[UAI] ACM Intelligent Virtual Agents Conference - IVA 2019 - Deadline Extension - Last Call for Papers

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*Last Call for Papers - ACM Intelligent Virtual Agents Conference - IVA 
2019 *


*2-5 July 2019, Paris, France*

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**DEADLINE EXTENSION. **Submission Deadline:**8th March 2019**

 * *ABSTRACTS need to be uploaded byMarch 1st
   *
 * *Only submissions with*uploaded *abstracts will be able to submit a
   PAPER by theNEW DEADLINE,March 8th.*

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_https://iva2019.sciencesconf.org _


The 19th ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents 
(IVA) will be held on July 2-5 2019 in Paris, France. The conference is 
organized by CNRS, Sorbonne University and Paris-Saclay University 
(France), and sponsored by ACM-SIGAI.


The IVA conference started in 1998 as a workshop on Intelligent Virtual 
Environments at the European Conference on Artificial Intelligence in 
Brighton, UK, which was followed by a similar one in 1999 in Salford, 
Manchester, UK. Then dedicated stand-alone IVA conferences took place in 
Madrid, Spain, in 2001, Irsee, Germany, in 2003, and Kos, Greece, in 
2005. Since 2006 IVA has become a full-fledged annual international 
event, which was first held in Marina del Rey, California, then Paris, 
France, in 2007, Tokyo, Japan, in 2008, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, in 
2009, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, in 2010, Reykjavik, Iceland, in 
2011, Santa Cruz, USA, in 2012, Edinburgh, UK, in 2013, Boston, USA, in 
2014, Delft, The Netherlands, 2015, Los Angeles, USA, 2016, Stockholm, 
Sweden, 2017. IVA 2018 was held in Sydney, Australia.



PAPER SUBMISSION

We invite submissions of research full papers on a broad range of 
topics, including but not limited to: theoretical foundations of virtual 
agents, agent modeling and evaluation, agents in games and simulations, 
and applications of virtual agents. Extended abstracts presenting late 
breaking work are also welcome.


IVA 2019 is the 19th meeting of an interdisciplinary annual conference 
and the main leading scientific forum for presenting research on 
modeling, developing and evaluating Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVAs) 
with a focus on communicative abilities and social behavior. IVAs are 
interactive digital characters that exhibit human-like qualities and can 
communicate with humans and each other using natural human modalities 
like facial expressions, speech and gesture. They are capable of 
real-time perception, cognition, emotion and action that allow them to 
participate in dynamic social environments. In addition to presentations 
on theoretical issues, the conference encourages the showcasing of 
working applications.



IVA 2019’s special topic is “Social Learning”, that is learning while 
interaction socially; agents can learn from the humans and humans can 
learn from the agents. Agents can take different roles such as tutors, 
peers, motivators, coaches in training and in serious games. They can 
act as job recruiter, virtual patient, and nurse to name a few 
applications. With this topic in mind we are seeking closer engagement 
with industry and also with social psychologists.



For more information, please visit the IVA 2019 website:

_https://iva2019.sciencesconf.org _


The papers and extended abstracts will be published in the ACM digital 
library. All submissions will be reviewed via a double-blind review 
process.



IMPORTANT DATES (UTC/GMT-12 hours)

Full papers

*Abstract Deadline: March 1, 2019*

Extended Deadline: March 1, 2019March 8, 2019

Notification of Acceptance: April 8, 2019

Camera Ready: April 22, 2019

Extended abstracts

Submission Deadline: March 1, 2019March 8, 2019

Notification of Acceptance: April 8, 2019

Camera Ready: April 22, 2019


INVITED SPEAKERS

Beatrice de Gelder (Maastricht University)

Rachael Jack (Glasgow University)

Verena Rieser (Heriot-Watt University)

Pierre-Yves Oudeyer (INRIA - Bordeaux)


COMMITTEE

_Conference Chairs_

Catherine Pelachaud, CNRS-ISIR, Sorbonne University, France

Jean-Claude Martin, CNRS-LIMSI, University Paris Saclay, France


_Program co-chairs_

Gale Lucas, USC Institute for Creative Technologies, USA

Hendrik Buschmeier, Bielefeld University, Germany

Stefan Kopp, Bielefeld University, Germany


SCOPE AND LIST OF TOPICS

IVA invites submissions on a broad range of topics, including but not 
limited to:



   *List of Topics*

*Socio-emotional agent models:*

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   Cognition, machine learning and adaptation

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   Emotion, personality and cultural differences

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   Model of emotionally communicative behavior

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   Model of conversational behavior

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   Model of social skills

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   Machine learning for endowing virtual agents with social skills


*Multimodal interaction:*

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   Verbal and nonverbal coordination

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   Engagement

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   Interpersonal relation

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   Multi-party interaction

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   Model driven by theoretical foundations from psychology

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   Data driven model


*Social agent architectures:*

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   Design cri

[UAI] IEEE ICDM 2019: Call for Workshop Proposals

[ICDM 2019]

*IEEE ICDM 2019: Call for Workshop Proposals*

The 19th IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (IEEE ICDM 2019)
includes half- and full-day workshops that complement the overall technical
program events, with the goal of expanding new research directions and
application areas of data mining for both practitioners and researchers in
a particular subject area. Workshops of interdisciplinary nature are also
encouraged. The workshops are expected to be held on November 8, 2019 in
Beijing, China. These workshops provide a more focused, in-depth venue for
presentations, discussions and interaction. The workshop proposals will be
peer-reviewed with a focus on submissions that inspire deep and interactive
dialogue in topics that are of interest to the data mining community.

By the unique ICDM tradition, all accepted workshop papers will be
published in formal proceedings published by the IEEE Computer Society
Press indexed by EI.

*Preparing your workshop proposals*

Workshop proposals should be submitted in plain text or PDF, by email to
Workshop Chairs, Xueqi Cheng (c...@ict.ac.cn) and Panagiotis Papapetrou (
panagio...@dsv.su.se), and must include the following elements:

· Title and acronym of the workshop

· Duration (full-day or half-day)

· Description of the workshop topic, and a draft version of CFP
(not exceeding 500 words)

· Short description on how the organizers plans to attract quality
submissions

· Preliminary list of invited speakers (if any)

· Past records (if any)

· Short bio of the organizers

· Tentative program committee

· Contact information of the organizers (including name,
affiliation, mailing address, and e-mail address)



After a workshop proposal is accepted, the organizers should create a Web
page for the workshop and notify the workshop chairs of its URL. The main
conference web site will provide a link to each workshop.



*Important Dates*

All deadlines are at 11:59PM Pacific Daylight Time.

· Workshop proposals: March 15, 2019

· Workshop notification: March 29, 2019

· Workshop paper submissions: August 7, 2019

· Workshop paper notification: September 4, 2019



*ICDM 2019 Workshop Chairs*

· Xueqi Cheng, Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy
of Sciences, China

· Panagiotis Papapetrou, Stockholm University, Sweden
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[UAI] PhD Available: Predicting Recovery from Stroke with Machine Learning

[Marek Grzes]

Professor Howard Bowman (University of Kent and University of 
Birmingham) is looking to take on a PhD student to work on interpretable 
machine learning applied to data acquired from stroke patients 
(https://www.ucl.ac.uk/ploras/). This work will be with Professor Cathy 
Price (Welcome Centre for Human Neuroimaging, UCL), whose (PLORAS) team 
has collected one of the largest data sets of stroke patients (greater 
than 1,000), including structural MRI scans, behaviour and demographics. 
A key focus of Cathy Price’s work is to predict the recovery trajectory 
of stroke patients from their structural MRI scans, particularly 
patients with language deficits (i.e. that are aphasic). Progress has 
been made on this using traditional and now deep learning methods.


Critical to clinical uptake of machine learning in this area is the 
ability to interpret the predictions it provides in a fashion that can 
be communicated to clinicians, patients and carers. We seek to appoint a 
PhD student to work on this topic, using methods such as neural-symbolic 
techniques. The student will be located in the School of Computing at 
the University of Kent, but will regularly visit and work closely with 
Cathy Price’s team at the Welcome Centre for Human Neuroimaging. 
Expertise in machine learning will be provided by Dr Thomas Hope 
(Welcome Centre for Human Neuroimaging, UCL) and Dr Marek Grzes (School 
of Computing, University of Kent).


The PhD being advertised will be one of a tranche of scholarships 
available in the School of Computing at the University of Kent at 
Canterbury. These will be competitively allocated across a range of 
topics. To be eligible for these scholarships, please contact Howard 
Bowman (h.bow...@kent.ac.uk) before 31st March 2019.


Relevant articles:

Besold, T. R., Garcez, A. D. A., Bader, S., Bowman, H., Domingos, P., 
Hitzler, P., ... & de Penning, L. (2017). Neural-symbolic learning and 
reasoning: A survey and interpretation. arXiv preprint arXiv:1711.03902.


Hope, T. M., Seghier, M. L., Leff, A. P., & Price, C. J. (2013). 
Predicting outcome and recovery after stroke with lesions extracted from 
MRI images. NeuroImage: clinical, 2, 424-433.


Seghier, M. L., Patel, E., Prejawa, S., Ramsden, S., Selmer, A., Lim, 
L., ... & Price, C.J. (2016). The PLORAS database: a data repository for 
predicting language outcome and recovery after stroke. Neuroimage, 124, 
1208-1212.


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[UAI] Announcement of a tenure-track position "Natural Language Processing" at Johannes Kepler University Linz Austria

[Recruitment IML]

*Announcement of a tenure-track position "Natural Language Processing" 
at the Department of Computer Science at the Faculty of Engineering & 
Natural Sciences (limited to 6 years, full time 40h/week) according to 
the collective agreement of university employees*


In accordance with the collective agreement for employees and the 
Austrian Universities Act, the Department of Computer Science at the 
Faculty of Engineering & Natural Sciences announces an opening for a 
full-time (40 h/week), six-year Tenure Track position at the Johannes 
Kepler University Linz. The candidate must hold a Doctorate/PhD degree.


The position is aimed at highly qualified junior researchers with a 
focus in the field of natural language processing using modern machine 
learning and deep learning methods and offers the possibility of a 
qualification agreement and thus – after positive evaluation - a 
permanent position as Associate Professor (§ 99 Sec. 5 and 6 of the 
Universities Act).


The candidate should be able to demonstrate an outstanding academic 
track record and extensive experience in university-level teaching. The 
successful candidate must hold a doctorate or Ph.D. degree in a relevant 
subject that has been awarded not more than 8 years ago and must have 
working experience in at least two different academic institutions 
already. Please see the detailed job description at 
www.jku.at/tenuretrack. For further information, please contact us.


The Johannes Kepler University wishes to increase the proportion of 
female faculty and, for this reason, especially welcomes applications 
from women. If applicants are equally qualified, women will be given 
preference for this position. The university welcomes applications from 
qualified candidates with physical disabilities. These applications will 
be given special consideration.



Regards,
The IML recruitment team


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Recruitment Team
Institute for Machine Learning
Johannes Kepler University, Linz, Austria
https://www.jku.at/institut-fuer-machine-learning/

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[UAI] ICADIWT 2019

[conference]

The Tenth International Conference on the Applications of Digital 
Information and Web Technologies (ICADIWT 2019)

May 20-22, 2019, Casablanca, Morocco

July 07-09, 2019
Luton, UK
(www.socio.org.uk/icadiwt)

The Tenth International Conference on the Applications of Digital 
Information and Web Technologies (ICADIWT 2019) is a forum for 
researchers to present the intensive and innovative research, ideas, 
developments and applications in the areas of Computer Communications, 
Communication networks, Communication Software Communication 
Technologies and Applications, and other related themes.


This conference (ICADIWT Edition IX) will include presentations of 
contributed papers and state-of-the-art lectures by invited keynote 
speakers. Digital Technologies is embeeded in the research activiites of 
large number of people and it ensures the Ubiquitous reaching of more 
number of people in the recent years. Research in digital technologies 
has been carried out in many directions using various resources and 
tools and on the other side, the application issues are addressed by 
more volume of researchers not necessarily limited to information and 
computing technology. Thus the proposed conference series realize its 
value and potential and manifest the requirements in the form of the 
international conference. This edition will address the following 
outlined themes (but not limited to)


Internet Communication
Internet Technologies
Web Applications
Internet Software
Data Access and Transmission
Digital Communication Software
Digital Networks
Web Communication Interfaces
Adaptive Systems
Internet of Things
Internet of breath
Augmented Reality
Databases and applications
Web Systems Engineering Design
Intelligent Agent systems
Semantic Web Studies
Adaptive Web applications and personalization
Actuators and sensors
Robotics and Machine Vision
Vibration and noise control
Smart cities and structures
Control
Automation
Human-machine interfaces
Real-time simulation
Digital Technologies for Mechanical and other designs


Publication and Indexing

The accepted full papers will be published in the IOS series (Frontiers 
in Artificial Intelligence and Applications (FAIA))and submitted for 
inclusion in many indexes. Accepted full papers will be submitted for 
indexing to multiple abstract and indexing partners. The papers will be 
indexed in many databases as given at 
http://www.frontiersinai.com/?q=indexing
The accepted papers will be published as a post-conference publication. 
During the conference, the pre-conference volume will be distributed.


The previous ICADIWT proceedings ars indexed in Web of Science


Honorary Chairs
Jolanta Mizera-Pietraszko, (Opole University, Poland)
Co-Chair
Chafik Okar, ENSA, Hassan 1st University, Berrechid, Morocco.
General Chairs
Abdelali El Bouchti, Institute for Forecasting and Futuristics (I2F), 
FS, Hassan 2nd University, Casablanca, Morocco


Program Chairs
Yao-Liang Chung, National Taiwan Ocean University, Taiwan
Ricardo Rodriguez Jorge, (Autonomous University of Ciudad Juarez, 
Mexico)


Important Dates

Submission of papers- April 01, 2019
Notification- May 01, 2019
Camera ready- June 01, 2019
Registration- June 01, 2019
Conference Dates- July 07-09, 2019

Paper Submission at http://www.socio.org.uk/icadiwt/paper-submission/
Contact: icad...@socio.org.uk   or d...@dirf.org

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[UAI] IEEE ICDM 2019: First Call for Papers

[ICDM 2019]

IEEE ICDM 2019: First Call for Papers



ICDM 2019: The 19th IEEE International Conference on Data Mining

==

November 8 - 11, 2019

Beijing, China

http://icdm2019.bigke.org/



*Call for Papers*



*Important dates *

==

*All deadlines are at 11:59PM Pacific Daylight Time.*

o   Workshop proposals: March 15, 2019

o   Workshop notification: March 29, 2019

o   ICDM contest proposals: March 29, 2019

o   Full paper submissions: June 5, 2019

o   Demo and tutorial proposals: July 15, 2019

o   Workshop paper submissions: August 7, 2019

o   Conference paper, tutorial, demo notification: August 8, 2019

o   Workshop paper notification: September 4, 2019

o   Camera-ready deadline and copyright forms: September 8, 2019

o   Conference dates: November 8 - 11, 2019



The IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM) has established
itself as the world’s premier research conference in data mining. It
provides an international forum for presentation of original research
results, as well as exchange and dissemination of innovative and practical
development experiences. The conference covers all aspects of data mining,
including algorithms, software, systems, and applications. ICDM draws
researchers, application developers, and practitioners from a wide range of
data mining related areas such as statistics, machine learning, pattern
recognition, databases, data warehousing, data visualization,
knowledge-based systems, and high-performance computing. By promoting
novel, high-quality research findings, and innovative solutions to
challenging data mining problems, the conference seeks to advance
the state-of-the-art in data mining.



*Topics of Interest*

==

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

oFoundations, algorithms, models and theory of data mining, including
big data mining.

oMachine learning and statistical methods for data mining.

oMining from heterogeneous data sources, including text,
semi-structured, spatio-temporal, streaming, graph, web, and multimedia
data.

oData mining systems and platforms, and their efficiency, scalability,
security and privacy.

oData mining for modelling, visualization, personalization, and
recommendation.

oData mining for cyber-physical systems and complex, time-evolving
networks.

oApplications of data mining in social sciences, physical sciences,
engineering, life sciences, web, marketing, finance, precision medicine,
health informatics, and other domains.



We particularly encourage submissions in emerging topics of high importance
such as data quality, time-evolving networks, big data mining and
analytics, cyber-physical systems, and heterogeneous data integration and
mining.



*Submission Guidelines*

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Paper submissions should be limited to a maximum of ten (10) pages, in the
IEEE 2-column format (link
),
including the bibliography and any possible appendices. Submissions longer
than 10 pages will be rejected without review. All submissions will be
triple-blind reviewed by the Program Committee on the basis of technical
quality, relevance to scope of the conference, originality, significance,
and clarity. The following sections give further information for authors.



*Triple Blind Submission Guidelines*

==

Since 2011, ICDM has imposed a triple blind submission and review policy
for all submissions. Authors must hence not use identifying information in
the text of the paper and bibliographies must be referenced to preserve
anonymity. Any papers available on the Web (including Arxiv) no longer
qualify for ICDM submissions, as their author information is already public.

*What is triple blind reviewing?*

The traditional blind paper submission hides the referee names from the
authors, and the double-blind paper submission also hides the author names
from the referees. The triple-blind reviewing further hides the referee
names among referees during paper discussions before their acceptance
decisions. The names of authors and referees remain known only to the PC
Co-chairs, and the author names are disclosed only after the ranking and
acceptance of submissions are finalized. It is imperative that all authors
of ICDM submissions conceal their identity and affiliation information in
their paper submissions. It does not suffice to simply remove the author
names and affiliations from the first page, but also in the content of each
paper submission.



*How to prepare your submissions*

==

The authors shall omit their names from the submission. For formatting
templates with author and institution information, simply replace all these
information in the template by “Anonymous”.

In the submission, the authors’ should refer to their own prior work like
the prior work of any other author, and include all relevant citations.
This can be done