From Sharon.Crook at asu.edu Fri Mar 1 14:41:49 2019 From: Sharon.Crook at asu.edu (Sharon Crook) Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2019 19:41:49 +0000 Subject: Connectionists: EXTENSION: CNS*2019 Call for Abstracts In-Reply-To: References: <011300d3-9987-4a53-bf1d-7bd6a20120e7.10034551545.4128.1547607793447@memberclicks-mail.net>, Message-ID: The abstract submission deadline for CNS*2019 has been extended to Monday March 11, 2019, 11:00 pm Pacific Time. Please remember to renew your OCNS membership and register for the meeting prior to abstract submission. CNS*2019 Call for Abstracts Organization for Computational Neurosciences (OCNS) 28th Annual Meeting Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain July 13-17, 2019 Local Organizers: Alex Roxin, Klaus Wimmer, Albert Compte, Jaime de la Rocha, Gemma Huguet Ramon The main meeting begins the evening of Saturday July 13 and runs through Tuesday July 16. It will be preceded by a day of tutorials (Saturday July 13) and followed by workshops (Tuesday July 16 mixed with the main meeting and Wednesday July 17 workshops only). Invited Keynote Speakers: Ed Bullmore, University of Cambridge Kenji Doya, Okinawa Institute for Science and Technology Mavi Sanchez-Vives, Universitat de Barcelona Ila Fiete, University of Texas Note that one of the authors must register as sponsoring author for the main meeting before abstract submission. In case the abstract is not accepted for presentation, the registration fee will be refunded. Submitted abstracts are used for creating the program and for publication. Please follow the formatting guidelines on the submission site. Travel awards are available for student and postdoc members of OCNS. Please apply using the checkbox on the abstract submission form and note that an extended abstract is required when applying for a travel award or oral presentation format. Registration: https://ocns.memberclicks.net/index.php?option=com_mc&view=mc&mcid=form_259444 Abstract Submission: https://www.cnsorg.org/cns-2019-abstract-submission For up-to-date conference information, please visit: https://www.cnsorg.org/cns-2019-quick -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- OCNS is the international member-based society for computational neuroscientists. Become a member to be eligible for travel awards and more. Visit our website for more information: http://www.cnsorg.org From laura.sevilla.lara at gmail.com Fri Mar 1 12:06:53 2019 From: laura.sevilla.lara at gmail.com (Laura Sevilla) Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2019 17:06:53 +0000 Subject: Connectionists: PhD Student Position in Computer Vision at University of Edinburgh Message-ID: We are looking for passionate and outstanding students to pursue a PhD in computer vision and deep learning at the University of Edinburgh. Our research focuses on understanding motion in vision: what motion tells us about the properties, the state and the structure of the world, how to use it, and how to estimate it. Possible topics may include, but are not limited to, integrating motion estimation and high level behavioral tasks such as recognition and action, designing novel core architectures for temporal modeling, exploring novel tasks that improve temporal learning etc. The expected period of study is 3.5 years. More information can be found here: https://laurasevilla.me/vacancies The successful candidate would be part of the School of Informatics, which includes access to world class equipment in computing and robotics, and one of the largest research communities in Europe with more than 100 faculty and over 400 graduate students. The desired qualifications include master's degree in computer science or related subjects, previous experience in deep learning and strong programming skills (C++/python, pyTorch/TensorFlow). Basic understanding of current methods is preferred (optical flow, video classification approaches, recurrent networks, reinforcement learning). Interested candidates should send their CV and a short research statement to laura.sevilla.lara at gmail.com. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From nemanja at temple.edu Fri Mar 1 09:21:59 2019 From: nemanja at temple.edu (Nemanja Djuric) Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2019 09:21:59 -0500 Subject: Connectionists: 3rd CfP: CVPR 2019 Workshop - "Precognition: Seeing through the Future" Message-ID: Call for Workshop Papers Precognition: Seeing through the Future in conjunction with The 30th IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2019) Long Beach, CA, USA, June 16th-21th, 2019 https://sites.google.com/view/ieeecvf-cvpr2019-precognition ================= Despite its potential and relevance for real-world applications, visual forecasting or precognition has not been in the focus of new theoretical studies and practical applications as much as detection and recognition problems. Through organization of this workshop we aim to facilitate further discussion and interest within the research community regarding this nascent topic. The workshop will discuss recent approaches and research trends not only in anticipating human behavior from videos, but also precognition in multiple other visual applications, such as: medical imaging, health-care, human face aging prediction, early event prediction, autonomous driving forecasting, and so on. In addition, this workshop will give an opportunity for the community in both academia and industry to meet and discuss about future work and research directions. It will bring together researchers from different fields and viewpoints to discuss existing major research problems and identify opportunities in further research directions in both research topics and industrial applications. ================= Topics: The workshop focuses on several important aspects of visual forecasting. The topics of interest for this workshop include, but are not limited to: - Early event prediction - Activity forecasting - Multi-agent forecasting - Human behavior prediction - Human face aging prediction - Anticipation of trajectories - Short- and long-term prediction and diagnoses in medical imaging - Predicting frames and features in videos and other sensors in autonomous driving - New theories and applications in visual forecasting models - Databases, evaluation, and benchmarking in precognition ================= Submission Instructions: All submitted work will be assessed based on their novelty, technical quality, potential impact, insightfulness, depth, clarity, and reproducibility. For each accepted submission, at least one author must attend the workshop and present the paper. There are two ways to contribute submissions to the workshop: - Extended abstracts submissions are single-blind peer-reviewed, and author names and affiliations should be listed. Extended abstract submissions are limited to a total of four pages. Accepted abstracts will be presented at the poster session, and will not be included in the printed proceedings of the workshop. - Full paper submissions are double-blind peer-reviewed. The submissions are limited to a total of eight pages, including all content and references, must be in PDF format, and formatted according to the CVPR style (additional information about formatting and style files is available here). Accepted papers will be presented at the poster session, with selected papers also being presented in an oral session. All accepted papers will be published by the CVPR in the workshop proceedings. Submission website: https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/PRECOGNITION2019 ================= Important Deadlines: Submission : March 24th, 2019 Decisions : March 31th, 2019 Camera-ready : April 7th, 2019 Workshop : June 16th, 2019 ================= Best Paper Awards: Uber ATG has generously agreed to reward an author of a best paper and a best student paper with valuable Uber ATG swag merchandise. ================= Program Committee Chairs: - Dr. Khoa Luu (University of Arkansas) - Dr. Kris Kitani (Carnegie Mellon University) - Dr. Minh Hoai Nguyen (Stony Brook University) - Dr. Hien Van Nguyen (University of Houston) - Dr. Nemanja Djuric (Uber ATG) - Dr. Utsav Prabhu (Google) For further questions please contact a member of the organizing committee. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From vito.trianni at istc.cnr.it Fri Mar 1 09:07:38 2019 From: vito.trianni at istc.cnr.it (Vito Trianni) Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2019 15:07:38 +0100 Subject: Connectionists: [jobs] open research positions in collective decision making, ISTC-CNR, Rome, Italy In-Reply-To: <1C042A23-C09E-4CF0-AC3A-5566C65FF367@istc.cnr.it> References: <1C042A23-C09E-4CF0-AC3A-5566C65FF367@istc.cnr.it> Message-ID: <4E89DFFE-E483-4D31-8172-B38E809646B8@istc.cnr.it> Potential candidates are still encouraged to submit their interest for the following research positions within the context of the project CODE: Collective Decisions in Dynamic Environments (see below for more info), carried out at the Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies of the Italian National Research Council, in Rome. The following profiles are required: - junior post-doc (including those nearing the end of their PhD) - postgraduate research assistant (with possibility to enrol in a PhD school) Open positions are for 2 years (with possibility of +1 year). Preferred starting date June the 3rd, 2019. Ideal candidates should have knowledge about dynamical systems theory, multi-agent systems, swarm robotics. Good programming skills are also required (Python, C++), as well as abilities in data visualisation. The interested candidate may place an informal inquiry by email to Vito Trianni , attaching CV and a short motivation letter. The position will remain open until filled. CODE: Collective Decisions in Dynamic Environments The CODE project aims to study collective decision making in dynamical contexts, where the possible alternatives display time-varying features. The study has a theoretical component based on dynamical systems theory, and an experimental component based on multi-agent and multi-robot systems. Dynamical systems are useful to determine the time evolution of collective decision-making under a given parameterisation, with the goal of identifying optimal conditions to maximise efficiency and decision accuracy. Multi-agent models allow to validate the predictions made by analytical models, and to consider heterogeneous interaction topologies that can emerge, for instance, from a complex and dynamic distribution of agents in space, as resulting from non-random motion patterns. The research also includes the possibility to test the identified collective decision strategies with multi-robot systems, exploiting a swarm of kilobot robots. http://laral.istc.cnr.it/trianni/index.php/2019/01/29/open-research-position-to-study-collective-decision-in-dynamic-environments/ ======================================================================== Vito Trianni, Ph.D. vito.trianni@(no_spam)istc.cnr.it ISTC-CNR http://www.istc.cnr.it/people/vito-trianni Via San Martino della Battaglia 44 Tel: +39 06 44595277 00185 Roma Fax: +39 06 44595243 Italy ======================================================================== From yiyin at ee.columbia.edu Sat Mar 2 00:27:33 2019 From: yiyin at ee.columbia.edu (Yiyin Zhou) Date: Sat, 2 Mar 2019 00:27:33 -0500 Subject: Connectionists: Fruit Fly Brain Hackathon 2019 Message-ID: Fruit Fly Brain Hackathon 2019 FFBH 2019 March 20, 2019Columbia University, New York, NY 10027 The 4th Fruit Fly brain Hackathon (FFBH 2019) will be held on Wednesday, March 20, 2019. The goal of the hackathon is to bring together researchers interested in developing executable models of the fruit fly brain. In this year?s hackathon, we will focus on the FlyBrainLab (FBL), a newly developed interactive computing platform for studying the function of executable circuits constructed from fly brain data. The hackathon is aimed at three main groups of participants: neurobiologists, modelers and software engineers. We welcome researchers working on the fruit fly brain as well as those working on other model organisms to participate and broaden the discussion in the hackathon. The Fruit Fly Brain Hackathon 2019 is organized in conjunction with the Columbia Workshop on Brain Circuit, Memory and Computation on March 21-22, 2019. Participants of the hackathon are welcome to attend the workshop. Registration is free but all participants have to register . (*https://ffbh2019.eventbrite.com/ *). Organizers: Tingkai Liu, Department of Electrical Engineering, Columbia University Mehmet Kerem Turkcan, Department of Electrical Engineering, Columbia University Chung-Heng Yeh, Department of Electrical Engineering, Columbia University Yiyin Zhou, Department of Electrical Engineering, Columbia University More information can be found on the hackathon website: http://fruitflybrain.org/hackathons ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Best Regards, Yiyin Zhou, on behalf of the organizers -- Yiyin Zhou Associate Research Scientist Bionet Group: www.bionet.ee.columbia.edu Department of Electrical Engineering Columbia University -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Book your Early Bird Seats: Early registration deadline: March 31, 2019 https://acdl2019.icas.xyz/registration/ LECTURERS: Each Lecturer will hold three lessons on a specific topic. Ioannis Antonoglou, Google DeepMind, UK Topic: General Reinforcement Learning Algorithms Marco Gori, University of Siena, Italy Topic: Constraint-Based Approaches to Machine Learning Phillip Isola, MIT, USA Topic: Generative Adversarial Networks Leslie Kaelbling, MIT - Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence Lab, USA Topics: Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning, Robotics Ilias S. Kotsireas, Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada Topics: Data Science & High-Performance Computing Dolores Romero Morales, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark Topic: Big Data Panos Pardalos, University of Florida, USA Topics: Optimization, Complex Networks & Data Science Ruslan Salakhutdinov, Carnegie Mellon University & AI Research at Apple, USA Topic: Deep Learning Josh Tenenbaum, MIT, USA Topics: Computational Cognitive Science, probabilistic generative models, and probabilistic programming Naftali Tishby, Hebrew University, Israel Topic: Theory of Deep Learning ? Information Bottleneck Joaquin Vanschoren, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands Topic: Automatic machine learning Oriol Vinyals, Google DeepMind, UK Topic: Deep Learning & Reinforcement Learning SCOPE: The Advanced Course is not a summer school suited only for younger scholars. Rather, a significant proportion of seasoned investigators are regularly present among the attendees, often senior faculty at their own institutions. The balanced audience that we strive to maintain in each Advanced Course greatly contributes to the development of intense cross-disciplinary debates among faculty and participants that typically address the most advanced and emerging areas of each topic. Each faculty member presents lectures and discusses with the participants for one entire day. Such long interaction together with the small, exclusive Course size provides the uncommon opportunity to fully explore the expertise of each faculty, often through one-to-one mentoring. This is unparalleled and priceless. The Certosa di Pontignano provides the perfect setting to a relaxed yet intense learning atmosphere, with the stunning backdrop of the Tuscan landscapes. World-class wines and traditional foods will make the Advanced Course on Data Science and Machine Learning the experience of a lifetime. CALL FOR POSTER & ORAL PRESENTATIONS: During the Registration Process we accept abstract submissions for posters and oral presentations to be presented during the poster sessions and the talk sessions. https://acdl2019.icas.xyz/registration/ Early registration deadline: March 31, 2019 VENUE & ACCOMMODATION: The venue of ACDL 2018 will be The Certosa di Pontignano ? Siena Dr. Lorenzo Pasquinuzzi The Certosa di Pontignano Localit? Pontignano, 5 ? 53019, Castelnuovo Berardenga (Siena) ? Tuscany ? Italy phone: +39-0577-1521104 fax: +39-0577-1521098 info at lacertosadipontignano.com lorenzopasquinuzzi at lacertosadipontignano.com https://www.lacertosadipontignano.com/en/index.php A few Kilometres from Siena, on a hill dominating the town stands the ancient Certosa di Pontignano, a unique place where nature, history and hospitality blend together in memorable harmony. Built in the 1300, its medieval structure remains intact with additions of the following centuries. The Certosa is centred on its historic cloisters and gardens. https://acdl2019.icas.xyz/venue/ ACCOMMODATION: https://acdl2019.icas.xyz/accommodation/ Past Edition - ACDL 2018: https://acdl2018.icas.xyz REGISTRATION: https://acdl2019.icas.xyz/registration/ We remind you that ACDL 2018 sold out a long time before the registration deadline! Anyone interested in participating in ACDL 2019 should register as soon as possible! Similarly for accommodation at the Certosa di Pontignano (the School Venue), book your full board accommodation at the Certosa as soon as possible! All course participants should/must stay at the Certosa di Pontignano. See you in Tuscany next July! ACDL 2019 Organizing Committee. ACDL 2019 Poster: https://acdl2019.icas.xyz/wp-content/uploads/sites/9/2019/01/poster-ACDL-2019.png acdl at icas.xyz https://acdl2019.icas.xyz https://www.facebook.com/groups/204310640474650/ https://twitter.com/TaoSciences * Apologies for multiple copies. Please forward to anybody who might be interested * * Please help us distributing in your circles (emails, blogs, and social networks) the call for participation and call for oral talks/posters for SSBSS 2019. Together we will make SSBSS 2019 a great event! * -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From pdrahul2 at gmail.com Sat Mar 2 11:36:52 2019 From: pdrahul2 at gmail.com (Rahul Pandey) Date: Sat, 2 Mar 2019 11:36:52 -0500 Subject: Connectionists: [Deadline Mar 5th, 2019] CALL FOR WORKSHOP/SPECIAL-SESSION PROPOSALS - 18th IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence | Thessaloniki, Greece, 14th - 17th October 2019 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: [Our apologies should you receive this message more than once] __________________________________________________________________________ CALL FOR WORKSHOP/SPECIAL-SESSION PROPOSALS Web Intelligence 2019 18th IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence Thessaloniki, Greece, 14th - 17th October 2019 https://webintelligence2019.com/ DEADLINE: MARCH 5, 2019 You are invited to submit a workshop/special-session proposal as part of the WI '19 conference ABOUT WI '19 WORKSHOPS ---------------------------------------- The 18th Web Intelligence conference (WI '19) will be held in Thessaloniki (Greece) during 14th to 17th of October 2019. Its organizing committee invites proposals for workshops/special sessions to be held in conjunction with the conference. The goals of the workshops are to explore emerging research topics and to provide a forum for authors to present early research results on these topics. We would like to have a number of workshops, with a high quality program dominated by contributed papers. We expect that workshops will run a rigorous review process, to make sure programs will be of high-quality. Organizers may structure workshops/tutorials as they see fit, possibly including invited talks, panel discussions, presentations of work in progress, peer-reviewed papers, demonstrations, or some combination. WI '19 WORKSHOP CO-CHAIRS --------------------------------------------- Dimitrios Katsaros, ECE, University of Thessaly, Greece (dkatsar at inf.uth.gr ) Rahul Pandey, IST, George Mason University, USA (rpandey4 at gmu.edu) TOPICS OF INTEREST ------------------------------- - the topic falls in the general scope of Web Intelligence 2019; - As the theme for this year's conference is "Web Intelligence = AI in the Connected World", workshops/special-sessions under this theme is encouraged; - there is a clear focus on a specific technology, problem or application; - there should be a greater impact to the society; In particular, we encourage the submission of workshop/special-session proposals on: - Fairness in Web - Deep Learning/ML in the Web - Web for Social Good - Web for Smart cities - Web in/for IoT - Misinformation handling in the Web - Recommendation Systems for the Web - Big Data on the Web - User behavior modeling in the Web - NLP in the Web - Mobile data mining in the Web - Social intelligence - Web/text mining IMPORTANT DATES ----------------------------- Workshop/Special-Session Proposal Submission Deadline - 5th March, 2019 Workshop/Special-Session Proposal Notification of Acceptance - 25th March, 2019 All Workshops/Special-Sessions Day - 4th October, 2019 SUBMISSION INSTRUCTION ---------------------------------------- The workshop proposal, in PDF, should provide the following information, in the following format: HEADING: - Title of the workshop/special-session and acronym - Proposed duration (half-day or full-day) - Workshop (co-)chair(s) name, affiliation. mailing address, and e-mail address - Short CV of (co-)chair(s) including past experience in organizing workshops and/or related events INTRODUCTION: - Abstract: One paragraph describing the workshop/special-session purpose (max. 200 words) - Scope and topics of the workshop RATIONALE: - Motivation and rationale - Why the workshop is related to WI 2019; - Why the topic is timely and important; - Why the workshop may attract a significant number of submissions of good quality; - Why the workshop may attract a large number of attendees, in addition to the authors; - Why the workshop differs from others; - Related workshops and conferences of similar topics; WORKSHOP DETAILS: - Tentative committee lists (organizers, program committee, etc.) - Expected number of participants and the expected number of submissions - A short list of potential authors that are expected to submit papers to the workshop - A draft call for papers (max 1 page) - A description of the publicity and promotion plan - Workshop tentative internal and external schedule (expect adjustments by the workshops chairs to align all workshop schedules) - Submission deadline; - Review deadline; - Acceptance deadline; - Camera ready; - Program ready; - Workshop format planned (keynote, expected number of presented papers, invited talks, panels, demonstrations, etc.) Please send a whole copy of your proposal in PDF format to workshop co-chairs with subject "Submission of WI 2019 workshop proposal: XXX", where XXX should be replaced by the acronym of your workshop REVIEW PROCESS ------------------------- The decision about acceptance or rejection of workshop proposals will be made by the Workshop co-Chairs in consultation with the General and Program Committee Chairs, taking into account several factors including overall quality, the topic fit with respect to The Web Intelligence Conference 2019, the coverage of the topic in other tracks of the conference, the estimated number of attendees for the workshop, etc. ORGANIZATION DUTIES ---------------------------------- - Announce the calls for papers - Create and maintain the workshop/special-session website - Publicize workshop/special-session in the relevant communities - Create the Program Committee - Conduct the review process - Schedule the workshop/special-session program REGISTRATION ---------------------- Workshop/special session paper registration fees are the same as regular conference fees. All registered participants are entitled to attend all keynotes, sessions, workshops, panels, tutorials and social events. PUBLICATION --------------------- Full day workshops should have 10-14 regular papers (max 8 pages), while half day should have 5-7 regular papers. On the other hand, special-session should have 4-6 regular papers. The papers must be submitted electronically via Cyberchair in standard ACM Conference Proceedings format (max 8 pages). The workshop's organizers will have the responsibility to ensure the presence of authors of the accepted papers at the workshops. Download this in pdf: http://webintelligence2019.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/WI-19_CFP-Workshops_Special-Session.pdf - -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From stephan.chalup at newcastle.edu.au Sat Mar 2 20:20:55 2019 From: stephan.chalup at newcastle.edu.au (Stephan Chalup) Date: Sun, 3 Mar 2019 01:20:55 +0000 Subject: Connectionists: [journals] CfP: Topical Issue on Deep Learning and Neural Systems in Robotics Message-ID: <1878E8AF-4D0E-44ED-84A0-BEB4B2ACB1EE@newcastle.edu.au> CALL FOR PAPERS ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Topical Issue on DEEP LEARNING and NEURAL SYSTEMS in Robotics https://www.degruyter.com/page/1695 PALADYN. Journal of Behavioral Robotics ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DESCRIPTION =============== Deep Learning can equip robots with a new level of skill by utilizing insights from neuroscience. These new developments have impact on various types of robots, from companion robots to driver assistance in semi-autonomous vehicles. Deep Learning can enable unprecedented quality of results in tasks such as object detection, localization, communication and behavior learning. Training deep neural networks typically requires GPU workstations or high-performance computing servers. It may require huge amounts of data or innovative training schemes. These issues indicate only some of the special challenges when utilizing deep networks in robotics. Within this context the topics of this topical issue include, but are not limited to: # applications of deep learning # software and hardware systems # data acquisition for deep learning # neural information processing systems # deep learning training schemes and paradigms # GPU computing for deep learning # software engineering for deep learning # neural networks on low powered devices # human robot interaction and communication # cognitive, developmental and evolutionary robotics Authors are requested to submit their papers to the Topical Issue complying the general scope of the journal. The submitted papers will undergo the standard peer-review process before they can be accepted. Notification of acceptance will be communicated as we progress with the review process. HOW TO SUBMIT =============== Before submission authors should carefully read the Instructions for Authors. All submissions to the Topical Issue must be made electronically via online submission system Editorial Manager. All manuscripts will undergo the standard peer-review process (single blind, at least two independent reviewers). When entering your submission via online submission system please choose the option "TI on Deep Learning and Neural Systems in Robotics". The extended deadline for submission is 30 MARCH 2019. Contributors to the Topical Issue will benefit from: + indexation in SCOPUS + NO submission and publication FEES + fair and constructive peer review provided by experts in the field + no space constraints + convenient, web-based paper submission and tracking system - Editorial Manager + free language assistance for authors from non-English speaking regions + fast online publication upon completing the publishing process (continuous publication model) + better visibility due to Open Access + long-term preservation of the content (articles archived in Portico) + extensive post-publication promotion for selected papers GUEST EDITORS: Stephan K. Chalup, University of Newcastle, Australia Alan D. Blair, University of New South Wales, Australia Aydan M. Erkmen, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey Alessandro Di Nuovo, Sheffield Hallam University, UK We are looking forward to your submission. If you have any question, please contact Dr. Stephan K. Chalup (lead GE, Stephan.Chalup at newcastle.edu.au) or Dr. Justyna ?uk (Managing Editor of PJBR, Justyna.Zuk at degruyteropen.com). ----------------------------------------------------------------- Associate Professor Stephan Chalup School of Electrical Engineering and Computing The University of Newcastle, Callaghan NSW 2308, Australia http://www.cs.newcastle.edu.au/~chalup/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From stephan.chalup at newcastle.edu.au Sat Mar 2 20:03:17 2019 From: stephan.chalup at newcastle.edu.au (Stephan Chalup) Date: Sun, 3 Mar 2019 01:03:17 +0000 Subject: Connectionists: [meetings] CfP 23rd Annual RoboCup International Symposium 2019 Message-ID: <1D3977E7-66DD-4D46-AF0C-2CE45B01042E@newcastle.edu.au> CALL FOR PAPERS 23rd Annual RoboCup International Symposium 2019 The 23rd Annual RoboCup International Symposium will be held in conjunction with RoboCup 2019 at the International Convention Centre Sydney, Australia. We call for submissions of papers reporting innovative, original research with relevance to areas of robotics and artificial intelligence as listed below. Within the described scope of topics we also encourage submissions of high-quality overview articles, papers describing real-world research, and papers reporting theoretical results. Researchers are invited to submit their work independently of whether they participate in the RoboCup competitions or have a RoboCup team. In addition to the main track with regular papers there will be a special development track on hardware development, software frameworks and open-source development. SYMPOSIUM WEBSITE https://2019.robocup.org/symposium.php IMPORTANT DATES Submission of full papers: 8 April 2019 Notification to authors: 21 May 2019 Submission of camera-ready copies: 4 June 2019 RoboCup 2019 Symposium: 8 July 2019 SUBMISSION AND PROCEEDINGS All papers will be peer-reviewed, and evaluated by members of the senior program committee. The proceedings of the RoboCup International Symposium will be published and archived within the Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNCS/LNAI) series by Springer-Verlag after the conference. Papers should be formatted following the LNAI author guidelines (https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines) and must be electronically submitted through the EasyChair electronic submission system (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=rcs2019) which is linked to the symposium website. Regular papers are limited to 12 pages and papers of the development track should adhere to the limit of 8 pages. Springer?s proceedings LaTeX templates are also available in Overleaf. TOPICS Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Robot Hardware and Software - mobile robotics - humanoid robotics - sensors and actuators - embedded and mobile devices - robot construction and new materials - robotic system integration - robot software architectures - robot programming environments and languages - real-time and concurrent programming - robot simulators * Perception and Action - 3D perception - distributed sensor integration - sensor noise filtering - real-time image processing and pattern recognition - motion and sensor models - sensory-motor control - robot kinematics and dynamics - high-dimensional motion control * Robot Cognition and Learning - world modelling and knowledge representation - learning from demonstration and imitation - localisation, navigation, and mapping - planning and reasoning - decision making under uncertainty - neural systems and deep learning - complex motor skill acquisition - reinforcement learning and optimisation - motion and sensor model learning * Human-Robot Interaction - robot social intelligence - fluency of interaction - speech synthesis and natural language generation - natural language recognition - explainable robot behaviours - emotion recognition and reaction - understanding human intent and behaviour - safety, security and dependability - enabling humans to predict robot behaviour * Multi-Robot Systems - team coordination methods - communication protocols - learning and adaptive systems - teamwork and heterogeneous agents - dynamic resource allocation - adjustable autonomy * Education and Edutainment - robotics and artificial intelligence education - educational robotics - robot kits and programming tools - robotic entertainment * Applications and Benchmarking - search and rescue robots - robot surveillance - service and social robots - robots at home, at work and in public spaces - robots in the real world - performance metrics - human-robot interaction DEVELOPMENT TRACK The development track encourages reports on innovative hardware developments, software frameworks and open-source releases of software components. Review of papers describing these contributions will be based on technical aspects and benefit to the practice of communities working in the above fields in general and RoboCup in particular. PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS Jackrit Suthakorn, Mahidol University, Thailand Mary-Anne Williams, University of Technology, Australia Tim Niemueller, RWTH Aachen University, Germany Stephan Chalup, The University of Newcastle, Australia CONTACT rcs2019 at easychair.org ----------------------------------------------------------------- Associate Professor Stephan Chalup School of Electrical Engineering and Computing The University of Newcastle, Callaghan NSW 2308, Australia http://www.cs.newcastle.edu.au/~chalup/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From aurel at ee.columbia.edu Sun Mar 3 13:33:19 2019 From: aurel at ee.columbia.edu (Aurel A. 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URL: From Xujuan.Zhou at usq.edu.au Sun Mar 3 19:56:55 2019 From: Xujuan.Zhou at usq.edu.au (Xujuan Zhou) Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2019 00:56:55 +0000 Subject: Connectionists: WI'19 CfPs Message-ID: +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI'19) 14-17 OCTOBER 2019 Thessaloniki, GREECE https://webintelligence2019.com/ Sponsored By: Web Intelligence Consortium (WIC) Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) IEEE Computer Society In Cooperation With: Chinese Computer Federation (CCF) +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ CALL FOR PAPERS Web has evolved as an omnipresent system which highly impacts science, education, industry and everyday life. Web is now a vast data production and consumption platform at which threads of data evolve from multiple devices, by different human interactions, over worldwide locations under divergent distributed settings. Such a dynamic complex system demands adaptive intelligent solutions, which will advance knowledge, human interactions and innovation. Web intelligence is now a cutting edge area which must address all open issues towards deepening the understanding of all Web's entities, phenomena, and developments. The theme for the WI'19 is "Web Intelligence = AI in the Connected World" The 18th Web Intelligence conference (WI'19) aims to achieve a multi-disciplinary balance between research and technological disruptive advances in the fields of how intelligence is impacting the Web of People, the Web of Data, the Web of Things, the Web of Trust, and the Web of Health. WI'19 welcomes research, application as well as Industry/Demo track paper submissions in these core thematic pillars under wider topics, which demand WI innovative and disruptive solutions for any of the next indicative sub-topics. Track 1: Web of People * Social networks analytics * Social media and dynamics * User and behavioral modeling * Human centric computing * Opinion mining * Recommendation engines * Sentiment analysis * Crowdsourcing and social data mining * People oriented applications and services Track 2: Web of Data * Data science and machine learning * Big data analytics * Data integration and data provenance * Cognitive models * Computational models * Information search and retrieval * Algorithms and knowledge management * Knowledge bases and semantic networks * Linked data management and analytics * Data driven services and applications Track 3: Web of Things * IoT data analytics * Web infrastructures and devices Mobile web * Distributed systems and devices * Open autonomous systems * Industrial multi-domain web * Streaming data analysis * Smart city applications and services Track 4: Web of Trust * Hidden web analytics * Blockchain analytics and technologies * Web-scale security, integrity, privacy and trust * Web cryptography * Fake content and fraud detection * Web safety and openness * Monetization services and applications Track 5: Web of Health * Personalized health management and analytics * Health data exchange and sharing * Big data in medicine * Wellbeing and healthcare in the digital era * Omics research and trends * Healthcare and medical applications and services IMPORTANT DATES The Program Chairs are soliciting contributed technical papers for presentation at the Conference and publication in the Conference Proceedings by ACM. Submissions are encouraged before the next deadlines: Mar 5th, 2019: Workshop Proposals May 12th, 2019: Full Papers; Demo papers; Tutorial proposals June 30th, 2019: Notification of Acceptance/Rejection July 14th, 2019: Final, Camera Ready Papers, Due PAPER SUBMISSION Please follow guidelines: https://wi-lab.com/cyberchair/2019/ wi19/scripts/submit.php?subarea=Wr Papers must be submitted electronically via CyberChair in standard ACM Conference Proceedings format(max 8 pages, templates at https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template). Submitted papers will undergo a peer review process, coordinated by the International Program Committee. General Chairs * Georg Gottlob, UK * Yannis Manolopoulos, Cyprus Program Chairs * Payam Barnaghi, UK * Athena Vakali, Greece Steering Committee Chairs * Jiming Liu, HK, China * Ning Zhong, Japan Track Chairs * Panagiotis Bamidis, Greece * Marios Dikaiakos, Cyprus * Elena Ferrari, Italy * Josiane Xavier Parreira, Ireland * Herman Purohit, USA Workshop Chairs * Dimitrios Katsaros, Greece * Rahul Pandey, USA Demo Chairs * Amelie Gyrard, USA * George Pallis, Cyprus Proceedings Editor * Theodoros Tzouramanis, Greece Publicity Chairs * Karin Becker, Brasil * Leonidas Anthopoulos, Greece * Yang Liu, Hong Kong * Xujuan Zhou, Australia * Muhammad Abulaish, India Kind regards, Xujuan Dr. Susan Xujuan Zhou Senior Lecturer (Information Systems) School of Management & Enterprise | University of Southern Queensland Sinnathamby Boulevard | Springfield Central QLD 4300 | Australia Phone: +61 7 3470 4625 Email: xujuan.zhou at usq.edu.au _____________________________________________________________ This email (including any attached files) is confidential and is for the intended recipient(s) only. 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URL: From jakobjordan at posteo.de Sun Mar 3 19:34:53 2019 From: jakobjordan at posteo.de (Jakob Jordan) Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2019 01:34:53 +0100 Subject: Connectionists: =?utf-8?q?12=E1=B5=97=CA=B0_Advanced_Scientific_P?= =?utf-8?q?rogramming_in_Python_in_Camerino=2C_Italy=2C_2=E2=80=947_Septem?= =?utf-8?q?ber=2C_2019?= Message-ID: <9bdeadc0-674c-9a23-f1b1-893f4e8228bb@posteo.de> 12?? Advanced Scientific Programming in Python ============================================== a Summer School by the G-Node and the University of Camerino https://python.g-node.org Scientists spend more and more time writing, maintaining, and debugging software. While techniques for doing this efficiently have evolved, only few scientists have been trained to use them. As a result, instead of doing their research, they spend far too much time writing deficient code and reinventing the wheel. In this course we will present a selection of advanced programming techniques and best practices which are standard in the industry, but especially tailored to the needs of a programming scientist. Lectures are devised to be interactive and to give the students enough time to acquire direct hands-on experience with the materials. Students will work in pairs throughout the school and will team up to practice the newly learned skills in a real programming project ? an entertaining computer game. We use the Python programming language for the entire course. Python works as a simple programming language for beginners, but more importantly, it also works great in scientific simulations and data analysis. We show how clean language design, ease of extensibility, and the great wealth of open source libraries for scientific computing and data visualization are driving Python to become a standard tool for the programming scientist. This school is targeted at Master or PhD students and Post-docs from all areas of science. Competence in Python or in another language such as Java, C/C++, MATLAB, or R is absolutely required. Basic knowledge of Python and of a version control system such as git, subversion, mercurial, or bazaar is assumed. Participants without any prior experience with Python and/or git should work through the proposed introductory material before the course. We are striving hard to get a pool of students which is international and gender-balanced. Date & Location =============== 2?7 September, 2019. Camerino, Italy. Application =========== You can apply online: https://python.g-node.org/wiki/applications Application deadline: 23:59 UTC, 26 May, 2019. There will be no deadline extension, so be sure to apply on time. Be sure to read the FAQ before applying: https://python.g-node.org/wiki/faq Participation is for free, i.e. no fee is charged! Participants however should take care of travel, living, and accommodation expenses by themselves. Program ======= ? Version control with git and how to contribute to open source projects with GitHub ? Tidy data analysis and visualization ? Testing and debugging scientific code ? Advanced NumPy ? Organizing, documenting, and distributing scientific code ? Advanced scientific Python: context managers and generators ? Writing parallel applications in Python ? Profiling and speeding up scientific code with Cython and numba ? Programming in teams Faculty ======= ? Caterina Buizza, Personal Robotics Lab, Imperial College London, UK ? Jenni Rinker, Department of Wind Energy, Technical University of Denmark, Roskilde, Denmark ? Juan Nunez-Iglesias, Bioimage Analysis Research Fellow, Monash University, Australia ? Nelle Varoquaux, Department of Statistics, UC Berkeley, CA, USA ? Pamela Hathway, Neural Reckoning, Imperial College London, UK ? Pietro Berkes, NAGRA Kudelski, Lausanne, Switzerland ? Rike-Benjamin Schuppner, Institute for Theoretical Biology, Humboldt-Universit?t zu Berlin, Germany ? St?fan van der Walt, Berkeley Institute for Data Science, UC Berkeley, CA, USA ? Tiziano Zito, Department of Psychology, Humboldt-Universit?t zu Berlin, Germany Organizers ========== For the German Neuroinformatics Node of the INCF (G-Node), Germany: ? Tiziano Zito, Department of Psychology, Humboldt-Universit?t zu Berlin, Germany ? Caterina Buizza, Personal Robotics Lab, Imperial College London, UK ? Zbigniew J?drzejewski-Szmek, Red Hat Inc., Warsaw, Poland ? Jakob Jordan, Department of Physiology, University of Bern, Switzerland For the University of Camerino, Italy: ? Barbara Re, Computer Science Division, School of Science and Technology, University of Camerino Italy Website: https://python.g-node.org Contact: python-info at g-node.org From gangluo at cs.wisc.edu Sun Mar 3 14:45:29 2019 From: gangluo at cs.wisc.edu (GANG LUO) Date: Sun, 3 Mar 2019 19:45:29 +0000 Subject: Connectionists: VLDB Workshop on Data Management and Analytics for Medicine and Healthcare (DMAH 2019) Message-ID: -- Call for Papers -- The Fifth International Workshop on Data Management and Analytics for Medicine and Healthcare (DMAH 2019) In Conjunction with VLDB 2019 Los Angeles, CA, USA August 30, 2019 http://dmah.info/ Healthcare enterprises are producing large amounts of data through electronic medical records, medical imaging, health insurance claims, surveillance, and others. Such data have high potential to transform current healthcare to improve healthcare quality and prevent diseases, and advance biomedical research. Medical Informatics is an interdisciplinary field that studies and pursues the effective use of medical data, information, and knowledge for scientific inquiry, problem solving and decision making, driven by efforts to improve human health and well being. The goal of the workshop is to bring people in the field cross-cutting information management and medical informatics to discuss innovative data management and analytics technologies highlighting end-to-end applications, systems, and methods to address problems in healthcare, public health, and everyday wellness, with clinical, physiological, imaging, behavioral, environmental, and omic- data, and data from social media and the Web. It will provide a unique opportunity for interaction between information management researchers and biomedical researchers for the interdisciplinary field. This workshop welcomes papers that address fundamental research issues for complex medical data environments, data management and analytical methods, systems and applications. Topics of interest include, but not limited to: Big data management for medical data; Blockchain for healthcare; Biomedical data integration; Biomedical knowledge management and decision support; Semantics and interoperability for healthcare data; Clinical natural language processing and text mining; Predictive modelling for diagnosis and treatment; Visual analytics for medical data; Medical image analytics; Data privacy and security for healthcare data; Hospital readmission analytics; Medical fraud detection; Social media and Web data analytics for public health (public health 2.0); Data analytics for pervasive computing for medical care. DMAH 2019 accept two types of papers: 1) Regular research papers reporting original research results or significant case studies (18 pages). 2) Extended abstracts presenting novel research directions or challenging problems (4 pages). Important Dates: Abstract (optional): May 25, 2019 Individual Workshop Papers: June 1, 2019 Notification of Acceptance: June 25, 2019 Camera Ready: June 30, 2019 Workshop date: August 30, 2019 All submitted papers will be rigorously reviewed. All accepted papers will be made available as a workshop proceedings to be published by Springer LNCS. Workshop Chairs: Fusheng Wang, Stony Brook University, USA Gang Luo, University of Washington, USA Yanhui Liang, Google Alevtina Dubovitskaya, Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts and Swisscom, Switzerland From george at cs.ucy.ac.cy Mon Mar 4 04:00:29 2019 From: george at cs.ucy.ac.cy (George Angelos Papadopoulos) Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2019 11:00:29 +0200 Subject: Connectionists: The 27th ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP 2019): Last Call for Demos and Late Breaking Results In-Reply-To: References: <9D907F9B-A04A-43F0-8623-6D92E4132AC9@cs.ucy.ac.cy> <46CA4E92-4B9B-4D1B-8B60-A1D0C2701DE3@cs.ucy.ac.cy> <24094F96-58F5-466E-A748-E91B9EC6E8A2@cs.ucy.ac.cy> <95F40EA8-2662-46AD-B301-3385D4B8601B@cs.ucy.ac.cy> <05EDB924-A9A7-4E3B-8E36-05EAE5D4242A@cs.ucy.ac.cy> <6FC69A4B-F456-4336-A7CC-2AAE2723CB67@cs.ucy.ac.cy> <3D0926CD-0237-493E-BBD1-914DD649F38F@cs.ucy.ac.cy> <66C85F2E-2E7D-4CFC-9BFF-ED6926E34DD9@cs.ucy.ac.cy> <87A185A1-0F32-441B-A0D0-F088969A82DF@cs.ucy.ac.cy> <10B49D4E-3C6A-4AE3-BBC6-679AB0B65AE9@cs.ucy.ac.cy> <31E2A0CF-A9B3-4B1F-B35B-3AA5FE9BA74C@cs.ucy.ac.cy> <4AB8F882-4D87-462C-B18B-6791389543A0@cs.ucy.ac.cy> <9CA4B861-3FB4-4681-B02F-679D6C2ED351@cs.ucy.ac.cy> Message-ID: *** LAST CALL FOR DEMOS AND LATE BREAKING RESULTS *** 27th ACM International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (ACM UMAP 2019) Golden Bay Beach Hotel 5*, Larnaca, Cyprus, June 9-12, 2019 https://www.um.org/umap2019/ Submissions due: March 16, 2019 ACM UMAP - User Modelling, Adaptation and Personalization is the premier international conference for researchers and practitioners working on systems that adapt to individual users, to groups of users, and that collect, represent, and model user information. ACM UMAP 2019 invites Demonstrations and Late-Breaking Results (LBR) papers of innovative UMAP-based systems (including research prototypes). You are encouraged to submit your Demo or LBR by March 16th 2019. DEMONSTRATIONS Demonstrations will showcase research prototypes and commercially available products in a dedicated session. Demo submissions must be based on an implemented and tested system that pursues one or more innovative ideas in the interest areas of the conference. Demonstrations are an excellent and exciting way to showcase implementations and to get valuable feedback from the community. Each demo submission must make clear which aspects of the system will be demonstrated, and how. To better identify the value of demos, we also encourage authors to submit a pointer to a screencast (max. 5 minutes on Vimeo or YouTube) or to any external material related to the demo (e.g., shared code on GitHub). Descriptions of demonstrations should have a length of max. 2 pages in the ACM SIG proceedings template. On an extra page (not to be published), submissions should include a specification of the technical requirements for demonstrating the system at UMAP 2019. LATE-BREAKING RESULTS Late-Breaking Results (LBR) are research-in-progress that must contain original and unpublished accounts of innovative research ideas, preliminary results, industry showcases, and system prototypes, addressing both the theory and practice of User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization. In addition, papers introducing recently started research projects or summarizing project results are welcome as well. We encourage researchers and practitioners to submit a late-breaking work as it provides a unique opportunity for sharing valuable ideas, eliciting useful feedback on early-stage work, and fostering discussions and collaborations among colleagues. Late-Breaking Results papers have a length of 4 to 6 pages in the ACM SIG proceedings template and will be presented to the conference as posters. SUBMISSION AND REVIEW PROCESS Submissions (demos and late-breaking results) must adhere to the ACM SIG Standard (SIGCONF) proceedings template. A template can be found at: https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template . Submit your papers in PDF format via EasyChair for ACM UMAP 2019 Demos and Late-Breaking Results at: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=umap2019_demo-lbr . The review process will be single blinded, i.e. authors' names should be included in the papers. Submissions will be reviewed by at least two independent reviewers. They will be assessed based on their originality and novelty, potential contribution to the research field, potential impact in particular use cases, and the usefulness of presented experiences, as well as their overall readability. Papers that exceed the page limits (2 pages for demos and 6 pages for LBR) or do not adhere to the formatting guidelines will be returned without review. IMPORTANT DATES ? Submission of demos and LBR papers: March 16th, 2019 ? Notification of acceptance: April 5th, 2019 ? Camera-ready versions of accepted papers: April 15th, 2019 Note: The submissions times are 11:59 pm Anywhere on Earth. PUBLICATION AND PRESENTATION Accepted Demo and Late Breaking Results papers will be published in the ACM UMAP 2019 Adjunct Proceedings in the ACM Digital Library. All categories will be presented at the poster reception of the conference, in the form of a poster and/or a software demonstration following poster format. This form of presentation will provide presenters with an opportunity to obtain direct feedback about their work from a wide audience during the conference. At least one author of each accepted paper must register for the conference and present the paper there. LATE-BREAKING RESULTS AND DEMO CHAIRS ? Styliani Kleanthous, University of Cyprus, Cyprus & RISE LIMITED, Cyprus (Contact: stellak AT ucy.ac.cy) ? Maria Bielikova, Slovak University of Technology Bratislava, Slovakia ? Ben Steichen, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, USA -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From moritzgw at tuebingen.mpg.de Mon Mar 4 06:36:48 2019 From: moritzgw at tuebingen.mpg.de (Moritz Grosse-Wentrup) Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2019 12:36:48 +0100 Subject: Connectionists: Full-time research technician at the University of Vienna Message-ID: <5b9607ab-cecb-3376-fe84-60e94c9dc149@tuebingen.mpg.de> Dear Colleagues: I am setting up a new research group at the University of Vienna and have an open (full time and, following a successful evaluation after one year, open-ended) position for a research technician.Besides general IT-support, the primary task of the research technician would be to maintain our EEG lab. I would appreciate if you could pass on the ad to potential candidates: https://tinyurl.com/y2ll2ak5 Informal inquiries should be sent to moritz.grosse-wentrup at univie.ac.at. Thanks, Moritz -- Univ.-Prof. Dr.-Ing. Moritz Grosse-Wentrup Research Group Neuroinformatics Faculty of Computer Science University of Vienna H?rlgasse 6, A-1090 Wien, Austria moritz.grosse-wentrup at univie.ac.at From siddharth at iffsid.com Mon Mar 4 10:34:06 2019 From: siddharth at iffsid.com (Siddharth N) Date: Mon, 04 Mar 2019 15:34:06 +0000 Subject: Connectionists: CFP: CVPR Workshop on Language and Vision Message-ID: <87mumavekx.fsf@eng.ox.ac.uk> Fourth Workshop on Language and Vision @CVPR19 ---------------------------------------------- http://languageandvision.com/ June 16, 2019 @ Long Beach, CA in conjunction with CVPR 2019 CALL FOR PAPERS: The interaction between language and vision, despite seeing traction as of late, is still largely unexplored. This is a particularly relevant topic to the vision community because humans routinely perform tasks which involve both modalities. We do so largely without even noticing. Every time you ask for an object, ask someone to imagine a scene, or describe what you're seeing, you're performing a task which bridges a linguistic and a visual representation. The importance of vision-language interaction can also be seen by the numerous approaches that often cross domains, such as the popularity of image grammars. More concretely, we've recently seen a renewed interest in one-shot learning for object and event models. Humans go further than this using our linguistic abilities; we perform zero-shot learning without seeing a single example. You can recognize a picture of a zebra after hearing the description "horse-like animal with black and white stripes" without ever having seen one. Furthermore, integrating language with vision brings with it the possibility of expanding the horizons and tasks of the vision community. We have seen significant growth in image and video-to-text tasks but many other potential applications of such integration ? answering questions, dialog systems, and grounded language acquisition ? remain largely unexplored. Going beyond such novel tasks, language can make a deeper contribution to vision: it provides a prism through which to understand the world. A major difference between human and machine vision is that humans form a coherent and global understanding of a scene. This process is facilitated by our ability to affect our perception with high-level knowledge which provides resilience in the face of errors from low-level perception. It also provides a framework through which one can learn about the world: language can be used to describe many phenomena succinctly thereby helping filter out irrelevant details. Topics covered (non-exhaustive): - language as a mechanism to structure and reason about visual perception, - language as a learning bias to aid vision in both machines and humans, - novel tasks which combine language and vision, - dialogue as means of sharing knowledge about visual perception, - stories as means of abstraction, - transfer learning across language and vision, - understanding the relationship between language and vision in humans, - how computer vision can explain the neural underpinning of language and vision, - reasoning visually about language problems, and - joint video and language alignment and parsing Call for papers --------------- We are calling for submissions to be showcased at a poster session, with selected papers given spotlights. In the spirit of fostering a freer exchange of ideas, we welcome both novel and previously-published work. Submissions can hence be: a. 2-4 page extended abstracts (excluding references), or b. relevant full submissions (from current or recent conferences) for which the authors will have the option of providing an arXiv link. Submissions are *not* archival, and will not be included in the Proceedings of CVPR 2019, although links to papers can be provided for display on the workshop website. SUBMISSION DEADLINE: May 31st 2019 anywhere on earth (AoE). Organized by: N. Siddharth, University of Oxford Andrei Barbu, MIT Dan Gutfreund, IBM Philip Torr, University of Oxford From caip2019 at unisa.it Tue Mar 5 01:49:02 2019 From: caip2019 at unisa.it (caip2019 at unisa.it) Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2019 07:49:02 +0100 Subject: Connectionists: Extended call for Workshops/Tutorials at CAIP 2019 in Salerno, Italy Message-ID: <4f75bc78-0510-6b20-6d9b-609c3202a766@unisa.it> The CAIP2019 Organizing Committee invites proposals for workshops and tutorials in conjunction with the 18th International Conference on Computer Analysis of Images and Patterns. The workshops and tutorials will be held as side events of the main conference. *Proposals for Workshop* The CAIP2019 workshops will provide forums where participants will have opportunities to discuss technical topics and actively share ideas. The topics of the workshops should be at the frontiers of academic research or important applications in the domain of computer vision and pattern recognition. Each proposal will be assessed for its scientific content, structure and relevance. Cogently, good proposals would encourage discussion and interaction between the participants, achievable in a several ways, e.g., through presentations of submitted work, panel discussions and hands-on sessions. Download here the Call for Workshops *Proposals For Tutorials* The CAIP 2019 Organizing Committee invites proposals for tutorials to be held as side events of the main conference in Salerno, Italy. Tutorials should serve one or more of the following objectives: * Introduce students and newcomers to major topics of CAIP research * Provide instruction on established practices and methodologies * Survey a mature area of CAIP research and/or practice * Motivate and explain a CAIP topic of emerging importance * Introduce expert non-specialists to a CAIP research area Proposals should contain the following information: * The title and a brief description of the tutorial * A detailed outline of the tutorial, including preferred length of tutorial: either 3 hours (half day) or 6 hours (full day). If it is a full-day tutorial, please give a brief justification * Characterization of the potential target audience for the tutorial, including prerequisite knowledge and estimated number of attendees * A description of why the tutorial topic would be of interest to a substantial part of the CAIP audience * A brief resume of the presenter(s), which should include name, title, affiliation, e-mail address, background in the tutorial area, example of work in the area (e.g. publications and/or industrial work). Download here the Call for Tutorials *Submission* Proposals should be submitted by electronic mail to the CAIP Organizing Committee (caip2019 at unisa.it ) *Important Dates* Deadline for workshop proposal: *March 11, 2019 *Notification of Acceptance: *March 15, 2019* -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From belk at cs.ucy.ac.cy Tue Mar 5 04:28:56 2019 From: belk at cs.ucy.ac.cy (Marios Belk) Date: Tue, 05 Mar 2019 11:28:56 +0200 Subject: Connectionists: Workshop on Adaptive and Personalized Privacy and Security (APPS 2019) at ACM UMAP 2019 Message-ID: <5bbd72fb7111fdb2e60ec14ce21fc0b7@cs.ucy.ac.cy> ACM UMAP Workshop - Adaptive and Personalized Privacy and Security (APPS 2019) - CALL FOR PAPERS The International Workshop on Adaptive and Personalized Privacy and Security, in conjunction with the 27th ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (ACM UMAP 2019), Larnaca, Cyprus, June 09-12, 2019 Workshop Website: http://appsworkshop.cs.ucy.ac.cy Paper Submissions: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=apps2019 IMPORTANT DATES Papers submission deadline: March 13, 2019 (23:59 AoE time) Notification: March 26, 2019 Camera-ready papers: April 03, 2019 MOTIVATION & GOALS Millions of users across different continents and countries are daily engaged with privacy and security tasks which are indispensable in modern information systems and services. Such tasks are commonly related to user authentication, human interaction proofs (e.g., captcha), privacy and security pop-up dialogs, setting privacy and security features within online user profiles, etc. Recent privacy and security incidents of famous online services have once more underpinned the necessity towards further investigating and improving current approaches and practices related to the design of efficient and effective privacy and security. In order to achieve this objective, one possible direction is related to providing adaptive and personalized characteristics to privacy- and security-related user tasks, given the diversity of the user characteristics (like cultural, cognitive, age, habits), the technology (like standalone, mobile, mixed-virtual-augmented reality, wearables) and interaction contexts of use (like being on the move, social settings, spatial limitations). Hence, adaptive and personalized privacy and security implies the ability of an interactive system or service to support its end-users, who are engaged in privacy- and/or security-related tasks, based on user models which describe in a holistic way what constitutes the user?s physical, technological and interaction context in which computation takes place. APPS 2019 aims to bring together researchers and practitioners working on diverse topics related to understanding and improving the usability of privacy and security software and systems, by applying user modeling, adaptation and personalization principles. The workshop will address the following objectives: - increase our understanding and knowledge on supporting usable privacy and security interaction design through novel user modeling mechanisms and adaptive user interfaces; - discuss methods and techniques for understanding user attitudes and perceptions towards privacy and security issues in various application areas; - identify human-centered models for the design, development and evaluation of adaptive and personalized privacy and security systems; - discuss methods for evaluating the impact and added value of adaptation and personalization in privacy and security systems. TOPICS OF INTEREST Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Adaptation and personalization approaches in usable privacy and security - Effects of human factors (e.g., cognition, personality, etc.) in privacy and security systems - Novel user interaction concepts and user interfaces for achieving usable security - Cultural diversity in usable privacy and security - Context-aware privacy and security - Adaptive usable security in various domains such as healthcare, IoT, automotive - Trust perceived in patient-centric healthcare systems - Perceived security and usability in patient-centric healthcare systems - Adaptive user authentication policies - Novel approaches to the design and evaluation of usable security systems - Lessons learned from the deployment and use of usable privacy and security features - Ethical considerations in adaptive and personalized privacy and security PAPER SUBMISSION & PUBLICATION All workshop papers must contain original, previously unpublished, research work adhering the two publication types: - Full research papers (6 pages, incl. references), proposing new approaches, innovative methods and research findings. - Short research papers (4 pages, incl. references), presenting works in progress, lessons learned, emerging or future research issues and directions on topics related to APPS. Manuscripts should be formatted using the ACM Standard (SIGCONF) templates (http://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template). Please submit your paper through the EasyChair submission system: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=apps2019 At least one author of each accepted paper must attend the workshop and present the paper. Accepted papers will be published by ACM and will be available via the ACM Digital Library. ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Marios Belk, University of Central Lancashire, Cyprus Campus, CY Christos Fidas, University of Patras, GR Elias Athanasopoulos, University of Cyprus, CY Andreas Pitsillides, University of Cyprus, CY From l.zaadnoordijk at tcd.ie Tue Mar 5 05:38:36 2019 From: l.zaadnoordijk at tcd.ie (Lorijn Zaadnoordijk) Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2019 10:38:36 +0000 Subject: Connectionists: Two-fully funded PhD scholarships at Trinity College Dublin Message-ID: How does the human mind develop? The FOUNDCOG team will address this question using neuroimaging of infants, in their critical first year after birth, to capture the development of the brain and its functions. We will interpret the results by comparing them to computational models of learning from artificial intelligence. In addition to characterising the development of the human mind, we aim to understand how it is disrupted by brain injury and to produce new diagnostic tools for neonatologists. Two fully-funded PhD Scholarships are available. PhD Scholarship in Computational Modelling * To start September 2019 * Includes fees, stipend and travel for 4 years, with funding from the ERC FOUNDCOG project * Excellent candidates from outside of the EU will also be considered * Selection will begin on March 15, 2019 and the position will remain open until filled Learn more: https://www.cusacklab.org/foundcogphd2019b.html PhD Scholarship in Neuroimaging of Neonatal Brain Injury * To start September 2019 * Includes fees, stipend and travel for 4 years, with funding from Science Foundation Ireland * Excellent candidates from outside of the EU will also be considered * Selection will begin on March 15, 2019 and the position will remain open until filled Learn more: https://www.cusacklab.org/foundcogphd2019a.html To learn more about: the Cusack Lab, visit www.cusacklab.org; Trinity College Dublin (founded 1592), www.tcd.ie; and the vibrant city of Dublin www.visitdublin.ie. 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For regular papers plese choose Regular Sessions topic. For special sessions please choose the corresponding Special Session as topic of your submission. If you intend to submit your work to WASA workshop, please use its EasyChair submission system. Accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings, available on IEEE Xplore and submitted to be indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection databases. INISTA 2019 Chairs -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From george at cs.ucy.ac.cy Tue Mar 5 05:50:18 2019 From: george at cs.ucy.ac.cy (George Angelos Papadopoulos) Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2019 12:50:18 +0200 Subject: Connectionists: The 27th ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP 2019): Last Call for Theory, Opinion and Reflection Papers In-Reply-To: References: <9D907F9B-A04A-43F0-8623-6D92E4132AC9@cs.ucy.ac.cy> <46CA4E92-4B9B-4D1B-8B60-A1D0C2701DE3@cs.ucy.ac.cy> <24094F96-58F5-466E-A748-E91B9EC6E8A2@cs.ucy.ac.cy> <95F40EA8-2662-46AD-B301-3385D4B8601B@cs.ucy.ac.cy> <05EDB924-A9A7-4E3B-8E36-05EAE5D4242A@cs.ucy.ac.cy> <6FC69A4B-F456-4336-A7CC-2AAE2723CB67@cs.ucy.ac.cy> <3D0926CD-0237-493E-BBD1-914DD649F38F@cs.ucy.ac.cy> <66C85F2E-2E7D-4CFC-9BFF-ED6926E34DD9@cs.ucy.ac.cy> <87A185A1-0F32-441B-A0D0-F088969A82DF@cs.ucy.ac.cy> <10B49D4E-3C6A-4AE3-BBC6-679AB0B65AE9@cs.ucy.ac.cy> <31E2A0CF-A9B3-4B1F-B35B-3AA5FE9BA74C@cs.ucy.ac.cy> <4AB8F882-4D87-462C-B18B-6791389543A0@cs.ucy.ac.cy> <9CA4B861-3FB4-4681-B02F-679D6C2ED351@cs.ucy.ac.cy> Message-ID: <27A5E5A7-B2E2-4D74-A406-063939D2C1CD@cs.ucy.ac.cy> *** LAST CALL FOR THEORY, OPINION AND REFLECTION PAPERS *** 27th ACM International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (ACM UMAP 2019) Golden Bay Beach Hotel 5*, Larnaca, Cyprus, June 9-12, 2019 https://www.um.org/umap2019/ Submissions due: March 16, 2019 ACM UMAP - User Modelling, Adaptation and Personalization is the premier international conference for researchers and practitioners working on systems that adapt to individual users, to groups of users, and that collect, represent, and model user information. Theory, Opinion and Reflection (TOR) are position papers that critically look at ongoing and emerging research topics, reflections on persistent or fleeting trends in the field and blue sky future ideas for UMAP research. They offer an opportunity for discussing thought-provoking work relevant to the UMAP community, albeit they are not yet ready to be published as a full length research papers at a refereed conference. They should be of sufficient quality and relevance to the UMAP community and demonstrate the ability to spur discussion and debate on the future course of the UMAP research. The presentations will be in the form of a 10 minute pitch in a plenary conference session, just before a break. The presenters will present the topic and raise relevant questions to stimulate discussion during the breaks. Submissions should have a maximum length of 4 pages in the ACM SIG proceedings template. SUBMISSION AND REVIEW PROCESS Submissions must adhere to the ACM SIG Standard (SIGCONF) proceedings template. A template can be found at: https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template. Submit your papers in PDF format via EasyChair for UMAP 2019 TOR at: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=umap2019tor. The review process will be single blinded, i.e. authors' names should be included in the papers. Submissions will be reviewed by at least two independent reviewers. They will be assessed based on their originality and novelty, potential to stimulate discussion on important research questions, potential contribution to UMAP research and practice, potential impact in particular use cases, as well as their overall readability. Papers that exceed the page limits (4 pages for TOR) or do not adhere to the formatting guidelines will be returned without review. IMPORTANT DATES ? Submission of TOR papers: March 16th, 2019 ? Notification of acceptance: April 5th, 2019 ? Camera-ready versions of accepted papers: April 15th, 2019 Note: The submissions times are 11:59 pm Anywhere on Earth. PUBLICATION AND PRESENTATION Accepted Theory, Opinion and Reflection papers will be published in the ACM UMAP 2019 Adjunct Proceedings in the ACM Digital Library. All categories will be presented at the poster reception of the conference, in the form of a poster and/or a software demonstration following poster format. This form of presentation will provide presenters with an opportunity to obtain direct feedback about their work from a wide audience during the conference. At least one author of each accepted paper must register for the conference and present the paper there. THEORY, OPINION AND REFLECTION PAPERS CHAIRS ? Jan-Geert Houben, Delft University, The Netherlands (g.j.p.m.houben AT tudelft.nl) ? Bamshad Mobasher, DePaul University, USA (mobasher AT cs.depaul.edu) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From abhijin at virginia.edu Tue Mar 5 11:59:25 2019 From: abhijin at virginia.edu (Adiga, Abhijin (aa5ts)) Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2019 16:59:25 +0000 Subject: Connectionists: Multiple postdoc positions at NSSAC, BII, UVA Message-ID: The Network Systems Science & Advanced Computing (NSSAC) Division of the Biocomplexity Institute & Initiative at the University of Virginia is seeking postdoctoral associates for multiple positions in machine learning, data analytics, and high-performance computing. The Biocomplexity Institute performs world-class informatics research in life sciences, social sciences, and human health by integrating theory, modeling and simulation with computational and experimental science in a transdisciplinary, team science research environment. The NSSAC Division uses information science to create solutions for complex societal problems. Our simulation systems are critical to the success of detecting new threats, natural and man-made, and planning strategic responses. Application areas include computational epidemiology, computational biology, computational social science, and more. This position provides the opportunity to work with a large team of researchers working on a diverse range of projects ranging from genomic analysis to large-scale simulations of social systems. The postdoctoral researcher will work on developing novel machine learning, data analytics, and HPC methods and will contribute to multiple projects funded through DARPA, NSF, NIH, NASA, IARPA, and others. Required Qualifications: Applicants must have received or be on track to receive a PhD in Artificial Intelligence, Machine learning, high-performance computing, or in a very closely related field by May of 2019 and must hold a PhD at the time of appointment. Preferred application areas include urban science and analytics, biosystems and social sciences. Experience programming in java, python, or C++ Excellent communication skills, both oral and written, demonstrated through the development of publications and delivery of presentations. Desired Qualifications: Research experience with big data, multi-scale simulation systems and machine learning Experience with databases and computing on clusters. Programming for parallel computing In addition, the candidate must be motivated, enthusiastic, self-driven and have demonstrated the ability to work in a highly collaborative team science environment. TO APPLY: Upload the following materials at https://uva.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/UVAJobs (Requisition number R0003518): Cover Letter detailing your relevant experience and interest in the position and summary of your coursework CV Contact information for three references In addition, please have three confidential letters of reference sent to this email address: nssacjobs at virginia.edu. Review of applications will begin on March 7, 2019 and will continue until the position is filled. This is a restricted position based upon the continued availability of funding. The position will be based in Charlottesville, VA, USA. Charlottesville is home to Thomas Jefferson?s Monticello and the University of Virginia, and is nestled in a valley surrounded by the picturesque Blue Ridge Mountains ideal for hiking, mountain biking, and fishing. It has the best of both worlds: a college town vibe and energy juxtaposed to a chic, cosmopolitan atmosphere given the numerous restaurants, rooftop bars, breweries and wineries, boutique stores, theaters, and entertainment venues you?ll find on the pedestrian Downtown Mall and surrounding area. Charlottesville also has its fair share of cultural events and festivals, but if you ever need a big city boost, hop on Amtrak to Washington, D.C. or New York for a weekend getaway. Guaranteed, you always will be glad to come back. To learn more about the Biocomplexity Institute and the Network Systems Science & Advanced Computing Division, please visit us at biocomplexity.virginia.edu For questions about the application process, please contact Savanna Galambos, Faculty Search Advisor, at skh7b at virginia.edu. From srikanth.ramaswamy at epfl.ch Wed Mar 6 05:11:55 2019 From: srikanth.ramaswamy at epfl.ch (Srikanth Ramaswamy) Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2019 10:11:55 +0000 Subject: Connectionists: =?utf-8?q?Neuromodulation_of_Neural_Microcircuits?= =?utf-8?q?_NM=C2=B2_conference=2C_24-26_May_2019?= Message-ID: <8C0309A5-539F-4901-946B-06B620A43885@epfl.ch> [https://nm2.epfl.ch/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/NM2_banner_2019-1.jpg] Dear All, We are delighted to announce the second Neuromodulation of Neural Microcircuits NM? conference on May 24 ? 26, in Champ?ry, Switzerland. Click here for the Conference website The overarching goal of the second NM? Conference is to provide a unifying and mechanistic view by which an ever-increasing number of neuromodulators, including monoamines, and peptides ? the master switches ? control genes, proteins, neurons and glia, dendrites, synapses, and emergent states in neural microcircuits across different brain regions in health and disease. Building such a mechanistic view of neuromodulation encounters several fundamental challenges to consider: 1. How do sensory signals, internal brain states, and computations in microcircuits, trigger the release of specific neuromodulators? 2. How do neuronal assemblies and larger brain circuits respond to neuromodulators? 3. How do neuromodulators shape synaptic plasticity and brain states? To this end, the NM? Conference will bring together researchers to bridge a variety of disciplines using state-of-the-art techniques in different brain regions, towards the common goal of understanding the mechanisms and principles of neuromodulation and addressing the challenges above. Our fundamental objective is to organize a dynamic conference that will highlight an up-to-date view of the neuromodulation of brain states, establish future directions, and attract new talent to drive forward this important field. REGISTRATION To register for the Conference, please click here Please register as soon as possible; only a limited number of seats are available. POSTER ABSTRACTS When submitting an abstract PhD students and Postdocs are encouraged to apply for Blue Brain travel awards to participate in the NM2 Conference. Awards, which are only open to those who submit abstracts, include registration for the Conference (including accommodation and full board), and travel support. Some of the submitted abstracts will be selected for flash talks. Please feel free to contact Dace Stiebrina should you have any questions concerning the conference. Looking forward to seeing many of you there! Best, Srikanth ------------ Dr. Srikanth Ramaswamy Senior Scientist - Neuromodulation of Cells and Circuits EPFL - Blue Brain Project Campus Biotech Chemin des Mines 9 CH 1202, Geneva, Tel: +41 21 693 9633 Fax: +41 21 693 5350 www: people.epfl.ch/srikanth.ramaswamy -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: image001.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 104286 bytes Desc: image001.jpg URL: From Albrecht_Zimmermann at gmx.net Wed Mar 6 05:35:38 2019 From: Albrecht_Zimmermann at gmx.net (Albrecht Zimmermann) Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2019 11:35:38 +0100 Subject: Connectionists: CFP: ECML PKDD 2019 Demo Track Message-ID: An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ales.zamuda at um.si Wed Mar 6 07:44:32 2019 From: ales.zamuda at um.si (=?utf-8?B?QWxlxaE=?= Zamuda) Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2019 13:44:32 +0100 Subject: Connectionists: FANCCO 2019 July 10-12, Maribor Slovenia - 2nd Call for Papers *** Deadline Extended to 10 April 2019 *** Message-ID: <1b36a3a0-f33a-4364-b9bd-16c3e483736b@ex7.thor.um.si> *** Apologies for cross-posting. Appreciate if you can distribute the CFP.*** *** 2nd Call for Papers***Deadline Extended***Submission due 10 April 2019.*** *** Keynote speakers: Benjamin Doerr, Ponnuthurai Nagaratnam Suganthan *** ****************************************************************************** Fuzzy And Neural Computing Conference (FANCCO 2019) July 10-12, 2019 Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Maribor Venue: Hotel City Maribor, Maribor, Slovenia, EU ****************************************************************************** IMPORTANT DATES --------------- Submission of Full Manuscript 10 April 2019 - Extended Deadline (was 8 March 2019) Notification of Acceptance 20 April 2019 Camera Ready Copy 5 May 2019 Submission of Tutorial Proposals 1 March 2019 Submission of Special Session Proposal 1 March 2019 Early Registration 15 May 2019 Introduction ------------ The FANCCO 2019 is the fifth international conference of this series. FANCCO 2019 conference aims at bringing together researchers from academia and industry to report and review the latest progresses in the cutting - edge research with Fuzzy and Neural computing to explore new application areas and to design new algorithms for solving specific hard problems and to create awareness on these domains to a wider audience and practitioners. Therefore, researchers are encouraged to submit their contributions in both theoretical and practical aspects. Theme ----- The topics of the conference is related to the following (but not limited to): Neural Network theory & models, Learning and adaptation, Computational neuroscience, Cognitive models, Brain-machine interfaces, Neurodynamics, Neuroinformatics, Neuroengineering, Neural hardware. Fuzzy Set theory, Type II Fuzzy Logic, Decision Making, Rough Set theory, Hybrid Fuzzy System. Collective intelligence, Hybrid systems with fuzzy, Swarm, evolutionary methods Computational biology, Bioinformatics, Artificial life. Application in the domain of Signal image / speech processing / time series analysis. Other applications like Pattern Recognition / Machine Intelligence / Machine Vision / Data Mining / Robotics / Sensor Networks etc. PUBLICATION ============================================================================== Prospective authors are invited to submit paper(s) not exceeding 8 pages written in A4 size and as per the LNCS, Springer format on any one of the conference topics. The proceedings will be published by LNCS series of Springer (Pending Approval). Paper Submission: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=semcco2019andfancco2 Contact Address: ales.zamuda at um.si For Further Details visit: http://fancco2019.org/ The Conference Proceedings are published by LNCS series of Springer indexed in ISI Proceedings, DBLP, IO-Port, EI, ACM Portal, Scopus, INSPEC, etc. HOSTING EVENT ============================================================================== 7-th Joint International Conferences on Swarm, Evolutionary and Memetic Computing Conference (SEMCCO 2019) & Fuzzy And Neural Computing Conference (FANCCO 2019) The SEMCCO 2019 is the seventh international conference of this series, where SEMCCO 2010 has been successfully organized at SRM University Chennai, SEMCCO 2011 at ANITS, Visakhpatnam, SEMCCO 2012 at SOA University, Bhubaneswar, SEMCCO 2013 at SRM University, Chennai, SEMCCO 2014 at SOA University, Bhubaneswar, and SEMCCO 2015 at Hyderabad, India. The FANCCO 2019 is the fifth international conference of this series, collocated and co-organized with SEMCCO. COMMITTEES ============================================================================== GENERAL CHAIR Ales Zamuda, University of Maribor, Maribor, Slovenia GENERAL CO-CHAIR Swagatam Das, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India Ponnuthurai Nagaratnam Suganthan, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Bijaya Ketan Panigrahi, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, Delhi, India PROGRAM CHAIR Swagatam Das, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India STEERING COMMITTEE CHAIR Ponnuthurai Nagaratnam Suganthan, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore INTERNATIONAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE Rammohan Mallipeddi, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, Republic of Korea Kalyanmoy Deb, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, USA Francisco Herrera, University of Granada, Granada, Spain Weiping Ding, Nantong University, Nantong, China Kusum Deep, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, Roorkee, India Liang Gao, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, USA Adam Piotrowski, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland Ivan Zelinka, Technical University of Ostrava, Ostrava, Czech Republic Fatih Tasgetiren, Yasar University, Izmir, Turkey Roman Senker?k, Tomas Bata University in Zl?n, Zl?n, Czech Republic Jos? Daniel Hern?ndez Sosa, University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain PUBLICATION CHAIR Bijaya Ketan Panigrahi, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, Delhi, India INTERNATIONAL TECHNICAL COMMITTEE Mostafa Z. Ali, Jordan University of Science and Technology, Irbid, Jordan Janez Brest, University of Maribor, Maribor, Slovenia Ying-ping Chen, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu City, Taiwan Swagatam Das, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India Kalyanmoy Deb, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, USA Kusum Deep, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, Roorkee, India Weiping Ding, Nantong University, Nantong, China Tome Eftimov, Stanford University, USA Francisco Herrera, University of Granada, Granada, Spain Mohammed El-Abd, American University of Kuwait, Salmiya, Kuwait Steffen Finck, University of Applied Sciences, Dornbirn, Austria Liang Gao, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, USA Jos? Daniel Hern?ndez Sosa, University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain Mauro Iacono, University of Campania Luigi Vanvitelli, Caserta, Italy Zuzana Kom?nkov? Oplatkov?, Tomas Bata University in Zl?n, Zl?n, Czech Republic Antonio LaTorre, Technical University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain Simone Ludwig, North Dakota State University, Fargo, USA Rammohan Mallipeddi, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, Republic of Korea Karol Opara, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland Millie Pant, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, Roorkee, India Adam Piotrowski, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland S.G. Ponnambalam, Universiti Malaysia Pahang, Pekan, Malaysia Ponnuthurai Nagaratnam Suganthan, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Roman Senker?k, Tomas Bata University in Zl?n, Zl?n, Czech Republic Fatih Tasgetiren, Yasar University, Izmir, Turkey Ankit Thakkar, Nirma University, Ahmedabad, India Yong Wang, Central South University, Changsha, China Daniela Zaharie, West University of Timisoara, Timisoara, Romania Ales Zamuda, University of Maribor, Maribor, Slovenia Ivan Zelinka, Technical University of Ostrava, Ostrava, Czech Republic From mgalle at gmail.com Wed Mar 6 15:23:02 2019 From: mgalle at gmail.com (=?UTF-8?Q?Matthias_Gall=C3=A9?=) Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2019 21:23:02 +0100 Subject: Connectionists: 2nd CfP: ACL workshop - Deep Learning and Formal Languages: Building Bridges Message-ID: Deep Learning and Formal Languages: Building Bridges Deep Learning and Formal Languages: Building Bridges -- ACL 2019 Workshop August 2nd - Florence, Italy Website: https://sites.google.com/view/delfol-workshop-acl19 SUBMISSION DEADLINE: *26 April 2019* While deep learning and neural networks have revolutionized the field of natural language processing, changed the habits of its practitioners and opened up new research directions, many aspects of the inner workings of deep neural networks remain unknown. At the same time, we have access to many decades of accumulated knowledge on formal languages, grammar, and transductions, both weighted and unweighted and for strings as well as trees: closure properties, computational complexity of various operations, relationships between various classes of them, and many empirical and theoretical results on their learnability. The goal of this workshop is to bring researchers together who are interested in how our understanding of formal languages can contribute to the understanding and design of neural network architectures for natural language processing. For example, fundamental work on neural nets has examined whether they could learn different classes of formal languages, and reciprocally whether formal grammars or automata could closely approximate neural networks. Recently we have seen new research directions on what each formalism can bring to understand or improve the other. Topics which fall within the purview of the workshop include, but are not limited to - Learnability of formal languages with neural nets (both strong and weak learning) - Relationship between deep learning models and linguistically inspired formalisms - Connections between neural network architectures and classical computational models - Traditional formal grammars augmented through non-linearity - Hybrid models combining neural networks and finite state machines - The use of formal grammars to analyze and interpret the behavior of neural networks - Approximating neural networks with weighted automata and grammars - Including formal grammar constraints as symbolic priors in neural networks The programme will consist of invited speakers, presentations of selected contributions and a poster-session for discussion. We are delighted to announce the following list of speakers: - R?mi Eyraud (Aix-Marseilles University) - Robert Frank (Yale University) - John Kelleher (Dublin Institute of Technology) - Kevin Knight (Didi) - Ariadna Quattoni (dMetrics) - Noah Smith (University of Washington) We *call *for three types of papers: (1) Regular workshop paper: original and unpublished work in the context of this workshop, up to 8 pages (excluding references). Will be included in the workshop proceedings. (2) Extended abstracts: on-going work, intermediate results or positions papers. Up to 4 pages (excluding references), which will not be included in the proceedings. (3) Cross-submissions: relevant work published elsewhere in the last 12 months. Together with the pdf, you will be asked at submission time the reference of the original paper. Will not be included in the workshop proceedings. Note that we will be able to offer *travel grants *to some students, thanks to generous support from Naver Labs. Some *recent work *which falls within the scope of this call include: Bridging CNNs, RNNs, and Weighted Finite-State Machines. Roy Schwartz, Sam Thomson,and Noah A Smith. (ACL 2018) Rational Recurrences. Hao Peng, Roy Schwartz, Sam Thomson, Noah A. Smith. (ENMLP 2018) Recurrent Neural Networks as Weighted Language Recognizers. Y. Chen, S. Gilroy, A. Maletti, J. May, and K. Knight. (NAACL 2018) Using Regular Languages to Explore the Representational Capacity of Recurrent Neural Architectures. Abhijit Mahalunkar and John D. Kelleher. (ICANN 2018) Explaining black boxes on sequential data using weighted automata. St?phane Ayache, R?mi Eyraud and No? Goudian. (ICGI 2018) Extracting Automata from Recurrent Neural Networks Using Queries and Counterexamples. Gail Weiss, Yoav Goldberg, and Eran Yahav. (ICML 2018) Generalized Earley Parser: Bridging Symbolic Grammars and Sequence Data for Future Prediction. Siyuan Qi, Baoxiong Jia, and Song-Chun Zhu. (ICML 2018) Efficient Gradient Computation for Structured Output Learning with Rational and Tropical Losses. Corinna Cortes, Vitaly Kuznetsov, Mehryar Mohri, Dmitry Storcheus, Scott Yang (NIPS 2018) Composing RNNs and FSTs for Small Data: Recovering Missing Characters in Old Hawaiian Text. Oiwi Parker Jones and Brendan Shillingford (IRASL workshop at NIPS 2018) Verification of Recurrent Neural Networks Through Rule Extraction. Q Wang, K Zhang, X Liu, and CL Giles (arxiv.org 2018) A Comparison of Rule Extraction for Different Recurrent Neural Network Models and Grammatical Complexity. Q Wang, K Zhang, II Ororbia, G Alexander, X Xing, X Liu, CL Giles (arxiv.org 2018) Grammar Variational Autoencoder. Matt J. Kusner, Brooks Paige, Jos? Miguel Hern?ndez-Lobato. (ICML 2017) Subregular Complexity and Deep Learning. Enes Avcu, Chihiro Shibata, and Jeffrey Heinz. (LAML 2017) Recurrent Neural Network Grammars. Chris Dyer, Adhiguna Kuncoro, Miguel Ballesteros, and Noah A. Smith. (NAACL 2016). Weighting finite-state transductions with neural context. Pushpendre Rastogi, Ryan Cotterell, and Jason Eisner (NAACL 2016) Connecting Weighted Automata and Recurrent Neural Networks Through Spectral Learning. G. Rabusseau, T. Li and D. Precup. (AISTATS 2019) *Programme Committee* - Rapha?l Bailly, Universit? Paris 1 - Borja Balle, Amazon - Xavier Carreras, dMetrics - Shay B. Cohen, University of Edinburgh - Alex Clark, University of London - Ewan Dunbar, Universit? Paris Diderot - Marc Dymetman, Naver Labs Europe - Kyle Gorman, City University of New York - Hadrien Glaude, Amazon - John Hale, University of Georgia - Mans Hulden, University of Colorado - Franco Luque, University of C?rdoba - Chihiro Shibata, Tokyo University of Technology - Adina Williams, FAIR *Organizers* - Jason Eisner, Johns Hopkins University - Matthias Gall?, Naver Labs Europe - Jeffrey Heinz, Stony Brook University - Ariadna Quattoni, dMetrics - Guillaume Rabusseau, Universit? de Montr?al / Mila -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From pkordjam at tulane.edu Wed Mar 6 23:41:33 2019 From: pkordjam at tulane.edu (Kordjamshidi, Parisa) Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2019 04:41:33 +0000 Subject: Connectionists: [CFP Deadline Extension] Combined Workshop on Spatial Language Understanding (SpLU) & Grounded Communication for Robotics (RoboNLP) @NAACL-HLT 2019 References: <3A832242-3558-433B-86B3-7DA3C30F53E8@tulane.edu> Message-ID: <08B0BD44-6C9A-40DA-9F81-2C27E3707B17@tulane.edu> THIRD CALL FOR PAPERS ?????????????????????? DEADLINE EXTENSION To March 11, 2019 11:59pm UTC-12. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Combined Workshop on Spatial Language Understanding (SpLU) & Grounded Communication for Robotics (RoboNLP) at NAACL-HLT 2019, June 6, Minneapolis, USA. Website: https://splu-robonlp.github.io --------------------------------------------------------------- AIM AND SCOPE --------------------------------------------------------------- SpLU-RoboNLP 2019 is a combined workshop on spatial language understanding (SpLU) and grounded communication for robotics (RoboNLP) that focuses on spatial language, both linguistic and theoretical aspects, and its application to various areas including and especially focusing on robotics. The combined workshop aims to bring together members of NLP, robotics, vision, and related communities in order to initiate discussions across fields dealing with spatial language along with other modalities. The desired outcome is identification of both shared and unique challenges, problems and future directions across the fields and various application domains. While language can encode highly complex, relational structures of objects, spatial relations between them, and patterns of motion through space, the community has only scratched the surface on how to encode and reason about spatial semantics. Despite this, spatial language is crucial to robotics, navigation, NLU, translation and more. Standardizing tasks is challenging as we lack formal domain independent meaning representations. Spatial semantics requires an interplay between language, perception and (often) interaction. Following the exciting recent progress in visual language grounding, the embodied, task-oriented aspect of language grounding is an important and timely research direction. To realize the long-term goal of robots that we can converse with in our homes, offices, hospitals, and warehouses, it is essential that we develop new techniques for linking language to action in the real world, where spatial language understanding is essential. Can we give instructions to robotic agents to assist with navigation and manipulation tasks in remote settings? Can we talk to robots about the surrounding visual world, and help them interactively learn the language needed to finish a task? We hope to learn about (and begin to answer) these questions as we delve deeper into spatial language understanding and grounding language for robotics. --------------------------------------------------------------- TOPICS OF INTEREST --------------------------------------------------------------- The major topics covered in the workshop include: - Spatial Language Meaning Representation (Continuous, Symbolic) - Spatial Language Learning and Reasoning - Multimodal Spatial Understanding - Instruction Following (real or simulated) - Grounded or Embodied tasks - Datasets and evaluation metrics For a full description and subtopics, please look at the workshop website at https://splu-robonlp.github.io/ . --------------------------------------------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES --------------------------------------------------------------- Extended Submission Deadline: March 11, 2019 March 6, 2019 (11:59pm UTC-12) Notification: March 27, 2019 Camera Ready deadline: April 5, 2019 Workshop Day: June 6, 2019 --------------------------------------------------------------- SUBMISSION AND SELECTION PROCESS --------------------------------------------------------------- We encourage contributions with technical papers (NAACL style, 8 pages without references) or position statements (NAACL style, 4 pages maximum) describing previously unpublished work. NAACL Style files are available here. Both archival and non-archival submissions are accepted. Please make submissions via Softconf here. --------------------------------------------------------------- BEST PAPER(S) --------------------------------------------------------------- The SpLU-RoboNLP 2019 expert program committee will select the best paper(s) for an award. --------------------------------------------------------------- INVITED SPEAKERS --------------------------------------------------------------- * Dhruv Batra, GaTech/FAIR * Joyce Chai, Michigan State University * Cynthia Matuszek, UMBC * Raymond J. Mooney, UT Austin * Martha Palmer, CU Boulder * Matthias Scheutz, Tufts * Stefanie Tellex, Brown * Dilek Hakkani-Tur, Amazon --------------------------------------------------------------- PROGRAM COMMITTEE --------------------------------------------------------------- * Malihe Alikhani, Rutgers University, USA * Yoav Artzi, Cornell University, USA * Jacob Arkin, Univ of Rochester, USA * John A. Bateman, Universit?t Bremen, Germany * Mehul Bhatt, ?rebro University, Sweden * Jonathan Berant, Tel-Aviv University, Israel * Raffaella Bernardi, University of Trento, Italy * Steven Bethard, University of Arizona, USA * Johan Bos, University of Groningen, The Netherlands * Volkan Cirik, CMU, USA * Guillem Collell, KU Leuven, Belgium * Joyce Chai, Michigan State University, USA * Angel Chang, Stanford University, USA * Simon Dobnik, CLASP and FLOV, University of Gothenburg, Sweden * Ekaterina Egorova, University of Zurich, Switzerland * Zoe Falomir, Universit?t Bremen, Germany * Daniel Fried, UCSF, USA * Lucian Galescu, IHMC, USA * Felix Gervits, Tufts, USA * Hannaneh Hajishirzi, University of Washington, USA * Casey Kennington, Boise State University, USA * Jayant Krishnamurthy, Semantic Machines, USA * Stephanie Lukin, Army Research Laboratory, USA * Bruno Martins, University of Lisbon, Portugal * Chris Mavrogiannis, Cornell University, USA * Dipendra Misra, Cornell University, USA * Marie-Francine Moens, KU Leuven, Belgium * Ray Mooney, University of Texas, USA * Mari Broman Olsen, Microsoft, USA * Martijn van Otterlo, Tilburg University, The Netherlands * Aishwarya Padmakumar, UT Austin, USA * Natalie Parde, University of Illinois Chicago, USA * Ian Perera, IHMC, USA * James Pustejovsky, Brandeis University, USA * Preeti Ramaraj, University of Michigan, USA * Siva Reddy, Stanford University, USA * Kirk Roberts, The University of Texas Health, USA * Anna Rohrbach, UC Berkeley, USA * Marcus Rohrbach, FAIR, USA * Manolis Savva, Princeton University, USA * Jivko Sinapov, Tufts, USA * Kristin Stock, Massey University of New Zealand, New Zealand * Alane Suhr, Cornell, USA * Clare Voss, Army Research Laboratory, USA * Xin Wang, University of California Santa Barbara, USA * Shiqi Zhang, SUNY Binghamton, USA * Victor Zhong, University of Washington, USA --------------------------------------------------------------- ORGANIZING COMMITTEE --------------------------------------------------------------- * James F. Allen, University of Rochester, IHMC, jallen at ihmc.us * Jacob Andreas, Semantic Machines/MIT, jda at cs.berkeley.edu * Jason Baldridge, Google, jasonbaldridge at google.com * Mohit Bansal, UNC Chapel Hill, mbansal at cs.unc.edu * Archna Bhatia (co-chair), IHMC, abhatia at ihmc.us * Yonatan Bisk (co-chair), University of Washington, ybisk at yonatanbisk.com * Asli Celikyilmaz, Microsoft Research, asli.ca at live.com * Bonnie J. Dorr, IHMC, bdorr at ihmc.us * Parisa Kordjamshidi (chair), Tulane University, IHMC, pkordjam at tulane.edu * Matthew Marge, Army Research Lab, matthew.r.marge.civ at mail.mil * Jesse Thomason (co-chair), University of Washington, thomason.jesse at gmail.com --------------------------------------------------------------- CONTACT --------------------------------------------------------------- Feel free to contact Organizing Committee at splu-robonlp-2019 at googlegroups.com ------------------------------------------- Kordjamshidi, Parisa Assistant Professor CS Department at Tulane University Research Scientist at IHMC Homepage -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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The data set is provided on the ETRA website and includes the eye movements of 8 participants performing different tasks, including visual searches and exploration of a variety of stimuli and scenes. The Challenge Track at ETRA'19 is a new and exciting opportunity, not only to contribute to ETRA, but to present your analytical tools and approaches to other researchers-and maybe inspire them to try novel or alternative ways of data analysis! You can find more information about the data format and a detailed summary of the data collection procedures on the ETRA website as well: https://etra.acm.org/2019/challenge.html Challenge reports can be up to 4 pages. They should include an introduction to the problem you addressed and a description of the portion of the dataset you used. Challenge reports should also describe your analytical approach and your tools as well as your results and their implications. All accepted challenge reports will be published as part of the ETRA Proceedings. Formatting instructions that can be found at: http://www.siggraph.org/learn/instructions-authors. All submissions must be made electronically at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=etra19. Please choose the Challenge Track during submission. Challenge yourself and submit your report by March 22nd! Susana Martinez-Conde and Jorge Otero-Millan (Challenge Track Chairs) -------------------------------------- Susana Martinez-Conde, PhD Author, Champions of Illusion and Sleights of Mind Professor of Ophthalmology, Neurology, and Physiology & Pharmacology State University of New York (SUNY) Downstate Medical Center 450 Clarkson Ave, Brooklyn NY 11203, USA Email: smart at neuralcorrelate.com Phone: +1 718-270-4520 http://smc.neuralcorrelate.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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For more information about the opening: https://www.iit.it/careers/openings/opening/944-post-doc-opening-in-machine-learning-for-legged-robots Deadline: 20th of March 2019 Most recent results with machine learning applied to legged locomotion over rough terrain: https://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/robotics-hardware/hyq-steps-across-gaps-despite-getting-yanked-around Follow us on facebook: https://www.facebook.com/iitDLSlab/ http://dls.iit.it Best regards, Claudio Semini -- Claudio Semini, PhD Head of Dynamic Legged Systems Lab Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT) Advanced Robotics Department Via Morego 30, 16163 Genoa, Italy phone: +39 010 71781 912 email: claudio.semini at iit.it web: www.semini.ch or https://www.iit.it/claudio-semini From hausser at gmail.com Wed Mar 6 20:25:40 2019 From: hausser at gmail.com (Michael Hausser) Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2019 01:25:40 +0000 Subject: Connectionists: Cajal Course: Interacting with Neural Circuits Message-ID: *Interacting with Neural Circuits* 14 July - 3 August, 2019 Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown, Lisbon, Portugal *Course directors:* ? Leopoldo Petreanu (Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown) ? Menno Witter (Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience) ? Michael Hausser (University College London) This 3-week course combines lectures from top speakers in the field with a practical ?hands-on? introduction to the latest optical, electrophysiological, molecular and anatomical methods for probing neural circuits. Students will first learn the theoretical foundations of the techniques (weeks 1 and 2), and then perform experiments using different model systems (weeks 2 and 3). Techniques being covered in the course include the following: - 2-photon and 3-photon imaging - All-optical recording and optogenetic manipulation - Deep imaging using microendoscopes - Circuit cracking using expansion microscopy - Neuropixels recordings - Transcriptomics and connectomics More information on the course website: *https://sites.google.com/site/interactingneuralcircuits/* *Apply here: **https://www.fens.org/Training/CAJAL-programme/CAJAL-courses-2019/INC-2019/ * Application deadline:* 11 March 2019* *Stipends are available.* ---------------------------------------------------------- Michael Hausser Wolfson Institute for Biomedical Research University College London Gower Street London WC1E 6BT UK tel +44-20-7679-6756 email m.hausser at ucl.ac.uk http://www.dendrites.org/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From a.stein at fz-juelich.de Thu Mar 7 05:53:27 2019 From: a.stein at fz-juelich.de (Alexandra Stein) Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2019 11:53:27 +0100 Subject: Connectionists: Bernstein Conference 2019 in Berlin: Deadline for Workshop Proposals, March 27! Message-ID: <1f5d4ee4-d3b5-9325-46ab-2331328fc33d@fz-juelich.de> The Bernstein Network Computational Neuroscience invites proposals for Satellite Workshops directly preceding the Bernstein Conference 2019 in Berlin. ************************************************************** Important Dates: Satellite Workshops: September 17 - 18, 2019 Main Bernstein Conference: September 18 - 20, 2019 Deadline for Satellite Workshop proposal submission: March 27, 2019, 3 pm CET (Deadline will not be extended!) Notification of Workshop acceptance: April 2019 Special in 2019: The Conference on Cognitive Computational Neuroscience (CCN) will be held back-to back with the Bernstein Conference on September 13 - 16. ************************************************************** The Bernstein Conference is the largest annual single-track Computational Neuroscience conference in Europe. It hosts pre-conference workshops which provide a stage to discuss topical research questions, novel scientific approaches and challenges in Computational Neuroscience and related fields. Workshops addressing controversial issues, open problems, and comparisons of competing approaches are encouraged. The format should be designed to foster debate, rather than a mere series of talks. The selection criteria for workshop proposals will include scientific excellence, topical relevance and gender diversity. Satellite Workshop Schedule: September 17, 2019, 2:00 pm - 6:30 pm September 18, 2019, 8:30 am ? 12:30 pm Workshop proposals are welcome for either half-day or full-day workshops. Workshop Costs ? Financial Support: All organizers and speakers of accepted workshops will receive a waiver for the workshop fee. Organizers of accepted workshops additionally receive a waiver for the main conference. Coffee break catering will be provided. Up to 10 selected workshops can receive financial support up to 1.500,00 ? each. Instructions for Workshop Proposal Preparation: Workshop proposals must contain: 1) Workshop Title 2) Concise description of workshop topic 3) List of potential speakers indicating speaker commitment 4) Optional: a comment on how the organizers plan to achieve gender diversity among speakers Please use the Workshop Proposal Form that can be downloaded here: www.bernstein-network.de/en/bernstein-conference/2019/satellite-workshops Deadline for submission of Workshop Proposals: March 27, 2019, 3 pm CET (Deadline will not be extended!) For further information about the conference, please visit the conference website www.bernstein-conference.de Contact: bernstein.conference(at)fz-juelich.de We are looking forward to seeing you in Berlin! Workshop Selection Committee: Tatjana Tchumatchenko (Workshop Chair) Tim Vogels (Workshop Vice Chair) Danielle Bassett Alexander Borst Alain Destexhe Tim Gollisch M?t? Lengyel Stephanie Palmer Elad Schneidman (Program Vice Chair) Susanne Schreiber (Program Chair) Terry Sejnowski Sara Solla Henning Sprekeler (Conference Chair and Host) Gina Turrigiano -- Dr. Alexandra Stein Head of Bernstein Coordination Site Bernstein Network Computational Neuroscience | Bernstein Coordination Site (BCOS) Branch Office of the Forschungszentrum J?lich at the University of Freiburg Hansastr. 9A | 79104 Freiburg, Germany phone: (+49) 0761 203 9583 mobile: (+49) 0151 67114645 mail: a.stein at fz-juelich.de web: www.bernstein-network.de Twitter: NNCN_Germany YouTube: Bernstein TV Facebook: Bernstein Network Computational Neuroscience, Germany LinkedIn: Bernstein Network Computational Neuroscience, Germany ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Forschungszentrum Juelich GmbH 52425 Juelich Sitz der Gesellschaft: Juelich Eingetragen im Handelsregister des Amtsgerichts Dueren Nr. 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Sloan Foundation* >From the evening of Friday June 28 to noon of Sunday July 7, 2019, the second Summer School on Cognitive Foundations of Economic Behavior will take place in Vitznau, Lake Lucerne, Switzerland ( http://www.floraalpina.ch/en/hotel.html). The last 2.5 days of the Summer School consist of a workshop in which leading international researchers will present their recent findings in this area of research. The purpose of the first six days of the Summer School is to introduce graduate students and beginning researchers in economics and related disciplines to findings and methods from economics, psychology and neuroscience that allow features of human attention and perception to be taken into account when modeling economic behavior. The Summer School is part of an initiative sponsored by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and the NOMIS Foundation, pursuing the idea that many well-documented but seemingly disparate behavioral phenomena ? such as framing effects, anchoring or base-rate neglect, as well as hyperbolic discounting, probability weighting or overconfidence ? may have a unified explanation in terms of imperfect attention and perceptual error. The co-organizers and principal faculty of the Summer Institute are Andrew Caplin (NYU), Ernst Fehr (University of Zurich), and Michael Woodford (Columbia University), who will be in attendance for the full program. Teaching faculty will also include Peter Dayan (Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tubingen), Sam Gershman (Harvard), George Loewenstein (Carnegie Mellon), Weiji Ma (NYU), Antonio Rangel (CalTech), Rava Azeredo da Silveira (ENS, Paris), Andrei Shleifer (Harvard), Dmitry Taubinsky (UC Berkeley), and Angela Yu (UC San Diego). The program will include lectures and tutorials about economic models of biases resulting from inattention, imperfect memory and other forms of cognitive imprecision, as well as the psychological and neuroscientific foundations and empirical measurement of imperfect attention and memory. The sessions will outline evidence, principles, empirical methods and formal models that enable the examination of the consequences of imperfect attention and perception for important individual behaviors and market outcomes. The program will also provide opportunities for students to discuss their ideas and research with the organizers, visiting faculty, and other participants. Participation is restricted to Ph.D. students who by July 2019 will have completed at least one year of their doctoral program, postdoctoral researchers, and to faculty who have only started their faculty position in the fall of 2018 or later. Candidates in related disciplines (e.g., psychology, neuroscience, computational science) who have a strong interest and advanced training in formal economics are also eligible. Most participant costs during the workshop, including housing and most meals, will be covered, and a capped travel stipend (covering most but not all of anticipated travel costs) will also be provided. About twenty- five participants will be admitted. Participants will be required to complete some assigned readings in advance, and to fully attend all sessions of the program. There is no application form or program information beyond this announcement. (For interested students, schedules of previous conferences organized by the Sloan-Nomis program will give an indication of the kind of topics to be discussed, and can be found at https://wp.nyu.edu/sloan_nomis_project/home/events/.) To apply, send (i) a curriculum vitae, (ii) a statement (maximum three pages) describing any current research, and the general nature of your interest in the cognitive foundations of economics, (iii) an (unofficial) course/grade transcript, and (iv) two letters of recommendation from faculty advisors. All applications must include an e-mail and an alternative means of contact (e.g., phone number). Send your curriculum vita, statement, and course/grade transcript (all collapsed into a *single *pdf file) to Sloan-Nomis-Summerschool at econ.uzh.ch. Ask your recommenders to send their letters to the same email address, with the following subject line: *Sloan-Nomis recommendation letter for APPLICANT NAME. *We anticipate a large pool of highly qualified applicants and to make final decisions quickly, so applications and letters must be received by the deadline. *Complete applications, including letters of recommendation, must be received by Sunday, March 17. *We will notify applicants solely through e-mail, by Monday, April 1, and will ask participants to confirm their participation soon thereafter. Inquiries can be sent to Sloan-Nomis-Summerschool at econ.uzh.ch. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From hans.ekkehard.plesser at nmbu.no Fri Mar 8 03:00:15 2019 From: hans.ekkehard.plesser at nmbu.no (Hans Ekkehard Plesser) Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2019 08:00:15 +0000 Subject: Connectionists: NEST Conference 2019 --- Abstract submission and registration open Message-ID: <0C80323B-BDE0-4E60-9622-5CA5B37A30BE@nmbu.no> Dear colleagues! It is a great pleasure to invite everyone interested in large-scale neural network simulation, particularly current and potential users of NEST, the Neural Simulation Tool (http://www.nest-simulator.org), to the NEST Conference 2019 to be held on 24/25 June 2019 (Monday/Tuesday, lunch to afternoon) on the beautiful campus of the Norwegian University of Life Sciences at ?s, 30km south of Oslo. The NEST Conference provides an opportunity for the NEST Community to meet, exchange success stories, swap advice, learn about current developments in and around NEST spiking network simulation and its application. We would like you to share your experiences made and results obtained with NEST during the conference. You can do so either by a short oral presentation (10?15 minutes), on a poster, through a demo, or by organizing group work. Important dates ? 15 April 2019 ? Deadline for abstract submissions ? 01 May 2019 ? Notification of acceptance ? 15 May 2019 ? Deadline for registration For details, abstract submission and registration, please see http://www.nest-initiative.org/conference You are also welcome to contact us at conference at nest-initiative.org. We are looking forward to welcoming you to ?s in June! Hans Ekkehard Plesser President The Neural Technology Simulation Initiative http://www.nest-initiative.org -- Prof. Dr. Hans Ekkehard Plesser Head, Data Science Section Faculty of Science and Technology Norwegian University of Life Sciences PO Box 5003, 1432 Aas, Norway Phone +47 6723 1560 Email hans.ekkehard.plesser at nmbu.no Home http://arken.nmbu.no/~plesser From Donald.Adjeroh at mail.wvu.edu Thu Mar 7 15:04:59 2019 From: Donald.Adjeroh at mail.wvu.edu (Donald Adjeroh) Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2019 20:04:59 +0000 Subject: Connectionists: Endowed Professorship in Digital Health at WVU Message-ID: West Virginia University has an open position for an Endowed Professorship in Digital Health. Areas of critical interest are fairly open and include machine learning, artificial intelligence, remote patient care, human-computer interactions, and data analytics to enhance the quality of healthcare while reducing the total costs. The successful applicant will help create new research partnerships, including building research collaborations across multiple departments within the Statler College of Engineering and Mineral Resources and other colleges, and especially the WVU Health Sciences Center (HSC), as well other universities, foundations, and institutes in the United States and abroad. WVU is conducting world class research in its Clinical Translation Science Center (WVCTSI), Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute, Heart and Vascular Institute, and Cancer Institute. You may also know that WVU is a Carnegie R1 institution. A complete position description is available at https://chroniclevitae.com/jobs/238032-11094 See also www.jobs.wvu.edu Don Adjeroh, PhD Professor and Associate Chair Graduate Coordinator of Computer Science West Virginia University Morgantown, WV 26506 http://community.wvu.edu/~daadjeroh/ Tel: 304-293-9681 Fax: 304-293-8602 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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The University of Bristol is a significant centre for both computational neuroscience and machine learning and a leader in experimental, clinical and cognitive neuroscience. There is a robust tradition of collaboration between experimental and computational neuroscientists. Bristol itself is a friendly green coastal city with a rich and lively cultural scene and has consistently been voted one of the best places to live in the UK. You are welcome to contact one of us (conor.houghton || cian.odonnell || rui.costa)@bristol.ac.uk, or our head of department Seth Bullock, seth.bullock at bristol.ac.uk, to discuss the post informally. The closing date for applications is 31 March, with interviews in late May. We value diversity and are committed to equality of opportunity. All the best Conor Houghton Cian O'Donnell Rui Ponte Costa http://www.bristol.ac.uk/engineering/research/computational-neuroscience/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jbhayet at cimat.mx Thu Mar 7 17:14:38 2019 From: jbhayet at cimat.mx (Jean-Bernard Hayet) Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2019 16:14:38 -0600 Subject: Connectionists: [jobs] Researcher position (tenure track) in Computer Science at CIMAT, Guanajuato, Mexico Message-ID: The Centro de Investigaci?n en Matem?ticas (Mathematical Research Center - CIMAT) invites applications for a tenure track position in its Computer Science Department.CIMAT is a federal research center in Pure and Applied Mathematics, Probability, Statistics, and Computer Science, and depends on the National Council of Science and Technology of Mexico (CONACYT). Its main campus is in the city of Guanajuato, a quiet, colourful UNESCO world heritage site in central Mexico. The Computer Science Department has 16 full-time researchers and 4 postdocs working in: numerical methods, optimization, signal and image processing, parallel computing, robotics and automatic control, machine learning and data science, natural language processing and multimedia transmission.The department builds upon a solid research infrastructure, an extensive network of collaboration and international visibility. It is embedded in the rich academic life of CIMAT with visitors and specialized academic events all year round. The department?s postgraduate program is one of the leading programs in Computer Science in Mexico. CIMAT is also involved in consultancy and software development. The tenure track position is aimed for researchers working on state of the art topics in Computational Mathematics or Computer Science in general, with the potential to become leaders in their specialty fields. 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URL: From asdm at fi.upm.es Thu Mar 7 12:56:32 2019 From: asdm at fi.upm.es (asdm at fi.upm.es) Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2019 18:56:32 +0100 (CET) Subject: Connectionists: Fourteenth Madrid UPM Advanced Statistics and Data Mining Summer School (June 24th - July 5th, 2019) Message-ID: <1867750575.0.1551981392692.JavaMail.bmihaljevic@morelia> Dear colleagues, The Technical University of Madrid (UPM) will once more organize the 'Madrid UPM Advanced Statistics and Data Mining' summer school. The summer school will be held in Boadilla del Monte, near Madrid, from June 24th to July 5th. This year's edition comprises 12 week-long courses (15 lecture hours each), given during two weeks (six courses each week). Attendees may register in each course independently. No restrictions, besides those imposed by timetables, apply on the number or choice of courses. Our summer school has been an INOMICS world top ten summer schools in mathematics and statistics from 2015 to 2017. See the 2017 ranking at http://bit.ly/2oR00GI Early registration is now *OPEN*. Extended information on course programmes, price, venue, accommodation and transport is available at the school's website: http://www.dia.fi.upm.es/ASDM There is a 25% discount for members of Spanish AEPIA and SEIO societies. Please, forward this information to your colleagues, students, and whoever you think may find it interesting. Best regards, Pedro Larra?aga, Concha Bielza, Bojan Mihaljevi? and Santiago Gil Begu?. -- School coordinators. *** List of courses and brief description *** * Week 1 (June 24th - June 28th, 2019) * 1st session: 9:45-12:45 Course 1: Bayesian Networks (15 h) Basics of Bayesian networks. Inference in Bayesian networks. Learning Bayesian networks from data. Real applications. Practical demonstration: GeNIe, Weka, Bayesia, R. Course 2: Time Series(15 h) Basic concepts in time series. Linear models for time series. Time series clustering. Practical demonstration: R. 2nd session: 13:45-16:45 Course 3: Supervised Pattern Recognition (15 h) Introduction. Assessing the performance of supervised classification algorithms. Preprocessing. Classification techniques. Combining multiple classifiers. Comparing supervised classification algorithms. Practical demonstration: Weka. Course 4: Statistical Inference (15 h) Introduction. Some basic statistical test. Multiple testing. Introduction to bootstrap methods. Introduction to Robust Statistics. Practical demonstration: R. 3rd session: 17:00 - 20:00 Course 5: Neural Networks and Deep Learning (15 h) Introduction. Learning algorithms. Learning and Optimization. Deep Networks. Practical session: Jupyter notebooks in Python Anaconda with keras and tensorflow. Course 6: Big Data with Apache Spark (15 h) Introduction. Spark framework and APIs. Data processing with Spark. Spark streaming. Machine learning with Spark MLlib. * Week 2 (July 1st - July 5th, 2019) * 1st session: 9:45-12:45 Course 7: Bayesian Inference (15 h) Introduction: Bayesian basics. Conjugate models. MCMC and other simulation methods. Regression and Hierarchical models. Model selection. Practical demonstration: R and WinBugs. Course 8: Unsupervised Pattern Recognition (15 h) Introduction to clustering. Data exploration and preparation. Prototype-based clustering. Density-based clustering. Graph-based clustering. Cluster evaluation. Miscellanea. Conclusions and final advise. Practical session: R. 2nd session: 13:45-16:45 Course 9: Text Mining (15 h) Information Retrieval 101. Unsupervised Text Processing. Representation Learning. Information Extraction. Natural Language Understanding. Practical session: Python, with Jupyter notebooks. Course 10: Feature Subset Selection (15 h) Introduction. Filter approaches. Embedded methods. Wrapper methods. Additional topics. Practical session: R and Weka. 3rd session: 17:00-20:00 Course 11: Support Vector Machines and Regularized Learning (15 h) Introduction. SVM models. SVM learning algorithms. Regularized learning. Convex optimization with proximal methods. Practical session: Python Anaconda with scikit-learn. Course 12: Hidden Markov Models (15 h) Introduction. Discrete Hidden Markov Models. Basic algorithms for Hidden Markov Models. Semicontinuous Hidden Markov Models. Continuous Hidden Markov Models. Unit selection and clustering. Speaker and Environment Adaptation for HMMs. Other applications of HMMs. Practical session: HTK. From brad at kairos-research.com Fri Mar 8 19:04:17 2019 From: brad at kairos-research.com (Brandon Minnery) Date: Sat, 9 Mar 2019 00:04:17 +0000 Subject: Connectionists: industry position for Cognitive Scientist Message-ID: TITLE: Cognitive Scientist BACKGROUND: Kairos Research is a newly formed company in Dayton, OH, performing basic and applied research at the intersection of human and artificial intelligence. We currently have an opening for a full-time PhD-level Cognitive Scientist to work on a research project funded by the US Government aimed at improving counterfactual reasoning in intelligence analysis. The ultimate goal of the project is to create better intelligence analysis methodologies and to enable analysts to perform accurate "lessons learned" following intelligence failures (e.g., failure to anticipate a significant geopolitical event, such as military action by an adversary). The Cognitive Scientist position is anticipated to be a permanent position and offers competitive salary and benefits. Because Kairos Research is a new company, this is a great opportunity for a motivated individual who is just starting their career (such as a postdoc) to get in on the ground floor and help shape the future research direction of the company. As the company grows, the Cognitive Scientist will have the opportunity to work on a wide range of research projects involving human and machine cognition. We are especially interested in early-career researchers who possess a high degree of self-direction and who are willing to grow into a leadership role over time. NOTE: Given that future projects may require access to sensitive data, candidates must be US citizens or hold a green card. Additional requirements are discussed below. REQUIRED: 1) PhD in Cognitive Science, Psychology, Neuroscience, or Social Behavioral Sciences. Individuals with doctoral degrees in related disciplines such as Information Sciences, Economics and/or Political Science are also welcome to apply provided that their backgrounds include research on human reasoning and decision making. 2) Experience in designing and running experiments involving human participants, including familiarity with IRB procedures and processes. 3) Exceptional computational and data analysis skills. The candidate must be familiar with current best practices in statistical data analysis. 4) Strong interpersonal and communication skills. PREFERRED: 1) Prior research experience involving political psychology and/or geopolitical forecasting, ideally within a ?wisdom of crowds? framework. 2) Experience running studies involving online, distributed subject populations (e.g., Amazon Mechanical Turk). 3) Expertise in cognitive modeling. 4) Familiarity with current approaches in statistical AI and machine learning. CONTACT: Interested candidates should email their CVs to Brad Minnery (brad at kairos-research.com) and cc techadmin at kairos-research.com. Sincerely, Brandon (Brad) Minnery, PhD CEO Kairos Research brad at kairos-research.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From caip2019 at unisa.it Sun Mar 10 05:47:55 2019 From: caip2019 at unisa.it (caip2019 at unisa.it) Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2019 10:47:55 +0100 Subject: Connectionists: [CAIP2019] Contest on Local Image Descriptors Message-ID: <6940c821-d29f-6986-0cb3-cae0f22a5a46@unisa.it> *************************************************** ??? CAIP 2019 CONTEST on LOCAL IMAGE DESCRIPTORS ??????? Apologies for multiple posting ?Please distribute this call to interested parties *************************************************** ___________________________________________________ ?? ??? ?WHICH IS WHICH? ??? Evaluation of local descriptors for image ??????? matching in real-world scenarios ___________________________________________________ ???????????????? a contest at the 18th International Conference on Computer Analysis ???????? of Images and Patterns (CAIP 2019) ?????? Salerno, Italy, September 3-5, 2019 >>>>>>> http://cvg.dsi.unifi.it/wisw.caip2019 <<<<<<< **************************************** ?????????? Important Dates **************************************** ? March 21, 2019 - dataset online ? March 28, 2019 - submission deadline ? April 15, 2019 - results online This contest is devoted to image matching using local image descriptors. In order to test descriptor effectiveness for real-world scenarios, we have built an image pair dataset including non-trivial transformations induced by relevant viewpoint changes with respect to either planar or non-planar scenes. The evaluation metrics will be based on the exact overlap error for the planar case, and on a patch-wise approximation to it for the non-planar case. Participants will be able to download the local image patches from which to extract descriptors. The matched descriptor pairs, formatted according to the submission instructions, will be sent for evaluation to the official e-mail of the contest. Results will be published online within two weeks after the deadline. The most interesting descriptors will be selected for possible publication in the forthcoming Special Issue "Local Image Descriptors in Computer Vision" of the international journal IET COMPUTER VISION. -------------- ?Organizers -------------- Fabio Bellavia and Carlo Colombo Computational Vision Group University of Florence, Italy Contact - wisw.caip2019 at gmail.com Webpage - http://cvg.dsi.unifi.it/wisw.caip2019 PDF flyer - http://cvg.dsi.unifi.it/cvg/img/wisw.caip2019_flyer.pdf From arminmustafa at gmail.com Sun Mar 10 07:41:31 2019 From: arminmustafa at gmail.com (armin mustafa) Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2019 11:41:31 +0000 Subject: Connectionists: CFP- DynaVis CVPR 2019 Workshop -Deadline Extended In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: DynaVis: The First International Workshop on Dynamic Scene Reconstruction https://dynavis.github.io/ Workshop at CVPR 2019, Long Beach California Organizers: Armin Mustafa, Marco Volino, Dan Casas, Michael Zollhofer, Adrian Hilton Keynote Speakers - Dr. Andrew Fitzgibbon - Partner Scientist at Microsoft,Cambridge - Prof. Christian Theobalt - Head of the research group Graphics, Vision, & Video at the Max-Planck Institute for Informatics, Saarbruecken, Germany - Prof. Matthias Nie?ner - Head of the Visual Computing Lab at Technical University of Munich - Dr. Angjoo Kanazawa - BAIR Postdoc, UC Berkeley Call for contributions Reconstruction of general dynamic scenes is motivated by potential applications in film and broadcast production together with the ultimate goal of automatic understanding of real-world scenes from distributed camera networks. With recent advances in hardware and the advent of virtual and augmented reality, dynamic scene reconstruction is being applied to more complex scenes with applications in Entertainment, Games, Film, Creative Industries and AR/VR/MR. We welcome contributions to this workshop in the form of oral presentations, posters and demos. Suggested topics include, but are not limited to: - Dynamic 3D reconstruction from single, stereo or multiple views - Multi-modal dynamic scene modelling (RGBD, LIDAR, 360 video, light-field) - 4D reconstruction and modelling - 3D segmentation and recognition - 3D/4D data acquisition, representation, compression and transmission - Scene analysis and understanding - Structure-from-motion, camera calibration and pose estimation - Geometry processing - Computational photography - Appearance and reflectance modelling - Scene modelling in the wild - Applications of dynamic scene reconstruction (virtual/augmented/mixed reality, character animation, free-viewpoint video, relighting, medical imaging, creative content production, animal welfare, HCI, sports) We welcome submissions from both industry and academia, including interdisciplinary work and work from those outside of the mainstream computer vision community. Submission website: https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/DYNAVIS2019 Important Dates Paper submission deadline: March 15, 2019 Notification to authors: April 01, 2019 Camera ready deadline: April 08, 2019 Best Regards, Armin Mustafa, Marco Volino, Michael Zollhofer, Dan Casas, Adrian Hilton Virus-free. www.avg.com <#DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2> -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From pkoenig at uos.de Mon Mar 11 09:45:48 2019 From: pkoenig at uos.de (=?UTF-8?Q?Peter_K=c3=b6nig?=) Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2019 14:45:48 +0100 Subject: Connectionists: =?utf-8?q?PhD_position_on_embodied_cognition=2C_P?= =?utf-8?q?eter_K=C3=B6nig_lab=2E?= Message-ID: <194e1a8a-a0d0-4f6a-b839-7868dbce028d@uos.de> A PhD position 75% E 13 TV-L for 3 years is available in my lab (Peter K?nig) at the University Osnabr?ck, Germany: Perform EEG recordings and eye tracking in the real and virtual worlds to explore embodied cognition. Example data are at https://www.dropbox.com/s/3ax3d2pad7pd6yv/EEG_Eyetracking_dataset_hq%20%28Converted%29_4.mp4?dl=0 The red dot indicates the gaze position, the audio concurrent alpha activity. For full information see: https://www.uni-osnabrueck.de/universitaet/stellenangebote/stellenangebote_detail/49_ikw_research_assistant.html ? or drop a line. Best, Peter K?nig -- Prof. Dr. Peter K?nig, Institute of Cognitive Science, University Osnabr?ck From iswc.conf at gmail.com Mon Mar 11 13:08:54 2019 From: iswc.conf at gmail.com (International Semantic Web Conference) Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2019 18:08:54 +0100 Subject: Connectionists: [CfP] ISWC 2019 - Call for Research, In-use, Resource, Doctoral Consortium and Journal papers Message-ID: 18th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2019) ?Knowledge Graphs, Linked Data, Linked Schemas and AI on the Web? Auckland, New Zealand, 26-30 October, 2019 https://iswc2019.semanticweb.org/ The International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC) is the premier venue for presenting fundamental research, innovative technology, and applications concerning semantics, data, and the Web. It is the most important international venue to discuss and present latest advances and applications of the semantic Web, knowledge graphs, linked data, ontologies and artificial intelligence (AI) on the Web. ISWC attracts a large number of high quality submissions every year and participants from both industry and academia. ISWC brings together researchers from different areas, such as artificial intelligence, databases, natural language processing, information systems, human computer interaction, information retrieval, web science, etc., who investigate, develop and use novel methods and technologies for accessing, interpreting and using information on the Web in a more effective way. Follow us: Twitter: @iswc_conf , #iswc_conf ( https://twitter.com/iswc_conf ) LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/13612370 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ISWConf/ Become part of ISWC 2019 by submitting to the following tracks & activities or just attend them! (All deadlines are midnight Hawaii time.) In this announcement: * Highlights 1. Call for Research papers 2. Call for In-use papers 3. Call for Resource papers 4. Call for Doctoral Consortium 5. Call for Journal papers * Highlights ******************************************* * Research, In-use and Resource tracks: submission of the same work to multiple tracks is not allowed and may result in a rejection of the work across all tracks without a review. Before submitting, authors are asked to consult the calls of the other tracks featured at ISWC 2019 and to choose the track that best suits their contribution. Please consult the following page as well when deciding to which track to submit: https://iswc2019.semanticweb.org/paper-features-per-track/ * Research track: papers submitted to the research track will be subject to **double blind** peer review. * Research track: a reproducibility certification with a dedicated review board will be proposed to the accepted research track papers that include a significant experimental evaluation. * Doctoral Consortium: papers submitted to the doctoral consortium will be subject to **double blind** peer review. 1. Call for Research papers ******************************************* In this track of ISWC 2019, we are looking for novel and significant research contributions addressing theoretical, analytical and empirical aspects of the Semantic Web. While we welcome work that relates to the W3C Semantic Web recommendations (e.g., RDF, OWL, SPARQL, etc.), we also encourage contributions to research at the intersection of Semantic Web and other scientific disciplines. Submissions to the research track should describe original, significant, and replicable research on the Semantic Web. All papers must include method evaluations that are rigorous, repeatable and reproducible. This will be one of the key paper reviewing criteria. We also strongly encourage papers that provide material such as data sets, source code, queries used to evaluate their approach, and/or live deployments. To comply with the double blind review policy we encourage the usage of non-personal storage spaces or the additional material facility available at submission time. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Database, information retrieval, information extraction, natural language processing and artificial intelligence techniques for the Semantic Web * Knowledge representation and reasoning on the Web * Knowledge graphs and deep semantics * Machine learning and data mining methods for the Semantic Web * Data mining and knowledge discovery in Linked data and ontologies * Robust and scalable management of semantics and data on the Web and in Linked Data * Processing and storage of semantic data on the blockchain * Methods to investigate and catalogue semantic primitives used in ontology definitions * Enabling access to ontologies and knowledge bases by rendering the knowledge in different modalities, e.g. as natural language text, explanatory video, interactive elements, etc. * Languages, tools, and methodologies for representing and managing semantics and data on the Web * Programming the Semantic Web * Architectures and algorithms for extreme volume, heterogeneity, dynamicity, and decentralization of Semantic Web data * Cleaning, quality assurance, and provenance of Semantic Web data, services, and processes * Ontology-based data access and integration/exchange on the Web * Ontology engineering and ontology patterns for the Web * Ontology modularity, mapping, merging, and alignment for the Web * Search, query, integration, and analysis on the Semantic Web * Supporting multi-linguality in the Semantic Web * Question answering over Linked Data and ontologies * Information visualization and exploratory analysis methods for Semantic Web data * Semantic social network mining, analysis, representation, and management * Crowdsourcing semantics; methods, dynamics, and challenges * Geospatial semantics and data on the Web * Data streams and the Internet of Things * Semantic technologies for mobile platforms * Trust, privacy, and security on the Semantic Web * Semantic Web and Linked Data for cloud environments * Access control and privacy in semantic data Further info: https://iswc2019.semanticweb.org/call-for-research-track-papers/ == Important Dates == Abstracts: April 3, 2019 Full papers: April 10, 2019 == Program Chairs == Contact: iswc2019-program at inria.fr Chiara Ghidini, Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK), Italy Olaf Hartig, Link?ping University, Sweden 2. Call for In-use papers ******************************************* The adoption of Semantic Web technologies has accelerated in recent years, where they are now deployed in a variety of real-world settings at a variety of scales. The In-Use Track at ISWC 2019 continues the tradition of demonstrating and learning from the increasing adoption of Semantic Web technologies by providing a forum for the community to explore the benefits and challenges of applying such technologies in concrete, practical use cases, beyond the research communities from which they originate, in contexts ranging from industry to government and science. The In-Use Track thus seeks submissions describing applied and validated solutions such as software tools, systems or architectures that benefit from the use of Semantic Web technologies (including, but not limited to, technologies based on the Semantic Web standards). Importantly, submitted papers should provide convincing evidence of the use of the proposed application or tool by the target user group, preferably outside the group that conducted the development and, more broadly, outside the Semantic Web research community. A main focus of the submissions should be on the benefits of Semantic Web technologies for the intended use case, as well as (if relevant) the added challenges they introduce. We welcome submissions that demonstrate the use of Semantic Web technologies such as those mentioned in the Call for Papers of the Research Track, and additionally cover one or more of the following topics: * Applications in domain-specific areas (e.g., libraries, cultural heritage, healthcare, life sciences, engineering, smart manufacturing, smart cities, open government) * Description and analysis of concrete and novel problems or use cases in a specific domain in which Semantic Web technologies were applied (this should be part of submissions presenting a concrete application) * Descriptions of how Semantic Web resources (ontologies, datasets, software, standards, etc) are being used in practice * Assessment of the Semantic Web technologies from diverse points of view, such as: - Usability and acceptance by stakeholder groups - Uptake outside the Semantic Web research community - Scalability of Semantic Web solutions and their large scale deployment - Technical strengths and weaknesses especially in comparison with alternative technologies (e.g., database management systems, model-driven engineering) - Costs and benefits of implementing, deploying, using, and managing Semantic Web technologies - Risks and opportunities of using Semantic Web technologies in organizations with respect to their businesses and customers * Lessons learned and best practices from deploying and using an application or service based on Semantic Web technologies * Comparison of Semantic Web technologies with alternative approaches that use conventional or competing technologies Further info: https://iswc2019.semanticweb.org/call-for-in-use-track-papers/ == Important Dates == Abstracts: April 3, 2019 Full papers: April 10, 2019 == Program Chairs == Contact: iswc2019-in-use at inria.fr Isabel Cruz, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA Aidan Hogan, Universidad de Chile, Chile 3. Call for Resource papers ******************************************* Resources are of paramount importance as they foster scientific advancement. For example, the DBpedia resource had a major influence on the Semantic Web community by enabling the Linked (Open) Data movement. Validating a research hypothesis or providing answers to a research question often goes together with developing new resources that support these achievements. Sharing resources is key to allow other researchers to compare new results, reproduce experimental settings and explore new lines of research, in accordance with the FAIR principles for scientific data management. Yet, resources themselves rarely get the same recognition as the scientific advances they facilitate. The ISWC 2019 Resources Track aims to promote the sharing of resources including, but not restricted to: datasets, ontologies/vocabularies, ontology design patterns, evaluation benchmarks or methods, software tools/services, APIs and software frameworks, workflows, crowdsourcing task designs, protocols, methodologies and metrics, that contribute to the generation of novel scientific work. In particular, we encourage the sharing of such resources following best practices within the Semantic Web community. This track calls for contributions that provide a concise and clear description of a resource and its usage. A typical Resource track paper has its focus set on reporting on one of the following categories of resources: * Datasets produced - to support specific evaluation tasks; - to support novel research methods; - by novel algorithms; * Ontologies, vocabularies and ontology design patterns, with a focus on describing the modelling process and decisions underlying their creation; * Benchmarking activities focusing on datasets and algorithms for comprehensible and systematic evaluation of existing and future systems; * Reusable research prototypes / services supporting a given research hypothesis; * Community-shared software frameworks that can be extended or adapted to support scientific study and experimentation; * Scientific and experimental workflows used and reused in practical studies; * Novel evaluation methodologies and metrics, and their demonstration in an experimental study. Further info: https://iswc2019.semanticweb.org/call-for-resources-track-papers/ == Important Dates == Abstracts: April 3, 2019 Full papers: April 10, 2019 == Program Chairs == Contact: iswc2019-resource at inria.fr Maria Maleshkova, SDA, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany Vojt?ch Sv?tek, University of Economics, Prague, Czech Republic 4. Call for Doctoral Consortium Papers ********************************************** The ISWC 2019 Doctoral Consortium will take place as part of the 18th International Semantic Web Conference in Auckland, New Zealand. This forum will provide PhD students an opportunity to share and develop their research ideas in a critical but supportive environment, to get feedback from mentors who are senior members of the Semantic Web research community, to explore issues related to academic and research careers, and to build relationships with other Semantic Web PhD students from around the world. The Consortium aims to broaden the perspectives and to improve the research and communication skills of these students. The Doctoral Consortium is intended for students who have a specific research proposal and some preliminary results, but who have sufficient time prior to completing their dissertation to benefit from the consortium experience. Generally, students in their second or third year of PhD will benefit the most from the Doctoral Consortium. In the Consortium, the students will present their proposals and get specific feedback and advice on how to improve their research plan. All proposals submitted to the Doctoral Consortium will undergo a thorough reviewing process with a view to providing detailed and constructive feedback. The international program committee will select - submissions for presentation at the Doctoral Consortium. Students with accepted submissions at the Doctoral Consortium will be eligible to apply for travel fellowships to offset some of the travel costs but they will be asked to attend the whole day of the Doctoral Consortium. We ask the PhD students to submit a 12 page description of their PhD research proposal. All proposal have to be submitted electronically via the EasyChair conference submission System. The proposal text must have at least 8 sections (some can be very short), addressing each of the following questions: 1. Problem statement: What is the problem that you are addressing? 2. Relevancy: Why is the problem important? Who will benefit if you succeed? Who should care? 3. Related work: How have others attempted to address this problem? Why is the problem difficult? 4. Research question(s): What are the research questions that you plan to address? 5. Hypotheses: What hypotheses are related to your research questions? See Is This Really Science? The Semantic Webber?s Guide to Evaluating Research Contributions. 6. Preliminary results: Do you have any preliminary results that demonstrate that your approach is promising? 7. Approach: How are you planning to address your research questions and test your hypotheses? What is the main idea behind your approach? The key innovation? 8. Evaluation plan: How will you measure your success ? faster/ more accurate/ less failures/ etc.? How do you plan to test your hypothesis? What will you measure? What will you compare to? 9. Reflections: Why do you think you will succeed where others failed? Provide an argument, based either on common knowledge or on evidence that you have accumulated, that your approach is likely to succeed. Further info: https://iswc2019.semanticweb.org/call-for-doctoral-consortium-papers/ == Important Dates == Full papers due April 17, 2019 Notifications May 15, 2019 Camera-ready papers due June 14, 2019 == Program Chairs == Contact: iswc2019-doctoral-consortium at inria.fr Miao Qiao, Computer Science Department, the University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand Mauro Dragoni, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Trento, Italy 5. Call for Journal papers ******************************************* The journal track is intended as a forum for presentations of significant Semantic Web-related research results that have been published recently in well known and established journals and have never been presented at any Semantic Web-related conference. The goal is to give visibility of these results to a conference audience as well as to promote discussions concerning such results. Eligible papers should either have been published within the Semantic Web Journal or Journal of Web Semantics or must be clearly fitting the ISWC topics, if published in alternative established and recognized journals (see the list below). Specifically, eligible papers should have been published (even only in the electronic version) in the last around two years (starting from January 1st 2017 until present), though exceptions could be made for papers judged as potentially very influential but that have been published before January 2017. The authors of such papers will have the opportunity to present their work during the conference days. The abstracts of accepted papers will be published on the conference web site and the papers themselves will be compiled into a CEUR-WS Proceedings for easy Web retrieval and archival, but they will not be part of the printed Springer conference proceedings. Metadata for all accepted submissions will be included in the conference metadata corpus. Detailed information about metadata creation will be provided with the acceptance notification of the successful submissions. Further info: https://iswc2019.semanticweb.org/call-for-journal-track/ == Important Dates == Submissions due May 29, 2019 Notifications June 27, 2019 Camera-ready papers due July 18, 2019 == Program Chairs == Contact: iswc2019-journal at inria.fr Claudia d?Amato, University of Bari, Bari, Italy Lalana Kagal, MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA See you all in Auckland! The ISWC 2019 Organising Team ( https://iswc2019.semanticweb.org/organizing-committee/ ) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From byronyu at cmu.edu Tue Mar 12 00:43:32 2019 From: byronyu at cmu.edu (Byron Yu) Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2019 00:43:32 -0400 Subject: Connectionists: SAND: Upcoming Deadlines In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: The ninth international workshop on Statistical Analysis of Neuronal Data (SAND9) will take place on May 21-23, 2019, in Pittsburgh, PA. KEY DEADLINES: - March 20: Abstracts for Young Investigator Talks (open to students, postdocs, or assistant professors; talks to be selected by organizing committee) - March 25: Request for travel support (**most attendees will receive substantial travel support**) - April 15: Abstracts for Contributed Posters Abstract submission and more information can be found on the SAND9 website: http://sand.stat.cmu.edu Confirmed keynote speakers and panelists include: Marlene Cohen, University of Pittsburgh Xue Han, Boston University Tim Harris, Janelia Farm Elizabeth Hillman, Columbia Dion Khodagholy, Columbia Dayu Lin, NYU Dan O'Connor, Johns Hopkins University Bijan Persaran, NYU Spencer Smith, University of California, Santa Barbara Nick Steinmetz, University of Washington Jonathan Viventi, Duke The organizers are Zhe (Sage) Chen, Matthew Harrison, Rob Kass, Sri Sarma, Byron Yu. From pdrahul2 at gmail.com Mon Mar 11 16:56:36 2019 From: pdrahul2 at gmail.com (Rahul Pandey) Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2019 16:56:36 -0400 Subject: Connectionists: [Deadline Extended! Mar 20th, 2019] CALL FOR WORKSHOP/SPECIAL-SESSION PROPOSALS - 18th IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence | Thessaloniki, Greece, 14th - 17th October 2019 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: [Our apologies should you receive this message more than once] __________________________________________________________________________ CALL FOR WORKSHOP/SPECIAL-SESSION PROPOSALS Web Intelligence 2019 18th IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence Thessaloniki, Greece, 14th - 17th October 2019 https://webintelligence2019.com/ DEADLINE: MARCH 20, 2019 You are invited to submit a workshop/special-session proposal as part of the WI '19 conference ABOUT WI '19 WORKSHOPS ---------------------------------------- The 18th Web Intelligence conference (WI '19) will be held in Thessaloniki (Greece) during 14th to 17th of October 2019. Its organizing committee invites proposals for workshops/special sessions to be held in conjunction with the conference. The goals of the workshops are to explore emerging research topics and to provide a forum for authors to present early research results on these topics. We would like to have a number of workshops, with a high quality program dominated by contributed papers. We expect that workshops will run a rigorous review process, to make sure programs will be of high-quality. Organizers may structure workshops/tutorials as they see fit, possibly including invited talks, panel discussions, presentations of work in progress, peer-reviewed papers, demonstrations, or some combination. WI '19 WORKSHOP CO-CHAIRS --------------------------------------------- Dimitrios Katsaros, ECE, University of Thessaly, Greece (dkatsar at inf.uth.gr ) Rahul Pandey, IST, George Mason University, USA (rpandey4 at gmu.edu) TOPICS OF INTEREST ------------------------------- - the topic falls in the general scope of Web Intelligence 2019; - As the theme for this year's conference is "Web Intelligence = AI in the Connected World", workshops/special-sessions under this theme is encouraged; - there is a clear focus on a specific technology, problem or application; - there should be a greater impact to the society; In particular, we encourage the submission of workshop/special-session proposals on: - Fairness in Web - Deep Learning/ML in the Web - Web for Social Good - Web for Smart cities - Web in/for IoT - Misinformation handling in the Web - Recommendation Systems for the Web - Big Data on the Web - User behavior modeling in the Web - NLP in the Web - Mobile data mining in the Web - Social intelligence - Web/text mining IMPORTANT DATES ----------------------------- Workshop/Special-Session Proposal Submission Deadline - 5th March, 2019 Workshop/Special-Session Proposal Notification of Acceptance - 25th March, 2019 All Workshops/Special-Sessions Day - 4th October, 2019 SUBMISSION INSTRUCTION ---------------------------------------- The workshop proposal, in PDF, should provide the following information, in the following format: HEADING: - Title of the workshop/special-session and acronym - Proposed duration (half-day or full-day) - Workshop (co-)chair(s) name, affiliation. mailing address, and e-mail address - Short CV of (co-)chair(s) including past experience in organizing workshops and/or related events INTRODUCTION: - Abstract: One paragraph describing the workshop/special-session purpose (max. 200 words) - Scope and topics of the workshop RATIONALE: - Motivation and rationale - Why the workshop is related to WI 2019; - Why the topic is timely and important; - Why the workshop may attract a significant number of submissions of good quality; - Why the workshop may attract a large number of attendees, in addition to the authors; - Why the workshop differs from others; - Related workshops and conferences of similar topics; WORKSHOP DETAILS: - Tentative committee lists (organizers, program committee, etc.) - Expected number of participants and the expected number of submissions - A short list of potential authors that are expected to submit papers to the workshop - A draft call for papers (max 1 page) - A description of the publicity and promotion plan - Workshop tentative internal and external schedule (expect adjustments by the workshops chairs to align all workshop schedules) - Submission deadline; - Review deadline; - Acceptance deadline; - Camera ready; - Program ready; - Workshop format planned (keynote, expected number of presented papers, invited talks, panels, demonstrations, etc.) Please send a whole copy of your proposal in PDF format to workshop co-chairs with subject "Submission of WI 2019 workshop proposal: XXX", where XXX should be replaced by the acronym of your workshop REVIEW PROCESS ------------------------- The decision about acceptance or rejection of workshop proposals will be made by the Workshop co-Chairs in consultation with the General and Program Committee Chairs, taking into account several factors including overall quality, the topic fit with respect to The Web Intelligence Conference 2019, the coverage of the topic in other tracks of the conference, the estimated number of attendees for the workshop, etc. ORGANIZATION DUTIES ---------------------------------- - Announce the calls for papers - Create and maintain the workshop/special-session website - Publicize workshop/special-session in the relevant communities - Create the Program Committee - Conduct the review process - Schedule the workshop/special-session program REGISTRATION ---------------------- Workshop/special session paper registration fees are the same as regular conference fees. All registered participants are entitled to attend all keynotes, sessions, workshops, panels, tutorials and social events. PUBLICATION --------------------- Full day workshops should have 10-14 regular papers (max 8 pages), while half day should have 5-7 regular papers. On the other hand, special-session should have 4-6 regular papers. The papers must be submitted electronically via Cyberchair in standard ACM Conference Proceedings format (max 8 pages). The workshop's organizers will have the responsibility to ensure the presence of authors of the accepted papers at the workshops. Download this in pdf: http://webintelligence2019.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/WI-19_CFP-Workshops_Special-Session.pdf - -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From bogdanlapi at gmail.com Tue Mar 12 05:36:06 2019 From: bogdanlapi at gmail.com (Bogdan Ionescu) Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2019 11:36:06 +0200 Subject: Connectionists: 2nd Call-for-Participation: ImageCLEF 2019 Tasks Message-ID: [Apologies for multiple postings] ImageCLEF 2019 Multimedia Retrieval in CLEF http://www.imageclef.org/2019/ https://www.facebook.com/ImageClef/ https://twitter.com/imageclef/ *** 2nd CALL FOR PARTICIPATION *** ImageCLEF 2019 is an evaluation campaign that is being organized as part of the CLEF (Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum) labs. The campaign offers several research tasks that welcome participation from teams around the world. The results of the campaign appear in the working notes proceedings, published by CEUR Workshop Proceedings (CEUR-WS.org) and are presented in the CLEF conference. Selected contributions among the participants will be invited for submission to a special section "Best of CLEF'19 Labs" in the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) of CLEF'20, together with the annual lab overviews. Target communities involve (but are not limited to): - information retrieval (text, vision, audio, multimedia, social media, sensor data, etc.) - machine learning, deep learning - data mining - natural language processing - image and video processing - computer vision with special attention to the challenges of multi-modality, multi-linguality, and interactive search. *** 2019 TASKS *** *ImageCLEFlifelog* https://www.imageclef.org/2019/lifelog An increasingly wide range of personal devices, such as smartphones, video cameras as well as wearable devices that allow capturing pictures, videos, and audio clips for every moment of our lives, are becoming available. In this context, the task addresses the problems of lifelogging data retrieval and summarization. Organizers: Duc-Tien Dang-Nguyen (University of Bergen), Luca Piras (University of Cagliari), Michael Riegler (University of Oslo), Minh-Triet Tran (University of Science), Mathias Lux (Klagenfurt University), and Cathal Gurrin (Dublin City University). *ImageCLEFsecurity* https://www.imageclef.org/2019/security File Forgery Detection is a very serious problem concerning digital forensic examiners. Fraud or counterfeits are common causes for altering files. Steganography is the practice of concealing a file, message, image or video within another file, message, image, or video. The task addresses the problems of automatically identifying forged content and retrieve hidden information. Organizers: Narciso Garcia (Universidad Politecnica de Madrid), Ergina Kavallieratou (University of the Aegean), Carlos Roberto del Blanco (Universidad Politecnica de Madrid), Carlos Cuevas Rodriguez (Universidad Politecnica de Madrid), Nikos Vasillopoulos (University of the Aegean), and Konstantinos Karampidis (University of the Aegean). *ImageCLEFcoral* https://www.imageclef.org/2019/coral The increasing use of structure-from-motion photogrammetry for modelling large-scale environments from action cameras has driven the next generation of visualisation techniques. The task addresses the problem of automatically segmenting and labeling a collection of images that can be used in combination to create 3D models of an underwater environment for the monitoring of coral reef structure and composition. Organizers: Jon Chamberlain (University of Essex), Adrian Clark (University of Essex), Antonio Campello (Filament), and Alba Garcia Seco de Herrera (University of Essex). *ImageCLEFmedical* https://www.imageclef.org/2019/medical Medical images are used in a variety of scenarios. The task addresses the challenge of automatically predicting tuberculosis type from 3D chest CT scans (ImageCLEFmedTuberculosis), mapping of visual information to textual descriptions (ImageCLEFmedCaption) and visual question answering (ImageCLEF-VQA-Med). The objective is to combine medical tasks into a common task with several subtasks to foster collaborations. Organizers: Asma Ben Abacha (National Library of Medicine), Sadid A. Hasan (Philips Research Cambridge), Vivek Datla (Philips Research Cambridge), Joey Liu (Philips Research Cambridge), Dina Demner-Fushman (National Library of Medicine), Henning M?ller (University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland), Obioma Pelka (University of Applied Sciences and Arts Dortmund), Christoph M. Friedrich (University of Applied Sciences and Arts Dortmund), Alba Garcia Seco de Herrera (University of Essex), Yashin Dicente Cid (University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland), Vitali Liauchuk (Institute for Informatics), and Vassili Kovalev (Institute for Informatics). *** IMPORTANT DATES *** (may vary depending on the task) - Task registration opens: November 12, 2018 - Run submission: May 1, 2019 - Working notes submission: May 24, 2019 - CLEF long and short paper submission: May 10, 2019 - CLEF 2019 conference: September 9-12, Lugano, Switzerland *** OVERALL COORDINATION *** Bogdan Ionescu, University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania Henning M?ller, HES-SO, Sierre, Switzerland Renaud P?teri, University of La Rochelle, France On behalf of the Organizers, Prof. Bogdan IONESCU ETTI - University Politehnica of Bucharest http://campus.pub.ro/lab7/bionescu/ Research Center CAMPUS http://www.campus.pub.ro https://www.linkedin.com/company/upbcampus https://facebook.com/upbcampus https://twitter.com/upbcampus -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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The conference is structured around four themes (alphabetical): - Engaging users with multimedia - Multimedia experience - Multimedia systems - Understanding multimedia content Details on the themes and submission instructions are available in the Call for Papers: https://www.acmmm.org/2019/call-for-papers Submission deadlines: - Paper submission deadline (Abstract): Monday 1 April (23:59 AOE) (Register your paper by submitting an abstract.) - Paper submission deadline (PDF submission): Monday 8 April (23:59 AOE) (Submit the final PDF of your full paper.) In addition to the regular-paper track, ACM Multimedia features tutorials, a Grand Challenge competition, an open-source software competition, a Brave New Ideas session, a doctoral symposium, panels, demos, workshops, and artwork. The Grand Challenges and the Workshops have now been announced: https://www.acmmm.org/2019/multimedia-grand-challenges https://www.acmmm.org/2019/accepted-workshops Additionally: Authors of main-conference papers at ACM Multimedia 2017 or 2018 are eligible to make a submission to the new Reproducibility Track (deadline 1 April). Accepted reproducibility submissions will earn an ACM "Results Replicated" badge for their paper and be presented as posters at the conference. 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More concretely, ALife defines ways to investigate processes that contribute to the formation and proliferation of living organisms. In this session we focus on three common approaches to tackle this investigation, proposing ways to integrate, extend and possibly improve them. More specifically we refer to: 1) the formalisation of the necessary properties for the definition of life, 2) the implementation of artificial agents, and 3) the study of the relation between life and cognition. For this special session we propose to start from these well-established Alife methodologies, and extend them through: * a unified formal language for the description and modelling of living, as well as artificial and cognitive systems, e.g. control theory, Bayesian inference, dynamical systems theory, etc., * the exploration of biological creatures enhanced by artificial systems (or artificial systems augmented with organic parts) in order to investigate the boundaries between living and nonliving organisms, and * the evaluation of coupled biological-artificial systems that could shed light on the importance of interactions among systems for the study of living and cognitive organisms. This special sessions aims to invite contributions from the fields of psychology, computational neuroscience, HCI, theoretical biology, artificial intelligence, robotics and cognitive science to discuss current research on the formalisation, combination and interaction of artificial/living/cognitive systems from theoretical, modelling and implementational perspectives. Potential topics include, but are not limited to: * Formalisation of life and cognition (e.g. dynamical systems theory, stochastic optimal control, Bayesian inference, etc.) * Cognitive robotics * Autopoiesis * Life-mind continuity thesis * Systems biology * Origins-of-life theories with relationships to artificial and cognitive systems * Animal-robot interaction * Bio-inspired robotics * Bio-integrated robotics * Human-machine interaction * Augmented cognition * Sensory substitution * Interactive evolutionary computation * Artificial perception Important Dates * 8th March 2019 ? Paper submission deadline * 24th April 2019 ? Paper acceptance notification * 24th May 2019 ? Camera-ready version * 29th July - 3rd August 2019 ? Artificial Life conference (ALife), Newcastle, UK Paper Submission Papers and abstracts submitted to this special sessions will be reviewed by a selected group of experts from the a-life community as well as from other areas key to our proposal, specifically chosen for this review process. If you are submitting to a special session you will be given the opportunity to select it during the submission process. Submissions to special sessions follow the same format, instructions and deadlines of regular ALife papers. Organizers * Manuel Baltieri, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK * Keisuke Suzuki, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK * Hiryuki IIzuka, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan * Olaf Witkowski, Earth-Life Science Institute - Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan * Lana Sinapayen, Sony Computer Science Laboratories, Tokyo, Japan Contacts For questions, enquiries and more information please check our website https://sites.google.com/view/hybrid-life-ii/ or get in touch with m.baltieri at sussex.ac.uk. All the best, -- Manuel Baltieri PhD Candidate, EASy group, Sussex Neuroscience, Department of Informatics, University of Sussex, UK Twitter: @manuelbaltieri -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From derek.doran at wright.edu Tue Mar 12 12:52:14 2019 From: derek.doran at wright.edu (Doran, Derek) Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2019 16:52:14 +0000 Subject: Connectionists: CFP: Intl. Workshop on Neural-Symbolic Learning and Reasoning @ IJCAI 19 Message-ID: CALL FOR PAPERS 14th International Workshop on Neural-Symbolic Learning and Reasoning (NeSy?19) In conjunction with IJCAI 2019 https://sites.google.com/view/nesy19/ Submission deadline: Apr 12, 2019 anywhere on earth Notification: May 10, 2019 Camera-ready paper due: May 24, 2019 IJCAI-19 conference: Aug 10-16, 2019 The NeSy workshop series is seen as a major venue for the presentation and discussion of key topics related to neural-symbolic computing. NeSy has provided an atmosphere for the free exchange of ideas and networking within the community of scientists that straddle the line between statistical and symbolic methods in AI. We invite theoretical and applied submissions of all types that span both connectionist and symbolic learning paradigms. We further invite papers detailing experimental and in-the-wild neural-symbolic systems and papers on topics where neural-symbolic learning has a strong use case. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: * Knowledge representation and reasoning in (deep) neural networks * Symbolic knowledge extraction from neural and statistical learning models * Explainable AI models, systems, and techniques that integrate connectionist and symbolic paradigms * Neural-symbolic cognitive models * Biologically-inspired neural-symbolic integration * Continual learning, integration of logic and probabilities with neural networks * Neural-symbolic methods for structured learning tasks, including transfer, meta, and relational learning * Novel connectionist systems able to perform traditionally symbolic AI tasks (e.g., logical deduction) * Novel symbolic systems able to perform traditionally connectionist tasks (e.g., unstructured data analysis) * Applications in simulation, fiance, robotics, the semantic web, software engineering, systems engineering, bioinformatics, and visual intelligence. NeSy also invites short, clear, and well-written position papers for presentation and discussion during the workshop. **Submission** Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit original papers that have not been submitted for review or published elsewhere using the IJCAI paper style. Submitted papers must be written in English and should not exceed 6 pages in the case of research and experience papers, or 3 pages in the case of position papers (including figures, bibliography and appendices). All submitted papers will be judged based on their quality, relevance, originality, significance, and soundness. Submissions need not be double-blind. Submit your paper via: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=nesy19 Selected papers will be presented during the workshop. The workshop will include extra time for audience discussion of the presentation allowing the group to have a better understanding of the issues, challenges, and ideas being presented. Accepted papers will be published in official workshop proceedings, which will be distributed during the workshop. Authors of the best papers will be invited to submit a revised and extended version of their papers to the Journal of Applied Logics, College Publications. General questions concerning the workshop should be addressed to a.garcez at city.ac.uk For more information about neural-symbolic AI and the workshop series, please visit http://www.neural-symbolic.org/ Please join the NeSy mailing list NESY at JISCMAIL.AC.UK which is used for general announcements about the workshop. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From hendrikje.nienborg at cin.uni-tuebingen.de Tue Mar 12 18:47:08 2019 From: hendrikje.nienborg at cin.uni-tuebingen.de (Hendrikje Nienborg) Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2019 23:47:08 +0100 Subject: Connectionists: Computational Vision Summer School (CVSS) 2019 Call for Applications Message-ID: <281b1358-f4a8-6155-ea1b-d497c251eaeb@cin.uni-tuebingen.de> [apologies for cross-posting] We are seeking applications for the 3rd Computational Vision Summer School (CVSS)from*June 30th to July 7th 2019*in Freudenstadt (Black Forest), Germany. ** *The summer school, aimed at PhD students and Postdocs, spans the spectrum of vision research from neuroscience and psychophysics to computer vision to foster discussions at the intersection of biological and artificial vision systems. It seeks to bring together people from diverse disciplines who all share a computational view of vision and who, due to the diversity of disciplines involved, do not regularly meet.* *** CVSS is free of tuition and accomodation is sponsored by the German Research Foundation (DFG: CRC/1233 Robust Vision). Application deadline: April 15, 2019 http://orga.cvss.cc/ Confirmed speakers: ** Ted Adelson (MIT, USA) ** Matthias Bethge (University of T?bingen, Germany) Michael Black (MPI-IS T?bingen, Germany) EJ Chichilnisky (Stanford University, USA) Alexei Efros (UC Berkeley, USA) Sanja Fidler (University of Toronto / NVIDIA, Canada) Chelsea Finn (UC Berkeley, USA) Roland Fleming (University Giessen, Germany) Bill Geisler (UT Austin, USA) Otmar Hilliges (ETH Z?rich, Switzerland) Mackenzie Mathis (Harvard University, USA) Bruno Olshausen (UC Berkeley, USA) Ruth Rosenholtz (MIT, USA) Stefan Roth (TU Darmstadt, Germany) Eero Simoncelli (New York University, USA) Antonio Torralba (MIT, USA) Raquel Urtasun (University of Toronto / Uber ATG, Canada) Felix Wichmann (University of T?bingen, Germany) Li Zhaoping (MPI-IS and University of T?bingen, Germany) Program Chairs and Advisory Board: Andreas Geiger, Hendrikje Nienborg, Siyu Tang, Bei Xiao Matthias Bethge, Michael Black, Felix Wichmann * -- Dr. Hendrikje Nienborg Werner Reichardt Centre for Integrative Neuroscience Universitaet Tuebingen Tel: +49 (0) 7071- 29 88846 Fax: +49 (0) 7071- 29 25008 email:hendrikje.nienborg at cin.uni-tuebingen.de -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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For this workshop?s *Debugging-in-Practice track*, we solicit work that advances the understanding of issues related to *debugging ML models in practice*. Submissions from industry practitioners are encouraged. Accepted submissions will be presented as *talks or interactive demos. *An award will be given to the best submission in this track. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: - *Success and failure stories* from deploying ML models in the real world - *Software and hardware tools *for model debugging -- demos of tools are welcome and highly encouraged. - Understanding the *domain-specific nuances *of debugging ML models - e.g., debugging ML models in healthcare, criminal justice, public policy, education, and other social good applications. - Best practices for *debugging large-scale ML systems in industry* Important Dates - Submission deadline: April 1, 2019, 11.59pm Anywhere on Earth (AoE) time - Acceptance notification: April 12, 2019 (before ICLR registration cancellation deadline) - Workshop: Monday May 6th 09:00 AM ? 06:00 PM @ Room R3 Submission Instructions - Submission page: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=debugml19 - In EasyChair, you will be asked to select if you would like to present your work, if accepted, as a talk (7-15 minutes) during a Debugging-in-Practice session at the workshop, or as an interactive demo during a Posters & Demos session, or both. - Submit extended abstracts of 1 page (not including references, and an optional appendix) using any template with minimum 11 point font and page margins of at least 1 inch. See workshop website for more details. - If you intend to present your work as a demo, we strongly encourage you to provide screenshots of the demo in the optional appendix. - Concurrent submission to other venues is allowed. Work already published or made public in some form will also be considered. *An award will be given to the best submission in this track. *Camera-ready versions of extended abstracts will be uploaded to the conference website (unless requested not to), but there will be no formal published proceedings. Please check the workshop website https://debug-ml-iclr2019.github.io/ for updated information and email debugging.ml at gmail.com any questions. Organizers: Himabindu Lakkaraju (Harvard University) Sarah Tan (Cornell University and UCSF) Julius Adebayo (MIT) Jacob Steinhardt (Open Philanthropy Project and OpenAI) D. Sculley (Google) Rich Caruana (Microsoft Research) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From a.stein at fz-juelich.de Wed Mar 13 05:47:24 2019 From: a.stein at fz-juelich.de (Alexandra Stein) Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2019 10:47:24 +0100 Subject: Connectionists: =?utf-8?q?Bernstein_Network_Information_Booth_at_?= =?utf-8?q?the_13th_G=C3=B6ttingen_Meeting_of_the_German_Neuroscience_Soci?= =?utf-8?b?ZXR5IChOV0cp?= Message-ID: Dear colleagues, The Bernstein Network Computational Neuroscience will have an exhibition booth (C) at the upcoming G?ttingen Meeting of the German Neuroscience Society (March 20-23, 2019). The booth will present: * research fields * open positions * study and training programs * infrastructural facilities: Bernstein Facility for Data Technology: G-Node and Bernstein Facility for High Performance Simulation and Data Analysis: Simulation Laboratory Neuroscience * Data management service (GIN), Electrophysiology Analysis Toolkit (Elephant), and The Neural Simulation Technology (NEST) Initiative Furthermore, there will be various demos at our booth. Please find the schedule below: G-Node will give demo presentations of their data management services (GIN) for organizing, sharing, and publishing research data: Wednesday, March 20, 13:00 - 14:30 Thursday, March 21, 10:00 - 11:30 and 16:30 - 18:00 Friday, March 22, 10:00 - 11:30 Walk-ins are welcome any time during the conference. Demos of data analysis using the Electrophysiology Analysis Toolkit (Elephant) will take place at: Wednesday, March 20, 13:00 - 14:30 Thursday, March 21, 16:30 - 18:00 Friday, March 22, 10:00 - 11:30 The Neural Simulation Technology (NEST) Initiative will give demos at the following times: Wednesday, March 20, 13:00 - 14:30 Thursday, March 21, 16:30 - 18:00 Friday, March 22, 10:00 - 11:30 We are looking forward to welcoming you at our booth no. C! Best regards, Alexandra Stein -- Dr. Alexandra Stein Head of Bernstein Coordination Site Bernstein Network Computational Neuroscience | Bernstein Coordination Site (BCOS) Branch Office of the Forschungszentrum J?lich at the University of Freiburg Hansastr. 9A | 79104 Freiburg, Germany phone: (+49) 0761 203 9583 mobile: (+49) 0151 67114645 mail: a.stein at fz-juelich.de web: www.bernstein-network.de Twitter: NNCN_Germany YouTube: Bernstein TV Facebook: Bernstein Network Computational Neuroscience, Germany LinkedIn: Bernstein Network Computational Neuroscience, Germany ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Forschungszentrum Juelich GmbH 52425 Juelich Sitz der Gesellschaft: Juelich Eingetragen im Handelsregister des Amtsgerichts Dueren Nr. 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Possible topics of interest include: knowledge transfer, universal representation and learning, understanding deep networks, explainability, and uncertainty estimation. Should the student be willing and sufficiently experienced, they will have some freedom to steer the direction of research. The research will be conducted at the School for Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS), under the supervision of Assistant Professor Kevin Smith (https://www.kth.se/profile/ksmith) whose main focus is on computer vision and biomedical image analysis. Please include with your application a short (1 page) project proposal describing a topic around deep learning and/or biomedical image analysis that you would like to pursue in your doctoral studies. Eligibility To be admitted to postgraduate education (Chapter 7, 39 ? Swedish Higher Education Ordinance), the applicant must have basic eligibility in accordance with either of the following: - passed a degree at advanced level, - completed course requirements of at least 240 higher education credits, of which at least 60 higher education credits at advanced level, or - in any other way acquired within or outside the country acquired essentially equivalent knowledge. Selection In order to succeed as an doctoral student at KTH you need to be goal oriented and persevering in your work. 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URL: From roby.casadei at unibo.it Wed Mar 13 10:54:33 2019 From: roby.casadei at unibo.it (Roberto Casadei) Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2019 14:54:33 +0000 Subject: Connectionists: [CFP] 4th eCAS Workshop on Engineering Collective Adaptive Systems (EXTENDED DEADLINE: Mar 22) Message-ID: ************************************************************** CALL FOR WORKSHOP PAPERS: eCAS'19 The 4th eCAS Workshop on Engineering Collective Adaptive Systems (eCAS 2019) Workshop website: http://ecas2019.apice.unibo.it Location: Ume?, Sweden. In conjunction with FAS* (https://www.fasstar.org) - 13th IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptiveand Self-Organizing Systems (SASO 2019, http://saso2019.cs.umu.se/), and - 16th IEEE International Conference on Autonomic Computing (ICAC 2019, http://icac2019.cs.umu.se/) ************************************************************** [Apologies for possible multiple copies of this message] Please share and spread to interested members of your group/institution and colleague researchers. ============================================================== Important dates ============================================================== * Abstract Submission (optional): March 15, 2019 (EXTENDED) * Submission Deadline: March 22, 2019 (EXTENDED) * Notification of Acceptance: April 15, 2019 * Camera-Ready Version: April 20, 2019 * Workshop: TBD (June 16-20, 2019) ============================================================== Scope ============================================================== Modern software systems are becoming more and more *collective* and are composed of many distributed and heterogeneous entities. These systems operate under continuous perturbations making manual adjustments infeasible. For a collective system to be resilient, its *adaptation* must also be collective, in the sense that multiple entities must adapt in a way that addresses critical runtime conditions while preserving the benefits of collaborative interdependencies. Decision-making in such systems is distributed and possibly highly dispersed, and interaction between the entities may lead to the emergence of unexpected phenomena. In such systems, a new approach for adaptation is needed to allow: (i) multiple entities to collectively adapt with; (ii) negotiations to decide which collective changes are best. Collective adaptation also raises a second important challenge: Which parts of the system (things, services, people) should be engaged in an adaptation? This is nontrivial, as multiple solutions to the same problem may be generated at different levels. The challenge is to understand these levels and create mechanisms to decide the right scope for an adaptation for a given problem. This workshop solicits papers that address new methodologies, theories and principles that can be used to develop a better understanding of the fundamental factors underpinning the operation of such systems, so that they can be better designed, built, and analyzed, as well as case studies and applications showing such approaches in action. Interdisciplinary work is particularly welcomed. Suggested Topics (but not limited to): * Novel theories relating to operating principles of CAS * Novel design principles for building CAS systems * Insights into the short and long-term adaptation of CAS systems * Insights into emergent properties of CAS * Insights into general properties of large scale, distributed CAS * Decision-making approaches in CAS * Methodologies for studying, analyzing, and building CAS * Frameworks for analyzing or developing CAS case studies * Languages, platforms, APIs and other tools for CAS * Scenarios, case studies, and experience reports of CAS in different contexts (e.g., Smart Mobility, Smart Energy/Smart Grid, Smart Buildings, traffic management, emergency response, etc.) ============================================================== Submission Instructions and Review Criteria ============================================================== The length of a workshop paper may not exceed *6 pages* including references and follow the IEEE Computer Society Press proceedings style guide. All papers should be submitted in PDF format. You can submit the paper through EasyChair using this link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ecas2019 By submitting a paper, the authors confirm that in case of acceptance, at least one author will attend the workshop to present the work. Papers will be peer reviewed on the basis of originality, readability, relevance to themes, soundness, and overall quality. Workshop proceedings will be published on IEEE Xplore in parallel with the main conference proceedings. ============================================================== Committees ============================================================== Steering Committee * Jacob Beal, Raytheon BBN Technologies, USA * Giacomo Cabri, University of Modena And Reggio Emilia, Italy * Nicola Capodieci, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy * Emma Hart, Edinburgh Napier University, U.K * Mirko Viroli, University of Bologna, Italy Workshop Chairs * Roberto Casadei, Alma Mater Studiorum--Universit? di Bologna, IT * Soura Dasgupta, University of Iowa, USA Program Committee * Franco Bagnoli, University of Firenze, Italy * Jake Beal, Raytheon BBN Technologies, USA * Johann Bourcier, Universit? de Rennes 1 / IRISA, France * Antonio Bucchiarone, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Trento, Italy * Mauro Caporuscio, Linnaeus University, Sweden * Ferruccio Damiani, Dipartimento di Informatica, Universit? di Torino, Italy * Simon Dobson, University of St Andrews, UK * Martina De Sanctis, Gran Sasso Science Institute, L'Aquila, Italy * Giovanna Di Marzo Serugendo, University of Geneva, Switzerland * Schahram Dustdar, Vienna University of Technology, Austria * Lukas Esterle, Aston University, UK * Francesco Gallo, University of L'Aquila, Italy * Kurt Geihs, Universitaet Kassel, Germany * Tom Holvoet, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium * Paola Inverardi, University of L'Aquila, Italy * Ludovico Iovino, Gran Sasso Science Institute, L'Aquila, Italy * Verena Kl?s, TU Berlin, Germany * Peter Lewis, Aston University, UK * Michele Loreti, University of Camerino, Italy * Mieke Massink, CNR-ISTI, Italy * Mirco Musolesi, University College London, UK * Danilo Pianini, University of Bologna, Italy * Simon Powers, Edinburgh Napier University, UK * Alexander Schiendorfer, University Augsburg, Germany * Romina Spalazzese, Malmoe University, Sweden * Christof Teuscher, Portland State University, Oregon, USA * Mirko Viroli, University of Bologna, Italy ============================================================== Contacts ============================================================== For any question, please contact the workshop organizers at ecas2019 at easychair.org. From abby at ldv.co Wed Mar 13 10:49:53 2019 From: abby at ldv.co (Abigail Hunter-Syed) Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2019 10:49:53 -0400 Subject: Connectionists: Call for Vision Papers - $100K in Prizes at ECVC 2019 Message-ID: Good morning, Use your ECCV or CVPR submission, coursework, etc. to apply to our Entrepreneurial Computer Vision Challenge as part of the LDV Vision Summit May 22-23 in New York City *Send in your paper or deck up by March 24* or email a link to abby at ldv.co. Sub-finalists receive: - Mentoring & review by top computer vision experts & entrepreneurs like Serge Belongie (Cornell), Gaile Gordon (MIT) and Andrew Rabinovich (Magic Leap). [2019 evolving list of equally high calibre judges ] - Two free tickets to our LDV Vision Summit 2019 - Finalists present on stage to 600+ visual tech companies, investors & academics - Win prizes worth over $100K in Google Cloud credits & more. Join competitors from top-tier universities such as Stanford, MIT and Cornell in presenting your research. Previous competitors have discovered co-founders, met investors and received job opportunities as a result of competing . Quotes below from past competitors. Get in touch with any questions, including if your research is relevant for the ECVC. Please share with colleagues, professors, students and former students. More information is below and on the website. Thank you very much. Best regards, Evan Nisselson, Partner - LDV Capital Abby Hunter-Syed, LDV Capital "*I've never seen a conference like this - you have pure computer vision conferences like CVPR or ICCV or you have GTC-type conferences that are based on one company's resources. This is an interesting mix of something computer vision and entrepreneurial - it is very unique in that sense, I have never seen anything like it before. It is a lot of fun.*" -*Timnit Gebru (Stanford --> GoogleAI), 2017 ECVC Winner * ?*Presenting at the ECVC last year gave me visibility...it was how I came into contact with my current team at Facebook*.? *-Divyaa Ravichandran (CMU --> Facebook), 2016 ECVC Finalist * ?*The most valuable part of the Vision Summit was connecting with three different companies potentially interested in building on our technology, and with four different potential investors/advisors.*? *-Sean Bell, CEO & Co-founder of GrokStyle (Cornell --> GrokStyle, sold to Facebook), 2016 ECVC Winner * -- *Abigail Hunter-Syed* *VP of Operations* *LDV Capital * -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From djkrusienski at vcu.edu Wed Mar 13 14:38:08 2019 From: djkrusienski at vcu.edu (Dean Krusienski) Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2019 14:38:08 -0400 Subject: Connectionists: Postdoctoral Position (funded for 2+ years) in Neural Signal Processing Message-ID: <023d01d4d9cb$e7c45820$b74d0860$@vcu.edu> The Advanced Signal Processing in Engineering and Neuroscience (ASPEN) Lab at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) is seeking a postdoctoral scholar in the field of neural signal processing. The lab collaborates with the VCU and UC San Diego Epilepsy Centers to conduct original neuroscientific studies using intracranial brain signals (ECoG and sEEG). The focus of the position will be on the development of algorithms for decoding cognitive and behavioral correlates of intracranial recordings. The candidate is expected to be involved in all aspects of this research including experimental design, data collection, method development, signal analysis and interpretation, manuscript preparation, and grant development. The candidate may also contribute to ongoing non-invasive EEG projects, with emphasis on virtual reality applications. The candidate is expected to have a solid background in signal processing, machine learning, and proficiency in MATLAB. The candidate is also expected to have experience with the analysis of neurophysiological data such as EEG, sEEG, and/or ECoG. We will not consider candidates without demonstrated experience in these areas. In addition, the candidate should have excellent communication skills and a strong work ethic. The ASPEN Lab maintains active collaborations with several prominent neurotechnology labs around the world. For more information on the ASPEN Lab visit: sites.google.com/vcu.edu/ aspenlab / . VCU is a state-assisted, Carnegie doctoral/research institution enrolling more than 31,000 students. It has an urban campus located in Richmond, VA, with vibrant art, food, historical, and entertainment scenes. Applicants should email a CV, a brief personal statement including research objectives, and contact information for two professional references to Dr. Dean Krusienski (djkrusienski at vcu.edu ). Review of applications will begin immediately and continue until the position is filled. Dean J. Krusienski, Ph.D. Professor, Biomedical Engineering Virginia Commonwealth University Richmond, VA 23220 Office: 425 Biotech 8 | Lab: 470A Biotech 8 Phone: 804.827.1890| Fax: TBD Web: sites.google.com/vcu.edu/aspenlab/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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The ASPEN Lab collaborates with the VCU Epilepsy Center, UC San Diego Epilepsy Center, and the Cognitive Systems Lab at the University of Bremen, Germany to conduct original neuroscientific studies using intracranial brain signals. The lab also maintains active collaborations with several prominent neurotechnology labs around the world. For more information on the ASPEN Lab visit: sites.google.com/vcu.edu/ aspenlab / VCU is a state-assisted, Carnegie doctoral/research institution enrolling more than 31,000 students. It has an urban campus located in Richmond, VA, with vibrant art, food, historical, and entertainment scenes. Applicants should email a cover letter, resume, academic transcripts, GRE scores, and contact information for 3 references to: Dean Krusienski, Ph.D. Professor, Biomedical Engineering Director, ASPEN Laboratory Virginia Commonwealth University djkrusienski at vcu.edu Review of applications will begin immediately and continue until the positions are filled. Dean J. 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Deadline for camera-ready versions September 2019 ? Expected publication date AIM AND SCOPE Although machine learning algorithms continue to improve at a rapid pace enabling technologies and products such as autonomous driving cars and sophisticated image and speech recognition, it is often forgotten that these applications represent tailored solutions to specific tasks. Thus it is not clear if or how these autonomous systems can pave the road to general purpose machines envisioned by many. The pursuit for higher levels of autonomy and versatility in robotics is arguably lead by two main factors. Firstly, as we push robots out of the labs and productions lines, it becomes increasingly difficult to design for all possible scenarios that a particular robot might encounter. Secondly, the cost of designing, manufacturing, and maintaining such systems becomes prohibitive. As the algorithms for learning single tasks in restricted environments are improving, new challenges have gained relevance in order to get more autonomous artificial systems. These challenges include multi-task learning, multimodal sensorimotor learning and lifelong adaptation to injury, growth and ageing. Addressing these challenges promise higher levels of autonomy and versatility of future robots. This special issue on Continual Unsupervised Sensorimotor Learning is primarily concerned with the developmental processes involved in unsupervised sensorimotor learning in a life-long perspective, and in particular the emergence of representations of action and perception in humans and artificial agents in continual learning. These processes include action-perception cycle, active perception, continual sensory-motor learning, environmental-driven scaffolding, and intrinsic motivation. The special issue will highlight behavioural and neural data, and cognitive and developmental approaches to research in the areas of robotics, computer science, psychology, neuroscience, etc. Contributions might focus on mathematical and computational models to improve robot performance and/or attempt to unveil the underlying mechanisms that lead to continual adaptation to changing environment or embodiment and continual learning in open-ended environments. Contributions from multiple disciplines including cognitive systems, cognitive robotics, developmental and epigenetic robotics, autonomous and evolutionary robotics, social structures, multi-agent and artificial life systems, computational neuroscience, and developmental psychology, on theoretical, computational, application-oriented, and experimental studies as well as reviews in these areas are welcome. THEMES This special issue aims to report state-of-the-art approaches and recent advances on Continual Unsupervised Sensorimotor Learning with a cross-disciplinary perspective. Topics relevant to this special issue include but are not limited to: Emergence of representations via continual interaction Continual sensory-motor learning Action-perception cycle Active perception Environmental-driven scaffolding Intrinsic motivation Neural substrates, neural circuits and neural plasticity Human and animal behaviour experiments and models Reinforcement learning and deep reinforcement learning for life-long learning Multisensory robot learning Multimodal sensorimotor learning Affordance learning Prediction learning SUBMISSION Manuscripts should be prepared according to the ?Information for Authors? of the journal found at https://cis.ieee.org/publications/t-cognitive-and-developmental-systems/tcds-information-for-authors Submissions must be done through the IEEE TCDS Manuscript center: https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/tcds-ieee. During the submission process, please select the category ?SI: Continual Unsupervised Sensorimotor Learning?. More information on Continual Unsupervised Sensorimotor Learning http://projects.au.dk/socialrobotics/news-events/show/artikel/special-issue-on-continual-unsupervised-sensorimotor-learning/ GUEST EDITORS Nicol?s Navarro-Gerrero Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark nng at eng.au.dk Sao Mai Nguyen IMT Atlantique, Francenguyensmai at gmail.com Erhan ?ztop ?zye?in University, Turkeyerhan.oztop at ozyegin.edu.tr Junpei Zhong National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Japanjoni.zhong at aist.go.jp ---- Nguyen Sao Mai nguyensmai at gmail.com Researcher in Cognitive Developmental Robotics http://nguyensmai.free.fr -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From benoit.frenay at unamur.be Thu Mar 14 04:44:25 2019 From: benoit.frenay at unamur.be (=?UTF-8?B?QmVub8OudCBGcsOpbmF5?=) Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2019 09:44:25 +0100 Subject: Connectionists: 1st Int. W. on Education through Advanced Software Engineering and Artificial Intelligence Message-ID: Dear colleagues, We have the pleasure to invite you to contribute to the 1st International Workshop on EducationthroughAdvanced Software Engineeringand Artificial Intelligence. ?It will be co-located with ESEC/FSE '19at Tallin, Estonia on Monday 26 August 2019. This workshop will be a perfect opportunity to foster interesting discussions across complementary communities(software engineering, education science, artificial intelligence, machine learning, natural language processing, etc.), through the common lens of how advanced software tools and techniques * might be used as a catalyst for a better way to teach various types of students; * might require innovative teaching techniques to make the less specialized public aware of their importance and peculiarities. We strongly encourage contributions focusing on out-of-the-box tools, ideas, methodologies, experimentations, etc. pertaining to education through and to digital technologies. We would also be grateful if you could help us advertise the workshop by forwarding this CFP to your research collaborators. Best regards, Beno?t Vanderose - UNamur / PReCISE - benoit.vanderose at unamur.be Beno?t Fr?nay - UNamur / PReCISE - benoit.frenay at unamur.be Julie Henry - UNamur / PReCISE - julie.henry at unamur.be Xavier Devroey - TU Delft / SERG - X.D.M.Devroey at tudelft.nl Call for Papers In the past years, with the development and widespread of digital technologies, everyday life has been profoundly transformed. The general public, as well as specialized audiences, have to face an ever-increasing amount of knowledge and learn new abilities. The EASEAI workshop addresses that challenge by looking at software engineering, education, and artificial intelligence research fields to explore how these fields can cross-fertilize and benefit from each other. Specifically, this workshop brings together researchers, teachers, and practitioners who use advanced software engineering tools (such as software development tools and methods, productivity tools, software inspection and analysis tools, automated testing techniques, etc.) and artificial intelligence techniques in the education field as well as researchers and teachers in education science who tackle how to improve awareness regarding digital technologies through a transgenerational and transdisciplinary range of students. Topics of Interest Topics include, but are not limited to: o New and unexpected usage of established software engineering practices in education environments. o Integration of agile methods principles in education environments. o Integration of software quality standards and methods dedicated to continuous improvement in education environments. o Application to serious game and gamification in the context of education. o Advances in automated grading of assignments. o Advances in automated feedback and recommendations to provide support to students. o Visualization of technical and/or scientific information in various fields (chemistry, software engineering, physics, history, sociology, etc.). o Efforts related to the improvement of usability of advanced tools for non experienced users. o Dropout prediction in learning environments using machine learning. o Feedback on case studies using cutting edge techniques, methods, and tools applied to educational environments. o Improvement of computational thinking skills and digital literacy through software engineering. o Integration of software engineering and artificial intelligence research into teaching and training. o Introduction to artificial intelligence and machine learning principles for younger audiences. Types of Submissions We invite original papers in the conference format (two columnsACM sigconf publication format ) describing positions and new ideas (short papers up to 4 pages) as well as new results and reporting on innovative approaches (long papers up to 8 pages). All accepted papers will be published in the ACM digital library, together with the other ESEC/FSE 2019 workshops proceedings. The review process is single-blind. Each contribution will be reviewed by at least three members of the programme committee. The workshop also welcomes presentations of previously peer-reviewed published papers. We will invite authors to submit a one-page extended abstract that will not be included in the proceedings. As previously published papers have been already reviewed and accepted, they will not be reviewed again for technical content. If needed, the presentations propositions will be prioritized, based on the content and structure of the sessions. Important Dates * Submission of full papers: June 7th, 2019 * Notification of acceptance: June 24th, 2019 * Camera Ready: July 1st, 2019 * Workshop date: August 26th, 2019 Submission Site Submissions will be handled via EasyChair:https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=easeai2019 -- Beno?t FR?NAY Associate Professor Faculty of Computer Science T. +32 (0)81 724 976 (secr. 725 252) F. +32 (0)81 724 967 benoit.frenay at unamur.be Universit? de Namur ASBL Rue de Bruxelles 61 - 5000 Namur Let?s respect the environment together. Only print this message if necessary! -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From pmasulli at e-nns.org Thu Mar 14 06:57:52 2019 From: pmasulli at e-nns.org (Paolo Masulli ENNS) Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2019 11:57:52 +0100 Subject: Connectionists: CFP 28th International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks ICANN 2019, Sept 17-19, Munich, DE, Deadline extension Message-ID: <1bf985b7-ea96-80f0-aef5-732ef27620fe@e-nns.org> 28th International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks http://icann2019.org = Second announcement - submission deadline extended to April 1, 2019 = Munich, Germany 17 - 19 September 2019 Special event: BIGCHEM (http://bigchem.eu) final meeting ============================================================ The International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks (ICANN) is the annual flagship conference of the European Neural Network Society (ENNS). In 2019 the Helmholtz Zentrum Muenchen - German Research Center for Environmental Health GmbH (HMGU) and the Technical University of Munich (TUM) together with the "Big Data in Chemistry" Marie Sk?odowska-Curie Innovative Training Network European Industrial Doctorate project (BIGCHEM) organize the 28th ICANN Conference from the 17th to the 19th of September 2019 in Munich, Germany. CONFERENCE TOPICS ICANN 2019 is a dual-track conference featuring tracks in Brain Inspired Computing and Machine Learning and Artificial Neural Networks, with strong cross-disciplinary interactions and applications. All research fields dealing with Neural Networks will be present at the conference. A non-exhaustive list of topics includes: Machine Learning: Deep Learning, Neural Network Theory, Neural Network Models, Graphical Models, Bayesian Networks, Kernel Methods, Generative Models, Information Theoretic Learning, Reinforcement Learning, Relational Learning, Dynamical Models Recurrent Networks. Brain Inspired Computing: Cognitive models, Computational Neuroscience, Self-organisation, Reinforcement Learning, Neural Control and Planning, Hybrid Neural-Symbolic Architectures, Neural Dynamics. Neural Applications for: Bioinformatics, Biomedicine, Intelligent Robotics, Neurorobotics, Language Processing, Image Processing, Sensor Fusion, Pattern Recognition, Data Mining, Neural Agents, Brain-Computer Interaction, Neural Hardware, Evolutionary Neural Networks. Special session (BIGCHEM): Big Data analysis in chemistry, chemoinformatics, use of deep learning to predict molecular properties, drug-discovery, modelling and prediction of chemical reaction data, synthetic route prediction, structure generation, molecular dynamics simulations and quantum chemistry. Special sessions: Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, Informed and Explainable Methods for Machine Learning, Deep Learning in Image Reconstruction, Machine Learning with Graphs: Algorithms and Applications, Neural Variational Inference and Time Series. Workshops: 1st International Workshop on Reservoir Computing (RC 2019) CALL FOR CONTRIBUTED SCIENTIFIC COMMUNICATIONS All scientific communications presented at ICANN 2019 will be reviewed and scientifically evaluated by a panel of experts. The conference will feature three categories of communications: - oral communications (15'+5') - poster communications - demonstrations Call for Papers: Authors willing to present original contributions in either oral or poster category may submit: - a proceedings paper manuscript of about 10 - 12 pages to be published in Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series with individual DOI - extended abstracts of a maximum length of 4 pages to be published in Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series. The number of oral slots is limited. In case the number of requested oral presentations is larger than the available slots the ICANN scientific committee will select which papers will be reassigned to a poster session. This selections will be based on the coherence of the programme and is totally independent of the category of submission. Submission of communications will be online. More details will be made available soon on the conference website: http://icann2019.org IMPORTANT DATES Deadline of special sessions submission: 1 February 2019 Opening of contribution submissions: 1 February 2019 Submission of demonstration proposals: 1 March 2019 Deadline of proceedings paper submission: EXTENDED to 1 April 2019 Deadline of extended abstracts submission: 1 April 2019 Notification of acceptance: 1 May 2019 Camera-ready paper and registration opening: 1 June 2019 Deadline early registration at discount rate: 15 June 2019 Conference dates: 17-19 September 2019 REGISTRATION FEES (EARLY RATES) Full registration: 400 EUR Student registration: 250 EUR Reductions for ENNS members BEST PAPER AWARDS ENNS will sponsor a maximum of four best paper awards, two in the Brain Inspired Computing track (one poster and one oral communication) and, analogously, two in the Machine Learning Research track. All awardees will be presented during the final ceremony. TRAVEL GRANTS The European Neural Network Society sponsors a number of Student Travel Grants covering part of the costs for attending ICANN. Details on the conference website. ORGANISATION General Chair: Igor Tetko (ENNS/HMGU Munich, Germany) and Fabian Theis (HMGU/TUM Munich, Germany) Organising Committee Chairs: Monica Campillos (HMGU Munich, Germany), Alessandra Lintas (ENNS Lausanne, Switzerland) Honorary Chair: Vera Kurkova, Czech Academy of Sciences (ENNS President) Communication Chair: Paolo Masulli (ENNS Lausanne, Switzerland) From inesdomingues at gmail.com Thu Mar 14 10:27:38 2019 From: inesdomingues at gmail.com (=?UTF-8?Q?In=C3=AAs_Domingues?=) Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2019 14:27:38 +0000 Subject: Connectionists: VISUM 2019 Summer School :: Call for Participation! 2 ECTS + Industry Day Challenge + Project Competition In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Call for Participation The seventh edition of the Vision Understanding and Machine Intelligence (VISUM) Summer School will take place between 4 and 12, July 2019, at Universidade Portucalense (UPT), in Porto - Portugal. This year the following topics will be covered: 1. Computer Vision & Machine Learning Basics 2. Computer Vision with Deep Learning 3. Interpretability 4. Deep Generative Models 5. Reinforcement Learning 6. Constraint Programming and Decision Optimization World-renowned experts in the fields will deliver the courses, and the material covered will guide you in building your own AI system as a curricular project. Participants can request 2 ECTS given by UPT! Aside from the theoretical relevance of the topics covered, and the experience of building a practical AI application, the school aims to provide a stimulating opportunity for students, young researchers and professionals with interests in Computer Vision and Machine Learning. The participants will benefit from direct interaction with representatives from the most relevant industries in the field, as well as top academics. Prizes 1. For the winning team of the Project 2. For the winning team who solve the challenges of the Industry Day Application deadline: 22 March 2019 Please send an email to visum at inesctec.pt to be eligible to apply to the VISUM summer school 2019 Intended audience In general, people that have been exposed to introductory topics of Computer Vision and Machine Learning will find this to be an excellent opportunity to grow their knowledge base. The target audience is therefore: 1. MSc and PhD students 2. Researchers and Post-doctoral scholars 3. Industry professionals Social Program: Porto is an eclectic city. Benefiting from low-cost flights, thousands of tourists visit each year. You?ll get a chance to see why so many people are attracted by the city. Well known by its cellars, resting place for the famous wine, Porto as a lot to offer. In the social day (Sunday), we?ll tour the city and check some of its coolest spots. List of invited speakers: Jose Costa Pereira, Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd, UK Efstratios Gavves, UVA, NL Mauricio Reyes, University of Bern, CH Dinesh Jayaraman, UC Berkeley, USA Mohamed Elhoseiny, KAUST, SA Deepak Mehta, United Technologies Research Cente, Irland Industry panel: Bosch, PT Abyssal, PT NILG.AI, PT NOTE: the completed list of speakers and industrial panel will be revealed soon! Parternship: We encourage students to participant in Future Computing Summer School (https://futurecomp.uptec.up.pt/) for an incredible talk of NVIDIA about parallel computing. Website visum.inesctec.pt From m.herbster at cs.ucl.ac.uk Thu Mar 14 12:22:09 2019 From: m.herbster at cs.ucl.ac.uk (Mark Herbster) Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2019 16:22:09 +0000 Subject: Connectionists: AI/ML Positions at UCL (Chair, Associate Professor/Lecturer, Teaching Fellow) Message-ID: Please consider applying for positions at our new AI Centre at UCL http://ai.cs.ucl.ac.uk/ : DeepMind Chair in Artificial Intelligence: https://atsv7.wcn.co.uk/search_engine/jobs.cgi?owner=5041404&ownertype=fair&jcode=1793590&vt_template=965&adminview=1 Lecturer/Associate Professor in Machine Learning: https://atsv7.wcn.co.uk/search_engine/jobs.cgi?owner=5041404&ownertype=fair&jcode=1793511&vt_template=966&adminview=1 Teaching Fellow in Machine Learning: https://atsv7.wcn.co.uk/search_engine/jobs.cgi?owner=5041404&ownertype=fair&jcode=1795064&vt_template=965&adminview=1 Please email david.barber at ucl.ac.uk if you have any questions. ?? Regards, Mark Herbster From suashdeb at gmail.com Thu Mar 14 22:41:42 2019 From: suashdeb at gmail.com (Suash Deb) Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2019 08:11:42 +0530 Subject: Connectionists: 2019 ISCMI (Johannesburg, RSA) Message-ID: Hello esteemed colleagues, Warm greetings & thanks once more for your help & interest for ISCMI19, an annual intl. event of IICCI & which is dedicated (since 2017) to the life & work of Prof. Lotfi Zadeh, to be held in Johannesburg, South Africa, this year. The updated leaflet of ISCMI19 can be seen by visiting *http://www.iscmi.us/ISCMI2019-CFP.pdf * I warmly invite you to consider participation at ISCMI19 & prepare for submitting manuscripts for the same. Also pls. help by disseminating the leaflet among your peers which may assist us in garnering a few quality manuscripts from your network. 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In conjunction with FAS* (https://www.fasstar.org) - 13th IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptiveand Self-Organizing Systems (SASO 2019, http://saso2019.cs.umu.se/), and - 16th IEEE International Conference on Autonomic Computing (ICAC 2019, http://icac2019.cs.umu.se/) ************************************************************** [Apologies for possible multiple copies of this message] Please share and spread to interested members of your group/institution and colleague researchers. ============================================================== Important dates ============================================================== * Abstract Submission (optional): March 15, 2019 (EXTENDED) * Submission Deadline: March 22, 2019 (EXTENDED,FIRM) * Notification of Acceptance: April 15, 2019 * Camera-Ready Version: April 20, 2019 * Workshop: TBD (June 16-20, 2019) ============================================================== Scope ============================================================== Modern software systems are becoming more and more *collective* and are composed of many distributed and heterogeneous entities. These systems operate under continuous perturbations making manual adjustments infeasible. For a collective system to be resilient, its *adaptation* must also be collective, in the sense that multiple entities must adapt in a way that addresses critical runtime conditions while preserving the benefits of collaborative interdependencies. Decision-making in such systems is distributed and possibly highly dispersed, and interaction between the entities may lead to the emergence of unexpected phenomena. In such systems, a new approach for adaptation is needed to allow: (i) multiple entities to collectively adapt with; (ii) negotiations to decide which collective changes are best. Collective adaptation also raises a second important challenge: Which parts of the system (things, services, people) should be engaged in an adaptation? This is nontrivial, as multiple solutions to the same problem may be generated at different levels. The challenge is to understand these levels and create mechanisms to decide the right scope for an adaptation for a given problem. This workshop solicits papers that address new methodologies, theories and principles that can be used to develop a better understanding of the fundamental factors underpinning the operation of such systems, so that they can be better designed, built, and analyzed, as well as case studies and applications showing such approaches in action. Interdisciplinary work is particularly welcomed. Suggested Topics (but not limited to): * Novel theories relating to operating principles of CAS * Novel design principles for building CAS systems * Insights into the short and long-term adaptation of CAS systems * Insights into emergent properties of CAS * Insights into general properties of large scale, distributed CAS * Decision-making approaches in CAS * Methodologies for studying, analyzing, and building CAS * Frameworks for analyzing or developing CAS case studies * Languages, platforms, APIs and other tools for CAS * Scenarios, case studies, and experience reports of CAS in different contexts (e.g., Smart Mobility, Smart Energy/Smart Grid, Smart Buildings, traffic management, emergency response, etc.) ============================================================== Submission Instructions and Review Criteria ============================================================== We solicit two types of contributions: * full papers (max 6 pages, including references), for original research and experience reports; * short/position papers (max 4 pages, including references), for work-in-progress research, as a basis for discussion. Papers must follow the IEEE Computer Society Press proceedings style guide. All papers should be submitted in PDF format. You can submit the paper through EasyChair using this link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ecas2019 By submitting a paper, the authors confirm that in case of acceptance, at least one author will attend the workshop to present the work. Papers will be peer reviewed on the basis of originality, readability, relevance to themes, soundness, and overall quality. Workshop proceedings will be published on IEEE Xplore in parallel with the main conference proceedings. ============================================================== Committees ============================================================== Steering Committee * Jacob Beal, Raytheon BBN Technologies, USA * Giacomo Cabri, University of Modena And Reggio Emilia, Italy * Nicola Capodieci, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy * Emma Hart, Edinburgh Napier University, U.K * Mirko Viroli, University of Bologna, Italy Workshop Chairs * Roberto Casadei, Alma Mater Studiorum--Universit? di Bologna, IT * Soura Dasgupta, University of Iowa, USA Program Committee * Franco Bagnoli, University of Firenze, Italy * Jake Beal, Raytheon BBN Technologies, USA * Johann Bourcier, Universit? de Rennes 1 / IRISA, France * Antonio Bucchiarone, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Trento, Italy * Mauro Caporuscio, Linnaeus University, Sweden * Ferruccio Damiani, Dipartimento di Informatica, Universit? di Torino, Italy * Simon Dobson, University of St Andrews, UK * Martina De Sanctis, Gran Sasso Science Institute, L'Aquila, Italy * Giovanna Di Marzo Serugendo, University of Geneva, Switzerland * Schahram Dustdar, Vienna University of Technology, Austria * Lukas Esterle, Aston University, UK * Francesco Gallo, University of L'Aquila, Italy * Kurt Geihs, Universitaet Kassel, Germany * Tom Holvoet, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium * Paola Inverardi, University of L'Aquila, Italy * Ludovico Iovino, Gran Sasso Science Institute, L'Aquila, Italy * Verena Kl?s, TU Berlin, Germany * Peter Lewis, Aston University, UK * Michele Loreti, University of Camerino, Italy * Mieke Massink, CNR-ISTI, Italy * Mirco Musolesi, University College London, UK * Danilo Pianini, University of Bologna, Italy * Simon Powers, Edinburgh Napier University, UK * Alexander Schiendorfer, University Augsburg, Germany * Romina Spalazzese, Malmoe University, Sweden * Christof Teuscher, Portland State University, Oregon, USA * Mirko Viroli, University of Bologna, Italy ============================================================== Contacts ============================================================== For any question, please contact the workshop organizers at ecas2019 at easychair.org. From sekretariat-newen at rub.de Fri Mar 15 05:17:27 2019 From: sekretariat-newen at rub.de (Tetiana Adler) Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2019 10:17:27 +0100 Subject: Connectionists: CfP and Conference Announcement EuroCogSci2019 In-Reply-To: <008701d4db03$38597a80$a90c6f80$@rub.de> References: <008701d4db03$38597a80$a90c6f80$@rub.de> Message-ID: <00cc01d4db0f$e8c4a1e0$ba4de5a0$@rub.de> CFP: EuroCogSci 2019 The conference EuroCogSci 2019 aims at providing a platform for discussing the most recent developments in Cognitive Science. It will feature contributed papers, symposia, and posters covering all subfields of cognitive science, bringing together a large number of experts from Europe and overseas. Venue: Ruhr-Universit?t Bochum Start: Monday, September 2nd, 2019 End: Wednesday, September 4th, 2019 Keynote Speakers: Lawrence Barsalou (University of Glasgow) Julia Fischer (Universit?t G?ttingen) Patrick Haggard (UCL, London) Asifa Majid (Max Planck Institutefor Psycholinguistics) Brian McLaughlin (Rutgers University) Natalie Sebanz (CEU, Hungary) John Spencer (University of East Anglia) Invited Symposium I: Situated Robotics and its applications Minoru Asada (Osaka University) and Etienne Burdet (Imperial College London) Invited Symposium II: Evolutionary Robotics Dario Floreano (EPFL) and Partica A. Vargas(Heriot-Watt University) Invited Symposium III: Theory of Mind and Its Developments ?gnes M. Kov?cs (CEU) and Albert Newen (RUB) Local organizing team: Main organizer: Albert Newen. Scientific managers: Sabrina Coninx, Alfredo Vernazzani. Further local organizers: Onur G?nt?rk?n, Dorothea Kolossa, Beate Krickel, Jonas Rose, Tobias Schlicht, Gregor Sch?ner, Markus Werning, Pascale Willemsen. * Call for Contributed Symposia * We encourage the joint submission of thematically related papers of a key research topic as symposia. Symposia will be allocated 2 hours slots for 3 up to 4 speakers across different disciplines). The convener should submit the following: ? A general abstract of no more than 250 words about the symposium topic, motivating its relevance. ? Name three up to four symposium speakers with their talks? titles, and a short abstract of no more than 150 words. The selection of symposium talks should stimulate interdisciplinary discussion. If researchers are not accepted as part of a submitted symposium, they are nevertheless encouraged to submit their manuscripts under the regular call for papers. We assume that the speakers have confirmed their participation. Please, note that each participant can present only once at EuroCogSci 2019 (in a symposium or with an individual paper or poster). Co-authors who are not presenting their co-authored work may nonetheless present another work. Please note that we will not be able to offer any financial support for contributed symposia. Please, find more information at: https://www.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/philosophy/EuroCogSci2019/call-for-contribute d-symposia * * EXTENDED DEADLINE SUBMISSION FOR SYMPOSIA PROPOSALS * * 28 February 2019 * Call for Papers and Posters * We invite contributions on recent research in any subfield of cognitive science. Each submission should be suitably prepared for blind review. Please, follow these guidelines when preparing your submission: ? Paper submissions should be no longer than 1200 words, excluding references. ? Poster submissions should be no longer than 700 words. ? Write your submission in Arial, font size 11. When filling out the submission form, please select only one section (subcommittee) according to our 20 areas of research and the type of your submission (symposium, paper or poster). In case of paper submission, please indicate clearly whether you want your paper to be alternatively considered for poster presentation in case the reviewers do not find it suitable for paper presentation. Each paper presenter will be allocated 30 minutes presentation time (20 min presentation, 10 min discussion). Posters can be up to A0 size (in portrait, i.e. 841mm wide x 1189mm tall, print on paper only). Please, note that each participant can present only once at EuroCogSci 2019 (in a symposium or with an individual paper or poster). Co-authors who are not presenting their co-authored work may present another work. During the conference, some posters will be selected for the best poster award. More information about the best poster award will be issued later. 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URL: From npark9 at gmu.edu Fri Mar 15 12:14:16 2019 From: npark9 at gmu.edu (Noseong Park) Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2019 16:14:16 +0000 Subject: Connectionists: Fully funded PhD position at George Mason University on machine learning/data mining Message-ID: Dear all, A fully funded PhD position is available at the Center for Secure Information Systems for the following project funded by ONR (Office of Naval Research). https://csis.gmu.edu/pages/news.php?id=20181002140249 This position will work for various research topics including (but not limited to) generative models, graph convolutional networks, solving optimization problems, etc. A GRA position will be provided for the next 4-5 years including summer salary. Feel free to contact with me (npark9 at gmu.edu) for additional information. 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URL: From gigglelmt at gmail.com Fri Mar 15 11:30:09 2019 From: gigglelmt at gmail.com (Gigg Liu) Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2019 23:30:09 +0800 Subject: Connectionists: [CALL FOR PAPERS] IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI'19) 14-17 OCTOBER 2019 Thessaloniki, GREECE Message-ID: IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI'19) 14-17 OCTOBER 2019 Thessaloniki, GREECE https://webintelligence2019.com/ Sponsored By: Web Intelligence Consortium (WIC) Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) IEEE Computer Society In Cooperation With: Chinese Computer Federation (CCF) CALL FOR PAPERS Web has evolved as an omnipresent system which highly impacts science, education, industry and everyday life. Web is now a vast data production and consumption platform at which threads of data evolve from multiple devices, by different human interactions, over worldwide locations under divergent distributed settings. Such a dynamic complex system demands adaptive intelligent solutions, which will advance know-ledge, human interactions and innovation. Web intelligence is now a cutting edge area which must address all open issues towards deepening the understanding of all Web?s entities, phenomena, and developments. The theme for the WI'19 is: "Web Intelligence = AI in the Connected World". The 18th Web Intelligence conference (WI'19) aims to achieve a multi-disciplinary balance between research and technological disruptive advances in the fields of how intelligence is impacting the Web of People, the Web of Data, the Web of Things, the Web of Trust, and the Web of Health. WI'19 welcomes research, application as well as Industry/Demo track paper submissions in these core thematic pillars under wider topics, which demand WI innovative and disruptive solutions for any of the next indicative sub-topics. Track 1: Web of People Social networks analytics Social media and dynamics User and behavioral modeling Human centric computing Opinion mining Recommendation engines Sentiment analysis Crowdsourcing and social data mining People oriented applications and services Track 2: Web of Data Data science and machine learning Big data analytics Data integration and data provenance Cognitive models Computational models Information search and retrieval Algorithms and knowledge management Knowledge bases and semantic networks Linked data management and analytics Data driven services and applications Track 3: Web of Things IoT data analytics Web infrastructures and devices Mobile web Distributed systems and devices Open autonomous systems Industrial multi-domain web Streaming data analysis Smart city applications and services Track 4: Web of Trust Hidden web analytics Blockchain analytics and technologies Web-scale security, integrity, privacy and trust Web cryptography Fake content and fraud detection Web safety and openness Monetization services and applications Track 5: Web of Health Personalized health management and analytics Health data exchange and sharing Big data in medicine Wellbeing and healthcare in the digital era Omics research and trends Healthcare and medical applications and services IMPORTANT DATES The Program Chairs are soliciting contributed technical papers for presentation at the Conference and publication in the Conference Proceedings by ACM. Submissions are encouraged before the next deadlines: Feb 20th, 2019: Workshop Proposals May 12th, 2019: Full Papers; Demo papers; Tutorial proposals June 30th, 2019: Notification of Acceptance/Rejection July 14th, 2019: Final, Camera Ready Papers, Due PAPER SUBMISSION Please follow guidelines: https://wi-lab.com/cyberchair/2019/wi19/scripts/submit.php?subarea=Wr/. Papers must be submitted electronically via Cyberchair in standard ACM format (max 8 pages). Submitted papers will undergo a peer review process, coordinated by the International Program Committee. ORGANIZATION General Chairs Georg Gottlob, UK Yannis Manolopoulos, Cyprus Program Chairs Payam Barnaghi, UK Athena Vakali, Greece Steering Committee Chairs Jiming Liu, HK, China Ning Zhong, Japan Track Chairs Panagiotis Bamidis, Greece Marios Dikaiakos, Cyprus Elena Ferrari, Italy Josiane Xavier Parreira, Ireland Herman Purohit, USA Workshop Chairs Dimitrios Katsaros, Greece Rahul Pandey, USA Demo Chairs Amelie Gyrard, USA George Pallis, Cyprus Proceedings Editor Theodoros Tzouramanis, Greece Publicity Chairs Karin Becker, Brasil Leonidas Anthopoulos, Greece Yang Liu, Hong Kong Xujuan Zhou, Australia -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From xavier.hinaut at inria.fr Fri Mar 15 12:49:07 2019 From: xavier.hinaut at inria.fr (Xavier Hinaut) Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2019 17:49:07 +0100 Subject: Connectionists: Post-Doc position: HuRRiCane project (deadline 27/03) In-Reply-To: <7399B42F-F02D-4A02-9522-365262F50AA7@inria.fr> References: <7399B42F-F02D-4A02-9522-365262F50AA7@inria.fr> Message-ID: Dear Colleagues, I would like to share the following post-doc position opening in my team (see below) with the title: HuRRiCane: Hierarchical Reservoir Computing for Language Comprehension If you know people interested, please forward. Thank you very much. Best regards, Xavier Hinaut Inria Researcher (CR) Mnemosyne team, Inria LaBRI, Universit? de Bordeaux, France Institut des Maladies Neurod?g?n?ratives +33 5 33 51 48 01 www.xavierhinaut.com --- Title HuRRiCane: Hierarchical Reservoir Computing for Language Comprehension Post-doc position for 1 year Starting October 2019 Deadline for applications Send email ASAP and before 27th of March 2019 Apply on before 31st of March 2019 How to apply? All info here: https://sites.google.com/site/xavierhinaut/job-internship-offers/post-doctoral-position-hurricane-project Remuneration 2653? / month (before taxes) Keywords Computational Neuroscience, Recurrent Neural Networks, Reservoir Computing, Language Processing, Language Acquisition, Speech Processing, Modeling, Language Grounding, Prefrontal Cortex, Sequence Learning, Machine Learning. Scientific research context How does our brain understand a sentence at the same time as it is pronounced? How are we able to produce sentences that the brain of the hearer will understand? There is a huge number of tools for Natural Language Processing (NLP), but there is fewer computational models that try to understand how language comprehension and production works effectively in the brain. There are theoretical models or models based on psychological experiments (Dell & Chang 2014), but few models are based on neuro-anatomy and brain processes (Hinaut & Dominey 2013). Moreover, even fewer of these models have been implemented in robots, to demonstrate their robustness among other things (Hinaut et al. 2014). Using robots to study language grounding, acquisition and development is not a new topic, in fact Cangelosi et al. (2010) have proposed a roadmap to tackle this long research plan. In order to model how a sentence can be processed, word by word (Hinaut & Dominey 2013), or even phoneme by phoneme (Hinaut 2018), the use of recurrent neural networks such as Reservoir Computing (Jaeger 2004), and its extension, the Conceptors (Jaeger 2017), offers advantages and interesting results. In particular, the possibility to compare the dynamics of the model with the dynamics of brain electrophysiological recordings (Enel et al. 2016) is an interesting asset. The Reservoir Computing paradigm is also interesting because it can be trained with few data and have quick execution time for human-robot interactions. The use of linguistic models with robots, is not only useful to validate the models in real conditions: it also enables to test other hypotheses, notably the anchoring of the language (Harnard 1990) or the emergence of symbols (Taniguchi et al., 2016). Work description The objective is to experiment how a sentence comprehension model, based on reservoir computing, can learn to understand sentences by exploring which meanings can have the sentences, implying several steps from stream of phonemes to words and from stream of words to sentence comprehension. The model will be implemented on a virtual agent first and then on the Nao humanoid robot For the experiments we want to make, a model implemented in a situated agent or robot is needed in order to "understand" the meaning of the utterance which is being told and figure out whether the meaning is plausible or not. If the meaning found does not make sense, the model could "re-parse" the sentence and reinterpret it. Moreover, we prefer to have a concrete corpus of based on actions a robot can do rather than abstract sentences of the Wall Street Journal (a classical benchmark). We have already performed several experiments with both sentence comprehension and production models with humanoid robots such as iCub and Nao (Hinaut et al. 2014, Twiefel et al. 2016). Having a plausibility measure of a meaning will allow us to set up a cascading reinterpretation if necessary, first from the word level, and if that is not enough, to reinterpret the phonemes to find new plausible words. There exists two main types of observations made with an electroencephalogram (EEG) with human subject: P600 and N400. They are assumed to correspond to syntactically or semantically reinterpretations of the sentence. The model developed will have to account for these induced observations. In Hinaut & Dominey (2013), we showed that our model could provide an equivalent of P600 when a sentence was syntactically complex. This project is linked to other projects in the team on the hierarchical organization of the prefrontal cortex (including Broca's area, involved in language). This hierarchy corresponds to an increasingly higher abstraction, which is made by different sub-areas. We will therefore be able to link this post-doc project to existing projects of the team, where different levels of abstractions are necessary for sentence comprehension. Main References - G. S. Dell, & F. Chang (2014) The P-chain: Relating sentence production and its disorders to comprehension and acquisition. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 369(1634). - H. Jaeger, (2017) Using conceptors to manage neural long-term memories for temporal patterns. The Journal of Machine Learning Research, 18(1), 387-429. - X. Hinaut, P.F. Dominey (2013) Real-Time Parallel Processing of Grammatical Structure in the Fronto- Striatal System: A Recurrent Network Simulation Study Using Reservoir Computing. PloS ONE 8(2): e52946. - X. Hinaut, M. Petit, G. Pointeau, P.F. Dominey (2014) Exploring the Acquisition and Production of Grammatical Constructions Through Human-Robot Interaction. Frontiers in NeuroRobotics 8:16. - Hinaut, X. (2018). Which Input Abstraction is Better for a Robot Syntax Acquisition Model? Phonemes, Words or Grammatical Constructions? In 2018 Joint IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning and Epigenetic Robotics (ICDL-EpiRob). Skills Good background in computational neuroscience, computer science, physics and/or mathematics; A strong interest for neuroscience, linguistics and the physiological processes underlying learning; Python programming with experience with scientific libraries Numpy/Scipy (or similar programming language: matlab, etc.); Experience in machine learning or data mining; Independence and ability to manage a project; Good English reading/speaking skills. French speaking is not required Benefits package Subsidized meals Partial reimbursement of public transport costs Possibility of teleworking (after 6 months of employment) and flexible organization of working hours Professional equipment available (videoconferencing, loan of computer equipment, etc.) Social, cultural and sports events and activities Access to vocational training Social security coverage -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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URL: From angelo.ciaramella at uniparthenope.it Sat Mar 16 05:35:10 2019 From: angelo.ciaramella at uniparthenope.it (Angelo Ciaramella) Date: Sat, 16 Mar 2019 10:35:10 +0100 Subject: Connectionists: CfP: Special Session "Soft Computing Methods for Characterizing Diseases from Omics Data" @ CIBB2019 Message-ID: <20190316103510.Horde.Oy8HeckozXZrmu2o500xxw1@webmail.uniparthenope.it> Apologize for multiple posting. Call for Papers ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Special Session: SOFT COMPUTING METHODS FOR CHARACTERIZING DISEASES FROM OMICS DATA http://dinamico2.unibg.it/cazzaniga/cibb2019/specialsessions.html#Ciaramella CIBB 2019: Computational Intelligence methods for Bioinformatics and Biostatistics (Bergamo, Italy, 4-6 September 2019) http://dinamico2.unibg.it/cazzaniga/cibb2019/index.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Aims and scope: In modern biomedical research, high-throughput technologies, such as the next generation sequencing, produces huge data sets. High-throughput data are collected in the broad context of genomics, epigenomics, transcriptomics and proteomics. From these data, it is possible to explain the pathogenesis or predict the predisposition and/or the clinical outcome of several human diseases, among which psychiatric, cardiovascular, obesity, aetiology of a number of diseases such as cancer, schizophrenia, and Alzheimer, just to name a few. The identification of new strategies for processing and analyzing such kind of data is becoming more and more necessary since their large amount of data can sometimes represent a real obstacle to effectively identify the most relevant patterns and to build comprehensive models capable of explaining complex biological phenotypes. The aim of the special session is to host original papers and reviews on recent research advances and the state-of-the-art methods in the fields of Soft Computing, Machine Learning and Data Mining methodologies concerning with the processing of omics data in order to shed light about the relationship between genotype and disease-related phenotype. Relevant topics within this context include, but are not limited to: Machine learning Sparse Coding Data Mining Fuzzy and Neuro-Fuzzy Systems Probabilistic and statistical modelling OMICs in the context of genomics, epigenomics, transcriptomics anroteomics Evaluation of protein folding and/or protein-ligand interactions (wher ligands are proteins, DNA, RNA and small molecules), also in the context of genetic variation Identification of potential gene regulatory elements (i.e., binding oranscription factors, miRNAs, etc.) Analysis of common genetic variants (i.e., SNPs, HLA genotypesicrosatellites) Analysis of experimental data from next-generation sequencing Analysis of gene expression data Biomedical applications Organizers: Angelo Ciaramella, University of Napoli Parthenope, Italy Giosu? Lo Bosco, University of Palermo, Italy Alberto Paccanaro, Royal Holloway University of London, United Kingdom Umberto Ferraro Petrillo, Universit? di Roma - La Sapienza, Italy Antonino Staiano, University of Napoli Parthenope, Italy Giorgio Valentini, Universit? degli Studi di Milano, Italy --------------------------------------------- - Angelo Ciaramella, Ph.D - DiST, Dipartimento di Scienze e Tecnologie - Universit? degli Studi di Napoli "Parthenope" - Room 431, Isola C4, Centro Direzionale - I-80143 Napoli, ITALY - Tel.: 0815476674 From marianne.clausel at univ-lorraine.fr Sat Mar 16 12:10:13 2019 From: marianne.clausel at univ-lorraine.fr (Marianne Clausel) Date: Sat, 16 Mar 2019 17:10:13 +0100 Subject: Connectionists: =?utf-8?q?M=2ESc=2E_Program_in_Natural_Language_P?= =?utf-8?q?rocessing_=28NLP=29_and_Data_Science_Universit=C3=A9_de_Lorrain?= =?utf-8?q?e=2C_Nancy_=28France=29?= Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ M.Sc. Program in Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Data Science Universit? de Lorraine, Nancy (France) The Institute of Digital Sciences, Management and Cognition is opening a Masters Program in NLP - ?? Computer Science, Speech, Language and Knowledge Representation ************** http://institut-sciences-digitales.fr/idmc-master-degree-in-natural-language-processing/ ************** So you want to be a specialist in Neural Networks, Logic, Speech Processing, Information Retrieval, Knowledge Representation... all for Natural Language? Well, now's your chance! Natural Language Processing (NLP) lies at the crossroads of linguistics, computer science and artificial intelligence. This Masters Program offers a modern curriculum which combines the different approaches, and covers both theoretical and applied perspectives. In each semester, the program includes a hands-on project. It ends with a 6-month paid internship in a company or a research lab. You can find the course description below. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- You can apply to directly enter at either the first year (M1) or second year (M2) level. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Language ------------- All courses are taught in English (except the "French for non-native speakers" class). Fees ------- The University of Lorraine is publicly funded and thus offers tuition-free education for many students including students from the EU (243 ? cost per year). The tuition fee for students from other nations arriving in France at the beginning of the 2019 academic year will be 3.770 ? per year. Find more information here: https://www.campusfrance.org/en/tuition-fees-France Nancy?s high quality of life goes hand-in-hand with a low cost of living. Why Nancy? --------------- Nancy is a center of excellence for NLP. It can boast of: 1/Two important research units: - LORIA, the computer science research laboratoryhttp://www.loria.fr/en/ - ATILF the linguistic research laboratoryhttp://www.atilf.fr/ Both research units participate in many national and international research projects. Their members are highly visible in the international community and regularly publish in the most prestigious conferences and journals of the field. 2/ Two Erasmus Mundus Masters funded by the European Union : - Erasmus Mundus Master Language and Communication Technology (LCT)http://lct-master.org/ - Erasmus Mundus Master EMLex. https://www.emlex.phil.fau.eu/ Why NLP? -------------- Natural Language Processing is a rapidly expanding field. With the proliferation of digital data, there is a massive need for well-trained engineers and researchers able to exploit this data for commercial (for example: e-commerce, recommender systems and translation) and socio-political (for example: e-learning, opinion mining, and behavioural predictions) purposes. Start-ups, small firms with strong R&D profiles and large companies (in France this includes Airbus, Thales, EDF, Orange, etc.) are looking for scientists and engineers who can contribute to the development of systems capable of managing and exploiting textual data. The GAFAM (Google, Amazon, Facebook, Apple, Microsoft) also recruit intensively in both the NLP and the Speech processing domain. There is also a strong need for Ph.D. candidates in the field, as demonstrated by the many Ph.D. proposals in both the public and the industrial domain. Contacts ------------ Head of the Master program: Maxime Amblard maxime.amblard at univ-lorraine.fr Secretary: Karine Weisse karine.weisse at univ-lorraine.fr Location of the courses: ?cole des Mines (Artem Campus, Tram stop "Blandan") http://www.alliance-artem.fr/ Application --------------- Non-European students --------------- Students from most non-UE countries shall apply on https://pastel.diplomatie.gouv.fr/etudesenfrance/dyn/public/authentification/login.html?_csrf=a530f0a6-e1d3-4052-ba91-f2cb8029fcd8&codeLangue=EN (search Traitement Automatique des Langues Nancy) Students from other non-EU countries can directly apply with the following file: http://institut-sciences-digitales.fr/applicationfilem-sc_-nlp19-20/ European students --------------- The application file for EU students is available here: https://ecandidat.univ-lorraine.fr Create an account then follow: - Offre de formation - Institut des sciences du digital, management et cognition - Master - M1-Traitement Automatique des Langues (TAL) (NANCY) (FI) or - M2-Traitement Automatique des Langues (TAL) PT Informatique, langue, parole et connaissances (NANCY) (FI) More information: http://institut-sciences-digitales.fr/application-process-nlp-master-degree/#application Academic Year 2019-2020 ----------------------------------- From 3rd to 13th September 2019: Refresher courses in mathematics (probability theory and statistics) and computer science (algorithms and programming). M1: 1st semester from September 2nd to January 10th 2nd semester from January 13th to June 5th M2: 1st semester from September 2nd to March 27th Internship from February to August In brief ---------- ? A program with strong national and international visibility ? Taught entirely in English ? A high quality research environment with two research centers covering a wide range of disciplines (linguistics, computer science, speech and language processing) and applications (human-machine interfaces, speech processing, knowledge extraction, statistical machine translation, etc.) ? Studies in a vibrant, human-size city Course Description --------------------------- M1 Semester 1 --------------------------- PROBABILITIES, STATISTICS AND ALGORITHMS FOR AI ? Elementary mathematical tools, statistics, algorithms to define and solve artificial intelligence problems ? Case study approach towards mastering both theoretical and practical aspects of a topic DESIGN AND ACQUISITION OF CORPORA ? Written corpora ? Speech corpora SOFTWARE ENGINEERING ? Collecting, analysing and formalizing customers' needs ? Software design and development ? Functional analysis and specifications ? Project management LINGUISTICS FOR NLP (1) ? Methods for Natural Language Processing ? Phonology ? Morphology PROJECT AND FOREIGN LANGUAGE ? Hands-on project ? Foreign language (French) --------------------------- M1 Semester 2 --------------------------- MACHINE LEARNING AND SEMANTIC WEB ? Machine learning theory ? Data mining ? Knowledge extraction FORMAL TOOLS ? Logic ? Formal languages ? Calculability and complexity DATA PROCESSING ? Storage and retrieval ? Data analysis LINGUISTICS FOR NLP (2) ? Lexicology : lexical units and phraseology ? Syntax ? Semantics PROJECT AND FOREIGN LANGUAGE ? Hands-on project ? Scientific communication ? Foreign language (French) --------------------------- M2 Semester 1 --------------------------- DEEP LEARNING AND DATA MINING ? Neural Networks, Deep Neural Networks ? Data mining (structured data and text) ? Collaborative filtering TEXT AND SPEECH PROCESSING ? Processing Textual Data ? Speech processing ? Terminology and ontology NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING AND DISCOURSE ? Application to text ? Computational semantics ? Discourse and Dialog modeling LEXICONS AND GRAMMARS FOR NLP ? Diachronic and synchronic lexicology ? Lexical resources ? Syntactic framework PROJECTS AND FOREIGN LANGUAGE ? Software project ? Law and ethics ? Research methods ? Professional integration ? Foreign language (French) --------------------------- M2 Semester 2 --------------------------- Paid internship (company or research lab) ---------------------- Maxime Amblard Universit? de Lorraine https://members.loria.fr/mamblard --------------------------------------------------------------------- Desinscription: envoyez un message a:bull-ia-unsubscribe at gdria.fr Pour obtenir de l'aide, ecrivez a:bull-ia-help at gdria.fr From rava at ens.fr Sat Mar 16 12:32:56 2019 From: rava at ens.fr (Rava A. da Silveira) Date: Sat, 16 Mar 2019 17:32:56 +0100 Subject: Connectionists: INTERNATIONAL SUMMER SCHOOL IN COMPUTATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE, Beijing, August 2019 Message-ID: *CNeuro**: International Summer School and Workshop* *in Theoretical and Computational Neuroscience* *Tsinghua University, Beijing (August 2019)* *Background* How intelligence and behavior emerge from complex and intricate interactions within the brain remain important and unsolved mysteries in modern science. In the last decade, we have seen rapid progress in experimental tools that now make it possible to monitor and manipulate brain circuits in unprecedented detail. This research area presents both challenges and opportunities for experimentalists and theoreticians. The complexity and dynamics of the brain make it difficult to tackle its mechanisms and functions with experimental approaches alone. Mathematical theory is pivotal for obtaining new insights and for guiding experiment, as well as for identifying and unifying concepts and principles of brain functions. The aim of the two-week summer school and workshop will be to introduce students with strong quantitative background (e.g., in mathematics, theoretical physics, computer science, or engineering) to the emerging field of theoretical and computational neuroscience. The course will also bring together leading scientists in theoretical and computational neuroscience. We envision a collaborative environment where faculty and students will have in-depth discussions on topics in the frontier of neuroscience. The course will be a pedagogical basis for new students, introducing them to advanced mathematical methods and modeling approaches that are currently being used and developed to understand brain functions. *Time* 15 ? 29 August 2019 *Location* The summer school will be held at the Tsinghua Laboratory of Brain and Intelligence (THBI), at Tsinghua University, in Beijing. THBI is a flagship project of the university. It is a new interdisciplinary research institute recently established by Tsinghua University, with dedicated faculty positions and research space. The institute aims to conduct cutting-edge interdisciplinary research across the fields of systems and computational neuroscience and artificial intelligence. The institute occupies three floors in a newly renovated building with large classrooms for teaching and computer labs, and ample offices for visiting scholars. *Organizers* Xiaoqin Wang, Johns Hopkins University and Tsinghua University Aravi Samuel, Harvard University Rava Azeredo da Silveira, Ecole Normale Sup?rieure Quan Wen, University of Science and Technology of China Sen Song, Tsinghua University *Faculty* Yoram Burak, The Hebrew University Dmitri Chklovskii, Flatiron Institute, Simons Foundation Michael Hausser, University of College London Yu Hu, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Dezhe Jin, Penn State University Jian Liu, University of Leicester Cengiz Pehlevan, Harvard University Aravi Samuel, Harvard University Rava Azeredo da Silveira, Ecole Normale Sup?rieure Sen Song, Tsinghua University Louis Tao, Peking University Srinivas Turaga, Janelia Research Campus Xiaoqin Wang, Johns Hopkins University and Tsinghua University Quan Wen, University of Science and Technology of China Kechen Zhang, John Hopkins University *Applications* Please send a CV and a statement of purpose to thbi at tsinghua.edu.cn Application deadline: *20 May 2019* *Housing* International students will be housed on the Tsinghua University campus. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From pkordjam at tulane.edu Sat Mar 16 13:16:07 2019 From: pkordjam at tulane.edu (Kordjamshidi, Parisa) Date: Sat, 16 Mar 2019 17:16:07 +0000 Subject: Connectionists: CFP: IJCAI-2019 Workshop on "Declarative Learning Based Programming" Message-ID: <98E72B9C-E9B1-4A77-A944-406E83D71639@tulane.edu> --------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS ---------------------------------------------------------------- Forth International Workshop on Declarative Learning Based Programming (DeLBP-2019), in conjunction with 28th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-2019), August 10-16, 2019, Macao, China. Website: http://delbp.github.io. --------------------------------------------------------------- AIM AND SCOPE --------------------------------------------------------------- The main goal of Declarative Learning Based Programming (DeLBP) workshop is to investigate the issues that arise when designing and using programming languages that support learning from data and knowledge. DeLBP aims at new programming models and abstractions that facilitate the design and development of intelligent real world applications that use machine learning and reasoning. The challenges of such a programming paradigm include: Interaction with messy, naturally occurring data; Specifying the requirements of the application at a high abstraction level; Dealing with uncertainty in data and knowledge in various layers of the application program; Using representations that support relational learning with rich data representations; Using representations that support flexible reasoning and structure learning; Supporting model chaining and composition; Integrating a range of learning and inference algorithms; and finally addressing the above mentioned issues in one unified programming environment. Conventional programming languages offer no help to application programmers that attempt to design and develop applications that make use of real world data, and reason about it in a way that involves learning interdependent concepts from data, incorporating and composing existing models, and reasoning about existing and trained models and their parameterization. The goal of this workshop is to present and discuss the current related research and the way various challenges have been addressed. We aim at motivating the need for further research toward a unified framework in this area based on the key existing paradigms: Probabilistic Programming, Logic Programming, Probabilistic Logical Programming, First-order query languages and database management systems and deductive databases, Statistical relational learning, Deep Learning and related languages, End-to-End differentiable programming and connect these to the ideas of Learning Based Programming. We aim to discuss and investigate the required type of languages and representations that facilitate modeling complex learning models, deep architectures, and provide the ability to combine, chain and perform flexible inference with existing models and by exploiting domain knowledge. Highlight: Though the theme of this workshop remains generic as in the past versions, we will aim at emphasizing on ideas and opinions regarding using different types of knowledge (Declarative, procedural) in Statistical/Neural learning. ---------------------------------------------------------------- TOPICS OF INTEREST ????????????????????? * New programming abstractions and modularity levels towards a unified framework for (deep/structured) learning and reasoning, * Frameworks/Computational models to combine learning and reasoning paradigms. * Flexible use of structured and relational data from heterogeneous resources in learning. * Data modeling (relational/graph-based databases) issues in such a new integrated framework for learning based on data and knowledge. * The ability of closing the loop to acquire knowledge from data and data from knowledge towards life-long learning, and reasoning. * Exploiting declarative and procedural knowledge such as expert knowledge and common sense knowledge expressed via multiple formalisms, in learning. * Using declarative domain knowledge to guide the design of learning models, * including feature extraction, model selection, dependency structure and deep model architecture. * Design and representation of complex learning and inference models. * The interface for learning-based programming, * either in the form of programming languages, declarations, frameworks, libraries or graphical user interfaces. * Related applications in Natural language processing, Computer vision, Bioinformatics, Computational biology, multi-agent systems, etc. * End-To-End differential programming, Learning to learn programs and program synthesis if considering our specific perspective related to learning-based programs. ------------------------------------------------------------------ IMPORTANT DATES ------------------------------------------------------------------ Submission Deadline: April 30th, 2019 Notification: May 20th, 2019 Workshop Days: August 10-12, 2019 ------------------------------------------------------------------ SUBMISSION INFORMATION ------------------------------------------------------------------ We encourage contributions with either a technical paper (IJCAI style, 6 pages without references), a position statement (IJCAI style, 2 pages maximum) or an abstract of a published work. IJCAI Style files available here. Please make submissions via EasyChair, here. ---------------------------------------------------------------- ORGANIZING COMMITTEE ---------------------------------------------------------------- Parisa Kordjamshidi, Tulane University, IHMC Hannaneh Hajishirazi, University of Washington Quan Guo , Tulane University Nikolaos Vasiloglou, Ismion Inc Kristian Kersting, TU Darmstadt Dan Roth, University of Pennsylvania ---------------------------------------------------------------- CONTACT ---------------------------------------------------------------- delbp-4 at googlegroups.com (Organization Committee) ------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------- Kordjamshidi, Parisa Assistant Professor CS Department at Tulane University Research Scientist at IHMC Homepage -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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In-Reply-To: References: , , , , Message-ID: Apologies if you receive multiple copies SBP-BRiMS 2019 2019 International Conference on Social Computing, Behavioral-Cultural Modeling, & Prediction and Behavior Representation in Modeling and Simulation July 9-12, 2019, Lehman Auditorium, George Washington University, Washington DC, US http://sbp-brims.org/ #sbpbrims CALL FOR Contributions : Important Dates: Working Paper Submission: 17-May-2019 Doctoral Consortium Submission due: 17-May-2019 Tutorial Submission: 17-May-2019 Demo Submission: 17-May-2019 Challenge Response Submission: 17-May-2019 SBP-BRiMS is an interdisciplinary computational social science conference focused on both modeling complex socio-technical systems and using computational techniques to reason about and study complex socio-technical systems. The participants in this conference take part in forming the conversation on how computation is shaping the modern world and helping us to better understand and reason about human behavior. Both papers addressing basic research and those addressing applied research are accepted. All methodological approaches are encouraged; however, the vast majority of papers use computer simulation, network analysis or machine learning as the method of choice in addressing human social and behavioral activities. At the conference, these paper presentations are complemented by data science challenge problems, demonstrations of new technologies, and a government funding panel. Submissions are solicited on research issues, methodologies, theories, and applications. Topics of interests include but are not limited to the following: Advances in Sociocultural & Behavioral Process Modeling * Group formation, interaction, and/or evolution * Collective action and governance * Information, belief, technology of disease diffusion * Public opinion representation, identification and modeling * Information diffusion * Psycho-cultural situation awareness * Intelligent agents and avatars/adversarial modeling * Models of reasoning and decision making * Performance prediction, assessment, & skill monitoring/tracking * Intelligent tutoring systems * Cognitive robotics and human-robot interaction * Human behavior issues in model federations * Validation and analysis techniques for social behavioral models Information, Systems, & Network Science * Data mining on social media platforms * Diffusion and other dynamic processes over networks * Inference of network topologies and changes over time or space * Analysis of link formations and link types * Detection of communities and other types of structures in networks * Analysis of high-dimensional networks * Analytics for social and human dynamics Military & Intelligence Applications * Group formation and evolution in the political context * Networks and political influence * Group representation and profiling * Reasoning about terrorist group behaviors and policies towards them * Cyber and attribution * Social Cyber-Security applications * Social simulation for military training * Cyber diplomacy * Computational methods to transform traditional GEOINT and open source data into spatio-temporal information describing events and activities Applications for Health and Well-being * Data science applied to health behavior * Modeling of public health and health care policy and decision making * Modeling of behavioral aspects of infectious disease spread * Modeling of behavioral aspects of prevention and treatment for chronic diseases (e.g., cancer, obesity, asthma) * Intervention design and modeling for behavioral health Example Other Applications of Interest to the Community * Economic applications of behavioral and social prediction * Model federation, integration, verification, or validation * Evolutionary computing and optimization * Education, training, professional development and workforce training in modeling and simulation CHALLENGE PROBLEMS: There will be two data science challenges, one on opioids and one on disinformation. Additional details are posted on the conference website, SBP-BRiMS.org/challenge. The deadline for submissions this year will be 17-May-2019. IMPORTANT DATES: Working Paper Submission: 17-May-2019 Doctoral Consortium Submission due: 17-May-2019 Tutorial Submission: 17-May-2019 Demo Submission: 17-May-2019 Challenge Response Submission: 17-May-2019 Please see conference website http://sbp-brims.org for more information. AWARDS: All papers are qualified for the Best Paper Award. Papers with student first authors will be considered for the Best Student Paper Award. Those receiving these awards will be invited to publish an extended version in a special issue of the journal Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory. Submission of a paper to the conference means that the authors consent to send an extended version to the special issue, should they receive one of the awards. 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Launched for the first time in October 2018 at MINES ParisTech, it has been a unique educational experience and we wish to let you know that applications for next academic year 2019_20 are now OPEN ! Please save the dates for admissions and spread the word ! CONFERENCE DES GRANDES ECOLES PSL UNIVERSITE PARIS MINES PARISTECH Post-Master's Degree Mast?re Sp?cialis? ? AIMove ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE and MOVEMENT in Industries and Creation An international English taught programme in Paris. AIMove is a fully-accredited professional program, created within the Centre for Robotics of MINES ParisTech. It is getting specialised in human-centred AI and enhances professional development and expertise in the fields of human-machine interaction and collaboration, internet of things, machine learning, pattern recognition, computer vision, VR/AR and intermixed reality, and emergent related fields. This unique international program, taught entirely in English, brings together the leading European professionals in the sector of human-centred artificial intelligence and trains future engineers who are experts in AI with specialised application in human movement. MODULES AI and societal challenges Motion capture, modelling and gesture recognition User Interaction and User Experience Human, machines and connected objects Movement and European industrial leadership Interdisciplinary AI engagement _To access the full list of courses click here [1] or check the attached Brochure_ STRUCTURE 6-month courses, GAIIA Think-Tank and Summer School, Interdisciplinary engagement AND 6-month enterprise internship with a competitive salary ENTRY REQUIREMENTS 5 years at University level OR 4 years at University level + 3 years of professional experience Partners IRCAM Pompidou Centre (France) I CERTH The Centre for Research and Technology-Hellas (Greece) I MDP Maxon Motor France I HAAS Lawyers I Neurodatalab Emotion AI hub I Mocaplab Motion Capture Studios Idiap Research Institute (Switzerland) l INREV Paris8 University (France) l Goldsmiths University of London ADMISSIONS February 1 - April 5 2019 Throughout the year, wonderful projects took place, events, lectures and round tables were organised which allowed our students, invited guests and other participants to exchange around AI's most topical issues. Please take a peek below or reach out at aimove.eu with questions. Contact: info at aimove.eu Webpage: aimove.eu [2] Links: ------ [1] http://aimove.eu/index.php/2018/04/11/timeline-and-structure/ [2] http://aimove.eu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: 0efaabe8.jpeg Type: image/jpeg Size: 537470 bytes Desc: not available URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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The award is endowed with a travel grant of 2.000 ? to cover a trip to Germany, including participation in the Bernstein Conference 2019 in Berlin (www.bernstein-conference.de), and an individually planned visit to up to two German research institutions in Computational Neuroscience. Deadline for application is April 24, 2019, 2:00 p.m. CET (Application deadline will not be extended!) Detailed information about the application procedure can be found under: https://www.bernstein-network.de/en/the-network/awards/b4b2019 For inquiries please contact bernstein.network at fz-juelich.de Best regards, Kerstin Schwarzw?lder -- Dr. Kerstin Schwarzw?lder Scientific Coordination / Management Officer Please note: Our email addresses have changed. Please use k.schwarzwaelder at fz-juelich.de Bernstein Network Computational Neuroscience | Bernstein Coordination Site (BCOS) Branch Office of the Forschungszentrum J?lich at the University of Freiburg Hansastr. 9A | 79104 Freiburg, Germany phone: (+49) 0761 203 9589 mail: k.schwarzwaelder at fz-juelich.de web: www.nncn.de Twitter: NNCN_Germany YouTube: Bernstein TV Facebook: Bernstein Network Computational Neuroscience, Germany LinkedIn: Bernstein Network Computational Neuroscience, Germany ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Forschungszentrum Juelich GmbH 52425 Juelich Sitz der Gesellschaft: Juelich Eingetragen im Handelsregister des Amtsgerichts Dueren Nr. HR B 3498 Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrats: MinDir Dr. Karl Eugen Huthmacher Geschaeftsfuehrung: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Wolfgang Marquardt (Vorsitzender), Karsten Beneke (stellv. 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Neuronal dynamics provide a powerful theoretical language for the design and modeling of embodied and situated cognitive systems. This school provides a hands-on and down-to-earth introduction to neuronal dynamics ideas and enables participants to become productive within this framework. The school is aimed at advanced undergraduate or graduate students, postdocs and faculty members in embodied cognition, cognitive science, and robotics. The school combines tutorial lectures in the mornings with hands-on projects working with robotic systems. Participants will develop their own modeling project, which will connect to their ongoing doctoral or postdoctoral research. Topics addressed include neural dynamics, attractor dynamics and instabilities, dynamic field theory, neuronal representations, artificial perception, simple forms of cognition including detection and selection decisions, memory formation, learning, and grounding relational concepts. For more information see: https://dynamicfieldtheory.org/events/summer_school_2019/ To apply, please send a CV and a short cover letter with background and motivation to mathis.richter at ini.rub.de Selection of participants will begin by May 15, 2019. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: summer_school_2019.pdf Type: application/pdf Size: 2853258 bytes Desc: not available URL: From carsten.mehring at biologie.uni-freiburg.de Mon Mar 18 08:29:42 2019 From: carsten.mehring at biologie.uni-freiburg.de (Carsten Mehring) Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2019 13:29:42 +0100 Subject: Connectionists: MSc Neuroscience program University of Freiburg, Germany Message-ID: MSc program in Neuroscience - University of Freiburg, Germany We are inviting applications for the interdisciplinary MSc program in Neuroscience at the University of Freiburg, Germany. The program provides theoretical and practical training in neuroscience, covering both the foundations and the latest research in the field. It is taught by lecturers from an international scientific community from three faculties and two neuroscience research centres. The modular course structure caters to the specific backgrounds and research interests of each individual student and we offer specialisations in computational neuroscience, neuro-/optophysiology, neurotechnology and genes,circuiots & behaviour. All courses are taught in English. We welcome applications with a background in natural sciences, mathematics, behavioural sciences, computer science or engineering sciences. The deadline for applications for the October 2019 entry is the 31st of May 2019. Further details can be found on our homepage http://www.mscneuro.uni-freiburg.de Please contact mscneuro at uni-freiburg,de for further questions. 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Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh (UK), April 2nd 2019 www.macs.hw.ac.uk/neuro4pd (Workshop webpage link ) ********************************************************************************************************** The first ?International Workshop on Neurorobotics and Neural Disorders (IWNND2019)? is a scientific event and a platform for exchange between researchers, technology developers and clinicians around commercial and/or research application of Neurorobotics in the context of neural disorders, like Parkinson?s and Alzheimer?s disease. Neurorobotics is at the intersection of robotics and neuroscience and focus on implementing neurobiological structures underlying animal behaviour in robots. In this way, neurorobotics can facilitate the investigation of the mechanisms of neural disorders and support the development of techniques that can inform new therapies and be used as an alternative to animal experiments. The workshop will discuss promising approaches and challenges for robotics community regarding the study of neural disorders. It will be a great chance to meet our invited speakers and network with fellow roboticists and neuroscientists plus a world-class audience from Universities, Research Institutions and Companies. *Date and Venue* April 2nd 2019 (Tuesday) Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK (Postgraduate Centre Auditorium PG.G01, map ) *Registration* There are no fees for registration but spaces are limited (registration link ) *Programme* "Overview of the clinical problems in Parkinson?s disease", Dr. Stuart Jamieson (Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust UK) "Non-parametric directionality: theory and application to cortico-basal ganglia circuits in parkinsonian rat", Dr. David Halliday (University of York UK) "Neurorobotics" Prof. Paul Verschure (Institute for Bioengineering of Catalunya, Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology, Catalan Institute of Advanced Studies Spain) "Heriot-Watt University and the Year of Health", Prof. Richard Williams (Heriot-Watt University Principal UK) "Predicting the effects of deep brain stimulation using a computational model", Dr. Gihan Weerasinghe (University of Oxford UK) "Understanding of animal behaviour from computer models of neural circuits and robotics", Dr. Seb James (University of Sheffield UK) *Organisers* General Chair: Dr Patr?cia A. Vargas and Dr Renan Moioli Programme Chair: Dr Michael Lones Local Chair: Siobhan Duncan Registration Chair: Jhielson M. Pimentel -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From lewis.chuang at tuebingen.mpg.de Mon Mar 18 18:00:27 2019 From: lewis.chuang at tuebingen.mpg.de (Lewis Chuang) Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2019 22:00:27 +0000 Subject: Connectionists: PhD/Postdoc position in Machine Learning and Visual Impairments Message-ID: <85DF11B9-4A08-4990-84D0-0F7AA8029608@tuebingen.mpg.de> ================================================================ Title: Fully-funded PhD/Postdoc position in Detecting Visual Impairments from Everyday Gaze Behavior Location: LMU Munich, Germany Start date: March 2019 or later ================================================================ Applicants are invited to apply for a PhD/Postdoc position in the Human-Centered Ubiquitous Media group (LMU Munich), that will be supervised by Dr. Lewis Chuang. The positions are fully-funded according to the German public service payscale (TV-L 13, 100%). -- Project -- The successful candidate will work within a multi-partner project, involving medical institutions and industry partners, that is motivated to diagnose, rehabilitate, and provide assistance to individuals with progressive visual impairments (i.e., age-related macular degneration; AMD). The successful candidate will investigate how AMD modifies natural gaze behavior and how this could be recognized from gaze tracking data acquired under real world conditions. This project will contribute to our current understanding of natural gaze behavior as well as provide insight into the daily difficulties experienced by AMD sufferers. The successful candidate will have access to advanced eye- and motion-tracking equipment, a psychophysical laboratory, state-of-the-art computing facilities, and the opportunity to contribute to the design of assistive technologies. -- Candidate Profile -- The successful candidate should have a Master?s or doctoral degree in psychology, neuroscience, computer science, and/or a related field. In particular, the applicant should demonstrate previous experience in computer vision, machine learning, and/or vision science?or, in case of a doctoral candidate, the ability to acquire relevant skills within the first six months of their PhD. The applicant should demonstrate programming proficiency (i.e., C#, C/C++, Java, Python, Matlab), ideally for the statistical modeling and analyses of large datasets. They should be willing to perform experiments with human participants. Proficiency in English is a prerequisite, proficiency in German desired, but not required. LMU Munich is an equal opportunity employer. -- Research Group -- The interdisciplinary Human-Centered Ubiquitous Media group consists of an international team of computer scientists, engineers, neuroscientists, and psychologists. It is dedicated to developing wearable and ubiquitous technologies that mitigate human errors, augment user performance and well-being, and amplifies human cognition. Past projects include context-aware applications, AR for manual assembly tasks, physiological evaluations of human-machine interactions, and more. LMU Munich is consistently ranked #1 among German universities and #32 world-wide by Times Higher Education (in 2018). The Institute for Informatics has a strong focus on human-computer interaction with three professors and approximately 40 research scientists in media informatics. -- Your application -- Please send the following documents to Dr. Tonja Machulla (tonja.machulla at ifi.lmu.de): a cover letter detailing any previous research and project development experience, a CV, Bachelor/Master certificates and transcripts, and 1-2 academic references. Applications will be considered until the position is filled. The official advertisement can be found at LMU?s job portal. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Web is now a vast data production and consumption platform at which threads of data evolve from multiple devices, by different human interactions, over worldwide locations under divergent distributed settings. Such a dynamic complex system demands adaptive intelligent solutions, which will advance know-ledge, human interactions and innovation. Web intelligence is now a cutting edge area which must address all open issues towards deepening the understanding of all Web?s entities, phenomena, and developments. The theme for the WI'19 is: "Web Intelligence = AI in the Connected World". The 18th Web Intelligence conference (WI'19) aims to achieve a multi-disciplinary balance between research and technological disruptive advances in the fields of how intelligence is impacting the Web of People, the Web of Data, the Web of Things, the Web of Trust, and the Web of Health. WI'19 welcomes research, application as well as Industry/Demo track paper submissions in these core thematic pillars under wider topics, which demand WI innovative and disruptive solutions for any of the next indicative sub-topics. Track 1: Web of People Social networks analytics Social media and dynamics User and behavioral modeling Human centric computing Opinion mining Recommendation engines Sentiment analysis Crowdsourcing and social data mining People oriented applications and services Track 2: Web of Data Data science and machine learning Big data analytics Data integration and data provenance Cognitive models Computational models Information search and retrieval Algorithms and knowledge management Knowledge bases and semantic networks Linked data management and analytics Data driven services and applications Track 3: Web of Things IoT data analytics Web infrastructures and devices Mobile web Distributed systems and devices Open autonomous systems Industrial multi-domain web Streaming data analysis Smart city applications and services Track 4: Web of Trust Hidden web analytics Blockchain analytics and technologies Web-scale security, integrity, privacy and trust Web cryptography Fake content and fraud detection Web safety and openness Monetization services and applications Track 5: Web of Health Personalized health management and analytics Health data exchange and sharing Big data in medicine Wellbeing and healthcare in the digital era Omics research and trends Healthcare and medical applications and services IMPORTANT DATES The Program Chairs are soliciting contributed technical papers for presentation at the Conference and publication in the Conference Proceedings by ACM. Submissions are encouraged before the next deadlines: Feb 20th, 2019: Workshop Proposals May 12th, 2019: Full Papers; Demo papers; Tutorial proposals June 30th, 2019: Notification of Acceptance/Rejection July 14th, 2019: Final, Camera Ready Papers, Due PAPER SUBMISSION Please follow guidelines: https://wi-lab.com/cyberchair/2019/wi19/scripts/submit.php?subarea=Wr/. Papers must be submitted electronically via Cyberchair in standard ACM format (max 8 pages). Submitted papers will undergo a peer review process, coordinated by the International Program Committee. 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Early registration deadline: March 31, 2019 https://acdl2019.icas.xyz/registration/ LECTURERS: Each Lecturer will hold three lessons on a specific topic. Ioannis Antonoglou, Google DeepMind, UK Topic: General Reinforcement Learning Algorithms Marco Gori, University of Siena, Italy Topic: Constraint-Based Approaches to Machine Learning Phillip Isola, MIT, USA Topic: Generative Adversarial Networks Leslie Kaelbling, MIT - Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence Lab, USA Topics: Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning, Robotics Ilias S. Kotsireas, Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada Topics: Data Science & High-Performance Computing Dolores Romero Morales, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark Topic: Big Data Panos Pardalos, University of Florida, USA Topics: Optimization, Complex Networks & Data Science Ruslan Salakhutdinov, Carnegie Mellon University & AI Research at Apple, USA Topic: Deep Learning Josh Tenenbaum, MIT, USA Topics: Computational Cognitive Science, probabilistic generative models, and probabilistic programming Naftali Tishby, Hebrew University, Israel Topic: Theory of Deep Learning ? Information Bottleneck Joaquin Vanschoren, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands Topic: Automatic machine learning Oriol Vinyals, Google DeepMind, UK Topic: Deep Learning & Reinforcement Learning SCOPE: The Advanced Course is not a summer school suited only for younger scholars. Rather, a significant proportion of seasoned investigators are regularly present among the attendees, often senior faculty at their own institutions. The balanced audience that we strive to maintain in each Advanced Course greatly contributes to the development of intense cross-disciplinary debates among faculty and participants that typically address the most advanced and emerging areas of each topic. Each faculty member presents lectures and discusses with the participants for one entire day. Such long interaction together with the small, exclusive Course size provides the uncommon opportunity to fully explore the expertise of each faculty, often through one-to-one mentoring. This is unparalleled and priceless. The Certosa di Pontignano provides the perfect setting to a relaxed yet intense learning atmosphere, with the stunning backdrop of the Tuscan landscapes. World-class wines and traditional foods will make the Advanced Course on Data Science and Machine Learning the experience of a lifetime. CALL FOR POSTER & ORAL PRESENTATIONS: During the Registration Process we accept abstract submissions for posters and oral presentations to be presented during the poster sessions and the talk sessions. https://acdl2019.icas.xyz/registration/ Early registration deadline: March 31, 2019 VENUE & ACCOMMODATION: The venue of ACDL 2018 will be The Certosa di Pontignano ? Siena Dr. Lorenzo Pasquinuzzi The Certosa di Pontignano Localit? Pontignano, 5 ? 53019, Castelnuovo Berardenga (Siena) ? Tuscany ? Italy phone: +39-0577-1521104 fax: +39-0577-1521098 info at lacertosadipontignano.com lorenzopasquinuzzi at lacertosadipontignano.com https://www.lacertosadipontignano.com/en/index.php A few Kilometres from Siena, on a hill dominating the town stands the ancient Certosa di Pontignano, a unique place where nature, history and hospitality blend together in memorable harmony. Built in the 1300, its medieval structure remains intact with additions of the following centuries. The Certosa is centred on its historic cloisters and gardens. https://acdl2019.icas.xyz/venue/ ACCOMMODATION: https://acdl2019.icas.xyz/accommodation/ Past Edition - ACDL 2018: https://acdl2018.icas.xyz REGISTRATION: https://acdl2019.icas.xyz/registration/ We remind you that ACDL 2018 sold out a long time before the registration deadline! Anyone interested in participating in ACDL 2019 should register as soon as possible! Similarly for accommodation at the Certosa di Pontignano (the School Venue), book your full board accommodation at the Certosa as soon as possible! All course participants should/must stay at the Certosa di Pontignano. See you in Tuscany next July! ACDL 2019 Organizing Committee. ACDL 2019 Poster: https://acdl2019.icas.xyz/wp-content/uploads/sites/9/2019/01/poster-ACDL-2019.png acdl at icas.xyz https://acdl2019.icas.xyz https://www.facebook.com/groups/204310640474650/ https://twitter.com/TaoSciences * Apologies for multiple copies. Please forward to anybody who might be interested * * Please help us distributing in your circles (emails, blogs, and social networks) the call for participation and call for oral talks/posters for SSBSS 2019. Together we will make SSBSS 2019 a great event! * -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Xujuan.Zhou at usq.edu.au Tue Mar 19 06:44:25 2019 From: Xujuan.Zhou at usq.edu.au (Xujuan Zhou) Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2019 10:44:25 +0000 Subject: Connectionists: WORLD WIDE WEB JOURNAL CfPs Message-ID: [Please accept our apologies if you should receive multiple copies of this CFP.] ******************************************************************************** SPECIAL ISSUE ON COMPUTATIONAL SOCIAL SCIENCE AS THE ULTIMATE WEB INTELLIGENCE WORLD WIDE WEB JOURNAL, SPRINGER ******************************************************************************** The World Wide Web Journal (WWWJ), Springer welcomes submissions to the special issue on "Computational Social Science as the Ultimate Web Intelligence". http://static.springer.com/sgw/documents/1652325/application/pdf/WWWJ+CFP+-+Computational+Social+Science.pdf #Overview ======== Computational Social Science (CSS) is the use of Web Intelligence and the tools and technology capable of monitoring, analyzing, diagnosing, and resolving day-to-day problems of society. CSS is the development of intelligent systems and solutions to address the critical problems of the society such as poverty and hunger, slavery and torture, disease and suffering, and create tools that enable an illiterate person to be as productive as a PhD. Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence must embrace CSS as the next frontier in Web Intelligence and Web Intelligence and WIC need to be at the forefront of inventing that future. Such an understanding is proposed and enforced by Professor Dabbala Rajagopal ??Raj?? Reddy, who has served on the faculty of Stanford and Carnegie Mellon for over 40 years and received the ACM Turing Award, the highest award in Computer Science, in 1994. He is also praised as a pioneer for ??the design and construction of large scaled artificial intelligence systems, demonstrating the practical importance and potential commercial impact of artificial intelligence technology.?? In a keynote speech delivered at the IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence in Leipzig, Germany on August 24, 2017, Professor Reddy pointed out that ??Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence must embrace CSS [Computational Social Science] as the next frontier in Web intelligence.?? His vision on Artificial Intelligence and Web Intelligence for creating a truly humane society is both thought-provoking and instrumental to bringing about new revolutions in the two related fields. In a recent interview with Professor Reddy on March 17, 2018, he once again reinforced the vision on new revolutions in the two fields with a focus on Computational Social Science. He raised up a number of interesting questions as an inspiration to the WWW and AI related research communities: * What is your vision of the future of AI? * How could we further advance the field of computational social sciences via the route of Web Intelligence? * What could be the future impact of Web Intelligence? * How to incorporate Personal Guardian Angels to future Web Intelligence? The Special Issue is an effort and a step taken forward to explore the answers to these important and inspiring questions. The Special Issue will discuss theories and methodologies from both disciplines of Artificial Intelligence and Web Intelligence with a focus on Computational Social Science. The discussions will encompass the theoretical basis and related tools to formally represent, measure, model, and mine meaningful patterns from large-scale online datasets related to AI, WWW, and Computational Social Science. #Topics ====== Topics of interests include, but not limited to: * Vision of the future of AI - Advancing Computational social sciences via Web Intelligence * Incorporate Personal Guardian Angels to future Web Intelligence * Future impact of Web intelligence to World Wide Web * Social behaviour modelling, understanding, and patterns mining; * Social computing practice and theory; * Computational social science and applications; * Social analytics and societal behaviour for prediction; * Social computing, social media and social networks; * Social influence modelling and analysis; * Large-scale social data mining methods, techniques and algorithms. # Important Dates ============== * Paper Submission Due: April 30, 2019. * First Round of Reviews: May 31, 2019. * Revised Papers Due: June 30, 2019. * Final Author Notification: July 19, 2019. # Instructions for Authors =================== * Authors are encouraged to submit high-quality, original work that has neither appeared in, nor is under consideration by, other journals. * All papers will be reviewed following standard reviewing procedures for the Journal. * Prospective authors must prepare their submissions in accordance with the guidelines specified in the ??Instructions for Authors?? provided by the WWW Journal: www.springer.com/11280. * Submit manuscripts to: http://WWWJ.edmgr.com # Guest Editors ============= * Xiaohui Tao, University of Southern Queensland, Australia * Juan D. 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URL: From k.schwarzwaelder at fz-juelich.de Tue Mar 19 08:49:39 2019 From: k.schwarzwaelder at fz-juelich.de (Kerstin Schwarzwaelder) Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2019 13:49:39 +0100 Subject: Connectionists: Reminder: Bernstein Conference 2019 in Berlin: Call for Workshop Proposals - Deadline: March 27, 2019 In-Reply-To: <7e6d468a-d1d8-6018-62ab-428ef9b253fd@fz-juelich.de> References: <7e6d468a-d1d8-6018-62ab-428ef9b253fd@fz-juelich.de> Message-ID: <8763ba2d-9b31-77d2-dd4c-b893cbdd0bf2@fz-juelich.de> The Bernstein Network Computational Neuroscience invites proposals for Satellite Workshops directly preceding the Bernstein Conference 2019 in Berlin. ************************************************************** Important Dates: Satellite Workshops: September 17 - 18, 2019 Main Bernstein Conference: September 18 - 20, 2019 Deadline for Satellite Workshop proposal submission: March 27, 2019, 3 pm CET (Deadline will not be extended!) Notification of Workshop acceptance: April 2019 Special in 2019: The Conference on Cognitive Computational Neuroscience (CCN) will be held back-to back with the Bernstein Conference on September 13 - 16. ************************************************************** The Bernstein Conference is the largest annual single-track Computational Neuroscience conference in Europe. It hosts pre-conference workshops which provide a stage to discuss topical research questions, novel scientific approaches and challenges in Computational Neuroscience and related fields. Workshops addressing controversial issues, open problems, and comparisons of competing approaches are encouraged. The format should be designed to foster debate, rather than a mere series of talks. The selection criteria for workshop proposals will include scientific excellence, topical relevance and gender diversity. Satellite Workshop Schedule: September 17, 2019, 2:00 pm - 6:30 pm September 18, 2019, 8:30 am ? 12:30 pm Workshop proposals are welcome for either half-day or full-day workshops. Workshop Costs ? Financial Support: All organizers and speakers of accepted workshops will receive a waiver for the workshop fee. Organizers of accepted workshops additionally receive a waiver for the main conference. Coffee break catering will be provided. Up to 10 selected workshops can receive financial support up to 1.500,00 ? each. Instructions for Workshop Proposal Preparation: Workshop proposals must contain: 1) Workshop Title 2) Concise description of workshop topic 3) List of potential speakers indicating speaker commitment 4) Optional: a comment on how the organizers plan to achieve gender diversity among speakers Please use the Workshop Proposal Form that can be downloaded here: www.bernstein-network.de/en/bernstein-conference/2019/satellite-workshops Deadline for submission of Workshop Proposals: March 27, 2019, 3 pm CET (Deadline will not be extended!) For further information about the conference, please visit the conference website www.bernstein-conference.de Contact: bernstein.conference(at)fz-juelich.de We are looking forward to seeing you in Berlin! Workshop Selection Committee: Tatjana Tchumatchenko (Workshop Chair) Tim Vogels (Workshop Vice Chair) Danielle Bassett Alexander Borst Alain Destexhe Tim Gollisch M?t? Lengyel Stephanie Palmer Elad Schneidman (Program Vice Chair) Susanne Schreiber (Program Chair) Terry Sejnowski Sara Solla Henning Sprekeler (Conference Chair and Host) Gina Turrigiano -- Dr. Kerstin Schwarzw?lder Scientific Coordination / Management Officer Please note: Our email addresses have changed. Please use k.schwarzwaelder at fz-juelich.de Bernstein Network Computational Neuroscience | Bernstein Coordination Site (BCOS) Branch Office of the Forschungszentrum J?lich at the University of Freiburg Hansastr. 9A | 79104 Freiburg, Germany phone: (+49) 0761 203 9589 mail: k.schwarzwaelder at fz-juelich.de web: www.nncn.de Twitter: NNCN_Germany YouTube: Bernstein TV Facebook: Bernstein Network Computational Neuroscience, Germany LinkedIn: Bernstein Network Computational Neuroscience, Germany ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Forschungszentrum Juelich GmbH 52425 Juelich Sitz der Gesellschaft: Juelich Eingetragen im Handelsregister des Amtsgerichts Dueren Nr. HR B 3498 Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrats: MinDir Dr. Karl Eugen Huthmacher Geschaeftsfuehrung: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Wolfgang Marquardt (Vorsitzender), Karsten Beneke (stellv. 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BDA is focused on the relationships between distributed computing and distributed biological systems and in particular, on analysis and case studies that combine the two. Such research can lead to better understanding of the behavior of the biological systems while at the same time developing novel algorithms that can be used to solve basic distributed computing problems. We have traditionally focused on distributed computing in insect colonies and neural circuits, but we more than welcome other topic areas. This is a one-day workshop. =============================== INVITED SPEAKERS [MORE COMING SOON!] =============================== Jared Saia, UNM =============== IMPORTANT DATES =============== May 6, 2019 ? Extended abstract submission deadline May 29, 2018 ? Decision notifications July 29, 2018 ? Workshop =========== SUBMISSIONS =========== We solicit submissions of extended abstracts describing recent results relevant to biological distributed computing. We especially welcome extended abstracts describing new insights and / or case studies regarding the relationship between distributed computing and biological systems even if these are not fully formed. Since a major goal of the workshop is to explore new directions and approaches, we especially encourage the submission of ongoing work. Selected contributors would be asked to present, discuss and defend their work at the workshop. Submissions should be in PDF and include title, author information, and an extended abstract of at most 4 pages. Please use the following EasyChair submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=bda2019 Note: The workshop will not include published proceedings. In particular, we welcome submissions of extended abstracts describing work that has appeared or is expected to appear in other venues. ================= PROGRAM COMMITTEE ================= Ziv Bar-Joseph, CMU Anna Dornhaus, University of Arizona Ila Fiete, MIT Amos Korman, CNRS and University of Paris Diderot Nancy Lynch, MIT Melanie Moses, University of New Mexico Calvin Newport, Georgetown Merav Parter, Weizmann Ted Pavlic, Arizona State University Andrea Richa, Arizona State University ========================== ORGANIZERS (and PC CHAIRS) ========================== Yuval Emek, Technion Saket Navlakha, Salk Institute From arthur.flexer at ofai.at Tue Mar 19 13:11:00 2019 From: arthur.flexer at ofai.at (Arthur Flexer) Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2019 18:11:00 +0100 Subject: Connectionists: Last CFP International Conference on Music Information Retrieval 2019 - Submission system open In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <67b286bc-16cf-f646-2e83-15b1517ef553@ofai.at> ================================================== ISMIR 2019, Delft, The Netherlands, November 4-8 2019 20th International Conference on Music Information Retrieval http://ismir2019.ismir.net ================================================== This is the last call for papers for the 20th ISMIR conference. The submission system is now open at https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/ISMIR2019/ Please be aware of the main changes we are implementing this year, summarized below. NEW IN ISMIR 2019 A number of changes are taking place in 2019: 1. Submission system.We will use a different submission system, namely Microsoft CMT. This is a change that is strategic for ISMIR at large, and necessary to accommodate the current needs of our review process. 2.Preprint policy.We discourage authors from posting near duplicate manuscripts on public archives like arXiv. These submissions could be rejected if double-blind reviews can not be guaranteed in the given timeframe. Authors will be asked during submission whether preprints exist, but this information will NOT be available to reviewers or meta-reviewers. 3. Insights.This year we specially call for submissions that explicitly discuss reusable insights that may go beyond the scope of the paper, domain or application, in order to build up consistent knowledge across the MIR community. 4. Supplementary material. In addition to the PDF file of the manuscript, authors will now be able to also upload supplementary files for their submission, such as audio samples, code or additional results. We strongly encourage authors to do this. 5. Main message.During submission, authors will be asked for ONE line of text stating the main take-home message of their work. This information will NOT be available to reviewers or meta-reviewers; it is intended to help organize cohesive sessions for the conference. CALL FOR PAPERS The annual conference of the International Society for Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR) is the world?s leading research forum on processing, analyzing, searching, organizing and accessing music-related data. The 20th ISMIR conference, to be held in Delft, The Netherlands, welcomes contributions related to any aspect of Music IR, including foundations and theories for music processing, evaluation algorithms, applications, and analysis. ISMIR 2019 welcomes full-paper contributions to any aspect of Music IR. Relevant topics include, but are not limited to: * MIR data and fundamentals. * Domain knowledge. * Evaluation and Methodology. * Musical features and properties. * Music processing. * User-centered Music IR. * Applications. More details about submissions can be found at http://ismir2019.ewi.tudelft.nl/?q=call-for-papers Important Dates Abstract Submission, April 5, 2019 Final Submission, April 12, 2019 Notification of Acceptance, June 7, 2019 Camera-Ready Upload, June 28, 2019 CALL FOR ANNIVERSARY PAPERS To commemorate this year's anniversary of 20 years of ISMIR conferences, ISMIR 2019 calls for special papers which reflect on the development of MIR as a research field by charting MIR's progress over the last two decades, and also elaborate on MIR's future. We are looking for thought-provoking and insightful papers reflecting on the evolution of the Music IR field as a whole or particular topics therein. More details about anniversary submissions can be found at http://ismir2019.ewi.tudelft.nl/?q=call-for-anniversary-papers Presentation and Special Issue Only a few anniversary papers will be selected for publication, and they will have oral presentations at the conference. Extended versions will be considered for inclusion, together with a regular set of submissions, for a special issue of the Transactions of the ISMIR. Scientific Program Chairs: ismir2019-papers at ismir.net Arthur Flexer, Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence Geoffroy Peeters, LTCI - T?l?com ParisTech, France Juli?n Urbano, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands Anja Volk, Utrecht University, The Netherlands General Conference Chairs Cynthia Liem, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands Emilia G?mez, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain From byronyu at cmu.edu Tue Mar 19 13:59:40 2019 From: byronyu at cmu.edu (Byron Yu) Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2019 13:59:40 -0400 Subject: Connectionists: Reminder: SAND Young Investigator talk abstracts due Wed (Mar 20) In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Hi all, In case you were planning to submit an abstract for a SAND Young Investigator talk, the deadline is tomorrow (March 20). http://sand.stat.cmu.edu/ Also, if you'd like travel support (most attendees will receive substantial support), please register by March 25. Best, Byron ------------- The ninth international workshop on Statistical Analysis of Neural Data (SAND9) will take place on May 21-23, 2019, in Pittsburgh, PA. KEY DEADLINES: - March 20: Abstracts for Young Investigator Talks (open to students, postdocs, or assistant professors; talks to be selected by organizing committee) - March 25: Request for travel support (most attendees will receive substantial travel support) - April 15: Abstracts for Contributed Posters Abstract submission and more information can be found on the SAND9 website: http://sand.stat.cmu.edu Confirmed keynote speakers and panelists include: Marlene Cohen, University of Pittsburgh Xue Han, Boston University Tim Harris, Janelia Farm Elizabeth Hillman, Columbia Dion Khodagholy, Columbia Dayu Lin, NYU Dan O'Connor, Johns Hopkins University Bijan Pesaran, NYU Spencer Smith, University of California, Santa Barbara Nick Steinmetz, University of Washington Jonathan Viventi, Duke The organizers are Zhe (Sage) Chen, Matthew Harrison, Rob Kass, Sri Sarma, Byron Yu. From hi.yangyang at hotmail.com Tue Mar 19 23:47:47 2019 From: hi.yangyang at hotmail.com (Yang Yang) Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2019 03:47:47 +0000 Subject: Connectionists: Brain Informatics 2019 - Call for Papers Message-ID: [Apologies if you receive this more than once] CALL FOR PAPERS The 12th International Conference on Brain Informatics (BI'19) December 13-15, 2019, Hainan, China http://wi-consortium.org/conferences/bi2019/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Investigating Brain and Mind from Informatics Perspective ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- The International Conference on Brain Informatics series (BI) has established itself as the world?s premier research forum that brings together researchers and practitioners from neuroscience, cognitive science, computer science, data science, artificial intelligence, information communication technologies, and neuroimaging technologies with the purpose of exploring the fundamental roles, interactions as well as practical impacts of Brain Informatics. The BI'19 will provide a broad forum that academia, professionals and industry people can exchange their ideas, findings, and strategies in brain informatics research and brain-inspired concepts and technologies. It welcomes emerging technologies for addressing fundamental neurobiological questions about healthy brain function, laying the groundwork for advancing treatments for brain disorders or injury, and for generating brain-inspired "smart" artificial intelligence and computing technologies to meet future societal needs. It will educate and expand the brain informatics workforce and create new career opportunities for brain research and related innovations. *** Topics and Areas for Parallel Presentations *** The BI'19 solicits high-quality original research and application papers (both full paper and abstract submissions). Relevant topics include but are not limited to: Track 1: Cognitive and Computational Foundations of Brain Science Track 2: Human Information Processing Systems Track 3: Brain Big Data Analytics, Curation and Management Track 4: Informatics Paradigms for Brain and Mental Health Research Track 5: Brain-Machine Intelligence and Brain-Inspired Computing Paper Submission and Publications Paper Submission: Full papers should be limited to a maximum of 10 pages including figures and references in Springer LNCS Proceedings format; high-quality paper submissions with up to 6 pages are also welcome and will be accepted as short papers. All papers will be peer-reviewed and accepted based on originality, significance of contribution, technical merit, and presentation quality. All papers accepted (and all special sessions' full length papers) will be published by Springer as a volume of the series of LNCS/LNAI. Research Abstract: Research abstracts are encouraged and will be accepted for presentations in an oral presentation format and/or poster presentation format. Each abstract submission should include the title of the paper and an abstract body within 500 words. Journal Opportunities: High-quality BI conference papers will be nominated for a fast-track review and publication at the Brain Informatics Journal (https://braininformatics.springeropen.com/), an international, peer-reviewed, interdisciplinary Open Access journal published by Springer Nature. Discount or no open access article-processing fee will be charged for BI conference paper authors. Special Issues & Books: Workshop/special session organizers and BI conference session chairs may consider and can be invited to prepare a book proposal of special topics for possible book publication in the Springer-Nature Brain Informatics & Health Book Series (https://www.springer.com/series/15148), or a special issue at the Brain Informatics Journal (https://braininformatics.springeropen.com/). IMPORTANT DATES: ================ April 15, 2019: Submission deadline for workshop/special session/Tutorial proposals April 30, 2019: Notification of workshop/special session proposal acceptance May 6, 2019: Submission deadline for full papers May 22, 2019: Submission deadline for workshop/special session papers July 15, 2019: Notification of full paper acceptance July 22, 2019: Notification of workshop/special session paper acceptance July 22, 2019: Submission deadline for abstracts August 19, 2019: Notification of abstract acceptance December 13, 2019: Tutorials, workshops and special sessions December 14 - 15, 2019: Main conference Conference Venue =============== Hainan University Haikou, at Hainan Island, China ORGANIZERS =========== General Chair Qingming Luo (Hainan University, China) Program Committee Chairs Peipeng Liang (Capital Normal University, China) Vinod Goel (York University, Canada) Chunlei Shan (Shanghai U. Traditional Chinese, Medicine, China) Workshop/Special-Session Chairs Yang Yang (Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan) Mufti Mahmud (Nottingham Trent University, UK) Publicity Chairs Zhiqi Mao (Chinese PLA General Hospital, China) M Shamim Kaiser (Jahangirnagar University, Bangladesh) Steering Committee Chairs Ning Zhong (Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan) Hanchuan Peng (Allen Institute for Brain Science, USA) *** Contact Information *** Yang Yang Email: yang at maebashi-it.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From srikanth.ramaswamy at epfl.ch Wed Mar 20 04:09:12 2019 From: srikanth.ramaswamy at epfl.ch (Srikanth Ramaswamy) Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2019 08:09:12 +0000 Subject: Connectionists: =?utf-8?q?Neuromodulation_of_Neural_Microcircuits?= =?utf-8?q?_NM=C2=B2_conference=2C_24-26_May_2019?= Message-ID: <020A6CEF-BCD2-4491-A65C-A7883D889158@epfl.ch> [https://nm2.epfl.ch/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/NM2_banner_2019-1.jpg] Dear All, We are delighted to announce the second Neuromodulation of Neural Microcircuits NM? conference on May 24 ? 26, in Champ?ry, Switzerland. Click here for the Conference website The overarching goal of the second NM? Conference is to provide a unifying and mechanistic view by which an ever-increasing number of neuromodulators, including monoamines, and peptides ? the master switches ? control genes, proteins, neurons and glia, dendrites, synapses, and emergent states in neural microcircuits across different brain regions in health and disease. Building such a mechanistic view of neuromodulation encounters several fundamental challenges to consider: 1. How do sensory signals, internal brain states, and computations in microcircuits, trigger the release of specific neuromodulators? 2. How do neuronal assemblies and larger brain circuits respond to neuromodulators? 3. How do neuromodulators shape synaptic plasticity and brain states? To this end, the NM? Conference will bring together researchers to bridge a variety of disciplines using state-of-the-art techniques in different brain regions, towards the common goal of understanding the mechanisms and principles of neuromodulation and addressing the challenges above. Our fundamental objective is to organize a dynamic conference that will highlight an up-to-date view of the neuromodulation of brain states, establish future directions, and attract new talent to drive forward this important field. REGISTRATION To register for the Conference, please click here Please register as soon as possible; only a limited number of seats are available. POSTER ABSTRACTS When submitting an abstract PhD students and Postdocs are encouraged to apply for Blue Brain travel awards to participate in the NM2 Conference. Awards, which are only open to those who submit abstracts, include registration for the Conference (including accommodation and full board), and travel support. Some of the submitted abstracts will be selected for flash talks. Please feel free to contact Dace Stiebrina should you have any questions concerning the conference. Looking forward to seeing many of you there! Best, Srikanth ------------ Dr. Srikanth Ramaswamy Senior Scientist - Neuromodulation of Cells and Circuits EPFL - Blue Brain Project Campus Biotech Chemin des Mines 9 CH 1202, Geneva, Tel: +41 21 693 9633 Fax: +41 21 693 5350 www: people.epfl.ch/srikanth.ramaswamy -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: image001.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 104286 bytes Desc: image001.jpg URL: From samarasinghe at ini.rub.de Wed Mar 20 04:22:41 2019 From: samarasinghe at ini.rub.de (Vinita Samarasinghe) Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2019 09:22:41 +0100 Subject: Connectionists: Doctoral position in computational neuroscience, Ruhr Uni. Bochum - Deadline approaching Message-ID: <0321094f-8e55-09f7-1867-d955ff68c8dc@ini.rub.de> Prof. Sen Cheng, Institute for Neural Computation at the Ruhr University Bochum in Germany, invites applicants for the position of *Doctoral Fellow in Computational Neuroscience*. The work will focus on studying the interaction between neocortex and hippocampus using spiking neural network models. The position is part of the project"Theory of the interplay between sensory cortices and hippocampus in memory formation and retrieval", which is funded by the German Research Foundation as part of the collaborative research center SFB 874. The position is funded from*01.07.2019 - 30.06.2022* (TV-L E13 65%). Candidates should have an excellent university degree in neuroscience, physics, mathematics, engineering or a related field and be eligible to enroll in a relevant PhD program at the Ruhr University. Competence in mathematical modeling and excellent programming skillsare mandatory. Familiarity with computational neuroscience or computational cognitive modeling would be a further asset. The Ruhr University Bochum is home to a vibrant research community in neuroscienceand cognitive science. The Institute for Neural Computation is an independent research unit and combines different areas of expertise ranging from experimental and theoretical neuroscienceto machine learning androbotics. For further information see www.rub.de/cns . To apply please send a statement of your motivation and research interests, academic transcripts, and a complete CV to samarasinghe at ini.rub.de in a single PDF file. Please, also request from at least two academic referees that they send letters of reference directly to the same email address. The *deadline for applications is 31.03.2019*. The Ruhr University Bochum is committed to equal opportunity. 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CAIP 2019 welcomes submissions about, and not limited to, the following topics: * Deep learning * 3D Vision * Biomedical image and pattern analysis * Biometrics * Brain-inspired methods * Document analysis * Face and gestures * Feature extraction * Graph-based methods * High-dimensional topology methods * Human pose estimation * Image/video indexing & retrieval * Image restoration * Keypoint detection * Machine learning for image and pattern analysis * Mobile multimedia * Model-based vision * Motion and tracking * Object recognition * Segmentation * Shape representation and analysis * Static and dynamic scene analysis * Statistical models * Surveillance * Vision for robotics ========================================================= *Important Dates* Paper submission *April 1, 2019 *Paper acceptance notification *May**24, 2019* ========================================================= CAIP2019 proceedings will be published in *Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS)* series. 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URL: From fh at cs.uni-freiburg.de Wed Mar 20 07:28:21 2019 From: fh at cs.uni-freiburg.de (Frank Hutter) Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2019 12:28:21 +0100 Subject: Connectionists: CFP AutoML @ ICML 2019 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS The ICML 2019 Workshop on Automated Machine Learning (AutoML 2019) Collocated with ICML in Long Beach, June 14 or 15 (TBD), 2019 Web: http://icml2019.automl.org ---------------------------------------------------------------- *Important Dates:* Submission deadline: 22 April 2019, 11:59pm UTC-12 (April 22 anywhere in the world) Notification: 17 May 2019 ---------------------------------------------------------------- Workshop topic: Machine learning has achieved considerable successes in recent years, but this success often relies on human experts, who construct appropriate features, design learning architectures, set their hyperparameters, and develop new learning algorithms. Driven by the demand for off-the-shelf machine learning methods from an ever-growing community, the research area of AutoML targets the progressive automation of machine learning aiming to make effective methods available to everyone. The workshop targets a broad audience ranging from core machine learning researchers in different fields of ML connected to AutoML, such as neural architecture search, hyperparameter optimization, meta-learning, and learning to learn, to domain experts aiming to apply machine learning to new types of problems. We invite submissions on the topics of: - Model selection, hyper-parameter optimization, and model search - Neural architecture search - Meta-learning and transfer learning - Learning to learn new algorithms and strategies - Automation of any element of the ML pipeline, including: - feature extraction / construction - data cleaning - generation of workflows / workflow reuse - problem "ingestion" (from raw data and miscellaneous formats) - acquisition of new data (active learning, experimental design) - report generation (providing insight on automated data analysis) - selection of evaluation metrics / validation procedures - selection of algorithms under time/space/power constraints - construction of fair and unbiased machine learning models - semi-supervised and unsupervised machine learning - Extending the scope of AutoML towards automated data science - Human-in-the-loop approaches for AutoML - Demos of existing AutoML systems - Robustness of AutoML systems (w.r.t. randomized algorithms, data, hardware etc.) - Hyperparameter agnostic algorithms We welcome submissions up to 6 pages in JMLR format (+ references). We strongly encourage attachments of code to foster reproducibility; reproducibility of results and easy availability of code will be taken into account in the decision making process. All accepted papers will be presented as posters. We may invite the best 2-3 papers for an oral plenary presentation. Unless indicated by the authors, we will provide PDFs of all accepted papers on http://icml2019.automl.org/. There will be no archival proceedings. For submission details please see the submission page . Confirmed Keynote Speakers - Rachel Thomas - Raquel Urtasun - Charles Sutton Tentative Dates - April 1st: submission system opens - April 22nd: submission deadline - May 17th: notification - June 14th or 15th: workshop day -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From re2365 at columbia.edu Wed Mar 20 09:26:58 2019 From: re2365 at columbia.edu (Rainer Engelken) Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2019 09:26:58 -0400 Subject: Connectionists: Junior Scientist Workshop on Advanced Neural Data Analysis 2019 in NYC Message-ID: *Junior Scientist Workshop on Advanced Neural Data Analysis 2019 * August 26th - 29th 2019, New York City, USA Hosted by the Center for Theoretical Neuroscience at Columbia University Apply HERE by May 15 (11:59 p.m. EST): This workshop is intended for PhD students and postdocs who want to learn and share with their peers new advanced techniques in data analysis and apply them to complex neural datasets. During the workshop, attendees will present their research projects, followed by a hands-on programming tutorial on the computational techniques used in their work. The purpose is to gain a detailed understanding of the complexity of data and of the appropriateness of the different analysis techniques. The ideal participants are theoreticians with experience in analyzing experimental data as well as computationally minded experimentalists. By mixing a group of scientists with a diverse background but with overlapping goals of uncovering structure in neural data, the participants will learn an array of techniques and foster fruitful collaborations. The workshop will include presentations, tutorial sessions and lots of time and space for unfiltered in-depth discussions and data hacking sessions. We envision tutorials both on advanced data analysis as well as on specific experimental techniques and data processing. Participants are therefore expected to contribute with code or data to share and a reasonable dose of energy for giving tutorials on their work. Data and/or code can come in any format, including artificially generated data, but we encourage to make them available in a form that everyone can explore them with minimal overhead. Any data is shared only within the workshop. In order to foster an interactive atmosphere and allow everyone to give a detailed description and tutorial of their work, the workshop will be limited to a small group of participants. Participants will be provided with funds to cover travel, accommodation, and meals. We encourage applications from female scientists and those belonging to underrepresented minorities. The Junior Scientist Workshop is organized in partnership with the NeuroNex Theory Team at the University of Houston and funded by NSF's NeuroNex initiative. The 2019 workshop will be held at Columbia University's Jerome L Greene Science Center . Organizers: Fabio Stefanini, Mario Dipoppa, Rainer Engelken, Kre?imir Josi?, and Ashok Litwin-Kumar. ************************************************************* Rainer Engelken Mortimer B. 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URL: From martin.mittag at gmx.de Wed Mar 20 10:50:30 2019 From: martin.mittag at gmx.de (Martin Mittag) Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2019 15:50:30 +0100 Subject: Connectionists: 7th Baltic-Nordic School on Neuroinformatics BNNI 2019, August, Frankfurt Germany In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: *7th Baltic-Nordic School on Neuroinformatics BNNI 2019* *Modeling Healthy and Diseased Brain: From Dendrites to Neurons and Networks*** *Frankfurt am Main, Germany* *26-28 August 2019* ** *We invite* Advanced master students, doctoral students, and postdoctoral researchers are welcome to participate in the BNNI 2019 to be held at the FIAS, the Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, Frankfurt Main, Germany in August 2019. *The Course* The course is interdisciplinary and covers modeling at different levels of organization of the brain, from single neurons to microcircuits and networks. We will focus on differences between healthy and diseased brains. Participants will learn about compartmental and morphological modeling of synapses, dendrites and neurons, as well as simulating local field potentials (LFPs). The course combines lectures, tutorials and computer exercises. This summer school is the seventh in the series of the Baltic-Nordic Courses on Neuroinformatics (BNNI 2013 in Kaunas, Lithuania; BNNI 2014 in Tampere, Finland; BNNI 2015 in Tartu, Estonia; BNNI 2016 in Warsaw, Poland; BNNI 2017 in Kaunas, Lithuania; BNNI 2018 in Ventspils, Latvia). *Target audience* The target audience of the course will be advanced master students, doctoral students and postdoctoral researchers in biomedical and technology sciences, from medicine, biology, psychology, to mathematics, informatics, information technology, physics, chemistry, who would like to get an introduction to neuroinformatics and computational neuroscience. Some experience with programming and quantitative reasoning as well as strong interest in computational and mathematical modeling of the brain will be desirable but not necessary to benefit from the school. We will use the NEURON simulation environment for biophysical realistic models of neurons and the Matlab software package including the TREES toolbox. Desktop computers will be provided for the exercise part. *Important Dates* *? ??? ????? 15 May 2019*: Application deadline *? 1 June 2019:* Acceptance notification *26 - 28 August 2019:* School *Venue* The lectures will be held on 26th to 28th of August, 2019, at the: Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, Ruth-Moufang-Stra?e 1, 60438 Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Frankfurt is a very international city in the heart of Germany and Europe. The city centre combines the historic, medieval past with the modern, economic present. We are looking forward to welcoming you in Frankfurt! *More information and applications at* _web.lsmuni.lt/bnni2019/en _ *Practical arrangements* The organizers will provide teaching materials, meals and coffee during the course. The participants are expected to cover their travel and health insurance expenses. There is a small fee to be paid (30 - 100 EUR). If you are not sure whether you can afford it, apply anyway. We have some stipends for members of OCNS (www.cnsorg.org) to give away. Student residence is provided and close to the campus in the Relexa hotel. *Faculty includes* Marja-Leena Linne, Faculty of Medicine and Health Technology, Tampere University, Tampere, Finland Bruce Graham, Institute of Mathematics and Informatics, University of Stirling, UK Ausra Saudargiene, Neuroscience Institute, Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, Kaunas, Lithuania Arnd Roth, Wolfson Institute of Biomedical Research, University College London, UK Misha Tsodyks, Department of Neurobiology, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel Dieter J?ger, Biology Department, Emory University, Atlanta, USA Gaute Einevoll, Norwegian University of Life Sciences & University of Oslo, Norway Matthew Larkum, Neurocure Cluster of Excellence, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany Daniel Wojcik, Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology, Warsaw, Poland Hermann Cuntz, ESI & FIAS, Frankfurt, Germany Peter Jedlicka, ICAR3R, Justus Liebig University Gie?en, Germany Gilles Laurent, MPI for Brain Research, Frankfurt, Germany Jochen Triesch, FIAS, Frankfurt, Germany Tatjana Tchumatchenko, MPI for Brain Research, Frankfurt, Germany Julijana Gjorgjieva, MPI for Brain Research, Frankfurt, Germany Arvind Kumar, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden Aiste Pranckeviciene, Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, Kaunas, Lithuania Viola Priesemann, MPI G?ttingen, Germany Matthias Kaschube, FIAS, Frankfurt, Germany *Organizing committee* **** **Peter Jedlicka, ICAR3R, Justus Liebig University Gie?en, Germany Ausra Saudargiene, Neuroscience Institute, Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, Kaunas, Lithuania Marja-Leena Linne, Faculty of Biomedical Sciences and Engineering, Tampere University of Technology, Tampere, Finland Jochen Triesch, FIAS, Frankfurt, Germany * We are looking forward to welcoming you at the BNNI 2019 in Frankfurt am Main, Germany!* -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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URL: From weixu at cse.ohio-state.edu Thu Mar 21 16:54:35 2019 From: weixu at cse.ohio-state.edu (Xu, Wei) Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2019 20:54:35 +0000 Subject: Connectionists: EMNLP-IJCNLP 2019: 1st Call for Papers Message-ID: EMNLP-IJCNLP 2019: 1st Call for Papers 2019 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and 9th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing Hong Kong, CHINA November 3-7, 2019. https://emnlp-ijcnlp2019.org/ SIGDAT, the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) special interest group on linguistic data and corpus-based approaches to NLP, and the AFNLP, the Asian Federation of Natural Language Processing, invite you to submit your papers to EMNLP-IJCNLP 2019, the 2019 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and the 9th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (November 3?7, 2019) in Hong Kong. We invite the submission of long and short papers related to empirical methods in natural language processing. Accepted papers will be presented as oral talks or posters. As in recent years, the conference will also include presentations of selected papers accepted by the Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL). TOPICS EMNLP-IJCNLP 2019 has the goal of a broad technical program. Relevant topics for the conference include, but are not limited to, the following areas (in alphabetical order): * Dialog and Interactive Systems * Discourse and Pragmatics * Information Extraction * Information Retrieval and Document Analysis * Lexical Semantics * Linguistic Theories, Cognitive Modeling and Psycholinguistics * Machine Learning for NLP * Machine Translation and Multilinguality * Phonology, Morphology and Word Segmentation * Question Answering * Sentence-level Semantics * Sentiment Analysis and Argument Mining * Social Media and Computational Social Science * Speech, Vision, Robotics, Multimodal and Grounding * Summarization and Generation * Tagging, Chunking, Syntax and Parsing * Text Mining and NLP Applications * Textual Inference and Other Areas of Semantics IMPORTANT DATES * Anonymity period begins - Sunday April 21, 2019 * Abstracts due (long & short) - Wednesday May 15, 2019 * Submissions due (long & short) - Tuesday May 21, 2019 * Author response period starts - Tuesday July 9, 2019 * Author responses due - Monday July 15, 2019 * Notification of acceptance - Monday August 12, 2019 * Camera-ready due - Friday August 30, 2019 * Workshops & tutorials- November 3?4, 2019 * Main conference - November 5?7, 2019 Note. All deadlines are calculated at 11:59pm Pacific Daylight Savings Time (UTC -7h). ABSTRACTS AND PAPER SUBMISSION INFORMATION We will be accepting submissions online via START. The abstract submission deadline for both long and short papers is May 15, 2019, and the paper submission deadline for long and short papers is May 21, 2019. EMNLP-IJCNLP 2019 uses a double-blind review process. Each submission will be reviewed by at least three program committee members. Long papers EMNLP-IJCNLP 2019 long paper submissions must describe substantial, original, completed and unpublished work. Wherever appropriate, concrete evaluation and analysis should be included. Each submission will be reviewed by at least three program committee members. Each long paper submission consists of a paper of up to eight (8) pages of content, plus unlimited pages for references; final versions of long papers will be given one additional page (up to nine pages with unlimited pages for references) so that reviewers? comments can be taken into account. Short papers EMNLP-IJCNLP 2019 also solicits short papers. Short paper submissions must describe original and unpublished work. While a short paper is not a shortened long paper, the characteristics of short papers include: a small, focused contribution; work in progress; a negative result; an opinion piece; an interesting application nugget. Each short paper submission consists of up to four (4) pages of content, plus unlimited pages for references; final versions of short papers will be given one additional page (up to five pages in the proceedings and unlimited pages for references) so that reviewers? comments can be taken into account. Each short paper submission will be reviewed by at least three program committee members. IMPORTANT: Anonymity Period EMNLP-IJCNLP 2019 adopts ACL?s new policies for submission, review, and citation. Submissions that violate any of these policies will be rejected without review. Most importantly, the policies define an anonymity period, which starts on April 21, 2019 (11:59pm PDT). * You may not make a non-anonymized version of your paper available to the general community (for example, by posting it on your home page or submitting it to arXiv) during the anonymity period. However, you may take such an action before the anonymity period begins, even if the paper actually becomes public after the anonymity period begins (for example, because arXiv makes papers public one or two days after receiving them). * You may not update a non-anonymized version during the anonymity period, and we ask you not to advertise it on social media or take other actions that would further compromise double-blind reviewing during the anonymity period. * You may make an anonymized version of your paper available, even during the anonymity period (for example, on OpenReview). * During the anonymity period, you may not update a non-anonymized version, advertise an anonymized or non-anonymized version on social media, or take any other action that would compromise double-blind reviewing during the anonymity period. For the background of the new policies, refer to the online version. Instructions for Double-Blind Review To ensure anonymity, submissions and supplementary materials must not include the authors? names and affiliations. Furthermore, self-references that reveal the author?s identity, e.g., ?We previously showed (Smith, 1991) ??, should be avoided. Instead, use citations such as ?Smith (1991) previously showed ??. Acknowledgments of funding or assistance must also be omitted. Submissions should not contain pointers to supplemental information on the web; any such material should be submitted as supplementary materials (see above). Submissions that do not conform to these requirements will be rejected without review. Separate author identification information is required as part of the online submission process. Multiple Submission Policy EMNLP-IJCNLP 2019 will not consider any paper that is under review in a journal or another conference at the time of submission. Neither will the conference consider any paper that overlaps significantly in content or results with papers that will be (or have been) published elsewhere. In addition, authors may not submit the paper elsewhere during EMNLP-IJCNLP 2019's review period. Authors submitting more than one paper to EMNLP-IJCNLP 2019 must ensure that the submissions do not overlap significantly (>25%) with each other in content or results. Formatting Requirements Both long and short papers must follow the EMNLP-IJCNLP 2019 two-column format. Please do not modify these style files, or use templates designed for other conferences. Submissions that do not conform to the required styles, including paper size, margin width, and font size restrictions, will be rejected without review. Links to EMNLP-IJCNLP 2019 paper templates will follow soon. Optional Supplementary Materials: Appendices, Software and Data Each EMNLP-IJCNLP 2019 submission can be accompanied by a single PDF appendix, one one .tgz or .zip archive containing software, and one .tgz or .zip archive containing data. EMNLP-IJCNLP 2019 encourages the submission of these supplementary materials to improve the reproducibility of results, and to enable authors to provide additional information that does not fit in the paper. For example, preprocessing decisions, model parameters, feature templates, lengthy proofs or derivations, pseudocode, sample system inputs/outputs, and other details that are necessary for the exact replication of the work described in the paper can be put into the appendix. However, the paper submissions need to remain fully self-contained, as these supplementary materials are completely optional, and reviewers are not even asked to review or download them. If the pseudo-code or derivations or model specifications are an important part of the contribution, or if they are important for the reviewers to assess the technical correctness of the work, they should be a part of the main paper, and not appear in the appendix. Supplementary materials need to be fully anonymized to preserve the double-blind reviewing policy. PRESENTATION REQUIREMENT All accepted papers must be presented at the conference in order to appear in the proceedings. At least one author of each accepted paper must register for EMNLP-IJCNLP 2019. Accepted papers will be presented orally or as a poster (at the discretion of the program chairs based on the nature rather than the quality of the work). There will be no distinction in the proceedings between papers presented orally or as posters. FURTHER INFORMATION The conference website will continue to be updated with information on workshops, tutorials, the conference venue, traveling, etc. ORGANIZERS * General Chair: Kentaro Inui (Tohuku University, Japan) * Program Co-Chairs: Jing Jiang (Singapore Management University, Singapore), Vincent Ng (University of Texas at Dallas, USA), and Xiaojun Wan (Peking University, China) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From carlo.colombo at unifi.it Thu Mar 21 12:28:40 2019 From: carlo.colombo at unifi.it (Carlo Colombo) Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2019 17:28:40 +0100 Subject: Connectionists: CAIP 2019 CONTEST on LOCAL IMAGE DESCRIPTORS - submissions OPEN Message-ID: <5d1183c3-f85d-00b7-ec90-2f3365bf870c@unifi.it> ??????????? ***? submissions for the CAIP 2019 contest? *** ?????????????????????????? Which is Which? ???????????? Evaluation of local descriptors for image ????????????????? matching in real-world scenarios ??????????????? ----------------------------------- ???????????????? A R E????? N O W????? O P E N !!! ??????????????? ----------------------------------- ___________ download the DATASET and submission script at ___________ ?https://drive.google.com/open?id=1eX5CKvzcOhJUN8gwDogfquN0uskCXflD _____________________________________________________________________ ?????????????????????? ------------------- ? submission DEADLINE: ? 28th MARCH 2019 ?????????????????????? ------------------- ?>>> for more info visit http://cvg.dsi.unifi.it/wisw.caip2019 <<< ?????????????????????????????????? Contact: wisw.caip2019 at gmail.com ----------------------- ? Organizers ?Fabio Bellavia and Carlo Colombo ?Computational Vision Group ?University of Florence, Italy _______________________________________________________________________ --- Questa e-mail ? stata controllata per individuare virus con Avast antivirus. https://www.avast.com/antivirus From inesdomingues at gmail.com Thu Mar 21 17:46:31 2019 From: inesdomingues at gmail.com (=?UTF-8?Q?In=C3=AAs_Domingues?=) Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2019 21:46:31 +0000 Subject: Connectionists: VISUM 2019 Summer School :: final CALL FOR PARTICIPATION In-Reply-To: <01268456-64d6-7e09-2314-506e71d2ff23@inesctec.pt> References: <01268456-64d6-7e09-2314-506e71d2ff23@inesctec.pt> Message-ID: [image: call_2019_2.jpg] Calling all VISUM?ers! In case you missed it, the deadline for VISUM?19 applications has been extended to April 05th. With two weeks left to apply, we encourage you to participate in this year?s edition. You will have the opportunity to get on the cutting edge of Computer Vision & Machine Learning fields. Why should you come to VISUM?19? Aren?t you convinced yet? We?ve made you a list of pros and cons: >> COME TO LEARN THE CURRENT COMPUTER VISION & MACHINE LEARNING TRENDS << Improve your own skills by a direct interaction with top level speakers and world leading research companies, such as Philips Research, Bosch, Deloitte and Farfetch. >> THE PERFECT PRICE FOR A SUMMER SCHOOL << We have several registration modalities. Check out the most suitable for you. >> AWESOME PRIZE MONEY << As talent should be rewarded, the winning team of the project competition will be awarded with a prize money and certificates. >> PORTO << "Never has the choice of the winning city been so unanimous among travelers from all other the world." - THE BEST EUROPEAN DESTINATION 2017 - >> 2 ECTS<< by UPT >> DETAILS << http://visum.inesctec.pt/ July 4-12, 2019 (Porto - Portugal) Portucalense University Infante D. 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URL: From belk at cs.ucy.ac.cy Thu Mar 21 19:02:13 2019 From: belk at cs.ucy.ac.cy (Marios Belk) Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2019 01:02:13 +0200 Subject: Connectionists: Workshop on Adaptive and Personalized Privacy and Security (APPS 2019) at ACM UMAP 2019 - Extended Call for Papers Message-ID: <64d321e0e052697a9ceebbd5bab87d1a@cs.ucy.ac.cy> ACM UMAP Workshop - Adaptive and Personalized Privacy and Security (APPS 2019) EXTENDED CALL FOR PAPERS The International Workshop on Adaptive and Personalized Privacy and Security, in conjunction with the 27th ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (ACM UMAP 2019), Larnaca, Cyprus, June 09-12, 2019 Workshop Website: http://appsworkshop.cs.ucy.ac.cy Paper Submissions: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=apps2019 IMPORTANT DATES Extended submission deadline: March 24, 2019 (23:59 AoE time) Notification: April 01, 2019 Camera-ready papers: April 08, 2019 MOTIVATION & GOALS Millions of users across different continents and countries are daily engaged with privacy and security tasks which are indispensable in modern information systems and services. Such tasks are commonly related to user authentication, human interaction proofs (e.g., captcha), privacy and security pop-up dialogs, setting privacy and security features within online user profiles, etc. Recent privacy and security incidents of famous online services have once more underpinned the necessity towards further investigating and improving current approaches and practices related to the design of efficient and effective privacy and security. In order to achieve this objective, one possible direction is related to providing adaptive and personalized characteristics to privacy- and security-related user tasks, given the diversity of the user characteristics (like cultural, cognitive, age, habits), the technology (like standalone, mobile, mixed-virtual-augmented reality, wearables) and interaction contexts of use (like being on the move, social settings, spatial limitations). Hence, adaptive and personalized privacy and security implies the ability of an interactive system or service to support its end-users, who are engaged in privacy- and/or security-related tasks, based on user models which describe in a holistic way what constitutes the user?s physical, technological and interaction context in which computation takes place. APPS 2019 aims to bring together researchers and practitioners working on diverse topics related to understanding and improving the usability of privacy and security software and systems, by applying user modeling, adaptation and personalization principles. The workshop will address the following objectives: - increase our understanding and knowledge on supporting usable privacy and security interaction design through novel user modeling mechanisms and adaptive user interfaces; - discuss methods and techniques for understanding user attitudes and perceptions towards privacy and security issues in various application areas; - identify human-centered models for the design, development and evaluation of adaptive and personalized privacy and security systems; - discuss methods for evaluating the impact and added value of adaptation and personalization in privacy and security systems. TOPICS OF INTEREST Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Adaptation and personalization approaches in usable privacy and security - Effects of human factors (e.g., cognition, personality, etc.) in privacy and security systems - Novel user interaction concepts and user interfaces for achieving usable security - Cultural diversity in usable privacy and security - Context-aware privacy and security - Adaptive usable security in various domains such as healthcare, IoT, automotive - Trust perceived in patient-centric healthcare systems - Perceived security and usability in patient-centric healthcare systems - Adaptive user authentication policies - Novel approaches to the design and evaluation of usable security systems - Lessons learned from the deployment and use of usable privacy and security features - Ethical considerations in adaptive and personalized privacy and security PAPER SUBMISSION & PUBLICATION All workshop papers must contain original, previously unpublished, research work adhering the two publication types: - Full research papers (6 pages, incl. references), proposing new approaches, innovative methods and research findings. - Short research papers (4 pages, incl. references), presenting works in progress, lessons learned, emerging or future research issues and directions on topics related to APPS. Manuscripts should be formatted using the ACM Standard (SIGCONF) templates (http://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template). Please submit your paper through the EasyChair submission system: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=apps2019 At least one author of each accepted paper must attend the workshop and present the paper. Accepted papers will be published by ACM and will be available via the ACM Digital Library. ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Marios Belk, University of Central Lancashire, Cyprus Campus, CY Christos Fidas, University of Patras, GR Elias Athanasopoulos, University of Cyprus, CY Andreas Pitsillides, University of Cyprus, CY From eric.postma at gmail.com Fri Mar 22 06:35:23 2019 From: eric.postma at gmail.com (Eric Postma) Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2019 11:35:23 +0100 Subject: Connectionists: Assistant / Associate Professors Artificial Intelligence (Tenure Track), Tilburg University, the Netherlands Message-ID: *Several positions for Assistant / Associate Professors Artificial Intelligence (Tenure Track), Tilburg University* Due to the fast growth in numbers of students and the strong increase in research funding opportunities, the Department of Cognitive Science and Artificial Intelligence of the Tilburg School of Humanities and Digital Sciences (TSHD) of Tilburg University (TiU), is looking for several enthusiastic new colleagues, whose scientific focus is in line with one or more of the main topics of research at the department. The candidates are expected to contribute to the teaching in the bachelor/master program ?Cognitive Science and Artificial Intelligence? and/or the master program ?Data Science and Society.? Among the disciplines studied in the department are artificial intelligence, cognitive science, and data science, with a special focus on (but not limited to) machine learning and deep learning, virtual reality, computational cognitive neuroscience, (serious) games, computational linguistics, and robotics. Besides excellent terms of employment, the department offers its members access to modern research facilities, such as a computer cluster with GPU computing capability, experimental labs, as well as robots, virtual reality facilities, and sensing technologies. *Profile* The position calls for ambitious scientists with experience in both teaching and research. A successful candidate - has a PhD and a publication record in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive Science, or another relevant discipline; - has a record in developing and teaching bachelor and master courses, and experience with supervising master theses; - has the ability to acquire external funding for research; - has the ability to work in an interdisciplinary team; - has the ability to communicate in English fluently; - has acquired or is willing to acquire the University Teaching Qualification (UTQ). Both junior candidates and senior candidates can apply. If a position is offered, it will be in line with the background and experience of the candidate. *Terms of employment* The positions will be ranked in the Dutch university job ranking system (UFO) as assistant professor (?universitair docent?) or associate professor (?universitair hoofddocent?). The starting gross salary for a full-time appointment for an assistant professor is (minimally) ? 3,637 in scale 11 up to (maximally) ? 4,757 gross per month (max ? 66,388 all in per year). The starting gross salary for a full-time appointment for an associate professor is (minimally) ? 5,039 per month in scale 13 up to (maximally) ? 5,978 gross per month (max ? 85,592 all in per year). The positions are full time or 80%, with tasks divided between teaching/management (65%) and research (35%). A position as full-time lecturer is also a possibility. A part-time position can be discussed based on the possibilities offered by the educational organisation. The start of the employment is negotiable with a high preference for starting June 1, 2019, at the latest. Tilburg University is rated among the top of Dutch employers and has excellent terms of employment. Candidates from outside the Netherlands may qualify for a tax-free allowance equal to 30% of their taxable salary. The university will apply for such an allowance on their behalf. The Tilburg School of Humanities and Digital Sciences will provide assistance in finding suitable accommodation. The university offers very good fringe benefits (it is one of the best non-profit employers in the Netherlands), such as a holiday allowance of 8% and an end-of-year bonus of 8.3% (annually), an options model for terms and conditions of employment and reimbursement of moving expenses. The collective labor agreement of the Dutch Universities applies. *Information* For more information on this position, please contact the Head of the Department, prof. Pieter Spronck (p.spronck at tilburguniversity.edu) , or the director of education, Dr. Marie Postma ( marie.postma at tilburguniversity.edu). *Applications* Applications should include a cover letter in English, a Curriculum Vitae (including two references), and a one-page statement about the candidate?s contribution to Cognitive Science and/or Artificial Intelligence. The first deadline for application is April 1, 2019. After that deadline, we will continue accepting candidates depending on the number of positions being filled. Interviews will be held shortly after the deadline. If you are interested in applying for the position, please use http://www.tilburguniversity.edu/about-tilburg-university/working-at/wp/. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Best, DS^3 Organizers From dlinnlp at gmail.com Fri Mar 22 14:50:31 2019 From: dlinnlp at gmail.com (Slavi Slavov) Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2019 20:50:31 +0200 Subject: Connectionists: Call for Participation: Deep Learning Summer School at RANLP 2019 Message-ID: *Deep Learning Summer School at RANLP 2019* *Call for Participation* Varna, Bulgaria 29-30 August 2019 *https://dlinnlp.github.io/ * *Purpose* Deep Learning is a branch of machine learning that has gained significant traction in the field of Artificial Intelligence, pushing the envelope in the state-of-the-art, with many sub-areas including natural language, image, and speech processing employing it widely in their best-performing models. This summer school will feature presentations from outstanding researchers in the field of Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Deep Learning. These will include coverage of recent advances in theoretical foundations and extensive practical coding sessions showcasing the latest relevant technology. The summer school would be of interest to novices and established practitioners in the fields of natural language processing, corpus linguistics, language technologies, translation technology and cognitive studies. It will be held as part of the 12th biennial conference on Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing (RANLP 2019). *Important Dates**:* 29-30 August 2019: Deep Learning Summer School in NLP *Invited **presentations**:* Tim Rockt?schel (University College London/ Facebook AI Research) - Introduction to Deep Learning for NLP Hinrich Sch?tze (Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich) - Neural-based representation Learning Kyunghyun Cho (New York University/ Facebook AI Research) - Latest topics in representation learning for language Marek Rei (University of Cambridge) ? Practical talk on application of deep learning in NLP *Invited** practical sessions:* Heike Adel (Bosch Center for Artificial Intelligence) Omid Rohanian (RGCL, University of Wolverhampton) Shiva Taslimipoor (RGCL, University of Wolverhampton) Alexander Popov (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences) More to be announced *Registration* Registration details will be soon available on: *https://dlinnlp.github.io/ * *Programme* Please refer to the website for the details of the programme: *https://dlinnlp.github.io/programme.html * *Participation fees* Please refer to the website for the details on the fees for participation: *https://dlinnlp.github.io/fees.html * *Contact Email*: *dlinnlp at gmail.com * -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Kotsireas, Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada Dolores Romero Morales, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark Panos Pardalos, University of Florida, USA Ruslan Salakhutdinov, Carnegie Mellon University & AI Research at Apple, USA Josh Tenenbaum, MIT, USA Naftali Tishby, Hebrew University, Israel Joaquin Vanschoren, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands Oriol Vinyals, Google DeepMind, UK https://acdl2019.icas.xyz Best, ACDL 2019 Organizing Committee. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ludovico.montalcini at gmail.com Sat Mar 23 13:24:43 2019 From: ludovico.montalcini at gmail.com (Ludovico Montalcini) Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2019 17:24:43 +0000 Subject: Connectionists: LOD 2019 Call for Papers, Submission Deadline Approaching: March 31. Message-ID: The 5th International Conference on machine Learning, Optimization & Data science - LOD An Interdisciplinary Conference: Deep Learning, Optimization and Big Data without Borders Certosa di Pontignano (Siena) Tuscany, September 10-13, 2019 https://lod2019.icas.xyz lod at icas.xyz *** Paper submission deadline approaching: March 31 *** The International Conference on Machine Learning, Optimization, and Data Science (LOD) has established itself as a premier interdisciplinary conference in machine learning, computational optimization, knowledge discovery and data science. It provides an international forum for presentation of original multidisciplinary research results, as well as exchange and dissemination of innovative and practical development experiences. LOD 2019 will be held in Certosa di Pontignano (Siena) ? Tuscany, Italy, from September 10 to 13, 2019. The conference will consist of four days of conference sessions. We invite submissions of papers on all topics related to Machine learning, Optimization, Knowledge Discovery and Data Science including real-world applications for the Conference Proceedings by Springer ? Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). LOD uses the formula of 30 minutes presentations for fruitful exchanges between authors and participants. Submission deadline: March 31, 2019 https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lod2019 Any questions regarding the submission process can be sent to conference organizers: lod at icas.xyz LOD 2019 KEYNOTE SPEAKERS =========== * Michael Bronstein, Imperial College London, UK Talk: TBA Topics: Deep Learning on Graphs and Manifolds * Marco Gori, University of Siena, Italy Talk: TBA Topics: Constraint-Based Approaches to Machine Learning * Arthur Gretton, UCL, UK Talk: TBA Topics: Kernel Methods to Reveal Properties and Relations in Data * Arthur Guez Google DeepMind, London, UK Talk: TBA Topics: General Reinforcement Learning Algorithms * Kaisa Miettinen, University of Jyv?skyl?, Finland Talk: TBA Topics: Multiobjective Optimization & Decision Analytics * Jan Peters, Technische Universitaet Darmstadt Talk: Machine Learning of Robot Skills * Mauricio Resende, Amazon, USA Talk: TBA Topics: Combinatorial Optimization & Heuristics * Richard E. Turner, University of Cambridge, UK Talk: TBA Topics: Gaussian Processes & Computer Perception LOD 2019 Best Paper Award =============== Springer sponsors the LOD 2019 Best Paper Award with a cash prize of EUR 1,000. The Award will be conferred at the conference on the authors of the best paper award. https://lod2019.icas.xyz/best-paper-award/ Topics of Interest =============== The last five-year period has seen an impressive revolution in the theory and application of machine learning, optimization and big data. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Deep Learning * Reinforcement Learning * Deep NeuroEvolution * Multi-Objective Optimization * Foundations, algorithms, models and theory of data science, including big data mining. * Machine learning and statistical methods for big data. * Machine Learning algorithms and models. Neural Networks and Learning Systems. Convolutional neural networks. * Unsupervised, semi-supervised, and supervised Learning. * Knowledge Discovery. Learning Representations. Representation learning for planning and reinforcement learning. * Metric learning and kernel learning. Sparse coding and dimensionality expansion. Hierarchical models. Learning representations of outputs or states. * Multi-objective optimization. Optimization and Game Theory. Surrogate-assisted Optimization. Derivative-free Optimization. * Big data Mining from heterogeneous data sources, including text, semi-structured, spatio-temporal, streaming, graph, web, and multimedia data. * Big Data mining systems and platforms, and their efficiency, scalability, security and privacy. * Computational optimization. Optimization for representation learning. Optimization under Uncertainty * Optimization algorithms for Real World Applications. Optimization for Big Data. Optimization and Machine Learning. * Implementation issues, parallelization, software platforms, hardware * Big Data mining for modeling, visualization, personalization, and recommendation. * Big Data mining for cyber-physical systems and complex, time-evolving networks. * Applications in social sciences, physical sciences, engineering, life sciences, web, marketing, finance, precision medicine, health informatics, medicine and other domains. We particularly encourage submissions in emerging topics of high importance such as data quality, advanced deep learning, time-evolving networks, large multi-objective optimization, quantum discrete optimization, learning representations, big data mining and analytics, cyber-physical systems, heterogeneous data integration and mining, autonomous decision and adaptive control. Call for Papers: Submission deadline: March 31, 2019 https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lod2019 https://lod2019.icas.xyz/call-for-papers/ Call for Special Sessions: Submission deadline: February 10, 2019 https://lod2019.icas.xyz/call-for-special-sessions-tutorials/ See you in Siena! LOD 2019 Organizing Committee. https://lod2019.icas.xyz lod at icas.xyz https://www.facebook.com/groups/2236577489686309/ https://www.linkedin.com/groups/12092025/ https://twitter.com/TaoSciences -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From bhanups at ncbs.res.in Sun Mar 24 14:00:02 2019 From: bhanups at ncbs.res.in (Bhanu Priya) Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2019 23:30:02 +0530 Subject: Connectionists: Course announcement : CAMP@Bangalore 2019 Message-ID: We would like to announce CAMP at Bangalore 2019 from 27 June 2019 to 12 July 2019. CAMP (Computational Approaches to Memory and Plasticity at NCBS, Bangalore) is a 16-day summer school on the theory and simulation of learning, memory and plasticity in the brain. The course consists of four modules covering sub-cellular electrical models, micro-circuits and network models, detailed models with electrical and chemical components, and systems level models, all with an emphasis on learning, memory and plasticity. The flavor of this edition of CAMP will be Synaptic Plasticity. Students worldwide are encouraged to apply. Accommodation and food will be free for the selected students. There is no registration fee. Students are advised to obtain independent travel grants. Application deadline : 6 April, 2019. Please check the course website http://camp.ncbs.res.in/ for more details. Course Organizers: Arvind Kumar (KTH Stockholm) Rishikesh Narayanan (Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore) Suhita Nadkarni (Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Pune) Upinder Bhalla (National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bangalore) -- Bhanu Priya S Graduate Student Dr. Upinder Bhalla Lab National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bangalore, India From jan.fousek at univ-amu.fr Sun Mar 24 20:26:20 2019 From: jan.fousek at univ-amu.fr (Jan Fousek) Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2019 01:26:20 +0100 Subject: Connectionists: The Virtual Brain - Node #8 Workshop [Marseille, May 20-21] Message-ID: Get up to speed about the fundamental principles of full brain network modeling using the open-source neuroinformatics platform The Virtual Brain (TVB) at our 2-day workshop held in Marseille on May 20-21, 2019. TVB NODE#8 takes place ahead of NeuroFrance2019; be sure to register for both! TVB enables biologically realistic modeling of network dynamics using Connectome-based approaches across different brain scales. Generate macroscopic neuroimaging signals including fMRI, intracranial and stereotactic EEG, surface EEG and MEG for single subjects. Personalized brain network models can be derived from an individual?s MRI data. Researchers from different backgrounds can benefit from an integrative software platform including a supporting framework for data management (generation, organization, storage, integration and sharing) and a simulation core written in Python. Applications to use cases in the healthy and diseased brain are explicitly presented. Workshop program overview: * Theoretical background of large scale brain network modeling * Architecture of The Virtual Brain * Interacting with TVB using GUI and Python CLI * Preprocessing neuroimaging data, or how to obtain a TVB dataset * Clinical applications of The Virtual Brain: modeling epilepsy * Modeling brain dynamics in brain tumor patients * Fitting the brain model parameters to the functional data * Modeling resting state networks * Modeling brain stimulation and mouse brains * Modifying TVB code and implementing new features * Optional: bring your own data LOCATION Aix-Marseille Universit? - Facult? de M?decine Campus La Timone B?timent P?dagogique 27 Boulevard Jean Moulin Marseille, France 13005 REGISTER HERE: https://tvb-node8.eventbrite.ca The workshop is organized with interleaved oral presentation and hands-on sessions. Attendants will have the time to ask questions. The hands-on sessions will let you immediately apply the concepts from the lectures to your simulations in TVB. *Bring your own device.* Refreshments will be available during the breaks and lunch will be provided. *WORKSHOP HAS LIMITED ATTENDANCE* *Registration will be closed on April 29th.* More information: https://www.thevirtualbrain.org/tvb/zwei/newswire-event-single/243713-workshop-tvb-node-8 Please contact Jan Fousek (jan.fousek at univ-amu.fr) if you have any questions. Jan Fousek INS - Institut de Neurosciences des Syst?mes UMR INSERM 1106, Aix-Marseille Universit? 27 Bd Jean Moulin 13005 Marseille France https://ins-amu.fr/ From stolu at elektro.dtu.dk Mon Mar 25 10:16:45 2019 From: stolu at elektro.dtu.dk (Silvia Tolu) Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2019 14:16:45 +0000 Subject: Connectionists: Research Assistant position at Technical University of Denmark - submission deadline 20th April 2019 In-Reply-To: References: , Message-ID: Dear all, the Technical University of Denmark offers a nine-month research assistantship in the research field of neuro-robotics. The candidate will be part of a team that is already involved in the framework of the EU Flagship Project ?Human Brain Project? (HBP). The position addresses research in neural computation for robotics systems. Please find enclosed the pdf with all the necessary information and contact. Kind regards/ Med venlig hilsen, Best regards / Med Venlig Hilsen, Silvia Tolu Assistant Professor, PhD Researcher in Bio-Inspired Robotics Automation and Control Group Department of Electrical Engineering Technical University of Denmark ------------------------------------ Richard Petersens Plads Building 326, room 110 2800 Kgs. Lyngby Direct +45 45253928 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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For more information and the on-line registration form, see https://neuron.yale.edu/neuron/static/courses/summer2019/summer2019.html --Ted From behravan.work at gmail.com Tue Mar 26 03:01:40 2019 From: behravan.work at gmail.com (Hamid Behravan) Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2019 09:01:40 +0200 Subject: Connectionists: Open position: Digital image processing and deep learning of clinical and biological data Message-ID: The successful candidate will be a part of machine learning research team at Institute of Clinical Medicine, Pathology and Forensic Medicine, University of Eastern Finland, to develop novel artificial intelligence systems in personalized medicine for the purpose of accurate disease risk prediction and patient outcome analysis. Upon success in the first months of the project, a PhD position can be offered: Duties and responsibilities: - Interpretable, explainable and scalable machine and deep learning systems for the interpretation of large scale medical images (i.e. mammograms). - Transfer learning and development of robust machine and deep learning systems that can be practiced in clinical settings. - Multi-modal deep learning algorithms for medical images and related omics data (e.g. single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) and clinical data). - Producing manuscripts to be published in premier journals and international conferences. Essential requirements: - A master?s degree in computer science or related fields. - A sufficient machine learning and deep learning background. - Proven knowledge (e.g. as a part of master?s thesis or similar research) in deep learning, and medical image analysis (e.g. segmentation, registration, feature extraction, and modelling). - Excellent in English oral communication and written skills. - Excellent programming skills, especially in Python. Additional plus requirements: - Experience within a multi-disciplinary research environment. If interested, please send me your CV and list of relevant publications. Kind regards, PhD, Hamid Behravan University of Eastern Finland -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From g.chrupala at uvt.nl Tue Mar 26 07:24:19 2019 From: g.chrupala at uvt.nl (=?UTF-8?Q?Grzegorz_Chrupa=C5=82a?=) Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2019 12:24:19 +0100 Subject: Connectionists: Several positions for Assistant / Associate Professors in Artificial Intelligence (Tenure Track), Tilburg University Message-ID: <87864_1553599982_x2QBWxdY088003_CAPaDVDDaZxUYP+4wyrYonNF=9qLA6vkS9F9KTafLUHyKHPX+Ng@mail.gmail.com> Several positions for Assistant / Associate Professors in Artificial Intelligence (Tenure Track), Tilburg University Due to the fast growth in numbers of students and the strong increase in research funding opportunities, the Department of Cognitive Science and Artificial Intelligence of the Tilburg School of Humanities and Digital Sciences (TSHD) of Tilburg University (TiU), is looking for several enthusiastic new colleagues, whose scientific focus is in line with one or more of the main topics of research at the department. The candidates are expected to contribute to the teaching in the bachelor/master program ?Cognitive Science and Artificial Intelligence? and/or the master program ?Data Science and Society.? Among the disciplines studied in the department are artificial intelligence, cognitive science, and data science, with a special focus on (but not limited to) machine learning and deep learning, virtual reality, computational cognitive neuroscience, (serious) games, computational linguistics, and robotics. Besides excellent terms of employment, the department offers its members access to modern research facilities, such as a computer cluster with GPU computing capability, experimental labs, as well as robots, virtual reality facilities, and sensing technologies. Profile The position calls for ambitious scientists with experience in both teaching and research. A successful candidate: - has a PhD and a publication record in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive Science, or another relevant discipline; - has a record in developing and teaching bachelor and master courses, and experience with supervising master theses; - has the ability to acquire external funding for research; - has the ability to work in an interdisciplinary team; - has the ability to communicate in English fluently; - has acquired or is willing to acquire the University Teaching Qualification (UTQ). Both junior candidates and senior candidates can apply. If a position is offered, it will be in line with the background and experience of the candidate. Terms of employment The positions will be ranked in the Dutch university job ranking system (UFO) as assistant professor (?universitair docent?) or associate professor (?universitair hoofddocent?). The starting gross salary for a full-time appointment for an assistant professor is (minimally) ? 3,637 in scale 11 up to (maximally) ? 4,757 gross per month (max ? 66,388 all in per year). The starting gross salary for a full-time appointment for an associate professor is (minimally) ? 5,039 per month in scale 13 up to (maximally) ? 5,978 gross per month (max ? 85,592 all in per year). The positions are full time or 80%, with tasks divided between teaching/management (65%) and research (35%). A position as full-time lecturer is also a possibility. A part-time position can be discussed based on the possibilities offered by the educational organisation. The start of the employment is negotiable with a high preference for starting June 1, 2019, at the latest. Tilburg University is rated among the top of Dutch employers and has excellent terms of employment. Candidates from outside the Netherlands may qualify for a tax-free allowance equal to 30% of their taxable salary. The university will apply for such an allowance on their behalf. The Tilburg School of Humanities and Digital Sciences will provide assistance in finding suitable accommodation. The university offers very good fringe benefits (it is one of the best non-profit employers in the Netherlands), such as a holiday allowance of 8% and an end-of-year bonus of 8.3% (annually), an options model for terms and conditions of employment and reimbursement of moving expenses. The collective labor agreement of the Dutch Universities applies. Information For more information on this position, please contact the Head of the Department, prof. Pieter Spronck (p.spronck at tilburguniversity.edu), or the director of education, Dr. Marie Postma (marie.postma at tilburguniversity.edu). Applications Applications should include a cover letter in English, a Curriculum Vitae (including two references), and a one-page statement about the candidate?s contribution to Cognitive Science and/or Artificial Intelligence. The first deadline for application is April 1, 2019. After that deadline, we will continue accepting candidates depending on the number of positions being filled. Interviews will be held shortly after the deadline. If you are interested in applying for the position, please use http://bit.ly/2FAJ8Ms -- Grzegorz Chrupa?a Department of Cognitive Science and Artificial Intelligence Tilburg University PO Box 90153 5000 LE Tilburg The Netherlands Twitter: @gchrupala Web: grzegorz.chrupala.me Phone: +31 13 466 8020 Email: g.chrupala at uvt.nl From mschaub at mit.edu Tue Mar 26 10:49:46 2019 From: mschaub at mit.edu (Michael Schaub) Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2019 14:49:46 +0000 Subject: Connectionists: Workshop on "Higher-Order Interaction Networks" at Oxford, Sept 9-11, 2019 Message-ID: <06933e0b-038c-ebf3-5623-93d45487d2da@mit.edu> Workshop on "Higher-Order Interaction Networks" at Oxford, Sept 9-11, 2019 Dear colleagues, We are organizing a workshop on "Higher-Order Interaction Networks: Dynamics, Structure, Data" at the Mathematical Institute of the University of Oxford on Sept 9-11, 2019. For more information see: http://www.maths.ox.ac.uk/r/networksworkshop The goal of the workshop is to bring together researchers from different communities with distinct perspectives on network dynamics - from network science, dynamical systems, and data science/machine learning - to develop novel approaches to understand networked systems. A particular focus of this workshop will be on the role of non-dyadic dynamical interactions (joint interactions between more than two nodes). Confirmed speakers include: Peter Ashwin (Exeter) Marya Bazzi (ATI) Tanya Berger-Wolf (Illinois) Ana Paula Dias (Porto) Pawel Dlotko (Swansea) Jess Enright (Stirling) Laetitia Gauvin (ISI Torino) Jacopo Grilli (Santa Fe Institute) Heather Harrington (Oxford) Rebecca Hoyle (Southampton) Lou Pecora (Naval Research Labs) Tiago Pereira (USP Sao Carlos) Marta Sales-Pardo (Barcelona) Santiago Segarra (Rice) Rodolphe Sepulchre (Cambridge) ? Expressions of interest to participate are now open with an initial deadline of *June 1, 2019*. Thanks to generous funding from EU and the London Mathematical Society, there is limited travel support for early career researchers available. Please advertise this event across your (higher-order) network. A poster can be found on the workshop homepage. Best wishes, Andrew Mellor (Oxford) Michael Schaub (MIT/Oxford) Christian Bick (Exeter/Oxford) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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The last decade has seen a revolution in the theory and application of computer vision and machine learning. In this edition, we look at the emerging Computer Vision topics after Deep Learning revolution. The courses will be delivered by world renowned experts in the field, from both academia and industry, and will cover both theoretical and practical aspects of real Computer Vision problems as well as examples of their successful commercialisation. The school aims to provide a stimulating opportunity for young researchers and Ph.D. students. The selected participants will benefit from direct interaction and discussions with world leaders in Computer Vision. Participants will also have the possibility to present the results of their research, and to interact with their scientific peers, in a friendly and constructive environment. LIST OF SPEAKERS - Alexei Efros, UC Berkeley, US - Irfan Essa, Georgia Tech, US - Andreas Geiger, University of T?bingen and MPI-IS T?bingen, DE - Kristen Grauman, University of Texas at Austin and Facebook AI Research, USA - Abhinav Gupta, Carnegie Mellon University, US - Phillip Isola, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, US - Alex Kendall, Wayve and University of Cambridge, UK - Ira Kemelmacher-Shlizerman, Allen School of Computer Science, UW, US - Jitendra Malik, University of California at Berkeley, US - Richard Newcombe, Facebook Reality Labs, US - Torsten Sattler, Chalmers University of Technology, SE - Davide Scaramuzza, ETH Z?rich, CH - Bernt Schiele, Max Planck Institute, DE - Stefano Soatto, Amazon and University of California Los Angeles, USA - Federico Tombari, Technical University of Munich, DE SCHOOL DIRECTORS - Roberto Cipolla, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom - Sebastiano Battiato, University of Catania, Italy - Giovanni Maria Farinella, University of Catania, Italy SPECIAL SESSION - Industry meets Student In addition to the academic programme, we are organizing a special session to allow students to meet and learn about the opportunities and activities at the world leading research laboratories and companies which are exploiting computer vision. READING GROUP (WITH PRIZE!) http://iplab.dmi.unict.it/icvss2019/ReadingGroup Good ideas have deep roots. Understanding such roots is key to being able to generate new ideas moving forward. The main goal of the Reading Group is to practice ways in which exploration of these roots can be performed. The homework prior to the commencement of the school consists in studying (not just reading) one or more topics provided by the school committee, and tracing the ideas as far back as you can. See the rules of engagement for all details. Detailed instructions with the rules of engagements will be sent to students after acceptance notification. ESSAY COMPETITION http://iplab.dmi.unict.it/icvss2019/EssayCompetition The essay competition reflects the importance of considering the "real world" social impact of technology alongside the fundamental goals of basic R&D. Computer Vision is an area of scientific and technological development that will continue to have a profound impact on society. It will redefine the way in which information technology intersects and interfaces with medicine and other disciplines, it will play a key role in the care of an ageing population and it is already a fundamental aspect of modern security technology. Participants in the competition may write a piece of original work on a topic. Detailed instructions with the rules of engagements will be soon online. POSTER SESSION http://iplab.dmi.unict.it/icvss2019/CallForPosters Accepted students may submit a poster to present their research activity. The poster should be sent before 31 May 2019, 23:59, GMT +2:00, Italy Time. Please, read the Call for Student Poster section for poster guidelines. A subset from the submitted posters will be selected by the school committee for short oral presentation. A best presentation prize will be given to the best presentation selected by the school committee. SOCIAL EVENTS In amongst a packed program of over 30 hours of school activities, there will be time for a tour of the ancient and picturesque town of Ragusa Ibla (RG) including the opportunity to experience the local traditions in the form of folk dancing and a delicious feast featuring many of the local delicacies. A social dinner and a party on the beach (with Disco) are also part of the social program. See some picture of last year edition: https://goo.gl/bXSedT See Previous Editions at the following link: http://iplab.dmi.unict.it/icvss2019/PreviousEditions MORE INFORMATION www.dmi.unict.it/icvss icvss at dmi.unict.it Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/540991352579753 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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A P R I L?? 2 0 1 9? !! ?????????????????? ---------------------------------- _____________ download the DATASET and submission script at ____________ https://drive.google.com/open?id=1eX5CKvzcOhJUN8gwDogfquN0uskCXflD ________________________________________________________________________ ?? >>> for more info visit http://cvg.dsi.unifi.it/wisw.caip2019 <<< ???????????????????????????????????? Contact: wisw.caip2019 at gmail.com ??? Organizers ? Fabio Bellavia and Carlo Colombo ? Computational Vision Group ? University of Florence, Italy ________________________________________________________________________ From siddharth at iffsid.com Tue Mar 26 16:07:59 2019 From: siddharth at iffsid.com (Siddharth N) Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2019 20:07:59 +0000 Subject: Connectionists: CFP: CVPR Workshop on Language and Vision In-Reply-To: <87mumavekx.fsf@eng.ox.ac.uk> References: <87mumavekx.fsf@eng.ox.ac.uk> Message-ID: <87a7hh9z6o.fsf@iffsid.com> 2nd Call for Papers (CFP) DEADLINE CORRECTION FOR SUBMISSIONS: Friday April 26th, 2019 anywhere on earth (AoE). > Fourth Workshop on Language and Vision @CVPR19 > ---------------------------------------------- > > http://languageandvision.com/ > > June 16, 2019 @ Long Beach, CA > in conjunction with CVPR 2019 > > CALL FOR PAPERS: > > The interaction between language and vision, despite seeing traction > as of late, is still largely unexplored. This is a particularly > relevant topic to the vision community because humans routinely > perform tasks which involve both modalities. We do so largely without > even noticing. Every time you ask for an object, ask someone to > imagine a scene, or describe what you're seeing, you're performing a > task which bridges a linguistic and a visual representation. The > importance of vision-language interaction can also be seen by the > numerous approaches that often cross domains, such as the popularity > of image grammars. More concretely, we've recently seen a renewed > interest in one-shot learning for object and event models. Humans go > further than this using our linguistic abilities; we perform zero-shot > learning without seeing a single example. You can recognize a picture > of a zebra after hearing the description "horse-like animal with black > and white stripes" without ever having seen one. > > Furthermore, integrating language with vision brings with it the > possibility of expanding the horizons and tasks of the vision > community. We have seen significant growth in image and video-to-text > tasks but many other potential applications of such integration ? > answering questions, dialog systems, and grounded language acquisition > ? remain largely unexplored. Going beyond such novel tasks, language > can make a deeper contribution to vision: it provides a prism through > which to understand the world. A major difference between human and > machine vision is that humans form a coherent and global understanding > of a scene. This process is facilitated by our ability to affect our > perception with high-level knowledge which provides resilience in the > face of errors from low-level perception. It also provides a framework > through which one can learn about the world: language can be used to > describe many phenomena succinctly thereby helping filter out > irrelevant details. > > Topics covered (non-exhaustive): > > - language as a mechanism to structure and reason about visual perception, > - language as a learning bias to aid vision in both machines and humans, > - novel tasks which combine language and vision, > - dialogue as means of sharing knowledge about visual perception, > - stories as means of abstraction, > - transfer learning across language and vision, > - understanding the relationship between language and vision in humans, > - how computer vision can explain the neural underpinning of language and vision, > - reasoning visually about language problems, and > - joint video and language alignment and parsing > > Call for papers > --------------- > > We are calling for submissions to be showcased at a poster session, with > selected papers given spotlights. > In the spirit of fostering a freer exchange of ideas, we welcome both novel > and previously-published work. Submissions can hence be: > a. 2-4 page extended abstracts (excluding references), or > b. relevant full submissions (from current or recent conferences) for > which the authors will have the option of providing an arXiv link. > > Submissions are *not* archival, and will not be included in the > Proceedings of CVPR 2019, although links to papers can be provided for > display on the workshop website. > > SUBMISSION DEADLINE: May 31st 2019 anywhere on earth (AoE). > > Organized by: > > N. Siddharth, University of Oxford > Andrei Barbu, MIT > Dan Gutfreund, IBM > Philip Torr, University of Oxford From boubchir at ai.univ-paris8.fr Tue Mar 26 10:36:37 2019 From: boubchir at ai.univ-paris8.fr (Larbi Boubchir) Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2019 15:36:37 +0100 Subject: Connectionists: [Deadline Approaching] Special Issue on Intelligent Industrial Digital Forensics and Biocybernetics: Practices and Challenges - Pattern Recognition Letters In-Reply-To: <9514e9a5-4930-f386-4f65-e780532fbebb@ai.univ-paris8.fr> References: <9514e9a5-4930-f386-4f65-e780532fbebb@ai.univ-paris8.fr> Message-ID: <34de2edf-9e16-9e2d-0e87-0fa94a38e61f@ai.univ-paris8.fr> *********************************************************************** Apologize if you receive multiple copies of this message. Please disseminate this CFP to your colleagues and contacts. *********************************************************************** *Special Issue on "Intelligent Industrial Digital Forensics and Biocybernetics: Practices and Challenges"****** in Pattern Recognition Letters journal*** https://www.journals.elsevier.com/pattern-recognition-letters/call-for-papers/virtual-special-issue-on-intelligent-industrial-digital-fore *Motivations: * Digital forensic methodologies are widely used in industries to ensure authentication of multimedia data. Biocybernetics has emerged as a tool to secure systems from cyber threats via biometric based processes. Jointly, digital forensics and biocybernetics can ensure support system for high level security. The mechanisms of digital forensics and biocybernetic technologies presently need human expert interference, and cannot perform in automated way. Thereby these processes cannot be suited for in large scale industrial need in their present form. Hence a lot of research has been conducted in this domain during last few years, mostly all studies yielding sub-optimal solutions, which still encourages current researchers to conduct further research in this area. This special issue solicits original research articles, extensive reviews, and case studies in the aforementioned field of research. *Topics include, but are not limited to:* - Digital Forensic techniques applicable to large scale systems - Biocybernetic architecture management - Biosignal processing and biosensing systems - Brain-human-interface - Knowledge sharing systems for forensic analysis - Biocybernetic surveillance in industry - Anti-pattern search for biocybernetic spoofing - Biometric technologies for large scale industry - Industrial biometric data management - Parallel and distributed processing of forensic data - Cybercrime detection and mitigation - Uberveillance technologies for smart industry - Standards and protocols for industrial forensics *Important dates: * Submission period: 1-31 March 2019 Submission deadline: 31 March 2019 First review notification: 1 June 2019 Revision submission: 1 August 2019 Second review notification: 1 September 2019 Final notification to authors: 30 September 2019 Online publication: October 2019 *Submission Guidelines: * All submissions have to be prepared according to the Guide for Authors as published in the Journal Web Site at http://www.elsevier.com/journals/pattern-recognition-letters/0167-8655/guide-for-authors. Submissions should be sent through http://ees.elsevier.com/prletters/. Authors should select the acronym "VSI:IIDFB-PC" as the article type, from the "Choose Article Type" pull-down menu during the submission process. The maximal length of a paper is 7 pages in the PRLetters layout and may become 8 in the revised version if referees explicitly request significant additions. The submitted papers should not have been previously published or be under consideration for publication elsewhere. If one submission is the extended work of one conference paper, the original work should be included and a description of the changes should be provided. The PRLetters submission should include at least 30% new contribution of high relevance (more experiments, proofs of theorems not included in the conference paper, more comparisons with other methods in the literature and so on); and the title of the PRLetters paper should be different, the same figures cannot be used and the common part of the conference paper and of the extended version cannot be verbatim the same. *Review Process: * The review process will follow the standard PRLetters scheme. Each paper will be reviewed by at least two referees and that, in general, only two reviewing rounds will be possible, out of which major revision is possible for the first reviewing round. Submissions will probably being rejected if major revision is still required after the second reviewing round. *Guest Editors: * Asso. Prof., Dr., Larbi Boubchir University of Paris 8, France E-mail: larbi.boubchir at ai.univ-paris8.fr Prof. Esma A?meur University of Montreal, Montreal, Canada E-mail: aimeur at iro.umontreal.ca Dr. Sambit Bakshi National Institute of Technology Rourkela, India E-mail: bakshisambit at nitrkl.ac.in Dr. Abdenour Hadid University of Oulu, Finland E-mail: hadid.abdenour at oulu.fi -- _____________________________________________________ Larbi Boubchir, PhD, SMIEEE Associate Professor LIASD - University of Paris 8 2 rue de la Libert?, 93526 Saint-Denis, France Tel. (+33) 1 49 40 67 95 Email. larbi.boubchir at ai.univ-paris8.fr http://www.ai.univ-paris8.fr/~boubchir/ _____________________________________________________ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Auckland, New Zealand. ------------------------------- Special Session on *Beyond Traditional Sensing for Intelligent Transportation* ------------------------------- https://bit.ly/2IoOn5n ------------------------------ Over the past few decades, sensors have not only become more advanced but also made impressive strides across an increasing number of sensing modalities. Despite the improved capabilities and breadth of available sensor systems, those used for intelligent transportation have remained relatively uniform across platforms; as a result, the algorithms and techniques being designed do not take full advantage of the rich information modern sensors can provide. Since all tasks -- including perception, localisation, decision-making, and learning -- are built on top of sensing, exploring alternative approaches to sensing is a compelling research area that can render all subsequent tasks more robust and accurate. The objective of this special session is to explore unconventional sensing for intelligent transportation in three ways. Firstly, it will investigate sensor systems that are not typically applied to certain transportation tasks, such as radar for precise localisation, audio for failure detection, and RF sensing for road traffic estimation. Secondly, it will explore untraditional sensor configurations and placements, such as ground-facing cameras using shadows to detect occluded moving objects. Lastly, it will look into the sensing of commonly overlooked information, such as the use of atmospheric sensors for gauging road surface traction or in-vehicle sensors for driving analysis. Via these three themes, this special session aims to stimulate discussion and research into untraditional sensing in order to improve the reliability and accuracy of transportation systems. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Localisation and navigation using radars (e.g., scanning, Doppler, and ground-penetrating); * Ego-noise and soundscape modelling and interpretation (e.g., sound-based failure detection, terrain/road surface status classification, urban sound source detection and localisation); * Event-based (neuromorphic) vision for localisation and perception in challenging scenarios; * Multi-spectral imaging (e.g. IR or polarimetric cameras for localisation and perception under difficult visibility); * In-vehicle sensing and wearable computing for failure detection, driver and passenger behaviour modelling; * Far infrared sensing; * Texture odometry; * Novel sensor hardware and designs; * Unconventional sensor placements or multi-sensor systems; * Optimal sensor scheduling and control in complex and/or multi-agent / social environments; * Astronomical (skyward-facing), atmospheric or odor-based sensing; * IoT technology for intelligent transportation and Internet of Vehicles (IoV); * Passive Wireless/RF sensing. ------------------------------- *Important Dates* Paper Submission Deadline: April 15, 2019 Notification of Acceptance: June 30, 2019 Final Paper Submission Deadline: July 15, 2019 Conference Dates: October 27-30, 2019 Authors are kindly invited to notify the organisers of their submissions. Papers submitted to this Special Session are reviewed according to the same rules as the submissions to the regular sessions of ITSC2019. Submissions to regular and special sessions follow identical format, instructions, deadlines and procedures. Please find more info on the ITSC2019 website https://www.itsc2019.org ------------------------------- *Organizers* Letizia Marchegiani, Aalborg University, Denmark. lm at es.aau.dk Sarah Huiyi Cen, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), MA, USA. shcen at mit.edu Dimitri Ognibene, University of Essex, UK. dimitri.ognibene at essex.ac.uk Daniele De Martini, University of Oxford, UK. daniele at robots.ox.ac.uk Xenofon Fafoutis, Technical University of Denmark (DTU), Denmark. xefa at dtu.dk Yan Wu, A*STAR Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore. wuy at i2r.a-star.edu.sg Sahar Abbaspour, Volvo Car Corporation, Sweden. sahar.abbaspour at volvocars.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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The focus of the conference is on both classic and recent trends in computer vision, pattern recognition and image processing, and covers both theoretical and applicative aspects, with particular emphasis on the following topics: * Video Analysis & Understanding * Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning * Deep Learning * Multi-view Geometry and 3D Computer Vision * Image Analysis, Detection and Recognition * Multimedia * Biomedical and Assistive Technology * Digital Forensics * Image Processing for Cultural Heritage The conference is structured in oral and poster sessions and offers invited lectures from distinguished speakers. Satellite workshops and tutorials are also organized. Accepted papers will be included in the ICIAP 2019 Conference Proceedings, which will be published by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series (LNCS). Every accepted paper requires at least one author registered with regular registration fee and presenting the work at the conference. The conference will be held in Trento, Italy on 9-13 September, 2019. Dates: * Main Conference: 11-13th September 2019 * Workshop and Tutorials: 9-10th September 2019 * Full paper submission: 12th April 2019 * Notification of acceptance: 7th June 2019 * Camera ready submission: 21st June 2019 * Workshop/tutorial proposal submission: 1st April 2019 Submission: The maximum number of pages is 10 + 1 page containing only references. Papers will be selected by a review process. Authors of ICIAP 2019 papers can find complete instructions of how to format their papers in the conference webpage ( https://event.unitn.it/iciap2019). Springer?s proceedings LaTeX templates are available in Overleaf. Springer encourages authors to include their ORCIDs in their papers. Additional information can be found in "Springer LNCS ? Information for Authors of Computer Science Publications". Papers can be submitted using the CMT available at https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com. When submitting the camera ready, the corresponding author of each paper, acting on behalf of all of the authors of that paper, must complete and sign the Consent-to-Publish form, through which the copyright for their paper is transferred to Springer. ICIAP 2019 - Call for Workshops We invite you to submit proposals for new and recurring workshops that will be held in conjunction to the 20th ICIAP main conference. The conference will host 2-3 one-day workshops (or some more half-day workshops) on the 9-10th September. We accept proposals on any emerging or classic topics related to the broad set of research and application areas covered by the ICIAP conference. The goal of the ICIAP workshops is to publish early results in emerging areas, or discussing highly focused and recent topics in image processing and pattern recognition. Returning workshops are allowed. Papers accepted at the workshops will be published on Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). Dates: * Proposal submission deadline: 1st April 2019 Workshop proposal evaluation notification: workshop proposals will be selected on a first-come-first-served basis and considering the quality of the proposal. Notification will be given in about 20 days from the submission of the proposal. Submission: Email proposals in PDF to the workshop chairs Marco Cristani ( marco.cristani at univr.it) and Andrea Prati (andrea.prati at unipr.it). The e-mail must have the subject "ICIAP Workshop submission". The workshop proposal should contain at least the following information: * Workshop Title * Names and affiliations of main organizers and primary contact email. Internationality of the organizing committee is preferred. * Motivation and rationale for the workshop. * A draft Call For Papers (CFP), as complete as possible. * The workshop deadlines (see below for the constraints and suggestions on the deadlines). * A tentative composition of the committees (as complete as possible). Please indicate whether prospective TPC members have been contacted, and whether they have accepted the invitation. We strongly discourage speculative TPC listings and we encourage international TPCs. * Invited speakers. Please indicate whether prospective invited speakers have been contacted, and whether they have accepted the invitation. Having strong invited speakers will boost the probability of getting the workshop accepted. * Workshop format, i.e., expected number of presented papers, invited talks, panels, demonstrations, rough program outline, etc.. * Expected number of participants and the expected number of submissions. * Prior history of this workshop, if any, including number of submissions, number of accepted papers, and attendee count. * Similar workshops in the community, with similarities/dissimilarities of your proposal. * Any special space or equipment requests. Please do not hesitate to contact the workshop chairs Marco Cristani ( marco.cristani at univr.it) and Andrea Prati (andrea.prati at unipr.it) in case you have questions. ICIAP 2019 - Call for Tutorials ICIAP 2019 is soliciting proposals for half-day (3-4 hours) tutorials to be held on 9-10th September, in conjunction with the main event. The conference will hold 2 half-day tutorials. We invite you to submit tutorial proposals on any themes related to the broad set of research and application areas covered by the ICIAP conference. In particular ICIAP welcomes tutorials regarding emerging methods and techniques in: * Video Analysis & Understanding * Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning * Deep Learning * Multi-view Geometry and 3D Computer Vision * Image Analysis, Detection and Recognition * Multimedia * Biomedical and Assistive Technology * Digital Forensics * Image Processing for Cultural Heritage The courses should provide an educational understanding of the methodologies involved rather than being a description of methods/papers in the state of the art. Dates: * Proposal submission deadline: 1st April 2019 The tutorial proposals will be evaluated regarding the information provided and quality criteria related to the fit of the proposal given the conference topics, the timelines and relevance of the topics, the experience of the presenters and the organisation of the syllabus. Proposals will be selected on a first-come-first-served basis. Notification will be given in about 15 days from the submission of the proposal. Submission: Please send your proposal in PDF by e-mail to the tutorial chairs Costantino Grana (costantino.grana at unimore.it) and Lamberto Ballan ( lamberto.ballan at unipd.it). The e-mail must have the subject "ICIAP Tutorial submission". The proposal should provide at least the following information: * Tutorial title and short abstract. * Short bio of the presenters with affiliations and their relevant publications related to the tutorial topics. * Motivation and expected audience of the tutorial. * If available, prior history of this tutorial including number of attendees. * List of previous presented tutorial on the same theme with a description of similarities and dissimilarities with respect to your proposal. * Tentative Syllabus with a breakdown of the topics. * If material will be provided to the attendees before the tutorial (slides, code, etc.) and if any special requirement is necessary. Please do not hesitate to contact the tutorial chairs Costantino Grana ( costantino.grana at unimore.it) and Lamberto Ballan (lamberto.ballan at unipd.it) in case you have questions. ICIAP 2019 - Call for Special Sessions ICIAP 2019 will host a small number of special sessions that will be focused either on novel methodological issues or on emerging application scenarios. Special session proposals should clearly point out the topic of the session, and the process used to select the papers. The proposal of a "methodological" special session should solicit papers that provide the audience with novel ideas and frameworks that are expected to have a significant impact in the near future. The proposal of an "application" special session should comprise the selection of a number of papers focused on solutions for emerging application scenarios. 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URL: From judith at mypajudith.com Wed Mar 27 11:34:07 2019 From: judith at mypajudith.com (MyPAJudith) Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2019 16:34:07 +0100 Subject: Connectionists: PhD position in Machine Learning (Imperial College London) Message-ID: <420BA900-639F-4107-A255-B98C67395093@mypajudith.com> PhD position in Machine Learning in the Clopath lab under the joint supervision of Dr Claudia Clopath (Imperial College London) and Dr Razvan Pascanu (DeepMind London) -----------------Description-------------- This is a 3-year, fully-funded PhD position at Imperial College London. The position will be co-supervised by Dr. Claudia Clopath (head of the lab) and Dr. Razvan Pascanu (Research Scientist at DeepMind). The student will be based in the Clopath lab. The focus of the PhD will be on machine learning while drawing inspiration from computational neuroscience. In particular, the main themes will revolve around Deep Learning and Deep Reinforcement Learning. The research will be published at conferences such as NeurIPS, ICML or ICLR. An *incomplete* list of topics of interest could include: Theory of Deep Learning/Deep Reinforcement Learning Understanding learning dynamics Representational power of neural networks Exploiting our understanding of dopamine for training RL systems Topics around introducing structure in neural networks (e.g. Graph-Nets) Optimization for neural networks (theory/application) Understanding memory in recurrent models/attention based models (improve the memory capacity of RNNs) Meta-learning/Continual learning or exploration in RL systems Although we welcome the student?s suggestion for potential projects. ---------------Requirements-------------------- The perfect candidate has a strong background in maths, physics, engineering or related fields. Machine Learning background is a plus but not necessary. The candidate should have strong programming skills (knowledge of tensorflow/pytorch would be a plus but not required). Interest in neural networks research and experience is a plus. Due to the funding requirement of the position, the candidate should be an *EU or British citizen*. The funding/position will not be affected by the Brexit outcome. ------------ The lab ------------ The Computational Neuroscience Laboratory is very young and dynamic, and publishes in prestigious journals and conferences. It is part of the Department of Bioengineering, which conducts state-of-the-art multidisciplinary research. The lab is at Imperial College London, the 3rd ranked university in Europe, is in the top 10 worldwide, and is located in the city centre of London. More information can be found at: http://www.bg.ic.ac.uk/research/c.clopath/ DeepMind is a company focusing on AI and ML research, with world-wide recognized expertise. Its research centers around Deep Learning and Reinforcement Learning, with successes such as AlphaGo, first AI winning against a human professional at the game of Go. More information here: https://deepmind.com/about/. For more info on Razvan Pascanu?s work see https://sites.google.com/view/razp. ----------------- How to apply:----------------- Candidates should send a single pdf file, consisting of a 1 to 2-page motivation letter followed by a CV (including publication list) to judith at mypajudith.com, with the subject containing 'PhD_ML_2019'. In addition, candidates should organize two letters of reference to be sent to judith at mypajudith.com, with the subject containing 'PhD_ML_2019'. The position is open until filled but the earlier applications will be considered first (first round of consideration will take applications sent before April 10th). -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From pmasulli at e-nns.org Wed Mar 27 11:46:44 2019 From: pmasulli at e-nns.org (Paolo Masulli ENNS) Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2019 16:46:44 +0100 Subject: Connectionists: CfP 28th International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks ICANN 2019, Sept 17-19, Munich, DE, Final Extension Message-ID: <3cb2db38-f40f-89fd-3ac3-46622887586c@e-nns.org> 28th International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks http://icann2019.org = Third announcement - final submission deadline extended April 5th and collaboration with J. Cheminformatics = Authors of papers presented at ICANN2019 can qualify for 25% OpenAccess publication fee at J. Cheminformatics, see details at https://e-nns.org/icann2019/ Munich, Germany 17 - 19 September 2019 Special event: BIGCHEM (http://bigchem.eu) final meeting ============================================================ The International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks (ICANN) is the annual flagship conference of the European Neural Network Society (ENNS). In 2019 the Helmholtz Zentrum Muenchen - German Research Center for Environmental Health GmbH (HMGU) and the Technical University of Munich (TUM) together with the "Big Data in Chemistry" Marie Sk?odowska-Curie Innovative Training Network European Industrial Doctorate project (BIGCHEM) organize the 28th ICANN Conference from the 17th to the 19th of September 2019 in Munich, Germany. CONFERENCE TOPICS ICANN 2019 is a dual-track conference featuring tracks in Brain Inspired Computing and Machine Learning and Artificial Neural Networks, with strong cross-disciplinary interactions and applications. All research fields dealing with Neural Networks will be present at the conference. A non-exhaustive list of topics includes: Machine Learning: Deep Learning, Neural Network Theory, Neural Network Models, Graphical Models, Bayesian Networks, Kernel Methods, Generative Models, Information Theoretic Learning, Reinforcement Learning, Relational Learning, Dynamical Models Recurrent Networks. Brain Inspired Computing: Cognitive models, Computational Neuroscience, Self-organisation, Reinforcement Learning, Neural Control and Planning, Hybrid Neural-Symbolic Architectures, Neural Dynamics. Neural Applications for: Bioinformatics, Biomedicine, Intelligent Robotics, Neurorobotics, Language Processing, Image Processing, Sensor Fusion, Pattern Recognition, Data Mining, Neural Agents, Brain-Computer Interaction, Neural Hardware, Evolutionary Neural Networks. Special session (BIGCHEM): Big Data analysis in chemistry, chemoinformatics, use of deep learning to predict molecular properties, drug-discovery, modelling and prediction of chemical reaction data, synthetic route prediction, structure generation, molecular dynamics simulations and quantum chemistry. Special sessions: Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, Informed and Explainable Methods for Machine Learning, Deep Learning in Image Reconstruction, Machine Learning with Graphs: Algorithms and Applications, Neural Variational Inference and Time Series. Workshops: 1st International Workshop on Reservoir Computing (RC 2019) CALL FOR CONTRIBUTED SCIENTIFIC COMMUNICATIONS All scientific communications presented at ICANN 2019 will be reviewed and scientifically evaluated by a panel of experts. The conference will feature three categories of communications: - oral communications (15'+5') - poster communications - demonstrations Call for Papers: Authors willing to present original contributions in either oral or poster category may submit: - a proceedings paper manuscript of about 10 - 12 pages to be published in Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series with individual DOI - extended abstracts of a maximum length of 4 pages to be published in Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series. The number of oral slots is limited. In case the number of requested oral presentations is larger than the available slots the ICANN scientific committee will select which papers will be reassigned to a poster session. This selections will be based on the coherence of the programme and is totally independent of the category of submission. Submission of communications will be online. More details will be made available soon on the conference website: http://icann2019.org IMPORTANT DATES Deadline of special sessions submission: 1 February 2019 Opening of contribution submissions: 1 February 2019 Submission of demonstration proposals: 1 March 2019 Deadline of proceedings paper submission: EXTENDED to 5 April 2019 Deadline of extended abstracts submission: EXTENDED to 5 April 2019 Notification of acceptance: 1 May 2019 Camera-ready paper and registration opening: 1 June 2019 Deadline early registration at discount rate: 15 June 2019 Conference dates: 17-19 September 2019 REGISTRATION FEES (EARLY RATES) Full registration: 400 EUR Student registration: 250 EUR Reductions for ENNS members BEST PAPER AWARDS ENNS will sponsor a maximum of four best paper awards, two in the Brain Inspired Computing track (one poster and one oral communication) and, analogously, two in the Machine Learning Research track. All awardees will be presented during the final ceremony. TRAVEL GRANTS The European Neural Network Society sponsors a number of Student Travel Grants covering part of the costs for attending ICANN. Details on the conference website. ORGANISATION General Chair: Igor Tetko (ENNS/HMGU Munich, Germany) and Fabian Theis (HMGU/TUM Munich, Germany) Organising Committee Chairs: Monica Campillos (HMGU Munich, Germany), Alessandra Lintas (ENNS Lausanne, Switzerland) Honorary Chair: Vera Kurkova, Czech Academy of Sciences (ENNS President) Communication Chair: Paolo Masulli (ENNS Lausanne, Switzerland) From iswc.conf at gmail.com Wed Mar 27 12:37:09 2019 From: iswc.conf at gmail.com (International Semantic Web Conference) Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2019 17:37:09 +0100 Subject: Connectionists: [CfP] ISWC 2019 - *One week left* to submit your abstracts for the Research, In-Use and Resource tracks Message-ID: 18th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2019) ?Knowledge Graphs, Linked Data, Linked Schemas and AI on the Web? Auckland, New Zealand, 26-30 October, 2019 https://iswc2019.semanticweb.org/ Follow us: Twitter: @iswc_conf , #iswc_conf ( https://twitter.com/iswc_conf ) LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/13612370 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ISWConf/ Become part of ISWC 2019 by submitting to the following tracks & activities or just attend them! *** All deadlines are midnight Hawaii Time (GMT-10) *** In this announcement: * Highlights 1. Call for Research papers 2. Call for In-use papers 3. Call for Resource papers * Highlights ******************************************* * Research track: papers submitted to the research track will be subject to **double blind** peer review. * Research, In-use and Resource tracks: submission of the same work to multiple tracks is not allowed and may result in a rejection of the work across all tracks without a review. Before submitting, authors are asked to consult the calls of the other tracks featured at ISWC 2019 and to choose the track that best suits their contribution. Please consult the following page as well when deciding to which track to submit: https://iswc2019.semanticweb.org/paper-features-per-track/ * Research track: a reproducibility certification with a dedicated review board will be proposed to the accepted research track papers that include a significant experimental evaluation. 1. Call for Research papers ******************************************* In this track of ISWC 2019, we are looking for novel and significant research contributions addressing theoretical, analytical and empirical aspects of the Semantic Web. While we welcome work that relates to the W3C Semantic Web recommendations (e.g., RDF, OWL, SPARQL, etc.), we also encourage contributions to research at the intersection of Semantic Web and other scientific disciplines. Submissions to the research track should describe original, significant, and replicable research on the Semantic Web. All papers must include method evaluations that are rigorous, repeatable and reproducible. This will be one of the key paper reviewing criteria. We also strongly encourage papers that provide material such as data sets, source code, queries used to evaluate their approach, and/or live deployments. To comply with the double blind review policy we encourage the usage of non-personal storage spaces or the additional material facility available at submission time. Topics of interest and further info: https://iswc2019.semanticweb.org/call-for-research-track-papers/ == Important Dates == Abstracts: April 3, 2019 Full papers: April 10, 2019 == Program Chairs == Contact: iswc2019-program at inria.fr Chiara Ghidini, Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK), Italy Olaf Hartig, Link?ping University, Sweden 2. Call for In-use papers ******************************************* The adoption of Semantic Web technologies has accelerated in recent years, where they are now deployed in a variety of real-world settings at a variety of scales. The In-Use Track at ISWC 2019 continues the tradition of demonstrating and learning from the increasing adoption of Semantic Web technologies by providing a forum for the community to explore the benefits and challenges of applying such technologies in concrete, practical use cases, beyond the research communities from which they originate, in contexts ranging from industry to government and science. The In-Use Track thus seeks submissions describing applied and validated solutions such as software tools, systems or architectures that benefit from the use of Semantic Web technologies (including, but not limited to, technologies based on the Semantic Web standards). Importantly, submitted papers should provide convincing evidence of the use of the proposed application or tool by the target user group, preferably outside the group that conducted the development and, more broadly, outside the Semantic Web research community. A main focus of the submissions should be on the benefits of Semantic Web technologies for the intended use case, as well as (if relevant) the added challenges they introduce. Topics of interest and further info: https://iswc2019.semanticweb.org/call-for-in-use-track-papers/ == Important Dates == Abstracts: April 3, 2019 Full papers: April 10, 2019 == Program Chairs == Contact: iswc2019-in-use at inria.fr Isabel Cruz, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA Aidan Hogan, Universidad de Chile, Chile 3. Call for Resource papers ******************************************* Resources are of paramount importance as they foster scientific advancement. For example, the DBpedia resource had a major influence on the Semantic Web community by enabling the Linked (Open) Data movement. Validating a research hypothesis or providing answers to a research question often goes together with developing new resources that support these achievements. Sharing resources is key to allow other researchers to compare new results, reproduce experimental settings and explore new lines of research, in accordance with the FAIR principles for scientific data management. Yet, resources themselves rarely get the same recognition as the scientific advances they facilitate. The ISWC 2019 Resources Track aims to promote the sharing of resources including, but not restricted to: datasets, ontologies/vocabularies, ontology design patterns, evaluation benchmarks or methods, software tools/services, APIs and software frameworks, workflows, crowdsourcing task designs, protocols, methodologies and metrics, that contribute to the generation of novel scientific work. In particular, we encourage the sharing of such resources following best practices within the Semantic Web community. This track calls for contributions that provide a concise and clear description of a resource and its usage. Categories of resources and further info: https://iswc2019.semanticweb.org/call-for-resources-track-papers/ == Important Dates == Abstracts: April 3, 2019 Full papers: April 10, 2019 == Program Chairs == Contact: iswc2019-resource at inria.fr Maria Maleshkova, SDA, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany Vojt?ch Sv?tek, University of Economics, Prague, Czech Republic See you all in Auckland! The ISWC 2019 Organising Team ( https://iswc2019.semanticweb.org/organizing-committee/ ) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From julien.vitay at informatik.tu-chemnitz.de Wed Mar 27 13:03:03 2019 From: julien.vitay at informatik.tu-chemnitz.de (Julien Vitay) Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2019 18:03:03 +0100 Subject: Connectionists: Research Position in NeuroComputing / Computational Neuroscience at TU Chemnitz (Germany) Message-ID: A PostDoc or Ph.D. position is available at the Chemnitz University of Technology in the Department of Computer Science. The position is initially until 31.12.2021, starting as soon as possible. The research position is funded by the state of Saxony AI initiative. The goal in our project is to develop brain-inspired cognitive architectures, particularly regarding recurrent dynamics in the prefrontal cortex and their shaping by reinforcement learning processes in the basal ganglia. The proposed neuro-computational approach will rely on reward-modulated recurrent networks (reservoir computing) using closed-loop interactions with the basal ganglia and the thalamus. The model will be tested against behavioral and physiological data and its functional properties will be compared to classical machine learning approaches. The ideal candidate should have prior experience in neural networks, neurocomputing or computational neuroscience and sufficient programming experience. Very good English reading and speaking skills are required. German language skills are not required, but the willingness to learn German would be useful. The salary is according to German standards (E 13 TV-L, 75%). The university is an equal opportunity employer. Women are encouraged to apply. Disabled applicants will receive priority in case they have equal qualifications. Chemnitz is the third-largest city of the state of Saxony and close to scenic mountains. Major cities nearby are Leipzig and Dresden with a rich tradition of music and culture. Applications should be sent by email (preferably in PDF format) to ( fred.hamker at informatik.tu-chemnitz.de) as soon as possible. Applications will be considered until the position is filled. Prof. Dr. Fred Hamker Ku?nstliche Intelligenz Fakult?t fu?r Informatik TU Chemnitz 09107 Chemnitz www: https://www.tu-chemnitz.de/informatik/KI/index.php.en -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From snooles at gmail.com Wed Mar 27 18:51:12 2019 From: snooles at gmail.com (Gilles Vanwalleghem) Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2019 08:51:12 +1000 Subject: Connectionists: Open PhD positions in Brisbane, Australia Message-ID: Dear colleagues, our lab is offering 2 PhD positions to work on neural circuits in larval zebrafish. We are especially looking for people with a keen interest in neuroinformatics, neuronal modelling and/or machine learning applied to neural data sets. Info : https://biomedical-sciences.uq.edu.au/research/groups/neural-circuits#qt-scott_lab-foundation-tabs-5 Location : Scott group, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia. 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We solicit submission of research papers from any area of machine learning that overlap with the data-centered tasks mentioned above. An incomplete list of areas includes: - Active Learning - Crowdsourcing - Fairness - Semi-supervised Learning - Reinforcement Learning - Data Mining - Sequential Decision Processes For more detailed information, please see our website . All submissions must adhere to KDD 2019 style format with a 4 page limit including figures. An additional fifth page may be used to cite references. We allow for supplementary material, although the committee is not required to review it when making their decisions. The authors may decide whether they would like to make a blind or non-blind submission. The papers will be reviewed by the organizers and the program committee. All accepted papers will present a poster and the best paper will be given an oral presentation slot. Important dates: - Submission deadline: May 5, 2019 - Acceptance decisions: June 1, 2019 - Camera-ready version: June 15, 2019 Please submit the papers to dataworkshopkdd at gmail.com. The organizers are Corinna Cortes, Michael Collins, Giulia DeSalvo, Claudio Gentile, Isabelle Guyon, Mehryar Mohri, Afshin Rostamizadeh, and Ningshan Zhang. Best, Giulia DeSalvo -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From salah at boun.edu.tr Thu Mar 28 04:32:05 2019 From: salah at boun.edu.tr (Albert Ali Salah) Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2019 09:32:05 +0100 Subject: Connectionists: 21st International Conference on Speech and Computer (SPECOM-2019) Message-ID: == apologies for cross posting == CfP 21st International Conference on Speech and Computer (SPECOM-2019), Istanbul, Turkey ********************************************************* SPECOM-2019 - CALL FOR PAPERS ********************************************************* 21st International Conference on Speech and Computer (SPECOM-2019) Venue: Istanbul, Turkey, August 20-25, 2019 Web: http://www.specom.nw.ru ORGANIZERS The conference is organized by Bogazici University (BU, Istanbul, Turkey) in cooperation with St. Petersburg Institute for Informatics and Automation of the Russian Academy of Science (SPIIRAS, St. Petersburg, Russia) and Moscow State Linguistic University (MSLU, Moscow, Russia). SPECOM-2019 CO-CHAIRS Albert Ali Salah - Bogazici University, Turkey / Utrecht University, the Netherlands Alexey Karpov - SPIIRAS, Russia Rodmonga Potapova - MSLU, Russia INVITED SPEAKERS Hynek Hermansky - Johns Hopkins University, USA - 'If You Can?t Beat Them, Join Them' Odette Scharenborg - Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands - 'The representation of speech in the human and artificial brain' Vanessa Evers - University of Twente, the Netherlands - 'Socially intelligent robotics' CONFERENCE TOPICS SPECOM conference is dedicated to issues of speech technology, human-machine interaction, machine learning and signal processing, particularly: Affective computing Applications for human-computer interaction Audio-visual speech processing Automatic language identification Computational paralinguistics Corpus linguistics and linguistic processing Deep learning for sound and speech processing Forensic speech investigations and security systems Multichannel signal processing Multimedia processing Multimodal analysis and synthesis Signal processing and feature extraction Speaker identification and diarization Speaker verification systems Speech and language resources Speech analytics and audio mining Speech dereverberation Speech driving systems in robotics Speech enhancement Speech perception and speech disorders Speech recognition and understanding Speech translation automatic systems Spoken dialogue systems Spoken language processing Text-to-speech and Speech-to-text systems Virtual and augmented reality SATELLITE EVENT 4th International Conference on Interactive Collaborative Robotics ICR-2019: http://www.specom.nw.ru/icr2019 OFFICIAL LANGUAGE The official language of the event is English. However, papers on processing of languages other than English are strongly encouraged. FORMAT OF THE CONFERENCE The conference program will include presentation of invited talks, oral presentations, and poster/demonstration sessions. SUBMISSION OF PAPERS Authors are invited to submit a full paper not exceeding 10 pages formatted in the LNCS style. Those accepted will be presented either orally or as posters. The decision on the presentation format will be based upon the recommendation of several independent reviewers. The authors are asked to submit their papers using the on-line submission system: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=specom2019 Papers submitted to SPECOM-2019 must not be under review by any other conference or publication during the SPECOM review cycle, and must not be previously published or accepted for publication elsewhere. PROCEEDINGS SPECOM Proceedings will be published by Springer as a book in the Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI/LNCS) series listed in all major citation databases such as Web of Science, Scopus, DBLP, etc. SPECOM Proceedings are included in the list of forthcoming proceedings for August 2019. IMPORTANT DATES April 15, 2019 ............ Submission of full papers May 15, 2019 ............ Notification of acceptance June 01, 2019 ............ Camera-ready papers and early registration Aug. 20-25, 2019 ......... Conference dates (including social programs) VENUE The conference will be organized at the at the Bogazici University, South campus, Albert Long Hall. CONTACTS All correspondence regarding the conference should be addressed to: SPECOM-2019 Secretariat: E-mails: specom at iias.spb.su; salah at boun.edu.tr SPECOM-2019 web-site: http://www.specom.nw.ru -- Dr. Albert Ali Salah http://www.cmpe.boun.edu.tr/~salah/ Utrecht University Dept. 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URL: From vitordouzi at gmail.com Thu Mar 28 07:46:43 2019 From: vitordouzi at gmail.com (Vitor Mangaravite) Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2019 08:46:43 -0300 Subject: Connectionists: CALL FOR PARTICIPATION Text2Story 2019 Message-ID: ?*** Apologies for cross-posting *** ++ CALL FOR PARTICIPATION ++ ****************************************************************************************** Second International Workshop on Narrative Extraction from Texts (Text2Story'19 at ECIR'19) held in conjunction with the 41st European Conference on Information Retrieval Cologne, Germany, April 14th, 2019 Website: http://bit.ly/text2story19 ****************************************************************************************** The Second International Workshop on Narrative Extraction from Texts (Text2Story 2019) will be held on April 14th in Cologne, Germany under the umbrella of ECIR?19 (41st European Conference on Information Retrieval). Text2Story will feature the presentation of 10 papers, a poster session, 2 keynote speakers (Miguel Martinez-Alvarez and Iryna Gurevych) and a slot for demonstrations. ++ Invited Speakers ++ The program of Text2Story will feature two high-profile keynote speakers: - Miguel Martinez-Alvarez (Co-Founder / Chief Data Scientist at Signal) will give a talk on ?Automatic Media analysis: From monitoring to Insights? - Iryna Gurevych (Professor at Technische Universit?t Darmstadt) will give a talk on "Claim Validation by Humans and Machines: Where We Are and the Road Ahead" ++ List of Papers ++ - Automatic Recognition of Narrative Drama units: a structured learning approach (Danilo Croce, Roberto Basili, Vincenzo Lombardo, Eleonora Ceccaldi) - Semantic Storytelling: Towards Identifying Storylines in Large Amounts of Text Content (Georg Rehm, Karolina Zaczynska, Juli?n Moreno) - NOVEL2GRAPH: Visual Summaries of Narrative Text Enhanced by Machine Learning (Vani K, Alessandro Antonucci) - Towards the Automatic Analysis of the Structure of News Stories (Iqra Zahid,Hao Zhang, Frank Boons, Riza Batista-Navarro) - Automated Event Extraction Model for Linked Portuguese Documents (Kashyap Raiyani, Paulo Quaresma, Teresa Gon?alves, Vitor Nogueira) - Steps Towards a System to Extract Formal Narratives from Text (Daniele Metilli,Valentina Bartalesi, Carlo Meghini) - Textual Analysis for Radicalisation Narratives aligned with Social Sciences Perspectives (Ronald Denaux, Jose Manuel Gomez-Perez) - Dense vs. Sparse Representations for News Stream Clustering (Todor Staykovski, Alberto Barr?n-Cede?o, Giovanni Da San Martino, Preslav Nakov) - Narrative detection in online patient communities (Anne Dirkson,Suzan Verberne, Wessel Kraaij) - "Extracting Evidence Summaries from Detective Novels" (Aditya Motwani, Aayush Naik, Kamalakar Karlapalem) ++ Program ++ Program details at http://bit.ly/text2story19 We hope to see you in Cologne, Germany! ++ Organizing committee ++ Al?pio M. Jorge (INESC TEC; University of Porto, Portugal) Ricardo Campos (INESC TEC; Polytechnic Institute of Tomar, Tomar, Portugal) Adam Jatowt (Kyoto University, Japan) Sumit Bhatia (IBM Research AI, India) ++ Proceedings Chair ++ ? Concei??o Rocha (LIAAD INESC TEC) ? Jo?o Paulo Cordeiro (INESC TEC; University of Beira Interior) ++ Web Chair ++ ? Arian Pasquali (INESC TEC) ++ Dissemination Chair ++ ? Vitor Mangaravite (UFMG; INESC TEC) ++ Program Committee ++ Nicola Ferro (University of Padova) Miguel Martinez-Alvarez (Signal) Jo?o Magalh?es (New University of Lisbon) Federico Nanni (University of Mannheim) Dhruv Gupta (Max Planck Institute for Informatics) Yihong Zhang (Kyoto University) Nuno Moniz (LIAAD/INESC TEC) Bruno Martins (IST and INESC-ID - Instituto Superior T?cnico, University of Lisbon) Mark Finlayson (Florida International University) Marc Spaniol (Universit? de Caen Normandie) Nina Tahmasebi (University of Gothenburg) Florian Boudin (Universit? de Nantes) Henrique Lopes Cardoso (University of Porto) Udo Kruschwitz (University of Essex) Mengdie Zhuang (The University of Sheffield) Daniel Loureiro (University of Porto) Daniel Gomes (FCT/Arquivo.pt) Pablo Gamallo (University of Santiago de Compostela) Paulo Quaresma (Universidade de Evora) S?rgio Nunes (University of Porto) ?lvaro Figueira (University of Porto) Ga?l Dias (Normandie University) Gerasimos Lampouras (The University of Sheffield) Concei??o Rocha (LIAAD INESC TEC) Jo?o Paulo Cordeiro (INESC TEC; University of Beira Interior) Arian Pasquali (INESC TEC) Vitor Mangaravite (UFMG; INESC TEC) -- V?tor Mangaravite PhD Candidate at UFMG - Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From D.G.HEINKE at bham.ac.uk Fri Mar 29 13:33:30 2019 From: D.G.HEINKE at bham.ac.uk (Dietmar Heinke) Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2019 17:33:30 +0000 Subject: Connectionists: Special Issue: Deep networks and biological vision In-Reply-To: References: <2ac013141fd64d048b3813d40d7b5147@liverpool.ac.uk>, <46dce1bdb8fd469cbd87989574f7e07e@liverpool.ac.uk>, <053ddc5ad82149359f468a80b49d1795@liverpool.ac.uk>, <0c42b569c9724e87bcdf93e61eaccc5a@liverpool.ac.uk>, Message-ID: <06D3DF7C411486418BEF3DCBF554BFAF01F0104175@EX13.adf.bham.ac.uk> Dear all, Can I draw your attention to this special in Vision Research. Regards, Dietmar Heinke School of Psychology University of Birmingham United Kingdom https://www.journals.elsevier.com/vision-research/call-for-papers/what-do-deep-neural-networks-tell-us-about-biological-vision [https://www.elsevier.com/__data/cover_img/263.gif] What do deep neural networks tell us about biological vision? - Call for Papers - Elsevier www.journals.elsevier.com What do deep neural networks tell us about biological vision? Recent years have seen a huge increase in the application of deep learning... What do deep neural networks tell us about biological vision? Recent years have seen a huge increase in the application of deep learning techniques and 'biologically inspired' deep neural networks (DNNs) to a broad range of issues in biological vision. Indeed, DNNs have been described by some as a new framework for vision research, allowing an opportunity to 'reverse engineer' the biological system. These claims are, in part, based on work showing human-level performance by DNNs in tasks such as image classification and are supported by advances in the development of methods for comparing representational structures computed by DNNs with biological vision systems. But the suitability of such networks as a theoretical framework for understanding biological vision is unclear. There remain many important questions: How should theoretically relevant and irrelevant properties of DNN architectures and processing parameters be distinguished? How can network performance be rigorously compared with corresponding biological data? What is the range of relevant performance data for evaluating network outputs? And to what extent can network activity be used to formulate empirically testable models of biological vision? This special issue invites novel contributions on these and related topics. We welcome original articles that consider the application of DNNs to understanding any aspect of biological vision. Publication Schedule Submissions Open: May 1, 2019 Submission Deadline: September 1st, 2019 Expected publication: 2020 Charles Leek PhD CPsychol AFBPsS FHEA Head of Institute of Life and Human Sciences Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience, School of Psychology University of Liverpool R220 Eleanor Rathbone Building, Bedford Street South, Liverpool, L69 7ZA Tel: 0151 795 7650 | Email: charles.leek at liverpool.ac.uk Web: https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/psychology Lab webpage: https://sites.google.com/view/leeklab/home [https://owa.liv.ac.uk/owa/projection.aspx] -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From pfbaldi at ics.uci.edu Fri Mar 29 20:11:13 2019 From: pfbaldi at ics.uci.edu (Baldi,Pierre) Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2019 17:11:13 -0700 Subject: Connectionists: the capacity of neural networks Message-ID: <5cecf3f8-0081-1b1a-a702-353fc3b07cf5@ics.uci.edu> Readers of this mailing list may be interested in the preprint: http://arxiv.org/abs/1901.00434 which addresses the long-standing problem of measuring the capacity of multi-layer feedforward networks. -- Pierre Baldi University of California, Irvine From shu-chen.li at tu-dresden.de Sat Mar 30 03:15:08 2019 From: shu-chen.li at tu-dresden.de (Shu-Chen Li) Date: Sat, 30 Mar 2019 07:15:08 +0000 Subject: Connectionists: Research associate / PhD / Postdoc for Augmented Perception and Action at TU Dresden Message-ID: The Chair of Lifespan Developmental Neuroscience at TU Dresden, Germany (https://tu-dresden.de/mn/psychologie/ipep/epsy?set_language=en) is searching for new researchers (Postdoc and/or PhD fellows) through the newly funded Excellence Cluster ?Tactile Internet with Human-in-the-Loop? (https://www.ceti.one/). subject to personal qualification employees are remunerated according to salary group E13 TV-L. The positions are for a fixed term for 3 years and can start as soon as possible in 2019. CeTI-position_Li_2 ? Research associate / PhD / Postdoc for augmented perception and action Topic: Age & individual differences in perception and action in augmented and virtual reality (Research rooms TP1 and K3) Tasks: One of CeTI?s research aims is to augment human perception and action with new real-time sensor/actuator technologies. As the new technologies are targeted at a wide population, we need to investigate age and other user characteristics that may influence perception and action in augmented and virtual reality. This position is located in TP1 and K3, where we will contact multisensory behavioural and neurocognitive experiments with human participants in augmented/virtual reality and in situations involving tele-operation. Requirements: We are looking for a candidate with a master?s or PhD degree in human factor engineering, psychology or related fields who has expertise in human-machine systems, augmented /virtual reality, or tele-operation. Interests and prior experiences in eye tracking and/or motion capture technologies as well as EEG analysis would be a plus. How To Apply: Please submit your comprehensive application including the usual documentation as a pdf document by April 22nd, 2019 (stamped arrival date of the university central mail service applies) with the reference ?CeTI-position_Li_2? in the subject header to Prof. Shu-Chen Li (shu-chen.li at tu-dresden.de). Please submit copies only as your application documents will not be returned. Expenses incurred in attending interviews cannot be reimbursed. We look forward to your application! _______________________________________________________________________________ Prof. Shu-Chen Li, Ph.D. Lehrstuhl Entwicklungspsychologie und Neurowissenschaft der Lebensspanne (Lifespan Developmental Neuroscience) Fakult?t Psychologie (Faculty of Psychology) Zellerscher Weg 17, Rm. A233 D-01062 Dresden, Germany E-mail: Shu-Chen.Li at tu-dresden.de URL: http://tu-dresden.de/mn/psy/epsy Tel.: +49-351-46334162/Fax:+49-351-46342194 Excellence Cluster ? Centre for Tactile Internet with Human-in-the-Loop URL: https://www.ceti.one Technische Universit?t Dresden (TU Dresden) ________________________________________________________________________________ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Idea candidates should have strong motivations and are expected to conduct research in one of the areas: (1) computing theories and applications including neuromorphic computing, spiking neural networks, machine/deep learning, (2) neuromorphic hardware and applications, FPGA or VLSI, etc, (3) robotics intelligence, sensing, mapping, navigation and behavior learning, etc. Applications are considered immediately and the positions are open until filled. Interested applicants are invited to send CV or any inquiry to Dr. Xiaoliang Xu (xxl at hdu.edu.cn) or Dr. Huajin Tang (h uajin.tang at gmail.com). Sincerely, Huajin Tang, Ph.D. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From bogdanlapi at gmail.com Sat Mar 30 14:04:15 2019 From: bogdanlapi at gmail.com (Bogdan Ionescu) Date: Sat, 30 Mar 2019 20:04:15 +0200 Subject: Connectionists: Task Pre-release: MediaEval 2019 Predicting Video Memorability Task Message-ID: [Apologies for cross-postings] ******************************************************* TASK PRE-RELEASE Predicting Video Memorability Task 2019 MediaEval Benchmarking Initiative for Multimedia Evaluation http://www.multimediaeval.org/mediaeval2019/ ******************************************************* The Predicting Video Memorability Task focuses on the problem of predicting how memorable a video will be. It requires participants to automatically predict memorability scores for videos, which reflect the probability of a video being remembered. Participants will be provided with an extensive dataset of videos with memorability annotations, and pre-extracted state-of-the-art visual features. The ground truth has been collected through recognition tests, and, for this reason, reflects objective measures of memory performance. In contrast to previous work on image memorability prediction, where memorability was measured a few minutes after memorization, the dataset comes with ?short-term? and ?long-term? memorability annotations. Because memories continue to evolve in long-term memory, in particular during the first day following memorization, we expect long-term memorability annotations to be more representative of long-term memory performance, which is used preferably in numerous applications. Participants will be required to train computational models capable of inferring video memorability from visual content. Optionally, descriptive titles attached to the videos may be used. Models will be evaluated through standard evaluation metrics used in ranking tasks. *********************** Target communities *********************** Researchers will find this task interesting if they work in the areas of human perception and the impact of multimedia on perception such as image and video interestingness, memorability, attractiveness, aesthetics prediction, event detection, multimedia affect and perceptual analysis, multimedia content analysis, machine learning (though not limited to). *********************** Data *********************** Data is composed of 10,000 short (soundless) videos extracted from raw footage used by professionals when creating content. Each video consists of a coherent unit in terms of meaning and is associated with two scores of memorability that refer to its probability to be remembered after two different durations of memory retention. Memorability has been measured using recognition tests, i.e., through an objective measure, a few minutes after the memorization of the videos, and then 24 to 72 hours later. The videos are shared under Creative Commons licenses that allow their redistribution. They come with a set of pre-extracted features, such as: Dense SIFT, HoG descriptors, LBP, GIST, Color Histogram, MFCC, Fc7 layer from AlexNet, C3D features, etc. ****************************** Workshop ****************************** Participants to the task are invited to present their results during the annual MediaEval Workshop, which will be held by the end of October 2019, in Nice, France, co-located with ACM Multimedia 2019. Working notes proceedings are to appear with CEUR Workshop Proceedings (ceur-ws.org). ****************************** Important dates (tentative) ****************************** Participant registration: March-May Development data release: 1 May Test data release: 3 June Runs due: 20 September Working notes papers due: 11 October MediaEval Workshop, Nice, France: End of October (co-located with ACM Multimedia 2019) *********************** Task coordination *********************** Mihai Gabriel Constantin, University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania Bogdan Ionescu, University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania Claire-H?l?ne Demarty, Technicolor, France Quang-Khanh-Ngoc Duong, Technicolor, France Xavier Alameda-Pineda, INRIA, France Mats Sj?berg, CSC, Finland On behalf of the Organizers, Prof. Bogdan IONESCU ETTI - University Politehnica of Bucharest http://campus.pub.ro/lab7/bionescu/ From lpulina at uniss.it Sun Mar 31 03:56:03 2019 From: lpulina at uniss.it (Luca Pulina) Date: Sun, 31 Mar 2019 09:56:03 +0200 Subject: Connectionists: First Call for Papers: AIIA19 - The 18th International Conference of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence Message-ID: <4aad5a36-7741-40d6-c7af-98ec50f21d5c@uniss.it> [apologies for any cross-posting] **************************************************************************************************************************************************************** Call for Papers AIIA19 - The 18th International Conference of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence UNICAL, Rende (CS), 19-22 November 2019 **************************************************************************************************************************************************************** ----------------------------------------------------------------- Topics of Interest ----------------------------------------------------------------- The conference covers broadly the many aspects of theoretical and applied Artificial Intelligence. A series of workshops dedicated to specific topics enhances the program. AIIA 2019 welcomes submissions covering all areas of AI, including (but not limited to) machine learning, search, planning, knowledge representation, reasoning, constraint satisfaction, natural language processing, robotics and perception, and multiagent systems. We encourage all types of high-quality contributions including theoretical, engineering and applied papers. We also encourage contributions on AI techniques in the context of novel application domains, such as security, sustainability, health care, transportation, and commerce. Besides regular original papers, in this edition we also welcome discussion papers containing descriptions of results recently published or accepted for the presentation in international conferences. Discussion papers are expected to be more broadly accessible than regular papers, they are an opportunity for the authors to present their recent results to the AI community, and a valuable addition for the attendees of AIIA 2019. At least one author of each accepted paper is required to register and attend the conference to present the work. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Proceedings of Regular Papers ----------------------------------------------------------------- The regular papers will be included in the proceedings of the conference, and will be published by Springer Verlag in the Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence series. Authors of selected regular papers accepted to the main track will be invited to submit an extended version for publication on "Intelligenza Artificiale", the International Journal of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence, edited by IOS Press and indexed by Thomson Reuters' "Emerging Sources Citation Index" and Scopus by Elsevier. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Proceedings of Discussion Papers ----------------------------------------------------------------- The discussion papers will not be included in the LNCS proceedings of the conference, and will be made available through the conference WEB-Site and possibly published on CEUR WS Proceedings upon request. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Best Papers ----------------------------------------------------------------- The Program Committee will select the Best Student Paper Award and the Best Paper Award from the accepted regular papers. In order to be eligible for the Best Student Paper award, at least one author must be a student. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Submission Instructions ----------------------------------------------------------------- The submitted papers should be written in English and formatted according to the Springer LNCS style. Regular papers must be original papers which are not being submitted simultaneously for publication elsewhere. These papers should not exceed 12 pages plus bibliography. The discussion papers report results already published or accepted for the publication in international conferences, and should not exceed 8 pages plus bibliography. Paper submission is electronic via easychair at the address: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aiia2019 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Important Dates ----------------------------------------------------------------- Abstract submission by 28 May 2019 Paper submission by 4 June 2019 Notification to authors by 23 July 2019 Camera-ready copies due by 3 September 2019 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Conference Web Site ----------------------------------------------------------------- For the most up to date information, please visit: https://aiia2019.mat.unical.it ----------------------------------------------------------------- Organizing Committee ----------------------------------------------------------------- Conference Chair: Nicola Leone (UNICAL, Italy) Program Chairs: Mario Alviano (UNICAL, Italy) Gianluigi Greco (UNICAL, Italy) Francesco Scarcello (UNICAL, Italy) Organization Chairs: Francesco Ricca (UNICAL, Italy) Chiara Ghidini (FBK, Trento) Workshop and Tutorial Chair: Rafael Penaloza (UNIMIB, Italy) Doctoral Consortium Chair: Marco Maratea (UNIGE, Italy) Publicity and Web Chair: Luca Pulina (UNISS, Italy) -- -- *Dona il? 5x1000* all'Universit? degli Studi di Sassaricodice fiscale: 00196350904 From j.v.stone at sheffield.ac.uk Sun Mar 31 10:51:22 2019 From: j.v.stone at sheffield.ac.uk (James V Stone) Date: Sun, 31 Mar 2019 15:51:22 +0100 Subject: Connectionists: New book: Artificial Intelligence Engines Message-ID: <89537ca5-00ce-e35d-8b52-829d9e733a99@sheffield.ac.uk> I'd like to announce the publication of this book: Artificial Intelligence Engines: A Tutorial Introduction to the Mathematics of Deep Learning by James V Stone. Review: "Artificial Intelligence Engines will introduce you to the rapidly growing field of deep learning networks: how to build them, how to use them; and how to think about them. James Stone will guide you from the basics to the outer reaches of a technology that is changing the world." Professor Terrence Sejnowski, Director of the Computational Neurobiology Laboratory, Salk Institute, USA. Author of The Deep Learning Revolution, MIT Press, 2018. For sample chapters and computer code, see: https://jim-stone.staff.shef.ac.uk/AIEngines regards, James V Stone -- Dr James V Stone Honorary Reader, Sheffield University, UK. Web: sebtelpress.com Twitter: @jgvfwstone -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Interested parties should contact: Jeffrey Mark Siskind qobi at purdue.edu Please include a CV, a one-page statement of your research interests, and a one-page summary of any past research experience you have. URLs for any publications you might have are also welcome. Thanks, Jeff (http://engineering.purdue.edu/~qobi) From fbln at ecomp.poli.br Sun Mar 31 17:21:58 2019 From: fbln at ecomp.poli.br (Prof. Fernando Buarque) Date: Sun, 31 Mar 2019 17:21:58 -0400 Subject: Connectionists: Call for Paper - IEEE LA-CCI 2019 (Latin American Conference on Computational Intelligence) Message-ID: *Dear Colleagues,* The IEEE CIS, the Steering Committee of LA-CCI, and the Organizers of this edition in Ecuador are happy to announce: *The 6th IEEE Latin American Conference in Computational Intelligence, to be held in Guayaquil - Ecuador, Nov 11-15 of 2019.* (Website http://la-cci.org/) (The conference ethos is here http://la-cci.org/la-cci-2019/manifesto-2019/) * Please send us your latest work and meet us in Ecuador.* TOPICS (1) Evolutionary & Swarm Computation; (2) Neural & Learning Systems; (3) Fuzzy & Stochastic Modeling (More details of topics that are welcome http://la-cci.org/la-cci-2019/topics-of-interest-2019/) CONFIRMED SPEAKERS Please check all the speakers here ( http://la-cci.org/la-cci-2019/key-speakers-2019/) ASSOCIATED EVENTS -*Summer School *on Computational Intelligence and Applications ( http://la-cci.org/la-cci-2019/summer-school-on-computational-intelligence-and-applications-ssocia-2019/ ) -Theses *Competition* ( http://la-cci.org/la-cci-2019/theses-competition-2019/) -IEEE *ETCM 2019* (Fourth Ecuador Technical Chapters Meeting) -*Industry & Application Sessions*, Round Tables and more -Social events and a possible visit to the *Galapagos Islands* KEY DATES & SUBMISSIONS Submission deadline: May 06, 2019 Notification of acceptance or rejection: June 30, 2019 (All dates http://la-cci.org/la-cci-2019/dates-subm-registration-2019/ ) *Attached is the CFP (PDF Version) of the IEEE LA-CCI 2019 *** Please feel free to distribute this announcement widely* VENUE Guayaquil is the largest and most populous city in Ecuador. It is the major commercial town of the country with most of the import and export trade being conducted through the Gulf of Guayaquil. A large population of the city engages in trade and other informal activities such as agriculture, aquaculture, and other businesses. The city serves other functions such as transport, education, sports, tourism, and entertainment. Guayaquil is the closest port to the Galapagos Islands, which is must see! * We invite you to see this video of the charming Guayaquil (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZftCQx4zSRE )* PUBLICATION, REGISTRATION & COPYRIGHT LA-CCI only accepts publications in English. All accepted publications will be indexed in the IEEE base. Some selected articles will make some special issues and will be picked for international journals, following additional extension and an additional review process (depending on each journal policy). At least one author of each accepted has to register. More details here ( http://la-cci.org/la-cci-2019/dates-subm-registration-2019/) PREVIOUS EDITIONS OF LA-CCI *Guadalajara/Mexico-2018 , Arequipa/Peru-2017 , Cartagena/Colombia-2016 , Curitiba/Brazil-2015 , and Bariloche/Argentina-2014 * We wait for you in the beautiful Guayaquil. We are positive that the conference will be a great hit, as it has been the five previous editions Prof. Fernando Buarque - Steering Committee Coordinatior Prof. Otilia Molina - General Chair of LA-CCI 2019 Cordially, Prof. Dr. Fernando Buarque , BSc MSc DIC-PhD(UK) Hab(BR) AvH-Fellow(GE), Sr. Memb. IEEE(USA), Accred. Res. CNPq(BR) Associate Professor ? University of Pernambuco, Brazil (POLI/UPE ) Visiting Professor (on sabbatical leave) ? Dept Electrical & Computer Engineering /University of Florida-Gainesville, USA (CNEL at UF ) Research Ambassador ? University of M?nster, Germany (WWU ) Adjunct Professor ? Electrical & Computer Engineering/Texas A&M University, USA (ECE at TAMU ) Visiting Int'l Professor ? 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