[UAI] Reminder: Call for Participation -- SBP2015 kicks off next week

[Donald Adjeroh]

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CALL FOR PARTICIPATION  -- Reminder: conference starts next week  !!



Registration is now open for SBP15, the 2015 International Conference on Social 
Computing, Behavioral-Cultural Modeling, and Prediction.



SBP15 will be held at the UCDC Center, downtown Washington DC, USA March 31 - 
April 3, 2015.

Link to the main conference pages, http://sbp-conference.org/





*** You can still register before the conference starts next week  ***

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Link directly to registration page, http://sbp-conference.org/registration/





SOME EXCITING ITEMS ON THE PROGRAM!



SBP 2015 CHALLENGE - see: http://sbp-conference.org/challenge/

The SBP Challenge aims to demonstrate the real-world and interdisciplinary 
impact of social computing. The challenge will engage the social computing 
research community in solving a relevant, interesting, and challenging research 
problem that will advance the theory, methodology, and/or application of social 
computing.



TUTORIALS - see: http://sbp-conference.org/tutorial/



Morning and afternoon tutorials are offered on Tuesday, March 31 (included with 
registration fee):



Morning Session

(1)  Big Data Analytics for Behavioral Modeling


Presenters:

Hsuanwei Michelle Chen, PhD, Assistant Professor, School of Information, San 
Jose State University,

Shuyuan Mary Ho, PhD, Assistant Professor, School of Information, Florida State 
University

Tonia San Nicolas-Rocca, PhD, Assistant Professor, School of Information, San 
Jose State University



(2) A Tutorial on Text and Network Analysis Methods


Presenter:

David Broniatowski, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Engineering Management and Systems 
Engineering, The George Washington



Afternoon Session

(1) Behavioral Mining, Cultural Differences and Social Network Analysis
   in Massive Online Games


Presenters:

Muhammad Aurangzeb Ahmad, PhD
Research Scientist, Computer Science Department, University of Minnesota

Jaideep Srivastava, PhD
Professor, Computer Science Department, University of Minnesota



(2) Introduction to social network and spatial data in R and Python to

   social scientists


Jose Manuel Magallanes, PhD
Center for Social Complexity, George Mason University, and Department of Social 
Sciences, Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru




For a full description of tutorials, see: http://sbp-conference.org/tutorial/







SBP15 KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:



(1) Scott Page, PhD
Leonid Hurwicz Collegiate Professor of Complex Systems, Political Science, and 
Economics,
The University of Michigan - Ann Arbor


(2) Mark Newman,  PhD
Paul Dirac Collegiate Professor of Physics,
Department of Physics and Center for the Study of Complex Systems,
University of Michigan -- Ann Arbor


(3) Phil Bourne, PhD
Associate Director for Data Science,
National Institutes of Health


(4) CDR Joseph Cohn, PhD
Office of the Secretary of Defense



For more information on the keynote speakers, see: 
http://sbp-conference.org/keynote.shtml







Please visit the conference website for further information about the 
conference:

http://sbp-conference.org/index.shtml

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[UAI] UMAP'15 call for posters and demos: April 6th

[Tintarev, N]

Apologies for any duplicates!

POSTERS AND DEMONSTRATIONS
Submit here: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=umap15-postersdemos

Peer reviewed papers presenting original and unpublished accounts of innovative 
research ideas, preliminary results, industry showcases, and system prototypes, 
addressing both the theory and practice of User Modeling, Adaptation and 
Personalization.

Submissions will be assessed based on their originality and novelty, potential 
contribution to the research field, potential impact in particular use cases, 
and the usefulness of presented experiences, as well as their overall 
readability.

Poster and demonstration papers must have a length of 4 pages, and must be 
formatted according to Springer’s LNCS style guidelines 
(http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0).

Accepted papers will be published in the UMAP 2015 Extended Proceedings as a 
volume of CEUR Workshop Proceedings. Both posters and demonstrations will be 
presented at the poster reception of the conference. Valid poster formats are a 
single slide of about 24″x36″ (ISO A1) or alternatively up to 9 ISO A4 slides.

At least one author of each accepted paper must register for the conference and 
present the paper there.

Important dates:
- Paper submission: 6th April 2015
- Notification to authors: 1st May 2015
- Camera ready submission: 15th May 2015



LATE-BREAKING RESULTS
Submit here: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=umap-latebreaking15

Similarly to poster and demonstration papers, late-breaking results contain 
original and unpublished accounts of innovative research ideas, preliminary 
results, industry showcases, and system prototypes, addressing both the theory 
and practice of User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization. In addition, 
papers introducing recently started research projects or summarizing project 
results are welcome as well.

Submissions will be assessed based on their originality and novelty, potential 
contribution to the research field, potential impact in particular use cases, 
and the usefulness of presented experiences, as well as their overall 
readability.

Differently to posters and demonstration papers, late-breaking results papers 
should have a length of 4 to 6 Springer’s LNCS pages.

Accepted papers will be published in the UMAP 2015 Extended Proceedings as a 
volume of CEUR Workshop Proceedings. They will be presented at the poster 
reception of the conference, in the form of a poster and/or a software 
demonstration following poster format: valid poster formats are a single slide 
of about 24″x36″ (ISO A1) or alternatively up to 9 ISO A4 slides.

At least one author of each accepted paper must register for the conference and 
present the paper there.

Important dates:
- Paper submission: 18th May 2015
- Notification to authors: 29th May 2015
- Camera ready submission: 12th June 2015


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[UAI] AAAI'2016: from the website, mark your calendars

[Kreinovich, Vladik]

http://www.aaai.org/Conferences/AAAI/aaai16.php

The Thirtieth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-16) will be held 
February 12–17 at the Phoenix Convention Center, Phoenix, Arizona, USA. Please 
note the alternate day pattern for AAAI-16. The workshop, tutorial, and 
doctoral consortium programs will be held Friday and Saturday, February 12 and 
13, followed by the technical program, Sunday through Wednesday (at noon), 
February 14–17.

The chairs of AAAI-16 are Dale Schuurmans (University of Alberta) and Michael 
Wellman (University of Michigan)

The purpose of the AAAI conference is to promote research in artificial 
intelligence (AI) and scientific exchange among AI researchers, practitioners, 
scientists, and engineers in affiliated disciplines. AAAI-16 will have a 
diverse technical track, student abstracts, poster sessions, invited speakers, 
tutorials, workshops, and exhibit and competition programs, all selected 
according to the highest reviewing standards. AAAI-16 welcomes submissions on 
mainstream AI topics as well as novel crosscutting work in related areas.

Phoenix is America's sixth largest city, yet still has real cowboys, rugged 
mountains, and the kind of cactus most people see only in cartoons. Phoenix is 
the gateway to the Grand Canyon, and its history is a testament to the spirit 
of puebloans, ranchers, miners, and visionaries. Projected against this rich 
backdrop is a panorama of urban sophistication, with a host of museums (be sure 
to visit the Pueblo Grande Museum and Archaeological Park and the Heard 
Museum), sports stadiums, restaurants, and shopping. Nearby Tempe is the site 
of Arizona State University, home of a leading AI research community. Please 
join us in in 2016 in America's sunniest metropolis!
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[UAI] 2nd CFP for MPREF 2015: Multidisciplinary Workshop on Advances in Preference Handling (at IJCAI 2015)

[Paul Weng]

Second Call for Papers (Apologies for multiple postings)

==
M-PREF15:  CALL FOR PAPERS

9th Multidisciplinary Workshop on Advances in Preference Handling

July 25-27, 2014, Buenos Aires, Argentina, in conjunction with IJCAI 2015
==

Workshop website:
http://ursaminor.informatik.uni-augsburg.de/mpref/mpref2015/ 



Preference handling has become a flourishing topic. There are many 
interesting results, good examples for cross-fertilization between 
disciplines, and many new questions.

Preferences are a central concept of decision making. As preferences 
are fundamental for the analysis of human choice behavior, they are 
becoming of increasing importance for computational fields such as 
artificial intelligence, databases, and human-computer interaction. 
Preference models are needed in decision-support systems such as 
web-based recommender systems, in automated problem solvers such as 
configurators, and in autonomous systems such as Mars rovers. Nearly 
all areas of artificial intelligence deal with choice situations and 
can thus benefit from computational methods for handling preferences. 
Moreover, social choice methods are also of key importance in 
computational domains such as multi-agent systems.

This broadened scope of preferences leads to new types of preference 
models, new problems for applying preference structures, and new kinds 
of benefits. Preferences are studied in many areas of artificial 
intelligence such as knowledge representation, multi-agent systems, 
game theory, social choice, constraint satisfaction, decision making, 
decision-theoretic planning, and beyond. Preferences are inherently a 
multi-disciplinary topic, of interest to economists, computer scientists, 
operations researchers, mathematicians and more.

This workshop promotes this broadened scope of preference handling and 
continues a series of events on preference handling at AAAI-02, Dagstuhl 
in 2004, IJCAI-05, ECAI-06, VLDB-07, AAAI-08, ADT-09, ECAI-2010, ECAI-2012, 
IJCAI-13, and AAAI-14. Since 2008, this series of workshops is organized 
by the multidisciplinary working group on Advances in Preference Handling, 
which is affiliated to the Association of European Operational Research 
Societies EURO.

The workshop provides a forum for presenting advances in preference 
handling and for exchanging experiences between researchers facing 
similar questions, but coming from different fields. The workshop 
builds on the large number of AI researchers working on preference-
related  issues, but also seeks to attract researchers from databases, 
multi-criteria decision making, economics, etc.


==
TOPICS OF INTEREST
==

The workshop on Advances in Preferences Handling addresses all 
computational aspects of preference handling. This includes methods 
for the elicitation, learning, modeling, representation, aggregation, 
and management of preferences and for reasoning about preferences. 
The workshop studies the usage of preferences in computational tasks 
from decision making, database querying, web search, personalized 
human-computer interaction, e-commerce, multi-agent systems, 
combinatorial optimization, planning and robotics, automated problem 
solving, perception and natural language understanding and other 
computational tasks involving choices. The workshop seeks to improve 
the overall understanding of the benefits of preferences for those 
tasks. Another important goal is to provide cross-fertilization 
between different fields.


Preference handling in artificial intelligence
* Qualitative decision theory
* Non-monotonic reasoning
* Preferences in logic programming
* Preferences for soft constraints in constraint satisfaction
* Preferences for search and optimization
* Preferences for AI planning
* Preferences reasoning about action and causality
* Preference logic

Preference handling in database systems
* Preference query languages for SQL and XML
* Algebraic and cost-based optimization of preference queries
* Top-k algorithms and cost models
* Ranking relational data and rank-aware query processing
* Skyline query evaluation
* Preference management and repositories
* Personalized search engines

Preference handling in multiagent systems
* Game theory
* (Combinatorial) auctions and exchanges
* Voting, and other rating/ranking systems
* Mechanism design and incentive compatibility

Applications of preferences
* Web search
* Decision making
* Combinatorial optimization and other problem solving tasks
* Personalized human-computer interaction
* e-commerce and m-commerce

Preference elicitation
* Preference elicitation in multi-agent systems
* Preference elicitation with incentive-compatibility
* 

[UAI] IJCAI-2015 Workshop on Fuzzy Logic in AI: new deadlines

[Anca Ralescu]

Please follow the enclosed link for new deadlines for the IJCAI-2015 Fuzzy
Logic in AI Workshop:

http://di002.edv.uniovi.es/~sirene/

This link can also be reached from the following IJCAI page

http://ijcai-15.org/index.php/list-of-workshops

and following the link for workshop W34: Fuzzy Logic in AI.
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