From emergingtechnetwork.publicity at gmail.com Thu Jan 2 00:58:01 2025 From: emergingtechnetwork.publicity at gmail.com (Gizem Varkonyi) Date: Thu, 2 Jan 2025 08:58:01 +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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URL: From francesco.piccialli at unina.it Thu Jan 2 03:28:23 2025 From: francesco.piccialli at unina.it (Francesco Piccialli) Date: Thu, 2 Jan 2025 09:28:23 +0100 Subject: Connectionists: [CfP] CCGRID 2025 - Workshop on Challenges, Advances and SustainabiliTy, in Ai-hpc iNtEracTion (CASTANET) Message-ID: Dear colleagues, We are organizing a Workshop on AI-HPC interaction the CCGRID 2025 conference, Tromso (NO), 19-22 May, 2025 * * *Workshop on Challenges, Advances and SustainabiliTy in Ai-hpc iNtEracTion (CASTANET)* https://www.labdma.unina.it/ccgrid2025/castanet2025.html held jointly to the CCGRID 2025 conference Tromso (NO), 19-22 May, 2025 *CALL FOR PAPERS* *Abstract* The mutual interaction between High-Performance Computing (HPC) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) is an active area of investigation at all levels of the Computing Continuum and involves experts from several disciplines. On the one hand, AI can provide innovative solutions to optimize codes and improve the HPC infrastructures management; on the other hand, HPC methods and tools can offer the computational support required for training increasingly complex and deep AI models. In any case, both areas are known for being among the most energy-intensive, and particular attention to the environmental sustainability of the proposed solutions is of fundamental importance. Mixed precision algorithms, mathematical transformations for filtering out insignificant information in training process, transfer learning and federated learning approaches are just examples of energy aware techniques in this field. This workshop aims to provide a forum for researchers and practitioners to discuss recent advances, share experiences and best practices, explore new algorithmic and software solutions, and foster collaborations at the intersection of High-Performance Computing and Artificial Intelligence, with special attention to energy sustainability issues. *Workshop organizers* ???? Salvatore Cuomo ? Univ. of Naples Federico II (Italy) ???? Fabio Giampaolo ? Univ. of Naples Federico II (Italy) ???? Marco Lapegna - Univ. of Naples Federico II (Italy) ???? Francesco Piccialli - Univ. of Naples Federico II (Italy) *Topics of interest* The topics of interest for submission include, but are not limited to: ???? AI-driven optimization of HPC resources ???? HPC algorithms and software tools for AI and ML ???? Mathematical methods for reducing dataset dimension ???? Mixed-precision algorithms for AI and HPC ???? Sustainable Machine Learning Architectures ???? AI for Energy Management ???? HPC for big data analytics and visualization ???? Interaction of AI and HPC in the Computing Continuum ???? Performance and energy consumption trade-off ???? Energy-aware neural network design ???? Sustainable AI model training techniques ???? AI and HPC for climate change mitigation ???? Decentralized AI systems ???? Intelligent resource allocation in sustainable computing ???? Ethical considerations in AI and HPC energy consumption *Program Committee* ???? David Camacho - Universidad Politecnica de Madrid (Spain) ???? Jesus Carretero - Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (Spain) ???? Diletta Chiaro - University of Naples Federico II (Italy) ???? Jerry Chun-Wei Lin - Silesian University of Technology (Poland) ???? Horacio Gonz?lez-V?lez - National College of Ireland (Ireland) ???? Raffaele Montella - University of Naples Pathenope (Italy) ???? Edoardo Prezioso - University of Naples Federico II (Italy) ???? Diego Romano - Italian National Research Council (Italy) ???? Roman Wyrzykowski - Czestochowa University of Technology (Poland) *Important dates* ???? Workshop paper submission deadline: February 14th, 2025 ???? Workshop paper acceptance notification: March 7th, 2025 ???? Camera ready paper submission: March 14th, 2025 Best Regards Prof. Francesco Piccialli, Ph.D. DMA - Department of Mathematics and Applications "R. Caccioppoli" University of Naples Federico II, Italy Tel. +39 081675787 Head and Scientific Director of M.O.D.A.L group:https://www.labdma.unina.it Web:http://wpage.unina.it/francesco.piccialli/ Google Scholar:https://scholar.google.it/citations?user=CLNn_9gAAAAJ&hl=it Institutional web:https://www.docenti.unina.it/francesco.piccialli -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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We would appreciate if you forward this CfP to friends and colleagues that might be interested. /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// *SPECIAL SESSION on Towards Robust Federated Learning: Addressing Data and Device Heterogeneity* Federated Learning (FL) has emerged as a transformative framework for enabling AI while respecting privacy and complying with regulations. However, addressing non-iid data distributions and device heterogeneity remains crucial for achieving scalable and effective FL applications. This special session will bring together researchers and practitioners to explore innovative solutions and advance the field towards real-world deployments. Topics of Interest: We encourage submissions on topics including, but not limited to: - Algorithmic advances for non-iid data and heterogeneous devices - Fairness and robustness in FL - Interpretability and explainability in FL models - Personalization and client adaptivity - Resource-aware FL frameworks - Real-world applications in healthcare, IoT, and beyond - Tools, benchmarks, and evaluation metrics === ORGANIZERS === Prof. Francesco Piccialli Mathematical mOdelling and Data AnaLysis (M.O.D.A.L.) - https://www.labdma.unina.it University of Naples Federico II, Italy Dr. Diletta Chiaro University of Naples Federico II, Italy Dr. Fabio Giampaolo University of Naples Federico II, Italy === SUBMISSION GUIDELINE === Prospective authors are invited to submit complete papers of no more than eight (8) pages in the IEEE two-column conference proceedings format. Please follow the submission guideline from the IJCNN 2025 submission website. Special session papers are treated the same as regular conference papers. Please specify that your paper is for the Special Session on Advances in Deep Learning for Biomedical Data Analysis. All the accepted and presented papers will be published on IEEE Xplore Digital Library and indexed by Scopus. === AUTHORS INFORMATIONS === - Author instructions: https://2025.ijcnn.org/authors/initial-author-instructions - Paper submission guidelines: https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/IJCNN2025/ - Further information is available at: https://2025.ijcnn.org/ === CONTACT === Any inquiries can be directed to Francesco Piccialli: francesco.piccialli at unina.it /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// Best regards, Prof. Francesco Piccialli -- Prof. Francesco Piccialli, Ph.D. DMA - Department of Mathematics and Applications "R. Caccioppoli" University of Naples Federico II, Italy Tel. +39 081675787 Head and Scientific Director of M.O.D.A.L group:https://www.labdma.unina.it Web:http://wpage.unina.it/francesco.piccialli/ Google Scholar:https://scholar.google.it/citations?user=CLNn_9gAAAAJ&hl=it Institutional web:https://www.docenti.unina.it/francesco.piccialli -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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The DC provides an opportunity to present and discuss their doctoral research ideas and progress in a supportive, formative and yet critical environment and receive feedback from reviewers, mentors and peers from the field of Hybrid Intelligence. The Doctoral Consortium will also provide opportunities to network and build collaborations with other members of the HHAI community. We welcome submissions across research HHAI-related domains such as AI, HCI, cognitive and social sciences, philosophy & ethics, complex systems, and others (see ?Topics of interest?). The event is intended for early as well as middle/late-stage PhD candidates and asks them to formulate and submit a concrete PhD research proposal, preferably supported by some preliminary results. The proposal will be peer-reviewed. If accepted, students must register and physically attend the event, which will include a range of interactive activities (among which presentations and mentoring lunch). Details for the submission are found below under ?Submission Details?. **Important Dates** Submission Deadline: January 24, 2024 Reviews Released: March 18, 2025 Camera-ready Papers: April 13, 2025 Doctoral Consortium: June 10, 2025 All deadlines are 23:59 AoE (anywhere on Earth) **Topics of Interest** We invite research on different challenges in Hybrid Human-Artificial Intelligence. The following list of topics is illustrative, not exhaustive: ? Human-AI interaction, interpretation and collaboration ? Adaptive human-AI co-learning and co-creation ? Learning, reasoning and planning with humans and machines in the loop ? User modeling and personalisation ? Integration of learning and reasoning ? Transparent, explainable, and accountable AI ? Fair, ethical, responsible, and trustworthy AI ? Societal awareness of AI ? Multimodal machine perception of real-world settings ? Social signal processing ? Representations learning for Communicative or Collaborative AI ? Symbolic representations for human-centric AI ? Human-AI Coevolution ? Foundation models and humans ? Human cognition-aware AI ? Decentralized human-AI systems ? Reliability and robustness in human-AI systems ? Applications of hybrid human-AI intelligence **Submission Details** All proposals must be submitted electronically via the EasyChair conference submission system: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=hhai2025. Each PhD student should provide the following information on Easychair: ? Research proposal (details below). ? Supplementary material: a maximum of 2-page PDF listing the following: ? Names and affiliations of your research supervisor(s). ? Dissertation status: When you began your PhD, and expected to complete it. Are there any constraints on the PhD duration from your institute? This part helps us better tailor feedback to a realistic timeline according to your program. ? Benefits statement: 1-2 paragraphs describing what you hope to gain by participating in the doctoral consortium. Highlight specific points where you require feedback. ? A personal statement citing three key papers in the field and briefly describing how they influenced the student?s work and how HHAI is defined in those works and the student?s research. ? List of the student?s relevant publications (if available). **Research Proposal Details** Students should submit a maximum of a 6-page description of their PhD research proposal. Papers should be written in English and adhere to IOS formatting guidelines. The limit of 6 pages is excluding references. The papers should have a single author (the PhD candidate) and submissions are *not* anonymous. Supervisors, other involved persons, and funding agencies should be acknowledged in an Acknowledgements section. Research proposals should contain the following elements: ? Context: The background and motivation for your research, including the related work that frames your research ? Research questions/challenges: what are the research questions/challenges that your dissertation addresses? Try to highlight how it differs from existing literature. ? Method/approach and evaluation: how is each of the research questions answered? How are results evaluated? If you are planning to conduct studies or build prototypes, provide a brief description. ? Preliminary results (if available). Highlight results and contribution to date and the timeplan for projected steps. ? Discussion and future work: What are intermediary conclusions, and what are the planned next steps? **Upon Acceptance of the Doctoral Consortium Proposal** Accepted papers will be published in the main conference proceedings of the Third International Conference on Hybrid Human-Machine Intelligence, in the Frontiers in AI and Applications (FAIA) series by IOS Press. Authors will have the opportunity to opt-out from being included in these proceedings, with only their proposal title being mentioned on the web page. Participants will be expected to give short, informal presentations of their work during the consortium, to be followed by a discussion. In case there are any questions regarding the call, or if you are unsure about submitting your work to the HHAI 2025 Doctoral Consortium, please reach out to dc at hhai-conference.org **DC Chairs** Jennifer Renoux (?rebro University) Salvatore Ruggieri (University of Pisa) Stefan Schlobach (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) Shihan Wang (Utrecht University) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Applicants will receive confirmation of acceptance end of March. Like in preceding years, the 2025 OCNC will be a comprehensive three-week course covering single neurons, networks, and behaviors with ample time for student projects. The first week will focus exclusively on methods with hands-on tutorials during the afternoons, while the second and third weeks will have lectures by international and local experts. The course has a strong hands-on component based on student proposed modeling or data analysis projects, which are further refined with the help of a dedicated tutor. Applicants are required to propose their project at the time of application. For the first time we charge a modest tuition fee of 60,000JPY. The sponsor will provide lodging and meals during the course. We hope that this course will be a good opportunity for theoretical and experimental neuroscientists to meet each other and to explore the attractive nature and culture of Okinawa, the southernmost island prefecture of Japan. Lecturers: Erik De Schutter (OIST) Kenji Doya (OIST) Tomoki Fukai (OIST) Bernd Kuhn (OIST) Alexander Mathis (EPFL, Switzerland) Mackenzie Mathis (EPFL, Switzerland) Lucy Palmer (University of Melbourne, Australia) Gerald Pao (OIST) Padmini Rangamani (University of California, San Diego, USA) Sam Reiter (OIST) Yu Takagi (National Institute of Informatics) Kazumasa Tanaka (OIST) Tim Vogels (IST Austria) Jeff Wickens (OIST) From ai at okipublishing.com Thu Jan 2 11:49:29 2025 From: ai at okipublishing.com (AI Systems) Date: Thu, 02 Jan 2025 10:49:29 -0600 Subject: Connectionists: [Conf. Due Jan 19]: CAIF 2024 Artificial Intelligence Frontiers, April 1-3, OKC, USA & Online In-Reply-To: <66b1139dfe96652d8f296b2090f27fe6@okipublishing.com> References: <66b1139dfe96652d8f296b2090f27fe6@okipublishing.com> Message-ID: <805a59312c40cfd45f8f57d79fcfb62a@okipublishing.com> [Apologies for cross-posting] --- Call for Abstracts and Papers ------------- 2025 OkIP International Conference on Artificial Intelligence Frontiers (CAIF) Oklahoma City, OK, USA & Online April 1-3, 2025 https://eventutor.com/e/CAIF002 Submission Deadline: January 19, 2025 OkIP Published & Submission for indexation Extended versions of the best papers will be considered for publication in the inaugural volume of the International Journal of Automated and Intelligent Systems. *** Tracks/Areas: >> AI, Machine Learning (ML), and Applications >> Agent-based, Automated, and Distributed Supports >> Formal Methods in AI >> AI Foundations/Theory/Algorithms >> Natural Language Processing (NLP) >> Conversational Agents and Dialogue System >> Intelligent Systems and Applications >> AI in Bioinformatics/Biotechnology >> AI in Nuclear-Energy/Earth-observation >> Knowledge-based and Control Supports >> Automation, Robotics and Vehicles >> Business Process Automation >> Global and Sustainable AI >> AI for HealthCare >> AI and Environmental Efficiency >> AI for Diversity/Inclusion/Equity/Equality >> AI for Future Communities >> Generative AI Tools and Models >> AI in Computing and Society >> Smart Systems/Infrastructures/Construction/City >> Intelligent Transportation Systems >> AI in Education >> AI Engineering >> AI in Data and Big Data >> AI System Design >> Software Engineering for AI >> AI for Cloud Computing >> AI in Software Engineering >> Theories and Approaches of Blockchain >> AI in Electronic Commerce >> AI in High-Performance Computing >> AI in CyberSecurity and Information Assurance >> IA in Power Systems >> Internet of Things >> IA in Energy >> AI Ethical/Gender/Equity/Bias/Policy/Accessibility Concerns >> Circuit, Design and Hardware for AI >> Other *** Important Dates: - Abstract or Paper Submission: January 19, 2025 - Author Notification: February 2-16, 2025 - Camera Ready Paper Submission, Registration: February 9-23, 2025 - Conference Date: April 1-3, 2025 *** Contribution Types (Two-Column IEEE Format Style): - Full Paper: Accomplished research results (6 pages) - Short Paper: Work in progress/fresh developments (3 pages) - Extended Abstract/Poster/Journal First: Displayed/Oral presented (1 page) *** Technical Program Committee https://eventutor.com/event/58/page/149-committee Please feel free to contact us for any inquiries at: Kris Zeuti OkIP Secretariat info at okipublishing.com From marieke.van.erp at dh.huc.knaw.nl Thu Jan 2 23:08:04 2025 From: marieke.van.erp at dh.huc.knaw.nl (Marieke van Erp) Date: Fri, 3 Jan 2025 04:08:04 +0000 Subject: Connectionists: 3-year postdoc position - semantic web - NLP - maritime history - downtown Amsterdam - Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences Message-ID: ** Apologies for cross-posting ** Deadline: 10 January We are looking for a new team member with the following profile: * You have an open-minded and collaborative attitude towards doing groundbreaking digital humanities research; * You have a firm grasp on computational methods and are willing to achieve proficiency in historical research methods; * You have a Ph.D. degree in semantic web, digital humanities, language technology, or a related field by the starting date of the project; * Your English is excellent and you have or are willing to obtain a working proficiency in Dutch. Why you should consider working with us: Location, location, location: Our offices are located in a historical building in downtown Amsterdam. Researchers work together in projects and a shared office space and can choose to spend part of their time at home. The team: We value a social, open and inquisitive, safe work environment where your input counts, not your job title, this means open conversations about pros and cons of a particular idea and approach based on content, not status. We also brew a mean cup of coffee and the office has a cooking club. Good to know: The Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences is not an educational institution, this means that you can focus on building your research profile without a teaching load. We do work together with various Dutch universities so some teaching is an option. About the procedure: Apply by 10 January 2025 via https://vacatures.knaw.nl/job-invite/2438/ . Please do not provide more information than what is requested (motivation letter, CV, 1-page research-statement and one illustrative publication). If the committee requires more information, they will ask. The hiring committee will review the applications and invite candidates for an online interview with an optional second interview. The first round of interviews will take place online on 22 January. Starting date & duration: the starting date is negotiable but the project team prefers to fill the vacancy sooner rather than later. The position is for three years. 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As we begin 2025, we would like to remind you of our upcoming workshop and kindly request you to share this final call with your networks. # CALL FOR PAPERS: Adaptive eXplainable AI Workshop 2025 - Final Call With the submission deadline approaching in 10 days, we are reaching out one final time regarding the second edition of the Adaptive XAI (AXAI) Workshop, to be held in conjunction with ACM IUI 2025. As the integration of Artificial Intelligence into daily decision-making processes intensifies, the need for clear communication between humans and AI systems becomes crucial. This workshop is dedicated to exploring the design and development of intelligent interfaces that adaptively explain AI's decision-making processes, with a strong focus on human-centric principles. ## Important Dates * Submission Deadline: January 13, 2025 (10 days remaining) * Notification: January 20, 2025 * Camera Ready: February 10, 2025 * Workshop Date: March 24, 2025 ## Submission Guidelines * Length: 5-10 pages * Format: CEUR-ART 1-column Template * Submission Website: https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/AXAI2025/ ## Workshop Focus In line with the human-centric principles of the Future Artificial Intelligence Research (FAIR) project, this workshop seeks to explore, understand and develop interfaces that dynamically adapt, thereby creating explanations of AI-based systems that both relate to and resonate with a range of users with different explanation-based requirements. As AI's role in our lives becomes ever more embedded, the ways in which such systems explain elements about the system need to be malleable and responsive to the ever-evolving individual's cognitive state, relating to contextual needs/focus and to the social setting. ## Topics Building on the success of our first edition, we welcome submissions that address, but are not limited to, the following emerging trends and challenges: 1. **Personalized XAI Interfaces** * Adaptive systems responding to users' evolving needs * Context-aware explanation mechanisms * User modeling for explanation adaptation 2. **Novel Interaction Modalities for XAI** * Multimodal explanation interfaces * Immersive XAI experiences * Visual Languages for AI interaction 3. **Ethical Considerations in Adaptive XAI** * Transparency and trust * User autonomy * Fairness in adaptive systems 4. **Domain-Specific XAI Applications** * Healthcare * Finance * Autonomous systems 5. **Evaluation Methodologies** * Assessment frameworks for adaptive interfaces * User studies and empirical evaluations * Metrics for explanation quality 6. **Over-reliance and Automation Bias** * Maintaining appropriate user skepticism * Engagement strategies * Balance between trust and critical thinking 7. **LLMs in XAI** * Potential and limitations * Human-understandable explanation generation * Integration with existing XAI frameworks 8. **Interactive Machine Learning** * User-in-the-loop systems * Real-time adjustments * Dynamic explanation generation 9. **Hybrid Decision-Making Frameworks** * Human-AI collaboration * Adaptive explanation support * Knowledge integration ## Organizers * Tommaso Turchi, University of Pisa * Alessio Malizia, University of Pisa * Fabio Patern?, CNR-ISTI, Pisa * Simone Borsci, University of Twente * Alan Chamberlain, University of Nottingham * Andrew Fish, University of Liverpool For more information, please visit our website at https://axai.trx.li or contact Tommaso Turchi (tommaso.turchi at unipi.it). Join us in Cagliari, Sardinia (Italy) to shape the future of human-AI interaction! As we start the new year, we warmly encourage you to forward this final call to relevant mailing lists and share with colleagues who might be interested in contributing to this exciting workshop. We look forward to receiving your submissions and to a stimulating exchange of ideas in Cagliari! //==============================\\ Tommaso Turchi Department of Computer Science University of Pisa \\==============================// From marinella.petrocchi at iit.cnr.it Fri Jan 3 12:37:35 2025 From: marinella.petrocchi at iit.cnr.it (Marinella Petrocchi) Date: Fri, 03 Jan 2025 18:37:35 +0100 Subject: Connectionists: [Extended Deadline] ROMCIR 2025: The 5th International Workshop on Reducing Online Misinformation through Credible Information Retrieval Message-ID: *Extended Deadline* [Apologies for multiple postings][ECIR 2025][ROMCIR 2025] _____________________________________________________________________________________________ ROMCIR 2025: The 5th International Workshop on Reducing Online Misinformation through Credible Information Retrieval Co-located with ECIR 2025: The 47th European Conference on Information Retrieval Lucca, Italy | April 10, 2025 Workshop website: https://romcir.disco.unimib.it Submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=romcir2025 ____________________________________________________________________________________________________ IMPORTANT DATES (AoE) *Extended Deadlines for Abstract and Paper Submission* * Abstract submission: January 12, 2025 * Paper submission: January 19, 2025 * Decision notification: February 16, 2025 * Workshop day: April 10, 2025 ____________________________________________________________________________________________________ CONTRIBUTIONS The Workshop solicits the sending of two types of contributions relevant to the Workshop and suitable to generate discussion: * Original, unpublished contributions (pre-prints submitted to ArXiv are eligible) that will be included in an open-access post-proceedings volume of CEUR Workshop Proceedings (http://ceur-ws.org/), indexed by both Scopus and DBLP. * Already published or preliminary work that will not be included in the post-proceedings volume. All submissions will undergo SINGLE-BLIND peer review by the Program Committee. Submissions are to be done electronically through the EasyChair at: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=romcir2025 ____________________________________________________________________________________________________ SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS Submissions must be: * Regular papers: between 10 and 14 pages long * Short papers: Between 5 and 9 pages long We recommend that authors use the new CEUR-ART style for writing papers to be published: * An Overleaf page for LaTeX users is available at: https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/template-for-submissions-to-ceur-workshop-proceedings-ceur-ws-dot-org/wqyfdgftmcfw * An offline version with the style files including DOCX template files is available at: http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-XXX/CEURART.zip * The paper must contain, as the name of the conference: ROMCIR 2025: The 5th Workshop on Reducing Online Misinformation through Credible Information Retrieval (held as part of ECIR 2025: The 47th European Conference on Information Retrieval), April 10, 2025, Lucca, Italy * The title of the paper should follow the regular capitalization of English (e.g., Example of a Title of a Paper Correctly Capitalized) * Please, choose the one-column template * According to CEUR-WS policy, the papers will be published under a CC BY 4.0 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.en If the paper is accepted, authors will be asked to sign (at pen) an author agreement with CEUR: * In case you do not employ Third-Party Material (TPM) in your draft, sign the document at: https://ceur-ws.org/ceur-author-agreement-ccby-ntp.pdf?ver=2024-06-04 * If you do use TPM, the agreement can be found at: https://ceur-ws.org/ceur-author-agreement-ccby-tp.pdf?ver=2024-06-04 For further information: https://ceur-ws.org/HOWTOSUBMIT.html _________________________________________________________________________________________________ KEYNOTE SPEAKER * Stefano Mizzaro (https://users.dimi.uniud.it/~stefano.mizzaro/), University of Udine, Italy ____________________________________________________________________________________________________ ORGANIZERS * Udo Kruschwitz (https://www.linkedin.com/in/udo-kruschwitz-57106b5/), University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany * Marinella Petrocchi (https://www.iit.cnr.it/en/marinella.petrocchi/), IIT-CNR, Pisa, Italy * Marco Viviani (https://ikr3.disco.unimib.it/people/marco-viviani/), University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy From terry at salk.edu Fri Jan 3 12:21:46 2025 From: terry at salk.edu (Terry Sejnowski) Date: Fri, 03 Jan 2025 09:21:46 -0800 Subject: Connectionists: NEURAL COMPUTATION - January 1, 2025 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: NEURAL COMPUTATION - Volume 36, Number 1 - January 1, 2025 Now available for online download: http://www.mitpressjournals.org/toc/neco/36/2 http://cognet.mit.edu/content/neural-computation ----- Articles Computing With Residue Numbers in High-Dimensional Representation Christopher Junho Kymn, Denis Kleyko, Edward Paxon Frady, Connor Bybee, Pentti Kanerva, Friedrich Sommer, and Bruno Olshausen Realising Synthetic Active Inference Agents, Part II: Variational Message Updates Thijs van de Laar, Magnus Koudahl, and Bert de Vries Bounded Rational Decision Networks With Belief Propagation Gerrit Schmid, Sebastian Gottwald, and Daniel Braun Relating Human Error-based Learning to Modern Deep RL Algorithms Michele Garibbo, Casimir J.H. Ludwig, Nathan F. Lepora, and Laurence Aitchison Selective Inference for Changepoint Detection by Recurrent Neural Network Ichiro Takeuchi, Tomohiro Shiraishi, Daiki Miwa, and Vo Nguyen Le Duy Letter Computation With Sequences of Assemblies in a Model of the Brain Max Dabagia, Christos H Papadimitriou, and Santosh S Vempala ----- 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 dhansel0 at gmail.com Sun Jan 5 06:25:01 2025 From: dhansel0 at gmail.com (David Hansel) Date: Sun, 5 Jan 2025 13:25:01 +0200 Subject: Connectionists: World wide VVTNS series: Wednesday, January 8, 2025, at 11:00 am EST| Dmitry Krotov, IBM Research, Cambridge, USA In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: [image: VVTNS.png] https://www.wwtns.online - on twitter: wwtns at TheoreticalWide VVTNS 2025 Opening Lecture & 2024 Nobel prize in Physics celebration You are cordially invited to the lecture given by Dmitry Krotov IBM Research, Cambridge USA on the topic of Dense associative memory and its potential role in brain computation The lecture will be held on zoom on Wednesday, January 8, 2025, at *11:00 am EST * To receive the zoom link: https://www.wwtns.online/register-page *Abstract: * Dense Associative Memories (Dense AMs) are energy-based neural networks that share many desirable features of celebrated Hopfield Networks but have superior information storage capabilities. In contrast to conventional Hopfield Networks, which were popular in the 1980s, DenseAMs have a very large memory storage capacity - possibly exponential in the size of the network. This aspect makes them appealing tools for many problems in AI and neurobiology. In this talk I will describe two theories of how DenseAMs might be built in biological ?hardware?. According to the first theory, DenseAMs arise as effective theories after integrating out a large number of neuronal degrees of freedom. According to the second theory, astrocytes, a particular type of glia cells, serve as core computational units enabling large memory storage capabilities. This second theory challenges a common point of view in the neuroscience community that astrocytes play the role of only passive house-keeping support structures in the brain. In contrast, it suggests that astrocytes might be actively involved in brain computation and memory storage and retrieval. This story is an illustration of how computational principles originating in physics may provide insights into novel AI architectures and brain computation. *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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To ensure that these impacts are positively reflected, today, we need to extend views not only on technical aspects but also on social challenges that we might face, including safety, regulation, ethics, human factors, and philosophy. The topics of ARSO 2025 include, but are not limited to the following: ? Human-robot interaction in physical & psychological aspects ? Safety standards for advanced robots & autonomous systems ? Legal and ethical issues for advanced robots ? Impact of robotics on society, e.g. robot business, marketing & economic impact ? Robotics for sustainability, climate change or civil aid ? Advanced industrial robots for future manufacturing ? Healthcare & medical applications ? Rehabilitation and transfer robotics ? Service & assistance applications ? Entertainment & education robotics ? Robotics & autonomous driving ? Bio-inspired robotics ? Soft and wearable robotics Important Dates: Submission of Organized Session Proposal: Jan. 15, 2025 Initial Paper Submission: Feb. 28, 2025 Workshop Proposal Submission: Feb. 28, 2025 Notification of Paper Acceptance: Apr. 28, 2025 Final Paper Submission: May 30, 2025 General Chairs: Minoru Asada, Japan Silvia Rossi, Italy Program Chairs: Kensuke Harada, Japan Emel Demircan, USA Astrid Weiss, Austria Best regards, Yuji Kawai and Yukie Nagai, Publicity Chairs of ARSO2025 ? Yukie Nagai, Ph.D. Project Professor, The University of Tokyo nagai.yukie at mail.u-tokyo.ac.jp | https://developmental-robotics.jp CREST Cognitive Feelings: https://cognitive-feeling.jp CREST Cognitive Mirroring: https://cognitive-mirroring.org From d.bach at uni-bonn.de Tue Jan 7 02:26:03 2025 From: d.bach at uni-bonn.de (Dominik Bach) Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2025 08:26:03 +0100 Subject: Connectionists: Postdoc & PhD Position in Naturalistic Neuroimaging With Wearable (OP)MEG (Uni Bonn, Germany) - application deadline 15 Jan 2025 Message-ID: The Hertz Chair for Artificial Intelligence and Neuroscience at University of Bonn is looking to recruit a postdoctoral fellow or PhD student to undertake high quality research and produce high-impact publications in a collaborative research project investigating human escape using wearable magnetoencephalography with optically pumped magnometers (OPM). The goal of the advertised position is to understand the neural control of human escape decisions in an immersive virtual reality (VR) environment using an OPM-compatible HMD, in collaboration with the Wellcome Platform for Naturalistic Neuroimaging, which is part of the FIL at the UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology, London, UK. The role includes - conceptual design of naturalistic VR scenarios that allow MEG recordings - planning, conducting, and analysing MEG experiments - building robust pipelines for MEG analysis in naturalistic settings - publication of research and development results See here for an example of our previous behavioural research in virtual reality. 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 (cryogenic or wearable) MEG (essential) - experience with Matlab (SPM or fieldtrip) and R (tidyverse) (essential) - experience with virtual reality (preferably Unity and C#) would be a plus - experience with analysing movement data 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 one of these three areas: (a) MEG (cryogenic or wearable), (b) EEG, (c) virtual reality (preferably Unity and C#) - experience with Matlab (SPM or fieldtrip) and R (tidyverse) (essential) - experience with analysing movement data 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 15 January 2025 to caian.office at uni-bonn.de. Interviews will be conducted online between 27 January and 7 February 2025. Enquiries can be directed to Prof. Dominik Bach, d.bach at uni-bonn.de. More information can be found here. -- ----------------------- Prof. Dominik R Bach, MBBS PhD Hertz Chair for Artificial Intelligence and Neuroscience University of Bonn Am Propsthof 49 53121 Bonn, Germany https://www.caian.uni-bonn.de/en/ | @bachlab_cog -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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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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If you want to learn Transformers, Diffusion Models, Large language models, Vision - Large-scale vision models, Vision and language, Agentic AI, Multimodal Foundation Models, NLP, Generative AI and much more then take part in ACDL 2025! ;) Riva del Sole Resort & SPA - Tuscany, Italy, June 9-13, 2025 https://acdl2025.icas.events acdl at icas.cc *EARLY REGISTRATION: by February 23 (AoE)* https://acdl2025.icas.events/registration/ Oral Presentation Submission Deadline: by February 23 (AoE) LECTURERS: https://acdl2025.icas.events/lecturers/ Each Lecturer will hold up to four lectures on one or more research topics. Sanjeev Arora, Princeton University & Institute for Advanced Study, USA Antoine Bosselut, EPFL, Switzerland Sander Dieleman, Google DeepMind London, UK Caglar Gulcehre, EPFL, Switzerland Tatsu Hashimoto, Stanford University & Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence, USA Thomas Hofmann, ETH Zurich, Switzerland Subbarao Kambhampati, Arizona State University, USA Joel Z. Leibo, Google DeepMind London & The Alan Turing Institute, UK Lei Li, Language Technology Institute - Carnegie Mellon University, USA Panos Pardalos, University of Florida, USA Bryan Perozzi, Google Research, New York, USA Raniero Romagnoli, Almawave, Italy Liubov Tupikina, Bell Labs Paris, France More Lecturers TBA Lecturers: https://acdl2025.icas.events/lecturers/ Lectures: https://acdl2025.icas.events/lectures/ ACDL Schedule: https://acdl2025.icas.events/program/ https://acdl2025.icas.events/wp-content/uploads/sites/30/2024/12/ACDL-2025-Schedule.pdf PAST LECTURERS: https://acdl2025.icas.events/past-lecturers/ VENUE: https://acdl2025.icas.events/venue/ Riva del Sole Resort & SPA Localit? Riva del Sole? Castiglione della Pescaia (Grosseto) CAP 58043? Tuscany? Italy p: +39-0564-928111 e: booking.events at rivadelsole.it w: https://www.rivadelsole.it/en/ PAST EDITIONS: https://acdl2025.icas.events/past-editions/ REGISTRATION: https://acdl2025.icas.events/registration/ CERTIFICATE & 8 ECTS: The 8th Advanced Course on Data Science & Machine Learning ? ACDL 2025 is a full-immersion five-day Course at the Riva del Sole Resort & SPA (Castiglione della Pescaia ? Grosseto ? Tuscany, Italy) on cutting-edge advances in Deep Learning, Data Science and Generative AI with lectures delivered by world-renowned experts. The Course provides a stimulating environment for PhD students, Post-Docs, junior academics (only up to assistant professors), early career researchers, and industry leaders (and highly motivated, promising and brilliant Master students / BSc students). Participants will also have the chance to present their results with talks, and to interact with their colleagues, in a convivial, professional and productive environment. PhD students, PostDocs, Industry Practitioners and Junior Academics (only up to assistant professors) will be typical profiles of the ACDL attendants. The Course will involve a total of 36?40 hours of lectures, according to the academic system the final achievement will be equivalent to 8 ECTS points for the PhD Students (and some strongly motivated Master Student ? BSc Student) attending the Course. Please check the FAQ: https://acdl2025.icas.events/faq/ Language: English. To participate in the ACDL 2025, all attendants must (1/2) register for the course (by February 23, 2025) and (2/2) book accommodation at the course venue, ?Riva del Sole Resort & SPA? (by April 23, 2025); all attendants must stay at the ?Riva del Sole Resort & SPA?. Booking accommodation at the Riva del Sole must be made exclusively using the accommodation form attached to the registration confirmation email. No other methods must be used (if you use other booking methods the hotel will cancel the reservation). Finally, it is not possible to extend the stay, the special accommodation rates are valid only for the period of the course, no exceptions will be made. To contact the Riva del Sole Resort & SPA (the course venue) use the following email: booking.events at rivadelsole.it Once accommodation has been booked at ?Riva del Sole Resort & SPA?, the participant must send this information (including the Booking Number) to the ACDL organizing committee (acdl at icas.cc). ACDL is a residential course, so all lecturers and participants must reside in the same Hotel (Riva del Sole Resort & SPA). No exceptions are made. For privacy reasons, the Hotel cannot match people. If you have someone to share the apartment with (or a double room in Hotel), please send to the Hotel ( booking.events at rivadelsole.it ) the name, surname and email address. Otherwise the solution is to book a hotel room in single use. Please note that only ACDL registered participants can book a room (in hotel or apartment) at the Riva del Sole Resort & SPA with the accommodation form attached in the registration email and with the ACDL Discounted Rates. The Booking Office of the Riva del Sole Resort & SPA will verify the names of the participants and the corresponding registration number to confirm the booking. Anyone interested in participating in ACDL 2025 should register as soon as possible. See you in Riva del Sole in June! ACDL 2025 Directors. ACDL 2025 Scientific & Organizing Committees. https://acdl2025.icas.events acdl at icas.cc Obviously, this is only a Call for Participation, to have complete and updated information we recommend you access the relevant website: https://acdl2025.icas.events * Apologies for multiple copies. Please forward to anybody who might be interested, thanks * -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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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 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? 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URL: From a.villavicencio at sheffield.ac.uk Tue Jan 7 08:21:23 2025 From: a.villavicencio at sheffield.ac.uk (Aline Villavicencio) Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2025 13:21:23 +0000 Subject: Connectionists: Google-DeepMind Research Ready Program at the University of Exeter (UK) In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <004A05D0-4F02-4757-B6DF-6AA5660613C7@sheffield.ac.uk> Dear all, the Google-DeepMind Research Ready Program at the University of Exeter is accepting applications. The deadline is January 20, 2025. More details below and in this link https://computerscience.exeter.ac.uk/study/deepmind-internships/ All the best, Aline ---------------------------------------------------------- Aline Villavicencio , Director of the Institute for?Data?Science?and Artificial?Intelligence , University of Exeter (UK) ---------------------------------------------------- ? Unlock Your Future in AI with the Google DeepMind Research Ready Program! ? The Department of Computer Science at the University of Exeter is proud to launch the Google-DeepMind Research Ready Program, an eight-week paid summer internship designed to inspire and empower the next generation of AI innovators. Taking place from 23 June to 18 August 2025, at the Streatham Campus, this unique opportunity combines cutting-edge research, professional development, and world-class mentorship. Important Information Program Duration: 23 June ? 18 August 2025 Location: Streatham Campus, University of Exeter Application Deadline: 20 January 2025 (23:59 (11:59 PM) BST) Application Website: https://computerscience.exeter.ac.uk/study/deepmind-internships/ Program Highlights Groundbreaking AI Research o Engage in Machine Learning for research themes like Trustworthy AI, Environmental Intelligence, Healthcare, Urban Analytics, Data-Centric Engineering, Natural Hazards, Machine Vision, and more (for more details check https://www.exeter.ac.uk/research/institutes/idsai/research/) o Utilize Exeter's ADA high-performance computing facilities and collaborate with leading global partners (for more details check https://computerscience.exeter.ac.uk/facilities/). Personalized Mentorship o Work closely with faculty mentors and PhD buddies to develop your project and skills (for more details check https://computerscience.exeter.ac.uk/people/academic/). o Join an inclusive and diverse research community committed to equity in STEM. Professional Development o Participate in workshops on AI programming, deep learning, ethical AI, and career pathways in academia and industry (for more details check https://www.exeter.ac.uk/research/projectada/). o Showcase your work to faculty and industry leaders at the capstone event. Generous Support o Receive a stipend, travel support, and free accommodation near Exeter?s picturesque Streatham Campus. Who Can Apply? This program is open to UK residents specifically in the penultimate year of their undergraduate degree or those with a bachelor?s degree in computer science, AI, or related fields. Applicants must also meet at least one socioeconomic criterion (e.g., free school meals, care experience, etc.). 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Please kindly help forward it to potentially interested authors/attendees, thanks. -- The 11th International Conference on Learning, Optimization and Data - LOD 2025, 21-24 September, Riva del Sole Resort & SPA, Castiglione della Pescaia (Grosseto) Tuscany, Italy LOD 2025, An Interdisciplinary Conference: Deep Learning, Foundation Models & Artificial Intelligence without Borders https://lod2025.icas.events/ lod at icas.cc SATELLITE EVENTS: 3rd International Meeting on Foundation Models - IMFM2025 https://lod2025.icas.events/imfm2025/ PAPERS SUBMISSION: All papers must be submitted using EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lod2025 *Paper Submission deadline: Feb 23 (Anywhere on Earth)* CALL FOR PAPERS: https://lod2025.icas.events/call-for-papers/ Please prepare your paper using the Springer Nature - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) template. Papers must be submitted in PDF. TYPES OF SUBMISSIONS: When submitting a paper to LOD 2025, authors are required to select one of the following three types of papers: * long paper / Late breaking paper: original novel and unpublished work (min. 12 pages, max. 15 pages in Springer LNCS format); the long papers and the late breaking papers, if accepted, will be published in the Springer-Nature LNCS conference proceedings; * short paper: an extended abstract of novel work (min. 6 pages, max. 11 pages in Springer LNCS format); the short papers, if accepted, will be published in the Springer-Nature LNCS conference proceedings; * work for oral presentation only (no page restriction; any format). For example, work already published elsewhere, which is relevant, and which may solicit fruitful discussion at the conference; LOD 2025 KEYNOTE SPEAKERS: TBA https://lod2025.icas.events/keynote/ PAST LOD KEYNOTE SPEAKERS: https://lod2025.icas.events/past-keynote-speakers/ BEST PAPER AWARD: https://lod2025.icas.events/best-paper-award/ PROGRAM COMMITTEE: 200+ confirmed PC members! https://lod2025.icas.events/program-committee/ VENUE: https://lod2025.icas.events/venue/ The venue of LOD 2025 will be Riva del Sole Resort & SPA, Castiglione della Pescaia (Grosseto) Tuscany - Italy. LOD 2025 is a Residential Conference, all participants (invited speakers, authors, organizers, chairs, participants) must book and stay at the Riva del Sole Resort and Spa. No exceptions are allowed. https://lod2024.icas.events/lod-2024-a-residential-conference/ Riva del Sole Resort & SPA a: Localit? Riva del Sole - Castiglione della Pescaia (Grosseto, CAP 58043? Tuscany - Italy p: +39-0564-928111 f: +39-0564-935607 e: booking.events at rivadelsole.it w: www.rivadelsole.it/en ACTIVITIES: https://lod2025.icas.events/activities/ Submit your research work today! https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lod2025 See you in the beautiful Tuscany in September! Best regards, LOD 2025 Organizing Committee. https://lod2025.icas.events/ lod at icas.cc Past Editions: https://lod2025.icas.events/past-editions/ https://www.facebook.com/groups/2236577489686309/ https://twitter.com/TaoSciences https://www.linkedin.com/groups/12092025/ LOD2025 Poster: https://lod2025.icas.events/wp-content/uploads/sites/32/2024/11/LOD-2025-poster.png Obviously, this is only a Call for Papers, to have complete and updated information we recommend you access the relevant website: https://lod2025.icas.events/ * Apologies for multiple copies. Please forward to anybody who might be interested * -- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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URL: From vomlel at utia.cas.cz Tue Jan 7 11:15:31 2025 From: vomlel at utia.cas.cz (Jirka Vomlel) Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2025 17:15:31 +0100 Subject: Connectionists: CfP: The 13th Workshop on Uncertainty Processing (WUPES 2024), Czechia, EU, June 4 - 7, 2025 Message-ID: <737ec159-792d-40f0-80e1-6962ff65ec75@utia.cas.cz> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ** CALL FOR PAPERS ** The 13th Workshop on Uncertainty Processing W U P E S ' 25 T?e??, Czechia, EU, June 4 - 7, 2025 http://wupes.utia.cas.cz/2025/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- About ***** A series of Workshops on Uncertainty Processing (WUPES) has been held in Czechia since 1988. We invite submissions of papers on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence, Bayesian Networks, Conditional Independence, Stochastic Analysis, Algebraic Statistics, Information-Theoretical Inequalities, Combinatorial Methods for Secret Sharing, Fuzzy Analysis, Machine Learning, Decision Theory, Management Science, and related fields. More information about WUPES can be found on the workshop webpage: http://wupes.utia.cas.cz/ Submissions *********** We invite regular papers. First, an extended abstract (up to two pages long) should be submitted. After notification of acceptance, full papers (maximum 12 pages) should be prepared using the WUPES LaTeX template. Authors of accepted papers are expected to present their work at the workshop. Special Issue *********** After the workshop, a special issue of the international journal Kybernetika (published by Institute of Information Theory and Automation of the Czech Academy of Sciences) will be organized, dedicated to WUPES'25. All selected papers will undergo a regular review process. Kybernetika publishes freely available articles at no charge. Reflecting its focus on computer science, system engineering, applied mathematics, and related interdisciplinary fields, the journal has been indexed in Web of Science and Scopus since its founding in 1965. With an impact factor of 0.9 in 2023, Kybernetika provides a platform for high-quality research. Important Dates *************** March 14, 2025:????? Submission of extended abstracts March 28, 2022:????? Notification of acceptance April 11, 2025:???????? Early registration & payment deadline May 2, 2025:??????????? Camera-ready copy of the final paper due June 4-7, 2025:??????? Workshop in T?e??, Czechia Program Committee ***************** Milan Studen? - chair, Czech Academy of Sciences Nihat Ay, Hamburg University of Technology, Germany Andrea Capotorti, Universit? di Perugia, Italy L?szl? Csirmaz, Alfr?d R?nyi Inst. of Mathematics, Hungary Radim Jirou?ek, Czech Academy of Sciences, Czechia Gernot D. Kleiter, Salzburg University, Austria Prakash P. Shenoy, University of Kansas, USA Organizing Committee ******************** Jirka Vomlel - chair, Czech Academy of Sciences Radim Jirou?ek, Czech Academy of Sciences V?clav Kratochv?l, Czech Academy of Sciences Milan Studen?, Czech Academy of Sciences Venue ***** The WUPES 2025 conference will take place in the magnificent T?e?? Castle, a historic site owned by the Czech Academy of Sciences. Originally a medieval fortress, the castle has undergone transformations from Renaissance to Baroque architecture and now serves as a center for academic and research activities. Participants will enjoy the serene castle park, ideal for quiet walks and relaxation. T?e?? is located in the scenic Vyso?ina region, celebrated for its rolling hills, forests, and cultural landmarks. A highlight of the area is the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Tel?, just 24 minutes away by train with regular hourly service. Tel?, known for its Renaissance architecture and charming town square, offers a unique excursion opportunity for participants. For any further questions, please contact: Jirka Vomlel, email: vomlel at utia.cas.cz -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From nsmattei at gmail.com Tue Jan 7 18:16:02 2025 From: nsmattei at gmail.com (Nicholas Mattei) Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2025 17:16:02 -0600 Subject: Connectionists: Call for Nominations: 2025 ACM/SIGAI Autonomous Agents Research Award Message-ID: [Apologies for Multiple Postings] Nominations are solicited for the 2025 ACM SIGAI Autonomous Agents Research Award. This award is made for excellence in research in the area of autonomous agents. It is intended to recognize researchers in autonomous agents whose current work is an important influence on the field. The award is an official ACM award, funded by an endowment created by ACM SIGAI from the proceeds of previous Autonomous Agents conferences. The recipient of the award will receive a monetary prize and a certificate, and will be invited to present a plenary talk at the AAMAS 2025 conference. How to Nominate Anyone can make a nomination. Nominations should be made by filling out the below google form, and should consist of a short (< 1 page) statement that emphasizes not only the research contributions that the individual has made that merit the award but also how the individual?s current work is an important influence on the field. NOTE: a candidate can only be considered for the award if they are explicitly nominated. If you believe that someone deserves the award, then NOMINATE THEM ? don?t assume that somebody else will! For any questions please contact Edith Elkind (Award Chair, edith.elkind at northwestern.edu) or Nicholas Mattei (SIGAI Vice Chair, nsmattei at gmail.com). 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URL: From dhansel0 at gmail.com Tue Jan 7 15:21:57 2025 From: dhansel0 at gmail.com (David Hansel) Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2025 22:21:57 +0200 Subject: Connectionists: REMINDER: World wide VVTNS series: Wednesday, January 8, 2025, at 11:00 am EST| Dmitry Krotov, IBM Research, Cambridge, USA In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: [image: VVTNS.png] https://www.wwtns.online - on twitter: wwtns at TheoreticalWide VVTNS 2025 Opening Lecture & 2024 Nobel prize in Physics celebration You are cordially invited to the lecture given by Dmitry Krotov IBM Research, Cambridge USA on the topic of Dense associative memory and its potential role in brain computation The lecture will be held on zoom on Wednesday, January 8, 2025, at *11:00 am EST * To receive the zoom link: https://www.wwtns.online/register-page *Abstract: * Dense Associative Memories (Dense AMs) are energy-based neural networks that share many desirable features of celebrated Hopfield Networks but have superior information storage capabilities. In contrast to conventional Hopfield Networks, which were popular in the 1980s, DenseAMs have a very large memory storage capacity - possibly exponential in the size of the network. This aspect makes them appealing tools for many problems in AI and neurobiology. In this talk I will describe two theories of how DenseAMs might be built in biological ?hardware?. According to the first theory, DenseAMs arise as effective theories after integrating out a large number of neuronal degrees of freedom. According to the second theory, astrocytes, a particular type of glia cells, serve as core computational units enabling large memory storage capabilities. This second theory challenges a common point of view in the neuroscience community that astrocytes play the role of only passive house-keeping support structures in the brain. In contrast, it suggests that astrocytes might be actively involved in brain computation and memory storage and retrieval. This story is an illustration of how computational principles originating in physics may provide insights into novel AI architectures and brain computation. *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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We plan a coherent, graduate-level, syllabus on the integration of experimental data with theory and models, featuring lectures, guided exercises and discussion sessions. The summer school will end with a Systems Vision Science symposium on frontier topics on August 20-22, with additional invited and contributed presentations and posters. Call for contributions and participations to the symposium will be sent out spring of 2025. 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Overview The CoLiE competition offers two main tasks to address temporal classification and the understanding of historical texts: Task 1: Literary Epochs Classification Competition?Page: Task 1 This task focuses on classifying texts based on literary epochs and their subdivisions: Sub-task 1.1: Classification of texts into six major literary epochs: Classicism (1660-1798) Romanticism (1798-1837) Victorian Literature (1837-1901) Modernism (1900-1945) Postmodernism (1945-2000) Contemporary (from 2000) Sub-task 1.2: Classification of texts into epoch subdivisions: Early: First quarter of the epoch Middle: Middle half of the epoch Late: Final quarter of the epoch Note: Epoch lengths vary, with Classicism, Romanticism, Victorian Literature, Modernism, and Postmodernism divided into three periods, while Contemporary has only two periods. Task 2: ChronoText Classification Competition?Page: Task 2 This task addresses temporal granularity: Sub-task 2.1: Identifying the century of origin for a given text. Sub-task 2.2: Pinpointing the specific decade within that century when the text was composed. Participation We invite researchers, practitioners, and enthusiasts from the IR and NLP communities to participate in this exciting competition. Important Dates December 17, 2024: Competition website live. Training and validation sets with labels available. April 1, 2025: Test dataset available. April 8, 2025: Competition deadline. May 1, 2025: Submission of competition reports. May 16, 2025: Camera-ready paper submission. June 30, 2025: Winners announced. September 17-21, 2025: Results presented at the ICDAR conference. How to Participate Visit our website: https://colie.pro/ Familiarize yourself with the tasks, rules, datasets, and evaluation metrics. Submit your results through the Kaggle platform. 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These Special Issues should invite extended versions of the best papers presented at the conference, offering authors the opportunity to provide additional insights and developments in their work. == SCOPE OF PROPOSALS Proposals should align with the journal?s aims and scope. We welcome themes addressing novel challenges and advancements, including but not limited to: * Internet of Things * Edge/cloud computing * Green networking * Mobile and ubiquitous networks * Terrestrial and Non-terrestrial networks * Mobile network services and applications * Experimental test-beds and research platforms * Algorithmic aspects of communication networks * Emerging technologies for next generation network * Future Internet architecture, protocols and services * Modeling, measurement, and simulation of computer communication networks Multidisciplinary proposals and those bridging academia and industry are highly encouraged. Note that security and blockchain are no longer among the journal's topics of interest. == PROPOSAL SUBMISSION Proposals can be submitted at any time and should include: 1. Title of the Special Issue 2. Guest Editor Team: Names, affiliations, institutional homepages, and contact details of all proposed Guest Editors. A description of any previous experience in organizing Special Issues, including journal names, topics, and outcomes (if applicable). A diverse team in terms of geography and gender is strongly encouraged. 3. Description of the Topic: A concise overview (max 1-2 pages) of the topic, its relevance, and its significance for a Special Issue in Computer Communications. 4. Proposed Scope: Key topics and sub-areas to be covered. 5. Editorial Plan: * Timeline for the Call for Papers, review process, and final manuscript submissions. * Plan to ensure a high-quality review process and broad submission reach. * (For follow-up Special Issues) Details of the conference, including its name, year, scope, and selection criteria for the papers to be extended. 6. List of Related Special Issues: Provide details of any related Special Issues (past or ongoing) in Computer Communications or other journals, and explain the relationship of your proposal to these. This should highlight the novelty and distinct contribution of your proposal. == EVALUATION CRITERIA Proposals will be evaluated based on: * Relevance and timeliness of the topic. * Clarity and feasibility of the editorial plan. * Expertise and diversity of the Guest Editor team. * Potential to attract high-quality submissions and citations. * For follow-up Special Issues: The quality and reputation of the associated conference. == SUBMISSION PROCESS Proposals should be submitted through the CSSI Editorial Manager system (https://www.editorialmanager.com/cssi-procs/). For detailed guidelines on submitting Special Issue proposals, visit: https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/computer-communications/about/si-proposal-guideline/comcom-special-issue-proposal-submission-guideline. == ONGOING SUBMISSION Submissions are open year-round, and proposals will be reviewed on a rolling basis. We look forward to receiving your proposals and collaborating with you to publish impactful and high-quality Special Issues in Computer Communications. == CONTACT INFORMATION For inquiries, please contact the COMCOM Editor-in-Chief for Special Issues: Dr. Chiara Boldrini Email: c.boldrini at iit.cnr.it From hocine.cherifi at gmail.com Wed Jan 8 10:43:01 2025 From: hocine.cherifi at gmail.com (Hocine Cherifi) Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2025 16:43:01 +0100 Subject: Connectionists: Submit Your Workshop Proposal for FRCCS 2025 by January 12, 2024 Message-ID: *Dear Colleagues,* Don?t miss the chance to shape the discussions at *FRCCS 2025* by proposing a workshop! The deadline for submissions is quickly approaching: *January 12, 2024* Workshops are a cornerstone of FRCCS, providing opportunities to: - ? Explore cutting-edge topics in complexity science. - ? Engage participants through discussions, panels, and demos. - ? Foster collaboration and shape the future of the field. *Submit Your Proposal Today for a **full- or half-day workshop* and join us in Bordeaux, France! ? Submission Portal ? More Info We look forward to your innovative ideas and contributions! Warm regards, *The FRCCS 2025 Organizing Team* ? Conference Website -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From samarasinghe at ini.rub.de Wed Jan 8 09:33:14 2025 From: samarasinghe at ini.rub.de (Vinita Samarasinghe) Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2025 15:33:14 +0100 Subject: Connectionists: GEM 2025 - Registration is open Message-ID: <715ac042-ccf8-436c-a2e6-80b29cedbc90@ini.rub.de> Registration for GEM 2025 has opened. The deadline for registration is 30.04.25. There is limited availability for our early career researcher events and places will be assigned on a first come first served basis. The DFG-funded research consortium ?FOR 2812 ? Constructing scenarios of the past? is proud to announce a *call for abstracts* for its biennial conference ?/Generative Episodic Memory: Interdisciplinary persepectives from neuroscience, psychology and philosophy/? *GEM 202**5.* It will be held *in person* at the Ruhr University Bochum, Germany from 2^nd to 4^th June, 2025. For more information please visit https://for2812.rub.de/gem2025. Episodic memories are widely regarded as memories of personally experienced events. Early concepts about episodic memory were based on the storage model, according to which experiential content is preserved in memory and later retrieved. However, overwhelming empirical evidence suggests that the content of episodic memory is ? at least to a certain degree ? constructed in the act of remembering. Even though very few contemporary researchers would oppose this view of episodic memory as a generative process, it has not become the standard paradigm of empirical memory research. This is particularly true for studies of the neural correlates of episodic memory. Further hindering progress are large conceptual differences regarding episodic memory across different fields, such as neuroscience, philosophy, and psychology. This interdisciplinary conference therefore aims to bring together researchers from all relevant fields to advance the state of the art in the research on generative episodic memory. *Keynote speakers: * Ali Boyle (LSE); Neil Burgess (UCL); Iris Engelhard (U. Utrecht); Johannes Mahr (York U.); Jeremy Manning (Dartmouth) *Funding for early career researchers is available *(visit our ECR page for more details). *Abstract* submission deadline: 15.03.2025 Submission guidelines: Abstracts must be submitted in English and be no longer than 500 words. Submitted work must be original and unpublished and submitted electronically at https://www.conftool.net/gem202 5/ . 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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/98403580358?pwd=LtPTIjfFa4aSfAQ1XxpHs6ZjqRPYTv.1&from=addon * >> *Title of the talk: **Embodied Predictive Processing: New Horizons in Cognitive Developmental Robotics* *Abstract*: Cognitive developmental robotics seeks to uncover the mechanisms of human cognitive development by replicating these processes in robots. Since 2020, the field has made significant progress, demonstrating human-like cognitive behaviors in robots. One compelling advancement is the growing focus on predictive processing, a neuroscience theory posited as a unified principle of the brain. This theory offers a clear framework for understanding perception and action through minimizing prediction errors. Our research extends this concept to embodied predictive processing, explaining both continuity and diversity in cognitive development. We propose that the brain minimizes prediction errors through multimodal sensorimotor experiences in a social environment, with a robot's physical embodiment playing a crucial role. 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URL: From i.lin at ucl.ac.uk Thu Jan 9 05:22:27 2025 From: i.lin at ucl.ac.uk (Lin, I-Chun) Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2025 10:22:27 +0000 Subject: Connectionists: Call for Applications & Help Promote: Gatsby Bridging Programme (Maths Summer School) Message-ID: <686F5943-807C-45D2-835C-777FF4ED23E8@ucl.ac.uk> Programme dates: 23 Jun - 8 Aug 2025 (London, UK; in-person attendance only) Programme details: www.ucl.ac.uk/gatsby/study-and-work/gatsby-bridging-programme? Application deadline: 7 Feb 2025, 23:59 GMT (We may need to stop accepting applications before this date if the number received exceeds our capacity to review.) The Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit at UCL is running the Gatsby Bridging Programme - an intensive, 7-week mathematics summer school. The programme is designed for penultimate- or final-year undergraduates and Master?s students (incl. recent graduates) who aspire to pursue a postgraduate research degree in Theoretical Neuroscience (TN) or Machine Learning (ML) but whose degree course does not have a strong mathematical focus. Participants will attend interactive lectures and tutorials and participate in problem-solving sessions to develop mathematics skills and intuition necessary to enter the TN/ML field. We aim to be inclusive and to increase the diversity of students entering both fields. Thus, we strongly encourage applications from students in underrepresented groups in Science, Engineering, Technology and Mathematics. A limited number of bursaries are available to students who may find it difficult to participate for financial reasons. In addition, we would really appreciate it if you could help us reach students who may benefit from this programme. Here are some ways in which you can help us spread the word: - Distributing the Call for Applications email among colleagues and relevant students. - Sharing our posts on social media: * Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/gatsbyucl.bsky.social/post/3lf2vqhepck2s * Mastodon: https://neuromatch.social/@GatsbyUCL/113780922743372983 * X/Twitter: https://x.com/GatsbyUCL/status/1876212734976762058 Thank you for any support you are willing to give us. ? If you have any questions, please don?t hesitate to get in touch.? ? Best, I-Chun (Scientific Programme Manager, Gatsby Unit) From claudio.piciarelli at uniud.it Thu Jan 9 08:52:18 2025 From: claudio.piciarelli at uniud.it (Claudio Piciarelli) Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2025 13:52:18 +0000 Subject: Connectionists: Call for Competition on text line segmentation: FEST @ ICDAR 2025 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: =================================== CALL FOR COMPETITION: FEST @ ICDAR 2025 Competition on few-shot text line segmentation https://ai4ch.uniud.it/FESTcompICDAR25/ =================================== We are glad to announce FEST: Competition on FEw-Shot Text line segmentation of ancient handwritten documents (FEST), in conjunction with the 19th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition ICDAR 2025. Competition Overview: Text line segmentation is a crucial component of Document Image Analysis, particularly for ancient handwritten documents. It directly influences subsequent tasks like optical character recognition, layout analysis, and information extraction. This competition challenges participants to develop systems capable of segmenting text lines using only three annotated images per manuscript for training. The dataset features a diverse collection of ancient manuscripts with varying layouts, levels of degradation, and non-standard formatting, reflecting real-world complexities. By focusing on few-shot learning, this competition aims to encourage the development of methods that can be readily applied by humanities scholars without the need for extensive manual annotation, fostering broader adoption of automated document analysis tools. 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Now, new recognition that the CNS remains plastic through life, new understanding of the CNS substrates of skilled behaviors, and newly developed technologies combine to redefine the therapeutic goal and provide new strategies that promise to enhance the efficacy of skill-specific practice. The substrate of a skill is a network of neurons and synapses that may extend from cortex to spinal cord. This network has been given the name heksor, based on the ancient Greek word hexis (DOI:10.1113/JP283291). Each heksor changes through life; it modifies itself to maintain the key features of its skill, the attributes that make the skill satisfactory. Muscle activity and kinematics may change; key features are maintained. Heksors overlap; they share CNS neurons and synapses. Through their concurrent changes, they keep CNS neuronal and synaptic properties in a negotiated equilibrium that enables each heksor to achieve the key features of its skill. When CNS damage disrupts important skills, the primary therapeutic goal is to enable damaged heksors to repair themselves and reestablish a negotiated equilibrium in which each can once again produce its skill satisfactorily. Two new strategies can increase the efficacy of skill-specific practice. One new strategy increases the capacity for plasticity. This gives damaged heksors more options for self-repair: they shape the additional plasticity through skill-specific practice. The other new strategy targets beneficial plasticity to a critical site in a damaged heksor. This improves skill-specific practice, which enables the heksor to achieve much wider beneficial plasticity. In animals and humans, combining skill-specific practice with these strategies produces large clinically significant improvements in recovery. These improvements persist. The challenge now is to develop effective clinically practical multitherapy protocols ? protocols that combine these new strategies with skill-specific practice. Computational modeling can help identify and parameterize promising protocols. Controlled clinical trials that evaluate a new protocol mechanistically and compare it to current state-of-the-art treatment are essential. Assessments should evaluate relevant skills, overall function, and quality of life, and should extend at least six months after therapy ends. Study of pre-morbid factors as well as reflexes, evoked potentials, muscle activity, and kinematics during treatment may guide patient-specific protocol modifications. Many multitherapy protocols will be noninvasive and suitable for home use. Speaker Biography: Dr. Wolpaw is a neurologist who has spent nearly 50 years exploring spinal cord and brain plasticity in animals and humans. His lab originated the protocol for operant conditioning of spinal stretch reflexes. Their extensive physiological and anatomical studies revealed the complex plasticity in spinal cord and brain associated with this ostensibly simple learning. They showed that appropriate reflex conditioning improves walking in rats with spinal cord injuries. With Dr. Aiko Thompson, they found that reflex conditioning improves walking in people with spinal cord injury. This work has led to a new paradigm for how skilled behaviors are acquired and maintained in what is now understood to be a ubiquitously plastic CNS. This new paradigm leads to new therapeutic strategies that are proving successful in clinical studies. Dr. Wolpaw has also been deeply involved in BCI research. He and Dr. Dennis McFarland first showed the value of EEG sensorimotor rhythms for BCI-based communication and control, including multidimensional control. Their group oversaw the first multicenter trial of a BCI for independent home use by people with severe disabilities. They developed and disseminated the general-purpose software platform BCI2000, which has supported 2,500 peer-reviewed studies worldwide. Dr. Wolpaw?s research has been supported for >40 years by NIH, the VA, DARPA, and private foundations. He is Director of the NIBIB/NIH-funded National Center for Adaptive Neurotechnologies (NCAN) and Professor of Biomedical Sciences at the State University of New York. His group?s work has been described in many papers, invited presentations, and lectureships, and recognized by national and international awards. Many students and postdocs have participated and received appropriate recognition. He has contributed to the national and international scientific communities by serving on many advisory committees and review panels; and he served as the first president of the BCI Society. 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: * Guilherme Maia de Oliveira Wood (February 2025) - https://homepage.uni-graz.at/en/guilherme.wood/ * 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. Best wishes, Ana ------------------------ Dr Ana Matran-Fernandez PhD Lecturer in Neural Engineering and Artificial Intelligence Department of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE) University of Essex Office: 5B.539 E amatra at essex.ac.uk Email notices: 1) I sometimes write emails outside (your) working hours. Please don't take this as an indication that I require an immediate response - we simply may be working at different times. 2) Because of the daily high load of emails, I may take some time to reply to you. If it's important, I may take even more time, because I want to provide an adequate response. If it's urgent, I'll try to reply quickly and maybe just with a very short email. No disrespect, just trying to be efficient - I'd understand if you did the same. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: image001.png Type: image/png Size: 200685 bytes Desc: image001.png URL: From suashdeb at gmail.com Thu Jan 9 12:01:10 2025 From: suashdeb at gmail.com (Suash Deb) Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2025 22:31:10 +0530 Subject: Connectionists: Announcement of ISCMI25 (Rio de Janeiro) Message-ID: Hello friends and esteemed colleagues, Warmest New Year greetings. Hope all of you had a great festive season. Am pleased to announce 2025 12th ISCMI, the annual flagship event of IICCI, to be held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil with technical co sponsorships of IEEE Brazil Council and IEEE Rio de Janeiro Section https://www.iscmi.us/index.html Since 2017, this event is being organized in memory of life and work of Prof. Lotfi Zadeh. The list of all the colleagues who had delivered the Prof. Lotfi Zadeh Memorial speech so far and the upcoming one can be seen by visiting http://www.iicci.in/speakers.html I solicit your help in promoting the event among your peers and doctoral students and motivate them to submit manuscripts and participate at ISCMI25. Thanks and best regards, Suash Deb General Chair, ISCMI25 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From el-ghazali.talbi at univ-lille.fr Fri Jan 10 03:19:02 2025 From: el-ghazali.talbi at univ-lille.fr (El-Ghazali Talbi) Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2025 09:19:02 +0100 Subject: Connectionists: Deadline extended CFP OLA'2025 Optimization & Learning @Dubai Message-ID: <69a7cd94-18b8-4074-89a5-6488dd0dd7d0@univ-lille.fr> 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: =============== Paper submission deadline extension??? Jan 24, 2025 Notification of acceptance??? 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. -- *********************************************************************** 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 graduateprograms at bccn-berlin.de Fri Jan 10 04:28:51 2025 From: graduateprograms at bccn-berlin.de (Graduate Programs) Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2025 10:28:51 +0100 Subject: Connectionists: Info Day - International Master & PhD in Computational Neuroscience @ BCCN Berlin - 29.01.25 Message-ID: Dear Connectionists, Please share the following event information with anyone who may be interested. We at the Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience (BCCN) Berlin will hold a hybrid "Info Day" to discuss our International Master & Doctoral Programs in Computational Neuroscience on Wednesday, January 29th, at 3pm (CET). Attendees are welcome to join in person at the BCCN Berlin or virtually via Zoom. The event will consist of talks by: * Prof. Dr. Klaus Obermayer (head of the programs) * Lisa Velenosi (teaching coordinator) * Current master and doctoral students Attendees will also have the opportunity to meet & discuss with current students and ask any questions or concerns that they may have. See our website for a more detailed schedule and registration link. Best regards and happy new year, Lisa Velenosi -- Dr.Lisa Velenosi Teaching Coordinator of the SFB1315 & BCCN Berlin Humboldt-Universit?t zu Berlin Philippstra?e 13, Haus 6; 10115 Berlin; Germany Tel: +49 (0)30 2093 6773 Tuesdays - Fridays; 9:00 - 15:00 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From mrs at fel.cvut.cz Fri Jan 10 05:17:53 2025 From: mrs at fel.cvut.cz (Multi-Robot Systems Group in Prague) Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2025 11:17:53 +0100 Subject: Connectionists: 2025 IEEE RAS Summer School on Multi-Robot Systems in Prague July 30 - August 5, 2025 In-Reply-To: <4d1229e9-2280-465b-a899-8917bc4c7c84@fel.cvut.cz> References: <4d1229e9-2280-465b-a899-8917bc4c7c84@fel.cvut.cz> Message-ID: <88526bde-c923-4f22-a920-f80133f2a6ec@fel.cvut.cz> Following the great success of our previous Summer Schools in 2019 , 2020 , 2022 , 2023 and 2024 , we are excited to announce the IEEE RAS Summer School 2025 that will take place on July 30 - August 5, 2025. As in past years, the 2025 IEEE RAS Summer School on Multi-Robot Systems will be held at the campus of Czech Technical University, located in the heart of the beautiful and historic city of Prague. The Summer School aims to promote the latest achievements in Multi-Robot Systems research, targeting students, academic researchers, and industrial practitioners. Our goal is to enable practical application of systems of cooperating robots and to encourage networking among participants. The main focus of the 2025 IEEE RAS Summer School on Multi-Robot Systems includes lectures by well-recognized experts in the field, and hands-on experience which will enable you to engage in real-world experiments using state-of-the-art aerial platforms developed specifically for Multi-Robot research. Join us at the Czech Technical University in Prague to advance your knowledge, share experiences, and explore the cutting-edge developments in Multi-Robot Systems. The school is primarily considered for in person participation since the networking of students is an important part of the event. The last editions have attended more than 600 students from the best robotic groups worldwide who are still actively cooperating. Nevertheless, we will also allow virtual participation for students from countries with travel restrictions or limitations. Students can apply through this form: https://forms.gle/5WShCNiKFt6S27Xu8 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2025 IEEE RAS Summer School on Multi-Robot Systems ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- WHERE: Prague, Czech Republic WHEN: July 30 - August 5, 2025 HOW TO APPLY: Submit CV, personal information, and a brief statement of interest through: https://forms.gle/5WShCNiKFt6S27Xu8 Include title and abstract of your poster if you are interested in participating in the poster session held during the event (optional) WHO SHOULD ATTEND: Graduate students (master or PhD) and students (Bc.) at an advanced stage of their university courses. R&D professionals. ?REGISTRATION FEE: * Students: ? 665,50 (? 550 excl. VAT) * Academic participants: ? 762,30 (? 630 excl. VAT) * Industry participants: ? 883,30 (? 730 excl. VAT) * The fee includes all lectures, practicals with real robots, lunches, refreshments, welcome drinks, banquet, farewell drinks, and social programs - guided tour in Prague's Old Town ORGANIZERS: Martin Saska, Czech Technical University, Summer School Chair Jen Jen Chung, University of Queensland, Technical Committee and Advisory Board (RAS TC co-chair) Changjoo Nam, Sogang University, Technical Committee and Advisory Board (RAS TC co-chair) Javier Alonso-Mora, Delft University of Technology, Technical Committee and Advisory Board (RAS TC co-chair) Alyssa Pierson, Boston University, Technical Committee and Advisory Board (RAS TC co-chair) Robert Fitch, The University of Sydney, Technical Committee and Advisory Board (RAS TC emeritus chair) Nora Ayanian, Brown University, Technical Committee and Advisory Board (RAS TC emeritus chair) Antonio Franchi, University of Twente, Technical Committee and Advisory Board (RAS TC emeritus chair) Lorenzo Sabattini, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Technical Committee and Advisory Board (RAS TC emeritus chair) WEB PAGE: https://mrs.fel.cvut.cz/summer-school-2025/ CONTACT: mrs at fel.cvut.cz Best regards on behalf of organizers and IEEE RAS MRS TC, Martin Saska -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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The project will be supported by two PhD students and one postdoctoral researcher, to lead the design and development of computational models, focusing on gaze, attention, and multi-cue integration for human-centric computer vision analysis of social behaviors at the subject and scene levels in general settings. PhD students will be registered at EPFL (www.epfl.ch ) Idiap offers competitive salaries, a beautiful location, and a world-class AI research community. Please apply on the Idiap careers site. https://www.idiap.ch/en/careers -- Jean-Marc Odobez, IDIAP & EPFL Senior Researcher (EPFL MER) Perception and Activity Understanding group Tel: +41 (0)27 721 77 26 Web: http://people.epfl.ch/jean-marc.odobez http://www.idiap.ch/~odobez -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From emanuel.dinardo at uniparthenope.it Fri Jan 10 13:10:27 2025 From: emanuel.dinardo at uniparthenope.it (EMANUEL DI NARDO) Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2025 18:10:27 +0000 Subject: Connectionists: [CfP] Special Session: Data Science: Multidisciplinary Perspectives to Tame the Data Revolution Message-ID: <14EC6D04-E3D9-4AED-B56B-8309CFAEB84D@uniparthenope.it> [Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP] Call for Papers - SPECIAL SESSION "DATA SCIENCE: MULTIDISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVES TO TAME THE DATA REVOLUTION" @ IJCNN2025 June 30-July 5, 2025, Rome, Italy https://sites.google.com/view/dsijcnn25/home-page ***ABOUT*** The digital transformation is inextricably influencing our lives today. The constant flow of data and technological innovations have reshaped the way we live. The advent of technologies such as cloud computing, the Internet of Things, and Artificial Intelligence (AI) has given rise to an interconnected digital ecosystem, where billions of devices generate an enormous amount of data and information. This "data explosion? is much more than a mere technological challenge. It is a true revolution that is profoundly affecting our society. Data Science holds the key to tame this revolution. It allows to make the most of this huge amount of data, creating concrete value out of it while enabling new, smart processes and applications. Through sophisticated algorithms and advanced analysis techniques, data science allows to extract knowledge from this mass of raw data, reveal hidden patterns, predict future trends, and support sound decision-making. Data science promises, and is already delivering, unmatched efficiency and efficacy touching every sector of our society, from smart cities that optimize traffic and resource management, to intelligent transportation systems that improve safety and efficiency, to digital healthcare that promises more accurate diagnoses and personalized treatments. In the industrial sector, the analysis of data from production lines optimizes processes, reduces waste, and improves quality. In finance, machine learning algorithms predict market trends, assess credit risk, and prevent fraud. Data science is thus becoming the engine of progress, opening new frontiers and offering innovative solutions to complex problems. However, this data-driven revolution comes with new challenges. On the one hand, security and privacy, as well as additional non-functional requirements, must be enforced along the entire data-driven pipeline, from data ingestion to AI model deployment, demanding a rethink of the traditional CIA (Confidentiality, Integrity, Availability) triad. On the other hand, a whole new set of (legal) requirements emerge, starting from the ethical implications of AI, to ensure that data-driven technologies are used responsibly and for the benefit of the society as a whole. In addition, a responsible usage of these technologies also implies the usage of large computing infrastructures in a sober, environment-friendly manner. In a nutshell, the data-driven ecosystem represents an extraordinary opportunity for progress and innovation. This means that a multidisciplinary approach is needed to fully exploit its potential, integrating technological, scientific, and ethical skills. This is the only way to build a future in which data are at the service of humanity, contributing to creating a just, sustainable, and prosperous society. ***IMPORTANT DATES*** - Submission due: January 15th, 2025 - Notification to authors: March 31st, 2025 - Camera-ready and early registration due: May 1st, 2025 ***CALL FOR RESEARCH PAPERS*** The special session welcomes regular papers submissions. The topics of interest include (but are not limited to): - Data Architectures - Data integration and interoperability - Data processing, analytics and visualization - Data quality and utility - Data shaping, modeling and design - Data sovereignty and governance - Data storage, preparation and operation - Data trustworthiness and ethics - Open science and open data - Process mining and business intelligence - Multimodal data processing - Deep Neural Networks - Artificial Intelligence - Generative AI - Symbolic Computing - AI security and security for AI - Cloud-edge continuum ***SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS*** Submissions must follow the IJCNN2025 rules (https://2025.ijcnn.org/authors/initial-author-instructions). Regular papers must be submitted at https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/IJCNN2025/ selecting the *Main track* and specifying *Data Science: Multidisciplinary Perspectives to Tame the Data Revolution* as *primary Subject Area*. All papers will be evaluated and selected on the basis of their quality, relevance, and timeliness. Accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings. ***COMMITTEES AND CHAIRS*** ORGANIZERS - Nicola Bena, University of Milan - Emanuel Di Nardo, University of Naples Parthenope - Angelo Ciaramella, University of Naples Parthenope - Claudio A. Ardagna, University of Milan This call for papers and additional information about the conference can be found at https://sites.google.com/view/dsijcnn25/home-page Chairs can be contacted at nicola.bena at unimi.it and emanuel.dinardo at uniparthenope.it ------ 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 vassilis.cutsuridis at plymouth.ac.uk Sat Jan 11 12:47:43 2025 From: vassilis.cutsuridis at plymouth.ac.uk (Vassilis Cutsuridis) Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2025 17:47:43 +0000 Subject: Connectionists: CALL FOR PAPERS: NeuroAI and its Applications: Retrospective and Prospective Message-ID: Dear colleagues, We would like to invite you to submit an article to the Special Issue "Neuromorphic Artificial Intelligence and Its Applications: Retrospective and Prospective" organized by the Brain Sciences journal. Scope Neuromorphic artificial intelligence (AI), inspired by the structures of brains, constitutes a new shift in the development of AI technology that is able to process vast amounts of information extremely quickly, accurately, and expending far less energy than any AI/DL system. It is unparalleled in its ability to rapidly, and on its own, adapt and learn from changing and unexpected environmental contingencies with very limited resources. Because it utilizes event-based processing in which neurons spike only in response to specific stimuli, at any given time only a small fraction of neurons is active, drastically reducing energy consumption. Thus, neuromorphic AI is ideal for low-power devices such as mobile phones or cameras and, because it utilizes temporal coding as a form of efficient information processing, it is extremely precise and fast allowing visual recognition in the human brain to be achieved in less than 100ms. To learn stably about the world, it uses temporal learning, a type of continual learning that depends on the timing of spikes. Neuromorphic AI is expected to open new roads to computing technologies (software and hardware) and pave the way to true artificial general intelligence. This Special Issue aims to solicit articles that report state-of-the-art approaches to and recent advances in: 1. Novel neuromorphic architectures and models constrained by neurobiological data from multiple levels of detail showing mastery in all faculties, including sensory recognition, learning and memory, decision making, cognitive control, reasoning, language processing, and consciousness; 2. Learning algorithms constrained by the limits of biology and neuromorphic hardware; 3. Neuromorphic hardware (sensors, chips, cameras, etc.) for cognitive systems; 4. Applications of neuromorphic architectures or hardware to cognitive robotics; 5. Application of neuromorphic architectures or hardware to all other aspects of science and technology including healthcare, medical imaging, environment, etc.; This Special Issue will bring together scientists with diverse backgrounds to discuss current concepts and exciting new results in this broad field, cutting across disciplines and focusing on topics that have a high potential to synergize. It is expected that this Special Issue will generate valuable new insights and highlight promising directions of future progress. Research articles, review articles, opinion articles, theory and hypothesis articles, short communications. Manuscript Submission Information Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website. 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However, standard analyses of animal training data either treat behavior as fixed, or track only coarse performance statistics (e.g., accuracy and bias), providing limited insight into the dynamic evolution of behavioral strategies over the course of learning. To overcome these limitations, we propose a dynamic psychophysical model that efficiently tracks trial-to-trial changes in behavior over the course of training. In this talk, I will describe recent work based on a dynamic logistic regression model that captures the time-varying dependencies of behavior on stimuli and other task covariates, which we applied to mouse training data from the International Brain Lab (IBL). Secondly, I will discuss efforts to infer animal learning rules from time-varying behavior in order to characterize how they adjust their policy in response to reward. 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As in the last years, RuleML+RR 2025 features the following associated events in addition to the main track: Rule Challenge, Doctoral Consortium, Industry Track, Project Networking Session Further below, you find more information on the respective events. All associated events share the same paper submission deadline: July 10th, 2025 (AoE) Submissions for each of these events are made via Easychair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=rulemlrr2025 Please select the respective track when you make a submission. ******************************************************************************* *** Rule Challenge *** Chairs: Alessandro Margara, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Tom?? Kliegr, Prague University of Economics and Business, Czechia Ognjen Savkovic, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy ********************** The 19th International Rule Challenge is a standout feature of the RuleML+RR conference, fostering friendly competition among innovative rule-oriented tools, prototypes, and applications tailored to research, industry, and government. Participants are invited to showcase their solutions to self-defined challenges, but also propose open challenges for the community to tackle. Accordingly, submissions are welcome in two main categories: * [Challenge Proposals] Papers outlining open challenges, interesting problems from academia or industry, or benchmarks relevant to the community. Submissions should include task descriptions, datasets, and evaluation criteria, highlighting opportunities for rule-based approaches to provide solutions. * [Challenge Solutions] Papers presenting benchmarking or comparative analyses of rule engines, rule-based machine learning techniques, or case studies. Submissions may also cover industrial experiences, rule- and model-driven engineering, or innovative applications such as deployment of rule-based reasoning in geographically distributed, edge-to-cloud scenarios. Key themes of the Rule Challenge include, but are not limited to the following: * Rule-based machine learning tools and techniques * Large language models (LLMs) and rule learning * Rule-based approaches in artificial intelligence * Rule-based Complex Event Processing / Recognition (CEP/CER) * Stream reasoning * Business rules modelling * Rule standardization for research, industry and government * Graph-relational data and knowledge systems * Higher-order logic and modal logic systems * Rule and ontology combinations * Distributed rule systems Multi-agent systems * Ontology-Based Data Access (OBDA) systems * Answer Set Programming (ASP) systems * Constraint Logic Programming (CLP) systems * (Controlled) Natural language interfaces * Rules and model-driven engineering The challenge seeks high quality, original papers, potentially referencing online material, and ranging between 8-15 pages. Accepted papers will be published as part of CEUR proceedings and should be in the CEUR-WS.org style template CEURART (1-column variant). Please submit your paper via: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=rulemlrr2025 to the Rule Challenge track. Important Dates: * July 10th, 2025: Paper submission deadline * August 31st, 2025: Notification of acceptance Further information can be found on the Rule Challenge website: https://2025.declarativeai.net/events/ruleml-rr/rule-challenge ******************************************************************************* *** Doctoral Consortium *** Chairs: Shqiponja Ahmetaj, TU Wien, Austria Riccardo Tommasini, INSA Lyon, France *************************** The RuleML+RR 9th Doctoral Consortium 2025 (DC) is an initiative of the RuleML+RR community to attract and promote student research in Artificial Intelligence, especially research on rule-based formalisms and reasoning in such formalisms. It offers students a close contact with leading experts in the field, as well as the opportunity to present and discuss their ideas in a dynamic and friendly setting. We invite PhD students at an early or intermediate stage of their PhD studies, as well as exceptional master?s students who are interested in pursuing a PhD, to submit papers describing their research on any of the topics of RuleML+RR 2025. RuleML+RR DC papers range between 8 and 15 pages, are written in English, will be published as part of CEUR proceedings, and should follow the CEUR-WS.org style template CEURART (1-column variant). They are submitted electronically in PDF together with a maximum 2 page-long CV (the paper and the CV should be submitted together as one PDF file, but the CV is not counted within the 15 pages limit and is not published in the proceedings if the paper is accepted). The submission should cover the following aspects: * The identification of a significant problem in a research field relevant to RuleML+RR 2025. * An outline of the current knowledge in the problem?s domain, as well as an overview of existing solutions. * A clear formulation of the research question and motivation. * A presentation of (possibly preliminary) ideas, the proposed approach, and the results achieved so far. * A sketch of the applied research methodology and its positioning in the field. * A description of the student?s contribution to the research. * A discussion of how the suggested solution is different, new, or better as compared to the state of the art. * A research plan and the potential achievements. Please submit your paper via: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=rulemlrr2025 to the Doctoral Consortium track. Important Dates: * July 10th, 2025: Paper submission deadline * July 31st, 2025: Notification deadline Further information can be found on the Doctoral Consortium website: https://2025.declarativeai.net/events/ruleml-rr/doctoral-consortium ******************************************************************************* *** Industry Track *** Chairs: Luigi Bellomarini, Banca d?Italia, Italy Evgeny Kharlamov, Bosch Center for Artificial Intelligence, Germany Ioana Georgiana Ciuciu, Babe?-Bolyai University, Romania ********************** The RuleML+RR industry track welcomes papers describing original industrial advances and application achievements in all areas of Rules and Reasoning-based technologies. We are interested in experiences from practitioners when applying rules to industries such as engineering, manufacturing, finance, agriculture, energy, media, telecommunications, healthcare, life sciences, government, smart cities, tourism, cultural heritage, retail, logistics, transportation, education, entertainment, legal services, real estate, environmental management, cybersecurity, autonomous systems, aerospace, defense, and other emerging fields. Submissions are invited on all facets of Rules and Reasoning, including efforts to bridge recent research innovations with practical applications and industrial challenges, with a strong focus on the interplay between reasoning techniques and machine learning. We encourage submissions on the following topics: * Integration of Rules, Reasoning, and AI Technologies * Rules and Reasoning for Knowledge Graphs and Ontologies * Advanced Uses of Rules and Reasoning in Scalable Applications * Rules and Reasoning in Regulatory Technology (RegTech) * Responsible Use of AI and Rules Technologies We welcome extended abstracts of minimum 5 and maximum 6 pages (including the references) to be submitted to the Industry Track. Accepted papers will be published as part of CEUR proceedings and should be written in English following in the CEUR-WS.org style template CEURART (1-column variant). Reviews will be done by the committee of members from both industry and academia. Submitted papers must be original contributions written in English. Please submit your paper via: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=rulemlrr2025 to the Industry Track. Important Dates: * July 10th, 2025: Paper submission deadline * July 31st, 2025: Notification deadline Further information can be found on the Industry Track website: https://2025.declarativeai.net/events/ruleml-rr/industry-track ******************************************************************************* *** Networking Session *** Chairs: Dumitru Roman, SINTEF AS, Norway George Konstantinidis, University of Southampton, UK Emanuel Sallinger, TU Wien, Austria ************************** The project networking session of RuleML+RR 2025 aims to bring together relevant projects working in the area of data and AI with particular focus on, but not limited to, the event topics: rules, reasoning, decisions, and explanations. The session will provide an opportunity to: * Share knowledge between research and innovation projects operating in the area of data and AI. * Identify potential synergies between the projects, e.g., transfer data and AI technology between projects, joint publications, joint dissemination activities, etc. * Discuss funding opportunities such as Horizon Europe, Digital Europe, ERC, etc. The session targets research and innovation projects operating at all stages: * Ending (or recently ended) projects, which have results to transfer and/or dissemination of results; * Ongoing projects, seeking collaboration and networking opportunities with external stakeholders and external projects; * Upcoming projects/initiative, searching for potential new ideas and partners for consortia. Interested projects should submit abstracts of minimum 5 and maximum 6 pages (including the references), describing the project?s objective, possible information to be shared with other projects and potential interests in other projects. The papers will be included in the companion proceedings of the event published by CEUR and should be formatted in the CEUR-WS.org style template CEURART (1-column variant). Submitted papers must be original contributions written in English. Please submit your paper via: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=rulemlrr2025 to the Networking Session track. Important Dates: * July 10th, 2025: Paper submission deadline * July 31st, 2025: Notification deadline Further information can be found on the Project Networking Session website: https://2025.declarativeai.net/events/ruleml-rr/networking-session ******************************************************************************* ******************************************************************************* RuleML+RR 2025 (https://2025.declarativeai.net/events/ruleml-rr) and its associated events are part of Declarative AI 2025 (https://2025.declarativeai.net/). The following lists further chairs involved in making these events possible. General Chairs of Declarative AI 2025 Hasan Da?, Kadir Has University, T?rkiye Anni-Yasmin Turhan, Paderborn University, Germany Ahmet Soylu, Kristiania University of Applied Sciences, Norway Local Chair Mehmet Nafiz Aydin, Kadir Has University, T?rkiye RuleML+RR Program Chairs Aidan Hogan, University of Chile, Chile Ken Satoh, National Institute of Informatics, Japan Proceedings Chairs Dumitru Roman, SINTEF AS, Norway Ahmet Soylu, Kristiania University College, Norway Publicity Chairs Kai Sauerwald, FernUniversit?t in Hagen, Germany Tor-Morten Gr?nli, Kristiania University College, Norway Romuald Esdras Wandji, Ume? University, Sweeden From hocine.cherifi at gmail.com Mon Jan 13 05:21:11 2025 From: hocine.cherifi at gmail.com (Hocine Cherifi) Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2025 11:21:11 +0100 Subject: Connectionists: Deadline Extended! Submit Your Workshop Proposal for FRCCS 2025 Message-ID: Dear colleagues, Good news! We?ve extended the deadline to submit your workshop proposal for *FRCCS 2025*. You now have until *January 24, 2025*, to propose your ideas and join us in Bordeaux, France. ? *New Deadline:* January 24, 2025 ? *Dates:* May 21-23, 2025 Don?t miss this opportunity to shape discussions on cutting-edge topics in Complex Systems. ? Submit your proposal here : https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/FRCCS2025/ ? Learn more: https://iutdijon.u-bourgogne.fr/ccs-france/ Best regards, FRCCS 2025 Organizing Committee -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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The successful candidates will have the chance to work in a highly dynamic and inspiring environment and to collaborate closely with Prof Peter Dayan and the Max-Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics. Concretely, we are looking for the following candidates: * Postdoc with experimental & neuroimaging (MEG / MRI) background More information about the positions can be found here: https://devcompsy.org/join-the-lab/ Interested candidates are encouraged to reach out to Tobias Hauser directly to informally discuss the positions. 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Students must have a Master?s degree and have to be international but NOT German. The current round of applications started on 1st of January, 2025 and closes on 15th of March, 2025 - i.e. applications have to be submitted by then. For more information and to submit your application, please consult here: https://www.mind-and-brain.de/doctoral-program/daad-doctoral-scholarships-2025-2029 For any additional inquiries please contact Matthias Bolz: Matthias.Bolz at maxplanckschools.de. Dipl.-Psych. Matthias Bolz Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences Stephanstra?e 1A, 04103 Leipzig, Germany Phone: +49 341 - 99 40 - 2685 E-Mail: bolz at cbs.mpg.de Homepage: http://www.cbs.mpg.de/~bolz Department: Max Planck School of Cognition Function: Media & Marketing Manager From info at icas.cc Mon Jan 13 12:14:32 2025 From: info at icas.cc (ICAS Organizing Committee) Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2025 18:14:32 +0100 Subject: Connectionists: Call for Participation: ACDL 2025, 8th Advanced Course on Data Science & Machine Learning - From Deep Learning to Generative AI | June 9-13 | Riva del Sole Resort & SPA - Italy -> *Early Registration: by 23 February* Message-ID: * Apologies for multiple copies. Please forward to anybody who might be interested, thanks * #ACDL2025, An Interdisciplinary Course: From Deep Learning to Generative AI ACDL 2025 is a full-immersion 5-day course in Tuscany on cutting-edge advances in AI, Deep Learning, LLMs, Data Sc. & Generative AI with lectures delivered by world-renowned experts. If you want to learn Transformers, Diffusion Models, Large language models, Vision - Large-scale vision models, Vision and language, Agentic AI, Multimodal Foundation Models, NLP, Generative AI and much more then take part in ACDL 2025! ;) Riva del Sole Resort & SPA - Tuscany, Italy, June 9-13, 2025 https://acdl2025.icas.events acdl at icas.cc *EARLY REGISTRATION: by February 23 (AoE)* https://acdl2025.icas.events/registration/ Oral Presentation Submission Deadline: by February 23 (AoE) LECTURERS: https://acdl2025.icas.events/lecturers/ Each Lecturer will hold up to four lectures on one or more research topics. Sanjeev Arora, Princeton University & Institute for Advanced Study, USA Antoine Bosselut, EPFL, Switzerland Sander Dieleman, Google DeepMind London, UK Caglar Gulcehre, EPFL, Switzerland Tatsu Hashimoto, Stanford University & Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence, USA Thomas Hofmann, ETH Zurich, Switzerland Subbarao Kambhampati, Arizona State University, USA Joel Z. Leibo, Google DeepMind London & The Alan Turing Institute, UK Lei Li, Language Technology Institute - Carnegie Mellon University, USA Panos Pardalos, University of Florida, USA Bryan Perozzi, Google Research, New York, USA Raniero Romagnoli, Almawave, Italy Liubov Tupikina, Bell Labs Paris, France More Lecturers TBA Lecturers: https://acdl2025.icas.events/lecturers/ Lectures: https://acdl2025.icas.events/lectures/ ACDL Schedule: https://acdl2025.icas.events/program/ https://acdl2025.icas.events/wp-content/uploads/sites/30/2024/12/ACDL-2025-Schedule.pdf PAST LECTURERS: https://acdl2025.icas.events/past-lecturers/ VENUE: https://acdl2025.icas.events/venue/ Riva del Sole Resort & SPA Localit? Riva del Sole? Castiglione della Pescaia (Grosseto) CAP 58043? Tuscany? Italy p: +39-0564-928111 e: booking.events at rivadelsole.it w: https://www.rivadelsole.it/en/ PAST EDITIONS: https://acdl2025.icas.events/past-editions/ REGISTRATION: https://acdl2025.icas.events/registration/ CERTIFICATE & 8 ECTS: The 8th Advanced Course on Data Science & Machine Learning ? ACDL 2025 is a full-immersion five-day Course at the Riva del Sole Resort & SPA (Castiglione della Pescaia ? Grosseto ? Tuscany, Italy) on cutting-edge advances in Deep Learning, Data Science and Generative AI with lectures delivered by world-renowned experts. The Course provides a stimulating environment for PhD students, Post-Docs, junior academics (only up to assistant professors), early career researchers, and industry leaders (and highly motivated, promising and brilliant Master students / BSc students). Participants will also have the chance to present their results with talks, and to interact with their colleagues, in a convivial, professional and productive environment. PhD students, PostDocs, Industry Practitioners and Junior Academics (only up to assistant professors) will be typical profiles of the ACDL attendants. The Course will involve a total of 36?40 hours of lectures, according to the academic system the final achievement will be equivalent to 8 ECTS points for the PhD Students (and some strongly motivated Master Student ? BSc Student) attending the Course. Please check the FAQ: https://acdl2025.icas.events/faq/ Language: English. To participate in the ACDL 2025, all attendants must (1/2) register for the course (by February 23, 2025) and (2/2) book accommodation at the course venue, ?Riva del Sole Resort & SPA? (by April 23, 2025); all attendants must stay at the ?Riva del Sole Resort & SPA?. Booking accommodation at the Riva del Sole must be made exclusively using the accommodation form attached to the registration confirmation email. No other methods must be used (if you use other booking methods the hotel will cancel the reservation). Finally, it is not possible to extend the stay, the special accommodation rates are valid only for the period of the course, no exceptions will be made. To contact the Riva del Sole Resort & SPA (the course venue) use the following email: booking.events at rivadelsole.it Once accommodation has been booked at ?Riva del Sole Resort & SPA?, the participant must send this information (including the Booking Number) to the ACDL organizing committee (acdl at icas.cc). ACDL is a residential course, so all lecturers and participants must reside in the same Hotel (Riva del Sole Resort & SPA). No exceptions are made. For privacy reasons, the Hotel cannot match people. If you have someone to share the apartment with (or a double room in Hotel), please send to the Hotel ( booking.events at rivadelsole.it ) the name, surname and email address. Otherwise the solution is to book a hotel room in single use. Please note that only ACDL registered participants can book a room (in hotel or apartment) at the Riva del Sole Resort & SPA with the accommodation form attached in the registration email and with the ACDL Discounted Rates. The Booking Office of the Riva del Sole Resort & SPA will verify the names of the participants and the corresponding registration number to confirm the booking. Anyone interested in participating in ACDL 2025 should register as soon as possible. See you in Riva del Sole in June! ACDL 2025 Directors. ACDL 2025 Scientific & Organizing Committees. https://acdl2025.icas.events acdl at icas.cc Obviously, this is only a Call for Participation, to have complete and updated information we recommend you access the relevant website: https://acdl2025.icas.events * Apologies for multiple copies. Please forward to anybody who might be interested, thanks * *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/* -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From g.brostow at cs.ucl.ac.uk Mon Jan 13 17:49:31 2025 From: g.brostow at cs.ucl.ac.uk (Gabriel J. Brostow) Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2025 22:49:31 +0000 Subject: Connectionists: Vision Super-Tools PhD studentships @ University College London (UK/Irish Home students only!) Message-ID: Hello! Interested in doing a PhD in Computer Vision Super-Tools in my group at UCL? 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URL: From sebastien.destercke at hds.utc.fr Mon Jan 13 17:01:49 2025 From: sebastien.destercke at hds.utc.fr (sdesterc) Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2025 23:01:49 +0100 Subject: Connectionists: Next SIPTA seminar: 22nd January 15h Paris time, Erik Quaeghebeur on probabilistic circuits Message-ID: Dear colleagues, We are delighted to announce our upcoming SIPTA online seminar on imprecise probabilities (IP). These monthly events are open to anyone interested in IP, and will be followed by a Q&A and open discussion. They also provide an occasion for the community to meet, keep in touch and exchange between in-person events. The next seminar will take place on the 22nd of January (Wednesday). The zoom link for this seminar is https://utc-fr.zoom.us/j/81782582392 For this new seminar, we are very happy to have Erik Quaeghebeur as our speaker. Erik Quaeghebeur is Assistant Professor at the Eindhoven university of technology, Netherlands. Erik is well known within the world of imprecise probabilities, as he started his career with making many foundational contributions to statistic and decision with imprecision, to then complement it with impactful works on the optimisation of windfarms. Among other topics, he is currently working on developing probabilistic circuits and their imprecise counterpart. On the 22nd of January, at 15:00 CEST:paris time (up to 17:00 CEST, with a talk duration of 45min/1h), he will talk about "The wondrous world of credal and deep probabilistic circuits?. Curious? Then check out the abstract on the webpage of the SIPTA seminars: sipta.org/events/sipta-seminars. The zoom link for attending the seminar can be found on that same page. So please mark your calendars on the 22nd of January, and join us for the occasion. And for those who missed the previous seminar and want to catch up, or simply want to see it again and again, it is online at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yd_nDt4SIjg&t See you at the seminar! S?bastien, Enrique and Jasper From gbergcross at gmail.com Mon Jan 13 16:42:20 2025 From: gbergcross at gmail.com (Gary Berg-Cross) Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2025 16:42:20 -0500 Subject: Connectionists: This year's free, online Ontology Summit In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: For those still interested in GOFAI and semantics here is information of this year's online ontology Summit (our 20th) is at: https://ontologforum.org/index.php/OntologySummit2025 No registration is required and the Summit is free to all. We have an overview on Wednesday, the 15th followed by these sessions: January 22nd Nicola Guarino (Keynote): ?Ontologies as specifications of conceptualizations: correctness, precision, and accuracy?. January 29th Giancarlo Guizzardi: "Semantics, Ontology, and Explanation." Feb. 5th Michael Gruninger: ?The Heirs of Hilbert's Sixth Problem: Mathematical treatment of the axioms of physics.? Feb. 12th Barry Smith: ?Models, theories and ontologies? Please share with interested parties ! Best regards, Gary Berg-Cross Potomac, MD 240-426-0770 > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From maanakg at gmail.com Mon Jan 13 17:06:37 2025 From: maanakg at gmail.com (Maanak Gupta) Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2025 16:06:37 -0600 Subject: Connectionists: Call for Papers: ACM Workshop on Secure and Trustworthy Cyber-Physical Systems Message-ID: Dear Colleagues, ACM Workshop on Secure and Trustworthy Cyber-Physical Systems (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. 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. 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IMPORTANT DATES: * Paper submission due: February 1, 2025 * Author notification: March 1, 2025 * Camera-Ready submission: April 5, 2025 * Registration deadline: April 5, 2025 * Conference dates: May 9-11, 2025 Topics of Interest: We welcome submissions on a wide range of topics, including but not limited to: * High performance smart computing * High performance distributed computing * Smart digital forensics * Smart Big data security, Database security * Smart social engineering, insider threats, advance spear phishing * Cyber threat intelligence * Security and fault tolerance for embedded or ubiquitous systems * Smart cloud security * Tele-health security * Sensor network security * Embedded networks and sensor network optimizations * Cloud computing and networking models * Heterogeneous architecture for cloud computing * Dynamic resource sharing algorithm for cloud computing * Load balance for cloud computing * Cloud-based audio/video streaming techniques * MapReduce * Visualization * Cloud-based real-time multimedia techniques * Mobile cloud computing * Green cloud computing * Quality of Service (QoS) improvements techniques * Case studies for various applications * Cyber Security in emergent technologies, infrastructures and applications For a complete list of topics and submission guidelines, please refer to the conference submission website (https://www.cloud-conf.net/datasec/2025/hpsc/submission.html). Thank you for your attention, and we look forward to your contributions! IEEE HPSC 2025 Organizing Committee General Chairs Yonghao Wang, Birmingham City University, UK Meikang Qiu, Augusta University, USA Gerard Memmi, Telecom Paris, France Di Wu, Sun Yat-Sen University, China -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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The European Union?s AI Act and similar regulatory frameworks highlight the need for AI systems to be both explainable and fair. This session addresses the dual challenge of enhancing transparency in neural networks while meeting the increasing regulatory and ethical requirements for explainable AI (XAI). The session aims to explore the latest XAI methods that make neural networks more interpretable without sacrificing performance. It will focus on the development of new techniques that meet normative standards, with a particular emphasis on bias mitigation, fairness, and societal impacts. Through an interdisciplinary approach, the session seeks to advance both the technical and regulatory aspects of XAI for neural networks, fostering collaboration between academia, industry, and policymakers. **Technical Highlights**: Neuro-Symbolic Alignment: Exploring methods that combine symbolic reasoning with neural networks to enhance interpretability, allowing models to perform reasoning tasks while remaining transparent. Monosemantic Decomposition: Based on research from Anthropic, this technique focuses on breaking down neural networks into discrete, interpretable features, making it easier to understand model behaviors. Bias Mitigation and Fairness: Addressing how XAI techniques can identify and mitigate bias in neural networks, ensuring fairness in decision-making, particularly in compliance with frameworks like the AI Act. XAI Metrics and Evaluation: Developing standardized evaluation metrics to assess the effectiveness of XAI methods, with a particular focus on how these metrics apply to neural networks. Societal and Ethical Implications: Discussing how XAI in neural networks contributes to broader societal impacts, including accountability, user trust, and the reduction of harmful biases. **IMPORTANT DATES** Deadline for submissions: 15 January 2025 Notification of decisions: 31 March 2025 We are looking forward to seeing you in Rome! **Organizing Committee**: Alan Perotti, CentAI Institute, Italy Qi Chen, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand Amanda Horzyk, University of Edinburgh, U.K. Paulo JG Lisboa, Liverpool John Moores University, U.K. Asim Roy, Arizona State University, U.S.A. Alfredo Vellido, Universitat Polit?cnica de Catalunya, Spain -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Yours sincerely IEEE SS-XAIMHS 2025 Session Chairs ======================================================= Special Session on eXplainable Artificial Intelligence for Medical and Healthcare Systems (SS-XAIMHS 2025) in 5th Edition of IEEE International Conference on ICT Solutions for e-Health (ICTS4eHealth 2025) Bologna, Italy, July 2-5, 2025 www.icts4ehealth.icar.cnr.it in conjunction with the 30th IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC) Submit your paper by using the link: https://edas.info/N33376 ======================================================= SPECIAL SESSION DESCRIPTION: ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- *eXplainable Artificial Intelligence *(XAI) components are crucial in an Artificial Intelligence (AI) system in the medical field, as physicians and practitioners cannot blindly trust the output of an AI model. Thus, there is a need to integrate explanation modules in order to justify the choices made by a model so as to provide medical workers with transparent systems that can explain the processes that led the AI model to provide a certain output. The aim of this special session is to give researchers the opportunity to present and discuss their work on XAI for medical and healthcare applications, or to provide insights and issues for future research directions. TOPICS (but are not limited to): ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - Explainability of Machine Learning Models - Interpretability of Deep Learning Models - Fuzzy Logic Systems - Neuro-symbolic AI - eXplainable Artificial Intelligence for Medical Systems - XAI in Computer Vision for Healthcare Systems - XAI for Natural Language Processing Systems - Issues and Challenges in XAI for Medical and Healthcare System IMPORTANT DATES: ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - Submission deadline for papers: *January 31, 2025* - Notification of paper acceptance: *March 21, 2025* - Submission of camera-ready papers:* April 15, 2025* - Registration:* April 15, 2025* PAPER SUBMISSION: ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Manuscripts should describe original work and should be no more than 7 pages for full papers and 4 pages for short papers in the IEEE double-column proceedings format, including tables, figures and references. In order to download manuscript templates for IEEE conference proceedings use the following link: https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html Papers can be submitted directly to EDAS: https://edas.info/N33376 Note that accepted papers up to 6 pages will be published with no additional charge. Exceeding pages will be charged an additional fee. Papers exceeding 7 pages will not be accepted. At least one author of each accepted paper is required to register to the conference and present the paper. Only registered and presented papers will be published in the conference proceedings. The SS-XAIMHS 2025 special session is part of the main ICTS4eHealth conference, and accepted papers will be included in the proceedings of ISCC 2025, of which the ICTS4eHealth conference is a concurrent event, and will be submitted for inclusion in IEEE Xplore. The proceedings of ICTSeHealth and ISCC have been indexed in the past by ISI, DBLP, and Scopus. 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You will look at what behavior is through many lenses. Most importantly though, you will meet people with similar interests and goals. And you may become a part of our global Open Lab community, and help us to spread the knowledge further! More information and the application form can be found here - https://nenckiopenlab.org/tbns2025/. The deadline for application is Feb 25th, the fee is EUR 1500 but we have secured funding for fee waivers and travel grants if needed. With best wishes, TBNS Team -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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However, standard analyses of animal training data either treat behavior as fixed, or track only coarse performance statistics (e.g., accuracy and bias), providing limited insight into the dynamic evolution of behavioral strategies over the course of learning. To overcome these limitations, we propose a dynamic psychophysical model that efficiently tracks trial-to-trial changes in behavior over the course of training. In this talk, I will describe recent work based on a dynamic logistic regression model that captures the time-varying dependencies of behavior on stimuli and other task covariates, which we applied to mouse training data from the International Brain Lab (IBL). Secondly, I will discuss efforts to infer animal learning rules from time-varying behavior in order to characterize how they adjust their policy in response to reward. Finally, I will describe recent work on adaptive optimal training, which combines ideas from reinforcement learning and adaptive experimental design to formulate methods for inferring animal learning rules from behavior, and using these rules to speed up animal training. *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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We solicit proposals for full- and half-day workshops on current and emerging machine learning and data mining topics. Workshops allow discussion of novel topics in a small and interactive atmosphere. They can concentrate in-depth on research topics but can also be devoted to application domains, issues, or questions concerning the economic and social aspects of machine learning and data mining. Multidisciplinary workshops that bring together researchers and practitioners from different communities are particularly welcome. We also welcome proposals for less conventional ECMLPKDD workshop formats, e.g., those similar in spirit to CRAFT workshops at FAccT, which are currently running EU projects and other interactive events. We offer a waived registration fee for attendance at the main conference to one organizer or invited speaker for each accepted workshop. We intend to facilitate additional workshop-only waived registrations for invited speakers outside the ECMLPKDD community. ------------------------------------------ Duration and format ------------------------------------------ We welcome full- and half-day workshop proposals and tutorial+workshop proposals. Full-day workshops have a program of typically 8 hours, including two 30-minute coffee breaks plus a lunch break. Half-day workshops have a 4 hours program with a 30-minute coffee break. Combined tutorial + workshop events start with a half-day tutorial followed by a half-day workshop. We encourage proposers to aim for a varied and exciting program. Especially where the workshop format is concerned, we would like you to consider going beyond the usual list of presentations of accepted papers. Remember that the main conference is necessarily more time-constrained, and workshops allow for group explorations of exciting topics through discussions, demo sessions, invited talks, and panels. Another way of extending the usual format is to include a specific challenge problem that can be addressed by the workshop participants with a dedicated challenge session in the workshop program. Note, however, that the challenge should be only one of the components of the workshop, targeting a problem specific to the workshop topic(s). ------------------------------------------ Important Dates ------------------------------------------ Workshop and Tutorials Proposal Submission system opens: 2025-01-10 Workshop and Tutorials Proposal Deadline: 2025-02-03 Workshop and Tutorials Proposal Acceptance Notification: 2025-03-01 Workshop Paper Submission Deadline: 2025-06-14 Workshop Paper Author Notification: 2025-07-14 For additional information, please check the webpage https://ecmlpkdd.org/2025/submissions-workshop-track/ or sent an email to ecml-pkdd-2025-workshops-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 hpsc2025 at 163.com Tue Jan 14 20:27:05 2025 From: hpsc2025 at 163.com (HPSC2025 Committee) Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2025 09:27:05 +0800 (CST) Subject: Connectionists: Call for Papers: 11th IEEE International Conference on High Performance and Smart Computing (HPSC 2025) Message-ID: <29759859.16836214.1736904431943.JavaMail.root@mail-tracker-183-3ep34-kunp1-54f898d94d-qbtjz> Dear All, We are pleased to invite you to submit your papers to the 11th IEEE International Conference on High Performance and Smart Computing (HPSC 2025), which will be held from May 9-11, 2025, in New York City, USA. (Important Notice: Due to the outbreak of COVID-19, this year the IEEE HPSC 2025 will be a hybrid conference.) For more information, please visit our conference website: HPSC 2025 Conference Website We would greatly appreciate it if you could share this Call for Papers with your colleagues and friends. IMPORTANT DATES: Paper submission due: February 1, 2025 Author notification: March 1, 2025 Camera-Ready submission: April 5, 2025 Registration deadline: April 5, 2025 Conference dates: May 9-11, 2025 Topics of Interest: We welcome submissions on a wide range of topics, including but not limited to: High performance smart computing High performance distributed computing Smart digital forensics Smart Big data security, Database security Smart social engineering, insider threats, advance spear phishing Cyber threat intelligence Security and fault tolerance for embedded or ubiquitous systems Smart cloud security Tele-health security Sensor network security Embedded networks and sensor network optimizations Cloud computing and networking models Heterogeneous architecture for cloud computing Dynamic resource sharing algorithm for cloud computing Load balance for cloud computing Cloud-based audio/video streaming techniques MapReduce Visualization Cloud-based real-time multimedia techniques Mobile cloud computing Green cloud computing Quality of Service (QoS) improvements techniques Case studies for various applications Cyber Security in emergent technologies, infrastructures and applications For a complete list of topics and submission guidelines, please refer to the conference submission website (https://www.cloud-conf.net/datasec/2025/hpsc/submission.html). 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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. All accepted papers will be presented in poster sessions and spotlight presentations (physically or remotely). Selected papers will have longer presentations. All accepted papers will be published in a volume of Proceedings of Machine Learning Research (PMLR) . 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. We are looking forward to seeing you in Rio! On behalf of Sara Magliacane and Silvia Chiappa UAI 2025 Program Chairs uai2025chairs+program at gmail.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Please register here:https://www.cwi.nl/en/events/cwi-research-semester-programs/workshop-themes-across-control-and-reinforcement-learning/ The workshop is part of a Research Semester Programme at CWI, right after a Spring School, and with further workshops planned as below.?Register for the Spring School:https://www.cwi.nl/en/events/cwi-research-semester-programs/spring-school-control-theory-and-reinforcement-learning/?For the full programme:https://www.cwi.nl/en/events/cwi-research-semester-programs/control-theory-and-reinforcement/ | | | | | | ? | ? | | | | | ? | ? | | School and Workshops on Control Theory and Reinforcement Learning? | | | ? | ? | | Dear all, ? We cordially invite you to the events of the?research semester programme in Spring 2025 at CWI, Amsterdam, Netherlands: Control Theory and Reinforcement Learning: Connections and Challenges. ? Spring School on Control Theory and Reinforcement LearningDates:?17-21 (Monday-Friday) March, 2025. Click here for programme and registration. Please register before 5 March. ? The school will be at a preparatory PhD level, suitable for advanced Master's and starting PhD students in these subjects. ? Workshop on Themes across Control and Reinforcement LearningDates:?24 and 25 (Monday-Tuesday) March, 2025.Click here for programme and registration. Please register before 10 March. ? Workshop on Modern Applications of Control Theory and Reinforcement LearningDates:?20 and 21 (Tuesday-Wednesday) May, 2025.?Workshop on Theory of Control and Reinforcement LearningDates:?19 and 20 (Thursday-Friday) June, 2025. ? Click here for details on the full semester programme. ? Don't hesitate to spread this invitation within your network. ? With best regards on behalf of the organizers. | | | ? | ? | | | | | | | ? | | | ?For queries, please contact?events at cwi.nl?. We look forward to seeing you. 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Applications are through the course web page (https://www.oist.jp/conference/ocnc-2025) only; January 1 - January 31, 2025. Applicants will receive confirmation of acceptance end of March. Like in preceding years, the 2025 OCNC will be a comprehensive three-week course covering single neurons, networks, and behaviors with ample time for student projects. The first week will focus exclusively on methods with hands-on tutorials during the afternoons, while the second and third weeks will have lectures by international and local experts. The course has a strong hands-on component based on student proposed modeling or data analysis projects, which are further refined with the help of a dedicated tutor. Applicants are required to propose their project at the time of application. For the first time we charge a modest tuition fee of 60,000JPY. The sponsor will provide lodging and meals during the course. We hope that this course will be a good opportunity for theoretical and experimental neuroscientists to meet each other and to explore the attractive nature and culture of Okinawa, the southernmost island prefecture of Japan. Lecturers: Erik De Schutter (OIST) Kenji Doya (OIST) Tomoki Fukai (OIST) Bernd Kuhn (OIST) Alexander Mathis (EPFL, Switzerland) Mackenzie Mathis (EPFL, Switzerland) Lucy Palmer (University of Melbourne, Australia) Gerald Pao (OIST) Padmini Rangamani (University of California, San Diego, USA) Sam Reiter (OIST) Yu Takagi (National Institute of Informatics) Kazumasa Tanaka (OIST) Tim Vogels (IST Austria) Jeff Wickens (OIST) From michael.furlong at uwaterloo.ca Wed Jan 15 18:41:21 2025 From: michael.furlong at uwaterloo.ca (Michael Furlong) Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2025 23:41:21 +0000 Subject: Connectionists: [Meetings] Deadline reminder: 2025 Nengo Summer School Call For Applications Message-ID: Dear colleagues, Please note that the deadline for application submission to the Nengo Summer School, February 1st, 2025, is approaching. [All details about this school can be found online at https://www.nengo.ai/summer-school] The Centre for Theoretical Neuroscience at the University of Waterloo is excited to announce our 10th annual Nengo summer school on large-scale brain modelling and neuromorphic computing. This two-week school will teach participants to use the Nengo simulation package to build state-of-the-art cognitive and neural models to run both in simulation and on neuromorphic hardware. Summer school participants will be given on-site access to neuromorphic hardware and will learn to run high-level applications using Nengo! More generally, Nengo provides users with a versatile and powerful environment for designing cognitive and neural systems and has been used to build what is currently the world's largest functional brain model, Spaun, which includes spiking deep learning, reinforcement learning, adaptive motor control, and cognitive control networks. For a look at the last in-person summer school, check out this short video: https://youtu.be/nFYTqieEnSY We welcome applications from all interested graduate students, postdocs, professors, and industry professionals with a relevant background. ***Application Deadline: February 1, 2025*** Format: A combination of tutorials and project-based work. Participants are encouraged to bring their own ideas for projects, which may focus on testing hypotheses, modelling neural or cognitive data, implementing specific behavioural functions with neurons, expanding past models, or providing a proof-of-concept of various neural mechanisms. Hands-on tutorials, work on individual or group projects, and talks from invited faculty members will make up the bulk of day-to-day activities. A project demonstration event will be held on the last day of the school, with prizes for strong projects! Participants will have the opportunity to learn how to: * interface Nengo with various kinds of neuromorphic hardware (e.g. BrainDrop, SpiNNaker) * build perceptual, motor, and sophisticated cognitive models using spiking neurons * model anatomical, electrophysiological, cognitive, and behavioural data * use a variety of single cell models within a large-scale model * integrate machine learning methods into biologically oriented models * interface Nengo with cameras and robotic systems * implement modern nonlinear control methods in neural models * and much more? Date and Location: June 1st to June 13th, 2025 at the University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. Applications: Please visit http://www.nengo.ai/summer-school, where you can find more information regarding costs, travel, lodging, along with an application form listing required materials. If you have any questions about the school or the application process, please contact Michael Furlong (michael.furlong at uwaterloo.ca). 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We welcome contributions that address, but are not limited to, the following topics: * ML as a Tool for Scientific Discovery: How can ML systems contribute to generating new hypotheses, models, or experimental designs, and how may this advance scientific understanding? * ML and Scientific Explanation: How do ML systems impact scientists' ability to explain scientific phenomena? Is ML an obstacle to explanation, or can it serve as an aid to explaining phenomena? * Understanding from ML: How do ML systems aid or hinder human understanding of scientific phenomena? Is there understanding more or less directly from ML, and does it have to pass through explanations based on ML models? Or does ML instead pave the way towards new modes of understanding? How does ML relate to different known forms of understanding, such as objectual and explanatory understanding? * Evaluating ML-Driven Insights: What are the criteria for assessing the reliability, robustness, and explanatory power of ML-generated scientific outputs? * ML and Scientific Understanding in Particular Cases: What are use cases of ML in specific scientific fields, such as biology, physics, or social sciences, that ostensibly show its impact on scientific understanding? Confirmed speakers * Cameron Buckner, Philosophy, University of Florida * Edward Chang, Computer Science, Stanford University * Finnur Dells?n, Philosophy, University of Iceland * Insa Lawler, Philosophy, UNC Greensboro * Holger Lyre, Philosophy, Magdeburg University * Daniel Neider, Computer Science, TU Dortmund University * Darrell P. Rowbottom, Philosophy, Lingnan University Hong Kong * Emily Sullivan, Philosophy, Utrecht University Submission Guidelines We invite abstracts of up to 500 words for presentations of approximately 30 minutes, followed by 15 minutes of discussion. Submissions should include the title of the presentation and the abstract. Please submit your abstract in PDF format via mail, including your name and affiliation, to udnn.abstracts at gmail.com by January 31st, 2025. Notifications of acceptance will be sent by March 31st, 2025. For inquiries, please contact the organizers at udnn.ht at tu-dortmund.de. We look forward to receiving your contributions! Wichtiger Hinweis: Die Information in dieser E-Mail ist vertraulich. Sie ist ausschlie?lich f?r den Adressaten bestimmt. Sollten Sie nicht der f?r diese E-Mail bestimmte Adressat sein, unterrichten Sie bitte den Absender und vernichten Sie diese Mail. Vielen Dank. 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HHAI aims for AI systems that work together with humans, emphasizing the need for adaptive, collaborative, responsible, interactive and human-centered intelligent systems. HHAI systems leverage human strengths and compensate for human weaknesses, while taking into account social, ethical and legal considerations. HHAI 2025 will be held on June 9?13, 2025, in Pisa, Italy, and is the fourth conference in the series. The HHAI field is driven by developments in AI, but it also requires fundamentally new approaches and solutions. Thus, we encourage collaborations across research domains such as AI, HCI, cognitive and social sciences, philosophy and ethics, complex systems, and others. In this fourth international conference, we invite scholars from these fields to submit their best original ? new as well as in progress ? works, and visionary ideas on Hybrid Human-Artificial Intelligence. **Join the HHAI community and keep up with the news:** Website: https://hhai-conference.org/2025/ Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/hhai-conference/ X: https://x.com/hhai_conference Mastodon: https://sigmoid.social/@hhai IMPORTANT DATES Abstract submission: January 24th, 2025 (Extended) Paper submission: January 31th, 2025 (Extended) Acceptance notification: March 16th, 2025 Camera-ready version: April 13th, 2025 Conference: June 9-13, 2025 LOCATION HHAI 2025 will be an in-person, single-track conference organized in Pisa, Italy. Workshops and tutorials (9-10 June) will be held at the University of Pisa and Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa, Italy. The main conference (11-13 June) will be held at CNR. TOPICS We invite research on different challenges in Hybrid Human-Artificial Intelligence. The following list of topics is illustrative, not exhaustive: - Human-AI interaction, interpretation and collaboration - Adaptive human-AI co-learning and co-creation - Learning, reasoning and planning with humans and machines in the loop - User modeling and personalisation - Integration of learning and reasoning - Transparent, explainable, and accountable AI - Fair, ethical, responsible, and trustworthy AI - Societal awareness of AI - Multimodal machine perception of real-world settings - Social signal processing - Representations learning for Communicative or Collaborative AI - Symbolic representations for human-centric AI - Human-AI Coevolution - Foundation models and humans - Human cognition-aware AI - Decentralized human-AI systems - Reliability and robustness in human-AI systems - Applications of hybrid human-AI intelligence We welcome contributions about all types of technology, from robots and conversational agents to multi-agent systems and machine learning models. PAPER TYPES In this conference, we wish to stimulate the exchange of novel ideas and interdisciplinary perspectives. To do this, we will accept three different types of papers: - Full papers present original, impactful work (12 pages excluding references) - Blue sky papers present visionary ideas to stimulate the research community (8 pages excluding references) - Working papers present work in progress (8 pages excluding references) Accepted full papers and Blue sky papers will be published in the Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Hybrid Human-Machine Intelligence, in the Frontiers of AI series by IOS Press. Working papers can be included in these proceedings, unless the authors request the paper to remain unpublished. REVIEWING PROCESS & SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Submissions of full, blue-sky, and working papers should be original work without substantial overlap with pre-published papers. All submissions should adhere to IOS formatting guidelines. Papers should be written in English and detailed submission instructions can also be found here. **Important** HHAI 2025 will follow a double-blind reviewing process. Thus, submissions must exclude all information that might disclose the authors? names or affiliations. All studies involving human participants should have received human-research ethics consent from the relevant institutions and mention this in the paper. Work should be submitted in PDF format via Easychair following this link: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=hhai2025 On acceptance, at least one author should attend the conference. A significant contribution is expected from all authors. 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URL: From cimiano at techfak.uni-bielefeld.de Thu Jan 16 10:07:05 2025 From: cimiano at techfak.uni-bielefeld.de (Philipp Cimiano) Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2025 16:07:05 +0100 Subject: Connectionists: CFP: 3rd TRR 318 Conference "Contextualizing Explanations" (ContEx05), June 17-18, Bielefeld Message-ID: <0BED129C-9978-48BE-AD07-E39A53925F24@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de> 3rd TRR 318 Conference ?Contextualizing Explanations? (ContEx05) http://contex2025.net/ As AI systems are used more and more in high-stakes domains, it also becomes ever-more important to make AI systems transparent to ensure meaningful human control and empower human users to contest or override AI-based decisions. Without sufficient transparency, increasingly complex and autonomous AI systems may leave users feeling overwhelmed and out of control, which is legally and ethically unacceptable, especially in the context of high-stakes decisions. For the users to feel empowered rather than out of control, explanations need to be relevant, providing sufficient information on which basis an output can be contested or challenged. It has been increasingly noted by the XAI community that no one explanation can fit all needs. Further, recent approaches have advocated for a more participative approach to XAI in which users are not only involved but can directly shape and guide the explanations given by a certain AI System. The 3rd TRR 318 International Conference on Contextualizing Explanations is an interdisciplinary conference focusing on the question how explanations can be contextualized to increase their relevance and empower users. Key research questions that we want to explore during the conference include: How do contextual variables influence the effectiveness of explanations? What are the relevant context factors to be taken into account in adapting an explanation to specific domains, users, or situations? How can context be represented algorithmically to support contextual adaptation of XAI explanations? What new architectures or approaches in XAI support the dynamic adaptation of explanations with respect to changing user needs? How can user modelling support a more personalized explanation process? In which ways can the dynamics of context be modelled? How can the suitability of contextually adapted explanations be studied / validated / evaluated? Which explanation processes are particularly suitable for which context? Which context-specific outcomes are influenced by explanations? How can XAI empower users across diverse contexts to make informed decisions and effectively interact with AI systems? What constitutes a useful taxonomy for categorizing contexts in which explanations are provided? What are the various contexts in which explanations are provided and utilized? The 3rd TRR318 International Conference on Contextualizing Explanations invites contributions from a wide range of disciplines (computational but also human / social science) seeking to contribute to advancing research on how explanations can be contextually adapted. We invite interested participants to submit a two page abstract via Easychair: https://easychair.org/conferences/directory?a=33811429 The abstracts will be peer-reviewed and appear as Proceedings published by Bielefeld University Press. The conference is hosted and supported by the TRR 318 ?Co-Constructing Explanations?: https://trr318.uni-paderborn.de/en/ Organizing Committee: Philipp Cimiano (Bielefeld University) Benjamin Paa?en (Bielefeld University) Anna-Lisa Vollmer (BIelefeld University) Invited Speakers: Angelo Cangelosi (University of Manchester) Virginia Dignum (Ume? University) Kacper Sokol (ETH Zurich) Important Dates: Deadline for Submissions: March 31st Notification of Acceptance: April 30th Conference: 17th and 18th of June, Bielefeld Prof. Dr. Philipp Cimiano AG Semantic Computing Coordinator of the Cognitive Interaction Technology Center (CITEC) Co-Director of the Joint Artificial Intelligence Institute (JAII) Universit?t Bielefeld Tel: +49 521 106 12249 Fax: +49 521 106 6560 Mail: cimiano at cit-ec.uni-bielefeld.de Personal Zoom Room: https://uni-bielefeld.zoom-x.de/my/pcimiano Office CITEC-2.307 Universit?tsstr. 21-25 33615 Bielefeld, NRW Germany -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From m.biehl at rug.nl Thu Jan 16 12:40:37 2025 From: m.biehl at rug.nl (Michael Biehl) Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2025 18:40:37 +0100 Subject: Connectionists: Paper available: Phase transition analysis for shallow neural networks with arbitrary activation functions Message-ID: Dear All. Our publication in Physica A (Statistical Mechanics and its Applications) *Phase transition analysis for shallow neural networks with arbitrary activation functions* Otavio Citton, Frederieke Richert, Michael Biehl is available (open access) at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physa.2025.130356 Highlights ? We present a statistical physics analysis of layered neural networks with arbitrary activation functions. ? The method employs a Hermite polynomial series representation of the activation function. ? The analysis enables the characterization of phase transitions in the learning curve for any activation function. ? The approach allows the analytical study of student?teacher scenario with mismatched activation functions. Best regards, Michael Biehl --------------------------------------------------- Prof. Dr. Michael Biehl Bernoulli Institute for Mathematics, Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence P.O. 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The second, longer session is devoted to detailed explanations and discussions that are face-to-face and rely on whichever medium you prefer ? but having a poster is encouraged ? so as to favour interaction among participants. ISIPTA will also welcome a number of renowned keynote speakers: ? Carole Bernard (Grenoble ?cole de Management & Vrije Universiteit Brussel) ? Itzhak Gilboa (Hautes ?tudes Commerciales de Paris) ? Peter Gr?nwald (Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica & Leiden University) ? Jan Ob??j (University of Oxford) We invite contributions on all aspects of imprecise probabilities, a term encompassing a wide range of mathematical and statistical models that quantify uncertainty without the restriction of precise probabilities. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, sets of probability measures, partial preference orderings, game-theoretic probability, choice functions, interval probabilities, risk measures, nonlinear expectations, belief functions, and possibility theory. We accept two types of submissions: full papers and one-page abstracts. The submission deadlines are February 2nd, 2025 for full papers and April 27th, 2025 for one-page abstracts; additional important dates like notification of paper acceptance will be communicated in due course. Submission is through the EasyChair platform following the instructions on the conference website for formatting guidelines. All contributions will be made available on the conference website. Papers will be published in the Proceedings of Machine Learning Research, although authors have the option to opt out of publication. Registration is free for non-tenured scholars with accepted submission, and ? 200 for tenured faculty with accepted submission. The fee for scholars without accepted submission and industry participants is ? 600. The registration fee includes lunch, coffee breaks, social dinner, and participation in the social event. Registration is up to June 1st, 2025, but we encourage participants to register only after a final decision on their submission has been made. We look forward to welcoming you to Bielefeld! The ISIPTA 2025 Steering Committee Jasper De Bock S?bastien Destercke Alexander Erreygers Max Nendel Frank Riedel Matthias Troffaes From h.j.p.weerts at tue.nl Fri Jan 17 09:49:54 2025 From: h.j.p.weerts at tue.nl (Weerts, Hilde) Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2025 14:49:54 +0000 Subject: Connectionists: 2nd CfP: Fourth European Workshop on Algorithmic Fairness (EWAF'25) Message-ID: [Apologies for cross-posting] Second Call for Papers: EWAF'25 - Fourth European Workshop on Algorithmic Fairness We are excited to invite submissions (full papers and extended abstracts) for the fourth European Workshop on Algorithmic Fairness (EWAF?25) (https://2025.ewaf.org/), which will be held from June 30 - July 2 2025 in Eindhoven, The Netherlands. Important Dates Submission deadline: Thursday, March 13, 2025 (AoE) Acceptance notifications: Monday, May 5, 2025 Workshop dates: June 30 - July 2, 2025 More information Call for Papers: https://2025.ewaf.org/submitting/call-for-papers LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/eaaf/ X: https://x.com/EWAFWorkshop Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/ewafworkshop.bsky.social About the Workshop EWAF aims to foster dialogue between researchers working on algorithmic fairness in the context of Europe?s legal and societal framework, especially in light of the European Union?s attempts to promote ethical AI and the turn to AI for the common good. EWAF welcomes submissions from multiple disciplines, including but not limited to computer science, law, philosophy, and social science, as well as interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary work. One of the primary goals of EWAF is to build a community and we encourage all participants to actively partake, e.g. by submitting an extended abstract of ongoing or recently published work. If you are planning to join us in Eindhoven, we strongly encourage you to make a submission! Topics We welcome submissions from the following areas: * Computer Science: fairness metrics, methods for qualitative evaluations, bias mitigation techniques, auditing frameworks, fairness-aware data collection * Philosophy: values embedded in distributive and procedural fairness, foundations of ethical AI, critical studies on AI * Social Sciences AI impact assessments, historical perspectives on discrimination, impact of algorithms on marginalized groups, perceptions of (un)fairness, AI and labor, digital governance, management and fairness, AI for public value creation * Policy and Law: non-discrimination law, data protection law and data governance, impact assessments, accountability measures, sensitive application areas of AI (e.g., the judiciary, government, law enforcement, public services), global regulatory developments) We also explicitly welcome submissions of interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary work, sourcing from multiple disciplinary areas and/or highlighting joint insight-building with relevant non-academic stakeholders. A non-exhaustive list of themes includes: * Industry experiences in developing and implementing fairness interventions, developing standards and practical approaches to introducing fairness in digital innovation governance. * Empirical and theoretical perspectives from social sciences on fairness and discrimination in Europe (e.g., analysis of labor markets, the concepts of class, race, disability, and discrimination against minorities in different social contexts, intersectional inequality). * Case studies based on concrete European instances of algorithmic design and regulation that machine learning scholars or practitioners have encountered in their work (e.g., datasets or audits of automated decision-making systems that are used in Europe). * An analysis of the implications of the European legislative framework for the debate on fairness in machine learning and AI more broadly (e.g., specificities connected to anti-discrimination and data collection legislation and the emerging regulatory frameworks for platforms and AI). * Principled arguments for certain fairness concepts and measures in specific contexts. * Implementing fairness in deployed systems, selecting fairness definitions and designing auditing processes. * Explorations of the relationship and trade-offs between fairness and transparency in practice. * Fairness and transparency of black-box models. * Generative AI and fairness, esp. relating to the job market and the data supply chain. 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URL: From emanuel.dinardo at uniparthenope.it Sat Jan 18 08:48:52 2025 From: emanuel.dinardo at uniparthenope.it (EMANUEL DI NARDO) Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2025 13:48:52 +0000 Subject: Connectionists: [CfP][Deadline Extended] - Special Session: Data Science: Multidisciplinary Perspectives to Tame the Data Revolution - IJCNN25 Message-ID: [Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP] Submission deadline extended to January 30, 2025 Call for Papers - SPECIAL SESSION "DATA SCIENCE: MULTIDISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVES TO TAME THE DATA REVOLUTION" @ IJCNN2025 June 30-July 5, 2025, Rome, Italy https://sites.google.com/view/dsijcnn25/home-page ABOUT The digital transformation is inextricably influencing our lives today. The constant flow of data and technological innovations have reshaped the way we live. The advent of technologies such as cloud computing, the Internet of Things, and Artificial Intelligence (AI) has given rise to an interconnected digital ecosystem, where billions of devices generate an enormous amount of data and information. This "data explosion? is much more than a mere technological challenge. It is a true revolution that is profoundly affecting our society. Data Science holds the key to tame this revolution. It allows to make the most of this huge amount of data, creating concrete value out of it while enabling new, smart processes and applications. Through sophisticated algorithms and advanced analysis techniques, data science allows to extract knowledge from this mass of raw data, reveal hidden patterns, predict future trends, and support sound decision-making. Data science promises, and is already delivering, unmatched efficiency and efficacy touching every sector of our society, from smart cities that optimize traffic and resource management, to intelligent transportation systems that improve safety and efficiency, to digital healthcare that promises more accurate diagnoses and personalized treatments. In the industrial sector, the analysis of data from production lines optimizes processes, reduces waste, and improves quality. In finance, machine learning algorithms predict market trends, assess credit risk, and prevent fraud. Data science is thus becoming the engine of progress, opening new frontiers and offering innovative solutions to complex problems. However, this data-driven revolution comes with new challenges. On the one hand, security and privacy, as well as additional non-functional requirements, must be enforced along the entire data-driven pipeline, from data ingestion to AI model deployment, demanding a rethink of the traditional CIA (Confidentiality, Integrity, Availability) triad. On the other hand, a whole new set of (legal) requirements emerge, starting from the ethical implications of AI, to ensure that data-driven technologies are used responsibly and for the benefit of the society as a whole. In addition, a responsible usage of these technologies also implies the usage of large computing infrastructures in a sober, environment-friendly manner. In a nutshell, the data-driven ecosystem represents an extraordinary opportunity for progress and innovation. This means that a multidisciplinary approach is needed to fully exploit its potential, integrating technological, scientific, and ethical skills. This is the only way to build a future in which data are at the service of humanity, contributing to creating a just, sustainable, and prosperous society. IMPORTANT DATES - Submission due: January 30th, 2025 - Notification to authors: March 31st, 2025 - Camera-ready and early registration due: May 1st, 2025 CALL FOR RESEARCH PAPERS The special session welcomes regular papers submissions. The topics of interest include (but are not limited to): - Data Architectures - Data integration and interoperability - Data processing, analytics and visualization - Data quality and utility - Data shaping, modeling and design - Data sovereignty and governance - Data storage, preparation and operation - Data trustworthiness and ethics - Open science and open data - Process mining and business intelligence - Multimodal data processing - Deep Neural Networks - Artificial Intelligence - Generative AI - Symbolic Computing - AI security and security for AI - Cloud-edge continuum SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS Submissions must follow the IJCNN2025 rules (https://2025.ijcnn.org/authors/initial-author-instructions). Regular papers must be submitted at https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/IJCNN2025/ selecting the Main trackand specifying Data Science: Multidisciplinary Perspectives to Tame the Data Revolution as primary Subject Area. All papers will be evaluated and selected on the basis of their quality, relevance, and timeliness. Accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings. COMMITTEES AND CHAIRS ORGANIZERS - Nicola Bena, University of Milan - Emanuel Di Nardo, University of Naples Parthenope - Angelo Ciaramella, University of Naples Parthenope - Claudio A. Ardagna, University of Milan This call for papers and additional information about the conference can be found at https://sites.google.com/view/dsijcnn25/home-page Chairs can be contacted at nicola.bena at unimi.it and emanuel.dinardo at uniparthenope.it ------ 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... 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SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS We invite paper submissions up to 8 pages, excluding references and acknowledgements. They should use the CVPR template (reviews are double-blind, so please hide author data in the pdf) and be submitted to the CMT site (linked above). Submissions must contain novel work and will be indexed in IEEE Xplore/CVF. They will receive at least two double-blind reviews. We welcome PC self-nominations. If you?re willing to review for the workshop, please reach out at image-matching at googlegroups.com. IMPORTANT DATES - Paper submission deadline: March 11, 2025. - Notification to authors: April 1, 2025. - Camera-ready deadline: April 4, 2025 (hard deadline on April 7). - Workshop date: TBC (June 11 or 12, 2025). From dhansel0 at gmail.com Sun Jan 19 16:21:59 2025 From: dhansel0 at gmail.com (David Hansel) Date: Sun, 19 Jan 2025 23:21:59 +0200 Subject: Connectionists: =?utf-8?q?World_wide_VVTNS_series_=28fifth_season?= =?utf-8?q?=29=3A_Wednesday=2C_January_22=2C_2025=2C_at_11=3A00_am_?= =?utf-8?q?EST=7C_Srdjan_Ostojic=2C_Ecole_normale_sup=C3=A9rieure?= =?utf-8?q?=2C_Paris?= 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 Srdjan Ostojic Ecole normale sup?rieure, Paris on the topic of Structured Excitatory-Inhibitory Networks: a low-rank approach The lecture will be held on zoom on Wednesday, January 22, 2025, at *11:00 am EST * To receive the zoom link: https://www.wwtns.online/register-page *Abstract: * Networks of excitatory and inhibitory (EI) neurons form a canonical circuit in the brain. Classical theoretical analyses of dynamics in EI networks have revealed key principles such as EI balance or paradoxical responses to external inputs. These seminal results assume that synaptic strengths depend on the type of neurons they connect but are otherwise statistically independent. However, recent synaptic physiology datasets have uncovered connectivity patterns that deviate significantly from independent connection models. Simultaneously, studies of task-trained recurrent networks have emphasized the role of connectivity structure in implementing neural computations. Despite these findings, integrating detailed connectivity structures into mean-field theories of EI networks remains a substantial challenge. In this talk, I will outline a theoretical approach to understanding dynamics in structured EI networks by employing a low-rank approximation based on an analytical computation of the dominant eigenvalues of the full connectivity matrix. I will illustrate this approach by investigating the effects of pair-wise connectivity motifs on linear dynamics in EI networks. Specifically, I will present recent results demonstrating that an over-representation of chain motifs induces a strong positive eigenvalue in inhibition-dominated networks, generating a potential instability that challenges classical EI balance criteria. Furthermore, by examining the effects of external input, we found that chain motifs can, on their own, induce paradoxical responses, wherein an increased input to inhibitory neurons leads to a counterintuitive decrease in their activity through recurrent feedback mechanisms. Altogether, our theoretical approach opens new avenues for relating recorded connectivity structures with dynamics and computations in biological networks. *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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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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More information: https://udnn.tu-dortmund.de/index.php/activities/lecture-series-philosophy-of-science-and-machine-learning/ Upcoming Talk: We are excited to announce the next talk in the series: Title: AI in Tension Between Cognitive Science and Society Speaker: Nina Poth, Radboud University Date & Time: January, 23, 2025, 4:15 PM CET Location: TU Dortmund University Talk Abstract: In this talk, I examine the dual role of AI in both cognitive science and society. On one hand, significant ethical and theoretical concerns that call for caution in overstating the similarities between human-like intelligence and cutting-edge AI systems widely used today (such as AlexNet, GPT-4, etc.). On the other hand, cognitive scientists and philosophers view such deep neural networks as valuable tools for modelling and gaining insights into the human mind. These two perspectives stand in tension with one another that calls for a re-examination of the role of AI in cognitive science. While there are promising exploratory successes in specific domains such as perceptual categorisation, the contributions of deep neural networks to advancing our understanding of cognition are less revolutionary than often claimed and better put as a continuation of earlier revisions to computationalism, posing the worry that relative to the immense resources going in to building these models, the payoffs from theory lag significantly behind. How to Attend: * In-Person: Please send an e-mail to udnn.ht at tu-dortmund.de. If you would like to join us for dinner afterwards, please let us know so we can make a reservation. * Online: Please register via the following form: https://forms.microsoft.com/r/W3whw0ac3B. We will send you a Zoom link before the talk. We look forward to your participation and insightful discussions. This lecture series is a special edition of the AI Colloquium at TU Dortmund University, co-organized by the Lamarr Institute for Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence, the Research Center Trustworthy Data Science and Security (RC Trust), and the Center for Data Science & Simulation at TU Dortmund University (DoDas). The Lecture Series is organized by the Emmy Noether Group "UDNN: Scientific Understanding and Deep Neural Networks" (https://udnn.tu-dortmund.de/) Kind regards, The UDNN team Wichtiger Hinweis: Die Information in dieser E-Mail ist vertraulich. Sie ist ausschlie?lich f?r den Adressaten bestimmt. Sollten Sie nicht der f?r diese E-Mail bestimmte Adressat sein, unterrichten Sie bitte den Absender und vernichten Sie diese Mail. Vielen Dank. 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URL: From marius.bilasco at univ-lille.fr Tue Jan 21 04:54:58 2025 From: marius.bilasco at univ-lille.fr (Ioan Marius Bilasco) Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2025 10:54:58 +0100 Subject: Connectionists: PhD and post-doc position on Asynchronous Computer Vision from Event Cameras Message-ID: Dear candidates, The FOX team ofthe CRIStAL laboratory (UMR CNRS), Lille,France,and the PR team ofthe MIS Laboratory, Amiens,France,are looking to recruit : * a post-doc starting as soon as possibleand; * a joint PhD student starting in October 2025 in the field of*async**h**ronous computer vision from event camera**s**.* *Abstract*: Video analysis is one of the fundamental tasks in computer vision. The dominant approach is based on deep neural networks applied to RGB images. These models have disadvantages such as: a) the need of large quantities of annotated data, which requires significant human work; b) the significant computational and therefore energy cost of these approaches; and c) redundancy in terms of visual information between two successive images. Spiking neural networks can offer a solution to these problems, through the use of unsupervised learning rules inspired by biological learning and the possibility of implementing them on ultra-low energy hardware components. . Event cameras that only communicate changes in light intensity are positioned as an alternative for capturing a scene when efficient processing on hardware with low computing capabilities is required. The objective of this thesis is to offer a joint response by proposing weakly supervised learning methods based on spiking learning mechanisms which will directly exploit the flow of impulses generated by an event camera. We are targeting applications around autonomous driving, such as the detection of moving vehicles or the recognition of information conveyed by large displays along the road infrastructure. The main objective is to develop new models of spiking neural networks (SNN) capable of directly processing visual information in the form of spike trains. The proposed models must be validated experimentally on dynamic vision databases, following standard protocols and best practices. *Candidates for the PhD *must hold a Master degree (or an equivalent degree) in Computer Science, Statistics, Applied Mathematics or a related field. *Candidates for the post**-**doc *must hold a PhD degree inComputer Science, Robotics, Statistics, Applied Mathematics or a related field. Experience in one or more of the following is a plus: ?? image processing, computer vision; ?? machine learning; ?? bio-inspired computing; ?? research methodology (literature review, experimentation?). ?Candidates should have the following skills: ?? good proficiency in English, both spoken and written; ?? scientific writing; ?? programming (experience in C++ is a plus, but not mandatory). The *PhD candidate* will be funded for 3 years (/grant application pending/).He/She is expected to defend his/her thesis and graduate by the end of the contract. The monthly gross salary is around 2000?, including benefits (health insurance, retirement fund, and paid vacations). The *post**-**doc *will be hiredfor 18 months starting from March 2025(this is a fully-funded position). The monthly gross salary is around 2500-3000?, including benefits (health insurance, retirement fund, and paid vacations). For application, please send the following itemsin a single PDF file to Pr. Marius Bilasco (marius.bilasco at univ-lille.fr) andtoDr. Fabio Morbidi (fabio.morbidi at gmail.com) with subject [EventSpike]: ?* A cover letter. ?* A curriculum vitae, including a list of publications, if any. ?* Transcripts of grades of Master's degree or transcripts/reports fromthe PhDdefense. ?* The contact information of two references (and anysupportletters,if available). We look forward to receiving your application as soon as possible but no later than *12**April **2025.* *Context of the projet**:* The FOX research group is part of the CRIStAL laboratory (University of Lille, CNRS), located in Lille, France. We focus on video analysis for human behavior understanding. Specifically, we develop spatio-temporal models of motions for tasks such as abnormal event detection, emotion recognition, and face alignment. We are also involved in IRCICA (CNRS), a research institute promoting multidisciplanary research. At IRCICA, we collaborate with computer scientists and experts in electronics engineering to create new models of neural networks that can be implemented on low-power hardware architectures. Recently, we designed state-of-the-art models for image recognition with single and multi-layer unsupervised spiking neural networks. We were among the first to succesfully apply unsupervised SNNs on modern datasets of computer vision. We also developed our own SNN simulator to support experiments with SNN on computer vision problems.Our work is published in major journals (Pattern Recognition, IEEE Trans. on Affective Computing) and conferences (NeurIPS, WACV, IJCNN) in the field. The PR (Robotic Perception) team is specializedin mobile robotics (perception), 3D reconstruction and unconventional vision. The PR team is leadingthe e-Cathedral program and is currently involved in threeprojects dealing witheventcameras: the ANR CERBERE project (2022-2025), the ANR DEVIN project (2024-2028) and theinternational (France-Austria) ANR-FWF EVELOC project (2024-2028). The PR team wishes to further strengthen this area of research and improve its expertise in AI bycollaboratingwith the CRIStAL laboratory. The positions are located in Lille, France. With over 110 000 students, the metropolitan area of Lille is one France's top education student cities. The European Doctoral College Lille Nord-Pas de Calais is headquartered in Lille Metropole and includes 3,000 PhD Doctorate students supported by university research laboratories. Lille has a convenient location in the European high-speed rail network. It lies on the Eurostar line to London (1:20 hour journey). The French TGV network also puts it only 1 hour from Paris, 35 mn from Brussels, and a short trips to other major centres in France such as Paris, Marseille and Lyon. == Ioan Marius BILASCO Professeur des Universit?s en Informatique Univ. Lille CRIStAL CNRS - UMR 9189 Cit? Scientifique 59650 Villeneuve d'Ascq Cedex - France https://pro.univ-lille.fr/marius-bilasco/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From pmvul089 at uottawa.ca Mon Jan 20 15:49:35 2025 From: pmvul089 at uottawa.ca (Paul Mvula) Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2025 20:49:35 +0000 Subject: Connectionists: [CfP] Canadian AI 2025 - Calgary, May 26-29, 2025 Message-ID: ** Apologies for cross-postings ** Call for Papers We are now inviting researchers to submit papers 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 presenting a new system. Paper submissions are due by Monday, Feb 10, 2025 (11:59 p.m. AoE time zone). 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. 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. Important dates Submission deadline Monday, Feb 10, 2025 (11:59 p.m. AoE time zone) Author notification Tuesday, April 1, 2025 Camera-ready copy due Tuesday, April 15, 2025 (11:59 p.m. AoE time zone) Conference dates May 26-29 2025 Program Chairs Paula Branco School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Ottawa pbranco at uottawa.ca https://uniweb.uottawa.ca/view/profile/members/4218?lang=en Amine Trabelsi D??partement d'informatique, Universit?? de Sherbrooke Amine.Trabelsi at USherbrooke.ca https://www.usherbrooke.ca/informatique/trabelsi We look forward to your participation in Canadian AI 2025! -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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HYBRID EVENTS Both events will be held as fully hybrid conferences. All participants will be able to present their work and fully attend the conference no matter if they are in the venue (Cyprus University of Technology, Limassol, Cyprus) or at their office or home. SPECIAL ISSUES & PROCEEDINGS Selected papers will be published in high quality international scientific Journals. Journal list will be completed soon. More info can be found at https://ifipaiai.org/2025/special-issues/ and https://eannconf.org/2025/special-issues/ Proceedings will be published SPRINGER IFIP AICT Series for AIAI conference and by SPRINGER CCIS book series for EANN/ EAAAI conference. Submission details and instructions can be found at AIAI web site and EANN/ EAAAI web site. BIBLIOMETRIC DETAILS We proudly announce that according to Springer's statistics, the last 18 AIAI conferences have been downloaded 2,488,000 times, while last 15 EANN / EAAAI conferences have been downloaded more than 890,000 times! IFIP AIAI series has reached h-index of 39 while EANN / EAAAI series reached h-index of 31. Published papers have been Cited more than 18.000 times! For more Bibliometric Details please click AIAI BIBLIOMETRIC DETAILS or EANN / EAAAI BIBLIOMETRIC DETAILS IMPORTANT DATES * Paper Submission Deadline: 15th of February 2025 * Notification of Acceptance: 16th of March 2025 * Camera ready Submission: 13th of April 2025 * Early / Authors Registration Deadline: 13th of April 2025 * Conference: 26 - 29 of June 2025 Conference topics, CFPs, Submissions & Registration details can be found at: * https://ifipaiai.org/2025/call-for-papers/ * https://ifipaiai.org/2025/paper-submission/ * https://ifipaiai.org/2025/registration/ and * https://eannconf.org/2025/call-for-papers/ * https://eannconf.org/2025/paper-submission/ * https://eannconf.org/2025/registration/ We are expecting Submissions on all topics related to Artificial and Computational Intelligence and their Applications. 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URL: From dhansel0 at gmail.com Tue Jan 21 10:25:04 2025 From: dhansel0 at gmail.com (David Hansel) Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2025 17:25:04 +0200 Subject: Connectionists: =?utf-8?q?REMINDER=3A_World_wide_VVTNS_series_=28?= =?utf-8?q?fifth_season=29=3A_Wednesday=2C_January_22=2C_2025=2C_at?= =?utf-8?q?_11=3A00_am_EST=7C_Srdjan_Ostojic=2C_Ecole_normale_sup?= =?utf-8?b?w6lyaWV1cmUsIFBhcmlz?= 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 Srdjan Ostojic Ecole normale sup?rieure, Paris on the topic of Structured Excitatory-Inhibitory Networks: a low-rank approach The lecture will be held on zoom on Wednesday, January 22, 2025, at *11:00 am EST * To receive the zoom link: https://www.wwtns.online/register-page *Abstract: * Networks of excitatory and inhibitory (EI) neurons form a canonical circuit in the brain. Classical theoretical analyses of dynamics in EI networks have revealed key principles such as EI balance or paradoxical responses to external inputs. These seminal results assume that synaptic strengths depend on the type of neurons they connect but are otherwise statistically independent. However, recent synaptic physiology datasets have uncovered connectivity patterns that deviate significantly from independent connection models. Simultaneously, studies of task-trained recurrent networks have emphasized the role of connectivity structure in implementing neural computations. Despite these findings, integrating detailed connectivity structures into mean-field theories of EI networks remains a substantial challenge. In this talk, I will outline a theoretical approach to understanding dynamics in structured EI networks by employing a low-rank approximation based on an analytical computation of the dominant eigenvalues of the full connectivity matrix. I will illustrate this approach by investigating the effects of pair-wise connectivity motifs on linear dynamics in EI networks. Specifically, I will present recent results demonstrating that an over-representation of chain motifs induces a strong positive eigenvalue in inhibition-dominated networks, generating a potential instability that challenges classical EI balance criteria. Furthermore, by examining the effects of external input, we found that chain motifs can, on their own, induce paradoxical responses, wherein an increased input to inhibitory neurons leads to a counterintuitive decrease in their activity through recurrent feedback mechanisms. Altogether, our theoretical approach opens new avenues for relating recorded connectivity structures with dynamics and computations in biological networks. *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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URL: From samuel.kaski at manchester.ac.uk Tue Jan 21 14:53:21 2025 From: samuel.kaski at manchester.ac.uk (Samuel Kaski) Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2025 19:53:21 +0000 Subject: Connectionists: I am hiring: prob ML postdocs and PhD students, Helsinki and Manchester, UK Message-ID: I am hiring in my machine learning group, DL February 2, 2025 Postdocs in Helsinki: https://www.aalto.fi/en/open-positions/postdoctoral-researcher-positions-in-probabilistic-machine-learning-research-group-aalto-university-0 Topic: combinations of the following: - foundations of (probabilistic) machine learning - beyond current distribution shift models - AI-assistance with computationally rational user models - particularly attractive applications in synthetic biology and biodesign ----- Postdoc or research fellow in Manchester, UK: https://www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetail?JobId=31081 Develop new principles and probabilistic machine learning methods for Advanced User Modelling, sequential decision making and Automatic Experimental Design, with and without a Human-in-the-Loop. ----- PhD students in Manchester, UK: https://www.ai-decisions-cdt.ac.uk (Note: DL January 31, 2025) ----- FCAI is looking for Postdocs, Research fellows, and PhD students in Machine learning and AI: https://fcai.fi/winter-2025-researcher-positions-in-ai-and-machine-learning Finnish Center for Artificial Intelligence FCAI and ELLIS Unit Helsinki are looking for several postdocs, research fellows and PhD students to join us in creating new machine learning techniques ? your work can be theoretical or applied, or both. 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URL: From tiago at skewed.de Tue Jan 21 15:52:27 2025 From: tiago at skewed.de (Tiago de Paula Peixoto) Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2025 21:52:27 +0100 Subject: Connectionists: Faculty positions at IT:U Austria on Theoretical Foundations of Data Science Message-ID: Dear colleagues, I would like bring to your attention a call for 5 open-rank positions at IT:U ? a new public university just founded in Austria: https://it-u.at/en/careers/professor-of-data-science/ One of the focuses is: Theoretical Foundations of Data Science ? engaging with areas such as mathematics of data science, statistical learning, or specific topics like topological data analysis and causality. The concept of ?Data Science? here is very broadly defined. The positions are attractive, and include permanent (i.e. recurring) funding for a number of PhD students and post-docs, depending on rank. If you know of anyone who is suitable and in the job market, please let me know and/or forward them this call! The deadline is Feb 28, 2025. I'd be happy to give more information if needed. Best, Tiago -- Tiago de Paula Peixoto From xiao at gmu.edu Tue Jan 21 23:18:52 2025 From: xiao at gmu.edu (Xuesu Xiao) Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2025 04:18:52 +0000 Subject: Connectionists: [meetings] [news] 2nd CfP: The 4th Benchmark for Autonomous Robot Navigation (BARN) Challenge -- ICRA 2025 Competition Message-ID: Submission Form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfYFw_BVg-7lpXNVxQIX_xQKpFrU2m4jrXAVvrRv8pLzgLkLw/viewform Competition Website: https://cs.gmu.edu/~xiao/Research/BARN_Challenge/BARN_Challenge25.html Participation Instructions: https://github.com/Daffan/nav-competition-icra2022 Lessons Learned from The BARN Challenge 2024: https://cs.gmu.edu/~xiao/papers/barn24_report.pdf Lessons Learned from The BARN Challenge 2023: https://cs.gmu.edu/~xiao/papers/barn23_report.pdf Lessons Learned from The BARN Challenge 2022: https://cs.gmu.edu/~xiao/papers/barn22_report.pdf Dear roboticists, are you interested in agile robot navigation in highly constrained spaces with a lot of obstacles around, e.g., cluttered households or after-disaster scenarios? Do you think mobile robot navigation is mostly a solved problem? Are you looking for a hands-on project for your robotics class, but may not have (sufficient) robot platforms for your students? If your answer is yes to any of the above questions, we sincerely invite you to participate in The 4th BARN Challenge at ICRA 2025 (https://cs.gmu.edu/~xiao/Research/BARN_Challenge/BARN_Challenge25.html)! The BARN Challenge aims at evaluating state-of-the-art autonomous navigation systems to move robots through highly constrained environments in a safe and efficient manner. The task is to navigate a standardized Clearpath Jackal robot from a predefined start to a goal location as quickly as possible without any collision. The challenge will take place both in the simulated BARN dataset and in physical obstacle courses at ICRA 2025. 1. The competition task is designing ground navigation systems to navigate through all 300 BARN environments (https://cs.gmu.edu/~xiao/Research/BARN/BARN.html) and physical obstacle courses constructed at ICRA 2025 as fast as possible without collision. 2. The 300 BARN environments can be the training set for learning-based methods, or to design classical approaches in. During the simulation competition, we will generate another 50 unseen environments unavailable to the participants before the competition. 3. We will standardize a Jackal robot in the Gazebo simulation, including a Hokuyo 2D LiDAR, motor controller of 2m/s max speed, etc. 4. Participants can use any approaches to tackle the navigation problem, such as using classical sampling-based or optimization-based planners, end-to-end learning, or hybrid approaches. We will provide baselines for reference. 5. A standardized scoring system is provided on the website. 6. We will invite the top teams in simulation to compete in the real world. The team who achieves the fastest collision-free navigation in the physical obstacle courses wins. If you are interested in participating, please submit your navigation system at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfYFw_BVg-7lpXNVxQIX_xQKpFrU2m4jrXAVvrRv8pLzgLkLw/viewform Co-Organizers: Xuesu Xiao (George Mason University) Zifan Xu (UT Austin) Aniket Datar (George Mason University) Saad Abdul Ghani (George Mason University) Peter Stone (UT Austin / Sony AI) Sponsor: Clearpath Robotics, https://clearpathrobotics.com/ Thanks Xuesu ----------------------- Xuesu Xiao, Ph.D. -- Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science George Mason University xiao at gmu.edu https://cs.gmu.edu/~xiao/ https://robotixx.cs.gmu.edu/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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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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An emerging field with AI is eXplainable Artificial Intelligence (xAI), devoted to producing intelligent systems that allow humans to understand their inferences, assessments, predictions, recommendations and decisions. Initially devoted to designing post-hoc methods for explainability, eXplainable Artificial Intelligence (xAI) is rapidly expanding its boundaries to neuro-symbolic methods for producing self-interpretable models. Research has also shifted the focus on the structure of explanations and human-centred Artificial Intelligence since the ultimate users of interactive technologies are humans. The World Conference on Explainable Artificial Intelligence (https://xaiworldconference.com/2025/) is an annual event that aims to bring together researchers, academics, and professionals, promoting the sharing and discussion of knowledge, new perspectives, experiences, and innovations in the field of Explainable Artificial Intelligence (xAI). This event is multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary, bringing together academics and scholars of different disciplines, including Computer Science, Psychology, Philosophy, Law and Social Science, to mention a few, and industry practitioners interested in the practical, social and ethical aspects of the explanation of the models emerging from the discipline of Artificial intelligence (AI). The conference organisation encourages submissions related to eXplainable AI and contributions from academia, industry, and other organizations discussing open challenges or novel research approaches related to the explainability and interpretability of AI systems. Topics include, and are not limited to: Technical methods for XAI Ethical Considerations for XAI Psychological Notions & concepts for XAI Social examinations of XAI Legal & administrative considerations of/for XAI Safety & security approaches for XAI Applications of XAI-based systems Website: https://xaiworldconference.com/2025/ For more details https://xaiworldconference.com/2025/call-for-papers/ Submission ---------- Submitted manuscripts must be novel and not substantially duplicate existing work. Manuscripts must be written using Springer?s Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) in the format provided here. Latex and word files are admitted; however, the former is preferred. All submissions and reviews will be handled electronically. The conference has a no dual submission policy, so submitted manuscripts must not be currently under review at another publication venue. Articles must be submitted using the easy-chair platform here: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=xai2025 While registering on the platform, the contact author must provide the following information: paper title, all author names, affiliations, postal address, e-mail address, and at least three keywords. The conference will not require a strict page number, as we believe authors have different writing styles and would like to produce scientific material differently. However, the following types of articles are admitted: Full articles between 12 and 24 pages (including references) Short articles between 8 and 12 pages (including references) Appendixes and supplemental material ------------------------------------ Appendixes and supplemental material must be placed within the article and the maximum amount of pages mentioned above. In other words, everything must be within 24 pages (for full articles) and 12 pages (for short articles). Special track articles ---------------------- The article submitted to the special tracks follows the submission procedure of the main track and must be submitted via easy-chair, as mentioned above. The types of articles admitted are full and shorter, as described above. The authors of an article to be associated with a special track must select the name of such special track in the list of topics in easy-chair, along with other relevant topics. Authors commit to reviewing --------------------------- By submitting to the conference, each senior author of a manuscript volunteer to be added to the pool of potential PC members/reviewers for the conference and may be asked to review manuscripts. This does not apply to authors who have already agreed to contribute to the conference in some capacity (e.g., as PC/SPC members of the main conference or special tracks, area chairs, or members of the organizing committee) and authors who are not qualified to be in the programme committee. Ethical & Human Subjects Considerations --------------------------------------- The conference organisers expect authors to discuss the ethical considerations and the impact of the presented work and/or its intended application, where appropriate. Additionally, all authors must comply with ethical standards and regulatory guidelines associated with human subjects research, including using personally identifiable data and research involving human participants. Manuscripts reporting on human subjects research must include a statement identifying any regulatory review the research is subject to (and identifying the form of approval provided) or explaining the lack of required review. Submission and publication of multiple articles ----------------------------------------------- Each author is limited to no more than a combined limit of 4 submissions to the main conference track, and authors may not be added or deleted from papers following submission. Important Dates --------------- *All dates are Anywhere on Earth time (AoE) Special track proposals ----------------------- Proposal submission (contact): December, 15, 2024 Notification of acceptance & final instructions December, 20, 2024 Articles (main track & special tracks) -------------------------------------- Authors/title registration deadline on submission platform (easy-chair)*: February, 10, 2025 Article upload deadline on submission platform (easy-chair)*: February, 15, 2025 Paper bidding for reviewers February 15-18, 2025 Notification of acceptance*: March, 7th, 2025 Registration (payment) and camera-ready* (upload to easy-chair): March, 7th, 2025 Article presentation instructions notification June, 2025 Accepted article presentation (at xAI-2025) beginning of July, 2025 (to be confirmed) Publication (Springer CCIS series) September/October, 2025 *full, short and special track articles Late-breaking work & demos -------------------------- Late-breaking work & demo author/title/abstract registration on submission platform (easy-chair): March, 15, 2025 Late-breaking work & demo article upload deadline on submission platform (easy-chair): March, 20, 2025 Notification of acceptance: March, 30, 2025 Registration (payment) & Late-breaking work & demo camera-ready (upload to easy-chair): April, 5, 2025 Late-breaking work & demo presentation instructions notification June, 2024 Late-breaking work & demo presentations (at xAI-2025) beginning of July, 2025 (to be confirmed) Publication (planned with CEUR-WS.org*) September/October, 2025 *Proceedings shall be submitted to CEUR-WS.org for online publication Doctoral consortium (DC) proposals ---------------------------------- DC Proposal author/title registration deadline on submission platform (easy-chair): March, 15, 2025 DC Proposal uploads deadline on the submission platform (easy-chair): March, 20, 2025 Notification of acceptance: March, 30, 2025 Registration (payment) April, 5, 2025 DC presentation and meeting instructions notification June, 2025 Doctoral consortium meeting (at xAI-2024) beginning of July, 2025 (to be confirmed) Publication (planned with CEUR-WS.org*) September/October, 2025 *Proceedings shall be submitted to CEUR-WS.org for online publication Conference ---------- The World Conference on eXplainable AI will take place the 9-11 of July, 2025, Istambul, Turkey Review Process -------------- The Peer-Review process ----------------------- All articles submitted within the deadlines and per the guidelines will be subjected to a single-blind review. Authors can also opt-out to disclose their names. However, authors will not know the names of their reviewers. Papers that are out of scope, incomplete, or lack sufficient evidence to support the basic claims may be rejected without full review. Manuscripts that do not conform to the specified formatting style will be desk-rejected. A non-dual policy submission exists, and articles submitted parallel to another conference/journal will be desk-rejected. Furthermore, reviewers will be asked to comment on whether the length is appropriate for the contribution. Each submitted article will be reviewed by at least two appropriate committee members (main/special track programme committee, late-breaking work/demo/DC committee). After completion of the review process, the authors will be informed about the acceptance or rejection of the submitted work. The reviewers? comments will be available to the authors if they are not desk-rejected. In case of acceptance, authors must meet the recommendations for improvement and prepare and submit the definitive version of the work up to the camera-ready paper submission deadline. In case of failure to consider the recommendations made by the reviewers, the organizing committee, the chairs and the editors reserve the right not to include these works in any of the planned conference proceedings. The article?s final version must follow the appropriate style guide and contain the authors? data (names, institutions and emails) and the ORCID details. Submitted articles will be evaluated according to their originality, technical soundness, significance of findings, contribution to knowledge, clarity of exposition and organisation and replicability. Code of Ethics -------------- Inspired by the code of ethics put forward by the Association of Computing Machinery, the programme committee, supervised by the general conference chairs and organisers, has the right to desk-reject manuscripts that perpetuate harmful stereotypes, employ unethical research practices, or uncritically present outcomes or implications that disadvantage minoritized communities. Further, reviewers of the scientific committee will be explicitly asked to consider whether the research was conducted in compliance with professional, ethical standards and applicable regulatory guidelines. Failure to do so could lead to a desk rejection. Publication & indexing ---------------------- Each accepted and presented full, short paper (for the main and special tracks), presented either as an oral presentation or as a poster, will be included in the conference proceedings by Springer in Communications in Computer and Information Science, edited by the general/PC chairs. At least one author of each accepted paper must pay the related fees and register for the conference by the deadline. The official publication date is when the publisher makes the proceedings available online. This date will be after the conference and can take some weeks. If authors want to publish their article OPEN ACCESS (upon a fee with Springer), please refer to this page: https://xaiworldconference.com/2024/springer-open-access/ For more details https://xaiworldconference.com/2025/call-for-papers/ -- Riccardo Guidotti Dipartimento di Informatica Universit? di Pisa, Largo Bruno Pontecorvo, 3, 56127 Pisa Mail: riccardo.guidotti at unipi.it Web: https://kdd.isti.cnr.it/people/guidotti-riccardo KDD Lab, Room: 363 Phone:+39 050 221 3134 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: