[UAI] CSoNet 2021 Call For Papers
Dear colleagues, We have two important updates for the 10th Int. Conf on Computational Data and Social Networks (CSoNet 2021): As a result of extenuating circumstances due to COVID-19, CSoNet 2021 will be fully virtual. The registration fee is $50. Submission deadline is extended to July 24, 2021. For more information, please see: http://optnetsci.cise.ufl.edu/CSoNet/ ***Best Paper Awards and Journal Special Issues There will be one best paper award and one best student paper award. Selected papers will be recommended to IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering (TNSE) and Springer Journal of Combinatorial Optimization (JOCO) for potential fast-track publications. The important dates are as follows. Paper Submission July 24, 2021 Acceptance Notification September 10, 2021 Camera Ready & Registration September 24, 2021 Conference Dates November 15-17, 2021 Submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=csonet2021 ** Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP ** CSoNet 2021 provides a premier interdisciplinary forum to bring together researchers and practitioners from all fields of big data and social networks, such as billion-scale network computing, social network/media analysis, mining, security and privacy, and deep learning and applications. CSoNet 2021 seeks to address emerging yet important computational problems, with a focus on the fundamental background, theoretical developments, and real-world applications associated with big data network analysis, modelling, and deep learning and understanding. The conference solicits theoretical, methodological, empirical, and experimental research reporting original and unpublished results on computational big data and social networks. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Real-world Complex Networks Analysis Trends and Pattern Analysis in Social Networks Representation Learning on Networks Big Data Analysis Mathematical Modeling and Analysis of Real-world Social Platforms Network Structure Analysis and Dynamics Optimization Data Network Design and Architecture Information Diffusion Models and Techniques Security and Privacy in Data Networks and Analysis Efficient Algorithms for Large-scale Data Networks Computing Reputation and Trust in Social Media Social Influence, Recommendation, and Media Applications of Complex Data Network Analysis Energy Efficiency in Mobile Data Networks Natural Language Understanding and Applications for Social Media E-commerce and Social Media Marketing Deep Learning on Graphs and its Applications Stock Market Prediction and Stock Recommendation with Social Media Data Anomaly Detection, Security, and Privacy in Big Data Networks Analysis of Signed and Attributed Real-world Networks Multidimensional Graph Analysis Algorithmic Fairness in Social Network Analysis and Graph Mining. Socially-relevant Analytics from Social Media Contents (e.g., Bias, Toxicity, etc.) Accepted papers will be published in Springer’s Lecture Notes in Computer Science, and indexed by ISI (CPCI-S, included in ISI Web of Science), EI Engineering Index (Compendex and Inspec databases), ACM Digital Library, DBLP, Google Scholar, MathSciNet, etc. Also, extended versions of selected best papers will be invited for publication in the Journal of Combinatorial Optimization, IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering, and Computational Social Networks. Authors who are interested in the above topics can submit their unpublished work to CSoNet 2021. A clear indication of the motivation and comparison with prior related work should be presented. Simultaneous submission to a journal or another conference with refereed proceedings is not allowed. Submissions must adhere to the following guidelines: Papers must be formatted using the LNCS format (ftp://ftp.springernature.com/cs-proceeding/llncs/llncs2e.zip) without altering margins or the font point. The maximum length of a regular paper (including references) is 12 pages; 2 pages for an extended abstract. Proofs omitted due to space constraints must be placed in an appendix to be read by the program committee members at their discretion. Submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=csonet2021 Organizing Committee General Chairs Long Le, University of Quebec Jun Pei, Hefei University of Technology Program Chairs Ruoming Jin, Kent State University David Mohaisen, University of Central Florida Steering Committee My T. Thai (Chair) – University of Florida Kim-Kwang Raymond Choo – University of Texas at San Antonio Zhi-Li Zhang, University of Minnesota Weili Wu, University of Texas, Dallas Important Dates: Paper Submission July 24, 2021 Acceptance Notification September 10, 2021 Camera Ready & Reg
[UAI] IEEE PerCom 2022: Call For Papers
== CALL FOR PAPERS ** The 20th International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom 2022), March 21-25, 2022 Pisa, Italy http://www.percom.org ** Call for Papers PerCom is the premier annual scholarly venue in pervasive computing and communications. Pervasive computing has found its way into many commercial systems due to tremendous advances in a broad spectrum of technologies and topics such as wireless networking, mobile and distributed computing, sensor systems, ambient intelligence, and smart devices. SCOPE PerCom 2022 solicits research contributions in all areas pertinent to pervasive computing and communications, especially those that cross traditional research boundaries. In particular, we target: Advances in pervasive systems and infrastructures: middleware systems and services; data engineering for pervasive computing; cloud, fog and edge computing; integrations of smartphones in pervasive experiences; applications of device-to-device coordination. Theories, models, and algorithms: context modeling and reasoning; adaptive computing; activity and emotion recognition; programming paradigms; applied machine learning; deep machine learning; federated learning; causal learning; cognitive computing; complex networks; spatio-temporal modeling techniques. Domain-specific challenges and novel applications: urban/mobile crowdsensing & intelligence; PerCom for healthcare and well-being; smart homes and virtual assistants; innovative PerCom applications (e.g., sports analytics, crime prevention, pervasive nowcasting). Intersections of PerCom with: opportunistic networks; IoT and sensor systems; RFID systems; pervasive data science, and cyber physical systems. New techniques for user-level concerns: participatory and social sensing; trust, security, and privacy; user interface, interaction, and persuasion; online and offline social networking and pervasive computing. Technological innovations: architectures, protocols, and technologies for pervasive communications; energy-harvesting, self-powered, or battery-less systems; mobile and wearable systems; smart devices and environments; positioning and tracking technologies; wireless crowd-recharging; device-free human sensing. Contributions can be analytical, empirical, technological, methodological, or a combination. Papers reporting strong systems engineering contributions backed by solid and appropriate evaluations are strongly encouraged. The impact of the contributions should be demonstrated in the context of pervasive computing and communications applications. IMPORTANT DATES Paper registration in EDAS: September 27, 2021 Submission via EDAS: October 4, 2021 Notification: December 22, 2021 Camera Ready: February 5, 2022 Other important dates are here http://www.percom.org/important-dates SUBMISSION DETAILS Paper submission must be done for the main conference and all associated events via EDAS (https://www.edas.info/). If you do not have an EDAS account, please, register first (it's free) via the following link https://edas.info/newPerson.php?noauth=1. The direct submission link for PerCom 2022 is here: https://edas.info/N28655. PerCom 2022 will follow a double-blind review process. As a result, authors must make a good faith effort to anonymize their submissions. Submitted papers must be unpublished and not considered elsewhere for publication. Also, they must show a significant relevance to pervasive computing and communications. Submitted papers will undergo a rigorous review process handled by the Technical Program Committee. Only electronic submissions in PDF format will be considered. The IEEE LaTeX and Microsoft Word templates, as well as formatting instructions, can be found here https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html. Papers must be at most 9 pages of technical content (10pt font, 2-column format), including text, figures, and tables and up to one additional page for references only. Accepted papers will be published in IEEE Xplore. All accepted papers will be invited to submit an associated artifact abstract providing the code, data, results, etc. associated with the contribution. BEST PAPER AWARD AND EDITORIAL FOLLOW-UPs The best paper will receive the prestigious Mark Weiser Best Paper Award. Papers of particular merit will be considered for a special issue of the Elsevier journal of Pervasive and Mobile Computing (PMC). TPC CHAIR AND VICE CHAIRS Salil Kanhere, UNSW Sydney, Australia Claudio Cicconeti, IIT-CNR, Italy Peizhao Hu, Rochester Institute of Technology, USA Qin Lv, University of Colorado Boulder, USA CONTACT INFORMATION percom2022-pc-cha...@iit.cnr.it DIVERSITY, EQUITY AND INCLUSION PerCom values particularly Diversity, Equity and Inclusion aspects. Check here http://www.percom.org/perco
[UAI] 1st Call for Participation - Abusive and Threatening Language Detection Task for Tweets in Urdu - CICLing 2021 track @ FIRE 2021 co-hosted with ODS SoC 2021
*1st Call for Participation* -- Abusive and Threatening Language Detection Task for Tweets in Urdu -- CICLing 2021 track @ FIRE 2021* co-hosted with ODS SoC 2021** URL: https://www.urduthreat2021.cicling.org/home The training and test sets will be available on July 16, 2021. Participants are invited to publish Working Notes of FIRE 2021* Please visit the website for more information. *Task Description* With the growth of spread and importance of social media platforms, the effect of their misuse became more and more impactful. In particular, numerous posts contain abusive language towards certain users and hence worsen users’ experience from communication via such platforms, while other posts contain actual threats that potentially put platform users in danger. The threat is an expression of a clear intent to cause bodily or other harm. For example, "shut your mouth, or you will see red." In this context, the word "red" might be perceived as a threat to cause injury to someone or, in the worst-case scenario, bloodshed/killing. Therefore, such references might be considered a vile aspersion. Impacts of abusive language are as well detrimental, ranging from short-term emotional reactions (anger, fear, self-blame) to long-term psychological effects (low self-esteem, depression) and even causing mental and physical health issues (sleep disorder, headache, eating disorder). The Urdu language has more than 230 million speakers worldwide with vast representation on social networks and digital media. Therefore, it is essential to propose methods that can automatically detect threatening and abusive language to avoid violence and outrageous consequences. To our best knowledge, this is the first shared task on abusive and threatening language detection in Urdu. The task is divided into two *sub-tasks*: 1. Threat Detection for Tweets in Urdu Language 2. Abusive Language Detection for Tweets in Urdu Language *Note* Participants in this year’s shared task can choose to participate in either one or both subtasks. *Important Dates* July 16 – training and public test data release; submission platform opens August 27 - submission deadline August 28 - results announced (for private test set) September 3-5 - presentations at ODS Summer of Code 2021 festival [optional] October 12 - technical report submission for publication in Working Notes FIRE 2021 October 26 - review notifications November 2 – Camera Ready Due 16-20 December - FIRE 2021 (Online Event) *Organizers* Maaz Amjad, Instituto Politecnico Nacional, Mexico Hamza Imam Amjad, Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Russia Sabur Butt, Instituto Politecnico Nacional, Mexico Grigori Sidorov, Instituto Politecnico Nacional, Mexico Alisa Zhila, Independent Researcher, USA Alexander Gelbukh, Instituto Politecnico Nacional, Mexico Oxana Vitman, Instituto Politecnico Nacional, Mexico Ulyana Astanina, Open Data Science (ODS), Russia Alexey Natekin, Open Data Science (ODS), Russia *Contacts* oksana.vittm...@gmail.com maazam...@phystech.edu *FIRE 2021: http://fire.irsi.res.in/fire/2021/call_for_papers **ODS SoC 2021: https://ods.ai/competitions, task URL available Monday 12, 2021 ___ uai mailing list uai@engr.orst.edu https://it.engineering.oregonstate.edu/mailman/listinfo/uai
[UAI] Call for Participation for ECSQARU 2021
Call for Participation for ECSQARU 2021 The Sixteenth European Conference on Symbolic and Quantitative Approaches to Reasoning with Uncertainty http://ecsqaru.utia.cas.cz/ September 21-24, 2021, Prague (Czechia) Invited Speakers Cassio de Campos, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands Tomas Kroupa, Czech Technical University, Prague, Czechia Steven Schockaert, Cardiff University, UK Accepted papers https://ecsqaru.utia.cas.cz/papers Hybrid/Virtual ECSQARU 2021 will be organized either as a hybrid conference (in which participants can decide whether they come to the conference site or join the conference virtually) or as a virtual conference only. If the pandemic situation does not allow a face-to-face meeting or if there isn't sufficient interest in the on-site participation at the conference (at least 20 participants) the conference will be virtual only. In this case the registration fee will be refunded in full. See also the Covid 19 Plan section at http://ecsqaru.utia.cas.cz/ Registration https://ecsqaru.utia.cas.cz/registration Early registration date - July 19th. Registration is free for virtual participants. General Information http://ecsqaru.utia.cas.cz/ The biennial ECSQARU conferences constitute a major forum for advances in the theory and practice of reasoning under uncertainty, with a focus on bringing symbolic and quantitative aspects together. Contributions come from researchers interested in advancing the scientific knowledge and from practitioners using uncertainty techniques in real-world applications. The scope of the ECSQARU conferences encompasses fundamental issues, applications, representation, inference, learning, and decision making in qualitative and numeric uncertainty paradigms. Previous ECSQARU events have been held in Marseille (1991), Granada (1993), Fribourg (1995), Bonn (1997), London (1999), Toulouse (2001), Aalborg (2003), Barcelona (2005), Hammamet (2007), Verona (2009), Belfast (2011), Utrecht (2013), Compiègne (2015), Lugano (2017), and Belgrade (2019) Organizers The conference is organized by the Institute of Information Theory and Automation (UTIA), Czech Academy of Sciences. Program chairs of the conference are Jiřina Vejnarová (ÚTIA, Prague, Czechia) and Nic Wilson (Insight, University College Cork, Ireland). The program committee can be viewed here: https://ecsqaru.utia.cas.cz/organization The organizing committee consists of Jirka Vomlel (chair), Milan Studený, and Václav Kratochvíl (all from ÚTIA, Prague, Czechia). Contact For further information please contact Jirka Vomlel vom...@utia.cas.cz ___ uai mailing list uai@engr.orst.edu https://it.engineering.oregonstate.edu/mailman/listinfo/uai
