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——– Mensagem reencaminhada ——– Assunto: EurAI Bulletin 2019 (Issue No. 1) Data: Tue, 14 May 2019 18:31:32 +0100 De: Barry O’Sullivan <b.osullivan@cs.ucc.ie> Para: euraisocieties@eurai.org, euraifellows@eurai.org CC: euraiboard@eurai.org
Dear EurAI Colleagues,
Please find attached the current issue of the EurAI newsletter.
Contents: o Call for Nominations: EurAI Artificial Intelligence Dissertation Award 2018 o Preliminary Call for Papers: ECAI 2020 o Report from the IJCAI-ECAI 2018 o Advanced Course on AI 2019 o Report on ACAI 2018 o Magazines & Journals
Kindest regards,
Barry O’Sullivan President, EurAI

EurAIBullettin1.2019.pdf

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——– Mensagem reencaminhada ——– Assunto: EurAI Artificial Intelligence Dissertation Award 2018: deadline extension 24th May, 2019 Data: Tue, 14 May 2019 08:43:56 +0000 De: Michela Milano <michela.milano@unibo.it> Para: eccaisocieties08@ECCAI.ORG <eccaisocieties08@eccai.org>

Dear EurAI Societies,
we have extended the deadline for submitting nominations for the EurAI dissertation award 2018 at the 24th of May, 2019.
We would greatly appreciate if you could circulate this widely and encourage nominations of strong candidates.
Kind regards,
Michela Milano Deputy President, EurAI

Call for Nominations: EurAI Artificial Intelligence Dissertation Award 2018
Nominations are invited for the 2018  Artificial Intelligence Dissertation Award sponsored by EurAI, the European Association of Artificial Intelligence.
Please take a moment to nominate your students, or to recommend to your colleagues to nominate their students.
This Award includes a certificate signed by the EurAI President and 1500 Euros (which includes the travel grant for the Award ceremony). Nominations are due by *May 24, 2019* by
submitting a single PDF file as described below listing both the NOMINATED candidate and the NOMINATOR as the AUTHORS through EasyChair:
easychair.org/conferences/?conf=euraiphdaward2018
Eligible doctoral dissertations are those defended after December 1, 2017 in the general area of Artificial Intelligence. The dissertation must have been defended at a European university and
the author must be a personal member of a EurAI member society. In case a thesis is nominated for another national or international award before or during its review for the EurAI dissertation award,
 the author is requested to inform the EurAI dissertation award committee about this fact.
To be considered, a dissertation must be nominated by the thesis supervisor, who must submit the following items as a SINGLE PDF file in the order:
– Nomination cover-page that includes: the name, affiliation, and contact details of the nominator; the date of the defense of the dissertation; and the names of the jury/examiners involved in its defense;
– nomination letters, either digitally signed or scanned original, from two referees supporting the submission and stating their assessment of why the thesis should win the award.
– if the thesis was not written in English the nomination must include an English paper describing the core ideas of the thesis that has been submitted for publication in an international journal or a prestigious conference.
– the full nominated dissertation. The selection will be based on the originality, impact, and written quality of the work. Work that has been submitted to and/or accepted at workshops, conferences, or journals will be considered more favourably.
Work that is primarily attributed to the student’s own initiative will also be considered more favourably. Finally, the quality of the written document will be considered.
Please address any queries to Michela Milano – michela.milano@unibo.it <mailto:michela.milano@unibo.it>
The outcome will be announced by the end of June.
The Award will be presented during IJCAI2019.

*Apologies for cross-postings*
*Registration open*
ISSAI 2019: First Interdisciplinary Summer School on AI (issai.dei.uc.pt) Focus Theme: “New paths for Intelligence”
Jointly organised by APPIA and AEPIA June 5-7, 2019 Fórum Cultural de Cerveira, Vila Nova de Cerveira, Portugal
Schedule: – The works will start the 5th June at 9:00; participants are thus invited to arrive at Vila Nova de Cerveira on the evening of the 4th June. – The School will close on the 7th June, at the afternoon.
The ISSAI is intended as an interdisciplinary forum with the aim to create a multi-directional flow between AI and other disciplines. The spirit of the meeting is that a forum where practitioners from different fields both present ideas from their fields and learn about ideas from other fields is the best atmosphere for all the disciplines to prosper together. The event is an initiative of the Portuguese and Spanish associations for AI (APPIA and AEPIA). It is aimed at graduate students, post-docs and researchers willing to advance their knowledge and gain new insights by actively participating in an interdisciplinary dialogue.
The focus theme for the first edition in 2019 will be “New paths for Intelligence”.
Confirmed Lectures: – Luc Steels (Catalan Institute for Advanced Studies – ICREA): – Insights from evolutionary biology can be the basis of future AI – Matteo Valleriani (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science) – Early modern Mathematically Hardcoded Historical Reasoning: Is it Relevant for the Development of Artificial Intelligence? – Itziar de Lecuona (Universitat de Barcelona) – Making Technical, legal and social aspects of Artificial Inteliigence – JJ Merelo (University of Granada) – From computer science and engineering to AI: cloud native artificial intelligence and artificial life. – Jochen Büttner (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science) – New tools for a long-established discipline: Using machine learning approaches for corpus research in the history of science – Nuno Sousa (University of Minho) – AI in medical arena – Tony Veale (University College Dublin) – Making Machines That Make Meaning: Exploring Spaces of Varying Dimensionality in Computational Creativity.
We invite all the graduate students, post-docs and researchers interested in this interdisciplinary forum to book these dates and pay attention to our website. The registration will open soon.
Venue: The ISSAI will take place in the Fórum Cultural de Cerveira, which is the main stage of the prestigious Biennial of Art of Vila nova de Cerveira. This venue offers an excellent set up for three intensive days of lecturers, panels, formal and informal discussions, networking and fun.
Accommodations: We have booked a number of places with controlled prices, primarily for students, in the Youth Hostel (Pousada da Juventude). Detailed information on how to apply is available in ISSAI website. Vila Nova da Cerveira has a good offer of alternative accommodations available in the most known booking platforms.
Chairs: – Amparo Alonso (University of A Coruña) – Amílcar Cardoso (University of Coimbra) – Luís Correia (University of Lisbon) – Pablo Gervás (University Complutense of Madrid) – Paulo Novais (University of Minho) – Alicia Troncoso Lora (University Pablo de Olavide)

TPDL 2019 CALL FOR POSTERS & DEMO SUBMISSIONS ================================ 23rd International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries (TPDL 2019) Oslo Metropolitan University, Oslo, Norway 9-12 September 2019
Website: www.tpdl.eu/tpdl2019/ EasyChair: easychair.org/conferences/?conf=tpdl2019
TPDL 2019 under the general theme “Connecting with Communities”, still invites submissions for scientific and research work in the categories of Posters and Demonstrations.
===IMPORTANT DATES=== Posters and Demos submission: May 20, 2019 Notification of decisions for Posters and Demos: June 3, 2019 Camera-ready submission: June 22, 2019
===TOPICS=== Contributions, either theoretical or applied, are welcome in all fields related to Digital Libraries. Below is given a (non-exhaustive) list of potential topics: * Information Retrieval and Access * Knowledge Discovery in Digital Libraries * Document (Text) Analysis * Services for Digital Arts and Humanities * GLAM Data for Digital Arts and Humanities * Research Data Management * Data Repositories and Archives * Web Archives * Semantic Web Technologies and Linked Data for DLs * Standards and Interoperability * Digital Preservation and Curation * Data and Information Lifecycle (creation, store, share and reuse) * Linked Data * Open Data and Knowledge * Scholarly Communication * Citation Analysis and Scientometrics * Cultural Heritage Access and Analysis * Digital History * Data and Metadata Quality * Digital Service Infrastructures * Research Infrastructures * User Participation * User Interface and Experience * Legal Issues * Emerging New Challenges and Opportunities * Applications of Digital Libraries * Collection Development and Discovery
===INFORMATION FOR AUTHORS=== The proceedings will be published by Springer-Verlag in Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, ISSN 0302-9743) series. All submissions have to be in English and submitted as a PDF file following the LNCS guidelines via the conference’s submission page: easychair.org/conferences/?conf=tpdl2019. They should be up to 4 pages long.
===ORGANIZATION=== General chairs: * Trond Aalberg (Oslo Metropolitan University) * Adam Jatowt (Kyoto University)
Program chairs: * Koraljka Golub (Linnæus University) * Antoine Doucet (University of La Rochelle) * Antoine Isaac (Europeana)
Poster/demo chairs: * Ricardo Campos (Polytechnic Institute of Tomar / INESC TEC) * Mickaël Coustaty (University of La Rochelle)
Doctoral consortium chairs: * Jose Borbina (NESC-ID/Univ. of Lisbon) * Avishek Anand (Leibniz University/L3S Research Center)
Workshop chairs: * Milena Dobreva (University College London Qatar) * Giannis Tsakonas (University of Patras)

ECIR 2020 :: 42nd European Conference on Information Retrieval www.ecir2020.org/
Lisbon April 14 -17, 2020 =====================
The European Conference on Information Retrieval is the prime European forum for the presentation of original research in the field of Information Retrieval.
ECIR 2020 is seeking high-quality and original submissions on theory, experimentation, and practice regarding the retrieval, representation, management, and usage of textual, visual and multi-modal information.
ECIR strongly supports user, system, application, and evaluation focused papers:
* User aspects including information interaction, contextualisation, personalisation, simulation, characterisation, and information behaviours.
* System aspects including retrieval and recommendation algorithms, machine learning, deep learning, content representation, natural language processing, system architectures, and efficiency methods.
* Applications such as search and recommender systems, web and social media apps, domain specific search (professional, bio, chem, etc.), novel interfaces, intelligent search agents/bots, and related innovative search tools.
* Evaluation research including new measures and novel methods for the measurement and evaluation of users, systems and/or applications.
In addition to these traditional topic areas, ECIR 2020 will be encouraging the submissions of papers on a specialised theme (eHealth, DeepLearning, education IR etc.)
Full Paper Track ===================== The Full paper track provides the opportunity for researchers to present their state of the art research in Information Retrieval, which makes, or have the potential to make, a significant contribution to the field. Full paper submissions should be 12 pages in length plus additional pages for references.
NEW!!!: As of 2020, a selection of the best papers at ECIR will be published in a special issue of the Information Retrieval Journal.
Information Retrieval Journal ===================== Selected papers from ECIR 2020 will be published in a special issue of the Information Retrieval Journal in early 2021.
Short Paper Track ===================== The Short Paper Track calls for original contributions presenting novel, thought-provoking ideas and addressing innovative application areas within the field of Information Retrieval. The inclusion of promising (preliminary) results is encouraged but not required. Papers that stimulate and promote discussion are particularly encouraged. Short paper submissions should be 6 pages in length plus additional pages for references.
Reproducibility Track ===================== ECIR also strongly encourages the submission of reproducibility papers that repeat and analyze prior work. In particular we solicit classical reproducibility papers, which replicate prior experiments and show how, why, and when the methods work (or not), along with two other types of reproducibility papers: generalizability papers, that focus on assessing how well technology performs in new contexts (e.g., different time, location, access device, task), and predictability papers, that focus on developing theory and methods that assess and evaluate how generalizable methods are and whether they will work in other contexts. Reproducibility submissions are welcome in any of the ares related to aspects of Information Retrieval, and either fits with the classical or alternative types of reproducibility papers. Reproducibility submissions should be 12 pages in length plus additional pages for references.
Demonstration Track ===================== The Demo Track provide the opportunity for researchers to present their research prototypes and operational systems which they wish to share with the community, obtain feedback from experts, and exchanges knowledge on implementing and developing such systems. Submissions should clearly define their purpose, scope, and audience. All submissions should provide a URL to a live online version of their demo or, alternatively, provide a URL to a video showcasing the main features of their demo. Demonstrations that make their source code freely available are especially encouraged. Demonstration submissions are welcome in any of the areas related to Information Retrieval (IR), as identified in the Topics of Interest listed above. Demo submissions should be 4 pages in length plus additional pages for references.
Submission Guidelines ===================== All submissions must be written in English and be formatted according to the LNCS author guidelines. All papers should be submitted electronically through the conference submission system. Full papers (e.g. main paper track and reproducibility track) are up to 12 pages in length plus additional pages for references, short papers are up to 6 pages in length plus additional pages for references, and demonstration papers are to be 4 pages in length plus additional pages for references. Full paper and short paper submissions will be refereed through double-blind peer review. Demonstration papers will undergo single-blind review. Accepted full papers, short papers, and demo papers will be published in the conference proceedings published in the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. The proceedings will be distributed to all delegates at the conference. Accepted full papers, short papers, and demos papers will have to be presented at the conference–and at least one author will be required to register.
Timeline =====================
Workshop submission: 1 September 2019 Workshop notifications: 1 October 2019
Full paper submission: 1 October 2019 Short paper submission: 15 October 2019 Demo submission: 15 October 2019 Doctoral consortium submission: 15 December 2019 Full/short/demo notifications: 30 November 2019 Camera-ready copy: 27 December 2019
Tutorials submission: 15 November 2019 Tutorials notifications: 15 December 2019
Workshops and tutorials: 14 April 2020 Main Conference: 15-17 April 2020