Author: Henrique Lopes Cardoso

[rede.APPIA] EPIA 2017 — Call for Journal Track Papers

Henrique Lopes Cardoso
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CALL FOR JOURNAL TRACK PAPERS

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EPIA 2017

18th EPIA Conference on Artificial Intelligence
http://www.fe.up.pt/epia2017/call-for-journal-track-papers/
September 5-8, 2017
Porto — Portugal

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Special Issue on Computational Models for Social and Technical Interactions

The journal track invites high-quality submissions that present original work in the areas of computational models for understanding, modelling, and facilitating social interaction between people, organizations and systems. Topics covering intelligent socio-technical systems, adaptive and social-aware intelligent systems, evolving social systems, adaptive and reactive intelligent systems, Governance mechanisms, Organizational learning, Social media analysis, Social network analysis, Social robotics, smart cities, V2V,  etc. are welcome.


Accepted papers will be published in a special issue of the New Generation Computing journal and, moreover, a presentation slot at the EPIA 2017 conference will be assigned.


Given the special nature of the EPIA 2017 journal track, only papers that naturally lend themselves to conference talks will be considered. For instance, journal versions of previously published conference papers, or survey papers will not be considered for the special issue. Such submissions might be submitted to the regular submission track of the journal.

 

How to submit?


To submit to EPIA’17 journal track, authors must send an e-mail to the Editor of NGC Dr.Masami Hagiya to <ngcj@ohmsha.co.jp> and CC to the e-mail <epia2017@fe.up.pt>. The Subject of the e-mail should be “Submission for the EPIA 2017 special issue”. Papers must be submitted in PDF format, using the style format of NGC. In the body of e-mail, authors should specify one of the six major fields of the paper, and any previous publication with overlapping material. The EPIA 2017 Chairs will coordinate the review process.

 

Authors who submit their work to the special EPIA 2017 journal track commit themselves to present their results at the EPIA conference in case of acceptance. If you are not interested in presenting your work at EPIA 2017, please do not submit to this special issue of the journal.

 

Format


It is recommended that submitted papers do not exceed 20 pages including references and appendices, formatted in the New Generation Computing journal style.

This is a soft limit, but if a submission exceeds the limit, please provide a brief justification regarding the length in the cover letter.

 

Important dates for the journal track


Authors can submit at any time to this Special Issue. Once a paper is submitted, the review process starts. At least, two independent reviewers will review each paper. The expected review time is 2 months. We strongly suggest earlier submissions to accommodate the usual iterative review process. The very last date for submission is 1 April 2017.

 

Notes on quality threshold


The submissions will be treated as regular NGC journal submission with the same quality criteria; any paper accepted in the special issue will have to satisfy the high quality standards of the journal.

 

Potential outcomes of the evaluation process


Depending on the decisions of the handling editors, multiple outcomes are possible for a paper submitted to the journal track:

 

Accept or Accept conditional to minor revisions in case the paper meets the journal acceptance criteria; if the final acceptance of the paper occurs before June 2017, a regular presentation slot for the paper will be allotted in the EPIA 2017 program.


Reject in case the paper does not meet the quality criteria of the journal.


In exceptional cases, the editors may decide that the research presented in the paper is not mature enough to be acceptable for the journal special issue, yet consider it, due to its originality and potential, a valuable asset for the EPIA 2017 conference. In such cases, the authors will be invited to revise and shorten their paper and submit to an EPIA 2017 regular track (in case the corresponding deadline can still be met), where the paper will be subject to a light reviewing process.

The Journal Track Guest Editors

Eugenio Oliveira, João Gama

15ª Tertúlia em Inteligência Artificial: A Inteligência Artificial (Ibérica): Desafios

Henrique Lopes Cardoso

No contexto das Tertúlias em Inteligência Artificial (TeIA) que a Associação Portuguesa Para a Inteligência Artificial (APPIA) promove, a Associação em conjunto com a Universidade do Minho organizam, a décima quinta edição deste evento subordinada ao tema a Inteligência Artificial (Ibérica) e os seus desafios.

Esta décima quinta edição do evento conta com a participação dos seguintes interlocutores:

  • Amparo Alonso Betanzos, Full Professor, Universidade da Coruña e AEPIA, Spain;
  • Helder Coelho, Professor Catedrático, Universidade de Lisboa;
  • José Neves, Professor Catedrático, Universidade do Minho;
  • Paulo Novais, Professor Associado, Universidade do Minho e APPIA.

A TeIA X5 – IAI terá lugar na Universidade do Minho e realizar‑se‑á no dia 17 de março de 2017, com início às 10h30 no Auditório DI-A2, no Departamento de Informática, Campus de Gualtar, em Braga.

Mais informações poderão ser obtidas através dos contactos habituais da APPIA, disponíveis em www.appia.pt e através dos seguintes contactos:

[rede.APPIA] EPIA 2017 — Call for Papers

Henrique Lopes Cardoso

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EPIA 2017: 18th EPIA Conference on Artificial Intelligence
Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto
Porto, Portugal, September 5-8, 2017
Conference website http://www.fe.up.pt/epia2017
Submission link https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=epia2017
Submission deadline April 15, 2017
Paper acceptance May 31, 2017
Camera-ready June 15, 2017
Topics: artificial intelligence

Springer LNAI Proceedings | 2 Best Paper Awards | Poster Session

Invited Speakers | Journal Track | Doctoral Symposium | AI Competitions

The EPIA Conference on Artificial Intelligence is a well-established European conference in the field of AI. The 18th edition, EPIA 2017, will take place at Porto in September 5th-8th, 2017. As in previous editions, this international conference is hosted with the patronage of the Portuguese Association for Artificial Intelligence (APPIA). The purpose of this conference is to promote research in all areas of Artificial Intelligence (AI), covering both theoretical/foundational issues and applications, and the scientific exchange among researchers, engineers and practitioners in related disciplines.

EPIA 2017 will feature a set of thematic tracks (see below), covering a wide spectrum of AI topics.

Submission and Reviewing

All papers should be submitted in PDF format through the EPIA 2017 EasyChair submission page. Prospective authors should select the thematic track to which their paper is to be submitted (see below).

Submitted papers should be prepared according to the Springer LNCS format, with a maximum of 12 pages. Some thematic tracks (see each track specific page) may accept short papers (max 6 pages). Submitted papers will be subject to a double-blind review process, and will be peer-reviewed by at least three members of the respective track Program Committee. It is the responsibility of the authors to remove names and affiliations from the submitted papers, and to take reasonable care to assure anonymity during the review process.

Proceedings and Presentations

Accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings (a volume of Springer’s Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence), provided that at least one author is registered in EPIA 2017 by the early registration deadline. EPIA 2015 proceedings were indexed in Thomson Reuters ISI Web of Science, Scopus, DBLP and Google Scholar.

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Each accepted paper will be presented in a track session. Furthermore, authors will have the opportunity to participate in a poster session, open to every accepted paper (but limited to the available physical space).

Awards

The conference will grant the following awards:

  • Best Paper Award, for the best research paper presented at the conference — €1000 sponsored by Springer
  • Best Application Paper Award, for the best paper focusing a real-world application — €1000 sponsored by MASDIMA

Only papers that have been submitted to a thematic track and presented at the conference will be eligible for these awards.

Thematic Tracks

The following thematic tracks on AI are included in the technical program:

Important Dates

Paper submission deadline: April 15, 2017
Paper acceptance notification: May 31, 2017
Camera-ready deadline: June 15, 2017
Conference: September 5-8, 2017

EPIA 2017 Committees

Event Chairs

  • Eugénio Oliveira, LIACC, Universidade do Porto, Portugal
  • João Gama, LIAAD-INESC, Universidade do Porto, Portugal

Program Chairs

  • Eugénio Oliveira, LIACC, Universidade do Porto, Portugal
  • João Gama, LIAAD-INESC, Universidade do Porto, Portugal
  • Henrique Lopes Cardoso, LIACC, Universidade do Porto, Portugal
  • Zita Vale, GECAD, Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto, Portugal

Organization Chairs

  • Ana Paula Rocha, LIACC, Universidade do Porto, Portugal
  • Goreti Marreiros, GECAD, Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto, Portugal

International Steering Committee

  • Ana Bazzan, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
  • Ana Paiva, UL/Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
  • Ernesto Costa, Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
  • François Pachet, Sony Computer Science Laboratory, France
  • Helder Coelho, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
  • José Júlio Alferes, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
  • José Maia Neves, Universidade do Minho, Portugal
  • Juan Pavón, Universidad Complutense Madrid, Spain
  • Luís Paulo Reis, APPIA/Universidade do Minho, Portugal
  • Manuela Veloso, University Carnegie Mellon, USA
  • Marco Dorigo, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
  • Paulo Novais, APPIA/Universidade do Minho, Portugal
  • Pavel Brazdil, Universidade do Porto, Portugal
  • Peter McBurney, King's College London, UK
  • Ulrich Furbach, University of Koblenz, Germany

[rede.APPIA] EPIA 2017 — Call for Papers

Henrique Lopes Cardoso

*** Please distribute. Apologies for cross-posting. ***


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CALL FOR PAPERS

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EPIA 2017

18th EPIA Conference on Artificial Intelligence

https://web.fe.up.pt/~epia2017/call-for-papers/

September 5-8, 2017

Porto – Portugal

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The EPIA Conference on Artificial Intelligence is a well-established European conference in the field of AI. The 18th edition, EPIA 2017, will take place at Porto in September 5th-8th, 2017. As in previous editions, this international conference is hosted with the patronage of the Portuguese Association for Artificial Intelligence (APPIA). The purpose of this conference is to promote research in all areas of Artificial Intelligence (AI), covering both theoretical/foundational issues and applications, and the scientific exchange among researchers, engineers and practitioners in related disciplines.

EPIA 2017 will feature a set of thematic tracks (see below), covering a wide spectrum of AI topics.

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Submission and Reviewing

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All papers should be submitted in PDF format through the EPIA 2017 EasyChair submission page. Prospective authors should select the thematic track to which their paper is to be submitted (see below).

Submitted papers should be prepared according to the Springer LNCS format, with a maximum of 12 pages. Some thematic tracks (see each track specific page) may accept short papers (max 6 pages). Submitted papers will be subject to a double-blind review process, and will be peer-reviewed by at least three members of the respective track Program Committee. It is the responsibility of the authors to remove names and affiliations from the submitted papers, and to take reasonable care to assure anonymity during the review process.

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Proceedings and Presentations

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Accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings (a volume of Springer’s Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence), provided that at least one author is registered in EPIA 2017 by the early registration deadline. EPIA 2015 proceedings were 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. Furthermore, authors will have the opportunity to participate in a poster session, open to every accepted paper (but limited to the available physical space).

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Awards

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The conference will grant the following awards:

* Best Paper Award, for the best research paper presented at the conference — sponsored by Springer

* Best Application Paper Award, for the best paper focusing a real-world application

Only papers that have been submitted to a thematic track and presented at the conference will be eligible for these awards.

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Thematic Tracks

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The following thematic tracks on AI are included in the technical program:

* ABM4Crime – Agent-Based Modelling for Criminological Research

* AICPDES – Artificial Intelligence in Cyber-Physical and Distributed Embedded Systems

* AIG – Artificial Intelligence in Games

* AIM – Artificial Intelligence in Medicine

* AIPES – Artificial Intelligence in Power and Energy Systems

* AITS – Artificial Intelligence in Transportation Systems

* ALEA – Artificial Life and Evolutionary Algorithms

* AmIA – Ambient Intelligence and Affective Environments

* BAAI – Business Applications of Artificial Intelligence

* CoSTA – Computation Sustainability, Technologies and Applications

* IROBOT – Intelligent Robotics

* KDBI – Knowledge Discovery and Business Intelligence

* KRR – Knowledge Representation and Reasoning

* MASTA – Multi-Agent Systems: Theory and Applications

* SE4AIS – Software Engineering for Autonomous and Intelligent Systems

* SSM – Social Simulation and Modelling

* TeMA – Text Mining and Applications

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Important Dates

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Paper submission deadline: April 15, 2017

Paper acceptance notification: May 31, 2017

Camera-ready deadline: June 15, 2017

Conference: September 5-8, 2017

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EPIA 2017 Committees

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Event Chairs

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Eugénio Oliveira, LIACC, Universidade do Porto, Portugal

João Gama, LIAAD-INESC, Universidade do Porto, Portugal

Program Chairs

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Eugénio Oliveira, LIACC, Universidade do Porto, Portugal

João Gama, LIAAD-INESC, Universidade do Porto, Portugal

Henrique Lopes Cardoso, LIACC, Universidade do Porto, Portugal

Zita Vale, GECAD, Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto, Portugal

Organization Chairs

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Ana Paula Rocha, LIACC, Universidade do Porto, Portugal

Goreti Marreiros, GECAD, Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto, Portugal

International Steering Committee

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Ana Bazzan, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

Ana Paiva, UL/Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal

Ernesto Costa, Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal

François Pachet, Sony Computer Science Laboratory, France

Helder Coelho, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal

José Júlio Alferes, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal

José Maia Neves, Universidade do Minho, Portugal

Juan Pavón, Universidad Complutense Madrid, Spain

Luís Paulo Reis, APPIA/Universidade do Minho, Portugal

Manuela Veloso, University Carnegie Mellon, USA

Marco Dorigo, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium

Paulo Novais, APPIA/Universidade do Minho, Portugal

Pavel Brazdil, Universidade do Porto, Portugal

Peter McBurney, King's College London, UK

Ulrich Furbach, University of Koblenz, Germany

[rede.APPIA] EPIA 2017 — Last Call for Thematic Tracks *** DEADLINE September 15, 2016

Henrique Lopes Cardoso

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LAST CALL FOR THEMATIC TRACKS *** DEADLINE September 15, 2016

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EPIA 2017

18th EPIA Conference on Artificial Intelligence

http://www.fe.up.pt/epia2017/call-for-thematic-tracks/

September 5-8, 2017

Porto – Portugal

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The EPIA Conference on Artificial Intelligence is a well-established European conference in the field of AI. The 18th edition, EPIA 2017, will take place at Porto in September 5th-8th, 2017. As in previous editions, this international conference is hosted with the patronage of the Portuguese Association for Artificial Intelligence (APPIA). The purpose of this conference is to promote research in all areas of Artificial Intelligence (AI), covering both theoretical/foundational issues and applications, and the scientific exchange among researchers, engineers and practitioners in related disciplines.

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Conference format

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To promote discussions among participants, the scientific program of EPIA 2017 will be composed of a set of thematic tracks, in addition to a journal track. Plenary sessions with invited lectures given by leading scientists will also take place.

The conference will also feature a doctoral symposium, a poster session, AI competitions and tutorials on specific topics.

More detailed and up-to-date information may be found at www.fe.up.pt/epia2017

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Call-for-tracks

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The worldwide AI research community is invited to submit thematic track proposals for EPIA 2017. Thematic tracks are intended to provide an environment that fosters an active exchange of ideas between researchers within specific sub-areas of AI, including theoretical/foundational, integrative, application-oriented and newly emerging areas.

Each track is coordinated by an Organizing Committee composed of, at least, researchers from two different countries. Track organizers should also create a highly international Program Committee for the track, with recognized researchers within the corresponding scientific areas.

The selection of thematic tracks will be made by the Program Chairs and Steering Committee of EPIA 2017. We aim to build a strong, well-balanced conference program. If there are significant thematic gaps in the program after the track proposal submission closes, the chairs may actively solicit additional proposals. Likewise, significant overlap between tracks will be addressed by suggesting track merges.

Papers accepted in thematic tracks will be published by Springer, in a volume of the Lecture Notes on Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) series. Submitted papers should be prepared according to the corresponding format, with a maximum of 12 pages.

Presentation slots will be accommodated in the conference program for every accepted paper, in thematic sessions that may run in parallel.

Furthermore, it is the intention of the conference organizers to include a poster session in the conference program, providing a forum for more informal discussions, where authors of accepted papers will be welcome to participate with their own poster.

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Responsibilities

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The Organizing Committee of each track will be responsible for:

– Creating an international Program Committee for the track.

– Publicizing the track by all necessary means, including distributing the call-for-papers of EPIA 2017.

– Coordinating a double-blind review process for papers submitted to the track, ensuring that each paper is reviewed by at least three program committee members.

– Assisting the Program Chairs of the conference in the paper selection process.

– Ensuring the delivery of camera-ready versions of papers accepted for the track in accordance with the guidelines and deadlines defined by the conference organizers.

– Coordinating track session chairing assignments.

The organizers of EPIA 2017 will ensure:

– A web-based tool to support the scientific organization process (paper submission, reviewing, selection, etc.).

– The coordination and final deliberation on paper acceptance decisions.

– The publication of thematic track papers in the conference proceedings.

– A meeting place and time for holding the track sessions, including common equipment (e.g. computer and beamer).

EPIA 2017 organizers reserve the right to cancel a track if deadlines are missed, or if the track organizers are unable to attract a minimum number of quality paper submissions. If that is the case, track session merges may also be imposed.

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Proposal submission

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Track proposals should not exceed 3 pages and must be submitted as a PDF file to epia2017@fe.up.pt

The proposal should contain the following information:

  1. Thematic track title.

  2. Name, affiliation, postal address, phone and email address of all members of the track Organizing Committee, which must include researchers from institutions in at least two different countries.

  3. Identification of the Organizing Committee contact person.

  4. A brief description of the specific scientific/technical scope of the track.

  5. A list of topics of interest.

  6. The reasons why the track should be held within EPIA 2017.

  7. A tentative list of members of the proposed track Program Committee, which should be highly international (e.g. no more than 50% from a single country).

  8. A preliminary version of the track call-for-papers.

  9. The planned format (e.g., invited talks, paper presentations, panel discussions, etc.) and duration of the track.

  10. Any plans on preparing a journal special issue for selected and extended versions of papers accepted in the track.

  11. Planned forms of publicizing the track.

  12. A list of technical/room requirements for the track.

  13. Specific initiatives to support and improve the quality of the overall conference.

  14. Any sponsors or other funding initiatives for the thematic track.

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Important dates

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Thematic-track proposal deadline: September 15, 2016

Notification of track acceptance: September 30, 2016

1st Call-for-papers: November 15, 2016

Paper submission deadline: April 15, 2017

Notification of paper acceptance: May 31, 2017

Camera ready papers deadline: June 15, 2017

Conference dates: September 5-8, 2017

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EPIA 2017 Committees

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Event Chairs

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Eugénio Oliveira, LIACC, Universidade do Porto, Portugal

João Gama, LIAAD-INESC, Universidade do Porto, Portugal

Program Chairs

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Eugénio Oliveira, LIACC, Universidade do Porto, Portugal

João Gama, LIAAD-INESC, Universidade do Porto, Portugal

Henrique Lopes Cardoso, LIACC, Universidade do Porto, Portugal

Zita Vale, GECAD, Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto, Portugal

Organization Chairs

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Ana Paula Rocha, LIACC, Universidade do Porto, Portugal

Goreti Marreiros, GECAD, Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto, Portugal

International Steering Committee

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Ana Bazzan, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

Ana Paiva, UL/Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal

Ernesto Costa, Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal

François Pachet, Sony Computer Science Laboratory, France

Helder Coelho, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal

José Júlio Alferes, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal

José Maia Neves, Universidade do Minho, Portugal

Juan Pavón, Universidad Complutense Madrid, Spain

Luís Paulo Reis, APPIA/Universidade do Minho, Portugal

Manuela Veloso, University Carnegie Mellon, USA

Marco Dorigo, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium

Paulo Novais, APPIA/Universidade do Minho, Portugal

Pavel Brazdil, Universidade do Porto, Portugal

Peter McBurney, King’s College London, UK

Ulrich Furbach, University of Koblenz, Germany