************************************************** CALL FOR THEMATIC TRACKS ************************************************** EPIA 2019 19th EPIA Conference on Artificial Intelligence www.epia2019.utad.pt/index.php/call-for-papers September 3-6, 2019 Vila Real – Portugal
************************************************** 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.
******************** Conference format ******************** 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/
********************* Call-for-tracks ********************* 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.
******************** Responsibilities ******************** 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. ******************** Proposal submission ******************** 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. ******************** Important dates ******************** Thematic-track proposal deadline: September 15, 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
********************* EPIA 2019 Committees ********************* Event and Program Chairs ********************* Paulo Moura Oliveira, INESC-TEC, UTAD, Portugal Paulo Novais, ALGORITMI, UMinho, Portugal Luís Paulo Reis, LIACC, UPorto, Portugal
******************** Organization Chairs ******************** Eduardo Solteiro Pires, INESC-TEC, UTAD, Portugal José Boaventura Cunha, INESC-TEC, UTAD, Portugal Paulo Jorge Matos, IPB, Portugal
**************************** International Steering Committee **************************** 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 François Pachet, Spotify, France 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>

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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