Category: [rede.APPIA]

A [rede.APPIA] é a lista de distribuição de correio electrónico da APPIA, com o objectivo de divulgar notícias de interesse para a comunidade científica da Inteligência Artificial, disponível através do endereço rede [at] appia [ponto] pt.

[rede.APPIA] AAAT 2019 (Agent based Applications for Air Transport) @ PAAMS – Call for Papers

Ana Paula Cunha Rocha
*** Please distribute. Apologies for cross-posting. ***  

AAAT2019: Agent based Applications for Air Transport
High technical school of Ávila – University of Salamanca
Ávila, Spain, June 26-28, 2019
Conference website https://www.paams.net/workshops/aaat
Submission deadline February 4, 2019
Notification Date March 11, 2019
Camera-ready deadline March 29, 2019
Topics: intelligent agents air transport coordination disruption management

AAAT (Agent based Applications for Air Transport) is a Workshop at PAAMS: International Conference on Practical Applications of Agents and Multi-Agent Systems.

The aim of the AAAT Workshop is to foster the discussion on issues concerning the development of Intelligent Agents for real Air Transportation problems, including Disruption Management, Airline Operations Control, Air Traffic Management and Control, Airport Logistics, etc. Agents are, by definition, autonomous entities enable to react and adapt to changes in a complex, distributed and dynamic environment as it is the case of Air Transportation. Intelligent Agents seems to be an appropriate methodology to apply in the Air Transportation domain, since involved entities, represented by agents, can reach their ultimate goals and intentions through autonomic decision-making as well as by including features representing their own problem-solving intelligent capabilities.

On the basis of theories and methodologies borrowed from a wide spectrum of disciplines, such as the Social Sciences, Distributed Computing, Artificial Intelligence and Multi-agent Systems, and many others, many important issues arise which challenge and motivate many researchers and practitioners from multidisciplinary fields, as well as different technical and scientific communities. We encourage and welcome contributions reporting on how the scientific community and practitioners are using Agents and Multi Agent Systems techniques and methodologies to address real Air Transportation problems. This includes theoretical and/or applied research as well as applications.

Submission Guidelines

Review process

All submitted papers will undergo a thorough review process; each paper will be refereed by at least three experts in the field based on relevance, originality, significance, quality and clarity.

The papers must consist of original, relevant and previously unpublished sound research results related to any of the topics of the conference.

Submitting papers

All papers must be formatted according to the Springer LNCS Template, with a maximum length of 12 pages in length, including figures and references. All proposed papers must be submitted in electronic form (PDF format) using the Paper Submission Page.

Publication

Accepted papers will be included in PAAMS 2019 Proceedings, published by Springer.

At least one of the authors will be required to register and attend the symposium to present the paper in order to include the paper in the conference proceedings. All accepted papers will be published by Springer Verlag.

More information: www.paams.net

List of Topics

  • Air Traffic Flow Management
  • Air Traffic Control (including airport approaches and take-off and landing)
  • Airline Operations Control (day-to-day operations and irregular operations management including aircraft, crew and passenger recovery)
  • Aircraft and crew scheduling
  • Passenger re-accommodations.
  • Ground Operations control (from either of the ground operators perspective, i.e., airlines, airports, fuel companies, catering companies, etc.)
  • Airport Operations
  • Resilience of the Air Transport Social-Technological System.
  • Disruption Management or irregular operations management on any of the above topics.
  • Performance, productivity and efficiency improvement in any of the above topics
  • Human factors in any of the above topics
  • Aviation economics and policy
  • Air transport forecasting
  • Regulatory environment for aviation

Committees

Program Committee

  • Alexei Sharpanskykh, Delft University of Technology (The Netherlands)
  • Andrew Cook, University of Westminster (United Kingdom)
  • Daniel Castro Silva, FEUP-DEI / LIACC (Portugal)
  • Henk Blom, National Aerospace Laboratory NLR (The Netherlands)
  • Jacco Hoekstra, Delft University of Technology (The Netherlands)
  • Jan Boril, Univeristy of Defence, Faculty of Military Technology (Czech Republic)
  • Jorge Silva, University of Beira Interior, Aerospace Sciences Department (Portugal)
  • Lorenzo Castelli, University of Trieste (Italy)
  • Pernilla Ulfvengren, KTH Royal Institute of Technology (Sweden)
  • Rosaldo Rossetti, University of Porto (Portugal)
  • Valerie Shalin, Wright State University (USA)
  • Vladimir Gorodetsky, Institute for Informatics and Automation of the Russian Academy of Science (Russia)

Organizing committee

  • Ana Paula Rocha – LIACC, University of Porto (Portugal)
  • António Castro – LIACC, University of Porto (Portugal)

Publication

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 and Scopus).

Venue

The conference will be held in the High Technical School of Ávila, University of Salamance, Ávila, Spain  

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to aaat.paams@gmail.com.

[rede.APPIA] Grupos de IA em Portugal: recolha de informação

Alípio Mário Guedes Jorge
Caros colegas,


Na qualidade de representante de Portugal para a definição de uma agenda europeia de IA, estou a colecionar informação sobre a IA em Portugal e em particular sobre os grupos de investigação que trabalham em algum tema de IA. Comecei com a lista do site da APPIA que validei e atualizei, completando com áreas principais de estudo.

As áreas de cada centro foram retiradas do Scopus, considerando as com mais publicações, para cada centro (ou universidade quando o centro não aparece como affiliation no scopus). Tentei não diversificar o conjunto de palavras chave para se poder ter uma visão de conjunto. Importam atividades de investigação, consolidada em publicações e projetos, incluindo transferência de tecnologia.

Assim, peço que comentem no google doc cujo URI envio, e:
 – me ajudem a validar a informação sobre cada centro (sobretudo aos responsáveis de centro);
 – me sugiram outros centros que possam não estar incluídos, principalmente fora do universo APPIA.
 – me façam chegar outras sugestões via comentário ou email

Noto a falta de presença das ilhas, que estão em centros multi-região e de alguns politécnicos. Fiz alguma procura mas não encontrei mais nada.


Assinem pf o comentário caso a identidade seja pouco clara.

Obrigado,

Alípio Jorge
Universidade do Porto
INESC TEC

[rede.APPIA] 2 PostDoc and 2 PhD Student Positions in KRR at Nova University Lisboa

João Leite
The NOVA LINCS Knowledge-Based Systems Group at Nova University of Lisbon is seeking outstanding highly motivated candidates for 2 PostDoc positions and 2 PhD Student positions to work within the scope of the following two projects:
Project FORGET – Forgetting what Needs to be Forgotten (PTDC/CCI-INF/32219/2017)
Being able to selectively forget information from data and knowledge bases is fundamental to properly deal with legal and privacy issues, for instance to implement court decisions ordering the elimination of illegally acquired or maintained information, or to comply with the right to be forgotten, recently enacted in the EU General Data Protection Regulation. However, forgetting is not as easy as deleting the item to be forgotten, since additional changes may be required to keep the intensional meaning of the remaining data and knowledge, and to guarantee that the forgotten information cannot be recovered from the stored results of previous computations that used it. The FORGET project will develop a principled solution, composed of theory, methods and tools, to effectively and efficiently forget selected information from data and knowledge bases, while preserving what should not be forgotten.
Project RIVER – Reasoning with Knowledge and Data Streams (PTDC/CCI-INF/30952/2017)
Recent developments originally triggered by initiatives such as the Semantic Web, Linked Open Data, and the Web of Things, resulted in the wide and increasing availability of machine-processable data and knowledge in the form of data streams and knowledge bases, which is preparing the ground for a new class of dynamic, rich, knowledge-intensive applications. Examples can be found in domains such as the Smart Grid, assisted living and alarm handling in telecommunications. These require automated reasoning with the integration of several heterogeneous knowledge bases (KB) together with several heterogeneous data/event streams to support automation and problem-solving, enforce traceable and correct decisions, and facilitate the internalization of relevant dynamic data and knowledge and the project will provide the necessary theory and tools to deal with such heterogeneous KB and data/event streams in an integrated way and apply them to two practical use-cases.
PostDoc positions
For PostDoc positions, candidates should hold a PhD. or equivalent degree. Excellent candidates in a final phase of their PhD. studies can also be considered. Suitable disciplines include Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Mathematics, Machine Learning and other related areas. A strong publication record is considered a plus. Candidates are expected to be fluent in spoken and written English. PostDocs can, optionally, supervise MSc and PhD projects.
The positions are available immediately but the start time can be negotiated. The positions are fixed-term and filled initially for 1 year with an option for extension of 1-2 years.
Applicants should express their interest by sending the following documents by email according to the instructions below:
– a cover letter briefly describing your background and interests;
– a Curriculum Vitae (with contact details);
– names and contact information (email) of at least two references;
– a link to electronic copy of Ph.D. Thesis (if available);
– links to electronic copies of 1-2 most relevant publications.                   
PhD Student positions
For PhD Student positions, candidates should hold a MSc. or equivalent degree in a suitable area (e.g. Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Mathematics, Machine Learning) or be a MSc Student in a final phase of studies. Candidates are expected to have good programming and mathematical skills, and be proficient in spoken and written English. 
Excellent candidates in a final phase of their Ph.D. studies can also be considered. Suitable disciplines include Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Mathematics, Machine Learning and other related areas. A strong publication record is considered a plus. Candidates are expected to be fluent in spoken and written English. 
The positions are available immediately but the start time can be negotiated. The positions are fixed-term and filled initially for 1 year with an option for renewal.
Applicants should express their interest by sending the following documents by email according to the instructions below:
– a motivation letter;
– a Curriculum Vitae (with contact details);
– names and contact information (email) of at least two references;
– transcript of records (courses and grades)
– a link to electronic copy of MSc Thesis (if available);
– a list of publications (if available)                   
Contact Information:
Send the documents by email both to Joao Leite <jleite@fct.unl.pt> and Matthias Knorr <mkn@fct.unl.pt> with subject "PostDoc/PhD Student call KBS 1/2018".
Deadline: November 14th, 2018.

[rede.APPIA] Fwd: [Iai-societies] IJCAI-19 AWARDS: CALL FOR NOMINATIONS

Paulo Jorge Novais

FYI
——– Forwarded Message ——– Subject: [Iai-societies] IJCAI-19 AWARDS: CALL FOR NOMINATIONS Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2018 12:50:38 +0200 From: Vesna Sabljakovic-Fritz <vsfritz@ijcai.org> Organisation: IJCAI To: IAI Societies <iai-societies@ijcai.org>

Deadline for nominations: Monday, January 7, 2019
The IJCAI Awards Committee hereby invites nominations for the IJCAI-19 awards: The Award for Research Excellence; the Computers and Thought Award; and the John McCarthy Award.
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IJCAI-19 AWARD FOR RESEARCH EXCELLENCE
The Research Excellence award is given to a scientist who has carried out a program of AI research of consistently high quality throughout an entire career yielding several substantial results. Past recipients of this honor are the most illustrious group of scientists from the field of Artificial Intelligence.
Past recipients of the award are: John McCarthy (1985), Allen Newell (1989), Marvin Minsky (1991), Raymond Reiter (1993), Herbert Simon (1995), Aravind Joshi (1997), Judea Pearl (1999), Donald Michie (2001), Nils Nilsson (2003), Geoffrey E. Hinton (2005), Alan Bundy (2007), Victor Lesser (2009), Robert Anthony Kowalski (2011), Hector Levesque (2013), Barbara Grosz (2015), Michael I. Jordan (2016), Andrew Barto (2017), and Jitendra Malik (2018).
###################################################################### IJCAI-19 COMPUTERS AND THOUGHT AWARD
The Computers and Thought Award is presented at IJCAI conferences to outstanding young scientists in artificial intelligence. The award was established with royalties received from the book, Computers and Thought, edited by Edward Feigenbaum and Julian Feldman. It is currently supported by income from IJCAI funds.
Please note: Nominees for the IJCAI Computers and Thought Award should be no older than 35 at the start of the IJCAI-19 conference (appropriate exceptions will be made for parenting leave, etc – please indicate such circumstances in the nomination letter).
Past recipients of this honor have been: Terry Winograd (1971), Patrick Winston (1973), Chuck Rieger (1975), Douglas Lenat (1977), David Marr (1979), Gerald Sussman (1981), Tom Mitchell (1983), Hector Levesque (1985), Johan de Kleer (1987), Henry Kautz (1989), Rodney Brooks (1991), Martha Pollack (1991), Hiroaki Kitano (1993), Sarit Kraus (1995), Stuart Russell (1995), Leslie Kaelbling (1997), Nicholas Jennings (1999), Daphne Koller (2001), Tuomas Sandholm (2003), Peter Stone (2007), Carlos Guestrin (2009), Andrew Ng (2009),Vincent Conitzer (2011), Malte Helmert (2011), Kristen Grauman (2013), Ariel Procaccia (2015), Percy Liang (2016), Devi Parikh (2017), and Stefano Ermon (2018).
##################################################################### IJCAI-19 JOHN McCARTHY AWARD
The IJCAI John McCarthy Award is intended to recognize established mid-career researchers, typically between fifteen to twenty-five years after obtaining their PhD, that have built up a major track record of research excellence in artificial intelligence. Nominees of the award will have made significant contributions to the research agenda in their area and will have a first-rate profile of influential research results.
The award is named for John McCarthy (1927-2011), who is widely recognized as one of the founders of the field of artificial intelligence. As well as giving the discipline its name, McCarthy made fundamental contributions of lasting importance to computer science in general and artificial intelligence in particular, including time-sharing operating systems, the LISP programming languages, knowledge representation, common-sense reasoning, and the logicist paradigm in artificial intelligence. The award was established with the full support and encouragement of the McCarthy family.
Past recipients of this honor have been: Bart Selman (2015), Moshe Tennenholtz (2016), Dan Roth (2017), and Milind Tambe (2018).
###################################################################### NOMINATIONS
Nominations for IJCAI awards may be made by any member of the AI community. Nominations should take the form of a **single** PDF document, uploaded to the relevant nomination web site (see below). The nomination should on the first page clearly state the name of the candidate being nominated, their email address and website (if available), and the name and contact details of the nomination coordinator. The nomination should contain a statement (no more than 2000 words) clearly setting out why the nominee is deserving of the award. The nomination should also contain letters of support from up to 3 supporters from the AI community, who should also clearly state why they believe the nominee is deserving of the award (each supporting statement should be no more than 1000 words, and should identify the supporter).
Websites for uploading nominations:
Research excellence nomination site: goo.gl/forms/DVDUIpi2HQUQqoOv2
Computers and Thought nomination site: goo.gl/forms/u5jRnaFG7cjiV14y2
John McCarthy nomination site: goo.gl/forms/5ualkTiTzalrk5d93
Nominations must be uploaded no later than:
***MONDAY, JANUARY 7, 2019**
Nominations received after this deadline will not be considered.
Informal enquiries or points for clarification may be sent to the chair of the awards committee: Michael Wooldridge <mjw@cs.ox.ac.uk>.

[rede.APPIA] Bolsas no âmbito do projeto IA.SAE

Henrique Lopes Cardoso
Encontram-se abertas candidaturas para 2 Bolsas de Investigação-Mestre e 1 Bolsa de Investigação de Pós Doutoramento no âmbito do projeto FCT IA.SAE — Inteligência Artificial na Segurança Alimentar e Económica, uma parceria entre a ASAE e o LIACC/FEUP.
Mais informações disponíveis em:

[rede.APPIA] EPIA-2019, Call for Thematic Tracks (Extended Deadline: 30/9/2018)

Paulo Jorge Novais

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CALL FOR THEMATIC TRACKS
Extended Deadline
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EPIA 2019
19th EPIA Conference on Artificial Intelligence
www.epia2019.utad.pt/index.php/call-for-papers
September 3-6, 2019
Vila Real – Portugal
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The EPIA Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a well-established European conference in the field of AI. The 19th edition, EPIA 2019, will take place at Vila Real in September 3rd-6th, 2019. 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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Conference format
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To promote discussions among participants, the scientific program of EPIA 2019 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, demonstrations and a doctoral symposium.
More detailed and up-to-date information may be found at:
www.epia2019.utad.pt/
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Call-for-tracks
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The worldwide AI research community is invited to submit thematic track proposals for EPIA 2019. 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 2019. 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.
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Responsibilities
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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 2019.
– 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 2019 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 2019 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.
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Proposal submission
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Track proposals should not exceed 3 pages and must be submitted as a PDF file, at the conference submission system: easychair.org/conferences/?conf=epia2019
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 2019. 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.
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Important dates
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Thematic-track proposal deadline: *Extended to September 30, 2018*
Notification of track acceptance: October 15, 2018
1st Call-for-papers: November 15, 2018
Paper submission deadline: April 15, 2019
Notification of paper acceptance: May 31, 2019
Camera ready papers deadline: June 15, 2019
Conference dates: September 3-6, 2019
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EPIA 2019 Committees
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Event and Program Chairs
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Paulo Moura Oliveira, INESC-TEC, UTAD, Portugal Paulo Novais, ALGORITMI, UMinho, Portugal Luís Paulo Reis, LIACC, UPorto, Portugal
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Organization Chairs
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Eduardo Solteiro Pires, INESC-TEC, UTAD, Portugal José Boaventura Cunha, INESC-TEC, UTAD, Portugal Paulo Jorge Matos, IPB, Portugal
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International Steering Committee
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Amedeo Cesta, CNR-ISTC, Italy Ana Bazzan, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil Ana Paiva, Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal Ernesto Costa, Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal Eugénio Oliveira, Universidade do Porto, Portugal Helder Coelho, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal José Júlio Alferes, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal Juan Pavón, Universidad Complutense Madrid, Spain Luís Paulo Reis, Universidade do Minho, Portugal Marco Dorigo, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium Paulo Novais, Universidade do Minho, Portugal Pavel Brazdil, Universidade do Porto, Portugal Peter McBurney, King’s College London, UK Ulrich Furbach, University of Koblenz, Germany
EPIA 2019 Event/Program Chairs
epia2019@utad.pt <mailto:epia2019@utad.pt>