Author: Henrique Lopes Cardoso

[rede.APPIA] Inscrição na EPIA 2021 e Cota de 2021 da APPIA

Henrique Lopes Cardoso
Car@ Associad@ da APPIA,
Este ano, e numa iniciativa que se pretende manter para futuro, os associados da APPIA que se inscrevam na EPIA terão a sua anuidade de 2021 coberta pela inscrição na conferência.
De forma a poder usufruir deste benefício, e assim ter a cota de 2021 automaticamente paga com a sua inscrição na EPIA, deverá regularizar as suas cotas referentes aos anos até 2020. Esta regularização deve ser efetuada até à data da EPIA 2021, que decorrerá de 7 a 9 de setembro.
O pagamento das cotas deve ser feito por transferência para o IBAN da APPIA, que é o PT50 0035 2154 00013689930 30. Agradecemos que nos envie o comprovativo de transferência, para infos@appia.pt.
Com os melhores cumprimentos,
Pela Direção da APPIA,
Henrique Lopes Cardoso

[rede.APPIA] Fwd: ACAI2021 – First announcement and call for tutorial proposals. 11-15 October 2021

Henrique Lopes Cardoso
[Please distribute to your PhD students and colleagues]

The EurAI’s (www.eurai.org) 18th Advanced Course on AI (ACAI) will take place in Berlin from  11-15 October 2021

The theme of ACAI-2021 is “Human-centred AI” 

Venue: Berlin, Germany (with online broadcasting)

 

website: https://www.humane-ai.eu/event/acai2021/

twitter:  https://twitter.com/acai2021

ACAI provides a wide range of state-of-the-art courses given by some of the most prominent researchers in the area.

The notion of “Human Centric AI” is dominating the public AI debate in Europe and elsewhere.  It postulates a vision of AI beneficial to humans on both individual and social level that is characterized by a focus on supporting and empowering humans as well as incorporating “by design” adherence to appropriate ethical standards and values such as privacy protection, autonomy (human in control), and non-discrimination. Stated this way (which is how it mostly appears in the political debate) it may seem more like a broad, vague wish list than a tangible scientific/technological concept. Yet, at a second glance, it turns out that it is closely connected to some of the most fundamental challenges of AI which are the core of ACAI2021 program

The program is packed with diverse activities, including tutorials (at basic and advanced level), keynotes, panels, student presentations, and more.

Confirmed keynote speakers include Yoshua Bengio (Turing Prize Winner) and Ben Schneidermann and the winner of EURAI’s dissertation award 2021.

Call for tutorials: ACAI 2021 invites proposals for tutorials. Deadline for proposals is 15 June 2021. For more information and submission, please see https://form.jotform.com/211240960017343

 

ACAI-2021is co-organized by: 

[rede.APPIA] 22nd European Agent Systems Summer School (EASSS 2021) — Last Call for Applications

Henrique Lopes Cardoso

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LAST CALL FOR APPLICATIONS

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EASSS 2021

22nd European Agent Systems Summer School

http://www.fe.up.pt/easss2021

July 19-23, 2021

– online event –

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We invite researchers and practitioners from academia and industry, namely Ph.D. / M.Sc. students and post-doctoral researchers interested in Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, to attend the 22nd European Agent Systems Summer School (EASSS 2021).

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Important Dates

Application deadline: May 31, 2021

Acceptance decision: June 8, 2021

Registration deadline: June 30, 2021

EASSS 2021: July 19-23, 2021

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About EASSS 2021

The 22nd European Agent Systems Summer School (EASSS 2021) is organized by the Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science Lab of the University of Porto (LIACC), and held online, on July 19-23, 2021. EASSS 2021 is organized under the auspices of the European Association for Multi-Agent Systems (EURAMAS) and the Portuguese Association for Artificial Intelligence (APPIA), as an Advanced School on Artificial Intelligence.

The main goal of EASSS is to provide an exchange of knowledge among individuals and groups interested in various aspects of autonomous, agent-based and multi-agent systems research and practice. This dissemination is provided by formal state-of-the-art courses conducted by leading experts in the field and by informal meetings during the event. The school attracts both beginner and experienced researchers, encouraging cooperation between representatives of many branches of the Multi-Agent Systems research community.

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Program

The school will be composed of the following tutorials:

A Machine Learning perspective of Agent-Based Models with R and Python

– Pedro Campos (University of Porto and LIAAD INESC-TEC, Portugal) and Joaquim Sousa (Microdigital, Portugal)

Computation of Nash Equilibria: Algorithms and Complexity

– Argyrios Deligkas (Royal Holloway University of London, UK)

Statecharts use in Agent Technology

– Nikolaos Spanoudakis (Technical University of Crete, Greece)

Logic-based specification and verification of strategic abilities in multi-agent systems

– Valentin Goranko (Stockholm University, Sweden)

Formal argumentation

– Bruno Yun (University of Aberdeen, UK)

Auctions, Markets, and Automated Mechanism Design: Learning and Building Incentives for Multi-Agent Systems in the Presence of Scarcity

– Aris Filos-Ratsikas (University of Liverpool, UK) and Paul Tylkin (Harvard University, USA)

Fair Allocation of Indivisible Goods (EurAI Talk)

– Nicolas Maudet (LIP6, Sorbonne Université, Paris, France)

Accountability and Multiagent Organizations: from Concepts to Software Engineering

– Matteo Baldoni, Cristina Baroglio and Roberto Micalizio (Università degli Studi di Torino, Italy)

Constrained Optimisation for Multi-Agent Systems

– Filippo Bistaffa (IIIA-CSIC, Spain)

Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning: Fundamental Problems & Solutions

– Michael Kaisers (Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica, The Netherlands) and Frans Oliehoek (TU Delft, The Netherlands)

Reinforcement Learning Algorithms for Continuous Control

– Abbas Abdolmaleki (DeepMind, London, UK)

Planning for SuperHuman Autonomous Vehicles

– Zlatan Ajanovic (Virtual Vehicle Research Center, Graz, Austria)

Affective Computing – from theoretical models to applications for Human-Agent Interaction

– João Dias (INESC-ID and University of Algarve, Portugal)

Agents Enabling Cooperative Intelligent Transportation Systems (C-ITS) and Mobility Paradigms

– Rosaldo Rossetti (FEUP, Portugal), Zafeiris Kokkinogenis (CEiiA, Portugal) and Pedro d’Orey (FEUP, Portugal)

Cyber-physical multi-agent systems

– Tiago Pinto, Zita Vale, Gabriel Santos, Luis Gomes (GECAD, School of Engineering, Polytechnic of Porto, Portugal) and Phuong Nguyen (Technical University of Eindhoven, The Netherlands)

The complete provisional program can be found online, at

https://www.fe.up.pt/easss2021/program/

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Application and Registration

Applications should be made until May 31, using the following form:

https://forms.gle/FmTyp3WQjWgv3PqH7

Candidates will be notified of the decision until June 8, 2021, and will receive instructions on how to register. Given the online nature of the school, there will be no registration fees.

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EASSS 2021 Committees

Scientific Committee

Ana Paiva, Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal

Ann Nowé, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium

Carles Sierra, IIIA, Spain

Mario Paolucci, ISTC-CNR, Italy

Organizing Committee

Henrique Lopes Cardoso, LIACC / Universidade do Porto, Portugal

Luís Paulo Reis, LIACC / Universidade do Porto, Portugal

Thiago Reis, LIACC / Universidade do Porto, Portugal

[rede.APPIA] Fwd: Call For Papers – BRACIS’2021

Henrique Lopes Cardoso

Call For Papers

10th Brazilian Conference on Intelligent Systems (BRACIS)

http://c4ai.inova.usp.br/bracis/

Online Event

November 29 – December 03, 2021

>>>> Deadline for paper submissions: May 31, 2021 <<<<

>>>> CALL FOR PAPERS <<<<

The Program Committee of the 10th Brazilian Conference on Intelligent System (BRACIS) invites submissions of original research papers for the conference from November 29th to December 3th, 2021. Due to the COVID pandemic and the sanitary and economical related issues, the conference will be held online. BRACIS 2021 will be organized by C4AI Center for Artificial Intelligence (https://c4ai.inova.usp.br/).

BRACIS is the most important event in Brazil for researchers in the fields of Artificial  and Computational Intelligence. The Brazilian Conference on Intelligent Systems (BRACIS) originated from the combination of the two most traditional scientific events in Brazil in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Computational Intelligence (CI): the Brazilian Symposium on Artificial Intelligence – SBIA (21 editions ), and the Brazilian Symposium on Neural Networks – SBRN (12 editions). The conference aims to promote theory and applications of Artificial and Computational Intelligence. BRACIS also aims for the promotion of international level research by exchanging scientific ideas among researchers, practitioners, scientists, and engineers.

IMPORTANT DATES

– Paper submission –  May 31, 2021 

– Notification to authors – July 30, 2021

– Camera-ready copy due – August 19, 2021

SPECIAL ISSUES

Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended versions of their work to be appreciated for publication in special issues after the conference.

SUBMISSION DETAILS

*** Please, note that BRACIS submission is double-blind ***  

This means that both the reviewer and author identities are concealed from the reviewers, and vice versa, throughout the review process. To facilitate this, authors need to ensure that their manuscripts are prepared in a way that does not reveal their identity.

Submissions should include significant and unpublished research on all aspects of Artificial Intelligence (AI) or Computational Intelligence (CI).

Submission format

Submitted papers must be written in English, and not exceed 15 pages, including all tables, figures, references, and appendices. 

Formatting instructions, as well as templates for Word and LaTeX, are available at Conference Proceedings guidelines. Springer’s proceedings LaTeX templates are also available in Overleaf .

All submitted papers will be reviewed by at least three experts in the field. Accepted papers will be included in the BRACIS proceedings, and submitted for publication in Springer in Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) / Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) series. 

Only PDF files can be uploaded in the submission system.

SUBMISSION SYSTEM

JEMS – Journal and Event Management System

https://jems.sbc.org.br/jems2/

TOPICS OF INTEREST

Topics of interest include (but are not restricted to):

  • Agent-based and Multi-Agent Systems
  • AI in Emerging Countries: Public Policies and the Future of Work
  • Bioinformatics and Biomedical Engineering
  • Cognitive Modeling and Human Interaction
  • Combinatorial and Numerical Optimization
  • Computer Vision
  • Constraints and Search
  • Decision Making in Food Production Networks
  • Deep Learning
  • Distributed AI  
  • Education
  • Evolutionary Computation and Metaheuristics
  • Forecasting
  • Foundations of AI
  • Fuzzy Systems
  • Game Playing and Intelligent Interactive Entertainment
  • Graph-Oriented Machine Learning
  • Hybrid Systems
  • Information Retrieval, Integration, and Extraction
  • Intelligent Robotics
  • Knowledge-Enhanced Machine Learning
  • Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (including Commonsense Reasoning, Model-Based Reasoning, Probabilistic Reasoning, Approximate Reasoning)
  • Knowledge Representation and Reasoning in Ontologies and the Semantic Web
  • Logic-based Knowledge Representation and Reasoning
  • Machine Learning and Data Mining
  • Machine Learning for Medical Diagnosis
  • Meta-learning
  • Molecular and Quantum Computing
  • Multidisciplinary AI and CI
  • Natural Language Processing
  • Natural Language Processing in Portuguese
  • Neural Networks
  • Pattern Recognition and Cluster Analysis
  • Planning and Scheduling
  • Reinforcement Learning

GENERAL CHAIR

Reinaldo A. C. Bianchi, Centro Universitário FEI and C4AI

Zhao Liang, Universidade de São Paulo (USP) and C4AI

PROGRAM CHAIRS:

André Britto, Universidade Federal de Sergipe (UFS) (andre@dcomp.ufs.br)

Karina Valdivia Delgado, Universidade de São Paulo (USP)  (kvd@usp.br)

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[rede.APPIA] Fwd: [Infos] EurAI Last call: conference sponsorship Autumn 2021 (extended deadline May 17!)

Henrique Lopes Cardoso

Dear EurAI societies,

Dear EurAI fellows,

 

We recall that EurAI sponsors invited talks at international conferences. The guidelines for eligibility and duties of sponsored conferences can be read at

https://eurai.org/apply_for/conference_sponsorship

 

Conference organizers who want to apply to funding for a conference that takes place before the end of December 2021 should apply **before May 17, 2021**.

 

The submission URL for EurAI Sponsorship is

https://forms.gle/basuf5A8xt26bicK9

 

There will be another call in autumn of this year for conferences that take place in the first half of 2022.

 

Best regards,

 

Catholijn Jonker, on behalf of

The EurAI board.

 

Prof. Dr. C.M. Jonker
Interactive Intelligence Group, Fac. EEMCS, TU Delft and

Explainable Artificial Intelligence, LIACS, Leiden University


Delft office: West6.600 in Building number 28
Delft phone: +31.15.2781315 (is active whenever my laptop is connected to the internet)

Mobile phone: +31.6.48875207
Websites: http://ii.tudelft.nl/~catholijn and catholijnjonker.nl

 

 

[rede.APPIA] Fwd: [Infos] Meet AIPlan4EU an AI planning technology project

Henrique Lopes Cardoso

AIPlan4EU is a project that focuses on AI planning technology and bringing it to innovators and practitioners.

Our first Open Call is ongoing and 5 use-case proposals will be funded.
These use cases can be from different sectors such as: space, agriculture, manufacturing, logistics, autonomous driving, automated experimentation, subsea robotics, or any others that prove to be relevant.

Overall, the project offers:

  • Funding €1500 per individual/SME in Open Call #1 for Use-Case.

  • The chance to be funded up to €30.000 to support the use-case implementation in the future open calls, including supporting the evaluation phase of these open calls.

  • Opportunities to connect with users and suppliers from various industries.

  • Access to a sustainable ecosystem of stakeholders active in multiple AI Planning domains.

Applications are open on F6S until 12 May 2021 at 17h00 CEST

https://www.f6s.com/aiplan4euopencall1usecase/apply

For more information, please visit AIPLan4EU’s website, or follow us on Twitter, LinkedIn, and Facebook

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