A direção da Associação Portuguesa para a Inteligência Artificial (APPIA) tem o prazer de anunciar o resultado final do Prémio Melhor Tese de Doutoramento em Inteligência Artificial 2017-2018.

 Promovido pela APPIA, o prémio recebeu um total de 9 candidaturas válidas, sendo que após a receção das mesmas, foi constituído o júri, composto por (ordem alfabética):

– Dalila Durães (Politécnico do Porto)
– Fábio Silva (Universidade do Minho)
– Henrique Lopes Cardoso (Universidade do Porto)
– João Balsa (Universidade de Lisboa)
– Jorge Ribeiro (Politécnico de Viana do Castelo)
– Paulo Quaresma (Universidade de Évora)
– Tiago Oliveira (Universidade Sokendai, Japão)

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CALL FOR PAPERS
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Ambient Intelligence and Affective Environments (AmIA@EPIA2019)
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Thematic Track of 19th Conference on Artificial Intelligence (EPIA 2019)
3-6 September 2019, Vila Real, Portugal
https://epia2019.utad.pt/

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Submission deadline: April 30, 2019
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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 everyone’s life more comfortable.

Affect and social behavior 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 "natural" support for humans. These environments should be aware of the needs of people, customizing requirements and forecasting behaviors.

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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Contributions
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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

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Submission Information and paper publication
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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 EPIAí2019 submission Website (easychair.org/conferences/?conf=epia2019) selecting the track Ambient Intelligence and Affective Environments.

All accepted papers will be published by Springer in a volume of the LNAI Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence series (indexed by the Thomson ISI Web of Knowledge).

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Important Dates
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*• Full Paper Submission: April 30, 2019*
• Notification of Acceptance: May 31, 2019
• Camera ready Papers: June 15, 2019
• Conference Date: September 3-6, 2019
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Organizing Committee
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Goreti Marreiros, Polytechnic of Porto (mgt@isep.ipp.pt)
Paulo Novais, University of Minho, Portugal (pjon@di.uminho.pt)
Ana Almeida, Polytechnic of Porto, Portugal (amn@isep.ipp.pt)
Sara Rodriguez, University of Salamanca, Spain (srg@usal.es)
Peter Mikulecky, University of Hradec Kralove, Czech Republic (Peter.Mikulecky@uhk.cz)

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CALL FOR PAPERS
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Doctoral Symposium on AI
https://epia2019.utad.pt/index.php/83-thematic-tracks/114-sdia
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Thematic Track of 19th Conference on Artificial Intelligence (EPIA 2019)
3-6 September 2019, Vila Real, Portugal
https://epia2019.utad.pt/

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Submission deadline: June 1st, 2019
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EPIA’19 invites submissions to the Doctoral Symposium on Artificial Intelligence, SDIA. The goal of this symposium is to provide an informal environment where students in early stages of their doctoral research can present their main ideas and discuss them with other students and the senior scientific community. The main advantages of SDIA-19 are three-fold:

Students obtain feedback from the scientific community, in a early stage of the doctoral research.
To give students the opportunity to present their work in an informal environment, as a preparation to future presentations in international workshops and conferences.
Students have the opportunity to know the work of other students that are in the same stage of doctorial work and that have similar research interests.
SDIA is promoted by APPIA – Associação Portuguesa para a Inteligência Artificial (Portuguese Association for Artificial Intelligence), and it aims at improving the quality of Ph.D. thesis in Artificial Intelligence.

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Contributions
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The main topics of interest, but not restricted to are the following:
– Activity Recognition
– Agents and Multiagent Systems
– AI and Medicine
– AI and Law
– AI and the Web
– AI Architectures
– Ambient Intelligence
– Applications of AI
– Automated Reasoning
– Bio-Informatics
– Cognitive Sciences
– Collaborative Networks
– Computational Biology
– Computational Sustainability
– Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
– Constraint Programming
– Control
– Data Mining, Text Mining and Web Mining
– Description Logics
– e-Commerce and e-Business
– e-Learning and Intelligent Tutoring
– Evolutionary Computation
– Fuzzy Logic
– Game Playing
– Game Theory
– Graphical Models
– Human Computer Interaction
– Human Robot Interaction
– Information Retrieval
– Knowledge Discovery
– Knowledge Representation and Reasoning
– Logic
– Machine Learning
– Multi-Robot Systems
– Natural Language
– Neural Networks
– Ontologies
– Optimization
– Plan Recognition, Execution and Monitoring
– Planning
– Preferences
– Probabilistic Reasoning
– Qualitative Reasoning
– Reinforcement Learning
– Relational Learning
– Robotics
– Scheduling
– Scientific Discovery
– Search
– Sensor Fusion
– Statistical Learning

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Submission Information and paper publication
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SDIA’19 accepts the submissions of full-papers, short-papers, position papers or thesis proposals. Submitted papers should be prepared according to the  Springer LNC format (http://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines), with a maximum of 12 pages. The papers include the following information: title, author, Ph.D. supervisor(s), abstract, keywords, starting and estimated conclusion date of Ph.D.

All papers should be submitted in PDF format though the EPIA 2019 EasyChair submission page (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=epia2019).

Accepted submissions will be published in the SDIA Symposium, a APPIA edition with ISBN.

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Important Dates
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Paper submission deadline: June 1st, 2019
Notification of paper acceptance: July 1st, 2019
Camera ready papers deadline: July 15, 2019
Conference dates: September 3-6, 2019
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Special Conditions
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Students with accepted papers in the SDIA session may have a reduced registration fee. Please check the Registration page (http://www.epia2019.utad.pt/index.php/bregistration).
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Organizing Committee
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Goreti Marreiros, Polytechnic of Porto (mgt@isep.ipp.pt)
Luís Macedo, University of Coimbra (macedo@dei.uc.pt)

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CALL FOR PAPERS
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Doctoral Symposium on AI
https://epia2019.utad.pt/index.php/83-thematic-tracks/114-sdia
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Thematic Track of 19th Conference on Artificial Intelligence (EPIA 2019)
3-6 September 2019, Vila Real, Portugal
https://epia2019.utad.pt/

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Submission deadline: June 1st, 2019
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EPIA’19 invites submissions to the Doctoral Symposium on Artificial Intelligence, SDIA. The goal of this symposium is to provide an informal environment where students in early stages of their doctoral research can present their main ideas and discuss them with other students and the senior scientific community. The main advantages of SDIA-19 are three-fold:

Students obtain feedback from the scientific community, in a early stage of the doctoral research.
To give students the opportunity to present their work in an informal environment, as a preparation to future presentations in international workshops and conferences.
Students have the opportunity to know the work of other students that are in the same stage of doctorial work and that have similar research interests.
SDIA is promoted by APPIA – Associação Portuguesa para a Inteligência Artificial (Portuguese Association for Artificial Intelligence), and it aims at improving the quality of Ph.D. thesis in Artificial Intelligence.

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Contributions
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The main topics of interest, but not restricted to are the following:
– Activity Recognition
– Agents and Multiagent Systems
– AI and Medicine
– AI and Law
– AI and the Web
– AI Architectures
– Ambient Intelligence
– Applications of AI
– Automated Reasoning
– Bio-Informatics
– Cognitive Sciences
– Collaborative Networks
– Computational Biology
– Computational Sustainability
– Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
– Constraint Programming
– Control
– Data Mining, Text Mining and Web Mining
– Description Logics
– e-Commerce and e-Business
– e-Learning and Intelligent Tutoring
– Evolutionary Computation
– Fuzzy Logic
– Game Playing
– Game Theory
– Graphical Models
– Human Computer Interaction
– Human Robot Interaction
– Information Retrieval
– Knowledge Discovery
– Knowledge Representation and Reasoning
– Logic
– Machine Learning
– Multi-Robot Systems
– Natural Language
– Neural Networks
– Ontologies
– Optimization
– Plan Recognition, Execution and Monitoring
– Planning
– Preferences
– Probabilistic Reasoning
– Qualitative Reasoning
– Reinforcement Learning
– Relational Learning
– Robotics
– Scheduling
– Scientific Discovery
– Search
– Sensor Fusion
– Statistical Learning

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Submission Information and paper publication
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SDIA’19 accepts the submissions of full-papers, short-papers, position papers or thesis proposals. Submitted papers should be prepared according to the  Springer LNC format (http://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines), with a maximum of 12 pages. The papers include the following information: title, author, Ph.D. supervisor(s), abstract, keywords, starting and estimated conclusion date of Ph.D.

All papers should be submitted in PDF format though the EPIA 2019 EasyChair submission page (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=epia2019).

Accepted submissions will be published in the SDIA Symposium, a APPIA edition with ISBN.

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Important Dates
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Paper submission deadline: June 1st, 2019
Notification of paper acceptance: July 1st, 2019
Camera ready papers deadline: July 15, 2019
Conference dates: September 3-6, 2019
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Special Conditions
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Students with accepted papers in the SDIA session may have a reduced registration fee. Please check the Registration page (http://www.epia2019.utad.pt/index.php/bregistration).
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Organizing Committee
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Goreti Marreiros, Polytechnic of Porto (mgt@isep.ipp.pt)
Luís Macedo, University of Coimbra (macedo@dei.uc.pt)