nnouncing the WSTNet Web Science Summer School 2016 (WWSSS’16)

Announcing the WSTNet Web Science Summer School 2016 (WWSSS’16)

http://wwsss16.west.uni-koblenz.de


The WSTNet Web Science Summer School 2016 will take place from 30 June to 6 July in Koblenz (Germany).

Keynotes and tutorials will provide participants with an insight into the key areas of Web Science:

• Introduction to Web Science,
• Computational Social Science,
• Social Machines,
• Web and Politics,
• Web Entrepreneurship,
• Web and Law.

We know that sustainable learning requires both receiving information and applying it. That is why at WWSSS’16, participants will consolidate their insights from tutorials and keynotes in project work, supervised by experts in the related fields.

Invited speakers and tutors include Jim Hendler, Noshir Contractor, Stéphane Bazan, Nikolaus Forgó, Steffen Staab, Markus Strohmaier, Elena Simperl, Simon Köhl, and others. Beside working in teams, we will provide an inspiring and enjoyable environment with plenty of opportunities to connect with other attendees and established researchers in the field of Web Science. This includes a poster session where participants present their research and obtain feedback on it as well as several social events and an excursion.

WWSSS’16 is the first official summer school of the Web Science Trust Network, an international network of some of the world’s leading academic researchers in Web Science. The 2016 edition is organised in Koblenz, in the UNESCO world heritage Upper Middle Rhine Valley.

Corresponding to the transdisciplinary curriculum, WWSSS’16 welcomes anyone interested in the field of Web Science, regardless of their discipline.

We look forward to meet you in person at WWSSS’16!


Prof. Dr. Steffen Staab
Institute WeST, University of Koblenz-Landau &
Web and Internet Science Group, University of Southampton.


Website: http://wwsss16.west.uni-koblenz.de
E-Mail: summerschool2016@uni-koblenz.de
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/1030095920346775/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/hashtag/wwsss16

1st International Workshop on AI aspects of Reasoning, Information, and Memory 2016 (AIRIM'16)

CALL FOR PAPERS

1st International Workshop on 

AI aspects of Reasoning, Information, and Memory 2016 (AIRIM'16)  

at AAIA'16 - 11th International Symposium Advances in Artificial Intelligence and Applications | FedCSIS

Gdansk, Poland, 11-14 September, 2016

https://www.fedcsis.org/2016/airim

SCOPE:

There is general realization that computational models of languages and reasoning can be improved by integration of heterogeneous resources of information, e.g., multidimensional diagrams, images, language, syntax, semantics, quantitative data, memory. While the event targets promotion of integrated computational approaches, we invite contributions from any individual areas related to information, language, memory, reasoning.

TOPICS:

We welcome submissions of papers on the following topics, without limiting to them, across approaches, methods, theories, and applications:

- Reasoning systems --- theories and applications

- Proof systems and model checkers

- Theories of computation and information

- Interactive computation and reasoning

- Computation and reasoning with heterogeneous information

- Space and time in information, language, memory, and reasoning

- Partiality, underspecification, vagueness, and possibilities

- Detection of and reasoning with inconsistency

- Logic and language --- approaches, theories, methods

- Computational morphology, syntax, semantics, and interfaces between these

- Constraint-based and type-theoretic approaches and grammars

- Logical approaches to multilingual processing

- Logical and computational foundations in machine learning and information retrieval

- Mathematics for linguistics and cognitive science

- Reasoning, information, and memory in computational neuroscience and life sciences

- Interdisciplinary approaches to information, language, memory, and reasoning

IMPORTANT DATES

- Paper submission: April 18, 2016

- Position paper submission: May 30, 2016

- Acceptance decision: June 13, 2016

- Final version of paper submission: July 04, 2016

- Final deadline for discounted fee: July 31, 2016

- Conference dates: September 11-14, 2016

PAPER SUBMISSION and PUBLICATIONS

The publication rules for AIRIM'16 are the same as for AAIA'16:

https://www.fedcsis.org/2016/airim

- Authors should submit draft papers (as Postscript, PDF of MSWord file).

- The total length of a paper should not exceed 10 pages IEEE style (including tables, figures and references). IEEE style templates are available here.

- Papers will be refereed and accepted on the basis of their scientific merit and relevance to the workshop.

- Pre-prints containing accepted papers will be published on a USB memory stick provided to the FedCSIS participants.

- Only papers presented at the conference will be published in Conference Proceedings and submitted for inclusion in the IEEE Xplore® database.

- Conference proceedings will be published in a volume with ISBN, ISSN and DOI numbers and posted at the conference WWW site.

- Conference proceedings will be indexed in BazEkon and submitted for indexation in: Thomson Reuters - Conference Proceedings Citation Index, SciVerse Scopus, Inspec, Index Copernicus, DBLP Computer Science Bibliography and Google Scholar

- Extended versions of selected papers presented during the conference will be published as Special Issue(s)

ORGANIZERS

Roussanka Loukanova, Stockholm University, Sweden 

M. Dolores Jiménez-López, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Spain

Henning Christiansen, Roskilde University, Denmark

CONTACT INFORMATION

M. Dolores Jiménez-López (mariadolores.jimenez@urv.cat)

Roussanka Loukanova (rloukanova@gmail.com)

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The 8th International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Information Retrieval – KDIR 2016

CALL FOR PAPERS

The 8^th International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Information Retrieval – KDIR 2016

Website: www.kdir.ic3k.org

November 9 – 11, 2016

Porto, Portugal

Regular Papers

Paper Submission: May 12, 2016
Authors Notification: September 5, 2016
Camera Ready and Registration: September 19, 2016

Position Papers

Paper Submission: June 27, 2016

Authors Notification: September 7, 2016

Camera Ready and Registration: September 19, 2016

Workshops

Workshop Proposal: August 18, 2016

Doctoral Consortium

Paper Submission: September 8, 2016

Authors Notification: September 16, 2016

Camera Ready and Registration: September 28, 2016

Special Sessions

Special Session Proposal: August 22, 2016

Paper Submission: September 5, 2016

Authors Notification: September 21, 2016

Camera Ready and Registration: September 28, 2016

Tutorials

Tutorial Proposal: September 23, 2016

Demos

Demo Proposal: September 23, 2016

Panels

Panel Proposal: September 23, 2016

Open Communications

Paper Submission: September 8, 2016

Authors Notification: September 16, 2016

Camera Ready and Registration: September 28, 2016

Sponsored by:

INSTICC – Institute for Systems and Technologies of Information, Control and Communication

INSTICC is Member of:

FIPA – Foundation for Intelligent Physical Agents

WfMC – Workflow Management Coalition

OMG – Object Management Group

Logistics Partner:

SCITEVENTS – Science and Technology Events

In Cooperation with:

AI*IA – Associazione Italiana per l'Intelligenza Artificiale

APPIA – Associação Portuguesa Para a Inteligência Artificial

APRP – Associaçao Portuguesa de Reconhecimento de Padrões

Scope:

Knowledge Discovery is an interdisciplinary area focusing upon methodologies for identifying valid, novel, potentially useful and meaningful patterns from data, often based on underlying large data sets. A major aspect of Knowledge Discovery is data mining, i.e. applying data analysis and discovery algorithms that produce a particular enumeration of patterns (or models) over the data. Knowledge Discovery also includes the evaluation of patterns and identification of which add to knowledge.

Information retrieval (IR) is concerned with gathering relevant information from unstructured and semantically fuzzy data in texts and other media, searching for information within documents and for metadata about documents, as well as searching relational databases and the Web. Automation of information retrieval enables the reduction of what has been called "information overload".

Information retrieval can be combined with knowledge discovery to create software tools that empower users of decision support systems to better understand and use the knowledge underlying large data sets.

KDIR is part of IC3K, the 8th International Joint Conference on Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management.

IC3K 2016 will be held in conjunction with IJCCI 2016.

PUBLICATIONS

All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings, under an ISBN reference, on paper and on

CD-ROM support.

SCITEPRESS is a member of CrossRef (http://www.crossref.org/) and every paper is given a DOI (Digital Object Identifier).

All papers presented at the conference venue will be available at the SCITEPRESS Digital Library .

The proceedings will be submitted for indexation by Thomson Reuters Conference Proceedings Citation Index (ISI), INSPEC, DBLP, EI (Elsevier Engineering Village Index) and Scopus.

AWARDS

The awards will be announced and bestowed at the conference closing session.

Please check the website for further information: www.kdir.ic3k.org/BestPaperAward.aspx

IC3K KEYNOTE LECTURES

IC3K 2016 will have several invited keynote speakers, who are internationally recognized experts in their areas. Their names are not yet confirmed.

IC3K CONFERENCE CHAIR

Joaquim Filipe, Polytechnic Institute of Setúbal / INSTICC, Portugal

PROGRAM CHAIR

Ana Fred, Instituto de Telecomunicações / IST, Portugal

CONFERENCE TOPICS

·         BioInformatics & Pattern Discovery

·         Business Intelligence Applications

·         Clustering and Classification Methods

·         Collaborative Filtering

·         Concept Mining

·         Context Discovery

·         Data Analytics

·         Data Mining in Electronic Commerce

·         Data Reduction and Quality Assessment

·         Foundations of Knowledge Discovery in Databases

·         Information Extraction

·         Interactive and Online Data Mining

·         Machine Learning

·         Mining Multimedia Data

·         Mining Text and Semi-structured Data

·         Pre-processing and Post-processing for Data Mining

·         Process Mining

·         Software Development

·         Structured Data Analysis and Statistical Methods

·         User Profiling and Recommender Systems

·         Visual Data Mining and Data Visualization

·         Web Mining

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

www.kdir.org/ProgramCommittee.aspx

KDIR  Secretariat

Address: Av. D. Manuel I, 27A, 2º esq.

                2910-595 Setúbal - Portugal

Tel.: +351 265 100 033

Fax: +351 265 520 186

e-mail: kdir.secretariat@insticc.org

Please check further details at the conference website: www.kdir.ic3k.org

Call for Special Sessions: MMM 2017 in Reykjavik, Iceland

Call for Special Sessions for the 23rd Multimedia Modelling Conference (MMM2017), Jan 4-6, 2017, Reykjavik Iceland

The 23rd MultiMedia Modeling conference, MMM 2017, will be held in the unique location of Reykjavik, Iceland (http://mmm2017.ru.is/). As the first multimedia conference ever to be held in Iceland, MMM 2017 represents a unique opportunity to visit this exciting location.

At this time we invite you to propose special sessions for MMM 2017. Special sessions are mini-venues, each focusing on one state-of-the-art research direction within the multimedia field. Special session papers, which can be invited or submitted, will supplement the regular research papers and be included in the proceedings of MMM 2017. While a special session may simply present a group of related papers in the regular format, it is preferred to organise the session in a panel format, where authors have reduced time to present their work, followed by a Q&A session with the audience.

Special session proposals must be submitted by email to the general chairs Björn Þór Jónsson and Cathal Gurrin using subject “MMM2017 Special Session Proposal” by 01/04/16. Proposals will be evaluated based on the relevance to MMM, qualification(s) of the organiser(s) and the quality and community interest of the topic/proposed potential papers. Details of proposals are described below.

On behalf of the MMM 2017 organization,

Björn Þór Jónsson
Cathal Gurrin
MMM 2017 general chairs

CCH 2016 The IEEE Workshop on Cloud Connected Health: 1st Int. Conference on Connected Health: Applications, Systems and Engineering Technologies

CALL FOR PAPERS
The 2016 the IEEE 1st International Conference on Connected Health: Applications, Systems and Engineering Technologies: CCH 2016: The First International Workshop on Cloud Connected Health
https://sites.google.com/site/cchw2016/

In association with
The First IEEE Conference on Connected Health: Applications, Systems and Engineering Technologies
(CHASE 2016) Washington D.C., June 27-29, 2016
http://conferences.computer.org/chase/


This workshop solicits unpublished research work related to the latest challenges, technologies, solutions and techniques pertaining to connected health within the cloud datacenter and to the efficient and efficient cloud solution and hosting of the various emerging applications and services in health domain such as pervasive, health, mobile health, electronic health records, BigData health applications, health networking, and health connectivity within cloud systems.

The workshop will bring together researchers from academia, industry and government in order to present the state of the art in the emerging area of the use of cloud systems in connected health infrastructure and applications.

Topics

Topics of the track consist of all aspects related to eHealth Information Security. They include but are not limited to:

·        Connected health integration with cloud.
·        Virtual private cloud in eHealth.
·        Cloud services for connected health.
·        Health as a service (HaaS).
·        Privacy issues in cloud based connected health.
·        Security access policies in cloud based connected health.
·        Testing and validation of cloud based connected health technologies.
·        Cloud based health resources management.
·        Health monitoring using the cloud.
·        Health data processing in the cloud.
·        Middleware of mobile applications.
·        Architecture of Cloud computing and BigData applications for Healthcare.
·        Adaptation of Cloud computing Healthcare.
·        Prediction systems in Cloud computing Healthcare.
·        Surveys and state of the art reports in the area.


Submission Instructions

Submitted papers must be neither previously published nor under review by another workshop, conference or journal.

Only electronic submissions in PDF will be accepted. Submitted regular papers must be written in English, must be no longer than 7 pages in 10-point font, must render without error using standard PDF viewing tools, must print on US-Letter-sized paper, and must include the author names and affiliations in the first page. One extra page is allowed for additional charge of $100.

Submitted manuscripts may not exceed 7 (or 8 with extra fees ) single-spaced double-column pages using 10-point size font on 8.5x11 inch pages (IEEE conference style), including figures, tables, and references. See style templates for details: IEEE Manuscript Templates for Conference Proceedings

The authors of regular papers will deliver oral presentations. The authors of demo and poster papers will deliver system demonstrations and poster presentations, respectively. All accepted papers will be published by IEEE and indexed by IEEExplore.


Submission page: please use the following page on edas system   http://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=21966



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- Papers Submissions Deadline:          March 11, 2016
- Notification of Acceptance:           April 18, 2016
- Deadline for Author Registration:     May. 15, 2016
- Deadline for Camera-ready Papers:     May. 15, 2015

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The IEEE reserves the right to exclude a paper from distribution after the conference (including its removal from IEEE Xplore) if the paper is not presented.

Note: To be published in the IEEE [WORKSHOP] Workshop Proceedings and to be eligible for publication in IEEE /Xplore®/, an author of an accepted paper is required to register for the workshop and the paper must be presented by an author of that paper at the workshop unless the TPC Chair grants permission for a substitute presenter arranged in advance of the event and who is qualified both to present and answer questions. Non-refundable registration fees must be paid prior to uploading the final IEEE formatted, publication-ready version of the paper.  Papers will be published in the IEEE CHASE 2016 Proceedings and submitted to IEEE /Xplore®/.

IEEE CHASE 2016 TPC Chairs:
Misha Pavel, Northeastern University, USA
Mani Srivastava, University of California at Los Angeles, USA
Honggang Wang, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, USA.

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Research Positions for Complex Event Recognition at NCSR Demokritos

The Complex Event Recognition (CER) group at the Institute of Informatics and Telecommunications of NCSR "Demokritos" is seeking to fill two research positions. The CER group works towards advanced and efficient methods for the recognition of complex events in Big Data streams. The positions will be funded by two EU Big Data projects (FP7-ICT and H2020).

The positions to be filled are described below:

1. Complex event recognition.

The successful candidate will have an undergraduate degree in computer science, excellent programming skills, and solid knowledge of artificial intelligence, mathematical logic, probability theory and statistics.
Preference will be given to candidates with a postgraduate degree in computer science, research experience in artificial intelligence, and functional programming skills.

2. Complex event recognition under uncertainty.

The successful candidate will have undergraduate and postagraduate degrees in computer science, excellent programming skills, research experience in artificial intelligence, and solid knowledge of mathematical logic, probability theory and statistics.
Preference will be given to candidates with a PhD in artificial intelligence, research experience in machine learning, and functional programming skills.


Details about the research activities of the CER group are available at:
http://cer.iit.demokritos.gr/

Prospective applicants should send their resume (CV) by email to gram_skel@iit.demokritos.grby the end of February 2016.