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— Call for Papers —
17th INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON NON-MONOTONIC REASONING (NMR 2018) — *** DEADLINE EXTENSION ***
NMR 2018 is co-located with KR 2018 and DL 2018, in particular, NMR 2018 will share a joint session with DL 2018.
NMR has a long history — it started in 1984, and is held every two years. Recent previous NMR workshops were held in Cape Town (2016) Vienna (2014) Rome (2012), Toronto (2010), Sydney (2008), and Lake District (UK) (2006).
As in 2016, NMR 2018 will no longer have different tracks in order to not force submissions and presentations into a strict format. Instead, we would like to foster connections between the different fields of nonmonotonic reasoning and provide a forum for emerging topics. We especially invite papers on systems and applications, as well as position papers and papers addressing benchmark issues. The workshop will be structured by topical sessions fitting to the scopes of accepted papers.
The workshop will be held at the Arizona State University, from October 27-29, 2018. Workshop activities will include invited talks and presentations of technical papers.
Important dates:
Paper registration deadline *** EXTENSION ***: July 22, 2018 Paper submission deadline *** EXTENSION ***: July 29, 2018
Notification of acceptance: September 10, 2018 Camera-ready copies: October 4, 2018 Workshop: October, 27-29 2018
Submissions Information:
Papers should be at most 10 pages in AAAI style including references, figures, and appendixes, if any; for further instructions on the format, please see the KR 2018 website. Papers must be submitted in PDF only. Paper submission will be handled electronically by means of the easychair system. The submission page ishttps://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=nmr2018.
Papers already published or accepted for publication at other conferences are also welcome, provided that the original publication is mentioned in a footnote on the first page. In the same vein, papers under review for other conferences can be submitted with a similar indication on their front page. Papers that have already been published or submitted elsewhere may have overlength.
Proceedings There are no formal proceedings for NMR. The accepted papers will be published as a technical report and will be made available in the Computing Research Repository (CoRR). The papers will be compiled in the homepage of NMR 2018 (www4.uma.pt/nmr2018/). The copyright of the papers lies with the authors, and as far as NMR is concerned, they are free to submit to other conferences and workshops as well.
Program chairs
Eduardo Fermé Faculty of Exact Sciences and Engineering University of Madeira Campus Universitário da Penteada 9000-390 Funchal, Madeira, Portugal. + 351 291 705179
Serena Villata CNRS – Laboratoire I3S Campus Sophia Tech – Building Templier 1 06902 Sophia Antipolis Cedex +33 4 92 96 50 47

Caros colegas @APPIA
Envio a vossa consideração.
Paulo Novais
——– Forwarded Message ——– Subject: Re: Lethal Autonomous Weapons Pledge Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2018 14:10:11 +0200 From: Gerhard Lakemeyer <gerhard@kbsg.rwth-aachen.de> To: euraisocieties@eurai.org

Dear EurAI Society,
I am forwarding a message by Ariel Conn from the Future of Life Institute asking for support of the lethal autonomous weapons pledge (see below). Please, distribute this message to your members and consider signing also as a society, as the Italian Association has done already.
Best regards, Gerhard Lakemeyer
——– Forwarded Message ——– Subject: Invitation Resent-From: lakemeyer@informatik.rwth-aachen.de Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2018 22:43:16 -0600 From: Ariel Conn <ariel@futureoflife.org> To: gerhard@informatik.rwth-aachen.de CC: Max Tegmark <tegmark@mit.edu>, Anthony Aguirre <anthony@futureoflife.org>

Dear Gerhard, I’m writing to invite the European Association for Artificial Intelligence to join Google DeepMind, the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence, University College London and others as signatories of the lethal autonomous weapons pledge <futureoflife.org/lethal-autonomous-weapons-pledge>, whose key sentence is /”we will neither participate in nor support the development, manufacture, trade, or use of lethal autonomous weapons”. /It will be terrific if you decide to join, because this will help increase the chances that the AI will continue to benefit society overall and not trigger a devastating new arms race.
If there’s anything we can do to help support discussions involved in this decision, please let me know. In the meantime, and perhaps to get the conversation started, it would be wonderful if you could pass the pledge on to your members to see if they might be interested in signing as individuals.
The pledge will be announced at an IJCAI/ECAI <www.ijcai-18.org/> press conference, and all organizations joining the pledge before July 16 will be featured in the “Hall of Fame” section. Again, lethal autonomous weapons are narrowly defined as AI-powered weapons that can decide to target and kill somebody without a human in the loop. Note that this definition does /not/ include currently deployed drones where humans make these decisions, and that the policy of many countries, including the U.S. and the U.K., requires a human in the loop. Also note that signing the pledge does /not/ require abstaining from defense work/funding more generally.
You can read and sign the pledge here <futureoflife.org/lethal-autonomous-weapons-pledge>, where you’ll also find the current signatories. Can we count you in?
Fingers x’ed, Ariel
Ariel Conn Director of Media and Outreach Future of Life Institute futureoflife.org <futureoflife.org> 415.640.1780

Dear all,
Please distribute the 1st Intetain 2018 Conference Call for Papers among your contacts. See also: intetain.org
— Paulo Cortez Luís Gonzaga Pedro Branco (conference organizers)
—————— Intetain 2018 Conference Call for Papers (intetain.org)
November 21 – 23, 2018 | Guimarães, Portugal Submission Deadline: July 31, 2018
Scope
The 10th INTETAIN celebrates the future of Intelligent Technologies for Interactive Entertainment by inviting researchers to submit novel contributions around developments and insights in art, design, science, and engineering regarding computer based systems (algorithms, models, software and tools) or devices (smartphone, digital cameras, …) that provide intelligent human interaction or entertainment experiences.
Intetain 2018 is part of the 4th annual Smart City 360˚Summit, promoting multidisciplinary scientific collaboration to solve complex societal, technological and economic problems of emerging Smart Cities.
We are pleased to invite you to submit your papers to INTETAIN 2018. They should be in English, following the Springer formatting guidelines.
Topics
The scope includes, but is not limited to, the following areas:
• Artificial Intelligence (Data Science, Machine Learning, Fuzzy Logic, Evolutionary Computation, Multi-Agent Systems, …) for Human Interaction or Entertainment; • Artificial Intelligence (Data Science, Machine Learning, ….) in Games, Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality; • Intelligent Human-computer Interaction (including interaction Interfaces and sensors). • Other Intelligent Interaction or Entertainment Applications: smart cities, media and social media, decision-support systems, visual analytics, engineering, science, production (e.g., Industry 4.0) and marketing. Publication
All registered papers will be submitted for publication by Springer and made available through SpringerLink Digital Library.
Authors of selected best accepted papers will be invited to submit an extended version to:
• EAI Endorsed Transactions on Artificial Intelligence • EAI Endorsed Transactions on Serious Games • EAI Endorsed Transactions on Creative Technologies Intetain proceedings are indexed in leading indexing services, including Ei Compendex, ISI Web of Science, Scopus, CrossRef, Google Scholar, DBLP, as well as EAI’s own EU Digital Library (EUDL).
Paper submission: intetain2018.eai-conferences.org/initial-submission/
Papers should be submitted through EAI ‘Confy‘ system, and have to comply with the Springer format: intetain.org/authors-kit/
Important dates
Full Paper Submission deadline 31 July 2018
Notification deadline 10 September 2018
Camera-ready deadline 30 September 2018
Start of Conference 21 November 2018
End of Conference 23 November 2018
Cumprimentos / Regards,