[rede.APPIA] Prémio Melhor Tese de Doutoramento em Inteligência Artificial 2019-2020: Deadline 28 de maio de 2021

Melhor Tese de Doutoramento em Inteligência Artificial 2019-2020
Prémio da Associação Portuguesa para a Inteligência Artificial 

A APPIA institui o Prémio para a Melhor Tese de Doutoramento em Inteligência Artificial 2019-2020, com a finalidade de distinguir trabalhos doutoramento de elevado mérito na área da Inteligência Artificial e que tenham sido atribuídos por uma instituição de ensino superior portuguesa durante o ano de 2019 ou 2020.

Em anexo segue o regulamento do prémio, sendo que as candidaturas devem ser efectuadas via preenchimento deste  formulário até à data limite: 28 de Maio de 2021.



O prémio tem um valor simbólico de 1000 euros, sendo que o candidato (ou seu representante) receberá o certificado do Prémio de Melhor Tese de Doutoramento em Inteligência Artificial 2019-2020 em Setembro de 2021, durante a realização da 20th Conference on Artificial Intelligence (EPIA 2021, http://www.appia.pt/epia2021/)


Organizadores:
Goreti Marreiros, Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto
Francisco Melo, Instituto Superior Técnico
Nuno Lau, Universidade de Aveiro


Goreti Marreiros

ISEP | Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto
Rua Dr. António Bernardino de Almeida, 431
4249-015 Porto – PORTUGAL
tel. +351 228 340 500 | fax +351 228 321 159
mail@isep.ipp.pt | www.isep.ipp.pt

[rede.APPIA] EPIA-2021 – Submission deadline: April 15, 2021

(apologies for cross-posting)

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CALL FOR PAPERS
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EPIA 2021
20th EPIA Conference on Artificial Intelligence
September 7-9, 2021
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The EPIA Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a well-established European conference in the field of AI.
The 20th edition of the EPIA conference will take place online in 2021. 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 AI, covering both theoretical/foundational issues
and applications, and the scientific exchange among researchers, engineers and practitioners in related
disciplines.

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Thematic Tracks
********************
EPIA 2021 will feature the following thematic tracks covering a wide spectrum of AI topics:
AIoTA – Artificial Intelligence and IoT in Agriculture
AIL – Artificial Intelligence and Law
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
GAI- General AI
GeoAI – GeoSpatial Artificial Intelligence
IROBOT – Intelligent Robotics
KDBI – Knowledge Discovery and Business Intelligence
KRR – Knowledge Representation and Reasoning
MASTA – Multi-Agent Systems: Theory and Applications
TeMA – Text Mining and Applications

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Submission and Reviewing
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All papers should be submitted in PDF format through the EPIA 2021 EasyChair submission page. Prospective
authors should select the thematic track to which their paper is to be submitted. The 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 doubleblind
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.
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.

***************************************
Proceedings and Presentations
***************************************
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 2021 by the early registration
deadline. EPIA 2021 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.

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Awards
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The conference will grant the following award:
* Best Paper Award, for the best research paper presented at the conference sponsored by Springer
Only papers that have been submitted to a thematic track and presented at the conference will be eligible for this
award.

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Important Dates
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Paper submission deadline: April 15, 2021
Paper acceptance notification: May 31, 2021
Camera-ready deadline: June 15, 2021
Conference: September 7-9, 2021

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EPIA 2021 Committees
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Event and Program Chairs:
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Goreti Marreiros, GECAD, ISEP-IPP, Portugal
Francisco Melo, INESC-ID, Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
Nuno Lau, IEETA, Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
Henrique Lopes Cardoso, LIACC, Universidade do Porto, Portugal
Luís Paulo Reis, LIACC, Universidade do Porto, Portugal

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International Steering Committee:
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Ana Bazzan, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Ann Nowe, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
Catholijn Jonker, Delft University of Technology, NL
Ernesto Costa, Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
Eugénio Oliveira, Universidade do Porto, Portugal
Helder Coelho, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
João Pavão Martins, Portugal
José Júlio Alferes, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
Juan Pavón, Universidad Complutense Madrid, Spain
Luís Paulo Reis, Universidade do Porto, Portugal
Paulo Novais, Universidade do Minho, Portugal
Pavel Brazdil, Universidade do Porto, Portugal
Virginia Dignum, Umeå University, SE




Goreti Marreiros

ISEP | Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto
Rua Dr. António Bernardino de Almeida, 431
4249-015 Porto – PORTUGAL
tel. +351 228 340 500 | fax +351 228 321 159
mail@isep.ipp.pt | www.isep.ipp.pt

[rede.APPIA] EPIA2020- COVID-19 update

Dear all,
The EPIA2020 chairs have been monitoring the new coronavirus outbreak and evaluating the data and recommendations from official sources including Portuguese and European Health authorities. 

After consulting the APPIA Board and the EPIA steering committee and considering  the impact of the new coronavirus is having around the globe and all the uncertainty for the next months we decided to postpone EPIA to 2021. 

Soon we will send you the new CFP and updated the website accordingly, .

We ask for your understanding to this situation, keeping in mind that our main goal was to guarantee the health and safety of all, as well as to address the travel and mobility restrictions that we will be facing in next months.

The EPIA2020 chairs, the Steering committee and the APPIA board count on you to make the 20th edition of EPIA in Lisbon in 2021 a huge success.

Best regards and stay safe!

Ana Paiva, Bernardete Ribeiro, Goreti Marreiros, Luis Paulo Reis (President of APPIA)
(Conference/Program Chairs)




Goreti Marreiros
Professor Adjunto
Departamento de Engenharia Informática

ISEP | Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto
Rua Dr. António Bernardino de Almeida, 431
4249-015 Porto – PORTUGAL
tel. +351 228 340 500 | fax +351 228 321 159
mail@isep.ipp.pt | www.isep.ipp.pt

[rede.APPIA] CFP: Ambient Intelligence and Affective Environments (AmIA@EPIA2020):: Deadline April 15th

———————————- – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – AmIA_Environments@EPIA2020 :: CALL FOR PAPERS ———————————- – – – – – – – – – – – – – – –
Special Track on Ambient Intelligence and Affective Environments (AmIA Environments 2020) 20th Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence – EPIA 2020
7th-9th September, 2020 :: Lisbon, Portugal epia2020.inesc-id.pt/
———————————- – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – Submission deadline: 15th April, 2020 ———————————- – – – – – – – – – – – – – – –
Ambient Intelligence (AmI) is a paradigm emerging from Artificial Intelligence (AI), where computers are used as proactive tools assisting people with their day-to-day activities, making everyoneís life more comfortable.
Affect and social behaviour plays an important role in the development of Ambient Intelligent Environments. Consideration of aspects like emotions, mood, personality traits, and attitudes in human-computer, human-robot, and human-environment interaction, especially insofar as they provide better or more ìnaturalî support for humans. These environments should be aware of the needs of people, customizing requirements and forecasting behaviours.
AmI environments may be highly diverse, such as homes, offices, meeting rooms, schools, hospitals, control centers, transport facilities, tourist attractions, stores, sport installations, music devices, etc.
In the Thematic track on AmIA Environments we will create a multi-disciplinary discussion forum that will bring together researchers from the different fields addressed discussing issues in Artificial Intelligence topics included in the Ambient Intelligence and affective environments. Researchers are welcome to present both theoretical and practical works as well as the lessons learned with their application in the varied range of domains. Emphasis will be placed on the presentation of concrete systems, discussion of implementation and development challenges and sharing of conclusions achieved and relevant results.
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In order to fulfill these objectives, submissions of substantial, original and previously unpublished work are invited in all areas of Ambient Intelligence and Affective environments. The topics of interest include, but are not limited to: – Applications – Ambient Assisted Living – Ubiquitous Computing – Artificial Intelligence for AmI – Intelligent Environments – Pervasive Computing – Context Aware Computing – Agent & Multiagent Systems for AmI – Mobile Computing – Sentient Computing – e-Health – Context Modelling – AmI for e-Learning – On-line Dispute Resolution – Memory Assistant – Computational models of emotions – Group Emotion – Affect and learning – Artificial characters – Affect and emotion recognition
———————————- – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS and PAPERS FORMAT ———————————- – – – – – – – – – – – – – – –
Submissions must be full technical papers on substantial, original, and previously unpublished research. Papers can have a maximum length of 12 pages. All papers should be prepared according to the formatting instructions of Springer LNCS series (Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science). Authors should omit their names from the submitted papers, and should take reasonable care to avoid indirectly disclosing their identity.
All papers should be submitted in PDF format through the EPIAí2020 submission Website (www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=epia2020) selecting the track Ambient Intelligence and Affective Environments.
———————————- – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – IMPORTANT DATES ———————————- – – – – – – – – – – – – – – –
– Paper submission deadline: April 15, 2020 – Paper acceptance notification: May 31, 2020 – Camera-ready deadline: June 15, 2020 – EPIA Conference: September 7-9, 2020(Lisboa, Portugal)
———————————- – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – PUBLICATION ———————————- – – – – – – – – – – – – – – –
Accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings (Springer LNAI – Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence), provided that at least one author is registered in EPIA 2020 by the early registration deadline. Proceedings will be submitted for indexation by ISI Thomson, SCOPUS, DBLP, EI-Compendex among several other scientific databases.
———————————- – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – ORGANIZING COMMITTEE ———————————- – – – – – – – – – – – – – – –
Ana Almeida, Polytechnic of Porto, Portugal (amn@isep.ipp.pt) Sara Rodriguez, University of Salamanca, Spain (srg@usal.es) Goreti Marreiros, Polytechnic of Porto (mgt@isep.ipp.pt) Paulo Novais, University of Minho, Portugal (pjon@di.uminho.pt) Peter Mikulecky, University of Hradec Kralove (peter.mikulecky@uhk.cz)

Goreti Marreiros Professor Adjunto
Departamento de Engenharia Informática
[http://www2.isep.ipp.pt/assinatura_email/EMAIL_ISEP.png]<www2.isep.ipp.pt/assinatura_email/> ISEP | Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto Rua Dr. António Bernardino de Almeida, 431 4249-015 Porto – PORTUGAL tel. +351 228 340 500 | fax +351 228 321 159 mail@isep.ipp.pt | www.isep.ipp.pt<www.isep.ipp.pt>

[rede.APPIA] EPIA2020 – 20th EPIA Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 1st Call for Papers

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CALL FOR PAPERS
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EPIA 2020
20th EPIA Conference on Artificial Intelligence
https://epia2020.inesc-id.pt
September 7-9, 2020
Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisboa – Portugal

**************************************************
The EPIA Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a well-established European conference in the field of AI. The 20th edition, EPIA 2020, will take place at Lisbon in September 7th-9th, 2020. 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 AI, covering both theoretical/foundational issues and applications, and the scientific exchange among researchers, engineers and practitioners in related disciplines.

********************
Thematic Tracks
********************
EPIA 2020 will feature the following thematic tracks covering a wide spectrum of AI topics:

AIoTA – Artificial Intelligence and IoT in Agriculture
AIL – Artificial Intelligence and Law
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
GAI- General AI
GeoAI – GeoSpatial Artificial Intelligence
IROBOT – Intelligent Robotics
KDBI – Knowledge Discovery and Business Intelligence
KRR – Knowledge Representation and Reasoning
MASTA – Multi-Agent Systems: Theory and Applications
TeMA – Text Mining and Applications
 
***********************************
Submission and Reviewing
***********************************
All papers should be submitted in PDF format through the 
EPIA 2020 EasyChair submission page. Prospective authors should select the thematic track to which their paper is to be submitted. The 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.

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.


 
***************************************
Proceedings and Presentations
***************************************
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 2020 by the early registration deadline. EPIA 2020 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.
 
***********
Awards
************
The conference will grant the following award:
Best Paper Award, for the best research paper presented at the conference sponsored by Springer
Only papers that have been submitted to a thematic track and presented at the conference will be eligible for this award.
 
********************
Important Dates

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Paper submission deadline: April 15, 2020
Paper acceptance notification: May 31, 2020
Camera-ready deadline: June 15, 2020
Conference: September 7-9, 2020
 
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EPIA 2020 Committees
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Event and Program Chairs:
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Ana Paiva, INESC-ID, IST, Portugal

Bernardete Ribeiro, CISUC, UC, Portugal

Goreti Marreiros, GECAD, ISEP-IPP, Portugal

 

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International Steering Committee:
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Ana Bazzan, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

Ann Nowe, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium

Catholijn Jonker, Delft University of Technology, NL

Ernesto Costa, Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal

Eugénio Oliveira, Universidade do Porto, Portugal

Helder Coelho, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal

João Pavão Martins, Portugal

José Júlio Alferes, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal

Juan Pavón, Universidad Complutense Madrid, Spain

Luís Paulo Reis, Universidade do Porto, Portugal

Paulo Novais, Universidade do Minho, Portugal

Pavel Brazdil, Universidade do Porto, Portugal

Virginia Dignum, Umeå University, SE

 

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Local Chairs
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Luisa Coheur, INESC-ID, IST, Portugal

Fernando Batista, INESC-ID, ISCTE-IUL, Portugal

Bruno Martins, INESC-ID, IST, Portugal
  








Goreti Marreiros
Professor Adjunto
Departamento de Engenharia Informática

ISEP | Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto
Rua Dr. António Bernardino de Almeida, 431
4249-015 Porto – PORTUGAL
tel. +351 228 340 500 | fax +351 228 321 159
mail@isep.ipp.pt | www.isep.ipp.pt

[rede.APPIA] EPIA 2020 – CALL FOR THEMATIC TRACKS: DEADLINE December 15

************************************************* CALL FOR THEMATIC TRACKS ************************************************** EPIA 2020 20th EPIA Conference on Artificial Intelligence epia2020.inesc-id.pt September 7-9, 2020 Lisboa – Portugal
************************************************** The EPIA Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a well-established European conference in the field of AI. The 20th edition, EPIA 2020, will take place at Lisbon in September 7th-9th, 2020. 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 AI, covering both theoretical/foundational issues and applications, and the scientific exchange among researchers, engineers and practitioners in related disciplines.
******************** Conference format ******************** To promote discussions among participants, the scientific program of EPIA 2020 will be composed of a set of thematic tracks. In addition to the parallel sessions for the different tracks, there will be plenary sessions with invited lectures given by leading scientists, tutorials focusing on specific subjects of AI and demonstrations.
More detailed and up-to-date information may be found at: epia2020.inesc-id.pt

********************* Call-for-tracks ********************* The worldwide AI research community is invited to submit thematic track proposals for EPIA 2020. 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 proposed thematic tracks will be made by the Program Chairs and Steering Committee of EPIA 2020. 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 merging tracks. 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.
******************** Responsibilities ******************** 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 2020. – 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 2020 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 2020 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.
******************** Proposal submission ******************** Track proposals should not exceed 3 pages and must be submitted as a PDF file, at the conference submission system: easychair.org/conferences/?conf=epia2020 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 2020. 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. Sponsors or other funding initiatives for the thematic track.
******************** Important dates ******************** Thematic-track proposal deadline: December 15, 2019 Notification of track acceptance: January 15, 2020 1st Call-for-papers: January 30, 2020 Paper submission deadline: April 15, 2020 Notification of paper acceptance: May 31, 2020 Camera ready papers deadline: June 15, 2020 Conference dates: September 7-9, 2020
********************* EPIA 2020 Committees ********************* Event and Program Chairs ********************* Ana Paiva, INESC-ID, IST, Portugal
Bernardete Ribeiro, CISUC, UC, Portugal
Goreti Marreiros, GECAD, ISEP-IPP, Portugal

******************** Local Chair ******************** Luisa Coheur, INESC-ID, IST, Portugal
******************** Organization Chairs ******************** Fernando Batista, INESC-ID, ISCTE-IUL, Portugal Bruno Martins, INESC-ID, IST, Portugal

Goreti Marreiros Professor Adjunto
Departamento de Engenharia Informática
[http://www2.isep.ipp.pt/assinatura_email/EMAIL_ISEP.png]<www2.isep.ipp.pt/assinatura_email/> ISEP | Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto Rua Dr. António Bernardino de Almeida, 431 4249-015 Porto – PORTUGAL tel. +351 228 340 500 | fax +351 228 321 159 mail@isep.ipp.pt | www.isep.ipp.pt<www.isep.ipp.pt>

[rede.APPIA] EPIA 2020 – CALL FOR THEMATIC TRACKS

************************************************ CALL FOR THEMATIC TRACKS ************************************************** EPIA 2020 20th EPIA Conference on Artificial Intelligence epia2020.inesc-id.pt September 7-9, 2020 Lisboa – Portugal
************************************************** The EPIA Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a well-established European conference in the field of AI. The 20th edition, EPIA 2020, will take place at Lisbon in September 7th-9th, 2020. 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 AI, covering both theoretical/foundational issues and applications, and the scientific exchange among researchers, engineers and practitioners in related disciplines.
******************** Conference format ******************** To promote discussions among participants, the scientific program of EPIA 2020 will be composed of a set of thematic tracks. In addition to the parallel sessions for the different tracks, there will be plenary sessions with invited lectures given by leading scientists, tutorials focusing on specific subjects of AI and demonstrations.
More detailed and up-to-date information may be found at: epia2020.inesc-id.pt

********************* Call-for-tracks ********************* The worldwide AI research community is invited to submit thematic track proposals for EPIA 2020. 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 proposed thematic tracks will be made by the Program Chairs and Steering Committee of EPIA 2020. 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 merging tracks. 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.
******************** Responsibilities ******************** 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 2020. – 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 2020 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 2020 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.
******************** Proposal submission ******************** Track proposals should not exceed 3 pages and must be submitted as a PDF file, at the conference submission system: easychair.org/conferences/?conf=epia2020 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 2020. 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. Sponsors or other funding initiatives for the thematic track.
******************** Important dates ******************** Thematic-track proposal deadline: December 15, 2019 Notification of track acceptance: January 15, 2020 1st Call-for-papers: January 30, 2020 Paper submission deadline: April 15, 2020 Notification of paper acceptance: May 31, 2020 Camera ready papers deadline: June 15, 2020 Conference dates: September 7-9, 2020
********************* EPIA 2020 Committees ********************* Event and Program Chairs ********************* Ana Paiva, INESC-ID, IST, Portugal
Bernardete Ribeiro, CISUC, UC, Portugal
Goreti Marreiros, GECAD, ISEP-IPP, Portugal

******************** Local Chair ******************** Luisa Coheur, INESC-ID, IST, Portugal
******************** Organization Chairs ******************** Fernando Batista, INESC-ID, ISCTE-IUL, Portugal Bruno Martins, INESC-ID, IST, Portugal

Goreti Marreiros Professor Adjunto
Departamento de Engenharia Informática
[http://www2.isep.ipp.pt/assinatura_email/EMAIL_ISEP.png]<www2.isep.ipp.pt/assinatura_email/> ISEP | Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto Rua Dr. António Bernardino de Almeida, 431 4249-015 Porto – PORTUGAL tel. +351 228 340 500 | fax +351 228 321 159 mail@isep.ipp.pt | www.isep.ipp.pt<www.isep.ipp.pt>