[rede.APPIA] ECIR 2020 Doctoral Consortium cfp

The ECIR 2020 Doctoral Consortium is an excellent forum for PhD students to discuss their research ideas with world-class researchers in the area of Information Retrieval.

 

The Doctoral Consortium (DC) will take place on 14th April 2019. During the DC session, we will have six selected student presentations, followed by discussions and individual meetings with senior researchers who are members of the DC Committee (also called mentors).

 

There are great opportunities for networking over lunch and later on during the day and other possible activities may be introduced according to the topics of the accepted submissions.

 

One submission will be awarded the “best doctoral consortium paper award”, which will be decided by the doctoral consortium committee.

 

Prospective candidates for the Doctoral Consortium

Students who have recently completed their research proposal, or about to do so (typically 2nd year PhD students) are welcome to submit their contribution to the consortium. The greatest benefit will be achieved for those students that have recently scoped their PhD topic in the Information Retrieval area. Candidates for the DC will be selected based on the potential of their research for future impact on the field of Information Retrieval and the likely benefit to the student of participating in the DC. The submitted paper will be the basis for detailed discussions at the DC.

 

Submission Guidelines

The submission may contain previously-published material, as well as ongoing work. Doctoral students who submit to the DC are welcome to submit other papers or posters to ECIR 2019. The submission has two parts. The first part, a research statement, should be no more than six (6) pages long in the LNCS format. It will be the basis for detailed discussions at the Consortium, and should include:

  • Motivation for the proposed research
  • Background and related work (including key references)
  • Description of proposed research, including main research questions
  • Research methodology and proposed experiments (where appropriate)
  • Specific research issues for discussion at the Doctoral Consortium.

The second part, limited to one (1) page, describes benefits that would be obtained by attending the DC. It should be added as an appendix to the research statement and include:

  • A statement by the student saying why they want to attend the Consortium.
  • A brief statement (1 paragraph) by their advisor saying how the student would benefit by attending the DC. Advisors should also specifically state whether the student has written, or is close to completing, a thesis proposal (or equivalent), and when they expect the student would defend their dissertation if they progress at a typical rate.

 

Format Requirements

All submissions must be written in English following the ECIR guidelines and the LNCS author guidelines and submitted electronically through EasyChair. The first page must contain the title of the paper, full author name, affiliation and contact details and an abstract of up to 250 words. Submissions will be reviewed by the members of the DC committee.

 

Accepted Papers

Students accepted to the Consortium will have the option of publishing a 4-page extended abstract summarizing their research in the full ECIR conference proceedings.

 

Key Dates

Deadline: 29 November 2019

Notification: 10th January 2019

Doctoral Consortium: 15th April 2019

 

Doctoral Consortium Co-Chairs (dc@ecir2020.org)

Stefan Rueger

Suzan Verberne

[rede.APPIA] 42nd European Conference on Information Retrieval | Lisbon, 2020 | Call for Papers

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ECIR 2020 :: 42nd European Conference on Information Retrieval http://www.ecir2020.org/

Lisbon
April 14 -17, 2020
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The European Conference on Information Retrieval is the prime European forum for the presentation of original research in the field of Information Retrieval.

ECIR 2020 is seeking high-quality and original submissions on theory, experimentation, and practice regarding the retrieval, representation, management, and usage of textual, visual and multi-modal information.

ECIR strongly supports user, system, application, and evaluation focused papers:

 * User aspects including information interaction, contextualisation, personalisation, simulation, characterisation, and information behaviours.

 * System aspects including retrieval and recommendation algorithms, machine learning, deep learning, content representation, natural language processing, system architectures, and efficiency methods.

 * Applications such as search and recommender systems, web and social media apps, domain specific search (professional, bio, chem, etc.), novel interfaces, intelligent search agents/bots, and related innovative search tools.

 * Evaluation research including new measures and novel methods for the measurement and evaluation of users, systems and/or applications.

In addition to these traditional topic areas, ECIR 2020 will be encouraging the submissions of papers on a specialised theme (eHealth, DeepLearning, education IR etc.)

Full Paper Track
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The Full paper track provides the opportunity for researchers to present their state of the art research in Information Retrieval, which makes, or have the potential to make, a significant contribution to the field. Full paper submissions should be 12 pages in length plus additional pages for references.

NEW!!!: As of 2020, a selection of the best papers at ECIR will be published in a special issue of the Information Retrieval Journal.

Information Retrieval Journal
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Selected papers from ECIR 2020  will be published in a special issue of the  Information Retrieval Journal in early 2021.

Short Paper Track
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The Short Paper Track calls for original contributions presenting novel, thought-provoking ideas and addressing innovative application areas within the field of Information Retrieval. The inclusion of promising (preliminary) results is encouraged but not required. Papers that stimulate and promote discussion are particularly encouraged. Short paper submissions should be 6 pages in length plus additional pages for references.

Reproducibility Track
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ECIR also strongly encourages the submission of reproducibility papers that repeat and analyze prior work. In particular we solicit classical reproducibility papers, which replicate prior experiments and show how, why, and when the methods work (or not), along with two other types of reproducibility papers: generalizability papers, that focus on assessing how well technology performs in new contexts (e.g., different time, location, access device, task), and predictability papers, that focus on developing theory and methods that assess and evaluate how generalizable methods are and whether they will work in other contexts.
Reproducibility submissions are welcome in any of the ares related to aspects of Information Retrieval, and either fits with the classical or alternative types of reproducibility papers. Reproducibility submissions should be 12 pages in length plus additional pages for references.

Demonstration Track
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The Demo Track provide the opportunity for researchers to present their research prototypes and operational systems which they wish to share with the community, obtain feedback from experts, and exchanges knowledge on implementing and developing such systems. Submissions should clearly define their purpose, scope, and audience. All submissions should provide a URL to a live online version of their demo or, alternatively, provide a URL to a video showcasing the main features of their demo. Demonstrations that make their source code freely available are especially encouraged.
Demonstration submissions are welcome in any of the areas related to Information Retrieval (IR), as identified in the Topics of Interest listed above. Demo submissions should be 4 pages in length plus additional pages for references.

Submission Guidelines
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All submissions must be written in English and be formatted according to the LNCS author guidelines. All papers should be submitted electronically through the conference submission system. Full papers (e.g. main paper track and reproducibility track) are up to 12 pages in length plus additional pages for references, short papers are up to 6 pages in length plus additional pages for references, and demonstration papers are to be 4 pages in length plus additional pages for references.
Full paper and short paper submissions will be refereed through double-blind peer review. Demonstration papers will undergo single-blind review. Accepted full papers, short papers, and demo papers will be published in the conference proceedings published in the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. The proceedings will be distributed to all delegates at the conference. Accepted full papers, short papers, and demos papers will have to be presented at the conference–and at least one author will be required to register.

Timeline
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Workshop submission: 1 September 2019
Workshop notifications: 1 October 2019

Full paper submission: 1 October 2019
Short paper submission: 15 October 2019
Demo submission: 15 October 2019
Doctoral consortium submission: 15 December 2019 Full/short/demo notifications: 30 November 2019 Camera-ready copy: 27 December 2019

Tutorials submission: 15 November 2019
Tutorials notifications: 15 December 2019

Workshops and tutorials: 14 April 2020
Main Conference: 15-17 April 2020

[rede.APPIA] Convocatória de Assembleia Geral da APPIA 2019

Caros Sócios da APPIA,

Na qualidade de Presidente da Assembleia Geral da APPIA, venho convocar-vos para a Assembleia Geral da Associação Portuguesa para a Inteligência Artificial, 
a realizar na Aula Magna, UTAD, Vila Real, no dia 5 de Setembro às 14h00, durante o EPIA’2019 (https://epia2019.utad.pt/index.php/program), e com a seguinte Ordem de Trabalhos:

– Informações;
– Apresentação do relatório de atividades e de contas;
– Análise de propostas para a organização do EAIA 2020 e EPIA 2020;
– Análise das candidaturas a Corpos Gerentes para o próximo biénio (2020/21) e sua eleição;
– Outros assuntos.

Com os melhores cumprimentos,

Miguel Calejo

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InterProlog Consulting

Madan Parque de Ciência
Rua dos Inventores, 2825-182 Caparica, Portugal
http://interprolog.com

[rede.APPIA] Bolsas para Estudantes EPIA

O Encontro Português de Inteligência Artificial (EPIA 2019) vai organizar uma sessão de posters para estudantes de mestrado apresentarem os seus projetos a empresas. Serão aceites não só projetos terminados ou em conclusão, mas também projetos em fases mais preliminares. A submissão consiste num resumo com 2 páginas.
A organização vai atribuir bolsas a alguns destes estudantes de forma a cobrir a inscrição e parte das despesas de participação.
Esta sessão será organizada no âmbito da track “Business Applications of Artificial Intelligence” (BAAI -https://epia2019.utad.pt/index.php/83-thematic-tracks/104-baai).
A organização do BAAI vai suportar as despesas de deslocamento para pelo menos 10 alunos que submetam um resumo do seu projeto de tese à track BAAI do EPIA, em Vila Real, de acordo com as indicações abaixo.
 *** Prazo de submissão: extensão de prazo – 31/julho ***
Algumas das empresas associadas ao EPIA e ao BAAI são: -Millennium BCP -IT Sector -SISCOG -DevScope
Mais informação pode ser encontrada no CFP abaixo ou contactando os organizadores.
Célia Talma Gonçalves, CEOS – ISCAP P.PORTO / LIACC, Portugal (celia@iscap.ipp.pt) Carlos Soares, LIAAC, INESC TEC/FEUP-Universidade do Porto, Portugal Eva Lorenzo Iglesias, UVIGO, Spain Ana Paula Appel, IBM Research, Brazil Eunika Mercier-Laurent, Global Innovation Strategies / Université Reims Champagne Ardenne, France Eugénio Oliveira, LIAAC / FEUP-Universidade do Porto, Portugal
————————————————————————————————- CALL FOR PAPERS ————————————————————————————————- Business Applications of Artificial Intelligence (BAAI – EPIA 2019) ————————————————————————————————- Thematic Track of 19th Conference on Artificial Intelligence (EPIA 2019) September 3-6, 2019, Vila-Real, Portugal epia2019.utad.pt/ ————————————————————————————————- Scope
AI is undoubtedly becoming a commodity in the business world. In fact, AI technology is increasingly used in major industries such as health, manufacturing, retail, automotive, education, marketing, sales, financial services, entertainment and security, to increase productivity and reduce costs. The Business Applications of Artificial Intelligence (BAAI) track will focus on bringing new insights on successful applications of AI technology in business as well as identifying challenges that can only be addressed by collaborative efforts between industry and academia. Industry leaders need to learn with researchers how and where AI technologies can be applied in their organizations. On the other hand, researchers need to understand the challenges that companies are facing, the potential for solving them with AI technologies but also the additional challenges raised by developing solutions to real world problems with those technologies. The track will promote the discussion concerning c hallenges and potential solutions and the sharing of ideas and experiences between researchers (especially young ones, such as M.Sc. and Ph.D. students) and industry leaders. It also aims to disseminate recent research, innovative approaches and techniques, current trends and concerns.
Topics of Interest
The topics relevant to the track include, but are not limited to, the following:
AI applications in business, industry and government involving technologies such as: -Agent based systems – Data science (data mining, big data, machine learning and deep learning) – Evolutionary computation – Expert and decision support systems – Intelligent search – Metaheuristics – Intelligent planning – Robotics – Solutions based on the integration of multiple AI and other types of technologies – Methodological issues in the development of AI projects – Social impact of AI – Business problems in need of AI solutions
Program Committee
Adam Woznica, Expedia, Switzerland António Castro, FEUP/LIACC-NIADR, University of Porto, Portugal Carlos Rodrigues, Marionete, United Kingdom Carmela Comito, ICAR-CNR, Italy Dario Oliveira, IBM Research, Brazil Efi Papatheocharous, Swedish Institute of Computer Science, Sweden Elaine Ribeiro de Faria, Universidade Federal Uberlândia, Brazil Francesca Spezzano, College of Engineering, Boise State University, Italy Gustavo Batista, Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil Ida Mele, Universita’ della Svizzera, Italy Jean-Pierre Briot, Laboratoire d’Informatique de Paris 6 (Paris6-CNRS) & PUC-Rio, Brazil Kaustubh Patil, MIT, USA Lourdes Borrajo, Universidad de Vigo, Spain Marisa Affonso Vasconcelos, IBM Research, Brazil Paulo Cavalin, IBM Research, Brazil Pedro Henriques Abreu, FCTUC-DEI/CISUC, Portugal Peter Van der Putten, Pegasystems /U. Leiden, Netherlands Rodrigo Mello, Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil YongHong Peng, University of Sunderland, United Kingdom
————————————————————————————————- Submission Information ————————————————————————————————- All accepted papers will be published by Springer in a volume of Springer’s Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) corresponding to the proceedings of the 19th EPIA Conference on Artificial Intelligence, EPIA 2019.
We accept three types of submissions, regular EPIA papers, M.Sc. project posters and industrial solutions and case studies, as detailed next.
Regular Submission
Submissions must be original and not published elsewhere. Papers should not exceed twelve (12) pages in length and must adhere to the formatting instructions of the conference. Each submission will be peer reviewed by at least three members of the Program Committee. The reviewing process is double blind, so authors should remove names and affiliations from the submitted papers, and must take reasonable care to assure anonymity during the review process. References to own work may be included in the paper, as long as referred to in the third person. Acceptance will be based on the paper’s significance, technical quality, clarity, relevance and originality. All accepted papers must be presented orally the conference by one of the authors and at least one author of each accepted paper must register for the conference.
All papers should be submitted in PDF format through the EPIA 2019 EasyChair submission page. Prospective authors should select the thematic track to which their paper is to be submitted.

Student project posters
M.Sc. students are invited to submit a 2 pages summary of their project (same formatting rules as for the regular papers). Although the discussion of results will be beneficial, it is not required. This means that students at early phases of their projects are encouraged to submit. Accepted submission will present their work at a poster session, where they will have the opportunity to interact with participants from the companies. Accepted submissions will be published in the local (online) web-page.
Industrial solutions and case studies
Submissions are invited for industrial solutions and case studies. Submit a 2 pages summary of solutions (general-purpose or specific tools) and case studies (success stories, lessons learned and challenges). The same formatting rules for the regular papers apply. Accepted submissions will present their work at a specific session, where the speakers will have the opportunity to discuss their work with academic experts on AI. Accepted submissions will be published in local (online) proceedings.
Participation
Registrations associated with student project posters and Industrial solutions and case studies have access to the technical program, participation in the welcome session, coffee-breaks and lunch on the first day. More information about registration can be found at the EPIA 2019 site.
————————————————————————————————- Organizing Committee ————————————————————————————————-
Célia Talma Gonçalves, CEOS – ISCAP P.PORTO / LIACC, Portugal (celia@iscap.ipp.pt) Carlos Soares, LIAAC, INESC TEC/FEUP-Universidade do Porto, Portugal Eva Lorenzo Iglesias, UVIGO, Spain Ana Paula Appel, IBM Research, Brazil Eunika Mercier-Laurent, Global Innovation Strategies / Université Reims Champagne Ardenne, France Eugénio Oliveira, LIAAC / FEUP-Universidade do Porto, Portugal
Please see more instructions for authors on the BAAI web page www.epia2019.utad.pt/index.php/83-thematic-tracks/104-baai
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[rede.APPIA] EPIA-2019, Program

Dear APPIA Members,

Please find attached the EPIA-2019 program. 

If you are not yet registered, you still have time to do it. Don´t miss the opportunity to attend this inspiring and unforgettable conference.

More information available in : https://epia2019.utad.pt/index.php/program

Hope to meet in Vila Real.

Best regards

Paulo Moura Oliveira

Paulo Novais

Luís Paulo Reis

  

[rede.APPIA] Research Assistant in Audio Signal Processing and AI



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From: ICCMR – Prof E Miranda <eduardo.miranda@PLYMOUTH.AC.UK>
Subject: Research Assistant in Audio Signal Processing and AI
Date: 10 July 2019 at 14:49:29 WEST
Reply-To: ICCMR – Prof E Miranda <eduardo.miranda@PLYMOUTH.AC.UK>


Research Assistant in Audio Signal Processing and AI

If you are into audio, music technology and AI and would love to use your skills for the good of society, improve the lives of our ageing population and help the NHS to support people living with dementia, this is the right job for you.

The Interdisciplinary Centre for Computer Music Research (ICCMR) at the University of Plymouth is seeking to recruit a highly motivated Research Assistant (post-doc) with expertise in Real-Time Audio Signal Processing and Machine Learning to work on the EPSRC-funded project “Radio Me: Real-time radio remixing for people with mild to moderate dementia who live alone, incorporating agitation reduction and reminders”.

The project will develop AI to adapt and personalise live radio and music with the aim of transforming life for people living alone with dementia.

More information: https://www.plymouth.ac.uk/about-us/jobs (Click on “Job Vacancies”, then “Current University of Plymouth Vacancies” and then on “Academic Research”).

Email:  jobs@plymouth.ac.uk

Tel:  +44 1752 588255 (Monday-Thursday 8.30-17.00, Friday 8.30-16.30)

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[rede.APPIA] Call for papers: Journal of Computational Creativity



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From: “‘Geraint Wiggins’ via Computational Creativity Forum” <computational-creativity-forum@googlegroups.com>
Subject: [computational-creativity-forum] Call for papers: Journal of Computational Creativity
Date: 9 July 2019 at 11:15:15 WEST
To: Computational Creativity Forum <computational-creativity-forum@googlegroups.com>
Reply-To: Geraint Wiggins <geraintwiggins@me.com>


Dear Colleagues,


Following its launch at ICCC 2019 in Charlotte, NC, we are pleased to draw your attention to


which is now open for submission.

We are in the first instance accepting articles in three categories:

RESEARCH: substantive papers presenting research which has reached a recognisable level of completion and achievement.

SURVEY: papers surveying and synthesising the literature in the field of computational creativity.

POSITION: shorter papers presenting more philosophical or polemic viewpoints. These papers may be intended, for example, to begin a new debate relevant to the field, or provide commentary on aspects of current topics. 

In all cases, clear relevance to the research field of the journal is necessary and will be determined by the editors.

You may submit your work, in PDF, generated by LaTeX in “article” document class in the first instance, by creating an account on the journal website, logging in, and uploading your file. We aim for a quick turnaround in the review process, but quality is the primary determinant.

Please submit your excellent work here: THE JOURNAL OF COMPUTATIONAL CREATIVITY .

Geraint A. Wiggins
Dan Ventura
Kazjon Grace
(Editors)