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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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[SIPTA] next Reliable Engineering Computing conference
by Kreinovich May 31, 2014

May 31, 2014

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

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

May 26, 2014

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

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Re: [SIPTA] FW: International Conference on Risk Analysis of MeteorologicalDisasters
by Kreinovich May 24, 2014

May 24, 2014

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

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

May 23, 2014

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Re: [SIPTA] TES'2015 deadline extended
by Kreinovich May 22, 2014

May 22, 2014

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[SIPTA] IPSP14: Call for Participation
by Marco Cattaneo May 22, 2014

May 22, 2014

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

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

May 18, 2014

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

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

May 16, 2014

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[SIPTA] Fwd: High-Value PhD Studentships available in our Centre for Doctoral Training, Liverpool.
by ThomasAugustin May 16, 2014

May 16, 2014

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[SIPTA] PhD position at Compiègne University
by Sébastien Destercke May 13, 2014

May 13, 2014

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

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

May 12, 2014

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

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

May 10, 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 a major journal will be later published containing peer-reviewed extended versions of some of the papers contributed to the conference. Submissions to it will be by invitation. REGISTRATION: The period for registration is open from April 5 to December 9, 2014. The registration form can be found at: http://grammars.grlmc.com/tpnc2014/Registration.php DEADLINES: Paper submission: July 17, 2014 (23:59h, CET) Notification of paper acceptance or rejection: August 24, 2014 Final version of the paper for the LNCS proceedings: September 7, 2014 Early registration: September 7, 2014 Late registration: November 25, 2014 Submission to the post-conference journal special issue: March 11, 2015 QUESTIONS AND FURTHER INFORMATION: florentinalilica.voicu(a)urv.cat POSTAL ADDRESS: TPNC 2014 Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics (GRLMC) Rovira i Virgili University Av. Catalunya, 35 43002 Tarragona, Spain Phone: +34 977 559 543 Fax: +34 977 558 386 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS: Universidad de Granada Universitat Rovira i Virgili

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[SIPTA] EVENT: `Imprecise Probabilities' at Durham University, Fri 23 May
by COOLEN F.P.A. May 7, 2014

May 7, 2014

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[SIPTA] SLSP 2014: extended submission deadline 14 May
by GRLMC May 4, 2014

May 4, 2014

*To be removed from our mailing list, please respond to this message with UNSUBSCRIBE in the subject line* ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ***** SUBMISSION DEADLINE EXTENDED: May 14 ***** ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- **************************************************************************** ****** 2nd INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON STATISTICAL LANGUAGE AND SPEECH PROCESSING SLSP 2014 Grenoble, France October 14-16, 2014 Organised by: Équipe GETALP Laboratoire dInformatique de Grenoble Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics (GRLMC) Rovira i Virgili University http://grammars.grlmc.com/slsp2014/ **************************************************************************** ****** AIMS: SLSP is a yearly conference series aimed at promoting and displaying excellent research on the wide spectrum of statistical methods that are currently in use in computational language or speech processing. It aims at attracting contributions from both fields. Though there exist large, well-known conferences and workshops hosting contributions to any of these areas, SLSP is a more focused meeting where synergies between subdomains and people will hopefully happen. In SLSP 2014, significant room will be reserved to young scholars at the beginning of their career and particular focus will be put on methodology. VENUE: SLSP 2014 will take place in Grenoble, at the foot of the French Alps. SCOPE: The conference invites submissions discussing the employment of statistical methods (including machine learning) within language and speech processing. The list below is indicative and not exhaustive: phonology, phonetics, prosody, morphology syntax, semantics discourse, dialogue, pragmatics statistical models for natural language processing supervised, unsupervised and semi-supervised machine learning methods applied to natural language, including speech statistical methods, including biologically-inspired methods similarity alignment language resources part-of-speech tagging parsing semantic role labelling natural language generation anaphora and coreference resolution speech recognition speaker identification/verification speech transcription speech synthesis machine translation translation technology text summarisation information retrieval text categorisation information extraction term extraction spelling correction text and web mining opinion mining and sentiment analysis spoken dialogue systems author identification, plagiarism and spam filtering STRUCTURE: SLSP 2014 will consist of: invited talks peer-reviewed contributions INVITED SPEAKERS: Claire Gardent (LORIA, Nancy, FR), Grammar Based Sentence Generation and Statistical Error Mining Roger K. Moore (Sheffield, UK), Spoken Language Processing: Time to Look Outside? Martti Vainio (Helsinki, FI), Phonetics and Machine Learning: Hierarchical Modelling of Prosody in Statistical Speech Synthesis PROGRAMME COMMITTEE: Sophia Ananiadou (Manchester, UK) Srinivas Bangalore (Florham Park, US) Patrick Blackburn (Roskilde, DK) Hervé Bourlard (Martigny, CH) Bill Byrne (Cambridge, UK) Nick Campbell (Dublin, IE) David Chiang (Marina del Rey, US) Kenneth W. Church (Yorktown Heights, US) Walter Daelemans (Antwerpen, BE) Thierry Dutoit (Mons, BE) Alexander Gelbukh (Mexico City, MX) James Glass (Cambridge, US) Ralph Grishman (New York, US) Sanda Harabagiu (Dallas, US) Xiaodong He (Redmond, US) Hynek Hermansky (Baltimore, US) Hitoshi Isahara (Toyohashi, JP) Lori Lamel (Orsay, FR) Gary Geunbae Lee (Pohang, KR) Haizhou Li (Singapore, SG) Daniel Marcu (Los Angeles, US) Carlos Martín-Vide (Tarragona, ES, chair) Manuel Montes-y-Gómez (Puebla, MX) Satoshi Nakamura (Nara, JP) Shrikanth S. Narayanan (Los Angeles, US) Vincent Ng (Dallas, US) Joakim Nivre (Uppsala, SE) Elmar Nöth (Erlangen, DE) Maurizio Omologo (Trento, IT) Mari Ostendorf (Seattle, US) Barbara H. Partee (Amherst, US) Gerald Penn (Toronto, CA) Massimo Poesio (Colchester, UK) James Pustejovsky (Waltham, US) Gaël Richard (Paris, FR) German Rigau (San Sebastián, ES) Paolo Rosso (Valencia, ES) Yoshinori Sagisaka (Tokyo, JP) Björn W. Schuller (London, UK) Satoshi Sekine (New York, US) Richard Sproat (New York, US) Mark Steedman (Edinburgh, UK) Jian Su (Singapore, SG) Marc Swerts (Tilburg, NL) Jun'ichi Tsujii (Beijing, CN) Gertjan van Noord (Groningen, NL) Renata Vieira (Porto Alegre, BR) Dekai Wu (Hong Kong, HK) Feiyu Xu (Berlin, DE) Roman Yangarber (Helsinki, FI) Geoffrey Zweig (Redmond, US) ORGANISING COMMITTEE: Laurent Besacier (Grenoble, co-chair) Adrian Horia Dediu (Tarragona) Benjamin Lecouteux (Grenoble) Carlos Martín-Vide (Tarragona, co-chair) Florentina Lilica Voicu (Tarragona) SUBMISSIONS: Authors are invited to submit non-anonymized papers in English presenting original and unpublished research. Papers should not exceed 12 single-spaced pages (including eventual appendices, references, etc.) and should be prepared according to the standard format for Springer Verlag's LNAI/LNCS series (see http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0) Submissions have to be uploaded to: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=slsp2014 PUBLICATIONS: A volume of proceedings published by Springer in the LNAI/LNCS series will be available by the time of the conference. A special issue of a major journal will be later published containing peer-reviewed extended versions of some of the papers contributed to the conference. Submissions to it will be by invitation. REGISTRATION: The period for registration is open from January 16, 2014 to October 14, 2014. The registration form can be found at: http://grammars.grlmc.com/slsp2014/Registration.php DEADLINES: Paper submission: May 14, 2014 (23:59h, CET) EXTENDED Notification of paper acceptance or rejection: June 18, 2014 Final version of the paper for the LNAI/LNCS proceedings: June 25, 2014 Early registration: July 2, 2014 Late registration: September 30, 2014 Submission to the post-conference journal special issue: January 16, 2015 QUESTIONS AND FURTHER INFORMATION: florentinalilica.voicu(a)urv.cat POSTAL ADDRESS: SLSP 2014 Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics (GRLMC) Rovira i Virgili University Av. Catalunya, 35 43002 Tarragona, Spain Phone: +34 977 559 543 Fax: +34 977 558 386 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS: Laboratoire dInformatique de Grenoble Universitat Rovira i Virgili

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[SIPTA] SUM 2014 CfP -- Abstract submission deadline approaching!
by Andrea Cali April 30, 2014

April 30, 2014

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[SIPTA] FW: FW: new books on imprecise probabilities
by Kreinovich April 30, 2014

April 30, 2014

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

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[SIPTA] FW: new books on imprecise probabilities
by Kreinovich April 30, 2014

April 30, 2014

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

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[SIPTA] BELIEF 2014 - 3rd International Conference on Belief Functions - EXTENDED DEADLINE
by Fabio Cuzzolin April 28, 2014

April 28, 2014

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

April 27, 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/ ********************************************************************* --- May 10, 6th registration deadline --- ********************************************************************* AIM: SSTiC 2014 is the second edition in a series started in 2013. For the previous event, see http://grammars.grlmc.com/SSTiC2013/ SSTiC 2014 will be a research training event mainly addressed to PhD students and PhD holders in the first steps of their academic career. It intends to update them about the most recent developments in the diverse branches of computer science and its neighbouring areas. To that purpose, renowned scholars will lecture and will be available for interaction with the audience. SSTiC 2014 will cover the whole spectrum of computer science through 6 keynote lectures and 23 six-hour courses dealing with some of the most lively topics in the field. The organizers share the idea that outstanding speakers will really attract the brightest students. ADDRESSED TO: Graduate students from around the world. There are no formal pre-requisites in terms of the academic degree the attendee must hold. However, since there will be several levels among the courses, reference may be made to specific knowledge background in the description of some of them. SSTiC 2014 is also appropriate for more senior people who want to keep themselves updated on developments in their own field or in other branches of computer science. They will surely find it fruitful to listen and discuss with scholars who are main references in computing nowadays. REGIME: In addition to keynotes, 3 parallel sessions will be held during the whole event. Participants will be able to freely choose the courses they will be willing to attend as well as to move from one to another. VENUE: SSTiC 2014 will take place in Tarragona, located 90 kms. to the south of Barcelona. The venue will be: Campus Catalunya Universitat Rovira i Virgili Av. Catalunya, 35 43002 Tarragona KEYNOTE SPEAKERS: Larry S. Davis (U Maryland, College Park), A Historical Perspective of Computer Vision Models for Object Recognition and Scene Analysis David S. Johnson (Columbia U, New York), Open and Closed Problems in NP-Completeness George Karypis (U Minnesota, Twin Cities), Top-N Recommender Systems: Revisiting Item Neighborhood Methods Steffen Staab (U Koblenz), Explicit and Implicit Semantics: Two Sides of One Coin Philip Wadler (U Edinburgh), You and Your Research and The Elements of Style Ronald R. Yager (Iona C, New Rochelle), Social Modeling COURSES AND PROFESSORS: Divyakant Agrawal (U California, Santa Barbara), [intermediate] Scalable Data Management in Enterprise and Cloud Computing Infrastructures Pierre Baldi (U California, Irvine), [intermediate] Big Data Informatics Challenges and Opportunities in the Life Sciences Rajkumar Buyya (U Melbourne), [intermediate] Cloud Computing John M. Carroll (Pennsylvania State U, University Park), [introductory] Usability Engineering and Scenario-based Design Kwang-Ting (Tim) Cheng (U California, Santa Barbara), [introductory/intermediate] Smartphones: Hardware Platform, Software Development, and Emerging Apps Amr El Abbadi (U California, Santa Barbara), [introductory] The Distributed Foundations of Data Management in the Cloud Richard M. Fujimoto (Georgia Tech, Atlanta), [introductory] Parallel and Distributed Simulation Mark Guzdial (Georgia Tech, Atlanta), [introductory] Computing Education Research: What We Know about Learning and Teaching Computer Science David S. Johnson (Columbia U, New York), [introductory] The Traveling Salesman Problem in Theory and Practice George Karypis (U Minnesota, Twin Cities), [intermediate] Programming Models/Frameworks for Parallel & Distributed Computing Aggelos K. Katsaggelos (Northwestern U, Evanston), [intermediate] Optimization Techniques for Sparse/Low-rank Recovery Problems in Image Processing and Machine Learning Arie E. Kaufman (U Stony Brook), [intermediate/advanced] Visualization Carl Lagoze (U Michigan, Ann Arbor), [introductory] Curation of Big Data Dinesh Manocha (U North Carolina, Chapel Hill), [introductory/intermediate] Robot Motion Planning Bijan Parsia (U Manchester), [introductory] The Empirical Mindset in Computer Science Charles E. Perkins (FutureWei Technologies, Santa Clara), [intermediate] Beyond LTE: the Evolution of 4G Networks and the Need for Higher Performance Handover System Designs Robert Sargent (Syracuse U), [introductory] Validation of Models Mubarak Shah (U Central Florida, Orlando), [intermediate] Visual Crowd Analysis Steffen Staab (U Koblenz), [intermediate] Programming the Semantic Web Mike Thelwall (U Wolverhampton), [introductory] Sentiment Strength Detection for Twitter and the Social Web Jeffrey D. Ullman (Stanford U), [introductory] MapReduce Algorithms Nitin Vaidya (U Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), [introductory/intermediate] Distributed Consensus: Theory and Applications Philip Wadler (U Edinburgh), [intermediate] Topics in Lambda Calculus and Life ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: Adrian Horia Dediu (Tarragona) Carlos Martín-Vide (Tarragona, chair) Florentina Lilica Voicu (Tarragona) REGISTRATION: It has to be done at http://grammars.grlmc.com/sstic2014/registration.php The selection of up to 8 courses requested in the registration template is only tentative and non-binding. For the sake of organization, it will be helpful to have an approximation of the respective demand for each course. Since the capacity of the venue is limited, registration requests will be processed on a first come first served basis. The registration period will be closed when the capacity of the venue will be complete. It is very convenient to register prior to the event. FEES: As far as possible, participants are expected to attend for the whole (or most of the) week (full-time). Fees are a flat rate allowing one to participate to all courses. They vary depending on the registration deadline. ACCOMMODATION: Information about accommodation is available on the website of the School. CERTIFICATE: Participants will be delivered a certificate of attendance. QUESTIONS AND FURTHER INFORMATION: florentinalilica.voicu(a)urv.cat POSTAL ADDRESS: SSTiC 2014 Lilica Voicu Rovira i Virgili University Av. Catalunya, 35 43002 Tarragona, Spain Phone: +34 977 559 543 Fax: +34 977 558 386 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS: Departament dEconomia i Coneixement, Generalitat de Catalunya Universitat Rovira i Virgili

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[SIPTA] PRUV call for papers --- deadline extension
by Thomas Lukasiewicz April 24, 2014

April 24, 2014

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

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[SIPTA] Call for Papers - ICTCS 2014
by Andrea Formisano April 22, 2014

April 22, 2014

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

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[SIPTA] SLSP 2014: 3rd call for papers
by GRLMC April 17, 2014

April 17, 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 dInformatique de Grenoble Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics (GRLMC) Rovira i Virgili University http://grammars.grlmc.com/slsp2014/ **************************************************************************** ****** AIMS: SLSP is a yearly conference series aimed at promoting and displaying excellent research on the wide spectrum of statistical methods that are currently in use in computational language or speech processing. It aims at attracting contributions from both fields. Though there exist large, well-known conferences and workshops hosting contributions to any of these areas, SLSP is a more focused meeting where synergies between subdomains and people will hopefully happen. In SLSP 2014, significant room will be reserved to young scholars at the beginning of their career and particular focus will be put on methodology. VENUE: SLSP 2014 will take place in Grenoble, at the foot of the French Alps. SCOPE: The conference invites submissions discussing the employment of statistical methods (including machine learning) within language and speech processing. The list below is indicative and not exhaustive: phonology, phonetics, prosody, morphology syntax, semantics discourse, dialogue, pragmatics statistical models for natural language processing supervised, unsupervised and semi-supervised machine learning methods applied to natural language, including speech statistical methods, including biologically-inspired methods similarity alignment language resources part-of-speech tagging parsing semantic role labelling natural language generation anaphora and coreference resolution speech recognition speaker identification/verification speech transcription speech synthesis machine translation translation technology text summarisation information retrieval text categorisation information extraction term extraction spelling correction text and web mining opinion mining and sentiment analysis spoken dialogue systems author identification, plagiarism and spam filtering STRUCTURE: SLSP 2014 will consist of: invited talks invited tutorials peer-reviewed contributions INVITED SPEAKERS: Claire Gardent (LORIA, Nancy, FR), Grammar Based Sentence Generation and Statistical Error Mining Roger K. Moore (Sheffield, UK), Spoken Language Processing: Time to Look Outside? Martti Vainio (Helsinki, FI), Phonetics and Machine Learning: Hierarchical Modelling of Prosody in Statistical Speech Synthesis PROGRAMME COMMITTEE: Sophia Ananiadou (Manchester, UK) Srinivas Bangalore (Florham Park, US) Patrick Blackburn (Roskilde, DK) Hervé Bourlard (Martigny, CH) Bill Byrne (Cambridge, UK) Nick Campbell (Dublin, IE) David Chiang (Marina del Rey, US) Kenneth W. Church (Yorktown Heights, US) Walter Daelemans (Antwerpen, BE) Thierry Dutoit (Mons, BE) Alexander Gelbukh (Mexico City, MX) James Glass (Cambridge, US) Ralph Grishman (New York, US) Sanda Harabagiu (Dallas, US) Xiaodong He (Redmond, US) Hynek Hermansky (Baltimore, US) Hitoshi Isahara (Toyohashi, JP) Lori Lamel (Orsay, FR) Gary Geunbae Lee (Pohang, KR) Haizhou Li (Singapore, SG) Daniel Marcu (Los Angeles, US) Carlos Martín-Vide (Tarragona, ES, chair) Manuel Montes-y-Gómez (Puebla, MX) Satoshi Nakamura (Nara, JP) Shrikanth S. Narayanan (Los Angeles, US) Vincent Ng (Dallas, US) Joakim Nivre (Uppsala, SE) Elmar Nöth (Erlangen, DE) Maurizio Omologo (Trento, IT) Mari Ostendorf (Seattle, US) Barbara H. Partee (Amherst, US) Gerald Penn (Toronto, CA) Massimo Poesio (Colchester, UK) James Pustejovsky (Waltham, US) Gaël Richard (Paris, FR) German Rigau (San Sebastián, ES) Paolo Rosso (Valencia, ES) Yoshinori Sagisaka (Tokyo, JP) Björn W. Schuller (London, UK) Satoshi Sekine (New York, US) Richard Sproat (New York, US) Mark Steedman (Edinburgh, UK) Jian Su (Singapore, SG) Marc Swerts (Tilburg, NL) Jun'ichi Tsujii (Beijing, CN) Gertjan van Noord (Groningen, NL) Renata Vieira (Porto Alegre, BR) Dekai Wu (Hong Kong, HK) Feiyu Xu (Berlin, DE) Roman Yangarber (Helsinki, FI) Geoffrey Zweig (Redmond, US) ORGANISING COMMITTEE: Laurent Besacier (Grenoble, co-chair) Adrian Horia Dediu (Tarragona) Benjamin Lecouteux (Grenoble) Carlos Martín-Vide (Tarragona, co-chair) Florentina Lilica Voicu (Tarragona) SUBMISSIONS: Authors are invited to submit non-anonymized papers in English presenting original and unpublished research. Papers should not exceed 12 single-spaced pages (including eventual appendices) and should be prepared according to the standard format for Springer Verlag's LNAI/LNCS series (see http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0) Submissions have to be uploaded to: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=slsp2014 PUBLICATIONS: A volume of proceedings published by Springer in the LNAI/LNCS series will be available by the time of the conference. A special issue of a major journal will be later published containing peer-reviewed extended versions of some of the papers contributed to the conference. Submissions to it will be by invitation. REGISTRATION: The period for registration is open from January 16, 2014 to October 14, 2014. The registration form can be found at: http://grammars.grlmc.com/slsp2014/Registration.php DEADLINES: Paper submission: May 7, 2014 (23:59h, CET) Notification of paper acceptance or rejection: June 18, 2014 Final version of the paper for the LNAI/LNCS proceedings: June 25, 2014 Early registration: July 2, 2014 Late registration: September 30, 2014 Submission to the post-conference journal special issue: January 16, 2015 QUESTIONS AND FURTHER INFORMATION: florentinalilica.voicu(a)urv.cat POSTAL ADDRESS: SLSP 2014 Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics (GRLMC) Rovira i Virgili University Av. Catalunya, 35 43002 Tarragona, Spain Phone: +34 977 559 543 Fax: +34 977 558 386 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS: Departament dEconomia i Coneixement, Generalitat de Catalunya Laboratoire dInformatique de Grenoble Universitat Rovira i Virgili

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[SIPTA] SUM 2014 CFP - EXTENDED DEADLINES
by Andrea Cali April 6, 2014

April 6, 2014

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[SIPTA] TPNC 2014: 1st call for papers
by GRLMC April 6, 2014

April 6, 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 - invited tutorials - peer-reviewed contributions INVITED SPEAKERS: tba PROGRAMME COMMITTEE: Hussein A. Abbass (Canberra, AU) Uwe Aickelin (Nottingham, UK) Thomas Bäck (Leiden, NL) Christian Blum (San Sebastián, ES) Jinde Cao (Nanjing, CN) Vladimir Cherkassky (Minneapolis, US) Sung-Bae Cho (Seoul, KR) Andries P. Engelbrecht (Pretoria, ZA) Inman Harvey (Brighton, UK) Francisco Herrera (Granada, ES) Tzung-Pei Hong (Kaohsiung, TW) Yaochu Jin (Guildford, UK) Soo-Young Lee (Daejeon, KR) Derong Liu (Chicago, US) Manuel Lozano (Granada, ES) Carlos Martín-Vide (Tarragona, ES, chair) Risto Miikkulainen (Austin, US) Frank Neumann (Adelaide, AU) Leandro Nunes de Castro (São Paulo, BR) Erkki Oja (Aalto, FI) Marc Schoenauer (Orsay, FR) Biplab Kumar Sikdar (Shibpur, IN) Darko Stefanovic (Albuquerque, US) Umberto Straccia (Pisa, IT) Thomas Stützle (Brussels, BE) Ponnuthurai N. Suganthan (Singapore, SG) Johan Suykens (Leuven, BE) El-Ghazali Talbi (Lille, FR) Jon Timmis (York, UK) Michael N. Vrahatis (Patras, GR) Xin Yao (Birmingham, UK) ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: Adrian Horia Dediu (Tarragona) Carlos García-Martínez (Córdoba) Carlos Martín-Vide (Tarragona, co-chair) Manuel Lozano (Granada, co-chair) Francisco Javier Rodríguez (Granada) Florentina Lilica Voicu (Tarragona) SUBMISSIONS: Authors are invited to submit non-anonymized papers in English presenting original and unpublished research. Papers should not exceed 12 single-spaced pages (including eventual appendices) and should be prepared according to the standard format for the Springer Verlag's LNCS series (see http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0) Submissions have to be uploaded to: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=tpnc2014 PUBLICATIONS: A volume of proceedings published by Springer in the LNCS series will be available by the time of the conference. A special issue of a major journal will be later published containing peer-reviewed extended versions of some of the papers contributed to the conference. Submissions to it will be by invitation. REGISTRATION: The period for registration is open from April 5 to December 9, 2014. The registration form can be found at: http://grammars.grlmc.com/tpnc2014/Registration.php DEADLINES: Paper submission: July 17, 2014 (23:59h, CET) Notification of paper acceptance or rejection: August 24, 2014 Final version of the paper for the LNCS proceedings: September 7, 2014 Early registration: September 7, 2014 Late registration: November 25, 2014 Submission to the post-conference journal special issue: March 11, 2015 QUESTIONS AND FURTHER INFORMATION: florentinalilica.voicu(a)urv.cat POSTAL ADDRESS: TPNC 2014 Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics (GRLMC) Rovira i Virgili University Av. Catalunya, 35 43002 Tarragona, Spain Phone: +34 977 559 543 Fax: +34 977 558 386 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS: Departament dEconomia i Coneixement, Generalitat de Catalunya Universidad de Granada Universitat Rovira i Virgili

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[SIPTA] Summer School IDIPS2014 - more participants, no extension
by Kavallieratou Ergina April 4, 2014

April 4, 2014

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

March 30, 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/ ********************************************************************* --- April 12, 5th registration deadline --- ********************************************************************* AIM: SSTiC 2014 is the second edition in a series started in 2013. For the previous event, see http://grammars.grlmc.com/SSTiC2013/ SSTiC 2014 will be a research training event mainly addressed to PhD students and PhD holders in the first steps of their academic career. It intends to update them about the most recent developments in the diverse branches of computer science and its neighbouring areas. To that purpose, renowned scholars will lecture and will be available for interaction with the audience. SSTiC 2014 will cover the whole spectrum of computer science through 6 keynote lectures and 24 six-hour courses dealing with some of the most lively topics in the field. The organizers share the idea that outstanding speakers will really attract the brightest students. ADDRESSED TO: Graduate students from around the world. There are no formal pre-requisites in terms of the academic degree the attendee must hold. However, since there will be several levels among the courses, reference may be made to specific knowledge background in the description of some of them. SSTiC 2014 is also appropriate for more senior people who want to keep themselves updated on developments in their own field or in other branches of computer science. They will surely find it fruitful to listen and discuss with scholars who are main references in computing nowadays. REGIME: In addition to keynotes, 3 parallel sessions will be held during the whole event. Participants will be able to freely choose the courses they will be willing to attend as well as to move from one to another. VENUE: SSTiC 2014 will take place in Tarragona, located 90 kms. to the south of Barcelona. The venue will be: Campus Catalunya Universitat Rovira i Virgili Av. Catalunya, 35 43002 Tarragona KEYNOTE SPEAKERS: Larry S. Davis (U Maryland, College Park), A Historical Perspective of Computer Vision Models for Object Recognition and Scene Analysis David S. Johnson (Columbia U, New York), Open and Closed Problems in NP-Completeness George Karypis (U Minnesota, Twin Cities), Recommender Systems Past, Present, & Future Steffen Staab (U Koblenz), Explicit and Implicit Semantics: Two Sides of One Coin Philip Wadler (U Edinburgh), You and Your Research and The Elements of Style Ronald R. Yager (Iona C, New Rochelle), Social Modeling COURSES AND PROFESSORS: Divyakant Agrawal (U California, Santa Barbara), [intermediate] Scalable Data Management in Enterprise and Cloud Computing Infrastructures Pierre Baldi (U California, Irvine), [intermediate] Big Data Informatics Challenges and Opportunities in the Life Sciences Rajkumar Buyya (U Melbourne), [intermediate] Cloud Computing John M. Carroll (Pennsylvania State U, University Park), [introductory] Usability Engineering and Scenario-based Design Kwang-Ting (Tim) Cheng (U California, Santa Barbara), [introductory/intermediate] Smartphones: Hardware Platform, Software Development, and Emerging Apps Amr El Abbadi (U California, Santa Barbara), [introductory] The Distributed Foundations of Data Management in the Cloud Richard M. Fujimoto (Georgia Tech, Atlanta), [introductory] Parallel and Distributed Simulation Mark Guzdial (Georgia Tech, Atlanta), [introductory] Computing Education Research: What We Know about Learning and Teaching Computer Science David S. Johnson (Columbia U, New York), [introductory] The Traveling Salesman Problem in Theory and Practice George Karypis (U Minnesota, Twin Cities), [intermediate] Programming Models/Frameworks for Parallel & Distributed Computing Aggelos K. Katsaggelos (Northwestern U, Evanston), [intermediate] Optimization Techniques for Sparse/Low-rank Recovery Problems in Image Processing and Machine Learning Arie E. Kaufman (U Stony Brook), [intermediate/advanced] Visualization Carl Lagoze (U Michigan, Ann Arbor), [introductory] Curation of Big Data Dinesh Manocha (U North Carolina, Chapel Hill), [introductory/intermediate] Robot Motion Planning Bijan Parsia (U Manchester), [introductory] The Empirical Mindset in Computer Science Charles E. Perkins (FutureWei Technologies, Santa Clara), [intermediate] Beyond LTE: the Evolution of 4G Networks and the Need for Higher Performance Handover System Designs Sudhakar M. Reddy (U Iowa, Iowa City), [introductory] Test and Design for Test of Digital Logic Circuits Robert Sargent (Syracuse U), [introductory] Validation of Models Mubarak Shah (U Central Florida, Orlando), [intermediate] Visual Crowd Analysis Steffen Staab (U Koblenz), [intermediate] Programming the Semantic Web Mike Thelwall (U Wolverhampton), [introductory] Sentiment Strength Detection for Twitter and the Social Web Jeffrey D. Ullman (Stanford U), [introductory] MapReduce Algorithms Nitin Vaidya (U Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), [introductory/intermediate] Distributed Consensus: Theory and Applications Philip Wadler (U Edinburgh), [intermediate] Topics in Lambda Calculus and Life ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: Adrian Horia Dediu (Tarragona) Carlos Martín-Vide (Tarragona, chair) Florentina Lilica Voicu (Tarragona) REGISTRATION: It has to be done at http://grammars.grlmc.com/sstic2014/registration.php The selection of up to 8 courses requested in the registration template is only tentative and non-binding. For the sake of organization, it will be helpful to have an approximation of the respective demand for each course. Since the capacity of the venue is limited, registration requests will be processed on a first come first served basis. The registration period will be closed when the capacity of the venue will be complete. It is very convenient to register prior to the event. FEES: As far as possible, participants are expected to attend for the whole (or most of the) week (full-time). Fees are a flat rate allowing one to participate to all courses. They vary depending on the registration deadline. ACCOMMODATION: Information about accommodation is available on the website of the School. CERTIFICATE: Participants will be delivered a certificate of attendance. QUESTIONS AND FURTHER INFORMATION: florentinalilica.voicu(a)urv.cat POSTAL ADDRESS: SSTiC 2014 Lilica Voicu Rovira i Virgili University Av. Catalunya, 35 43002 Tarragona, Spain Phone: +34 977 559 543 Fax: +34 977 558 386 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS: Departament dEconomia i Coneixement, Generalitat de Catalunya Universitat Rovira i Virgili

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[SIPTA] SLSP 2014: 2nd call for papers
by GRLMC March 23, 2014

March 23, 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 dInformatique de Grenoble Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics (GRLMC) Rovira i Virgili University http://grammars.grlmc.com/slsp2014/ **************************************************************************** ****** AIMS: SLSP is a yearly conference series aimed at promoting and displaying excellent research on the wide spectrum of statistical methods that are currently in use in computational language or speech processing. It aims at attracting contributions from both fields. Though there exist large, well-known conferences and workshops hosting contributions to any of these areas, SLSP is a more focused meeting where synergies between subdomains and people will hopefully happen. In SLSP 2014, significant room will be reserved to young scholars at the beginning of their career and particular focus will be put on methodology. VENUE: SLSP 2014 will take place in Grenoble, at the foot of the French Alps. SCOPE: The conference invites submissions discussing the employment of statistical methods (including machine learning) within language and speech processing. The list below is indicative and not exhaustive: phonology, phonetics, prosody, morphology syntax, semantics discourse, dialogue, pragmatics statistical models for natural language processing supervised, unsupervised and semi-supervised machine learning methods applied to natural language, including speech statistical methods, including biologically-inspired methods similarity alignment language resources part-of-speech tagging parsing semantic role labelling natural language generation anaphora and coreference resolution speech recognition speaker identification/verification speech transcription speech synthesis machine translation translation technology text summarisation information retrieval text categorisation information extraction term extraction spelling correction text and web mining opinion mining and sentiment analysis spoken dialogue systems author identification, plagiarism and spam filtering STRUCTURE: SLSP 2014 will consist of: invited talks invited tutorials peer-reviewed contributions INVITED SPEAKERS: Claire Gardent (LORIA, Nancy, FR), Grammar Based Sentence Generation and Statistical Error Mining Roger K. Moore (Sheffield, UK), Spoken Language Processing: Time to Look Outside? Martti Vainio (Helsinki, FI), Phonetics and Machine Learning: Hierarchical Modelling of Prosody in Statistical Speech Synthesis PROGRAMME COMMITTEE: Sophia Ananiadou (Manchester, UK) Srinivas Bangalore (Florham Park, US) Patrick Blackburn (Roskilde, DK) Hervé Bourlard (Martigny, CH) Bill Byrne (Cambridge, UK) Nick Campbell (Dublin, IE) David Chiang (Marina del Rey, US) Kenneth W. Church (Yorktown Heights, US) Walter Daelemans (Antwerpen, BE) Thierry Dutoit (Mons, BE) Alexander Gelbukh (Mexico City, MX) James Glass (Cambridge, US) Ralph Grishman (New York, US) Sanda Harabagiu (Dallas, US) Xiaodong He (Redmond, US) Hynek Hermansky (Baltimore, US) Hitoshi Isahara (Toyohashi, JP) Lori Lamel (Orsay, FR) Gary Geunbae Lee (Pohang, KR) Haizhou Li (Singapore, SG) Daniel Marcu (Los Angeles, US) Carlos Martín-Vide (Tarragona, ES, chair) Manuel Montes-y-Gómez (Puebla, MX) Satoshi Nakamura (Nara, JP) Shrikanth S. Narayanan (Los Angeles, US) Vincent Ng (Dallas, US) Joakim Nivre (Uppsala, SE) Elmar Nöth (Erlangen, DE) Maurizio Omologo (Trento, IT) Mari Ostendorf (Seattle, US) Barbara H. Partee (Amherst, US) Gerald Penn (Toronto, CA) Massimo Poesio (Colchester, UK) James Pustejovsky (Waltham, US) Gaël Richard (Paris, FR) German Rigau (San Sebastián, ES) Paolo Rosso (Valencia, ES) Yoshinori Sagisaka (Tokyo, JP) Björn W. Schuller (London, UK) Satoshi Sekine (New York, US) Richard Sproat (New York, US) Mark Steedman (Edinburgh, UK) Jian Su (Singapore, SG) Marc Swerts (Tilburg, NL) Jun'ichi Tsujii (Beijing, CN) Gertjan van Noord (Groningen, NL) Renata Vieira (Porto Alegre, BR) Dekai Wu (Hong Kong, HK) Feiyu Xu (Berlin, DE) Roman Yangarber (Helsinki, FI) Geoffrey Zweig (Redmond, US) ORGANISING COMMITTEE: Laurent Besacier (Grenoble, co-chair) Adrian Horia Dediu (Tarragona) Benjamin Lecouteux (Grenoble) Carlos Martín-Vide (Tarragona, co-chair) Florentina Lilica Voicu (Tarragona) SUBMISSIONS: Authors are invited to submit non-anonymized papers in English presenting original and unpublished research. Papers should not exceed 12 single-spaced pages (including eventual appendices) and should be prepared according to the standard format for Springer Verlag's LNAI/LNCS series (see http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0) Submissions have to be uploaded to: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=slsp2014 PUBLICATIONS: A volume of proceedings published by Springer in the LNAI/LNCS series will be available by the time of the conference. A special issue of a major journal will be later published containing peer-reviewed extended versions of some of the papers contributed to the conference. Submissions to it will be by invitation. REGISTRATION: The period for registration is open from January 16, 2014 to October 14, 2014. The registration form can be found at: http://grammars.grlmc.com/slsp2014/Registration.php DEADLINES: Paper submission: May 7, 2014 (23:59h, CET) Notification of paper acceptance or rejection: June 18, 2014 Final version of the paper for the LNAI/LNCS proceedings: June 25, 2014 Early registration: July 2, 2014 Late registration: September 30, 2014 Submission to the post-conference journal special issue: January 16, 2015 QUESTIONS AND FURTHER INFORMATION: florentinalilica.voicu(a)urv.cat POSTAL ADDRESS: SLSP 2014 Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics (GRLMC) Rovira i Virgili University Av. Catalunya, 35 43002 Tarragona, Spain Phone: +34 977 559 543 Fax: +34 977 558 386 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS: Departament dEconomia i Coneixement, Generalitat de Catalunya Laboratoire dInformatique de Grenoble Universitat Rovira i Virgili

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Re: [SIPTA] special issue on Modeling Dependence in Econometrics
by Kreinovich March 21, 2014

March 21, 2014

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

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

March 18, 2014

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[SIPTA] FW: The 8th International Conference of the Thailand Econometric Society TES'2015: Econometrics of Risk
by Kreinovich March 17, 2014

March 17, 2014

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

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Re: [SIPTA] Call for papers for a special issue
by Kreinovich March 13, 2014

March 13, 2014

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Re: [SIPTA] SMPS 2014
by Kreinovich March 13, 2014

March 13, 2014

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

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[SIPTA] [jobs] PhD position in "Uncertainty in Computer Vision" - Oxford Brookes University - Dr Fabio Cuzzolin
by Fabio Cuzzolin March 13, 2014

March 13, 2014

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[SIPTA] SSTiC 2014: March 15, 4th registration deadline
by GRLMC March 8, 2014

March 8, 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/ ********************************************************************* --- March 15, 4th registration deadline --- ********************************************************************* AIM: SSTiC 2014 is the second edition in a series started in 2013. For the previous event, see http://grammars.grlmc.com/SSTiC2013/ SSTiC 2014 will be a research training event mainly addressed to PhD students and PhD holders in the first steps of their academic career. It intends to update them about the most recent developments in the diverse branches of computer science and its neighbouring areas. To that purpose, renowned scholars will lecture and will be available for interaction with the audience. SSTiC 2014 will cover the whole spectrum of computer science through 6 keynote lectures and 24 six-hour courses dealing with some of the most lively topics in the field. The organizers share the idea that outstanding speakers will really attract the brightest students. ADDRESSED TO: Graduate students from around the world. There are no formal pre-requisites in terms of the academic degree the attendee must hold. However, since there will be several levels among the courses, reference may be made to specific knowledge background in the description of some of them. SSTiC 2014 is also appropriate for more senior people who want to keep themselves updated on developments in their own field or in other branches of computer science. They will surely find it fruitful to listen and discuss with scholars who are main references in computing nowadays. REGIME: In addition to keynotes, 3 parallel sessions will be held during the whole event. Participants will be able to freely choose the courses they will be willing to attend as well as to move from one to another. VENUE: SSTiC 2014 will take place in Tarragona, located 90 kms. to the south of Barcelona. The venue will be: Campus Catalunya Universitat Rovira i Virgili Av. Catalunya, 35 43002 Tarragona KEYNOTE SPEAKERS: Larry S. Davis (U Maryland, College Park), A Historical Perspective of Computer Vision Models for Object Recognition and Scene Analysis David S. Johnson (Columbia U, New York), Open and Closed Problems in NP-Completeness George Karypis (U Minnesota, Twin Cities), Recommender Systems Past, Present, & Future Steffen Staab (U Koblenz), Explicit and Implicit Semantics: Two Sides of One Coin Philip Wadler (U Edinburgh), You and Your Research and The Elements of Style Ronald R. Yager (Iona C, New Rochelle), Social Modeling COURSES AND PROFESSORS: Divyakant Agrawal (U California, Santa Barbara), [intermediate] Scalable Data Management in Enterprise and Cloud Computing Infrastructures Pierre Baldi (U California, Irvine), [intermediate] Big Data Informatics Challenges and Opportunities in the Life Sciences Rajkumar Buyya (U Melbourne), [intermediate] Cloud Computing John M. Carroll (Pennsylvania State U, University Park), [introductory] Usability Engineering and Scenario-based Design Kwang-Ting (Tim) Cheng (U California, Santa Barbara), [introductory/intermediate] Smartphones: Hardware Platform, Software Development, and Emerging Apps Amr El Abbadi (U California, Santa Barbara), [introductory] The Distributed Foundations of Data Management in the Cloud Richard M. Fujimoto (Georgia Tech, Atlanta), [introductory] Parallel and Distributed Simulation Mark Guzdial (Georgia Tech, Atlanta), [introductory] Computing Education Research: What We Know about Learning and Teaching Computer Science David S. Johnson (Columbia U, New York), [introductory] The Traveling Salesman Problem in Theory and Practice George Karypis (U Minnesota, Twin Cities), [intermediate] Programming Models/Frameworks for Parallel & Distributed Computing Aggelos K. Katsaggelos (Northwestern U, Evanston), [intermediate] Optimization Techniques for Sparse/Low-rank Recovery Problems in Image Processing and Machine Learning Arie E. Kaufman (U Stony Brook), [advanced] Visualization Carl Lagoze (U Michigan, Ann Arbor), [introductory] Curation of Big Data Dinesh Manocha (U North Carolina, Chapel Hill), [introductory/intermediate] Robot Motion Planning Bijan Parsia (U Manchester), [introductory] The Empirical Mindset in Computer Science Charles E. Perkins (FutureWei Technologies, Santa Clara), [intermediate] Beyond LTE: the Evolution of 4G Networks and the Need for Higher Performance Handover System Designs Sudhakar M. Reddy (U Iowa, Iowa City), [introductory] Test and Design for Test of Digital Logic Circuits Robert Sargent (Syracuse U), [introductory] Validation of Models Mubarak Shah (U Central Florida, Orlando), [intermediate] Visual Crowd Analysis Steffen Staab (U Koblenz), [intermediate] Programming the Semantic Web Mike Thelwall (U Wolverhampton), [introductory] Sentiment Strength Detection for Twitter and the Social Web Jeffrey D. Ullman (Stanford U), [introductory] MapReduce Algorithms Nitin Vaidya (U Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), [introductory/intermediate] Distributed Consensus: Theory and Applications Philip Wadler (U Edinburgh), [intermediate] Topics in Lambda Calculus and Life ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: Adrian Horia Dediu (Tarragona) Carlos Martín-Vide (Tarragona, chair) Florentina Lilica Voicu (Tarragona) REGISTRATION: It has to be done at http://grammars.grlmc.com/sstic2014/registration.php The selection of up to 8 courses requested in the registration template is only tentative and non-binding. For the sake of organization, it will be helpful to have an approximation of the respective demand for each course. Since the capacity of the venue is limited, registration requests will be processed on a first come first served basis. The registration period will be closed when the capacity of the venue will be complete. It is very convenient to register prior to the event. FEES: As far as possible, participants are expected to attend for the whole (or most of the) week (full-time). Fees are a flat rate allowing one to participate to all courses. They vary depending on the registration deadline. ACCOMMODATION: Information about accommodation is available on the website of the School. CERTIFICATE: Participants will be delivered a certificate of attendance. QUESTIONS AND FURTHER INFORMATION: florentinalilica.voicu(a)urv.cat POSTAL ADDRESS: SSTiC 2014 Lilica Voicu Rovira i Virgili University Av. Catalunya, 35 43002 Tarragona, Spain Phone: +34 977 559 543 Fax: +34 977 558 386 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS: Departament dEconomia i Coneixement, Generalitat de Catalunya Universitat Rovira i Virgili

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Re: [SIPTA] CFP: Workshop on Models and Paradigms for Planning Under Uncertainty
by Kreinovich March 3, 2014

March 3, 2014

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[SIPTA] SIPTA school: 2nd call for participation
by Enrique Miranda March 3, 2014

March 3, 2014

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

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[SIPTA] SUM 2014 - Scalable Uncertainty Management CFP
by Andrea Cali Feb. 27, 2014

Feb. 27, 2014

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[SIPTA] mini-symposium on imprecise probability in civil engineering is being planned
by Kreinovich Feb. 22, 2014

Feb. 22, 2014

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

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[SIPTA] LATA 2014: call for participation
by GRLMC Feb. 16, 2014

Feb. 16, 2014

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

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[SIPTA] PhD position in "Uncertainty in Computer Vision" - Oxford Brookes University - Dr Fabio Cuzzolin
by Fabio Cuzzolin Feb. 10, 2014

Feb. 10, 2014

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[SIPTA] SSTiC 2014: February 15, 3rd registration deadline
by GRLMC Feb. 8, 2014

Feb. 8, 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/ ********************************************************************* --- February 15, 3rd registration deadline --- ********************************************************************* AIM: SSTiC 2014 is the second edition in a series started in 2013. For the previous event, see http://grammars.grlmc.com/SSTiC2013/ SSTiC 2014 will be a research training event mainly addressed to PhD students and PhD holders in the first steps of their academic career. It intends to update them about the most recent developments in the diverse branches of computer science and its neighbouring areas. To that purpose, renowned scholars will lecture and will be available for interaction with the audience. SSTiC 2014 will cover the whole spectrum of computer science through 6 keynote lectures and 24 six-hour courses dealing with some of the most lively topics in the field. The organizers share the idea that outstanding speakers will really attract the brightest students. ADDRESSED TO: Graduate students from around the world. There are no formal pre-requisites in terms of the academic degree the attendee must hold. However, since there will be several levels among the courses, reference may be made to specific knowledge background in the description of some of them. SSTiC 2014 is also appropriate for more senior people who want to keep themselves updated on developments in their own field or in other branches of computer science. They will surely find it fruitful to listen and discuss with scholars who are main references in computing nowadays. REGIME: In addition to keynotes, 3 parallel sessions will be held during the whole event. Participants will be able to freely choose the courses they will be willing to attend as well as to move from one to another. VENUE: SSTiC 2014 will take place in Tarragona, located 90 kms. to the south of Barcelona. The venue will be: Campus Catalunya Universitat Rovira i Virgili Av. Catalunya, 35 43002 Tarragona KEYNOTE SPEAKERS: Larry S. Davis (U Maryland, College Park), A Historical Perspective of Computer Vision Models for Object Recognition and Scene Analysis David S. Johnson (Columbia U, New York), Open and Closed Problems in NP-Completeness George Karypis (U Minnesota, Twin Cities), Recommender Systems Past, Present, & Future Steffen Staab (U Koblenz), Explicit and Implicit Semantics: Two Sides of One Coin Philip Wadler (U Edinburgh), You and Your Research and The Elements of Style Ronald R. Yager (Iona C, New Rochelle), Social Modeling COURSES AND PROFESSORS: Divyakant Agrawal (U California, Santa Barbara), [intermediate] Scalable Data Management in Enterprise and Cloud Computing Infrastructures Pierre Baldi (U California, Irvine), [intermediate] Big Data Informatics Challenges and Opportunities in the Life Sciences Rajkumar Buyya (U Melbourne), [intermediate] Cloud Computing John M. Carroll (Pennsylvania State U, University Park), [introductory] Usability Engineering and Scenario-based Design Kwang-Ting (Tim) Cheng (U California, Santa Barbara), [introductory/intermediate] Smartphones: Hardware Platform, Software Development, and Emerging Apps Amr El Abbadi (U California, Santa Barbara), [introductory] The Distributed Foundations of Data Management in the Cloud Richard M. Fujimoto (Georgia Tech, Atlanta), [introductory] Parallel and Distributed Simulation Mark Guzdial (Georgia Tech, Atlanta), [introductory] Computing Education Research: What We Know about Learning and Teaching Computer Science David S. Johnson (Columbia U, New York), [introductory] The Traveling Salesman Problem in Theory and Practice George Karypis (U Minnesota, Twin Cities), [intermediate] Programming Models/Frameworks for Parallel & Distributed Computing Aggelos K. Katsaggelos (Northwestern U, Evanston), [intermediate] Optimization Techniques for Sparse/Low-rank Recovery Problems in Image Processing and Machine Learning Arie E. Kaufman (U Stony Brook), [advanced] Visualization Carl Lagoze (U Michigan, Ann Arbor), [introductory] Curation of Big Data Dinesh Manocha (U North Carolina, Chapel Hill), [introductory/intermediate] Robot Motion Planning Bijan Parsia (U Manchester), [introductory] The Empirical Mindset in Computer Science Charles E. Perkins (FutureWei Technologies, Santa Clara), [intermediate] Beyond LTE: the Evolution of 4G Networks and the Need for Higher Performance Handover System Designs Sudhakar M. Reddy (U Iowa, Iowa City), [introductory] Test and Design for Test of Digital Logic Circuits Robert Sargent (Syracuse U), [introductory] Validation of Models Mubarak Shah (U Central Florida, Orlando), [intermediate] Visual Crowd Analysis Steffen Staab (U Koblenz), [intermediate] Programming the Semantic Web Mike Thelwall (U Wolverhampton), [introductory] Sentiment Strength Detection for Twitter and the Social Web Jeffrey D. Ullman (Stanford U), [introductory] MapReduce Algorithms Nitin Vaidya (U Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), [introductory/intermediate] Distributed Consensus: Theory and Applications Philip Wadler (U Edinburgh), [intermediate] Topics in Lambda Calculus and Life ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: Adrian Horia Dediu (Tarragona) Carlos Martín-Vide (Tarragona, chair) Florentina Lilica Voicu (Tarragona) REGISTRATION: It has to be done at http://grammars.grlmc.com/sstic2014/registration.php The selection of up to 8 courses requested in the registration template is only tentative and non-binding. For the sake of organization, it will be helpful to have an approximation of the respective demand for each course. Since the capacity of the venue is limited, registration requests will be processed on a first come first served basis. The registration period will be closed when the capacity of the venue will be complete. It is very convenient to register prior to the event. FEES: As far as possible, participants are expected to attend for the whole (or most of the) week (full-time). Fees are a flat rate allowing one to participate to all courses. They vary depending on the registration deadline. ACCOMMODATION: Information about accommodation will be available on the website of the School in due time. CERTIFICATE: Participants will be delivered a certificate of attendance. QUESTIONS AND FURTHER INFORMATION: florentinalilica.voicu(a)urv.cat POSTAL ADDRESS: SSTiC 2014 Lilica Voicu Rovira i Virgili University Av. Catalunya, 35 43002 Tarragona, Spain Phone: +34 977 559 543 Fax: +34 977 558 386 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS: Departament dEconomia i Coneixement, Generalitat de Catalunya Universitat Rovira i Virgili

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Re: [SIPTA] IEEE SSCI 2014 Update
by Kreinovich Feb. 2, 2014

Feb. 2, 2014

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[SIPTA] AlCoB 2014: extended submission deadline 11 February
by GRLMC Feb. 2, 2014

Feb. 2, 2014

*To be removed from our mailing list, please respond to this message with UNSUBSCRIBE in the subject line* ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ***** SUBMISSION DEADLINE EXTENDED: February 11 ***** ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ********************************************************************* 1st INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ALGORITHMS FOR COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY AlCoB 2014 Tarragona, Spain July 1-3, 2014 Organized by: Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics (GRLMC) Rovira i Virgili University http://grammars.grlmc.com/alcob2014/ ********************************************************************* AIMS: AlCoB aims at promoting and displaying excellent research using string and graph algorithms and combinatorial optimization to deal with problems in biological sequence analysis, genome rearrangement, evolutionary trees, and structure prediction. The conference will address several of the current challenges in computational biology by investigating algorithms aimed at: 1) assembling sequence reads into a complete genome, 2) identifying gene structures in the genome, 3) recognizing regulatory motifs, 4) aligning nucleotides and comparing genomes, 5) reconstructing regulatory networks of genes, and 6) inferring the evolutionary phylogeny of species. Particular focus will be put on methodology and significant room will be reserved to young scholars at the beginning of their career. VENUE: AlCoB 2014 will take place in Tarragona, located 90 kms. to the south of Barcelona. The venue will be the Catalunya Campus. SCOPE: Topics of either theoretical or applied interest include, but are not limited to: Exact sequence analysis Approximate sequence analysis Pairwise sequence alignment Multiple sequence alignment Sequence assembly Genome rearrangement Regulatory motif finding Phylogeny reconstruction Phylogeny comparison Structure prediction Compressive genomics Proteomics: molecular pathways, interaction networks ... Transcriptomics: splicing variants, isoform inference and quantification, differential analysis Next-generation sequencing: population genomics, metagenomics, metatranscriptomics ... Microbiome analysis Systems biology STRUCTURE: AlCoB 2014 will consist of: invited talks invited tutorials peer-reviewed contributions INVITED SPEAKERS: Michael Galperin (National Center for Biotechnology Information, Bethesda), Comparative Genomics Approaches to Identifying Functionally Related Genes Uwe Ohler (Max-Delbrück Centre for Molecular Medicine, Berlin), Decoding Non-coding Regulatory Regions in DNA and RNA (tutorial) Jason Papin (University of Virginia, Charlottesville), Network Analysis of Microbial Pathogens PROGRAMME COMMITTEE: Tatsuya Akutsu (Kyoto, JP) Amihood Amir (Ramat-Gan, IL) Alberto Apostolico (Atlanta, US) Joel Bader (Baltimore, US) Pierre Baldi (Irvine, US) Serafim Batzoglou (Stanford, US) Bonnie Berger (Cambridge, US) Francis Y.L. Chin (Hong Kong, HK) Benny Chor (Tel Aviv, IL) Keith A. Crandall (Washington, US) Bhaskar DasGupta (Chicago, US) Joaquín Dopazo (Valencia, ES) Liliana Florea (Baltimore, US) Olivier Gascuel (Montpellier, FR) David Gilbert (Uxbridge, UK) Gaston H. Gonnet (Zurich, CH) Roderic Guigó (Barcelona, ES) Dan Gusfield (Davis, US) Vasant Honavar (University College, US) Sorin Istrail (Providence, US) Tao Jiang (Riverside, US) Inge Jonassen (Bergen, NO) Anders Krogh (Copenhagen, DK) Giovanni Manzini (Alessandria, IT) Carlos Martín-Vide (Tarragona, ES, chair) Satoru Miyano (Tokyo, JP) Burkhard Morgenstern (Göttingen, DE) Shinichi Morishita (Tokyo, JP) Cédric Notredame (Barcelona, ES) Graziano Pesole (Bari, IT) Mark Ragan (Brisbane, AU) Timothy Ravasi (Thuwal, SA) Allen G. Rodrigo (Durham, US) Steven Salzberg (Baltimore, US) David Sankoff (Ottawa, CA) Thomas Schiex (Toulouse, FR) João C. Setubal (São Paulo, BR) Steven Skiena (Stony Brook, US) Peter F. Stadler (Leipzig, DE) Wing-Kin Sung (Singapore, SG) Alfonso Valencia (Madrid, ES) Jacques van Helden (Marseille, FR) Arndt von Haeseler (Vienna, AT) Lusheng Wang (Hong Kong, HK) Limsoon Wong (Singapore, SG) Xiaohui Xie (Irvine, US) Dong Xu (Columbia, US) Zohar Yakhini (Santa Clara, US) Alex Zelikovsky (Atlanta, US) Michael Q. Zhang (Dallas, US) ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: Adrian Horia Dediu (Tarragona) Carlos Martín-Vide (Tarragona, chair) Bianca Truthe (Magdeburg) Florentina Lilica Voicu (Tarragona) SUBMISSIONS: Authors are invited to submit non-anonymized papers in English presenting original and unpublished research. Papers should not exceed 12 single-spaced pages (including eventual appendices) and should be formatted according to the standard format for Springer Verlag's LNCS series (see http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0) Submissions have to be uploaded to: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=alcob2014 PUBLICATIONS: A volume of proceedings published by Springer in the LNCS/LNBI series will be available by the time of the conference. A special issue of IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics (TCBB, 2012 impact factor: 1.616) will be later published containing peer-reviewed extended versions of some of the papers contributed to the conference. Submissions to it will be by invitation. REGISTRATION: The period for registration is open from September 21, 2013 to July 1, 2014. The registration form can be found at: http://grammars.grlmc.com/alcob2014/Registration.php DEADLINES: Paper submission: February 11, 2014 (23:59 CET) EXTENDED Notification of paper acceptance or rejection: March 15, 2014 Final version of the paper for the LNCS/LNBI proceedings: March 22, 2014 Early registration: March 29, 2014 Late registration: June 17, 2014 Starting of the conference: July 1, 2014 End of the conference: July 3, 2014 Submission to the post-conference TCBB special issue: October 3, 2014 QUESTIONS AND FURTHER INFORMATION: florentinalilica.voicu(a)urv.cat POSTAL ADDRESS: AlCoB 2014 Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics (GRLMC) Rovira i Virgili University Av. Catalunya, 35 43002 Tarragona, Spain Phone: +34 977 559543 Fax: +34 977 558386 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS: Departament dEconomia i Coneixement, Generalitat de Catalunya Universitat Rovira i Virgili

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

Jan. 30, 2014

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

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[SIPTA] WPMSIIP 2014 - First announcement
by Jasper De Bock Jan. 28, 2014

Jan. 28, 2014

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[SIPTA] SLSP 2014: 1st call for papers
by GRLMC Jan. 25, 2014

Jan. 25, 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 dInformatique de Grenoble Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics (GRLMC) Rovira i Virgili University http://grammars.grlmc.com/slsp2014/ **************************************************************************** ****** AIMS: SLSP is a yearly conference series aimed at promoting and displaying excellent research on the wide spectrum of statistical methods that are currently in use in computational language or speech processing. It aims at attracting contributions from both fields. Though there exist large, well-known conferences and workshops hosting contributions to any of these areas, SLSP is a more focused meeting where synergies between subdomains and people will hopefully happen. In SLSP 2014, significant room will be reserved to young scholars at the beginning of their career and particular focus will be put on methodology. VENUE: SLSP 2014 will take place in Grenoble, at the foot of the French Alps. SCOPE: The conference invites submissions discussing the employment of statistical methods (including machine learning) within language and speech processing. The list below is indicative and not exhaustive: phonology, phonetics, prosody, morphology syntax, semantics discourse, dialogue, pragmatics statistical models for natural language processing supervised, unsupervised and semi-supervised machine learning methods applied to natural language, including speech statistical methods, including biologically-inspired methods similarity alignment language resources part-of-speech tagging parsing semantic role labelling natural language generation anaphora and coreference resolution speech recognition speaker identification/verification speech transcription speech synthesis machine translation translation technology text summarisation information retrieval text categorisation information extraction term extraction spelling correction text and web mining opinion mining and sentiment analysis spoken dialogue systems author identification, plagiarism and spam filtering STRUCTURE: SLSP 2014 will consist of: invited talks invited tutorials peer-reviewed contributions INVITED SPEAKERS: to be announced PROGRAMME COMMITTEE: Sophia Ananiadou (Manchester, UK) Srinivas Bangalore (Florham Park, US) Patrick Blackburn (Roskilde, DK) Hervé Bourlard (Martigny, CH) Bill Byrne (Cambridge, UK) Nick Campbell (Dublin, IE) David Chiang (Marina del Rey, US) Kenneth W. Church (Yorktown Heights, US) Walter Daelemans (Antwerpen, BE) Thierry Dutoit (Mons, BE) Alexander Gelbukh (Mexico City, MX) Ralph Grishman (New York, US) Sanda Harabagiu (Dallas, US) Xiaodong He (Redmond, US) Hynek Hermansky (Baltimore, US) Hitoshi Isahara (Toyohashi, JP) Lori Lamel (Orsay, FR) Gary Geunbae Lee (Pohang, KR) Haizhou Li (Singapore, SG) Daniel Marcu (Los Angeles, US) Carlos Martín-Vide (Tarragona, ES, chair) Manuel Montes-y-Gómez (Puebla, MX) Satoshi Nakamura (Nara, JP) Shrikanth S. Narayanan (Los Angeles, US) Vincent Ng (Dallas, US) Joakim Nivre (Uppsala, SE) Elmar Nöth (Erlangen, DE) Maurizio Omologo (Trento, IT) Mari Ostendorf (Seattle, US) Barbara H. Partee (Amherst, US) Gerald Penn (Toronto, CA) Massimo Poesio (Colchester, UK) James Pustejovsky (Waltham, US) Gaël Richard (Paris, FR) German Rigau (San Sebastián, ES) Paolo Rosso (Valencia, ES) Yoshinori Sagisaka (Tokyo, JP) Björn W. Schuller (London, UK) Satoshi Sekine (New York, US) Richard Sproat (New York, US) Mark Steedman (Edinburgh, UK) Jian Su (Singapore, SG) Marc Swerts (Tilburg, NL) Jun'ichi Tsujii (Beijing, CN) Gertjan van Noord (Groningen, NL) Renata Vieira (Porto Alegre, BR) Dekai Wu (Hong Kong, HK) Feiyu Xu (Berlin, DE) Roman Yangarber (Helsinki, FI) Geoffrey Zweig (Redmond, US) ORGANISING COMMITTEE: Laurent Besacier (Grenoble, co-chair) Adrian Horia Dediu (Tarragona) Benjamin Lecouteux (Grenoble) Carlos Martín-Vide (Tarragona, co-chair) Florentina Lilica Voicu (Tarragona) SUBMISSIONS: Authors are invited to submit non-anonymized papers in English presenting original and unpublished research. Papers should not exceed 12 single-spaced pages (including eventual appendices) and should be prepared according to the standard format for Springer Verlag's LNAI/LNCS series (see http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0) Submissions have to be uploaded to: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=slsp2014 PUBLICATIONS: A volume of proceedings published by Springer in the LNAI/LNCS series will be available by the time of the conference. A special issue of a major journal will be later published containing peer-reviewed extended versions of some of the papers contributed to the conference. Submissions to it will be by invitation. REGISTRATION: The period for registration is open from January 16, 2014 to October 14, 2014. The registration form can be found at: http://grammars.grlmc.com/slsp2014/Registration.php DEADLINES: Paper submission: May 7, 2014 (23:59h, CET) Notification of paper acceptance or rejection: June 18, 2014 Final version of the paper for the LNAI/LNCS proceedings: June 25, 2014 Early registration: July 2, 2014 Late registration: September 30, 2014 Submission to the post-conference journal special issue: January 16, 2015 QUESTIONS AND FURTHER INFORMATION: florentinalilica.voicu(a)urv.cat POSTAL ADDRESS: SLSP 2014 Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics (GRLMC) Rovira i Virgili University Av. Catalunya, 35 43002 Tarragona, Spain Phone: +34 977 559 543 Fax: +34 977 558 386 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS: Departament dEconomia i Coneixement, Generalitat de Catalunya Laboratoire dInformatique de Grenoble Universitat Rovira i Virgili

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

Jan. 18, 2014

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

Jan. 17, 2014

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

Jan. 15, 2014

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

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

Jan. 12, 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/ ********************************************************************* --- January 18, 2nd registration deadline --- ********************************************************************* AIM: SSTiC 2014 is the second edition in a series started in 2013. For the previous event, see http://grammars.grlmc.com/SSTiC2013/ SSTiC 2014 will be a research training event mainly addressed to PhD students and PhD holders in the first steps of their academic career. It intends to update them about the most recent developments in the diverse branches of computer science and its neighbouring areas. To that purpose, renowned scholars will lecture and will be available for interaction with the audience. SSTiC 2014 will cover the whole spectrum of computer science through 5 keynote lectures and 24 six-hour courses dealing with some of the most lively topics in the field. The organizers share the idea that outstanding speakers will really attract the brightest students. ADDRESSED TO: Graduate students from around the world. There are no formal pre-requisites in terms of the academic degree the attendee must hold. However, since there will be several levels among the courses, reference may be made to specific knowledge background in the description of some of them. SSTiC 2014 is also appropriate for more senior people who want to keep themselves updated on developments in their own field or in other branches of computer science. They will surely find it fruitful to listen and discuss with scholars who are main references in computing nowadays. REGIME: In addition to keynotes, 3 parallel sessions will be held during the whole event. Participants will be able to freely choose the courses they will be willing to attend as well as to move from one to another. VENUE: SSTiC 2014 will take place in Tarragona, located 90 kms. to the south of Barcelona. The venue will be: Campus Catalunya Universitat Rovira i Virgili Av. Catalunya, 35 43002 Tarragona KEYNOTE SPEAKERS: Larry S. Davis (U Maryland, College Park), A Historical Perspective of Computer Vision Models for Object Recognition and Scene Analysis David S. Johnson (Columbia U, New York), Open and Closed Problems in NP-Completeness George Karypis (U Minnesota, Twin Cities), Recommender Systems Past, Present, & Future Steffen Staab (U Koblenz), Explicit and Implicit Semantics: Two Sides of One Coin Ronald R. Yager (Iona C, New Rochelle), Social Modeling COURSES AND PROFESSORS: Divyakant Agrawal (U California, Santa Barbara), [intermediate] Scalable Data Management in Enterprise and Cloud Computing Infrastructures Pierre Baldi (U California, Irvine), [intermediate] Big Data Informatics Challenges and Opportunities in the Life Sciences Stephen Brewster (U Glasgow), [introductory] Multimodal Human-computer Interaction Rajkumar Buyya (U Melbourne), [intermediate] Cloud Computing John M. Carroll (Pennsylvania State U, University Park), [introductory] Usability Engineering and Scenario-based Design Kwang-Ting (Tim) Cheng (U California, Santa Barbara), [introductory/intermediate] Smartphones: Hardware Platform, Software Development, and Emerging Apps Amr El Abbadi (U California, Santa Barbara), [introductory] The Distributed Foundations of Data Management in the Cloud Richard M. Fujimoto (Georgia Tech, Atlanta), [introductory] Parallel and Distributed Simulation Mark Guzdial (Georgia Tech, Atlanta), [introductory] Computing Education Research: What We Know about Learning and Teaching Computer Science David S. Johnson (Columbia U, New York), [introductory] The Traveling Salesman Problem in Theory and Practice George Karypis (U Minnesota, Twin Cities), [intermediate] Programming Models/Frameworks for Parallel & Distributed Computing Aggelos K. Katsaggelos (Northwestern U, Evanston), [intermediate] Optimization Techniques for Sparse/Low-rank Recovery Problems in Image Processing and Machine Learning Arie E. Kaufman (U Stony Brook), [advanced] Visualization Carl Lagoze (U Michigan, Ann Arbor), [introductory] Curation of Big Data Bijan Parsia (U Manchester), [introductory] The Empirical Mindset in Computer Science Charles E. Perkins (FutureWei Technologies, Santa Clara), [intermediate] Beyond LTE: the Evolution of 4G Networks and the Need for Higher Performance Handover System Designs Sudhakar M. Reddy (U Iowa, Iowa City), [introductory] Test and Design for Test of Digital Logic Circuits Robert Sargent (Syracuse U), [introductory] Validation of Models Mubarak Shah (U Central Florida, Orlando), [intermediate] Visual Crowd Analysis Steffen Staab (U Koblenz), [intermediate] Programming the Semantic Web Mike Thelwall (U Wolverhampton), [introductory] Sentiment Strength Detection for Twitter and the Social Web Jeffrey D. Ullman (Stanford U), [introductory] MapReduce Algorithms Nitin Vaidya (U Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), [introductory/intermediate] Distributed Consensus: Theory and Applications Philip Wadler (U Edinburgh), [intermediate] Topics in Lambda Calculus and Life ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: Adrian Horia Dediu (Tarragona) Carlos Martín-Vide (Tarragona, chair) Florentina Lilica Voicu (Tarragona) REGISTRATION: It has to be done at http://grammars.grlmc.com/sstic2014/registration.php The selection of up to 8 courses requested in the registration template is only tentative and non-binding. For the sake of organization, it will be helpful to have an approximation of the respective demand for each course. Since the capacity of the venue is limited, registration requests will be processed on a first come first served basis. The registration period will be closed when the capacity of the venue will be complete. It is very convenient to register prior to the event. FEES: As far as possible, participants are expected to attend for the whole (or most of the) week (full-time). Fees are a flat rate allowing one to participate to all courses. They vary depending on the registration deadline. ACCOMMODATION: Information about accommodation will be available on the website of the School in due time. CERTIFICATE: Participants will be delivered a certificate of attendance. QUESTIONS AND FURTHER INFORMATION: florentinalilica.voicu(a)urv.cat POSTAL ADDRESS: SSTiC 2014 Lilica Voicu Rovira i Virgili University Av. Catalunya, 35 43002 Tarragona, Spain Phone: +34 977 559 543 Fax: +34 977 558 386 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS: Departament dEconomia i Coneixement, Generalitat de Catalunya Universitat Rovira i Virgili

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[SIPTA] visas to attend US-based international conferences
by Kreinovich Dec. 29, 2013

Dec. 29, 2013

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

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Re: [SIPTA] special session on imprecise probabilities
by Kreinovich Dec. 24, 2013

Dec. 24, 2013

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

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[SIPTA] 1st Call for Papers: BELIEF 2014, the 3rd International Conference on Belief Functions
by Fabio Cuzzolin Dec. 23, 2013

Dec. 23, 2013

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[SIPTA] AlCoB 2014: 3rd call for papers
by GRLMC Dec. 22, 2013

Dec. 22, 2013

*To be removed from our mailing list, please respond to this message with UNSUBSCRIBE in the subject line* ********************************************************************* 1st INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ALGORITHMS FOR COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY AlCoB 2014 Tarragona, Spain July 1-3, 2014 Organized by: Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics (GRLMC) Rovira i Virgili University http://grammars.grlmc.com/alcob2014/ ********************************************************************* AIMS: AlCoB aims at promoting and displaying excellent research using string and graph algorithms and combinatorial optimization to deal with problems in biological sequence analysis, genome rearrangement, evolutionary trees, and structure prediction. The conference will address several of the current challenges in computational biology by investigating algorithms aimed at: 1) assembling sequence reads into a complete genome, 2) identifying gene structures in the genome, 3) recognizing regulatory motifs, 4) aligning nucleotides and comparing genomes, 5) reconstructing regulatory networks of genes, and 6) inferring the evolutionary phylogeny of species. Particular focus will be put on methodology and significant room will be reserved to young scholars at the beginning of their career. VENUE: AlCoB 2014 will take place in Tarragona, located 90 kms. to the south of Barcelona. The venue will be the Catalunya Campus. SCOPE: Topics of either theoretical or applied interest include, but are not limited to: Exact sequence analysis Approximate sequence analysis Pairwise sequence alignment Multiple sequence alignment Sequence assembly Genome rearrangement Regulatory motif finding Phylogeny reconstruction Phylogeny comparison Structure prediction Compressive genomics Proteomics: molecular pathways, interaction networks ... Transcriptomics: splicing variants, isoform inference and quantification, differential analysis Next-generation sequencing: population genomics, metagenomics, metatranscriptomics ... Microbiome analysis Systems biology STRUCTURE: AlCoB 2014 will consist of: invited talks invited tutorials peer-reviewed contributions INVITED SPEAKERS: Michael Galperin (National Center for Biotechnology Information, Bethesda), Comparative Genomics Approaches to Identifying Functionally Related Genes Uwe Ohler (Max-Delbrück Centre for Molecular Medicine, Berlin), Decoding Non-coding Regulatory Regions in DNA and RNA (tutorial) Jason Papin (University of Virginia, Charlottesville), Network Analysis of Microbial Pathogens PROGRAMME COMMITTEE: Tatsuya Akutsu (Kyoto, JP) Amihood Amir (Ramat-Gan, IL) Alberto Apostolico (Atlanta, US) Joel Bader (Baltimore, US) Pierre Baldi (Irvine, US) Serafim Batzoglou (Stanford, US) Bonnie Berger (Cambridge, US) Francis Y.L. Chin (Hong Kong, HK) Benny Chor (Tel Aviv, IL) Keith A. Crandall (Washington, US) Bhaskar DasGupta (Chicago, US) Joaquín Dopazo (Valencia, ES) Liliana Florea (Baltimore, US) Olivier Gascuel (Montpellier, FR) David Gilbert (Uxbridge, UK) Gaston H. Gonnet (Zurich, CH) Roderic Guigó (Barcelona, ES) Dan Gusfield (Davis, US) Vasant Honavar (University College, US) Sorin Istrail (Providence, US) Tao Jiang (Riverside, US) Inge Jonassen (Bergen, NO) Anders Krogh (Copenhagen, DK) Giovanni Manzini (Alessandria, IT) Carlos Martín-Vide (Tarragona, ES, chair) Satoru Miyano (Tokyo, JP) Burkhard Morgenstern (Göttingen, DE) Shinichi Morishita (Tokyo, JP) Cédric Notredame (Barcelona, ES) Graziano Pesole (Bari, IT) Mark Ragan (Brisbane, AU) Timothy Ravasi (Thuwal, SA) Allen G. Rodrigo (Durham, US) Steven Salzberg (Baltimore, US) David Sankoff (Ottawa, CA) Thomas Schiex (Toulouse, FR) João C. Setubal (São Paulo, BR) Steven Skiena (Stony Brook, US) Peter F. Stadler (Leipzig, DE) Wing-Kin Sung (Singapore, SG) Alfonso Valencia (Madrid, ES) Jacques van Helden (Marseille, FR) Arndt von Haeseler (Vienna, AT) Lusheng Wang (Hong Kong, HK) Limsoon Wong (Singapore, SG) Xiaohui Xie (Irvine, US) Dong Xu (Columbia, US) Zohar Yakhini (Santa Clara, US) Alex Zelikovsky (Atlanta, US) Michael Q. Zhang (Dallas, US) ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: Adrian Horia Dediu (Tarragona) Carlos Martín-Vide (Tarragona, chair) Bianca Truthe (Magdeburg) Florentina Lilica Voicu (Tarragona) SUBMISSIONS: Authors are invited to submit non-anonymized papers in English presenting original and unpublished research. Papers should not exceed 12 single-spaced pages (including eventual appendices) and should be formatted according to the standard format for Springer Verlag's LNCS series (see http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0) Submissions have to be uploaded to: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=alcob2014 PUBLICATIONS: A volume of proceedings published by Springer in the LNCS/LNBI series will be available by the time of the conference. A special issue of IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics (TCBB, 2012 impact factor: 1.616) will be later published containing peer-reviewed extended versions of some of the papers contributed to the conference. Submissions to it will be by invitation. REGISTRATION: The period for registration is open from September 21, 2013 to July 1, 2014. The registration form can be found at: http://grammars.grlmc.com/alcob2014/Registration.php DEADLINES: Paper submission: February 4, 2014 (23:59 CET) Notification of paper acceptance or rejection: March 15, 2014 Final version of the paper for the LNCS/LNBI proceedings: March 22, 2014 Early registration: March 29, 2014 Late registration: June 17, 2014 Starting of the conference: July 1, 2014 End of the conference: July 3, 2014 Submission to the post-conference TCBB special issue: October 3, 2014 QUESTIONS AND FURTHER INFORMATION: florentinalilica.voicu(a)urv.cat POSTAL ADDRESS: AlCoB 2014 Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics (GRLMC) Rovira i Virgili University Av. Catalunya, 35 43002 Tarragona, Spain Phone: +34 977 559543 Fax: +34 977 558386 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS: Departament dEconomia i Coneixement, Generalitat de Catalunya Universitat Rovira i Virgili

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[SIPTA] SSTiC 2014: December 21st, 1st registration deadline
by GRLMC Dec. 16, 2013

Dec. 16, 2013

*To be removed from our mailing list, please respond to this message with UNSUBSCRIBE in the subject line* ********************************************************************* 2014 TARRAGONA INTERNATIONAL SUMMER SCHOOL ON TRENDS IN COMPUTING SSTiC 2014 Tarragona, Spain July 7-11, 2014 Organized by Rovira i Virgili University http://grammars.grlmc.com/sstic2014/ ********************************************************************* --- December 21st, 1st registration deadline --- ********************************************************************* AIM: SSTiC 2014 is the second edition in a series started in 2013. For the previous event, see http://grammars.grlmc.com/SSTiC2013/ SSTiC 2014 will be a research training event mainly addressed to PhD students and PhD holders in the first steps of their academic career. It intends to update them about the most recent developments in the diverse branches of computer science and its neighbouring areas. To that purpose, renowned scholars will lecture and will be available for interaction with the audience. SSTiC 2014 will cover the whole spectrum of computer science through 5 keynote lectures and 24 six-hour courses dealing with some of the most lively topics in the field. The organizers share the idea that outstanding speakers will really attract the brightest students. ADDRESSED TO: Graduate students from around the world. There are no formal pre-requisites in terms of the academic degree the attendee must hold. However, since there will be several levels among the courses, reference may be made to specific knowledge background in the description of some of them. SSTiC 2014 is also appropriate for more senior people who want to keep themselves updated on developments in their own field or in other branches of computer science. They will surely find it fruitful to listen and discuss with scholars who are main references in computing nowadays. REGIME: In addition to keynotes, 3 parallel sessions will be held during the whole event. Participants will be able to freely choose the courses they will be willing to attend as well as to move from one to another. VENUE: SSTiC 2014 will take place in Tarragona, located 90 kms. to the south of Barcelona. The venue will be: Campus Catalunya Universitat Rovira i Virgili Av. Catalunya, 35 43002 Tarragona KEYNOTE SPEAKERS: Larry S. Davis (U Maryland, College Park), A Historical Perspective of Computer Vision Models for Object Recognition and Scene Analysis David S. Johnson (Columbia U, New York), Open and Closed Problems in NP-Completeness George Karypis (U Minnesota, Twin Cities), Recommender Systems Past, Present, & Future Steffen Staab (U Koblenz), Explicit and Implicit Semantics: Two Sides of One Coin Ronald R. Yager (Iona C, New Rochelle), Social Modeling COURSES AND PROFESSORS: Divyakant Agrawal (U California, Santa Barbara), [intermediate] Scalable Data Management in Enterprise and Cloud Computing Infrastructures Pierre Baldi (U California, Irvine), [intermediate] Big Data Informatics Challenges and Opportunities in the Life Sciences Stephen Brewster (U Glasgow), [introductory] Multimodal Human-computer Interaction Rajkumar Buyya (U Melbourne), [intermediate] Cloud Computing John M. Carroll (Pennsylvania State U, University Park), [introductory] Usability Engineering and Scenario-based Design Kwang-Ting (Tim) Cheng (U California, Santa Barbara), [introductory/intermediate] Smartphones: Hardware Platform, Software Development, and Emerging Apps Amr El Abbadi (U California, Santa Barbara), [introductory] The Distributed Foundations of Data Management in the Cloud Richard M. Fujimoto (Georgia Tech, Atlanta), [introductory] Parallel and Distributed Simulation Mark Guzdial (Georgia Tech, Atlanta), [introductory] Computing Education Research: What We Know about Learning and Teaching Computer Science David S. Johnson (Columbia U, New York), [introductory] The Traveling Salesman Problem in Theory and Practice George Karypis (U Minnesota, Twin Cities), [intermediate] Programming Models/Frameworks for Parallel & Distributed Computing Aggelos K. Katsaggelos (Northwestern U, Evanston), [intermediate] Optimization Techniques for Sparse/Low-rank Recovery Problems in Image Processing and Machine Learning Arie E. Kaufman (U Stony Brook), [advanced] Visualization Carl Lagoze (U Michigan, Ann Arbor), [introductory] Curation of Big Data Bijan Parsia (U Manchester), [introductory] The Empirical Mindset in Computer Science Charles E. Perkins (FutureWei Technologies, Santa Clara), [intermediate] Beyond LTE: the Evolution of 4G Networks and the Need for Higher Performance Handover System Designs Sudhakar M. Reddy (U Iowa, Iowa City), [introductory] Test and Design for Test of Digital Logic Circuits Robert Sargent (Syracuse U), [introductory] Validation of Models Mubarak Shah (U Central Florida, Orlando), [intermediate] Visual Crowd Analysis Steffen Staab (U Koblenz), [intermediate] Programming the Semantic Web Mike Thelwall (U Wolverhampton), [introductory] Sentiment Strength Detection for Twitter and the Social Web Jeffrey D. Ullman (Stanford U), [introductory] MapReduce Algorithms Nitin Vaidya (U Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), [introductory/intermediate] Distributed Consensus: Theory and Applications Philip Wadler (U Edinburgh), [intermediate] Topics in Lambda Calculus and Life ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: Adrian Horia Dediu (Tarragona) Carlos Martín-Vide (Tarragona, chair) Florentina Lilica Voicu (Tarragona) REGISTRATION: It has to be done at http://grammars.grlmc.com/sstic2014/registration.php The selection of up to 8 courses requested in the registration template is only tentative and non-binding. For the sake of organization, it will be helpful to have an approximation of the respective demand for each course. Since the capacity of the venue is limited, registration requests will be processed on a first come first served basis. The registration period will be closed when the capacity of the venue will be complete. It is very convenient to register prior to the event. FEES: As far as possible, participants are expected to attend for the whole (or most of the) week (full-time). Fees are a flat rate allowing one to participate to all courses. They vary depending on the registration deadline. ACCOMMODATION: Information about accommodation will be available on the website of the School in due time. CERTIFICATE: Participants will be delivered a certificate of attendance. QUESTIONS AND FURTHER INFORMATION: florentinalilica.voicu(a)urv.cat POSTAL ADDRESS: SSTiC 2014 Lilica Voicu Rovira i Virgili University Av. Catalunya, 35 43002 Tarragona, Spain Phone: +34 977 559 543 Fax: +34 977 558 386 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS: Departament dEconomia i Coneixement, Generalitat de Catalunya Universitat Rovira i Virgili

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[SIPTA] JOB: Lecturer in Statistics - Durham University
by COOLEN F.P.A. Dec. 16, 2013

Dec. 16, 2013

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

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[SIPTA] Brazilian Meeting on Bayesian Statistics - Deadline approaching
by Cassio P. de Campos Dec. 4, 2013

Dec. 4, 2013

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ EBEB 2014 (March 10-14) - 12th Brazilian Meeting on Bayesian Statistics CALL FOR PAPERS (Springer Proceedings in Mathematics & Statistics) DEADLINE: December 20, 2013 The Brazilian Meeting on Bayesian Statistics (EBEB) is in its twelfth edition. These meetings aim at strengthening the research on Bayesian methods and widening their application. They also provide an environment where Brazilian and international researchers collaborate, present their most recent developments and discuss on open problems. EBEB also allows graduate students to make contacts with experienced researchers. This year's meeting has a particular focus on discussing recent developments in the many viewpoints of Bayesian statistics, such as computational, theoretical, methodological and applied views. EBEB 2014 will take place in Atibaia, State of Sao Paulo, Brazil from March 10 to 14, in a beautiful country-side hotel (http://www.hotelfazendaatibaia.com.br/) specialized in horse riding. This is precisely one week after the famous Brazilian carnival. The venue is conveniently placed near Sao Paulo-Guarulhos international airport (40-minutes trip; the organization will coordinate means to help participants to reach the venue). For more details, please check the web page at http://www.ime.usp.br/~isbra/ebeb/. The EBEB 2014 is organized by ISBrA - the Brazilian Chapter of ISBA. EBEB 2014 invites submissions of papers on all topics related to Bayesian Statistics. We welcome submissions by authors who are new to EBEB and on new and emerging topics -- examples of topics and papers published/presented in past EBEB meetings can be found at the meeting's web page. Full papers accepted to the proceedings will be published in a book from the series "Springer Proceedings in Mathematics & Statistics" (http://www.springer.com/series/10533) Submissions must be formatted accordingly (more details are available online). Full papers (including figures and text) are limited to 10 pages in length. There are two paper submission tracks for EBEB (detailed below), even though accepted full papers appear in the proceedings regardless of their track. All accepted papers will be presented during the meeting either as contributed talks or as posters. The registration in the event of at least one author and the presentation of the work are preconditions for their publication in the proceedings. Early Submission Track: December 20, 2013: Early Full Paper Submission. January 10, 2014: Early Decision Notification (for the proceedings). July 01, 2014: Final camera-ready version. Normal Submission Track: December 20, 2013: Abstract Submission. January 10, 2014: Abstract Decision Notification (full paper mandatory in case of acceptance). January 15, 2014: Early Registration. February 10, 2014: Full Paper Submission (for accepted abstracts). April 07, 2014: Decision Notification (for the proceedings). July 01, 2014: Final camera-ready version. More details about the two tracks and the submission procedure are available online at http://www.ime.usp.br/~isbra/ebeb/ ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ (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.)

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Re: [SIPTA] Soft Methods in Probability and Statistics SMPS'2014
by Kreinovich Nov. 26, 2013

Nov. 26, 2013

FYI _________________________________ From: Przemyslaw Grzegorzewski [pgrzeg(a)ibspan.waw.pl] 7th International Conference on "Soft Methods in Probability and Statistics - SMPS 2014" Warsaw (Poland), September 22-24, 2014 Website: http://smps2014.ibspan.waw.pl/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Several years ago, the need was felt to establish a recurrent forum for exchanging of ideas and discussing new trends that enlarge the statistical and uncertainty modelling traditions, towards a flexible and more specific handling of incomplete or subjective information. This idea resulted in a series of biannual international conferences on Soft Methods in Probability and Statistics (SMPS), organized for the first time in Warsaw in 2002. Subsequent events in this series took place in Oviedo (2004), Bristol (2006), Toulouse (2008), Oviedo/Mieres (2010) and Konstanz (2012). The 7th International Conference on Soft Methods in Probability and Statistics - SMPS 2014 returns to Warsaw, the capital of Poland. The conference will be organized by the Polish Operational and Systems Research Society, Systems Research Institute of the Polish Academy of Sciences and Faculty of Mathematics and Information Science of Warsaw University of Technology. The aim of the conference is to bring together theoreticians and practitioners working on soft probability, statistics and data analysis. Topics and scope of the SMPS conference include but are not limited to: - Analysis of Censored Data - Analysis of Fuzzy Data - Clustering and Classification - Dempster-Shafer Theory - Fuzzy Random Variables - Fuzzy Regression Methods - Graphical Models - Imprecise Probabilities - Machine Learning - Possibility Theory - Random Sets/Random Fuzzy Sets - Robust Statistics - Rough Sets in Data Analysis - Soft Computing and Statistics - Statistical Software for Imprecise Data - Triangular Norms and Copulas ----------------------------------------------------- Invited speakers: - Eyke Hüllermeier - Inés Couso - Bernard De Baets ----------------------------------------------------- Important Dates Paper Submission Start: February 1, 2014 Paper Submission End: March 15, 2014 Notification of Acceptance: April 28, 2014 Final Paper submissions: May 17, 2014 Early Registration End: May 31, 2014 ----------------------------------------------------- For more details see: http://smps2014.ibspan.waw.pl/ -- Przemyslaw Grzegorzewski, Ph.D., D.Sc. Systems Research Institute Polish Academy of Sciences Address: ul. Newelska 6 01-447 Warsaw, Poland E-mail: pgrzeg(a)ibspan.waw.pl Phone: (+48) 22-381-02-07 Fax: (+48) 22-381-01-05 Web page: http://www.ibspan.waw.pl/~pgrzeg

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[SIPTA] Job: Assistant Researcher at IDSIA, Switzerland
by Cassio P. de Campos Nov. 25, 2013

Nov. 25, 2013

The Dalle Molle Institute for Artificial Intelligence (http://www.idsia.ch) affiliated with both University of Lugano and University of Applied Sciences of Southern Switzerland, advertises a full-time (100% occupancy), permanent, assistant researcher position in the area of data mining. IDSIA offers an international working environment (English is the official language) and a very competitive salary. The main duty of the person to be hired will be to support IDSIA's projects through advanced scientific programming skills: in particular, applied research projects with industry partners as well as some theoretical projects. The work will be performed in close collaboration with experts in probabilistic graphical models, robust learning, data mining, operations research (please see http://ipg.idsia.ch for more information). The ideal candidate has a strong background in the design and development of algorithms, has exceptional programming skills, has obtained a Bachelor and a Master degree in a quantitative area (doctorate is a plus), has good communication skills in English (Italian is a preferential additional option), ability to work in a collaborative environment and to participate in applied projects. For further information and details on how to apply, contact Cassio de Campos (cassio(a)idsia.ch). Please provide your CV (plus any additional documents you might find relevant, PDF format is preferred) in case you are interested in applying to this position. Additional documents and/or procedures might be requested later on. Candidacies will be reviewed as soon as they are received. The search will remain open until the position is filled. Applications received before the end of 2013 will be given full consideration.

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[SIPTA] SSTiC 2014: 1st announcement
by GRLMC Nov. 24, 2013

Nov. 24, 2013

*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/ ********************************************************************* AIM: SSTiC 2014 is the second edition in a series started in 2013. For the previous event, see http://grammars.grlmc.com/SSTiC2013/ SSTiC 2014 will be a research training event mainly addressed to PhD students and PhD holders in the first steps of their academic career. It intends to update them about the most recent developments in the diverse branches of computer science and its neighbouring areas. To that purpose, renowned scholars will lecture and will be available for interaction with the audience. SSTiC 2014 will cover the whole spectrum of computer science through 5 keynote lectures and 30 six-hour courses dealing with the hottest topics in the field. The organizers share the idea that outstanding speakers will really attract high-quality 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 in 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 George Karypis (U Minnesota, Twin Cities), Recommender Systems Past, Present, & Future Ronald R. Yager (Iona C, New Rochelle), tba ... more will come ... COURSES AND PROFESSORS: Divyakant Agrawal (U California, Santa Barbara), [intermediate] Scalable Data Management in Enterprise and Cloud Computing Infrastructures Rajkumar Buyya (U Melbourne), [intermediate] Cloud Computing Kwang-Ting (Tim) Cheng (U California, Santa Barbara), [introductory/intermediate] Smartphones: Hardware Platform, Software Development, and Emerging Apps 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 George Karypis (U Minnesota, Twin Cities), [intermediate] Programming Models/Frameworks for Parallel & Distributed Computing Arie E. Kaufman (U Stony Brook), [advanced] Visualization Sudhakar M. Reddy (U Iowa, Iowa City), [introductory] Test and Design for Test of Digital Logic Circuits Robert Sargent (Syracuse U), [introductory] Validation of Models Mubarak Shah (U Central Florida, Orlando), [intermediate] Visual Crowd Analysis Steffen Staab (U Koblenz), [intermediate] Programming the Semantic Web Mike Thelwall (U Wolverhampton), [introductory] Sentiment Strength Detection for Twitter and the Social Web Nitin Vaidya (U Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), [introductory/intermediate] Distributed Consensus: Theory and Applications Philip Wadler (U Edinburgh), [intermediate] Topics in Lambda Calculus and Life ... more will come ... ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: Adrian Horia Dediu (Tarragona) Carlos Martín-Vide (Tarragona, chair) Bianca Truthe (Magdeburg) Florentina Lilica Voicu (Tarragona) REGISTRATION: It has to be done at http://grammars.grlmc.com/sstic2014/registration.php The selection of up to 8 courses requested in the registration template is only tentative and non-binding. For the sake of organization, it will be helpful to have an approximation of the respective demand for each course. Since the capacity of the venue is limited, registration requests will be processed on a first come first served basis. The registration period will be closed when the capacity of the venue will be complete. It is very convenient to register prior to the event. FEES: As far as possible, participants are expected to attend for the whole (or most of the) week (full-time). Fees are a flat rate allowing one to attend all courses. They vary depending on the registration deadline. If seats will still be available, shortly prior to the event attending only a few days (part-time) may be permitted, with the appropriate adjustment of the fees. ACCOMMODATION: Information about accommodation will be available on the website of the School in due time. CERTIFICATE: Participants will be delivered a certificate of attendance. QUESTIONS AND FURTHER INFORMATION: florentinalilica.voicu(a)urv.cat POSTAL ADDRESS: SSTiC 2014 Lilica Voicu Rovira i Virgili University Av. Catalunya, 35 43002 Tarragona, Spain Phone: +34 977 559 543 Fax: +34 977 558 386 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS: Departament dEconomia i Coneixement, Generalitat de Catalunya Universitat Rovira i Virgili

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Re: [SIPTA] Call for paper for Special Session on “Uncertainty Quantification and Management through Bayesian and/or Imprecise Probability Perspectives”
by Kreinovich Nov. 16, 2013

Nov. 16, 2013

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[SIPTA] CFP: IPMU Special session on Uncertainty and Machine Learning
by Sébastien Destercke Nov. 14, 2013

Nov. 14, 2013

*Apologies for multiple postings.* Your help with circulating this announcement locally is much appreciated. Dear colleagues, We are organizing within the IPMU conference (http://www.ipmu2014.univ-montp2.fr/ ) a special session focusing on: Uncertainty in Machine Learning In this special session, we would like to focus on specific problems where: (1) training and testing data are scarce or uncertainly known and require an appropriate treatment (2) models are not based on the usual i.i.d assumptions and require more complex modelling (3) the decision step is not a precise/classical one and may allow for abstention or cautiousness Topics of interest includes machine learning problems (sequence prediction, on-line learning, multilabel problems, preference learning, classification, ...) and the use of uncertainty models (possibility distributions, imprecise probabilities, belief functions, rough and fuzzy sets) within them. DATES: Submission: 9 December Notification: 24 February Conference: 15-19 July A detailed Call for paper can be found at http://www.ipmu2014.univ-montp2.fr/pages/sessions/MachineLearning.pdf If you plan to submit a paper, please let us know by mailing us. Best regards Thomas Burger and Sébastien Destercke

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[SIPTA] Job opportunities at the MCMP Munich
by Niki Pfeifer Nov. 12, 2013

Nov. 12, 2013

Dr.Dr. Niki Pfeifer (Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy, LMU Munich) offers under the usual equal opportunity conditions one doctoral researcher position OR one early postdoctoral researcher position (i.e., if the PhD is obtained after January 1, 2013) to work in the intersection of philosophy and psychology (65%, TV-L 13, 1 year, extension possibilities will depend on performance and funding situation). Moreover, one student assistant position is vacant. The (post)doctoral researcher will focus on empirical work (developing the research hypotheses, designing the experiments and running the data analysis) in the field of reasoning under uncertainty, focusing on conditionals. One student assistant will support the (post)doctoral researcher with the construction of the experimental material, collection of the data and preparation of the data for analysis. Working language is English or German. Deadline for applications: open, until filled (filled positions will be announced on the project website). For an application send an email including the following items to niki.pfeifer(a)lrz.uni-muenchen.de 1) a letter of motivation 2) curriculum vitae 3) a scan of the most recent academic degrees 4) evidence of English and mathematical skills (e.g., school/university grades) 5) two confidential letters of reference addressing the applicant's qualifications are required for each position. These must be sent by the referees directly to me. The ideal candidate will be an empirically oriented analytical philosopher or an experimental psychologist interested in epistemological problems. For selection criteria and further details see the project website: www.pfeifer-research.de/spp.html I regret that I will not be able to send out negative notifications. -- Dr.Dr. Niki Pfeifer www.pfeifer-research.de Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich (Germany)

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[SIPTA] AlCoB 2014: 2nd call for papers
by GRLMC Nov. 10, 2013

Nov. 10, 2013

*To be removed from our mailing list, please respond to this message with UNSUBSCRIBE in the subject line* ********************************************************************* 1st INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ALGORITHMS FOR COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY AlCoB 2014 Tarragona, Spain July 1-3, 2014 Organized by: Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics (GRLMC) Rovira i Virgili University http://grammars.grlmc.com/alcob2014/ ********************************************************************* AIMS: AlCoB aims at promoting and displaying excellent research using string and graph algorithms and combinatorial optimization to deal with problems in biological sequence analysis, genome rearrangement, evolutionary trees, and structure prediction. The conference will address several of the current challenges in computational biology by investigating algorithms aimed at: 1) assembling sequence reads into a complete genome, 2) identifying gene structures in the genome, 3) recognizing regulatory motifs, 4) aligning nucleotides and comparing genomes, 5) reconstructing regulatory networks of genes, and 6) inferring the evolutionary phylogeny of species. Particular focus will be put on methodology and significant room will be reserved to young scholars at the beginning of their career. VENUE: AlCoB 2014 will take place in Tarragona, located 90 kms. to the south of Barcelona. The venue will be the Catalunya Campus. SCOPE: Topics of either theoretical or applied interest include, but are not limited to: Exact sequence analysis Approximate sequence analysis Pairwise sequence alignment Multiple sequence alignment Sequence assembly Genome rearrangement Regulatory motif finding Phylogeny reconstruction Phylogeny comparison Structure prediction Compressive genomics Proteomics: molecular pathways, interaction networks ... Transcriptomics: splicing variants, isoform inference and quantification, differential analysis Next-generation sequencing: population genomics, metagenomics, metatranscriptomics ... Microbiome analysis Systems biology STRUCTURE: AlCoB 2014 will consist of: invited talks invited tutorials peer-reviewed contributions INVITED SPEAKERS: Michael Galperin (National Center for Biotechnology Information, Bethesda), Comparative Genomics Approaches to Identifying Functionally Related Genes Uwe Ohler (Max-Delbrück Centre for Molecular Medicine, Berlin), Decoding Non-coding Regulatory Regions in DNA and RNA (tutorial) Jason Papin (University of Virginia, Charlottesville), Network Analysis of Microbial Pathogens PROGRAMME COMMITTEE: Tatsuya Akutsu (Kyoto, JP) Amihood Amir (Ramat-Gan, IL) Alberto Apostolico (Atlanta, US) Joel Bader (Baltimore, US) Pierre Baldi (Irvine, US) Serafim Batzoglou (Stanford, US) Bonnie Berger (Cambridge, US) Francis Y.L. Chin (Hong Kong, HK) Benny Chor (Tel Aviv, IL) Keith A. Crandall (Washington, US) Bhaskar DasGupta (Chicago, US) Joaquín Dopazo (Valencia, ES) Liliana Florea (Baltimore, US) Olivier Gascuel (Montpellier, FR) David Gilbert (Uxbridge, UK) Gaston H. Gonnet (Zurich, CH) Roderic Guigó (Barcelona, ES) Dan Gusfield (Davis, US) Vasant Honavar (University College, US) Sorin Istrail (Providence, US) Tao Jiang (Riverside, US) Inge Jonassen (Bergen, NO) Anders Krogh (Copenhagen, DK) Giovanni Manzini (Alessandria, IT) Carlos Martín-Vide (Tarragona, ES, chair) Satoru Miyano (Tokyo, JP) Burkhard Morgenstern (Göttingen, DE) Shinichi Morishita (Tokyo, JP) Cédric Notredame (Barcelona, ES) Graziano Pesole (Bari, IT) Mark Ragan (Brisbane, AU) Timothy Ravasi (Thuwal, SA) Allen G. Rodrigo (Durham, US) Steven Salzberg (Baltimore, US) David Sankoff (Ottawa, CA) Thomas Schiex (Toulouse, FR) João C. Setubal (São Paulo, BR) Steven Skiena (Stony Brook, US) Peter F. Stadler (Leipzig, DE) Wing-Kin Sung (Singapore, SG) Alfonso Valencia (Madrid, ES) Jacques van Helden (Marseille, FR) Arndt von Haeseler (Vienna, AT) Lusheng Wang (Hong Kong, HK) Limsoon Wong (Singapore, SG) Xiaohui Xie (Irvine, US) Dong Xu (Columbia, US) Zohar Yakhini (Santa Clara, US) Alex Zelikovsky (Atlanta, US) Michael Q. Zhang (Dallas, US) ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: Adrian Horia Dediu (Tarragona) Carlos Martín-Vide (Tarragona, chair) Bianca Truthe (Magdeburg) Florentina Lilica Voicu (Tarragona) SUBMISSIONS: Authors are invited to submit non-anonymized papers in English presenting original and unpublished research. Papers should not exceed 12 single-spaced pages (including eventual appendices) and should be formatted according to the standard format for Springer Verlag's LNCS series (see http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0) Submissions have to be uploaded to: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=alcob2014 PUBLICATIONS: A volume of proceedings published by Springer in the LNCS/LNBI series will be available by the time of the conference. A special issue of a major journal will be later published containing peer-reviewed extended versions of some of the papers contributed to the conference. Submissions to it will be by invitation. REGISTRATION: The period for registration is open from September 21, 2013 to July 1, 2014. The registration form can be found at: http://grammars.grlmc.com/alcob2014/Registration.php DEADLINES: Paper submission: February 4, 2014 (23:59 CET) Notification of paper acceptance or rejection: March 15, 2014 Final version of the paper for the LNCS/LNBI proceedings: March 22, 2014 Early registration: March 29, 2014 Late registration: June 17, 2014 Starting of the conference: July 1, 2014 End of the conference: July 3, 2014 Submission to the post-conference journal special issue: October 3, 2014 QUESTIONS AND FURTHER INFORMATION: florentinalilica.voicu(a)urv.cat POSTAL ADDRESS: AlCoB 2014 Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics (GRLMC) Rovira i Virgili University Av. Catalunya, 35 43002 Tarragona, Spain Phone: +34 977 559543 Fax: +34 977 558386 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS: Departament dEconomia i Coneixement, Generalitat de Catalunya Universitat Rovira i Virgili

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[SIPTA] 6th SIPTA School on Imprecise Probabilities (21-25 Jul 2014, Montpellier, France): 1st announcement
by ENRIQUE MIRANDA MENENDEZ Nov. 7, 2013

Nov. 7, 2013

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[SIPTA] FW: CIFEr 2014
by Kreinovich Nov. 6, 2013

Nov. 6, 2013

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[SIPTA] FW: support needed for p-boxes
by Kreinovich Nov. 6, 2013

Nov. 6, 2013

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[SIPTA] TPNC 2013: call for participation
by GRLMC - URV Nov. 6, 2013

Nov. 6, 2013

*To be removed from our mailing list, please respond to this message with UNSUBSCRIBE in the subject line* ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2nd INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF NATURAL COMPUTING TPNC 2013 Cáceres, Spain December 3-5, 2013 http://grammars.grlmc.com/tpnc2013/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- PROGRAMME Tuesday, December 3 09:00 - 09:50 Registration 09:50 - 10:00 Opening 10:00 - 10:50 Eugen Czeizler, Pekka Orponen: Yield optimization strategies for (DNA) staged Tile Assembly Systems Vinay Kumar Gautam, Pauline C. Haddow, Martin Kuiper: Reliable Self-assembly by Self-triggered Activation of Enveloped DNA Tiles 10:50 - 11:20 Coffee Break 11:20 - 13:00 Mirosław Kordos, Andrzej Rusiecki: Improving MLP Neural Network Performance by Noise Reduction Omar K. Shoukry, Magda B. Fayek: Evolutionary Scheduling for Mobile Content Pre-fetching Marius Nagy, Naya Nagy: General Quantum Encryption Scheme based on Quantum Memory Marius Nagy, Naya Nagy: Quantum Secret Communication without an Encryption Key 13:00 - 14:45 Lunch 14:45 - 15:35 Oliver Rice, Robert Smith, Rickard Nyman: GPU Multi-Objective Genetic Algorithm: Asynchronously Parallel Distributed NSGA-II Anne Jeannin-Girardon, Pascal Ballet, Vincent Rodin: An Efficient Biomechanical Cell Model to Simulate Large Multi-cellular Tissue Morphogenesis: Application to Cell Sorting Simulation on GPU 15:35 - 15:50 Break 15:50 - 16:40 Risto Miikkulainen: Evolving Neural Networks: Approaches – Invited Tutorial I Wednesday, December 4 09:00 - 10:40 Rim Hentech, Ilyes Jenhani, Zied Elouedi: Learning from Uncertain Data Using Possibilistic Artificial Immune Recognition Systems Massimiliano D’Angelo, Berend Weel, Agoston E. Eiben: Online Gait Learning for Modular Robots with Arbitrary Shapes and Sizes José M. Lanza-Gutiérrez, Juan A. Gómez-Pulido, Miguel Ángel Vega-Rodríguez: A Trajectory Algorithm to Solve the Relay Node Placement Problem in Wireless Sensor Networks Rafael Nogueras, Carlos Cotta, Carlos M. Fernandes, Juan Luis Jiménez Laredo, Juan Julián Merelo, Agostinho C. Rosa: An Analysis of a Selecto-Lamarckian Model of Multimemetic Algorithms with Dynamic Self-Organized Topology 10:40 - 11:10 Coffee Break 11:10 - 12:00 Poster session I Orlando Duran: A Hybrid Solution to the Multi-Echelon Inventory Problem of Repairable Spare Parts Using Discrete Swarm Intelligence and a Local Search Procedure Jesús Torrecilla-Pinero, Fernando Torrecilla-Pinero, Juan A. Gómez-Pulido, Carlos Urueña-Fernández: A Novel Way to Optimize Cantilever Walls by Means of Natural Computing and Multiobjective Optimization Hector Zenil: Complexity and Algorithmic Probability of Animal Behaviour from Cognition to Communication Ron Cottam, Willy Ranson, Roger Vounckx: A Framework for Computing like Nature Cristina Martínez-Ramírez, Alberto Besana: Models for the Distribution of Letters in Random Generated Words Raúl Domínguez, Tim Köhler, Christian Rauch, Elmar Berghöfer, Frank Kirchner: Autonomous Robot Long Distance Traversing by a Robust Nature-Inspired Behaviour Control Model Using Sensor Feedback Expectations 12:00 - 12:15 Break 12:15 - 13:05 Risto Miikkulainen: Evolving Neural Networks: Applications – Invited Tutorial II 13:05 - 14:50 Lunch 14:50 - 15:50 Poster session II Kazunari Ozasa, Jeesoo Lee, Simon Song, Masahiko Hara, Mizuo Maeda: Introduction of Artificial Pheromone Effects on Euglena Cells Toward Ant Colony Optimization Experiments Kristīne Cīpola, Rūsiņš Freivalds: Examples of Advantages for Ultrametric Automata Mikhail Peretyat’kin: Combinatorial Computation in First-Order Predicate Logic as a Formal Prototype of Natural Computing Alidra Abdelghani, Mohamed Tahar Kimour: Biology Inspired Decision Making for Self-Healing Realtime Systems Kristīne Cīpola, Kārlis Ceziņš, Rūsiņš Freivalds, Viesturs Vēzis: Producing Learning Tools to Teach Quantum and Ultrametric Automata Antonio J. Tallón-Ballesteros, José C. Riquelme, César Hervás-Martínez, Roberto Ruiz: Enhancing the Performance of a Feature Selection Method Based Jointly on Feature Ranking and Feature Subset Selection in the Context of a Neural Network Classifier Ángela Villota, Jesús Aranda: Towards a General Approach to Model Biological Systems from Membrane Systems into a Concurrent Constraint Calculus 15:55 Visit to the City Thursday, December 5 09:00 – 09:50 Xin Yao: Evolutionary Algorithm Portfolios for Numerical Optimisation - Invited Talk 09:50 - 10:05 Break 10:05 - 11:20 Yara Khaluf, Mauro Birattari, Franz Rammig: Probabilistic Analysis of Long-term Swarm Performance under Spatial Interferences Víctor Berrocal-Plaza, Miguel Ángel Vega-Rodríguez, Juan M. Sánchez-Pérez: A New Version of the Multiobjective Artificial Bee Colony Algorithm for Optimizing the Location Areas Planning in a Realistic Network Takuya Nishida, Takaaki Mizuki, Hideaki Sone: Securely Computing the Three-Input Majority Function with Eight Cards 11:20 - 11:50 Coffee Break 11:50 - 13:05 Yahya O. Mohamed Elhadj, Mansour Alghamdi, Mohamed Alkanhal: Approach for Recognizing Allophonic Sounds of the Classical Arabic Based on Quran Recitations Antonio Martí Campoy, Francisco Rodríguez-Ballester, Rafael Ors Carot: Using Dynamic, Full Cache Locking and Genetic Algorithms for Cache Size Minimization in Multitasking, Preemptive, Real-time Systems Lingling Jin, Ian McQuillan: Computational Modelling of the Interruptional Activities between Transposable Elements 13:05 Closing

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Re: [SIPTA] IPMU 2014, Montpellier, France, July 15-19, 2014
by Kreinovich Oct. 30, 2013

Oct. 30, 2013

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[SIPTA] FW: Call for Papers: IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence for Engineering Solutions
by Kreinovich Oct. 27, 2013

Oct. 27, 2013

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[SIPTA] FW: Call for Papers: REC 2014, Reliability and Computations of Infrastructures
by Kreinovich Oct. 21, 2013

Oct. 21, 2013

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[SIPTA] LATA 2014: extended submission deadline 21 October
by GRLMC Oct. 13, 2013

Oct. 13, 2013

*To be removed from our mailing list, please respond to this message with UNSUBSCRIBE in the subject line* ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ***** SUBMISSION DEADLINE EXTENDED: October 21 ***** ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ************************************************************************* 8th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE AND AUTOMATA THEORY AND APPLICATIONS LATA 2014 Madrid, Spain March 10-14, 2014 Organized by: Research Group on Implementation of Language-Driven Software and Applications (ILSA) Complutense University of Madrid Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics (GRLMC) Rovira i Virgili University http://grammars.grlmc.com/lata2014/ ********************************************************************* AIMS: LATA is a yearly conference 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 2014 will reserve significant room for young scholars at the beginning of their career. It will aim at attracting contributions from both classical theory fields and application areas (bioinformatics, language technology, artificial intelligence, etc.). VENUE: LATA 2014 will take place in Madrid, the capital of Spain. The venue will be the School of Informatics of Complutense University. 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, concurrency and Petri nets automatic structures cellular automata codes combinatorics on words compilers computability computational complexity data and image compression decidability issues on words and languages descriptional complexity DNA and other models of bio-inspired computing 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 language-theoretic foundations of artificial intelligence and artificial life natural language and speech automatic processing parallel and regulated rewriting parsing patterns power series quantum, chemical and optical computing semantics string and combinatorial issues in computational biology and bioinformatics string processing algorithms symbolic dynamics symbolic neural networks term rewriting transducers trees, tree languages and tree automata weighted automata STRUCTURE: LATA 2014 will consist of: invited talks invited tutorials peer-reviewed contributions INVITED SPEAKERS: Javier Esparza (Munich Tech, DE), On Trees and Fixed Point Equations (tutorial) Leslie A. Goldberg (Oxford, UK), The Complexity of Approximate Counting Oscar H. Ibarra (Santa Barbara, US), Some Computability and Complexity Problems Concerning FAs, PDAs, and Counter Machines Sanjeev Khanna (Philadelphia, US), tba Helmut Seidl (Munich Tech, DE), Interprocedural Information Flow Analysis of XML Processors PROGRAMME COMMITTEE: Dana Angluin (Yale, US) Eugene Asarin (Paris Diderot, FR) Jos Baeten (Amsterdam, NL) Christel Baier (Dresden, DE) Jan Bergstra (Amsterdam, NL) Jin-Yi Cai (Madison, US) Marek Chrobak (Riverside, US) Andrea Corradini (Pisa, IT) Mariangiola Dezani (Turin, IT) Ding-Zhu Du (Dallas, US) Michael R. Fellows (Darwin, AU) Jörg Flum (Freiburg, DE) Nissim Francez (Technion, IL) Jürgen Giesl (Aachen, DE) Annegret Habel (Oldenburg, DE) Kazuo Iwama (Kyoto, JP) Sampath Kannan (Philadelphia, US) Ming-Yang Kao (Northwestern, US) Deepak Kapur (Albuquerque, US) Joost-Pieter Katoen (Aachen, DE) S. Rao Kosaraju (Johns Hopkins, US) Evangelos Kranakis (Carleton, CA) Gad M. Landau (Haifa, IL) Andrzej Lingas (Lund, SE) Jack Lutz (Iowa State, US) Ian Mackie (École Polytechnique, FR) Carlos Martín-Vide (Tarragona, ES, chair) Giancarlo Mauri (Milan, IT) Faron G. Moller (Swansea, UK) Paliath Narendran (Albany, US) Enno Ohlebusch (Ulm, DE) Helmut Prodinger (Stellenbosch, ZA) Jean-François Raskin (Brussels, BE) Wolfgang Reisig (Humboldt Berlin, DE) Marco Roveri (Bruno Kessler, Trento, IT) Michaël Rusinowitch (LORIA, Nancy, FR) Yasubumi Sakakibara (Keio, JP) Davide Sangiorgi (Bologna, IT) Colin Stirling (Edinburgh, UK) Jianwen Su (Santa Barbara, US) Jean-Pierre Talpin (IRISA, Rennes, FR) Andrzej Tarlecki (Warsaw, PL) Rick Thomas (Leicester, UK) Sophie Tison (Lille, FR) Rob van Glabbeek (NICTA, Sydney, AU) Helmut Veith (Vienna Tech, AT) ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: Adrian Horia Dediu (Tarragona) Ana Fernández-Pampillón (Madrid) Carlos Martín-Vide (Tarragona, co-chair) Antonio Sarasa (Madrid) José-Luis Sierra (Madrid, co-chair) Bianca Truthe (Magdeburg) Florentina Lilica Voicu (Tarragona) SUBMISSIONS: Authors are invited to submit non-anonymized papers in English presenting original and unpublished research. Papers should not exceed 12 single-spaced pages (including eventual appendices) and should be formatted according to the standard format for Springer Verlag's LNCS series (see http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0) Submissions have to be uploaded to: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lata2014 PUBLICATIONS: A volume of proceedings published by Springer in the LNCS series will be available by the time of the conference. A special issue of a major journal will be later published containing peer-reviewed extended versions of some of the papers contributed to the conference. Submissions to it will be by invitation. REGISTRATION: The period for registration is open from July 15, 2013 to March 10, 2014. The registration form can be found at: http://grammars.grlmc.com/lata2014/Registration.php DEADLINES: Paper submission: October 21, 2013 (23:59 CET) EXTENDED Notification of paper acceptance or rejection: November 25, 2013 Final version of the paper for the LNCS proceedings: December 2, 2013 Early registration: December 9, 2013 Late registration: February 24, 2014 Starting of the conference: March 10, 2014 End of the conference: March 14, 2014 Submission to the post-conference journal special issue: June 14, 2014 QUESTIONS AND FURTHER INFORMATION: florentinalilica.voicu(a)urv.cat POSTAL ADDRESS: LATA 2014 Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics (GRLMC) Rovira i Virgili University Av. Catalunya, 35 43002 Tarragona, Spain Phone: +34 977 559 543 Fax: +34 977 558 386 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS: Departament dEconomia i Coneixement, Generalitat de Catalunya Universidad Complutense de Madrid Universitat Rovira i Virgili

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[SIPTA] BayesiaLab Analytics Innovation Event in Orlando
by Stefan Conrady Oct. 11, 2013

Oct. 11, 2013

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[SIPTA] Job opportunities at the MCMP Munich
by Niki Pfeifer Oct. 10, 2013

Oct. 10, 2013

Dr.Dr. Niki Pfeifer (Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy, LMU Munich) offers under the usual equal opportunity conditions one doctoral researcher position OR one early postdoctoral researcher position (i.e., if the PhD is obtained after January 1, 2013) to work in the intersection of philosophy and psychology (65%, TV-L 13, 1 year, extension possibilities will depend on performance and funding situation). Moreover, one student assistant position is vacant. The (post)doctoral researcher will focus on empirical work (developing the research hypotheses, designing the experiments and running the data analysis) in the field of reasoning under uncertainty, focusing on conditionals. One student assistant will support the (post)doctoral researcher with the construction of the experimental material, collection of the data and preparation of the data for analysis. Working language is English or German. Deadline for applications: open, until filled (filled positions will be announced on the project website). For an application send an email including the following items to niki.pfeifer(a)lrz.uni-muenchen.de 1) a letter of motivation 2) curriculum vitae 3) a scan of the most recent academic degrees 4) evidence of English and mathematical skills (e.g., school/university grades) 5) two confidential letters of reference addressing the applicant's qualifications are required for each position. These must be sent by the referees directly to me. The ideal candidate will be an empirically oriented analytical philosopher or an experimental psychologist interested in epistemological problems. For selection criteria and further details see the project website: www.pfeifer-research.de/spp.html I regret that I will not be able to send out negative notifications. -- Dr.Dr. Niki Pfeifer www.pfeifer-research.de Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich (Germany)

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[SIPTA] TPNC 2013: 2nd call for posters
by GRLMC Oct. 6, 2013

Oct. 6, 2013

*To be removed from our mailing list, please respond to this message with UNSUBSCRIBE in the subject line* ************************************************************************* The 2nd International Conference on the Theory and Practice of Natural Computing (TPNC 2013) invites authors to submit poster presentations. TPNC 2013 will be held in Cáceres (Spain) on 3-5 December, 2013. See http://grammars.grlmc.com/tpnc2013/ Poster presentations are intended to enhance informal interactions with the conference participants, at the same time permitting in-depth discussion. TOPICS Authors are encouraged to submit presentations that discuss novel work in progress on: - nature-inspired models of computation, - synthesis of nature by means of computation, - nature-inspired materials, - information processing in nature, - applications of natural computing. Posters do not need to present final research results. Work that may lead to new interesting developments is welcome. KEY DATES Submission deadline: October 20, 2013 Notification of poster acceptance or rejection: October 27, 2013 SUBMISSION Please submit a .pdf abstract through: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=tpnc2013 It should contain the title, author(s) and affiliation, and should not exceed 500 words. PRESENTATION Posters will be allocated 8 minutes each in the programme for oral presentation. Moreover, they will remain hanging during the whole conference for discussion. PUBLICATION Posters will not appear in the LNCS proceedings volume of TPNC 2013. However, they will be eligible for submission to the post-conference Soft Computing journal special issue. REGISTRATION Authors of accepted posters have to register to the conference. Their registration fare is reduced: 150 Euro (appr. one third of the fare for PhD students).

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[SIPTA] Call for papers: special session on imprecise probabilities at IPMU'2014
by Enrique Miranda Oct. 3, 2013

Oct. 3, 2013

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[SIPTA] Call for papers - 12th Brazilian Meeting on Bayesian Statistics
by Cassio P. de Campos Oct. 2, 2013

Oct. 2, 2013

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ EBEB 2014 - 12th Brazilian Meeting on Bayesian Statistics CALL FOR PAPERS (Springer Proceedings in Mathematics & Statistics) The Brazilian Meeting on Bayesian Statistics (EBEB) is in its twelfth edition. These meetings aim at strengthening the research on Bayesian methods and widening their application. They also provide an environment where Brazilian and international researchers collaborate, present their most recent developments and discuss on open problems. EBEB also allows graduate students to make contacts with experienced researchers. This year's meeting has a particular focus on discussing recent developments in the many viewpoints of Bayesian statistics, such as computational, theoretical, methodological and applied views. EBEB 2014 will take place in Atibaia, State of Sao Paulo, Brazil from March 10 to 14, in a beautiful country-side hotel (http://www.hotelfazendaatibaia.com.br/) specialized in horse riding. This is precisely one week after the famous Brazilian carnival. The venue is conveniently placed near Sao Paulo-Guarulhos international airport (40-minutes trip; the organization will coordinate means to help participants to reach the venue). For more details, please check the web page at http://www.ime.usp.br/~isbra/ebeb/. The EBEB 2014 is organized by ISBrA - the Brazilian Chapter of ISBA. EBEB 2014 invites submissions of papers on all topics related to Bayesian Statistics. We welcome submissions by authors who are new to EBEB and on new and emerging topics -- examples of topics and papers published at past EBEB meetings can be found at the meeting's web page. Full papers accepted to the proceedings will be published in a book from the series "Springer Proceedings in Mathematics & Statistics" (http://www.springer.com/series/10533) Submissions must be formatted accordingly (more details are available online) and must be written in English. Full papers (including figures and text) are limited to 10 pages in length. There are two paper submission tracks for EBEB (detailed below), even though accepted full papers appear in the proceedings regardless of their track. All accepted papers will be presented at the meeting either as contributed talks or as posters. The registration in the event of at least one author and the presentation of the work are preconditions for their publication in the proceedings. Early Submission Track: December 20, 2013: Early Full Paper Submission. January 10, 2014: Early Decision Notification (for the proceedings). July 01, 2014: Final camera-ready version. Normal Submission Track: December 20, 2013: Abstract Submission. January 10, 2014: Abstract Decision Notification (full paper mandatory in case of acceptance). January 15, 2014: Early Registration. February 10, 2014: Full Paper Submission (mandatory in case of accepted abstract). April 07, 2014: Decision Notification (for the proceedings). July 01, 2014: Final camera-ready version. More details about the two tracks and the submission procedure are available online at http://www.ime.usp.br/~isbra/ebeb/ ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ (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.)

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[SIPTA] Bayesian Networks in Practice: BayesiaLab User Conference in Orlando
by Stefan Conrady Sept. 30, 2013

Sept. 30, 2013

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[SIPTA] AlCoB 2014: 1st call for papers
by GRLMC Sept. 22, 2013

Sept. 22, 2013

*To be removed from our mailing list, please respond to this message with UNSUBSCRIBE in the subject line* ********************************************************************* 1st INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ALGORITHMS FOR COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY AlCoB 2014 Tarragona, Spain July 1-3, 2014 Organized by: Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics (GRLMC) Rovira i Virgili University http://grammars.grlmc.com/alcob2014/ ********************************************************************* AIMS: AlCoB aims at promoting and displaying excellent research using string and graph algorithms and combinatorial optimization to deal with problems in biological sequence analysis, genome rearrangement, evolutionary trees, and structure prediction. The conference will address several of the current challenges in computational biology by investigating algorithms aimed at: 1) assembling sequence reads into a complete genome, 2) identifying gene structures in the genome, 3) recognizing regulatory motifs, 4) aligning nucleotides and comparing genomes, 5) reconstructing regulatory networks of genes, and 6) inferring the evolutionary phylogeny of species. Particular focus will be put on methodology and significant room will be reserved to young scholars at the beginning of their career. VENUE: AlCoB 2014 will take place in Tarragona, located 90 kms. to the south of Barcelona. The venue will be the Catalunya Campus. SCOPE: Topics of either theoretical or applied interest include, but are not limited to: Exact sequence analysis Approximate sequence analysis Pairwise sequence alignment Multiple sequence alignment Sequence assembly Genome rearrangement Regulatory motif finding Phylogeny reconstruction Phylogeny comparison Structure prediction Compressive genomics Proteomics: molecular pathways, interaction networks ... Transcriptomics: splicing variants, isoform inference and quantification, differential analysis Next-generation sequencing: population genomics, metagenomics, metatranscriptomics ... Microbiome analysis Systems biology STRUCTURE: AlCoB 2014 will consist of: invited talks invited tutorials peer-reviewed contributions INVITED SPEAKERS: to be announced PROGRAMME COMMITTEE: Tatsuya Akutsu (Kyoto, JP) Amihood Amir (Ramat-Gan, IL) Alberto Apostolico (Atlanta, US) Joel Bader (Baltimore, US) Pierre Baldi (Irvine, US) Serafim Batzoglou (Stanford, US) Bonnie Berger (Cambridge, US) Francis Y.L. Chin (Hong Kong, HK) Benny Chor (Tel Aviv, IL) Keith A. Crandall (Washington, US) Bhaskar DasGupta (Chicago, US) Joaquín Dopazo (Valencia, ES) Liliana Florea (Baltimore, US) Olivier Gascuel (Montpellier, FR) David Gilbert (Uxbridge, UK) Gaston H. Gonnet (Zurich, CH) Roderic Guigó (Barcelona, ES) Dan Gusfield (Davis, US) Vasant Honavar (University College, US) Sorin Istrail (Providence, US) Tao Jiang (Riverside, US) Inge Jonassen (Bergen, NO) Anders Krogh (Copenhagen, DK) Giovanni Manzini (Alessandria, IT) Carlos Martín-Vide (Tarragona, ES, chair) Satoru Miyano (Tokyo, JP) Burkhard Morgenstern (Göttingen, DE) Shinichi Morishita (Tokyo, JP) Cédric Notredame (Barcelona, ES) Graziano Pesole (Bari, IT) Mark Ragan (Brisbane, AU) Timothy Ravasi (Thuwal, SA) Allen G. Rodrigo (Durham, US) Steven Salzberg (Baltimore, US) David Sankoff (Ottawa, CA) Thomas Schiex (Toulouse, FR) João C. Setubal (São Paulo, BR) Steven Skiena (Stony Brook, US) Peter F. Stadler (Leipzig, DE) Wing-Kin Sung (Singapore, SG) Alfonso Valencia (Madrid, ES) Jacques van Helden (Marseille, FR) Arndt von Haeseler (Vienna, AT) Lusheng Wang (Hong Kong, HK) Limsoon Wong (Singapore, SG) Xiaohui Xie (Irvine, US) Dong Xu (Columbia, US) Zohar Yakhini (Santa Clara, US) Alex Zelikovsky (Atlanta, US) Michael Q. Zhang (Dallas, US) ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: Adrian Horia Dediu (Tarragona) Carlos Martín-Vide (Tarragona, chair) Bianca Truthe (Magdeburg) Florentina Lilica Voicu (Tarragona) SUBMISSIONS: Authors are invited to submit non-anonymized papers in English presenting original and unpublished research. Papers should not exceed 12 single-spaced pages (including eventual appendices) and should be formatted according to the standard format for Springer Verlag's LNCS series (see http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0) Submissions have to be uploaded to: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=alcob2014 PUBLICATIONS: A volume of proceedings expectedly published by Springer in the LNBI series will be available by the time of the conference. A special issue of a major journal will be later published containing peer-reviewed extended versions of some of the papers contributed to the conference. Submissions to it will be by invitation. REGISTRATION: The period for registration is open from September 21, 2013 to July 1, 2014. The registration form can be found at: http://grammars.grlmc.com/alcob2014/Registration.php DEADLINES: Paper submission: February 4, 2014 (23:59 CET) Notification of paper acceptance or rejection: March 15, 2014 Final version of the paper for the proceedings: March 22, 2014 Early registration: March 29, 2014 Late registration: June 17, 2014 Starting of the conference: July 1, 2014 End of the conference: July 3, 2014 Submission to the post-conference journal special issue: October 3, 2014 QUESTIONS AND FURTHER INFORMATION: florentinalilica.voicu(a)urv.cat POSTAL ADDRESS: AlCoB 2014 Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics (GRLMC) Rovira i Virgili University Av. Catalunya, 35 43002 Tarragona, Spain Phone: +34 977 559543 Fax: +34 977 558386 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS: Departament dEconomia i Coneixement, Generalitat de Catalunya Universitat Rovira i Virgili

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[SIPTA] LATA 2014: 3rd call for papers
by GRLMC Sept. 15, 2013

Sept. 15, 2013

*To be removed from our mailing list, please respond to this message with UNSUBSCRIBE in the subject line* ************************************************************************* 8th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE AND AUTOMATA THEORY AND APPLICATIONS LATA 2014 Madrid, Spain March 10-14, 2014 Organized by: Research Group on Implementation of Language-Driven Software and Applications (ILSA) Complutense University of Madrid Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics (GRLMC) Rovira i Virgili University http://grammars.grlmc.com/lata2014/ ********************************************************************* AIMS: LATA is a yearly conference 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 2014 will reserve significant room for young scholars at the beginning of their career. It will aim at attracting contributions from both classical theory fields and application areas (bioinformatics, language technology, artificial intelligence, etc.). VENUE: LATA 2014 will take place in Madrid, the capital of Spain. The venue will be the School of Informatics of Complutense University. 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, concurrency and Petri nets automatic structures cellular automata codes combinatorics on words compilers computability computational complexity data and image compression decidability issues on words and languages descriptional complexity DNA and other models of bio-inspired computing 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 language-theoretic foundations of artificial intelligence and artificial life natural language and speech automatic processing parallel and regulated rewriting parsing patterns power series quantum, chemical and optical computing semantics string and combinatorial issues in computational biology and bioinformatics string processing algorithms symbolic dynamics symbolic neural networks term rewriting transducers trees, tree languages and tree automata weighted automata STRUCTURE: LATA 2014 will consist of: invited talks invited tutorials peer-reviewed contributions INVITED SPEAKERS: Javier Esparza (Munich Tech, DE), On Trees and Fixed Point Equations (tutorial) Leslie A. Goldberg (Oxford, UK), The Complexity of Approximate Counting Oscar H. Ibarra (Santa Barbara, US), tba Sanjeev Khanna (Philadelphia, US), tba Helmut Seidl (Munich Tech, DE), tba PROGRAMME COMMITTEE: Dana Angluin (Yale, US) Eugene Asarin (Paris Diderot, FR) Jos Baeten (Amsterdam, NL) Christel Baier (Dresden, DE) Jan Bergstra (Amsterdam, NL) Jin-Yi Cai (Madison, US) Marek Chrobak (Riverside, US) Andrea Corradini (Pisa, IT) Mariangiola Dezani (Turin, IT) Ding-Zhu Du (Dallas, US) Michael R. Fellows (Darwin, AU) Jörg Flum (Freiburg, DE) Nissim Francez (Technion, IL) Jürgen Giesl (Aachen, DE) Annegret Habel (Oldenburg, DE) Kazuo Iwama (Kyoto, JP) Sampath Kannan (Philadelphia, US) Ming-Yang Kao (Northwestern, US) Deepak Kapur (Albuquerque, US) Joost-Pieter Katoen (Aachen, DE) S. Rao Kosaraju (Johns Hopkins, US) Evangelos Kranakis (Carleton, CA) Gad M. Landau (Haifa, IL) Andrzej Lingas (Lund, SE) Jack Lutz (Iowa State, US) Ian Mackie (École Polytechnique, FR) Carlos Martín-Vide (Tarragona, ES, chair) Giancarlo Mauri (Milan, IT) Faron G. Moller (Swansea, UK) Paliath Narendran (Albany, US) Enno Ohlebusch (Ulm, DE) Helmut Prodinger (Stellenbosch, ZA) Jean-François Raskin (Brussels, BE) Wolfgang Reisig (Humboldt Berlin, DE) Marco Roveri (Bruno Kessler, Trento, IT) Michaël Rusinowitch (LORIA, Nancy, FR) Yasubumi Sakakibara (Keio, JP) Davide Sangiorgi (Bologna, IT) Colin Stirling (Edinburgh, UK) Jianwen Su (Santa Barbara, US) Jean-Pierre Talpin (IRISA, Rennes, FR) Andrzej Tarlecki (Warsaw, PL) Rick Thomas (Leicester, UK) Sophie Tison (Lille, FR) Rob van Glabbeek (NICTA, Sydney, AU) Helmut Veith (Vienna Tech, AT) ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: Adrian Horia Dediu (Tarragona) Ana Fernández-Pampillón (Madrid) Carlos Martín-Vide (Tarragona, co-chair) Antonio Sarasa (Madrid) José-Luis Sierra (Madrid, co-chair) Bianca Truthe (Magdeburg) Florentina Lilica Voicu (Tarragona) SUBMISSIONS: Authors are invited to submit non-anonymized papers in English presenting original and unpublished research. Papers should not exceed 12 single-spaced pages (including eventual appendices) and should be formatted according to the standard format for Springer Verlag's LNCS series (see http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0) Submissions have to be uploaded to: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lata2014 PUBLICATIONS: A volume of proceedings published by Springer in the LNCS series will be available by the time of the conference. A special issue of a major journal will be later published containing peer-reviewed extended versions of some of the papers contributed to the conference. Submissions to it will be by invitation. REGISTRATION: The period for registration is open from July 15, 2013 to March 10, 2014. The registration form can be found at: http://grammars.grlmc.com/lata2014/Registration.php DEADLINES: Paper submission: October 14, 2013 (23:59 CET) Notification of paper acceptance or rejection: November 25, 2013 Final version of the paper for the LNCS proceedings: December 2, 2013 Early registration: December 9, 2013 Late registration: February 24, 2014 Starting of the conference: March 10, 2014 End of the conference: March 14, 2014 Submission to the post-conference journal special issue: June 14, 2014 QUESTIONS AND FURTHER INFORMATION: florentinalilica.voicu(a)urv.cat POSTAL ADDRESS: LATA 2014 Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics (GRLMC) Rovira i Virgili University Av. Catalunya, 35 43002 Tarragona, Spain Phone: +34-977-559543 Fax: +34-977-558386 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS: Departament dEconomia i Coneixement, Generalitat de Catalunya Universidad Complutense de Madrid Universitat Rovira i Virgili

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[SIPTA] TPNC 2013: call for posters
by GRLMC Sept. 11, 2013

Sept. 11, 2013

*To be removed from our mailing list, please respond to this message with UNSUBSCRIBE in the subject line* ************************************************************************* The 2nd International Conference on the Theory and Practice of Natural Computing (TPNC 2013) invites authors to submit poster presentations. TPNC 2013 will be held in Cáceres (Spain) on 3-5 December, 2013. See http://grammars.grlmc.com/tpnc2013/ Poster presentations are intended to enhance informal interactions with the conference participants, at the same time permitting in-depth discussion. TOPICS Authors are encouraged to submit presentations that discuss novel work in progress on: - nature-inspired models of computation, - synthesis of nature by means of computation, - nature-inspired materials, - information processing in nature, - applications of natural computing. Posters do not need to present final research results. Work that may lead to new interesting developments is welcome. KEY DATES Submission deadline: October 20, 2013 Notification of poster acceptance or rejection: October 27, 2013 SUBMISSION Please submit a .pdf abstract through: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=tpnc2013 It should contain the title, author(s) and affiliation, and should not exceed 500 words. PRESENTATION Posters will be allocated 8 minutes each in the programme for oral presentation. Moreover, they will remain hanging during the whole conference for discussion. PUBLICATION Posters will not appear in the LNCS proceedings volume of TPNC 2013. However, they will be eligible for submission to the post-conference Soft Computing journal special issue. REGISTRATION Authors of accepted posters have to register to the conference. Their registration fare is reduced: 150 Euro (appr. one third of the fare for PhD students).

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[SIPTA] White Paper: Introduction to Bayesian Networks for Research and Analytics
by Stefan Conrady Sept. 3, 2013

Sept. 3, 2013

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[SIPTA] WPMSIIP 2013 - Final Announcement
by Alessandro Antonucci Aug. 12, 2013

Aug. 12, 2013

WPMSIIP 2013 (5-10 Sept 2013, Lugano, Switzerland) Sixth Workshop on Principles and Methods of Statistical Inference with Interval Probability http://ipg.idsia.ch/wpmsiip2013 Dear friends and colleagues, The Imprecise Probability Group (ipg.idsia.ch) at the Dalle Molle Institute for Artificial Intelligence (IDSIA) organizes a workshop on principles and methods of statistical inference with interval (and more generally imprecise) probability. This workshop is a follow-up to five earlier WPMSIIPs held in Durham (2008, 2010), Munich (2009, 2012), and Ljubljana (2011). The workshop runs from Thursday the 5th of September until Tuesday the 10th of September 2013. Each of the five workdays of the workshop will start at 9am and will be focused on a specific topic. On Sunday the 8th of September a walking tour in the mountain area around Lugano is planned. The major aim of the workshop is to stimulate discussion on ongoing research, therefore especially the afternoons are structured very informally. Everyone, including PhD students, is welcome to participate and/or to present their views on one or more of the covered topics, on one or more days! We welcome any stimulating contribution, ranging from a presentation to a short informal statement. For more information and a tentative programme, please visit: http://ipg.idsia.ch/wpmsiip2013 Your help in circulating this call for participation will be highly appreciated. If you want to join the workshop, please contact Alessandro Antonucci (alessandro(a)idsia.ch). -- _________________________________ Alessandro Antonucci IDSIA Dalle Molle Institute for Artificial Intelligence Via Cantonale (Galleria 2) CH-6928, Manno-Lugano, CH mail: alessandro(a)idsia.ch web: www.idsia.ch/~alessandro skype: alessandro.antonucci tel: +41 58 666 65 15 mob: +39 345 812 70 17 _________________________________

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[SIPTA] WPMSIIP 2013 - Final Announcement
by Alessandro Antonucci Aug. 12, 2013

Aug. 12, 2013

WPMSIIP 2013 (5-10 Sept 2013, Lugano, Switzerland) Sixth Workshop on Principles and Methods of Statistical Inference with Interval Probability http://ipg.idsia.ch/wpmsiip2013 Dear friends and colleagues, The Imprecise Probability Group (ipg.idsia.ch) at the Dalle Molle Institute for Artificial Intelligence (IDSIA) organizes a workshop on principles and methods of statistical inference with interval (and more generally imprecise) probability. This workshop is a follow-up to five earlier WPMSIIPs held in Durham (2008, 2010), Munich (2009, 2012), and Ljubljana (2011). The workshop runs from Thursday the 5th of September until Tuesday the 10th of September 2013. Each of the five workdays of the workshop will start at 9am and will be focused on a specific topic. On Sunday the 8th of September a walking tour in the mountain area around Lugano is planned. The major aim of the workshop is to stimulate discussion on ongoing research, therefore especially the afternoons are structured very informally. Everyone, including PhD students, is welcome to participate and/or to present their views on one or more of the covered topics, on one or more days! We welcome any stimulating contribution, ranging from a presentation to a short informal statement. For more information and a tentative programme, please visit: http://ipg.idsia.ch/wpmsiip2013 Your help in circulating this call for participation will be highly appreciated. If you want to join the workshop, please contact Alessandro Antonucci (alessandro(a)idsia.ch). -- _________________________________ Alessandro Antonucci IDSIA Dalle Molle Institute for Artificial Intelligence Via Cantonale (Galleria 2) CH-6928, Manno-Lugano, CH mail: alessandro(a)idsia.ch web: www.idsia.ch/~alessandro skype: alessandro.antonucci tel: +41 58 666 65 15 _________________________________

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