From M.Khosla at tudelft.nl Thu May 1 08:27:10 2025 From: M.Khosla at tudelft.nl (Megha Khosla) Date: Thu, 1 May 2025 12:27:10 +0000 Subject: Connectionists: Call for Papers: AIMLAI Workshop @ECML-PKDD 2025 Message-ID: We invite researchers working on interpretability and explainability in machine learning and artificial intelligence, as well as related topics, to submit regular papers (14 pages, single column) or short papers (7 pages, single column)to the AIMLAI Workshop, to be held in conjunction with ECML/PKDD 2025. Website: https://project.inria.fr/aimlai/ Submission link: https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/ECMLPKDDWorkshopTrack2025/Submission/Index Submission deadline: June 14, 2025 AIMLAI (Advances in Interpretable Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence) aims to foster principled research and discussion on building explainable machine learning and AI systems . We invite contributions from researchers in academia and industry that approach the challenges of achieving explainability and interpretability in AI systems from technical, as well as legal, ethical, or sociological perspectives. Submissions may include: Novel research results Application experiences Tools and systems Preliminary ideas with promising potential Topics of Interest (non-exhaustive) Interpretable Machine Learning Interpretable-by-design models Explainable recommendation systems Multimodal explanations Explainability for large language models (LLMs) LLMs as tools for explainability Mechanistic interpretability Transparency, Ethics, Fairness and Privacy Ethical implications of AI/ML Legal frameworks and compliance Fairness and bias mitigation Interplay of explainability and privacy Methodology & Evaluation Formal measures of interpretability and explainability Trade-offs between interpretability and model complexity Evaluation frameworks User-centered interpretability Explanation Modules & Human Integration Semantics in explanations Human-in-the-loop systems Combining ML, information visualization, and human-computer interaction We look forward to your contributions and to engaging discussions at AIMLAI 2025! -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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This interdisciplinary meeting brings together researchers from Astrophysics, High Energy Physics, Computer Science, and Industry to exchange insights and share experiences in Machine Learning (ML) and Artificial Intelligence (AI). *Keynote Speakers Include*: *Andrew Duncan* (Director of Science and Innovation, Alan Turing Institute) *Ciar?n M. Gilligan-Lee* (Head of Causal Inference, Spotify, Dublin) *Chris Lintott* (Prof. of Astrophysics, University of Oxford) *Emily Shuckburgh *(Director of ?Cambridge Zero?, University of Cambridge) *Topics Include*: - Examples of ML problems in Astrophysics & High Energy Physics - From ML to Physics & from Physics to ML - Surrogate & Generative models - Graph Neural Networks & Geometric Deep Learning - Discovery & Anomaly Detection - Simulation-Based Inference & Uncertainty Quantification - Interpretability & Explainability - Ethics, Sustainability & Resource-efficient AI *Registration link, Website & Programme*: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/data-intensive-science-industry/news/2024/dec/explore-future-ai-data-intensive-science-and-industry *Registration is open until May 12. Conference fee is ?150* (Payment details to follow soon) If you have any questions, please feel free to reach out. We look forward to welcoming you to London in June! 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The currently available LL models are being tested for efficiency, while newer models are also being developed. There are many challenges associated with generative AI. The pre-training volume and efficiency are a focus. To leverage the training set with comprehensiveness and accuracy, billions of parameters are injected into the LLM. Current GPTs face criticism, and governments are cautious about their use. The agenda for the future of Generative AI needs to be clarified. Improved generative tools should be capable of characterising extremist narratives in corpora to reveal different contexts, which may lead to building semantic-rich content for end-users. Evaluating the current models and their outcomes may inform future research. Considering these issues, we organised a workshop to address the theme of next-generation models. The workshop themes include, but are not limited to, the following. Text, Image, Code, Video, 3D models Domain-specific models Impact of Generative AI on Teaching and Learning Knowledge and Semantic Issues in Generative AI Future LLM AI Ethical Issues AI and NLP Embedding in AI Reinforcement learning Data Support and Datasets in AI Standards and Benchmarks Compositional generative models Workshop Chairs Gloria Tengyue Li North China University of Technology Beijing China Simon Fong University of Macau Macau Hathairat Ketmaneechairat King Mongkut?s University of Technology North Bangkok, Thailand Important Dates Submission of Papers: June 20, 2025 Notification of Acceptance/Rejection: July 15, 2025 Camera-ready: August 10, 2025 Registration: August 10, 2025 Conference Dates: August 18-20, 2025 Post-Conference Proceedings Release: November 30, 2025 Paper Submission: http://socio.org.uk/ddp/paper-submission Contact: ddp at socio.org.uk -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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The track is organized by the NSERC-CREATE Responsible AI program, a national training initiative focused on AI ethics for interdisciplinary researchers. Over the past three years, the track has grown into a vibrant space for critical discussions about the social and ethical dimensions of AI, and we?re eager to connect with more researchers and students in Alberta. We?re reaching out again to invite you?and especially your students and peers?to participate in the track?s events, which include: 3-Minute Thesis (3MT) Competition ? students deliver concise, engaging presentations about their AI-related research. Student Research Poster Session ? an opportunity to share in-progress or completed research. In addition, we?re hosting panels, invited talks, and networking opportunities that welcome participation from researchers, professionals, and students across disciplines. We?d greatly appreciate it if you could share this opportunity with your network. There are still funds available, and we encourage students to apply: ? Indicate interest in participating: forms.gle/1ekPqarWxzL9bFuo8 ? 5 conference registration awards available: forms.gle/oBmooiRuSPNvkDgNA ? 10 Travel and accommodation support for Black and Indigenous students: forms.gle/f86QTuA1yMhNCEDZ6 Please don?t hesitate to reach out if you?d like more information about any of the events or funding opportunities. I?d be happy to follow up. Thanks so much for considering this, and we hope to see you in Calgary at the end of May! Best regards, *Calvin Hillis* Program Coordinator *- Responsible Development of Artificial Intelligence * PhD Student - *Media & Design Innovation, Toronto Metropolitan University * -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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The Unit provides a unique opportunity for a critical mass of theoreticians to interact closely with one another and with researchers at the Sainsbury WellcomeCentre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour (SWC), the Centre for Computational Statistics and Machine Learning (CSML) and related UCL departments such as Computer Science; Statistical Science; Artificial Intelligence; the ELLIS Unit at UCL; Neuroscience; and the nearby Alan Turing and Francis Crick Institutes. Our PhD programme provides a rigorous preparation for a research career. Students complete a 4-year PhD in either machine learning or theoretical/computational neuroscience, with minor emphasis in the complementary field. Courses in the first year provide a comprehensive introduction to both fields and systems neuroscience. Students are encouraged to work and interact closely with SWC/CSML researchers to take advantage of this uniquely multidisciplinary research environment. Applicants should have a strong analytical and quantitative background, a keen interest in neuroscience, machine learning or both, and a relevant first degree, for example in Mathematics, Statistics, Computer Science, Engineering, Physics, Neuroscience or Cognitive Psychology. Full funding is available regardless of nationality. The unit also welcomes applicants who have secured or are seeking funding from other sources. Applications should be submitted directly to us via the online portal. For programme details and how to apply, see www.ucl.ac.uk/gatsby/study-and-work/gatsby-unit-phd-programme. -- I-Chun Lin Scientific Programme Manager Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, UCL -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From cthillis at torontomu.ca Fri May 2 12:08:01 2025 From: cthillis at torontomu.ca (Calvin Hillis) Date: Fri, 2 May 2025 12:08:01 -0400 Subject: Connectionists: =?utf-8?q?Join_Us_at_the_Responsible_AI_Conferenc?= =?utf-8?q?e_Track_=E2=80=93_Student_Opportunities_=26_Funding_Stil?= =?utf-8?q?l_Available?= Message-ID: Hello all, This year the Responsible AI Conference Track at the 2025 Canadian AI Conference will be held in Calgary on Tuesday, May 27. This marks the fourth iteration of our conference track and the first time it?s being hosted in Alberta. The track is organized by the NSERC-CREATE Responsible AI program, a national training initiative focused on AI ethics for interdisciplinary researchers. Over the past three years, the track has grown into a vibrant space for critical discussions about the social and ethical dimensions of AI, and we?re eager to connect with more researchers and students in Alberta. We?re reaching out again to invite you?and especially your students and peers?to participate in the track?s events, which include: 3-Minute Thesis (3MT) Competition ? students deliver concise, engaging presentations about their AI-related research. Student Research Poster Session ? an opportunity to share in-progress or completed research. In addition, we?re hosting panels, invited talks, and networking opportunities that welcome participation from researchers, professionals, and students across disciplines. We?d greatly appreciate it if you could share this opportunity with your network. There are still funds available, and we encourage students to apply: ? Indicate interest in participating: forms.gle/1ekPqarWxzL9bFuo8 ? 5 conference registration awards available: forms.gle/oBmooiRuSPNvkDgNA ? 10 Travel and accommodation support for Black and Indigenous students: forms.gle/f86QTuA1yMhNCEDZ6 Please don?t hesitate to reach out if you?d like more information about any of the events or funding opportunities. I?d be happy to follow up. Thanks so much for considering this, and we hope to see you in Calgary this May! Best regards, *Calvin Hillis* Program Coordinator *- Responsible Development of Artificial Intelligence * PhD Student - *Media & Design Innovation, Toronto Metropolitan University * LinkedIn -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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You have also the chance to register without contribution ? registration without contribution to the symposium will be open until capacity (100) or deadline for organization is reached. Our symposium takes place at the end of our Systems Vision Science Summer School Aug. 11-22, 2025. To contribute or participate, please fill out the appropriate form at https://summerschool.lizhaoping.org/contributions-for-symposium/ -------------------------------- We are pleased to announce our symposium's keynote speaker: Tadashi Isa. Invited speakers of the Systems Vision Science Summer School and Symposium include: Marco Bertamini, David Brainard, Peter Dayan, Andrea van Doorn, Roland Fleming, Pascal Fries, Wilson S Geisler, Robbe Goris, Sheng He, Tadashi Isa, Tomas Knapen, Jan Koenderink, Larry Maloney, Keith May, Marcello Rosa, Jonathan Victor, Li Zhaoping. -------------------------------- We invite you to participate in and contribute (in form of posters) to the symposium. Your contribution will be in the general topic of Systems Vision Science, which promotes the combination of computational, behavioral, and neuroscience methods to discover functions and algorithms for vision in various brain regions and their implementations in neural circuits. To maximize exchanges during the symposium, each poster will be displayed throughout the symposium, which includes four poster sessions (two daytime sessions and two evening sessions), in a venue next to the lecture hall and coffee breaks to give enough time for discussions, networking and knowledge exchange. -------------------------------- Please direct inquiries to svs.summerschool at tue.mpg.de https://summerschool.lizhaoping.org/ -------------------------------- Organizing team: Li Zhaoping Maria Pavlovic Vladislav Aksiotis Junhao Liang Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics University of Tuebingen www.lizhaoping.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT): KIT combines its three core tasks: research, higher education, and innovation within one mission. With about 10,000 employees and 23,000 students, KIT is one of the big institutions of research and higher education in natural sciences and engineering in Europe. KIT is located in Germany in the medium-sized city of Karlsruhe with a very high quality of life. Chair for Intelligent Sensor-Actuator-Systems (ISAS): ISAS ( http://isas.iar.kit.edu/) works on modern machine learning methods for estimation and control with applications to * Optimization of industrial processes, e.g., optical sorting machines * Robotic systems for decontamination in hazardous environments in the ROBDEKON competence center, see https://robdekon.de/en * Fast maturation of immature manufacturing processes in the DFG AI Research Unit 5339, see https://www.for5339.kit.edu/english Description of Positions: (see also https://isas.iar.kit.edu/Jobs) We are seeking to fill several PhD/PostDoc positions in the following areas: * Flow-based Bayesian state estimation * Deterministic sampling based on information measures * Intelligent distributed estimation architectures * Gaussian processes on manifolds for estimation of rigid body motion All positions offer the possibility to cooperate with our network of partners from industry and academia on a national and international basis. We offer intensive mentoring and a quick path to the PhD degree (? 3 years). Besides research, the supervision of bachelor/master theses and participation in teaching is expected. Personal Qualifications: * Master's degree (or equivalent) or PhD in computer science, electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, mathematics, or a related subject * Very good mathematical knowledge * (Moderate) proficiency in programming * Know-how in stochastics and signal processing (are advantageous, but not a prerequisite) * High self-motivation, team working skills, and readiness for interdisciplinary work * Proficiency in the English language (spoken and written) * Commitment to publish research results * Willingness to travel internationally (conferences, research stays, ...) Payment: The positions are full-time, fully paid researcher positions according to "Verg?tungsgruppe des Tarifvertrages des ?ffentlichen Dienstes" TV-L E 13. This may increase depending on experience. Contact: Submit applications including cover letter, CV, and academic transcripts by May 15, 2025 in electronic form to: Univ.-Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Uwe D. Hanebeck Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) Department of Informatics Institute for Anthropomatics and Robotics (IAR) Chair for Intelligent Sensor-Actuator-Systems (ISAS) Adenauerring 2 D-76131 Karlsruhe Germany E-Mail: Uwe.Hanebeck at kit.edu KIT is pursuing a gender equality policy and encourages women to apply. Furthermore, in case of equal qualification, preference is given to applicants with disabilities. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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We encourage submissions across all areas of Artificial Life research, including (but not limited to): * Complex dynamical systems and networks * Artificial chemistry, origins of life, computational biology * Synthetic biology, protocells, and wet artificial life * Ecology and evolution * Bio-inspired, cognitive and evolutionary robotics, swarms * Artificial intelligence and machine learning * Perception, cognition, behavior * Social systems, artificial and alternative societies * Evolution of language, computational linguistics * Artificial Life-based art * Artificial Life in education Key Submission Deadlines: Full Papers and Summaries: May 11th, 2025 Late Breaking Abstracts: September 8th, 2025 Please note that the submission types differ significantly from previous years - visit the ALIFE 2025 website for full details on the different submission types. 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Montr?al, Professor, gambs.sebastien at uqam.ca - Reihaneh Rabbany, McGill University, Assistant Professor, reihaneh.rabbany at mcgill.ca Special issue information: This special issue seeks to bring together cutting-edge research, methodologies, and critical reflections on Responsible Artificial Intelligence (RAI). The issue aims to deepen our understanding of the ethical, legal, technical, and societal dimensions of AI systems. As AI technologies permeate decision-making across industry, government, and society, the demand for systems that are fair, accountable, transparent, and trustworthy has never been more urgent. This special issue will provide a dedicated venue for interdisciplinary contributions addressing key challenges and opportunities in designing, deploying, and governing responsible AI systems. *Possible topics of submission:* Submissions are welcome on (but not limited to) the following topics: - Fairness and Bias Mitigation in AI: Techniques for detecting, measuring, and mitigating bias in data and algorithms. - Adversarial AI and Red Teaming: Robustness testing, threat modeling, and defense mechanisms; - Interpretability and Explainability: Models and tools for transparent decision-making. - Trust, Reliability, and Safety: Trust calibration, assurance testing, and risk management in AI. - Accountability in Algorithmic Decision-Making: Legal and technical frameworks for recourse and oversight. - Auditing and Monitoring AI Systems: Processes for real-time evaluation of deployed models. - Human-Centered AI Design: Participatory design, co-creation, and value-sensitive approaches. - Sociotechnical and Cultural Dimensions of AI: Historical, social, and cross-cultural studies of AI adoption. - Environmental Impact of AI: Studies on AI?s carbon footprint and sustainable development. - Regulatory, Legal, and Policy Considerations: Comparative analyses of AI governance and compliance. - Responsible AI Education and Training: Curricula design and strategies for teaching AI ethics and safety. - Social Impact and Labor Implications: Research on justice, equity, and human well-being in AI applications. Manuscript submission information: Important dates: Call for Papers Open: May 2025 Submission Deadline: October 30, 2025 Types of Submissions: We invite original, high-quality submissions that contribute substantively to the field of Responsible AI. These may include research articles that present empirical findings, theoretical contributions, or methodological innovations. We also welcome review articles that offer comprehensive and systematic surveys of specific sub-areas within responsible AI, synthesizing existing knowledge and identifying emerging trends, challenges, and opportunities for future research. Submission Guidelines: All submissions will undergo a single-blind peer-review process coordinated by the guest editors in coordination with the IP&M EiC. Authors must disclose any overlapping publications and provide clear documentation of changes in revised submissions. Submit your manuscript to the Special Issue category (VSI: ResponsibleAI) through the online submission system of *Information Processing & Management*. All the submissions should follow the general author guidelines of *Information Processing & Management*. Keywords: Responsible AI, AI Ethics, Algorithmic Accountability, AI Auditing, Social Implications of AI Best regards, *Calvin Hillis* Program Coordinator *- Responsible Development of Artificial Intelligence * PhD Student - *Media & Design Innovation, Toronto Metropolitan University * LinkedIn -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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ACDL 2025 Schedule: https://acdl2025.icas.events/wp-content/uploads/sites/30/2025/04/ACDL-2025-Schedule.pdf Sanjeev Arora, Princeton University & Institute for Advanced Study, USA 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 May 9) and (2/2) book accommodation at the course venue, ?Riva del Sole Resort & SPA? (by May 9); 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). 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URL: From terry at salk.edu Fri May 2 15:20:38 2025 From: terry at salk.edu (Terry Sejnowski) Date: Fri, 02 May 2025 12:20:38 -0700 Subject: Connectionists: NEURAL COMPUTATION May 1, 2025 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: NEURAL COMPUTATION - Volume 37, Number 4 - May 1, 2025 http://www.mitpressjournals.org/toc/neco/37/4 http://cognet.mit.edu/content/neural-computation Articles A Generalized Time Rescaling Theorem for Temporal Point Processes Xi Zhang, Akshay Aravamudan, and Georgios C. Anagnostopoulos Elucidating the Theoretical Underpinnings of Surrogate Gradient Learning o in Spiking Neural Networks Friedemann Zenke, Julia Gygax The Leaky Integrate-and-fire Neuron Is a Changepoint Detector for Compound Poisson Processes Shivaram Mani, Paul Hurley, Andre van Schaik, and Travis Monk Letters Adding Space to Random Networks of Spiking Neurons: o A Method Based on Scaling the Network Size Cecilia Romaro, Antonio Carlos Roque da Silva Filho, and Jose Roberto Castilho Piqueira Distributed Synaptic Connection Strength Changes Dynamics in a Population Firing Rate Model in Response to Continuous External Stimuli Masato Sugino, Mai Tanaka, Kenta Shimba, Kiyoshi Kotani, and Yasuhiko Jimbo Multi-level Data Representation for Training Deep Helmholtz Machines Jose Miguel Ramos, Luis Sa Couto, and Andreas Wichert Reformulation of RBM to Unify Linear and Nonlinear Dimensionality Reduction Jiangsheng You, Chun-Yen Liu ----- 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 kai.sauerwald at fernuni-hagen.de Mon May 5 02:49:09 2025 From: kai.sauerwald at fernuni-hagen.de (Kai Sauerwald) Date: Mon, 5 May 2025 08:49:09 +0200 Subject: Connectionists: [FCR 2025] CFP: 11th Workshop on Formal and Cognitive Reasoning Message-ID: * Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this call * ================================================================== ======================== Call for Papers ============================== 11th Workshop on Formal and Cognitive Reasoning (FCR-2025) Location: Potsdam, Germany Deadline for submission: July 4th, 2025 Workshop: September 16, 2025 Co-located with the 48th German Conference on Artificial Intelligence (KI 2025), September 16, 2025, Potsdam, Germany ================================================================== Aims and Scope ---------------------- In real-life AI applications, information is usually pervaded by uncertainty and subject to change, and thus requires non-classical systems. At the same time, psychological findings indicate that human reasoning cannot be completely described by classical logical systems. Sources of explanations are incomplete knowledge, incorrect beliefs, or inconsistencies. A wide range of reasoning mechanisms, such as analogical or defeasible reasoning, have to be considered, possibly in combination with machine learning methods. The field of knowledge representation and reasoning offers a rich palette of methods for uncertain reasoning, both to describe human reasoning and to model AI approaches. This series of workshops aims to address recent challenges and to present novel approaches to uncertain reasoning and belief change in their broad senses, and in particular, provide a forum for research work linking different paradigms of reasoning. A special focus is on papers that provide a base for connecting formal-logical models of knowledge representation and cognitive models of reasoning and learning, addressing formal and experimental or heuristic issues. Previous events of the Workshop on ?Formal and Cognitive Reasoning? and joint workshops took place in Dresden (2015), Bremen (2016), Dortmund (2017), Berlin (2018), Kassel (2019), Bamberg (2020, online), Berlin (2021, online), Trier (2022, online), Berlin (2023), and W?rzburg (2024). We welcome papers on the following and any related topics: Action and change Agents and multi-agent systems Analogical reasoning Argumentation theories Belief change and belief merging Cognitive modelling and empirical data Common sense and defeasible reasoning Computational thinking Decision theory and preferences Inductive reasoning and cognition Knowledge representation in theory and practice Learning and knowledge discovery in data Neuro-symbolic AI Nonmonotonic and uncertain reasoning Ontologies and description logics Probabilistic approaches of reasoning Syllogistic reasoning Keynote ------------ Barabara Kaup, University of T?bingen, Germany Workshop Organizers and Co-Chairs -------------------------------------------------- ?zg?r L?tf? ?z?ep Universit?t Hamburg, Germany Nele Ru?winkel Universit?t zu L?beck, Germany Kai Sauerwald FernUniversit?t in Hagen, Germany Diedrich Wolter Universit?t zu L?beck, Germany Important Dates ---------------------- Deadline for Submission: July 4, 2025 Notification of Authors: August 16, 2025 Camera-ready Paper: September 1, 2025 Workshop: September 16, 2025 Submission and Publication Details ----------------------------------------------- Long technical papers as well as short position papers and abstracts of published works are welcome. Further submission details: - Papers should be formatted in CEUR style (1-column style) without enabled header and footer. The author kit can be found at http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-XXX/CEURART.zip. The length of each paper is limited to 20 pages (including references and acknowledgements). - All papers must be written in English and submitted in PDF format via the EasyChair system:https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fcr2025 - One of the authors is expected to participate in the workshop and present their paper. Publication details: - The accepted papers will be made available entirely to the workshop participants. As in previous years, we plan to release the informal workshop proceedings with CEUR. - The authors may decide to include only an abstract of their paper (instead of their full paper) in the informal workshop proceedings available via CEUR. For that, a request must be posted to the workshop organizers shortly after the acceptance notification. From kai.sauerwald at fernuni-hagen.de Mon May 5 02:52:00 2025 From: kai.sauerwald at fernuni-hagen.de (Kai Sauerwald) Date: Mon, 5 May 2025 08:52:00 +0200 Subject: Connectionists: [RuleML+RR 2025] CFP: The 9th International Joint Conference on Rules and Reasoning Message-ID: * Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this call * ******************************************************************************* The 9th International Joint Conference on Rules and Reasoning (RuleML+RR 2025) == Call for Papers == *** RuleML+RR 2025 *** *** 22-24 September 2025 *** *** ?stanbul, T?rk?ye *** Abstract: June 2nd, 2025 Paper: June 9th, 2025 Homepage: https://2025.declarativeai.net/events/ruleml-rr RuleML+RR 2025 is part of Declarative AI 2025 (https://2025.declarativeai.net/) ******************************************************************************* RuleML+RR 2025 is a leading international joint conference in the field of rule-based reasoning. One of the main goals of RuleML+RR is to build bridges between academia and industry in the area of semantic reasoning. RuleML+RR 2025 aims to bring together researchers and practitioners interested in the foundations and applications of rules and reasoning. It provides a forum for stimulating cooperation between different communities focused on the research, development, and applications of rule-based systems. We solicit high-quality papers related to theoretical advances, novel technologies, and applications that involve rule-based representation and reasoning or other declarative forms of artificial intelligence. The RuleML+RR 2025 conference is part of the event ?Declarative AI: Rules, Reasoning, Decisions, and Explanations? (https://2025.declarativeai.net/) and is co-located with DecisionCAMP 2025 and the Reasoning Web Summer School. Apart from the main track, it features: * Rule Challenge (https://2025.declarativeai.net/events/ruleml-rr/rule-challenge), * Doctoral Consortium (https://2025.declarativeai.net/events/ruleml-rr/doctoral-consortium), * Industry Track (https://2025.declarativeai.net/events/ruleml-rr/industry-track), * Project Networking Session (https://2025.declarativeai.net/events/ruleml-rr/networking-session) *** Keynotes *** We are delighted to announce the following keynote speakers: * Boris Motik, University of Oxford (UK) * Esra Erdem, Sabanci University (Turkey) * Bob Kowalski, Imperial College London (UK) *** Topics *** RuleML+RR welcomes research from all areas of Rules and Reasoning. The topics of the conference include, but are not limited to: * Ontology/Semantic Web * Rules for AI and AI for Rules * Rules and Reasoning / Logics * Rules-Based Systems * Rules and Interoperability * Constraints and Schema * System Descriptions, Applications and Experiences of Ontologies and Rules See the conference homepage for more details on the topics: https://2025.declarativeai.net/events/ruleml-rr/cfp *** Important Dates *** Main track: Abstract submission: June 2, 2025 Paper submission: June 9, 2025 Notification: July 28, 2025 Conference: September 22?24, 2025 Associated events (Rule Challenge, Doctoral Consortium, Industry Track, and ProjectNetworking Session) - July 10, 2025: Paper submission deadline - July 31, 2025: Notification of acceptance For each of these deadlines, a cut-off point of 23:59 AOE applies. **Submission and Publication** High-quality papers related to theoretical advances, novel technologies, and artificial intelligence applications concerning explainable algorithmic decision-making that involve rule-based representation and reasoning are solicited. We accept the following submission formats for papers: - Long papers (up to 15 pages in LNCS style excluding references, plus 2 additional pages for references) - Short papers (up to 8 pages in LNCS style excluding references, plus 1 additional page for references) Long papers should present original and significant research and/or development results. Short papers should concisely describe general results or specific applications, systems, or position statements. All submissions must be prepared in Springer's LNCS style (http://www.springer.com/comp/lncs/authors.html). Submitted papers must not substantially overlap with papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference/workshop with formal proceedings. Double submission to a workshop with informal proceedings is allowed. Papers put on arXiv are also allowed as long as they are not refereed (i.e., formally reviewed by peers). Submissions to the RuleML+RR conference - abide by the page limits (see above) - are not anonymous - can have additional material included as an external report (appendices to the submission are not permitted and a paper should be self-contained) Papers should be written in English and submitted using EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=rulemlrr2025 The conference proceedings will be published by Springer in the Lecture Notesin Computer Science series (LNCS) after the conference. Proceedings of the associated events will be published by CEUR. Special Issues of Theory and Practice of Logic Programming and Transactions on Graph Data and Knowledge are planned with extended versions of selected papers. The main track's best paper will be awarded the RuleML+RR Harold Boley Distinguished Paper Award 2025 and best student paper will be awarded the RuleML+RR Best Student Paper Award 2025. The best RuleML Challenge paper will be awarded the RuleML+RR Best Rule Challenge Paper Award 2025. The best Doctoral Consortium paper will be awarded the RuleML+RR Best Doctoral Consortium Paper Award 2025. ***Chairs*** 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 Rule Challenge Chairs Alessandro Margara, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Tom?? Kliegr, Prague University of Economics and Business, Czechia Doctoral Consortium Chairs Shqiponja Ahmetaj, TU Wien, Austria Riccardo Tommasini, INSA Lyon, France Industry Track Chairs Luigi Bellomarini, Banca d?Italia, Italy Evgeny Kharlamov, Bosch Center for Artificial Intelligence, Germany Ioana Georgiana Ciuciu, Babe?-Bolyai University, Romania Networking Session Dumitru Roman, SINTEF AS, Norway George Konstantinidis, University of Southampton, UK Emanuel Sallinger, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Publicity Chairs Kai Sauerwald, FernUniversit?t in Hagen, Germany Tor-Morten Gr?nli, Kristiania University College, Norway Romuald Esdras Wandji, Ume? University, Sweeden From dhansel0 at gmail.com Sun May 4 10:29:22 2025 From: dhansel0 at gmail.com (David Hansel) Date: Sun, 4 May 2025 17:29:22 +0300 Subject: Connectionists: World wide VVTNS series (fifth season): Wednesday, May 7, 2025, at 11:00 am EDT| Mark van Rossum, University of Nottingham 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 Mark van Rossum University of Nottingham Energy efficient learning in neural networks The lecture will be held on zoom on Wednesday, May 7, 2025, at *11:00 am EDT * To receive the link: https://www.wwtns.online/register-page *Abstract: *The brain is one of the most energy intense organs. Some of this energy is used for neural information processing, however, fruitfly experiments have shown that also learning is metabolically costly. We will present estimates of this cost and introduce a general model of this cost, and compare it to costs in computers. Next, we turn to a supervised artificial network setting and explore a number of strategies that can save energy needed for plasticity. Either by modifying the objective function, by restricting plasticity, or by using less costly transient forms of plasticity. Finally, we will discuss adaptive strategies and possible relevance for biological learning. *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. 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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 Reasoning Web 2025 Meghyn Bienvenu, University of Bordeaux, France Alessandro Artale, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy DecisionCAMP 2025 Jacob Feldman, OpenRules, USA From annika.schuster at tu-dortmund.de Mon May 5 03:48:11 2025 From: annika.schuster at tu-dortmund.de (Schuster, Annika Noel) Date: Mon, 5 May 2025 07:48:11 +0000 Subject: Connectionists: Call for Participation: Machine Learning Meets Scientific Understanding Message-ID: <65a82b86ddc74f6e88929e9225f5cf38@tu-dortmund.de> The Emmy Noether group UDNN: Scientific Understanding and Deep Neural Networks is pleased to announce its upcoming workshop. This interdisciplinary event seeks to bring together philosophers of science and machine learning (ML), as well as ML practitioners, to explore the intersections between ML and scientific understanding. Machine Learning Meets Scientific Understanding June 26th and 27th, 2025 IBZ, TU Dortmund, Germany Registration: https://forms.gle/H2weV4MUMnEEDQ679 Website: https://udnn.tu-dortmund.de/index.php/activities/workshop-machine-learning-meets-scientific-understanding/ Confirmed speakers ? Cameron Buckner, Philosophy, University of Florida ? Heather Champion, Philosophy, T?bingen University ? Edward Chang, Computer Science, Stanford University ? Finnur Dells?n, Philosophy, University of Iceland ? Henk W. de Regt, Philosophy, Radboud University ? Timo Freiesleben, Philosophy, T?bingen University ? Giovanni Galli, Philosophy, University of Teramo ? Insa Lawler, Philosophy, UNC Greensboro ? Holger Lyre, Philosophy, Magdeburg University ? Daniel Neider, Computer Science, TU Dortmund University ? Sara Pernille Jensen, Philosophy, Oslo University ? Darrell P. Rowbottom, Philosophy, Lingnan University Hong Kong ? Eugene Shalugin, Philosophy, Radboud University ? 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The purpose of the Reasoning Web Summer School is to disseminate recent advances in reasoning techniques and relevant topics related to ontologies, rules, logic, the semantic web, linked data, and knowledge graph applications. The summer school is primarily intended for individuals who are currently pursuing or have recently completed postgraduate degrees (PhD or MSc). However, the school also welcomes the participation of researchers at later career stages who wish to become acquainted with the area or deepen their understanding of recent developments. The RW school is a great venue for meeting like-minded researchers and exchanging with an engaging and approachable group of international lecturers! *** Summer School Program *** As in previous years, the summer school will feature 8 tutorials delivered by researchers who are experts in the area. Here are the confirmed speakers and topics for this year's school: * Camille Bourgaux: Inconsistency-Tolerant Semantics Based on Preferred Repairs * Esra Erdem, Aysu Bogatarkan, Muge Fidan: Human-Centered ASP Applications: Representation and Reasoning * Patrick Koopmann: Explaining Reasoning Results for Description Logic Ontologies * Markus Kr?tzsch: Modern Datalog: Concepts, Methods, Applications * Antonella Poggi: From One-Level to Multi-Level Ontology-Based Data Access * Francesco Ricca and Giuseppe Mazzotta: ASP Essentials: Modelling and Efficient Solving * Luciano Serafini: Neuro-Symbolic Artificial Intelligence * Przemyslaw Walega: Reasoning about Time in DatalogMTL Tutorial abstracts and speaker bios can be found on the RW 2025 website: https://2025.declarativeai.net/events/reasoning-web/program *** Applications & Registration *** To participate in RW 2025, you will need to submit a short application, with information on your academic and research background and motivation for attending the school. You can do so by filling out the following form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1aIIeJdHS2zash1gCMmqw2_UnFMNO7DMA7X8SyI8x3bI/edit or alternatively, by sending the organizers an email with all of the information requested on the form. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis, and notifications will be sent within 1-2 weeks from the time of application. Successful applicants will receive information on how to pay the registration fee to confirm their spot in the school. There is a discounted fee of 240? (incl. VAT) for applications received by May 31st (180?, for local participants with a Turkish affiliation). The regular fee of 300? (incl. VAT) applies to applications received on or after June 1st (240?, for local participants with a Turkish affiliation). The registration fee includes access to the lectures, lunches, and coffee breaks for the four days, as well as a social event. Note that students who participate in RW 2025 are also encouraged to apply to the Rule ML+RR Doctoral Consortium. Summer school participants who have a paper accepted at the Doctoral Consortium can attend the relevant Doctoral Consortium session without registering for the conference. *** (NEW) Travel Grants *** We are happy to announce the availability of a limited number of travel grants to help support students who wish to attend RW 2025 but lack sufficient funding. Travel grants will consist of free registration to the school and a contribution of up to 600? to help cover travel expenses (the grant amount will be transferred shortly after the school). To apply for a travel grant: 1) Submit an application to attend RW 2025 (see above), if you have not already done so. 2) Send an email to the RW 2025 chairs (email addresses below) with subject line "RW 2025 Travel Grant Application". The email should contain a brief estimate of your expected travel costs and a letter from your supervisor in support of your travel grant application confirming that you are a full-time student and that your participation cannot be financed by other means. The deadline for submitting a travel grant application is *Tuesday, May 20*. Notifications will be sent by the end of May. *** If you require additional information, please get in touch with the chairs. * Alessandro Artale, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy artale at inf.unibz.it * Meghyn Bienvenu, CNRS & University of Bordeaux, France meghyn.bienvenu at u-bordeaux.fr From fmschleif at googlemail.com Sat May 3 16:55:43 2025 From: fmschleif at googlemail.com (Frank-Michael Schleif) Date: Sat, 3 May 2025 22:55:43 +0200 Subject: Connectionists: CFP: SS DSAA'25 - Collaborative AI: Advancing Federated Learning Across Disciplines (-- EXTENDED DEADLINE --, 16.05.25) Message-ID: **Apologies for cross-posting. Please forward to anyone who may be interested?thank you!** ### **DSAA 2025 SPECIAL SESSION** **"Collaborative AI: Advancing Federated Learning Across Disciplines"** ? 09?13 October 2025 ? Birmingham, UK ? [https://dsaa.ieee.org/2025](https://dsaa.ieee.org/2025) This session focuses on federated machine learning in complex, distributed environments where data cannot be centrally aggregated due to privacy and regulatory constraints. Key challenges include heterogeneity, communication efficiency, distributed model representation, and privacy-preserving computation. We welcome contributions on federated learning variants, model compression, adaptive aggregation, and techniques such as differential privacy. Applications of interest span IoT, recommendation systems, medicine, automotive, sensor networks, and NLP?especially where privacy, efficiency, and performance must be balanced. --- ### **AIMS AND SCOPE** We invite interdisciplinary submissions that bridge research communities and explore the intersection of federated learning, distributed intelligence, computational intelligence, and machine learning. --- ### **Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:** * Learning in heterogeneous/distributed systems * Communication protocols for federated model updates * Model compression and adaptive aggregation * Representation learning in distributed settings * Approximate methods for distributed data analysis * Federated learning variants (e.g., split learning, gossip learning, decentralized FL) * Shapley values and interpretability in federated contexts * Multi-modality and multi-view federated learning * Security and privacy in federated environments * Differential privacy for FL * Deep learning applications in federated settings * Resource-efficient FL for constrained devices * Pattern recognition in non-stationary and distributed systems --- ? **Submission Deadline:** 16 May 2025 (Anywhere on Earth) ? **Submit via:** [https://openreview.net/group?id=IEEE.org/DSAA/2025](https://openreview.net/group?id=IEEE.org/DSAA/2025) --- ### **Special Session Organizers** Frank-Michael Schleif ? Technical UAS Wuerzburg-Schweinfurt, Germany Mirko Polato ? Universit? di Torino, Italy Barbara Hammer ? University of Bielefeld, Germany Manuel R?der ? Technical UAS Wuerzburg-Schweinfurt, Germany -- ------------------------------------------------------- Prof. Dr. rer. nat. habil. Frank-Michael Schleif School of Computer Science Technical University of Applied Sciences W?rzburg-Schweinfurt Sanderheinrichsleitenweg 20 Raum I-3.35 Tel.: +49(0) 931 351 18127 97074 W?rzburg Honorable Research Fellow The University of Birmingham Edgbaston Birmingham B15 2TT United Kingdom - email: frank-michael.schleif at thws.de http://promos-science.blogspot.de/ https://www.techfak.uni-bielefeld.de/~fschleif/ ------------------------------------------------------- From jeevankumar.gochhayat at students.iiserpune.ac.in Mon May 5 12:49:21 2025 From: jeevankumar.gochhayat at students.iiserpune.ac.in (Jeevan Kumar Gochhayat) Date: Mon, 5 May 2025 22:19:21 +0530 Subject: Connectionists: CAMP 2025 @IISER Pune | Deadline Extended Message-ID: *****Apologies for cross posting***** CAMP 2025 An Intensive two-week course on Theoretical and Computational Modeling of Memory and Plasticity *Deadline Extended | Apply before : 12th May, 2025 * *CAMP* (Computational Approaches to Memory and Plasticity) summer school is a two-week program that invites Ph.D. students, master?s students, final-year undergraduates, and postdocs worldwide for an intensive training in the areas of learning, memory, and plasticity in the brain. The program will take place between *3rd July and 17th July 2025* at Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Pune, India (IISER Pune ). This year?s flavor of CAMP will be *Networks across scales*. The course will have lectures, hands-on tutorials, and projects to introduce participants to the exciting field of computational neuroscience. Accommodation and meals will be covered for the participants. Application submission deadline has been extended till *12th May,2025*. *Apply now* @camp.iiserpune.ac.in You can also follow us on X (formerly Twitter) for regular updates about the program @camp_course . Please spread the word ! *Contact us:* camp at acads.iiserpune.ac.in More details on the poster [image: CAMP2025_Poster_Final_compressed_updated2.png] We look forward to meeting you in Pune! 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This year?s edition features three focused workshops covering timely and interdisciplinary themes: ? *Cognitive Biases in Agent-Based Models and Agent-Resolved Data* ? *Complex Network Sparsification* ? *Complex Health and AI* These sessions bring together cutting-edge research and offer a unique opportunity to engage with experts in the field. You can now consult the *workshops program* and the *full program at a glance*. If you haven?t done so already, we warmly invite you to *register* and join us in Bordeaux from *May 21?23, 2025*, for three days of stimulating discussions and networking. We look forward to welcoming you at FRCCS 2025! Warm regards, *The FRCCS 2025 Organizing Committee* *Subject:* FRCCS 2025 ? Explore the Workshops Program and Full Conference Agenda! Dear colleagues, We are pleased to announce that the *workshops program for FRCCS 2025* is now available! This year?s edition features three focused workshops: ? *Cognitive Biases in Agent-Based Models and Agent-Resolved Data* ? *Complex Network Sparsification* ? *Complex Health and AI* These sessions will be held as part of a broader program filled with outstanding contributions and speakers. Here's a quick look at the *main track highlights*: ?? *May 21* ? Keynotes by *Caterina A. M. La Porta* and *Mikko Kivel?*, sessions on mobility, engineering systems, and economics, plus the Bertalanffy Student Award. ?? *May 22* ? Talks by *Elsa Arcaute* and the *Ren? Thom Young Researcher Awardee*, sessions on emergence, networks, and social complexity, ending with the *dinner banquet*. ?? *May 23* ? Keynote by *Ulrik Brandes*, sessions on health & AI, diffusion, and final awards. The *full schedule* and *workshop details* are now online at: ? https://iutdijon.u-bourgogne.fr/ccs-france/program_/ ? Don?t forget to *register* and secure your spot for this exciting event in *Bordeaux, May 21?23, 2025*! https://iutdijon.u-bourgogne.fr/ccs-france/registration/ Warm regards, *The FRCCS 2025 Organizing Committee* -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From samarasinghe at ini.rub.de Tue May 6 09:12:20 2025 From: samarasinghe at ini.rub.de (Vinita Samarasinghe) Date: Tue, 6 May 2025 15:12:20 +0200 Subject: Connectionists: Brains in Space - 20.05.25 - Thomas Wolbers (DZNE Magdeburg) Message-ID: It is time for *Brains in Space* again! This semester we invite you to talks by: Thomas Wolbers (DZNE Magdeburg), James McLaren (Universit?t Oldenburg), Xiangshuai Zeng (Ruhr University Bochum), and Lukas Kunz (Universit?t Bonn). The colloquium takes place virtually on Tuesday's from 16:00 to 17:30 (CEST) and the complete schedule can be found at https://www.ini.rub.de/teaching/courses/colloquium_brains_in_space_an_interdisciplinary_research_colloquium_on_spatial_navigation_summer_term_2025/. The first talk is on May 20th 2025 and is open to the public. Please feel free to forward this information to any of your colleagues who may be interested. May 20th: *Thomas Wolbers* - DZNE Magdeburg *Title:* Mechanisms of Navigational decline in human ageing Zoom link: https://ruhr-uni-bochum.zoom-x.de/j/67839364827?pwd=RfcIgK8OUfjkwWTNCf80ARXy118xe8.1 [Meeting ID: 678 3936 4827; Passcode: 841644] We look forward to seeing you. 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We will present estimates of this cost and introduce a general model of this cost, and compare it to costs in computers. Next, we turn to a supervised artificial network setting and explore a number of strategies that can save energy needed for plasticity. Either by modifying the objective function, by restricting plasticity, or by using less costly transient forms of plasticity. Finally, we will discuss adaptive strategies and possible relevance for biological learning. *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. 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Published in the *Springer LNCS Proceedings* ? *Extended Abstracts* (max 4 pages) ? Included in the *Book of Abstracts (with ISBN)* ? *Submit your work:* ? https://complexnetworks.org/submission/ Templates and guidelines are available on the site. ------------------------------ ? *Free Access to COMPLEX NETWORKS 2024* Until *May 31, 2025*, download: - ? *Springer Proceedings (Volumes 1?4)* - ? *Book of Abstracts* ? Access here https://complexnetworks.org/proceedings/ ------------------------------ ? *Journal Special Issues* Extended versions of selected contributions will be invited to: - *PLOS Complex Systems* - *Applied Network Science* - *Entropy* - *Advances in Complex Systems*, and others ------------------------------ Don?t miss this opportunity to share your work, meet leading researchers, and explore the future of complex networks. We look forward to your submission! 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The zoom link for this seminar is https://utc-fr.zoom.us/j/81082468682 For this new seminar, we are very happy to have Snow Zhang as our speaker. Snow Zhang is currently assistant professor in the Department of Philosophy and a member of the Logic Group at the University of California, Berkeley. Snow Zhang research focuses on the foundations and philosophy of probability, with combination of (imprecise) probabilities being one of her privileged topic of investigation. On the 13th of May, at 15:00 CEST:paris time (up to 17:00 CEST, with a talk duration of 45min/1h), she will talk about "Probabilistic opinion pooling and imprecise probabilities?. 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 13th of May, 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=gGPF9dUug2g See you at the seminar! S?bastien, Enrique and Jasper From amir.kalfat at gmail.com Tue May 6 15:58:42 2025 From: amir.kalfat at gmail.com (Amir Aly) Date: Tue, 6 May 2025 20:58:42 +0100 Subject: Connectionists: Prestigious Lecture Series - Live Talk by Prof. Tony Prescott - University of Sheffield Message-ID: Dear All * *Apologies for cross-posting** I?m pleased to share that the next talk of the *CRNS Talk Series* at the University of Plymouth, scheduled for May 14th, will be an *IEEE-RAS* *co-sponsored Prestigious Lecture.* *Prof. Tony Prescott *from the University of Sheffield will deliver a talk on Wednesday, *May 14th *from *11:00 AM - 12:30 PM* (*London time*) over Zoom. *Thank you for forwarding the invitation to any of your colleagues who might be interested*. >> *Events*: The CRNS talk series will cover a wide range of topics including Social and Cognitive Robotics, Computational Neuroscience, Developmental Psychology, Computational Linguistics, Cognitive Vision, AI and Machine Learning, and healthcare. More details are available here: https://www.plymouth.ac.uk/research/robotics-neural-systems/whats-on >> *Link for the next event*: According to IEEE regulations, registration to the event is required (*Registration Link *). A Zoom link will be sent to registered persons prior to the event. >> *Title of the talk: **Analysis and Synthesis of the Embodied Self: A Robotics Perspective* *Abstract*: This talk will consider the specific challenge of synthesizing a robot ?sense of self?. The starting point is an analysis of the human self that sees it as brought into being by the activity of a set of transient self-processes instantiated by the brain and body. I propose that we can better understand this self-system, and thereby this core aspect of the human condition, through embodied (robotic) modelling. The self begins with the brain?s discovery of the body, of its ability to control it, and of the distinctive dynamics of interoceptive compared to exteroceptive sensory signals. 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We welcome work describing original and replicable research showing evidence of significant contribution to the Semantic Web. More details: https://iswc2025.semanticweb.org/#/calls/research  Research Track Chairs: Contact: iswc2025-research at easychair.org Daniel Garijo, Universidad Polit?cnica de Madrid, Spain Sabrina Kirrane, Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria ======================== Call for Resource Track Papers The ISWC 2025 Resources Track aims to promote the sharing of resources that support, enable, or utilize semantic web research. We welcome descriptions of resources that leverage knowledge representation based on Semantic Web standards or other graph data models to improve the acquisition, processing, and sharing of data on the web. More details:  https://iswc2025.semanticweb.org/#/calls/resource  Resource Track Chairs: Contact:  iswc2025-resource at easychair.org Cogan Shimizu, Wright State University, US Angelo Salatino, KMi,The Open University, UK ======================= Call for In-use Track Papers The In-Use track seeks submissions describing applied research as well as software tools, systems, or architectures that benefit from the use of Semantic Web and Knowledge Graph technologies (including, but not limited to, technologies based on the Semantic Web standards). Importantly, submitted papers should provide convincing evidence of the use of the proposed application or tool by the target user group, preferably outside the group that conducted the development and, more broadly, outside the Semantic Web and Knowledge Graph research communities. 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Deatails are available at the workshops? pages: * Automatic Affect Analysis and Synthesis (3AS): https://sites.google.com/unimib.it/3asiciap2025 * 4th?International Workshop on Traffic and Street Surveillance for Safety and Security (T4S): https://iwt4s2025.wordpress.com * Third?International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Radiomics in Computer?Aided Diagnosis (AIRCAD?2025): https://sites.google.com/view/aircad2025 * Second?International Workshop on Video Surveillance Systems in Smart Cities (V3SC?2025?2) * International Workshop on Advances in Drone Vision (ADV?2025): https://cilabuniba.github.io/adv2025/ * AICV4Food: Deep Learning and Multimodal Approaches for Food Analysis: https://sites.google.com/unimib.it/aicv4food/ * Recent Advances in Digital Security: Biometrics and Forensics (BioFor?2025) * Computer Vision and Generative Models for Medical Imaging: https://cvgmmi.github.io/CVGMMI-2025/ * 4th?International Workshop on Fine Art Pattern Extraction and Recognition (FAPER?2025): https://sites.google.com/view/faper2025 * Computer Vision for Environment Monitoring and Preservation (CVEMP): https://sites.google.com/diag.uniroma1.it/cvemp-2025 * Reliable?AI and Uncertainty Quantification in Image Analysis: https://relai.isti.cnr.it/ * 2nd?Workshop on Computer Vision and Digital Manuscripts (ViDiScript): https://sites.google.com/view/avml-lab-vidiscript-iciap2025 * HUARL: Humans in the eXtended Artificial Intelligence Loop: https://sites.google.com/view/huarl-iciap-2025/ * Fundamentals of Deep Learning for Computer Vision: From Theory to Practice (FDLCV?2025): https://sites.google.com/i4ml.com/iciap2025 * IMPACT: Innovative Medical Image Processing with AI?driven preCision Technologies: https://impact-workshop.github.io * INSAIT: Interpretable Systems for Artificial Intelligence Transparency: https://insait-workshop.github.io/ICIAP25/ * ItalNet: Connecting the Young Italian Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Community: https://sites.google.com/view/italnet25/ * Neuro?Inspired?AI: https://sites.google.com/view/neuro-inspired-ai/ * 5th?International Workshop on Pattern Recognition for Cultural Heritage (PatReCH?2025):?[URL?forthcoming] * AVD: Alternative Visual Domains for Detection, Tracking and Forecasting: https://sites.google.com/view/avd2025 * 2nd?Workshop on Trustworthy Generative?AI for Image and Video Synthesis: Challenges, Ethics, and Applications (TRUEGEN?VIS): https://sites.google.com/view/truegen-vis-2025/home * Women in Data Science * ImagEAT: Imaging,?AI,?VR and?AR in Food Research to Enhance Safety, Quality, and Consumer Insights: https://sites.google.com/view/imageat2025 * 1st?International Workshop on Multimodal Artificial Intelligence for Healthcare (mAI4Health): https://sites.google.com/icar.cnr.it/workshop-mai4health-2025/home-page?authuser=0 * Human?Object Interaction: Integrating Egocentric and Exocentric Perspectives: https://sites.google.com/view/hoi-ego-exo-iciap-2025 * Modular Deep Learning * Generation of Human Face and Body Behavior (GHB?2025) ? 2nd?Edition: https://sites.google.com/unifi.it/ghb2025/ * OCT?Cyst Challenge: A Competition for Cyst Segmentation in Optical Coherence Tomography Images: https://sites.google.com/community.unipa.it/iciap2025-oct-cystchallenge/home-page * Media Forensics, Deepfake and Applications: https://iplab.dmi.unict.it/mfs/mfda-2025/ * ONFIRE?CONTEST?2025 ? 2nd?International Contest on Real?Time Fire Detection on the Edge: https://mivia.unisa.it/onfire2025/ * Dual Factor Lip?Based Biometric User Authentication: https://www.dmi.unict.it/spata/BiovidChallenge/ We look forward to your valued contributions. 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Candidates should have a strong background in physics, computer science, mathematics, or related fields. Programming skills in Python and knowledge of dynamical systems are required. Previous experience in neuroscience will be appreciated. The research will be conducted at the Institute of Neuroinformatics in Zurich, a vibrant and stimulating environment for neuroscience research. The positions are funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation, and salaries are in accordance with their guidelines. The ideal start date is September 2025, with some flexibility. Applications will be considered until the position is filled. To apply, please send a motivation letter, CV, and contact information for 2-3 references, as well as any other relevant documents to timothee.proix (at) unige.ch. From battleday at g.harvard.edu Wed May 7 08:23:37 2025 From: battleday at g.harvard.edu (Battleday, Ruairidh) Date: Wed, 7 May 2025 13:23:37 +0100 Subject: Connectionists: 6th International Conference on Mathematics of Neuroscience and AI (Split, Croatia, 27-30 May 2025) - final schedule announced; abstract submission and attendance still open Message-ID: 6th International Conference on Mathematics of Neuroscience and AI (Split, Croatia, 27-30 May 2025) - final schedule announced; abstract submission and attendance still open! ?--------- Final schedule announced for our upcoming conference on the Mathematics of Neuroscience and AI in sunny Split, Croatia. In this high-profile conference, we profile foundational research into the basis of intelligence from the perspective of neural data, neural theory, cognitive science, and machine learning & artificial intelligence (AI). www.neuromonster.org Thank you to all those that have submitted?the quality has been exceptional. - Abstract submissions are rolling - Student admission $50 - General admission $100 Keynote Speakers Professor Wolfgang Maas (Graz), Professor Eve Marder (Brandeis), Professor Jay McClelland (Stanford), Professor Christine Constantinople (NYU), Dr Kim Stachenfeld (DeepMind), Dr Ida Momennejad (Microsoft Research), Professor Jacob Foerster (Oxford / Meta). Invited Speakers Professor Alex Cayco-Gajic (ENS) Dr Jenelle Feather (Flatiron Institute) Dr Joao Barbosa (Institute for Neuromodulation) Tejas Ramdas (Harvard) Professor Vijay Namdoodiri (UCSF) Professor Annegret Falkner (Princeton) Dr Chris Hillar (New Theory AI) Dr Juan Gallego (Imperial) Professor Bonan Zhao (Edinburgh) Professor Lisa-Marie Vortmann (Groningen) Felix Sosa (Harvard) Dr Mathias Sabl?-Meyer (Harvard / MIT) Dr Lio Wong (MIT) Dr Chen Sun (Mila) Session Chairs Dr Valeria Fascianelli (Columbia; Neural data) Dr Francesca Mignacco (CUNY & Princeton; Neural data) Dr James Whittington (Oxford & Stanford; Neural theory) Dr Maria Eckstein (DeepMind; Cognitive science) Mikey Lepori (Brown & DeepMind; Machine learning & AI) Location The conference will be held in the ancient port town of Split, Croatia, on the Dalmatian Coast. 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The conference will be in person. All presenters must be on-site. We use OpenReview for paper submission and reviewing. Accepted papers are published in Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) or Communications in Computer and Information Science (CCIS), and become open access in OpenReview. For more details, please visit the Call for Papers page: https://iconip2025.apnns.org/call-for-papers Important Dates Paper submission deadline: May 22nd Notification of acceptance: July 15th Camera ready submission: August 15th Registration deadline: August 15th Conference dates: November 20-24 We look forward to receiving diverse and high-quality submissions from researchers around the world! Inquiry: iconip2025 at apnns.org ---- Kenji Doya Neural Computation Unit, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University 1919-1 Tancha, Onna, Okinawa 904-0495, Japan Phone: +81-98-966-8594; Fax: +81-98-966-2891 https://groups.oist.jp/ncu From benoit.frenay at unamur.be Wed May 7 10:52:00 2025 From: benoit.frenay at unamur.be (=?iso-8859-1?Q?Beno=EEt_Frenay?=) Date: Wed, 7 May 2025 14:52:00 +0000 Subject: Connectionists: AIMLAI@ECML/PKDD 2025 - Call for Papers Message-ID: We invite researchers working on interpretability and explainability in machine learning and artificial intelligence, as well as related topics, to submit regular papers (14 pages, single column) or short papers (7 pages, single column) to the AIMLAI Workshop, to be held in conjunction with ECML/PKDD 2025. Website: https://project.inria.fr/aimlai/ Submission link: https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/ECMLPKDDWorkshopTrack2025/Submission/Index Submission deadline: June 14, 2025 Workshop: September 15, 2025 AIMLAI (Advances in Interpretable Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence) aims to foster principled research and discussion on building explainable machine learning and AI systems . We invite contributions from researchers in academia and industry that approach the challenges of achieving explainability and interpretability in AI systems from technical, as well as legal, ethical, or sociological perspectives. Submissions may include: * Novel research results * Application experiences * Tools and systems * Preliminary ideas with promising potential Topics of Interest (non-exhaustive) Interpretable Machine Learning * Interpretable-by-design models * Explainable recommendation systems * Multimodal explanations * Explainability for large language models (LLMs) * LLMs as tools for explainability * Mechanistic interpretability Transparency, Ethics, Fairness and Privacy * Ethical implications of AI/ML * Legal frameworks and compliance * Fairness and bias mitigation * Interplay of explainability and privacy Methodology & Evaluation * Formal measures of interpretability and explainability * Trade-offs between interpretability and model complexity * Evaluation frameworks * User-centered interpretability Explanation Modules & Human Integration * Semantics in explanations * Human-in-the-loop systems * Combining ML, information visualization, and human-computer interaction We look forward to your contributions and to engaging discussions at AIMLAI 2025! 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This year, the workshop will take place in the beautiful city of Catania, Italy, next to Europe's largest active volcano *Etna*, on September 8-9th, 2025. The ISD9 will be part of The International Conference of Formal Ontology in Information Systems (FOIS)'s workshop program The Joint Ontology Workshops (JOWO). Check more information on the workshop website at: https://isd9 .imageschema.net/ As in previous years, ISD9 is a networking event that invites researchers on image schemas, conceptual primitives and spatiotemporal reasoning from various scientific disciplines to present their research and discuss ideas for future projects. Unlike many other workshops focused on different topics in one discipline or using one methodology, the Image Schema Day invites researchers from all disciplines and methods but focuses on one main topic. As such, the workshop offers a friendly environment for researchers of all stages who are interested in presenting and discussing work on the formal and analytical treatment of conceptual patterns, embodied cognition and the interdisciplinary exploration of human thought! This year, the workshop accepts four kinds of submissions: - Abstracts for presentation only (1-2 pages) *(NOTE: not included in the proceedings.)* - Extended abstracts/short papers (5-9 pages) of work in progress - Summaries of recently published articles (2-5 pages). *(NOTE: only summaries of 5 pages are included in the proceedings.)* - Research papers (10-12 pages) discussing novel research not published (or under review) at another venue. Topics of interest with (the broadest of interpretation of) an image-schematic focus include: - Image schema investigations - Spatiotemporal reasoning - Formalisation of conceptual primitives - AI/robot systems using image schematic components - Linguistic analysis of semantic patterns - Artistic systems/pieces based on composition semantics - Cognitive/empirical studies on conceptual patterns - Metaphoric/analogical analysis of concepts All submissions will be peer-reviewed, and accepted contributions will be presented at the workshop! Extended abstracts (5+ pages) and full papers will be published in the JOWO'25 proceedings. Submission instructions can be found on the event website. 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Whether you?re working on new computational theories of the brain and mind, novel experimental findings, or applying neuroscience insights to AI, we?d love to hear from you. Our full schedule is out on the website. [image: First Poster (1).png] *Keynote Speakers Include:* - Prof. Wolfgang Maass (Graz) - Prof. Eve Marder (Brandeis) - Prof. Jay McClelland (Stanford) - Prof. Christine Constantinople (NYU) - Dr. Kim Stachenfeld (DeepMind) - Dr. Ida Momennejad (Microsoft Research) - Prof. Jacob Foerster (Oxford / Meta) *Venue & Travel* The beautiful city is easily accessible via *Split and Dubrovnik airports*, as well as *Mediterranean ferry lines*. *Looking to Get Involved?* We?re also seeking *volunteers* to help support the smooth running of the conference. In exchange, volunteers will receive a *free three-day conference pass, and an opportunity to network with researchers across the globe from academia and industry*. 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Papers may be submitted to one of two tracks: Regular track: unpublished work. Papers submitted to this track are unpublished, though they may be concurrently under review at another venue. These papers will be subjected to the full review process. Fast track: published work. Papers that are already accepted at one of the venues listed below may be submitted to this track. They will not receive new in-depth reviews, but will be reviewed for relevance to the topics of interest to EWRL with desk-accept and -rejection decisions. Submissions are handled through OpenReview. Submitted papers will be reviewed by the program committee in a double-blind procedure. Final decisions will be taken by the program chairs based on the reviews. There will be no author/reviewer discussion phase. Only accepted papers will be publicly released, while rejected or withdrawn manuscripts will be kept confidential. Submitted papers should follow the EWRL template, see website. 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The conference covers all aspects of knowledge discovery from data, with a strong focus on graph learning and knowledge graph, including algorithms, software, platforms. ICKG 2025 intends to draw researchers and application developers from a wide range of areas such as knowledge engineering, representation learning, big data analytics, statistics, machine learning, pattern recognition, data mining, knowledge visualization, high performance computing, and World Wide Web etc. By promoting novel, high quality research findings, and innovative solutions to address challenges in handling all aspects of learning from data with dependency relationship. All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings by the IEEE Computer Society. Awards, including Best Paper, Best Paper Runner up, Best Student Paper, Best Student Paper Runner up, will be conferred at the conference, with a check and a certificate for each award. The conference also features a survey track to accept survey papers reviewing recent studies in all aspects of knowledge discovery and graph learning. At least five high quality papers will be invited for a special issue of the Knowledge and Information Systems Journal, in an expanded and revised form. In addition, at least eight quality papers will be invited for a special issue of Data Intelligence Journal in an expanded and revised form with at least 30% difference. TOPICS OF INTEREST Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: ? Foundations, algorithms, models, and theory of knowledge discovery and graph learning ? Knowledge engineering with big data. ? Machine learning, data mining, and statistical methods for data science and engineering. ? Acquisition, representation and evolution of fragmented knowledge. ? Fragmented knowledge modeling and online learning. ? Knowledge graphs and knowledge maps. ? Graph learning security, privacy, fairness, and trust. ? Interpretation, rule, and relationship discovery in graph learning. ? Geospatial and temporal knowledge discovery and graph learning. ? Ontologies and reasoning. ? Topology and fusion on fragmented knowledge. ? Visualization, personalization, and recommendation of Knowledge Graph navigation and interaction. ? Knowledge Graph systems and platforms, and their efficiency, scalability, and privacy. ? Applications and services of knowledge discovery and graph learning in all domains including web, medicine, education, healthcare, and business. ? Big knowledge systems and applications. ? Crowdsourcing, deep learning and edge computing for graph mining. ? Large language models and applications ? Open source platforms and systems supporting knowledge and graph learning. ? Datasets and benchmarks for graphs ? Neurosymbolic & Hybrid AI systems ? Graph Retrieval Augmented Generation SURVEY TRACK Survey paper reviewing recent study in keep aspects of knowledge discover and graph learning. In addition to the above topics, authors can also select and target the following Special Track topics. Each special track is handled by respective special track chairs, and the papers are also included in the conference proceedings. ? Special Track 01: KGC and Knowledge Graph Building ? Special Track 02: KR and KG Reasoning. ? Special Track 03: KG and Large Language Model ? Special Track 04: GNN and Graph Learning ? Special Track 05: QA and Graph Database ? Special Track 06: KG and Multi-modal Learning. ? Special Track 07: KG and Knowledge Fusion. ? Special Track 08: Industry and Applications SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Paper submissions should be no longer than 8 pages, in the IEEE 2-column format, including the bibliography and any possible appendices. Submissions longer than 8 pages will be rejected without review. All submissions will be reviewed by the Program Committee based on technical quality, originality, significance, and clarity. For survey track paper, please preface the descriptive paper title with ?Survey:?, followed by the actual paper title. For example, a paper entitled ?A Literature Review of Streaming Knowledge Graph?, should be changed as ?Survey: A Literature Review of Streaming Knowledge Graph?. This is for the reviewers and chairs to clearly bid and handle the papers. Once the paper is accepted, the word, such as ?Survey:?, can be removed from the camera-ready copy. For special track paper, please preface the descriptive paper title with ?SS##:?, where ?##? is the two digits special track ID. For example, a paper entitled ?Incremental Knowledge Graph Learning?, intended to target Special Track 01 (Machine learning and knowledge graph) should be changed as ?SS01: Incremental Knowledge Graph Learning?. All manuscripts are submitted as full papers and are reviewed based on their scientific merit. The reviewing process is single blind, meaning that each submission should list all authors and affiliations. There is no separate abstract submission step. There are no separate industrial, application, or poster tracks. Manuscripts must be submitted electronically in the online submission system. No email submission is accepted. To help ensure correct formatting, please use the style files for U.S. Letter as template for your submission. These include LaTeX and Word. SUBMISSION LINK https://wi-lab.com/cyberchair/2025/ickg25/ IMPORTANT DATES ? Paper submission (abstract and full paper): June 20, 2025 (AoE) ? Notification of acceptance/rejection: September 5, 2025 ? Camera-ready, copyright forms and author registration: September 20, 2025 ? Early (non-author) registration: October 10, 2025 ? Conference dates: November 13-14, 2025 ORGANISATION Conference and Local Organising Chair ? George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus Conference Co-Chair ? Dan Guo, Hefei University of Technology Program Chairs ? Cesare Alippi, Universit? della Svizzera italiana ? Shirui Pan, Griffith University Local Organising Vice Chair ? Irene Kinlanioti, National Technical University of Athens Finance Chair ? Constantinos Pattichis, University of Cyprus Steering Committee Chair ? Xindong Wu, Hefei University Of Technology -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Workshop Overview: Explore cutting-edge research at the intersection of computer vision and document analysis from ancient manuscripts to modern document understanding, multimodal learning, layout analysis, few-shot segmentation, and beyond! Call for Papers and Demos: We invite submissions on, but not limited to, the following topics: * Document image processing * Physical and logical layout analysis * Text and symbol recognition * Handwriting recognition * Document analysis systems * Document layout analysis * Document classification * Multimedia document analysis * Recognition of tables and formulas * Document forensics and provenance * Medical document analysis * Data-efficient document analysis * Indexing and retrieval of documents * Document synthesis * Document visual question answering * Extracting document semantics * Graphics recognition * Structured document generation * Historical document analysis * Document summarization and translation * Document analysis for social good * Multi-modal document analysis * Multi-modal document generation * Datasets and benchmarks for document analysis Paper and Demo Submission Deadline: Coming Soon! 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(HYBRID FORMAT). https://www.ants-lab.it/wbo2025/?? SCOPUS Springer Proceedings ******************************************************************** ? ** Submission deadline:?? May 15, 2025 (EXTENDED) ** ** Proceedings in Studies in Big Data, Springer ** ** Special issue in Soft Computing, Springer (SCOPUS indexed) - TBC** ? ** PLENARY SPEAKERS Helena Ramalhinho Louren?o, University Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona "Optimization Algorithms with Social Impact" Thomas Stutzle, Universit? Libre de Bruxelles, Bruxelles "TBA" ? ** IMPORTANT DATES: Paper submission:??????????????????? May 15, 2025 (EXTENDED) Notification of acceptance:? ? ? ? ? June 15, 2025 ? Three types of contributions are accepted: 1) Regular Papers (maximum 15 pages): novel and original research contributions; 2) Short Papers (maximum 10 pages): novel research works in progress or with preliminary results; 3) Oral Presentations: high-quality published or working in progress.? ? Only regular and short?accepted?papers will be published as post-proceedings in *Studies in Big Data* (SBD) series by Springer. ? Selected top contributions will be invited to publish an extended version in a special Issue on Soft Computing, Springer (TBC). ** GENERAL CHAIRS: Claudia Cavallaro, University of Catania, Italy (claudia.cavallaro ?unict.it) Carolina Crespi, University of Catania, Italy (carolina.crespi ?unict.it) Francesco Zito, University of Catania, Italy (francesco.zito ?unict.it) --? Mario F. Pavone, PhD Associate Professor Dept of Mathematics and Computer?Science University of Catania V.le A. 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Key Submission Deadlines: Full Papers and Summaries: May 4th, 2025 May 11th, 2025 Late Breaking Abstracts: July 4th, 2025 September 8th, 2025 New! Submission Deadline: 10-day Special Extension Application [Apply before 11/05/2025. Applications granted on a first-come, first-served basis.] Not 100% sure you can make the submission deadline on time? A 10-day deadline extension (to May 21st 2025) for submitting a manuscript* may be exceptionally granted under the following conditions: 1. Some of the authors of the manuscript are reviewers for the conference, or are willing and qualified to become reviewers. 2. Among those authors who are reviewers, 2 (1 for single author manuscripts) must commit to become Super Reviewers, i.e. review a total of [normal review load + 1] papers (currently, the maximum review load is estimated to be 4 papers, so review load + 1 = 5 papers) 3. 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It has established itself as one of the most renowned conferences worldwide in this field, attracting students, postdocs and PIs from around the world to meet and discuss new scientific discoveries. https://www.bernstein-conference.de/ ____ IMPORTANT DATES Bernstein Conference: September 29 ? October 2, 2025 Deadlines: Contributed Talk abstract submission: June 17, 2025 at 15:00 CEST Poster Session abstract submission: July 15, 2025 at 15:00 CEST Travel Grant application: July 15, 2025 at 17:00 CEST Notification of acceptance: July 2025 ____ ABSTRACTS We invite the computational neuroscience community to submit their abstracts. Submissions may be considered for either Contributed Talks or Poster Sessions. All accepted abstracts will be published online and will be citable via Digital Object Identifiers (DOI). Further information can be found here: https://bernstein-network.de/bernstein-conference/abstract-submission/ ____ TRAVEL GRANTS To support the participation of young researchers at the Bernstein Conference, the Bernstein Network offers up to 10 Travel Grants, each endowed with 500 ?. Further information can be found here: https://bernstein-network.de/bernstein-conference/early-career-scientists/travel-grants/ ____ INVITED SPEAKERS Alison Barker (Max Planck Institute for Brain Research, Germany) Upinder S. Bhalla (National Centre for Biological Sciences, India) Albert Compte (Institut d?Investigacions Biom?diques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Spain) Luca Mazzucato (University of Oregon, USA) Tirin Moore (Stanford University, USA) Edvard Moser (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway) Katherine Nagel (NYU School of Medicine, USA) Panayiota Poirazi (Foundation of Research and Technology-Hellas (FORTH), Greece) Viola Priesemann (Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization, Germany) Andreas Tolias (Stanford University, USA) ____ CONFERENCE COMMITTEE Jochen Triesch (Conference Chair) Matthias Kaschube (Conference Host) Tatiana Engel (Program Chair) Tim Vogels (Program Vice Chair) Wiktor M?ynarski (Workshop Chair) Katharina Wilmes (Workshop Vice Chair) & Athena Akrami, Nicolas Brunel, Alex Cayco-Gajic, Mehrdad Jazayeri, Jennifer Li, Scott Linderman, Ashok Litwin-Kumar, Ida Momennejad, Christina Savin, Andrew Saxe, Daniela Vallentin. ____ For any further questions, please contact: bernstein.conference at fz-juelich.de ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Forschungszentrum J?lich GmbH 52425 J?lich Sitz der Gesellschaft: J?lich Eingetragen im Handelsregister des Amtsgerichts D?ren Nr. 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Methods from control and RL are being increasingly applied to diverse fields, in particular complex adaptive systems such as climate-socio-economics, neuroscience, and similar. Finding safe, robust and optimal interventions on these systems will be crucial for the benefit of society. This workshop aims to foster the transfer of methods of control and RL across these upcoming domains. The workshop is open to all, especially (budding) researchers who would like to apply these methods to real-world complex systems.Dates: 20-21 May 2025Venue: CWI (Research Institute for Mathematics and Computer Science), Amsterdam, NetherlandsRegistration deadline: 1 May 2025We welcome poster presentations from attendees.?Distinguished researchers will discuss methods used in a variety of domains, from critical network infrastructure like power grids, to sustainability economics and neuroscience:Diederik Roijers, VU Brussel, Belgium -?A Plea for User-Centred RLElena Rovenskaya, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Austria -?Optimal Control and the Stories We Tell About Climate Change EconomicsHerke van Hoof, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands -?Reinforcement learning for real-world network infrastructureMarcel van Gerven, Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands -?Harnessing Noise for Neuromorphic ControlMarta Kwiatkowska, University of Oxford, United Kingdom -?Provable guarantees for data-driven policy synthesis: a formal verification perspectiveSander Boht?, CWI, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands -?Scaling Biologically Plausible Deep Reinforcement LearningSander Keemink, Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands -?To spike or not to spike: using brain-like signals for controlTimm Faulwasser, Hamburg University of Technology, Germany -?TBAWolfram Barfuss, University of Bonn, Germany -?Collective Reinforcement Learning Dynamics for Sustainability Economics??Please register as soon as possible!https://www.cwi.nl/en/events/cwi-research-semester-programmes/workshop-on-modern-applications-of-control-theory-and-reinforcement-learning/??This workshop is part of a?research semester programme on Control Theory and Reinforcement Learning at CWI, Amsterdam, NL.?It follows a?Spring School (17-21 March)?and?a?Workshop on Themes (24-25 March), and is followed by an upcoming?Workshop on Theory (19-20 June).??Download and?advertise the poster.?Looking forward to seeing you!On behalf of the organizers. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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We live in a world with a great need for more efficient data analysis and processing. Data analytics can reveal hidden patterns, complex relationships, internal information relations, and even segmentation. Data applications have opened up new possibilities in every aspect of our lives. Studying data and its structure, dynamics, and modern data technologies is ongoing. There is a great deal of literature and research on data management, but it does not address the data processi! ng needs. Many studies focus on developing models and systems for analysing large datasets. Data analysis leads to application domains that have a systematic impact on decisions. The knowledge gained from the data analysis enables the generation of critical information for multiple domains. In this conference, we review and discuss the latest trends in data management, the opportunities and challenges, and how they have affected organizations' ability to develop effective business and technology strategies and stay up-to-date in data technology. We also highlight current open research directions in data analytics that need further attention. The proposed conference will discuss topics not limited to Data applications in various domains and activities Data in cloud Real-world data processing Data inaccuracy and reliability issues Data Ecosystem Business Analytics New data analytics techniques Physical and management challenges Synthetic data Data synthesis Crowdsourcing and Sensing Data modelling Deep learning techniques Data fusion Descriptive analytics, Diagnostic analytics, Predictive Analytics, and Prescriptive analytics Machine learning impact on data processing Network optimization Data in Biomedical Engineering Data in Materials science and mechanics Data handling and applications in domains Wireless Networking Data Management Data of Electronic & Embedded Systems Multi-media Systems Data Artificial Intelligence Models and Systems Data E-Computing Data Renewable Energies Data General Chair General Chair Ezendu Ariwa Warwick University, UK Program Chairs Youshan Zhang, Yeshiva University, USA Simon Fong, University of Macau, Macau Duong Van Hieu, Tien Giang University, Vietnam Program Co-chairs Martin Lopez Nores, University of Vigo, Spain Frankie Wilson, University of Oxford. UK Publications All accepted and presented papers will be submitted to IEEE Xplore for publication and indexing. The DDP 2025 has co-located workshops. Modified versions of the papers will appear in the following journals. Journal of Digital Information Management International Journal of Computational Linguistics Performance Measurements and Metrics Important Dates Submission of Papers: June 20, 2025 Notification of Acceptance/Rejection: July 15, 2025 Camera-ready: August 10, 2025 Registration: August 10, 2025 Conference Dates: August 18-20, 2025 Post-Conference Proceedings Release: November 30, 2025 Paper submission Papers should follow the IEEE template. Submissions at http://socio.org.uk/ddp/paper-submission/ Contact: ddp at socio.org.uk -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From juffi at faw.jku.at Thu May 8 08:53:26 2025 From: juffi at faw.jku.at (=?UTF-8?Q?Johannes_F=C3=BCrnkranz?=) Date: Thu, 8 May 2025 14:53:26 +0200 Subject: Connectionists: 4 Tenure-Track Positions in AI only for Women! In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <4f1d607c-4ffe-46ac-8ecc-099f8c7fe011@faw.jku.at> Following up on the pre-call below, the announced female-only tenure-track positions at JKU Linz, Austria, are now open for applications. The individual calls can be found here: - Knowledge and Data Processing (https://www.jku.at/en/the-jku/work-at-the-jku/job-openings/tenure-track-positions/knowledge-and-data-processing/) - Natural Language Processing and Interaction (https://www.jku.at/en/the-jku/work-at-the-jku/job-openings/tenure-track-positions/natural-language-processing-and-interaction/) - Neuro-Symbolic Artificial Intelligence (https://www.jku.at/en/the-jku/work-at-the-jku/job-openings/tenure-track-positions/neuro-symbolic-artificial-intelligence/) - Reinforcement Learning (https://www.jku.at/en/the-jku/work-at-the-jku/job-openings/tenure-track-positions/reinforcement-learning/) The deadline for all positions is **May 28th, 2025**. Multiple applications are possible. Spread the word! On 09/04/2025 18:31, Johannes F?rnkranz wrote: > https://www.jku.at/en/lit-artificial-intelligence-lab/career/precall- > four-tenure-track-professorships/ > > We are proud to announce four tenure-track professorships at Johannes > Kepler University Linz *only for female applicants* on the topics: > > - Knowledge and Data Processing > - Natural Language Processing and Interaction > - Neuro-Symbolic Artificial Intelligence > - Reinforcement Learning > > In accordance with the concept to support the advancement of women, the > positions will be open solely to female applicants. > > Deadline will most likely be May 28. The official announcements will > soon be posted here: > > https://www.jku.at/en/the-jku/work-at-the-jku/job-openings/ > professorship-positions/ > > From SchockaertS1 at cardiff.ac.uk Thu May 8 14:21:49 2025 From: SchockaertS1 at cardiff.ac.uk (Steven Schockaert) Date: Thu, 8 May 2025 18:21:49 +0000 Subject: Connectionists: Postdoctoral position at Cardiff University Message-ID: Location: Cardiff, UK Deadline for applications: 4th June Start date: 1st September 2025 (or as soon as possible thereafter) Duration: 36 months Keywords: graph neural networks, explainable AI, compositional generalisation Details about the post Applications are invited for a Postdoctoral Research Associate post in the Cardiff University School of Computer Science & Informatics, to work on the InteGraL project (?Interpretable Graph-Based Machine Learning?). This Leverhulme Trust funded project is focused on developing alternatives to Graph Neural Networks (GNNs). Its central aim will be to introduce methods that are interpretable by design, while at the same time being more robust than GNNs and generalising better to problem instances that are out of the training set distribution. The models will be applied to problems in Natural Language Processing and Computational Chemistry, among others. More details about the post and instructions on how to apply are available at https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMZ697/research-associate -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: