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********************************************************************* ** REGISTRATIONS ARE OPEN. EARLY REGISTRATION DEADLINE: 12 FEBRUARY ** ********************************************************************** WIVACE 2012 ** Italian Workshop on Artificial Life and Evolutionary Computation ** "Artificial Life, Evolution and Complexity" ** Parma, Centro S.Elisabetta - University Campus ** 20-21 February 2012 *********************************************************************WIVACE 2012 will offer researchers in Evolutionary Computation,Artificial Life and Complex Systems a chance to present their resultsin a collaborative environment, in which knowledge can be shared basedon a multidisciplinary approach to the study and modeling of naturalbiological processes. The workshop will include oral sessions, aposter session, and a discussion panel.Two invited talks are scheduled:"Taming the complexity of natural and artificial evolutionary dynamics"by Riccardo Poli, University of Essex (UK),and"Two limitations of current living artifacts and how to overcome them"by Domenico Parisi, ISTC-CNR, Italy.Two tutorials will also be offered:"Organic Computing", by Christian Mueller-Schloer,University of Hannover (Germany)and"Evolutionary Game Theory" by Marco Tomassini,University of Lausanne (Switzerland)Topics of the workshop:- Applications of Bio-inspired Algorithms- Bio-inspired Computational Paradigms- Bio-inspired Robotics- Complex System Biology- Emergent Behaviours- Evolutionary Systems’ Dynamics- Financial/Economical Systems- Genetic and Evolutionary Algorithms- Hybrid Optimization Algorithms- Models of Collective Behaviour- Parallel Implementation of Bio-inspired Models- Self-organising Systems- Swarm Intelligence e Artificial Ant Systems- System BiologyEarly registration deadline: 12 February 2012Workshop: 20-21 February 2012Email: wivace2012@ce.unipr.itWeb site: http://wivace2012.ce.unipr.itFacebook: WIVACE2012LinkedIn: WIVACE2012 |
posted Nov 7, 2011 2:07 AM by Amministratore Sito Web
Workshop
BANCHE E ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Una giornata con l’Associazione Italiana per l’Intelligenza Artificiale
Milano, 15 novembre 2011 - Sede ABI, via Olona, 2
Nel corso dell’evento saranno esaminati alcuni risultati rilevanti che la ricerca sta conseguendo attraverso una breve analisi del panorama dei paradigmi e delle tecnologie in essere. Saranno approfondite in modo particolare le tecniche di rappresentazione della conoscenza, ragionamento automatico, estrazione di significato da testi e possibilità di rispondere alle domande di un utente con l’ausilio di un assistente virtuale.
L’incontro è organizzato in collaborazione l'Associazione Italiana Intelligenza Artificiale (AI*IA). L’Associazione si pone l’obiettivo di promuovere lo sviluppo delle attività di studio e di ricerca nel campo dell’Intelligenza Artificiale e delle sue Applicazioni, dove s’intende per Intelligenza Artificiale quella disciplina che studia i fondamenti teorici, le metodologie e le tecniche che permettono di concepire, progettare, realizzare, sperimentare ed utilizzare sistemi artificiali (hardware e software) sia con l'obiettivo di ottenere prestazioni ritenute caratteristiche dell'intelligenza sia con l'obiettivo di fornire modelli computazionali di processi cognitivi.
Nel corso degli anni la disciplina ha generato risultati eclatanti, ma anche più volte deludenti. Al di là del dibattito filosofico sulla possibilità o meno di creare un automa intelligente, le realizzazioni ingegneristiche nei campi dei sistemi esperti, della visione artificiale, dei sistemi di ottimizzazione e di problem solving nella robotica e nel ragionamento formale hanno rappresentato un indubbio valore anche se, spesso, sono rimaste nascoste all'interno di applicazioni di uso comune, invisibili ad un vasto pubblico.
Oggi l’intelligenza artificiale sta manifestando risultati di livello superiore grazie all’aumentata potenza di calcolo a basso costo di cui disponiamo, ai risultati di ricerche decennali e alla standardizzazione e la capacità di collaborazione che l’evoluzione di Internet porta con sé.
Le Banche sono fra le istituzioni che maggiormente possono avvantaggiarsi di queste tecniche perché creano, trattano e scambiano informazione come bene principale della propria attività. Esistono oggi, in Italia, aziende (molte nate come spin off di università) in grado di portare prodotti e competenze a diretto contatto con le aziende che ne necessitano. Il successo di questi progetti è determinato però anche della cultura che deve crescere all’interno del mondo bancario (sia nei dipartimenti che gestiscono i sistemi informativi, sia nel business). Senza questa cultura diffusa qualsiasi progetto di questo tipo è destinato a fallire.
Per maggiori dettagli alleghiamo l’agenda dei lavori.
Per iscriversi è necessario entro l’8 novembre rinviare la scheda di adesione allegata.
Ringraziando anticipatamente per l’attenzione che vorrete riservare a questa nostra iniziativa, cogliamo l’occasione per porgere i più cordiali saluti.
Il Team ABI Lab
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posted Sep 4, 2011 10:43 AM by Amministratore Sito Web
DART 2011
5th International Workshop on New Challenges in Distributed Information
Filtering and Retrieval
www.diee.unica.it/dart2011/
September 17, 2011
Palermo (Italy)
co-located with AI*IA 2011
www.aixia2011.it
Follow us on:
Facebook at www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=143145639085447
Twitter at twitter.com/dart2011ws
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We are preparing an exciting program:
www.diee.unica.it/dart2011/program.html
and hope to see you there!
Proceedings are available online: http://CEUR-WS.org/Vol-771/
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ACCEPTED PAPERS
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From Tags to Emotions: Ontology-driven Sentimental Analysis in the Social
Semantic Web.
Matteo Baldoni, Cristina Baroglio, Viviana Patti and Paolo Rena.
Experimenting Text Summarization on Multimodal Aggregation.
Giuliano Armano, Alessandro Giuliani, Alberto Messina, Maurizio Montagnuolo
and Eloisa Vargiu.
Context-Aware Recommender Systems: A Comparison Of Three Approaches.
Umberto Panniello and Michele Gorgoglione.
A Multi-Agent Decision Support System for Dynamic Supply Chain Organization.
Luca Greco, Liliana Lo Presti, Agnese Augello, Giuseppe Lo Re, Marco La
Cascia and Salvatore Gaglio.
Interaction Mining: the new frontier of Call Center Analytics.
Vincenzo Pallotta, Rodolfo Delmonte, Lammert Vrieling and David Walker.
Temporal characterization of the requests to Wikipedia.
Antonio J. Reinoso, Jesus M. Gonzalez-Barahona, Rocio Muñoz-Mansilla and
Israel Herraiz.
A Formalism for Temporal Annotation and Reasoning of Complex Events in
Natural Language.
Francesco Mele and Antonio Sorgente.
A Multi-Agent System for Information Semantic Sharing.
Agostino Poggi and Michele Tomaiuolo.
From Logical Forms to SPARQL Query with GETARUN.
Rocco Tripodi and Rodolfo Delmonte.
ImageHunter: a novel tool for Relevance Feedback in Content Based Image
Retrieval.
Roberto Tronci, Gabriele Murgia, Maurizio Pili, Luca Piras and Giorgio
Giacinto.
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SPRINGER BOOK
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All authors that will present their paper will be asked to submit a refined
version of their contribution for publication in the series Studies in
Computational Intelligence published by Springer Verlag (Series Ed.:
Kacprzyk, Janusz, ISSN: 1860-949X).
The authors of the best paper selected by the organizers will be offered to
publish an extended version on Intelligenza Artificiale, the International
Journal of AI*IA, published by IOS Press. In the issue presentation by the
Editor in Chief it will be acknowledged that the paper was selected as the
best paper at the workshop.
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SUPPORT
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DART 2011 is partially supported by MBLab (Molecular Biodiversity
Laboratory)
www.mblabproject.it/
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PROGRAM COMMITTEE
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- Marie-Hélène Abel, Univ. of Technology of Compiègne (France)
- Andrea Addis, Univ. of Cagliari (Italy)
- Giambattista Amati, Fondazione Ugo Bordoni (Italy)
- Giuliano Armano, Univ. of Cagliari (Italy)
- Pierpaolo Basile, Univ. of Bari Aldo Moro (Italy)
- Roberto Basili, Univ. of Roma Tor Vergata (Italy)
- Federico Bergenti, Univ. of Parma (Italy)
- Annalina Caputo, Univ. of Bari Aldo Moro (Italy)
- Claudio Carpineto, Fondazione Ugo Bordoni (Italy)
- Antonio Corradi, Univ. of Bologna (Italy)
- José Cunha, Univ. Nova de Lisboa (Portugal)
- Marco de Gemmis, Univ. of Bari Aldo Moro (Italy)
- Emanuele Di Buccio, Univ. of Padua (Italy)
- Alessandro Giuliani, Univ. of Cagliari (Italy)
- Antonio Gulli, Univ. of Pisa (Italy)
- Nima Hatami, Univ. of Cagliari (Italy)
- Fumio Hattori, Ritsumeikan University (Japan)
- Leo Iaquinta, Univ. of Bari Aldo Moro (Italy)
- Jose Antonio Iglesias Martínez, Univ. of Madrid (Spain)
- Pasquale Lops, Univ. of Bari Aldo Moro (Italy)
- Massimo Melucci, Univ. of Padua (Italy)
- Claude Moulin, Univ. of Technology of Compiègne (France)
- Vincenzo Pallotta, Univ. of Fribourg (Switzerland)
- Marcin Paprzycki, Polish Academy of Sciences (Poland)
- Raffaele Perego, ISTI-CNR (Italy)
- Agostino Poggi, Univ. of Parma (Italy)
- Sebastian Rodriguez, Univ. Tecnologica Nactional (Argentina)
- Paolo Rosso, Univ. Politécnica of Valencia (Spain)
- Fabrizio Silvestri, ISTI-CNR (Italy)
- Alessandro Soro, CRS4 (Italy)
- Haibin Zhu, Nipissing University (Canada)
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CHAIRS
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Cristian Lai
CRS4, Center of Advanced Studies, Research and Development in Sardinia Pula,
Cagliari – Italy
email: clai [at] crs4 [dot] it
Giovanni Semeraro
Dept. of Computer Science
University of Bari, Aldo Moro
Bari – Italy
email: semeraro [at] di [dot] uniba [dot] it
Eloisa Vargiu
DIEE, Dept. of Electrical and Electronic Engineering University of Cagliari
Cagliari - Italy
email: vargiu [at] diee [dot] unica [dot] it
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posted Dec 23, 2010 2:55 AM by Riguzzi Fabrizio
AI*IA 2011
XIIth Conference of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence
“Artificial Intelligence Around Man and Beyond”
Website: www.aixia2011.it
contact: aixia2011@dinfo.unipa.it
Palermo, Sept. 15-17 2011
AI*IA 2011 is the twelfth International Conference on Advances in Artificial Intelligence held bi-annually by the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence (AI*IA).
The conference covers broadly the many aspects of theoretical and applied Artificial Intelligence. Both regular papers and posters can be submitted to AI*IA 2011. A series of workshops dedicated to specific topics will complement the main conference program.
This year the main focus will be on the theme "Artificial Intelligence Around Man and Beyond". Nowadays, AI-enabled technologies support a sort of "distributed intelligent environment”. Men in this environment are so better capable to manipulate information and perform tasks involving a huge cognitive effort more efficiently.
Moreover, such technologies shift the theoretical speculation towards philosophical themes that are "beyond the humans" like design of metacognitive artificial agents and machine consciousness. The debate is no more about merely intelligent or cognitive machines but it rather focuses on their ability of being conscious and/or thinking about their cognition. |
posted Dec 12, 2010 7:39 AM by Riguzzi Fabrizio
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AIME 2011, 2-6 July 2011
Bled, Slovenia
Web site: http://www.aimedicine.info/aime11/
Easychair web site for submission: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aime2011.
Program Committee Chair: Mor Peleg, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel
Local Organization Chair: Nada Lavrac, Jožef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana,
Slovenia
Doctoral Consortium Chair: Carlo Combi, University of Verona, Verona, Italy
Special
Session on Applications Chairs: Ameen Abu-Hanna, University of Amsterdam, the
Netherlands and Steen Andreassen, Aalborg University, Denmark
Award
committee chair: Riccardo Bellazzi, University of Pavia, Italy
Call for Papers
The European Society for Artificial Intelligence in MEdicine
(AIME), was established in 1986 with two main goals:
1.
to
foster fundamental and applied research in the application of Artificial
Intelligence (AI) techniques to medical care and medical research, and
2.
to
provide a forum for reporting significant results achieved at biennial
conferences.
A major activity of this society has been a series of
international conferences, from Marseille (FR) in 1987 to Verona (IT) in 2009,
held biennially over the last 22 years.
The AIME'2011 conference will be a unique opportunity to
present and improve the international state of the art of AI in Medicine from
perspectives of theory, methodology, and application.
For this purpose, AIME'2011 will include invited lectures,
full and short papers, tutorials, workshops, and a doctoral consortium. The
main conference will include a session dedicated to application of AI methods
in the day-to-day practice of health care.
The conference will be held in Bled, Slovenia.
Program in a glance
Day 1 (Saturday, July 2): Doctoral symposium
and tutorial(s)
Day 2-4 (July 3,4,5): main AIME conference
Day 5 (Wednesday, July 6): workshops
Invited Speakers
Manfred
Reichert, Institute of Databases and Information Systems, University of Ulm,
Germany
Andrey Rzhetsky, Department of Human Genetics, University of
Chicago, Illinois, USA
Scope
Original
contributions are sought regarding the development of theory, techniques, and
applications of AI in BioMedicine, including the exploitation of AI approaches
to medical informatics, healthcare organizational aspects, and to molecular
medicine.
Contributions to theory may include presentation or analysis of the properties
of novel AI methodologies potentially useful to solve medical problems.
Papers on techniques and methodologies should describe the development or the
extension of AI methods and their implementation, and discuss the assumptions
and limitations of the proposed methods and their novelty with respect to the
state of the art.
Papers addressing systems should describe the requirements, design and
implementation of new AI-inspired tools and systems, and discuss their
applicability in the medical field.
The scope of the conference includes the following areas:
·
Knowledge
Acquisition and Management
·
Machine
Learning, Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining
·
Biomedical
Ontologies and Terminologies
·
Decision
Support Systems
·
Neural
Networks and Belief Networks
·
Reasoning
under Uncertainty
·
Temporal
and Spatial Representation and Reasoning
·
Case-Based
Reasoning
·
Planning
and Scheduling
·
Protocols
and Guidelines
·
Information
Retrieval
·
Natural
Language Generation and Understanding
·
Biomedical
Computer Vision, Imaging, and Signal Interpretation
·
Intelligent
Agents
·
Telemedicine
and Cooperative Systems
·
Cognitive
Modeling
·
Healthcare
Process Management
Best paper
awards honoring Mario Stefanelli and Marco Ramoni
To commemorate two outstanding researchers in our field who
recently passed away, AIME will establish two awards.
Mario Stefanelli from the University of Pavia
has
been one of the founders of the AIME community, an inspiration
to us all, and actively helped in advancing young researchers in our field. The best student paper will receive an award honoring Mario
Stefanelli and his accomplishments.
Marco Ramoni has been an
outstandingly respected faculty member at Harvard and advanced the biomedical
informatics field. The best
paper in bioinformatics will receive an award honoring Marco Ramoni and his
accomplishments.
Paper
Submission
Contact: morpeleg@mis.hevra.haifa.ac.il
There are two categories of paper submission
1. Full research papers (up to 10 pages)
2. Short papers (up to 5 pages) that are
a. short research paper
b. demonstration of implemented systems
c. late-breaking results (work-in-progress)
Papers should be formatted according to Springer's LNCS format (see
www.springeronline.com/lncs or www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html).
Submission to AIME'2011 will be electronically only.
Authors are asked to submit an abstract first, and then to upload the full
paper.
The paper submission web page is available at
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aime2011.
All accepted papers will appear in the conference
proceedings which will be published as part of Springer's " Lecture Notes
in Computer Science/Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence" series (www.springer.com/lncs)..
In addition, the authors of the best submissions will be
invited to expand and refine their papers for possible publication in the
journal Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (Elsevier).
As in previous AIME conferences, proposals for the organization of tutorials
and satellite workshops are sought regarding any of the above topic areas.
Important dates
Abstract Submission Deadline: January 27, 2011
Paper Submission Deadline: February 3, 2011
Notification of Acceptance: April 4, 2011
Camera-Ready Copy Deadline: April 22, 2011
Special
Session on Applications of AI Methods
Contact: Ameen Abu-Hanna (a.abu-hanna@amc.uva.nl) and Steen
Andreassen (sa@hst.aau.dk)
Much of the literature on AI in Medicine pertains to the
question “Does the system work?” while the questions “Does it help?” and “Why
it succeeds or fails?” receive far less attention. This session is dedicated to
two kinds of papers addressing these latter two questions. In particular the
two types of papers are sought: papers on substantial fielded applications that
improve clinical care and papers on important lessons learned by research teams
developing and implementing applications or series of applications in clinical
practice.
Authors should specifically submit to this track (the
submission system will provide a way to indicate this). Only long papers should
be submitted in order to adequately assess their merit. The length and layout
of the papers in the track is exactly the same as any other AIME paper. The
papers are initially reviewed for this track by the session organizers. Dates
for notification are the same as for papers for papers in the regular track.
Papers in this session, like the other AIME papers, are eligible for selection
in the planned journal special issue.
Submission
of proposals for workshops and tutorials
Contact:
morpeleg@mis.hevra.haifa.ac.il
As in previous AIME conferences,
proposals for the organization of tutorials and satellite workshops are sought
regarding any of the above topic areas.
Proposals for tutorials and workshops have to be sent by email to: morpeleg@mis.hevra.haifa.ac.il
Important dates:
Proposals for Tutorials: January 27,
2011
Proposals for Workshops: January 27, 2011
Doctoral Consortium
Contact: Carlo Combi (carlo.combi@univr.it)
The aim of the AIME 2011 Doctoral Consortium is to support
the research done by doctoral students with constructive remarks and feedback
from prominent scientists in the AIM field. The DC provides a forum for
students to present their current research and receive feedback from other
students and senior researchers; It facilitates networking among Ph.D. students
and senior researchers working in the same area; and it supports students with
information on academic, research, and industrial careers.
The event will be an ‘advice-giving’
session rather than an opportunity for doctoral students to present finished
work. The focus will be on the early stages of the PhD work. Therefore the
consortium will elicit submissions consisting of work plans rather than
"papers". The number of selected papers is limited to only 6. The
event will include a tutorial which will be of common interest.
Important dates:
25 March 2011 Paper
submission deadline
11 April 2011 Notification of
acceptance
25 April 2011
Camera-ready papers deadline
02 July 2011 Doctoral
Consortium at AIME 11
Program
Committee
;)
Raza Abidi, Canada
Ameen Abu-Hanna, The Netherlands
(Special session co-chair)
Klaus-Peter Adlassnig, Austria
Steen Andreassen, Denmark (Special
session co-chair)
Pedro Barahona, Portugal
Riccardo Bellazzi, Italy
Petr Berka, Czech Republic
Isabelle Bichindaritz, USA
Elizabeth Borycki, Canada
Aziz Boxwala, USA
Pal de Clercq, The Netherlands
Carlo Combi, Italy (Doctoral
Consortium Chair)
Michel Dojat, France
Henrik Eriksson, Sweden
Catherine Garbay, France
Adela Grando, UK
Femida Gwadry-Sridhar, Canada
Peter Haddawy, Macau
Arie Hasman, The Netherlands
Reinhold Haux, Germany
John Holmes, USA
Werner Horn, Austria
Jim Hunter, UK
Hidde de Jong, France
Elpida Keravnou, Cyprus
Pedro Larranaga, Spain
Nada Lavrac, Slovenia (Local Chair)
Johan van der Lei, The Netherlands
Xiaohui Liu, UK
Peter Lucas, The Netherlands
Roque Marin, Spain
Michael Marschollek, Germany
Carolyn McGregor, Canada
Paola Mello, Italy
Gloria Menegaz, Italy
Silvia Miksch, Austria
Stefania Montani, Italy
Mark Musen, USA
Barbara Oliboni, Italy
Niels Peek, The Netherlands
Mor Peleg, Israel (Scientific Chair)
Christian Popow, Austria
Silvana Quaglini, Italy
Marco Ramoni, USA
Alan Rector, UK
Stephen Rees, Denmark
Daniel Rubin, USA
Lucia Sacchi, Italy
Rainer Schmidt, Germany
Brigitte Seroussi, France
Yuval Shahar, Israel
Basilio Sierra, Spain
Costas Spyropoulos, Greece
Mario Stefanelli, Italy
Paolo Terenziani, Italy
Samson Tu, USA
Allan Tucker, UK
Frans Voorbraak, The Netherlands
Dongwen Wang, USA
Blaz Zupan, Slovenia
Pierre Zweigenbaum, France
Organizing
Committee
Program Committee Chair: Mor Peleg, University of Haifa,
Haifa, Israel
Local Organization Chair: Nada Lavrac, Jozef Stefan
Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Doctoral Consortium Chair: Carlo Combi, University of
Verona, Verona, Italy
Special Session on Applications Chairs: Ameen Abu-Hanna,
University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands and Steen Andreassen, Aalborg
University, Denmark
Local
Organizing Committee
Tina Anzic
Damjan Demsar
Miha Grcar
Matjaz Jursic
Petra Kralj Novak
Dragana Miljkovic
Vid Podpecan
Borut Sluban
Awards
Committee
Riccardo Bellazzi, Italy (chair)
Silvana Quaglini, Italy
Yuval Shahar, Israel
Blaz Zupan, Slovenia
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posted Nov 26, 2010 3:07 AM by Amministratore Sito Web
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Call for European AI labs to host a US graduate student for an
extended research visit (6-8 weeks) in Summer 2011
Deadline for applications: February 8, 2011
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Applications are solicited from European AI research labs to host
a PhD student from the US for an extended visit (6-8 weeks) in
Summer 2011 to work on a research project of mutual interest.
The extended visits are connected with student participation to
IJCAI'11, which will be held in Barcelona, Catalonia (Spain),
July 16-22, 2011, and should preferably be completed before IJCAI
to culminate with a presentation of the results of the visit at
the doctoral mentoring consortium at IJCAI.
Students will be funded by the National Science Foundation, which
will cover their travel costs and living expenses. Funding will
cover travel within Europe to the European Lab (up to $500), travel
and registration to IJCAI (approximatively $2000), and living
expenses during the extended visit (up to $2500/month).
The host needs to provide office space with access to computer
and lab facilities needed to conduct the research project. It is
expected that the host will help the student find living
accomodations for the period of the visit and will include the
students in the research group activities.
The central aims of these extended visits are to immerse the
students in a research group in a different country, expose them
to new research paradigms and approaches within AI, get them to
work with established members of the research community who will
host and supervise them. For the hosting labs, this will provide
an opportunity to build a research bridge with the student's
research group and advisor in the US, and will create a solid
basis for long term collaborations between the groups.
Students selected for the extended visits will be matched with the
hosting lab in a two step process, in which labs will be given the
opportunity to decide which students they would be willing to host
and students will then be asked to choose which lab to visit. No
more than one student per lab. Each visit will be individually
arranged with the hosting lab.
Eligibility is for full-time PhD students attending a university in
the US. Preference will be given to students who are US citizens or
permanent residents.
Consideration in the selection process will be given to progress in
degree, evidence of research excellence, benefits expected from
participation, and match of research interests to the hosts.
Funding is available for 6-8 students.
Deadline for applications: February 8, 2011
Notification of awards: mid March 2011
Information required in the application to host a student:
1. name of the faculty who will host the student;
2. name and address of the Lab/Department and University;
3. a short (2 pages) resume/CV of the faculty host;
4. a list of active research projects the student could work on. The
list should include a paragraph or two for each project, and should
preferably point to relevant web pages;
5. a brief description of the work environment (office/lab space, how
many researchers will be working in the lab at the time of the visit,
the language typically used for group meetings and seminars, etc)
and a statement that the host agrees to provide office space and
computing facilities to the student and supervise the student's
research.
For information and questions contact:
Maria Gini
Professor
Department of Computer Science & Engineering, University of Minnesota
email: gini@cs.umn.edu
or
Judy Goldsmith
Professor
Department of Computer Science, University of Kentucky
email: goldsmit@cs.uky.edu
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posted Nov 15, 2010 7:37 AM by Amministratore Sito Web
FIRST INTERNATIONAL SPRING SCHOOL ON DECLARATIVE AGENT LANGUAGES AND
TECHNOLOGIES
*** DALT SCHOOL 2011 ***
Bertinoro, Italy, April 10-15, 2011
co-located with ISCL 2011
http://lia.deis.unibo.it/confs/dalt_school/
AIMS & SCOPE
DALT is a well-established forum for researchers interested in sharing
their experiences in combining declarative and formal approaches with
engineering and technology aspects of agents and multiagent systems.
Building complex agent systems calls for models and technologies that
ensure predictability, allow for the verification of properties, and
guarantee flexibility. Developing technologies that can satisfy these
requirements still poses an important and difficult challenge. Here,
declarative approaches have the potential of offering solutions
satisfying the needs for both specifying and developing multiagent
systems. Moreover, they are gaining more and more attention in
important application areas such as the semantic web, service-oriented
computing, security, and electronic contracting. For instance, some
convergence points between the areas of formal methods for dealing
with web services and formal methods for agents are emerging and
gaining more and more attention.
The DALT School builds on the success of 8 editions of the
international AAMAS workshop series. Past editions of the DALT
workshop series were held in Toronto, Budapest, Estoril, Honolulu,
Hakodate, Utrecht, New York, and Melbourne. The DALT School aims at
giving a comprehensive introduction to this exciting research domain
and disseminate the results of research achieved in this 8-year-long
activity with a perspective on the future.
TOPICS & LECTURERS
- Agent Reasoning: Knowledge, Plans and Flexible Control Cycles, by
Francesca Toni.
Francesca is Reader in Computational Logic in the Department of
Computing at Imperial College London and Leader of the Computational
Logic and Argumentation research group. She has been Principal
Investigator of several EU-funded projects in the areas of logic-based
agents and argumentation. She is one of the main researchers who
developed the KGP model of agency.
- Agent Reasoning: Goals and Preferences, by Birna van Riemsdijk.
Birna is Assistant Professor at TU Delft, where she develops
techniques for engineering intelligent software systems that can
support humans in performing complex tasks. Her research focusses on
the use and development of declarative agent programming languages.
She is one of the developers of the GOAL language and a member of the
DALT steering committee.
- Agent Interaction: Languages, Dialogues and Protocols, by Peter McBurney.
Peter is Professor of Computer Science and Head of the ART group at
the University of Liverpool. He has been leading EU-funded research
initiatives and managed many research grants for agent-related
research wordwide and acted as a management consultant for leading IT
and Telecommunications companies. His research focusses on semantics
and pragmatics of agent communication and on multi-agent models of
economic markets and marketing.
- Organisation, Coordination and Norms for Multi-Agent Systems, by
Wamberto Vasconcelos.
Wamberto is a senior lecturer at the University of Aberdeen, where he
works on intelligent software agents and on knowledge technologies. He
has been involved in several international research projects on
information technologies and service sciences. He is a member of the
steering committee of the Coordination, Organization, Institutions and
Norms workshop series (COIN) and an organizer of the DALT workshop in
2010 and 2011.
- Agent and Multi-Agent Software Engineering: Modelling, Programming,
and Verification, by Rafael Bordini.
Rafael is Associate Professor at Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do
Sul. He is one of the main developers of the Jason agent programming
language and framework and author of several books on agent
programming. His research interests cover various aspects of software
engineering for autonomous systems, including programming, modelling,
verification, testing, debugging and application deployment.
TARGET AUDIENCE
The School targets graduate students as well as other interested
researchers, both from university, government and industry. It will
allow graduate students to get a thorough overview of cutting-edge
research and technologies, obtain feedback from leading scientists,
and to participate in valuable discussions that will likely contribute
in shaping and focussing their research interests.
The school aims to be truly international with a strong participation
from regions all around the world. This will help students make
connections with international participants and set the base for
potentially long-term cooperations.
The school will include sessions dedicated to PhD students, mentoring
activities, focussed discussions and guided brainstorming.
MANIFESTATION OF INTEREST AND DISCOUNT
To ensure an effective organization of the event, it will be very
useful for the organizers to have a good estimation of attendance well
in advance. For this purpose, you are encourage to manifest your
intention to participate as early as possible, by sending an email to
dalt.school.2011@gmail.com.
Manifestations do not represent a commitment to participate, but all
manifestations received by the end of November 2011 will be rewarded
with a discount on the early registration fee. More information on the
DALT School Web site.
GRANTS
Thanks to sponsor support, the DALT School 2011 will help
participation of students at all levels. Please consult the School Web
site to know how to apply.
INQUIRIES
Send your inquires to dalt.school.2011@gmail.com. We will answer in 2
working days.
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posted Nov 12, 2010 12:23 PM by Amministratore Sito Web
THIRD INTERNATIONAL SPRING SCHOOL ON COMPUTATIONAL LOGIC, ISCL 2011
Bertinoro, Italy, April 10-15, 2011
http://lia.deis.unibo.it/confs/iscl/
AIMS & SCOPE
Computational Logic has many applications, including the modeling of intelligent systems, verification of software, and the support of systems for solving computationally hard problems. Moreover, being founded on mathematical logic, tools based on CL are themselves amenable to safe optimization and verification techniques.
ISCL 2011 aims at giving a comprehensive introduction to this exciting research domain and disseminate the results of research with a perspective on the future. The school will provide a rich programme of lectures on different aspects of CL; covering both the theoretical framework and relevant practical perspectives, techniques and tools. Each lecture will provide the basic notions of its topic before proceeding to more advanced issues. Final exams in the topics studied will be available to participants on request.
TOPICS & LECTURERS
- Constraint Languages for Parameterized Verification: Bags, Words, Trees, and Graphs, by Giorgio Delzanno.
Giorgio Delzanno is Associate Professor the University of Genoa. He has given many important contributions in automated verification, model checking, infinite-state systems, models for concurrent and biological systems. He has been the recipient of several research grants and international awards.
- Description Logics, by Enrico Franconi.
Enrico Franconi is the Director of the European Masters Program in Computational Logic at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, and Principal Investigator in many EU-funded actions, networks of excellence and large-scale projects on topics related to the semantic web, networked knowledge, business processes and integration of ontological and rule-based reasoning.
- Computational Logic and Human Thinking: How to be Artificially Intelligent, by Robert Kowalski.
Robert Kowalski is Professor Emeritus at Imperial College London, and one of the first developers of logic programming. He made important contributions to various areas such as automated reasoning, representing and reasoning about time, abductive logic programming and intelligent agents. His current research focuses on the application of computational logic to cognitive science.
- Unity in Computational Logic, by Dale Miller.
Dale Miller is the Director of Research at INRIA Saclay and leader of the Parsifal team working on foundational aspects of proof theory as well as on the design and implementation of systems that exploit that foundational work. His main interests are in programming language theory, proof theory, linear logic, and automated deduction.
- Constraint Programming and Optimization Systems, by Pascal Van Hentenryck.
Pascal Van Hentenryck is Professor of computer science at Brown University, and the Director of the optimization laboratory. He was the main designer and implementor of the CHIP programming system. He leads many research projects funded by public and private institutions, in which his research is applied to a large number of domains.
TARGET AUDIENCE
The School targets graduate students as well as other interested researchers, both from university and industry. It will allow graduate students to get a thorough overview of cutting-edge research and technologies, obtain feedback from leading scientists, and to participate in valuable discussions that will likely contribute in shaping and focussing their research interests.
The school aims to be truly international with a strong participation from regions all around the world. This will help students make connections with international participants and set the base for potentially long-term cooperations.
The school will include sessions dedicated to PhD students, mentoring activities, focussed discussions and guided brainstorming.
MANIFESTATION OF INTEREST AND DISCOUNT
To ensure an effective organization of the event, it will be very useful for the organizers to have a good estimation of attendance well in advance. For this purpose, you are encourage to manifest your intention to participate as early as possible, by sending an email toiscl.2011@gmail.com.
Manifestations do not represent a commitment to participate, but all manifestations received by the end of November 2011 will be rewarded with a discount on the early registration fee. More information on the ISCL Web site.
GRANTS
Thanks to sponsor support, ISCL 2011 will help participation of students at all levels. Please consult the School Web site to know how to apply.
INQUIRIES
Send your inquires to iscl.2011@gmail.com. We will answer you in 2 business days. |
posted Nov 12, 2010 9:48 AM by Amministratore Sito Web
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11th AI*IA Symposium on Artificial Intelligence (AIIA 2010)
Brescia (Italy), December 1-3, 2010
Web: http://aixia10.ing.unibs.it/
Program of the Plenary Session
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The AIIA-2010 Plenary Session will be held on December 2, 2010, at the
Faculty of Engineering of the University of Brescia, via Branze 38,
Brescia and consists of:
* Five invited talks with the following general theme
"Natural Language, Cognitive Vision, Knowledge and Reasoning in AI:
Recent Projects, Prospects and Challenges"
* Posters by Italian PhD students and presentations of awarded theses
* The AI*IA Community Meeting
* The AIIA-2010 Banquet
More information about AIIA-2010, including the six workshops that will
be help on Dec 1 and 3 are available in the symposium website:
http://aixia10.ing.unibs.it/
Detailed Program of the Plenary Session
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08:50 - 09:00 Welcome and Introduction
Alfonso Gerevini, University of Brescia
Invited Talks: Planning, Reasoning and Graphical Models
Chair: [to be announced]
09:00 - 09:55 "The Model-based Approach to Autonomous Behavior:
Prospects and Challenges",
Hector Geffner, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain
09:55 - 10:15 Coffee break
10:15 - 11:10 "AND/OR Search and Sampling over Probabilistic and
Deterministic Graphical Models",
Rina Dechter, University of California, Irvine, USA
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Student session I
Chair: [to be announced]
11:10 - 12:25 Poster session Italian PhD students (Doctoral Consortium)
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12:25 - 13:50 Lunch Break
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Invited Talks: Cognitive Vision, Knowledge and Data Management
Chair: [to be announced]
13:50 - 14:45 "Learning about Activities and Objects from Video"
Anthony Cohn, University of Leeds, UK
14:45 - 15:40 "Ontology-based Data Management: Principles and Challenges"
Maurizio Lenzerini, Universita' La Sapienza, Roma Italy
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15:40 - 16:00 Coffee break
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Invited Talk: Natural Language Understanding
Chair: [to be announced]
16:00 - 16:40 "Deep Natural Language Understanding" (videoconferencing)
James Allen, University of Rochester, USA
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Student Session II
Chair: [to be announced]
16:40 - 17:30 Awarded Italian Theses
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17:30 - 18:45 AI*IA Community Meeting
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19:20 Departure to AIIA-2010 Banquet (travel by bus; 30 minutes)
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posted Oct 27, 2010 1:12 AM by Riguzzi Fabrizio
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updated Oct 27, 2010 1:22 AM
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Call For Participation, 11th AI*IA Symposium on Artificial Intelligence (AIIA 2010), Brescia (Italy), December 1-3, 2010
Web: http://aixia10.ing.unibs.it/
The Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence (AI*IA) invites you
to AIIA-2010, the 11th biannual AI*IA Symposium on IA, organized at the
University of Brescia, Brescia (Italy).
The symposium consists of six workshops in different areas of AI, and a
plenary session including invited talks by four leading AI scientists and
a student session.
Please note that the early registration deadline is the 1st of November.
Table of contents
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- Venue
- Plenary Session and invited speakers
- Workshops
- Doctoral Consortium
- Student Grants
- Student Thesis Awards
- Social Activities (Banquet)
- Registration and Accommodation
- Organization
Venue
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The conference will take place at the Faculty of Engineering of the
University of Brescia, via Branze 38, 25123, Brescia, Italy. Information
about the venue, how to get to it, and amenities are available from the
symposium website http://aixia10.ing.unibs.it/
Plenary Session and Invited Speakers
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The Program of AIIA-2010 includes a plenary session on December 2 with
some invited talks by important leading researchers on recent projects,
prospects and challenges in AI. The currently confirmed invited speakers
are:
* Anthony G. Cohn, University of Leeds (UK)
* Rina Dechter, University of California, Irvine (USA)
* Hector Geffner, Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Spain)
Additional speakers might be added in the final program to be announced
soon. More information about the program of the plenary session and the
invited talks and speakers is available from the AIIA-2010 website
http://aixia10.ing.unibs.it/
Workshops
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AIIA-2010 has the following six workshops.
December 1:
* Workshop on Human Language Technologies for Italian.
* Workshop on Future Perspectives for Semantic Technologies in Enterprises
* 4th Italian Workshop on Planning & Scheduling jointly with 28th Workshop
of the UK Planning & Scheduling Special Interest Group.
* State of the Robotics in Italy. (Only Afternoon)
December 3:
* Workshop on Technological Challenges and Scenarios of the Ageing Society
* Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Argumentation: Computational
and philosophical perspectives
Doctoral Consortium
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The AIIA-2010 Doctoral Consortium will allow participants to interact with
established researchers and with other students. The plenary session of
the symposium (December 2) includes a poster session during which Ph.D.
students will present their work.
Student Grants
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The AI*IA offers travel grants, which partially support the travel, the
accommodation and the meal expenses, to students attending the symposium.
The candidates should send the travel grant application to
fabrizio.riguzzi@unife.it by NOVEMBER 1, 2010.
Additional information is available at http://aixia10.ing.unibs.it/
Student Thesis Awards
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The plenary session includes a sub-session where the authors awarded by
AI*IA for the best theses on AI will give a brief presentation of their
work.
Social Activities (Banquet)
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The AIIA-2010 banquet will take place at Villa Baiana, which is part of
the La Montina winery in the "Franciacorta" area. Before the social dinner,
we have planned a visit the wine cellars of La Montina. For more information:
http://www.villabaiana.it/cerimonie/index.php
http://www.lamontina.it/en/index.html
Registration and Accommodation
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Full registration Early: 150 Euros By November 1, 2010
Student registration: 80 Euros By November 9, 2010
Full registration Late: 200 Euros By November 9, 2010
Full registration: 250 Euros After November 9
Additional information about the registration and the accommodation is
available from http://aixia10.ing.unibs.it/
Organization
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General Chairs:
* Alfonso Gerevini (Symposium chair), University of Brescia
* Paola Mello (AI*IA President), University of Bologna
Local organisation committee:
* Alfonso Gerevini (co-chair), University of Brescia
* Alessandro Saetti (co-chair), University of Brescia
* Pietro Baroni, University of Brescia
* Riccardo Cassinis, University of Brescia
* Massimiliano Giacomin, University of Brescia
* Giovanni Guida, University of Brescia
* Gianfranco Lamperti, University of Brescia
* Marina Zanella, University of Brescia
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