[UAI] COMMA 2020 FINAL CFP - extended submission deadline 8 May

[Carlo Taticchi]

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COMMA 2020 

FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS AND DEMONSTRATIONS 

*** Extended submission deadline 8 May ***

https://comma2020.dmi.unipg.it/  

The International Conference on Computational Models of Argument (COMMA) is a 
regular forum for presentation and exchange of the latest research results 
concerning theory and applications of computational argumentation. After the 
successful editions in Liverpool (2006), Toulouse (2008), Desenzano del Garda 
(2010), Vienna (2012), Pitlochry (2014), Potsdam (2016) and Warsaw (2018), the 
biennial COMMA event will be hosted by the Department of Mathematics and 
Computer Science of the University of Perugia. COMMA 2020 will be preceded by 
the fourth edition of the Summer School on Argumentation (SSA 2020). In 
addition to the main conference track, COMMA 2020 will include system 
demonstrations, as well as workshops devoted to specific argumentation-related 
themes. 

Please consult the complete Call for Papers and Demos (pdf: 
https://www.comma2020.dmi.unipg.it/res/CFP_COMMA2020.pdf 
) 


* Important dates: 

Paper and demo extended abstract submission deadline: 8 May 2020
Notification of acceptance: 19 June 2020
Camera-ready versions due: 13 July 2020 

* Statement on the coronavirus situation:

We are continuously monitoring the coronavirus situation. COMMA 2020 is still 
five months away, and we are confident that the coronavirus crisis will pass 
over and the conference will be held in September as planned. And, if 
necessary, alternative solutions, such as postponemnet, remote presentations, 
etc will be looked into and identified. All these solutions will entail that 
the proceedings will be published with IOS Press as planned


* Invited speakers: 

Catarina Dutilh Novaes - Department of Philosophy, VU Amsterdam, 
Netherlands 
John Horty - Philosophy Department, University of Maryland, United States 
Chris Reed - University of Dundee, Scotland 


* Organization: 

Program chair: Henry Prakken, Utrecht University & University of Groningen, 
The Netherlands 
Conference chair: Stefano Bistarelli, University of Perugia, Italy 
Conference co-chair: Francesco Santini, University of Perugia, Italy 
Publicity chair: Carlo Taticchi, University of Perugia, Italy 

  
* Contact: 

Stefano Bistarelli,bi...@dmi.unipg.it  



* For more information: https://comma2020.dmi.unipg.it/ 


--
Carlo Taticchi
COMMA 2020 publicity chair

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[UAI] CfP - AdKDD @ KDD2020

[Nemanja Djuric]

Call for Workshop Papers

 AdKDD 2020
in conjunction with
The 26th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD
2020)
 San Diego, CA, USA, August 23rd-27th, 2020
http://www.adkdd.org

Today, the average consumer spends 8+ hours a day across all devices
interacting with online content almost entirely sponsored by
advertisements. At $300B market share by 2020, online advertising and in
particular computational advertising is perhaps the most visible and
ubiquitous application of machine learning and one that interacts directly
with consumers. When done right, ads help us enrich our lives and creep us
out when done badly. Looking at the published literature over the last few
years, many researchers might consider computational advertising as a
mature field. Yet, the opposite is true. Computational advertising is
evolving, however, from ads controlled by monolithic publishers and
randomly rotating banner ads to highly personalized content experiences in
new feeds on mobile devices and even on TV—all utilizing data amassed from
petabytes of stored user data. Ads are far from done.

The AdKDD workshops have had a lot of interest and success in the past
years. A total of thirteen workshops have been organized every year since
2007, focusing on highlighting state-of-the-art advances in computational
advertising. All the workshops were well attended, often with standing room
only, and very well received both by the academic community and the
advertising industry. We look forward to seeing you in San Diego to discuss
the past, present, and future of computational advertising!


Topics:
===
The workshop focuses on three main aspects of computational advertising.

Evolution of computational advertising: Online advertising has progressed
beyond the notion of traditional desktop ads to ads that are native,
social, mobile, and contextual. In tandem, the rise of new mechanisms, such
as header bidding, complex ad exchanges, repeated auctions, ad blockers,
viewability trackers and others, challenge the traditional notions of
advertising. There also continues to exist controversial issues in
advertising such as privacy, security, fraud, ethics, and economic
attribution. We invite papers that are focused on some of the above aspects.

Large-scale and novel ad targeting: Recent advances in real-time, big data
systems, and easier accessibility to different types of data make it
possible to design more personalized and efficient ad targeting systems. We
invite papers that advance the state-of-the-art in related areas of ad
targeting.

Deployed systems & battle scars: We particularly encourage papers that
highlight experience in deploying real-time ad targeting systems, data and
audience insights, as well as position papers on the future of online
advertising.


Submission Instructions:

Following KDD conference tradition, reviews are single-blind, and author
names and affiliations should be listed. Submitted papers will be assessed
based on their novelty, technical quality, potential impact,
insightfulness, depth, clarity, and reproducibility. For each accepted
paper, at least one author must attend the workshop and present the paper.

Submissions are limited to a total of six pages, including all content and
references, must be in PDF format, and formatted according to the new
Standard ACM Conference Proceedings Template. Additional information about
formatting and style files is available here:
http://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template

All accepted papers will be published in the ACM Digital Library and
invited to present posters at the workshop.


Important Deadlines:

Submission   :  May 30th, 2020
Decisions:  June 15th, 2020
Camera-ready :  June 25th, 2020
Workshop :  August 23rd, 2020


Best Paper Awards:
==
We are happy to announce that we will award the best accepted papers for
this year’s workshop. Details are to be disclosed shortly.


Submission Website:
===
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=adkdd2020


Program Committee Chairs:
=
Abraham Bagherjeiran (eBay)
Nemanja Djuric (Uber ATG)
Mihajlo Grbovic (AirBnB)
Kuang-chih Lee (Alibaba)
Kun Liu (Amazon)
Vladan Radosavljevic (Spotify)
Suju Rajan (LinkedIn)

For further questions please contact the organizers at organiz...@adkdd.org.
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[UAI] Online workshop at ICML: The Art of Learning with Missing Values

[Wei Jiang]

Dear all, 




We are very pleased to inform you about the organization of an online workshop 
at ICML conference on missing values: 




The Art of Learning with Missing Values (ARTEMISS) 

First ICML workshop, July 17th or 18th, 2020 

[ https://artemiss-workshop.github.io/ | https://artemiss-workshop.github.io ] 




The objective is to try to bring together various profiles, interested in 
missing data, both theoretical, methodological, and applied, and to emphasize 
the connections with other areas of machine learning (e.g. causal inference, 
semi-supervised learning, generative modelling, etc) . We will also discuss the 
reproducibility problems that can be caused by missing data, the danger of 
forgetting the missing values issues and the importance of providing sound 
implementations. 




We would be delighted to count you among the participants and contributors. 
Please feel free to pass on information and submit contributions. 




The deadline for submissions is 20th May 2020. 







Confirmed speakers: 




[ https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/people/rcaruana/ | Rich Caruana ] 

Senior Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research. 




[ https://www.turing.ac.uk/people/researchers/mihaela-van-der-schaar | Mihaela 
van der Schaar ] 

Professor at the University of Cambridge and Turing Fellow at The Alan Turing 
Institute. 




[ http://www.karthikamohan.com/ | Karthika Mohan ] 
Postdoctoral scholar at CHAI in UC Berkeley. 




[ https://faculty.washington.edu/msadinle/ | Mauricio Sadinle ] 

Assistant Professor at the University of Washington. 




[ https://people.orie.cornell.edu/mru8/ | Madeleine Udell ] 

Assistant Professor at Cornell University. 
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Re: [UAI] FORMATS 2020 ** 3nd Call for Papers**

[Nils Jansen]

— The abstract deadline is coming up soon! Due to several requests, we are 
planning a journal special edition of FORMATS 2019 and 2020. —

3nd Call for Papers
FORMATS 2020
September 1st-3rd
Vienna, Austria (virtual meeting)
co-located with CONCUR, FMICS, and QEST
https://formats-2020.cs.ru.nl/ 
Invited Speakers: Alessandro Abate, Roderick Bloem, Annabelle McIver

- Objective
Timing aspects of systems from a variety of computer science domains have been 
treated independently by different communities. Researchers interested in 
semantics, verification, and performance analysis study models such as timed 
automata and timed Petri nets, the digital design community focuses on 
propagation and switching delays, while designers of embedded controllers have 
to take account of the time taken by controllers to compute their responses 
after sampling the environment. Timing-related questions in these separate 
disciplines do have their particularities. However, there is a growing 
awareness that there are basic problems that are common to all of them. In 
particular, all these sub-disciplines treat systems whose behaviour depends 
upon combinations of logical and temporal constraints; namely, constraints on 
the temporal distances between occurrences of events.

- Topics
The aim of FORMATS is to promote the study of fundamental and practical aspects 
of timed systems, and to bring together researchers from different disciplines 
that share interests in modelling and analysis of timed systems. This year 
again, FORMATS aims at being more inclusive with respect to applications, 
notably real-time systems and emerging directions such as data science. Typical 
topics include (but are not limited to):
• Foundations and Semantics: Theoretical foundations of timed systems 
and languages; comparison between different models (timed automata, timed Petri 
nets, hybrid automata, timed process algebra, max-plus algebra, probabilistic 
models).
• Methods and Tools: Techniques, algorithms, data structures, and 
software tools for analyzing timed systems and resolving temporal constraints 
(scheduling, worst-case execution time analysis,optimization, model checking, 
testing, constraint solving, etc.).
• Applications: Adaptation and specialization of timing technology in 
application domains in which timing plays an important role (real-time 
software, hardware circuits, and problems of scheduling in manufacturing and 
telecommunication).

- Special Sessions
This year, FORMATS additionally encourages submissions in two particular topics.

Data-driven methods for timed systems (chaired by Guillermo Alberto Perez). 
We are interested in all kind of data-driven methods such as machine learning 
or automata learning that consider timing aspects. Examples are automata 
learning for timed automata or reinforcement learning with timing constraints.

Probabilistic and timed systems (chaired by Arnd Hartmanns). 
Real-time systems often encompass probabilistic or random behavior. We are 
interested in all approaches to model or analyze such systems, for instance 
through probabilistic timed automata, or stochastic timed Petri nets.

- Paper Submission
FORMATS 2020 solicits high-quality papers reporting research results and/or 
experience reports related to the topics mentioned above. Submitted papers must 
contain original, unpublished contributions, not submitted for publication 
elsewhere. The papers should be submitted electronically in PDF, following the 
Springer LNCS style guidelines. Regular papers should not exceed 15 pages in 
length (excluding references, that are therefore not limited), and short papers 
(for instance describing case studies, or implementations) are limited to 5 
pages (again excluding references). Each paper will undergo a thorough review 
process. If necessary, the paper may be supplemented with a clearly marked 
appendix, which will be reviewed at the discretion of the program committee. 
Papers will be submitted electronically via the EasyChair online submission 
system:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=formats2020 


Publication and best paper award
The proceedings of FORMATS 2020 will be published by Springer in the Lecture 
Notes in Computer Science series. The best paper of the conference will be 
awarded the Oded Maler Award in Timed Systems.
Important dates
•Abstract submission: April 18, 2020 
•Paper submission: April 27, 2020
•Notification of acceptance: June 29, 2020
•Final version due: July 08, 2020
•Conference: September 1-3, 2019

For any questions, feel free to contact the co-chairs Nathalie Bertrand 
(nathalie.bertr...@inria.fr ) and Nils 
Jansen (n.jan...@science.ru.nl )

Committees

- Program Chairs
Nathalie Bertrand (France)
Nils Jansen (The Netherland