[UAI] CISTI'2019 - Doctoral Symposium

[Maria Lemos]

* Proceedings published in IEEE Xplore and indexed by ISI, Scopus, etc.


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Doctoral Symposium of CISTI'2019 - 14th Iberian Conference on Information 
Systems and Technologies
   Coimbra, Portugal, 19 - 22 
June 2019
   
http://www.cisti.eu/ 




The purpose of CISTI'2019’s Doctoral Symposium is to provide graduate students 
a setting where they can, informally, expose and discuss their work, collecting 
valuable expert opinions and sharing new ideas, methods and applications. The 
Doctoral Symposium is an excellent opportunity for PhD students to present and 
discuss their work in a Workshop format. Each presentation will be evaluated by 
a panel composed by at least three Information Systems and Technologies experts.



Contributions Submission

The Doctoral Symposium is opened to PhD students whose research area includes 
the themes proposed for this Conference. Submissions must include an extended 
abstract (maximum 4 pages), following the Conference style guide 
. All selected contributions will be 
handed out along with the Conference Proceedings, in CD with an ISBN. These 
contributions will be available in the IEEE Xplore 
 Digital 
Library and will be sent for indexing in ISI, Scopus, EI-Compendex, INSPEC and 
Google Scholar.

Submissions must include the field, the PhD institution and the number of 
months devoted to the development of the work. Additionally, they should 
include in a clear and succinct manner:

•The problem approached and its significance or relevance
•The research objectives and related investigation topics
•A brief display of what is already known
•A proposed solution methodology for the problem
•Expected results



Important Dates

Paper submission: February 10, 2019

Notification of acceptance: March 17, 2019

Submission of accepted papers: March 31, 2019

Payment of registration, to ensure the inclusion of an accepted paper in the 
conference proceedings: April 1, 2019



Organizing Committee

Álvaro Rocha, Universidade de Coimbra

Manuel Pérez Cota, Universidad de Vigo



Scientific Committee

Manuel Pérez Cota, Universidad de Vigo (Chair)

A. Augusto Sousa, FEUP, Universidade do Porto

Adolfo Lozano Tello, Universidad de Extremadura

Alma María Gómez Rodríguez, Universidade de Vigo

Álvaro Rocha, Universidade de Coimbra

Ana Amélia Carvalho, Universidade de Coimbra

Ana Maria Ramalho Correia, NOVA Information Management School

António Coelho, FEUP, Universidade do Porto

Antonio Garcia-Loureiro, Universidad de Santiago de Compostela

Arnaldo Martins, Universidade de Aveiro

Arturo Méndez Penín, Universidade de Vigo

Bráulio Alturas, ISCTE - Insituto Universitário de Lisboa

Carlos Costa, ISEG, Universidade de Lisboa

Carlos Ferrás Sexto, Universidad de Santiago de Compostela

David Fonseca, La Salle, Universitat Ramon Llull

Ernest Redondo, Universidad Politécnica de Catalunya

Fernando Moreira, Universidade Portucalense

Fernando Ramos, Universidade de Aveiro

Francisco Restivo, Universidade Católica Portuguesa

Gonçalo Paiva Dias, Universidade de Aveiro

Gonzalo Cuevas Agustin, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid

Guilhermina Maria Lobato de Miranda, IE, Universidade de Lisboa

João Costa, Universidade de Coimbra

João Manuel R.S. Tavares, FEUP, Universidade do Porto

José Antonio Calvo-Manzano Villalón, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid

José Borbinha, IST, Universidade de Lisboa

José Machado, Universidade do Minho

José Martins, Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro

Juan de Dios Murillo, Universidad Nacional de Costa Rica

Leandro Rodríguez Linares, Universidade de Vigo

Luciano Boquete, Universidad de Alcalá

Luis Camarinha Matos, Universidade Nova de Lisboa

Luis Macedo, Universidade de Coimbra

Luís Paulo Reis, FEUP, Universidade do Porto

Marco Painho, NOVA Information Management School

Mareca López María Pilar, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid

María José Lado Touriño, Universidade de Vigo

Mário Piattini, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha

Mário Rela, Universidade de Coimbra

Martin Llamas-Nistal, Universidad de Vigo

Miguel Ramón González Castro, Ence, Energía y Celulosa

Nelson Rocha, Universidade de Aveiro

Paulo Pinto, Univesidade Nova de Lisboa

Óscar Mealha, Universidade de Aveiro

Ramiro Gonçalves, Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro

Vitor Santos, NOVA Information Management School

Yolanda García Vázquez, Universidad de Santiago de Compostela




Doctoral Symposium webpage: https://goo.gl/JTrcLB


Kind regards

Re: [UAI] Recent work on explanation or other qualitative analysis in belief networks

[Francisco Javier Diez]

Robert Dodier wrote on 06/12/2018 19:33:

Hi everybody,

I am catching up on current research in Bayesian belief networks after some 
years in the wilderness. I'm interested in the possibility of Bayesian 
inference applications in medicine. Towards that end, I think explanation or 
some other qualitative presentation of results could be important to help 
people understand how and why results are generated.

A web search seems to find references that I remember seeing before, such as the 
excellent article by Madigan et al., "Graphical Explanation in Belief 
Networks". However i can't seem to find more recent works on this topic. I also 
browsed the proceedings of the UAI conference and came up empty handed. I guess I must be 
overlooking something.

If someone can point me to publications or other resources about explanation or 
other forms of qualitative analysis in belief networks or probabilistic models 
more generally, I'll be very appreciative.



Dear Robert,

These publications are not recent but might be interesting for you.

C. Lacave, F. J. Díez (2002). A review of explanation methods for
Bayesian networks. Knowledge Engineering Review 17:107-127.

C. Lacave, F. J. Díez (2004) A review of explanation methods for
heuristic expert systems. Knowledge Engineering Review 19:133-146.

C. Lacave, A. Oniśko, F. J. Díez (2006) Use of Elvira's explanation
facility for debugging probabilistic expert systems. Knowledge-Based
Systems 19:730-738.

C. Lacave, M. Luque, F. J. Díez (2007) Explanation of Bayesian networks
and influence diagrams in Elvira. IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and
Cybernetics, Part B, 37:952-965.

Most of the explanation facilities developed for Elvira are now
implemented in its successor, OpenMarkov, www.openmarkov.org.

You may also find interesting explanation facilities in GeNIe, which is
distributed by BayesFusion, www.bayesfusion.com.

If you find more recent references, please let us know. I am very
interested in the topic, but I don't remember seeing any progress in the
last years.

Best wishes
  Javier

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Francisco Javier Diez
Dept. Artificial Intelligence  Phone: +34-913987161
UNED. c/Juan del Rosal, 16 www.ia.uned.es/~fjdiez
28040 Madrid. Spainwww.cisiad.uned.es



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[UAI] AAMAS 2019 Doctoral Consortium

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AAMAS 2019 Doctoral Consortium
May 13, 2019
Montreal, Canada
http://aamas2019.encs.concordia.ca/cfdc.html


IMPORTANT DATES:

— Submission due: January 28, 2019
— Notification of acceptance: March 4, 2019
— Camera Ready due: March 11, 2019
— Doctoral Consortium: May 13, 2019


DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM PROGRAM:

The doctoral consortium (DC) of AAMAS 2019 is intended for PhD students in 
order to interact closely and receive feedback from established researchers in 
their fields. Each accepted student to the program will be matched with an 
established researcher in the field who will assist the student with research 
and career management advice. An informal lunch will be organised between the 
students and their mentors allowing for in-depth discussion and exchange.

Each student will be given ample time to orally present their work and 
therefore be able to fully benefit from direct feedback from the assigned 
senior researcher mentor and their peers. Furthermore, the students will also 
present a poster of their PhD work during the poster session of the main 
conference. Apart from extra feedback, this will also help provide students 
with new contacts and professional networking opportunities.

The DC is intended for PhD students who have a specific research proposal and 
some preliminary results, but who have sufficient time prior to completing 
their dissertation to benefit from the consortium experience. Preference will 
be given to students satisfying these criteria, but well-motivated applications 
from students who are at earlier or later stages of their doctoral studies will 
also be considered.


SUBMISSION PROCEDURE:

The submission package should include the following items in one single pdf 
file:
1. A cover sheet containing: the student's name, email address, homepage, 
university affiliation, gender, citizenship, PhD start date, expected 
graduation date, name and email of PhD supervisor, at least three mentor 
suggestions (should be chosen from the list of PCs or SPCs in past AAMAS 
conferences, for example, the list of PCs for AAMAS 2018 can be found here: 
http://celweb.vuse.vanderbilt.edu/aamas18/pc/), and at least three area of 
study keywords (should be chosen from the list of topics of interest in the 
AAMAS' call for paper: http://aamas2019.encs.concordia.ca/cfp.html).

2. A 1-page letter of support from the supervisor.
3. A 2-page CV that includes the list of publications of the student.
4. A 2-page extended abstract of the student's thesis (in AAMAS submission 
format)
5. A 1-page personal statement citing around five favourite papers in the field 
and how they influenced the students’ work.

Applications should be submitted via confmaster (please check the AAMAS 2019 
website). 

The selection process will consider the quality of the submitted proposal and 
the stage of the student's PhD project. Doctoral students who submit to the DC 
are encouraged to submit papers to the associated workshops.

Important: All students, including DC applicants, should apply for student 
scholarships separately on the scholarship website. While acceptance to the DC 
may play a role in scholarship decisions, those decisions are made by the 
scholarship chairs and are subject to available funding support. 

For any questions please contact the doctoral consortium co-chairs.


ORGANISERS:

Madalina CROITORU, University of Montpellier, France

William YEOH, Washington State University in St. Louis, USA
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[UAI] Hiring Research Fellow in Trust and Social Networks

[Kevin Koidl]

*Location: Trinity College Dublin **
**Level: Research Fellow**
*
*Post Summary*
This is a unique opportunity to join a research group that has pioneered 
Social Network research. You will be working with TCD, ADAPT and EU wide 
researchers researching and designing novel methods to study and create 
an Heterogeneous Social Network graph (HSN)

that empower trustworthiness.

ADAPT is Ireland’s global centre of excellence for digital content 
technology. Led by TCD, it combines the expertise of researchers at four 
universities (Trinity College Dublin, Dublin City University, University 
College Dublin, and Dublin Institute of Technology) with that of its 
industry partners to produce ground-breaking digital content innovations.


*Informal enquiries *about this post should be made to by e-mail to: Ms 
Monica Lechea (monica.lec...@adaptcentre.ie).


*Standard Duties and Responsibilities of the Post*


Reporting to his/her Principal Investigator the Researcher will:

• Conduct a specified EU funded programme of research under the 
supervision and direction of the Principal Investigator (PI)


• Support the PI in the design, development and implementation of the 
research programme


• Conduct research in the areas of Heterogeneous Social Networks and Trust

• Substantially contribute to the identification of external funding 
sources and assist in the writing of grant proposals


• Mentor, assist and supervise postgraduate research students as required

• Assist the PI in the management/co-ordination of key aspects of the 
research programme (e.g. financial management, reporting, equipment 
management, etc.)


• Engage in the dissemination of the results of the research in which 
he/she is engaged to the wider research community with the support and 
under the supervision of the Principal Investigator


• Engage in appropriate training and development opportunities as 
required by the Principal Investigator, the School or Research Centre, 
or the University


• Engage with internal and external stakeholders including academic and 
industry partners/collaborators as appropriate


• Carry out administrative work associated with the programme as necessary

• Produce top-quality journal and conference publications, in 
collaboration with the Principal Investigator (PI)


• Support the PI in consortium meetings throughout the European Union


For More information: 
https://www.adaptcentre.ie/images/uploads/jobs/HELIOS_Research_Fellow_Job_Description_Final_27.11.18.pdf



Kind regards

Kevin Koidl
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[UAI] LPNMR 2019 Call for Papers ** INVITED SPEAKERS TO BE ANNOUNCED **

[Gregory Gelfond]

 Call for Papers
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   15th International Conference on
Logic Programming and Non-monotonic Reasoning
   LPNMR 2019

 https://sites.sju.edu/plw/lpnmr-2019/

Philadelphia, USA
  June 4-7, 2019

  Part of the philadelphia Loogic Week 2019
https://sites.sju.edu/plw/
Co-located with
  Datalog 2.0 Workshop
International Workshop on Bidirectional Transformations

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AIMS AND SCOPE

 LPNMR 2019 is the fifteenth in the series of international meetings
 on logic programming and non-monotonic reasoning. LPNMR is a forum
 for exchanging ideas on declarative logic programming, non-monotonic
 reasoning, and knowledge representation. The aim of the conference is
 to facilitate interactions between researchers and practitioners
 interested in the design and implementation of logic-based programming
 languages and database systems, and those working in knowledge
 representation and nonmonotonic reasoning. LPNMR strives to encompass
 theoretical and experimental studies that have led or will lead to
 advances in declarative programming and knowledge representation, as
 well as their use in practical applications. A Doctoral Consortium
 will also be a part of the program.

 This year's edition of the conference seeks to raise submissions devoted
 towards use of LPNMR techniques in emerging applications stemming from such
 areas as deep learning, robotics, cybersecurity, modeling cyberphysical
 systems, and human-aware AI. Aspects that have been studied in commonsense
 reasoning, inconsistency tolerance, and handling of dynamic knowledge appear
 essential in enabling these emerging applications to�provide
 explanations and justifications of their outcomes.  LPNMR 2019 aims to
 bring together researchers from LPNMR core areas and application areas of
 the aforementioned kind in order to share research experiences, promote
 collaboration and identify directions for joint future research.


INVITED SPEAKERS

  To be announced


TOPICS

 Authors are invited to submit papers presenting original and unpublished
 research on all aspects of non-monotonic approaches in logic programming
 and knowledge representation. We invite submissions of both long and
 short papers on topics detailed below.

 Conference topics include, but are not limited to:

 1. Foundations of LPNMR Systems:
   * Semantics of new and existing languages;
   * Action languages, causality;
   * Formalization of Commonsense Reasoning and understanding
 its laws and nature;
   * Relationships among formalisms;
   * Complexity and expressive power;
   * Inference algorithms and heuristics for LPNMR systems;
   * Extensions of traditional LPNMR languages such as new logical
 connectives or new inference capabilities;
   * Updates, revision, and other operations on LPNMR systems;
   * Uncertainty in LPNMR systems.

 2. Implementation of LPNMR systems:
   * System descriptions, comparisons, evaluations;
   * Algorithms and novel techniques for efficient evaluation;
   * LPNMR benchmarks.

 3. Applications of LPNMR:
   * Use of LPNMR in Commonsense Reasoning and other areas of KR;
   * LPNMR languages and algorithms in planning, diagnosis, argumentation,
 reasoning with preferences, decision making and policies;
   * Applications of LPNMR languages in data integration and exchange
 systems, software engineering and model checking;
   * Applications of LPNMR to bioinformatics, linguistics, psychology,
 and other sciences;
   * Integration of LPNMR systems with other computational paradigms;
   * Embedded LPNMR: Systems using LPNMR subsystems.


SUBMISSION

 LPNMR 2019 welcomes submissions of long papers (13 pages) or short papers
 (6 pages) in the following categories:

   * Technical papers
   * System descriptions
   * Application descriptions

 The indicated number of pages includes title page, references and
 figures. All submissions will be peer-reviewed and accepted papers will
 appear in the conference proceedings published in the Springer's
 Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI/LNCS) series. At least one
 author of each accepted paper is expected to register for the conference
 to present the work. Submissions must be written in English, present
 original research, and be formatted according to Springer's guidelines
 and technical instructions available at:


https://www.springer.com/gp/authors-editors/conference-proceedings/conference-proceedings-guidelines

 Paper submission is enabled via the LPNMR 2019 Easychair site:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lpnmr2019

 Two best papers of general AI interest will be