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[rede.APPIA] CFP: Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (AIM@EPIA-2020)

Carlos Filipe da Silva Portela
(Apologies for cross-posting) 

======================================================================  CFP: Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (AIM@EPIA-2020)  Thematic track of the 20th Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence (EPIA 2020)  7-9 September 2020, Lisboa, Portugal  Webpage: https://epia2020.inesc-id.pt/  ======================================================================    IMPORTANT DATES  - Full Paper Submission: April 15, 2020  - Notification of Acceptance: May 31, 2020  - Camera ready Papers: June 15, 2020  - Conference Date: September 7-9, 2020    IMPORTANT NEWS  - LNCS/LNAI Proceedings (Springer)  - Special issue of the journal Medical Systems with selected papers*     INTRODUCTION  Every day medicine is facing new challenges: new diseases, cost reductions, new therapeutics, rapid and accurate decisions, new techniques and technologies.   Artificial Intelligence (AI) is playing an important role in the decision making process, in the way the data of the patients are collected, treated, processed, anticipating and avoiding critical situations, as well to test and simulate new treatments and devices.   The big question to be answered is: How Artificial Intelligence can help to overcome these challenges and improve the efficiency of medicine?   Data Science, Sensing, Pervasiveness, Ubiquity and Intelligent Agents in Medicine, can contribute with new artefacts and new knowledge for health professionals.   AI aims to improve the usability of programs for assisting physicians in figuring out what is wrong with the patients and provide new solutions to help making better decisions.   AI systems are intended to support healthcare practitioners in the normal course of their duties, assisting with tasks that rely on the manipulation of data and knowledge.   In particular, these systems have for example the capacity to learn, leading to the discovery of new phenomena and the creation of medical knowledge improving human health and longevity.  This track promotes a forum to discuss and present emergent topics, new projects and ideas about how AI can contribute to the field of Medicine and, improve patient conditions.   By bringing together researchers from two distinct areas is expected to produce new scientific and technical knowledge in a particular area as is medicine.   Special attention will be given to the social impact/gain of the AI contributions in medicine.     TOPICS OF INTEREST  Innovative and exciting works are welcome in areas including but not limited to:    Medical methodologies, architectures, environments, and systems.  •	Agents for information retrieval;  •	AI in Medical Education and Clinical Management;  •	Wellbeing and lifestyle support;  •	Interoperability, Security, Pervasiveness, Ubiquity and Cloud Computing in Medicine;  •	Methodological, philosophical, ethical, and social issues of AI in Medicine;  •	Pervasive Healthcare Environments;  •	Software architectures.  Knowledge engineering and Decision Support Systems:  •	AI-based clinical decision making and Clinical Decision Support Systems;  •	Automated reasoning, Case-Based Reasoning or Reasoning with medical knowledge;  •	Business Intelligence in Health Care;  •	Clinical Data Mining;  •	Data Streaming;  •	Diagnostic assistance;  •	Expert, agent-based or knowledge-based systems;  •	Medical knowledge engineering;  •	Pervasive or Real-Time Intelligent Decision Support Systems in Critical Health Care.  Medical Applications and Devices  •	Computational intelligence in bio- and clinical medicine;  •	Electronic Health Records (eHealth);  •	Image recognition and interpretation;  •	Intelligent devices and instruments;  •	Sensor-based applications;  •	Telemedicine and mHealth solutions;  •	Ubiquitous devices in the storage, update, and transmission of patient data;  •	Usability and acceptability.  AI in Healthcare Information Systems  •	Autonomous systems to support independent living;  •	Healthcare System Based on Cloud Computing;  •	Intelligent Healthcare information systems;  •	Pervasive Information Systems;  •	Pervasiveness and Security in Clinical Systems;  •	Smart homes, hospitals and Intelligent Systems;  •	Simulation Computer systems.     PAPER SUBMISSION  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 EPIA2019 submission Website (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=epia2020) selecting the track Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (AIM).  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).  *Authors of the best papers presented at the AIM track of EPIA will be invited to submit extended versions of their manuscripts for a Special Issue in Journal of Medical Systems (Springer)    ORGANIZING COMMITTEE  * Manuel Filipe Santos, University of Minho, Portugal (contact person) mfs@dsi.uminho.pt  * Carlos Filipe Portela, University of Minho, Portugal cfp@dsi.uminho.pt  * Allan Tucker, Brunel University London, Uk, allan.tucker@brunel.ac.uk

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

Goreti Marreiros
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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

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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, 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.

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Thematic Tracks
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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
 
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Submission and Reviewing
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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.


 
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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 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.
 
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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, 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
  








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[rede.APPIA] EASSS 2020 — Call-for-Tutorials (EXTENDED DEADLINE)

Henrique Lopes Cardoso

*** Due to several requests, the deadline for tutorial proposals has been extended to February 10, 2020. ***



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CALL FOR TUTORIALS

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EASSS 2020

22nd European Agent Systems Summer School

http://www.fe.up.pt/easss2020

July 20-24, 2020

Porto — Portugal

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A tutorial proposal should take the form of a 2-page PDF document (see details below).

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Important dates

Tutorial proposal deadline: February 1 February 10, 2020

Notification of tutorial acceptance: March 1, 2020

Early application deadline (for participants): May 15, 2020

Teaching materials available for the organization: July 1, 2020

Late application deadline (for participants): July 1, 2020

EASSS 2020: July 20-24, 2020

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About EASSS 2020

The 22nd European Agent Systems Summer School (EASSS 2020) will be organized by the Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science Lab of the University of Porto (LIACC), and held at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto, Portugal, on July 20-24, 2020. EASSS 2020 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.

The topics tackled within the field are becoming increasingly important due to the ubiquity of autonomous and distributed systems, such as the Internet of Things, intelligent buildings and smart cities, autonomous robots, agent-driven financial markets, etc. These kinds of applications demand innovative approaches in a number of research fields, including multi-agent systems engineering, coordination and cooperation, human-agent interaction, reasoning and planning, machine learning, game theory, modeling and simulation, and robotics. EASSS 2020 will be a privileged forum to learn the current trends in most of these fields, from both theoretical and practical perspectives. The courses will be taught by leading researchers in the field, and are aimed at Ph.D. students, advanced M.Sc. students, and other young researchers.

Since the initial edition of 1999 (Utrecht, Netherlands) the school has been held annually in different European locations. The previous edition took place in Maastricht, The Netherlands. The school usually attracts circa 50 students every year. A typical course is 4 hours long and provides a general introduction to the selected topic followed by an in-depth exposition of recent and relevant contributions.

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School format

EASSS will be composed of tutorial sessions, aiming at including both lectures and practical labs. We expect that at least some of the tutorials will be run as parallel sessions. In addition, EASSS will promote informal networking periods, where tutors and attendees (mostly early-stage researchers on agents and multi-agent systems) can exchange ideas. A social event will take place in the city of Porto.

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Call-for-Tutorials

We invite proposals from members of the research community who are willing to offer tutorials at EASSS 2020. We are interested in tutorial proposals in all areas of current research in Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems. As a very rough guideline, any topic that might be covered at the AAMAS conference or in the JAAMAS journal would be suitable for EASSS.

We aim for a mix of tutorials on fundamental and well-established topics, as well as overviews of new and emerging areas of research. Tutorials should cover an appropriate selection of approaches and not mainly focus on the tutors’ own contributions. Besides providing a coherent overview of a specific research topic, we specifically encourage tutorial proposals to articulate a clear link to applications and pragmatic consideration of the fundamental topics presented. Tutorials that cover, in whole or in part, specific technological tools in the form of a hands-on session (e.g. for development of multi-agent systems, simulation of agent-based systems, or reinforcement learning), are also very welcome.

We encourage both well-established senior researchers and younger colleagues to submit proposals. Each tutorial is usually given by one or two people. Exceptions are of course possible; for proposals by more than two tutors, please justify this choice in the proposal and explain how you intend to ensure the coherence of the tutorial.

To support the tutors, we can commit to the provision of up to €500 per tutorial, to cover the tutorial team travel and accommodation costs.

Submission guidelines

A tutorial proposal should take the form of a 2-page PDF document covering the following points (preferably in this order):

  1. Title of the proposed tutorial.

  2. Tutor(s): name, affiliation, contact details (email), and a link to the personal homepage of each tutor.

  3. Abstract: a short paragraph describing the tutorial (100-300 words), suitable for publication at the EASSS 2020 website.

  4. Short biographical sketch for each tutor (around 100 words per tutor), suitable for publication at the EASSS 2020 website.

  5. Experience of the tutor(s): any details on the relevant teaching experience of the tutor(s).

  6. Syllabus: a detailed list of topics covered in the tutorial, preferably in the order in which the tutorial will cover them.

  7. Type: a clear indication of whether the tutorial takes a theoretical or applications-oriented perspective on the topics covered. We encourage tutorial proposals that balance the two perspectives.

  8. Prerequisites: the target audience or prior knowledge the attendants are assumed to have.

  9. Teaching materials: the kind of teaching materials you intend to provide. These will be needed by the organization on the date stated below.

  10. Duration: typically around 3,5h (half-day). Please explain if you need more time (e.g. for having a hands-on practical session).

  11. Equipment: any special equipment (beyond a beamer and a whiteboard) that you might need.

The proposals should be submitted to EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=easss2020

Any inquiries should be sent to easss2020@fe.up.pt

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EASSS 2020 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] SLATE 2020 – Call for Papers

Alberto Manuel Brandão Simões
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  SLATE2020: Symposium on Languages, Applications and Technologies

  Barcelos, Portugal, July 13-14, 2020
  http://slate-conf.org
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We often use languages. Earlier, to communicate between ourselves. Later,
to communicate with computers. And more recently, with the advent of
networks, we found a way to make computers communicate between themselves.
All these different forms of communication use languages, different
languages, but that still share many similarities. In SLATE, we are
interested in discussing these languages, organized in three main tracks:

  * HHL Track:
    Processing Human-Human Languages, dedicated to the presentation and
    discussion of Natural Language Processing (NLP) tools and applications.
   
  * HCL Track:
    Processing Human-Computer Languages, where researchers, developers,
    and educators exchange ideas and information on the latest academic
    or industrial work on the design, processing, assessment, and
    applications of programming languages.

  * CCL Track:
    Processing Computer-Computer Languages, broad space for discussing
    (mark-up) languages for communication between computers, including
    those used for visualization and presentation of information to the
    end-user.

  Important dates

    Paper Submission Deadline: May 1, 2020
    Paper Authors’ Notification: May 22, 2020
    Final Paper Submission: June 12, 2020

  List of Topics

    Human-Human Languages (HHL) track
        Computational approaches to Morphology, Syntax, and Semantics;
        Machine translation and tools for Computer Assisted Translation;
        Computational terminology and lexicography;
        Information Retrieval and Automatic Question Answering;
        Information Extraction;
        Natural Language Understanding;
        Corpus Linguistics;
        Statistical Methods for NLP;
        Tools and resources for NLP;
        Natural Language Generation;
        Speech Recognition and Synthesis;
        NLP system and resource evaluation;
        Language teaching support tools.
 
    Human-Computer Languages (HCL) track
        Programming language concepts, methodologies, and tools;
        Language and Grammars, design, formal specification, and quality;
        Design of novel language constructs and their implementation;
        Domain-Specific Languages design and implementation;
        Programming, refactoring and debugging environments;
        Dynamic and static analysis;
        Program Slicing;
        Program Comprehension;
        Compilation and interpretation techniques;
        Code generation and optimization;
        Program visualization and animation;
        Programming languages teaching methods;
        Languages for modeling;
        Dynamic languages;
        Program profiling;
        Cross-fertilization of different technological spaces
        (modelware, grammarware, ontologies, etc).
 
    Computer-Computer Languages (CCL) track
        Semantic data description frameworks;
        Semantic Web languages;
        Ontology engineering;
        IoT data protocols;
        XML Databases and Big Data;
        Publishing and document storage formats;
        HTML5 and web formatting;
        Industry-specific XML based standards;
        Web APIs and service marketplaces;
        Service-Oriented Architectures;
        E-learning systems, standards, and interoperability;
        Data and graph visualization languages.

Committees

SLATE 2020 Chairs

    Alberto Simões (2Ai-School of Technology, IPCA, Barcelos, Portugal)
    Pedro Rangel Henriques (Universidade do Minho, Braga, Portugal)
    Ricardo Queirós (ESMAD/P.PORTO & uniMAD & CRACS/INESC TEC)

Program Committee

    The full program committee for each Track can be found on the
    conference homepage.

Organizing committee

    Alberto Simões (Instituto Politécnico do Cávado e do Ave, Portugal)
    Ricardo Queirós (Escola Superior de Media Artes e Design, PP, Portugal)
    Pedro Rangel Henriques (Universidade do Minho, Portugal)
    Maria João Varanda Pereira (Instituto Politécnico de Bragança, Portugal)
    Goreti Pereira (Universidade do Minho, Portugal)

Publication

  SLATE’2020 proceedings will be published in the conference proceedings,
  on digital support, by the OASIcs series
  http://www.dagstuhl.de/publikationen/oasics/
  in open access mode, under an ISBN reference and a DOI, and will thus
  be indexed by services such as Scopus and DBLP.

All questions about submissions should be emailed to
slate2020 (at) easychair.org

[rede.APPIA] CFP ICCC’20: Call for short papers for the 11th International Conference on Computational Creativity

Fernando Amílcar Bandeira Cardoso

The 11th International Conference on Computational Creativity (ICCC’20)

June 29 – July 03 2020, Coimbra, Portugal


Call for papers: short papers

http://computationalcreativity.net/iccc20/short-papers/


Please distribute

(Apologies for cross-posting)


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Computational Creativity (or CC) is a discipline with its roots in Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive Science, Engineering, Design, Psychology and Philosophy that explores the potential for computers to be autonomous creators in their own right. ICCC is an annual conference that welcomes papers on different aspects of CC, on systems that exhibit varying degrees of creative autonomy, on frameworks that offer greater clarity or computational felicity for thinking about machine (and human) creativity, on methodologies for building or evaluating CC systems, on approaches to teaching CC in schools and universities or to promoting societal uptake of CC as a field and as a technology, and so on.


This issue of the call for papers is for short papers, the possible types of which are described below. All short papers have the same length restriction (4 page sides), and may focus on any of the same themes or topics as long papers.



*** Short Paper Types ***

Short papers offer concise treatments of work and ideas that are better suited to this concentrated format. We anticipate submissions in the short paper category along any or all of the following lines:

– Nuggets and Gems: short papers on any topic of CC for which one might consider a long paper. In this case, the work will be succinct enough, or at an early enough stage, to warrant the short paper format.

– System Demonstrations: Submissions for the show-and-tell session should be made as short papers that are marked accordingly.

– Debate Sparks: The short paper format is ideal for provocations that get the community talking. Is there some aspect of CC that you feel deserves more attention from the community?

– CC Translations: Researchers in other fields often do work that we in CC would see as related to our own. We invite those researchers to present that work at ICCC, via a Translations short paper. This will take the form of an extended abstract that summarizes your work in another field.

– CC Bridges: Research communities often retreat into silos and fail to reach out beyond their own borders. A bridging short paper explicitly seeks to create bridges to another field, to foster inter-disciplinarity. Unlike a Translations paper, a Bridge is written by a CC researcher wishing to introduce new ideas from beyond our conventional horizons.

– Late Breaking Results: The results of your work (empirical or system-related) may not have been ready for a long-paper submission. Consider submitting that work now in a short-paper format.

– Pilot Studies: Have you conducted an initial foray into a research topic that deserves attention? Plant a flag for your research with a short paper.

– Grand Challenges: Do you have a proposal for a task that can bring large parts of the community together in a productive collaborative effort?

– Meta-Perspectives: Do your experience of the CC community (such as our conferences, workshops, reviewing processes, etc.) move you to write an analysis of how we might do things differently and better?

– Field Reports: Have you taken your CC research into the field, where practitioners and/or commercial partners have explored its uses first hand? Consider writing a short paper about your experiences.

– Event Reports: Have you organized a CC-flavored event – a workshop, a tutorial, a seminar series, a postgraduate course, a public debate, an exhibition of CC outputs, or related outreach activity? Consider writing a short paper on your experience and that of your audience.



*** Presentation ***

In order to ensure the highest level of quality, all submissions will be evaluated in terms of their scientific, technical, artistic or cultural contribution, and therefore there will be only one format for submission. However, the program committee will decide, for each submission, the most appropriate format for presentation: talk, poster, or system demonstration.



*** Important Dates ***

Submissions due: May 4, 2020

Acceptance notification: May 15, 2020

Camera-ready copies due: May 22, 2020

Conference: June 29 – July 3, 2020



*** More Information ***

More information on the submission process can be found at

http://computationalcreativity.net/iccc20/short-papers/



*** Organising Committee ***

– General Chair Amílcar Cardoso, University of Coimbra, Portugal

– Program Chairs: Penousal Machado, University of Coimbra, Portugal and Tony Veale, University College Dublin, Ireland

– Workshop Chairs: Oliver Kutz, University of Bozen/Bolzano, Italy and Helena S. Pinto, Technical University of Lisbon, IST

– Tutorials Chair: Christian Guckelsberger, Queen Mary University, London

– Local Chair: Pedro Martins, University of Coimbra, Portugal

– Media Chair: João Miguel Cunha, University of Coimbra, Portugal

– Code-Camp Chairs: Hugo Oliveira, University of Coimbra, Portugal and Philipp Wicke, University College Dublin, Ireland.




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[rede.APPIA] EASSS 2020 — Call-for-Tutorials (deadline approaching)

Henrique Lopes Cardoso

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CALL FOR TUTORIALS

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EASSS 2020

22nd European Agent Systems Summer School

http://www.fe.up.pt/easss2020

July 20-24, 2020

Porto — Portugal

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A tutorial proposal should take the form of a 2-page PDF document (see details below).

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Important dates

Tutorial proposal deadline: February 1, 2020

Notification of tutorial acceptance: March 1, 2020

Early application deadline (for participants): May 15, 2020

Teaching materials available for the organization: July 1, 2020

Late application deadline (for participants): July 1, 2020

EASSS 2020: July 20-24, 2020

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About EASSS 2020

The 22nd European Agent Systems Summer School (EASSS 2020) will be organized by the Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science Lab of the University of Porto (LIACC), and held at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto, Portugal, on July 20-24, 2020. EASSS 2020 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.

The topics tackled within the field are becoming increasingly important due to the ubiquity of autonomous and distributed systems, such as the Internet of Things, intelligent buildings and smart cities, autonomous robots, agent-driven financial markets, etc. These kinds of applications demand innovative approaches in a number of research fields, including multi-agent systems engineering, coordination and cooperation, human-agent interaction, reasoning and planning, machine learning, game theory, modeling and simulation, and robotics. EASSS 2020 will be a privileged forum to learn the current trends in most of these fields, from both theoretical and practical perspectives. The courses will be taught by leading researchers in the field, and are aimed at Ph.D. students, advanced M.Sc. students, and other young researchers.

Since the initial edition of 1999 (Utrecht, Netherlands) the school has been held annually in different European locations. The previous edition took place in Maastricht, The Netherlands. The school usually attracts circa 50 students every year. A typical course is 4 hours long and provides a general introduction to the selected topic followed by an in-depth exposition of recent and relevant contributions.

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School format

EASSS will be composed of tutorial sessions, aiming at including both lectures and practical labs. We expect that at least some of the tutorials will be run as parallel sessions. In addition, EASSS will promote informal networking periods, where tutors and attendees (mostly early-stage researchers on agents and multi-agent systems) can exchange ideas. A social event will take place in the city of Porto.

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Call-for-Tutorials

We invite proposals from members of the research community who are willing to offer tutorials at EASSS 2020. We are interested in tutorial proposals in all areas of current research in Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems. As a very rough guideline, any topic that might be covered at the AAMAS conference or in the JAAMAS journal would be suitable for EASSS.

We aim for a mix of tutorials on fundamental and well-established topics, as well as overviews of new and emerging areas of research. Tutorials should cover an appropriate selection of approaches and not mainly focus on the tutors’ own contributions. Besides providing a coherent overview of a specific research topic, we specifically encourage tutorial proposals to articulate a clear link to applications and pragmatic consideration of the fundamental topics presented. Tutorials that cover, in whole or in part, specific technological tools in the form of a hands-on session (e.g. for development of multi-agent systems, simulation of agent-based systems, or reinforcement learning), are also very welcome.

We encourage both well-established senior researchers and younger colleagues to submit proposals. Each tutorial is usually given by one or two people. Exceptions are of course possible; for proposals by more than two tutors, please justify this choice in the proposal and explain how you intend to ensure the coherence of the tutorial.

To support the tutors, we can commit to the provision of up to €500 per tutorial, to cover the tutorial team travel and accommodation costs.

Submission guidelines

A tutorial proposal should take the form of a 2-page PDF document covering the following points (preferably in this order):

  1. Title of the proposed tutorial.

  2. Tutor(s): name, affiliation, contact details (email), and a link to the personal homepage of each tutor.

  3. Abstract: a short paragraph describing the tutorial (100-300 words), suitable for publication at the EASSS 2020 website.

  4. Short biographical sketch for each tutor (around 100 words per tutor), suitable for publication at the EASSS 2020 website.

  5. Experience of the tutor(s): any details on the relevant teaching experience of the tutor(s).

  6. Syllabus: a detailed list of topics covered in the tutorial, preferably in the order in which the tutorial will cover them.

  7. Type: a clear indication of whether the tutorial takes a theoretical or applications-oriented perspective on the topics covered. We encourage tutorial proposals that balance the two perspectives.

  8. Prerequisites: the target audience or prior knowledge the attendants are assumed to have.

  9. Teaching materials: the kind of teaching materials you intend to provide. These will be needed by the organization on the date stated below.

  10. Duration: typically around 3,5h (half-day). Please explain if you need more time (e.g. for having a hands-on practical session).

  11. Equipment: any special equipment (beyond a beamer and a whiteboard) that you might need.

The proposals should be submitted to EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=easss2020

Any inquiries should be sent to easss2020@fe.up.pt

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EASSS 2020 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] Adaptive and Learning Agents Workshop (AAMAS 2020) – 2nd call for papers

Fernando Santos

2nd CfP: Adaptive and Learning Agents Workshop at AAMAS 2020 (Auckland, New Zealand)


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Dear all,


We are organizing the next iteration of the Adaptive and Learning Agents (ALA) workshop at the International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS) in Auckland. Please find the CfP below.


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Adaptive and Learning Agents Workshop at AAMAS (Auckland, New Zealand)


Submission deadline: February 10, 2020


Extended versions of all original contributions at ALA 2020 will be eligible for inclusion in a special issue of the Springer journal Neural Computing and Applications (Impact Factor 4.213).
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TL;DR:
* Workshop with a long and successful history, now in its twelfth edition.
* Covering all aspects of adaptive and learning agents and multi-agent systems research.
* Open to original research papers, work-in-progress, and visionary outlook papers, as well as presentations on recently published journal papers.
* ACM proceedings (AAMAS) format up to 8 pages (excluding references) for original research, up to 6 pages for work-in-progress and outlook papers (shorter papers are also welcome and will not be judged differently) and 2 pages for recently published journal papers.
* Accepted papers are eligible for inclusion in a post-proceedings journal special issue.
* Submissions through easychair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ala2020


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IMPORTANT DATES:


* Submission Deadline:         February 10, 2020
* Notification of acceptance: March 10, 2020
* Camera-ready copies:         March 24, 2020
* Workshop: May 9 & 10, 2020
* Extended submission deadline: September 15, 2020
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OVERVIEW


Adaptive and learning agents, particularly those interacting with each other in a multi-agent setting, are becoming increasingly prominent as the size and complexity of real-world systems grows. How to adaptively control, coordinate and optimize such systems is an emerging multi-disciplinary research area at the intersection of Computer Science, Control Theory, Economics, and Biology. The ALA workshop will focus on agents and multi-agent systems which employ learning or adaptation.


The goal of this workshop is to increase awareness of and interest in adaptive agent research, encourage collaboration and give a representative overview of current research in the area of adaptive and learning agents and multi-agent systems. It aims at bringing together not only scientists from different areas of computer science but also from different fields studying similar concepts (e.g., game theory, bio-inspired control, mechanism design).


This workshop will focus on all aspects of adaptive and learning agents and multi-agent systems with a particular emphasis on how to modify established learning techniques and/or create new learning paradigms to address the many challenges presented by complex real-world problems.
The topics of interest include but are not limited to:


   * Novel combinations of reinforcement and supervised learning approaches
   * Integrated learning approaches that work with other agent reasoning modules like negotiation, trust models, coordination, etc.
   * Supervised multi-agent learning
   * Reinforcement learning (single and multi-agent)
   * Novel deep learning approaches for adaptive single and multi-agent systems
   * Multi-objective optimisation in single- and multi-agent systems
   * Planning (single and multi-agent)
   * Reasoning (single and multi-agent)
   * Distributed learning
   * Adaptation and learning in dynamic environments
   * Evolution of agents in complex environments
   * Co-evolution of agents in a multi-agent setting
   * Cooperative exploration and learning to cooperate and collaborate
   * Learning trust and reputation
   * Communication restrictions and their impact on multi-agent coordination
   * Design of reward structure and fitness measures for coordination
   * Scaling learning techniques to large systems of learning and adaptive agents
   * Emergent behavior in adaptive multi-agent systems
   * Game theoretical analysis of adaptive multi-agent systems
   * Neuro-control in multi-agent systems
   * Bio-inspired multi-agent systems
   * Adaptive and learning agents for multi-objective decision making
   * Applications of adaptive and learning agents and multi-agent systems to real world complex systems


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SUBMISSION DETAILS


Papers can be submitted through EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ala2020


We invite submission of original work, up to 8 pages in length (excluding references) in the ACM proceedings format (i.e. following the AAMAS formatting instructions). This includes work that has been accepted as a poster/extended abstract at the AAMAS 2020 conference. Additionally, we welcome the submission of preliminary results, i.e. work-in-progress, as well as visionary outlook papers that lay out directions for future research in a specific area, both up to 6 pages in length, although shorter papers are very much welcome, and will not be judged differently. Finally, we also accept recently published journal papers in the form of a 2 page abstract.


All submissions will be peer-reviewed (single-blind). Accepted work will be allocated time for poster and possibly oral presentation during the workshop.  Extended versions of all original contributions at ALA 2020 will be eligible for inclusion in a special issue of the Springer journal Neural Computing and Applications (Impact Factor 4.213). Deadline for submitting extended papers: September 15, 2020.


We look forward to receiving your submissions,


– The Organizers
Patrick MacAlpine (Microsoft Research, USA)
Fernando P. Santos (Princeton University, USA)
Felipe Leno da Silva (University of São Paulo, BR)
Roxana Rădulescu (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, BE)


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