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Re: [SIPTA] Young Researchers in Mathematics Conference 2015 - Oxford
by Kreinovich June 2, 2015

June 2, 2015

FYI -----Original Message----- Young Researchers in Mathematics Conference 2015 - Oxford http://yrm2015.co.uk Monday, August 17, 2015 to Thursday, August 20, 2015 Conference poster: http://yrm2015.co.uk/poster The YRM2015 conference is primarily intended for PhD students in Mathematics and related disciplines (Statistics, Computer Science, Pphysics, etc.). Other early-career researchers are also very welcome (e.g. Master students with some research experience, Post-Docs, etc.). The conference will be held in the Andrew Wiles Building - Mathematical Institute at the University of Oxford. There will be talks by young researchers, plenary and keynote talks from distinguished speakers across Mathematics, a poster competition, and a Quantitative Finance workshop from G-research. All participants are invited to give a short (15 minutes + 5 minutes for questions) talk on their research. These talks will be organised into tracks which reflect different fields of research. Web page: http://yrm2015.co.uk Registration: http://yrm2015.co.uk/register FAQs: http://yrm2015.co.uk/faqs Venue: Mathematical Institute - University of Oxford Andrew Wiles Building Woodstock Road Oxford Oxfordshire OX2 6GG United Kingdom List of tracks available: Algebra, Geometry, Number Theory, Analysis, Topology, Dynamical Systems, Mathematical Finance, Computer Science, Logic and Set Theory, Mathematical Physics, Mathematical Biology, Computational Biology, Statistics, Probability and Stochastic Processes, Fluid Mechanics, Machine Learning, Numerical Analysis, PDEs, Combinatorics and Graph Theory

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Re: [SIPTA] IUKM 2015--CfP: October 15-17, 2015, Nha Trang, Vietnam -- Extended deadline: May 30, 2015
by Kreinovich May 29, 2015

May 29, 2015

FYI, deadline is tomorrow, please contact Dr. Huynh is you need a few days extension. -----Original Message----- From: Van-Nam HUYNH [Apologies for cross-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 (Submission deadline has been extended to May 30, 2015) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 30, 2015 (extended deadline). 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) IMPORTANT DATES Deadline for paper submission: 30 May 2015 (extended deadline) 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 ------------- Honorary Co-Chairs Michio Sugeno (European Center for Soft Computing, Spain) Hung T. Nguyen (New Mexico State University, USA; Chiang Mai University, Thailand) Dinh Lien Quach (Pacific Ocean University, Nha Trang, Vietnam) General Co-Chairs Viet-Ha Nguyen (University of Engineering and Technology, VNU-Hanoi, Vietnam) Sadaaki Miyamoto (University of Tsukuba, Japan) Program 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] MOOC on Ignorance
by Michael Smithson May 24, 2015

May 24, 2015

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[SIPTA] Final call: IJAR Young Researcher Award (deadline of 1 June 2015)
by Thomas Augustin May 22, 2015

May 22, 2015

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[SIPTA] URSW 2015 CFP
by Thomas Lukasiewicz May 19, 2015

May 19, 2015

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

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[SIPTA] SLSP 2015: 2nd call for papers
by GRLMC May 17, 2015

May 17, 2015

*To be removed from our mailing list, please respond to this message with UNSUBSCRIBE in the subject line* ********************************************************************************** 3rd INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON STATISTICAL LANGUAGE AND SPEECH PROCESSING SLSP 2015 Budapest, Hungary November 24-26, 2015 Organised by: Laboratory of Speech Acoustics Department of Telecommunications and Telematics Budapest University of Technology and Economics http://alpha.tmit.bme.hu/speech/ Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics (GRLMC) Rovira i Virgili University http://grammars.grlmc.com/SLSP2015/ ********************************************************************************** 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 2015, significant room will be reserved to young scholars at the beginning of their career and particular focus will be put on methodology. VENUE: SLSP 2015 will take place in Budapest, on the banks of the Danube and an extensive UNESCO World Heritage site. The venue will be the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Informatics of the Budapest University of Technology and Economics. SCOPE: The conference invites submissions discussing the employment of statistical models (including machine learning) within language and speech processing. Topics of either theoretical or applied interest include, but are not limited to: anaphora and coreference resolution authorship identification, plagiarism and spam filtering computer-aided translation corpora and language resources data mining and semantic web information extraction information retrieval knowledge representation and ontologies lexicons and dictionaries machine translation multimodal technologies natural language understanding neural representation of speech and language opinion mining and sentiment analysis parsing part-of-speech tagging question-answering systems semantic role labelling speaker identification and verification speech and language generation speech recognition speech synthesis speech transcription spelling correction spoken dialogue systems term extraction text categorisation text summarisation user modeling STRUCTURE: SLSP 2015 will consist of: invited talks invited tutorials peer-reviewed contributions INVITED SPEAKERS: Xavier Carreras (Xerox Research Centre Europe, Meylan, FR), tba Sebastian Riedel (University College London, UK), Embedding Probabilistic Logic for Machine Reading Steve Young (University of Cambridge, UK), Open-domain Statistical Spoken Dialogue Systems PROGRAMME COMMITTEE: Steven Abney (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA) Roberto Basili (University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy) Jean-François Bonastre (University of Avignon, France) Jill Burstein (Educational Testing Service, Princeton, USA) Nicoletta Calzolari (National Research Council, Pisa, Italy) Kevin Bretonnel Cohen (University of Colorado, Denver, USA) W. Bruce Croft (University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA) Marc Dymetman (Xerox Research Centre Europe, Meylan, France) Guillaume Gravier (IRISA, Rennes, France) Kadri Hacioglu (Sensory Inc., Santa Clara, USA) Udo Hahn (University of Jena, Germany) Thomas Hain (University of Sheffield, UK) Mark Hasegawa-Johnson (University of Illinois, Urbana, USA) Jing Jiang (Singapore Management University, Singapore) Tracy Holloway King (A9.com, Palo Alto, USA) Sadao Kurohashi (Kyoto University, Japan) Claudia Leacock (McGraw-Hill Education CTB, Monterey, USA) Mark Liberman (University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA) Carlos Martín‐Vide (Rovira i Virgili University, Tarragona, Spain, chair) Alessandro Moschitti (University of Trento, Italy) Jian-Yun Nie (University of Montréal, Canada) Maria Teresa Pazienza (University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy) Adam Pease (IPsoft Inc., New York, USA) Fuchun Peng (Google Inc., Mountain View, USA) Bhiksha Raj (Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA) Javier Ramírez (University of Granada, Spain) Paul Rayson (Lancaster University, UK) Dietrich Rebholz-Schuhmann (University of Zurich, Switzerland) Douglas A. Reynolds (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Lexington, USA) Michael Riley (Google Inc., Mountain View, USA) Laurent Romary (INRIA, Saclay, France) Horacio Saggion (Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona, Spain) David Sánchez (Rovira i Virgili University, Tarragona, Spain) Roser Saurí (Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK) Stefan Schulz (Medical University of Graz, Austria) Efstathios Stamatatos (University of the Aegean, Karlovassi, Greece) Yannis Stylianou (Toshiba Research Europe Ltd., Cambridge, UK) Maosong Sun (Tsinghua University, Beijing, China) Tomoki Toda (Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan) Yoshimasa Tsuruoka (University of Tokyo, Japan) Klára Vicsi (Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary) Enrique Vidal (Technical University of Valencia, Spain) Atro Voutilainen (University of Helsinki, Finland) Andy Way (Dublin City University, Ireland) Junichi Yamagishi (University of Edinburgh, UK) Luke Zettlemoyer (University of Washington, Seattle, USA) Pierre Zweigenbaum (LIMSI-CNRS, Orsay, France) ORGANISING COMMITTEE: Adrian Horia Dediu (Tarragona) Carlos Martín-Vide (Tarragona, co-chair) György Szaszák (Budapest) Klára Vicsi (Budapest, co-chair) Florentina Lilica Voicu (Tarragona) SUBMISSIONS: Authors are invited to submit non-anonymized papers in English presenting original and unpublished research. Papers should not exceed 12 single‐spaced pages (including eventual appendices, references, proofs, etc.) and should be prepared according to the standard format for Springer Verlag's LNCS series (see http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0) Submissions have to be uploaded to: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=slsp2015 PUBLICATIONS: A volume of proceedings published by Springer in the LNCS/LNAI series will be available by the time of the conference. A special issue of a major journal will be later published containing peer-reviewed substantially extended versions of some of the papers contributed to the conference. Submissions to it will be by invitation. REGISTRATION: The registration form can be found at: http://grammars.grlmc.com/SLSP2015/Registration.php DEADLINES: Paper submission: June 23, 2015 (23:59 CET) Notification of paper acceptance or rejection: July 28, 2015 Final version of the paper for the LNCS/LNAI proceedings: August 11, 2015 Early registration: August 11, 2015 Late registration: November 10, 2015 Submission to the journal special issue: February 26, 2016 QUESTIONS AND FURTHER INFORMATION: florentinalilica.voicu(a)urv.cat POSTAL ADDRESS: SLSP 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: Budapesti Műszaki és Gazdaságtudományi Egyetem 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] CFP IJAR Special issue on Statistical and Computational methods for genomics and integrative genomics
by Cassio P. de Campos May 12, 2015

May 12, 2015

CALL FOR PAPERS International Journal of Approximate Reasoning Special issue on Statistical and Computational methods for genomics and integrative genomics http://www.journals.elsevier.com/international-journal-of-approximate-reaso… Background and Scope: In the last decade, the advent of microarray and next-generation sequencing technologies has created the need of statistical and computational methodologies specifically developed for dealing with these types of data and novel biomedical research goals. Genomic data measure quantities (such as, gene-expression, copy number, genotype, methylation) at several thousands or millions of positions along the genome, resulting in an enormous amount of information from which to extract the relevant content. They are usually noisy and subject to uncertainties due to non-biological variations, which must be taken into account during the modelling and inferential processes. Many other issues arise when the field of application regards the study of complex genetic diseases, since patients can be highly heterogeneous and several different lesions may alter the same biological pathway. Moreover, the number of patients is usually small with respect to the number of variables, which brings another facet to the problem. Approaches that try to overcome all these difficulties rely on biological assumptions and integrate established knowledge and multiple types of data. Data integration may comprise not only different genomic data, but also clinical and other patient information. Combining all this information by an accurate biological and statistical modelling may allow us to achieve reliable biomedical discoveries. Inferential and computational issues must be also considered, as data have very high dimension and computational resources are limited. Papers are sought on theoretical and practical considerations involving statistical and computational approaches to address problems and data from the biomedical domain, including but not limited to: Next generation sequencing data Microarray data Data integration in genomics Genetic network modelling and inference Gene pattern discovery Disease classification and prediction Biomarker discovery Computational biology General methodological and algorithmic developments are also welcome as long as they have a clear applicability to the biomedical domain. If unsure about the fit of your intended paper or for any additional information, please do not hesitate to contact the guest editors. Important Dates: Deadline for first submission: August 31, 2015 Reviews available: November, 2015 Expected online publication: April, 2016 Submission and Review Process: Authors should prepare their papers according to the Guide for Authors of the International Journal of Approximate Reasoning (http://ees.elsevier.com/ija/) All submissions must be made electronically through the Elsevier's EES submission system at http://ees.elsevier.com/ija/ with the Article Type 'SI: Statistical genomics'. All papers will be peer-reviewed following the IJAR review guidelines. Guest Editors: Paola M.V. Rancoita University Centre for Statistics for the Biomedical Sciences Vita-Salute San Raffaele University, Italy http://www.unisr.it/persona.asp?id=8888&linguacv=english Cassio P. de Campos School of Electronics, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Queen's University Belfast, UK http://www.cs.qub.ac.uk/~c.decampos/

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[SIPTA] IJCAI’15 Workshop on Sensitivity Analysis and Robustness in Probablistic Models (Final CfP)
by Alessandro Antonucci May 2, 2015

May 2, 2015

IJCAI’15 Workshop on Sensitivity Analysis and Robustness in Probablistic Models Buenos Aires, July 26, 2015 http://ipg.idsia.ch/wijcai15 FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS (deadline May 15th) Papers will be published in a volume of the JMLR Workshop and Conference Proceedings series. (http://jmlr.csail.mit.edu/proceedings) [SCOPE] Probabilistic multivariate models, such as Bayesian nets, MRFs, and others which are based on conditional independence assumptions, are important tools in machine learning and artificial intelligence for reasoning with uncertainty. The quantification of the parameters usually requires sharp (i.e., precise) assessments of the model potentials and might be subject to robustness issues. For instance, perturbations of some parameter values may lead to different decisions from those which would be achieved by the unperturbed model, suggesting that decisions are not reliable. Reliability might also be in question because of missing data and assumptions behind the process. The workshop invites submissions of papers on all aspects of sensitivity analysis and robustness in probabilistic models. Contributions may have a theoretical focus and/or an applied focus. A non-exhaustive list of topics follows. - Local and/or global sensitivity analysis. - Parameter-based and/or decision-based sensitivity analysis. - Design of robust learning, inference and/or decision making approaches. - Robust analysis and design of robustness measurements. - Reliable qualitative learning and reasoning. - Robust treatment of missing data. - Imprecise probability and other theories related to sensitivity analysis. - Computational complexity, exact and approximate algorithms. [SUBMISSIONS] Each submission will be reviewed by peers using a double-blind process (please use the third person in self citations and take all necessary care not to identify yourselves). Accepted papers will be published electronically in a volume of the JMLR Workshop and Conference Proceedings series. There will be no rebuttal phase, but contributions considered worth publishing and needing substantial revision might be subject to a second round of reviewing/evaluation. All accepted papers will be presented at the workshop. At least one of the paper's authors should register and attend the workshop to present the work. Submissions must be formatted according to style and template files available for the Journal of Machine Learning Research (JMLR) Workshop and Conference Proceedings - two-column version. The files are available at http://ipg.idsia.ch/wijcai15/sarpgm15.tar.gz. Papers (including figures, tables, references, etc) are expected to have between 6 and 10 pages. [IMPORTANT DATES] May 8, 2015 - Deadline for abstract submission May 15, 2015 - Deadline for paper submission June 3, 2015 - Workshop paper acceptance notification June 13, 2015 - Deadline for workshop camera-ready copy (in case of minor revision; contributions needing major revision might need additional time - this will be arranged case by case) July 26, 2015 - Workshop [PC MEMBERS] Alessandro Antonucci*, IDSIA, Switzerland. Alessio Benavoli, IDSIA, Switzerland. Cassio P. de Campos*, Queen's University Belfast, UK. Arthur Choi, University of California, Los Angeles, USA. Giorgio Corani*, IDSIA, Switzerland. Fabio Cozman, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil. Adnan Darwiche, University of California, Los Angeles, USA. Sebastien Destercke, Univ. de Technologie de Compiegne, France. Marek Druzdzel, University of Pittsburgh, USA. Johan Kwisthout, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands. Agnieszka Onisko, Bialystok University of Technology, Poland. Denis Maua, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil. Serafin Moral, Universidad de Granada, Spain. Silja Renooij, Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands. Matthias Troffaes, University of Durham, UK. (*: Workshop organizers.) More details about the submission procedure are available online. http://ipg.idsia.ch/wijcai15/ ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ (We apologize in case you receive multiple copies of this announcement, but yet we hope to reach the greatest possible number of people. Finding a trade-off is not an easy task.) _________________________________ Alessandro Antonucci IDSIA Dalle Molle Institute for Artificial Intelligence Via Cantonale (Galleria 2) CH-6928, Manno-Lugano, CH mail: alessandro(a)idsia.ch skype: alessandro.antonucci tel: +41 916108515 web: www.idsia.ch/~alessandro _________________________________

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Re: [SIPTA] SUM 2015 final CfP -- Abstract submission deadline approaching
by Kreinovich May 1, 2015

May 1, 2015

FYI -----Original Message----- From: Christoph Beierle *** Final Call for Papers -- Apologies for multiple copies *** ================================================================= Ninth International Conference on Scalable Uncertainty Management (SUM 2015) Quebec City, Canada -- September 16-18, 2015 http://www.fernuni-hagen.de/wbs/sum2015 Abstract submission: May 03, 2015 Paper submission: May 10, 2015 ================================================================= Aims and Scope ************** The International Conference on Scalable Uncertainty Management (SUM) is an annual conference that was launched in 2007 with the goal to exploit and strengthen the connection between the Artificial Intelligence and Database communities. It aims at bringing together all those researchers interested in the management of uncertain, incomplete or inconsistent information. Such information originates commonly in applications where significant computational effort is needed to process data in a meaningful and semantically justifiable manner. Typical applications of that kind include databases, the Web, and the life sciences. Papers are solicited in all areas of managing and reasoning with substantial and complex kinds of uncertain, incomplete or inconsistent information. These include (but are not restricted to) applications in decision support systems, risk analysis, machine learning, belief networks, logics of uncertainty, belief revision and update, argumentation, negotiation technologies, semantic web applications, search engines, ontology systems, information fusion, information retrieval, natural language processing, information extraction, image recognition, vision systems, data and text mining, and the consideration of issues such as provenance, trust, heterogeneity, and complexity of data and knowledge. Invited Speakers **************** - Jean-Marie De Koninck (Université Laval, Québec City) - Lise Getoor (University of California Santa Cruz) - Ronald Yager (Machine Intelligence Institute - Iona College) Important Dates **************** - Abstract Submission: May 03, 2015 (extended) - Paper Submission: May 10, 2015 (extended) - Notification: June 14, 2015 - Camera Ready: July 02, 2015 - Conference: September 16-18, 2015 Publication *********** The proceedings will be published by Springer-Verlag in the LNCS series Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence. Submissions *********** SUM 2015 solicits papers in two categories: - Regular research papers. - Short papers reporting on interesting work in progress or providing system descriptions. Submissions in the first category should be at most fourteen pages, including bibliography. Submissions in the second category should be at most six pages, including bibliography. Each paper is to be submitted electronically as a single PDF file through EasyChair at https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sum2015. General Chair ************* - Patrick Maupin (Defence Research and Development Canada) Steering Committee ****************** - Didier Dubois (CNRS IRIT, France) - Henri Prade (CNRS IRIT, France) - VS Subrahmanian (University of Maryland, USA) Program Committee Chairs ************************ - Christoph Beierle (University of Hagen, Germany) - Alex Dekhtyar (Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, USA) Program Committee ***************** Nahla Ben Amor (Institut supérieur de gestion de Tunis, Tunisia) Chitta Baral (Arizona State University, USA) Leopoldo Bertossi (Carleton University, Canada) Cory Butz (University of Regina, Canada) Andrea Calì (University of London, Birkbeck College, UK) Reynold Cheng (The University of Hong Kong) Laurence Cholvy (ONERA, Toulouse, France) Jan Chomicki (SUNY Buffalo, USA) Fabio Cozman (Universidade de Sao Paulo, Brazil) Madalina Croitoru (LIRMM, Univ. Montpellier II, France) Michael Dekhtyar (Tver State University, Russia) Thierry Denoeux (Université de Technologie de Compiègne, France) Jürgen Dix (TU Clausthal, Germany) Didier Dubois (IRIT, France) Thomas Eiter (Vienna University of Technology, Austria) Zied Elouedi (Institut supérieur de gestion de Tunis, Tunisia) Ronald Fagin (IBM Research - Almaden, USA) Mihai Cristian Florea (Thales Group, Canada) Lluis Godo (IIIA, Spain) John Grant (Towson University, USA) Sergio Greco (Università della Calabria, Italy) Allel Hadjali (LIAS/ENSMA, Chasseneuil, France) Justin Hollands (DRDC, Canada) Anthony Hunter (University College London, UK) Gabriele Kern-Isberner (TU Dortmund University, Germany) Kristian Kersting (TU Dortmund University, Germany) Kathryn Laskey (George Mason University, Fairfax, USA) Sebastian Link (University of Auckland, New Zealand) Peter Lucas (University of Nijmegen, Netherlands) Thomas Lukasiewicz (University of Oxford, UK) Jianbing Ma (Bournemouth University, UK) Zongmin Ma (Northeastern University, China) Anders Madsen (HUGIN Expert, Denmark) Maria Vanina Martinez (University of Oxford, UK) Serafin Moral (University of Granada, Spain) Thomas Meyer (Centre for AI Research, CSIR and UKZN, South Africa) Jeff Z. Pan (University of Aberdeen, UK) Simon Parsons (University of Liverpool, UK) Gabriella Pasi (Università degli Studi di Milano Bicocca, Italy) David Poole (University of British Columbia, Canada) Henri Prade (IRIT, France) Andrea Pugliese (University of Calabria, Italy) Sebastian Rudolph (Technische Universität Dresden, Germany) Vítor Santos Costa (Universidade do Porto, Portugal) Elisa Shahbazian (OODA Technologies Inc., Canada) Guillermo Simari (Universidad Nacional del Sur, Bahia Blanca, Argentina) Umberto Straccia (ISTI-CNR, Italy) VS Subrahmanian (University of Maryland, USA) Paul Weng (SYSU-CMU Joint Institute of Engineering, Pittsburgh, USA) Jef Wijsen (University of Mons, Belgium) Stefan Woltran (Vienna University of Technology, Austria) Ronald Yager (Machine Intelligence Institute - Iona College, USA) Vladimir Zadorozhny (University of Pittsburgh, USA) Further Information ******************* http://www.fernuni-hagen.de/wbs/sum2015

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Re: [SIPTA] Special Issue on Interval Techniques in Optimization Problems of Engineering
by Kreinovich April 29, 2015

April 29, 2015

FYI. Vladik P.S. Please note that this is an Open Access journal, meaning that publication in this journal requires payment of Article Processing Charges http://www.hindawi.com/journals/mpe/apc/. While Open Access journals and publications charges are not typical in computer science and applied math, they are the norm in many disciplines, such as theoretical physics, many biosciences, etc., and, according to the latest IEEE data, they are more and more prevalent in engineering. According to this journal website, the regular article processing charge is $2,000, but the publisher provides an automatic waiver of Article Processing Charges to authors based in any of the countries which were classified by the World Bank as Low-income economies or Lower-middle-income economies as of July 2014, and which have a 2013 gross domestic product of less than 200 billion US dollars. One can find the list of such countries and more details about the waiver policy at http://www.hindawi.com/waiver/ -----Original Message----- From: Milan Hladík [mailto:milan_hladik(a)centrum.cz] Mathematical Problems in Engineering http://www.hindawi.com/journals/mpe/ Special Issue on Applications of Interval Techniques and Other Techniques with Automatic Results Verification to Optimization in Engineering Optimization problems are important in engineering; however, many optimization techniques currently used in engineering application are semi-heuristic, they do not guarantee that the results of applying these techniques are indeed optimal. Such guarantees can be provided if we use optimization techniques that provide automatic result verification. To provide desirable guarantees, we need to take into account that, due to measurement uncertainty, we only know approximate values of the numerical characteristics describing engineering systems. Often, the only information that we have about the measurement uncertainty is the upper bound on the measurement error; in such cases, all we know about the actual value of the corresponding characteristic is the interval containing this value. Techniques for processing such interval data -- interval computation and interval analysis - are powerful mathematical techniques applied in many areas including uncertainty modelling, constraint programming and numerical verification. These techniques are often the essential ingredients for developing robust, reliable and efficient algorithms in optimization. The aim of this special issue is to bring together contributions in engineering optimization and Operations Research that use interval approach (and other techniques with automatic results verification) as the main or auxiliary mathematical tool. Contributions in closely related areas, however, are encouraged as well. Welcome are contributions to theory, algorithms, and/or applications. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: " Interval computation in engineering " Robustness in engineering optimization and Operations Research " Global optimization and constraint solving, including optimization in dynamical systems and control " Verification in numerical methods " Reliability in engineering computations " Mathematical treatment of uncertainty and sensitivity analysis in engineering problems " Use of interval computations to process fuzzy uncertainty in engineering problems Submitted papers should not have been previously published nor be currently under consideration for publication elsewhere. All papers are refereed through a peer review process. Manuscript Due: October 23, 2015 First Round of Reviews: January 15, 2016 Publication Date: March 11, 2016 Lead Guest Editor Milan Hladík, Charles University, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Department of Applied Mathematics, Prague, Czech Republic hladik(a)kam.mff.cuni.cz Guest Editors: Michal Cerny University of Economics, Department of Econometrics, Prague, Czech Republic; cernym(a)vse.cz Vladik Kreinovich, University of Texas at El Paso, Department of Computer Science 500 W. University, El Paso, TX 79968, USA; vladik(a)utep.edu Majid Soleimani-Damaneh, School of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science, University College of Science, University of Tehran, Enghelab avenue, Tehran, Iran; soleimani(a)khayam.ut.ac.ir Gerhard-Wilhelm Weber, Institute of Applied Mathematics, Middle East Technical University, 06531 Ankara, Turkey; gweber(a)metu.edu.tr

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[SIPTA] Fwd: [Random] Junior female researchers in probability - Berlin
by Serena Doria April 24, 2015

April 24, 2015

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[SIPTA] Workshop on Uncertainty in Machine Learning in Compiègne 15/16 June
by Sébastien Destercke April 23, 2015

April 23, 2015

Dear Colleagues, We are pleased to announce that the first Workshop on Uncertainty in Machine Learning (WUML) will take place in Compiègne, during the 15th and 16th June. It will be held in the Compiègne University of Technology. The major aim of the workshop is to stimulate discussion on ongoing researches, very recent developments and challenging open problems regarding the treatment of uncertainty in machine learning. Each of the two days of the workshop will consist of presentations covering a specific topic, while also leaving ample time for discussion. The first day will be devoted to the treatment of uncertain (e.g., missing, noisy, imprecise, …) data in the inference and learning process, while the second day will be devoted to uncertainty in the learned model and in the predictions (e.g., rejection strategies, indeterminate predictions, using sets of models, …). A gala dinner will also take place on the night of the first day. Everyone (PhD students as well as senior researchers) is welcome to participate and/or to present their views on these problems! Wewelcome any stimulating contribution, ranging from a presentation to ashort informal statement. Do not hesitate to contact us for more information. There will be no registration fee, so participants only have to cover the cost of their travel. Website: https://wuml2015.hds.utc.fr/ WUML 2015 organisation committee.

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[SIPTA] IUKM 2015--CfP: October 15-17, 2015, Nha Trang, Vietnam
by Van-Nam HUYNH April 21, 2015

April 21, 2015

[Apologies if you receive multiple copies. Your help in circulating this call among your colleagues and students is highly appreciated. Thank you very much.] ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 -------------------------- General Co-Chairs Viet-Ha Nguyen (University of Engineering and Technology, VNU-Hanoi, Vietnam) Sadaaki Miyamoto (University of Tsukuba, Japan) Program 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] CfP: Special Issue on Logics for Preferences, Uncertainty and Vagueness
by Thomas Lukasiewicz April 21, 2015

April 21, 2015

****************************************************************** CALL FOR PAPERS * IfCoLog Journal of Logics and their Applications * Special Issue on Logics for Reasoning about Preferences, Uncertainty and Vagueness http://lat.inf.tu-dresden.de/PRUV-SI15/ ****************************************************************** PRUV 2014 was the first Workshop on Logics for Reasoning about Preferences, Uncertainty, and Vagueness. This workshop was associated to the Vienna Summer of Logic. The aim of PRUV is to bring together people from different communities (such as the Artificial Intelligence 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, respectively is the main goal of the meeting. After a successful workshop, the IfCoLog Journal of Logics and their Applications now invites submissions to a special issue on the topics of PRUV. == Submission Deadline == ** June 21st, 2015 ** == TOPICS == We welcome submissions relating logic with preferences, uncertainty and vagueness. Some logics of interest are: - first order logic, - propositional logic, - logic programming, - answer set programming, - description logics, - modal logic, - dynamic logic, - temporal logics, - defeasible 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 published in a special issue of the IFCOLOG Journal of Logics and their Applications (http://www.collegepublications.co.uk/journals/ifcolog/) == SUBMISSION GUIDELINES == Submissions must be prepared in LaTeX using the IfCoLog style (http://lat.inf.tu-dresden.de/PRUV-SI15/ifcolog.cls) All submitted manuscripts must contain original material not previously published or currently under review in any other journal. Submissions extending results previously published at a conference or workshop are welcome. Submissions will be made via EasyChair: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=pruvsi15 More information is available at the special issue webpage http://lat.inf.tu-dresden.de/PRUV-SI15/

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[SIPTA] IJCAI’15 Workshop on Sensitivity Analysis and Robustness in Probabilistic Graphical Models (3rd CfP)
by Alessandro Antonucci April 18, 2015

April 18, 2015

FYI. Please note that imprecise probability papers on multivariate models are very welcome, and accepted papers will be published in the 'Workshop and Conference Proceedings' Series of the Journal of Machine Learning Research. _______________________________ IJCAI’15 Workshop on Sensitivity Analysis and Robustness in Probabilistic Graphical Models Buenos Aires, July 25-27, 2015 - http://ipg.idsia.ch/wijcai15/ THIRD CALL FOR PAPERS Papers will be published in a volume of the JMLR Workshop and Conference Proceedings series. (http://jmlr.csail.mit.edu/proceedings) [SCOPE] Probabilistic graphical models are important tools in machine learning and artificial intelligence for reasoning with uncertainty. They provide means to represent large multivariate domains compactly and to perform sophisticated learning and reasoning efficiently. Examples of probabilistic graphical models are Bayesian networks, Markov Random fields, chain and factor graphs, Gaussian graphical models, to name but a few. The quantification of these models usually requires sharp (i.e., precise) assessments of the model local potentials and might be subject to robustness issues. For instance, perturbations of some parameter values may lead to different decisions from those which would be achieved by the unperturbed model, suggesting that decisions are not reliable. Reliability might also be in question because of missing data and assumptions behind the process. The workshop invites submissions of papers on all aspects of sensitivity analysis and robustness in probabilistic graphical models. Contributions may have a theoretical focus and/or an applied focus. A non-exhaustive list of topics follows. - Local and/or global sensitivity analysis. - Parameter-based and/or decision-based sensitivity analysis. - Design of robust learning, inference and/or decision making approaches. - Robust analysis and design of robustness measurements. - Extensions of probabilistic graphical models. - Reliable qualitative learning and reasoning. - Robust treatment of missing data. - Imprecise probability and other theories related to sensitivity analysis. - Computational complexity, exact and approximate algorithms. Papers about more general robust multivariate models based on independence or othr structural judgements are also welcome. [SUBMISSIONS] Each submission will be reviewed by peers using a double-blind process (please use the third person in self citations and take all necessary care not to identify yourselves). Accepted papers will be published electronically in a volume of the JMLR Workshop and Conference Proceedings series. There will be no rebuttal phase, but contributions considered worth publishing and needing substantial revision might be subject to a second round of reviewing/evaluation. All accepted papers will be presented at the workshop. At least one of the paper's authors should register and attend the workshop to present the work. Submissions must be formatted according to style and template files available for the Journal of Machine Learning Research (JMLR) Workshop and Conference Proceedings - two-column version. The files are available at http://ipg.idsia.ch/wijcai15/sarpgm15.tar.gz. Papers (including figures, tables, references, etc) are expected to have between 6 and 10 pages. [IMPORTANT DATES] Apr 27, 2015 - Deadline for submissions of contributions May 20, 2015 - Workshop paper acceptance notification May 30, 2015 - Deadline for workshop camera-ready copy (in case of minor revision; contributions needing major revision might need additional time - this will be arranged case by case) [PC MEMBERS] Alessandro Antonucci*, IDSIA, Switzerland. Alessio Benavoli, IDSIA, Switzerland. Cassio P. de Campos*, Queen's University Belfast, UK. Arthur Choi, University of California, Los Angeles, USA. Giorgio Corani*, IDSIA, Switzerland. Fabio Cozman, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil. Adnan Darwiche, University of California, Los Angeles, USA. Sebastien Destercke, Univ. de Technologie de Compiegne, France. Marek Druzdzel, University of Pittsburgh, USA. Johan Kwisthout, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands. Agnieszka Onisko, Bialystok University of Technology, Poland. Denis Maua, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil. Serafin Moral, Universidad de Granada, Spain. Silja Renooij, Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands. Matthias Troffaes, University of Durham, UK. (*: Workshop organizers.) More details about the submission procedure are available online. http://ipg.idsia.ch/wijcai15/ ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ (We apologize in case you receive multiple copies of this announcement, but yet we hope to reach the greatest possible number of people. Finding a trade-off is not an easy task.) -- _________________________________ Alessandro Antonucci IDSIA Dalle Molle Institute for Artificial Intelligence Via Cantonale (Galleria 2) CH-6928, Manno-Lugano, CH mail: alessandro(a)idsia.ch skype: alessandro.antonucci tel: +41 916108515 web: www.idsia.ch/~alessandro _________________________________

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[SIPTA] PhD Position available in machine learning under severe uncertainty
by Sébastien Destercke April 12, 2015

April 12, 2015

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 problem of learning what are the optimal pieces of information one should query to reduce uncertainty and reach a unique optimal decision. Depending on its preferences and skills, the candidate will either focus on active learning or expert elicitation problems. The student work will be performed in close collaboration with experts in the fields of learning and reasoning under uncertainty. 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 download the application file at https://www.hds.utc.fr/~sdesterc/dokuwiki/_media/en/learning_thesis_subject… -- ==================================== 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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Re: [SIPTA] Minisymposium on High Performance Computing Interval Methods in Krakow, Poland, in September: deadline is April 26, soon!
by Kreinovich April 11, 2015

April 11, 2015

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[SIPTA] SIPTA blog: call for contributions
by ENRIQUE MIRANDA MENENDEZ April 10, 2015

April 10, 2015

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[SIPTA] FYI: an interesting experiment on degree of arbitrariness in peer refereeing
by Kreinovich April 9, 2015

April 9, 2015

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Re: [SIPTA] a conference featuring a Nobel Prize winner
by Kreinovich April 6, 2015

April 6, 2015

Dear Friends, This is FYI. This conference welcomes all kinds of research related to economics, applications of imprecise probability techniques are very welcome, deadline for submissions is July 15. -----Original Message----- From: hunguyen(a)math.nmsu.edu [mailto:hunguyen(a)math.nmsu.edu] Prof. Robert ENGLE of NYU (USA), 2013 winner of Nobel Prize in Economics, will be a Keynote Speaker at the International Conference of the Thailand Econometric Society (TES 2016), January 6-8, 2016, at Chiang Mai University (Thailand), see http://www.cmse-conference.org for more details

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[SIPTA] ISIPTA '15 Final Call for Posters
by Erik Quaeghebeur April 2, 2015

April 2, 2015

*ISIPTA '15 FINAL CALL FOR POSTERS* 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* 17 Apr - Poster-only abstracts due 06 May - Poster-only notification 29 May - Early-bird registration deadline (€350 full; €200 student) *Scope & Format* ISIPTA is the primary international forum to present and discuss new results related to imprecise probability. We welcome both theoretical and applied contributions. The poster-only track provides a presentation option that is also open for preliminary results, challenges, etc. 1-page abstracts should be submitted in the two-column ISIPTA format you can find at http://www.sipta.org/isipta15/?pag=posteronly The Program Committee will decide upon their acceptance based on their originality, soundness, technical quality and clarity of exposition. *Invited Speakers* Massimo Marinacci Department of Decision Sciences, Bocconi University, Milan, Italy Itzhak Gilboa Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel-Aviv University, Israel & HEC, Paris, France Peter M. Williams Department of Informatics, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK & BW Mining, Brighton, UK *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] IJAR Young Researcher Award at ISIPTA'15- call for applications
by ENRIQUE MIRANDA MENENDEZ March 31, 2015

March 31, 2015

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[SIPTA] CMU Summer School in Formal Philosophy
by Teddy Seidenfeld March 7, 2015

March 7, 2015

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[SIPTA] NAFIPS'2015 deadline extended to March 31
by Kreinovich March 6, 2015

March 6, 2015

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[SIPTA] IJCAI’15 Workshop on Sensitivity Analysis and Robustness in Probabilistic Graphical Models (2nd CFP)
by Alessandro Antonucci March 5, 2015

March 5, 2015

IJCAI’15 Workshop on Sensitivity Analysis and Robustness in Probabilistic Graphical Models Buenos Aires, July 25-27, 2015 - http://ipg.idsia.ch/wijcai15/ SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS Probabilistic graphical models are important tools in machine learning and artificial intelligence for reasoning with uncertainty. They provide means to represent large multivariate domains compactly and to perform sophisticated learning and reasoning efficiently. Examples of probabilistic graphical models are Bayesian networks, Markov Random fields, chain and factor graphs, Gaussian graphical models, to name but a few. The quantification of these models usually requires sharp (i.e., precise) assessments of the model local potentials and might be subject to robustness issues. For instance, perturbations of some parameter values may lead to different decisions from those which would be achieved by the unperturbed model, suggesting that decisions are not reliable. Reliability might also be in question because of missing data and assumptions behind the process. The workshop invites submissions of papers on all aspects of sensitivity analysis and robustness in probabilistic graphical models. Contributions may have a theoretical focus and/or an applied focus. A non-exhaustive list of topics follows. - Local and/or global sensitivity analysis. - Parameter-based and/or decision-based sensitivity analysis. - Design of robust learning, inference and/or decision making approaches. - Robust analysis and design of robustness measurements. - Extensions of probabilistic graphical models. - Reliable qualitative learning and reasoning. - Robust treatment of missing data. - Imprecise probability and other theories related to sensitivity analysis. - Computational complexity, exact and approximate algorithms. Each submission will be reviewed by peers using a double-blind process (please use the third person in self citations and take all necessary care not to identify yourselves). Accepted papers will be published electronically in a volume of the JMLR Workshop and Conference Proceedings series. There will be no rebuttal phase, but contributions considered worth publishing and needing substantial revision might be subject to a second round of reviewing/evaluation. All accepted papers will be presented at the workshop. At least one of the paper's authors should register and attend the workshop to present the work. Submissions must be formatted according to style and template files available for the Journal of Machine Learning Research (JMLR) Workshop and Conference Proceedings - two-column version. The files are available at http://ipg.idsia.ch/wijcai15/sarpgm15.tar.gz. Papers (including figures, tables, references, etc) are expected to have between 6 and 10 pages. IMPORTANT DATES Apr 27, 2015 - Deadline for submissions of contributions May 20, 2015 - Workshop paper acceptance notification May 30, 2015 - Deadline for workshop camera-ready copy (in case of minor revision; contributions needing major revision might need additional time - this will be arranged case by case) PC MEMBERS Alessandro Antonucci*, IDSIA, Switzerland. Alessio Benavoli, IDSIA, Switzerland. Cassio P. de Campos*, Queen's University Belfast, UK. Arthur Choi, University of California, Los Angeles, USA. Giorgio Corani*, IDSIA, Switzerland. Fabio Cozman, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil. Adnan Darwiche, University of California, Los Angeles, USA. Sebastien Destercke, Univ. de Technologie de Compiegne, France. Marek Druzdzel, University of Pittsburgh, USA. Johan Kwisthout, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands. Agnieszka Onisko, Bialystok University of Technology, Poland. Denis Maua, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil. Serafin Moral, Universidad de Granada, Spain. Silja Renooij, Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands. Matthias Troffaes, University of Durham, UK. (*: Workshop organizers.) More details about the submission procedure are available online. http://ipg.idsia.ch/wijcai15/ ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ (We apologize in case you receive multiple copies of this announcement, but yet we hope to reach the greatest possible number of people. Finding a trade-off is not an easy task.) -- _________________________________ Alessandro Antonucci IDSIA Dalle Molle Institute for Artificial Intelligence Via Cantonale (Galleria 2) CH-6928, Manno-Lugano, CH mail: alessandro(a)idsia.ch skype: alessandro.antonucci tel: +41 916108515 web: www.idsia.ch/~alessandro _________________________________

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[SIPTA] 1st Announcement: 8th WPMSIIP in Munich, 31st August to 5th September 2015
by ThomasAugustin March 3, 2015

March 3, 2015

Dear SIPTA list member, We are happy to announce the ** 8th Workshop on Principles and Methods of Statistical Inference with Interval Probability (WPMSIIP) ** to take place from ** Monday, 31st August, to Saturday, 5th September, 2015 in Munich, Germany. ** (See also maths.dur.ac.uk/stats/people/fc/wpmsiip.html for the previous workshops in this series and the successively updated workshop page at www.statistik.lmu.de/wpmsiip_2015/index.html.) The workshop follows the established WPMSIIP format and focuses on the informal discussion of ongoing research in imprecise probability and related topics. Thus it provides an ideal platform for stimulating exchange of ideas, including the opportunity for PhD students to present their first results to a wider, encouraging audience. The workshop week from Monday to Friday is roughly structured by (generally formulated) 'theme days', which are organized individually by two topic experts in the style they feel appropriate. On Saturday there will be a day excursion to a nice place nearby. Everyone is most welcome to participate and to present her/his views on one or more of the covered topics, on one or more days! We welcome any stimulating contribution, ranging from a 5 minutes sketch of some current idea or an unanswered question to a longer presentation of ongoing research or discussion panels on controversial issues. Please contact us before April 10th at julia.plass(a)stat.uni-muenchen.de if you have suggestions for topics or theme days. For sake of organization we would kindly ask you to let us know prior to mid June if you intend to participate. Feel free to get in touch with us at any time if you require further information. Best wishes from Munich, Thomas Augustin, on behalf of the WPMSIIP group and the local organizers

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[SIPTA] Lectureship(s) in Statistics at the University of Hull
by Marco Cattaneo Feb. 25, 2015

Feb. 25, 2015

Dear friends and colleagues, Two new Lecturer (Assistant Professor) positions are available at the Department of Mathematics of the University of Hull: at least one of them is in Statistics, and research interests in Imprecise Probabilities are particularly welcome. To see the full job description and apply online, please visit: jobs.hull.ac.uk/FS0168 The closing date for applications is: Friday 20 March 2015 If you have any questions about the position or the Department, feel free to contact me. Best wishes, Marco --- Dr Marco Cattaneo Department of Mathematics Robert Blackburn Building, Room 066B University of Hull Hull, HU6 7RX, UK Tel: +44 (0)1482 466566 http://www2.hull.ac.uk/science/mathematics/staff/cattaneo.aspx ************************************************** To view the terms under which this email is distributed, please go to http://www2.hull.ac.uk/legal/disclaimer.aspx **************************************************

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Re: [SIPTA] IEEE SSCI"2016: mark your calendars
by Kreinovich Feb. 14, 2015

Feb. 14, 2015

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[SIPTA] Third school on belief functions and their applications (announcement), September 28th to October 2nd, Stella Plage, France
by Arnaud Martin Feb. 14, 2015

Feb. 14, 2015

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Re: [SIPTA] IMEKO Congress
by Kreinovich Feb. 12, 2015

Feb. 12, 2015

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Re: [SIPTA] IMEKO Congress
by Kreinovich Feb. 12, 2015

Feb. 12, 2015

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Re: [SIPTA] applications to structural engineering: CFP
by Kreinovich Feb. 9, 2015

Feb. 9, 2015

FYI, please note that probabilistic and interval methods are among the highlighted topics -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Dr.M.V.Rama Rao [dr.mvrr(a)gmail.com] please help in forwarding the attached call for papers to the members of Interval Computations mailing list Rama Rao ******************************************************************* CALL FOR PAPERS SPECIAL TECHNICAL SESSIONS AT THE STRUCTURAL ENGINEERING WORLD CONGRESS (SEWC-2015), SINGAPORE We would like to kindly invite you to contribute to our Technical sessions, which we organize and co-organize at the Structural Engineering World Congress (SEWC-2015) October 19-22, 2015, Singapore (http://sewc2015.org/) We would be very pleased if you could accept this invitation and present a paper in one or more of our Technical Sessions. Please find the details of our Technical sessions at the end of this email and the descriptions attached. Please indicate your interest in participating in the conference by sending a mail to dr.mvrr(a)gmail.com or suryapp(a)yahoo.com at the earliest. Abstracts can be submitted online as per the instructions provided at http://sewc2015.org/abstract-submission/ Deadlines Abstract Submission: 16 March 2015 Abstract Acceptance by: 16 April 2015 Final Paper Submission: 16 July 2015 Please submit your abstract according to the instructions online through the conference webpage and, in addition, email a copy to us. Please accept our apologies if you receive this call for papers more than once through different channels. Sincerely, M. V. Rama Rao, Professor in Civil Engineering, Vasavi College of Engineering, Hyderabad, India Email: dr.mvrr(a)gmail.com P. Surya Prakash President, Association of Consulting Civil Engineers (India) Email: suryapp(a)yahoo.com DETAILS OF TECHNICAL SESSIONS 1. Structural Reliability This technical session aims to aims to outline the latest developments of handling the issue of reliability in Structural engineering. Contributions are invited with emphasis on theory, numerical methods and applications of the following areas a) Structural reliability b) Non-deterministic methods of structural analysis (Probabilistic, fuzzy and interval approaches) c) Any other research topics in the broader framework of the main theme of Structural Reliability 2. Advances in Structural Engineering This technical session aims to aims to outline the latest developments in the field of Structural engineering. Contributions are invited with emphasis on theory, numerical methods and applications of the following areas a) Computational Structural Mechanics (including application of neural networks, genetic algorithms and expert systems in Structural Analysis) b) Innovations in materials and methods of construction c) Any other research topics in the broader framework of the main theme of Structural Engineering ******************************************************************** Dr.M.V.Rama Rao M.Tech,PhD,Postdoc(KU Leuven),FIE,FACCE(I),FICI,MISTE Professor,Department of Civil Engineering Vasavi College of Engineering, Hyderabad-500 031 INDIA ---------------------------------------------------------- Formerly Postdoctoral Fellow, Departement Computerwetenschappen 200 a, Celestijnenlaan, Heverlee, B3001- Belgium

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[SIPTA] Call for papers: Special Issue on "Inductive Statistical Methods" - Entropy Journal
by Cassio P. de Campos Feb. 9, 2015

Feb. 9, 2015

Forwarding a call. Best regards, cassio. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Call for papers: Special Issue on "Inductive Statistical Methods" for Entropy (ISSN 1099-4300; http://www.mdpi.com/journal/entropy) A short prospectus is given at the volume website: http://www.mdpi.com/journal/entropy/special_issues/inductive-statistical This special issue will be fully Open Access. More information is available at http://www.mdpi.com/about/openaccess/ Entropy is an open access journal which maintains a rigorous and fast peer-review system and accepted papers are immediately published online. Because it is an online and open access journal, papers published in Entropy will receive high publicity. It is fully covered by the leading indexing and abstracting services, including Google Scholar, MathSciNet, Scopus and Science Citation Index Expanded (Web of Science). The Impact Factor for Entropy is 1.564 (2013). The importance of using statistical methods in the development of research is widely recognized by the general scientific community. This special issue focuses on foundations of statistics and their proper application in practical problems. Interest in foundations of inductive Statistics has been growing together with the increasing availability of new Bayesian methodological alternatives. Scientists need to deal with the increase difficulty in the choice of optimal methods to be applied to their research problems that each day becomes closer to reality. The examination and discussion on foundations prevent the mere ad-hoc application of Bayesian methods to scientific problems. Specific areas of interest include (but are not limited to): * Formal applications of Inductive Statistical methods to novel applied problems. * Philosophical accounts of Inductive Statistical methods (including contributions arguing for or against those). * Methodological developments of Inductive Statistics (taking in account the practical usability of them). * Surveys of the state of the art in one of the above areas. The official deadline for submissions is 31 May 2015. However, you may send your manuscript at any time before the deadline. We can organize a very fast peer-review, if accepted, the paper will be published immediately. The special issue editors: Prof. Dr. Carlos Alberto De Bragança Pereira University of São Paulo, cpereira(a)ime.usp.br Prof. Dr. Adriano Polpo Federal University of Sao Carlos, polpo(a)ufscar.br Please do not hesitate to contact us if you have any further questions.

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[SIPTA] Extended deadline: PhD Scholarship on Regression with Interval Data (University of Hull)
by Marco Cattaneo Feb. 6, 2015

Feb. 6, 2015

A full-time PhD Scholarship on Regression with Interval Data is available at the University of Hull, Department of Mathematics. Regression is one of the main methods of statistical analysis, widely used in all application fields. However, data are often not of the quality required in order to perform standard regression analyses. In particular, data are often interval-censored, meaning that data values are not known exactly, but only known to lie in particular intervals. The goal of the PhD project is to develop a well-founded general approach to regression with interval-censored data. The closing date for applications is 13 February 2015. The Scholarship will start on 28 September 2015. For more information, please see: http://www2.hull.ac.uk/student/scholarships/scienceandengineering/regressio… --- Dr Marco Cattaneo Department of Mathematics Robert Blackburn Building, Room 066B University of Hull Hull, HU6 7RX, UK Tel: +44 (0)1482 466566 http://www2.hull.ac.uk/science/mathematics/staff/cattaneo.aspx ************************************************** To view the terms under which this email is distributed, please go to http://www2.hull.ac.uk/legal/disclaimer.aspx **************************************************

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[SIPTA] FW: Publicity for SMC 2015
by Kreinovich Feb. 5, 2015

Feb. 5, 2015

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[SIPTA] ECSQARU: final call for papers and deadline extension
by Sébastien Destercke Jan. 30, 2015

Jan. 30, 2015

** 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 (extended): February 27th, 2015 Notification: April 15th, 2015 Final version: May 1st, 2015 Further information: https://ecsqaru2015.hds.utc.fr/ ====================================================================== Please note that this extended deadline is a hard deadline. No further extensions will be announced. 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 and indexing ---------------------------------- 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, indexed by the following services: - ISI Conference Proceedings Citation Index - Science (CPCI-S), included in ISI Web of Science - EI Engineering Index (Compendex and Inspec databases) - ACM Digital Library - dblp - Google Scholar - IO-Port - MathSciNet - Scopus - Zentralblatt MATH Extended version of selected papers will appear in a special issue of the International Journal of Approximate Reasoning. Invited speakers ----------------------- We are glad to announce that the following speakers have agreed to give an invited talk at the conference: - Edith Elkind, Oxford University - Teddy Seidenfeld, Carnegie Mellon University - Marco Zaffalon, Istituto "Dalle Molle" di Studi sull’Intelligenza Artificiale (IDSIA) 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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Re: [SIPTA] Call for papers: Symposium on “Stochastic Optimization, Uncertainty and Probability”, ASME 2015 International Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition (November 13-19, 2015, Houston, Texas)
by Kreinovich Jan. 28, 2015

Jan. 28, 2015

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[SIPTA] ISIPTA '15 FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS & POSTERS
by Enrique Miranda Jan. 28, 2015

Jan. 28, 2015

*ISIPTA '15 FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS & POSTERS* 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* 1 Feb - Paper abstracts due (*no preliminary paper required at this date*) 20 Feb - Review-ready papers due (*deadline extended*) 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). *Invited Speakers* Massimo Marinacci Department of Decision Sciences, Bocconi University, Milan, Italy Itzhak Gilboa Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel-Aviv University, Israel & HEC, Paris, France Peter M. Williams Department of Informatics, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK & BW Mining, Brighton, UK *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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Re: [SIPTA] MS at APSSRA 2016
by Kreinovich Jan. 24, 2015

Jan. 24, 2015

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[SIPTA] Accept & reject statement-based uncertainty models
by Erik Quaeghebeur Jan. 22, 2015

Jan. 22, 2015

Dear colleagues, I am pleased to announce the publication in IJAR of a paper co-authored by Gert de Cooman, Filip Hermans, and myself: Accept & reject statement-based uncertainty models Links: * Journal version (free download until March 12th): http://authors.elsevier.com/a/1QPbF,KD6Z3Yjz or (the above link does not work for me in Firefox) http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/authShare/S0888613X14001789/20150121T1… * DOI: 10.1016/j.ijar.2014.12.003 * Author post-print version (v6 update with some errata fixed will arrive by next week): http://arxiv.org/abs/1208.4462 Abstract: We develop a framework for modelling and reasoning with uncertainty based on accept and reject statements about gambles. It generalises the frameworks found in the literature based on statements of acceptability, desirability, or favourability and clarifies their relative position. Next to the statement-based formulation, we also provide a translation in terms of preference relations, discuss—as a bridge to existing frameworks—a number of simplified variants, and show the relationship with prevision-based uncertainty models. We furthermore provide an application to modelling symmetry judgements. Keywords: Acceptability; Indifference; Desirability; Favourability; Preference; Prevision Best regards, Erik Quaeghebeur -- http://ac.erikquaeghebeur.name

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[SIPTA] Doctoral Fellow at Queen's University Belfast - School of Electronics, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
by Cassio P. de Campos Jan. 15, 2015

Jan. 15, 2015

Forwarding announcement of postdoc position here at Queen's, best, cassio. ====== Jobs: Queen's University Belfast - School of Electronics, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Job Ref:15/103681 http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/AKF760/research-fellow-multi-agent-systems-for-la… Available immediately for the PACES project and in collaboration with BAE Systems, National Nuclear Laboratory, Network Rail, SciSys, Sellafield, Schlumberger, DSTL and UK Space Agency, the successful candidate will conduct advanced research in the following areas (subject to changes): i. Developing belief change models in multi-agent environments under uncertain sensory data and other forms of inputs; ii. Developing dynamic planning under uncertainty algorithms in the context of BDI agents; iii. Developing (discrete and continuous) event models and prediction approaches for autonomous planning and execution in MASs. Anticipated interview date: Friday 13 February 2015 Salary scale: £31,342 - £40,847 per annum (including contribution points) Closing date: Monday 2 February 2015 Please visit our website for further information and to apply online - http://www.qub.ac.uk/schools/eeecs/Workwithus/CurrentVacancies/ or alternatively contact the Personnel Department, Queen's University Belfast, BT7 1NN. Telephone (028) 90973044 or e-mail on personnel(a)qub.ac.uk The University is committed to equality of opportunity and to selection on merit. It therefore welcomes applications from all sections of society and particularly welcomes applications from people with a disability. Fixed term contract posts are available for the stated period in the first instance but in particular circumstances may be renewed or made permanent subject to availability of funding. Dr Kim Bauters Knowledge and Data Engineering Cluster School of Electronics, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Queen's University Belfast www: http://www.cs.qub.ac.uk/~k.bauters/

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[SIPTA] ECSQARU 2015 second cfp
by Sébastien Destercke Jan. 12, 2015

Jan. 12, 2015

** 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://ecsqaru2015.hds.utc.fr/ ====================================================================== 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 and indexing ---------------------------------- 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, indexed by the following services: - ISI Conference Proceedings Citation Index - Science (CPCI-S), included in ISI Web of Science - EI Engineering Index (Compendex and Inspec databases) - ACM Digital Library - dblp - Google Scholar - IO-Port - MathSciNet - Scopus - Zentralblatt MATH Extended version of selected papers will appear in a special issue of the International Journal of Approximate Reasoning. Invited speakers ------------------------ We are glad to announce that the following speakers have agreed to give an invited talk at the conference: - Edith Elkind, Oxford University - Teddy Seidenfeld, Carnegie Mellon University - Marco Zaffalon, Istituto "Dalle Molle" di Studi sull’Intelligenza Artificiale (IDSIA) 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] [1st CfP] IJCAI’15 Workshop on Sensitivity Analysis and Robustness in Probabilistic Graphical Models
by Alessandro Antonucci Jan. 12, 2015

Jan. 12, 2015

IJCAI’15 Workshop on Sensitivity Analysis and Robustness in Probabilistic Graphical Models Buenos Aires, July 25-27, 2015 - http://ipg.idsia.ch/wijcai15/ FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS Probabilistic graphical models are important tools in machine learning and artificial intelligence for reasoning with uncertainty. They provide means to represent large multivariate domains compactly and to perform sophisticated learning and reasoning efficiently. Examples of probabilistic graphical models are Bayesian networks, Markov Random fields, chain and factor graphs, Gaussian graphical models, to name but a few. The quantification of these models usually requires sharp (i.e., precise) assessments of the model local potentials and might be subject to robustness issues. For instance, perturbations of some parameter values may lead to different decisions from those which would be achieved by the unperturbed model, suggesting that decisions are not reliable. Reliability might also be in question because of missing data and assumptions behind the process. The workshop invites submissions of papers on all aspects of sensitivity analysis and robustness in probabilistic graphical models. Contributions may have a theoretical focus and/or an applied focus. A non-exhaustive list of topics follows. - Local and/or global sensitivity analysis. - Parameter-based and/or decision-based sensitivity analysis. - Design of robust learning, inference and/or decision making approaches. - Robust analysis and design of robustness measurements. - Extensions of probabilistic graphical models. - Reliable qualitative learning and reasoning. - Robust treatment of missing data. - Imprecise probability and other theories related to sensitivity analysis. - Computational complexity, exact and approximate algorithms. Each submission will be reviewed by peers using a double-blind process (please use the third person in self citations and take all necessary care not to identify yourselves). Accepted papers will be published electronically in a volume of the JMLR Workshop and Conference Proceedings series. There will be no rebuttal phase, but contributions considered worth publishing and needing substantial revision might be subject to a second round of reviewing/evaluation. All accepted papers will be presented at the workshop. At least one of the paper's authors should register and attend the workshop to present the work. Submissions must be formatted according to style and template files available for the Journal of Machine Learning Research (JMLR) Workshop and Conference Proceedings - two-column version. The style files are available at http:/ipg.idsia.ch/wijcai15/sarpgm15.tar.gz Papers (including figures, tables, references, etc) are expected to have between 6 and 10 pages. IMPORTANT DATES Apr 27, 2015 - Deadline for submissions of contributions May 20, 2015 - Workshop paper acceptance notification May 30, 2015 - Deadline for workshop camera-ready copy (in case of minor revision; contributions needing major revision might need additional time - this will be arranged case by case) PC MEMBERS Alessandro Antonucci*, IDSIA, Switzerland. Alessio Benavoli, IDSIA, Switzerland. Cassio P. de Campos*, Queen's University Belfast, UK. Arthur Choi, University of California, Los Angeles, USA. Giorgio Corani*, IDSIA, Switzerland. Fabio Cozman, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil. Adnan Darwiche, University of California, Los Angeles, USA. Sebastien Destercke, Univ. de Technologie de Compiegne, France. Marek Druzdzel, University of Pittsburgh, USA. Johan Kwisthout, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands. Agnieszka Onisko, Bialystok University of Technology, Poland. Denis Maua, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil. Serafin Moral, Universidad de Granada, Spain. Silja Renooij, Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands. Matthias Troffaes, University of Durham, UK. (*: Workshop organizers.) More details about the submission procedure are available online. http://ipg.idsia.ch/wijcai15/ ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ (We apologize in case you receive multiple copies of this announcement, but yet we hope to reach the greatest possible number of people. Finding a trade-off is not an easy task.) -- _________________________________ Alessandro Antonucci IDSIA Dalle Molle Institute for Artificial Intelligence Via Cantonale (Galleria 2) CH-6928, Manno-Lugano, CH mail: alessandro(a)idsia.ch skype: alessandro.antonucci tel: +41 916108515 web: www.idsia.ch/~alessandro _________________________________

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[SIPTA] ISIPTA'15 second call for papers and posters
by Enrique Miranda Jan. 11, 2015

Jan. 11, 2015

*ISIPTA '15 SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS & POSTERS* 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). *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 Peter M. Williams, a Founding Father of Imprecise Probability and Principal BW Mining, Brighton, UK *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] FW: mark your calendars
by Kreinovich Jan. 10, 2015

Jan. 10, 2015

FYI, for those who are interested in quantitative applications to economics ************************************************************* The 9th International Conference of the Thailand Econometric Society TES'2016: Causal Inference in Econometrics January 6-8, 2016 information will be posted on http://www.cmse-conference.org/ Call for Papers: TES'2016 calls for academic papers in the field of theoretical and empirical econometrics. The theme of the conference in January 2016 is "Causal Inference in Econometrics". The conference also welcomes all disciplines in quantitative economics.

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Re: [SIPTA] IFSA-EUSFLAT 2015: CFP - Submission deadline extension.
by Kreinovich Jan. 10, 2015

Jan. 10, 2015

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[SIPTA] ESREL special session on Bayesian modelling to handle epistemic uncertainty in risk and reliability
by Matthias Troffaes Jan. 9, 2015

Jan. 9, 2015

Dear colleagues, See below, another ESREL special session that might be of interest to our community. Although not as explicitly mentioned, imprecise probability contributions (e.g. robust Bayesian methods for risk & reliability modelling) are also very welcome. Cheers, Matthias ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Ullrika Sahlin <ullrika.sahlin(a)cec.lu.se> Date: Fri, Jan 9, 2015 at 10:20 AM Welcome to submit papers and to a special session on "Bayesian modelling to handle epistemic uncertainty in risk and reliability” at the next European Safety and Reliability Conference (ESREL) to be held in Zurich, September 7-10, 2015. The session is organized by Dr Ullrika Sahlin Lund University, Dr John Paul Gosling University of Leeds and Dr Kevin Wilson University of Strathclyde who can provide further information. This special session aims to give a broad overview of applications of Bayesian modelling to handle knowledge-based uncertainty in assessments and decision making. We welcome both applied and conceptual contributions in dealing with knowledge-based uncertainty using a Bayesian framework. For example, contributions are sought on the applications and theoretical considerations of expert elicitation, characterising uncertainty in model parameters and structure, learning strategies and evidence synthesis. The deadline for submitting a 400-word abstract is January 31st. Author guidelines can be found here: http://esrel2015.ethz.ch/?page_id=29 The paper submission system is now open: http://esrel2015.ethz.ch/system/index.php/esrel/2015/login. Don’t forget to indicate the special session when submitting your abstract, or send Ullrika an email (ullrika.sahlin(a)cec.lu.se) indicating that you would like to be part of this session. We look forward to hear from you Ullrika, John Paul and Kevin

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[SIPTA] Fwd: Invitation to session on Info-gap theory in safety and reliability assessments
by Matthias Troffaes Jan. 5, 2015

Jan. 5, 2015

Dear colleagues, This may be of interest to some of you - note the deadline of 31 January for abstracts. Cheers, Matthias ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Ullrika Sahlin <ullrika.sahlin(a)cec.lu.se> Date: Mon, Dec 29, 2014 at 9:44 AM Subject: Invitation to session on Info-gap theory in safety and reliability assessments Welcome to submit a paper to a special session on Info-gap theory in safety and reliability assessments at the next European Safety and Reliability Conference ESREL to be held in Zürich September 7 – 10th 2015. Besides hosting some state-of-the art applications of info-gap theory in assessments the aims of this session are to 1) Demonstrate the potential of using info-gap theory to deal with weaknesses in underlying information or uncertainty arising from making severe extrapolations. 2) Discuss basic concepts behind info-gap theory and how these relate to concepts of risk, uncertainty and decision theory. 3) Encourage novel applications of info-gap theory to treat and communicate epistemic uncertainty in the space between uncertainty quantified by knowledge-based Bayesian probabilities and uncertainty quantified by non-probabilistic measures. This session is organized by Dr. Ullrika Sahlin and I am happy to provide you with further information. Deadline for abstract submission is January 31st. The paper submission system is now open, http://esrel2015.ethz.ch/system/index.php/esrel/2015/login. Don’t forget to indicate the special session at abstract submission or send us an email that you would like to be part of this session. Please forward this invitation to people in your network that may be keen in contributing!

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[SIPTA] FW: special issue, from Alan Wong
by Kreinovich Dec. 24, 2014

Dec. 24, 2014

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[SIPTA] [jobs] 150th Anniversary PhD Scholarship on "Real-time Action Recognition for Human-Robot Interaction" - Deadline extended to Jan 9 2015
by Fabio Cuzzolin Dec. 22, 2014

Dec. 22, 2014

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[SIPTA] FW: UAI 2015 - Call for Tutorials
by Kreinovich Dec. 19, 2014

Dec. 19, 2014

FYI, an interesting opportunity to promote imprecise probabilities -----Original Message----- From: Jonas Peters [apologies if you receive multiple copies of this mail] ============================== UAI 2015 - Call for Tutorials ============================== The UAI 2015 Organizing Committee invites proposals for tutorials. The tutorials will be held at the 31st Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence, on July 12, 2015 in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. http://auai.org/uai2015/tutorials.shtml We seek proposals for tutorials on core areas that enjoy broad interest within the UAI community. We are interested in tutorials on established as well as emerging research topics within the field itself, but we also welcome tutorials from related research fields or application areas (e.g., computer vision, natural language processing, etc.). Important dates --------------- Wednesday, March 10, 2015: Tutorial proposals due. Wednesday, April 15, 2015: Acceptance notification. Sunday, July 12, 2015: Tutorials date. How to Propose a Tutorial ------------------------- Proposals are expected to have an overall length of 2 to 3 pages. They should provide sufficient information to evaluate the quality and importance of the topic, the likely quality of the presentation materials, and the speakers' teaching ability. Tutorials may be taught by more than one person to provide a richer, more balanced coverage of an area. When proposing a tutorial, please include the following sections: ** Topic overview -- What will the tutorial be about? Why do you believe this is an interesting and significant subject for the UAI community? ** Target audience -- From which areas do you expect potential participants to come? What prior knowledge, if any, do you expect from the audience? What will the participants learn? How many participants do you expect? ** Tutorial length -- previous years, tutorials were limited to a total length of two hours. If you would like to spend more (or less) time than this, please indicate and motivate your preferred tutorial length. ** Content details -- Provide a detailed outline of the topics to be presented, including estimates for the time that will be devoted to each subject. If possible, provide samples of past tutorial slides or teaching materials. In case of multiple presenters, specify how you will distribute the work. ** Format -- How will you present the material? Will there be multimedia parts of the presentation? Do you plan software demonstrations? Specify any extraordinary technical equipment that you would need. ** Organizers and presenters' expertise -- Please include the name, e-mail address, and webpage of all presenters. In addition, outline the presenters' background and include a list of publications in the tutorial area. Tutorial proposals should be submitted by March 10, 2015: * via email to S.Renooij at uu.nl * with the subject line: "UAI 2015 Tutorial Proposal" * in PDF format For more information you can contact: Silja Renooij (s.renooij at uu.nl) Tutorial Chair UAI 2015

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[SIPTA] FYI: a wikipedia page on p-boxes
by Kreinovich Dec. 18, 2014

Dec. 18, 2014

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[SIPTA] PhD Scholarship: Regression with Interval Data (University of Hull)
by Marco Cattaneo Dec. 18, 2014

Dec. 18, 2014

A full-time PhD Scholarship on Regression with Interval Data is available at the University of Hull, Department of Physics and Mathematics. Regression is one of the main methods of statistical analysis, widely used in all application fields. However, data are often not of the quality required in order to perform standard regression analyses. In particular, data are often interval-censored, meaning that data values are not known exactly, but only known to lie in particular intervals. The goal of the PhD project is to develop a well-founded general approach to regression with interval-censored data. The closing date for applications is 2 February 2015. The Scholarship will start on 28 September 2015. For more information, please see: http://www2.hull.ac.uk/student/scholarships/scienceandengineering/regressio… --- Dr Marco Cattaneo Lecturer in Mathematics Department of Physics and Mathematics Robert Blackburn Building, Room 066B University of Hull Hull, HU6 7RX, UK Tel: +44 (0)1482 466566 http://www2.hull.ac.uk/science/physicsandmathematics/staff/cattaneo.aspx ************************************************** To view the terms under which this email is distributed, please go to http://www2.hull.ac.uk/legal/disclaimer.aspx **************************************************

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[SIPTA] IFSA-EUSFLAT2015 - Special Session on satistics with uncertain data - Call for Papers
by ENRIQUE MIRANDA MENENDEZ Dec. 17, 2014

Dec. 17, 2014

************* IFSA-EUSFLAT 2015 special session ************* Your help with circulating this announcement locally is much appreciated. Apologies for multiple postings. Dear colleagues, We are organizing, within IFSA-EUSFLAT 2015 (http://www.softcomputing.es/metaspace/portal/12/407-home?pms=1,333,407002,v…) a special session on the topic: Statistical inference and learning with uncertain data In this special session, we would like to attract contributions dealing with the following issues: * Modeling of uncertain data * Inference and decision from uncertain data * Data uncertainty reduction/disambiguation All submission touching on one or more of these topics are welcomed. Details about the call can be found in at http://www.softcomputing.es/metaspace/portal/12/513 Submissions should follow the guidelines of IFSA-EUSFLAT (see http://www.softcomputing.es/metaspace/portal/12/451-submissions?pms=1,333,4…) Important dates ============= – 16th January 2015: paper submission – 16th March 2015: notification of acceptance – 30th June - 3rd July 2015 : conference Organizers ========= Any question or request related to this special session can be addressed to one of the organizers: - Inés Couso, Universidad de Oviedo, couso(a)uniovi.es - Sébastien Destercke, HEUDIASYC, Compiegne, sebastien.destercke(a)hds.utc.fr - Luciano Sanchez, Universidad de Oviedo, luciano(a)uniovi.es - Olivier Strauss, LIRMM, Montpellier, strauss(a)lirmm.fr Best regards.

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[SIPTA] IFSA-EUSFLAT2015 - Special Session on satistics with uncertain data - Call for Papers
by Sébastien Destercke Dec. 16, 2014

Dec. 16, 2014

************* IFSA-EUSFLAT 2015 special session ************* Your help with circulating this announcement locally is much appreciated. Apologies for multiple postings. Dear colleagues, We are organizing, within IFSA-EUSFLAT 2015 (http://www.softcomputing.es/metaspace/portal/12/407-home?pms=1,333,407002,v…) a special session on the topic: Statistical inference and learning with uncertain data In this special session, we would like to attract contributions dealing with the following issues: * Modeling of uncertain data * Inference and decision from uncertain data * Data uncertainty reduction/disambiguation All submission touching on one or more of these topics are welcomed. Details about the call can be found in at http://www.softcomputing.es/metaspace/portal/12/513 Submissions should follow the guidelines of IFSA-EUSFLAT (see http://www.softcomputing.es/metaspace/portal/12/451-submissions?pms=1,333,4…) Important dates ============= – 16th January 2015: paper submission – 16th March 2015: notification of acceptance – 30th June - 3rd July 2015 : conference Organizers ========= Any question or request related to this special session can be addressed to one of the organizers: - Inès Couso, Universidad de Oviedo, couso(a)uniovi.es - Sébastien Destercke, HEUDIASYC, Compiegne, sebastien.destercke(a)hds.utc.fr - Luciano Sanchez, Universidad de Oviedo, luciano(a)uniovi.es - Olivier Strauss, LIRMM, Montpellier, strauss(a)lirmm.fr Best regards.

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[SIPTA] Symposium on Computational Intelligence for Engineering Solutions CIES'2015, Cape Town, South Africa, December 7-10, 2015
by Kreinovich Dec. 15, 2014

Dec. 15, 2014

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[SIPTA] URGENT - PhD Scholarship in Real-time Action Recognition for Human-Robot Interaction
by Fabio Cuzzolin Dec. 12, 2014

Dec. 12, 2014

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[SIPTA] FW: an interesting mini-symposium
by Kreinovich Dec. 6, 2014

Dec. 6, 2014

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[SIPTA] Deep Learning and Representation Learning Workshop: NIPS 2014
by Adam Coates Dec. 2, 2014

Dec. 2, 2014

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 Dec. 1, 2014

Dec. 1, 2014

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[SIPTA] automatically (?) updated online bibliographies on different topics
by Kreinovich Nov. 30, 2014

Nov. 30, 2014

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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 Nov. 26, 2014

Nov. 26, 2014

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 Nov. 21, 2014

Nov. 21, 2014

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 Nov. 20, 2014

Nov. 20, 2014

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 Nov. 19, 2014

Nov. 19, 2014

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[SIPTA] University of Oxford, Department of Computer Science: up to 15 fully funded doctoral studentships
by Thomas Lukasiewicz Nov. 17, 2014

Nov. 17, 2014

[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 Nov. 7, 2014

Nov. 7, 2014

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 Nov. 5, 2014

Nov. 5, 2014

*** 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 Nov. 5, 2014

Nov. 5, 2014

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 Oct. 30, 2014

Oct. 30, 2014

*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 Oct. 27, 2014

Oct. 27, 2014

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[SIPTA] CFP: 3rd International Symposium on Learning and Data Sciences (SLDS 2015)
by Gert de Cooman Oct. 22, 2014

Oct. 22, 2014

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[SIPTA] Statistics
by Marco Zaffalon Oct. 8, 2014

Oct. 8, 2014

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 Oct. 6, 2014

Oct. 6, 2014

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 Oct. 5, 2014

Oct. 5, 2014

*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 Sept. 21, 2014

Sept. 21, 2014

*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 Sept. 14, 2014

Sept. 14, 2014

*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 Sept. 12, 2014

Sept. 12, 2014

** 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 Sept. 7, 2014

Sept. 7, 2014

*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 Sept. 2, 2014

Sept. 2, 2014

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[SIPTA] LATA 2015: 2nd call for papers
by GRLMC - URV Aug. 24, 2014

Aug. 24, 2014

*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 Aug. 21, 2014

Aug. 21, 2014

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[SIPTA] BigDat 2015: August 23, registration deadline
by GRLMC Aug. 15, 2014

Aug. 15, 2014

*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 July 30, 2014

July 30, 2014

*************** 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 July 28, 2014

July 28, 2014

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 July 27, 2014

July 27, 2014

*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 July 19, 2014

July 19, 2014

*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 July 18, 2014

July 18, 2014

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[SIPTA] BELIEF 2014 - CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
by Fabio Cuzzolin July 17, 2014

July 17, 2014

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[SIPTA] TPNC 2014: extended submission deadline 24 July
by GRLMC July 12, 2014

July 12, 2014

*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 July 11, 2014

July 11, 2014

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 July 9, 2014

July 9, 2014

************************************************************ 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 July 8, 2014

July 8, 2014

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 July 3, 2014

July 3, 2014

[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 July 1, 2014

July 1, 2014

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[SIPTA] SSTiC 2014: last-minute half-price registration
by GRLMC June 29, 2014

June 29, 2014

*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 June 17, 2014

June 17, 2014

*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 June 15, 2014

June 15, 2014

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 June 8, 2014

June 8, 2014

*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 May 31, 2014

May 31, 2014

*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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