[SIPTA] ECSQARU 2015 CALL for Special Sessions
by Sébastien Destercke 05 Nov '14

05 Nov '14

*** apologies for cross-posting *** ====================================================================== ECSQARU 2015 CALL for Special Sessions Thirteenth European Conference on Symbolic and Quantitative Approaches to Reasoning with Uncertainty Proposal Deadline: 1st December Dates: July 15th-17th, 2015 Location: Compiègne, France ====================================================================== We invite proposals of special sessions for the next ECSQARU 2015, to be held during the conference. These special sessions can aim at fundamental, theoretical or practical issues regarding reasoning under uncertainty, in symbolic and quantitative settings. INSTRUCTIONS Submission of proposals should include: * the session title, * a short description of the session and its main topics, * the session relevance to the ECSQARU conference, * a list of organizers (at least 2), * a list of potential submissions (if possible). Each special session should contain at least four papers. Those having fewer than four accepted papers will potentially be canceled, with accepted papers moved either to regular sessions or, if appropriate, to related special sessions. The upper limit for papers authored by each organizer will be 25% (rounded up) of the overall number of accepted papers in the session. Proposals should be sent to ecsqaru2015(a)hds.utc.fr before the 1st December 2014 EVALUATION OF PROPOSALS Special session proposals will be evaluated based on the timeliness, uniqueness of the topic and qualifications of the proposers. The proposers are expected to have a PhD degree and have a good publication track record in the proposed area. After review, a decision on whether the proposal will be accepted will be sent to the proposers. However, it is possible that an accepted proposal will be combined with another one to avoid multiple special sessions covering a similar topic. Accepted special sessions will be listed on the conference website. A final decision will be made two weeks after the submission deadline. SUBMISSION AND REVIEWS FOR SPECIAL SESSION PAPERS Manuscripts intended for special sessions should be submitted through the general paper submission website as regular submissions. During submission, authors submitting to special sessions should check the corresponding category. Papers submitted to special sessions will undergo the same review and decision process as regular papers. Organizers will be consulted to propose potential reviewers. IMPORTANT DATES Special sessions proposals should be submitted before the 1st december 2014. Submission and decision dates are the same as regular submissions. The ECSQARU 2015 scientific chairs Thierry Denoeux Sébastien Destercke

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[SIPTA] FW: REC 2016
by Kreinovich 05 Nov '14

05 Nov '14

Dear Friends, Mark your calendars, a 2016 biannual Workshop on Reliable Engineering Computing REC'2016 will be held in Bochum, Germany, June 15-17, 2016. -----Original Message----- From: Steffen Freitag [mailto:steffen.freitag(a)sd.rub.de] I would like to keep you up to date about REC 2016. The conference will be held on Wednesday-Friday, June 15-17, 2016. Best regards Steffen

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[SIPTA] CfP: ISIPTA '15, 20-24 July 2015, Pescara, Italy
by Serena Doria 30 Oct '14

30 Oct '14

*ISIPTA '15 CALL FOR PAPERS* 9th International Symposium on Imprecise Probability: Theories and Applications 20-24 July 2015 Pescara, Italy Website with up-to-date information on all aspects of the conference: http://www.sipta.org/isipta15 Scientific program contact: isipta15(a)easychair.org Local organization contact: isipta15(a)unich.it *Important Dates* 30 Jan - Paper abstracts & preliminary papers due 13 Feb - Review-ready papers due 31 Mar - Conference hotel pre-reservation deadline 08 Apr - Paper notification 17 Apr - Poster-only abstracts due 06 May - Poster-only notification 29 May - Early-bird registration deadline (?350 full; ?200 student) *Scope & Symposium Format* ISIPTA is the primary international forum to present and discuss new results related to imprecise probability. We welcome both theoretical and applied original contributions. In this edition, we especially welcome papers connecting imprecise probabilities with related research in fields such as economics, philosophy, sociology, and engineering. There will be no parallel sessions. Each paper that is accepted is presented both (i) in a plenary session, meant for a short introduction and a sketch of the context and relevance; and (ii) in a poster session, where ample time is given for in-depth explanation and discussion. The poster-only track provides a second, free format presentation option. It is also open for preliminary results, challenges, etc. *New: non-proceedings papers* To adapt to different publication cultures in different fields, we introduce a new option: the non-proceeding papers. Authors may request that their contribution is not published in the proceedings in case this precludes later publication of an expanded journal version. The PC Board will decide on a case-by-case basis. If accepted, a one-page abstract will be published in the proceedings, and the paper must be freely available on-line (e.g., as a working paper). *Already Confirmed Invited Speakers* Massimo Marinacci, AXA-Bocconi Chair in Risk Department of Decision Sciences, Bocconi University, Milan, Italy Itzhak Gilboa, Professor of Economics and Decision Sciences Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel-Aviv University, Israel & HEC, Paris, France *Special Issue* After the conference, a special issue with a selection of the accepted papers will be published in an expanded version in the International Journal of Approximate Reasoning. *Steering Committee* T. Augustin (LMU München, Germany) + PC Board G. de Cooman (Ghent University, Belgium) S. Doria (University G. d'Annunzio, Italy) + Local Organization E. Miranda (University of Oviedo, Spain) + PC Board E. Quaeghebeur (CWI, Amsterdam, Netherlands) + PC Board T. Seidenfeld (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) We look forward to your contribution and to seeing you in Pescara!

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[SIPTA] PhD Scholarship available - Real-time Action Recognition for Human-Robot Interaction - deadline October 31 2014
by Fabio Cuzzolin 27 Oct '14

27 Oct '14

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[SIPTA] CFP: 3rd International Symposium on Learning and Data Sciences (SLDS 2015)
by Gert de Cooman 22 Oct '14

22 Oct '14

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[SIPTA] Statistics
by Marco Zaffalon 08 Oct '14

08 Oct '14

Dear Friends in Imprecise Probability, Recently Alessio Benavoli and I have published a paper in Statistics, a journal from Taylor & Francis group; the paper is concerned with using prior near-ignorance in the multivariate exponential family. You can access the paper following this link: http://ipg.idsia.ch/publications.php#benavoli2014b. Apart from a certain pride and self-promotion, the other reason why I am writing this email to the list is to advertise the name of the journal to our community. As some of you will be aware, publishing an imprecise probability paper in a traditionally oriented statistical journal can be horribly tough; this is the case even if we use the traditional statistical language and take all the possible care to prevent criticism. I am thinking in particular of the papers that have the potential to affect the statistical practice rather than the purely theoretical papers. So to me it is good news that there exist some statistical journals (at least one) for which we are complete outsiders, that can eventually accept our papers. This is not to say that it will be easy, just possible. In fact in our case it has been quite difficult to convince the skeptical reviewers to make the paper go through. If you have had a good experience with some statistical journal of the above type, you could consider sharing such information through this list as well, so as we all can be aware about the possible venues (as opposed to the impossible ones) for our statistical papers. All the best wishes, Marco

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[SIPTA] Open positions in Queen's University Belfast
by Cassio P. de Campos 06 Oct '14

06 Oct '14

Dear all, There are some open positions here at Queen's University Belfast. Usually these positions are either permanent (with initial probation) or are tracks to become permanent. The links follow below. While I note that I am not part of the hiring committee, if anyone wants further information, just drop me a message and I will be glad to help. Best regards, cassio. - http://www.qub.ac.uk/sites/QUBJobVacancies/FeaturedJobs/QueensUniversityRes… This first link doesn't mention statistics, computer science, data sciences, but I know that a person in such field will be considered as long as their work can have applications to one of those listed areas. - http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/AJP691/lecturer-senior-lecturer-reader/ - http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/AJP290/doctoral-fellow/

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[SIPTA] LATA 2015: extended submission deadline 16 October
by GRLMC 05 Oct '14

05 Oct '14

*To be removed from our mailing list, please respond to this message with UNSUBSCRIBE in the subject line* ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ***** SUBMISSION DEADLINE EXTENDED: October 16 ***** ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- **************************************************************************************** 9th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE AND AUTOMATA THEORY AND APPLICATIONS LATA 2015 Nice, France March 2-6, 2015 Organized by: CNRS, I3S, UMR 7271 Nice Sophia Antipolis University Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics (GRLMC) Rovira i Virgili University http://grammars.grlmc.com/lata2015/ **************************************************************************************** AIMS: LATA is a conference series on theoretical computer science and its applications. Following the tradition of the diverse PhD training events in the field developed at Rovira i Virgili University in Tarragona since 2002, LATA 2015 will reserve significant room for young scholars at the beginning of their career. It will aim at attracting contributions from classical theory fields as well as application areas. VENUE: LATA 2015 will take place in Nice, the second largest French city on the Mediterranean coast. The venue will be the University Castle at Parc Valrose. SCOPE: Topics of either theoretical or applied interest include, but are not limited to: algebraic language theory algorithms for semi-structured data mining algorithms on automata and words automata and logic automata for system analysis and programme verification automata networks automata, concurrency and Petri nets automatic structures cellular automata codes combinatorics on words computational complexity data and image compression descriptional complexity digital libraries and document engineering foundations of finite state technology foundations of XML fuzzy and rough languages grammars (Chomsky hierarchy, contextual, unification, categorial, etc.) grammatical inference and algorithmic learning graphs and graph transformation language varieties and semigroups language-based cryptography parallel and regulated rewriting parsing patterns power series string and combinatorial issues in bioinformatics string processing algorithms symbolic dynamics term rewriting transducers trees, tree languages and tree automata unconventional models of computation weighted automata STRUCTURE: LATA 2015 will consist of: invited talks peer-reviewed contributions INVITED SPEAKERS: Paola Inverardi (L’Aquila), Synthesis of Protocol Adapters Johann A. Makowsky (Technion, Haifa), Hankel Matrices for Graph Parameters and Graph Grammars Giancarlo Mauri (Milano Bicocca), Complexity Classes for Membrane Systems Andreas Podelski (Freiburg), Automated Program Verification Antonio Restivo (Palermo), The Shuffle Product: New Research Directions PROGRAMME COMMITTEE: Andrew Adamatzky (West of England, Bristol, UK) Andris Ambainis (Latvia, Riga, LV) Franz Baader (Dresden Tech, DE) Rajesh Bhatt (Massachusetts, Amherst, US) José-Manuel Colom (Zaragoza, ES) Bruno Courcelle (Bordeaux, FR) Erzsébet Csuhaj-Varjú (Eötvös Loránd, Budapest, HU) Aldo de Luca (Naples Federico II, IT) Susanna Donatelli (Turin, IT) Paola Flocchini (Ottawa, CA) Enrico Formenti (Nice, FR) Tero Harju (Turku, FI) Monika Heiner (Brandenburg Tech, Cottbus, DE) Yiguang Hong (Chinese Academy, Beijing, CN) Kazuo Iwama (Kyoto, JP) Sanjay Jain (National Singapore, SG) Maciej Koutny (Newcastle, UK) Antonín Kučera (Masaryk, Brno, CZ) Thierry Lecroq (Rouen, FR) Salvador Lucas (Valencia Tech, ES) Veli Mäkinen (Helsinki, FI) Carlos Martín-Vide (Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, ES, chair) Filippo Mignosi (L’Aquila, IT) Victor Mitrana (Madrid Tech, ES) Ilan Newman (Haifa, IL) Joachim Niehren (INRIA, Lille, FR) Enno Ohlebusch (Ulm, DE) Arlindo Oliveira (Lisbon, PT) Joël Ouaknine (Oxford, UK) Wojciech Penczek (Polish Academy, Warsaw, PL) Dominique Perrin (ESIEE, Paris, FR) Alberto Policriti (Udine, IT) Sanguthevar Rajasekaran (Connecticut, Storrs, US) Jörg Rothe (Düsseldorf, DE) Frank Ruskey (Victoria, CA) Helmut Seidl (Munich Tech, DE) Ayumi Shinohara (Tohoku, Sendai, JP) Bernhard Steffen (Dortmund, DE) Frank Stephan (National Singapore, SG) Paul Tarau (North Texas, Denton, US) Andrzej Tarlecki (Warsaw, PL) Jacobo Torán (Ulm, DE) Frits Vaandrager (Nijmegen, NL) Jaco van de Pol (Twente, Enschede, NL) Pierre Wolper (Liège, BE) Zhilin Wu (Chinese Academy, Beijing, CN) Slawomir Zadrozny (Polish Academy, Warsaw, PL) Hans Zantema (Eindhoven Tech, NL) ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: Sébastien Autran (Nice) Adrian Horia Dediu (Tarragona) Enrico Formenti (Nice, co-chair) Sandrine Julia (Nice) Carlos Martín-Vide (Tarragona, co-chair) Christophe Papazian (Nice) Julien Provillard (Nice) Pierre-Alain Scribot (Nice) Bianca Truthe (Giessen) 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, 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=lata2015 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 the Journal of Computer and System Sciences (Elsevier, 2013 JCR impact factor: 1.0) 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 period for registration is open from July 21, 2014 to March 2, 2015. The registration form can be found at: http://grammars.grlmc.com/lata2015/Registration.php DEADLINES: Paper submission: October 16, 2014 (23:59 CET) – EXTENDED – Notification of paper acceptance or rejection: November 18, 2014 Final version of the paper for the LNCS proceedings: November 25, 2014 Early registration: November 25, 2014 Late registration: February 16, 2015 Submission to the journal special issue: June 6, 2015 QUESTIONS AND FURTHER INFORMATION: florentinalilica.voicu(a)urv.cat POSTAL ADDRESS: LATA 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: Nice Sophia Antipolis University Rovira i Virgili University --- Este mensaje no contiene virus ni malware porque la protección de avast! Antivirus está activa. http://www.avast.com

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[SIPTA] SLSP 2014: call for participation
by GRLMC 21 Sep '14

21 Sep '14

*To be removed from our mailing list, please respond to this message with UNSUBSCRIBE in the subject line* ********************************************************************************** 2nd INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON STATISTICAL LANGUAGE AND SPEECH PROCESSING SLSP 2014 Grenoble, France October 14-16, 2014 Organised by: Équipe GETALP Laboratoire d’Informatique de Grenoble Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics (GRLMC) Rovira i Virgili University http://grammars.grlmc.com/slsp2014/ ********************************************************************************** PROGRAM Tuesday, October 14 9:00 - 10:00 Registration 10:00 - 10:15 Opening 10:15 - 11:05 Roger K. Moore: Spoken Language Processing: Time to Look Outside? - Invited Lecture 11:05 - 11:35 Coffee Break 11:35 - 12:50 Georgios Kontonatsios, Claudiu Mihaila, Ioannis Korkontzelos, Paul Thompson, and Sophia Ananiadou: A Hybrid Approach to Compiling Bilingual Dictionaries of Medical Terms from Parallel Corpora Wei Liu, Zhipeng Chang, and William J. Teahan: Experiments with a PPM Compression-based Method for English-Chinese Bilingual Sentence Alignment Chi-kiu Lo and Dekai Wu: BiMEANT: Integrating Cross-lingual and Monolingual Semantic Frame Similarities in the MEANT Semantic MT Evaluation Metric 12:50 - 14:20 Lunch 14:20 - 15:35 Mathias Verbeke, Vincent Van Asch, Walter Daelemans, and Luc De Raedt: Lazy and Eager Relational Learning using Graph-Kernels Mohamed Amine Boukhaled, and Jean-Gabriel Ganascia: Probabilistic Anomaly Detection Method for Authorship Verification Uli Fahrenberg, Fabrizio Biondi, Kevin Corre, Cyrille Jegourel, Simon Kongshj, and Axel Legay: Measuring Global Similarity between Texts 16:00 - 18:00 Touristic visit Wednesday, October 15 9:00 - 9:50 Claire Gardent: Syntax and Data-to-Text Generation - Invited Lecture 9:50 - 10:05 Break 10:05 - 11:20 Borbála Siklósi and Attila Novák: Identifying and Clustering Relevant Terms in Clinical Records Using Unsupervised Methods Amine Abdaoui, Jérôme Azé, Sandra Bringay, Natalia Grabar, and Pascal Poncelet: Predicting Medical Roles in Online Health Fora Ekaterina Pronoza, Elena Yagunova, and Svetlana Volskaya: Corpus-based Information Extraction and Opinion Mining for the Restaurant Recommendation System 11:20 - 11:50 Coffee Break and Group Photo 11:50 - 13:05 Raúl Ernesto Gutierrez de Piñerez Reyes and Juan Francisco Díaz-Frías: Informal Mathematical Discourse Parsing with Conditional Random Fields Waad Ben Kheder, Driss Matrouf, Pierre-Michel Bousquet, Jean-François Bonastre and Moez Ajili: Robust Speaker Recognition Using MAP Estimation of Additive Noise in i-vectors Space Arseniy Gorin and Denis Jouvet: Structured GMM Based on Unsupervised Clustering for Recognizing Adult and Child Speech 13:05 - 14:35 Lunch 14:35 - 16:35 Visit to the Domus apartment Thursday, October 16 9:00 - 9:50 Martti Vainio: Phonetics and Machine Learning: Hierarchical Modelling of Prosody in Statistical Speech Synthesis - Invited Lecture 9:50 - 10:05 Break 10:05 - 11:20 Gábor Kiss and Klára Vicsi: Physiological and Cognitive Status Monitoring on the Base of Acoustic-phonetic Speech Parameters Barbara Schuppler, Sebastian Grill, André Menrath, and Juan A. Morales-Cordovilla: Automatic Phonetic Transcription in Two Steps: Forced Alignment and Burst Detection Mian Du, Matthew Pierce, Lidia Pivovarova, and Roman Yangarber: Supervised Classification using Balanced Training 11:20 - 11:50 Coffee Break 11:50 - 13:05 Márius Šajgalík, Michal Barla, and Mária Bieliková: Exploring Multidimensional Continuous Feature Space to Extract Relevant Words Zhemin Zhu, Djoerd Hiemstra, and Peter Apers: Linear Co-occurrence Rate Networks (L-CRNs) for Sequence Labeling Théodore Bluche, Hermann Ney, and Christopher Kermorvant: Handwriting Recognition with Deep and Recurrent Neural Networks 13:05 - 13:15 Closing --- Este mensaje no contiene virus ni malware porque la protección de avast! Antivirus está activa. http://www.avast.com

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[SIPTA] LATA 2015: 3rd call for papers
by GRLMC 14 Sep '14

14 Sep '14

*To be removed from our mailing list, please respond to this message with UNSUBSCRIBE in the subject line* **************************************************************************************** 9th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE AND AUTOMATA THEORY AND APPLICATIONS LATA 2015 Nice, France March 2-6, 2015 Organized by: CNRS, I3S, UMR 7271 Nice Sophia Antipolis University Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics (GRLMC) Rovira i Virgili University http://grammars.grlmc.com/lata2015/ **************************************************************************************** AIMS: LATA is a conference series on theoretical computer science and its applications. Following the tradition of the diverse PhD training events in the field developed at Rovira i Virgili University in Tarragona since 2002, LATA 2015 will reserve significant room for young scholars at the beginning of their career. It will aim at attracting contributions from classical theory fields as well as application areas. VENUE: LATA 2015 will take place in Nice, the second largest French city on the Mediterranean coast. The venue will be the University Castle at Parc Valrose. SCOPE: Topics of either theoretical or applied interest include, but are not limited to: algebraic language theory algorithms for semi-structured data mining algorithms on automata and words automata and logic automata for system analysis and programme verification automata networks automata, concurrency and Petri nets automatic structures cellular automata codes combinatorics on words computational complexity data and image compression descriptional complexity digital libraries and document engineering foundations of finite state technology foundations of XML fuzzy and rough languages grammars (Chomsky hierarchy, contextual, unification, categorial, etc.) grammatical inference and algorithmic learning graphs and graph transformation language varieties and semigroups language-based cryptography parallel and regulated rewriting parsing patterns power series string and combinatorial issues in bioinformatics string processing algorithms symbolic dynamics term rewriting transducers trees, tree languages and tree automata unconventional models of computation weighted automata STRUCTURE: LATA 2015 will consist of: invited talks peer-reviewed contributions INVITED SPEAKERS: Paola Inverardi (L’Aquila), Synthesis of Protocol Adapters Johann A. Makowsky (Technion, Haifa), Hankel Matrices for Graph Parameters and Graph Grammars Giancarlo Mauri (Milano Bicocca), Complexity Classes for Membrane Systems Andreas Podelski (Freiburg), Automated Program Verification Antonio Restivo (Palermo), The Shuffle Product: New Research Directions PROGRAMME COMMITTEE: Andrew Adamatzky (West of England, Bristol, UK) Andris Ambainis (Latvia, Riga, LV) Franz Baader (Dresden Tech, DE) Rajesh Bhatt (Massachusetts, Amherst, US) José-Manuel Colom (Zaragoza, ES) Bruno Courcelle (Bordeaux, FR) Erzsébet Csuhaj-Varjú (Eötvös Loránd, Budapest, HU) Aldo de Luca (Naples Federico II, IT) Susanna Donatelli (Turin, IT) Paola Flocchini (Ottawa, CA) Enrico Formenti (Nice, FR) Tero Harju (Turku, FI) Monika Heiner (Brandenburg Tech, Cottbus, DE) Yiguang Hong (Chinese Academy, Beijing, CN) Kazuo Iwama (Kyoto, JP) Sanjay Jain (National Singapore, SG) Maciej Koutny (Newcastle, UK) Antonín Kučera (Masaryk, Brno, CZ) Thierry Lecroq (Rouen, FR) Salvador Lucas (Valencia Tech, ES) Veli Mäkinen (Helsinki, FI) Carlos Martín-Vide (Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, ES, chair) Filippo Mignosi (L’Aquila, IT) Victor Mitrana (Madrid Tech, ES) Ilan Newman (Haifa, IL) Joachim Niehren (INRIA, Lille, FR) Enno Ohlebusch (Ulm, DE) Arlindo Oliveira (Lisbon, PT) Joël Ouaknine (Oxford, UK) Wojciech Penczek (Polish Academy, Warsaw, PL) Dominique Perrin (ESIEE, Paris, FR) Alberto Policriti (Udine, IT) Sanguthevar Rajasekaran (Connecticut, Storrs, US) Jörg Rothe (Düsseldorf, DE) Frank Ruskey (Victoria, CA) Helmut Seidl (Munich Tech, DE) Ayumi Shinohara (Tohoku, Sendai, JP) Bernhard Steffen (Dortmund, DE) Frank Stephan (National Singapore, SG) Paul Tarau (North Texas, Denton, US) Andrzej Tarlecki (Warsaw, PL) Jacobo Torán (Ulm, DE) Frits Vaandrager (Nijmegen, NL) Jaco van de Pol (Twente, Enschede, NL) Pierre Wolper (Liège, BE) Zhilin Wu (Chinese Academy, Beijing, CN) Slawomir Zadrozny (Polish Academy, Warsaw, PL) Hans Zantema (Eindhoven Tech, NL) ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: Sébastien Autran (Nice) Adrian Horia Dediu (Tarragona) Enrico Formenti (Nice, co-chair) Sandrine Julia (Nice) Carlos Martín-Vide (Tarragona, co-chair) Christophe Papazian (Nice) Julien Provillard (Nice) Pierre-Alain Scribot (Nice) Bianca Truthe (Giessen) 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, 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=lata2015 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 the Journal of Computer and System Sciences (Elsevier, 2013 JCR impact factor: 1.0) 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 period for registration is open from July 21, 2014 to March 2, 2015. The registration form can be found at: http://grammars.grlmc.com/lata2015/Registration.php DEADLINES: Paper submission: October 10, 2014 (23:59 CET) Notification of paper acceptance or rejection: November 18, 2014 Early registration: November 25, 2014 Final version of the paper for the LNCS proceedings: November 26, 2014 Late registration: February 16, 2015 Submission to the journal special issue: June 6, 2015 QUESTIONS AND FURTHER INFORMATION: florentinalilica.voicu(a)urv.cat POSTAL ADDRESS: LATA 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: Nice Sophia Antipolis University Rovira i Virgili University --- Este mensaje no contiene virus ni malware porque la protección de avast! Antivirus está activa. http://www.avast.com

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[SIPTA] Save the date: ECSQARU 15-17th July 2015, Compiègne, France
by Sébastien Destercke 12 Sep '14

12 Sep '14

** apologies for cross-posting ** ====================================================================== ECSQARU 2015, 15th-17th July 2015 Thirteenth European Conference on Symbolic and Quantitative Approaches to Reasoning with Uncertainty Dates: July 15th-17th, 2015 Location: Compiègne, France Submission deadline: February 6th, 2015 Notification: March 27th, 2015 Final version: April 24th, 2015 Further information: https://www.hds.utc.fr/ecsqaru2015 (to come) ====================================================================== Scope ------ The biennial ECSQARU conferences constitute a major forum for advances in the theory and practice of reasoning under uncertainty. Contributions come from researchers interested in advancing the technology and from practitioners using uncertainty techniques in real-world applications. The scope of the ECSQARU conferences encompasses fundamental issues, representation, inference, learning, and decision making in qualitative and numeric uncertainty paradigms. The 13th European Conference on Symbolic and Quantitative Approaches to Reasoning with Uncertainty will be held in Compiègne, France, on July 15th-17th, 2015. Publication ----- In accordance with the previous conferences, the proceedings of ECSQARU 2015 will be published in the Springer Lecture Notes in Articial Intelligence series. Authors are requested to prepare their conference papers in the LNCS/LNAI format; papers must not exceed 10 pages and must be submitted as PDF electronically. Submitted papers will be evaluated by peer reviews based on originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of exposition. Authors of accepted papers are expected to attend the conference to present their work. Extended version of selected papers will appear in a special issue of the International Journal of Approximate Reasoning. Conference organization ----------------------- ECSQARU 2015 is organized by the Heudiasyc research laboratory at the Université de Technologie de Compiègne, and more specifically by: - Prof. Thierry Denoeux (Conference Chair) - Dr. Véronique Cherfaoui - Dr. Sébastien Destercke - Dr. Benjammin Quost - Dr. Mohamed Sallak They can be contacted through ecsqaru2015(a)hds.utc.fr

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[SIPTA] BigDat 2015: registration deadline 23 September
by GRLMC 07 Sep '14

07 Sep '14

*To be removed from our mailing list, please respond to this message with UNSUBSCRIBE in the subject line* ***************************************************** INTERNATIONAL WINTER SCHOOL ON BIG DATA BigDat 2015 Tarragona, Spain January 26-30, 2015 Organized by Rovira i Virgili University http://grammars.grlmc.com/bigdat2015/ ***************************************************** --- 4th registration deadline: September 23, 2014 --- ***************************************************** AIM: BigDat 2015 is a research training event for graduates and postgraduates in the first steps of their academic career. It aims at updating them about the most recent developments in the fast developing area of big data, which covers a large spectrum of current exciting research, development and 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. All big data subareas will be displayed, namely: foundations, infrastructure, management, search and mining, security and privacy, and applications. Main challenges of analytics, management and storage of big data will be identified through 4 keynote lectures and 24 six-hour courses, which will tackle the most lively and promising topics. The organizers believe outstanding speakers will attract the brightest and most motivated students. Interaction will be a main component of the event. ADDRESSED TO: Graduate and postgraduates from around the world. There are no formal pre-requisites in terms of academic degrees. However, since there will be differences in the course levels, specific knowledge background may be required for some of them. BigDat 2015 is also appropriate for more senior people who want to keep themselves updated on recent developments and future trends. They will surely find it fruitful to listen and discuss with major researchers, industry leaders and innovators. REGIME: In addition to keynotes, 3 courses will run in parallel during the whole event. Participants will be able to freely choose the courses they will be willing to attend as well as to move from one to another. VENUE: BigDat 2015 will take place in Tarragona, located 90 kms. to the south of Barcelona. The venue will be: Campus Catalunya Universitat Rovira i Virgili Av. Catalunya, 35 43002 Tarragona KEYNOTE SPEAKERS: Ian Foster (Argonne National Laboratory), tba Geoffrey C. Fox (Indiana University, Bloomington), Mapping Big Data Applications to Clouds and HPC C. Lee Giles (Pennsylvania State University, University Park), Scholarly Big Data: Information Extraction and Data Mining William D. Gropp (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), tba COURSES AND PROFESSORS: Hendrik Blockeel (KU Leuven), [intermediate] Decision Trees for Big Data Analytics Diego Calvanese (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano), [introductory/intermediate] End-User Access to Big Data Using Ontologies Jiannong Cao (Hong Kong Polytechnic University), [introductory/intermediate] Programming with Big Data Edward Y. Chang (HTC Corporation, New Taipei City), [introductory/advanced] >From Design of Distributed and Online Algorithms to Hands-on Code Lab Practice on Real Datasets Ernesto Damiani (University of Milan), [introductory/intermediate] Process Discovery and Predictive Decision Making from Big Data Sets and Streams Gautam Das (University of Texas, Arlington), [intermediate/advanced] Mining Deep Web Repositories Maarten de Rijke (University of Amsterdam), tba Geoffrey C. Fox (Indiana University, Bloomington), [intermediate] Using Software Defined Systems to Address Big Data Problems Minos Garofalakis (Technical University of Crete, Chania) [intermediate/advanced], Querying Continuous Data Streams Vasant G. Honavar (Pennsylvania State University, University Park) [introductory/intermediate], Learning Predictive Models from Big Data Mounia Lalmas (Yahoo! Research Labs, London), [introductory] Measuring User Engagement Tao Li (Florida International University, Miami), [introductory/intermediate] Data Mining Techniques to Understand Textual Data Kwan-Liu Ma (University of California, Davis), [intermediate] Big Data Visualization Christoph Meinel (Hasso Plattner Institute, Potsdam), [introductory/intermediate] New Computing Power by In-Memory and Multicore to Tackle Big Data David Padua (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), [intermediate] Data Parallel Programming Manish Parashar (Rutgers University, Piscataway), [intermediate] Big Data in Simulation-based Science Srinivasan Parthasarathy (Ohio State University, Columbus), [intermediate] Scalable Data Analysis Evaggelia Pitoura (University of Ioannina), [intermediate] Online Social Networks Vijay V. Raghavan (University of Louisiana, Lafayette), [introductory/intermediate] Visual Analytics of Time-evolving Large-scale Graphs Pierangela Samarati (University of Milan), [intermediate], Data Security and Privacy in the Cloud Peter Sanders (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology), [introductory/intermediate] Algorithm Engineering for Large Data Sets Johan Suykens (KU Leuven), [introductory/intermediate] Fixed-size Kernel Models for Big Data Domenico Talia (University of Calabria, Rende), [intermediate] Scalable Data Mining on Parallel, Distributed and Cloud Computing Systems Jieping Ye (Arizona State University, Tempe), [introductory/advanced] Large-Scale Sparse Learning and Low Rank Modeling ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: Adrian Horia Dediu (Tarragona) Carlos Martín-Vide (Tarragona, chair) Florentina Lilica Voicu (Tarragona) REGISTRATION: It has to be done at http://grammars.grlmc.com/bigdat2015/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: As far as possible, participants are expected to stay full-time. Fees are a flat rate covering the attendance to all courses during the week. There are several early registration deadlines. Fees depend on the registration deadline. ACCOMMODATION: Suggestions of accommodation will be provided in due time. CERTIFICATE: Participants will be delivered a certificate of attendance. QUESTIONS AND FURTHER INFORMATION: florentinalilica.voicu(a)urv.cat POSTAL ADDRESS: BigDat 2015 Lilica Voicu Rovira i Virgili University Av. Catalunya, 35 43002 Tarragona, Spain Phone: +34 977 559 543 Fax: +34 977 558 386 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS: Universitat Rovira i Virgili --- Este mensaje no contiene virus ni malware porque la protección de avast! Antivirus está activa. http://www.avast.com

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[SIPTA] Call for papers: Deep Learning Workshop at NIPS 2014 - Montreal
by Adam Coates 02 Sep '14

02 Sep '14

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[SIPTA] LATA 2015: 2nd call for papers
by GRLMC - URV 24 Aug '14

24 Aug '14

*To be removed from our mailing list, please respond to this message with UNSUBSCRIBE in the subject line* **************************************************************************************** 9th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE AND AUTOMATA THEORY AND APPLICATIONS LATA 2015 Nice, France March 2-6, 2015 Organized by: CNRS, I3S, UMR 7271 Nice Sophia Antipolis University Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics (GRLMC) Rovira i Virgili University http://grammars.grlmc.com/lata2015/ **************************************************************************************** AIMS: LATA is a conference series on theoretical computer science and its applications. Following the tradition of the diverse PhD training events in the field developed at Rovira i Virgili University in Tarragona since 2002, LATA 2015 will reserve significant room for young scholars at the beginning of their career. It will aim at attracting contributions from classical theory fields as well as application areas. VENUE: LATA 2015 will take place in Nice, the second largest French city on the Mediterranean coast. The venue will be the University Castle at Parc Valrose. SCOPE: Topics of either theoretical or applied interest include, but are not limited to: algebraic language theory algorithms for semi-structured data mining algorithms on automata and words automata and logic automata for system analysis and programme verification automata networks automata, concurrency and Petri nets automatic structures cellular automata codes combinatorics on words computational complexity data and image compression descriptional complexity digital libraries and document engineering foundations of finite state technology foundations of XML fuzzy and rough languages grammars (Chomsky hierarchy, contextual, unification, categorial, etc.) grammatical inference and algorithmic learning graphs and graph transformation language varieties and semigroups language-based cryptography parallel and regulated rewriting parsing patterns power series string and combinatorial issues in bioinformatics string processing algorithms symbolic dynamics term rewriting transducers trees, tree languages and tree automata unconventional models of computation weighted automata STRUCTURE: LATA 2015 will consist of: invited talks invited tutorials peer-reviewed contributions INVITED SPEAKERS: Paola Inverardi (L’Aquila), Synthesis of Protocol Adapters Johann A. Makowsky (Technion, Haifa), Hankel Matrices for Graph Parameters and Graph Grammars Giancarlo Mauri (Milano Bicocca), tba Andreas Podelski (Freiburg), Automated Program Verification Antonio Restivo (Palermo), The Shuffle Product: New Research Directions PROGRAMME COMMITTEE: Andrew Adamatzky (West of England, Bristol, UK) Andris Ambainis (Latvia, Riga, LV) Franz Baader (Dresden Tech, DE) Rajesh Bhatt (Massachusetts, Amherst, US) José-Manuel Colom (Zaragoza, ES) Bruno Courcelle (Bordeaux, FR) Erzsébet Csuhaj-Varjú (Eötvös Loránd, Budapest, HU) Aldo de Luca (Naples Federico II, IT) Susanna Donatelli (Turin, IT) Paola Flocchini (Ottawa, CA) Enrico Formenti (Nice, FR) Tero Harju (Turku, FI) Monika Heiner (Brandenburg Tech, Cottbus, DE) Yiguang Hong (Chinese Academy, Beijing, CN) Kazuo Iwama (Kyoto, JP) Sanjay Jain (National Singapore, SG) Maciej Koutny (Newcastle, UK) Antonín Kučera (Masaryk, Brno, CZ) Thierry Lecroq (Rouen, FR) Salvador Lucas (Valencia Tech, ES) Veli Mäkinen (Helsinki, FI) Carlos Martín-Vide (Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, ES, chair) Filippo Mignosi (L’Aquila, IT) Victor Mitrana (Madrid Tech, ES) Ilan Newman (Haifa, IL) Joachim Niehren (INRIA, Lille, FR) Enno Ohlebusch (Ulm, DE) Arlindo Oliveira (Lisbon, PT) Joël Ouaknine (Oxford, UK) Wojciech Penczek (Polish Academy, Warsaw, PL) Dominique Perrin (ESIEE, Paris, FR) Alberto Policriti (Udine, IT) Sanguthevar Rajasekaran (Connecticut, Storrs, US) Jörg Rothe (Düsseldorf, DE) Frank Ruskey (Victoria, CA) Helmut Seidl (Munich Tech, DE) Ayumi Shinohara (Tohoku, Sendai, JP) Bernhard Steffen (Dortmund, DE) Frank Stephan (National Singapore, SG) Paul Tarau (North Texas, Denton, US) Andrzej Tarlecki (Warsaw, PL) Jacobo Torán (Ulm, DE) Frits Vaandrager (Nijmegen, NL) Jaco van de Pol (Twente, Enschede, NL) Pierre Wolper (Liège, BE) Zhilin Wu (Chinese Academy, Beijing, CN) Slawomir Zadrozny (Polish Academy, Warsaw, PL) Hans Zantema (Eindhoven Tech, NL) ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: Sébastien Autran (Nice) Adrian Horia Dediu (Tarragona) Enrico Formenti (Nice, co-chair) Sandrine Julia (Nice) Carlos Martín-Vide (Tarragona, co-chair) Christophe Papazian (Nice) Julien Provillard (Nice) Pierre-Alain Scribot (Nice) Bianca Truthe (Giessen) 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, 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=lata2015 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 the Journal of Computer and System Sciences (Elsevier, 2013 JCR impact factor: 1.0) 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 period for registration is open from July 21, 2014 to March 2, 2015. The registration form can be found at: http://grammars.grlmc.com/lata2015/Registration.php DEADLINES: Paper submission: October 10, 2014 (23:59 CET) Notification of paper acceptance or rejection: November 18, 2014 Early registration: November 25, 2014 Final version of the paper for the LNCS proceedings: November 26, 2014 Late registration: February 16, 2015 Submission to the journal special issue: June 6, 2015 QUESTIONS AND FURTHER INFORMATION: florentinalilica.voicu(a)urv.cat POSTAL ADDRESS: LATA 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: Nice Sophia Antipolis University Rovira i Virgili University

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[SIPTA] BELIEF 2014 - Second Call for Participation
by Fabio Cuzzolin 21 Aug '14

21 Aug '14

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[SIPTA] BigDat 2015: August 23, registration deadline
by GRLMC 15 Aug '14

15 Aug '14

*To be removed from our mailing list, please respond to this message with UNSUBSCRIBE in the subject line* ***************************************************** INTERNATIONAL WINTER SCHOOL ON BIG DATA BigDat 2015 Tarragona, Spain January 26-30, 2015 Organized by Rovira i Virgili University http://grammars.grlmc.com/bigdat2015/ ***************************************************** --- 3rd registration deadline: August 23, 2014 --- ***************************************************** AIM: BigDat 2015 is a research training event for graduates and postgraduates in the first steps of their academic career. It aims at updating them about the most recent developments in the fast developing area of big data, which covers a large spectrum of current exciting research, development and 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. All big data subareas will be displayed, namely: foundations, infrastructure, management, search and mining, security and privacy, and applications. Main challenges of analytics, management and storage of big data will be identified through 4 keynote lectures and 24 six-hour courses, which will tackle the most lively and promising topics. The organizers believe outstanding speakers will attract the brightest and most motivated students. Interaction will be a main component of the event. ADDRESSED TO: Graduate and postgraduates from around the world. There are no formal pre-requisites in terms of academic degrees. However, since there will be differences in the course levels, specific knowledge background may be required for some of them. BigDat 2015 is also appropriate for more senior people who want to keep themselves updated on recent developments and future trends. They will surely find it fruitful to listen and discuss with major researchers, industry leaders and innovators. REGIME: In addition to keynotes, 3 courses will run in parallel during the whole event. Participants will be able to freely choose the courses they will be willing to attend as well as to move from one to another. VENUE: BigDat 2015 will take place in Tarragona, located 90 kms. to the south of Barcelona. The venue will be: Campus Catalunya Universitat Rovira i Virgili Av. Catalunya, 35 43002 Tarragona KEYNOTE SPEAKERS: Ian Foster (Argonne National Laboratory), tba Geoffrey C. Fox (Indiana University, Bloomington), Mapping Big Data Applications to Clouds and HPC C. Lee Giles (Pennsylvania State University, University Park), Scholarly Big Data: Information Extraction and Data Mining William D. Gropp (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), tba COURSES AND PROFESSORS: Hendrik Blockeel (KU Leuven), [intermediate] Decision Trees for Big Data Analytics Diego Calvanese (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano), [introductory/intermediate] End-User Access to Big Data Using Ontologies Jiannong Cao (Hong Kong Polytechnic University), [introductory/intermediate] Programming with Big Data Edward Y. Chang (HTC Corporation, New Taipei City), [introductory/advanced] >From Design of Distributed and Online Algorithms to Hands-on Code Lab Practice on Real Datasets Ernesto Damiani (University of Milan), [introductory/intermediate] Process Discovery and Predictive Decision Making from Big Data Sets and Streams Gautam Das (University of Texas, Arlington), [intermediate/advanced] Mining Deep Web Repositories Maarten de Rijke (University of Amsterdam), tba Geoffrey C. Fox (Indiana University, Bloomington), [intermediate] Using Software Defined Systems to Address Big Data Problems Minos Garofalakis (Technical University of Crete, Chania) [intermediate/advanced], Querying Continuous Data Streams Vasant G. Honavar (Pennsylvania State University, University Park) [introductory/intermediate], Learning Predictive Models from Big Data Mounia Lalmas (Yahoo! Research Labs, London), [introductory] Measuring User Engagement Tao Li (Florida International University, Miami), [introductory/intermediate] Data Mining Techniques to Understand Textual Data Kwan-Liu Ma (University of California, Davis), [intermediate] Big Data Visualization Christoph Meinel (Hasso Plattner Institute, Potsdam), [introductory/intermediate] New Computing Power by In-Memory and Multicore to Tackle Big Data David Padua (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), [intermediate] Data Parallel Programming Manish Parashar (Rutgers University, Piscataway), [intermediate] Big Data in Simulation-based Science Srinivasan Parthasarathy (Ohio State University, Columbus), [intermediate] Scalable Data Analysis Evaggelia Pitoura (University of Ioannina), [intermediate] Online Social Networks Vijay V. Raghavan (University of Louisiana, Lafayette), [introductory/intermediate] Visual Analytics of Time-evolving Large-scale Graphs Pierangela Samarati (University of Milan), [intermediate], Data Security and Privacy in the Cloud Peter Sanders (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology), [introductory/intermediate] Algorithm Engineering for Large Data Sets Johan Suykens (KU Leuven), [introductory/intermediate] Fixed-size Kernel Models for Big Data Domenico Talia (University of Calabria, Rende), [intermediate] Scalable Data Mining on Parallel, Distributed and Cloud Computing Systems Jieping Ye (Arizona State University, Tempe), [introductory/advanced] Large-Scale Sparse Learning and Low Rank Modeling ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: Adrian Horia Dediu (Tarragona) Carlos Martín-Vide (Tarragona, chair) Florentina Lilica Voicu (Tarragona) REGISTRATION: It has to be done at http://grammars.grlmc.com/bigdat2015/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: As far as possible, participants are expected to stay full-time. Fees are a flat rate covering the attendance to all courses during the week. There are several early registration deadlines. Fees depend on the registration deadline. ACCOMMODATION: Suggestions of accommodation will be provided in due time. CERTIFICATE: Participants will be delivered a certificate of attendance. QUESTIONS AND FURTHER INFORMATION: florentinalilica.voicu(a)urv.cat POSTAL ADDRESS: BigDat 2015 Lilica Voicu Rovira i Virgili University Av. Catalunya, 35 43002 Tarragona, Spain Phone: +34 977 559 543 Fax: +34 977 558 386 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS: Universitat Rovira i Virgili --- Este mensaje no contiene virus ni malware porque la protección de avast! Antivirus está activa. http://www.avast.com

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[SIPTA] Save the date: ISIPTA '15, 20-24 July 2015, Pescara, Italy
by Serena Doria 30 Jul '14

30 Jul '14

*************** ISIPTA '15 20-24 July 2015 Pescara, Italy *************** ISIPTA, is the biennial symposium of SIPTA, the Society for Imprecise Probability: Theories and Applications <www.sipta.org>. These meetings are the primary international forum to present and discuss new results on the theories and applications of imprecise probability. Please mark these days in your calendar now. Feel free to disseminate this announcement further. Concrete information about deadlines and the like will follow in an upcoming call for papers. Serena Doria on behalf of the organizing committee

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[SIPTA] researcher position at IDSIA/IPG
by Marco Zaffalon 28 Jul '14

28 Jul '14

Dear Friends in Imprecise Probability, We have an opening for a researcher position at our imprecise probability group at IDSIA. Duties ------ The person hired on this position will evenly share her/his working time on two main activities: - basic research, aiming at publishing in highly rated journals and international conferences; and - applied research, by taking responsibility of cutting-edge projects in tight collaboration with companies. A cross-activity will be the search for funding opportunies of both basic and applied research. Requirements ------------ - This position is for a junior researcher (say <= 35 years). - Doctorate degree and master degree with top grades in mathematics, or physics, or engineering, or informatics, or statistics or other quantitative areas. - Excellent theoretical as well as applied knowledge of Bayesian networks and other graphical models (in particular of structure/parameter learning) and modern data mining algorithms (in particular for classification and clustering, but regression and time series are also desirable). These skills have to be backed up by a good record track of technical papers. - Excellent mathematical skills. - Excellent (software-engineer-level) programming skills (C, C++, Java), knowledge of operating systems (Unix, Linux, Mac, Windows) and development tools (e.g., Eclipse). - Good knowledge of specialized mathematical/statistical environments, such as MATLAB and R. - Good knowledge of computational complexity theory. (Soft skills) - Very good communication skills in spoken and written English. - Good knowledge of Italian or alternatively a commitment to learn it as soon as possible. - Ability to work in a team and in a collaborative environment. - Autonomy. Highly desirable but not strictly required ------------------------------------------ - Knowledge of imprecise probability (e.g., credal networks, credal classification, uncertainty modeling with sets of distributions). - Good knowledge of (Bayesian) statistics. - Good record track of granted research projects as main applicant or co-applicant. - Past experience of leading/working in applied research projects in collaboration with companies. - Good knowledge of German and French. We offer -------- - A first two-year contract that constitutes an evaluation period (the evaluation period can possibly be extended). The positive feedback of performance appraisal leads to a permanent position. - A competitive swiss salary commensurate to the candidate's age and experience. - Travel funding to participate to conferences, workshops and the like. - An international working environment. - Collaboration with experts in data mining, Bayesian networks, imprecise probability, statistics: the hired candidate will join in particular the imprecise probability group at IDSIA (http://ipg.idsia.ch) - Opportunity to develop professional and scientific skills as well as career progression. For more information and details about the application procedure, please reply to this email. Best wishes, Marco

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[SIPTA] LATA 2015: 1st call for papers
by GRLMC 27 Jul '14

27 Jul '14

*To be removed from our mailing list, please respond to this message with UNSUBSCRIBE in the subject line* **************************************************************************************** 9th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE AND AUTOMATA THEORY AND APPLICATIONS LATA 2015 Nice, France March 2-6, 2015 Organized by: CNRS, I3S, UMR 7271 Nice Sophia Antipolis University Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics (GRLMC) Rovira i Virgili University http://grammars.grlmc.com/lata2015/ **************************************************************************************** AIMS: LATA is a conference series on theoretical computer science and its applications. Following the tradition of the diverse PhD training events in the field developed at Rovira i Virgili University in Tarragona since 2002, LATA 2015 will reserve significant room for young scholars at the beginning of their career. It will aim at attracting contributions from classical theory fields as well as application areas. VENUE: LATA 2015 will take place in Nice, the second largest French city on the Mediterranean coast. The venue will be the University Castle at Parc Valrose. SCOPE: Topics of either theoretical or applied interest include, but are not limited to: algebraic language theory algorithms for semi-structured data mining algorithms on automata and words automata and logic automata for system analysis and programme verification automata networks automata, concurrency and Petri nets automatic structures cellular automata codes combinatorics on words computational complexity data and image compression descriptional complexity digital libraries and document engineering foundations of finite state technology foundations of XML fuzzy and rough languages grammars (Chomsky hierarchy, contextual, unification, categorial, etc.) grammatical inference and algorithmic learning graphs and graph transformation language varieties and semigroups language-based cryptography parallel and regulated rewriting parsing patterns power series string and combinatorial issues in bioinformatics string processing algorithms symbolic dynamics term rewriting transducers trees, tree languages and tree automata unconventional models of computation weighted automata STRUCTURE: LATA 2015 will consist of: invited talks invited tutorials peer-reviewed contributions INVITED SPEAKERS: to be announced PROGRAMME COMMITTEE: Andrew Adamatzky (West of England, Bristol, UK) Andris Ambainis (Latvia, Riga, LV) Franz Baader (Dresden Tech, DE) Rajesh Bhatt (Massachusetts, Amherst, US) José-Manuel Colom (Zaragoza, ES) Bruno Courcelle (Bordeaux, FR) Erzsébet Csuhaj-Varjú (Eötvös Loránd, Budapest, HU) Aldo de Luca (Naples Federico II, IT) Susanna Donatelli (Turin, IT) Paola Flocchini (Ottawa, CA) Enrico Formenti (Nice, FR) Tero Harju (Turku, FI) Monika Heiner (Brandenburg Tech, Cottbus, DE) Yiguang Hong (Chinese Academy, Beijing, CN) Kazuo Iwama (Kyoto, JP) Sanjay Jain (National Singapore, SG) Maciej Koutny (Newcastle, UK) Antonín Kučera (Masaryk, Brno, CZ) Thierry Lecroq (Rouen, FR) Salvador Lucas (Valencia Tech, ES) Veli Mäkinen (Helsinki, FI) Carlos Martín-Vide (Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, ES, chair) Filippo Mignosi (L’Aquila, IT) Victor Mitrana (Madrid Tech, ES) Ilan Newman (Haifa, IL) Joachim Niehren (INRIA, Lille, FR) Enno Ohlebusch (Ulm, DE) Arlindo Oliveira (Lisbon, PT) Joël Ouaknine (Oxford, UK) Wojciech Penczek (Polish Academy, Warsaw, PL) Dominique Perrin (ESIEE, Paris, FR) Alberto Policriti (Udine, IT) Sanguthevar Rajasekaran (Connecticut, Storrs, US) Jörg Rothe (Düsseldorf, DE) Frank Ruskey (Victoria, CA) Helmut Seidl (Munich Tech, DE) Ayumi Shinohara (Tohoku, Sendai, JP) Bernhard Steffen (Dortmund, DE) Frank Stephan (National Singapore, SG) Paul Tarau (North Texas, Denton, US) Andrzej Tarlecki (Warsaw, PL) Jacobo Torán (Ulm, DE) Frits Vaandrager (Nijmegen, NL) Jaco van de Pol (Twente, Enschede, NL) Pierre Wolper (Liège, BE) Zhilin Wu (Chinese Academy, Beijing, CN) Slawomir Zadrozny (Polish Academy, Warsaw, PL) Hans Zantema (Eindhoven Tech, NL) ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: Sébastien Autran (Nice) Adrian Horia Dediu (Tarragona) Enrico Formenti (Nice, co-chair) Sandrine Julia (Nice) Carlos Martín-Vide (Tarragona, co-chair) Christophe Papazian (Nice) Julien Provillard (Nice) Pierre-Alain Scribot (Nice) Bianca Truthe (Giessen) 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, 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=lata2015 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 period for registration is open from July 21, 2014 to March 2, 2015. The registration form can be found at: http://grammars.grlmc.com/lata2015/Registration.php DEADLINES: Paper submission: October 10, 2014 (23:59 CET) Notification of paper acceptance or rejection: November 18, 2014 Early registration: November 25, 2014 Final version of the paper for the LNCS proceedings: November 26, 2014 Late registration: February 16, 2015 Submission to the journal special issue: June 6, 2015 QUESTIONS AND FURTHER INFORMATION: florentinalilica.voicu(a)urv.cat POSTAL ADDRESS: LATA 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: Nice Sophia Antipolis University Rovira i Virgili University --- Este mensaje no contiene virus ni malware porque la protección de avast! Antivirus está activa. http://www.avast.com

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[SIPTA] BigDat 2015: 23 July registration deadline
by GRLMC - URV 19 Jul '14

19 Jul '14

*To be removed from our mailing list, please respond to this message with UNSUBSCRIBE in the subject line* ***************************************************** INTERNATIONAL WINTER SCHOOL ON BIG DATA BigDat 2015 Tarragona, Spain January 26-30, 2015 Organized by Rovira i Virgili University http://grammars.grlmc.com/bigdat2015/ ***************************************************** --- 2nd registration deadline: July 23, 2014 --- ***************************************************** AIM: BigDat 2015 is a research training event for graduates and postgraduates in the first steps of their academic career. It aims at updating them about the most recent developments in the fast developing area of big data, which covers a large spectrum of current exciting research, development and 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. All big data subareas will be displayed, namely: foundations, infrastructure, management, search and mining, security and privacy, and applications. Main challenges of analytics, management and storage of big data will be identified through 4 keynote lectures and 24 six-hour courses, which will tackle the most lively and promising topics. The organizers believe outstanding speakers will attract the brightest and most motivated students. Interaction will be a main component of the event. ADDRESSED TO: Graduate and postgraduates from around the world. There are no formal pre-requisites in terms of academic degrees. However, since there will be differences in the course levels, specific knowledge background may be required for some of them. BigDat 2015 is also appropriate for more senior people who want to keep themselves updated on recent developments and future trends. They will surely find it fruitful to listen and discuss with major researchers, industry leaders and innovators. REGIME: In addition to keynotes, 3 courses will run in parallel during the whole event. Participants will be able to freely choose the courses they will be willing to attend as well as to move from one to another. VENUE: BigDat 2015 will take place in Tarragona, located 90 kms. to the south of Barcelona. The venue will be: Campus Catalunya Universitat Rovira i Virgili Av. Catalunya, 35 43002 Tarragona KEYNOTE SPEAKERS: Ian Foster (Argonne National Laboratory), tba Geoffrey C. Fox (Indiana University, Bloomington), Mapping Big Data Applications to Clouds and HPC C. Lee Giles (Pennsylvania State University, University Park), Scholarly Big Data: Information Extraction and Data Mining William D. Gropp (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), tba COURSES AND PROFESSORS: Hendrik Blockeel (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven), [intermediate] Decision Trees for Big Data Analytics Diego Calvanese (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano), [introductory/intermediate] End-User Access to Big Data Using Ontologies Jiannong Cao (Hong Kong Polytechnic University), [introductory/intermediate] Programming with Big Data Edward Y. Chang (HTC Corporation, New Taipei City), [introductory/advanced] >From Design of Distributed and Online Algorithms to Hands-on Code Lab Practice on Real Datasets Ernesto Damiani (University of Milan), [introductory/intermediate] Process Discovery and Predictive Decision Making from Big Data Sets and Streams Gautam Das (University of Texas, Arlington), [intermediate/advanced] Mining Deep Web Repositories Maarten de Rijke (University of Amsterdam), tba Geoffrey C. Fox (Indiana University, Bloomington), [intermediate] Using Software Defined Systems to Address Big Data Problems Minos Garofalakis (Technical University of Crete, Chania) [intermediate/advanced], Querying Continuous Data Streams Vasant G. Honavar (Pennsylvania State University, University Park) [introductory/intermediate], Learning Predictive Models from Big Data Mounia Lalmas (Yahoo! Research Labs, London), [introductory] Measuring User Engagement Tao Li (Florida International University, Miami), [introductory/intermediate] Data Mining Techniques to Understand Textual Data Kwan-Liu Ma (University of California, Davis), [intermediate] Big Data Visualization Christoph Meinel (Hasso Plattner Institute, Potsdam), [introductory/intermediate] New Computing Power by In-Memory and Multicore to Tackle Big Data David Padua (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), [intermediate] Data Parallel Programming Manish Parashar (Rutgers University, Piscataway), [intermediate] Big Data in Simulation-based Science Srinivasan Parthasarathy (Ohio State University, Columbus), [intermediate] Scalable Data Analysis Evaggelia Pitoura (University of Ioannina), [intermediate] Online Social Networks Vijay V. Raghavan (University of Louisiana, Lafayette), [introductory/intermediate] Visual Analytics of Time-evolving Large-scale Graphs Pierangela Samarati (University of Milan), [intermediate], Data Security and Privacy in the Cloud Peter Sanders (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology), [introductory/intermediate] Algorithm Engineering for Large Data Sets Johan Suykens (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven), [introductory/intermediate] Fixed-size Kernel Models for Big Data Domenico Talia (University of Calabria, Rende), [intermediate] Scalable Data Mining on Parallel, Distributed and Cloud Computing Systems Jieping Ye (Arizona State University, Tempe), [introductory/advanced] Large-Scale Sparse Learning and Low Rank Modeling ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: Adrian Horia Dediu (Tarragona) Carlos Martín-Vide (Tarragona, chair) Florentina Lilica Voicu (Tarragona) REGISTRATION: It has to be done at http://grammars.grlmc.com/bigdat2015/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: As far as possible, participants are expected to stay full-time. Fees are a flat rate covering the attendance to all courses during the week. There are several early registration deadlines. Fees depend on the registration deadline. ACCOMMODATION: Suggestions of accommodation will be provided in due time. CERTIFICATE: Participants will be delivered a certificate of attendance. QUESTIONS AND FURTHER INFORMATION: florentinalilica.voicu(a)urv.cat POSTAL ADDRESS: BigDat 2015 Lilica Voicu Rovira i Virgili University Av. Catalunya, 35 43002 Tarragona, Spain Phone: +34 977 559 543 Fax: +34 977 558 386 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS: Universitat Rovira i Virgili

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[SIPTA] FW: Call for papers-ASCE-ASME Journal of Risk and Uncertainty in Engineering Systems
by Kreinovich 18 Jul '14

18 Jul '14

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[SIPTA] BELIEF 2014 - CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
by Fabio Cuzzolin 17 Jul '14

17 Jul '14

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[SIPTA] TPNC 2014: extended submission deadline 24 July
by GRLMC 12 Jul '14

12 Jul '14

*To be removed from our mailing list, please respond to this message with UNSUBSCRIBE in the subject line* ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ***** SUBMISSION DEADLINE EXTENDED: July 24 ***** ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- **************************************************************************** ************ 3rd INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF NATURAL COMPUTING TPNC 2014 Granada, Spain December 9-11, 2014 Organized by: Soft Computing and Intelligent Information Systems (SCI2S) University of Granada Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics (GRLMC) Rovira i Virgili University http://grammars.grlmc.com/tpnc2014/ **************************************************************************** ************ 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 2014 will reserve significant room for young scholars at the beginning of their career. It 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 2014 will take place in Granada, in the region of Andalucía, to the south of Spain. The city is the seat of a rich Islamic historical legacy, including the Moorish citadel and palace called Alhambra. SCOPE: Topics of either theoretical, experimental, or applied interest include, but are not limited to: * Nature-inspired models of computation: - amorphous computing - cellular automata - chaos and dynamical systems based computing - evolutionary computing - membrane computing - neural computing - optical computing - swarm intelligence * Synthesizing nature by means of computation: - artificial chemistry - artificial immune systems - artificial life * Nature-inspired materials: - computing with DNA - nanocomputing - physarum computing - quantum computing and quantum information - reaction-diffusion computing * Information processing in nature: - developmental systems - fractal geometry - gene assembly in unicellular organisms - rough/fuzzy computing in nature - synthetic biology - systems biology * Applications of natural computing to: algorithms, bioinformatics, control, cryptography, design, economics, graphics, hardware, learning, logistics, optimization, pattern recognition, programming, robotics, telecommunications etc. A flexible "theory to/from practice" approach would be the perfect focus for the expected contributions. STRUCTURE: TPNC 2014 will consist of: - invited talks - peer-reviewed contributions INVITED SPEAKERS: Kalyanmoy Deb (East Lansing, US), Multi-Criterion Problem Solving: A Niche for Natural Computing Methods Marco Dorigo (Brussels, BE), Swarm Intelligence Francisco Herrera (Granada, ES), Bioinspired Real Parameter Optimization: Where We Are and Whats Next PROGRAMME COMMITTEE: Hussein A. Abbass (Canberra, AU) Uwe Aickelin (Nottingham, UK) Thomas Bäck (Leiden, NL) Christian Blum (San Sebastián, ES) Jinde Cao (Nanjing, CN) Vladimir Cherkassky (Minneapolis, US) Sung-Bae Cho (Seoul, KR) Andries P. Engelbrecht (Pretoria, ZA) Terence C. Fogarty (London, UK) Fernando Gomide (Campinas, BR) Inman Harvey (Brighton, UK) Francisco Herrera (Granada, ES) Tzung-Pei Hong (Kaohsiung, TW) Thomas Jansen (Aberystwyth, UK) Yaochu Jin (Guildford, UK) Okyay Kaynak (Istanbul, TR) Satoshi Kobayashi (Tokyo, JP) Soo-Young Lee (Daejeon, KR) Derong Liu (Chicago, US) Manuel Lozano (Granada, ES) Carlos Martín-Vide (Tarragona, ES, chair) Ujjwal Maulik (Kolkata, IN) Risto Miikkulainen (Austin, US) Frank Neumann (Adelaide, AU) Leandro Nunes de Castro (São Paulo, BR) Erkki Oja (Aalto, FI) Lech Polkowski (Warsaw, PL) Brian J. Ross (St. Catharines, CA) Marc Schoenauer (Orsay, FR) Biplab Kumar Sikdar (Shibpur, IN) Dipti Srinivasan (Singapore, SG) Darko Stefanovic (Albuquerque, US) Umberto Straccia (Pisa, IT) Thomas Stützle (Brussels, BE) Ponnuthurai N. Suganthan (Singapore, SG) Johan Suykens (Leuven, BE) El-Ghazali Talbi (Lille, FR) Jon Timmis (York, UK) Fernando J. Von Zuben (Campinas, BR) Michael N. Vrahatis (Patras, GR) Xin Yao (Birmingham, UK) ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: Adrian Horia Dediu (Tarragona) Carlos García-Martínez (Córdoba) Carlos Martín-Vide (Tarragona, co-chair) Manuel Lozano (Granada, co-chair) Francisco Javier Rodríguez (Granada) 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, etc.) and should be prepared according to the standard format for the 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=tpnc2014 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 the journal Soft Computing (Springer, 2012 JCR impact factor: 1.124) 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 period for registration is open from April 5 to December 9, 2014. The registration form can be found at: http://grammars.grlmc.com/tpnc2014/Registration.php DEADLINES: Paper submission: July 24, 2014 (23:59h, CET) EXTENDED Notification of paper acceptance or rejection: August 24, 2014 Final version of the paper for the LNCS proceedings: September 7, 2014 Early registration: September 7, 2014 Late registration: November 25, 2014 Submission to the post-conference journal special issue: March 11, 2015 QUESTIONS AND FURTHER INFORMATION: florentinalilica.voicu(a)urv.cat POSTAL ADDRESS: TPNC 2014 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: Universidad de Granada Universitat Rovira i Virgili --- Este mensaje no contiene virus ni malware porque la protección de avast! Antivirus está activa. http://www.avast.com

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[SIPTA] Deadline extension: URSW 2014 at ISWC 2014
by Thomas Lukasiewicz 11 Jul '14

11 Jul '14

Deadline extension - new date: ***************************************** 16th July: paper submissions due ***************************************** CALL FOR PAPERS 10th International Workshop on Uncertainty Reasoning for the Semantic Web http://c4i.gmu.edu/ursw/2014 In conjunction with the 13th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2014) Riva del Garda, Italy October 19-20, 2014 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You are invited to participate in the upcoming workshop on Uncertainty Reasoning for the Semantic Web (URSW), to be held as part of the 13th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC) in October 2014 at Fierecongressi SpA, Riva del Garda, Italy. 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. IMPORTANT DATES **July 16** (extended): Paper submissions due July 30: Paper acceptance notification August 20: Camera-ready papers due October 19-20: 10th Workshop on Uncertainty Reasoning for the Semantic Web SUBMISSION DETAILS http://c4i.gmu.edu/ursw/2014/submission/index.html PRESENTATION AND PUBLICATION URSW 2014 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 2014 conference. In addition, extended and revised versions of selected technical papers accepted for presentation at the URSW 2014 will be eligible for participating in a "Journal of Data Semantics" special issue with the best ISWC 2014 workshop papers or in a joint post-proceedings book ("Uncertainty Reasoning for the Semantic Web IV") with papers from the next editions of the URSW workshop. ORGANIZING COMMITTEE http://c4i.gmu.edu/ursw/2014/organization/index.html PROGRAM COMMITTEE http://c4i.gmu.edu/ursw/2014/program/index.html We are looking forward to seeing you in Riva del Garda!

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[SIPTA] Call for Participation: SUM 2014 at University of Oxford
by Thomas Lukasiewicz 09 Jul '14

09 Jul '14

************************************************************ CALL FOR PARTICIPATION Eighth International Conference on Scalable Uncertainty Management (SUM 2014) http://nmis.isti.cnr.it/~straccia/sum2014/ September 15-17, 2014 University of Oxford, United Kingdom ************************************************************ We are pleased to invite you to participate in the eighth edition of the International Conference on Scalable Uncertainty Management (SUM 2014). The conference has been held annually since 2007 in College Park (USA), Napoli (Italy), Toulouse (France), Dayton (USA), and Marburg (Germany). A large amount of available data nowadays includes uncertain, imprecise, and inconsistent information. The possibility of integrating and exploiting these data calls for sound and efficient techniques for managing uncertainty and handling inconsistency. These issues, which have been traditionally addressed within the Artificial Intelligence community, already play a key role in fields like databases or the semantic Web. The goal of this conference is therefore to exploit and strengthen the connection between the Artificial Intelligence and Database communities. It aims at bringing together all researchers interested in the management of and reasoning with substantial and complex kinds of uncertain data. ************************************************************ PROGRAM & REGISTRATION The list of accepted papers is available at http://nmis.isti.cnr.it/~straccia/sum2014/accepted_papers.php The program includes three invited speakers: - Anthony Hunter (Department of Computer Science, University College London, UK) - Jens Lehmann (Department of Computer Science, University of Leipzig, Germany) - Dan Olteanu (Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford, UK) Details at: http://nmis.isti.cnr.it/~straccia/sum2014/invited_speakers.php The social program includes a banquet in Oriel College (est. 1324) and a tour of the Bodleian Library, which is the main research library of the University of Oxford and one of the oldest in Europe (originated in the 1400s). The registration page is at http://nmis.isti.cnr.it/~straccia/sum2014/registration.php Early registration fee: GBP 285 (until July 11) Accommodation at conference venue (St. Anne's College) is available to book together with registration at 75 GBP per night (en suite bathroom, with breakfast) only until July 11. ************************************************************ ORGANIZATION General Chairs: Thomas Lukasiewicz (University of Oxford, UK) Program Chairs: Umberto Straccia (ISTI-CNR, Italy) Andrea Cali (University of London, Birkbeck College, UK) Program Committee: http://nmis.isti.cnr.it/~straccia/sum2014/program_committee.php Local Organization Chairs: Maria Vanina Martinez (University of Oxford, UK) Gerardo I. Simari (University of Oxford, UK) ***********************************************************

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[SIPTA] CWI World Cup Competition
by Erik Quaeghebeur 08 Jul '14

08 Jul '14

Dear colleagues, You are invited to (anonymously) participate in the ongoing CWI World Cup Competition, a betting game with low, voluntary stakes. The game interface uses the imprecise probabilistic model type of sets of acceptable gambles as a primitive. To start, go to http://worldcup.project.cwi.nl Remarks: * The big and small final will be added to the match list once the semifinals are over. * You have to donate not just your net, but all your losses to the Red Cross/Crescent! * If the website is down temporarily, please try again later. * Feel free to provide comments in the feedback box. Have fun, Erik Quaeghebeur -- http://ac.erikquaeghebeur.name

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[SIPTA] CFP URSW 2014: 10th International Workshop on Uncertainty Reasoning for the Semantic Web
by Thomas Lukasiewicz 03 Jul '14

03 Jul '14

[Apologies for cross-posting] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS 10th International Workshop on Uncertainty Reasoning for the Semantic Web http://c4i.gmu.edu/ursw/2014 In conjunction with the 13th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2014) Riva del Garda, Italy October 19-20, 2014 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You are invited to participate in the upcoming workshop on Uncertainty Reasoning for the Semantic Web (URSW), to be held as part of the 13th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC) in October 2014 at Fierecongressi SpA, Riva del Garda, Italy. 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. IMPORTANT DATES July 7, 2014: Paper submissions due July 30: Paper acceptance notification August 20: Camera-ready papers due October 19-20: 10th Workshop on Uncertainty Reasoning for the Semantic Web SUBMISSION DETAILS http://c4i.gmu.edu/ursw/2014/submission/index.html PRESENTATION AND PUBLICATION URSW 2014 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 2014 conference. In addition, extended and revised versions of selected technical papers accepted for presentation at the URSW 2014 will be eligible for participating in a "Journal of Data Semantics" special issue with the best ISWC 2014 workshop papers or in a joint post-proceedings book ("Uncertainty Reasoning for the Semantic Web IV") with papers from the next editions of the URSW workshop. ORGANIZING COMMITTEE http://c4i.gmu.edu/ursw/2014/organization/index.html PROGRAM COMMITTEE http://c4i.gmu.edu/ursw/2014/program/index.html We are looking forward to seeing you in Riva del Garda!

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[SIPTA] IEEE SSCI 2014 URGENT
by Kreinovich 01 Jul '14

01 Jul '14

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[SIPTA] SSTiC 2014: last-minute half-price registration
by GRLMC 29 Jun '14

29 Jun '14

*To be removed from our mailing list, please respond to this message with UNSUBSCRIBE in the subject line* ********************************************************************* 2014 TARRAGONA INTERNATIONAL SUMMER SCHOOL ON TRENDS IN COMPUTING SSTiC 2014 Tarragona, Spain July 7-11, 2014 Organized by Rovira i Virgili University http://grammars.grlmc.com/sstic2014/ ********************************************************************* --- Last-minute registration at half price! --- ********************************************************************* AIM: SSTiC 2014 is the second edition in a series started in 2013. For the previous event, see http://grammars.grlmc.com/SSTiC2013/ SSTiC 2014 will be a research training event mainly addressed to PhD students and PhD holders in the first steps of their academic career. It intends to update them about the most recent developments in the diverse branches of computer science and its neighbouring areas. To that purpose, renowned scholars will lecture and will be available for interaction with the audience. SSTiC 2014 will cover the whole spectrum of computer science through 6 keynote lectures and 21 six-hour courses dealing with some of the most lively topics in the field. The organizers share the idea that outstanding speakers will really attract the brightest students. ADDRESSED TO: Graduate students from around the world. There are no formal pre-requisites in terms of the academic degree the attendee must hold. However, since there will be several levels among the courses, reference may be made to specific knowledge background in the description of some of them. SSTiC 2014 is also appropriate for more senior people who want to keep themselves updated on developments in their own field or in other branches of computer science. They will surely find it fruitful to listen and discuss with scholars who are main references in computing nowadays. REGIME: In addition to keynotes, 3 parallel sessions will be held during the whole event. Participants will be able to freely choose the courses they will be willing to attend as well as to move from one to another. VENUE: SSTiC 2014 will take place in Tarragona, located 90 kms. to the south of Barcelona. The venue will be: Campus Catalunya Universitat Rovira i Virgili Av. Catalunya, 35 43002 Tarragona KEYNOTE SPEAKERS: Larry S. Davis (U Maryland, College Park), A Historical Perspective of Computer Vision Models for Object Recognition and Scene Analysis David S. Johnson (Columbia U, New York), Open and Closed Problems in NP-Completeness George Karypis (U Minnesota, Twin Cities), Top-N Recommender Systems: Revisiting Item Neighborhood Methods Steffen Staab (U Koblenz), Explicit and Implicit Semantics: Two Sides of One Coin Philip Wadler (U Edinburgh), You and Your Research and The Elements of Style Ronald R. Yager (Iona C, New Rochelle), Social Modeling COURSES AND PROFESSORS: Divyakant Agrawal (Qatar Computing Research Institute, Doha), [intermediate] Scalable Data Management in Enterprise and Cloud Computing Infrastructures Pierre Baldi (U California, Irvine), [intermediate] Big Data Informatics Challenges and Opportunities in the Life Sciences Rajkumar Buyya (U Melbourne), [intermediate] Cloud Computing John M. Carroll (Pennsylvania State U, University Park), [introductory] Usability Engineering and Scenario-based Design Kwang-Ting (Tim) Cheng (U California, Santa Barbara), [introductory/intermediate] Smartphones: Hardware Platform, Software Development, and Emerging Apps Amr El Abbadi (U California, Santa Barbara), [introductory] The Distributed Foundations of Data Management in the Cloud Richard M. Fujimoto (Georgia Tech, Atlanta), [introductory] Parallel and Distributed Simulation Mark Guzdial (Georgia Tech, Atlanta), [introductory] Computing Education Research: What We Know about Learning and Teaching Computer Science David S. Johnson (Columbia U, New York), [introductory] The Traveling Salesman Problem in Theory and Practice George Karypis (U Minnesota, Twin Cities), [intermediate] Programming Models/Frameworks for Parallel & Distributed Computing Aggelos K. Katsaggelos (Northwestern U, Evanston), [intermediate] Optimization Techniques for Sparse/Low-rank Recovery Problems in Image Processing and Machine Learning Arie E. Kaufman (U Stony Brook), [intermediate/advanced] Visualization Carl Lagoze (U Michigan, Ann Arbor), [introductory] Curation of Big Data Dinesh Manocha (U North Carolina, Chapel Hill), [introductory/intermediate] Robot Motion Planning Bijan Parsia (U Manchester), [introductory] The Empirical Mindset in Computer Science Robert Sargent (Syracuse U), [introductory] Validation of Models Steffen Staab (U Koblenz), [intermediate] Programming the Semantic Web Mike Thelwall (U Wolverhampton), [introductory] Sentiment Strength Detection for Twitter and the Social Web Jeffrey D. Ullman (Stanford U), [introductory] MapReduce Algorithms Nitin Vaidya (U Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), [introductory/intermediate] Distributed Consensus: Theory and Applications Philip Wadler (U Edinburgh), [intermediate] Topics in Lambda Calculus and Life ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: Adrian Horia Dediu (Tarragona) Carlos Martín-Vide (Tarragona, chair) Florentina Lilica Voicu (Tarragona) REGISTRATION: It has to be done at http://grammars.grlmc.com/sstic2014/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 when the capacity of the venue will be complete. It is very convenient to register prior to the event. DEADLINES AND FEES: As far as possible, participants are expected to attend for the whole (or most of the) week (full-time). Fees are a flat rate allowing one to participate to all courses. They vary depending on the registration deadline: Last-minute registration: July 5, 2014 --- 250 Euro On-site registration: July 11, 2014 --- 530 Euro ACCOMMODATION: Information about accommodation is available on the website of the School. CERTIFICATE: Participants will be delivered a certificate of attendance. QUESTIONS AND FURTHER INFORMATION: florentinalilica.voicu(a)urv.cat POSTAL ADDRESS: SSTiC 2014 Lilica Voicu Rovira i Virgili University Av. Catalunya, 35 43002 Tarragona, Spain Phone: +34 977 559 543 Fax: +34 977 558 386 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS: Universitat Rovira i Virgili --- Este mensaje no contiene virus ni malware porque la protección de avast! Antivirus está activa. http://www.avast.com

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[SIPTA] TPNC 2014: 3rd call for papers
by GRLMC 17 Jun '14

17 Jun '14

*To be removed from our mailing list, please respond to this message with UNSUBSCRIBE in the subject line* **************************************************************************** ************** 3rd INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF NATURAL COMPUTING TPNC 2014 Granada, Spain December 9-11, 2014 Organized by: Soft Computing and Intelligent Information Systems (SCI2S) University of Granada Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics (GRLMC) Rovira i Virgili University http://grammars.grlmc.com/tpnc2014/ **************************************************************************** ************** 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 2014 will reserve significant room for young scholars at the beginning of their career. It 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 2014 will take place in Granada, in the region of Andalucía, to the south of Spain. The city is the seat of a rich Islamic historical legacy, including the Moorish citadel and palace called Alhambra. SCOPE: Topics of either theoretical, experimental, or applied interest include, but are not limited to: * Nature-inspired models of computation: - amorphous computing - cellular automata - chaos and dynamical systems based computing - evolutionary computing - membrane computing - neural computing - optical computing - swarm intelligence * Synthesizing nature by means of computation: - artificial chemistry - artificial immune systems - artificial life * Nature-inspired materials: - computing with DNA - nanocomputing - physarum computing - quantum computing and quantum information - reaction-diffusion computing * Information processing in nature: - developmental systems - fractal geometry - gene assembly in unicellular organisms - rough/fuzzy computing in nature - synthetic biology - systems biology * Applications of natural computing to: algorithms, bioinformatics, control, cryptography, design, economics, graphics, hardware, learning, logistics, optimization, pattern recognition, programming, robotics, telecommunications etc. A flexible "theory to/from practice" approach would be the perfect focus for the expected contributions. STRUCTURE: TPNC 2014 will consist of: - invited talks - peer-reviewed contributions INVITED SPEAKERS: Kalyanmoy Deb (East Lansing, US), Multi-Criterion Problem Solving: A Niche for Natural Computing Methods Marco Dorigo (Brussels, BE), Swarm Intelligence Francisco Herrera (Granada, ES), Bioinspired Real Parameter Optimization: Where We Are and Whats Next PROGRAMME COMMITTEE: Hussein A. Abbass (Canberra, AU) Uwe Aickelin (Nottingham, UK) Thomas Bäck (Leiden, NL) Christian Blum (San Sebastián, ES) Jinde Cao (Nanjing, CN) Vladimir Cherkassky (Minneapolis, US) Sung-Bae Cho (Seoul, KR) Andries P. Engelbrecht (Pretoria, ZA) Terence C. Fogarty (London, UK) Fernando Gomide (Campinas, BR) Inman Harvey (Brighton, UK) Francisco Herrera (Granada, ES) Tzung-Pei Hong (Kaohsiung, TW) Thomas Jansen (Aberystwyth, UK) Yaochu Jin (Guildford, UK) Okyay Kaynak (Istanbul, TR) Satoshi Kobayashi (Tokyo, JP) Soo-Young Lee (Daejeon, KR) Derong Liu (Chicago, US) Manuel Lozano (Granada, ES) Carlos Martín-Vide (Tarragona, ES, chair) Ujjwal Maulik (Kolkata, IN) Risto Miikkulainen (Austin, US) Frank Neumann (Adelaide, AU) Leandro Nunes de Castro (São Paulo, BR) Erkki Oja (Aalto, FI) Lech Polkowski (Warsaw, PL) Brian J. Ross (St. Catharines, CA) Marc Schoenauer (Orsay, FR) Biplab Kumar Sikdar (Shibpur, IN) Dipti Srinivasan (Singapore, SG) Darko Stefanovic (Albuquerque, US) Umberto Straccia (Pisa, IT) Thomas Stützle (Brussels, BE) Ponnuthurai N. Suganthan (Singapore, SG) Johan Suykens (Leuven, BE) El-Ghazali Talbi (Lille, FR) Jon Timmis (York, UK) Fernando J. Von Zuben (Campinas, BR) Michael N. Vrahatis (Patras, GR) Xin Yao (Birmingham, UK) ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: Adrian Horia Dediu (Tarragona) Carlos García-Martínez (Córdoba) Carlos Martín-Vide (Tarragona, co-chair) Manuel Lozano (Granada, co-chair) Francisco Javier Rodríguez (Granada) 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, etc.) and should be prepared according to the standard format for the 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=tpnc2014 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 the journal Soft Computing (Springer, 2012 JCR impact factor: 1.124) 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 period for registration is open from April 5 to December 9, 2014. The registration form can be found at: http://grammars.grlmc.com/tpnc2014/Registration.php DEADLINES: Paper submission: July 17, 2014 (23:59h, CET) Notification of paper acceptance or rejection: August 24, 2014 Final version of the paper for the LNCS proceedings: September 7, 2014 Early registration: September 7, 2014 Late registration: November 25, 2014 Submission to the post-conference journal special issue: March 11, 2015 QUESTIONS AND FURTHER INFORMATION: florentinalilica.voicu(a)urv.cat POSTAL ADDRESS: TPNC 2014 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: Universidad de Granada Universitat Rovira i Virgili --- Este mensaje no contiene virus ni malware porque la protección de avast! Antivirus está activa. http://www.avast.com

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Re: [SIPTA] IEEE SSCI 2014: Deadline Extension: July 15, 2014 (new and final!)
by Kreinovich 15 Jun '14

15 Jun '14

FYI, please note that many symposia -- in particular, our own symposium on engineering applications -- welcome papers on the use of imprecise probabilities -----Original Message----- From: IEEE SSCI 2014 [mailto:ieeessci2014(a)gmail.com] Sent: Sunday, June 15, 2014 10:05 AM =============================================================================== 2014 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence IEEE SSCI 2014 December 9 to 12, 2014, Orlando, Florida, U.S.A. =============================================================================== ********************** Important Announcement ********************** The IEEE SSCI 2014 is extending its paper submission deadline to July 15, 2014. Please note this extension will be one-time only and that there will be no further extensions. Therefore, we would like to kindly encourage you to submit your paper(s) early rather than wait until the very end. Thank you for considering to submit to the conference and we look forward to having the opportunity seeing you in Orlando, FL at the exciting IEEE SSCI 2014! Welcome to the sunshine of Orlando, Florida for the IEEE SSCI 2014, a flagship international conference sponsored by the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (CIS) promoting all aspects of Computational Intelligence (CI). The IEEE SSCI 2014 co-locates multiple exciting symposiums at one single location, providing a unique opportunity to encourage cross-fertilization and collaborations in all areas of CI. The IEEE SSCI 2014 features a large number of keynotes, tutorials, and special sessions. The IEEE SSCI 2014 will also offer a number of travel grants as well as an exciting Doctoral Consortium. We hope you could participate this exciting event, and look forward to seeing you in Orlando in December 2014! ********************** Important dates: ********************** Paper submission: July 15, 2014 (Extended and Final!) Notification to authors: September 5, 2014 Final submission: October 5, 2014 Early registration: October 5, 2014 Website: www.ieee-ssci.org For paper submissions, please go to the conference website: www.ieee-ssci.org and click the "Paper Submission" from the left panel, or directly go to the paper submission link at: www.ieee-ssci.org/submission.html IEEE SSCI 2014 features the following Symposia: ADPRL'14: IEEE Symposium on Adaptive Dynamic Programming and Reinforcement Learning, Huaguang Zhang, China, Jagannathan Sarangapani, USA, Lucian Busoniu, Romania. CCMB'14: IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence, Cognitive Algorithms, Mind, and Brain, Leonid Perlovsky, USA, Jose F Fontanari, Brazil, Angelo Cangelosi, UK, Daniel Levine, USA, Robert Kozma, USA CIASG'14: IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence Applications in Smart Grid, G. Kumar Venayagamoorthy, USA, Jung-Wook Park, Korea. CIBCI'14: IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Brain Computer Interfaces, Damien Coyle, UK, Robert Kozma, USA, Kai Keng Ang, Singapore. CIBD'14: IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Big Data, Yaochu Jin, UK, Yonghong Peng, UK, Nitesh Chawla, USA, Marios Polycarpou, Cyprus. CIBIM'14: IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Biometrics and Identity Management, Qinghan Xiao, Canada, David Zhang, China, Fabio Scotti, Italy CICA'14, IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Control and Automation, Xiao-Jun Zeng, UK. CICARE'14, IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in healthcare and e-health, Amir Hussain, UK, Jonathan Wu, Canada. CIComms'14, IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence for Communication Systems and Networks, Sergey Andreev, Finland, Raymond Carroll, Ireland, Maode Ma, Singapore, Paolo Rocca, Italy. CICS'14, IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Cyber Security, Dipankar Dasgupta, USA CIDM'14, IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence and Data Mining, Zhi-Hua Zhou, China, Barbara Hammer, Germany, Carlotta Domeniconi, USA. CIDUE'14, IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Dynamic and Uncertain Environments, Yaochu Jin, UK, Robi Polikar, USA, Shengxiang Yang, UK CIEL'14, IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Ensemble Learning, Nikhil R. Pal, India, P. N. Suganthan, Singapore, Xin Yao, UK, Wenjia Wang, UK. CIES'14, IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence for Engineering Solutions, Michael Beer, UK, Rudolf Kruse, Germany, Vladik Kreinovich, USA. CIHLI'14, IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence for Human-like Intelligence, Jacek Mandziuk, Poland, Wlodzislaw Duch, Poland, Janusz A. Starzyk, USA. CIMSIVP'14, IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence for Multimedia, Signal and Vision Processing, Khan M Iftekharuddin, USA, Salim Bouzerdoum,Australia. CIPLS'14, IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Production and Logistics Systems, B�lent �atay, Turkey, Raymond Chiong, Australia, Patrick Siarry, France. CIVTS'14, IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Vehicles and Transportation Systems, Dipti Srinivasan, Singapore, Justin Dauwels, Singapore, Ana Bazzan, Brazil EALS'14, IEEE Symposium on Evolving and Autonomous Learning Systems, Plamen Angelov, U.K., Dimitar Filev, USA, Nikola Kasabov, New Zealand. FOCI'14, IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computational Intelligence, Manuel Ojeda-Aciego, Spain, Leonardo Franco, Spain, Carlos Cotta, Spain. IA'14, IEEE Symposium on Intelligent Agents, Hani Hagras, UK, Vincenzo Loia, Italy. IES'14, IEEE Symposium on Intelligent Embedded Systems, Cesare Alippi, Italy, Giacomo Boracchi, Italy, Manuel Roveri, Italy. ICES'14, IEEE International Conference on Evolvable Systems, Andrew Tyrrell, UK, Martin Trefzer, UK. ISIC'14, IEEE International Symposium on Independent Computing, Robert Kozma, USA, Qingfu Zhao, Japan, Cheng-Hsiung Hsieh, Taiwan, Neil Y. Yen, Japan. CIR2AT'14, IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Robotic Rehabilitation and Assistive Technologies, Gui DeSouza, USA, James Patton, USA, Georgios Kouroupetroglou, Greece MC'14, IEEE Workshop on Memetic Computing, Giovanni Iacca, Netherlands, Fabio Caraffini, UK, Ferrante Neri, UK MCDM'14, IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Multicriteria Decision-Making, Yaochu Jin, UK, Piero Bonissone, USA, Juergen Branke, UK RiiSS'14, IEEE Symposium on Robotic Intelligence in Informationally Structured Space, Janos Botzheim, Japan, Chu Kiong Loo, Malaysia. SDE'14, IEEE Symposium on Differential Evolution, Janez Brest, Slovenia, Swagatam Das, India, Ferrante Neri, UK SIS'14, IEEE Symposium on Swarm Intelligence, Yuhui Shi, China, P. N. Suganthan, Singapore. General Chair: Haibo He, USA General Program Chair: Cesare Alippi, Italy

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[SIPTA] BigDat 2015: June 23, 2014 - 1st registration deadline
by GRLMC 08 Jun '14

08 Jun '14

*To be removed from our mailing list, please respond to this message with UNSUBSCRIBE in the subject line* ***************************************************** INTERNATIONAL WINTER SCHOOL ON BIG DATA BigDat 2015 Tarragona, Spain January 26-30, 2015 Organized by Rovira i Virgili University http://grammars.grlmc.com/bigdat2015/ ***************************************************** --- 1st registration deadline: June 23, 2014 --- ***************************************************** AIM: BigDat 2015 is a research training event for graduates and postgraduates in the first steps of their academic career. It aims at updating them about the most recent developments in the fast developing area of big data, which covers a large spectrum of current exciting research, development and 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. All big data subareas will be displayed, namely: foundations, infrastructure, management, search and mining, security and privacy, and applications. Main challenges of analytics, management and storage of big data will be identified through 5 keynote lectures and 23 six-hour courses, which will tackle the most lively and promising topics. The organizers believe outstanding speakers will attract the brightest and most motivated students. Interaction will be a main component of the event. ADDRESSED TO: Graduate and postgraduates from around the world. There are no formal pre-requisites in terms of academic degrees. However, since there will be differences in the course levels, specific knowledge background may be required for some of them. BigDat 2015 is also appropriate for more senior people who want to keep themselves updated on recent developments and future trends. They will surely find it fruitful to listen and discuss with major researchers, industry leaders and innovators. REGIME: In addition to keynotes, 3 courses will run in parallel during the whole event. Participants will be able to freely choose the courses they will be willing to attend as well as to move from one to another. VENUE: BigDat 2015 will take place in Tarragona, located 90 kms. to the south of Barcelona. The venue will be: Campus Catalunya Universitat Rovira i Virgili Av. Catalunya, 35 43002 Tarragona KEYNOTE SPEAKERS: Ricardo Baeza-Yates (Yahoo! Research Labs, Barcelona), Big Data or Right Data? - to be confirmed - Ian Foster (Argonne National Laboratory), tba Geoffrey C. Fox (Indiana University, Bloomington), tba C. Lee Giles (Pennsylvania State University, University Park), tba William D. Gropp (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), tba COURSES AND PROFESSORS: Hendrik Blockeel (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven), [intermediate] Decision Trees for Big Data Analytics Diego Calvanese (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano), [introductory/intermediate] End-User Access to Big Data Using Ontologies Jiannong Cao (Hong Kong Polytechnic University), [introductory/intermediate] Programming with Big Data Edward Y. Chang (HTC Corporation, New Taipei City), [introductory/advanced] >From Design of Distributed and Online Algorithms to Hands-on Code Lab Practice on Real Datasets Ernesto Damiani (University of Milan), [introductory/intermediate] Process Discovery and Predictive Decision Making from Big Data Sets and Streams Gautam Das (University of Texas, Arlington), [intermediate/advanced] Mining Deep Web Repositories Maarten de Rijke (University of Amsterdam), tba Geoffrey C. Fox (Indiana University, Bloomington), tba Minos Garofalakis (Technical University of Crete, Chania) [intermediate/advanced], Querying Continuous Data Streams Vasant G. Honavar (Pennsylvania State University, University Park) [introductory/intermediate], Learning Predictive Models from Big Data Mounia Lalmas (Yahoo! Research Labs, London), [introductory] Measuring User Engagement Tao Li (Florida International University, Miami), [introductory/intermediate] Data Mining Techniques to Understand Textual Data Kwan-Liu Ma (University of California, Davis), [intermediate] Big Data Visualization Christoph Meinel (Hasso Plattner Institute, Potsdam), [introductory/intermediate] New Computing Power by In-Memory and Multicore to Tackle Big Data David Padua (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), [intermediate] Data Parallel Programming Manish Parashar (Rutgers University, Piscataway), [intermediate] Big Data in Simulation-based Science Srinivasan Parthasarathy (Ohio State University, Columbus), [intermediate] Scalable Data Analysis Evaggelia Pitoura (University of Ioannina), [intermediate] Social Networks Vijay V. Raghavan (University of Louisiana, Lafayette), [introductory/intermediate] Visual Analytics of Time-evolving Large-scale Graphs Pierangela Samarati (University of Milan), [intermediate], Data Security and Privacy in the Cloud Peter Sanders (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology), [introductory/intermediate] Algorithm Engineering for Large Data Sets Johan Suykens (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven), [introductory/intermediate] Fixed-size Kernel Models for Big Data Domenico Talia (University of Calabria, Rende), [intermediate] Scalable Data Mining on Parallel, Distributed and Cloud Computing Systems Jieping Ye (Arizona State University, Tempe), [introductory/advanced] Large-Scale Sparse Learning and Low Rank Modeling ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: Adrian Horia Dediu (Tarragona) Carlos Martín-Vide (Tarragona, chair) Florentina Lilica Voicu (Tarragona) REGISTRATION: It has to be done at http://grammars.grlmc.com/bigdat2015/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: As far as possible, participants are expected to stay full-time. Fees are a flat rate covering the attendance to all courses during the week. There are several early registration deadlines. Fees depend on the registration deadline. ACCOMMODATION: Suggestions of accommodation will be provided in due time. CERTIFICATE: Participants will be delivered a certificate of attendance. QUESTIONS AND FURTHER INFORMATION: florentinalilica.voicu(a)urv.cat POSTAL ADDRESS: BigDat 2015 Lilica Voicu Rovira i Virgili University Av. Catalunya, 35 43002 Tarragona, Spain Phone: +34 977 559 543 Fax: +34 977 558 386 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS: Universitat Rovira i Virgili --- Este mensaje no contiene virus ni malware porque la protección de avast! Antivirus está activa. http://www.avast.com

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[SIPTA] SSTiC 2014: June 7, early registration deadline
by GRLMC 31 May '14

31 May '14

*To be removed from our mailing list, please respond to this message with UNSUBSCRIBE in the subject line* ********************************************************************* 2014 TARRAGONA INTERNATIONAL SUMMER SCHOOL ON TRENDS IN COMPUTING SSTiC 2014 Tarragona, Spain July 7-11, 2014 Organized by Rovira i Virgili University http://grammars.grlmc.com/sstic2014/ ********************************************************************* --- Early registration deadline: June 7 --- ********************************************************************* AIM: SSTiC 2014 is the second edition in a series started in 2013. For the previous event, see http://grammars.grlmc.com/SSTiC2013/ SSTiC 2014 will be a research training event mainly addressed to PhD students and PhD holders in the first steps of their academic career. It intends to update them about the most recent developments in the diverse branches of computer science and its neighbouring areas. To that purpose, renowned scholars will lecture and will be available for interaction with the audience. SSTiC 2014 will cover the whole spectrum of computer science through 6 keynote lectures and 22 six-hour courses dealing with some of the most lively topics in the field. The organizers share the idea that outstanding speakers will really attract the brightest students. ADDRESSED TO: Graduate students from around the world. There are no formal pre-requisites in terms of the academic degree the attendee must hold. However, since there will be several levels among the courses, reference may be made to specific knowledge background in the description of some of them. SSTiC 2014 is also appropriate for more senior people who want to keep themselves updated on developments in their own field or in other branches of computer science. They will surely find it fruitful to listen and discuss with scholars who are main references in computing nowadays. REGIME: In addition to keynotes, 3 parallel sessions will be held during the whole event. Participants will be able to freely choose the courses they will be willing to attend as well as to move from one to another. VENUE: SSTiC 2014 will take place in Tarragona, located 90 kms. to the south of Barcelona. The venue will be: Campus Catalunya Universitat Rovira i Virgili Av. Catalunya, 35 43002 Tarragona KEYNOTE SPEAKERS: Larry S. Davis (U Maryland, College Park), A Historical Perspective of Computer Vision Models for Object Recognition and Scene Analysis David S. Johnson (Columbia U, New York), Open and Closed Problems in NP-Completeness George Karypis (U Minnesota, Twin Cities), Top-N Recommender Systems: Revisiting Item Neighborhood Methods Steffen Staab (U Koblenz), Explicit and Implicit Semantics: Two Sides of One Coin Philip Wadler (U Edinburgh), You and Your Research and The Elements of Style Ronald R. Yager (Iona C, New Rochelle), Social Modeling COURSES AND PROFESSORS: Divyakant Agrawal (Qatar Computing Research Institute, Doha), [intermediate] Scalable Data Management in Enterprise and Cloud Computing Infrastructures Pierre Baldi (U California, Irvine), [intermediate] Big Data Informatics Challenges and Opportunities in the Life Sciences Rajkumar Buyya (U Melbourne), [intermediate] Cloud Computing John M. Carroll (Pennsylvania State U, University Park), [introductory] Usability Engineering and Scenario-based Design Kwang-Ting (Tim) Cheng (U California, Santa Barbara), [introductory/intermediate] Smartphones: Hardware Platform, Software Development, and Emerging Apps Amr El Abbadi (U California, Santa Barbara), [introductory] The Distributed Foundations of Data Management in the Cloud Richard M. Fujimoto (Georgia Tech, Atlanta), [introductory] Parallel and Distributed Simulation Mark Guzdial (Georgia Tech, Atlanta), [introductory] Computing Education Research: What We Know about Learning and Teaching Computer Science David S. Johnson (Columbia U, New York), [introductory] The Traveling Salesman Problem in Theory and Practice George Karypis (U Minnesota, Twin Cities), [intermediate] Programming Models/Frameworks for Parallel & Distributed Computing Aggelos K. Katsaggelos (Northwestern U, Evanston), [intermediate] Optimization Techniques for Sparse/Low-rank Recovery Problems in Image Processing and Machine Learning Arie E. Kaufman (U Stony Brook), [intermediate/advanced] Visualization Carl Lagoze (U Michigan, Ann Arbor), [introductory] Curation of Big Data Dinesh Manocha (U North Carolina, Chapel Hill), [introductory/intermediate] Robot Motion Planning Bijan Parsia (U Manchester), [introductory] The Empirical Mindset in Computer Science Charles E. Perkins (FutureWei Technologies, Santa Clara), [intermediate] Beyond LTE: the Evolution of 4G Networks and the Need for Higher Performance Handover System Designs Robert Sargent (Syracuse U), [introductory] Validation of Models Steffen Staab (U Koblenz), [intermediate] Programming the Semantic Web Mike Thelwall (U Wolverhampton), [introductory] Sentiment Strength Detection for Twitter and the Social Web Jeffrey D. Ullman (Stanford U), [introductory] MapReduce Algorithms Nitin Vaidya (U Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), [introductory/intermediate] Distributed Consensus: Theory and Applications Philip Wadler (U Edinburgh), [intermediate] Topics in Lambda Calculus and Life ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: Adrian Horia Dediu (Tarragona) Carlos Martín-Vide (Tarragona, chair) Florentina Lilica Voicu (Tarragona) REGISTRATION: It has to be done at http://grammars.grlmc.com/sstic2014/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 when the capacity of the venue will be complete. It is very convenient to register prior to the event. DEADLINES AND FEES: As far as possible, participants are expected to attend for the whole (or most of the) week (full-time). Fees are a flat rate allowing one to participate to all courses. They vary depending on the registration deadline: Early registration: June 7, 2014 --- 470 Euro Regular registration: July 5, 2014 --- 500 Euro On-site registration: July 11, 2014 --- 530 Euro ACCOMMODATION: Information about accommodation is available on the website of the School. CERTIFICATE: Participants will be delivered a certificate of attendance. QUESTIONS AND FURTHER INFORMATION: florentinalilica.voicu(a)urv.cat POSTAL ADDRESS: SSTiC 2014 Lilica Voicu Rovira i Virgili University Av. Catalunya, 35 43002 Tarragona, Spain Phone: +34 977 559 543 Fax: +34 977 558 386 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS: Universitat Rovira i Virgili

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[SIPTA] next Reliable Engineering Computing conference
by Kreinovich 31 May '14

31 May '14

Many thanks to the organizers of the 6th International Workshop on Reliable Engineering Computing REC'2014 (Chicago, May 25-28, 2014), http://rec2014.iit.edu. This series of conferences welcomes papers which uses different approaches to uncertainty, including imprecise probabilities, to solve engineering problems. The next 7th International Workshop on Reliable Engineering Computing REC'2016 will take place in Bohum, Ruhr, Germany, in Spring 2016.

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[SIPTA] Deadline extension: ICTCS 2014 Call for papers
by Andrea Formisano 26 May '14

26 May '14

[apologies for multiple posting] ------------------------------------------------------------------ Submission deadline extended: 8 June 2014 ------------------------------------------------------------------ CALL FOR PAPERS ICTCS 2014 Fifteenth Italian Conference on Theoretical Computer Science Perugia, Italy, September 17-19, 2014 http://www.dmi.unipg.it/ictcs2014 Conference proceedings on CEUR Workshop Proceedings Series Post-conference selection on Theoretical Computer Science ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ICTCS-2014, the 2014 Italian Conference on Theoretical Computer Science, is the 15th conference of the Italian Chapter of EATCS. It will be held in Perugia, September 17-19 2014 at the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science. The scope of the meeting is fostering the cross-fertilisation of ideas stemming from different areas of theoretical computer science. Hence, the Italian Conference on Theoretical Computer Science represents an occasion for meeting and exchanging ideas and for sharing experiences between researchers. It also provides the ideal environment where junior researchers and PhD students can meet senior researchers. Contributions in any area of theoretical computer science are warmly solicited. Typical, but not exclusive, topics of interest include: agents, algorithms, argumentation, automata theory, automated theorem proving, complexity theory, computational logic, computational social choice, concurrency, cryptography, distributed computing, dynamical systems, formal methods game theory, graph theory, knowledge representation, languages, model checking, process algebras, quantum computing, rewriting systems, security and trust, semantics, specification and verification, systems biology, types. The event is open to both Italian and foreign researchers, which are welcome to submit papers and attend the Conference. Invited speakers: ================= Rocco De Nicola. IMT - Institute for Advanced Studies, Lucca Giuseppe Liotta. Department of Engineering, University of Perugia Program co-chairs: ================== Stefano Bistarelli (Univ. di Perugia) Andrea Formisano (Univ. di Perugia) Program committee: ================== Paolo Baldan (Univ. di Padova) Giampaolo Bella (Univ. di Catania) Marco Bernardo (Univ. di Urbino) Davide Bilo (Univ. di Sassari) Stefano Bistarelli (Univ. di Perugia) Michele Boreale (Univ. di Firenze) Tiziana Calamoneri (Sapienza Univ. di Roma) Antonio Caruso (Univ. del Salento) Ferdinando Cicalese (Univ. di Salerno) Flavio Corradini (Univ. di Camerino) Giorgio Delzanno (Univ. di Genova) Mariangiola Dezani (Univ. di Torino) Eugenio Di Sciascio (Politecnico di Bari) Agostino Dovier (Univ. di Udine) Marco Faella (Univ. di Napoli "Federico II") Michele Flammini (Univ. di L'Aquila) Andrea Formisano (Univ. di Perugia) Maurizio Gabbrielli (Univ. di Bologna) Fabio Gadducci (Univ. di Pisa) Raffaella Gentilini (Univ. di Perugia) Laura Giordano (Univ. del Piemonte Orientale) Giuseppe F. Italiano (Univ. di Roma "Tor Vergata") Sabrina Mantaci (Univ. di Palermo) Isabella Mastroeni (Univ. di Verona) Manuela Montangero (Univ. di Modena e Reggio Emilia) Maurizio Proietti (IASI-CNR) Antonino Salibra (Univ. Ca'Foscari Venezia) Francesco Santini (IIT-CNR, Univ. di Perugia) Marinella Sciortino (Univ. di Palermo) Maurice ter Beek (ISTI-CNR) Venue: ====== Dipartimento di Matematica e Informatica Universita` degli Studi di Perugia via Vanvitelli, 1 I-06123 Perugia, Italy Local contacts: =============== Conference Chairs: Stefano Bistarelli & Andrea Formisano E-mail: ictcs2014(a)dmi.unipg.it Conference web-site: http://www.dmi.unipg.it/ictcs2014 Important dates: ================ Submission deadline: 8 June 2014 Notification of acceptance: 15 July 2014 Final version: 10 August 2014 Conference: 17-19 September 2014 Submissions: ============ Two types of contributions are solicited: Communications: up to 5 pages in llncs style. Suitable for extended abstracts of papers already appeared, or submitted, or to be submitted, elsewhere; papers reporting on ongoing researches on which the authors wish to get feedback at ICTCS and possibly intended to be included in future publications; overviews of PhD-theses, research projects, etc... Regular papers: up to 12 pages in llncs style. Full original papers, presenting novel results, not appeared or submitted elsewhere. In case of need, to ease the rewiewing process, the authors of regular papers may add an appendix containing further material (or indicate a web site containing longer version of the paper). In any case the reviewers are not required to consider such furhter material in their evaluation. For each accepted contribution, at least one of the authors is required to attend at the conference and present the paper. All accepted contribution (communications and regular papers), presented at the conference, will appear in a number of CEUR Workshop Proceedings (http://ceur-ws.org/) Articles must be written in English and formatted using the Springer LNCS style (see the details on the conference web site). Submission page: ================ Authors are invited to submit their manuscripts in PDF via the EasyChair system at the link: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ictcs2014 Post-conference issue on Theoretical Computer Science: ====================================================== Selected papers from ICTCS-2014 will be invited to a special issue of the journal Theoretical Computer Science. The authors of a selection of the regular papers presented at the conference will be asked to submit an improved version of their papers. The selection will be determined by considering the outcome of the conference reviewing phase. The papers submitted for the journal issue should have been significantly revised and extended with respect to the conference versions. A second reviewing process, meeting the high standard of quality of the international journal will select the papers to be accepted for the special issue, among the invited ones. _______________________________________________ -- *===================================================================* | Andrea Formisano | |-------------------------------------------------------------------| | Dip. di Matematica e Informatica, Universita' di Perugia | | Via Vanvitelli 1 - 06123 Perugia, Italy | | e-mail: formis(a)dmi.unipg.it web: www.dmi.unipg.it/formis | | tel: +39 075 5855011 fax: +39 075 5855024 | *===================================================================*

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Re: [SIPTA] FW: International Conference on Risk Analysis of MeteorologicalDisasters
by Kreinovich 24 May '14

24 May '14

FYI, different techniques for gauging risk under uncertainty are welcome for these problems, imprecise probability techniques in particular. ***************************************************** From: Guo Wei [mailto:guo.wei(a)uncp.edu] CALL FOR PAPERS International Conference on Risk Analysis of Meteorological Disasters (RAMD'14) October 12-13, 2014, Nanjing, China http://ramd2014.nuist.edu.cn/dct/page/70033 About the Conference Since the industrial revolution in the mid-18th century, global climate has been undergoing significant changes with global warming as the main feature. Entering the 21st century, the trend of global warming is increasing (IPCC, 2013). As the climate gets warmer, various kinds of weather disasters gradually increase and result in more and more severe loss and impacts. According to the statistics of the International Committee for Disaster Reduction, meteorological disasters account for 75%-80% of all natural disasters, and the loss caused by meteorological disasters in the global world accounts for about 3%-6% of the world GDP in total. How to deal with the significant risk of meteorological disasters has become a major challenge faced by the international community today. Before the idea of meteorological disaster risk management appeared, mankind mainly defended to meteorological disasters passively. Then people started to set up the philosophy of active management to meteorological disasters and entered the stage of meteorological disasters risk management. Researches on meteorological disaster risk started since the International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction (IDNDR) programme initiated by the UN in 1989. Its focus was to explore the mechanisms and measures to reduce the loss and the impact of a variety of natural and environmental disasters on human economy, society, resources and environment; to reveal the mechanism of the formation of disasters by evaluating the danger of hazards factors, the stability of the environment and the vulnerability of the hazard bearing body, etc., and to identify the driving forces of the disasters. In 2003, the first World Conference on Risk Analysis hosted by the International Society of Risk Analysis (SRA) emphasized the important change of disaster studies from disaster analysis to disaster risk analysis and disaster risk management, etc. Since then, the concept of risk entered into the field of meteorology, and the focus of research on meteorological disasters also shifted from meteorological disaster defence to meteorological disasters risk management. Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology is one of China's key universities with meteorology as the main discipline. The discipline of "Atmospheric Sciences" ranked first in the academic ranking organized by the Chinese Ministry of Education in 2013. The university has more than 1,500 full-time faculties including the Academician of Chinese Academy of Science, Professor Shi Guangyu. In recent years, one of the main directions of the university discipline development is "meteorological disaster forecasting, warning and assessment." In order to better make use of the advantages in terms of the university discipline, personnel, facilities and other conditions, to promote academic exchange and cooperation among researchers around the world in meteorological disaster risk management, the university intends to hold an International Conference on Risk Management of Meteorological Disasters in Nanjing on October 12-13. Organizers Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology Conference Time and Venue Conference Time: October 12-13 Conference Venue: Nanjing, China Scope: RAMD'14 is soliciting papers for the following (but not limited to) topics: Theme I: Meteorological Disasters and Financial Risk Management Theme II: Meteorological Disaster Assessment and Disaster Prevention and Reduction Strategies Theme III: Dynamic Analysis, Impact Assessment and Strategies for Drought/Flood Risk Theme IV: Major Meteorological Disaster Emergency Response and Risk Management Paper Submission All papers must be unpublished and should not be under simultaneous review for any other conferences and workshops. Paper format please refer to the relevant requirements of Information Science. All papers should be submitted electronically via E-mail:2014RAMD(a)gmail.com. All papers will be peer-reviewed by members of the RAMD'14 program committee and selected reviewers. Important Dates The deadline for paper submission August 30th, 2014 The date for notification September 30th, 2014 The date for camera-ready paper submission October 10th, 2014 Contact information Tel: +86 025 58699839 Email: 2014RAMD(a)gmail.com

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[SIPTA] 6th SIPTA School on Imprecise Probabilities (21-25 Jul 2014, Montpellier, France): 3rd announcement
by Kevin Loquin 23 May '14

23 May '14

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Re: [SIPTA] TES'2015 deadline extended
by Kreinovich 22 May '14

22 May '14

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[SIPTA] IPSP14: Call for Participation
by Marco Cattaneo 22 May '14

22 May '14

**************************************************** IMPRECISE PROBABILITIES IN STATISTICS AND PHILOSOPHY LMU Munich 27-28 June 2014 www.ipsp2014.philosophie.lmu.de **************************************************** The SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM is now online: www.ipsp2014.philosophie.lmu.de/program Imprecise probabilities offer a model of uncertainty that is more general, less idealised than the standard precise probability framework. Imprecise probabilities are receiving increasing attention in statistics (as well as in artificial intelligence and in economics). Recently, there has been a resurgence of philosophical interest in these generalised models of uncertainty. The aim of this workshop is to bring together philosophers and statisticians to see what we can learn from each other. We are sure that such interdisciplinary collaboration will be valuable both to philosophers and to statisticians. Topics on which we might expect fruitful discussions include: * updating imprecise probabilities and dilation; * foundations of imprecise probabilities; * procedures for eliciting imprecise probabilities; * decision making with imprecise probabilities. KEYNOTE SPEAKERS: Fabio Cozman (São Paulo), James M. Joyce (Michigan), and Teddy Seidenfeld (CMU) ORGANIZERS: Thomas Augustin, Seamus Bradley, Marco Cattaneo, Stephan Hartmann, and Roland Poellinger -- Marco Cattaneo, Dr. sc. math. Department of Statistics, LMU Munich http://www.statistik.lmu.de/~cattaneo/

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[SIPTA] AlCoB 2014: call for participation
by GRLMC 18 May '14

18 May '14

*To be removed from our mailing list, please respond to this message with UNSUBSCRIBE in the subject line* ********************************************************************* 1st INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ALGORITHMS FOR COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY AlCoB 2014 Tarragona, Spain July 1-3, 2014 http://grammars.grlmc.com/alcob2014/ ********************************************************************* PROGRAM Tuesday, July 1: 9:15 - 10:15 Registration 10:15 - 10:25 Opening 10:25 - 11:15 Michael Galperin: Comparative Genomics Approaches to Identifying Functionally Related Genes – Invited Lecture 11:15 - 11:45 Coffee Break 11:45 - 13:00 Liana Amaya Moreno, Ozlem Defterli, Armin Fügenschuh, Gerhard-Wilhelm Weber: Vester's Sensitivity Model for Genetic Networks with Time-Discrete Dynamics Sebastian Wandelt, Ulf Leser: RRCA: Ultra-fast Multiple In-Species Genome Alignments David A. Rosenblueth, Stalin Muñoz, Miguel Carrillo, Eugenio Azpeitia: Inference of Boolean Networks from Gene Interaction Graphs using a SAT Solver 13:00 - 14:30 Lunch 14:30 - 15:45 Laurent Lemarchand, Reinhardt Euler, Congping Lin, Imogen Sparkes: Modeling the Geometry of the Endoplasmic Reticulum Network Sean Maxwell, Mark R. Chance, Mehmet Koyutürk: Efficiently Enumerating All Connected Induced Subgraphs of a Large Molecular Network Bogdan Iancu, Diana-Elena Gratie, Sepinoud Azimi, Ion Petre: On the Implementation of Quantitative Model Refinement 15:45 - 16:00 Break 16:00 - 16:50 Jason Papin: Network Analysis of Microbial Pathogens – Invited Lecture Wednesday, July 2: 9:00 - 9:50 Uwe Ohler: Decoding Non-coding Regulatory Regions in DNA and RNA (I) – Invited Tutorial 9:50 - 10:00 Break 10:00 - 11:15 Dimitris Polychronopoulos, Anastasia Krithara, Christoforos Nikolaou, Giorgos Paliouras, Yannis Almirantis, George Giannakopoulos: Analysis and Classification of Constrained DNA Elements with N-gram Graphs and Genomic Signatures Inken Wohlers, Mathilde Le Boudic-Jamin, Hristo Djidjev, Gunnar W. Klau, Rumen Andonov: Exact Protein Structure Classification Using the Maximum Contact Map Overlap Metric Tomohiko Ohtsuki, Naoki Nariai, Kaname Kojima, Takahiro Mimori, Yukuto Sato, Yosuke Kawai, Yumi Yamaguchi-Kabata, Testuo Shibuya, Masao Nagasaki: SVEM: A Structural Variant Estimation Method using Multi-Mapped Reads on Breakpoints 11:15 - 11:45 Coffee Break 11:45 - 13:00 Claire Lemaitre, Liviu Ciortuz, Pierre Peterlongo: Mapping-free and Assembly-free Discovery of Inversion Breakpoints from Raw NGS Reads Giuseppe Narzisi, Bud Mishra, Michael C. Schatz: On Algorithmic Complexity of Biomolecular Sequence Assembly Problem Ivo Hedtke, Ioana Lemnian, Matthias Müller-Hannemann, Ivo Grosse: On Optimal Read Trimming in Next Generation Sequencing and Its Complexity 13:00 - 14:30 Lunch 14:30 - 15:20 Annie Chateau, Rodolphe Giroudeau: Complexity and Polynomial-Time Approximation Algorithms around the Scaffolding Problem Ernst Althaus, Andreas Hildebrandt, Anna Katharina Hildebrandt: A Greedy Algorithm for Hierarchical Complete Linkage Clustering 15:30 Visit of the City Thursday, July 3: 9:00 - 9:50 Uwe Ohler: Decoding Non-coding Regulatory Regions in DNA and RNA (II) – Invited Tutorial 9:50 - 10:00 Break 10:00 - 11:15 Carla Negri Lintzmayer, Zanoni Dias: On Sorting of Signed Permutations by Prefix and Suffix Reversals and Transpositions Thiago da Silva Arruda, Ulisses Dias, Zanoni Dias: Heuristics for the Sorting by Length-Weighted Inversions Problem on Signed Permutations Alexander Grigoriev, Steven Kelk, Nela Lekić: On Low Treewidth Graphs and Supertrees 11:15 - 11:45 Coffee Break 11:45 - 13:00 Carla Negri Lintzmayer, Zanoni Dias: On the Diameter of Rearrangement Problems Amina Noor, Aitzaz Ahmad, Bilal Wajid, Erchin Serpedin, Mohamed Nounou, Hazem Nounou: A Closed-Form Solution for Transcription Factor Activity Estimation using Network Component Analysis Kaname Kojima, Naoki Nariai, Takahiro Mimori, Yumi Yamaguchi-Kabata, Yukuto Sato, Yosuke Kawai, Masao Nagasaki: HapMonster: A Statistically Unified Approach for Variant Calling and Haplotyping Based on Phase-Informative Reads 13:00 Closing

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[SIPTA] WPMSIIP 2014 (8-12 Sept 2014, Ghent, Belgium) - Second announcement
by Jasper De Bock 16 May '14

16 May '14

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[SIPTA] Fwd: High-Value PhD Studentships available in our Centre for Doctoral Training, Liverpool.
by ThomasAugustin 16 May '14

16 May '14

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[SIPTA] PhD position at Compiègne University
by Sébastien Destercke 13 May '14

13 May '14

The DI (Decision and Image) team of the Heudiasyc (Heuristic and Diagnostic Methods for Complex Systems) laboratory recruits one PhD student funded by the French ministry of education. The thesis topic concern the optimal elicitation of information to model uncertainty, and the student work will be performed in close collaboration with experts the fields of learning and reasoning under uncertainty. Reliability analysis of railway systems will be a privileged field of application. The ideal candidate has a strong commitment to research and to the completion of the PhD program, has strong skills in mathematics or computer science, has good communication skills in English, good programming skills, and ability to work in a collaborative environment. For Further information, you can contact me (sebastien.destercke(a)hds.utc.fr) or go to https://www.hds.utc.fr/~sdesterc/. -- ==================================== Sebastien Destercke, Ph. D. CNRS researcher in computer science. Université de Technologie de Compiegne U.M.R. C.N.R.S. 7253 Heudiasyc Centre de recherches de Royallieu F-60205 Compiegne Cedex FRANCE Tel: +33 (0)3 44 23 79 85 Fax: +33 (0)3 44 23 44 77 ====================================

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[SIPTA] Deadline approaching: ICTCS 2014 Call for papers
by Andrea Formisano 12 May '14

12 May '14

[apologies for multiple posting] ======================= CALL FOR PAPERS ============================= ICTCS 2014 Fifteenth Italian Conference on Theoretical Computer Science Perugia, Italy, September 17-19, 2014 http://www.dmi.unipg.it/ictcs2014 Conference proceedings on CEUR Workshop Proceedings Series Post-conference selection on Theoretical Computer Science ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ICTCS-2014, the 2014 Italian Conference on Theoretical Computer Science, is the 15th conference of the Italian Chapter of EATCS. It will be held in Perugia, September 17-19 2014 at the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science. The scope of the meeting is fostering the cross-fertilisation of ideas stemming from different areas of theoretical computer science. Hence, the Italian Conference on Theoretical Computer Science represents an occasion for meeting and exchanging ideas and for sharing experiences between researchers. It also provides the ideal environment where junior researchers and PhD students can meet senior researchers. Contributions in any area of theoretical computer science are warmly solicited. Typical, but not exclusive, topics of interest include: agents, algorithms, argumentation, automata theory, automated theorem proving, complexity theory, computational logic, computational social choice, concurrency, cryptography, distributed computing, dynamical systems, formal methods game theory, graph theory, knowledge representation, languages, model checking, process algebras, quantum computing, rewriting systems, security and trust, semantics, specification and verification, systems biology, types. The event is open to both Italian and foreign researchers, which are welcome to submit papers and attend the Conference. Invited speakers: ================= Rocco De Nicola. IMT - Institute for Advanced Studies, Lucca Giuseppe Liotta. Department of Engineering, University of Perugia Program co-chairs: ================== Stefano Bistarelli (Univ. di Perugia) Andrea Formisano (Univ. di Perugia) Program committee: ================== Paolo Baldan (Univ. di Padova) Giampaolo Bella (Univ. di Catania) Marco Bernardo (Univ. di Urbino) Davide Bilo (Univ. di Sassari) Stefano Bistarelli (Univ. di Perugia) Michele Boreale (Univ. di Firenze) Tiziana Calamoneri (Sapienza Univ. di Roma) Antonio Caruso (Univ. del Salento) Ferdinando Cicalese (Univ. di Salerno) Flavio Corradini (Univ. di Camerino) Giorgio Delzanno (Univ. di Genova) Mariangiola Dezani (Univ. di Torino) Eugenio Di Sciascio (Politecnico di Bari) Agostino Dovier (Univ. di Udine) Marco Faella (Univ. di Napoli "Federico II") Michele Flammini (Univ. di L'Aquila) Andrea Formisano (Univ. di Perugia) Maurizio Gabbrielli (Univ. di Bologna) Fabio Gadducci (Univ. di Pisa) Raffaella Gentilini (Univ. di Perugia) Laura Giordano (Univ. del Piemonte Orientale) Giuseppe F. Italiano (Univ. di Roma "Tor Vergata") Sabrina Mantaci (Univ. di Palermo) Isabella Mastroeni (Univ. di Verona) Manuela Montangero (Univ. di Modena e Reggio Emilia) Maurizio Proietti (IASI-CNR) Antonino Salibra (Univ. Ca'Foscari Venezia) Francesco Santini (IIT-CNR, Univ. di Perugia) Marinella Sciortino (Univ. di Palermo) Maurice ter Beek (ISTI-CNR) Venue: ====== Dipartimento di Matematica e Informatica Universita` degli Studi di Perugia via Vanvitelli, 1 I-06123 Perugia, Italy Local contacts: =============== Conference Chairs: Stefano Bistarelli & Andrea Formisano E-mail: ictcs2014(a)dmi.unipg.it Conference web-site: http://www.dmi.unipg.it/ictcs2014 Important dates: ================ Submission deadline: 27 May 2014 Notification of acceptance: 15 July 2014 Final version: 10 August 2014 Conference: 17-19 September 2014 Submissions: ============ Two types of contributions are solicited: Communications: up to 5 pages in llncs style. Suitable for extended abstracts of papers already appeared, or submitted, or to be submitted, elsewhere; papers reporting on ongoing researches on which the authors wish to get feedback at ICTCS and possibly intended to be included in future publications; overviews of PhD-theses, research projects, etc... Regular papers: up to 12 pages in llncs style. Full original papers, presenting novel results, not appeared or submitted elsewhere. In case of need, to ease the rewiewing process, the authors of regular papers may add an appendix containing further material (or indicate a web site containing longer version of the paper). In any case the reviewers are not required to consider such furhter material in their evaluation. For each accepted contribution, at least one of the authors is required to attend at the conference and present the paper. All accepted contribution (communications and regular papers), presented at the conference, will appear in a number of CEUR Workshop Proceedings (http://ceur-ws.org/) Articles must be written in English and formatted using the Springer LNCS style (see the details on the conference web site). Submission page: ================ Authors are invited to submit their manuscripts in PDF via the EasyChair system at the link: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ictcs2014 Post-conference issue on Theoretical Computer Science: ====================================================== Selected papers from ICTCS-2014 will be invited to a special issue of the journal Theoretical Computer Science. The authors of a selection of the regular papers presented at the conference will be asked to submit an improved version of their papers. The selection will be determined by considering the outcome of the conference reviewing phase. The papers submitted for the journal issue should have been significantly revised and extended with respect to the conference versions. A second reviewing process, meeting the high standard of quality of the international journal will select the papers to be accepted for the special issue, among the invited ones. _______________________________________________

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[SIPTA] TPNC 2014: 2nd call for papers
by GRLMC 10 May '14

10 May '14

*To be removed from our mailing list, please respond to this message with UNSUBSCRIBE in the subject line* **************************************************************************** ************** 3rd INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF NATURAL COMPUTING TPNC 2014 Granada, Spain December 9-11, 2014 Organized by: Soft Computing and Intelligent Information Systems (SCI2S) University of Granada Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics (GRLMC) Rovira i Virgili University http://grammars.grlmc.com/tpnc2014/ **************************************************************************** ************** 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 2014 will reserve significant room for young scholars at the beginning of their career. It 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 2014 will take place in Granada, in the region of Andalucía, to the south of Spain. The city is the seat of a rich Islamic historical legacy, including the Moorish citadel and palace called Alhambra. SCOPE: Topics of either theoretical, experimental, or applied interest include, but are not limited to: * Nature-inspired models of computation: - amorphous computing - cellular automata - chaos and dynamical systems based computing - evolutionary computing - membrane computing - neural computing - optical computing - swarm intelligence * Synthesizing nature by means of computation: - artificial chemistry - artificial immune systems - artificial life * Nature-inspired materials: - computing with DNA - nanocomputing - physarum computing - quantum computing and quantum information - reaction-diffusion computing * Information processing in nature: - developmental systems - fractal geometry - gene assembly in unicellular organisms - rough/fuzzy computing in nature - synthetic biology - systems biology * Applications of natural computing to: algorithms, bioinformatics, control, cryptography, design, economics, graphics, hardware, learning, logistics, optimization, pattern recognition, programming, robotics, telecommunications etc. A flexible "theory to/from practice" approach would be the perfect focus for the expected contributions. STRUCTURE: TPNC 2014 will consist of: - invited talks - peer-reviewed contributions INVITED SPEAKERS: Kalyanmoy Deb (East Lansing, US), Multi-Criterion Problem Solving: A Niche for Natural Computing Methods Marco Dorigo (Brussels, BE), Swarm Intelligence Francisco Herrera (Granada, ES), Bioinspired Real Parameter Optimization: Where We Are and Whats Next PROGRAMME COMMITTEE: Hussein A. Abbass (Canberra, AU) Uwe Aickelin (Nottingham, UK) Thomas Bäck (Leiden, NL) Christian Blum (San Sebastián, ES) Jinde Cao (Nanjing, CN) Vladimir Cherkassky (Minneapolis, US) Sung-Bae Cho (Seoul, KR) Andries P. Engelbrecht (Pretoria, ZA) Terence C. Fogarty (London, UK) Fernando Gomide (Campinas, BR) Inman Harvey (Brighton, UK) Francisco Herrera (Granada, ES) Tzung-Pei Hong (Kaohsiung, TW) Thomas Jansen (Aberystwyth, UK) Yaochu Jin (Guildford, UK) Okyay Kaynak (Istanbul, TR) Satoshi Kobayashi (Tokyo, JP) Soo-Young Lee (Daejeon, KR) Derong Liu (Chicago, US) Manuel Lozano (Granada, ES) Carlos Martín-Vide (Tarragona, ES, chair) Ujjwal Maulik (Kolkata, IN) Risto Miikkulainen (Austin, US) Frank Neumann (Adelaide, AU) Leandro Nunes de Castro (São Paulo, BR) Erkki Oja (Aalto, FI) Lech Polkowski (Warsaw, PL) Brian J. Ross (St. Catharines, CA) Marc Schoenauer (Orsay, FR) Biplab Kumar Sikdar (Shibpur, IN) Dipti Srinivasan (Singapore, SG) Darko Stefanovic (Albuquerque, US) Umberto Straccia (Pisa, IT) Thomas Stützle (Brussels, BE) Ponnuthurai N. Suganthan (Singapore, SG) Johan Suykens (Leuven, BE) El-Ghazali Talbi (Lille, FR) Jon Timmis (York, UK) Fernando J. Von Zuben (Campinas, BR) Michael N. Vrahatis (Patras, GR) Xin Yao (Birmingham, UK) ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: Adrian Horia Dediu (Tarragona) Carlos García-Martínez (Córdoba) Carlos Martín-Vide (Tarragona, co-chair) Manuel Lozano (Granada, co-chair) Francisco Javier Rodríguez (Granada) 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, etc.) and should be prepared according to the standard format for the 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=tpnc2014 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 extended versions of some of the papers contributed to the conference. Submissions to it will be by invitation. REGISTRATION: The period for registration is open from April 5 to December 9, 2014. The registration form can be found at: http://grammars.grlmc.com/tpnc2014/Registration.php DEADLINES: Paper submission: July 17, 2014 (23:59h, CET) Notification of paper acceptance or rejection: August 24, 2014 Final version of the paper for the LNCS proceedings: September 7, 2014 Early registration: September 7, 2014 Late registration: November 25, 2014 Submission to the post-conference journal special issue: March 11, 2015 QUESTIONS AND FURTHER INFORMATION: florentinalilica.voicu(a)urv.cat POSTAL ADDRESS: TPNC 2014 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: Universidad de Granada Universitat Rovira i Virgili

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[SIPTA] EVENT: `Imprecise Probabilities' at Durham University, Fri 23 May
by COOLEN F.P.A. 07 May '14

07 May '14

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[SIPTA] SLSP 2014: extended submission deadline 14 May
by GRLMC 04 May '14

04 May '14

*To be removed from our mailing list, please respond to this message with UNSUBSCRIBE in the subject line* ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ***** SUBMISSION DEADLINE EXTENDED: May 14 ***** ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- **************************************************************************** ****** 2nd INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON STATISTICAL LANGUAGE AND SPEECH PROCESSING SLSP 2014 Grenoble, France October 14-16, 2014 Organised by: Équipe GETALP Laboratoire dInformatique de Grenoble Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics (GRLMC) Rovira i Virgili University http://grammars.grlmc.com/slsp2014/ **************************************************************************** ****** AIMS: SLSP is a yearly conference series aimed at promoting and displaying excellent research on the wide spectrum of statistical methods that are currently in use in computational language or speech processing. It aims at attracting contributions from both fields. Though there exist large, well-known conferences and workshops hosting contributions to any of these areas, SLSP is a more focused meeting where synergies between subdomains and people will hopefully happen. In SLSP 2014, significant room will be reserved to young scholars at the beginning of their career and particular focus will be put on methodology. VENUE: SLSP 2014 will take place in Grenoble, at the foot of the French Alps. SCOPE: The conference invites submissions discussing the employment of statistical methods (including machine learning) within language and speech processing. The list below is indicative and not exhaustive: phonology, phonetics, prosody, morphology syntax, semantics discourse, dialogue, pragmatics statistical models for natural language processing supervised, unsupervised and semi-supervised machine learning methods applied to natural language, including speech statistical methods, including biologically-inspired methods similarity alignment language resources part-of-speech tagging parsing semantic role labelling natural language generation anaphora and coreference resolution speech recognition speaker identification/verification speech transcription speech synthesis machine translation translation technology text summarisation information retrieval text categorisation information extraction term extraction spelling correction text and web mining opinion mining and sentiment analysis spoken dialogue systems author identification, plagiarism and spam filtering STRUCTURE: SLSP 2014 will consist of: invited talks peer-reviewed contributions INVITED SPEAKERS: Claire Gardent (LORIA, Nancy, FR), Grammar Based Sentence Generation and Statistical Error Mining Roger K. Moore (Sheffield, UK), Spoken Language Processing: Time to Look Outside? Martti Vainio (Helsinki, FI), Phonetics and Machine Learning: Hierarchical Modelling of Prosody in Statistical Speech Synthesis PROGRAMME COMMITTEE: Sophia Ananiadou (Manchester, UK) Srinivas Bangalore (Florham Park, US) Patrick Blackburn (Roskilde, DK) Hervé Bourlard (Martigny, CH) Bill Byrne (Cambridge, UK) Nick Campbell (Dublin, IE) David Chiang (Marina del Rey, US) Kenneth W. Church (Yorktown Heights, US) Walter Daelemans (Antwerpen, BE) Thierry Dutoit (Mons, BE) Alexander Gelbukh (Mexico City, MX) James Glass (Cambridge, US) Ralph Grishman (New York, US) Sanda Harabagiu (Dallas, US) Xiaodong He (Redmond, US) Hynek Hermansky (Baltimore, US) Hitoshi Isahara (Toyohashi, JP) Lori Lamel (Orsay, FR) Gary Geunbae Lee (Pohang, KR) Haizhou Li (Singapore, SG) Daniel Marcu (Los Angeles, US) Carlos Martín-Vide (Tarragona, ES, chair) Manuel Montes-y-Gómez (Puebla, MX) Satoshi Nakamura (Nara, JP) Shrikanth S. Narayanan (Los Angeles, US) Vincent Ng (Dallas, US) Joakim Nivre (Uppsala, SE) Elmar Nöth (Erlangen, DE) Maurizio Omologo (Trento, IT) Mari Ostendorf (Seattle, US) Barbara H. Partee (Amherst, US) Gerald Penn (Toronto, CA) Massimo Poesio (Colchester, UK) James Pustejovsky (Waltham, US) Gaël Richard (Paris, FR) German Rigau (San Sebastián, ES) Paolo Rosso (Valencia, ES) Yoshinori Sagisaka (Tokyo, JP) Björn W. Schuller (London, UK) Satoshi Sekine (New York, US) Richard Sproat (New York, US) Mark Steedman (Edinburgh, UK) Jian Su (Singapore, SG) Marc Swerts (Tilburg, NL) Jun'ichi Tsujii (Beijing, CN) Gertjan van Noord (Groningen, NL) Renata Vieira (Porto Alegre, BR) Dekai Wu (Hong Kong, HK) Feiyu Xu (Berlin, DE) Roman Yangarber (Helsinki, FI) Geoffrey Zweig (Redmond, US) ORGANISING COMMITTEE: Laurent Besacier (Grenoble, co-chair) Adrian Horia Dediu (Tarragona) Benjamin Lecouteux (Grenoble) 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, etc.) and should be prepared according to the standard format for Springer Verlag's LNAI/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=slsp2014 PUBLICATIONS: A volume of proceedings published by Springer in the LNAI/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 extended versions of some of the papers contributed to the conference. Submissions to it will be by invitation. REGISTRATION: The period for registration is open from January 16, 2014 to October 14, 2014. The registration form can be found at: http://grammars.grlmc.com/slsp2014/Registration.php DEADLINES: Paper submission: May 14, 2014 (23:59h, CET) EXTENDED Notification of paper acceptance or rejection: June 18, 2014 Final version of the paper for the LNAI/LNCS proceedings: June 25, 2014 Early registration: July 2, 2014 Late registration: September 30, 2014 Submission to the post-conference journal special issue: January 16, 2015 QUESTIONS AND FURTHER INFORMATION: florentinalilica.voicu(a)urv.cat POSTAL ADDRESS: SLSP 2014 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: Laboratoire dInformatique de Grenoble Universitat Rovira i Virgili

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[SIPTA] SUM 2014 CfP -- Abstract submission deadline approaching!
by Andrea Cali 30 Apr '14

30 Apr '14

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[SIPTA] FW: FW: new books on imprecise probabilities
by Kreinovich 30 Apr '14

30 Apr '14

FYI, info about the books appeared on THE REASONER Volume 8, Number 5 - May 2014, http://www.thereasoner.org/

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[SIPTA] FW: new books on imprecise probabilities
by Kreinovich 30 Apr '14

30 Apr '14

FW: ********************* The rather broad research field which goes by the name of imprecise probability has enjoyed an ever increasing popularity over the past two decades. Imprecise probability appears, in one or another of its many guises, in a variety of areas of artificial intelligence, statistics, decision theory and epistemology. Interested readers can get a flavour of the field from The Society for Imprecise Probability: Theories and Applications (SIPTA) website. Building on several forerunners, P. Walley's monumental book (1991, Statistical Reasoning with Imprecise Probabilities, Wiley) has long been the central reference for this area. This spring, however, two volumes will be filling the shelves of the imprecise probability enthusiasts, both of which have been recently announced by Gert de Cooman on his blog. The first is titled Introduction to Imprecise Probabilities and is edited for Wiley by Thomas Augustin, Frank P.A. Coolen, Gert de Cooman and Matthias C.M. Troffaes. It is a 448 page strong collection of 16 chapters spanning the foundations and applications of imprecise probabilities which is due to be published in May 2014. The second is a monograph written by Matthias C.M. Troffaes and Gert de Cooman, entitled Lower Previsions. This volume is also to be published by Wiley in May 2014 and, as a matter of an interesting coincidence, is also 448 pages. There is little doubt that both volumes will contribute to widening the impact of the imprecise probability approach in the uncertain reasoning community. Hykel Hosni Marie Curie Fellow, CPNSS, London School of Economics

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[SIPTA] BELIEF 2014 - 3rd International Conference on Belief Functions - EXTENDED DEADLINE
by Fabio Cuzzolin 28 Apr '14

28 Apr '14

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[SIPTA] SSTiC 2014: May 10, 6th registration deadline
by GRLMC 27 Apr '14

27 Apr '14

*To be removed from our mailing list, please respond to this message with UNSUBSCRIBE in the subject line* ********************************************************************* 2014 TARRAGONA INTERNATIONAL SUMMER SCHOOL ON TRENDS IN COMPUTING SSTiC 2014 Tarragona, Spain July 7-11, 2014 Organized by Rovira i Virgili University http://grammars.grlmc.com/sstic2014/ ********************************************************************* --- May 10, 6th registration deadline --- ********************************************************************* AIM: SSTiC 2014 is the second edition in a series started in 2013. For the previous event, see http://grammars.grlmc.com/SSTiC2013/ SSTiC 2014 will be a research training event mainly addressed to PhD students and PhD holders in the first steps of their academic career. It intends to update them about the most recent developments in the diverse branches of computer science and its neighbouring areas. To that purpose, renowned scholars will lecture and will be available for interaction with the audience. SSTiC 2014 will cover the whole spectrum of computer science through 6 keynote lectures and 23 six-hour courses dealing with some of the most lively topics in the field. The organizers share the idea that outstanding speakers will really attract the brightest students. ADDRESSED TO: Graduate students from around the world. There are no formal pre-requisites in terms of the academic degree the attendee must hold. However, since there will be several levels among the courses, reference may be made to specific knowledge background in the description of some of them. SSTiC 2014 is also appropriate for more senior people who want to keep themselves updated on developments in their own field or in other branches of computer science. They will surely find it fruitful to listen and discuss with scholars who are main references in computing nowadays. REGIME: In addition to keynotes, 3 parallel sessions will be held during the whole event. Participants will be able to freely choose the courses they will be willing to attend as well as to move from one to another. VENUE: SSTiC 2014 will take place in Tarragona, located 90 kms. to the south of Barcelona. The venue will be: Campus Catalunya Universitat Rovira i Virgili Av. Catalunya, 35 43002 Tarragona KEYNOTE SPEAKERS: Larry S. Davis (U Maryland, College Park), A Historical Perspective of Computer Vision Models for Object Recognition and Scene Analysis David S. Johnson (Columbia U, New York), Open and Closed Problems in NP-Completeness George Karypis (U Minnesota, Twin Cities), Top-N Recommender Systems: Revisiting Item Neighborhood Methods Steffen Staab (U Koblenz), Explicit and Implicit Semantics: Two Sides of One Coin Philip Wadler (U Edinburgh), You and Your Research and The Elements of Style Ronald R. Yager (Iona C, New Rochelle), Social Modeling COURSES AND PROFESSORS: Divyakant Agrawal (U California, Santa Barbara), [intermediate] Scalable Data Management in Enterprise and Cloud Computing Infrastructures Pierre Baldi (U California, Irvine), [intermediate] Big Data Informatics Challenges and Opportunities in the Life Sciences Rajkumar Buyya (U Melbourne), [intermediate] Cloud Computing John M. Carroll (Pennsylvania State U, University Park), [introductory] Usability Engineering and Scenario-based Design Kwang-Ting (Tim) Cheng (U California, Santa Barbara), [introductory/intermediate] Smartphones: Hardware Platform, Software Development, and Emerging Apps Amr El Abbadi (U California, Santa Barbara), [introductory] The Distributed Foundations of Data Management in the Cloud Richard M. Fujimoto (Georgia Tech, Atlanta), [introductory] Parallel and Distributed Simulation Mark Guzdial (Georgia Tech, Atlanta), [introductory] Computing Education Research: What We Know about Learning and Teaching Computer Science David S. Johnson (Columbia U, New York), [introductory] The Traveling Salesman Problem in Theory and Practice George Karypis (U Minnesota, Twin Cities), [intermediate] Programming Models/Frameworks for Parallel & Distributed Computing Aggelos K. Katsaggelos (Northwestern U, Evanston), [intermediate] Optimization Techniques for Sparse/Low-rank Recovery Problems in Image Processing and Machine Learning Arie E. Kaufman (U Stony Brook), [intermediate/advanced] Visualization Carl Lagoze (U Michigan, Ann Arbor), [introductory] Curation of Big Data Dinesh Manocha (U North Carolina, Chapel Hill), [introductory/intermediate] Robot Motion Planning Bijan Parsia (U Manchester), [introductory] The Empirical Mindset in Computer Science Charles E. Perkins (FutureWei Technologies, Santa Clara), [intermediate] Beyond LTE: the Evolution of 4G Networks and the Need for Higher Performance Handover System Designs Robert Sargent (Syracuse U), [introductory] Validation of Models Mubarak Shah (U Central Florida, Orlando), [intermediate] Visual Crowd Analysis Steffen Staab (U Koblenz), [intermediate] Programming the Semantic Web Mike Thelwall (U Wolverhampton), [introductory] Sentiment Strength Detection for Twitter and the Social Web Jeffrey D. Ullman (Stanford U), [introductory] MapReduce Algorithms Nitin Vaidya (U Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), [introductory/intermediate] Distributed Consensus: Theory and Applications Philip Wadler (U Edinburgh), [intermediate] Topics in Lambda Calculus and Life ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: Adrian Horia Dediu (Tarragona) Carlos Martín-Vide (Tarragona, chair) Florentina Lilica Voicu (Tarragona) REGISTRATION: It has to be done at http://grammars.grlmc.com/sstic2014/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 when the capacity of the venue will be complete. It is very convenient to register prior to the event. FEES: As far as possible, participants are expected to attend for the whole (or most of the) week (full-time). Fees are a flat rate allowing one to participate to all courses. They vary depending on the registration deadline. ACCOMMODATION: Information about accommodation is available on the website of the School. CERTIFICATE: Participants will be delivered a certificate of attendance. QUESTIONS AND FURTHER INFORMATION: florentinalilica.voicu(a)urv.cat POSTAL ADDRESS: SSTiC 2014 Lilica Voicu Rovira i Virgili University Av. Catalunya, 35 43002 Tarragona, Spain Phone: +34 977 559 543 Fax: +34 977 558 386 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS: Departament dEconomia i Coneixement, Generalitat de Catalunya Universitat Rovira i Virgili

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[SIPTA] PRUV call for papers --- deadline extension
by Thomas Lukasiewicz 24 Apr '14

24 Apr '14

****************************************************************** CALL FOR PAPERS First International Workshop on Logics for Reasoning about Preferences, Uncertainty, and Vagueness (PRUV 2014) Vienna, Austria, July 23-24, 2014 http://vsl2014.at/pruv/ ****************************************************************** ***** DEADLINE EXTENDED TO MAY 15. ***** PRUV 2014 is the first Workshop on Logics for Reasoning about Preferences, Uncertainty, and Vagueness. The aim of PRUV is to bring together people from different communities (such as the Artificial Intelligence, Theory and the Semantic Web community, among others), including theorists and practitioners, working on logics for reasoning about preferences, uncertainty, and vagueness. Making researchers aware of and fruitfully discuss the most recent application areas, new challenges, and the existing body of work on logics for reasoning about preferences, uncertainty, and vagueness is the main goal of this meeting. PRUV 2014 is part of the Vienna Summer of Logic, a major event hosting logic conferences and workshops (http://vsl2014.at/) In particular, PRUV will be hosted by FLoC (http://vsl2014.at/floc/) and associated to IJCAR (http://vsl2014.at/ijcar/) == IMPORTANT DATES == - Paper submission: May 15, 2014 - Notification of acceptance: May 30, 2014 - Camera-ready submission: June 7, 2014 == TOPICS == PRUV welcomes submissions relating logic with preferences, uncertainty and vagueness in the wider sense. Some logics of interest are: - first-order logic, - propositional logic, - probabilistic logic, - logic programming, - answer set programming, - description logics, - modal logics, - hybrid logics, - defeasible logic, - multi-valued logics, - dynamic logic, - temporal logics, - agent logics. Formalisms for handling preferences, uncertainty, and vagueness include, but are not limited to - probability measures, - Bayesian networks, - possibility measures, - preference networks, - CP-networks, - rough sets, - fuzzy set theory. == PUBLICATION == All accepted papers will be made available electronically at the CEUR Workshop Proceedings website (http://www.CEUR-ws.org/) After the workshop, there will be a special issue of the IFCOLOG Journal of Logics and their Applications (http://www.collegepublications.co.uk/journals/ifcolog/) with selected papers from the workshop. == SUBMISSIONS == Submissions must be prepared in Springer's LaTeX style llncs (http://www.springer.com/comp/lncs/Authors.html) There are three submission formats: - Full papers (up to 12 pages plus references) - Technical Communications (up to 6 pages plus references) - System Descriptions (up to 6 pages plus references) Submissions will be made via EasyChair: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=pruv2014 == DOUBLE SUBMISSIONS == The aim of the workshop is to bring together experts from a wide spectrum of research areas. Thus, we accept submissions of papers and results recently published in other venues. == PROGRAM COMMITTEE == Nathalie Bertrand (Inria Rennes Bretagne Atlantique) Fernando Bobillo (University of Zaragoza) Felix Bou (University of Barcelona (UB)) Marco Cerami (Palacký University in Olomouc) Simona Colucci (Università della Tuscia) Fabio Gagliardi Cozman (Universidade de Sao Paulo) C. Maria Keet (Department of Computer Science, University of Cape Town, South Africa) Angelika Kimmig (KU Leuven) Pavel Klinov (University of Ulm) Beata Konikowska (Institute of Computer Science Polish Academy of Sciences) Thomas Lukasiewicz (Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford) - chair Maria Vanina Martinez (University of Oxford) Rafael Peñaloza (TU Dresden) - chair Steven Schockaert (Cardiff University) Giorgos Stoilos (National Technical University of Athens (NTUA)) Anni-Yasmin Turhan (TU Dresden) - chair Özgür Lütfü Özcep (Institute for Softwaresystems, Hamburg University of Technology)

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[SIPTA] Call for Papers - ICTCS 2014
by Andrea Formisano 22 Apr '14

22 Apr '14

[apologies for multiple posting] ======================= CALL FOR PAPERS ============================= ICTCS 2014 Fifteenth Italian Conference on Theoretical Computer Science Perugia, Italy, September 17-19, 2014 http://www.dmi.unipg.it/ictcs2014 Conference proceedings on CEUR Workshop Proceedings Series Post-conference selection on Theoretical Computer Science ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ICTCS-2014, the 2014 Italian Conference on Theoretical Computer Science, is the 15th conference of the Italian Chapter of EATCS. It will be held in Perugia, September 17-19 2014 at the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science. The scope of the meeting is fostering the cross-fertilisation of ideas stemming from different areas of theoretical computer science. Hence, the Italian Conference on Theoretical Computer Science represents an occasion for meeting and exchanging ideas and for sharing experiences between researchers. It also provides the ideal environment where junior researchers and PhD students can meet senior researchers. Contributions in any area of theoretical computer science are warmly solicited. Typical, but not exclusive, topics of interest include: agents algorithms argumentation automata theory automated theorem proving complexity theory computational logic computational social choice concurrency cryptography distributed computing dynamical systems formal methods game theory graph theory knowledge representation languages model checking process algebras quantum computing rewriting systems security and trust semantics specification and verification systems biology types The event is open to both Italian and foreign researchers, which are welcome to submit papers and attend the Conference. Invited speakers: ================= Rocco De Nicola. IMT - Institute for Advanced Studies, Lucca Giuseppe Liotta. Department of Engineering, University of Perugia Program co-chairs: ================== Stefano Bistarelli (Univ. di Perugia) Andrea Formisano (Univ. di Perugia) Program committee: ================== Paolo Baldan (Univ. di Padova) Giampaolo Bella (Univ. di Catania) Marco Bernardo (Univ. di Urbino) Davide Bilo (Univ. di Sassari) Stefano Bistarelli (Univ. di Perugia) Michele Boreale (Univ. di Firenze) Tiziana Calamoneri (Sapienza Univ. di Roma) Antonio Caruso (Univ. del Salento) Ferdinando Cicalese (Univ. di Salerno) Flavio Corradini (Univ. di Camerino) Giorgio Delzanno (Univ. di Genova) Mariangiola Dezani (Univ. di Torino) Eugenio Di Sciascio (Politecnico di Bari) Agostino Dovier (Univ. di Udine) Marco Faella (Univ. di Napoli "Federico II") Michele Flammini (Univ. di L'Aquila) Andrea Formisano (Univ. di Perugia) Maurizio Gabbrielli (Univ. di Bologna) Fabio Gadducci (Univ. di Pisa) Raffaella Gentilini (Univ. di Perugia) Laura Giordano (Univ. del Piemonte Orientale) Giuseppe F. Italiano (Univ. di Roma "Tor Vergata") Sabrina Mantaci (Univ. di Palermo) Isabella Mastroeni (Univ. di Verona) Manuela Montangero (Univ. di Modena e Reggio Emilia) Maurizio Proietti (IASI-CNR) Antonino Salibra (Univ. Ca'Foscari Venezia) Francesco Santini (IIT-CNR, Univ. di Perugia) Marinella Sciortino (Univ. di Palermo) Maurice ter Beek (ISTI-CNR) Venue: ====== Dipartimento di Matematica e Informatica Universita` degli Studi di Perugia via Vanvitelli, 1 I-06123 Perugia, Italy Local contacts: =============== Conference Chairs: Stefano Bistarelli & Andrea Formisano E-mail: ictcs2014(a)dmi.unipg.it Conference web-site: http://www.dmi.unipg.it/ictcs2014 Important dates: ================ Submission deadline: 27 May 2014 Notification of acceptance: 15 July 2014 Final version: 10 August 2014 Conference: 17-19 September 2014 Submissions: ============ Two types of contributions are solicited: Communications: up to 5 pages in llncs style. Suitable for extended abstracts of papers already appeared, or submitted, or to be submitted, elsewhere; papers reporting on ongoing researches on which the authors wish to get feedback at ICTCS and possibly intended to be included in future publications; overviews of PhD-theses, research projects, etc... Regular papers: up to 12 pages in llncs style. Full original papers, presenting novel results, not appeared or submitted elsewhere. In case of need, to ease the rewiewing process, the authors of regular papers may add an appendix containing further material (or indicate a web site containing longer version of the paper). In any case the reviewers are not required to consider such furhter material in their evaluation. For each accepted contribution, at least one of the authors is required to attend at the conference and present the paper. All accepted contribution (communications and regular papers), presented at the conference, will appear in a number of CEUR Workshop Proceedings (http://ceur-ws.org/) Articles must be written in English and formatted using the Springer LNCS style (see the details on the conference web site). Submission page: ================ Authors are invited to submit their manuscripts in PDF via the EasyChair system at the link: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ictcs2014 Post-conference issue on Theoretical Computer Science: ====================================================== Selected papers from ICTCS-2014 will be invited to a special issue of the journal Theoretical Computer Science. The authors of a selection of the regular papers presented at the conference will be asked to submit an improved version of their papers. The selection will be determined by considering the outcome of the conference reviewing phase. The papers submitted for the journal issue should have been significantly revised and extended with respect to the conference versions. A second reviewing process, meeting the high standard of quality of the international journal will select the papers to be accepted for the special issue, among the invited ones.

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[SIPTA] SLSP 2014: 3rd call for papers
by GRLMC 17 Apr '14

17 Apr '14

*To be removed from our mailing list, please respond to this message with UNSUBSCRIBE in the subject line* **************************************************************************** ****** 2nd INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON STATISTICAL LANGUAGE AND SPEECH PROCESSING SLSP 2014 Grenoble, France October 14-16, 2014 Organised by: Équipe GETALP Laboratoire dInformatique de Grenoble Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics (GRLMC) Rovira i Virgili University http://grammars.grlmc.com/slsp2014/ **************************************************************************** ****** AIMS: SLSP is a yearly conference series aimed at promoting and displaying excellent research on the wide spectrum of statistical methods that are currently in use in computational language or speech processing. It aims at attracting contributions from both fields. Though there exist large, well-known conferences and workshops hosting contributions to any of these areas, SLSP is a more focused meeting where synergies between subdomains and people will hopefully happen. In SLSP 2014, significant room will be reserved to young scholars at the beginning of their career and particular focus will be put on methodology. VENUE: SLSP 2014 will take place in Grenoble, at the foot of the French Alps. SCOPE: The conference invites submissions discussing the employment of statistical methods (including machine learning) within language and speech processing. The list below is indicative and not exhaustive: phonology, phonetics, prosody, morphology syntax, semantics discourse, dialogue, pragmatics statistical models for natural language processing supervised, unsupervised and semi-supervised machine learning methods applied to natural language, including speech statistical methods, including biologically-inspired methods similarity alignment language resources part-of-speech tagging parsing semantic role labelling natural language generation anaphora and coreference resolution speech recognition speaker identification/verification speech transcription speech synthesis machine translation translation technology text summarisation information retrieval text categorisation information extraction term extraction spelling correction text and web mining opinion mining and sentiment analysis spoken dialogue systems author identification, plagiarism and spam filtering STRUCTURE: SLSP 2014 will consist of: invited talks invited tutorials peer-reviewed contributions INVITED SPEAKERS: Claire Gardent (LORIA, Nancy, FR), Grammar Based Sentence Generation and Statistical Error Mining Roger K. Moore (Sheffield, UK), Spoken Language Processing: Time to Look Outside? Martti Vainio (Helsinki, FI), Phonetics and Machine Learning: Hierarchical Modelling of Prosody in Statistical Speech Synthesis PROGRAMME COMMITTEE: Sophia Ananiadou (Manchester, UK) Srinivas Bangalore (Florham Park, US) Patrick Blackburn (Roskilde, DK) Hervé Bourlard (Martigny, CH) Bill Byrne (Cambridge, UK) Nick Campbell (Dublin, IE) David Chiang (Marina del Rey, US) Kenneth W. Church (Yorktown Heights, US) Walter Daelemans (Antwerpen, BE) Thierry Dutoit (Mons, BE) Alexander Gelbukh (Mexico City, MX) James Glass (Cambridge, US) Ralph Grishman (New York, US) Sanda Harabagiu (Dallas, US) Xiaodong He (Redmond, US) Hynek Hermansky (Baltimore, US) Hitoshi Isahara (Toyohashi, JP) Lori Lamel (Orsay, FR) Gary Geunbae Lee (Pohang, KR) Haizhou Li (Singapore, SG) Daniel Marcu (Los Angeles, US) Carlos Martín-Vide (Tarragona, ES, chair) Manuel Montes-y-Gómez (Puebla, MX) Satoshi Nakamura (Nara, JP) Shrikanth S. Narayanan (Los Angeles, US) Vincent Ng (Dallas, US) Joakim Nivre (Uppsala, SE) Elmar Nöth (Erlangen, DE) Maurizio Omologo (Trento, IT) Mari Ostendorf (Seattle, US) Barbara H. Partee (Amherst, US) Gerald Penn (Toronto, CA) Massimo Poesio (Colchester, UK) James Pustejovsky (Waltham, US) Gaël Richard (Paris, FR) German Rigau (San Sebastián, ES) Paolo Rosso (Valencia, ES) Yoshinori Sagisaka (Tokyo, JP) Björn W. Schuller (London, UK) Satoshi Sekine (New York, US) Richard Sproat (New York, US) Mark Steedman (Edinburgh, UK) Jian Su (Singapore, SG) Marc Swerts (Tilburg, NL) Jun'ichi Tsujii (Beijing, CN) Gertjan van Noord (Groningen, NL) Renata Vieira (Porto Alegre, BR) Dekai Wu (Hong Kong, HK) Feiyu Xu (Berlin, DE) Roman Yangarber (Helsinki, FI) Geoffrey Zweig (Redmond, US) ORGANISING COMMITTEE: Laurent Besacier (Grenoble, co-chair) Adrian Horia Dediu (Tarragona) Benjamin Lecouteux (Grenoble) 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) and should be prepared according to the standard format for Springer Verlag's LNAI/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=slsp2014 PUBLICATIONS: A volume of proceedings published by Springer in the LNAI/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 extended versions of some of the papers contributed to the conference. Submissions to it will be by invitation. REGISTRATION: The period for registration is open from January 16, 2014 to October 14, 2014. The registration form can be found at: http://grammars.grlmc.com/slsp2014/Registration.php DEADLINES: Paper submission: May 7, 2014 (23:59h, CET) Notification of paper acceptance or rejection: June 18, 2014 Final version of the paper for the LNAI/LNCS proceedings: June 25, 2014 Early registration: July 2, 2014 Late registration: September 30, 2014 Submission to the post-conference journal special issue: January 16, 2015 QUESTIONS AND FURTHER INFORMATION: florentinalilica.voicu(a)urv.cat POSTAL ADDRESS: SLSP 2014 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: Departament dEconomia i Coneixement, Generalitat de Catalunya Laboratoire dInformatique de Grenoble Universitat Rovira i Virgili

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[SIPTA] SUM 2014 CFP - EXTENDED DEADLINES
by Andrea Cali 06 Apr '14

06 Apr '14

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[SIPTA] TPNC 2014: 1st call for papers
by GRLMC 06 Apr '14

06 Apr '14

*To be removed from our mailing list, please respond to this message with UNSUBSCRIBE in the subject line* **************************************************************************** ************** 3rd INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF NATURAL COMPUTING TPNC 2014 Granada, Spain December 9-11, 2014 Organized by: Soft Computing and Intelligent Information Systems (SCI2S) University of Granada Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics (GRLMC) Rovira i Virgili University http://grammars.grlmc.com/tpnc2014/ **************************************************************************** ************** 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 2014 will reserve significant room for young scholars at the beginning of their career. It 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 2014 will take place in Granada, in the region of Andalucía, to the south of Spain. The city is the seat of a rich Islamic historical legacy, including the Moorish citadel and palace called Alhambra. SCOPE: Topics of either theoretical, experimental, or applied interest include, but are not limited to: * Nature-inspired models of computation: - amorphous computing - cellular automata - chaos and dynamical systems based computing - evolutionary computing - membrane computing - neural computing - optical computing - swarm intelligence * Synthesizing nature by means of computation: - artificial chemistry - artificial immune systems - artificial life * Nature-inspired materials: - computing with DNA - nanocomputing - physarum computing - quantum computing and quantum information - reaction-diffusion computing * Information processing in nature: - developmental systems - fractal geometry - gene assembly in unicellular organisms - rough/fuzzy computing in nature - synthetic biology - systems biology * Applications of natural computing to: algorithms, bioinformatics, control, cryptography, design, economics, graphics, hardware, learning, logistics, optimization, pattern recognition, programming, robotics, telecommunications etc. A flexible "theory to/from practice" approach would be the perfect focus for the expected contributions. STRUCTURE: TPNC 2014 will consist of: - invited talks - invited tutorials - peer-reviewed contributions INVITED SPEAKERS: tba PROGRAMME COMMITTEE: Hussein A. Abbass (Canberra, AU) Uwe Aickelin (Nottingham, UK) Thomas Bäck (Leiden, NL) Christian Blum (San Sebastián, ES) Jinde Cao (Nanjing, CN) Vladimir Cherkassky (Minneapolis, US) Sung-Bae Cho (Seoul, KR) Andries P. Engelbrecht (Pretoria, ZA) Inman Harvey (Brighton, UK) Francisco Herrera (Granada, ES) Tzung-Pei Hong (Kaohsiung, TW) Yaochu Jin (Guildford, UK) Soo-Young Lee (Daejeon, KR) Derong Liu (Chicago, US) Manuel Lozano (Granada, ES) Carlos Martín-Vide (Tarragona, ES, chair) Risto Miikkulainen (Austin, US) Frank Neumann (Adelaide, AU) Leandro Nunes de Castro (São Paulo, BR) Erkki Oja (Aalto, FI) Marc Schoenauer (Orsay, FR) Biplab Kumar Sikdar (Shibpur, IN) Darko Stefanovic (Albuquerque, US) Umberto Straccia (Pisa, IT) Thomas Stützle (Brussels, BE) Ponnuthurai N. Suganthan (Singapore, SG) Johan Suykens (Leuven, BE) El-Ghazali Talbi (Lille, FR) Jon Timmis (York, UK) Michael N. Vrahatis (Patras, GR) Xin Yao (Birmingham, UK) ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: Adrian Horia Dediu (Tarragona) Carlos García-Martínez (Córdoba) Carlos Martín-Vide (Tarragona, co-chair) Manuel Lozano (Granada, co-chair) Francisco Javier Rodríguez (Granada) 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) and should be prepared according to the standard format for the 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=tpnc2014 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 extended versions of some of the papers contributed to the conference. Submissions to it will be by invitation. REGISTRATION: The period for registration is open from April 5 to December 9, 2014. The registration form can be found at: http://grammars.grlmc.com/tpnc2014/Registration.php DEADLINES: Paper submission: July 17, 2014 (23:59h, CET) Notification of paper acceptance or rejection: August 24, 2014 Final version of the paper for the LNCS proceedings: September 7, 2014 Early registration: September 7, 2014 Late registration: November 25, 2014 Submission to the post-conference journal special issue: March 11, 2015 QUESTIONS AND FURTHER INFORMATION: florentinalilica.voicu(a)urv.cat POSTAL ADDRESS: TPNC 2014 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: Departament dEconomia i Coneixement, Generalitat de Catalunya Universidad de Granada Universitat Rovira i Virgili

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[SIPTA] Summer School IDIPS2014 - more participants, no extension
by Kavallieratou Ergina 04 Apr '14

04 Apr '14

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[SIPTA] SSTiC 2014: April 12, 5th registration deadline
by GRLMC 30 Mar '14

30 Mar '14

*To be removed from our mailing list, please respond to this message with UNSUBSCRIBE in the subject line* ********************************************************************* 2014 TARRAGONA INTERNATIONAL SUMMER SCHOOL ON TRENDS IN COMPUTING SSTiC 2014 Tarragona, Spain July 7-11, 2014 Organized by Rovira i Virgili University http://grammars.grlmc.com/sstic2014/ ********************************************************************* --- April 12, 5th registration deadline --- ********************************************************************* AIM: SSTiC 2014 is the second edition in a series started in 2013. For the previous event, see http://grammars.grlmc.com/SSTiC2013/ SSTiC 2014 will be a research training event mainly addressed to PhD students and PhD holders in the first steps of their academic career. It intends to update them about the most recent developments in the diverse branches of computer science and its neighbouring areas. To that purpose, renowned scholars will lecture and will be available for interaction with the audience. SSTiC 2014 will cover the whole spectrum of computer science through 6 keynote lectures and 24 six-hour courses dealing with some of the most lively topics in the field. The organizers share the idea that outstanding speakers will really attract the brightest students. ADDRESSED TO: Graduate students from around the world. There are no formal pre-requisites in terms of the academic degree the attendee must hold. However, since there will be several levels among the courses, reference may be made to specific knowledge background in the description of some of them. SSTiC 2014 is also appropriate for more senior people who want to keep themselves updated on developments in their own field or in other branches of computer science. They will surely find it fruitful to listen and discuss with scholars who are main references in computing nowadays. REGIME: In addition to keynotes, 3 parallel sessions will be held during the whole event. Participants will be able to freely choose the courses they will be willing to attend as well as to move from one to another. VENUE: SSTiC 2014 will take place in Tarragona, located 90 kms. to the south of Barcelona. The venue will be: Campus Catalunya Universitat Rovira i Virgili Av. Catalunya, 35 43002 Tarragona KEYNOTE SPEAKERS: Larry S. Davis (U Maryland, College Park), A Historical Perspective of Computer Vision Models for Object Recognition and Scene Analysis David S. Johnson (Columbia U, New York), Open and Closed Problems in NP-Completeness George Karypis (U Minnesota, Twin Cities), Recommender Systems Past, Present, & Future Steffen Staab (U Koblenz), Explicit and Implicit Semantics: Two Sides of One Coin Philip Wadler (U Edinburgh), You and Your Research and The Elements of Style Ronald R. Yager (Iona C, New Rochelle), Social Modeling COURSES AND PROFESSORS: Divyakant Agrawal (U California, Santa Barbara), [intermediate] Scalable Data Management in Enterprise and Cloud Computing Infrastructures Pierre Baldi (U California, Irvine), [intermediate] Big Data Informatics Challenges and Opportunities in the Life Sciences Rajkumar Buyya (U Melbourne), [intermediate] Cloud Computing John M. Carroll (Pennsylvania State U, University Park), [introductory] Usability Engineering and Scenario-based Design Kwang-Ting (Tim) Cheng (U California, Santa Barbara), [introductory/intermediate] Smartphones: Hardware Platform, Software Development, and Emerging Apps Amr El Abbadi (U California, Santa Barbara), [introductory] The Distributed Foundations of Data Management in the Cloud Richard M. Fujimoto (Georgia Tech, Atlanta), [introductory] Parallel and Distributed Simulation Mark Guzdial (Georgia Tech, Atlanta), [introductory] Computing Education Research: What We Know about Learning and Teaching Computer Science David S. Johnson (Columbia U, New York), [introductory] The Traveling Salesman Problem in Theory and Practice George Karypis (U Minnesota, Twin Cities), [intermediate] Programming Models/Frameworks for Parallel & Distributed Computing Aggelos K. Katsaggelos (Northwestern U, Evanston), [intermediate] Optimization Techniques for Sparse/Low-rank Recovery Problems in Image Processing and Machine Learning Arie E. Kaufman (U Stony Brook), [intermediate/advanced] Visualization Carl Lagoze (U Michigan, Ann Arbor), [introductory] Curation of Big Data Dinesh Manocha (U North Carolina, Chapel Hill), [introductory/intermediate] Robot Motion Planning Bijan Parsia (U Manchester), [introductory] The Empirical Mindset in Computer Science Charles E. Perkins (FutureWei Technologies, Santa Clara), [intermediate] Beyond LTE: the Evolution of 4G Networks and the Need for Higher Performance Handover System Designs Sudhakar M. Reddy (U Iowa, Iowa City), [introductory] Test and Design for Test of Digital Logic Circuits Robert Sargent (Syracuse U), [introductory] Validation of Models Mubarak Shah (U Central Florida, Orlando), [intermediate] Visual Crowd Analysis Steffen Staab (U Koblenz), [intermediate] Programming the Semantic Web Mike Thelwall (U Wolverhampton), [introductory] Sentiment Strength Detection for Twitter and the Social Web Jeffrey D. Ullman (Stanford U), [introductory] MapReduce Algorithms Nitin Vaidya (U Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), [introductory/intermediate] Distributed Consensus: Theory and Applications Philip Wadler (U Edinburgh), [intermediate] Topics in Lambda Calculus and Life ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: Adrian Horia Dediu (Tarragona) Carlos Martín-Vide (Tarragona, chair) Florentina Lilica Voicu (Tarragona) REGISTRATION: It has to be done at http://grammars.grlmc.com/sstic2014/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 when the capacity of the venue will be complete. It is very convenient to register prior to the event. FEES: As far as possible, participants are expected to attend for the whole (or most of the) week (full-time). Fees are a flat rate allowing one to participate to all courses. They vary depending on the registration deadline. ACCOMMODATION: Information about accommodation is available on the website of the School. CERTIFICATE: Participants will be delivered a certificate of attendance. QUESTIONS AND FURTHER INFORMATION: florentinalilica.voicu(a)urv.cat POSTAL ADDRESS: SSTiC 2014 Lilica Voicu Rovira i Virgili University Av. Catalunya, 35 43002 Tarragona, Spain Phone: +34 977 559 543 Fax: +34 977 558 386 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS: Departament dEconomia i Coneixement, Generalitat de Catalunya Universitat Rovira i Virgili

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[SIPTA] SLSP 2014: 2nd call for papers
by GRLMC 23 Mar '14

23 Mar '14

*To be removed from our mailing list, please respond to this message with UNSUBSCRIBE in the subject line* **************************************************************************** ****** 2nd INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON STATISTICAL LANGUAGE AND SPEECH PROCESSING SLSP 2014 Grenoble, France October 14-16, 2014 Organised by: Équipe GETALP Laboratoire dInformatique de Grenoble Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics (GRLMC) Rovira i Virgili University http://grammars.grlmc.com/slsp2014/ **************************************************************************** ****** AIMS: SLSP is a yearly conference series aimed at promoting and displaying excellent research on the wide spectrum of statistical methods that are currently in use in computational language or speech processing. It aims at attracting contributions from both fields. Though there exist large, well-known conferences and workshops hosting contributions to any of these areas, SLSP is a more focused meeting where synergies between subdomains and people will hopefully happen. In SLSP 2014, significant room will be reserved to young scholars at the beginning of their career and particular focus will be put on methodology. VENUE: SLSP 2014 will take place in Grenoble, at the foot of the French Alps. SCOPE: The conference invites submissions discussing the employment of statistical methods (including machine learning) within language and speech processing. The list below is indicative and not exhaustive: phonology, phonetics, prosody, morphology syntax, semantics discourse, dialogue, pragmatics statistical models for natural language processing supervised, unsupervised and semi-supervised machine learning methods applied to natural language, including speech statistical methods, including biologically-inspired methods similarity alignment language resources part-of-speech tagging parsing semantic role labelling natural language generation anaphora and coreference resolution speech recognition speaker identification/verification speech transcription speech synthesis machine translation translation technology text summarisation information retrieval text categorisation information extraction term extraction spelling correction text and web mining opinion mining and sentiment analysis spoken dialogue systems author identification, plagiarism and spam filtering STRUCTURE: SLSP 2014 will consist of: invited talks invited tutorials peer-reviewed contributions INVITED SPEAKERS: Claire Gardent (LORIA, Nancy, FR), Grammar Based Sentence Generation and Statistical Error Mining Roger K. Moore (Sheffield, UK), Spoken Language Processing: Time to Look Outside? Martti Vainio (Helsinki, FI), Phonetics and Machine Learning: Hierarchical Modelling of Prosody in Statistical Speech Synthesis PROGRAMME COMMITTEE: Sophia Ananiadou (Manchester, UK) Srinivas Bangalore (Florham Park, US) Patrick Blackburn (Roskilde, DK) Hervé Bourlard (Martigny, CH) Bill Byrne (Cambridge, UK) Nick Campbell (Dublin, IE) David Chiang (Marina del Rey, US) Kenneth W. Church (Yorktown Heights, US) Walter Daelemans (Antwerpen, BE) Thierry Dutoit (Mons, BE) Alexander Gelbukh (Mexico City, MX) James Glass (Cambridge, US) Ralph Grishman (New York, US) Sanda Harabagiu (Dallas, US) Xiaodong He (Redmond, US) Hynek Hermansky (Baltimore, US) Hitoshi Isahara (Toyohashi, JP) Lori Lamel (Orsay, FR) Gary Geunbae Lee (Pohang, KR) Haizhou Li (Singapore, SG) Daniel Marcu (Los Angeles, US) Carlos Martín-Vide (Tarragona, ES, chair) Manuel Montes-y-Gómez (Puebla, MX) Satoshi Nakamura (Nara, JP) Shrikanth S. Narayanan (Los Angeles, US) Vincent Ng (Dallas, US) Joakim Nivre (Uppsala, SE) Elmar Nöth (Erlangen, DE) Maurizio Omologo (Trento, IT) Mari Ostendorf (Seattle, US) Barbara H. Partee (Amherst, US) Gerald Penn (Toronto, CA) Massimo Poesio (Colchester, UK) James Pustejovsky (Waltham, US) Gaël Richard (Paris, FR) German Rigau (San Sebastián, ES) Paolo Rosso (Valencia, ES) Yoshinori Sagisaka (Tokyo, JP) Björn W. Schuller (London, UK) Satoshi Sekine (New York, US) Richard Sproat (New York, US) Mark Steedman (Edinburgh, UK) Jian Su (Singapore, SG) Marc Swerts (Tilburg, NL) Jun'ichi Tsujii (Beijing, CN) Gertjan van Noord (Groningen, NL) Renata Vieira (Porto Alegre, BR) Dekai Wu (Hong Kong, HK) Feiyu Xu (Berlin, DE) Roman Yangarber (Helsinki, FI) Geoffrey Zweig (Redmond, US) ORGANISING COMMITTEE: Laurent Besacier (Grenoble, co-chair) Adrian Horia Dediu (Tarragona) Benjamin Lecouteux (Grenoble) 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) and should be prepared according to the standard format for Springer Verlag's LNAI/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=slsp2014 PUBLICATIONS: A volume of proceedings published by Springer in the LNAI/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 extended versions of some of the papers contributed to the conference. Submissions to it will be by invitation. REGISTRATION: The period for registration is open from January 16, 2014 to October 14, 2014. The registration form can be found at: http://grammars.grlmc.com/slsp2014/Registration.php DEADLINES: Paper submission: May 7, 2014 (23:59h, CET) Notification of paper acceptance or rejection: June 18, 2014 Final version of the paper for the LNAI/LNCS proceedings: June 25, 2014 Early registration: July 2, 2014 Late registration: September 30, 2014 Submission to the post-conference journal special issue: January 16, 2015 QUESTIONS AND FURTHER INFORMATION: florentinalilica.voicu(a)urv.cat POSTAL ADDRESS: SLSP 2014 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: Departament dEconomia i Coneixement, Generalitat de Catalunya Laboratoire dInformatique de Grenoble Universitat Rovira i Virgili

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Re: [SIPTA] special issue on Modeling Dependence in Econometrics
by Kreinovich 21 Mar '14

21 Mar '14

Dear Friends, The International Journal of Approximate Reasoning (IJAR), published by Elsevier http://www.journals.elsevier.com/international-journal-of-approximate-reaso… is planning a special issue on Modeling Dependence in Econometrics. We expect to publish up to 10 papers, each about 8-12 pages in IJAR format. All papers will be peer-refereed. About half of the issue will be filled with extended versions of selected papers presented at a recent International Conference on Modeling Dependence in Econometrics (Chiang Mai, Thailand, January 8-10, 2014). Invitations are being sent to the authors of the invited papers; these papers will also be peer-refereed. In addition, about half of the issue is open for submissions, including submission by authors who did not participate in the conference. Papers need to be submitted to IJAR by June 1, 2014. The journal website has detailed instructions about the journal's scope and instructions on how to submit papers. When submitting a paper, please do not forget to indicate that the submitted papers are for the special issue of Dependence in Econometrics. We expect to notify the authors by September 1, 2014. Final versions of accepted papers are due by November 1, 2014. Please do not hesitate to contact us at Vladik(a)utep.edu if you have any questions about this issue. Van-Nam Huynh and Vladik Kreinovich Guest Editors

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[SIPTA] BELIEF 2014 - 3rd International Conference on Belief Functions - 2nd Call for Papers
by Fabio Cuzzolin 18 Mar '14

18 Mar '14

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[SIPTA] FW: The 8th International Conference of the Thailand Econometric Society TES'2015: Econometrics of Risk
by Kreinovich 17 Mar '14

17 Mar '14

FYI ************************************************************* The 8th International Conference of the Thailand Econometric Society TES'2015: Econometrics of Risk January 7-9, 2015 http://www.cmse-conference.org/ Call for Papers: TES'2015 calls for academic papers in the field of theoretical and empirical econometrics. The theme of the conference in January 2015 is "Econometrics of Risk". The conference also welcomes all disciplines in quantitative economics. Please submit your paper in PDF or MS-Word to Thailand.econometric.society(a)gmail.com The deadline of the submission (first round) is May 31st, 2014. All papers submitted in this first round will be considered for the publication in the conference proceedings published by Springer Verlag (indexed in SCOPUS). Each paper will be peer-reviewed by anonymous referees assigned by the Chair of Scientific Committee. The authors must revise the papers according to comments from the referees and re-submit the paper for the final decision of the Scientific Committee. Qualified papers will be included in the book and released at the conference in January 2015. Later, the conference will open again for the second round submission, with the deadline of October 15, 2014. Papers submitted in this second round will also be peer reviewed, accepted papers will be presented at the conference -- but they will not appear in the Springer book. Authors of all accepted papers are encouraged to submit extended versions of their papers to relevant journals (see list below). Editors of these journals may contact some of the authors of accepted papers encouraging them to submit their extended versions. These extended\ versions will be peer-refereed by the corresponding journals. Important dates Deadline for the first-round submission: 31 May 2014 Comments from referees sent to authors: 30 June 2014 Deadline for submitting revised versions: 31 July 2014 Final decision sent to authors: 10 August 2014 Deadline for submitting formatted papers: 31 August 2014 All the paper files are compiled together and sent to Springer Verlag: 15 September 2014 Deadline for the second-round submission: 15 October 2014 Comments from referees sent to authors: 31 October 2014 Deadline for submitting revised versions: 20 November 2014 Final decision about presentation at the conference: 30 November 2014 Chairs of the conference General chair: Dean Pisit Leeahtam President of TES: Prof. Songsak Sriboonchitta Chair of scientific committee: Prof. Hung T. Nguyen Chair of administrative committee: Dr. Rossarin Osathanunkul Editors of the "Econometrics of Risk" edited book to be published by Springer-Verlag: * Prof. Van Nam Huynh * Prof. Vladik Kreinovich * Prof. Songsak Sriboonchitta * Assoc. Prof. Komsan Suriya Journals interesting in publishing corresponding papers, and their Editors-in-Chief: * Journal of Econometrics Prof. Cheng Hsiao * Journal of Approximate Reasoning Prof. Thierry Denoeux * International Journal of Intelligent Technologies and Applied Statistics Prof. Berlin Wu * Advanced Technology in Economics Assoc. Prof. Komsan Suriya * The Empirical Econometrics and Quantitative Economics Letters Assoc. Prof. Komsan Suriya

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Re: [SIPTA] Call for papers for a special issue
by Kreinovich 13 Mar '14

13 Mar '14

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Re: [SIPTA] SMPS 2014
by Kreinovich 13 Mar '14

13 Mar '14

FYI -----Original Message----- From: Przemysław Grzegorzewski [mailto:pgrzeg(a)ibspan.waw.pl] Soft Methods in Probability and Statistics - SMPS 2014 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dear Colleagues, Due to numerous requests from the community we decided to extend the submission deadline for SMPS 2014 by a couple of days. The new paper submission deadline is March 31st. Here is again some information about the conference: * SMPS 2014, the 7th International Conference on Soft Methods in Probability and Statistics, will take place in Warsaw (Poland), September 22-24, 2014. * Conference proceedings will be published by Springer-Verlag in the series Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing . * Invited speakers: Eyke Hüllermeier, Inés Couso, Bernard De Baets. * For more details, please, see the Conference Website: http://smps2014.ibspan.waw.pl/ Best regards, Przemyslaw Grzegorzewski

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[SIPTA] [jobs] PhD position in "Uncertainty in Computer Vision" - Oxford Brookes University - Dr Fabio Cuzzolin
by Fabio Cuzzolin 13 Mar '14

13 Mar '14

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[SIPTA] SSTiC 2014: March 15, 4th registration deadline
by GRLMC 08 Mar '14

08 Mar '14

*To be removed from our mailing list, please respond to this message with UNSUBSCRIBE in the subject line* ********************************************************************* 2014 TARRAGONA INTERNATIONAL SUMMER SCHOOL ON TRENDS IN COMPUTING SSTiC 2014 Tarragona, Spain July 7-11, 2014 Organized by Rovira i Virgili University http://grammars.grlmc.com/sstic2014/ ********************************************************************* --- March 15, 4th registration deadline --- ********************************************************************* AIM: SSTiC 2014 is the second edition in a series started in 2013. For the previous event, see http://grammars.grlmc.com/SSTiC2013/ SSTiC 2014 will be a research training event mainly addressed to PhD students and PhD holders in the first steps of their academic career. It intends to update them about the most recent developments in the diverse branches of computer science and its neighbouring areas. To that purpose, renowned scholars will lecture and will be available for interaction with the audience. SSTiC 2014 will cover the whole spectrum of computer science through 6 keynote lectures and 24 six-hour courses dealing with some of the most lively topics in the field. The organizers share the idea that outstanding speakers will really attract the brightest students. ADDRESSED TO: Graduate students from around the world. There are no formal pre-requisites in terms of the academic degree the attendee must hold. However, since there will be several levels among the courses, reference may be made to specific knowledge background in the description of some of them. SSTiC 2014 is also appropriate for more senior people who want to keep themselves updated on developments in their own field or in other branches of computer science. They will surely find it fruitful to listen and discuss with scholars who are main references in computing nowadays. REGIME: In addition to keynotes, 3 parallel sessions will be held during the whole event. Participants will be able to freely choose the courses they will be willing to attend as well as to move from one to another. VENUE: SSTiC 2014 will take place in Tarragona, located 90 kms. to the south of Barcelona. The venue will be: Campus Catalunya Universitat Rovira i Virgili Av. Catalunya, 35 43002 Tarragona KEYNOTE SPEAKERS: Larry S. Davis (U Maryland, College Park), A Historical Perspective of Computer Vision Models for Object Recognition and Scene Analysis David S. Johnson (Columbia U, New York), Open and Closed Problems in NP-Completeness George Karypis (U Minnesota, Twin Cities), Recommender Systems Past, Present, & Future Steffen Staab (U Koblenz), Explicit and Implicit Semantics: Two Sides of One Coin Philip Wadler (U Edinburgh), You and Your Research and The Elements of Style Ronald R. Yager (Iona C, New Rochelle), Social Modeling COURSES AND PROFESSORS: Divyakant Agrawal (U California, Santa Barbara), [intermediate] Scalable Data Management in Enterprise and Cloud Computing Infrastructures Pierre Baldi (U California, Irvine), [intermediate] Big Data Informatics Challenges and Opportunities in the Life Sciences Rajkumar Buyya (U Melbourne), [intermediate] Cloud Computing John M. Carroll (Pennsylvania State U, University Park), [introductory] Usability Engineering and Scenario-based Design Kwang-Ting (Tim) Cheng (U California, Santa Barbara), [introductory/intermediate] Smartphones: Hardware Platform, Software Development, and Emerging Apps Amr El Abbadi (U California, Santa Barbara), [introductory] The Distributed Foundations of Data Management in the Cloud Richard M. Fujimoto (Georgia Tech, Atlanta), [introductory] Parallel and Distributed Simulation Mark Guzdial (Georgia Tech, Atlanta), [introductory] Computing Education Research: What We Know about Learning and Teaching Computer Science David S. Johnson (Columbia U, New York), [introductory] The Traveling Salesman Problem in Theory and Practice George Karypis (U Minnesota, Twin Cities), [intermediate] Programming Models/Frameworks for Parallel & Distributed Computing Aggelos K. Katsaggelos (Northwestern U, Evanston), [intermediate] Optimization Techniques for Sparse/Low-rank Recovery Problems in Image Processing and Machine Learning Arie E. Kaufman (U Stony Brook), [advanced] Visualization Carl Lagoze (U Michigan, Ann Arbor), [introductory] Curation of Big Data Dinesh Manocha (U North Carolina, Chapel Hill), [introductory/intermediate] Robot Motion Planning Bijan Parsia (U Manchester), [introductory] The Empirical Mindset in Computer Science Charles E. Perkins (FutureWei Technologies, Santa Clara), [intermediate] Beyond LTE: the Evolution of 4G Networks and the Need for Higher Performance Handover System Designs Sudhakar M. Reddy (U Iowa, Iowa City), [introductory] Test and Design for Test of Digital Logic Circuits Robert Sargent (Syracuse U), [introductory] Validation of Models Mubarak Shah (U Central Florida, Orlando), [intermediate] Visual Crowd Analysis Steffen Staab (U Koblenz), [intermediate] Programming the Semantic Web Mike Thelwall (U Wolverhampton), [introductory] Sentiment Strength Detection for Twitter and the Social Web Jeffrey D. Ullman (Stanford U), [introductory] MapReduce Algorithms Nitin Vaidya (U Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), [introductory/intermediate] Distributed Consensus: Theory and Applications Philip Wadler (U Edinburgh), [intermediate] Topics in Lambda Calculus and Life ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: Adrian Horia Dediu (Tarragona) Carlos Martín-Vide (Tarragona, chair) Florentina Lilica Voicu (Tarragona) REGISTRATION: It has to be done at http://grammars.grlmc.com/sstic2014/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 when the capacity of the venue will be complete. It is very convenient to register prior to the event. FEES: As far as possible, participants are expected to attend for the whole (or most of the) week (full-time). Fees are a flat rate allowing one to participate to all courses. They vary depending on the registration deadline. ACCOMMODATION: Information about accommodation is available on the website of the School. CERTIFICATE: Participants will be delivered a certificate of attendance. QUESTIONS AND FURTHER INFORMATION: florentinalilica.voicu(a)urv.cat POSTAL ADDRESS: SSTiC 2014 Lilica Voicu Rovira i Virgili University Av. Catalunya, 35 43002 Tarragona, Spain Phone: +34 977 559 543 Fax: +34 977 558 386 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS: Departament dEconomia i Coneixement, Generalitat de Catalunya Universitat Rovira i Virgili

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Re: [SIPTA] CFP: Workshop on Models and Paradigms for Planning Under Uncertainty
by Kreinovich 03 Mar '14

03 Mar '14

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[SIPTA] SIPTA school: 2nd call for participation
by Enrique Miranda 03 Mar '14

03 Mar '14

6th SIPTA School on Imprecise Probabilities (21-25 Jul 2014, Montpellier, France): 2nd announcement Sixth school of the Society for Imprecise Probability: Theories and Applications (SIPTA). July 21-25, 2014, Montpellier, France. http://www.lirmm.fr/SIPTAschool2014/ Dear colleagues, The Society for Imprecise Probability: Theories and Applications (SIPTA) organizes the 6th edition of its school in Montpellier, France, during 21-25 July 2014, the local organizer is the Laboratoire d'Informatique de Robotique et de Microelectronique (LIRMM) of the university of Montpellier. The school venue is in the center of Montpellier, a historical French city on the Mediterranean coast. The SIPTA school provides an introduction to imprecise probabilities for students and researchers. The basics and some advanced theoretical aspects will be covered. Of particular interest will be applications of imprecise probabilities. World experts in the different aspects of imprecise probabilities will teach about their area of expertise. An important part of the time is devoted to solving exercises and to the presentation of open application problems. *Topics & Lecturers* Imprecise probability is used as a generic term to cover all mathematical or statistical models which measure chance or uncertainty without sharp numerical probabilities. Imprecise probability models are needed in inference problems where the relevant information is scarce, vague or conflicting, and in decision problems where preferences may also be incomplete. The topics covered this year will include: - Coherent lower previsions (Enrique Miranda, Spain, and SÃ©bastien Destercke, France) - Other imprecise probability theories (InÃ©s Couso, Spain, and Didier Dubois, France) - Inference (Erik Quaeghebeur, The Netherlands, and Gert de Cooman, Belgium) - Algorithms & approximation methods (Cassio P. de Campos, Switzerland, and Alessandro Antonucci, Switzerland) - Graphical models and information retrieval (Alessandro Antonucci, Switzerland, and Cassio P. de Campos, Switzerland) - Decision Making (Matthias C.M. Troffaes, UK) - Joint treatment of stochastic and epistemic uncertainties: applications in the field of environmental risks (Dominique Guyonnet, France) - Climate change impact (Hermann Held, Germany) The full program can be found on the School website. It will be updated as details become available. *Pre-registration* Since the number of participants is limited, it is necessary to inform us of your intent to participate as soon as possible. To do so, complete and submit the pre-registration form on the school website. More information is available at the school website: http://www.lirmm.fr/SIPTAschool2014/ We are looking forward to meeting you in Montpellier. We also welcome you to circulate this announcement around you. Best regards Kevin Loquin <kevin.loquin(a)gmail.com> Enrique Miranda <mirandaenrique(a)uniovi.es> Erik Quaeghebeur <Erik.Quaeghebeur(a)ugent.be> Olivier Strauss <strauss(a)lirmm.fr>

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[SIPTA] SUM 2014 - Scalable Uncertainty Management CFP
by Andrea Cali 27 Feb '14

27 Feb '14

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[SIPTA] mini-symposium on imprecise probability in civil engineering is being planned
by Kreinovich 22 Feb '14

22 Feb '14

Dear Friends, This is FYI. Dr. Michael Beer, Director of the Institute for Risk and Uncertainty, School of Engineering, University of Liverpool, is planning to organize a mini-symposium on the use of imprecise probabilities in civil engineering as a part of this conference, I am sending him a copy of this email. ************************************************************************************************************************************ ICASP12 12th International Conference on Applications of Statistics and Probability in Civil Engineering, Vancouver, Canada, July 12-15, 2015 (with post-conference activities July 16 and 17, 2015 http://icasp12.ubc.ca/call-for-papers/ Call for Abstracts The 12th ICASP welcomes high quality research articles from researchers and engineers from around the world in various fields of Civil Engineering. Submissions must follow the instructions posted on this website, starting with the submission of an abstract, which will be peer-reviewed. Subject to acceptance of the abstract, authors are invited to submit a full-length paper, which is also peer reviewed to ensure quality, originality, appropriateness, significance, and readability. Authors of accepted papers are invited to make a presentation at the conference. Within the realm of applications of statistics and probability in Civil Engineering, the scope of the conference encompass all theoretical and practical aspects of safety and reliability of civil engineering problems, including probabilistic structural engineering, soil mechanics, and risk analysis. The following topics are included in the scope of this conference: Uncertainty, statistics and probability Uncertainty modelling, Bayesian statistics, Hyper-parametric representations, Spatial and temporal dependency, First passage and out-crossing problems, Characteristics of stochastic processes and fields. Decision analysis Preference modelling, Utility modelling, Normative and descriptive decision analysis, Value of information analysis, Treatment of aleatory and epistemic uncertainty. Risk assessment Representation of systems, Quantitative risk assessment, Consequence modelling, Socio-economics and discounting, Risk criteria and acceptability, Risk perception, Risk communication. Statistical investigations and probabilistic modelling Experiment planning, Time series analysis, Data mining, Geo-statistical techniques, Regression analysis, Incident and failure time analysis, Extremes values. Reliability methods Component reliability analysis, System reliability analysis, FORM/SORM related methods, Time variant reliability analysis, Response surface methodologies, Monte Carlo simulation techniques, Markov Chain Monte Carlo methods, Bayesian Probabilistic Nets, Petri Nets, Large/complex systems techniques. Structural reliability Optimal design of new structures, Assessment of existing structures, Vulnerability modelling, Robustness assessment, Stochastic finite elements, Stochastic dynamics. Probabilistic modelling in engineering Material characteristics; steel, concrete, timber, glass, composites, Soil characteristics, Load combinations, Wind loads, Snow loads, Traffic loads, Waves, current and surge, Fire and explosion modelling, Fatigue and fracture mechanics , Corrosion, Contamination, Climatic modelling and down-scaling, Inspection modelling, Repair modelling. Natural hazards modelling Earthquakes, Typhoons and hurricanes, Rock-fall, Avalanches, Landslides, Floods, Tsunamis, Volcanic eruptions. Probabilistic seismic hazard analysis Seismic hazard analysis, Earthquake loss and risk assessment, Portfolio loss modelling. Life-cycle analysis Life-cycle cost modelling, Discounting, Renewal theoretical concepts, Sustainability modelling. Human and organizational factors Human errors, Organizational errors, Ergonomics, Quality control. Applications Law and policy making, Code calibration, Optimal structural design, Upgrading and life extension, Design of protection structures, Inspection and maintenance planning, Environmental risk assessment, Strategic resource allocation for multi-hazard risk management, GIS based risk management systems, Health monitoring and smart structures, Large scale earthquake risk management, Flood and tsunami risk management, Risk management of infrastructure systems (traffic, energy, water, waste disposal), Fire risk design, management and loss estimation, Design and maintenance of bridges, offshore, marine and wind turbine structures, Risk assessment and safety management for tunnels and roads, Typhoon and hurricane loss assessment, Nuclear facility risk management, Insurance hazards and risk modelling, Disaster prevention and loss reduction, Risk based strategies for aid and governance. Important Dates March 21, 2014: Deadline for submission of proposals to organize mini-symposia April 4, 2014: Notification of acceptance of mini-symposia June 20, 2014: Deadline for submission of abstracts for review September 19, 2014: Notification of acceptance of abstracts December 19, 2014: Deadline for submission of full-length papers for review December 19, 2014: Deadline for application for Student Awards February 27, 2015: Notification of review results for full-length papers February 27, 2015: Notification of Student Awards March 27, 2015: Deadline for submission of final version of full-length papers March 27, 2015: Early-bird registration deadline March 27, 2015: Final registration deadline for authors; each paper must be associated with a payment by this date

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[SIPTA] LATA 2014: call for participation
by GRLMC 16 Feb '14

16 Feb '14

*To be removed from our mailing list, please respond to this message with UNSUBSCRIBE in the subject line* ************************************************************************* 8th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE AND AUTOMATA THEORY AND APPLICATIONS LATA 2014 Madrid, Spain March 10-14, 2014 http://grammars.grlmc.com/lata2014/ ********************************************************************* PROGRAM Monday, March 10: 9:30 - 10:30 Registration 10:30 - 10:40 Opening 10:40 - 11:30 Helmut Seidl: Interprocedural Information Flow Analysis of XML Processors - Invited Lecture 11:30 - 11:45 Break 11:45 - 13:00 Alberto Dennunzio, Enrico Formenti, Luca Manzoni: Extremal Combinatorics of Reaction Systems Fernando Arroyo, Sandra Gómez Canaval, Victor Mitrana, Ștefan Popescu: Networks of Polarized Evolutionary Processors are Computationally Complete Liang Ding, Abdul Samad, Xingran Xue, Xiuzhen Huang, Russell L. Malmberg, Liming Cai: Stochastic k-Tree Grammar and its Application in Biomolecular Structure Modeling 13:00 - 14:30 Lunch 14:30 - 15:45 Béatrice Bérard, Olivier Carton: Channel Synthesis Revisited Daniel Průša: Weight-reducing Hennie Machines and Their Descriptional Complexity Manfred Droste, Stefan Dück: Weighted Automata and Logics for Infinite Nested Words 15:45 - 16:00 Break 16:00 - 17:15 Friedrich Otto, František Mráz: Extended Two-Way Ordered Restarting Automata for Picture Languages Sang-Ki Ko, Yo-Sub Han, Kai Salomaa: Top-Down Tree Edit-Distance of Regular Tree Languages Bertram Felgenhauer, René Thiemann: Reachability Analysis with State-Compatible Automata 17:15 - 17:45 Coffee Break 17:45 - 18:35 Leslie A. Goldberg: The Complexity of Approximate Counting - Invited Lecture Tuesday, March 11: 9:00 - 9:50 Sanjeev Khanna: Matchings, Random Walks, and Sampling - Invited Lecture 9:50 - 10:00 Break 10:00 - 11:15 Niko Beerenwinkel, Stefano Beretta, Paola Bonizzoni, Riccardo Dondi, Yuri Pirola: Covering Pairs in Directed Acyclic Graphs Eike Best, Raymond Devillers: Characterisation of the State Spaces of Live and Bounded Marked Graph Petri Nets María Martos-Salgado, Fernando Rosa-Velardo: Expressiveness of Dynamic Networks of Timed Petri Nets 11:15 - 11:45 Coffee Break 11:45 - 13:00 Bireswar Das, Patrick Scharpfenecker, Jacobo Torán: Succinct Encodings of Graph Isomorphism Matthias Gallé, Matías Tealdi: On Context-Diverse Repeats and their Incremental Computation Marcella Anselmo, Dora Giammarresi, Maria Madonia: Picture Codes with Finite Deciphering Delay 13:00 - 14:30 Lunch 14:30 - 15:45 Paul Tarau: Computing with Catalan Families Joan Boyar, Shahin Kamali, Kim S. Larsen, Alejandro López-Ortiz: On the List Update Problem with Advice Rob Gysel: Minimal Triangulation Algorithms for Perfect Phylogeny Problems 15:45 - 16:00 Break 16:00 - 17:15 Grégoire Laurence, Aurélien Lemay, Joachim Niehren, Sławek Staworko, Marc Tommasi: Learning Sequential Tree-to-word Transducers Dariusz Kalociński: On Computability and Learnability of the Pumping Lemma Function Slimane Bellaouar, Hadda Cherroun, Djelloul Ziadi: Efficient List-based Computation of the String Subsequence Kernel Wednesday, March 12: 9:00 - 9:50 Oscar H. Ibarra: On the Parikh Membership Problem for FAs, PDAs, and CMs - Invited Lecture 9:50 - 10:00 Break 10:00 - 11:15 Marius Konitzer, Hans Ulrich Simon: DFA with a Bounded Activity Level Shenggen Zheng, Jozef Gruska, Daowen Qiu: On the State Complexity of Semi-Quantum Finite Automata Vojtěch Vorel: Complexity of a Problem Concerning Reset Words for Eulerian Binary Automata 11:15 - 11:45 Coffee Break 11:45 - 13:00 Pascal Caron, Marianne Flouret, Ludovic Mignot: (k,l)-Unambiguity and Quasi-Deterministic Structures: an Alternative for the Determinization Zuzana Bednárová, Viliam Geffert: Two Double-Exponential Gaps for Automata with a Limited Pushdown Parosh Aziz Abdulla, Mohamed Faouzi Atig, Jari Stenman: Computing Optimal Reachability Costs in Priced Dense-Timed Pushdown Automata 13:00 - 14:30 Lunch 15:45 - 17:45 Sightseeing in Madrid by Bus Thursday, March 13: 9:00 - 9:50 Javier Esparza: A Brief History of Strahler Numbers (I) - Invited Tutorial 9:50 - 10:00 Break 10:00 - 11:15 Zeinab Mazadi, Ziyuan Gao, Sandra Zilles: Distinguishing Pattern Languages with Membership Examples Francine Blanchet-Sadri, Andrew Lohr, Sean Simmons, Brent Woodhouse: Computing Depths of Patterns Alexandre Blondin Massé, Sébastien Gaboury, Sylvain Hallé, Michaël Larouche: Solving Equations on Words with Morphisms and Antimorphisms 11:15 - 11:45 Coffee Break 11:45 - 13:00 Anton Cerný: Solutions to the Multi-Dimensional Equal Powers Problem Constructed by Composition of Rectangular Morphisms Enrico Formenti, Markus Holzer, Martin Kutrib, Julien Provillard: ω-rational Languages: High Complexity Classes vs. Borel Hierarchy Thomas Weidner: Probabilistic ω-Regular Expressions 13:00 - 14:30 Lunch 14:30 - 15:45 Haizhou Li, François Pinet, Farouk Toumani: Probabilistic Simulation for Probabilistic Data-aware Business Processes Daniel Bundala, Jakub Závodný: Optimal Sorting Networks Etienne Dubourg, David Janin: Algebraic Tools for the Overlapping Tile Product 15:45 - 16:00 Break 16:00 - 17:15 Luca Breveglieri, Stefano Crespi Reghizzi, Angelo Morzenti: Shift-Reduce Parsers for Transition Networks Gadi Aleksandrowicz, Andrei Asinowski, Gill Barequet, Ronnie Barequet: Formulae for Polyominoes on Twisted Cylinders Alexandre Blondin Massé, Amadou Makhtar Tall, Hugo Tremblay: On the Arithmetics of Discrete Figures Friday, March 14: 9:00 - 9:50 Javier Esparza: A Brief History of Strahler Numbers (II) - Invited Tutorial 9:50 - 10:00 Break 10:00 - 11:15 Hanna Klaudel, Maciej Koutny, Zhenhua Duan: Interval Temporal Logic Semantics of Box Algebra Pierre Ganty, Ahmed Rezine: Ordered Counter-Abstraction: Refinable Subword Relations for Parameterized Verification Matthew Gwynne, Oliver Kullmann: On SAT Representations of XOR Constraints 11:15 - 11:45 Coffee Break 11:45 - 13:00 Bernd Finkbeiner, Hazem Torfah: Counting Models of Linear-time Temporal Logic Claudia Carapelle, Shiguang Feng, Oliver Fernández Gil, Karin Quaas: Satisfiability for MTL and TPTL over Non-Monotonic Data Words Joachim Klein, David Müller, Christel Baier, Sascha Klüppelholz: Are Good-for-games Automata Good for Probabilistic Model Checking? 13:00 Closing

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[SIPTA] PhD position in "Uncertainty in Computer Vision" - Oxford Brookes University - Dr Fabio Cuzzolin
by Fabio Cuzzolin 10 Feb '14

10 Feb '14

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[SIPTA] SSTiC 2014: February 15, 3rd registration deadline
by GRLMC 08 Feb '14

08 Feb '14

*To be removed from our mailing list, please respond to this message with UNSUBSCRIBE in the subject line* ********************************************************************* 2014 TARRAGONA INTERNATIONAL SUMMER SCHOOL ON TRENDS IN COMPUTING SSTiC 2014 Tarragona, Spain July 7-11, 2014 Organized by Rovira i Virgili University http://grammars.grlmc.com/sstic2014/ ********************************************************************* --- February 15, 3rd registration deadline --- ********************************************************************* AIM: SSTiC 2014 is the second edition in a series started in 2013. For the previous event, see http://grammars.grlmc.com/SSTiC2013/ SSTiC 2014 will be a research training event mainly addressed to PhD students and PhD holders in the first steps of their academic career. It intends to update them about the most recent developments in the diverse branches of computer science and its neighbouring areas. To that purpose, renowned scholars will lecture and will be available for interaction with the audience. SSTiC 2014 will cover the whole spectrum of computer science through 6 keynote lectures and 24 six-hour courses dealing with some of the most lively topics in the field. The organizers share the idea that outstanding speakers will really attract the brightest students. ADDRESSED TO: Graduate students from around the world. There are no formal pre-requisites in terms of the academic degree the attendee must hold. However, since there will be several levels among the courses, reference may be made to specific knowledge background in the description of some of them. SSTiC 2014 is also appropriate for more senior people who want to keep themselves updated on developments in their own field or in other branches of computer science. They will surely find it fruitful to listen and discuss with scholars who are main references in computing nowadays. REGIME: In addition to keynotes, 3 parallel sessions will be held during the whole event. Participants will be able to freely choose the courses they will be willing to attend as well as to move from one to another. VENUE: SSTiC 2014 will take place in Tarragona, located 90 kms. to the south of Barcelona. The venue will be: Campus Catalunya Universitat Rovira i Virgili Av. Catalunya, 35 43002 Tarragona KEYNOTE SPEAKERS: Larry S. Davis (U Maryland, College Park), A Historical Perspective of Computer Vision Models for Object Recognition and Scene Analysis David S. Johnson (Columbia U, New York), Open and Closed Problems in NP-Completeness George Karypis (U Minnesota, Twin Cities), Recommender Systems Past, Present, & Future Steffen Staab (U Koblenz), Explicit and Implicit Semantics: Two Sides of One Coin Philip Wadler (U Edinburgh), You and Your Research and The Elements of Style Ronald R. Yager (Iona C, New Rochelle), Social Modeling COURSES AND PROFESSORS: Divyakant Agrawal (U California, Santa Barbara), [intermediate] Scalable Data Management in Enterprise and Cloud Computing Infrastructures Pierre Baldi (U California, Irvine), [intermediate] Big Data Informatics Challenges and Opportunities in the Life Sciences Rajkumar Buyya (U Melbourne), [intermediate] Cloud Computing John M. Carroll (Pennsylvania State U, University Park), [introductory] Usability Engineering and Scenario-based Design Kwang-Ting (Tim) Cheng (U California, Santa Barbara), [introductory/intermediate] Smartphones: Hardware Platform, Software Development, and Emerging Apps Amr El Abbadi (U California, Santa Barbara), [introductory] The Distributed Foundations of Data Management in the Cloud Richard M. Fujimoto (Georgia Tech, Atlanta), [introductory] Parallel and Distributed Simulation Mark Guzdial (Georgia Tech, Atlanta), [introductory] Computing Education Research: What We Know about Learning and Teaching Computer Science David S. Johnson (Columbia U, New York), [introductory] The Traveling Salesman Problem in Theory and Practice George Karypis (U Minnesota, Twin Cities), [intermediate] Programming Models/Frameworks for Parallel & Distributed Computing Aggelos K. Katsaggelos (Northwestern U, Evanston), [intermediate] Optimization Techniques for Sparse/Low-rank Recovery Problems in Image Processing and Machine Learning Arie E. Kaufman (U Stony Brook), [advanced] Visualization Carl Lagoze (U Michigan, Ann Arbor), [introductory] Curation of Big Data Dinesh Manocha (U North Carolina, Chapel Hill), [introductory/intermediate] Robot Motion Planning Bijan Parsia (U Manchester), [introductory] The Empirical Mindset in Computer Science Charles E. Perkins (FutureWei Technologies, Santa Clara), [intermediate] Beyond LTE: the Evolution of 4G Networks and the Need for Higher Performance Handover System Designs Sudhakar M. Reddy (U Iowa, Iowa City), [introductory] Test and Design for Test of Digital Logic Circuits Robert Sargent (Syracuse U), [introductory] Validation of Models Mubarak Shah (U Central Florida, Orlando), [intermediate] Visual Crowd Analysis Steffen Staab (U Koblenz), [intermediate] Programming the Semantic Web Mike Thelwall (U Wolverhampton), [introductory] Sentiment Strength Detection for Twitter and the Social Web Jeffrey D. Ullman (Stanford U), [introductory] MapReduce Algorithms Nitin Vaidya (U Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), [introductory/intermediate] Distributed Consensus: Theory and Applications Philip Wadler (U Edinburgh), [intermediate] Topics in Lambda Calculus and Life ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: Adrian Horia Dediu (Tarragona) Carlos Martín-Vide (Tarragona, chair) Florentina Lilica Voicu (Tarragona) REGISTRATION: It has to be done at http://grammars.grlmc.com/sstic2014/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 when the capacity of the venue will be complete. It is very convenient to register prior to the event. FEES: As far as possible, participants are expected to attend for the whole (or most of the) week (full-time). Fees are a flat rate allowing one to participate to all courses. They vary depending on the registration deadline. ACCOMMODATION: Information about accommodation will be available on the website of the School in due time. CERTIFICATE: Participants will be delivered a certificate of attendance. QUESTIONS AND FURTHER INFORMATION: florentinalilica.voicu(a)urv.cat POSTAL ADDRESS: SSTiC 2014 Lilica Voicu Rovira i Virgili University Av. Catalunya, 35 43002 Tarragona, Spain Phone: +34 977 559 543 Fax: +34 977 558 386 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS: Departament dEconomia i Coneixement, Generalitat de Catalunya Universitat Rovira i Virgili

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Re: [SIPTA] IEEE SSCI 2014 Update
by Kreinovich 02 Feb '14

02 Feb '14

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[SIPTA] AlCoB 2014: extended submission deadline 11 February
by GRLMC 02 Feb '14

02 Feb '14

*To be removed from our mailing list, please respond to this message with UNSUBSCRIBE in the subject line* ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ***** SUBMISSION DEADLINE EXTENDED: February 11 ***** ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ********************************************************************* 1st INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ALGORITHMS FOR COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY AlCoB 2014 Tarragona, Spain July 1-3, 2014 Organized by: Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics (GRLMC) Rovira i Virgili University http://grammars.grlmc.com/alcob2014/ ********************************************************************* AIMS: AlCoB aims at promoting and displaying excellent research using string and graph algorithms and combinatorial optimization to deal with problems in biological sequence analysis, genome rearrangement, evolutionary trees, and structure prediction. The conference will address several of the current challenges in computational biology by investigating algorithms aimed at: 1) assembling sequence reads into a complete genome, 2) identifying gene structures in the genome, 3) recognizing regulatory motifs, 4) aligning nucleotides and comparing genomes, 5) reconstructing regulatory networks of genes, and 6) inferring the evolutionary phylogeny of species. Particular focus will be put on methodology and significant room will be reserved to young scholars at the beginning of their career. VENUE: AlCoB 2014 will take place in Tarragona, located 90 kms. to the south of Barcelona. The venue will be the Catalunya Campus. SCOPE: Topics of either theoretical or applied interest include, but are not limited to: Exact sequence analysis Approximate sequence analysis Pairwise sequence alignment Multiple sequence alignment Sequence assembly Genome rearrangement Regulatory motif finding Phylogeny reconstruction Phylogeny comparison Structure prediction Compressive genomics Proteomics: molecular pathways, interaction networks ... Transcriptomics: splicing variants, isoform inference and quantification, differential analysis Next-generation sequencing: population genomics, metagenomics, metatranscriptomics ... Microbiome analysis Systems biology STRUCTURE: AlCoB 2014 will consist of: invited talks invited tutorials peer-reviewed contributions INVITED SPEAKERS: Michael Galperin (National Center for Biotechnology Information, Bethesda), Comparative Genomics Approaches to Identifying Functionally Related Genes Uwe Ohler (Max-Delbrück Centre for Molecular Medicine, Berlin), Decoding Non-coding Regulatory Regions in DNA and RNA (tutorial) Jason Papin (University of Virginia, Charlottesville), Network Analysis of Microbial Pathogens PROGRAMME COMMITTEE: Tatsuya Akutsu (Kyoto, JP) Amihood Amir (Ramat-Gan, IL) Alberto Apostolico (Atlanta, US) Joel Bader (Baltimore, US) Pierre Baldi (Irvine, US) Serafim Batzoglou (Stanford, US) Bonnie Berger (Cambridge, US) Francis Y.L. Chin (Hong Kong, HK) Benny Chor (Tel Aviv, IL) Keith A. Crandall (Washington, US) Bhaskar DasGupta (Chicago, US) Joaquín Dopazo (Valencia, ES) Liliana Florea (Baltimore, US) Olivier Gascuel (Montpellier, FR) David Gilbert (Uxbridge, UK) Gaston H. Gonnet (Zurich, CH) Roderic Guigó (Barcelona, ES) Dan Gusfield (Davis, US) Vasant Honavar (University College, US) Sorin Istrail (Providence, US) Tao Jiang (Riverside, US) Inge Jonassen (Bergen, NO) Anders Krogh (Copenhagen, DK) Giovanni Manzini (Alessandria, IT) Carlos Martín-Vide (Tarragona, ES, chair) Satoru Miyano (Tokyo, JP) Burkhard Morgenstern (Göttingen, DE) Shinichi Morishita (Tokyo, JP) Cédric Notredame (Barcelona, ES) Graziano Pesole (Bari, IT) Mark Ragan (Brisbane, AU) Timothy Ravasi (Thuwal, SA) Allen G. Rodrigo (Durham, US) Steven Salzberg (Baltimore, US) David Sankoff (Ottawa, CA) Thomas Schiex (Toulouse, FR) João C. Setubal (São Paulo, BR) Steven Skiena (Stony Brook, US) Peter F. Stadler (Leipzig, DE) Wing-Kin Sung (Singapore, SG) Alfonso Valencia (Madrid, ES) Jacques van Helden (Marseille, FR) Arndt von Haeseler (Vienna, AT) Lusheng Wang (Hong Kong, HK) Limsoon Wong (Singapore, SG) Xiaohui Xie (Irvine, US) Dong Xu (Columbia, US) Zohar Yakhini (Santa Clara, US) Alex Zelikovsky (Atlanta, US) Michael Q. Zhang (Dallas, US) ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: Adrian Horia Dediu (Tarragona) Carlos Martín-Vide (Tarragona, chair) Bianca Truthe (Magdeburg) 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) and should be formatted 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=alcob2014 PUBLICATIONS: A volume of proceedings published by Springer in the LNCS/LNBI series will be available by the time of the conference. A special issue of IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics (TCBB, 2012 impact factor: 1.616) will be later published containing peer-reviewed extended versions of some of the papers contributed to the conference. Submissions to it will be by invitation. REGISTRATION: The period for registration is open from September 21, 2013 to July 1, 2014. The registration form can be found at: http://grammars.grlmc.com/alcob2014/Registration.php DEADLINES: Paper submission: February 11, 2014 (23:59 CET) EXTENDED Notification of paper acceptance or rejection: March 15, 2014 Final version of the paper for the LNCS/LNBI proceedings: March 22, 2014 Early registration: March 29, 2014 Late registration: June 17, 2014 Starting of the conference: July 1, 2014 End of the conference: July 3, 2014 Submission to the post-conference TCBB special issue: October 3, 2014 QUESTIONS AND FURTHER INFORMATION: florentinalilica.voicu(a)urv.cat POSTAL ADDRESS: AlCoB 2014 Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics (GRLMC) Rovira i Virgili University Av. Catalunya, 35 43002 Tarragona, Spain Phone: +34 977 559543 Fax: +34 977 558386 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS: Departament dEconomia i Coneixement, Generalitat de Catalunya Universitat Rovira i Virgili

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[SIPTA] PGM 2014 in Utrecht, The Netherlands: Call for Papers
by Gaag 30 Jan '14

30 Jan '14

__________________________________________________________________________ PGM 2014: The Seventh European Workshop on Probabilistic Graphical Models September 17-19, 2014 Utrecht, The Netherlands __________________________________________________________________________ Important Dates: Deadline for abstract submissions: May 12, 2014 Deadline for paper submissions: May 16, 2014 Notification of acceptance: June 23, 2014 Final versions due: July 18, 2014 Workshop dates September 17-19, 2014 Call for papers opened December 2013 Submission open from March 2014 __________________________________________________ Call for papers: The aim of the workshop is to bring together people interested in probabilistic graphical models and to provide a forum for discussion of the latest research developments in this field. To promote interactions among the participants, parallel sessions will be avoided and the workshop will be organised around a single thread of plenary and poster sessions. We welcome theoretical and applied contributions related to various aspects of probabilistic graphical models, such as: - Principles of Bayesian (belief) networks, chain graphs, decision networks, influence diagrams, probabilistic relational models, and other probabilistic graphical models (PGMs). - Information processing in PGMs (exact and approximate inference). - Learning and data mining in the context of PGMs: machine learning approaches, statistical testing and search methods, MCMC simulation. - Exploitation for the construction of PGMs of results from related disciplines such as statistics, information theory, optimization, and decision making under uncertainty. - Software systems based on PGMs. - Application of PGMs to real-world problems. Papers submitted for review should report on original, previously unpublished work. Each submitted paper will be reviewed by at least three reviewers. Proceedings: All accepted papers will be included in the workshop proceedings. At this stage, we are negotiating publication by a renowned publisher. Submission procedure: PGM 2014 requires electronic submission of papers according to the instructions found on the web site of the workshop: http://www.projects.science.uu.nl/PGM/ The authors must prepare their papers according to the Springer LNCS format, and submit the full version of the papers by the deadline stated above. The page limit is 16 pages, including figures and bibliography. The web page for author instructions contains further format information and provides access to style files and templates. Paper presentation: Papers will be accepted for plenary or poster presentation. In the proceedings, no distinction is made between the two. At least one author of accepted papers is required to register for the workshop. After the workshop, authors of selected papers will be invited to submit an extended version of their paper for a special issue of a journal, which is yet to be decided. The extended papers will undergo a full reviewing process. Organisation: The workshop is hosted by the Department of Information and Computing Sciences, Utrecht University, The Netherlands. __________________________________________________________________________

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[SIPTA] WPMSIIP 2014 - First announcement
by Jasper De Bock 28 Jan '14

28 Jan '14

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[SIPTA] SLSP 2014: 1st call for papers
by GRLMC 25 Jan '14

25 Jan '14

*To be removed from our mailing list, please respond to this message with UNSUBSCRIBE in the subject line* **************************************************************************** ****** 2nd INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON STATISTICAL LANGUAGE AND SPEECH PROCESSING SLSP 2014 Grenoble, France October 14-16, 2014 Organised by: Équipe GETALP Laboratoire dInformatique de Grenoble Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics (GRLMC) Rovira i Virgili University http://grammars.grlmc.com/slsp2014/ **************************************************************************** ****** AIMS: SLSP is a yearly conference series aimed at promoting and displaying excellent research on the wide spectrum of statistical methods that are currently in use in computational language or speech processing. It aims at attracting contributions from both fields. Though there exist large, well-known conferences and workshops hosting contributions to any of these areas, SLSP is a more focused meeting where synergies between subdomains and people will hopefully happen. In SLSP 2014, significant room will be reserved to young scholars at the beginning of their career and particular focus will be put on methodology. VENUE: SLSP 2014 will take place in Grenoble, at the foot of the French Alps. SCOPE: The conference invites submissions discussing the employment of statistical methods (including machine learning) within language and speech processing. The list below is indicative and not exhaustive: phonology, phonetics, prosody, morphology syntax, semantics discourse, dialogue, pragmatics statistical models for natural language processing supervised, unsupervised and semi-supervised machine learning methods applied to natural language, including speech statistical methods, including biologically-inspired methods similarity alignment language resources part-of-speech tagging parsing semantic role labelling natural language generation anaphora and coreference resolution speech recognition speaker identification/verification speech transcription speech synthesis machine translation translation technology text summarisation information retrieval text categorisation information extraction term extraction spelling correction text and web mining opinion mining and sentiment analysis spoken dialogue systems author identification, plagiarism and spam filtering STRUCTURE: SLSP 2014 will consist of: invited talks invited tutorials peer-reviewed contributions INVITED SPEAKERS: to be announced PROGRAMME COMMITTEE: Sophia Ananiadou (Manchester, UK) Srinivas Bangalore (Florham Park, US) Patrick Blackburn (Roskilde, DK) Hervé Bourlard (Martigny, CH) Bill Byrne (Cambridge, UK) Nick Campbell (Dublin, IE) David Chiang (Marina del Rey, US) Kenneth W. Church (Yorktown Heights, US) Walter Daelemans (Antwerpen, BE) Thierry Dutoit (Mons, BE) Alexander Gelbukh (Mexico City, MX) Ralph Grishman (New York, US) Sanda Harabagiu (Dallas, US) Xiaodong He (Redmond, US) Hynek Hermansky (Baltimore, US) Hitoshi Isahara (Toyohashi, JP) Lori Lamel (Orsay, FR) Gary Geunbae Lee (Pohang, KR) Haizhou Li (Singapore, SG) Daniel Marcu (Los Angeles, US) Carlos Martín-Vide (Tarragona, ES, chair) Manuel Montes-y-Gómez (Puebla, MX) Satoshi Nakamura (Nara, JP) Shrikanth S. Narayanan (Los Angeles, US) Vincent Ng (Dallas, US) Joakim Nivre (Uppsala, SE) Elmar Nöth (Erlangen, DE) Maurizio Omologo (Trento, IT) Mari Ostendorf (Seattle, US) Barbara H. Partee (Amherst, US) Gerald Penn (Toronto, CA) Massimo Poesio (Colchester, UK) James Pustejovsky (Waltham, US) Gaël Richard (Paris, FR) German Rigau (San Sebastián, ES) Paolo Rosso (Valencia, ES) Yoshinori Sagisaka (Tokyo, JP) Björn W. Schuller (London, UK) Satoshi Sekine (New York, US) Richard Sproat (New York, US) Mark Steedman (Edinburgh, UK) Jian Su (Singapore, SG) Marc Swerts (Tilburg, NL) Jun'ichi Tsujii (Beijing, CN) Gertjan van Noord (Groningen, NL) Renata Vieira (Porto Alegre, BR) Dekai Wu (Hong Kong, HK) Feiyu Xu (Berlin, DE) Roman Yangarber (Helsinki, FI) Geoffrey Zweig (Redmond, US) ORGANISING COMMITTEE: Laurent Besacier (Grenoble, co-chair) Adrian Horia Dediu (Tarragona) Benjamin Lecouteux (Grenoble) 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) and should be prepared according to the standard format for Springer Verlag's LNAI/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=slsp2014 PUBLICATIONS: A volume of proceedings published by Springer in the LNAI/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 extended versions of some of the papers contributed to the conference. Submissions to it will be by invitation. REGISTRATION: The period for registration is open from January 16, 2014 to October 14, 2014. The registration form can be found at: http://grammars.grlmc.com/slsp2014/Registration.php DEADLINES: Paper submission: May 7, 2014 (23:59h, CET) Notification of paper acceptance or rejection: June 18, 2014 Final version of the paper for the LNAI/LNCS proceedings: June 25, 2014 Early registration: July 2, 2014 Late registration: September 30, 2014 Submission to the post-conference journal special issue: January 16, 2015 QUESTIONS AND FURTHER INFORMATION: florentinalilica.voicu(a)urv.cat POSTAL ADDRESS: SLSP 2014 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: Departament dEconomia i Coneixement, Generalitat de Catalunya Laboratoire dInformatique de Grenoble Universitat Rovira i Virgili

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[SIPTA] FW: Beyond Bayesian State Estimation - Special Session at FUSION 2014, Salamanca, 7 - 10 July 2014
by Kreinovich 18 Jan '14

18 Jan '14

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[SIPTA] Beyond Bayesian State Estimation - Special Session at FUSION 2014, Salamanca, 7 - 10 July 2014
by Benjamin Noack 17 Jan '14

17 Jan '14

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[SIPTA] CfP: Imprecise Probabilities in Statistics and Philosophy (LMU, 27-28 June 2014)
by Marco Cattaneo 15 Jan '14

15 Jan '14

**************************************************** IMPRECISE PROBABILITIES IN STATISTICS AND PHILOSOPHY LMU Munich 27-28 June 2014 www.ipsp2014.philosophie.lmu.de **************************************************** Imprecise probabilities offer a model of uncertainty that is more general, less idealised than the standard precise probability framework. Imprecise probabilities are receiving increasing attention in statistics (as well as in artificial intelligence and in economics). Recently, there has been a resurgence of philosophical interest in these generalised models of uncertainty. The aim of this workshop is to bring together philosophers and statisticians to see what we can learn from each other. We are sure that such interdisciplinary collaboration will be valuable both to philosophers and to statisticians. Topics on which we might expect fruitful discussions include: * updating imprecise probabilities and dilation; * foundations of imprecise probabilities; * procedures for eliciting imprecise probabilities; * decision making with imprecise probabilities. We invite submissions of extended abstracts of 1500 words for contributed talks by 1st March 2013. Decisions will be made by 15th March 2014. KEYNOTE SPEAKERS: Fabio Cozman (São Paulo), James M. Joyce (Michigan), and Teddy Seidenfeld (CMU) ORGANIZERS: Thomas Augustin, Seamus Bradley, Marco Cattaneo, Stephan Hartmann, and Roland Poellinger -- Marco Cattaneo, Dr. sc. math. Department of Statistics, LMU Munich http://www.statistik.lmu.de/~cattaneo/

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[SIPTA] SSTiC 2014: January 18, 2nd registration deadline
by GRLMC 12 Jan '14

12 Jan '14

*To be removed from our mailing list, please respond to this message with UNSUBSCRIBE in the subject line* ********************************************************************* 2014 TARRAGONA INTERNATIONAL SUMMER SCHOOL ON TRENDS IN COMPUTING SSTiC 2014 Tarragona, Spain July 7-11, 2014 Organized by Rovira i Virgili University http://grammars.grlmc.com/sstic2014/ ********************************************************************* --- January 18, 2nd registration deadline --- ********************************************************************* AIM: SSTiC 2014 is the second edition in a series started in 2013. For the previous event, see http://grammars.grlmc.com/SSTiC2013/ SSTiC 2014 will be a research training event mainly addressed to PhD students and PhD holders in the first steps of their academic career. It intends to update them about the most recent developments in the diverse branches of computer science and its neighbouring areas. To that purpose, renowned scholars will lecture and will be available for interaction with the audience. SSTiC 2014 will cover the whole spectrum of computer science through 5 keynote lectures and 24 six-hour courses dealing with some of the most lively topics in the field. The organizers share the idea that outstanding speakers will really attract the brightest students. ADDRESSED TO: Graduate students from around the world. There are no formal pre-requisites in terms of the academic degree the attendee must hold. However, since there will be several levels among the courses, reference may be made to specific knowledge background in the description of some of them. SSTiC 2014 is also appropriate for more senior people who want to keep themselves updated on developments in their own field or in other branches of computer science. They will surely find it fruitful to listen and discuss with scholars who are main references in computing nowadays. REGIME: In addition to keynotes, 3 parallel sessions will be held during the whole event. Participants will be able to freely choose the courses they will be willing to attend as well as to move from one to another. VENUE: SSTiC 2014 will take place in Tarragona, located 90 kms. to the south of Barcelona. The venue will be: Campus Catalunya Universitat Rovira i Virgili Av. Catalunya, 35 43002 Tarragona KEYNOTE SPEAKERS: Larry S. Davis (U Maryland, College Park), A Historical Perspective of Computer Vision Models for Object Recognition and Scene Analysis David S. Johnson (Columbia U, New York), Open and Closed Problems in NP-Completeness George Karypis (U Minnesota, Twin Cities), Recommender Systems Past, Present, & Future Steffen Staab (U Koblenz), Explicit and Implicit Semantics: Two Sides of One Coin Ronald R. Yager (Iona C, New Rochelle), Social Modeling COURSES AND PROFESSORS: Divyakant Agrawal (U California, Santa Barbara), [intermediate] Scalable Data Management in Enterprise and Cloud Computing Infrastructures Pierre Baldi (U California, Irvine), [intermediate] Big Data Informatics Challenges and Opportunities in the Life Sciences Stephen Brewster (U Glasgow), [introductory] Multimodal Human-computer Interaction Rajkumar Buyya (U Melbourne), [intermediate] Cloud Computing John M. Carroll (Pennsylvania State U, University Park), [introductory] Usability Engineering and Scenario-based Design Kwang-Ting (Tim) Cheng (U California, Santa Barbara), [introductory/intermediate] Smartphones: Hardware Platform, Software Development, and Emerging Apps Amr El Abbadi (U California, Santa Barbara), [introductory] The Distributed Foundations of Data Management in the Cloud Richard M. Fujimoto (Georgia Tech, Atlanta), [introductory] Parallel and Distributed Simulation Mark Guzdial (Georgia Tech, Atlanta), [introductory] Computing Education Research: What We Know about Learning and Teaching Computer Science David S. Johnson (Columbia U, New York), [introductory] The Traveling Salesman Problem in Theory and Practice George Karypis (U Minnesota, Twin Cities), [intermediate] Programming Models/Frameworks for Parallel & Distributed Computing Aggelos K. Katsaggelos (Northwestern U, Evanston), [intermediate] Optimization Techniques for Sparse/Low-rank Recovery Problems in Image Processing and Machine Learning Arie E. Kaufman (U Stony Brook), [advanced] Visualization Carl Lagoze (U Michigan, Ann Arbor), [introductory] Curation of Big Data Bijan Parsia (U Manchester), [introductory] The Empirical Mindset in Computer Science Charles E. Perkins (FutureWei Technologies, Santa Clara), [intermediate] Beyond LTE: the Evolution of 4G Networks and the Need for Higher Performance Handover System Designs Sudhakar M. Reddy (U Iowa, Iowa City), [introductory] Test and Design for Test of Digital Logic Circuits Robert Sargent (Syracuse U), [introductory] Validation of Models Mubarak Shah (U Central Florida, Orlando), [intermediate] Visual Crowd Analysis Steffen Staab (U Koblenz), [intermediate] Programming the Semantic Web Mike Thelwall (U Wolverhampton), [introductory] Sentiment Strength Detection for Twitter and the Social Web Jeffrey D. Ullman (Stanford U), [introductory] MapReduce Algorithms Nitin Vaidya (U Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), [introductory/intermediate] Distributed Consensus: Theory and Applications Philip Wadler (U Edinburgh), [intermediate] Topics in Lambda Calculus and Life ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: Adrian Horia Dediu (Tarragona) Carlos Martín-Vide (Tarragona, chair) Florentina Lilica Voicu (Tarragona) REGISTRATION: It has to be done at http://grammars.grlmc.com/sstic2014/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 when the capacity of the venue will be complete. It is very convenient to register prior to the event. FEES: As far as possible, participants are expected to attend for the whole (or most of the) week (full-time). Fees are a flat rate allowing one to participate to all courses. They vary depending on the registration deadline. ACCOMMODATION: Information about accommodation will be available on the website of the School in due time. CERTIFICATE: Participants will be delivered a certificate of attendance. QUESTIONS AND FURTHER INFORMATION: florentinalilica.voicu(a)urv.cat POSTAL ADDRESS: SSTiC 2014 Lilica Voicu Rovira i Virgili University Av. Catalunya, 35 43002 Tarragona, Spain Phone: +34 977 559 543 Fax: +34 977 558 386 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS: Departament dEconomia i Coneixement, Generalitat de Catalunya Universitat Rovira i Virgili

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[SIPTA] visas to attend US-based international conferences
by Kreinovich 29 Dec '13

29 Dec '13

Dear Friends, In many situations, when a conference is organized in the US, some presenters do not get their visas by the time of the conference and are, therefore, unable to participate. In some such cases, the visa is eventually granted, but it is too late for this particular conference. The National Academies of Sciences and professional organizations have been petitioning for changes in regulations which would make the process easier for scientists. However, while the current processes are in place, it is important to help scientists from outside the US properly estimate how long the visa approval process can last and what support material needs to be provided with the original applications to enhance this process. Here is such an information as provided by the American Mathematical Society (we cite from http://jointmathematicsmeetings.org/meetings/national/jmm2014/2160_faq) "Visa regulations are continually changing for travel to the United States. Visa applications may take from three to four months to process and require a personal interview, as well as specific personal information. International participants should view the important information about traveling to the U.S. found at sites.nationalacademies.org/pga/biso/visas/ and travel.state.gov/visa/visa_1750.html. ... If you discover you do need a visa, the National Academies website (see above) provides these tips for successful visa applications: * Visa applicants are expected to provide evidence that they are intending to return to their country of residence. Therefore, applicants should provide proof of "binding" or sufficient ties to their home country or permanent residence abroad. This may include documentation of the following: - family ties in home country or country of legal permanent residence - property ownership - bank accounts - employment contract or statement from employer stating that the position will continue when the employee returns; * Visa applications are more likely to be successful if done in a visitor's home country than in a third country; * Applicants should present their entire trip itinerary, including travel to any countries other than the United States, at the time of their visa application; * Include a letter of invitation from the meeting organizer or the U.S. host, specifying the subject, location and dates of the activity, and how travel and local expenses will be covered; * If travel plans will depend on early approval of the visa application, specify this at the time of the application; * Provide proof of professional scientific and/or educational status (students should provide a university transcript). This list is not to be considered complete. Please visit the websites above for the most up-to-date information."

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Re: [SIPTA] special session on imprecise probabilities
by Kreinovich 24 Dec '13

24 Dec '13

Please note that the deadline for IPMU'2014 has been extended to December 31! -----Original Message----- From: Enrique Miranda [mailto:mirandaenrique(a)uniovi.es] I am organizing a special session on imprecise probabilities at IPMU'2014 http://www.ipmu2014.univ-montp2.fr/pages/sessions/ImpreciseProbabilities.pdf Best wishes, Enrique

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[SIPTA] 1st Call for Papers: BELIEF 2014, the 3rd International Conference on Belief Functions
by Fabio Cuzzolin 23 Dec '13

23 Dec '13

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[SIPTA] AlCoB 2014: 3rd call for papers
by GRLMC 22 Dec '13

22 Dec '13

*To be removed from our mailing list, please respond to this message with UNSUBSCRIBE in the subject line* ********************************************************************* 1st INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ALGORITHMS FOR COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY AlCoB 2014 Tarragona, Spain July 1-3, 2014 Organized by: Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics (GRLMC) Rovira i Virgili University http://grammars.grlmc.com/alcob2014/ ********************************************************************* AIMS: AlCoB aims at promoting and displaying excellent research using string and graph algorithms and combinatorial optimization to deal with problems in biological sequence analysis, genome rearrangement, evolutionary trees, and structure prediction. The conference will address several of the current challenges in computational biology by investigating algorithms aimed at: 1) assembling sequence reads into a complete genome, 2) identifying gene structures in the genome, 3) recognizing regulatory motifs, 4) aligning nucleotides and comparing genomes, 5) reconstructing regulatory networks of genes, and 6) inferring the evolutionary phylogeny of species. Particular focus will be put on methodology and significant room will be reserved to young scholars at the beginning of their career. VENUE: AlCoB 2014 will take place in Tarragona, located 90 kms. to the south of Barcelona. The venue will be the Catalunya Campus. SCOPE: Topics of either theoretical or applied interest include, but are not limited to: Exact sequence analysis Approximate sequence analysis Pairwise sequence alignment Multiple sequence alignment Sequence assembly Genome rearrangement Regulatory motif finding Phylogeny reconstruction Phylogeny comparison Structure prediction Compressive genomics Proteomics: molecular pathways, interaction networks ... Transcriptomics: splicing variants, isoform inference and quantification, differential analysis Next-generation sequencing: population genomics, metagenomics, metatranscriptomics ... Microbiome analysis Systems biology STRUCTURE: AlCoB 2014 will consist of: invited talks invited tutorials peer-reviewed contributions INVITED SPEAKERS: Michael Galperin (National Center for Biotechnology Information, Bethesda), Comparative Genomics Approaches to Identifying Functionally Related Genes Uwe Ohler (Max-Delbrück Centre for Molecular Medicine, Berlin), Decoding Non-coding Regulatory Regions in DNA and RNA (tutorial) Jason Papin (University of Virginia, Charlottesville), Network Analysis of Microbial Pathogens PROGRAMME COMMITTEE: Tatsuya Akutsu (Kyoto, JP) Amihood Amir (Ramat-Gan, IL) Alberto Apostolico (Atlanta, US) Joel Bader (Baltimore, US) Pierre Baldi (Irvine, US) Serafim Batzoglou (Stanford, US) Bonnie Berger (Cambridge, US) Francis Y.L. Chin (Hong Kong, HK) Benny Chor (Tel Aviv, IL) Keith A. Crandall (Washington, US) Bhaskar DasGupta (Chicago, US) Joaquín Dopazo (Valencia, ES) Liliana Florea (Baltimore, US) Olivier Gascuel (Montpellier, FR) David Gilbert (Uxbridge, UK) Gaston H. Gonnet (Zurich, CH) Roderic Guigó (Barcelona, ES) Dan Gusfield (Davis, US) Vasant Honavar (University College, US) Sorin Istrail (Providence, US) Tao Jiang (Riverside, US) Inge Jonassen (Bergen, NO) Anders Krogh (Copenhagen, DK) Giovanni Manzini (Alessandria, IT) Carlos Martín-Vide (Tarragona, ES, chair) Satoru Miyano (Tokyo, JP) Burkhard Morgenstern (Göttingen, DE) Shinichi Morishita (Tokyo, JP) Cédric Notredame (Barcelona, ES) Graziano Pesole (Bari, IT) Mark Ragan (Brisbane, AU) Timothy Ravasi (Thuwal, SA) Allen G. Rodrigo (Durham, US) Steven Salzberg (Baltimore, US) David Sankoff (Ottawa, CA) Thomas Schiex (Toulouse, FR) João C. Setubal (São Paulo, BR) Steven Skiena (Stony Brook, US) Peter F. Stadler (Leipzig, DE) Wing-Kin Sung (Singapore, SG) Alfonso Valencia (Madrid, ES) Jacques van Helden (Marseille, FR) Arndt von Haeseler (Vienna, AT) Lusheng Wang (Hong Kong, HK) Limsoon Wong (Singapore, SG) Xiaohui Xie (Irvine, US) Dong Xu (Columbia, US) Zohar Yakhini (Santa Clara, US) Alex Zelikovsky (Atlanta, US) Michael Q. Zhang (Dallas, US) ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: Adrian Horia Dediu (Tarragona) Carlos Martín-Vide (Tarragona, chair) Bianca Truthe (Magdeburg) 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) and should be formatted 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=alcob2014 PUBLICATIONS: A volume of proceedings published by Springer in the LNCS/LNBI series will be available by the time of the conference. A special issue of IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics (TCBB, 2012 impact factor: 1.616) will be later published containing peer-reviewed extended versions of some of the papers contributed to the conference. Submissions to it will be by invitation. REGISTRATION: The period for registration is open from September 21, 2013 to July 1, 2014. The registration form can be found at: http://grammars.grlmc.com/alcob2014/Registration.php DEADLINES: Paper submission: February 4, 2014 (23:59 CET) Notification of paper acceptance or rejection: March 15, 2014 Final version of the paper for the LNCS/LNBI proceedings: March 22, 2014 Early registration: March 29, 2014 Late registration: June 17, 2014 Starting of the conference: July 1, 2014 End of the conference: July 3, 2014 Submission to the post-conference TCBB special issue: October 3, 2014 QUESTIONS AND FURTHER INFORMATION: florentinalilica.voicu(a)urv.cat POSTAL ADDRESS: AlCoB 2014 Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics (GRLMC) Rovira i Virgili University Av. Catalunya, 35 43002 Tarragona, Spain Phone: +34 977 559543 Fax: +34 977 558386 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS: Departament dEconomia i Coneixement, Generalitat de Catalunya Universitat Rovira i Virgili

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[SIPTA] SSTiC 2014: December 21st, 1st registration deadline
by GRLMC 16 Dec '13

16 Dec '13

*To be removed from our mailing list, please respond to this message with UNSUBSCRIBE in the subject line* ********************************************************************* 2014 TARRAGONA INTERNATIONAL SUMMER SCHOOL ON TRENDS IN COMPUTING SSTiC 2014 Tarragona, Spain July 7-11, 2014 Organized by Rovira i Virgili University http://grammars.grlmc.com/sstic2014/ ********************************************************************* --- December 21st, 1st registration deadline --- ********************************************************************* AIM: SSTiC 2014 is the second edition in a series started in 2013. For the previous event, see http://grammars.grlmc.com/SSTiC2013/ SSTiC 2014 will be a research training event mainly addressed to PhD students and PhD holders in the first steps of their academic career. It intends to update them about the most recent developments in the diverse branches of computer science and its neighbouring areas. To that purpose, renowned scholars will lecture and will be available for interaction with the audience. SSTiC 2014 will cover the whole spectrum of computer science through 5 keynote lectures and 24 six-hour courses dealing with some of the most lively topics in the field. The organizers share the idea that outstanding speakers will really attract the brightest students. ADDRESSED TO: Graduate students from around the world. There are no formal pre-requisites in terms of the academic degree the attendee must hold. However, since there will be several levels among the courses, reference may be made to specific knowledge background in the description of some of them. SSTiC 2014 is also appropriate for more senior people who want to keep themselves updated on developments in their own field or in other branches of computer science. They will surely find it fruitful to listen and discuss with scholars who are main references in computing nowadays. REGIME: In addition to keynotes, 3 parallel sessions will be held during the whole event. Participants will be able to freely choose the courses they will be willing to attend as well as to move from one to another. VENUE: SSTiC 2014 will take place in Tarragona, located 90 kms. to the south of Barcelona. The venue will be: Campus Catalunya Universitat Rovira i Virgili Av. Catalunya, 35 43002 Tarragona KEYNOTE SPEAKERS: Larry S. Davis (U Maryland, College Park), A Historical Perspective of Computer Vision Models for Object Recognition and Scene Analysis David S. Johnson (Columbia U, New York), Open and Closed Problems in NP-Completeness George Karypis (U Minnesota, Twin Cities), Recommender Systems Past, Present, & Future Steffen Staab (U Koblenz), Explicit and Implicit Semantics: Two Sides of One Coin Ronald R. Yager (Iona C, New Rochelle), Social Modeling COURSES AND PROFESSORS: Divyakant Agrawal (U California, Santa Barbara), [intermediate] Scalable Data Management in Enterprise and Cloud Computing Infrastructures Pierre Baldi (U California, Irvine), [intermediate] Big Data Informatics Challenges and Opportunities in the Life Sciences Stephen Brewster (U Glasgow), [introductory] Multimodal Human-computer Interaction Rajkumar Buyya (U Melbourne), [intermediate] Cloud Computing John M. Carroll (Pennsylvania State U, University Park), [introductory] Usability Engineering and Scenario-based Design Kwang-Ting (Tim) Cheng (U California, Santa Barbara), [introductory/intermediate] Smartphones: Hardware Platform, Software Development, and Emerging Apps Amr El Abbadi (U California, Santa Barbara), [introductory] The Distributed Foundations of Data Management in the Cloud Richard M. Fujimoto (Georgia Tech, Atlanta), [introductory] Parallel and Distributed Simulation Mark Guzdial (Georgia Tech, Atlanta), [introductory] Computing Education Research: What We Know about Learning and Teaching Computer Science David S. Johnson (Columbia U, New York), [introductory] The Traveling Salesman Problem in Theory and Practice George Karypis (U Minnesota, Twin Cities), [intermediate] Programming Models/Frameworks for Parallel & Distributed Computing Aggelos K. Katsaggelos (Northwestern U, Evanston), [intermediate] Optimization Techniques for Sparse/Low-rank Recovery Problems in Image Processing and Machine Learning Arie E. Kaufman (U Stony Brook), [advanced] Visualization Carl Lagoze (U Michigan, Ann Arbor), [introductory] Curation of Big Data Bijan Parsia (U Manchester), [introductory] The Empirical Mindset in Computer Science Charles E. Perkins (FutureWei Technologies, Santa Clara), [intermediate] Beyond LTE: the Evolution of 4G Networks and the Need for Higher Performance Handover System Designs Sudhakar M. Reddy (U Iowa, Iowa City), [introductory] Test and Design for Test of Digital Logic Circuits Robert Sargent (Syracuse U), [introductory] Validation of Models Mubarak Shah (U Central Florida, Orlando), [intermediate] Visual Crowd Analysis Steffen Staab (U Koblenz), [intermediate] Programming the Semantic Web Mike Thelwall (U Wolverhampton), [introductory] Sentiment Strength Detection for Twitter and the Social Web Jeffrey D. Ullman (Stanford U), [introductory] MapReduce Algorithms Nitin Vaidya (U Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), [introductory/intermediate] Distributed Consensus: Theory and Applications Philip Wadler (U Edinburgh), [intermediate] Topics in Lambda Calculus and Life ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: Adrian Horia Dediu (Tarragona) Carlos Martín-Vide (Tarragona, chair) Florentina Lilica Voicu (Tarragona) REGISTRATION: It has to be done at http://grammars.grlmc.com/sstic2014/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 when the capacity of the venue will be complete. It is very convenient to register prior to the event. FEES: As far as possible, participants are expected to attend for the whole (or most of the) week (full-time). Fees are a flat rate allowing one to participate to all courses. They vary depending on the registration deadline. ACCOMMODATION: Information about accommodation will be available on the website of the School in due time. CERTIFICATE: Participants will be delivered a certificate of attendance. QUESTIONS AND FURTHER INFORMATION: florentinalilica.voicu(a)urv.cat POSTAL ADDRESS: SSTiC 2014 Lilica Voicu Rovira i Virgili University Av. Catalunya, 35 43002 Tarragona, Spain Phone: +34 977 559 543 Fax: +34 977 558 386 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS: Departament dEconomia i Coneixement, Generalitat de Catalunya Universitat Rovira i Virgili

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[SIPTA] JOB: Lecturer in Statistics - Durham University
by COOLEN F.P.A. 16 Dec '13

16 Dec '13

Dear Colleagues, We have a Lectureship in Statistics available at Durham, which is linked to our Statistics and Mathematics Consultancy Unit. I would greatly appreciate it if you could bring this opportunity to the attention of anybody who you may think would be well-placed for, and possibly interested in, this position. In addition, please feel free to circulate the advert as widely as possible! Merry Christmas and happy 2014! Frank ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Job Details: Lecturer in Statistics Reference Number 3197 Location Science Site, Durham Faculty/Division Science Department Mathematical Sciences Grade Grade 7 Position Type Full Time Contract Type Permanent Salary (£) 30728 - 36661 per annum Closing Date 14 January 2014 Apply online via: https://www.dur.ac.uk/jobs/ Job Description: You will be expected to make a substantial commitment to the research activities of the Statistics & Probability Group, and to undertake teaching and administrative duties as assigned by the Head of Department of Mathematical Sciences. Candidates need to provide evidence of relevant teaching experience at University level and a record of publications at international level. This position is attached to the Department’s Statistics and Mathematics Consultancy Unit (SMCU). Part of your role will be to engage in industry-related research and outreach as guided by the Director of SMCU, and in time help to grow SMCU’s commercial portfolio. As such, a record of successful generation of external funding for research projects is highly desirable, and potential to do so is essential. To balance the industry-related focus of this post, the teaching load will be reduced from normal. The SMCU makes a significant contribution to the generation of research impact in the Department and an important part of your role will be to develop projects that can generate impact case studies for future research assessment exercises. Preference may be given to candidates whose research areas are compatible with existing interests of the Statistics Group. Applications are particularly welcome from women and black and minority ethnic candidates, who are under-represented in academic posts in the University. Department of Mathematical Sciences Durham University is one of the UK's leading research-led universities, with a strong commitment to both teaching and research. The Department of Mathematical Sciences is a large department, with an active programme of internationally recognised research in a broad range of areas, and several popular degree programmes with a very high quality student intake. The Department currently has 57 members of academic staff, conducting internationally excellent research in Pure Mathematics, Applied Mathematics, and Statistics and Probability. There is a strong and active research environment, with many visitors, seminars, international conferences and workshops, and the Department benefits from fully supported computer and library facilities. The Statistics & Probability Group currently has 12 academic staff, 4 Postdoctoral researchers and 15 PhD students. Areas of particular research interest in Statistics include Bayesian Statistics (with specific expertise in Bayes Linear Methods), Foundations of Statistics and Decision Theory (with specific attention to generalized uncertainty quantification) and Applied Statistics (with specific attention to large-scale applications). These areas are combined in ongoing research in large-scale applications, in particular in the area of uncertainty in large-scale physical systems represented by computer models. SMCU was established in October 1996 with the aim of attracting commercial research and consultancy work to the Department and its members of staff, and with providing the Department with a focus for external liaison for outside and commercial organisations. These activities are core to the University’s stated mission, with respect to supporting the regional economy, commercialising research and enhancing the University’s research infrastructure. Clients range from local companies to multi-nationals, as well as Governmental organisations. Much of the work requires novel statistical methodology and some relies on theoretical work developed in the Department. SMCU participates actively in knowledgeTransfer Partnerships. Some current projects include modelling of e-commerce, deconvolution of well-testing histories, toxicology and modelling of environmental fate, and analysis of uncertainties in drilling of oil and gas reservoirs. Contact name: Professor David Wooff Telephone: +44 (0)191 334 3121 Email: d.a.wooff(a)durham.ac.uk Contact name: Professor Michael Goldstein Telephone: +44 (0)191 334 3065 Email: michael.goldstein(a)durham.ac.uk http://www.dur.ac.uk/mathematical.sciences/stats/

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