[UAI] Postdoc position : knowledge representation IRIT - Airbus

[Cassia TROJAHN]

(apologies for multiple posts)
 
Dear all, 

We are recruiting at the Institute of Research in Informatics of Toulouse 
(IRIT, France) a post-doc in the context of a collaboration with Airbus (see 
details below).

Best regards,
Nathalie Hernandez  and Cassia Trojahn
 
*Context: Collaboration between IRIT and Airbus on the Digital Design, 
Manufacturing and Services Transformation project*

Digital Design, Manufacturing and Services (DDMS) is the project that aims at 
transforming Airbus methods, processes and tools with the objectif of improving 
the strategic axes of the company: from the ability to develop a new product 
more quickly to its reduction of the ecological footprint. The issues of 
knowledge representation and sharing are at the heart of the capacities to be 
implemented in order to succeed in this development. In DDMS, the Modeling & 
Simulation department is therefore working to have the necessary foundations, 
in terms of methods and tools, for the knowledge representation and sharing, in 
relation with other Airbus entities in order to implement an industrial 
solution.
 
*Description*
 
As part of the development of DDMS capabilities in 2021, the tasks that are to 
be taken into account are the following :
*  to align different domain ontologies
*  to implement a domain ontology validation mechanism, particularly through 
the useof shape constraints (SHACL)
*  to enable the semantic integration of data (development of an Ontology Based 
Data Access service).

For each task, the expected activities are:
*  the application of knowledge representation to solve the problems of a pilot 
business application use case in the Airbus environment
*  the synthesis of a methodological approach and an architectural solution 
based on this casea generalized framework to respond to this problem in other 
areas by applying the methodological principles acquired and synthesized 
previously.

The proposed pilot case is Flight Dynamics and Sizing, which is responsible, in 
conjunction with pre-projects and industrialization, for sizing the aircraft 
according to loads, mass, aerodynamic forces, flight controls in particular.

It is expected to continue on themes such as:
* Automatic publication of ontology documentation  
* Managing the criticality of data in ontologies
* Reasoning in the service of extending data sets and checking the consistency 
of information
* Semantic search in data Searching for ontologies in catalogs (notably using 
dcat)

*Requirements for this position*
 
Applicants are required to have a PhD in Computer Science, a strong background 
in semantic web technologies, ontology engineering, linked data management and 
query, and if possible, in ontology alignment.  Fluency in written / spoken 
English is required too. A good publication record and strong programing skills 
will be a plus.

*Work environment*
 
Localization : Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse (IRIT) – 
Universite Toulouse - Jean Jaures / Maison de la Recherche, 5, allees Antonio 
Machado 31058 Toulouse, and Airbus (St Martin du Touch).  *Duration* : 9 
months, starting ASAP - probability of renewal 9 to 12 months. Salary between 2 
663 to 3953 (depending on experience).

*How to apply*

Applications will be accepted until the position is closed. Applicants should 
send a full Curriculum including a complete list of publications, a cover 
letter indicating their research interests, achievements to date  and vision 
for the future, as well as either support letters or the name of 2 persons that 
have worked with them. 

Contact: Nathalie Hernandez  and Cassia Trojahn 

*Full description: https://bit.ly/2Ysp6zk*

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[UAI] open position of the Director of UTIA

[Jan Flusser]

Announcement of an open competition for the 
position of the Director of the Institute of 
Information Theory and Automation of the Czech Academy of Sciences


The Board of the Institute of Information Theory 
and Automation of the Czech Academy of Sciences 
(UTIA) announces an open competition for the 
position of the Director of the Institute.


Requirements:
·legal capacity and moral integrity;
·fulfillment of the statutory conditions 
according to Section 17 of (Czech) Act No. 341/2005 Coll., as later amended;

·completed higher education;
·Ph.D. degree or equivalent;
·scientific activity in one of the main 
fields of the Institute, substantiated by 
significant publications or other outputs with a 
demonstrable impact on an international scale;

·organizational and communication skills and management experience;
·university teaching experience is an advantage.

The expected term of office is from May 1, 2022, to April 30, 2027.

Written applications with contact information should include:
-a structured professional CV (in Czech or English);
-an outline of a five-year concept for 
the development of the Institute (in Czech or English);
-evidence of qualifications and 
achieved  scientific and scientific-teaching degrees;
-a list of important publications and 
other outputs, including the number of citations 
or other measures of significance;

-other relevant information and annexes, if any;
and be sent in electronic form (pdf format), 
addressed to the Board of the Institute at 
podate...@utia.cas.cz, or to the UTIA data box 
(tx7nvin) on or before February 28, 2022.



Prof. Jan Flusser, Ph.D
Chair of the Board
Institute of Information Theory and Automation of the CAS

Mailing address:
UTIA AV CR
Pod vodarenskou vezi 4
182 08 Prague 8
Czech Republic

flus...@utia.cas.cz
Phone: +420 26605 2422 (secretary), +420 26605 2357 (office)
Personal web: http://www.utia.cas.cz/people/flusser
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[UAI] CFP - First Call - 3rd Conference on AI Music Creativity (AIMC 2022)

[AI Music Creativity 2022]

Apologies for cross-posting, please circulate widely!

CFP - First Call

*3rd Conference on AI Music Creativity (AIMC 2022)*
13-15 September 2022, online

The 3rd Conference on AI Music Creativity intergrates two overlapping
research forums: The Computer Simulation of Music Creativity Conference
(est. 2016) and The International Workshop on Musical Metacreation (est.
2012). The objective of the conference is to bring together scholars and
artists interested in the emulation and extension of musical creativity
through computational means and to provide them with an interdisciplinary
platform in which to present and discuss their work in scientific and
artistic contexts.

The 2022 Conference on AI Music Creativity will be hosted from Japan and
held online. The three-day program will feature paper presentations,
artistic sessions, panel discussions, workshops/tutorials, and three
keynotes.

Further details can be found below and on the conference website:
https://2022.aimusiccreativity.org

# *Conference theme*

The theme of AIMC 2022 is:
"The Sound of Future Past — Colliding AI with Music Tradition"
This year we put the emphasis on implications of political, sociological
and aesthetic nature arising when AI techniques & methods are applied to
the generation of music modeled on traditional musical expressions and
heritages.
For example, AI involvement with musical traditions foregrounds issues
regarding copyright, technocratic appropriation and dilution of musical
expression specificities, standardization on genres, perpetuation of
embedded musico-cultural biases and cliches, uniformization of the
aesthetic experience as a result of indiscriminate usage of music corpora,
to name but a few.

# *Call for Participation/Contribution*

We invite submissions in three categories:
papers, music works, and workshops/tutorials

For more information, please visit:
https://2022.aimusiccreativity.org/#calls

# *Important dates*

Submission deadline: 25 April 2022
Notification of acceptance: 15 June 2022
Camera-ready deadline: 15 July 2022
Deadline for author registration: 31st July 2022
Conference dates: 13-15 September 2022


# *Organizing committee*

*Conference Chair & Webmaster*:
Stefano Kalonaris, RIKEN, Japan

*Artistic Program Chairs*:
Akihiro Kubota, Tama Arts University, Japan
Cathy Cox, Kunitachi College of Music, Japan

*Scientific Program Chairs*:
Taketo Akama, Sony Computer Science Laboratories, Inc., Japan
Eric P. Nichols, Zillow Group, USA

*Workshops & Tutorials Chairs*:
Hiroya Miura, RIKEN, Japan
Iris Yuping Ren, Utrecht University, Netherlands

*Virtual Conference Chairs*:
Tomasz Rutkowski, RIKEN, Japan
Anna Aljanaki, University of Tartu, Estonia
Gianluca Micchi, IRIS Audio Technologies, UK

*Outreach & Community*:
Keisuke Yagisawa, Tamagawa University, Japan

*Public Relations*:
Motoko Kakubayashi, Freelance Writer, japandancecul...@listcultures.org
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[UAI] Postdoc Position in Milan Bicocca on Machine Learning for social media analysis and adaptive user support (deadline mid Feb -TBD)

[Francesco Lomonaco]

Dear colleagues,

University Milano-Bicocca  is offering 1 postdoctoral position on machine
learning and AI applied to understand and contrast social media threats for
teenagers.

The successful participant will be involved in the multidisciplinary
project COURAGE  funded by Volkswagen
Foundation.

The position is research only starting in April 2022

*1 Researcher Position*

Application Opens: T.B.D. (soon)

Application Closes: T.B.D. (about mid-February)

Starts: April - May 2022

Duration: 1.5 years

Salary: € 3100 pm after tax

Please contact us for expression of interest and preliminary information:

   -

   dimitri.ognib...@unimib.it (PI)
   -

   f.lomona...@campus.unimib.it

Topics: Social media, NLP, machine learning, cognitive models, opinion
dynamics, computer vision, reinforcement learning, graph neural network,
recommender systems, network analysis

Project: COURAGE

https://www.upf.edu/web/courage

Informal description of the job:
Do social media harm teenagers and our society?


Can we make them safer?

Let's understand how to reshape social media algorithms together with this
competitive research positions in #machinelearnig, #artificialintelliegence
and #socialmedia modelling based in Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca

on the project COURAGE  #couragecompanion

#AIforSocialGood We will use the state of the art in graph neural networks,
reinforcement learning, nlp, cv, and machine learning in general to improve
our understanding of social media dynamics, and help our society by
supporting and teaching young people tackle hate speech and fake news in
social media.

Many opportunities for interdisciplinary and international research.
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[UAI] [CfP - extended deadline] (Special Session @ IPMU 2022) MIIXAI: Managing Imprecise Information for XAI

[malchiodi]

(Special Session @ IPMU 2022) MIIXAI: Managing Imprecise Information for 
XAI


EXTENDED DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION: Friday, 18 February 2022

(apologies for cross postings)

People have an exceptional ability in managing imprecise information
in forms that are well captured by several theories within the
Granular Computing paradigm, such as Fuzzy Set Theory, Rough Set
Theory, Interval Computing and hybrid theories among others. Endowing
XAI systems with the ability of dealing with the many forms of
imprecision, is therefore a key challenge that can push forward
current XAI technologies towards more trustworthy systems based on
imprecise information (II) and full collaborative intelligence. The
Special Session will gather recent advancements in topics like
foundational, theoretical and methodological aspects of imprecision
management in XAI, new technologies for representing and processing
imprecision in XAI systems, as well as real-world applications that
demonstrate explainability improvements through imprecision
management.

Topics include but are not limited to:

- Design of explainable II-based systems
- Evaluation of explainability in models for II
- Hybrid systems dealing with different forms of imprecision
- Successful applications of explainable II-based systems
- Induction of explainable models from II
- Theoretical aspects of explainability in II-based systems

Important dates:

-Submission of Full Papers (EXTENDED): Friday, 18 February 2022
-Notification of Acceptance (EXTENDED): Friday, 1 April 2022
-Camera-ready Submission (EXTENDED): Friday, 22 April 2022
-Conference: 11-15 July 2022, Milan, Italy

Submission instructions and more information at IPMU website:
https://ipmu2022.disco.unimib.it/

Organizers:
-   Dario Malchiodi, Dept. of Computer Science, Università degli Studi 
di Milano, Italy, dario.malchi...@unimi.it
-   Corrado Mencar, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Bari Aldo 
Moro, Italy, corrado.men...@uniba.it

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[UAI] [UR @ FLAIRS 35] Call for Papers

[Antonucci Alessandro]

*** Apologies for multiple postings ***
UR @ FLAIRS 35 - Call for Papers

Special Track on Uncertain Reasoning 
at the 35th Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference 
(FLAIRS-35)

May 15-18, 2022 - Hutchinson Island, Jensen Beach, Florida (US)

Paper submission deadline: February 14, 2022 (abstracts on February 7, 2022)

Conference website: www.flairs-35.info

Track website: ur-flairs.github.io/2022

::: Call for Papers :::

Many problems in AI (in reasoning, planning, learning, perception and robotics) 
require the agent to operate with incomplete or uncertain information. The 
objective of this track is to present and discuss a broad and diverse range of 
current work on uncertain reasoning, including theoretical and applied research 
based on different paradigms. We hope that the variety and richness of this 
track will help to promote cross fertilisation among the different approaches 
for uncertain reasoning, and in turn foster the development of new ideas and 
paradigms.

The Special Track on Uncertain Reasoning (UR) is the oldest track in FLAIRS 
conferences, running annually since 1996. The UR'22 Special Track at the 35th 
International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference 
(FLAIRS-33) is the 25th in the series. As in the past years, UR'20 track seeks 
to bring together researchers working on broad issues related to reasoning 
under uncertainty.

Papers on all aspects of uncertain reasoning are invited. Papers of particular 
interest include, but are not limited to:

- Uncertain reasoning formalisms, calculi and methodologies
- Reasoning with probability, possibility, fuzzy logic, belief functions, 
vagueness, granularity, rough sets, and probability logics
- Modelling and reasoning using imprecise and indeterminate information, such 
as: Choquet capacities, comparative orderings, convex sets of measures, and 
interval-valued probabilities
- Exact, approximate and qualitative uncertain reasoning
- Inference and learning with graphical models of uncertainty (e.g., Bayesian 
networks)
- Multi-agent uncertain reasoning and decision making
- Decision-theoretic planning and Markov decision processes
- Temporal reasoning and uncertainty, non-monotonic reasoning, similarity-based 
reasoning
- Conditional logics, description logic, logic programming
- Argumentation
- Belief change and merging
- Construction of models from elicitation, data mining and knowledge discovery
- Uncertain reasoning in information retrieval, filtering, fusion, diagnosis, 
prediction, situation assessment
- Uncertain reasoning in data management
- Practical applications of uncertain reasoning (e.g., machine learning, 
computer vision and animation)

::: Program Committee :::

: Track Chairs :

- Alessandro Antonucci (IDSIA, Switzerland)
- Yang Xiang (University of Guelph, Canada)

: PC Members :

- Mohand Said Allili (Université du Québec en Outaouais)
- Ofer Arieli (The Academic College of Tel-Aviv, Israel)
- Salem Benferhat (University of Artois, France)
- Ameur Bensefia (Higher Colleges of Technology, United Arab Emirates)
- Stefano Bistarelli (University of Perugia, Italy)
- Nizar Bouguila (Concordia University, Canada)
- Cory Butz (University of Regina, Canada)
- Martine Ceberio (University of Texas at El Paso, US)
- Sébastien Destercke (University of Technology of Compiègne, France)
- Love Ekenberg (Stockholm University, Sweden)
- Lluis Godo (Spanish National Research Council, Spain)
- Christophe Gonzales (LIS, France)
- Pooyan Jamshidi (University of South Caroline, US)
- Mohammad Ali Javidian (Purdue University, US)
- Gabriele Kern-Isberner (University of Technology Dortmund, Germany)
- Vladik Kreinovich (University of Texas at El Paso, US)
- Philippe Leray (University of Nantes, France)
- Nicholas Mattei (Tulane University, US)
- Rafael Peñaloza (University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy)
- Kamal Premaratne (University of Miami, US)
- Eugene Santos (Dartmouth College, US)
- Dilip Sarkar (University of Miami, US)
- Kari Sentz (Los Alamos National Laboratory, US)
- Karim Tabia (Artois University, France)
- Carlo Taticchi (Univerity of Perugia, Italy
- Choh Man Teng (Institute for Human and Machine Cognition, US)

::: Other Information :::

FLAIRS-35 is planned to run as a mild-hybrid conference. We will have a safe 
physical conference to the extent possible, but provide an option for online 
presentation for those who cannot attend the physical conference.

Additional information on the venue can be found at www.flairs-35.info.
Feel free to contact the organizers for any further information about the UR’22 
special track.

::: Submission :::

Papers are due by January 24, 2022 (abstracts by January 17, 2022). Submissions 
of all papers to FLAIRS-35 is done through the EasyChair conference system:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=flairs35

When submitting your paper, select the Uncertain Reasoning track. Double-blind 
reviewing is used for research papers, so submitted papers must n

[UAI] Open Call for Postdoctoral Fellowship Positions in Computer Science

[Басов Антон Ильич]

The Faculty of Computer Science of HSE University (Moscow, Russia) accepts 
applications for postdoctoral positions in the following research areas:


interpretable knowledge discovery and explainable AI, theoretical computer 
science, theoretical foundation of ML, complex systems and applied mathematics, 
formal concept analysis, process mining, bioinformatics, ML for bioinformatics, 
generative modelling, algebraic topology, algebraic transformation groups, data 
and material/physical science, pattern mining, recommender systems, NLP and 
programming code analysis.


The application deadline is January 31, 2022: 
https://cs.hse.ru/en/news/554897133.html


Candidates must hold a relevant PhD degree awarded within the previous five 
years, with a strong research predisposition, and fluent English. The 
postdoctoral fellow is expected to pursue their research interests under the 
supervision of the senior researcher.


Postdoctoral fellowship appointments are made for a one-year period and may be 
renewed but no more than two times. HSE University offers a competitive salary, 
health insurance, and a fully equipped working space.


The applicant should provide a CV, a statement of research interest and a 
recent research paper through an open call via the online application form. At 
least two letters of recommendation should be sent directly to the Review 
Committee at International Faculty Recruitment before the application deadline.
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[UAI] Postdoc, research fellow and doctoral researcher positions in machine learning and artificial intelligence – Finnish Center for Artificial Intelligence FCAI (Helsinki, Finland)

[Kaski Samuel]

Come work with us to push the boundaries of knowledge by developing new machine 
learning principles and tools for AI-assisted decision-making, design and 
modeling. Key areas of research include, but are not limited to, Bayesian 
modeling, differential privacy, reinforcement learning, robotics, 
simulator-based inference and user modeling.

FCAI’s internationally acclaimed research community provides you with a broad 
range of possibilities and Finland is a great place for living - it has been 
listed as the happiest country in the 
world for the fourth year 
running.

The deadline for the postdoc/research fellow applications is January 30 and for 
the doctoral researcher applications February 6, 2022 (23:59, UTC+2). Read more 
and apply here: https://fcai.fi/we-are-hiring


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[UAI] Final CFP: 12th IEEE Workshop on Parallel / Distributed Combinatorics and Optimization (PDCO 2022) in conjunction with symposium IEEE IPDPS Lyon, France

[Grégoire DANOY]

Please, accept our apologies in case of multiple copies of this CFP.


***
   Final submission deadline: February 11, 2022.

 The 12th IEEE Workshop on Parallel / Distributed
   Combinatorics and Optimization (PDCO 2022)

https://pdco2022.sciencesconf.org/

 held in conjunction with
  the 36th IEEE International
   Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS'2022)
 May 30 - June 3, 2022

Lyon, France
 http://www.ipdps.org
***


Scope:
==
The IEEE Workshop on Parallel / Distributed Combinatorics and Optimization aims 
at providing a forum for scientific researchers and engineers on recent 
advances in the field of parallel or distributed combinatorics for difficult 
optimization problems, ranging from theoretical to applied problems. The latter 
include for instance 0-1 multidimensional knapsack problems and cutting stock 
problems, large scale linear programming problems, nonlinear optimization 
problems, global optimization and scheduling problems.

Emphasis will be placed on new techniques for solving difficult optimization 
problems, like cooperative methods for integer programming problems, 
nature-inspired techniques and hybrid methods. Aspects related to Combinatorial 
Scientific Computing (CSC) will also be treated. We also solicit submissions of 
original manuscripts on sparse matrix computations and related topics 
(including graph algorithms); and related methods and tools for their 
efficiency on different parallel systems. Applications combining traditional 
parallel and distributed combinatorics and optimization techniques as well as 
theoretical issues (convergence, complexity, etc.) are welcome.

Application domains of interest include (but are not limited to) cloud 
computing, planning, logistics, manufacturing, finance, telecommunications and 
computational biology.


Topics:
===
* Exact methods, heuristics, metaheuristics, hybrid methods;
* Parallel / distributed algorithms for combinatorial optimization;
* Parallel / distributed  metaheuristics;
* Nature inspired parallel / distributed computing;
* Integer programming, linear programming, nonlinear programming;
* Global optimization, polynomial optimization;
* Cooperative methods, hybrid methods;
* Parallel sparse matrix computations, graph algorithms, load balancing;
* Applications: cloud computing, planning, logistics, manufacturing, finance, 
telecommunications, computational biology, combinatorial algorithms in high 
performance computing.


Steering Committee:
===
Pascal Bouvry, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg (co-chair)
Didier El Baz, team CDA, LAAS-CNRS, France (co-chair)
El-Ghazali Talbi, University of Lille, INRIA, CNRS, France
Albert Y. Zomaya, The University of Sydney, Australia


General Chairs:
===
Grégoire Danoy, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Didier El Baz, team CDA, LAAS-CNRS, France


Program Chairs:
===
Vincent Boyer, University of Nuevo Leon, Mexico
Bernabe Dorronsoro, Universidad de Cádiz, Spain


Publicity Chairs:
=
Keqin Li, State University of New York at New Paltz, USA
Laurence T. Yang, St Francis Xavier University, Canada


Program Committee (to be confirmed):

A. Bendjoudi, CERIST, Algiers, Algeria
J.-N. Cao, Hong-Kong Polytechnic University, China
J. J. Durillo, Leibniz Supercomputer Center, Munich, Germany
S. Fujita, Hiroshima University, Japan
M. Halappanavar, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA
K. Li, State University of New York, USA
N. Melab, University of Lille, France
M. Menai, King Saud University, Saudi Arabia
A. Nakib, University Paris 12, France
S. Nesmachnow, Universidad de la República, Uruguay
S. Nikoletseas, University of Patras and CTI, Greece
C. Phillips, Sandia National Laboratories, USA
T. Saadi, University of Picardie, France
M. Seredynski, e-Bus Competence Center, Luxembourg
G. Ch. Sirakoulis, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece
G. Spezzano, University of Calabria, Italy
A. Tchernykh, CICESE Research Center, Mexico
S. Varrette, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
F. Xhafa, Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Spain
L.T. Yang, St Francis Xavier University, Canada


Submission :

Papers in the Proceedings of the workshops will be indexed in the IEEE Xplore 
Digital Library after the conference.
Prospective authors should submit their papers through Workshop PDCO 2022 
submission system: 
https://ssl.linklings.net/conferences/ipdps/?page=Submit&id=PDCOWorkshopFullSubmission&site=ipdps2022

[UAI] [Announcements] Artificial Intelligence Journal: Funding Opportunities for Promoting AI Research

[Vesna Sabljakovic-Fritz]

   FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES for PROMOTING AI RESEARCH
  ***Deadline: February 15th, 2022***
  Submission web site: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aij25

The Artificial Intelligence Journal (AIJ) is one of the longest
established and most respected journals in AI, and since it was
founded in 1970, it has published many of the key papers in the
field. The operation of the Editorial Board is supported financially
through an arrangement with AIJ's publisher, Elsevier.
Through this arrangement, the AIJ editorial board is able to make 
available substantial funds, (of the order of 240,000 Euros per annum), 
to support the promotion

and dissemination of AI research. Most of these funds are made
available through a series of competitive open calls (the remaining part 
of the budget is reserved for sponsorship of studentships for the annual 
IJCAI conference).


The current call has a deadline of February 15th, 2022 and a budget of 
120,000 Euros.


This call will take into account that the COVID-19 situation has forced 
many event organizers to replace in-person events with virtual ones. 
Therefore, we welcome requests for innovative online activities related 
to this major event transformation.


Proposals  should be  submitted following the format and content 
guidelines, as well as submission instructions, that can be found on the 
AIJ web site:

https://www.ijcai.org/aijd

--
Vesna Sabljakovic-Fritz
IJCAI Executive Director and Secretary

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[UAI] CfP #2: Special Issue on Information Sciences "Modeling imprecise information and knowledge to improve explanability in AI"

[Corrado Mencar]

(Apologies for cross-postings)

https://www.journals.elsevier.com/information-sciences/call-for-papers/modeling-imprecise-information-and-knowledge-to-improve-explanability-in-ai

*Aims and scope*

XAI lies at the intersection of different fields, which include, let alone
Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive and Social Sciences, Human Computer
Interaction, Philosophy and Psychology among others. The strong
multidisciplinary character of XAI is due to the centrality of people in
all aspects of the development and deployment of XAI systems. People have
an exceptional ability to manage the complexity of phenomena through mental
processes such as organization, granulation and causation. A key factor is
the capability of managing imprecision in forms that are well captured by
several theories within the Granular Computing paradigm, such as Fuzzy Set
Theory, Rough Set Theory, Interval Computing and hybrid theories among
others. Endowing XAI systems with the ability of dealing with the many
forms of imprecision, not only in the inference processes that lead to
automated decisions, but also in providing explanations, is a key challenge
that can push forward current XAI technologies towards more trustworthy
systems and full collaborative intelligence.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

- Foundational and philosophical aspects of imprecision in information and
knowledge
- Theoretical advancements in imprecision modeling in AI
- Imprecision modeling methods to improve explainability in AI New
technologies for representing and processing imprecision in XAI systems
- Real-world applications and case studies that demonstrate explainability
improvements through imprecision management

*Submission guidelines and review process*

Papers must be submitted according to the standard procedure of Information
Sciences, selecting the S.I. "Managing imprecision and uncertainty in XAI
systems”. All submitted papers should report original work and provide
meaningful contributions to the current state of the art.

Each submitted paper will undergo a first screening by the Guest Editors.
If the submission falls within the scope of the SI, it will undergo a
regular revision process. Acceptance criteria are the same of regular
issues of the journal.

*Important dates*

- Submission start: November 1st, 2021
- Paper submission deadline: January 28th, 2022 (If a few more days are
needed, please contact the GEs for a possible extension)
- Notification of first-round review results: July 15th, 2022
- Tentative period for final publication: Fall 2022

Authors guidelines and journal information can be found at
https://www.journals.elsevier.com/information-sciences

*Guest Editors*

Angelo Ciaramella - Università degli Studi di Napoli Parthenope, Italy
Corrado Mencar - Università degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro, Italy
Susana Montes - Universidad de Oviedo, Spain
Stefano Rovetta - Università degli Studi di Genova, Italy

For any information, please contact Corrado Mencar 

-- 
_
Corrado Mencar 
Associate Professor / Professore Associato
Università degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro, Italy.
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[UAI] [ACM HT'22] Call for Workshop & Tutorial Proposals

[Ujwal Gadiraju]

Hi all,


The 33rd ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media (HT’22) is seeking 
workshop and tutorial proposals.


Workshops: Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit proposals for 
workshops to be held in conjunction with the 33rd ACM Conference on Hypertext 
and Social Media conference. HT’22 workshops will provide participants with 
opportunities to discuss and explore emerging areas of hypertext and social 
media with fellow students, researchers, and practitioners from Industry and 
Academia. Proposals on new areas related to the main topics of the conference 
are particularly appreciated, but may also include other (new) areas that may 
be of interest to the hypertext community. There are no limits on creativity.



Tutorials: Researchers and experienced tutors in academia, industry, and 
government agencies are invited to submit proposals for tutorials in 
conjunction with the 33rd ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media 
conference. Ideally, a tutorial will cover the state-of-the-art research and 
ideas, innovative developments, and novel applications in a specific aspect of 
hypertext and social media, but proposals are especially encouraged on emerging 
topics, related to the main topics of the conference.



Full submission details and requirements are available at: 
http://ht.acm.org/ht2022/.


Please send your tutorial/workshop proposals (in PDF format) by email to the 
workshop/tutorial chair: ht2022@uam.es using the email subject [HT2022 
TUTORIAL/WORKSHOP PROPOSAL].


Important Dates:

  *   Workshop/Tutorial proposals due: February 20, 2022
  *   Decisions announced: February 27, 2022

All deadlines are 11:59 pm, AoE time (Anywhere on Earth).



Workshop Chair:

Yeliz Yesilada, Middle East Technical University Northern Cyprus Campus


We look forward to your proposals!


Best,

Ujwal


Publicity Chair, ACM HT2022




Dr. Ir. Ujwal Gadiraju

Assistant Professor

Web Information Systems

Delft University of Technology

The Netherlands

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