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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. 28, 2013

Oct. 28, 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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[SIPTA] PhD scholarship in robust learning of Bayesian networks from Swiss NSF
by Cassio Polpo De Campos July 24, 2013

July 24, 2013

The Dalle Molle Institute for Artificial Intelligence (IDSIA, http://www.idsia.ch) a non-profit oriented research institute for artificial intelligence, affiliated with both University of Lugano and University of Applied Sciences of Southern Switzerland, advertises a full-time position as PhD student in the area of robust learning of Bayesian networks. The position is funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation. IDSIA offers an international working environment (English is the official language), the possibility of attending conferences and a salary in line with Swiss standards. The work will be performed in close collaboration with experts in probabilistic graphical models, robust learning, data mining, optimization, imprecise probabilities (see http://ipg.idsia.ch for more information). It includes theoretical advances in robust structure learning of probabilistic graphical models, as well as design and development of algorithms. In order to have a closer look into our research on this topic, we suggest the following paper from JMLR: http://jmlr.org/papers/v12/decampos11a.html The ideal candidate has a strong commitment to research and to the completion of the PhD program, has obtained a Master degree in a quantitative area, has very good communication skills in English, good programming skills, and ability to work in a collaborative environment. For applying, please follow the instructions available at http://www.supsi.ch/home/supsi/lavora-con-noi/2013-08-05.html The closing date for applications is August 5th 2013 (this deadline may be extended at the discretion of the recruiting committee). Expected starting date at the latest in the beginning of 2014. For further information, please contact: Cassio de Campos (cassio(a)idsia.ch).

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[SIPTA] Temporary/Visiting Lectureship in Statistics - Durham University
by COOLEN F.P.A. July 23, 2013

July 23, 2013

Dear Colleagues, We have a temporary lectureship at Durham, see the announcement and link below. The main reason is sudden absence of a colleague for the coming academic year, whose main teaching load (final year course on Bayesian Statistics) needs to be covered. Ideally we find someone who can start in October and teach that module (materials are readily available) - but starting a bit later (to commence teaching from January) is also possible. We might even be able to change the specific module that the person teaches, but that would be less ideal. This is a good opportunity for a career-young person, to get a year experience. The overall teaching load is low and therefore there should be substantial time for research, where we hope that the person who joins us will be interested in topics closely related to our own interests - so anyone with interest in imprecise methods is welcome to apply! It is also possibly of interest to someone at more advanced stage of their career, who may be able to take a year's leave from their institution, so please contact us asap if this would be of interest to you. Please forward this email to anybody who you think may be interested! Thanks Frank ________________________________________ JOB: Temporary/Visiting Lectureship in Statistics - Durham University This is a temporary lectureship for up to one year, starting October or January, and may suit someone looking to spend a period of time collaborating with our research group in Durham. Please apply via the weblink, where there are further details. Temporary Lecturer in Statistics https://ig5.i-grasp.com/fe/tpl_durham01.asp?newms=jj&id=82387 Closing date: 21 August 2013 To provide teaching cover for a leave of absence the department of mathematical sciences will appoint a lecturer to contribute to the teaching of statistics for a period of up to one year. We will be especially interested in candidates with experience of researching or teaching in the area of Bayesian statistics. There is flexibility in the starting date which could be either October 2013 or January 2014. The successful candidate will have an excellent research record in an area of statistics or probability and would be expected to continue to undertake and publish original research and contribute to the research activities of the department and to undertake teaching and administrative duties as assigned by the Head of Department of Mathematical Sciences. Applications are particularly welcome from women and black and minority ethnic candidates, who are under-represented in academic posts in the University. Contact details: Professor Frank Coolen 0191 33 43048 frank.coolen(a)durham.ac.uk Professor Michael Goldstein 0191 33 43065 michael.goldstein(a)durham.ac.uk Professor David Wooff 0191 33 43121 d.a.wooff(a)durham.ac.uk

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[SIPTA] [CFP]SeRSy@RecSys - DEADLINE EXTENSION
by Thomas Lukasiewicz July 22, 2013

July 22, 2013

Apologies for possible multiple posts --------------------------------------------- !!! SUBMISSION DEADLINE EXTENSION !!! NEW DATES Submission due: August 1, 2013 Author notification: September 10, 2013 Camera-ready version due: September 17, 2013 Workshop date: October 13, 2013 --------------------------------------------- ============================ CALL FOR PAPERS ============================ 2nd International Workshop on Recommender Systems meet Big Data & Semantic Technologies - SeRSy 2013 in conjunction with RecSys 2013, Hong Kong, October 12-16, 2013 http://recsys.acm.org/recsys13/sersy/ http://sisinflab.poliba.it/sersy2013/ MOTIVATION ---------- Recommendation techniques generally rely on data referring to three types of objects: users, items and their relations. The widespread success of Semantic Web techniques, creating a Web of interoperable and machine readable data, offers novel strategies to represent data that might improve the current state of the art of recommender systems, in order to move towards a new generation of recommender systems which fully understand the items they deal with. Indeed, more and more semantic data are published following the Linked Data principles, that enable to set up links between objects in different data sources, by connecting information in a single global data space - the Web of Data. Today, the Web of Data includes different types of knowledge represented in a homogeneous form - sedimentary one (encyclopedic, cultural, linguistic, common-sense) and real-time one (news, data streams). This data might be useful to interlink diverse information about users, items, and their relations, as well as to implement reasoning mechanisms that can support and improve the recommendation process. The challenge is to investigate whether and how this large amount of wide-coverage and linked semantic knowledge can significantly improve complex search and filtering tasks that cannot be merely solved through a straightforward matching of queries (or user profiles) and items. Such tasks involve finding information from large document collections, categorizing and understanding that information, and producing some output, such as an actionable decision. Examples of such tasks include understanding a health problem in order to make a medical decision, or simply deciding which laptop to buy. Recommender systems support users exactly in those complex tasks. TOPICS ------- Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): - Recommendation approaches exploiting Big Data and Semantic technologies - Linked Data for Recommender Systems - Ontology-based recommendation algorithms - Reasoning with Big Data - Discovery of relevant Linked Data sources for recommendation algorithms - Linking, aggregating, intertwining and mining Linked Data for recommender systems - Linked Data in new Recommender Systems architectures - Semantic technologies for Cross-lingual and cross-domain recommender systems - Semantic technologies for improving transparency and explanations - Big datasets for the evaluation - Evaluation methodologies for real time personalization in big datasets - Semantic technologies for improving novelty, diversity and serendipity SUBMISSION ----------------------- We welcome work at all stages of development: papers can describe applied systems, empirical results or theoretically grounded positions. Accepted papers will be published as CEUR workshop proceedings (http://ceur-ws.org) Based on the quality of accepted papers we are planning to schedule a special issue of a top-level journal in 2013. * Full papers (5-6 pages) * Short papers (2-3 pages) * Demos (1-2 pages for description) Papers should be formatted according to the general RecSys2013 submission guidelines. Accepted format is PDF. Please submit your paper via EasyChair at the following URL: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sersy2013 You need to open a personal account upon the first login, if you do not have one. IMPORTANT DATES --------------- Submission due: August 1, 2013 Author notification: September 10, 2013 Camera-ready version due: September 17, 2013 Workshop date: October 13, 2013 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE -------------------- Marco de Gemmis - University of Bari Aldo Moro, Italy Tommaso Di Noia - Polytechnic University of Bari, Italy Ora Lassila - Nokia Location & Commerce, Burlington, MA, US Pasquale Lops - University of Bari Aldo Moro, Italy Thomas Lukasiewicz - University of Oxford, UK Giovanni Semeraro - University of Bari Aldo Moro, Italy PROGRAM COMMITTEE ----------------- Alejandro Bellogin, Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica, Netherlands Marco Brambilla, Politecnico di Milano Iván Cantador, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid Bettina Fazzinga, DEIS - University of Calabria Conor Hayes, Digital Enterprise Research Institute Leo Iaquinta, University of Milano-Bicocca Hasan Jamil, University of Idaho Roberto Mirizzi, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories Cataldo Musto, University of Bari Fedelucio Narducci, University of Milano-Bicocca Vito Claudio Ostuni, Politecnico di Bari Alexandre Passant, seevl.net Gerardo Simari, University of Oxford Raphael Troncy, EURECOM Markus Zanker, Alpen-Adria-Universitaet Klagenfurt CONTACT ----------------- e-mail: sersy2013(a)gmail.com Web page: http://sisinflab.poliba.it/sersy2013/ twitter: @sersy2013 linkedin: http://tinyurl.com/sersy2013

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[SIPTA] Job opportunities at the MCMP Munich
by Niki Pfeifer July 22, 2013

July 22, 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] CFP URSW 2013
by Thomas Lukasiewicz July 22, 2013

July 22, 2013

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[SIPTA] LATA 2014: 1st call for papers
by GRLMC July 20, 2013

July 20, 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: to be announced 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] 3 year Research Position at Durham: Analysis of Energy Storage at System Level
by Matthias Troffaes July 15, 2013

July 15, 2013

See job advert below - there is some scope for imprecise probability as well. Cheers, Matthias ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: DENT C.J. <chris.dent(a)durham.ac.uk> Date: Mon, Jul 8, 2013 at 8:25 AM Dear all, The School of Engineering and Computing Sciences and the Department of Mathematical Sciences, in association with Durham Energy Institute, are part of a major UK academic consortium on “Energy Storage for Low Carbon Grids”, see http://gow.epsrc.ac.uk/NGBOViewGrant.aspx?GrantRef=EP/K002252/1. This consortium brings together a multidisciplinary team of experts from Imperial College, Cambridge, Cardiff, Durham, Leeds, Newcastle, Oxford, Sheffield, St. Andrews and UCL to study in an integrated way the challenges of storage technologies, their integration into power system planning and operations, the design of the necessary market structures, and the associated operational and financial uncertainties. We are seeking an enthusiastic researcher with background in mathematics or in power system but with strong mathematical skills to work within this consortium carrying out research on the value of storage to power systems. The Durham activity is led by Dr. Chris Dent and Prof. Janusz Bialek (Engineering), and Dr. Matthias Troffaes and Dr. Max Jensen (Mathematical Sciences). This three year post requires well developed research, dissemination and interpersonal skills; the emphasis is on independence and creativity in solving advanced research problems. Topics for study include the value of storage in mitigating extreme events (such as very high demands in the peak season, or very fast increases in net demand), and the value of storage in day-to-day system operation. Informal inquiries should be directed to Dr. Chris Dent (chris.dent(a)durham.ac.uk). Full details (including how to apply) are available at https://ig5.i-grasp.com/fe/tpl_durham01.asp (search for School of Engineering and Computing Sciences, and the job is called "Power Systems Research Associate"). Best regards, Chris Dent

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[SIPTA] TPNC 2013: extended submission deadline 23 July
by GRLMC July 14, 2013

July 14, 2013

*To be removed from our mailing list, please respond to this message with UNSUBSCRIBE in the subject line* ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SUBMISSION DEADLINE EXTENDED: July 23 !!! ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ************************************************************************* 2nd INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF NATURAL COMPUTING TPNC 2013 Cáceres, Spain December 3-5, 2013 Organized by: Computer Architecture and Logic Design Group (ARCO) University of Extremadura Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics (GRLMC) Rovira i Virgili University http://grammars.grlmc.com/tpnc2013/ ********************************************************************* 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 2013 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 2013 will take place in Cáceres, in Western Spain, 300 kms. to the southwest of Madrid and 100 kms. to the Portuguese border. The old city is a UNESCO World Heritage site. 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 2013 will consist of: ‐ invited talks ‐ invited tutorials ‐ peer-reviewed contributions INVITED SPEAKERS: Risto Miikkulainen (Austin), Evolving Neural Networks (tutorial) Yew-Soon Ong (Singapore), Advances in Memetic Computation Xin Yao (Birmingham), Evolutionary Algorithm Portfolios for Numerical Optimisation PROGRAMME COMMITTEE: Selim G. Akl (Kingston, CA) Thomas Bäck (Leiden, NL) Peter J. Bentley (London, UK) Hans-Georg Beyer (Dornbirn, AT) Mauro Birattari (Brussels, BE) Jinde Cao (Nanjing, CN) Vladimir Cherkassky (Minneapolis, US) Sung-Bae Cho (Seoul, KR) John A. Clark (York, UK) Carlos A. Coello Coello (Mexico DF, MX) David W. Corne (Edinburgh, UK) Peter Dayan (London, UK) Bernard De Baets (Ghent, BE) Andries P. Engelbrecht (Pretoria, ZA) Enrique Herrera-Viedma (Granada, ES) Yaochu Jin (Guildford, UK) Nikola Kasabov (Auckland, NZ) Vladik Kreinovich (El Paso, US) Kwong-Sak Leung (Hong Kong, CN) Xiaohui Liu (London, UK) Manuel Lozano (Granada, ES) Carlos Martín-Vide (Tarragona, ES, chair) Julian F. Miller (York, UK) Frank Neumann (Adelaide, AU) Leandro Nunes de Castro (São Paulo, BR) Nikhil R. Pal (Kolkata, IN) Günther Palm (Ulm, DE) José Carlos Príncipe (Gainesville, US) Helge Ritter (Bielefeld, DE) Conor Ryan (Limerick, IE) Hava Siegelmann (Amherst, US) Moshe Sipper (Beer-Sheva, IL) Thomas Stützle (Brussels, BE) Ponnuthurai N. Suganthan (Singapore, SG) Johan Suykens (Leuven, BE) Kay Chen Tan (Singapore, SG) Dacheng Tao (Sydney, AU) Jon Timmis (York, UK) Marco Tomassini (Lausanne, CH) Michael D. Vose (Knoxville, US) Michael N. Vrahatis (Patras, GR) Harald Weinfurter (Munich, DE) Rolf Würtz (Bochum, DE) Jun Zhang (Guangzhou, CN) ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: Adrian Horia Dediu (Tarragona) Carlos Martín-Vide (Tarragona, co-chair) Bianca Truthe (Magdeburg) Miguel A. Vega-Rodríguez (Cáceres, co-chair) Florentina Lilica Voicu (Tarragona) LOCAL COMMITTEE: Víctor Berrocal-Plaza José M. Chaves-González Juan A. Gómez-Pulido David L. González-Álvarez José M. Granado-Criado Alejandro Hidalgo-Paniagua José M. Lanza-Gutiérrez Álvaro Rubio-Largo Sergio Santander-Jiménez Miguel A. Vega-Rodríguez (chair) 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 standards of 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=tpnc2013 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, 2011 impact factor: 1.880) 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 17 to December 3, 2013. The registration form can be found at: http://grammars.grlmc.com/tpnc2013/Registration DEADLINES: Paper submission: July 23, 2013 (23:59h, CET) – EXTENDED – Notification of paper acceptance or rejection: August 27, 2013 Final version of the paper for the LNCS proceedings: September 3, 2013 Early registration: September 10, 2013 Late registration: November 19, 2013 Starting of the conference: December 3, 2013 End of the conference: December 5, 2013 Submission to the post-conference special issue: March 5, 2014 QUESTIONS AND FURTHER INFORMATION: florentinalilica.voicu(a)urv.cat POSTAL ADDRESS: TPNC 2013 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 d’Economia i Coneixement, Generalitat de Catalunya Diputación de Cáceres Universidad de Extremadura Universitat Rovira i Virgili

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[SIPTA] [CFP] SeRSy @ RecSys 2013 - 2nd International Workshop on Recommender Systems meet Big Data & Semantic Technologies
by Thomas Lukasiewicz July 13, 2013

July 13, 2013

Apologies for possible multiple posts ============================ CALL FOR PAPERS ============================ 2nd International Workshop on Recommender Systems meet Big Data & Semantic Technologies - SeRSy 2013 in conjunction with RecSys 2013, Hong Kong, October 12-16, 2013 http://recsys.acm.org/recsys13/sersy/ http://sisinflab.poliba.it/sersy2013/ MOTIVATION ---------- Recommendation techniques generally rely on data referring to three types of objects: users, items and their relations. The widespread success of Semantic Web techniques, creating a Web of interoperable and machine readable data, offers novel strategies to represent data that might improve the current state of the art of recommender systems, in order to move towards a new generation of recommender systems which fully understand the items they deal with. Indeed, more and more semantic data are published following the Linked Data principles, that enable to set up links between objects in different data sources, by connecting information in a single global data space - the Web of Data. Today, the Web of Data includes different types of knowledge represented in a homogeneous form - sedimentary one (encyclopedic, cultural, linguistic, common-sense) and real-time one (news, data streams). This data might be useful to interlink diverse information about users, items, and their relations, as well as to implement reasoning mechanisms that can support and improve the recommendation process. The challenge is to investigate whether and how this large amount of wide-coverage and linked semantic knowledge can significantly improve complex search and filtering tasks that cannot be merely solved through a straightforward matching of queries (or user profiles) and items. Such tasks involve finding information from large document collections, categorizing and understanding that information, and producing some output, such as an actionable decision. Examples of such tasks include understanding a health problem in order to make a medical decision, or simply deciding which laptop to buy. Recommender systems support users exactly in those complex tasks. TOPICS ------- Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): - Recommendation approaches exploiting Big Data and Semantic technologies - Linked Data for Recommender Systems - Ontology-based recommendation algorithms - Reasoning with Big Data - Discovery of relevant Linked Data sources for recommendation algorithms - Linking, aggregating, intertwining and mining Linked Data for recommender systems - Linked Data in new Recommender Systems architectures - Semantic technologies for Cross-lingual and cross-domain recommender systems - Semantic technologies for improving transparency and explanations - Big datasets for the evaluation - Evaluation methodologies for real time personalization in big datasets - Semantic technologies for improving novelty, diversity and serendipity SUBMISSION ----------------------- We welcome work at all stages of development: papers can describe applied systems, empirical results or theoretically grounded positions. Accepted papers will be published as CEUR workshop proceedings (http://ceur-ws.org) Based on the quality of accepted papers we are planning to schedule a special issue of a top-level journal in 2013. * Full papers (5-6 pages) * Short papers (2-3 pages) * Demos (1-2 pages for description) Papers should be formatted according to the general RecSys2013 submission guidelines. Accepted format is PDF. Please submit your paper via EasyChair at the following URL: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sersy2013 You need to open a personal account upon the first login, if you do not have one. IMPORTANT DATES --------------- Submission due: July 22, 2013 Author notification: August 23, 2013 Camera-ready version due: August 30, 2013 Workshop date: October 13, 2013 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE -------------------- Marco de Gemmis - University of Bari Aldo Moro, Italy Tommaso Di Noia - Polytechnic University of Bari, Italy Ora Lassila - Nokia Location & Commerce, Burlington, MA, US Pasquale Lops - University of Bari Aldo Moro, Italy Thomas Lukasiewicz - University of Oxford, UK Giovanni Semeraro - University of Bari Aldo Moro, Italy PROGRAM COMMITTEE ----------------- Alejandro Bellogin, Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica, Netherlands Marco Brambilla, Politecnico di Milano Iván Cantador, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid Bettina Fazzinga, DEIS - University of Calabria Conor Hayes, Digital Enterprise Research Institute Leo Iaquinta, University of Milano-Bicocca Hasan Jamil, University of Idaho Roberto Mirizzi, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories Cataldo Musto, University of Bari Fedelucio Narducci, University of Milano-Bicocca Vito Claudio Ostuni, Politecnico di Bari Alexandre Passant, seevl.net Gerardo Simari, University of Oxford Raphael Troncy, EURECOM Markus Zanker, Alpen-Adria-Universitaet Klagenfurt CONTACT ----------------- e-mail: sersy2013(a)gmail.com Web page: http://sisinflab.poliba.it/sersy2013/ twitter: @sersy2013 linkedin: http://tinyurl.com/sersy2013

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[SIPTA] Final Call for Registration: Progic 2013 "Combining probability and logic to solve philosophical problems", Munich, 17-18 Sept. 2013
by Niki Pfeifer July 11, 2013

July 11, 2013

Final Call for Registration --------------------------- Progic 2013: The Sixth Workshop on Combining Probability and Logic "Combining probability and logic to solve philosophical problems" Program and abstracts: www.pfeifer-research.de/progic/ Deadline for registration: July 30, 2013 Registration per email is requested by July 30 (please state your *name* (1), your *affiliation* (2), and whether you wish—at your own expenses—to join the *workshop dinner* (3)): niki.pfeifer(a)lrz.uni-muenchen.de The Sixth Workshop on Combining Probability and Logic (progic 2013) continues the progic workshop series (www.kent.ac.uk/secl/philosophy/jw/progic.htm) Progic 2013 takes place on September 17 and 18, 2013. The workshop location is the Carl Friedrich von Siemens Stiftung, which is located at the Nymphenburg Palace in Munich. The workshop is financially supported by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy) and by the Carl Friedrich von Siemens Stiftung. Progic 2013 focuses on "Combining probability and logic to solve philosophical problems". Topics include but are not restricted to -) acceptability -) argument strength -) belief revision -) conditionals -) conditionalization -) counterfactuals -) information -) probability logic Invited speakers are Igor Douven (Faculty of Philosophy, University of Groningen), Alan Hájek (School of Philosophy, Australian National University), Kevin T. Kelly (Center for Formal Epistemology, Carnegie Mellon University), Hannes Leitgeb (Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich), and Peter Milne (Department of Philosophy, University of Stirling). Local organizer --------------- Niki Pfeifer (Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich) Steering committee ----------------- Jeff Helzner (Department Philosophy, Columbia University) Niki Pfeifer (Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich) Jan-Willem Romeijn (Department of Philosophy, University of Groningen) Gregory Wheeler (Centre for Research in Artificial Intelligence, New University of Lisbon) Jon Williamson (Department of Philosophy & Centre for Reasoning, University of Kent) -- Dr.Dr. Niki Pfeifer www.pfeifer-research.de Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich (Germany)

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[SIPTA] CFP URSW 2013 (deadline extended)
by Thomas Lukasiewicz July 9, 2013

July 9, 2013

CALL FOR PAPERS 9th International Workshop on Uncertainty Reasoning for the Semantic Web http://c4i.gmu.edu/ursw/2013 In conjunction with the 12th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC'13) Sydney, Australia October 21-22, 2013 >>>>> New paper submission deadline: 24th July, 2013 <<<<< ISWC is a major international forum for presenting visionary research on all aspects of the Semantic Web. The Uncertainty Reasoning for the Semantic Web (URSW) workshop at ISWC'13 is an exciting opportunity for collaboration and cross-fertilization between the uncertainty reasoning community and the Semantic Web / Linked Data community. Effective methods for reasoning under uncertainty are vital for realizing many aspects of the Semantic Web vision, but the ability of current-generation web technology to handle uncertainty remains extremely limited. Thus, there is a continuing demand for uncertainty reasoning technology among Semantic Web researchers and developers, and the URSW workshop creates a unique opening to bring together two communities with a clear commonality of interest but limited history of interaction. By capitalizing on this opportunity, URSW could spark dramatic progress toward realizing the Semantic Web vision. AUDIENCE The intended audience for this workshop includes the following: - Researchers in uncertainty reasoning technologies with interest in Semantic Web / Linked Data and Web-related technologies; - Semantic Web and Linked Data developers and researchers; - People in the knowledge representation community with interest in the Semantic Web / Linked Data; - Ontology researchers and ontological engineers; - Web services and cloud computing researchers and developers with interest in the Semantic Web / Linked Data. TOPIC LIST We intend to have an open discussion on any topic relevant to the general subject of uncertainty in the Semantic Web and Linked Data (including fuzzy theory, probability theory, and other approaches). Therefore, the following list should be just an initial guide: - Syntax and semantics for extensions to Semantic Web / Linked Data languages to enable representation of uncertainty; - Logical formalisms to support uncertainty in Semantic Web / Linked Data languages; - Probability theory as a means of assessing the likelihood that terms in different ontologies refer to the same or similar concepts; - Architectures for applying plausible reasoning to the problem of ontology mapping; - Using fuzzy approaches to deal with imprecise concepts within ontologies; - The concept of a probabilistic ontology and its relevance to the Semantic Web; - Best practices for representing uncertain, incomplete, ambiguous, or controversial information in the Semantic Web / Linked Data; - The role of uncertainty as it relates to web services and cloud computing; - Interface protocols with support for uncertainty as a means to improve interoperability among web services; - Uncertainty reasoning techniques applied to trust issues in the Semantic Web and Linked Data; - Existing implementations of uncertainty reasoning tools in the context of the Semantic Web and Linked Data; - Issues and techniques for integrating tools for representing and reasoning with uncertainty; - The future of uncertainty reasoning for the Semantic Web and Linked Data. IMPORTANT DATES >>> July 24, 2013 (updated!): Paper submissions due <<< August 9: Paper acceptance notification August 31: Camera-ready papers due October 21-22: 9th Workshop on Uncertainty Reasoning for the Semantic Web SUBMISSION DETAILS The URSW workshop will be accepting submissions of technical papers and position papers. Each submission will be evaluated for acceptability by at least three members of the Program Committee. Decisions about acceptance will be based on relevance to the above topic list, originality, potential significance, topicality and clarity. Since all accepted papers will be presented at the workshop, we require that at least one of the submitting authors must be a registered participant at the ISWC 2013 Conference, and committed to attend the URSW workshop. Submissions to the workshop are only accepted in electronic format and should be sent via the workshop’s submission site: https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=ursw2013. Papers must be formatted in the style of the Springer Publications format for Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). This is the very same format adopted by the ISWC 2013. For complete details, see Springer’s Author Instructions (http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0) Technical papers submitted to the URSW workshop must not exceed 12 pages, including figures and references. Submissions exceeding this limit will not be reviewed. Position papers consist of a summary of ideas, projects, or any research efforts that are relevant to the URSW workshop and must not exceed 4 pages. Following the general acceptance rules of the ISWC 2013 conference, papers that, at the time of submission, are under review for or have already been published in or accepted for publication in a journal or another conference will not be accepted to the URSW workshop. PRESENTATION AND PUBLICATION URSW 2013 will be a half-day workshop. All papers accepted for 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 2013 Conference. In addition, extended and revised versions of selected technical papers presented at URSW 2013 will be eligible for participating in an international journal special issue or in a post-proceedings book. ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Fernando Bobillo - University of Zaragoza, Spain Rommel N. Carvalho - George Mason University, USA Paulo C. G. Costa - George Mason University, USA Claudia d’Amato - University of Bari, Italy Nicola Fanizzi - University of Bari, Italy Kathryn Laskey - George Mason University, USA Kenneth J. Laskey – MITRE Corporation, USA Thomas Lukasiewicz – University of Oxford, UK Trevor Martin - University of Bristol, UK Matthias Nickles - DERI, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland Michael Pool - Goldman Sachs, USA PROGRAM COMMITTEE Fernando Bobillo – University of Zaragoza, Spain Silvia Calegari - University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy Rommel N. Carvalho - George Mason University, USA Davide Ceolin - VU University Amsterdam, Netherlands Paulo C. G. Costa - George Mason University, USA Fabio G. Cozman - Universidade de Sao Paulo, Brazil Claudia d’Amato - University of Bari, Italy Nicola Fanizzi - University of Bari, Italy Marcelo Ladeira - University of Brasilia, Brazil Kathryn B. Laskey - George Mason University, USA Kenneth J. Laskey - MITRE Corporation, USA Thomas Lukasiewicz - University of Oxford, UK Trevor Martin - University of Bristol, UK Alessandra Mileo - DERI, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland Matthias Nickles - DERI, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland Jeff Z. Pan - University of Aberdeen, UK Rafael Peñaloza, Technical University Dresden, Germany Michael Pool - Goldman Sachs, USA Livia Predoiu - University of Oxford, UK Guilin Qi - Southeast University, China Célia Ralha - University of Brasilia, Brazil Dave Robertson - University of Edinburgh, UK Daniel Sánchez - University of Granada, Spain Thomas Scharrenbach - Swiss Federal Institute WSL, Switzerland Luciano Serafini - Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy Sergej Sizov - University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany Giorgos Stoilos - National and Technical University of Athens, Greece Umberto Straccia - ISTI-CNR, Pisa, Italy Andreas Tolk - Old Dominion University, USA Matthias Thimm - Universität Koblenz, Germany Peter Vojtas - Charles University, Czech Republic We are looking forward to seeing you in Sydney!

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[SIPTA] [CFP] SeRSy@ACM RecSys 2013 - 2nd International Workshop on Recommender Systems meet Big Data & Semantic Technologies
by Thomas Lukasiewicz July 8, 2013

July 8, 2013

Apologies for possible multiple posts ============================ CALL FOR PAPERS ============================ 2nd International Workshop on Recommender Systems meet Big Data & Semantic Technologies - SeRSy 2013 in conjunction with RecSys 2013, Hong Kong, October 12-16, 2013 http://sisinflab.poliba.it/sersy2013/ http://recsys.acm.org/recsys13/sersy/ MOTIVATION ---------- Recommendation techniques generally rely on data referring to three kinds of objects: users, items and their relations. The widespread success of Semantic Web techniques, creating a Web of interoperable and machine readable data, offers novel strategies to represent data that might improve the current state of the art of recommender systems, in order to move towards a new generation of recommender systems which fully understand the items they deal with. Indeed, more and more semantic data are published following the Linked Data principles, that enable to set up links between objects in different data sources, by connecting information in a single global data space - the Web of Data. Today, Web of Data includes different types of knowledge represented in a homogeneous form - sedimentary one (encyclopedic, cultural, linguistic, common-sense and real-time one (news, data streams. This data might be useful to interlink diverse information about users, items, and their relations and implement reasoning mechanisms that can support and improve the recommendation process. The challenge is to investigate whether and how this large amount of wide-coverage and linked semantic knowledge can significantly improve complex search and filtering tasks that cannot be solved merely through a straightforward matching of queries (or user profiles) and items. Such tasks involve finding information from large document collections, categorizing and understanding that information, and producing some output, such as an actionable decision. Examples of such tasks include understanding a health problem in order to make a medical decision, or simply deciding which laptop to buy. Recommender systems support users exactly in those complex tasks. TOPICS ------- Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): - Recommendation approaches exploiting Big Data and Semantic technologies - Linked Data for Recommender Systems - Ontology-based recommendation algorithms - Reasoning with Big Data - Discovery of relevant Linked Data sources for recommendation algorithms - Linking, aggregating, intertwining and mining Linked Data for recommender systems - Linked Data in new Recommender Systems architectures - Semantic technologies for Cross-lingual and cross-domain recommender systems - Semantic technologies for improving transparency and explanations - Big datasets for the evaluation - Evaluation methodologies for real time personalization in big datasets - Semantic technologies for improving novelty, diversity and serendipity SUBMISSION ----------------------- We welcome work at all stages of development: papers can describe applied systems, empirical results or theoretically grounded positions. Accepted papers will be published as CEUR workshop proceedings (http://ceur-ws.org) Based on the quality of accepted papers we are planning to schedule a special issue of a top-level journal in 2013. * Full papers (5-6 pages) * Short papers (2-3 pages) * Demos (1-2 pages for description) Papers should be formatted according to the general RecSys2013 submission guidelines. Accepted format is PDF. Please submit your paper via EasyChair at the following URL: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sersy2013 You need to open a personal account upon the first login, if you do not have one. IMPORTANT DATES --------------- Submission due: July 22, 2013 Author notification: August 23, 2013 Camera-ready version due: TBA Workshop date: TBA ORGANIZING COMMITTEE -------------------- Marco de Gemmis - University of Bari Aldo Moro, Italy Tommaso Di Noia - Politecnico of Bari, Italy Ora Lassila - Nokia Research Center, Cambridge, U.S. Pasquale Lops - University of Bari Aldo Moro, Italy Thomas Lukasiewicz - University of Oxford, UK Giovanni Semeraro - University of Bari Aldo Moro, Italy PROGRAM COMMITTEE ----------------- TBA CONTACT ----------------- e-mail: sersy2013(a)gmail.com Web page: http://sisinflab.poliba.it/sersy2013/ twitter: @sersy2013 linkedin: http://tinyurl.com/sersy2013

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[SIPTA] TPNC 2013: 3rd call for papers
by GRLMC June 23, 2013

June 23, 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 Organized by: Computer Architecture and Logic Design Group (ARCO) University of Extremadura Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics (GRLMC) Rovira i Virgili University http://grammars.grlmc.com/tpnc2013/ ********************************************************************* 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 2013 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 2013 will take place in Cáceres, in Western Spain, 300 kms. to the southwest of Madrid and 100 kms. to the Portuguese border. The old city is a UNESCO World Heritage site. 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 2013 will consist of: ‐ invited talks ‐ invited tutorials ‐ peer-reviewed contributions INVITED SPEAKERS: Risto Miikkulainen (Austin), Evolving Neural Networks (tutorial) Yew-Soon Ong (Singapore), Advances in Memetic Computation Xin Yao (Birmingham), Evolutionary Algorithm Portfolios for Numerical Optimisation PROGRAMME COMMITTEE: Selim G. Akl (Kingston, CA) Thomas Bäck (Leiden, NL) Peter J. Bentley (London, UK) Hans-Georg Beyer (Dornbirn, AT) Mauro Birattari (Brussels, BE) Jinde Cao (Nanjing, CN) Vladimir Cherkassky (Minneapolis, US) Sung-Bae Cho (Seoul, KR) John A. Clark (York, UK) Carlos A. Coello Coello (Mexico DF, MX) David W. Corne (Edinburgh, UK) Peter Dayan (London, UK) Bernard De Baets (Ghent, BE) Andries P. Engelbrecht (Pretoria, ZA) Enrique Herrera-Viedma (Granada, ES) Yaochu Jin (Guildford, UK) Nikola Kasabov (Auckland, NZ) Vladik Kreinovich (El Paso, US) Kwong-Sak Leung (Hong Kong, CN) Xiaohui Liu (London, UK) Manuel Lozano (Granada, ES) Carlos Martín-Vide (Tarragona, ES, chair) Julian F. Miller (York, UK) Frank Neumann (Adelaide, AU) Leandro Nunes de Castro (São Paulo, BR) Nikhil R. Pal (Kolkata, IN) Günther Palm (Ulm, DE) José Carlos Príncipe (Gainesville, US) Helge Ritter (Bielefeld, DE) Conor Ryan (Limerick, IE) Hava Siegelmann (Amherst, US) Moshe Sipper (Beer-Sheva, IL) Thomas Stützle (Brussels, BE) Ponnuthurai N. Suganthan (Singapore, SG) Johan Suykens (Leuven, BE) Kay Chen Tan (Singapore, SG) Dacheng Tao (Sydney, AU) Jon Timmis (York, UK) Marco Tomassini (Lausanne, CH) Michael D. Vose (Knoxville, US) Michael N. Vrahatis (Patras, GR) Harald Weinfurter (Munich, DE) Rolf Würtz (Bochum, DE) Jun Zhang (Guangzhou, CN) ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: Adrian Horia Dediu (Tarragona) Carlos Martín-Vide (Tarragona, co-chair) Bianca Truthe (Magdeburg) Miguel A. Vega-Rodríguez (Cáceres, co-chair) Florentina Lilica Voicu (Tarragona) LOCAL COMMITTEE: Víctor Berrocal-Plaza José M. Chaves-González Juan A. Gómez-Pulido David L. González-Álvarez José M. Granado-Criado Alejandro Hidalgo-Paniagua José M. Lanza-Gutiérrez Álvaro Rubio-Largo Sergio Santander-Jiménez Miguel A. Vega-Rodríguez (chair) 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 standards of 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=tpnc2013 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, 2011 impact factor: 1.880) 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 17 to December 3, 2013. The registration form can be found at: http://grammars.grlmc.com/tpnc2013/Registration DEADLINES: Paper submission: July 16, 2013 (23:59h, CET) Notification of paper acceptance or rejection: August 27, 2013 Final version of the paper for the LNCS proceedings: September 3, 2013 Early registration: September 10, 2013 Late registration: November 19, 2013 Starting of the conference: December 3, 2013 End of the conference: December 5, 2013 Submission to the post-conference special issue: March 5, 2014 QUESTIONS AND FURTHER INFORMATION: florentinalilica.voicu(a)urv.cat POSTAL ADDRESS: TPNC 2013 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 d’Economia i Coneixement, Generalitat de Catalunya Universidad de Extremadura Universitat Rovira i Virgili

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[SIPTA] WPMSIIP 2013 - Second Announcement
by Alessandro Antonucci June 20, 2013

June 20, 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 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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[SIPTA] SSTiC 2013: next registration deadline 26 June
by GRLMC June 16, 2013

June 16, 2013

*To be removed from our mailing list, please respond to this message with UNSUBSCRIBE in the subject line* ********************************************************************* 2013 INTERNATIONAL SUMMER SCHOOL ON TRENDS IN COMPUTING SSTiC 2013 Tarragona, Spain July 22-26, 2013 Organized by Rovira i Virgili University http://grammars.grlmc.com/SSTiC2013/ ********************************************************************* +++ next registration deadline: June 26 +++ ********************************************************************* AIM: SSTiC 2013 will be an open forum for the convergence of top class well recognized computer scientists and people at the beginning of their research career (typically PhD students) as well as consolidated researchers. SSTiC 2013 will cover the whole spectrum of computer science by means of 56 six-hour courses dealing with hot topics at the frontiers of the field. By actively participating, lecturers and attendees will share the idea of scientific excellence as the main motto of their research work. ADDRESSED TO: Graduate students from around the world. There are no pre-requisites in terms of the academic degree the attendee must hold. However, since there will be several levels among the courses, in the description of some of them reference may be made to specific knowledge background. SSTiC 2013 is appropriate also for people more advanced in their career who want to keep themselves updated on developments in the field. Finally, senior researchers will find it fruitful to listen and discuss with people who are main references of the diverse branches of computing nowadays. REGIME: 7 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: Palau Firal i de Congressos de Tarragona Arquitecte Rovira, 2 43001 Tarragona http://www.palaucongrestgna.com COURSES AND PROFESSORS: Shun-ichi Amari (Riken) [introductory] Information Geometry and Its Applications James Anderson (Chapel Hill) [intermediate] Scheduling and Synchronization in Real-Time Multicore Systems Pierre Baldi (Irvine) [intermediate] Big Data Informatics Challenges and Opportunities in the Life Sciences Yoshua Bengio (Montréal) [introductory/intermediate] Deep Learning of Representations Stephen Brewster (Glasgow) [advanced] Multimodal Human-Computer Interaction Bruno Buchberger (Linz) [introductory] Groebner Bases: An Algorithmic Method for Multivariate Polynomial Systems. Foundations and Applications Rajkumar Buyya (Melbourne) [intermediate] Cloud Computing Jan Camenisch (IBM Zurich) [intermediate] Cryptography for Privacy Larry S. Davis (College Park) [intermediate] Video Analysis of Human Activities Paul De Bra (Eindhoven) [intermediate] Adaptive Systems Paul Dourish (Irvine) [introductory] Ubiquitous Computing in a Social Context Max J. Egenhofer (Maine) [introductory/intermediate] Qualitative Spatial Relations: Formalizations and Inferences Richard M. Fujimoto (Georgia Tech) [introductory] Parallel and Distributed Simulation David Garlan (Carnegie Mellon) [advanced] Software Architecture: Past, Present and Future Mario Gerla (Los Angeles) [intermediate] Vehicle Cloud Computing Georgios B. Giannakis (Minnesota) [advanced] Sparsity and Low Rank for Robust Data Analytics and Networking Ralph Grishman (New York) [intermediate] Information Extraction from Natural Language Francisco Herrera (Granada) [intermediate] Imbalanced Classification: Current Approaches and Open Problems Paul Hudak (Yale) [introductory] Euterpea: From Signals to Symphonies Using Haskell Niraj K. Jha (Princeton) [intermediate] FinFET Circuit Design George Karypis (Minnesota) [introductory] Introduction to Parallel Computing: Architectures, Algorithms, and Programming Aggelos K. Katsaggelos (Northwestern) [intermediate/advanced] Sparsity-based Advances in Image Processing Arie E. Kaufman (Stony Brook) [advanced] Advances in Visualization Hugo Krawczyk (IBM Research) [intermediate] An Introduction to the Design and Analysis of Authenticated Key Exchange Protocols Pierre L'Ecuyer (Montréal) [intermediate] Quasi-Monte Carlo Methods in Simulation: Theory and Practice Laks Lakshmanan (British Columbia) [intermediate/advanced] Information and Influence Spread in Social Networks Wenke Lee (Georgia Tech) [introductory] DNS-based Monitoring of Malware Activities Maurizio Lenzerini (Roma La Sapienza) [intermediate] Ontology-based Data Integration Ming C. Lin (Chapel Hill) [introductory/intermediate] Physically-based Modeling and Simulation Jane W.S. Liu (Academia Sinica) [intermediate] Critical Information and Communication Technologies for Disaster Preparedness and Response Satoru Miyano (Tokyo) [intermediate] How to Hack Cancer Systems with Computational Methods Aloysius K. Mok (Austin) [intermediate] From Real-time Systems to Cyber-physical Systems Hermann Ney (Aachen) [intermediate/advanced] Probabilistic Modelling for Natural Language Processing - with Applications to Speech Recognition, Handwriting Recognition and Machine Translation Cathleen A. Norris (North Texas) & Elliot Soloway (Ann Arbor) [introductory] Primary & Secondary Educational Computing in the Age of Mobilism Jeff Offutt (George Mason) [intermediate] Cutting Edge Research in Engineering of Web Applications David Padua (Urbana) [intermediate] Parallel Programming with Abstractions Bijan Parsia (Manchester) [introductory] The Semantic Web: Conceptual and Technical Foundations Charles E. Perkins (FutureWei) [intermediate/advanced] Beyond 4G Prabhakar Raghavan (Google) [introductory/intermediate] Web Search and Advertising Phillip Rogaway (Davis) [introductory/intermediate] Provably Secure Symmetric Encryption Gustavo Rossi (La Plata) [intermediate] Topics in Model Driven Web Engineering Kaushik Roy (Purdue) [introductory/intermediate] Low-energy Computing Robert Sargent (Syracuse) [introductory] Validating Models Douglas C. Schmidt (Vanderbilt) [intermediate] Patterns and Frameworks for Concurrent and Networked Software Bart Selman (Cornell) [intermediate] Fast Large-scale Probabilistic and Logical Inference Methods Mubarak Shah (Central Florida) [intermediate/advanced] Visual Crowd Surveillance Ron Shamir (Tel Aviv) [introductory] Revealing Structure in Disease Regulation and Networks Dawn Xiaodong Song (Berkeley) [introductory] Selected Topics in Computer Security Mike Thelwall (Wolverhampton) [introductory] Sentiment Strength Detection for the Social Web Julita Vassileva (Saskatchewan) [introductory/intermediate] Engaging Users in Social Computing Systems Philip Wadler (Edinburgh) [introductory] Topics in Lambda Calculus and Life Yao Wang (Polytechnic New York) [introductory/advanced] Video Compression: Fundamentals and Recent Development Gio Wiederhold (Stanford) [introductory] Software Economics: How Do the Results of the Intellectual Efforts Enter the Global Market Place Limsoon Wong (National Singapore) [introductory/intermediate] The Use of Context in Gene Expression and Proteomic Profile Analysis Michael Wooldridge (Oxford) [introductory] Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems Ronald R. Yager (Iona) [introductory/intermediate] Fuzzy Sets and Soft Computing Philip S. Yu (Illinois Chicago) [advanced] Mining Big Data REGISTRATION: It has to be done at http://grammars.grlmc.com/SSTiC2013/Registration.php 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. FEES: Fees may be for the whole week (full-time participant) or per blocks of days (part-time participant). They are a flat rate allowing one to attend all courses within the time window set: 5, 4, 3 or 2 days. Fees vary depending on the deadline. ACCOMMODATION: Information about accommodation is available on the website of the School. CERTIFICATE: Participants will be delivered a certificate of attendance. IMPORTANT DATES: Announcement of the programme: January 26, 2013 Registration deadlines: next: June 26, 2013 last: July 25, 2013 QUESTIONS AND FURTHER INFORMATION: Lilica Voicu: florentinalilica.voicu(a)urv.cat POSTAL ADDRESS: SSTiC 2013 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] PhD studentship in robust learning of Bayesian networks
by Cassio P. de Campos June 11, 2013

June 11, 2013

PhD studentship in robust learning of Bayesian networks The Dalle Molle Institute for Artificial Intelligence (IDSIA, http://www.idsia.ch) a non-profit oriented research institute for artificial intelligence, affiliated with both University of Lugano and University of Applied Sciences of Southern Switzerland, advertises a full-time position as PhD student in the area of robust learning of Bayesian networks. The position is funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation. IDSIA offers an international working environment (English is the official language), the possibility of attending conferences and a salary in line with Swiss standards. The work will be performed in close collaboration with experts in probabilistic graphical models, robust learning, data mining, optimization, imprecise probabilities (see http://ipg.idsia.ch for more information). It includes theoretical advances in robust structure learning of probabilistic graphical models, as well as design and development of algorithms. The ideal candidate has a strong commitment to research and to the completion of the PhD program, has obtained a Master degree in a quantitative area, has very good communication skills in English, good programming skills, and ability to work in a collaborative environment. For applying, please follow the instructions available at http://www.supsi.ch/home/dms/supsi/docs/supsi/offerte-lavoro/2013/20130705_… The closing date for applications is July 5th 2013 (expected starting date within 2013). This deadline may be extended at the discretion of the recruiting committee. For further information, please contact: Cassio de Campos (cassio(a)idsia.ch).

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