Author: Fernando Amílcar Bandeira Cardoso

PhD and Habillitation in Informatics Engineering, Full Professor at the University of Coimbra, where he teaches Artificial Intelligence, Computational Creativity, Programming for Design, Sound Design and other topics. He is Vice-President of Instituto Pedro Nunes, the knowledge transfer and incubation interface of University of Coimbra, since July 2017. He is also Academic Ombudsman of the Faculty of Sciences and Technology of the University of Coimbra since 2016. He developed pioneering work on Computational Creativity in the 90's, ever since assuming an active role in the establishment of a Computational Creativity community by chairing the Working Group on Computational Creativity of Action COST 282 (2001-2003), which promoted a series of meetings that spurred the formation of a core group of European researchers in the area, by co-founding the series of "Creative Systems Workshops" co-located with important international conferences (2001-2006), the “International Joint Workshop on Computational Creativity” series (2007-2009), and the International Conference on Computational Creativity [2010-present], and by co-founding The Association for Computational Creativity. He was General Chair of the 7th International Conference on Computational Creativity, ICCC 2016, Paris, France. He is member of the Steering Committee of the International Conference on Computational Creativity (2006-present) and Treasurer of The Association for Computational Creativity since 2015. He is co-editor of the book “Computational Creativity - The Philosophy and Engineering of Autonomously Creative Systems”, to be published by Springer at the begining of 2019. He will be the General Chair of the 11th International Conference on Computational Creativity, ICCC 2020, to be held in Coimbra, Portugal. He was involved in the FET Coordination Action ProSECCo - Promoting the Scientific Exploration of Computational Creativity (2013-2016) - and in the FP7-ICT STREPS project ConCreTe - Concept Creation Technology (2013-2016). His research interests also extend to the Affective Computing and Multi-Agent Systems, especially in contexts of creative systems, automatic music composition, sound and music computing, sonification and interactive music. He has been involved in FP7, FET and H2020 evaluations pannels (2009, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016). He was President of the External Evaluation Commission for the HE Polytechnics programs in Informatics (2010-15). He was also Director of the Centre for Informatics and Systems of the University of Coimbra, CISUC (2008-12). Former coordinator of the Cognitive and Media Systems Group, CMS (2007-15).

[rede.APPIA] Special Session WCCI /IJCNN 2018 on Neurocomputation and Cognition (extended deadline)

Fernando Amílcar Bandeira Cardoso
Dear Colleagues and Researchers,


Please notice that the deadline to the special session below


Link to the Special Session: IJCNN-20 Neurocomputation and Cognition

http://www.ecomp.poli.br/~wcci2018/ijcnn-sessions/#ijcnn20


has been extended to February 1st.


Best regards,

— Bernardete Ribeiro


———- Forwarded message ———-
From: Bernardete Ribeiro <bribeiro@dei.uc.pt>
Date: Sat, Dec 23, 2017 at 10:01 AM
Subject: Special Session WCCI /IJCNN 2018 on  Neurocomputation and Cognition
To: Docentes DEI <docentes-dei@dei.uc.pt>, CISUC-Investigadores <invs@cisuc.uc.pt>


Dear Colleagues and Researchers,

A special session on “Cognition and NeuroComputation” has been organized by L. Manevitz, B. Ribeiro and A. Frid at this summers WCCI/IJCNN meeting in Rio de Janeiro. 2018   The submissions will undergo the standard reviewing process for this meeting;    the main advantage in submitting to the special session will be the common interest of the participants.   you should indicate when submitting the main research topic is “S20. Special Session on Neurocomputation and Cognition”.    A link to the special session is below.


We encourage you to submit and/or to attend.

We will be interpreting ” NeuroComputation and Cognition” widely but around such topics such as:

The special session invites submissions in any of the following (and related) areas:


  • Use of Neurocomputation and Machine Learning Tools to Identify Complex Physiological Features
  • Neurocomputational Models for Cognition and Cognitive Tasks
  • Finding Computational Biomarkers for cognitive tasks using Machine Learning tools
  • Validation of cognitive models using machine learning methods
  • Discovering Computational Biomarkers for Diseases (especially neurological diseases)
  • Applications of Machine Learning and Neurocomputation to Cognitive Data
  • Neurocomputational and Architectural Models of Creativity
  • Innovative Neurocomputational Models appropriate for Cognition and Brain simulations
  • Design of Feature Selection and other Machine Learning Tools for Classifying Cognitive and Brain Data

For a more complete description visit the link: http://www.ecomp.poli.br/~wcci2018/ijcnn-sessions/#ijcnn20 .

You can also visit the home pages of the organizing laboratories:  Neurocomputation Laboratory (neurocomputation.wordpress.com) of Prof. Manevitz at U. Haifa and https://apps.uc.pt/mypage/faculty/uc25930

 of the LARN Laboratory of Prof. Ribeiro at Coimbra University.

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Conference Links: 

Main conference page: http://www.ecomp.poli.br/~wcci2018/



Link to the Special Session: IJCNN-20 Neurocomputation and Cognition

http://www.ecomp.poli.br/~wcci2018/ijcnn-sessions/#ijcnn20





— Bernardete Ribeiro

[rede.APPIA] ICCC2018: Call for Workshops and Tutorials

Fernando Amílcar Bandeira Cardoso
ICCC2018: Call for Workshops and Tutorials

Dear all,
First of all, Happy and Creative New year!! From the organising committee we would like to send the call for Workshops and Tutorial for ICCC. The International Conference on Computational Creativity looks for proposals for workshops and tutorials to be held in conjunction with the ICCC2018 conference at the University of Salamanca (Salamanca, Spain). The workshops will be held on the afternoon of the 25th and 26th of June, with the conference running from the 27th through the 29th.

We welcome proposals for half-day, full-day and one-and-a-half day workshops or tutorials on any aspect of computational creativity research.  Workshops are a great opportunity to exchange ideas, and tutorials are a chance to drive broader adoption of your system or method.  The deadline for submitting workshop and tutorial proposals is February 23th (the same as ICCC conference papers).

The content and format of workshops and tutorials are at the discretion of each event’s organizers. All workshop presenters will be encouraged to submit an accompanying poster to be presented during the main conference, and workshop organizers will have an opportunity to give a short “wrap-up” presentation to the conference as a whole. The ICCC2018 local team is also working hard to offer live streaming technology and support to workshop and tutorial organizers, so that all content and discussions can be recorded and shared (if the organizers so desire).

If a proposed workshop includes a call for paper submissions, we request that workshop organizers make the absolute latest date by which authors are informed of their acceptance be no later than May 12th, 2018, with the camera-ready deadline.  

IMPORTANT DATES:

– Deadline for submitting proposals for workshops and tutorials: February 23th, 2018.
– Notification of acceptance for workshops and tutorials: March 8th, 2018.
– Deadline for submitting content to workshops: No later than April 30th, 2018.
– Deadline for notification of acceptance for workshop content: No later than May 12th, 2018.

WORKSHOPS:

Prospective workshop organizers must submit two things to iccc-2018-organising-committee@googlegroups.com by February 23th: a) a workshop proposal, and b) a ready-to-mail Call for Participation.  The workshop proposal should be less than a page in length, and contain the following:

– A description of the workshop topic and why it is an important issue in computational creativity research.
– A description of the format of the workshop, and what you intend attendees to gain from it. We are particularly interested in workshops that are structured to promote discussion and attendee participation.
– The names and full contact details of the workshop organizing committee.
-List of tentative papers (if any)  
– An indication of whether this workshop should be considered for a half-day, full-day, or one-and-a-half-day slot.

The Call for Participation should be ready for the ICCC2018 team to mail out as-is. We want prospective attendees of your workshop to have as much time as possible to prepare their submissions, so please ensure the Call is as ready to go as you can make it: workshops will be in part judged on its completeness. This call can include requests for submissions, demonstrations, systems, performances, or any other requirement the organizers feel is appropriate for the workshop topic. Organizers of successful workshop proposals will be given a short period to update this email before it is distributed. 

TUTORIALS:

Prospective tutorial organizers must submit a tutorial proposal to  iccc-2018-organising-committee@googlegroups.com by February 23th. The proposal should be less than a page in length, and contain the following:

– A description of the tutorial topic (be it a system, a method, or something else) and what it contributes to computational creativity.
– A description of the format of the tutorial, and what you intend attendees to learn from it. We are particularly interested in tutorials that offer hands-on experience to participants.
– The names and full contact details of the tutorial organising committee (which could conceivably be a single person).
– An indication of whether this workshop should be considered for a half- or full-day slot.

Thanks and regards,
María Navarro


[rede.APPIA] Special Session WCCI /IJCNN 2018 on Cognition and Neurocomputation

Fernando Amílcar Bandeira Cardoso
Dear Colleagues and Researchers,

A special session on “Cognition and NeuroComputation” has been organized by L. Manevitz, B. Ribeiro and A. Frid at this summers WCCI/IJCNN meeting in Rio de Janeiro. 2018   The submissions will undergo the standard reviewing process for this meeting;    the main advantage in submitting to the special session will be the common interest of the participants.   you should indicate when submitting the main research topic is “S20. Special Session on Neurocomputation and Cognition”.    A link to the special session is below.


We encourage you to submit and/or to attend.

We will be interpreting ” NeuroComputation and Cognition” widely but around such topics such as:

The special session invites submissions in any of the following (and related) areas:


  • Use of Neurocomputation and Machine Learning Tools to Identify Complex Physiological Features
  • Neurocomputational Models for Cognition and Cognitive Tasks
  • Finding Computational Biomarkers for cognitive tasks using Machine Learning tools
  • Validation of cognitive models using machine learning methods
  • Discovering Computational Biomarkers for Diseases (especially neurological diseases)
  • Applications of Machine Learning and Neurocomputation to Cognitive Data
  • Neurocomputational and Architectural Models of Creativity
  • Innovative Neurocomputational Models appropriate for Cognition and Brain simulations
  • Design of Feature Selection and other Machine Learning Tools for Classifying Cognitive and Brain Data

For a more complete description visit the link: http://www.ecomp.poli.br/~wcci2018/ijcnn-sessions/#ijcnn20 .

You can also visit the home pages of the organizing laboratories:  Neurocomputation Laboratory (neurocomputation.wordpress.com) of Prof. Manevitz at U. Haifa and https://apps.uc.pt/mypage/faculty/uc25930

 of the LARN Laboratory of Prof. Ribeiro at Coimbra University.

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Conference Links: 

Main conference page: http://www.ecomp.poli.br/~wcci2018/



Link to the Special Session: IJCNN-20 Neurocomputation and Cognition

http://www.ecomp.poli.br/~wcci2018/ijcnn-sessions/#ijcnn20





— Bernardete Ribeiro

[rede.APPIA] CfP EvoMusArt 2018

Fernando Amílcar Bandeira Cardoso
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Call for papers for the 7th EVOMUSART conference
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The 7th International Conference on Computational Intelligence in Music, Sound, Art and Design (evoMUSART) will be held in Parma in 4-6 April 2018, as part of the evo* event. The main goal of EvoMusArt is to bring together researchers who are using Computational Intelligence techniques for artistic tasks such as visual art, music, architecture, video, digital games, poetry, or design. The conference gives researchers in the field the opportunity to promote, present and discuss ongoing work in the area.


Important dates:
Submission: 1 November 2017
Notification to authors: 3 January 2018
Camera-ready deadline: 15 January 2018
Evo*: 4-6 April 2018

We welcome submissions which use Computational Intelligence techniques (e.g. Evolutionary Computation, Artificial Life, Machine Learning, Swarm Intelligence) in the generation, analysis and interpretation of art, music, design, architecture and other artistic fields. Submissions must be at most 16 pages long, in Springer LNCS format (instructions downloadable from http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0). Each submission must be anonymised for a double-blind review process and submitted to http://myreview.csregistry.org/evomusart18/ (which should be online soon). The deadline for submission is 1 November 2017, and acceptance notification on 3 January 2018. Accepted papers will be presented orally or as posters at the event and included in the evoMUSART proceedings published by Springer Verlag in a dedicated volume of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
Generation:
* Systems that create drawings, images, animations, sculptures, poetry, text, designs, webpages, buildings, etc.;
* Systems that create musical pieces, sounds, instruments, voices, sound effects, sound analysis, etc.;
* Systems that create artifacts such as game content, architecture, furniture, based on aesthetic and functional criteria.
* Robotic-Based Evolutionary Art and Music;
* Other related artificial intelligence or generative techniques in the fields of Computer Music, Computer Art, etc.;

Theory:
* Computational Aesthetics, Experimental Aesthetics; Emotional Response, Surprise, Novelty;
* Representation techniques;
* Surveys of the current state-of-the-art in the area; identification of weaknesses and strengths; comparative analysis and classification;
* Validation methodologies;
* Studies on the applicability of these techniques to related areas;
* New models designed to promote the creative potential of biologically inspired computation;

Computer Aided Creativity and computational creativity:
* Systems in which computational intelligence is used to promote the creativity of a human user;
* New ways of integrating the user in the evolutionary cycle;
* Analysis and evaluation of: the artistic potential of biologically inspired art and music; the artistic processes inherent to these approaches; the resulting artefacts;
* Collaborative distributed artificial art environments;

Automation:
* Techniques for automatic fitness assignment
* Systems in which an analysis or interpretation of the artworks is used in conjunction with computational intelligence techniques to produce novel objects;
* Systems that resort to computational intelligence approaches to perform the analysis of image, music, sound, sculpture, or some other types of artistic object or resource.

More information on the submission process of evoMUSART 2018 can be found at http://www.evostar.org/2018/cfp_evomusart.php 
Past Evomusart papers can be found http://evomusart-index.dei.uc.pt/

We look forward to seeing you in Parma in 2018!

The evoMUSART 2018 organisers

[rede.APPIA] CfP Cognitive IoT 2017: deadline July 15th

Fernando Amílcar Bandeira Cardoso
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CALL FOR PAPERS

Cognitive IoT 2017 – 1st International Workshop on Empowering IoT with Cognition and Intelligent Agents

Organized in the scope of
ACM SenSys 2017 – 15th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems
Delft, The Netherlands, November 6-8, 2017
http://sensys.acm.org/2017/

Keywords: Internet of Things; People-IoT interactions; Multi-agent systems; Cognitive systems; Affective computing; Ambient intelligence.

Scope: Recent advances in the Internet of Things (IoT), particularly in the definition of new reference architectures, such as FIWARE, go towards a growing integration of the physical, social and cyber spaces. The IoT supporting technologies are becoming robust, viable, cheaper and widely available to citizens. The delivery of low-cost people-centric services through IoT is becoming increasingly viable, which is giving rise to the emergence of a people-centric IoT. This also raises the need for smarter, context-aware and cognitive-based services to be provided through these platforms. Moreover, the distributed characteristics of IoT resources leads to increasing needs for autonomy, reactivity, proactivity and social ability, characteristics that intelligent agents have been tackling in the last decades.
      This workshop intends to bring together researchers working on the confluence of intelligent and cognitive systems with the Internet of Things and related areas. We aim to provide the opportunity to promote the presentation and discussion of ongoing work in the area, which will encourage cross-fertilization between various current approaches. In this context, we welcome papers describing ongoing work the confluence of intelligent and cognitive systems with the Internet of Things, including, but not limited to, the following topics:

* Intelligent systems for IoT
* Multi-Agent Systems for IoT
* Cognitive services for IoT
* Context awareness in IoT
* Human in the Loop
* Cyber Physical Systems
* People-centric systems and solutions
* People-IoT Interactions
* Cloud-based People-centric IoT Applications and Environments
* Affective Computing in IoT
* Machine learning for IoT
* IoT for Ambient Intelligence
* Distributed security in Cognitive IoT

Submissions must be made through the main conference site: 
http://sensys.acm.org/2017/


Important dates

Submission deadline: July 15th, 2017
Notification of acceptance: September 15th, 2017
Camera-Ready papers: September 22nd, 2017

Workshop co-chairs

Fernando Boavida, University of Coimbra, Portugal
Takahiro Hara, Osaka University, Japan
Nic Lane, University College London, United Kingdom 

Technical Program Committee (more committee members may be added)

Amílcar Cardoso, University of Coimbra, Portugal
Carlos Carrascosa, Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain
José Luis Castillo Sequera, University of Alcalá, Spain
Ioannis Chatzigiannakis, University of Rome La Sapienza, Italy
Juan M. Corchado, University of Salamanca, Spain
Edward Curry, National University of Ireland Galway, Ireland
Kevin Doolin, TSSG, Waterford Institute of Technology, Ireland
Antonio Fernández Anta, IMDEA Networks, Spain
Fernando Ferri, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, IRPPS, Italy
Cathal Gurrin, Dublin City University / Insight Centre for Data Analytics, Ireland
Antonio Loureiro, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil
Luis Macedo, University of Coimbra, Portugal
Andreas Mauthe, University of Lancaster, UK
Alexandre Miguel Pinto, University of Lisbon, Portugal
Paulo Novais, Universidade do Minho, Portugal
Vasco Pereira, University of Coimbra, Portugal
Ricardo Rabelo, Federal University of Ouro Preto, Brazil
André Rodrigues, ISCAC, Portugal
Jorge Sá Silva, University of Coimbra, Portugal
Antonio Skarmeta, University of Murcia, Spain
Kåre Synnes, Luleå University of Technology, Sweden
Victoria Torres Bosch, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain
Kevin Wang, Auckland University, New Zealand
Marco Zennaro, The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Italy
Pei Zhang, Carnegie Mellon University, USA