From suashdeb at gmail.com Fri Nov 1 01:13:37 2019 From: suashdeb at gmail.com (Suash Deb) Date: Fri, 1 Nov 2019 10:43:37 +0530 Subject: Connectionists: Deadline Extended (lSMSl20- Bhutan) Message-ID: Dear esteemed colleagues, Thank you for your overwhelming response for 2020 ISMSI, to be held in Thimphu, Bhutan http://www.ismsi.org On request from numerous peers, the deadline for submission for ISMSI, an annual intl. event of IICCI, http://www.iicci.in/ , , has been extended till 30th Nov?19. Apart from ICPS (ACM) published proceedings, scope for publications of a subset of extended papers (accepted & presented at the conference) exist for EJOR https://www.journals.elsevier.com/european-journal-of-operational-research Pls. share the above with your peers and motivate them to submit papers for 2020 ISMSI. Hope to welcome & meet all of you in exotic Bhutan next year. 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URL: From george at cs.ucy.ac.cy Fri Nov 1 08:05:40 2019 From: george at cs.ucy.ac.cy (George Angelos Papadopoulos) Date: Fri, 1 Nov 2019 14:05:40 +0200 Subject: Connectionists: 14th International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science (RCIS 2020): Second Joint Call for Tutorials, DC, Posters and Demos In-Reply-To: References: <44330110-137F-4B56-B4BE-CDD88B280A8F@cs.ucy.ac.cy> <21AAA08E-D19C-418D-821C-FF9EFD1616CE@cs.ucy.ac.cy> <2B91A57C-8095-40B9-954C-8B20428159A9@cs.ucy.ac.cy> <1BE051A2-07D0-4CFE-932E-663E775B4E1B@cs.ucy.ac.cy> Message-ID: <60CD78D6-5E07-416F-9516-43ABE16B1C2F@cs.ucy.ac.cy> *** Second Joint Call for Tutorials, Doctoral Consortium, Posters and Demos *** 14th International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science (RCIS 2020) Royal Apollonia Beach Hotel 5*, Limassol, Cyprus May 20-22, 2020, Limassol, Cyprus http://rcis-conf.com/ Submission deadline: February 14, 2020 (AoE) (Proceedings to be published by Springer) RCIS has become a recognized conference on research challenges in Information Science. Organized for the 14th time in a row, RCIS 2020 will be held from May 20-22, 2020, in Limassol, Cyprus. The topics of interest are organized into some major categories (more details in the call for papers http://www.rcis-conf.com/rcis2020/callPapers.php ): ? Information Systems and their Engineering ? User-Oriented Approaches ? Data and Information Management ? Business Process Management ? Domain-specific IS Engineering ? Data Science ? Information Infrastructures ? Reflective Research and Practice IMPORTANT DATES FOR ALL SATELLITE EVENTS ? Submission deadline for all paper types: February 14, 2020 (AoE) ? Notification to authors and registration opening: March 15, 2020 ? Author registration deadline for all paper types: March 31, 2020 ? Camera-ready copy deadline for all paper types: March 31, 2020 ? Conference: May 20-22, 2020 TUTORIALS Tutorials are intended to provide independent instruction (know-how) on a topic of relevance, no commercial or sales-oriented. Potential presenters should keep in mind that there might be a varied audience, including novice graduate students, seasoned practitioners, and specialized researchers. Tutorial speakers should be prepared to cope with this diversity. The conference has specific slots for tutorials. They will be organized in sessions of 90 minutes with a free format. Tutorials run in parallel with other conference tracks, and participation is included in the attendees? conference fee. We invite proposals for tutorials that may address one or more of the listed topics below, although authors should not feel limited by them. Tutorial proposals are limited to 5 pages in Springer LNCS/LNBIP format (https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines ). Proposals must be submitted using the conference submission site (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=rcis2020 ), where you choose "RCIS2020 Tutorials". Instructions on the structure of a tutorial proposal can be found online: http://www.rcis-conf.com/rcis2020/tutorials.php . Tutorial Chairs ? Estefania Serral Asensio, KU Leuven, Belgium ? Ignacio Panach, University of Valencia, Spain DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM The RCIS 2020 Doctoral Consortium is an opportunity for doctoral students to present, discuss and develop their research project in an interdisciplinary workshop, under the guidance of a panel of senior researchers. The Doctoral Consortium offers nice opportunities for PhD students. Firstly, the feedback received during the Doctoral Consortium will really benefit students who have defined their topic, research plan and have obtained early results, but who still have room for improving their longer-term plan. Secondly, students at all stages of their doctoral project can meet the welcoming RCIS community and widen their network of contacts. The Doctoral Consortium has the following objectives: ? Provide a platform for students to present their work and to meet other peers and be familiar with different research topics and methods. ? Provide feedback on students' current research and guidance on future research directions. ? Promote the development of a supportive community of scholars and a spirit of collaborative research and networking. ? Contribute to the conference goals through interaction with other researchers. Interested PhD students are invited to submit papers, in agreement with their supervisors, addressing the instructions that are provided on the online call: http://www.rcis-conf.com/rcis2020/callDoctoral.php . Papers shall be formatted according to the Springer LNCS/LNBIP conference proceedings template (for LaTeX and Word): https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines . Submissions must be written in English, and must be authored by the student only. The maximum length of the paper should be eight (8) pages, including references, appendices, etc. The submission site address is https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=rcis2020 where you can choose "RCIS2020 Doctoral Consortium". Doctoral Consortium Chairs ? Raian Ali, Bournemouth University, United Kingdom ? Sergio Espa?a, Utrecht University, Netherlands POSTERS AND DEMOS The posters & demos track will showcase prototypes and new research ideas in Information Science. This track provides a forum for researchers and practitioners to present their work, interact with conference participants, and obtain feedback on on-going research. We invite two types of submissions: ? Posters are intended to convey a research result and are not advertisements for commercial software packages. While posters need not describe completed work, they should report on research for which at least some preliminary results are available. ? Demonstrations should directly and actively involve the exhibition and display of tools/prototypes and associated materials that illustrate research work in progress and serve as ground for discussion of research ideas. Posters and demonstrations proposals must be submitted as a single PDF file with no more than 6 pages in Springer LNCS/LNBIP format (https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines ) including references and appendices. Proposals that exceed the limit of 6 pages will be rejected without review. Proposals that have already been accepted or are currently under review for other conferences or journals will not be considered for publication at RCIS 2020. The submission site address is https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=rcis2020 where you can choose "RCIS2020 Posters & Demos". More details on the submission and presentation format is online: http://www.rcis-conf.com/rcis2020/callPostersDemo.php . Posters & Demos Chairs ? Elena Kornyshova, Conservatoire National des Arts et M?tiers, France ? Marcela Ruiz, Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland CONFERENCE COMMITTEES General Chairs ? George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus ? Pericles Loucopoulos, Harokopio University of Athens, Greece Organising Chair ? Petros Stratis, Easy Conferences LTD., Cyprus Program Chairs ? Jelena Zdravkovic, Stockholm University, Sweden ? Fabiano Dalpiaz, Utrecht University, Netherlands -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From somidshafiei at google.com Fri Nov 1 17:34:16 2019 From: somidshafiei at google.com (Shayegan Omidshafiei) Date: Fri, 1 Nov 2019 22:34:16 +0100 Subject: Connectionists: [Extended Deadline] Call for papers: AAAI Spring Symposium on Challenges and Opportunities for Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning (COMARL) Message-ID: [Deadline extended -- see below for details!] AAAI Spring Symposium on Challenges and Opportunities for Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning (COMARL) March 23-25 2020, Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, USA. https://sites.google.com/corp/view/comarl-aaai-2020/ Key Dates: Submission: *Extended to November 11th, 2019, 23:59 GMT* Notification: December 6th, 2019 Symposium: March 23-25 2020 Call for position papers to define a topic of study at the symposium: We live in a multi-agent world and to be successful in that world intelligent agents will need to learn to take into account the agency of others. They will need to compete in market places, cooperate in teams, communicate with others, coordinate their plans, and negotiate outcomes. Examples include self-driving cars interacting in traffic, personal assistants acting on behalf of humans and negotiating with other agents, swarms of unmanned aerial vehicles, financial trading systems, robotic teams, and household robots. There has been a lot of great work on multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) in the past decade, but significant challenges remain, including: - the difficulty of learning an optimal model/policy from a partial signal, - learning to cooperate/compete in non-stationary environments with distributed, simultaneously learning agents, - the interplay between abstraction and influence of other agents, - the exploration vs. exploitation dilemma, - the scalability and effectiveness of learning algorithms, - avoiding social dilemmas, and - learning emergent communication. The purpose of this symposium is to bring together researchers in multiagent reinforcement learning, but also more widely machine learning and multiagent systems, to explore some of these and other challenges in more detail. The main goal is to broaden the scope of MARL research and to address the fundamental issues that hinder the applicability of MARL for solving complex real world problems. We aim to organize an active workshop, with many interactive (brainstorm/breakout) sessions. We are hopeful that this will form the basis for ongoing collaborations on these challenges between the attendants and we aim for several position papers as concrete outcomes. Authors can submit papers of 1-4 pages that will be reviewed by the organizing committee. We are looking for position papers that present a challenge or opportunity for MARL research, which should be on a topic the authors not only wish to interact on but also ?work? on with other participants during the symposium. We also welcome (preliminary) research papers that describe new perspectives to dealing with MARL challenges, but we are not looking for summaries of current research---papers should clearly state some limitation(s) of current methods and potential ways these could be overcome. Submissions will be handled through easychair. Organizing Committee: Christopher Amato, Northeastern University Frans Oliehoek, Delft University of Technology Shayegan Omidshafiei, Google DeepMind Karl Tuyls, Google DeepMind -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From yael at Princeton.EDU Fri Nov 1 08:56:41 2019 From: yael at Princeton.EDU (Yael Niv) Date: Fri, 1 Nov 2019 12:56:41 +0000 Subject: Connectionists: Save the date! The 1st Israeli Computational Psychiatry Workshop, January 29-30, 2020 Message-ID: <6FA105D9-6746-4223-8315-C81735A919DD@princeton.edu> ======================================================= Save the date! The 1st Israeli Computational Psychiatry Workshop January 29-30, 2020 at Geha Mental Health Center, Petach Tikva, Israel (Registration opens December 15th) Organizers: Eran Eldar, Ronny Geva, Yael Niv, Gal Shoval ======================================================= The burdens of mental illness on both individuals and society are painful and immense. Yet psychiatry is in a crisis, as the development of new treatments has stalled. A large part of the problem is that the diagnosis of mental illnesses and disorders is based on self-reported symptoms rather than quantifiable laboratory tests. In the last two decades there has been tremendous progress in our understanding of the computational and neural processes that link reward, evaluation, affect, memory and decision making ? the exact processes that are impaired in psychopathology. Recognizing that a computational understanding of these neurocognitive processes offers particular promise for bridging biology to behavior in mental illness, a new field called ?computational psychiatry? has emerged and is gaining traction. The goal of this meeting is to bring together leading researchers in this novel field, from Israel and abroad, as well as clinicians whose research is theory-driven and who are interested in collaborating with computational neuroscientists. Our aim is to spur research in computational psychiatry in Israel and to provide a setting that will be conducive to creating new international collaborations that have a potential to lead to breakthroughs in our understanding and treatment of mental illness. The meeting will be held at Geha, a world-renowned center for treatment and research of mental illness, and in cooperation with the Israeli Society for Biological Psychiatry (ISPB). The format of the meeting will focus on short invited talks with ample discussion time, as well as breakout sessions and informal time scheduled for making connections with colleagues. Researchers and clinicians are encouraged to register and attend the meeting (registration will open in December, once we know the status of our funding applications, and can set registration costs accordingly). Please save the dates in the meantime -- preference in registration will be given to those who can fully attend both days. Invited Speakers (in alphabetical order): Ran Barzilay ? Children?s Hospital of Philadelphia & UPenn Medicine Renana Eitan ? Hadassa Medical Center & Hebrew University Ronny Geva ? Bar Ilan University Doron Gothelf ? Sheba Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Division & Tel Aviv University Marc Guitart-Masip ? Karolinska Institute Eran Eldar ? Hebrew University Ruth Feldman ? Interdisciplinary Center, Herzliya Catherine Hartley ? NYU Jonathan Huppert ? Hebrew University & UPenn Quentin Huys ? UCL Sheri Johnson ? Berkeley Amir Krivoy ? Geha Mental Health Center & Tel Aviv University Mor Nahum ? Hebrew University Yael Niv ? Princeton University Chiara Nosarti ? King's College London Roy Salomon ? Bar Ilan University Gal Shoval ? Geha Mental Health Center & Tel Aviv University Gil Zalsman ? Geha Mental Health Center & Tel Aviv University From caspar.schwiedrzik at googlemail.com Sun Nov 3 05:43:29 2019 From: caspar.schwiedrzik at googlemail.com (Caspar M. Schwiedrzik) Date: Sun, 3 Nov 2019 11:43:29 +0100 Subject: Connectionists: Reminder: ERC-funded postdoc in NHP neurophysiology and imaging available at German Primate Center Message-ID: The German Primate Center (DPZ) - Leibniz Institute for Primate Research is one of 95 research and infrastructure establishments of the Leibniz Association. It conducts basic biological and biomedical research in all fields in which non-human primates play essential roles: in particular in infection research, the neurosciences and organismic primate biology. Besides its research infrastructure in G?ttingen the DPZ maintains four field stations to do research on and with primates. www.dpz.eu/en/about-us/profile/mission.html The Perception and Plasticity Group is looking for an excellent *Postdoctoral research associate* The Perception and Plasticity Group of Caspar Schwiedrzik at the DPZ is looking for an outstanding postdoc interested in studying the neural basis of perceptual learning in vision. The project investigates neural mechanisms of learning and perception at the level of circuits and single cells, utilizing functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) in combination with electrophysiology and behavioral testing in humans and non- human primates. It is funded by an ERC Starting Grant (Acronym VarPL; ?Specificity or generalization? Neural mechanisms for perceptual learning with variability?). The postdoc?s project will focus on investigating the neural basis of visual perceptual learning in macaque monkeys combining fMRI, multi-electrode electrophysiological recordings and electrical microstimulation. In addition, the postdoc will have the opportunity to cooperate with other lab members on parallel, comparative research exploring the same questions in humans. We seek to understand the cortical basis and computational principles of perception and experience- dependent plasticity in the macaque and human brain. To this end, we use a multimodal approach including fMRI-guided electrophysiological recordings in non-human primates and fMRI and ECoG in humans. The postdoc will play a key role in our research efforts in this area. The lab is located at the DPZ (*http://www.dpz.eu *) and the European Neuroscience Institute G?ttingen (*http://www.eni-g.de *), which are interdisciplinary research centers with international faculty and students pursuing cutting-edge research in neuroscience. Further scientific exchange within the Leibniz ScienceCampus Primate Cognition (*https://www.primate-cognition.eu *) ensures a broad interdisciplinary framework for networking and cooperation. The postdoc will have access to a new imaging center with a dedicated 3T research scanner, state-of-the-art electrophysiology, and behavioral setups. For an overview of our work and representative publications, please see our website http://www.eni-g.de/groups/neural-circuits- *and-cognition*. For our most recent work, see *https://* www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/770982v1. The position is available immediately with an initial appointment for 2 years. Extensions beyond 2 years and part- time employment is possible. Candidates should have a PhD degree (or equivalent) in a relevant field (e.g., neuroscience, psychology, biology), and prior experience, evidenced by a publication or preprint, in electrophysiology in non-human primates, strong quantitative, programming, and experimental skills, and share a passion for understanding the neural basis of visual perception and its plasticity. Prior experience with microstimulation is a plus. A good command of English is a requirement, but fluency in German is not essential. We especially encourage women to apply. Interested candidates should send in their curriculum vitae, a description of their scientific interest, a representative publication, a copy of their PhD degree, and the names and contact information of up to three references who are able to comment on your academic background and who have agreed to be contacted. The appointment at the DPZ follows the applied regulations of civil service. The classification follows the TV-L. Disabled applicants with equal qualification will be given preferential consideration. We kindly ask you to indicate in your application if you are disabled. Please send in your written application including all certificates until the 15 of November, 2019 under key word ?Postdoc Perception and Plasticity? to Deutsches Primatenzentrum GmbH ? Leibniz Institut f?r Primatenforschung ? Personnel Office ? Kellnerweg 4 ? 37077 G?ttingen or via mail to bewerbung at dpz.eu. For further information please contact Dr. Schwiedrzik, cschwiedrzik at dpz.eu, phone: +49 (0)551-39- 61371 or see http://www.dpz.eu. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From marc.toussaint at ipvs.uni-stuttgart.de Sun Nov 3 14:50:34 2019 From: marc.toussaint at ipvs.uni-stuttgart.de (Marc Toussaint) Date: Sun, 3 Nov 2019 20:50:34 +0100 Subject: Connectionists: R:SS 2020, July 12-17 2020, Oregon, US Message-ID: *Robotics: Science and Systems 2020* https://roboticsconference.org/ Oregon State University at Corvallis, July 12-17, 2020 We cordially invite you to attend and contribute to the 2020 Robotics: Science and Systems Conference, which will bring together researchers working on all aspects of robotics including scientific foundations, applications, and analysis of robotic systems. The paper submission deadline will be on *January 30th, 2020*, the workshop submission deadline on February 6th, 2020. Please submit your best papers and most interesting workshop ideas to R:SS! Highlights of R:SS 2020: * We put together a great set of Area Chairs that cover all areas of robotics. With this we are actively seeking papers broadly in all areas, including method oriented as well as application oriented research, mechatronics and system design, field robotics, HRI, etc. Authors can vote for ACs that they believe can best handle their paper during submission. See https://roboticsconference.org/committees/pc/ for the list of ACs. * The review process will explore a new rebuttal format, with author rebuttals being directed to the ACs directly. * Reviews will be made public together with accepted papers. * We will have a Best Paper Award, Best Systems Paper Award, Best Student Paper Award, and for the first time a Proof of Time Award. The Best Systems Paper Award is dedicated to papers that pioneer novel robotic systems (e.g. hardware or mechatronics) or novel behaviors on a robotic system that are beyond what has been seen before. * The program will include single track oral and poster presentations of all accepted papers, as well as invited talks. The three?day main conference will be preceded by two days of workshops. * Selected papers will be invited for submission to special issues of the International Journal of Robotics Research and Autonomous Robots, and for expedited review as regular submissions to the IEEE Transactions on Robotics. Important Dates: Paper Submission Deadline: January 30th, 2020 Workshop Submission Deadline: February 6th, 2020 Workshop Acceptance Notification: March 6th, 2020 Paper Acceptance Notification: April 16th, 2020 Workshops: July 12th - 13th, 2020 Main Conference: July 14th - 16th, 2020 Further information: https://roboticsconference.org/ Best, Marc Toussaint (Program Chair) & Jun Morimoto (Publicity Chair) -- Marc Toussaint http://ipvs.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/mlr/marc/index.html From blink.yu at mdpi.com Sun Nov 3 23:12:23 2019 From: blink.yu at mdpi.com (Blink Yu) Date: Mon, 4 Nov 2019 12:12:23 +0800 Subject: Connectionists: Call for Reading and Papers: [Computers] Special Issue "Blockchain-Based Systems" Edited by Prof. Dr. Wenbing Zhao (Computers, Scopus, WOS, 50% discount) Message-ID: *** Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CfR & CfP *** -----CfR------------ Dear Colleagues, We are pleased to inform you that "DeliveryCoin: An IDS and Blockchain-Based Delivery Framework for Drone-Delivered Services" has been published in Computers as part of the Special Issue Blockchain-Based Systems and is available online:https://www.mdpi.com/2073-431X/8/3/58 Abstract: In this paper, we propose an intrusion detection system (IDS) and Blockchain-based delivery framework, called DeliveryCoin, for drone-delivered services. The DeliveryCoin framework consists of four phases, including system initialization phase, creating the block, updating the blockchain, and intrusion detection phase. To achieve privacy-preservation, the DeliveryCoin framework employs hash functions and short signatures without random oracles and the Strong Diffie?Hellman (SDH) assumption in bilinear groups. To achieve consensus inside the blockchain-based delivery platform, we introduce a UAV-aided forwarding mechanism, named pBFTF. We also propose an IDS system in each macro eNB (5G) for detecting self-driving network attacks as well as false transactions between self-driving nodes. Furthermore, extensive simulations are conducted, and results confirm the efficiency of our proposed DeliveryCoin framework in terms of latency of blockchain consensus and accuracy. --------CfP--------------- Special Issue "Blockchain-Based Systems" Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2019. Guest Editor: Prof. Dr. Wenbing Zhao Website: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/computers/special_issues/Blockchain_Systems Article Procession Charge will be *50% discount* (500 CHF waived) for each submission. Dear Colleagues, Blockchain is the key enabling technology for cryptocurrency. It was introduced as part of the first cryptocurrency, Bitcoin, which was established during the great recession in early 2009. Blockchain is often referred to as a distributed and secure database. In reality, blockchain is much more than that: It consists of a mechanism that ensures distributed consensus among independent participants operating in an untrusted peer-to-peer network. As such, blockchain has now been used in areas far beyond the financial sector. In addition to the applications of blockchain, there is also intense research on the foundation of the blockchain technology itself, such as different ways to accomplish distributed consensus, security of blockchain, and scalability of blockchain. This Special Issue welcomes original research and review articles on all aspects of the blockchain technology. Topics of interest include but are not limited to the following areas: Consensus algorithms; Cyberattacks on blockchains; Economic impact on cyberattacks; Security and trust on permissioned blockchains; Scalability of blockchains; Reliability analysis on blockchain-based systems; Smart contracts; Visualization of blockchain data; Blockchain for banking and finance; Blockchain for supply chain; Blockchain for consumer products and retail; Blockchain for governments; Blockchain for automotive; Blockchain for medicine and health care; Blockchain for travel and transportation; Blockchain for Internet of Things; Blockchain for agriculture. 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From robert.jenssen at uit.no Mon Nov 4 03:32:56 2019 From: robert.jenssen at uit.no (Robert Jenssen) Date: Mon, 4 Nov 2019 08:32:56 +0000 Subject: Connectionists: Call for Contributions: 3rd Northern Lights Deep Learning Workshop, 20-21 January 2020, Tromso ("North Pole"), Norway Message-ID: We are delighted to invite contributions to the 3rd Northern Lights Deep Learning (NLDL) Workshop on 20-21 January 2020! Similar to the past years, this will be an informal workshop on deep learning theory and applications in Troms?, Norway. Please see http://www.nldl.org for more information. We are happy to have top international keynote speakers, including - Bernhard Sch?lkopf, Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, T?bingen, Germany. - Julia Schnabel, School of Biomedical Engineering and Imaging Sciences, King's College London. - Dino Sejdinovic, Department of Statistics, University of Oxford. - Christoph H. Lampert, Institute of Science and Technology Austria (IST Austria). - Xiaoxiang Zhu, Technical University of Munich (TUM). This year, we are accepting two alternatives for contributions: (1) Full paper submissions (6 pages) will be presented either as orals or as posters and made published in proceedings after the workshop; (2) Extended abstracts (2 pages) will be presented either as orals or as posters (but not published in the proceedings). Deadline for both types of submissions: 22th November 2019. Instructions on template, submissions, etc can be found on http://www.nldl.org. Further, there will be a mini deep learning school on January 19th for interested participants. More info can be found on https://www.nldl.org/program. We hope to see many participants for a nice scientific gathering on the "north pole", including social events, and hopefully some northern lights :-) Perhaps we'll even see the sun for a minute or two, returning after two months of polar night. NLDL is organised by the UiT Machine Learning Group http://machine-learning.uit.no and the Norwegian Computing Center. Chairs: Robert Jenssen Michael Kampffmeyer Co-Chairs Arnt-B Salberg Stian Anfinsen --- Robert Jenssen UiT Machine Learning Group http://machine-learning.uit.no UiT The Arctic University of Norway -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Nicolas.Rougier at inria.fr Mon Nov 4 05:19:33 2019 From: Nicolas.Rougier at inria.fr (Nicolas Rougier) Date: Mon, 4 Nov 2019 11:19:33 +0100 Subject: Connectionists: Ten Years Reproducibility Challenge / ReScience special issue Message-ID: <14D611BE-BD77-415C-97A6-3891A37F35D6@inria.fr> Dear all, We?ve just launched the "Ten Years Reproducibility Challenge? whose goal is to try to compile & run your old code (> 10 years) that accompanied one of your published article or preprint (details below). More information at: https://github.com/ReScience/ten-years/ Deadline for submission: 01/04/2020 Nicolas Rougier --- Did you ever try to run an old code that you wrote for a scientific article you published years ago? Did you encounter any problems? Were you successful? We are curious to hear your story. This is the reason why we are editing a special issue of ReScience to collect these stories. The ten years reproducibility challenge is an invitation for researchers to try to run the code they've created for a scientific publication that was published more than ten years ago. This code can be anything (statistical analysis, numerical simulation, data processing, etc.), can be written in any language and can address any scientific domain. The only mandatory condition to enter the challenge is to have published a scientific article before 2010, in a journal or a conference with proceedings, which contains results produced by code, irrespectively of whether this code was published in some form at the time or not. Note that we do not ask you to write a new version of your old code. We ask you instead to try to make your old code to run on modern hardware/software (with minimal modifications) in order to check if you can obtain the exact same results that were publised at least ten years ago. Sounds easy? We have good reasons to think this might be more difficult than you think. And maybe the first problem you'll have to solve is to find your own source code. More information at: https://github.com/ReScience/ten-years/ From yue.xu at qut.edu.au Mon Nov 4 07:07:08 2019 From: yue.xu at qut.edu.au (Yue Xu) Date: Mon, 4 Nov 2019 12:07:08 +0000 Subject: Connectionists: PhD Scholarship in Cyber Security at Queensland University of Technology Message-ID: A PhD position in cyber security and machine learning is available at the Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Brisbane, Australia. This PhD program will contribute towards the vision of an automatic operational technology (OT) cyber security vulnerability prediction and attack discovery system that will provide automated ongoing vulnerability assessment and asset monitoring for OT systems. This PhD project is supported by Australian Cyber Security Cooperative Research Centre (CSCRC) along with Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) Australia as the industry partner, Queensland University of Technology (QUT) as the research partner, and Griffith University as an external collaborative partner. The call is open until 30 November 2019 for a start in Feb. 2020. Candidates are expected to hold a Bachelor degree with Honours 1 or 2A, a Master degree by research, or equivalent qualifications. In judging equivalence, QUT may consider previous study, other research experience, research publications, referees? reports and relevant work experience. We are looking for a graduate within the broad fields of information technology. More information and application link: https://www.qut.edu.au/study/fees-and-scholarships/scholarships/cyber-security-cooperative-research-centre-phd-scholarship Associate Professor Yue Xu School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Faculty of Science and Engineering Queensland University of Technology S1054, S block |2 George street, Brisbane, QLD 4001 Ph: 3138 1975 | Fax: 3138 9390 | Email: yue.xu at qut.edu.au Web: https://staff.qut.edu.au/staff/yue.xu From pkoprinkova at yahoo.com Mon Nov 4 07:28:16 2019 From: pkoprinkova at yahoo.com (Petia Koprinkova) Date: Mon, 4 Nov 2019 12:28:16 +0000 (UTC) Subject: Connectionists: INISTA 2020: Call for Special Sessions References: <1482121761.1218410.1572870496595.ref@mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <1482121761.1218410.1572870496595@mail.yahoo.com> | INISTA ?20 ? International Conference on INovations in Intelligent SysTems and Applications August 24-26, 2020, Novi Sad, Serbia, http://inista.org/index.html ? Call for Special Sessions: http://inista.org/call-for-special-sessions.php ? | | Proceedings:? INISTA 2020 Proceedings - "Accepted papers will be submitted for inclusion into IEEE Xplore". Best papers will be selected for special issues of several international journals ? | ? | INISTA 2020 invites proposals forSpecial Sessions to be held during the conference. Special Sessions will giveresearchers in focused areas the opportunity to present and discuss their work,providing a forum for interaction among a broader community of researchers. A Special Session will consist of agroup of papers in a sub-discipline of all aspects of INISTA topics i.e.theoretical and practical aspects of Intelligent Systems and wide range of applications.The papers will be required to meet the same standards as INISTA 2020 maintrack papers will be included and will be submitted in the conferenceproceedings. The conference proceedings will be submitted forinclusion into IEEE Xplore. Special Sessions proposers candecide how they will perform reviewing process but we encourage them to usetheir own EasyChair system installation. Pleasesend the Special Session proposals to: inista2020 at pmf.uns.ac.rs;mira at dmi.uns.ac.rswith thefollowing information: - title, - acronym, - short description, - list of topics, - chair (or co-chairs), - special session program committee (to be invited). On the Conference web site you maydownload the pattern of Special Session proposal - http://inista.org/call-for-special-sessions.php For dates, look http://inista.org/dates.php. The duties of the INISTAOrganiser/Chair of an Invited Session are as follows: - Decide on the title and content of your session - Widely publicize and announce your session and the conference - Obtain enough papers from workers in the field to form a session of at least 4-5 accepted papers minimum - Find two suitably qualified reviewers for the each of the papers - Manage the review of the papers preferable using the EasyChair - Ensure the editable word-processor versions of the papers are uploaded onto the review system EasyChair by the published deadline and that they all comply with the publisher's guidelines and format. Thefinal decision as for the acceptance will be taken by the INISTA 2020 Program andGeneral Chairs based on recommendations provided by Special Session organizers. Thelist of so far accepted Special Sessions may be found on http://inista.org/inista17/special-sessions.php page. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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The project is jointly lead by Prof. Jochen Triesch and Prof. Peter Jedlicka. The successful candidate will have the possibility to work closely together with experimental labs from Frankfurt?s vibrant Neuroscience community. The project is funded through Frankfurt?s new Center for Personalized Translational Epilepsy Research (CePTER). Applications (single pdf file including CV, list of publications, statement of research interests and names and email addresses of three references) should be sent to jedlicka at em.uni-frankfurt.de and triesch at fias.uni-frankfurt.de. The ideal candidate will have obtained a PhD/Master Degree in Computational Neuroscience or closely related field and have a strong interest in applying their knowledge to problems of medical relevance. A strong background in either neural mass models or spiking neural network models or compartmental modeling is expected. Experience in modeling epilepsy, neural plasticity and neuroimmune interactions is a plus. Review of applications will begin immediately and continue until the position has been filled. -- Prof. Dr. Jochen Triesch Johanna Quandt Research Professor Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies http://fias.uni-frankfurt.de/~triesch/ Tel: +49 (0)69 798-47531 Fax: +49 (0)69 798-47611 From jerchen at bu.edu Mon Nov 4 20:20:49 2019 From: jerchen at bu.edu (Chen, Jerry) Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2019 01:20:49 +0000 Subject: Connectionists: Data Scientist Position at Boston University In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: The Lab of Jerry Chen at Boston University is hiring a Data Scientist to be involved in several multi-year BRAIN Initiative related NIH and NSF funded projects. These projects focus on understanding cortical computation during behavior by combining large-scale population recordings, anatomical reconstructions, and transcriptional profiling as well as developing tools for large-scale and high-speed imaging of neuronal populations. This person will be involved in help to analyze experimental data, developing software tools to aid in the data analysis, and helping with data infrastructure and management. Specific Projects include: 1. Analysis of dense electron microscope reconstructions of neuronal connectivity (ie. Connectomics) 2. Establishing pipeline for image analysis for in situ sequencing of gene expression 3. Establishing pipeline for automated behavioral training and analysis. 4. Visualization and analysis of population imaging data across multiple brain areas during behavior. Qualifications: BA/BS degree (MA or PhD preferred) in Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering, Neuroscience or related technical field. One to three years of academic or professional experience. Programming experience in MATLAB is required. Additional experience in Python, C++, or LABView is preferred. Extensive background in either computational neuroscience, image analysis, computer vision, or machine learning is preferred. 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A strongly interdisciplinarity-oriented infrastructure, the Center combines expertise from computing and conservation sciences domains, integrating these competencies to foster cutting-edge research. CCHT at Ca'Foscari is currently seeking to appoint a Computer Vision/Machine Learning post doc with high level of seniority. The selected candidate will join an interdisciplinary team of researchers, contributing to the development of next generation computer vision and machine learning approaches applied to the Cultural Heritage (CH) and, more broadly, Digital Humanities (DH) domains. Required qualifications: ? a Ph.D. in computer science or related field (with specialisation in either computer vision or machine learning) and at least 3 years of postdoc experience; ? Knowledge of programming languages, e.g. Python, C/C++ and MATLAB; ? Experience in grant proposal preparation at European and National level; ? Previous work and proven interest in cultural heritage and, more broadly, Digital Humanities ? Proven interdisciplinary collaborations with scientific staff or stakeholders in the Cultural Heritage /Digital Humanities fields. ? Strong track record of research publications in top tier conferences and journals (e.g. CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, ICML, NIPS, PAMI, JMLR, etc.). ? Good communication skills and ability to cooperate; ? Proficient in English language (written and oral). Desirable skills: ? Experience in supervising or co-supervising Ph.D. students or junior postdocs; ? Knowledge of OpenCV, PCL and Open3D libraries; ? Experience on Deep Learning algorithms and relevant platforms (e.g. TensorFlow, PyTorch, Theano, Caffe); The successful candidate will be offered a salary commensurate to experience and skills. The call will remain open until the position is filled but a first deadline for evaluation of candidates will be November 15, 2019. Please send your application to applications at iit.it quoting "CCHT Computer Vision and Machine Learning Senior PostDoc BC 77512" in the e-mail subject. Your application must include (as separate documents): a detailed CV a research statement, expanding on current and past research 3 representative publications. 2 reference letters Contacts: applications at iit.it [cid:image001.png at 01D593BF.E8C0BE40] Center for Cultural Heritage Technologies @Ca'Foscari VEGA - Parco Scientifico Tecnologico di Venezia Porta dell'Innovazione Via della Libert?, 12 30175 - Marghera (VE) Italy twitter.com/IITalk www.facebook.com/IITalk www.iit.it DONA IL TUO 5X1000 ALL'ISTITUTO ITALIANO DI TECNOLOGIA codice fiscale 97329350587 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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CogniGron, founded in 2018, is an interdisciplinary initiative at the intersection of computer science, AI, machine learning, computational neuroscience and material science. With 10 new professorships and 30 PhD stipends, CogniGron stands out as one of the most visible scientific investments in the Netherlands in recent times. The *first position* is defined within the European H2020 project ?Memory technologies with multi-scale time constants for neuromorphic architectures (MeM-Scales)?, whose central objective is to build (analog, spiking) neuromorphic microchips which can adapt to online input signals which display several or even many timescales. Since microchip physics will deliver only a few physical timescales, collective computational phenomena will have to be explored in order to realize the long-range memory timescales required by many tasks. Since at this point, numerous but hardly explored options are "in the air" for computational timescale management, this position offers much freedom to engage in original work. The *second position* is funded through university budgets and is independent of specific project demands. The position holder will enjoy unusual freedom, paired with intellectual risk, to contribute to the ultimate scientific goal of Jaeger?s group: a unifying formal theory of information processing in nonlinear dynamical systems - regardless of whether they are similar to biological brains, or rest on non-neural dynamical phenomena in novel material substrates. Obviously, such a unifying theory, which would play for neuromorphic computing a similarly central role as Turing computability theory plays for digital computing, is not in sight and may be even not possible. However, many mini-revolutions in mathematical description formats are possible, and needed. Each position will be filled by either a PhD student with a 4-year contract, or by a Postdoc with a 3-year contract. The only selection criterion is qualification (product of intellectual audacity, analytical thinking power, and relevant mathematical and factual knowledge). Groningen is a beautiful and welcoming city, the university sits in the top 100 in virtually all global ranking lists, and the salary is highly competitive. More detail can be found in the official job announcements on the website of the University of Groningen: First position: https://www.rug.nl/about-us/work-with-us/job-opportunities/?details=00347-02S0007DOP (PhD version) https://www.rug.nl/about-us/work-with-us/job-opportunities/?details=00347-02S0007DQP (Postdoc version) Second position: https://www.rug.nl/about-us/work-with-us/job-opportunities/?details=00347-02S0007DNP (PhD version) https://www.rug.nl/about-us/work-with-us/job-opportunities/?details=00347-02S0007DPP (Postdoc version) Please apply for at most one of these formal job announcements, following the instructions given at these weblinks. For pre-application inquiries please contact me directly by email (h.jaeger at rug.nl). Applications received before December 1 will be given full consideration; however, the positions will remain open until filled. The earliest (and desirable) starting date for both positions is January 1, 2020. -- Dr. Herbert Jaeger Professor of Computing in Cognitive Materials Rijksuniversiteit Groningen Faculty of Science and Engineering - CogniGron Bernoulliborg Nijenborgh 9, 9747 AG Groningen web: minds.jacobs-university.de From valentina.ivanova at ri.se Tue Nov 5 09:47:01 2019 From: valentina.ivanova at ri.se (Valentina Ivanova) Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2019 14:47:01 +0000 Subject: Connectionists: [CfP] ESWC 2020 Call for Workshops & Tutorials Message-ID: * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * 2nd Call for Workshop and Tutorial Proposals The 17th European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2020) May 31st - June 4th, 2020, Heraklion, Crete, Greece. ESWC is a premier venue for discussing the latest scientific results and innovations in the field of semantic technologies on the Web and Linked Data, attracting a high number of participants from academia and industry alike. Web Page: https://2020.eswc-conferences.org/ Twitter: @eswc_conf Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ESWCCONF Become part of ESWC 2020 by submitting to the following tracks & activities! * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * In this announcement: 1. Call for Workshops https://2020.eswc-conferences.org/call-for-workshops/ 2. Call for Tutorials https://2020.eswc-conferences.org/call-for-tutorials/ * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Important deadlines: * Workshop and Tutorial proposals due: November 21, 2019 * Workshop and Tutorial notification of acceptance: December 1, 2019 (All deadlines are 23:59 anywhere on earth (UTC-12)) * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * 1. Call for Workshops ******************************************* Co-located workshops at the ESWC conferences are essential meeting points for discussing ongoing work and current results, as well as shaping new ideas and research fields. We particularly invite workshop proposals looking at Semantic Web related topics from an interdisciplinary standpoint, proposals focussing on novel aspects of the Semantic Web and Web of Data, and proposals aiming at gathering existing and forming new sub-communities. We encourage the submission of workshop proposals on: * Fundamental technical and theoretical problems of the Semantic Web / Linked Data and Knowledge Graphs * Applications of Semantic Web technologies in domains such as Mobility and Smart Cities, Life Sciences, Industry 4.0, Earth Science, Digital Humanities, Law, Media, etc. * Key enabling technologies and their adaptation to the needs of the Semantic Web * Aspects of Semantic Web research that have been neglected or underrepresented so far * Techniques and methods from other research fields that are of relevance for Semantic Web research (e.g., artificial intelligence, databases, NLP, big data analytics, machine learning, human computer interaction, information retrieval, web science, etc.) * New emerging topics and areas In particular, we also encourage the submission of workshops that do not follow the typical workshop format of a mini-conference. Further info: https://2020.eswc-conferences.org/call-for-workshops/ == Important Dates == Workshop proposals due: November 21, 2019 Notification of acceptance: December 1, 2019 Workshop website due: December 18, 2019 == Workshop Chairs == Olaf Hartig, Link?ping University, Sweden olaf.hartig at liu.se Katja Hose, Aalborg University, Denmark khose at cs.aau.dk 2. Call for Tutorials ******************************************* ESWC 2020 invites tutorials that address the interests of its varied audience: people new to the Semantic Web, Semantic Web researchers and practitioners that wish to learn new technologies, users of Semantic Web technologies, and representatives of government and funding agencies as well as potential private investors in Semantic Web technologies. We welcome submissions of tutorial proposals on all major topics related to semantic technologies. We especially solicit proposals for tutorials of the following types: * Tutorials with a coherent theme providing an introduction to new semantic technologies, methods, techniques, and trends (e.g. Knowledge Graphs, semantic data integration, reasoning, question answering, ontology-based data access, ontology design principles, provenance and trust, etc.). * Tutorials describing the application of semantic technologies in specific domains (e.g., life sciences, e-government, e-commerce, Industry 4.0, cultural heritage, education, mobile, music). * Tutorials presenting techniques from other fields that are of relevance for Semantic Web research, including social sciences, digital humanities, biomedical research, HCI, Information Retrieval, databases, NLP, Internet of Things, data visualization, etc. While tutorials may focus on theoretical topics, we encourage organizers to incorporate hands-on sessions. The tutorial should reach a good balance between the topic coverage and its relevance to the community. Tutorials can be half-day or full-day. We suggest having up to two presenters for half-day and up to four presenters for full-day tutorials, preferably from different institutions, contributing different perspectives to the tutorial topic. Further info: https://2020.eswc-conferences.org/call-for-tutorials/ == Important Dates == Tutorial proposals due: November 21, 2019 Notification of acceptance: December 1, 2019 Tutorial website due: December 18, 2019 == Tutorial Chairs == Olaf Hartig, Link?ping University, Sweden olaf.hartig at liu.se Katja Hose, Aalborg University, Denmark khose at cs.aau.dk Looking forward to your submissions! The ESWC 2020 Organising Team ( https://2020.eswc-conferences.org/organising-committee/ ) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jkrichma at uci.edu Tue Nov 5 15:27:33 2019 From: jkrichma at uci.edu (Jeff Krichmar) Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2019 12:27:33 -0800 Subject: Connectionists: Assistant Professor position available in Cognitive Sciences at the University of California, Irvine References: Message-ID: <11F74574-989C-4A73-9816-F5006CA886D8@uci.edu> Dear Connectionists, We are accepting applications for an Assistant Professor position in Cognitive Sciences at the University of California, Irvine up until December 1st, 2019. The Department of Cognitive Sciences has a long history of combining a wide range of experimental methods with computational modeling at multiple levels. UCI is consistently recognized as a trailblazer in a broad range of fields, garnering national and international honors in every school. Please consider applying. The official job posting is below: The Department of Cognitive Sciences at the University of California, Irvine (UCI) invites applications for an assistant professor (tenure-track) position with an expected start date of July 1, 2020. We are seeking scientists who study learning, memory, decision making, and related topics with behavioral, developmental, computational, artificial intelligence, or neuroimaging methods. Of particular interest are cognitive scientists who combine an empirical research program with innovative quantitative analysis or computational modeling. The successful candidates will interact with a dynamic and growing community in cognitive, computational, and neural sciences within the department (http://www.cogsci.uci.edu/) and the broader campus. Interested candidates can find specific application requirements and the online application at: https://recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF05668. To ensure full consideration, applications must be completed by December 1, 2019. The University of California, Irvine is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer advancing inclusive excellence. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, age, protected veteran status, or other protected categories covered by the UC nondiscrimination policy. As a recipient of an NSF ADVANCE award for gender equity, UCI understands the needs of dual career couples, supports work-life balance through an array of family-friendly policies, and is dedicated to broadening participation in higher education. As a Minority Serving Institution, UCI seeks future faculty who will contribute to our enduring commitment to inclusive excellence and serve as role models. Best regards, Jeff Krichmar Department of Cognitive Sciences 2328 Social & Behavioral Sciences Gateway University of California, Irvine Irvine, CA 92697-5100 jkrichma at uci.edu http://www.socsci.uci.edu/~jkrichma From dayan at tue.mpg.de Tue Nov 5 15:18:57 2019 From: dayan at tue.mpg.de (Peter Dayan) Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2019 21:18:57 +0100 Subject: Connectionists: 5 year PhD Interdisciplinary Neuroscience PhD Program, Tuebingen Message-ID: <20191105201857.GA16987@tuebingen.mpg.de> The Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics and the University of T?bingen invite students from all over the world to apply for their interdisciplinary 5-year PhD program leading to a PhD in Neuroscience. Full funding will be available for top-ranked applicants. We are seeking talented, curious and open-minded young scientists with strong backgrounds in neuroscience, biomedical sciences, computational science, applied mathematics, statistics, artificial intelligence, or engineering. Successful candidates will possess a burning ambition to shape the future of neuroscience and the ability to thrive in a fast-paced, interdisciplinary, environment. The application deadline is December 15, 2019. Please visit: https://www.kyb.tuebingen.mpg.de/phd-program for more details and information about applying. The PhD program is a collaboration between the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics and the University of T?bingen. It is closely affiliated with the renowned Graduate Training Centre of Neuroscience, the centerpiece of neuroscience training in T?bingen. Students (who should have been awarded a Bachelor's degree by September 2020) will receive a broad interdisciplinary training in neuroscience, including expert teaching by international renowned scientists and individual and intensive mentoring. Potential research topics cover a variety of fields in systems neuroscience, cognitive and behavioral neuroscience, computational neuroscience, translational and clinical neuroscience as well as cellular and molecular neuroscience. Teaching and research are conducted in English. From vassilisvas at gmail.com Wed Nov 6 03:21:31 2019 From: vassilisvas at gmail.com (Vassilis Vassiliades) Date: Wed, 6 Nov 2019 10:21:31 +0200 Subject: Connectionists: [Jobs] Robot/Reinforcement/Deep Learning Research Associate Positions in Cyprus Message-ID: Dear colleagues, The "Learning Agents and Robots" multidisciplinary research group (MRG) of the Research Centre on Interactive Media, Smart Systems and Emerging Technologies (RISE) in Cyprus is looking for highly motivated research associates with experience in "robot learning", "reinforcement learning" and/or "deep learning". The announcement can be found here: http://www.rise.org.cy/en-gb/vacancies/job-listings/research-associate-position-s-learning-agents-a/ Please consider disseminating the announcement to your networks. Kind regards, Vassilis Vassiliades, Ph.D. Team Leader - Learning Agents and Robots MRG RISE Research Center (http://rise.org.cy) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From o.e.scharenborg at tudelft.nl Wed Nov 6 06:22:29 2019 From: o.e.scharenborg at tudelft.nl (Odette Scharenborg) Date: Wed, 06 Nov 2019 12:22:29 +0100 Subject: Connectionists: Call for Satellite Workshops, EUSIPCO, Amsterdam, 28 August 2020 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Dear colleague, We invite proposals for half-day workshops that will be held together with EUSIPCO 2020. The workshops will take place on Friday afternoon August 28, at the same venue as the main conference, that is the ?Beurs van Berlage? in Amsterdam. We welcome proposals on emerging topics that are not anticipated to be fully explored in the main conference, as well as topics of focused interest, including presentations related to international, European and bilateral projects, or other collaborative projects. SUBMISSION Proposals should be submitted by email to the satellite workshop chairs Zekeriya Erkin and Odette Scharenborg via workshops at eusipco2020.org by January 24, 2020. The candidate workshop organizers will be notified of the decision on March 1, 2020. For more information, please see the flyer attached. Please be so kind to spread this information within your network. 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University of Technology:1-- Senior Lecturer in Information Systems (Information Security); link:??https://www.ltu.se/ltu/Lediga-jobbl=en&rmpage=job&rmjob=3555&rmlang=UK2-- Senior Lecturer in Information Systems (System Science); link:?https://www.ltu.se/ltu/Lediga-jobb?l=en&rmpage=job&rmjob=3557&rmlang=UKWe look forward to reading your application. Best regards,Ali.? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From james.marshall at sheffield.ac.uk Fri Nov 8 11:36:10 2019 From: james.marshall at sheffield.ac.uk (James Marshall) Date: Fri, 8 Nov 2019 16:36:10 +0000 Subject: Connectionists: Job Advert: Research Engineer in Machine Learning and Robotics Message-ID: <53AC200E-E8D3-437B-ADFD-F506C8BAE09D@sheffield.ac.uk> Dear Connectionists, we have an exciting opportunity in the Department of Computer Science for someone to join a University of Sheffield pre-spinout company, Opteran Technologies (www.opteran.com). Opteran Technologies is attempting to commercialise Artificial Intelligence and computer vision technology from the Brains on Board EPSRC Programme Grant (www.brainsonboard.co.uk). The successful candidate will join a highly-motivated team focused on achieving ambitious technical goals within a short timeframe, and is expected to transition to a role in the new company. This is an exciting opportunity to join a new entity at its very earliest stages. The successful candidate will convert state-of-the-art research to reliably working commercial prototypes and keep up-to-date with the latest machine learning and deep learning developments, and consider the applications of our technology into these developments. To find out more including how to apply, visit https://bit.ly/2qz6Fbo Best wishes, James --- James A. R. 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The current "toolbox" contains rudimentary muscle models and means to drive these using conventional (deep) neural networks. Whilst we have focused so far on prosody (actually intonation), the application is open ended; the main goal is to generalise neural modelling to more closely mimic biological systems. The group also tries to use rigorous Bayesian techniques where possible. For more information, and to apply, please follow this link: http://www.idiap.ch/education-and-jobs/job-10275 Idiap is located in Martigny in French speaking Switzerland, but functions in English and hosts many nationalities. PhD students are registered at EPFL. All positions offer quite generous salaries. Martigny is close to all manner of skiing, hiking and mountain life. There are other related positions at all levels on our jobs page: https://www.idiap.ch/en/join-us/job-opportunities Sincerely, -- Phil Garner http://www.idiap.ch/~pgarner From lucas.bechberger at uni-osnabrueck.de Fri Nov 8 00:45:07 2019 From: lucas.bechberger at uni-osnabrueck.de (Lucas Bechberger) Date: Fri, 8 Nov 2019 06:45:07 +0100 Subject: Connectionists: CfA CARLA 2020 @ Bolzano Summer of Knowledge Message-ID: The first international workshop ?Concepts in Action: Representation, Learning, and Application? (https://www.conceptuccino.uni-osnabrueck.de/carla_workshop/carla_2018.html) took place at the Institute of Cognitive Science of Osnabr?ck University in 2018. Following its great success, we are organizing a second international workshop ?Concepts in Action: Representation, Learning, and Application? (CARLA) in 2020. We invite the submission of extended abstracts to the workshop for oral or poster presentations. *Time and Venue: * September 22 and September 23, 2020, in Bolzano (Italy), as part of the Bolzano Summer of Knowledge (https://summerofknowledge.inf.unibz.it/) *Invited **Speakers**:* /Mattis List //(https://www.shh.mpg.de/person/51419), Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Jena (Germany)/ /Marianna Bolognesi (//https://mariannabolognesi.academia.edu///), University of Bologna, Bologna (Italy)/ *Call for Abstracts:* "Concepts in Action: Representation, Learning, and Application" (CARLA) is an international workshop aimed at fostering interdisciplinary exchange about research on concepts. It invites contributions from all fields related to cognitive science, including (but not limited to) linguistics, artificial intelligence, psychology, philosophy, logic, and computer science. Although the workshop is open for research on any aspect of concepts, there exists a set of core topics that are of special interest: * *Representation*: /How can we formally describe and model concepts?/ * *Learning*: /Where do concepts come from and how are they acquired?/ * *Application*: /How are concepts used in cognitive tasks?/ This workshop provides an excellent opportunity to present and discuss ongoing research on concepts. We invite concept researchers from all fields related to cognitive science to submit abstracts to the workshop for oral or poster presentations. *Submission and Publication:* We invite the submission of extended abstracts via *until ***April 30, 2020**. We will send out acceptance notifications by May 31, 2020. The extended abstracts can use up to three pages (including references) and should be uploaded as pdf based on the following template (LaTeX or Word) which is based on Springer?s LNCS style: https://www.conceptuccino-cms.uni-osnabrueck.de/fileadmin/documents/public/Documents/CARLA_2020/abstract_template.zip For both submission and publication of the accepted abstracts, we use OpenReview.net: https://openreview.net/group?id=conceptuccino.uni-osnabrueck.de/CARLA/2020/Workshop *Further Information:* More information can be found on our website: https://www.conceptuccino.uni-osnabrueck.de/carla_workshop/carla_2020.html Should you have any questions, please contact us anytime at concepts at uni-osnabrueck.de . 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It currently includes: auryn, bionetgen, calcium-calculator, COPASI, qalculate, getdp, genesis-simulator, gnuplot, moose, nest, neuron, neurord, octave, paraview, python3, brian2, ipython, nest, neuron, libNeuroML, neo, nineml, PyLEMS, smoldyn and the Python science stack: matplotlib, jupyter notebook, numpy, pandas, pillow, scikit-image, scikit-learn, scipy, statsmodels, and sympy. The ISO image is a "live" image and can be used without installing the operating system. It can be obtained here[1] with more information on NeuroFedora available here[2,3]. NeuroFedora is a Free/Open Source Software community based volunteer initiative. We are always looking for more volunteers to help with the work[4]. It is an excellent project for students new to computational neuroscience to learn valuable technical skills while aiding the neuroscience community. Feedback is always welcome. Please get in touch using one of our communication channels[5]. [1] https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/neurofedora/install-media/ [2] https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/neurofedora/ [3] https://neuroblog.fedoraproject.org [4] https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/neurofedora/contributing/ [5] https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/neurofedora/communicating/ On behalf of the NeuroFedora community, -- Thanks, Regards, Ankur Sinha (He / Him / His) | https://ankursinha.in PhD candidate in computational neuroscience at UH Biocomputation | http://biocomputation.herts.ac.uk/ Free/Open source community volunteer at the Fedora project | https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Ankursinha Time zone: Europe/London From thilo.womelsdorf at vanderbilt.edu Fri Nov 8 11:49:18 2019 From: thilo.womelsdorf at vanderbilt.edu (Womelsdorf, Thilo) Date: Fri, 8 Nov 2019 16:49:18 +0000 Subject: Connectionists: Postdoc-Opening: ePhys for network neural recording in nonhuman primates. Message-ID: Postdoc-Opening: ePhys for network neural recording in nonhuman primates. Womelsdorf lab (Attention-Circuits-Control Lab) - Vanderbilt University: http://accl.psy.vanderbilt.edu We have a postdoc-job opening for a nonhuman primate electrophysiology position. The project involves massive parallel recordings from multiple areas in fronto-striatal networks to understand how attention-biases are learned and unlearned. The project depends on skills in ePhys, programming, behavioral control and a mindset for understanding neural network-to-function relationships. When interested please email Assoc. Prof. Thilo Womelsdorf: thiwom at gmail.com. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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The nature of the operating environment generates operation and maintenance challenges that hamper the wide implementation and adoption of the wave energy technology. There are different assets involved in the wave energy conversion and distribution processes such as turbines, converters, generators, batteries, transformers, cables, or circuit breakers. In the context of traditional power grids, the operation and degradation processes of these components are well studied [4-6]. However, in the context of wave energy, open sea and weather conditions determine when it is possible to travel to the offshore power plant and perform maintenance actions. These travel time instants are known as weather windows. Accordingly, failures of system components can result in prolonged periods of downtime and this situation can significantly limit the benefits of wave energy applications. In this context, effective risk management and maintenance planning are crucial activities for the effective implementation and adoption offshore technologies. The objective of this project is to infer maintenance planning strategies through monitoring the health state of the assets that take part in the wave-to-electricity energy conversion process along with sea and weather operation conditions. These strategies will have to evaluate the risk of failure of components, cost of maintenance actions and weather windows, and accordingly elicit optimal maintenance windows. This process will involve the development and application of prognostics, and health management techniques via engineering knowledge combined with artificial intelligence and reliability methods, e.g. [7, 8]. The models developed in this project will be validated with the data collected from real offshore facilities located in the Basque Country through the collaboration with the Biscay Marine Energy Platform (BIMEP) which owns two pioneering offshore facilities. The Mutriku Wave Power Plant in Mutriku and the testing site located in Armintza. The project will be developed in Mondragon Unibertsitatea within the group of Signal Theory and communications (Joxe Aizpurua) in collaboration with the Fluid Mechanics group (Markel Pe?alba). Throughout the thesis the student will engage continuously with industry and stays at different universities and/or research centers will be pursued. Interested applicants please apply here: https://careers.talentclue.com/es/node/51514079 If you have any further questions or comments please refer to: jiaizpurua at mondragon.edu and mpenalba at mondragon.edu Application deadline. Review of applications will begin November 7th and continue until the position is filled. Requirements ? M. Sc. degree in telecommunications, electronics, computer science, embedded systems or a related area. ? Programming skills: Matlab, Python, R, or C++ ? Knowledge/experience with renewable energies is a plus. ? Knowledge/experience with reliability and/or diagnostics/health management methods is a plus. ? Experience with artificial intelligence methods is a plus. References [1] Falcao, A. F. de O. (2010). Wave energy utilization: A review of the technologies. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 14(3), 899?918. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rser.2009.11.003 [2] Penalba, M., & Ringwood, J. V. (2016). A review of wave-to-wire models for wave energy converters. Energies, 9(7), 506. https://doi.org/10.3390/en9070506 [3] Penalba, M., & Ringwood, J. V. (2019). A high-fidelity wave-to-wire model for wave energy converters. Renewable energy, 134, 367-378. [4] Aizpurua, J. I., Stewart, B. G., McArthur, S. D. J., Lambert, B., Cross, J. G., & Catterson, V. M. (2019). Improved power transformer condition monitoring under uncertainty through soft computing and probabilistic health index. Applied Soft Computing, 105530. [5] Aizpurua, J. I., Catterson, V. M., Abdulhadi, I. F., & Garcia, M. S. (2017). A model-based hybrid approach for circuit breaker prognostics encompassing dynamic reliability and uncertainty. IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems, 48(9), 1637-1648. [6] U. Garro, E. Muxika, J. I. Aizpurua and M. Mendicute (2019). FPGA-Based Stochastic Activity Networks for On-Line Reliability Monitoring. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics. [7] Aizpurua, J. I., Catterson, V. M., Papadopoulos, Y., Chiacchio, F., & Manno, G. (2017). Improved dynamic dependability assessment through integration with prognostics. IEEE Transactions on Reliability, 66(3), 893-913. [8] Aizpurua, J. I., McArthur, S. D., Stewart, B. G., Lambert, B., Cross, J. 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The interest in semantics has been strengthened by the growing dependence on the Web and the continuously increasing importance of large-scale data sharing, integration, and reuse. Semantics is an inherently multi-disciplinary field that attracts engagement from a broad range of researchers and practitioners. Participants at the US2TS come from disciplines in computer science and engineering, natural sciences, geoscience, biology, library science, biomedical and health care sciences, social sciences and the humanities, and many others. Discussions at the symposium cover core topics such as the Semantic Web, Ontologies, Knowledge Graph, Linked Data and AI on the Web, Privacy and Trust, etc., as well as the intersection of such topics with areas such as the Internet of Things (IoT) and Blockchains. US2TS 2020 organizational committee invites your contributions and participation in the 2020 edition of US2TS to be held on 9 ? 11 March 2020, in Raleigh, North Carolina. At this time, we are seeking two kinds of contributions (calls for other kinds of contributions will follow shortly). ===================================== ** Call for Sessions Proposals ===================================== We solicit anyone with an interest in the Semantic Web to propose a session for US2TS 2020. A session is any relevant activity that can fit into a 90 minutes slot (you can also propose a session that takes more than one slot). Examples of sessions are: - a panel discussion - a series of presentations on a topic - breakout-style discussions on a proposed topic - a tutorial As the main goal of the Symposium is to foster synergies and collaborations from different fields, we recommend that: 1. At least 2-3 people, preferably from different institutions, propose the session. This is not a strict requirement, mostly a recommendation (if you have a good case for a different setting we will definitely take your proposal into account). 2. All the session leaders are asked to confirm and commit to participate at the time of submission. 3. If your proposal already names speakers or panelists, you must state whether their participation is already confirmed. We encourage session proposals about cross-discipline topics which are of concern for participants from existing sub-communities ** Submission Guidelines -------------------------------------------------------------- Please prepare a (max) 2 page submission indicating: - Name of the session - Topic: please indicate which cross-discipline topics the session will tackle. Here you can also specify if there is any particular vertical of interest (e.g. legal, life science, medical, publisher/scholarly data, cultural heritage, library, museum, oil/gas, engineering, airplane, e-commerce, etc) - Type of session: Panel | Presentations | Break-out discussion | Tutorial | BOF | Other (please specify) - Short description of the session - The 2/3 person team (names & affiliations) that will lead the session - Speakers(when applicable). It is strictly required to specify the speakers if you are proposing a panel, in which case they must be already confirmed. - Expected participation (give a prediction of who would be interested in attending your session) - Submit your proposal on easychair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=us2ts2020 and select Session Proposal as topic ** Symposium outcome -------------------------------------------------------------- After the Symposium we will invite all session chairs to co-edit a summary of the event, which will be formally published. ** Important Dates -------------------------------------------------------------- - Deadline for submissions: Dec 3rd 2019 - Notifications: December 18th 2019 - Final program for the sessions: January 14th 2020 - Symposium dates: March 9-11, 2020 ===================================== Call for Lightning Talks ===================================== ** Deadline for submissions: Open until slots filled (first-come first-served) -------------------------------------------------------------- We will have two Lightning Talks sessions. These will be an open forum where any of the participants can present on a chosen topic. Examples of things to discuss: - late breaking research - a position statement - blue sky ideas - new datasets announcements ** Rules: -------------------------------------------------------------- - each presenter will have exactly one slide (PDF, landscape, 3:4) - each presenter will have 2 minutes (we might adjust the time slightly, according to participation, but at least 2 minutes) - presentation slots will be awarded on a first-come-first-served basis (submit early to avoid disappointment) - submit your talk using easychair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=us2ts2020 and selecting "Lightning Talks" as topic ===================================== ** Contact ===================================== All questions about submissions should be emailed to contact us at us2ts2020-org AT googlegroups DOT com You are also welcome to join our social network on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/groups/13783135/ Look forward to your great contributions and participation. 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ACM IUI is where the Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) community meets the Artificial Intelligence (AI) community, with contributions from related fields such as psychology, behavioral science, cognitive science, computer graphics, design, the arts, and more. Our focus is to improve the interaction between humans and machines, by leveraging both HCI approaches and state-of-the art AI techniques from machine learning, natural language processing, data mining, knowledge representation and reasoning. ACM IUI welcomes contribution from all relevant arenas, academia, industry, government, and non-profit organizations, and gives its participants the opportunity to present and see cutting-edge IUI work in a focused and interactive setting. ---------------------------------------------------- Demos The demonstrations track complements the overall program of the conference. Demonstrations show implementations of novel, interesting, and important intelligent user interface concepts or systems. We invite submissions relevant to intelligent user interfaces and which address, but are not limited to, the topics of the conference. All submissions are intended to convey a scientific result or work in progress and should not be advertisements for commercial software packages. The page limit for demo papers is 2 pages (including references). Although not required, authors may submit a video along with their demo paper to showcase their work. Authors who submitted a long or short research paper are welcome to also propose a demo. Accepted demo papers will be presented as interactive demonstrations at IUI and published in the companion proceedings of the conference. Posters Posters provide an opportunity for sharing valuable last-minute ideas, eliciting useful feedback on early-stage work and fostering discussions and collaborations among colleagues. We invite submissions on all topics of the conference. 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Workshop proposals should include a 1-2 page summary of the topic and the names and affiliations of 4-5 panelists who have made a commitment to participate as wks chairs and members of the wks Program Committee. A mix of industry and academic panel members would be optional. A fully electronic review process is being planned. Workshops proposals should be submitted electronically. Please send your Workshop Proposal to: * sioutas at ionio.gr * makri at ceid.upatras.gr * fmylonas at ionio.gr * kerman at ionio.gr * liliadis at civil.duth.gr Authors of WORKSHOPS will be invited to electronically submit original, English-language research contributions no longer than 12 pages formatted according to the well known LNCS Springer style. Accepted WORKSHOPS papers will published in the SPRINGER IFIP AICT series for 16th AIAI2020 and in the SPRINGER INNS (International Neural Networks Society) series for 21st EANN2020, and they will be available on site. Proceedings will be INDEXED BY SCOPUS, DBLP, Google Scholar, ACM Digital Library, IO-Port, MAthSciNet, CPCI, Zentralblatt MATH and EI Engineering Index SPECIAL ISSUES Selected papers from BOTH the main event AND from the WORKSHOPS will be published in 3 special issues of high quality international scientific Journals * International Journal of Neural Systems, Impact factor 6.4 World Scientific https://www.worldscientific.com/worldscinet/ijns * Neural Computing and Applications, Springer Impact Factor 4.213 https://link.springer.com/journal/521 * Special Issue of the Evolving Systems Journal (SPRINGER) https://link.springer.com/journal/12530 CALL for TUTORIALS. Proposals for 90-minute tutorials are also invited on topics within the conference area. Tutorial proposals must be at most 5 pages, they must identify the intended audience, and they must give enough material to provide a sense of what will be covered.examine emerging, innovative, or otherwise provocative issues within the conferences? areas are encouraged. Tutorial proposals should be submitted electronically. Please send your Tutorial Proposal to: * liliadis at civil.duth.gr IMPORTANT DATES: * Workshops & Tutorials PROPOSALS Deadline: 8th of December 2019 * Paper Submission Deadline: 29th of February 2020 * Notification of Acceptance: 22nd of March 2020 * Camera ready / Registration Deadline: 2nd of April 2020 * Conference: 5 - 7 of June 2020 Conference topics, CFPs and submissions details can be found at: * www.aiai2020.eu/call-for-papers/ * www.aiai2020.eu/paper-submission/ * www.eann2020.eu/call-for-papers/ * www.eann2020.eu/paper-submission/ We are expecting Submissions on all topics related to Artificial and Computational Intelligence and their Applications. 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The 9th International Conference on Biomimetic and Biohybrid Systems* * 28 ? 31 July 2020* To be hosted at the Botanical Garden of Freiburg and the Cluster of Excellence livMatS at the University of Freiburg, Germany Accepted papers will be published in *Springer Lecturer Notes in Artificial Intelligence* *Submission deadline: March 23, 2020* http://livingmachinesconference.eu/2020 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- *ABOUT LIVING MACHINES 2020* The development of future real-world technologies will depend strongly on our understanding and harnessing of the principles underlying living systems and the flow of communication signals between living and artificial systems. *Biomimetics* is the development of novel technologies through the distillation of principles from the study of biological systems. The investigation of biomimetic systems can serve two complementary goals. First, a suitably designed and configured biomimetic artefact can be used to test theories about the natural system of interest. Second, biomimetic technologies can provide useful, elegant and efficient solutions to unsolved challenges in science and engineering. *Biohybrid* systems are formed by combining at least one biological component?an existing living system?and at least one artificial, newly-engineered component. By passing information in one or both directions, such a system forms a new hybrid bio-artificial entity. The theme of the conference also encompasses biomimetic methods for manufacture, repair, and recycling inspired by natural processes such as reproduction, digestion, morphogenesis, and metamorphosis. The following are some examples of ?Living Machines? as featured at past conferences: * Biomimetic robots and their component technologies (sensors, actuators, processors) that can intelligently interact with their environments. * Biomimetic computers?neuromimetic emulations of the physiological basis for intelligent behavior. * Active biomimetic materials and structures that self-organize and self-repair or show other bio-inspired functions. * Nature-inspired designs and manufacturing processes. * Biohybrid brain-machine interfaces and neural implants. * Artificial organs and body-parts including sensory organ-chip hybrids and intelligent prostheses. * Organism-level biohybrids such as robot-animal or robot-human systems. *ACTIVITIES* The main conference will take the form of a *three-day single-track oral* and *poster presentation program*, *28th July to 31st July 2020*, and will be hosted at the Botanical Garden of Freiburg by the University of Freiburg, Germany, and the Cluster of Excellence ?Living, Adaptive and Energy-autonomous Materials Systems (livMatS)? (www.livmats.uni-freiburg.de). The conference program will include *five plenary lectures* from leading international researchers in biomimetic and biohybrid systems, and the demonstrations of state-of-the-art living machine technologies. The full conference will be preceded by up to two days of *Satellite Events* hosted at the University of Freiburg. *SUBMITTING TO LIVING MACHINES 2020* We invite both *full papers* and *extended abstracts* in areas related to the conference themes. All contributions will be refereed and accepted papers will appear in the Living Machines Proceedings, published in the *Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence*. Full papers (minimum 8 pages, up to 12 pages) are invited from researchers at any stage in their career and should present significant findings and advances in biomimetic or biohybrid research. More preliminary work is better suited for short paper submission (maximum 4 pages, with a maximum of ten references and no more than three self-citations). Full papers will be accepted for either oral presentation (single track) or poster presentation with a short podium preview. Extended abstracts will be accepted for poster presentations only. Authors of the best full papers will be invited to submitted extended versions of their paper for publication in a special issue of the Taylor & Francis journal *Connection Science*. *SATELLITE EVENTS* Active researchers in biomimetic and biohybrid systems are invited to propose topics for full or half-day *tutorials*, *symposia* or *workshops* on related themes to be held on 28. July at the Institute for Biology II/III of the University of Freiburg (http://www.bio.uni-freiburg.de/index-en?set_language=en). Attendance at satellite events will attract a small fee intended to cover the costs of the meeting. There is flexibility about the content, organization, and budgeting for these events. Please contact us if you are interested in organizing a satellite event! *EXPECTED DEADLINES* March 23, 2020: Paper submission deadline May 15, 2020: Notification of acceptance May 25, 2020: Camera-ready copy July 28, 29-31, 2020 Workshops and Conference *SPONSORSHIP* Organizations wishing to sponsor the conference in any way and gain the corresponding benefits by promoting themselves and their products through conference publications, conference events, and conference publicity are encouraged to contact the organizers to discuss the terms of sponsorship and necessary arrangements. We also offer a number of attractive options for potential sponsors. *VENUE* Consistent with the Living Machines? tradition of choosing historical venues at the crossroads between life and human sciences, this year the conference will take place at the Botanical Garden of Freiburg. Freiburg is considered the gateway to the Black Forest and thanks to its geographical location is blessed with mild weather all year round. The city is over 900 years old and known to be the sunniest city(1,740 hours of sunshine/year) in Germany. Freiburg has a beautiful historical inner city and is home to one of the oldest universities and Botanical Gardens in Germany. The Botanical Garden Freiburg will be celebrating its 400 year anniversary in 2020 and is located in the district Herdern near the Botanical Institute of the University of Freiburg. The Botanical Garden invites visitors to enjoy its wonderful greenery and learn about both plants from all around the world and plant-based biomimetics with its biomimetic educational trail. The trail highlights biomimetic inventions based on plants while providing fascinating insights into underlying biological principles. *CONFERENCE ORGANIZING COMMITTEE* *Thomas Speck* University of Freiburg, Germany (Local Chair) *Paul Verschure* IBEC, BIST, ICREA, CSN Foundation (Co-Chair) *Tony Prescott* University of Sheffield, CSN Foundation (Steering Committee) *Anna Mura* IBEC, BIST Barcelona, CSN Foundation (General Organization) *PROGRAM CHAIR* *Vicky Vouloutsi* IBEC, BIST, Barcelona *COMMUNICATION* *Sonja Seidel* University of Freiburg, Germany *Yulia Sandamirskaya* INI, Zurich Univ. and ETH *WORKSHOPS CHAIR* *Falk Esser* University of Freiburg, Germany *LOCAL ORGANIZERS COMMITTEE* *Thomas Speck* University of Freiburg, Germany *Falk Esser* University of Freiburg, Germany *Sonja Seidel* University of Freiburg, Germany -- Vicky Vouloutsi, PhD Postdoc Researcher at the laboratory for Synthetic Perceptive, Emotive and Cognitive Systems (SPECS) mail: vvouloutsi at ibecbarcelona.eu linkedin researchgate tel: +34 934011913 Aquest correu electr?nic cont? informaci? confidencial emparada pel secret professional. 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The aim of the Special Issue is to bring together neuronal models and neuronal plasticity mechanisms that are grounded in information theory principles, modern inference, and learning algorithms. We welcome submissions that use information theory as the basis for defining generative principles of neuronal dynamics over multiple spatio-temporal scales, which informs our understanding of information processing in the brain. You can see full details of the scope and submission details at: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/entropy/special_issues/Computational_Neuroscience The submission deadline is 31 January 2020. You may send your manuscript at any time before the deadline or a bit later. Submitted papers should not be under consideration for publication elsewhere. Entropy is fully open access. Open access (unlimited and free access by readers) increases publicity and promotes more frequent citations, as indicated by several studies. Please kindly note that an Article Processing Charge (APC) of CHF 1600 currently applies to all accepted papers. Fortunately, it is noticed that your institute have already had a central open access fund established in MDPI's Institutional Open Access Program, it means you do not have to pay the publication fees and your institute will cover it for you if you submit your papers to MDPI journals (see details at: ). You may contact your library and confirm this. Please do not hesitate to come back to us if there is anything further that we can help with. We look forward to hearing from you. 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Jeff (http://engineering.purdue.edu/~qobi) From stefan.kiebel at tu-dresden.de Mon Nov 11 15:20:21 2019 From: stefan.kiebel at tu-dresden.de (Kiebel, Stefan) Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2019 20:20:21 +0000 Subject: Connectionists: Postdoc position in Dresden/Germany Message-ID: Dear all, here is an open postdoc position for someone into computational modelling, deadline 29th of Nov. Best wishes, Stefan -- The Department of Psychology at the TU Dresden (PI: Stefan Kiebel) is looking for a postdoc. The position is for 3,5 years. The candidate will be working on computational models in cognitive control and decision making. 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We invite students who feel they would benefit from this kind of feedback on their research to use this unique opportunity to share their work with students in a similar situation. The consortium will be organized with 8 to 12 student presentations selected by the Student Consortium chairs and potentially other reviewers. The strongest candidates will be those who have a clear topic and research approach, and have made some progress, but who are not so far along in their research so that they can still update their research topics or methods. The final version of accepted SC submissions will be included in the main conference proceedings published in the ACM DL. Complimentary/reduced conference registration will be available for students. Student Consortium participants will also be given high priority when applying for the student travel awards. Moreover, we are working to provide partial reimbursement of travel/accommodation expenses specifically for the participants of the Student Consortium. Objectives The objectives of the student consortium are to: 1. Serve as a supportive setting to provide/receive feedback on students' current doctoral and masters' research and guidance on future research directions 2. Offer each student comments and fresh perspectives on their work from researchers and students outside of their own institution 3. Promote the development of a supportive community of scholars and a spirit of collaborative research 4. Contribute to the conference goals through interaction with other researchers and conference events Submission Instructions To apply for the Student Consortium, please submit to the URL below a single PDF containing the following (in order): 1. A brief cover letter containing your full name, contact details, affiliation, web page, expected graduation date and target degree, the name of your thesis advisor, gender (optional), home country (optional), and whether you are a member of an underrepresented minority group (optional) - one page maximum. 2. Your SC submission: a document describing your thesis/dissertation research plan and your progress thus far and should be no more than two pages long, including references. Key points the submission should include: Motivation for your dissertation research, goal and research questions, related work that frames your research, methods/approach to reach the goal, results if any, and next steps for your research. 3. Submissions should follow the standard sigconf format, using one of the following templates https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template: * Microsoft Word Template for Papers * LaTeX Template for Papers * PDF Example for Papers 1. Your CV (maximum two pages). Submit your single PDF (containing cover letter and SC submission) to https://new.precisionconference.com by Jan 3rd, 2020. In addition, a letter of recommendation from your thesis or doctoral advisor should be sent separately by email to the Student Consortium co-Chairs at sc2020 at iui.acm.org. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From doconn at shp.rutgers.edu Tue Nov 12 13:10:14 2019 From: doconn at shp.rutgers.edu (Daniel O'Connell) Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2019 18:10:14 +0000 Subject: Connectionists: Seeking Applicants - Assistant, Associate, Full Professor in Data Science Message-ID: The Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at Rutgers University-Newark (RU-N) invites applications for an Assistant, Associate or full Professor tenure track position in Data Science. The position will be based at RU-N, to begin September 2020. We seek applicants with exceptional research programs focusing on computational methods in machine learning, mathematical modeling of complex data sets, causal inference, science of science, or innovative approaches to AI. We especially seek someone who will bridge with Behavioral or Neurosciences either through methods used or questions investigated. Committed to building a cluster of faculty around interdisciplinary Computer Science, Data Science, and AI, we also are conducting complementary searches. We seek candidates who have a dynamic and interdisciplinary conception of their research, who can contribute to research and teaching in their areas, and as a core around which to build a new research center, graduate program, and undergraduate programs in interdisciplinary Computer Science, Data Science, and AI. Responsibilities: The successful applicant will be responsible for undergraduate and graduate teaching in Data Science. Candidates must undertake independent scholarly activity appropriate for advancement within Rutgers University. Candidates will also be responsible for usual advising and administrative duties.? Education/Experience Requirements: Ph.D. by time of appointment; relevant teaching experience; a record of scholarly work and a clear research agenda, demonstrating the ability to build a body of recognized work suitable for tenure at a research university. For full consideration, apply by December 7, 2019. The position will remain open until it is filled. For questions, please contact Patrick Shafto at mailto:patrick.shafto at rutgers.edu. Apply via Quick Link to Posting: https://jobs.rutgers.edu/postings/105138 Best, Dan Daniel O'Connell Unit Administrator - Data Science Department of Mathematics & Computer Science Rutgers University-Newark 110 Warren Street, Bradley 402 Newark, NJ 07102 p: 973-353-2956 doconn at shp.rutgers.edu From education at humanbrainproject.eu Tue Nov 12 10:32:56 2019 From: education at humanbrainproject.eu (education at humanbrainproject.eu) Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2019 16:32:56 +0100 Subject: Connectionists: =?utf-8?q?Upcoming_deadline=3A_=E2=80=9CModern_tr?= =?utf-8?q?ends_in_cognitive_architectures_and_systems=3A_From_theory_to_i?= =?utf-8?q?mplementation_in_natural_and_artificial_agents=E2=80=9D_=7C_11-?= =?utf-8?q?13_December_2019_=7C_Glasgow=2C_UK?= Message-ID: <4ADC4E7C-E2B4-4B7D-8307-6E9741028B4F@humanbrainproject.eu> On 11-13 December 2019, the HBP Education Programme will organise a workshop on cognitive systems for non-specialists at the University of Glasgow under the title ?Modern trends in cognitive architectures and systems: From theory to implementation in natural and artificial agents?. Participation in the event is open to the entire scientific community, but especially targets early-career researchers (advanced Master?s students, PhD students and early postdocs). Please find some general information about the workshop and the HBP Curriculum below and in the attached PDF file. HBP Education Programme Office Medical University Innsbruck (MUI) M?llerstra?e 59, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria curriculum.edu at humanbrainproject.eu www.humanbrainproject.eu/education The HBP Curriculum on Interdisciplinary Brain Science combines web-based distance learning courses and complementary face-to-face workshops. It provides basic lessons in the Human Brain Project (HBP) core fields neuroscience, medicine and ICT for early-career researchers outside their area of specialisation, as well as courses on the subjects of ethics and intellectual property rights, translation and exploitation of research. 3rd HBP Curriculum Workshop Series - MODERN TRENDS IN COGNITIVE ARCHITECTURES AND SYSTEMS: FROM THEORY TO IMPLEMENTATION IN NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL AGENTS 11-13 December 2019, Glasgow, United Kingdom bit.ly/HBPCogSys19 Application deadline: 14 November 2019 In order to understand and implement cognitive systems, recent developments in neuroscience need to be brought together with computational techniques that integrate models and simulations. The goal of this workshop is to provide an overview of the latest developments in the understanding of how the brain works, computes and generates behaviour. Application information & Abstract submission Application is open to the entire student community and early-career researchers, regardless of whether they are affiliated with the Human Brain Project or not. It is aimed to offer equal opportunities for all early-career researchers regardless of gender, age, origin, etc. Share your research with your peers! We invite you to submit an abstract of your current research for poster or oral presentation. Take your chance and qualify for one of our fee waivers for the workshop by submitting an abstract! Participation fee: 250 ? The fee does not include travel and accommodation. Fees will be collected after participants have been selected. Registration fee waivers are available for a limited number participants. Participants can apply for fee waivers prior to the application deadline by sending an email to curriculum.edu at humanbrainproject.eu . Please also check with your supervisor how your institution can support you with regard to expenses for the attendance of the workshops. Further information about organisations offering travel support can also be found on our website . Scientific Chairs Lars Muckli | University of Glasgow Tony Prescott | University of Sheffield Organised by Sylvia A?laber | Medical University Innsbruck Judith Kathrein | Medical University Innsbruck Alejandro Jim?nez-Rodr?guez | University of Sheffield Contact curriculum.edu at humanbrainproject.eu Theresa Rass HBP Education Programme Project Manager - Targeted Engagement and Knowledge Transfer Medical University Innsbruck (MUI) M?llerstra?e 59, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria Phone Office: +43 512 9003 71246 Mobile Phone: +43 676 871672246 Email: education at humanbrainproject.eu Follow us on Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn! Keep up with the Education Programme?s latest news, event information, job offers, videos and more. 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We invite applications for our fully funded PhD programme in COMPUTATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE and NEUROINFORMATICS at the School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh, for a start in or around September 2020. The studentships are ideal for students who want to apply their computational and analytical skills to problems in neuroscience and related fields. The following supervisors have openings: Douglas Armstrong: Molecular neuroinformatics, network models, behavioural models, molecular drug design. Angus Chadwick (joining early 2020): Visual and spatial processing, network dynamics, neural data analysis. Matthias Hennig: Learning and homeostasis, analysis of large-scale electrophysiological recordings. Arno Onken: Probabilistic models, dimensionality reduction, information theory. Peggy Seri?s: Bayesian approaches to cognition and perception, computational psychiatry. Ian Simpson: Regulatory genomics, developmental disorders. Barbara Webb: Perceptual systems for the control of behaviour, robot models of animals. The PhD project can be done in collaboration with one of the many affiliated departments and institutes. Edinburgh has been voted as 'best place to live in Britain', and has many exciting cultural and student activities. Students with a strong background in either computer science, mathematics, physics or engineering are particularly welcome to apply. Motivated students with other backgrounds will also be considered. For more information, see: http://web.inf.ed.ac.uk/anc/research/neuroscience There is no fixed deadline, but applications completed by 29 Nov 2019 will be considered in a first round, with decisions expected by late January 2020. -- The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336. From valentina.ivanova at ri.se Wed Nov 13 08:52:06 2019 From: valentina.ivanova at ri.se (Valentina Ivanova) Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2019 13:52:06 +0000 Subject: Connectionists: [CfP] ESWC 2020 - **One week left** to submit Workshops & Tutorials proposals Message-ID: <6fb2d185869a43a09bfa463fd29d0b01@ri.se> 3rd Call for Workshop and Tutorial Proposals The 17th European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2020) May 31st - June 4th, 2020, Heraklion, Crete, Greece. ESWC is a premier venue for discussing the latest scientific results and innovations in the field of semantic technologies on the Web and Linked Data, attracting a high number of participants from academia and industry alike. Web Page: https://2020.eswc-conferences.org/ Twitter: @eswc_conf Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ESWCCONF LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/8843932/ Become part of ESWC 2020 by submitting to the following tracks & activities! * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * In this announcement: ******************************************* 1. Call for Workshops https://2020.eswc-conferences.org/call-for-workshops/ 2. Call for Tutorials https://2020.eswc-conferences.org/call-for-tutorials/ * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Important deadlines: * Workshop and Tutorial proposals due: November 21, 2019 (**one week left**) * Workshop and Tutorial notification of acceptance: December 1, 2019 (All deadlines are 23:59 anywhere on earth (UTC-12)) * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * 1. Call for Workshops ******************************************* Co-located workshops at the ESWC conferences are essential meeting points for discussing ongoing work and current results, as well as shaping new ideas and research fields. We particularly invite workshop proposals looking at Semantic Web related topics from an interdisciplinary standpoint, proposals focussing on novel aspects of the Semantic Web and Web of Data, and proposals aiming at gathering existing and forming new sub-communities. We encourage the submission of workshop proposals on: * Fundamental technical and theoretical problems of the Semantic Web / Linked Data and Knowledge Graphs * Applications of Semantic Web technologies in domains such as Mobility and Smart Cities, Life Sciences, Industry 4.0, Earth Science, Digital Humanities, Law, Media, etc. * Key enabling technologies and their adaptation to the needs of the Semantic Web * Aspects of Semantic Web research that have been neglected or underrepresented so far * Techniques and methods from other research fields that are of relevance for Semantic Web research (e.g., artificial intelligence, databases, NLP, big data analytics, machine learning, human computer interaction, information retrieval, web science, etc.) * New emerging topics and areas In particular, we also encourage the submission of workshops that do not follow the typical workshop format of a mini-conference. Further info: https://2020.eswc-conferences.org/call-for-workshops/ == Important Dates == Workshop proposals due: November 21, 2019 (**one week left**) Notification of acceptance: December 1, 2019 Workshop website due: December 18, 2019 == Workshop Chairs == Olaf Hartig, Link?ping University, Sweden olaf.hartig at liu.se Katja Hose, Aalborg University, Denmark khose at cs.aau.dk 2. Call for Tutorials ******************************************* ESWC 2020 invites tutorials that address the interests of its varied audience: people new to the Semantic Web, Semantic Web researchers and practitioners that wish to learn new technologies, users of Semantic Web technologies, and representatives of government and funding agencies as well as potential private investors in Semantic Web technologies. We welcome submissions of tutorial proposals on all major topics related to semantic technologies. We especially solicit proposals for tutorials of the following types: * Tutorials with a coherent theme providing an introduction to new semantic technologies, methods, techniques, and trends (e.g. Knowledge Graphs, semantic data integration, reasoning, question answering, ontology-based data access, ontology design principles, provenance and trust, etc.). * Tutorials describing the application of semantic technologies in specific domains (e.g., life sciences, e-government, e-commerce, Industry 4.0, cultural heritage, education, mobile, music). * Tutorials presenting techniques from other fields that are of relevance for Semantic Web research, including social sciences, digital humanities, biomedical research, HCI, Information Retrieval, databases, NLP, Internet of Things, data visualization, etc. While tutorials may focus on theoretical topics, we encourage organizers to incorporate hands-on sessions. The tutorial should reach a good balance between the topic coverage and its relevance to the community. Tutorials can be half-day or full-day. We suggest having up to two presenters for half-day and up to four presenters for full-day tutorials, preferably from different institutions, contributing different perspectives to the tutorial topic. Further info: https://2020.eswc-conferences.org/call-for-tutorials/ == Important Dates == Tutorial proposals due: November 21, 2019 (**one week left**) Notification of acceptance: December 1, 2019 Tutorial website due: December 18, 2019 == Tutorial Chairs == Olaf Hartig, Link?ping University, Sweden olaf.hartig at liu.se Katja Hose, Aalborg University, Denmark khose at cs.aau.dk Looking forward to your submissions! The ESWC 2020 Organising Team ( https://2020.eswc-conferences.org/organising-committee/ ) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From annalisa.riccardi at strath.ac.uk Wed Nov 13 11:31:27 2019 From: annalisa.riccardi at strath.ac.uk (Annalisa Riccardi) Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2019 16:31:27 +0000 Subject: Connectionists: PhD Opportunity: Using ANN Technology to Determine Acceptable Microclimate Parameters for Heritage Preservation Message-ID: https://www.findaphd.com/phds/project/using-ann-technology-to-determine-acceptable-microclimate-parameters-for-heritage-preservation/?p113723 Project Description Applications are invited for a 3.5-year ETP PhD studentship to conduct an experimental study using both Artificial Neural Network (ANN) modelling and mock-up testing. We will examine the effect of environmental fluctuations in a room on the microclimate inside a number of typical storage and display cases for book and paper collections. Our aim is to establish an acceptable level of fluctuation that would allow us to loosen current tight environmental controls and therefore reduce energy consumption. The successful candidate will be jointly supervised by academics in Heriot-Watt and Strathclyde and industrial advisors in The National Library of Scotland to gain both valuable research and industry work experience which will widen and enhance future job prospects. The candidate will join the Urban Energy Research Group based at the CESBD which comprises of academics, research associates and PhD students of multi-disciplinary fields. The candidate is expected to join the research activities of the group, producing written reports to sponsors and papers for international publication. The Institute of Sustainable Building Design at Heriot-Watt University is a Centre of Excellence in Sustainable Building Design (CESBD) established by the Royal Academy of Engineering. As one of four such Centres in UK, we join the national network to demonstrate and exchange best practice in teaching and research for the sustainable built environment. We undertake fundamental and applied research with an overall objective to ensure that buildings, infrastructure, public spaces and places are buildable, fit for purpose, resource efficient, sustainable, resilient, adaptable and attractive. Applicants must have a minimum of an upper second-class BSc degree in physics or engineering and preferably a Master?s degree in a relevant engineering or scientific subject. Essential skills should include:- - a good understanding of heat/mass transfer - good programming (e.g. C, Java, Python) - the ability to prioritise and work to deadlines - good planning and organisational skills Desirable skills should include:- - an appreciation of the ways in which Artificial Intelligence technology can be used in the monitoring and control of indoor environments - the ability to evaluate situations and problem solve - a creative approach to delivering results - good technical writing and verbal communication skills Please complete our online application form and select PhD Construction and include the reference EGIS2019FW on your application. You will also need to provide a CV, supporting statement, a copy of your degree certificate and relevant transcripts, and one academic reference. You must also provide proof of your ability in the English language (if English is not your mother tongue or if you have not already studied for a degree that was taught in English). We require an IELTS certificate showing an overall score of at least 6.5 with no component scoring less than 6.0. Interested applicants are encouraged to discuss the opportunity with the supervisor, Dr Fan Wang, before applying. This studentship is jointly funded by an alliance between Scottish Universities, Scottish Funding Council, and the National Library of Scotland. It is part of The Energy Technology Partnership (ETP), aiming ?to build on the existing areas of excellence and collaborative working to ensure that Scotland remains, into the future, a world-renowned source for energy related RD&D and its commercialisation in the energy sector?. Funding Notes The scholarship will cover tuition fees for Home/EU students (?4327 per annum). 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Thai, University of Florida, USA (mythai at cise.u.edu) TOPIC SUMMARY: The growing availability of multi-faceted relational data gives rise to unprecedented opportunities for unveiling complex real-world behaviors and phenomena. This also supports the proliferation of complex network models where the expressive power of the graph-based relational structure is enhanced through exposing several types of features that are peculiar of the domain-specific environment (e.g., social media platforms, biological environment, geographical location, etc.). Examples of this kind of feature-rich networks include Heterogeneous information networks, Multilayer networks, Temporal networks, Location-aware networks, and Probabilistic networks. The aim of this Special Issue, titled "Reloading Feature-rich Information Networks", is to address challenging issues and emerging trends in feature-rich information networks that can be mined in several domains, including not only long studied contexts such as social media and biology, but also less investigated or even new frontiers for network science, such as finance, engineering, archaeology, geology, astronomy, and many others. Although the use of feature-rich networks can intuitively be perceived as beneficial for most research tasks based on graph data, their expressive power has not been yet fully valued in most domains, therefore there is an emergence for providing insights into how the study of complex network models can pave the way for solving domain-specific problems that might not be adequately addressed by existing graph models. Within this view, we solicit contributions on advanced modeling and mining of feature-rich networks, regarding any data domain, including both theoretical and application-oriented studies. In particular, we encourage contributions on the development of novel approaches based on advanced optimization techniques and learning paradigms (e.g., online learning, reinforcement learning, and deep learning) to enhance our understanding of complex phenomena in information networks, but also visionary works about alternative modeling and mining approaches for complex networks. The topics of interest for this special issue include, but are not limited to: _ Foundations of Learning and Mining in feature-rich networks _ Simplification/pruning/sampling of feature-rich networks _ Embedding and Deep Learning in feature-rich networks _ Centrality and Ranking in feature-rich networks _ Vertex similarity in multiplex and feature-rich networks _ Community Detection in feature-rich networks _ Link Prediction in feature-rich networks _ Multiplex and feature-rich networks evolution models _ Ensemble learning for feature-rich networks mining _ Pattern mining in feature-rich networks _ User Behavior Modeling in feature-rich networks _ Influence propagation in feature-rich networks _ Reputation and Trust computing in feature-rich networks _ Probabilistic and Uncertain feature-rich networks _ Time-evolving feature-rich networks _ Hypergraph-based modeling, analysis and learning problems _ Cross-Domain problems in feature-rich networks _ Mobility in feature-rich networks _ Visualization of feature-rich networks IMPORTANT DATES: ? Manuscripts due: December 2, 2019 ? Peer reviews to authors: February 15, 2020 ? 1st round revised manuscripts due: March 15, 2020 ? 2nd round reviews to authors: April 30, 2020 ? 2nd round revised manuscripts due: May 30, 2020 ? Final notifications from editors: June 30, 2020 ? Final accepted manuscripts due: July 10, 2020 SUBMISSION GUIDELINES: Prospective authors are invited to submit their manuscripts electronically, adhering to the IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering guidelines ( https://www.comsoc.org/publications/journals/ieee-tnse/ieee-transactions-network-science-and-engineering-information ). Note that the page limit is the same as that of regular papers. Please submit your papers through the online system ( https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/tnse-cs) and be sure to select the special issue or special section name. Manuscripts should not be published or currently submitted for publication elsewhere. 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URL: From blink.yu at mdpi.com Thu Nov 14 05:06:47 2019 From: blink.yu at mdpi.com (Blink Yu) Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2019 18:06:47 +0800 Subject: Connectionists: Call for Paper: [Computers]: Special Issue "Simulation, Imaging and Modelling for Biomedical Systems" (Scopus, ESCI, 50% discount, Deadline Approaching) Message-ID: [Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message] ==================================== Special Issue "Simulation, Imaging and Modelling for Biomedical Systems" Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 December 2019 Guest Editor: Dr. Elena Casiraghi and Dr. Barbara Barricelli Department of Computer Science; Universit? degli Studi di Milano, Italy Website: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/computers/special_issues/SIM_BS ===================================== Dear Colleagues, Over the past decades, a continuous increase in computational power, together with substantial advances in the digital image processing and pattern recognition fields, has motivated the development of computer-aided diagnostic (CAD) systems, augmented and virtual reality applications for surgical planning and simulation, and digital-twin applications for healthcare. Thanks to their effective, precise, and repeatable results, validated CAD systems are nowadays exploited as a valid aid during diagnostic procedures. Surgical simulation applications have become an essential part of surgical procedures as well as training, while research on the development of digital-twin applications in healthcare is continuously increasing, to deliver significant societal and health benefits. Similar important advances in the field of microscopy image analysis have been motivated by the advent of digital microscopes producing high-resolution digital images. Indeed, in the past thirty years the development of computerized systems that have helped pathologists in their analysis of images obtained by fluorescence, histochemical, and immunohistochemical labeling has become a main research focus for computer scientists and clinicians. State-of-the-art automatic microscopy image analysis systems automatically identify biological structures of interest and then try to reproduce the evaluation and quantification performed by expert pathologists and clinicians. These tools are much appreciated in the field for their potential to minimize the inherent subjectivity of manual analysis and to largely reduce the workload of clinicians via high-throughput analysis. This Special Issue intends to provide a comprehensive overview of recent, theoretical, and/or practical advances and new trends in biomedical/microscopy image enhancement and analysis, vision modelling, and general physiological models applied to biomedical/microscopy image processing and advanced visualization methods and devices, and to discuss their applications in the biological and medical fields. Keywords: BioMedical/microscopy image enhancement Biomedical/microscopy image quality assessment Biomedical/microscopy image analysis Computational approaches for citology and histology Computer-aided diagnosis Neuro imaging BioMedical/microscopy image databases Machine learning and artificial intelligence Image segmentation, registration, and fusion Interventional imaging systems Image-guided interventions and surgery Surgical and interventional simulation systems Interventional tracking and navigation Surgical planning and simulation Surgical visualization and mixed, augmented and virtual reality Digital twins and end-user development in biomedicine Interventional software and user interfaces Physiological models Dr. Elena Casiraghi Dr. Barbara Barricelli Guest Editors -- Mr. Blink Yu Managing Editor E-Mail: blink.yu at mdpi.com Skype: live:c91693ac8277e1f0 -- MDPI Wuhan Office No.6 Jingan Road, 430064 Wuhan, China MDPI Postfach, CH-4020 Basel, Switzerland http://www.mdpi.com -- Disclaimer: MDPI recognizes the importance of data privacy and protection. 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From tetiana.aksenova at cea.fr Thu Nov 14 11:05:03 2019 From: tetiana.aksenova at cea.fr (Tetiana AKSENOVA 218551) Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2019 16:05:03 +0000 Subject: Connectionists: Postdoctoral fellow in AI, and real time signal processing for Brain Computer Interface clinical application at CEA, Grenoble and Paris-Saclay, France Message-ID: Postdoctoral fellow in AI, and real time signal processing for Brain Computer Interface clinical application The post-doctoral fellowship will be carried out within the frame of the multidisciplinary project "Brain Computer Interface" (BCI) at CEA-LETI-CLINATEC, Grenoble, France, in collaboration with the Data Intelligence Service from CEA-LIST (Paris-Saclay), France. The goal of the BCI project is the proof of concept that it is possible to control complex effectors thanks to brain activity decoding. Motor BCI raises the hope that limb mobility may be restored for severely motor-impaired patients to regain autonomy, providing them with control over orthosis or prostheses. The project is based on the recording of neuronal activity at the level of cerebral motor cortex (ElectroCorticoGrams, ECoG) with innovative wireless WIMAGINE? implant dedicated to the long term clinical use. A clinical research protocol ? BCI and Tetraplegia ? at CLINATEC? includes several tetraplegic subjects and is in progress. In this general frame, the project of partners CEA-LETI-CLINATEC and CEA-LIST "Enabling out-of-laboratory neuroprosthetics for severely motor-impaired patients using artificial intelligence", is supported by Programme Transversal de Comp?tences ? Simulation Num?rique ? of CEA. The particular objective of the project is moving toward neuroprosthetics out-of-the-lab applications. This goal entails solving major challenges: increase number of Degrees of Freedom (DoF), improving accuracy and robustness of neural signal decoding to ensure usability of neuroprosthetics for real life tasks from one side, and providing a BCI system for constrained execution environments offered by portable devices from another side. One direction to improve decoding performances is to use recent advances in artificial neural networks. To ensure that the decoding algorithm is compatible with constrained environments, including the restrained CPU and memory costs such that real-time signal processing and decoding remains feasible, various strategies could be investigated. Missions of post-doctoral fellow will include: ? The experiment design and set up for real life tasks of using of neuroprosthesis by tetraplegic subject; ? Design of innovative ANN decoding algorithms, the test and the comparison to conventional methods; ? Optimization and implementation for real time application, integration to the Clinatec BCI platform; A unique clinical trial ECoG database supports the project. Initial contract duration is 12 months with possible prolongation (24 months at max), initial 12 months in CEA / DRT / LETI / CLINATEC, Grenoble and the next ones in CEA / DRT / List / DM2I / SID / LI3A, Saclay. Profile of candidate: PhD or equivalent with strong knowledge in Machine learning, Deep learning, real time Signal processing (high dimensional data flow), with strong skills in Python, matlab. Application: The candidates should send a CV, the names of 2 referees, and a cover letter to Dr. Tetiana AKSENOVA, tetiana.aksenova at cea.fr, Dr. Cedric GOUY-PAILLER, cedric.gouy-pailler at cea.fr, and Dr. Pierre BLANCHART, pierre.blanchart at cea.fr. The selected candidates will be interviewed for an expected start in March 2019. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Applications for 2020 are due January 3rd: https://mindcore.sas.upenn.edu/post-doctoral-research-fellowship/ Heather J. Calvert (she / her) Executive Director, MindCORE Penn's hub for the integrative study of the mind. 112 Leidy Labs, 3740 Hamilton Walk, University of Pennsylvania 215-573-1111 ~ hcalvert at sas.upenn.edu https://web.sas.upenn.edu/mindcore/ Follow MindCORE on Twitter & Facebook @PennMindCORE -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From romain.serizel at loria.fr Fri Nov 15 04:05:54 2019 From: romain.serizel at loria.fr (Romain Serizel) Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2019 10:05:54 +0100 (CET) Subject: Connectionists: Post-doc position in machine listening/Inria Nancy -- Grand Est, France Message-ID: <1189542306.9578631.1573808754329.JavaMail.zimbra@loria.fr> Dear list, We are opening a 24-months Post-doc position at Loria/Inria Nancy Grand-Est (Nancy, France) in the field of machine listening. Topic: Privacy preserving audio event detection. 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URL: From events.biopsych at ovgu.de Fri Nov 15 08:43:06 2019 From: events.biopsych at ovgu.de (events.biopsych at ovgu.de) Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2019 13:43:06 +0000 Subject: Connectionists: Registration open for Deep Neural Network workshop (July 2020, Magdeburg, Germany) Message-ID: <20191115134306.Horde.l1_TEmFW78P7sGJqx0RHY-4@webmailer.ovgu.de> Please forward this mail to anyone who might be interested in attending the workshop. ----- Dear fellow scientists, We are pleased to announce that registration for our 4th Modelling Symposium in Magdeburg (27.07.2020 - 31.07.2020) is now open. Next year?s symposium will provide you with an introduction into Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) covering a wide range of topics, including basic introductions into DNNs, common building blocks, design patterns and architectures, best practices, optimization, applications etc. For more details and registration, please visit our website: https://www.noesseltlab.org/events-presentations/4th-modelling-symposium/ Summary/ General information: ? The Symposium takes place in July (27.07.2020 - 31.07.2020, 4-day Workshop) in Magdeburg, Germany. ? The registration deadline is March, 27th (2020). ? The costs of the workshop are 0 ? (NWG member) and 125 ? (non-NWG member). ? There are possibilities to present your research/research idea (Poster) and discuss your project ideas/data with our tutor. ? Depending on participants? choice, there will be catering and as usual, we will have a social event (dinner). Looking forward to see you in Magdeburg, Felix Ball, Nico Marek, & T?mme Noesselt From holroyd at uvic.ca Sat Nov 16 12:08:00 2019 From: holroyd at uvic.ca (Clay Holroyd) Date: Sat, 16 Nov 2019 17:08:00 +0000 Subject: Connectionists: PhD Position in Psychology at Ghent University Message-ID: <6376701e10e94ba0a8dffc36c21fc7e3@madtom.uvic.ca> PhD Position in Psychology at Ghent University The Learning and Cognitive Control Lab is recruiting a highly motivated PhD student for a 4-year position at the Department of Experimental Psychology, Ghent University (Belgium). The position is funded by a European Research Council Advanced Grant, ?Cracking the Anterior Cingulate Cortex Code: Toward a Unified Theory of ACC Function? ( https://cordis.europa.eu/project/rcn/216511/factsheet/en ). Our department provides a vibrant and collaborative research environment that include several groups investigating the cognitive neuroscience of cognitive control and decision making. The available facilities include a research-dedicated 3T Siemens Magnetom Trio MRI scanner, EEG, TMS, eye-tracking, and an MR-compatible EEG system. Our seminar programs enable staff and students to engage with leading researchers from across the world. The successful candidate will conduct functional magnetic resonance imaging experiments following a model-based cognitive neuroscience approach (for an example of our approach, see doi 10.1073/pnas.1803650115 ). There are also opportunities in the department to conduct EEG, pupillometry and TMS experiments. Candidates are expected to have a Master?s degree in psychology, cognitive neuroscience, or a closely related discipline at the time of the starting date. Candidates with prior fMRI training as well as good programming skills (Python, Matlab) would be excellent for this position. The position can start any time between February 1st 2020 and July 1st 2020. The call closes on January 5th 2020. Interested candidates should email their CV, a statement of research interests, and have three letters of reference forwarded to Clay Holroyd at clay.holroyd at ugent.be. Inquiries may be directed to him at this email address. From francisco.pereira at gmail.com Sun Nov 17 17:23:26 2019 From: francisco.pereira at gmail.com (Francisco Pereira) Date: Sun, 17 Nov 2019 17:23:26 -0500 Subject: Connectionists: postdoc opportunity at NIMH (machine learning approaches in anxiety and depression) Message-ID: Dear list, We have a postdoc opportunity in the Section on Development and Affective Neuroscience at NIMH, working with Daniel Pine, David Jangraw, and the NIMH Machine Learning Team. Please see below for full details. Francisco Pereira ## Who we are: Drs. Daniel Pine (https://www.nimh.nih.gov/research/research-conducted-at-nimh/research-areas/clinics-and-labs/edb/sdan/index.shtml) and David Jangraw (https://davidjangraw.wordpress.com) are seeking applicants for a Post-Doctoral Fellowship position that would develop new machine learning-based approaches for the diagnosis and treatment of mental illnesses. Our aims are to better understand the causes and mechanisms of certain psychiatric disorders, improve their definition and classification, and ensure the best treatment can be offered to psychiatric patients. We do this by identifying neuroscience-based phenotypes that map onto clinical phenotypes, and which can be targeted with novel treatments. The position is co-advised by the NIMH Machine Learning Team (https://cmn.nimh.nih.gov/mlt), led by Dr. Francisco Pereira, whose mission is to solve the scientific problems of NIMH researchers by developing new machine learning methods, or developing new analysis approaches relying on existing methods. ## What you will do: One line of research will focus on refining and testing latent constructs derived from multiple brain imaging and behavioral markers of inhibitory control. Inhibitory control deficits are common to many psychiatric disorders, and if the latent construct shows good reliability, it may serve as a target for novel treatments. Another line of research will hinge on extracting characteristics of psychotherapy session data, such as therapist speech and facial expressions, that can predict patient clinical outcomes. While the work will concentrate on anxiety and mood disorders in young people, the approaches will be applicable to any mental disorder. The fellow will work with multi-modal imaging datasets that include MRI (functional, structural), EEG, MEG, and associated behavioral and clinical data, all of which may be used as input to machine learning methods. Data sets are already available, and the fellow will devote most of their time to analyzing these data or developing new methods. The fellow will also have access to excellent computational resources within NIH (e.g., top-100 supercomputer with hundreds of thousands of CPUs and hundreds of GPUs). ## Who you are: Candidates with a strong computational background (e.g., PhD in Engineering, Physics, Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Computational Neuroscience, and related areas) who are interested in brain development and psychopathology are particularly encouraged to apply. Requirements for this position include: - Programming experience in data-intensive computation tasks, in Python (preferably) or in R/Matlab - Practical machine learning experience (e.g., training of classification/regression models, statistical testing of results, interpretation and visualization of models), especially using open source machine learning platforms such as scikit-learn - Excellent interpersonal and written (English) communication skills Experience in psychiatry or knowledge of software for processing neuroimaging data are not required. However, the candidate will be expected to learn some of these topics as part of their role in our research group. ## How to apply: The successful candidate will work jointly with Drs. Daniel Pine, David Jangraw, and Francisco Pereira. Please write to them (pined at mail.nih.gov, david.jangraw at nih.gov, francisco.pereira at nih.gov) with your CV, using the email as the cover letter. Other enquiries are also very welcome. The National Institutes of Health is an equal opportunity employer. From hl374 at drexel.edu Sun Nov 17 19:28:13 2019 From: hl374 at drexel.edu (Liang,Hualou) Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2019 00:28:13 +0000 Subject: Connectionists: Postdoctoral Position in Systems/Computational Neuroscience, Drexel University Message-ID: <6CCCED22-1C09-4906-B097-D1652DCBBD9E@contoso.com> A postdoctoral fellowship is available to conduct research with Drs. Hualou Liang and Vikas Bhandawat at Drexel University. The position is for a computational neuroscientist. Experience/Interest in performing experiments is a plus but not essential. The research project is aimed at understanding neural control of movement ? how descending neurons and thoracic (equivalent to spinal cord) motor circuits, and sensory feedback control the coordination of a fly?s leg and coordination between legs. Because each leg has many degrees of freedom, and there are 6 legs, the movement space is large. We will employ concepts from dynamical systems, statistical methods as well as machine learning/deep learning to discover latent structure from high-dimensional data, to extract movement states, and to understand how these states are regulated by interactions between behavioral demands (carried by descending inputs), current body configuration (computed by thoracic circuits based on past limb positions), and on-going sensory feedback (through proprioceptors and load feedback). The successful candidate will have received a Ph.D. in a relevant discipline with substantial experience in Computational Neuroscience. The position will be largely computational, but there is an opportunity to perform a wide variety of experiments, including, in vivo whole-cell patch clamp, in vivo functional imaging, tethered/free behavioral assays in the Bhandawat lab. The Liang Lab works on problems at the intersection of machine learning and neuroscience, with particular interest in using the tools of artificial intelligence to study brain function and other complex processes. The major thrust of the lab is computational. Our current research uses data science to advance a broad range of topics that include understanding brain function, discovering causal structure from observations, and using deep learning and natural language processing to ease the burden of generic drug review. For current projects, please visit https://liang-lab.org/research/. The Bhandawat lab studies how animal behavior emerges from the complex interaction amongst the animal's nervous systems, their muscle-body dynamics, and their environment. We use fruit flies (Drosophila melanogaster) as our model organism because they perform many complex behaviors with a relatively simple brain, and because of the many genetic tools that are available in the flies. We employ a multi-pronged approach which includes in vivo whole-cell patch clamp recordings, imaging, and quantitative measurement of behavior, biomechanics and computation. For more information on research conducted in the Bhandawat lab, please check our website at http://biomed.drexel.edu/labs/bhandawat/ To be considered for this position please send a CV and a letter describing research interest to Hualou Liang (hualou.liang at drexel.edu) and Vikas Bhandawat (vikas.bhandawat at drexel.edu). Start date: Immediately Funding mechanism: funded by a NIH grant. Hualou Liang, PhD Professor School of Biomedical Engineering Drexel University 3141 Chestnut Street Philadelphia, PA 19104 Tel: (215) 571-3706 Fax: (215) 895-4983 hualou.liang at drexel.edu https://liang-lab.org/ Mailing address: Monell Building 3508 Market Street Suite 100 Philadelphia, PA 19104 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From marieke.van.erp at dh.huc.knaw.nl Mon Nov 18 05:36:23 2019 From: marieke.van.erp at dh.huc.knaw.nl (Marieke van Erp) Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2019 10:36:23 +0000 Subject: Connectionists: Final call for papers: Artificial Intelligence and Digital Heritage: Challenges and Opportunities - ARTIDIGH 2020 - Deadline 22 November 2019 Message-ID: <128694_1574073451_xAIAbTFE129402_91677C57-FF4D-4754-BAD6-CF23DC23D671@dh.huc.knaw.nl> ** apologies for cross posting ** Special Session Artificial Intelligence and Digital Heritage: Challenges and Opportunities - ARTIDIGH 2020 22 - 24 February, 2020 - Valletta, Malta Within the 12th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - ICAART 2020 http://www.icaart.org/ARTIDIGH.aspx SCOPE With the help of artificial intelligence-powered services and tools the heritage sector is working towards the next level of access to and (re)use of digitized collections. In recent years libraries, archives and museums have started to apply machine learning and advanced knowledge bases to contextually enrich digitized objects, audio-visual content and texts and to make these retrievable in novel ways. In doing so institutions aim to increase the impact of their collections among a growing and diversifying audience. This special session welcomes papers that reflect upon, discuss and present the technical and societal challenges (e.g. labour to produce labeled datasets, heterogeneity of data, bias in training sets) digital heritage professionals and researchers are facing when trying to capitalise on the transformative power of artificial intelligence in the context of digital archive, image, and audio/visual collections. Next to position papers, we are also looking for papers in which project consortia discuss their approach and present first results. Topics include, but are not limited to: - Bias and digital collections - Dealing with uncertainty, quality issues and collection gaps - Multimodal collection access - Geographic/spatial enrichment and access - New ways of accessing collections such as associative and serendipitous search - Network Analysis - Natural Language Processing for the Heritage Domain - Trend and change analysis - Automatic collection provenance enrichment - Reflections on the influence of AI on the heritage domain IMPORTANT DATES Paper Submission: November 22, 2019 Author Notification: December 15, 2019 Camera Ready and Registration: January 17, 2020 SPECIAL SESSION PROGRAM COMMITTEE Chris Dijkshoorn, Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, Netherlands Mark Gillings, University of Leicester, United Kingdom Eero Hyv?nen, University of Helsinki, Finland Marinos Ioannides, Cyprus University of Technology, Cyprus Lise Jaillant, Loughborough University, United Kingdom Koray Karaca, University of Twente, Netherlands Oliviero Stock, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy Antal van den Bosch, KNAW Meertens Institute, Netherlands Charles van den Heuvel, 1) Huygens Institute for the History of the Netherlands 2) University of Amsterdam, Netherlands Marco Wiering, University of Groningen, Netherlands Katherine Wolstencroft, Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Sciences (LIACS), Netherlands Gerben Zaagsma, University of Luxemburg, Luxembourg REVIEW PROCESS All reviews are based on submissions of full papers (not abstracts) following a double-blind process. All papers are subject to plagiarism analysis using a software tool prior to review. All regular papers are reviewed by at least two reviewers, but usually by three or more, and rated considering their: Relevance, Originality, Technical Quality, Significance and Presentation; The reviewers are also asked to answer a group of questions that may help the authors to improve the paper, should it be accepted, namely: Abstract and Introduction are adequate?, Needs more experimental results?, Needs comparative evaluation?, Improve critical discussion?, Figures are Adequate?, Conclusions/Future Work are convincing?, References are up-to-date and appropriate?, Paper formatting needs adjustment?, Improve English? Finally, the reviewers can provide some free text observations which was given to the authors and also some free text private observations, made available only to the program chair. Conflicting reviews may require assignment of a new reviewer. In the end the program chairs decide. The author has a period for rebuttal, which triggers a workflow involving the chairs and the reviewers if necessary. All rebuttals are answered but decisions are final. Position papers follow a similar process but the criteria used for classification are slightly different in order to account for the nature of these papers, i.e. speculative ideas and/or ongoing work not yet fully validated. Authors can submit their work in the form of a Regular Paper, representing completed and validated research, or as a Position Paper, portraying work in progress or an arguable opinion about an issue. Regular Papers Submission: It is recommended that Regular Papers are submitted for review with around 8 to 10 pages, with the appropriate font size and page format, including references, tables, graphs, images and appendices. Submissions with less than 4 pages or more than 13 pages will be automatically rejected. 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URL: From augenstein at di.ku.dk Mon Nov 18 03:40:12 2019 From: augenstein at di.ku.dk (Isabelle Augenstein) Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2019 08:40:12 +0000 Subject: Connectionists: 2nd Call: PhD Fellowship in Natural Language Processing at University of Copenhagen Message-ID: <0E22BF86-62AA-4419-94CF-45F039AF7E6E@di.ku.dk> A PhD Fellowship in Natural Language Processing is available at the Department of Computer Science, University of Copenhagen. The position is offered in the context of a basic research project on 'Detecting Gender-Biased Language on Social Media' funded by the Independent Research Fund Denmark (DFF). The fellowship offers the applicant employment as a PhD Fellow for a period of three years. The successful candidate will be advised by Isabelle Augenstein and co-advised by Ryan Cotterell (ETH Zurich). Funding for bilateral visits is available. The call is open until 1 December 2019 for a start in Spring 2020. Candidates are expected to hold a Master?s degree in Computer Science or a related relevant area or be near completion for one. There are no restrictions on citizenship, and a language certificate is not required at application time. Candidates from traditionally underrepresented minorities in natural language processing are particularly encouraged to apply. More information and application link: https://candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationInit.aspx/?cid=1307&departmentId=18970&ProjectId=150660&MediaId=5&SkipAdvertisement=false ??? Isabelle Augenstein, PhD Tenure-track Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science University of Copenhagen Universitetsparken 5, 2100 Copenhagen, Denmark www: http://isabelleaugenstein.github.io/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From valentina.ivanova at ri.se Mon Nov 18 06:48:09 2019 From: valentina.ivanova at ri.se (Valentina Ivanova) Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2019 11:48:09 +0000 Subject: Connectionists: [CfP] ESWC 2020 Call for Research, Resources, In-Use Tracks & PhD Symposium Message-ID: * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * 2nd Call for Papers The 17th European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2020) May 31st - June 4th, 2020, Heraklion, Crete, Greece. ESWC is a premier venue for discussing the latest scientific results and innovations in the field of semantic technologies on the Web and Linked Data, attracting a high number of participants from academia and industry alike. Follow us: Web Page: https://2020.eswc-conferences.org/ Twitter: @eswc_conf Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ESWCCONF LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/8843932/ Become part of ESWC 2020 by submitting to the following tracks & activities! * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * In this announcement: ******************************************* 1. Call for Papers - Research Track https://2020.eswc-conferences.org/call-for-papers-research-track/ 2. Call for Papers - Resources Track https://2020.eswc-conferences.org/call-for-papers-resources-track/ 3. Call for Papers - In-Use Track https://2020.eswc-conferences.org/call-for-papers-in-use-track/ 4. Call for Papers - Ph.D. Symposium https://2020.eswc-conferences.org/call-for-phd-symposium/ * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Important deadlines: Research, Resources & In-Use Tracks: * Paper abstract submission (mandatory): December 4, 2019 * Paper submission: December 11, 2019 Ph.D. Symposium: * Submission deadline: Feb 12, 2020 (All deadlines are 23:59 anywhere on earth (UTC-12)) * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * 1. Call for Papers - Research Track ******************************************* The research track of ESWC 2020 is looking for novel and significant research contributions addressing theoretical, analytical and empirical aspects of the Semantic Web. 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 research on the Semantic Web, and are expected to provide some principled means of evaluation. Specifically, all papers should include evaluations of the approaches described in the paper. We strongly encourage evaluations that are repeatable. We also strongly encourage papers that provide links to: the data sets, source code, queries and other resources. Based on previous years submissions, this year we are setting up ten research tracks that reflect some of the main research areas of the Semantic Web and its intersection with other scientific disciplines: * Ontologies and Reasoning https://2020.eswc-conferences.org/call-for-papers-ontologies-and-reasoning-track/ * Natural Language Processing and Information Retrieval https://2020.eswc-conferences.org/call-for-papers-natural-language-processing-and-information-retrieval-track/ * Semantic Data Management and Data Infrastructures https://2020.eswc-conferences.org/call-for-papers-semantic-data-management-and-data-infrastructures-track/ * Social and Human Aspects of the Semantic Web https://2020.eswc-conferences.org/call-for-papers-social-and-human-aspects-of-the-semantic-web-track/ * Machine Learning https://2020.eswc-conferences.org/call-for-papers-machine-learning-track/ * Distribution and Decentralization https://2020.eswc-conferences.org/call-for-papers-distribution-and-decentralization-track/ * Science of Science https://2020.eswc-conferences.org/call-for-papers-science-of-science-track/ * Security, Privacy, Licensing & Trust https://2020.eswc-conferences.org/call-for-papers-security-privacy-licensing-trust-track/ * Knowledge Graphs https://2020.eswc-conferences.org/call-for-papers-eswc-2020-knowledge-graphs-track/ * Integration, Services and APIs https://2020.eswc-conferences.org/call-for-papers-integration-services-apis-track/ Further info: https://2020.eswc-conferences.org/call-for-papers-research-track/ == Important Dates == Abstract submission (mandatory): December 4, 2019 Paper submission: December 11, 2019 Opening of rebuttal period: January 20, 2020 Closing of rebuttal period: January 24, 2020 Notification to authors: February 19, 2020 Camera ready papers due: March 18, 2020 == Program Chairs == Sabrina Kirrane, Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria sabrina.kirrane at wu.ac.at Axel Ngonga, Paderborn University, Germany axel.ngonga at upb.de 2. Call for Papers - Resources Track ******************************************* Many of the research efforts in the areas of the Semantic Web,Linked Data and Knowledge Graphs focus on publishing scientific papers that prove a hypothesis. However, scientific advancement is often reliant on good quality resources that provide the necessary scaffolding to support the scientific publications. Sharing these resources and the best practices that have lead to their development with the research community is crucial, to consolidate research material, ensure reproducibility of results and in general gain new scientific insights. The ESWC 2020 Resources Track aims to promote the sharing of resources including, but not limited to: datasets, ontologies, vocabularies, annotated corpora, workflows, knowledge graphs, evaluation benchmarks or methods, replication studies, services, APIs and software frameworks that have contributed to the generation of novel scientific work. In particular, we encourage the sharing of such resources following best and well established practices within the Semantic Web community, including the provision of an open license and a permalink identifying the resource. 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: * Ontologies developed for an application, with a focus on describing the modelling process underlying their creation; * Datasets produced to support specific evaluation tasks or by a novel algorithm; * Knowledge graphs or remarkable interest that comprehensively cover new vertical domains; * Machine learning models that would impact the knowledge engineering community. Examples include comprehensive word embeddings trained on large corpora, or embeddings of commonly known knowledge graphs, such as DBpedia or Wikidata * Descriptions of a reusable research prototype / service supporting a given research hypothesis; * Descriptions of a dataset produced by a novel algorithm; * Descriptions of community shared software frameworks that can be extended or adapted to support scientific study and experimentation; * Benchmarking, focusing on datasets and algorithms for comprehensible and systematic evaluation of existing and future systems; * Development of new evaluation methodologies, and their demonstration in an experimental study. Further info: https://2020.eswc-conferences.org/call-for-papers-resources-track/ == Important Dates == Abstract submission (mandatory): December 4, 2019 Paper submission: December 11, 2019 Opening of rebuttal period: January 20, 2020 Closing of rebuttal period: January 24, 2020 Notification to authors: February 19, 2020 Camera ready papers due: March 18, 2020 == Track Chairs == Heiko Paulheim, University of Mannheim, Germany heiko at informatik.uni-mannheim.de Anisa Rula, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy rula at disco.unimib.it 3. Call for Papers - In-Use Track ******************************************* Semantic technologies are reaching maturity on and off the web. The In-Use track at ESWC 2020 provides a forum for the community to explore the benefits and challenges of applying semantic technologies in concrete, practical applications, in contexts ranging from industry to government and science. We are especially interested in applications that use the emerging knowledge graphs or semantic annotations on the web together with data mining, machine learning, or natural language processing techniques to the benefit of concrete, real-life scenarios. We are also looking for descriptions of applied and validated industry solutions as software tools, systems or architecture that benefit from the adoption of semantic technologies. Importantly, papers presenting applications in use of semantic technologies should provide evidence that there is use of the proposed application or tool by the target user group, preferably outside the group that conducted the development. A main focus of the submission should be on the way semantics and semantic technologies are impacting this development, through benefiting the intended use case, as well as, if relevant, through the added challenges they introduce. Topics of Interest: We invite the submission of original papers organized around some of the following aspects: * Description and analysis of concrete problems and user requirements for applying semantic technologies in a specific domain * Descriptions of how Semantic Web resources (ontologies, datasets, software, standards, etc) are being used in practice * Analysis and evaluation of usability and uptake of Semantic Web tools and technologies * Scalability analysis and large scale deployment in real world scenarios * Assessment of the pros and cons of using semantic technologies to solve a particular and practical problem * Comparison of semantic technologies with alternative approaches that use conventional or competing technologies * Learned lessons and best practices from deploying and using an application or service based on Semantic Web technologies * Assessment of costs and benefits of implementing, deploying, using, and managing Semantic Web technologies * Analysis of risks and opportunities of using Semantic Web technologies in organizations with respect to their businesses and customers * Descriptions of alternative semantic technologies being deployed in practice * Mobile apps based on semantic technologies that have substantial user base * Applications in domain-specific areas such as Health & Life Sciences, Digital Libraries & Cultural Heritage, Media & Entertainment, Smart Cities, and Open Government Further info: https://2020.eswc-conferences.org/call-for-papers-in-use-track/ == Important Dates == Abstract submission (mandatory): December 4, 2019 Paper submission: December 11, 2019 Opening of rebuttal period: January 20, 2020 Closing of rebuttal period: January 24, 2020 Notification to authors: February 19, 2020 Camera ready papers due: March 18, 2020 == Track Chairs == Anna Lisa Gentile, IBM, USA annalisa.gentile at ibm.com Peter Haase, Metaphacts, Germany phaase at gmail.com 4. Call for Papers - Ph.D. Symposium ******************************************* The ESWC 2020 Ph.D. Symposium is a forum for Ph.D. students working in all areas of Semantic Web research to present their work, meet with peers and experienced researchers, receive feedback, and learn from each other?s experiences. It aims at helping Ph.D. students in developing the skills and confidence required to conduct and promote their research, as well as providing them with an opportunity to attend one of the most important research conferences on the Semantic Web. The ESWC Ph.D. Symposium will give students the opportunity to: * Learn by constructive criticism: Established researchers and Ph.D. student advisors will provide constructive feedback to the submitted papers by means of an open and non-adversarial review process. * Learn from a mentor: Each student of an accepted paper will be assigned to a mentor- a selected member of the programme committee. Students will interact with their mentors on both the revision of their papers and the preparation of their presentations. * Learn about research: Doing good research goes beyond writing a good paper; it includes perspectives on research as an endeavour and a career. Besides the presentations, coffee breaks and the Ph.D. mentoring lunch will be used to exchange ideas and ask questions about all aspects of pursuing a Ph.D. and a research career in general. * Learn by presenting: Accepted contributions will be presented at the Ph.D. Symposium. All accepted contributions will also be included at the general poster session of ESWC. Students? posters will be presented alongside posters and demonstrations of the main conference. Further info: https://2020.eswc-conferences.org/call-for-phd-symposium/ == Important Dates == Submission deadline: Feb 12, 2020 Notification of acceptance: Mar 12, 2020 Revised version to mentor: Mar 26, 2020 Mentor?s feedback on paper: Apr 9, 2020 Final version: April 30, 2020 Draft presentation to mentor: May 7, 2020 Mentor?s feedback on presentation: May 14, 2020 Ph.D. Symposium: June 1, 2020 == Ph.D. Symposium Chairs == Maribel Acosta, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology maribel.acosta at kit.edu Axel Polleres, Vienna University of Economics and Business axel.polleres at wu.ac.at Looking forward to your submissions! The ESWC 2020 Organising Team https://2020.eswc-conferences.org/organising-committee/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Now in its second year, the IBL has already achieved standardization and replication of the mouse behavioral paradigm across labs, and the effort to map the entire mouse brain at single neuron resolution is now underway. Postdocs in the IBL contribute to collecting datasets and building collaborative infrastructure in addition to developing and leading their own personal projects, which are accelerated and enhanced by taking advantage of the IBL experimental and computational tools and by mentoring from the other members of the collaboration. It is expected therefore that IBL postdocs will publish multiple impactful first-author papers in addition to being part of consortium-wide papers. For more information about the advantages of postdoctoral research at IBL, see www.internationalbrainlab.com/postdocs/. The ideal candidate for this position has experience in rodent physiology experiments and in data analysis (ideally using Python). They will have an exceptional record of rigorous and creative scientific work, and be excited about the possibility of joining a large, innovative collaboration at the forefront of modern neuroscience. The IBL is a diverse, open, and inclusive collaboration and we strongly encourage applicants from under-represented groups to apply for this position. Apply for this post (Ref #: 1835986) through UCL's online recruitment website, www.ucl.ac.uk/hr/jobs. Closing date for applications is 23 November 2019. Job ad: https://bit.ly/2XnTgzt For informal inquiries please contact Michael Hausser (m.hausser at ucl.ac.uk) or Matteo Carandini (m.carandini at ucl.ac.uk). ? Michael Hausser Facilitator, International Brain Laboratory Professor of Neuroscience, UCL Director, Optical Biology PhD Program tel +44-20-7679-6756 email m.hausser at ucl.ac.uk -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From robert.jenssen at uit.no Mon Nov 18 09:46:56 2019 From: robert.jenssen at uit.no (Robert Jenssen) Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2019 14:46:56 +0000 Subject: Connectionists: Deadline 22th Novermber - Call for Contributions: 3rd Northern Lights Deep Learning Workshop, 20-21 January 2020, Tromso ("North Pole"), Norway Message-ID: We are delighted to invite contributions to the 3rd Northern Lights Deep Learning (NLDL) Workshop on 20-21 January 2020! Similar to the past years, this will be an informal workshop on deep learning theory and applications in Troms?, Norway. Please see http://www.nldl.org for more information. We are happy to have top international keynote speakers, including - Bernhard Sch?lkopf, Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, T?bingen, Germany. - Julia Schnabel, School of Biomedical Engineering and Imaging Sciences, King's College London. - Dino Sejdinovic, Department of Statistics, University of Oxford. - Christoph H. Lampert, Institute of Science and Technology Austria (IST Austria). - Xiaoxiang Zhu, Technical University of Munich (TUM). This year, we are accepting two alternatives for contributions: (1) Full paper submissions (6 pages) will be presented either as orals or as posters and made published in proceedings after the workshop; (2) Extended abstracts (2 pages) will be presented either as orals or as posters (but not published in the proceedings). Deadline for both types of submissions: 22th November 2019. Instructions on template, submissions, etc can be found on http://www.nldl.org. Further, there will be a mini deep learning school on January 19th for interested participants. More info can be found on https://www.nldl.org/program. We hope to see many participants for a nice scientific gathering on the "north pole", including social events, and hopefully some northern lights :-) Perhaps we'll even see the sun for a minute or two, returning after two months of polar night. NLDL is organised by the UiT Machine Learning Group http://machine-learning.uit.no and the Norwegian Computing Center. Chairs: Robert Jenssen Michael Kampffmeyer Co-Chairs Arnt-B Salberg Stian Anfinsen --- Robert Jenssen UiT Machine Learning Group http://machine-learning.uit.no UiT The Arctic University of Norway -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From viktoria at 4dsound.net Tue Nov 19 04:05:00 2019 From: viktoria at 4dsound.net (Viktoria Laco) Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2019 10:05:00 +0100 Subject: Connectionists: Job Application - Mathematician - The Spatial Sound Institute Message-ID: *Apologies if you receive this email multiple times* Job Application for Mathematician The Spatial Sound Institute is looking to engage a full-time/part-time mathematician to become involved in ongoing research into the natural laws governing wave behavior within geometries and physics of sound. We invite enthusiastic mathematicians to become part of an interdisciplinary team involving musicians, programmers, physicians and neuro-scientists. The ongoing research on the connection of sound phenomena with fundamental natural laws has possible great implications in theoretical and applied physics. We expect the research to touch upon various fields within mathematics and physics such as magnetism, sound wave propagation, rose and lissajous curves, symmetry along group theory and Lie groups, octonions, fractal and crystallization patterns. Preference goes to working with PostDoc or PhD graduates in mathematics with experience in coding Python and/or C++, though we are open for applications from anyone finding significant relation to the research from within their field of work and professional skills. Central place of work will be the Spatial Sound Institute in Budapest, Hungary, and might involve traveling from/to Budapest within Europe and/or to visit other partner Institutes from time to time. Principal collaborators at the Spatial Sound Institute will be Paul Oomen, Head of Development, and Rona Geffen, Research Associate. Further terms and conditions of the position will be discussed upon response by the applicant. Applicants are requested to send a short motivation letter and their CV before November 30th 2019. Please send to: submissions at spatialsoundinstitute.com Yours sincerely, -- Viktoria Laco | 4DSOUND | Communication and Professional Relations [e] viktoria at 4dsound.net [w] www.4dsound.net | https://spatialsoundinstitute.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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(1): The Competition is split into three Challenges-Tracks, which are based, for the first time, on the same database, Aff-Wild2, which is the first comprehensive benchmark for the three affect recognition tasks in-the-wild: i) dimensional affect recognition (valence and arousal estimation), ii) categorical affect classification (seven basic expression classification) and iii) facial action unit detection Aff-Wild2 is an audiovisual database of 564 videos of around 2.8M frames. Participants are invited to participate in one or more of these Challenges. There will be one winner per Challenge-Track; the winners are expected to contribute a paper describing their approach, methodology and results; the accepted winning papers will be part of the IEEE FG 2020 proceedings; all other teams will be able to able to submit a paper describing their solutions and final results to the Workshop that we are also organizing entitled 'Affect Recognition in-the-wild: Uni/Multi-Modal Analysis'. For the purpose of the Challenges and to facilitate training, especially for people that do not have access to face detectors/tracking algorithms, we provide the cropped images and the cropped & aligned ones. For more information about the challenge, see https://ibug.doc.ic.ac.uk/resources/fg-2020-competition-affective-behavior-analysis/ To participate, you need to register your team. For this, please send us an email to: dimitrios.kollias15 at imperial.ac.uk with the title "Affective Behavior Analysis in-the-wild Competition: Team Registration". In this email include the following information: Team Name Team Members Affiliation There is no maximum number of participants in each team. As a reply, you will receive the access to the dataset's videos, annotations, cropped/cropped-aligned images and other important information. At the end of the Challenges, each team will have to send us: i) their predictions on the test set, ii) a link to a Github repository where their solution/source code will be stored, and iii) a link to an ArXiv paper with 2-6 pages describing their proposed methodology, data used and results. After that, the winner of each Challenge will be announced and all (non-winning) teams will be able to submit a paper describing their solutions and final results to the Workshop that we are also organizing entitled 'Affect Recognition in-the-wild: Uni/Multi-Modal Analysis'. Submission deadlines are as follows: ? 18 November 2019 - Call for participation announced, team registration begins, data available ? 4 February 2020 - Final submission deadline (Results, Code and ArXiv paper) ? 5 February 2020 - Winners Announcement ? 14 February 2020 - Final paper submission deadline ? 21 February 2020 - Review decisions sent to authors; Notification of acceptance ? 28 February 2020 - Camera ready version deadline Chairs: Stefanos Zafeiriou, Imperial College London, UK Dimitrios Kollias, Imperial College London, UK Attila Schulc, Realeyes - Emotional Intelligence Elnar Hajiyev, Realeyes- Emotional Intelligence (2): The workshop aims at advancing the state-of-the-art in the problem of analysis of human affective behavior in-the-wild. At first, non-winning papers describing their solutions/methodologies to the three afore-mentioned Challenges will be invited for publication to the Workshop. In addition, the Workshop does not only focus on the three Challenges. It will solicit any original paper on databases, benchmarks and technical contributions related to affect recognition, using audio, visual or other modalities (e.g., EEG), in unconstrained conditions. Either uni-modal, or multi-modal approaches will be considered. It would be of particular interest to see methodologies that study detection of action units based on audio data. The scope of the workshop includes but is not limited to: * the 3 Challenges on: i) Valence-Arousal estimation, ii) Action Unit detection and iii) 7 Basic Expression classification; * contributions in the following topics: (a) databases for spontaneous and naturalistic: i) facial expression or micro-expression analysis, or ii) facial action unit detection, or iii) valence-arousal estimation, ?in the-wild?. (b) methodologies for: i) facial expression or micro-expression analysis, or ii) facial action unit detection, or iii) valence-arousal estimation, ?in the wild?; The methodologies can use uni-modal or multi-modal information (e.g., visual, audio data, hand and body gestures, EEG, EDA) (c) methodologies for action unit prediction from audio (e.g., using Aff-Wild2, which is an audiovisual database) (d) domain-adaptation techniques for the above described behavior tasks (either using Aff-Wild2, or any other database, or combination of databases). IMPORTANT DATES: ----------------------------- ? 14 February 2020 - Paper submission deadline ? 21 February 2020 - Review decisions sent to authors; Notification of acceptance ? 28 February 2020 - Camera ready version deadline Accepted workshop papers will appear at IEEE FG 2020 proceedings. Chairs: Stefanos Zafeiriou, Imperial College London, UK Dimitrios Kollias, Imperial College London, UK Attila Schulc, Realeyes - Emotional Intelligence In case of any queries, please contact dimitrios.kollias15 at imperial.ac.uk . Kind Regards, Dimitrios Kollias, on behalf of the organising committee iBUG Group Department of Computing Imperial College London -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From maneesh+connectionists at gatsby.ucl.ac.uk Tue Nov 19 13:08:50 2019 From: maneesh+connectionists at gatsby.ucl.ac.uk (Maneesh Sahani) Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2019 18:08:50 +0000 Subject: Connectionists: Joint Gatsby Unit / SWC Postdoctoral Fellowships Message-ID: The Gatsby Unit and the Sainsbury-Wellcome Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour invite Fellowship applications from innovative and creative researchers who wish to build independence working at the interface of neural theory and experiment. Fellows will be mentored by PIs from both centres. Initial applications, including a short abstract of proposed research, are due by 6 January 2020. A shortlist of candidates will then be invited to develop full research proposals in collaboration with their intended mentors, with the final award(s) made by an international panel. A brief advertisement is attached. More details can be found at the application link therein, at www.gatsby.ucl.ac.uk or at sainsburywellcome.org. -- Maneesh Sahani, Ph.D. Professor of Theoretical Neuroscience and Machine Learning, Director, Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit UCL, 25 Howland Street, London W1T 4JG -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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The conference series emphasizes interaction with a size and pace that encourages in-depth discussion. Interested researchers are strongly encouraged to submit an abstract for poster presentation as attendance is strictly limited, and the conference typically sells out. Abstract submission deadline is 24 Jan 2020. Send us your best work! -- John S. Pezaris, Ph.D. john at areadne.org From hocine.cherifi at gmail.com Tue Nov 19 17:17:49 2019 From: hocine.cherifi at gmail.com (Hocine Cherifi) Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2019 23:17:49 +0100 Subject: Connectionists: COMPLEX NETWORKS 2019 PROGRAM IS NOW AVAILABLE Message-ID: We have prepared an exciting program. It is now available at http://www.complexnetworks.org/program We take great pleasure in welcoming you in Lisbon. Sincerely yours. 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URL: From miguel.solis at innovacionyrobotica.com Wed Nov 20 12:04:01 2019 From: miguel.solis at innovacionyrobotica.com (=?UTF-8?Q?Miguel_Sol=C3=ADs?=) Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2019 14:04:01 -0300 Subject: Connectionists: [ICDL-2020] Call for Workshops and Special Sessions Message-ID: [Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this call due to cross-posting] CALL FOR WORKSHOPS AND SPECIAL SESSIONS: 10th IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL) 7th-10th September 2020, Valparaiso, Chile Web page: https://cdstc.gitlab.io/icdl-2020/ An IEEE Computational Society-sponsored conference ==== Important Dates ==== Workshop Proposals Open: 15th December 2019 Workshop Proposals Deadline: 15th January 2020 Workshop Proposals Notification: 15th February 2020 Workshops: 7th September 2020 ==== Overview ==== We invite experts in different areas to organize either a half-day or full-day tutorial, special session or a workshop. The goal of the workshops is to provide an informal forum for researchers to discuss emerging research questions and challenges. Tutorials will provide insights into specific topics through hands-on training and interactive experiences. Workshop organizers have several responsibilities, including coordinating workshop participation and content, publicizing and providing the program on time and moderating the program throughout the workshop. ICDL will support the organization with rooms, audio-visual equipment, coffee breaks and poster boards. ==== Scope and Topics ==== The main list of topics of interest includes, but not limited to: - principles and theories of development and learning; - development of skills in biological systems and robots; - nature vs nurture, developmental stages; - models on the contributions of interaction to learning; - verbal, non-verbal and multi-modal interaction; - models on active learning; - architectures for lifelong learning; - emergence of body and affordance perception; - analysis and modelling of human motion and state; - models for prediction, planning and problem solving; - models of human-human and human-robot interaction; - emergence of verbal and non-verbal communication; - epistemological foundations and philosophical issues; - robot prototyping of human and animal skills; - ethics and trust in computational intelligence and robotics; - social learning in humans, animals, and robots. ==== Submission format ==== Proposals should be maximum of two pages long following the standard IEEE conference style. Proposals should be submitted in PDF format by email to icdl2020 at ac3e.cl with subject ?[Tutorials and Workshops]?. Proposals should specify the following: - Title - Organizers - Duration (half-day or full-day) - A brief description of the topics to be covered - List of speakers (if available) - Tentative program - Target audience and interested groups - Whether it is open to paper/poster/demonstration submissions - Website - Any logistic requirements such as poster stands, computers, projector, etc. - Contact information from a Technical Committee (TC) chair in case your workshop is in conjunction with an IEEE TC. List of IEEE RAS TC's and IEEE CIS TC?s are linked below: - https://www.ieee-ras.org/technical-committees - https://cis.ieee.org/technical-committees For more information about the conference, travel grants, social events, etc. visit the conference webpage under https://cdstc.gitlab.io/icdl-2020/ ==== Organizing committee ==== General Chairs: Giulio Sandini, and Javier Ruiz-del-Solar Program and Finance Chairs: Nicol?s Navarro-Guerrero, and Mar?a-Jos? Escobar Bridge Chairs: Minoru Asada, Fr?d?ric Alexandre, and Linda Smith Publicity Chairs: Carmelo Bastos, Maya Cakmak, Angelo Cangelosi, Yukie Nagai, and Emre Ugur Publication Chairs: Pablo Barros, and Haian Wu Tutorials and Workshops Chair: Miguel Solis Travel and Registration Awards Chair: Francisco Cruz Local chairs: Mauricio Araya Webpage Chairs: Crist?bal Nettle, and Patricio Castillo Graphics: Camila Angel Alfaro Best regards from the organizing committee, -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From michele.giugliano at sissa.it Wed Nov 20 12:26:12 2019 From: michele.giugliano at sissa.it (Michele Giugliano) Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2019 18:26:12 +0100 Subject: Connectionists: Developing advanced nanotechnology for neuroscience: 2 postdoc positions available Message-ID: <361777F7-71DB-45E2-B01B-1F522D948B4E@sissa.it> The positions are funded for up to 42 months on a newly funded EC-Horizon 2020 project called "Ionic Neuromodulation For Epilepsy Treatment (IN-FET)", combining neurobiology, nanotechnologies, electrochemistry, and electronics together for designing a breakthrough novel technology in brain modulation. We aim at experimentally validating novel routes for cellular and microcircuit stimulation or suppression, in collaboration with a consortium of partners which includes IBM Research Zurich, the University of Geneva, the University of Sheffield, and the Inter-university consortium for Nanoelectronics. We search for experts in in vitro electrophysiology (substrate-integrated microelectrode arrays) and patch-clamp recordings (dissociated cell cultures, acute and organotypic brain tissue slices) with a strong background in quantitative data analysis and a strong interest for interdisciplinary research. The link to the text of the call is https://www.sissa.it/bandi/selezione-pubblica-titoli-colloquio-conferimento-di-n-2-assegni-di-ricerca-area-neuroscienze The deadline for the application is 14/01/2020 at 13.00 and the link to apply is https://pica.cineca.it/sissa/ar-fe-neur-45-2019/ For any information, email to assegniricerca at sissa.it From ariel.9arcia at gmail.com Wed Nov 20 15:52:04 2019 From: ariel.9arcia at gmail.com (Ariel Ruiz-Garcia) Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2019 20:52:04 +0000 Subject: Connectionists: CFP[final reminder]: Neural Networks journal special issue on GANs Message-ID: *TL;DR ? CFP*: Neural Networks journal special issue on GANs *GUEST EDITORS*: Ariel Ruiz-Garcia, J?rgen Schmidhuber, Vasile Palade, Clive Cheong Took, Danilo Mandic *SUBMISSION DEADLINE*: 30th November [final] 2019 ---------------------------------- *CALL FOR PAPERS[final reminder]*: Neural Networks Journal *Special Issue on Deep Neural Network Representation and Generative Adversarial Learning* Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have proven to be efficient systems for data generation. Their success is achieved by exploiting a minimax learning concept, which has proved to be an effective paradigm in earlier works, such as predictability minimization, in which two networks compete with each other during the learning process. One of the main advantages of GANs over other deep learning methods is their ability to generate new data from noise, as well as their ability to virtually imitate any data distribution. However, generating realistic data using GANs remains a challenge, particularly when specific features are required; for example, constraining the latent aggregate distribution space does not guarantee that the generator will produce an image with a specific attribute. On the other hand, new advancements in deep representation learning (RL) can help improve the learning process in Generative Adversarial Learning (GAL). For instance, RL can help address issues such as dataset bias and network co-adaptation, and identify a set of features that are best suited for a given task. Despite their obvious advantages and their application to a wide range of domains, GANs have yet to overcome several challenges. They often fail to converge and are very sensitive to parameter and hyper-parameter initialization. Simultaneous learning of a generator and a discriminator network often results in overfitting. Moreover, the generator model is prone to mode collapse, which results in failure to generate data with several variations. Accordingly, new theoretical methods in deep RL and GAL are required to improve the learning process and generalization performance of GANs, as well as to yield new insights into how GANs learn data distributions. This special issue on Deep Neural Network Representation and Generative Adversarial Learning invites researchers and practitioners to present novel contributions addressing theoretical and practical aspects of deep representation and generative adversarial learning. The special issue will feature a collection of high quality theoretical articles for improving the learning process and the generalization of generative neural networks. State-of-the-art applications based on deep generative adversarial networks are also very welcome. Topics of interest for this special issue include, but are not limited to: Representation learning methods and theory; Adversarial representation learning for domain adaptation; Network interpretability in adversarial learning; Adversarial feature learning; RL and GAL for data augmentation and class imbalance; New GAN models and new GAN learning criteria; RL and GAL in classification; Adversarial reinforcement learning; GANs for noise reduction; Recurrent GAN models; GANs for imitation learning; GANs for image segmentation and image completion; GANs for image super-resolution; GANs for speech and audio processing GANs for object detection; GANs for Internet of Things; RL and GANs for image and video synthesis; RL and GANs for speech and audio synthesis; RL and GANs for text to audio or text to image synthesis; RL and GANs for inpainting and sketch to image; RL and GAL in neural machine translation; RL and GANs in other application domains. *Important Dates:* 30 November 2019 ? Submission deadline 28 February 2020 ? First decision notification 30 April 2020 ? Revised version deadline 30 June 2020 ? Final decision notification September 2020 ? Publication (*papers available online as soon as accepted*). *Guest Editors:* Dr Ariel Ruiz-Garcia Coventry University, UK Email: ariel.9arcia at gmail.com Professor J?rgen Schmidhuber NNAISENSE, Swiss AI Lab IDSIA, USI & SUPSI, Switzerland Email: juergen at idsia.ch Professor Vasile Palade Coventry University, UK Email: vasile.palade at coventry.ac.uk Dr Clive Cheong Took Royal Holloway (University of London), UK Email: Clive.CheongTook at rhul.ac.uk Professor Danilo Mandic Imperial College London, UK Email: d.mandic at imperial.ac.uk *Submission Procedure:* Prospective authors should follow the standard author instructions for Neural Networks, and submit manuscripts online at http://ees.elsevier.com/neunet/. Authors should select ?VSI:RL and GANs? when they reach the ?Article Type? step and the "Request Editor" step in the submission process. For any questions related to the special issue please email Dr Ariel Ruiz-Garcia (ariel.9arcia at gmail.com) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From aurelie.calabrese at inria.fr Wed Nov 20 11:21:03 2019 From: aurelie.calabrese at inria.fr (Aurelie Calabrese) Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2019 17:21:03 +0100 (CET) Subject: Connectionists: Several Master internship openings in Biovision Lab at Inria (Sophia-Antipolis, France) Message-ID: <1560770839.10998880.1574266863432.JavaMail.zimbra@inria.fr> The Biovision Lab is seeking to recruit highly-qualified Master candidates to join our dynamic, multi-disciplinary research team, which primary goal is to study vision impairment from theoretical and applied perspectives. You will be based in Sophia-Antipolis on the French Riviera , in the Inria Research center. Each Master internship could be followed by a Ph.D. (3-year duration in France). Please visit this address [ https://team.inria.fr/biovision/job-offers | https://team.inria.fr/biovision/job-offers ] for the full list of available openings . The goal of the Biovision Lab is to investigate new solutions to help visually-impaired people, through fundamental research as well as innovative technological developments. Our research relies on the integration of multiple techniques for studying human vision with a focus on vision impairment. Approaches include biophysical modeling , dynamical systems analysis, statistical physics, numerical simulation, visual psychophysics , image processing, ergonomics, virtual, and augmented reality . We have two main axes of research. The first focuses on the development of high-tech vision aids and rehabilitation methods for low-vision patients. The second focuses on the precise modeling of the early visual system (retina, thalamus, cortex V1) for normal and dystrophic conditions, targeting applications for blind individuals. These axes are developed in strong synergy, involving a vast network of national and international collaborators with neuroscientists, physicians, and modellers. Biovision Lab is part of Inria, the French Research Institute for Digital Sciences . Inria employs 2,500 people. Its 200 agile project-teams, generally with academic partners, involve more than 3,000 scientists in meeting the challenges of computer science and mathematics, often at the interface of other disciplines. Internships at Inria are an opportunity to immerse yourself in the world of research , in direct contact with researchers. Over and above the Institute's scientific work, interns discover the inner workings of a research institute, learn how it fits into the international research community and how its research has an impact on significant developments in society. To learn more about our positions and how to apply, please visit: [ https://team.inria.fr/biovision/job-offers | https://team.inria.fr/biovision/job-offers ] -- Aur?lie Calabr?se, Ph.D. Research Associate @ Inria Sophia Antipolis - M?diterran?e - FRANCE 2004, route des Lucioles - BP 93 06902 Sophia Antipolis Cedex www.aureliecalabrese.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ben.s.allnewsletters at gmail.com Wed Nov 20 13:03:02 2019 From: ben.s.allnewsletters at gmail.com (Ben S) Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2019 19:03:02 +0100 Subject: Connectionists: FW: Fries Lab PhD and Postdoc positions In-Reply-To: <5536ea17e9474db9bfc969cba7472b22@esi-frankfurt.de> References: <5536ea17e9474db9bfc969cba7472b22@esi-frankfurt.de> Message-ID: <003901d59fcc$c0521fd0$40f65f70$@gmail.com> From: esilist-fries-lab [mailto:esilist-fries-lab-bounces at gwdg.de] On Behalf Of Fries, Pascal via esilist-fries-lab Sent: Wednesday, November 20, 2019 6:19 PM To: esilist-fries-lab at gwdg.de Subject: [ESILIST-FRIES-LAB] Fries Lab PhD and Postdoc positions If anyone of you knows good e-mail lists to distribute this, or you know colleagues, who can distribute it at interesting institutions, please go ahead! The Fries Lab at the Ernst Str?ngmann Institute (ESI) aims to fill Several positions for PhD candidates and Postdocs in Cognitive and Systems Neuroscience in the course of 2020 and early 2021. The Fries Lab investigates rhythmic neuronal synchronization and its functional roles for attention and memory (www.esi-frankfurt.de/pf ). Interactions between different brain areas are studied with multi-site electrophysiology and optogenetics in awake behaving marmoset and macaque monkeys, magnetoencephalography in human subjects, and advanced data analysis. The new lab members will join existing teams with extensive expertise in the relevant techniques, and will typically combine experimental projects with data analysis projects on existing datasets. ESI provides an outstanding infrastructure. All positions are for four years and are core funded by ESI for their full duration. Positions can start at any time in 2020 or early 2021, and this call will remain open until all positions are filled. PhD candidates interested in joining the lab in late 2020 or early 2021 are encouraged to apply to the International Max Planck Research School (IMPRS) for Neural Circuits (www.brain.mpg.de/registration ) with a deadline on 1 December 2019, and to send their application material in parallel directly to ESI at the below mentioned e-mail address. PhD candidates should have a B.Sc. or a M.Sc. or an equivalent qualification in neuroscience or a neuroscience-related discipline like medicine, psychology, physics or biology. Correspondingly, Postdoc candidates should have or expect a Ph.D. in neuroscience or a neuroscience-related discipline. Experience with in-vivo electrophysiology or MEG and with data analysis is a plus. Yet, the main criteria are a strong academic track record and a dedication to perform excellent brain research. Applications should include a motivation letter, a curriculum vitae, copies of the school leaving exam and university degrees, lists of university courses with obtained grades, and the names and e-mail addresses of two scientists, who can provide references (do not include reference letters). Please send your application materials in electronic format (ideally in one PDF file) to: renata.vajda at esi-frankfurt.de . Prof. Dr. Pascal Fries Director, Ernst Str?ngmann Institute (ESI) for Neuroscience in Cooperation with Max Planck Society Deutschordenstr. 46, 60528 Frankfurt, Germany Web: www.esi-frankfurt.de Mail: pascal.fries at esi-frankfurt.de Tel: +49 (0)69 96769 501 Fax: +49 (0)69 96769 555 Pascal Fries @ Google Scholar Sitz der Gesellschaft: Frankfurt am Main Registergericht: Amtsgericht Frankfurt - HRB 84266 Gesch?ftsf?hrer: Prof. Dr. Pascal Fries -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Please see our events below, as well as in the flyer attached. 8 Mar - 11 Mar 2020 EMBL Conference: Advances in Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine https://www.embl.de/training/events/2020/STM20-01/index.html 15 Mar - 18 Mar 2020 EMBO | EMBL Symposium: Inter-Organ Communication in Physiology and Disease https://www.embo-embl-symposia.org/symposia/2020/EES20-02 6 May - 9 May 2020 EMBO Workshop: Microglia 2020 https://www.embl.de/training/events/2020/GLI20-01/index.html 11 May - 14 May 2020 EMBO | EMBL Symposium: Cellular Mechanisms Driven by Liquid Phase Separation https://www.embo-embl-symposia.org/symposia/2020/EES20-04 14 Sep - 17 Sep 2020 EMBO | EMBL Symposium: The Neurovascular Interface https://www.embo-embl-symposia.org/symposia/2020/EES20-08 21 Oct - 24 Oct 2020 EMBO | EMBL Symposium: Organoids: Modelling Organ Development and Disease in 3D Culture https://www.embo-embl-symposia.org/symposia/2020/EES20-11 28 Oct - 31 Oct 2020 EMBO Workshop: Neuroepigenetics: From Cells to Behaviour and Disease https://www.embl.de/training/events/2020/NEG20-01/index.html 8 Nov - 11 Nov 2020 EMBO | EMBL Symposium: Biological Oscillators: Design, Mechanism, Function https://www.embo-embl-symposia.org/symposia/2020/EES20-12 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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For a full description and details of how to apply, please see the announcement on our website: https://www.fz-juelich.de/SharedDocs/Stellenangebote/_common/dna/2019-415-EN-JSC.html All the best, Abigail Morrison -- Prof. Dr. Abigail Morrison IAS-6 / INM-6 / SimLab Neuroscience J?lich Research Center & Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience Ruhr-University Bochum http://www.fz-juelich.de/inm/inm-6 http://www.fz-juelich.de/ias/jsc/slns http://www.ikn.psy.ruhr-uni-bochum.de Office: +49 2461 61-9805 Fax # : +49 2461 61-9460 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Forschungszentrum Juelich GmbH 52425 Juelich Sitz der Gesellschaft: Juelich Eingetragen im Handelsregister des Amtsgerichts Dueren Nr. HR B 3498 Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrats: MinDir Volker Rieke Geschaeftsfuehrung: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Wolfgang Marquardt (Vorsitzender), Karsten Beneke (stellv. Vorsitzender), Prof. Dr.-Ing. Harald Bolt, Prof. Dr. Sebastian M. Schmidt ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ From stdm at zhaw.ch Fri Nov 22 01:25:32 2019 From: stdm at zhaw.ch (Stadelmann Thilo (stdm)) Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2019 06:25:32 +0000 Subject: Connectionists: Experienced Researcher position in Applied Deep Learning at ZHAW School of Engineering in Winterthur/Switzerland Message-ID: We are looking for an experienced researcher (e.g., post-doc) in applied deep learning to work with us on challenging real world use cases from e.g. medical image processing, optical music processing, food waste analysis, and even with deep RL. You can find more about the group and our work here: https://stdm.github.io/research/ You find the job ad and can apply online via: https://www.zhaw.ch/de/jobs/offene-stellen/stelleninserat/job/detail/ESHU6912.1/ Best regards, Thilo ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ZHAW Zurich University of Applied Sciences Prof. Thilo Stadelmann, Dr. rer. nat. Scientific Director, ZHAW digital Professor of Engineering-Information (AI/ML), InIT Institute of Applied Information Technology, ZHAW School of Engineering Fellow, ECLT European Centre for Living Technology, Venice, Italy Phone: +41 58 934 72 08, fax: +41 58 935 72 08 Email: thilo.stadelmann at zhaw.ch Research group: http://stdm.github.io Insitute: www.zhaw.ch/init Office: TD 03.16 (Obere Kirchgasse 2 / InIT) or SG O3.04 (Gertrudstrasse 15, ZHAW digital), CH-8400 Winterthur Postal address: ZHAW School of Engineering, Thilo Stadelmann, Postfach, CH-8401 Winterthur, Switzerland Site plan campus Technikumstrasse / St. Georgenplatz: https://www.zhaw.ch/de/ueber-uns/informationen-fuer-unsere-gaeste-und-besucher/lageplaene/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From vomlel at utia.cas.cz Thu Nov 21 14:18:18 2019 From: vomlel at utia.cas.cz (Jirka Vomlel) Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2019 20:18:18 +0100 Subject: Connectionists: Postdoc position in Probabilistic Graphical Models, Machine Learning, Mathematical Logic, and Variational Methods Message-ID: <1c964020-52bc-109b-8505-e053867a17d5@utia.cas.cz> Institute of Information Theory and Automation, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czechia, EU invites applications? for a two-year postdoctoral position in the Department of Decision-Making Theory (with a possibility of a tenure-track) ideally beginning in February 2020. Most of departmental research activities belong to the area of applied mathematics, the focus is on theoretical problems as well as problems connected with implementations of methods in the following areas: ??? probabilistic models of decision support systems ??? conditional independence structures ??? artificial intelligence ??? mathematical logic ??? mathematical optimization ??? nonsmooth analysis ??? partial differential equations ??? variational calculus Candidates are expected to work in one of the above mentioned or closely-related areas and to have a strong record of, or outstanding potential for, significant research. Moreover, experience in obtaining third-party funds is advantageous. The institute offers a monthly salary of CZK 40 000 (about 1 570 EURO) and yearly benefits supporting e.g. recreational, and sport activities, as well as health care programs.? For scientists moving from abroad, the Czech Academy of Sciences has the EURAXESS office which helps with general questions and issues concerning the Czech administration. For full consideration, complete applications must be received by December 31, 2019, but applications will be accepted until the position is filled. In case of interest, please, send your application by email to the head of the department, Martin Kru??k, at kruzik at utia.cas.cz. The application should be a single PDF file and include a CV, a research statement, and a copy of the PhD diploma. Two letters of recommendation should be sent separately by their authors to the e-mail address given above. For further information see http://www.utia.cas.cz/news/3108 and the department page at http://www.utia.cas.cz/mtr Jirka Vomlel From irina.illina at loria.fr Fri Nov 22 04:10:47 2019 From: irina.illina at loria.fr (Irina Illina) Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2019 10:10:47 +0100 (CET) Subject: Connectionists: Master R2 Internship in Natural Language Processing: weakly supervised learning for hate speech detection Message-ID: <1527995611.12947661.1574413847350.JavaMail.zimbra@loria.fr> Master R2 Internship in Natural Language Processing: weakly supervised learning for hate speech detection * Supervisors: Irina Illina, MdC, Dominique Fohr, CR CNRS Team : Multispeech, LORIA-INRIA Contact: illina at loria.fr, dominique.fohr at loria.fr Duration: 5-6 months Deadline to apply : March 1th, 2020 Required skills : background in statistics, natural language processing and computer program skills (Perl, Python). Candidates should email a detailed CV with diploma Motivations and context Recent years have seen a tremendous development of Internet and social networks. Unfortunately, the dark side of this growth is an increase in hate speech. Only a small percentage of people use the Internet for unhealthy activities such as hate speech. However, the impact of this low percentage of users is extremely damaging. Hate speech is the subject of different national and international legal frameworks. Manual monitoring and moderating the Internet and the social media content to identify and remove hate speech is extremely expensive. This internship aims at designing methods for automatic learning of hate speech detection systems on the Internet and social media data. Despite the studies already published on this subject, the results show that the task remains very difficult (Schmidt et al., 2017; Zhang et al., 2018). In text classification, text documents are usually represented in some so-called vector space and then assigned to predefined classes through supervised machine learning. Each document is represented as a numerical vector, which is computed from the words of the document. How to numerically represent the terms in an appropriate way is a basic problem in text classification tasks and directly affects the classification accuracy. Developments in Neural Network led to a renewed interest in the field of distributional semantics, more specifically in learning word embeddings (representation of words in a continuous space). Computational efficiency was one big factor which popularized word embeddings. The word embeddings capture syntactic as well as semantic properties of the words (Mikolov et al., 2013). As a result, they outperformed several other word vector representations on different tasks (Baroni et al., 2014). Our methodology in the hate speech detection is related on the recent approaches for text classification with Neural Networks and word embeddings. In this context, fully connected feed forward networks, Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) and also Recurrent/Recursive Neural Networks (RNN) have been applied. On the one hand, the approaches based on CNN and RNN capture rich compositional information, and have outperformed the state-of-the-art results in text classification; on the other hand they are computationally intensive and require huge corpus of training data. To train these DNN hate speech detection systems it is necessary to have a very large corpus of training data. This training data must contains several thousands of social media comments and each comment should be labeled as hate or not hate. It is easy to automatically collect social media and Internet comments. However, it is time consuming and very costly to label huge corpus. Of course, for several hundreds of comments this work can be manually performed by human annotators. But it is not feasible to perform this work for a huge corpus of comments. In this case weakly supervised learning can be used : the idea is to train a deep neural network with a limited amount of labelled data. The goal of this master internship is to develop a methodology to weakly supervised learning of a hate speech detection system using social network data (Twitter, YouTube, etc.). Objectives In our Multispeech team, we developed a baseline system for automatic hate speech detection. This system is based on fastText and BERT embeddings (Bojanowski et al., 2017; Devlin et al, 2018) and the methodology of CNN/RNN. During this internship, the master student will work on this system in following directions: * Study of the state-of-the-art approaches in the field of weakly supervised learning; * Implementation of a baseline method of weakly supervised learning for our system; * Development of a new methodology for weakly supervised learning. Two cases will be studied. In the first case, we train the hate speech detection system using a small labeled corpus. Then, we proceed incrementally. We use this first system to label more data, we retrain the system and use it to label new data, In the second case, we refer to learning with noisy labels (labels that can be not correct or given by several annotators who do not agree). References Baroni, M., Dinu, G., and Kruszewski, G. ?Don?t count, predict! a systematic comparison of context-counting vs. contextpredicting semantic vectors?. In Proceedings of the 52nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Volume 1, pages 238-247, 2014. Bojanowski, P., Grave, E., Joulin, A., and Mikolov, T. ?Enriching word vectors with subword information?. Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 5:135?146, 2017. Dai, A. M. and Le, Q. V. ?Semi-supervised sequence Learning?. In Cortes, C., Lawrence, N. D., Lee, D. D., Sugiyama, M., and Garnett, R., editors, Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 28, pages 3061-3069. Curran Associates, Inc, 2015. Devlin J., Chang M.-W., Lee K., Toutanova K. ?BERT: Pre-training of Deep Bidirectional Transformers for Language Understanding?, arXiv:1810.04805v1, 2018. Mikolov, T., Sutskever, I., Chen, K., Corrado, G. S., and Dean, J. ?Distributed representations of words and phrases and their Compositionality?. In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, 26, pages 3111-3119. Curran Associates, Inc, 2013b. Schmidt A., Wiegand M. ?A Survey on Hate Speech Detection using Natural Language Processing?, Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Social Media, 2017. Zhang, Z., Luo, L. ?Hate speech detection: a solved problem? The Challenging Case of Long Tail on Twitter?. arxiv.org/pdf/1803.03662, 2018. -- Irina Illina Associate Professor Lorraine University LORIA-INRIA Multispeech Team office C147 Building C 615 rue du Jardin Botanique 54600 Villers-les-Nancy Cedex Tel:+ 33 3 54 95 84 90 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From joana.pereira at ki.se Fri Nov 22 10:20:46 2019 From: joana.pereira at ki.se (Joana Pereira) Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2019 15:20:46 +0000 Subject: Connectionists: Emerging Topics in Artificial Intelligence - Conference Message-ID: Dear all, We are organizing a conference on ?Emerging Topics in Artificial Intelligence?, which will take place from 23-27 August 2020 in San Diego, USA. 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Travel grant application deadlines 31 December 2019, 11.59PM PST (*Undergraduate* Travel Grant) 14 January 2020, 11.59PM PST (Other travel grants) TAs wanted for a tutorial session. ----------------------------------------------- TRAVEL GRANTS ----------------------------------------------- Applications are now open for travel grants to attend the conference. Each awardee will receive at least $500 to help offset the costs of travel, registration, and accommodations. Larger grants may be available to those traveling from outside North America. Special consideration is given to scientists who have not previously attended the meeting, under-represented minorities, students who are attending the meeting together with a mentor, undergraduate students, and authors of submitted Cosyne abstracts. We currently offer five travel grant programs for New Attendees, Presenters, Mentors, Undergraduates, and Childcare travel grants. For details on applying, see Cosyne.org -> Travel grants. ---------------------------------------------------- COSYNE TUTORIALS ---------------------------------------------------- Cosyne 2019 will host two tutorial sessions on 27 February 2020. For details on Cosyne tutorials please visit Cosyne.org -> Tutorials 20. Tutorial 1: Cosyne 2020 Tutorial session sponsored by the Simons Foundation Topic: Normative approaches to understanding neural coding and behavior Speaker: Ann Hermundstad Ann Hermundstad is a Group Leader in the Computation & Theory research core at Janelia Research Campus. She studies how the brain creates and uses adaptive sensorimotor representations to generate flexible behavior. Her lab uses a combination of theory, modeling, and data analysis to explore how neural circuits can do this efficiently and flexibly, and works in close collaboration with experimentalists to test these ideas in biological systems. *We are recruiting TAs for the tutorial session. If interested, please see Cosyne.org -> Tutorials 20 for details on how to apply.* Tutorial 2 Topic: Neurodata without Borders Tutorial NWB is a data standard for neurophysiology, providing neuroscientists with a common standard to share, archive, use, and build common analysis tools for neurophysiology data. Navigating the Allen Brain Observatory ---------------------------------------------------- COSYNE ---------------------------------------------------- The annual Cosyne meeting provides an inclusive forum for the exchange of empirical and theoretical approaches to problems in systems neuroscience, in order to understand how neural systems function. The MAIN MEETING is single-track. A set of invited talks is selected by the Executive Committee, and additional talks and posters are selected by the Program Committee, based on submitted abstracts. The WORKSHOPS feature in-depth discussion of current topics of interest, in a small group setting. For details on workshop proposals please see below or visit Cosyne.org -> Workshops. Cosyne topics include but are not limited to: neural basis of behavior, sensory and motor systems, circuitry, learning, neural coding, natural scene statistics, dendritic computation, neural basis of persistent activity, nonlinear receptive field mapping, representations of time and sequence, reward systems, decision-making, synaptic plasticity, map formation and plasticity, population coding, attention, and computation with spiking networks. This year we would like to foster increased participation from experimental groups as well as computational ones. Please circulate widely and encourage your students and postdocs to apply. COSYNE INVITED SPEAKERS Matthew Botvinick (Deepmind/Princeton) Megan Carey (Champalimaud) John Cunningham (Columbia) Gul Dolen (Hopkins) Rainer Friedrich (FMI Basel) Sam Gershman (Harvard) Lisa Giocomo (Stanford) Christopher Harvey (Harvard) Mehrdad Jazayeri (MIT) Wei Ji Ma (NYU) Hendrikje Nienborg (Tuebingen/NIH) Linda Wilbrecht (Berkeley) Marta Zlatic (Janelia) ORGANIZING COMMITTEE General Chairs: Eugenia Chiappe (Champalimaud) and Christian Machens (Champalimaud) Program Chairs: Anne-Marie Oswald (U Pittsburgh) and Srdjan Ostojic (Ecole Normale Superieure Paris) Workshop Chairs: Catherine Hartley (NYU) and Blake Richards (McGill) Undergraduate Travel Chairs: Angela Langdon (Princeton) and Robert Wilson (U Arizona) Diversity Chairs: Eva Dyer (Georgia Tech, Emory) and Eric Shea-Brown (U Washington) Publicity Chair: Adam Calhoun (Princeton) Development Chair: Michael Long (NYU) EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Stephanie Palmer (U Chicago) Zachary Mainen (Champalimaud) Alexandre Pouget (U Geneva) Anthony Zador (CSHL) CONTACT meeting [at] cosyne.org ---------------------------------------------------- COSYNE MAILING LISTS ---------------------------------------------------- Please consider adding yourself to Cosyne mailing lists (groups) to receive email updates with various Cosyne-related information and join in helpful discussions. See Cosyne.org -> Mailing lists for details. From hazem at ini.ethz.ch Mon Nov 25 08:26:03 2019 From: hazem at ini.ethz.ch (Hazem Toutounji) Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2019 14:26:03 +0100 Subject: Connectionists: Postdoc position: Institute of Neuroinformatics, ETH and UZH Zurich Message-ID: We seek a postdoctoral researcher with deep interest in human reinforcement learning and decision-making to work on the newly funded project: *Learning and Exploration under Perceptual and Value Uncertainty* Organisms often face the challenge of navigating a world riddled with many sources of uncertainty, be it ambiguous sensory inputs or unreliable behavioral outcomes. Most existing research only considered either of these two sources of uncertainty in the contexts of perceptual decision making for the former, and reinforcement learning and value-based decision making for the latter. The goal of the project is to develop a unifying experimental and theoretical account of human adaptive behavior subject to both perceptual and value uncertainty. The post of 1-year is at the Institute of Neuroinformatics (ini.uzh.ch ) of the University of Zurich and ETH Zurich, in close collaboration with Rafael Polania?s Decision Neuroscience Lab ( decision.ethz.ch ). *Preferable starting date:* February 1st, 2020. The post involves psychophysics and data-driven computational modelling. Candidates should have a PhD in cognitive science, psychology, neuroscience, computational science, or a related field. Preference will be given to applicants with prior experience in designing and conducting psychophysics experiments, in addition to having strong programming (MATLAB or python), computational and statistical skills. *How to apply:* Please write to Hazem Toutounji (hazem at ini.ethz.ch), using the email as a cover letter, preferably before December 9th, 2019. 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URL: From george at cs.ucy.ac.cy Mon Nov 25 09:04:00 2019 From: george at cs.ucy.ac.cy (George Angelos Papadopoulos) Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2019 16:04:00 +0200 Subject: Connectionists: 14th International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science (RCIS 2020): Fifth Call for Papers In-Reply-To: <79C642E7-A715-4967-A66F-89971448CA26@cs.ucy.ac.cy> References: <44330110-137F-4B56-B4BE-CDD88B280A8F@cs.ucy.ac.cy> <21AAA08E-D19C-418D-821C-FF9EFD1616CE@cs.ucy.ac.cy> <79C642E7-A715-4967-A66F-89971448CA26@cs.ucy.ac.cy> Message-ID: <3B0772ED-79F5-403B-BD82-EB590F88E384@cs.ucy.ac.cy> *** Fifth Call for Papers *** 14th International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science (RCIS 2020) Royal Apollonia Beach Hotel 5*, Limassol, Cyprus May 20-22, 2020, Limassol, Cyprus http://rcis-conf.com/ Abstract submission deadline: January 20, 2020 Paper submission deadline: January 27, 2020 (AoE) (Proceedings to be published by Springer; Special Issue in DKE, Elsevier) SCOPE AND TOPICS RCIS aims to bring together scientists, researchers, engineers and practitioners from a wide range of information science fields and to provide opportunities for knowledge sharing and dissemination. RCIS 2020 will continue paying attention to traditional topics at the conference; in addition, we solicit submissions aligned the special theme of Information Science in the Days of Artificial Intelligence. We understand AI in a broad sense, including machine learning, self-adaptation, logic-based reasoning, automation, agents and multiagent systems, natural language processing, etc. RCIS welcomes submissions from the whole spectrum of the information science field. The list of themes and topics includes, but is not limited to: Information Systems and their Engineering ? Requirements Engineering ? Software Testing ? Information Security and Risk ? Method Engineering User-Oriented Approaches ? Social Computing and Social Network Analysis ? User-Centred Design ? Collaborative Computing ? Human Factors in Information Systems Data and Information Management ? Databases and Information ? Information Search and Discovery ? Conceptual Modelling and Ontologies Business Process Management ? Business Process Engineering and Reengineering ? Process Mining ? Enterprise Engineering Domain-specific IS Engineering ? E-Health, e-Government, e-Commerce, ? ? Industry 4.0 ? Web-Based Applications and Services ? Smart Cities Data Science ? Big Data & Business Analytics ? Decision Information Systems ? Knowledge Management ? Knowledge Discovery from Data Information Infrastructures ? Cyber-Physical Systems ? Web Information Systems ? Grid Computing and Cloud Computing ? Internet of Things ? Pervasive and Mobile Computing Reflective Research and Practice ? Research Methodologies in Information Science ? Impact of Information on the Enterprise and the Individual ? Lifecycle Models ? Design Science and Rationale Tutorials, Doctoral Consortium, Posters & Demos will complement the main conference. SUBMISSION PROCESS Papers shall be formatted according to the Springer LNCS/LNBIP conference proceedings template (for LaTeX and Word): https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines . Papers that have already been accepted or are currently under review for other conferences or journals will not be considered for publication at RCIS 2020. Papers should be in English and must be associated to one of the following categories: Technical solution papers (max 16 pages Springer) present solutions that are novel or significantly improve existing approaches. A technical solution paper must include a preliminary validation of the proposed solution, and results must be stated clearly enough so that it is possible to validate them in follow-up research. Evaluation papers (max 16 pages Springer) evaluate existing problem situations or validate proposed solutions through scientific means, i.e., by empirical studies, experiments, case studies, simulations, mathematical proofs, etc. The research method must be sound and appropriate. Industrial practice and experience papers (max 16 pages Springer) thoroughly present problems or challenges encountered in practice, elaborate on success or failure with existing approaches, or report on industrial practice (e.g., methods and tools). A paper in this category shall provide a clear context, detail the problem or the industrial practice, and explain the lessons learned. Work in progress papers (max 8 pages Springer) present relevant preliminary results across the spectrum of information science. These papers can either present a novel technical solution, or report on a preliminary evaluation of a technique. Please note that the maximum length of the paper includes references, appendices, etc. The submission site is https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=rcis2020 . By submitting a paper, the authors agree that at least one of them will register to the conference and present the paper. The appearance of a paper in the Springer proceedings is dependent on the registration of one author within the early registration deadline on March 31, 2020. SPECIAL ISSUE A selection of the best accepted papers of RCIS?20, chosen by a dedicated committee, will be invited to submit an extended version of the RCIS paper to the Data & Knowledge Engineering (DKE) journal published by Elsevier (https://www.journals.elsevier.com/data-and-knowledge-engineering). The selection of the papers to invite will be based on the review scores and arguments, and the potential for extension. IMPORTANT DATES ? Regular paper submission deadline: January 27, 2020 (AoE) ? Notification to authors and registration opening: March 15, 2020 ? Author registration deadline for all paper types: March 31, 2020 ? Camera-ready copy deadline for all paper types: March 31, 2020 ? Conference: May 20-22, 2020 CONFERENCE COMMITTEES Steering Committee ? Sa?d Assar, Institut Mines-Telecom Business School, France ? Marko Bajec,University of Ljubljana, Slovenia ? Pericles Loucopoulos, Manchester University, University Kingdom ? Haralambos Moratidis, University of Brighton, United Kingdom ? Selmin Nurcan, Universit? Paris 1 Panth?on-Sorbonne, France ? Oscar Pastor, Universitat Polit?cnica de Val?ncia, Spain ? Jolita Ralyt?, CUI, University of Geneva, Suisse ? Colette Rolland, Universit? Paris 1 Panth?on-Sorbonne, France General Chairs ? George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus ? Pericles Loucopoulos, Harokopio University of Athens, Greece Organising Chair ? Petros Stratis, Easy Conferences LTD., Cyprus Program Chairs ? 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URL: From simon.lucas at qmul.ac.uk Mon Nov 25 12:23:00 2019 From: simon.lucas at qmul.ac.uk (Simon Lucas) Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2019 17:23:00 +0000 Subject: Connectionists: Fully funded PhD Studentships in Games and Game AI (EPSRC, UK) Message-ID: The IGGI Programme The EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Intelligent Games and Game Intelligence (IGGI) is the world's largest PhD research programme aimed at games. IGGI has up to 12 studentships available for 2020/21 entry (starting September 2020) at the University of York or Queen Mary, University of London (QMUL). Studentships fund full fees (at a Home/EU rate) plus a tax-free living stipend, for a 4-year PhD programme. The deadline for submitting applications for funded studentships is 23:59 GMT on 31st January 2020. We also welcome self-funded applications throughout the year. All accepted IGGI students start at the beginning of the academic year in September. See here for how to apply: http://www.iggi.org.uk/apply/ Who Should Apply We are seeking diverse and motivated candidates to join our 70 current PhD students conducting interdisciplinary research in areas such as: * Using machine learning (ML) and other forms of artificial intelligence (AI) to create interesting, fun, believable game agents * Augmented creativity tools that support game designers and developers, e.g. procedural content generation, AI-assisted game design and testing * Understanding player experience, games user research, and game analytics * Game audio and music * Interaction, user experience, and learning design for games * Using games and gamification to support wellbeing, learning, or social change * Using Esports and other game data to study human behaviour and psychology * Using game AI to improve real-world decision making IGGI students are a diverse group, and admission decisions are made on the basis of your potential to do good work and make a positive impact through games research. We especially welcome applications from female and minority ethnic candidates as well as other groups that are under-represented in games research and industry. Why Apply to IGGI IGGI brings together more than 60 researchers in games and related fields working on creating positive impact on and through games you can draw on as supervisors. You will also receive focused skills training in game design, games research methods, game development, game AI, responsible innovation, and engaging users and the public with your work. In addition, you will have access to optional training in a wide range of topics such as HCI, graphics, audio, psychology, or AI. You will also have opportunities to collaborate with other students and researchers, make games, and share your work through * the annual IGGI Game Jam, a 48 hour game development challenge as part of the Global Game Jam, enhancing your skills in game design, development, and teamwork; * the annual IGGI Conference, showcasing student research alongside industry and academic speakers; * student-led events such as research seminars, board game evenings, or workshops. IGGI will give you the opportunity to work directly with industry and social partner organisations. Placements, research exchanges, and other forms of knowledge exchange will give you the possibility to make a direct positive impact, experience the games industry first hand, and collaborate with researchers and practitioners. Current IGGI students have worked with partner organisations such as Sony Interactive Entertainment, Bossa Studios, Google, Bloomberg, PROWLER.io, Media Molecule, BT, Splash Damage, Microsoft Research, and Sue Ryder. Who Is Eligible to Apply UK, EU, and international students are eligible to apply and receive a stipend and tuition based on EPSRC rules. The UK government has guaranteed that EU students enrolling in the 2020/21 academic year will continue to receive stipends and pay tuition fees covered by the IGGI grant through the duration of their studies even after the UK?s exit from the EU. Since they will arrive in the UK before December 31, 2020, they are also guaranteed the same rights current EU students in the UK (check the useful pages by the UK Council for International Student Affairs or contact us for any questions). International students will need to apply for a Tier 4 visa. 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The School has recently invested in a Media & Data Science research theme, recruiting experts in information retrieval and computational political/media science. The school now aims to further strengthen Media & Data Science theme by recruiting a post-holder that can complement the existing strengths within the School, and can develop, lead and sustain research of international standard in Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning/Data Systems/Information Retrieval; contribute to teaching, assessment, project supervision and curriculum design at undergraduate and postgraduate levels; and participate in School management and organisation. The School has existing strengths in machine learning and information retrieval applied in contexts such as Music Information Retrieval, Politics and Social media, Conversational interaction and Search. As part of our plans to expand our research and teaching activities in this area and collaborate more closely with our neighbours at BBC Scotland, the Section aims to recruit three academic posts in the topics of Machine Learning, Data Systems, Computational Interaction and Information Retrieval that have the potential to expand our existing strengths in media and data science, including but not limited to topics such as: * core machine learning technologies (e.g. graph convolutional networks, architectures for multimedia (video or audio) content) * conversational interaction and search * explainability/interpretability/ethics/fairness in artificial intelligence, machine learning, algorithmic bias, especially applied in a media and search context * data science for communications media * data science for politics and social media * social media analytics * algorithmic content generation * personalisation including (context-aware) recommendation systems/interaction * large-scale data system engineering Apply online at http://www.gla.ac.uk/explore/jobs/ Vacancy Reference: E20420 More details on positions available at: https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/computing/worldchangerswelcome/priorityareas/#/mediaanddatascience Closing date: 12th December 2019 The Information, Data and Analysis Section is led by Professor Roderick Murray-Smith, and has 17 academics, and 46 postdoctoral fellows, research assistants and PhD students active in this area. 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The ongoing research on the connection of sound phenomena with fundamental natural laws has possible great implications in theoretical and applied physics. We expect the research to touch upon various fields within mathematics and physics such as magnetism, sound wave propagation, rose and lissajous curves, symmetry along group theory and Lie groups, octonions, fractal and crystallization patterns. Preference goes to working with PostDoc or PhD graduates in mathematics with experience in coding Python and/or C++, though we are open for applications from anyone finding significant relation to the research from within their field of work and professional skills. Central place of work will be the Spatial Sound Institute in Budapest, Hungary, and might involve traveling from/to Budapest within Europe and/or to visit other partner Institutes from time to time. 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URL: From valentina.ivanova at ri.se Tue Nov 26 07:06:41 2019 From: valentina.ivanova at ri.se (Valentina Ivanova) Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2019 12:06:41 +0000 Subject: Connectionists: [CfP] ESWC 2020 - *One week left* to submit your abstracts to the Research, Resources & In-Use Tracks Message-ID: * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * 3rd Call for Papers The 17th European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2020) May 31st - June 4th, 2020, Heraklion, Crete, Greece. ESWC is a premier venue for discussing the latest scientific results and innovations in the field of semantic technologies on the Web and Linked Data, attracting a high number of participants from academia and industry alike. Follow us: Web Page: https://2020.eswc-conferences.org/ Twitter: @eswc_conf Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ESWCCONF LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/8843932/ Become part of ESWC 2020 by submitting to the following tracks & activities! * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * In this announcement: ******************************************* 1. Call for Papers - Research Track https://2020.eswc-conferences.org/call-for-papers-research-track/ 2. Call for Papers - Resources Track https://2020.eswc-conferences.org/call-for-papers-resources-track/ 3. Call for Papers - In-Use Track https://2020.eswc-conferences.org/call-for-papers-in-use-track/ * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Important deadlines: Research, Resources & In-Use Tracks: * Paper abstract submission (**mandatory**): December 4, 2019 (a week from now) * Paper submission: December 11, 2019 (All deadlines are 23:59 anywhere on earth (UTC-12)) * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * 1. Call for Papers - Research Track ******************************************* The research track of ESWC 2020 is looking for novel and significant research contributions addressing theoretical, analytical and empirical aspects of the Semantic Web. 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 research on the Semantic Web, and are expected to provide some principled means of evaluation. Specifically, all papers should include evaluations of the approaches described in the paper. We strongly encourage evaluations that are repeatable. We also strongly encourage papers that provide links to: the data sets, source code, queries and other resources. Based on previous years submissions, this year we are setting up ten research tracks that reflect some of the main research areas of the Semantic Web and its intersection with other scientific disciplines: * Ontologies and Reasoning https://2020.eswc-conferences.org/call-for-papers-ontologies-and-reasoning-track/ * Natural Language Processing and Information Retrieval https://2020.eswc-conferences.org/call-for-papers-natural-language-processing-and-information-retrieval-track/ * Semantic Data Management and Data Infrastructures https://2020.eswc-conferences.org/call-for-papers-semantic-data-management-and-data-infrastructures-track/ * Social and Human Aspects of the Semantic Web https://2020.eswc-conferences.org/call-for-papers-social-and-human-aspects-of-the-semantic-web-track/ * Machine Learning https://2020.eswc-conferences.org/call-for-papers-machine-learning-track/ * Distribution and Decentralization https://2020.eswc-conferences.org/call-for-papers-distribution-and-decentralization-track/ * Science of Science https://2020.eswc-conferences.org/call-for-papers-science-of-science-track/ * Security, Privacy, Licensing & Trust https://2020.eswc-conferences.org/call-for-papers-security-privacy-licensing-trust-track/ * Knowledge Graphs https://2020.eswc-conferences.org/call-for-papers-eswc-2020-knowledge-graphs-track/ * Integration, Services and APIs https://2020.eswc-conferences.org/call-for-papers-integration-services-apis-track/ Further info: https://2020.eswc-conferences.org/call-for-papers-research-track/ == Important Dates == Abstract submission (mandatory): December 4, 2019 Paper submission: December 11, 2019 Opening of rebuttal period: January 20, 2020 Closing of rebuttal period: January 24, 2020 Notification to authors: February 19, 2020 Camera ready papers due: March 18, 2020 == Program Chairs == Sabrina Kirrane, Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria sabrina.kirrane at wu.ac.at Axel Ngonga, Paderborn University, Germany axel.ngonga at upb.de 2. Call for Papers - Resources Track ******************************************* Many of the research efforts in the areas of the Semantic Web,Linked Data and Knowledge Graphs focus on publishing scientific papers that prove a hypothesis. However, scientific advancement is often reliant on good quality resources that provide the necessary scaffolding to support the scientific publications. Sharing these resources and the best practices that have lead to their development with the research community is crucial, to consolidate research material, ensure reproducibility of results and in general gain new scientific insights. The ESWC 2020 Resources Track aims to promote the sharing of resources including, but not limited to: datasets, ontologies, vocabularies, annotated corpora, workflows, knowledge graphs, evaluation benchmarks or methods, replication studies, services, APIs and software frameworks that have contributed to the generation of novel scientific work. In particular, we encourage the sharing of such resources following best and well established practices within the Semantic Web community, including the provision of an open license and a permalink identifying the resource. 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: * Ontologies developed for an application, with a focus on describing the modelling process underlying their creation; * Datasets produced to support specific evaluation tasks or by a novel algorithm; * Knowledge graphs or remarkable interest that comprehensively cover new vertical domains; * Machine learning models that would impact the knowledge engineering community. Examples include comprehensive word embeddings trained on large corpora, or embeddings of commonly known knowledge graphs, such as DBpedia or Wikidata * Descriptions of a reusable research prototype / service supporting a given research hypothesis; * Descriptions of a dataset produced by a novel algorithm; * Descriptions of community shared software frameworks that can be extended or adapted to support scientific study and experimentation; * Benchmarking, focusing on datasets and algorithms for comprehensible and systematic evaluation of existing and future systems; * Development of new evaluation methodologies, and their demonstration in an experimental study. Further info: https://2020.eswc-conferences.org/call-for-papers-resources-track/ == Important Dates == Abstract submission (mandatory): December 4, 2019 Paper submission: December 11, 2019 Opening of rebuttal period: January 20, 2020 Closing of rebuttal period: January 24, 2020 Notification to authors: February 19, 2020 Camera ready papers due: March 18, 2020 == Track Chairs == Heiko Paulheim, University of Mannheim, Germany heiko at informatik.uni-mannheim.de Anisa Rula, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy rula at disco.unimib.it 3. Call for Papers - In-Use Track ******************************************* Semantic technologies are reaching maturity on and off the web. The In-Use track at ESWC 2020 provides a forum for the community to explore the benefits and challenges of applying semantic technologies in concrete, practical applications, in contexts ranging from industry to government and science. We are especially interested in applications that use the emerging knowledge graphs or semantic annotations on the web together with data mining, machine learning, or natural language processing techniques to the benefit of concrete, real-life scenarios. We are also looking for descriptions of applied and validated industry solutions as software tools, systems or architecture that benefit from the adoption of semantic technologies. Importantly, papers presenting applications in use of semantic technologies should provide evidence that there is use of the proposed application or tool by the target user group, preferably outside the group that conducted the development. A main focus of the submission should be on the way semantics and semantic technologies are impacting this development, through benefiting the intended use case, as well as, if relevant, through the added challenges they introduce. Topics of Interest: We invite the submission of original papers organized around some of the following aspects: * Description and analysis of concrete problems and user requirements for applying semantic technologies in a specific domain * Descriptions of how Semantic Web resources (ontologies, datasets, software, standards, etc) are being used in practice * Analysis and evaluation of usability and uptake of Semantic Web tools and technologies * Scalability analysis and large scale deployment in real world scenarios * Assessment of the pros and cons of using semantic technologies to solve a particular and practical problem * Comparison of semantic technologies with alternative approaches that use conventional or competing technologies * Learned lessons and best practices from deploying and using an application or service based on Semantic Web technologies * Assessment of costs and benefits of implementing, deploying, using, and managing Semantic Web technologies * Analysis of risks and opportunities of using Semantic Web technologies in organizations with respect to their businesses and customers * Descriptions of alternative semantic technologies being deployed in practice * Mobile apps based on semantic technologies that have substantial user base * Applications in domain-specific areas such as Health & Life Sciences, Digital Libraries & Cultural Heritage, Media & Entertainment, Smart Cities, and Open Government Further info: https://2020.eswc-conferences.org/call-for-papers-in-use-track/ == Important Dates == Abstract submission (mandatory): December 4, 2019 Paper submission: December 11, 2019 Opening of rebuttal period: January 20, 2020 Closing of rebuttal period: January 24, 2020 Notification to authors: February 19, 2020 Camera ready papers due: March 18, 2020 == Track Chairs == Anna Lisa Gentile, IBM, USA annalisa.gentile at ibm.com Peter Haase, Metaphacts, Germany phaase at gmail.com Looking forward to your submissions! The ESWC 2020 Organising Team https://2020.eswc-conferences.org/organising-committee/ From kkuehnbe at uos.de Tue Nov 26 10:04:10 2019 From: kkuehnbe at uos.de (=?UTF-8?Q?Kai-Uwe_K=c3=bchnberger?=) Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2019 16:04:10 +0100 Subject: Connectionists: Two Research Positions availble at the IKW, University of Osnabrueck Message-ID: <8aa4330b-a435-a090-62b9-d18629c9782d@uos.de> The Artificial Intelligence research group (Prof. Dr. Kai-Uwe K?hnberger) of the *Institute of Cognitive Science *invites applications for *2 Research Assistants (f/m/d)* *(Salary level E 13 TV-L, 75 %)* ** to be filled as soon as possible for a period until March 31, 2021. *Description of Responsibilities:* The position involves participation in research activities of a ZIM funded joint project of the Institute of Cognitive Science and AIM GmbH, Hannover. The project aims at developing a new generation of decision support technologies for logistics. To this end, data from heterogeneous sources have to be integrated and used for predicting demands and potential bottlenecks in business processes. The system?s decisions have to be presented in a comprehensible and transparent way to the user. Our overall goal is to develop scalable and explainable AI and machine learning methods for planning logistical processes. *Required Qualifications:* ?Applicants should have an excellent academic degree (Master/diploma) in a relevant discipline and basic knowledge in artificial intelligence, machine learning and statistics. ?Experience in the optimization of business processes, the analysis of time series data, or related areas is an advantage. ?Good programming skills and experience with libraries for machine learning or statistics are mandatory (e.g. Python SciPy Stack, TensorFlow, Keras). ?An interest in applying AI technologies to real-world problems. ?A good command of the English language is mandatory. Osnabr?ck University has been certified as a family-friendly university committed to helping working/studying parents and carers balance their family and work life. The university aspires to ensure equal opportunities for men and women and strives to work towards a gender balance in schools or departments where new appointments are made. If equally qualified candidates apply, preference will be given to those with specialneeds. Please send your application consisting of the usual documents as a single PDF file to kkuehnbe at uni-osnabrueck.de (Prof. Dr. Kai-Uwe K?hnberger) and to office at ikw.uni-osnabrueck.de in cc no later than December 17, 2019. Further information can be obtained from Prof. Dr. Kai-Uwe K?hnberger (kkuehnbe at uni-osnabrueck.de). -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Apply here: https://apol-recruit.ucsd.edu/JPF02330 DESCRIPTION TENURE TRACK ASSISTANT TEACHING PROFESSOR OPENING IN MACHINE LEARNING, DEPARTMENT OF COGNITIVE SCIENCE, UC SAN DIEGO The Department of Cognitive Science http://cogsci.ucsd.edu within the Division of Social Sciences at the University of California, San Diego is committed to academic excellence and diversity within the faculty, staff, and student body. We invite applications for a Tenure Track Assistant Teaching Professor position in Machine Learning. We interpret this area broadly and invite candidates who can provide students with strong foundations in machine learning, deep learning, neural networks, and/or visual computation. We are especially interested in candidates who will flourish in a Cognitive Science Department, and whose research, teaching, or service has prepared them to contribute to our commitment to diversity, inclusion, and equity within an academic setting. Joint appointment with other departments can be considered where appropriate. The Assistant Teaching Professor is also known within the UC as an LPSOE (Lecturer with Potential for Security of Employment). The LPSOE series parallels the research-focused series but with emphasis upon excellence in teaching and other instruction-related activities. Individuals in the position are expected to provide outstanding teaching as well as to engage in professional activity (which can include research on pedagogy) and service related to the pedagogical mission of the department and university. This appointment confers membership in the Academic Senate. Master?s Degree, Doctorate, or equivalent degree in Machine Learning, Cognitive Science, Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science or related field required by the start of appointment An interdisciplinary perspective and experience with multiple methodologies is highly valued. The preferred candidate will have strong, demonstrated accomplishments in areas contributing to diversity, equity, and inclusion, and a desire to play a leadership role in advancing UC San Diego?s commitment to achieving excellence and diversity. Candidates will be favored who will contribute to instruction-related activities (e.g., conducting TA training, curriculum development, creation of instructional materials including online instruction, employing new technologies) at the campus, statewide, and national level. All applications must be submitted through https://apol-recruit.ucsd.edu/JPF02330 . UCSD is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer with a strong institutional commitment to academic excellence and diversity. Applicants with interest in dual career resources may visit the Partner Opportunities Program website. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, age, or protected veteran status. JOB LOCATION San Diego, CA LEARN MORE More information about this recruitment: http://www.cogsci.ucsd.edu/ REQUIREMENTS Document requirements Cover Letter - Describe background and interests Curriculum Vitae - Your most recently updated C.V. Statement of Scholarly Activities - May include research on pedagogical focus. Documentation of Teaching Excellence - e.g. links to instructional materials developed by candidate, summaries of teaching evaluations, on-line instructional segments Publications - Include up to 4 representative publications/scholarly articles particularly with a pedagogical focus. Statement of Contributions to Diversity - Applicants should summarize their past or potential contributions to diversity. See our Faculty Equity site for more information. 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URL: From blink.yu at mdpi.com Wed Nov 27 01:03:16 2019 From: blink.yu at mdpi.com (Blink Yu) Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2019 14:03:16 +0800 Subject: Connectionists: =?utf-8?q?Call_for_Paper=3A_=5BInformation=5D_Spe?= =?utf-8?q?cial_Issue--=22Advances_in_Mobile_Gaming_and_Games-based_Leanin?= =?utf-8?q?g=22_=EF=BC=88More_than_15_scholars_agreed_to_submit=EF=BC=89?= Message-ID: Special Issue: Advances in Mobile Gaming and Games-based Leaning Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 January 2020 Website and Planned Papers:https://www.mdpi.com/journal/information/special_issues/MobileGaming_Gamesbased_Learning Guest Editor: Dr. Antonio Coelho Faculdade de Engenharia, Universidade do Porto, 4200-465 Porto, Portugal Dr. Carlos Vaz de Carvalho Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto, Instituto Polit?cnico do Porto, 4200-072 Porto, Portugal ======================= Dear Colleagues, We cordially invite you to submit a manuscript for consideration and possible publication in a Special Issue on "Advances in Mobile Gaming and Games-based Leaning" to be published in an EI, ESCI and Scopus-indexed open access journal Information (http://www.mdpi.com/journal/information). The submission manuscript deadline is 31 January 2020. For more details, please visit the website: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/information/special_issues/MobileGaming_Gamesbased_Learning You may share this invitation with your team members and colleagues; co-authors are most welcome. Please let me know within a month or as soon as possible if you and your colleagues are interested in submitting a manuscript for this special issue. If more time is needed, please feel free to tell us (information at mdpi.com). Your contribution would be most welcome. Information is fully open access. Open access (unlimited and free access by readers) increases publicity and promotes more frequent citations, as indicated by several studies. Open access is supported by the authors and their institutes. An Article Processing Charge (APC) of CHF 1000 currently applies to all accepted papers. You may be entitled to a discount if you have previously received a discount code or if your institute is participating in the MDPI Institutional Open Access Program (IOAP), for more information see: http://www.mdpi.com/about/ioap. For further details on the submission process, please see the instructions for authors at the journal website (http://www.mdpi.com/journal/information/instructions). We hope this topic is of interest to you and look forward to collaborating with you in the near future. Kind regards, Blink Yu Section Managing Editor --- Dear Colleagues, Education is evolving to overcome new challenges related to the unique competencies of the professionals of the future and the requirements of a new generation that is immersed in the digital media world from birth. Digital Games is one of the media that have the potential to reach these two objectives. Game-based learning is the scientific area that focuses on the development of games that are designed over specific learning objectives. From thoroughly crafted educational games to the use of gamification, the new era of the school will be digital. However, we should not forget tangential learning with the use of entertainment games. Mobile games are also leveraging a large community of gamers that relies on the specifics of mobile technology, such as ubiquity and pervasiveness. The solutions can leverage informal learning, literacy, science communication, and citizenship, among a vast area of applications. The aim of this Special Issue is to disclose the new advances in game-based learning and mobile games that can enhance the effectiveness and outreach of learning objects. Topics of interest include but are not limited to the following: Game-based learning; Serious games; Mobile games; Pervasive games; Learning models and practices with the use of games; New technologies for game-based learning: Virtual and augmented reality; New interaction devices, toys, and playthings; Simulations; 3D rendering technologies; Game engines and development tools; Location-based games; Artificial intelligence; Educational games analytics; Assessment and evaluation of educational games; User experience design; The psychology of educational games; Gender and age issues; Social and collaborative games; Security and confidentiality in educational games; Case studies in educational games; Game development for mobile devices. 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From sahanbull at gmail.com Wed Nov 27 11:11:08 2019 From: sahanbull at gmail.com (Sahan Bulathwela) Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2019 16:11:08 +0000 Subject: Connectionists: [CfP] WSDM SUM20 Workshop on State-based User Modelling: FINAL Call for Papers, Deadline: Dec. 1, 2020 Message-ID: Subject: [CfP] WSDM SUM20 Workshop on State-based User Modelling: FINAL Call for Papers, Deadline: Dec. 1, 2020 =========================================================== FINAL Call for Papers: WSDM SUM20: Workshop on State-based User Modelling Houston, Texas - February 7, 2020 https://www.k4all.org/event/wsdmsum20/ =========================================================== * We apologize for cross-posting * We are delighted to announce the workshop on State-based User Modelling (SUM ?20) organised at the ACM Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM) held on February 07, 2020 in Houston, TX, US. Please find further details about the workshop and the focussed topics at https://www.k4all.org/event/wsdmsum20/ We welcome contributions in the form of research papers, ongoing work and position/vision papers in the topics: - User representation and recommender systems - Task understanding and supporting user tasks - State-aware evaluation - Human in the loop - User-aware systems - Cognitive/contextual user understanding - State-aware ML algorithms All submissions and reviews will be handled electronically. Papers must be submitted through Easychair by 23:59, AoE (Anywhere on Earth) on December 1st, 2019. We invite you to submit your contributions at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wsdmsum20 Important Dates December 1, 2019: Deadline for submission of contributions to workshops December 15, 2019: Paper acceptance notification February 7, 2020: WSDM-2020 workshops -- [image: in4maniac Blog] Sahan Bulathwela *"Everyone you will ever meet * *knows* * something you don?t "* [image: https://]in4maniac Blog -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From nsmattei at gmail.com Wed Nov 27 13:32:32 2019 From: nsmattei at gmail.com (Nicholas Mattei) Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2019 12:32:32 -0600 Subject: Connectionists: 1st Call for Nominations: ACM SIGAI Autonomous Agents Research Award 2020 Message-ID: [Apologies for multiple postings.] Call for Nominations: ACM SIGAI Autonomous Agents Research Award 2020 Call as a PDF: https://rebrand.ly/AAAward2020 Nominations are solicited for the 2020 ACM SIGAI Autonomous Agents Research Award. This award is made for excellence in research in the area of autonomous agents. It is intended to recognize researchers in autonomous agents whose **current work** is an important influence on the field. The award is an official ACM award, funded by an endowment created by ACM SIGAI from the proceeds of previous Autonomous Agents conferences. The recipient of the award will receive a monetary prize and a certificate, and will be invited to present a plenary talk at the AAMAS 2020 conference in Auckland, New Zealand. Previous winners of the ACM SIGAI Autonomous Agents Research Award are: Carles Sierra (2019), Craig Boutilier (2018), David Parkes (2017), Peter Stone (2016), Catherine Pelachaud (2015), Michael Wellman (2014), Jeff Rosenschein (2013), Moshe Tennenholtz (2012), Joe Halpern (2011), Jonathan Gratch and Stacy Marsella (2010), Manuela Veloso (2009), Yoav Shoham (2008), Sarit Kraus (2007), Michael Wooldridge (2006), Milind Tambe (2005), Makoto Yokoo (2004), Nicholas R. Jennings (2003), Katia Sycara (2002), and Tuomas Sandholm (2001). For more information on the award, see the Autonomous Agents Research Award page ( http://sigai.acm.org/awards/autonomous_agents_award.html) How to Nominate Anyone can make a nomination. Nominations should be made by email to the chair of the award committee, Stacy Marsella (stacymarsella at gmail.com), and should consist of a short (< 1 page) statement that emphasizes not only the research contributions that the individual has made that merit the award but also how the individual?s **current work** is an important influence on the field. NOTE: a candidate can only be considered for the award if they are explicitly nominated. If you believe that someone deserves the award, then NOMINATE THEM -- don't assume that somebody else will! 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Semantics is an inherently multi-disciplinary field that attracts engagement from a broad range of researchers and practitioners. Participants at the US2TS come from disciplines in computer science and engineering, natural sciences, geoscience, biology, library science, biomedical and health care sciences, social sciences and the humanities, and many others. Discussions at the symposium cover core topics such as the Semantic Web, Ontologies, Knowledge Graph, Linked Data and AI on the Web, Privacy and Trust, etc., as well as the intersection of such topics with areas such as the Internet of Things (IoT) and Blockchains. US2TS 2020 organizational committee invites your contributions and participation in the 2020 edition of US2TS to be held on 9 ? 11 March 2020, in Raleigh, North Carolina. At this time, we are seeking two kinds of contributions (calls for other kinds of contributions will follow shortly). ===================================== ** Call for Sessions Proposals ===================================== We solicit anyone with an interest in the Semantic Web to propose a session for US2TS 2020. A session is any relevant activity that can fit into a 90 minutes slot (you can also propose a session that takes more than one slot). Examples of sessions are: - a panel discussion - a series of presentations on a topic - breakout-style discussions on a proposed topic - a tutorial As the main goal of the Symposium is to foster synergies and collaborations from different fields, we recommend that: 1. At least 2-3 people, preferably from different institutions, propose the session. This is not a strict requirement, mostly a recommendation (if you have a good case for a different setting we will definitely take your proposal into account). 2. All the session leaders are asked to confirm and commit to participate at the time of submission. 3. If your proposal already names speakers or panelists, you must state whether their participation is already confirmed. We encourage session proposals about cross-discipline topics which are of concern for participants from existing sub-communities ** Submission Guidelines -------------------------------------------------------------- Please prepare a (max) 2 page submission indicating: - Name of the session - Topic: please indicate which cross-discipline topics the session will tackle. Here you can also specify if there is any particular vertical of interest (e.g. legal, life science, medical, publisher/scholarly data, cultural heritage, library, museum, oil/gas, engineering, airplane, e-commerce, etc) - Type of session: Panel | Presentations | Break-out discussion | Tutorial | BOF | Other (please specify) - Short description of the session - The 2/3 person team (names & affiliations) that will lead the session - Speakers(when applicable). It is strictly required to specify the speakers if you are proposing a panel, in which case they must be already confirmed. - Expected participation (give a prediction of who would be interested in attending your session) - Submit your proposal on easychair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=us2ts2020 and select Session Proposal as topic ** Symposium outcome -------------------------------------------------------------- After the Symposium we will invite all session chairs to co-edit a summary of the event, which will be formally published. ** Important Dates -------------------------------------------------------------- - Deadline for submissions: * December 9th 2019 * - Notifications: December 18th 2019 - Final program for the sessions: January 14th 2020 - Symposium dates: March 9-11, 2020 ===================================== Call for Lightning Talks ===================================== ** Deadline for submissions: Open until slots filled (first-come first-served) -------------------------------------------------------------- We will have two Lightning Talks sessions. These will be an open forum where any of the participants can present on a chosen topic. Examples of things to discuss: - late breaking research - a position statement - blue sky ideas - new datasets announcements ** Rules: -------------------------------------------------------------- - each presenter will have exactly one slide (PDF, landscape, 3:4) - each presenter will have 2 minutes (we might adjust the time slightly, according to participation, but at least 2 minutes) - presentation slots will be awarded on a first-come-first-served basis (submit early to avoid disappointment) - submit your talk using easychair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=us2ts2020 and selecting "Lightning Talks" as topic ===================================== ** Contact ===================================== All questions about submissions should be emailed to contact us at us2ts2020-org AT googlegroups DOT com You are also welcome to join our social network on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/groups/13783135/ Look forward to your great contributions and participation. 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This work hinges on brain-wide cellular-resolution calcium imaging in the zebrafish model system, complemented by anatomical descriptions, targeted optogenetic manipulations, mathematical modelling, and behavioural analysis. Our goals are both basic (the elucidation of sensory pathways) and translational (the circuit-level modelling of autism endophenotypes), and we welcome new members with either focus. This work is challenging and rewarding, and best suited to researchers who value broad, interdisciplinary approaches to big questions in neuroscience. Culturally, our lab values diversity in all of its forms, and cultivates a mutually supportive and collaborative atmosphere The primary purpose of this opportunity will be to design, conduct and analyse experiments and research to understand functional neural circuitry in the zebrafish model system. Optical physicists, neuroscientists, and mathematicians welcome! A PhD in engineering, physics, neuroscience, mathematics, or relevant related fields is essential to the role. A strong track record in optical physics/engineering, neuroscience, calcium imaging, image analysis or the mathematical modelling of complex systems will be integral to success in the position. These positions are for three years with possibility of extensions Questions can be adressed to Assoc. Prof. Ethan Scott (ethan.scott at uq.edu.au). Applications should be done through : http://search.jobs.uq.edu.au/caw/en/job/508927/postdoctoral-research-fellow Kind regards, Gilles Vanwalleghem, PhD Scott Lab Queensland Brain Institute The University of Queensland Brisbane, Australia -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From gaute.einevoll at nmbu.no Thu Nov 28 08:35:59 2019 From: gaute.einevoll at nmbu.no (Gaute Einevoll) Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2019 13:35:59 +0000 Subject: Connectionists: PhD position in computational neuroscience/brain physics in Oslo Norway Message-ID: PhD-position in Computational Neuroscience/Brain Physics in Oslo, Norway Applications are invited for a position as PhD Research Fellow available at the Department of Biosciences in the research group of Professors Gaute Einevoll and Marianne Fyhn at CINPLA. The position is funded by the UiO:Life Science Initiative, Convergence Environments to the project ?MultiModal Mental Models: converging approaches from genomes to mental illness and interplay with psychosocial stressors (4MENT)?. The successful candidate will work on model-based exploration of cortical neuron and neural network models, in particular effects of genetic variants on neural functions. The modeling work will be carried out in collaboration with statistical geneticists as well as researchers working with stem cells and brain imaging. The goal of the project is to build models for mental phenotypes that are relevant in schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. The candidate will work in the cross-disciplinary environment Center for Integrative Neuroplasticity (cinpla.org), a research center set up by the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences. Presently, CINPLA includes about twenty biologists, physicists, and computer scientists co-localised in the building of Department of Biosciences at UiO. The candidate will develop and use state-of-the-art computer simulation packages and national supercomputer resources. The fellowships will be for a period of 3 years, with no compulsory work, or for a period of 4 years, with 25 % compulsory work at the UiO:LifeScience. Anticipated start date is Winter/Spring 2020. The research fellow must take part in the Faculty?s appproved PhD program and is expected to complete the project within the set fellowship period. Requirements: * Master?s degree in physics, mathematics, or computer science. The Master thesis should preferably have been done within computational neuroscience, but also candidates with master projects in other branches of computational science may be considered. * Foreign completed degree (M.Sc.-level) corresponding to a minimum of four years in the Norwegian educational system. * The candidate must have demonstrated strong skills in developing codes for scientific computing. * A good command of English is required. For more information, including on how to apply, see: https://www.jobbnorge.no/en/available-jobs/job/178653/phd-research-fellowship-in-computational-neuroscience-brain-physics Deadline for application: December 18th 2019 For questions, please contact professor Gaute T. 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URL: From acmicmi.publicity at gmail.com Fri Nov 29 06:18:40 2019 From: acmicmi.publicity at gmail.com (acmicmi publicity) Date: Fri, 29 Nov 2019 12:18:40 +0100 Subject: Connectionists: ICMI 2020: Call for Long and Short Papers Message-ID: *************************************** ICMI 2020: Call for Long and Short Papers http://icmi.acm.org/2020/index.php?id=cfp 25-29 Oct 2020, Utrecht, The Netherlands *************************************** Call for Long and Short Papers The 22nd International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI 2020) will be held in Utrecht, the Netherlands. ICMI is the premier international forum for multidisciplinary research on multimodal human-human and human-computer interaction, interfaces, and system development. The conference focuses on theoretical and empirical foundations, component technologies, and combined multimodal processing techniques that define the field of multimodal interaction analysis, interface design, and system development. We are keen to showcase novel input and output modalities and interactions to the ICMI community. ICMI 2020 will feature a single-track main conference which includes: keynote speakers, technical full and short papers (including oral and poster presentations), demonstrations, exhibits and doctoral spotlight papers. The conference will also feature workshops and grand challenges. The proceedings of ICMI 2020 will be published by ACM as part of their series of International Conference Proceedings and Digital Library. We also want to welcome conference papers from behavioral and social sciences. These papers allow us to understand how technology can be used to increase our scientific knowledge and may focus less on presenting technical or algorithmic novelty. For this reason, the "novelty" criteria used during ICMI 2020 review will be based on two sub-criteria (i.e., scientific novelty and technical novelty as described below). Accepted papers at ICMI 2020 only need to be novel on one of these sub-criteria. In other words, a paper which is strong on scientific knowledge contribution but low on algorithmic novelty should be ranked similarly to a paper that is high on algorithmic novelty but low on knowledge discovery. - Scientific Novelty: Papers should bring some new knowledge to the scientific community. For example, discovering new behavioral markers that are predictive of mental health or how new behavioral patterns relate to children?s interactions during learning. It is the responsibility of the authors to perform a proper literature review and clearly discuss the novelty in the scientific discoveries made in their paper. - Technical Novelty: Papers reviewed with this sub-criterion should include novelty in their computational approach for recognizing, generating or modeling data. Examples include: novelty in the learning and prediction algorithms, in the neural architecture, or in the data representation. Novelty can also be associated to a new usage of an existing approach. Please see the Submission Guidelines for Authors https://icmi.acm.org/2020/index.php?id=authors for detailed submission instructions. This year?s conference theme: In this information age, technological innovation is at the core of our lives and rapidly transforming and impacting the state of the world in art, culture, and society, and science as well - the borders between classical disciplines such as humanities and computer science are fading. In particular, we wonder how multimodal processing of human behavioural data can create meaningful impact in art, culture, and society practices. And vice versa, how does art, culture, and society influence our approaches and techniques in multimodal processing? As such, this year, ICMI welcomes contributions on our theme for Multimodal processing and representation of Human Behaviour in Art, Culture, and Society. Additional topics of interest include but are not limited to: - Affective computing and interaction - Cognitive modeling and multimodal interaction - Gesture, touch and haptics - Healthcare, assistive technologies - Human communication dynamics - Human-robot/agent multimodal interaction - Interaction with smart environment - Machine learning for multimodal interaction - Mobile multimodal systems - Multimodal behavior generation - Multimodal datasets and validation - Multimodal dialogue modeling - Multimodal fusion and representation - Multimodal interactive applications - Speech behaviors in social interaction - System components and multimodal platforms - Visual behaviours in social interaction - Virtual/augmented reality and multimodal interaction Important Dates Paper Submission: May 4, 2020 (11:59pm GMT-7) Reviews to authors: July 3, 2020 Rebuttal due: July 10, 2020 (11:59pm GMT-7) Paper notification: July 20, 2020 Camera ready paper: August 17, 2020 Presenting at main conference: October 25-29, 2020 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From martaruizcostajussa at gmail.com Sat Nov 30 04:41:32 2019 From: martaruizcostajussa at gmail.com (Marta Ruiz) Date: Sat, 30 Nov 2019 10:41:32 +0100 Subject: Connectionists: 1st CFP COLING 2nd Workshop on Gender Bias for Natural Language Processing Message-ID: 1st CFP COLING 2nd Workshop on Gender Bias for Natural Language Processing http://genderbiasnlp.talp.cat 14th September, Barcelona Gender and other demographic biases in machine-learned models are of increasing interest to the scientific community and industry. Models of natural language are highly affected by such biases, present in widely used products, can lead to poor user experiences. There is a growing body of research into fair representations of gender in NLP models. Key example approaches are to build and use fairer training and evaluation datasets (e.g. Reddy & Knight, 2016, Webster et al., 2018, Maadan et al., 2018), and to change the learning algorithms themselves (e.g. Bolukbasi et al., 2016, Chiappa et al., 2018). While these approaches show promising results, there is more to do to solve identified and future bias issues. To make progress as a field, we need standard tasks that quantify bias. Shared Task We will be hosting a shared task on Kaggle in the lead up to the workshop. The task will focus on gender bias in the resolution of reflexive possessive pronouns across languages. Competing teams will be asked to submit systems that perform a range of core tests of natural language understanding (coreference resolution, natural language inference, language modeling) on examples featuring ambiguous reflexive possessive pronouns in three languages, and measured on the level of bias they exhibit across tasks. Instructions to participants will be published on the workshop website. To encourage inclusion, Kaggle will offer to compute resources to all competing teams. Topics of interest We invite submissions of technical work exploring the detection, measurement, and mediation of gender bias in NLP models and applications. Other important topics are the creation of datasets exploring demographics such as metrics to identify and assess relevant biases or focusing on fairness in NLP systems. Finally, the workshop is also open to non-technical work welcoming sociological perspectives. Paper Submission Information Submissions will be accepted as short papers (4-6 pages) and as long papers (8-10 pages), plus additional pages for references, following the COLING 2020 guidelines. Supplementary material can be added. Blind submission is required. Shared task participants will be invited to submit short papers (4-6 pages, plus references). There is no need to anonymize papers in this shared task submission. Important dates Shared Task March 2. Competition open (development data available) April 20-24. Official evaluation (test data available) May 1. Winners announced May 20. Shared task papers due Technical Papers May 20. Deadline for Submission June 24. Notification of acceptance July 11. Camera ready submission Keynote Natalie Schluter, University of Copenhagen Programme Committee Svetlana Kiritchenko, National Council Canada, Canada Kai-Wei Chang, University of Washington, US Sharid Lo?iciga, University of Gothenburg, Sweden Zhengxian Gong, Soochow University, China Marta Recasens, Google, US Bonnie Webber, University of Edinburgh, UK Ben Hachey, Harrison.ai, Australia Mercedes Garc?a Mart?nez, Pangeanic, Spain Sonja Schmer-Galunder, Smart Information Flow Technologies, US Matthias Gall?, NAVER LABS Europe, France Sverker Sikstr?m, Lund University, Sweden Michal Kosinski, Stanford University, US Organizers Marta R. Costa-juss?, Universitat Polit?cnica de Catalunya, Barcelona Christian Hardmeier, Uppsala University Kellie Webster, Google AI Language, New York Will Radford, Canva, Sydney Contact persons General Workshop: Marta R. Costa-juss?: marta (dot) ruiz (at) upc (dot) edu Shared Task: Kellie Webster: websterk (at) google (dot) com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: