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] Talk @ ISLab Series :: DIVAS 4.0: A Framework for the development of situated multi-agent based simulation systems

Paulo Jorge Novais

Convite à Participação
O ISLab (islab.di.uminho.pt), no âmbito do Perfil em Sistemas Inteligentes do Mestrado Integrado em Engenharia Informática (miei.di.uminho.pt), organiza no dia 5 de junho de 2017 pelas 11h00 no DI-A2, uma palestra por Mohammad Al-Zinati, da Jordan University of Science and Technology (Jordan), intitulada “DIVAs 4.0: A Framework for the Development of Situated Multi-Agent Based Simulation Systems”.
Convidam-se todos os interessados a participar neste evento.
Mais informações em: islab.di.uminho.pt/islab/islabseries/p15.php
Cumprimentos Paulo Novais e Cesar Analide

ORADOR Mohammad Al-Zinati, Jordan University of Science and Technology (Jordan)
LOCAL Auditório DI-A2 Departamento de Informática Universidade do Minho Campus de Gualtar, Braga
DATA & HORA Segunda-feira, 5.junho.2017 11h00
RESUMO In this talk we present DIVAs 4.0, a framework that supports the development of large-scale agent-based simulation systems where agents are situated in open environments. DIVAs includes high-level abstractions for the definition of agents and open environments, a microkernel for the management of the simulation workflow, domain-specific libraries for the rapid development of simulations, and reusable, extendable components for the control and visualization of simulations. We illustrate the use of DIVAs through the development of a simple simulator where virtual agents are situated in a virtual city.

[rede.APPIA] EPIA 2017 — Call for Papers — LAST WEEK

Henrique Lopes Cardoso

*** Please distribute. Apologies for cross-posting. ***


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EPIA 2017: 18th EPIA Conference on Artificial Intelligence
Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto
Porto, Portugal, September 5-8, 2017
Conference website http://www.fe.up.pt/epia2017
Submission link https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=epia2017
Submission deadline April 15, 2017 May 1, 2017
Paper acceptance May 31, 2017
Camera-ready June 15, 2017
Topics: artificial intelligence

Springer LNAI Proceedings | 2 Best Paper Awards | Poster Session

Invited Speakers | Journal Track | Doctoral Symposium | AI Competitions

The EPIA Conference on Artificial Intelligence is a well-established European conference in the field of AI. The 18th edition, EPIA 2017, will take place at Porto in September 5th-8th, 2017. 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 Artificial Intelligence (AI), covering both theoretical/foundational issues and applications, and the scientific exchange among researchers, engineers and practitioners in related disciplines.

EPIA 2017 will feature a set of thematic tracks (see below), covering a wide spectrum of AI topics.

Submission and Reviewing

All papers should be submitted in PDF format through the EPIA 2017 EasyChair submission page. Prospective authors should select the thematic track to which their paper is to be submitted (see below).

Submitted 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.

Proceedings and Presentations

Accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings (a volume of Springer’s Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence), provided that at least one author is registered in EPIA 2017 by the early registration deadline. EPIA 2015 proceedings were indexed in Thomson Reuters ISI Web of Science, Scopus, DBLP and Google Scholar.

lnai-logo

Each accepted paper will be presented in a track session. Furthermore, authors will have the opportunity to participate in a poster session, open to every accepted paper (but limited to the available physical space).

Awards

The conference will grant the following awards:

  • Best Paper Award, for the best research paper presented at the conference — €1000 sponsored by Springer
  • Best Application Paper Award, for the best paper focusing a real-world application — €1000 sponsored by MASDIMA

Only papers that have been submitted to a thematic track and presented at the conference will be eligible for these awards.

Thematic Tracks

The following thematic tracks on AI are included in the technical program:

Important Dates

Paper submission deadline: April 15, 2017 May 1, 2017
Paper acceptance notification: May 31, 2017
Camera-ready deadline: June 15, 2017
Conference: September 5-8, 2017

EPIA 2017 Committees

Event Chairs

  • Eugénio Oliveira, LIACC, Universidade do Porto, Portugal
  • João Gama, LIAAD-INESC, Universidade do Porto, Portugal

Program Chairs

  • Eugénio Oliveira, LIACC, Universidade do Porto, Portugal
  • João Gama, LIAAD-INESC, Universidade do Porto, Portugal
  • Henrique Lopes Cardoso, LIACC, Universidade do Porto, Portugal
  • Zita Vale, GECAD, Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto, Portugal

Organization Chairs

  • Ana Paula Rocha, LIACC, Universidade do Porto, Portugal
  • Goreti Marreiros, GECAD, Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto, Portugal

International Steering Committee

  • Ana Bazzan, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
  • Ana Paiva, UL/Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
  • Ernesto Costa, Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
  • François Pachet, Sony Computer Science Laboratory, France
  • Helder Coelho, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
  • José Júlio Alferes, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
  • José Maia Neves, Universidade do Minho, Portugal
  • Juan Pavón, Universidad Complutense Madrid, Spain
  • Luís Paulo Reis, APPIA/Universidade do Minho, Portugal
  • Manuela Veloso, University Carnegie Mellon, USA
  • Marco Dorigo, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
  • Paulo Novais, APPIA/Universidade do Minho, Portugal
  • Pavel Brazdil, Universidade do Porto, Portugal
  • Peter McBurney, King's College London, UK
  • Ulrich Furbach, University of Koblenz, Germany

[rede.APPIA] EPIA 2017 — Call for Papers — EXTENDED DEADLINE

Henrique Lopes Cardoso

*** Please distribute. Apologies for cross-posting. ***


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EPIA 2017: 18th EPIA Conference on Artificial Intelligence
Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto
Porto, Portugal, September 5-8, 2017
Conference website http://www.fe.up.pt/epia2017
Submission link https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=epia2017
Submission deadline April 15, 2017 May 1, 2017
Paper acceptance May 31, 2017
Camera-ready June 15, 2017
Topics: artificial intelligence

Springer LNAI Proceedings | 2 Best Paper Awards | Poster Session

Invited Speakers | Journal Track | Doctoral Symposium | AI Competitions

The EPIA Conference on Artificial Intelligence is a well-established European conference in the field of AI. The 18th edition, EPIA 2017, will take place at Porto in September 5th-8th, 2017. 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 Artificial Intelligence (AI), covering both theoretical/foundational issues and applications, and the scientific exchange among researchers, engineers and practitioners in related disciplines.

EPIA 2017 will feature a set of thematic tracks (see below), covering a wide spectrum of AI topics.

Submission and Reviewing

All papers should be submitted in PDF format through the EPIA 2017 EasyChair submission page. Prospective authors should select the thematic track to which their paper is to be submitted (see below).

Submitted 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.

Proceedings and Presentations

Accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings (a volume of Springer’s Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence), provided that at least one author is registered in EPIA 2017 by the early registration deadline. EPIA 2015 proceedings were indexed in Thomson Reuters ISI Web of Science, Scopus, DBLP and Google Scholar.

lnai-logo

Each accepted paper will be presented in a track session. Furthermore, authors will have the opportunity to participate in a poster session, open to every accepted paper (but limited to the available physical space).

Awards

The conference will grant the following awards:

  • Best Paper Award, for the best research paper presented at the conference — €1000 sponsored by Springer
  • Best Application Paper Award, for the best paper focusing a real-world application — €1000 sponsored by MASDIMA

Only papers that have been submitted to a thematic track and presented at the conference will be eligible for these awards.

Thematic Tracks

The following thematic tracks on AI are included in the technical program:

Important Dates

Paper submission deadline: April 15, 2017 May 1, 2017
Paper acceptance notification: May 31, 2017
Camera-ready deadline: June 15, 2017
Conference: September 5-8, 2017

EPIA 2017 Committees

Event Chairs

  • Eugénio Oliveira, LIACC, Universidade do Porto, Portugal
  • João Gama, LIAAD-INESC, Universidade do Porto, Portugal

Program Chairs

  • Eugénio Oliveira, LIACC, Universidade do Porto, Portugal
  • João Gama, LIAAD-INESC, Universidade do Porto, Portugal
  • Henrique Lopes Cardoso, LIACC, Universidade do Porto, Portugal
  • Zita Vale, GECAD, Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto, Portugal

Organization Chairs

  • Ana Paula Rocha, LIACC, Universidade do Porto, Portugal
  • Goreti Marreiros, GECAD, Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto, Portugal

International Steering Committee

  • Ana Bazzan, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
  • Ana Paiva, UL/Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
  • Ernesto Costa, Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
  • François Pachet, Sony Computer Science Laboratory, France
  • Helder Coelho, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
  • José Júlio Alferes, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
  • José Maia Neves, Universidade do Minho, Portugal
  • Juan Pavón, Universidad Complutense Madrid, Spain
  • Luís Paulo Reis, APPIA/Universidade do Minho, Portugal
  • Manuela Veloso, University Carnegie Mellon, USA
  • Marco Dorigo, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
  • Paulo Novais, APPIA/Universidade do Minho, Portugal
  • Pavel Brazdil, Universidade do Porto, Portugal
  • Peter McBurney, King's College London, UK
  • Ulrich Furbach, University of Koblenz, Germany

[rede.APPIA] EPIA 2017 — 2nd Call for Papers

Henrique Lopes Cardoso

*** Please distribute. Apologies for cross-posting. ***


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EPIA 2017: 18th EPIA Conference on Artificial Intelligence
Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto
Porto, Portugal, September 5-8, 2017
Conference website http://www.fe.up.pt/epia2017
Submission link https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=epia2017
Submission deadline April 15, 2017
Paper acceptance May 31, 2017
Camera-ready June 15, 2017
Topics: artificial intelligence

Springer LNAI Proceedings | 2 Best Paper Awards | Poster Session

Invited Speakers | Journal Track | Doctoral Symposium | AI Competitions

The EPIA Conference on Artificial Intelligence is a well-established European conference in the field of AI. The 18th edition, EPIA 2017, will take place at Porto in September 5th-8th, 2017. 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 Artificial Intelligence (AI), covering both theoretical/foundational issues and applications, and the scientific exchange among researchers, engineers and practitioners in related disciplines.

EPIA 2017 will feature a set of thematic tracks (see below), covering a wide spectrum of AI topics.

Submission and Reviewing

All papers should be submitted in PDF format through the EPIA 2017 EasyChair submission page. Prospective authors should select the thematic track to which their paper is to be submitted (see below).

Submitted 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.

Proceedings and Presentations

Accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings (a volume of Springer’s Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence), provided that at least one author is registered in EPIA 2017 by the early registration deadline. EPIA 2015 proceedings were indexed in Thomson Reuters ISI Web of Science, Scopus, DBLP and Google Scholar.

lnai-logo

Each accepted paper will be presented in a track session. Furthermore, authors will have the opportunity to participate in a poster session, open to every accepted paper (but limited to the available physical space).

Awards

The conference will grant the following awards:

  • Best Paper Award, for the best research paper presented at the conference — €1000 sponsored by Springer
  • Best Application Paper Award, for the best paper focusing a real-world application — €1000 sponsored by MASDIMA

Only papers that have been submitted to a thematic track and presented at the conference will be eligible for these awards.

Thematic Tracks

The following thematic tracks on AI are included in the technical program:

Important Dates

Paper submission deadline: April 15, 2017
Paper acceptance notification: May 31, 2017
Camera-ready deadline: June 15, 2017
Conference: September 5-8, 2017

EPIA 2017 Committees

Event Chairs

  • Eugénio Oliveira, LIACC, Universidade do Porto, Portugal
  • João Gama, LIAAD-INESC, Universidade do Porto, Portugal

Program Chairs

  • Eugénio Oliveira, LIACC, Universidade do Porto, Portugal
  • João Gama, LIAAD-INESC, Universidade do Porto, Portugal
  • Henrique Lopes Cardoso, LIACC, Universidade do Porto, Portugal
  • Zita Vale, GECAD, Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto, Portugal

Organization Chairs

  • Ana Paula Rocha, LIACC, Universidade do Porto, Portugal
  • Goreti Marreiros, GECAD, Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto, Portugal

International Steering Committee

  • Ana Bazzan, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
  • Ana Paiva, UL/Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
  • Ernesto Costa, Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
  • François Pachet, Sony Computer Science Laboratory, France
  • Helder Coelho, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
  • José Júlio Alferes, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
  • José Maia Neves, Universidade do Minho, Portugal
  • Juan Pavón, Universidad Complutense Madrid, Spain
  • Luís Paulo Reis, APPIA/Universidade do Minho, Portugal
  • Manuela Veloso, University Carnegie Mellon, USA
  • Marco Dorigo, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
  • Paulo Novais, APPIA/Universidade do Minho, Portugal
  • Pavel Brazdil, Universidade do Porto, Portugal
  • Peter McBurney, King's College London, UK
  • Ulrich Furbach, University of Koblenz, Germany

[rede.APPIA] EPIA 2017 JOURNAL TRACK — LAST CALL FOR PAPERS

Henrique Lopes Cardoso
*** Please distribute. Apologies for cross-posting. ***

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CALL FOR JOURNAL TRACK PAPERS

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EPIA 2017

18th EPIA Conference on Artificial Intelligence
http://www.fe.up.pt/epia2017/call-for-journal-track-papers/
September 5-8, 2017
Porto — Portugal

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Special Issue on Computational Models for Social and Technical Interactions

The journal track invites high-quality submissions that present original work in the areas of computational models for understanding, modelling, and facilitating social interaction between people, organizations and systems. Topics covering intelligent socio-technical systems, adaptive and social-aware intelligent systems, evolving social systems, adaptive and reactive intelligent systems, Governance mechanisms, Organizational learning, Social media analysis, Social network analysis, Social robotics, smart cities, V2V,  etc. are welcome.


Accepted papers will be published in a special issue of the New Generation Computing journal and, moreover, a presentation slot at the EPIA 2017 conference will be assigned.


Given the special nature of the EPIA 2017 journal track, only papers that naturally lend themselves to conference talks will be considered. For instance, journal versions of previously published conference papers, or survey papers will not be considered for the special issue. Such submissions might be submitted to the regular submission track of the journal.

 

How to submit?

To submit to EPIA 2017 journal track, authors need to submit their manuscripts to Editorial Manager. On the website of NGC, “Submit Online” is linked to Editorial Manager site and “Instruction for Authors” provides the information for authors. During the submission process, EPIA journal track authors should answer “Yes” to the question “Does this manuscript belong to a special issue?” and then select “EPIA”. Authors must submit the source files of their contribution, using the style format of NGC. The EPIA 2017 Chairs will coordinate the review process.

Authors who submit their work to the special EPIA 2017 journal track commit themselves to present their results at the EPIA conference in case of acceptance. If you are not interested in presenting your work at EPIA 2017, please do not submit to this special issue of the journal.

 

Format


It is recommended that submitted papers do not exceed 20 pages including references and appendices, formatted in the New Generation Computing journal style.

This is a soft limit, but if a submission exceeds the limit, please provide a brief justification regarding the length in the cover letter.

 

Important dates for the journal track


Authors can submit at any time to this Special Issue. Once a paper is submitted, the review process starts. At least, two independent reviewers will review each paper. The expected review time is 2 months. We strongly suggest earlier submissions to accommodate the usual iterative review process. The very last date for submission is 1 April 2017.

 

Notes on quality threshold


The submissions will be treated as regular NGC journal submission with the same quality criteria; any paper accepted in the special issue will have to satisfy the high quality standards of the journal.

 

Potential outcomes of the evaluation process


Depending on the decisions of the handling editors, multiple outcomes are possible for a paper submitted to the journal track:

 

Accept or Accept conditional to minor revisions in case the paper meets the journal acceptance criteria; if the final acceptance of the paper occurs before June 2017, a regular presentation slot for the paper will be allotted in the EPIA 2017 program.


Reject in case the paper does not meet the quality criteria of the journal.


In exceptional cases, the editors may decide that the research presented in the paper is not mature enough to be acceptable for the journal special issue, yet consider it, due to its originality and potential, a valuable asset for the EPIA 2017 conference. In such cases, the authors will be invited to revise and shorten their paper and submit to an EPIA 2017 regular track (in case the corresponding deadline can still be met), where the paper will be subject to a light reviewing process.

The Journal Track Guest Editors

Eugenio Oliveira, João Gama

[rede.APPIA] CFP: Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (AIM@EPIA-2017)

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

Dear Colleague, 

The submission deadline for EPIA 2017 is coming.    We ask you to help spread the word on the conference, and the AIM track in particular, among your colleagues and distribution lists.    Please find below the CFP.    Thank you!  AIM@EPIA 2017  https://web.fe.up.pt/~epia2017/thematic-tracks/aim/    ======================================================================  CFP: Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (AIM@EPIA-2017)  Thematic track of the 18th Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence (EPIA 2017)  Porto, Portugal, September 5-8, 2017.   Webpage: https://web.fe.up.pt/~epia2017/thematic-tracks/aim/  ======================================================================    IMPORTANT DATES  Paper submission deadline: April 15, 2017  Notification of paper acceptance: May 31, 2017  Camera-ready papers deadline: June 15, 2017  Conference dates: September 5-8, 2017    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, quick decisions and make more with less. Artificial Intelligence (AI) can play an important role in the decision-making process, most concretely in the way the data of the patients are collected, treated, processed and presented as well to test and simulate new treatments, scenarios, and devices. The big question to be answered is: How Artificial Intelligence can help to overcome these challenges and provide new and efficient solutions to medicine?     Business Intelligence, Data Mining, Sensing, Pervasiveness, Ubiquity and Intelligent Agents in Medicine, can contribute with new artifacts and new knowledge for health professionals. The development of AI systems has been one of the most ambitious and, not surprisingly, controversial themes in medicine. Often, healthcare professionals are septic regarding the use of these technologies, because they are afraid of losing their jobs. However, this concern is not justified. AI no longer aims the substitution of professionals by computer artifacts. 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 discov!   ery of new phenomena and the creation of medical knowledge.     This track promotes a forum to discuss and present emergent themes, new projects and ideas about how AI can contribute to the field of Medicine and, most concretely, 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.     Information technology, in general, can help improving human health and longevity. To achieve this goal innovative and intelligent software can be deployed in order to improve medical research, disease prevention, and healthcare service delivery.     The motto of this track is "artificial intelligence improves medicine" and we are inviting the community to share this vision.    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  All papers should be submitted in PDF format through EPIA’2017 submission Website. Submissions must be original and can be of two types: regular (full-length) papers should not exceed twelve (12) pages in length, whereas short papers should not exceed six (6) pages. Each submission will be peer-reviewed by at least three members of the Program Committee. The reviewing process is double blind. The best accepted papers will appear in the proceedings published by Springer in the LNAI series (previous EPIA proceedings were indexed by the Thomson ISI Web of Knowledge, Scopus, DBLP and ACM digital library). The remaining accepted papers will be published in the local proceedings with ISBN.    *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] EPIA 2017 — Call for Journal Track Papers

Henrique Lopes Cardoso
*** Please distribute. Apologies for cross-posting. ***

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CALL FOR JOURNAL TRACK PAPERS

**************************************************

EPIA 2017

18th EPIA Conference on Artificial Intelligence
http://www.fe.up.pt/epia2017/call-for-journal-track-papers/
September 5-8, 2017
Porto — Portugal

**************************************************


Special Issue on Computational Models for Social and Technical Interactions

The journal track invites high-quality submissions that present original work in the areas of computational models for understanding, modelling, and facilitating social interaction between people, organizations and systems. Topics covering intelligent socio-technical systems, adaptive and social-aware intelligent systems, evolving social systems, adaptive and reactive intelligent systems, Governance mechanisms, Organizational learning, Social media analysis, Social network analysis, Social robotics, smart cities, V2V,  etc. are welcome.


Accepted papers will be published in a special issue of the New Generation Computing journal and, moreover, a presentation slot at the EPIA 2017 conference will be assigned.


Given the special nature of the EPIA 2017 journal track, only papers that naturally lend themselves to conference talks will be considered. For instance, journal versions of previously published conference papers, or survey papers will not be considered for the special issue. Such submissions might be submitted to the regular submission track of the journal.

 

How to submit?


To submit to EPIA’17 journal track, authors must send an e-mail to the Editor of NGC Dr.Masami Hagiya to <ngcj@ohmsha.co.jp> and CC to the e-mail <epia2017@fe.up.pt>. The Subject of the e-mail should be “Submission for the EPIA 2017 special issue”. Papers must be submitted in PDF format, using the style format of NGC. In the body of e-mail, authors should specify one of the six major fields of the paper, and any previous publication with overlapping material. The EPIA 2017 Chairs will coordinate the review process.

 

Authors who submit their work to the special EPIA 2017 journal track commit themselves to present their results at the EPIA conference in case of acceptance. If you are not interested in presenting your work at EPIA 2017, please do not submit to this special issue of the journal.

 

Format


It is recommended that submitted papers do not exceed 20 pages including references and appendices, formatted in the New Generation Computing journal style.

This is a soft limit, but if a submission exceeds the limit, please provide a brief justification regarding the length in the cover letter.

 

Important dates for the journal track


Authors can submit at any time to this Special Issue. Once a paper is submitted, the review process starts. At least, two independent reviewers will review each paper. The expected review time is 2 months. We strongly suggest earlier submissions to accommodate the usual iterative review process. The very last date for submission is 1 April 2017.

 

Notes on quality threshold


The submissions will be treated as regular NGC journal submission with the same quality criteria; any paper accepted in the special issue will have to satisfy the high quality standards of the journal.

 

Potential outcomes of the evaluation process


Depending on the decisions of the handling editors, multiple outcomes are possible for a paper submitted to the journal track:

 

Accept or Accept conditional to minor revisions in case the paper meets the journal acceptance criteria; if the final acceptance of the paper occurs before June 2017, a regular presentation slot for the paper will be allotted in the EPIA 2017 program.


Reject in case the paper does not meet the quality criteria of the journal.


In exceptional cases, the editors may decide that the research presented in the paper is not mature enough to be acceptable for the journal special issue, yet consider it, due to its originality and potential, a valuable asset for the EPIA 2017 conference. In such cases, the authors will be invited to revise and shorten their paper and submit to an EPIA 2017 regular track (in case the corresponding deadline can still be met), where the paper will be subject to a light reviewing process.

The Journal Track Guest Editors

Eugenio Oliveira, João Gama