From el-ghazali.talbi at univ-lille.fr Sat Feb 1 05:19:20 2025 From: el-ghazali.talbi at univ-lille.fr (El-Ghazali Talbi) Date: Sat, 1 Feb 2025 11:19:20 +0100 Subject: Connectionists: Extended deadline ECCO'2025 Combinatorial Optimization @Marrakech Message-ID: <636694bf-5892-4935-ac41-308ce7337aa6@univ-lille.fr> ************************************************************************************* ?????????????????????????????????? ECCO'2025 38th Conference of the European Chapter on Combinatorial Optimization ???????????????????????? 8-10 May 2025 Marrakech, Morocco ???????????????????????? https://ecco2025.sciencesconf.org ************************************************************************************* The 38th Conference of the European Chapter on Combinatorial Optimization will be held in Marrakech (Morocco) from 8 till 10 May 2025. AIMS The ECCO annual meetings aim to bring together researchers in Combinatorial Optimization to present their work, share experiences, and discuss recent advances in theory and applications. CALL FOR ABSTRACTS We invite all researchers, practitioners, and students interested in the following subject areas to submit an abstract: - Theory and applications of combinatorial optimization - Optimal solution methods, approximation algorithms and metaheuristics for combinatorial optimization problems - Integer programming, global optimization, stochastic integer programming, multi-objective programming, mixed optimization, graph theory and network flows - Application domains include, but are not limited to, logistics and supply chain optimization, manufacturing, energy production and distribution, land consolidation, telecommunications, bioinformatics, finance, discrete tomography, discrete and hybrid dynamical systems. IMPORTANT DATES Extended deadline for abstract submission?????? 28 Feb 2025 Notification of acceptance???????????? 14 March 2025 Deadline for early registration??????? 28 March 2025 ABSTRACT SUBMISSION Abstracts must be written in English and contain no more than 1,500 characters in plain text format (no formulas are allowed). Please note that the submission MUST be done by the person who will present the paper. For each submitted paper, ONE unique registration must be submitted (e.g., for two submitted papers, two separate registrations must be submitted). SOCIAL EVENTS Conference Dinner: Friday 9 May at Chez Ali PUBLICATIONS Book of Abstracts Special Issue: A special issue of the Journal of Combinatorial Optimization will be devoted in papers presented in the conference. All articles will be refereed according to the high standards of the journal. Details of the process will be given during the conference. COMMITTEES Conference chair ??? El-Ghazali Talbi (chair), University of Lille, France Program and steering committee ??? Jacek Blazewicz, Pozna? University of Technology, Poland ??? Bo Chen, University of Warwick, UK ??? Van-Dat Cung, Universit? Grenoble Alpes, France ??? Alain Hertz, Polytechnique Montr?al, Canada ??? Silvano Martello, Universit? di Bologna, Italy ??? Greet Vanden Berghe, KU Leuven, Belgium ??? El-Ghazali Talbi (chair), University of Lille and INRIA, France ??? Paolo Toth, Universit? di Bologna, Italy CONTACT Prof. El-ghazali Talbi email: ecco2025 at sciencesconf.org -- *********************************************************************** OLA'2025 International Conference on Optimization and Learning (SCOPUS, Springer) April 23-25, 2025, Dubai, https://ola2025.sciencesconf.org *********************************************************************** ********************************************************************** ECCO'2025 EURO Conference on the European Chapter of Combinatorial Optimization May 8-10, 2025, Marrakech, Morocco, http://ecco2025.sciencesconf.org *********************************************************************** Prof. El-ghazali TALBI Polytech'Lille, University Lille - INRIA CRISTAL - CNRS From bernabe.cfp at gmail.com Sun Feb 2 07:04:40 2025 From: bernabe.cfp at gmail.com (Bernabe Dorronsoro) Date: Sun, 2 Feb 2025 13:04:40 +0100 Subject: Connectionists: CFP OLA 2025 @ Dubai - Deadline extended! Message-ID: <03E3C731-4D24-4A61-9B23-5886317F6897@gmail.com> Deadline extended to February 7th!! Apologies for cross-posting. Appreciate if you can distribute this CFP to your network. **************************************************************************************** OLA'2025 International Conference on Optimization and Learning 23-25 April 2025 Dubai http://ola2025.sciencesconf.org/ SCOPUS Springer Proceedings **************************************************************************************** OLA is a conference focusing on the future challenges of optimization and/or machine learning methods and their applications. The conference OLA'2025 will provide an opportunity to the international research community in optimization and learning to discuss recent research results and to develop new ideas and collaborations in a friendly and relaxed atmosphere. OLA'2025 welcomes presentations that cover any aspects of optimization and/or machine learning research such as big optimization and learning, optimization for learning, learning for optimization, optimization and learning under uncertainty, deep learning, new high-impact applications, parameter tuning, 4th industrial revolution, computer vision, hybridization issues, optimization-simulation, meta-modeling, high-performance computing, parallel and distributed optimization and learning, surrogate modeling, multi-objective optimization ... Submission papers: We will accept two different types of submissions: - S1: Extended abstracts of work-in-progress and position papers of a maximum of 3 pages - S2: Original research contributions of a maximum of 12 pages Important dates: =============== Extended paper submission deadline Feb 07, 2025 Notification of acceptance Feb 21, 2025 Proceedings: Accepted papers in categories S1 and S2 will be published in the proceedings. 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In particular, two-photon holographic optogenetics now enables precise photostimulation of experimenter-specified groups of individual neurons, while simultaneous two-photon calcium imaging enables the measurement of ongoing and induced activity across the neural population. Despite the enormous space of potential photostimulation patterns and the time-consuming nature of photostimulation experiments, very little algorithmic work has been done to determine the most effective photostimulation patterns for identifying the neural population dynamics. Here, I will discuss ongoing development of active learning techniques to efficiently select which neurons to stimulate such that the resulting neural responses will best inform a dynamical model of the neural population activity. *About VVTNS : Launched as the World Wide Theoretical Neuroscience Seminar (WWTNS) in November 2020 and renamed in homage to Carl van Vreeswijk in Memoriam (April 20, 2022), 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.* ? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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While these technologies were initially developed exclusively for clinical applications, they are now gaining popularity among healthy individuals seeking to enhance their cognitive or physical abilities. Consumer-grade neurotechnological devices can be purchased and operated by non-experts without supervision in various contexts, including work, education, and entertainment. This growing trend presents numerous unresolved questions and potential risks related to data security, privacy, and neuropsychological, ethical, and societal concerns. In response, the Neurorights Foundation (NRF) was established in 2017 to explore these challenges, foster public awareness, and promote discussions on these issues. This talk will examine the NRF's claims and proposals, critically assessing the necessity of their advocated "neurorights." Following an interdisciplinary evaluation of these concerns, we offer recommendations and policy options to address them. Speaker Biography: Guilherme Maia de Oliveira Wood is a psychologist and professor of Neuropsychology and Neuroimaging at the University of Graz (Austria). He graduated in psychology at the Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil, PhD at the Rheinisch-Westf?lische Technische Hochschule Aachen, Germany, and lives in Austria since 2005, working first at the University of Salzburg and since 2011 at the University of Graz. His main interest is the development and validation of instruments for the neuropsychological rehabilitation, which are able to induce and direct neuroplasticity in brain-damaged patients. In his approach, neuropsychological rehabilitation is seen as a hierarchically organised and complex biohybrid system. In the last years, his main focus is on the combination of different types of brain-computer-interfaces, digital technologies and virtual reality in rehabilitation programs. He is also engaged in improving the quality of psychological research with the aim to overcome the replication crisis and promote fair and rigorous scientific communication as well as guaranteeing an ethical and responsible use of neurotechnologies. The Essex BCI-NE Lab webinars series takes place on the first or second Wednesday of the month over Zoom and our webinars are open to all. Speakers are invited to talk about their research for 45-50 minutes followed by a Q&A session/discussion. Where speakers allow it, we record the talks and make them available to everyone on our YouTube channel. You can watch previous talks at: https://www.youtube.com/@essexbcis Next speakers: * Selina Wriessnegger (March 2025) - https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=Y_B7AnAAAAAJ If you don't want to miss our next webinars, please email amatra at essex.ac.uk to ask to be added to our webinars mailing list. 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Image/video enhancement: brightening, color adjustment, sharpening, etc. ? Style transfer ? Hyperspectral image restoration, enhancement, manipulation ? Underwater image restoration, enhancement, manipulation ? Light field image restoration, enhancement, manipulation ? Methods robust to changing weather conditions / adverse outdoor conditions ? Image/video restoration, enhancement, manipulation on constrained settings/mobile devices ? Visual domain translation ? Multimodal translation ? Perceptual enhancement ? Perceptual manipulation ? Depth estimation ? Image/video generation and hallucination ? Image/video quality assessment ? Image/video semantic segmentation ? Saliency and gaze estimation ? Studies and applications of the above. SUBMISSION A paper submission has to be in English, in pdf format, and at most 8 pages (excluding references) in CVPR style. https://cvpr.thecvf.com/Conferences/2025/AuthorGuidelines The review process is double blind. Accepted and presented papers will be published after the conference in the 2024 CVPR Workshops Proceedings. Author Kit: https://github.com/cvpr-org/author-kit/archive/refs/tags/CVPR2025-v3.1(latex).zip Submission site: https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/NTIRE2025 WORKSHOP DATES ? *Early & Regular Papers submission deadline: March 7, 2025* ? Challenge Papers submission deadline: April 1, 2025 ? *Papers reviewed elsewhere submission deadline: April 1, 2025* CHALLENGES - Night Photography Rendering - Light Field Image Super-Resolution - HR Depth from Images of Specular and Transparent Surfaces - UGC Video Enhancement - Text to Image Generation Model Quality Assessment - Video Quality Enhancement for Video Conferencing - Short-form UGC Video Quality Assessment and Enhancement - Day and Night Raindrop Removal for Dual-Focused Images - Efficient Burst HDR and Restoration - Reflection Removal in the Wild - Shadow Removal - Ambient Light Normalization - Image Super-Resolution (x4) - Restore Any Image Model (RAIM) in the Wild - Low Light Enhancement - Event-Based Image Deblurring - XGC Quality Assessment - Image Denoising - Rip Current Segmentation - Efficient Image Super-Resolution To learn more about the challenges, to participate in the challenges, and to access the data everybody is invited to check the NTIRE 2025 page: https://cvlai.net/ntire/2025/ CHALLENGES DATES ? *Release of train data: January, 2025* ? 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For details, see https://jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki-INTELLIGENCE3/812678202/ Aapo From info at icas.cc Mon Feb 3 09:15:47 2025 From: info at icas.cc (ICAS Organizing Committee) Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2025 15:15:47 +0100 Subject: Connectionists: =?utf-8?q?Save_the_Date=3A_International_Artifici?= =?utf-8?q?al_Intelligence_Summer_School_=E2=80=93_IAISS_2025=2C_Se?= =?utf-8?q?pt_21-25=2C_Riva_del_Sole_Resort_=26_SPA_=40_Tuscany_*_E?= =?utf-8?q?arly_Registration=3A_by_23_March_*?= Message-ID: * Apologies for multiple copies. Please forward to anybody who might be interested, thanks. * SAVE THE DATE: IAISS 2025 Early Registration: by 23 March #IAISS2025, A Residential Summer School in AI & Generative AI for Science and Engineering IAISS 2025 is a full-immersion 5-day Summer School in Tuscany on cutting-edge advances in AI and Generative AI with lectures delivered by world-renowned experts. 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Yuki Asano, University of Technology Nuremberg, Germany Pierre Baldi, University of California, Irvine, CA, USA Lucas Beyer, OpenAI, Z?rich, Switzerland Wessel Bruinsma, Microsoft Research Amsterdam, The Netherlands Sam Buchanan, Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago, USA Floris Geerts, University of Antwerp, Belgium Sven Giesselbach, Fraunhofer Institute - IAIS, Germany & Telecom Systems Chin-Wei Huang, Microsoft Amsterdam, The Netherlands Vicky Kalogeiton, ?cole Polytechnique Paris, France Thomas Kipf, Google DeepMind, USA Yi Ma, University of California, Berkeley, USA Abigail See, Google DeepMind, London, UK Michal Valko, Meta Paris, France More Speakers TBA TUTORIAL SPEAKERS: Druv Pai, University of California, Berkeley, USA Yaodong Yu, University of California, Berkeley, USA Peng Wang, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA https://2025.iaiss.cc/lecturers/ https://2025.iaiss.cc/lectures/ VENUE: https://2025.iaiss.cc/venue/ Riva del Sole Resort & SPA Localit? Riva del Sole? 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PhD students, PostDocs, Industry Practitioners and Junior Academics (only up to assistant professors) will be typical profiles of the IAISS attendants. The Summer School 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 ? BSc Student) attending the Summer School. Language: English. To participate in the IAISS 2025, all attendants must (1/2) register for the school (by March 23, 2025) and (2/2) book accommodation at the school venue, ?Riva del Sole Resort & SPA? (by July 23, 2025); 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 IAISS organizing committee (iaiss at icas.cc). 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In particular, two-photon holographic optogenetics now enables precise photostimulation of experimenter-specified groups of individual neurons, while simultaneous two-photon calcium imaging enables the measurement of ongoing and induced activity across the neural population. Despite the enormous space of potential photostimulation patterns and the time-consuming nature of photostimulation experiments, very little algorithmic work has been done to determine the most effective photostimulation patterns for identifying the neural population dynamics. Here, I will discuss ongoing development of active learning techniques to efficiently select which neurons to stimulate such that the resulting neural responses will best inform a dynamical model of the neural population activity. *About VVTNS : Launched as the World Wide Theoretical Neuroscience Seminar (WWTNS) in November 2020 and renamed in homage to Carl van Vreeswijk in Memoriam (April 20, 2022), 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.* ? ? ? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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The deadline to submit a paper is quickly approaching: - February 10th, 2025 (23:59 AoE): Paper submission deadline approaching soon! - April 3rd - April 12th, 2025 (23:59 AoE): Author response and discussion period - May 6th, 2025 (23:59 AoE): Author notification We invite papers that describe novel theory, methodology and applications related to artificial intelligence, machine learning and statistics. Papers will be assessed in a rigorous double-blind peer-review process, based on the criteria of technical correctness, novelty, whether claims are backed up convincingly, and clarity of writing. Authors are strongly encouraged to make code and data available. Papers can be submitted on the UAI 2025 OpenReview submission site . Please see the Submission Instructions for more details on how your manuscript should be formatted. Important: We require that all authors have an OpenReview account. 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Sugiyama Learning in Associative Networks Through Pavlovian Dynamics Daniele Lotito, Miriam Aquaro, and Chiara Marullo Generalization Guarantees of Gradient Descent for Shallow Neural Networks Yiming Ying, Puyu Wang, Yunwen Lei, Di Wang, and Ding-Xuan Zhou ----- ON-LINE -- http://www.mitpressjournals.org/neco MIT Press Journals, One Rogers Street, Cambridge, MA 02142-1209 Tel: (617) 253-2889 FAX: (617) 577-1545 journals-cs at mit.edu ----- From mariya.k.toneva at gmail.com Wed Feb 5 03:52:54 2025 From: mariya.k.toneva at gmail.com (Mariya Toneva) Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2025 09:52:54 +0100 Subject: Connectionists: Applications Open: CAJAL course on Neuroscience and AI, 14 Jul - 1 Aug, 2025, Lisbon Message-ID: *Dear Colleagues,* I?m reaching out as co-director of the new CAJAL Course to share an exciting opportunity for early-career researchers interested in the intersection of *neuroscience and AI*?the *NeuroAI Course*, which is now accepting applications. This intensive, hands-on course will provide participants with cutting-edge training in *deep learning, computational modeling, and AI-driven approaches to neuroscience research*. Participants will work with world-class faculty to explore how AI can help model and understand brain function and behavior. *? Course Dates:* 14 July - 1 August 2025 *? Location:* Champalimaud Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal *? Application Deadline:* March 7th 2025 *? Stipends are available* ? *More info here: *https://cajal-training.org/on-site/neuro-ai/ *Faculty Include:* - *Jacob Yates *? UC Berkeley, USA - *Martin Schrimpf* ? EPFL, Switzerland - *Maria Eckstein* ? Google DeepMind, UK - *Patrick Mineault *? Amaranth Foundation, USA - *Carsen Stringer *? HHMI Janelia Research Campus, USA - *Chris Summerfield* ? Oxford University, UK - *John Krakauer* ? Champalimaud, Portugal - *Memming Park* ? Champalimaud, Portugal - *Andreas Tolias *? Stanford, USA - *Jonathan Pillow* ? Princeton University, USA - *Shailee Jain* ? UC San Francisco, USA Through hands-on tutorials and project work, participants will gain expertise in: - Deep learning for vision and language (CNNs, transformers) - Reinforcement learning algorithms - State space models for neural time series - Machine learning for biophysical models of neuronal circuits *Course Directors:* - *Fabian Sinz* - Georg August University G?ttingen, Germany - *Leyla Isik* - Johns Hopkins University, USA - *Mariya Toneva* - Max Planck Institute for Software Systems, Germany - *Srini Turaga* - HHMI Janelia Research Campus, USA I?ve attached a *course poster* and included *social media links* below?please feel free to share this with your network or forward to anyone who might be interested! ? *Social Media Links:* ? Bluesky ? LinkedIn ? Facebook Let me know if you have any questions, and thanks for helping us spread the word! 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This annual event brings together *leading researchers, practitioners, and industry experts* to discuss cutting-edge advances in *network science, graph machine learning, complex systems and computational social science*. *?** Key Details* ? *Conference Dates:* December 9-11, 2025 ? *Tutorials:* December 8, 2025 ? *Location:* Binghamton, New York, USA ? *Proceedings Published by Springer* Stay tuned! The *Call for Papers* will be officially launched soon, inviting submissions in *network science, graph learning, social networks, biological systems, smart cities, and more*. Mark your calendar, and don?t miss this exciting opportunity to share your research with the global community! ? *Want to stay updated?* visit https://complexnetworks.org/ Best regards, *COMPLEX NETWORKS 2025 Organizing Committee* -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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You can participate in the AIDA program by offering new or opening-up existing courses targeted to AIDA students (PhD students, Postdoc researchers, of AIDA Members) or other registrants (students/scientists/engineers) worldwide. Any qualified Al Professor/Postdoc or Senior AI researcher (PhD holder) can apply to offer a course, no matter if she/he belongs to a host University that is an AIDA member or not. Short/Very Short course formats (5-16 hours) are typically encouraged, while semester courses, or asynchronous mode web courses will be considered as well. You (or your organization) will set us the course registration terms (e.g., registration fees) in cooperation with AIDA. Accepted courses will be listed on AIDA website (https://www.i-aida.org/) and will be advertised for free with the support of AIDA dissemination channels. 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The focus of the conference is on both classic and recent trends in computer vision, pattern recognition and image processing, and covers both theoretical and application aspects, with particular emphasis on the following topics: - Video Analysis and Understanding - Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning - Deep Learning - Multiview Geometry and 3D Computer Vision - Image Analysis, Detection, and Recognition - Multimedia - Biomedical and Assistive Technology - Digital Forensics and Biometrics - Image Processing for Cultural Heritage - Robot and Vision - Brave New Ideas - AI and science - X-Realities - Embedded Vision The conference will be held in Rome, Italy on 15-19th September, 2025. The conference aims to serve as a stimulating discussion forum for researchers to meet, present their work, and exchange ideas, including oral and poster sessions, and offering invited keynote talks by distinguished speakers. The conference will also include satellite workshops and tutorials. IMPORTANT DATES - First round paper submission & notification: Submission: 14 February 2025 - Notification to Authors: 31 March 2025 Second round paper submission & notification: - Submission: 15 April 2025 - Notification to Authors: 15 June 2025 Conference: - Main conference: 17th - 19th September 2025 - Workshop and Tutorials: 15th - 16th September 2025 SUBMISSION All submissions will be handled electronically via the conference?s CMT Website: https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/ICIAPconf2025 Authors can find complete instructions of how to format their papers at: https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines The maximum number of pages is 12 including references. Papers will be selected through a double-blind review process, taking into account originality, significance, clarity, soundness, relevance and technical contents. Each submission will be managed by an Area Chair and reviewed by at least three reviewers. Accepted papers will be included in the ICIAP 2025 Conference Proceedings, which will be published by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series (LNCS). BEST PAPER AWARDS IAPR Best paper award INVITED SPEAKERS Prof. Zeynep Akata, University of Tuebingen, Germany Prof. Michael Bronstein, University of Oxford, United Kingdom Prof. Francesco Locatello, ISTA, Austria Dr. Vittorio Ferrari, Synthesia, United Kingdom ORGANIZERS General Chairs: Emanuele Rodol?, Sapienza University of Rome Iacopo Masi, Sapienza University of Rome Fabio Galasso, Sapienza University of Rome Technical Program Chairs: Marco Cristani, University of Verona, Italy Paolo Soda, Universit? Campus Bio-Medico di Roma Luisa Verdoliva, Universit? degli Studi di Napoli Federico II Philippos Mordohai, Stevens Institute of Technology Workshop Chairs: Giovanni Maria Farinella, Universit? di Catania, Italy Silvia Zuffi, IMATI-CNR, Italy Tutorial Chairs: Zorah Laehner, University of Siegen Alessio Del Bue, Italian Institute of Technology Special Session Chair: Cosimo Distante, Institute of Applied Sciences and Intelligent Systems, CNR, Italy Industrial Chairs: Simone Scardapane, Sapienza University, Italy Ignas Budvytis, University of Cambridge, UK Publicity and Social Media Chair: Antonino Furnari, University of Catania, Italy Publication Chairs: Danilo Avola, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy Web Chair: Daniele Pannone, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy Local Arrangement Chairs: Danilo Avola, Sapienza University of Rome Daniele Pannone, Sapienza University of Rome Daniele Trappolini, Sapienza University of Rome Paolo Mandica, Sapienza University of Rome Luca Scofano, Sapienza University of Rome Antonio D'Orazio, Sapienza University of Rome CVPL Relation Chair: Luigi Cinque, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy CONTACTS info at iciap.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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However, recent advances bridging the two domains are fostering collaborations. As part of a?research semester on Control Theory and Reinforcement Learning at CWI, Amsterdam, NL, we have a workshop on broad themes across these topics.Date: 24-25 March 2025Venue: CWI (Research Institute for Mathematics and Computer Science), Amsterdam, Netherlands?We have a line-up of renowned speakers:Ann Now?, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, BelgiumBert Kappen, Radboud Univ, Nijmegen, NetherlandsDavide Grossi, Univ of Amsterdam, University of Groningen, NetherlandsFrans Oliehoek, TU Delft, NetherlandsHarri L?hdesm?ki, Aalto University, FinlandJens Kober, TU Delft, NetherlandsSean Meyn, Univ. of Florida, USASofie Haesert, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands??Please register at the earliest!https://www.cwi.nl/en/events/cwi-research-semester-programmes/workshop-themes-across-control-and-reinforcement-learning/??Looking forward to seeing you!Organizers of the?research semester programme.?Download and?advertise the poster.? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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The workshop will be held in Pittsburg, PA, USA on June 06, 2025 in conjunction with the 14th ACM Conference on Data and Application Security and Privacy (CODASPY 2025). *** Paper submission deadline: February 14, 2025 *** *** Website: https://sites.google.com/view/sat-cps-2025/*** SaT-CPS aims to represent a forum for researchers and practitioners from industry and academia interested in various areas of CPS security. SaT-CPS seeks novel submissions describing practical and theoretical solutions for cyber security challenges in CPS. Submissions can be from different application domains in CPS. Example topics of interest are given below, but are not limited to: - Secure CPS architectures - Authentication mechanisms for CPS - Access control for CPS - Key management in CPS - Key management in CPS - Attack detection for CPS - Threat modeling for CPS - Forensics for CPS - Intrusion and anomaly detection for CPS - Trusted-computing in CPS - Energy-efficient and secure CPS - Availability, recovery, and auditing for CPS - Distributed secure solutions for CPS - Metrics and risk assessment approaches - Privacy and trust - Blockchain for CPS security - Data security and privacy for CPS - Digital twins for CPS - Wireless sensor network security - CPS/IoT malware analysis - CPS/IoT firmware analysis - Economics of security and privacy - Securing CPS in medical devices/systems - Securing CPS in civil engineering systems/devices - Physical layer security for CPS - Security on heterogeneous CPS - Securing CPS in automotive systems - Securing CPS in aerospace systems - Usability security and privacy of CPS - Secure protocol design in CPS - Vulnerability analysis of CPS - Anonymization in CPS - Embedded systems security - Formal security methods in CPS - Industrial control system security - Securing Internet-of-Things - Securing smart agriculture and related domains - LLMs for trustworthy IoT/CPS - XAI for trustworthy IoT/CPS - Cyber deception technologies for CPS - Trustworthy and secure drone swarms/UAVs - Transportation system security The workshop is planned for one day, June 06, 2025, on the last day of the conference. Instructions for Paper Authors All submissions must describe original research, not published nor currently under review for another workshop, conference, or journal. All papers must be submitted electronically via the Easychair system: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=acmsatcps2025 Full-length papers Papers must be at most 10 pages in length in double-column ACM format (as specified at https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template). Submission implies the willingness of at least one author to attend the workshop and present the paper. Accepted papers will be included in the ACM Digital Library. The presenter must register for the workshop before the deadline for author registration. Position papers and Work-in-progress papers We also invite short position papers and work-in-progress papers. Such papers can be of length up to 6 pages in double-column ACM format (as specified at https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template), and must clearly state "Position Paper" or "Work in progress," as the case may be in the title section of the paper. These papers will be reviewed and accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings. Important Dates Due date for full workshop submissions: February 14, 2025 Notification of acceptance to authors: March 14, 2025 Camera-ready of accepted papers: March 21, 2025 Workshop day: June 06, 2025 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From mtista at gmail.com Thu Feb 6 03:59:31 2025 From: mtista at gmail.com (Massimo Tistarelli) Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2025 09:59:31 +0100 Subject: Connectionists: Extended deadline: Call for participation to the 22nd Int.l Summer School on Biometrics - June 2-6 2025 Message-ID: ?? Please accept our sincere apologies for receiving multiple copies of this announcement ?? *22nd Int.l Summer School for Advanced Studies on Biometrics in the Generative AI Era* *Alghero, Italy ? June 2 - 6 2025* http://biometrics.uniss.it *Contact:* tista at uniss.it *Extended application deadline: MARCH 2* *nd 2025 *(download the application form at: http://biometrics.uniss.it) * For the past 20 years this international Summer School provided and active and dynamic forum to closely follow the most recent developments in science and technology to offer a cutting edge, intensive training course, always up to date with the current state-of-the-art. This year's main topic will be the impact of generative AI on the development and deployment of biometrics in different application domains.* Machine learning, Image understanding, Signal analysis, Neuroscience, Robotics, Forensic science, Digital forensics and other disciplines, converged in a truly multidisciplinary effort to devise and build advanced systems to facilitate the interpretation of signals recorded from individuals acting in a given environment. This is what we simply call today "Biometrics". Over the last decade the advent of Deep Learning and, more recently, Generative AI, strongly impacted both research and application of automatic biometric data analysis and recognition. However, other issues and concerns, not directly related to the computational performance, arise including the fairness, reliability and trustfulness of current biometric systems. This edition of the school will address these issues trying to answer some compelling questions, such as: How to mitigate bias in biometric systems? How to design privacy-preserving and "ethical" biometric devices? What can we learn from human perception? How to better deploy current AI approaches? How to cope for adversarial attacks in biometric recognition? What is the scalability and real potential for biometric systems? What is the potential impact of biometrics in forensic investigation and crime prevention? This school follows the successful track of the International Summer Schools on Biometrics held since 2003and it will provide a clear and in-depth picture on the state-of-the-art in biometric verification/identification technology, both under the theoretical and scientific point of view as well as in diverse application domains. The lectures will be given by 18 outstanding experts in the field, from both academia and industry. Open sessions will be organised with questions and answers moderated by the leading experts in the field. *Participant application* To attend the school classes, physical presence of the participants will be required. In exceptional cases of travel limitations remote participation with videoconference facilities, will be also allowed. The expected school fees will be in the order of 1,800 ? (400 ? in videoconference) for students and 2,400 ? (800 ? in videoconference) for others, including full board accommodation, all courses and handling material. A limited number of scholarships offered by the school sponsors, partially covering the fees, will be awarded to Ms/Phd students, selected on the basis of their scientific background and on-going research work. The scholarship request form can be downloaded from the school web site http://biometrics.uniss.it Poster boards will be also available to all participants to display their current research or professional activities. Send a filled application form (download from http://biometrics.uniss.it) together with a short resume to: *Prof. Massimo Tistarelli ?* e-mail: *biometricsummerschool at gmail.com* - Submission of March 2nd, 2025 - Notification of acceptance: March 15th, 2025 - Registration: April 15th, 2025 *Advance pre-registration is strictly required by March 2nd 2025* *School location* The school will be hosted by Hotel Dei Pini (https://www.hoteldeipini.com/ ) in the Capo Caccia bay, near Alghero, Sardinia. This is one of the most beautiful resorts in the Mediterranean Sea. The structure is beautifully immersed into the Capo Caccia bay. The hotel Dei Pini has a recently renovated conference centre, fully equipped for scientific events. The school venue, as well as the surroundings, proved to be a perfect environment for the school activities. The organisers and all lecturers are fully committed to make this year's school as successful, instructing and inspiring as in the past years. *School Committee:* *Massimo Tistarelli* Computer Vision Laboratory ? University of Sassari, Italy *Josef Bigun * Department of Computer Science ? Halmstad University, Sweden *Enrico Grosso* Computer Vision Laboratory ? University of Sassari, Italy *Anil K. Jain* Biometrics laboratory ? Michigan State University, USA *Distinguished lecturers from past school editions* *Josef **Bigun* Halmstad University ? Sweden *David Meuwly* Netherlands Forensic Institute ? NL *Thirimachos Bourlai* West Virginia University ? USA *Emilio Mordini MD* Responsible Technologies ? Italy *Vincent Bouatou* Safran Morpho ? France *Mark Nixon* University of Southampton ? UK *Kevin Bowyer * University of Notre Dame ? USA *Alice O?Toole* University of Texas ? USA *Deepak Chandra * Google Inc. ? USA *Maja Pantic* Imperial College ? 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Switzerland), a two-day event focused on addressing critical questions about the ethically and socially responsible design and deployment of AI systems. This workshop seeks to advance human-centred design principles and participatory approaches in AI development and contribute to the responsible adoption of these technologies. Our workshop features a distinguished lineup of keynote speakers, including (in alphabetical order): - Federico Cabitza (University of Milano-Bicocca, IT): "Measuring Social Impact in AI Systems" - Cristina Conati (University of British Columbia, CAN): "Community Perspectives in AI Research" - Marcello Ienca (Technical University of Munich, DE): "Policy Perspectives on AI Governance" - Caterina Moruzzi (Edinburgh University, UK): "Future Directions in Human-Centered AI" - Elisa Rubegni (Lancaster University, UK): "Human-Centred Design Principles in AI Development" - Niels van Berkel (Aalborg University, DK): "Successful Case Studies in Human-Centred AI" The programme includes dedicated panel sessions on the topics of "Bridging Technical Innovation and Social Impact", "Ethical Considerations in AI Development", "Implementation Challenges and Solutions" and "Shaping the Future of Human-Centred AI". Finally, a session will be dedicated to spot presentations (10 minutes) by participants that would like to present their own research. **Submission Guidelines** For the spot presentations session, we welcome short abstracts addressing, but not limited to, the following topics: - How can we design AI systems that meaningfully incorporate diverse human perspectives and needs throughout their development cycle? - What methodological frameworks can bridge the gap between technical AI capabilities and real-world social challenges? - How do we measure and evaluate the social impact of AI systems beyond traditional technical metrics? - What are effective approaches for participatory design in AI development, particularly when working with marginalised or vulnerable communities? - How can we ensure AI systems remain accountable to their intended social benefits throughout their lifecycle? We invite the submission of abstracts for the meeting from early career scholars (students, postdoctoral researchers, and junior faculty). Abstracts should be up to 250 words long (excluded references) and they should include name, affiliation, and title in one .pdf file. Abstracts should be submitted by February 21 to: b4eai.info at gmail.com **Important Dates** Submission Deadline: February 21, 2025 AoE Notification of Acceptance: February 24, 2025 Workshop Dates: March 6-7, 2025, Lugano ? Switzerland Location: Dalle Molle Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Campus Universitario USI/SUPSI (Via la Santa 1, 6962 Viganello) For further details, please contact alessandro.facchini at supsi.ch ** We are committed to fostering diversity and equality. Submissions from underrepresented groups are particularly welcome. ** -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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The course will bring together neuroscience, psychology, and machine-learning communities, introducing participants to connectionist theories of higher-level cognition and psychology as well as analytical methods for neural-network analysis. Participants will work in teams, mentored by course lecturers and organisers, to develop novel research projects on topics related to analytical connectionism. Participants will present the research proposals in Week 1 and interim results at the end of the course. Confirmed Faculty: * R?mi Monasson (CNRS/ENS) * Tim Rogers (University of Wisconsin-Madison) * Tali Sharot (UCL/MIT) * Merav Ahissar (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) * Xuechunzi Bai (University of Chicago) * Marco Baity-Jesi (Eawag) * Mathew Diamond (SISSA) * Lasana Harris (UCL) * Tiago Maia (University of Lisbon) * Angela Radulescu (Icahn School of Medicine at Mt. Sinai) * Levent Sagun (FAIR) * Fanny Yang (ETHZ) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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We're hosting two time slots to accommodate for more time zones: - Feb 11, 8am CET - Feb 12, 8pm CET Register for the Town Hall here: bit.ly/3Q2UWKx If you're unable to join our virtual Town Halls we would very much appreciate feedback in this survey, which is based on input from an in-person Town Hall we organized during the INCF Assembly last year: bit.ly/40BlrvI All the best, Helena Ledmyr ----------------------------- Helena Ledmyr, PhD *Director* *Development and Communications* International Neuroinformatics Coordinating Facility Secretariat Karolinska Institutet. Nobels v?g 15A, SE-171 77 Stockholm. Sweden Email: helena.ledmyr at incf.org Phone: +46 8 524 870 35 incf.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From emergingtechnetwork.publicity at gmail.com Thu Feb 6 14:58:24 2025 From: emergingtechnetwork.publicity at gmail.com (Gizem Varkonyi) Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2025 22:58:24 +0300 Subject: Connectionists: ICSC 2025 CFP: The Fifth Intelligent Cybersecurity Conference, Tampa, Florida, USA. May 19-22, 2025 Message-ID: [Apologies if you got multiple copies of this invitation] The Fifth Intelligent Cybersecurity Conference (ICSC2025) Hybrid Event https://www.icsc-conference.org/2025/ Tampa, Florida, USA. May 19-22, 2025 Technically Co-Sponsored by IEEE Florida West Coast Section *ICSC 2025 CFP:* In today?s world, connected systems, social networks, and mobile communications create a massive flow of data, which is prone to cyberattacks. This needs fast and accurate detection of cyber-attacks. Intelligent systems and Data analytics are important components when issues pertaining to effective security solutions become the subject of discussion. This is because there is an impending need for high volume and high velocity data from different sources to detect anomalies as soon as they are discovered. This will help reduce significantly the vulnerability of the systems as well as improve their resilience to cyber Attacks. The capability to process large volumes of information at real time through utilization of tools for data analytics has many advantages vital for analysis of cybersecurity systems. Moreover, the data collected from sophisticated intelligent systems, cloud systems, networks, sensors, computers, intrusion detection systems could be used to identify vital information. This information could be used to detect how vulnerable the systems are to risk factors, and so effective cyber security solutions can be developed. In addition to that, the utilization of data analytics tools in the cybersecurity field gives new insights through considering factors such as zero-day attack detection, real time analysis, resource constrained data processing among others. The Intelligent Cybersecurity Conference (ICSC) addresses the use of advanced intelligent systems in providing cybersecurity solutions in many fields, and the challenges, approaches, and future directions. We invite the submission of original papers on all topics related to Intelligent Systems for Cybersecurity, with special interest in but not limited to: - Intelligent systems for effective detection of cyber-attacks - Advanced Intelligent systems and data analytics for Cloud/Edge systems security - Malware detection using intelligent systems Vulnerability assessment - Intelligent systems for intrusion detection in Internet of Things (IoT) systems - Network forensics using intelligent systems and data analytics - Data Analytics for privacy-by-design in smart health - Datasets, benchmarks, and open-source packages - Recourse efficient deep learning - Adversarial Machine learning and Backdoor Attacks - Blockchain Systems for Cyber Security - Trustworthy AI Systems - Intelligent Systems for Misinformation Detection *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 ICSC 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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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.dehttp://www.daselab.org http://www.semantic-web-journal.nethttp://k-state.edu/ID3A https://neurosymbolic-ai-journal.com > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From caspar.schwiedrzik at googlemail.com Thu Feb 6 11:24:34 2025 From: caspar.schwiedrzik at googlemail.com (Caspar M. Schwiedrzik) Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2025 17:24:34 +0100 Subject: Connectionists: Postdoc position studying category learning using electrophysiology in NHP Message-ID: The German Primate Center (DPZ) - Leibniz Institute for Primate Research in G?ttingen conducts basic research in primate biology, infection research and neuroscience. It maintains four field stations and is a competence and reference center for research on and with primates. The DPZ is one of the 96 research and infrastructure facilities of the Leibniz Association. The Perception and Plasticity Group is looking for an excellent *Postdoctoral research associate* The Perception and Plasticity Group of Caspar Schwiedrzik at the DPZ is looking for an outstanding postdoc interested in studying the neural basis of high-dimensional category learning in vision. The project investigates neural mechanisms of category learning at the level of circuits and single cells, utilizing electrophysiology, functional magnetic resonance imaging, behavioral testing in humans and non- human primates, and computational modeling. It is funded by an ERC Consolidator Grant (Acronym DimLearn; ?Flexible Dimensionality of Representational Spaces in Category Learning?). The postdoc?s project will focus on investigating the neural basis of visual category learning in macaque monkeys combining chronic multi-electrode electrophysiological recordings and electrical microstimulation. In addition, the postdoc will have the opportunity to cooperate with other lab members on parallel computational investigations using artificial neural networks as well as comparative research exploring the same questions in humans. We seek to understand the cortical basis and computational principles of perception and experience-dependent plasticity in the macaque and human brain. To this end, we use a multimodal approach including fMRI-guided electrophysiological recordings in non-human primates and fMRI and ECoG in humans. See https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2023.01.011 and https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-51543-y for recent examples of our work. The postdoc will play a key role in our research efforts in this area. The lab is located at Ruhr-University Bochum (https://www.rub.de) and the German Primate Center (http://www.dpz.eu) in G?ttingen. At both locations, the lab is embedded into interdisciplinary research centers with international faculty and students pursuing cutting-edge research in cognitive and computational neuroscience. The main site for this part of the project will be G?ttingen. The postdoc will have access to state-of-the-art electrophysiology, an imaging center with a dedicated 3T research scanner, and behavioral setups. The project will be conducted in close collaboration with the labs of Fabian Sinz ( https://sinzlab.org/people/fabian_sinz.html), Alexander Gail ( https://www.dpz.eu/en/unit/sensorimotor-group/about-us.html), and Igor Kagan (http://igorkagan.org). The position is available immediately with an initial appointment for 2 years. Extensions beyond 2 years and part- time employment is possible. Candidates should have a PhD degree (or equivalent) in a relevant field (e.g., neuroscience, psychology, biology), and prior experience, evidenced by a publication or preprint, in electrophysiology in non-human primates, strong quantitative, programming, and experimental skills, and share a passion for understanding the neural basis of visual perception and its plasticity. Prior experience with microstimulation and/or chronic multiarray recordings is a plus. A good command of English is a requirement, but fluency in German is not essential. Interested candidates should send in their curriculum vitae, a description of their scientific interests, a representative publication, a copy of their PhD degree, and the names and contact information of up to three references who are able to comment on the applicant?s academic background and who have agreed to be contacted. We welcome diversity and therefore welcome applications from qualified people, regardless of their ethnic, cultural and social background, gender, religion, ideology, disability, age or sexual identity. Registered disabled applicants with equal aptitude and qualifications will be given preferential consideration. We kindly ask you to indicate a disability in your application. Employment at the DPZ is based on the civil service rules and regulations. The salary scale is in accordance with TV-L, with VBL pension scheme. Please send in your written application including all certificates until the 2nd of March, 2025 under key word ?Postdoc Perception and Plasticity? to Deutsches Primatenzentrum GmbH ? Leibniz Institut f?r Primatenforschung ? Personnel Office ? Kellnerweg 4 ? 37077 G?ttingen or via mail to bewerbung(at)dpz.eu. 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The new extended submission deadline is Monday, Feb 17, 2025, by 11:59 p.m. AoE. We are inviting applications in all areas of Artificial Intelligence, either theoretical or applied to the 38th Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence taking place in Calgary on May 26-29. We also welcome the submission of position papers, which present evidence-based arguments for a particular point of view without necessarily introducing a new system. Conference proceedings will be published in PubPub open-access online format and submitted to be indexed/abstracted in leading indexing services such as DBLP, ACM, and Google Scholar. Submission details Canadian AI is accepting submissions of both long and short papers. Long papers must be no longer than 12 pages, and short papers must be no longer than 6 pages, including references. Submissions in both LaTeX and Word are accepted. Please note: For each paper submitted, an Appendix file (in PDF format) can be uploaded by the authors as supplementary information. More information and submission templates are available under Submission Details here: https://www.caiac.ca/en/conferences/canadianai-2025/call-papers The portal for submission is now open and can be found here: https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/CANADIANAI2025/ Papers submitted to the conference must not have already been published, or accepted for publication, or be under review by a journal or another conference (preprint is acceptable if the title is different). Submissions will go through a double-blind review process by Program Committee members to assess originality, significance, technical merit, and clarity of presentation. As such, submissions must be anonymized, and papers that fail to do so will be desk rejected without a review. Topics of interest include: * Agent Systems * AI Applications * Automated Reasoning * Case?\based Reasoning * Cognitive Models * Constraint Satisfaction * Data Mining * Deep Learning and Neural Models * E?\Commerce * Ethics in AI, AI for social good * Evolutionary Computation * Explainable AI * Fair, Secure, Private, and Trusted AI * Games * Information Retrieval and Search * Knowledge Management * Knowledge Representation * Large Language Models * Machine Learning * Multimedia Processing * Natural Language Processing * Planning * Robotics * Uncertainty * User Modeling * Web Mining and Applications Authors of accepted long papers will be allotted time for an oral presentation during the conference. Accepted short papers will also be allotted time for a 5-minute oral presentation, followed by a poster session presentation. It is mandatory for at least one author of each accepted paper to attend the conference in person to present their work. Authors are expected to agree to this requirement before submitting their paper for review. Furthermore, the corresponding author of each paper must complete and sign a copyright form on behalf of all authors associated with the paper. It is important that the corresponding author who signs the copyright form matches the corresponding author listed on the paper. Awards A Best Paper Award and a Best Student Paper Award will be given at the conference, respectively, to the authors of each best paper, as judged by the Best Paper Award Selection Committee. For the Best Student Paper Award, the first author must be a registered student at the time of submitting the paper. 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URL: From vito.defeo at essex.ac.uk Thu Feb 6 10:18:42 2025 From: vito.defeo at essex.ac.uk (De Feo, Vito) Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2025 15:18:42 +0000 Subject: Connectionists: Postdoc in Computational Neuroscience at the University of Essex (UK) Message-ID: Dear colleagues, We are looking for a candidate with a quantitative background who has completed (or is about to complete) a PhD in a quantitative field for a post-doctoral position within the RESTED (REbalancing circadian rhythms in Sleep and heart rate To Ease Dissociative symptoms) project in order to model the links between Mental Health and SCRD (sleep and other circadian rhythm disturbances). Underlying the project is evidence that feelings of dissociation are strongly associated with sleep disorders and are a transdiagnostic risk factor for the development of depression, anxiety and psychosis. However, no one has investigated the role of dissociative symptoms in the links between SCRD (sleep and other circadian rhythm disorders) and MH (mental health). We propose to model how fluctuations in sleep and heart rate are related to fluctuations in dissociation, depression, anxiety and psychosis. Based on this understanding, our vision is to prevent the clinical course of these symptoms with low-cost interventions that improve sleep and heart rate. Specifically, in RESTED we want to determine cross-sectional and longitudinal associations between sleep, heart rate and symptoms of dissociation, depression, anxiety and psychosis in adolescents and young adults. In addition, we want to develop novel circadian biomarkers, sleep detection technologies and analytical approaches to model bidirectional associations between sleep, autonomic function and daily fluctuations in cognition and emotion. To do this, we will use Mediation Analysis, Granger Causality and Directed Information. Finally, we will use Explainable AI methods, and Machine Learning models to predict mental health variables from circadian variables. The PostDoc will be based at the University of Essex School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE) although the candidate will join our entire interdisciplinary team working in collaboration with the University of Sussex, Birmingham and the NHS. The University of Essex houses the Centre for Brain Science and various BCI laboratories, with access to state-of-the-art EEG and EMG equipment, computer-controlled electrical and mechanical stimulators and other devices to optimally measure sensory, motor and associated cortical activity. CSEE, ranked 6th in the UK as research power in the last REF, has several laboratories including one of the best BCI laboratories in Europe and a Health AI laboratory, and international collaborations with prestigious foreign research institutes including the Biotech campus of EPFL Geneva and the Institute of Neuroinformatics at ETH Zurich. Duties of the role To analyse data collected in pre-existing databases using statistical analysis techniques such as mediation analysis. To organise the data collected from participants using health bands (actigraphy, ECG, etc.) To use statistical and AI techniques to model causal relationships between the phenomena described in the project description.? To implement a sleep stages classifier using machine learning and deep learning techniques. To summarise the results obtained and participate in the writing of scientific publications. To undertake or manage practical elements of research such as setting up and conducting experiments, developing questionnaires and conducting fieldwork, recording data and identifying trends or patterns. To produce research outputs for publication at acceptable levels of volume and academic excellence and disseminate the result of research and scholarship through appropriate Knowledge Exchange activities (such as at relevant national and international conferences and scholarly publications not intended for the REF). To contribute to the development and maintenance or research resources (examples of which include household surveys, databases, specialist equipment and infrastructure, software packages and computer models) used within the Department or wider user community external to the Department. To, supervise and/or mentor postgraduate research students into relevant communities of research at Essex as appropriate to the departmental context to generate meaningful connections between research and education at Essex. Skills and qualifications required Applicants are expected to hold a PhD in a relevant field (engineering, mathematics, computer science or physics), or be close to completion of PhD. You will have the ability and willingness to complement and enhance the research project/department/school?s education and research strengths and areas of planned development. Strong communication skills, both written and verbal are also essential for the post. Specific knowledge and skills are also required: - Strong mathematical and programming skills. - Wide and documented experience in Signal Processing, Machine Learning, Deep Learning and Data Analysis - Experience with physiological signal analysis or expertise in computational neuroscience. - Proficiency in MATLAB or Python. - Demonstrated ability to work independently and overcome complex technical challenges. For more information about the position please contact Dr Vito De Feo vito.defeo at essex.ac.uk To apply: https://vacancies.essex.ac.uk/tlive_webrecruitment/wrd/run/ETREC107GF.open?VACANCY_ID=629650YFEm&WVID=9918109NEm&LANG=USA Best wishes, Vito Dr. Vito De Feo Lecturer in Health Artificial Intelligence for Brain and Mental Health Artificial Intelligence Team and Consumer Neuroscience Research Cluster Future Health Technology and Brain-Computer Interfaces laboratories,? School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering,? University of Essex,?Wivenhoe Park, Colchester?CO4 3SQ, UK? From tobi at ini.uzh.ch Fri Feb 7 04:08:33 2025 From: tobi at ini.uzh.ch (Tobi Delbruck (INI)) Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2025 10:08:33 +0100 Subject: Connectionists: 2025 Telluride Neuromorphic Workshop: Topic Areas and Call for participant applications Message-ID: <94d5ed4a-4a2d-4af4-8190-ca0b137ff78d@ini.uzh.ch> The 2025 topic areas and call for participant applications are available now at https://sites.google.com/view/telluride-2025/home. The deadline for applications is 10 March 2025. -Tobi Delbruck https://sensors.ini.ch From info at icas.cc Fri Feb 7 04:20:59 2025 From: info at icas.cc (ICAS Organizing Committee) Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2025 10:20:59 +0100 Subject: Connectionists: Call for Participation & Papers - ACAIN 2025 - 5th International Advanced Course & Symposium on Artificial Intelligence & Neuroscience, September 21-24 2025, Riva del Sole Resort & SPA, Castiglione della Pescaia (Grosseto) Tuscany, Italy -> Deadline: March 23 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Call for Participation & Call for Papers (apologies for multiple copies) _______________________________________________________________ The 5th International Advanced *Course* & *Symposium* on Artificial Intelligence & Neuroscience, September 21-24, 2025, Riva del Sole Resort & SPA, Castiglione della Pescaia (Grosseto) Tuscany, Italy W: https://acain2025.icas.events E: acain at icas.cc FB: https://www.facebook.com/ACAIN.LakeDistrict/ Symposium Deadlines: Paper Submission (Symposium): by March 23 (AoE) https://acain2025.icas.events/symposium-call-for-papers/ https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=acain2025 Course Deadlines: Regular Registration (Course): by March 23 (AoE) https://acain2025.icas.events/course-description/ https://acain2025.icas.events/registration/ https://2025.iaiss.cc/deadlines/ SCOPE & MOTIVATION: ACAIN: AI meets Computational Neuroscience and Cognitive Science The ACAIN 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 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 23-24), will be preceded by lectures of leading scientists, the ACAIN Course, (September 21-22). 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, which is aimed both at AI experts with interests in Neuroscience and at neuroscientists with an interest in AI. ACAIN 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: Gy?rgy Buzs?ki, NYU Neuroscience Institute, New York University, USA Panos Pardalos, University of Florida, USA Maneesh Sahani, University College London, UK Jonathon Shlens, Google DeepMind, USA Dimitra Thomaidou, Hellenic Pasteur Institute, Greece Marina Vidaki, University of Crete, Medical School, Crete, Greece More Speakers TBA https://acain2025.icas.events/course-lecturers/ SYMPOSIUM PROGRAM COMMITTEE (partial list, confirmed members): https://acain2025.icas.events/program-committee/ ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: https://acain2025.icas.events/symposium-committee/ VENUE & ACCOMMODATION: https://acain2025.icas.events/venue/ ACAIN 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. 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://acain2025.icas.events/activities/ REGISTRATION: https://acain2025.icas.events/registration/ See you in Tuscany in September! ACAIN Organizing Committee. E: acain at icas.cc W: https://acain2025.icas.events FB: https://www.facebook.com/ACAIN.LakeDistrict Obviously, this is only a Call for Participation & Call for Papers, to have complete and updated information we recommend you access the relevant website: https://acain2025.icas.events * Apologies for multiple copies. Please forward to anybody who might be interested * -- *8th Advanced Course on Data Science & Machine Learning - ACDL 2025, **9**-13 June*, Riva del Sole Resort & SPA, Castiglione della Pescaia (Grosseto) ? Tuscany, Italy *An Interdisciplinary Residential Course: from Deep Learning to Generative Artificial Intelligence* *Early Registration: by February 23, 2025 (AoE)* https://acdl2025.icas.events/registration/ https://acdl2025.icas.events/ acdl at icas.cc The Course is equivalent to 8 ECTS points for the PhD Students and the Master Students attending the Course. *11th International Conference on Learning, Optimization and Data ? LOD 2025, *21?24 September Riva del Sole Resort & SPA, Castiglione della Pescaia (Grosseto) Tuscany, Italy https://lod2025.icas.events/ lod at icas.cc *5th Advanced Course ** and Symposium **on Artificial Intelligence and Neuroscience ? ACAIN 2025,* 21?24 September Riva del Sole Resort & SPA, Castiglione della Pescaia (Grosseto) Tuscany, Italy https://acain2025.icas.events/ acain at icas.cc *Symposium **Author Registration Deadline: March 23 * *Course Early Registration Deadline: 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/* Il giorno ven 7 feb 2025 alle ore 10:19 Helena Ledmyr via Comp-neuro < comp-neuro at lists.cnsorg.org> ha scritto: > [apologies for cross posting] > > At INCF we strive to serve the neuroscience community as best we can with > resources that facilitate open science, data sharing, and data management. > In order for us to be the most useful we can be, we need your input! > > Next week we're hosting a Town Hall for our community to give us input on > what INCF should focus on in the coming years and we hope you will join us. > > ? 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We will discuss principles of good science, writing abstracts, papers and grants, how to excel at lab management, acing mentorship, dealing with university administration and making your science accessible to all. But most importantly, we want to create a peer community for networking and mutual support. Cheers, Gunnar -- Dr. Gunnar BLOHM Vice-Director (Queen's) of Connected Minds Professor in Computational Neuroscience Queen's U, Kingston, ON, 18 Stuart Str, Botterell Hall Rm 229 http://www.compneurosci.com/ - Queen?s University is situated on the territory of the Haudenosaunee and Anishinaabek - -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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We would greatly appreciate it if you could share this announcement with anyone in your network who might be interested in participating. More details, including competition rules and registration, can be found on the official website: https://benchmarks.elsa-ai.eu/?ch=2&com=introduction. Updated Deadlines: * Submission Deadline: March 7, 2025 * Announcement of Winning Teams: March 17, 2025 * Competition Track: April 9-11, 2025 (during SaTML?25) For any inquiries or further information, please do not hesitate to contact us at info_pfl at cvc.uab.cat We look forward to your participation and the innovative solutions you will bring to this critical area of AI privacy research. The competition is organized by the European Lighthouse on Secure and Safe AI (ELSA). Kind regards, Dr. Mohamed Ali Souibgui Post Doctoral Researcher +34 691 61 74 08 | msouibgui at cvc.uab.cat Computer Vision Center Campus UAB, Edifici O, s/n 08193 Cerdanyola del Vall?s, Barcelona, Spain. cvc.uab.es Computer Vision Center CONFIDENTIALITY WARNING -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From gunnar.blohm at gmail.com Fri Feb 7 08:42:35 2025 From: gunnar.blohm at gmail.com (Gunnar Blohm) Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2025 08:42:35 -0500 Subject: Connectionists: postdoc positions in NeuroAI / sensorimotor control Message-ID: Dear all, I'm looking for postdocs who'd like to apply for the Connected Minds PDFs with me and collaborators to work on the following potential projects: 1. explainable neuroAI for ANN / SNN models of motor control 2. neuromorphic robotic control 3. neurorobotic artistic performance 4. whole brain motor control networks identified through MEG and inverse optimal control If you're interested, please get in touch. You will need a solid quantitative background (coding, ML, signal processing) and neuroscience knowledge. More information about the 2-yr Connected Minds PDF application, including eligibility criteria can be found here: https://www.yorku.ca/research/connected-minds/postdoctoral-fellowships/ I will of course help assembling the advisory team, writing the research project description and provide general guidance for the application. Feel free to check out my lab's website and WIKI to get a better sense of who we are and how we work... Next application deadline is March 21, 2025. Awards are $70k/yr+benefits and $8.5k/yr research allowance for 2 yrs + $10k for travel. Cheers, Gunnar -- Dr. Gunnar BLOHM Vice-Director (Queen's) of Connected Minds Professor in Computational Neuroscience Queen's U, Kingston, ON, 18 Stuart Str, Botterell Hall Rm 229 http://www.compneurosci.com/ - Queen?s University is situated on the territory of the Haudenosaunee and Anishinaabek - -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From cemman at tee.gr Fri Feb 7 10:36:47 2025 From: cemman at tee.gr (Christos Emmanouilidis) Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2025 16:36:47 +0100 Subject: Connectionists: [Jobs] Human-Centred AI: Multiple research (PhD, postdoc) positions @ Univ. of Groningen Message-ID: <11b85439-6550-4fd8-8229-0770316892e5@tee.gr> Dear colleagues, We have several openings for research positions in areas related to Human-Centred AI @ the University of Groningen, Netherlands. 1. PhD position on Auditing and Evaluating Human-Centred AI (V25.0067) - deadline 9 March 2025 2. PhD position on Human-AI symbiosis in work environments (V25.0068) - deadline 9 March 2025 3. Postdoc position on Human ? Centred Artificial Intelligence (V25.0019)? - deadline 23 February 2025 The positions are linked to funded Horizon Europe research projects HumAIne , AI4Work , SkillAIbility , and (soon to start) AIXPERT. HumAIne : Hybrid Human-AI Decision Support for Enhanced Human Empowerment in Dynamic Situations. AI4Work : Human-centric Digital Twin Approaches to Trustworthy AI and Robotics for Improved Working Conditions. SkillAIbility : Co-designing human-centric pathways for future skills in manufacturing through augmented, empowered, inclusive, and symbiotic complementarities between AI, automation, and human tasks. _AIXPERT_: An agentic, multi-layer, GenAI-powered backbone to make an AI system explainable, accountable, and transparent. We would be grateful if you could share this with potentially interested candidates. Best wishes, Christos -- Christos Emmanouilidis, Dipl. 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URL: From announce at ucy.ac.cy Fri Feb 7 11:25:01 2025 From: announce at ucy.ac.cy (Announce) Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2025 16:25:01 +0000 Subject: Connectionists: The 16th IEEE International Conference on Knowledge Graphs (ICKG 2025): First Call for Papers Message-ID: *** First Call for Papers *** The 16th IEEE International Conference on Knowledge Graphs (ICKG 2025) December 12-13, 2025, 5* St. Raphael Resort and Marina, Limassol, Cyprus https://cyprusconferences.org/ickg2025/ (*** Proceedings to be published by IEEE ***) The annual IEEE International Conference on Knowledge Graph (ICKG) provides a premier international forum for presentation of original research results in knowledge discovery and graph learning, discussion of opportunities and challenges, as well as exchange and dissemination of innovative, practical development experiences. The conference covers all aspects of knowledge discovery from data, with a strong focus on graph learning and knowledge graph, including algorithms, software, platforms. ICKG 2025 intends to draw researchers and application developers from a wide range of areas such as knowledge engineering, representation learning, big data analytics, statistics, machine learning, pattern recognition, data mining, knowledge visualization, high performance computing, and World Wide Web etc. By promoting novel, high quality research findings, and innovative solutions to address challenges in handling all aspects of learning from data with dependency relationship. All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings by the IEEE Computer Society. Awards, including Best Paper, Best Paper Runner up, Best Student Paper, Best Student Paper Runner up, will be conferred at the conference, with a check and a certificate for each award. The conference also features a survey track to accept survey papers reviewing recent studies in all aspects of knowledge discovery and graph learning. At least five high quality papers will be invited for a special issue of the Knowledge and Information Systems Journal, in an expanded and revised form. In addition, at least eight quality papers will be invited for a special issue of Data Intelligence Journal in an expanded and revised form with at least 30% difference. TOPICS OF INTEREST Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: ? Foundations, algorithms, models, and theory of knowledge discovery and graph learning ? Knowledge engineering with big data. ? Machine learning, data mining, and statistical methods for data science and engineering. ? Acquisition, representation and evolution of fragmented knowledge. ? Fragmented knowledge modeling and online learning. ? Knowledge graphs and knowledge maps. ? Graph learning security, privacy, fairness, and trust. ? Interpretation, rule, and relationship discovery in graph learning. ? Geospatial and temporal knowledge discovery and graph learning. ? Ontologies and reasoning. ? Topology and fusion on fragmented knowledge. ? Visualization, personalization, and recommendation of Knowledge Graph navigation and interaction. ? Knowledge Graph systems and platforms, and their efficiency, scalability, and privacy. ? Applications and services of knowledge discovery and graph learning in all domains including web, medicine, education, healthcare, and business. ? Big knowledge systems and applications. ? Crowdsourcing, deep learning and edge computing for graph mining. ? Large language models and applications ? Open source platforms and systems supporting knowledge and graph learning. ? Datasets and benchmarks for graphs ? Neurosymbolic & Hybrid AI systems ? Graph Retrieval Augmented Generation SURVEY TRACK Survey paper reviewing recent study in keep aspects of knowledge discover and graph learning. In addition to the above topics, authors can also select and target the following Special Track topics. Each special track is handled by respective special track chairs, and the papers are also included in the conference proceedings. ? Special Track 01: KGC and Knowledge Graph Building ? Special Track 02: KR and KG Reasoning. ? Special Track 03: KG and Large Language Model ? Special Track 04: GNN and Graph Learning ? Special Track 05: QA and Graph Database ? Special Track 06: KG and Multi-modal Learning. ? Special Track 07: KG and Knowledge Fusion. ? Special Track 08: Industry and Applications SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Paper submissions should be no longer than 8 pages, in the IEEE 2-column format, including the bibliography and any possible appendices. Submissions longer than 8 pages will be rejected without review. All submissions will be reviewed by the Program Committee based on technical quality, originality, significance, and clarity. For survey track paper, please preface the descriptive paper title with ?Survey:?, followed by the actual paper title. For example, a paper entitled ?A Literature Review of Streaming Knowledge Graph?, should be changed as ?Survey: A Literature Review of Streaming Knowledge Graph?. This is for the reviewers and chairs to clearly bid and handle the papers. Once the paper is accepted, the word, such as ?Survey:?, can be removed from the camera-ready copy. For special track paper, please preface the descriptive paper title with ?SS##:?, where ?##? is the two digits special track ID. For example, a paper entitled ?Incremental Knowledge Graph Learning?, intended to target Special Track 01 (Machine learning and knowledge graph) should be changed as ?SS01: Incremental Knowledge Graph Learning?. All manuscripts are submitted as full papers and are reviewed based on their scientific merit. The reviewing process is single blind, meaning that each submission should list all authors and affiliations. There is no separate abstract submission step. There are no separate industrial, application, or poster tracks. Manuscripts must be submitted electronically in the online submission system. No email submission is accepted. To help ensure correct formatting, please use the style files for U.S. Letter as template for your submission. These include LaTeX and Word. SUBMISSION LINK https://wi-lab.com/cyberchair/2025/ickg25/ IMPORTANT DATES ? Paper submission (abstract and full paper): July 15, 2025 (AoE) ? Notification of acceptance/rejection: September 15, 2025 ? Camera-ready deadline and copyright forms: October 15, 2025 ? Early Registration Deadline: Oct. 29, 2025 ? Conference: December 12-13, 2025 ORGANISATION Conference and Local Organising Chair ? George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus Conference Co-Chair ? Dan Guo, Hefei University of Technology Program Chairs ? Cesare Alippi, Universit? della Svizzera italiana ? Shirui Pan, Griffith University Local Organising Vice Chair ? Irene Kinlanioti, National Technical University of Athens Finance Chair ? Constantinos Pattichis, University of Cyprus Steering Committee Chair ? Xindong Wu, Hefei University Of Technology -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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In particular, it promotes approaches that deal with game theory (cooperative and non-cooperative), social choice, and agent-mediated e-commerce aspects of AI systems. The confederated workshop merges multiple workshops that have been associated with AAMAS in the past, which considered different aspects of the general interplay between AI and economics: ? CoopMAS: Cooperative Games in Multi-agent Systems ? AMEC: Agent-Mediated Electronic Commerce ? EXPLORE: Exploring Beyond the Worst Case in Computational Social Choice Over the past two decades, the focus of agent incentives in decentralised and centralised AI systems has increased dramatically. These issues come up when designing preference aggregation mechanisms and markets; computing equilibria and bidding strategies; facilitating cooperation among agents; and fairly dividing resources. ********************************************************** PAPER SUBMISSION ********************************************************** Authors should submit full papers electronically in PDF format at < Open review link TBA. See website for updates > Formatting Guidelines: Please format papers according to the AAMAS 2025 format (author kit ). Optionally, one may submit in LNCS format as well (LaTeX template). Paper Length: Papers can be at most 8 pages long in AAMAS format, or 12 pages long in LNCS format. Additional pages may be used for references. Supplemental material can be appended at the end of the paper. However, reviewers are instructed to make their evaluations based on the main submission, and are not obligated to consult the supplemental material. Multiple Submissions: To widen participation and encourage discussion, there will be no formal publication of workshop proceedings. We will, however, post the accepted papers online to the benefit of the participants to the workshop. Therefore, submission of preliminary work and papers to be submitted or in preparation for submission to other major venues in the field are encouraged. Past Submissions: In order to strike a balance between new work and work that may have been presented, but not widely seen, we ask that if authors want to submit published work they do so non-anonymously and clearly indicate when and where the work was published. We will only accept work which has been published in the last calendar year (e.g., IJCAI 2024, NeurIPS 2024, AAAI 2024, AAAI 2025 and any conference held strictly after February 2024). We invite papers on topics of game theory, mechanism design, fair allocation, computational social choice, and their applications to multi-agent systems: - Algorithmic mechanism design - Auctions - Behavioral Game Theory - Bounded rationality - Cooperative Games - Computational advertising - Computational aspects of equilibria - Computational social choice - Coalitions, coordination, collective action, and cooperation - Economic aspects of security and privacy - Economic aspects of distributed and network computing - Equilibrium computation - Empirical approaches to e-market - Fairness (in ML & elsewhere) - Fair Division - Incentives in machine learning - Information and attention economics - Learning in games (e.g., solution concepts and equilibria) - Matching and Matching Markets - Negotiation - Price differentiation and price dynamics - Social networks - Trading agent design and analysis - Uncertainty in AI and economics Best Presentation Award: The organizing committee of GAIW will be giving two awards (first-place and runner up) for best paper presentations. The award criteria include the clarity of presentation, the level of engagement, the content, and discussion handline. Inquiries: If you have any questions, direct them to alan.tsang at carleton.ca. ********************************************************** IMPORTANT DATES ********************************************************** - Submission Deadline: February 11, 2025 (AoE). - Acceptance Notification: March 10, 2025. - Camera Ready: April 4, 2025 (AoE). - Workshop: May 19 or 20, 2025 (TBA). ********************************************************** ORGANIZATION ********************************************************** Program Chairs Ben Abramowitz, Tulane University Haris Aziz, UNSW Sydney and Data61 John P. Dickerson, University of Maryland Hadi Hosseini, Penn State University Nicholas Mattei, Tulane University Svetlana Obraztsova, Carleton University Zinovi Rabinovich, Carleton University Alan Tsang, Carleton University Tomasz W?s, Penn State University Michael Curry, University of Illinois Chicago -- *Nicholas Mattei* Associate Professor, Tulane University nsmattei at tulane.edu | www.nickmattei.net Stanley Thomas Hall | 305B +1 504 865 5782 Department of Computer Science Tulane University 6823 St Charles Ave New Orleans, LA 70118 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From suashdeb at gmail.com Sat Feb 8 04:15:39 2025 From: suashdeb at gmail.com (Suash Deb) Date: Sat, 8 Feb 2025 14:45:39 +0530 Subject: Connectionists: Final extension of deadline, ISMSI 2025 (Tokyo, Japan) Message-ID: Dear esteemed colleagues, Warmest greetings. Hope all is well at your end. This is to let you know that on numerous requests, the deadline for submission of manuscripts for ISMSI 2025, the annual event of IICCI and to be held in association with Tokyo Metropolitan University, has been extended till 05th March, 2025 https://www.ismsi.org/ This is the final extension and no further request to enable submission beyond this deadline will be entertained. The cfp is attached for your perusal. Hope you will take advantage of this and not only consider submission of your own manuscripts but will also motivate your peers/doctoral students to follow suit. Thanks and hope to meet you in Tokyo soon. With kind regards, Suash Deb General Chair, ISMSI 2025 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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The conference OLA'2025 will provide an opportunity to the international research community in optimization and learning to discuss recent research results and to develop new ideas and collaborations in a friendly and relaxed atmosphere. OLA'2025 welcomes presentations that cover any aspects of optimization and/or machine learning research such as big optimization and learning, optimization for learning, learning for optimization, optimization and learning under uncertainty, deep learning, new high-impact applications, parameter tuning, 4th industrial revolution, computer vision, hybridization issues, optimization-simulation, meta-modeling, high-performance computing, parallel and distributed optimization and learning, surrogate modeling, multi-objective optimization ... Submission papers: We will accept two different types of submissions: - S1: Extended abstracts of work-in-progress and position papers of a maximum of 3 pages - S2: Original research contributions of a maximum of 12 pages Important dates: =============== Paper submission deadline extension Feb 21, 2025 Proceedings: Accepted papers in categories S1 and S2 will be published in the proceedings. A SCOPUS and DBLP indexed Springer book will be published for accepted long papers. Proceedings will be available at the conference. From matteo.zavatteri at unipd.it Sat Feb 8 13:08:29 2025 From: matteo.zavatteri at unipd.it (Matteo Zavatteri) Date: Sat, 8 Feb 2025 19:08:29 +0100 Subject: Connectionists: [JAIR Special Track - 3rd CFP] Integration of Logical Constraints in Deep Learning Message-ID: (apologies for cross-posting) ====================================================================== Special Track on Integration of Logical Constraints in Deep Learning ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (JAIR) Deadline: May 31, 2025 Info: https://www.jair.org/index.php/jair/SpecialTrack-LogicDL ====================================================================== Track Editors: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Alessandro Abate, University of Oxford, U.K. Eleonora Giunchiglia, Imperial College London, U.K. Bettina K?nighofer, Graz University of Technology, Austria Luca Pasa, University of Padova, Italy Matteo Zavatteri, University of Padova, Italy ====================================================================== Overview: Over the last few years, the integration of logical constraints in Deep Learning models has gained significant attention from research communities for its potential to enhance the interpretability, robustness, safety, and generalization capabilities of these models. This integration opens the possibility of incorporating prior knowledge, handling incomplete data, and combining symbolic and subsymbolic reasoning. Moreover, the use of logical constraints improves generalization, formal verification, and ethical decision-making. The versatility of logical constraint integration spans diverse domains, presenting both research challenges and opportunities. In recent times, there has been a growing trend in incorporating logical constraints into deep learning models, especially in safety-critical applications. Looking ahead, challenges in this field extend to the development of Machine Learning models that not only incorporate logical constraints but also provide robust assurances. This involves ensuring that AI systems adhere to specific (temporal) logical or ethical constraints, offering a level of guarantees in their behavior. Thus, this special track seeks submissions on the integration of logical constraints into deep learning approaches. We are particularly interested in the following broad content areas. - Formal verification of neural networks is an active area of research that has been proposing methods, tools, specification languages (e.g., VNNLIB), and annual competitions (e.g., VNN-COMP) devoted to verify that a neural network satisfies a certain property typically given in (a fragment) of first order logic. - Synthesis aims at synthesizing neural networks that are compliant with some given constraint. Approaches to achieve this aim range from modifying the loss function in the training phase (i.e., soft constraint injection) to exploit counterexample guided inductive synthesis (CEGIS). - Monitoring: Logical constraints can be used to mitigate and/or neutralize constraint violations of machine learning systems when formal verification and synthesis are not possible. Shielding techniques intervene by changing the output of the network when a constraint is being violated. Runtime monitoring can be used to anticipate failures of AI systems without modifying them. - Explainability: Automated learning of formulae and logical constraints from past executions of the system provides natural explanations for neural network predictions and poses another avenue for future research. Formulae and constraints offer a high degree of explainability since they carry a precise syntax and semantics, and thus they can be "read" by humans more easily than other explainability methods. This special track aims to explore and showcase recent advancements in the integration of logical constraints within deep learning models, spanning the spectrum of verification, synthesis, monitoring and explainability, by considering exact and approximate solutions, online and offline approaches. The focus will also extend to encompass innovative approaches that address the challenges associated with handling logical constraints in neural networks. Submissions: This special track seeks contributions that delve into various aspects of logic constraint integration in deep learning, including, but not limited to: - Learning with logical constraints - Enhancing neural network expressiveness for logical constraints - Formal verification (certification) of neural networks - Automated synthesis of certified neural networks, or of AI systems with neural nets - Decision making: Strategy/policy synthesis for AI systems with neural networks - Runtime monitoring of AI systems - Learning of (temporal) logic formulae for explainable and interpretable AI - Scalability challenges in neural networks with logical constraints - Real-world applications of neural networks with logical constraints - Enhancing model explainability via logical constraints - Design of neural networks under temporal logical requirements Pertinent review papers of exceptional quality may also be considered. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Decades of associative studies have linked many behaviors to specific patterns of population activity, but association alone cannot reveal the dynamical mechanisms that shape those patterns. Are local neural circuits high-dimensional dynamical reservoirs able to generate arbitrary superpositions of patterns with appropriate excitation? Or might circuit dynamics be shaped in response to behavioral context so as to generate only the low-dimensional patterns needed for the task at hand? Here, we address these questions within the primate motor cortex by delivering optogenetic and electrical microstimulation perturbations during reaching behavior. We develop a novel analytic approach that relates measured activity to theoretically tractable, dynamical models of excitatory and inhibitory neurons. Our computational modeling framework allows us to quantitatively evaluate different hypotheses about the dynamical mechanisms underlying pattern generation against perturbation responses. Our results demonstrate that motor cortical activity during reaching is shaped by a self-contained, low-dimensional dynamical system. The subspace containing task-relevant dynamics proves to be oriented so as to be robust to strong non-normal amplification within cortical circuits. This task dynamics space exhibits a privileged causal relationship with behavior, in that stimulation in motor cortex perturbs reach kinematics only to the extent that it alters neural states within this subspace. 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RAW camera image/video processing ? Deep learning applications for mobile camera ISPs ? Image/video super-resolution on low-power hardware ? Portrait segmentation / bokeh effect rendering ? Depth estimation w/o multiple cameras ? Perceptual image manipulation on mobile devices ? Activity recognition using smartphone sensors ? Image/sensor based identity recognition ? Fast image classification / object detection algorithms ? NLP models optimized for mobile inference ? Real-time semantic segmentation ? Low-power machine learning inference ? Machine learning and deep learning frameworks for mobile devices ? AI performance evaluation / benchmarking of mobile and IoT hardware ? Studies and applications of the above problems SUBMISSION A paper submission has to be in English, in pdf format, and at most 8 pages (excluding references) in CVPR style. https://cvpr.thecvf.com/Conferences/2025/AuthorGuidelines The review process is double blind. Accepted and presented papers will be published after the conference in the 2025 CVPR Workshops Proceedings. Author Kit: https://github.com/cvpr-org/author-kit/archive/refs/tags/CVPR2025-v3.1(latex).zip Submission site: https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/MAI2025 WORKSHOP DATES ? *Regular Papers submission deadline: March 10, 2025* CHALLENGES (TBU) *? Image Super-Resolution ? Efficient LLMs ? Efficient Stable Diffusion ? Video Super-Resolution ? Efficient ViTs for Mobile ? Image Denoising ? Bokeh Effect Rendering ? RGB Photo Enhancement ? Learned Smartphone ISP * To learn more about the challenges, to participate in the challenges, and to access the data everybody is invited to check the Mobile AI 2025 web page: https://ai-benchmark.com/workshops/mai/2025/ For those interested in image and video restoration, enhancement, manipulation, super-resolution, quality assessment without specific mobile hardware constraints we refer to the *CVPR25 NTIRE Workshop and Challenges:* https://cvlai.net/ntire/2025/ CHALLENGES DATES (TBU) ? Release of train data: February 1, 2025 ? *Competitions end: March 21, 2025* Website: https://ai-benchmark.com/workshops/mai/2025/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Specific focus will be on (graph) clustering algorithms that should help to formally define relationships between semantically linked structures and thus offer insight into the structure of the textual source. The next highly desirable part would be the development of image segmentation algorithms for recognising the overall structure of the yet never analysed formal parts of medieval handwritten manuscripts. Attempting full OCR (very hard in this case; see example on our web) and LLM interpretation of the?distilled text would be a bonus. Feel free to contact us informally for a more detailed description (*Pavel Sanda*, Institute of Computer Science CAS, sanda[@]cs.cas.cz; Ota Pavlicek, Institute of Philosophy CAS, will co-lead the medieval part). ** Topic: _Information Flows in Scholarly & Scientific Networks_* This topic aims to develop methodology to capture a realistic, interpretable, model of spreading of scholarly information in the scholarly social community. It shall include standard citation networks, but strive to extent to concept flow networks (detectable information influence beyond formal citations), and use graph theoretical, statistical and machine learning tools to provide further insights including identification of scholarly groups, informal knowledge propagation, extreme events including tipping points (paradigm shifts) and their early markers, influential agents and ideas. The methodology will be piloted on mapping selected scholarly fields and historical periods in collaboration with domain experts in history and philosophy of science and particular scholarly/scientific fields. Feel free to contact us informally for a more detailed description (*Jaroslav Hlinka*, Institute of Computer Science CAS, hlinka[@]cs.cas.cz. *Conditions:* * Positions are available starting March 1, 2025 and later. * Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis, until the positions are filled. * Contract is for 12-36 months duration, with exceptions negotiable. * Possibility of extension until end of project (31. 12. 2028), support for transition to tenure-track or external funding applications. * This is a fixed term contract appointment, part time contract possible. * Competitive salary based on qualifications and experience. * Bonuses and travel funding for conferences and research stays depending on performance. * No teaching duties. *Applicants should:* * Hold a PhD; with the exception of Research assistant and Graduate student positions. * Have a strong background in the fields related to machine learning and artificial intelligence, experience with historical data analysis, text data analysis, network analysis, graph theory, multi-agent systems, and computer programming (the exact combination depends on the particular topic, see above). * Be fluent in English. We seek curious, self-motivated, hard-working, team-spirited researchers. For*description and other links*see:https://cobra.cs.cas.cz/trust_job For*application*see the formal position announcement:https://www.cs.cas.cz/job-offer/Scientific-positions-TRUST-Vidnerova-2025/en -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ted.carnevale at yale.edu Mon Feb 10 10:48:43 2025 From: ted.carnevale at yale.edu (Ted Carnevale) Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2025 10:48:43 -0500 Subject: Connectionists: 2025 NEURON Spring Course reminder Message-ID: <6bbc0449-4458-44a7-b351-3ab9371c13a9@yale.edu> A few seats remain open for the 2025 NEURON Spring Course, but the registration deadline is Friday, February 28 -- less than three weeks from today -- so you should act now if you want to join us at Arizona State University in Tempe, AZ. This course will provide a thorough introduction to computational modeling of neurons and networks with NEURON, and is suitable for individuals at all levels of expertise. It will start at 9 AM Sunday, March 9, and end at 5 PM Friday, March 14, 2025. For more information and the on-line application form, see The 2025 NEURON Spring Course --Ted -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From emergingtechnetwork.publicity at gmail.com Mon Feb 10 10:58:10 2025 From: emergingtechnetwork.publicity at gmail.com (=?UTF-8?Q?Gizem_G=C3=BCltekin_Varkonyi?=) Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2025 18:58:10 +0300 Subject: Connectionists: FMEC 2025 CFP: The 10th International Conference on Fog and Mobile Edge Computing, Tampa, Florida, USA. May 19-22, 2025 Message-ID: [Apologies if you got multiple copies of this invitation] The 10th IEEE International Conference on Fog and Mobile Edge Computing (FMEC 2025) Hybrid Event https://emergingtechnet.org/FMEC2025/index.php Tampa, Florida, USA. May 19-22, 2025 Technically Co-Sponsored by IEEE Florida West Coast Section *FMEC 2025 CFP:* Cloud computing provides a large range of services and virtually unlimited available resources for users. New applications, such as virtual reality and smart building control, have emerged due to the large number of resources and services brought by cloud computing. However, the delay-sensitive applications face the problem of large latency, especially when several smart devices and objects are getting involved in human?s life such as the case of smart cities or Internet of Things. Therefore, cloud computing is unable to meet the requirements of low latency, location awareness, and mobility support. To solve this problem, researchers have introduced a trusted and dependable solution through the Fog and the Mobile Edge Computing (FMEC) to put the services and resources of the cloud closer to users, which facilitate the leveraging of available services and resources in the edge networks. By this, we are moving from the core (cloud data centers) to the edge of the network closer to the users. FMEC dependability is based on providing user centric service. The purpose of Fog and the Mobile Edge Computing is to run the heavy real-time applications at the network edge directly using the billions of connected mobile devices. Several features enable the Fog and the Mobile Edge Computing to be a perfect paradigm to the aforementioned purpose, which are the dense geographical deployment of servers, supporting mobility and the closeness to users. As in every new technology, some challenges face the vision of the Fog and the Mobile Edge Computing, which are the administrative policies and security concerns (i.e. secure data storage, secure computation, network security, data privacy, usage privacy, location privacy, etc). FMEC 2025 conference aims to investigate the opportunities and requirements for Mobile Edge Computing dominance. In addition, it seeks for novel contributions that help mitigate Mobile Edge Computing challenges. That is, the objective of FMEC 2025 is to provide a forum for scientists, engineers, and researchers to discuss and exchange new ideas, novel results and experience on all aspects of Fog and Mobile Edge Computing (FMEC). FMEC 2025 is Technically Co-Sponsored by IEEE Florida Section. Researchers are encouraged to submit original research contributions in all major areas, which include, but not limited to the following: - Fog and Mobile Edge Computing in unmanned aerial vehicle communications and applications - Fog and Mobile Edge Computing in mission-critical systems - Intelligent Transportation Systems - Edge-cloud computing architectures, frameworks and platforms - Edge-cloud networking and communication - Quality of Service (QoS) improvement techniques - Network virtualization for Edge-to-cloud systems - FMEC and IoT Data Communication Protocols - Industrial Fog and Mobile Edge Computing Applications - Mobile Cloud Computing Systems and Applications - FMEC in Environmental Sustainability - Trustworthy AI for Edge and Fog Computing - Security and Privacy in Fog and Mobile Edge Computing - Decentralized Data Management and Streaming Systems in FMEC - Data storage, processing, and management at FMEC platform - Federated learning and distributed machine learning in the fog and on the edge - 5G and fog/edge computing - Middleware and runtime systems for fog/edge infrastructures - Energy-efficient fog/edge computing - Edge/fog-to-cloud APIs and protocols - Mobility, connectivity, heterogeneity support for edge/fog services - Load balancing/scheduling in fog/edge computing - Crowdsourcing and establishing trust on data sources - Decision support systems for Edge-cloud computing - AI-based or data-driven orchestration of workflows in Edge computing - Automatic scheduling and deployment of workflows and services in Edge computing - Distributed management of Edge computing - Mechanisms and data structures for the governance of Edge computing - Interfaces, orchestration and optimization of the Networking-Computing continuum - In-network computing for the edge-cloud continuum - Novel programming models for Edge computing - Dynamic Edge/Fog environments - Automatic deployment and continuous dynamic composition of Edge services - Semantic annotation of Edge/Fog services - AI in Autonomous Urbanism *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 FMEC 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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KR will take place physically in Melbourne, Australia. The attendance of tutorials is complementary to all KR registered participants. Workshop attendance will be subject to payment of a workshop fee, which is separate from that of the main conference. -- Important Dates -- Proposal submission deadline: March 24, 2025 Notification: April 14, 2025 Workshop paper submission deadline: July 17, 2025 Workshop paper notification: August 21, 2025 Workshop registration deadline: September 11, 2025 Tutorial and workshop dates: November 11-13, 2025 -- Submission Instructions -- Each proposal (tutorial or workshop) should be in English and must be submitted electronically to the Workshop and Tutorial track of KR 2025. For all accepted proposals, KR will take care of all local arrangements. Proposals should be submitted viahttps://forms.gle/wovCRPSfCUdugjRSA until March 24, 2025 (anywhere on earth). -- Submission Requirements for Tutorial Proposals -- KR tutorials are half-day or (exceptionally) full-day events that introduce general or special topics in KR and relevant neighboring areas. They can be first introductions to an established area or an emerging field, but also advanced courses on specialized methods or new approaches. The content should be adequately established and balanced, and not be limited to advertising an individual research work or product. A focus on specific tools and methodologies can still be useful to offer concrete examples and hands-on activities to participants. Each accepted tutorial will entitle a discount on the KR registration fee for one tutorial presenter. Each tutorial proposal (of max. 4 pages) should contain the following information: - Title, presenters and proposed length of the tutorial (half-day is recommended, but an argument can be made for a full-day tutorial) - A half-page introduction to the tutorial's subject and relevance to KR - A half-page on the target audience, prerequisite knowledge, and learning goals- One page outline of the tutorial contents and intended structure- A brief resume of each presenter including name, affiliation, email address, and evidence of scholarship in the area, mentioning relevant publications or professional experience. The main duties of tutorial organizers are: - Setup a web-page for the tutorial, which should at least include the information from the proposal, tutorial material and related references. - Deliver the tutorial at KR 2025. Tutorials will be in person, at least one tutorial organizer is expected to be present. -- Submission Requirements for Workshop Proposals -- Workshops provide a place to exchange ideas in emerging fields in KR research and application. They can take many forms, including mini-conferences (with peer-reviewed publications), competitions and shared tasks, working sessions (discussions, hackathons, etc.), line-ups of invited contributions, or a mix of these. Innovative formats are welcome, but organizers must provide means of estimating attendance and required length up-front (by number of submissions, invited speakers, or early registered participants). Workshop proposals can use up to 4 pages, which should include the following information: - Title, acronym of the workshop, proposed duration (half day, one day, ...) - Workshop description: goals, format, and expected activities during the workshop - Audience: target audience, research groups in the area, planned or confirmed invited speakers, expected number of submissions and participants - Related events: history of the workshop (if applicable), relationship to recent similar events - Tentative list of PC members with their respective affiliations - A brief resume of each organizer including name, affiliation, contact details, and evidence of scholarship in the area, mentioning relevant publications or professional experience. - Appendix: tentative call for contributions The main duties of the chair(s) of each accepted workshop are: - Set up a webpage for the workshop - Advertise the workshop, distribute its call for papers and call for participation - Coordinate the peer-reviewing of submitted contributions - If workshop proceedings are desired, it is the duty of the organizers to produce and distribute their workshop proceedings - Organize a schedule for the workshop in collaboration with the local organizers and the KR workshop co-chairs - Coordinate and moderate the workshop participation and content - Deliver the workshop at KR 2025. 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Decades of associative studies have linked many behaviors to specific patterns of population activity, but association alone cannot reveal the dynamical mechanisms that shape those patterns. Are local neural circuits high-dimensional dynamical reservoirs able to generate arbitrary superpositions of patterns with appropriate excitation? Or might circuit dynamics be shaped in response to behavioral context so as to generate only the low-dimensional patterns needed for the task at hand? Here, we address these questions within the primate motor cortex by delivering optogenetic and electrical microstimulation perturbations during reaching behavior. We develop a novel analytic approach that relates measured activity to theoretically tractable, dynamical models of excitatory and inhibitory neurons. Our computational modeling framework allows us to quantitatively evaluate different hypotheses about the dynamical mechanisms underlying pattern generation against perturbation responses. Our results demonstrate that motor cortical activity during reaching is shaped by a self-contained, low-dimensional dynamical system. The subspace containing task-relevant dynamics proves to be oriented so as to be robust to strong non-normal amplification within cortical circuits. This task dynamics space exhibits a privileged causal relationship with behavior, in that stimulation in motor cortex perturbs reach kinematics only to the extent that it alters neural states within this subspace. 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This event will feature 14 top-tier keynote and invited lectures, and 26 excellent tutorials/short courses/special sessions covering the latest advancements in *AI and Machine Learning*, with distinguished speakers from leading universities in the USA and Europe. Its various tracks are suitable for students, scientists, engineers, professionals from any scientific discipline and to AI enthusiasts. *AIDA AICET2025 Program Topics* - Deep Learning, Generative Artificial Intelligence, Foundation Models, Large Language Models - Machine Learning, AI Foundations, Pattern Recognition, Reinforcement Learning and Sequential Decision-making - Trustworthy AI, Explainable AI, AI Ethics and Governance - Adversarial, Continual, Federated, Transfer Learning, Knowledge distillation - Distributed/decentralized AI, Networked Intelligence, Cloud/Edge AI, HW/SW for AI acceleration - Computer Vision, Intelligent Robotics, AI and Autonomous Systems/Cars/Vehicles - Natural Language Processing, AI for Speech, Music/Sound Analysis and Synthesis, AI for Signal Processing, - Human-Centered Machine Learning, Human-Centered Media Analysis, Artificial Social Intelligence - Neurosymbolic AI, Knowledge Representation and Problem-Solving, Reasoning and planning, - AI and Games, Deep Arts, AI in Humanities, AI-powered Education - AI and Neuroscience, AI in Health Sciences, - AI in Material Science, AI and Quantum Computing, AI and Wireless Computing - AI in Markets and Finance, AI for Marketing, AI and Social Media - AI and Disinformation, AI and Forensics, AI Bias ? *Bonus:* A pre-symposium short course on Deep Learning by Prof. Ioannis Pitas (AUTH) on *July 13, 2025*. *Details* *?* *Dates: July 14-18, 2025* ? *On-site:* KEDEA Building , AUTH, Thessaloniki, Greece. ? *Online:* Zoom links will be provided in due time. ? *Certificate of Attendance* will be provided upon request. ? *Seaside gala dinner.* Two optional* excursions* before/after AICET2025 to a) the ancient Macedonian capital Vergina & b) Western Macedonia (Kastoria). ? *[**Register Now* *]* ? 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Papers should demonstrate that they make a substantial contribution to the field (e.g., improve the state-of-the-art or provide new theoretical insights) and will be evaluated based on their contribution to the state of the art, technical excellence, potential impact, and clarity. Key Dates and Deadlines CMT Opening: 2025-02-07 Abstract Submission: 2025-03-07 Paper Submission: 2025-03-14 Author Notification: 2025-05-26 CRC Submission: 2025-06-13 Paper Format Papers must be written in English and formatted in LaTeX, following the outline of our author kit. The kit includes a readme document, a LaTeX file template containing author instructions, and style files. The maximum length of papers is 16 pages (including references) in this format. The program chairs reserve the right to reject any over-length papers without review. Papers that ?cheat? the page limit by, including but not limited to, using smaller than specified margins or font sizes will also be treated as over-length. Note that, for example, negative vspaces are also not allowed by the formatting guidelines; further details can be found in the author kit. Up to 10 MB of additional materials (e.g., proofs, audio, images, video, data, or source code) can be uploaded with your submission.If there is an appendix, ensure it is submitted separately from your paper, which must adhere to the 16-page limit.The reviewers and the program committee reserve the right to judge the paper solely on the basis of the 16 pages of the paper; looking at any additional material is at the discretion of the reviewers and is not required. Authorship The author list as submitted with the paper is considered final. No changes to this list may be made after paper submission, either during the review period, or in case of acceptance, at the final camera-ready stage. Double-blind Review Similarly to previous years, we will apply a double-blind review-process (author identities are not known by reviewers or area chairs; reviewers do see each other?s names). All papers need to be ?best-effort? anonymized. Papers must not include identifying information of the authors (names, affiliations, etc.), self-references, or links (e.g., GitHub, YouTube) that reveal the authors? identities (e.g., references to own work should be given neutrally like other references, not mentioning ?our previous work? or similar). We strongly encourage making code and data available anonymously (e.g., in an anonymous Github repository, or Dropbox folder). The authors might have a (non-anonymous) pre-print published online, but it should not be cited in the submitted paper to preserve anonymity. Reviewers will be asked not to search for them. We recognize there are limits to what is feasible with respect to anonymization. For example, if you use data from your own organization and it is relevant to the paper to name this organization, you may do so. Submission Process Electronic submissions will be handled via CMT available here. Submissions will be evaluated by three reviewers on the basis of novelty, technical quality, potential impact, and clarity. Conference Attendance For each accepted paper, at least one author must register for the main conference and present the paper in person. Proceedings The conference proceedings will be published by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science Series (LNCS). Reproducible Research Papers Authors are strongly encouraged to adhere to the best practices of Reproducible Research, by making available data and software tools that would enable others to reproduce the results reported in their papers. We advise the use of standard repository hosting services such as Dataverse, mldata.org, OpenML, figshare, or Zenodo for data sets, and mloss.org, Bitbucket, GitHub, or figshare (where it is possible to assign a DOI) for source code. If data or code gets updated after the paper is published, it is important to enable researchers to access the versions that were used to produce the results reported in the paper. Authors who do not have a preferred repository are advised to consult Springer Nature?s list of recommended repositories and research data policy. Ethics Considerations Ethics is one of the most important topics to emerge in Machine Learning, Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining. We ask you to think about the ethical implications of your submission ? such as those related to the collection and processing of personal data or the inference of personal information, the potential use of your work for policing or the military. You will be asked in the submission form about the ethical implications of your work which will be taken into consideration by the reviewers. Authors Commit to Reviewing Authors of submitted papers agree to provide the email address of at least one author who holds a PhD to be a potential PC member for ECML PKDD 2025 and may be asked to review papers for the conference if we have many more submissions than expected. This does not apply to authors who are (a) already contributing to ECML PKDD (e.g., accepted a PC/AC invite, are part of the organizing committee) or (b) not qualified to be ECML PKDD PC members (e.g., limited background in ML or DM). Dual Submission Policy Papers submitted should report original work. Papers that are identical or substantially similar to papers that have been published or submitted elsewhere may not be submitted to ECML PKDD, and the organizers will reject such papers without review. Authors are also NOT allowed to submit or have submitted their papers elsewhere during the review period. Submitting unpublished technical reports available online (such as on arXiv), or papers presented in workshops without formal proceedings, is allowed, but such reports or presentations should not be cited to preserve anonymity. Conflict of Interest During the submission process, you must enter the email domains of all institutions with which you have an institutional conflict of interest. You have an institutional conflict of interest if you are currently employed or have been employed by that institution in the past three years, or you have extensively collaborated with the institution within the past three years. Authors should also identify other conflicts of interest, such as co-authorship in the last five years, colleagues in the same institution within the last three years, and advisor/student relations (anytime in the past). Contact For further information, please contact Mail: ecml-pkdd-2025-research-track at googlegroups.com Carlos Ferreira ISEP | Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto Rua Dr. Ant?nio Bernardino de Almeida, 431 4249-015 Porto - PORTUGAL tel. +351 228 340 500 | fax +351 228 321 159 mail at isep.ipp.pt | www.isep.ipp.pt From pokornam at cs.cas.cz Wed Feb 12 06:55:32 2025 From: pokornam at cs.cas.cz (Magda Pokorna) Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2025 12:55:32 +0100 Subject: Connectionists: Junior/Postdoc Researcher positions in Computational Neuroscience (BRADY project) Prague, Czech Republic In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <9c066199-627e-439f-912c-3ada9f0afa11@cs.cas.cz> *Junior Researchers: Postdoctoral Fellow, Graduate student or Research assistant in Computational Neuroscience within the BRADY project - Ref. No. 2025/11*** Junior researcher positions are available in the Complex Networks and Brain Dynamics group (COBRA, https://cobra.cs.cas.cz/) at the Institute of Computer Science, Prague, Czech Republic (https://www.cs.cas.cz/en). These positions are centered in the Research Work Package 1 (RWP1) of a larger, interdisciplinary consortium established for the OPJAK BRADY project. *---? The relevant RWP1 aims to establish a family of generative models of graded complexity capturing brain dynamics that would:* * Approximate spatial patterns observed in resting state neuroimaging, including topology and topography of functional connectivity. * Approximate temporal brain dynamics, including activity fluctuations, connectivity dynamics, and information flow. * Provide an internally consistent unified account of electrophysiological and fMRI data, linking to biologically interpretable latent variables and structural connectivity. * Allow predicting the effect of external stimulation, such as complex sensory and cognitive tasks, electric of magnetic stimulation, or pharmacological intervention. * Allow capturing the key axes of inter-subject variability, linking it to psychometric data. * Ultimately allow characterizing and predicting the trajectory of deviation from healthy brain dynamics in a range of psychiatric and neurological diseases. Further information can be found here:https://brady.cs.cas.cz/ . *---? Conditions:* * Positions are available immediately, i.e. starting from 1. 3. 2025 or later. * Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis. * Contract is for 12-36 months duration, with exceptions negotiable. * Possibility of extension until end of project (30. 6. 2028), support for transition to tenure-track or external funding applications. * This is a full-time fixed term contract appointment. Part time contract negotiable. * Competitive salary based on qualifications and experience. * Bonuses and travel funding for conferences and research stays depending on performance. * No teaching duties. *---? Applicants should:* 1. Hold a PhD with the exception of Research assistant and Graduate student positions. 2. Have a strong background (commensurate to the respective career level) in some of the fields related to computational neuroscience - mathematical, statistical skills, experience with data analysis, machine learning, computer programming. 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. *For informal inquiries* do not hesitate to contact the project Scientific Coordinator: /Ing. Mgr. /Jaroslav Hlinka, /Ph.D./ , hlinka at cs.cas.cz , http://www.cs.cas.cz/hlinka/ . *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. 2025/11. ___ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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In addition, it has great potential in explainability, due to the logic-based methodologies that are a strong component of this context. These capabilities are only a starting point in XAI, they need to be explored in detail to facilitate the interpretability of whole models, in any part of them and not only in terms of the natural relationships that can be discovered. This workshop will focus on two main aspects: 1. Gives the possibility to extend the exploration of the explainability in multiple contexts, developing and adapting techniques that can be useful to relate classical deep learning approaches to their symbolic extensions. 2. Opens to the possibility to extend the understanding of neurosymbolic models to deep aspects of AI. These two concepts lead to the trustworthiness and reliability of the new trend of Neurosymbolic AI, increasing the confidence of end-users in choosing and believing in these methodologies for computer-aided applications. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Soft Computing methodologies * Symbolic and Neurosymbolic AI * Logic and Rule-based methods * AI methods for explainability, interpretrability and reliability * Resilient AI models * From wide to task-specific methodologies * Machine Learning and Deep Learning based AI methodologies * Data-driven decision-making * Multimodal Learning strategies * Scalability and optimization of intelligent systems * Generative AI and applications GREAT EVENT! XAI CHALLENGE FOR PASSIONATE! The workshop is growing fast and organizers are happy to announce that a challenge has been launched for all passionate students and researchers! The topic is Explainable AI for Educational Question-Answering. All details can be found in the website challenge page. IMPORTANT DATES - Submission due: March 20, 2025 - Notification to authors: April 15, 2025 SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS Submissions must follow the IJCNN2025 rules (https://2025.ijcnn.org/authors/initial-author-instructions). Authors are invited to submit: - Full papers, up to 8 pages - Short papers, up to 4 pages Short papers may also be presented in the poster session. Full and short papers will be published in the conference proceedings. Submission must be made on CMT using the following link: https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/IJCNN2025/Track/3/Submission/Create COMMITTEES AND CHAIRS General Chairs - Prof. Angelo Ciaramella - University of Naples Parthenope, Italy - Prof. Le Hoang Son - Vietnam National University, Hanoi, Vietnam - Prof. Emanuel Di Nardo - University of Naples Parthenope, Italy Program Chairs - Prof. Alessio Ferone - University of Naples Parthenope, Italy - Prof. Antonio Maratea - University of Naples Parthenope, Italy - Prof. Ihsan Ullah - Insight SFI Research Center for Data Analytics, University of Galway, Galway, Ireland Technical Program Chairs - Prof. Paola Barra - University of Naples Parthenope, Italy - Dr. Lorenzo Di Rocco - Sapienza University of Rome, Italy Challenge Chairs - Prof. Tho Quan - Faculty of Computer Science and Engineering, Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology, Vietnam - Prof. Anh Nguyen - Department of IT and Economics, University of South Eastern Norway, Norway - Prof. Fabien Baldacci - Universit? de Bordeaux, France - Prof. Bui Hoai Thang, Ho Chi Minh City City University (HCMUT), Vietnam The call for papers and additional information about the workshop and challenge can be found at https://sites.google.com/view/trns-ai ------ Emanuel Di Nardo, PhD University of Naples Parthenope Naples, Italy emanuel.dinardo at uniparthenope.it https://research.emanueldinardo.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From grzegorz at chrupala.me Thu Feb 13 04:17:31 2025 From: grzegorz at chrupala.me (=?UTF-8?Q?Grzegorz_Chrupa=C5=82a?=) Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2025 10:17:31 +0100 Subject: Connectionists: Interspeech 2025 - Call for Show and Tell Message-ID: Submission deadline: 2 April 2025 Acceptance/rejection notification: 26 April 2025 Final paper and video deadline: 21 May 2025 Interspeech is the world?s largest and most comprehensive conference focused on the science and technology of spoken language processing. In addition to the regular paper and special session submissions, Interspeech organizes Show and Tell demonstrations, where participants are given the opportunity to present engaging and interactive research or engineering demonstrations to conference attendees. The demonstrations should showcase fundamental research and innovations in areas such as speech communication, production, perception, acquisition, or speech and language technologies. The theme of Interspeech 2025 is ?Fair and Inclusive Speech Science and Technology?, allowing demonstration of innovative approaches to making speech technologies more accessible and equitable. Contributions must be relevant to Interspeech areas of interest and may also relate to the Interspeech theme. Show and Tell demonstrations should have an interactive component, which goes beyond demonstrating simple simulated graphs or presenting slides or a video on a computer. Any suggestions, as well as any questions, can be submitted to the Show and Tell Chairs: Aki Kunikoshi and Tanvina Patel at showandtell at interspeech2025.org Submission Guidelines Submissions must consist of: ? a paper, no more than two pages in length (including references), in Interspeech 2025 paper kit format. ? a video, describing visually to the reviewers what participants can expect to see during and how they will benefit from attending the demonstration. Show and Tell contributions may present mathematical and algorithmic results, but the primary focus should be on demonstrating a technological innovation or implementation. These contributions may relate to an already published paper or a submitted paper at Interspeech 2025. The paper submissions will be blind, and author details should not be included. Submissions will be assessed on criteria such as the quality of the short paper, the innovation of the research or system presented, and the overall clarity and impact of the demonstration. Additionally, it is required that the demonstration has not been presented as is at a recent Interspeech conference, ensuring the novelty of the contributions. For accepted submissions, participants must provide a camera-ready version of the paper to be included in the conference proceedings. Additionally, a final version of the video must be submitted by the camera ready deadline, which will be made publicly available. The demonstrations will be conducted in person at the conference and at least one presenter will need to register at Interspeech 2025 to present the demonstration at the Show and Tell session. For detailed guidelines about the submission, please see the "Show & Tell Guidelines" under "For Authors". From doya at oist.jp Thu Feb 13 09:12:51 2025 From: doya at oist.jp (Kenji Doya) Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2025 14:12:51 +0000 Subject: Connectionists: ICONIP2025 Call for Special Session/Workshop/Tutorial Proposals Message-ID: <2C4A0F98-DE42-47CC-90F1-CB2218204CA4@oist.jp> ICONIP2025 Call for Special Session/Workshop/Tutorial Proposals We are delighted to hold the 32nd International Conference on Neural Information Processing (ICONIP) 2025 from November 20 to 24 at Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST). https://iconip2025.apnns.org/ We are now calling for proposals of special sessions during the single track main conference and parallel workshops and tutorials on the topics including machine intelligence, computational neuroscience, and neural network applications. Please find the details on the web page: https://iconip2025.apnns.org/submission/ We look forward to receiving diverse proposals of wide interest. Important Dates Special session proposal deadline: March 1st Workshop proposal deadline: March 1st Tutorial proposal deadline: May 1st Paper submission deadline: May 15th Notification of acceptance: July 15th Camera ready submission: August 15th Registration deadline: August 15th Conference dates: November 20-24 Inquiry: iconip2025 at apnns.org ---- Kenji Doya Neural Computation Unit, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University 1919-1 Tancha, Onna, Okinawa 904-0495, Japan Phone: +81-98-966-8594; Fax: +81-98-966-2891 https://groups.oist.jp/ncu From khamassi at isir.upmc.fr Thu Feb 13 10:09:14 2025 From: khamassi at isir.upmc.fr (Mehdi Khamassi) Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2025 17:09:14 +0200 Subject: Connectionists: =?utf-8?q?Cognitive_Science_Master=27s_program_?= =?utf-8?q?=28cog-SUP=29_at_Sorbonne_Universit=C3=A9_and_Universit=C3=A9_P?= =?utf-8?q?aris_Cit=C3=A9_--_Application_deadline=3A_1_March_2025?= Message-ID: <33d1e0e6-be24-43f5-af55-8c2097b21718@isir.upmc.fr> Dear colleagues and students, Applications are now open to cog-SUP, the interdisciplinary Master's program in Cognitive Science jointly offered by Sorbonne Universit? and Universit? Paris Cit?. https://cog-sup.fr cog-SUP is an heir of the Cogmaster (2004-2025), itself a descendant of the DEA of Cognitive Science (1987-2004). As such, our pedagogical team and program benefit from more than 35 years of teaching experience in Cognitive Science in Paris. We offer a broad interdisciplinary openness and a fundamentally collaborative spirit, bringing together professors, researchers and students from very different backgrounds, united by common research questions. The large majority of courses are in English (except otherwise stated). The program is structured around a unified core curriculum complemented by six robust disciplinary tracks. To maintain a well-balanced and foundationally sound interdisciplinary education, cog-SUP is organized into six tracks: (1) psychology, (2) philosophy, (3) computational linguistics and artificial intelligence, (4) cognitive neuroscience, (5) computational neuroscience and artificial intelligence, (6) cognitive science and society. The program proposes innovative teaching methods, new contents addressing contemporary issues. We are particularly attentive to the human, ecological, societal and ethical issues of cognitive science. The program promotes scientific excellence and human values, within a French open university model, and includes important contributions from academics at CNRS, INSERM, EHESS, APHP, among other institutions. Applications to both M1 and M2 years are now open at https://cog-sup.fr/application/ Application deadline: 1 March 2025 Please feel free to circulate the information to potentially interested students around you. -- Mehdi Khamassi, PhD, HDR Research director (DR2), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique Institute of Intelligent Systems and Robotics, Sorbonne Universit? ISIR - BC 173, 4 place Jussieu, 75005 Paris, France phone: +33 6 50 76 44 92 email: mehdi.khamassi at sorbonne-universite.fr https://pages2.isir.upmc.fr/mkhamassi/ Co-director of the master's program in cognitive science (https://cog-sup.fr) Sorbonne Universit? / Universit? Paris Cit? Visiting Researcher at the Institute of Communication and Computer Systems National Technical University of Athens, Greece https://www.iccs.gr/en/?noredirect=en_US From djurikom at gmail.com Fri Feb 14 02:40:33 2025 From: djurikom at gmail.com (Nemanja Djuric) Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2025 02:40:33 -0500 Subject: Connectionists: CfP: The 7th Workshop on "Precognition: Seeing through the Future" @ CVPR 2025 Message-ID: Call for Workshop Papers The 7th Workshop on "Precognition: Seeing through the Future" in conjunction with The 38th IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2025) Nashville, June 11th-15th, 2025 https://sites.google.com/view/ieeecvf-cvpr2025-precognition ================= Despite its potential and relevance for real-world applications, visual forecasting or precognition has not been in the focus of new theoretical studies and practical applications as much as detection and recognition problems. Through the organization of this workshop we aim to facilitate further discussion and interest within the research community regarding this nascent topic. The workshop will discuss recent approaches and research trends not only in anticipating human behavior from videos, but also precognition in multiple other visual applications, such as: medical imaging, health-care, human face aging prediction, early event prediction, autonomous driving forecasting, and so on. In addition, this workshop will give an opportunity for the community in both academia and industry to meet and discuss future work and research directions. It will bring together researchers from different fields and viewpoints to discuss existing major research problems and identify opportunities in further research directions in both research topics and industrial applications. This is the seventh Precognition workshop organized at CVPR. It follows very successful workshops organized since 2019, which featured talks from researchers across a number of industries, insightful presentations, and large attendance. For full programs, slides, posters, and other resources, please visit the websites of earlier Precognition workshops, linked at the workshop website. ================= Topics: The workshop focuses on several important aspects of visual forecasting. The topics of interest for this workshop include, but are not limited to: - Early event prediction - Activity and trajectory forecasting - Multi-agent forecasting - Human behavior and pose prediction - Human face aging prediction - Predicting frames and features in videos and other sensors in autonomous driving - Traffic congestion anomaly prediction - Automated Covid-19 prediction in medical imaging - Visual DeepFake prediction - Short- and long-term prediction and diagnoses in medical imaging - Prediction of agricultural parameters from satellite imagery - Databases, evaluation, and benchmarking in precognition ================= Submission Instructions: All submitted work will be assessed based on their novelty, technical quality, potential impact, insightfulness, depth, clarity, and reproducibility. For each accepted submission, at least one author must attend the workshop and present the paper. There are two ways to contribute submissions to the workshop: - Extended abstracts submissions are single-blind peer-reviewed, and author names and affiliations should be listed. Extended abstract submissions are limited to a total of four pages. Extended abstracts of already published works can also be submitted. Accepted abstracts will be presented at the poster session, and will not be included in the printed proceedings of the workshop. - Full paper submissions are double-blind peer-reviewed. The submissions are limited to eight pages, including figures and tables, in the CVPR style. Additional pages containing only cited references are allowed (additional information about formatting and style files is available at the website). Accepted papers will be presented at the poster session, with selected papers also being presented in an oral session. All accepted papers will be published by the CVPR in the workshop proceedings. 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URL: From A.Visser at uva.nl Fri Feb 14 05:12:34 2025 From: A.Visser at uva.nl (Arnoud Visser) Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2025 10:12:34 +0000 Subject: Connectionists: Call for Papers: 19th International Conference on Intelligent Autonomous Systems (IAS-19) | Deadline extension to March 7, 2025 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Dear Friends, I wish to invite you all to contribute to the 19th International Conference on Intelligent Autonomous Systems (IAS-19), which will be held in Genoa, Italy, from June 30 to July 4, 2025. Since the first edition in 1985, IAS has been a venue for original, novel, and innovative papers with a theoretical or experimental flavour. For IAS-19, we look for papers centered around the theme ?Ethical, Responsible, and Inclusive Robotics?. **/ Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): Mobile Robots Collaborative Robots/Cobots Robots for Industry 4.0 Household Robots Humanoid Robots Climbing Robots Outdoor and Field Robots Autonomous Vehicles Healthcare Robots Flying Robots Marine Robots Robot Swarms Biomimetic Robots Long-Term Autonomous Systems Intelligent Machines Cognitive Architectures for Robots Human-Robot-Interaction Software Architectures for Robots Cloud Robotics Robot Vision Tactile Sensing Intelligent Sensors and Systems Neuromorphic Sensing Semantic Modelling Data Fusion and Machine Learning Obstacle Avoidance Localization and SLAM Knowledge Representation and Reasoning Planning Task-Motion Planning Robot Foundation Models Vision and Language Models Robot Simulations Mechatronics for Intelligent Systems All contributed papers will go through a rigorous peer-review process, which will be managed by Editors, Associated Editors, and Reviewers. Each manuscript will be reviewed by at least two reviewers. If a paper will be accepted, the authors should submit a revised final version reflecting reviewers? comments and present their paper orally and in presence. All accepted and presented papers will be published in the conference proceedings, and a post-proceedings book will be published by Springer, as is customary for IAS conferences. A limited number of authors will be invited to submit an extended version of their papers for a special issue of Robotics and Autonomous Systems, published by Elsevier. Proposals for workshops and tutorials are strongly encouraged. Workshops and tutorials will be scheduled on 30/6/2025. Updates on www.ias-19.org. **/ Planned special sessions 1) Artificial Intelligence in Human-Robot Collaboration and Interaction Organisers: Alessandro Umbrico (alessandro.umbrico at istc.cnr.it) Alessandro Carfi (alessandro.umbrico at istc.cnr.it) 2) Robots and Intelligent systems for Citizens and the Environment Organisers: Antonio Sgorbissa (antonio.sgorbissa at unige.it) Jaeryoung Lee (jaeryounglee at isc.chubu.ac.jp) Carmine Tommaso Recchiuto (carmine.recchiuto at dibris.unige.it) Emilia Barakova (e.i.barakova at tue.nl) 3) Marine Robotics Organisers: Giovanni Indiveri (giovanni.indiveri at unige.it) Enrico Simetti (enrico.simetti at unige.it) Francesco Wanderlingh (francesco.wanderlingh at unige.it) 4) Proactive Social Perception for Human-Robot Collaboration: From Vision to Language Organisers: Dimitri Ognibene (dimitri.ognibene at unimib.it) Onofrio Gigliotta (onofrio.gigliotta at unina.it) Letizia Marchegiani (letizia.marchegiani at unipr.it) Tom Foulsham (foulsham at essex.ac.uk) Dario Zanca (dario.zanca at fau.de) Edoardo Datteri (edoardo.datteri at unimib.it) 5) Adjustable Autonomy and Physical Embodied Intelligence Organisers: Fabio Patrizi (patrizi at diag.uniroma1.it) Luca Iocchi (iocchi at diag.uniroma1.it) Raffaello Camoriano (raffaello.camoriano at polito.it) 6) Advanced Mathematical and Control Methods in Soft and Humanoid Robotics Organisers: Fabio Bonsignorio (fabio.bonsignorio at fer.unizg.hr) Enrica Zereik (enrica.zereik at cnr.it) 7) Human Internal States Perception and Processing for Human-Centric Technology Organisers: Marco Matarese (marco.matarese at iit.it) Francesco Rea (francesco.rea at iit.it) Alessandra Sciutti (alessandra.sciutti at iit.it) 8) LLMs as planning tools for Human-Robot Collaborative Tasks Organisers: Lorenzo Natale (lorenzo.natale at iit.it) Carmela Calabrese (carmela.calabrese at iit.it) NEW!!! 9) Field Robotics Empowered by Artificial Intelligence Organisers: Hyun-Joon Chung Jinung An Soon-Geul Lee Sukhan Lee **/ Paper submission instructions Prospective authors must format their papers in a single-column layout on 21 cm x 29.7 cm A4-size paper according to the Springer guidelines: https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines In particular, refer to: - instructions for authors: https://resource-cms.springernature.com/springer-cms/rest/v1/content/19242230/data/v16 - LaTeX templates: https://resource-cms.springernature.com/springer-cms/rest/v1/content/19238648/data/v8 - Overleaf LaTeX templates: https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/springer-lecture-notes-in-computer-science/kzwwpvhwnvfj - MS Word templates: https://resource-cms.springernature.com/springer-cms/rest/v1/content/7117506/data/v1 Paper length should be at most 12 pages, including references. Authors can optionally have 6 additional pages at a cost of 50 EUR per page. Papers with more than 18 pages will be automatically rejected. Papers must be submitted electronically via OpenReview: https://openreview.net/group?id=ias-society.org/IAS/2025/Conference Please indicate whether the paper is submitted to the general track or one of the special sessions. **/ Important dates 20/9/2024 > First call for papers 7/12/2024 > Deadline for proposals for special sessions 15/12/2024 > Notification for proposals for special sessions 31/1/2025 > Deadline for proposals for workshops, and tutorials 7/2/2025 > Notification for proposals for workshops and tutorials UPDATED!!! 7/3/2025 > Deadline for papers submission 15/4/2025 > Papers acceptance notification 15/5/2025 > Papers final submission 30/6/2025 - 4/7/2025 > IAS-19 in Genoa, Italy **/ CONFIRMED Plenary speakers Tomaso A. Poggio, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, US Yoshihiko Nakamura, Mohamed Bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence, UAE Yasuo Kuniyoshi, University of Tokyo, Japan **/ CONFIRMED Keynote speakers Arash Ajoudani, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Italy Perla Maiolino, University of Oxford, UK Jos? Galvan, Pontificia Universit? della Santa Croce, Vatican State **/ Organisation - General Chair Fulvio Mastrogiovanni, University of Genoa, Italy - Program Chair Francesco Amigoni, Polytechnic University of Milan, Italy - Regional Program Chairs Takahashi Masaki, Keio University, Japan Jing Xiao, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, US Arnoud Visser, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands **/ OPENING SOON: Call for sponsors and exhibitors We will soon open a call for sponsors and exhibitors. We are working toward nicely blending the usual scientific tracks of IAS with pitch sessions and events oriented towards innovation and the industry. IAS-19 will feature a dedicated crash course on entrepreneurship, student challenges in which companies may be directly involved, plenary pitch sessions, and an industry forum. More on this soon! On behalf of the Program Chairs and our General Chair: Fulvio Mastrogiovanni (He/Him) Associate Professor, University of Genoa Associate Professor, University of Genoa -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From newsletters at tommasoturchi.fyi Fri Feb 14 07:18:34 2025 From: newsletters at tommasoturchi.fyi (Tommaso Turchi) Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2025 13:18:34 +0100 Subject: Connectionists: CfP: SYNERGY 2025 - Workshop on Designing and Building Hybrid Human-AI Systems (HHAI 2025) Message-ID: <7516a96b-4188-4892-80bd-368b9b356238@app.fastmail.com> *[Apologies for cross-posting]* Please share widely with interested colleagues and networks! SYNERGY 2025: Workshop on Designing and Building Hybrid Human-AI Systems Co-located with HHAI 2025 (Hybrid Human-AI Intelligence Conference) June 9, 2025 - Pisa, Italy https://synergy.trx.li/ Important Dates: - Submission Deadline: April 11, 2025 (AoE) - Notification: May 2, 2025 - Camera Ready: May 16, 2025 ABOUT ------ In 1960, Joseph Licklider envisioned "Man-Computer Symbiosis" where computation would augment human intellect. Today, as AI systems work alongside people in tasks from visual analytics to code generation, we are learning to design truly synergistic systems where humans and AI work flexibly together, leveraging their complementary abilities. Following our successful first edition at AVI 2024 (https://synergy.trx.li/2024/), this workshop brings together researchers exploring the design, implementation, and evaluation of meaningful human-AI collaboration systems. The workshop will include consortium partners from the new ?10M EU project TANGO "It takes two to tango: a synergistic approach to human-machine decision making". TOPICS ------- We invite submissions in four key areas: - Interactive Decision-Making Systems: Real-time collaboration mechanisms, task allocation protocols, and approaches for handling uncertainty - Adaptive Collaboration Frameworks: Dynamic systems that adjust to cognitive load and learn from human intervention - Evaluation Methods: Novel approaches to measuring effectiveness of human-AI partnerships - Implementation Architecture: Practical solutions and patterns for building collaborative systems We particularly welcome submissions presenting concrete mechanisms, empirical evaluations, novel interaction patterns, and practical implementation challenges. All submissions should demonstrate: - Integration of both AI capabilities and human interaction aspects - Consideration of practical design and implementation implications - Clear connection to human-AI collaboration, even in theoretical or policy-focused work SUBMISSION ---------- - Minimum 5 pages, CEUR-WS single column format - Submit via Microsoft CMT: https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/SYNERGY2025 - Selected papers will be invited for submission to a Special Issue on Hybrid Human-AI Systems in a leading journal ORGANIZERS ---------- - Tommaso Turchi, University of Pisa, Italy - Alan Dix, Swansea University & Cardiff Metropolitan University, UK - Matt Roach, Swansea University, UK - Alessio Malizia, University of Pisa, Italy - Ben Wilson, Swansea University, UK For more information: Website: https://synergy.trx.li/ Contact: tommaso.turchi at unipi.it This workshop is supported by the HORIZON Europe project TANGO - Grant Agreement n. 101120763. From rbianchi at fei.edu.br Fri Feb 14 12:46:06 2025 From: rbianchi at fei.edu.br (Reinaldo A. C. Bianchi) Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2025 17:46:06 +0000 Subject: Connectionists: Call for two post doc positions in Smart Agriculture Message-ID: <28C70382-6619-45D5-AEB4-A2EB88B646C3@fei.edu.br> ********************************************************** FAPESP Post-doctoral Fellowship #1 - Call for applications ********************************************************** The FAPESP project "SMART: Sustainable Management of Agriculture with the Intelligent Computing Continuum" (bv.fapesp.br/en/auxilios/116446) has an open Post-Doctoral position to work at the Federal University of ABC (UFABC). The research theme is "Smart Application Deployment for the IoT Computing Continuum", dealing with the challenges of deploying smart agriculture applications over the IoT Computing Continuum (IoTinuum), considering the inherent distribution of the end-to-end path between devices and the cloud and the need for individual services to run in multiple stages in-between. The SMART project aims to develop and deploy a trustworthy platform for smart agriculture across the IoTinuum, from field sensors to the cloud. It will utilize various sensors, data sources, networking technologies, data management, and machine learning to ensure reliable dataflow and trustworthiness. The deployment of smart applications for the IoTinuum requires the efficient orchestration of resources allocated to the services to provide the intended quality levels. Orchestration involves fulfilling the application needs by carefully matching services, resources, and workloads, including microservice placement, deployment, and migration. In the IoTinuum context, it means being aware of and monitoring the resources available in each stage, understanding the application QoS requirements (such as maximum delay), and deploying the services in the most appropriate stage, i.e., in Mist, Fog, or Cloud. An IoT smart application comprises various services (i.e., microservices), which may be deployed in different stages for distinct installations. Using a certain node within the continuum stage involves deploying services. If this stage is not used in a given installation, this service must be deployed elsewhere in another stage. Current deployment strategies cannot handle varying configurations for IoT efficient and scalable application deployment within the continuum. The general objective of this postdoc fellowship is to design and implement an application deployment methodology for the IoTinuum that takes as input a model (such as a directed acyclic graph) representing the application and generates a deployment strategy as output. The main challenges in this proposal involve: 1. A Deployment Triggering strategy, which identifies the need for a new deployment to be executed over the IoTinuum 2. A Deployment Biding strategy, which means that that abstract graph representing the application will be mapped to specific nodes (with IP addresses and ports) located in different stages of the continuum, such as Thing, Mist, Fog, or Cloud 3. A Deployment Distribution and installation strategy for transferring services to where they will be executed (e.g., cloud or fog) 4. A preliminary version of the application deployment methodology A highly motivated candidate is expected to show background in the following concepts: - IoT, cloud, fog, edge, and the computing continuum - Application deployment and DevOps strategies - Performance analysis with experimentation techniques - Advanced programming language skills - Advanced English language skills - Strong publication record The candidate must hold a Ph.D. in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related areas (less than 7 years since graduation). The fellowship's duration is 30 months, and the monthly stipend is R$12.000,00 plus 10% for research expenses. The term for this scholarship is expected to start as soon as possible, ideally in April 2025. Candidates should fill out the online form at: https://forms.gle/AxC47yMXqFi9fP9K8 Deadline: March, 14, 2025 Inquiries can be sent to carlos.kamienski at ufabc.edu.br ********************************************************** FAPESP Post-doctoral Fellowship #2 - Call for applications ********************************************************** The FAPESP project "SMART: Sustainable Management of Agriculture with the Intelligent Computing Continuum" (bv.fapesp.br/en/auxilios/116446) has an open Post-Doctoral position to work at the FEI Univerity Center (FEI). The research theme is "Developing the Intelligent IoT Continuum for Precision Agriculture: Task Allocation, Forecasting, Resource Management, and Data Analytics", dealing with the challenges of deploying smart agriculture applications over the IoT Computing Continuum (IoTinuum). This project aims to develop an intelligent Internet of Things (IoT) system focused on precision agriculture. The aim is to create an interconnected network of devices capable of collecting and analyzing data on crop conditions, such as soil moisture, temperature, and weather conditions. Using artificial intelligence techniques, the system should be able to optimize the allocation of tasks between the different devices in the network, manage resources efficiently, and carry out predictive analyses of agricultural production. The system will train machine learning and deep learning models collaboratively through federated learning, using data from different devices without centralizing the information. Based on the data collected and analyzed, the system should predict the production of a given crop, optimize irrigation and fertilizer application, and identify possible crop problems in advance. In short, this project aims to create an innovative solution for agriculture, combining the Internet of Things with artificial intelligence to improve productivity, reduce costs, and promote sustainability. The general objective of this postdoc fellowship is to develop an intelligent Internet of Things system for precision agriculture that can collect, analyze, and utilize data on crop conditions. The main challenges in this proposal involve: 1. To design an intelligent IoT system for precision agriculture. 2. To optimize the allocation of tasks and resources within the IoT network using artificial intelligence techniques. 3. To perform predictive analyses of agricultural production through machine learning and deep learning models trained collaboratively using federated learning. 4. To predict crop production, optimize irrigation and fertilizer application, and identify potential crop problems. A highly motivated candidate is expected to show background in the following concepts: - Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Neural Network Architectures, time series and their application to agricultural problems. Federated Learning is a plus - Data Analytics, Model Evaluation and Deployment - IoT, cloud, fog, edge, and the computing continuum - Advanced programming language skills - Advanced English language skills - Strong publication record The candidate must hold a Ph.D. in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering or related areas (less than 7 years since graduation). The fellowship's duration is 30 months, and the monthly stipend is R$12.000,00 plus 10% for research expenses. The term for this scholarship is expected to start as soon as possible, ideally in April 2025. 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The submitted papers should clearly explain the specific real-world challenges addressed (e.g., real-world domain goals, restrictions and other issues; analyzed data properties, including size and quality), the Data Science methodology used (including its evaluation procedure), and the conclusions and implications (e.g., domain impacts) that are drawn for the respective use cases. The ADS track aims to accept papers that provide practitioners with valuable insights into how to apply Data Science in real-world scenarios, showcasing their practical relevance. Alternatively, submissions may highlight novel use cases that contribute to expanding the understanding of the applicability of the Data Science methodologies in practical settings. Lastly, the track welcomes papers contributing to the overall knowledge base on the real-world application of Data Science principles. In terms of Data Science deployment level, it is expected a minimum Technology Readiness Level (TRL) of four: technology validated in laboratory environment. For example, this can include computer experiments that realistically simulate the real-world conditions (e.g., goals, restrictions) of the targeted use cases. Authors are encouraged to comment on the practical implications and significance of their solutions, which can include deployment works or plans, and measured or estimated domain impacts in real-world scenarios or environments. Regarding methodological novelty, this track welcomes but does not require the introduction of novel Data Science techniques. Instead, the emphasis is placed on the relevance and impact of the applied solutions to real-world challenges, even if proposed systems combine previously known building blocks. Finally, to facilitate transparency and reproducibility, whenever possible, authors should disclose their computer code and/or data in a public form. In cases where there are business or industry proprietary code and/or data restrictions, acceptable solutions are the public disclosure of some portions of the code/data or their anonymized versions. Another possibility is the complementary usage of public domain Data Science libraries and datasets. Paper Submission Authors are invited to submit their papers using the CMT conference tool: https://cmt3.research. A list of domains and data science subject areas follow below: Application Domain: Agriculture, Food and Earth Sciences, Arts and Humanities, Industry (4.0, 5.0, Manufacturing, ?), Finance, Economy, Management or Marketing, Health, Biology, Bioinformatics or Chemistry, Social Sciences (Social Good, Psychology, History, ?), Education, Engineering and Technology, Smart Cities, Transportation and Utilities (e.g., Energy), Sports, Web and Social Networks. Data Science Approach/Method: Data Engineering (e.g., data preprocessing, integration), Descriptive (e.g., data visualization, unsupervised learning), Predictive (e.g., classification, regression, time series), Prescriptive (e.g., optimization, simulation, metaheuristics), Model Exploitation (e.g., explainability, fairness, monitoring), Machine Learning (including Deep Learning), Natural Language Processing and General Intelligence (e.g., LLM), Reinforcement Learning. Key Dates and Deadlines CMT Opening: 2025-02-07 Abstract Submission: 2025-03-07 Paper Submission: 2025-03-14 Author Notification: 2025-05-26 CRC Submission: 2025-06-13 Paper Format Papers must be written in English and formatted in LaTeX, following the outline of our author kit. The kit includes a readme document, a LaTeX file template containing author instructions, and style files. The maximum length of papers is 16 pages (including references) in this format. The program chairs reserve the right to reject any over-length papers without review. Papers that ?cheat? the page limit by, including but not limited to, using smaller than specified margins or font sizes will also be treated as over-length. Note that, for example, negative vspaces are also not allowed by the formatting guidelines; further details can be found in the author kit. Up to 10 MB of additional materials (e.g., proofs, audio, images, video, data, or source code) can be uploaded with your submission. If there is an appendix, ensure it is submitted separately from your paper, which must adhere to the 16-page limit.The reviewers and the program committee reserve the right to judge the paper solely on the basis of the 16 pages of the paper; looking at any additional material is at the discretion of the reviewers and is not required. Authorship The author list as submitted with the paper is considered final. No changes to this list may be made after paper submission, either during the review period, or in case of acceptance, at the final camera-ready stage. Double-blind Review Similarly to previous years, we will apply a double-blind review-process (author identities are not known by reviewers or area chairs; reviewers do see each other?s names). All papers need to be ?best-effort? anonymized. Papers must not include identifying information of the authors (names, affiliations, etc.), self-references, or links (e.g., GitHub, YouTube) that reveal the authors? identities (e.g., references to own work should be given neutrally like other references, not mentioning ?our previous work? or similar). We strongly encourage making code and data available anonymously (e.g., in an anonymous Github repository, or Dropbox folder). The authors might have a (non-anonymous) pre-print published online, but it should not be cited in the submitted paper to preserve anonymity. Reviewers will be asked not to search for them. We recognize there are limits to what is feasible with respect to anonymization. For example, if you use data from your own organization and it is relevant to the paper to name this organization, you may do so. Conference Attendance For each accepted paper, at least one author must register for the main conference and present the paper in person. Proceedings The conference proceedings will be published by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science Series (LNCS). Reproducible Papers Authors are strongly encouraged to adhere to the best practices of Reproducible Research, by making available data and software tools that would enable others to reproduce the results reported in their papers. We advise the use of standard repository hosting services such as Dataverse, mldata.org, OpenML, figshare, or Zenodo for data sets, and mloss.org, Bitbucket, GitHub, or figshare (where it is possible to assign a DOI) for source code. If data or code gets updated after the paper is published, it is important to enable researchers to access the versions that were used to produce the results reported in the paper. Authors who do not have a preferred repository are advised to consult Springer Nature?s list of recommended repositories and research data policy. Ethics Considerations Ethics is one of the most important topics to emerge in Machine Learning, Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining. We ask you to think about the ethical implications of your submission ? such as those related to the collection and processing of personal data or the inference of personal information, the potential use of your work for policing or the military. You will be asked in the submission form about the ethical implications of your work which will be taken into consideration by the reviewers. Authors Commit to Reviewing Authors of submitted papers agree to provide the email address of at least one author who holds a PhD to be a potential PC member for ECML PKDD 2025 and may be asked to review papers for the conference if we have many more submissions than expected. This does not apply to authors who are (a) already contributing to ECML PKDD (e.g., accepted a PC/AC invite, are part of the organizing committee) or (b) not qualified to be ECML PKDD PC members (e.g., limited background in ML or DM). Dual Submission Policy Papers submitted should report original work. Papers that are identical or substantially similar to papers that have been published or submitted elsewhere may not be submitted to ECML PKDD, and the organizers will reject such papers without review. Authors are also NOT allowed to submit or have submitted their papers elsewhere during the review period. Submitting unpublished technical reports available online (such as on arXiv), or papers presented in workshops without formal proceedings, is allowed, but such reports or presentations should not be cited to preserve anonymity. Conflict of Interest During the submission process, you must enter the email domains of all institutions with which you have an institutional conflict of interest. You have an institutional conflict of interest if you are currently employed or have been employed by that institution in the past three years, or you have extensively collaborated with the institution within the past three years. Authors should also identify other conflicts of interest, such as co-authorship in the last five years, colleagues in the same institution within the last three years, and advisor/student relations (anytime in the past). Contact For further information, please contact Mail: ecml-pkdd-2025-ads-track-chairs at googlegroups.com Carlos Ferreira ISEP | Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto Rua Dr. Ant?nio Bernardino de Almeida, 431 4249-015 Porto - PORTUGAL tel. +351 228 340 500 | fax +351 228 321 159 mail at isep.ipp.pt | www.isep.ipp.pt From aurnhammer at coli.uni-saarland.de Fri Feb 14 10:29:18 2025 From: aurnhammer at coli.uni-saarland.de (Christoph Aurnhammer) Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2025 16:29:18 +0100 Subject: Connectionists: [job] Industry opportunity - Neuroscience sales specialist Message-ID: Dear community, Mentalab, a German company developing mobile EEG systems, is seeking a talented neuroscientist to join our growing sales team. This is a great opportunity for someone passionate about innovative technology and eager to contribute to the wider field of EEG. 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The Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences of the University of Coimbra (FPCE-UC ) Portugal invites applications from rising and aspiring leaders in Cognitive Science and Neuroscience and Cognitive Computational Neuroscience for 2 tenure-track positions at the Assistant Professor level. These positions are part of a transformative ERA Chair grant CogBooster from the European Union to FPCE-UC led by Dr. Alfonso Caramazza. The goal of CogBooster is to implement strong and international lines of research in Cognitive Science/Neuroscience, so as to contribute to the ongoing renewal of the Psychological and Brain Sciences in Portugal over the next decade. The project has recently led to the appointment of Jorge Almeida, Jason Fischer and Joana Carvalho as tenured Professors, and Alfonso Caramazza as a Visiting Researcher at the University of Coimbra. Equal Employment Opportunity statement: The University of Coimbra is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer and has a Gender Equality Plan in place. We are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive academic global community at the University. We particularly encourage applications from women, and from under-represented groups in the University of Coimbra?s workforce and in the brain sciences. Positions: We seek applicants with expertise in any area of Cognitive Science/ Neuroscience and Cognitive Computational Neuroscience. The positions are tenure-track at the rank of Assistant Professor. The start date should be around September 1, 2025 (but potentially negotiable). Qualifications: Applicants must hold a Ph.D. in a discipline relevant to Cognitive Science/ Neuroscience and Cognitive Computational Neuroscience. Successful applicants should have an excellent record of research for their career level. To contribute to the mission of CogBooster and to the research and educational mission of FPCE-UC, they are expected to establish an active research program in any of the major cognitive areas, acquire external research funds, and contribute to teaching and mentoring. The applicant will actively engage in research, teaching, and supervision in the field of the specific positions at FPCE-UC and its affiliated research center. Applicants may use different technical and methodological approaches to address their cognitive research questions, including, but not limited to, cognitive neuropsychological investigations, human neuroimaging techniques (fMRI, EEG, sEEG, etc), behavioral and cognitive approaches, and computational cognitive neuroscience. Offer: Positions are tenure-track and include social security and national pension plans, medical insurance, and all legally applicable benefits under Portuguese law. Salary depends on the level of appointment. In addition to the legally required employment conditions described above, and as part of the ERA Chair initiative CogBooster, these positions come with a start-up package. This includes (subject to final discussion between the selected candidates and Dr. Alfonso Caramazza): ? Funding for 1 Post-Doctoral fellow at the Portuguese pay grade for 36 months; ? Funding for 1 Research Assistant/Doctoral student at the Portuguese pay grade for 36 months; ? Funding for 200 fMRI hours (or EEG hours, use of neurostimulation, etc.); ? Funding for attending and presenting at national and international conferences ? Funding for open access publications; ? Funding for Laboratory resources (e.g., Computers); ? Laboratory space shared with other laboratories at FPCE-UC; ? Institutional support for applying to major European and international grants (grant reviewing by experts, interview preparation, etc). About Portugal, Coimbra, and FPCE-UC: Portugal?s warm and pleasant climate, rich history and culture, beautiful landscapes and beaches, affordable cost of living, and quality but affordable medical and educational systems, makes it one of the most exciting countries to live in. Moreover, Portuguese culture is incredibly family-friendly, welcoming to foreigners (English is widely spoken), and the country is one of the five safest countries in the world. Finally, it features an incredible and diverse cuisine, great wine, and a pace of life commensurate with work-life balance. 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 the beach and mountains. According to Numbeo-Cost of Living, 2300 euro in Coimbra (the net value approximate monthly salary of an Assistant Professor, 12 months plus a Summer and Christmas bonus is a total of 14 months) correspond to a local purchasing power of about 4300 euro in Paris, 4700 GBP in London (UK), 3050 euro in Rome, 4100 euro in Munich, 3600 euro in Brussels, approximately 5700 USD in Los Angeles, 6000 USD in Washington, or 6200 USD in Boston, 6200 CAD in Toronto, 19k CNY in Beijing or Shanghai, 11k reais in S?o Paulo, and 7600 AUD euro in Sydney. The Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences has been consistently ranked as the, 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 2 ERC grants in Psychology in Portugal. FPCE-UC has laboratories for Cognitive Science and Cognitive Neuroscience research ? the Proaction Lab (led by Jorge Almeida); The Dynamic Perception Lab (led by Jason Fischer), Joana Carvalho's Vision Science lab, and the Cognitive Neuropsychology group led by Alfonso Caramazza. We have access to two 3T MRI scanners, to tDCS and TMS with neuronavigation, to a 256 channel EEG, and to a fully functional behavioral lab. Further information: The official call will be available at a later date (February/March 2025), but please send an email to Dr. Jorge Almeida (jorgecbalmeida at gmail.com) if you want to be informed when the positions are open, and/or if you want to receive further information about the ERA Chair Project CogBooster. In the meanwhile, we strongly encourage potential applicants to contact Drs. Alfonso Caramazza (caram at wjh.harvard.edu) and Jorge Almeida ( jorgecbalmeida at gmail.com). 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This post is aligned to the Nature Inspired Computer and Engineering group within Computer Science. This role encourages applicants from the areas of natural language processing including language modelling, language generation (machine translation/summarisation), explainability and reasoning in NLP, and/or aligned multimodal challenges for NLP (vision-language, audio-language, and so on) and we are particularly interested in candidates who enhance our current strengths and bring complementary areas of AI expertise. Surrey has an established international reputation in AI research, 1st in the UK for computer vision and top 10 for AI, computer vision, machine learning and natural language processing (CSRankings.org) and were 7th in the UK for REF2021 outputs in Computer Science research. Computer Science and CVSSP are at the core of the Surrey Institute for People-Centred AI (PAI), established in 2021 as a pan-University initiative which brings together leading AI research with cross-discipline expertise across health, social, behavioural, and engineering sciences, and business, law, and the creative arts to shape future AI to benefit people and society. PAI leads a portfolio of ?100m in grant awards including major research activities in creative industries and healthcare, and two doctoral training programmes with funding for over 100 PhD researchers: the UKRI AI Centre for Doctoral Training in AI for Digital Media Inclusion, and the Leverhulme Trust Doctoral Training Network in AI-Enabled Digital Accessibility. Informal inquiries can be directed to the Director of the Computer Science Research Centre, Professor Steve Schneider at *s.schneider at surrey.ac.uk* . The full advert, and application portal, is available at the link above. 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This new emphasis stems from a growing need for applications that not only solve complex problems with high accuracy, but also provide clear, transparent insights into their decision-making processes for a range of end-users and stakeholders. In Europe, this has to be understood also in the context of new regulations such as the Artificial Intelligence Act, with its risk-related model transparency requirements. As a result, there is a surge of interest in techniques and methodologies that enable model explainability and interpretability, paving the way for more trustworthy and user-friendly AI solutions. The aim of this special session is to gather researchers working on Explainable AI (xAI) in ML, placing a strong emphasis on the practical applications of this framework. Its primary goal is to present innovative methods that make ML models more interpretable, transparent, and trustworthy, while preserving their performance, but we invite contributions that go beyond theory, showcasing tangible real-world implementations in different application scenarios. By centering on application-driven insights, this session seeks to bridge the gap between foundational research and operational solutions, ultimately aiming to steer the ML community toward more responsible and societally beneficial AI technologies. We are seeking contributions that address practical applications, presenting innovative approaches and technological xAI advancements. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Explainable methods in medicine and healthcare Business and public governance applications of xAI Explainable biomedical knowledge discovery with ML xAI in agriculture, forestry and environmental applications xAI and human-computer interaction xAI methods for linguistics & machine translation Explainability in decision-support systems Best practices for presenting model explanations to non-technical stakeholders Auto-encoders & explainability of latent spaces Causal inference & explanations Post-hoc methods for explainability Reinforcement learning for enhancing xAI systems xAI for Deep Learning methods We are looking forward to seeing you in beautiful A Coru?a! **Organizers:** Alfredo Vellido and Carlos Cano, Universitat Polit?cnica de Catalunya, Spain -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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The important dates are - Workshop Proposal Submission Deadline: February 28, 2025 *approaching* - Notification of decision: March 21, 2025 The workshop should also be organized such that - The call for papers/abstracts is released no later than April 4, 2025 - The paper/abstract submission deadline is no later than May 30, 2025 (and preferably after NeurIPS deadline) - The paper/abstract notification is no later than June 18, 2025 (mandatory) If this sparks your interest, please submit a single-column 2-page proposal to uai2025chairs+workshop at gmail.com. Detailed information about the proposal can be found at https://www.auai.org/uai2025/call_for_workshops. Please do not hesitate to contact us if you have further questions. We'd be very happy to see you in Rio! Cheers, Sibylle and Denis UAI Workshop Chairs uai2025chairs+workshop at gmail.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Tissue Growth, Morphogenesis, and Signal Dynamics* ? *Xinyi Liu* ? *Cognitive Biases in ABMs and Agent-Resolved Data* ? *Damien Challet* ? *Decoding Success in Business and Economics: A Complexity Science Perspective* ? *Fabian Braesemann* ? *2nd Workshop on Complex Network Sparsification & Beyond* ? *Hamida Seba* *?** Ready to Contribute?* Be part of FRCCS 2025 by submitting your work and engaging in our workshops. We look forward to your contributions and to welcoming you to *Bordeaux!* ? *Submit Now:* CMT Submission Portal -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Using chronic calcium imaging in mouse auditory cortex, we show that during this representational drift signal correlations predict future noise correlations, suggesting that stimulus-driven co-activation strengthens effective connectivity via Hebbian-like plasticity. Linear network models reveal that these temporal dependencies between signal and noise correlations emerge only when Hebbian learning balances stochastic synaptic changes, preventing functional degradation. Our findings highlight how ongoing input-driven plasticity stabilizes neural representations amidst inherent synaptic variability. *About VVTNS : Launched as the World Wide Theoretical Neuroscience Seminar (WWTNS) in November 2020 and renamed in homage to Carl van Vreeswijk in Memoriam (April 20, 2022), 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. 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Historically, these disciplines have diverged in assumptions regarding available prior information and in analytical techniques applied. However, recent advances bridging the two domains are fostering collaborations. As part of a?research semester on Control Theory and Reinforcement Learning at CWI, Amsterdam, NL, we have a workshop on broad themes across these topics.Date: 24-25 March 2025Venue: CWI (Research Institute for Mathematics and Computer Science), Amsterdam, NetherlandsDEADLINE: 1 March 2025?We have a line-up of renowned speakers:Ann Now?, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, BelgiumBert Kappen, Radboud Univ, Nijmegen, NetherlandsDavide Grossi, Univ of Amsterdam, University of Groningen, NetherlandsFrans Oliehoek, TU Delft, NetherlandsHarri L?hdesm?ki, Aalto University, FinlandJens Kober, TU Delft, NetherlandsSean Meyn, Univ. of Florida, USASofie Haesaert, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands??Please register by 1st March:https://www.cwi.nl/en/events/cwi-research-semester-programmes/workshop-themes-across-control-and-reinforcement-learning/??Looking forward to seeing you!Organizers of the?research semester programme.?Download and?advertise the poster.? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Our research is highly interdisciplinary; our approaches include behavioral, 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. The selection procedure is now open. The application deadline for the spring admission round is 20 March 2025 at 1pm CET. Please apply here, and see the admission procedure page for more information. Please contact the PhD Coordinator Mathew Diamond (diamond at sissa.it) and/or your prospective supervisor for more information and informal inquiries. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Attending the Birmingham-Leiden CSC Summer School will equip a diverse cohort of early career researchers (trainees through to junior faculty members) with the ability to understand, program, and interpret the output of a range of computational models of social cognition (e.g., reinforcement learning models, evidence accumulation models, Bayesian inference models) and their potential interaction with other modalities of measurements (e.g., fMRI, EEG, eye-tracking). Attendees will receive various types of training (keynote lectures, workshops, tutorials, etc) and work on a group project, both aimed at understanding modelling as well as the theoretical and practical inferences that can be drawn from computational models under social contexts. Keynote speakers: - Matthew Rushworth, University of Oxford (UK) - Diana Tamir, Princeton University, (USA) - David Amodio, University of Amsterdam, (NL) The full list of instructors is available at https://compsoccog.com/instructors-and-speakers. For this year?s training program and organising committee, see https://www.compsoccog.com/about. To apply, please complete this form covering your motivation and experience , including a short CV. The deadline is 18th April 2025. Outcomes will be communicated in early May, with registration for successful applicants then open until mid-June. This year, the CSC Summer School received financial support from the William K. & Katherine W. Estes Fund in association with the Association of Psychological Science We hope to see you this summer in Birmingham! 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In this workshop, we aim to bring together researchers working in neural algorithmic learning, multimodal reasoning, and cognitive models of intelligence to showcase cutting-edge research, tackle current challenges, and highlight critical yet underexplored problems in perception and language modeling?issues at the core of achieving true artificial general intelligence. A key focus is on the emerging field of multimodal algorithmic reasoning, which explores neural representations of algorithms to devise novel solutions for real-world tasks. These span a wide range of areas, including multimodal learning, algorithms over foundational models for solving problems related to analysis, synthesis, or planning, mathematical problem-solving, procedural learning in robotic manipulation, and more. Our goal is to delve deeply into this exciting intersection of multimodal algorithmic learning and cognitive science, reflecting on the current progress in machine intelligence while examining the gaps that distinguish it from human cognition. Through talks by leading researchers and faculty, we aim to inspire participants to explore the "missing rungs" on the ladder to true intelligence. We invite you to submit high-quality papers to the workshop that propose innovative approaches, theoretical insights, or practical applications towards advancing this exciting field, as well as foster meaningful discussions and collaborations. ___________________________________________________________________________ IMPORTANT DATES & DETAILS Submission deadline: ***March 12, 2025*** (11:59 PM PDT) Rebuttal: March 25-26, 2025 Paper decisions to authors: April 3, 2025 Camera-ready deadline: April 7, 2025 ___________________________________________________________________________ TOPICS We invite submissions of high-quality research papers in the topics related to multimodal algorithmic reasoning. The topics for MAR 2025 include, but are not limited to: * Multimodal machine reasoning * Algorithmic reasoning in vision, including program synthesis, planning, and procedural learning * Neural architectures and approaches for mathematical reasoning * Architectures for aligning/integrating multimodal foundation models, including vision, language, audio, and 3D content. * Architectures for solving abstract multimodal reasoning/language-based IQ puzzles, e.g., using sketches, diagrams, audio-visual clips, etc. * New tasks, datasets, benchmarks, and models for multimodal reasoning including algorithmic reasoning, neuro-symbolic reasoning, abstract reasoning, mathematical reasoning, etc. * Extreme generalization to new tasks and few-shot concept induction * Synthetic data and automatic verification for reasoning * Multimodal agents including programmable agent, tool-use agent, etc., for reasoning tasks * Position papers on novel perspectives to understand AI and human problem solving * Studies comparing AI and human problem solving skills, including but not limited to: i) Perspectives from psychology, neuroscience, and educational science, ii) Children's cognitive development, and iii) Limitations of large vision-and-language models * Vision-and-language applications. ___________________________________________________________________________ SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS FOR PAPER TRACK We have two tracks for paper submissions: 1. Papers with IEEE/CVF workshop proceedings (? 8 pages) 2. Papers without workshop proceedings (? 8 pages) For track 1, we are inviting only original, previously unpublished papers, and dual submissions are not allowed. The page limits described above are excluding the references. Papers accepted to track 2 will not be included in the proceedings, however will be publicly shared on the workshop website. The submissions to this track can be novel/ongoing work (limited to 4 pages) or accepted/previously published papers (limited to 8 pages), both excluding references. Please see the workshop website for more details. * All submissions are handled via the workshop?s CMT website: https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/MAR2025/. * Submissions should be made in PDF format and should follow the official CVPR 2025 template and guidelines. * All submissions should maintain author anonymity and should abide by the CVPR conference guidelines for double-blind review. * Accepted papers will be presented as either an oral, spotlight, or poster presentation. At least one author of each accepted submission must present the paper at the workshop. * Presentation of accepted papers at our workshop will follow the same policy as that for accepted papers at the CVPR main conference * Papers accepted in track 1 will be part of the CVPR 2025 workshop proceedings. * Authors may optionally upload supplementary materials, the deadline for which is the same as that of the main paper and should be submitted separately. ___________________________________________________________________________ WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS Anoop Cherian , Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories Kuan-Chuan Peng , Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories Suhas Lohit , Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories Honglu Zhou , Salesforce AI Research Kevin A. Smith , Massachusetts Institute of Technology Tim K. Marks , Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories Joshua B. 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For the third edition of SAW, we have, once again, an exciting and stimulating group of Invited Speakers: ? *Cristina Becchio*, University Medical Center, Hamburg, Germany ? *Marlene Behrmann*, University Pittsburgh, USA ? *Katja Doerschner*, Giessen University, Germany ? *Russell Epstein*, University of Pennsylvania, USA ? *Fran?ois Osuriak*, University of Lyon, France ? *Marco Tamietto*, University of Torino, Italy ? *Wim Vanduffel*, KU Leuven, Belgium The goal of SAW is to provide a forum for cognitive science/neuroscience researchers from a range of perspectives who are interested in Perception and Action, broadly construed, to come together to discuss their research and develop new directions and collaborations. The format of the workshop is intended to encourage extensive discussion among participants. To this end, we have scheduled only a small number of invited speakers, and there are no concurrent talks. In addition to the individual seminars, there will be a poster session for students, postdocs and other researchers to present their work. Abstract submission for posters closes on July 31, 2025. The five best abstracts whose first author is a student or postdoc will receive a 200 euro award sponsored by ANT Neuro. Registration for the workshop will be open in a couple of weeks. To register, submit a poster abstract, or for more information, please visit: https://www.uc.pt/cogbooster/saw/2025/ Please note that there are a limited number of places (~120), which will be assigned on a first come, first served basis. To secure your place, please register as soon as possible. Note that you can register now and submit an abstract later (but before the July 31, 2025 deadline). SAW is powered by the ERA Chair CogBooster, and by the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences of the University of Coimbra, Portugal. 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Newcomers will have the chance to explore the wide range of Open Science Tools and Services available on the research infrastructure, while seasoned EBRAINS users can dive deeper with advanced tutorials and discuss with developers. Hands-on tutorials will be offered on the following: Foundation elements: ? EBRAINS software distribution (ESD) ? EBRAINS Knowledge Graph Simulation and emulation: ? Arbor, multicompartmental simulation library ? SpiNNaker neuromorphic compute system (simulation of spiking neural networks) ? BrainScaleS neuromorphic compute system (emulation of spiking neural networks in accelerated time) ? tauRAMD (computation of relative residence times (?) or dissociation rates of protein-ligand complexes) and SDA (Simulation of Diffusional Association) ? NEST related: o NEST Desktop o NEST astrocyte module tutorial o NESTML tutorial Specialised workflows: ? QUINT workflow (workflow to support atlas-based quantification) ? Snudda (building networks of neurons with synaptic connectivity based on the morphologies of reconstructed neurons and touch detection) ? Building reproducible workflows with EBRAINS atlases using siibra-python ? Hodgkin-Huxley Neuron Builder / Hippocampus Hub tools/web app ? Vast parameter space explorations using L2L on EBRAINS ? Using Neo and Elephant for the Analysis of Electrophysiological Data ? Brain Scaffold Builder (BSB) ? Cobrawap (Collaborative Brain Wave Analysis Pipeline) Medicine related: ? Dopaminergic regulation in schizophrenia with TVB (The Virtual Brain) ? Demonstration session in the context of Sensitive data / Health related EBRAINS offerings (MIP / HIP related) Neuromorphic computing: ? SpiNNaker (digital many core system) ? BrainScaleS (continuous time accelerated analog system) You can find out more about the Tutorials and Users Day here: https://www.ebrains.eu/news-and-events/accelerate-your-neuroscience-research-with-ebrains-tutorials-and-users-day-in-heidelberg In addition, you can find out more about the EBRAINS Internal Day on Tuesday, 11 March and the EBRAINS Developers Day on Thursday, 13 March by clicking the links. We would be grateful if you could share this invitation with your wider network! If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact communications at ebrains.eu. We hope to see you in Heidelberg! Kind regards, (Note: EBRAINS accounts are needed for the EBRAINS Days. 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Key information: - Web: https://talentclef.github.io/talentclef/ - Data: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14002665 - Registration: https://clef2025-labs-registration.dei.unipd.it/ Motivation In today?s rapidly changing socio-technological landscape, industries and workplaces are transforming quickly. Technological advancements, such as task automation and Artificial Intelligence (AI), are reshaping the labor market by creating new roles that demand specialized skills, often difficult to source. The rise of remote hiring, fueled by technological innovation, has expanded the labor market to a global and multilingual scale. Simultaneously, social progress is narrowing ethnic and gender disparities within companies, fostering more inclusive workplaces. Integrating Natural Language Processing (NLP) into Human Capital Management (HCM) enhances key areas such as sourcing and hiring, onboarding and training, strategic workforce planning, and career development. Despite these benefits, challenges persist in managing multilingual information, ensuring fair AI models, and developing systems flexible enough to work across industries. The TalentCLEF organizers expect that participation in the shared task will contribute to establishing a public benchmark for multilingual job title matching and skill prediction, enabling the evaluation and comparison of different approaches. This initiative will also provide a foundation for measuring gender bias in job-related NLP tasks and lay the groundwork for future benchmarks in other areas of Human Capital Management, fostering fairness, transparency, and adaptability in AI-driven workforce analysis. The inaugural TalentCLEF shared-task aims to tackle these challenges through two key tasks: - Task A - Multilingual Job Title Matching: Participants will develop systems to identify and rank job titles most similar to a given one. For each job title in a test set, systems must generate a ranked list of similar titles from a predefined knowledge base. Evaluation will be conducted in English, Spanish, German, and Chinese, covering both monolingual and cross-lingual (between English and the other languages) matching. - Task B - Job Title-Based Skill Prediction: This task focuses on retrieving relevant skills associated with a given job title. Participants will develop systems that predict and extract key skills based on job titles. The evaluation will be conducted in English. Schedule - 20th January 2025 - Training data available for Tasks A and B - 17th February 2025 ? Start of Task A with the release of the development data - 17th March 2025 ? Start of Task B with the release of the development data - 21st April 2025 ? Test set release - 21st April - 5th May 2025 ? Evaluation period of Task A and B - 7th May 2025 ? Publication of Official Results - 30th May 2025 ? Submission of CLEF 2025 Participant Working Notes (CEUR-WS) - 27th June 2025 - Notification of Acceptance for Participant Papers Publications and CLEF 2025 workshop Teams participating in TalentCLEF will be invited to submit a system description paper for the CLEF 2025 Working Notes proceedings, published on CEUR-WS. Additionally, they will have the opportunity to present a brief overview of their approach at the CLEF 2025 workshop, which will take place in Madrid, Spain, from September 9th to 12th, 2025. 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Appreciate if you can distribute this CFP to your network. ********************************************************* ISC 2025 - 3rd International Summer Conference Intelligent Systems & Decision Making: Humans Insight in the Era of AI 19-20 June 2025, Catania, Italy https://decisionsciencealliance.org/isc-2025/ isc2025 at ANTs-lab.it ********************************************************* ** Submission deadline: 25th March 2025 ** ** Proceedings in LNCS Volume, Springer ** *Scope of the Conference ======================== The INTERNATIONAL SUMMER CONFERENCE mission is to share knowledge and experiences in AI-driven decision-making, promote advanced research and business best practices, bridge the gap between industry and academia, and enhance strategic networking and collaboration. ISC 2025 is designed for individuals and organizations who are eager to explore the latest advancements in decision science and technology, and understand how these innovations can influence their industries and practices. The audience includes decision-makers, industry professionals, professors and researchers, companies, public administration, academia, other organizations, as well as PhD and master?s students. Important Dates ================ Submission deadline March 25th, 2025 Notification of acceptance May 5th, 2025 Early registration May 10th , 2025 Camera ready copy May 15th, 2025 Submission Details =================== ISC 2025 accepts three different submission formats: 1) Regular paper: novel and original research contributions of a maximum of 15 pages, using LNCS format by Springer; 2) Short paper: extended abstract of novel research works of a maximum of 11 pages, using LNCS format by Springer; 3) Abstract: high-quality published or preliminary recent works. Regular and short submitted papers will undergo a double-blind anonymous review process. Proceedings and special issue ============================ Only regular and short accepted papers will be published as post-proceedings in Lecture Notes in Computer Science series by Springer. Accepted abstract contributions will be considered for oral or poster presentations at the conference based on the number received and the slots available, and will not be included into the LNCS proceedings. An electronic book instead will be prepared by the ISC 2025 organizing committee, and made available on the website. In addition, post-conference special issues in international journals (SCOPUS indexed) will be considered for the significantly extended and revised versions of selected accepted papers. 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URL: From amir.kalfat at gmail.com Tue Feb 18 16:53:00 2025 From: amir.kalfat at gmail.com (Amir Aly) Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2025 21:53:00 +0000 Subject: Connectionists: [Meeting] CRNS Talk Series - Live Talk by Dr. Yumi Iwashita - NASA JPL, USA Message-ID: Dear All * *Apologies for cross-posting** The* Center for Robotics and Neural Systems* (CRNS) and *UK-Ireland IEEE RAS Chapter* are pleased to announce the talk of *Dr. Yumi Iwashita* from *NASA JPL, USA* on Wednesday, *February 26th *from *3:30 PM* to *5:00 PM* (*London time*) over *Zoom*. *Thank you for forwarding the invitation to any of your colleagues who might be interested*. >> *Events*: The CRNS talk series will cover a wide range of topics including Social and Cognitive Robotics, Computational Neuroscience, Developmental Psychology, Computational Linguistics, Cognitive Vision, AI and Machine Learning, and healthcare. More details are available here: https://www.plymouth.ac.uk/research/robotics-neural-systems/whats-on >> *Link for the next event (**No Registration is Required**)*: Join Zoom Meeting *https://plymouth.zoom.us/j/95753314935?pwd=B9cuV9Dj6MWkhgrWEZrGsVz9brL21Q.1&from=addon * >> *Title of the talk: **Exploring Moons: Preparing for Future Missions to Europa and the Moon* *Abstract*: Each planet has one or more moons, many of which hold immense potential for unlocking fundamental questions about the origins of life. Among the numerous moons in our solar system, Jupiter?s Europa, Earth?s Moon, and Saturn?s Enceladus are of particular scientific interest. NASA?s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) has undertaken several projects focused on these celestial bodies. In this talk, I will introduce two key projects related to Europa and the Moon. The first project, the Europa Lander Mission Concept, faces significant challenges, including a highly limited operational lifetime, constrained energy supply, intermittent communication with prolonged blackouts, and hazardous environmental conditions. Moreover, its extreme distance from Earth prevents reliance on real-time human control. To address these constraints, we developed an autonomous software prototype to test and validate planning and execution strategies for science-driven missions with minimal human intervention. Additionally, we demonstrated autonomous sampling techniques at Matanuska Glacier, Alaska. The second project, LuNaMaps, focuses on autonomous lunar landing. Successful planetary landings require precise localization with respect to the targeted site. However, landing on the Moon presents unique challenges, including insufficient global high-resolution data, the need to validate existing datasets, and extreme illumination conditions?especially at the poles. To address these issues, we have developed methodologies for generating high-quality Digital Elevation Maps (DEMs) and tools to evaluate their accuracy and reliability, supporting future lunar exploration missions. >> If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me, Regards -------------------------------------------- *Dr. Amir Aly*, PhD, FHEA, SIEEE Lecturer in Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Programme Manager of Artificial Intelligence UK and Ireland IEEE RAS Chapter Vice Chair Director of the Centre for Robotics and Neural Systems (CRNS) School of Engineering, Computing, and Mathematics Room A307 Portland Square, Drake Circus, PL4 8AA University of Plymouth, UK -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From laszlojeni at cmu.edu Tue Feb 18 12:45:11 2025 From: laszlojeni at cmu.edu (Laszlo A. Jeni) Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2025 12:45:11 -0500 Subject: Connectionists: Call for papers: Workshop on Benchmarking and Expanding AI Multimodal Approaches (BEAM) @ CVPR 2025 Message-ID: ************************************************************************** 1st Workshop on Benchmarking and Expanding AI Multimodal Approaches (BEAM) Co-located with CVPR 2025 Dates: June 11th/12th, 2025 Place: Nashville, TN, USA (Co-located with CVPR 2025) Website: https://beam-workshop2025.github.io/ CMT is open: https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/BEAM2025/ ************************************************************************** ----------- DESCRIPTION ----------- The 1st Workshop on Benchmarking and Expanding AI Multimodal Approaches at CVPR 2025 aims to build a forum to discuss ongoing efforts in industry and academia, share best practices, and engage the community in working towards more comprehensive AI evaluation framework incorporating audio, visual, and textual inputs, addressing the limitations of current unimodal benchmarks. The event will feature discussions highlighting the evolution and future of multimodal AI benchmarks, exploring methodologies and their real-world applications. It will conclude with a dynamic panel discussion, offering insights into the challenges and solutions for creating robust multimodal benchmarks and fostering interdisciplinary collaboration and innovation in AI benchmarking standards. ====== Topics ====== We invite submissions of full-length papers (8 pages excluding the references) for workshop proceedings. The topics covered in the workshop include but are not limited to: - Challenges in Multimodal AI Evaluation: Current limitations and the need for integrated assessments. - Designing Multimodal Benchmarks: Strategies for creating realistic and comprehensive tasks. - Ethical and Fair AI Evaluation: Addressing biases to ensure fairness across different demographic groups. - Multimodal AI in Real-World Applications: Case studies demonstrating the application of multimodal systems. - Future Directions in AI Benchmarking: Innovative methods and technologies. ---------- SUBMISSION ---------- All accepted papers will be published as part of CVPR 2025 workshop proceedings, therefore, should follow the same paper guidelines of the conference. The papers will be subject to a double-blind review process, i.e. authors must not identify themselves on the submitted papers. The reviewing process is single-stage without rebuttals. https://cvpr.thecvf.com/Conferences/2025/AuthorGuidelines https://github.com/cvpr-org/author-kit/releases For paper submission, please use the CMT site: https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/BEAM2025/ --------------- IMPORTANT DATES --------------- March 11: Submission of full papers March 25: Notification of acceptance April 5: Camera-ready full paper submission Workshop Date: June 11th or 12th (half-day) ------------------- WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS ------------------- Laszlo A. Jeni (CMU) Xu Zhang (Amazon) Liuyue Xie (CMU) Morteza Ziyadi (Amazon) Mosam Dabhi (CMU) Hao Yang (Amazon) Rohan Choudhury (CMU) Yang Zou (Amazon) Ananya Bal (CMU) Zhaowei Cai (Amazon) Ce Zheng (CMU) Maria Zontak (Amazon) Xiang Yue (CMU) Ashwin Swaminathan (Amazon) Davide Modolo (Amazon) +------------------------------------------ | Laszlo A. 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Proposals should be submitted by email to the OCNS President at president at cnsorg.org. We look forward to getting your proposals by July 1, 2025. An early email to the OCNS President declaring the intent to submit a proposal would be appreciated but is not required. With kind regards, Leonid Rubchinsky OCNS Vice President, on behalf of the OCNS Board of Directors *********************** Leonid Rubchinsky, PhD Professor Department of Mathematical Sciences, Indiana University Indianapolis Stark Neurosciences Research Institute, Indiana University School of Medicine 402 N. Blackford St Indianapolis, IN 46202-3216 lrubchin at iu.edu math.indianapolis.iu.edu/~lrubchin/ *********************** From kai.sauerwald at fernuni-hagen.de Tue Feb 18 11:59:47 2025 From: kai.sauerwald at fernuni-hagen.de (Kai Sauerwald) Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2025 17:59:47 +0100 Subject: Connectionists: [RW 2025] First Call for Participation: 21st Reasoning Web Summer School Message-ID: <6dd6cb5e-cf03-40c8-8447-7b4096d0598d@fernuni-hagen.de> First Call for Participation: 21st Reasoning Web Summer School September 25-28, 2025, Istanbul, Turkey https://2025.declarativeai.net/events/reasoning-web Part of Declarative AI 2025, co-located with the RuleML+RR conference ************************************************************************************************************ We are happy to announce that the 21st edition of the Reasoning Web Summer School (RW 2025) will take place from September 25-28, 2025 in Istanbul, Turkey. RW 2025 is part of Declarative AI 2025, which also includes the 9th International Joint Conference on Rules and Reasoning (RuleML+RR) and DecisionCAMP 2025, both held from September 22-24, 2025. The purpose of the Reasoning Web Summer School is to disseminate recent advances in reasoning techniques and relevant topics related to ontologies, rules, logic, the semantic web, linked data, and knowledge graph applications. The summer school is primarily intended for individuals who are currently pursuing or have recently completed postgraduate degrees (PhD or MSc). However, the school also welcomes the participation of researchers at later career stages who wish to become acquainted with the area or deepen their understanding of recent developments. The RW school is a great venue for meeting like-minded researchers and exchanging with an engaging and approachable group of international lecturers! *** Summer School Program *** As in previous years, the summer school will feature 8 tutorials delivered by researchers who are experts in the area. Here are the confirmed speakers and topics for this year's school: Camille Bourgaux: Inconsistency-Tolerant Semantics Based on Preferred Repairs Esra Erdem, Aysu Bogatarkan, Muge Fidan: Human-Centered ASP Applications: Representation and Reasoning Patrick Koopmann: Explaining Reasoning Results for Description Logic Ontologies Markus Kr?tzsch: Modern Datalog: Concepts, Methods, Applications Antonella Poggi: From One-Level to Multi-Level Ontology-Based Data Access Francesco Ricca and Giuseppe Mazzotta: ASP Essentials: Modelling and Efficient Solving Luciano Serafini: Neuro-Symbolic Artificial Intelligence Przemyslaw Walega: Reasoning about Time in DatalogMTL Tutorial abstracts and speaker bios can be found on the RW 2025 website: https://2025.declarativeai.net/events/reasoning-web/program *** Applications & Registration *** To participate in RW 2025, you will need to submit a short application, with information on your academic and research background and motivation for attending the school. You can do so by filling out the following form: https://forms.gle/e9aDLTveQCXsBmwk9 or alternatively, by sending the organizers an email with all of the information requested on the form. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis, and notifications will be sent within 1-2 weeks from the time of application. Successful applicants will receive information on how to pay the registration fee to confirm their spot in the school. There is a discounted fee of 240? (incl. VAT) for all applications received by May 31st. The regular fee of 300? (incl. VAT) applies to all applications received on or after June 1st. The registration fee includes access to the lectures, lunches, and coffee breaks for the four days, as well as a social event. Note that students who participate in RW 2025 are also encouraged to apply to the Rule ML+RR Doctoral Consortium. Students attending both events will not need to pay the Doctoral Consortium fee. *** If you require additional information, please get in touch with the chairs. * Alessandro Artale, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy artale at inf.unibz.it * Meghyn Bienvenu, CNRS & University of Bordeaux, France meghyn.bienvenu at u-bordeaux.fr From dhansel0 at gmail.com Tue Feb 18 13:53:10 2025 From: dhansel0 at gmail.com (David Hansel) Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2025 19:53:10 +0100 Subject: Connectionists: =?utf-8?q?REMINDER=3A_World_wide_VVTNS_series_=28?= =?utf-8?q?fifth_season=29=3A_Wednesday=2C_February_19=2C_2025=2C_a?= =?utf-8?q?t_11=3A00_am_EST=7C_Jens-Bastian_Eppler_=2C_Centre_de_Re?= =?utf-8?q?cerca_Matem=C3=A0tica_Barcelona?= In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: [image: VVTNS.png] https://www.wwtns.online - on twitter: wwtns at TheoreticalWide You are cordially invited to the lecture given by Jens-Bastian Eppler Centre de Recerca Matem?tica Barcelona on the topic of Representational drift reflects ongoing balancing of stochastic changes by Hebbian learning The lecture will be held on zoom on Wednesday, February 19, 2025, at *11:00 am EST * To receive the link: https://www.wwtns.online/register-page *Abstract: * Even in stable environments, sensory responses undergo continuous reformatting, a phenomenon known as representational drift. Using chronic calcium imaging in mouse auditory cortex, we show that during this representational drift signal correlations predict future noise correlations, suggesting that stimulus-driven co-activation strengthens effective connectivity via Hebbian-like plasticity. Linear network models reveal that these temporal dependencies between signal and noise correlations emerge only when Hebbian learning balances stochastic synaptic changes, preventing functional degradation. Our findings highlight how ongoing input-driven plasticity stabilizes neural representations amidst inherent synaptic variability. *About VVTNS : Launched as the World Wide Theoretical Neuroscience Seminar (WWTNS) in November 2020 and renamed in homage to Carl van Vreeswijk in Memoriam (April 20, 2022), 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. 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This research will delve into the complexities of AI-driven predictive policing, examining its potential benefits and drawbacks, particularly concerning racial bias, privacy, and public trust. The selected fellow will: - Map international standards and Brazilian judgments on predictive policing. - Identify and analyze existing predictive policing models worldwide. - Propose solutions to mitigate the negative impacts of predictive policing in public schools. This research is crucial in ensuring that technological advancements in law enforcement uphold principles of justice and equity. Eligibility: - PhD in Law or related field (completed within the last 7 years). - Excellent academic record. - Full-time dedication to the project. - Residence in the metropolitan region of Campinas - Brazil Funding: - Monthly grant of R$ 12,000.00 for 24 months. How to Apply: Please submit the required documents (listed in the attached call for proposals) to hjs.stricto.direito at puc-campinas.edu.br with a copy to lucas.laurentiis at puccampinas.edu.br. Deadline: February 20, 2025. We encourage you to share this opportunity with qualified candidates who are passionate about using research to address critical issues at the intersection of technology, law enforcement, and social justice. -- --- Sent with Gmail for Sidekick Browser -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Please register via Zoom to join us live for the webinar, or to receive the recording after: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/dBBdW5N9QwiIbQokpiKfWA To watch the most recent webinar ?Abstraction and Reasoning Beyond Foundation Models? given by Filip Ilievski, head over to the Neurosymbolic AI YouTube channel: https://youtu.be/s-dfVJJWnuA -- 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 Universityhttp://www.pascal-hitzler.de http://www.daselab.org http://www.semantic-web-journal.net http://k-state.edu/ID3A https://neurosymbolic-ai-journal.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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However, the delay-sensitive applications face the problem of large latency, especially when several smart devices and objects are getting involved in human?s life such as the case of smart cities or Internet of Things. Therefore, cloud computing is unable to meet the requirements of low latency, location awareness, and mobility support. To solve this problem, researchers have introduced a trusted and dependable solution through the Fog and the Mobile Edge Computing (FMEC) to put the services and resources of the cloud closer to users, which facilitate the leveraging of available services and resources in the edge networks. By this, we are moving from the core (cloud data centers) to the edge of the network closer to the users. FMEC dependability is based on providing user centric service. The purpose of Fog and the Mobile Edge Computing is to run the heavy real-time applications at the network edge directly using the billions of connected mobile devices. Several features enable the Fog and the Mobile Edge Computing to be a perfect paradigm to the aforementioned purpose, which are the dense geographical deployment of servers, supporting mobility and the closeness to users. As in every new technology, some challenges face the vision of the Fog and the Mobile Edge Computing, which are the administrative policies and security concerns (i.e. secure data storage, secure computation, network security, data privacy, usage privacy, location privacy, etc). FMEC 2025 conference aims to investigate the opportunities and requirements for Mobile Edge Computing dominance. In addition, it seeks for novel contributions that help mitigate Mobile Edge Computing challenges. That is, the objective of FMEC 2025 is to provide a forum for scientists, engineers, and researchers to discuss and exchange new ideas, novel results and experience on all aspects of Fog and Mobile Edge Computing (FMEC). FMEC 2025 is Technically Co-Sponsored by IEEE Florida Section. Researchers are encouraged to submit original research contributions in all major areas, which include, but not limited to the following: - Fog and Mobile Edge Computing in unmanned aerial vehicle communications and applications - Fog and Mobile Edge Computing in mission-critical systems - Intelligent Transportation Systems - Edge-cloud computing architectures, frameworks and platforms - Edge-cloud networking and communication - Quality of Service (QoS) improvement techniques - Network virtualization for Edge-to-cloud systems - FMEC and IoT Data Communication Protocols - Industrial Fog and Mobile Edge Computing Applications - Mobile Cloud Computing Systems and Applications - FMEC in Environmental Sustainability - Trustworthy AI for Edge and Fog Computing - Security and Privacy in Fog and Mobile Edge Computing - Decentralized Data Management and Streaming Systems in FMEC - Data storage, processing, and management at FMEC platform - Federated learning and distributed machine learning in the fog and on the edge - 5G and fog/edge computing - Middleware and runtime systems for fog/edge infrastructures - Energy-efficient fog/edge computing - Edge/fog-to-cloud APIs and protocols - Mobility, connectivity, heterogeneity support for edge/fog services - Load balancing/scheduling in fog/edge computing - Crowdsourcing and establishing trust on data sources - Decision support systems for Edge-cloud computing - AI-based or data-driven orchestration of workflows in Edge computing - Automatic scheduling and deployment of workflows and services in Edge computing - Distributed management of Edge computing - Mechanisms and data structures for the governance of Edge computing - Interfaces, orchestration and optimization of the Networking-Computing continuum - In-network computing for the edge-cloud continuum - Novel programming models for Edge computing - Dynamic Edge/Fog environments - Automatic deployment and continuous dynamic composition of Edge services - Semantic annotation of Edge/Fog services - AI in Autonomous Urbanism *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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We invite you to submit your contributions and be part of this premier gathering of researchers, practitioners, and experts in *network science, complex systems, and data-driven applications*. *?** Important Dates* ? *Paper Submission Deadline:* September 2, 2025 ? *Conference Dates:* December 9?11, 2025 ? *Tutorials:* December 8, 2025 ? *Proceedings Published by Springer* *?** Submission Details* We welcome: ? *Full Papers* (up to 12 pages, unpublished) ? included in Springer proceedings ? *Extended Abstracts* (up to 4 pages) ? included in the Book of Abstracts (with ISBN) Selected papers will be invited for *special issues in top journals*, including: - *PLOS Complex Systems* - *Applied Network Science (Springer)* - *Advances in Complex Systems (World Scientific)* - *Entropy (MDPI)* - *Social Network Analysis and Mining (Springer)* *?** Topics of Interest Include* - Network Science & Graph Mining - Community Detection & Multilayer Networks - Epidemics & Information Spreading - Computational Social Science - Network Neuroscience & Network Medicine - Smart Cities, Infrastructure, & Mobility Networks - And many more! 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The submissions must be original not published or submitted for publication elsewhere. Papers must be written in English and formatted according to the guidelines at the following link: https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html The maximum length of the paper is 6 pages, including figures and references. Authors are required to include their names and affiliations in their papers. Conference website: www.dmi.unict.it/wetice2025 Topics Include Collaboration: Intelligent Manufacturing Platforms Cloud Computing for Collaboration Collaboration in Digital Strategies Collaborative Supply Chain Management Copyright protection in Collaborative Process Data and its Science: Complex networks science Network visualisation and analytics Social media analysis Computational social science Distributed Database Technologies Data Analytics and Fraud Detection Data Privacy, Anonymity, and Confidentiality Distributed Systems Theory: Consensus and Fault Tolerance Algorithms Decentralized Autonomous Organization Distributed Cryptographic Algorithms and Protocols Formal Verification and Model Checking Distributed Systems Infrastructure: Blockchain-based Applications and Services Blockchain Platforms and Smart Contracts Decentralized Application Development Peer-to-peer communication protocols and systems Performance and Scalability Issues Internet of Things and Cyberphysical Systems: Performance and Safety of Autonomous Agents Systems Internet of Things Enabled Collaboration Distributed Platforms for IoT Systems Engineering: Architecture, Scalability, Governance, and Interoperability Functional validation and conformance testing System Monitoring and Analysis Model-based testing and Combinatorial testing. Artificial Intelligence tools for collaborative systems: Natural Language Processing Computer Vision Reinforcement Learning Explainable AI (XAI) Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) Applications and Case Studies: Healthcare Systems Human-Robot Collaboration Intelligent Manufacturing Platforms Regulatory and standards frameworks Smart Energy Systems AI in Healthcare AI for Social Good Robotics and AI Autonomous vehicles Important Dates Submission Deadline??? May 30th, 2025 Notification of acceptance??? June 27th, 2025 Camera Ready Deadline??? TBD Registration Deadline??? July 11th, 2025 Conference??? July 23rd-25th,? 2025 General Chair Andrea Calvagna, University of Catania, Italy Program Committee Chairs Emiliano Tramontana, University of Catania, Italy Stefano Tedeschi, University of Valle d'Aosta, Italy Board of Directors Ramana Reddy, Chairman of the Board, West Virginia University, USA Giacomo Cabri, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy Sumitra Reddy, West Virginia University, USA Andrea D?Ambrogio, University of Roma II, Italy Samir Tata, LG Labs, USA Khalil Drira, LAAS-CNRS and Univ Toulouse, France Layth Sliman, Efrei Paris, France Publicity Chair Giacomo Cabri, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy Web Chair Federico Santoro, University of Catania, Italy -- |----------------------------------------------------| | Prof. Giacomo Cabri - Ph.D., Full Professor | Rector's Delegate for Teaching | Dip. di Scienze Fisiche, Informatiche e Matematiche | Universita' di Modena e Reggio Emilia - Italia | e-mailgiacomo.cabri at unimore.it | tel. +39-059-2058320 fax +39-059-2055216 |----------------------------------------------------| From suashdeb at gmail.com Thu Feb 20 00:44:34 2025 From: suashdeb at gmail.com (Suash Deb) Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:14:34 +0530 Subject: Connectionists: ISCMI25 (Rio de Janeiro) - Submission deadline 4 months away Message-ID: Dear friends and esteemed colleagues, Warmest greetings to all. Hope you are doing well. This is to let you know that the deadline for submissions of manuscripts for 2025 12th ISCMI, to be held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil is exactly 4 months away. ISCMI 2025 is the annual flagship event of IICCI (organized in memory of the life and work of Prof Lotfi Zadeh (and technically co sponsored by IEEE Brazil Council and IEEE Rio de Janeiro Section. For more information, pls visit https://www.iscmi.us/ Hope as in the previous 11 editions of ISCMI, not only will you submit your own manuscripts but urge your peers to follow suit as well. Thank you and kind regards, Suash Deb General Chair, ISCMI25 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From d.bach at uni-bonn.de Thu Feb 20 03:18:36 2025 From: d.bach at uni-bonn.de (Dominik Bach) Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2025 09:18:36 +0100 Subject: Connectionists: Postdoc & PhD position in computational neuroimaging & computational psychiatry - application deadline 31 Mar 2025 (Uni Bonn/Germany) In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <6f1a52c2-f02e-468d-8c4a-ed942d967028@uni-bonn.de> The *Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Neuroscience at University of Bonn* ?is looking to recruit a *postdoctoral fellow and a PhD student* to undertake high quality research and produce high-impact publications in a collaborative research project investigating the mechanisms of human aversive learning (a pre-clinical model of anxiety disorders) in a big-data approach. The project is lead by Prof Dominik Bach. *The goal of the advertised positions*?is to (a) conduct an fMRI mega-analysis of multi-voxel threat representations, using existing data from the ENIGMA consortium, and (b) adapt and improve methods to infer threat learning from psychophysiological and behavioural data in fMRI and ambulatory settings. The position involves a close collaboration with the Department for Imaging Neuroscience (FIL) at UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology, London, UK, where part of the team is based. The role includes ?Implementing fMRI analysis pipelines in HALFpipe ?Coordination with participating sites to obtain and process data ?Mega-analysis of threat representation geometry ?Implementing and developing psychophysiology and behavioural analysis pipelines using PsPM/Matlab, CogLearn/VRthreat/R, and statistical modelling (e.g. Rstan) ?publication of research and development results See *here* ?for an example of our previous behavioural research. *Requirements for post doc applicants:* ?PhD in neuroscience, cognitive psychology, behavioural science or a related area, by the agreed start date of the position (essential) ?experience with fMRI data analysis (essential) ?experience with one of HALFpipe, nypipe, or python (essential) ?experience with Matlab (SPM) or R (tidyverse, Rstan) (essential) ?experience with MVPA and/or PsPM would be a plus *Requirements for PhD applicants:* ?MSc in neuroscience, psychology, natural sciences, engineering, or a related area, by the agreed start date of the position (essential) ?experience with either fMRI or PsPM (essential) ?knowledge of Python (essential) ?experience with Matlab (SPM) and/or R (tidyverse/Rstan) (desirable) ?experience with MVPA and/or PsPM would be a plus The successful candidates on either level will have ample experience in programming, and a good publication record. *Applicants*?should submit *a current CV, a personal statement describing their experience and interests, and contact information for three referees,*?as a single PDF document, by *31 March 2025 *to caian.office at uni-bonn.de . 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To this end, our aim is to develop dynamic neural models and merging these data to experimentally observed data, such as EEG or BOLD responses. This merge may utilize diverse optimization techniques, such as data assimilation. The latter permits to estimate model parameters adaptively in non-stationary signals, i.e. online in time. A prominent example for a data assimilation technique is Kalman filtering. More detailed, we are looking for collaborators, who are interested in neural population models describing macroscopic brain activity in pathological brain states under neurostimulation. The mathematical analysis of such models typically yields important insights into the origin of the brain activity. Moreover, the merge with experimental data demands a certain understanding of data analysis techniques to prepare the experimental data and identify correctly good biomarkers. It would be advantageous if the candidate has some fundamental expertise in this respect. Finally, the perfect future collaborator has already some expertise in parameter estimation techniques, especially in data assimilation. Location: Team [ https://mimesis.inria.fr/ | MIMESIS ] / NECTARINE in Strasbourg/France Contact: Axel Hutt (email: [ mailto:axel.hutt at inria.fr) | axel.hutt at inria.fr) ] More information about MSCA-PF: [ https://www.inria.fr/en/marie-sklodowska-curie-actions-postdoctoral-fellowships-2025-inria-hosting-offers-training | https://www.inria.fr/en/marie-sklodowska-curie-actions-postdoctoral-fellowships-2025-inria-hosting-offers-training ] ), -- Axel Hutt Directeur de Recherche Equipe MIMESIS - INRIA Nancy Grand Est Equipe MLMS - iCube Strasbourg B?timent NextMed 2, rue Marie Hamm 67000 Strasbourg, France https://mimesis.inria.fr/members/axel-hutt/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Another objective of NeuroBridges is to bring together Mediterranean and Middle Eastern scientists, in order to promote scientific cooperation between young researchers from these countries. The organizers of NeuroBridges are convinced that such scientific collaborations can lead to personal relations, which eventually may alleviate the political distress in the Middle East. The school is intended for graduate students and postdocs, primarily, but not only, from the Middle East and the Mediterranean region, either working in their home countries or abroad. Applicants should have some background in related fields in neuroscience or cognitive psychology. All costs of registration and accommodation will be covered by the organizers. A limited number of travel grants will also be available. *Faculty:* - Alaa Ahmed (U. Colorado) - Rava Azeredo da Silveira (IOB) - Ahmed El Hady (Max Planck Institute) - David Hansel (CNRS) - Mehdi Khamassi (CNRS) - Carole Levenes (CNRS) - Yonatan Loewenstein (Hebrew U.) - Zach Mainen (Champalimaud), TBC - Israel Nelken (Hebrew U.) - Drazen Prelec (MIT) - Reza Shadmehr (John Hopkins U.) NeuroBridges is co-organized by Ahmed El Hady (Max Planck Institute), David Hansel (CNRS, Paris), Yonatan Loewenstein (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel), Carole Levenes (CNRS, Paris), Shir Shapira (Hebrew University of Jerusalem). NeuroBridges 2025 is supported by the Simons Foundation, the Cyril Taylor Charitable FoundationELSC, and is in partnership with VVTNS ( https://www.wwtns.online/). For more information and application, visit our website: https://neurobridges.net/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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As interconnected systems become ubiquitous, they generate immense data, demand real-time processing, and require robust security frameworks to ensure privacy and resilience. This Special Session will serve as a platform to explore advances at the intersection of AI and IoT, where breakthrough technologies are being deployed on the edge, safeguarding sensitive data through federated approaches, and pushing the boundaries of AI in real-time and mission-critical applications that may involve cyber-physical systems. More precisely, the contribution of Machine Learning in general and Artificial Neural Networks in particular to this field will be explored. Session chairs invite researchers, practitioners, and industry leaders to share insights and discuss challenges, best practices, and recent innovations. Session topics include but are not limited to: - IoT-enabled data collection and processing for real-time smart decision-making. - Edge AI solutions for optimized on-device protection. - Federated learning as a framework for distributed and privacy-preserving model training. - Advanced cybersecurity strategies for safeguarding connected devices. - Adversarial machine learning for robust and trustworthy AI-based cybersecurity solutions Through these discussions, we aim to foster collaboration and inspire new approaches to harnessing data, delivering intelligent automation, and securing next-generation connected systems. By bringing together experts across these fields, we aim to deepen our understanding of how these technologies can be integrated and advanced to drive the future of smart, secure, and autonomous systems. This session will serve as a bridge between cutting-edge research and real-world applications, inspiring a collaborative vision for the future of interconnected and intelligent systems. Organizers: Jaime Andr?s Rinc?n, University of Burgos (Spain) Daniel Urda, University of Burgos (Spain) Krzysztof Walkowiak, Wroc?aw University of Science and Technology (Poland) ?lvaro Herrero, University of Burgos (Spain) Dominik Olszewski, Warsaw University of Technology (Poland) Nuno Alberto Ferreira Lopes, Polytechnic Institute of C?vado and Ave (Portugal) ________________________________________________________ Dr Daniel Urda Mu?oz Escuela Polit?cnica Superior, Ed. A1 - Campus Vena Avenida de Cantabria s/n, 09006 - Burgos (Spain) UNIVERSIDAD DE BURGOS Tel?fono: (+34) 947 104067 E-mail: durda at ubu.es ________________________________________________________ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Here is the link to the overview homepage, from which one can apply for it. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1hFmabi5KJQRfocvwhXAehIkwFxrCp_Touxp9-Sn5sh4/edit?tab=t.0 Participating faculty Larissa Albantakis Melanie Boly Matteo Grasso Yuko Ishihara Christof Koch William Marshall Lucia Melloni Hedda Hassel M?rch Masafumi Oizumi Steve Philliips Hayato Saigo Giulio Tononi Naotsugu Tsuchiya Makiko Yamada Regards Nao -- -- Professor Nao (Naotsugu) Tsuchiya, PhD School of Psychological Sciences Turner Institute for Brain and Mental Health Monash University 770 Blackburn Monash Biomedical Imaging facility, Clayton, VIC 3168 Australia Laboratory Head, Laboratory of Qualia Structure, ATR Computational Neuroscience Laboratories, 2-2-2 Hikaridai, Seika-cho, Soraku-gun, Kyoto 619-0288, Japan. W: homepage : Tw: @conscious_tlab YouTube : neural basis of consciousness ORCID orcid.org/0000-0003-4216-8701 -- -- Professor Nao (Naotsugu) Tsuchiya, PhD School of Psychological Sciences Turner Institute for Brain and Mental Health Monash University 770 Blackburn Monash Biomedical Imaging facility, Clayton, VIC 3168 Australia Laboratory Head, Laboratory of Qualia Structure, ATR Computational Neuroscience Laboratories, 2-2-2 Hikaridai, Seika-cho, Soraku-gun, Kyoto 619-0288, Japan. W: homepage : Tw: @conscious_tlab YouTube : neural basis of consciousness ORCID orcid.org/0000-0003-4216-8701 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From emergingtechnetwork.publicity at gmail.com Fri Feb 21 06:05:46 2025 From: emergingtechnetwork.publicity at gmail.com (=?UTF-8?Q?Gizem_G=C3=BCltekin_Varkonyi?=) Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2025 14:05:46 +0300 Subject: Connectionists: ICSC 2025 Final CFP: The Fifth Intelligent Cybersecurity Conference, Tampa, Florida, USA. May 19-22, 2025 Message-ID: [Apologies if you got multiple copies of this invitation] The Fifth Intelligent Cybersecurity Conference (ICSC2025) Hybrid Event https://www.icsc-conference.org/2025/ Tampa, Florida, USA. May 19-22, 2025 Technically Co-Sponsored by IEEE Florida West Coast Section *ICSC 2025 CFP:* In today?s world, connected systems, social networks, and mobile communications create a massive flow of data, which is prone to cyberattacks. This needs fast and accurate detection of cyber-attacks. Intelligent systems and Data analytics are important components when issues pertaining to effective security solutions become the subject of discussion. This is because there is an impending need for high volume and high velocity data from different sources to detect anomalies as soon as they are discovered. This will help reduce significantly the vulnerability of the systems as well as improve their resilience to cyber Attacks. The capability to process large volumes of information at real time through utilization of tools for data analytics has many advantages vital for analysis of cybersecurity systems. Moreover, the data collected from sophisticated intelligent systems, cloud systems, networks, sensors, computers, intrusion detection systems could be used to identify vital information. This information could be used to detect how vulnerable the systems are to risk factors, and so effective cyber security solutions can be developed. In addition to that, the utilization of data analytics tools in the cybersecurity field gives new insights through considering factors such as zero-day attack detection, real time analysis, resource constrained data processing among others. The Intelligent Cybersecurity Conference (ICSC) addresses the use of advanced intelligent systems in providing cybersecurity solutions in many fields, and the challenges, approaches, and future directions. We invite the submission of original papers on all topics related to Intelligent Systems for Cybersecurity, with special interest in but not limited to: - Intelligent systems for effective detection of cyber-attacks - Advanced Intelligent systems and data analytics for Cloud/Edge systems security - Malware detection using intelligent systems Vulnerability assessment - Intelligent systems for intrusion detection in Internet of Things (IoT) systems - Network forensics using intelligent systems and data analytics - Data Analytics for privacy-by-design in smart health - Datasets, benchmarks, and open-source packages - Recourse efficient deep learning - Adversarial Machine learning and Backdoor Attacks - Blockchain Systems for Cyber Security - Trustworthy AI Systems - Intelligent Systems for Misinformation Detection *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 ICSC 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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URL: From c.natali6 at campus.unimib.it Fri Feb 21 10:00:54 2025 From: c.natali6 at campus.unimib.it (Chiara Natali) Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2025 16:00:54 +0100 Subject: Connectionists: [Call for Abstracts] Second Workshop on Stimulating Cognitive Engagement in Hybrid Decision-Making: Friction, Reliance, and Biases (June 10 2025, Pisa, Italy - co-located with HHAI25) Message-ID: (Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this call) -------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR EXTENDED ABSTRACTS Second Workshop on Stimulating Cognitive Engagement in Hybrid Decision-Making: Friction, Reliance, and Biases Co-located with the 4th International Conference on Hybrid Human-Artificial Intelligence (HHAI25) June 10, 2025 | Pisa, Italy (in-person) https://sites.google.com/view/frictional-ai/home -------------------------------------------------- **Workshop Overview** Building on the success of its first edition at HHAI 2024, the full-day workshop on "Stimulating Cognitive Engagement in Hybrid Decision-Making: Friction, Reliance, and Biases" advances the exploration of over-reliance and biases in Human-AI Interaction. Central to this discussion are approaches that intentionally introduce moments of cognitive effort and reflection into AI interactions to prevent passive or automatic reliance. While conventional AI design prioritises efficiency and seamlessness, this workshop invites participants to examine AI systems that strategically slow down decision-making when necessary to mitigate automation bias, cognitive offloading, and over-trust, ultimately fostering accuracy, responsibility, and human oversight. Such friction-in-design encompasses strategies that encourage users to reflect before acting, such as requiring justification before accepting AI recommendations, displaying confidence scores with uncertainty visualisations, or using explainability mechanisms that slow decision-making to reinforce human oversight. This workshop fosters interdisciplinary dialogue across AI research, cognitive science, HCI, and governance to ensure AI systems empower users rather than encourage unchecked reliance. The program will feature keynote presentations by leading experts in academia and industry, author presentations, and interactive discussions to advance the discourse on cognitively engaging and responsible AI design. Keynote speakers include: ? Prof. Federico Cabitza (University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy) ? Expert in AI-assisted decision-making and medical AI. ? Bart Van Leeuwen (Fire Services Expert, Netherlands) ? Expert in human factors and situational awareness in high-risk environments. **Topics of Interest** We welcome contributions from researchers, practitioners, and policymakers on topics including, but not limited to: ? Design Principles for Cognitive Engagement ? Measuring and mitigating automation bias, algorithmic aversion, and cognitive offloading ? Ethical and Governance Perspectives on Friction-in-Design ? Applications, Case Studies and Experimental Findings We encourage submissions from a variety of disciplines, including AI, HCI, cognitive science, law, philosophy, and beyond. **Submission Details** ? Types of Submissions: Extended Abstracts (500-1,000 words) ? Format: CEURART-WS style preferred ? Submission Portal: https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/FrictionalAIWorkshop2025 ? Proceedings: All accepted papers will be published in the HHAI 2025 Workshop Proceedings on CEUR-WS. Authors of accepted contributions are required to attend the workshop in-person and register to the HHAI25 conference (single-day registration available, details TBA). **Important Dates** ? Paper Submission Deadline: April 4, 2025 (AoE) ? Notification of Acceptance: May 2, 2025 ? Camera-Ready Submission: TBD (authors will be invited to expand their contributions following workshop discussions) ? Workshop Date: June 10, 2025 **Beyond the Workshop** Our aim is to foster a research network. 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URL: From david at irdta.eu Sat Feb 22 03:46:28 2025 From: david at irdta.eu (David Silva - IRDTA) Date: Sat, 22 Feb 2025 09:46:28 +0100 (CET) Subject: Connectionists: DeepLearn 2025: early registration March 22 Message-ID: <1241660658.2469115.1740213988686@webmail.strato.com> ****************************************************** 12th INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL ON DEEP LEARNING (with a special focus on Large Language Models, Foundation Models and Generative AI) DeepLearn 2025 Porto ? Maia, Portugal July 21-25, 2025 https://deeplearn.irdta.eu/2025/ ****************************************************** Co-organized by: University of Maia Institute for Research Development, Training and Advice ? IRDTA Brussels/London ****************************************************** Early registration: March 22, 2025 ****************************************************** SCOPE: DeepLearn 2025 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, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria and Porto. 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, biomedicine and health informatics, medical image analysis, recommender systems, advertising, fraud detection, robotics, games, business and finance, biotechnology, physics experiments, biometrics, communications, climate sciences, geographic information systems, signal processing, genomics, materials design, video technology, social systems, earth and sustainability, etc. etc. The field is also raising a number of relevant questions about robustness of the algorithms, explainability, transparency, interpretability, as well as 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 18 four-hour and a half courses, 2 keynote lectures, 1 round table and a hackathon competition among participants. 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. DeepLearn 2025 will place special emphasis on large language models, foundation models and generative artificial intelligence. 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 2025 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 2025 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. The school will include a hackathon, where participants will be able to 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: Yonina Eldar (Weizmann institute of Science), Model Based Deep Learning: Applications to Imaging and Communications Manuela Veloso (JPMorganChase), The Journey of Humans and AI: Insights from AI in Robotics and AI in Finance PROFESSORS AND COURSES: Pierre Baldi (University of California Irvine), [intermediate/advanced] From Deep Learning and Transformers to AI Risks and Safety Sean Benson (Amsterdam University Medical Center), [intermediate] Digital Twins and Generative AI for Personalised Medicine Xavier Bresson (National University of Singapore), [intermediate/advanced] Graph Transformers, Graph Generative Models and Large Language Models Nello Cristianini (University of Bath), [introductory] Machina Sapiens - Towards More General Forms of AI Mark Derdzinski (Dexcom), [introductory] From Prototype to Production: Evaluation Strategies for Agentic Applications Samira Ebrahimi Kahou (University of Calgary), [intermediate/advanced] Explainability in Machine Learning Elena Giusarma (Michigan Technological University), [introductory/intermediate] Machine Learning at the Frontier of Astrophysics: Simulating the Universe Shih-Chieh Hsu (University of Washington), [intermediate/advanced] Real-Time Artificial Intelligence for Science and Engineering Xia "Ben" Hu (Rice University), [introductory/advanced] Efficient LLM Serving: Algorithms and Systems Lu Jiang (ByteDance & Carnegie Mellon University), [introductory/intermediate] Transformers for Image and Video Generation: Fundamentals, Design, and Innovations Jayashree Kalpathy-Cramer (University of Colorado), [introductory/intermediate] Multimodal AI for Healthcare Yingbin Liang (Ohio State University), [intermediate/advanced] Theory on Training Dynamics of Transformers Chen Change Loy (Nanyang Technological University), [intermediate/advanced] Harnessing Prior for Content Enhancement and Creation Fenglong Ma (Pennsylvania State University) & Cao (Danica) Xiao (GE HealthCare), [introductory/intermediate] Transforming Healthcare and Drug Development through Multimodal AI with LLMs and Generative AI Technologies Evan Shelhamer (DeepMind), [intermediate] Test-Time Adaptation for Updating Models on New and Different Data Atlas Wang (University of Texas Austin), [intermediate] Low Rank Strikes Back in the Era of Large Language Models Xiang Wang (University of Science and Technology of China), [advanced] Large Language Models for User Behavior Modeling: Cross-Modal Interpretation, Preference Optimization, and Agentic Simulation Rex Ying (Yale University), [intermediate/advanced] Multimodal Foundation Models for Graph-Structured Data: Framework and Scientific Applications OPEN SESSION: An open session will collect 5-minute voluntary oral 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 13, 2025. 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 13, 2025. HACKATHON: A hackathon will take place, where participants can work in teams to tackle several machine learning challenges. They will be coordinated by Professor Sergei V. Gleyzer (University of Alabama). 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 by August 25, 2025. The winning teams will receive a modest monetary prize and the runners-up will get a certificate. SPONSORS: Companies/institutions/organizations willing to be sponsors of the event can download the sponsorship leaflet from https://deeplearn.irdta.eu/2025/sponsors/ ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: Samuel Anjos (Maia, social networks) Sergei V. Gleyzer (Tuscaloosa, hackathon chair) Jos? Paulo Marques dos Santos (Maia, local chair) Carlos Mart?n-Vide (Tarragona, program chair) Santiago Montes (Tarragona, webpage) Sara Morales (Brussels) Jos? Lu?s Reis (Maia) Lu?s Paulo Reis (Porto) David Silva (London, organization chair) REGISTRATION: It has to be done at https://deeplearn.irdta.eu/2025/registration/ The selection of 6 courses requested in the registration template is only tentative and non-binding. For logistical reasons, it will be helpful to have an estimation of the respective demand for each course. Since the capacity of the venue is limited, registration requests will be processed on a first come first served basis. The registration period will be closed and the on-line registration tool disabled when the capacity of the venue will have got exhausted. It is highly recommended to register prior to the event. FEES: Fees comprise access to all program activities and lunches. There are several early registration deadlines. Fees depend on the registration deadline. The fees for on site and for online participation are the same. ACCOMMODATION: Accommodation suggestions are available at https://deeplearn.irdta.eu/2025/accommodation/ CERTIFICATE: A certificate of successful participation in the event will be delivered indicating the number of hours of academic activities. This should be sufficient for those participants who plan to request ECTS recognition from their home university. 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URL: From a.garcia-dominguez at york.ac.uk Sat Feb 22 05:32:34 2025 From: a.garcia-dominguez at york.ac.uk (Antonio Garcia-Dominguez) Date: Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:32:34 +0000 Subject: Connectionists: Job openings: research positions on multi-agent LLMs for software engineering (Univ. of York, UK) Message-ID: Research Associate and Research Fellow Positions on Multi-Agent Systems for Software Engineering --- University of York, UK Application deadline: Tuesday February 25th, 2025 MOSAICO is a 3-year EU-funded research project that will develop the theoretical and technical framework needed to enable ?AI agent communities? that can solve complex software engineering tasks by working together with each other, with non-AI agents (e.g. standard build processes), and with humans. MOSAICO will produce an integrated platform that handles communication, orchestration, governance, quality assessment, benchmarking and reuse of AI agents. The Automated Software Engineering group at the University of York leads the MOSAICO work package dedicated to the design and development of an AI Agent Server Protocol (AISP) that enables AI agents to contribute to a wide range of software engineering activities (e.g. requirements engineering, analysis, implementation, or testing). AISP will be at the core of the integrated MOSAICO platform, becoming the lingua franca used by the other work packages on agent repositories, coordination and collaboration, governance, and use case-driven validation and evaluation. We are looking to hire a Research Associate and a Research Fellow for MOSAICO. Further information on the positions and on how to apply is available from the links below: * Research Associate - https://jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/research-associate-578562.html * Research Fellow - https://jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/research-fellow-578729.html For informal queries, please email Dr. Antonio Garcia-Dominguez at: a.garcia-dominguez at york.ac.uk Skills, Experience & Qualification needed ========================================= * PhD in Computer Science or equivalent experience. * Knowledge in Software Engineering to engage in high quality research. * Ability to lead and/or take responsibility for a small research project or identified parts of a large project. * Ability to supervise the work of others, for example in research teams or projects. * Strong object-oriented software design and development skills. * Highly developed communication skills to engage effectively with a wide ranging audience, both orally and in writing, using a range of media. * Competency to collaboratively develop software, taking into account the needs of multiple stakeholders across academia and industry. From mlas at fi.upm.es Fri Feb 21 08:58:31 2025 From: mlas at fi.upm.es (mlas at fi.upm.es) Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2025 14:58:31 +0100 (CET) Subject: Connectionists: XVII Madrid UPM Machine Learning and Advanced Statistics Summer School (June 16th - June 27th, 2025) Message-ID: <824009085.0.1740146311206.JavaMail.bmihaljevic@lenovo> Dear colleagues, The Technical University of Madrid (UPM) will once more organize the 'Madrid UPM Machine Learning and Advanced Statistics' summer school. The summer school will be held in Boadilla del Monte, near Madrid, from June 16th to June 27th. This year's edition comprises 12 week-long courses (15 lecture hours each), given during two weeks (six courses each week). Attendees may register in each course independently. No restrictions, besides those imposed by timetables, apply on the number or choice of courses. Early registration is now *OPEN*. Extended information on course programmes, price, venue, accommodation and transport is available at the school's website: https://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 16th - June 20th, 2025) ## 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: Reinforcement learning (15 h) Introduction. Dynamic programming methods. Temporal-difference learning. Policy gradient methods. Causal reinforcement learning. 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 23rd - June 27th, 2025) ## 1st session: 9:45-12:45 ### Course 7: Causality (15 h) Introduction. Causal graphs. Mediation analysis. Sensitivity analysis to unmeasured confounding. Counterfactual reasoning. Practical sessions: R. ### 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: Generative AI (15 h) Introduction to the course. Neural networks and deep learning. Generative AI for images. Generative AI for language. Hands-on session: Pytorch, VAEs, GANs, diffusion models, LLMs, aligning a generative LLM, using an open-source image generation model. ### Course 12: Feature Subset Selection (15 h) Introduction. Filter approaches. Embedded methods. Wrapper methods. Additional topics. Hands-on sessions: R and python. From h.bowman at bham.ac.uk Sat Feb 22 11:51:55 2025 From: h.bowman at bham.ac.uk (Howard Bowman) Date: Sat, 22 Feb 2025 16:51:55 +0000 Subject: Connectionists: Postdoctoral Research Fellow: EEG Brain-computer Interface, University of Birmingham Message-ID: Postdoctoral Research Fellow: EEG Brain-computer Interface, a Brainwave-based Visual Acuity Test Centre for Human Brain Health, School of Psychology and School of Computer Science, University of Birmingham Closes: 6th March 2025 JOB-DESCRIPTION: The Fringe-P3 method (Bowman et al, 2013; Alsufyani et al, 2019) developed out of a line of theoretical work focussed on temporal attention and perception on the fringe of awareness (Bowman & Wyble, 2007; Craston et al, 2009; Avil?s et al, 2020). The method provides a means to present a large number of visual stimuli very rapidly to a participant's brain and then determine with EEG, which of those stimuli the participant finds salient. The method has been proposed as a deception detector, specifically, a (countermeasures-resistant) concealed-knowledge test (Bowman et al, 2013, 2014; Alsufyani et al, 2019; Harris et al, 2021; see https://sms.cam.ac.uk/media/2077487/). Previous projects with the company Visionmetric (https://visionmetric.com/) used the Fringe-P3 method to develop a system for extracting the memory of a face. This is done by generating a facial morph that is a weighted average of the faces presented in rapid serial visual presentation, with weight determined by the strength of the P3 that face generated. The Research Fellow being advertised will be employed on a recently awarded MRC Impact Acceleration account at the University of Birmingham, with two companies: Visionmetric and Advanced Ophthalmic Systems (https://aos-hub.com/). This will take the Fringe-P3 method and develop it as an objective visual-acuity test, called the Acuity-P3. Many groups, such as young children, those with learning difficulties and dementia patients find it hard to follow the instructions required to complete a standard visual-acuity test (such as a Snellen chart). As a result, clinical decisions, such as whether to perform cataract surgery, often have to be made without a reliable assessment of vision. We will develop a system by which a brain response (the P3) can be used as an objective measure that a letter has been read. This will provide an objective visual-acuity test, not dependent upon a subjective response. We will also improve the efficiency with which P3s are detected with machine learning and will explore alternative detection modalities, such as pupil dilation. At the University of Birmingham, the work will be undertaken within the School of Psychology and Centre for Human Brain Health, with involvement from the School of Computer Science (where the PI, Bowman, also has an appointment). PERSON SPECIFICATION: Batchelors (and potentially also Masters) degree, as well as a PhD or equivalent qualification in Computer Science, STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths), Psychology, Neuroscience, or related subjects. Candidates with equivalent industrial experience would also be within scope. Strong programming skills, with experience of or the capacity to learn how to program in Python and C++. Experience of neuroimaging, including data collection, or the capacity to learn such methods. Fluency or capacity to become fluent in relevant models, techniques and methods, e.g. Fieldtrip, Statistical Parametric Mapping, EEG-lab, and ability to contribute to developing new methods. Informal enquiries can be made to Professor Howard Bowman and H.Bowman at bham.ac.uk. Full application details can be found here: https://edzz.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/CandidateExperience/en/sites/CX_6001/requisitions/preview/6497/?keyword=Grade+7&lastSelectedFacet=POSTING_DATES&mode=location&selectedPostingDatesFacet=30 Alsufyani, A., Hajilou, O., Zoumpoulaki, A., Filetti, M., Alsufyani, H., Solomon, C. J., ... & Bowman, H. (2019). Breakthrough percepts of famous faces. Psychophysiology, 56(1). Avil?s, A., Bowman, H., & Wyble, B. (2020). On the limits of evidence accumulation of the preconscious percept. Cognition, 195, 104080. Bowman, H., Filetti, M., Janssen, D., Su, L., Alsufyani, A., & Wyble, B. (2013). Subliminal salience search illustrated: EEG identity and deception detection on the fringe of awareness. PLoS One, 8(1). Bowman, H., Filetti, M., Alsufyani, A., Janssen, D., & Su, L. (2014). Countering countermeasures: Detecting identity lies by detecting conscious breakthrough. PloS one, 9(3), e90595. Bowman, H., & Wyble, B. (2007). The simultaneous type, serial token model of temporal attention and working memory. Psychological review, 114(1), 38. Craston, P., Wyble, B., Chennu, S. & Bowman, H. "The attentional blink reveals serial working memory encoding: Evidence from virtual & human event-related potentials." Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 21(3):550-566, March 2009. Harris, K., Miller, C., Jose, B., Beech, A., Woodhams, J., & Bowman, H. (2021). Breakthrough percepts of online identity: Detecting recognition of email addresses on the fringe of awareness. 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We have over 80 courses spread across two 2.5-week terms, from July 7th through July 22nd and July 24th through August 8th, 2025, including 32 courses in psycholinguistics, and 23 courses in computational modeling, as well as a variety of co-located conferences (e.g., Society for Computation in Linguistics, Abstract and Item-Specific Knowledge across Frameworks and Domains, Usage-based Phonology, Dynamical Models of Speech), and hands-on workshops on statistical methods and software. Registration is now open: https://center.uoregon.edu/LSA/2025/ Best, Volya -- Professor Vsevolod Kapatsinski Head of the Department of Linguistics, University of Oregon Director of the Linguistics Society of America Summer Institute, Eugene, OR, 2025 Area Editor, Linguistics Vanguard (cog, exp, comp) blogs.uoregon.edu/ublab/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: