[UAI] IEEE BigData 2019 CFP: Aug 19, 2019 (6 days left)

[CFP Conference]

*Call for Papers*



*2019 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (IEEE BigData 2019)*

http://bigdataieee.org/BigData2019/

December 10-13, 2019, Los Angeles, CA, USA



In recent years, “Big Data” has become a new ubiquitous term. Big Data is
transforming science, engineering, medicine, healthcare, finance, business,
and ultimately our society itself. The IEEE Big Data conference series
started in 2013 has established itself as the top tier research conference
in Big Data.

·  The first conference IEEE Big Data 2013 had more than 400 registered
participants from 40 countries (http://bigdataieee.org/BigData2013/, and
the regular paper acceptance rate is 17.0%.

· The IEEE Big Data 2017 ( http://bigdataieee.org/BigData2017/,regular
paper acceptance rate: 17.8%) was held in Boston, MA, Dec 11-14, 2017 with
close to 1000 registered participants from 50 countries.

· The IEEE Big Data 2018 ( http://bigdataieee.org/BigData2018/,regular
paper acceptance rate: 19.7%) was held in Seattle, WA, Dec 10-13, 2018 with
close to 1100 registered participants from 47 countries.





 The 2019 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (IEEE BigData 2019)
will continue the success of the previous IEEE Big Data conferences. It
will provide a leading forum for disseminating the latest results in Big
Data Research, Development, and Applications.



We solicit high-quality original research papers (and significant
work-in-progress papers) in any aspect of Big Data with emphasis on 5Vs
(Volume, Velocity, Variety, Value and Veracity), including the Big Data
challenges in scientific and engineering, social, sensor/IoT/IoE, and
multimedia (audio, video, image, etc.) big data systems and applications. The
conference adopts single-blind review policy. We expect to have a very high
quality and exciting technical program at Seattle this year. *Example
topics of interest includes but is not limited to the following*:



1.Big Data Science and Foundations

a.Novel Theoretical Models for Big Data

b.New Computational Models for Big Data

c.Data and Information Quality for Big Data

d.New Data Standards



2.Big Data Infrastructure

a. Cloud/Grid/Stream Computing for Big Data

b. High Performance/Parallel Computing Platforms for Big Data

c. Autonomic Computing and Cyber-infrastructure, System Architectures,
Design and Deployment

d. Energy-efficient Computing for Big Data

e. Programming Models and Environments for Cluster, Cloud, and Grid
Computing to Support Big Data

f.  Software Techniques and Architectures in Cloud/Grid/Stream Computing

g. Big Data Open Platforms

h. New Programming Models for Big Data beyond Hadoop/MapReduce, STORM

i.  Software Systems to Support Big Data Computing



3. Big Data Management

a. Search and Mining of variety of data including scientific and
engineering, social, sensor/IoT/IoE, and multimedia data

b. Algorithms and Systems for Big DataSearch

c. Distributed, and Peer-to-peer Search

d. Big Data Search Architectures, Scalability and Efficiency

e. Data Acquisition, Integration, Cleaning, and Best Practices

f.  Visualization Analytics for Big Data

g. Computational Modeling and Data Integration

h. Large-scale Recommendation Systems and Social Media Systems

i.  Cloud/Grid/Stream Data Mining- Big Velocity Data

j.  Link and Graph Mining

k. Semantic-based Data Mining and Data Pre-processing

l.  Mobility and Big Data

m.   Multimedia and Multi-structured Data- Big Variety Data





4. Big Data Search and Mining

a. Social Web Search and Mining

b. Web Search

c. Algorithms and Systems for Big Data Search

d. Distributed, and Peer-to-peer Search

e. Big Data Search Architectures, Scalability and Efficiency

f.  Data Acquisition, Integration, Cleaning, and Best Practices

g. Visualization Analytics for Big Data

h. Computational Modeling and Data Integration

i.  Large-scale Recommendation Systems and Social Media Systems

j.  Cloud/Grid/StreamData Mining- Big Velocity Data

k. Link and Graph Mining

l.  Semantic-based Data Mining and Data Pre-processing

m.   Mobility and Big Data

n.Multimedia and Multi-structured Data- Big Variety Data



5. Ethics, Privacy and Trust in Big Data Systems

a. Techniques and models for fairness and diversity

b.Experimental studies of fairness, diversity, accountability, and
transparency

c.Techniques and models for transparency and interpretability

d.Trade-offs between transparency and privacy

e.Intrusion Detection for Gigabit Networks

f. Anomaly and APT Detection in Very Large Scale Systems

g.High Performance Cryptography

h.Visualizing Large Scale Security Data

i. Threat Detection using Big Data Analytics

j. Privacy Preserving Big Data Collection/Analytics

k.HCI Challenges for Big Data Security & Privacy

l. Trust management in 

[UAI] IEEE BIBM 2019 paper submission deadline: Aug 17, 2019

[CFP Conference]

*Call for Papers*



2019 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (IEEE
BIBM 2019)



http://ieeebibm.org/BIBM2019/index.html

November 18-21, 2019, San Diego, CA, USA



The IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM)
has established itself as the premier research conference in bioinformatics
and biomedicine.IEEE BIBM 2019 provides a leading forum for disseminating
the latest research in bioinformatics and health informatics. It brings
together academic and industrial scientists from computer science, biology,
chemistry, medicine, mathematics and statistics.



We solicit high-quality original research papers (including significant
work-in-progress) in any aspect of bioinformatics, genomics, and
biomedicine.New computational techniques and methods and their application
in life science and medical domains are especially encouraged.Relevant
topics include but are not limited to:



*1.**Bioinformatics and Computational Biology of Molecular Structure,
Function and Evolution *

a. Evolution, Phylogeny, Comparative  Genomics

b. Protein/RNA Structure, Function and Interactions

c. 3D genome



2. *Computational Systems Biology*

a. Pathway Analysis

b. Biological Network Analysis

c. Interactomics

d. Gene Expression and Regulation

e. Post-translational Modifications

f. Alternative Splicing

g. Non-coding RNA Analysis



*3. **Next Generation Sequencing and High-throughput Methods*

a.Next-Gen Sequencing

b.Microarray Data Analysis

c.SNPs and Haplotype Analysis, GWAS, Personalized Genomics

d.Transcriptomics

e.Metabolomics

f. Proteomics

g.Epigenomics



*4. **Cheminformatics and pharmacogenomics*

a.Cheminformatics and Computer-Aided Drug Design

b.Molecular Docking

c.Molecular Modeling

d.Pharmacogenomics



*5.**Cross-Cutting Computational Methods and Bioinformatics
Infrastructure *

a. Biomedical Text Mining and Ontologies

b. Biological Data Mining and Visualization

c. Computational Modeling and Data Integration

d.AI and Machine Learning Methods in Bioinformatics and Medical
Informatics

e.Big Data Analytics in Biology and Medicine

f. High Performance Computing



*6. **Medical Informatics and Bioinformatics of Disease*

a.Biomedical Intelligence, Clinical Data Analysis, and Electronic
Health Record

b.Precision Medicine

c.Biomedical Signal/Image Analysis

d.Genome-Phenome Analysis

e.Biomarker Discovery

f. Pathogen bioinformatics



*7. **Healthcare Informatics*

a.Healthcare Knowledge Representation & Reasoning

b.Health Data Acquisition, Analysis and Mining

c. Healthcare Information Systems

d. Consumer Informatics

e. Clinical Decision Support and Informatics



*INDUSTRIAL Track*

The Industrial Track solicits papers describing implementations of
Bioinformatics and Biomedicine solutions relevant to industrial settings.
The focus of industry track is on papers that address the practical,
applied, or pragmatic or new research challenge issues related to the use
of bioinformatics and biomedicine technologies in industry. We accept full
papers (up to 8 pages), extended abstracts (2-4 pages), as well as short
abstracts (1 page, 500 words).



●  *Journal special issues:*IEEE BIBM has a tradition to publish
selected papers as special issues in highly respected journals. We will
publish the special issues publications with 8 journals:*IEEE Transactions
on NanoBiosceince,**IEEE/ACM Transactions on Bioinformatics and
Computational Biology, International Journal of Data Mining and
Bioinformatics*,* Methods, BMC Genomics, BMC Bioinformatics, BMC
Complementary and Alternative Medicine, BMC Bioinformatics, BMC Medical
Genomics, BMC Human Genomics, * (In the past BIBM conference, the number of
special issues are: IEEE BIBM 2018 – 11 special issues, IEEE BIBM 2017 – 9
special issues , IEEE BIBM 2016 – 9 special issues,  IEEE BIBM 2015 – 9
special issues, BIBM 2014 – 10 special issues, BIBM 2013 –9 special issues,
BIBM 2012—8 special issues, BIBM 2011—8 special issue,  BIBM 2010—7 special
issues, BIBM 2009—4 special issues; BIBM 2008—4 special issues)





●  *Student Travel Award: *BIBM 2019 will offer*as many as possible
student travel awards *to student authors (including post-doc). (*BIBM 2018
– 25 student travel awards*, *BIBM 2017 – 20 student travel awards , BIBM
2016 – 36 student travel awards, BIBM 2015 – 30 student travel awards**, BIBM
2014 – 25 student travel awards, BIBM 2013 – 40 student travel awards, BIBM
2012 – 30 student travel awards, BIBM 2011 – 28 student travel awards*, *BIBM
2010 – 22 student travel awards,  BIBM 2009 – 16 student travel awards*)





*Paper Submission:*

Please submit a full-length paper (up to *8 page IEEE 2-column format*)
through the online submission system (you can download the format
instruction here (
http://www.ieee.org/c

[UAI] [ICPRAI-2020-announcement] ICPRAI 2020 - Call for Papers, Exhibitions, and Sponsors

[ICPRAI 2020]

*Call for Papers, Exhibitions, and Sponsors*

*ICPRAI 2020 - Second International Conference on Pattern Recognition 
and Artificial Intelligence *


*Zhongshan City, China, just a short boat ride direct from Hong Kong airport
**May 12-15, 2020*
*
*
Following the success of the First ICPRAI (http://www.icprai2018.com) 
and https://users.encs.concordia.ca/~icprai18/, in Montreal, Canada, 
CENPARMI (Centre for Pattern Recognition and Machine Intelligence) of 
Concordia University will organize a second ICPRAI in 2020 in Zhongshan, 
China (with direct transportation, linking the airport in Hong Kong) in 
collaboration with its scientific and cultural communities. Zhongshan is 
a hub in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macau Greater Bay Area. It is the 
hometown of great historical figure Dr. Sun Yat-Sen, and has emerged as 
a beautiful city of innovation and vitality. Hosted in Zhongshan City, 
ICPRAI 2020 is organized by CENPARMI and journal editors/scientists:


Ching Y. Suen, Yuan Y. Tang, Edwin Hancock, Patrick Wang, Farida 
Cheriet, Cheng-Lin Liu, Yue Lu, Nicole Vincent, Pong C. Yuen; Igor 
Gurevich, Xiaoyi Jiang, Adam Krzyzak, Seong-Whan Lee, Jay Liebowitz, Qin 
Lu, Umapada Pal, Kam-Fai Wong, plus numerous prominent leaders and 
researchers from China and the International Community.


*Technical Session Tracks:*

*Track 1:* 	Recognition of different types of patterns, handwriting, 
document, text, face, fingerprint, iris, brain, and strategic objects 
and targets.
*Track 2:* 	Computer vision and image processing, bio-medical analysis, 
2D and 3D images and graphics, healthcare and tomography, audio/video, 
and multimedia applications.
*Track 3:* 	Artificial Intelligence, machine learning, neural networks, 
SVM, deep learning and classification techniques, language processing, 
semantic analysis, computational linguistics, e-learning and innovative 
teaching methods.
*Track 4:* 	Security and forensic studies, mobile applications, big 
data, small sample size, supercomputing, data mining and performance 
evaluation, intelligent systems and practical applications.
*Track 5:* 	Industrial Applications of PRAI, intellectual properties and 
ownership, innovation and technology transfer, financial trends and 
analysis, traffic analysis and smart transportation systems, robotics 
and autonomous vehicles.



*Publication Notes: *

1. Proceeding of ICPRAI 2020 to be published in the _LNCS series of
   Springer_,
2. Best papers will be selected for a Special Issue in the
   International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial
   Intelligence (IJPRAI),
3. Papers of general interest will be considered for new books in the
   Book Series of Language Processing, Pattern Recognition, and
   Intelligent Systems (http://www.worldscientific.com/series/scpl), and
4. Depending on the submissions, we may also propose Special Issues to
   other journals on papers of special interest on emerging topics.

*Keynote Speakers***:

**ICPRAI 2020 is proud to announce the following Keynote speakers with 
more to come:


 * Prof. Gernot Fink
 * Prof. Hironobu Fujiyoshi
 * Prof. Seong-Whan Lee
 * Prof. Cheng-Lin Liu
 * Prof. Farida Cheriet
 * Profs. Nicole Vincent and Camille Kurtz

***Call for Special Sessions and...

***We welcome proposals for Special Sessions, Panels, and Workshops, 
submission starting on August 15.Please send your proposals to the 
Conference Secretariat (email below).**


Call for Papers:

**Submissions begin on September 15, 2019 through EasyChair.**

*Important Dates:*

   *Proposal for Special Sessions:* August 15 until October 15, 2019
   *Paper Submission:*  *September 15 until November 15, 2019*
   *Acceptance notification:*   January 25, 2020
   *Camera ready & Copyright Form:* February 15, 2020


*Contact:*

*    Secretariat: *icprai2...@cenparmi.concordia.ca 



*Web: *http://www.icprai2020.com/and 
https://users.encs.concordia.ca/~icprai20/ 


*
Facebook: *https://www.facebook.com/ICPRAI2020



ICPRAI 2020 - Second International Conference on Pattern Recognition and 
Artificial Intelligence
*Web:*http://www.icprai2020.com/ or 
https://users.encs.concordia.ca/~icprai20/

*eMail:*icprai2...@cenparmi.concordia.ca
*Facebook:*https://www.facebook.com/ICPRAI2020
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[UAI] Call for Papers - NeurIPS 2019 workshop on Causal Machine Learning

[Michele Santacatterina]

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Dear All,

We are pleased to announce the call for papers for the NeurIPS 2019 workshop on 
Causal Machine Learning to be held in Vancouver, 13 (or) 14 December 2019 (we 
will know the exact date shortly).

We solicit submissions of novel research related to all aspects of causal 
inference, counterfactual prediction, and autonomous actions.

We particularly encourage the submission of work from the variety of 
disciplines this area draws upon and may impact: statistics, biostatistics, 
econometrics, program evaluation, and methodological development and 
applications in the quantitative social sciences. The workshop welcomes 
extended abstracts to allow the dissemination of work that is targeted for 
journals.

Deadline for Submission: September 9, 2019; Acceptance Decision: October 1, 
2019.

Please find full details at http://tripods.cis.cornell.edu/neurips19_causalml/

We look forward to receiving your manuscripts and welcoming you to our workshop.

Thanks,

Best regards,

The organizing committee
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[UAI] CFP | Final day for submission: The 4th Int. Workshop MECN-2019 in Shenyang, Liaoning, China, 21-23 October 2019

[Haozhe Wang]

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Final day for submission.

The 4th International Workshop on Multi-access Edge Computing and Networking 
(MECN-2019) http://hpcn.ex.ac.uk/mecn2019/

MECN-2019 is to be held in conjunction with the 18th IEEE International 
Conference on Ubiquitous Computing and Communications (IUCC-2019), 21-23 
October 2019, Shenyang, China.


Overview 

The goal of the 4th International Workshop on Multi-access Edge Computing and 
Networking (MECN-2019) is to bring the research community and industry 
practitioners together and foster a cross-disciplinary scientific forum. In 
addition to building a premier publication venue that features high-quality 
research, MECN-2019 provides unique opportunities for researchers from academia 
and industry to interact, share new results, and discuss emerging directions 
focused regarding the field of multi-access computing and networking. 

Important Dates
===
Paper Submission Deadline:  12 August 2019 (extended)
Authors Notification:   30 August 2019
Camera-Ready Paper Due: 12 September 2019 
Early Registration Due: 12 September 2019 
Conference Date:21-23 October 2019


Topics of interests include, but not limited to

Novel architecture of MEC in 5G
Large-scale mobile edge computing
Data-centric MEC
MEC for the Future Internet
AI at the edge
Machine learning and big data analytics
Green edge computing
Information-Centric Networking (ICN)
Fog computing
Quality-of-Experience (QoE) of MEC applications
Heterogeneous networks
Service-centric communications
MEC for Internet-of-Things
MEC for Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality
Emerging MEC applications and services
Software-Defined Networking (SDN)
Edge resource management
Network modelling
Hybrid cloud computing
Security and privacy in MEC
System prototypes, practical deployments and experimentation


Paper Submission Guideline 
=== 
The workshop seeks for novel, previously unpublished papers. More submission 
details can be found at http://hpcn.ex.ac.uk/mecn2019/. 

All accepted papers are expected to be included in IEEE Xplore and will be 
indexed by Engineering Index (EI).

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[UAI] CFP: IEEE Trans. on Cognitive Communications and Networking, SI on Intelligent Resource Management for 5G and Beyond

[Haozhe Wang]

(We apology for possible cross posting)

Call for Papers: IEEE Transactions on Cognitive Communications and Networking
Special Issue on Intelligent Resource Management for 5G and Beyond

https://www.comsoc.org/publications/journals/ieee-tccn/cfp/intelligent-resource-management-5g-and-beyond

Deadline extended to: 1 September 2019

The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) has identified three broad use 
cases: enhanced mobile broadband (eMBB), ultra-reliable and low-latency 
communication (uRLLC), and massive machine-type communications (mMTC). 5G 
networks are expected to allow the coexistence of these use cases over the same 
physical infrastructure. Due to diversified and stringent service requirements 
in different use cases, 5G and beyond-5G need an intelligent way of managing 
the various physical resources including computing, networking and storage 
resources. The resources allocated to each service should meet the requirement 
precisely while at the same time maximising the resource utilisation of the 
physical infrastructure.

5G not only involves radio part, but also core network, Internet and datacenter 
parts. Different from the existing works focusing on either radio part or core 
part, this special issue focuses on the end-to-end intelligent resource 
management, from radio access networks to core networks (and up to datacenter 
networks). That is because end-to-end performance needs to be guaranteed to 
provide satisfactory QoS for diversified services with different requirements 
in 5G and beyond. Reciprocal effects may exist among different services 
vertically, and also, for the same service, between radio access networks and 
core networks horizontally; this cannot be ignored and need to be learned and 
considered cognitively for resource allocation and scheduling in 5G and beyond.

In addition, from 3GPP Release 15 to Release 16, the control plane and user 
plane splitting has been planned for more functionalities in the core network 
to satisfy the stringent requirements of uRLLC use cases. The intelligent 
resource management for the involved functionalities of a service is an 
emerging challenge to be addressed by the network and Telcom research community.

Learning from massive network data to produce cognitive knowledge for the 
end-to-end resource management in 5G is still cumbersome; real-time network 
management is still far from mature for the services with stringent 
requirements in 5G and beyond. Many research challenges still need to be 
addressed to achieve a fully intelligent resource management for 5G and beyond 
networks.

This special issue is devoted to the most recent developments and research 
outcomes addressing the related theoretical and practical aspects on 
intelligent resource management for 5G and beyond, and it also aims to provide 
worldwide researchers and practitioners an ideal platform to innovate new 
solutions targeting at the corresponding key challenges. Topics of interest 
include, but are not limited to:
- Architectures for end-to-end cognitive network/resource management for 5G and 
beyond
- Machine learning algorithms and solutions for end-to-end intelligent resource 
management
- Deep learning and data mining in end-to-end intelligent resource management
- Scalability of end-to-end intelligent resource management for 5G and beyond
- Autonomic monitoring and measurements in end-to-end intelligent resource 
management for 5G and beyond
- Autonomic analysis, autonomic and execution in end-to-end intelligent 
resource management for 5G and beyond
- Sustainability of end-to-end intelligent resource management for 5G and beyond
- End-to-end QoS/QoE/SLA guarantee in intelligent resource management for 5G 
and beyond
- Knowledge base for end-to-end intelligent resource management for 5G and 
beyond
- Intelligent network management for 5G and beyond
- Security, privacy and trust for end-to-end intelligent resource management 
for 5G and beyond

Submission Guidelines
Authors are invited to submit original and previously unpublished works. 
Submissions should follow the author guidelines of IEEE Transactions on 
Cognitive Communications and Networking. The complete instructions for 
prospective authors can be found on the IEEE TCCN Manuscript Central page. All 
submissions will undergo initial screening by the Guest Editors for fit to the 
theme of the Special Issue.

Important Date
- Submission Deadline: 1 September 2019
- First Reviews Complete: 1 November 2019
- Revision Due: 15 December 2020
- Final Review Decision: 15 January 2020
- Final Papers to Publisher: 31 January 2020
- Expected Publication: Second Quarter 2020

Guest Editors
Yulei Wu, University of Exeter, United Kingdom
Dimitra Simeonidou, University of Bristol, United Kingdom
Cheng-Xiang Wang, Southeast University, China
Richard Yu, Carleton University, Canada
Sunghyun Choi, Seoul National University, Korea
Guoliang Xue, Arizona State University, USA
Adlen Ksentini, EUROCOM, France


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[UAI] Post-doc in Statistics at Uni Basel

[Giusi Moffa]

Post-Doc position in Statistics with a focus on probabilistic graphical models 
and causal inference

A post-doc is available in the newly established group of Prof. Dr. Giusi Moffa 
at the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Basel.

Research topic

The focus of the group will be on probabilistic graphical models and causal 
inference. Current research focuses on both computational and inferential 
aspects. In particular we plan to develop novel algorithms for structure 
learning of Directed Acyclic Graphs (DAGs) in the context of mixed data, as 
well as hybrid learning methods which consider different measures of 
independence for the constraint-based part of the algorithm, so as to handle 
non-linear relationships. From an inferential and interpretation perspective, 
we are working on the Bayesian estimation of putative intervention effects from 
causal DAGs. Applications may cover clinical research, epidemiology, cancer 
genomics and precision medicine. Please visit my research page for more 
information about the projects

https://annlia.github.io/jacademia/jresearch/

Candidate profile

  *   PhD in Statistics or closely related field
  *   A solid knowledge of statistical theory and methods
  *   Strong computational and programming skills
  *   Experience with statistical softwares (ideally R)
  *   Team spirit as well as the ability to work independently
  *   Fluent in English with good writing skills

Offer

The position is initially offered for one-year, with the possibility of 
extension for up to another 18 months.
Starting date is as soon as possible upon agreement.

Application / Contact

For further information please contact Prof. Dr. Giusi Moffa 
(giusi.mo...@unibas.ch), and if you are 
interested, please send your CV, including academic records and publications, 
together with a cover letter and the names and e-mail addresses of two referees.
Applications will be evaluated on a rolling basis starting from September 1st 
2019.

--
Prof. Dr. Giusi Moffa | University of Basel | Spiegelgasse 1 | CH-4051 Basel | 
Switzerland | Email: giusi.mo...@unibas.ch

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[UAI] Call for Workshops Proposals - WorldCIST'20, Budva, Montenegro

[ML]

- CALL FOR WORKSHOPS PROPOSALS 
WorldCIST'20 - 8th World Conference on Information Systems and Technologies
  7th -10th of April 2020, Budva, Montenegro
   http://www.worldcist.org/ 

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The Information Systems and Technologies research and industrial community is 
invited to submit proposals for the organization of Workshops at WorldCist'20 - 
8th World Conference on Information Systems and Technologies, to be held at 
Budva, Montenegro, 7 - 10 April 2020. WorldCist is a global forum for 
researchers and practitioners to present and discuss the most recent 
innovations, trends, results, experiences and concerns in the several 
perspectives of Information Systems and Technologies.


###
WORKSHOP FORMAT
###

Workshops should focus on a specific scientific subject on the scope of 
WorldCist'20 but not directly included on the main conference areas. Each 
workshop will be coordinated by an Organizing Committee composed of, at least, 
two researchers in the field, preferably from different institutions and 
different countries. The organizers should create an international Program 
Committee for the Workshop, with recognized researchers within the specific 
Workshop scientific area. Each workshop should have at least ten submissions 
and five accepted papers in order to be conducted at WorldCist'20.

The selection of Workshops will be performed by WorldCist'20 
Conference/Workshop Chairs. Workshops full and short papers will be published 
in the conference main proceedings in specific Workshop chapters published by 
Springer in a book of the AISC series. Proceedings will be submitted for 
indexation by ISI Thomson, SCOPUS, DBLP, EI-Compendex among several other 
scientific databases. Extended versions of best selected papers will be 
published in journals indexed by ISI/SCI, SCOPUS and DBLP. Detailed and 
up-to-date information may be found at WorldCist'20 website: 
http://www.worldcist.org/ 


#
WORKSHOP ORGANIZATION
#

The Organizing Committee of each Workshop will be responsible for:

- Producing and distributing the Workshop Call for Papers (CFP);
- Coordinating the review and selection process for the papers submitted to the 
Workshop, as Workshop chairs (on the paper submission system to be installed);
- Delivering the final versions of the papers accepted for the Workshop in 
accordance with the guidelines and deadlines defined by WorldCist'19 organizers;
- Coordinating and chairing the Workshop sessions at the conference.

WorldCist'20 organizers reserve the right to cancel any Workshop if deadlines 
are missed or if the number of registered attendees is too low to support the 
costs associated with the Workshop.



PROPOSAL CONTENT


Workshop proposals should contain the following information:

- Workshop title;
- Brief description of the specific scientific scope of the Workshop;
- List of topics of interest (max 15 topics);
- Reasons the Workshop should be held within WorldCist’20;
- Name, postal address, phone and email of all the members of the Workshop 
Organizing Committee;
- Preliminary proposal for the Workshop Program Committee (Names and 
affiliations).

Proposals should be submitted at 
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=worldcistworkshops2020 
 in PDF (in 
English), by August 18, 2019.


###
IMPORTANT DATES
###

- Deadline for Workshop proposals: August 18, 2019
- Notification of Workshop acceptance: August 29, 2019
- Workshop Final Information and Program Committee: September 15, 2019
- Deadline for paper submission: November 30, 2019
- Notification of paper acceptance: December 29, 2020
- Deadline for final versions and conference registration: January 8, 2020
- Conference dates: April 7-10, 2020



###
CHAIR
###

Fernando Moreira, Universidade Portucalense, Portugal



WorldCIST'20 Website: http://www.worldcist.org/ 






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[UAI] ACM IUI 2020 - Second Call for Workshop and Tutorial Proposals

[Oana Inel]

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ACM IUI 2020 - CALL FOR WORKSHOP AND TUTORIAL PROPOSALS

In conjunction with the 25th International Conference on Intelligent User 
Interfaces (IUI 2020)
Cagliari, Italy
March 17, 2020
https://iui.acm.org/2020/


WORKSHOP CO-CHAIRS 
Casey Dugan, IBM Research
Carmen Santoro, CNR-ISTI, HIIS Laboratory
Simone Stumpf, City, University of London

workshops2...@iui.acm.org

CALL FOR PROPOSALS
We are pleased to invite proposals for workshops and tutorials to be held in 
conjunction with the conference. The goal of the workshops is to provide a 
venue for presenting research on focused topics of interest and an informal 
forum to discuss research questions and challenges. Tutorials are designed to 
provide fundamental knowledge and experience on topics related to intelligent 
user interfaces, and the intersection between Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) 
and Artificial Intelligence (AI). 

Note: We encourage you to contact the chairs with your ideas 
(workshops2...@iui.acm.org), and work together to prepare an exciting proposal. 
We encourage proposals for a wide range of workshops and tutorials, including 
but not limited to:
- "Mini-conferences" on specialized topics; such workshops may have their own 
paper submission and review processes.
- "Late breaking work" meetings; such workshops usually have a lighter review 
process (e.g. based on abstracts only).
- "Hands-on" workshops around a specific problem or topic that may wish to ask 
participants to submit a position statement.
- "Project centric" workshops that may be closely related to the scope of an 
existing large scale (e.g. NSF, EU, etc. funded) project.
- "Mini-competitions", challenges, or hackathons around selected topics with 
individual or team participation.
- Tutorials on a specific topic relevant to IUI; for example, methods and 
approaches in HCI and/or AI, specific techniques or algorithms to develop 
intelligent user interfaces, etc.

Workshops and tutorials will be held on the first day of the conference. We 
invite submissions of proposals for full-day (6 hours) and half-day (3 hours) 
workshop or tutorial. Proposals will be reviewed and evaluated by the workshop 
and tutorials chairs. 

Workshops with few submissions by Friday, 20 December 2019 may be cancelled, 
shortened, merged with other workshops, or otherwise restructured. The 
organizers of accepted workshops and tutorials are responsible for producing a 
call for participation and publicizing it, such as distributing the call to 
relevant newsgroups and electronic mailing lists, and especially to potential 
audiences from outside the IUI conference community. Workshop and tutorial 
organizers will maintain their own website with information about the workshop 
or tutorial and the IUI 2020 web site will refer to the this website. The 
workshop organizers will coordinate the paper solicitation, collection, and 
review process. A workshop and tutorials summary will be included in the ACM 
Digital Library for IUI 2020, however, there will be no archived published 
proceedings of workshop papers this year.
We strongly encourage workshop organizers to arrange a volume of online 
proceedings for their workshop papers themselves, for example, by using 
www.ceur-ws.org. 

PROPOSAL FORMAT
Workshop or tutorial proposals should be maximum 2 pages long and follow the 
formatting instructions at 
https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template. Please either use the 
Word interim template with Libertine fonts downloaded and embedded, or the 
LaTex sigconf template.

The proposals should be organized as follows:
- Name and title: A one-word acronym and a full title. Please indicate 
“(Workshop)” or “(Tutorial)” after the title, as appropriate.
- Description of workshop or tutorial topic: This description should discuss 
the relevance of the suggested topic to IUI and its interest for the IUI2020 
audience. Include a brief discussion of why and for which audience the workshop 
or tutorial is of particular interest.
- Previous history: List of previous workshops or tutorials that were held on 
the topic including the conferences that hosted past workshops or tutorials and 
the number of participants. 
- Organizer(s): Names, affiliations, emails, and web pages of the organizer(s). 
Provide a brief description of the background of the organiser(s). Strong 
proposals normally include organizers who bring differing perspectives on the 
topic and are actively connected to the communities of potential participants. 
Please indicate the primary contact person and the organizers who plan to 
attend the workshop. Also please provide a list of other workshops or tutorials 
organized by workshop organizers in the past.
- Workshop program committee: Names and affiliation of the members of the 
(tentative) workshop program committee that will evaluate the workshop 
submissions. 
- Participants: A statement saying how many p

[UAI] Tenure Track Associate Professor in Machine Learning at the University of Bergen

[Pekka Parviainen]

The Department of Informatics at the University of Bergen in Norway is looking 
for a tenure track associate professor in machine learning. The department has 
recently established a research group in machine learning and this position one 
action towards strenghtening the group. The group conducts research in the core 
machine learning: we develop new methods and better algorithms for machine 
learning tools. Currently, our main research areas are probabilistic graphical 
models and topological data analysis.

This is a 6 year fixed term position, with a possible promotion to full 
professor at the end of this period.

For more information, see 
https://www.jobbnorge.no/en/available-jobs/job/173972/tenure-track-associate-professor-in-machine-learning
 
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[UAI] WORDS 2019 - 2nd call for participation

[Words 2019]

[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message]

==
=== *WORDS 2019 2nd call for PARTICIPATION* ===
==
12th International Conference on WORDS
Loughborough, UK, September 9-13, 2019
http://words2019.lboro.ac.uk


*REGISTRATION* is open:
You can do this by either accessing directly the Loughborough University Store 
from the link 

https://store.lboro.ac.uk/conferences-and-events/computer-science/upcoming-conferencesevents/international-conference-on-words-words-2019

or by accessing the same link from the Conference Information section on our 
website www.words2019.lboro.ac.uk.


*KEYNOTE SPEAKERS*

Florin Manea (Kiel University)
Matching Patterns with Variables 

Svetlana Puzynina (Saint Petersburg State University)
Abelian properties of words 

Antonio Restivo (University of Palermo)
On Sets of Words of Rank Two 

Gwenaël Richomme (Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3)
S-adicity and property preserving morphisms 

Aleksi Saarela (University of Turku)
Independent Systems of Word Equations: From Ehrenfeucht to Eighteen 

Kristina Vušković (University of Leeds)
Structure of graph classes and algorithms 


*ACCEPTED PAPERS *
Author(s)   Paper Title

Adrian Atanasiu, Ghajendran Poovanandran, Wen Chean Teh 
Parikh Determinants

Aseem Baranwal, Jeffrey Shallit
Critical exponent of infinite balanced words via the Pell number system

Aseem Baranwal, Jeffrey Shallit 
Repetitions in infinite palindrome-rich words

Amanda Burcroff, Eric Winsor
Generalized Lyndon Factorizations of Infinite Words

Arturo Carpi, Flavio Dalessandro
On the commutative equivalence of bounded semi-linear codes

Trevor Clokie, Daniel Gabric, Jeffrey Shallit
Circularly squarefree words and unbordered conjugates: a new approach

James D. Currie, Lucas Mol
The undirected repetition threshold

Alessandro De Luca, Alma D'Aniello
Characteristic parameters and special trapezoidal words

Francesco Dolce, Dominique Perrin
Return words and bifix codes in eventually dendric sets

Marisa Gaetz, Caleb Ji
Enumeration and Extensions of Word-representable Graphs

Cyril Gavoille, Ghazal Kachigar, Gilles Zémor
Localisation-Resistant Random Words with Small Alphabet

Vladimir Gusev, Elena Pribavkina
On codeword lengths guaranteeing synchronization

Štěpán Holub
Binary intersection revisited

Václav Košík, Štěpán Starosta
On substitutions closed under derivation: examples

Marie Lejeune, Michel Rigo, Matthieu Rosenfeld
Templates for the k-binomial complexity of the Tribonacci word

Kateřina Medková
Derivated sequences of Arnoux--Rauzy sequences

Tim Ng, Pascal Ochem, Jeffrey Shallit, Narad Rampersad
New results on pseudosquare avoidance

Jarkko Peltomäki, Markus Whiteland
Every nonnegative real number is a critical abelian exponent

Josef Rukavicka
Construction Of A Rich Word Containing Given Two Factors

Andrew Ryzhikov
Mortality and Synchronization of Unambiguous Finite Automata

Luigi Santocanale
On discrete idempotent paths


*WE LOOK FORWARD TO SEE YOU IN Loughborough!!!
Robert Mercas and Daniel Reidenbach

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[UAI] 5th Workshop on Noisy User-generated Text at EMNLP 2019 - Call for Papers

[Xu, Wei]

5th Workshop on Noisy User-generated Text at EMNLP 2019

Call for Papers

The WNUT workshop focuses on Natural Language Processing applied to noisy 
user-generated text, such as that found in social media, online reviews, 
crowdsourced data, web forums, clinical records and language learner essays.

We seek submissions of regular papers on original and unpublished work (same 
page limit EMNLP main conference; long or short papers). 1-page abstracts on 
work-in-progress or work published elsewhere are also welcome and will *not* be 
included in the conference proceedings. All accepted submissions will be 
presented as posters. Additionally, selected submissions will be presented 
orally.

Important Dates:
- Submission Deadline: Monday, August 19
- Acceptance Notification: Monday, September 16
- Camera-Ready: Monday, September 30
- Workshop: November 3 or November 4, EMNLP (Hong Kong)

Workshop website: http://noisy-text.github.io/2019/

Submission URL: https://www.softconf.com/emnlp2019/ws-W-NUT2019/

Best paper award sponsor: Google

Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

- NLP Preprocessing of Noisy Text
- Part of speech tagging
- Named entity tagging, including a wide range of categories, e.g. product names
- Chunking of user-generated text
- Parsing
- Text Normalization and Error Correction
- Normalizing noisy text for downstream tasks and for human readability
- Error detection and correction
- Robustness to Noise, both Natural and Adversarial
- Multilingual NLP in noisy text
- Sentiment analysis
- Crowdsourcing of text data
- User prediction, e.g. geolocation, gender, age, etc
- Stylistics, e.g. formality, politeness, etc
- Colloquial language, e.g. code-switching, idiom detection
- Bilingual translation of the noisy text
- Paraphrase identification and semantic similarity of short text or noisy text
- Information extraction from noisy text
- Domain adaptation to user-generated text
- Geolocation prediction
- Global and regional trend detection and event extraction
- Detecting rumors, contradictory information, sarcasm and humor on social media
- Extracting user demographics, profiles, and major life events
- Temporal aspects of user-generated content (resolving time expressions, 
concept drift, diachronic analyses, etc...)

All submissions should conform to EMNLP 2019 style guidelines 
(https://www.emnlp-ijcnlp2019.org/calls/papers). Long and short paper 
submissions must be anonymized. Abstract submissions should include author 
information (and where the work was published in a footnote on the front page, 
if applicable). Please submit your papers at the SoftConf link 
(https://www.softconf.com/emnlp2019/ws-W-NUT2019/).

Workshop Organizers:
- Alan Ritter (Ohio State University)
- Wei Xu (Ohio State University)
- Tim Baldwin (University of Melbourne)
- Afshin Rahimi (University of Melbourne)

Program Committee:
- Anietie Andy (Howard University/University of Pennsylvania)
- Isabelle Augenstein (University of Copenhagen)
- Francesco Barbieri (UPF Barcelona)
- Eduardo Blanco (University of North Texas)
- Su Lin Blodgett (UMass Amherst)
- Colin Cherry (Google Research)
- Jackie Chi Kit Cheung (McGill University)
- Paul Cook (University of New Brunswick)
- Marina Danilevsky (IBM Research)
- Leon Derczynski (IT-University of Copenhagen)
- Seza Doğruöz (Tilburg University)
- Heba Elfardy (Amazon)
- Dan Garrette (Google Research)
- Masato Hagiwara (Duolingo)
- Hua He (Amazon)
- Jing Jiang (Singapore Management University)
- Nobuhiro Kaji (Yahoo! Research)
- Emre Kiciman (Microsoft Research)
- Wuwei Lan (Ohio State University)
- Piroska Lendvai (University of Göttingen)
- Jessy Junyi Li (University of Texas Austin)
- Nut Limsopatham (University of Glasgow)
- Patrick Littell (Carnegie Mellon University)
- Zhiyuan Liu (Tsinghua University)
- Wei-Yun Ma (Academia Sinica)
- Nitin Madnani (Educational Testing Service)
- Héctor Martínez Alonso (INRIA)
- Aaron Masino (The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia)
- Chandler May (Johns Hopkins University)
- Rada Mihalcea (University of Michigan)
- Smaranda Muresan (Columbia University)
- Preslav Nakov (Qatar Computing Research Institute)
- Vincent Ng (University of Texas at Dallas)
- Eric Nichols (Honda Research Institute)
- Alice Oh (KAIST)
- Naoaki Okazaki (Tohoku University)
- Umashanthi Pavalanathan (Georgia Tech)
- Michael Paul (University of Colorado Boulder)
- Ellie Pavlick (Brown University)
- Barbara Plank (University of Groningen)
- Daniel Preoţiuc-Pietro (Bloomberg)
- Roi Reichart (Technion)
- Alla Rozovskaya (City University of New York)
- Mugizi Rwebangira (Howard University)
- Keisuke Sakaguchi (Johns Hopkins University)
- Maarten Sap (University of Washington)
- Andrew Schwartz (Stony Brook University)
- Djamé Seddah (University Paris-Sorbonne)
- Satoshi Sekine (New York University)
- Hiroyuki Shindo (NAIST)
- Thamar Solorio (University of Houston)
- Richard Sproat (Google Research)
- Ian Stewart (Georgia Tech)
- Oren Tsur (Harvard Universit

[UAI] Call for Papers - NeurIPS 2019 Workshop on Safety and Robustness in Decision Making

[Mohammad Ghavamzadeh]

CALL FOR PAPERS 


NeurIPS 2019 Workshop: Safety and Robustness in Decision-making

Vancouver, either Friday December 13 or Saturday December 14, 2019 

https://sites.google.com/view/neurips19-safe-robust-workshop



IMPORTANT DATES


Paper Submission Deadline: September 22, 2019  

Notification of Acceptance: September 30, 2019

Workshop: either Friday December 13 or Saturday December 14, 2019

 


WORKSHOP OVERVIEW


Interacting with increasingly sophisticated decision-making systems is becoming 
more and more a part of our daily life. This creates an immense responsibility 
for designers of these systems to build them in a way to guarantee safe 
interaction with their users and good performance, in the presence of noise and 
changes in the environment, and/or of model misspecification and uncertainty. 
Any progress in this area will be a huge step forward in using decision-making 
algorithms in emerging high stakes applications, such as autonomous driving, 
robotics, power systems, health care, recommendation systems, and finance.


This workshop aims to bring together researchers from academia and industry in 
order to discuss main challenges, describe recent advances, and highlight 
future research directions pertaining to develop safe and robust 
decision-making systems. We aim to highlight new and emerging theoretical and 
applied research opportunities for the community that arise from the evolving 
needs for decision-making systems and algorithms that guarantee safe 
interaction and good performance under a wide range of uncertainties in the 
environment.


The research challenges we are interested in addressing in this workshop 
include (but not limited to):

   
   -
Counterfactual reasoning and off-policy evaluation.

   -
How to learn a policy that either has certain performance (safety w.r.t. a 
baseline) or avoids certain undesirable situations (safety w.r.t. undesirable 
situations) in the presence of model uncertainty?

   -
How to (safely) explore the environment and update the model in order to 
maximize either the model improvement or the performance of the policy learned 
from the new (updated) model? 

   -
How to measure robustness? Robustness is becoming an overused term with too 
many different meanings

   -
How to balance robustness with performance? Existing robust solutions are often 
optimize for the worst-case scenario, and thus, are overly conservative (give 
up too much on the performance). 

   -
Better understanding the relation between risk and robustness.




SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS 


Papers submitted to the workshop should be between 4 to 8 pages long, excluding 
references and appendix, and in NeurIPS 2019 format (NOT ANONYMIZED). Accepted 
papers will be presented as posters or contributed oral presentations. 


Submissions should be sent as a pdf file by email to 
safe.robust.neurips19.works...@gmail.com



INVITED SPEAKERS


Finale Doshi-Velez (Harvard University)

Dimitar Filev (Ford Motor Company)

Thorsten Joachims (Cornell University)

Daniel Kuhn (EPFL)

Scott Niekum (University of Texas at Austin)

Marco Pavone (Stanford University)

 


ORGANIZERS


Yinlam Chow (Google Research)

Mohammad Ghavamzadeh (Facebook AI Research)

Shie Mannor (Technion)

Marek Petrik (University of New Hampshire) 

Yisong Yue (Caltech)


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