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From: “Collective Intelligence Co-Editors-in-Chief (do not reply)” <call-for-papers@hq.acm.org>

Subject: A New Journal from ACM Co-published with Sage: Collective Intelligence

Date: 11 January 2021 at 15:30:00 WET

To: lmp@FCT.UNL.PT

ACM Digital Library A New Journal from ACM – Collective Intelligence Collective Intelligence, co-published by ACM and SAGE, with the collaboration of Nesta, is a global, peer-reviewed, open-access journal devoted to advancing the theoretical and empirical understanding of collective performance in diverse systems. These systems can include human organizations, hybrid AI-human teams, computer networks, adaptive matter, cellular systems, neural circuits, animal societies, nanobot swarms, and others. The journal embraces a policy of creative rigor in the study of collective intelligence to facilitate the discovery of principles that apply across scales and new ways of harnessing the collective to improve social, ecological, and economic outcomes. In that spirit, the journal encourages a broad-minded approach to collective performance. It welcomes perspectives that emphasize traditional views of intelligence as well as optimality, satisficing, robustness, adaptability, and wisdom. In more technical terms, this includes issues related to collective output quality and assessment, aggregation of information and related topics (e.g., network structure and dynamics, higher-order vs. pairwise interactions, spatial and temporal synchronization, diversity, etc.), accumulation of information by individuals/components, environmental complexity, evolutionary considerations, and design of systems and platforms fostering collective intelligence. Each article accepted after peer review is made freely available online immediately upon publication, is published under a Creative Commons license, and will be hosted online in perpetuity. Nesta is sponsoring the Article Processing Charges (APCs) for the Journal in its launch year. As a result, the APCs for this Journal are currently waived for the first year of publication. For more information and to submit your work, please visit dl.acm.org/journal/colint. Association for Computing Machinery 1601 Broadway, 10th Floor, New York, NY 10019 Copyright © 2021, ACM, Inc. All rights reserved

Favor divulgar.   

 L. M. Pereira et al. Apresentação do livro “Alan Turing: cientista universal”, publicado pela U. Minho Editora, na Feira do Livro em Braga, 14 July 2020.

     O coordenador da obra, José Espírito Santo, professor da Escola de Ciências da U. Minho, moderou a sessão, contando com os autores dos capítulos: José António Alves, José Manuel Valença (ambos da U. Minho), Fernando Ferreira, Olga Pombo (ambos da Universidade de Lisboa), Sofia Miguens (Universidade do Porto), Luís Moniz Pereira (Universidade Nova de Lisboa) e Pedro Quaresma (Universidade de Coimbra).

Vídeo: https://www.facebook.com/FeiraDoLivroDeBraga/videos/1316168268720049/?t=132

O livro, disponível em acesso aberto, pretende contribuir para um reconhecimento mais alargado e informado de Alan Turing, reunindo um conjunto de reflexões sobre a figura, o trabalho, o legado e o impacto do cientista, que se desejam acessíveis a um público não-especialista.

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From: Enrico Franconi <franconi@inf.unibz.it>

Subject: Several four-year PhD grants at the Faculty of Computer Science of the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano in Italy

Date: 26 May 2020 at 15:21:25 WEST

To: lmp@fct.unl.pt

18 four-year grants are offered by the Faculty of Computer Science of the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano in Italy for its PhD programme. Each grant amounts to 68,000 € (i.e., 17,000 euro per year, net after taxes); for research visits abroad the grant increases up to 50%. Additional substantial extra funding (including a personal budget of 2,500 euro per year) is available for participation to international conferences, schools, workshops, research visits. Some of the 18 PhD grants are supported by FBK, CNR, University of Umeå, and by software companies, and interested candidates might carry out their PhD research in collaboration with these external partners. The language of the PhD programme is English.

The deadline for applications will be on the 13th of July, 2020.

For more info, the call, and applications look at: www.unibz.it/en/faculties/computer-science/phd-computer-science

The university is located in one of the most fascinating European regions, the Dolomites. This young university has already established itself as an important research institution, both in Italy and abroad. According to the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2019, the university is the ninth world’s best small university and it is the second best young Italian University, and its Faculty of Computer Science is ranked among the 150 best Computer Science departments worldwide (in absolute terms) and it is the 21st best Computer Science department worldwide for scientific citations. According to the same ranking, the Faculty of Computer Science of the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano is the third best Italian computer science department, it is the best for international outlook Italian computer science department, and it is the best for citations Italian computer science department.

At this time of global uncertainty, you may be wondering whether your application to the PhD programme will be affected. The Free University of Bozen-Bolzano is in constant contact with the competent authorities to monitor the development of the COVID-19 emergency to provide the adequate preventive actions for the university community. It is possible that by November 2020, when the PhD programme starts, some restrictive measures may be in place: the university will support new students to go through the initial process as smoothly as possible.

The KRDB Research Centre for Knowledge and Data of the faculty is widely recognised as one of the internationally leading groups in Artificial Intelligence Knowledge Representation research, with a synergy between foundational and application-oriented research. Among the various available PhD topics (fully described in the call), the KRDB Research Centre is looking for PhD students interested in:

• Logic-based languages for knowledge representation;
• Intelligent data access and integration;
• Semantic technologies;
• Conceptual and cognitive modelling;
• Data-aware process modelling, verification, and synthesis;
• Business process monitoring, mining, and conformance;
• Temporal aspects of data and knowledge;
• Extending database technologies;
• Visual and verbal paradigms for information exploration;
• Reasoning with uncertain and imprecise knowledge.

To get in contact with the KRDB Research Centre and discuss about the opportunities of this call contact prof. Alessandro Artale at artale@inf.unibz.it