From info at icas.cc Fri Mar 1 03:52:53 2024 From: info at icas.cc (ICAS Organizing Committee) Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2024 09:52:53 +0100 Subject: Connectionists: LOD 2024 1st Call for papers: 10th International Conference on Learning, Optimization and Data - LOD 2024, 22-25 September, Riva del Sole Resort & SPA, Castiglione della Pescaia (Grosseto) Tuscany, Italy -> Submission Deadline: March 23 Message-ID: Dear Colleague, Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this announcement. Please kindly help forward it to potentially interested authors/attendees, thanks. -- The 10th International Conference on Learning, Optimization and Data - LOD 2024, 22-25 September, Riva del Sole Resort & SPA, Castiglione della Pescaia (Grosseto) Tuscany, Italy LOD 2024, An Interdisciplinary Conference: Deep Learning, Foundation Models & Artificial Intelligence without Borders https://lod2024.icas.events/ lod at icas.cc SATELLITE EVENTS: 2nd International Meeting on Foundation Models - IMFM2024 https://lod2024.icas.events/imfm2024/ 1st Workshop AI in Life Sciences - WAILS2024 https://lod2024.icas.events/wails2024/ 24 TRACKS: https://lod2024.icas.events/tracks/ PAPERS SUBMISSION: All papers must be submitted using EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lod2024 *Paper Submission deadline: March 23 (Anywhere on Earth)* CALL FOR PAPERS: https://lod2024.icas.events/call-for-papers/ Please prepare your paper using the Springer Nature - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) template. Papers must be submitted in PDF. TYPES OF SUBMISSIONS: When submitting a paper to LOD 2024, authors are required to select one of the following three types of papers: * long paper / Late breaking paper: original novel and unpublished work (min. 12 pages, max. 15 pages in Springer LNCS format); * short paper: an extended abstract of novel work (min. 6 pages, max. 11 pages in Springer LNCS format); * work for oral presentation only (no page restriction; any format). For example, work already published elsewhere, which is relevant, and which may solicit fruitful discussion at the conference; LOD 2024 KEYNOTE SPEAKERS: Vivek Natarajan, Google Health AI, San Francisco Bay Area, CA, USA Keynote Talk: "How LLMs might accelerate biomedical discovery and help scale world class healthcare to everyone" Johannes Schmidt-Hieber, University of Twente, The Netherlands Keynote Talk: "Towards a statistical foundation for machine learning methods" https://lod2024.icas.events/keynote/ PAST LOD KEYNOTE SPEAKERS: https://lod2023.icas.cc/past-keynote-speakers/ BEST PAPER AWARD: Springer sponsors the LOD 2024 Best Paper Award with a cash prize of 1,000 Euro. https://lod2024.icas.events/best-paper-award/ PROGRAM COMMITTEE: 150+ confirmed PC members! https://lod2024.icas.events/program-committee/ VENUE: https://lod2024.icas.events/venue/ The venue of LOD 2024 will be Riva del Sole Resort & SPA, Castiglione della Pescaia (Grosseto) Tuscany - Italy. LOD 2024 is a Residential Conference, all participants (invited speakers, authors, organizers, chairs, participants) must book and stay at the Riva del Sole Resort and Spa. No exceptions are allowed. https://lod2024.icas.events/lod-2024-a-residential-conference/ Riva del Sole Resort & SPA a: Localit? Riva del Sole - Castiglione della Pescaia (Grosseto, CAP 58043? Tuscany - Italy p: +39-0564-928111 f: +39-0564-935607 e: booking.events at rivadelsole.it w: www.rivadelsole.it/en ACTIVITIES: https://lod2024.icas.events/activities/ Submit your research work today! https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lod2024 See you in the beautiful Tuscany in September! Best regards, LOD 2024 Organizing Committee. 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We apologise in case you received multiple copies *** =================================== Conference announcement + key dates =================================== The 15th International Conference on Scalable Uncertainty Management (SUM 2022) will be held in Palermo, Italy from November 27-29, 2024. See: https://sum2024.unipa.it/ Key dates (CET 23:59): Abstract Submission (optional but useful to organizers): June 17, 2024 Paper Submission: June 24, 2024 Notification: August 31, 2024 Camera-ready copies: September 15, 2024 Conference: Nov. 27-29, 2024 ============= Description ============= Established in 2007, the SUM conferences are annual events which aim to gather researchers with a common interest in managing and analyzing imperfect information from a wide range of fields, such as Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, Databases, Information Retrieval and Data Mining, the Semantic Web and Risk Analysis, and with the aim of fostering collaboration and cross-fertilization of ideas from the different communities. An originality of the SUM conferences is their care for dedicating a large space of their program to tutorials covering a wide range of topics related to uncertainty management. Each tutorial provides a survey of one of the research areas in the scope of the conference. ===================== Topics of Interest ===================== We solicit papers on the management of large amounts of complex kinds of uncertain, incomplete, or inconsistent information. We are particularly interested in papers that focus on bridging gaps, for instance between different communities, between numerical and symbolic approaches, or between theory and practice. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): Imperfect information in databases - Methods for modeling, indexing, and querying uncertain databases - Top-k queries, skyline query processing, and ranking - Approximate, fuzzy query processing - Uncertainty in data integration and exchange - Uncertainty and imprecision in geographic information systems - Probabilistic databases and possibilistic databases? - Data provenance and trust - Data summarization - Very large datasets Imperfect information in information retrieval and semantic web applications - Approximate schema and ontology matching - Uncertainty in description logics and logic programming - Learning to rank, personalization, and user preferences - Probabilistic language models - Combining vector-space models with symbolic representations - Inductive reasoning for the semantic web Imperfect information in artificial intelligence - Statistical relational learning, graphical models, probabilistic inference Argumentation, defeasible reasoning, belief revision - Weighted logics for managing uncertainty - Reasoning with imprecise probability, Dempster-Shafer theory, possibility theory - Approximate reasoning, similarity-based reasoning, analogical reasoning - Planning under uncertainty, reasoning about actions, spatial and temporal reasoning - Incomplete preference specifications - Learning from data Risk analysis - Aleatory vs. epistemic uncertainty - Uncertainty elicitation methods - Uncertainty propagation methods - Decision analysis methods - Tools for synthesizing results ======================== Submission Guidelines ======================== SUM 2020 solicits original papers in the following three categories: - Long papers (at most 14 pages, references excluded): technical papers reporting original research or survey papers - Short papers (between 4 and 7 pages, references excluded): papers reporting promising work-in-progress, system descriptions, position papers on controversial issues, or survey papers providing a synthesis of some current research trends - Extended abstracts (2 pages) of recently published work in a relevant journal or top-tier conference All SUM submissions must be formatted according to the LNCS/LNAI guidelines:https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines Papers should be submitted via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sum2024 ============= Publication ============= Accepted long (at most 14 pages) and short papers (2-7 pages) will be published by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) series. Authors of an accepted long or short paper will be expected to sign copyright release forms, and one author is expected to give a presentation at the conference. Authors of accepted abstracts (2 pages) will be expected to present their work during the conference, but the extended abstracts will not be published in the LNCS/LNAI proceedings (they will be made available in a separate booklet) ========================================================================================= Organization ========================================================================================= S?bastien Destercke (Universit? de technologie de Compi?gne), PC Co Chair Maria Vanina Martinez (IIIA-CSIC), PC Co Chair Giuseppe Sanfilippo, (University of Palermo), General/Local Chair From wanling.cai at tcd.ie Fri Mar 1 08:52:46 2024 From: wanling.cai at tcd.ie (Wanling Cai) Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2024 13:52:46 +0000 Subject: Connectionists: [ACM IUI 2024] Reminder: Online Registration until 7th March Message-ID: * We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this email * * Online version: https://iui.acm.org/2024/registration.html ACM IUI 2024 ? Online Registration until 7th March 29th International ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (ACM IUI 2024) Greenville, South Carolina, USA, March 18-21, 2024 https://iui.acm.org/2024/ https://iui.acm.org/2024/index.html ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (ACM IUI) 2024 is the 29th annual premiere venue, where researchers and practitioners will meet and discuss state-of-the-art advances at the intersection of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Human-Computer Interaction (HCI). Ideal IUI submissions should address practical HCI challenges using machine intelligence and discuss both computational and human-centric aspects of such methodologies, techniques, and systems. The theme for this year will be Resilience, covering a wide variety of topics, such as COVID-19 recovery, organizational cyber resilience, economic growth and stability, climate change recovery, intelligent user interface resilience, and similar. 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URL: From bbiancardi at cesi.fr Fri Mar 1 10:32:16 2024 From: bbiancardi at cesi.fr (BIANCARDI Beatrice) Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2024 15:32:16 +0000 Subject: Connectionists: CfP AVI 2024 Advanced Visual Interfaces - Last Call for Posters and Demos In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: CfP AVI 2024 Advanced Visual Interfaces - Last Call for Posters and Demos ACM in-cooperation Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces ================================================= 3-7 June 2024 Genoa, Italy https://avi2024.dibris.unige.it ================================================= [https://lh7-us.googleusercontent.com/KHzhQaX3x2eaEfSI16VCy77fq4KR6Oz5gSp1X8-jfljhe6gbSlZw2HJIGvTcPMIblhyMihbGWIDUnJds2LKuHSJ8wnNRTK7COQ77_bCyXt2ZIgUOeTzRwXLRr6MVTXoizfftyHUSCl2Ned27VilJNAA] IMPORTANT DATES Posters and Demo papers: ? Friday, March 8, 2024 (23:59, AoE) Submission webpage: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=avi2024 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- International Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces (AVI) Since 1992, AVI has been a biennial appointment for a vast international community of experts with a broad range of backgrounds. Throughout three decades, the Conference has attracted leading researchers of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) from all over the world, offering a forum to present and disseminate new technological results, paradigms, and visions for HCI and user interfaces. Because of advanced technology and new possibilities for user interaction, AVI has broadened the topics it covers, still keeping its primary focus on the conception, design, implementation, and evaluation of novel visual interfaces. AVI 2024 is under the patronage of University of Genoa, Department of Informatics, Bioengineering, Robotics and Systems Engineering, Italy and is held in-cooperation with ACM, SIGCHI, SIGMM, SIGWEB. Ilaria Torre (AVI 2024 Program Chair) AVI 2024 General Chairs .Cristina Conati, University of British Columbia, Vancouver .Gualtiero Volpe, University of Genoa For information or requests, please contact avi2024 at easychair.org --------------------------------------------------------------------------- TOPICS Topics of interest include (but are not limited to) the following: Adaptive and Context-Aware Interfaces Affective Interfaces and Interaction Computer Supported Cooperative Work Embodied Conversational Interfaces Full-body Interaction and Nonverbal Behavior Human-AI Interaction Information Visualization Intelligent Interfaces Engineering of Visual Interfaces and Interaction Interaction Design Tools Building Interactions: Hardware, Materials, and Fabrication Interaction for the environment and environmental awareness Interface Metaphors Interfaces for Automotive Interfaces for Big Data Interfaces for e-Commerce and e-Branding Interfaces for e-Culture and e-Tourism Interfaces for End-User Development Interfaces for entertainment Interfaces for Recommender Systems Interfaces for Social Interaction and Cooperation Interfaces and Interactions for Persuasion and Behaviour Change Interfaces and Interactions for Inclusion, Accessibility and Aging Interfaces and interactions for usable security Interfaces for Children Interfaces for well-being and flourishing Interfaces for Learning, Education, and Families Mobile Interaction Motion-based Interaction Multimodal Interfaces (Multi)Sensory Interfaces (Multi)Touch Interaction Search Interfaces Shape-Changing Devices Sonification User Interfaces for the Internet of Things Usability and Accessibility Virtual and Augmented Reality Visual Analytics Technical demonstrations developed in context of artistic/cultural activities (e.g., elements of museum exhibits or dance performances) POSTER PAPERS The AVI 2024 Poster Track provides researchers and practitioners with the opportunity of presenting contributions which are work-in-progress and obtaining precious feedback from their peers in an informal setting. Poster submissions must be up to 2 pages (with one additional page for references), not anonymized. DEMO PAPERS The demo track is intended to provide a forum to showcase innovative implementations, systems and technologies demonstrating new ideas about interactive visual interfaces. We are looking for implementations of novel and exciting concepts or systems related to the main topics of AVI. We are especially keen to welcome innovative demonstrations from industry and startups that are closely aligned with the conference core themes. We encourage the emergent innovators interested to demonstrate their solutions even at an early stage of development to submit the papers to this call. Demo papers must be up to 2 pages (with one additional page for references), not anonymized. Demo submissions need to be complemented by a document that describes technical requirements (the template can be downloaded from the website). Please notice that: ? The committee reserves the right to reject proposals whose hardware and/or space requirements cannot be met by organizers (if you have any doubt please contact the demo chairs before submitting the paper). The organizers cannot provide any specific equipment (e.g., sound or lighting systems). ? In no case does a demonstration involve any remuneration from conference organizers. SUBMISSION FORMAT All the papers mentioned above, i.e., posters and demos, require online submission. Authors must format submissions according to the ACM SIGCONF template. Please find the templates below: ? Latex for Overleaf: https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/association-for-computing-machinery-acm-sig-proceedings-template/bmvfhcdnxfty ? Word Template: https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template Papers must be submitted online on EasyChair https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=avi2024 PROCEEDINGS Since 1994, accepted long and short research papers are included in the Proceedings published by ACM Press and available in the ACM Digital Library. For each accepted paper, at least one author must register to AVI 2024 by the early registration deadline for authors, pay the registration fee and present the paper at the Conference. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- AVI 2024 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE General Chairs Cristina Conati, University of British Columbia, Vancouver Gualtiero Volpe, University of Genoa Program Chair Ilaria Torre, University of Genoa Long Papers Chairs Giuseppe Desolda, University of Bari Michail Giannakos, Norwegian University of Science and Technology Short Papers Chairs Elisabetta Bevacqua, National Engineering School of Brest Maurizio Mancini, Sapienza University of Rome Workshop & Tutorial Chairs Ignacio Aedo, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid Rosella Gennari, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano Poster Chairs Masood Masoodian, Aalto University Giovanna Varni, University of Trento Demo Chairs Radoslaw Niewiadomski, University of Genoa Fabiana Vernero, University of Turin Doctoral Consortium Chair Fabio Patern?, CNR ISTI Giuliana Vitiello, University of Salerno Publicity Chairs Beatrice Biancardi, LINEACT CESI Federica Delprino, University of Genoa Proceedings Chairs Eleonora Ceccaldi, University of Genoa Cigdem Beyan, University of Trento Web Chair Paola Barra, University of Naples Parthenope AVI STEERING COMMITTEE Paolo Bottoni, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy Paolo Buono University of Bari, Italy Tiziana Catarci Sapienza University of Rome, Italy Maria Francesca Costabile University of Bari, Italy Maristella Matera Polytechnic of Milan, Italy Massimo Mecella Sapienza University of Rome, Italy Kent Norman University of Maryland, USA Emanuele Panizzi, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy Genny Tortora University of Salerno, Italy Giuliana Vitiello University of Salerno, Italy Marco Winckler Universit? 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This conference, taking place in Aachen, Germany, June 3-6 2024, will be an interdisciplinary event linking: * Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence including AI applications in industry, science, society and ethics * Neuroscience and Computational Neuroscience, biologically inspired algorithms and brain simulation * Electrical Engineering & Information Technology, neuromorphic, energy-efficient circuits and architetures, including memristive elements, novel materials and devices We have scholarships available to support the participation of MSc and BSc students. Please visit our website to discover more and submit your abstract! All the best, Abigail Morrison -- Prof. Dr. Abigail Morrison Institute for Advanced SImulation (IAS-6) J?lich Research Center & Computer Science 3 - Software Engineering RWTH Aachen http://www.fz-juelich.de/inm/inm-6 http://www.se-rwth.de Office: +49 2428 8097504 Fax # : +49 2461 61-9460 Pronouns: she/her ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Forschungszentrum J?lich GmbH 52425 J?lich Sitz der Gesellschaft: J?lich Eingetragen im Handelsregister des Amtsgerichts D?ren Nr. HR B 3498 Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrats: MinDir Stefan M?ller Gesch?ftsf?hrung: Prof. Dr. Astrid Lambrecht (Vorsitzende), Karsten Beneke (stellv. Vorsitzender), Dr. Ir. 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We would like to announce 2 upcoming initiatives related to the NeuroML project: a hackathon in London at UCL where you can learn about the model description language and get help converting your model to this standardised format, and 3 Google Summer of Code projects where students or postdocs can be paid for contributing to the NeuroML model development infrastructure. ---- The COMBINE organisation's HARMONY meeting is being held at University College London from April 8-11 this year. Registration for HARMONY is free. https://co.mbine.org/author/harmony-2024/ We (NeuroML editors and developers) will be running hands-on NeuroML hackathons at HARMONY, with the general theme being to help researchers learn more about NeuroML and to build new or convert existing models in NeuroML. We are also keen to help simulator or other application developers integrate NeuroML support (import/export) into their tools. We invite you to register and attend the meeting to: - learn more about how NeuroML supports all stages of the model life cycle - learn how to create your model in NeuroML from scratch - learn how to convert your existing model into NeuroML - learn how the NeuroML APIs (in Python, Java, C++, Matlab) can help you integrate NeuroML support into your application Please share this information with colleagues that may be undertaking new modelling projects where NeuroML may be used. For more information see https://docs.neuroml.org/Events/202404-Harmony.html ---- Google Summer of Code is an initiative to encourage contributions to open source software projects. Generous stipends are provided for successful applicants to work on these projects for a number of months over the summer. The INCF has been a GSoC mentoring organisation for the past number of years, and has helped link up students with mentors to advance various projects in the wider neuroinformatics and computational neuroscience areas. This year we are offering 3 projects related to NeuroML: - Open source, cross simulator, large scale network models in NeuroML and PyNN https://neurostars.org/t/gsoc-2024-project-idea-13-1-open-source-cross-simulator-large-scale-network-models-in-neuroml-and-pynn-175h-350h/28266/3 - Implementation of SWC to NeuroML converter in PyNeuroML https://neurostars.org/t/gsoc-2024-project-idea-13-2-implementation-of-swc-to-neuroml-converter-in-pyneuroml-175h-350h/28267 - Incorporate new features into an advanced, cross-platform 3D viewer for NeuroML cells and networks https://neurostars.org/t/gsoc-2024-project-idea-13-3-incorporate-new-features-into-an-advanced-cross-platform-3d-viewer-for-neuroml-cells-and-networks-175h-350h/28268 This opportunity is particularly relevant for Masters & PhD students currently working in model development/analysis in computational neuroscience. Many students are already reusing/converting/updating existing models as part of their work, or developing tools to handle neuronal model elements such as morphological reconstructions, and this is a great opportunity to get paid by Google to do this! - Closing date for student applications: 2nd April 2024 - Standard period of working on projects: May 27 - Aug/Sept 2024 See: https://www.incf.org/activities/gsoc for more information. ---- More information on NeuroML can be found in our recent preprint (https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.12.07.570537v1) and in our up to date documentation: https://docs.neuroml.org On behalf of the NeuroML community, Ankur Sinha, Padraig Gleeson, and Angus Silver -- Thanks, Regards, Ankur Sinha (He / Him / His) | https://ankursinha.in Research Fellow at the Silver Lab, University College London | http://silverlab.org/ Free/Open source community volunteer at the NeuroFedora project | https://neuro.fedoraproject.org Time zone: Europe/London From efipatm at gmail.com Fri Mar 1 13:20:20 2024 From: efipatm at gmail.com (Efi) Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2024 20:20:20 +0200 Subject: Connectionists: AIDA Semester Courses by Prof. Ioannis Pitas: "Computer Vision", "Pattern Recognition-Statistical Learning", "Autonomous Systems Perception", March-June 2024 Message-ID: Dear AI/CS/ECE student/scientist/engineer/enthusiast, the International AI Doctoral Academy (AIDA ) is excited to invite you to register and attend the upcoming semester courses by *Prof. Ioannis Pitas*: Host Institution: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki 1. *Computer Vision* This course will cover the following topics: ?dge detection. Image segmentation. Image texture. Image features. Image registration. Image search and retrieval. Image topology. 2D shape description and recognition. Deep learning and computer vision. Moving images ? Digital video. Video digitization. Video perception. Video processing. Motion estimation. Object tracking. Video description. Video search and retrieval. Deep learning and video analysis. *ECTS*: *5* *Level*: *Senior undergraduate course* *Course attedance: Asynchronous online participation * *4 March - June 2024* *Join us and explore further*: https://www.i-aida.org/course/computer-vision-6/ 1. *Pattern Recognition-Statistical Learning* This course will cover the following topics: Random variables and vectors. Decision functions. Classification algorithms utilizing decision functions. Classification based on distance. Classification based on Bayes decision theory. Artificial Neural Networks ? Perceptron. Convolutional Neural Networks. Principal component analysis. Linear discriminant analysis. Estimation of probability distribution parameters. Analysis of similarity and web graphs. Vector quantization techniques. Programming assignments in C/C++ and MATLAB. *ECTS*: *5* *Level*: *Senior undergraduate course* *Course attedance: Asynchronous online participation * *4 March - June 2024* *Join us and explore further*: https://www.i-aida.org/course/pattern-recognition-statistical-learning-4/ 1. *Autonomous Systems Perception* This course will cover the following topics: Autonomous systems. Visual and other sensors. Image/video basics, formats and digitization. Video processing. Video streaming and compression. Motion estimation. Deep learning for image and video analysis. Object tracking. Object detection. Object pose estimation. SLAM. Face/person detection. Facial expression recognition. Activity recognition. Video description. Video indexing and retrieval. *ECTS*: *7,5* *Level*: *Postgraduate course* *Course attedance: Asynchronous online participation * *4 March - June 2024* *Join us and explore further*: https://www.i-aida.org/course/autonomous-systems-perception-4/ *Registration*: Both AIDA and non-AIDA students are encouraged to participate in these semester courses: - Register in each course by sending an e-mail to secretariat at i-aida.org. - *For AIDA students only**: On the top of the above registration, enroll in each course through the above AIDA course pages, so that a successful attendance of these courses appears in the AIDA Certificate of Course Attendance. *AIDA Students are PhD students/candidates or Postdoc researchers belonging to any AIDA member . Compulsory bibliographical and/or programming assignments are foreseen to be carried out during the courses. 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Animats denote the connection between animals and synthetic agents. The conference focuses on models and experiments designed to help characterize and compare various organizational principles and architectures underlying adaptive behavior in real animals and in animats. SAB 2024 solicits contributions dealing with any aspect of adaptive behavior. We especially invite submissions from researchers who connect biology and natural behavior to synthetic agents. Conference papers are peer-reviewed and accepted papers will be published in ?From Animals to Animats 17. SAB 2024.? Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, Springer Nature. Venue -------- CalIT2 Auditorium University of California, Irvine Irvine, CA 92697 USA Important Dates ??????????? May 1, 2024: Deadline for paper submission May 1, 2024: Deadline for Workshop and tutorial proposals June15, 2024: Notice of acceptance June 30, 2024: Camera-ready papers September 9-12: Conference dates More details can be found at: https://sab2024.socsci.uci.edu/call-for-papers 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 https://sites.uci.edu/sab2024/ From Francesco.DiCosmo at unibz.it Sun Mar 3 04:07:04 2024 From: Francesco.DiCosmo at unibz.it (Di Cosmo Francesco) Date: Sun, 3 Mar 2024 09:07:04 +0000 Subject: Connectionists: Extended Deadlines, Final Call for Papers -- ESSLLI 2024 Student Session Message-ID: (apologies for potential cross-posting) 35th European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information Student session CfP 29 July ? 9 August 2024, Leuven, Belgium https://2024.esslli.eu/ Extended Deadlines, Final Call for Papers -- Student Session ============================================== ============================================== Extended CfP: https://2024.esslli.eu/. Important Dates - Extended ===================== Paper submission deadline: March 15, 2024 Notification of acceptance: May 10, 2024 Camera-ready submission: June 7, 2024 Event: July 29 - August 9, 2024 Submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=esslli2024 (make sure to choose the Student Session track). About ===== The Student Session of the 35th European Summer School in Logic, Language, and Information (ESSLLI) will take place at ESSLLI 2024, on 29 July - 9 August 2024 in Leuven, Belgium. We invite submissions of original, unpublished work from students in any area related to Logic & Language, Language & Computation, or Logic & Computation in the form of long (8 pages) or short (4 pages) papers (including references, figures, etc.). Submissions will be reviewed by several experts in the field. Accepted long papers will be presented as talks, while short papers will be presented as posters. This is an excellent opportunity for students to receive valuable feedback from expert readers and to present their work to a diverse audience. Short papers are especially suited for smaller or in-progress research works. See the extended Call for Papers at the ESSLLI 2024 webpage for the submission and publication policies: https://2024.esslli.eu/. Awards ====== For both long and short papers, the best contributions (submission plus presentation) will receive an award. Springer generously supports the ESSLLI Student Session by offering prizes for a total of 600? in Springer books. The best poster and the best talk will each be awarded Springer book vouchers of 300? each. The prizes are awarded based on the reviews of the submission as well as the oral/poster presentation. The ideas presented should be novel and promising. The presentation at ESSLLI should be adapted to the wide variety of backgrounds that ESSLLI participants come from: everybody should be able to learn/understand something new. Registration ========= Participation, including presentation, in the Student Session requires an ESSLLI 2024 registration at: https://2024.esslli.eu/ Depending on the budget, student grants may be available. Student Session Committee ===================== Session chairs ------------------- Francesco Di Cosmo (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano) John Lindqvist (University of Bergen) Language and Computation Track (LaCo) ------------------------------- Jia Ren (University of Massachusetts Amherst) Jiaxing Yu (Rutgers University) Tran Thi Hong Hanh (Jozef Stefan Institute and University of La Rochelle) Language and Logic Track (LaLo) ------------------------- Emil Eva Rosina (Ruhr-Universit?t Bochum) Tijana ?ukovi? (University of Belgrade) Valeria Gradimondo (University Paris Cit?) 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Clara Stegehuis Twente University, The Netherlands *PUBLICATION* Full papers (not previously published up to 12 pages) and Extended Abstracts (about published or unpublished research up to 4 pages) are welcome. ? *Papers *will be included in the conference *proceedings edited by Springer* ? *Extended abstracts* will be published in the *Book of Abstracts (with ISBN)* Extended versions will be invited for publication in *special issues of international journals:* o PLOS Complex Systems edited by PLOS . o PLOS One edited by PLOS o Applied Network Science edited by Springer Nature o Social Network Analysis and Mining edited by Springer Nature o Entropy edited by MDPI o Advances in Complex Systems edited by World Scientific o Complex Systems Journal *SUBMISSION:* *https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/COMPLEXNETWORKS2024/* *TOPICS* *Topics include, but are not limited to: * o Models of Complex Networks o Structural Network Properties and Analysis o Complex Networks and Epidemics o Community Structure in Networks o Community Discovery in Complex Networks o Motif Discovery in Complex Networks o Network Mining o Network embedding methods o Machine learning with graphs o Dynamics and Evolution Patterns of Complex Networks o Link Prediction o Multilayer Networks o Network Controllability o Synchronization in Networks o Visual Representation of Complex Networks o Large-scale Graph Analytics o Social Reputation, Influence, and Trust o Information Spreading in Social Media o Rumour and Viral Marketing in Social Networks o Recommendation Systems and Complex Networks o Financial and Economic Networks o Complex Networks and Mobility o Biological and Technological Networks o Mobile call Networks o Bioinformatics and Earth Sciences Applications o Resilience and Robustness of Complex Networks o Complex Networks for Physical Infrastructures o Complex Networks, Smart Cities and Smart Grids o Political networks o Supply chain networks o Complex networks and information systems o Complex networks and CPS/IoT o Graph signal processing o Cognitive Network Science o Network Medicine o Network Neuroscience o Quantifying success through network analysis o Temporal and spatial networks o Historical Networks *GENERAL CHAIRS* Hocine Cherifi (University of Burgundy, France) Murat Donduran (Yildiz Technical University, Turkey) Luis M. 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However, the diverse perspectives embedded in multimedia and other data types present a complex puzzle that requires assembly to address human-centered challenges effectively. The workshop aims to bring together individuals working with multimedia and other data types across diverse research domains and disciplines, such as wellbeing, disaster prevention & mitigation, mobility, food computing, security, and smart cities. We encourage contributions that explore the originality and novelty of proposed topics related to the integration of diverse multimodal data. The current era witnesses the exponential growth of sensors, communication technologies, and social networks, enabling individuals to collect data swiftly from themselves and their environments. Coupled with artificial intelligence and advanced application techniques, data has evolved into a more intelligent form, providing valuable information and knowledge for near-human cognitive analytics and retrieval. This intelligent data collection offers new opportunities to better understand the intricate associations between human beings and their surroundings. The workshop specifically calls for submissions addressing the analysis and retrieval of cross-data from different perspectives, focusing on wearable and ambient sensors, lifelog cameras, social networks, and surrounding sensors. While several investigations have explored individual perspectives, there is a limited focus on analyzing and retrieving cross-data to maximize the benefits for human beings. Researchers are invited to contribute to this endeavor, aiming to create a smart and sustainable society by efficiently utilizing intelligent cross-data analysis and retrieval. Possible application domains for submitted works include, but are not limited to, well-being, disaster prevention & mitigation, mobility, and food computing. We encourage researchers from various backgrounds to engage in this workshop, fostering collaboration and innovation in the field of intelligent cross -data analysis and retrieval. Example topics of interest include but is not limited to the following - Event-based cross-data retrieval, data mining, and AI technology. - Complex event processing for linking sensors data from individuals, regions to broad areas dynamically. - Transfer Learning and Transformers. Hypotheses Development of the associations within the heterogeneous data. - Realization of a prosperous and independent region in which people and nature coexist. - Applications leverage intelligent cross-data analysis for a particular domain. - Cross-datasets for Repeatable Experimentation. - Federated Analytics, Federated Learning, and Edge AI for cross-data. - Privacy-public data collaboration. - Integration of diverse multimodal data. From hocine.cherifi at gmail.com Mon Mar 4 07:50:36 2024 From: hocine.cherifi at gmail.com (Hocine Cherifi) Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2024 13:50:36 +0100 Subject: Connectionists: FREE DOWNLOAD OF COMPLEX NETWORKS 2023 PROCEEDINGS Message-ID: Dear, We are delighted to inform you that the four volumes of the proceedings and the book of abstracts of COMPLEX NETWORKS 2023 are available *for free* for* three weeks*. You can *download* the four volumes from the following page of the conference website: https://2023.complexnetworks.org/proceedings/ The page is password protected The password is: CNA2023Menton@@! The four volumes of the proceedings contain *155 papers*. We wish you a pleasant lecture. *Feel free to disseminate.* Best regards Hocine Cherifi Join us at COMPLEX NETWORKS 2024 *-------------------------* Hocine CHERIFI University of Burgundy Franche-Comt? Laboratoire* I*nterdisciplinaire *C*arnot de *B*ourgogne - ICB UMR 6303 CNRS Editor in Chief Plos Complex Systems Founding & Adisory Editor Applied Network Science Editorial Board member PLOS One , IEEE ACCESS , Scientific Reports , Journal of Imaging , Quality and Quantity , Computational Social Networks , Complex Systems -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From marinella.petrocchi at iit.cnr.it Mon Mar 4 09:47:11 2024 From: marinella.petrocchi at iit.cnr.it (Marinella Petrocchi) Date: Mon, 04 Mar 2024 15:47:11 +0100 Subject: Connectionists: Research Fellowship (Assegno di Ricerca) on Metric Selection and Optimization for Cloud Certifications - IIT-CNR, Pisa Message-ID: Please share this message with anyone who might be interested. The IIT-CNR, located in Pisa, Italy, is seeking candidates for a 12+12-month research fellow position (Italian "Assegno di Ricerca") in the context of the Horizon Europe project "EMERALD: Evidence Management for Continuous Certification as a Service in the Cloud", funded by the European Union under Grant Agreement n. 101120688 The candidate will be part of the Privacy, Security and Trust Unit of the Institute of Informatics and Telematics, National Research Council of Italy, https://www.iit.cnr.it/en/ Possibility to work remotely. *Salary and Duration:* Gross salary: ~19400 EUR/12 months *Call and documentation:* https://www.urp.cnr.it/node/1919 *Application Deadline:* March 15, 2024, h 23.59 (Italian Time) * Research: * - Metric Selection and Optimization for Cloud Certifications: definition and implementation of an intelligent system for the automatic association of a set of metrics to one or more security certification schemes *Requirements: * - knowledge of statistical tools for Data Mining and Data Visualization - experience in using regression, classification and clustering models - Python and major libraries for the development of supervised and unsupervised learning models - machine learning techniques, particularly in the applied field of Natural Language Processing - knowledge of web development languages, databases and DBMSs *Contact person:* Marinella Petrocchi (please feel free to email me if you need further information) -- Marinella Petrocchi Senior Researcher @Institute of Informatics and Telematics (IIT) National Research Council (CNR) Pisa (Italy) Mobile: +39 348 8260773 Web: https://www.iit.cnr.it/en/marinella.petrocchi/ `Luck is a matter of geography' (Bandabardo') From laetitia.teodorescu at inria.fr Mon Mar 4 11:06:40 2024 From: laetitia.teodorescu at inria.fr (Laetitia Teodorescu) Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2024 17:06:40 +0100 (CET) Subject: Connectionists: [workshops@ACL2024] - CfP - Wordplay: When Language Meets Games workshop Message-ID: <1773788468.17652668.1709568400392.JavaMail.zimbra@inria.fr> Dear reader, Together with a group of researchers from UCSD, MIT, UMBC, UCLA, UC Berkeley, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Inria, Microsoft Research, and Meta AI Research, we are hosting the 4th edition of the Wordplay: When Language meets Games workshop at ACL 2024 in Bangkok, Thailand. This workshop will focus on exploring the intersection of language and games, think everything from GridWorld to classic text adventures like Zork to modern Twine games, to fill a role as learning environments for grounded language-based tasks. This workshop aims to be a centralized place where all researchers involved across a breadth of fields can interact and learn from each other. Furthermore, it will act as a showcase to the wider NLP/RL/Game communities on language-based games' place as a learning environment. The program will feature a collection of invited talks in addition to contributed talks and posters from each of these sections of the interactive narrative games community and the wider NLP and RL communities. We like all things: - Interactive narrative: game-playing RL agents, game generation, etc. - Interactive language learning - Natural language generation - Improvisational storytelling - LLM-based agents - And more! Anything you can think of that involves narrative, interactivity, and language! If this sounds exciting to you, please consider submitting to our workshop. The submission deadline is Apr 19th (AoE). We accept papers that have also been published at other venues already in 2, 4 and 8-page formats. Please check our website for further information: https://wordplay-workshop.github.io/ Kind regards, The Wordplay Program Chairs -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From saeed at psu.edu Mon Mar 4 14:18:06 2024 From: saeed at psu.edu (Saeed Abdullah) Date: Mon, 04 Mar 2024 14:18:06 -0500 Subject: Connectionists: Postdoc Position - Human-AI Collaboration to Support Mental Health Workers Message-ID: <167C7BB5-87E5-45E3-91F8-4DFADD8355E4@psu.edu> The College of Information Sciences and Technology at Penn State is seeking a postdoctoral scholar to join an interdisciplinary team focusing on Human-AI collaboration to train mental health workers. The project is supported by an NSF grant. The position will involve developing computational methods to assess clinical sessions and provide actionable feedback to support effective training. An ideal candidate will have strong research skills and experience in relevant areas (e.g., foundation models, deep learning, natural language processing, reinforcement learning). It will be a full-time appointment for 24 months, with a possibility of renewal dependent upon performance. Please see the application instructions here: https://psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/PSU_Academic/job/Penn-State-University-Park/Postdoctoral-Scholar-Human-AI---College-of-Information-Sciences-and-Technology_REQ_0000051969-1 For more information, please contact Saeed Abdullah (saeed at psu.edu). From marcosmrai at gmail.com Mon Mar 4 15:13:50 2024 From: marcosmrai at gmail.com (marcosmrai) Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2024 17:13:50 -0300 Subject: Connectionists: Call for post-doc applications in LLMs applied to code at University of Campinas Message-ID: Dear colleagues, We are looking for a motivated postdoc with an interest in LLMs applied to code. Strong ML/AI/Statistics skills are an advantage. More details are attached. We would appreciate it if you could share the job ad with anyone you think might be interested. How to apply: Please send your curriculum vitae and a cover letter with a maximum of two pages (English) in the following form: https://forms.gle/6qxsTp13wufBaHAV7. Applicants should also provide at least two reference letters to be sent directly by the referees to mraimundo at ic.unicamp.br before the deadline. Deadline: March 10th, 2023 (late submissions are allowed) With many thanks and kind regards, -- Marcos M. 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NeSy continues to be the premier annual meeting point of the research community working on neurosymbolic integration, combining symbolic and subsymbolic approaches to learning and reasoning in AI systems. In 2024, NeSy hosts special tracks on Explainable AI and Generative AI. See the conference website (https://sites.google.com/view/nesy2024 ) for details. ===== Relevant Dates ===== Full paper abstract deadline: April 5, 2024 Full paper submission: April 12, 2024 Author notification: May 24, 2024 Camera-ready papers: June 19, 2024 Late/short paper submission: May 5, 2024 Author notifications: June 3, 2024 Camera-ready papers: June 19, 2024 ===== Proceedings ===== The proceedings of NeSy 2024 will be published by Springer LNCS. See the conference website (https://sites.google.com/view/nesy2024 ) for detailed formatting and submission instructions. ===== Organizing Committee ===== General/Local Chair: + Tarek R. Besold (Sony AI, Barcelona) Program Chairs: + Ernesto Jimenez Ruiz (City, University of London) + Artur d'Avila Garcez (City, University of London) + Tarek R. Besold (Sony AI, Barcelona) Explainable AI Special Track Chairs: + Benedikt Wagner (City, University of London) + Roberto Confalonieri (University of Padova) Generative AI Special Track Chair: + Pranava Madhyastha (City, University of London) -- Pascal Hitzler Lloyd T. Smith Creativity in Engineering Chair Director, Center for AI and Data Science CAIDS Director, Inst. for Digital Agriculture and Adv. Analyt. ID3A Kansas State University http://www.pascal-hitzler.de http://www.daselab.org http://www.semantic-web-journal.net http://k-state.edu/ID3A https://neurosymbolic-ai-journal.com From Donald.Adjeroh at mail.wvu.edu Tue Mar 5 02:52:57 2024 From: Donald.Adjeroh at mail.wvu.edu (Donald Adjeroh) Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2024 07:52:57 +0000 Subject: Connectionists: Call for Papers-- SBP-BRiMS'2024: Social Computing, Behavior-Cultural Modeling, Prediction and Simulation In-Reply-To: References: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , Message-ID: Apologies if you receive multiple copies SBP-BRiMS 2024 17th International Conference on Social Computing, Behavioral-Cultural Modeling, & Prediction and Behavior Representation in Modeling and Simulation September 18-20, 2024 Will be held in hybrid mode (In-person in Pittsburgh, PA, USA) http://sbp-brims.org/ #sbpbrims The goal of this conference is to build a community of social cyber scholars by fostering interaction among members of the scientific, corporate, government and military communities interested in understanding, forecasting, and impacting human socio-cultural behavior in our quickly evolving social world of today. The conference values diverse disciplinary participation from the social, behavioral, physical, and computational sciences and welcomes a broad range of methodological approaches (agent-based models, online experiments, network science and social network analysis, and machine learning). All computational social science papers and panels are welcome. Some illustrative topics include: ??Social Cyber Security ??Trust in AI; Human-AI Interaction ??Blockchain and Privacy-Preserving Technologies ??Social Media Analytics and Network Science ??Online Collective Action, Social Movements, and Mob Dynamics ??Military in the Age of AI ??Cognition and Organization Theory ??Disinformation, Deepfakes, and Online Harms ??Applications (Healthcare, Economics, Government, Military, etc.) BEST PAPER AWARDS: All accepted and presented full papers will compete for Best Conference Paper Award and Best Student Paper Award. Only Student first author papers will be considered for the Best Student Paper Award. Papers will be evaluated on originality, technical merit, and significance to social-cyber applications. Winners will be announced at the conclusion of the conference and will have an opportunity to publish an extended version of their paper in the Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory (CMOT) special issue. IMPORTANT DATES: Full Paper Submission: 2-Jun-2024 Author Notification: 30-Jun-2024 Final Files Due : 14-Jul-2024 Panel/Tutorials/Working Paper due: 21-Jul-2024 Panel/Tutorial/Working Paper Notification: 4-Aug-2024 Final Files due: 1-Sep-2024 Challenge Response due: 21-Jul-2024 Challenge Notification: 4-Aug-2024 Final Files due: 1-Sep-2024 HOW TO SUBMIT : For information on paper submission, check here. You will be able to update your submission until the final paper deadline. PAPER FORMATTING GUIDELINE: The papers must be in English and MUST be formatted according to the Springer-Verlag LNCS/LNAI guidelines. View sample LaTeX2e and WORD files. All regular paper submissions should be submitted as a paper with a maximum of 10 pages. Total page count includes all figures, tables, and references. CHALLENGE PROBLEM: The conference will have a computational challenge as in previous years. Additional details are available at the conference Challenge website: http://sbp-brims.org/2024/challenge/. Follow us on Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn to receive updates. PRE-CONFERENCE TUTORIAL SESSIONS: Several half-day sessions will be offered on the day before the full conference. More details regarding the preconference tutorial sessions will be posted as soon as this information becomes available.. FUNDING PANEL & CROSS-FERTILIZATION ROUNDTABLES: The purpose of the cross-fertilization roundtables is to help participants become better acquainted with people outside of their discipline and with whom they might consider partnering on future SBP-BRiMS related research collaborations. 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Our methodology involves subject-specific brain-computer interface technology, fMRI at 3T and ultrahigh (i.e., 7T and 9.4T) magnetic field strengths (for resolving cortical layers), EEG, non-invasive brain stimulation as well as machine learning. You can find out more about our work at: https://www.kyb.tuebingen.mpg.de/711763/cognitive-neuroscience-neurotechnology We are seeking two ambitious PhD students who will work on the exciting field of ultrahigh resolution fMRI that allows to investigate the human cortex at the scale of layers and columns. The ideal candidates should have a master?s degree in cognitive (neuro)science, psychology, computer science, biomedical or electrical engineering, physics, or related disciplines. A strong background in fMRI data analysis (e.g., FSL, Freesurfer, ANTS) and very good programming skills in Bash on Linux, Matlab and/or Python are required. Prior experience in MRI data acquisition and experience with ultrahigh resolution fMRI (e.g., at 7T) is desirable but not necessary. Equally, experience with machine learning-methods, code sharing platforms (e.g. GitHub) and high-performance computing clusters are highly desirable. The Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics offers a world-leading research environment with access to the latest cutting-edge MRI hardware (including a Siemens 9.4T and Prisma 3T for humans as well as a 14.2T small animal system) and other excellent research facilities (EEG, eye-tracking, fMRI-TMS). The PhD student will receive generous support for professional travel and research needs (~2500?/year). Additionally, the student will have the opportunity to become part of the Graduate Training Centre of Neuroscience that provides training courses, summer schools and conferences to further educate doctoral students. Further, the Institute is part of the T?bingenNeuroCampus (with more than 100 active groups), offering a vibrant community of international researchers and enriching environment of collaboration. The position is available from May 2024 on and remains open until filled. The salary is paid in accordance with the collective agreement for the public sector (65% TVL-E13, amounting to ~2000? net per month). For more details about the two advertised PhD positions and how to apply, please see: https://www.kyb.tuebingen.mpg.de/729399/join-the-lab Dr. Romy Lorenz Max Planck Research Group Leader Research Group Cognitive Neuroscience & Neurotechnology Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics T?bingen, Germany romy.lorenz at tuebingen.mpg.de www.kyb.tuebingen.mpg.de/711763/cognitive-neuroscience-neurotechnology -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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We are delighted to welcome * Tadashi Yamazaki (University of Electro-Communications, Tokyo) * Behnam Ghazinouri (Ruhr University Bochum) * Benedetta Gambosi (Politecnico di Milano) * Tobias Gemmeke (RWTH Aachen University) as keynote speakers at the conference. Registration and submission of contributions are now open! We are inviting contributions to the conference, including talks, "posters" and workshops on specific topics. Please register and submit your contribution(s) via the conference website https://nest-simulator.org/conference. Important dates 15 April 2024 - Deadline for submission of contributions 26 April 2024 - Deadline for NEST Initiative membership applications eligible for fee reduction 08 May 2024 - Notification of acceptance 07 June 2024 - Registration deadline 17 June 2024 - NEST Conference 2024 starts We are looking forward to seeing you all in June! 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The confirmed keynote speakers for the event are: - Dr. David Dahmen , Institute for Advanced Simulation, Research Centre J?lich, Germany. - Prof. Jacobo Diego Sitt , Paris Brain Institute (ICM), INSERM, ICM institute, Pitie-Salpetriere Hospital, France. - Prof. Marcel Oberlaender , Max Planck Institute for Neurobiology of Behavior, Bonn, Germany. - Prof. Marcus Kaiser , School of Medicine, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom. This is a unique opportunity to learn from world-renowned experts and connect with researchers from all over the world. You can find all the details, including the full schedule, speaker list, and registration link, on the official BrainNet 2024 webpage at https://brainnet2024.carrd.co/ . We look forward to seeing you there! Please distribute the link in your networks for anyone who might be interested in attending. 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Learning from this huge, heterogeneous and growing amount of data requires flexible learning models that can adapt over time and deal with potentially non-i.i.d., non-stationary input data. Another challenge could be costs for energy consumption, transmission costs, and alike. The latter is particularly crucial if machine learning is done using smart systems (drones, unmanned vehicles ...), which should act independently over a longer time. This special session welcomes novel research about machine learning in a non-stationary and distributed/federated setting. *TOPICS AND THEMES* We encourage the submission of papers on novel methods for topics like streaming data processing, federated learning, distributed learning by means of computational intelligence and machine learning approaches, including but not limited to: - Data analysis and pattern recognition approaches for non-stationary and distributed environments - Learning in heterogeneous systems - Effective communication for updating distributed models - Model compression and adaptive model aggregation - Representation and modeling of distributed models - Approximation techniques for non-stationary or distributed data Algorithms for the processing and analysis of streaming data - Federated learning algorithms and variants, e.g., Split learning, Gossip Learning, and decentralized Federated Learning - Security and privacy preservation in federated environments - Differential privacy techniques - Application of Deep Learning in the Federated Learning context - Particular interesting applications in IoT, recommendation systems, medicine, sensor networks, text processing... *ORGANIZERS* Mirko Polato, Universit? di Torino, Italy Barbara Hammer, University of Bielefeld, Germany Frank-Michael Schleif, Technical UAS Wuerzburg-Schweinfurt, Germany -- ------------------------------------------------------- Prof. Dr. rer. nat. habil. Frank-Michael Schleif School of Computer Science Technical University of Applied Sciences W?rzburg-Schweinfurt Sanderheinrichsleitenweg 20 Raum I-3.35 Tel.: +49(0) 931 351 18127 97074 W?rzburg Honorable Research Fellow The University of Birmingham Edgbaston Birmingham B15 2TT United Kingdom - email: frank-michael.schleif at thws.de http://promos-science.blogspot.de/ https://www.techfak.uni-bielefeld.de/~fschleif/ ------------------------------------------------------- From sebastian.otte at uni-luebeck.de Tue Mar 5 16:33:13 2024 From: sebastian.otte at uni-luebeck.de (Sebastian Otte) Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2024 22:33:13 +0100 Subject: Connectionists: ICANN 2024 - Second Call for Papers Message-ID: <50724b3b-a461-4ded-bf4a-849df092d154@uni-luebeck.de> ICANN 2024 - SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS ======================================================================= The International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks (ICANN) is the annual flagship conference of the European Neural Network Society (ENNS). In 2024, the ICANN will take place in Lugano, Switzerland. Conference Dates: September 17 to September 20, 2024 Conference Venue: Campus of the University of Southern Switzerland and the University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland, Via la Santa 1, 6962 Lugano-Viganello, Switzerland. Conference Webpage: https://icann2024.org The ICANN 2024 features three conference tracks, namely AI and Machine Learning, Bio-Inspired Computing, and the Applications Track, making it a unique forum to bring together researchers across a wide range of disciplines related to Artificial Intelligence and Neural Networks. ======================================================================= We invite prospective authors to submit original and innovative papers in the following areas: AI and Machine Learning: Theory and Foundations of Neural Networks, Novel Neural Network Architectures, Topics in Neural Networks, Large Language Models, Explainable AI, Graph Methods, Graph Neural Networks, and Clustering, Reinforcement Learning, Topics in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Bio-Inspired Computing: Brain-Inspired Computing, Cognitive and Theoretical/Computational Neuroscience Applications: Human-Computer Interaction, Biosignal Processing, Medicine and Physiology, Speech and Language Processing, Computer Vision, Robotics, Climate and Environment, General Applications of Machine Learning Workshops: - AI in Drug Discovery - Deep Learning for Neuro-heuristic Brain Analysis - Reservoir Computing Special Sessions: - Spiking Neural Networks and Neuromorphic Computing - Accuracy, Stability, and Robustness in Deep Neural Networks - Antifragile dynamical systems: beyond robustness, resilience, and adaptiveness - Neurorobotics For details and updates, as well as for the final list of workshops and special sessions, consider the current version of the list at: https://e-nns.org/icann2024/conference-programme/conference-topics The ICANN 2024 will be an in-person conference. We expect that at least one co-author of each paper will be physically present in Lugano to give his or her presentation. We will also enforce a no-show rule, in order to encourage an optimal quality of the scientific discussion here in Lugano. Papers must be written in English language and must conform to the format defined in the Author?s Kit, available on the conference webpage at: https://e-nns.org/icann2024/submission Both short papers (6-11 pages) and full papers (12-15 pages) can be submitted. Papers shorter than 6 pages will not be accepted to the main conference, please check special submission rules for the conference workshops on the webpage of the respective workshop if you plan to submit there. Papers will undergo rigorous peer review; the Program Committee will make the final decision which papers will be included in the conference program. For papers with conflicting reviews, or which are on the borderline between acceptance and rejection, a short rebuttal phase is foreseen. Full papers will usually be assigned to oral sessions (15 minutes presentation + 5 minutes questions), short papers may be assigned to oral or poster sessions, depending on the quantity of submissions; this assignment does in no way incur a judgment on paper quality. Note that presentation rules for workshops and special sessions may differ. All accepted papers will be published in the Springer LNCS series. KEYNOTE SPEAKERS J?rgen Schmidhuber, IDSIA USI-SUPSI, Switzerland, and KAUST AI Initiative, Saudi Arabia Tanja Schultz, University of Bremen, Germany Walter Senn, University of Bern, Switzerland Henry Markram, ?cole polytechnique f?d?rale de Lausanne, Switzerland CONFERENCE COMMITTEE General Chairs J?rgen Schmidhuber, IDSIA USI-SUPSI, Switzerland, and KAUST AI Initiative, Saudi Arabia Igor Tetko, HGMU Munich, Germany Program Chairs Michael Wand, IDSIA USI-SUPSI, Switzerland Krist?na Malinovsk?, Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia Honorary Chair Stefan Wermter, University of Hamburg, Germany Full list of the organization committee: https://e-nns.org/icann2024/organization/organising-committee IMPORTANT DATES - Opening of submission portal: Feb 15 2024 - Deadline for full paper submission: March 15 2024 - Notification of Acceptance or Rebuttal: May 15 2024 - Deadline for rebuttal: May 31 2024 - Final notification of Acceptance or Rejection after Rebuttal: June 10 2024 - Camera-ready paper upload and author registration: June 30 2024 Contact: For questions, please contact program-committee at icann2024.org. Link to this call: https://e-nns.org/icann2024/call-for-papers From nkopco at gmail.com Tue Mar 5 20:29:10 2024 From: nkopco at gmail.com (Norbert Kopco) Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2024 20:29:10 -0500 Subject: Connectionists: Kosice Neuroscience Workshop, 15 - 17 April, 2024 In-Reply-To: <3df22e20-6725-4f29-81bd-06f8daaac4a9@upjs.sk> References: <0cd9abc3-5b85-47ad-9c52-6d82e14e9d6a@upjs.sk> <4b7a3f15-b4c7-46b8-8bef-23394ef55975@upjs.sk> <46117adc-5293-4581-a6ca-295227d27f80@gmail.com> <3df22e20-6725-4f29-81bd-06f8daaac4a9@upjs.sk> Message-ID: <27a3c08b-4b00-42a0-b840-584977114288@gmail.com> FINAL CALL *The 5th workshop on* *Cognitive neuroscience of auditory and cross-modal perception* *15-17 April 2024, Ko?ice (pronounced KOH-shih-tse), Slovakia* https://pcl.upjs.sk/workshop-2024 Objectives: * This workshop will include advanced research talks (and introductory lectures) on a range of topics related to the /*neural processes of auditory, visual and cross-modal perception*/. * The main focus of this year?s workshop will be on /*spatial audio virtualization and gamification for hearing assessment and enhancement*/. * The talks will illustrate the /*multidisciplinary character of cognitive neuroscience research*/, covering behavioral, neuroimaging, and modeling approaches, as well as applications of the research in auditory prosthetic devices. * The workshop is aimed at /*early-stage and advanced students and young researchers*/, and it will provide ample opportunities for direct interactions between the lecturers and the attendees. The workshop will follow up on our previous workshops . Format: 1/2-day sessions, including invited talks, contributed talks, and posters focusing on the topics of *Spatial Audio Virtualization and Gamification for Hearing Assessment and Enhancement (general)*, as well as *other topics in computational and cognitive neuroscience*. (Also, non-scientific program ? outings to tourist destinations near Kosice ? will be organized on the days before and/or day after the workshop.) Guest speakers and SAV consortium speakers (tentative): G. Christopher Stecker , Boys Town National Research Hospital , ?The roles and bases of auditory spatial awareness? Antje Ihlefeld, Meta , ?Spatial Audio and fNIRS? Lauren Calandruccio, Case Western Reserve University ?Listening in noise in multiple languages: considerations for enhancing the efficiency of speech recognition testing? Eleni Vlahou , University of Thessaly , ?Exploring Spatial Auditory Attention in Gamified Cocktail Party Settings? Mathieu Lavandier , ENTPE ? University of Lyon ?Modelling speech intelligibility in noise: from differences in SRTs to full psychometric functions?? Robert Baumgartner , Austrian Academy of Sciences , ?Short-term adaptation of spatial hearing.? Bernhard Laback,?Austrian Academy of Sciences , ?Dilation of Auditory Space by Short-Term Context? Piotr Majdak, Austrian Academy of Sciences , ?Introduction to the framework for auditory modeling based on Bayesian inference? Anja Pahor , Univerza v Mariboru , ?Development and validation of mobile measures of executive function.? Frederick Gallun , Oregon Health and Science University , ?Does Psychoacoustics Have to be Boring? Exploring Gamification of Auditory Testing? Jorg Buchholz , Macquarie University , Australia Jyrki Ahveninen , Mass General Research Institute / Harvard Medical School , ?Multimodal studies on attention and crossmodal influences in auditory networks? Virginia Best ; Boston University , ?When and why do hearing aids disrupt sound externalization?? Aaron Seitz , Northeastern University , ?New games to train speech in competition; from psychoacoustics to music.? Norbert Kopco, P. J. ?af?rik University in Ko?ice , ?Other topics in SAV: Attention and distance in real and virtual environments? Organizers: Norbert Kopco, P. J. ?af?rik University in Ko?ice Frederick Gallun , Oregon Health and Science University Robert Baumgartner , Austrian Academy of Sciences Mathieu Lavandier , ENTPE - University of Lyon Registration: The workshop is open to all interested students/scientists. Registration is free of charge but required. To register, please send an email to kogneuro at gmail.com stating your full name and affiliation and the dates on which you are planning to attend. All accepted abstracts will be published on the workshop website and in the abstract book. No proceedings will be published. 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All themes apply to any species. Check our website for updates to the schedule, we will be announcing speakers shortly. We look forward to seeing you in Qu?bec City! Network Neuroscience 2024: https://networkneuroscience.github.io/ NetSci 2024: https://netsci2024.com Submit your abstract: https://netneurosci2024.sciencesconf.org/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Michiel.Remme at inait.ai Wed Mar 6 05:25:18 2024 From: Michiel.Remme at inait.ai (Michiel Remme) Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2024 10:25:18 +0000 Subject: Connectionists: Job opening: Research Scientist - Computational Neuroscience and Machine Learning/AI Message-ID: Dear Colleagues, Our startup INAIT, based in Lausanne, Switzerland, is seeking a permanent and full-time Research Scientist working at the intersection of computational neuroscience and machine learning/AI. Are you interested in developing new machine learning/AI methods based on neuroscientific insights, and apply them to business problems? Then come join us! Your responsibilities * Contribute and actively shape the research and development of the next generation of neuroscience-inspired machine learning/AI methods * Work closely with a team of computational neuroscientists, machine learning engineers and software developers towards business solutions * Stay up to date with the latest developments at the intersection of neuroscience and AI through literature search and attendance of conferences, and integrate relevant findings into ongoing projects Required experience and skills * PhD with a focus on Machine Learning, Neuroscience-inspired AI, Computational Neuroscience, or a related field (or equal experience: Master and 4+ years of research experience) * Good understanding of the fundamentals of Machine Learning, including Deep Learning * Interest and exposure to (Computational) Neuroscience * Strong Python software engineering skills and knowledge of the main libraries (NumPy, Pandas, SciPy, etc.) * Experience in using machine learning frameworks such as scikit-learn and PyTorch/JAX/TensorFlow * Ability to work autonomously and to design and conduct rigorous research experiments * Excellent team player with a strong desire to learn and share knowledge * Strong communication skills and ability to produce high-quality visualizations to present research results * Experience with UNIX/Linux operating systems * Fluent in spoken and written English Preferred experience and skills * 3+ years of industry or post-doc experience * Successful publication record in high-impact journals and/or conferences * Experience working on real-life business problems * Experience in the software development life-cycle, including unit testing, continuous integration, version control, debugging and documentation * Experience in putting complex machine learning systems into production * Successful track record in designing, developing and maintaining software projects Benefits * Hybrid working model * Professional development opportunities (conferences, workshops, trainings) * Dynamic work environment, a multicultural and highly talented team in a growing start-up * Attractive salary and compensation scheme, including a company participation package * Well-located office in Lausanne with easy access by public transportation * Free fresh fruits and drinks * Discounts for some products and services in Switzerland Where: Lausanne, Switzerland Start date: As soon as possible Activity rate: 100% Duration of contract: CDI For applications visit apply.workable.com/inaitsa inait sa https://www.inait.ai Avenue du Tribunal F?d?ral 34 1005 Lausanne Switzerland -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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We look for a record of successful research, research administration, and/or managerial experience pertinent to the position. Is your interest piqued at all? Even slightly? We?ve attached an FAQ sheet and here is some general information about being a rotator at NSF. Feel free to contact us with any questions you might have and PLEASE PASS THIS ON! **Subscribe to the PAC Mailing List (NSF e-mails/announcements specific to the PAC community) ** Betty Tuller, Ph.D. Director, Program in Perception, Action, and Cognition U.S. National Science Foundation 2415 Eisenhower Avenue Alexandria, VA 22314 Tel: 703.292.7238 Fax: 703.292.9068 NOTE: There is a new Proposal & Award Policies & Procedures Guide (PAPPG), effective for proposals submitted on or after May 20, 2024 Prospective PIs should also consult: 1. A brand-new search engine to find NSF funding opportunities. 2. The PAC program webpage. 3. 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Geneva's Fundamental Neuroscience Dept and Dr. Phil Garner of Idiap, and will benefit from visits to Campus Biotech in Geneva. This position is part of the Swiss center of excellence (NCCR) project: Evolving Language.? The two researchers in representation learning for NLP will be part of a Swiss NSF project building on our recent Bayesian extension of Transformers. The ideal PhD candidates should hold a Masters degree in computer science, artificial intelligence, computational neuroscience, or related fields. She or he should have a background in machine learning, and experience in natural language processing or computational neuroscience would be a plus. The applicant should also have strong mathematical and programming skills. Please apply on the Idiap jobs site at https://www.idiap.ch/en/careers . All questions related to these positions should be sent to Dr. James Henderson (james.henderson at idiap.ch). 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URL: From stanciu.cristi12 at gmail.com Fri Mar 8 06:38:25 2024 From: stanciu.cristi12 at gmail.com (Cristian Stanciu) Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2024 13:38:25 +0200 Subject: Connectionists: =?utf-8?q?Final_CfP=3A_3rd_ACM_International_Work?= =?utf-8?q?shop_on_Multimedia_AI_against_Disinformation_=28MAD?= =?utf-8?b?4oCZMjQp?= Message-ID: [Apologies for multiple postings] 3rd ACM International Workshop on Multimedia AI against Disinformation (MAD?24) ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval ICMR'24 Phuket, Thailand, June 10-13, 2024 https://www.mad2024.aimultimedialab.ro/ https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=mad2024 *** Call for papers *** * Paper submission due: March 17, 2024 * Acceptance notification: April 7, 2024 * Camera-ready papers due: April 25, 2024 * Workshop @ACM ICMR 2024: June 10, 2024 Modern communication does not rely anymore solely on classic media like newspapers or television, but rather takes place over social networks, in real-time, and with live interactions among users. The speedup in the amount of information available, however, also led to an increased amount and quality of misleading content, disinformation and propaganda. Conversely, the fight against disinformation, in which news agencies and NGOs (among others) take part on a daily basis to avoid the risk of citizens' opinions being distorted, became even more crucial and demanding, especially for what concerns sensitive topics such as politics, health and religion. Disinformation campaigns are leveraging, among others, AI-based tools for content generation and modification: hyper-realistic visual, speech, textual and video content have emerged under the collective name of "deepfakes", and more recently with the use of Large Language Models (LLMs) and Large Multimodal Models (LMMs), undermining the perceived credibility of media content. It is, therefore, even more crucial to counter these advances by devising new analysis tools able to detect the presence of synthetic and manipulated content, accessible to journalists and fact-checkers, robust and trustworthy, and possibly based on AI to reach greater performance. Future multimedia disinformation detection research relies on the combination of different modalities and on the adoption of the latest advances of deep learning approaches and architectures. These raise new challenges and questions that need to be addressed in order to reduce the effects of disinformation campaigns. The workshop, in its third edition, welcomes contributions related to different aspects of AI-powered disinformation detection, analysis and mitigation. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: - Disinformation detection in multimedia content (e.g., video, audio, texts, images) - Multimodal verification methods - Synthetic and manipulated media detection - Multimedia forensics - Disinformation spread and effects in social media - Analysis of disinformation campaigns in societally-sensitive domains - Robustness of media verification against adversarial attacks and real-world complexities - Fairness and non-discrimination of disinformation detection in multimedia content - Explaining disinformation/disinformation detection technologies to non-expert users - Temporal and cultural aspects of disinformation - Dataset sharing and governance in AI for disinformation - Datasets for disinformation detection and multimedia verification - Open resources, e.g., datasets, software tools - Large Language Models for analyzing and mitigating disinformation campaigns - Large Multimodal Models for media verification - Multimedia verification systems and applications - System fusion, ensembling and late fusion techniques - Benchmarking and evaluation frameworks *** Submission guidelines *** When preparing your submission, please adhere strictly to the ACM ICMR 2024 instructions, to ensure the appropriateness of the reviewing process and inclusion in the ACM Digital Library proceedings. The instructions are available here: https://mad2024.aimultimedialab.ro/submissions/. *** Organizing committee *** Cristian Stanciu, Politehnica University of Bucharest, Romania Luca Cuccovillo, Fraunhofer IDMT, Germany Bogdan Ionescu, Politehnica University of Bucharest, Romania Giorgos Kordopatis-Zilos, Czech Technical University in Prague, Czechia Symeon Papadopoulos, Centre for Research and Technology Hellas, Thessaloniki, Greece Adrian Popescu, CEA LIST, Saclay, France Roberto Caldelli, CNIT and Mercatorum University, Italy The workshop is supported under the H2020 project AI4Media - A European Excellence Centre for Media, Society and Democracy (https://www.ai4media.eu/), the Horizon Europe project vera.ai - VERification Assisted by Artificial Intelligence (https://www.veraai.eu/) and Horizon Europe project AI4Debunk - Participative Assistive AI-powered Tools for Supporting Trustworthy Online Activity of Citizens and Debunking Disinformation ( https://ai4debunk.eu/). 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Yours sincerely IEEE SS-GAIMHS 2024 Session Chairs ======================================================= Special Session on Generative AI for Medical and Healthcare System (SS-GAIMHS 2024) in 4th Edition of IEEE International Conference on ICT Solutions for e-Health (ICTS4eHealth 2024) Paris, France, June 26-29, 2024 www.icts4ehealth.icar.cnr.it in conjunction with the 29th IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC) Submit your paper by using the link: https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=32272&track=123861 ======================================================= SPECIAL SESSION DESCRIPTION: ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Over time, there has been increased development and interest in the use of generative AI. Even in the medical field, researchers have proposed and continue to propose the use of generative AI for various tasks. Patient records are hard to come by, medical data available to researchers are often few, unbalanced and incomplete. These types of problems can be addressed by using generative models for data augmentation. Generative AI is also the basis of modern chatbots, which can prove to be a useful support tool in the medical field. Other fields where the use of Generative AI is becoming more widespread are medical image reconstructions and enhancements, which for example can be resolution enhancement, noise reduction, occlusion removal, and more in medical images. An important issue for high-risk problems, such as the medical field, is the need to develop and use explainable AI models at the expense of black-box models; Generative AI models are not exempt from this obligation. The goal of this special session is to give researchers an opportunity to present and discuss their work proposing the use of generative AI for medical and health applications, while also providing some food for thought for future research directions. TOPICS (but are not limited to): ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - Data Augmentation with Generative Models - Explainability and Interpretability in Generative AI - Generative Natural Language Models for Clinical Decision Support - Super Resolution, Colorization and Inpainting in Medical Imaging - Reconstruction and Denoising of Medical Resonance Images (MRI) or Computed Tomography (CT) - Generative AI for Patient Data Sharing Problems - Image segmentation in Medical Imaging - Weakly supervised approaches in Generative AI for Medical Systems - Image translation and domain adaptation of Medical Imaging - Image reconstruction from Medical instruments - Anomaly Detection in Medical Imaging using Generative AI - Issues and Challenges in Generative AI for Medical and Healthcare System - Generative AI for real-world Healthcare scenarios IMPORTANT DATES: ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ? Submission deadline: March 30, 2024 ? Notification of paper acceptance: April 30, 2024 ? Submission of camera-ready papers: May 15, 2024 ? Registration: May 15, 2024 PAPER SUBMISSION: ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Manuscripts should describe original work and should be no more than 7 pages for full papers and 4 pages for short papers in the IEEE double-column proceedings format, including tables, figures and references. In order to download manuscript templates for IEEE conference proceedings use the following link: https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html Papers can be submitted directly to EDAS: https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=32272&track=123861 Note that accepted papers up to 6 pages will be published with no additional charge. Exceeding pages will be charged an additional fee. Papers exceeding 7 pages will not be accepted. At least one author of each accepted paper is required to register to the conference and present the paper. Only registered and presented papers will be published in the conference proceedings. The SS-GAIMHS 2024 special session is part of the main ICTS4eHealth conference, and accepted papers will be included in the proceedings of ISCC 2024, of which the ICTS4eHealth conference is a concurrent event, and will be submitted for inclusion in IEEE Xplore. The proceedings of ICTSeHealth and ISCC have been indexed in the past by ISI, DBLP, and Scopus. BEST PAPER AWARD: ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A "Best Paper Award" Certificate will be conferred on the author(s) of a paper presented at the conference, selected by the Chairs based on scientific significance, originality and outstanding technical quality of the paper, as assessed also by the evaluations of the members of the Program Committee. Please visit http://icts4ehealth.icar.cnr.it for more information and if you have any questions kindly get back to us by sending an email CONTACT: ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- For questions, please contact gaimhs2024 at gmail.com Kind regards, IEEE SS-GAIMHS 2024 Organization -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- Dear colleagues, we do hope this Call for Papers may be of your interest. We do apologize if this CfP reaches you more than once. Yours sincerely IEEE SS-GAIMHS 2024 Session Chairs ======================================================= Special Session on Generative AI for Medical and Healthcare System (SS-GAIMHS 2024) in 4th Edition of IEEE International Conference on ICT Solutions for e-Health (ICTS4eHealth 2024) Paris, France, June 26-29, 2024 www.icts4ehealth.icar.cnr.it in conjunction with the 29th IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC) Submit your paper by using the link: https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=32272&track=123861 ======================================================= SPECIAL SESSION DESCRIPTION: ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Over time, there has been increased development and interest in the use of generative AI. Even in the medical field, researchers have proposed and continue to propose the use of generative AI for various tasks. Patient records are hard to come by, medical data available to researchers are often few, unbalanced and incomplete. These types of problems can be addressed by using generative models for data augmentation. Generative AI is also the basis of modern chatbots, which can prove to be a useful support tool in the medical field. Other fields where the use of Generative AI is becoming more widespread are medical image reconstructions and enhancements, which for example can be resolution enhancement, noise reduction, occlusion removal, and more in medical images. An important issue for high-risk problems, such as the medical field, is the need to develop and use explainable AI models at the expense of black-box models; Generative AI models are not exempt from this obligation. The goal of this special session is to give researchers an opportunity to present and discuss their work proposing the use of generative AI for medical and health applications, while also providing some food for thought for future research directions. TOPICS (but are not limited to): ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - Data Augmentation with Generative Models - Explainability and Interpretability in Generative AI - Generative Natural Language Models for Clinical Decision Support - Super Resolution, Colorization and Inpainting in Medical Imaging - Reconstruction and Denoising of Medical Resonance Images (MRI) or Computed Tomography (CT) - Generative AI for Patient Data Sharing Problems - Image segmentation in Medical Imaging - Weakly supervised approaches in Generative AI for Medical Systems - Image translation and domain adaptation of Medical Imaging - Image reconstruction from Medical instruments - Anomaly Detection in Medical Imaging using Generative AI - Issues and Challenges in Generative AI for Medical and Healthcare System - Generative AI for real-world Healthcare scenarios IMPORTANT DATES: ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ? Submission deadline: March 30, 2024 ? Notification of paper acceptance: April 30, 2024 ? Submission of camera-ready papers: May 15, 2024 ? Registration: May 15, 2024 PAPER SUBMISSION: ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Manuscripts should describe original work and should be no more than 7 pages for full papers and 4 pages for short papers in the IEEE double-column proceedings format, including tables, figures and references. In order to download manuscript templates for IEEE conference proceedings use the following link: https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html Papers can be submitted directly to EDAS: https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=32272&track=123861 Note that accepted papers up to 6 pages will be published with no additional charge. Exceeding pages will be charged an additional fee. Papers exceeding 7 pages will not be accepted. At least one author of each accepted paper is required to register to the conference and present the paper. Only registered and presented papers will be published in the conference proceedings. The SS-GAIMHS 2024 special session is part of the main ICTS4eHealth conference, and accepted papers will be included in the proceedings of ISCC 2024, of which the ICTS4eHealth conference is a concurrent event, and will be submitted for inclusion in IEEE Xplore. The proceedings of ICTSeHealth and ISCC have been indexed in the past by ISI, DBLP, and Scopus. BEST PAPER AWARD: ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A "Best Paper Award" Certificate will be conferred on the author(s) of a paper presented at the conference, selected by the Chairs based on scientific significance, originality and outstanding technical quality of the paper, as assessed also by the evaluations of the members of the Program Committee. Please visit http://icts4ehealth.icar.cnr.it for more information and if you have any questions kindly get back to us by sending an email CONTACT: ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- For questions, please contact gaimhs2024 at gmail.com Kind regards, IEEE SS-GAIMHS 2024 Organization From marcosmrai at gmail.com Fri Mar 8 07:34:41 2024 From: marcosmrai at gmail.com (marcosmrai) Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2024 09:34:41 -0300 Subject: Connectionists: Call for postdoc applications in AI applied in Finance at University of Campinas Message-ID: Dear colleagues, We are looking for a motivated postdoc with an interest in machine learning applied to fair and transparent credit scoring. Formal training in economics is not required; strong ML/AI/Statistics skills are an advantage. More details in the document: https://docs.google.com/document/d/12uaQlCiuuJXS7N1sFfvOJ4vsRUEkk2Nm8hB9Z7f-Lf4/edit?usp=sharing We would appreciate it if you could share the job ad with anyone you think might be interested. With many thanks and kind regards, -- Marcos M. Raimundo -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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The first edition of WISDOMS, the Workshop on Integrating the Semantics of Data, Ontologies, Moral and cultural values and their Societal impact, aims to provide an interdisciplinary platform for researchers, practitioners, and experts to explore the convergence of ethics, moral and cultural values, and socio-behavioral norms with hybrid knowledge structures, knowledge graphs and generative AI. The workshop welcomes papers and abstracts for presentations that tackle the challenges of representing values in ontologies, adapting and evaluating ontologies for value-centric domains, and utilizing cutting-edge technologies such as Large Language Models (LLMs) within the realm of Semantic Web to address the unique hurdles of working with complex ethical data. More information on the website! Welcomed paper types: - Full Papers (10-12 pages excluding references) - Short Papers (5-8 pages excluding references) - Position Papers (1-4 pages excluding references, not included in the proceedings) - Extended Abstract of recently published papers (1-4 pages excluding references, not included in the proceedings) Topics of interest include: - Ethical dilemmas and theoretical foundations in value knowledge representation - Development and methodology for value-centric vocabulary, schema, and ontology - Formalization of ethical frameworks (e.g., Deontic, Utilitaristic, Social Contract, etc.) for moral reasoning - Foundational ontologies (e.g., DOLCE, BFO, UFO, etc.) for modeling ethics and values - Harmonization of moral and cultural value theories with ontological structures - Formal approaches for values and ethics as embodied cognition structures - Policy formalization with ontologies and knowledge graphs for ethical AI - Values in time: Temporal knowledge graphs for value alignment - Neuro-symbolic and hybrid semantic web tools for moral reasoning - Cross-cultural values and norms representation - Value-sensitive autonomous agents - FAIR principles for knowledge graph construction and data curation - Automated and semi-automated construction of knowledge graphs for values and norms - Commonsense knowledge and value recognition semantic technologies - Automatic extraction of moral and cultural values from multimodal resources - Innovative workflows and tools for ethical knowledge extraction - Value-driven system design and explainability - Standards, measures, and best practices for ontologies within ethical AI -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From A.Visser at uva.nl Fri Mar 8 07:23:03 2024 From: A.Visser at uva.nl (Arnoud Visser) Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2024 12:23:03 +0000 Subject: Connectionists: Call for Papers: RoboCup International Symposium 2024 - submission deadline in a month In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: This is a kind reminder that 4 weeks are left to the submission deadline Call for papers -submission date April 8, 2024 RoboCup International Symposium 2024 https://2024.robocup.org/research/symposium/ Monday 22 July 2024 Eindhoven, Netherlands. The 27th RoboCup International Symposium will be held on 22 July 2024, in conjunction with RoboCup 2024 (15 July to 21 July 2024), in Eindhoven, The Netherlands. We call for submissions of papers reporting innovative, original research with relevance to areas of robotics and artificial intelligence as listed below. Within the described scope of topics, we also encourage submissions of high-quality overview articles, papers describing real-world research, and papers reporting theoretical results. Researchers are invited to submit their work independently of whether they participate in the RoboCup competitions or have a RoboCup team. The symposium will be held in person at the Evoluon Conference Center in Eindhoven. In addition to the regular track with regular research papers, there is the development track encouraging reports on innovative hardware developments, software frameworks, and open-source releases of software components. A review of papers describing these contributions will be based on technical aspects and benefits to the practice of communities working in the above fields in general and RoboCup in particular. IMPORTANT DATES Submission of full papers: 8 April 2024 Notification to authors: 22 May 2024 RoboCup Symposium 2024: 22 July 2024 (RoboCup on 15-21 July 2024) SUBMISSION AND PROCEEDINGS All papers will be peer-reviewed and evaluated by members of the senior program committee. The proceedings of the RoboCup International Symposium will be published and archived within the Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNCS/LNAI) series by Springer-Verlag after the conference. Papers should be formatted following the LNAI author guidelines (https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines) and must be electronically submitted through Springer's electronic-submission system EquinOCS (https://equinocs.springernature.com/service/RoboCup2024). Submissions are limited to 12 pages including references. The LNAI author guidelines site contains a Springer's proceedings LaTeX template (v2.23), an older version of this template (v2.21) is also available in Overleaf: (https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/springer-conference-proceedings-template-updated-2022-01-12/wcvbtmwtykqj) TOPICS Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Robot Hardware and Software - mobile robotics - humanoid robotics - sensors and actuators - embedded and mobile devices - robot construction and new materials - robot system integration - robot software architectures - robot programming environments and languages - real-time and concurrent programming - robot simulators - sim2real learning * Perception and Action - 3D perception - distributed sensor integration - sensor noise filtering - real-time image processing and pattern recognition - motion and sensor models - sensory-motor control - robot kinematics and dynamics - high-dimensional motion control * Robot Cognition and Learning - world modelling and knowledge representation - learning from demonstration and imitation - localisation, navigation, and mapping - planning and reasoning - decision making under uncertainty - neural systems and deep learning - complex motor skill acquisition - reinforcement learning and optimisation - motion and sensor model learning * Human-Robot Interaction - robot social intelligence - fluency of interaction - speech synthesis and natural language generation - natural language recognition - explainable robot behaviours - emotion recognition and reaction - understanding human intent and behaviour - safety, security and dependability - enabling humans to predict robot behaviour * Multi-Robot Systems - team coordination methods - communication protocols - learning and adaptive systems - teamwork and heterogeneous agents - dynamic resource allocation - adjustable autonomy * Education and Edutainment - robotics and artificial intelligence education - educational robotics - robot kits and programming tools - robotic entertainment * Applications and Benchmarking - search and rescue robots - robot surveillance - service and social robots - robots at home, at work and in public spaces - robots in the real world - performance metrics - human-robot interaction DEVELOPMENT TRACK To encourage open-source release of hardware and software systems, the RoboCup International Symposium has included a development track in recent years. In 2024, we expand the scope of this track to include datasets and benchmarks. We encourage the submission of papers describing open-source hardware and software, tools and frameworks that facilitate development of robotics hardware and software, datasets that enable new robotic capabilities, as well as benchmarks that establish reproducible test beds and performance metrics to advance research. If applicable, contributions to the special track should include evidence of the released system or dataset, and highlight past, ongoing, and/or potential future impacts on the RoboCup community. A review of these contributions will be based on technical merit and benefits to the RoboCup community, and the research topics listed above. 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URL: From wanling.cai at tcd.ie Fri Mar 8 10:57:02 2024 From: wanling.cai at tcd.ie (Wanling Cai) Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2024 15:57:02 +0000 Subject: Connectionists: ACM UMAP 2024 - 3rd Call for Late-Breaking Results and Demos Message-ID: * We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this CfP * * Online version: https://www.um.org/umap2024/call-for-lbr-and-demos/ ACM UMAP 2024 - Call for Late-Breaking Results and Demos ACM UMAP 2024: The 32nd ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy July 1-4, 2024 The 32nd International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation, and Personalization (ACM UMAP 2024) is the premier international conference for researchers and practitioners working on systems that adapt to individual users or groups of users, and that collect, represent, and model user information. ACM UMAP 2024 is sponsored by ACM SIGCHI and SIGWEB. User Modeling Inc., as the core Steering Committee, oversees the conference organization. ACM UMAP operates under the ACM Conference Code of Conduct. The proceedings, published by ACM, will be part of the ACM Digital Library. ACM UMAP 2024 invites Late-Breaking Results (LBR) papers as well as Demonstrations (demos) of innovative UMAP-based systems (including research prototypes). The topics for these submissions are the same as the ones included in the Call for Full and Short Papers. However, their scope and timing is different. In particular, although short papers (from the main track) and the LBR papers of this call have the same maximum length, LBR papers are expected to present innovative ideas that are being explored and have already shown some promising results. It is also a dissemination channel for new research directions. Mature results which have already gone through experimental validation are more suitable for the general call, either as a full or short paper. Thus, rejected papers from the main track are not expected to be a valuable contribution as an LBR paper unless their contents are revised to address the scope of this track. Note also that LBR papers are to be presented physically during the conference in a poster format, allowing for more informal discussions on the ideas shared. Demos are intended to present systems that have been used to achieve the research outcomes presented as full and short papers. Thus, we highly recommend authors of accepted full and short papers to also prepare a submission for a demo of their system to be showcased at the conference in the LBR and Demo session. ** Important Dates ** * Submission: April 18, 2024 * Notification: May 9 2024 * Camera-ready Submission (TAPS system): May 16, 2024 * Conference: July 1 ? 4, 2024 Note: The submissions deadlines are at 11:59 pm AoE (Anywhere on Earth) time. ** Submission ** All submissions must be written in English. Papers should be submitted electronically, in a PDF format, through the EasyChair submission system, https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=umap24, by selecting the ?UMAP24 Late Breaking Results and Demo Papers? track ** Length and Formatting ** -- Late-Breaking Results Format -- * Page Limits. Up to 7 pages, plus up to 2 additional pages for references (figures, tables, proofs, appendixes, acknowledgments, and any other content count toward the page limit). * Proceedings. Publication in ACM UMAP 2024 adjunct proceedings. * Presentation. Physically presented as a poster during the conference. * Description. LBRs are research-in-progress that must contain original and unpublished accounts of innovative research ideas, preliminary results, industry showcases, and system prototypes, addressing both the theory and practice of UMAP. In addition, papers introducing recently started research projects or summarizing project results are welcome as well. We encourage researchers and practitioners to submit late-breaking work as it provides a unique opportunity for sharing valuable ideas, eliciting useful feedback on early-stage work, and fostering discussions and collaborations among colleagues. In case that papers rejected in the main track (i.e. submitted as full or short papers) are submitted to this track, they should be revised not only to take into account the comments made to help improve the paper, but to fulfill the scope of the LBR, which emphasizes novelty of ideas. This is also valid for papers that have been recommended as an LBR when rejected in the main track. -- Demos Format -- * Page Limits *. Up to 5 pages, plus up to 1 additional page for references (figures, tables, proofs, appendixes, acknowledgments, and any other content count toward the page limit). On an extra page (not to be published), submissions should include a specification of the technical requirements for demonstrating the system at UMAP 2024. * Supporting Material *. Video or external material demonstrating the system. * Proceedings *. Publication in ACM UMAP 2024 adjunct proceedings. * Presentation * . Physically presented as a demo plus as a poster during the conference. * Description *. Demos will showcase research prototypes and commercially available products in a dedicated session. Demo submissions must be based on an implemented and tested system that pursues one or more innovative ideas in the interest areas of the conference. Demonstrations are an excellent and exciting way to showcase implementations and get valuable feedback from the community, especially for those papers that have been presented in the main track. Each demo submission must make clear which aspects of the system will be demonstrated, and how these will be demonstrated on-site as well as online. To better identify the value of demos, we also encourage authors to submit a pointer to a screencast (max. 5 minutes on Vimeo or YouTube) or any external material related to the demo (e.g., shared code on GitHub). *Non-Anonymity.* Submissions will be reviewed single-masked (i.e., authors? names should be included in the papers) thus there is no need to be anonymized before submission. *Template for the Research Description.* Following the ACM Publication Workflow, all authors should submit manuscripts for review in the new ACM single-column format. Instructions for authors are given below: * LaTeX (use \documentclass[manuscript, review, anonymous]{acmart} in the sample-authordraft.tex file for single-column). Please carefully follow the ACM?s instructions for preparing your article with LaTeX. * Overleaf (use \documentclass[manuscript,review,anonymous]{acmart} for single-column). Please carefully follow the ACM?s instructions for preparing your article with Overleaf. * Word. Please carefully follow the ACM?s instructions for preparing your article with Microsoft Word Should you have any questions or issues going through the instructions above, please contact support at acmtexsupport at aptaracorp.com for LaTeX and Microsoft Word inquiries. * Accessibility.* Authors are strongly encouraged to provide ?alt text? (alternative text) for floats (images, tables, etc.) in their content so that readers with disabilities can be given descriptive information for these floats that are important to the work. The descriptive text will be displayed in place of a float if the float cannot be loaded. This benefits the author and it broadens the reader base for the author?s work. Moreover, the alt text provides in-depth float descriptions to search engine crawlers, which helps to properly index these floats. Additionally, authors should follow the ACM Accessibility Recommendations for Publishing in Color and SIG ACCESS guidelines on describing figures. ** Review Process & Camera-ready Submission ** * Review * Submissions will be reviewed by at least two independent reviewers. They will be assessed based on their originality and novelty, potential contribution to the research field, potential impact in particular use cases, and the usefulness of presented experiences, as well as their overall readability. Papers that exceed the page limits or do not adhere to the formatting guidelines will be returned without review. The ACM Code of Ethics gives the UMAP program committee the right to (desk-)reject papers that perpetuate harmful stereotypes, employ unethical research practices, or uncritically present outcomes/implications that clearly disadvantage minority communities. Further, reviewers will be explicitly asked to consider whether the research was conducted in compliance with professional ethical standards and applicable regulatory guidelines. Failure to do so could lead to a (desk-)rejection. *Camera-ready Information.* Accepted papers will be subject to further revision to meet the requirements of the camera-ready format required by ACM. We strongly recommend the usage of LaTeX/Overleaf for the camera-ready papers to minimize the extent of reformatting. Users of the Word template must use either the version for Microsoft Word for Windows, Macintosh Office 2011, or Macintosh Office 2016 (other formats such as Open Office, etc., are not admitted) for the camera-ready submission to avoid incompatibility issues. Instructions for preparing the camera-ready versions of accepted papers will be provided after acceptance. This might include instructions to prepare a video of the accepted contribution. Camera-ready versions of accepted papers will be later submitted using ACM?s new production platform where authors will be able to review PDF and HTML output formats before publication. ** Registration and Presentation Policy ** Each accepted paper must be accompanied by a distinct full author registration, completed by the early registration date cut-off. Each accepted paper must be presented in person to be included in the conference adjunct proceedings, published by ACM and available via the ACM Digital Library. The official publication date is when the proceedings are made available in the ACM Digital Library. This date may be up to two weeks before the first day of UMAP 2024. The official publication date affects the deadline for any patent filings related to published work. During the conference, all categories will be presented at the poster reception, in the form of a poster and/or a software demonstration following poster format. This form of presentation will provide presenters with an opportunity to obtain direct feedback about their work from a wide audience during the conference. *Grants and Support* To help students and early career researchers attend ACM UMAP 2024, we are able to provide several grants for participants at ACM UMAP 2024. * Category 1: Discounted Registration Rates * Category 2: Gary Marsden Travel Awards (GMTA) * Category 3: ACM UMAP 2024 Grants More information can be found in https://www.um.org/umap2024/grants-and-support/. Please refer to the website information, to learn the eligibility and application process for each category. ** Late-Breaking Results and Demos Chairs ** * Bamshad Mobasher, DePaul University, USA * Hanna Hauptmann, Utrecht University, Netherlands * Olga C. Santos, Universidad Nacional de Educacion a Distancia (UNED), Spain Contact information: umap2024-lbr at um.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From susan.fischer at tue.mpg.de Fri Mar 8 13:46:36 2024 From: susan.fischer at tue.mpg.de (Susan Fischer) Date: Fri, 08 Mar 2024 19:46:36 +0100 Subject: Connectionists: Postdoc positions in Cognitive Neuroscience, Computational Psychiatry and Developmental Psychology, University of Tuebingen, Germany Message-ID: <85069873-B1EB-460B-9A74-5EF2D55F703F@tue.mpg.de> **Apologies for cross-posting** Dear colleagues, The "Developmental Computational Psychiatry" lab and the W3 professorship "Computational Psychiatry" led by Tobias Hauser at the University of T?bingen (Germany) is currently hiring new postdocs. The focus of the lab is to better understand the computational and neural mechanisms underlying decision making and learning, and how these processes go awry in patients with mental illnesses. The successful candidates will have the chance to work in a highly dynamic and inspiring environment and to collaborate closely with Prof Peter Dayan and the Max-Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics. Concretely, we are looking for the following candidates: * Postdoc with developmental psychology background: https://t.ly/_AOEG * Postdoc with experimental & neuroimaging (MEG / MRI) background: https://t.ly/2YcE1 More information about the positions can be found here: https://devcompsy.org/join-the-lab/ Interested candidates are encouraged to reach out to Tobias Hauser directly to informally discuss the positions. Best regards, Susan. ************************************************ Susan Fischer Coordinator Alexander von Humboldt Professorship Prof Peter Dayan & W3-Professorship ?Computational Psychiatry?, Prof Tobias Hauser Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics & Eberhard Karls Universit?t T?bingen & Universit?tsklinik f?r Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie AI Research Building R 20-7/A21 Maria-von-Linden-Str. 6 72076 T?bingen Germany susan.fischer at tue.mpg.de ************************************************ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From emanuele.maiorana at uniroma3.it Sun Mar 10 16:30:26 2024 From: emanuele.maiorana at uniroma3.it (Emanuele Maiorana) Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2024 20:30:26 +0000 Subject: Connectionists: [CFP] IEEE WIFS 2024 Calls for Special Sessions, Demos, Challenges, Tutorials, Papers In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: [APOLOGIES IF YOU RECEIVE MULTIPLE COPIES OF THIS CFP] 16th IEEE INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON INFORMATION FORENSICS AND SECURITY (WIFS) 2024 ROME, ITALY, DECEMBER 2-5, 2024 https://wifs2024.uniroma3.it CALLS FOR SPECIAL SESSIONS AND CHALLENGES CLOSING SOON AIMS AND SCOPE The IEEE International Workshop on Information Forensics and Security (WIFS) 2024 will be the 16th edition of the major annual event organized by the IEEE Information Forensics and Security Technical Committee (IFS-TC) of the IEEE Signal Processing Society (SPS). The major goal of WIFS is to bring together researchers working in the different areas of information forensics and security to discuss challenges, exchange ideas, and share state-of-the-art results and technical expertise, with the aim of building a community capable of providing adequate tools and solutions to face the challenges of tomorrow. WIFS 2024 will be held in Rome, Italy, from December 2 to December 5, hosted by Roma Tre University, and it will see the participation of researchers from all over the world, who will allow to have a high-level technical program, also thanks to the expertise of the program committee involved, and who will have the opportunity to exploit an interesting social program taking advantage of the charm of the Eternal City. CALL FOR TUTORIALS The organizing committee invites proposals for Tutorials on relevant and emerging topics in the areas of Information Forensics and Security. Tutorials will be given during the first day of the conference, on Monday December 2, 2024. CALL FOR SPECIAL SESSIONS The organizing committee invites proposals for innovative and high-quality special sessions on emerging topics, which complement the regular program of the conference. Special sessions should both provide an overview of the state of the art in the proposed field, and highlight the most promising research directions, trends and issues. Special session proposals will be evaluated based on the proposed topic, the expected impact, the expected quality of the contributed papers, and the session organizers and contributing authors. Special session paper submissions will be reviewed via the same process used for the regular program, and papers are expected to meet the same quality standards. Accepted and presented papers will be submitted for inclusion into IEEE Xplore. CALL FOR DEMOS The organizing committee invites proposals for demonstrations of applications in information forensics and security topics. Demos are intended as real, practical, and interactive proof of the presenters' research ideas and scientific or engineering contributions, with the goal of providing researchers and practitioners with the opportunity to discuss working systems, applications, prototypes, or proof-of-concepts. Accepted and presented demos will be described in short papers that will be submitted for inclusion into IEEE Xplore. CALL FOR CHALLENGES The organizing committee invites proposals for challenges addressing problems that will engage and excite the information forensics and security research community. Organizers should design challenges to make the results replicable by others, thus requiring a formal benchmark (which may include a test set). Organizers will have to evaluate the submitted results/models, and will be asked to summarize the outcomes in a paper to be presented at the workshop and submitted for inclusion into IEEE Xplore. CALL FOR PAPERS Prospective authors are invited to submit research papers be up to 6 double-column pages, including references and figures, presenting original works and addressing Information Forensics and Security aspects in a broad sense. The review process will be single-blind (author's names can be reported in the submitted papers). Accepted and presented papers will be submitted for inclusion into IEEE Xplore. It is planned to organize a special issue with invitations for a selection of the best presented papers. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the use or advances of the following areas: * Anonymization and Data Privacy * Applied Cryptography * Biometrics * Communication and Physical-Layer Security * Cybersecurity * Forensic Analysis * Hardware Security * Multimedia Content Hash * Network Security * Surveillance * Usability and Human Factors * Watermarking and Data Hiding * Adversarial Machine Learning * Steganography and Covert Communications * Information Theoretic Security * Security of Large Networked Systems IMPORTANT DATES * Special Session proposal: April 7, 2024 (updated) * Special Session notification: April 12, 2024 (updated) * Challenge proposal: April 15, 2024 * Challenge notification: April 19, 2024 * Tutorial proposal: June 2, 2024 * Tutorial notification: June 7, 2024 * Paper submission: June 30, 2024 * Reviews notification: September 2, 2024 * Rebuttal/Challenge paper deadline: September 6, 2024 * Acceptance notification: September 13, 2024 * Camera-ready submission: September 27, 2024 * Early registration: October 4, 2024 * Workshop: December 2 - 5, 2024 CONTACTS For further information, please visit https://wifs2024.uniroma3.it or send an email to wifs2024.contacts at uniroma3.it. __________________________________________________________________ Emanuele Maiorana Ph.D. Roma Tre University, Via Vito Volterra 62, 00146 Roma, Italy Ph. +39 0657337365 Lab URL http://biomedia4n6.uniroma3.it Personal http://biomedia4n6.uniroma3.it/maiorana.html -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Keynote speakers: Prof. Chin-Chen Chang, Feng Chia University (IEEE Fellow) Prof. Cheng-Zhong Xu?University of Macau, China (IEEE Fellow) Prof. Yiu-ming Cheung, Hong Kong Baptist University (IEEE Fellow) 4. The history of BDSIC conference: BDSIC 2019 received submissions from all over the world and was successfully held in Wuhan?China during October 18-20, 2019. All the conference papers of BDSIC 2019 is archived in the ACM Digital Library on December 26, 2019 and have been indexed by Ei Compendex, Scopus on March 25, 2020. Due to COVID-19 situation?BDSIC 2020&2021&2022 was held online. BDSIC 2023 was held successfully online and offline combination in the ARC, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore during October 20-22 , 2023. BDSIC 2020 conference proceeding ?ISBN: 978-1-4503-8839-9? is archived in the ACM Digital Library on February 2, 2021 and have been indexed by Ei Compendex, Scopus on March 20, 2021. BDSIC 2021 conference proceeding ?ISBN: 978-1-4503-9055-2? is archived in the ACM Digital Library on January 26, 2022 and have been indexed by Ei Compendex, Scopus on February 25 2022. BDSIC 2022 conference proceeding ?ISBN: 978-1-4503-9707-0? is archived in the ACM Digital Library on March 14, 2023 and have been indexed by Ei Compendex, Scopus on March 30, 2023. All accepted papers of BDSIC 2023 will be published into the ACM International Conference Proceedings(ISBN: 979-8-4007-0892-3)? which will be indexed by Ei Compendex and Scopus. Conference Venue? 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IRDTA Brussels/London ****************************************************** Early registration: April 5, 2024 ****************************************************** SCOPE: DeepLearn 2024 will be a research training event with a global scope aiming at updating participants on the most recent advances in the critical and fast developing area of deep learning. Previous events were held in Bilbao, Genova, Warsaw, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Guimar?es, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Lule?, Bournemouth, Bari and Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. Deep learning is a branch of artificial intelligence covering a spectrum of current frontier research and industrial innovation that provides more efficient algorithms to deal with large-scale data in a huge variety of environments: computer vision, neurosciences, speech recognition, language processing, human-computer interaction, drug discovery, health informatics, medical image analysis, recommender systems, advertising, fraud detection, robotics, games, finance, biotechnology, physics experiments, biometrics, communications, climate sciences, geographic information systems, signal processing, genomics, materials design, video technology, social systems, etc. etc. The field is also raising a number of relevant questions about robustness of the algorithms, explainability, transparency, and important ethical concerns at the frontier of current knowledge that deserve careful multidisciplinary discussion. Most deep learning subareas will be displayed, and main challenges identified through 16 four-hour and a half courses, 2 keynote lectures, 1 round table and a few hackathon-type competitions among students, which will tackle the most active and promising topics. Renowned academics and industry pioneers will lecture and share their views with the audience. The organizers are convinced that outstanding speakers will attract the brightest and most motivated students. Face to face interaction and networking will be main ingredients of the event. It will be also possible to fully participate in vivo remotely. ADDRESSED TO: Graduate students, postgraduate students and industry practitioners will be typical profiles of participants. However, there are no formal pre-requisites for attendance in terms of academic degrees, so people less or more advanced in their career will be welcome as well. Since there will be a variety of levels, specific knowledge background may be assumed for some of the courses. Overall, DeepLearn 2024 is addressed to students, researchers and practitioners who want to keep themselves updated about recent developments and future trends. All will surely find it fruitful to listen to and discuss with major researchers, industry leaders and innovators. VENUE: DeepLearn 2024 will take place in Porto, the second largest city in Portugal, recognized by UNESCO in 1996 as a World Heritage Site. The venue will be: University of Maia Avenida Carlos de Oliveira Campos - Cast?lo da Maia 4475-690 Maia Porto, Portugal https://www.umaia.pt/en STRUCTURE: 3 courses will run in parallel during the whole event. Participants will be able to freely choose the courses they wish to attend as well as to move from one to another. All lectures will be videorecorded. Participants will be able to watch them again for 45 days after the event. An open session will give participants the opportunity to present their own work in progress in 5 minutes. Also companies will be able to present their technical developments for 10 minutes. This year?s edition of the school will schedule hands-on activities including mini-hackathons, where participants will work in teams to tackle several machine learning challenges. Full live online participation will be possible. The organizers highlight, however, the importance of face to face interaction and networking in this kind of research training event. KEYNOTE SPEAKERS: Jiawei Han (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign), How Can Large Language Models Contribute to Effective Text Mining? Katia Sycara (Carnegie Mellon University), Effective Multi Agent Teaming PROFESSORS AND COURSES: Luca Benini (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich), [intermediate/advanced] Open Hardware Platforms for Edge Machine Learning Gustau Camps-Valls (University of Val?ncia), [intermediate] AI for Earth, Climate, and Sustainability Nitesh Chawla (University of Notre Dame), [introductory/intermediate] Introduction to Representation Learning on Graphs Daniel Cremers (Technical University of Munich), [introductory/advanced] Deep Networks for 3D Computer Vision Peng Cui (Tsinghua University), [intermediate/advanced] Stable Learning for Out-of-Distribution Generalization: Invariance, Causality and Heterogeneity Sergei V. Gleyzer (University of Alabama), [introductory/intermediate] Machine Learning Fundamentals and Their Applications to Very Large Scientific Data: Rare Signal and Feature Extraction, End-to-End Deep Learning, Uncertainty Estimation and Realtime Machine Learning Applications in Software and Hardware Yulan He (King?s College London), [introductory/intermediate] Machine Reading Comprehension with Large Language Models Frank Hutter (University of Freiburg), [intermediate/advanced] AutoML George Karypis (University of Minnesota), [intermediate] Deep Learning Models and Systems for Real-World Graph Machine Learning Hermann Ney (RWTH Aachen University / AppTek), [intermediate/advanced] Machine Learning and Deep Learning for Speech & Language Technology: A Probabilistic Perspective Massimiliano Pontil (Italian Institute of Technology), [intermediate/advanced] Operator Learning for Dynamical Systems Elisa Ricci (University of Trento), [intermediate] Continual and Adaptive Learning in Computer Vision Wojciech Samek (Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute / Technical University of Berlin), [introductory/intermediate] From Feature Attributions to Next-Generation Explainable AI Xinghua Mindy Shi (Temple University), [intermediate] Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence for Health and Medicine Michalis Vazirgiannis (?cole Polytechnique), [intermediate/advanced] Graph Machine Learning and Multimodal Graph Generative AI James Zou (Stanford University), [introductory/intermediate] Large Language Models and Biomedical Applications OPEN SESSION: An open session will collect 5-minute voluntary presentations of work in progress by participants. They should submit a half-page abstract containing the title, authors, and summary of the research to david at irdta.eu by July 7, 2024. INDUSTRIAL SESSION: A session will be devoted to 10-minute demonstrations of practical applications of deep learning in industry. Companies interested in contributing are welcome to submit a 1-page abstract containing the program of the demonstration and the logistics needed. People in charge of the demonstration must register for the event. Expressions of interest have to be submitted to david at irdta.eu by July 7, 2024. HACKATHONS: Hackathons will take place, where participants will work in teams to tackle several machine learning challenges. They will be coordinated by Professor Sergei V. Gleyzer. The challenges will be released 2 weeks before the beginning of the school. A jury will judge the submissions and the winners of each challenge will be announced on the final day. The winning teams will receive a small prize and the runners-up will get a certificate. EMPLOYERS: Organizations searching for personnel well skilled in deep learning will be provided a space for one-to-one contacts. It is recommended to produce a 1-page .pdf leaflet with a brief description of the organization and the profiles looked for to be circulated among the participants prior to the event. People in charge of the search must register for the event. Expressions of interest have to be submitted to david at irdta.eu by July 7, 2024. SPONSORS: Companies/institutions/organizations willing to be sponsors of the event can download the sponsorship leaflet from https://deeplearn.irdta.eu/2024/sponsoring/ ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: Jos? Paulo Marques dos Santos (Maia, local chair) Carlos Mart?n-Vide (Tarragona, program chair) Sara Morales (Brussels) Jos? 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Yours sincerely IEEE SS-GAIMHS 2024 Session Chairs ======================================================= Special Session on Generative AI for Medical and Healthcare System (SS-GAIMHS 2024) in 4th Edition of IEEE International Conference on ICT Solutions for e-Health (ICTS4eHealth 2024) Paris, France, June 26-29, 2024 www.icts4ehealth.icar.cnr.it in conjunction with the 29th IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC) Submit your paper by using the link: https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=32272&track=123861 ======================================================= SPECIAL SESSION DESCRIPTION: ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Over time, there has been increased development and interest in the use of generative AI. Even in the medical field, researchers have proposed and continue to propose the use of generative AI for various tasks. Patient records are hard to come by, medical data available to researchers are often few, unbalanced and incomplete. These types of problems can be addressed by using generative models for data augmentation. Generative AI is also the basis of modern chatbots, which can prove to be a useful support tool in the medical field. Other fields where the use of Generative AI is becoming more widespread are medical image reconstructions and enhancements, which for example can be resolution enhancement, noise reduction, occlusion removal, and more in medical images. An important issue for high-risk problems, such as the medical field, is the need to develop and use explainable AI models at the expense of black-box models; Generative AI models are not exempt from this obligation. The goal of this special session is to give researchers an opportunity to present and discuss their work proposing the use of generative AI for medical and health applications, while also providing some food for thought for future research directions. TOPICS (but are not limited to): ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - Data Augmentation with Generative Models - Explainability and Interpretability in Generative AI - Generative Natural Language Models for Clinical Decision Support - Super Resolution, Colorization and Inpainting in Medical Imaging - Reconstruction and Denoising of Medical Resonance Images (MRI) or Computed Tomography (CT) - Generative AI for Patient Data Sharing Problems - Image segmentation in Medical Imaging - Weakly supervised approaches in Generative AI for Medical Systems - Image translation and domain adaptation of Medical Imaging - Image reconstruction from Medical instruments - Anomaly Detection in Medical Imaging using Generative AI - Issues and Challenges in Generative AI for Medical and Healthcare System - Generative AI for real-world Healthcare scenarios IMPORTANT DATES: ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ? Submission deadline: March 30, 2024 ? Notification of paper acceptance: April 30, 2024 ? Submission of camera-ready papers: May 15, 2024 ? Registration: May 15, 2024 PAPER SUBMISSION: ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Manuscripts should describe original work and should be no more than 7 pages for full papers and 4 pages for short papers in the IEEE double-column proceedings format, including tables, figures and references. In order to download manuscript templates for IEEE conference proceedings use the following link: https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html Papers can be submitted directly to EDAS: https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=32272&track=123861 Note that accepted papers up to 6 pages will be published with no additional charge. Exceeding pages will be charged an additional fee. Papers exceeding 7 pages will not be accepted. At least one author of each accepted paper is required to register to the conference and present the paper. Only registered and presented papers will be published in the conference proceedings. The SS-GAIMHS 2024 special session is part of the main ICTS4eHealth conference, and accepted papers will be included in the proceedings of ISCC 2024, of which the ICTS4eHealth conference is a concurrent event, and will be submitted for inclusion in IEEE Xplore. The proceedings of ICTSeHealth and ISCC have been indexed in the past by ISI, DBLP, and Scopus. BEST PAPER AWARD: ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A "Best Paper Award" Certificate will be conferred on the author(s) of a paper presented at the conference, selected by the Chairs based on scientific significance, originality and outstanding technical quality of the paper, as assessed also by the evaluations of the members of the Program Committee. 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Yours sincerely IEEE SS-GAIMHS 2024 Session Chairs ======================================================= Special Session on Generative AI for Medical and Healthcare System (SS-GAIMHS 2024) in 4th Edition of IEEE International Conference on ICT Solutions for e-Health (ICTS4eHealth 2024) Paris, France, June 26-29, 2024 www.icts4ehealth.icar.cnr.it in conjunction with the 29th IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC) Submit your paper by using the link: https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=32272&track=123861 ======================================================= SPECIAL SESSION DESCRIPTION: ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Over time, there has been increased development and interest in the use of generative AI. Even in the medical field, researchers have proposed and continue to propose the use of generative AI for various tasks. Patient records are hard to come by, medical data available to researchers are often few, unbalanced and incomplete. These types of problems can be addressed by using generative models for data augmentation. Generative AI is also the basis of modern chatbots, which can prove to be a useful support tool in the medical field. Other fields where the use of Generative AI is becoming more widespread are medical image reconstructions and enhancements, which for example can be resolution enhancement, noise reduction, occlusion removal, and more in medical images. An important issue for high-risk problems, such as the medical field, is the need to develop and use explainable AI models at the expense of black-box models; Generative AI models are not exempt from this obligation. The goal of this special session is to give researchers an opportunity to present and discuss their work proposing the use of generative AI for medical and health applications, while also providing some food for thought for future research directions. TOPICS (but are not limited to): ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - Data Augmentation with Generative Models - Explainability and Interpretability in Generative AI - Generative Natural Language Models for Clinical Decision Support - Super Resolution, Colorization and Inpainting in Medical Imaging - Reconstruction and Denoising of Medical Resonance Images (MRI) or Computed Tomography (CT) - Generative AI for Patient Data Sharing Problems - Image segmentation in Medical Imaging - Weakly supervised approaches in Generative AI for Medical Systems - Image translation and domain adaptation of Medical Imaging - Image reconstruction from Medical instruments - Anomaly Detection in Medical Imaging using Generative AI - Issues and Challenges in Generative AI for Medical and Healthcare System - Generative AI for real-world Healthcare scenarios IMPORTANT DATES: ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ? Submission deadline: March 30, 2024 ? Notification of paper acceptance: April 30, 2024 ? Submission of camera-ready papers: May 15, 2024 ? Registration: May 15, 2024 PAPER SUBMISSION: ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Manuscripts should describe original work and should be no more than 7 pages for full papers and 4 pages for short papers in the IEEE double-column proceedings format, including tables, figures and references. In order to download manuscript templates for IEEE conference proceedings use the following link: https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html Papers can be submitted directly to EDAS: https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=32272&track=123861 Note that accepted papers up to 6 pages will be published with no additional charge. Exceeding pages will be charged an additional fee. Papers exceeding 7 pages will not be accepted. At least one author of each accepted paper is required to register to the conference and present the paper. Only registered and presented papers will be published in the conference proceedings. The SS-GAIMHS 2024 special session is part of the main ICTS4eHealth conference, and accepted papers will be included in the proceedings of ISCC 2024, of which the ICTS4eHealth conference is a concurrent event, and will be submitted for inclusion in IEEE Xplore. The proceedings of ICTSeHealth and ISCC have been indexed in the past by ISI, DBLP, and Scopus. BEST PAPER AWARD: ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A "Best Paper Award" Certificate will be conferred on the author(s) of a paper presented at the conference, selected by the Chairs based on scientific significance, originality and outstanding technical quality of the paper, as assessed also by the evaluations of the members of the Program Committee. Please visit http://icts4ehealth.icar.cnr.it for more information and if you have any questions kindly get back to us by sending an email CONTACT: ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- For questions, please contact gaimhs2024 at gmail.com Kind regards, IEEE SS-GAIMHS 2024 Organization From epiasini at sissa.it Mon Mar 11 04:54:01 2024 From: epiasini at sissa.it (Eugenio Piasini) Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2024 08:54:01 +0000 Subject: Connectionists: Multiple PhD positions in Cognitive Neuroscience at SISSA - application deadline 28 March Message-ID: Up to 6 PhD positions in Cognitive Neuroscience are available at SISSA, Trieste, starting October 2024. SISSA is an elite postgraduate research institution for Maths, Physics and Neuroscience, located in Trieste, Italy. SISSA operates in English, and its faculty and student community is diverse and strongly international. The Cognitive Neuroscience group (https://phdcns.sissa.it/) hosts 7 research labs that study the neuronal bases of time and magnitude processing, visual perception, motivation and intelligence, language and reading, tactile perception and learning, and neural computation. Our research is highly interdisciplinary; our approaches include behavioural, psychophysics, and neurophysiological experiments with humans and animals, as well as computational, statistical and mathematical models. Students from a broad range of backgrounds (physics, maths, medicine, psychology, biology) are encouraged to apply. This year, one of the PhD scholarships is set aside for joint PhD projects across PhD programs within the Neuroscience department (https://www.sissa.it/research/neuroscience). The selection procedure is now open. The application deadline is 28 March 2024. To learn how to apply, please visit https://phdcns.sissa.it/admission-procedure . Please contact the PhD Coordinator Mathew Diamond (diamond at sissa.it) and/or your prospective supervisor for more information and informal inquiries. Best wishes, Eugenio Piasini -- Eugenio Piasini International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA) Via Bonomea 265, 34136 Trieste - Italy https://people.sissa.it/~epiasini From info at icas.cc Mon Mar 11 06:17:28 2024 From: info at icas.cc (ICAS Organizing Committee) Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2024 11:17:28 +0100 Subject: Connectionists: ACDL 2024, 7th Advanced Course on Data Science & Machine Learning - From Deep Learning to Generative AI | June 10-14 | Riva del Sole Resort & SPA - Italy -> Early Registration: by 23 March Message-ID: * Apologies for multiple copies. Please forward to anybody who might be interested, thanks * #ACDL2024, An Interdisciplinary Course: From Deep Learning to Generative AI ACDL 2024 is a full-immersion 5-day course in Tuscany on cutting-edge advances in AI, Deep Learning, LLMs, Data Sc. & Generative AI with lectures delivered by world-renowned experts. If you want to learn NLP, Generative AI Transformers, Diffusion Models, Large language models, Vision - Large-scale vision models, Vision and language, Beyond vision and language, Multimodal Foundation Models and much more then take part in ACDL 2024! ;-) Riva del Sole Resort & SPA - Tuscany, Italy, June 10-14 https://acdl2024.icas.events acdl at icas.cc EARLY REGISTRATION: by March 23 (AoE) https://acdl2024.icas.events/registration/ Oral Presentation Submission Deadline: by March 23 (AoE) LECTURERS: Each Lecturer will hold up to four lectures on one or more research topics. https://acdl2024.icas.events/lecturers/ * Joseph Sifakis, Verimag Laboratory, Grenoble, France *Turing Award* Lectures ?Artificial Intelligence: Where We Are, Where We Are Going?? * Gabriel Barth-Maron, DeepMind, London, UK 4 Lessons on "Multimodal Foundation Models" * Sven Giesselbach, Fraunhofer Institute - IAIS, Germany 5 Lessons on "Introduction on Foundation Models" * Ramin Hasani, MIT, USA 4 Lessons on "Continuous Neural Networks / Liquid Neural Networks" * Nora Kassner, DeepMind, London, UK "Large Language Models: Life after Pre-training" "Large Language Models: Evaluation" "Large Language Models: Reasoning and Factuality" "Large Language Models: Retrieval augmentation and Tool-use" * Petros Koumoutsakos, Harvard University, USA ?Machine Learning for Modeling and Control of Complex Systems? 1/2 ?Machine Learning for Modeling and Control of Complex Systems? 2/2 ?Solving forward and inverse problems with and without neural networks? ?Bayesian Uncertainty Quantification? * Maria Liakata, The Alan Turing Institute, UK 4 Lessons on "Longitudinal Language Processing with User Generated Content" * Panos Pardalos, University of Florida, USA Lectures 1-2 TBA Topics: Data Science, Application to Neuroscience * Jakub M. Tomczak, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands 4 Lessons on ?Deep Generative Modelling? * Rianne van den Berg, Microsoft Research Amsterdam, The Netherlands 3 Lessons on "Diffusion Models" * Pascal Van Hentenryck, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA 3 Lessons on "Fusing Machine Learning and Optimization for Engineering" * Max Welling, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands 3 Lessons on "Generalized Belief Propagation Algorithms for Tensor Network Contractions" More Lecturers TBA TUTORIAL SPEAKERS: TBA Each Tutorial Speaker will hold more than four lessons on one or more research topics. PAST LECTURERS: https://acdl2024.icas.events/past-lecturers/ ACDL 2024 VENUE: Riva del Sole Resort & SPA Localit? Riva del Sole? Castiglione della Pescaia (Grosseto) CAP 58043? Tuscany? Italy p: +39-0564-928111 e: booking.events at rivadelsole.it w: https://www.rivadelsole.it/en/ https://acdl2024.icas.events/venue/ PAST EDITIONS: https://acdl2024.icas.events/past-editions/ REGISTRATION: https://acdl2024.icas.events/registration/ CERTIFICATE & 8 ECTS: PhD students, Postdocs, Industry Practitioners, Junior and Senior Academics, and will be typical profiles of the ACDL attendants. The Course will involve a total of 36-40 hours of lectures, according to the academic system the final achievement will be equivalent to 8 ECTS points for the PhD Students (and some strongly motivated master student) attending the Course. At the end of the course, a formal certificate will be delivered indicating the 8 ECTS points. TO PARTICIPATE IN ACDL 2024, all attendants must (1/2) register for the course (by March 23, 2024) and (2/2) book accommodation at the course venue, Riva del Sole Resort & SPA? (by April 23, 2024); all attendants must stay at the Riva del Sole Resort & SPA. Once accommodation has been booked at Riva del Sole Resort & SPA? the participant must send this information (including the Booking Number) to the ACDL organizing committee (acdl at icas.cc). ACDL is a residential course, so all lecturers and participants must reside in the same Hotel (Riva del Sole Resort & SPA). No exceptions are made. For privacy reasons, the Hotel cannot match people. If you have someone to share the apartment with, please send to the Hotel ( booking.events at rivadelsole.it) the name, surname and email address. Otherwise the solution is to book an apartment in single use. Anyone interested in participating in ACDL 2024 should register as soon as possible. See you in Riva del Sole in June! Giuseppe Nicosia & Panos Pardalos - ACDL 2024 Directors. ACDL 2024 Scientific & Organizing Committees. https://acdl2024.icas.events acdl at icas.cc 7th Advanced Course on Data Science & Machine Learning - ACDL 2024, 10-14 June, Riva del Sole Resort & SPA, Castiglione della Pescaia (Grosseto) ? Tuscany, Italy. An Interdisciplinary Course: Big Data, Deep Learning & AI without Borders Early Registration: by March 23, 2024 (AoE) The Course is equivalent to 8 ECTS points for the PhD Students and the Master Students attending the Course. https://acdl2024.icas.events/ 10th International Conference on Learning, Optimization and Data ? LOD 2024, 22?25 September, Riva del Sole Resort & SPA, Castiglione della Pescaia (Grosseto) Tuscany, Italy https://lod2024.icas.events/ lod at icas.cc Submission Deadline: March 23 4th Advanced Course and Symposium on Artificial Intelligence and Neuroscience ? ACAIN 2024, 22?25 September Riva del Sole Resort & SPA, Castiglione della Pescaia (Grosseto) Tuscany, Italy https://acain2024.icas.events/ acain at icas.cc Symposium Submission Deadline: March 23 Early Registration Deadline for the Course: March 23 The Course is equivalent to 8 ECTS points for the PhD Students and the Master Students attending the Course. ICAS - The Interdisciplinary Centre of Advanced Studies https://icas.cc/ *7th Advanced Course on Data Science & Machine Learning - ACDL 2024,* 10-14 June Riva del Sole Resort & SPA, Castiglione della Pescaia (Grosseto) ? Tuscany, Italy An Interdisciplinary Course: Big Data, Deep Learning & AI without Borders *Early Registration: by February 23, 2024 (AoE)* The Course is equivalent to 8 ECTS points for the PhD Students and the Master Students attending the Course. https://acdl2024.icas.events/ *10th International Conference on Learning, Optimization and Data ? 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The successful candidate holds a Master?s degree in Engineering or another STEM field (obtained or close to being obtained). Experience with Pytorch and proficiency in Python are optional but desirable skills. The starting date is May 2024 (or as can be arranged by mutual agreement). For further information, please get in touch with Alessandro Antonucci (alessandro at idsia.ch) and Alessandro Facchini (alessandro.facchini at idsia.ch). The link for the application is https://www.supsi.ch/en/bando2008. Applications should be submitted by March 28th, 2024. From lrubchin at iupui.edu Mon Mar 11 08:09:43 2024 From: lrubchin at iupui.edu (Rubchinsky, Leonid L) Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2024 12:09:43 +0000 Subject: Connectionists: CNS*2024 abstract submission deadline EXTENDED to March 19th In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: 33rd Annual Computational Neuroscience Meeting (CNS*2024) Natal, Brazil, July 20-24, 2024 The deadline to submit an abstract is extended to the Tuesday, March 19. Registration: https://ocns.memberclicks.net/cns-2024-registration Abstract submission: https://www.cnsorg.org/cns-2024-abstract-submission CNS*2024 information: https://www.cnsorg.org/cns-2024 Workshop proposals priority deadline has past, but proposals can still be considered: https://www.cnsorg.org/cns-2024-call-for-workshops With kind regards, Leonid Rubchinsky OCNS Vice President *********************** Leonid Rubchinsky, PhD Professor Department of Mathematical Sciences, Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis Stark Neurosciences Research Institute, Indiana University School of Medicine 402 N. Blackford St Indianapolis, IN 46202-3216 lrubchin at iu.edu http://www.math.iupui.edu/~lrubchin *********************** -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Attendees will receive different types of training aimed at understanding modelling as well as the theoretical and practical inferences that can be drawn from computational models. For more information about this year?s training program, including criteria and application instructions, please visit our website . The deadline is March 14, 2024. We hope to see you this summer in Birmingham! 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The guiding theme of this edition is Sustainable Software Reuse. We now invite submissions for Late-Breaking Results (LBR) and Journal First. LATE-BREAKING RESULTS LBR submissions will be peer reviewed and the accepted ones will be included in the conference proceedings volume to be published by Springer in the LNCS series. An LBR submission may also contain innovative ideas that are being explored and have already shown some promising results. LBR submissions are expected to address one or more of the topics covered in the regular call for papers (https://cyprusconferences.org/icsr2024/call-for-papers/). LBR submissions should be no longer than 12 pages (including references) following the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science format. Submissions will be handled via EasyChair (https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=icsr2024). Submissions will be **double-blindly** reviewed, meaning that authors should: ? Omit all authors' names and affiliations from the title page. ? Do not include the acknowledgement section, if there is any, in the submitted paper. ? Refer to the authors' work in the third person. ? Use anonymous GitHub, Zenondo, FigShare or equivalent to provide access to artefacts without disclosing the authors' identity. JOURNAL FIRST For Journal First, we solicit submissions related to articles that have been accepted for publication by a reputable journal and that meet the following criteria: ? The article relates to the topics of the ICSR conference and the recent call for papers. ? The article is an original submission to the journal and not an extension of an earlier conference or workshop paper. ? The article is an original research article; review articles or commentaries will not be considered. ? The article was accepted for publication by a journal on or after 1 January 2022, the acceptance must have been publicly announced, the article must be available at the publisher?s website (e.g., as ?articles in advance? or published on a journal?s website), and the article must be written in English. ? The article has not been presented at, and is not under consideration for, journal-first tracks of other conferences. Accepted submissions will be presented as part of the ICSR 2024 scientific programme. Submissions must be done electronically via Easy Chair (https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=icsr2024) and include: ? Title and author information of the article. ? The original abstract and keywords. ? DOI of the original publication or, alternatively, a link to the publication at the journal's website. All submissions will be reviewed by the Program Chairs At least one author of each submission accepted for the Journal First track must register and attend the conference to present the work. The articles will be listed in the conference program and ICSR 2024 participants will have access to the respective abstracts and a pointer to the original journal article. IMPORTANT DATES ? LBR and Journal First submission: April 8, 2024, AoE ? Notification: April 29, 2024, AoE ? Camera Ready: May 6, 2024, AoE ? Author Registration: May 6, 2024 AoE ORGANISATION Steering Committee ? Eduardo Almeida, Federal University of Bahia, Brazil ? Goetz Botterweck, Lero, University of Limerick, Ireland ? Rafael Capilla, Rey Juan Carlos University, Spain ? John Favaro, Trust-IT, Italy ? William B. Frakes, IEEE TCSE committee on software reuse, USA ? Martin L. Griss, Carnegie Mellon University, USA ? Oliver Hummel, University of Applied Sciences, Germany ? Hafedh Mili, Universit? du Qu?bec ? Montr?al, Canada ? Nan Niu, University of Cincinnati, USA ? George Angelos Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus ? Claudia M.L. Werner, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil General Chair ? George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Program Co-Chairs ? Achilleas Achilleos, Frederick University, Cyprus ? Lidia Fuentes, University of Malaga, Spain -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ludovico.montalcini at gmail.com Mon Mar 11 12:11:55 2024 From: ludovico.montalcini at gmail.com (Ludovico Montalcini) Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2024 17:11:55 +0100 Subject: Connectionists: Call for Participation ACAIN 2024 - 4th Int. Advanced Course & Symposium on Artificial Intelligence & Neuroscience, September 22-25 2024, Riva del Sole Resort & SPA, Castiglione della Pescaia (Grosseto) Tuscany, Italy -> Deadline: March 23 Message-ID: Call for Participation & Call for Papers (apologies for multiple copies) _______________________________________________________________ The 4th International Advanced Course & Symposium on Artificial Intelligence & Neuroscience, September 22-25, 2024, Riva del Sole Resort & SPA, Castiglione della Pescaia (Grosseto) Tuscany, Italy W: https://acain2024.icas.events E: acain at icas.cc FB: https://www.facebook.com/ACAIN.LakeDistrict/ Symposium Deadlines Paper Submission (Symposium): by Saturday March 23, 2024 (AoE). https://acain2024.icas.events/symposium-call-for-papers/ https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=acain2024 Notification of Decision for Papers (Symposium): by Wednesday July 10, 2024. Camera Ready Submission (Symposium): by Monday July 20, 2024. Author Registration (Symposium): by July 20, 2024. Regular Registration (Symposium): by Saturday March 23, 2024. Late Registration (Symposium): from Sunday March 24, 2024. Course Deadlines Regular Registration (Course): by Saturday March 23, 2024. https://acain2024.icas.events/registration/ Late Registration (Course): from Sunday March 24, 2024. Oral Presentation Submission (Course): by Saturday March 23, 2024. Notification of Decision for Oral Presentation (Course): by August 31, 2024. SCOPE & MOTIVATION: ACAIN 2024: AI meets Computational Neuroscience and Cognitive Science The ACAIN 2024 symposium and course is an interdisciplinary event featuring leading scientists from AI and Neuroscience, providing a special opportunity to learn about cutting-edge research in the fields of AI, Neuroscience, Neuroscience-Inspired AI, Human-Level AI, and Cognitive Science. The 4th Advanced Course and Symposium on Artificial Intelligence & Neuroscience (ACAIN) is a full-immersion four-day Course and Symposium in Tuscany on cutting-edge advances in Artificial Intelligence and Neuroscience with lectures delivered by world-renowned experts. The Course provides a stimulating environment for academics, early career researchers, Post-Docs, PhD students and industry leaders. Participants will also have the chance to present their results with oral talks or posters, and to interact with their colleagues, in a convivial and productive environment. Two days of keynote talks and oral presentations, the ACAIN Symposium, (September 24-25), will be preceded by lectures of leading scientists, the ACAIN Course, (September 22-23). Bringing together AI and neuroscience promises to yield benefits for both fields. The future impact and progress in both AI and Neuroscience will strongly depend on continuous synergy, exchange, collaboration and efficient cooperation between the two research communities. These are the goals of the International Course and Symposium - ACAIN 2024, which is aimed both at AI experts with interests in Neuroscience and at neuroscientists with an interest in AI. ACAIN 2024 accepts rigorous research that promotes and fosters multidisciplinary interactions between artificial intelligence and neuroscience. The Advanced Course is suited for scholars, academics, early career researchers, Post-Docs, PhD students and industry leaders. The Event (Course and Symposium) will involve a total of 36-40 hours of lectures. Academically, this will be equivalent to 8 ECTS points for the PhD Students and the Master Students attending the Event. LECTURERS https://acain2024.icas.events/course-lecturers/ * Maria Eckstein, Google DeepMind, London, UK * Auke Jan Ijspeert, EPFL, Switzerland * Zeb Kurth-Nelson, Google DeepMind & UCL, London, UK * Loic Matthey, Google DeepMind, London, UK * Kevin J. Miller, DeepMind & UCL, London, UK * Thomas Parr, Oxford University, UK * Melika Payvand, Institute of Neuroinformatics, University of Zurich & ETH Zurich, Switzerland * Alessandro Treves, International School for Advanced Studies, Italy More Lecturers TBA COURSE DESCRIPTION: https://acain2024.icas.events/course-description/ SYMPOSIUM CALL FOR PAPERS: https://acain2024.icas.events/symposium-call-for-papers/ SYMPOSIUM PROGRAM COMMITTEE (partial list, confirmed members): https://acain2024.icas.events/program-committee/ ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: https://acain2024.icas.events/symposium-committee/ VENUE & ACCOMMODATION: https://acain2024.icas.events/venue/ ACAIN 2024 is a *Residential Conference*, all participants (invited speakers, authors, organizers, chairs, participants) must book and stay at the Riva del Sole Resort and Spa. No exceptions are allowed. https://lod2024.icas.events/lod-2024-a-residential-conference/ Riva del Sole Resort & SPA a: Localit? Riva del Sole - Castiglione della Pescaia (Grosseto) CAP 58043, Tuscany - Italy p: +39-0564-928111 f: +39-0564-935607 e: booking.events at rivadelsole.it w: www.rivadelsole.it/en ACTIVITIES: https://acain2024.icas.events/activities/ REGISTRATION: https://acain2024.icas.events/registration/ See you in Tuscany in September! ACAIN 2024 Organizing Committee. E: acain at icas.cc W: https://acain2024.icas.events FB: https://www.facebook.com/ACAIN.LakeDistrict -- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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The main goal of the project will be to develop machine learning models capable of robustly classifying images of agricultural crops based on markers for health state of the crop and deploying those models on a variety of low-power edge devices. We focus on sustainable and robust methods to enable precision farming practices. You may apply for this position until 14 April 11:59pm / before 15 April 2024 Dutch local time (CET) by means of the application form: https://www.rug.nl/about-ug/work-with-us/job-opportunities/?details=00347-02S000AOIP (click on "Apply" below on the advertisement). For informal inquiries from candidates, please contact Dr. Bahar Haghighat (bahar.haghighat at rug.nl) or Prof. Kerstin Bunte (k.bunte at rug.nl). -- Kerstin Bunte, Associate Professor | Rosalind Franklin Fellow Bernoulli Institute for Mathematics, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Faculty of Science and Engineering University of Groningen P.O. 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URL: From kordjams at msu.edu Mon Mar 11 20:13:01 2024 From: kordjams at msu.edu (Kordjamshidi, Parisa) Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2024 00:13:01 +0000 Subject: Connectionists: [CFP] International Combined Workshop on Spatial Language Understanding (SpLU) and Grounded Communication for Robotics (RoboNLP) @ACL 2024 Message-ID: --------------------------------------------------------------- First CALL FOR PAPERS ---------------------------------------------------------------- International Combined Workshop on Spatial Language Understanding (SpLU) and Grounded Communication for Robotics (RoboNLP) @ACL 2024 (https://splu-robonlp-2024.github.io/) Location: Bangkok, Thailand Date: August 16, 2024 --------------------------------------------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES --------------------------------------------------------------- Important Dates - Submission Deadline: 17 May 2024 (Anywhere on Earth) - Notification of Acceptance: 17 June 2024 (Anywhere on Earth) - Camera Ready Deadline: 1 July 2024 (Anywhere on Earth) - Workshop Day: 16 August 2024 (co-located with ACL 2024) --------------------------------------------------------------- AIM AND SCOPE --------------------------------------------------------------- Leveraging the foundation built in the prior workshops SpLU-RoboNLP 2023, SpLU-RoboNLP 2021, SpLU 2020, SpLU-RoboNLP 2019, SpLU 2018, and RoboNLP 2017, we propose the fourth combined workshop on Spatial Language Understanding and Grounded Communication for Robotics. Natural language communication with general-purpose embodied robots has long been a dream inspired by science fiction, and natural language interfaces have the potential to make robots more accessible to a wider range of users. Achieving this goal requires the continuous improvement of and development of new technologies for linking language to perception and action in the physical world. In particular, given the rise of large vision and language generative models, spatial language understanding and natural interactions have become more exciting topics to explore. This joint workshop aims to bring together the perspectives of researchers working on physical robot systems with human users, simulated embodied environments, multimodal interaction, and spatial language understanding to forge collaborations. --------------------------------------------------------------- TOPICS OF INTEREST --------------------------------------------------------------- We are interested in but not limited to original research in developing computational models, benchmarks, evaluation metrics, analysis, surveys, and position papers on the following topics: - Deployment of Large Language Models for Situated Dialogue and Language Grounding - Spatial Reasoning with Large Language Models - Aligning and Translating Language to Situated Actions - Evaluation Metrics for Language Grounding and Human-Robot Communication - Human-Computer Interactions Through Natural or Structural Language - Instruction Understanding and Spatial Reasoning based on Multimodal Information for Navigation, Articulation, and Manipulation - Interactive Situated Dialogue for Physical Tasks - Language-based Game Playing for Grounding - Spatial Language and Skill Learning via Grounded Dialogue - (Spatial) Language Generation for Embodied Tasks - (Spatially-) Grounded Knowledge Representations - Spatial Reasoning in Image and Video Diffusion Models - Qualitative Spatial Representations and Neuro-symbolic Modeling - Utilization and Limitations of Large (Multimodal-)Language Models in Spatial Understanding and Grounded Communication --------------------------------------------------------------- INVITED SPEAKERS --------------------------------------------------------------- We are open to the nomination of speakers and encourage self-nomination. The speakers are REQUIRED to attend ACL 2024 in person. We aim to gather a diverse set of senior/junior speakers from academia/industry who work on related topics in language, vision and robotics and did not have a chance to speak in the past versions of the workshop. If you are interested, please email splu-robonlp2024 at googlegroups.com and include your tentative topic. --------------------------------------------------------------- SUBMISSION AND SELECTION PROCESS --------------------------------------------------------------- * Long Papers * Technical papers: ACL style, 8 pages excluding references * Short Papers * Position statements describing previously unpublished work or demos: ACL style, 4 pages excluding references ACL Style Files (GitHub): https://github.com/acl-org/ACLPUB/tree/master/templates ACL Style Files (Overview): https://www.overleaf.com/read/crtcwgxzjskr OpenReview Submission: https://openreview.net/group?id=aclweb.org/ACL/2024/Workshop/SpLU-RoboNLP Non-Archival Option: ACL workshops are traditionally archival. To allow dual submission of your work to SpLU-RoboNLP 2024 from *ACL Findings and other conferences/journals, we are also including a non-archival track. Space permitting, these submissions will still participate and present their work in the workshop, and will be hosted on the workshop website, but will not be included in the official proceedings. Please apply the ACL format and submit through OpenReview, but indicate that this is a cross-submission (non-archival) at the bottom of the submission form. --------------------------------------------------------------- ORGANIZING COMMITTEE --------------------------------------------------------------- Parisa Kordjamshidi, Michigan State University Malihe Alikhani, Northeastern University Xin Eric Wang, University of California Santa Cruz Yue Zhang, Michigan State University Ziqiao Ma, University of Michigan Mert Inan, Northeastern University --------------------------------------------------------------- ADVISING COMMITTEE --------------------------------------------------------------- Raymond J. Mooney, The University of Texas at Austin Joyce Y. Chai, University of Michigan Anthony G. 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As stated by UNESCO, cultural heritage provides societies with a wealth of resources inherited from the past, created in the present for the benefit of future generations. The massive digitization of historical analogue resources and production of born digital documents provide us with large volumes of varied multimedia heritage data (images, maps, text, video, 3D objects, multi-sensor data, etc.), which represent an extremely rich heritage that can be exploited in a wide variety of fields, from research in social sciences and computational humanities to land use and territorial policies, including urban modeling, digital simulation, archaeology, tourism, education, culture preservation, creative media and entertainment. In terms of research in computer science, artificial intelligence, and digital humanities, they address challenging problems related to the diversity, specificity or volume of the media, the veracity of the data, and the different user needs with respect to engaging with this rich material and the extraction of value out of the data. These challenges are reflected in the corresponding sub-fields of machine learning, signal processing, mono/multi-modal techniques and human-machine interaction. The objective of this special issue is to present and discuss the latest and most significant trends on analysis, understanding and promotion of heritage contents, focusing on advances on machine learning, signal processing, mono/multi-modal techniques, and human-machine interaction. We welcome research contributions for (but not limited to) the following topics: * Monomodal analysis: image, text, video, 3D, music, sensor data and structured referentials * Information retrieval for multimedia heritage * AI assisted archaeology and heritage data processing * Multi-modal deep learning and time series analysis for heritage data * Heritage modeling, visualization, and virtualization * Smart digitization and reconstruction of heritage data * Open heritage data and bench-marking The scope of targeted applications is extensive and includes: * Analysis, archaeometry of artifacts * Diagnosis and monitoring for restoration and preventive conservation * Geosciences / Geomatics for cultural heritage * Education * Smart and sustainable tourism * Urban planning * Digital Twins *** Important Dates * Submission deadline: 31 March 2024 * Review period: 1 April - 30 July 2024 * Notification: 31 July 2024 * Author revision deadline: 15 October 2024 * Final notification: 31 October 2024 *** Guest Editors * Valerie Gouet-Brunet, IGN-ENSG, University of Gustave Eiffel, France ( valerie.gouet at ign.fr ) * Ronak Kosti, Piscsart AI Lab, Germany ( ronakfau at gmail.com ) * Li Weng, School of Information Technology, Zhejiang Financial College, China ( lweng at zfc.edu.cn ) *** Submission Guidelines Authors should prepare their manuscript according to the Instructions for Authors available from the Multimedia Tools and Applications website. Authors should submit through the online submission site at [ https://www.editorialmanager.com/mtap/default.aspx | https://www.editorialmanager.com/mtap/default.aspx ] and select ?SI 1250- Heritage Preservation in the Digital Age: Advances in machine learning, monomodal and multimodal processing, and human-machine interaction? when they reach the ?Article Type? step in the submission process. Submitted papers should present original, unpublished work, relevant to one of the topics of the special issue. All submitted papers will be evaluated on the basis of relevance, significance of contribution, technical quality, scholarship, and quality of presentation, by at least three independent reviewers. It is the policy of the journal that no submission, or substantially overlapping submission, be published or be under review at another journal or conference at any time during the review process. SUMAC 2023. Please note that the authors of selected papers presented at workshop SUMAC2023 (ACM Multimedia 2023) are invited to submit an extended version of their contributions by taking into consideration both the reviewers? comments on their conference paper, and the feedback received during presentation at the conference. It is worth clarifying that the extended version is expected to contain a substantial scientific contribution, e.g., in the form of new algorithms, experiments or qualitative/quantitative comparisons, and that neither verbatim transfer of large parts of the conference paper nor reproduction of already published figures will be tolerated. The extended versions of SUMAC2023 papers will undergo the standard, rigorous journal review process and be accepted only if well-suited to the topic of this special issue and meeting the scientific level of the journal. Final decisions on all papers are made by the Editor in Chief. -- Valerie Gouet-Brunet Senior researcher / DR1 Minist?re de la Transition Ecologique LASTIG Lab. / Univ. Gustave Eiffel / IGN (French mapping agency) https://www.umr-lastig.fr/vgouet/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dao at nict.go.jp Tue Mar 12 01:20:57 2024 From: dao at nict.go.jp (dao at nict.go.jp) Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2024 14:20:57 +0900 Subject: Connectionists: [CFP] [Deadline extended: March 29] 5th workshop on Intelligent Cross-Data Analysis and Retrieval In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <20240312052057.00004BA2.0284@nict.go.jp> https://www2.nict.go.jp/bidal/icdar_icmr2024/index.html 5th workshop on Intelligent Cross-Data Analysis and Retrieval Deadline extended: 29 March 2024 We invite submissions for our workshop that focuses on the relevance and significance of multimedia analytics and retrieval in the context of the broader societal landscape. Over the past decade, significant advancements have been made in multimedia analytics and retrieval, allowing for precise and rapid extraction of data insights. This progress has led to numerous applications that enhance various aspects of human lives. However, the diverse perspectives embedded in multimedia and other data types present a complex puzzle that requires assembly to address human-centered challenges effectively. The workshop aims to bring together individuals working with multimedia and other data types across diverse research domains and disciplines, such as wellbeing, disaster prevention & mitigation, mobility, food computing, security, and smart cities. We encourage contributions that explore the originality and novelty of proposed topics related to the integration of diverse multimodal data. The current era witnesses the exponential growth of sensors, communication technologies, and social networks, enabling individuals to collect data swiftly from themselves and their environments. Coupled with artificial intelligence and advanced application techniques, data has evolved into a more intelligent form, providing valuable information and knowledge for near-human cognitive analytics and retrieval. This intelligent data collection offers new opportunities to better understand the intricate associations between human beings and their surroundings. The workshop specifically calls for submissions addressing the analysis and retrieval of cross-data from different perspectives, focusing on wearable and ambient sensors, lifelog cameras, social networks, and surrounding sensors. While several investigations have explored individual perspectives, there is a limited focus on analyzing and retrieving cross-data to maximize the benefits for human beings. Researchers are invited to contribute to this endeavor, aiming to create a smart and sustainable society by efficiently utilizing intelligent cross-data analysis and retrieval. Possible application domains for submitted works include, but are not limited to, well-being, disaster prevention & mitigation, mobility, and food computing. We encourage researchers from various backgrounds to engage in this workshop, fostering collaboration and innovation in the field of intelligent cross-data analysis and retrieval. Example topics of interest include but are not limited to the following - Event-based cross-data retrieval, data mining, and AI technology. - Complex event processing for linking sensory data from individuals, regions to broad areas dynamically. - Transfer Learning and Transformers. - Hypotheses Development of the associations within the heterogeneous data. - Realization of a prosperous and independent region in which people and nature coexist. - Applications leverage intelligent cross-data analysis for a particular domain. - Cross-datasets for Repeatable Experimentation. - Federated Analytics, Federated Learning, and Edge AI for cross-data. - Privacy-public data collaboration. - Integration of diverse multimodal data. From k.bunte at rug.nl Tue Mar 12 03:53:03 2024 From: k.bunte at rug.nl (Kerstin Bunte) Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2024 08:53:03 +0100 Subject: Connectionists: JOB: Tenure Track Assistant Professor position in Software-intensive systems - University of Groningen Message-ID: <660616a1-9f21-470b-aae6-57240625f9cb@rug.nl> The University of Groningen in the Netherlands offers a Tenure Track Assistant Professor position in Software-intensive systems. The research area of Software-intensive systems includes any system where software influences the design, construction, deployment, operation and evolution of the system as a whole. The expected candidate profile may fit any or a combination of the following research fields: Software Engineering, Theoretical Computer Science, Information Systems and Distributed Systems. We offer you a full-time position and excellent career opportunities in our faculty?s career system Career Paths in Science and Engineering, including the perspective to get a permanent appointment (tenure) in 1-3 years and become Full Professor in approximately 10 years. At the stage of Assistant Professor 60% of your time is for research, 30% for teaching activities and 10% for organizational tasks. We encourage you to apply if you have: -??? a PhD degree in computer science or a related field -??? at least two years of postdoctoral experience, preferably in a different country than where you received your PhD (can be compensated for after the appointment via extended research visits abroad) -??? a strong international research network -??? excellent research qualities, as shown by a publicationrecord in international peer-reviewed journals and proceedings of renowned conferences -??? a good track record in teaching, appropriate to your career stage -??? demonstrable organizational competences -??? cross-cultural sensitivity -??? good command of spoken and written English. You may apply for this position until? 19 April 2024 11:59pm CET by means of the application form (click on "Apply" at the bottom of this advertisement on the website of the university: https://www.rug.nl/about-ug/work-with-us/job-opportunities/?details=00347-02S000AOFP). For informal inquiries from Software Engineering candidates, please contact Prof. Paris Avgeriou (p.avgeriou at rug.nl) -- Kerstin Bunte, Associate Professor | Rosalind Franklin Fellow Bernoulli Institute for Mathematics, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Faculty of Science and Engineering University of Groningen P.O. Box 407, 9700 AK Groningen The Netherlands Email: k.bunte at rug.nl web: http://www.cs.rug.nl/~kbunte/ From sarathcse2008 at gmail.com Tue Mar 12 05:00:17 2024 From: sarathcse2008 at gmail.com (Sarath Chandar) Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2024 05:00:17 -0400 Subject: Connectionists: [CFP] 3rd Conference on Lifelong Learning Agents (CoLLAs) 2024 - Journal Track Message-ID: Dear All, We invite submissions to the journal track of CoLLAs 2024. This allows the community to present their recently published top-tier journal papers on CoLLAs topics (see the main track for a list of topics) and increase their visibility. Topics of interest Topics of submission may include, but are not limited to, Reinforcement Learning, Supervised Learning, Self-supervised Learning, or Unsupervised Learning approaches for: - Lifelong Learning / Continual Learning - Meta-Learning - Multi-Task Learning - Transfer Learning - Curriculum Learning - Domain Adaptation - Few-Shot Learning - Out-Of-Distribution Generalization - Online Learning - Active Learning - Open-ended Learning Submission Guidelines Submissions to the journal track will go through a very light-weight review process mainly to make sure that the following conditions are met: The paper has to be in the scope of CoLLAs (See the main track for a list of possible topics). The paper was published within the last 24 months in a top-tier journal in machine learning or a related field. The paper was published in the journal under an open-access license (i.e., readers don?t have to pay or register in any form to read the paper). We consider journals such as JMLR, TMLR, and JAIR as top-tier and open-access journals, such that papers recently published in these journals directly qualify for this track. For other top-tier journals, such as, e.g., IEEE TPAMI, AIJ or MLJ, papers only qualify if the open-access option was purchased. We note that open access has to be established by the time of submission. *TMLR will provide a ?CoLLAs certification? for TMLR papers that are accepted to be presented at the CoLLAs conference.* You can make your submissions here . Presentation at the Conference Authors of accepted papers have the chance to present their papers in a short video and in the poster presentation, exactly like authors of papers in the main track. 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Its goal is to encourage and highlight novel strategies for image matching that deviate from and advance traditional formulations, with a focus on large-scale, wide-baseline matching for 3D reconstruction and pose estimation. This can be achieved by applying new technologies to sparse feature matching, or doing away with keypoints and descriptors entirely, such as with dense solutions. ___ *Challenge* ___ We will also hold the sixth edition of the Image Matching Challenge (link corresponds to last year's edition), co-located with the workshop. Details will be announced in the coming weeks. ___ *Topics* ___ Workshop topics include (but are not limited to): - Formulations of keypoint extraction and matching pipelines with deep networks. - Application of geometric constraints into the training of deep networks. - Leveraging additional cues such as semantics and mono-depth estimates. - Methods addressing adversarial conditions where current methods fail (weather changes, day versus night, etc.). - Attention mechanisms to match salient image regions. - Integration of differentiable components into 3D reconstruction frameworks. - Connecting local descriptors/image matching with global descriptors/image retrieval. - Matching across different data modalities such as aerial versus ground. - Large-scale evaluation of classical and modern methods for image matching, by means of our open challenge. - New perception devices such as event-based cameras. - Other topics related to image matching, structure from motion, mapping, and relocalization, such as privacy-preserving representations. ___ *Invited speakers* ___ - Noah Snavely, Google Research/Cornell Tech - Juan Tard?s, Universidad de Zaragoza ___ *Paper submission* ___ We invite paper submissions up to 8 pages, excluding references and acknowledgements. They should use the CVPR template and be submitted to the CMT site. Submissions must contain novel work and will be indexed in IEEE Xplore/CVF. They will receive at least two double-blind reviews. ___ *Important dates* ___ - Paper submission deadline: March 25, 2024 - Notification to authors: April 11, 2024 - Camera-ready deadline: April 14, 2024 (hard deadline on April 14) - Workshop date: TBC (June 17-18, 2024) (All dates are at 11:59PM, Pacific Time, unless stated otherwise.) ___ *Organizers* ___ - Fabio Bellavia, University of Palermo - Jiri Matas, Czech Technical University in Prague - Dmytro Mishkin, Czech Technical University in Prague/HOVER Inc. - Luca Morelli, University of Trento/Bruno Kessler Foundation - Fabio Remondino, Bruno Kessler Foundation - Amy Tabb, USDA-ARS-AFRS - Eduard Trulls, Google - Weiwei Sun, University of British Columbia - Kwang Moo Yi, University of British Columbia From anujanegi1 at gmail.com Wed Mar 13 03:33:58 2024 From: anujanegi1 at gmail.com (Anuja Negi) Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2024 08:33:58 +0100 Subject: Connectionists: PostDoc position @TU Berlin on Computational Cognitive Neuroscience, of Language Message-ID: *Job Opening: PostDoc position @TU Berlin on Computational Cognitive Neuroscience of Language.*We are looking for a highly motivated researcher to join our group for an ERC-project that focus on the development of computational models to understand how linguistic information is represented in the human brain. Computational encoding models in combination with deep learning-based machine learning techniques will be developed, compared, and applied to identify linguistic representations in the brain. Please find further details about the positions and how to apply here: https://www.jobs.tu-berlin.de/en/job-postings/179468 Employer: TU Berlin Salary grade: TV-L 13 Berliner Hochschulen Starting date: Immediately The application deadline is March 29th, 2024. For informal inquiries please contact Fatma Deniz (deniz at tu-berlin.de< mailto:deniz at tu-berlin.de>) directly. Best, Anuja -- Anuja Negi PhD candidate Technische Universit?t Berlin Institute of Software Engineering and Theoretical Computer Science Marchstr. 23, D-10587 Berlin Room 5.039 anujanegi.me -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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During the workshop you will build an intuition for optics, allowing you to reason about optical systems found in the lab (and in publications): you will understand the equipment you are using on a much deeper level. Workshop will take place *May 10-12th in Goni?dz*, in Dw?r Bartla, overlooking the beautiful Biebrza river, which at this time of the year provides great opportunities for birdwatching. The deadline for registration is April 5th,* the cost of the workshop is EUR 250 (but we provide fee waivers if needed)*. The cost includes the r*egistration fee, accommodation, breakfast and lunch.* Please find the registration form and more info here - https://nenckiopenlab.org/optics-and-microscopy-workshop-2024/ Best, Mateusz Kostecki -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Attendees may register in each course independently. No restrictions, besides those imposed by timetables, apply on the number or choice of courses. Early registration is now *OPEN*. Extended information on course programmes, price, venue, accommodation and transport is available at the school's website: http://www.dia.fi.upm.es/MLAS There is a 25% discount for members of Spanish AEPIA and SEIO societies. Please, forward this information to your colleagues, students, and whomever you think may find it interesting. Best regards, Pedro Larra?aga, Concha Bielza, Bojan Mihaljevi? and Laura Gonzalez Veiga. -- School coordinators. *** List of courses and brief description *** * Week 1 (June 17th - June 23rd, 2024) * 1st session: 9:45-12:45 Course 1: Bayesian Networks (15 h) Basics of Bayesian networks. Inference in Bayesian networks. Learning Bayesian networks from data. Real applications. Practical demonstration: R. Course 2: Time Series(15 h) Basic concepts in time series. Linear models for time series. Time series clustering. Practical demonstration: R. 2nd session: 13:45-16:45 Course 3: Supervised Classification (15 h) Introduction. Assessing the performance of supervised classification algorithms. Preprocessing. Classification techniques. Combining multiple classifiers. Comparing supervised classification algorithms. Practical demonstration: python. Course 4: Statistical Inference (15 h) Introduction. Some basic statistical tests. Multiple testing. Introduction to bootstrap methods. Introduction to Robust Statistics. Practical demonstration: R. 3rd session: 17:00 - 20:00 Course 5: Deep Learning (15 h) Introduction. Learning algorithms. Learning in deep networks. Deep Learning for Computer Vision. Deep Learning for Language. Practical session: Python notebooks with Google Colab with keras, Pytorch and Hugging Face Transformers. Course 6: Bayesian Inference (15 h) Introduction: Bayesian basics. Conjugate models. MCMC and other simulation methods. Regression and Hierarchical models. Model selection. Practical demonstration: R and WinBugs. * Week 2 (June 26th - June 28th, 2024) * 1st session: 9:45-12:45 Course 7: Feature Subset Selection (15 h) Introduction. Filter approaches. Embedded methods. Wrapper methods. Additional topics. Practical session: R and python. Course 8: Clustering (15 h) Introduction to clustering. Data exploration and preparation. Prototype-based clustering. Density-based clustering. Graph-based clustering. Cluster evaluation. Miscellanea. Conclusions and final advice. Practical session: R. 2nd session: 13:45-16:45 Course 9: Gaussian Processes and Bayesian Optimization (15 h) Introduction to Gaussian processes. Sparse Gaussian processes. Deep Gaussian processes. Introduction to Bayesian optimization. Bayesian optimization in complex scenarios. Practical demonstration: python using GPytorch and BOTorch. Course 10: Explainable Machine Learning (15 h) Introduction. Inherently interpretable models. Post-hoc interpretation of black box models. Basics of causal inference. Beyond tabular and i.i.d. data. Other topics. Practical demonstration: Python with Google Colab. 3rd session: 17:00-20:00 Course 11: SVMs, Kernel Methods and Regularized Learning (15 h) Regularized learning. Kernel methods. SVM models. SVM learning algorithms. Practical session: Python Anaconda with scikit-learn. Course 12: Hidden Markov Models (15 h) Introduction. Discrete Hidden Markov Models. Basic algorithms for Hidden Markov Models. Semicontinuous Hidden Markov Models. Continuous Hidden Markov Models. Unit selection and clustering. Speaker and Environment Adaptation for HMMs. Other applications of HMMs. Practical session: HTK. From hongzhi.kuai at gmail.com Wed Mar 13 07:08:48 2024 From: hongzhi.kuai at gmail.com (H.Z. Kuai) Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2024 20:08:48 +0900 Subject: Connectionists: CfPs: Brain Informatics 2024 [July 20, 2024] Message-ID: +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ CALL FOR PAPERS The 17th International Conference on Brain Informatics (BI'24) December 13-15, 2024 | Bangkok, Thailand The key theme: Brain Science meets Artificial Intelligence A hybrid conference with both online and offline modes History of BI: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2s78IIN-CQ Conference homepage: wi-consortium.org/conferences/bi2024/ +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ - 20 May 2024: Workshop/Special Session Proposal Submission Deadline - 20 July 2024: Full Paper Submission Deadline - 20 August 2024: Abstract Presentation Submission Deadline Paper Submission System: https://wi-lab.com/cyberchair/2024/bi24/scripts/submit.php?subarea=B Sponsored By: IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Intelligent Informatics (TCII: https://www.computer.org/communities/technical-committees/tcii) Web Intelligence Consortium (WIC: https://wi-consortium.org/) King Mongkut's University of Technology Thonburi, Thailand (KMUTT: https://www.kmutt.ac.th/en/) Asia-Pacific Neural Network Society (APNNS) IEEE-CIS Brain Informatics Task Force IEEE-CIS Thailand Chapter Springer Nature ***About the conference*** The International Conference on Brain Informatics (BI) series has established itself as the world's premier research conference on Brain Informatics, which is an emerging interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary research field that combines the efforts of Cognitive Science, Neuroscience, Machine Learning, Data Science, Artificial Intelligence (AI), and Information and Communication Technology (ICT) to explore the main problems that lie in the interplay between human brain studies and informatics research. The 17th International Conference on Brain Informatics (BI'24) provides a premier international forum to bring together researchers and practitioners from diverse fields for presentation of original research results, as well as exchange and dissemination of innovative and practical development experiences on Brain Informatics research, brain-inspired technologies and brain/mental health applications. *** Topics and Areas *** The key theme of the conference is "Brain Science meets Artificial Intelligence". The BI'24 solicits high-quality original research and application papers (full paper and abstract presentation submissions). Relevant topics include but are not limited to: Track 1: Cognitive and Computational Foundations of Brain Science Track 2: Human Information Processing Systems Track 3: Brain Big Data Analytics, Curation and Management Track 4: Informatics Paradigms for Brain and Mental Health Research Track 5: Brain-Machine Intelligence and Brain-Inspired Computing ***Journal Opportunities*** High-quality BI conference papers may be nominated to submit an extended version for a fast-track review and publication at the Brain Informatics Journal (https://braininformatics.springeropen.com/), an international, peer-reviewed, interdisciplinary Open Access journal published by Springer Nature. *** Paper Submission and Publications *** 9-12 pages are encouraged for the regular papers including figures and references in Springer LNCS Proceedings format ( https://www.springer.com/us/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines). Overlength pages will be charged 100$ per page. All papers will be peer-reviewed and accepted based on originality, significance of contribution, technical merit, and presentation quality. All papers accepted (and all workshop & special sessions' full-length papers) will be published by Springer as a volume of the Springer-Nature LNAI Brain Informatics Book Series ( https://link.springer.com/conference/brain). Abstract Submission (Only for Workshops/Special Sessions): Research abstracts are encouraged and will be accepted for presentations in an oral presentation format and/or poster presentation format. Each abstract submission should include the title of the paper and an abstract body within 1500 words. Note: The abstract will not be included in the conference proceedings to be published by Springer. Special Issues & Books: Workshop organizers can be invited to contribute a book publication in the Springer-Nature Brain Informatics & Health Book Series ( https://www.springer.com/series/15148), or a special issue at the Brain Informatics Journal. *** Workshop & Special Sessions *** Proposal Submissions: BI'24 will be hosting a series of workshops and special sessions featuring topics relevant to the brain informatics community on the latest research and industry applications. Papers & Presentations: A workshop/special session typically takes a half day (or full day) and includes a mix of regular and invited presentations including regular papers, abstracts, invited papers as well as invited presentations. The paper and abstract submissions to workshops/special sessions will follow the same format as the BI conference papers and abstracts. Proposal Guidelines: Each proposal should include: 1) workshop/special session title; 2) length of the workshop (half/full day); 3) names, main contact, and a short bio of the workshop organizers; 4) brief description of the workshop scope and timeline; 5) prior history of the workshop (if any); 6) potential program committee members and invited speakers; 7) any other relevant information. *** IMPORTANT DATES *** * 20 May 2024: Workshop/Special session Proposal Deadline * 20 July 2024: Full Paper Submission Deadline * 20 August 2024: Abstract Presentation Submission Deadline * 10 September 2024: Final Paper and Abstract Acceptance Notification * 30 September 2024: Accepted Paper and Abstract Registration Deadline * 12 December 2024: Tutorials, Workshops and Special Sessions * 13-15 December 2024: The Brain Informatics Conference Organizing Committee ++++++++++++++++++ Honorary Chairs * Lin Chen, Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), China * Suvit Saetia, President, King Mongkut's University of Technology Thonburi (KMUTT), Thailand General Chairs * Sirawaj Itthipuripat, KMUTT, Thailand * Giorgio Ascoli, George Mason University, USA * Anan Li, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China Program Chairs * Chaipat Chunharas, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand * Claudio Angione, Teesside University, UK * Liya Ding, Southeast University, China * Peipeng Liang, CNU School of Psychology, China * Nirun Pat, University of Otago, New Zealand * Hieu Pham, VinUniversity, Vietnam Poster Session Chairs * Nguyen The Hoang Anh, Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology, Vietnam * Itthi Chatnuntawech, National Nanotechnology Center, Thailand * Tai Chaiamarit, Mahidol University, Thailand * Ioannis Pappas, University of Southern California, USA Workshop/Special Session Chairs * Lalitta Suriya-Arunroj, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand * Sittiprapa Isarangura, Mahidol University, Thailand * Lijuan Liu, Southeast University, China * Stephanie Nelli, Occidental College, USA * Nuttida Rungratsameetaweemana, Columbia University, USA * Shuqiang Wang, Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, CAS, China Tutorial Chairs * Xiaofu He, Columbia University, USA * Thitaporn Chaisilprungraung, KMUTT, Thailand * Thiparat Chotibut, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand Financial Chair * Vajirasak Vanijja, KMUTT, Thailand Local Organizing Chairs * Duanghathai Wiwatratana, KMUTT, Thailand * Kanda Lertladaluck, KMUTT, Thailand * Kajornvut Ounjia, KMUTT, Thailand * Sarigga Pongsuwan, Research and Innovation Sustainability Center, Thailand * Kejkeaw Thanasuan, KMUTT, Thailand Publicity Chairs * Titipat Achakulvisut, Mahidol University, Thailand * Hongzhi Kuai, Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan * Annalisa Occhipinti, Teesside University, UK Publication Chair * Hongzhi Kuai, Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan Advisory Board ** Chair: Ning Zhong, Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan * Jonathan Chan, KMUTT, Thailand * Tianzi Jiang, Institute of Automation, CAS, China * Nikola Kasabov, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand * Hesheng Liu, MGH, Harvard Medical School, USA * Guoming Luan, Sanbo Brain Hospital, China * Mufti Mahmud, Nottingham Trent University, UK * Hanchuan Peng, SEU-Allen Institute for Brain & Intelligence, China * Stefano Panzeri, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Germany * Shinsuke Shimojo, California Institute of Technology, USA -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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En termes d?enseignements disciplinaires, les besoins sont importants concernant les domaines tels qu?architecture des ordinateurs, programmation syst?me, r?seaux, cybers?curit? ; programmation et g?nie logiciel ; algorithmique, automates, langages, logique ; donn?es, IA, apprentissage automatique ; IHM, vision, traitement d?image. A noter que, plus g?n?ralement, les exp?riences des candidats et des candidates venant renforcer l?ensemble des unit?s d?enseignement du d?partement seront appr?ci?es. Merci de contacter: Chaabane Djeraba (chaabane.djeraba at univ-lille.fr) et Marius Bilasco (marius.bilasco at univ-lille.fr) pour de plus amples informations. Bien cordialement, ? Ioan Marius BILASCO Professeur des Universit?s en Informatique Univ. Lille CRIStAL CNRS - UMR 9189 Cit? Scientifique 59650 Villeneuve d'Ascq Cedex - France https://pro.univ-lille.fr/marius-bilasco/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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URL: From maria.m.hedblom at gmail.com Thu Mar 14 08:20:06 2024 From: maria.m.hedblom at gmail.com (Maria Hedblom) Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2024 13:20:06 +0100 Subject: Connectionists: =?utf-8?q?deadline_extension=3A_SCAI=E2=80=9924_-?= =?utf-8?q?_The_14th_Scandinavian_Conference_on_AI=2E_10-11th_June?= =?utf-8?b?LCAyMDI0LiBKw7Zua8O2cGluZywgU3dlZGVu?= Message-ID: *(apologies for possible cross-posting)*Final Call for Papers *SCAI?24* - The 14th Scandinavian Conference on AI 10-11th June, J?nk?ping, Sweden Event website: SCAI Symposium 2024 -- Extended submission deadline: April 5th -- Theme: AI for a better society In the last years, research on Artificial Intelligence has made both academia and industry to take a more active role in engaging with the general public. The immense success of recent results appears almost endless, but they are not without faults or concerns. Addressing the role these technologies can have in human society is therefore important. The 14th Scandinavian Conference on AI (SCAI?24) invites researchers and industry practitioners working on all facets of AI to submit their research. Organised as a joint venture by the Swedish AI Society (SAIS) and Norwegian AI Society (NAIS), the event invites researchers from all over the world to participate in ongoing discussions. Venue The event will take place June 10-11, 2024, in the picturesque, yet modern Swedish city of J?nk?ping. It is a middle-sized city beautifully tucked in between deep Swedish forests, mirror-clear lakes and flowing hills. Join us over a ?*kanelbulle* ?(cinnamon roll) to discuss the latest in AI research and network in the social program while overlooking the sun set over the crystal-clear water of V?ttern (Sweden?s second-largest lake). Making the best of the beautiful scenery, the conference dinner will take place at the medieval-style inn "Gyllene Uttern" (The Golden Otter) that offers a unique perspective of the sun setting over V?ttern. Confirmed Keynote Speakers In addition to the scientific and social program, SCAI has already three confirmed keynote speakers all capturing different aspects of the conference theme: AI for a better society. We are proud to have Virginia Dignum, Professor of Computer Science at Ume? University, Timo Minssen, Director at JUR Centre for Advanced Studies in Biomedical Innovation Law, and Patrik J?genstedt, Director Advanced Development, Robotics & AI Lab at Husqvarna, joining SCAI as invited speakers! A later announcement will provide more details on their talks. Topics of Interest and Paper Formats Contributions are welcome from all areas of Artificial Intelligence, and topics of interest include (but are not limited to): - AI applications - AI ethics and regulations - Knowledge representation - Hybrid and neurosymbolic AI - Machine learning methods and applications - Case studies of AI in the public sector and industry - Complex systems and swarm intelligence - Cognitive robotics and intelligent agents - Human-computer interaction with an AI-focus - Planning and Scheduling - Natural Language Processing - Computer Vision - Search Algorithms - Multi-Agent-Systems - Conformal Prediction and Uncertainty Quantification For the scientific program of the conference, we invite four types (with corresponding submissions) of contributions to SCAI 2024, from all areas of AI research: - 6-10 pages full paper describing original contributions (not under review at another venue). General descriptions of current and ongoing projects are also acceptable. This category will be published in SCAI 2024 proceedings unless the authors opt-out. Please note that full papers in the proceedings are approved as a scientific publication channel at level 1 in Norway. - 2 pages extended abstracts of previously published papers in e.g., AI journals and AI conferences, within the last 12 months. The two pages should include everything, e.g., references, figures, etc. These will not be included in the proceedings, only presented at the conference. - 2 pages extended abstract describing AI industrial application, demonstrating use cases that leverage machine learning and AI techniques in a real-world setting. The two pages should include everything, including references, figures, etc. The first author should be from industry. These will not be included in the proceedings, only presented at the conference. - 2 pages extended abstract describing ongoing Ph.D. projects (the first author must be a Ph.D. student). Problem statements and research question/s must be clearly introduced and motivated. The two pages should include everything, e.g., references, figures, etc. These will not be included in the proceedings, only presented at the conference. All submissions will be peer-reviewed by the conference program committee and accepted contributions will be presented as oral presentations, practical demonstrations or poster sessions. Accepted full papers will be published in the electronic workshop proceedings (Link?ping University Electronic Press). All submissions must be written in English using the IEEE Latex template available Note that at least one author needs to register and participate on-site during the conference. *The submission instructions will follow on the event website: *SCAI Symposium 2024 Important Dates - Submission deadline: March 22, April 5th - Notification of acceptance: April 28 - Camera ready submission: May 12 - Conference: June 10-11 Organizing Committee - *Einav Perez-Andersson*, J?nk?ping University, School of Engineering (General Chair) einav.perez.andersson at ju.se - *Florian Westphal*, J?nk?ping University, School of Engineering, florian.westphal at ju.se - *Jerome Landre*, J?nk?ping University, School of Engineering, jerome.landre @ju.se - *Maria Riveiro*, J?nk?ping University, School of Engineering, maria.riveiro at ju.se - *Tuwe L?fstr?m*, J?nk?ping University, School of Engineering, Tuwe.Lofstrom at ju.se - *Maria M. Hedblom,* J?nk?ping University, School of Engineering, maria.hedblom at ju.se - *He Tan,* J?nk?ping University, School of Engineering, he.tan at ju.se - *Kerstin Bach*, Norwegian University of Science and Technology kerstin.bach at ntnu.no Steering Chair - Fredrik Heintz, Link?ping University, fredrik.heintz at liu.se -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dayan at tue.mpg.de Thu Mar 14 06:33:07 2024 From: dayan at tue.mpg.de (Peter Dayan) Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2024 11:33:07 +0100 Subject: Connectionists: =?utf-8?q?Werner_Reichardt_Symposium_=3A_19th_Apr?= =?utf-8?q?il_T=C3=BCbingen?= Message-ID: <20240314103307.zfggz3jt6sf5hlpf@tuebingen.mpg.de> 2024 marks 100 years since the birth of Werner Reichardt, the founding director of the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics and a pioneer in the field of what is now known as computational neuroscience. 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In this context, there is a gap between purely data-driven models and domain-specific knowledge, requirements, and expertise. In particular, this domain specificity needs to be integrated into the ML models to improve learning generalization, sustainability, trustworthiness, reliability, security, and safety. This additional knowledge can assume different forms, e.g.: - software developers require ML to comply with many technical requirements; - companies require ML to comply with economic and environmental sustainability; - domain experts require ML to be aligned with physical and logical laws; - society requires ML to be aligned with ethical principles. This special session aims to gather valuable contributions and early findings in the field of Informed Machine Learning for Complex Data. Our main objective is to showcase the potential and limitations of new ideas, improvements, or the blending of Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and other research areas in solving real-world problems. We invite both theoretical and practical results to this special session. TOPICS OF INTEREST: - Data-informed ML (e.g., the ability to directly learn from complex data) - Technically-informed ML (e.g., regressiveness, replicability, and security) - Sustainability-informed ML (e.g., ability to learn and predict efficiently from data) - Knowledge-informed ML (e.g., physical laws, logical requirements, and algorithms) - Ethically-informed ML (e.g., fairness, explainability, fairness, and cultural competence) SUBMISSION: Prospective authors must submit their paper through the ESANN portal following the instructions provided in https://www.esann.org/node/6 Each paper will undergo a peer reviewing process for its acceptance. IMPORTANT DATES: Submission of papers: 2 May 2024 Notification of acceptance: 16 June 2024 ESANN conference: 9-11 October 2024 SPECIAL SESSION ORGANISERS: Luca Oneto (University of Genoa, Italy) Nicol? Navarin (University of Padua, Italy) Alessio Micheli (University of Pisa, Italy) Luca Pasa (University of Padova, Italy) Claudio Gallicchio (University of Pisa, Italy) Davide Bacciu (University of Pisa, Italy) Davide Anguita (DIBRIS - University of Genova, Italy) ? Nicol? Navarin, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Computer Science University of Padua - Department of Mathematics via Trieste 63, 35121 Padova - Italy Office: 3CD2 Tel. +39 049 8271384 E-mail: nicolo.navarin at unipd.it Zoom: https://unipd.zoom.us/my/navarin Web: http://www.math.unipd.it/~nnavarin CONFIDENTIALITY: This email is intended solely for the person(s) named and may be confidential and/or privileged. If you are not the intended recipient, please delete it, notify us and do not copy, use, or disclose its contents. 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Dr. Li, a Senior Staff Research Scientist at Google Research and an affiliate faculty member at the University of Washington CSE, will share his insights on the intersection of Human Computer Interaction and Artificial Intelligence, highlighting the future of Human-AI collaboration. == Important Dates == * Submission Deadline: April 2, 2024 * Notification: April 16, 2024 * Camera Ready: May 3, 2024 * Workshop Date: Afternoon of June 3rd or 4th, 2024 == Submission Guidelines == * Length: 5-10 pages * Format: CEUR-ART 1-column Template * Selected papers may be invited to submit an extended version to a dedicated Special Issue of Springer's "Personal and Ubiquitous Computing" * Submission Website: https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/SYNERGY2024 == Topics Include == The workshop seeks contributions on, but not limited to, the following themes: 1. Human-AI Collaboration Models 2. Augmenting Human Cognition with AI 3. Design Principles for Synergistic Systems 4. Ethics and Trust in Human-AI Interaction 5. Philosophical and Theoretical Approaches 6. Adaptive Interfaces for Human-AI Synergy 7. Software Architectures and Tools 8. Case Studies of Human-AI Synergy == Organizers == * Alan Dix, Swansea University & Cardiff Metropolitan University * Matt Roach, Swansea University * Tommaso Turchi, University of Pisa * Alessio Malizia, University of Pisa For more information, please visit our website at https://synergy.trx.li or contact Tommaso Turchi (tommaso.turchi at unipi.it). Join us in Arenzano, Genoa, Italy, for an insightful workshop that aims to explore and shape the future of hybrid human-AI systems! //==============================\\ Tommaso Turchi Department of Computer Science University of Pisa \\==============================// From gaoyixing at jlu.edu.cn Thu Mar 14 22:00:19 2024 From: gaoyixing at jlu.edu.cn (gaoyixing at jlu.edu.cn) Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2024 10:00:19 +0800 (GMT+08:00) Subject: Connectionists: [meetings] [CfP] Call-for-Paper: CIS-RAM 2024, Hangzhou, China (Extended Deadline 8 April 2024) Message-ID: <4a218769.1d3ca.18e3fd6b409.Coremail.gaoyixing@jlu.edu.cn> 11th IEEE International Conference on Cybernetics and Intelligent Systems & Robotics, Automation and Mechatronics (CIS-RAM 2024) 8 ? 11 August 2024 | Hangzhou, China | https://www.cis-ram.org/2024/ ================================================================================================================================================= Important Dates (with extended deadlines): 08 April 2024: Conference Paper Submission (08 Mar 2024) 29 March 2024: Special Session Proposal Submission (01 March 2024) 17 May 2024: Notification of Acceptance 24 May 2024: Final Camera-Ready Deadline Papers Submission: All papers must be written in English and submitted electronically in PDF format via PaperPlaza (https://ras.papercept.net/conferences/scripts/start.pl). Papers submitted to CIS-RAM 2024 will undergo a peer-review process. Publication: All papers accepted and presented at CIS-RAM 2024 will be published by IEEE and indexed by ISI Proceedings. For more details, please check https://www.cis-ram.org/2024/OnlinePaperSubmission.html Organized by: IEEE Singapore Section IEEE Robotics and Automation Society (RAS) Singapore Chapter IEEE Systems, Man & Cybernetics (SMC) Singapore Chapter IEEE Robotics and Automation Society (RAS) Nanjing Chapter Dear Friends and Colleagues, It is our great honor and pleasure to announce the 11th IEEE International Conference on Cybernetics and Intelligent Systems (CIS) and the 11th IEEE International Conference on Robotics, Automation and Mechatronics (RAM), which will be held from 08 to 11 Aug, 2024 in Hangzhou, China. The IEEE International Conferences on CIS & RAM have always been held together, to exploit the synergistic relationship between both areas. CIS-RAM was first held in Singapore in 2004, followed by Thailand in 2006, Chengdu (China) in 2008, Singapore in 2010, Qingdao (China) in 2011, Manila (Philippines) in 2013, Angkor Wat (Cambodia) in 2015, Ningbo (China) in 2017, Bangkok (Thailand) in 2019, and Penang (Malaysia) in 2023 . Programs and Topics on CIS Cybernetics Automation and Control, Cooperative Systems and Control, Computational Intelligence, Multi-Agent Systems, Supervisory Control, Hybrid Systems, Neural Networks, Deep Reinforcement Learning, Genetic Algorithms, Evolutionary Computation, Systems Modeling & Control, Optimization, Smart Sensor Networks, Blockchain Technologies, Networked Dynamical Systems, Discrete Event Systems, Swarm Intelligence, Soft Computing, Fuzzy Systems, Decision Support Systems, System of Systems, Big Data, Internet of Things, Image Processing, Environmental Systems, Systems Biology, Cyber-physical Systems, Human/Machine Systems, Transportation Systems, Manufacturing Systems, Smart City, Resource Management, Energy Efficiency, Artificial Intelligence Generated Content, Large Language Models, Natural Language Processing. Programs and Topics on RAM Robotics and Automation in Unstructured Environment, Personal and Service Robotics, Underwater Robotics, Medical Robots and Systems, Social Robotics, Robotics and Automation Applications, Sensor Design, Integration, and Fusion, Robot Vision, Deep Learning, Embodied AI, Human-Robot Interfaces, Haptics, Tele-robotics, Network Robotics, Micro/Nano, Distributed, Cellular, and Multi-robot Systems, Biologically-Inspired Robots and Systems, Intelligent Transportation Systems, Modeling, Planning and Control, Kinematics, Mechanics, and Mechanism Design, Legged Robots, Wheeled Mobile Robots, Aerial Robotics, Dynamics, Motion Control, Force/Impedance Control, Architecture and Programming, Methodologies for Robotics and Automation, Virtual Reality, Localization & Tracking, A Fleet of AGVs. All papers must be written in English and should describe original work. Submissions must be in PDF format via PaperPlaza. More details can be found at the conference website. For general conference information, please contact the General Chair and the Conference Secretary: cis-ram2024 at outlook.com Sincerely Yours, Han Wang, Rong Su, Bin Zhang, Ayse Kucukyilmaz & Yixing Gao Publicity Chairs, CIS-RAM 2024 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From samuel.kaski at manchester.ac.uk Fri Mar 15 02:29:09 2024 From: samuel.kaski at manchester.ac.uk (Samuel Kaski) Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2024 06:29:09 +0000 Subject: Connectionists: >100 Machine Learning PhD positions in Finland and UK Message-ID: PhD in machine learning in UK or Finland? With me and/or my colleagues? Now is the time! New UKRI AI CDT in Decision Making for Complex Systems; I am supervising on Generative models, Experimental design, Distributional shifts, Synthetic Biology: https://ai-decisions-cdt.github.io/hugo-pages/author/samuel-kaski/ DL is March 31. 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The DC provides an opportunity for doctoral students to explore and develop their research interests under the guidance of distinguished researchers and industry practitioners from the field. Doctoral students are invited to apply for presenting their research to experienced scholars who will provide constructive feedback and advice. Students should consider participating in the DC if they are at least one year away from completing their dissertation at the time of the event, but after having settled on a research area or dissertation topic. This forum will provide doctoral students with an opportunity to: * Present and discuss their research ideas to experienced scholars in a supportive, formative, and yet critical environment. * Explore and develop their research interests under the guidance of distinguished researchers from the field who will provide constructive feedback and advice. * Explore career pathways available after completing their doctoral degree. * Network and build collaborations with other members of the community. Students are asked to submit a brief proposal outlining their doctoral research (see detailed requirements below), which will be evaluated by the doctoral consortium committee. Good quality applications will be selected for presentation at a DC session as part of the conference. Each student with an accepted submission will be assigned a mentor who will provide feedback on the student?s work. A mentoring session will take place during the conference, and the DC students are expected to attend. ** Important Dates ** Paper Submission: March 28, 2024 Notification: April 26, 2024 Camera-ready Submission (TAPS system): May 9, 2024 Conference: July 1 ? 4, 2024 DC Day: July TBD, 2024 (it will happen in one of the conference days) Note: The submissions deadlines are at 11:59 pm AoE (Anywhere on Earth) time. ** Submission ** All submissions must be written in English. Submissions should be a single PDF document consisting of: (i) the recommendation letter, (ii) the research description, and (iii) the curriculum vitae. This PDF document should be submitted electronically through the EasyChair submission system, https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=umap24, by selecting the ?UMAP24 Doctoral Consortium Papers? track. ** Length and Formatting ** Format and Content Guidelines. Consult the ACM UMAP 2024 general call for full and short papers concerning the key topics of this call as well. Each proposal should be a single PDF document, with three required components: (i) a recommendation letter, (ii) a description of your doctoral path, (iii) and a curriculum vitae. If you are unable to obtain a letter of recommendation from your dissertation advisor, please include a short explanation. Specifically, for each component, please consider the following instructions: 1. Letter of Recommendation (from your primary dissertation advisor, in any format): * Describe your interaction with the student and your assessment of the quality of their work. Explain how the ACM UMAP 2024 doctoral consortium would benefit this student at this point in their doctoral program, as well as the contributions you expect the student to make to the group. * The DC targets students who have a clear idea of their research plans and have started their research but have not yet executed a majority of their research. Please explain the structure of your student?s program and their expected level of progress by July 2024. * Recall that students who are unable to obtain a letter of recommendation from their dissertation advisor (or the equivalent) should instead include a short explanation and a description of where the student is in their doctoral progress and the anticipated timeline. 1. 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Clearly separate published papers from those under review or in press. Please ensure that your submission is complete and conforms to the format and content guidelines above. Submissions that do not meet these requirements will be desk-rejected. *Single-Blind Policy*. Proposals will be reviewed single-blind and, therefore, do not need to be anonymized before submission. *Template for the Research Description*. Following the ACM Publication Workflow, the research description component should be arranged based on the new ACM single-column format. Instructions for students are given below: * LaTeX (use \documentclass[manuscript, review, anonymous]{acmart} in the sample-authordraft.tex file for single-column). Please carefully follow the ACM?s instructions for preparing your article with LaTeX. * Overleaf (use \documentclass[manuscript,review,anonymous]{acmart} for single-column). Please carefully follow the ACM?s instructions for preparing your article with Overleaf. * Word. 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We are committed to improve author discoverability, ensure proper attribution and contribute to ongoing community efforts around name normalization; your ORCID ID will help in these efforts.? *Camera-ready Information*. Accepted proposals (i.e., the research description component) will require a further revision in order to meet the requirements and the page limits of the camera-ready format required by ACM. Instructions for the preparation of the camera-ready versions of the papers will be provided after acceptance. We strongly recommend the usage of LaTeX/Overleaf for the camera-ready papers to minimize the extent of reformatting. 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Real-time signal processing and decoding of brain signals are certainly at the heart of a BMI. Yet, this does not suffice for subjects to operate a brain-controlled device reliably. In this talk I will review some of our recent studies, most involving participants with severe motor disabilities, that illustrate additional principles of a reliable BMI that enable users to operate devices. A fundamental aspect is how to promote subject's ability to modulate their brain signals so as to deliver direct mental commands to operate assistive devices. I'll discuss this learning process while subjects trained to utilize those brain-controlled devices, which fundamentally relies on brain plasticity. Intriguingly, if BMI use promotes brain plasticity, then BMI interventions could foster neurorehabilitation. I'll discuss the case of BMI for stroke rehabilitation. Biography: Dr. Jos? del R. Mill?n is a professor and holds the Carol Cockrell Curran Chair in the Chandra Family Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin. He is also a professor in the Department of Neurology at Dell Medical School, professor (by Courtesy) in the Department of Biomedical Engineering, faculty of the Mulva Clinic for the Neurosciences, and member of the Institute for Neuroscience. He is co-director of the UT CARE Initiative and associate director of Texas Robotics. Dr. Mill?n received a PhD in computer science from the Technical University of Catalonia, Barcelona, in 1992. Prior to joining UT Austin, he was a research scientist at the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission in Ispra (Italy) and a senior researcher at the Idiap Research Institute in Martigny (Switzerland). Most recently, he was Defitech Foundation Chair in Brain-Machine Interface at the ?cole Polytechnique F?d?rale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland. Dr. Mill?n has made several seminal contributions to the field of brain-machine interfaces (BMI), especially based on electroencephalogram signals. Most of his achievements revolve around the design of brain-controlled robots. He has received several recognitions for these seminal and pioneering achievements, notably the IEEE-SMC Nobert Wiener Award in 2011, elevation to IEEE Fellow in 2017, and elected Fellow of the International Academy of Medical and Biological Engineering in 2020. In addition to his work on the fundamentals of BMI and design of neuroprosthetics, Dr. Mill?n is prioritizing the translation of BMI to people who live with motor and cognitive disabilities. In parallel, he is designing BMI technology to offer new interaction modalities for able-bodied people that augment their abilities. The seminar will be delivered over Zoom on 20th March, 2.30pm UK time. A link to join the seminar will be sent to all who sign up at this form shortly before the seminar: https://forms.gle/FWKn8N7KvFkFv8qf9 The talk will be recorded and made available in the lab's Youtube channel shortly after. Best wishes, Ana ------------------------ Dr Ana Matran-Fernandez PhD Lecturer in Neural Engineering and Artificial Intelligence Department of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE) University of Essex Office: 5B.539 E amatra at essex.ac.uk Email notices: 1) I sometimes write emails outside (your) working hours. Please don't take this as an indication that I require an immediate response - we simply may be working at different times. 2) Because of the daily high load of emails, I may take some time to reply to you. If it's important, I may take even more time, because I want to provide an adequate response. If it's urgent, I'll try to reply quickly and maybe just with a very short email. 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Immerse yourself in the cutting edge of brain science, where innovative tools, shared expertise, and the pursuit of understanding meet to decode the essence of intelligence. *Important dates* Mar 15 - Early bird, abstract, & investigator presentation registration opens Jun 29 - Regular registration opens Sep 23-25 - Assembly Sep 26-27 - Training sessions Learn more & register today: bit.ly/INCFAssembly2024 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From drarunraj at gmail.com Fri Mar 15 09:52:27 2024 From: drarunraj at gmail.com (Arun Antony) Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2024 09:52:27 -0400 Subject: Connectionists: Neuroscience Postdoc Fellow Position Message-ID: The Department of Neurology at Jersey Shore University Medical Center, New Jersey, USA is seeking a full time postdoctoral candidate to work on basic, clinical and translational projects in the fields of seizures, epilepsy, human intracranial EEG, signal processing, and cognition. The researcher will join a multidisciplinary team of five epileptologists, neurosurgeons, epilepsy nurses, nurse practitioners, neuropsychologists and researchers providing holistic care to patients with epilepsy. The researcher will have access to the large clinical, imaging, and EEG data bases, and outcome measures within the system for research purposes. The successful candidate will be well versed in data collection, processing, programming and will lead an independent research project working closely with the collaborators. Compensation includes a base salary of approximately $ 80K and benefits including health insurance. The last date to apply is April 15th, 2024. Please forward your resume and cover letter to *epilepsy at hmhn.org * *Qualifications* PhD in neuroscience, imaging, machine learning, data science or signal processing. US citizenship or permanent residency. *Responsibilities* Lead an independent research project. Review continuous video EEG studies. 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Recent technologies allow detailed mapping of these irregularities, but our understanding of their effect on the overall circuit dynamics is still lacking. By developing complex system analytical tools that perform reduction of the network, I determine the impact of connectivity features on network dynamics. I will demonstrate the use of these tools on neural assemblies (clusters), a ubiquitous non-uniform structure in our brains. I will show how neural assemblies of different sizes naturally generate multiple timescales of activity spanning several orders of magnitude. I will demonstrate how the analytical theory we develop for rate networks, supported by spiking network simulations, reveals the dependency between neural timescales and assembly sizes and how new recordings of spontaneous activity from a million neurons support this analysis. I will also show how our model can naturally explain the particular long-tailed timescale distribution observed in the awake primate cortex. In olfactory cortex, neural assemblies represent odor stimuli. Previously, I showed how the diffuse recurrent excitation among these assemblies allows the conversion of time-encoded inputs from the bulb to spacial neural assembly representations in olfactory cortex. Here, I will show how changes in the dynamical properties of these assemblies alter both their timing response and properties of the time-encoded inputs via feedback. This demonstrates the role of neural assemblies in time-sensitive modulation needed for cognitive tasks, such as attention. Our results offer a biologically plausible mechanism of assemblies in network connectivity for explaining multiple puzzling dynamical phenomena: The ability of neural circuits to transform external simultaneous temporal fluctuations into spatial representations and alter them; and the ability of neuronal circuits to generate simultaneous temporal fluctuations across a large range of timescales. *About VVTNS : Created as the World Wide Neuroscience Seminar (WWTNS) in November 2020 and renamed in homage to Carl van Vreeswijk in Memoriam (April 20, 2022), its aim is to be a platform to exchange ideas among theoreticians. Speakers have the occasion to talk about theoretical aspects of their work which cannot be discussed in a setting where the majority of the audience consists of experimentalists. The seminars, **held on Wednesdays at 11 am ET,** are 45-50 min long followed by a discussion. The talks are recorded with authorization of the speaker and are available to everybody on our YouTube channel.* ? -- 'Life is good ..' (Carl van Vreeswijk, 1962-2022) --------------------------------------- David Hansel Directeur de Recherche au CNRS Co-Group leader Cerebral Dynamics Plasticity and Learning lab., CNRS 45 rue des Saints Peres 75270 Paris Cedex 06 Tel (Cell): +33 607508403 - Fax (33).1.49.27.90.62 *CONFIDENTIALITY AND PRIVACY NOTICE:* *This message and the documents that might be attached, are addressed exclusively to their(s) recipient(s) and may contain privileged or confidential information. The access to this information by people other than those designated is not authorized. If you are not the indicated recipient, you are notified that the use, disclosure and / or copying without authorization is prohibited under current legislation. 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Decentralized DNN applications will be also presented. *Host Institution*: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki *19 March 2024, 08:30 - 18:30 CET* *Online participation* via ZOOM Meeting ID: 928 2622 5947 Passcode: 405011 Register in advance in this course* for free *through the above-mentioned short course *www.page * . Students/Scientists, Engineers from other scientific disciplines having the necessary mathematical background are also welcomed to register. This short e-course is technically sponsored by TEMA , AI. BIG cluster , AIDA , AI4Media , AI4Europe , SIMAR & *dAIEDGE * R&D projects. Course Organizer: Prof. Ioannis Pitas Chair of the International AI Doctoral Academy (AIDA), Director of the Artificial Intelligence and Information analysis (AIIA) Lab, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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We are looking forward to a wide and varied participation! --- A few details --- # Registration *Please register in advance* if you wish to attend the Workshop, so that we can organize the facilities accordingly. You can register at https://t.ly/mdyrw , or from the Workshop's website ( https://www.ai4robotics.eu ). # Invited Speakers Our workshop is privileged to host an exceptional lineup of speakers from academia and industry. Confirmed speakers include: * Francesco Nori (Google DeepMind) * Roberto Calandra (TU Dresden) * Sergey Levine (UC Berkeley) * Jens Kober (TU Delft) * Guido de Croon (TU Delft) * Silvia Tolu (DTU) # Workshop Format The Workshop consists of talks by our invited speakers, interleaved with coffee breaks where our participants can present their posters. A tasty free lunch will be provided, during which we are going to organize various networking activities. The Workshop will end with a reception and (free) drinks. # Abstract Since their inception, Artificial Intelligence and Robotics have been intrinsically connected. Yet, the two communities are not always interacting as much as they should. The increasing specialization within each field tends to overlook their deeper link, posing challenges in keeping up to date with each other's advancements. This highlights the critical need for an interdisciplinary forum to harmonize efforts across both domains. Additionally, many research labs lack access to essential resources. This includes both the high-cost robot hardware required for practical application of theories and the computational resources necessary for training large neural networks. By fostering collaborations between AI and robotics researchers, we can significantly enhance research efficiency and accelerate scientific breakthroughs. We organize the AI for Robotics Workshop to provide an opportunity for AI researchers and roboticists to come together and exchange ideas, learn about the latest developments in both fields, encourage networking, and initiate collaborations. The workshop is organized as a one day event in Tilburg, The Netherlands, featuring invited talks on the latest advances in both AI and Robotics from leading researchers. To promote meaningful exchanges, the event includes networking opportunities during lunch and coffee breaks, and ends with relaxed social drinks at the end of the day. Understanding the importance of inclusive participation, we are pleased to offer free registration for the workshop, kindly provided by our sponsors. This includes a delightful lunch and all-day snacks and drinks. Everybody is encouraged to submit and present a poster. Kind regards, Giacomo Spigler Murat Kirtay -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Applications will be evaluated as they come in, and the positions will be open until filled. Applications should be sent to Sahar Moghimi, sahar.moghimi at u-picardie.fr. Bests, Sahar Moghimi GRAMFC Lab, InsermU1105 Universit? de Picardie Jules Verne From Mark.Humphries at nottingham.ac.uk Mon Mar 18 05:32:08 2024 From: Mark.Humphries at nottingham.ac.uk (Mark Humphries) Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2024 09:32:08 +0000 Subject: Connectionists: Save the date: UK Neural Computation meeting July 8-10th, Sheffield Message-ID: Save the date! The UK Neural Computation meeting is in Sheffield for 2024, the gathering of the UK?s computational and systems neuroscience community 8 July: ECR day 9-10 July: main meeting 11 invited speakers, 4 talks from abstracts and loads of posters Abstract submission and registration opening soon Please spread the word! 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Topics of interest of the special session include (but are not limited to): ? new formalisms to enable trust-by-design in AI (e.g., blending logics and deep learning, inference methods based on model checking and other software engineering techniques...); ? innovative techniques for interpretability and explainability; ? constraint enforcement to increase trust in black box models; ? interactive techniques to manipulate models (i.e., to add user feedback in learning); ? certification and testing techniques to increase trust in AI; ? theoretical models of trust in AI, including those based on cognitive sciences; ? Interactions (e.g., trade-offs, privacy ) between privacy and trust in AI; ? empirical studies (inc. user studies) related to trust in AI. Interdisciplinary works are particularly welcome. All papers will be submitted to a peer review process. Accepted papers will be presented as either talks or posters, in order to favour interaction with the ESANN attendees. There is no difference in quality between talks and posters and all papers will be published in the conference proceedings. At least one author is expected to register for the conference and pay the registration fee. SUBMISSION: Prospective authors must submit their paper through the ESANN portal following the instructions provided on https://www.esann.org/node/6. Author guidelines are available on https://www.esann.org/author_guidelines. Each paper will undergo a peer reviewing process for its acceptance. Authors should send an e-mail with the tentative title of their contribution to the special session organizers as soon as possible. IMPORTANT DATES: Paper submission deadline: 2 May 2024 Notification of acceptance: 16 June 2024 The ESANN 2023 conference: 9-11 October 2024 SPECIAL SESSION ORGANISERS: ? Tassadit Bouadi - Universit? de Rennes, France - tassadit.bouadi at irisa.fr ? Beno?t Fr?nay - UNamur, Belgium - benoit.frenay at unamur.be ? Luis Gal?rraga - INRIA/IRISA, France - luis.galarraga at inria.fr ? Pierre Geurts - ULi?ge, Belgium - p.geurts at uliege.be ? Barbara Hammer - Bielefeld University, Germany - bhammer at techfak.uni-bielefeld.de ? Gilles Perrouin - UNamur, Belgium - gilles.perrouin at unamur.be -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From danyal.akarca at gmail.com Mon Mar 18 11:03:50 2024 From: danyal.akarca at gmail.com (Danyal Akarca) Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2024 15:03:50 +0000 Subject: Connectionists: Fully-funded PhD opening (UK home fees status) @ Imperial College London (Dr Danyal Akarca & Prof Daniel Goodman) Message-ID: *Fully funded PhD position opening* Intelligent Systems and Networks Group Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering Imperial College London *Supervisors:* Dr Danyal Akarca & Prof Daniel Goodman *PhD student status:* UK ?Home? fee status (for information, see here ) We are seeking a PhD candidate to join us at Imperial College London. This position offers a unique opportunity to explore the cutting-edge intersection of neuroscience and artificial intelligence, with the broad goal to investigateshared principles of computation within both artificial and biological intelligent systems. *Research topics:* These include, but are not limited to: (i) Information and communication within brain circuits of modular network topologies; (ii) Inductive structural and communication biases within brain-inspired neural networks; (iii) Comparing neural coding schemes; (iv) Resource rationality in task-solving neural networks and their scaling; (v) Evolutionary and developmental models of heterogeneity in the brain. Relevant papers of the supervisors include this and this . *Requirements:* There is a requirement for a Master?s level degree (at level Merit minimum) and that your undergraduate degree is at level UK 2:1, but a 1st class and/or Distinction (respectively) would be highly desirable. 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September 2-5, 2024 Technically Co-Sponsored by IEEE Sweden Section *IOTSMS 2024 CFP* The Internet of Things (IoT) technology offers unprecedented opportunities to interconnect human beings as well as Machine-to-Machine (M2M), whereby networks across the edge-cloud continuum allow all things to communicate and share vital information, allowing us to have an instrumented universe where accurate data is readily available to inform optimal decision making. Indeed, the IoT has opened up for the development of novel types of services and applications in various application domains. It has changed how people go about their lives. The number of heterogeneous objects connected to the Internet is growing very fast. Ericsson estimates the number will be close to 38 billion objects by 2029. Others believe the actual number will be even higher with the assumption that any object with a simple microcontroller and on-off switch will be connected to the Internet in the near future. The scale of the IoT is set to have major economic, social, and environmental impacts; the intersection of which forms the future sustainable growth. The international conference on Internet of Things: Systems, Management, and Security (IoTSMS) aims at soliciting original ideas on the broad area of IoT, including challenges and opportunities, concepts and applications, and future trends. The IoTSMS aims to facilitate discussions among academics and IoT practitioners and make positive contributions to the field. The topics of interest include (but are not limited to): * Emerging concepts of IoT Systems * Architectures of IoT systems * Machine-to-Machine Communication and IoT * Modelling of IoT applications * SDN and NFV support for IoT applications and Systems * Fog and Edge support for IoT Applications * 5G support for IoT Applications * IoT for Smart Cities * Energy management in IoT * Design methodologies for IoT * IoT for sustainable digitalization * IoT and Social benefits/impact * IoT Economics and Business Models * Emerging Internet of Things business models and process changes * Communication systems and network architectures for the IoT * IoT and Data Management * Security and privacy of IoT * Reliability of IoT * Trustworthy IoT systems * Disaster recovery in IoT * Applications of Internet of things * Emerging applications and interaction paradigms for everyday citizens * Big data and IoT * Self-organizing IoT * Cloud Computing and IoT * Smart IoT systems * Dynamic IoT systems * Simulations in IoT environments *Submissions Guidelines and Proceedings* Manuscripts should be prepared in 10-point font using the IEEE 8.5" x 11" two-column format (IEEE Templates ). All papers should be in PDF format, and submitted electronically at Paper Submission Link. A full paper must not exceed the stated length (including all figures, tables and references). Submitted papers must present original unpublished research that is not currently under review for any other conference or journal. Papers not following these guidelines may be rejected without review. Also submissions received after the due date, exceeding length limit, or not appropriately structured may also not be considered. Authors may contact the Program Chair for further information or clarification. All submissions are peer-reviewed by at least two reviewers. Accepted papers will appear in the IoTSMS Proceeding and to be submitted to IEEE Xplore for inclusion. The proceedings are also submitted for indexing to EI (Compendex), Scopus and other indexing services like DBLP. Submitted papers must include original work, and must not be under consideration for another conference or journal. Submission of regular papers must not exceed 8 pages and must follow the IEEE paper format. Please include up to 7 keywords, complete postal and e-mail address, and fax and phone numbers of the corresponding author. Authors of accepted papers are expected to present their work at the conference. Submitted papers that are deemed of good quality but that could not be accepted as regular papers will be accepted as short papers. *Important Dates* Submission Date: 1 June 2024 Notification to Authors: 15 July 2024 Camera Ready Submission: 1 August 2024 *Contact:* If you have any questions about IoTSMS, please send an email to Fahed Alkhabbas at: fahed.alkhabbas at mau.se ??? Dr. Fahed Alkhabbas Senior Lecturer in Software Engineering Internet of Things and People Research Center Faculty of Technology and Society Malm? 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AFOSR is the basic research funding arm of the US Air Force and Space Force, and we fund basic research that promises to advance future missions across nearly 40 areas of science and engineering. The CCMI portfolio funds high-risk, high-impact research on machine intelligence, including reasoning, inference, planning, decision making, autonomy, and the machine side of human-machine teaming, often informed by concepts and principles about higher-order cognitive processes responsible for complex problem solving and decision making. The Air Force is looking for experienced candidates with expertise in these areas who have a vision for the field, care deeply about the science, and want to work with researchers, other program officers, and interagency and international partners to advance that vision. There may also be opportunities to inform government policy and for research. 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BERT, T5, ChatGPT, GPT-4, Falcon 180B, Codex, DALL-E, Whisper, and CLIP are now the foundation for new applications ranging from computer vision to protein sequence study and from speech recognition to coding. Earlier models had a reputation of starting from scratch with each new challenge. The capacity to experiment with, examine, and comprehend the capabilities and potentials of next-generation FMs is critical to undertaking this research and guiding its path. Nevertheless, these models are currently inaccessible as the resources required to train these models are highly concentrated in industry, and even the assets (data, code) required to replicate their training are frequently not released due to their demand in the real-time industry. At the moment, mostly large tech companies such as OpenAI, Google, Facebook, and Baidu can afford to construct FMs and LLMS. Despite the expected widely publicized use of FMs and LLMS, we still lack a comprehensive knowledge of how they operate, why they underperform, and what they are even capable of because of their emerging global qualities. To deal with these problems, we believe that much critical research on FMs and LLMS would necessitate extensive multidisciplinary collaboration, given their essentially social and technical structure. The International Conference on Foundation and Large Language Models (FLLM) addresses the architectures, applications, challenges, approaches, and future directions. We invite the submission of original papers on all topics related to FLLMs, with special interest in but not limited to: - *Architectures and Systems* - Transformers and Attention - Bidirectional Encoding - Autoregressive Models - Massive GPU Systems - Prompt Engineering - Multimodal LLMs - Fine-tuning - *Challenges* - Hallucination - Cost of Creation and Training - Energy and Sustainability Issues - Integration - Safety and Trustworthiness - Interpretability - Fairness - Social Impact - * Future Directions* - Generative AI - Explainability and EXplainable AI - Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) - Federated Learning for FLLM - Large Language Models Fine-Tuning on Graphs - Data Augmentation - * Natural Language Processing Applications* - Generation - Summarization - Rewrite - Search - Question Answering - Language Comprehension and Complex Reasoning - Clustering and Classification - * Applications* - Natural Language Processing - Communication Systems - Security and Privacy - Image Processing and Computer Vision - Life Sciences - Financial Systems *Submissions Guidelines and Proceedings* Manuscripts should be prepared in 10-point font using the IEEE 8.5" x 11" two-column format. All papers should be in PDF format, and submitted electronically at Paper Submission Link. A full paper can be up to 8 pages (including all figures, tables and references). Submitted papers must present original unpublished research that is not currently under review for any other conference or journal. Papers not following these guidelines may be rejected without review. Also submissions received after the due date, exceeding length limit, or not appropriately structured may also not be considered. Authors may contact the Program Chair for further information or clarification. All submissions are peer-reviewed by at least three reviewers. Accepted papers will appear in the FLLM Proceeding, and be published by the IEEE Computer Society Conference Publishing Services and be submitted to IEEE Xplore for inclusion. Submitted papers must include original work, and must not be under consideration for another conference or journal. 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Submission Form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfZLMVluXE-HWnV9lNP00LuBi3e9HFOeLi30p9tsHUViWpqrA/viewform?usp=sf_link Competition Website: https://cs.gmu.edu/~xiao/Research/BARN_Challenge/BARN_Challenge24.html Participation Instructions: https://github.com/Daffan/nav-competition-icra2022 Lessons Learned from The BARN Challenge 2023: https://cs.gmu.edu/~xiao/papers/barn23_report.pdf Lessons Learned from The BARN Challenge 2022: https://cs.gmu.edu/~xiao/papers/barn22_report.pdf Dear roboticists, are you interested in agile robot navigation in highly constrained spaces with a lot of obstacles around, e.g., cluttered households or after-disaster scenarios? Do you think mobile robot navigation is mostly a solved problem? Are you looking for a hands-on project for your robotics class, but may not have (sufficient) robot platforms for your students? If your answer is yes to any of the above questions, we sincerely invite you to participate in our (3rd) ICRA 2024 BARN Challenge (https://cs.gmu.edu/~xiao/Research/BARN_Challenge/BARN_Challenge24.html)! The BARN Challenge aims at evaluating state-of-the-art autonomous navigation systems to move robots through highly constrained environments in a safe and efficient manner. The task is to navigate a standardized Clearpath Jackal robot from a predefined start to a goal location as quickly as possible without any collision. The challenge will take place both in the simulated BARN dataset and in physical obstacle courses at ICRA2024. 1. The competition task is designing ground navigation systems to navigate through all 300 BARN environments (https://cs.gmu.edu/~xiao/Research/BARN/BARN.html) and physical obstacle courses constructed at ICRA2024 as fast as possible without collision. 2. The 300 BARN environments can be the training set for learning-based methods, or to design classical approaches in. During the simulation competition, we will generate another 50 unseen environments unavailable to the participants before the competition. 3. We will standardize a Jackal robot in the Gazebo simulation, including a Hokuyo 2D LiDAR, motor controller of 2m/s max speed, etc. 4. Participants can use any approaches to tackle the navigation problem, such as using classical sampling-based or optimization-based planners, end-to-end learning, or hybrid approaches. We will provide baselines for reference. 5. A standardized scoring system is provided on the website. 6. We will invite the top teams in simulation to compete in the real world. The team who achieves the fastest collision-free navigation in the physical obstacle courses wins. If you are interested in participating, please submit your navigation system at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfZLMVluXE-HWnV9lNP00LuBi3e9HFOeLi30p9tsHUViWpqrA/viewform?usp=sf_link Co-Organizers: Xuesu Xiao (George Mason University) Zifan Xu (UT Austin) Garrett Warnell (US Army Research Lab / UT Austin) Peter Stone (UT Austin / Sony AI) Sponsor: Clearpath Robotics, https://clearpathrobotics.com/ Thanks Xuesu ----------------------- Xuesu Xiao, Ph.D. -- Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science George Mason University xiao at gmu.edu https://cs.gmu.edu/~xiao/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From hlinka at cs.cas.cz Tue Mar 19 05:54:22 2024 From: hlinka at cs.cas.cz (Jaroslav Hlinka) Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2024 10:54:22 +0100 Subject: Connectionists: Postdoc/Junior researcher positions in Computational Neuroscience within the BRADY project Message-ID: *Postdoc/Junior researcher positions in Computational Neuroscience within the BRADY project* Several postdoctoral positions are available in the *Complex Networks and Brain Dynamics group (COBRA) at the Institute of Computer Science, Prague (Czech Republic)*. These positions are part of a larger, interdisciplinary consortium project that has recently been awarded (OPJAK BRADY). The project topics include: *Topic 1*: Detailed biophysical modelling of neurotransmitter action (supervised by Pavel Sanda). *Topic 2*: Computationally efficient mean-field models of cortical microcircuits (supervised by Helmut Schmidt). *Topic 3*: Whole-brain dynamics with applications particularly to schizophrenia and Parkinson's disease (supervised by Gustavo Deco). *Topic 4*: Data-driven model inversion and personalized parameter identification (supervised by Nikola Jajcay). *Topic 5*: Modelling interventions into arousal dynamics (supervised by Jaroslav Hlinka). Other related topics may be considered based on their fit to the overall project. Further information can be found here: https://cobra.cs.cas.cz/brady. 1. Conditions * Positions are available from 01. 03. 2024 or as negotiated thereafter. * Contract is for 12-36 months duration. * Possibility of extension until end of project (30.6.2028), support for transition to tenure-track or external funding applications. * Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis, until the positions are filled. * This is a full-time fixed term contract appointment. Part time contract negotiable. * Competitive monthly gross salary: 50 000 - 66 000 CZK based on qualifications and experience (net salary approx. 40 000 - 52 000 CZK). _Cost Of Living Comparison _ * Bonuses and travel funding for conferences and research stays depending on performance. * No teaching duties. * Applicants should: 1. Hold a PhD; up to 7 years from PhD defense at the start of employment. 2. Have a strong background in the fields related to computational neuroscience - mathematical, statistical skills, experience with data analysis, machine learning, computer programming (the exact combination depends on the particular topic, see above). 3. Be fluent in English. * *We seek curious, self-motivated, hard-working, team-spirited researchers.* * *Prior experience with time series and network analysis is advantageous, but not required. * * The applications are to be sent to bradyadmin at cs.cas.cz and should contain: 1. Curriculum Vitae. 2. Two letters of recommendation. The referees should send their recommendations directly to bradyadmin at cs.cas.cz. 3. A proof of the obtained degree. 4. Mention the *Ref. No. 2024/4*. *Do not hesitate to contact the project Scientific Coordinator for informal inquiries: Ing. Mgr. 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IEEE CoG 2024 will take place at Politecnico di Milano, which is located in Milan, Italy. We invite the submission of *short* and *demo* papers related to all game aspects (for more info visit https://2024.ieee-cog.org/call-proposals/#cfp). *Short* papers (2-4 pages) describe work in progress, smaller projects that are not yet ready to be published as a full paper, or new progress on projects that have been reported elsewhere. *Demo* papers (2 pages) describe works to be presented during a demo session. All page limits include references and appendices. Finally, don't miss the opportunity to engage further with CoG 2024 through our *Workshops* and *Competitions*. *** Important Dates *** Auxiliary papers submission: April 28, 2024 Auxiliary papers acceptance notification: May 28, 2024 Papers camera ready: June 7, 2024 Early bird and (author) registration: June 7, 2024 All deadlines are Anytime on Earth (AoE). *** Submission Instructions *** Papers must be submitted through the conference submission system available at the following link: https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/CoG2024 All paper submissions should follow the recommended IEEE conference author guidelines. MS Word and LaTeX templates can be found at: https://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html All submitted papers will be fully peer-reviewed, and accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings and on IEEE Xplore. CoG will use a *double-blind review process*. Authors must omit their names and affiliations from their submissions, avoiding obvious identifying statements. Submissions not abiding by anonymity requirements will be desk rejected. Short papers might be allocated to either poster presentations or short oral presentations if time and space permit. Demo papers will be allocated to a demo session. *** Competitions at CoG 2024 *** IEEE CoG 2024 will have a rich program of competitions. Please visit https://2024.ieee-cog.org/competitions/ for a detailed list and description. *** Workshops at CoG 2024 *** Two workshops will be held during IEEE CoG 2024: - Computer Vision and Games, which aims to bridge the existing gaps between computer vision research and games engineering. - Human-AI Interaction through Play, which will explore the questions around human-AI cooperation through play. 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Even in the medical field, researchers have proposed and continue to propose the use of generative AI for various tasks. Patient records are hard to come by, medical data available to researchers are often few, unbalanced and incomplete. These types of problems can be addressed by using generative models for data augmentation. Generative AI is also the basis of modern chatbots, which can prove to be a useful support tool in the medical field. Other fields where the use of Generative AI is becoming more widespread are medical image reconstructions and enhancements, which for example can be resolution enhancement, noise reduction, occlusion removal, and more in medical images. An important issue for high-risk problems, such as the medical field, is the need to develop and use explainable AI models at the expense of black-box models; Generative AI models are not exempt from this obligation. The goal of this special session is to give researchers an opportunity to present and discuss their work proposing the use of generative AI for medical and health applications, while also providing some food for thought for future research directions. TOPICS (but are not limited to): ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - Data Augmentation with Generative Models - Explainability and Interpretability in Generative AI - Generative Natural Language Models for Clinical Decision Support - Super Resolution, Colorization and Inpainting in Medical Imaging - Reconstruction and Denoising of Medical Resonance Images (MRI) or Computed Tomography (CT) - Generative AI for Patient Data Sharing Problems - Image segmentation in Medical Imaging - Weakly supervised approaches in Generative AI for Medical Systems - Image translation and domain adaptation of Medical Imaging - Image reconstruction from Medical instruments - Anomaly Detection in Medical Imaging using Generative AI - Issues and Challenges in Generative AI for Medical and Healthcare System - Generative AI for real-world Healthcare scenarios IMPORTANT DATES: ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ? Submission deadline: March 30, 2024 ? Notification of paper acceptance: April 30, 2024 ? Submission of camera-ready papers: May 15, 2024 ? Registration: May 15, 2024 PAPER SUBMISSION: ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Manuscripts should describe original work and should be no more than 7 pages for full papers and 4 pages for short papers in the IEEE double-column proceedings format, including tables, figures and references. In order to download manuscript templates for IEEE conference proceedings use the following link: https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html Papers can be submitted directly to EDAS: https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=32272&track=123861 Note that accepted papers up to 6 pages will be published with no additional charge. Exceeding pages will be charged an additional fee. Papers exceeding 7 pages will not be accepted. At least one author of each accepted paper is required to register to the conference and present the paper. Only registered and presented papers will be published in the conference proceedings. The SS-GAIMHS 2024 special session is part of the main ICTS4eHealth conference, and accepted papers will be included in the proceedings of ISCC 2024, of which the ICTS4eHealth conference is a concurrent event, and will be submitted for inclusion in IEEE Xplore. The proceedings of ICTSeHealth and ISCC have been indexed in the past by ISI, DBLP, and Scopus. BEST PAPER AWARD: ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A "Best Paper Award" Certificate will be conferred on the author(s) of a paper presented at the conference, selected by the Chairs based on scientific significance, originality and outstanding technical quality of the paper, as assessed also by the evaluations of the members of the Program Committee. 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Recent technologies allow detailed mapping of these irregularities, but our understanding of their effect on the overall circuit dynamics is still lacking. By developing complex system analytical tools that perform reduction of the network, I determine the impact of connectivity features on network dynamics. I will demonstrate the use of these tools on neural assemblies (clusters), a ubiquitous non-uniform structure in our brains. I will show how neural assemblies of different sizes naturally generate multiple timescales of activity spanning several orders of magnitude. I will demonstrate how the analytical theory we develop for rate networks, supported by spiking network simulations, reveals the dependency between neural timescales and assembly sizes and how new recordings of spontaneous activity from a million neurons support this analysis. I will also show how our model can naturally explain the particular long-tailed timescale distribution observed in the awake primate cortex. In olfactory cortex, neural assemblies represent odor stimuli. Previously, I showed how the diffuse recurrent excitation among these assemblies allows the conversion of time-encoded inputs from the bulb to spacial neural assembly representations in olfactory cortex. Here, I will show how changes in the dynamical properties of these assemblies alter both their timing response and properties of the time-encoded inputs via feedback. This demonstrates the role of neural assemblies in time-sensitive modulation needed for cognitive tasks, such as attention. Our results offer a biologically plausible mechanism of assemblies in network connectivity for explaining multiple puzzling dynamical phenomena: The ability of neural circuits to transform external simultaneous temporal fluctuations into spatial representations and alter them; and the ability of neuronal circuits to generate simultaneous temporal fluctuations across a large range of timescales. *About VVTNS : Created as the World Wide Neuroscience Seminar (WWTNS) in November 2020 and renamed in homage to Carl van Vreeswijk in Memoriam (April 20, 2022), its aim is to be a platform to exchange ideas among theoreticians. Speakers have the occasion to talk about theoretical aspects of their work which cannot be discussed in a setting where the majority of the audience consists of experimentalists. The seminars, **held on Wednesdays at 11 am ET,** are 45-50 min long followed by a discussion. The talks are recorded with authorization of the speaker and are available to everybody on our YouTube channel.* -- 'Life is good ..' (Carl van Vreeswijk, 1962-2022) --------------------------------------- David Hansel Directeur de Recherche au CNRS Co-Group leader Cerebral Dynamics Plasticity and Learning lab., CNRS 45 rue des Saints P?res 75270 Paris Cedex 06 Tel (Cell): +33 607508403 - Fax (33).1.49.27.90.62 ? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: VVTNS.png Type: image/png Size: 41084 bytes Desc: not available URL: From interdonatos at gmail.com Tue Mar 19 12:20:21 2024 From: interdonatos at gmail.com (Roberto Interdonato) Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2024 17:20:21 +0100 Subject: Connectionists: CfP - ASONAM 2024 - The 16th Intl. Conf. on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining Message-ID: Call for Contributions The 16th International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining - ASONAM 2024 https://asonam.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/ University of Calabria, Rende (CS), Italy, September 02-05, 2024. KEY DATES (all at 23:59 AoE): - Paper submission deadline (all but workshops): April 15 - Paper notification (all but workshops): June 19 - Camera ready due (all but workshops): July 11 - Workshop proposals submission deadline: March 20 - Workshop proposals notification: April 10 - Workshop paper submission deadline: June 10 - Workshop paper notification: July 10 - Workshop paper camera ready due: July 18 - Tutorial day: September 2 - Conference and Tracks days: September 2-5 The 16th International Conference on Advances in Social Network Analysis and Mining (ASONAM) provides an interdisciplinary forum to bring together researchers and practitioners from all fields related to Social Networking Analysis and Mining. The conference is a venue for presenting original research results, as well as discussing and disseminating innovative and practical development experiences. ASONAM 2024 seeks to address important problems through the scientific investigation of socio-technical systems, the development of fundamental technologies, and the study of emerging applications associated with social networking analysis and mining. To fully embrace the fast-growing and vigorously dynamic landscape of social networks and their applications, ASONAM is eager to consider any breakthroughs in social network analysis and mining in the broadest possible sense. General areas of interest include three major aspects: - Social and media analysis (e.g., data science, communications, economics, sociology, psychology, anthropology, applied linguistics, etc.) - Network science (e.g., mathematical models, theory, algorithms, etc.) - Machine Learning and AI applied to social networks (e.g., graph neural networks, representation learning, etc.) - Technology and applications (e.g., systems, tools, crowdsourcing, etc.) We welcome submissions on different tracks: - Research Track ( https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=researchtasonam2024): original research work within the scope of the conference. - Industrial Track ( https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=industrialtasonam2024): contributions showcasing original results obtained in an industrial environment or having clear industry relevance. - Exhibits and Demos ( https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=demostasonam2024): novel research prototypes or operational systems. - PhD Forum and Posters Track ( https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=phdtasonam2024): work-in-progress led by PhD students. 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Whether you're a student eager to dive into cutting-edge topics or a seasoned researcher looking to contribute as a Teaching Assistant, we have opportunities tailored for you. *3-week Courses (July 8-26, 2024):* - *Computational Neuroscience:* Explore the intricacies of the brain's computational processes and join an engaging community of learners. - *Deep Learning:* Delve into the world of artificial intelligence to uncover the principles and applications of deep learning. *2-week Courses (July 15-26, 2024):* - *Computational Tools for Climate Science:* Uncover the tools and techniques driving climate science research in this dynamic two-week course. - *NeuroAI (Inaugural Year!):* Be part of history as we launch our first-ever NeuroAI course, designed to explore the intersection of neuroscience and artificial intelligence. *Key Dates:* - *Student & TA Applications Close:* Sunday, March 24th, midnight in the last time zone on Earth *Application Link:* Apply on Neuromatch Academy *Additional Information:* - All courses will be conducted exclusively online, providing flexibility and accessibility. - Detailed information about course fees can be found here . - Teaching Assistants will lead small groups of students, fostering collaborative learning. - TA positions offer financial compensation; detailed rates can be found here . Don't miss out on this incredible opportunity to expand your knowledge, connect with experts in the field, and contribute to the success of our courses. Apply today and join us on a journey of discovery! Should you have any questions or need further information, feel free to reach out to us. We look forward to welcoming you to the Neuromatch Academy family! Best regards, -- Brad Wyble (he/him) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From J.Spencer at uea.ac.uk Tue Mar 19 12:36:32 2024 From: J.Spencer at uea.ac.uk (John Spencer (PSY - Staff)) Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2024 16:36:32 +0000 Subject: Connectionists: Lecturer / Assistant Professor posts at UEA... Message-ID: <10F45686-BDEC-41C9-B7AB-74A8F8064C86@uea.ac.uk> Greetings, The School of Psychology at the University of East Anglia has two lecturer / assistant professor posts available. Applications are due by April 12. We welcome applications in all areas of neuroscience ? come join our outstanding faculty! We have great resources here at UEA (fNIRS, EEG, MRI, TMS, virtual reality, EyeLink 1000+, Tobii eye-trackers, mobile eye-trackers), including the newly established UEA Wellcome-Wolfson Brain Imaging Centre. If you have any questions, feel free to email me. Details can be found here: https://vacancies.uea.ac.uk/vacancies/797/lecturer-in-psychology-2-posts--atr1682.html Cheers, John John P. 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Topics include but are not limited to: Explainable Machine Learning, Dimensionality Reduction, Visualisation of Clustering, Regression, and Classification, Steerable Machine Learning, Visualisation to Improve Machine Learning Models, Automation of Visualisation and Visual Analytics, Visualisation and Machine Learning in Text Analytics, Visualisation in Online Machine Learning Submission deadline: April 19, 2023 More details: https://events.tuni.fi/mlvis/mlvis2023/ -- Professor Ian Nabney Associate Dean for the Faculty of Science and Engineering Merchant Venturers Building Woodland Road Bristol BS8 1UB Personal messages and calendar bookings should use ian.nabney at bristol.ac.uk Teams: ian.nabney at bristol.ac.uk PA: Fed Ishak Mekhail pa-pvc-scieng at bristol.ac.uk Phone: +44 117 455 1641 I sometimes work at irregular times to suit my personal pattern of working. If this email arrives out of normal working hours, please note I do not expect a reply. 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See details in: https://www.i-aida.org/events/predicting-classifier-accuracy-in-the-wild/ *Location* The seminar will be delivered online via *zoom: * https://authgr.zoom.us/j/99055728781?pwd=QS9IcmhVbUdYMVpCMjU4MnByb01adz09 Meeting ID: 990 5572 8781 Passcode: 405011 The *International AI Doctoral Academy (AIDA) *, a joint initiative of the European R&D projects AI4Media , ELISE , Humane AI Net , *TAILOR **, *VISION , is very pleased to offer you top quality scientific lectures in the framework of AIDA AI Excellence Lecture Series on several current hot AI topics. Lectures will be offered alternatingly by: - Top highly-cited senior AI scientists internationally or - Young AI scientists with promise of excellence (AI sprint lectures) These lectures are disseminated through multiple channels and email lists (we apologize if you received it through various channels). If you want to stay informed on future lectures, you can register in the email lists AIDA email list and CVML email list . 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The zoom link for this seminar is https://utc-fr.zoom.us/j/86044393366 For this new seminar, we are very happy to have Barbara Vantaggi as our speaker. Barbara Vantage is a Full Professor of Mathematical Methods of Economics, Finance and Actuarial Sciences at the University La Sapienza, Roma. She is well-known for her many contributions to the foundations of (imprecise) probabilistic reasoning under coherence, decision making under uncertainty and their development to financial applications. On the 26th of March at 15:00 CEST:paris time (up to 17:00 CEST, with a talk duration of 45min/1h), she will talk about "A dynamic Choquet pricing rule with bid-ask spreads under Dempster?Shafer uncertainty?, showing how imprecise probabilistic approaches can be useful in financial mathematics. Curious? Then check out the abstract on the webpage of the SIPTA seminars: sipta.org/events/sipta-seminars. The zoom link for attending the seminar can be found on that same page, where you will also find announcements of our next seminars. So please mark your calendars on the 26th of March, and join us for the occasion. And for those who missed the previous seminar and want to catch up, or simply want to see it again and again, it is online at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LG4trFXC53g See you at the seminar! S?bastien, Enrique and Jasper From sebastien.destercke at hds.utc.fr Wed Mar 20 11:33:36 2024 From: sebastien.destercke at hds.utc.fr (sdesterc) Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2024 16:33:36 +0100 Subject: Connectionists: ISIPTA seminar: errata (Babara Vantaggi, 26th March) Message-ID: <886C88AB-AF2B-4757-83E6-4904ECEB66E7@hds.utc.fr> Dear Colleagues, You will probably have corrected this yourself, but due to an autocorrect function and my own impatience to announce the seminar, there was a mistake in the title date and in the name of our esteemed speaker. This is, and will be a talk by Barbara Vantaggi, on the 26th of March, at 3pm Paris time. Best regards, and sorry for any incovenience. S?bastien From henry.evrard at tuebingen.mpg.de Wed Mar 20 11:52:55 2024 From: henry.evrard at tuebingen.mpg.de (Evrard, Henry) Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2024 15:52:55 +0000 Subject: Connectionists: ICPBR Summer School in Non-Human Primate Systems Neuroscience (Sept 9-15, 2024) Message-ID: <3A668930-FCF3-4AEC-89F9-B6B4B1176B8A@tuebingen.mpg.de> Dear all, The International Center for Primate Brain Research (ICPBR), directed by Nikos Logothetis and Mu-Ming Poo, proudly announces the ICPBR Summer School in Non-Human Primate Systems Neuroscience, to take place in Shanghai, China, September 9-15, 2024. For more information on the school, see the poster below and visit: https://www.icpbr.ac.cn/ICPBR_School/home/. Please share this announcement broadly among students, postdocs, colleagues, and friends! 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We solicit short papers on machine learning methods in visualisation from both the machine learning and visualisation communities, addressing how the two technologies can be used together to provide greater insight to end users. Topics include but are not limited to: Explainable Machine Learning, Dimensionality Reduction, Visualisation of Clustering, Regression, and Classification, Steerable Machine Learning, Visualisation to Improve Machine Learning Models, Automation of Visualisation and Visual Analytics, Visualisation and Machine Learning in Text Analytics, Visualisation in Online Machine Learning Submission deadline: April 3, 2024 More details: https://events.tuni.fi/mlvis/mlvis2024/ -- Professor Ian Nabney Associate Dean for the Faculty of Science and Engineering Merchant Venturers Building Woodland Road Bristol BS8 1UB Personal messages and calendar bookings should use ian.nabney at bristol.ac.uk Teams: ian.nabney at bristol.ac.uk PA: Fed Ishak Mekhail pa-pvc-scieng at bristol.ac.uk Phone: +44 117 455 1641 I sometimes work at irregular times to suit my personal pattern of working. If this email arrives out of normal working hours, please note I do not expect a reply. [cid:image001.png at 01DA7B65.EA763660] From: Ian Nabney Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2024 9:20 AM To: connectionists at mailman.srv.cs.cmu.edu Subject: Call for papers: MLVis 2023, Machine Learning Methods in Visualisation Machine Learning Methods in Visualisation will be held as part of EuroVis 2023 in Leipzig, Germany. The eighth edition of this co-located event will be part-tutorial and part-workshop so as to increase the interaction between researchers. Part of the MLVis 2023 programme will consist of short papers. We solicit short papers on machine learning methods in visualisation from both the machine learning and visualisation communities, addressing how the two technologies can be used together to provide greater insight to end users. Topics include but are not limited to: Explainable Machine Learning, Dimensionality Reduction, Visualisation of Clustering, Regression, and Classification, Steerable Machine Learning, Visualisation to Improve Machine Learning Models, Automation of Visualisation and Visual Analytics, Visualisation and Machine Learning in Text Analytics, Visualisation in Online Machine Learning Submission deadline: April 19, 2023 More details: https://events.tuni.fi/mlvis/mlvis2023/ -- Professor Ian Nabney Associate Dean for the Faculty of Science and Engineering Merchant Venturers Building Woodland Road Bristol BS8 1UB Personal messages and calendar bookings should use ian.nabney at bristol.ac.uk Teams: ian.nabney at bristol.ac.uk PA: Fed Ishak Mekhail pa-pvc-scieng at bristol.ac.uk Phone: +44 117 455 1641 I sometimes work at irregular times to suit my personal pattern of working. If this email arrives out of normal working hours, please note I do not expect a reply. 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Postdoctoral research fellow position within Logic and Artificial Intelligence: https://lnkd.in/gHsy-F34 Application deadline is 21st May 2024. MediaFutures: Research Centre for Responsible Media Technology & Innovation Det samfunnsvitenskapelige fakultet, UiB Samfunnsfag Universitetet i Bergen Media City Bergen / NCE Media Please contact Associate Professor Duc-Tien Dang-Nguyen (ductien. dangnguyen at uib.no) for more information From epiasini at sissa.it Thu Mar 21 08:05:45 2024 From: epiasini at sissa.it (Eugenio Piasini) Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2024 12:05:45 +0000 Subject: Connectionists: Multiple tenure-track openings in Neuroscience at SISSA, Trieste (Italy) Message-ID: The Neuroscience Department of the International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA; https://www.sissa.it/research/neuroscience ) invites expressions of interest from scientists from various fields of Neuroscience for multiple tenure-track positions with anticipated start in 2025. Ongoing neuroscience research at SISSA includes cognitive neuroscience, computational and theoretical neuroscience, systems neuroscience, molecular and cellular research as well as genomics and genetics. The Department intends to potentiate its activities in these fields and to strengthen cross-field interactions. Expressions of interest from scientists in any of these fields are welcome. The working and teaching language of SISSA is English. This is an equal opportunity career initiative and we encourage applications from qualified women, racial and ethnic minorities, and persons with disabilities. Candidates should have a PhD in a relevant field and a proven record of research achievements. A clear potential to promote and lead research activities, and a specific interest in training and supervising PhD students is essential. Interested colleagues should present an original and innovative plan for their independent future research. We encourage both proposals within existing fields at SISSA as well as novel ideas outside of those or spanning various topics and methodologies of Neuroscience. SISSA is an international school promoting basic and applied research in Neuroscience, Mathematics and Physics and dedicated to the training of PhD students. Lab space and other resources will be commensurate with the appointment. Shared facilities include cell culture rooms, viral vector facilities, confocal microscopes, animal facilities, molecular and biochemical facilities, human cognition labs with EEG, TMS, and eye tracking systems, mechatronics workshop, and computing facilities. Agreements with national and international MRI scanning facilities are also in place. SISSA encourages fruitful exchanges between neuroscientists and other researchers including data scientists, physicists and mathematicians. Interested colleagues are invited to send a single pdf file including a full CV, a brief description of past and future research interests (up to 1,000 words), and the names of three referees to neuro.search at sissa.it . Selected candidates will be invited for an online or in-person seminar and 1-on-1 meetings in summer/autumn 2024. Deadline: A first evaluation round will consider all applications submitted before 15 May 2024. Later applications might be considered if no suitable candidates have been identified yet. From maria.andreina.francisco at it.uu.se Thu Mar 21 10:17:01 2024 From: maria.andreina.francisco at it.uu.se (Maria Andreina Francisco Rodriguez) Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2024 14:17:01 +0000 Subject: Connectionists: Call for Participation: CPAIOR 2024 Message-ID: CPAIOR 2024 ? the 21st International Conference on the Integration of Constraint Programming (CP), Artificial Intelligence (AI), and Operations Research (OR) ? will be held in Uppsala, Sweden, from Tuesday 28 May to Friday 31 May 2024. Conference website: https://sites.google.com/view/cpaior2024 The programme includes: - a Master Class on Quantum Computing for CP, AI, and OR - a reception on Tuesday, 28 May 2024 - a keynote talk by Elina R?nnberg (Link?ping University, Sweden) - a keynote talk by Tias Guns (KU Leuven, Belgium) - a keynote talk by Giacomo Nannicini (University of Southern California, USA) - presentations of 42 accepted peer-reviewed papers - two poster sessions for extended abstracts - a banquet on Thursday, 30 May 2024 Registration is now open: https://sites.google.com/view/cpaior2024/registration - Early-bird registration deadline: Monday 15 April 2024 (midnight CEST) - Late registration deadline: Tuesday 14 May 2024 (midnight CEST) - On-site registration: only by credit card, with no guarantee of included meals Accommodation: Rooms have been pre-booked at several hotels in Uppsala for the period from Monday 27 May to Saturday 1 June 2024. For more details, see the accommodation page: https://sites.google.com/view/cpaior2024/accommodation?? Visa support: Invitation letters for visa purposes may be requested by email to reg.CPAIOR2024 at akademikonferens.se and are available only for the registered participants who have paid the registration fee. We look forward to welcoming you to Uppsala! Sincerely, the organisers -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: smime.p7s Type: application/pkcs7-signature Size: 4728 bytes Desc: not available URL: From tarek.besold at googlemail.com Thu Mar 21 17:50:24 2024 From: tarek.besold at googlemail.com (Tarek R. Besold) Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2024 22:50:24 +0100 Subject: Connectionists: Extended submission deadlines: 18th Intl. Conference on Neural-Symbolic Learning and Reasoning (NeSy 2024) Message-ID: 18th International Conference on Neural-Symbolic Learning and Reasoning (NeSy 2024) ===== TL;DR ===== Dates: September 9-12, 2024 Location: Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain Website: https://sites.google.com/view/nesy2024 Full paper abstract submission (extended): April 21, 2024 Full paper manuscript submission (extended): April 26, 2024 Late/short paper submission (extended): May 12, 2024 ===== NeSy 2024 ===== Following the almost 20 years of success of NeSy, the series of International Workshops on Neural-Symbolic Learning and Reasoning (http://www.neural-symbolic.org), in 2024 NeSy will return as the 18th International Conference on Neural-Symbolic Learning and Reasoning (NeSy 2024), held in Barcelona (Catalonia, Spain) from September 9-12, 2024. NeSy continues to be the premier annual meeting point of the research community working on neurosymbolic integration, combining symbolic and subsymbolic approaches to learning and reasoning in AI systems. In 2024, NeSy hosts special tracks on Explainable AI and Generative AI. See the conference website (https://sites.google.com/view/nesy2024) for details. ===== Relevant Dates ===== Full paper abstract deadline: April 21, 2024 Full paper submission: April 26, 2024 Author notification: June 7, 2024 Camera-ready papers: June 21, 2024 Late/short paper submission: May 12, 2024 Author notifications: June 14, 2024 Camera-ready papers: June 21, 2024 ===== Proceedings ===== The proceedings of NeSy 2024 will be published by Springer LNCS. See the conference website (https://sites.google.com/view/nesy2024) for detailed formatting and submission instructions. ===== Organizing Committee ===== General/Local Chair: + Tarek R. Besold (Sony AI, Barcelona) Program Chairs: + Ernesto Jimenez Ruiz (City, University of London) + Artur d'Avila Garcez (City, University of London) + Tarek R. Besold (Sony AI, Barcelona) Explainable AI Special Track Chairs: + Benedikt Wagner (City, University of London) + Roberto Confalonieri (University of Padova) Generative AI Special Track Chair: + Pranava Madhyastha (City, University of London) From info at icas.cc Thu Mar 21 11:53:09 2024 From: info at icas.cc (ICAS Organizing Committee) Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2024 16:53:09 +0100 Subject: Connectionists: Call for Participation & Papers - ACAIN 2024 - 4th Int. Advanced Course & Symposium on Artificial Intelligence & Neuroscience, September 22-25 2024, Riva del Sole Resort & SPA, Castiglione della Pescaia (Grosseto) Tuscany, Italy -> Deadline: March 23 Message-ID: Call for Participation & Call for Papers (apologies for multiple copies) ________________________________________________________________________ The 4th International Advanced Course & Symposium on Artificial Intelligence & Neuroscience, September 22-25, 2024, Riva del Sole Resort & SPA, Castiglione della Pescaia (Grosseto) Tuscany, Italy W: https://acain2024.icas.events E: acain at icas.cc FB: https://www.facebook.com/ACAIN.LakeDistrict/ Symposium Deadlines Paper Submission (Symposium): by Saturday March 23, 2024 (AoE). https://acain2024.icas.events/symposium-call-for-papers/ https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=acain2024 Notification of Decision for Papers (Symposium): by Wednesday July 10, 2024. Camera Ready Submission (Symposium): by Monday July 20, 2024. Author Registration (Symposium): by July 20, 2024. Regular Registration (Symposium): by Saturday March 23, 2024. Late Registration (Symposium): from Sunday March 24, 2024. Course Deadlines Regular Registration (Course): by Saturday March 23, 2024. https://acain2024.icas.events/registration/ Late Registration (Course): from Sunday March 24, 2024. Oral Presentation Submission (Course): by Saturday March 23, 2024. Notification of Decision for Oral Presentation (Course): by August 31, 2024. SCOPE & MOTIVATION: ACAIN 2024: AI meets Computational Neuroscience and Cognitive Science The ACAIN 2024 symposium and course is an interdisciplinary event featuring leading scientists from AI and Neuroscience, providing a special opportunity to learn about cutting-edge research in the fields of AI, Neuroscience, Neuroscience-Inspired AI, Human-Level AI, and Cognitive Science. The 4th Advanced Course and Symposium on Artificial Intelligence & Neuroscience (ACAIN) is a full-immersion four-day Course and Symposium in Tuscany on cutting-edge advances in Artificial Intelligence and Neuroscience with lectures delivered by world-renowned experts. The Course provides a stimulating environment for academics, early career researchers, Post-Docs, PhD students and industry leaders. Participants will also have the chance to present their results with oral talks or posters, and to interact with their colleagues, in a convivial and productive environment. Two days of keynote talks and oral presentations, the ACAIN Symposium, (September 24-25), will be preceded by lectures of leading scientists, the ACAIN Course, (September 22-23). Bringing together AI and neuroscience promises to yield benefits for both fields. The future impact and progress in both AI and Neuroscience will strongly depend on continuous synergy, exchange, collaboration and efficient cooperation between the two research communities. These are the goals of the International Course and Symposium - ACAIN 2024, which is aimed both at AI experts with interests in Neuroscience and at neuroscientists with an interest in AI. ACAIN 2024 accepts rigorous research that promotes and fosters multidisciplinary interactions between artificial intelligence and neuroscience. The Advanced Course is suited for scholars, academics, early career researchers, Post-Docs, PhD students and industry leaders. The Event (Course and Symposium) will involve a total of 36-40 hours of lectures. Academically, this will be equivalent to 8 ECTS points for the PhD Students and the Master Students attending the Event. LECTURERS https://acain2024.icas.events/course-lecturers/ * Maria Eckstein, Google DeepMind, London, UK * Auke Jan Ijspeert, EPFL, Switzerland * Zeb Kurth-Nelson, Google DeepMind & UCL, London, UK * Loic Matthey, Google DeepMind, London, UK * Kevin J. Miller, DeepMind & UCL, London, UK * Thomas Parr, Oxford University, UK * Melika Payvand, Institute of Neuroinformatics, University of Zurich & ETH Zurich, Switzerland * Alessandro Treves, International School for Advanced Studies, Italy More Lecturers TBA COURSE DESCRIPTION: https://acain2024.icas.events/course-description/ SYMPOSIUM CALL FOR PAPERS: https://acain2024.icas.events/symposium-call-for-papers/ SYMPOSIUM PROGRAM COMMITTEE (partial list, confirmed members): https://acain2024.icas.events/program-committee/ ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: https://acain2024.icas.events/symposium-committee/ VENUE & ACCOMMODATION: https://acain2024.icas.events/venue/ ACAIN 2024 is a *Residential Conference*, all participants (invited speakers, authors, organizers, chairs, participants) must book and stay at the Riva del Sole Resort and Spa. No exceptions are allowed. https://lod2024.icas.events/lod-2024-a-residential-conference/ Riva del Sole Resort & SPA a: Localit? Riva del Sole - Castiglione della Pescaia (Grosseto) CAP 58043, Tuscany - Italy p: +39-0564-928111 f: +39-0564-935607 e: booking.events at rivadelsole.it w: www.rivadelsole.it/en ACTIVITIES: https://acain2024.icas.events/activities/ REGISTRATION: https://acain2024.icas.events/registration/ See you in Tuscany in September! ACAIN 2024 Organizing Committee. E: acain at icas.cc W: https://acain2024.icas.events FB: https://www.facebook.com/ACAIN.LakeDistrict -- *7th Advanced Course on Data Science & Machine Learning - ACDL 2024,* 10-14 June Riva del Sole Resort & SPA, Castiglione della Pescaia (Grosseto) ? Tuscany, Italy An Interdisciplinary Course: Big Data, Deep Learning & AI without Borders *Early Registration: by February 23, 2024 (AoE)* The Course is equivalent to 8 ECTS points for the PhD Students and the Master Students attending the Course. https://acdl2024.icas.events/ *10th International Conference on Learning, Optimization and Data ? 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URL: From fabio.bellavia at unipa.it Fri Mar 22 08:25:44 2024 From: fabio.bellavia at unipa.it (FABIO BELLAVIA) Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2024 12:25:44 +0000 Subject: Connectionists: [CfP] 6th Workshop on Image Matching: Local Features & Beyond at CVPR 2024 *DEADLINE IS COMING* Message-ID: apologies for multiple posting, please distribute among interested parties Call for Papers *Image Matching: Local Features & Beyond* *CVPR 2024 Workshop* *Important dates* - *Paper submission deadline*: March 25, 2024 [https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/IMW2024] - Notification to authors: April 11, 2024 - Camera-ready deadline: April 14, 2024 (hard deadline on April 14) - Workshop date: TBC (June 17-18, 2024) (All dates are at 11:59PM, Pacific Time, unless stated otherwise.) *Overview* [https://image-matching-workshop.github.io] We are happy to announce that the Sixth Workshop on Image Matching: Local Features and Beyond will be held at CVPR 2024 in Seattle, USA (June 17-18, exact time TBC). Its goal is to encourage and highlight novel strategies for image matching that deviate from and advance traditional formulations, with a focus on large-scale, wide-baseline matching for 3D reconstruction and pose estimation. This can be achieved by applying new technologies to sparse feature matching, or doing away with keypoints and descriptors entirely, such as with dense solutions. *Challenge* [https://www.kaggle.com/competitions/image-matching-challenge-2024] We will also hold the sixth edition of the Image Matching Challenge (link corresponds to last year's edition), co-located with the workshop. Details will be announced in the coming weeks. *Topics* Workshop topics include (but are not limited to): - Formulations of keypoint extraction and matching pipelines with deep networks. - Application of geometric constraints into the training of deep networks. - Leveraging additional cues such as semantics and mono-depth estimates. - Methods addressing adversarial conditions where current methods fail (weather changes, day versus night, etc.). - Attention mechanisms to match salient image regions. - Integration of differentiable components into 3D reconstruction frameworks. - Connecting local descriptors/image matching with global descriptors/image retrieval. - Matching across different data modalities such as aerial versus ground. - Large-scale evaluation of classical and modern methods for image matching, by means of our open challenge. - New perception devices such as event-based cameras. - Other topics related to image matching, structure from motion, mapping, and relocalization, such as privacy-preserving representations. *Invited speakers* - Noah Snavely, Google Research/Cornell Tech - Juan Tard?s, Universidad de Zaragoza *Paper submission* [https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/IMW2024] We invite paper submissions up to 8 pages, excluding references and acknowledgements. They should use the CVPR template and be submitted to the CMT site. Submissions must contain novel work and will be indexed in IEEE Xplore/CVF. They will receive at least two double-blind reviews. *Organizers* - Fabio Bellavia, University of Palermo - Jiri Matas, Czech Technical University in Prague - Dmytro Mishkin, Czech Technical University in Prague/HOVER Inc. - Luca Morelli, University of Trento/Bruno Kessler Foundation - Fabio Remondino, Bruno Kessler Foundation - Amy Tabb, USDA-ARS-AFRS - Eduard Trulls, Google - Weiwei Sun, University of British Columbia - Kwang Moo Yi, University of British Columbia From sgcardw at sandia.gov Fri Mar 22 16:52:55 2024 From: sgcardw at sandia.gov (Cardwell, Suma George) Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2024 20:52:55 +0000 Subject: Connectionists: NICE 2024-- Early Bird Registration Ends March 25th !! LAST CALL for Abstracts In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Hi everyone, We are pleased to announce that the 11th Neuro-Inspired Computing Elements (NICE) Conference will be held at the Scripps Seaside Forum in La Jolla, California, USA on April 23-26, 2024. Like previous editions, NICE 2024 will focus on the interplay between neural theory, neural algorithms, neuromorphic architectures and hardware, and applications for neural computing technology. NICE aims to involve diverse participation from all over the world and bring together research communities from universities, government, and industry. The AGENDA has been published. Early Bird Registration ends on March 25th! REGISTER SOON! We are also still accepting 'Late Breaking News Abstracts' until March 25th, 12 pm GMT. For details please refer to the attached call. We hope to see you there! Best, Suma G. 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URL: From rcfduarte at gmail.com Sat Mar 23 06:50:46 2024 From: rcfduarte at gmail.com (Renato Duarte) Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2024 10:50:46 +0000 Subject: Connectionists: Postdoc in Computational Social Neuroscience in Coimbra Message-ID: The Center for Neuroscience and Cell Biology of the University of Coimbra ( CNC-UC ) is seeking an enthusiastic PostDoctoral researcher to work at the interface between Behavioral, Systems and Computational Neuroscience. Supported by the European Union's Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation programme, under the project DYNABRAIN , the PostDoctoral fellow will conduct research activities in modelling and simulation of reward-modulated prosocial behavior and decision-making. The position is part of a larger effort to uncover the computational and mechanistic bases of prosociality and empathy at the behavioral and circuit levels and will be co-supervised by Cristina Marquez and Renato Duarte . It offers a great opportunity to work at the interface between experimental data (animal behavior and electrophysiology) and theoretical modelling (emphasis on Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning and neural population dynamics) and to be part of a dynamic, friendly and stimulating research group. Based in Coimbra and Cantanhede and embedded in one of Europe's oldest Universities and a UNESCO World Heritage site , the CNC-UC has a vibrant neuroscience community and the region offers exceptional quality of life. The ideal candidate should hold a PhD degree in Computational / Theoretical Neuroscience, Computer Science or Physics (specialising in Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence or Biophysics) or other strongly analytical fields. Documented experience with Reinforcement Learning algorithms and Artificial Neural Networks is desirable and so is extensive programming and scientific software development experience. 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The goal of CogBooster is to implement a strong and international line of research in Basic Cognitive Science and Cognitive Neuroscience to contribute to the ongoing renewal of the Psychological Sciences in Portugal over the next decade. Positions: As part of this expansion and renewal, we are searching for Post-doctoral applicants with expertise related to the following areas: ? 1 Post-doctoral position in any of the following areas: lexical processing, visual object recognition, reading, or action recognition. ? 1 Post-doctoral position on visual object recognition, in particular on how object knowledge is organized and represented neurally and cognitively, using fMRI (potentially with ultra-high field MRI), and potentially ECoG/sEEG. ? 1 Post-doctoral position on object dimensionality and dimensional mapping, using population receptive field analysis/connective field modeling to work on topics related to the following preprint: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.11.29.568856v1 The selected applicants will work directly with Alfonso Caramazza and Jorge Almeida. They will be based in Coimbra, but will have the opportunity to spend some time at Harvard University, at Alfonso Caramazza?s laboratory. Qualifications: Applicants should be recent graduates ? the date in their PhD diploma should not be before October 2021 (i.e., no more than 3 years from the signing of the contract). They should also have their diploma recognized in Portugal at the time of the signing of the contract (diploma recognition could be requested here). The start date is negotiable (but should be no later than fall 2024). The successful applicant should have a strong record of research for their career level, and meet, or show promise of meeting, the following qualifications: ? Research potential through publications with impact in the field? ? Proficiency in English, both written and spoken (speaking Portuguese is not necessary); ? Good written and spoken communication skills; Offer: The positions do not involve formal teaching. They do involve, however, lab mentoring. The salary is competitive for Portuguese standards ? 1800 euro per month net value. According to Numbeo, 1800 euro in Coimbra correspond to a local purchasing power of about 3230 euro in Paris, 3520 pounds in London (UK), 2685 euro in Brussels, 2385 euro in Rome, 2890 euro in Munich, about 4750 USD in Los Angeles, Boston or Washington, 4830 CAD in Toronto, or 5940 AUD euro in Sydney. The position will be for a maximum of 3 years, renewable every year. About FPCE-UC and Coimbra: The University of Coimbra is a 700-year-old University and is a UNESCO world Heritage site. Coimbra is one of the liveliest university cities in the world, and it is a beautiful city with easy access to beaches and mountains. The Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences has been consistently ranked as the best, or one of the best Psychology Departments in Portugal. In the last decade it has become the leading department in Portugal on Psychological research, holding, for instance the only ERC grants in Psychology in Portugal. FPCE-UC has a major laboratory for Cognitive Science and Cognitive Neuroscience research ? the Proaction Lab. We have access locally to two 3T MRI scanners, and access to one 7T MRI remotely, to tDCS, to a 256 channel EEG, and to a fully set behavioral lab. Application Instructions: All candidates should submit the following documents in English: (1) a curriculum vitae; (2) a motivation letter describing their interest in the position, and their track record; (3) at least two letters of reference submitted before the application deadline. Full consideration will be given to applications received by March 31, 2023. If you are interested in applying for one of the positions or know of any suitable applicants in your network of colleagues and former students who may be suitable for any of the positions, please direct them to the advertisement. 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Aix-Marseille on the topic of "Neural mechanisms of memory-guided behaviour*"* The lecture will be held on zoom on *March 27, 2024*, at *11:00 am EDT * To receive the link: https://www.wwtns.online/register-page *Abstract: *Persistent, stimulus-dependent neuronal activity has been observed in numerous brain areas during tasks that require the temporary maintenance of information. Several competing hypotheses for the neuronal mechanisms underlying persistent activity have been proposed. We have employed data-driven models in conjunction with optogenetic disruptions of neural circuits within memory-guided motor tasks. Our findings revealed a mechanism governed by dynamic attractors, pivotal in sustaining neuronal activity. This mechanism, shaped by time-varying inputs reflecting temporal predictions, is instrumental in regulating the impact of sensory information on the premotor cortex, thereby preserving memory traces from distracting stimuli. We then asked how persistent activity driven by attractor dynamics emerges during motor learning. It has been proposed that activity-dependent synaptic plasticity underpins motor learning, as it can reconfigure network architectures to produce the appropriate neural dynamics for specific behaviors. To verify this hypothesis, we investigated how the mouse premotor cortex acquires specific neural dynamics that govern the planning of movement at different stages of motor learning. We developed network models that replicated the effects of acute manipulations of synaptic plasticity. The models, which display attractor dynamics, also explain flexible behavior after learning has ended. By leveraging the model's predictions, we can formulate testable hypotheses regarding the distinct mechanisms governing movement planning at various stages of the learning process. *About VVTNS : Created as the World Wide Neuroscience Seminar (WWTNS) in November 2020 and renamed in homage to Carl van Vreeswijk in Memoriam (April 20, 2022), its aim is to be a platform to exchange ideas among theoreticians. Speakers have the occasion to talk about theoretical aspects of their work which cannot be discussed in a setting where the majority of the audience consists of experimentalists. The seminars, **held on Wednesdays at 11 am ET,** are 45-50 min long followed by a discussion. The talks are recorded with authorization of the speaker and are available to everybody on our YouTube channel.* ? ? ? ? ? -- 'Life is good ..' 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Kuai) Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2024 19:16:22 +0900 Subject: Connectionists: WI-IAT' 24 Call for Papers [July 15, 2024] Message-ID: +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ CALL FOR PAPERS The 23rd IEEE/WIC International Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology (WI-IAT) December 9-12, 2024 | Bangkok, Thailand The key theme: Web Intelligence = AI in the Connected World A hybrid conference with both online and offline modes History of WI-IAT: www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOiSI3NhyKw Conference homepage: https://www.wi-iat.com/wi-iat2024/ +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Workshop Proposal Submission: 15 May 2024 Full Papers Submission Deadline: 15 July 2024 Papers Submission System: https://wi-lab.com/cyberchair/2024/wi24/scripts/submit.php?subarea=WI Sponsored By: IEEE Computer Society (IEEE-CS: https://www.computer.org/) IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Intelligent Informatics (TCII: https://www.computer.org/communities/technical-committees/tcii) Web Intelligence Consortium (WIC: https://wi-consortium.org/) King Mongkut?s University of Technology Thonburi, Thailand (KMUTT: https://www.kmutt.ac.th/en/) Asia-Pacific Neural Network Society (APNNS) IEEE-CIS Thailand Chapter PAPER SUBMISSION ++++++++++++++++++ Papers must be submitted electronically via CyberChair in standard IEEE Conference Proceedings format (max 8 pages, templates at https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html). Submitted papers will undergo a peer review process, coordinated by the International Program Committee. The 2024 IEEE/WIC International Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology (WI-IAT'24) provides a premier international forum to bring together researchers and practitioners from diverse fields for presentation of original research results, as well as exchange and dissemination of innovative and practical development experiences on web intelligence and intelligent agent technology research and applications. Academia, professionals and industry people can exchange their ideas, findings and strategies in deepening the understanding of all Web's entities, phenomena, and developments in utilizing the power of human brains and man-made networks to create a better world and intelligent societies. More specifically, the fields of how artificial intelligence is impacting the Web of People, the Web of Data, the Web of Things, the Web of Trust, the Web of Agents, the Web in industry, society, health, and smart living, the Web of Everything, and emerging AIGC in WI-IAT. Therefore, the theme of WI-IAT '24 will be: ?Web Intelligence = AI in the Connected World?. WI-IAT '24 welcomes research and application paper submissions in these core thematic pillars under wider topics, which demand WI innovative and disruptive solutions for any of the next indicative sub-topics. Relevant topics include but are not limited to: TRACKS AND TOPICS ++++++++++++++++++ TRACK 1: WEB OF PEOPLE * Cognitive Modeling and Computing * Conversational Search and Dialog Systems * Crowdsourcing and Social Computing * Human Centric Computing and Services * Human Creativity and Decision-making Support * Human-level Collective Intelligence * Human-machine Co-intelligence in the Connected World * Information Diffusion Modeling and Analysis * Opinion Mining and Sentiment Analysis * Recommendation Systems * Situation and Personality Awareness * Social Media and Social Networks * User and Behavioural Modelling * Wisdom Services TRACK 2: WEB OF DATA * Artificial Intelligence Generated Content (AIGC) * Big Data Analytics and Deep Learning * Big Data and Human Brain Complex Systems * Cognitive Models and Computational Models * Data Driven Services and Applications * Data Integration and Data Provenance * Data-Knowledge-Wisdom Hierarchy * Data Science and Machine Learning * Few-shot Learning and Transfer Learning * Graph Isomorphism and Graph Theory * Information Search and Retrieval * Knowledge Graph and Semantic Networks * Linked Data Management and Analytics * Multimodal Data Fusion * Large Language Models (LLMs) and Applications * Representation Learning TRACK 3: WEB OF THINGS * Distributed Systems and Devices * Dynamics of Networks * Industrial Multi-domain Web * Intelligent Ubiquitous Web of Things * IoT Data Analytics * Location and Time Awareness * Open Autonomous Systems * Sensor Networks * Streaming Data Analysis * Web Infrastructures and Devices Mobile Web * Wisdom Web of Things TRACK 4: WEB OF TRUST * Blockchain Analytics and Technologies * De-Platforming and No-platforming * Decentralization of Internet * Fake Content and Fraud Detection * Hidden Web Analytics * Monetization Services and Applications * Trust Models for Agents * Ubiquitous Computing * Web Cryptography * Web Safety and Openness * Web-scale Security, Integrity, Privacy and Trust TRACK 5: WEB OF AGENTS * AI Agents and Multi-Agent Systems * Autonomy Remembrance Agents * Autonomy-oriented Computing * Behaviour Modelling and Individual-based Modelling * Chatbot and Intelligent Agent * Computational Social Science * Deep Reinforcement Learning * Distributed Problem-Solving and Reasoning * Edge Computing and Cloud Computing * Local-global Behavioural Interactions * Mechanism Design * Network Autonomy Remembrance Agents * Self-adaptive and Self-organizing Evolutionary Systems * Social-cyber-physical Systems * Symbols-Meaning-Value Space SPECIAL TRACK: Web in Industry, Society, Education, Health and Smart Living, and the Web of Everything * AIGC in Industry, Finance, Culture, Tourism, Education and Healthcare * Data Brain, City Brain and Global Brain * Data-driven Service Industry * Data-driven Innovative Service-oriented Society * Digital Ecosystems and Digital Epidemiology * Digital Transformation and Digital Twin * Generative AI and the Web of Everything * Human-machine Symbiosis in a Connected World * Web3, Metaverse and Smart Living * Wellbeing and Healthcare in the 5G Era SPECIAL TRACK in WI-IAT 2024: FAccT, LLM and AIGC * Digital Divide, Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency * Generative AI - LLM and AIGC * Explainability and Interpretability * Responsible AI * Metric and Evaluation * Applications and Use Cases * Impact on Society * Robustness and Security IMPORTANT DATES +++++++++++++++ May 15, 2024: Workshop Proposal Submission June 15, 2024: Workshop Proposal Acceptance Notification July 15, 2024: Papers Submission (Main Conference) July 30, 2024: Workshop Papers Submission August 30, 2024: Paper Acceptance Notification (Main Conference) September 15, 2024: Workshop Paper Acceptance Notification December 9, 2024: Workshops and Special Sessions December 10-11, 2024: Main Conference Organization Structure ++++++++++++++++++++++ Honorary Chairs * Irwin King, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China * Suvit Saetia, King Mongkut?s University of Technology Thonburi (KMUTT), Thailand General Chairs * Jonathan Chan, KMUTT, Thailand * Ah-Hwee Tan, Singapore Management University, Singapore * Yiyu Yao, University of Regina, Canada Program Committee Chairs * Kitsuchart Pasupa, KMITL, Thailand * Sung-Bae Cho, Yonsei University, South Korea * Mufti Mahmud, Nottingham Trent University, UK Local Organizing Chairs * Nipon Charoenkitkarn, KMUTT, Thailand * Phayung Meesad, KMUTNB, Thailand * Kuntpong Woraratpanya, KMITL, Thailand * Ruttikorn Varakulsiripunth, TNI, Thailand Finance Chair * Vajirasak Vanijja, KMUTT, Thailand Workshop/Special Session Chairs * Mark Chignell, University of Toronto, Canada * Ashish Ghosh, Indian Statistical Institute, India * Min Pan, Hubei Normal University, China Publicity Chairs * Hongzhi Kuai, Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan * Susmita Ghosh, Jadavpur University, India Publication Chair * Hongzhi Kuai, Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan Liaison Chair * Sirawaj Itthipuripat, KMUTT, Thailand WIC Steering Committee Chairs * Ning Zhong, Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan * Jiming Liu, Hong Kong Baptist University, HK, China WIC Executive Secretary * Xiaohui Tao, University of Southern Queensland, Australia -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Best, Matthias -- Matthias H Hennig http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/mhennig/ The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336. Is e buidheann carthannais a th? ann an Oilthigh Dh?n ?ideann, cl?raichte an Alba, ?ireamh cl?raidh SC005336. From mpavone at dmi.unict.it Sun Mar 24 06:28:03 2024 From: mpavone at dmi.unict.it (Mario Pavone) Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2024 11:28:03 +0100 Subject: Connectionists: MESS 2024 ~ autoDL meets HPC ~ New application deadline Message-ID: <20240324112803.Horde.SZgdQ_ph4B9mAAAzPrukUgA@webmail.dmi.unict.it> Call for Participation (apologies for multiple copies) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- MESS 2024 - Metaheuristics Summer School - Automated Deep Learning meets High-Performance Computing - 15-18 July 2024, Catania, Italy https://www.ANTs-lab.it/mess2024/ mess.school at ANTs-lab.it https://www.facebook.com/groups/MetaheuristicsSchool/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ** NEW APPLICATION DEADLINE: 16th April 2024 ** MESS 2024 is aimed at qualified and strongly motivated MSc and PhD students; post-docs; young researchers, and both academic and industrial professionals to provide them with an overview on the metaheuristics techniques, and an in-depth analysis of the state-of-the-art. It is a full-immersion four-days course in the beautiful city of Catania whose goal is to offer all participants with a stimulating environment to study and learn advanced concepts and recent research in the fields of Metaheuristics, Optimization, Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence, in general. The main theme of this edition is focused on ?Automated Deep Learning Meets High-Performance Computing?, that is how these research areas may interact and affect each other in order to develop reliable and robust solving methodologies for Big Data analysis, and data-driven problems. Participants will be delivered a certificate of attendance indicating the number of hours of lectures (36-40 hours of lectures). In according to the academic system all PhD and master students attending to the summer school will may get 8 ECTS points. ** LECTURERS + Thomas Bartz-Beielstein, TH Koln, Germany Lecture#1: Introduction to Surrogate-Based Hyperparameter Tuning in Classical Machine Learning, Online Machine Learning, and Deep Learning Lecture#2: Exploring Hyperparameter-Tuning Applications: Optimizing scikit-learn, River, and PyTorch with SPOT and Other Tuning Techniques + Aaron Klein, AWS Research Berlin, Germany Lecture#1: Introduction into AutoML: Hyperparameter Optimization Lecture#2: Introduction into AutoML: Neural Architecture Search + Eric Medvet, University of Trieste, Italy Lecture#1: Metaheuristics for policy search in continuous control Lecture#2: Beyond policy search: optimizing body and brain of simulated robotic agents + David Salinas, University of Freiburg, Germany Lecture#1: Multi-objective optimization Lecture#2: Speeding-up Hyperparameter Optimization with transfer and meta learning + El-Ghazali Talbi, University of Lille1, France Lecture#1: Metaheurististics for neural architecture search and hyperparameter optimization Lecture#2: Parallel and multi-objective metaheuristics for neural architecture search and hyperparameter optimization ~ More Lecturers will be announced soon ~ ** METAHEURISTICS COMPETITION All participants will be involved in the ?Metaheuristics Competition Race?, where each of them, individually or divided in working groups (no more than 3 people), will develop a metaheuristic solution for a given problem presented during the school. The top three of the competition ranking will receive the MESS 2024 award and will be involved in the writing of a manuscript dedicated to the competition that, afterwards, will be submitted to an international journal for possible publication. In addition, the remaining best ten in the ranking (excluding the top three, of course) will be invited to report their work in a manuscript which will be published in the special MESS 2024 Volume of the AIRO Springer Series. ** SHORT ORAL PRESENTATION All participants may submit an abstract of their recent results, or works in progress, for presentation and having the opportunities for debate and interact with leaders in the field. The Workshop Organizers and Scientific Committee will review the abstracts and will recommend for the format of the presentation (oral or poster). All abstracts will be published on the electronic hands-out book of the summer school. The Abstracts must be submitted during the application by *April 16, 2020*. ** MESS 2024 DIRECTORS: - Salvatore Greco, University of Catania, Italy - Mario Pavone, University of Catania, Italy - Andrea Schaerf, University of Udine, Italy - El-Ghazali Talbi, University of Lille1, France - Daniele Vigo, University of Bologna, Italy ** METAHEURISTICS COMPETITION CHAIRS: - Raffaele Cerulli, University of Salerno, Italy - Sara Ceschia, University of Udine, Italy - Carmine Cerrone, University of Genoa, Italy - Andrea Schaerf, University of Udine, Italy ** MORE INFORMATION: https://www.ANTs-lab.it/mess2024/ -- mess.school at ANTs-lab.it Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/MetaheuristicsSchool/ -- Mario F. Pavone, PhD Associate Professor Dept of Mathematics and Computer Science University of Catania V.le A. Doria 6 - 95125 Catania, Italy --------------------------------------------- tel: +39 095 7383034 mobile: +39 3384342147 Email: mpavone at dmi.unict.it http://www.dmi.unict.it/mpavone/ FB: https://www.facebook.com/mfpavone Skype: mpavone ========================================================= MESS 2024 - Metaheuristics Summer School ~ autoDL meets HPC ~ 15-18 July 2024, Catania, Italy mess.school at ANTs-lab.it https://www.ANTs-lab.it/mess2024/ https://www.facebook.com/groups/MetaheuristicsSchool/ ========================================================= From mpavone at dmi.unict.it Sun Mar 24 06:28:03 2024 From: mpavone at dmi.unict.it (Mario Pavone) Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2024 11:28:03 +0100 Subject: Connectionists: MESS 2024 ~ autoDL meets HPC ~ New application deadline Message-ID: <20240324112803.Horde.SZgdQ_ph4B9mAAAzPrukUgA@webmail.dmi.unict.it> Call for Participation (apologies for multiple copies) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- MESS 2024 - Metaheuristics Summer School - Automated Deep Learning meets High-Performance Computing - 15-18 July 2024, Catania, Italy https://www.ANTs-lab.it/mess2024/ mess.school at ANTs-lab.it https://www.facebook.com/groups/MetaheuristicsSchool/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ** NEW APPLICATION DEADLINE: 16th April 2024 ** MESS 2024 is aimed at qualified and strongly motivated MSc and PhD students; post-docs; young researchers, and both academic and industrial professionals to provide them with an overview on the metaheuristics techniques, and an in-depth analysis of the state-of-the-art. It is a full-immersion four-days course in the beautiful city of Catania whose goal is to offer all participants with a stimulating environment to study and learn advanced concepts and recent research in the fields of Metaheuristics, Optimization, Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence, in general. The main theme of this edition is focused on ?Automated Deep Learning Meets High-Performance Computing?, that is how these research areas may interact and affect each other in order to develop reliable and robust solving methodologies for Big Data analysis, and data-driven problems. Participants will be delivered a certificate of attendance indicating the number of hours of lectures (36-40 hours of lectures). In according to the academic system all PhD and master students attending to the summer school will may get 8 ECTS points. ** LECTURERS + Thomas Bartz-Beielstein, TH Koln, Germany Lecture#1: Introduction to Surrogate-Based Hyperparameter Tuning in Classical Machine Learning, Online Machine Learning, and Deep Learning Lecture#2: Exploring Hyperparameter-Tuning Applications: Optimizing scikit-learn, River, and PyTorch with SPOT and Other Tuning Techniques + Aaron Klein, AWS Research Berlin, Germany Lecture#1: Introduction into AutoML: Hyperparameter Optimization Lecture#2: Introduction into AutoML: Neural Architecture Search + Eric Medvet, University of Trieste, Italy Lecture#1: Metaheuristics for policy search in continuous control Lecture#2: Beyond policy search: optimizing body and brain of simulated robotic agents + David Salinas, University of Freiburg, Germany Lecture#1: Multi-objective optimization Lecture#2: Speeding-up Hyperparameter Optimization with transfer and meta learning + El-Ghazali Talbi, University of Lille1, France Lecture#1: Metaheurististics for neural architecture search and hyperparameter optimization Lecture#2: Parallel and multi-objective metaheuristics for neural architecture search and hyperparameter optimization ~ More Lecturers will be announced soon ~ ** METAHEURISTICS COMPETITION All participants will be involved in the ?Metaheuristics Competition Race?, where each of them, individually or divided in working groups (no more than 3 people), will develop a metaheuristic solution for a given problem presented during the school. The top three of the competition ranking will receive the MESS 2024 award and will be involved in the writing of a manuscript dedicated to the competition that, afterwards, will be submitted to an international journal for possible publication. In addition, the remaining best ten in the ranking (excluding the top three, of course) will be invited to report their work in a manuscript which will be published in the special MESS 2024 Volume of the AIRO Springer Series. ** SHORT ORAL PRESENTATION All participants may submit an abstract of their recent results, or works in progress, for presentation and having the opportunities for debate and interact with leaders in the field. The Workshop Organizers and Scientific Committee will review the abstracts and will recommend for the format of the presentation (oral or poster). All abstracts will be published on the electronic hands-out book of the summer school. The Abstracts must be submitted during the application by *April 16, 2020*. ** MESS 2024 DIRECTORS: - Salvatore Greco, University of Catania, Italy - Mario Pavone, University of Catania, Italy - Andrea Schaerf, University of Udine, Italy - El-Ghazali Talbi, University of Lille1, France - Daniele Vigo, University of Bologna, Italy ** METAHEURISTICS COMPETITION CHAIRS: - Raffaele Cerulli, University of Salerno, Italy - Sara Ceschia, University of Udine, Italy - Carmine Cerrone, University of Genoa, Italy - Andrea Schaerf, University of Udine, Italy ** MORE INFORMATION: https://www.ANTs-lab.it/mess2024/ -- mess.school at ANTs-lab.it Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/MetaheuristicsSchool/ -- Mario F. Pavone, PhD Associate Professor Dept of Mathematics and Computer Science University of Catania V.le A. Doria 6 - 95125 Catania, Italy --------------------------------------------- tel: +39 095 7383034 mobile: +39 3384342147 Email: mpavone at dmi.unict.it http://www.dmi.unict.it/mpavone/ FB: https://www.facebook.com/mfpavone Skype: mpavone ========================================================= MESS 2024 - Metaheuristics Summer School ~ autoDL meets HPC ~ 15-18 July 2024, Catania, Italy mess.school at ANTs-lab.it https://www.ANTs-lab.it/mess2024/ https://www.facebook.com/groups/MetaheuristicsSchool/ ========================================================= From hocine.cherifi at gmail.com Mon Mar 25 03:46:39 2024 From: hocine.cherifi at gmail.com (Hocine Cherifi) Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2024 08:46:39 +0100 Subject: Connectionists: CFP: Workshops in conjunction with FRCCS 2024, Montpellier, France May 28, 2024 Message-ID: We encourage researchers to participate in the FRCCS 2024 workshops to share their insights and foster interdisciplinary collaborations in the study of complex systems. *Workshops* ? Modeling Cities and Regions as Complex and Evolving Systems ? Beauty in Complexity ? Network Sparsification & beyond *Important dates* Submission Deadline: *April 14* Final Decisions Released:* April 17* Camera-Ready Deadline: *April 30* *1) **Modeling Cities and Regions as Complex and Evolving Systems* Cities consist of interacting entities, such as people and infrastructure, and exhibit emergent properties, which appear additionally to the sum of the isolated properties. This makes cities a prime example of complex systems. Accordingly, complexity theories and methods are particularly relevant to their study. By focusing on the commonalities that underpin urban systems, the workshop seeks to foster interdisciplinary dialogue and explore novel approaches to studying cities as complex entities. *More info at: * *https://iutdijon.u-bourgogne.fr/ccs-france/workshop-on-modeling-cities-and-regions-as-complex-and-evolving-systems/* *Workshop chair* *Daniela Cialfi - NRCouncil of Italy - **danielacialfi at gmail.com * *2) **Beauty in Complexity* The Beauty in Complexity exhibition invites researchers to share the visual wonders of their work with a wide and diverse audience. Whether it's a photograph, diagram, visualization, or montage, we encourage submissions that evoke curiosity and wonder. We seek captivating visuals showcasing the beauty found within complex systems research. More info at: https://iutdijon.u-bourgogne.fr/ccs-france/beauty-in-complexity/ *Workshop chairs* Benjamin Renoust - *Median Technologies,- renoust at gmail .com *Arnaud Sallaberry - *LIRMM *- *arnaud.sallaberry at lirmm.fr* *3) **Network Sparsification & beyond* Numerous algorithms are designed to construct simpler or smaller network representations to address scalability and performance issues. This workshop aims to bring together researchers working on the broad theme of network simplification and discuss graph reduction methods and their applications. More info at: https://iutdijon.u-bourgogne.fr/ccs-france/complex-network-sparsification/ *Workshop chairs* Hamida Seba -* University Lyon 1- **Hamida.seba at univ-lyon1.fr* Hocine Cherifi* - University of Burgundy - **hocine.cherifi at u-bourgogne.fr* Join us at COMPLEX NETWORKS 2024 *-------------------------* Hocine CHERIFI University of Burgundy Franche-Comt? 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In everyday work, we often forget that every scientific endeavour is embedded in a broader theoretical framework. At the same time, most courses and workshops in neuroscience teach us experimental techniques, giving us more tools to gather more data. But, we are not taught how to develop ideas and integrate our research with the existing knowledge. *We believe that theoretical thinking and idea development are skills that can be trained just as new methodologies and data analysis tools*. At our school, we aim to teach participants how to think theoretically to collect data that makes sense and to make sense of collected data! Come to Warsaw to discuss the most exciting theories and ideas with neuroscientists & philosophers! We provide beautiful surroundings, great atmosphere and a lot of time to talk and think together. The school will take place in Warsaw, *July 9th - July 15th 2024*, in the famous historical building of Polish Academy of Sciences Museum of the Earth, in the beautiful park area of the city. *The fee is EUR 550, but we offer fee waivers and travel grants*. Please find more info and the application form here - https://nenckiopenlab.org/school-of-ideas-2024/ Best, School of Ideas Team -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Tom.Hanika at cs.uni-kassel.de Mon Mar 25 07:46:09 2024 From: Tom.Hanika at cs.uni-kassel.de (Tom Hanika) Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2024 12:46:09 +0100 Subject: Connectionists: [CfP] [CoKA] : "Conceptual Knowledge Acquisition: Challenges, Opportunities, and Use Cases" workshop at CONCEPTS 2024 Message-ID: ***CoKA: Call for Contributions*** ================================================================ Conceptual Knowledge Acquisition: Challenges, Opportunities, and Use Cases Workshop at the 1st International Joint Conference on Conceptual Knowledge Structures (CONCEPTS 2024) September 9?13 2024, C?diz, Spain Workshop Website: https://www.kde.cs.uni-kassel.de/coka/ Conference website: https://concepts2024.uca.es ================================================================ Formal concept analysis (FCA) can help make sense of data and the underlying domain --- provided the data is not too big, not too noisy, representative of the domain, and if there is data in the first place. What if you don?t have such data readily available but are prepared to invest in collecting it and have access to domain experts or other reliable queryable sources of information? Conceptual exploration comes to the rescue! Conceptual exploration is a family of knowledge-acquisition techniques within FCA. The goal is to build a complete implicational theory of a domain (with respect to a fixed language) by posing queries to a domain expert. When properly implemented, it is a great tool that can help organize the process of scientific discovery. Unfortunately, proper implementations are scarce and success stories of using conceptual exploration are somewhat rare and limited in scope. With this workshop, we intend to analyze the situation and, maybe, find a solution. If - you succeeded in acquiring new knowledge about or building a satisfying conceptual representation of some domain with conceptual exploration before; - you attempted conceptual exploration in application to your problem but failed miserably; - you want to use conceptual exploration to analyze some domain, but you don?t know where and how to start; - you are aware of alternatives to conceptual exploration; then come to the workshop to share your experiences, insights, ideas, and concerns with us! ================== Keywords and Topics ================== ??? Knowledge Acquisition and Capture ??? Conceptual Exploration ??? Design Patterns and Paradigmatic Examples ??? successful use cases and real-world applications ??? challenges and lessons learned ??? application principles ??? missing theoretical foundations ??? missing technical infrastructure ??? integration with other theories and technologies ========================= Duration, Format, and Dates ========================= We invite contributions in the form of an extended abstract of up to two pages. In addition, supplementary material, such as data sets, detailed descriptions, or visualizations, may be submitted. The workshop is planned for half a day within the conference dates and at the same venue. It will consist of several short presentations each followed by a plenary discussion. Please send your contributions until *July 10, 2024* to tom.hanika at uni-hildesheim.de. If you are not sure whether your contribution matches the topics or the format of the workshop, you are welcome to contact the organizers prior to submitting the abstract. 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URL: From yaser.amd at gmail.com Mon Mar 25 18:17:51 2024 From: yaser.amd at gmail.com (Yaser Jararweh) Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2024 01:17:51 +0300 Subject: Connectionists: International Conference on Foundation and Large Language Models (FLLM2024) , 26-29 November, 2024 | Dubai, UAE Message-ID: [Apologies if you got multiple copies of this invitation] The 2nd International Conference on Foundation and Large Language Models (FLLM2024) https://fllm2024.fllm-conference.org/index.php 26-29 November, 2024 | Dubai, UAE Technically Co-Sponsored by IEEE UAE Section *FLLM 2024 CFP:* With the emergence of foundation models (FMs) and Large Language Models (LLMs) that are trained on large amounts of data at scale and adaptable to a wide range of downstream applications, Artificial intelligence is experiencing a paradigm revolution. BERT, T5, ChatGPT, GPT-4, Falcon 180B, Codex, DALL-E, Whisper, and CLIP are now the foundation for new applications ranging from computer vision to protein sequence study and from speech recognition to coding. Earlier models had a reputation of starting from scratch with each new challenge. The capacity to experiment with, examine, and comprehend the capabilities and potentials of next-generation FMs is critical to undertaking this research and guiding its path. Nevertheless, these models are currently inaccessible as the resources required to train these models are highly concentrated in industry, and even the assets (data, code) required to replicate their training are frequently not released due to their demand in the real-time industry. At the moment, mostly large tech companies such as OpenAI, Google, Facebook, and Baidu can afford to construct FMs and LLMS. Despite the expected widely publicized use of FMs and LLMS, we still lack a comprehensive knowledge of how they operate, why they underperform, and what they are even capable of because of their emerging global qualities. To deal with these problems, we believe that much critical research on FMs and LLMS would necessitate extensive multidisciplinary collaboration, given their essentially social and technical structure. The International Conference on Foundation and Large Language Models (FLLM) addresses the architectures, applications, challenges, approaches, and future directions. We invite the submission of original papers on all topics related to FLLMs, with special interest in but not limited to: - *Architectures and Systems* - Transformers and Attention - Bidirectional Encoding - Autoregressive Models - Massive GPU Systems - Prompt Engineering - Multimodal LLMs - Fine-tuning - *Challenges* - Hallucination - Cost of Creation and Training - Energy and Sustainability Issues - Integration - Safety and Trustworthiness - Interpretability - Fairness - Social Impact - * Future Directions* - Generative AI - Explainability and EXplainable AI - Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) - Federated Learning for FLLM - Large Language Models Fine-Tuning on Graphs - Data Augmentation - * Natural Language Processing Applications* - Generation - Summarization - Rewrite - Search - Question Answering - Language Comprehension and Complex Reasoning - Clustering and Classification - * Applications* - Natural Language Processing - Communication Systems - Security and Privacy - Image Processing and Computer Vision - Life Sciences - Financial Systems *Submissions Guidelines and Proceedings* Manuscripts should be prepared in 10-point font using the IEEE 8.5" x 11" two-column format. 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See details in: https://www.i-aida.org/events/predicting-classifier-accuracy-in-the-wild/ *Location* The seminar will be delivered online via *zoom: * https://authgr.zoom.us/j/99055728781?pwd=QS9IcmhVbUdYMVpCMjU4MnByb01adz09 Meeting ID: 990 5572 8781 Passcode: 405011 The *International AI Doctoral Academy (AIDA) *, a joint initiative of the European R&D projects AI4Media , ELISE , Humane AI Net , *TAILOR **, *VISION , is very pleased to offer you top quality scientific lectures in the framework of AIDA AI Excellence Lecture Series on several current hot AI topics. Lectures will be offered alternatingly by: - Top highly-cited senior AI scientists internationally or - Young AI scientists with promise of excellence (AI sprint lectures) These lectures are disseminated through multiple channels and email lists (we apologize if you received it through various channels). If you want to stay informed on future lectures, you can register in the email lists AIDA email list and CVML email list . 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We work primarily in the auditory modality and the human brain, but collaborate closely with animal electrophysiologists. The positions are funded by the ERC and there will plenty of funding for conferences, traveling between Leipzig and San Sebastian, and visiting our large network of international collaborators. The positions will be primarily based in one of the two cities and traveling will be optional. Ideal candidates will have a background in either cognitive neuroscience (including experimental psychology) or a quantitative discipline (physics, computer science, statistics, or related) and a keen interest in building models of brain function. Experience on layer-fMRI, probabilistic modelling, high-resolution fMRI data analysis, state-space models, auditory experimental paradigms, and/or predictive processing are bonuses. For more information and for applying, please check: (For the PhD/Postdoc positions based in San Sebastian): https://www.bcbl.eu/en/join-us/job-offers (Job offers from the Perceptual Inference Group) (For the PhD/Postdoc position based in Leipzig): https://recruitingapp-5218.de.umantis.com/Vacancies/412/Description/2/Default? For questions and/or enquires please feel free to contact me at tabas[at]bcbl[dot]eu or tabas[at]cbs[dot]mpg[dot]de, I'm more than happy to chat informally about the positions! Cheers, Alejandro. From paherman at kth.se Tue Mar 26 03:49:17 2024 From: paherman at kth.se (Pawel Herman) Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2024 07:49:17 +0000 Subject: Connectionists: 10th EBRAINS Baltic-Nordic Summer School on Neuroscience: From Neurons to The Virtual Brain, Consciousness and Artificial Intelligence Message-ID: <7c694d427c6e44ab8c8250d25f34a4d4@kth.se> 10th EBRAINS Baltic-Nordic Summer School on Neuroscience From Neurons to The Virtual Brain, Consciousness and Artificial Intelligence 28 May 2024 ? University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland 29-31 May 2024 ? Cruise Ship Silja-Line Helsinki-Stockholm-Helsinki 30 May 2024 ? KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden https://lsmu.lt/en/events/ebrains/ We kindly invite you to attend 10th EBRAINS Baltic-Nordic Summer School on Neuroscience From Neurons to The Virtual Brain, Consciousness and Artificial Intelligence that will take place at the University Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland; KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, and a cruise ship Silja-Line Helsinki-Stockholm-Helsinki, symbolically linking European countries for research and collaboration in neuroscience and artificial intelligence. The 10th EBRAINS Baltic-Nordic Summer School on Neuroscience will provide you with the latest achievements in the brain research, implications to AI methods and applications in clinical practice. The combined workshops and 10th EBRAINS Baltic-Nordic Summer School on Neuroscience are focused on: ? multiscale modeling of brain functions; ? brain-inspired computation algorithms; ? individualized virtual human brain models; ? intersection of neuroscience and artificial intelligence; ? concepts of consciousness in biological and artificial systems; ? ethics in neuroscience and artificial intelligence. The target audience of this school are advanced master students, doctoral students and postdoctoral researchers in neuroscience, medicine, artificial intelligence, and other related fields such as mathematics, informatics, physics, chemistry, biology, neuropsychology, cognitive sciences. HOW TO APPLY The summer school has a limited capacity of 25 students; therefore, a selection will be performed by a scientific organizing committee. Submit your application: https://lsmu.lt/en/events/ebrains/ DEADLINE: 15 April 2024. TUITON FEE Registration fee is 200 ? for selected participants. The tuition fee includes accommodation and meals on the cruise ship Helsinki-Stockholm-Helsinki on 29-31 May 2024, access to conference facilities during the course days; workshop at the University of Helsinki, Finland on 28 May 2024; workshop at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden on 30 May 2024; bus tour in Stockholm, Sweden on 30 May 2024. A limited number of scholarships is available. Please indicate in the application form should you need financial support. PRELIMINARY LIST OF SPEAKERS Leading neuroscientists of Europe will give the lectures on theoretical and clinical neuroscience and AI: ? Viktor Jirsa (Director, System Neuroscience Institute, Aix-Marseille Universit?, France; EBRAINS Chief Science Officer) ? Walter Senn (Institue of Physiology, University of Bern, Switzerland; EBRAINS) ? Alain Destexhe, Director, European Institure of Theoretical Neuroscience, Paris, France; EBRAINS ? Marja-Leena Linne (Tampere University, Finland) ? Jeanette Helgren-Kotaleski (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden) ? Michele Migliore (Institute of Biophysics, Palermo, Italy) ? Simo Vanni (University of Helsinki, Finland) ? Bruce Graham (University of Stirling, UK) ? Peter Jedlicka (Justus Liebig University Giessen, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany) ? Herman Cuntz (Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, Germany) ? Arnd Roth (Wolfson Institute of Biomedical Research, University College London, UK) ? Pawel Herman (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden) ? Daniel Wojcik (Nencki Institute for Experimental Biology, Warsaw, Poland) ? Ausra Saudargiene (Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, Kaunas, Lithuania) ? Gaute Einevoll (Norwegian University of Life Sciences & University of Oslo, Norway) ? Johannes Mehres (NeuroAI lab, EPFL, Switzerland) ? Timothee Proix, Department of Basic Neurosciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland) ? Pierpaolo Sorrentino (Aix-Marseille Universit?, France; EBRAINS) ? Damien Depannemaecker (Aix-Marseille Universit?, France) ? Spase Petkoski (Aix-Marseille Universit?, France) ? Tuomo M?ki-Marttunen (University of Tampere, Finland) ? Eero Pekkonen (Dept Neurology, Helsinki University Hospital, Finland) ? P?ivi Nevalainen (Helsinki University Hospital,Finland) ? Saeed Montazeri (Dept of Physiology, University of Helsinki, Finland) PROGRAMME: https://lsmu.lt/wp-content/uploads/Program_EBRAINS_Nordic_Baltic_Summer_School_2024.pdf The summer school is organised in collaboration with EBRAINS (https://www.ebrains.eu/), European Brain Research Infrastructures. EBRAINS is the European network of digital infrastructure to accelerate brain research, advance innovations for brain health and translate brain knowledge into technological advances of AI. Scientific Committee and Organizers: ? Ausra Saudargiene (Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, Lithuania) ? 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URL: From zchen at cse.msstate.edu Tue Mar 26 12:42:18 2024 From: zchen at cse.msstate.edu (Chen, Zhiqian) Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2024 16:42:18 +0000 Subject: Connectionists: Call for Proposals: 2024 IEEE Big Data Cup! Message-ID: [https://tr.cloudmagic.com/h/v6/emailtag/tag/2.0/1711471322/d7dc184e501b9c32bce2ad0279ddd253/20/ab6842aa7c0932e7883f5cbf021397e2/fe211464a217309f9d8bc6f13318aae0/a9e988632de2b87e38d561d6b82e5519/newton.gif] 2024 IEEE Big Data Cup https://bigdataieee.org/BigData2024/index.html We invite industrial, government, and academic organizations to submit proposals to organize a Data Challenge for the 2024 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (IEEE BigData 2024, https://bigdataieee.org/BigData2024/index.html) . Data Challenges are analytics and programming contests based on datasets released by the organizations sponsoring the competitions. These contests will run for several months, with winners announced in the IEEE BigData 2024 in December 15-18, 2024 at Washington DC, USA. The IEEE Big Data conference series started in 2013 has established itself as the top tier research conference in Big Data. * The first conference IEEE Big Data 2013 ( https://bigdataieee.org/BigData2013/ regular paper acceptance rate: 17.0%) was held in Santa Clara, CA from Oct 6-9, 2013 with more than 400 registered participants from 40 countries. * The IEEE Big Data 2021 ( http://bigdataieee.org/BigData2021/ , regular paper acceptance rate: 20.0%) was held online, Dec 15-18, 2021 with close to 1089 registered participants from 52 countries. * The IEEE Big Data 2022 ( https://bigdataieee.org/BigData2022/ , regular paper acceptance rate: 20.0%) was held online, Dec 17-20, 2022 with close to 1250 registered participants from 54 countries. * The IEEE Big Data 2023 ( https://bigdataieee.org/BigData2023/ , regular paper acceptance rate: 17.4%) was held online, Dec 15-18, 2023 with close to 950 registered participants from 50 countries. Strong proposals will release interesting and novel datasets to the participants and propose tasks that are challenging, yet achievable within the expected timeline. To encourage broad participation in the challenge competition, tasks and data should be made publicly accessible where possible. We will consider topics from (but not limited to) the following big data application domains: * Mobility * Health and wellness * Finance and Business Forecasting * Advanced manufacturing * Retail and e-commerce * Smart City and Community * Blockchain Technology * Transportation and autonomous driving * Cybersecurity, Cyber Intelligence and Defense * Scientific Discovery * Food, Nutrition and Environment * Internet of Things Data Analytics * Data science for equality, inclusion and well-being challenges * Big Data Analytics for Humanitarian Crises * Responsible AI and Data Ethics * Foundation Models The Challenges involve a released dataset and a well-defined problem with clear evaluation metrics. The challenges run on a data competition platform (e.g., Kaggle) that maintains a leaderboard for the participants. Final winners are selected based on their standing on the leaderboard, and a 6-page report describing their algorithms and results. There will be a workshop in the IEEE BigData 2024 conference in which the invited teams will be able to present their solution. Tentative Competition Timeline * Step 1 - Solicitation of big data problems/topics, April 15, 2024 * Step 2 - Proposal evaluation and selection of topics/problems, April 25, 2024 * Step 3 - Data Release, Platform setup and solicitation of challenge participants, May 1, 2024 * Step 4 - Deadline for contest teams to submit letter of intent, June 10, 2024 * Step 5 - Deadline for contest teams to submit final report and solutions, November 10, 2024 * Step 6 - Announcement of winning teams, Nov 25, 2024 Data Challenge Proposal Format Proposals should answer the following questions: * Who are the organizers? Provide the names, affiliations, contact information, and brief bio of the organizers. * Which sector does the proposed Data Challenge belong to? * What is the dataset to be released? If there are privacy concerns regarding the data, we advise that the organizers first seek clearance from the legal department of their organization regarding the dataset release. * What prizes will be offered? Note that cash prizes will be shared between competitors and BigData, to defray the expenses of hosting demonstrations of the finalists? submissions at BigData. * Do you require source code with submissions? Challenge Specific Questions: * What are the task and the evaluation metrics? * What competition infrastructure will be used? Our default hosting platform is Kaggle, which may impose fees to be borne by Challenge organizers. If you prefer to host it on your own infrastructure, specify the reasons and the resources you can commit for running the competition. Deadline for proposal Submission: April 15, 2024. Please submit the proposal: https://wi-lab.com/cyberchair/2024/bigdata24/scripts/submit.php?subarea=ProC 2024 IEEE Big Data Cup Chairs Zhiqian Chen, Mississippi State University, USA, zchen at cse.msstate.edu Chen Zhao, Baylor University, USA, Chen_Zhao at baylor.edu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Sivan.Kinreich at downstate.edu Tue Mar 26 13:58:33 2024 From: Sivan.Kinreich at downstate.edu (Sivan Kinreich) Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2024 17:58:33 +0000 Subject: Connectionists: Postdoc/Master position ML in NY Message-ID: Please forward this to those who may be interested: Dr. Kinreich's group at SUNY Downstate Medical Center, NY ( https://www.pmbd2.org/) investigates the structural and functional neural networks (fMRI, EEG), genetics, and other phenotypes associated with the risk and resilience factors underlying the development of brain diseases. We use advanced machine learning algorithms and seek a skilled, motivated, and enthusiastic individual with a Master's degree / postdoctoral fellow to join the lab. The position: Education: Candidates must have a Master's degree or a Ph.D. degree (or towards completion) in computational neuroscience, biology, computer science, data science, or a related discipline. Computer and General Skills: Knowledge of experimental statistics and excellent programming skills are required (Python, Matlab). High-level expertise in neuroimaging analyses is a plus. Previous experience in machine learning analysis and computational modeling is desirable. Takes initiative. Strong communications skills and research productivity, as well as the ability to work effectively in a research team. Duties and Responsibilities: ? Managing and analyzing big data, including neuroimaging, genetics, and clinical data ? Writing machine learning programs in Python and Matlab to identify patterns in data ? Writing manuscripts ? Presenting findings at national conferences and local seminars/meetings This job is available immediately for 2 years. Job is open until filled. Salary will be commensurate with experience and qualifications according to NIH scales. Candidates should send their CV, representative publications, and contact information of two references to Sivan Kinreich, email: sivan.kinreich at downstate.edu Sivan Kinreich, Ph.D. Department of Psychiatry Prediction Modeling and Biomarker Discovery of Brain Disorders lab (PMBD2) Henri Begleiter Neurodynamics Laboratory SUNY Downstate Medical Center 450 Clarkson Ave. Brooklyn, NY 11203 Tel: 718-270-3322 646-775-8509 Email: sivan.kinreich at downstate.edu sivankinreich at gmail.com ________________________________ The contents of this email message and any attachments are confidential and are intended solely for the addressee. The information may also be legally privileged. 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The 27th RoboCup International Symposium will be held on 22 July 2024, in conjunction with RoboCup 2024 (15 July to 21 July 2024), in Eindhoven, The Netherlands. We call for submissions of papers reporting innovative, original research with relevance to areas of robotics and artificial intelligence as listed below. Within the described scope of topics, we also encourage submissions of high-quality overview articles, papers describing real-world research, and papers reporting theoretical results. Researchers are invited to submit their work independently of whether they participate in the RoboCup competitions or have a RoboCup team. The symposium will be held in person at the Evoluon Conference Center in Eindhoven. In addition to the regular track with regular research papers, there is the development track encouraging reports on innovative hardware developments, software frameworks, and open-source releases of software components. A review of papers describing these contributions will be based on technical aspects and benefits to the practice of communities working in the above fields in general and RoboCup in particular. IMPORTANT DATES Submission of full papers: 22 April 23:59 PST Notification to authors: 5 June 2024 RoboCup Symposium 2024: 22 July 2024 (RoboCup on 15-21 July 2024) SUBMISSION AND PROCEEDINGS All papers will be peer-reviewed and evaluated by members of the senior program committee. The proceedings of the RoboCup International Symposium will be published and archived within the Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNCS/LNAI) series by Springer-Verlag after the conference. Papers should be formatted following the LNAI author guidelines (https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines) and must be electronically submitted through Springer's electronic-submission system EquinOCS (https://equinocs.springernature.com/service/RoboCup2024). Submissions are limited to 12 pages including references. The LNAI author guidelines site contains a Springer's proceedings LaTeX template (v2.23), an older version of this template (v2.21) is also available in Overleaf: (https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/springer-conference-proceedings-template-updated-2022-01-12/wcvbtmwtykqj) TOPICS Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Robot Hardware and Software - mobile robotics - humanoid robotics - sensors and actuators - embedded and mobile devices - robot construction and new materials - robot system integration - robot software architectures - robot programming environments and languages - real-time and concurrent programming - robot simulators - sim2real learning * Perception and Action - 3D perception - distributed sensor integration - sensor noise filtering - real-time image processing and pattern recognition - motion and sensor models - sensory-motor control - robot kinematics and dynamics - high-dimensional motion control * Robot Cognition and Learning - world modelling and knowledge representation - learning from demonstration and imitation - localisation, navigation, and mapping - planning and reasoning - decision making under uncertainty - neural systems and deep learning - complex motor skill acquisition - reinforcement learning and optimisation - motion and sensor model learning * Human-Robot Interaction - robot social intelligence - fluency of interaction - speech synthesis and natural language generation - natural language recognition - explainable robot behaviours - emotion recognition and reaction - understanding human intent and behaviour - safety, security and dependability - enabling humans to predict robot behaviour * Multi-Robot Systems - team coordination methods - communication protocols - learning and adaptive systems - teamwork and heterogeneous agents - dynamic resource allocation - adjustable autonomy * Education and Edutainment - robotics and artificial intelligence education - educational robotics - robot kits and programming tools - robotic entertainment * Applications and Benchmarking - search and rescue robots - robot surveillance - service and social robots - robots at home, at work and in public spaces - robots in the real world - performance metrics - human-robot interaction DEVELOPMENT TRACK To encourage open-source release of hardware and software systems, the RoboCup International Symposium has included a development track in recent years. In 2024, we expand the scope of this track to include datasets and benchmarks. We encourage the submission of papers describing open-source hardware and software, tools and frameworks that facilitate development of robotics hardware and software, datasets that enable new robotic capabilities, as well as benchmarks that establish reproducible test beds and performance metrics to advance research. If applicable, contributions to the special track should include evidence of the released system or dataset, and highlight past, ongoing, and/or potential future impacts on the RoboCup community. A review of these contributions will be based on technical merit and benefits to the RoboCup community, and the research topics listed above. 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URL: From newsletters at tommasoturchi.fyi Tue Mar 26 02:39:58 2024 From: newsletters at tommasoturchi.fyi (Tommaso Turchi) Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2024 07:39:58 +0100 Subject: Connectionists: [CfP] SYNERGY Workshop @ AVI 2024 | Extended Deadline Message-ID: <50af6f8a-cad0-4033-9dfe-f9d1edb81572@app.fastmail.com> *** Apologies for cross-posting *** -------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS: SYNERGY Workshop 2024 -------------------------------------- We are pleased to announce the call for papers for the SYNERGY Workshop, to be held in conjunction with ACM AVI 2024. This workshop is dedicated to designing and building Hybrid Human-AI Systems. We invite researchers and practitioners to contribute to this evolving field, where human intelligence synergizes with artificial intelligence. **Exciting Update**: We are thrilled to announce Dr. Yang Li as our Keynote Speaker! Dr. Li, a Senior Staff Research Scientist at Google Research and an affiliate faculty member at the University of Washington CSE, will share his insights on the intersection of Human Computer Interaction and Artificial Intelligence, highlighting the future of Human-AI collaboration. **Deadline Extension**: In response to numerous requests and to accommodate the interests of our community, we have extended the submission deadline to April 9, 2024. We hope this gives you the extra time needed to finalize and submit your work. == Important Dates == * New Submission Deadline: April 9, 2024 * Notification: April 23, 2024 * Camera Ready: May 3, 2024 * Workshop Date: Afternoon of June 3rd or 4th, 2024 == Submission Guidelines == * Length: 5-10 pages * Format: CEUR-ART 1-column Template * Selected papers may be invited to submit an extended version to a dedicated Special Issue of Springer's "Personal and Ubiquitous Computing" * Submission Website: https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/SYNERGY2024 == Topics Include == The workshop seeks contributions on, but not limited to, the following themes: 1. Human-AI Collaboration Models 2. Augmenting Human Cognition with AI 3. Design Principles for Synergistic Systems 4. Ethics and Trust in Human-AI Interaction 5. Philosophical and Theoretical Approaches 6. Adaptive Interfaces for Human-AI Synergy 7. Software Architectures and Tools 8. Case Studies of Human-AI Synergy == Organizers == * Alan Dix, Swansea University & Cardiff Metropolitan University * Matt Roach, Swansea University * Tommaso Turchi, University of Pisa * Alessio Malizia, University of Pisa For more information, please visit our website at https://synergy.trx.li or contact Tommaso Turchi (tommaso.turchi at unipi.it). Join us in Arenzano, Genoa, Italy, for an insightful workshop that aims to explore and shape the future of hybrid human-AI systems! //==============================\\ Tommaso Turchi Department of Computer Science University of Pisa \\==============================// From bernstein.communication at fz-juelich.de Wed Mar 27 04:56:34 2024 From: bernstein.communication at fz-juelich.de (Alexander Lammers) Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2024 09:56:34 +0100 Subject: Connectionists: Deadline approaching: Call for Satellite Workshop Proposals - Bernstein Conference 2024 Message-ID: <80336210-ba4d-45b6-9eb2-aa3f723eb6bf@fz-juelich.de> The Bernstein Network Computational Neuroscience invites proposals for Satellite Workshops at the Bernstein Conference 2024 in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Deadline: April 10, 2024 ? 15:00 CEST ____ Bernstein Conference Each year, the Bernstein Network invites the international computational neuroscience community to the annual Bernstein Conference for intensive scientific exchange. It has established itself as one of the most renowned conferences worldwide in this field, attracting students, postdocs, and PIs from around the world to meet and discuss new scientific discoveries. https://www.bernstein-conference.de/ ____ Invited speakers Dmitriy Aronov (Columbia University, USA) Alison Barker (Max Planck Institute for Brain Research, Germany) Helen Barron (University of Oxford, UK) Elizabeth Buffalo (University of Washington, USA) Alex Cayco Gajic (Ecole Normale Sup?rieure, France) Jan Drugowitsch (Harvard University, USA) Jakob Macke (University of T?bingen, Germany) Tirin Moore (Stanford University, USA) Mala Murthy (Princeton University, USA) Memming Park (Champalimaud Foundation, Portugal) Xiao-Jing Wang (New York University, USA) ____ Satellite Workshops Satellite Workshops of the Bernstein Conference 2024 provide a forum to discuss topical research questions, novel scientific approaches, and challenges in computational neuroscience and related fields. Ideally, the format should foster extensive scientific discussions and debates, and go beyond a mere series of talks. https://bernstein-network.de/bernstein-conference/call-for-satellite-workshops/ ____ Important Dates Satellite Workshops: September 29 - 30, 2024 * Sunday, Sep 29, 14:00 - 18:30 CEST * Monday, Sep 30, 8:30 - 12:30 CEST Main Conference: September 30 - October 2, 2024 Deadline for Satellite Workshop proposal submission: April 10, 2024 ? 15:00 CEST Notification of Satellite Workshop acceptance: May 2024 ____ Benefits of participation Satellite Workshop registration is free for speakers of workshops. 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Clara Stegehuis Twente University, The Netherlands *PUBLICATION* Full papers (not previously published up to 12 pages) and Extended Abstracts (about published or unpublished research up to 4 pages) are welcome. ? *Papers *will be included in the conference *proceedings edited by Springer* ? *Extended abstracts* will be published in the *Book of Abstracts (with ISBN)* Extended versions will be invited for publication in *special issues of international journals:* o PLOS Complex Systems edited by PLOS . o PLOS One edited by PLOS o Applied Network Science edited by Springer Nature o Social Network Analysis and Mining edited by Springer Nature o Entropy edited by MDPI o Advances in Complex Systems edited by World Scientific o Complex Systems Journal *SUBMISSION:* *https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/COMPLEXNETWORKS2024/* *TOPICS* *Topics include, but are not limited to: * o Models of Complex Networks o Structural Network Properties and Analysis o Complex Networks and Epidemics o Community Structure in Networks o Community Discovery in Complex Networks o Motif Discovery in Complex Networks o Network Mining o Network embedding methods o Machine learning with graphs o Dynamics and Evolution Patterns of Complex Networks o Link Prediction o Multilayer Networks o Network Controllability o Synchronization in Networks o Visual Representation of Complex Networks o Large-scale Graph Analytics o Social Reputation, Influence, and Trust o Information Spreading in Social Media o Rumour and Viral Marketing in Social Networks o Recommendation Systems and Complex Networks o Financial and Economic Networks o Complex Networks and Mobility o Biological and Technological Networks o Mobile call Networks o Bioinformatics and Earth Sciences Applications o Resilience and Robustness of Complex Networks o Complex Networks for Physical Infrastructures o Complex Networks, Smart Cities and Smart Grids o Political networks o Supply chain networks o Complex networks and information systems o Complex networks and CPS/IoT o Graph signal processing o Cognitive Network Science o Network Medicine o Network Neuroscience o Quantifying success through network analysis o Temporal and spatial networks o Historical Networks *GENERAL CHAIRS* Hocine Cherifi (University of Burgundy, France) Murat Donduran (Yildiz Technical University, Turkey) Luis M. 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URL: From efipatm at gmail.com Wed Mar 27 06:52:59 2024 From: efipatm at gmail.com (Efi) Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2024 03:52:59 -0700 Subject: Connectionists: CFP - Big Visual Data Analytics (BVDA) Workshop at ICIP, 27-30 October 2024, Abu Dhabi, UAE Message-ID: *CALL FOR PAPERS* *Big Visual Data Analytics (BVDA) Workshop** at **ICIP 2024* *IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, 27-30 October 2024, Abu Dhabi, UAE* We invite researchers and practitioners working on various aspects of *big visual data analytics* to submit their work to the *Big Visual Data Analytics (BVDA) Workshop*, organized in conjunction with the* IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP) 2024. *The ever-increasing visual data availability leads to repositories or streams characterized by big data volumes, velocity (acquisition and processing speed), variety (e.g., RGB or RGB-D or hyperspectral images) and complexity (e.g., video data and point clouds). Their processing necessitates novel and advanced visual analysis methods, in order to unlock their potential across diverse domains. The *BVDA Workshop* aims to explore this rapidly evolving field encompassing cutting-edge methods, emerging applications, and significant challenges in extracting meaning and value from large-scale visual datasets. From high-throughput biomedical imaging and autonomous driving sensors to satellite imagery and social media platforms, visual data has permeated nearly every aspect of our lives. Analyzing this data effectively requires efficient tools that go beyond traditional methods, leveraging advancements in machine learning, computer vision and data science. Exciting new developments in these fields are already paving the way for *fully and semi-automated visual data analysis workflows at an unprecedented scale.* This workshop will provide a platform for researchers and practitioners to discuss recent breakthroughs and challenges in big visual data analytics, explore novel applications across diverse domains (e.g., environment monitoring, natural disaster management, robotics, urban planning, healthcare, etc.), as well as for fostering interdisciplinary collaborations between computer vision, data science, machine learning, and domain experts. Its ultimate goal is to help identify promising research directions and pave the way for future innovations. The BVDA Workshop delves deeper into specific aspects of big visual data, complementing the broader ICIP themes. Thus it can generate new research interest and collaborations within the main conference community, while attracting researchers and practitioners specifically interested in big visual data analytics. Its interdisciplinary nature, its focus on cutting-edge areas (e.g., large Vision-Language Models, distributed deep neural architectures, fast generative models, etc.) and its synergies with neighboring fields (e.g., privacy-preserving analytics, real-time visual analytics, ethical considerations, etc.) broaden the discussion. *Topics of interest* include (non-exhaustively) the following ones: - Scalable algorithms and architectures for big visual data processing and analysis. - High-performance computing, distributed and parallel processing, efficient data storage and retrieval for big visual data analysis. - Deep learning architectures for large-scale visual content understanding, search & retrieval: Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), Transformers, Self-Supervised Learning, etc. - Big visual data summarization. - Decentralized/distributed DNN architectures for big visual data analysis. - Cloud/edge computing architectures for big visual data analysis. - Multimodal big visual data analysis. - Large Vision-Language Models/Foundation Models. - Fast generative models for visual data: Synthesizing realistic images/videos, data augmentation, in-painting and manipulation. - Fast Interpretability and eXplainability (XAI) of visual analytics models: Understanding and communicating model decisions, trust and bias in AI systems. - Privacy-preserving analytics in the context of big visual data: Secure data processing, differential privacy, federated learning. - Visual analytics for real-time applications: Efficient analysis of visual streaming data, edge/fog computing. - Visual analytics for specialized domains: Remote sensing, natural disaster management, medical imaging, social media analysis, etc. - Ethical considerations in big visual data analytics: Data ownership, fairness, accountability, societal impact. The regular ICIP paper template/style must be used for submission. All accepted contributions will be *published in IEEE Xplore*. The paper submission deadline is *April 25, 2024*. *For further details and submission instructions visit: * https://icarus.csd.auth.gr/cfp-bvda-icip24-workshop/ Organizers Prof. Ioannis Pitas: Chair of the International AI Doctoral Academy (AIDA ), Director of the Artificial Intelligence and Information analysis (AIIA ) Lab, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. Prof. Massimo Villari: University of Messina, Italy. Dr. Ioannis Mademlis: Postdoctoral researcher at the Harokopio University of Athens. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From chabane.djeraba at univ-lille.fr Wed Mar 27 05:42:44 2024 From: chabane.djeraba at univ-lille.fr (Chaabane Djeraba) Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2024 10:42:44 +0100 (CET) Subject: Connectionists: Position of Associate Professor in software engineering and Computer Science, University of Lille In-Reply-To: <982697216.47074314.1711134999365.JavaMail.zimbra@univ-lille.fr> References: <982697216.47074314.1711134999365.JavaMail.zimbra@univ-lille.fr> Message-ID: <51938505.50781723.1711532564951.JavaMail.zimbra@univ-lille.fr> The position of Associate Professor in computer science is open at the University of Lille. It is open for the FOX research team (https://www.cristal.univ-lille.fr/equipes/fox/; doi: 10.1109/TAFFC.2019.2949559), which wishes to strengthen research in the field of computer vision, and in particular: * software engineering for computer vision * computer vision and artificial intelligence * spiking neural network and neuromorphic approaches to computer vision * frugal learning for computer vision https://galaxie.enseignementsup-recherche.gouv.fr/antares/fichePosteAntee?telecharger=Telecharger&numemp=234&numetab=0597239Y&ancamp=2024&numsession=1 Candidates will be expected to publish in vision-related conferences and journals. In terms of disciplinary teaching, there is a strong need for courses in areas such as software engineering, databases, computer architecture, system programming, networks, cybersecurity; programming and software engineering; algorithms, automata, languages, logic; data, AI, machine learning; HMI, vision, image processing. More generally, the experience of candidates coming to reinforce all the department's teaching units will be appreciated. Contact: Chaabane Djeraba (chaabane.djeraba at univ-lille.fr) and Ioan Marius Bilasco (marius.bilasco at univ-lille.fr) for further information. Deadline : Friday 29 March 2024, 4 PM, heure de Paris Start date : 01 September 2024 ? Chaabane Djeraba Professeur des Universit?s en Informatique Univ. Lille CRIStAL CNRS - UMR 9189 Cit? Scientifique 59650 Villeneuve d'Ascq Cedex - France ----oooOooo---- Recent papers of the target research team: DOI: 10.1109/TIP.2021.3129120 DOI: 10.1109/TAFFC.2019.2949559 Doi: 10.1016/j.neucom.2023.126805 Doi: 10.1109/TAFFC.2021.3124142 Doi: 10.1016/j.patcog.2019.04.016 ----ooooOooo---- From valerie.gouet at ign.fr Wed Mar 27 13:36:33 2024 From: valerie.gouet at ign.fr (Valerie Gouet) Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2024 18:36:33 +0100 (CET) Subject: Connectionists: [CfP][Springer MTAP] Deadline extension (April, 15): Special Issue on Heritage Preservation in the Digital Age Message-ID: <1829941212.18079899.1711560993375.JavaMail.zimbra@ign.fr> [Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CfP] *** Call for Papers Special Issue at Multimedia Tools and Applications, Springer Heritage Preservation in the Digital Age: Advances in machine learning, monomodal and multimodal processing, and human-machine interaction *** [ https://link.springer.com/journal/11042/updates/26502650 | https://link.springer.com/journal/11042/updates/26502650 ] *** Aims and Scope This special issue focuses on analyzing, processing and valorizing all types of data related to cultural heritage, including tangible and intangible heritage. As stated by UNESCO, cultural heritage provides societies with a wealth of resources inherited from the past, created in the present for the benefit of future generations. The massive digitization of historical analogue resources and production of born digital documents provide us with large volumes of varied multimedia heritage data (images, maps, text, video, 3D objects, multi-sensor data, etc.), which represent an extremely rich heritage that can be exploited in a wide variety of fields, from research in social sciences and computational humanities to land use and territorial policies, including urban modeling, digital simulation, archaeology, tourism, education, culture preservation, creative media and entertainment. In terms of research in computer science, artificial intelligence, and digital humanities, they address challenging problems related to the diversity, specificity or volume of the media, the veracity of the data, and the different user needs with respect to engaging with this rich material and the extraction of value out of the data. These challenges are reflected in the corresponding sub-fields of machine learning, signal processing, mono/multi-modal techniques and human-machine interaction. The objective of this special issue is to present and discuss the latest and most significant trends on analysis, understanding and promotion of heritage contents, focusing on advances on machine learning, signal processing, mono/multi-modal techniques, and human-machine interaction. We welcome research contributions for (but not limited to) the following topics: * Monomodal analysis: image, text, video, 3D, music, sensor data and structured referentials * Information retrieval for multimedia heritage * AI assisted archaeology and heritage data processing * Multi-modal deep learning and time series analysis for heritage data * Heritage modeling, visualization, and virtualization * Smart digitization and reconstruction of heritage data * Open heritage data and bench-marking The scope of targeted applications is extensive and includes: * Analysis, archaeometry of artifacts * Diagnosis and monitoring for restoration and preventive conservation * Geosciences / Geomatics for cultural heritage * Education * Smart and sustainable tourism * Urban planning * Digital Twins *** Important Dates * Submission deadline: 31 March 2024 ---> 15 April 2024 * Review period: 16 April - 30 July 2024 * Notification: 31 July 2024 * Author revision deadline: 15 October 2024 * Final notification: 31 October 2024 *** Guest Editors * Valerie Gouet-Brunet, IGN-ENSG, University of Gustave Eiffel, France ( valerie.gouet at ign.fr ) * Ronak Kosti, Piscsart AI Lab, Germany ( ronakfau at gmail.com ) * Li Weng, School of Information Technology, Zhejiang Financial College, China ( lweng at zfc.edu.cn ) *** Submission Guidelines Authors should prepare their manuscript according to the Instructions for Authors available from the Multimedia Tools and Applications website. Authors should submit through the online submission site at [ https://www.editorialmanager.com/mtap/default.aspx | https://www.editorialmanager.com/mtap/default.aspx ] and select ?SI 1250- Heritage Preservation in the Digital Age: Advances in machine learning, monomodal and multimodal processing, and human-machine interaction? when they reach the ?Article Type? step in the submission process. Submitted papers should present original, unpublished work, relevant to one of the topics of the special issue. All submitted papers will be evaluated on the basis of relevance, significance of contribution, technical quality, scholarship, and quality of presentation, by at least three independent reviewers. It is the policy of the journal that no submission, or substantially overlapping submission, be published or be under review at another journal or conference at any time during the review process. SUMAC 2023. Please note that the authors of selected papers presented at workshop SUMAC2023 (ACM Multimedia 2023) are invited to submit an extended version of their contributions by taking into consideration both the reviewers? comments on their conference paper, and the feedback received during presentation at the conference. It is worth clarifying that the extended version is expected to contain a substantial scientific contribution, e.g., in the form of new algorithms, experiments or qualitative/quantitative comparisons, and that neither verbatim transfer of large parts of the conference paper nor reproduction of already published figures will be tolerated. The extended versions of SUMAC2023 papers will undergo the standard, rigorous journal review process and be accepted only if well-suited to the topic of this special issue and meeting the scientific level of the journal. 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URL: From dwang at cse.ohio-state.edu Wed Mar 27 21:19:56 2024 From: dwang at cse.ohio-state.edu (Wang, Deliang) Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2024 01:19:56 +0000 Subject: Connectionists: NEURAL NETWORKS, April 2024 Message-ID: Neural Networks - Volume 172, April 2024 https://www.journals.elsevier.com/neural-networks Learning the consensus and complementary information for large-scale multi-view clustering Maoshan Liu, Vasile Palade, Zhonglong Zheng Self-supervised anomaly detection in computer vision and beyond: A survey and outlook Hadi Hojjati, Thi Kieu Khanh Ho, Narges Armanfard Instantaneous estimation of momentary affective responses using neurophysiological signals and a spatiotemporal emotional intensity regression network Kaiyu Gan, Ruiding Li, Jianhua Zhang, Zhanquan Sun, Zhong Yin Dynamic decomposition graph convolutional neural network for SSVEP-based brain-computer interface Shubin Zhang, Dong An, Jincun Liu, Jiannan Chen, ... Fuchun Sun Decoding emotion with phase-amplitude fusion features of EEG functional connectivity network Liangliang Hu, Congming Tan, Jiayang Xu, Rui Qiao, ... Yin Tian Logarithmic Learning Differential Convolutional Neural Network Magombe Yasin, Mehmet Sar?g?l, Mutlu Avci Investigating navigation strategies in the Morris Water Maze through deep reinforcement learning Andrew Liu, Alla Borisyuk V2IED: Dual-view learning framework for detecting events of interictal epileptiform discharges Zhekai Ming, Dan Chen, Tengfei Gao, Yunbo Tang, ... Jingying Chen DctViT: Discrete Cosine Transform meet vision transformers Keke Su, Lihua Cao, Botong Zhao, Ning Li, ... Yangfan Liu CI-GNN: A Granger causality-inspired graph neural network for interpretable brain network-based psychiatric diagnosis Kaizhong Zheng, Shujian Yu, Badong Chen Bidirectional visual-tactile cross-modal generation using latent feature space flow model Yu Fang, Xuehe Zhang, Wenqiang Xu, Gangfeng Liu, Jie Zhao TransformerG2G: Adaptive time-stepping for learning temporal graph embeddings using transformers Alan John Varghese, Aniruddha Bora, Mengjia Xu, George Em Karniadakis Adversarially robust neural networks with feature uncertainty learning and label embedding Ran Wang, Haopeng Ke, Meng Hu, Wenhui Wu Local structure-aware graph contrastive representation learning Kai Yang, Yuan Liu, Zijuan Zhao, Peijin Ding, Wenqian Zhao Medical object detector jointly driven by knowledge and data Xianhua Zeng, Yuhang Liu, Jian Zhang, Yongli Guo It takes two: Dual Branch Augmentation Module for domain generalization Jingwei Li, Yuan Li, Jie Tan, Chengbao Liu A generic plug & play diffusion-based denosing module for medical image segmentation Guangju Li, Dehu Jin, Yuanjie Zheng, Jia Cui, ... Meng Qi CRESPR: Modular sparsification of DNNs to improve pruning performance and model interpretability Tianyu Kang, Wei Ding, Ping Chen A novel transformer autoencoder for multi-modal emotion recognition with incomplete data Cheng Cheng, Wenzhe Liu, Zhaoxin Fan, Lin Feng, Ziyu Jia Preserving domain private information via mutual information maximization Jiahong Chen, Jing Wang, Weipeng Lin, Kuangen Zhang, Clarence W. de Silva EMAT: Efficient feature fusion network for visual tracking via optimized multi-head attention Jun Wang, Changwang Lai, Yuanyun Wang, Wenshuang Zhang Contrastive learning of graphs under label noise Xianxian Li, Qiyu Li, De Li, Haodong Qian, Jinyan Wang CONet: Crowd and occlusion-aware network for occluded human pose estimation Xiuxiu Bai, Xing Wei, Zengying Wang, Miao Zhang Reinforcement learning-based consensus control for MASs with intermittent constraints Ao Luo, Qi Zhou, Hongru Ren, Hui Ma, Renquan Lu Subject-independent meta-learning framework towards optimal training of EEG-based classifiers Han Wei Ng, Cuntai Guan Contrastive and adversarial regularized multi-level representation learning for incomplete multi-view clustering Haiyue Wang, Wensheng Zhang, Xiaoke Ma Online estimation of objective function for continuous-time deterministic systems Hamed Jabbari Asl, Eiji Uchibe Coordination as inference in multi-agent reinforcement learning Zhiyuan Li, Lijun Wu, Kaile Su, Wei Wu, ... Yizhou Han Self-guided disentangled representation learning for single image dehazing Tongyao Jia, Jiafeng Li, Li Zhuo, Jing Zhang Perturbation diversity certificates robust generalization Zhuang Qian, Shufei Zhang, Kaizhu Huang, Qiufeng Wang, ... Huan Xiong PeNet: A feature excitation learning approach to advertisement click-through rate prediction Yunfei Yin, Nyambega David Ochieng, Jingqin Sun, Xianjian Bao, Zhuowei Wang Reversible gender privacy enhancement via adversarial perturbations Yiyi Xie, Yuqian Zhou, Tao Wang, Wenying Wen, ... Yushu Zhang Fourier feature decorrelation based sample attention for dense crowd localization Chao Wen, Hongqiang He, Yuhua Qian, Yu Xie, Wenjian Wang Bayesian DivideMix++ for Enhanced Learning with Noisy Labels Bhalaji Nagarajan, Ricardo Marques, Eduardo Aguilar, Petia Radeva Sampling complex topology structures for spiking neural networks Shen Yan, Qingyan Meng, Mingqing Xiao, Yisen Wang, Zhouchen Lin Rectify representation bias in vision-language models for long-tailed recognition Bo Li, Yongqiang Yao, Jingru Tan, Ruihao Gong, ... Ye Luo A multimodal dynamical variational autoencoder for audiovisual speech representation learning Samir Sadok, Simon Leglaive, Laurent Girin, Xavier Alameda-Pineda, Renaud S?guier GSB: Group superposition binarization for vision transformer with limited training samples Tian Gao, Cheng-Zhong Xu, Le Zhang, Hui Kong Are transformer-based models more robust than CNN-based models? Zhendong Liu, Shuwei Qian, Changhong Xia, Chongjun Wang Explanatory subgraph attacks against Graph Neural Networks Huiwei Wang, Tianhua Liu, Ziyu Sheng, Huaqing Li IremulbNet: Rethinking the inverted residual architecture for image recognition Tiantian Su, Anan Liu, Yongran Shi, Xiaofeng Zhang Generation, division and training: A promising method for source-free unsupervised domain adaptation Qing Tian, Mengna Zhao Corruption depth: Analysis of DNN depth for misclassification Akshay Agarwal, Mayank Vatsa, Richa Singh, Nalini Ratha MSDCNN: A multiscale dilated convolution neural network for fine-grained 3D shape classification Wei Zhou, Fujian Zheng, Yiheng Zhao, Yiran Pang, Jun Yi Embedding-Based Entity Alignment of Cross-Lingual Temporal Knowledge Graphs Luyi Bai, Nan Li, Guishun Li, Ziyi Zhang, Lin Zhu Strangeness-driven exploration in multi-agent reinforcement learning Ju-Bong Kim, Ho-Bin Choi, Youn-Hee Han What is behind the meta-learning initialization of adaptive filter? - A naive method for accelerating convergence of adaptive multichannel active noise control ConTIG: Continuous representation learning on temporal interaction graphs Zihui Wang, Peizhen Yang, Xiaoliang Fan, Xu Yan, ... Rongshan Yu Invariant feature based label correction for DNN when Learning with Noisy Labels Lihui Deng, Bo Yang, Zhongfeng Kang, Yanping Xiang AMHGCN: Adaptive multi-level hypergraph convolution network for human motion prediction Jinkai Li, Jinghua Wang, Lian Wu, Xin Wang, ... Yong Xu Importance-aware adaptive dataset distillation Guang Li, Ren Togo, Takahiro Ogawa, Miki Haseyama Towards generalizable Graph Contrastive Learning: An information theory perspective Yige Yuan, Bingbing Xu, Huawei Shen, Qi Cao, ... Xueqi Cheng Neural networks with ReLU powers need less depth Kurt Izak M. Cabanilla, Rhudaina Z. Mohammad, Jose Ernie C. Lope Sampled-based adaptive event-triggered resilient control for multiagent systems with hybrid cyber-attacks Lihua Tan, Xin Wang Novel criteria of sampled-data synchronization controller design for gated recurrent unit neural networks under mismatched parameters Seungyong Han, Suneel Kumar Kommuri, Yongsik Jin Understanding the role of pathways in a deep neural network Lei Lyu, Chen Pang, Jihua Wang Distributed continuous-time accelerated neurodynamic approaches for sparse recovery via smooth approximation to -minimization Junpeng Xu, Xing He Tradeoff analysis between time cost and energy cost for fixed-time synchronization of discontinuous neural networks Qiaokun Kang, Guoquan Ren, Qintao Gan, Ruihong Li, Mingqiang Meng Event-triggered hybrid impulsive control for synchronization of fractional-order multilayer signed networks under cyber attacks Xin Liu, Lili Chen, Yanfeng Zhao, Honglin Li Consideration on the learning efficiency of multiple-layered neural networks with linear units Miki Aoyagi Physics-guided neural network for predicting asphalt mixture rutting with balanced accuracy, stability and rationality Yong Deng, Haifeng Wang, Xianming Shi Fixed-time synchronization of complex-valued neural networks for image protection and 3D point cloud information protection Wenqiang Yang, Junjian Huang, Xing He, Shiping Wen Trainable Spiking-YOLO for low-latency and high-performance object detection Mengwen Yuan, Chengjun Zhang, Ziming Wang, Huixiang Liu, ... Huajin Tang RGDAN: A random graph diffusion attention network for traffic prediction Jin Fan, Wenchao Weng, Hao Tian, Huifeng Wu, ... Jia Wu Causal Disentanglement Domain Generalization for time-series signal fault diagnosis Linshan Jia, Tommy W.S. Chow, Yixuan Yuan A continuous-time neurodynamic approach in matrix form for rank minimization Meng Zhang, Xing He Aggregating intrinsic information to enhance BCI performance through federated learning Rui Liu, Yuanyuan Chen, Anran Li, Yi Ding, ... Cuntai Guan SecBERT: Privacy-preserving pre-training based neural network inference system Hai Huang, Yongjian Wang Cross-modality integration framework with prediction, perception and discrimination for video anomaly detection Chaobo Li, Hongjun Li, Guoan Zhang Physics-informed kernel function neural networks for solving partial differential equations Zhuojia Fu, Wenzhi Xu, Shuainan Liu psoResNet: An improved PSO-based residual network search algorithm Dianwei Wang, Leilei Zhai, Jie Fang, Yuanqing Li, Zhijie Xu Graph global attention network with memory: A deep learning approach for fake news detection Qian Chang, Xia Li, Zhao Duan Optimization of epilepsy detection method based on dynamic EEG channel screening Yuebin Song, Chunling Fan, Xiaoqian Mao SATCount: A scale-aware transformer-based class-agnostic counting framework Yutian Wang, Bin Yang, Xi Wang, Chao Liang, Jun Chen -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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ID3A Kansas State University http://www.pascal-hitzler.de http://www.daselab.org http://www.semantic-web-journal.net http://k-state.edu/ID3A https://neurosymbolic-ai-journal.com From jeremie.cabessa at uvsq.fr Thu Mar 28 07:53:28 2024 From: jeremie.cabessa at uvsq.fr (=?utf-8?B?SsOpcsOpbWllIENhYmVzc2E=?=) Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2024 12:53:28 +0100 Subject: Connectionists: PhD Position in LLMs for chemo-informatics Message-ID: Offer: PhD Position in LLMs for Chemo-Informatics Institution: Universities of Versailles and ?vry ? Paris-Saclay Application deadline: 6 May 2024 Dear all, The laboratories DAVID and LAMBE from the Universities of Versailles and ?vry ? Paris-Saclay are seeking candidates for a PhD position in the fields of LLMs and chemo-informatics. The project entitled "Large Language Models for Material Design" concerns the prediction of graph molecular structures from their vibrational spectra by using LLMs. More details are provided in the pdf enclosed to this message. The application deadline is the 6 of May 2024. To apply, please send your CV by email to J?r?mie Cabessa and Marie-Pierre Gaigeot: jeremie.cabessa at uvsq.fr mgaigeot at univ-evry.fr Thank you for your interest and best regards. J?r?mie Cabessa ------------------------------ J?r?mie Cabessa (prof.) Laboratoire DAVID UVSQ - Universit? Paris-Saclay jeremie.cabessa at uvsq.fr ------------------------------ ? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: PhD_LLMs-chemoinfo_2024.pdf Type: application/pdf Size: 142089 bytes Desc: not available URL: -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Elena.Vildjiounaite at vtt.fi Thu Mar 28 04:58:01 2024 From: Elena.Vildjiounaite at vtt.fi (Vildjiounaite Elena) Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2024 08:58:01 +0000 Subject: Connectionists: CBMI 2024 Special Session on Understanding of Human Behaviour, Emotions and their Reasons: dedaline extented to April 5 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: ==== Apologies for multiple copies ==== ==== Please, feel free to share this call for Papers with your colleagues who might be interested ==== Dear Colleagues, This is a reminder for the Special Session in 21st International Conference on Content-based Multimedia Indexing: Deadline extended Submission deadline: April 5 Conference: September 18-20, Reykjavik, Iceland Special Sessions - CBMI 2024 Multimodal Data Analysis for Understanding of Human Behaviour, Emotions and their Reasons This special session addresses the processing of all types of data related to understanding of human behaviour, emotions, and their reasons, such as current or past context. Understanding human behaviour and context may be beneficial for many services both online and in physical spaces. For example, detecting lack of skills, confusion or other negative states may help to adapt online learning programmes, to detect a bottleneck in the production line, to recognise poor workplace culture etc., or maybe to detect a dangerous spot on a road before any accident happens there. Detection of unusual behaviour may help to improve security of travellers and safety of dementia sufferers and visually/ audio impaired individuals, for example, to help them to stay away from potentially dangerous strangers, e.g., drunk people or football fans forming a big crowd. In context of multimedia retrieval, understanding human behaviour and emotions could help not only for multimedia indexing, but also to derive implicit (i.e., other than intentionally reported) human feedback regarding multimedia news, videos, advertisements, navigators, hotels, shopping items etc. and improve multimedia retrieval. Humans are good at understanding other humans, their emotions and reasons. For example, when looking at people engaged in different activities (sport, driving, working on a computer, working in a construction site, using public transport etc.), a human observer can understand whether a person is engaged in the task or distracted, stopped the recommended video because the video was not interesting, or because the person quickly found what he needed in the beginning of the video. After observing another human for some time, humans can also learn his/ her tastes, skills and personality traits. Hence the interest of this session is, how to improve AI understanding of the same aspects? The topics include (but are not limited to) the following * Use of various sensors for monitoring and understanding human behaviour, emotion/ mental state/ cognition, and context: video, audio, infrared, wearables, virtual (e.g., mobile device usage, computer usage) etc. * Methods for information fusion, including information from various heterogeneous sources * Methods to learn human traits and preferences from long term observations * Methods to detect human implicit feedback from past and current observations * Methods to assess task performance: skills, emotions, confusion, engagement in the task, context * Methods to detect potential security and safety threats and risks * Methods to adapt behavioural and emotional models to different end users and contexts without collecting a lot of labels from each user and/ or for each context: transfer learning, semi-supervised learning, anomaly detection, one-shot learning etc. * How to collect data for training AI methods from various sources, e.g., internet, open data, field pilots etc. * Use of behavioural or emotional data to model humans and adapt services either online or in physical spaces. * Ethics and privacy issues in modelling human emotions, behaviour, context and reasons Proceedings should be published by ACM, the information will soon appear in the conference web page. Best papers will be invited to Multimedia Tools and Applications journal. Conference Website: http://cbmi2024.org/ Authors can submit full papers (6 pages + references), short papers (4 pages + references), special session papers (6 pages + references) and demonstration proposals (4 pages + 1 page demonstration description + references). Authors of certain best papers of the conference will be invited to submit extended versions of their contributions to a special journal issue in MTAP (approval pending). Submissions to CBMI are peer reviewed in a single blind process. All types of papers must use the IEEE templates at https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html. The language of the conference is English. Submission Deadlines * * * Full and short research papers are due April 5, 2024 * * * * Special session papers are due April 5, 2024 * * * * Demonstration submissions are due April 22, 2024 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From paul.cisek at umontreal.ca Thu Mar 28 13:48:38 2024 From: paul.cisek at umontreal.ca (Paul Cisek) Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2024 17:48:38 +0000 Subject: Connectionists: Doctoral studies in the computational neuroscience of decision-making Message-ID: Doctoral studies in the computational neuroscience of decision-making Department of Neuroscience, University of Montreal Applications are invited for doctoral studies in computational neuroscience, in the laboratory of Paul Cisek at the University of Montreal. Our research investigates the neural mechanisms of embodied decision-making and action planning in humans and non-human primates using computational models of the nervous system integrated with behavioral experiments, transcranial magnetic stimulation, and multi-electrode recording in multiple regions of the cerebral cortex and basal ganglia. New projects will use virtual reality to study naturalistic behavior in humans and non-human primates and develop theoretical models of how distributed cortical and subcortical circuits govern continuous interaction with a dynamic environment. We are currently seeking a PhD student whose primary project will involve mathematical models that capture and explain data from previous and current experiments and make testable predictions for future work. Students with a strong background in mathematics, engineering, computer science, or physics, coupled with a keen interest in theoretical neuroscience are encouraged to apply. Prior experience in neurophysiology, behavioral neuroscience and/or computational modeling of neural systems is desirable. Interested candidates are asked to send a curriculum vita, copies of academic transcripts, a statement of research interests and the names and contact information for two references, to Paul Cisek (paul.cisek at umontreal.ca). Applications will be accepted until the position is filled, but preference will be given to applications received before April 30, 2024. Paul Cisek, PhD D?partement de neurosciences Universit? de Montr?al Physical: 2960 chemin de la tour, local 4117 Montr?al, QC H3T 1J4 CANADA Mailing: CP 6128 Succursale centre-ville, Montr?al, QC H3C 3J7 CANADA e-mail: paul.cisek at umontreal.ca Web: www.cisek.org/pavel -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From battleday at g.harvard.edu Fri Mar 29 00:27:13 2024 From: battleday at g.harvard.edu (Battleday, Ruairidh) Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2024 00:27:13 -0400 Subject: Connectionists: Research Summit on Fundamental Challenges for AI. Mountain View, April 15th. Message-ID: We are most excited to announce the AE Spring Summit on Fundamental Challenges for AI (Computer History Museum, Mountain View; April 15th). www.algopreneurship.org This is a day of keynote talks and panels by leading AI researchers on what the open problems for the development of AI algorithms are, and promising scientific and engineering strategies for solving them. We have invited speakers and representatives from the following five technical stakeholder groups to this Summit: - Academia - Tech - FROs / nonprofits - Start-up - VCs / Funders By soliciting answers and discussions from scientists and leaders at these different groups we hope to also examine what their different roles will be in the next period of AI research, and to foster the sharing of research between them. This should be an exciting and productive day, and we have made lower-priced tickets available for students and early-stage researchers. Lunch and a reception will be provided. We look forward to seeing some of you there, and please feel free to share news about the event on social media. The Thinking About Thinking Team Twitter / X: https://bit.ly/springsummitaix LinkedIn: https://bit.ly/springsummitaiLI -- Dr Ruairidh McLennan Battleday BMBCh (Oxon) PhD Postdoctoral Research Fellow Center for Brain Science, Harvard University Center for Brains, Minds, and Machines, MIT -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dhansel0 at gmail.com Sun Mar 31 03:00:09 2024 From: dhansel0 at gmail.com (David Hansel) Date: Sun, 31 Mar 2024 10:00:09 +0300 Subject: Connectionists: World wide VVTNS series: Wednesday, April 3 at 11am (EDT), Manuel Beiran Columbia University | Prediction of neural activity in connectome-constrained recurrent networks In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Important: North America moved to daylight savings time on March 10 Please check the time in your country ------------------- [image: VVTNS.png] https://www.wwtns.online - on twitter: wwtns at TheoreticalWide You are cordially invited to the lecture given by Manuel Beiran Columbia University on the topic of "Prediction of neural activity in connectome-constrained recurrent networks *"* The lecture will be held on zoom on *April 3, 2024*, at *11:00 am EDT * To receive the zoom link: https://www.wwtns.online/register-page *Abstract: *In this talk, I will explain a theory of connectome-constrained neural networks in which a ?student? network is trained to reproduce the activity of a ground-truth ?teacher?, representing a neural system for which a connectome is available. Unlike standard paradigms with unconstrained connectivity, here both networks have the same connectivity but they have different biophysical parameters, reflecting uncertainty in neuronal and synaptic properties. We find that the connectome is often insufficient to constrain the dynamics of networks that perform a specific task, illustrating the difficulty of inferring function from connectivity alone. However, recordings from a small subset of neurons can remove this degeneracy, producing dynamics in the student that agree with the teacher. Our theory can prioritize which neurons to record from to most efficiently unmeasured network activity. The analysis shows that the solution spaces of connectome-constrained and unconstrained models are qualitatively different, and provides a framework to determine when such models yield consistent dynamics. *About VVTNS : Created as the World Wide Neuroscience Seminar (WWTNS) in November 2020 and renamed in homage to Carl van Vreeswijk in Memoriam (April 20, 2022), its aim is to be a platform to exchange ideas among theoreticians. Speakers have the occasion to talk about theoretical aspects of their work which cannot be discussed in a setting where the majority of the audience consists of experimentalists. The seminars, **held on Wednesdays at 11 am ET,** are 45-50 min long followed by a discussion. The talks are recorded with authorization of the speaker and are available to everybody on our YouTube channel.* -- 'Life is good ..' (Carl van Vreeswijk, 1962-2022) --------------------------------------- David Hansel Directeur de Recherche au CNRS Co-Group leader Cerebral Dynamics Plasticity and Learning lab., CNRS 45 rue des Saints P?res 75270 Paris Cedex 06 Tel (Cell): +33 607508403 - Fax (33).1.49.27.90.62 ? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Please contact me directly or through "*workshop < at > tilburg-robotics.eu *" if you have any questions! We are looking forward to a wide and varied participation! --- A few details --- # Registration *Please register in advance* if you wish to attend the Workshop, so that we can organize the facilities accordingly. You can register at https://t.ly/mdyrw , or from the Workshop's website ( https://www.ai4robotics.eu ). # Invited Speakers Our workshop is privileged to host an exceptional lineup of speakers from academia and industry. Confirmed speakers include: * Francesco Nori (Google DeepMind) * Roberto Calandra (TU Dresden) * Sergey Levine (UC Berkeley) * Jens Kober (TU Delft) * Guido de Croon (TU Delft) * Silvia Tolu (DTU) # Workshop Format The Workshop consists of talks by our invited speakers, interleaved with coffee breaks where our participants can present their posters. A tasty free lunch will be provided, during which we are going to organize various networking activities. The Workshop will end with a reception and (free) drinks. # Abstract Since their inception, Artificial Intelligence and Robotics have been intrinsically connected. Yet, the two communities are not always interacting as much as they should. The increasing specialization within each field tends to overlook their deeper link, posing challenges in keeping up to date with each other's advancements. This highlights the critical need for an interdisciplinary forum to harmonize efforts across both domains. Additionally, many research labs lack access to essential resources. This includes both the high-cost robot hardware required for practical application of theories and the computational resources necessary for training large neural networks. By fostering collaborations between AI and robotics researchers, we can significantly enhance research efficiency and accelerate scientific breakthroughs. We organize the AI for Robotics Workshop to provide an opportunity for AI researchers and roboticists to come together and exchange ideas, learn about the latest developments in both fields, encourage networking, and initiate collaborations. The workshop is organized as a one day event in Tilburg, The Netherlands, featuring invited talks on the latest advances in both AI and Robotics from leading researchers. To promote meaningful exchanges, the event includes networking opportunities during lunch and coffee breaks, and ends with relaxed social drinks at the end of the day. Understanding the importance of inclusive participation, we are pleased to offer free registration for the workshop, kindly provided by our sponsors. This includes a delightful lunch and all-day snacks and drinks. Everybody is encouraged to submit and present a poster. Kind regards, Giacomo Spigler Murat Kirtay > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: