[rede.APPIA] Call for funding applications: ‘Short-Term Scientific Mission’ (STSM), Language in the Human-Machine Era (deadline 15 March 2022)

‘Language in the Human-Machine Era’ (https://lithme.eu/) is a COST Action (https://cost.eu/). We are delighted to welcome applications for our STSM grants. An STSM is one of COST’s standard networking activities, for an individual to visit a host organization located in a different country than their country of affiliation, to gain and share knowledge.

Eligibility follows the COST Association’s rules: basically anyone in a European country or ‘Near Neighbour’ country – https://www.cost.eu/about/cost-strategy/cost-global-networking/ (although please note COST is removing Russia from that list).

We are looking for people who know about language but not so much about technology, and vice versa, and who want to gain and share knowledge across those academic boundaries. Moreover, we want to fund visits that will pursue our goals to produce new insights on the effects of new and emerging language technologies. More information about our themes and interests can be found on our Working Groups page (https://lithme.eu/working-groups) and in our open access forecast report (https://doi.org/10.17011/jyx/reports/20210518/1). Referring to both these resources will increase the quality of any application.

Further information about eligibility, and the online application form, can be found at http://lithme.eu/short-term-scientific-missions/ and http://lithme.eu/news/STSM2022. The deadline for applications is 15 March 2022.

Please forward this email on to anyone who may be interested, and retweet our announcement: https://twitter.com/LgHumanMachine/status/1493920560228753412

[rede.APPIA] CFP: MLJ special issue on Foundations of Data Science

Data science is a hot topic with an extensive scope, both in terms of theory and applications. Machine Learning forms one of its core foundational pillars. Simultaneously, Data Science applications provide important challenges that can often be addressed only with innovative Machine Learning algorithms and methodologies. This special issue will highlight the latest development of the Machine Learning foundations of data science and on the synergy of data science and machine learning. We welcome new developments in statistics, mathematics, informatics and computing-driven machine learning for data science, including foundations, algorithms and models, systems, innovative applications and other research contributions.
Following the great success of the 2021 MLJ special issue with DSAA’2021, this 2022 special issue will further capture the state-of-the-art machine learning advances for data science. Accepted papers will be published in MLJ and presented at a journal track of the 2022 IEEE International Conference on Data Science and Advanced Analytics (DSAA’2022) in Shenzhen, October 2022.
==================== Topics of Interest ==================== We welcome original and well-grounded research papers on all aspects of foundations of data science including but not limited to the following topics:
Machine Learning Foundations for Data Science * Auto-ML * Information fusion from disparate sources * Feature engineering, embedding, mining and representation * Learning from network and graph data * Learning from data with domain knowledge * Reinforcement learning * Non-IID learning, nonstationary, coupled and entangled learning * Heterogeneous, mixed, multimodal, multi-view and multi-distributional learning * Online, streaming, dynamic and real-time learning * Causality and learning causal models * Multi-instance, multi-label, multi-class and multi-target learning * Semi-supervised and weakly supervised learning * Representation learning of complex interactions, couplings, relations * Deep learning theories and models * Evaluation of data science systems * Open domain/set learning
Emerging Impactful Machine Learning Applications * Data preprocessing, manipulation and augmentation * Autonomous learning and optimization systems * Digital, social, economic and financial (finance, FinTech, blockchains and cryptocurrencies) analytics * Graph and network embedding and mining * Machine learning for recommender systems, marketing, online and e-commerce * Augmented reality, computer vision and image processing * Risk, compliance, regulation, anomaly, debt, failure and crisis * Cybersecurity and information disorder, misinformation/fake detection * Human-centered and domain-driven data science and learning * Privacy, ethics, transparency, accountability, responsibility, trust, reproducibility and retractability * Fairness, explainability and algorithm bias * Green and energy-efficient, scalable, cloud/distributed and parallel analytics and infrastructures * IoT, smart city, smart home, telecommunications, 5G and mobile data science and learning * Government and enterprise data science * Transportation, manufacturing, procurement, and Industry 4.0 * Energy, smart grids and renewable energies * Agricultural, environmental and spatio-temporal analytics and climate change
Contributions must contain new, unpublished, original and fundamental work relating to the Machine Learning Journal’s mission. All submissions will be reviewed using rigorous scientific criteria whereby the novelty of the contribution will be crucial.
==================== Submission Instructions ==================== Submit manuscripts to: MACH.edmgr.com. Select this special issue as the article type. Papers must be prepared in accordance with the Journal guidelines: www.springer.com/journal/10994
All papers will be reviewed following standard reviewing procedures for the Journal.
==================== Key Dates ==================== We will have a continuous submission/review process starting in Oct. 2021.
Last paper submission deadline: 1 March 2022
Paper acceptance: 1 June 2022
Camera-ready: 15 June 2022
==================== Guest Editors ==================== Longbing Cao, University of Technology Sydney, Australia
João Gama, University of Porto, Portugal
Nitesh Chawla, University of Notre Dame, United States
Joshua Huang, Shenzhen University, China

Carlos Ferreira
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[rede.APPIA] MDPI Special Issue “Advances in Machine Learning Methods for Natural Language Processing and Computational Linguistics”

Call for Papers MDPI Special Issue
“Advances in Machine Learning Methods for Natural Language Processing and Computational Linguistics”

Deadline: 30 June 2022

Site:
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/mathematics/special_issue/Machine_Learning_Methods_Natural_Language_Processing_Computational_Linguistics

Keywords
– ML-based tools for CL and NLP
– Domain-specific and low-resource languages
– Generation of training resources from raw data
– Halting conditions and over–under-fitting detection
– Integration of symbolic and model-based processing
– Reasoning about large and multiple documents
– Sampling strategies

Machine learning (ML) algorithms can be used to analyze vast volumes of information, identify patterns and generate models capable of recognizing them in new data instances. This allows us to address complex tasks with the only constraint being the necessity of a suitable training database.

Furthermore, today's digital society provides access to a vast range of raw data, but also generates the need for managing them effectively. This makes up natural language processing (NLP), a collective term referring to the automatic computational treatment of human languages for which purely symbolic techniques show clear limitations, a popular field for exploiting ML capacities. The same is true for computational linguistics (CL), which is more concerned with the study of linguistics.

However, this collaborative framework must be based on a formally well-informed strategy to ensure its reliability. In this context, this Special Issue focuses on both the application of ML techniques to solve NLP and CL tasks and on the generation of linguistic resources to enable this, for example, the construction of syntactic structures without recourse to tree banks for training, which would greatly simplify the implementation of statistical-based parsers, especially when dealing with out-of-domain scenarios or low-resource languages. By way of a more applicative issue, we could address the generation of models allowing efficient contextual representations, a nontrivial task when dealing with large-scale or multiple documents, but essential for language understanding.

[rede.APPIA] [Call for Papers] AI4IS@EPIA 2022 – Artificial Intelligence for Industry and Societies

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###################################################################################### CFP: Artificial Intelligence for Industry and Society (AI4IS@EPIA-2022) Thematic track of the 21st Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence (EPIA 2022) August 31-September 2, 2022, Lisbon, Portugal. Webpage: epia2022.inesc-id.pt/ ######################################################################################
IMPORTANT DATES Paper submission: April 15, 2022 Notification of paper acceptance: May 31, 2022 Camera-ready papers deadline: June 15, 2022 Conference dates: August 31-September 2, 2022
IMPORTANT NEWS – LNCS/LNAI Proceedings (springer) – Special issue at the MDPI Future Internet Journal (Q2) with selected papers*
INTRODUCTION Societies and industries are facing many challenges to be even more intelligent and sustainable. In this context, many good practices and approaches are being explored, and several new contributions are daily produced. In this context, many good practices and approaches are being investigated, and several unique contributions are daily proposed without being disseminated. So, the track “Artificial Intelligence for Industry and Societies” wants to overcome this gap. A smart society looks to citizens problems and tries to maximise the use of innovative technologies and collaboration across multiple sectors to create more efficient, intelligent, and adaptable services. In this context emerges the concept of smart cities that coalesce smart infrastructures with human needs through community services. Connected and efficient cities and communities can lead to informed, engaged, and contented citizens. However, to have a smart society is also required to have intelligent industries. Industry 4.0 consists of the digital transformation of manufacturing/production, related sectors, and value creation processes. It represents a new stage in the organisation and control of the industrial value chain where Artificial Intelligence has a vital role through the automation of processes, prediction and reduction of errors and failures. The evolution of Industry and Societies must be holding hands requiring a multi-disciplinary endeavour, where technology and Artificial Intelligence are in this area as a bonding element for each of the services it sustains. This track intends to link researchers and professionals able to explore new solutions applied to society and Industry. It will further explore and present paradigms, solutions, or best practices to be implemented in the real world. It represents a new era of disseminating knowledge by showing how scientific knowledge can be transferred to society and applied in the industry using Data Science and Artificial Intelligence approaches. IA4IS is open to several contributions in both areas like cognitive computing platforms and applications, including technologies and infrastructures related to Artificial Intelligence, machine learning, as well as big data processing and data analytics.
TOPICS OF INTEREST Innovative and exciting works are welcome in areas including but not limited to: Business, Industry and Smart Factory • Advanced data visualisation and data management techniques and solutions. • Advanced interactive technologies, including augmented/virtual reality. • Advanced mechanical engineering technologies with Machine Learning. • Artificial intellect. • Augmented reality with artificial Intelligence • Authentication, data security and protection. • Automation and intelligent robotics. • Cyber-physical systems (CPS) with Artificial Intelligence (AI). • Internet of Things modules, platforms and applications applied to Industry. • Mobile and wearable devices with AI modules. • Smart factory, production technologies and systems • Smart sensors.
Sustainable and Smart Cities and Societies • Big data, open data, and analytical tools • Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) solutions • Disaster management • Internet of Things (IoT) for smart cities. • Responsible innovation • Smart buildings. • Smart economy. • Smart energy. • Smart governance. • Smart grids infrastructures. • Smart Living, Wellbeing, and healthcare • Smart people. • Smart sensing. • Smart Transportations and urban mobility. • Technological infrastructure for smart cities support: • Web/mobile solutions with AI
PAPER SUBMISSION All papers should be submitted in PDF format through the EPIA’2022 submission Website. Submissions must be original and can be of two types: regular (full-length) papers should not exceed twelve (12) pages in length, whereas short papers should not exceed six (6) pages. Each submission will be peer-reviewed by at least three members of the Program Committee. The reviewing process is double-blind. The best-accepted papers will appear in the proceedings published by Springer in the LNAI series (previous EPIA proceedings were indexed by the Thomson ISI Web of Knowledge, Scopus, DBLP and ACM digital library). The remaining accepted papers will be published in the local proceedings with ISBN.
*Authors of the best papers presented at the AI4IS track of EPIA will be invited to submit extended versions of their manuscripts for a Special Issue in the Journal of Future Internet (MDPI)
ORGANISING COMMITTEE Filipe Portela (cfp@dsi.uminho.pt) Teresa Guarda Valentina Lenarduzzi Beatriz de la Iglesia
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[rede.APPIA] [Call for Papers] AIM@EPIA 2022 – Artificial Intelligence in Medicine

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====================================================================== CFP: Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (AIM@EPIA-2022) Thematic track of the 21st Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence (EPIA 2022) August 31-September 2, 2022, Lisbon, Portugal. Webpage: epia2022.inesc-id.pt/ ======================================================================
IMPORTANT DATES Paper submission: April 15, 2022 Notification of paper acceptance: May 31, 2022 Camera-ready papers deadline: June 15, 2022 Conference dates: August 31-September 2, 2022
IMPORTANT NEWS – LNCS/LNAI Proceedings (springer) – Special issue at the Journal of Medical Systems with selected papers*
INTRODUCTION Everyday medicine is facing new challenges: new diseases, cost reductions, new therapeutics, rapid and accurate decisions, new techniques and technologies. Artificial Intelligence (AI) is playing an important role in the decision making process, in the way the data of the patients are collected, treated, processed, anticipating and avoiding critical situations, as well to test and simulate new treatments and devices. The big question to be answered is: How Artificial Intelligence can help to overcome these challenges and improve the efficiency of medicine? Data Science, Sensing, Pervasiveness, Ubiquity and Intelligent Agents in Medicine, can contribute with new artifacts and new knowledge for health professionals. AI aims to improve the usability of programs for assisting physicians in figuring out what is wrong with the patients and provide new solutions to help making better decisions. AI systems are intended to support healthcare practitioners in the normal course of their duties, assisting with tasks that rely on the manipulation of data and knowledge. In particular, these systems have for example the capacity to learn, leading to the discovery of new phenomena and the creation of medical knowledge improving human health and longevity. This track promotes a forum to discuss and present emergent topics, new projects and ideas about how AI can contribute to the field of Medicine and, improve patient conditions. By bringing together researchers from two distinct areas is expected to produce new scientific and technical knowledge in a particular area as is medicine. Special attention will be given to the social impact/gain of the AI contributions in medicine.
TOPICS OF INTEREST Innovative and exciting works are welcome in areas including but not limited to:
Medical methodologies, architectures, environments and systems. • Agents for information retrieval; • AI in Medical Education and Clinical Management; • Wellbeing and lifestyle support; • Interoperability, Security, Pervasiveness, Ubiquity and Cloud Computing in Medicine; • Methodological, philosophical, ethical, and social issues of AI in Medicine; • Pervasive Healthcare Environments; • Software architectures. Knowledge Engineering and Decision Support Systems: • AI-based clinical decision making and Clinical Decision Support Systems; • Automated reasoning, Case-Based Reasoning or Reasoning with medical knowledge; • Business Intelligence in Health Care; • Clinical Data Mining; • Data Streaming; • Diagnostic assistance; • Expert, agent-based or knowledge-based systems; • Medical knowledge engineering; • Intelligent Decision Support Systems in Medicine. Medical Applications and Devices • Computational intelligence in bio- and clinical medicine; • Electronic Health Records (eHealth); • Image recognition and interpretation; • Intelligent devices and instruments; • Sensor-based applications; • Telemedicine and mHealth solutions; • mIOT; • Ubiquitous devices in the storage, update, and transmission of patient data; • Usability and acceptability. AI in Healthcare Information Systems • COVID-19 data solutions; • Public Health Intelligent Systems • Autonomous systems to support independent living; • Healthcare System Based on Cloud Computing; • Intelligent Healthcare information systems; • Pervasive Information Systems; • Pervasiveness and Security in Clinical Systems; • Smart homes, hospitals and Intelligent Systems; • Simulation Computer systems.
PAPER SUBMISSION All papers should be submitted in PDF format through the EPIA’2022 submission Website. Submissions must be original and can be of two types: regular (full-length) papers should not exceed twelve (12) pages in length, whereas short papers should not exceed six (6) pages. Each submission will be peer-reviewed by at least three members of the Program Committee. The reviewing process is double-blind. The best-accepted papers will appear in the proceedings published by Springer in the LNAI series (previous EPIA proceedings were indexed by the Thomson ISI Web of Knowledge, Scopus, DBLP and ACM digital library). The remaining accepted papers will be published in the local proceedings with ISBN.
*Authors of the best papers presented at the AIM track of EPIA will be invited to submit extended versions of their manuscripts for a Special Issue in Journal of Medical Systems (Springer) or in Journal of AI in Medicine (Elsevier)
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE * Manuel Filipe Santos, University of Minho, PT (contact person) mfs@dsi.uminho.pt * Carlos Filipe Portela, University of Minho, PT cfp@dsi.uminho.pt * Allan Tucker, Brunel University London, UK, allan.tucker@brunel.ac.uk * Manuel Fernandez Delgado, SP, manuel.fernandez.delgado@usc.es
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[rede.APPIA] [CFP]EPIA 2022 Thematic Track on Artificial Intelligence in Power and Energy Systems

Dear colleagues,

 

We would like to invite you to submit a paper to the Thematic Track on Artificial Intelligence in Power and Energy Systems (AIPES) of EPIA 2022, to be held in Lisbon, between August 31 and September 2 2022 (https://epia2022.inesc-id.pt).

 

Important Deadlines:

Deadline for full paper submission: 15th April, 2022

Notification of acceptance: 31st May, 2022

Camera-Ready papers: 15th June, 2022

Conference: August 31 to September 2 2022

 

Submissions:

AIPES welcomes full length papers (of up to 12 pages) and also short papers (up to 6 pages), demonstrating practical applications. All papers should be submitted in PDF format through the EPIA 2022 EasyChair submission page.

Authors should consult Springer’s authors’ guidelines and use their proceedings templates, either for LaTeX or for Word, for the preparation of their papers. Springer encourages authors to include their ORCIDs in their papers. In addition, the corresponding author of each paper, acting on behalf of all of the authors of that paper, must complete and sign a Consent-to-Publish form. The corresponding author signing the copyright form should match the corresponding author marked on the paper. Once the files have been sent to Springer, changes relating to the authorship of the papers cannot be made.

Accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings (a volume of Springer’s LNAI-Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence), provided that at least one author is registered in EPIA 2022 by the early registration deadline. EPIA 2022 proceedings are indexed in Thomson Reuters ISI Web of Science, Scopus, DBLP and Google Scholar.

Each accepted paper must be presented by one of the authors in a track session.

 

Scope:

The Thematic Track on Artificial Intelligence in Power and Energy Systems aims at providing an advanced discussion forum on recent and innovative work on the application of artificial intelligence approaches in the field of power and energy systems, including agent-based systems, data-mining, machine learning methodologies, forecasting and optimization.

 

Submission Topics:

·       Agent-based Smart Grid Simulation

·       Big Data Applications for Energy Systems

·       Coalitions and Aggregations of Smart Grid and Market Players

·       Consumer Profiling

·       Context Aware Systems

·       Data-Mining Approaches in Smart Grids

·       Decision Support Approaches for Smart Grids

·       Demand Response Aggregation

·       Demand Response Integration in the Market

·       Demand Response Remuneration Methods

·       Electric vehicles

·       Electricity Market Modelling and Simulation

·       Electricity Market Negotiation Strategies

·       Energy Resource Management in Buildings

·       Information technology applications

·       Innovative Demand Response Models and Programs

·       Innovative Energy Tariffs

·       Integration of Electric Vehicles in the Power System

·       Intelligent Approaches for Microgrid Management

·       Intelligent Home Management Systems

·       Intelligent methods for Demand Management

·       Intelligent Resources Scheduling

·       Intelligent Supervisory Control Systems

·       Knowledge-based approaches for Power and Energy Systems

·       Load Forecast

·       Market Models for Variable Renewable Energy

·       Multi-Agent Applications for Smart Grids

·       Multi-Agent Systems in Power and Energy Systems

·       Other Artificial Intelligence-based Methods for Power and Energy Systems

·       Phasor Measurement Units Applications

·       Real-time simulation

·       Reliability, Protection and Network Security Methods

·       Renewable Energy Forecast using Computational Intelligence

·       Semantic communication and data

·       Smart Sensors and Advanced Metering Infrastructure

Thematic Track Organizers:

·       Zita Vale – Polytechnic of Porto (Portugal)

·       Tiago Pinto – Polytechnic of Porto (Portugal)

·       Pedro Faria – Polytechnic of Porto (Portugal)

·       Elena Mocanu – University of Twente (The Netherlands)

·       Decebal Constantin Mocanu – University of Twente (The Netherlands)